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by Chairman Kaga on Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:32 pm
Good one Ribbons. I only heard about that one recently. I had always assumed he was ok.....naive me.
Chairman Kaga
by RockyDennis on Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:44 pm
The suitcases in Pulp Fiction and Ronin are my favorite examples of this. Its so much better not knowing, although the theory that Marcellus Wallace's soul is really cool
RockyDennis
by Seppuku on Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:50 pm
The ex-girlfriend making sweet love with the dead guy in the toilet of the convenience store in Clerks.
You know, I think somewhere in that pretty head of hers, she knew what was going on. First of all, it'd been a few hours and rigor mortis must have set in by then, the old guy would'a been colder than an Alaskan's freezer...you don't think she'd notice that? And secondly, wouldn't we all like to engage in a spot of necrophilia every now and then, it's just that the opportunity doesn't arise too often...she just saw her doorway and she walked through it.
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by MadCapsule on Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:54 pm
The end of The Graduate. Neither one of them looks like they're too sure that they made the right decision.
by TonyWilson on Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:00 pm
MadCapsule wrote: The end of The Graduate. Neither one of them looks like they're too sure that they made the right decision.
Good one. Didn't the director say that in the end they were going to grow up to be just like their parents anyway?
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TonyWilson wrote:
Dustin Hoffman said something along those lines. He proposed a sequel in which he'd still be together with Katherine Ross's character, but he'd meet a young woman on the side who he would break into the sexual world, thus effectively becoming a male Mrs. Robertson.
by Gheorghe Zamfir on Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:05 pm
seppukudkurosawa wrote: Dustin Hoffman said something along those lines. He proposed a sequel in which he'd still be together with Katherine Ross's character, but he'd meet a young woman on the side who he would break into the sexual world, thus effectively becoming a male Mrs. Robertson.
Must be good to be famous, hit your 50s and you can propose ideas that involve doing stuff like this with a teenager and the words "statutory rape" will never even come up.
And the ultimate ambiguous ending is Being There, I've tried to bullshit ideas about Constant being a metaphor for humanity's need to create a Jesus/savior-figure, even where one doesn't exist, being that Constant is nothing like a savior, but being the ultimate blank slate people write him into that role, and the ending plays into that power by simulating one of Jesus's miracles (and the idea alone creates interesting allusions and consequences to current religious ideas/stories), but mostly I'm always left with a "what the fuck" (though I've always liked Ebert's idea that, like Road Runner, its just cause the guy never looks down).
by Ribbons on Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:12 pm
And that sequel was called Rumor Has It...
I keed, I keed.
by Tubbs Tattsyrup on Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:53 pm
From the RESERVOIR DOGS screenplay:
Mr. Pink is standing motionless. Finally he grabs the satchel of diamonds and RUNS out the door.
We hear outside a CAR START. Then the SOUND of a BULLHORN yells out:
POLICE FORCE (OS) - Freeze! Get out of the car and lie face down on the ground!
MR. PINK (OS) - Don't shoot!
We now hear SIRENS, the SOUNDS of more CARS DRIVING UP, MEN RUNNING to the warehouse.
Don't know if that clears up any ambiguity there or not, but there you go. Sometimes there's a man.
On YouTube or Vimeo.
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by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:51 pm
Peter Sellers walking on water in Being There.
Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway at the end of Manhattan.
Did David die and leave poor old Teddy alone at the end of AI?
PALPATINE DID FAKE HIS LIGHTSABRE DEFEAT TO MACE WINDU YOU gentlemen!!!!!!!!
The fate of the Sioux at the end of Dances With Wolves.
Did Tarka The Otter really die at the end of Tarka The Otter?
Harvey? It looked like he was real at the end.
The French Connection. BANG!! Then what?
Will The New York Times really publish Robert Redford's story at the end of 3 Days Of The Condor?
Will Thomas Gaffney really blow up the Shelly Long Blow Up Doll I sent him, therefore triggering the explosive device?
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The Thing!
No way was Childs one of...them!
by DennisMM on Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:55 pm
ThisIsTheGirl wrote: As for Bladerunner, the Director's Cut got rid of the voiceover (thereby de-humanising Deckard a little bit), and added the unicorn dream sequence. So, when he picks up the little paper unicorn at the end, we're supposed to think that all of his memories and dreams have been implanted, ie he's a replicant.
His name, Deckard, is also supposed to evoke Descartes: I think, therefore I am.
Once again, a smart guy like me failed to pick up on any of this before I was told. I thought losing the VO was a good idea, because Ford sounded not just tired but bored.
I suppose I can't judge the Director's Cut as a separate piece of work, at least as regards symbolism and theme.
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by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:31 pm
Ford has sounded bored ever since Working Girl in all his movies. I swear that guy thinks that mumbling and hurrafing his lines will get him an Oscar.
The thing is, what he does best of who he is, he seems to frown upon. Han Solo, The Mosquito Coast, stuff like that.
by ThisIsTheGirl on Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:21 am
Tubbs Tattsyrup wrote: From the RESERVOIR DOGS screenplay:
I'm not sure it does clear anything up, sadly. This thread is about exactly that question:
Do you think what film makers say outisde of the confines of the film should "count" when discussing these ambiguous bits here or there?
Now, that screenplay is presumably the one sold by Faber & Faber, which isn't actually the shooting script, it has a couple of slight differences here and there. It's up to the individual, but Tarantino could personally email me and say that Pink gets arrested, and I'd still ignore it. I like the guy too much for him to go down.
ThisIsTheGirl
by Chairman Kaga on Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:58 am
But his name was like Mr. Pussy.
by Hermanator X on Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:44 am
I watched Primer last night, and as far as this thread goes, I dont know where to start. So im not going too!!
...and so forth.
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by DinoDeLaurentiis on Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:49 am
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote: Will Thomas Gaffney really blow up the Shelly Long Blow Up Doll I sent him, therefore triggering the explosive device?
Hehehe... just a to gotta to give a this a some love, eh? Nice a one, paisan... nice a one...
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by AtomicHyperbole on Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:29 am
I'm in two minds about open endings. I love them when they're done right, I hate them when they're all setup and no payoff too - like the idea of a movie anticipating a sequel that never happens, for example.
<SPOILERS FOLLOW>
Good open ending - The end of Sideways. The knock on the door. Just doesn't answer your questions, but you KNOW it's going to end alright even though you don't see what happens. The setup doesn't require the payoff, you know it'll all be alright for Miles.
Bad open ending - Alien Resurrection. OK, it sets up the Earth War premise, but does it in such an awful, contrived and obvious manner. Made worse by the fact that AVP destroyed the timeline by having the Aliens already there. AVP also had a baaaad open ending, kinda like the DUM DUM DAAAH end of Reloaded. Unfortunately the latter film had a sequel.
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by Keepcoolbutcare on Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:38 am
12 Monkeys. "i'm an insurance" or "i'm in insurance", big fuckin' difference Gilliam, you rascally bastard.
Personally, I'm an atheist in the voting booth and a theist in the movie theatre. I separate the morality of religion with the spirituality and solace of it. There is something boring about atheism.
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by havocSchultz on Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:35 am
Lost in Space - maybe the whole open-ended ending wasn't too bad - except for the fact that the whole movie itself was "too bad" - so the fact that they desperately set it up for a sequel (that'll never come) just felt painful...
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I was on the set to that movie. They had some real safety issues on the planet set apparently.
AtomicHyperbole wrote: I was on the set to that movie. They had some real safety issues on the planet set apparently.
i wouldn't doubt it - anything with "matt leblanc acting" has got to be deemed un-safe and non-injestable...
by magicmonkey on Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:29 am
Ok, back on topic. The ending of Limbo. Ouch. John Sayles knows how to play you good here. Do they live or do they die? You know, a simple thing like that.
Also, I guess you can't have this thread without a mention going to The Italian Job.
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by Cabiria on Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:41 am
magicmonkey wrote: Ok, back on topic. The ending of Limbo. Ouch. John Sayles knows how to play you good here. Do they live or do they die? You know, a simple thing like that.
I saw this in the theatre, and the audience reaction was hostile, to put it mildly. I've never felt such anger from an audience (outside a Uwe Boll film, that is). I liked the ending though- you don't have to know what happens to them. Their stories are told.
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by Carolian on Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:40 am
I think there's been a hell of a backlash against it, but the end of LOST IN TRANSLATION really worked for me as an open-ended finale, what with Bill whispering to Scarlett, and the bastards not revealing what was said... yeah. Almost anything could have happened after the film ended.
And of course, we can't forget RESERVOIR DOGS, and the eternal "did-they-catch-Mr.-Pink" debate.
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by unikrunk on Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:09 pm
Well, I will throw out the obvious; BladeRunner directors cut. Is Deckard a replicant? Is he going to ride away with Rachel on the back of a majestic unicorn? Will Edward James Olmos’ complexion clear up?
He can't' love you back...
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by Peven on Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:15 pm
Carolian wrote: I think there's been a hell of a backlash against it, but the end of LOST IN TRANSLATION really worked for me as an open-ended finale, what with Bill whispering to Scarlett, and the bastards not revealing what was said... yeah. Almost anything could have happened after the film ended.
if you listen closely at the end, you can hear the cops outside yelling at Mr Pink to freeze, hands up, etc., as he gets busted outside the warehouse. man, that dude was funny looking, in a general sort of way.
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Carpenter's "The Thing" is a pretty cool example of an open ending where the viewer is left to make their own assumptions about what happens after the screen goes black.
by colonel_lugz on Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:34 pm
if you listen closely at the end, you can hear the cops outside yelling at Mr Pink to freeze, hands up, etc., as he gets busted outside the warehouse. may that dude was funny looking, in a general sort of way.
According to Tarantino, Mr. Pink does in fact survive. You can verify this by increasing the volume of the background sounds: When Mr. Pink runs out of the building with the diamonds, police officers can be heard shouting at him to put his hands on the ground. Gunshots can be heard, then Mr. Pink shouts that he has been shot. You can then hear the officers talking to each other as Pink is arrested.
colonel_lugz
by El Scorcho on Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:40 pm
Heh, I read the title of the thread and I immediately thought of Sideways...
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by AtomicHyperbole on Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:47 pm
Heheheh. Although to be fair there's some great examples here of movies that leave their endings open but well. The Thing ends really, really well.
Shame The Matrix didn't finish at the first movie. When I saw it, I didn't think "sequel". I thought "satisfying".
by DennisMM on Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:49 pm
Pulling out one of my favorites (it's in the DVD player right now) that I bet none of you has seen. Night Moves with Gene Hackman.
Harry, the protagonist, has spent much of the film trying to figure out why a character was killed. He learns in the last minute of the movie, but he's stuck in an out-of-control speedboat, with a leg injury that has so far kept him from reaching the controls. Harry is literally going around in circles, which physically expresses the frustration he's felt through the movie. Does he bleed out? Does he make it to the controls? If he does, what happens then?
by Peven on Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:52 pm
AtomicHyperbole wrote: Heheheh. Although to be fair there's some great examples here of movies that leave their endings open but well. The Thing ends really, really well.
you aren't alone feeling that way about the first "Matrix". there was no need for the next two, except the need to ca$h in.
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AtomicHyperbole wrote: Hehehe h. Although to be fair there's some great examples here of movies that leave their endings open but well. The Thing ends really, really well.
you aren't alone feeling that way about the first "Matrix". there was no need for the next two, except the need to c@sh in.
The Matrix needed no furtherance at all. Seeing Neo fly, knowing he has learned to manipulate the Matrix in ways no other human had, left me smiling hard. We all knew where this was going, at least in a general sense.
by Keepcoolbutcare on Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:26 pm
DennisMM wrote: Pulling out one of my favorites (it's in the DVD player right now) that I bet none of you has seen. Night Moves with Gene Hackman.
Good flick, great example of 70's neo-noir/existentialism...yeah, he's a dead man at the end, floundering around the ocean in circles, a powerful metaphor for Hackman's character.
by unikrunk on Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:32 pm
I found What Is It? to be open ended.
/also open middled and begun...?
by Gheorghe Zamfir on Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:47 pm
I was lukewarm to The Station Agent on first viewing, I've come to love the film quite a bit more on repeated viewings, but I'm still conflicted on the ending. Definitely open-ended, but maybe too much so, the first time I saw the movie I didn't think it was open-ended, I actually thought the reel had cut the movie off prematurely, I just sat there with a big WTF, that's the end? Expecting the ending now I'm not as discontent as I was the first time, though I don't know if I can say I appreciate or am satisfied by the ending like I am with films like Sideways or The Thing.
by cap on Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:15 pm
Agreed, but isn't that what Hollywood is all about now (the last 10years or so as well).
That and showing a total lack of creativity......
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by Mimekiller on Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:46 pm
Edward Norton just laying his head against the window clearly depresed by his dads fantasticl version of what could be was a awesome ending.
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by TheBaxter on Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:19 pm
I just saw Broken Flowers and the (lack of) ending frustrated me... I want to know who, if anyone, was his son's mother dammit! and you know there won't be a Broken Flowers 2, where the son shows up and says "oh yeah my mom was the animal whisperer chick' and they go on a roadtrip or something, so we'll never know. i know the movie is a character piece and it's not supposed to really matter who was the son, or the mom, or if he even had a son... but the whole film was still about a quest with no resolution.
let's not forget the biggest open-ended movie of all time, The Empire Strikes Back. That film frustrated me as a kid, i couldn't stand it that i had to wait even longer to find out if vader was telling the truth, what happened to han, etc. i still think TESB, as a stand-alone film, is weaker because of that, though it works as part of the trilogy.
by RaulMonkey on Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:33 pm
Don't forget about the film that should have been (relatively) open-ended but wasn't: A.I.
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by Gheorghe Zamfir on Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:39 pm
TheBaxter wrote: I just saw Broken Flowers and the (lack of) ending frustrated me... I want to know who, if anyone, was his son's mother dammit! and you know there won't be a Broken Flowers 2, where the son shows up and says "oh yeah my mom was the animal whisperer chick' and they go on a roadtrip or something, so we'll never know. i know the movie is a character piece and it's not supposed to really matter who was the son, or the mom, or if he even had a son... but the whole film was still about a quest with no resolution.
Ugh! Right there with you, that's almost an ending that'll piss you off. I've invested two hours of my time into this guy's slow, neandering, and really not terribly entertaining journey, and my pay-off is that, oh, ok, before he didn't care, now he cares, and that's the point. I don't care if he cares, I CARE, that's why I'm still watching the film! At the least he could have just trotted that lolita to randomly walk out naked again, then I wouldn't have noticed the ending.
by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:53 am
The end of Brazil, or rather the build up to the end of it. What really happened? Did he dream it? Did it happen for real?
Now that damn song is in my head now.
by magicmonkey on Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:00 pm
Brazil, wow, I think the guy goes nutsack crazy Kirk. At least I would have by that point!
Gotta add Blood Simple. Does that water drip in his eye or not. Those darn Coens!! *shakes fist*
by Cabiria on Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:01 pm
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote: The end of Brazil, or rather the build up to the end of it. What really happened? Did he dream it? Did it happen for real?
Mine too. Thanks for that.
This is a classic ending, but I think the confusion stems from the multiple versions of the film that exist. After all, there is one ending where they all get away and live in the pretty trailer. I prefer the darker version with Palin in the baby head looking at us all. Much creepier.
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by tapehead on Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:23 pm
got to disagree with this sumation of Broken Flowers - Spoiler spoiler - go see one of last year's best movies spoiler - though we don't know which chick ha d his child, orwho was his son - we have gone from Bill's character not giving a crap about it at the start of the film, to then ending moment, where clearly the most urgent and important question in the world to him is who and where his son might be - he cares! this ending knocked my socks off
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got to disagree with this sumation of Broken Flowers - Spoiler spoiler - go see one of last year's best movies spoiler - though we don't know which chick had his child, or who or where his son was - we have gone from Bill's character not giving a crap about it at the start of the film, to then ending moment, where clearly the most urgent and important question in the world to him is who and where his son might be - he cares! this ending knocked my socks off
by DrillerKiller on Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:33 pm
I absolutely loved (not sure if love is the right word, but appreciated - definitely) Funny Games, but leaving the ending open like that just annoyed the piss out of me.
by thx777b on Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:39 pm
If you want open endings just go back and revisit Italian Neo-Realism Cinema... Especialy check out filmmaker Ermanno Olmi over at www.imdb.com. He directed IL POSTO if you know about it.
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Michigan Female CPL Licenses up 134%
February 26, 2015 Advice to New Shooters, Michigan Gun News, News
The Good Idea Fairy Strikes Again: Detroit, MI
The Detroit News ran the following article today on the increase of female gun owners. This is something we have covered in the past and is directly inline with the national changes as well as a major shift we started to see at Shot Show. 2014 and 2015 are the years of the female shooter with women becoming the fastest growing segment of the market.
This is great news for gun owners politically as well as individually. I do truly hope that this new group of shooters takes the time to go and get proper training and regular range time so they are not only licensed to carry but are also competent to carry.
Source: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/02/25/armed-women-surge-michigan/24038667/
Jessica Poxson sums up the reason she got a concealed pistol license in one word: safety.
“Something happened to me that was potentially dangerous and it made me think about my safety and the safety of my children,” said the 32-year-old from Wolverine Lake. “I wanted it to be able to protect myself and my family.”
Poxson, who said she got her concealed pistol license a few months ago, is one of a growing number of women in Metro Detroit and statewide who are packing heat, according to Michigan State Police data.
The number of women statewide who received or renewed concealed pistol licenses rose from 10,862 in 2010 to 25,418, a gain of 134 percent.
And while women still made up less than a quarter of the state’s new CPL holders last year, their numbers are growing faster than the number of Michigan men getting licenses. The number of newly issued or renewed CPL licenses for men surged 103 percent from 2010 to 2014.
“It’s a trend that has been going on for several years, not just nationally, but in Michigan, too,” said Steve Dulan, an attorney and spokesman for the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners, which calls itself the nation’s largest state-based firearms advocate.
The number of new CPL licenses issued annually to women also climbed in Metro Detroit between 2010 and 2014, rising 122 percent in Macomb County, 90 percent in Wayne County and 74 percent in Oakland County, according to State Police. All trailed the statewide growth rate.
Gratiot County, in mid-central lower Michigan, had the state’s biggest jump in women with new CPLs, surging 489 percent.
Sanilac County, in the Thumb, had the state’s fastest growth in men with new CPLs, up 287 percent.
In Muskegon County, on lower Michigan’s west coast, the number of women obtaining CPLs jumped 405 percent between 2010 and 2014, compared with 255 percent among its men — both the second-highest rates in the state.
“It used to be women would only come to a class if they were dragged, kicking and screaming,” said Doreen Hankins, owner of Detroit Arms LLC, a firearms training company in Chesterfield Township. “But we’re seeing a lot more women in our classes. I’d have to say on average women make up about a third or more.”
Buy PhotoCarolyn Stadts of Hamtramck fires a handgun on the gun range during a “ladies shooting day out” firearms class at Ultimate Protection Academy in Clinton Township. (Photo: Bryan Mitchell, special to The Detroit News)
Permits continue to rise
Statewide, 114,872 people obtained or renewed concealed pistol licenses in 2014, according to Michigan State Police statistics.
The number of CPL permits in the state has continued to rise since the middle of last decade. Michigan has about 457,550 active CPL holders, according to the State Police, up from 401,000 in 2011.
The number of newly issued CPLs dipped from 2013 to 2014, a drop that Dulan attributes to a couple of factors. One, CPLs are valid for five years, so there weren’t as many permit renewals. Second, new CPL licenses spiked in 2012 and 2013, he said.
Fears of possible federal gun control legislation also may have driven up firearm sales during those years.
A 2001 state law made it easier for residents to get a CPL as long as there is no history of felonies or mental illness. Before that, county gun boards decided who could carry a concealed handgun and required people to prove they needed one.
Under the law, permit applicants must be at least 21, a legal resident of Michigan and the U.S., and successfully complete a pistol safety training course. They cannot be a felon, subject to a personal protection order or legally incapacitated.
A complete list of requirements can be viewed at mich.gov/msp.
A permit holder may carry a concealed pistol in public, except for schools, day care centers, sports arenas, bars, houses of worship, hospitals, college dormitories, casinos, courthouses and entertainment venues that seat 2,500 people or more.
Looser rules appear to be on the way. The state House on Wednesday passed legislation to eliminate county gun boards, following Senate approval of two similar bills Feb. 3. Next, the Senate will vote on the House version of the package.
Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed an earlier version of the legislation in January amid concerns it could endanger victims of domestic abuse.
Critics say the measures would remove local control over issuing gun permits.
Gun control advocates said the increase in women getting gun licenses isn’t reason to celebrate.
“As a state, we need to look at the root causes that lead to crime, like poverty and inadequate mental health services,” Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, a progressive group, said in a statement. “If we addressed these issues and adequately funded public safety, there wouldn’t be such a fervor for citizens to arm themselves when they’re out in public.”
Gun ownership accepted
Dulan said his group doesn’t have any hard data on why a growing number of women are getting CPLs, but “the most common reason women cite for getting them is to protect themselves and their families.”
Dulan said other reasons may include a growing acceptance of gun ownership and savvy marketing.
“(Owning a gun) doesn’t seem weird to women like it used to,” he said. “And there’s been a change in the culture of gun shops.”
Decades ago, he said, gun stores and shooting ranges were like hot-rod shops. “There was a bunch of guys sitting around BS-ing with each other,” he said. “It wasn’t woman-friendly.”
But now many of the newer shops and ranges look like typical retail stores, he said.
Mary Polkowski, a certified firearms instructor, agreed more women are getting the licenses for recreation and sport. She owns Ultimate Firearms Training and Gun Range in Clinton Township with her husband, Allen Polkowski.
The couple offer firearm safety, CPL and self-defense courses. They also offer a CPL class for women only.
Ultimate Firearms Training recently hosted a women’s-only event, “Ladies Shooting Day Out,” with lessons on gun safety and how to shoot or improve their marksmanship.
Poxson and about a dozen other women attended. At one station, the group practiced proper shooting form with non-firing gun replicas.
At another, they trained with a high-tech, computerized simulator whose gun used a laser beam instead of bullets.
After the event wrapped up with instruction at the range, the women were invited to gather at a nearby restaurant to socialize.
“We look at the firearm as a last resort,” said Polkowski, who has more than 20 years experience as a firearms instructor.
Like Poxson, Kate Chappell, 33, of Clinton Township, said she got her CPL for safety reasons. She grew up in the country in upstate New York and didn’t feel as safe at home after a theft from her yard.
“My husband and I decided we were going to figure out the best way to handle and own a gun,” Chappell said. “I started out getting my CPL for safety reasons, but then (shooting) turned into a hobby for me and my husband — something we’re both interested in and something we can do together.”
cramirez@detroitnews.com
Christine MacDonald contributed.
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Home/Business/Elementum 3D receives investment from Sumitomo for proprietary metal powder
Colorado-headquartered additive manufacturing material developer Elementum 3D has received an investment from Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA), the U.S. branch of global trading firm Sumitomo Corporation.
Using the investment, Elementum will work towards expanding the marketing and sales of its proprietary metal powder, which incorporates ceramics to enable improved additive manufacturing performance. Further details regarding the deal were not disclosed.
“We are excited to have Sumitomo Corporation of Americas come on board as an investor. It speaks volumes that a company of this size and reach has such confidence in what we are creating,” comments Dr. Jacob Nuechterlein, President at Elementum 3D, Inc.
“With this series A funding, we are eager to get our product further out into the marketplace and continue to grow our client base.”
Reactive Additive Manufacturing
Elementum 3D, formerly known as Sinter Print, is an additive manufacturing research and development firm focusing on the creation of advanced metals, composites, and ceramics.
The company produces its materials using a patented technology termed reactive additive manufacturing (RAM), which helps to prevent cracking during the solidification process. Its RAM process has allowed Elementum to develop additive manufacturing powders for materials that are usually difficult to print with on Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) platforms.
Elementum 3D logo. Photo via Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing.
For example, the company partnered with North Carolina-based hybrid manufacturing company Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing (KAM) to supply the company with advanced materials such as its A6061- RAM2 powder. The powder is said to be comparable to wrought 6061-T6 aluminum properties, a material that often faces difficulties when processed with additive manufacturing. As well as aluminum, Elementum has developed grades for tungsten, copper, steel MMC, nickel MMC, and tantalum.
Elementum has also developed a patented composite metal powder, blended with ceramics, which reportedly enables faster printing speed, improved mechanical properties and a wider usage of metal grades in additive manufacturing.
Sumitomo Corporation of Americas investment in 3D printing
SCOA is a global investment and trading company operating in numerous industries and markets, mainly revolving around metal products, transportation and construction, infrastructure, media, real estate, and energy. SCOA’s parent company, Sumitomo Corporation, is one of the largest worldwide Japanese general trading companies.
SCOA believes that Elementum’s powder technology can potentially be utilized across several of the company’s business verticals, including steel, mineral resources, aerospace and tubular. Additionally, the company has also identified the potential for Elementum’s technology to “disrupt the current supply chain,” as it sees end-users in additive manufacturing working directly with Elementum rather than traditional raw materials manufacturers.
TruPrint 3000 AM machine installed at Sintavia. Photo by Sintavia.
SCOA’s investment in Elementum is not its first within the 3D printing industry. The company had previously invested in Florida-based metal 3D printing service Sintavia in 2018. With the investment, SCOA sought to influence its network in the aerospace and oil & gas industries globally, while advancing Sintavia’s declared growth plans around the world. Additionally, SCOA has made investments in AREVO, a Silicon Valley company dedicated to direct digital additive manufacturing of composite materials, and New York-headquartered 3D printing marketplace and service bureau Shapeways.
“This investment is an excellent complement to our growing portfolio in the additive manufacturing space,” explains Mr. Kazuaki Tsuda, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Steel and Non-Ferrous Metal Group at Sumitomo Corporation of Americas. “Elementum is pioneering new intelligence related to the raw materials supply chain in additive manufacturing, and we see an abundant opportunity for these applications in the near future.”
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Bumper Sticker in India Reads: “My Son Dropped Out of High School and Invented his Own 3D Printed Technology at 15”
Michael Molitch-Hou December 12th 2013 - 12:08am 0 1
My wife, her dad and I were talking with my wife’s brother, 16, about high school. It became clear that he wasn’t a fan. The topics in class were boring and didn’t apply to the world outside of the school’s bubble. Most importantly, all but one teacher just didn’t engage him with interactive lessons, making the information more difficult to retain. This isn’t an isolated problem, but one faced by young people the world over. The decreased price of electronics coupled with the freedom of information on the internet has given some students another way of learning that is free from standardized tests and overworked teachers. Angad Daryani, a fifteen-year-old in Mumbai, India, has dropped out of school in favour of teaching himself electronics and building his own line of RepRaps.
According to the teenager, “Kids don’t learn anything [in school]. I had no satisfaction that I knew things, I couldn’t apply anything I had learned to real life. I quit the formal pattern of studying and am now being home-schooled.” Now that he’s taken his learning into his own hands, Daryani has developed and been a part of some amazing projects. For instance, probably the coolest device he’s worked on, in my opinion, is the Virtual Brailler. With three other students at the MITEngineering the Eye development workshop that Daryani attended, he built a prototype for a device that converts English characters into Braille using 3D printed components, a microcontroller, an actuator and some software.
The Brailler isn’t open source, yet, as the group is planning on selling the product as affordably as possible, but Daryani is a big advocate of the Open Source Movement, saying:
As a kid, we have always learnt that sharing what you have always increases the satisfaction of owning something. And that’s true! When I got into project making and wanted instructions or help of any kind, I just went on the internet and got all the help I needed! And that’s all because of the help I received from the Open Source community. If people hadn’t uploaded their designs, my knowledge would have been limited to what I already knew. I am thankful to all those people who have directly or indirectly helped me. As a continuation of what they did and are still doing, I release all my projects on this website as OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PROJECTS and so, people all over the world who want to build the projects I have built can do the same!
Naturally, due to his love of open source and for symbiotic sea life (“I research on the behavior of sharks and study the symbiotic behavior of aquatic animals.”), Daryani found himself building a RepRap. Realizing that those around him were relying on importing 3D printers from other countries, Dayani wanted to sell his own, explaining, “After taxes that comes to Rs3 lakh,” about $7,000, “whereas the cost of making it is less than Rs30,000,” about $500, “We are wasting foreign currency by importing these things…I want to change that.”
Daryani now sells Prusa i3 kits, mostly to engineering students, but he’s also planning on releasing his own 3D printer line, SharkBot. The inventor has boasted that the SharkBot will be “the fastest and most robust desktop 3D printer that can print any material except metal.” And, if Michigan Tech has built a low-cost metal printer, maybe Daryani will throw that in there, too, I hope.
The teen, admittedly, has been tinkering since he was 8, when he built his first humanoid robot. He built a remote controlled hovercraft through watching YouTube videos when he was in Class 6, which I believe is the equivalent of the 6th Grade in the US. Daryani has been taking apart and reassembling his toys, copying the projects from UK craft show Art Attack, and taking lessons outside of school for years. He’s even shown his work to APJ Kalam, the former president of India, and Ratan Tata, of the Mumbai-based Tata conglomerate. So, it’s possible that your average teenager won’t drop out of school just to start their own business selling portable speakers, headphones and 3D printers or building inventions that can help the blind, but maybe Daryani can act as an example of what the average teenager could be if we provided a school environment that is student centered, where we treat kids as young geniuses instead of pegs to fit into slots as we see fit.
Source: dna India
Michael Molitch-Hou
Michael Molitch-Hou previously served as Editor-in-Chief of 3D Printing Industry, he is now the Editor of Engineering . com's 3D printing section. He has covered additive manufacturing technology day in and day out since 2012 and has hundreds of article to his credit. He is the founder of The Reality Institute.
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I was there July 8, 2019 July 8, 2019
A biplane engine failure, and the start of a new business
by Mitch Osowski
This is the story of how I came upon the idea of making replica aircraft body panels with personalized aircraft tail numbers.
One Sunday after church, my wife, who was about eight months pregnant, along with our two-year-old boy and I stopped by our family’s hangar at Anoka County Airport (ANE), Minnesota. A pilot I hadn’t yet met was renting a space in the hangar for his 1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a WWII biplane trainer. I kept missing him on previous trips, with today being no different.
However, this time his Jeep was parked next to the hangar and the airplane was gone. We decided to spend a little extra time in the hopes that we’d see that yellow warbird in the pattern. It was a warm, sunny day in early spring; a perfect day to spend at the airport. Our son Maximilian was enjoying watching all of the air traffic as he peddled around on his trike. Within about 20 minutes, we heard the unmistakable sound of a radial-engine airplane as the N3N entered the downwind leg to land on runway 18.
Never pass up an opportunity to fly in a biplane.
My wife and I have been around general aviation for many years, and I have always been particularly intrigued by warbirds. It would certainly be a dream come true to climb into one. So, when the Yellow Peril taxied up to our hangar, I introduced myself to owner Scott and we talked a few minutes. Finally, I said, “You’re going to have to give me a ride in this thing someday.” He responded, “How about now?” It was the ride of a lifetime!
After strapping myself into the front seat, the sights and smell of that nine-cylinder engine firing up with a few puffs of white smoke was the start to an absolutely wonderful experience. The open-air cockpit felt so free and exciting as Scott let me take the controls while heading for some fun in the pattern at a nearby grass strip. Flying a stick was a blast!
About a month later I asked him if he thought it would be a fun trip to go up to the Duluth airshow to see the Thunderbirds. Scott looked into it and managed to set us up to be part of the static aircraft display at the show. This worked out great as it also included two VIP passes for the day’s activities.
We met at ANE early in the morning for the flight up to Duluth. Scott provided me with one of his extra flight suits from his Air Force days so that we would look the part during the show. It was a beautiful morning with some patches of early morning fog settled in the low areas as we blasted our way up north.
Even though it was early July, the air up a couple thousand feet was quite cool, but the view above those patches of white and the fields and small towns visible below was incredible. We went on our way without much conversation or radio chatter to interrupt the serene morning of our dawn patrol. Soon we arrived to become part of the busy excitement that is an airshow. It was an honor to talk to many of the attendees about the history of this warbird and to see many of the other aircraft on display.
As the day’s festivities drew to a close, we still had some fun ahead of us for the flight back to the Twin Cities. I had brought along a GoPro camera and had a little bit of space left on the memory card to get some video from the viewpoint of the left wing strut. As we flew our departure leg to the east, past the lineup of Thunderbird F-16s, we headed out for a quick view of Lake Superior and downtown Duluth to get some great shots of the area to include the unique lift bridge.
On our way to “home-drome,” we made a slight diversion for a flyover at my house. My wife and young son were going to be waiting for us out on the deck.
Not the track that was planned.
As we approached the Twin Cities area, I was in control of the aircraft and maintaining a heading towards my house as I enjoyed the view of that peaceful summer evening. Suddenly, I felt a slight vibration in the stick and told Scott that something didn’t feel quite right. He immediately took control of the N3N as the engine RPM dropped dramatically.
At this point, two airports were each about five miles away. Scott told me that he thought they were too far from us and the best option would be to pick a good field in which to land. He found a favorable spot just off to our left and turned to set up for a left downwind. About this time, the aircraft started shaking pretty violently and I told him that oil was spraying out the right side of the engine cowling. As Scott set up for the landing, he asked if I saw any other fields that looked better.
I told him that this one looked good to me and he started the descent with one continuous turn to final for the bean field. He told me he was aiming for a break in the tree line at the approach end of the field and with no flaps installed to help, started a full slip to dissipate our excess energy for a touchdown right at the beginning of the field.
I kept thinking, “This cannot be happening!” I turned around to look at Scott in the back cockpit. He had an expression of total concentration as he set up for the landing as a calm feeling came over me. I knew he had over 27,000 hours of experience and lots of practice at grass fields in the N3N, so maybe this would turn out alright after all.
I started to picture this whole scene as some old black-and-white film footage as we banked around to our full stop landing. As I cinched up my harness with a couple of last-minute tugs, the engine, now out of oil, ceased. Scott still kept the slip in with full rudder to bleed off altitude and airspeed until the last second as we touched down firmly, rolling parallel to the rows of growing bean plants. The field was much more hilly and rough than it looked from the air and we bounced our way along as Scott kept the stick full back. He told me later that he decided to ride it out without much braking for fear of flipping over on the rough ground.
We were actually landing in two adjacent fields separated by a road. We still had some speed to contend with as we approached the road. Being a taildragger with a large and long nose, we could not see too well ahead of us as we hit a berm that launched us over the road and a small ditch just on the other side. At the same time, I looked left and was surprised to see two motorcycles coming towards us as we crossed the road. There was also a small power line running along the road. Scott used a bit of rudder to avoid the poles as we entered the next field.
A pretty good ending for the pilots; not so much for the airplane.
We saw a grouping of oak trees coming up and Scott used some left rudder to initiate a controlled partial ground loop. As we started turning to avoid the trees, we hit a small mound which caused the airplane to come off the ground. When we touched back down, the airplane was heading sideways just enough to collapse the landing gear from right to left. Of course, this stopped us right away with a pretty good jolt. Scott yelled at me to get out as he turned everything off in the cockpit. We both exited the airplane without a scratch. The N3N however, looked pretty sad with the gear folded, an oil stream on the side of the engine, the lower right wing damaged and one of the prop blades bent from hitting the ground.
Almost immediately the two motorcyclists along with the field’s owner and a county sheriff showed up to make sure we were all right. We then all shared our stories about what had just transpired. The entire event took about two minutes or less from the first indication of trouble. Scott did not make any radio calls for help mainly because of the lack of time involved and needing full concentration to locate a field and fly the airplane to a full stop with no possible go-around. Unfortunately, the GoPro had run out of video time, so the final minutes of our adventure were not captured to view.
In discussing the event later, and looking at our ground track from Scott’s ForeFlight app, we felt better that the field that was chosen was probably the best one. It was the closest and therefore better as a place we could easily make, instead of trying to shoot for a more distant location. It’s always better to have too much energy than not enough. We also talked about being careful what you are flying over, especially in a single-engine aircraft. Earlier in the flight, we were over some areas with very few options. This cannot always be avoided, but Scott told me he is always thinking about where he would go if he had to get on the ground right away. If there is an option to go around a questionable area, even though it may take a little longer, take it.
Something to remember the airplane.
Since this incident, Scott and I have become good friends. Even though the airplane will be restored by a friend of his, Scott no longer owns it. I felt bad for him and I wanted to do something special. I own a sheet metal fabrication company and have a close friend who owns a sign and graphics company, so I thought I could build him a replica of the side of his fuselage with all of the exact markings and colors on it. This would include rivets and holes to make it authentic.
When I gave it to him, he thought it was super cool and said, “I don’t know why everyone with an airplane wouldn’t want one.” So, I thought about it for a few months and searched everywhere on the internet and found that no one was doing this kind of thing. I have realized that a tail number is very important to pilots. It’s the identity of an aircraft that they have flown or has some other meaningful connection. I have talked to pilots who are in their late 70s who still remember their first solo tail number when they were 17, so I knew there was something special there.
Now that I have this concept in full operation, the side benefit of getting to know people and their stories for me is irreplaceable. I have manufactured Tin Tail Numbers for a family to remember their late father who flew a B-57 Canberra in Vietnam, the first officer of “The Miracle on the Hudson,” an infant survivor of the Vietnam “Operation Baby Lift” C-5 accident, as well as many others who want a remembrance of an aircraft that is significant to them.
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Elliott Cox says:
This is a great story and I’m glad it had a happy ending!
Rick G says:
I do feel as if I had some connection to the planes I’ve flown. A year or two ago I moved to an electronic logbook and was remembering all the planes I flew. I began to look for the planes I’ve flown in the FAA registry. It was interesting to find many are now scattered all around the world from South Africa to England, Virginia, Japan, Russia to Austria as all points in between. Some planes there is no record with the FAA. Odd, because I have pictures of me flying these planes.
Paul P. says:
My favorite aircraft came in a pair. C-130 “A” models tail numbers 158228 and 158229. They were Air Force birds handed over to we in the Navy, to air launch BQM-34 Alpha and Echo RPV’s (Remotely Piloted Vehicles…target drones) for the dog fight students at NAS Miramar in San Diego, California. I was the ordnanceman in charge of all that was needed in the pyrotechnic and cartridge and shaped charge explosives departments……and loading these drones on wing launch pylon stations (two on each wing)…… to ensure successful missions. I performed this duty from April of 1972 to the end of my enlistment in August of 1975. I had often wondered what had happened to my old friends in the years since my “career” had ended. I sadly found out one day, after having a discussion with our company librarian Richard at Republic Airlines in Atlanta in 1985…and he showed me photo’s of my two friends being taken apart for scrap at “The Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan. It was sad to see and I admit to a tear. I had some hours of flight in both planes…and more than a few thousand ground hours getting them ready to do their duty, with me as their ground pounding provider. It was beyond sad to me, similar to finding out that someone you assumed was alive and O.K. had passed away years before, and you never knew. Strange……but it was then that I decided to re-contact many I knew through life that I had lost contact with. It worked and I feel much better with the attempt…….all due to some aircraft.
Bill Stepp says:
Paul P., Thanks for your thoughts. I was XO/CO of VC-3 1977/78. I recall 228/229 very often. A picture of both on our flight line is frequently the wallpaper on my computer. And, I also had wondered what had happened to them. I suspected the truth that you found out later. But never had such graphic confirmation as you have had. Last October I visited NASNI and found that our buildings are pretty deserted, and condemned for removal, but still intact. Roaming the deserted office and shop spaces was a little weird and sad. Some good old days.
Paul Pflaum says:
Bill Stepp…please contact me at ppflaum68@gmail.com
Rolf Ringgold says:
Mitch, I flew with Scott one month before the engine failure in his N3N. I actually shared that same hangar with him for a while. When I rode with Scott I was reminded of how fast a biplane can dissipate energy and descend. I know Scott really enjoyed the biplane and I hope he can find a replacement. I also must mention the professional demeanor Scott has. It must be all those hours of flying the “big iron”.
Best of luck to you on your new endeavor.
Zeek says:
“Our son Maximilian was enjoying watching all of the air traffic as he peddled around on his trike.”
What was he selling?
Mitch Osowski says:
Thanks for sharing. I Googled c-130 158228 they have a nice picture of UF 8228 cool paint scheme. Red tail.
Tom Oates says:
The restoration is moving along quite nicely. It’s in a hangar that I keep my airplane in. It is up on new gear legs and a new engine has already been hung. Won’t be too long before she is flying again.
Mike Stirewalt says:
A forced landing in a field has happened recently to one of the members of a group centered around the type of Experimental aircraft that I fly. As with Scott and his N3N, this person was flying low and when the engine started to fail he decided on a farmer’s field to land in. Results were about the same as with Scott and Mitch – a loss of the gear (only the nose strut in this case), a damaged prop and engine re-build and some reconstruction of the canopy area since in this case the airplane ended up flipping up on its nose and falling over upside down.
This same scenario has happened many, many times to many pilots and reminds me how wise it is to always keep enough money in the bank (altitude) to give me time to perhaps better understand and possibly fix the problem but more importantly, altitude gives one landing options. With two fields five minutes away, flying just a bit higher would have seen that N3N sitting on a runway instead of a bean field.
I’ve fortunately had only one forced landing in my life and the plane ended up on a runway in Venice, FL. I chose Venice out of many airport choices which my altitude of 10.5 gave me. I won’t go in to why I chose Venice but the point is I had those choices. If I’d have been on fire of course I would have chosen something directly below but in my case it was just a couple broken valve springs – although at the time it felt and sounded like I’d swallowed a valve.
I’ve observed that many, many recreational pilots like to fly low – and I’ve never understood it. What’s to see? If one is just hopping over to a nearby airport to buy gas or for some other reason, it makes sense to stay low although even then I stay at the top of whatever is a reasonable altitude. This story above mentions that on their flight from Deluth thay had crossed over areas that would have been a lot less friendly than a bean field. It would have had an entirely different sort of story had the engine failed during those segments.
Many pilots never get any higher than 5 or 6 thousand feet – if that. They feel comfortable flying low even on long cross countries – as if being closer to the ground is somehow “safer”. If it’s daytime you can see the landscape just as well or better from 12 to 14 thousand, the airplane flies faster and more economically when up high (I’ve got O2). It’s cooler (which may be the reason Scott and Mitch were flying low in that open cockpit plane), and there are other benefits as well but the main benefit is the time and choices altitude gives a pilot in case of engine failure. I routinely fly single-engine at night no matter what the terrain is below me knowing that there are very few places in the U.S. – practically none – where an airport/airstrip can’t be reached if you’re at or above 10K. With the GPS’s which we all now have, tapping the “nearest” button will always bring up something better than bean fields. Consequently my motto is, “Stay high!”
Joel Godston says:
Nice job Mitch. When I was in US Air Force pilot training back in 1957-58 I ‘dead sticked’ a T-Bird (T-33). Here’s the story… I was flying solo and lined up, flying wing to a T-33 that had an instructor with a student in it. After checking that fuel could be transferred from all the tanks to the fuselage 50 gallon tank that supplied the fuel to the engine… the last thing you did was to pressurize the wing tanks so fuel would be transferred to the fuselage tank. Well, the instructor in the lead aircraft motioned to me… “,,,. come on Godston (that’s me flying wing) get with it… let’s go.. ” Well, I did NOT press the switch to transfer fuel to the fuselage tank, to the engine. At about 3,000 feet altitude the engine. I thought I had lost a turbine…the same symptom as when you run out of fuel… Well, I did a perfect emergency landing at the Air Base…touching down on the numbers….. I received 150 merits for executing a ‘perfect’ emergency landing… But a thousand plus ‘D-merits’ for ‘heads up and locked!’ for not activating the switch that would have given the engine fuel….Lesson Learned and 50+ years of GREAT flying!
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Financial Times strengthens European reporting team and appoints diplomatic editor
The Financial Times has made new appointments to strengthen its award-winning European coverage and respond to changing tides on the continent. As part of the change Alex Barker takes up the new post of European diplomatic editor, based in Brussels.
Other changes to the FT’s 465-strong European editorial team include:
Anne Sylvaine Chassany (@ChassNews) has been named Paris bureau chief. Previously private equity correspondent, Anne Sylvaine will now oversee FT’s coverage of France.
Henry Foy (@HenryJFoy) has been named central Europe correspondent, based in Warsaw. He was previously motor industry correspondent based in London.
James Politi (@JamesPoliti) is now the FT’s Rome bureau chief. He was previously US M&A correspondent in New York and US economics & trade correspondent in Washington DC.
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Lindsay Fortado joins the FT from Bloomberg as London-based legal correspondent in April.
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Roula Khalaf, foreign editor and assistant editor at the FT, said: “The FT’s European coverage has been a must-read for world leaders since our first international edition in 1979, and these appointments demonstrate our commitment to continue setting the agenda in this important region. The creation of the European diplomatic editor role recognises new challenges in European diplomacy and growing questions about the future of the EU.”
Alex Barker (@alexebarker) has spent the last four years in Brussels as EU correspondent for the FT, breaking stories such as the UK’s €2.1bn EU surcharge. Before that he spent four years as a political correspondent in Westminster.
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The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 720,000. Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving almost half of total traffic. FT education products now serve two thirds of the world’s top 50 business schools.
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Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Library Science
Whitworth University 1965 — 1972
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language and Literature/Letters
University of Oregon Libraries January 1980 - Present
Library of Congress September 1974 - December 1979
Research, Library Science, Information Literacy, Editing, Non-profits, Customer Service, Government Information, Quakers
Toni Hsu
FellowPhD at Seattle Children's
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Zoology
University of Hawaii at Manoa 1999 — 2003
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology
Seattle Children's December 2009 - Present
Tony Rudd
physician at northwest physicians
Healthcare IT, Emergency Medicine, Medical Informatics, Medicine, Healthcare Management, Hospitals, Clinical Research, EMR, Healthcare, Board Certified, EHR, Medical Education, ACLS, Public Health, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Patient Safety, Inpatient, Epic Systems, Surgery, Treatment, Nursing, Internal Medicine
Tracy Domingues
Educational consultant, STEM diversity advocate
Master's, Public Administration
math and science matters March 2009 - Present
Adecco Group February 2001 - June 2003
Quintessent Communications 1998 - 2000
Public Relations, Strategic Communications, Social Media, Non-profits, Public Policy, Community Outreach, Spanish-speaking, Collateral Writing, Process Writing, Structural Editing, Research Projects
Travis Johnston
Electrical Engineer (Contract) at Cadence Biomedical
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering
Everett Community College
Associate of Science, Electrical Engineering
Cadence Biomedical September 2014 - Present
Haggen Inc March 2006 - November 2013
Pacific Grinding Wheel 2004 - 2006
Java, Matlab, Assembly Language, Soldering, HTML, Microsoft Office, Automation, Verilog, R, Oscilloscope, Multimeter, XML, C++
Trevor Airey
Buyer Vendor Management at Amazon
Gonzaga University 2013 — 2015
Master's Degree, Organizational Leadership
Bachelors of Arts Degree received; Focusing, Economics; Focusing in Finance Environmental Science Resource Management; Sustainability
East Valley High School Graduate 1999 — 2003
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics
Amazon April 2012 - Present
Paccar Parts February 2009 - April 2012
Paccar Parts June 2006 - January 2009
Recreation Equipment Inc June 2003 - May 2006
Recreation Equipment Inc February 2003 - June 2003
Wilson's Leather Expert Co November 2002 - January 2003
Outlook, SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Pricing, Access, Leadership, Pricing Strategy, Automotive, Competitive Analysis, Product Marketing, Market Research, Retail, Market Planning, Marketing Strategy, Team Building, Analysis, Cross-functional Team..., Forecasting, Management, Market Analysis, Marketing, Negotiation, Operations Management, Process Improvement, Product Development, Program Management, Purchasing, Sales, Sales Management, Vendor Management, Vendor Relationships, Vendors
Tricia Gill
Senior Content Developer at Microsoft
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Creative Writing
Certificate, Technical Writing & Editing
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Journalism/Business Administration
Microsoft March 2011 - October 2014
Microsoft October 2009 - March 2011
Microsoft June 2006 - March 2011
Microsoft June 2003 - June 2006
Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Online Help, Content Management, Digital Media, SharePoint, Copy Editing, Copywriting, Technical Writing, Proofreading, Blogging, Editing, Web Content, Creative Writing, Content Strategy, Content Development, Information Architecture, Mobile Applications, FrameMaker, Software Documentation, Technical Communication
Tsubasa Kohyama
Graduate Student University of Washington
東京大学 2013 — 2013
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Physics, Bachelor's degree
早稲田大学 2007 — 2009
University of Washington September 2013 - Present
The University of Tokyo April 2013 - August 2013
Tye Rickert, CFA
Senior Wealth Strategy Associate at UBS
Marketing, Business
Burlington Edison High School
UBS June 2012 - Present
Morgan Stanley Private Bank, N.A. December 2010 - June 2012
Bernstein Global Wealth Management April 2006 - December 2010
KeyBank June 2003 - April 2006
Tylor Prather
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), American Indian/Native American Studies
WA MESA September 2009 - Present
Seattle MESA September 2007 - June 2009
Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Teaching, Student Affairs, Event Management, Leadership, Teamwork, Data Analysis, Data Entry, Program Evaluation, Student Development, Tutoring, Windows, Time Management, Critical Thinking, Research, Event Planning, Higher Education, Student Leadership
Vanessa Kirk Briley
CoDirector of Development at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington and Alaska
BA, Business
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington and Alaska November 2000 - Present
National MS Society - Western Washington 1995 - 2000
Volunteer Management, Philanthropy, Fundraising, Community Outreach, Non-profits, Nonprofits, Public Speaking, Social Media Marketing, Event Planning, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Event Management, Annual Giving, Strategic Planning, Marketing Communications, Project Management, Leadership, Community Development
Vas Duggirala
Senior Economist at City of Seattle
Indiana University Bloomington 2007 — 2009
MPA, Finance, Management
School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London 2006 — 2007
MSc, Development Economics
九州大学 2005 — 2006
BS, Economics, International Studies
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2005 — 2005
City of Seattle June 2011 - Present
Cascade Natural Gas 2009 - 2011
Indiana University Bloomington 2007 - 2009
Millennium Challenge Corporation 2008 - 2008
State of Washington 2006 - 2006
Policy Analysis, Economics, Program Evaluation, International..., International Relations, Policy, Politics, Qualitative Research, Statistics, Analysis, Research, SAS, Foreign Policy, Nonprofits
Vera McGinnis
Sr Accountant at Providence Health & Services
Golden Gate University 2008 — 2012
Master's Degree, Taxation
Providence Health & Services March 2014 - Present
Moss Adams LLP February 1998 - Present
Tax, Partnership Taxation, Corporate Tax, Non-profits..., non-profit tax, consolidated tax, 990 consulting, Auditing, Tax Returns, SEC filings, Tax Accounting, Internal Controls, Tax Preparation, GAAP, General Ledger, QuickBooks, Financial Statements, Account Reconciliation, Financial Reporting, Financial Accounting, US GAAP, Accounting, CPA, Tax Research, Income Tax
Wendy (Coffland) Glenn
Manson, Washington
IT/Learning Technologies
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Atmospheric Sciences (Meteorology)
Wenatchee Valley College May 2013 - Present
Glenn Electric Company September 1994 - Present
NCNB March 2000 - March 2011
Active Directory, System Administration, Linux, Windows, DNS, Servers, SQL, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Account Reconciliation, Bookkeeping, Customer Service, General Ledger, Office Administration
Wendy Peters Moschetti
Director of Food Systems at LiveWell Colorado
University of California, Berkeley 2001 — 2003
MCP, City & Regional Planning
BASW, Social Work
LiveWell Colorado July 2015 - Present
WPM Consulting May 2009 - June 2015
Civic Results October 2007 - May 2009
UCHSC January 2006 - September 2007
Moore Iacafano Goltsman (MIG), Inc July 2003 - October 2005
CPFR, Public Outreach, Community Development, Strategic Planning, Workshop Facilitation, Policy, Public Health, Policy Analysis, Project Planning, Grant Writing, Program Evaluation, Public Policy, Community Engagement, Community Outreach, Community Organizing, Grants, Urban Planning, Program Development
Wes Kennedy
Market Analyst at Boeing
Bachelor of Science (BS), Materials Engineering
Wesley Hottot
Attorney at Institute for Justice
J.D., Law
University of Virginia 1999 — 2003
B.A., Religious Studies
Institute for Justice June 2008 - Present
Wicker VanOrsdel
Des Moines, Iowa Area
Wild life reseacher at Wavo Properties
William Barks
Open Market Trading, LLC
Latin School of Chicago 1974 — 1978
Open Market Trading, LLC April 2004 - Present
Computech Systems April 1997 - April 2004
4 Day Carpet Company November 1991 - March 1997
Fountainhead Contract Carpet August 1983 - October 1987
Product Marketing, Customer Service, Account Management, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Sales Management, Management, Start-ups, Sales, Product Development, Business Development
William & Kimberly DeVaney
Pembroke, Maine
Marine Artist and Design
Author at Arctic Wolfsong
William Raleigh
Owner, William H Raleigh, DDS
BS, DDS, Zoology and Dentistry
William Sather
Associate Professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine 1991 — 1994
postdoctoral research, ion channels
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris FRANCE 1988 — 1991
postdoctoral research, Neuroscience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physiology and Biophysics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1977 — 1981
Bachelor's Degree, Biophysics
University of Colorado School of Medicine 1995 - Present
Science, University Teaching, Higher Education, Lecturing, Teaching, Research, Statistics, Molecular Biology, Matlab, Cell Biology, Research Design
William Teng
Founder at Elite Hill
Bachelor of Science (BS), Environmental Science & Resource Management
Beijing Huijia Private (IB) School 2008 — 2011
International Baccalaureate Diploma, 3.95
Elite Hill March 2014 - Present
Palais de Chine June 2013 - August 2013
Teng's June 2006 - August 2007
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Customer Service, Research, Teamwork, Photoshop, Social Media, Public Speaking, C++, English
Will Mortensen
Senior Software Engineer at ExtraHop Networks
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering
ExtraHop Networks August 2014 - Present
ExtraHop Networks November 2010 - August 2014
Applied Physics Lab at University of Washington June 2008 - September 2010
Loud Technologies June 2007 - September 2007
Department of Electrical Engineering - University of Washington June 2006 - February 2007
C, Linux, Python, TCP/IP, Device Drivers, Electrical Engineering, Digital Signal...
Won Seo
Maintenance Supervisor at 3003 Cabin Creek Lodge LLC
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.77
3003 Cabin Creek Lodge LLC January 2015 - June 2015
BHI co.,Ltd. July 2014 - September 2014
R.O.K Army February 2008 - January 2010
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Matlab, PowerPoint, Troubleshooting, Leadership, Problem Solving
Yun-Ming Shih
Development Intern at iFoodDecisionSciences
Graduate Certificate in Software Design & Development, Computing & Software System
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
Master’s Degree, Computer Science & Software Engineering
iFoodDecisionSciences May 2015 - Present
MillCreek Education April 2013 - December 2014
Practicum in Community Service Activity June 2012 - March 2013
King Square International October 2008 - December 2011
C++, Java, LaTeX, HTML, Data Analysis, Analysis, SQL, Mandarin, Data Entry, Organizational..., Highly detail oriented, Result Oriented, Interpersonal Skill, Analytics, Computational skills, Problem Solving, Fast-pace learning..., Logical Reasoning, Critical Thinking
Zach Hershberger
ziyun li
Zola Wagner
Medical Scribe at Puget Sound Dermatology / Graduate of University of Washington
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biochemistry Major
Kamiak High School 2005 — 2009
Fundraising, Networking, Event Planning, Research, Teamwork, Social Media, Public Speaking, Customer Service, GIS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Time Management, Social Services, Outlook, PCR, HTML, Interviewing Skills, Access, Event Management, PowerPoint
Aimee Heytvelt, MA, PHR
HR Generalist at Personnel Management Systems, Inc.
Human Resources Management Certificate, Human Resources Management
University of San Diego 2005 — 2009
Master of Arts, Leadership Studies
Bachelor of Science, Psychology
Personnel Management Systems, Inc. July 2013 - Present
Wellspring Family Services Employee Assistance Program September 2010 - July 2013
Personnel Management Systems, Inc. (via Temporarily Yours) 2010 - 2010
University of San Diego July 2004 - November 2009
HR Consulting, Management Consulting, Performance Management, Human Relations, Leadership, Employee Relations, Employee Benefits, Case Management, Contract Management, Account Management, Project Management, Human Resources..., Customer Service, Training, Case Managment, People Skills, Strategic Planning, Talent Acquisition, Program Management, Leadership Development, Policy, Talent Management, Resume Writing, Budgets, College Recruiting, Onboarding, Applicant Tracking..., Employee Training, Career Development, Interviews, Coaching, Human Resources, Benefits Administration, Marketing, Change Management, Recruiting, Organizational..., Organizational..., Team Building, Employee Engagement, Conflict Resolution, Management, Staff Development, Employee Wellness, Workforce Planning, Hiring, EAP, Workshop Facilitation, Executive Coaching, Succession Planning
Alev Seymen
Project Architect at Board & Vellum
Saint Joseph Lisesi
Bachelor's degree, Architecture
Board & Vellum March 2014 - Present
Nutty Squirrel Gelato 2012 - Present
Castanes Architects PS AIA May 2006 - February 2014
DLR Group 2004 - 2006
Sustainable Design, LEED AP, Architectural Design, Design Research, Submittals, Mixed-use, Space planning, Comprehensive Planning, Construction Drawings, Architecture, Residential Design, AutoCAD, SketchUp
Alex Ryu
Payer Contracts Analyst at L.A. Care Health Plan
Bachelor's Degree, Statistics
Myung Duk Foreign Language High School
L.A. Care Health Plan February 2015 - Present
Data Analysis, Analytics, Financial Modeling, Microsoft Excel, R, SQL Server Management..., Toad for Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Access, VBA, Actuarial Science, HCPCS, CPT, ICD-9, QNXT, Statistics, Strategic Planning, Product Development, Project Planning
Installation Coordinator at Advanced Filter and Mechanical
Bachelor of Arts, Self and Society
Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom 2000 — 2003
Associates of Arts, Arts & Science
Advanced Filter and Mechanical December 2008 - Present
MK Constructs September 2006 - November 2008
Evergreen Custom Homes August 2002 - September 2006
Insurance Solutions of Washington November 2001 - July 2002
United Employees Benefit Trust July 2001 - July 2002
Amy Del Rosario
Independent Hyperion Consulting Specialist
BA, Accounting and Human Resource Management
ADR Analytics June 2010 - Present
interRel Consulting May 2013 - Present
ODTUG August 2013 - June 2014
Skehana Systems, LLC August 2012 - May 2013
Intelenex February 2013 - March 2013
Getty Images May 2012 - August 2012
Getty Images December 2011 - December 2011
Jibe Consulting March 2011 - August 2011
Getty Images June 2010 - June 2011
Resources Global Professionals February 2010 - January 2011
Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Enterprise, Essbase, EPM, Forecasting, Oracle, Data Integration, Oracle Applications, Access, Budgets, Account Reconciliation, HFM, Business Intelligence, Program Management, OLAP, Hyperion HFM, Master Data Management, Shared Services, ETL, ODI, Consulting, Finance, Management Consulting, FDM, Process Improvement, Integration, Variance Analysis, Strategy, ERP, Accounting
Amy Hartman
Quality System Specialist at Boeing
University of Houston-Clear Lake 2003 — 2005
MS, Software Engineering
Tulane University 1998 — 2002
BA, Computer Engineering minor in Business and Math
Clear Lake High School 1994 — 1998
Boeing July 2012 - Present
The Boeing Company June 2007 - July 2012
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. October 2004 - June 2007
The Boeing Company August 2003 - June 2007
The Boeing Company May 2002 - December 2003
Change Management, Process Improvement, Six Sigma, Metrics Development, Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Software Documentation
Amy Rankin-Williams
Executive Director at Siempre Unidos
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health 2013 — 2016
DrPH, Public Health
Harvard University 1994 — 1996
M.A., Russian Studies
Reed College 1986 — 1990
B.A., International Studies
Siempre Unidos March 2015 - Present
Consultant August 2014 - Present
UNC--Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health 2013 - 2015
Parent Services Project, Inc. March 2014 - August 2014
Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance July 2003 - February 2014
Family Services Agency, Santa Barbara & Teach For America, NY August 1997 - April 2003
Grants, Fundraising, Non-profits, Volunteer Management, International..., Program Management, Grant Writing, Program Evaluation, Spanish, Leadership, Proposal Writing, Nonprofits, Teaching, Policy, Strategic Planning, Management, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Community Outreach, NGOs, Training
Anca Scaesteanu
Process Optimization & Quality Control | Behaviorbased EE | Energy Engineer | EngineeringtoEnglish Translator
INEX Green. Building. Solutions. Vienna Summer University 2011 — 2011
Certificate, Green Building
Sustainable Building Advisor Institute (SBAi) 2009 — 2010
Certificate, Sustainable Building Advisor
Certificate, Low Impact Development
Vassar College 2002 — 2003
Franklin Energy Services April 2013 - July 2014
Franklin Energy Services January 2013 - April 2013
Engineers Without Borders - Puget Sound Professionals January 2011 - January 2013
Sustainable Building Advisor Institute February 2012 - May 2012
Black & Veatch February 2007 - November 2008
Guardian West (Flex-N-Gate) May 2006 - August 2006
Sustainability, Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Development, Engineering, Data Analysis, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Awareness, Email Marketing, Salesforce.com, Technical Writing, Sustainability..., LEED Consulting, Energy Audits, Sustainable Design, Low Impact Development, Civil Engineering, Research, AutoCAD, Water Resources, Renewable Energy, Non-profits, CRM, Software..., Creative Problem Solving, LEED, SharePoint, SQL, Microsoft Excel
Andrew McDonald
Senior Interaction Designer at Intuit
Intuit July 2014 - Present
Freelance / Graphic Design Services 2013 - Present
Intava January 2009 - July 2014
CollabIP 2013 - 2013
Intava March 2003 - January 2009
Intava June 2000 - March 2003
User Interface Design, Creative Direction, Art Direction, Graphic Design, User Experience, Creative Strategy, Graphics, Interaction Design, Mobile Devices, User Interface, Interactive Advertising, Branding & Identity, Photography, User Experience Design, Project Management, Information Architecture, CSS, Web Design, Experience Design, Management, Mobile Applications, Corporate Identity, Product Design
Andrhea Fletcher
Account Director at Alliant Insurance Services
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Speech Communications
Alliant Insurance Services September 2009 - Present
Microsoft April 2006 - March 2009
Microsoft January 2005 - April 2006
Microsoft September 2002 - January 2005
Microsoft August 2001 - September 2002
Microsoft August 1999 - August 2001
Microsoft July 1995 - August 1999
Employee Benefits, Benefits Administration, Employee Relations, Performance Management, Personnel Management, Training, Policy, Human Resources, Career Development, Recruiting, Management, Insurance, Leadership, HRIS, Consulting, Onboarding, Talent Acquisition, Customer Service, Employee Engagement, Employee Training, Vendor Management
Angela Gay
Experienced Staff Accountant, Contracts Administrator, and Business and Financial Analyst
Bachelor's Degree, Business
Cascadia Community College 2005 — 2008
Associate, Business
Advantage Sales & Marketing March 2015 - Present
T-Mobile November 2012 - September 2014
SNC-Lavalin Constructors Inc. June 2008 - October 2012
Grubb & Ellis 2010 - 2010
Equity Residential June 2006 - January 2008
T-Mobile March 2005 - June 2006
Microsoft Excel, Accounting, Contract Management, Invoicing, General Ledger, Microsoft Office, Negotiation, Management, Contract Negotiation, SharePoint, Time Management, Analysis, Marketing, Forecasting, Sales
Angelo Polo
Localization Engineer bei RR Donnelley
Master of Science (MS), Mathematics
Dickinson College 2001 — 2005
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Philosophy
RR Donnelley May 2012 - Present
Dickinson College September 2010 - May 2011
Localization, IT Management, Troubleshooting, JavaScript, Java, MongoDB, Python, Node.js, Git
Anne-Marie Lowe
Technology Product Realization at AT&T
AT&T December 2009 - Present
i3 Consulting -select clients include Orange, Verizon, Nextel International, Schlumberger October 1994 - December 2009
Nuance Communications (formerly SnapIn Software) 2007 - 2008
Alltel Wireless 2005 - 2005
U.S. Cellular 2005 - 2005
Nuevatel / Western Wireless International 2004 - 2004
Western Wireless 2003 - 2003
Orange 2002 - 2002
Bell Canada 2001 - 2001
Schlumberger (formerly SEMA Group Telecoms) August 1999 - June 2000
Wireless, Mobile Technology, Mobile Applications, Product Development, Mobile Commerce, Cross-functional Team..., Management, Software Project..., Project Management, Leadership, Contract Negotiation, Product Launch, Mobile Communications, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Technology Roadmapping, Cross-platform..., Release Management, Budgets, software development..., Vendor, Systems Analysis, International Project..., Large Scale Deployments, Sarbanes-Oxley, Budget, Mobile Devices, Strategy, Telecommunications, Program Management, Product Management
Anubhuti Singh
Business Analyst a Philips
Certifiaction course
Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management,Gwalior 2004 — 2006
Philips July 2015 - Present
Intellectual Ventures July 2012 - Present
Microsoft June 2009 - July 2012
WaMu September 2008 - September 2008
T-Mobile 2007 - 2008
Satyam 2004 - 2007
Honeywell Process Solutions 2003 - 2004
HTML, CRM, User Acceptance Testing, Data Governance, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Program Management, SDLC, Database Design, Agile Project Management, Software Project..., SharePoint, Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis, Requirements Analysis, T-SQL, SSRS
Anya Hsu
Office Services Assistant at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Informatics
Aragon High School 2011 — 2014
Extracurricular Advising Program (ExAd) March 2015 - Present
Awemore March 2015 - Present
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP July 2015 - September 2015
The Counter March 2014 - July 2014
TGI Fridays October 2013 - March 2014
YMCA May 2013 - August 2013
Sequoia Union High School District May 2013 - July 2013
Nutritional Services, Inc. June 2011 - August 2011
Customer Service, Project Planning, Teaching, Teamwork, Microsoft Office, Facebook, Social Networking, Public Speaking, Social Media, Microsoft Excel, Experience Working with..., Special Needs, Music
April Anderson-Silva
BS, Business Administration/Psychology
Vulcan, Inc. I Real Estate July 2013 - Present
Mike's Hard Lemonade November 2010 - November 2012
Esterline Control Systems March 2008 - August 2010
Signature Employer Resource, LLC January 2001 - September 2007
Koryn Rolstad Studios January 1996 - August 2000
Anand Vijayakumar
Software Engineer at EMC
Certification, Embedded Systems and Real-Time Programming
Master's degree, Computer
Nuance Communications 2006 - 2013
AOL 2006 - 2009
Aventail Corporation June 2004 - June 2006
Mobile Technology, Embedded Software, Performance Analysis, Software Development, Android SDK, Data Structures, Algorithm Design, Networking, Natural Language..., C/C++ STL, Java, Software Design, Software Engineering, Perl, Debugging, Algorithms, Python, Distributed Systems, Object Oriented Design, Subversion
Ayman Hanna
President/CEO hannainvestors.com
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management and Operations
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration, Management and Operations
Certificate, Administration and Management
MACK Companies/Oak Park Avenue Realty, LTD. 2013 - Present
Hanna Investments & Strategy Consultants June 2008 - Present
New Market Realty, Inc. November 2010 - November 2013
John L. Scott Real Estate July 2004 - August 2010
Real Estate, Investments, Selling, Residential Homes, Customer Service, Sales, Real Estate Transactions, Management, REO, Real Property, Investors, Investment Properties, Property Management, Referrals, Foreclosures, Short Sales, Condos, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Financing, HUD, Real Estate Economics, Townhomes, Rentals, Buyer Representation
Belinda S Moses
Annie Wright School
Charles Wright Academy
himagine solutions inc. January 2015 - Present
himagine solutions September 2014 - December 2014
himagine solutions November 2013 - August 2014
Kforce Healthcare, Inc. January 2013 - October 2013
Premera Blue Cross December 2011 - January 2013
Franciscan Health System February 2006 - December 2010
Franciscan Health System April 2004 - February 2006
TRA Medical Imaging Centers October 1993 - February 2002
Healthcare, Hospitals, Healthcare Management, Managed Care, EMR, Epic Systems, Strategic Planning, Informatics, Business Development, Strategy, Revenue Cycle, Public Speaking, Medical Devices, Management, Change Management, Team Building, Non-profits, Leadership, Project Planning, Budgets, HIPAA, Nursing, Program Management, Policy, Leadership Development, Physicians, EHR, Process Improvement, Physician Relations, Healthcare Information...
Ben Tweet
Vice President at The Rush Companies
University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business 2010 — 2012
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration, Entrepreneurship
Certificate in Accounting, Finance and Accounting
The Rush Companies October 2013 - Present
Brian Feller
BA, Business Administration
Regents Bank February 2014 - Present
NW Equity Holdings, Inc. September 2012 - February 2014
Sterling Savings Bank March 2012 - November 2012
First Independent Bank October 2008 - February 2012
First Independent Bank February 2004 - October 2008
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, Credit, Loans, Access, Process Improvement, Accounting, Financial Analysis, Databases, Analysis, Portfolio Management, Finance
Blake Wescott
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy
American Board of Radiology September 2013 - Present
University of Washington December 2010 - September 2013
Casa Recording Company August 1997 - December 2010
Business Analysis, Technical Writing, Instructional Design, Project Management, SQL, SaaS, SharePoint, Audio Engineering, Music Production, Management, Analysis, Requirements Analysis
Bradley M. Butcher
Puyallup, Washington
Operations Assistant at University of Puget Sound Athletics
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership - Administration, 3.65
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics
University of Puget Sound August 2015 - Present
Lorenzo Romar Basketball Camps June 2015 - July 2015
University of Washington Intercollegiate Athletics September 2014 - June 2015
University of Washington Men's Basketball Team September 2013 - June 2014
Run To Win June 2013 - August 2013
Sports Management, Leadership, Work Ethic, Coaching, Athlete Development, Management, Athletics, Community Outreach, Event Planning, Event Management, Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Teaching, Fundraising, Social Networking, Social Media
Justin Schutz
Business partner for global strategic communications
B.A., Communications, Minor in Architecture
F5 Networks September 2014 - April 2015
McDonald's USA, LLC September 2013 - August 2014
Microsoft March 2010 - September 2013
T-Mobile USA, Inc. April 2007 - October 2009
Fitch March 2006 - April 2007
Lane Powell PC October 2004 - March 2006
Brandrud Furniture September 2003 - June 2004
Edelman November 2001 - April 2003
Integrated Marketing, Public Relations, Communications Planning, Copywriting, Brand Architecture, Corporate Communications, Positioning, Marketing Communications, Internal Communications, Brand Management, Social Media, Digital Marketing, Newsletters, Advertising, Creative Direction, Corporate Branding, Blogging, Business Development, Marketing, Strategic Communications, Content Strategy, Brand Development
Kevin Braun
IT Manager at Corwin Beverage Company
Capella University 2005 — 2008
MS, Information Technology
Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Computer Engineering
Corwin Beverage Company March 2012 - Present
Standard Insurance January 2003 - November 2011
Siemens Business Services November 1998 - January 2003
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán September 1997 - June 1998
Budgets, IT Operations, Process Improvement, Disaster Recovery, IT Service Management, Vendor Management, Networking, Resource Management, ITIL, Citrix, IT Management, Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware, Telecommunications..., Servers, SQL, IT Strategy, Management, System Administration, Computer Hardware, Printers, Technology Management, VPN, Systems Analysis, Databases, Windows 7, Business Analysis, Technical Support, Project Management, Customer Service, SharePoint, Telecommunications, Troubleshooting, Data Center, Requirements Analysis, Infrastructure
Brook Elliott Buettner
Mitigation Specialist at King County Department of Public Defense
MSW, MPA, Nonprofit Management and International Development
Whitman College 1998 — 2002
BA, Religious Studies
King County, WA June 2014 - Present
(freelance) September 2008 - Present
Downtown Emergency Service Center May 2012 - June 2014
Sea Mar Community Care Center April 2010 - May 2012
Oxfam America 2009 - 2011
Oxfam action corps 2009 - 2011
Weston United Community Renewal March 2009 - February 2010
Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida June 2007 - December 2008
GIRE, AC 2007 - 2008
Population Leadership Program, University of Washington August 2006 - June 2007
Non-profits, Mental Health, Program Evaluation, Public Speaking, Human Rights, Community Outreach, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Leadership Development, Policy, Program Development, Social Services, Grant Writing, Organizational..., Public Policy, Program Management, Volunteer Management, Grants, Training, Community Development
Bruce Huang
Information System Consultant
TCP/IP, Microsoft Exchange, Windows Server, Management, Active Directory, DNS, Remote Infrastructure..., Network Security, VMware ESX, VirtualBox, Cisco VPN, HP Proliant, Dell PowerEdge Servers, iPhone, Mac OS X, Windows 7, Vendor Management, Problem Solving, Creativity, Vulnerability Assessment, IIS, Group Policy, WSUS, DHCP, ISA, Solaris, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, Cisco IOS, PF, Microsoft SQL Server, PPTP, OpenVPN, RAID, IBM ThinkPad, NEC PBX, Android, Windows Mobile, Backup Exec, GreatPlains, Microsoft Dynamics, QuickBooks, RT, HTML, Wordpress, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Backtrack, Nmap, Openfire
Bruce Carr
Quality Assurance Engineer at Oculus (through Pro Unlimited)
BA in Geography, BA in History
Microsoft (through Experis) April 2015 - May 2015
Amazon (through Lionbridge) January 2015 - April 2015
Microsoft April 2010 - September 2014
Microsoft (through Volt) August 2009 - May 2010
Screenlife Games, LLC June 2007 - July 2009
Screenlife Games, LLC December 2005 - July 2007
Screenlife Games, LLC October 2004 - December 2005
Microsoft (through Volt) March 2000 - October 2004
Wizards of the Coast 1997 - 1999
Testing, Video Games, Game Development, Quality Assurance, Xbox 360, Game Design, Mobile Games, Product Development, Gameplay, Software Development, Test Cases, Mobile Devices, Software Documentation, Computer Games, Bug Tracking, Scrum, Software Quality..., Perforce, Test Planning, Casual Games
Cal Bearman
Associate III at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
MSCE, Civil Engineering - Structural Emphasis
Purdue University 2005 — 2010
BSCE, Civil Engineering
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. July 2015 - Present
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. June 2012 - Present
Carlos Salazar
Account Executive at Commercial Energy of California
Bachelor's Degree, Double Major Political Science and History
Commercial Energy of California October 2014 - Present
Insperity February 2011 - July 2014
ADP Small Business Services March 2004 - February 2011
ADP Small Business Services June 2003 - March 2004
ADP Small Business Services May 2001 - June 2003
Onsite Commercial Staffing (Aerotek) April 2000 - May 2001
Onsite Commercial Staffing (Aerotek) April 1999 - April 2000
Phi Kappa Tau National Fraternity June 1998 - April 1999
Human Capital Management, Payroll Processing, Cold Calling, Employee Benefits, Consultative Selling, PEO, Personnel Management, Salesforce.com, Sales Process, Payroll, Selling, Recruiting, Human Resources, Business Development..., C-Level Sales, CRM, Change Management, Consultative Sales..., Consultative Style, Leadership, Mentoring Of Staff, Sales Management, Servant Leadership, Team Building, Training, Trusted Business Advisor, Management, Sales
Carol Chaput, BSN, RN
Staff Nurse, Neurodevelopmental Ambulatory Clinic at Seattle Children's Hospital Research Foundation
RN-BSN, Nursing Education
Bellevue Community College
ADN, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
Seattle Children's Hospital Research Foundation 2013 - Present
BLS, Pediatrics, Nursing, Medical/Surgical, Airway Management, Assessment Skills, Care Planning, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Diagnostics, Evaluation Strategies, Phone Triage, Process Improvement, Medication..., Medication..., Rapid Process Assessment, Training and teaching, •MuseWeb, PACSWeb,..., Microsoft Word, Excel,..., CIS & EPIC, 3M Electronic Signature, Ambulatory, Orthopedic
Carol Braden
Owner and Designer
Carol Braden, LLC December 2008 - Present
Seattle Metropolitan Magazine November 2005 - February 2008
Sunset Magazine 2002 - 2005
Pacific Fishing December 1996 - February 2000
Community News Group June 1993 - September 1996
Entercom June 1992 - February 1993
Casie Sullivan
Alliant International University-Irvine 2006 — 2008
Master's, Marriage and Family Therapy
Bachelor, Psychology
South Coast Children's Society, Inc. April 2013 - Present
Living Success Center February 2009 - August 2012
NOVA Academy September 2009 - June 2010
Straight Talk, Inc. October 2009 - May 2010
Women's Transitional Living Center June 2007 - May 2008
Learning Teacher June 2007 - July 2007
Seattle Children's Hospital August 2005 - July 2006
Group Therapy, Adolescents, Anger Management, Anxiety, Assessment Skills, Crisis Intervention, Depression, Domestic Violence..., Family Therapy, Mental Health Counseling, Play Therapy, Program Development, Psychotherapy, Self-esteem, Trauma, Windows & Mac operating..., CBT, Google Groups
Courtney Chai
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology - Physiology
Harborview Medical Center November 2014 - Present
UW Housing & Food Services June 2012 - June 2014
Seattle World School March 2011 - June 2011
Interpersonal..., Written Communication, Reliability, Teamwork, Leadership, Research, Certified Level 4...
Charles Redman
Food and Beverage Coordinator
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government
numberFire February 2015 - Present
Washington National Golf Club October 2013 - Present
Blue Sky Outfitters June 2012 - September 2012
Skyhawks Sports Academy June 2011 - August 2011
Event Planning, Corporate Events, Client Services, Social Media Marketing, Public Relations, Microsoft Excel, Email Marketing, Coordinating Events, Critical Thinking, Market Research, HTML, Coaching, Data Analysis, Stata, Ticket Sales, Blog Marketing, Twitter, Sales, Microsoft Office, Live Events
Director of Information Technology at Tune
BS, ACMS: Discrete Math and Algorithms
Minor, Mathematics
Tune February 2014 - Present
HasOffers April 2012 - February 2014
AudienceScience July 2010 - May 2012
SiteScout 2007 - 2010
Cascadia Labs 2007 - 2008
University of Washington May 2003 - March 2007
Xerox December 2001 - May 2003
Linux, Python, Hadoop, Puppet, MySQL, Amazon Web Services..., VMware Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Design, Scalability, F5 BigIP, Project Management, SQL, Shell Scripting, Apache, Windows, Distributed Systems, Virtualization, VMware, Networking
Chico Fraley
G5 February 2010 - Present
Express Employment Professionals November 2006 - January 2010
Qwest Communications 1998 - 2002
Account Management, Marketing, Salesforce.com, Sales, Sales Management, Cold Calling, Recruiting, Online Advertising, Lead Generation, Sales Process, New Business Development, Social Media Marketing, Advertising, Social Media, SEO, Selling, Public Speaking, Time Management, Direct Sales, Marketing Strategy, Social Networking, Digital Marketing, B2B, Online Marketing, Email Marketing, Customer Service, Business Development, SEM, CRM, Sales Presentations, SaaS, Strategic Partnerships, Leadership, PPC, Product Marketing
Chrissie Chang
Graduate Program Advisor at University of Washington
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Educational Leadership and Policy
BM, Orchestral Instruments, Cum Laude
University of Washington April 2012 - Present
Independent Music Professional 1999 - Present
Christian G. St. Jacques (MCDM)
Digital Marketing Specialist in Marketing Automation, & Content Performance | Film/Theater/Voiceover Professional
Masters of Communication in Digital Media, Communication and Media Studies, 3.72
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Media Studies
Relevant Coursework
Microsoft - GMO/SMSC Team - Cloud + Enterprise Group March 2015 - Present
Portent, Inc. September 2014 - January 2015
Microsoft - Start-up Business Group - Office Mix April 2014 - July 2014
Amazon - Amazon Student April 2013 - September 2013
Amazon - Kindle Special Offers Advertising Group October 2012 - March 2013
Expedia September 2009 - September 2012
Human Rights Society October 2011 - August 2012
Allrecipes.com September 2008 - May 2009
WhitePages September 2005 - December 2006
Muse Marketing Group September 2004 - March 2005
Online Advertising, Omniture, SEM, Digital Marketing, Web Analytics, Salesforce.com, Email Marketing, Digital Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media, Analytics, SEO, E-commerce, Google Analytics, Digital Strategy, Brand Awareness, Google Adwords, New Media, Content Development, Advertising, PPC, Management, Strategic Partnerships, Media Planning, Customer Acquisition, Content Strategy, Account Management, User Experience, Project Management, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Marketing, Lead Generation, Conversion Optimization, Affiliate Marketing, Creative Direction, Online Marketing, Direct Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Sales, Web Marketing, Search Advertising, Content Management, Event Management, Interactive Marketing, Media Buying, Advertising Sales, Marketing, B2B Marketing, Campaign Management, Marketing Research
Ann Marie Clark
Director, Arnold Library at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
M.L.S., Librarianship
B.A., Journalism
University of Washington Graduate School of Business Administration
Certificate, Integrative Program in Administration
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center May 1993 - Present
Library, Editing, Research, Grant Writing, Community Outreach, Non-profits, Social Media, Public Speaking, Teaching, Qualitative Research, Electronic Resources, Microsoft Office, Nonprofits, Technical Writing, Management, Project Management, Fundraising, Proofreading, Leadership, Grants, Library Science, Higher Education, Program Development
Darryl Haskins
Las Vegas, Nevada Area
General Manager at CLEARWATER ECO CLEAN
MBA, Marketing, Finance, Real Estate
MBA, Finance, Marketing, Real Estate
BABA, Business Administration
CLEARWATER ECO CLEAN April 2006 - Present
Clearwater Eco Clean December 2005 - Present
Alastar Real Estate Services Inc. 1999 - 2006
SAFECO Properties, Inc. November 1986 - February 1999
Security Properties, Inc. 1983 - 1985
Arthur Andersen & Co. 1980 - 1983
Persistent, Tenacious, Focused, Property Management, Building Maintenance, Floor Waxing and..., Construction Final..., Specialized Cleaning, Detailed Cleaning, Office Cleaning, Carpet Cleaning, Window Washing, Janitorial Services, Affordable Cleaning, Best Cleaning Service, Construction Final..., Las Vegas Building..., Office Cleaning Las..., Small Business, Facilities Management, Leases, Floor Cleaning, Tenant, Real Estate Economics, Investment Properties, Negotiation, Lease Negotiations, Commercial Real Estate, Shopping Centers, Asset Management, New Business Development, Janitorial, Contractors, Window Cleaning, Real Estate, Landlords, Construction, Construction Management, Location Intelligence, Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Development, Lease Administration, Contract Management, Executive Management, Contract Negotiation, Apartments, Corporate Real Estate, Team Building, Mold Remediation, Due Diligence
Clifford Wong
Web Developer at j2 Global
The Art Institute of California — Los Angeles 2009 — 2011
Web Design and Interactive Media, Web design and Interactive media, interface design, User Experience
BA, American Ethnic Studies
OneWest Bank November 2012 - June 2014
Age of Learning, Inc. August 2012 - October 2012
Coalition Technologies July 2011 - July 2012
PromaxBDA May 2010 - July 2011
Art Institute of California- Los Angeles November 2009 - January 2011
Blink Digital October 2010 - December 2010
Famous Monsters of Filmland February 2010 - April 2010
Electronic Arts October 2008 - March 2009
Bellevue School District November 2006 - August 2008
Freelance November 2005 - July 2008
Desktop Computers, Microsoft Office, HTML, Photoshop, CSS, Wordpress, Social Media, Data Analysis, JavaScript, Windows, Microsoft Excel, PHP, Windows 7, PowerPoint, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Adobe Creative Suite, BigCommerce, jQuery, Troubleshooting, HTML 5, Flash, Ektron Content..., ExactTarget, Interaction Design, Email Marketing, Web Design, Networking, OS X, XHTML, Front-end, User Experience Design, Web Development, Google Analytics, Software Development, Information Architecture, E-commerce, WordPress, Adobe Fireworks, User Experience, Web Analytics, Graphic Design, Social Media Marketing, Google Adwords, ActionScript, Online Marketing, Website Development, SEO, After Effects
Frederick Simon Golec, Jr., Ph.D., RAC
Greater Philadelphia Area
Senior Consultant Chemistry Manufacturing Controls (CMC) Regulatory Sciences Pharmaceutical Industry
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry
M.A., Organic Chemistry
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1966 — 1970
B.S., Chemistry
An Environmental Justice Training Session
CMCRegAff, LLC November 2010 - Present
Pfizer October 2009 - July 2010
Wyeth July 2008 - October 2009
Wyeth Research January 2007 - July 2008
Wyeth Research September 2002 - December 2006
Bristol-Myers Squibb October 2001 - September 2002
DuPont Pharmaceuticals July 1999 - September 2001
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer June 1995 - July 1999
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer December 1993 - May 1995
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer July 1990 - November 1993
CMC Regulatory Strategy, Active Pharmaceutical..., Regulatory Affairs, Technology Transfer, Organic Chemistry, Regulatory Requirements, Commercialization, Regulatory Submissions, FDA, Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Industry, Regulations, IND, CMC Regulatory..., Regulatory Strategy, Pharmaceuticals, NDA, Strategy, CMC, Biotechnology, Drug Development, CMC Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Development, R&D, Biopharmaceuticals, GMP, GLP, Drug Discovery, V&V, 21 CFR Part 11, Validation, CRO, Sop, Change Control, Analytical Chemistry, HPLC, CAPA, Clinical Trials, Oncology, Chromatography, Vaccines, GCP, Contract Manufacturing, Lifesciences, Toxicology, Synthetic Organic..., eCTD, Protein Chemistry, Immunology
Collin Taylor
You are the reason I am here. Let me show you my passion.
Bachelor's Degree, Biology, General
South Seattle Community College 2010 — 2012
AS, Biology, 3.5
Gene Juarez Salons & Spas March 2015 - Present
Specialty's Cafe & Bakery March 2010 - December 2012
Gene Juarez Salons & Spas May 2007 - May 2009
Central Kitsap Animal Hospital April 1999 - April 2002
Customer Oriented, Customer Satisfaction, Customer-focused Service, Communication Skills, Problem Solving, Service Evaluation, Timely Decision Making, Knowledge Sharing, Critical Thinking, Scientific Writing, Scientific Computing, Scientific..., Design of Experiments, Analyze Information, Sales Management, Barista Training, Project Planning, Project Management, Merchandising, Customer Retention, Retention Management, Retention Strategies, Marketing Strategy, Public Relations, Hair Cutting, Hair Care, Fashion Shows, Intelligence Analysis, Visual Basic, Java, Interpersonal Skill, Customer Service, Event Management
Connor Dickson
Port Orchard, Washington
Credit Department Intern at Commercial Bank
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General
American School of Doha 2011 — 2013
International Baccalaureate Diploma, Honors
American International School of Budapest
Commercial Bank August 2015 - Present
Bellhops May 2013 - Present
University of Washington October 2013 - April 2015
Mad Anthony's June 2013 - September 2013
Public Speaking, Microsoft Excel, Management, Recruiting, Project Management, Leadership, Financial Analysis, Microsoft Office
Brad Costello
Business Director Aromatic Solvent Division at JX Nippon Chemical Texas Inc (JXNCTI)
University of Washington, Economics & Mathematics 1985 — 1989
BA, Mathematics / Econonmics (double major)
University of Phoenix, MBA 2002 — 2004
MBA, Business
JX Nippon Chemical Texas Inc (JXNCTI) April 2014 - Present
JX Nippon Chemical Texas Inc (JXNCTI) December 2011 - April 2014
Dayton Superior Corporation 2007 - 2011
Barnes & Sweeney Enterprise 2004 - 2007
Degussa Building Systems (currently BASF, formerly ChemRex, formerly MBT) 2000 - 2004
Degussa Building Systems (formerly ChemRex, formerly Master Builders, Inc.) 1995 - 2000
Cross-functional Team..., Product Development, Business Development, Sales Operations, Product Management, Pricing, Contract Negotiation, Business Planning, New Business Development, Sales Management, Strategic Planning, Leadership, Procurement, Logistics, Key Account Management, Forecasting, Management, Sales, Team Leadership, Materials, Coatings, Marketing, Budgets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Purchasing
Christopher Pleasants
SDE for Textbook Rentals at Amazon.com
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science with minor in Math, 3.77
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, 3.77
Amazon.com December 2010 - Present
Amazon.com May 2009 - December 2010
Amazon.com July 2008 - May 2009
Software Development, Java, Testing, Distributed Systems, User Experience, Scalability, Software Engineering, Python, Agile Methodologies, Automated Software..., Microsoft Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Software Design, Oracle Applications, Code Review, Public Speaking, Software Documentation, Wikis, Data Structures, Algorithms, Ruby on Rails, Perl, HTML, Software Quality..., Chess, Artificial Intelligence, Mentoring, Unix Shell Scripting, Regular Expressions, Operational Excellence, Tutoring, MVC Architecture, Conducting Interviews
Curt McGregor
Management, Service Advisor at Village Transmission & Auto Clinic
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
Woodway High School 1981 — 1984
High School, Honors
Village Transmission & Auto Clinic December 2009 - Present
Elliott Bay Mortgage February 2009 - December 2009
Elliott Bay Mortgage August 2008 - December 2009
Mortgage Broker Associates April 2000 - August 2008
Provident Consumer Financial Services August 2000 - October 2000
U.S. National Mortgage September 1997 - April 2000
GTE/Verizon June 1997 - October 1997
Albertsons June 1984 - August 1997
Training, Data Analysis, Teaching, Mortgage Lending, Credit, Loans, Refinance, Investment Properties, Mortgage Banking, FHA, First Time Home Buyers, Real Estate
Cynthia Benge
Emotion Focused Therapist
MSW, Psychology & Systems Dynamics
BS, Recreation Management
Cynthia Benge M.S.W. September 1990 - Present
Cynthia Benge M.S.W. 1987 - Present
Therapy for..., Therapists, Workshops, Counseling Psychology, Personal Development, Stress Management, Life Transitions, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Family Therapy
Cyrus Whittaker
UCLA School of Law 2012 — 2015
Doctor of Law (JD), Business, Real Estate
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics
Negotiation, Real Estate, Direct Sales, Spanish, Spanish-speaking, Leadership, Contract Negotiation, Applied Mathematics, Legal Advice, Business Development, Higher Education, Adult Education, Elementary Education, Sales, Communication, Performance Motivation, Strategic Planning
Daniel Brasher
Adjunct Instructor at Community Colleges of Spokane
Master of Arts, English, Interdisciplinary
Content Specifics January 2013 - Present
Community Colleges of Spokane January 1999 - Present
Eastern Washington University September 2009 - June 2012
Telect January 2008 - August 2008
Itron October 2006 - July 2007
General Dynamics Itronix 1996 - 2006
Siebe Environmental Controls March 1993 - October 1996
Eldec Corp March 1989 - May 1993
Technical Writing, Technical Documentation, Technical Training, Electronic Test..., RF testing, Project Coordination, Tai Chi, User Interface Design, User-centered Design, Testing, Engineering, Software Documentation, Usability Testing, Electronics, Visio, Troubleshooting, Quality Assurance, Integration
Daniel Escher
South Bend, Indiana Area
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame 2010 — 2015
PhD, Sociology
MA, Sociology
Princeton Theological Seminary 2006 — 2009
M.Div., Theology, Biblical studies
BA, Spanish
University of Notre Dame August 2015 - Present
University of Notre Dame August 2009 - August 2015
Princeton Theological Seminary September 2008 - May 2009
Princeton Healthcare System September 2007 - May 2008
Stata, Statistics, Access, Excel, Focus Groups, Conducting Interviews, Surveys, Microsoft Office, Teaching, Writing, Research, Public Speaking, Word, PowerPoint, Editing, Survey Research, Spanish, ArcGIS, GIS, Sociology, Community Outreach
Daniel Graef
Immonology Researcher looking for Consulting opportunities
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, 3.6/4.0
Fulbright Commission August 2014 - July 2015
Benaroya Research Institute January 2011 - March 2013
Flexible Approach, RT-PCR, Molecular Cloning, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Great Organizer, Time Management, Team Leadership, Team Building, Dynamic Communicator, Analytical Skills, Project Initiation, Influence Others, Interpersonal..., Business Strategy, Big-picture Thinking, Creative..., Confidence Building, Passionate about work, Attention to Detail
Daniel Hoang
Visual Leader and Change Enabler
Pepperdine University 2003 — 2005
MPP, Public Policy
Point B October 2012 - Present
Seattle Citizens' Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board March 2013 - December 2014
Hitachi Consulting July 2011 - September 2012
Macias Consulting Group, Inc January 2008 - June 2011
City of Davis October 2008 - January 2010
Bureau of State Audits July 2006 - January 2008
Pacific Technologies, Inc. July 2005 - June 2006
Change Management, Program Management, Analysis, Leadership, Project Management, Business Process..., Strategic Planning, Business Process, Management, Public Policy, Business Strategy, Social Media, Performance Management, Visual Communication, Program Evaluation, Training & Development, Spreadsheets, Data Analysis, Policy, Graphic Facilitation, Risk Assessment, Financial Analysis, Organizational..., Web Design, Organizational Design, Employee Training, Spreadsheet Modeling
Danielle Patton
Realtor at ERA Sun River Realty
ERA Sun River Realty 2015 - Present
Public Relations, Social Media, Event Management, Facebook, Press Releases, Social Networking, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Communications, Time Management, Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Event Planning, Real Estate, Sales
Daniel Murdock, MBA, JD
Pharmaceutical Services Attorney at Quintiles
Wake Forest University School of Business 2008 — 2012
Wake Forest University School of Law 2008 — 2012
BA with distinction in Political Science
Quintiles August 2015 - Present
Quintiles September 2014 - Present
Teague Campbell Dennis & Gorham, LLP September 2012 - September 2014
Legal Research, Appeals, Litigation, Research, Legal Writing, Civil Litigation, Editing, Courts, Document Review
Dan Klein
Account Manager, Seller Services at Amazon
MBA, Masters of Business Administration, 3.74
Project Management Institute 2012 — 2012
PMP credential, Project Management
University of Washington - Rome 2001 — 2001
MIHS
Amazon March 2013 - Present
Mercer Island High School February 2014 - January 2015
Ocean Wave Networks June 2009 - April 2013
Key Bank February 2010 - April 2011
Wachovia March 2008 - November 2009
Citi April 2005 - March 2008
Washington Mutual October 2003 - April 2005
CalFed / Citibank June 2002 - October 2003
MS Office Suite, Account Management, Project Management, Customer Relations, Sales Management, Financial Analysis, Consultative Selling, Management Consulting, Banking, Strategic Planning, Team Building, PMBOK, Management, Budgets, Risk Management, Commercial Lending, Start-ups, Finance, Business Development, Leadership, Selling, Relationship Management, Commercial Banking, Loans, Training, Cross-functional Team..., Analysis, Customer Service, Sales Operations, Sales, Portfolio Management, Microsoft Office, Team Management, Business Planning, Business Process, Investments, Telecommunications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Contract Negotiation, Corporate Finance, Credit, E-commerce, Strategy, Accounting, Consulting, Financial Services, Process Improvement, Business Strategy, Business Analysis, Executive Management
Danny Crouch, MBA
Web Analytics | Search Engine Optimization | PPC | Digital Marketing | Web Project Management | Web Marketing
Google Analytics, Project Management and Digital Marketing Courses
MBA, Mihaylo College of Business and Economics CS University Fullerton 2003 — 2005
MBA, Marketing
BA, Marketing
Cardinal Path
Cardinal Path advanced Google Analytics training
Nielsen Norman Group
Usability Testing and User Interface Training at NN/g San Francisco Usability Week
Team Garage LLC –a WPP Marketing Agency August 2013 - Present
Broadcom March 2011 - February 2013
Broadcom August 2007 - March 2011
Broadcom June 2004 - August 2007
Intel 2000 - 2001
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1996 - 1997
IBM 1995 - 1995
Web Marketing, Web Analytics, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, SEO, Campaign Management, Online Advertising, Vendor Management, Web Project Management, Market Research, Analytics, Web Architecture, Google Adwords, Web Design, Measurements, Marketing Management, Search Engine..., Digital Marketing, Pay Per Click, PPC, Marketing Program..., Search Engine Marketing, SEM, Organic Search, Online Video, Online Video Campaigns, Display Ads, Website Redesign, Website Architecture, Segmentation, Website Measurement, Online Marketing..., User Experience, Web Development, Google Analytics, Strategy, Display Advertising, Omniture, Competitive Analysis, Marketing Communications, Product Marketing
Dan Kowalczyk
BI Developer at Nintendo
B.S, Mathematics, Statistics
Edmonds Woodway High School 2002 — 2006
Danny Shepard
Program Analyst at the Social Security Administration
State University of New York at New Paltz 2002 — 2004
Bachelors of Science, Secondary Education
Olympic Community College 1997 — 1998
Social Security Administration January 2011 - Present
MTC October 2006 - December 2010
Oregon First May 2009 - June 2010
Pulse Business Systems and Bennett/Porter and Associates, Inc. October 2005 - November 2006
New Paltz Public School District January 2005 - August 2005
Onvia.com May 2000 - July 2001
Onvia.com March 1999 - May 2000
U.S. Navy July 1991 - March 1997
Daryn White
Oceanography Student with Marine Biology focus
Bachelor of Science in Oceanography
Associate of Science (A.S.)
Battle Ground High School 2001 — 2005
Clark College Bookstore August 2013 - August 2014
Management Recruiters of Vancouver, LLC July 2012 - April 2013
Freelance Web Developer March 2012 - September 2012
ReferralAgreement.com July 2011 - February 2012
Freelance Web Design February 2011 - July 2011
Ivey Performance Marketing September 2009 - February 2011
Blue Coeur Designs January 2009 - August 2009
Kuzoa, LLC July 2007 - December 2008
Living Hope Church October 2006 - July 2007
Dave Eicke
YPL/Children's Services Department Head at Las VegasClark County Library District
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), political science and Psychology
Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.)
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District October 2006 - April 2012
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District February 2004 - October 2006
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District June 2001 - February 2004
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District March 2000 - June 2001
Seattle Public Library 1997 - 1999
Collection Development, Library Science, Information Literacy, Library, Cataloging, Public Libraries, Community Outreach, Library Instruction, Electronic Resources, Library Research, Virtual Reference, Online Research, Research, Library Management, Young People, Volunteer Management, Nonprofits, Public Speaking
David Berlinguette
Senior UX Consultant at Avanade
Seattle Central Community College 1994 — 1996
Keene State College 1986 — 1991
Central High School 1982 — 1986
Avanade July 2012 - Present
University of Washington February 2010 - November 2012
The Creative Group 2000 - 2011
Expeditors June 2007 - June 2010
Ramp October 2006 - June 2007
Giant Campus November 2004 - October 2006
APEX Learning 2004 - 2004
Classmates 2002 - 2004
Filter Talent 2001 - 2002
User Experience, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Flash, User-centered Design, Wireframes, Web Design, User Research, Flash Animation, Information Architecture, Graphic Design, Usability Testing, Experience Design, User Interface Design, Game Design, User Interface, Information Design, Wire Framing, Mobile Design, Persona, Usability, User Scenarios, Axure
David Cobleigh
Product Marketing Manager at HewlettPackard
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management 1982 — 1983
MSIA (MBA), Business
BSEE, Elecrical Engineering
Hewlett-Packard March 2012 - Present
Hewlett-Packard August 1983 - Present
Hewlett-Packard June 2008 - March 2012
HP 1983 - 1986
Texas Instruments 1980 - 1982
Marketing, Cross-functional Team..., Product Management, Program Management, Product Development, Team Leadership, Business Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Management, SaaS, Product Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing Strategy, Sales, Product Lifecycle..., Pricing, Project Planning, Strategy, Team Building, Business Development, Solution Selling, Vendor Management, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Wireless, CRM, Start-ups, Product Launch, Marketing Management, Demand Generation, Multi-channel Marketing, Business Alliances, Channel Partners, Market Research, Lead Generation, Partner Management, Sales Enablement, P&L Management, New Business Development, Salesforce.com, Analytics
Apple August 2013 - Present
Cocoa, Django, Python, Journalism, Google App Engine, Leveraging Strategic..., Cats, Mac, Ruby, Objective-C, Go, iOS
David Landrum
Sr Director, IT Solution Delivery
University of North Texas 1991 — 1993
The University of Texas at Dallas 1990 — 1991
Intel Security December 2010 - Present
McAfee April 2009 - December 2010
McAfee February 2007 - April 2009
McAfee March 2006 - January 2007
McAfee March 2004 - February 2006
Network Associates July 2002 - February 2004
Network Associates March 2001 - June 2002
Network Associates August 1999 - February 2001
Network Associates May 1999 - July 1999
Infoquest, Inc. February 1998 - May 1999
SOA, Web Applications, SaaS, Enterprise Software, SDLC, Business Process Design, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Integration, Leadership, IT Management, IT Solutions, IT Strategy, Agile Methodologies, Microsoft SQL Server, Solution Architecture, Business Intelligence, Databases, IT Service Management, Requirements Analysis, IT Operations, Program Management, Siebel, Data Warehousing, Business Analysis, Project Management, Oracle, SQL, CRM, EAI, Software Development, Architecture, Master Data Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Information Technology, Business Process, Software Project..., Architectures
David R Porter
Chief Financial Officer at FocalPoint Securities, LLC
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting and Finance
FocalPoint Securities, LLC July 2015 - Present
David Porter 2013 - 2014
Prager & Co., LLC 1990 - 2013
EY October 1986 - March 1990
Knight Vale & Gregory June 1983 - October 1986
Process Re-Engineering, Cost Control, Regulatory Capital, Contract Negotiation, Human Resources, Financial Reporting, Strategic Financial..., Operations Management, Regulatory Compliance, Team Building, Change Management, Business Process..., Municipal Bonds, Investment Banking, Organizational..., Consolidation, IPO, External Audit, Bank Secrecy Act, Hands-on Problem Solver, Project Management, Quality Control, Profit Maximization, Employee Benefits, Hiring Practices, SEC filings, Proposal Leadership, Business Strategy, Valuation, Auditing, Restructuring, Financial Planning, Finance, SEC Filings, Internal Controls, Strategy, Management, Business Process..., Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions
Dawn Konop-Sage, CRNA
Madison, Wisconsin Area
CRNA at University of Wisconsin Hospital
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota 2009 — 2011
Master’s of Science in Nursing, Nurse Anesthesisa
Graduate Matriculated, Adult Nurse Practitioner Program
Graduate Non-Matriculated
Marquette University 2001 — 2005
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Nursing
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics October 2011 - Present
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics June 2007 - April 2009
University of Washington Medical Center June 2005 - June 2007
Nursing, Critical Care, BLS, Pediatrics, Hospitals, Clinical Research
President, Digital Strategist
B.A., Marketing, International Business
University of California, Santa Barbara 1986 — 1987
Interlake High School 1983 — 1986
Connection Model, LLC January 2009 - Present
ymarketing January 2009 - May 2012
Alt. January 2008 - June 2009
Hydrogen June 2007 - January 2008
Prolifiq Software, Inc. July 2006 - June 2007
The Hacker Group February 2002 - June 2006
MarketFirst Software 2001 - 2002
Responsys 2000 - 2001
SEO, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Development, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Inbound, SEM, Lead Generation, Digital Strategy, Online Marketing, PPC, Web Analytics, Demand Generation, Integrated Marketing, Email Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Online Advertising, Customer Acquisition, Digital Media, E-commerce, Marketing Strategy, Mobile Marketing, Google Adwords, B2B, Analytics, B2B Marketing, Google Analytics, Inbound Marketing, Strategy, Database Marketing, Mobile Devices, Competitive Analysis, Marketing, Direct Mail, Web Marketing, Mobile, Marketing Modeling, Digital Lifecycle..., Customer Lifecycle..., Business Development, Multi-channel Marketing, Blogging, Media Planning, Marketing Automation, Conversion Optimization, Search Advertising, Content Strategy, Strategic Partnerships
Carlmichael Delica
Service Excellence Facilitator at UHS
Bachelor's of Science of Nursing, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
Everett Community College 2008 — 2012
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
lakewood highschool 2005 — 2009
highschool diploma, AP honors, 3.87
Schick Shadel Hospital February 2015 - Present
Schick Shadel Hospital January 2015 - Present
UHS September 2014 - Present
Schick Shadel Hospital October 2013 - Present
Maxim Agency June 2013 - October 2013
Life Care Centers of America August 2012 - December 2012
Delta Rehabilitation June 2012 - August 2012
J.Crew November 2010 - August 2011
Nursing, Healthcare, Hospitals, BLS, Healthcare Management, EMR, Cpr Certified, Patient Safety, Patient Education, Medicine, Medical Terminology, Epic Systems, Fitness, Nutrition Education, Medical/Surgical, Public Speaking, Presentations, Teamwork, Acute Care, Nursing Care, Patient Advocacy
Denee McCloud
Education Project Manager, ITHS (UW Medicine)
Certificate, Project Management
Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1992 — 1996
BS, Management/Minor Accounting
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center September 2011 - December 2013
Executive Service Corps of Washington October 2008 - September 2010
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas October 2004 - June 2010
Association of Performing Arts Presenters May 2000 - May 2003
La Roche College January 1999 - May 1999
Leadership, Philanthropy, Program Development, Non-profit..., Program Management, Event Planning, Strategic Planning, Event Management, Project Management, Program Evaluation, Capacity Building, Public Speaking, Proposal Writing, Teaching, Editing, Workshop Facilitation, Marketing, Grant Writing, Community Organizing, Social Media, Policy, Organizational..., Volunteer Management, Training, Strategic Communications
Dennis Ramey
Research Scientist II at Seattle Children's Research Institute
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering
Minor, Chemistry
King's High School 2003 — 2007
HS Diploma
Seattle Children's Research Institute November 2013 - Present
Seattle Children's Research Institute April 2012 - November 2013
University of Washington June 2011 - April 2012
Edmonds Community College March 2009 - December 2011
Fisheries Supply Company April 2009 - July 2009
Windows 7, Cyclic Voltammetry, Chemistry, Matlab, Research, Cell Culture, Cancer Research, PCR, OS X, Protein Chemistry, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Reporter Gene Assays, Vector Cloning, Transient Transfection, DNA sequencing, Plasmid Isolation, Molecular Cloning, qPCR, Vector NTI, PBMC isolation, Gel Extraction, GLP, Aseptic Technique, Nanodrop, recombinant DNA..., Agarose Gel..., Lentivirus, Microsoft Office, Mac OS X, Android, Surface Analysis, Protein Characterization, Life Sciences, Statistics, Java, Technical Writing, Data Analysis, Labview, Windows, LaTeX, Tissue Culture, Laboratory
Heidi Hartman, MPM® RMP®
Owner, Details Property Management
Details Property Management June 2005 - Present
National Association of Residential Property Managers December 2012 - December 2014
National Association of Residential Property Managers July 2012 - December 2012
HRH Resources 1998 - 2005
Prudential NW Real Estate 1995 - 1998
King Videocable 1990 - 1992
Property Management, Residential Homes, Real Estate, Leases, Budgets, Real Estate Development, Investment Properties, Commercial Real Estate, Investors, Sellers, Rentals, Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Economics, Single Family Homes, Investments, Condos, Management, Due Diligence, Disposition, Selling, Property, Lease Administration, Apartments, Referrals, Contract Negotiation, Income Properties, Real Property
Digital Marketing Partner Channel US SMB at Microsoft
UCLA Anderson School of Management 2001 — 2003
Mgt Training
Evengelical High Zahle
Shoreline Community College
Swiss Evengelical Elementary Anjar
Bac I
Microsoft Corporation May 2011 - May 2014
Microsoft October 2010 - May 2011
Microsoft September 2007 - September 2010
Berlitz January 2007 - August 2007
Microsoft June 2005 - December 2006
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated April 1996 - May 2005
Program Management, Management, Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Product Management, Enterprise Software, Software Project..., Marketing, Business Intelligence, Software Development, Business Planning, Partner Management, Business Development, Enterprise Architecture, International Project..., Agile Methodologies, Digital Marketing, Sales Management, Solution Architecture, Go-to-market Strategy, Business Analysis, Team Leadership, Channel Strategy, Project Management, Strategy, Cross-functional Team..., Solution Selling, SaaS, Vendor Management, Channel Partners, Telecommunications, SharePoint
Dominic X. Barrera
Accounting Specialist at Alaska Airlines
Bachelor of Arts, History
Highline Community College 2007 — 2009
Alaska Airlines February 2013 - Present
Alaska Airlines May 2012 - February 2013
US Census Bureau April 2010 - August 2010
Highline Community College September 2008 - March 2009
Public Policy, Community Outreach, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, Nonprofits, Research, Editing, Data Analysis, Social Media, Event Planning, Microsoft Excel, Policy Analysis, Political Science, PowerPoint, Teaching, Higher Education, Urban Planning, Travel & Tourism, I-502, Transportation, History, Accounting, Payroll, Financial Planning, Construction, City Codes, Administration, Analysis
Dona Seely
Orthodontist at Dr. Dona Seely
Dr. Dona Seely June 1980 - Present
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Canucks Dealing With Bo Money, Bo Bridges
The summer is in full swing and there is still no Bo Horvat deal. Everything that has been said so far is that a deal will get done, we should be patient and to just let it be. Jim Benning has already locked up Erik Gudbranson and Anton Rodin to deals, spent some cash on July 1 to acquire Michael Del Zotto, Anders Nilsson, and Sam Gagner West. There is just under $9 million left for the Canucks to spend this year and one would think Horvat would have been the first deal made.
Seems logical, no?
He was arguably the team’s best player last season and with the new additions to the club as well as a new coaching staff, Horvat should see yet another improved season. The talk has also been out there that he would become the heir apparent to the Captaincy after Henrik Sedin retires. Does it not seem a bit ridiculous then that he hasn’t been signed yet?
A deal will get done sooner than later and this will all be put to rest. With that Bo money will most likely be a Bo bridge. No, not the famous actor Beau Bridges best known for his supporting role in the 1989 blockbuster “The Wizard” also starring Fred Savage. Bo’s bridge could be a simple 2-4 year deal with a take home salary of approximately $4 million. Knowing the Canucks, however, they’ll follow suit with the rest of the NHL and offer a ridiculous contract in the six-year range at around $5-6 million per.
So like little Jimmy Woods from The Wizard lets go on a quest and look at 5 memorable bridge deals the Canucks ponied up for:
Pavel Bure – this guy did OK in the money category. After a decent start to his NHL career, Bure’s rookie contract expired and he got his first taste of NHL money. Signing a 5 year/$24.5 million deal with the Canucks in the off season after losing in the Stanley Cup Final would be Pavel’s big break into superstardom. After getting traded to the Panthers in 1999, Bure would eventually sign another monster contract for 5 years/$47.5 million. He clearly is the exception to the rule in Vancouver because most Canucks don’t make it past a bridge deal for one reason or another. Maybe there’s something to that?
Henrik and Daniel Sedin – hard to believe these two guys played for next to nothing for so long. It’s also hard to believe they signed TWO one-year deals prior to their true bridge contract. Could Horvat sign a one-year deal like the Sedins and blow it all up? Henrik and Daniel cashed in after their three years and inked identical (obviously) 5 year/$30.5 million deals. Currently going into the last year of their current four-year contract the sun will soon set on the Sedins but they will have proven to everyone that every single penny was earned.
Cory Schneider – how they ever let this guy go is still confusing. Schneider owned the NCAA before coming to Manitoba and eventually the Canucks to show his worth. As the backup to Roberto Luongo, he still earned quality starts and for a season or two was part of the best goalie tandem in the game. Of course, that all went to crap and here we are. After his entry deal, Schneider signed a two-year contract before the 2010-11 season and he became a household name outside of British Columbia. That earned him a 3 year/$12 million deal and from there he was dealt to the New Jersey Devils and is now banking a combined $42 million for seven years which started in 2015. That one worked out well.
Kevin Bieksa – a relative unknown, Bieksa created a name for himself as a gritty defenseman who could make a pretty play or two. From “Bieksa-face” to the infamous “stanchion goal” that took the Canucks to the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1994, Bieksa was a fan and media favourite and after his first two-year contract with the Canucks for a measly $1.05 million combined, he stepped up and earned a 3 year/$11.25 million deal. Not bad for a guy drafted in the 5th round! He upped that deal in 2011 signing a 5 year/$23 million contract. Bieksa has always played for true value IMO and has never been over/under paid. He’s a guy the NHL should take note of and maybe settle down with the ridiculous contracts.
Ryan Kesler – hard work pays off and Kesler is a great example. To the people who knew him the closest, he was willing to give a literal finger to keep playing. After Kesler’s entry deal, he was offer-sheeted to a 1 year/$1.9 million deal by the Philadelphia Flyers which the Canucks matched. He earned it before getting injured around playoff time. His bridge contract took him to the next level before inking a 6 year/$30 million which turned him into a star during, go figure, the 2011 Cup run. “Beast mode” was born and the expectations grew. It seemed both the Canucks and Kesler were souring on each other and he was eventually traded to “Californiaaaaa” and is now in the second year of a 6 year/$41.25 million contract with the Ducks.
These are all great examples of what Bo Horvat could fetch before ultimately inking his career-defining deal. What will the Canucks offer Bo, what will Horvat request? Like Kesler and a few others, Bo’ money may lead to Bo’ problems. Time will tell but for now, Jim, please pay the man.
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Posted in Canucks, Hot Taeks, Rants and tagged bo horvat, bridge contract, canucks, elephants, kevin bieksa, ryan kesler on July 18, 2017 by always90four. Leave a comment
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AMERICA LOST
RESTORING HOPE IN AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CITIES
a new documentary from filmmaker Christopher F. Rufo
America Lost is a feature documentary that explores life in three “forgotten American cities”—Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California.
The film reveals the dramatic decline of the American interior through a combination of emotional personal stories and thoughtful conservative commentary. Filmmaker Christopher F. Rufo spent five years gathering these intimate portraits of Americans on the edge, including an ex-steelworker scrapping abandoned homes to survive, a recently incarcerated father trying to rebuild his life, and a single mother dreaming of escaping her blighted urban neighborhood.
Ultimately, despite these grave challenges, the film offers a glimpse of hope for rebuilding America’s families and communities from the bottom up.
CONSERVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY
The crisis of American poverty goes deeper than economics and public policy—it strikes at the very heart of family, community, and spiritual life. The solution is not just to restore the economies of our forgotten cities, but to rebuild our families and communities from the bottom up.
Family is the cornerstone of meaning, success, and human potential in America.
The journey to a better life starts with a sense of belief, purpose, and human connection.
The only way to truly escape poverty is through stable, long-term employment.
Top-down solutions have failed—we must restore our communities from the bottom up.
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Nonprofits, churches, businesses, and public policy centers are showing America Lost and leading the discussion on poverty in their local communities. We’ve created the Community Screening Kit to give organizations an easy-to-use resource for hosting a screening of the film and community discussion about poverty, family, and upward mobility. The kit includes a DVD and digital download of the film, 21-page screening and discussion guide, digital files for the poster and marketing materials, and a public performance license for one location.
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Sinclair Cambridge Handheld Electronic Calculator
This handheld electronic calculator has a plastic case and eighteen rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a clear/clear entry key, and a constant key. To the right on the top row of keys is an on/off switch.
Text behind the keyboard reads: sinclair (/) Cambridge. Behind this is an eight-digit purple LED display. According to the instructions, the device would actually carry out calculations on numbers ranging from 10-20 to 9.9999999 x 1079, although the display of such answers required careful manipulation.
The back of the calculator has a compartment for four AAA batteries. A mark on the lid to this compartment reads: Sinclair (/) MADE IN ENGLAND.
The calculator has a black hard plastic carrying case. This fits in Styrofoam packing.
For the instructions, see 1981.0403.01.2. These are dated 1974. Compare to the Sinclair Cambridge Scientific Calculator (1987.0435.18).
Newspaper advertisements date from 1974. By 1975, Sinclair had introduced a form of the calculator with memory.
[Advertisement], Chicago Tribune, February 19, 1974, p. C6. Sinclair Cambridge calculator advertised as previously priced at $99.95, on sale for $59.88.
[Advertisement], Washington Post, July 9, 1975, p. 31. A Sinclair Cambridge with memory (not this model) advertised as regularly priced at $39.95, on sale for $34.88.
David Renwick, “The Prince of Little: Inventor Clive Sinclair Thinking Big is Thinking Small,” Washington Post, October 17, 1984, p. D1.
electronic calculator
Sinclair Radionics Ltd.
plastic (case; keys; carrying case; display cover material)
metal (circuitry material)
carrying case: 2 cm x 5.3 cm x 12.2 m; 25/32 in x 2 3/32 in x 40 1/32 ft
Gift of Cameron J. LaClair
Medicine and Science: Computers
Handheld Electronic Calculators
Computers & Business Machines
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Irish Elections: Geography, Facts and Analyses
Elections in the Republic of Ireland (and occasionally other elections!) from a geographical perspective: maps, election boundaries, party vote patterns, turnout levels
About Adrian Kavanagh/Contact Details
Adrian Kavanagh Media Appearances
Recent Publications by Adrian Kavanagh
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As You Were More Or Less…: Constituency-level analysis of Sunday Business Post-Red C opinion poll (25th September 2016)
Posted on September 26, 2016 by Adrian Kavanagh
Adrian Kavanagh, 26th September 2016
After little change in party support levels had been evidenced in the wake of the February general election, a series of opinion polls in July 2016 pointed to significant gains in support for Fianna Fail, pushing that party ahead of Fine Gael in terms of overall support levels. The latest in series of Red C opinion polls more or less reflects the trend that has been established across all polls from July onwards; showing Fianna Fail standing a few percentage points ahead of Fine Gael in terms of overall support levels. This also reflects the trend evidenced in the recent Behaviour & Attitudes poll, in which the two largest parties were both seen to lose some ground to Sinn Fein, Labour and the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit. (This poll, however, sees the Social Democrats standing in notably stronger position than was the case with the Behaviour & Attitudes poll.) The 25th September Sunday Business Post-Red C opinion poll estimates party support levels as follows: Fianna Fail 27% (down 2% relative to the previous Red C opinion poll), Independents and Others 26% (NC) – including Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit 6%, Social Democrats 4%, Green Party 2%, Renua <1%, Independent Alliance 4%, Other Independents 10% – Fine Gael 25% (down 1%), Sinn Fein 15% (up 2%), Labour Party 7% (up 1%). My constituency-level analysis of these poll figures estimates that party seat levels, should such national support trends be replicated in an actual general election, would be as follows: Fianna Fail 52, Fine Gael 44, Sinn Fein 23, Anti Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit 8, Labour Party 7, Social Democrats 4, Independents 20.
Independents and Others: While support for independents (whether as part of the Independent Alliance or other alliances such as the Independents4Change grouping, or for “non-aligned” independents) still accounts for a significant proportion of voter choices in these polls, support for independents has fallen by a few percentage points relative to the February 26th election. Support levels for the Independents and Others grouping in a number of polls during the Summer of 2016 were seen to be much lower than they were at the February 26th election. This poll, as with the recent Behaviour & Attitudes poll, sees somewhat of a recovery in support levels for Independent candidates, but not for those candidates associated with the Independent Alliance grouping. Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit fares very well in this poll, gaining a further percentage point, while the Social Democrats fare well in this Red C poll (but not as well in the recent Behaviour & Attitudes poll).
In the lead up to the February election, seat levels for the Independents and Others grouping were notably harder to glean than was the case for the larger political parties, given that this is a very large and diverse grouping. The general election showed that, in some cases, increased support levels for a smaller party were simply absorbed by the increased number of candidates within that party/grouping, meaning that increased support levels did not translate into increased seat numbers – as evidenced in the support/seat level figures for the Social Democrats in that election. These trends could also be evidenced when the 2002 and 2007 Sinn Fein vote and seats levels were compared. It was impossible to apply the model in the case of the smaller parties/groupings ahead of the 2016 General Election, as many of these smaller parties and groupings did not exist in 2011 or had contested only a relatively small number of constituencies. But, with a good number of these parties having contested a number of constituencies in the 2016 election, it is now possible to treat them as separate entities in this model (although figures can not be gleaned for constituencies that these parties did not contest on February 26th, as in the case of the Social Democrats in more than twenty Dail constituencies).
The nature of the Independents and Others grouping means that support levels do not usually translate as neatly into seat gains as would be the case with parties such as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Vote transfer levels across this grouping will generally not prove to be as strong as the extent of intra-party vote transfer levels enjoyed by the larger political parties, who in turn often enjoy a “seat bonus” at most general election contests. Against that, candidates from the Independents and Others grouping may be more likely to attract transfers from political parties than would be the case with candidates from other political parties, as indeed proved the case in certain circumstances (most notably Maureen O’Sullivan in Dublin Central) at the 2016 election. And, of course, the better that candidates from this grouping fare in different constituencies, the more likely they are to attract vote transfers given that they will be placed higher up in the order of first preference vote levels and hence well placed to last longer/until the end of the election count.
Fianna Fail surge: The two polls published in September both amount to another set of very good opinion polls for Fianna Fail; although party support levels do drop by two percentage points in both of these, the party’s position as the most popular political grouping in the state is still maintained. The Ipsos-MRBI opinion poll (of 7th July) had represented the best poll figures for that party since the Spring of 2008; a point in time when Fianna Fail were still the strongest party in the state by some considerable distance. While Fianna Fail support levels do not stand as high as they did back in July, the two September polls both show the party standing a few percentage points ahead of Fine Gael, the party’s closest rivals.
An increase in Fianna Fail support levels of around seven percentage points between the 2011 and 2016 elections translated into a more notable increase in seat levels for that party, although the reasons for this have been discussed in earlier poll analyses (including the impact of the 2012 Constituency Commission report). It has to be expected that an even larger increase in Fianna Fail support levels than that evidenced at the February election would translate into very significant seat gains for that party at a future general elections, especially as they would now be expected to gain due to the seat bonus that the largest party usually gets at Irish general elections; the proportional element of the Irish electoral system notwithstanding. The final seat estimates for Fianna Fail here definitely do veer on the conservative side of the scale, although the party is still seen to be enjoying a significant seat bonus in both of these poll analyses, mainly due to the need to assume that vote management patterns would remain the same as at 2016 to ensure that there is a consistency in approach across the first few post-General Election poll analyses. (I have now relaxed the assumption that parties would run the same number of candidates as in February, mainly due to the realisation that a party such as Fianna Fail is likely to be running extra candidates in a number of constituencies (e.g. Limerick, Limerick City, Cork North-Central, Laois, Meath East) arising from their observations of party support trends at that election.) If these vote management assumption was also to be relaxed, then Fianna Fail could be well placed to win a seat-level in the mid-50s range on the support patterns evident in this poll.
The problem for Labour: Like the canary in the coal mine, the constituency level poll analyses consistently warned in the years leading up to the 2016 General Election that low levels of Labour support nationally would translate into very low seat levels for that party. Given the Labour Party’s geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Anti Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left-wing groupings/independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10% level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election. If the party’s support levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6% level won in the general election, then the party would be losing even more seats – especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates won seats by (such as Willie Penrose) in that election. On the 7% support level evident in this poll (and the recent Behaviour & Attitudes poll), Labour would need a lot of luck to end up winning more than ten seats at a general election contest – on the figures in this analysis the party would really only be competitive in a small number of constituencies, although they would be very strong in certain constituencies, such as Wexford and Cork East. However, they could edge out another seat or two, if problems were exist with the vote management approaches of other political parties or groupings, as indeed happened in a number of constituencies at the February 2016 contest.
How this model works: Constituency support estimates for different parties and groupings form the basis of the general approach taken with this analysis. This seeks to ask the following question in relation to different opinion poll results – what do these poll figures mean in terms of the likely number of Dail seats that could be won by the different parties and groupings on those national support levels? Although the Irish electoral system is classified as a proportional electoral system, the proportion of seats won by parties will not measure up exactly to their actual share of the first preference votes, mainly because geography has a very significant impact here. First preference votes need to be filtered through the system of Irish electoral constituencies (and the different numbers of seats that are apportioned to these). In order to address this question, I estimate what the party first preference votes would be in the different constituencies, assuming similar (proportional) changes in party vote shares in all constituencies to those that are being suggested by a particular opinion poll. This of course is a very rough model and it cannot take appropriate account of the fact that changing support levels between elections tend to vary geographically, while it also fails to take account of the local particularities of the different regions in cases where no regional figures are produced in association with different national opinion polls meaning that there is no scope to carry out separate regional analyses based on these poll figures.
Thus constituency support estimates for different parties/groupings will be over-estimated in some constituencies and under-estimated in others, but the expectation would be that the overall national seat figures figures estimated will be relatively close to the true level, given that over-estimates in certain constituencies will be offset by under-estimates in others. Based on these estimated constituency support figures, I proceed to estimate the destination of seats in the different constituencies. The constituency level analysis involves the assigning seat levels to different parties and political groupings on the basis of constituency support estimates and simply using a d’Hondt method to determine which party wins the seats, while also taking account of the factors of vote transfers and vote splitting/management (based on vote transfer/management patterns observed in the February 2016 election). Due to unusually high/low support levels for some parties or political groupings in certain constituencies in the previous election, the model may throw up occasional constituency predictions that are unlikely to pan out in a “real election”, but of course the estimates here cannot be seen as highly accurate estimates of support levels at the constituency level as in a “real election” party support changes will vary significantly across constituency given uneven geographical shifts in support levels.
The model has been amended to take account of instances where general election candidates have changed their political party/political grouping, as with the case of Stephen Donnelly’s (Wicklow) defection from Social Democrats and return to the Independent ranks. In this instance, part (i.e. 50%) of that candidate’s February 2016 support level is transferred from the old party’s tally to the new party/political grouping when carrying out analyses with this model, with the remainder being allocated to/remaining with that candidate’s old political party/political grouping.
The point to remember here is that the ultimate aim of this model is to get an overall, national-level, estimate of seat numbers and these are based, as noted earlier, on the proviso that an over-prediction in one constituency may be offset by an under-prediction in another constituency. This model does not aim, or expect, to produce 100% accurate party support and seat level predictions for each of the 40 constituencies. These analyses simply estimate what party seat levels would be, should such national support trends be replicated in an actual general election. For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model. Vote transfer patterns of course cannot be accounted for in the constituency support estimate figures, but I do try to control for these somewhat in my set of amended seat allocations.
Constituency Support Estimates (Sunday Business Post-Red C poll): The constituency support estimates based on the Sunday Business Post-Red C opinion poll (25th September 2016) are as follows:
Constituency FF FG LB SF IND OTH
Carlow-Kilkenny 43% 26% 6% 13% 2% 10%
Cavan-Monaghan 33% 30% 0% 29% 7% 2%
Clare 35% 26% 9% 8% 20% 2%
Cork East 27% 28% 14% 11% 7% 13%
Cork North Central 28% 16% 7% 19% 4% 25%
Cork North West 40% 33% 0% 8% 16% 4%
Cork South Central 45% 24% 4% 13% 5% 8%
Cork South West 23% 33% 8% 10% 25% 1%
Donegal 35% 15% 0% 30% 20% 0%
Dublin Central 11% 13% 9% 26% 19% 21%
Dublin Mid West 16% 24% 5% 23% 9% 24%
Dublin Fingal 27% 21% 11% 10% 21% 11%
Dublin Bay North 17% 19% 8% 12% 19% 24%
Dublin North West 12% 10% 7% 25% 3% 43%
Dublin Rathdown 13% 33% 11% 8% 25% 9%
Dublin South Central 13% 13% 8% 24% 15% 26%
Dublin Bay South 13% 30% 11% 11% 4% 31%
Dublin South West 15% 20% 7% 15% 14% 30%
Dublin West 17% 20% 15% 15% 7% 26%
Dun Laoghaire 20% 33% 9% 5% 4% 29%
Galway East 31% 30% 11% 7% 19% 1%
Galway West 27% 24% 5% 10% 21% 13%
Kerry County 19% 23% 7% 14% 34% 3%
Kildare North 28% 20% 8% 6% 3% 35%
Kildare South 40% 29% 12% 12% 4% 3%
Laois 37% 30% 7% 22% 0% 3%
Offaly 43% 16% 0% 13% 22% 6%
Limerick City 28% 25% 11% 12% 1% 23%
Limerick 30% 36% 0% 8% 15% 11%
Longford-Westmeath 32% 24% 9% 11% 21% 3%
Louth 20% 19% 9% 31% 8% 12%
Mayo 31% 50% 0% 11% 5% 3%
Meath East 29% 33% 6% 15% 9% 8%
Meath West 30% 31% 3% 26% 7% 3%
Roscommon-Galway 24% 16% 3% 8% 45% 5%
Sligo-Leitrim 35% 27% 3% 19% 11% 6%
Tipperary 28% 17% 11% 8% 34% 1%
Waterford 23% 28% 5% 21% 14% 9%
Wexford 29% 22% 15% 11% 15% 8%
Wicklow 15% 27% 4% 17% 12% 25%
Note: “OTH” here refers to the total support/seat levels estimated for the smaller parties – as the published version of an earlier post showed, it gets “messy” if there are too many columns in the tables here!
Seat Estimates: Based on these constituency estimates and using a d’Hondt method to determine which party wins the seats in a constituency, the party seat levels are estimated as follows:
Carlow-Kilkenny 3 1 0 1 0 0
Cavan-Monaghan 2 1 0 1 0 0
Clare 2 1 0 0 1 0
Cork East 2 1 1 0 0 0
Cork North Central 1 1 0 1 0 1
Cork North West 2 1 0 0 0 0
Cork South Central 3 1 0 0 0 0
Cork South West 1 1 0 0 1 0
Donegal 2 1 0 1 1 0
Dublin Central 0 1 0 1 1 0
Dublin Mid West 1 1 0 1 0 1
Dublin Fingal 2 1 1 0 1 0
Dublin Bay North 1 1 0 1 1 1
Dublin North West 0 0 0 1 0 2
Dublin Rathdown 0 2 0 0 1 0
Dublin South Central 1 0 0 1 1 1
Dublin Bay South 1 2 1 0 0 0
Dublin South West 1 1 0 1 1 1
Dublin West 1 1 1 0 0 1
Dun Laoghaire 1 2 0 0 0 1
Galway East 1 1 0 0 1 0
Galway West 2 1 0 0 2 0
Kerry County 1 1 0 1 2 0
Kildare North 1 1 0 0 0 2
Kildare South 2 1 0 0 0 0
Laois 1 1 0 1 0 0
Offaly 2 0 0 0 1 0
Limerick City 2 1 0 0 0 1
Limerick 1 2 0 0 0 0
Longford-Westmeath 2 1 0 0 1 0
Louth 1 1 0 3 0 0
Mayo 2 2 0 0 0 0
Meath East 1 2 0 0 0 0
Meath West 1 1 0 1 0 0
Roscommon-Galway 1 0 0 0 2 0
Sligo-Leitrim 2 1 0 1 0 0
Tipperary 2 1 0 0 2 0
Waterford 1 1 0 1 1 0
Wexford 2 1 1 0 1 0
Wicklow 1 2 0 1 0 1
STATE 56 43 5 19 22 13
Amended Seat Estimates: The seat estimates also need to take account of the candidate and competition trends unique to the different constituency. Amending the model to account for seats that may be won or lost on the basis of estimates here being based on support levels derived due to a large/small number of candidates contesting the election, while – for now – the vote transfer/management patterns evidenced in the February 26th contest – are also being factored in. The assumption that political party vote management patterns will remain consistent/similar to those of February 26th does result in some conservative seat estimates in the case of parties that experience notable increase in support levels, as with Fianna Fail in this Sunday Business Post-Red C poll (25th September), but it is important to maintain a consistency in approach across all of these post-General Election 2016 poll analyses. I have now relaxed the assumption that candidate selection approaches (i.e. the number of candidates selected) would remain the same for the February 26th contest. It would be more than fair to assume, for instance, that Fianna Fail will run more than one candidate in constituencies such as Laois, Limerick City, Cork North-Central and Meath East, on the basis of the support trends/patterns that were evident in such constituencies at the February 2016 election, but also on the basis of the party’s stronger support levels in recent opinion polls. However, the model, of course, cannot take account of constituencies that were not contested by certain political parties/groupings.) Taking these concerns into account, the amended seat allocations across the constituencies would look more like this:
% Seats 32.9 27.8 4.4 14.6 12.7 7.6
Fianna Fail is obviously gaining from a largest party seat bonus in the most recent series of polls analysis. But, as noted above, the seats estimate here may veer on the conservative side for that party. If Fianna Fail were to manage the party vote more effectively in some constituencies than they did back in February, then the likelihood is that the support patterns evident in this opinion poll would translate into a higher number of seats for that party (probably 55 , or more, seats).
Potential Governments?: On the basis of the seat-estimate numbers in both of these poll analyses, Fianna Fail really would be the only show in town in terms of government formation, barring the unlikely scenario in which most of the other political parties (including Fine Gael AND Sinn Fein) and a group of independents aligned themselves to form an “Anyone But Fianna Fail” government, along the lines of what happened in 1948. On these numbers, Fianna Fail would have the numbers to enter into a two-party coalition (as the largest party) with either Fine Gael or Sinn Fein. The Fianna Fail-Fine option would enjoy a comfortable majority in a 158-seat Dail Eireann (where 79 seats would be the minimum to command a majority, assuming the Ceann Comhairle is appointed from the Opposition ranks); Fianna Fail-Fine Gael combined would have 96 seats between them on the basis of this Red C poll analysis. Fianna Fail-Sinn Fein combined would have 75 seats on the basis of this Red C analysis. This alliance would be four seats short of the number of seats required to command an overall majority in a 158-seat Dail Eireann, but it would not be hard to see such a grouping being able to attract support from at least four (probably left-of-centre) Dail deputies out of a very diverse (and still rather sizable) Independents and Others grouping. Indeed, Labour, Anti Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit and/or the Social Democrats would be able to offer a sufficient number of seats to give a working majority to a Fianna Fail-Sinn Fein-lead left-leaning coalition government. There would also be a strong prospect of a Fianna Fail-led minority government (along the lines of the current Fine Gael-led administration) involving some of the independents and smaller parties. Indeed, if Fianna Fail could attract 27 of the 32 Dail deputies predicted to be in this grouping (or 39 deputies, if Labour is also included in this grouping) based on these seats estimates, then such an Fianna Fail-lead administration would have just enough seats to command a majority in the Dail (without requiring the support/abstention of either Fine Gael or Sinn Fein), although this would not seem to be a likely prospect.
Why are Labour likely to win less seats than in 1987 on a low national support level?: The seat level estimates in all of the recent poll analyses for the Labour Party have been stark and the estimate in this poll is especially stark (highlighting the fact that the PR-STV system is proportional, but only to a limited extent). Previous analyses have, moreover, suggested that, especially given the increased competition on the Left from Sinn Fein, other smaller left of centre parties and left-leaning independents, that it will be a struggle for Labour to win seats in most, if not all, constituencies if the party’s national support levels fall below the ten percent level, as has been shown in similar analyses of most recent polls. The further the party falls below this ten percent level, the more problems Labour faces in terms of winning seats. Labour would be in serious trouble if their national support levels fall below ten percent as the party is also facing a “perfect storm” from electoral geography and changed competition levels. These factors include the reduction in Dail seat numbers (from 166 to 158) and other changes made to general election boundaries by the 2012 Constituency Commission (which militated against Labour while seeming to advantage other parties, but notably Fianna Fail) as well as the increased competition the party now faces on the Left from Sinn Fein, other smaller left-wing parties and left-of-centre independents, as well as from Fianna Fail. When Labour support levels fell to similarly low levels in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s, the party was in a position to be helped (as in the 1997, 2002 and 2007 General Elections) by transfers from lower placed candidates from the smaller left-wing parties. But on these constituency-estimate figures outlined in these analyses Labour Party candidates would find themselves polling below candidates from Sinn Fein, the Socialist Party, the Workers and Unemployed Action Group or the People Before Profit Alliance, or left-leaning independents, in a number of constituencies. Instead of being in a position to possibly benefit from vote transfers (which themselves would be likely to dry up in any case), the Labour candidates would now in a number of cases be eliminated before the final count and would be providing the transfers to see candidates from other left-of-centre political groupings over the line. (If we look at the 1987 case study – we see Labour won 6.5% of the vote in the 1987 General Election and won 12 seats, but it is also worth noting that they did not contest nine constituencies in that election, whereas their 7% national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constituencies. In two of the twelve constituencies in 1987 where Labour won seats – Dublin South-Central, Dublin South-West, Galway West and Wexford – vote transfers were crucial in ensuring Labour won these these seats – i.e. Labour candidates were outside the seat positions on the first count but overtook candidates with higher first preference votes as counts progressed due to transfers from other candidates.
Constituency FPV Total Poll Quota % FPV Lab/quota
Carlow-Kilkenny 7,358 57,485 9,581 12.80 0.77
Cork South-Central 4,862 56,259 9,377 8.64 0.52
Dublin South-Central 4,701 51,692 8,616 9.09 0.55
Dublin South-East 3,480 38,270 7,655 9.09 0.45
Dublin South-West 5,065 41,454 8,291 12.22 0.61
Dun Laoghaire 6,484 55,702 9,284 11.64 0.70
Galway West 3,878 52,762 8,794 7.35 0.44
Kerry North 6,739 34,764 8,692 19.38 0.78
Kildare 7,567 53,705 8,951 14.09 0.85
Louth 6,205 46,809 9,362 13.26 0.66
Wexford 5,086 52,922 8,821 9.61 0.58
Wicklow 7,754 46,003 9,201 16.86 0.84
Voting statistics for constituencies in which Labour won seats at the 1987 General Election. The table above shows that there was no constituency in 1987 in which a Labour candidate exceeded the quota and indeed successful Labour candidates, Ruairi Quinn and Michael D. Higgins won seats in their constituencies despite winning less than half of the quota in their first preference votes. In addition, Dick Spring came within a handful of votes of losing his seat in Kerry North.)
The Labour Party has tended to fall below the ten percent level in most opinion polls over the past few years, as in the case of this Behaviour & Attitudes opinion poll. Labour seat level estimates in most of the poll analyses I have carried out in the years leading up to the recent general election were quite stark, highlighting the fact that our PR-STV electoral system is proportional but only to a limited extent. The party’s seat levels in the actual election generally tended to support the analysis offered by this model. The further Labour support nationally falls below the ten percent level, the more difficulties it will face in terms of winning seats. This proved to be the case in February 2016 as Labour was left to face a “perfect storm” from the combined effects of boundary changes, electoral geography and changing political competition patterns. These factors explain why Labour faces greater challenges in translating lower levels of national support into seat numbers than it did back in 1987 when the party won 12 seats with just over six percent of the national vote.
The size of the Dáil was reduced from 166 seats to 158 at the recent general election, but my analysis of the effects of these boundary changes suggested that Labour will be more adversely effected by these than other parties, such as Fianna Fáil in particular, would be. Had the new boundaries been in place in 2011, it is estimated that Labour would probably have won three or four fewer seats, while Fianna Fáil may have won two or three more seats!
While there is a distinct geography to Labour Party support levels over and above the more “catch-all” trends traditionally associated with Fianna Fáil and (to a lesser degree) Fine Gael, there is not the same concentration of support into a small number of constituencies that one has observed in past contests with smaller parties such as the Green Party (especially in the 2002 and 2007 contests) and potentially parties such Renua Ireland, the Social Democrats and the Anti Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit in the upcoming election. In the latter cases, lower support levels nationally often translate into much larger support levels in a small number of stronger constituencies, allowing these to pick up a number of Dáil seats. In the case of Labour, the same spiking of support in a small number of stronger constituencies is not evident. As evidenced at the 2016 contest, a small share of the vote nationally (especially if Labour contests all, or most of, the Dáil constituencies) would translate into a sufficient level of support to allow them to challenge for seats in only a very small number of their stronger constituencies. (Labour were also not be helped by the level of defections and retirements amongst its cohort of TDs, especially given that these involve many of the party’s stronger constituencies at the 2011 contest. This was perhaps most evident in the party’s failure to win seats in some of its strongest constituencies in 2011, namely Dublin South-West, Dublin South-Central and Dublin North-West.)
In 1987, Labour won 12 seats even though the party never exceeded the quota in any of the constituencies being contested by the party in that election (and it is worth remembering that Labour did not contest every constituency in 1987). Indeed, Labour won nearly half of their seats in constituencies where they had won little more than half a quota in terms of first preference votes – or even less than half a quota in the case of the Galway West and Dublin South-East constituencies. Labour were helped in this instance as their candidates were in a position to pick up vote transfers from lower-placed left-wing candidates, as well as lower-placed Fine Gael candidates (arising from that party’s drop in support in 1987 and also some instances of poor vote management). In 2002 and 2007 Labour were also able to translate their national support levels into a higher proportion of Dáil seat levels due to Labour candidates being ahead of candidates from other left-wing groupings and hence in a position to win transfers from these. In the context of low Labour support levels nationally in the 2016 election, however, the trend in a number of constituencies was instead for Labour Party candidates to be polling below candidates from Sinn Fein, the Social Democrats or the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, or left-leaning independents. Instead of being in a position to possibly benefit from left-wing vote transfers (which themselves were weaker in any case, as was predicted earlier in data provided in a Sunday Independent-Millward Brown poll in the summer of 2015), in this context Labour candidates were eliminated before the final count in many constituencies and potentially providing the transfers to ensure the election of candidates from other left-of-centre political groupings (or Fine Gael candidates). In previous elections, Labour might still have been able to translate lower support levels into seats in constituencies such as Dublin Bay-South, Dublin Bay-North, Clare and Dublin Rathdown, but this proved not to be the case in the 2016 contest. Ironically, with the party now out of government, they may find that their ability to win vote transfers improves again over time, along the lines of the trends that were observed for the Green Party at the recent general election.
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Elevator Constructors, Sportsmen’s Alliance team up to get kids hooked on ice fishing
January 19, 2019 by Union Advocate
Five-year-old Waylon Lee (R) and his brother Kelar, 8, try ice fishing for the first time during IUEC Local 9’s youth event on Coon Lake in Columbus.
COLUMBUS – Josh and Jen Atkinson moved their family from Oakland, Calif., to Albertville four years ago, but it wasn’t until today that they got their first taste of a uniquely Minnesotan tradition: ice fishing.
“I’ve always wanted to do this,” Jen said from inside a heated pop-up ice shelter on Coon Lake in Columbus, where she and Josh dropped lines with their sons, 8-year-old Sheamus and 3-year-old Shawn. “This is so cool.”
“Best of all, it’s free,” Josh added. “And everyone is just so darn nice.”
Sheamus and Shawn were among 100 kids introduced to ice fishing today at a community event co-hosted by Local 9 of the International Union of Elevator Constructors and the nonprofit Union Sportsmen’s Alliance, with support from other local Building Trades unions and sponsors.
Participants in the first ever “Take Kids Ice Fishing Day” received free rods and reels, lunch, access to heated shelters and the instruction and assistance of volunteer union members, including a dozen members of Local 9.
Volunteers (L to R) include Mike Rodger, Clam Outdoors and Cement Masons Local 633; Dave Youngblom, IUEC Local 9; Jarrod Asleson, Local 633; Jon Edwards, Trained Monkey Truckin’; Adam Morin and Joe Nelson.
Dustin Grzesik of Pine Springs and his daughter Anna, 2, didn’t catch any fish at the event – “we just caught good times,” he said.
Volunteers from IUEC Local 9 (L to R) included Randy Bast, Dave Morin and Aimee Paquette.
All families had to do to participate was register in advance, as the event reached its capacity of 100 anglers more than two weeks ago, according to Dave Morin, Local 9’s president.
“The goal was to get kids out who have never done this before, and get them excited about ice fishing,” Morin said. “It seems like it’s kind of a dying thing right now, where there aren’t a lot of kids going outdoors and fishing or doing that kind of thing anymore.”
Mike Rodger, a member of Cement Masons Local 633, said “Take Kids Ice Fishing Day” was among the most successful youth ice fishing events he’s seen, despite sub-zero temperatures and a wind chill of -17. And Rodger has seen a lot in his work with Clam Outdoors, a company that sponsors youth events across the region as part of the nonprofit Ice Team, dedicated to increasing participation in the sport.
Clam provided the ice shelters and heaters for the event. Pure Fishing provided rods and reels. Plano Synergy gave each participant two free game calls. Vados Bait and Tackle provided bait. And Thorne Bros. Custom Rod and Tackle donated pads and tackle.
Local 9 and Union Sportsmen’s Alliance chipped in to purchase raffle prizes, all of which, Morin said, were selected to encourage kids to return to Minnesota’s lakes and fish some more.
“I’ve been ice fishing all my life,” he said. “I want kids to get that spark, to be excited about it like I am – even if it’s cold.”
Headquartered in Little Canada, Elevator Constructors Local 9 is a union of over 550 members who work in Minnesota, North Dakota and western Wisconsin.
The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance is a nationwide nonprofit that brings together union members through conservation and preservation of North America’s outdoor heritage. The ice fishing event was part of USA’s Work Boots on the Ground initiative, which encourages union members to volunteer their time and expertise to conservation projects and mentoring youth in the outdoors.
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McCain Gave FBI Dossier on Trump; Trump Feuds With CNN, Calls BuzzFeed “Failing Pile of Garbage”
Posted by Mish | January 11, 2017 1:18:04 | Economics
Yesterday, BuzzFeed posted an article that made unsubstantiated claims regarding Russia and Trump. The source of this round of nonsense is a British journalist who fed a story to be CNN.
I tweeted the story was so ridiculous I would not cover it. But now, CNN, the Financial Times, and others have been caught propagating fake news over the story, and Trump is battling CNN and BuzzFeed.
Trump went so far as to call BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage”. It’s an interesting mess, so let’s recap from the beginning.
BuzzFeed reports These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia.
A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.
Irresponsible Journalism
Gone is the day when media posts verified stories. Today is the day media runs rampant with tabloid articles loaded up with unverified allegations, known errors, and purposeful smear campaigns that are obvious.
At least BuzzFeed admitted its sloppiness upfront. That’s a clear step above the Washington Post.
BuzzFeed posted the full document “so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.”
Well, not really, BuzzFeed wanted the attention such a story would bring.
CNN Connection
Also yesterday, CNN reported Intel Chiefs Presented Trump With Claims of Russian Efforts to Compromise Him.
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.
The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.
CNN False News
It took CNN all of one paragraph before it got the facts wrong. Trump never saw the two-page addendum.
NBC News reports Donald Trump Wasn’t Told About Unverified Russia Dossier.
President-elect Donald Trump was not told about unverified reports that Russia has compromising information on him during last week’s intelligence briefing, according to a senior intelligence official with knowledge of preparations for the briefing.
A summary of the unverified reports was prepared as background material for the briefing, but not discussed during the meeting, the official said.
FBI Source – McCain
Today we learn McCain Gave Dossier Containing ‘Sensitive Information’ to FBI
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he delivered a dossier to FBI Director James Comey late last year containing unverified claims that Russia had gathered compromising information on President-elect Donald Trump.
“Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,” McCain said in a statement on Wednesday. “Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgement about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI. That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.”
The statement comes on the heels of reports that President Obama, Trump and congressional leaders were briefed on the allegations made in the dossier.
Trump responded to the media reports on Twitter Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, calling them “fake news” and “a total political witch hunt” and denying that Russia has ever tried to blackmail or leverage him in any way.
Trump Goes After BuzzFeed, CNN
Trump calls BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage”
OOPS! Wrong Guy
Here’s a snip from page 18 of the the dossier.
The alleged UK intelligence office not only assembled a total pile of garbage, but got the wrong Michael Cohen or simply made up allegations.
Financial Times “What We Know”
Long after these facts came out proving without a doubt what a pile of garbage the report was, the Financial Times discredited itself with another pile of garbage called “Trump/Russia dossier: what we know so far”
What we know is the report is garbage, but the Financial Times would only say “the Financial Times was given access to the dossier and spent time last year attempting to verify some of its claims, but has so far been unable to do so.”
The Financial Times did include this bit of sap.
The dossier also claimed that Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s general counsel, met Russian officials during a secret visit to Prague either at the end of August last year or early September. The meeting allegedly took place at the Prague offices of Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian state organisation for cultural exchanges. Mr Cohen is alleged to have discussed contingency plans to cover up the Russian operation to support Trump. Mr Cohen has denied ever having visited the capital of the Czech Republic.
Fake News Spreads Like Wildfire Again
So here we go again, with another media roundup up fake news starting then spreading like wildfire.
The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Glenn Greenwald nails it with his assessment: The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer.
Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry and damaging those behaviors might be.
But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.
Beyond all that, there is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams, recruiting large media outlets to lead the way. When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless, who deploy any journalistic tactic no matter how unreliable and removed from basic means of ensuring accuracy?
All of these toxic ingredients were on full display yesterday as the Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document, compiled by a paid, anonymous operative while he was working for both GOP and Democratic opponents of Trump, accusing Trump of a wide range of crimes, corrupt acts and salacious private conduct. The reaction to all of this illustrates that while the Trump presidency poses grave dangers, so, too, do those who are increasingly unhinged in their flailing, slapdash, and destructive attempts to undermine it.
For months, the CIA, with unprecedented clarity, overtly threw its weight behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump. In August, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times and claimed that “Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” The CIA and NSA director under George W. Bush, Gen. Michael Hayden, also endorsed Clinton, and went to the Washington Post to warn, in the week before the election, that “Donald Trump really does sound a lot like Vladimir Putin,” adding that Trump is “the useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited.”
Almost immediately after it was published, the farcical nature of the “dossier” manifested. Not only was its author anonymous, but he was paid by Democrats (and, before that, by Trump’s GOP adversaries) to dig up dirt on Trump. Worse, he himself cited no evidence of any kind, but instead relied on a string of other anonymous people in Russia he claims told him these things. Worse still, the document was filled with amateur errors.
It is not hard to understand why the CIA preferred Clinton over Trump. Clinton was critical of Obama for restraining the CIA’s proxy war in Syria and was eager to expand that war, while Trump denounced it. Clinton clearly wanted a harder line than Obama took against the CIA’s long-standing foes in Moscow, while Trump wanted improved relations and greater cooperation.
Nobody should crave the rule of Deep State overlords.
Yet craving Deep State rule is exactly what prominent Democratic operatives and media figures are doing. Any doubt about that is now dispelled.
Greenwald Noted: ” If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false — such as Cohen’s trip to Prague — many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying “Fake News” to destroy him.”
That Cohen angle is indeed false, according to Cohen’s passport.
I purposely stay away from stories like these when they first break because they inevitably turn out to be a stinking pile of easily refuted garbage.
49 thoughts on “McCain Gave FBI Dossier on Trump; Trump Feuds With CNN, Calls BuzzFeed “Failing Pile of Garbage””
redstate said:
January 11, 2017 1:29:34 at 1:29 PM
“As far as hacking, I think it was Russia,” the president-elect said at a highly-anticipated press conference in New York, his first since last July.
Mathew Marty said:
No one “hacked the election”. They released emails for the DNC – a private organization. The emails were the factual and this truth may have hurt the DNC. People actually learned what they DNC thought about the voters, the DNC relationship to the press and the rigging of the primary by DNC officials.
Podesta had an email password that was “password”. This is to stupid to comprehend. Clearly, he didn’t take security seriously.
In actuality, it was the “truth” that hurt the DNC.
I’m just quoting our President-elect.
madashellowell said:
He has no choice but to parrot the words of our “intelligence” community or else face the wrath of the media and most of congress. The art of the deal is not always pretty.
Yes, he needs to be careful about Republican politicians since many instinctively do not like him. This is why most of his cabinet appointments have been very conservative. If he gives the right wing enough red meat, he will be able to consolidate power. Also why his Supreme Court nominee will not only be conservative, but will be very young. The right will be drooling all over themselves and will forget they don’t like Trump. At least until he proposes single payer health care, or something like that. 🙂
I’m not getting the impression that his picks are pleasing to many of the republicans. Watching as Rubio aggressively grilled Tillerson basically challenging him to call every foreign leader in the world (except Obama) a war criminal. Not sure what is up with that but he made no points with me. It felt like most of his interrogators were intent on hearing him tell them he would support war everywhere.
LFOldTimer said:
The neo-con GOP’s, like McStain, hate Trump because Trump’s not a member of their club and has an independent mind. Trump who has never held an elected office handily defeated 16 current and former elected GOP club members in the Primary. Accordingly McStain et al want to bring him down and replace him with another mindless GOP automaton.
Trump has to walk through mine fields that no other POTUS before him had to maneuver. One wrong step and the vultures (neo-cons, libs and the media) will consume him. Trump has to be incredibly smart to survive these piranna. God speed.
I can almost understand their contempt for Trump and his private sector appointees, as they have not had to dispose of their souls so completely to reach these high levels of authority as the life long politicians have had to do.
It’s laughable to watch them grilling Trump and his appointees about conflicts of interest and potential corruption when we look at how so many of our “elected representatives”, most of which have never had a real job, are filthy rich derived simply from the connections their power affords them, especially when they REFUSED to even pass a rule against insider trading for these high level government employees.
The hypocrisy is almost unbearable.
Winston said:
““As far as hacking, I think it was Russia.”
Because he is such a technical expert on the topic of hacking that he can’t possibly be snowed, just as former General Colin Powell apparently was (see his UN presentation), by an intel agency “slam dunk” claim.
And I don’t call a teen script kiddie in his mom’s house level of email phishing attack “hacking.” (“Your Gmail account has been hacked. Please click on this link immediately to change your password.”) I’d call it “investigative journalism as it used to exist” via illegal means used on really, REALLY stupid people who shouldn’t be allowed to handle government secrets for many reasons exposed even before the hacks were admitted.
Like, of course, Hildabeast’s email server containing material so classified that the investigating intel agency IG had to be read into a special access program to even look at it, a server which “was never hacked” because “there was no evidence of that”… that being EXACTLY what a COMPETENT state-sponsored hack would leave behind because they don’t want you to KNOW they’re reading your mail.
Finally, if the hacks had not revealed misbehavior, they’d have only revealed how very honest the Clintons and the DNC were… but we knew that wouldn’t happen.
I now watch with much amusement as the MSM and the “mainstream narrative” they formerly controlled self-destructs in their desperate pursuit of destroying their “Orange ‘Like Literally’ Hitler” by publishing any fake news they can find along with the further outing all of the RINOs who richly deserve to end their careers in government courtesy of awakened non-RINO voters.
jkozuh said:
God bless President Trump … !!!
Obama and Hillary and McCain, NOT so much.
Sebastian Murray-Roberts said:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/4chan-claims-have-fabricated-anti-trump-report-hoax
If this is true, it will be the most hillarious loss of credibility for all involved in this ridiculous “report”.
Fake Newz said:
In other words, not much different from most of the other stories they propagate.
Mkkby said:
Obama’s own words are a lie. In a video clip he explains that he pardoned a man to “give him a second chance”. The man was a 3 strikes lifer — meaning he already got his 2 chances. He knew getting caught again would be an automatic life sentence, yet he intentionally committed more crimes.
But the man was black, so the media makes Obama out to be a saint for righting this *wrong*. What a legacy this man has.
Bob D said:
Hard to call it a battle. He gave a short, entirely credible answer at the news conference (anyone should assume anything is recorded in Russia, and many other countries), and ended it with a lighthearted bit of humor (I’m a germaphobe). Any fair minded person would say it ended right there. And even Trump hating journalists admitted this one didn’t begin to pass the smell test.
Duder said:
You said “smell test”
*Drum kick, cymbal shot*
The Intercept is now a daily read for me.
McCain has finally let the cat out of the bag although most everyone already knew he hated Trump. Once Trump is installed as President next week, we may see some negative stories about McCain ‘mysteriously’ leaked from government files.
floridasandy said:
it won’t be too hard to find negative stories on Mccain.
I always wondered who actually voted for him, if anybody did.
No shock over McCain and Graham attack on Russia as an act of war. Trump is in a very hard spot and he must tread carefully…as much as he can! There is no doubt in my mind that their ultimate goal is to prevent him from taking office. He cannot afford to let these types of accusations to be passed about and ignore them…and its not his nature in any case, but he also has to be careful about attacking the intelligence agencies.
Schumer warned him on Maddows show that he would be making a mistake to take them on as they would get their revenge. I’m not alone in this belief either…
http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/01/the-final-takedown-of-trump-begins-in-earnest/
backwardsevolution said:
Schumer warned him on Maddow’s show, and Schumer was on the intelligence agencies’ side, wasn’t he? It was obvious that Schumer wouldn’t mind at all if Trump got screwed.
Truth seeker said:
I made the point a month r so ago that Obama had done so much to divide the country that the next president whom I thought would b Hillary Clinton would b the person most responsible for the worldwide financial collapse that will surely happen before the end of the end of the next 4 years. Well now it looks like the globalists such as George Soros, the Clintons, the progressive liberal elites, the American academic community and the Mainstream media have lost the battle but may very well win the war. Even if Trump comes up with a reasonable plan to deal with all our many problems, there is so much mistrust, hate and real danger n our country and the world that he is already being set up to fail and he hasn’t even been sworn n yet! In his first news conference today I hoped he would lower expectations a little and explain that the problems we face r so immense that to solve them we need to come together- I wanted him to at least to begin to try to unity the nation. Well with all the contention and fake news -it didn’t matter -Trump is Trump so I hope his way will work. I have said this before that n addition to all our horrific economic and geopolitical problems I never hear much on our devastating cultural problems with drug addiction all time highs, violence, pornography addiction, corruption in Washington and Wall Street and absolutely no respect for traditional values r the rule of law! Even our old hero James Bond now prefers Married women!!
Joseph Constable said:
The intelligence agencies fear Trump is a peacenik. They thought that of Obama too and tried to undermine him too. When he took office he threatened to prosecute them for torture. That got them in line.
Yet as said above, Chuck Schumer said the intelligence agencies have many ways of getting you. Trump needs to punish them severely.
This is the reason that palace guards have always existed. The threat from inside to the person in power.
The Secret Service Protects the President, but their primary duty is to protect the currency. After Trump’s sworn in, we will see which job takes priority.
Fred Rogers said:
Priority 1: stiffing Brazilian hookers, literally then figuratively (ha ha ha !!)
Priority 2: watching porn
Priority 3: Interviewing suspects who later jump over the White House fence, that way they have a pre-canned excuse that the intruder was under surveillance, just not as much as he should have been
Priority 4: Causing as many traffic jams in as many cities as possible. When you are protecting Obozo, its important to inconvenience as many taxpayers as possible. The Secret Service doesn’t want any commerce going on nearby that might generate tax revenue or frighten the socialist in chief
Priority 5: Investigating people who were making stupid comments, obviously joking, and/or just trying to get a rise out of dim witted bureaucrats. These people must be investigated far more thoroughly than actual threats under priority 3
Priority 6: Something about counterfeit currency, like anyone really cares anymore. The real crooks are starting tax exempt foundations in their own names, and using those foundations to sponsor terrorism (see Soros, G), or to buy influence in government which can later be sold to foreign businesses (see Clinton, WJ)
They will continue to beat this Russia drum unti, they can convince enough republicans to impeach him. Trump has few allies. Too many special interests are aligned against him. He is definitely going to be walking in a minefield for the next four years. McCain holds a grudge and hates trump for his comments on his war record. That will not ever change. You can almost see him gnashing his teeth when he talks.
Over the years McCain has increasingly been operating in the fully automatic asshole mode. He’s the deep state’s drama task force packed into one package.
https://sheriffali.com/2014/06/05/command-sergeant-john-holland-account-of-john-mccain-and-the-vietnam-war-hero-or-traitor/
Diogenes said:
Didn’t Charles Hugh Smith (Of Two Minds blogger) posit that it was actually Trump, and not Hillary, that was the real choice of the Deep State?
They have things in mind that we cannot imagine as of yet.
Justin Lee said:
It would appear that JOHN McCAIN is a volunteer or unwitting agent of the British Secret Service (Mi-6) if thats where that dossier comes from. Mi-6 makes fake info
passes it to a US SENATOR
US Senator, who is in bed with military contractors, banks
Said Senator passes dossier of lies to CNN and Buzzfeed to create internet tweet storm
Said Senator is busted for passing these documents to discredit an elected official and the country’s relationship with Russia
So, isn’t JOHN McCain now an agent of a foreign agency and should he be jailed for espionage???
McCain has finally stepped way over the line and I suspect the CIA is also behind this using Mi-6 as a vehicle. How transparent and pathetic are our “intelligence agencies?” Even I know where this comes from…
Crysangle said:
See the 4chan link above.
Does anybody recall the mainstream media, like CNN, picking up the story about Obama having a homosexual affair with Larry Sinclair several years back? The information supporting that story was as substantive as the fake news on Trump. But the MSM buried it.
Trump is in for a long 4 years. The fake news organizations are going to continue to make stuff up and try to sabotage his administration like no other president before him. He MUST publicly defend himself. Otherwise the sharks will rip him to pieces.
I loved it when he smacked down that CNN reporter and asserted he worked for a fake news organization. lol
Go Trump Go!
Take No Shit!!!
Why is it that only trump as been able to do this? Is it because he is the only one not afraid of these hacks?
CNN as well as many others are most definitely “Fake News”. They are telling us a British Intelligence person came up with this. Is this NOT another case of foreign persons or entities directly trying to influence our politics? When will they begin the investigation???HUH? WHEN?
Again, see the 4chan link from zh.
We better hope that the MSM is merely trying to discredit Trump for several deep state purposes. I wonder if the MSM’s narrative is really to divide the American people even further for the benefit of the deep state. A figure like Trump is the deep state’s perfect candidate to accomplish that… and we all thought that Trump represented the real Americans? That senario would certainly match their aims and we would be totally caught off guard..
If that was the case the “deep state” would have arranged for the ‘fake news’ to furnish more credible substance about Trump and the hookers in Moscow. This latest failed effort fell flat on it’s face and only turned more Americans against the MSM. I suspect it will recruit more Trump fans. That’s not a very effective way to “discredit Trump”.
These idiots are just throwing handfuls at the wall hoping something sticks. Very amateurish and a sign of incompetence.
If that’s the ‘deep state’ it’s laughable.
If you are being honest Geoff, the CIA fully and completely trusted one of their sources in al qaeda.
Turned out the guy was an al qaeda plant — and he blew himself up in a suicide attack that killed the CIA station chief in Afghanistan.
Aldrich Ames was fully vetted and trusted — DOH !!!
While we are discussing MI6 agents … are we allowed to bring up Kim Philby? The guy who was heading British intelligence and turned out to be a Soviet agent?
The agent that slipped McCain the bogus story (and we know its bogus because the facts we are able to check are all wrong)… anyway the ***FORMER*** MI6 agent was working for a private investigation firm not MI6.
And there is strong reason to believe that the agent was given the info by a hacker group that was trying to discredit the former agent (and unwittingly discredited McCain).
Clearly, you are just a WaPo “reporter” — someone who doesn’t know jack about the story and just goes shooting your mouth off trying to defend established political crooks. No vetting, no verifying facts with independent 2nd sources — nothing that could be mistaken for actual journalism.
Consider working at CNN next… they favor your sloppy reporting style
D. Nutbush said:
I would only hope Trump will either permanently close the White House Press Corp or at the very least never take a question from CNN, MSNBC,NBC,ABC,CBS for a solid 4 years.
Dismiss CNN, do it permanently and set an example for the kind of behavior that will not be tolerated. You must be swift, firm and committed. The rest of them will get the message, loud and clear.
Bam_Man said:
You are a pathetic moron of a troll.
If it is UNSUBSTANTIATED, IT IS NOT NEWS.
It is rumor, innuendo or just plain character assassination.
NEWS organizations – that supposedly employ “Journalists”, have NO business reporting such things.
Now go crawl back under your rock, jackass.
@geoff you are definitely a WaPo clown
(1) Mish claims to be a blogger, not a media “reporter”
(2) You lied when you claimed (previous comment) claiming this bullshit story could not be checked, and so the liars had to rely on the veracity of their source
— First, not true. Lots of “facts” in the story could have been checked. Trumps lawyer wasn’t even in Prague, the careless MI6 source didn’t bother to check that either.
— If you have ever traveled abroad on business, you know hotel rooms are bugged most of the time. Its usually industrial espionage, but the room is bugged whatever the reason. Obviously you have zero real world experience… maybe get out of the WaPo news room a little more often
— Secondly, the ***FORMER*** MI6 source was probably being played. He was definitely working as a private investigator looking for dirt, not looking for verifiable information. The source clearly changed his M.O. and any half wit intelligence analyst would flag that.
Reliable sources can be compromised (because they were made redundant by MI6) or because they pissed off someone who wants to shame them (like hacker groups who hate the ex-agent) or because the formerly reliable source now gets paid to lie (as in this case)
So the real Mish has been posting as “MishMoments” ever since he started his Iceland photo blog….
And the real Mish usually doesn’t write baseline (first level) comments to himself…
And the real Mish doesn’t write in weird broken “english”…
I wonder if this “Mishtalk” comment may not be from the blog host. Could be a bogus source trying to assume credibility that isn’t his
MishMoments said:
Yes – It’s from Russia
Putin and I met in Prague last month and he asked for the change.
Actually it was an accident – I asked WordPress to change the name on MishMoments and they changed it here!
BC said:
The “former British intelligence official” uses the term “soccer” instead of “football”.
It’s fake. doh.
Six000MileYear said:
Over 100 years ago ‘fake news” was called “yellow journalism”.
vooch said:
this is going to be a fun 8 years !
plenty of theater
joelg5 said:
BuzzFeed is like WikiLeaks in providing a public service by publishing the whole stinking garbage pile for anyone to access, and deserves whatever money it makes because no one else is providing the whole false report. This is capitalism and reporting (full doc with no commentary) at its best. Contrast this with USA Senators and CNN referencing this garbage as Truth Beyond Reproach because it is coming from a Trusted Intell Source, former MI-6 in this case. During the election Dem Senate head Reid referred to this report constantly, saying FBI had info on Trump-Russia conspiracy. Only now, months post-election via BuzzFeed, do we know for sure the Russia-Trump connection was fake news.
BuzzFeed or WikiLeaks should do the same with the Classified Russia Intell fake news election hacking report produced by the Democrat Operatives at the CIA/NSA. Then instead of being cause for War and Tarnishing Trump, American Intell could be shown for what it really is, Propaganda Central for the Neo-Con cause and carrying the same War Party Banner as Hillary. I suspect Trump reached out to Robert Kennedy Jr. to head his Vaccine Committee in part to hear from him an inside take on the JFK and RFK assassinations.
John McCain joined the “War Party” to enrich the arms merchants and banks at the expense of thousands of American lives long ago.
He has long been “bought and paid for” and as a good Neo-Con remains Bought.
January 11, 2017 11:41:17 at 11:41 PM
Can someone tell someone that Intelligence is a real word and means …. um … intelligence.
Not a word that can be closely associated with McCain obviously but the rest of us can smell rats and like Mish just ignore the puerile junk most of the time. Obama seems to take it seriously though and will live to regret the verdict of history.
docnick37 said:
January 12, 2017 10:04:02 at 10:04 AM
All of the professional politicians must go. Twenty-two months from now we have a chance again to get rid of more of the good-old-guys and gals.
If we work hard, in two or three more campaign cycles we can clean the barn.
ABC: US Troops Enter Poland, 1st Deployment at Russia’s Doorstep
American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream some Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia.
Some people waved and held up American flags as U.S. troops in tanks and other vehicles crossed into southwestern Poland from Germany and headed toward the town of Zagan, where they will be based. Poland’s prime minister and defense minister will welcome them in an official ceremony Saturday.
“This is the fulfilment of a dream,” said Michal Baranowski, director of the German Marshall Fund think tank in Warsaw. “And this is not just a symbolic presence but one with a real capability.”
U.S. and other Western nations have carried out exercises on NATO’s eastern flank in past years, but the new deployment — which includes some 3,500 U.S. troops — marks the first-ever continuous deployment to the region by a NATO ally.
CBS: Russia decries “threat” as U.S. troops roll into Poland
U.S. and other Western nations have carried out exercises on NATO’s eastern flank, but this deployment – which includes around 3,500 U.S. troops – marks the first-ever continuous deployment to the region by a NATO ally. It represents a commitment by President Barack Obama to protect a region that became deeply nervous when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and then began backing rebels in Ukraine’s east.
I just love that simple “party line” characterization of the Ukrainian conflict by a MSM which can so easily label certain large groups of people in this country as bigots and Nazis simply by who they went to the polls and peacefully voted for while completely ignoring the truth of a far more complex situation in the Ukraine:
Documentary: Ukraine – The Masks of the revolution
by Paul Moreira
English Subs
If you don’t watch the entire documentary as you should, watch from 40:44 to 42:25. I got a chuckle out of the US pols shown with him. Unlike in the US, these elements are apparently NOT a microscopic part of the “extreme right” in the western part of Ukraine, the part that isn’t ethnically Russian like the eastern portion. Far from it.
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Giovanni’s Pizzeria
Thinner is better
By Jennifer Wohletz
Giovanni's dishes out a mammoth half-Napoli, half-pepperoni-and-green-chile pizza.
Xavier Mascareñas
My first theater experience was in 1986, when I was marched to an off-Broadway production of Animal Farm with several of my classmates. Since I was much too young to grasp the underlying theme of the plot (this being the gloomy, Orwellian allegorical vision of the Communist revolution), I just enjoyed the idea that animals could walk, talk and do human stuff.
As we were being marched back to the parking lot, I caught a glimpse of the actor who played Napoleon the pig. She was standing outside the side door, smoking a cigarette and bitching up a storm about the lighting and how her costume was chafing the side of her leg. Alas, my willing suspension of disbelief was shattered.
This is a lot like how I felt after chewing down a couple of slices of the Sicilian-style pizza at Giovanni’s Pizzeria. The vision I had in my head about eating a piece of the thick, square crust heaped with toppings seemed better than the actual indulgence of it. The Sicilian wasn’t bad, just not what I preferred. The meats on the pizza were killer, with bulky cuts of meatballs and smoked ham, and the cheese was abundant. I guess I’m just not that into the stout, dense crust. And it fills me up too fast, like swallowing a pair of concrete boots.
Husband and wife owners Rosario and Dana prepare a pizza Monday night.
I was digging the atmosphere in the pizza shop. It was all tile floors and red Formica booths with checkered tablecloths. The walls were covered with bits of New York memories: small, framed family images, a map and a profusion of playbills adorning the mirrored side wall. There was Gypsy, Fame, The Producers, Hairspray, even Sweeney Todd. No Animal Farm, though.
I ordered at the counter from the menu board. The items were easy to understand and straightforward. Pizzas were small (12-inch cheese, $8.25), medium (15-inch cheese, $10.75), large (18-inch cheese, $13.50) and Sicilian (cheese, $18.50). Toppings included pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, bell peppers, black olives, tomatoes, onions, green chile, Canadian bacon, pineapple, anchovies, beef, garlic, meatballs and chicken.
The house specialty pies ran the gamut from Napoli (spinach, pesto, tomatoes) to cheeseless Pummarola (garlicky tomato sauce, onions, olive oil and spices). The New Mexican sounded tasty with chicken, ricotta cheese, garlic, red onions and green chile. Owner/operator Rosario Zito (he has an awesome Queens accent) proudly proclaimed the popularity of the spinach pie, this smothered in sautéed fresh spinach, olive oil, garlic, fresh herbs and cheese.
“You gotta try dis!” he said.
I immediately liked him. The cool accent alone gave me a Manhattan-Little-Italy vibe. Plus he was sporting a huge gold chain with a “100% Italian” charm, and wearing a KISS concert T-shirt circa 1980.
I ordered the Sicilian meat-eaters’ pie ($23), a large house salad ($6), a pitcher of root beer ($4), a cannoli ($2.80) and a slice of cheesecake ($2.80). The salad got lost in the fray somewhere and never reached my table, but as it turned out, the pizza was big enough to give someone a wrist sprain carrying it, so no harm or foul. I got a slice and a half down the hatch before I realized I was already full and hadn’t thought to order a slice of the regular New York-style pizza for comparison.
I returned to the counter to get a single slice of pepperoni ($2.80) and had to explain to a concerned-faced Rosario Zito that the Sicilian wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t my thing. He understood where I was coming from.
“I can’t eat it every day, either,” he chuckled, flashing me a million-dollar grin.
I was glad I got the slice, though, because I would have missed out on a big, steaming slice of proper New York-style pizza, complete with super-thin crust, cheese baked to brown perfection, just the right amount of sauce and pepperonis with those crispy little edges.
The cannoli was homemade down to the sweet ricotta filling, and the cheesecake was crustless, with an agreeable citron aftertaste.
What’s the moral of this story? Animal Farm taught me that Communism only works in theory, and Giovanni’s educated me to trust my gut (literally) and go with the thinner crust. Class dismissed.
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The Growth and Transition of Sustainable Production Practices in WNC
This report presents the findings from an analysis of primary data from the Local Food Guide exploring changes in the growing practices of farmers producing food for local markets in Western North Carolina from 2008 to 2016. Overall, the findings show that every production practice listed in the Guide grew but with notable differences between their growth rates and ratio to farmers. Organic (non-certified) and GMO-free were practiced by the largest numbers of farmers in 2016 and experienced the greatest proportional growth over the eight year period. Animal Welfare Approved and Certified Naturally Grown practices were reported by the fewest number of farms in 2016, but both experienced positive proportional growth. Conventional, biodynamic, and certified organic were the only practices that experienced a proportional decrease between 2008 and 2016.
A secondary analysis examined the growing practices of farms in the Guide that sell exclusively through direct markets (i.e., farmers markets, farm stands, u-pick, community supported agriculture). The results follow a very similar pattern to the primary analysis but with more substantial proportional changes.
The Growth and Transition of Sustainable Production Practices in WNC.
The End of Tobacco and the Rise of Local Food in Western North Carolina
This report presents the findings of an analysis of Census of Agriculture data to assess changes that occurred to food and farms in Western North Carolina (WNC) in relation to the “tobacco buyout” and to an effort to build a more localized food and farming economy. In WNC, the mid-1990s marked the beginning of a significant period of transition in agriculture. After more than 70 years as the dominant cash crop for farmers, production of burley tobacco was entering a period of sharp decline. Anticipating the economic and cultural impacts the loss of tobacco would have on communities, a group of farmers and citizens launched a local food campaign in 2000 to provide farmers with alternatives.
In this report, WNC is a 20-county region in the Appalachian region of North Carolina that consistently grew burley tobacco under the federal quota and price support program. Nine of the 20 counties, which are the focus of the analysis, accounted for the majority of tobacco production prior to the buyout. The analysis, which used data from the 1997 to 2012 censuses, shows significant shifts in agriculture related to tobacco and food production for local markets. Though the region experienced a dramatic loss of farms with the end of tobacco, the census period just after the 2004 buyout shows the region’s farm loss leveled off with a rate far less than the state and US loss rates. The data suggest that as tobacco declined production for local markets increased with an increase in production of fruits and vegetables and in the value of direct sales.
Full Report: The End of Tobacco and the Rise of Local Food in Western North Carolina
Appalachian Grown 2017 Producer Survey Report
The Influence of Farmer-Customer Interactions at Farmers Markets on Farmer Growing Practices
Exploration of Market Opportunities for Western North Carolina Grown Ginseng Root
Regional Large-Animal Meat Processing Plants: Summary of Economic Viability
Agriculture and Food System Trends in the Appalachian Region: 2007-2012
Growing a Local Food Economy: A Guide to Getting Started
The Regulatory Environment for Farms in Western North Carolina
CONNECT Our Future Food Systems Plan Executive Summary
CONNECT Our Future Food Systems Assessment Report
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Best Umbrella That's Also a Samurai Sword
Loved To Death
Instead of letting a rainy day ruin your outfit, why not use it as a chance to enhance it by adding a Japanese sword-slash-umbrella into the mix?
Best Insanely Expensive Cup of Coffee
Coffee loyalty runs deep in San Francisco, and if asked to come up with a choice between Sightglass, Four Barrel, Ritual, or Blue Bottle, we might hiss and run away, flaring our frilled neck like a frightened Aussie lizard.
October 20, 1999 Film
He Spread, She Spread
By Gregory Weinkauf Wednesday, Oct 20 1999
Uninspired Frames of Urban Mating Rituals: Reid and Peet in Body Shots.
Opens Friday at AMC 1000 and Metreon
It would be very easy to dismiss this movie with bold swipes of cynicism: low overhead (affordable cast, L.A. locations); guaranteed return (twentysomething controversy); and a coarse, zinger-laden script (perfect for soundtrack interspersion). An unlikely sixth sense is not necessary to envision the fat cats at Time-Warner green-lighting this project, with the emphasis on green. The imagined pitch: "Less Than Zero gets nasty in clubland." The imagined response: "Okay, let's make a few bucks off the hipster market. Did Go make any money?"
Given these preconceptions, it is quite a relief to be able to retract the claws (well, halfway) and appreciate a few tremors of emotional intrigue in Body Shots, however buried in cinematic ineptitude they may be. In fact, on the plus side, director Michael Cristofer (Gia, loads of stage work) seems to have a good grip on the impudent script by David McKenna (American History X), mining pathos from a mother lode of brash antics. No mean feat that, especially given the desensitized tone of the piece and the fact that we've seen so much of this before.
Unhampered by imagination and driven solely by libido, eight pretty, mediocre young things cruise through an alternately bleak and jarring glimpse of L.A. nightlife. At first, the four girls and four guys, who move in separate -- but soon enough intermingled -- predatory packs, are almost indistinguishable from one another. In the first act (labeled Foreplay), they come at us fast and furious with their post-ironic takes on all things sexual. "To hose or not to hose?" muses golf-geek Trent (Ron Livingston), not realizing that before the night is through, he may just be out-kinked. "Mustang Sally" blasts from inside The Mint while the feeding frenzy begins, and lines about the power and control of the teeth during fellatio still hang in the air. These are randy, confused souls, and -- although this sort of spectacle is readily available for a cover charge in most bars and clubs on the planet -- their aching quest for fulfillment is supposed to be our entertainment.
Of course, that's the point of Body Shots, so it can't really be faulted for that. It's just a shame that so much of the movie often feels (and looks) like that melodramatic student film you really want to like but simply can't. Uninspired frames of urban mating rituals are broken up by the staccato sexual "interviews" (some of the movie's most ribald moments), with Mark Isham's icy score, a lot of tepid techno, and some eerie time-lapse shots of L.A. serving as grout. Capable, but not surprising or new.
Fortunately, the ensemble cast are all game for the ride. Once act two (Good Sex, Bad Sex) corrals the somewhat nonlinear action into a thudding, neon club, the characters start to reveal their quirks and muddled objectives. Rather, make that objective; they all want the illusion of intimacy sparked by sex. (The opening title card's quote -- "I'll go for a ride on your jelly roll/But I won't give you nothin' from my soul," attributed to Anon. -- spills this bean early.) It's actually pretty impressive to hear Shawn (Brad Rowe) lament, "Sex without love equals violence," only to watch him, mere moments later, pounding perpetually sauced Emma (Sybil Temchen) on a car hood and against a chain-link fence. They want it so badly, but what is "it"? Fleeting bliss? A good cathartic nasty? A temporary reprieve from isolation? Writer McKenna doesn't seem to know, so Cristofer exploits the hollowness of their pursuits.
Throughout the group's self-imposed melee, Rick (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Jane (Amanda Peet), and Trent and Whitney (Emily Procter) seem to get closest to finding that elusive "it," though for quite different reasons. Rick and Jane, sort of the dual moral centers of this universe, keep their appreciation chaste and slightly detached (boring us a bit, but at least suggesting some sort of dignity). Trent and Whitney, however, end up playing a few surprising tricks on one another, to the disappointment of neither. (Again, this is hackneyed stuff, but if you've been locked in a church basement for a few years, you might find it titillating.)
The finest acting (or are they really this vacuous?) comes from Jerry O'Connell (Joe's Apartment) and Tara Reid (Urban Legend), who craftily stage an alleged date rape from two wildly varying perspectives. The haze of alcohol and hormones makes them uncertain of their own motivations, and later when they struggle under the interrogation of their friends, we can feel for them in their confusion (a little). Their conflict (and the polarization it forces upon their friends) is the crux of the movie, and Cristofer is wise to suspend judgment, forcing an unexpected thought process out of his audience.
Body Shots isn't a particularly novel document, nor is it always convincing. The interview sequences are sometimes funny, and it's clear that the actors had a good time with them, but, like a voice-over added late in the game, they are not a substitute for chemistry and crackling scenes. (Besides, even when they're amusing, there's something creepy about prescripted "impromptu" comments.) A couple of scenes play well (the fellatio class and Trent's Big Adventure), but audiences who come to watch this cast party down, way down, may find themselves disappointed by the story's meditation on the definition of "consensual." Still, where Body Shots is most thematically successful is in the gray areas, for as Ivy Compton-Burnett said: "There is more difference within the sexes than between them."
Tags: Film, New, Los Angeles, Michael Cristofer, Trent, David McKenna
Gregory Weinkauf
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Records of the Fawcett Society and its PredecessorsCorrespondence and papersCorrespondence between National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and London Society for Women's Suffrage[M Robertson] to Millicent Garrett Fawcett
[M Robertson] to Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb106-2lsw/2lsw/e/07/117
Women's Library Archives
GB 106 2LSW/E/07/117
Former Reference
GB 106 298.2; Folder 2
Robertson was the Assistant Secretary. Answering points about New Zealand raised by previous letter. Carbon copy, initialled.
Records of the Fawcett Society and its Predecessors2LSW
Committees:* Central Committee Of The National Society For Women's Suffrage 1871-1888* Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1888-1897* Central National Society For Women's Suffrage 1897-1909* London Society for Women's Service (Fawcett Society) 1903-19622LSW/A
Administration Papers2LSW/B
Elections2LSW/C
Public Meetings, Exhibitions and Events2LSW/D
Correspondence and papers2LSW/E
Circular letters2LSW/E/01
General correspondence2LSW/E/02
Correspondence and Press Cuttings2LSW/E/03
Correspondence with London Society for Women's Suffrage Branches2LSW/E/04
Correspondence with Branches - First World War period2LSW/E/05
London Society for Women's Suffrage Wartime Correspondence with Branches2LSW/E/06
Correspondence between National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and London Society for Women's Suffrage2LSW/E/07
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Edith Palliser2LSW/E/07/001
Miss Strachey to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/002
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to 'My dear Friend and Colleague'2LSW/E/07/003
Copy of quotation from Mr WD Howells2LSW/E/07/004
[Miss Strachey] to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/005
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Strachey2LSW/E/07/006
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to [Miss Strachey]2LSW/E/07/008
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to 'My dear Colleague'2LSW/E/07/010
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss McKee2LSW/E/07/012
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to 'My dear Chairman'2LSW/E/07/016
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Cameron2LSW/E/07/017
Mrs Fanny Roberts [to Millicent Garrett Fawcett]2LSW/E/07/018
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Secretary, London Society for Women's Suffrage2LSW/E/07/019
M Cohen to Miss Strachey2LSW/E/07/031
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Turner2LSW/E/07/036
[Millicent Garrett Fawcett] to Miss Strachey2LSW/E/07/041
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Phillips2LSW/E/07/043
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to [unknown]2LSW/E/07/049
Millicent Garrett Fawcett [to Miss Strachey]2LSW/E/07/050
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Whitehead2LSW/E/07/059
Note from Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/070
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to organising committee2LSW/E/07/072
Annette Anning to Miss Strachey2LSW/E/07/075
London Society for Women's Suffrage Committee members to Mrs Fawcett2LSW/E/07/076
Miss Strachey to Annette Anning2LSW/E/07/079
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Thoedore Williams2LSW/E/07/081
Press release from London Society for Women's Suffrage2LSW/E/07/082
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to the Secretary, London Society for Women's Suffrage2LSW/E/07/085
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Lowndes2LSW/E/07/087
A Helen Ward to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/088
MA Imaze to Miss Strachey2LSW/E/07/091
[Millicent Garrett Fawcett] to Miss Ward2LSW/E/07/093
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to 'Miss Ward to Miss Dimmock'2LSW/E/07/096
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss GE Morris2LSW/E/07/099
Emily M Leaf to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/102
John Boon to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/109
Helena Hirst to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/110
[M Robertson] to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/117
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Robertson2LSW/E/07/118
Miss Robertson to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/119
[Miss Strachey] to Millicent Garrett Fawcet2LSW/E/07/120
Philippa Fawcett to Miss Strachey2LSW/E/07/127
Miss Strachey to Philippa Fawcett2LSW/E/07/128
Miss J Hancock (Honorary Secretary, North Hackney Branch) to London Society for Women's Suffrage2LSW/E/07/133
Miss Strachey to Miss Hancock2LSW/E/07/134
Edith Palliser to members of London Society for Women's Suffrage2LSW/E/07/141
Edith Palliser (to local committee secretaries)2LSW/E/07/142
Miss Strachey to local committee secretaries2LSW/E/07/143
London Society for Women's Suffrage to Mrs Fawcett.2LSW/E/07/144
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to President, Officers and Committee of the London Society for Women's Suffrage2LSW/E/07/145
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Benecke2LSW/E/07/146
Assistant Secretary to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/148
Assistant Seceretary to Miss M Morris2LSW/E/07/149
K Whiteker (Secretary) to Miss Robinson2LSW/E/07/150
Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss Robinson2LSW/E/07/152
CS Loch, Secretary of Charity Organisation Society to Miss Robinson2LSW/E/07/157
A Doulton Edwards to Miss Robinson2LSW/E/07/158
GE [Morris] to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/159
Lady St Davids to Millicent Garrett Fawcett2LSW/E/07/160
Correspondence with branches of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies2LSW/E/09
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Quarterly Council Meetings - Correspondence and papers2LSW/E/10
Common Cause correspondence2LSW/E/11
Correspondence with other Organisations2LSW/E/12
Correspondence with other Societies - (First World War period)2LSW/E/13
Wartime correspondence with Government Departments2LSW/E/14
London Society for Women's Suffrage Correspondence with other Suffrage Societies2LSW/E/15
Correspondence Between Miss Maude Royden And Philippa Strachey And Other London Society for Women's Suffrage Officers2LSW/E/16
Correspondence With Individuals In Areas [Apparently] Not Served By Branches2LSW/E/17
Women's Service Bureau records2LSW/F
Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service2LSW/J
Fawcett Library Committee2LSW/L
Publications2LSW/M
Objects2LSW/O
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Hans Schleger, corporate exhibition and graphic designer : papersAdvertisingFisons LimitedFisons Limited advertisement designsAdvertisement proof "Kill insect pests safely with Diazinon"
Advertisement proof "Kill insect pests safely with Diazinon"
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb73-aad/1995/32:aad/2008/11:aad/2014/10/aad/2008/11/3/520
V&A Archive of Art and Design
GB 73 AAD/2008/11/3/520
7 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches
Page insert proof for Planter magazine
Hans Schleger, corporate exhibition and graphic designer : papersAAD/1995/32 : AAD/2008/11 : AAD/2014/10
Berlin miscellanyHSchleger-1
PostersHSchleger-2
AdvertisingHSchleger-3
Various New York advertisementsHSchleger-3-1
London Passenger Transport BoardHSchleger-3-2
Shell-Mex and BP LtdHSchleger-3-3
Various London advertisementsHSchleger-3-4
American Overseas AirlinesHSchleger-3-5
Fisons LimitedHSchleger-3-6
Fisons Limited advertisement designsAAD/2008/11/3/413-566, 744
Advertisement "Man and tree"AAD/2008/11/3/413
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Photograph of exhibition stand with Fisons advertisements at AGI show at the Louvre, ParisAAD/2008/11/3/432
Advertisement proof "Carbyne masters wild oats - carbyne is now on sale"AAD/2008/11/3/744
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Four page insert in Farmers Weekly "Report on Fisons 1815"AAD/2008/11/3/446
Magazine advertisement proof "Fisons 1815 controls more weeds in cereals"AAD/2008/11/3/447
Advertisement "Fison 1815, is mayweed your problem?"AAD/2008/11/3/448
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Advertisement "Five years has proved Fisons 1815"AAD/2008/11/3/450
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Advertisement proof "Spray early with 1815"AAD/2008/11/3/454
Advertisement "1815 and Phenoxylene Plus - This early delivery rebate really brings down costs"AAD/2008/11/3/455
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Advertisement "New Legumex with MCPA"AAD/2008/11/3/470
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Advertisement "New Legumex - without harming clover"AAD/2008/11/3/473
Advertisement proof "New Legumex controls weeds in undersown cereals"AAD/2008/11/3/474
Advertisement proof "Simazine creates a new field for... rubber"AAD/2008/11/3/475
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Advertisement proof "Simazine creates a new field for pre-emergence weed control in citrus"AAD/2008/11/3/478
Advertisement "Simazine prevent weeds in pineapple"AAD/2008/11/3/479
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Advertisement proof "Simazine creates a new field... coffee"AAD/2008/11/3/481
Advertisement proof "Simazine prevents weeds in bananas"AAD/2008/11/3/483
Advertisement proof "Simazine prevents weeds in tea"AAD/2008/11/3/484
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Advertisement proof "Simazine prevents weeds in sugar cane"AAD/2008/11/3/486
Advertisement proof "Simazine the safe persistent weedkiller... sugar cane"AAD/2008/11/3/488
Advertisement proof "Simazine... in tropical plantation crops"AAD/2008/11/3/489
Advertisement proof "Simazine... weed in apples, pears, bush fruit, etc."AAD/2008/11/3/490
Advertisement proof "Simazine and Primatol... on railways"AAD/2008/11/3/491
Advertisement proof "Caterpillars Sillortox 20"AAD/2008/11/3/492
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Laser copy of proof "We supply Fisons Pest Control chemicals"AAD/2008/11/3/494
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Advertisement proof "Pea moth an profit don't mix"AAD/2008/11/3/496
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Board & Structure
Akureyrarbær Municipality
Arctic Services
Blönduós Academy Center
CHNGES
Directorate for Gender Equality
The Fisheries Science Center
Fjarðabyggð Municipality
Húsavík Academic Center
The Iceland Construction Authority
Icelandic Centre for Research
The Icelandic Coast Guard
The Icelandic Meteorological Office
Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs
The Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
Matís
The Northern Research Forum
The Polar Law Institute
Reykjavík University
Rif Field Station
The Stefansson Arctic Institute
The University Centre of the Westfjords
The University of Akureyri
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The Directorate of Equality (former Centre for Gender Equality) opened in September 2000 and is located in Akureyri. It handles administration of equality in Iceland in accordance to act. 10/2008: An Act on Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men, act 85/2018: An Act on Equal Treatment irrespective of race or ethnic origin, and act 86/2018: An Act on Equal Treatment in the labour market.
The role of the Directorate is defined in article 4 of the 10/2008 act. The agency runs by the control of the Prime Minister's Office.
Key words: #gender #equality #education #consulting #arctic
Among the Directorate‘s various tasks are monitoring of the implementation of the before mentioned acts, informing on equality as well as to conduct training and consulting services to individuals, companies, corporations, and government agencies at all levels. Furthermore the Directorate is to monitor the development of equality in the society, by collection of information and through research.
Main Arctic Projects
The Directorate of Equality participates in international work and research on Gender and Equality Issues, not the least in the Nordic and West-Nordic countries. In 2012, The Directorate co-managed a pilot project on establishment of a website on gender issues. The website’s focuses on gender equality issues in Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The project runs under the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The web on West-Nordic gender equality issues is available here.
Equality is a subject of debate and research in the Arctic as elsewhere in the world. In the Arctic Human Development Report AHDR, published in 2004, one of the chapters introduced and discussed gender equality in various areas of the Arctic. It gives quite comprehensive overview over how the genders have been affected by the developments and changes in the different parts of the Arctic area.
AHDR's chapter on gender equality in the arctic is available here.
The Directorate's website
The Directorate‘s website is www.jafnretti.is
The website of The Directorate of Equality, offers information about the organization and its staff, as well as news, articles and reports. Additionally current projects are introduced and web-links can be found on various webs of Icelandic and foreign organizations and companies with relation to equality and gender issues.
Main publications and reports
Publications (mainly in Icelandic)
On the Directorate‘s website an extensive collection of publications is available on gender equality issues, both in Iceland as at international level. The material is issued by the Directorate as well as other sources, both domestic and foreign. These include reports with not the least reference to the arctic area or parts thereof, such as a report on a study of welfare, relevant for young West-Nordic women, as well as a report on the different impacts of climate change on the genders.
The Directorate of Equality in social media
Name: Katrín Björg Ríkarðsdóttir
Job title: Director
E-mail: katrin [AT] jafnretti [DOT] is
Name: Úlfhildur Jóna Þórarinsdóttir
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Live Music Review: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Architecture in Helsinki, Takka Takka
They could’ve named this show “The Bands With Unnecessary Names” Tour ’06. New York-cum-Philly “indie” success story Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Australia’s Architecture in Helsinki, with Brooklyn-based Takka Takka opening took Chicago by storm early this October before actual weather took Chicago by, well, storm.
Venue? One of my faves.
Ticket price? A bit exorbitant.
Playing a two-night stint? Er, probably not a brilliant business plan.
Tickets were a-plentiful at the box office as the show was going on. Small, apologetic girls were selling their tickets for under face value on Sheffield. “I just don’t want to go anymore,” she explained. Fair enough. Maybe she had a Yom Kippur hangover. Does that exist? Well, if not, it was a crappy Tuesday in general.
Takka Takka got things going off to a… start, I guess. Simple, sweet-sounding tunes, pleasing, catchy, but not incredibly anything. Their studio tracks sound tight, but the pop charm that they exude on-record didn’t come off so well live. Nevertheless, a band to keep your eye on when they come through town again next month, playing at one of my fav venues in the city.
The headliner of the show, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, returned fairly recently from their sold-out show at The Metro earlier this year, ennui intact and ever-growing. The stage lighting creeped me out, but I’m always pleasantly surprised that lead singer Alec Ounsworth’s nasally voice isn’t nearly as obnoxious live as it is on the album. Let’s get this out of the way: A.O.’s voice sounds like David Byrne. I’m sorry if this angers people. There’s nothing wrong with sounding like David Byrne. Ounsworth insists otherwise. That’s okay, I’ve heard my voice on tape and it sounds weird too — all hoarse and occasionally lispy.
Annnnycrap, the hits were played. Oh, were they ever played. The highlight being an extended loopy keyboard and guitar jangle intro that jumped excitedly into “Is This Love?” with drummer Sean Greenhalgh tight on the beat. CYHSY speckled their show with some new material that keeps their “sound” but stretches the band’s legs a bit. I made a mental note to call a song “Krautrock Satan”, but I’ve since learned the song is called “Satan Said Dance.” A pretty catchy tune with one exception: The band’s pre-planned crowd-participation in which we were expected to chant “SATAN! SATAN!” back at them during the chorus. Neh. Problem is, 1.) not everyone (me) had heard this song before and 2.) I’d rather not chant “Satan” in general… that’s just me.
Elsewhere in the set, between-song downtime seemed a bit excessive, and I also took issue with a torturously long applause for an encore, in which most had given up and started talking to other concert goers while patting their hands together. (I learned that the man with the hoodie-inside-sportcoat combo next to me “knows you girls from somewhere… maybe Bank of America?”). Regardless, ’twas a good set. You can’t deny CLYSY propensity for catchy hooks, their tireless work-ethic and self-promotional savvy. The young band sounded fresh and confident–a great sign for a group that’s been touring incessantly.
Sandwiched between the two NY rock bands were the delightful Architecture in Helsinki. The eclectic group dressed the part–six members (an abridged touring lineup) took the stage looking like a mishmash of high school sterotypes… spaz, jock, hippie, Cure fan, etc, etc. Shirking the deliberately childish sounds of their first release, Fingers Crossed, AiH’s entire set was blissful, endearing and downright danceable (fittingly, as an In Case We Die LP “remix” album is in the works).
Swapping vocal duties and instruments between nearly every song, the band bounced through newer material and brand-new material, smooshing genres and song structures as they went. The abrupt endings and mid-song tempo changes which make their albums a peculiar experience created an exhilarating live experience–keeping the audience guessing… and clapping… and jumping around a bit.
The extended segue into a funk-friendly “Do the Whirlwind” got people bouncing, while the delightfully quirky Kellie Sutherland (right) stole the show belting out her vocals on “Wishbone” – the hap-hap-happiest pop gem you may ever hear.
Clad in a well-loved Ryne Sandberg jersey (a move Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch has pulled in Chicago before), singer Cameron Bird delivered his so-called “love ballad from the Outback,” “Maybe You Can Owe Me” with the equal parts whimsy and sincerity.
But before it could get too cute Bird got back to groovin’–hitting the drum machine and rocking out with such abandon that the instrument was knocked hard to the floor. Overall, the new stuff sounds great, one sounding an awful lot like Rusted Root (ha, in a good way) and the whole set giving off a exuberant twee-meets-Stop Making Sense rumpus.
Free Mp3’s:
Takka Takka – “Coco On The Corner”
Architecture in Helsinki – “Do The Whirlwind (Metronomy Mix)”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood”
(Photos by Pegs. Thanks Pegs.)
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“Receiving loud and clear”
Both my parents loved words and so do I.
This doesn’t mean that I spend my life trying to use three syllables where two would do but it does mean that I love language, the variations, subtlety and precision, the often very funny coarseness, the shape and colour of the whole thing, where words come from..
“Talk’s cheap” I hear somebody sniff.
That doesn’t mean it is without value. And a lot of the time it’s all we’ve got.
When you look at the current news (preferably holding a strong drink) you realise that a lot of the mess is because people literally don’t understand each other. How many people in industry, commerce, media or politics speak Arabic or Russian – let alone Ukrainian?
I remember a young man with both parents language teachers (French and Spanish), who were taken aback when he wanted to go into the police because he had inherited their flair and they foresaw security for him in academe. I suggested he split the difference. Theoretically he’d have real value to the police if he had language aptitudes and qualifications. Go to university and get the degree, then it’s your turn to choose.
I am fascinated with how language modifies and changes, and down the years have collected odd articles into my modest archive, often very funny for example, like American restaurant jargon, or more sinisterly the language of war, designed to blind people to what really happens. I once met a man who in telling a story referred to a “wet operation” and I swallowed hard when I realised what he meant. Blood spilt.
Over the last 48 hours, first one and then the other of the newspapers I read daily has offered me stuff on language, one direct and the other applied, one funnier, the other cleverer – but both fascinating.
Robert Hutton is a journalist and his book is cryptic and savage, about what he calls the art of uncommunication (I used to call it Westminsterspeak).
Robert Cialdini is a psychologist who has been writing about human behaviour in an apparently accessible and practical way since his first book Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion in 1984. (Of course they are both called Robert – it’s from the Old German meaning “fame bright”) Details of their current offerings are at the end.
What won me to Robert Hutton was “We must have lunch” which he says means,
“We won’t have lunch. Even if we find ourselves in the same restaurant, I’ll be at my own table.” Whatever happened to just shaking hands and saying goodbye?
Modern methods of communication that supposed to make things happen quicker but they risk becoming just one more layer of stuff to be negotiated before you get the reaction you suspected you were going to get anyway.
Robert Cialdini tells you how to “tweak” your emails to get a response – boy am I happy to hear this since there are several of us writing, writing, writing into a cyber silence which is the exercise of petty power.
He says include some small personal detail and people find it easier to respond.
I want Robert Hutton and Robert Cialdini to teach me how to handle the accursed energy companies, one of whom in spite of an expensively colour printed brochure alleging a agreement with me and linkage to Age UK, has just kicked me into touch again because it acts without communication. It has my bank account details for
direct debit so it can put in or withdraw at whim. That’s enough to keep you awake at night. And however alluring the agreement (waste of paper and print) there is this little sentence about “being subject to alteration” which effectively means they do what they want and we firefight in the rear. No email address, all to be done over the telephone with the desperate for a job and brainwashed.
Suggestions, gentlemen?
Would They Lie To You? How to spin friends and influence people by
Robert Hutton published by Elliott & Thompson £9.99
The Small B!g: Small changes that spark big influence by
Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini
Published by Profile Books £11.99
Recently a friend put her daughter into university in New York where the sensible younger woman asked her mother if she thought there was anything else she could do to keep herself safe. (Security measures in place are impressive.)
The daughter is a freshman so they went to meet the head of campus security who told her “Take your earplugs out of your ears when you go out,
Don’t check your phone six times down every block.
Be aware of what’s around you.
You’re safer that way.”
Makes you want to cheer and send him roses. `
I wonder how many listen?
2 responses to ““Receiving loud and clear””
Carol | November 24, 2015 at 22:12 | Reply
They tell you what they think you want to hear and think we’re stupid enough to believe it. Lucky there’s sensible working people like that gentleman.
Carol | December 3, 2015 at 21:27 | Reply
Nice to see somebody who has common sense, that’s an important quality.
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Kamiński Bogumił (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), Jakubczyk Michał (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
On the Properties of Stochastic Multiple-Criteria Comparison Methods in Health Technology Assessment
Multiple Criteria Decision Making / University of Economics in Katowice, 2010, vol. 5, s. 121-133, rys., tab., bibliogr. 20 poz.
Technologia medyczna, Podejmowanie decyzji w warunkach niepewności, Analiza kosztów i korzyści (AKK)
Medical technology, Decision making under uncertainty, Cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
summ., Korespondencja z redakcją: numeracja wpisana za zgodą redakcji (wynika z ciągłości wydawniczej serii MCDM) - brak numeracji na stronie tytułowej
To ensure the optimal usage of scarce resources in the assessment of health technologies two criteria are used: costs and effectiveness of available options. For each treatment the evaluations of these criteria are obtained from clinical trials, cost and utility studies and therefore are given as random variables. In our research we compare the decision theoretic properties of expected net benefit, cost-effectiveness acceptability curve and expected value of perfect information methods of choosing the optimal treatment.(original abstract)
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Briggs A.H., Sculpher M.J., Claxton K.: Decision Modeling for Health Economic Evaluation. Oxford University Press, New York 2006.
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Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. Eds. M.R. Gold, J.E. Siegel, L.B. Russel, M.C. Weinstein. Oxford University Press 1996.
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Your Quote of the Day: Murphy on Trumptastic Genius
“Trump is a genius at stepping on his own messaging, and I don’t think there’s a force on Earth, at least without heavy weaponry, that can ever separate Trump from his ability to tweet. I think everybody in that campaign is trying to pry the smartphone away from him, and it’ll never happen.”
―Mike Murphy, 4 October 2016
Image note: Detail of photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters.
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A Note re: Kaine vs. Pence
This is important:
In one important area, Pence has the advantage of being perceived as a mainstream pol. Politico published a piece yesterday that characterized tonight’s vice presidential debate as “Battle of the Normals,” and a “sane moment” in a campaign cycle that’s often seemed insane.
On a certain level, I can appreciate where analysis like this is coming from. As a matter of tone and temperament, Mike Pence is hardly scary: the governor is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken Midwesterner. Unlike the man at the top of the GOP ticket, no one would ever expect Pence to start tweeting at 3 a.m. about his disgust for a beauty-pageant contestant and encourage Americans to seek out a “sex tape.”
But to shift one’s focus from tone to policy is to see one of the most extremist politicians to seek national office in over a generation.
Steve Benen is not wrong. This has been a factor worth considering in recent years, and even more so this cycle. What counts as centrist or mainstream is, in American politics, a roving range. The msnbc blogger and producer continues:
About four years ago, Nate Silver published an interesting analysis of Paul Ryan, who’d just been named to Mitt Romney’s ticket. Nate wrote at the time, “Various statistical measures of Mr. Ryan peg him as being quite conservative. Based on his Congressional voting record, for instance, the statistical system DW-Nominate evaluates him as being roughly as conservative as Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. By this measure, in fact, which rates members of the House and Senate throughout different time periods on a common ideology scale, Mr. Ryan is the most conservative Republican member of Congress to be picked for the vice-presidential slot since at least 1900.”
Nate added a chart, highlighting the fact that Ryan’s record put him slightly to the right of Dick Cheney, who was slightly to the right of Dan Quayle.
There are curious circumstances, now and again, in which the GOP hardliners leave me standing shoulder to shoulder with Republicans I generally wouldn’t get along with. George W. Bush on China, and suddenly I’m commiserating with Pat Buchanan? What was it, Jade Helm? How do Rick Perry and I land on the same side? I can tell you, though, that when Lindsey Graham is bagging points off John Kasich being described as a “moderate”, well, at least we have that much in common.
We revisit the question for Mike Pence. Benen notes the Indiana governor also has a record in Congress:
In the 107th Congress (Pence’s first, covering 2001 and 2002), for example, out of 435 members of the U.S. House, Pence ranked #428―meaning that 427 members were to his left, putting the Hoosier on the far-right-wing fringe. The results were roughly the same in the 108th Congress and the 109th.
By the 110th Congress, Pence was at #432, putting him to the right of nearly everyone in the chamber. The results were roughly the same in the 111th Congress and the 112th.
Let’s put this another way: during his congressional career, Pence wasn’t just more conservative than Paul Ryan. His voting record also put him to the right of Michele Bachmann, Todd Akin, Steve King, and even Louie Gohmert. That’s not an exaggeration. Bachmann, Akin, King, and Gohmert all had voting records less extreme than Mike Pence.
The problem is the gap between perceptions of Mike Pence and his actual record. To use Politico’s phrasing, the Hoosier is seen as “normal” and “conventional.” But on a substantive level, we’re talking about a politician whose claim to fame is an anti-LGBT law that did real harm to his state. Pence is a climate denier. He rejects the idea that cigarettes are deadly. He doesn’t believe in evolutionary biology, but he does support “conversion therapy.”
There was an embarrassing episode having to do with alleged Iraqi WMDs; something about privatizing Social Security not being conservative enough; something about government shutdowns; oh, right, and some manner of conspiracy theory about Disney film and women in the military.
Unfortunately, that last isn’t a joke.
This is the problem: If Gov. Mike Pence is “normal”, then we might pause to consider how we define normalcy.
Image note: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence appears on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace, 22 February 2015. Guest host John Roberts interviewed Mr. Pence regarding various issues, including his status as a 2016 GOP dark horse and the Hoosier State’s infamous “religious freedom” bill intended to empower discrimination. (Image credit: FOX News)
Benen, Steve. “Mike Pence saw secret propaganda in Disney film”. 18 July 2016.
—————. “Pence becomes the most far-right running mate in modern history”. msnbc. 15 July 2016.
—————. “To see Mike Pence as ‘normal’ is to grade on a generous curve”. msnbc. 4 October 2016.
Kaczynski, Andrew. “Mike Pence Argued In Op-Ed That Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Was Liberal Propaganda”. BuzzFeed. 17 July 2016.
Salter, Lamar. “‘My party has gone bats— crazy’: Lindsey Graham jokes about killing Ted Cruz and bashes the remaining GOP candidates”. Business Insider. 26 February 2016.
Silver, Nate. “A Risky Rationale Behind Romney’s Choice of Ryan”. FiveThirtyEight. 11 August 2012.
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A Note on Narrative (Gregariously Pensive)
Setting aside the extraordinarily stupid headline … okay, look, Trip Gabriel explains::
The meeting of Mr. Pence, a Republican, and Mr. Kaine, a Democrat, two pensive and little-known nominees, might be the least anticipated vice-presidential debate in 40 years.
Pensive? I’m sorry, but, really?
When Sen. Kaine was named the Democratic running mate, “gregarious” is a word that went around quite a bit. And while the two words are not specifically listed as antonymous, the one includes synonyms like affable, convivial, and outgoing, while the other matches up with absorbed, wistful, and withdrawn.
How about a show of hands among the press: How many of you just say or write whatever because the word sounds sexy or artistic or, you know, like, whatever?
This is a fun challenge for the day: Craft a narrative sentence properly describing someone as “gregariously pensive”.
Image notes Top ― Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Florida International University in Miami, Saturday, 23 July 2016. (Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP Photo) Right ― Indiana Governor Mike Pence speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland on February 27, 2015. (Photo: Gate Skidmore)
Gabriel, Trip. “After Trump-Clinton, Vice-Presidential Debate Isn’t Exactly ‘the Return of Elvis'”. The New York Times. 1 October 2016.
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A Post About Tim Kaine (Kinda Sorta)
In this strangest of electoral seasons it’s almost as if Tim Kaine … well, it’s not quite like he doesn’t exist, but, you know, when the coverage is like Max Knoblauch’s “let’s make up some random stupid stuff so we have an excuse to post something about Tim Kaine” fluffenkrust, what, really can we say? Part of Sen. Kaine’s role is to be not quite invisible.
Still, though, what passes for comedy humor content at Mashable somehow manages to exceed The Hill by some manner of leagues what happens when the reputable Beltway watchers lend column space to the likes of Dan Schneider and Larry Hart:
Tim Kaine’s 0% ACU rating ranks him the most extreme liberal in all of Congress, but the bigger difference between Kaine and his liberal allies is not in their political philosophy. The more significant difference is that the others can be trusted to mean what they say; the same cannot be said of Tim Kaine. He’s the perfect running mate for Hillary Clinton.
At best, the terrible twosome from the American Conservative Union might make some Bernie backers feel a bit better about bucking up to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, but for anyone else the only thing wrong with that article is everything.
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The Hook (Hillary Under the Sun)
And there is the hook:
Sen. Timothy M. Kaine of Virginia and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack remain two of the leading contenders for Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential pick, but Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is also under active consideration, according to a Democrat with knowledge of the process.
Booker, a freshman senator and former mayor of Newark, has drawn relatively little attention throughout Clinton’s vice-presidential selection process but remains a serious prospect. He was among the roughly half-dozen potential running mates who met with Clinton at her home in Washington on Friday, a fact first reported Thursday by Politico.
(Wagner and Gearan)
Please let this be the hook.
On Sen. Booker (D-NJ): It is easy enough to say if not Warren then Booker. But neither is Mr. Booker a second choice for lack of better. Nor, in that context, should we view Sen. Kaine (D-VA) or Sec. Vilsack (D-IA) so poorly. But in the case of the latter, Hillary Clinton can at least perceive the need for someone less institutionally ensconced than either of these stalwart political résumés offer the powerful left-flank movement asserting policy influence, a bloc whose votes and continued support she needs.
Sen. Warren (D-MA) seems the obvious choice, but truth told there is a fine argument for what she can do from the Senate, but this also presumes enough pressure on Democratic leadership in the Senate to buck future Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (NY) and Whip Richard Durbin (IL). It’s a tough proposition, but the Senate Democrats under Elizabeth Warren and Patty Murray (WA) or Amy Klobuchar (MN) would be a powerful majority caucus; as a minority, it seems an easy suggestion that they would be more effective than what Mr. Reid (NV) has managed in the face of Republican intransigence. It’s all speculation, though. The bottom line is determined by Hillary Clinton, this time; she can perceive the need, but how will she address and reconcile it?
Elevating Sen. Booker as her running mate is one of the things she can do. And should anyone find cause to doubt we are getting civil rights president out of this, selecting Mr. Booker would put that question to rest.
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Speculation on Murmur and Buzz (HRC Horizon Remix)
And yet this is all about me. Should I apologize, or can we just admit that’s an inherent aspect of this valence of the blogosphere?
Because the truth is that the great “candidate” post is something you always want to get around to but somehow gets put off because any starting point leads to seemingly daunting prospects.. Whether it’s Ezra Klein’s article about how, “It’s time to admit Hillary Clinton is an extraordinarily talented politician”―and it’s a very good article, but still you want to argue about what do you mean “it’s time”?―or perhaps reminding my Sanders-supporting neighbors why he’s endorsing Hillary Clinton, it’s actually a really big pitch; there’s a lot going on.
But the post need not be some grandiose presentation; nor is that a repudiation of the basic idea of pitching the campaign.
Let’s try it this way: Steve Benen considers the murmur and buzz around Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential shortlist, mainly reports that the leading contenders are Tom Vilsack, presently Secretary of Agriculture and formerly governor of Iowa; and Tim Kaine, presently the junior U.S. Senator from Virginia, previously serving as that state’s governor, and in between managing an overlapping gig as chairman of the Democratic National Committee:
Clinton seemed to tilt her hand a bit on Monday during an interview with Charlie Rose, which included the presumptive Democratic nominee emphasizing “experience” as the key factor. “I am afflicted with the responsibility gene,” she added.
The interview turned into a sort of word-association game. Asked about Kaine and his self-professed “boring” personality, Clinton said, “And I love that about him. I mean, he’s never lost an election. He was a world-class mayor, governor and senator, and is one of the most highly respected senators I know.”
Asked about Hickenlooper, Clinton said, “First class.” Asked about Warren, she added, “Amazing. I mean, what she has done in relatively few years to put the agenda of inequality front and center is something that I think we should all be grateful for.”
Sanders supporters, of course, will be disappointed; I would in turn suggest that hope is not yet lost. While it is true that on this occasion I can read the conventional wisdom as well as any other, it is similarly true that this is a year in which I presume the conventional wisdom unstable. To wit, while it is unlikely, Hillary Clinton is perfectly capable of turning the screw in order to mean the manner, relative dimension, and quality of experience, thus turning to the essential newcomer, Elizabeth Warren.
Yeah, it could happen.
(cough!)
(ahem!)
But there is a hidden gem, there.
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Unsurprising Cowardice (Leadership)
In February, Republicans said no to an Authorization for Use of Military Force specifically crafted to address Daa’ish because it wasn’t a big enough war. And while Republican presidential candidates might be lining up to take it out on Syrian refugees and Muslims both at home and around the world, the one thing they won’t do, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is grant an Authorization for Use of Military Force against Daa’ish.
“The president obviously feels he has the authority now to do what he’s doing,” McConnell said. “And the discussions with Democrats on AUMF make it clear that the only kind of AUMF they would support is one that would include such micromanagement of the military exercise as how many troops you could have, how long they could stay, and all of this.
“I would not want to saddle the next president with a prescriptive AUMF. We’re going to have a new president a year from now,” McConnell continued. “He or she may have a different view about the way to deal with ISIS and that part of the world. I don’t think we ought to be passing an AUMF as the president exits the stage when he already thinks he has the authority to do what he’s willing to do now.”
(Lesniewski)
This is a weird back and forth; as near as anyone can tell, the Obama administration is operating in the Levantine Theatre under the auspices of the same post-9/11 AUMF that saw President Bush invade Iraq. We are, essentially, living in the time of perpetual warfare authorized fourteen years ago.
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Life advice #1: Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
12 January 2013 by Amy Hansford
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1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
Since the start of December, I have been learning the words, songs, dances and blocking to play Aladdin in the Griffin Players‘ pop up panto, a one off day of shows for the families of a local company. The chap who played him in the main family panto wasn’t available on the planned show date and I was delighted to be asked to step in.
It was great. I’ve never played a lead in a panto. I’ve played the comedy lead over and over, which I adore. But the romantic lead? I’ve neither the look or the grace for it. But somehow, we made it work, and rehearsals were brilliant. Full of laughs and I finally got to sing a solo, something unheard of since the days of Anything Goes (2007?).
The night before the panto I was struck down with the norovirus. When it hit me at 5am that I wouldn’t be able to do the show despite all the hard work, I was absolutely gutted. Gutted for letting down the cast, gutted for giving the director a horrid task the morning of the show, and gutted to have had the opportunity taken away from me.
A knight in shining armour made it to the venue with 15 minutes to spare before the first show and played Aladdin with script in hand to an amazed audience and a grateful cast. The shows went down brilliantly – the Griffins have been asked back next year – and the day was saved. Meanwhile, I was – well, you know – for the next three days.
So that’s the “life isn’t fair” bit. But it’s still good.
It gave me an enforced rest break in these months of rehearsals/visits/work/being a mummy. As a friend pointed out, while it was cruel to have put in all that work and then fall ill, it gave me a chance to remember what it’s like to be on a stage. To sing. To learn a dance routine. It stopped me from going too rusty. It reminded me how much fun it is to be part of a cast family again.
And you know what? It’s still good.
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Finding Answers in the Cloud: MIT’s Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel Re-design
by AWS Public Sector Blog Team | on 13 MAR 2019 | in Education, Public Sector | Permalink | Share
A post by Scott Eberhardt, Principlal Solutions Architect, HPC, Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, UK Branch
MIT is replacing the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel (WBWT) with a new, state-of-the-art facility. And they’re relying on AWS to do it. Post-refresh, the WBWT, first commissioned in 1938, will be the largest and most advanced wind tunnel to reside in a U.S. academic setting. But first, it helps to understand why the re-design is happening in the first place.
Figure 1: Original Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel at MIT (external view).
The Design Flaw
The current structure is a classic, single-return design (see Figure 2). It is low speed (meaning wind whips below the transonic and supersonic flight regimes) but the tunnel can accommodate winds in excess of 200 MPH. The team at MIT recently uncovered a technical design flaw that was optimizing the turning vanes in the outside bottom corner of the tunnel.
Why this matters: an improper design can result in inefficient boundary layer separation. However, re-designing the turning vanes to reduce or eliminate this inefficiency required massive simulations.
New Design, New Requirements
To remedy the issue, the university built advanced turning vanes, or screen vanes, to improve the structure’s efficiency. Still, the physics of flow separation in the presence of pressure changes is complex. It requires sophisticated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools to simulate. With MIT researcher Arthur Huang’s experience running simulations at NASA Ames on their Pleaides supercomputer, this soon became the tool of choice for the WBWT. However, single solutions took five days to return results, and much of that time was spent waiting in queues. A faster process was required to meet the design and construction schedule for the new WBWT design.
Figure 2: New Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel (courtesy of MIT).
Here’s Where AWS Comes in
MIT could provide 600 processing cores in their own lab. However, this was inadequate to meet their needs and would have excluded other researchers from the cluster while design simulations were running. For easy access to 1000 cores and to avoid disrupting workflows, MIT turned to AWS.
The university had the option of running two CFD codes for the design – one a commercial product, ANSYS/FLUENT, the other, their own code, named Solution Adaptive Numerical Simulator (SANS). The latter is still in development. The goal had been to run both codes in parallel and compare results. With SANS being an advanced code with high-memory requirements, the researchers opted for the FLUENT workload to meet their tight deadline.
The run matrix is shown in Table 1 with sample analysis solutions in figures 3 and 4. An upcoming paper[i], written by the MIT team, will be presented at the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) SciTech meeting in January with a thorough technical discussion of the experimental, analytical, and computational models used in the design.
Figure 3: Sample results at turning vanes. (courtesy of MIT).
A Windfall for WBWT
Mr. Huang requested an Ubuntu environment and, using cfncluster, he was able to launch his own 1000 core cluster using C4-8xlarge instances (18 cores, 60GB) and maintain it for as long as necessary. The ability to shut down and re-launch the tool as needed helped minimize costs, as did the option for spot-market pricing. Results for each run could be returned in a day on Mr. Huang’s own, personal cluster – a significant improvement over their homegrown solution.
In the end, MIT was able to move forward with the WBWT re-design, thanks to a faster turn-around time from a dedicated cluster and the benefit of no queues.
Keep an eye out for the opening of the new WBWT in 2020, and congratulations to MIT!
Figure 4: Comparison of experimental and computed outlet velocity ratio (courtesy of MIT).
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Welcome to the Ballwin-Chesterfield, MO Branch of the Association of University Women!
—It is our mission to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
February Branch Meeting
Thursday,February 13, 2020
14088 Clayton Road at Woods Mill Road, 63017
9 a.m. – Social Time & Signups
9:30 a.m. – Business Meeting
10:30 a.m. – Program
11:30 a.m. – Adjourn
SPEAKER: Bryan M. Jack, Associate Professor of Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University,Edwardsville, and editor of Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976–2016 and The Saint Louis African American Community and the Exodusters. His topic: The Gateway to the South: Understanding Missouri as a Southern State,
Dr. Jack’s articles have appeared in The Griot and the Councilor, and in international publications from the British Association of American Studies and American Studies of Turkey. He earned his PhD from Saint Louis University, a master’s degree from the University of Alabama, and a bachelor’s degree from Baker University. He lives in the city of St. Louis.
**Ballwin-Chesterfield board/branch meetings are cancelled when the Parkway or Rockwood school districts have an inclement weather closing. **
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WHEN: Saturday, January 18 (weather date January 25th) 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM
WHERE: Hy Vee Market 25 Conley Rd. Columbia, MO 65201
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All proceeds will go to Dollars for Scholars. Donate your books, puzzles, CD’s, & DVD’s to be sold at January – April meetings. Unsold books will be sold to local used book stores. Last year the Used Book Sale earned over $1,300 thanks to your generosity in donating and buying books. Let’s do it again! You can clean your bookshelves, help a worthy cause, and get some bargains in good books.
Questions? Contact Mary Kay Wolfe
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Guests are ALWAYS welcome! Branch meetings are held, unless otherwise noted, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 14088 Clayton Rd. (at Woods Mill Road), Chesterfield MO 63017, on second Thursdays from September through April, and in July. See notes from our last meeting here.
Our Program Committee does a great job in selecting topics for the meetings that are at once consistent with AAUW’s mission statement, and also captivating for our members.
Directions: From Route 141 & Clayton Road, go east on Clayton 0.3 miles. Turn right into Trinity Lutheran Church. Drive to the rear entrance. Facing the back of the building, enter through the door to the left.
Regular Branch Meeting Schedule Check the calendar for exceptions.
See Branch Program Schedule for 2019-2020
Next Meeting: Thursday, January 9: Educating Isolated Immigrant and Refugee Adults in the St. Louis Community. Speaker: Sarah Paradoski, Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Program.
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Interbranch Council Spring Fling Luncheon –
Save the Date: Saturday, March 28, 2020, 10:30 a.m.−2 p.m., Greenbrier Hills Country Club 12665 Big Bend Blvd. 63122
Menu: Chicken Mushroom Crepes with salad -or- Quiche Florentine with salad (Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options will be available). Coffee, tea, and water included.
The price will be $38 and includes lunch and a narrated pictorial history of the Suffragist movement.
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Schnucks has a new reward program which supports community groups and personal accounts. If you would like to give the credit to Ballwin-Chesterfield, please present your card at the beginning of the transaction. B-C appreciates your donations.
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Front: Co Presidents Marcia & Jean From Left: Marian, Marcia W.,. Mersine, Sandy, Joyce, Sage, Barb, Sandra
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Our Mission Statement: AAUW advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
The Ballwin-Chesterfield Branch is a nationally recognized major contributor to the AAUW Fund.
Ballwin-Chesterfield has funded two Research and Projects Grants, and awards scholarships to local mature women returning to their undergraduate degree programs after time away from school. Learn more about our branch, which was founded in 1981. Read about our branch’s history here.
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American Association of University Women (AAUW) is a nationwide network of more than 170,000 members and donors, 1,000 branches, and 800 college/university institution partners. For 135 years, AAUW members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day — educational, social, economic, and political. Our commitment to our mission is reflected in all aspects of our work.
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What is my fate?
In effect, embryogenesis boils down to the fate of cells – making sure a nose cell turns into a nose cell where a nose should be
The fate of cells is governed by the genes that are active within them. If nose-cell genes are active in a cell, its fate is sealed. But earlier on in its existence, it might not have been so committed; it might have had the option of being a nose cell or a cheek cell. At some point it was tipped down a pathway that led to the nose and there was no way back.
Even earlier on, when it left the neural crest, it had more options still. In fact, it was a stem cell – able to form a range of different cell types. But it was not pluripotent (able to turn into any kind of cell type). (See our Building a face article for more on the role of the neural crest.)
So cells end up specialising. Gradually, as their gene programmes change, their options become more and more limited until they take on their final differentiated form. It’s a bit like training for a job: when someone leaves school or university, there are many possible career routes open. After a period of training, a pilot cannot do what a teacher does (or vice versa).
So could this process of differentiation be reversed – the clock rolled back so that the cell regains its flexibility? This reprogramming could create stem cells able to replenish cells lost due to disease or injury. The ultimate goal would be to wind the cell all the way back to a state in which it was pluripotent.
That remains a dream – though one that could become a reality. Researchers have made great progress recently in reprogramming adult cells. Some of the key genes needed to make a cell pluripotent are now known – and, remarkably, it only takes a handful to be active for a cell to have a whole world of developmental opportunities opened up to it. Medically, this has enormous potential, as a way of generating new cells to replace those that have been lost through disease or injury.
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A culture of mouse embryonic stem cells induced to differentiate into multiple cell types after treatment with retinoic acid.
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Illinois Teens Yell to ‘Bring Back Slavery’ and ‘Let’s Whip Them ‘N—–s’ In Shockingly Racist Snapchat Video
Tanasia Kenney
Two young women from Illinois filmed themselves screaming how much they “hate n—–s” and calling for the return of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, one of them is out of a job.
Facebook user Gabbi Goldsborough reshared the offensive video, in which the teens are heard making several racist remarks. Goldsborough identifies the girls in the clip as students Macy Castleman and Jayde Landers.
The two young woman, identified as Macy Castleman and Jayde Landers, were filmed making several racist remarks against African-Americans. (Gabbi Goldsborough / Facebook video screenshot)
“I love how people sit around & act like racism isn’t still a thing,” she wrote. “U have a lot of explaining to do. you can say it’s an inside joke. or think it’s funny. but it’s not.”
The 12-second clip, posted on Snapchat, begins with one of the girls ranting about how Black people “smell and they don’t work — so we should bring back slavery and whip those n—–s!” At one point, the young women chant in unison “I hate n—–s,” with one of them shouting to “bring back the KKK.”
With a finger over her lips, her friend then whispers: “But some people like Black people sometimes.”
Goldsborough confronted Castleman over the offending video and posted screenshots of their text exchange online. In them, Castleman claimed the footage is from three years ago. According to the timestamp, however, the video was uploaded August 9, although it’s possible the video is indeed old and was only recently shared on the social media platform.
“If I’m being completely honest, I don’t remember that at all,” Castleman told Goldsborough, adding: “I have black people in my family. Clearly don’t feel that way, so you can chill. Also it was an inside joke with my best friend. But feel however you want about it.”
Goldsborough wasn’t buying it and noted that the racist clip was clearly posted 11 hours ago, “so 3 years ago my ass.”
“If you had black people in your family I know for a fact they would not appreciate to hear that come out of your mouth now would they? 🤔,” she continued on Facebook. “And honestly i don’t care when you said it. The n- word still came out of your mouth and there’s no excuse. period.”
According to Heavy, one of the young women is a former student of Auburn Community Unit School District #10 in Auburn. The school addressed the clip in a statement posted on its website Monday, in which it condemned the “heinous” comments.
“[CUSD] Administration immediately commenced a thorough investigation,” officials said. “This process was made more difficult than usual because we were made aware of the video on a Saturday afternoon while school is still on summer break.”
The district determined the video is actually from October 2017, and said that “the individual making the racially charged comments is no longer a student in our District.”
The video also drew a response from Springfield’s Lincoln Land Community College, where Castleman reportedly once attended. A spokesperson for the college didn’t refer to Castleman by name but confirmed to Yahoo Lifestyle “the individual you mention isn’t a currently enrolled student at Lincoln Land Community College” and left LLCC before the video surfaced.
Moreover, one of the young women was reportedly employed by a senior living community in Springfield but has since lost her job.
In a Facebook post, Concordia Village said it addressed the situation with the staffer in question and that they’re “no longer employed by Concordia Village or Lutheran Senior Services.”
Watch more in the video below.
i love how people sit around & act like racism isn’t still a thing. macy castleman u have a lot of explaining to do. ps: all of my black friends and i have jobs.
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Country Roads Leading Home
1, 2, 3, 4 just a bit of Homestead Rapport.
Searching in the field for an ancestral homestead or legal land location requires a knowledge of meridians, four meridians. Four? you say, yes, historically genealogists applying themselves to Saskatchewan, Canada research may indeed, need to know about four meridians.
A homestead application form from the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan or a certificate of land patent from the Canadian Library and Archives LAC would both have the legal land location of the pioneer homestead location showing the quarter, the section, township, range and meridian. These are survey notations, and the numbers for township, range and meridian can be found on Rural Municipality maps, and historic maps of the province. Land was also awarded as Métis scrip, and soldier settlement awards, however if this land location proved to be some distance from their family or prior residence it may have been sold. Land not suitable for agricultural development may have been abandoned, or farmers may have sought employment in an urban centre during the dirty thirties. Not all legal land locations became ancestral homes, indeed, however there are primary source documents for genealogy research which may prove useful even if the land were abandoned for whatever reason, or if the land was sold.
The Century Family Farm Award Program inaugurated 1981 by Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food for the 75th provincial anniversary (1980) to honour Saskatchewan’s farm families. Between 2007-2014 over 3,600 families received the award. “Farm and ranch families have played a significant role throughout our province’s history,” Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud said. “These Century Farm Family Award recipients continue to build on the traditions of their ancestors, bring new ideas and innovation to agriculture, and will be an essential part of Saskatchewan’s future.”source In 2010, 635 , over 300 (2007), over 350 (2013) and 85 families in 2016 were honoured by the Information Services Corporation (ISC) Century Farm Award. “The family farm has always been the backbone of Saskatchewan’s economy and has helped shape the rural traditions of our province,” Minister responsible for ISC June Draude said. “Homesteaders had a strong work ethic and today’s farm families have that same strength and character. I congratulate all recipients for reaching the centenary milestone.” source
The Rural Municipalities (RM) only occur in the southern portion of the province, the prairie, grasslands and aspen parkland eco-systems. The RMs occur where there is rural settlement upon. Agricultural land was surveyed during the Dominion Land Survey for homesteads. The RMs indicated on the map below have changed since their inception in the early 1900s. Those RMs larger than 18 square miles have subsumed adjacent RMs if the population was scarce, or to allow for uban centre expansion, &c. The Northern Municipality refers to the northern province ~ the Canadian shield, tundra, and boreal forest area~ an area not surveyed under the Dominion Land Survey system. Urban municipalities are towns, cities, hamlets with a separate civic government.
Province of Saskatchewan, Canada map after 1905 Adapted from Author Hwy43
The first task is to determine the ancestral homestead or quarter section. This may be written on the birth certificate, in the census, upon the homestead application form or Western Land Grant Certificate (1870-1930).
For researching a very common surname, it may be beneficial to delimit the search by meridian of the neighbouring post office, rail siding, town or village to the ancestral farm. Use the Geographical Names of Canada, an historical map index, the post office database at LAC, Atlas of Saskatchewan by the University of Saskatchewan, or Geographic Names of Saskatchewan book by Bill Barry to find the legal land location of the nearby locality to narrow the search.
For the sake of example, perhaps the research results came up with these legal land locations from the Battle of Iwuy soldier research. Randomly selecting: Belt, John Henry Army 73427 Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment) “A” Coy. 28th Bn. Residence “Little Red River Reserve”, Alingly, SK SE-17-51-27-W2, Enlistment, Prince Albert, SK, Died Thun-Saint-Martin. Military Medal Born: February 21, 1893 Darlington, England Son of Robert and Elizabeth Belt, of Alingly, Saskatchewan. The following land locations may not be relevant, and obtaining the source homestead document and conducting further comparison to oral history, and other documents are required for confirmation.
Belt, John Henry SE 28 51 27 W2
Belt, Robert NW 28 51 27 W2
Belt, Elizabeth SE 28 51 27 W2
Belt, James Victor SW 27 51 27 W2
Belt, William Thomas SW, 28 51 27 W2
This study will focus on the above record for a Belt, John Henry Sout east quarter of section 28 township 51 range 27 West of the 2nd meridian.
Township can be abbreviated T, Tsp or Twp.
Range may be abbreviated R, or Rge.
Alingly, Saskatchewan at SE 17-51-27 W2 on the map is a nearby locale to SE 28-51-27 W2. The farm is within an acceptable distance to drive a horse and cart into town. Further to this, the surnames might also found on census, and in local history books. Homesteaders on application needed to prove up their land. The provincial archives online listings also indicate military personnel who received Soldier Settlement Grants. Homesteaders could cancel their application if they found the land unsuitable, if they procured occupation in town, &c. Soldier Settlement Grants, Scrip, and those homesteads which were successfully proved up, could be sold in private transactions. Whenever one ancestor is found in the listing, pay attention to those of the same surname farming nearby, – they be cousins, brothers, uncles, &c Family farmed together to helping each other in homestead duties, at seeding times and harvest.
So to locate the legal land location, look at an historical map or a Rural Municipality map, and find Alingly in this case. This is where the meridians come in handy. A meridian seeks to have congruency with the Geographic Coordinate System of latitude and longitude. Because the earth is a sphere, correction lines are built into the Dominion Lane Survey.
The first meridian is located in Manitoba and farms west and east of the “first” or “prime” meridian are those, of course in the province of Manitoba. Additionally Ranges 28, 29, 30 and 31 west of the first meridian are located in southern portion of the province of Saskatchewan as there is some overlap where the border comes across the meridian. There is an addendum here, perhaps the primary source document with the legal land location was dated 1870-1905, then the ancestor was indeed a resident of the North West Territories. To determine which provisional district of the NWT, the farm may have resided in, compare to the township and range numbers here.
1900 Map of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
(note the border north and west of the province of Manitoba does not correlate at all with the 1905 eastern border of Saskatchewan which is nearly true to the second meridian)
The second meridian is near the eastern limits of the province of Saskatchewan, and the entirety of homesteads west of the “second” meridian are all in the province of Saskatchewan.
The third meridian arrives next, and again, the entirety of homesteads west of the “second” meridian are all in the province of Saskatchewan.
The fourth meridian extends in conjunction with the Alberta and Saskatchewan border which was created in 1905. Before this time, land belonged to the North West Territories. The provisional districts of Assiniboia in the south, provisional district of Saskatchewan centrally located, and provisional district of Athabasca to the north had different boundaries not congruent with the fourth meridian. If the pioneer document was dated 1870-1905, then the homestead started up in the North West Territories. Check with the township and range numbers here to see which provisional district of the NWT the homestead may have fallen into.
1894 North West Territories Map showing Provisional Districts
(note the border west of the Assiniboia and Saskatchewan provisional districts does not correlate with the fourth meridian)
Once the meridian is located on the map, travel west to locate the range number, and also ascend north along the listing of township numbers. For John Henry Belt go north to township 51, and go west of the second meridian to range 27. This locates the 6 mile by 6 mile township in which he farmed. If the map shows quarter sections then also find section 28 which is 1 mile by 1 mile, and know that John Henry Belt farmed the 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile quarter in the south east of this section. If the map chosen does not show sections, then realize that the township is divided into sections as shown here on the chart.
As the farm is at SE 28-51-27 W2 and Alingly is at SE 17-51-27 W2 it is seen that as the townships are divided into sections that the farm section number being 28, and the town being 17 does make the farm section about 1-1/2 miles north of Alingly and 1/2 miles to the west. Ordering a rural municipality (RM) map from the RM office indicates where contemporary highways are situated in relation to legal land locations. historical maps mostly indicate the rail system, so they would indicate where the farm was in relation to the rail lines.
To drive to the ancestral homestead, now convert the legal land location into Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates using a handy online converter, and use this method to find the centre of the 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile quarter where this pioneer had farmed.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. ~ John Denver
Once driving in Saskatchewan, realize that Canadians have adopted the metric system in 1970, and distances and mileage is by kilometers and kilometer/hour. Without a GPS system the ancestral homestead will need to be found measuring miles traveled along the highway or grid road. A very quick way to get a good approximation and convert kilometers to miles is to multiply by 6 and move the decimal to the left one. For instance, a traffic sign posting a speed limit of 100 kilometers/hour is thus converted by multiplying by 6 (100 * 6 = 600), and then changing the decimal one backward arriving at 60 miles per hour. (an actual online conversion 100 km to miles is 62.1371) On an historic map showing miles, do the opposite, 10 miles divided by 6 would result in (10 / 6 = 1.6 and move the decimal) with a result of 16 kilometers. (an actual online conversion calculations shows that 10 miles is 16.0934 kilometers)
The other very handy item to know when traveling on Roads in Saskatchewan is to read the grid road signs! Range roads are those used when driving north or south, and township roads take the traveler in an east and west direction. Picturing the range lines on the map, will help to orient driving and using range road numbers in the field, and similarly with township lines and township roads.
The numbers on the signs are very handy, as they correlate to the Dominion Land Survey system and legal land coordinates.
1917 Scarborough Map showing a portion of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada (RM 491)
Range road signs begin with the meridian number. To locate John Henry Belt’ homestead the range road signs would all begin with 2 ~ (his farm was SE 28-51-27 W2). Ranges increment every 6 miles in distance traveled. On the Range road sign, the next two digits are the range number. So to find this particular farm, the Range Road sign should indicate 27 as the next two digits following the 2. Now the last number on a Range road sign is how many miles into the range that the road has been laid down, these miles increment east to west, and can number up to 5. Examining how a township is split into one mile by one mile sections it can be ascertained that the SE quarter section 28 is 3 miles west of range road 27, situating the farm between Range road 2273 and Range road 2274.
1924 Rand McNally Map showing a portion of Saskatchewan, Canada
A township road sign determines the road name when driving east or west, and the first number is the township number. All township numbers for the province of Saskatchewan begin at the United States and Canada international border (the 49 parallel), and the township numerals increment every 6 miles in a northerly direction. John Henry Belt farming at SE 28-51-27 w2 would have his farm along township road beginning with the numeral 51. As township numbers increment every 6 miles, the next numeral is the mile number within the township between 0 and 5 still increasing in value from the south to the north. Looking again at how a township is divided it can be ascertained that SE quarter section 28 is 4 miles north of township line 51; therefore John Henry Belt’s farm is has an allocation between township road 514 and township road 515.
Township lines or roads begin and end around geological features, and urban centres, and then continue north to the tree line. The Range lines or roads also extend straight as an arrow, and there is a lake or city, similarly, the range will continue along in the same way as a latitude or longitude line. Gravel roads, highways, and municipal roads can all have concurrency with township and range road numbering. Historically, there was allowance for a township road every mile, and a range road allowance was allocated every two miles.
So, whether determining the location for a homestead applied for in the North West Territories or in the province of Saskatchewan between 1905-1930, these insturctions should assist in arriving successfully at the pre-requisite destination. These driving instructions should also apply for any legal land location, as perchance the pioneering ancestors, or contemporary family may reside on an agricultural rural allotment with a township, range and meridian number. Settlers could also buy pre-emptions, land from colonization companies, from the railway companies or once they proved up their land, they were free to sell it on the open market.
Think on this. Imagine that the pioneer who crossed the ocean in a steamer and the journey took a few weeks. Arrival would very likely be an eastern port of Canada or the USA, and then progress overland would continue via rail to the closest stopping off point to their destination in the west. The transcontinental rail way was completed on November 7, 1885, and it traversed through the southern portion of the provisional district of Assiniboia, North West Territories. From this date onward rail companies established their own lines at various speeds and times throughout the province. Branch lines and main trunks traversed the North West Territories, continuing on after the Saskatchewan became a province in 1905. (In many cases the current highway thoroughfares run parallel to the main trunk line railway grade.) From the furthest point of the rail, the pioneer would disembark and begin walking. If a relative arrived ahead of time, the early settler may be met at the rail station by horse and cart or ox and buggy, and receive transport. An early purchase was conveyance.
After traveling around the countryside, the pioneer would need to find a iron marker placed between four monuments (pits) on an unclaimed section of land. The iron marker with the section number on it stands in the North East corner of the one mile by one mile section. The wise new-comer would need to compare the soil sample on this land with the soil of his home country to have the greatest success with his learned agricultural tillage methods and implements brought forward on the long journey. If the section and land was acceptable, the potential homesteader would then hasten to the land titles office, to fill out an application form, and lay down a $10 filing fee, returning to the land to begin his duties.
Imagine again, if you will, finding an iron post driven into the ground without asphalt roads, no GPS, absolutely not a road sign anywhere, nestled into the grasslands, or within the Trembling Aspen bluffs, and in the 1800s amid herds of buffalo. Consider, also this, the iron marker in the north west corner of the section bears Roman Numerals for section township and range. As this in this example, John Henry Belt homestead was SE 28-51-27 w2) the iron post would have read XXIV XXX XII. Early immigrants may have settled in ethnic bloc settlements to facilitate communication, agricultural harvesting work bees and settlement chores in proving up the land.
NOTE: It is always wise and prudent to contact the nearby locality before driving out to an ancestral homestead to learn how to make contact with the current owners. Ask at the regional library, museum, RM office, or town hall for advice. Seek to purchase an up to date RM map from the RM office. Consider buying an historical Cummins map from the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan and marked herein the ancestor’s name. Phone the current land owner perchance with Mysask.com or Canada411. Do not trespass on private property or farm land without permission, ever. Such practices can, indeed, be detrimental and even fatal to livestock, devastating to crops and violate the landowners sensibilities and legal rights. Also many historical township roads and range roads do not exist anymore. With the straightening and paving of highways, and the advent of motorized travel, it is not necessary for the Ministry of Highways nor the RM to maintain each and every single range road and township road from the Dominion survey system so the roads may not exist anymore. That former road allowance may now be in a farmer’s field, or pasture land. That is why a contemporary RM map is so handy for this journey to the homestead.
Saskatchewan Provincial Standard System of Rural Addressing. Adapted by Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) Information Services Corporation. Regina, SK.
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Become A Hawk
Third Period Goal Favors UNE in 2-1 Win Over Becker
U. of New England
Becker (2-5-0, 1-4-0 CHC) 0 1 0 1
U. of New England (3-0-1, 2-0-1 CHC) 1 0 1 2
1st - 16:17 - PP - Marykate Drinkwater (U. of New England)
2nd - 14:22 - PP - Gabby Petrisin (Becker)
3rd - 08:23 - Marykate Drinkwater (U. of New England)
G: Gabby Petrisin - 1
A: 2 Players (#19, #23) - 1
Sh: 2 Players (#24, #29) - 4
Sv: Madelyn Morgan - 40
G: Marykate Drinkwater - 2
Sh: Tatum Gietl - 9
Sv: Julia Benjamin - 21
BIDDEFORD, Maine – Nor'easters senior Marykate Drinkwater (Franklin, Mass.) scored twice for the University of New England, including what turned out to be the game-winning goal midway through the third period as the UNE Nor'easters defeated the Becker Hawks 2-1 on Friday evening in Colonial Hockey Conference play.
Harold Alfond Forum
Score: UNE 2 – Becker 1
Records: The Becker College Hawks 2-5-0 (1-4-0 CHC) | The UNE Nor'easters 3-0-1 (2-0-1 CHC)
Tied at 1-1 in the third, Drinkwater netted her second goal of the evening, helping to boost UNE's streak of games without a regulation loss to four straight.
UNE took possession in the neutral zone with sophomore Jenna Pych (West Milford, N.J.) eventually carrying the puck into the Nor'easters attacking zone.
Pych sent a shot on the Hawks goal that was stopped by freshman goalie Madelyn Morgan (Riverside, Calif.). The rebound slid behind the Hawks goal as Pych followed her shot and tried a wraparound that deflected to Drinkwater in the low slot. Drinkwater fired a one-timer from close range past Morgan to give UNE a 2-1 lead.
The Hawks had limited opportunities to tie the game in the final ten minutes while a late minor penalty on Becker would keep Morgan in the net and unable to come out for the extra skater.
Drinkwater's opening goal, a power-play tally, started the scoring in the game to give UNE a 1-0 lead.
Freshman Avery Lutrzykowski (Winthrop, Maine) fired a pass from the top of the point that found Drinkwater all alone at the right post for her first of the game.
Hawks sophomore Gabby Petrisin (High Bridge, N.J.) tied the game 1-1 in the second period on a power-play goal of her own.
The Hawks won a puck battle in the right-wing circle that worked its way to Petrisin at the right point. Petrisin slid a pass to the top of the point to junior Cameron Payne (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), who immediately returned it to Petrisin.
From the right point, Petrisin fired a one-timer, working its way through a maze of players and into the net to tie the game.
FOR THE HAWKS
Petrisin's power-play tally is her third goal of the season, tying the team-high.
Junior Katherine Capobianco (North Andover, Mass.) helped win the puck battle that led to the goal, earning an assist on the play; her second of the season.
Morgan made 40 saves for the Hawks, but the loss drops her to 1-3-0 this year.
FOR THE NOR'EASTERS
Drinkwater's goals are her first and second of the season, matching two other UNE players for the team lead.
Junior goalie Julia Benjamin (Tolland, Conn.) made 21 saves while improving to 3-0-1 with the win.
The Hawks and Nor'easters finish off a home-and-home series tomorrow night at the Worcester Ice Center; puck drop is set for 6:40 p.m.
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Sat, 01/11 | Women's Ice Hockey vs. New England Col. W, 5-3 (Final) RC | BX | PH | V
Fri, 01/10 | Women's Ice Hockey at New England Col. W, 4-1 (Final) RC | BX | V
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TBEA SunOasis Set to Overtake First Solar as World’s Largest Solar EPC Company in 2014
Josefin Berg | May 15, 2014
U.S.-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by Chinese EPC TBEA SunOasis, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
Solar Capital Spending Enters 2014 with Strong Momentum; Latin America Leads Manufacturing Capacity Growth
With capital expenditures for the photovoltaic (PV) industry set to bounce back in 2014, a new round of solar spending will commence that will reach $3.8 billion by year-end, according to...
South Africa Ranks as the World’s Most Attractive Emerging Country for Solar Energy
Josefin Berg | January 29, 2014
South Africa’s target of building 8.4 gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity by 2030, combined with the success of its large-scale tendering process in attracting investment...
Ambitious Saudi Arabia Solar Plans Hinge on Capitalizing on Major PV Module Price Reductions
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As Saudi Arabia seeks bidders for its ambitious solar projects, the country stands to benefit enormously from plunging costs for photovoltaic (PV) technology—if the nation plays...
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In addition, you can use the links below to explore the schedules of all the major comedy venues in NYC; and you can find excellent live comedy recommendations weekly via The New York Times.
That said, my top NYC comedy recommendations for August and September 2019 (with much more to come soon) include:
Saturday 8/31: Every Saturday night, a highly talented freestyle rapping long form improv group takes the stage for an hour: North Coast (9:00 pm, $12, The PIT Underground at 123 East 24th Street)
Saturday 8/31: Playwright Annie Pulsipher, director Stephen M. Eckert, costumer Olivia Hern, and a cast of 10 (Sebastiana Gullo, Benjamin Culpepper, Chantelle Guido, Jordan Plutzer, Ariel Neema Blake, Logan Faust, Leon Schwendener, Becca Bernard, Zach Herman, and Stephanie Hawkins.) create a musical that “replaces that most optimistic of orphans with Paul Ryan’s favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, so as to better educate the youths of today about the glory of Laissez Faire Capitalism. We follow Lil’ Orphan Objectivist in her quest to save Depression-era America from FDR’s tyrannical New Deal. Along the way moochers such as the kindly nun, Sister Hannigan, and fire-brand socialist Vice President Henry “Rooster” Wallace try to dissuade her, but with the power of pure reason and an unshakeable sense-of-self there’s sure to be no New Deal for Christmas! Featuring toe-tapping riffs on such Annie favorites as “Handout Life,” “Tomorrow (We Seize the Markets!),” and “I Don’t Need Anything but Me:” Aynnie: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist (9:30 pm, $15 online or $20 at the door,, The PIT Mainstage (Striker) at 123 East 24th Street)
Saturday 8/31: A top musical improv troupe that has wowed audiences around the world with its skill at making up an hour-long musical moment by moment. The plot and characters, the musical accompaniment, even the song lyrics and “choreography” are invented on the spot, with no pre-planned structure, by such ace talents as Becky Drysdale, Zack Willis, Katy Barry, Caroline Martin, Amber Ruffin, Tim Sniffen, and Jeff Hiller, plus stellar improv musicians Dan Reitz (keyboards) & Sarah Mullins (drums/percussion). Come see why this show won a FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Unique Theatrical Event: Baby Wants Candy (10:30 pm, $14, UCB Hell’s Kitchen at 555 West 42nd Street)
Thursday 9/5: In this monthly show from Mike Drucker (hilarious stand-up and staff writer for TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee; previously a staff writer for NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Comedy Central’s The President Show, and contributing writer for Saturday Night Live), comics read obituaries they wrote for themselves, “honoring the lives they had and making fun of the lives they could have had.” Tonight’s dying-as-we-speak guests are Selena Coppock (Amazon’s Red Oaks, VH1, author of book The New Rules for Blondes, stand-up album Seen Better Days), Ian Fidance (host of Picture This!; regular on SiriusXM’s You Up? with Nikki Glaser, Comedy Central Radio), Tom Thakkar (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half Hour; co-host of podcast Stand by Your Band), Mike Recine (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half Hour), Ismael Loutfi (Jimmy Kimmel; staff writer for Netflix’s Patriot Act), and Lizzie Martinez: My Obituary Show (7:30 pm, $10, Astoria Queens’ QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
You can find the vast majority of notable NYC live comedy shows by using the links below to explore the schedules of the following top NYC comedy venues:
Best Inexpensive Stand-Up, Improv, Sketch, and Storytelling
Upright Citizens Brigade Hell’s Kitchen
555 West 42nd Street; 152-seater; one of the most respected comedy showcases in the world; especially strong on improv, sketch, solo shows, and one-act comedic plays; shows free-$12
Upright Citizens Brigade at SubCulture
45 Bleecker Street; What used to be a top comedy venue called UCB East has sadly gone under, but some of its shows live on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights at respected East Village indie theatre SubCulture at Bleecker & Lafayette Streets, direclty by the #6 subway’s Bleecker Street stop; shows $7-$14
The PIT Striker (Upstairs) Theatre
123 East 24th Street; 88-seater; a top venue that’s a powerful rival of UCB, and often surpasses UCB when blending comedy with music and/or theatricality; shows free-$20
The PIT Underground (Downstairs) Theatre
123 East 24th Street; 40-seater; often more quirky & experimental than upstairs Striker; shows free-$10
The PIT Loft
154 West 29th Street; 50-seater; the third of The PIT theatres, located separately on the West side, hosts a wide range of comedy, but is especially effective as a home for intimate solo and/or theatrical shows; free-$20
254 West 29th Street; 60-seat theatre; strong on improv, musical improv, sketch, and energy; shows $5-$10
The Creek and the Cave
Queens’ Long Island City; 40-seat theatre upstairs, 25 downstairs; virtually all weeknight shows free; weekend shows free-$10
702 Union Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street; 50-seat theatre; shows $5-$20
635 Sackett Street in Brooklyn; R to Union Street; 100-seat theatre; shows $5-$20
Bell House
149 7th Street in Brooklyn; R to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Ave.; 200-seat theatre; shows $10-$25
QED: A Place to Show & Tell
27-16 23rd Avenue in Astoria Queens; N/W to Ditmars Boulevard; 40-seat theatre; shows free-$10
Best NYC Stand-Up Comedy Clubs
117 MacDougal Street; among the finest daily stand-up lineups in the world; 2-item min.
Village Underground
130 West 3rd Street; Comedy Cellar’s larger sister venue, just around the corner with the same top comics; 2-item min.
Carolines Comedy Club
1626 Broadway; focuses on the world’s top headliners, who perform hour-long sets; 2-drink min.
Gotham Comedy Club
208 West 23rd Street; headliners on weekends, specialty & lineup shows weekdays; 2-drink min.
487 Atlantic Avenue (near the Barclays Center); only comedy club in Brooklyn; strong weekend lineups; no cover using code HyReviews; some shows have 2-drink min., but many don’t
Greenwich Village Comedy Club
99 MacDougal Street; convenient if Comedy Cellar’s sold out; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.
Comic Strip Live
1568 Second Avenue, off 81st; Upper East Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
Stand Up NY
236 West 78th Street, off Broadway; Upper West Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.
Lost its space, aiming to move to Union Square sometime in 2019: competitor to Comedy Cellar; no drink min.—support this policy!
NYC Stand-Up Open Mics & Improv Jams
If you want stage time, you can find one or more stand-up open mics virtually any night at Manhattan’s The PIT, Eastville Comedy Club, and Stand Up NY Comedy Club, and at Queens LIC’s The Creek and Astoria Queens’ QED.
In addition, at the East Village’s UCB East you can typically find a stand-up open mic Thursdays at 6:00 pm, an improv jam Wednesdays at 11:15 pm, and a rare bring-your-own-group improv/sketch open stage Sundays at 11:00 pm. And in Chelsea, The Magnet offers an improv jam on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm, and a rare musical improv jam on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm.
All of the venues above typically provide you the stage time either for free or for $5.
There are also numerous other open mics throughout the city. For a more comprehensive list, please visit FreeMicsNYC.
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NYC Top Comedy Choices for August 2019: Last Updated Thursday 8/29
That said, my top NYC comedy recommendations for August 2019 (with more to come soon) include:
Thursday 8/29: One of the best innovations of UCBT-NY Artistic Director Michael Hartney was creating a new category of house teams (beyond those for improv and sketch) devoted to talented comedic character actors. Tonight UCBT group Velvet Mommy—Jon Bander, Kami Dimitrova, Desi Domo, Johnny Drago, Woody Fu, Chrissie Gruebel, Adrienne Ianniciello, and Corin Wells—performs original characters or impersonations directed & hosted by Michael Hartney, Eric Feurer, and/or Sarah Parsons: Characters Welcome: Velvet Mommy (7:30 pm, $7, UCB Hell’s Kitchen at 555 West 42nd Street)
Thursday 8/29: Playwright Annie Pulsipher, director Stephen M. Eckert, costumer Olivia Hern, and a cast of 10 (Sebastiana Gullo, Benjamin Culpepper, Chantelle Guido, Jordan Plutzer, Ariel Neema Blake, Logan Faust, Leon Schwendener, Becca Bernard, Zach Herman, and Stephanie Hawkins) create a musical that “replaces that most optimistic of orphans with Paul Ryan’s favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, so as to better educate the youths of today about the glory of Laissez Faire Capitalism. We follow Lil’ Orphan Objectivist in her quest to save Depression-era America from FDR’s tyrannical New Deal. Along the way moochers such as the kindly nun, Sister Hannigan, and fire-brand socialist Vice President Henry ‘Rooster’ Wallace try to dissuade her, but with the power of pure reason and an unshakeable sense-of-self there’s sure to be no New Deal for Christmas!” This is a work in progress, with occasional lags and scenes that go nowhere, and plot that sometimes moves at a snail’s pace and other times skips over too much. But overall the idea is way fun, and there are clever bits throughout; as well as riffs on such Annie favorites as “Handout Life,” “Tomorrow (We Seize the Markets!),” and “I Don’t Need Anything but Me:” Aynnie: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist (9:30 pm, $15 online or $20 at the door,, The PIT Mainstage (Striker) at 123 East 24th Street)
Friday 8/30: Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson (authors of F*CKED: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed) record their wildly popular Guys We Fucked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast live on stage: Guys We F*cked (7:00 pm; $22.32 in advance online or $24 at the door; LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street)
Friday 8/30: Playwright Annie Pulsipher, director Stephen M. Eckert, costumer Olivia Hern, and a cast of 10 (Sebastiana Gullo, Benjamin Culpepper, Chantelle Guido, Jordan Plutzer, Ariel Neema Blake, Logan Faust, Leon Schwendener, Becca Bernard, Zach Herman, and Stephanie Hawkins) create a musical that “replaces that most optimistic of orphans with Paul Ryan’s favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, so as to better educate the youths of today about the glory of Laissez Faire Capitalism. We follow Lil’ Orphan Objectivist in her quest to save Depression-era America from FDR’s tyrannical New Deal. Along the way moochers such as the kindly nun, Sister Hannigan, and fire-brand socialist Vice President Henry ‘Rooster’ Wallace try to dissuade her, but with the power of pure reason and an unshakeable sense-of-self there’s sure to be no New Deal for Christmas!” This is a work in progress, with occasional lags and scenes that go nowhere, and plot that sometimes moves at a snail’s pace and other times skips over too much. But overall the idea is way fun, and there are clever bits throughout; as well as riffs on such Annie favorites as “Handout Life,” “Tomorrow (We Seize the Markets!),” and “I Don’t Need Anything but Me:” Aynnie: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist (9:30 pm, $15 online or $20 at the door,, The PIT Mainstage (Striker) at 123 East 24th Street)
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NYC Top Comedy Choices for August 2019: Last Updated Tuesday 8/27
Tuesday 8/27: Broadway, TV, and film star, and one of the most beloved stand-ups in the biz, Colin Quinn (Trainwreck, national comedy treasure) tries out new material for his next solo show at this intimate Comedy Cellar venue: Colin Quinn (7:00 pm, $10 plus 2-item food/drink min., West Village’s The Fat Black Pussycat Lounge at 130 West 3rd Street)
Tuesday 8/27: Singer/songwriter/musician Julian Velard (pianist for NPR’s Ask Me Another; albums include Fancy Words For Failure) plays a bunch of his wonderful songs in a show he describes as follows: “To mark 19 years of treading water in the music business, Julian will play his originals that have received minor radio airplay outside the United States, left-of-center covers of obscure tracks by 1970s singer/songwriters, and slow acoustic interpretations of modern pop hits.The songs will be punctuated by self-conscious quips and the occasional berating of an audience member. This is a rare intimate performance by Velard, something he only does once a month or so:” Julian Velard Plays Another Show (7:30 pm, $8, Astoria Queens’ QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
Tuesday 8/27 (also Wednesday): Reggie Watts is the bandleader of CBS’ Late Late Show with James Corden, has a Netflix special titled Spatial…and is unlike anyone else. Natasha Leggero tells the story of how, years ago, she came to a Reggie show where he sang a song about eating breakfast. Natasha turned to a mutual friend and said, “Wow, that’s really good. I haven’t heard it before, is it new?” The friend, who’d spent the day with Reggie, replied, “No, you don’t get it. That’s literally what he had for breakfast this morning.” Natasha spent a few moments taking in that Reggie had made the song up on the spot, and then declared, “Reggie Watts has more talent in his little finger than most people have in their entire bodies.” One of the all-time greats in the biz makes a now-rare NYC stage appearance riffing and making up songs in the moment, with comic Hannah Einbinder as opener. Reggie Watts (8:00 pm, $35, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue)
Tuesday 8/27: Great lineup of Ira Glass (host of This American Life), Lucy Wainwright Roche (stellar singer/songwriter), Nikki Glaser (host of You Up on SiriusXM; star of former Comedy Central series Not Safe; Comedy Central and Netflix specials; films Trainwreck and I Feel Pretty), and more hosted by Elna Baker (NPR’s This American Life, bestselling author of The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance) & Kevin Townley (Men in Black III, The Sitter, My Super Ex-Girlfriend): The Talent Show: Control Freak (8:00 pm, $10, Brooklyn’s Littlefield at 635 Sackett Street; take R subway to Union Street)
Tuesday 8/27: Eight comics and one audience member compete to win the heart of a celebrity single through rounds of Q&A and challenge questions, with the help of a relationship expert, hosted by Taylor Ortega (HBO’s Succession, Shego in Disney Channel’s live-action Kim Possible, TruTV), Yoni Lotan (Netflix’s Russian Doll, HBO’s High Maintenance, Above Average), and John Trowbridge (Huffington Post): First Impressions: A Live 90s Dating Show (7:00 pm, $12, LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street)
Tuesday 8/27: Every Tuesday at 8:00 pm, comics creators join super-hosts Alex Zalben, Justin Tyler, and Pete LePage in a lively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture, with giveaways of comics and gift certificates: Comic Book Club (8:00 pm, Free!, The PIT Loft at 154 West 29th Street)
Wednesday 8/28: Reggie Watts is the bandleader of CBS’ Late Late Show with James Corden, has a Netflix special titled Spatial…and is unlike anyone else. Natasha Leggero tells the story of how, years ago, she came to a Reggie show where he sang a song about eating breakfast. Natasha turned to a mutual friend and said, “Wow, that’s really good. I haven’t heard it before, is it new?” The friend, who’d spent the day with Reggie, replied, “No, you don’t get it. That’s literally what he had for breakfast this morning.” Natasha spent a few moments taking in that Reggie had made the song up on the spot, and then declared, “Reggie Watts has more talent in his little finger than most people have in their entire bodies.” One of the all-time greats in the biz makes a now-rare NYC stage appearance riffing and making up songs in the moment, with comic Sarah Squirm as opener. Reggie Watts (8:00 pm, $35, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue; buy in advance, because this show will almost certainly sell out)
Wednesday 8/28: Mary Twinings & John Celestial interview TV writers and others about the big ideas they had that never made it past the writers’ room: Scrapped (8:00 pm, $10, The PIT Underground at 123 East 24th Street)
Thursday 8/29: The talented comics of UCBT group Velvet Mommy—Jon Bander, Kami Dimitrova, Desi Domo, Johnny Drago, Woody Fu, Chrissie Gruebel, Adrienne Ianniciello, and Corin Wells—perform original characters or impersonations directed & hosted by Michael Hartney, Eric Feurer, and/or Sarah Parsons: Characters Welcome: Velvet Mommy (7:30 pm, $7, UCB Hell’s Kitchen at 555 West 42nd Street)
Wednesday 8/28: Stand-up and/or storytellers Andrea Coleman, Ann Van Epps, Karen Marder, Freddy Sheffield, and more tell tales about losing their virginity hosted by Angela Cobb (Sirius XM): My First Time: A Stand-Up and Storytelling Show (9:00 pm, $10, Astoria Queens’ QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
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NYC Top Comedy Choices for August 2019: Last Updated Monday 8/26
Monday 8/26: This superb weekly stand-up show’s hosts Aparna Nancherla (co-star of HBO’s Crashing, Netflix’s Master of None, and Comedy Central’s Corporate), Jo Firestone (staff writer for Jimmy Fallon, co-author of #1 bestselling Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers), and Maeve Higgins (Maeve in America, co-host of Nat Geo’s Star Talk) welcome guests Melissa Villaseñor (Emmy-winning star cast member of Saturday Night Live; force-of-nature voiceover artist who’s performed characters for Family Guy, Scooby Doo, and many other shows), Hari Kondabolu (fresh, sharp, rising star stand-up; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Presents; fascinating TruTV documentary The Problem with Apu; Netflix special Warn Your Relatives; co-host of Kondabolu Brothers podcast), Joe Kwaczala, Jordan Jensen, Lea’h Sampson, and Dan Rosen performing stand-up, plus music from DJ Donwill: Butterboy with Jo, Aparna, and Maeve (8:00 pm, $10, Brooklyn’s Littlefield at 635 Sackett Street; take R subway to Union Street)
Monday 8/26: The adorable Laura Merli (above right; Reductress, McSweeney’s, YouTube, host of How to be Less Awkward) and Marissa Stuart (above left; trend forecaster; member of all-gal hip-hop improv troupe DMXX) perform duo sketch comedy designed to provide you with “feel-good dread” (for a video sample, please click here): Soul Crush Comedy (8:00 pm, $10, The PIT Underground at 123 East 24th Street)
Monday 8/26 (also Tuesday & Wednesday): Reggie Watts is the bandleader of CBS’ Late Late Show with James Corden, has a Netflix special titled Spatial…and is unlike anyone else. Years ago, Natasha Leggero told the story of how she came to a Reggie show where he sang a song about eating breakfast. Natasha turned to a mutual friend and said, “Wow, that’s really good. I haven’t heard it before, is it new?” The friend, who’d spent the day with Reggie, replied, “No, you don’t get it. That’s literally what he had for breakfast this morning.” Natasha spent a few moments taking in that Reggie had made the song up on the spot, and then declared, “Reggie Watts has more talent in his little finger than most people have in their entire bodies.” One of the all-time greats in the biz makes a now-rare NYC stage appearance, with singing twins Max & Nicky Weinbach as openers. Reggie Watts (8:00 pm, $35, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue; PLEASE NOTE: This show has SOLD OUT, but there are still tickets available for Tuesday and Wednesday.)
Monday 8/26: Comics Ryan Stanisz, Joe Pardavila, and Brian Danger wrote and co-star in a mini-play described as follows: “Death can make you do funny things, and when Lars loses his wife to a freak chicken bone accident he purchases a funeral home,” with original direction by David Carl and subsequent direction by Lauren Brickman. Also on this double-bill of Spanks auditioning for a regular run is a sketch show about weddings written by Nick Ramirez & Chrissy Shackelford, and directed by Alexis Pereira: We Bought a Funeral Home! and The Big Day: A Sketch Show about Weddings (6:00 pm, $7, UCB Hell’s Kitchen at 555 West 42nd Street)
Tuesday 8/27 (also Wednesday): Reggie Watts is the bandleader of CBS’ Late Late Show with James Corden, has a Netflix special titled Spatial…and is unlike anyone else. Years ago, Natasha Leggero told the story of how she came to a Reggie show where he sang a song about eating breakfast. Natasha turned to a mutual friend and said, “Wow, that’s really good. I haven’t heard it before, is it new?” The friend, who’d spent the day with Reggie, replied, “No, you don’t get it. That’s literally what he had for breakfast this morning.” Natasha spent a few moments taking in that Reggie had made the song up on the spot, and then declared, “Reggie Watts has more talent in his little finger than most people have in their entire bodies.” One of the all-time greats in the biz makes a now-rare NYC stage appearance, with comic Hannah Einbinder as opener. Reggie Watts (8:00 pm, $35, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue; buy in advance, because this show will almost certainly sell out)
Tuesday 8/27: Eight comics and one audience member compete to win the heart of a celebrity single through rounds of Q&A and challenge questions, with the help of expert advice from a relationship expert, hosted by Taylor Ortega (HBO’s Succession, Shego in Disney Channel’s live-action Kim Possible, TruTV), Yoni Lotan (Netflix’s Russian Doll, HBO’s High Maintenance, Above Average), and John Trowbridge (Huffington Post): First Impressions: A Live 90s Dating Show (7:00 pm, $12, LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street)
Wednesday 8/28: Reggie Watts is the bandleader of CBS’ Late Late Show with James Corden, has a Netflix special titled Spatial…and is unlike anyone else. Years ago, Natasha Leggero told the story of how she came to a Reggie show where he sang a song about eating breakfast. Natasha turned to a mutual friend and said, “Wow, that’s really good. I haven’t heard it before, is it new?” The friend, who’d spent the day with Reggie, replied, “No, you don’t get it. That’s literally what he had for breakfast this morning.” Natasha spent a few moments taking in that Reggie had made the song up on the spot, and then declared, “Reggie Watts has more talent in his little finger than most people have in their entire bodies.” One of the all-time greats in the biz makes a now-rare NYC stage appearance, with comic Sarah Squirm as opener. Reggie Watts (8:00 pm, $35, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue; buy in advance, because this show will almost certainly sell out)
Thursday 9/5: In this monthly show from Mike Drucker (hilarious stand-up and staff writer for TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee; previously a staff writer for NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Comedy Central’s The President Show, and contributing writer for Saturday Night Live), comics read obituaries they wrote for themselves, “honoring the lives they had and making fun of the lives they could have had.” Tonight’s dying-as-we-speak guests are Selena Coppock (Amazon’s Red Oaks, VH1, author of book The New Rules for Blondes, stand-up album Seen Better Days), Ian Fidance (host of Picture This!; regular on SiriusXM’s You Up? with Nikki Glaser, Comedy Central Radio), Tom Thakkar (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half Hour; co-host of podcast Stand by Your Band), Mike Recine (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half Hour), and Ismael Loutfi (Jimmy Kimmel; staff writer for Netflix’s Patriot Act): My Obituary Show (7:30 pm, $10, Astoria Queens’ QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
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NYC Top Comedy Choices for August 2019: Last Updated Sunday 8/25
Sunday 8/25: Kasha Patel (founder of DC Science Comedy; TEDx talk on science-based stand-up) & Noah Crowley (Wasthington DC-based comic) discuss robots in novels, movies, and TV shows, and consider “Could that really happen?”: Scientific Facts About Fictional Robots (7:00 pm, $15, LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street)
Sunday 8/25: Gary Gulman (razor-sharp wordsmith who’s one of the best stand-ups in the country; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno; finalist on Last Comic Standing; comedy specials include Boyish Man, In This Economy, and It’s About Time), Selena Coppock (Amazon’s Red Oaks, VH1, author of book The New Rules for Blondes, stand-up album Seen Better Days), Kase Raso (host of Kase of the Mondays podcast), and more try out new jokes and play around with the audience at this popular weekly safe space for stand-ups hosted by Nat Towsen (Esquire, VICE, College Humor, host of Downtown Variety): New Material Night (8:00 pm, $10 in advance online or $12 at the door, The PIT Underground at 123 East 24th Street)
Monday 8/26 (also Tuesday & Wednesday): Reggie Watts is the bandleader of CBS’ Late Late Show with James Corden, has a Netflix special titled Spatial…and is unlike anyone else. Years ago, Natasha Leggero told the story of how she came to a Reggie show where he sang a song about eating breakfast. Natasha turned to a mutual friend and said, “Wow, that’s really good. I haven’t heard it before, is it new?” The friend, who’d spent the day with Reggie, replied, “No, you don’t get it. That’s literally what he had for breakfast this morning.” Natasha spent a few moments taking in that Reggie had made the song up on the spot, and then declared, “Reggie Watts has more talent in his little finger than most people have in their entire bodies.” One of the all-time greats in the biz makes a now-rare NYC stage appearance, with singing twins Max & Nicky Weinbach as openers. Reggie Watts (8:00 pm, $35, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue; buy in advance, because this show will almost certainly sell out)
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Saturday 8/24: Judah Friedlander (one of the quickest minds and very finest stand-ups in comedy; 30 Rock, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly; Netflix stand-up special America is the Greatest Country in the United States; bestselling cartoon book If the Raindrops United), Myq Kaplan (one of the quickest minds in comedy; finalist on Last Comic Standing, semi-finalist on America’s Got Talent; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Seth Meyers, Jay Leno, Comedy Central Presents; comedy albums No Kidding, Small, Dork, and Handsome, Vegan Mind Meld, and Meat Robot; podcasts Broccoli and Ice Cream), Christian Finnegan (creator & co-host of A&E’s Black and White; co-star of TBS’ Are We There Yet?; Conan O’Brien; three Comedy Central specials, Netflix special The Fun Part; TBS, VH1, MSNBC, Chappelle’s Show, The Today Show), and more perform stand-up at the only comedy club in Brooklyn: Judah Friedlander, Myq Kaplan, and Christian Finnegan at Eastville (8:00 pm; normally $21 with no min., but free following these instructions; Brooklyn’s Eastville Comedy Club at 487 Atlantic Avenue—take 2/3/4/5/B/D/N/Q/R subway to Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center)
Saturday 8/24: A game show that describes itself as follows: “Ever talk to a straight guy and think, ‘Jesus Christ you’re boring!’ Two straight men (who tonight are comic Matt Gehring and musician Julian Velard) enter the arena, but only one leaves with the title of Queen of the Straights. Lifelines include a Woman Who Gets It (Jo Firestone) and a Wise Queer (Dylan Marron)” hosted by Matt Rogers & Dave Mizzoni, who invite you to “come witness the ultimate test of who Is honorarily Gay As Fuck:” GAYme Show (8:00 pm, $20, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue)
Saturday 8/24: Surreal sketch group Terrorbird performs a new oddball series of scenes designed to unsettle and delight you: Terrorbird (8:00 pm, $12, The PIT Loft at 154 West 29th Street)
Saturday 8/24: Seven comics TBA who were born outside NYC perform stand-up hosted by the charming Katie Boyle (above, from Ireland): Transplants (7:30 pm, $10, Astoria Queens’ QED: A Place to Show & Tell at 27-16 23rd Avenue)
Saturday 8/24: Because there isn’t enough strife pitting the living against each other, comics Emily Winter (The New Yorker, Ask Me Another), Spike Einbinder (Los Espookys, High Maintenance), Maggie Crane, and Julien Edward Williams roast long-past historical figures and events, ranging from Rasputin to The Beat Generation to The 1968 Democratic Convention: The Roast of History (9:30 pm, $12, LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street)
Sunday 8/25: Comics TBA discuss robots in novels, movies, and TV shows, and consider “Could that really happen?”: Scientific Facts About Fictional Robots (7:00 pm, $15, LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street)
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NYC Top Comedy Choices for August 2019: Last Updated Friday 8/23
Friday 8/23: Comics Randall Otis (The Daily Show), Sophie Bramnick (The PIT), and Jess Fuchs (Jane Don’t) try to figure out and articulate the meaning of a piece of art. Then an actual art expert tells them what the piece is generally considered to be about and its cultural impact. Plus select audience members—maybe including you—will draw their art on the spot and have it interpreted by the comics. According to hosts Matt Hartin & Akmal Tajihan, “This is the only show you’ll want to Van Gogh to:” Modern Whitney (7:00 pm; $10, LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street—take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street)
Friday 8/23: Friends Who Folk—i.e., delightful singing duo Rachel Wenitsky (writer for Jimmy Fallon, freelance writer for SNL; Deputy Editor of Reductress; co-host of Mouth Time! podcast; Head Writer of The Story Pirates podcast) & Ned Riseley; TheNewYorker.com—host guests Ana Fabrega (breakout star of HBO’s Los Espookys; At Home with Amy Sedaris, Portlandia, The Jim Gaffigan Show, The Chris Gethard Show), Julia Shiplett (HBO’s Crashing, Moth Radio Hour), Taylor Garron (Editor for Reductress), and Andrés Govea: Friends Who Folk & Friends (7:30 pm, $10, Brooklyn’s Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street)
Saturday 8/24: A game show that describes itself as follows: “Ever talk to a straight guy and think, ‘Jesus Christ you’re boring!’ Two straight men TBD enter the arena, but only one leaves with the title of Queen of the Straights. Lifelines include a Woman Who Gets It and a Wise Queer” hosted by Matt Rogers & Dave Mizzoni, who invite you to “come witness the ultimate test of who Is honorarily Gay As Fuck:” GAYme Show (8:00 pm, $20, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue)
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The New International Version
The Angel of the Lord at Bokim
2 The angel of the Lordo went up from Gilgalp to Bokimq and said, “I brought you up out of Egyptr and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors.s I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,t 2 and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land,u but you shall break down their altars.v’ Yet you have disobeyedw me. Why have you done this? 3 And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;x they will become trapsy for you, and their gods will become snaresz to you.’ ”
4 When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,a 5 and they called that place Bokim.a b There they offered sacrifices to the Lord.
Disobedience and Defeat
2:6–9pp—Jos 24:29–31
6 After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. 7 The people served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel.c
8 Joshua son of Nun,d the servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten. 9 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heresb e in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel.f 11 Then the Israelites did evilg in the eyes of the Lordh and served the Baals.i 12 They forsook the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various godsj of the peoples around them.k They arousedl the Lord’s angerm 13 because they forsookn him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.o 14 In his angerp against Israel the Lord gave them into the handsq of raiders who plunderedr them. He sold thems into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.t 15 Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the Lord was against themu to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.v
16 Then the Lord raised up judges,c w who savedx them out of the hands of these raiders. 17 Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostitutedy themselves to other godsz and worshiped them.a They quickly turnedb from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the Lord’s commands.c 18 Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and savedd them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the Lord relentede because of their groaningf under those who oppressed and afflictedg them. 19 But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupth than those of their ancestors,i following other gods and serving and worshiping them.j They refused to give up their evil practices and stubbornk ways.
20 Therefore the Lord was very angryl with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenantm I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me, 21 I will no longer drive outn before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. 22 I will use them to testo Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the Lord and walk in it as their ancestors did.” 23 The Lord had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.p
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Posted February 17, 2019 by Johnathan Ace1 Comment on Mattocks, Adi the difference as Cincy top Battery 2019
Mattocks, Adi the difference as Cincy top Battery
The nightcap of the first doubleheader of the Carolina Challenge Cup was settled by goals from Fanendo Adi and Darren Mattocks as FC Cincinnati beat the Charleston Battery by a score of 2-1.
Things didn’t start well for the tournament’s hosts. As little as two minutes were on the clock before a blistering counter found Darren Mattocks, who found Fanendo Adi in space with a hint of offside, and while his initial shot was saved by Joe Kuzminsky the rebound went straight back into the path of the forward who bundled the ball over the line. Ian Svantesson would square things up early in the second half, as Dante Marini‘s shot would strike the arm of a Cincy defender. Svantesson stepped up and dispatched the spot kick, but Adi would earn one down the other end after being pulled down, which Mattocks himself buried to put his side back in front and ultimately settle the score.
Former Battery defender Forrest Lasso would play the majority of the game against his former side after being in Black and Yellow at this tournament on two occasions. He spent 2018 with the USL FC Cincinnati before becoming one of their first signings as an MLS side after winning USL’s Eastern Conference title.
Tonight’s game mirrors the first game of each of Cincinnati’s three years in the USL, as the Battery and Cincy were each other’s first opponents in all three years, the Battery winning twice, and Cincy winning in 2018.
Ex Battery defender Forrest Lasso heads the ball away from danger
It was FC Cincinnati who would get the ball rolling, as the visitors struck quicky down the left side, as good buildup play found Darren Mattocks, who crossed low from the top of the box to Fanendo Adi. Joe Kuzminsky got a hand to the effort and originally looked to have kept it out, but couldn’t hold onto the ball as the rebound went straight back into the striker’s path and into the net to put his side in front. There were fans chanting for VAR which was present on the far side of the field as the original pass was potentially offside, but no check came, and we played on.
Despite going behind early, the Battery would win the ball back high up the pitch just seconds after kick off, and Nico Rittmeyer put a teasing ball into the path of Ian Svantesson, who sent the guilt edged chance high over the bar.
The Battery looked threatening when on 20′, they earned a corner on the right, but it was cleared away and the danger was past.
Cincinnati nearly doubled the lead after 24 minutes, when, again through Mattocks they created a chance with a give and go with Alvas Powell, who pulled the ball back toward Adi in the center, but his shot went wide.
Another Battery corner was cleared on 31′ before someone was there to fire it back towards goal on the edge of the area, and the shot was deflected behind for another, which finally paid some dividends as it required the ‘keeper to leave his line to claim under pressure. However, he couldn’t handle the ball, which then bounced around in the box but no one in a Battery shirt could turn the ball home following the scramble.
Kuzminsky was again called into action on 33′ after a dipping free kick forced him to take no chances and tip the ball over the bar.
A host of Battery changes came at the break, with virtually half the team coming off, including Joe Kuzminsky in goal, and some trialists getting minutes in their quest for a permanent spot with the team.
The second half began the exact opposite of the first, with only one crucial change. A sloppy giveaway in the back led Ian Svantesson in with a 1-on-1 against the goalkeeper, but he put it high over the bar and out for a goal kick.
But Svantesson would get a chance at redemption shortly after. A cross was deflected away but only into the path of the onrushing Dante Marini, and although his shot was somewhat mishit, it struck the arm of a covering defender and the referee pointed to the spot.
After a couple of minutes of deliberation from both sides, likely a VAR check and players wanting to know more about the referee’s decision, Svantesson stepped up and slotted the ball into the net to draw the Battery level.
But Cincy would come right back. Just five minutes after the equalizer, in the 57th minute, the referee was pointing to the spot again, this time for the visitors. Fanendo Adi looked like he was clean through before being pulled back, and though he stuck the ball past substitute goalkeeper Robert Beebe, the ref had already blown for a penalty, and waved the goal off to give the spot kick.
It was a strange situation. In most cases, the referee will allow the goal in a play of advantage for the attacker, which is why you sometimes see referees hesitate to point to the spot while a play could still develop after a foul. The situation presented tonight happens rarely when a referee makes up his mind before the play ends. Luckily for Adi, and unluckily for the home team, Darren Mattocks would convert from 12 yards to put his side in the lead again.
On 63′, Cincy nearly had another as Justin Hoyte’s cross went all the way across the face of goal on the ground before finding Fanendo Adi at the back stick, but his shot was into the side netting.
A Battery corner after 68′ was headed out for a throw, which was launched into the edge of the box and redirected toward goal, but the header lacked power and went straight to the ‘keeper.
After a poor clearance with seven minutes left, Cincinnati again had the chance to put the game beyond their hosts with a powerful effort from the top of the box, but it went over the bar.
And so, the match finished 2-1. There was plenty to be desired from a home standpoint, but it’s important to remember that the Battery have only been together for about a week, after holding the start of open trials at the end of January.
Next up is night two of the Carolina Challenge Cup, on Wednesday, February 20th, where the Battery face the Columbus Crew, and Cincinnati plays Chicago Fire. Kick off of the Battery v Crew match is set for 5PM, before Cincy v Chicago will be at 7:35.
TOP IMAGE: IAN SVANTESSON SENDS THE KEEPER THE OTHER WAY TO EQUALIZE FROM THE SPOT, HIS THIRD GOAL IN FOUR CCC MATCHES AFTER TWO IN 2018. PHOTO CREDIT ROSS ALMERS PHOTOGRAPHY
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Hands-on video with ASUS ZenBook 3: so, so thin
We didn’t expect much from yet another ASUS ultraportable, but the ZenBook 3 is seriously impressive. Weighing in at 2 pounds and 11.9mm thick, it’s both thinner and lighter than Apple’s already crazy portable MacBook. It also packs in speedy Core i5 and Core i7 processors, so you won’t have to worry about it being underpowered. Above, check out our hands-on video of the ZenBook 3, and you can read deeper impressions on the announcement post.
Can ‘Warcraft’ break the curse of the video game movie?
There’s a special place in cinema hell for video game movies. From 1993’s cringeworthy Super Mario Bros. — a high-profile abomination that even Nintendo wants to forget — to the basic-cable-worthy schlock that was Mortal Kombat and even the underwhelming Jake Gyllenhaal-vehicle Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, games have failed to make the big screen translation. But that’s precisely why director — and son of the late, great David Bowie — Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) agreed to tackle the theatrical debut of developer Blizzard’s massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game Warcraft.
“There’s been a rough track record of movies based on video games,” says Jones. “I do like the challenge. I like the idea of maybe making a film which is way better than anyone expected it to be because I know the expectations are all over the place.”
Set mostly in the Earth-like world of Azeroth, Warcraft follows the premise set forth by Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, the franchise’s first release for PC in late 1994. Having destroyed their own planet with dark magic, the Orcs attempt to take over the world of humans, setting off an epic clash of clans. What follows onscreen is a live action/CGI mashup visually reminiscent of Avatar that opts for a kinetic pace of nonstop battles over deep character study and plodding narrative.
Jones wasn’t originally attached to this Warcraft adaption — Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) was. But, having been a longtime fan, he jumped at the chance to pick up where Raimi left off and build a film that lets audiences decide who the good guys are.
In advance of the film’s US release June 10th, I sat down with Jones to talk about his love of PC gaming, how spaghetti Westerns informed Warcraft’s battles and his early sci-fi and fantasy inspirations.
Had you been a PC gamer? What was your experience with Warcraft?
I’ve been a games player, a PC gamer for a long time. I had an [Intel] 386, then got a 486. [I] upgraded through the Pentiums. And I was playing all of the original real-time strategy Warcraft games and the Command and Conquer games, which were kind of happening around the same time.
But I was playing video games since the Atari 2600. Then the Commodore 64; then the Amiga and Atari IIe. Basically, everything … ever since I first could play games, I was playing them.
What attracted you to this as your third feature film, especially with the challenges of translating a video game to film?
I like the puzzle-solving nature of making movies. With Moon, my first film, I had Sam Rockwell performing mainly against himself. I mean, he really is the only actor that we see on screen most of the time. So there was the challenge of that. In Source Code, I had this small piece of narrative that I was sort of repeating multiple times, sort of Rashomon-style. And I wanted to make sure each time it felt original and new. So there was the challenge of that. And, obviously, Warcraft, it’s breaking the curse of games movies. But also structurally, it’s kind of interesting. It’s not what you would expect. It’s a war movie where the audience gets to empathize with both sides.
How did this come about? Did Blizzard approach you? Were they seeking someone to bring this to the screen, or was it a personal passion?
No. This is a film which I think Blizzard and Atlas and Legendary, who are involved in it, have been trying to make for quite a few years now. And my involvement originally was as a fan who was incredibly excited that Sam Raimi was on board to direct that movie. You know, I love Evil Dead 2 and I love a lot of his movies, but that one in particular. And I just got really excited about what he would do with Warcraft. And when he eventually dropped out to pursue The Wizard of Oz, there was no one attached and it seemed like the film had stalled. I had just finished Source Code around that time, and it had received good reviews. And I was able to talk my way into getting a chance to pitch what I would do with that project if I had the opportunity to do it.
And fortunately, being a long-term fan, my pitch was very much in sync with what Blizzard were hoping the movie could be.
What was the research process like? I mean, getting it just right so you don’t alienate fans, but also…
How many days of this [mimics playing on a PC] were involved? I mean, I think the fact that I was a fan meant that there was already a real synchronicity between what I thought the film could be and should be, and what Blizzard were hoping the film could be. Blizzard have this amazing history and legacy of taking things that people are already fans of and putting on that little twist that makes them kind of unique and allows you to see them in a different way. And [with] Warcraft, it really is sort of that idea of taking Tolkien, where humans and hobbits and cute creatures are the good guys, and then the creatures and the monsters are the bad guys. That was kind of the standard for fantasy. And they kind of turned it on the head by saying, “No, you as the player can be the hero on all sides.” And that’s what we wanted to bring into the movie — the idea that heroes come in the most unexpected places.
Were there any guidelines of dos and don’ts from Blizzard?
Well, I mean they do have a legacy. They have 20 years of digital folklore that they’ve made up, and it served them very well. … I’ve always worked very, very closely with them throughout the process, from the beginning right through to the end. And it was always about making my case. If there was ever a point where we weren’t completely already in agreement, I would make my case as to why for a movie there were changes that would be necessary. And sometimes they’d push back and sometimes they’d understand and agree.
In terms of the visuals, how did you set on the exact style you wanted without going too believable, but also not too cartoon-y?
I mean, there were kind of two big challenges in making Warcraft. One was to take the aesthetic of the game of Warcraft, which is very stylized and kind of comic book-y, and where the characters are drawn both narratively and aesthetically in these big, broad strokes and find a way to give it a bit of three dimension and realize it in a live-action way.
And that was really just a matter of spending a lot of time in preproduction working with Blizzard and with our own artists and just finding a way to strike that balance between the oversized armor and weapons of the game and something which feels that way but works in a live-action environment.
The other big challenge was how are we gonna make our Orcs, which are really more than just monsters. They’re not monsters in our movie; they’re characters. And we spend a lot of time with them and we get to know them. We get to care about them. And the technology for that was really something where ILM came in with this next-generation motion capture that they’ve been working on. I think body-motion capture is now at a pretty good state. But facial-motion capture, there was room for improvement. And they, at the time, had just come off from doing The Incredible Hulk and the first Avengers movie. And Jeff White and Jason Smith, who I talked to at ILM, were basically both Warcraft fans as well. So it was kind of a nice synchronicity there. And they talked about this new facial capture that was going to have such a fidelity that it would capture all of the nuances that, in previous generations of mo-cap, had kind of had characters slip into the Uncanny Valley. But now, with all of those details there, you really believe these creatures exist.
As for taking those battles from the game and bringing that to the big screen — how did you approach those shots, especially when you’re filming in 3-D?
Well, this was my first 3-D experience. So there were certainly some suggestions and some rules of thumb that I was given early on. [I] got to watch some footage from other films, obviously, and talked to people involved in shooting 3-D.
But just as far as how you frame, how fast you pan the camera — things like that where you don’t want to, in a way, draw the audience’s attention to the edges of the frame — it’s kind of a weird thing, because whenever you frame something, there’s always going to be something on the edge. But it’s always about not making the eye be drawn too much to that because that’s where things start to mess with your head, especially when you’re panning or something like that. So there were some framing elements that we sort of were keeping in mind.
But as far as the scale of the battles, it might seem like an odd homage, but one of the things I really wanted Warcraft to reflect were the old Sergio Leone Westerns, in particular Once Upon a Time in the West, because we have so many duels. We have these kind of one-on-one battles. And we have guys jumping off balconies onto their horses or griffins … onto their flying horses. So they’re all of these kind of Western-feeling things, these big operatic moments in our movie. So that was something that I wanted to pay homage to. So on some of the framings, Sergio Leone really sort of became a touchstone.
I know we were joking before about Mortal Kombat and the Street Fighter movies, and how video games movies can go so wrong. So when you decided to start working on this screenplay, how did you make sure there was enough story there?
There was a pre-existing script that I worked on top of. So I think the best way to describe my work was an aggressive polish. There were some structural issues that I changed. And there were some characters that I made more of than what was in the previous script.
I think as a filmmaker, I try and switch off my game-fan hat … but really sort of think about it as a filmmaker. Who are the characters that the audience are gonna care about? How can I get them to care about them? And then, what is the story which is gonna draw the audience through with it? … That you would do in any kind of film. And the fact that it’s based on a game is really not as big an issue.
I noticed there were one or two moments in the film where myself and the rest of the audience cracked up. Was that intentional on your part? Did you look to break the tone?
Yeah. Absolutely. Where you can mix the operatic, high drama — the Sergio Leone duels and the big, wide-scale battles scenes up with a bit of humor, I think it makes you feel like you had a full meal.
Going back to your body of work, what is it about sci-fi and fantasy for you … from your youth, what were some of the first things that you fell in love with?
Yeah, Moon and Source Code were kind of sci-fi. One’s sort of more speculative future sci-fi, and Source Code is more kind of contemporary playing with potential technologies. And then obviously, Warcraft is more fantasy-based. But both fantasy and sci-fi were just really important to me, and things that appealed to me when I was growing up. There was a British comic book called 2000 AD, which was a huge influence. That’s kind of like the Heavy Metal of the UK. It’s been around for decades, and it’s where the character Judge Dredd comes from. So I was a big fan of that. I was a big fan, obviously, of Blade Runner and Star Wars and all of the expected ones. But also, you know, 2001.
I remember my dad showing me Metropolis and things like that as well when I was growing up. So, I kind of had a mixed diet on film. J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick as far as literature goes. And lots of games, as well. I was playing game since I was a kid.
Image credits: Universal Pictures / Warcraft
Australia to auction off confiscated bitcoins this June
Australia has plans to sell off a considerable amount of bitcoins, the cryptocurrency favored by shady online folk, this June. 24,518 bitcoins confiscated by police will be auctioned off by financial services firm Ernst and Young in 2,000 blocks, an amount that equals just over a million US dollars given the current conversion rate. Australian authorities wouldn’t specify where the bitcoins come from other than to say it was in conjunction with a crime. However, as the BBC points out, reports from 2013 indicate a similar quantity of bitcoins were seized in an online drug bust in Victoria. The upcoming auction will be open to bidders worldwide and could help set a precedent legalizing the currency for use in Australia, where it’s still undergoing regulatory approval.
Real-world ‘Pong’ might just beat the video game
If you miss the days of playing Pong with old-school dial controllers but would rather not track down a vintage console or arcade cabinet, today’s your lucky day. Daniel Perdomo and crew have built a real-world Pong machine that replicates the pioneering game with physical parts. Despite what it looks like, it’s not just an Atari-themed air hockey table. Instead of letting physics take over, the machine maps virtual ball and paddle movements to objects. All the eccentricities of Pong gameplay are intact, just in a more tangible (and arguably, far more immersive) form. LEDs track the score, while the controllers are rejiggered hard drives.
Perdomo doesn’t just want this to be a one-off project. He’s hoping to find a hardware manufacturer to produce further tables. If that happens, there’s a real chance that you could have a Pong table in your rec room — perfect for those moments when a round of darts or pool isn’t enough to captivate your house guests.
Via: Gizmodo, Popular Mechanics
Source: Daniel Perdomo (YouTube)
Apple May Introduce Next-Gen Natural Language API in its Amazon Echo Competitor
Last week we reported that Apple is said to be readying an Amazon Echo competitor that could be used in the home for features like listening to music, asking for information and getting news headlines.
The product is thought to include a camera with facial recognition capabilities and said to learn over time about its users, which interact with the device via an enhanced version of Siri. Meanwhile, Apple’s virtual assistant is expected to be opened up to outside developers via a soon-to-be-released software development kit in order to facilitate this integration.
Now, Tech Insider claims that a natural language outfit bought by Apple late last year could play a central part in the company’s plans for the upcoming smart home device.
In October 2015, Apple acquired VocalIQ, a UK-based startup that had spent the last 10 years researching natural language, belief tracking, decision making, and message generation, in an attempt to develop a next-generation natural language API.
Speculation at the time suggested Apple hoped to use the technology in its car project, codenamed “Titan”.
However, according to a source familiar with VocalIQ’s technology who spoke to Tech Insider, Apple is likely to introduce the API in its Echo competitor because of its ability to go beyond the “session-based” contextual responses touted by the likes of Viv. VocalIQ achieves this feat by retaining semantic context between conversations and permanently remembering the preferences of its users.
Apparently the company had been testing VocalIQ against Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, and found it to be vastly superior in dealing with complex natural language queries, such as asking for “a nearby Chinese restaurant with open parking and Wi-Fi that’s kid-friendly”.
[But] What if you change your mind an hour later? Simply saying something like “Find me a Mexican restaurant instead,” will bring you new results, while still taking into account the other parameters like parking and WiFi you mentioned before. Hound, Siri, and any other assistant would make you start the search session over again. But Vocal IQ remembers. That’s more human-like than anything available today.
VocalIQ can also filter out extraneous noise to figure out exactly what you’re saying, thus making it more accurate than Siri is today. It’s able to take in all the noise in an environment — the TV, kids shouting, whatever — and determine with a high probability which sound is actually the user’s query. It can even learn to adapt to different accents over time to improve accuracy.
While the report’s source doesn’t claim to have any hard evidence that Apple plans to include the technology into its upcoming smart device, the possibility is an intriguing one. It also feeds into the expectation that Apple’s decision to open up Siri to third-parties indicates that the virtual assistant will receive the necessary enhancements to prevent it from being overtaken by recent advances in competing products.
Tags: Siri, VocalIQ, Amazon Echo
Asus Announces ZenBook 3, a Retina MacBook Lookalike That is Thinner, Lighter, and Faster
ASUS today at Computex 2016 in Taiwan announced a wide range of new products, including the ZenBook 3, its third-generation ultraportable notebook that is thinner, lighter, and faster than Apple’s lookalike 12-inch Retina MacBook.
The 12.5-inch ZenBook 3 has an ultra-thin 11.9mm aerospace-grade aluminum alloy chassis that weights just 2 pounds and is “50% stronger than the standard alloy” used in competing notebooks. Comparatively, the Retina MacBook is 13.1mm thick and weighs 2.03 pounds.
ZenBook 3’s display is crafted from edge-to-edge, scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass 4, with a 1,920×1,080 pixels resolution and wide 72% NTSC color gamut. The notebook has a slim bezel design that provides an 82% screen-to-body ratio for a maximum viewing experience with a minimal footprint.
The Windows-based notebook is powered by up to an Intel Core i7 processor and features 16GB of 2133MHz RAM, up to 1TB of PCIe 3.0-based flash storage, and quad-speaker audio by Harman Kardon. Like the Retina MacBook, the ZenBook 3 has a single USB-C port for charging and connecting peripherals.
ASUS includes a dongle with USB 3.0, USB-C, and HDMI ports in the box, while a larger universal dock is available with additional connectivity options.
ASUS sacrificed a fanless design like the Retina MacBook has in favor of increased performance, but the ZenBook 3 has an innovative cooling system that features the “world’s thinnest fan design” at just 3mm. The notebook delivers up to 9 hours of battery life with fast-charging technology for recharging up to 60% capacity in 49 minutes.
ZenBook 3 is available in three spun-metal finishes, Royal Blue, Rose Gold, and Quartz Grey, based on a two-phase anodizing process that creates golden highlights on the diamond-cut edges. Whereas the Retina MacBook’s keyboard is always black, the ZenBook 3’s keyboard matches the color of each finish.
The full-sized backlit keyboard also has 19.8mm key pitch and a slightly deeper 0.8mm key travel, compared to 0.5mm on the Retina MacBook’s ultra-thin butterfly mechanism keyboard that some have contested. Next to the keyboard is a glass trackpad with palm-rejection technology, Smart Gestures, and handwriting support.
An optional built-in fingerprint reader with Windows Hello support enables users to sign in and unlock the ZenBook 3 with one finger tap, in lieu of having to type their password or PIN. Similarly, the 2016 MacBook Pro may feature Touch ID as Apple works on an unlocking-via-iPhone feature for OS X 10.12.
ZenBook 3 will be available in the third quarter of 2016, starting at $999 in the U.S. for the base model with an Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. A 512GB SSD model will sell for $1,499, while the top-range Intel Core i7 model with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD will cost $1,999.
ASUS also announced the Zenbo home robot, the ZenFone 3 Series, the ASUS Transformer 3 Series, and multiple other new products.
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Asus Transformer 3 Release Date, Price and Specs – CNET
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Just ahead of Computex 2016’s official start, Asus has used its pre-show conference to reveal its new Transformer tablet series. While the focus was on its bigger Pro sibling, the Transformer 3 still has plenty to offer.
This Windows 2-in-1 PC is just 6.9mm (0.27 inches) thick and weighs 695g (1.5lbs), but offers 9 hours of battery life and still has the same 12.6-inch 3K 2,88 x1920-pixel display.
303 by 202 by 6.9mm (11.9 by 7.9 by 0.27 inches)
12.6-inch, 2,880×1,920-pixel resolution display with a 275ppi density
7th Generation Intel Core processors
Up to 8GB ram
Up to 512GB SSD storage
Thunderbolt 3 Port
Much like how the Surface 3 was a slightly cut down version of the Surface Pro 3, the Transformer 3 is a less robust version of the Transformer 3 Pro, which offers more RAM and storage.
But there looks to be more similarities than differences — there’s even the same Harmon Kardon speaker system built in both models. But those differences make a big change in the pricing. The Transformer 3 starts at $799 (AUD $1,115 or 545) compared to the $999 (AUD$1,395 and 683) of the base model of the Pro.
We’ll get hands on impressions with the Transformer 3 as Computex continues.
ROG XG Station 2 Release Date, Price and Specs – CNET
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First announced back at CES in January, the Asus brand Republic of Gamers (better known at ROG to the party faithful) has used the Computex 2016 show to talk more about its XG Station 2 external graphics card dock.
Like Alienware and Razer, ROG clearly thinks there’s a market for this style of external GPU boost and its resurrected a device from 2007 to do it.
Like other external graphics enclosures, the ROG XG Station 2 is basically a powered box that lets you install a standard GPU and connect that to your laptop, getting you vastly improved graphics power when you’re gaming at home. Unplug it and you’ve got a portable laptop all over again.
The XG Station 2 has a a 680W power supply and support for the latest generation of GeForce GTX and AMD Radeon graphics cards. It uses a Thunderbolt 3 connection and what ROG describe as “an exclusive proprietary connector” that apparently delivers a further 15 percent graphics performance.
ROG is so confidant in the power level it says that the XG will offer VR-ready graphics processing for laptops. At the moment, only the gutsiest of desktop PCs are capable of running the high-end VR experiences.
It can be hot-swapped, meaning you can plug and uplug it while the laptop is running and it has four USB 3.0 ports and a LAN port.
Asus mentioned the XG at its launch of the new Transformer range, which gives you an idea of the company’s strategy for the product.
For reference, the original used the ExpressCard port, had two USB 2.0 slots and could take the 8800 GTS card, the 8800 GTX was too long to fit inside.
At the moment, we’re waiting on more details and pricing.
Asus ROG Avalon Release Date, Price and Specs – CNET
Computex is usually a great place to showcase new stuff, and apart from the Asus Zenbo robot that made its first steps today at enslaving the human race with cuteness, Asus here in Taipei has announced a new hybrid motherboard-chassis combo called Avalon that promises to change how you assemble your future DIY PC.
The idea behind the Avalon is simple. Instead of having to worry about how to squeeze your massive Nvidia GTX 1080 into the limited space in your chassis, by making the board part of the chassis, the Asus ROG Avalon lets you better manage the space by keeping things a lot neater.
If you’ve built your own PC before, you’ll know what a pain it is to properly plan how you want all the components properly installed, so you don’t end up trying to squeeze between the tight spaces to adjust something.
The Avalon does away with this by optimizing the layout with a plug-and-play style and doing away with cabling. Components are also easily accessible and slotted in instead of being buried behind other components like in a normal PC build.
However, there appears to be a drawback. If you ever want to upgrade your PC, you can switch all your parts except for the motherboard, since it’s built into the chassis. The Avalon uses last year’s Intel Z710 chipset, which should be good for a few more years, but after that, you’ll have to upgrade the chassis as well if you want to use a newer processor that’s likely not backward compatible.
With the Avalon being a proof-of-concept still at the moment, don’t expect pricing or shipping. If Asus does see demand though, we could probably see the Avalon hitting stores in the near future, though hopefully with a newer chipset.
Nokia goes Android: What do we want to see?
Nokia is back, announcing that it’s going to be embracing Android and producing a number of smartphones and tablets over the coming years.
Nokia’s story has more twists and turns than a mountain pass, with an equal number of ups and downs. The announcement that we’ll be seeing Nokia branded phones once again is certainly exciting.
But what are we going to see, and what do we want to see?
What happened to Microsoft and Nokia?
The Nokia and Microsoft smartphone dalliance we’ll put down to a nasty affair. With Nokia realising that it was falling behind, it embraced Windows Phone with the Lumia line.
Soon the Lumia line was pretty much all there was to Windows Phone and Microsoft took over. The Nokia name was dropped, Microsoft Devices ruled the roost and several Microsoft Lumia devices followed on.
That hasn’t really worked out so well, so Microsoft has sold off some of the Nokia business it acquired, a new company has been formed called HMD (staffed by ex-Nokia and ex-Microsoft people), Nokia has granted a brand license to this company to make smartphones and tablets, and so this messy break-up will play out.
Nokia has said, however, that it’s going to be keeping a close eye on things to make sure that everything carrying the Nokia name meets the standards you expect, which is an important point.
Nokia’s Android tablet: The Nokia N1
While Nokia wasn’t able to produce smartphones following the acquisition by Microsoft, it did show off an Android tablet, the Nokia N1.
This was demoed at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona where we got our hands on it. That was in a similar position that Nokia’s future business will be in. The N1 was designed and managed by Nokia, but manufactured by Foxconn in China.
The result was a device that looked a lot like the iPad mini, but also carried the same quality of build to it, which is a good thing. It was also demonstrated to us with a full Android Lollipop build with Google Play services, something that wasn’t on the device in China, but a clear indicator that Nokia was playing with Android.
We commented at the time that it would make a great Nexus tablet: wouldn’t that be a great poke in the eye from Google, if it was to have a Nokia Nexus in the near future?
Nokia Android: Colourful Lumia design
When Nokia started churning out Lumia handsets, there was one thing that made them stand apart: colour.
No one else was making devices in colours other than black or silver, perhaps gold, or a special edition pink. Meanwhile Nokia was giving us neons with punch and verve. We’re certainly hoping that we see these things again.
It was perhaps telling that when Microsoft announced the Lumia 950 and 950 XL, colour was gone, perhaps a foreboding that the business was soon to be gone too. We’re sure that Nokia will embrace consumer glory and give us lots of delicious colours once again.
But alongside those colours, Nokia has produced some phones that feel great and look great, without going all-out metal, like many of current flagships.
Nokia Android: PureView camera wizardry
Nokia’s Symbian swansong before this whole Microsoft thing was the 808 PureView. In some ways this was demonstrative of everything that was going wrong at Nokia, presenting a slightly under-specced phone that was too expensive, sitting on an operating system that lacked the consumer ease of the iPhone and the maturing Android (we’re talking 2012, remember the burning platform?)
But it gave us the 41-megapixel PureView camera and that trumped everything else around at the time. PureView, with Zeiss lenses continues into the Lumia line and the next big hit was the Lumia 1020, again punching hard with the camera in 2013.
The smartphone camera game has changed in the last few years, but there’s still a lot to play for. Camera performance still gets top billing from all manufacturers – Apple gives its iPhone launch over to camera demos, Samsung does the same – so there’s everything to play for.
So this is where we have high hopes for future Nokia Androids: we want to see a class-leading PureView camera on an Android handset.
Nokia Android: Go high-end hardware
For those who followed the Windows Phone story, we waited a long time for a premium handset and it never appeared. That fuelled rumours of the Surface phone, but many of the Nokia Lumia devices were mid-range, following the argument that they’d be great in the developing world.
While we loved some of the designs (the Lumia 720, Lumia 925), it always felt as though Nokia never really went premium. Yes, some of the designs would now be great in the mid-range as a Moto G competitor, but we’d love a real flagship.
And by flagship, we mean a no holds barred, 5.2-inch Quad HD display, latest Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware, BoomSound-challenging audio for an amazing Daydream VR-ruling experience, and so on.
Nokia Android: Software goes simple
Let’s face it: Android now offers a very complete user experience. It’s skinned, poked, prodded and adapted, but Nexus devices and Moto devices shine with simplicity. HTC is now moving to get simpler and it all points to one thing – Android doesn’t need to be adapted as it once did.
Windows Phone presents an interesting case study for Nokia and software. Non-Nokia Windows Phones were worse, because Nokia was driving a lot of apps and innovation into Microsoft’s system. It called these “Lumia Extras” and really this was a patchwork that covered the gaps that Microsoft left.
Although Android doesn’t need huge changing, there’s opportunities around things like the camera, to really make something special. Then there’s the growing emergence of VR through Daydream, and remember that Nokia is also working on high-end VR capture with the Ozo, experience it can leverage down to the consumer level.
We hope that Nokia doesn’t flatten Android, but we hope it uses its experience to give us an Android device that shines with simplicity, and retains some novelty.
Nokia Android: When can I get it?
There’s no telling when the Nokia Android release date might be. The ink isn’t even on the agreement that will set this plan in motion, so we’re some way out. Nokia itself has confirmed there’s plenty of work still to do.
We can’t wait for the Nokia renaissance. We’re hoping that some of our wishlist gets fulfilled, otherwise Nokia will just join the swelled ranks of the Android masses.
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The weird and wonderful tech of CEATEC 2016: Here are the crazy gadgets you’ll be using in future
Japan’s top tech show, CEATEC, was held this week in Chiba, just outside Tokyo. And although it has always been traditionally known as a consumer electronics event, this year the show’s organisers took a sharp turn and focused on IoT instead.
The result was a futuristic show with many companies showing off prototypes and future tech. We were there to check them out.
Getting right into the spirit of things was Panasonic with a large display of its latest innovations and aspirations for the next three to five years.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: Bendy batteries
A flexible Lithium-Ion battery was a real show stopper, mainly because it’s due for release at the end of the month. The battery can be flexed or twisted repeatedly without degrading and will most likely be used in wearable devices or smart clothing. Maybe we’ll even see bendable phones come to fruition too, as have been talked about for a while.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: Panasonic’s future smarthome
Panasonic also showed several concept technologies that could really improve home life.
Future kitchen
We particularly warmed up to its future kitchen. It included a snazzy drinks fridge/wine cooler which not only stores your drinks at three different optimum temperatures but also displays information on the ideal serving temps and glasses. It also gives you background information such as the origin and ingredients of your booze. You should never be at a loss to accurately describe your wine or sake collection again.
For those with smaller kitchens or who like smooth uncluttered lines Panasonic does away with ugly stove tops, proposing a conductive unit that doubles as a regular surface when you’re not using it to cook. If your kitchen is even too small for that, how about cooking your food straight on the plate? Simply pop off the protective cover and your dinner can be microwaved right on a tabletop.
Future living room
Forget flatscreen TVs, within five years you could have a clear glass display that transforms into a television screen. One minute you’re displaying an antique vase and giving off the impression of being super sophisticated and highbrow, flick a switch and you could soon be enjoying Netflix.
Future bedroom
In the bedroom, Panasonic showed off a prototype Smart Mirror which can assess your skin’s condition, map blemishes and then print out nano-metre thick cover patches to allow you to achieve a flawless complexion without piling on the make-up products.
It can also assess the condition of your skin, including wrinkles, fine lines and not yet visible damage. While it all sounds great there are a couple of complications. The printer is large and presumably only serves that one function. And the company is still looking for a partner to develop this concept with. We imagine it will get both smaller and more sophisticated when that happens. Hopefully.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: Lenovo’s own smart mirror
Lenovo was also showing off a smart mirror: the ThinkMirror. This one is more focused on lifestyle with an accompanying smart scale which feeds your body stats, such as BMI and bone density, to the mirror which then displays them.
It can also suggest exercises and inform you of how many calories you burnt carrying them out. Again, the one on show was only a prototype, and not one that the company’s representatives were comfortable with demoing on actual people, so that suggests it is far from ready.
However, the developer thought that it is something that could be ready by next year. If that’s the case, it seems like both Panasonic and Lenovo will be pipped at the post by a third option: Cal-Comp’s HiMirror. It combines skin analysis and a smart scale, and it’s set to launch this October.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: Fancy a massage?
Also on the home front, we’ve been to Asia often enough to get used to electronic massage chairs but we have to say that Inada’s Lupinus is in another league.
The chair has large pads in the foot and leg well which act like hands applying pressure along your limbs. The same goes for your arms, which are usually neglected.
We really liked the way the chair manipulated your body by stretching it out before applying different massage techniques. It also has pads to press down on your shoulders, which allows pressure to be properly applied. There’s a display on the side showing you which actions are coming up next and all-in-all it was a thorough massage. We started off the day with a stiff shoulder and have to say after 15 minutes in the chair it was totally gone.
It’ll set you back a pretty penny though at a shade over £3,500.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: Kirobi – Toyota’s mini robot
Toyota’s biggest draw at the show was the adorable Kirobi; the firm’s new mini robot. The tiny companion was officially announced on 3 October and will launch in Japan in early 2017. Pre-orders are now currently being accepted.
The thinking behind the Kirobi is that Toyota would like to get closer to its customers by providing a personalised experience. The genderless, child-like robot fits in the palm of your hand. And we have to admit that, when held, it did mange to feel cute. The size, weight and slightly oversized head do inspire certain protective instincts – maternal even.
However, when we asked the engineer who it is designed it for, rather than immediately referencing young childless women – as much of this week’s coverage pointed to – they instead said young women, the elderly who might like a bit of extra company, and families with small kids.
Kirobi only speaks and responds to Japanese at present but it cleverly recognised our rather poorly-pronounced attempts. It responds in a voice reminiscent of a five year-old’s. We asked it how it was (“very well”) and it then announced it felt like going to see some animals. When we asked which was Kirobi’s favourite animal it said it wasn’t sure yet.
As you communicate with your mini robot it sends information back to the cloud and begins to develop its own memories. Not only will it realise and comment on arriving at a place a second time (using GPS, but shhh don’t tell the kids or grandpa that) but each Kirobi will eventually have different personalities. After three years, say, should you take one person’s Kirobi and swop it with another, they will have totally different memories stored and therefore have developed differently.
Kirobi can also recognise moods through the camera between its overlarge Kawaii eyes and at one point in our demo – admittedly when we were trying hard to remember some Japanese – suggested that we ought to cheer up and try to smile a bit.
Its just 10cm tall and weighs 180g – although when we asked Kirobi how much he weighed he considered the question for a moment and responded, “About the same as an apple.”
It was a lot more certain of its birthday though, gleefully declaring it to be 3 October. Kirobi mini is currently only confirmed to be available in Japanese (which is great if you need a language partner), but Toyota isn’t ruling out introducing other languages in the future.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: VR hangliding
We tried virtual parachuting last June at Taipei’s Computex, so we couldn’t resist trying out a VR hanglide at CEATEC. The graphics were far more complete than the student-developed version we previously tried.
Players are strapped onto a platform with a control bar to hold onto. Although the flight was preset it was fun to be lifted up for real, then swooping down into a volcano in the VR world and through rocky arches across the sea. The demo booth even had a fan going to imitate air flow.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: Robot table tennis tutor
Keeping on the gaming theme, fancy playing a game of ping pong against what essentially looks like a giant Tripod?
Forpheus is the world’s first robot table tennis tutor, as certified by the Guinness Book of Records. We had a go and while our skill level was pretty rubbish to begin with, we soon improved. Unfortunately, so did our opponent. The mammoth machine actually adjusts its skill level as you get better yourself.
Although Omron, the company behind it, is pushing smart machines to intuitively help in factory production we have to say we were glad to be taught a lesson or two ourselves. Sadly our skill level was pretty low, climbing to just four and half, but it would be great to see someone with real skills take on Forpheus.
Best gadgets of CEATEC 2016: Honda’s 3D printed electric car
Honda is pushing the boundaries of 3D printing with a printed electric car, also shown at CEATEC.
The model on the showfloor was produced for a Kanagawa-based biscuit company, in conjunction with design agency Kabuku. That’s why the single-seater delivery van was decorated in an intricate 3D pattern from the company’s boxes.
It only took 20 hours to print out the shell which is then assembled and placed on the axle and car base. Neither company was willing to disclose how much the cars retailed for but should you want to spot one they should be buzzing around Kamakura town from early next year – subject to approval from Japan’s department of transport.
Other designs showed included one with a surfboard holder on the side. As the designer from Kabuku pointed out, the great thing about 3D printing a car is the freedom that it allows in terms of shape and form.
Although CEATEC is still a relatively small tech show, the push towards the IoT is a welcome change and we hope that the organisers will build on this to grow as a more innovative show in the years to come.
Microsoft is holding a hardware-focused event on 26 October
Microsoft has sent invites to the media for an autumn hardware event.
The event is happening on 26 October at 10 am ET in New York City. Pocket-lint’s press invite is stamped with an “Image what you’ll do” tagline, as are other versions of the invite that are floating around.
ZDNet/Microsoft
According to ZDNet, which said the theme of the event will be “The next chapter in the Windows story”, we can expect OEM devices, Microsoft Surface device news, and some gaming updates. A Surface Phone is not expected until sometime later, if Microsoft doesn’t ditch the project, and Microsoft officials already confirmed there’d be no new Band this year.
Previous reports have claimed Microsoft is readying three all-in-one PC desktops and that it would hold a hardware event in late October to launch them. These Surface-branded devices currently go by the codename Cardinal, might come in 21-inch, 24-inch, and 27-inch screen sizes, and likely use the same Perceptive Pixel screen tech found in Surface Hub.
Apart from the all-in-one Surface PCs, Microsoft will primarily spotlight new hardware such as laptops and tablets from Windows 10 device manufacturers. Other Surface devices, including the recently leaked Surface keyboard and mouse, should appear at the autumn event as well. We also might hear news on the next Windows 10 “Redstone 2” update.
Minor refreshes to existing Surface tablets is plausible too. However, the Surface Book 2, Surface Pro 5, and Atom-based Surface 3 probably won’t debut this calendar year. The Verge claimed the company isn’t planning to update its Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book devices at the autumn event, because it will unveil laptops and devices from OEMs instead.
Microsoft will also focus on its vision for the future of Windows 10, such as new features in Windows 10, which it reportedly plans to introduce via two major software updates next year, as well as some Xbox-related announcements, as those new Windows 10 features will tie into its Xbox gaming strategy.
Check out Pocket-lint’s Microsoft hub for related news.
The Pixel’s release doesn’t mean your Nexus is completely toast
Google unveiled its fancy new Pixel phone during a press event on Tuesday. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s an impressive handset, with VR capabilities, a fast-charging battery, supposedly the best-ever phone camera, a super-smart AI assistant and Android 7.1. It’s also the harbinger of death for the current line of Google Nexus smartphones.
As soon CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Pixel on-stage, Google set about scrubbing listings for the Nexus 5X and 6P from its online store. If you want to buy one of them direct from Google now, you’re out of luck. You can however still get one through Google Fi if you don’t mind switching carriers. So what are consumers who have recently purchased these phones (*raises hand*) to do? Does the introduction of the Pixel mean that Nexus owners are on their own, hemmed in by a Nougat 7.0 ceiling, relegated to the technological sidelines until our service contracts expire and we’re free to upgrade?
Turns out, the situation isn’t quite as dire as I feared. Per Google, the company will continue to support existing handsets (think: customer service, software updates and the like), but the company has no plans to build any more Nexus-branded products.
Although there are definitely some features that will remain exclusive to the Pixel handsets themselves, a Google rep told me that a number of them will eventually spread to the rest of the Android ecosystem. Assistant, for example, will start off as a Pixel exclusive and probably won’t be porting to other devices any time soon. Daydream VR support, though, will be available on day one for any Android device new enough to accept the Nougat 7.1 upgrade.
All told, the Pixel will ship with the following exclusives: the Pixel launcher, Google Assistant, screen sharing and various UI/wallpaper tweaks. It will also be the only one to offer the Pixel camera (obvs) as well as Smart Storage, and unlimited space on Google Photos. Plus the Pixel is the first Android phone to offer a quick switch adapter that ports content from your old phone, so of course that’s an exclusive too. Again, some of these features will eventually find their way to other phones, some will not. It depends on a litany of marketing and technological factors so Google isn’t publicly saying what or when just yet.
That said, our Nexuses are not chopped liver. When Nougat 7.1 arrives, you can look forward to a slew of new software features. These include Night Light, touch and display performance improvements, Daydream VR mode and a new manual storage manager that will allow users to see which apps are using the most onboard memory. The update will also enable Moves: an opt-in gesture-based feature that will open or close the notifications slider.
So, no, Nexus owners aren’t going to get Assistant or a fancy new camera — those are the perks of riding the early-adopter train — but we’re not being left in the wilds to fend for ourselves either. Plus, no matter which handset you have, Nougat 7.1 is going to give us VR and that’s something everyone can get excited about.
AT&T, Sprint will exchange replacement Note 7s after airplane incident (updated)
A replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 started smoking and burned through the carpet on board a Southwest flight this week. Following the incident, one US carrier is allowing owners to exchange those replacement devices even though the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) hasn’t issued a formal warning or recall yet. Sprint confirmed to Engadget it will allow customers to return their replacement Note 7 for another device at its retail stores “during the investigation window.” The carrier says that it’s working with Samsung “to better understand the most recent concerns” with the handset.
Here’s Sprint’s full statement on the matter:
“Sprint is working collaboratively with Samsung to better understand the most recent concerns regarding replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is also investigating the Note 7 replacement device. At this time, CPSC has not specifically said if customers should or should not use the replacement model. If a Sprint customer with a replacement Note 7 has any concerns regarding their device, we will exchange it for any other device at any Sprint retail store during the investigation window. We will provide additional information when the investigation has concluded.”
So, what if you’re on T-Mobile, AT&T or Verizon? Well, Recode reports T-Mobile will accept returns so long as they fall within its normal 14-day “remorse” policy. The carrier began offering replacement Note 7s to customers on September 21st, so if you got one that day, the return window has already closed. T-Mobile began selling the phone to new customers this week, so they still have time to take it back. We’ve asked the carrier for more info on the return process and we’ll let you know when/if its responds.
AT&T confirmed to Engadget that it will also allow customers to exchange replacement Galaxy Note 7s for another phone. We also reached out to Verizon on the matter and haven’t heard back. When or if we do, we’ll update this post with more information. Both carriers have 14-day return policies similar to T-Mobile, but again, if you picked up a replacement on the 21st, that exchange period has already run out.
Update: This post has been updated to reflect AT&T confirmed that it too would offer exchanges.
Via: 9to5 Google
Source: Recode
Backpage CEO arrested and charged with pimping a minor
Online classified ad site Backpage.com has been going through legal turmoil for years, and with good reason — there’s plenty of evidence that the site’s “adult” section has been a haven of sex trafficking, including some advertisements for sexual encounters with minors. All those issues are hitting the company in a big way today: CEO Carl Ferrer and founders Michael Lacey and James Larkin were charged today in California on charges of conspiracy and pimping a minor, reports The New York Times.
Ferrer was arrested Thursday in Texas and is awaiting an extradition hearing to return him to California, while Lacey and Larkin haven’t been apprehended just yet. The affidavit for the warrant claims that the defendants “have known that their website is the United States hub for the illegal sex trade and that many of the people advertised for commercial sex on Backpage are victims of sex trafficking, including children.” The charges come after a three-year joint investigation between Texas and California.
Earlier this year, a congressional investigation found that Backpage would edit some of its classified ads to disguise the fact they were selling the services of minors. The US Senate issued subpoenas for documents relating to how the company screens its ads, a request that went unfulfilled. The Senate then held the company in contempt in an effort to force a response to its subpoenas. Ferrer himself was subpoenaed about a year ago, but didn’t show up.
It sounds like the case against Ferrer and the company’s co-founders is pretty strong — documents filed included interviews with children who were forced to take out ads on Backpage. One 15-year-old girl said she was forced into prostitution at the age of 13 and that the company has been profiting from prostitution for years. “I mean really, coming from someone my age, there is too much access, like it’s too easy for people get on it and post an ad,” the unnamed minor said. It’ll likely be a while before these cases are seen through to a conclusion, but these arrests are an important step towards shutting down a site that appears to be engaged in seriously unsavory activity.
Source: The New York Times
The best ergonomic keyboard
By Melanie Pinola
This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a list of the best technology to buy. Read the full article here.
Of the dozen ergonomic keyboards we’ve tested since 2014, the Microsoft Sculpt Ergo is the most comfortable model for most people. It’s the only one to meet all of our ergonomic criteria, including a separate number pad and support for both negative tilt and vertical “tenting.” The Sculpt Ergo’s manta-ray-like design puts your hands in the most natural and comfortable position for long bouts of typing, and it’s a solid wireless keyboard with keys that are crisp and satisfying to press.
Who this is for
If you type often and are concerned about your posture or experiencing hand, arm, or shoulder pain, an ergonomic keyboard can help you better position your body. Although there’s no clear evidence that ergonomic keyboards can prevent carpal tunnel syndrome or other kinds of repetitive-stress injuries, alternative keyboards can help reduce strain. If you’ve been diagnosed with carpal tunnel or RSI, consult your doctor for advice specific to you.
A primer on good keyboard ergonomics
Regular keyboards can force your hands closer together, causing your wrists to bend to the side unnaturally. This bending is called ulnar deviation, and the position puts pressure on your ulnar nerve. To counter this effect, most ergonomic keyboards split their layouts and position keys at an angle so that your hands can lie flat on the keys.
Another common issue is extension—bending your arm upward at the wrist so that your fingers can reach keys on a keyboard that’s taller in the back—which puts excessive pressure on the median nerve. You can alleviate this condition by using a keyboard with negative tilt, which prevents extension by angling your forearms slightly downward. In most cases, if you improve your posture and select a different keyboard, you can find some relief. Check out our full guide for more information on proper keyboard ergonomics.
For this update, we retested our top picks and brought in three additional keyboards based on new advice and research from ergonomics experts. Photo: Melanie Pinola
Based on advice from experts in ergonomics and keyboard design, we looked at ergonomic keyboards with a split design (whether a fixed or complete split); a low profile; clicky, responsive keys; a negative tilt; and no built-in numeric keypad, so you can have the mouse closer to you.
We researched 21 models and then tested four by using each keyboard for four days to write, email, and browse the Web, switching to a different keyboard halfway through each day so that each keyboard got equal time in the mornings, when there was less likely to be fatigue, and in the evenings, when achiness was most noticeable. Since comfort is subjective, we also consulted the opinions of a five-person testing panel to compare their opinions on each keyboard’s comfort, feel, and efficiency when typing.
The Microsoft Sculpt Ergo meets all our ergonomic criteria, making it the best choice for most people. Photo: Melanie Pinola
The Microsoft Sculpt Ergo is the only keyboard we tested that offers both tenting—rotating the wrists properly to avoid ulnar deviation—and a negative tilt to prevent extension. The Sculpt Ergo also includes low-profile, clicky keys, plus a number pad that’s separate from the main keyboard. It meets all of our ergonomic criteria for less than half the price of our other main contenders. Most people who don’t already have consistent keyboard-related pain will likely find it more comfortable to use for hours on end compared with a traditional keyboard.
In my testing, the keyboard’s large, curved palm rest was comfortable to rest my hands on, and the keys were responsively springy and easy to press. Because the Sculpt Ergo’s keys are shallow and laptop-style, I didn’t have to bend my wrists excessively upward to type or to rest my fingers on the home-row keys. After full days of typing on the Sculpt Ergo, I felt very little, if any, increase in fatigue or achiness in my hands or elbows compared with using a regular keyboard.
The one drawback of the Sculpt Ergo is that it’s a fixed keyboard, which means you can’t adjust the angle of the negative tilt or tenting, nor the distance of the split between the left and right sections. While that design makes the keyboard easier to set up and use for most people, if you have broad shoulders, suffer from shoulder pain, or tend to rotate your wrists more, you should opt for a fully split, adjustable keyboard.
Upgrade pick
The Matias Ergo Pro is a fully split ergonomic keyboard with excellent mechanical keys. Photo: Melanie Pinola
If you have consistent aches while typing, if you need more customization, or if the Sculpt Ergo doesn’t fit your body’s ergonomic needs, the Matias Ergo Pro may be better for you. The Ergo Pro is a fully split mechanical keyboard with layouts for both Mac and Windows. You can tent the Ergo Pro’s keyboard halves or tilt them away from you, and the completely split design means you can position the keyboard halves for optimal wrist, shoulder, and arm comfort. Unlike the Microsoft Sculpt Ergo, the Matias Ergo Pro doesn’t support both tenting and negative tilt at the same time. But because it’s more adjustable than the other models we tested, the Ergo Pro is more ergonomic for a wider swath of comfort needs.
A Bluetooth option
The Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue can connect to up to three devices via Bluetooth. Photo: Melanie Pinola
If you want a fully split keyboard without lots of messy wires, or if you’d like to use the keyboard for both your computer and your mobile gadgets, the Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue—available in Mac and Windows versions—is your best option. The VIP3 accessory is a must-have for getting the most ergonomic benefits from this keyboard; with it, you can tent the halves to a steeper angle than our other picks. While the Freestyle2 Blue’s keys were our least favorite among our picks, the keyboard worked flawlessly for typing on a desktop computer and on mobile devices. This Bluetooth model connects wirelessly and supports multi-device pairing, and the fully split design lets you customize the position of the keyboard halves. If you frequently switch between devices or you hate messy cables, the Freestyle2 Blue is the best wireless ergonomic keyboard we’ve seen.
Watch the first trailer for ‘Black Mirror’ season three
The third season of Charlie Brooker’s dark, technology-infused drama Black Mirror is almost upon us. The show is known for its bleak but surprisingly believable depictions of the future, where society has pursued revelatory technologies — only to discover some unsettling consequences. The show started on Channel 4 in the UK, but has since been picked up by Netflix for season three. The first proper trailer dropped today, teasing some of the storylines that will play out in each of the six episodes. There are plenty of familiar faces, including Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) and Michael Kelly (House of Cards).
The first batch of episodes will drop on October 21st. Netflix has commissioned 12 episodes, however, so a second set — which most people are now referring to as season four — will be released at a later date.
Microsoft will hold a Windows 10 event October 26th
It has been a busy few weeks for the big tech companies making major announcements and we’re not done yet. Microsoft announced today that it will host a Windows 10 event October 26th in New York City at 10:00 AM ET. The company didn’t get into specifics on the invite or social media posts, but if it’s keeping an yearly update timeline for new Surface Pros, perhaps we’ll see a new model later this month. The Surface Pro 4 was revealed in early October last year after all. Of course, there’s sure to be some discussion on the latest developments for Windows 10 as well, and we’ll be there to bring you all the news live as it happens.
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— Microsoft (@Microsoft) October 7, 2016
Facebook’s Events app helps you find stuff to do
There’s no shortage of event-finding apps for your smartphone. YPlan, Eventbrite, Songkick — the list goes on and on. Facebook’s dream of being your go-to event planner is no secret, and today it’s taking a huge swipe at its specialized competitors with a new, standalone app of its own. Available first on iOS, the aptly named “Events” gives you a filtered feed with all of your friends’ activity. So if they’ve said they’re “interested” in a nearby food market, you’ll see it immediately — no need to trawl through the News Feed, or hunt for the appropriate section inside the main Facebook app.
There’s a search tab too, which lets you filter events by time or location. An image-heavy carousel sits further down with suggestions, pulled presumably from your Likes, history and geographical whereabouts. Finally, there’s a search box if you want to get specific. The calendar tab, accessible at the bottom, will give you an overview of everything you’ve signed up for. It’s not a full calendar app — but if you’re struggling to keep up with your Facebook-related engagements, maybe this can help.
Events’ utility is obvious. Facebook has a massive audience, one that’s attracted almost every type of business and event organiser. That interest has led to a huge number of listings, which could appeal to an equally huge number of people online. Facebook’s job is to pair the two groups together — a simple challenge, you might think, but one that’s grown harder as the platform’s priorities have broadened. Video, livestreaming, friendship anniversary reminders — it’s easy for events to get lost amongst the rest of the social noise. A standalone app could bring them back to the fore.
Source: Events (iOS)
NFL could fine its own teams for social media posts
Sports reputation as being DVR-proof has led some leagues to try and tightly control how and where their highlights show up online. While the NBA is relatively loose about allowing its clips on YouTube or Twitter, the NFL has gone after websites for posting video or GIFs before, and the Olympics banned outlets from posting GIFs this summer. Now, a leaked memo obtained by TheMMQB and Mashable reveals how the NFL can go after its own teams for posts by their social media accounts. Now, teams can be fined for exceeding the limits on video and any moving content (read: GIFs) posted during the 60 minutes before a game or during the game.
As noted by Pro Football Talk, these new rules actually loosen restrictions that had existed on using video from games, and recorded at the stadium on gameday. But the penalties put in place mean that for a first-time violation, a team could be fined $25,000 for an offending post, which ramps up to $50,000 the second time, and $100,000 plus the loss of rights to post league content for a third strike.
Mashable revealed that banned behavior includes tweeting video during the restricted time period, other than resharing video from official league accounts. While the ban on gametime GIFs (even for content that’s not from the game itself) could be reviewed going forward, it seems likely that your preferred team’s social media account will become a lot less personal while the game is happening. The big question however, is whether the NFL just wants more control over valuable game video and reach when the most people are paying attention, or if it’s worried about ratings that, through the first quarter of the season, have noticeable declined?
Source: TheMMQB, Mashable, Pro Football Talk
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Danube tame and luxury, was condemned to an hopeless exile on the frozen banks of the Danube, where he was exposed, almost without defence, to the fury of these monsters of the desert, with whose stern spirits he feared that his gentle shade might hereafter be confounded. In his pathetic, but sometimes unmanly, lamentations,40 he describes, in the most lively colours, the dress and manners, the arms and inroads of the Getae and Sarmatians, who were associated for the purposes of destruction; and from the accounts of history there is some reason to believe that these Sarmatians were the Jazygee, one of the most numerous and warlike tribes of the nation. The allurements of plenty engaged them to seek a permanent establishment on the frontiers of the empire. Soon after the reign of Augustus, they obliged the Dacians, who subsisted by fishing on the banks of the river Theiss or Tibiscus, to retire into the hilly country, and to abandon to the victorious Sarmatians the fertile plains of the Upper Hungary, which are bounded by the course of the Danube and the semi-circular inclosure of the Carpathian mountains.41 In this advantageous position, they watched or suspended the moment of attack, as they were provoked by injuries or appeased by presents; they gradually acquired the skill of using more dangerous weapons; and, although the Sarmatians did not illustrate their name by any memorable exploits, they occasionally assisted their eastern and western neighbours, the Goths and the Germans, with a formidable
the viper and a mixture of human blood. The use of poisoned arms, which has been spread over both worlds, never preserved a savage tribe from the arms of a disciplined enemy.
«The nine books of Poetical Epistles, which Ovid composed during the seven first years of his melancholy exile, possess, besides the merit of elegance, a double value. They exhibit a picture of the human mind under very singular circumstances; and they contain many curious observations, which no Roman, except Ovid, could have an opportunity of making. Every circumstance which tends to illustrate the history of the Barbarians has been drawn together by the very accurate Count de Buat. Hist. Ancienne des Peuples de l'Europe, torn. iv. c. xvi. p. 286-317. [For Sarmatians cp. App. 16.]
41 The Sarmatians [? leg. Sarmatianl Jazygae were settled on the banks of the Pathissus or Tibiscus, when Pliny, in the year 79, published his Natural History. See 1. iv. c. 25. In the time of Strabo and Ovid, sixty or seventy years before, they appear to have inhabited beyond the Getae, along the coast of the Euxine.
body of cavalry. They lived under the irregular aristocracy of their chieftains;42 but, after they had received into their bosom the fugitive Vandals, who yielded to the pressure of the Gothic power, they seem to have chosen a king from that nation, and from the illustrious race of the Astingi, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Northern ocean.43
This motive of enmity must have inflamed the subjects of n» 8»^lc contention, which perpetually arise on the confines of warlike and independent nations. The Vandal princes were stimulated by fear and revenge; the Gothic kings aspired to extend their dominion from the Euxine to the frontiers of Germany: and the waters of the Maros, a small river which falls into the Theiss, were stained with the blood of the contending Barbarians. After some experience of the superior strength and number of their adversaries, the Sarmatians implored the protection of the Roman monarch, who beheld with pleasure the discord of the nations, but who was justly alarmed by the progress of the Gothic arms. As soon as Constantine had declared himself in favour of the weaker party, the haughty Araric, king of the Goths, instead of expecting the attack of the legions, boldly passed the Danube, and spread terror and devastation through the province of Msesia. To oppose the inroad of this destroying host, the aged emperor took the field in person; but on this occasion either his conduct or his fortune betrayed the glory which he had acquired in so many foreign and domestic wars. He had the mortification of seeing his troops fly before an inconsiderable detachment of the Barbarians, who pursued them to the edge of their fortified camp and obliged him to consult his safety by a precipitate and ignominious retreat44 The event of a second and more successful action retrieved the honour of the Roman name; and the powers of art and discipline prevailed, after an obstinate contest, over the efforts of irregular valour. The broken army of the Goths abandoned the field of battle, the wasted province, and the passage of the Danube: and, although the eldest of
43 Principes Sarmatarum Jazygum penes quos civitatis regimen. . . plebem quoque et vim equitum qua sola valent offerebant. Tacit. Hist. iii. 5. This offer was made in the civil war between Vitellius and Vespasian.
"This hypothesis of a Vandal king reigning over Sarmatian subjects seems necessary to reconcile the Goth Jomandes with the Greek and Latin historians of Constantine. It may be observed that Isidore, who lived in Spain under the dominion of the Goths, gives them for enemies, not the Vandals, but the Sarmatians. See his Chronicle in Grotius, p. 709.
**[Theie seems to be no evidence for this defeat of Constantine. It is a curious error of Gibbon.]
Ad. 832, the sons of Constantine was permitted to supply the place of his father, the merit of the victory, which diffused universal joy, was ascribed to the auspicious counsels of the emperor himself.
He contributed at least to improve this advantage, by his negotiations with the free and warlike people of Chersonesus,45 whose capital, situate on the western coast of the Tauric or Crimaean peninsula, still retained some vestiges of a Grecian colony, and was governed by a perpetual magistrate, assisted by a council of senators, emphatically styled the Fathers of the City. The Chersonites were animated against the Goths by the memory of the wars which, in the preceding century, they had maintained with unequal forces against the invaders of their country. They were connected with the Romans by the mutual benefits of commerce; as they were supplied from the provinces of Asia with corn and manufactures, which they purchased with their only productions, salt, wax, and hides. Obedient to the requisition of Constantine, they prepared, under the conduct of their magistrate Diogenes, a considerable army, of which the principal strength consisted in crossbows and military chariots. The speedy march and intrepid attack of the Chersonites, by diverting the attention of the Goths, assisted the operations of the imperial generals. The Goths, vanquished on every side, were driven into the mountains, where, in the course of a severe campaign, above an hundred thousand were computed to have perished by cold and hunger. Peace was at length granted to their humble supplications; the eldest son of Araric was accepted as the most valuable hostage; and Constantine endeavoured to convince their chiefs, by a liberal distribution of honours and rewards, how far the friendship of the Romans was preferable to their enmity. In the expressions of his gratitude towards the faithful Chersonites,
451 may stand in need of some apology for having used, without scruple, the authority of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in all that relates to the wars and negotiations of the Chersonites. I am aware that he was a Greek of the tenth century, and that his accounts of ancient history are frequently confused and fabulous. But on this occasion his narrative is, for the most part, consistent and probable; nor is there much difficulty in conceiving that an emperor might have access to some secret archives, which had escaped the diligence of meaner historians. For the situation and history of Chersone, see Peyssonel des Peuples barbares qui ont habits les Bords du Danube, c. xvi. p. 84-90. [Const. Porph., de Adm. Imp. c. 53. See St. Martin (note on Lebeau, i. 326), who points out that Gibbon has confounded the city of Cherson, to which Constantine Porph. refers, with the whole peninsula. He is also mistaken in describing the Stephanephoros (who was annually elected) as a perpetual magistrate. Milman calls attention to St. Martin's note.]
the emperor was still more magnificent. The pride of the nation was gratified by the splendid and almost royal decorations bestowed on their magistrate and his successors. A perpetual exemption from all duties was stipulated for their vessels which traded to the ports of the Black Sea. A regular subsidy was promised, of iron, corn, oil, and of every supply which could be useful either in peace or war. But it was thought that the Sarmatians were sufficiently rewarded by their deliverance from impending ruin; and the emperor, perhaps with too strict an economy, deducted some part of the expenses of the war from the customary gratifications which were allowed to that turbulent nation.46
Exasperated by this apparent neglect, the Sarmatians soon Expiidon of forgot, with the levity of Barbarians, the services which theyuuu! A.d. had so lately received and the dangers which still threatened their safety. Their inroads on the territory of the empire provoked the indignation of Constantine to leave them to their fate, and he no longer opposed the ambition of Geberic, a renowned warrior, who had recently ascended the Gothic throne. Wisumar, the Vandal king, whilst alone and unassisted he defended his dominions with undaunted courage, was vanquished and slain in a decisive battle, which swept away the flower of the Sarmatian youth. The remainder of the nation embraced the desperate expedient of arming their slaves, a hardy race of hunters and herdsmen, by whose tumultuary aid they revenged their defeat and expelled the invader from their confines. But they soon discovered that they had exchanged a foreign for a domestic enemy, more dangerous and more implacable. Enraged by their former servitude, elated by their present glory, the slaves, under the name of Limigantes, claimed and usurped the possession of the country which they had saved. Their masters, unable to withstand the ungoverned fury of the populace, preferred the hardships of exile to the tyranny of their servants. Some of the fugitive Sarmatians solicited a less ignominious dependence, under the hostile standard of the Goths. A more numerous band retired beyond the Carpathian mountains, among the Quadi, their German allies, and were easily admitted to share a superfluous waste of uncultivated land. But the far greater part of the distressed nation turned their eyes towards the fruitful provinces of Rome. Imploring the protection and forgiveness of
* [Thic it a. misconception. No such " dictation" is mentioned in the sources. J
the emperor, they solemnly promised, as subjects in peace and as soldiers in war, the most inviolable fidelity to the empire which should graciously receive them into its bosom. According to the maxims adopted by Probus and his successors, the offers of this Barbarian colony were eagerly accepted; and a competent portion of lands, in the provinces of Pannonia, Thrace, Macedonia, and Italy, were immediately assigned for the habitation and subsistence of three hundred thousand Sarmatians.47 Death mi By chastising the pride of the Goths, and by accepting the
cinrtikuL. homage of a suppliant nation, Constantine asserted the majesty 25th jiuy of the Roman empire; and the ambassadors of jEthiopia, Persia and the most remote countries of India congratulated the peace and prosperity of his government48 If he reckoned, among the favours of fortune, the death of his eldest son, of his nephew, and perhaps of his wife, he enjoyed an uninterrupted flow of private as well as public felicity, till the thirtieth year of his reign; a period which none ot his predecessors, since Augustus, had been permitted to celebrate. Constantine survived that solemn festival about ten months; and, at the mature age of sixty-four, after a short illness, he ended his memorable life at A.d. 837, the palace of Aquyrion, in the suburbs of Nicomedia, whither he had retired for the benefit of the air, and with the hope of recruiting his exhausted strength by the use of the warm baths. The excessive demonstrations of grief, or at least of mourning, surpassed whatever had been practised on any former occasion. Notwithstanding the claims of the senate and people of ancient Rome, the corpse of the deceased emperor, according to his last request, was transported to the city which was destined to pre
47 The Gothic and Sarmatian wars are related in so broken and imperfect a manner that I have been obliged to compare the following writers, who mutually supply, correct, and illustrate each other. Those who will take the same trouble, may acquire a right of criticizing my narrative. Ammianus, 1. xvii. c. 12. Anonym. Valesian. p. 715. Eutropius, x. 7, Sextus Rufus de Provinces, c. 26. Julian. Orat i. p. 9, and Spanheim, Comment, p. 94. Hieronym. in Chron. Euseb. in Vit. Constantin. L lv. c 6. Socrates, L 1. c. 18. Sozomen, L i. c. 8. Zosimus, L ii. p. 108 [c. 21]. Jornandes de Reb. Geticis, c. 22. Isidorus in Chron. p. 709; in Hist. Gothorum Grotii. Constantin. Porpnyrogenitus de administrat. Imperii, c.
?3, p. 208, edit Meursii. [Add Joan of Antioch, fr. 171 (Mtiller, F. H. G. 4). t has been conjectured by Bucking that the Sarmatian settlements in Ausonius Mosella 819 were made at this time. Sarmatic games were instituted (C. I. L. i. 407) and Constantine is called Sarmaticus in inscriptions. See Henzen, 5576; Eckhel, 8, 87, 101, 107J
48 Eusebius (in Vit. Const. 1. iv. c. 50) remarks three circumstances relative to these Indians. 1. They came from the shores of the eastern ocean; a description which might be applied to the coast of China or Coromandel. 2. They presented shining gems, and unknown animals. 3. They protested their kings had erected statues to represent the supreme majesty of Constantine.
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On January 12, 2020 By Brizzy Mays Books and BruschettaIn Australian history, Biography, books, military, review5 Comments
Linda Goetz Holmes is a Historian appointed to the U.S. Government Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, tasked with locating and declassifying material about World War II war crimes.
The author’s central figure, Australian Staff Sergeant Cecil Dickson, had been a reporter for a Melbourne paper. Already a veteran of fighting in the Middle East, he was returning home with his battalion in January 1942 when it was diverted to Java. Eventually, the battalion joined masses of American, British, Australian and Dutch prisoners working under brutal conditions on the Singapore-Burma railway.
Between stories of suffering and sadistic cruelty the author focusses on the months after Japan’s surrender and Dickson’s return to Australia utilising the letters he had written to his wife.
Personal Take
I enjoyed the different perspective with the protagonist focussing on wars end and getting home to his wife , Binks. It wasn’t until October 1945 that Dickson finally left Asia for Australia and between the lines we get that he could have departed earlier except that as a journalist he was interested in writing the POW experience for the Australian public.
Dickson was pipped at the post by Rohan Rivett, a fellow POW, who wrote the POW Bible, Behind Bamboo, released in 1946, which was the Go To book when I was a student.
One particularly tragic tale refers to the POW who survived years of incarceration only to ring his wife in Perth, Western Australia, on his journey home to learn that she had formed a liaison with another man. He quietly slipped over the side of the ship never to be seen again.
Dickson also relates that as he disembarked off the ship in Melbourne a “ charming woman came up and chatted to him”. It didn’t click that it was his wife of 19 years, Binks.
We have absolutely no idea, do we ?
On January 10, 2020 January 11, 2020 By Brizzy Mays Books and BruschettaIn Aussie Authors, Australia, books, Bush fires, retirement3 Comments
Stringybark Publishing is an Australian bespoke publishing house in operation since 2010. No, I am not sleeping with anyone within management, nor do I have any monetary affiliations within the organisation.
To be honest, it was only within the last twelve months and my retirement that I took any interest in short stories which is the area in which Stringybark Publishing specialises. Someone once said “A short story is the ideal place for a first meeting, a bit like making the first date for coffee rather than a meal.”
Stringybark Stories encourages Australian and international writers to create and share stories by running regular short story writing competitions throughout each year with a variety of themes. And no, this is not my area of expertise though my appreciation of tales with a decidedly Australian flavour has certainly been fuelled by my recent visits to country townships and a better understanding and appreciation of our unique history. See here for further details: https://www.stringybarkstories.net/index.html
Up until the end of February Stringybark Stories have on offer a choice of two Summer Reading Bushfire Packs containing six different anthologies of short stories written as part of past writing competitions. These cost $29.95 each and include postage within Australia.
ALL PROFITS from these sales will be donated in equal amounts to WIRES Wildlife Information and Rescue Service to assist with the immediate needs of Australian wildlife and Bush Heritage Australia (https://www.bushheritage.org.au/ ) to help protect biodiversity into the future.
I’m not a rampant consumer ( unless the product involves Errol Flynn) and I don’t participate in online shopping ( unless the product involves Errol Flynn). But, WOW!
* Bushfire Update: As a nation we do adversity really well. We rally, support and assist each other. We thrive in times of major dramas. It’s what we do best. We also proportion blame, bitch like six year old girls in the school yard, and carry on like chooks with our heads cut off. Move on kiddies. Pull up those Big Girl Panties and keep moving forward regardless of your politics. “ It will be okay in the end, otherwise it’s not the end.”
** New Participants in competitions most welcome.
And if you have an interest in writing competitions, WOW again.
On January 8, 2020 By Brizzy Mays Books and BruschettaIn books, memories, travel11 Comments
I don’t need to count the number of books I read each year. I read because it gives me pleasure. Pure and simple.
This year I will add to the mix by deliberately focussing on reading books by authors from other countries, starting with Nigeria. Off to the Library next week to pick up Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
This week I’m staying home. It doesn’t sit right gallivanting at the moment. Doesn’t mean that I’m not having fun. I’m up to series 4 of West Wing, continue to puppy sit and walk the grand fur-baby, and have read a couple of (appalling) books.
Australian comedian Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules For Life was a massive disappointment. I’ve seen Kitty live several times and love her to bits. Why so many of our celebrities are turning their hand to books I don’t know.
A couple of short stories by Robert G Barrett were even more woeful. Barrett, an Australian crime writer, was a butcher by trade. Say no more. They reminded me of my Uncle Bill, a commercial traveller, who used to keep a box of girlie magazines and cheap pot boilers in a box in the backyard dunny which was covered in choko vines.
I read his first book back in the early 80s. It was Sydney-centric and I could relate. Who else would understand “ how could you live in the Eastern suburbs and follow St George?”. No more Les Norton for me.
My next big trip is to Papua New Guinea. All booked and paid. I guess it would be appropriate to source some PNG authors too. Any suggestions please?
Christmas Reading
On December 27, 2019 By Brizzy Mays Books and BruschettaIn Aussie Authors, Aussie Xmas, books2 Comments
In recovery mode so just finished reading Di Morrissey’s Rain Music. Massive disappointment though I shouldn’t be surprised as I selected it purely for its pretty front cover. I’m generally not one to take any notice of book covers but the flowering Poincianas are very familiar and line the streets where I live.
Tip: Give it a miss.
Doesn’t matter. Fluff is acceptable after too much merriment, isn’t it?
My previous read was Peace by Australian author Garry Disher.
Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He’s still new in town but the community work—welfare checks and working bees—is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a ute and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch’s life has been peaceful. Until he’s called to a strange, vicious incident in Kitchener Street. And Sydney police ask him to look in on a family living outside town on a forgotten back road.Suddenly, it doesn’t look like a season of goodwill at all.
Crime books are not my forte and so I battled through the first few chapters with Constable Plod slowly negotiating his way around his rural precinct. Then it clicked. Plod is working at the pace of the heat and the dry which is so draining on the edge of the Flinders Rangers in South Australia. Beautiful, but the only things that move fast are the flies.
A great read and of course I had no chance in predicting who was the culprit.
Tip: Well worth the effort.
I need a new Reading Challenge for the New Year. I’ve loved discovering more Australian authors, especially indie writers, but I need to up the anti.
I blame the chocolates.
Sure Beats Vegemite
On December 16, 2019 By Brizzy Mays Books and BruschettaIn books, christmas, Family, food, travel2 Comments
My youngest daughter will be playing tourist in Agra over Christmas. Loving her work stint in India she is making sure she clocks up as many experiences as possible.
Cat Balou is loving sampling the Indian foods and spices and I guess being a vegetarian (for medical reasons) helps. She is off to a Celebration of Rice this weekend which should be fascinating.
She disappeared to Sri Lanka for a break recently so my (early) Xmas gift to her was a cooking class whilst in Colombo. Both my daughters undertake cooking classes when travelling through other countries – somewhat surprising given that for many years as University students a Vegemite sandwich was the extent of their culinary expertise.
When they flew the nest to pursue their careers in different parts of the country cooking a seafood paella together on their return home became a family tradition. Well, Cat Balou and I cook paella – Pocahontas was in charge of the sangria
In Australia, there’s this practise of judging a pub meal by the standard of its chicken schnitzel, affectionately known as a schnitty. It just is. When my daughters and I travel outside the country we judge by the paella we consume.
Cait’s Sri Lankan cooking class included Coconut Cassava Chips and a Beetroot Curry which she promises to repeat when she arrives home. I’m not sure what wine goes with a beetroot or jackfruit curry. I’m not even sure what a jackfruit is, or where to buy one, though I am looking forward to the experience.
Daughter of mine always immerses herself into the cultures she visits including delving into the literature. It’s a habit she’s had since childhood: diving in head first from one interest till the next. Here’s Cat Balou’s tip for the next great Indian writer:
I’m a little anxious about any new cooking skill Pocahontas may bring back from her time in remote Nhulunbuy……………
Khaki Town by Judy Nunn
On December 6, 2019 December 9, 2019 By Brizzy Mays Books and BruschettaIn Aussie Authors, Australian history, books, military, review, Townsville4 Comments
Khaki Town by Australian author Judy Nunn had an interesting byline that had me throw caution to the wind and spend $1 at a charity store. Bargain! It said:
“ inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years”.
Historical fiction I read this in a single sitting under the comfort of ceiling fans and followed up with a little research. This is what I discovered:
TRUE STORY:
Back in 2012 an Australian historian, Ray Holyoak, from James Cook University, was researching why US congressman Lyndon B Johnson visited Townsville for three days back in 1942.
During World War II, Townsville was a crucial base for campaigns into the Pacific, including the Battle of the Coral Sea. To this day it remains a garrison town.
About 600 African-American troops were brought to the city to help build airfields and bridges. These troops, from the 96th Battalion, US Army Corps of Engineers, were stationed at a base on the city’s western outskirts. Two white USA officers handed out serial abuse in the form of racial taunts and violence which resulted in a large-scale siege lasting eight hours.
Holyoak uncovered several documents hidden in the archives of the Queensland Police and Townsville Brigade from the night of 22nd May, 1942, confirming that the soldiers took to machine guns and anti-aircraft weapons and fired into tents where their white counterparts were drinking. More than 700 rounds were fired.
At least one person was killed and dozens severely injured, and Australian troops were called in to roadblock the rioters. ( I suspect alcohol may have played a part which would account for so many lousy shots).
Mr Holyoak also discovered a report written by Robert Sherrod, a US journalist who was embedded with the troops which never made it to the press, but was handed to Lyndon B Johnson at a Townsville hotel and eventually filed away into the National Archives and Records Administration.
For political reasons this incident was hushed up.
Khaki Town is based on these events though very much embellished and personalised with stories about the troops and their interaction with the citizens of Townsville, as well as the relationships between white Australians and aboriginals.
The author also includes a tale of coffins containing the bodies of African Americans on a train from Mt Isa, west of Townsville, which I confirmed here:
https://www.ozatwar.com/usarmy/africanamerican.htm
“Sister Eileen Richardson recalls the Americans arrived in Mount Isa and took over Hilton Hall which was owned by Mount Isa Mines, which became the 17th Station Hospital. She remembers a tragic incident where 73 Negro soldiers died after drinking a home brew which was made in disused cyanide drums, which were probably surplus from the mines. The cyanide would have seeped into the inside seams of the drums. The 73 coffins were loaded on a train and sent to Townsville possibly to the US Military Cemetery in Townsville.”
Khaki Town also covers the anti American sentiment by the Aussie soldiers who declared the yanks to be “ over paid, over sexed, and over here”. Apparently, American troops were also known as paw paws – “green on the outside and yellow on the inside” – which I had never previously heard
The racism in this novel is ugly and Australia is hardly as pure as the driven snow with its White Australia Policy. Regardless, a good read that opened my eyes to an interesting facet of our history. I look forward to reading Holyoaks further research.
The Strand, Townsville, looking over to Magnetic Island
LBJ visited Australia during his presidency in 1966. My ex, a Townsville lad, to this day argues that the biggest thing ever to happen in FNQ was the visit for a day to Townsville by the President, beaten only in popularity by a visit from Elvis Presley’s car. It’s that kind of town.
On December 1, 2019 December 1, 2019 By Brizzy Mays Books and BruschettaIn books, Little Libraries3 Comments
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Spring 2003 Trust Account Caravan March 18 – April 30 In Seven Cities
By Gary R. Caddell, Senior Auditor/Investigator, Training Officer
The Spring 2003 Trust Account Caravan is scheduled for March 18 through April 30 with seven stops in Asheville, Boone, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Huntersville, Kill Devil Hills, and Wilmington.
To register, go the Commission’s website, www.ncrec.state.nc.us, or use the form with dates and locations on page 10. Class size is limited to 40 participants and early registration is advised.
The “Basic Trust Account Procedures” course is updated to include rule changes that went into effect September 1, 2002. While this course is intended for brokers-in-charge and trust account bookkeepers, all licensees may attend. The course provides instruction in the preparation of trust account records and the reconciliation process. Related topics include the proper handling of owner/broker trust funds and the Tenant Security Deposit Act.
The “Trust Account Procedures for Resort Property Managers” course covers issues specific to resort property management, such as the Vacation Rental Act and sales taxes. This course is updated to reflect recent rule changes. The course is offered only during the Spring Caravan. Because this course focuses on issues specific to resort property management, the Commission strongly recommends that you attend the Basic course prior to taking the Resort Property Managers course.
Both courses were developed and are taught by members of the Commission’s Audits & Investigations Division. Each course counts as four hours of elective continuing education credit.
For the third year in a row, the Real Estate Commission’s Trust Account Caravan set a record for the number of attendees. A total of 593 course attendees participated in the Spring 2002 Trust Account Caravan, compared with 570 in 2001, 505 in 2000 and 291 in 1999.
The Spring 2002 Trust Account Caravan made stops in Asheville, Boone, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Kill Devil Hills, Morehead City and Wilmington. Eleven “Basic Trust Account Procedures” courses and five “Trust Account Procedures for Resort Property Managers” courses were offered.
Held annually, the Caravan was instituted by the Commission in 1982 to provide courses to those who cannot attend one of the monthly courses held in Raleigh. [Note: For registration information, please refer to page 3 of thisBulletin.]
Register Now 2003 Coastal Workshops To Be Held in February
Brush up next February on what you should know about selling coastal real estate with the 2003 Coastal Workshops sponsored by the Commission in conjunction with UNC-Sea Grant and the Division of Coastal Management.
The series will consist of workshops at Wrightsville Beach, Holiday Inn Sun Spree Resort, February 10, 1-5 p.m. and February 11, 9 a.m-1p.m.; Nags Head, Ramada Inn Outer Banks Resort, February 20, 9 a.m.-1p.m., and Sheraton Atlantic Beach, February 21, 9 a.m.-1p.m.
Registration for the Workshop of your choice can be made online at the Commission website, www.ncrec.state.nc.us, or by mailing the form below with your check payable to the NC Real Estate Commission for the registration fee of $45 per person.
Recognized experts will discuss a variety of topics including erosion rates and control, construction standards, and disclosure requirements for real estate agents as well as identify sources for additional information on buying and selling coastal real estate.
Each workshop is limited to 125 persons, so registration will be on a first come-first served basis. Real estate licensees will receive four hours’ continuing education elective course credit for attending.
Each year, the Real Estate Commission reviews what it has done during the 12-month period from May 1 to April 30. And each year, the result is an impressive array of statistics that together speak to the breadth and complexity of its role in working with the North Carolina real estate industry.
Here’s a sampling of Commission activity from May 1, 2001 to April 30, 2002:
• 225,000 telephone calls (a 42% increase over the previous period)
• 100,000 website “hits” (a 15% increase)
• 816,000 publications distributed to licensees, consumers, applicants (a 33% increase)
Made more effective use of technology by:
• Imaging 102,817 records
• Renewing 12,000 licenses online
• Re-designing Commission website
• 86 applications for employment received
• 20 applicant interviewed
• 8 positions filled
• 113,000 license record changes
• 8,126 applications processed for licenses by examination
• 6,598 license examinations administered (94% by computer)
• 4,007 licenses by examination issued
• 3,360 broker licenses issued without examination
• 255 licenses issued by reciprocity
• 704 firm licenses issued
• 182 expired licenses reinstated
• 71 license applicant conferences conducted
• 8 new and 41 renewed private real estate school licenses
• 61 pre-licensing instructors issued regular or temporary approvals
• 66 new continuing education elective courses approved (for a total of 331 courses)
• 26 new continuing education sponsors (for a total of 187)
9 new continuing education Update Course instructors approved (for a total of 127)
• 53 Broker-in-Charge Course sessions conducted for 3,554 licensees (a 142% increase)
• revised and published Real Estate Manual (2002-2003 Edition)
Audits/Investigations
• 108 case investigations completed
• 63 trust accounts examined
• 414 persons interviewed
• 28 trust account courses conducted for 963 students
• 74 “spot inspections” performed on 126 different trust accounts
• 20 trust account software programs re-evaluated
• 854 case (complaint) files opened and 855 closed
• 24 licensees reprimanded
• 24 licenses suspended
• 15 licenses revoked
• 13 licenses surrendered
• 34 cases utilized conditional remedies
• 2 Recovery Fund hearings conducted
• 20 license application hearings held (a 67% increase)
NCAR Changes Contract Forms
(With permission, portions of this article were written based upon an article appearing in the General Counsel Quarterly, a publication of the North Carolina Association of REALTORS®, Volume VI, Issue One, Summer 2002.)
Have you noticed a change in some of the standard contract forms you are using in your residential sales transactions? The Joint Forms Committee of the North Carolina Association of REALTORS® and the North Carolina Bar Association made several revisions to the standard Offer to Purchase and Contract and related forms.
Offer to Purchase and Contract – the contract now allows the buyer to ask that the seller pay a stated amount toward “any of the Buyer’s expenses associated with the purchase of the Property” (¶8), rather than paying money toward the buyer’s closing costs. This change is designed to eliminate disputes over what constitutes a “closing cost.” Conforming changes have also been made to the FHA/VA Financing Addendum which now specifically provides that the amount paid by the seller includes FHA/VA seller mandated lender and inspection costs.
The contract also now requires that the seller deliver marketable and insurable title to the buyer (¶5(e)). In addition, the contract authorizes the Seller’s current and prior closing attorney, and the Property’s title insurer, to release and disclose title documents to the buyer, agents and attorneys.
Finally, references to an inspection addendum were removed from the Inspections provision (¶12), since no such addendum exists.
Contingent Sale Addendum – the Addendum has been changed to require a buyer who waives the contingency to then close on the purchase of the seller’s property by a specified date. It is designed to assure that buyers waive the contingency only if they are in fact prepared to proceed in a timely manner with the purchase of the seller’s property.
In addition, the “time is of the essence” provision has been expanded to expressly include the closing date.
Additional Provisions Addendum – the provision concerning a Septic System Improvements Permit has been renamed “Sewer System.” It now provides that the contract is contingent upon the buyer obtaining a permit from the County for either a conventional or otherwise described sewer system. All costs are borne by the buyer, except that the seller must pay for clearing as much of the property as the County requires. A deadline must be inserted by which the test is to be performed. The buyer is required to use “best efforts” to obtain the permit and the buyer must notify the seller by a stated deadline if he cannot get the permit, “time being of the essence” – otherwise the condition is deemed satisfied.
In addition, the Appraisal provision was separated into two pieces – one addressing Appraisal with Financing Contingency and one addressing Appraisal Without Financing Contingency.
As to the Flood Hazard Zone provision, it now provides that it “may be” necessary for the purchaser to purchase flood hazard insurance rather than it “will be” necessary.
Other Jointly Approved Forms – minor changes were made to both the Owner Association Addendum and the Option to Purchase. Some of these were made in order to accommodate the use of both forms with the newVacant Land Offer to Purchase and Contract. Others were more technical in nature.
Changes to All Forms – in addition to the substantive changes, all forms are now available in an 8½ x 11 format. Each contains a new disclaimer immediately preceding the signature lines stating that the Bar Association and the Association of REALTORS® “make no representation as to the legal validity or adequacy of any provision of this form in any specific transaction.”
CAVEAT: The Commission’s Update Course this year includes coverage of the Offer to Purchase and Contract and related addenda. Many of the changes noted here also will be addressed in that course.
Limited License For Nonresident Brokers, Salespersons Gets Commission Nod
The Real Estate Commission has approved a recommendation from its Interstate Brokerage Cooperation Advisory Committee (See Bulletin Volume 32, No. 4) to support legislation to create a “Limited Nonresident Commercial Real Estate License.” As proposed, real estate brokers and salespersons licensed in other states could obtain the license from the Commission without having to pass the North Carolina licensing examination.
The license would allow them to perform real estate brokerage acts in North Carolina only in connection with commercial real estate transactions and only while affiliated with a resident North Carolina real estate broker. The nonresident commercial licensee and the resident North Carolina broker would also be required to enter into a “Brokerage Cooperation Agreement” which, among other things, mandates that the North Carolina broker actively and personally supervise the nonresident commercial licensee.
It is anticipated that legislation authorizing the issuance of the special licenses will be considered by the North Carolina General Assembly during its 2003 Session and that, if enacted, it will facilitate and promote commercial and industrial real estate development and investment in our state.
The Commission thanked again the members of its advisory committee and real estate attorney and commercial broker Garth K. Dunklin who joined the committee at its August 7 meeting.
[The Interstate Brokerage Cooperation Advisory Committee’s reports can be found on the Real Estate Commission’s website www.ncrec.state.nc.us. Go to Site Map, then Reports]
Licensees Must Report Convictions
Rule A.0113 requires any licensee who is convicted of a misdemeanor or felony or who has disciplinary action taken against him or her by any other professional licensing board to file a report with the Real Estate Commission.
The reporting requirement includes convictions for driving while impaired (“DWI”). The report must be filed within sixty (60) days of the final judgment or board action.
If you have questions about this rule, please call the Commission’s legal division at 919-875-3700 for more information.
License Applicants Must Submit Criminal Reports
Beginning January 1, applicants for North Carolina real estate licenses will be required to include with their license applications a report listing any criminal convictions or charges pending against them or stating they have no convictions or pending charges.
To assist license applicants in obtaining the reports, the new license application form lists the name and contact information for firms which prepare them. Generally, reports can be obtained within two or three days after ordering them and cost around $10; however, an additional fee and time may be required if the applicant has resided in another state within the past reporting period.
According to Commission Chairman Allan Dameron, “The new reporting requirement will better assure that persons entering the real estate business possess the character expected of real estate brokers and salespersons in our State.”
Committee Studies Mandatory E&O Insurance
The Real Estate Commission’s Errors and Omissions Insurance Advisory Committee has completed its work and filed its report and recommendations with the Commission. The committee was charged to advise the Commission on whether the Commission should support legislation to require real estate licensees to maintain errors and omissions (E&O) insurance.
As a part of its study, the committee researched insurance programs in the thirteen states which have enacted laws requiring real estate licensees to maintain E&O insurance as a condition for keeping their licenses on active status. The committee also examined the results of an e-mail survey conducted by the North Carolina Association of REALTORS® to gauge the opinion of its members regarding a possible E&O insurance requirement. The committee learned that 77% of the 1300 persons responding to the survey have E&O insurance. Also, according to the survey, a little more than half think the Commission should require all licensees to carry E&O insurance because it would reduce all agents exposure to financial loss as well as protect consumers and enhance the professional image of real estate practitioners.
At the conclusion of its study, the committee, by majority vote, recommended to the Commission that it support legislation which would permit the Commission to require all or certain of its licensees (specifically, persons with active licenses) to purchase errors and omissions insurance and that the Commission consult with the North Carolina Association of REALTORS® and other organizations and parties which may have an interest in such legislation; however, unlike other states, the committee recommended that the legislation not direct the Commission to contract with an insurance provider for a group policy, but rather merely assure that licensees maintain the required insurance. The committee also recommended that the Commission include in a future continuing education Update course instruction on risk reduction, including the benefits of errors and omissions insurance coverage. The Commission approved the committee’s recommendations.
The Commission very much appreciates the valuable assistance given by the following members of its advisory committee: Patrice F. Jones (Belmont), N.C. Association of REALTORS® General Counsel Will Martin, Sharon L. Pelt (Raleigh), David L. Perrot (Kitty Hawk), John D. Van Dyke (Asheville), and Commission Members Allan R. Dameron and Wanda J. Proffitt. The Commission’s Director of Administration, Fran Whitley, and Legal Counsel Tom Miller served as staff advisors, and Executive Director Phillip Fisher facilitated the discussions.
[The Errors and Omissions Insurance Advisory Committee’s report can be found on the Real Estate Commission website www.ncrec.state.nc.us. Go to Site Map, then Reports.]
Broker-in-Charge Class Earns 4 Hours CE Creditt
Over 6,250 licensees have taken the Broker-in-Charge course since its inception in November 2000 through August 30, 2002. Initially the Commission requested that brokers-in-charge who had five years within which to take the class not all rush to attend, as the demand would be too great. While preference still is accorded newly designated brokers-in-charge who must take the course within 120 days, five-year “BICs” are now invited to register for the class (as may any broker) which is offered monthly in Raleigh and Charlotte, bimonthly in Asheville and Greensboro, and every few months in Wilmington, Boone, Greenville and Nags Head.
Licensees receive four hours elective continuing education credit and it satisfies the BIC course requirement for five years. However, licensees should retain the course Certificate of Completion to prove their attendance in case they are designated broker-in-charge within five years, yet are notified by the Commission that they must take the course within 120 days. In that case, the licensee should mail a copy of the Certificate to the Records Division with an explanation that they are exempt from the 120-day requirement.
Lastly, be aware that as of September 1, 2002, licensees who are sole proprietors/ practitioners (i.e. brokers practicing alone) need not declare themselves broker-in-charge unless they either: 1) have associates, or 2) hold trust monies pertaining to brokerage transactions, or 3) advertise or otherwise promote their services as a broker in any manner. Any broker whose license is on active status, but who is not associated with a real estate company (and thus under a broker-in-charge) is viewed as a “sole proprietor” at the moment she/he engages in any activity requiring a real estate license. Salespersons are discouraged from taking the broker-in-charge course until they have their broker’s license.
Advertise Proficient Language Skills Only
By Miriam J. Baer, Assistant Director, Legal Services
Do you advertise that you speak Spanish? If so, be certain that your Spanish skills are up to par. The Commission has recently received complaints that agents are advertising that they speak Spanish, when in fact their skills are inadequate to handle a real estate transaction.
With the rising Spanish-speaking population in North Carolina, it may be good marketing to advertise that you speak Spanish or that your firm has the resources to handle a transaction requiring Spanish (or any other foreign language). Just be sure that any representation you make is accurate.
For example, if you advertise that you speak Spanish, you should not have to rely on a translator to assist you. If you advertise that Spanish is spoken at your office, then you or your office should have a Spanish-speaking person available to take a call in Spanish or meet with a Spanish-speaker who arrives at your office.
Perhaps neither you nor any other member of your firm speaks a foreign language, but you are willing to employ a translator when the need arises. In that case, don’t advertise that you speak Spanish (or French or Norwegian). Instead, advertise your readiness to hire a translator to assist in any transaction.
The Commission recently received a complaint about a listing agent whose rider announced, “se habla Espanol” (“Spanish spoken”). The complainant left a voice mail message for the listing agent in Spanish, and didn’t receive a call back for several days. When he finally got the call, the person on the phone represented herself to be the listing agent. According to the complainant, this was not true. In fact, she was a translator, but she was holding herself out to be the agent.
This practice is deceptive. If you are using a translator, be sure to explain to the parties that they are speaking to a translator. This is particularly important if you are doing so by phone or other electronic means where the person to whom you are speaking cannot see you and the translator.
Never let a translator take over a transaction or imply in any way that he or she is licensed. Rather, have the translator do what he or she is trained to do: translate your words, as you are speaking, into the foreign language. This will avoid any misunderstanding about your respective roles in the transaction. It will also help assure that the translator does not engage in the unlicensed practice of real estate.
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For the First Time in 'AGT' History, Simon Cowell Stole Another Judge's Golden Buzzer
Selena Barrientos
Good Housekeeping January 14, 2020
From Good Housekeeping
On Monday, NBC’s America’s Got Talent: The Champions aired a new episode for its 2020 season.
Judge Simon Cowell stole Howie Mandel’s golden buzzer for the first time in the competition show’s history, sending the dance group Boogie Storm through.
Three more acts were sent to the next round — Marcelito Pomoy, Marc Spelmann, and Ryan Niemiller.
America’s Got Talent: The Champions season 2 is only on its second week, but it’s already going down in history for an unforgettable, possibly rule-breaking moment.
From the start of the episode, fans on Twitter were urging the Howie Mendel to make a better choice than last week (ahem, Hans). After deciding to pass on Filippino singer Marcelito Pomoy and mentalist Oz Pearlman, Howie made it clear he wasn't going to use his golden buzzer last night. But when it came to the dance group Boogie Storm, Simon Cowell didn’t let him have the last word.
“Wow, before I throw this over, this act was on Britain’s Got Talent, they were my golden buzzer,” Simon said after giving the dancers a standing ovation. “Howie, if it was me, I would give them the golden buzzer. I would.”
“I can’t, I can’t,” Howie replied. “You can, you can,” Simon responded back. “Well, you know what, it’s my choice, sorry guys. Sorry, I’m sorry,” Howie said, ending the debate.
“No, I agree,” Heidi Klum said turning to discuss the decision with Howie and fellow judge Alesha Dixon. Then, without warning, Simon stood up and hit the golden buzzer as if it were his own. You can see it all begin around the 3:45 mark:
Viewers at home saw the moment unfold in slow-motion as Howie realized what had just happened as celebratory gold confetti fell.
O-M-G! 😱 @SimonCowell just stole @howiemandel’s #GoldenBuzzer! pic.twitter.com/yHYfafP6GU
— America's Got Talent (@AGT) January 14, 2020
Meanwhile, #AGT Twitter was up in arms about the stolen golden buzzer, which has never happened before in the NBC competition show's history. “Screw Simon,” one person wrote. “Simon cowel is a d--k, for doing golden buzzer on that goofy act,” another added.
“That is B*******!!! Good job @SimonCowell take all integrity out of the show by stealing @howiemandel‘s buzzer. How is that fair?!? B*******” one viewer commented. “What a load of crap. Those guys sucked. Simon is an idiot. That should have been disallowed,” a fan tweeted.
The unprecedented moment called into question whether or not stealing another judge’s golden buzzer was permitted. And after Howie’s shock wore off a bit, he clarified a key detail about the show’s rules.
I am SHOCKED. This has NEVER happened before #GoldenBuzzer @SimonCowell pic.twitter.com/lE7oHMoIcq
— Howie Mandel (@howiemandel) January 14, 2020
“Simon just stole my golden buzzer,” he said in a video. “It’s never happened before, I don’t know if that’s in the rules, but he makes the rules. I wanted the golden buzzer.”
Now, fans can only hope that Howie will get another chance at the golden buzzer or be bold enough to steal Simon’s pick next time around.
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Paired bungalows offer lake lifestyle along with luxury finishes
Cindy Stephen, for the Calgary Herald
Gerald and Susan Vikse are looking forward to moving into their new bungalow, an Executive Paired Home by Section23 and Baywest Homes in Mahogany. Erin Scyrup / Postmedia
Mahogany residents Gerald and Susan Vikse are living in a condo while their new home is under construction. It wasn’t their original plan, which was to sell their large home in Heritage Pointe, south of Calgary, and downsize to a more manageable one.
“We weren’t sure how long it was going to take to sell, but it sold last November,” says Gerald, an oil and gas project manager. “Then last winter, we spent a lot of time south of the border. When we came back in the spring, we had to decide whether to buy or build something.”
Gerald said putting everything in storage and renting a furnished condo was a stop-gap measure.
“Our kids said we could live with them, but we didn’t think that would be a great solution,” he says, laughing.
Their son had seen ads for Executive Paired Homes developed under the Section23 Developments and Baywest Homes partnership. He toured the show homes located across the street from Mahogany Lake and urged his parents to have a look.
“He thought we would like these homes because of how they were finished and the way they’re built. He thought that the homes were like the house we’re used to,” Gerald says.
A visit to the show homes at 231 Marine Dr. S.E. confirmed their son’s observations, and the Vikses chose the Elm model, a 1,133-square-foot bungalow with an additional 870 square feet in the basement. The couple elected to complete the lower level, adding two more bedrooms, a bathroom and living space.
“There’s a wall downstairs that is the perfect size for an 82-inch TV I have my eye on,” Gerald says with satisfaction.
The Elm has one bedroom up with a master ensuite and open concept living space. The couple made a few alterations to the floor plan, such as adding an office on the main floor.
“Our son is in Auburn Bay and we have a daughter in Okotoks. We have another daughter in Toronto who comes to visit and four grandkids that we see regularly,” Susan says. “We’ve set this up as a family home — just a bit smaller than what we had before.”
Gerald says they looked around at other developments, but as his son surmised, he appreciated the interior finishes in the Executive Paired Homes show homes, the available choices and the excellent service from the team in the sales centre.
“Heidi and Megan were just superb to work with. Top shelf,” he says.
The interior of a show suite at Executive Paired Homes in Mahogany by Section23 Developments and Baywest Homes. Supplied / Postmedia
The couple have walked through their bungalow as construction has progressed and say their home is ahead of schedule. Possession is Dec. 13 and they plan on moving in right away, weather permitting.
“After living in a condo, this is going to feel like upsizing again,” Susan says.
Section23 area sales manager Heidi Johnson says the boutique community, built in partnership with Baywest Homes, is wrapping up the first phase of development with room for more in the newly released second and final phase.
“In our current phase, we have one quick-possession bungalow at $595,000 and three two-storey homes, starting at $529,000,” she says. “We also launched 28 new bungalows in the new phase starting in the low $500,000s.”
Some of the upscale features in each home include 10-foot ceilings on the main floor, nine-foot ceilings in the basement, upgraded flooring, quartz and granite countertops throughout, five-piece ensuite, concrete windows wells and triple-pane aluminum-clad windows.
Homes have double detached paired garages in the rear and small, low-maintenance yards.
“What we’re trying to offer is an easier lifestyle for people in an amazing lake community. They have as little maintenance as possible and there are no condo fees. Each home has space enough outdoors for entertaining but not large enough that owners have to do a strenuous amount of work,” she says.
Basement development is optional, but Johnson says most buyers want it done.
“We see mostly empty nesters purchasing with us and they are looking for everything to be completed. Some just do partial development. One bedroom, one bathroom and a rec room, leaving the remaining area for storage,” she says. “We have a lot of downsizers who need extra storage space.”
The bungalow community has been popular among the plus-50 crowd for a few reasons, she says.
“There aren’t a lot of luxury bungalows in this price point. They can take up quite a bit of land and can be priced in the $700,000s, $800,000s and $900,000s,” she says. “For us being in the mid-$500,000s and our location in Mahogany with all the beautiful amenities, close to Seton — we’ve been received very well.”
Development: Executive Paired Homes
Developer/Builder: Section 23 Developments and Baywest Homes partnership
Community: Mahogany
Model: The Elm Executive Paired Bungalow
Size: 1,133-square-foot main floor, 870-square-foot basement
Price: From the mid-$500,000s, GST included
Information:section23.com/mahogany
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Why you need to dive this underwater shipwreck in Queensland
Michael Gosman
127 metres of nooks, crannies and naval history have been sunk off the coast of Bundaberg and Hervey Bay, creating Queensland’s next (in a long line of) must-dive ship wrecks – the ex-HMAS Tobruk.
Pack your sense of adventure and prepare to explore the inner sections of a mammoth former Royal Australian Navy ship and spot some of the enchanting marine life that surrounds Queensland’s newest dive site.
What is the Ex-HMAS Tobruk?
The Ex-HMAS Tobruk is one of the world’s newest wreck diving sites and was officially opened for underwater exploration in late February 2019.
For those who haven’t tried it, wreck diving is a slightly more technical dive (you’ll want to nail your buoyancy for all the doorways). It offers the amazing marine life you expect, coupled with interesting and at times quirky structures (passing a toilet with coral growing off it will always make you smile).
Decommissioned in 2015 after 34 years of service, the ex-HMAS Tobruk was sunk in mid-2018 approximately 17 nautical miles (32 kilometres) off the coast, halfway between Hervey Bay and Bundaberg in the Great Sandy Marine Park.
The shallowest part of the wreck lies in 10.9 metres of water, easily accessed by certified open water divers. More advanced divers will be able to explore the entire wreck, which rests at a depth of 30 metres.
The waters of the Great Sandy Marine Park are warm year-round and protected from rough weather by the nearby Fraser Island.
What makes it unique?
The ex-HMAS Tobruk is seriously huge (127 metres in length), meaning it occupies a colossal position on the ocean floor.
Certified wreck divers can swim over 100 metres in one direction inside the ship – no tumble turns required. All areas of the ship, including the troop areas, crew quarters, the tank deck and other sections are waiting to be explored. BYO flashlight to check out all the finer details inside the ship.
If going inside the ship makes you feel claustrophobic, don’t stress. There’s more than enough to see outside the wreck (like some of the friendly locals).
A huge variety of marine life – including manta rays, groupers, cod and Spanish mackerel – call Tobruk home, so make sure you have your waterproof camera at the ready for your dive.
As breeding turtles have a soft spot for the waters around the Fraser Coast and Bundaberg, our flippered friends are expected to be regulars in and around the wreck.
Divers can also expect to see and hear migrating humpback whales as they traverse through the area from May to November.
How can I dive it?
Both Bundaberg and Hervey Bay are an easy three to four-hour drive north of Brisbane. Both towns also have airports if you’re looking for a speedier trip or are coming from interstate.
You can book a dive on ex-HMAS Tobruk through one of the four experienced dive operators who hold permits to access the site who each offer a standard package of two dives over a total trip time of five to six hours.
Hervey Bay departures:
Hervey Bay Dive Centre
Tobruk Dive Centre Hervey Bay
Bundaberg departures:
Bundaberg Aqua Scuba
Lady Musgrave Experience
Alternatively, experienced divers with their own boat and equipment can access the site by booking a two-hour time slot via the Bundaberg or Fraser Coast websites.
Where else can I dive in Queensland?
Manta Bommie off North Stradbroke Island
If ex-HMAS Tobruk has whetted your appetite for more stunning Queensland dives, then you’re in luck. The coastline is dotted with many more magical sites.
There’s 13 other wreck dives in Queensland or a guide to diving the grand-daddy of wreck dives in Australia: the SS Yongala.
Even better, journey along the coastline for five days (six if you do the ex-HMAS Tobruk as well) hitting up a variety of stunning dives.
The ultimate in diving is undoubtedly liveaboard diving, where you can stay on a boat for multiple days and reach remote and amazing sites, like the northern Great Barrier Reef.
If you’re just starting out in the world of regulators and BCDs, there are numerous places where you can learn to dive in Queensland, including on the magnificent Great Barrier Reef.
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If Berlin Were a Stirred-Up Showcase
“Dein Herz kennt keine Mauer.”
Around this time last year, I was watching a bike light peer through the dusk, wheeling down a dirt path saturated with that evening’s blue-gold color scheme. Sunbeams — all spectral and river-bent and free-falling ultraviolet — plunged into the Landwehrkanal.
My cloud eyes closed for a blink.
Opening again, they revealed a refracted version of what was previously there: a lawn, a path, a canal that flowed like a continuum and ended on the same one.
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Author Erik FruthPosted on October 11, 2018 October 17, 2018 Format AsideCategories During Travel, Post-TravelTags beginnings, Berlin, ends, Germany, heart, showcase, stirred-up, wall
Descriptions to Moutern
Not certain if my memory of Phongsaly is real or fake.
Because the ends and starts of the conversations I observed in Moutern seemed similar enough that I think I might be misremembering the whole thing.
In my memory, discussions followed a schematic: a greeting and introduction (delivered in a particular fashion and with particular physical posturing), then the conversation proper (when the back-forth of the speakers’ exchange falls into a repetitive pattern where one person speaks while the other listens and performs reactive acknowledgement), and finally the winding down of the speaking (when sentences are short and staccato until one party chooses silence).
The beginnings and ends, with their apparently more defined behavioral rules, seemed to resemble each other because of those rules — likely because I couldn’t understand a single word being spoken.
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A Pakse of Four Thousand Islands
Champasak lends itself well to superlatives.
The southernmost province embodies such awe-struck descriptions as “most beautiful” place in Laos with the “best coffee and goi pa/ກ້ອຍປາ” and astounding sunsets.
Starting from Champa’ and traveling west, you would encounter the region of Isaan within the country of Thailand. Turning east toward the rising sun, ascending the Bolaven Plateau, and keeping onward, you would find yourself in the wet heights of Attapeu or Sekong Province. Southward to the Cambodian border, you would come across four thousand islands carved by waters that came all the way from Tibetan elevations.
Pakse, the capital of Champasak Province and second-largest city in the country, is often the beginning and end point to exploring the rainy, coffee-growing region. It also serves as a jumping off point for trade and travel to Cambodia, Vietnam, or Thailand. Like many large cities in Laos, Pakse lies along the Mekong; unlike every other large city in Laos, it’s divided into two by the southerly meander of the Nam Xe Don tributary.
The city offers some fairly impressive views of both rivers and their confluence. One of those views — from the hill across the Lao-Nippon Bridge — is intended for those prepared to handle some dilapidated wooden stairs (and just stairs in general). The lookout near Wat Phu Salao and its Golden Buddha offers an expansive view of the City-split-in-two:
However, Champasak’s main tourist draw is its plentiful waterfalls.
Assuming you know the road and have a motorbike, you could visit at least three in a day. Some waterfalls are encircled by restaurants and small-ish resorts, meaning that no trekking is required. Others require a little more from their would-be visitors (and offer more in exchange). Tile 2’s Tad Gneuang Falls, for example, first transforms its visitors into unwitting worshipers. Then it drenches them in a mildly holy mist as they clamber down a path of slick and steep stone stairs to snap a shot in fleeting wonder.
The Khone Phapeng Falls (ນ້ຳຕົກຕາດຄອນພະເພັງ) just north of the Cambodian border are a veritable apotheosis. Over 11,000m³ of water pass over these falls every second, making them one of the largest falls by volume in the world — a full four times larger than Niagara Falls and ten times larger than Victoria Falls.¹ The falls consist of a network of narrow channels and steep cataracts that spans 10km altogether, making it the widest waterfall in the world.
About 40km upstream of the Khone Phapheng Falls, the Mekong already begins to stretch itself out into a patchwork of waterways and rapids patterned with proliferate islands. Together, they form the eponymous archipelago of Four Thousand Islands//Siphandon.
The challenging river terrain once stymied French colonial traders seeking to connect the then-colony of Indochina with China at the Mekong/Lancang headwaters. Khone Phapheng’s rocky rapids forced them to build a small-gauge railway between Don Khone, the largest island, and its neighbor, Don Det, to circumvent the impassable falls. The railway eventually fell into disuse in the 1940s, but was, for a time, the only railway built in Laos until Thailand’s Northeastern Line was extended from Nong Khai to Vientiane in 2009.
Nowadays, the islands are still just as split-up and surrounded by the Mekong as they were a hundred years ago. Bridges and ferry boats connect the islands across the copious channels that flow between them. These channels act as a natural funnel for the river’s fish, making some areas — like just downstream of Khone Pasoi Falls, for instance — ideal fishing grounds.
Champasak isn’t just the sum total of tourist descriptions of waterfalls and dreamy islands, though.
Sure, many of Champa’s observable features could be recorded and told in denotative language, but they’re often meaningless without an underpinning of value. Frequently it’s the things that are less observable that inspire that value. However, those less-observable things are themselves the product of some sort of secret summation based on physicality and straightforward perception.
So, with some simplification, Champasak is a place where things occur and continue and are built upon or removed. Lumber and steel and clay bricks have been arranged here. They’ve been moved just as much as the black opalescent butterflies and dalmatian clouds glide northward to Salavan. This space is where ant colonies function. In July, a new crop of glutinous rice will be transplanted, then grown, harvested, processed, and cooked.
In Champasak, families build houses and share meals and peer across the table at one another. Here, people walk across somewhat reddish soil that, when trenched into paddy and inundated by seasonal rain, appears more brown than its un-wet color.
In juxtaposition with the sky and its green-leaved downstairs neighbors reaching into the upward open, the dirt path and side-of-the-road wooden fences are quite content to stay put.
And that’s alright, here is both.
Beginnings of things might be when the-other-way-around comes rightside-up.
For example, watching some birds and bats and airplanes fly upside-down outside the window then sitting up to see them cruising the typical way.
Ends of things might be when they slowly topple down head-first or their physical becomes something else’s physical.
Example: when Pakse drifts off to some southern and eastern place and then, one year later, starting to wonder how long the distance has been.
Because of those upwards and downwards, and because the evening can slowly turn purple to pink Navel orange,
Earth heals.
It stitches them together as if it’s “been there” too — starting out/settling down.
Water listens before anything else, even when stepping into the warm rain bathing (brown) in this rice paddy,
and the sky feels breath-heat, making space.
Green things are a cure. Seriously.
Which is why it’s alright to watch things upside-down, wonder about four thousand islands in Berlin, and still have muddy toenails for many days.
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Author Erik FruthPosted on October 3, 2017 July 19, 2018 Format GalleryCategories During Travel, Post-Travel, The SightsTags archipelago, Attapeu Province, beginnings, Bolaven Plateau, Both, Champasak, coffee, Don Det, Don Khone, ends, fishing grounds, Four Thousand Islands, goi pa, Isaan, Khone Pasoi, Khone Phapheng, Laos, Mekong River, Nam Xe Don, neighbors, Pakse, railway, Salavan Province, Sekong Province, Siphandon, South Laos, sunset, Tad Gneuang, Wat Phu Salao, waterfalls
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Google’s Hiring Secrets Revealed
Kate Reilly
One of the highlights of this year’s Talent Connect conference was a visit from Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google. Bock took the stage in a packed house of over 3,600 talent acquisition professionals to give a behind-the-scenes look at hiring at Google.
Bock began by explaining that Google gets over three million applications a year but hires only 7,000 people annually. That means one in every 428 people gets a job at the company. To put that in perspective, that’s about 20x more selective than gaining admission to Harvard or Stanford.
So how does Google go about hiring this top talent? Bock boils it down to three key rules.
1. Set a high bar for quality and never compromise.
Bock explained that as companies grow, there’s usually a regression to the mean, so they end up hiring average people over the long run. Hiring decisions inevitably move away from the founders, while hiring managers become pressured to hire faster and to hire people just because they are someone’s nephew or college roommate.
Then when employees see poor performers, it sends the message that it’s ok to compromise, so they stop working as hard, and the best ones leave.
Bock had the audience chant with him, “Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever compromise on quality.” It’s better to grow more slowly and have higher-quality people than to grow fast with mediocre players.
One way in which Google ensures it keeps a high bar is by taking the hiring decisions away from its managers. Instead, an independent committee reviews the interview results and makes the decision. And amazingly, Larry Page still reviews every offer that goes out the door.
2. Assess candidates objectively with structured interviews and established criteria.
Bock cited research on unconscious bias and how even interviewers with the best intentions make snap judgments and inferences that drive them to hire the wrong people. “Without us realizing, our brains conspire to make bad hiring decisions.”
He noted a 2004 study in which researchers sent out two sets of identical resumes to companies, one with names that were traditionally white (e.g., Fred, Sally), and the other with names that were stereotypically African-American (e.g., Tameka, Jamal.) They found that they had to send out 50% more resumes if using an African-American sounding name than if using a white-sounding name, even though the backgrounds were identical. The thing is, explained Bock, that most people aren’t overtly racist – the screening differences were simply a result of unconscious bias.
To combat this problem, Google has established clear criteria to assess each candidate objectively. The four elements are:
a) General cognitive ability.
Google no longer uses test scores, GPAs or brain teasers to assess candidates. Instead, the company looks for how well candidates pick up new information and solve problems, qualities that are better predictors of performance.
b) Leadership.
Bock emphasized that leadership doesn’t mean being the VP of the chess club or having a fancy job title. Google is looking for ‘emergent leadership,’ or the ability to step in to help solve a problem, and just as importantly, to step back when it makes sense for someone else to take charge.
c) Googleyness.
This means being comfortable with ambiguity, bringing something new to the mix, and having intellectual humility. It’s the ability to say, when presented with new information, ‘I was wrong, and here’s my new position.’
d) Role-related knowledge.
This is having the skills and knowledge to perform in the role. Bock explained that this is the least important of the four criteria: “We figure if you have the other three qualities, you’ll figure out the rest.”
Bock acknowledged that everyone interviews differently, so in order to standardize the process, Google has clear rules to assess the quality of responses. It uses structured interviews, or a consistent set of questions.
“You don’t have to write your own,” he told the audience. “Search online for ‘structured interviews,’” and then added with a laugh, “It’s not my place to tell you which search engine to use to do that, but if you do, you’ll find all kinds of samples.”
There are two types of questions Google asks in every interview:
Situational or job-related hypothetical questions such as, “What would you do in XYZ situation?” “Why would you do that?” ‘What else would you do?” Bock explained that the situational questions generally alternate between “What” and “Why” questions.
Behavioral questions, such as“Give me an example of a time when you solved a really hard problem.” These are good questions because they give a sense of what the candidate considers difficult, or whatever other attribute you are asking about.
And here is a visual clue to help you remember to use these two types of questions:
Bock is ruthless. He throws out any interview feedback that doesn’t follow this protocol.
3. Give candidates a reason to join.
Bock explained how the first two rules are a means to an end: they help make sure the recruiter is finding and talking to the best people. But how then does that recruiter convince candidates to actually join Google?
“It comes down to meaning. Work for most people is a mediocre experience, but it doesn’t have to be. All of us want our work to mean something.” And it’s your company’s strong mission, Bock explained, that can help turn people’s jobs into callings.
He then introduced Googles’s best recruiter, Alan Eustace, SVP of Engineering. He explained that Eustace finds a way to connect that human desire for meaning with every individual he talks to, and has successfully recruited hundreds and hundreds of candidates.
Bock acknowledged that a common critique he gets is “’Well of course you can do all these things; you’re Google so you can afford to.” But he went on to show that the ability to connect to a mission is not just a Google thing. He used an example of how a Sri Lankan textile manufacturer connects to a broader mission of lifting women out of poverty, and how a New York City deli slicer views his job as helping people in the world.
He also cited research by Yale’s Amy Wrzesniewski in which she asked everyone from nurses to engineers to teachers to janitorial staff about their jobs, and one-third of them, regardless of profession, considered their jobs to be “callings,” or much more than just a job.
“Our challenge as recruiters is to draw the connections between the jobs we have and the people we want to hire. Every single job can be a calling. It doesn’t matter whether you work at a textile factory, a deli, Google, or at your company.”
Bock closed his remarks with this simple statement: “We’re hiring.”
Want to hear more from Talent Connect? If you can’t join us in San Francisco, be sure to tune in to the live stream from 12:30– 2:30 pm on Wednesday, October 22.
Talent Connect,
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Active Directory DNS Single Label Names
Hey everyone, Ace again. Let’s discuss this issue. I hardly see this issue any more, because it was a previously prevalent when Active Directory was introduced, since there were some confusion about AD domain naming, and many IT admins used NT4’s domain naming guidelines. Man of us are now familiar with AD’s naming convention, and have more than likely renamed or rebuilt their AD domains. However, there are still some installations with this issue.
How did it happen? Many reasons, such as lack of research on AD’s DNS requirements, assumptions, or a simple typo when originally upgrading from NT4 or promoting your new AD domain. It doesn’t matter now, because you were brought here to find out what to do with it.
I hope you find this blog informative on this issue and what to do about it.
First, let’s discuss a little background on the necessary components at play…
FQDN
First, let’s discuss the FQDN. What is an FQDN? It stands for “Fully Qualified Domain Name.” It is multi-level, or hierarchal, such as:
domain.net
domain.local
childdomainname.domain.local
What is a Single Label DNS Domain name?
The name is reminiscent of the legacy style NT4 domain NetBIOS domain names, such as:
Unfortunately, since this does not work with DNS, and Active Directory relies on DNS, therefore, it does not work with Active Directory. Stay with me. I’ll explain…
DNS is a hierarchal database. Some call it a “tree” with a root (the ‘com’ or ‘net’, etc, name), then the trunk (the ‘domain’ portion of it), and the branches (such as www, servername, etc). The Root domain name, such as com, edu, net, etc, is also known as the TLD (Tope Level Domain name).
Basically you can look at a DNS domain name as having multiple levels separated by periods. The minimal requirment for an FQDN domain name, such as microsoft.com, is two levels. Then of course are your resource names, such as www, servername, or even child domain names under it.
Notice with a single label name there is only one name for the domain, or one level? Don’t get this confused with the NetBIOS domain name, that we were familiar with in the NT4 days. AD supports the NetBIOS domain name as well, but only as a NetBIOS domain name. It’s one of the domain names chosen when a machine is promoted into a domain controller for a brand new domain in a brand new forest. NT4 wasn’t reliant nor did it use DNS for NT4 domains. However, AD is reliant, therefore it must follow DNS naming rules.
Unfortunately the old NT4 style names are not hierarchal because there is only one level.
Since AD requires and relies on DNS, and DNS is a hierarchal database, a single label name does not follow any sort of hierarchy. DNS fails with single label names. Windows 2008, Windows 2003, XP and Vista have problems resolving single label names because it does not follow the proper format for a DNS domain name, such as domain.com, etc.
Also, Windows 2000 SP4 and all newer machines have problems querying single label names. It’s explained below by Alan Woods. Because clients query DNS for AD resources (domain controller locations and other services), they may have difficulty finding resources.
How did it happen? As I said earlier, it doesn’t matter now, because you were brought here to find out what to do with it.
Common Mistakes When Upgrading a Windows 2000 Domain To a Windows 2003 Domain (or any AD upgrade or installation):
Single Label Name Explanation
Another variation of the Single Label Name explanation that I had provided in a response to a post in the DNS and/or AD newsgroups at one time:
The issue is the single label name. Locally at HQ, it’s using NetBIOS to join, however remotely, it’s relying on DNS. DNS queries do not work properly with single label names on Windows 2000 SP4 and all newer machines.
Period. Why? good question. It’s based on the fact DNS is hierarchal. Hierarchal meaning it must have multi levels, a minimum of two levels.
The TLD (top level domain) is the root name, such as the com, net, etc., names. The client side resolver service algorithm (which is governed by the DHCP Client service which must be running on all machines, static or not),
relies on that name for the basis to find the second level name (the name “domain” in domain.com, etc.). If the name is a single label name, it thinks THAT name is the TLD.
Therefore it then hits the Internet Root servers to find how owns and is authoritative for that TLD.Such as when looking up Microsoft.com. It queries for the COM portion, which the roots return the nameservers responsible for the COM servers, then it queries for the servers responsible for Microsoft.com zone.
If it’s a single label, the query ends there, and it won’t go further. However what is funny (sic) is that even though the single label name is being hosted locally in DNS, it will NOT query locally first, because it believes it is a TLD, therefore goes through the normal resolution (recursion and devolution) process, which causes excessive query traffic to the internet Root servers.
How to fix it? Good question. Glad you’ve asked.
The preferred “fix” (in a one line summary), is to install a fresh new domain properly named and use ADMT to migrate user, group and computer accounts into the new domain from the current domain.
An alternative is to perform a domain rename, (difficulty depends on the operating system and which version of Exchange is installed).
As a temporary resort, you can use the patch or band aid registry fix to force resolution and registration that is mentioned in the following link. This must be applied to every machine. Unfortunately it must be done on every machine in the domain, including the DCs, member servers, workstations and laptops.
Information About Configuring Windows 2000 for Domains with Single-Label DNS Names:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300684
Single Label Names and being a better Internet Neighbor
The following was posted by Microsoft’s Alan Woods in 2004:
Single label names, from Alan Woods, [MSFT], posted:
From: “Alan Wood” [MSFT]
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.dns
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Single label DNS
We really would prefer to use FQDN over Single labled. There are
alot of other issues that you can run into when using a Single labeled
domain name with other AD integrated products. Exchange would be a great
example. Also note that the DNR (DNS RESOLVER) was and is designed to
Devolve DNS requests to the LAST 2 names.
Example: Single Labeled domain .domainA
then, you add additional domains on the forest.
child1.domainA
Child2.child1.domainA
If a client in the domain Child2 wants to resolve a name in domainA
Example. Host.DomainA and uses the following to connect to a share
\\host then it is not going to resolve. WHY, because the resolver is
first going to query for first for Host.Child2.child1.domainA, then it
next try HOST.Child1.domainA at that point the Devolution process is
DONE. We only go to the LAST 2 Domain Names.
Also note that if you have a single labeled domain name it causes excess
DNS traffic on the ROOT HINTS servers and being all Good Internet Community
users we definitely do not want to do that. NOTE that in Windows 2003,
you get a big Pop UP Error Message when trying to create a single labeled
name telling you DON’T DO IT. It will still allow you to do it, but you
will still be required to make the registry changes, which is really not
Microsoft is seriously asking you to NOT do this. We will support you but
it the end results could be limiting as an end results depending on the
services you are using.
Alan Wood[MSFT]
Related Articles – Even though they seem old, they STILL APPLY!!!
Common Mistakes When Upgrading a Windows 2000 Domain To a Windows 2003 Domain
Best practices for DNS client settings in Windows 2000 Server and in Windows Server 2003:
DNS and AD (Windows 2000 & 2003) FAQ:
Naming conventions in Active Directory for computers, domains, sites, and OUs (Good article on DNS and other names)
MVP, MCT, MCSE 2012, MCITP EA & MCTS Windows 2008/R2, Exchange 2013, 2010 EA & 2007, MCSE & MCSA 2003/2000, MCSA Messaging 2003
Microsoft MVP – Directory Services
Complete List of Technical Blogs: http://www.delawarecountycomputerconsulting.com/technicalblogs.php
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Travel Thursday – The Great New York
Posted on 20 October, 2016 by special-collections
Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian
The Great New York – Pennell (1911)
One of the world’s top tourist destinations, New York has been attracting travellers for many years. This week’s Travel Thursday looks at the Big Apple from two uniquely different perspectives; that of a poet and that of an artist.
Australian born critic and poet, W.J. Turner (1889-1946) moved to London to pursue writing in 1907 and alongside friend, Siegfried Sassoon, became a member of the Georgian poets group when his work was published as part of a Georgian Poet anthology (Hawkes, 2004). Turner visited New York in the 1920s and penned a short travelogue detailing his time there, giving his thoughts on the city and all manner of related topics including, the wonderful character of American women, the Americanisation of Europe and advice on the perfect piece of luggage, the American trunk:
a trunk which stands upright, can be pushed along on rollers, fits in beside the driver of a taxi […] so easily accessible that he need never unpack during his whole journey.
American artist, Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) was an eminent etcher and lithographer, who championed and revived the art of print making in the early 20th Century (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2016). Although he travelled widely, Pennell lived in New York from 1918-1926 (Library of Congress, 2016) and created several beautiful drawings of the city.
For Pennell, New York was the ‘Unbelievable City’, a marvel of the modern world owing to its immense size and towering buildings, which are beautifully captured in his sketch of the city’s magnificent skyline.
New York Skyline by Pennell
Turner too is immediately in awe at the sight of New York on the horizon; on his arrival he proclaims:
There is no thrill at the end of any voyage upon this planet like the thrill at the first sight of New York rising like a bed of rock crystals out of the sea.
However, on closer inspection, Turner’s opinion of the city is not always the most enthusiastic, the smell he ascribes it for example is, “a blending of ice-cream and patchouli – a sickly mixture,” and he describes the general atmosphere as a terrifying mixture of noisy traffic and towering sky scrapers
Building a Skyscraper – Pennell
that vomit, “from six to ten thousand people into the street,” all accompanied by a constant series of explosions caused by the underground work on subways and building foundations. The heavy building programme in New York during the 1920s was also captured by Pennell, though instead of complaining about the noise he marvels at the speed at which the skyscrapers are completed:
The work goes on by night as well as by day. A few months will see a skyscraper in place, equipped and occupied.
Statue of Liberty – Pennell
Both men also differ on their views of the iconic Statue of Liberty; for Pennell it is an “effective feature,” which “greets the incoming ships from the sea” while for Turner, the statue is decidedly, “stumpy and ungraceful.”
Turner further complains about his subway journey, describing the carriages as, “small, cheaply fitted, sordid, and uncomfortable,” whereas Pennell praises the linked elevated railway as a “pleasant mode of conveyance outside the rush hours.” However, despite his spirited complaining, Turner does give some interesting insights into the New York of the 1920s, for example although he dislikes the experience; he does explain how the subway system works:
The Elevated – Pennell
To get quickly up-town it is necessary to take the subway. You go underground. There is an office where you can get change and then, putting in a nickel (five cents), you pass through clanging turnstiles on to the platform. There are no ticket collectors nor porters.
and he provides this description of the newly implemented, modern marvel – traffic lights:
Red and green lamps are placed on pillars at these intersections and by them traffic is regulated. In broad daylight up until 2a.m. these green and red lights are flashing in the streets. All the accidents – as a taxi driver explained to me – take place after 2 a.m.
Also, according to Turner, one of the advantages of such a large city that swarms with people is the anonymity and indifference afforded to its visitors:
There is in New York no public opinion, no curiosity. The complete impersonality of the big hotel and the big store where no one watches you to see that you spend something is very soothing.
Although only small details, you begin to get a vivid impression of a busy, crowded city that is full potential and growth. It is a city of the future and indeed it inspired Turner to philosophise about progress and the future of cities and civilisation. In his musings Turner even predicts the invention of mobile phones:
it is possible for me to predict that in much less than a hundred years from now one will be able to speak to any person in any part of the world by just taking a wireless receiver and transmitter out of one’s coat pocket.
Overall, regardless of its traffic and noise, both Turner and Pennell recognised that it is the architectural beauty of New York that really shines, it is a city designed to inspire and amaze and delight:
Cortland Street Ferry and the Brooklyn Bridge by Pennell
The sky-scrapers were slender pinnacles of light, across the river crawled in every direction ferry-boats that were just many-tiered electric palaces, and Brooklyn was one vast blaze netted with dark lines glittering beside the water.
Pennell, J (1911) The Great New York. London: T.N. Foulis [Reserve 917.47 PEN]
Turner, W.J. (1929) A trip to New York and a Poem. London: Mandrake Press [Reserve 821.912 TUR]
Jacquetta Hawkes, (2004) ‘Turner, Walter James Redfern (1889–1946)’, rev. Sayoni Basu, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36589, accessed 24 Aug 2016]
Library of Congress, (2016) Drawing (Master). Available from:http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/drwgma/pennell.html
Encyclopedia Britannica (2016) Joseph Pennell. Available from: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Pennell
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Travel Thursday – Hungary and Transylvania
Posted on 25 February, 2016 by special-collections
John Paget
Born in Leicestershire in 1808, John Paget studied medicine at Edinburgh University before travelling extensively on the continent (Czigány). His travelogue, ‘Hungary and Transylvania: with remarks on their Condition, Social, Political and Economical’ published in 1839 was formed from his visits to the region during 1835-36 and was illustrated by George Hering, an artist who accompanied him on his journey.
The travelogue provides a plethora of careful insights, humorous accounts and details of historic interest. It is considered to be of great cultural importance and achieved particular prominence during the Hungarian War of independence in 1848-9 where it was consulted as a reliable source of background information on the country (Czigány). Indeed, Paget promises in his preface to the work to give an accurate picture of the countries he describes:
I know there are those who think, that “to write up a country,” a traveller should describe everything in its most favourable light; I am not of that opinion, -I do believe that a false impression can ever effect any lasting good.
And there is plenty of evidence that he held to his oath. He holds nothing back, for example, when describing the poor social behaviour of some guests at a dinner party in Presburg :
a well-polished floor, on which, I am sorry to say, I observed more than one of the guests very unceremoniously expectorate.
Map of Hungary and Transylvania
While Paget gives the usual details of landscapes and buildings, he is very much a natural storyteller. His writing is engaging, imaginative and beautifully descriptive; this passage evokes a sunset over the plains of Puszta–
It is just as the bright orb has disappeared below the level of the horizon; while yet some red tints, like glow-worm traces, mark the pathway he has followed; just when the busy hum of insects is hushed as by a charm…
Although he commended Hering for capturing “whatever might be distinctive, or curious, or beautiful,” on their journey, Paget’s writing is equally captivating – never more so than when he is recounting some of the myths and legends of the
Castle Csejta
region (sadly, nothing to do with Vampires). For example, he recounts a gruesome true story on visiting Castle Csejta; describing the horrendous murders committed by Elizabeth Báthori in 1610. Believing that bathing in a maiden’s blood would grant her eternal life, “no less than three hundred maidens were sacrificed at the shrine of vanity and superstition” with Elizabeth luring them through a secret passageway from the castle to the cottage of her two accomplices.
Paget’s describes his encounters with the local people with equal animation, honesty and a little bit of sarcastic wit; such as the old man posing for Hering, who, “allowed a limb to be replaced in its former position, when accidentally moved [… ] though he did not seem to have the slightest idea of what was going on,” Or his
Baths of Sliács
experience at the baths of Sliács, near Neusohl:
but conceive my horror, precise reader, when some very pretty ladies quietly informed me that they took their second bath in the evening and hoped I would join them!
(And join them he did, once he was properly supplied with an appropriate bathing-dress – “I do assure you delicate reader, that, as far as I could see, nothing occurred that could shock anyone.”)
Paget later married a Hungarian Baroness, Polyxena Wesselényi, the estranged wife of a Hungarian magnate, Baron László Bánffy, and lived with his family in Transylvania at Gyéres. He was granted Hungarian citizenship in 1847. Paget became a keen agriculturist and focused his efforts on improving his wife’s estate by applying new agricultural methods and using modern machinery: “A regular visitor to, and adjudicator at, international agricultural fairs, in 1878 he was awarded the Légion d’honneur at the World Exhibition in Paris,” (Czigány).
Paget, J. (1839) Hungary and Transylvania. With remarks on their Condition, Social, Political and Economical. London: John Murray. [Available on request – Overstone 27A/13]
Lóránt Czigány, ‘Paget, John (1808–1892)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com.idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/view/article/21115, accessed 17 Feb 2016]
John Paget Biographies
Diary of John Paget
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Travel Thursday – Taunt and the Thames
Posted on 28 January, 2016 by special-collections
Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian.
Taunt on his Boat House
This week’s Travel Thursday focuses on adventure a little closer to home, with Henry Taunt’s ‘New Map of the River Thames’ (c.1878) [Reserve 914.22 TAU]
An Oxford-based photographer, Taunt won great acclaim for the high quality and technical skill displayed in his work, and his photographs, sketches and maps helped to transform, ‘the popularity of the Thames during the Victorian era.’ (In the Boat Shed).
Sometime resident on the river, Taunt could often be spotted ‘in his nautical garb and yachting cap’ (Oxfordshire Blue Plaques) and was known to expertly capture the people and places along the river, providing, ‘an excellent record of late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture, and town and rural life.’ (National Archives).
Book cover: Taunt’s new Map of the Thames
Taunt’s ‘New Map of the River Thames’ of which we hold the 5th edition, was described by Taunt as a guide, ‘giving every information required by the tourist, the oarsman and the angler.’ Indeed it contains a wealth of insights into the canals and towns along the Thames during the late nineteenth century, including lock tolls and timetables, charts of distances along the canals, navigation advice, and even tips on preparing a water-tight sheet, (some good duck, boiled linseed oil and strong sewing skills required!)
Each place of note along the river is given a carefully sketched map alongside photographs of sites you may see along the way. This sketch of Reading for example, includes photographs of Caversham, Hardwicke House and Mapledurham.
Map of the Thames at Reading.
The maps are accompanied by a description of some of the main tourist sites in each place. For Reading, Taunt, of course mentions the famous Huntley and Palmers’ biscuit factory, adding that you can pay it a visit, ‘by order obtained on application.’ However, he states that the greatest attractions by far are the Abbey ruins and the Forbury pleasure gardens. Taunt explains their long history and points to the unusual formation ‘of the “Queen’s Head” […] made by the combination of some of the broken walls seen through an opening in them.’ The ruins he declares, ‘form a
charming resting-place if a little time to spare in Reading.’
Father Thames Sketch
The advertising pages included at the front and back of the book are equally interesting. For example, you could visit ‘Lovejoy’s Library’ apparently the, ‘Largest Provincial Library in the Kingdom’ run by a Miss Langley on London Street in Reading or you could hire a boat from Arthur Henry East at the Kennet’s Mouth if you fancied trying out some of the routes sketched in the guide.
Meanwhile, the adverts at the front of the book boast the talents of Taunt himself, one giving a delightful sketch of his shop on Broad Street, Oxford while another features a fun cartoon of Taunt photographing an anthropomorphised ‘Father Thames’.
As a result of his fantastic survey and mapping of the River Thames, Taunt was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, (Oxfordshire Blue Plaques) and he is credited with sparking, ‘a national love affair with the river that remains to this day,’ (In the Boat Shed).
In the Boat Shed
Oxfordshire Blue Plaques
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An integrated Bayesian analysis of LOH and copy number data
Paola MV Rancoita1,2,3,
Marcus Hutter4,
Francesco Bertoni2 &
Ivo Kwee1,2
BMC Bioinformatics volume 11, Article number: 321 (2010) Cite this article
Cancer and other disorders are due to genomic lesions. SNP-microarrays are able to measure simultaneously both genotype and copy number (CN) at several Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) along the genome. CN is defined as the number of DNA copies, and the normal is two, since we have two copies of each chromosome. The genotype of a SNP is the status given by the nucleotides (alleles) which are present on the two copies of DNA. It is defined homozygous or heterozygous if the two alleles are the same or if they differ, respectively. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is the loss of the heterozygous status due to genomic events.
Combining CN and LOH data, it is possible to better identify different types of genomic aberrations. For example, a long sequence of homozygous SNPs might be caused by either the physical loss of one copy or a uniparental disomy event (UPD), i.e. each SNP has two identical nucleotides both derived from only one parent. In this situation, the knowledge of the CN can help in distinguishing between these two events.
To better identify genomic aberrations, we propose a method (called gBPCR) which infers the type of aberration occurred, taking into account all the possible influence in the microarray detection of the homozygosity status of the SNPs, resulting from an altered CN level. Namely, we model the distributions of the detected genotype, given a specific genomic alteration and we estimate the parameters involved on public reference datasets. The estimation is performed similarly to the modified Bayesian Piecewise Constant Regression, but with improved estimators for the detection of the breakpoints.
Using artificial and real data, we evaluate the quality of the estimation of gBPCR and we also show that it outperforms other well-known methods for LOH estimation.
We propose a method (gBPCR) for the estimation of both LOH and CN aberrations, improving their estimation by integrating both types of data and accounting for their relationships. Moreover, gBPCR performed very well in comparison with other methods for LOH estimation and the estimated CN lesions on real data have been validated with another technique.
Although most of the human genome is identical among individuals, there are about 10 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) which distinguish us [1]. SNPs are single base-pair loci where the nucleotides can assume two possible values (called alleles) among the four bases (thymine, adenine, cytosine, guanine). In general, since we have two copies of each chromosome, the genotype at any SNP can be: AA, BB or AB, where A and B represent the two alleles. Moreover, a SNP can be classified as homozygous (i.e., AA or BB) or heterozygous (i.e., AB), whether or not its genotype consists of two equal alleles. Cancer and several human diseases are caused by genomic aberrations, which can affect the homozygous status and/or the DNA copy number (the normal copy number, CN, is two since we have two copies of each chromosome, except for the chromosomes X and Y). The former type of aberrations is often displayed by unusual long stretches of homozygous SNPs, called loss of heterozygosity (LOH) region. The latter type of aberrations consists in genomic regions with DNA copy number different from two.
In general, LOH can arise by several mechanisms, such as deletions and germ-line or somatic recombinations. When the LOH occurs without a change in copy number, it is referred to as copy-neutral LOH (or sometimes run of homozygosity, ROH). In the past, copy-neutral LOH regions were usually explained as a consequence of an uniparental disomy event (UPD), see [2]. Recently, long homozygous segments have also been detected in genomes of normal individuals, supporting the hypothesis that some copy-neutral LOH segments might represent autozygosity (see, for example, [3–5]). In the literature, it has been shown a relationship between some tumors and both types of aberrant events (see, for example, [6–8]).
Uniparental disomy (UPD) occurs when both homologues of a part of a chromosome are inherited from only one parent. It can be divided in: uniparental isodisomy (when the two copies are two replicates of one homologue of one parent) and the uniparental heterodisomy (when both homologues are inherited from the same parent). Because of meiotic recombination, a mixture of both events is also possible, and similar events can also happen during the mitosis. Moreover, in cancer cells, the uniparental isodisomy can also occur when a homologue of a part of a chromosome is lost and the remaining homologue is duplicated. The autozygosity describes a situation where the homologues are identical by descendent (IBD), because they are inherited from a common ancestor. Inbreeding is usually uncommon because of laws and social conventions, but it does occur in small isolated populations.
SNP microarrays are able to measure simultaneously both the DNA copy number and the genotype at each SNP position considered [9]. We call LOH data the homozygous status of the SNPs deduced from the genotyping data. By integrating the information given by both LOH and copy number data, we can better identify several types of lesions of the genome (regarding combinations of both DNA copy number and LOH aberrations). For example, when one copy of a chromosomal segment is deleted, we usually detect a long stretch of homozygous SNPs (since the genotype calling algorithm is unable to distinguish between the presence of only one copy and the presence of two equal copies), but the same homozygous status can also occur for other reasons, such as uniparental disomy. In this situation, the knowledge of both types of data can lead to the correct interpretation of the phenomenon, while with only one type of data it would not be possible. Another example is when an amplified genomic segment is present: if one of the two copies of the segment is highly amplified, then even the heterozygous SNPs will be likely detected as homozygous, because the DNA quantity of one allele is much higher than the other one. In this case again, the integration of both types of data is able to better identify the dosage of the DNA aberration.
Many methods have been developed for the estimation of the copy number profile (see, for example, [10–14]) and others for the discovery of LOH regions from the genotyping data, without distinguishing if they are caused by either the loss of one copy or other genomic events like uniparental disomy or autozygosity (see, for example, [15, 16]). To the best of our knowledge, only one method integrates these two types of data for the estimation of both copy number aberrations and copy-neutral LOH regions and it uses a hidden Markov model (HMM) [17]. Other statistical procedures use the information regarding both the total and the allelic copy number to infer these kind of lesions (for example, [18–24]) and some of these algorithms are available only for the analysis of data coming from Illumina Beadarrays. Finally, in [25] the authors describe an HMM with the same purpose, which employs the allelic copy number data from a tumor sample and the genotyping data from the matched normal sample.
Here, we propose a method which estimates the copy number changes and the copy-neutral LOH regions at the same time, using both LOH and DNA copy number data. The estimation procedure consists of a Bayesian piecewise constant regression, thus we call our algorithm genomic Bayesian Piecewise Constant Regression (gBPCR). Our model is more general than [17], since the latter cannot be applied to data, whose DNA sample come from a mixture of cell populations (which is usually the case for samples of patients affected by cancer). Moreover, the algorithm in [17] needs the specification of some parameters by the user and is sensitive to their values.
Our method was implemented in R and is freely available at http://www.idsia.ch/~paola/gBPCR/ or in Additional file 1. Furthermore, an R package will be soon available.
Because of the complexity of the biological model, we first describe a preliminary simplified model (called Model 1), which only estimates the copy number events exploiting the relationship between copy number and LOH data. Therefore, it does not identify copy-neutral LOH regions (called IBD/UPD regions), which are due to events like uniparental disomy, and it does not distinguish the normal regions from the gained one (because we suppose that the capability of detection of the homozygous status is the same in these two types of regions). In the subsequent subsections, we add to the model the detection of copy-neutral LOH regions (Model 2) and of gained ones (Model 3). Therefore, the explanation is structured in the following way:
Model 1: relationship between LOH and copy number data to detect copy number changes (apart from the gained regions);
Model 2: addition to Model 1 of the IBD/UPD region detection (i.e. determination of copy-neutral LOH regions);
Model 3: addition to Model 2 of the gained region detection.
Each of the three models is contained in the subsequent. The final model (Model 3) represents our algorithm for the estimation of both copy number changes and copy-neutral LOH regions and we call it genomic Bayesian Piecewise Constant Regression (gBPCR).
Model 1: relationship between LOH and copy number data
Although in nature the copy number is an integer, the raw copy number values detected by the microarray are usually continuous values, due to technical procedures. Moreover, the samples often contain also a percentage of normal cells.
It is common practice to treat copy number data in a log2ratio scale (where the ratio is defined with respect to a normal reference dataset) which makes the errors approximately normally distributed. Then, the copy number profile is estimated as a piecewise constant function (i.e. the genome is divided in regions of constant copy number), where the levels assume real values. For the purpose of our model, we estimate this profile by mBPCR, which is a Bayesian piecewise constant regression procedure [14]. It has been shown in [14] that this method outperformed well-known other methods on several datasets.
Commonly, in biomedical/cancer research, after estimating the log2ratio profile, the copy number aberrations are defined as those regions with values outside an interval around zero (notice that, in the log2ratio scale, zero represents CN = 2, i.e. a normal copy number). Often, the interval is a statistical confidence interval computed on the basis of the samples of the whole dataset.
In Model 1, our aim is to classify better the copy number changes, trying to reduce the number of false positives, by exploiting the relationship between copy number and LOH data.
Mathematical model of the biology mechanism
The aim of Model 1 is to obtain a better estimation of the true underlying copy number events, using both the information given by copy number and LOH data. In a genomic region, a copy number event is defined as a particular class of copy number values. The definition of the categories into which the copy number values are divided will follow from the description of the LOH data.
For the purpose of better identifying the copy number events, we can consider two classes of SNP values: Heterozygosity (Het) and Homozygosity (Hom). Thus, the LOH data are deduced from the genotyping data, by mapping the genotypes AA and BB into Hom and the genotype AB into Het, for all SNPs. The genotype calling algorithm (e.g. BRLMM [26]) is unable to distinguish between a homozygosity due to the presence of two equal nucleotides or the one due to the loss or high amplification of one of them. Hence, the presence of heterozygosity can ensure that the copy number is normal or gained with a high probability, while the homozygosity can be due to different events. It follows that there are only four relevant classes of copy number events that can be distinguished by looking at the LOH data. Therefore, if we call the random variable which represents a copy number event at SNP i, it can assume only the following values:
= 2, when CN > 4 (amplification);
= 0, when 1 < CN ≤ 4 (normal or gain);
= -1, when CN = 1 (loss);
= -2, when CN = 0 (homozygous deletion).
The homozygous deletion corresponds to the loss of both copies of a genomic region. Ideally, the genotype calling algorithm should detect a NoCall genotype at the corresponding SNP position (i.e. it should not be able to identify the genotype of the SNP). Although not common, since cancer DNA samples usually contain a mixture of normal and tumor cells (with also different cancer cell subpopulations), the information given by the NoCall genotype can be used to better distinguish between a mono-allelic deletion and a bi-allelic (homozygous) deletion.
Therefore, three different LOH variables are present in the model: the true homozygous status in normal cells (XN), the homozygous status in abnormal cells (X), which is the consequence of copy number changes (in Model 1 we do not consider other biological events), and the homozygous status detected by the genotype calling algorithm (Y). The components of the first two random vectors can assume only values in = {Het, Hom} and * = {∅, Het, Hom}, respectively, and we suppose that they are independently distributed as Bernoulli random variable. The components of Y can assume values in = {NoCall, Het, NHet} (NHet stands for "not heterozygous", since the genotype calling algorithm cannot distinguish between two equal nucleotides, i.e. homozygosity, and the loss of one copy).
A summary of the model can be found in Figure 1 and a summary of the notations is in Table 1. Ideally, at each SNP i, the homozygous status in abnormal cells X i is completely determined, given the corresponding value in normal cells and the occurred copy number event , by the following relations:
Table 1 Notations.
Scheme of Model 1. The vector X of the homozygous status of all SNPs in abnormal cells is completely determined, given the vector XNof their homozygous status in normal cells and the vector of their corresponding copy number events. Using this relationship among X, XNand , we can estimate , given the observations Ycnand Y (respectively, the raw log2ratio of the copy number and the homozygous status in abnormal cells detected by the genotype calling algorithm) and by specifying the prior distribution of XN. The observations Ycnare used to defined the prior distribution of in the Bayesian model.
Nevertheless, the homozygous status of abnormal cells estimated by the genotype calling algorithm (Y i ) is affected by several sources of errors.
Hypothesis of the model
The genome of cancer cells can be divided in subregions where the copy number is constant. Since we divided the copy number values in four classes (i.e. the copy number events), we can also consider regions with the same copy number event.
Let us consider a genomic region where the microarray measures the DNA copy number and the genotype at n SNP loci. Then, from the previous discussion, the vector of the copy number events at all positions can be seen as a piecewise constant function. This function consists of k0 intervals with the same copy number event and with boundaries so that , for all p = 1, ..., k0. To estimate this function we use a Bayesian piecewise constant regression method, which determines the number of segments k0, the boundaries ( ) and the copy number events .
For any sample, we assume to have the homozygous status detected by the genotype calling algorithm (Y) and the profile of the log2ratio of the copy number estimated by mBPCR. The estimated log2ratio profile consists of intervals with boundaries and levels of the segments ( is the estimated log2ratio in the pthinterval, for ). This estimated profile is used only to define the prior distribution of the random vector Z (see Subsubsection "Z prior definition"), while the LOH data Y are used to infer Z (the scheme of the algorithm is in Figure 2). Notice that we do not suppose to know XN, i.e. the homozygous status in normal cells. Moreover, we assume that, given the true value of the homozygous status in normal cells XNand the copy number event Z at each position, the LOH data points are independent, since their values depend only on both noise and genotype detection errors.
Scheme of the algorithm corresponding to Model 1. The graph shows the algorithm for the inference of Model 1. The scheme of gBPCR (i.e. Model 3) can be obtained by substituting p(z|k, t, y) with p(w|k, t, y) and by estimating w instead of z.
The model implies that, given k0 and t0, the posterior distribution of is
and thus, if we condition only with respect to the LOH data y, the posterior becomes
where and are the domains of k and t, respectively (they will be defined later).
To specify the model (see Figure 1), we need to define the likelihood, i.e. the conditional distribution of Y, given and XN. To model it, we take into account all the variability that can affect the genotype detection, such as: the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, the presence of different cancer cell subpopulations or normal cells, and the amplification of only one copy. For example, the probabilities and are not zero, because of the error in the genotype detection even in case of a normal DNA sample. The probabilities and are related to the detection errors due to the presence of normal cells and/or different types of cancer cell subpopulations, or to PCR amplification errors, while is related to the errors that can be due to the amplification of only one allele. Also and account for the errors that can be due to the presence of cell subpopulations.
The set of conditional probabilities are considered as parameters of the model. To quantify them, we needed paired normal-cancer samples, since they are related to the probability of detecting a certain homozygous status in a cancer cell, given the corresponding one in a normal cell of the same patient and under some copy number event. Therefore, to compute maximum likelihood estimates of these parameters, we used 13 samples from an available cancer dataset consisting of breast cancer cell lines [27, 28] (see Section S.1 in Additional file 2, for further explanations).
To complete the Bayesian model, we need to define the prior distributions of the other random variables. For the parameters K and T, we consider distributions similar to the ones used in mBPCR [14]:
where = {1, ..., kmax} and is a subspace of such that t0 = 0, t k = n and t q ∈ {1, ..., n - 1} for all q = 1, ..., k - 1, in an ordered way and without repetitions.
The prior probabilities of heterozygosity of the SNPs are the frequencies of heterozygosity computed on the samples of the matched race in the HapMap project [3, 29]. They are usually provided by the manufacturer in the documentation related to the microarray used. In Section "Results and Discussion", the microarray mostly employed is the GeneChip Human Mapping 250K NspI (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA).
Z prior definition
The only prior that we have not yet defined is the one of Z. While the estimated levels of the log2ratio profile are continuous variables, Z classifies the copy number as discrete events. Then, the major problem consists in mapping the continuous values into the discrete values of Z, i.e. in defining a partition of the log2ratio values such that each interval corresponds to a particular copy number event.
In the literature, most methods determine a confidence interval around zero (which corresponds to CN = 2) and then consider all the log2ratio values above this interval as gains and all values below as losses (see, for example, [30, 31]). This method is not suitable in our case, since we want to classify also the events {CN = 0} and {CN > 4}. Looking at the histogram of the estimated log2ratio values (see, for example, in Figure 3 the histogram derived from the 14 HIV lymphoma cell lines in [32]), we can see that they have a multimodal density with peaks corresponding to CN = 1, CN = 2 and CN = {3, 4}. Sometimes, we can even separate the peaks of CN = 3 and CN = 4. Similarly to [33], we model this density as a mixture of normal distributions (a way to estimate this mixture density can be found in Section S.2 in Additional file 2). Once the parameters of the density are estimated, we can define a function to map the log2ratio values into the copy number event values:
Example of a histogram of estimated log2ratio levels. The graph shows the histogram of the mBPCR estimated log2ratio levels of the profiles of 14 HIV lymphoma cell lines in [32].
where are, respectively, the estimated mean and variance of the normal distribution corresponding to CN = cn.
From the definition of f LOGtoZ , for all p = 1, ..., , we define the prior distribution of Z p as:
where cn represents all copy number information (both raw data and estimated profile by mBPCR) and M p is the random variable representing the log2ratio value in the pthsegment. From the mBPCR model, given cn, M p is normally distributed with mean and variance where ( , ) are the posterior mean and variance of M p estimated by mBPCR, respectively.
The estimation
To estimate the piecewise constant profile of the copy number events, we define the estimators of k0 (the number of segments) and t0 (the boundaries) similarly to the ones in the mBPCR method [14]:
Namely, corresponds to the positions which have the highest posterior probability to be a breakpoint. The main differences with respect to mBPCR are in the prior over K and in the estimation of K. Instead of using a uniform prior and an estimator which minimizes the posterior expected squared error, here we consider a prior similar to 1/k2 and an estimator which minimizes the 0-1 error, in order to reduce the false discovery rate (FDR) in case of few segments.
Another difference with respect to mBPCR consists in the level estimation. While in the copy number model the levels were continuous random variables, now they assume categorical values. Hence, they are estimated separately (as before) with the MAP estimator instead of the posterior expected value,
for p = 1, ..., , where and are any estimate of t0 and k0, respectively. For the computation of all the posterior probabilities involved, we used dynamic programming as described in Section S.3 in Additional file 2.
Let us define y ij = (yi+1, ..., yj), representing the LOH data points in the interval [i + 1, j], and K ij as the random variable which represents the number of segments in the interval [i + 1, j]. Using Bayes' Theorem and the independence of the LOH data points belonging to different segments, the probability in Equation (4), given the LOH data y, can be written as,
Therefore, if the boundary estimator misses a clear boundary between and , then the probability at the denominator of Equation (5) could be zero and thus the level would not be estimated. The best way to prevent this event consists in using a good estimator for the boundaries.
Previously, in [14] we found that the boundary estimator is an estimator with a high sensitivity, but medium FDR. The problem of this estimator is the following. The vector p of the posterior probabilities to be a breakpoint at each point of the sample usually represents a multimodal function with maxima at the breakpoint positions, but often in a neighborhood of each maximum there are other points with high probability because of the uncertainty (see Figure 4). Hence, if we take the first points with the highest probability (according to the definition of ), we could take points in the neighborhood of the higher maxima and not some maxima with a lower probability (see Figure 4). As a consequence, if k0 was estimated with its exact value then the sensitivity of the would be lower. In this case, we could lose important breakpoints so that the denominator in Equation (5) would become zero. In practice, often slightly overestimates k0, because of the high noise of the data, and thus this phenomenon should not happen, but to prevent even this rare case we searched for a way to improve the estimation of the boundaries.
Example of estimated posterior probabilities to be a breakpoint. The graph shows, for each probe, the estimated posterior probability to be a breakpoint on a sample of dataset B.
Since commonly the vector of the posterior probabilities shows clearly the position of the breakpoints in correspondence to the maxima, we estimate the number of the segments and the breakpoints with the number of peaks and the locations of their maxima, respectively (see Section S.4 in Additional file 2). Essentially, the algorithm for the determination of the peaks, after applying a kernel method to reduce the noise of the function, uses two thresholds: one for the determination of the peaks (thr1) and one for the definition of the values close to zero (thr2). Therefore, we will denote the corresponding estimators by and .
In Section "Results and Discussion", we will consider several pairs of thresholds and we will apply the corresponding estimators to simulated data, in order to determine the best paired thresholds and to compare their performance with . We will also compare with , another boundary estimator described in [14].
Model 2: addition of the IBD/UPD region detection
LOH data are used in biology not only to better identify regions of loss and amplifications, but, especially, to detect regions of copy-neutral LOH, which can be identified by unusual long stretches of homozygous SNPs, with normal copy number. In Section "Background", we explained that this type of aberrations can be a consequence of UPD (either uniparental isodisomy or heterodisomy) or autozygosity (IBD regions). From the description of these genomic events, it follows that the uniparental isodisomy and the IBD regions can be detected because they appear as a long sequence of homozygous SNPs with a low probability to occur, while the uniparental heterodisomy consists in a sequence of both homozygous and heterozygous SNPs as in a normal condition. Therefore, without the genotypes of the parents, from SNP data we can only detect the uniparental isodisomy (iUPD) and the IBD segments. In the following, we will consider only these two events, referring to them as IBD/UPD events.
Since an IBD/UPD event, by definition, only exists in regions of normal copy number (CN = 2), the only probabilities which are affected by the presence of this event are those involving {Z = 0}. Therefore, we define the following sets of conditional probabilities and , where the variable indicates if an IBD/UPD event occurred at SNP i (if it happened = 1, otherwise = 0). We can notice that, given { = 0, = 0}, the distribution of Y i is equal to the conditional distribution with respect to { = 0} in Model 1, since the latter was modeled with no possibility of an IBD/UPD event. Instead, in case of an IBD/UPD event, we do not need to condition with respect to , since, in case of a somatic iUPD event, the genotype of an iUPD region is independent of the homozygous status of the same region in a normal cell. Otherwise, in case of autozygosity or germ line iUPD, the genotypes of normal and abnormal cells are the same and it makes no sense to condition one to the other.
In the new framework, we define the vector of the aberration events at n SNP loci as ; here the aberrations regard both copy number changes and IBD/UPD regions. Each component of the vector assumes values: -3 ( = 0 and = 1, i.e. IBD/UPD event), -2 ( = -2, i.e. homozygous deletion), -1( = -1, i.e. loss), 0 ( = 0 and = 0, i.e. normal state or gain), 2 ( = 2, i.e. high amplification); a graphical representation of the model is given in Figure 5. As previously, we can divide the genome in intervals corresponding to the same aberration event, i.e the profile of the aberrations consists of k0 intervals, with boundaries , so that , for all p = 1, ..., k0. The estimation procedure is similar to the one of Model 1. The estimators of k0 and t0 are the same and, given and (any estimate of k0 and t0, respectively), we estimate the aberration events in each interval with their MAP estimators,
Scheme of Model 2 and 3. The vector of aberration events represents the lesions derived from both IBD/UPD events ( ) and copy number event ( ), at each SNP position. The vector X of the homozygous status of all SNPs in abnormal cells is completely determined, given the vector XNof their homozygous status in normal cells and the vector of their corresponding aberration events. Using this relationship among X, XNand , we can estimate , given the observations Ycnand Y (respectively, the raw log2ratio of the copy number and the homozygous status in abnormal cells detected by the genotype calling algorithm) and by specifying the prior distributions of and XN. The observations Ycnare used to defined the prior distribution of in the Bayesian model.
for p = 1, ..., . Notice that, for w = -2, -1, 2, the posterior probability P(W p = w|Y, , , cn) is equal to P(Z p = w|Y, , , cn), while for w = -3, 0 we have,
and we assume that P(U p = 1) =: p upd , for all p = 1, ..., .
Both and p upd are parameters of the model. For the maximum likelihood estimation of , we used 11 IBD/UPD regions previously found by us on 5 samples of patients with hairy cell leukemia [34] and on the B-cell lymphoma cell line KARPAS-422. All regions were detected by dChip [16] and their width was between 3 Mb and 100 Mb (covering from 300 to 9800 SNPs), so that they were large enough to be really considered IBD/UPD regions (for further explanations, see Section S.1 in Additional file 2).
Values for the parameter pupd
We expect the prior probability of an IBD/UPD event to be low. In order to estimate the order of magnitude of this parameter, we considered two studies on IBD regions: [6] and [3]. In the former, they considered as IBD regions only stretches of at least 50 homozygous SNPs (with at maximum 2% of heterozygous) longer than 4 Mb and the platform used was the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 50K Array. In the latter, a denser microarray was used and the stretches considered were longer than 1 Mb (with at least 50 probes) or longer than 3 Mb. Using the data of the former paper (only the normal samples), we estimated p upd ≈ 1.7·10-3. Instead, with the data of the latter, we estimated p upd ≈ 1.5·10-3 considering all regions greater than 1 Mb, while p upd ≈ 1.46·10-4, considering only the regions greater than 3 Mb. The differences in the estimated values are due to the different resolution of the technologies used (in fact, in the former the number of SNPs used was 58,960, while in the latter it was 3,107,620). Moreover, the probability depends on the minimum length allowed for these regions. The wider the regions are, the higher is the probability that the regions represent "abnormalities" and the lower becomes the probability of their occurrence (so that p upd is lower). Therefore, in the following applications (see Section "Results and Discussion"), we will use two values: p upd = 10-3 and p upd = 10-4.
Another possible way to solve the problem could be to assign a prior distribution to p upd (for example, a uniform distribution over its range) and integrate it out in the equations of the model.
Model 3: addition of the gained region detection
In the description of Model 1, we explained our assumption that there is no difference in the genotype detection between a normal or gained region. Therefore, in Model 1 (and in Model 2), we defined a single class for the normal or gained regions. But, for the biological studies, it is relevant to distinguish these two copy number events and this distinction is based essentially on the estimated copy number (since there is no difference in the distribution of the detected genotypes, due to the previous discussion). As a consequence, the probability of Y i given a normal (i.e. { = 0}) or gained copy number (i.e. { = 1} = { = 1}) is the same,
We also need to define two distinct prior probabilities for the normal copy number and the gain event. Similarly to its previous definition, for all , the new prior of Z p is given by,
In the following, Model 3 (which is the complete model) will be called genomic Bayesian Piecewise Constant Regression (gBPCR).
Adjustment of the parameters related to NoCall
The probabilities {P(Y i = NoCall| = x, = w), x ∈ , w = -3, -2, -1, 0, 2} are related to the detection of NoCall s under some conditions. Generally, the presence of NoCall s is not only due to diffculties of the genotype calling algorithm in the detection of the genotype (technical noise) but also to the noise of the sample because of differences in the quality of extracted DNA. Therefore, we need to adjust the estimated values of these parameters on the basis of the sample noise.
Since usually the NoCall rate (i.e. percentage of NoCall s in the sample) increases with the noise of the sample, we assume that, given { = x, = z}, the probability of detecting a NoCall at SNP i in sample s is proportional to a parameter p x,z (which depends on the technical noise) by a factor θ s (which depends on the sample noise),
If we condition over the values of and estimate P( = Het) = 1/2 for a generic SNP i (by considering a uniform distribution over the four possible combinations of alleles AA, AB, BA, BB), we can compute the NoCall rate in regions with copy number event z in the following way,
Therefore, by applying Equations (9) and (11), for any pair of samples (Sample 1 and 2), we can write the conditional probability of NoCall, given { = x, = z}, in Sample 1 in terms of the corresponding probability in Sample 2,
In the following, we will denote the sample to estimate with s = 1 and the reference sample with s = 2.
Using Equation (12), the values of the parameters related to NoCall detection are adjusted for Sample 1,
for z = -2, -1, 0, 2, where r1(z) and r2(z) are an estimate of the NoCall rate in regions with copy number event z, for Sample 1 and 2, respectively. By applying Equation (10) with P( = Het) = 1/2, r2(z) can be computed from the estimated values of P(Y i = NoCall| = Het, = z) and P(Y i = NoCall| = Hom, = z)
for z = -2, -1, 0, 2. r1(z) is the frequency of NoCall in regions with copy number event z of Sample 1, for z = -2, -1, 0, 2.
The estimated value of the probability P(Y i = NoCall| = -3) is adjusted in a different way. On the reference samples, we found, as expected, that
that is, the NoCall rate in IBD/UPD regions is approximately equal to the NoCall rate in normal regions. Therefore,
In Section "Results and Discussion", we will compare the estimations resulting from gBPCR with and without the adjustment of these parameters.
In this section, we apply gBPCR to both artificial and real data. First, we compare the boundary estimators (described in the previous section) on data simulated by using Model 1. Then, we evaluate the detection of IBD/UPD regions on the artificial dataset of [35], in comparison with three well-known methods for LOH estimation. Using the same data, we also show the difference in the estimation when adjusting the parameters. Finally, we show the performance of gBPCR, when applied to real data.
With the current implementation, on a computer with dual CPU (AMD Opteron 250, 2.4 GHz) and 4 GB RAM, the algorithm needed almost two days to estimate the profile of an Affymetrix GeneChip Mapping 250K NspI sample (using k max = 50). Nevertheless, the computations can be performed by chromosome (and by arm for the longest chromosomes), reducing the computational cost. In any case, an optimized version of the code will be soon available.
Comparison of the breakpoint estimators on simulated data
In Section "Methods", we have described several possible boundary estimators: , and . The last one actually defines a class of estimators which depend on the values of the thresholds thr1 and thr2. We tried several pairs of the following types of thresholds:
"005" := max(0.005, quantile of p at 0.95)
"01" := max(0.01, quantile of p at 0.95)
"01 90" := max(0.01, quantile of p at 0.90)
"mad" := median(p) + 3 * mad(p)
where mad is the median absolute deviation and p is the vector of posterior probabilities to be a breakpoint. All these thresholds derive from different definitions of which probability values are to be considered significant.
We assessed the quality of all the estimators of k0 and t0 considered, by applying them on two artificial datasets (called datasets A and B), each of 100 samples. We used as prior probabilities of heterozygosity the frequencies of heterozygosity (in the CEU population of the HapMap project [29]) given by the annotation file of the Affymetrix GeneChip Mapping 250K NspI microarray. Just for illustrative purpose and because of limited computational time, we considered only the SNPs of a single chromosome (chromosome 22), hence the number of data points in each sample is n = 2520. Since our complete model (Model 3) does not provide a realistic way to simulate IBD/UPD regions and the identification of gained regions depends mainly on copy number data, the samples were generated using Model 1.
Simulation description
Since the Model 1 assumes to know the estimated copy number profile given by mBPCR, for both datasets, we fixed the estimated segment number = 15, the estimated boundaries = (0, 27, 31, 161, 273, 585, 633, 1006, 1050, 1054, 1309, 1607, 1754, 2100, 2432, 2520) (generated uniformly random given = 15) and the prior distribution of Z (see Supplementary Table S.1 in Additional file 2, for dataset A, and Table 2, for dataset B). The profiles of the samples in dataset A should be estimated easily, since in each segment the prior distribution of Z is quite peaked.
Table 2 Prior distribution of Z in the simulated dataset B.
Given the previous parameters ( , and the Z prior) and the estimated values of the other parameters of the model, we used the following steps to generate each LOH sample:
we generated a true profile of the homozygous status in normal cells X N, by using the prior probabilities of heterozygosity, described previously;
we generated a true copy number event profile , by using the prior distribution of Z (notice that in some cases the final profile can have less than 15 segments, since, if consecutive segments have the same copy number value, then they are joined together);
given the true copy number event profile and the profile of the homozygous status in normal cells, we generated Y (the profile of the homozygous status in cancer cells detected by the genotype calling algorithm), by using the conditional probability distributions of Model 1.
Results of the comparisons
To evaluate the performance of the estimators, we computed several error measures regarding the estimation of the number of segments (0-1, absolute and squared errors), the boundary estimation (binary error, sensitivity and false discovery rate, FDR) and the profile estimation (sum of squared distance, SSQ, sum 0-1 error, sensitivity and FDR for all copy number events). The explanation of these error measures can be found in Section S.5 in Additional file 2.
By applying the pairs of estimators ( , ),( , ), and ( ) to dataset A, the latter two appeared the best performing methods with respect to the error measures considered (see for example Table 3).
Table 3 Comparison among the breakpoint estimators with respect to error measures regarding copy number aberration detection.
Based upon these results, we decided to not apply the estimators ( , ) on dataset B and to try other paired thresholds for , in order to reduce the FDR of the boundary estimation. By looking globally at the results of all error measures (see Table 3, Supplementary Tables S.2-S.5 and Supplementary Figures S.2 and S.3 in Additional file 2), we can suggest the use of the following pairs of estimators: ( ), ( ) or ( ). Moreover, from the study of the behavior of ( ) and ( ), we can understand the role of the two thresholds in our algorithm for the determination of the maxima in a multimodal function (see Section S.4 in Additional file 2). The threshold thr1 is used to decide which points belong to the same peak: all the points, between two regions of points below thr1, are considered in the same peak. Hence, with a low threshold, more points are considered belonging to the same peak and thus we can eliminate lot of false breakpoints (like in ( )). But, at the same time, if two true peaks are close, then it is possible that they are considered as only one peak, losing a true breakpoint (low sensitivity). Instead, the threshold thr2 is used to choose which estimated breakpoints are significant for the regression, i.e. if their posterior probabilities are to be considered different from zero. Therefore, using a lower value of thr2, we select a higher number of breakpoints obtaining a higher percentage of both false ones (high FDR) and true ones (high sensitivity, as in ( )).
A detailed description of the results obtained in the comparison is in Section S.5 in Additional file 2.
Comparisons on simulated data with LOH regions
In order to evaluate the IBD/UPD detection of gBPCR, we applied it to simulated data of [35]. These data are based on three real samples of the HapMap dataset (see [1]), obtained with the Affymetrix GeneChip Mapping 250K NspI. For each sample and signal to noise ratio (SNR) value, the authors simulated two profiles: one with regions of copy-neutral LOH and one with regions of loss. In both cases the number of regions was 50 and their width ranged from 20 SNPs to a whole chromosome. The values of SNR considered were 5, 2 and 1.25. Therefore, the total number of samples was 18, because for each normal sample we had two LOH profiles and three SNR values. The authors simulated the noise and the aberrations at probe level intensity saving the data in .CEL file format, thus we used BRLMM [26] to extract the genotyping data and CNAT 4.01 [36] for the raw copy number data.
Similar to [35], the estimation of gBPCR was compared with the ones given by three well-known methods in the field: dChip [16], CNAT 4.01 [36] and PennCNV [24]. The evaluation has been done by computing the true positive rate (TPR) and the false positive rate (FPR), i.e. the proportion of SNPs inside the LOH regions that are correctly identified (as belonging to a LOH region) and the proportion of SNPs outside these segments that are wrongly identified (as belonging to them), respectively. We used ( ), ( ) or ( ) as paired estimators of the number of segments and the boundaries, and either p upd = 10-3 or p upd = 10-4 mas the prior probability of IBD/UPD.
Since CNAT does not consider the NoCall SNPs (called non-informative SNPs) for the estimation of the LOH profile, we compared the TPR and FPR computed using only either the informative or the non-informative SNPs (see Supplementary Figures S.4, S.5, S.6 and S.7 in Additional file 2).
Overall, all versions of gBPCR behaved similarly on these data and they outperformed PennCNV, CNAT and dChip. Moreover, dChip failed to give a good estimation in presence of high noise, while PennCNV did not detect almost any LOH aberration. Four examples of profile estimation in samples with SNR = 1.25 (high noise) are shown in Figure 6 (their corresponding LOH data are plotted in Supplementary Figure S.8 in Additional file 2). Regarding the copy-neutral LOH estimation, all methods (apart from PennCNV) were able to identify the aberrations, but sometimes dChip divided the biggest lesions into small regions of aberration (e.g. the plot at the bottom right-hand side of Figure 6). Instead, only gBPCR and CNAT were usually able to detect LOH regions due to deletions. In this case, CNAT divided the biggest aberrations in small regions of LOH, losing part of the lesions. In Figure 6, we can also appreciate the differences in the estimation of the regions of gain between gBPCR and PennCNV. In both examples with regions of loss (the plots at the top and at the bottom left-hand side), the segments outside the losses represent gains. gBPCR failed to identify only one of these lesions, instead PennCNV did not recognize almost any of them (for thoroughness, we plotted also the copy number events, estimated by the HMM methods implemented in dChip and CNAT, in Supplementary Figure S.9 in Additional file 2). In the next section, by applying gBPCR to a real dataset from [23], we will be able to discuss its performance in the identification of genomic gains, depending on the copy number of the alleles (e.g. CN = 4 and both alleles have CN = 2 or one allele has CN = 1 and the other CN = 3).
Examples of profile estimation. The plot shows four examples of chromosomic profile estimation in samples with SNR = 1.25 (high noise). The version of gBPCR employed was the one which uses ( ) and p upd = 10-4. As notations: 1 corresponds to gain, 0 to normal status, -1 to loss. IBD/UPD regions and unspecified LOH regions are depicted with values close to zero. All methods (apart PennCNV) are able to identify the copy-neutral LOH regions, but sometimes dChip divides the biggest lesions in small ones. Only gBPCR and CNAT are able to detect LOH regions due to deletions and in this case CNAT divides the biggest aberrations into small regions of LOH.
Finally, we also evaluated the effect of the adjustment of the model parameters related to the NoCall detection (see Section "Methods"), using the same data. At low or medium noise, no significant differences in the goodness of the estimation could be observed (see, for example, Supplementary Figure S.10 in Additional file 2). Instead, in presence of high noise, the FPR regarding the IBD/UPD detection without the adjustment of the model parameters was close to one. In fact, in this situation a segment with normal copy number is more often classified as IBD/UPD, since the NoCall rate is higher and, without the correction, the IBD/UPD segments are allowed to contain a higher percentage of NoCall s with respect to the normal ones. Instead, with the adjustment, all types of regions are allowed to have a higher number of NoCall s in proportion to the noise, obtaining a less biased estimation.
In conclusion, we suggest to use ( ) or ( ) with p upd = 10-4, due to their good results obtained on the non-informative SNPs. A detailed description of all the results is in Section S.6 in Additional file 2.
Application to real data
In this subsection, we show the behavior of gBPCR on three real datasets. The first dataset consisted of eight paired cancer samples of patients affected by chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which then developed in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), see [37, 38]. For two patients we had also a third sample, thus the total number of samples was 18. The second dataset consisted of 18 patients affected by CLL, see [39]. For both of these datasets, genome-wide DNA profiles were obtained using the GeneChip Human Mapping 250K NspI (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA). The genotype calls were calculated with BRLMM [26] using 46 Caucasian normal female samples of the HapMap Project as reference samples and the raw copy number data were retrieved using CNAT 4.01 [36]. In [37–39], the copy number of some genomic regions was also measured with fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). Therefore, on these regions we compared the copy number event estimated by gBPCR with the copy number measured by FISH. Moreover, since samples coming from the same patient should present the same copy-neutral LOH regions (the germ line ones) for the majority of the genome, we used the two patients with three samples to evaluate the IBD/UPD detection of gBPCR.
The third dataset was a dilution series of the CRL-2324 breast cancer cell line from [23]. The series comprised 12 samples, corresponding to the following percentages of tumor content: 0, 10, 14, 21, 23, 30, 34, 45, 47, 50, 79, 100. The genome-wide DNA profiles were obtained using Illumina 370K BeadChips. The authors preprocessed the data with BeadStudio software (Illumina Inc.) and we used both the genotyping and logRratio data available at [40]. In [23], the authors chose eight genomic aberrations and compared the estimation given by their method (called BAFsegmentation) with the ones of the following algorithms: dChip [16], PennCNV [24], QuantiSNP [20] and SOMATICs [18]. Thus, we compared the estimations of these genomic regions given by gBPCR with the ones given by the previous methods. We also used these data to evaluate the performance of gBPCR in the detection of gains, for different values of the allelic copy numbers.
Based on the previous results on simulated data, for the analysis of these real data, we used: ( ), as paired estimators of the number of segments and the boundaries, and p upd = 10-4 as prior probability of IBD/UPD.
Results regarding the identification of the copy number changes in CLL samples
We recall that an individual cancer sample can represent a mixture of neoplastic and normal cells. Moreover, the tumor cells themselves do not represent a genetically homogeneous population, since individual genetic lesion might be present in only a fraction of the cells. In fact, Figure 7 shows that the log2ratio values corresponding to normal, gain, loss regions are sufficiently well separated only when the copy number changes are borne in at least 60% of the cells of the DNA sample. As a consequence, we aim to detect the copy number changes borne in at least the 60% of the cells, otherwise we cannot ensure that the identified aberrations are true and not due to the noise of the microarray data (the noise is so high that aberrations borne in only a small percentage of cells can be seen as noise and viceversa). To detect aberrations in even less cell content, it is sufficient to change the prior of Z with thresholds closer to zero. In practice, the prior of Z influences more the discovery of the gains than the one of the other copy number events, because the determination of gains depends mainly on the estimated log2ratio values (rather than the LOH data).
Example of copy number event classification. The plot shows the estimated log2ratio values (given by mBPCR), as function of the estimated percentage of cells bearing the aberration (given by FISH). The aberrations considered in the graph were identified by FISH on 18 patients of [37, 38], for a total of 133 interrogated genomic regions. The copy number changes are classified as loss, gain or normal, using the results given by the FISH. For the normal regions, we set the percentage as 100%. The estimated log2ratio is the one of the genomic region interrogated by FISH. We can observe that only the aberrations borne in at least 60% of the cells are clearly separated.
In the samples considered for the comparison, we had a total of 169 regions measured by FISH (which provides also an estimate of the percentage of cells bearing the aberration): 38 regions were gains or losses in at least 60% of the cells (called detectable aberrations), 33 were gains or losses in less than 60% (called less detectable aberrations) and 98 were identified as normal segments. Regarding the detectable aberrations, only two copy number events were not identified by our algorithm. One loss was not found, because the estimated log2ratio was very close to zero, and the other, because of a different percentage of Het SNPs from what was expected by our algorithm. We discovered 13 of the 33 less detectable copy number changes and we also detected two of the 98 normal segments as aberrations, but one of these copy number changes was equal to the one discovered in the same region of the paired sample, thus it was likely to be true.
Instead, by simply using the thresholds of the prior of Z on the profiles estimated by mBPCR for the classification of the copy number events (similarly to what is usually done), we detected one alteration less than what found by gBPCR and other 5 normal regions were seen as aberrations.
For the analysis of the results, we have to consider that the samples used for FISH came from peripheral blood, for the CLL samples, and from paraffn embedded tissues or lymph node, for the DLBCLs. Because of the consequently different cell content, in the former case, the results are better estimated. Moreover, the samples used for microarray and FISH might not be exactly the same, hence the percentage of cells which carry the aberrations can be different and a discordance between the two techniques is possible. Thus, gBPCR performed well in estimating the copy number changes on these samples.
Results regarding IBD/UPD region detection in CLL samples
For the evaluation of the IBD/UPD region detection, we considered the two patients with three samples. For the first patient (called Patient 1), we had: one matched normal DNA sample extracted from peripheral blood granulocytes (called Sample 1.1), one sample from neoplastic cells at CLL phase (called Sample 1.2) and the last one from neoplastic cells at DLBCL phase (called Sample 1.3). For the second patient (Patient 2), we had: one sample from neoplastic cells at CLL phase (called Sample 2.1), one at DLBCL phase (called Sample 2.2) and the last one from neoplastic cells at a further progression of the DLBCL (called Sample 2.3).
Applying gBPCR to the three samples of Patient 1, we found that the number of aberrations in each sample increased with the progression of the disease. The lower number of segments discovered in Sample 1.1 could also be due to a higher NoCall rate in comparison to the other samples. The same happened for Sample 2.3 of Patient 2.
We compared the IBD/UPD segments found in the three samples of each patient and we divided them into three classes (see Supplementary Table S.6 in Additional file 2):
equal regions: segments that are exactly the same in two or three samples;
overlapping regions: segments that are common in at least two samples but do not have the same boundaries;
single sample regions: the remaining segments.
Then, we defined the number of distinct regions as the sum of all these regions and the number of validated ones as the sum of all types of regions except the single sample regions. The proportions of equal and overlapping regions were similar in the two patients and the validated regions were 73% of the distinct regions detected in Patient 1 and 79% of the distinct regions in Patient 2. The single sample regions were about the 21% of the distinct regions in Patient 2, but the majority of them had length less than 50 SNPs. Instead, since the samples of Patient 1 belonged to different stages of the disease, in this patient we found a higher number of single sample regions and most of them were wider than 50 SNPs. In fact, the majority of these regions was detected in Sample 1.3, thus they were likely to be somatic.
Results regarding the identification of genomic aberrations in the dilution series
In [23], the authors observed that the BeadStudio normalization produced copy number profiles which were centered differently as the tumor content decreased and, as a consequence, many algorithms wrongly assigned the type of genetic aberration. Therefore, they evaluated the methods by considering only if they found any aberration in the eight regions considered, without looking at the type of aberration.
Due to this variation in centering the normal copy number, we estimated the histogram of the estimated log2ratio values (which is used for the definition of the prior of Z), separately by using only samples with similar tumor content. Nevertheless, this shrewdness was not suffcient to well distinguish the peaks of the histogram in some cases.
For all samples, we computed the sensitivity in detecting the eight aberrations considered in [23]. For each of them, the calculations were done in two ways: by looking if gBPCR found any aberration (like in [23]) and by looking if it found the correct lesion (see Supplementary Figures S.11 and S.12 in Additional file 2). By comparing the results obtained by gBPCR using the first type of sensitivity with the ones given by the other methods in Figure 7 of [23], we can observe that gBPCR outperformed dChip and PennCNV and often also QuantiSNP. Sometimes it also performed better than BAFsegmentation and SOMATICs in the detection of the regions of gain. Moreover, occasionally gBPCR had a non-zero sensitivity in the normal sample, because it detected small IBD/UPD regions. By looking at the results obtained by gBPCR with the second type of sensitivity, we can notice that the correct aberration was usually detected in samples with at least 60% of tumor content and the sensitivity was still often higher than the one of dChip and PennCNV.
Finally, we computed the sensitivity of gBPCR for eight regions of gain, to evaluate its performance depending on the value of the copy number of the alleles. For all eight lesions, the total copy number was four. Instead, the minor allele copy number (maCN , i.e. the copy number of the allele less frequent in a normal population) changed from two to zero. The selection of these regions of gain was based on the estimated genomic profile of CRL-2324, provided by The Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and available at [41]. For each aberration, the sensitivity was computed in two ways: by looking if the region was identified as a gain and by looking if it was detected as either a gain or an IBD/UPD segment (see Supplementary Figure S.13 in Additional file 2).
The differences between the two types of sensitivity were observed for some percentages of tumor content, in gains with maCN = 2 or maCN = 0. Regarding the lesions with maCN = 2, a small part of the gain was identified as IBD/UPD region in few cases with a small percentage of tumor content. This phenomenon was due to the presence of a high percentage of homozygous SNPs with copy number close to the normal copy number. For the same reason, the whole gain 6q22.31 (maCN = 0) was identified as an IBD/UPD region at 100% and 79% percentages of tumor content and the same happened also for a part of 6q15 (maCN = 0) at 79%. As we explained in Section "Method", the detection of the gains highly depends on the copy number value. Thus, if the copy number of a region of gain is close to the normal value, it is identified as either normal or IBD/UPD, depending on the homozygous status of the SNPs inside it. Therefore, the performance of gBPCR depends mainly on the quality of the copy number data and not on the value of the copy number of the alleles.
We have derived a new algorithm (called gBPCR) for the simultaneous estimation of copy number changes and IBD/UPD regions, by using both copy number and genotyping data. To the best of our knowledge, only one other algorithm exists which uses the same input data for the same purpose [17], but it does not appear appropriate for data coming from a DNA sample of a mixture of cell populations (like cancer DNA samples).
Our model takes into account the errors due to both the microarray procedure and the biological processes that lead to aberrations affecting the DNA copy number and the homozygous status. Because of the complexity of the algorithm and the high noise of the real data, we introduced new estimators to improve the detection of the breakpoints. On the basis of the results on simulated data, we selected the best performing one: ( ).
On the artificial dataset of [35] (and especially in samples with high noise), gBPCR outperformed three well-known methods which estimate regions of LOH: dChip [16], CNAT [36] and PennCNV [24]. We also tested gBPCR on real data. On 36 CLL samples [37–39], we found a high agreement between the copy number changes estimated by gBPCR and the ones obtained by FISH (used as reference). Moreover, on two patients with three samples we could validate at least 73% of the identified IBD/UPD segments. On the samples of the CRL-2324 dilution series of [23], we showed that in samples with at least 60% of tumor content, gBPCR was able to detect the genomic aberrations, while with less tumor content only some aberrations could be seen. Moreover, on these data gBPCR outperformed dChip [16] and PennCNV [24] and sometimes QuantiSNP [20]. Since other methods (SOMATICs [18] and BAFsegmentation [23]), which use the allelic copy number information, seemed to perform well, as future work we intend to add also this useful information in our model.
Availability and requirements
Project name: gBPCR.
Project home page: http://www.idsia.ch/~paola/gBPCR/.
Operating systems: the software should run in Linux, Mac-OS or Windows. Tests were performed on Windows and Linux systems.
Programming language: R.
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Licence: GNU GPL.
Any restrictions to use by non-academics: none.
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This work was supported by Swiss National Science Foundation (grants 205321-112430, 205320-121886/1); Oncosuisse grants OCS-1939-8-2006 and OCS - 02296-08-2008; Cantone Ticino ("Computational life science/Ticino in rete" program); Fondazione per la Ricerca e la Cura sui Linfomi (Lugano, Switzerland).
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HomeThe Restless ProjectDo you live on under $60,000 a year? Tell me how
Do you live on under $60,000 a year? Tell me how
September 2, 2014 Bob Sullivan The Restless Project 0
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Do you and your family live a “normal” American life on $60,000 a year? I’d love to hear from you.
My story about the $100,000 annual budget for a normal family stirred up such emotion that I plan to do a series on this topic. In case you are new, I compiled a mythical budget for a family of four living near a large U.S. city and found that expenses add up to $8,300 a month, or about $100,000 a year, pretty quickly. Reactions were all over the board. They ranged from, on one side of things:
* You’re crazy. You left out things like costs for summer camp or retirement savings
* You’re crazy. You left out emergencies like health problems
* You’re crazy. You left out alimony payments. With so much divorce, this is reality for many families
to, on the other side,
* You’re crazy. We live on half that down here in Texas
* You’re crazy. People don’t need to spend $200 on cell phones
* You’re crazy. Why $500 for clothes every month? Are they made of paper?
* You’re crazy. Plenty of people live on $60,000 a year.
* Everyone is crazy. Those folks who spent too much are caught on that hedonic treadmill philosophers warn us about
At least everyone can agree that I’m crazy. Now, I’m hoping we can find more common ground on the topic. I want to hear more from folks on all sides. To the extent you feel comfortable, I’d love to see your family budget. Hopefully we can pick away at this topic and move closer to a reality we can all start to agree upon. An anecdotal experiment like this is bound to provide imperfect results, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful. Try to remember that geography plays an enormous role in this discussion. Housing costs in some parts of the country can double, or even triple, based on where you are, and that also has major implications for the cost of school and child care, too.
The real point of this exercise, for me, is to help uncover the feeling of restlessness that I think pervades America today.
My original rough budget is in the image to the left. Here’s a link to that first story.
This week, I want to hear from the folks who thought my $100,000 number was far too high. So to pick a starting point for conversation, if you live on $60,000 or less, as roughly half of U.S. families do according to household income data, how do you do it? For a starting point, here’s a budget from Texan Matt DeMargel, who wrote to me to say he laughed when he saw my budget. What do you think of his? Please feel free to share a similar breakdown with me, and I’ll post a few more.
My family of three lives comfortably on $44,208 per year in a Lakefront Country Club Community called Walden just north of Houston, TX. We have swimming pools, workout facilities, weekly events, drink terrific coffee, I cook meals every morning and night, we have access to millions of books, audiobooks, music, movies and television and are likely going to retire early.
Here’s our breakdown:
Rent for three bedroom, three bath condo: $1350 per month (this will be lower when we move into our four bedroom home with a 10-year mortgage)
Healthcare: $588
Utilities: $400, and that’s in the peak of summer when the AC is running. Not sure how you got $300 including Cable. Does that include phone as well?
School Tuition: Nope! We made a point to pick a community with a good public school. The idea that private school makes you normal is ridiculous.
Child care: $600 for three months. He’s in school the other nine.
Food: $800 (Groceries and Dining Out)
Student Loan, Car loan: Nope and nope. We pay cash for our cars when we have the money to do so.
Car Insurance: $104 per month for a 2005 neon and 2012 Juke. Would be lower, but I got a speeding ticket in 2011. Since we don’t use debt and keep emergency funds, we have high deductibles and pay low premiums.
Clothes: $100, maybe. Where on earth do you get $500 per month? Are these clothes made of tissue paper? Why so much shopping?
Gasoline: $200 per month. That will also go down when we move to our new home closer to wife’s work. Anything within five miles, we walk or ride our bikes. I buy one tank of gas every four months.
Total: $44,208
So, what do you think? Email me your budget privately at Bob at BobSullivan.net.
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Media spending of political parties during the elections in the Netherlands 2017
Published by Raynor de Best, Mar 27, 2018
This statistic shows the gross value of media expenditure of Dutch political parties leading up to the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands in 2017, by party. Two weeks before the elections on March 15, 2017, Dutch political party D66 had a gross media expenditure of approximately 756 thousand euros.
Gross value of media expenditure of Dutch political parties during the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands in 2017, by party (in euros)
Gross media expenditure in euros
two weeks before the parliamentary elections on March 15, 2017
* 'Others' includes: "50Plus, ChristenUnie, PVV, Partij voor de Dieren, DENK, GroenLinks".
Net ad spend market size in the Netherlands 2011-2018, by channel
Highest spending advertisers in the Netherlands 2017
Out-of-home ad revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2021
Social media advertising spending in the Netherlands 2015-2017
Statistics on "Advertising in the Netherlands"
Turnover change of the advertising sector in the Netherlands 2017-2019
Advertising spending in the Netherlands 2017, by industry sector
Net media advertising expenditure change in the Netherlands 2017, by medium
Advertising inflation in the Netherlands 2018, by channel
Annual spending on Internet advertising in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Net online paid search and display ad market in the Netherlands in 2015-2018
Net online advertising growth in the Netherlands 2016-2018, by advertising type
Programmatic advertising market revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2019
Total programmatic ad impressions sold in the Netherlands 2013-2018
Programmatic advertising exchange platforms in the Netherlands 2014-2018
Online native advertising spending in the Netherlands 2016-2017
Radio ad revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Annual television spot and non-spot ad revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2018
Spot and non-spot radio ad revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2023
TV gross ad expenditure in the Netherlands 2014-2018, by branch
Leading TV advertisers based on expenditure in the Netherlands 2018
Leading e-commerce TV advertisers based on expenditure in the Netherlands 2017
Number of TV advertisers in the Netherlands 2012-2019
Number of TV commercials in the Netherlands 2012-2019
Consumer magazine revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Newspaper revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Print and digital newspaper ad revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Print and digital magazine advertising revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Leading newspaper advertisers in the Netherlands 2018, based on expenditure
Leading newspaper website advertisers in the Netherlands 2015, based on expenditure
Frequency of reading flyers in the Netherlands 2017
Reach of printed and digital flyers in the Netherlands 2014-2018
Reach of brochures and flyers in the Netherlands in 2017-2018, by branch
Reach of digital and printed fashion flyers in the Netherlands 2017-2018, by gender
Reach of supermarket and liquor store flyers in the Netherlands 2016-2017, by age
Cinema ad revenue in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Cinema advertising revenue change in the Netherlands 2012-2023
Media mix of political parties during elections in the Netherlands 2017, by medium
Italy: interest in the campaign for the parliamentary elections on March 4th, 2018
Number of newly established political parties elected in the Netherlands 1948-2017
GRP of political party ad campaigns during the election in Ontario 2018
Election day media mentions of political parties in the Netherlands 2017, by party
Share of votes in the Greenlandic parliamentary election 2018, by party
Political party choice in the parliamentary elections Netherlands 2017, by age group
Non-voters in the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands 2017, by age group
Non-voters in the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands 2017, by education level
Survey on of political support for the Left Alliance May 2019
U.S. adults who say scientists understand that climate change is occurring 2016
Voting aid tool usage during elections in the Netherlands 2017, by application
Perception of best political party for dealing with unemployment in GB 2017
Growth of the UK media and entertainment spending between 2013 and 2017, by sector
Media expenditure of all Chinese brands 2009-2015
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Good(ish) news February 28, 2017
From the IT:
Unemployment is now on course to dip below 6 per cent, close to what economists consider full employment, by the middle of this year following another monthly slide in the official jobless rate.
Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, released on Tuesday, put the State’s unemployment rate at a nine-year low of 6.6 per cent in February.
It would be useful to see where the job growth is occurring and what the situation outside of Dublin and the East Coast is. It is also worth noting the following:
Davy analyst Conall Mac Coille said net emigration had flattered Ireland’s unemployment rate in the past. “Unemployment would have been higher had Ireland not seen net outward migration of 155,000 through 2010 to 2015.”
After the by-elections 3: That Tory popularity February 28, 2017
I dislike almost everything Rafael Behr writes about the by-elections here. I think he’s disingenuous in the following, for example even in attempting a cosmetic ‘fairness’ he is anything but:
It is true that a divided party whose MPs have bellowed out loud their lack of confidence in the leader will struggle to make electoral headway. It is also true that some British newspapers write about politicians of the left with vindictive aggression. There is ample responsibility for Labour’s problems to go around – it needn’t all collect in a puddle at Corbyn’s feet.
Yet still he blames Corbyn.
But he does make one point that is not unimportant and speaks to a broader conversation.
And Theresa May can take some credit for her own relative popularity, too. She must be doing some things right for Copeland to swing into Tory arms.
This, in a way, is most troubling because if she can exert that pull on former BLP voters where does that end? It’s not even a case of voters not voting for the Tories, but actually being attracted to them.
That this runs contrary to all the predictions we were offered hardly much more than half a year ago as to how matters would proceed in the context of Brexit – supposed divisions that would tear the Tories apart, that would see a newly freed and untrammelled BLP and Corbyn achieving remarkable heights of popularity, hardly needs saying. None of that. Literally none of that has come to pass.
And worse, the Tories are not simply sitting on double digit leads but are winning by-election seats. Now absent a Brexit referendum win for Leave from all this and what would one have seen? A continuing civil war in Toryism, UKIP still fighting the bad fight. And a J. Corbyn who would have the happy situation of leading a party that could point to a win.
Compare and contrast with the present situation and which would have been the more positive environment for the left?
After the by-elections 2: Chaos is overstated… February 28, 2017
John Harris makes a point that I think is well worth exploring in recent column in the Guardian. Not so much the complaints over Corbyn, though he has to admit that the problems facing the BLP are such that they long predated his arrival in the leadership. Whether his leadership has ‘immeasurably deepened’ the crisis in the BLP I do not know, but I’m somewhat dubious. It is more his misfortune to arrive at a time when Brexit et al, and the key loss of Scotland to the BLP has left that party uniquely ill-positioned to face the future. Again, I’ve been astounded by how complacent some of those arguing for a Lexit were given those realities. I think this is telling in terms of demonstrating just how bad things are for the BLP:
…the shadow cabinet minister Cat Smith reportedly reckoned that “to be 15-18 points behind the polls and to push the Tories within 2,000 votes is an incredible achievement.” I am not sure how you would describe that kind of thinking: it sounds distinctly like someone taking comfort from the fact that a complete disaster could conceivably have been even worse.
Harris mocks that line, but I don’t. The problem is that it sums up perfectly just how bad things are. And they are. Desperately bad for the BLP. They’re kind of worse too, as was mentioned elsewhere, there’s now a radical populist right party gaining 1 in 5 to 1 in 4 votes at these elections. Sometimes that will work to the advantage of the LP, but sometimes, perhaps often it won’t.
Little or none of these, it is essential to note, is Jeremy Corbyn’s fault. It is difficult to see how he could have done anything different in the last twelve months. Indeed far too little is made of the reality of his MPs, or rather a tranche of them, splitting away from him. And while the rebellion over Article 50 in the last month was problematic what more could he have done when even those closest to him took a differing view of matters?
That said I will agree with Harris on one thing.
Amid Trump, and Brexit, and the political hurly-burly that now regularly grips mainland Europe, it is easy to get the impression that politics no longer follows hard-and-fast rules, and amounts instead to a series of unforeseen events and complete accidents.
The reality is that politics is, if not quite predictable, still open to analysis. It is possible to determine broad dynamics, to see trends, to appreciate what is more rather than less likely to happen. Brexit itself, was simply more finely balanced as an issue than expected. But polls were consistent that that fine balance existed. It could have gone one way, it went another. Trump likewise. Other issues will rise and fall. But many many political dynamics – the continuing and long term problems facing the BLP are of a different order. In a way what is the puzzle? The retreat of self-avowed social democracy, and its replacement not with left but right and populist forces, is something we’ve seen time and again. Why would Britain be any different?
Phil at Workers Playtime has an important post here which further underlines this is not a problem due to the Corbyn leadership alone, or even in full.
And for a sense of what it was like on the by-election trail here’s his post on same from Stoke-on-Trent.
And here is the other Phil from All That is Solid and his take on it.
CLR Book Club – Week 9 – It Can’t Happen Here -Sinclair Lewis February 28, 2017
Anyone made it to Chapter Two, and what are the thoughts on the book so far? I’m enjoying it, though it is much of its time. That said some uncomfortable resonances with the contemporary.
After the by-elections… February 28, 2017
This is a bit disturbing. From the after-byelections in the UK coverage on the Guardian. Discussing how UKIP was squeezed at the by-elections.
On the Today programme this morning Matthew Goodwin, who co-wrote Revolt on the Right, the most authoritative book on the rise of Ukip, with Rob Ford, expanded on the same point made by his co-author. Goodwin said:
Today some people have been saying the Ukip ballon has completely popped. We still have a second-placed radical right party in a Labour seat with 25% of the vote. That is a significant issue for all the main parties to think about.
But also, let’s assume Theresa May wins back half of the Ukip vote. Labour MPs today are cheering the demise of Ukip. What does that mean for Labour? It means that around 45 seats will go to the Conservatives pretty quickly at the next election quite easily, because you have Labour MPs on small majorities where Ukip has around 15/20% of the vote. So Theresa May’s strategy right now, I would suggest, is spot on.
This is one of the more pernicious aspects of FPTP. UKIP don’t have to win, or come close to winning, or can in fact see their vote eviscerated by the Tories without any benefit to Labour. Imagine 45 seats transferring from the BLP to the Tories.
As Phil noted on the CLR last week, the Stoke ‘win’ is actually deeply concerning.
And Phil makes another point which is crucial. There’s little purpose in the BLP becoming a Tory/UKIP lite in relation to Brexit matters etc. That side of the political terrain is already well covered. Pulling back support from there is the name of the game.
Military Matters February 28, 2017
From the media today.
US spending on overseas aid is expected to bear the brunt of dramatic cuts as part of Donald Trump’s plan to increase defence spending by $54bn in his upcoming budget.
And this is intriguing. From the ‘white nationalist’ camp inside the administration the following.
Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, said last week that one of key priorities of the White House was the “deconstruction of the administrative state”.
Given how partial and thin the US is in terms of federal provision what does that imply for the future? And what of the obvious contradictions and ever more evidently crocodile tears shed for the ‘white’ working class by those such as Bannon?
Dublin Left Alphabet Soup Quizarama for Mags February 27, 2017
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In this the 100th Year since the Russian Revolution we present the quiz that will put an end to all the squabbling and decide once and for all the one true Dublin leftist party/group/org./current/tendancy/movement that is correct on everything. We invite teams from SF, SP/AAA, SWP/PBPA, WSM, I4C, WP, SD, CP, N.A., union members and whatever progressive movement you are having yourself. Teams of four must strictly be ideologically and organisationally pure (however if your party only has 3 members we will find you a 4th).
Recommended entry of €10 per person. More or less accepted. This is in aid of all of our collective – regardless of political affiliation – comrade, Mags Forkan. Mags goes for lifesaving surgery in April and every penny is going towards that and her recovery. More details can be found here on Mags’ GoFundMe page
So come comrades, come gather your quizzing forces, spread the word and prepare for the Dublin Left Alphabet Soup Quizarama.
It would be great to see some CLR faces there!
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Fine Gael… not quite a mass party… February 27, 2017
Interesting snippet squirrelled away in the IT in some of the coverage of the FG leadership contest. Fiach Kelly wrote:
It is believed Fine Gael has about 24,000 party members, with 2,000 in Dublin. The remainder are based in clusters around the country, such as Mayo, Sligo, Cavan, and Longford-Westmeath. TDs in those constituencies would be expected to influence their own members such as if, for example, Minister for Arts Heather Humphreys declared for Varadkar. Longford-Westmeath’s Peter Burke is understood to favour Varadkar.
Small isn’t it? One would have to wonder if those ‘clusters’ see higher numbers what is it like in areas with fewer numbers? How few, indeed, might there be in some constituencies, even with sitting TDs?
And what is the picture like for Fianna Fáil?
These aren’t academic questions. The base a political party can call upon at election time is absolutely crucial to its continued political survival.
Caretaker administration February 27, 2017
Noel Whelan isn’t entirely wrong when he writes in the IT that:
Unfortunately, the delay [between FG leaders] will serve to make our already weak politics even more vulnerable. Kenny will be clinging to office for another eight or 10 weeks but will have no power. Since this minority Government came into being last May it has been low energy. Before that, for two months last spring, Kenny and his Ministers were merely in a caretaker capacity. It is surreal that this spring again, for the next two months we will have what is effectively another caretaker government. Fine Gael ministers will not be focused on their jobs. They will be absorbed by the machinations of the leadership race.
But I think he’s far too kind. We arguably already have a caretaker government. And everything he writes merely points this up:
Not only is the Taoiseach himself now a lame duck, but all Fine Gael ministers will be running their departments only on a care and maintenance basis, knowing that they are likely to be reshuffled by Kenny’s successor and some of them are likely to be shuffled out. Another spell of even weaker government seems a high price for the country to pay just so that Kenny can beat some Fine Gael milestones, such as outlasting John A Costello in office. This may be of interest to historians but matters nothing to voters.
The government is already remarkably low-wattage. Little is being done in terms of legislation, indeed the government has made a virtue of necessity in that regard, losing Dáil votes, pushing through new measures with remarkable sloth if only in order to not antagonise their silent partner – Fianna Fáil.
We have a government, we are not fully governed. It’s quite a situation, and nothing short of an election is likely to see that change.
Ascribing blame is almost beside the point. Fine Gael and Labour were unloved, but few would argue FF was much more loved. And the broader fragmentation of Irish politics is such that it was always going to be a stretch to cobble together a long term broad based coalition to govern for the next while.
By the way, Whelan points up one dispiriting aspect of the FG leadership race.
It would be regrettable if the period merely allowed for more of the tabloid- type coverage that even some supposedly serious media have engaged in about the Fine Gael leadership contest over the past week. Independent newspapers in particular seem determined to make relationship status an issue in this race. I have followed media coverage of Simon Coveney as closely as many political commentators over the past 16 years but I don’t think I have ever seen a picture of him with his wife or members of his family before the Independent decided to run one on its front or second page each day last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. These photos of Coveney were always juxtaposed beside one of Leo Varadkar on his own.
Independent newspapers have also run tittle-tattle stories about Varadkar’s own relationship and a series of columns devoted, at least in part, to suggesting that it matters who our taoiseach’s spouse would be. It echoes the suggestion touted by Bertie Ahern’s opponents in the early 1990s that the “people needed to know where their taoiseach sleeps at night”. It was insidious then. One would have thought that 25 years later we would have moved on from such nonsense.
I’ve complained about the lack of ideological differentiation that the supposed contest is about, but almost as bad is to import extraneous irrelevancies. I think it good someone calls out the Independent newspapers on this.
Left Archive: Comment, Fortnightly, Vol.3 No.4, 1974 British & Irish Communist Organisation February 27, 2017
To download the above please click on the following link. BICO COMMENT 1974
Please click here to go the Left Archive.
Many thanks to Bobcat for forwarding this to the Archive.
Another document from the British & Irish Communist Organisation from the 1970s, this focuses on the front page on the National Wage Agreement and the revival of the Gaeltacht. Inside there are pieces on the views of the then Fine Gael/Labour government in relation to Stormont and Article 3 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland which offers an insight into the thinking of B&ICO at this point in time. There’s another interesting analysis of multinationals which perhaps was echoed in the thinking of others later.
Also included are pieces on the Chilean Coup and a scathing analysis of the Communist Party of Chile and a short analysis of Noel Browne’s thoughts on democracy. A number of other pieces take the Vatican to task on contraceptives.
Long life… and prosperity… cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/lon… 10 hours ago
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Apps we use everyday…
September 2, 2013 by CCCSLP in Treasure Chest 0 comments
Working in adult out-patient, our iPads are now our new best friends!
Here are some speech/language/cognitive apps that we can’t live without:
For Attention/Concentration:
Stroop Effect
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When Rehab Came to Long-Term Care
November 12, 2012 by Lisa Yauch Cadden in Reflections 2 comments
For this entry of REFLECTIONS, the founders of this website decided to take a moment to reflect on our own careers in the field of Speech Language Pathology, particularly that portion that brought us together.
Way back in the very late 1980s/very early 1990s, we were both moonlighting as contractors in long-term care. We had both come from in-patient rehab settings working with brain-injured adults and were looking to expand our skills. Back then, SLP’s were required only on an ‘as needed’ basis in nursing homes. PT’s were required 6 hours a month and OTs were regulated to 4 hours. There were no rehab teams, because rehab didn’t happen in nursing homes. Nursing homes were for custodial nursing care. If a patient had a problem, the home would call us. We would swoop in, do an evaluation and leave a long (sometimes very long) list of recommendations for the nurses to carry out. We didn’t treat the problem. Follow up was PRN – at the request of the nurse – if the problem didn’t resolve, given our extensive recommendations. Thinking back, it is shocking how much we didn’t do. Even more surprising was the fact that the head injury facility where one of us worked full time (in a department that included two other full time SLPs and two full-time SLP-As) actually occupied three wings of a four wing long-term care facility, and in five years of providing full time care, our department was called to the nursing home wing only once.
Then things changed. In order to cut costs and defer care away from high priced hospitals, insurance companies and the federal government’s medical insurance plan, Medicare, began to reimburse nursing homes for rehabilitative care. It was pretty much a pass through arrangement which allowed nursing homes to charge a fee for rehabilitation services which Medicare then paid. This opened up huge opportunities for nursing homes and contract rehabilitation companies that provided rehab staff
(PTs, OTs and SLPs) to nursing homes. This was now the mid 1990s and we found ourselves setting up departments and policies and feeding programs and language therapy in facilities that had never had them.
A population we always thought we’d just dabble in, in a setting no one ever liked, we began to love. And then we started to teach other people (students and CFYs) to love it. Senior citizens are awesome. They are wise and hilarious and generous and aggravating. They allowed us into their home (the nursing facility) so that we could care for them. It was a joy to see them improve, heartbreaking when they didn’t and an honor to shepherd them through difficult times as they approached the end of life. The process transformed traditional nursing homes where people went to die into skilled care facilities where people lived, got better, sometimes went home or stayed and lived their lives in a place they could call home.
Then came more change. Enter the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was an omnibus legislative package enacted to balance the federal budget by 2002. The Act resulted in $160 billion in spending reductions between 1998 and 2002 with Medicare cuts responsible for $112 billion of that total. This became the real test of our love of long-term care. We now of course, had to do more with less, but this is also when our programs started to grow and coordinate with nursing and our fellow rehab professionals. We were a smaller more mobile band of therapists working hard to treat a population that viewed the nursing home as a short-term stop on their road to recovery. Before our entry into rehab in long-term care, no one would have ever thought that a patient would return to the community once they entered a nursing home. Now today, most rehabilitation following surgery, strokes or general hospitalization happens in nursing homes for people over 55.
As we look back/reflect on this part of our careers, we are pleased to have been a part of the group of professionals who changed how healthcare was provided in the US. Our work extended care to millions of neglected older Americans warehoused in institutions. We improved their lives in terms of survival and opportunities to return home. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find a nursing home in the U.S., accepting Medicare dollars that does not have an SLP as part of their team. It has been our privilege to participate in this leap forward in service delivery to provide a better quality of life for our Nation’s most valuable living treasures: our parents and grandparents.
Marguerite Mullaney was born and raised in and around the Boston area. She continues to make her home in the Commonweath and rarely finds it necessary to travel beyond the 128 belt. Her undergraduate program was completed at Bridgewater State College and she attended Northeastern University for graduate school. Adult neurological disorders has been the primary focus of her clinical practice. Her vast knowledge of the field, thoughtful, pragmatic approach and incredible sense of humor have enlightened and inspired her patients, staff and colleagues for over 20 years. Contact Marguerite at mullaneycccslp@comcast.net.
Lisa Yauch-Cadden was born and raised in the Detroit, Michigan area. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Master’s in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Michigan. She has worked as an SLP in nearly all facets of the field: skilled nursing facilities, home care, acute care, transitional care, medical offices and schools. Throughout her career as a therapist, manager and business owner, Lisa has never strayed from providing direct line service, including state of the art evaluations using FEES/FEESST and MBS. While she needs no accolades to do her job, she is deserving of many. Her tireless efforts to advance the best clinical practices in Speech Language Pathology have changed lives for her patients, her clinical fellows, and those of us lucky enough to work with her on a regular basis. Contact Lisa at lycslp@gmail.com. …
Carrying the Hope Part 2
July 25, 2012 by CCCSLP in Mom's Corner 1 comment
by Alexandra Solomon, PhD
In this segment, Alexandra shares her journey into treatment for her autistic son, Brian, with inspiring results.
As families create a treatment plan for their child, they face decisions that are financial, practical, and philosophical—a real maze! In my experience, an hour of Applied Behavioral Therapy (ABA)—the most researched approach, but not the one we finally committed ourselves to–costs between $55 for a paraprofessional to $135 for a Masters level speech therapist. The costs of having a child on the autism spectrum can be staggering, even if you don’t go with the 40hours/week ABA approach. At one point, we were paying almost $60,000 out of pocket per year, including therapy, special diets, supplements, and school costs. Health insurance covers very few of these expenses.
Quarterbacking the treatment team
My husband, Todd and I recently, over a bottle of wine, played a fun game…. “Name that therapist.” We laughed, in that half funny–half morose way, as we named every “expert” we had consulted over the last four years. I won’t even tell you how many we counted, but I will say it was well more than 30!
First let’s talk about healing his body. It hadn’t taken us long to start to explore the vaccine-autism connection. Within four months of Brian’s diagnosis, the potential connection scared us enough that we were sitting face to face with one of the world’s foremost Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) physicians, Dr. Anju Usman, who used clinical observation and lab work, to determine that Brian’s immune system and gut (80% of our immune systems lives in our guts) were pretty badly damaged by the 20+ vaccines he had received in the first two years of his life. He had overgrowths of yeast and bacteria, very few of the so-called “good” bacteria, hyperimmune responses to several viruses, heavy metal buildup, a “leaky gut,” and rampant food allergies.
We implemented a long list of daily supplements and began the Gluten-Free- Casein-Free (GFCF) diet. I affectionately refer to this time in our journey as the closest I ever got to a psychotic break! Making sense of what it means to have a child with special needs is difficult enough. Thinking about “what might have been” if we had not allowed him to be vaccinated in that way is simply too much. Taking on “biomedical treatment,” as well, added another complex plot twist to a narrative already almost too demanding and convoluted for my mind to encompass.
Families who believe their child’s ASD is the result of “faulty genes” may curse their bad luck. But families who believe their child’s ASD is the result of an underlying genetic vulnerability that was ignited by early, intense insult to the immune system through vaccines and other pollutants must then come face to face with choices they made on behalf of their child. I have carried anger at myself for not having questioned more, and I carry a lot anger at pediatricians and others in the medical establishment who ought to be much more careful about our rapidly growing, poorly researched, and one-size-fits all vaccine protocol.
So, I began this GFCF diet kicking and screaming. I agreed to try it for 3 months. I circled June 1st on my calendar, and I lived for that day. Figuring out what to feed an already picky two and a half year old was no fun! Four sippy cups of milk a day? Replace with diluted, organic vegetable juice. Toaster-ready pancakes? Replace with rice and amaranth pancakes made from scratch, with allergen free chocolate chips and ground flax added for good measure. Mac and cheese? Replace with nothing. There is just no good way to make GFCF mac and cheese! I have never been the Martha Stewart type, but I was buying cookbooks and trying new recipes each day.
June 1st came and we had not only survived, but—in spite of Brian’s continual complaining about the diet (particularly about losing his beloved mac and cheese) he had definitely improved. In those three months, he had gained some much needed pounds and inches after having stagnated on the growth charts in the months previous. He had made nice language gains, increased his eye contact, his poop was normalizing, and his sensitive ears were bothering him less. All this was great. There was only one piece of bad news, which my husband broke to me over another bottle of wine: “Al, you know we have to keep doing this diet.” “I know,” I sighed. To this day, Brian remains gluten and casein free. He is also egg-free, soy-free, citrus-free, and free of all artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.
Healing Brian’s gut has made Brian less autistic, and removing offending foods certainly played a huge part. Dr. Usman also used anti-biotics to reduce some nasty bacteria in his gut. When that bacteria was under control, Brian stopped hitting, scratching, and pulling hair. Amazing! While some doctors need to reduce their child’s heavy metal burden through drug chelation, Brian’s doctor has been able to take a less invasive approach and support Brian’s detox pathways with supplements so that he can detoxify himself. It is interesting to note that recent research has shown that children with Asperger’s disorder are less metal toxic than children with full-blown autism (Natef, Skorupka, Amet, Lam, Springbett, and Lathe, 2006).
We have learned to manage Brian’s physical health much the way parents would who had a child with diabetes. We think of him as having a chronic medical condition. When the medical condition is well-managed, it recedes into the background. When we see old behaviors return, we look at what might be getting out of balance in his body, and we make a plan about how to correct it.
RDI Therapy: Remediating the core deficits of autism
In addition to repairing Brian’s “hard drive”—the term often used to refer to brain structure and biochemistry—we are also working on his “software”—his development, behavior, cognition, and psychology through various kinds of therapies. There are three distinct ASD treatment worldviews: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Floortime (DIR), and Relationship Development Intervention (RDI). Our research and personal experience led us to feel most connected to RDI.
RDI therapy was developed in the late 1990s by Steven Gutstein, a clinical psychologist with a background in family therapy. He observed that Autism Spectrum Disorders “belonged” much more to the world of developmental disabilities than to the world of developmental psychology or family therapy. By breaking down typical development into infinitely smaller milestones and examining those closely, Gutstein was able to create a way of thinking about ASDs that goes far beyond the DSM’s description of symptoms. For example, children with ASDs frequently demonstrate average or well-above average ability when it comes to static (rote) intelligence, but show deficits related to dynamic intelligence. He identified five “core deficits,” both unique to autism and descriptive of all children on the spectrum regardless of level of functioning. These five core deficits are in declarative communication, referencing, regulating, episodic memory, and flexible thinking.
To address these core deficits in dynamic intelligence, Gutstein created a clinical treatment program that trains parents to teach dynamic intelligence skills and motivation to their child. Rather than using concrete rewards and reinforcers, RDI teaches the joy of connecting and helps people on the autism spectrum learn how to express friendship and empathy and to genuinely love sharing their world and experiences with others. Although RDI is relatively new to the scene, early research is promising. Within 18 months, over 70% of children in an initial study improved their diagnosis based on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS). The majority of children also moved from a special education to a regular education classroom without needing an aide (www.rdiconnect.com).
Although parents are the guides and children the apprentices in this work, usually families meet with an RDI certified consultant once every two weeks. Using a structured 4 session assessment protocol, the RDI consultant determines the child’s current developmental stage, usually Stage 1. As is the case with each of the stages, within Stage 1 there are over 20 objectives the child must become competent with before progressing to Stage 2. Families tackle one developmental objective, which is right at the child’s learning edge, at a time. In addition to work directly related to the current objective, families commit to adopting overarching lifestyle practices like: waiting until the child is oriented to the parent before the parent begins to speak to him and utilizing 80/20 ratio of declarative to imperative language.
RDI work takes the form of parent-led activities usually in the home. Work is documented by parents, using video and narrative, so that consultant and parents can track progress toward mastery. For example, in Stage 2, a major objective is, “you have meaningful dialogues with your partners, where you both use only your gestures to communicate.” When we were working on this objective, one of our games was “traffic cop.” Brian and I would put whistles in our mouths to keep us from talking, and we would then take turns letting the other guy know when it was time to come closer, go farther back, move slowly, move quickly, etc. I would make sure that we did this work in a quiet space with minimal distractions, and I made sure to spotlight excitedly that I could tell exactly what he was “saying” just by watching his body. It was remarkable to watch Brian gain confidence in this alternative communication modality and to see him generalize it to other settings.
We have been doing RDI therapy with Brian for almost four years now, and we have seen significant remediation in each of these areas of core deficits. RDI therapy is the hardest and most rewarding work that Todd and I have ever done. It is basically uber-parenting—parenting that ideally is always mindful, always well-paced, always at the child’s learning edge, and always dynamic—and it is this parenting (or as close to it as merely mortal parents can do) that children with ASDs need. Allow me to take you into my messy RDI world….
I am sitting at the monthly RDI parent support meeting feeling like a disaffected pre-teen, arms crossed, rolling my eyes at my friend, Samantha, who is sitting across from me. This is not my usual M.O., not here, not anywhere. I adore our RDI consultant, believe fully in the program, and consider myself a fairly mature adult, so what’s my deal?
The topic of this particular meeting is “appreciating messiness.” The consulting staff is working with this group of moms and a few dads to figure out how we can incorporate more messiness into our lives in the service of helping our ASD kids appreciate the messiness (literal and figurative) of relationships and of the world. In fact, we are broken into small groups and sent into therapy offices to make a “stew” with ingredients like oil, flour, liquid soap, toothpaste, oatmeal, and salt.
Later in the meeting, we are given a handout with suggestions of messy activities that we can try at home like filling balloons with shaving cream and water, having a snowball fight with crumpled paper, painting a mural, eating breakfast for dinner. The idea that still sends Samantha and me into fits of laughter months later is to create a sand pile instead of a sand box. It goes like this: have a truckload of sand delivered to your backyard, play all sorts of messy games on the mountain all summer long, and order new truckloads every few years. This is the messy idea that makes me really mad.
The nature of my anger is complicated. I absolutely agree that ASD kids need lots of opportunities, far more than typically developing ones, to experience messiness in the safety of their own homes with their primary caregivers before they can be expected to competently handle the messiness of the world. And I absolutely agree that ASD children’s difficulties with messiness operate on many levels. Messes like putting your hands into a bowl of toothpaste and flour can be overwhelming to an ASD child’s already skewed senses. Such messes upset an ASD child’s black and white notions of where toothpaste belongs and does not belong. And, making messes like that requires joint attention and the sharing of the experience if the mess-making is to be meaningful and fun. I absolutely agree that making a messy stew with my ASD child is a great idea.
But then I start to really examine the RDI consultants’ message, which sounds to me as if I, an ASD parent, need to be encouraged to loosen up and get messy. OK, fine. But, at the emotional level, the message seems to imply that my kid has an ASD because I can’t loosen up. And, maybe they think that my kid’s ASD will get better if I can just loosen up. This all sounds suspiciously like blame and makes me feel defensive as hell. My rational self trusts that the RDI consultants respect me as a mother and do not blame me for my child’s ASD, but my irrational self is having a field day! I start thinking about friends of mine who are far more neurotic than I—friends who don’t allow finger painting indoors, friends who rub Purell on their kids hands at every turn, friends who would never tolerate the shaving cream treasure hunts and mud pies that we enjoy at our house. These friends aren’t sitting on the floor with other grown ups making oatmeal stew. These friends, in fact, are raising kids who are the poster children of typical development.
Fast-forward a few months. I attended one of Gutstein’s two-day RDI workshops. By way of empathizing with ASD parents, he said something like, “Parents of neurotypical kids can do a relatively mediocre job and their kids will turn out just fine because the force of typical development is very powerful. Parents of ASD kids have to do an A+ job nearly every day in order to help their kids bypass and work around their ASD. That is exhausting.” This was an “a-ha” moment for me, offering me some clarity about my anger. The biggest difficulty, for me, in parenting an ASD child is not the financial strain or the chronic worry. It is the high demand to bring my “A game” into play every moment with Brian every day.
In my heart, I believe that I am Winnicott’s “good enough” mother. In my heart, I believe that I was and continue to be empathically attuned enough to Brian. That was not enough to prevent Brian’s ASD, and it is probably not enough to remediate it. Parenting Brian requires vigilance and creativity far beyond parenting Courtney, who meets and often exceeds my level of engagement with her. She came into this world ready to dance relationally, but Brian must practice each micro-step of that dance over and over in order to become competent.
He deserves parents who have the energy and the persistence for all of that practice, and I lie awake frequently at night re-playing the day’s missed opportunities and rushed interactions. Did I offer him 80% declarative language? Did I wait to speak to him until he was oriented to me? Did I properly reduce external demands on him so that he could experience productive uncertainty? Did I share with him my self-narrative so that he can continue to master the complexities of inter-subjectivity? Never well enough it seems.
Why him? Why me? Why us?
Autism not only transformed me as a mother, it transformed my marriage. I think about standing with Todd under the chuppah ten years ago. We were bright-eyed and optimistic 25 year olds, ready to tackle any challenge that came our way. Certainly his law degree, my doctorate in psychology, and our endless conversations about our relationship would protect us from both the expected and unexpected challenges of marriage, right? Even the 50% divorce rate didn’t scare us— I am a marriage and family therapist! We knew our strengths and our “growth areas” like the backs of our hands.
Parenting brought some unexpected challenges. Who knew I could use such foul language at 3 AM when requesting help from Todd to change Brian’s diaper? But I think we both agreed that we handled the transition to parenting fairly well overall. It was the transition to special needs parenting that rocked us to the core. Under the chronic stress of raising a child with special needs, everyday annoyances begin to feel unbearable. Emotions are too raw, and fear is too palpable to be able to handle a tiff about a forgotten errand or an unrecorded check. Those “growth areas” turned into painful triggers. Todd said recently that he feels that autism takes all of a marriage’s inherent vulnerabilities and amplifies them. I agree.
I remember one night, Todd walked into the family room where I was watching a news program. It must have been a story about the pharmaceutical industry because I launched into a rant about how corruption and greed have hurt our child. Todd looked at me and said, “I find your rage really unattractive.” Ouch! Todd would readily admit that he always been drawn to my affect, my expressiveness, my passion. But around Brian’s ASD, my passion about the dangers of the drug companies hits him too close to home because we have taken up different narratives about why Brian is the way that he is. My narrative looks back at my choices, and my narrative gets political. Todd’s narrative does not look back. Todd’s narrative takes what is, in this moment, and tries to cope. I have long admired and needed Todd to be level-headed and unflappable, but around Brian’s ASD, his ability to just “accept what is” bewilders me. Our different storylines have been difficult for us to reconcile. I suppose I would say that we try to “witness” each other’s stories, but I think mostly we try to focus on our points of similarity and connection.
Our relationship was built upon a deep appreciation of each other’s senses of humor, and autism has been added to our repertoire. We have a lot of mordant humor. Some of the things we say to each other, jokes that we find healing and hilarious, can never be repeated outside of the confines of us! OK, fine, I can share one example. While the holidays the last year or two have been very happy and overwhelmingly positive for our family, in the early years, we had been known to dictate to one another the text of a fake “Holiday Letter” to friends and family. For instance:
“This year we were thrilled to drop $60,000 on a variety of complicated therapies only to be told ‘it’s a long road ahead, but you guys are doing so much good.’ Our Christmas miracles this year were nearly complete social isolation and 382 viewings of ‘The Wiggles Safari.’ Another gift was Brian’s new habit of pulling his sister’s hair every time she cries (as you know, newborns rarely do that)! And finally, it would not be the holidays unless you could cozy up to your spouse. Check that, we have not been intimate in a while. Best wishes for a less miserable new year!!! Todd and Alexandra.”
Is this appropriate? Definitely not. Is this ability to make light of your pain in a manner that connects you with your partner healing? You’re damn right it is.
We also connect with each other around a sense of isolation and “different-ness.” Coming home from a birthday party at which your child was the only one who ran screaming from the room during “happy birthday” stings less when you can share that place of honor with your partner. Further, we frequently feel alone together in our worry about Courtney’s journey. We feel pride and sadness when we see Courtney helping her big brother put his shoes on. We know about the problems of special needs siblings, and we want her to feel neither invisible nor like a third parent. We also know that our hard work healing Brian is, in part, an effort to protect Courtney from having to bear responsibility for him in the future…. a terrifying possibility that we rarely voice.
The bottom line is that, like any kind of adversity that a marriage can face, our journey with Brian has given us opportunities for intimacy that we would not otherwise have had. When I watch an RDI video that Todd and Brian have made together, I swell with pride at how much Todd “gets” Brian. When I offer an autism workshop or mentor a parent of a newly diagnosed child, I know that Todd feels proud that I have found some adaptive ways of coping with my pain and anger.
Carrying the hope
I remember sitting in my own therapist’s office after Brian was diagnosed and trying to figure out what I was supposed to “do” about this ASD. I remember her saying that my most important job as Brian’s mother was to “carry the hope.” These words come back to me frequently as we face decisions about biomedical options or school placement or how to set expectations of him.
I carry the hope that we, as a society, can turn the tide and curtail this epidemic. The vaccine-autism connection is strong, and more and more people are questioning the safety and efficacy of the current schedule. As for my Brian, I carry the hope that he will someday read this article and be mortified that I wrote about his poop! I carry the hope that I will dance with him at his wedding and hold his newborn in my arms.
Last week I had the chance to hang out at recess with Brian and his Kindergarten buddies. Brian and three other children were engaged in a game that seemed to be called, “Rescue me, I’m dead.” When Ethan yelled to Brian from the top of the jungle gym that he needed rescue due to the fact that he was, in fact, dead, I watched my boy, my sweet, blue-eyed boy, climb competently and confidently up the ladder… “I’ll save you Ethan. I just have to get across this hot lava.” A far cry, indeed, from the boy who used to read license plates in the driveway while the neighborhood kids played. I carry a lot of hope for Brian.
Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical lecturer in Northwestern University’s Masters of Science in Marital and Family Therapy program. She received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University, as well as a graduate certificate in Gender Studies. Dr. Solomon has developed expertise in the areas of couples, families with special needs children and group relations/ dynamics. She has published a number of articles, most recently about parenting children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). She has presented nationally on this subject and consults to the media on topics related to marriage and family. Dr. Solomon is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA). In her free time, Ali can be found enjoying hip hop dance, running, biking, swimming and competing in the occasional triathalon. Contact her at asolomon@northwestern.edu…
I have all the answers but nobody is asking me any questions
October 11, 2010 by CCCSLP in What's The Frequency 1 comment
By Marguerite Mullaney
“I have all these answers but nobody is asking me any questions!”
The words echoed down the muggy hallway of an Alzheimer’s unit one hot August afternoon as I was hurrying along to see my next patient. They stopped me in mid step. Many times, a patient has managed to say the one thing I needed to hear at a particular turning point in my career. However, on this occasion, the message was shouted by somebody not on my list with no assigned minutes. His sentiment was so poignant and so common it could be a defining human characteristic; the need to share our expertise. It is a want that resonated deep within me and I took a few minutes, unbillable minutes finding the man and asking him a question.
We spend years becoming speech language pathologists. Studies are not enough to get the seal of approval. There are tests to pass, followed by a lengthy fellowship under the watchful eye of another person already judged to be an expert. Even certification and licensure is a process and requires constant education to renew yearly.
Yet, having completed the all basics and continuing to achieve certification and licensure yearly, I find nobody is asking me the question I so desperately want to answer. If I had a chance to answer one question for the next generation of SLP’s, I already know what I want to tell them. It would be the same message given to me by one of my graduate supervisors.
I was her first student. She was my first supervisor with an adult neurogenic population. We spent the autumn of 1987 driving each other crazy and getting in each other’s way. She wasn’t easy to learn from and I wasn’t particularly bright, but we bumbled along with a minimum of chaos. Then dysphagia struck!
Swallowing was a bit new to SLP in those days. Not every clinician was practicing it. I was lucky. My supervisor was confident enough to admit her limitations. She showed me how to research the information I needed to fill the gaps in my university education. There was no dysphagia course offered in my graduate program way back in the dark ages of the eighties. Filling in my theory short comings was as easy as reading; Logemann and Rosenbeck became my bedtime stories for the remainder of grad school.
But, practical application of that knowledge takes…PRACTICE. You need to do an awful lot of awful bedside evaluations before you get really good. You need to see an ocean on aspiration on MBS before you can anticipate the drowning. How does a supervisor get a new clinician from inexperience to expertise without killing anybody? The answer is not, ‘puree and pudding thick liquids for everybody.’
Have the clinician answer this question just as my supervisor made me answer for each of our dysphagia patients 23 years ago: “What swallowing felony has this patient committed to be condemned to puree and/or thickened liquids?”
Too many times lately, I’ve read reports which did not reflect deficits significant enough to justify diet modification. Then there’s an increasingly popular trend in acute care summaries which apply the safest diet for swallowing purposes without consideration of the ramifications to the whole patient. Expensive MBSs performed in which no aspiration was detected or the trials were less than five swallows or limited trials of nectar, honey, and puree or not one compensatory strategy attempted have been in over-abundance in recent years. Bedside evaluations are sent with statements identifying aspiration to the point you must read them twice to be certain imaging was not conducted. In my pursuit of additional information for some of the more outrageous claims, I have heard such depressing excuses as:
1) I stopped the MBS because I was afraid the patient would aspirate.
2) The patient was coughing so I changed him to pudding at bedside.
3) I didn’t try thin during the MBS because at the nursing home he was already on nectar so I started there.
4) There’s no speech at nursing homes so I put her on the safest diet; puree and pudding thick.
5) A suspected timing delay of the epiglottis might be present and could lead to aspiration even though none was apparent on the MBS but to be safe I recommend nectar thick liquids.
6) I didn’t want to recommend something they might aspirate and get sued.
I wish there was no number 6. Sadly, I think it is the driving force behind many of the recommendations. But, I would spread some words of caution to my peers, especially the younger ones. The only thing that avoids litigation is luck. The thing that wins litigation is expertise and documentation.
If you make a swallowing recommendation in isolation of the needs of whole patient to save him from aspiration pneumonia and he goes into renal failure…that’s a big problem.
If you base your recommendations on what you suspect their living arrangements are and you are wrong…that’s a big problem.
If you are practicing limited trial MBS’s and ending them early because you are afraid the patient will aspirate…PLEASE stop conducting MBS and get more education!
Before you alter another diet ask yourself, “What swallowing felony has this patient committed to be condemned to puree and/or thickened liquids?”
Marguerite Mullaney was born and raised in and around the Boston area. She continues to make her home in the Commonweath and rarely finds it necessary to travel beyond the 128 belt. Her undergraduate program was completed at Bridgewater State College and she attended Northeastern University for graduate school. Adult neurological disorders has been the primary focus of her clinical practice. Her vast knowledge of the field, thoughtful, pragmatic approach and incredible sense of humor have enlightened and inspired her patients, staff and colleagues for over 20 years.
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Hawkins leads St. Francis (NY) past Hartford 84-78
- Dec. 05, 2019 09:45 PM EST
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Chauncey Hawkins had 23 points as St. Francis (NY) defeated Hartford 84-78 on Thursday night.
Unique McLean had 18 points and nine rebounds for St. Francis (NY) (3-5), which snapped its five-game road losing streak. Deniz Celen added 14 points and 10 rebounds. Stevan Krtinic had 11 points for the visiting team.
Rob Higgins, who was second on the Terriers in scoring heading into the matchup with 10 points per game, shot only 13 percent in the game (1 of 8).
Moses Flowers scored a season-high 28 points and had six rebounds for the Hawks (4-6), whose losing streak reached four games. Hunter Marks added 15 points and eight rebounds. Traci Carter had 12 points and six assists.
St. Francis (NY) matches up against UMass Lowell on the road on Saturday. Hartford matches up against Sacred Heart at home on Sunday.
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Anthony Lamb Jay Huff Braxton Key Mamadi Diakite Kihei Clark Stef Smith Casey Morsell Sports Men's college basketball College basketball Basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports
Virginia ACC Vermont America East
Diakite, No. 7 Virginia hold off Vermont, 61-55
By HANK KURZ Jr. - Nov. 19, 2019 10:13 PM EST
Virginia forward Jay Huff (30) looes the ball as Vermont forward Ryan Davis (35) and guard Stef Smith (0) defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Mamadi Diakite and No. 7 Virginia found themselves in a nail-biter, and with Anthony Lamb putting on an offensive show in the second half, Diakite took it upon himself to try to slow down the Vermont star.
Diakite also scored 19 points of his own and the Cavaliers overcame Lamb’s 30-point night to beat Vermont 61-55 on Tuesday night.
“It reminded me of last year when we played against Purdue — Carsen Edwards hitting again and again and again,” Diakite said, recalling Virginia’s Elite Eight overtime victory in the NCAA Tournament when Edwards scored 42 points.
“One of those days when everything falls in. At the end, I wanted to take the challenge and I responded to it I thought,” Diakite said.
Lamb scored 25 points after halftime and hit seven 3-pointers in all, but didn’t score for the last 5 ½ minutes.
The Cavaliers, meantime, had to overcome their own offensive struggles with their trademark — defense.
“I think we showed some grit with enough stops defensively and enough plays offensively,” coach Tony Bennett said.
The Cavaliers (4-0) trailed before Diakite’s basket gave them a 50-49 lead with 5:12 left and sparked a 9-0 run. Jay Huff scored twice in the spurt and Braxton Key hit a 3-pointer as Virginia held the Catamounts scoreless, and forced four turnovers, in a nearly four-minute span.
Lamb at one point scored 17 points in a row for the Catamounts (4-1) and nearly matched the point total of the Cavaliers’ first two opponents, who each managed just 34 points. Stef Smith added 11 points, but Virginia turned Vermont’s 13 turnovers into 20 points.
“We wanted to keep them off the offensive glass. We did that. Wanted to make 3s. We did that, but just came up a little short,” Vermont coach John Becker said. “Just had to play guys too many minutes. We were a guard down and I thought that caught up with us.”
Kihei Clark scored 15 points and Key had 14 for Virginia.
Virginia led 24-18 at halftime, but Vermont used a 10-2 run to start the half to take its first lead since the early going. Lamb had seven points in the run, including the last five, and tacked on his team’s next 12 points with four 3-pointers as the score was tied five times.
Vermont: The Catamounts hang their hat on defense, too, and came into the game with a 107-9 record since the 2011-12 season when holding their opponents to 60 points or fewer.
Virginia: The Cavaliers’ defensive excellence has been essential early in the season as they still are struggling to find an offensive rhythm. Highly regarded freshman guard Casey Morsell came into the game having made just 2 of 21 field goal attempts and was 1 for 6. Virginia has made 21 3-pointers in its first four games and allowed 31, including 12 by the Catamounts in 34 attempts.
CLARK IN CHARGE
Clark, a sophomore not known for his shooting, made several key baskets, especially when both teams finally found some offensive rhythm down the stretch and were trading baskets. He hit a pair of 3-pointers and scored on a pair of drives to the basket.
“Just kind of taking what the defense gave me. I think on that 3 I hit in the second half, (the defender) went under, so I shot it,” he said.
The Catamounts face Central Connecticut State on Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut.
The Cavaliers face Massachusetts on Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut.
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Nicholls State Southland Stephen F.Austin
Moore Jr. carries Nicholls St. over Stephen F. Austin 78-73
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Brandon Moore Jr. had a season-high 25 points as Nicholls State narrowly beat Stephen F. Austin 78-73 on Wednesday night.
Moore Jr. made 9 of 12 shots. He added eight rebounds.
Gavin Peppers had 15 points and seven assists for Nicholls State (9-7, 2-1 Southland Conference), which earned its sixth straight home victory. Jeremiah Jefferson added 15 points. Kevin Johnson had seven rebounds and seven assists for the home team.
Kevon Harris scored a season-high 30 points and had nine rebounds for the Lumberjacks (8-6, 1-1). Karl Nicholas added 14 points and eight rebounds. Shannon Bogues had 13 points.
Nicholls State plays Houston Baptist (5-8, 1-1) at home on Saturday. Stephen F. Austin takes on Northwestern State (6-10, 1-2) at home on Saturday.
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Massachusetts Atlantic 10 Fordham
- Feb. 06, 2019 11:03 PM EST
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Antwon Portley matched his season high, scoring 22 points as Fordham cruised past Massachusetts 85-67 on Wednesday night, snapping a nine-game losing streak.
Portley was 8 of 13 from the field including six 3-pointers for the Rams (10-12, 1-8 Atlantic 10 Conference). Nick Honor added 18 points and six assists, Chuba Ohams had 13 points and five rebounds and Jesse Bunting chipped in 12 points.
Fordham opened strong, capping a 14-7 start with back-to-back 3-pointers by Honor and Portley. UMass sputtered midway through as Honor added another 3 and Ohams dunked, stretching it to 25-12 and the Rams were up 47-26 at the break.
Carl Pierre hit a pair of 3-pointers early in the second half and Kieran Hayward sank three more to help the Minutemen (8-15, 1-9) close to 68-50 with 10:06 to play but they never threatened.
Pierre finished with 19 points for the Minutemen. Unique McLean added 10 points with six rebounds and six assists.
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Extreme Precipitation in Atlantic Canada (Opens in a new Window)
Extreme Precipitation in Atlantic Canada is intended to extend the print-based Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) analyses for Atlantic Canada through an interactive web tool. The web tool provides users with enhanced access and visualization of the official ECCC IDF point data. Features include familiar ECCC IDF station based graphs and tables with access through a map based browser interface, IDF graphs and tables based on gridded data to provide information for locations between observing sites, contoured regional and province-specific extreme rainfall maps, downloadable ASCII grid files, and integration of US data for improved visualization at the border and access to US station data.
Cornell University, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
Hurricane Season Flood Alert System (Opens in a new Window)
The Hurricane Season Flood Alert System (HSFAS) is based on forecasted precipitation amounts and seeks to provide communities with flood warning services as a key climate change adaptation and public safety tool. Alerts are provided to communities that have Flood Risk Mapping Studies (FRMS) or have published intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves from which precipitation-based flood triggers can be derived. The HSFAS is operational during the peak hurricane months of June to December, and provides alerts for 45 communities.
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment, Water Resources Management Division/Fire and Emergency Services
IDF Curve Lookup (Opens in a new Window)
IDF Curve Lookup is a web-based application to retrieve rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves. Users can input their location using a coordinate format, and select return periods of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years. Future projections are made based on a linear trend using 2010 as a reference year. Data are available for download in tabular and graphical formats.
Ministry of Transportation
Data product Tool Additional resources
Scénarios climatiques pour l'ingénierie (in French only) (Opens in a new Window)
The Scénarios climatiques pour l'ingénierie website is a pilot project that aims to better communicate to engineers information about climate change scenarios. The website presents fact sheets for two regions of Quebec, namely Montreal and Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, and seven climate indicators. The indicators were selected by a user committee.
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Tay was built to learn the way millennials converse on Twitter, with the aim of being able to hold a conversation on the platform. In Microsoft’s words: “Tay has been built by mining relevant public data and by using AI and editorial developed by a staff including improvisational comedians. Public data that’s been anonymised is Tay’s primary data source. That data has been modelled, cleaned and filtered by the team developing Tay.”
“I’ve seen a lot of hyperbole around bots as the new apps, but I don’t know if I believe that,” said Prashant Sridharan, Twitter’s global director of developer relations. “I don’t think we’re going to see this mass exodus of people stopping building apps and going to build bots. I think they’re going to build bots in addition to the app that they have or the service they provide.”
I argued that it is super hard to scale a one-trick TODA into a general assistant that helps the user getting things done across multiple tasks. An intelligence assistant is arguably expected to hold an informal chit-chat with the user. It is this area where we are staring into perhaps the biggest challenge of AI. Observe how Samantha introduces herself to Joaquin Phoenix’s Ted in the clip below:
Beyond users, bots must also please the messaging apps themselves. Take Facebook Messenger. Executives have confirmed that advertisements within Discover — their hub for finding new bots to engage with — will be the main way Messenger monetizes its 1.3 billion monthly active users. If standing out among the 100,000 other bots on the platform wasn't difficult enough, we can assume Messenger will only feature bots that don't detract people from the platform.
There is no one right answer to this question, as the best solution will depend upon the specifics of your scenario and how the user would reasonably expect the bot to respond. However, as your conversation complexity increases dialogs become harder to manage. For complex branchings situations, it may be easier to create your own flow of control logic to keep track of your user's conversation.
The upcoming TODA agents are good at one thing, and one thing only. As Facebook found out with the ambitious Project M, building general personal assistants that can help users in multiple tasks (cross-domain agents) is hard. Think awfully hard. Beyond the obvious increase in scope, knowledge, and vocabulary, there is no built-in data generator that feeds the hungry learning machine (sans an unlikely concerted effort to aggregate the data silos from multiple businesses). The jury is out whether the army of human agents that Project M employs can scale, even with Facebook’s kind of resources. In addition, cross-domain agents will probably need major advances in areas such as domain adaptation, transfer learning, dialog planning and management, reinforcement/apprenticeship learning, automatic dialog evaluation, etc.
Designing for conversational interfaces represents a big shift in the way we are used to thinking about interaction. Chatbots have less signifiers and affordances than websites and apps – which means words have to work harder to deliver clarity, cohesion and utility for the user. It is a change of paradigm that requires designers to re-wire their brain, their deliverables and their design process to create successful bot experiences.
Many expect Facebook to roll out a bot store of some kind at its annual F8 conference for software developers this week, which means these bots may soon operate inside Messenger, its messaging app. It has already started testing a virtual assistant bot called “M,” but the product is only available for a few people and still primarily powered by humans.
ELIZA's key method of operation (copied by chatbot designers ever since) involves the recognition of cue words or phrases in the input, and the output of corresponding pre-prepared or pre-programmed responses that can move the conversation forward in an apparently meaningful way (e.g. by responding to any input that contains the word 'MOTHER' with 'TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY'). Thus an illusion of understanding is generated, even though the processing involved has been merely superficial. ELIZA showed that such an illusion is surprisingly easy to generate, because human judges are so ready to give the benefit of the doubt when conversational responses are capable of being interpreted as "intelligent".
Botsify is another Facebook chatbot platform that helps make it easy to integrate chatbots into the system. Its paid subscription helps you in five easy steps. 1) Log into the botsify.com site, 2) Connect your Facebook account, 3) Setup a webhook, 4) Write up commands for the chatbot you are creating, and 5) Let Botisfy handle the customer service for you. If the paid services are a little too much, they do offer a free service that lets you create as many bots as your lovely imagination can dream up.
As digital continues to rewrite the rules of engagement across industries and markets, a new competitive reality is emerging: “Being digital” soon won’t be enough. Organizations will use artificial intelligence and other technologies to help them make faster, more informed decisions, become far more efficient, and craft more personalized and relevant experiences for both customers and employees.
Chatfuel is a platform that lets you build your own Chatbot for Messenger (and Telegram) for free. The only limit is if you pass more than 100,000 conversations per month, but for most businesses that won't be an issue. No understanding of code is required and it has a simple drag-and-drop interface. Think Wix/Squarespace for bots (side note: I have zero affiliation with Chatfuel).
Morph.ai is an AI-powered chatbot. It works across messengers, websites, Android apps, and iOS apps. Morph.ai lets you automate up to 70 percent of your customer support. It can also integrate with your existing CRM and support tools. Plus, it can learn new queries and responses over time. You can add cards, carousels, and quick replies to enrich your conversations. It looks like this
Despite the fact that ALICE relies on such an old codebase, the bot offers users a remarkably accurate conversational experience. Of course, no bot is perfect, especially one that’s old enough to legally drink in the U.S. if only it had a physical form. ALICE, like many contemporary bots, struggles with the nuances of some questions and returns a mixture of inadvertently postmodern answers and statements that suggest ALICE has greater self-awareness for which we might give the agent credit.
There are obvious revenue opportunities around subscriptions, advertising and commerce. If bots are designed to save you time that you’d normally spend on mundane tasks or interactions, it’s possible they’ll seem valuable enough to justify a subscription fee. If bots start to replace some of the functions that you’d normally use a search engine like Google for, it’s easy to imagine some sort of advertising component. Or if bots help you shop, the bot-maker could arrange for a commission.
Short for chat robot, a computer program that simulates human conversation, or chat, through artificial intelligence. Typically, a chat bot will communicate with a real person, but applications are being developed in which two chat bots can communicate with each other. Chat bots are used in applications such as ecommerce customer service, call centers and Internet gaming. Chat bots used for these purposes are typically limited to conversations regarding a specialized purpose and not for the entire range of human communication.
Chatbots and virtual assistants (VAs) may be built on artificial intelligence and create customer experiences through digital personas, but the success you realize from them will depend in large part on your ability to account for the real and human aspects of their deployment, intra-organizational impact, and customer orientation. Start by treating your bots and […]
Chatbots can perform a range of simple transactions. Telegram bots let users transfer money, buy train tickets, book hotel rooms, and more. AI chatbots are especially sought-after in the retail industry. WholeFoods, a healthy food store chain in the US, uses a chatbot to help customers find the nearest store. The 1-800-Flowers chatbot lets customers order flowers and gifts. In the image below, you can see more ways you might use AI chatbots for your business.
From any point in the conversation, the bot needs to know where to go next. If a user writes, “I’m looking for new pants,” the bot might ask, “For a man or woman?” The user may type, “For a woman.” Does the bot then ask about size, style, brand, or color? What if one of those modifiers was already specified in the query? The possibilities are endless, and every one of them has to be mapped with rules.
LV= also benefitted as a larger company. According to Hickman, “Over the (trial) period, the volume of calls from broker partners reduced by 91 per cent…that means is aLVin was able to provide a final answer in around 70 per cent of conversations with the user, and only 22 per cent of those conversations resulted in [needing] a chat with a real-life agent.”
Customer service departments in all industries are increasing their use of chatbots, and we will see usage rise even higher in the next year as companies continue to pilot or launch their own versions of the rule-based digital assistant. What are chatbots? Forrester defines them as autonomous applications that help users complete tasks through conversation. […]
Die Herausforderung bei der Programmierung eines Chatbots liegt in der sinnvollen Zusammenstellung der Erkennungen. Präzise Erkennungen für spezielle Fragen werden dabei ergänzt durch globale Erkennungen, die sich nur auf ein Wort beziehen und als Fallback dienen können (der Bot erkennt grob das Thema, aber nicht die genaue Frage). Manche Chatbot-Programme unterstützen die Entwicklung dabei über Priorisierungsränge, die einzelnen Antworten zuzuordnen sind. Zur Programmierung eines Chatbots werden meist Entwicklungsumgebungen verwendet, die es erlauben, Fragen zu kategorisieren, Antworten zu priorisieren und Erkennungen zu verwalten[5][6]. Dabei lassen manche auch die Gestaltung eines Gesprächskontexts zu, der auf Erkennungen und möglichen Folgeerkennungen basiert („Möchten Sie mehr darüber erfahren?“). Ist die Wissensbasis aufgebaut, wird der Bot in möglichst vielen Trainingsgesprächen mit Nutzern der Zielgruppe optimiert[7]. Fehlerhafte Erkennungen, Erkennungslücken und fehlende Antworten lassen sich so erkennen[8]. Meist bietet die Entwicklungsumgebung Analysewerkzeuge, um die Gesprächsprotokolle effizient auswerten zu können[9]. Ein guter Chatbot erreicht auf diese Weise eine mittlere Erkennungsrate von mehr als 70 % der Fragen. Er wird damit von den meisten Nutzern als unterhaltsamer Gegenpart akzeptiert.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the technological process in which computers derive meaning from natural human inputs. NLP-Based Conversational Bots are machine learning bots that exploit the power of artificial intelligence, which gives them a “learning brain.” These types of conversational bots have the ability to understand natural language, and do not require specific instructions to respond to questions as observed in types of chatbots such as Scripted and Structured Conversational Bots.
These days, checking the headlines over morning coffee is as much about figuring out if we should be hunkering down in the basement preparing for imminent nuclear annihilation as it is about keeping up with the day’s headlines. Unfortunately, even the most diligent newshounds may find it difficult to distinguish the signal from the noise, which is why NBC launched its NBC Politics Bot on Facebook Messenger shortly before the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
Simplified and scripted. Chatbot technology is being tacked on to the broader AI message, and while it’s important to note that machine learning will help chatbots get better at understand and responding to questions, it’s not going to make them the conversationalists we dream them to be. No matter what the marketing says, chatbots are entirely scripted. User says x, chatbot responds y.
As the above chart (source) illustrates, email click-rate has been steadily declining. Whilst open rates seem to be increasing - largely driven by mobile - the actual engagement from email is nosediving. Not only that, but it's becoming more and more difficult to even reach someone's email inbox; Google's move to separate out promotional emails into their 'promotions' tab and increasing problems of email deliverability have been top reasons behind this.
Enter Roof Ai, a chatbot that helps real-estate marketers to automate interacting with potential leads and lead assignment via social media. The bot identifies potential leads via Facebook, then responds almost instantaneously in a friendly, helpful, and conversational tone that closely resembles that of a real person. Based on user input, Roof Ai prompts potential leads to provide a little more information, before automatically assigning the lead to a sales agent.
For example, say you want to purchase a pair of shoes online from Nordstrom. You would have to browse their site and look around until you find the pair you wanted. Then you would add the pair to your cart to go through the motions of checking out. But in the case Nordstrom had a conversational bot, you would simply tell the bot what you’re looking for and get an instant answer. You would be able to search within an interface that actually learns what you like, even when you can’t coherently articulate it. And in the not-so-distant future, we’ll even have similar experiences when we visit the retail stores.
For designing a chatbot conversation, you can refer this blog — “How to design a conversation for chatbots.” Chatbot interactions are segmented into structured and unstructured interactions. As the name suggests, the structured type is more about the logical flow of information, including menus, choices, and forms into account. The unstructured conversation flow includes freestyle plain text. Conversations with family, colleagues, friends and other acquaintances fall into this segment. Developing scripts for these messages will follow suit. While developing the script for messages, it is important to keep the conversation topics close to the purpose served by the chatbot. For the designer, interpreting user answers is important to develop scripts for a conversational user interface. The designer also turns their attention to close-ended conversations that are easy to handle and open-ended conversations that allow customers to communicate naturally.
Nowadays a high majority of high-tech banking organizations are looking for integration of automated AI-based solutions such as chatbots in their customer service in order to provide faster and cheaper assistance to their clients becoming increasingly technodexterous. In particularly, chatbots can efficiently conduct a dialogue, usually substituting other communication tools such as email, phone, or SMS. In banking area their major application is related to quick customer service answering common requests, and transactional support.
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Staff blogs, Blog posts, Technical Updates
World Wide Wikia - How Internationalization Works
DaNASCAT | March 8, 2013 | User blog:DaNASCAT
Last month, Wikia hit a significant milestone. With the continued creativity of our users around the globe, Wikia wikis now exist in over 200 languages - 211 to be exact. English remains the primary language on Wikia, but we also have a large and thriving base of wikis in such languages as German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish. Furthermore, Wikia is proud to host content in smaller languages such as Tatar, Sakha, Malti, Sichuan Yi, and Buginese.
Language families of the world.
I grew up in a small town in North Carolina that is home to a large book translation center. Most of my friends’ parents were translators and every few months my friends’ families would get on a plane to go to some remote center of the world to learn about and document the language there. I had this romantic idea of them crawling through jungles or deserts, madly scribbling in books as they listened intently to their guides.
And now, here we are just years later with those foreign languages right on our fingertips, getting to read and understand what motivates and inspires people halfway around the world. Even better, non-English speakers are getting to work with English wikis to transfer and translate content into localized versions of international wikis. For example, our Star Trek community Memory-Alpha supports wikis in German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, French, Italian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Czech, Esperanto, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian, and Chinese.
While Wikia expands our international community, there are some unique challenges to consider when going global. I want to take some time today to explain how exactly internationalization works.
What Is Internationalization?
Internationalization - or i18n for people who use shorthand - is the process of changing computer software to meet the needs of different languages, regional differences, or technical requirements of differing markets. More specifically, it means designing software so that it can be easily customized per language or region without significant amounts of re-writing code.
Luckily MediaWiki, the software Wikia runs on, was designed with internationalization in mind. The most common way this works is by through System messages (also called ‘’MediaWiki messages’’). Almost every button or part of the interface you see on Wikia is controlled through a MediaWiki message - from “Edit this page” to “Log in” to “Start a New Wiki”. None of those parts are hardcoded to say what they say. These parts instead point to a specific MediaWiki message in your specific user language.
So while you are seeing all the buttons on this page in English right now, Open this link in a new tab and see how this exact blog would look to a French user.
On Wikia, there are two different levels of internationalization, wiki-level and user-level. If you are an anonymous user, you see the wiki’s interface in whatever language the founder chose the wiki to be. You can tell what language the wiki’s language is set as by checking the URL. Non-English wikis almost always have their language code, two or three short characters that abbreviate the language name, in their URL. For example, “ru.elderscrolls.wikia.com” is a Russian language wiki because “ru” is its language code. “es.pokemon.wikia.com” is a Spanish language wiki because “es” is its language code.
Once you log in, you begin to see the site’s interface in whatever language you have set in your Preferences. Now, this doesn’t change the content of the page into the language you have set, just the interface around the content.
Where Internationalization Has Trouble
Even though i18n allows for parts of Wikia to be easily viewed in any language, that doesn’t mean it’s a smooth transition. There are some common ways Wikia can look and function fine in one language but then have some sort of bug in another.
In the Polish language, the words for the source and visual mode tabs are longer than they are in English. As a result, for a time, the tabs came on top of the edit title icon.
Some languages have really long words, which means that buttons and parts of the interface need to have flexibility built in to expand to meet the length of the text. A good example of this is German. German is a language that has a lot of compound words as part of its vocabulary. In English, the “Sign up” button takes up seven character spaces. The German equivalent is “Benutzerkonto anlegen” takes up twenty-one characters, three times as much. If the button was hardcoded to be only as wide as the English text, then the text would spill over into other buttons for a German reader.
Other languages, like the Cyrillic or Arabic families, use non-Latin characters. When a browser reaches a non-Latin character, it renders the character using Unicode encoding. Sometimes, this means objects such as {{PAGENAME}} or user names render in broken unicode.
Also, there are RTL - Right to Left - languages, such as Hebrew or Arabic. Readers in those languages start reading text on the right side of the page and move their eyes left. That means the entire interface needs to be shifted around to meet the needs of those readers. For an example, take some time to visit our wiki on the Israeli city of Efrat.
Due to all of these things, Wikia takes a “staggered” approach to releasing new features. Since most of our staff and QA testers are English users, we usually beta test and then release first on the English platform. Then we begin to test and gather translations for the feature in the next half-dozen languages - Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, and maybe one or two others. If all goes well, then the feature gets fully released to all 300,000+ wikis in all 211 languages. This usually happens within a month of the initial EN release.
Wikia is always looking for users to help our translation and international efforts. The more ambassadors Wikia has in the world, the more users are going to discover all of these fantastic communities waiting for them.
So first and foremost, if you are on a wiki and you see someone writing on the wiki in another language, be polite and friendly to them. While Google Translate is not always perfect, it may help you begin to have a conversation with that person. You may ultimately be able to help them find the wiki in their language or even encourage them to start a wiki of their own to help expand the reach of your topic into other countries.
If you’re an admin, I’d strongly encourage you to see if there are any international communities out there. Collaborate with those wikis if so, perhaps even coming up with a consistent theme to share between your wikis. Also, be sure to use the interlanguage link syntax to highlight that a version of this article also exists in another language. If you are an admin and aren’t sure if there are any international communities out there on your topic, right into Special:Contact and I will be happy to do some searching for you.
TranslateWiki.net maintains a chart showing translation needs on Wikia. Go to TranslateWiki.net to help turn these red squares green!
When Wikia releases features to our international community, we need users to translate the MediaWiki messages for us since staff members only speak and can translate a handful of the languages we support. For mass translation, we use a website called TranslateWiki. If you join the community there, you can begin to help translate the Wikia interface.
Finally, a group of dedicated volunteers called the IVT - International Volunteering Team - help Wikia communicate with our wikis. Members of the IVT interact on a daily basis with all sorts of wikis in their native tongue, be it French or Spanish or Russian. We are always looking for new volunteers to aid international communities, especially in areas where we currently don’t have an IVT helper. If you are interested in learning about that program, please feel free to talk to our IVT leader.
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USDA NASS: Winter Wheat Harvest 82% Done, Ahead of Average
USDA NASS
Corn condition rated 1% very poor, 2% poor, 10% fair, 60% good, and 27% excellent. Corn silking was 82%, ahead of 72% last year and 68% for the five-year average, according to the Crop Condition and Progress Report for July 23 from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Twenty-two percent of the state's corn crop was at dough stage, ahead of 8% at this time last year and the average of 7%.
Soybean condition rated 1% very poor, 2% poor, 12% fair, 62% good, and 23% excellent. Soybeans blooming was 78%, near 77% last year, and ahead of 71% average. Setting pods was 40%, ahead of 24% last year and the five-year average of 23%.
Winter wheat harvested was 82%, behind 92% last year, but ahead of the average of 73%.
Sorghum condition rated 0% very poor, 1% poor, 15% fair, 66% good, and 18% excellent. Sorghum headed was 36%, well ahead of 9% last year the average of 19%. Coloring was 2%, near 1% average.
Oat condition rated 1% very poor, 4% poor, 36% fair, 53% good, and 6% excellent. Oats harvested was 74%, near 72% last year, and ahead of 56% average.
Pasture and range conditions rated 2% very poor, 6% poor, 19% fair, 53% good, and 20% excellent.
Topsoil moisture supplies rated 2% very short, 17% short, 75% adequate, and 6% surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 3% very short, 21% short, 72% adequate, and 4% surplus.
2018 Crop Reports
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SYDNEY, New South Wales– Multiple witnesses claim they saw a UFO Wednesday hovering over a populated beach in Australia.
Don Jeffery, resident of Sydney’s northern suburb Dee Why, says he is convinced the object was a UFO.
“A lot of people were gazing skywards, about 20 or 30, and I asked what it was,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “Another person suggested it was a plane coming in to land, but it stayed in the same spot for 10 minutes and it looked like it had a tail.”
He said that the object was brighter than the sun and that it looked like a “disc-like object”. He was also able to take a few photographs of the purported UFO.
This region of Australia is regarded as a hot spot by some ufologists.
Last April an Australian woman said that she had proof that we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings.
In 1966 more than two hundred people reportedly watched an object land next to a school in Melbourne, Victoria, in what some have dubbed as one of the biggest UFO mysteries
UFO reports have also increased in the past few months, indicating we could be heading toward another “golden flying saucers era” similar to those predominant in the 40s, 60s, 70s and the 90s.
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Back in January, a nurse and a truck driver reported seeing an unidentified flying object as “large as a football field” in the United States.
NASA released a controversial document last month prompting UFO enthusiasts to believe we could be on the verge of a full and open disclosure.
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CCEA Current Affairs - 2020
Cabinet approves transfer of Assam Gas Cracker Project to oil ministry
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the transfer of administrative control of Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL), the Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU) implementing Assam Gas Cracker Project (AGCP) from Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals (under Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers) to Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG).
Other CCCEA Approval
CCEA also approved feedstock subsidy to BCPL for 15 years of plant operation for maintaining minimum Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 10% (after tax). To bring IRR to 10%, BCPL has estimated feedstock subsidy of approximately Rs.4600 crore for project for 15 years of plant operation. Therefore, BCPL will submit proposal on yearly basis from next financial year (2020-2021) onwards and administrative Ministry/ Department will devise a mechanism to examine proposal in consultation with Union Ministry of Finance.
Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas will have to make firm arrangements through concerned PSUs for supply of committed quantity and quality of feedstock to AGC project as envisaged in earlier CCEA approval of 2006.
About Assam Gas Cracker Project (AGCP)
The project came as part of historic Assam Accord signed on 15 August 1985, with a view to bring socioeconomic development of region, thus it is seen as a part of implementation of Assam accord. It and involves setting up of facilities for manufacture of 2 lakh tonnes of ethylene annually using gas as feedstock. It is the first petrochemical project in the northeastern region of country. The 1st phase of long-delayed project was commissioned in late 2015.
The Rs.9,285-crore project is the first petrochemical project in the northeastern region of country and would give impetus to development of region as well as will improve the socio economic conditions of people of Assam through increased employment.
Background: The project was approved by CCEA on April 2006 and subsequently, a joint venture, BCPL was incorporated on January 2007. On 9 April 2007, then prime minister Manmohan Singh, laid the foundation stone of project at Lepetkata, 15 km from Dibrugarh. The project was supposed to be completed by April 2012, but, the target declines were delayed- first to December 2013, than to January 2014 and to June 2015, thus the project was finally being commissioned in November 2015.
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019 Categories: Business, Economy & Banking
Tags: Assam Accord • Assam Gas Cracker Project • BCPL • Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited • CCEA
Cabinet approves extension of norms for mandatory packaging in jute materials
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has accorded its approval for mandatory packaging of foodgrains and sugar in jute material for Jute Year 2019-20. The scope of mandatory packaging norms under Jute Packaging Material (JPM) Act, 1987 has been retained by Union Government as per 2018.
Cabinet decision mandates that 100% of food grains and 20% of sugar shall be mandatorily packed in diversified jute bags. The decision also mandates that initially 10% of indents of jute bags for packing foodgrains would be placed through reverse auction on Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal. The move will gradually usher in a regime of price discovery.
The packaging of sugar in diversified jute bags will give an impetus to diversification of jute industry. Moreover, the approval will benefit farmers and workers located in Eastern and North Eastern regions of India particularly in West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Tripura and Andhra Pradesh.
Jute Industry in India
About 3.7 lakh workers and several lakh farm families are dependent for their livelihood on jute sectors. Thus government has been making efforts for development of jute sector; increasing quality and productivity of raw jute, boosting/sustaining demand for jute products and diversification of jute sector.
Indian jute industry is predominantly dependent on Government sector which purchases jute bags of value of over Rs.7,500 crore every year for packing food grains. This is also done in order to sustain core demand for jute sector and to support livelihood of workers and farmers dependent on sector.
Government Support provided to Jute Sector:
To improve productivity and quality of raw jute government launched a carefully designed intervention, called Jute ICARE (Jute Improved Cultivation and Advanced Retting Exercise) in January 2015. Under it Government has supported about 3 lakh jute farmers by disseminating improved agronomic practices and interventions, which have resulted in enhancing quality and productivity of raw jute and increasing income of jute farmers by Rs.10,000/hectare.
To support jute farmers, a grant of subsidy of Rs. 100 crore for 2 years starting from 2018-19 has been approved to enable Jute Corporation of India Limited (JCI) to conduct Minimum Support Price (MSP) operations and ensure price stabilization in the jute sector. Moreover, JCI is transferring 100% funds to jute farmers online for jute procurement under MSP and commercial operations.
To support diversification of jute sector, National Jute Board in collaboration with National Institute of Design and has opened Jute Design Cell at Gandhinagar. The government has also taken up the promotion of Jute Geo Textiles and Agro-Textiles with State Governments particularly those in North Eastern region and also with departments like Ministry of Road Transport and Ministry of Water Resources.
To promote transparency in jute sector, government launched Jute SMART, an e-govt initiative in December 2016. It provides an integrated platform for procurement of B-Twill sacking by Government agencies.
Union Government has also imposed Definitive Anti-Dumping Duty on import of jute goods from Bangladesh and Nepal with effect from 5 January 2017, to boost demand in the jute sector.
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2019 Categories: Business, Economy & Banking
Tags: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs • CCEA • GeM portal • Jute • Jute Corporation of India Limited
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Feb 01, 2017 (Newsletter Issue 3/17)
IP Laws Amended
The amended laws on patents, trademarks and industrial designs entered into force in Montenegro on January 18, 2017. Most amendments relate to terminology alignment with the new Law on Administrative Proceedings, but there are two other significant changes.
All three laws introduce administrative disputes against the Montenegro IPO decisions. Under the former laws, the Montenegrin Ministry of Economy had competence to rule in the second instance and further appeals were brought before the Administrative Court.
The amended laws abolish this practice after 6 years of being in force. Now, appeals are to be brought directly before the Administrative Court.
The reason behind this change is the complexity of the registration process, particularly in terms of trademarks, where reaching a decision often requires expert knowledge of examination practices and thorough analysis.
Another novelty in the amended Law on Trademarks is the possibility for parties to suspend a trademark opposition proceeding while negotiating an agreement. The parties have to reach an agreement within 6 months.
Requesting a suspension was previously possible under the provisions of the Law on Administrative Proceedings. However, the amended Law on Trademarks now clearly defines the parties’ obligations in such situations. If the parties realize they will not reach an agreement within 6 months, they can request the continuation of the proceeding. If no agreement is reached within these 6 months and the negotiations continue, the parties have to compose minutes of their negotiations and communicate them to the IPO.
Source: PETOSEVIC Montenegro
Mrz 18, 2015 (Newsletter Issue 4/15)
National Industrial Design Register Launched
In December 2014, the Montenegrin IPO introduced the National Register of Industrial Designs, a new online database and search tool providing access to 115 registered designs.
The users can obtain information on registered designs by entering search criteria such as the application and registration number, the name of the design, the name of the owner and the Locarno classification numbers. The search leads to detailed information on registered designs in the Montenegrin language.
To enter the online database, please click here
Apr 01, 2014 (Newsletter Issue 6/14)
Trademark Law Soon Amended
Montenegro has recently drafted amendments to its trademark law in order to harmonize it with the European Union trademark legislation. It is expected that the amendments will be soon adopted.
The amended law more precisely regulates the trademark registration process and trademark infringement court proceedings.
The provisions concerning well-known trademarks and trademarks with reputation have been aligned with the corresponding provisions of the Directive 2008/95/EZ.
The amended law clearly outlines the conditions, the authorized persons and the procedure related to the invalidation of trademarks and collective trademarks.
The provisions regulating the procedure for cancellation of a trademark due to non-use have been amended as well. The new law also permits cancelling trademarks that have become generic as well as trademarks that are likely to cause confusion with existing marks, in line with Directive 2008/95/EZ.
The amended law further strengthens civil protection in case of trademark infringement. To that end, the law includes additional provisions on the seizure and destruction of goods, compensation of damages, usual compensation, unjust enrichment, preliminary injunctions, securing evidence and the publication of court decision.
Finally, the amended law stipulates monetary fines in case of trademark infringement. The fine in the amount of EUR 1,500 – 20,000 (USD 2,100-28,000) may be imposed against a legal entity in case of the unauthorized use of a trademark. The amendments stipulate fines in the amount of EUR 500-2,000 (USD 700-2,800) for physical persons and the responsible person within a legal entity, and the fines in the amount of EUR 1,300-6,000 (USD 1,800-8,300) for entrepreneurs.
Dez 04, 2012 (Newsletter Issue 18/12)
Accession to Nice Agreement
On November 16, 2012, Montenegro deposited its instrument of accession to the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of June 15, 1957, as revised in Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and in Geneva on May 13, 1977, and amended on September 28, 1979.
The Geneva Act of the Nice Agreement as amended will enter into force in Montenegro on February 16, 2013.
Source: PETOSEVIC Montenegro and www.wipo.int
Sep 02, 2012 (Newsletter Issue 13/12)
Amendments to Trademark Law
The Law on amendments of the Trademark Law in Montenegro entered into force on August 17, 2012. Namely, the referenced Law on amendments of the Trademark Law in Montenegro was published in the Official Gazette of Montenegro No. 44/12 on August 9, 2012.
The Law on amendments clarifies the procedure for filing national and international trademark applications. Namely, after filing new trademark application, the IPO of Montenegro examines the formal requirements of the same. If the formal requirements are not fulfilled, the IPO of Montenegro invites the applicant to submit the missing documents. The deadline for submission of the necessary documents is 30 days as from the receipt of the invitation (this term is not extendable). In case the Applicant meets the deadline of 30 days and the missing documents are submitted, the filing date of the trademark application will be the date of fulfilling the formal requirements. In case the applicant does not fulfill requirements within the deadline of 30 days, the application will be rejected.
According to the provisions of the Trademark Law, the renewal fees paid in a grace period (six months after the renewal due date) had to be paid with fine 100%. However, according to the amendments of the Trademark Law, the renewal fees paid in the grace period have to be paid with fine of 50%.
The Trademark Law is amended with the provisions regulating the opposition against International Registrations. The deadline for filing the opposition (90 days) is to be counted as from the first day of the month following the month of publication of the WIPO Official Gazette in which the International Registration is published. In case the International Registration is preliminary refused based on filed opposition, the IPO of Montenegro will invite the applicant to name the representative. The deadline to name the representative is 4 months as from the receipt of the referenced official invitation. The deadline to respond to an opposition is 60 days as from the receipt of the opposition by the named representative.
Source: Zivko Mijatovic & Partners, Montenegro
Accession to Vienna Agreement
The Government of Montenegro deposited its instrument of accession to the Vienna Agreement establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks on December 9, 2011.
The said Agreement will enter into force on March 9, 2012.
Source: WIPO
Jan 23, 2012 (Newsletter Issue 1/12)
TMs Published for Opposition
The Montenegro Intellectual Property Office (IPO) issued its seventh Official Gazette on December 20, 2011. It is the first one that includes national trademark applications published for opposition, under the provisions of the new trademark law of December 2010.
The new trademark law abolished the previous practice of substantive examination on relative grounds and introduced the opposition proceedings. A trademark application is now examined on absolute grounds only and if it meets the requirements for registration, it is published in the Official Gazette. Third parties have 90 days from the date of publication to file a written opposition.
Source: PETOSEVIC Montenegro and Intellectual Property Office of Montenegro
Serbian Trademarks Included in Search Reports
The search reports provided by Intellectual Property Office of Montenegro (IPO) include Serbian trademarks registered before the IPO of Serbia prior to May 28, 2008. Therefore, no additional search needs to be conducted before the Serbian IPO.
However, the report includes Serbian trademarks that may not be re-registered or filed for re-registration in Montenegro. No further information is provided by the Montenegrin IPO as to the status of those marks in Montenegro. Therefore, whereas some of those marks may be real obstacles if they were filed for re-registration in Montenegro, others may not become such an obstacle if their owners do not file for re-registration in Montenegro before December 16, 2011. The situation will be clear by the end of re-registration period.
Nov 08, 2011 (Newsletter Issue 13/11)
New Trademark Regulation Enters into Force
A new regulation governing trademark application and registration procedures came into force in Montenegro on October 29, 2011. The new regulation replaced the former 2004 regulation, rendered in the former State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The new regulation determines the content of and the manner of running the trademark register and applications records. The regulation also prescribes the necessary content for all types of requests and decisions that may be rendered in connection with a trademark application and registration.
Okt 01, 2011 (Newsletter Issue 11/11)
Deadline to Re-register National Serbian Trademark
We would like to remind you, that the final deadline for re-registration of national Serbian trademarks in Montenegro is December 16, 2011. In the event that a re-registration request is not filed, the national Serbian trademark registration will no longer enjoy protection in Montenegro.
This re-registration process applies to national Serbian trademarks only; International Registrations designating Serbia cannot be re-registered in Montenegro.
Source: Producta Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
Aug 10, 2011 (Newsletter Issue 10/11)
Trademark Searches Possible
The Intellectual Property Office of Montenegro (IPO) informed that the Trademark Database of Montenegro became available for conducting trademark searches. It is possible to file requests before the IPO of Montenegro for conducting the official searches through national Trademark database.
At this moment, the Trademark Database of Montenegro covers only those trademarks registered or applied for before the IPO of Montenegro. As the process of revalidation of Serbian trademark registrations in Montenegro has not yet been finished, the trademark searches do not cover the Serbian trademark registrations yet. Once the revalidation process is finished (deadline is December 16th, 2011), Montenegrian Trademark Database will be completed. Until then, it is recommended to conduct simultaneous searches in both Montenegro and Serbia to guarantee completeness of the results.
Procedure for Validation of Serbian Trademarks
The new Trademark Law in Montenegro entered into force on December 16th, 2010. According to the provisions of the new Trademark Law, national Trademarks registered before the IPO of Serbia prior to May 28, 2008 (date of opening of the Montenegrin IPO) have to be validated before the IPO of Montenegro.
It will be necessary to provide proof of registration of Serbian National Trademarks and to file a claim for entry into the Trademark register of Montenegro.
Please find below details of the procedure for entrance of Serbian Trademark Registrations into the Trademark Register of Montenegro:
- Obtaining of the Serbian Validity Certificate and forwarding of the same to Montenegro
- Submission of the Serbian Validity Certificate, filing a claim for entry into the Trademark Register of Montenegro and payment of fees for publication in the Intellectual Property Gazette of Montenegro
- Publication of the Trademark in the Intellectual Property Gazette of Montenegro and issuance of the Decision on entrance into the Trademark register of Montenegro
All the rights of the Serbian national trademarks which comply with the above requirement will preserve the same priority and renewal date as in Serbia.
The deadline for complying with the above mentioned procedure is 1 year from the date of entering into force of the new Law – December 16th, 2011. Failure to do so will result in loss of protection of the referenced Serbian national trademark in Montenegro.
The above requirement is not deemed necessary for any Montenegro mark based on a Serbian national trademark for which an action has already been taken directly before the Montenegro IPO prior to December 16th, 2010 (such as renewal, assignment, change of name, etc.).
New Trademark Law/New Opposition Period
The Parliament of Montenegro has passed a new Trademark Law on November 30th, 2010. The law will enter into force on December 16th.
The main novelties which have been introduced in the new Law:
- proof of registration for Serbian national trademarks now required
- no examination on relative grounds during application procedure
- introduction of opposition procedure (opposition period is 3 months from publication of application)
The proof of registration of Serbian National Trademarks is now required for trademarks in Montenegro based on a Serbian national trademark unless an action has already been taken for the respective trademark before the Montenegro IPO (such as renewal, assignment, change of name, etc.).
The deadline for complying with this procedure will be 1 year from publication of the new Law in the Official Gazette of Montenegro. Failure to do so will result in loss of protection of the referenced Serbian national trademark in Montenegro.
As from the enactment of the new Law, the Office will examine only absolute grounds for refusal, while the relative grounds will become subject to opposition proceedings. Any trademark application in Montenegro (excluding trademarks registered in Serbia and Montenegro prior to 28 May 2008) will be published and there will be a period of 3 months as from the publication date, during which time an opposition may be filed. This term is not extendible.
Deadline Extended for Montenegro Domain .ME
The period of transition from the current CG.YU domain to the new .ME domain has been extended from September 30, 2009 to March 30, 2010, based on the decision of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). If current CG.YU domain users do not switch to .ME before the deadline, they will not be able to access their emails and web servers.
Source: www.icann.org
Launch of IP Gazette
The Montenegrin IPO launched its first IP Gazette on 10 February 2010.
The Gazette is available on the Montenegrin IPO website click here
It will be issued three times a year.
Montenegrin Trademark Law entered into force on December 16, 2010. However, as from its enactment, Trademark Law has undergone significant changes, through Law on Amendments of the Trademark Law which entered into force on August 9, 2012, then, through amendments from April 19, 2014, amendments from June 30, 2016 and the latest Law on Amendments of the Trademark Law, which entered into force on January 10, 2017 (but provisions will be applicable as from enactment of the Law on Administrative Procedure, predicted for July 1, 2017). Law on Amendments from 2012 regulates international trademarks and their transformation into national registrations, filing the opposition and deadline for filing the opposition against international trademarks, registration of international trademarks, vulnerability for non-use, etc. Recent Law on Amendments is enacted in order to harmonize Montenegrin Trademark Law with the EU legislation. Provisions of the Montenegrin Trademark Law trough the Law on Amendments are aligned with the Directive 2008/95/EZ. Law on Amendments from 2014 improves the status of well-known and trademarks with reputation in Montenegro, and also, introduces possibility of cancelling trademarks that became generic and do not have necessary distinctiveness anymore. The Law on Amendments from 2014 prescribes withdrawal from the market, seizure and destruction of the goods that infringe somebody's intellectual property rights. Consequently, Trademark Holder is entitled to claim for damages, while monetary fines for trademark infringement are explicitly prescribed. The most important provisions of the Law on amendments from 2016 were of terminological character, which was helpful for more precise interpretation of the Trademark Law. Also, Law on amendments from 2016 introduced possibility for Licensee to file the opposition claim (of course, with prior approval of the trademark holder), as well as for the holder of the personal name, portrait, copyright or other industrial property rights. Finally, the most recent amendments of the Trademark Law from 2017 will change the current way of filing appeals – namely, up to now, appeals were filed before the Ministry of Economy, as the second instance, while as from the moment of enactment of the Law on Administrative Procedure, all appeals will have to be filed before the Administrative Court.
Montenegro is a member of the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol.
Nice classification, 11th edition
Registrable as a trademark are all distinctive and graphically representable signs, such as words, slogans, letters, numbers, images, drawings, colors, combinations of colors, three-dimensional shapes, combinations of such marks, as well as musical phrases represented by musical notes.
The following trademark types are registrable: trademarks, service marks, collective marks
The application is filed at the Montenegrin IP Office.
Multiple-class applications are possible.
Foreign applicants need a local agent.
A simply signed power of attorney is sufficient – no legalization/notarization is required.
The application process includes a formal examination as well as an examination on absolute grounds of refusal.
If the formal requirements are not fulfilled (outlook of the mark, list of goods/services, complete information about the applicant and/or application form is missing), the IPO of Montenegro invites the applicant to submit the missing documents. The deadline for submission the necessary documents is 30 days as from the receipt of the invitation (this term is not extendable). In case the Applicant meets the deadline of 30 days and the missing documents are submitted, the filing date of the trademark application will be the date of fulfilling the formal requirements. In case the applicant does not fulfill requirements within the deadline of 30 days, the application will be rejected. In case the POA or payment receipt is missing, then the local office issued the official action and invites the Applicant to submit the necessary evidence within 60 days.
After filing a new Trademark Application, it enters into the Examination procedure in which absolute grounds of refusal are examined, while relative grounds are subject to opposition proceedings. Trademark applications in Montenegro are published for opposition purposes. In case opposition was not filed during the opposition period, or was rejected after filing, the IPO invites the Applicant to proceed with payment of registration fees, protection fees for 10 years period and publication fees.
It is possible to file an opposition within 90 days following the publication of Trademark Application in the Intellectual Property Gazette of Montenegro. This term is not extendible.
Details regarding the Opposition Period against designation of IR Mark are available in our publication on this topic here
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NSF DCL- EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society – Supported Jointly with the Partnership on AI
By: Jim Kurose, Assistant Director, CISE and Arthur Lupia, Assistant Director, SBEIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /
The following is a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) from James Kurose, Assistant Director for Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Arthur Lupia, Assistant Director for Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of this DCL, which specifically mentions the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) AI Roadmap, is to encourage the submission of EAGERs on understanding the social challenges arising from AI technology and enable scientific contribute to overcoming them.
Dear Colleagues:
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) together with the Partnership on AI (PAI) wish to notify the community of their interest in supporting EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGERs) to understand the social challenges arising from AI technology and enable scientific contributions to overcome them.
The last 20 years have seen rapid advances in machine learning, pattern recognition, planning, effective decision making, natural language processing, and machine vision. These advances have been fueled by increased data, faster computation, and improved algorithms. They are yielding increasingly diverse and large-scale applications deployed in settings subject to unanticipated challenges with complex social effects.
NSF has long supported fundamental research enabling AI technology. With increases in the scale and diversity of deployments comes the need to better understand AI in the open world, including unforeseen circumstances and social impacts, and to craft approaches to AI that consider these from the start. Vital directions include developing principles for safe, robust, and trustworthy AI (including shared responsibilities between humans and AI systems); addressing issues of bias, fairness, and transparency of algorithmic intelligence; developing deeper understanding of human-AI interaction and user education; and developing insights about the influences of AI on people and society.
NSF and PAI will jointly support high-risk, high-reward research at the intersection of the social and technical dimensions of AI. Priority will be given to collaborative projects that integrate computer/computational science with the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Proposals may expand understanding of the influences of AI on people and society or contribute technical innovations that overcome the emerging social challenges.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Safety, robustness, and accountability of AI systems;
Bias and fairness of AI systems;
Intelligibility, explanation, and transparency of AI inferences;
Privacy challenges with AI development and use;
Sociotechnical challenges involving ethical considerations;
Economic impacts of AI on society; and
Social consequences of AI system deployments.
EAGER proposals that fail to address concepts described in this DCL will be returned without review. An individual may appear as principal investigator (PI), co-PI, Senior Personnel, or Consultant on no more than one EAGER proposal submitted in response to this DCL.
Community response to this DCL will help identify ground-breaking directions. In parallel, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is leading an AI “roadmapping” effort that will complement the EAGERs funded pursuant to this DCL. That roadmapping activity aims to build community consensus around grand challenges in AI and an associated long-term and interdisciplinary research agenda.
EAGER proposals pursuant to this DCL are welcome through January 28, 2019, but earlier submissions are encouraged. Submissions should follow the guidance in NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) Chapter II.E.2. NSF and the Partnership on AI anticipate jointly supporting up to 15 EAGER awards, each up to $300,000 for up to two years, in accordance with the PAPPG. EAGER proposals pursuant to this DCL must include the prefix “AI-DCL:” in front of the title.
Prior to submitting an EAGER proposal, PIs must first send a one-page prospectus to AI-DCLQuestions@nsf.gov. Once NSF program officers have approved the prospectus, the PI will be invited to submit a full EAGER proposal to a specific program. The prospectus should be responsive to the DCL and make a compelling case that the project is suitable for an EAGER. The prospectus must be received no later than January 9, 2019.
Questions about this DCL should be directed to the following cognizant NSF program directors:
Todd Leen, CISE Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, email: tleen@nsf.gov.
Fred Kronz, SBE Division of Social and Economic Sciences, email: fkronz@nsf.gov.
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An unidentified boy rolls a peanut roasting barrel as part of a 4-H club peanut project in Chowan County, North Carolina
An unidentified boy rolls a peanut roasting barrell as part of a 4-H club peanut project in Chowan County, North Carolina
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Two unidentified men and a boy plant a peanut crop as part of a 4-H club peanut project in Chowan County, North Carolina
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Unidentified boy working in a peanut field as part of a 4-H club peanut project in Chowan County, North Carolina
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Three Places to Hike Near Lincoln City, Oregon
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Let’s face it, you don’t go to Lincoln City, Oregon for the culture, although there is a good old-fashioned movie theater on main street. You might go for the shopping if you love a good…
Why I Sleep Out on the Streets for Covenant House Georgia
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Every third Thursday in November, I do something crazy. I sleep out on the streets of Atlanta to raise money for Covenant House Georgia and homeless teens. People ask me why I do it. And the answer…
Best Places to Eat Beirut
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Sure, you go to Lebanon for the history, to soak up the vistas of this beautiful jewel of a country along the Mediterranean, or to understand the complicated politics that underlie this region of the…
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More than 50 top B.C. chefs call for transition away from open net-pen salmon farms
The foodies have spoken to help recover wild salmon populations.
By Bill Wareham
Open net-pen salmon farming has been a contentious issue in B.C. for more than 30 years.
The evidence shows that densely populated open net-pen salmon farms can result in both farmed and adjacent wild fish becoming unhealthy, primarily from piscine reovirus and sea lice.
In many areas, there is also strong Indigenous community opposition to the farms, as many farms are operating in First Nations territories without free, prior and informed consent.
On April 5 in Vancouver, more than 50 of B.C.’s top chefs came together to lend their voice to the debate. With the support of scientist David Suzuki and the David Suzuki Foundation, the chefs penned a letter to the B.C. government calling for an end to all open net-pen salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago that are opposed by First Nations.
Many of these farms’ leases are coming up for tenure renewal this June, providing an opportunity for the government to begin a transition away from open net-pen farms to a more sustainable system that reduces the risks to wild salmon and hopefully puts many salmon runs on a path to recovery.
Learn more about the chefs’ campaign here:
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If you want to help protect wild salmon, send your message to government today.
Yes — I will ask the B.C. government not to renew salmon farm tenures
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What Is Your Style’s Common Denominator?
It is ironic that although my worst subject in school was mathematics–I use math terms in discussing Jow Ga pretty frequently. Jow Ga under Sifu Chin also used mathematical and physics terms and expressions. We learned of Jow Ga’s “common denominator”, the rule of velocity (distance divided by time), Jow Ga’s rule of Power (speed x force x accuracy x fluency), Sifu’s rule of the lever with the staff, and his chain of motion for punching and close quarters. I cannot explain any of these things in terms of numbers, mathematics or in engineering terms. Matter of fact, my children will not allow me to help them with homework; my son complains that every time I help him–his homework gets a low grade.
But I can certainly demonstrate them through Jow Ga. Guess the kids’ old man is good for something…
Jow Ga has a common denominator–which is a set of techniques that is characteristic to the Jow Ga system. While I originally thought these techniques to be characteristic to all Jow Ga branches–the more I learn about how vast this system is, the more I learn that I don’t know about Jow Ga. I am of the opinion that given the age of Jow Ga (over 100 years), the four branches, the many lineages of the four branches, and the expressions of each Master of the lineages of each branch of Jow Ga… It is possibly true that one could never learn, let alone master, everything this system has to offer. While each branch of Jow Ga may have some core forms, such as Siu Fook Fu, Ba Gua Gwun, Man Ji Chune, what we emphasize and specialize in will vary from school to school, from lineage to lineage, and from Sifu to Sifu. In the DC lineage alone, we have 8 Full Instructors certified by Dean Chin during his lifetime. Yet each of the 8 had very different specialties within the system, and each performed Sifu’s Jow Ga differently. If one had learned from Deric Mims, his Jow Ga would look distinctly different from someone who had studied under Raymond Wong or Craig Lee. Even those who were students of Sifu Chin himself would look different from someone who learned under Sifu but spent more time with one of the 8 Full Instructors or another. None of the 8 did Jow Ga exactly as Sifu Chin. However, although we had differing tastes, accents and specialties, we all have a common denominator that identifies us a student of Sifu Dean Chin’s school. This common denominator is what we have identified as the DC Lineage of Jow Ga, a set of skills, techniques, specialties, characteristics and forms–unique to this lineage.
In your own Kung Fu systems, whether or not you recognize or acknowledge this concept, you have a common denominator as well. Do you know what that is? What do all of your Hing Dai (training brothers and sisters) have in common? What does your system have as characteristizing techniques, attacks, and concepts that makes your system unique? It must be more than just basics, weapons and forms! And let’s skip the talk about your style’s motto or characteristics, animals or whatever.
Why is this important? The answer is simple. Many of us have become very lazy in how we approach our martial arts. We learn the forms and practice them, and then when we spar–if we actually do spar–nothing we do in training is expressed in our fighting. It is sad to say, but if you took a roomful of Kung Fu practitioners of various styles, without looking at their shirts we might be able to identify what styles are represented. Attend any Kung Fu tournament, I would say that perhaps the only system that would easily be picked out the crowd when sparring began is Wing Chun. And even then, most would be only from the stance they hold. After the beginning of the fight, many of them will look like anyone else. Sifu Christophe Clark gave this compelling speech to Kung Fu people almost a decade ago, imploring Kung Fu practitioners to actually USE their Kung Fu and stop going to other systems for fighting. His speech resulted in many practitioners taking offense to his implying that they were not using their systems, but it also rung true with many others who agreed. The failure to fully explore one’s own style is a likely reason for his speech; many a Kung Fu man determined that his system was insufficient for sparring and fighting. Blame it on the rules, blame it on sparring not being “real” fighting. But if a Kung Fu man is studying Kung Fu, and then enters the ring with Muay Thai or Judo–he really does not believe his style is sufficient. And this is not saying that those who express their systems through another style really understand their styles. There are many who train in other styles, who may apply their systems through those other styles. I have seen a young man box, and using his Wing Chun through his boxing, and that was quite effective. My sister studies MMA under a Choy Lay Fut Sifu, and upon observation might confuse her Sow Choy for haymakers. It is the concepts, strategies and theories that make the systems–not the forms and “acting like a Tiger”. (Which is the contention of many of Sifu Clarke’s detractors) He has a very good point: Kung Fu people should take what’s in their system and find a way to apply those techniques in the arena of fighting and sparring, even in tournaments with rules. This isn’t a matter of determining “what techniques work”; it is a matter of determining “how these techniques work”.
By the way, the idea that a novice in the art can spar to “determine” what works is arrogant and foolish. How dare a beginner decide if the Sijo knew what he was doing through a match with another beginner?
You could begin by identifying a list of the core set of techniques in your system’s curriculum. Once you have this, you will be ready for step two.
But next time. Thank you for visiting the DC Jow Ga Federation. In the meantime, please watch the following video. Let us know what your thoughts are in the comments below!
Tags: Bai He Chuan, Chin Yuk Din, Chow Ga, Chow Gar, Choy Lay Fut, Choy Lee Fut, Choy Li Fut, Eagle Claw Kung Fu, Gong Fu, Gung Fu, Hung Ga, Hung Gar, Hung Tao Choy Mei, Jow Ga, Jow Ga Kung Fu, Kung, Kung Fu lineages, Kung Fu styles, Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Shaolin Kung Fu, Tong Long, Wu Shu, Ying Jow Pai, Zhou Jia
Categories : Jow Ga in America, Kung Fu Philosophy
Instructor Sharif Talib: Aka “The Bastard Son of Jow Ga”
Today’s article is penned by DC Jow Ga Federation Instructor Sharif Talib. With today’s article he introduces himself and his background. Unlike many of today’s Jow Ga practitioners, he has had the privilege of studying under several Jow Ga Sifu. This was one of the characteristics of the Dean Chin era: Sifu allowed each instructor to have his own expression and identity within Jow Ga. Students of the time were able to study and learn from various Jow Ga Sifu. As several cameras take pictures of the same object from slightly different angles, the combined result of those multiple images give a full, multi-dimensional view. Jow Ga studied under various Sifu and various specialties give one a very 3D understanding of the system. Enjoy!
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bastard
1: an illegitimate child
2: something that is spurious, irregular, inferior, or of questionable origin
3a : an offensive or disagreeable person —used as a generalized term of abuse
My life in Jow Ga started with Raymond Wong at Wong’s Chinese Boxing in summer of 1986 where Sifus Raymond Wong and Craig Lee were my main teachers. Sifu Craig Lee taught me my first Jow Ga form, our most famous, Sui Fok Fu. Sifu Craig Lee made that process take 12 months, traditional training. Sifu Craig Lee taught me the fighting stance and fighting application of the wheel punches that I still use to this day. Because I started my college education the same year that I came to Wong’s Chinese Boxing, I was not able to meet the financial obligation. A kind Sifu Wong agreed to allow me to continue learning if I started assisting, then teaching, the beginner classes. At Wong’s I also met my seniors that greatly influenced me; Maurice Gatdula, Chris Henderson, Ronald Wheeler, Howard Davis, Howard Bryant and Derek Johnson. Derek Johnson would eventually CRUSH me in two sparring sessions and then begin instructing me in his basement with a select group of students.
Of that group of “Basement students” that would start with Derek Johnson, I would be the only one to remain for the duration. Under Derek Johnson I learned to decipher techniques from forms for myself, develop fighting drills, shadow box with kung fu techniques, handle hard core sparring and Lion Dance. Before Derek Johnson was given his official Sifu title by Sifu Deric Mims, I followed him to Sifu Deric Mims’ school in Langley Park and assisted in teaching there while still being instructed by Derek Johnson. Here, Sifu Deric Mims acknowledged me as a senior student and I began to attend the Sifu/Senior student meetings that were held at a Silver Springs Chinese Restaurant. While at Sifu Mims’ school I was reintroduced to other Dean Chin students that I had originally met a Wong’s Chinese Boxing; including Ricardo Ho, Jose Diaz, Duke Amayo and Howard Davis.
Once Derek Johnson received his Sifu title from Sifu Derek Mims, I assist in the start of Sifu Derek Johnson’s Jow Ga Kung Fu Athletic Association located in Columbia Md. As the Dai SiHing (Most Senior Brother), I was in charge of conducting classes and Lion Dance performances in Sifu Derek’s absence. I joined Sifu Derek Johnson on a trip to Germany to help teach members of the Poland branch of the Jow Ga Kung Fu Athletic Association and perform in a event celebrating Jow Ga in Germany where I received a standing ovation from the crowd. My Lion Dance skills continued to grow under Sifu Derek Johnson due to regular performances and taking over the Lion Dance classes for the school. After a form performance of mine during a ceremony at the Jow Ga Kung Fu Athletic Association, Sifu Terrance Robinson commented that I should learn how to control my energy more. A Dean Chin and Raymond Wong student that would frequently train at Wong’s Chinese Boxing, Sifu Terrance Robinson felt that even though I had good technique and could apply my skills in sparring competitions, I expelled too much energy unnecessarily. Sifu Terrance Robinson, a serious fighting instructor, had already observed me in continuous sparring competitions and suggested that I go full contact.
My path in Jow Ga then brought me to Sifu Terrance Robinson’s school in Silver Springs Md. Sifu Robinson, like may Sifu, took his martial skills learned before joining Jow Ga and developed his own inclusive system. For his own reasons he decided to call it Jow Hop Kuen (Jow Combining Fist). Under Sifu Terrance Robinson, I began to learn Chi Gung exercise that helped me to control my energy. I also began my Iron Body training and his method of full contact fight training. While at Sifu Terrance Robinson’s school, I reconnected with my seniors Maurice Gatdula, Tehran Brighthapt and Uncle Matthew Bumphus. After Sifu Terrance Robinson relocated to Thailand, Maurice Gatdula began guiding my Jow Ga instructions from California.
Due to the fact that I had already learned many of the Jow Ga forms, techniques and concepts; it was easy for Maurice Gatdula to deepen and broaden my understanding of Jow Ga as Sifu Dean Chin interpreted it. Maurice Gatdula was one of the last students personally instructed by Sifu Dean Chin before his death.
Finally, upon the return of Sifu Craig Lee to the area, I was accepted as his student.
Now my instruction comes from these two; Sifu’s Craig Lee and Maurice Gatdula.
Tags: Chin Yuk Din, Chow Ga, Chow Gar, Dean Chin, Dean Chin Students, deric mims, Gong Fu, Gung Fu, Hung Tao Choy Mei, Jow Ga, Jow Ga forms, Jow Ga Kung Fu, Jow Gar, Kung Fu, Kung Fu Stance Training, kup choi, kup choy, look choi, look choy, luk choy, Ma Bo, pao choy, pow choy, Sei Ping Ma, Sifu Deric Mims, wheel punch, Wu Shu, Zhou Jia
Stance Training Form – Strong but Mobile (Master Deric Mims)
From left to right: Masters Reza Momenan, Master Deric Mims, and Master Hon Lee
Senior Jow Ga Sifu Deric Mims, out of all of the Dean Chin students, was perhaps our lineage’s secret weapon. He is a unique character in American Jow Ga history, because unlike all the original Full Instructors, Sifu Mims joined following his mother. Other Jow Ga members–Howard Davis, Chris Henderson, Stephanie Dea and a few others–followed their fathers and older brothers; Deric’s mother was an advanced student of Dean Chin and one of his original “fighting women”, as I recall him saying. In the American Kung Fu community, Jow Ga stood out due to the fact that our school’s foundation was not standing on Chinese community members–but mostly African American and Latino–many female students who were just as good, just as strong as the men, and put out fighters rather than forms competitors. Sifu Mims had an eye for detail, perhaps better than Sifu Chin himself, and under his direction, Jow Ga students could do more than fight–Jow Ga students could present our forms well while adhering to the standards any self-respecting fighter would have for himself. Some of Jow Ga’s best forms competitors owed their skill to Sifu Deric without compromising the combative nature of Jow Ga.
Few Jow Ga websites make reference to Deric Mims for various reasons, but no one can deny that without his instruction and his ideas–DC Jow Ga might have become just another Kung Fu fighting school whose forms no one notices. Often, schools that focus on fighting perform their system’s forms poorly. To do both well is rarely found in the community. Unfortunately, the Chinese Martial Arts community has yet to evolve to a level where an African American Sifu can be recognized as a Master without making a movie or promoting himself in media. For this reason, I refer to Deric Mims as a best-kept secret in Jow Ga–if American Jow Ga can be categorized into sublineages, Sifu Mims’ Jow Ga has its own identity and uniqueness due to his talent. One cannot give a proper history of DC Jow Ga without paying homage to him and his leadership. About 5 years before his death, Sifu Chin named Deric the Jow Ga Association’s President and senior instructor. He ran the promotion exams. He conducted the business of the school, making Jow Ga a professional organization. He oversaw demonstrations, tournament performance, and kept the lights on. Even if Jow Ga members did not attend Sifu Mims’ classes, we were all impacted by his mark on the system.
One of those major contributions is the Stance Training Form, or as some would call it–the “Stepping Form”.
The Stance Training Form was a foundation form Sifu Mims created to teach basic footwork, balance, and movement to new students. Regardless of one’s prior experience, this routine taught our basic stances and how those stances are used in movement–from advancing in short bursts as well as full steps, to retreating, to hopping, twisting, sinking, rising, and flanking. No student could touch our first form without first learning it. Few schools pay this kind of attention to footwork and foundation, other than learning to hold stances. In Jow Ga, whose head is Hung and tail is Choy, one must incorporate strong stances even while in motion. Few Kung Fu practitioners can do this. By observing any forms division in the TCMA community, from beginner to advanced, you may notice that forms might open with low stances and close with low stances. But stances will be high and mostly non-existent, save for a few pauses and poses. Not so with Jow Ga foundational training. Even our strongest fighters will have solid stances. And stances must be strong, but mobile–unlike many who teach that footwork would be strong OR mobile…
Not many Jow Ga schools today utilize the Stance Training Form due to philosophical or business reasons. However, a few have preserved the form, including mine (Maurice Gatdula). The video below is our version of this form, with a few changes and the addition of the “Wheel Punch Form”, also choreographed by Sifu Mims, at the end of the form. Jow Ga students in this lineage must train the form for 9 months to a year and be able to perform the routine ten times in one set before moving on to Siu Fook Fu (Small Subduing Tiger), our first form.
Stay tuned, Jow Ga students, as the Federation will be releasing a DVD soon teaching this form. Thank you for visiting the DC Jow Ga Federation.
Categories : Jow Ga in America, Technique and Strategy, Video Clips
Bio of Late Jow Ga Master Chin Yuk Din
Dean Chin took up the martial arts at the age of seven. His first instructors were uncles who taught him from the systems they knew: the White Eyebrow system, the White Crane system and the Hung Gar system. By the age of nine, when it became clear he was a prodigy of kung fu, he began the formal study of the Jow Ga system of kung fu. At thirteen he was invited into the Eagle Claw system at the school of the King of Eagles, Sifu Fu Liu, who taught him both Northern Shaolin and Eagle boxing forms. In spite of his youth, he mastered all of these kung fu methods, and excelled in grappling and Dim Mark (striking at pulse points).
It is not surprising that at the age of fourteen, the Jow Ga system recognized his genius and requested him to teach. From that time on, throughout the many years he taught Jow Ga, he never stopped learning from other kung fu masters with whom he exchanged system techniques. Some of these systems he learned from were: Wing Chung, Choy Li Fut, Jow Ga Praying Mantis, as well as Thai Boxing.
Master Dean Chin arrived in the United States in 1966. Shortly thereafter, he established the Jow Ga Kung Fu Association and opened the first Jow Ga kung fu academy in the Western hemisphere. In the ensuing years until his death in 1985, Master Dean Chin held many and diverse professional titles: the Overseas Coach for the Jow Biu branch of the Jow Ga Kung Fu Association; Eastern United States representative of the Hong Kong Chinese Martial Arts Association; member and qualified Sifu of Liu Fat Man’s (King of Eagles) Fan Tzi Eagle Claw School (a Northern Shaolin system); Advisor for the Presidents Cup (held annually in Taiwan-the worlds largest kung Fu tournament); and Vice Chairman of the Eastern United States Kung Fu Federation.
In the summer of 1999 at a dinner meeting in Hong Kong, Grand Master Chan Man Cheung, Master Dean Chins’ teacher and a direct disciple of Jow Biu (one of the founders and “Five Tigers” of Jow Ga), stated that Dean Chin was his most famous student. He went further to say that he only taught a few teachers here in the United States for any length of time. Those individuals were Master Dean Chin (founder of Jow Ga in the US), Master Hon Lee who resided in Hong Kong for several years and now teaches in Mclean, Virginia and the Chin brothers who live in New York.
Tags: Chin Yuk Din, Chow Ga, Chow Gar, Dean Chin, Hung Tao Choy Mei, Jow Ga, Jow Gar, Zhou Jia
Categories : General Jow Ga Information, History, Jow Ga in America, Technique and Strategy, Video Clips
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For the past three seasons (2018, 2017, 2016) I’ve conducted an increasingly in-depth analysis to answer what was once a legitimate – though it may now be closer to preposterous – question: Are Washington Wizards season tickets worth the money?
If you watched as much as five minutes of this team trying to play basketball last season, then you’ll recognize this as a pointless question with a painfully obvious and unfortunate answer; i.e. the WizKid equivalent of your girlfriend asking if the dress she’s trying on makes her butt look fat. If you watched more than just a little Wizards basketball – if you follow Bradley Beal’s baby-momma on Instagram, and are upset about Steve and Kara leaving the local telecast, and maybe even publicly identify yourself as a Wizards fan – then it never occurred to you even to ask this question, just as it never occurred to you to waste time pondering something as moronic as whether the franchise might actually be worse off without Ernie Grunfeld.
Still, in the interest of keeping this annual blog series running for another year, and at risk of losing some credibility by proving that some questions really are dumb ones, I’m updating my analysis for the 2019 – 2020 NBA Season.
Answer: No. Duh.
After last year’s unwatchable season, John Wall’s extended absence, and an offseason totally lacking in excitement or creativity, not much more needs to be said about why you shouldn’t shell out thousands of dollars to watch the Wiz lose a bunch of games this year. If you’re in search of a more thorough analysis you can refer back to last year’s post, but the key points are these:
Even in a good year, season ticket holder (STH) prices are at best only marginally cheaper than individual game prices for most games.
The only true advantage of buying season tickets is that if you sign up early enough you get discounted playoff tickets. With no playoffs last season (and for that matter, none in the near future), there’s zero incentive for committing to tickets for every game.
If you’re thinking about buying season tickets to resell for a profit, don’t! You’re going to lose a lot of money.
There are, of course, exceptions to these rules. For example, if you have a ton of disposable income and accrue value from being able to call yourself a “season ticket holder”, then fine, go for it. Likewise, if you truly plan on going to every single home game, then sure, season tickets are probably the cheapest route to do that. And of course, if you can use your company check book to write-off the cost as a business expense, then by all means, please do buy season tickets.
For everyone else, however, forget the DC12 Club and spend your money wisely by cherry-picking the best games and deals off of NBA TicketExchange and SeatGeek (StubHub sucks!). You’ll be glad you did when you have those extra bills in your pocket and can skip that dead-of-winter Charlotte Hornets game free of guilt.
Top Ten Games for Value
For those taking the sage advice above and building out a slate of games to attend, here’s my list of this season’s 10 best Wizards games for your money (prices reflect cost for 2 lower-level tickets on NBA TicketExchange, which compare to $112/game at the STH price). As you’ll see, the end result is an awesome lineup of games for under $1,500, or less than a third of season ticket prices ($4,600) for comparable seats.
Wednesday, October 30 vs. Houston Rockets – $167 (105 Row S) vs. $112 STH price: Home opener, free t-shirt giveaway, an early view of the James Harden and Russel Westbrook experiment – what’s not to like about this game? Bonus: It’s the day before Halloween so you can wear your wizard costume (I’m partial to Gandalf) to the game!
Sunday, November 24 vs. Sacramento Kings – $100 (118 Row M): The Skins season will have been over for months and your fantasy football team will probably be in the dump, so you might as well spend your Sunday evening watching the Wiz take on one of the league’s fun, up-and-coming teams
Thursday, December 5 vs. Philadelphia 76ers – $184 (114 Row T): This is not a bad price to watch a legitimate NBA Championship contender – come early because the Wiz might be blown out by halftime.
Saturday, January 4 vs. Denver Nuggets – $130 (104 Row H): Hopefully your New Year’s hangover will have cleared up in time for you to catch this rising Nuggets team that the ticket prices suggest everyone’s sleeping on.
Monday, January 20 vs. Detroit Pistons – $86 (104 Row H): Is there a better way to honor MLK’s contributions to the world than using your day off to watch professional basketball in the nation’s capital? No, there is not.
Monday, February 3 vs. Golden State Warriors – $218 (115 Row T): After a half-decade of the Warriors bandwagon getting out of hand, you can finally watch Steph Curry at reasonable prices again.
Friday, February 7 vs. Dallas Mavericks – $142 (104 Row H): Doncic and Porzingis; if you know you know.
Monday, February 24 vs. Milwaukee Bucks – $175 (104 Row Q): Giannis, the Greek Freak MVP, Antetokounmpo. ‘Nuff said.
Wednesday, April 1 vs New Orleans Pelicans – $157 (115 Row X): Zion Williamson. Also enough said.
Wednesday, April 15 vs. Indiana Pacers – $103 (118 Row K): With no playoffs this will be the last chance to catch the WizKids for half a year. Come to the game to send the boys off strong and pray to God almighty for lucky ping pong balls and a full recovery for John Wall.
By wizzzkidd21 October 21, 2019 929 Words3 Comments
The Wizards Fired Ernie and Brought Hope Back to the Fanbase
I have two kids, both boys, born twelve months apart and both born during Washington Wizards playoffs series.
The birth of my firstborn, Lorenzo, coincided with the start of the 2017 Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Boston Celtics – his mother went into labor shortly before tipoff of Game 1, and the game was playing in the background during the first hours of a long delivery. When Luca joined our family a year later in April 2018, the Wizards were in the midst of a first-round series with the Toronto Raptors.
In both cases, I hoped the introduction to the world of a new WizKid would bring with it a wave of fortune for the hometown basketball team. I fantasized of pointing to my boys as good luck charms, of sharing pictures of them in Wizards newborn onesies, and, above all, of them being welcomed into this life with a winning team to root for. In both cases, my dreams would not be realized, doomed in large part by the glaring deficiencies in how our long-time General Manager assembled the team roster.
I remember sitting in a Labor and Delivery room, trying to mute my yells of frustration so as to not to wake my resting wife and newborn son, as I watched a 5’8” guard carve our team up for 53 points because we didn’t have a competent rim protector. Then, a few days later in one of our son’s first nights at home, I looked on with equal anguish as the playoff campaign came to an end with our star backcourt succumbing to the exhaustion of a long season without serviceable backups. The next year from a hospital couch, I’d watch the season end in similarly depressing fashion, derailed this time by the GM’s inability to field a team that could seed high enough to avoid a matchup against the conference’s top team.
These were not the basketball memories that I wanted to associate with my first days of fatherhood.
Teaching my boys the peculiar ritual of rooting for the Wizards was supposed to be fun; using them as excuses to attend games, instructing them to admire – but not play with – my bobblehead collection, regaling them with tales of Agent Zero and Pierre McGee. Instead, Wizards basketball was becoming less and less of a fixture of our household, trending quickly downward in alignment with the team’s own continuous regression.
I thought to myself that perhaps there was no other way to be initiated as a Wizards fan than to be immersed in disappointment from the outset – such a start would certainly set expectations appropriately. I laughed (cried) that nothing could so perfectly capture the #SoWizards curse for me than seeing the heirs to my rabid fandom doomed to ultimately grow up rooting for another basketball team.
Then again, if the next forty years of professional basketball in the nation’s capital turned out anything like the previous forty, did I even want to saddle my offspring with the burden of believing that DC was rising? Maybe it was better to let them live happy, unfettered lives as Capitals or Manchester City fans. This is what the miserable, soul-crushing past two seasons of NBA basketball had brought me to: a dejection and hopelessness for the future that was so strong that I might’ve considered letting my bloodline of Wizards devotion die with me.
Then, on April 2, 2019, a date which will live in reverence, the heavens opened up, the earth stopped spinning, and Ernie Grunfeld was fired as President of Basketball Operation to restore the hope of Wizards fans everywhere.
It’s hard to explain how out-of-nowhere the Grunfeld firing came. Ernie was so secure in his institutionalized position of engineering incompetence, that fans were almost forced to accept the he’d be trading draft picks to get rid of bad contracts into perpetuity. As much as everybody related to the sentiment behind a good “Fire Ernie” chant, it eventually wasn’t worth wasting your breath.
It’s also hard to explain just how universal the jubilant reaction to Ernie’s dismissal was. As soon as the news broke, I received congratulatory messages and texts with prayer hands emojis from all corners – DC, Maryland, Virginia, California, Brazil, friends, enemies, people I hadn’t talked to in years – all ecstatic that even though no roster changes had occurred, at least the pervading shadow of the General Mismanager was gone!
What’s not hard to explain is why everyone was so happy. Ernie Grunfeld had a proven track record as one of the very worst GMs in the league. For reasons unknown, he also had a record as one of the longest tenured GMs in the league. Much can be and has been written about Grunfeld numerous blunders – there’s far too many to count – but you don’t need more than three examples to demonstrate just how far astray he led this franchise in the course of his 16 years:
Grunfeld traded the #5 pick in the 2009 draft for Randy Foye and Mike Miller. Steph Curry was selected at #7 and went on to win two MVPs, six-plus All NBA nods, and at least three championships. The Wizards went on to win 26 games in the 2009-10 season and neither Miller nor Foye would be on the team the next year.
In the 2011 draft, critical for building a solid foundation around new franchise cornerstone John Wall, Grunfeld selected Jan Vesely with the #6 pick, leaving Klay Thompson, Kawhi Leonard, Kemba Walker, Jimmy Butler, Nikola Vucevic and others on the board. Vesely flamed out of the NBA within three seasons, averaging a mere 3.6 points and 15 minutes per game. Those other names and more went on to be All Stars with long careers.
Leading up to the free agency summer of 2016, Grunfeld let valuable assets like Trevor Ariza leave in order to engineer enough cap space for a run at Kevin Durant. Durant never agreed to even meet with the Wizards. Grunfeld instead used the cap space to give over $100M to Ian Mahinmi, Andrew Nicholson, and Jason Smith.
It’s abundantly clear, then, that the removal of Ernie Grunfeld is addition by subtraction, or even multiplication by subtraction. Bradley Beal knew as much at the beginning of the season, when he looked over at Ernie after a volatile practice and said about the ongoing fiascos that “it starts at the top.” Indeed, it does. And with Ernie at the helm, the Wizards were destined to never be anything more than the underachieving, laughingstock of the league that they’ve been for the majority of Grunfeld’s tenure.
Now that he’s gone, the possibility of another identity is once again viable. Of course, a quick turnaround is by no means the new expectation, and Grunfeld is certainly leaving a dumpster fire of a mess for the next executive to clean up. At the very least, however, we now have a prayer that our franchise will one day be a competitive one. With Ernie, the only thing we had worth aspiring to was free Chick-fil-A.
It’s really a testament to the power of sports that the Wizards have been able to maintain any semblance of a fan base at all. Irrationality is the essence of being a team fanatic, but even supporters of the most decrepit teams find a glimmer of promise to fuel their continued, if frequently frustrated, allegiance. Ernie Grunfeld’s existence pilfered that from this fanbase.
Why get excited for a high draft pick when the GM is going to waste it – that is if he doesn’t trade the pick first. Why bother trying to fool yourself into believing that this time the franchise will successfully develop a talented player to reach his potential? Why keep track of free agency and trade rumors when your team never lands big-time free agents or makes non-luxury tax-related trades?
Why watch at all?
This was the line of thinking that Ernie Grunfeld’s stewardship transmitted. Its ill effects were visible anywhere and everywhere you looked: in the constant reports of turmoil in the locker room, in the underhanded jabs from players and commentators around the league, in the half-empty stands at the Capital One Center, and in the local kids rocking Kyrie Irving jerseys instead of John Wall threads. As long as Ernie remained in charge, you were better off not investing your time and energy into the Wizards.
But now, the wicked witch is dead! Ernie Grunfeld is gone and we’re free at last! Free to hope in our team, free to watch basketball without fatalistic dread, and free to teach our sons to love the Washington Wizards.
By wizzzkidd21 April 5, 2019 1,446 WordsLeave a comment
How The Wizards Discovered Their Identity as the Most Unlikable Team in the NBA
Tracking the NBA off-season as a Wizards fan is a horrible way to waste the summer. While fans of rival teams get to debate whether they won the big trade and brag about their marquee signings, the high points of our summer are borderline satirical press conferences introducing players that haven’t moved the needle for three-plus years.
Considering the low benchmark set over summers past, most Wizards fans weren’t too surprised by this off-season’s underwhelming moves – we’ve come to grips with the fact that Ernie will only ever acquire a key piece if a no-brainer draft pick falls in his lap. What was curious, however, was that our personnel moves seemingly failed to add one thing that’s been glaringly missing from this squad: an identity.
Every team with title aspirations plays with an understanding of what they do well and what their approach to winning will be. The Rockets fire up either a layup or a three in 7 seconds or less, the Celtics are stocked with lengthy wing defenders, and the Warriors start five All-NBA players. The Wizards, on the other hand, slogged through last season unsure of who they were and how they wanted to attack. Are they a bad good team or a good bad team? Great question. Are they three-point shooters? No. A fast-break team? Not really. Hard-nosed defenders? F*** no!
The Road to Self-Discovery
So, while on paper the team should improve by replacing Gortat with the center he used to come off the bench for, and substituting Jodie Meeks with literally anybody, it was disappointing that those additions didn’t readily clarify the team’s strategy going forward. What transformational skill-sets do Austin Rivers and Dwight Howard provide other than making fans feel icky about rooting for the players on their team? What new dimension was added aside from the looming possibility that these fiery personalities will combust an already-volatile locker room? The short and obvious answer is … nothing.
Aside from some new window dressing, the Wizards executives are running it back with more or less the same team that underperformed all last year – at least at first glance. When you take a step back, however, you’ll see that these personnel decisions add up to more than a simple cosmetic cover-up. Instead, they fit a well-established pattern, one that has become so entrenched in how this organization does business that it’s time to admit it’s become a core element of how this franchise operates. The Wizards didn’t find their next great superstar this summer, but they did discover their one true identity: the most unlikable team in the NBA.
Soul Searching – How Did We Get This Way?
Culture is established at the upper echelons of an organization, from where it filters down through the ranks. Where the head goes, the body follows. Near the top of the Wizards organization is Ernie Grunfeld, the most irredeemable and unapologetically incompetent figure in Washington sports. The only man above him on the executive ladder is Ted Leonsis, whose NBA resume includes entire sections dedicated to trolling bloggers, endlessly raising ticket prices, and refusing to fire Ernie Grunfeld. Together, this tandem has frustrated their fans for years. If you were required to describe the pair in a single word, you’d be hard pressed to find a better adjective than “unlikeable.” Is it any surprise, then, that after a decade-plus under Ted and Ernie’s stewardship, that this franchise has been exactly that?
The evidence suggests that if the players have established a collective reputation as being loathsome, it’s because they’re taking cues from their leaders. The owner and GM trumpet their own mediocrity, the team does the same. The owner and GM rebuff accountability, the players do the same. The owner and GM lose focus over the course of the season, – you get it by now. And now, with the addition of a couple fan least-favorites, the team is doubling down on being the NBA grouches.
If the Roster Fits..
Perhaps it’s a bit harsh to our players to label them as the most undesirable collection of talent in the league. It’s pretty incredible though, once you start to think about the team in this context, how well this roster lends itself to such a scheme. Suddenly, everybody’s role makes sense in a way that it never quite has before. Don’t believe it? Take a look for yourself:
John Wall – John is the preeminent disgruntled All-Star. Who else grumbles as much about what other guys are getting paid, or the fact that he doesn’t get billboards, or that his 2K rating doesn’t meet his expectations? This mean-mugging, gang-sign throwing, spoon-feeding Point God is the anti-Kyrie; the star that hasn’t received his due and isn’t afraid to let everyone know it.
Bradley Beal – With the divisive Wall taking so much flack by himself, you’d think Beal would be universally revered. Instead, he’s taken his fair share of heat for bold comments, poor leadership, and selfish late game play. Then, with John out, he showed he could take the lead on starting drama by starting the “Everybody eats” controversy.
Markieff Morris – Kief, already one of the most T-ed up players in the league, says he needs to add even more “bully ball” to his game. What more needs to be said here?
Otto Porter – Otto is somehow simultaneously the quietest person on team and the most unliked by the team’s stars. With his huge contract, he also creates more disagreement among fans than anyone else on the squad.
Dwight Howard – Dwight is, without doubt, the most hated player in the NBA. Playing on his sixth team in eight years, is there anyone in the league – players, coaches, media, refs – with something good to say about this locker room cancer? Not to mention, Dwight led the league in technical fouls by a wide margin. This addition is the one that pushes the Wizards to the extreme on the unlikability scale.
Austin Rivers – First Rivers incited the entire Houston Rockets to hunt him down in the underbelly of the Staples Center. Then, his own father gave up on him and shipped him out of town. Ouch, this guy must suck to be around.
Kelly Oubre Jr. – Kelly went up against the notoriously dirty Kelly Olynyk in the 2017 playoffs and somehow managed to come out as the less-likable Kelly O.
Tomas Santoransky – It was hard to find much to fault Tomas for last season. He made key contributions and always had a great attitude. In fact, he might’ve been the most likable guy on the team. Maybe that explains why he dropped out of the rotation come playoff time.
Ian Mahinmi – Mahinmi actually seems like a really nice guy – he’s always flashing his big smile, he gives back to the community, he dresses well. Regardless of all this, he’ll always be hated by Wizards fans for suckering Ernie into giving him the worst contract in Wizards history.
Jason Smith – Jason is constantly heralded as one of the best teammates in the NBA. Obviously, he therefore never plays.
Be Who You Are and Be It Well
Having established that Wizards are ready to be the most unlikable team in the NBA, is this transformation something we as fans should actually be rooting for? If the alternative is to continue slogging on as a faceless and toothless underachiever, then yes, absolutely.
The Wizards had a maddeningly uneven year last season – overperforming when they should’ve been overmatched, but then dropping countless games to inferior opponents. A big portion of that inconsistency can be attributed to the team’s identity crisis. The squad’s approach and source of motivation changed from game to game and consequently their intensity level and production fluctuated as well. A commitment to being unlikable may not be the tactic that yields the most feel-good storylines or aesthetically-pleasing basketball, but at least it is a defined tactic.
The Wizards’ record should be markedly better this year simply by virtue of eliminating the emotional instability and role confusion that sprouted from a lack of self-awareness and led to many of last season’s worst losses. From there, it’s not too hard to envision how this newfound identity will translate to a team mentality and style of play that generates more wins:
The Wizards won’t be the most prolific offensive team nor the stingiest defensive one, but they will surely be one of the most physical teams. We’ll see a lot of hard fouls, a good deal of technical fouls, and a fair number of scuffles as this team looks to get in peoples’ faces and under their skin. While that strategy may make for some ugly basketball, it will also keep our team engaged and focused – a consistent problem in years past – for four quarters a game and 82 games a season.
The Wizards are going to talk a lot of trash (per usual) and will hopefully finally back it up for the first time (this would be new).
Like last year, they’re going to be gunning for all the teams anointed as better (i.e. Celtics, Sixers, Warriors) than them and will show up to those high-profile games ready to play.
Unlike last year, they’ll have extra motivation to fuel them to play angry against typical trap opponents (Hawks, Hornets, Suns). Almost a quarter of the schedule will be revenge games for Dwight against his former teams.
In all likelihood, there was nothing strategic or deliberate about the front office assembling the repugnant cast of characters into a team. Still, they appear to recognize what they’ve stumbled upon and are excited about how it will play out for the upcoming season.
On the other hand, it remains to be seen whether the fan base will get behind this new-attitude team. There’s a very real chance that this experiment goes south quickly. That being said, if the Wizards fully embody this identity of being the most unlikable team in the league, they’ll surely give the fans something to like.
By wizzzkidd21 August 18, 2018 1,698 WordsLeave a comment
The Wizard’s series of promotions and ceremonies commemorating and celebrating the Bullets 1978 NBA Championship has been a success – serving not only as a convenient distraction from the current team’s woeful early spring, but also as an instruction in the franchise’s ancestral tradition of winning that most fans under 40 probably never fully appreciated.
Sure, any semi-competent Wizards fan knows that the team has one NBA title to its name, but it was won so many years ago that any pride new generations of fans might hope to extract from it has long since expired. The lone championship banner hanging in the Capital One Arena has always been like the black-and-white pictures of your long-deceased great grandparents that your mother displays on the piano; the single Larry O’Brien trophy in the mezzanine trophy case like the forgotten antique crystal vase stored away in the china cabinet to preserve the family heirloom from wear. We know these relics carry some significance to our heritage, but their origins are so far removed from our everyday experience that we struggle to attribute the appropriate value to them.
As such, the 40-year anniversary of this franchise’s crowning achievement has proven an opportune time to recount the old legends of our success and sustained excellence to fans who have known only mediocrity and disappointment. I, for one, have learned a ton about this team’s history – history I previously only vaguely understood – by watching the documentary on our banner year, listening to interviews of our former champions, and reading profiles both new and old of our winningest teams. Perhaps this is even the optimal time for reminiscing on our solitary triumph, as the highest-potential Wizards squad since that championship team limps into a playoffs where it hopes to take the next step to winning a second trophy.
I think all of us – fans, media, and the WizKids players themselves – can learn some valuable lessons from the ‘78 NBA Champions and from what it took for them to earn that title. Then, this anniversary celebration can be more than just an exercise in decades-late self-applause or a marketing ploy to sell more season tickets. Here are a few takeaways that the 1978 Bullets can teach us about our NBA heritage and about what it takes to be a champion.
A Heritage of Winning: We are the descendants of winners.
This is the most critical fact that the Bullets40 hashtag calls us to remember. Winning is in our blood. Winning on the largest of stages. Hard-earned winning. Perennial winning.
Younger fans can be forgiven for underestimating how great our team once was. Our championship was won just before Larry Bird and Magic Johnson galvanized the league, and while the highlights of those stars’ triumphs are easily accessed in YouTube montages and 30 for 30’s, the footage of our heroes is grainy and rarely aired.
Maybe that’s why fans seem to only vaguely recall our championship story, some misremembering it as a fluky playoff run, or dismissing it as from a time when the level of competition was subpar. The championship documentary sets the record straight. The Bullets of those days were serious contenders each and every year, making more Finals in the decade than any other team (4 times – ’71, ’75, ’78, ’79), being heavy favorites in some of those Finals, and making a return trip to the championship round the year after their banner-raising season. That’s no fluke, that’s sustained excellence. And the level of competition in the NBA was higher, not lower. With only 22 teams in the league, each squad was stacked with premier talent. Of these, the Bullets were the best.
Team Identity is Set at the Top: The 1978 Bullets, much like their counterparts from forty years later, were led by an All-Star duo whom teammates relied on for energy and to establish the team’s identity. Hall of Famer big men Wes Unseld and Elvin Hayes dripped with contagious motivation, and they dictated that the team’s persona would be a punishing one. Hayes made his living putting in work in the low post, and Unseld – built like the Hulk – did the dirty work on the boards, on the defensive end, and anywhere else he could fling his massive body around to help the team win. Taking the lead from Wes and Elvin, the team’s mantra became to do whatever it took to win. Opponents knew when facing the Bullets that every game would be a dogfight.
John Wall and Bradley Beal can take a page out of the book of their forerunners in this regard. The WizKid pair are already the undisputed leaders and brightest hopes for this roster, but to take the next step they need to take it upon themselves to set the standard for how this team plays every night. Wes and Elvin were bullies in the paint; John and Brad need to be the same on the perimeter.
Gotta’ Beat the Best to Be the Best: For anybody fretting that the Wizards won’t have a chance in the playoffs if they fall to too low a seed, and for those with designs of manipulating our way to the 7th spot to face-off against the depleted Celtics, let me remind you the ’78 Bullets made it to the Finals after knocking off the #1 and #2 seeds. The Bullets took down George “Iceman” Gervin’s Spurs in the Conference Semis before toppling Dr. J and the Sixers to advance to the Finals
You have to beat the best to be the best. And by beating the best, you become even better. So, let’s not sweat about playoff seeding and matchups over the last weeks of the season – Cavs, Raptors, Sixers, Pacers – it’s all the same! It’s more important to focus on how we’re playing as a team, which brings us to the next point.
Success is All About Timing: As mentioned before, the 78 Bullets won the title after finishing the regular season with a record far off the league-best mark, posting a record of 44-38 (is it fate if we finish with an identical record??). The team had a tumultuous season that saw them lose six of the first ten games and then suffer a season-ending injury to key contributor Phil Chenier. Despite the turbulence, the Bullets started gelling at the end of the season, playing their best basketball and carrying the momentum into the playoffs where it translated into success.
The current Wizards can draw a lot of parallels between their uneven season and that of the old championship squad. Player controversies, injuries, and poor performances have characterized the first nine-tenths of this campaign. However, like with the 78 Bullets, there still remains the opportunity for the team to change this narrative by coming together and playing its best ball over the last games of the year. Especially with John Wall coming back soon, the focus needs to be on getting everybody on the same page, playing together seamlessly, and geared up for a deep post-season run.
Homecourt Advantage is Critical: The onus of this key takeaway rests solely on us, the fans of the Washington Wizards. Several of the Bullets champions credit the fans of the 70’s for being a huge motivator, source of energy, and competitive advantage. They say the home crowd made the Capital Arena the loudest place they’d ever played. Who’s ever said any of these things about the spectators in the MCI Center/Verizon Center/Capital One Arena?
I’ve heard all the excuses – DC is a transient town, fans in the district have become wary of getting disappointed again, “I’m saving my voice to scream for free Chickfila in the 4th Quarter” – and they’re all crap! If we want a championship-quality team, we fans need to do our part by being of that same caliber. That means showing up early, cheering the whole game, standing up for important possessions, and heckling the hell out of opponents and all their bandwagon fans. Game 3 of the 2015 Wizards-Bulls playoffs, our first home playoff game in 8 years, was the loudest, most raucous I’ve ever seen our arena, from pre-game to final buzzer. We need to collectively bring that level of intensity every time out from now til the player debriefs in the summer.
In Conclusion: Conventional wisdom says that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Maybe for the Wizards it will prove that by learning from our history we’ll be able to repeat it.
As we participate in these 40-year anniversary events and re-educate ourselves on our previous success, we must do so with a mindset intent on picking up clues for how to replicate that success. The 1978 Bullets have reminded us that we’re winners at our core, that we come from the stock of champions. They’ve also taught us and inspired to hope to be champions once again.
By wizzzkidd21 March 28, 2018 1,491 WordsLeave a comment
Are 2018-2019 Wizards Season Tickets Worth the Money?
This analysis has been updated for the current 2019 – 2020 season here.
I am a 2-year Wizards season-ticket holder. No, I don’t currently have season tickets, which might compel you to describe me instead as an ex-season-ticket holder. I, however, subscribe to the theory that season-ticket holder status – sometimes used as a badge of one’s fandom – is more akin to martial arts belts, which are progressively earned through cumulating experience, than to Costco membership, which you either pay annually to retain or you don’t. I contend that you can’t lose your season-ticket holder status, you can only develop it, moving up to higher ranks through additional years of patronage.
All this is to say that while I’ve remained stagnant as a Level 2 Wizards STH, I still harbor ambitions of someday returning to the DC12 Club and graduating to the higher ranks of its membership. Alas, Ted Leonsis’s seemingly annual price hikes, combined with the financial responsibilities of new fatherhood, are pushing that goal farther and farther into the realm of distant pipe dreams. Nevertheless, I’ve persisted in the practice I’ve maintained over the past few seasons of documenting the individual game ticket prices for the purpose of evaluating whether Wizards season tickets are or are not a good deal. Here’s the analysis for this upcoming season:
Methodology: Each year, including this one, my approach to collecting and analyzing ticket data has grown more sophisticated. In the past, I did my best to monitor ticket prices to find the best deal possible for each home game for two tickets in one of the Lower End sections – since this is where I used to have tickets (Section 117 Row S represent!!). This year, I managed to cobble together an application that pulls statistics of the ticket inventory available on StubHub, letting me see the cheapest available tickets for every section in Capital One Arena for each upcoming game. Not only does this give me more accurate and comprehensive data for this year’s analysis, I’m also now able to evaluate the STH-decision for every section in the arena.
For this analysis, I’m only focusing on the sections in the lower bowl of the arena because, let’s be honest, it doesn’t take much critical thinking to see that upper level season-tickets are a god-awful proposition. Why anybody would pay over $1,500 – much less the $3,200 some upper sections cost (WTF??) – for a worst experience than you can get from the comfort of your couch at home, is beyond me. For that money you can get good to great seats to a bunch of good games, so why opt instead to lock yourself into paying full price for the shittiest nosebleeds to all the crappiest games? Seriously why?
Regular-Season Numbers: The essential question when evaluating the value of season tickets is this: does buying a season ticket package get me cheaper tickets over the year than buying tickets individually?
Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to each purchasing strategy, such as the flexibility of buying tickets on a by-game basis, versus the pride and perks that come with being a STH. Putting all the fringe benefits aside, however, let’s just look at which option is cheaper by comparing the STH prices to the prices you could pay on the secondary market (i.e. NBA Ticket Exchange, Stubhub) to get into each game. The spreadsheet below shows a summary-level view of this comparison:
This isn’t an exact science, as the STH prices we’re citing are the cheapest ones for each section, as are the secondary market prices. There is likely to be rather large of prices within a single section. However, it is noteworthy that the STH discount is universally less than 7%, and even negative for the most expensive sections.
These numbers will be disconcerting for incumbent and prospective STHs. When you purchase professional basketball in bulk, you’d hope that you’re at least getting a better deal than the guy sitting next to you who’ there for his one game of the season. It seems that Ted has set the STH prices to purposefully make these numbers line up pretty closely, possibly to put upward pressure on the prices of resale tickets – which routinely undercut Monumental’s individual game prices. Strategically planned by Leonsis or not, at face value, the economics of season tickets are rather lackluster in financial appeal.
Click here for a detailed view of the STH vs per-game price comparison, with a breakdown of the secondary market prices for every home game.
A Tale of Two Markets: If season tickets save you very little money compared to buying tickets on a per-game basis, then why does anybody do it?
Because the costs of admission to the premium games are so high. More than any other American professional sports league, the NBA is star-driven. Moreover, the average sports fan only knows and appreciates the very top echelon of All-Star players, which constitutes only a handful of guys. The result? Rabid demand and extraordinary prices for only the most marquee matchups on the Wizards schedule. Everybody wants to see the Cavaliers and the Warriors, sending the prices for those games skyrocketing.
The table below shows the prices on the secondary market for the Top 7 games by ticket price on the Wizards calendar. Cells highlighted in green show where STH prices constitute at least a 25% saving over individual game prices.
This is perhaps Monumental’s biggest selling point. A Wizards fan (probably more casual than diehard) wants to see the squad take on the NBA heavyweights, but every time he looks for tickets to one of the good upcoming games, the costs are crazy high. He starts envying the folks who got into these games for a fraction of the prices he’s looking at, and considers signing up for season ticks for the upcoming season.
There is a flip-side to this pricing dynamic, however. It’s true that being a STH gets you a great deal for the most hotly anticipated tilts of the year, but it also locks you into a bad bargain for a larger slew of less stellar matchups. The table below shows the prices on the secondary market for the Bottom 12 games by ticket price on the Wizards schedule. Cells highlighted in red show where individual game prices constitute at least a 25% saving over STH prices.
As you can see, over the course of a season, any money/savings you accrue on the top tier games are wiped out by what you lose/overpay on the games at the lower end of the spectrum. Thus, it’s wiser to get your tickets a game at a time, even if you really want to go to all the expensive contests – you may pay a surcharge for those games, but at least you don’t get stuck with a heavy bill for tickets to games nobody else wants to attend.
Playoff Numbers: If there’s any potentially redeeming quality about the DC12 Club, it’s the cheap access STHs get to the Wizard’s home playoff games. This pitch is what got me to originally sign-up for season membership, and the lack of this benefit after the 15-16 season is what made it a no-brainer not to renew that year. Of course this playoff benefit has to be taken into account when evaluating the worth of season tickets.
The value of the perk is a tricky thing to gauge, however, when the Wizard’s chances for playoff success, and even the identity of their potential opponents, is very up in the air. How many home playoff games will we get? Will it be one series worth or three? Will the series stretch to Game 7 or will be swept out? And equally important, what team will we be matched up with? Any DC playoff ticket will be a hot commodity, no doubt, but there’s a huge difference between the frenzied buzz that would surround a matchup with Lebron’s Cavs and the modest intrigue that we might expect from a first-round matchup with the Pacers.
These things are impossible to know. The best we can do is use the data we have to project the playoff ticket prices, and then keep a close eye on the standings. The table below gives a rough estimate of how much STH access to playoff tickets are worth for a 1st round series against our various potential opponents. Note: These numbers are calculated by STH price minus secondary market price (assuming playoff tickets on StubHub, etc. go for 1.5X the price of the identical regular season match-ups) times an expected 2.5 home games.
The figures show that there is a very wide range of outcomes. Depending on who we face-off against in the playoffs, and whether or not we beat them, and if we do beat them then who we face-off against next, the yield from the STH playoff access can fall anywhere between minimal and gargantuan. The ideal situation from this perspective would be for the WizKids to fall to #7 to take on the Celtics in the first-round, beat them in six games, and then go on to play the Cavs in a 3-seed vs 7-seed matchup. The nightmare situation would be for the Wizards to get bounced by the Pacers in a first-round series.
You’ll have to decide for yourself what you want to make out of this playoff benefit. You certainly have to take it into consideration, and there is the possibility of it yielding tremendous upside. However, there is so much luck and uncertainty involved that banking on any playoff returns is as good as gambling.
Wrap-Up: In the end, the analysis shows that Wizards season tickets – especially after price hikes – are a poor deal, with the one caveat that a favorable combination of playoff success and lucrative match-ups could potentially push the numbers from red into the black.
For me, though I’d love to be able to call myself a STH, the flexibility and value you get from cherry picking tickets on secondary markets is too good to pass up. Low prices for unheralded matchups are a gold mine for hardcore fans – there’s no such thing as a bad game when the main attraction for you is always the home team. And the ignorance of the average fan means you can score cheap tickets to great games – you mean I can see Anthony Davis, the Greek Freak, and the Raptors all for cheaper than STHs? Yes, please!
Maybe one day I’ll be able to rejoin the likes of the DC12 club. Barring a major price decrease, the introduction of some additional value-add benefits, or the serious potential for a playoff run to the NBA Finals, I don’t see it happening any time soon.
By wizzzkidd21 March 24, 2018 October 21, 2019 1,813 Words4 Comments
Polish Hammered: Gortat Among Most-Blocked Players in the NBA
There have been a lot of frustrations so far this year with the lackluster play from the Center position for the Washington Wizards. It’s the weakest position on the team by far and, amazingly (or depressingly), that hole in the roster is costing us $34 million this season.
Particularly disheartening is watching Marcin Gortat, the so-called “Polish Hammer,” constantly throwing up Charmin-soft bunnies that routinely get hammered back into his face. You’d think that getting someone so big the ball within a few feet of the hoop would be an automatic deuce, and yet, this season, it’s been just as likely to result in a fast-break the other way. This trend has earned the starting 7-footer a collection of dirty looks from the Point Guard, incredulous to see a beautiful set-up vanish into thin-air. No doubt, this has fueled the tension and discord between John Wall and Gortat that has disrupt the team’s cohesion this year.
The low-point was during last week’s Wizards-Raptors game when Gortat caught a pass in the lane, turned towards the basket, and had his shot capped by six-foot-nothing doughboy Kyle Lowry. After that embarrassment, I decided to take a closer look at the numbers to confirm that the stats validated what I was seeing. They did.
Here are the league leaders at getting rejected, in terms of percentage of shots they put up that get blocked (min. 250 FG attempts):
There’s Marcin Gortat at number 4. It make sense for there to be a lot of centers at the top of the list, since they take a look of shots in the paint, where the rim protectors roam. But interestingly, among the other Centers near the top of this list (e.g. Capela, Howard, Whiteside), Gortat is the only one who averages less than 10 PPG. A big reason for that? He’s going to the free throw-line far less often, probably because he goes up so soft with the ball.
Conclusion: If Marcin Gortat, perpetually salty about the love he gets from the team and fans, wants more respect, than maybe he should get tough again and start banging on people’s heads rather than trying to get by on his not-skilled-enough finesse game.
By wizzzkidd21 February 4, 2018 February 4, 2018 372 WordsLeave a comment
PSA: You Can Watch the Wizards Play Lebron James This Sunday for Super Cheap
Since this is a Wizards blog, it feels weird, almost wrong to get hyped up about the chance to see a player from an opposing team. It’s even worse when that team is an Eastern Conference foe, and almost unforgivable when that player is a notorious Wizards killer.
Still, Lebron James is arguably the best basketball player of all-time, watching him play in person should be near the top of any sports fans current bucket list, and this week you can catch him in action for the low.
The Wizards have two regular season tilts against the Cleveland Cavaliers this year, on November 3rd and December 17th. The average prices for on Stubhub for a ticket to those games is currently around $275 and $333, respectively, with the cheapest Lower Level seats going for $155 and $166 a ticket, respectively. Contrast that with the game this upcoming Sunday afternoon, for which the average ticket price is $69 and for which you can get a Lower Level seat for as low as $34.
Now I know the Sunday afternoon Wizards-Cavs matchup is only a preseason game, but this is still professional basketball and Lebron is still going to play in the game and show at least some effort. In fact, Lebron’s pre-season stats show that he tries pretty hard in exhibition games, at least while he’s on the court. Since the 2010-2011 season, Lebron has played in 31 preseason games and averaged 25 minutes, 16.6 points, 4.5 assists, and 4.4 rebounds. Basically, you’re getting 2/3 of full-capacity Lebron, but for 1/4 the price.
I saw Lebron in a preseason game back in 2011, when he was still playing for the Miami Heat. He didn’t stay in the game for much more than 25 minutes, but when he was in there he was slamming home alley-oops, throwing no-look cross-court passes, and doing all the other things that make him both immensely fun to watch and the most talented player of a generation. I remember leaving the arena and thinking it was crazy that I got to “witness” all that for so just a few bucks. This Sunday’s game is another opportunity to cash in on a similar deal. Even if you hate Lebron, even if you think he’ll never live up to Michael Jordan’s standard, even if the only thing you’d want to do if you saw him at a game is wave Crying Lebron signs at him, you still can’t deny that the chance to see him play for cheap this weekend is a steal.
By wizzzkidd21 October 3, 2017 409 WordsLeave a comment
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How The USWNT Can Beat Germany
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So here we are, at the semifinals of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. There have been upsets, trash talk, and general FIFA-inflicted incompetence. After Germany escaped France last weekend, and the United States of America triumphed over China, this match between the world’s two top-ranked teams promises to be a white-knuckle affair. Die Nationalelf have hardly made a mistake, while the Americans have given their nation a collective heart attack in the way they’ve played for most of the tournament. Germany are scarily complete. So how does the USWNT take them down and head to their fourth World Cup final?
Beat Them Down the Flanks
Leonie Maier and Tabea Kemme, Germany’s two fullbacks, love to get forward and overlap with wide midfielders Simone Laudehr and Alexandra Popp. The one thing they haven’t had to do much of, however, is track back on defense. When Germany played France, Louisa Nécib and Élodie Thomis had a field day commanding the wings and switching the point of attack.
It just so happens that the Americans have a litany of athletic, creative wide players, as well. Ali Krieger was very impressive getting forward and making the right wing her own. If Kelley O’Hara finds herself in the starting lineup again, she will most likely win every one-on-one situation with Kemme. And then there’s Megan Rapinoe. The U.S. held their own without her against China, but her creativity and ability to take on players could make Leonie Maier’s life hell.
Start Amy Rodriguez and Alex Morgan again
Sure, Rodriguez shanked a sitter in the first minute against China, but her movement off the ball, and her ability to hold up play in midfield was vital to the Americans’ quarterfinal win. No one is better at commanding the forward line than Rodriguez. Meanwhile, Morgan is the best striker the USWNT has, and if she can continue to build on the pace and sharpness from her previous starts, she could be lethal to the Germans.
What’s more, German center backs Annike Krahn and Saskia Bartusiak don’t have the speed or positioning that American center backs Becky Sauerbrunn and Julie Johnston have on the other side of the field. The two German central defenders can get stretched at times, and A-Rod and Morgan are the perfect threats to go at them. The aggressive, high press worked against China; Krahn and Bartusiak will be vulnerable to a similar strategy.
Alternatively, manager Jillian Ellis can partner Christen Press up top with Morgan. Press was poised to break out at this tournament, but that never really materialized, due to Ellis cramming Press on the wing. Were she to be part of a striker pairing up top with Morgan, that might unlock her true potential.
Let Carli Lloyd get forward, and pray for Lauren Holiday
Lloyd put in a Herculean effort against the USWNT’s quarterfinal match against China. She’s been a ghost of her former self for most of the tournament, and a lot of that has to do with Ellis’s failed strategy of playing two natural attacking players as holding midfielders. Lloyd and Holiday could never properly communicate duties, and the midfield has spent the entire tournament being overrun. If Ellis is committed to two strikers up top, then she should continue with the diamond midfield that showed up against China, with Holiday at the base and Lloyd bombing ahead. The problem is that Holiday is most comfortable playing behind the strikers, and struggles to clog passing lanes or get stuck into a tackle. Melanie Leupolz and Anja Mittag won’t let her dictate the tempo, either. If there’s one thing that U.S. fans should be absolutely terrified of, it’s Holiday’s lack of defensive prowess. Johnston and Sauerbrunn won’t be able to do everything when the German offense breaks through the midfield.
Substitute Abby Wambach in late, if at all
Ellis will be tempted to let Wambach start the match, given her outsized influence within the team, and her purported chemistry with Morgan. But we all know Wambach’s weaknesses at this point. Annike Krahn might struggle with a player like Amy Rodriguez or Christen Press coming at her, but she can handle Wambach. Krahn’s leaping ability makes up for the height difference, and she can outpace Wambach all day. What’s more, Wambach’s presence on the pitch turns the USWNT into a less creative, worse team, relying on long balls and crosses directed somewhere near Wambach’s vicinity.
On the other hand, if the United States are able to wear the German back four down, and they see the 5’11 all-time leading international scorer entering the game, then conceding a set piece seems like a much scarier reality. Wambach should have always been a super-sub. In that role, she can help regain some of her and the team’s past glory.
The United States will have to fend off Germany’s attack
The real decider tonight will most likely be between German forward Célia Šašić and Julie Johnston. Sauerbrunn and Johnston have been the two best center backs in the entire World Cup, but they haven’t faced a test like Šašić yet, who has been doing whatever she has wanted on the pitch throughout the tournament. Similarly, Šašić, Mittag, Popp, and Laudehr haven’t encountered as formidable a back line as they will in the U.S. defense. Whoever wins this battle wins the match, and very likely the trophy on July 5th.
The USWNT has its confidence back. They had a new look against China, and France outplayed Germany in a losing effort just a few days ago. That said, Šašić and Mittag will be able to break through the steel wall of the U.S. back line at least once or twice, and I’m not so sure the U.S. can return the favor. The temptation will be too strong for Jill Ellis to go back to brutish, ineffectual long ball tactics, but if so, the American midfield will be overrun, all match long. If that happens, the United States quest for another World Cup win will surely end tonight.
Evan Davis is a proud Toffee living in New York City. His writing has appeared in Howler Magazine, Film Comment, The New York Post’s Decider, and The House Next Door. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @ProfessorDobles.
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Expert on China in Middle East: It is not easy to decipher Beijing's intentions
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At the 6th Ministerial China-Arab Meeting Cooperation Forum (CASCF), Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the upcoming decade will be marked by intense cooperation between China and the Gulf states. In an essay “China in the Middle East”, Willem Oosterveld draw on China’s inevitable expansion in the Middle East. The expert, who also mentioned that China’s involvement in the region is not a matter of choice but an issue of necessity, explained the Beijing involvement in the Middle East in an interview for Defence24.com.
Małgorzata Krakowska: Why is it necessary for China to become involved in the Gulf?
Willem Oosterveld, Hague Centre for Strategic Studies: China’s heavy dependence on fossil fuels is one of the main reasons why Beijing has expressed interest in playing a larger role in the Middle East (ed. China imported 3.2 million barrels- or more than 52 proc.- from the Middle East, mainly from Saudi Arabia).
Further expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative is set to reinvigorate Chinese economic interests, extend in West Asia, and deploy more political power in the region.
China’s expansion holds two messages. To begin with history, neither Europeans nor Americans tamed regional conflicts or controlled regional security dynamics. It means that China will find the going more difficult than it thought. Western powers, including the United States, are not prepared to provide security umbrella for China’s economic interests as they increase, so Beijing will- at some point- also become politically and militarily involved.
In February, mass media informed that China wants to list Saudi Aramco on the Hong Kong exchange. Russia has immediately spotted the opportunity, and is not only pushing, but also seeking investors for Saudi Aramco IPO (ed. Initial Public Offering). What are the possible political implications of this deal?
Russia’s interest in taking stake in Aramco is driven by its apparently successful coordination policy of production cuts to hike up oil prices. It is not clear, however, whether we could translate Russia’s involvement into political clout.
Many state actors hedge their bets, including the Saudis. Even though Saudi Arabia still remains Washington’s closest ally, it prefers to keep all the options open. Russia is courting Saudi Arabia, yet due to Kremlin’s support for Iran, the Saudis remain rather reserved. Saudis and Russians are also at odds in Syria.
Photo: Wiillem Osterveld/HCSS
Does China and Russia involvement in the Middle East resemble Sykes-Picot Agreement (ed. The Franco-British accord which in 1916 carved up the Ottoman empire between France, Great Britain and imperial Russia). Should we expect the same distribution of influence for China and Russia?
Russian and Chinese interests are converging, especially in terms of maintenance of stability and security in the region. Moscow and Beijing provide support for Iran and Syria, and fight Islamic terrorism.
On the other hand, China’s expansion westwards could jeopardize Russian interests (ed. Russia has intensified its military actions and increased political presence in the Middle East following the eruption of Syria’s civil war). Moreover, Kremlin’s support for Iran is a thorn in the side of Saudi Arabia.
Russia and China are asserting their foreign policy interests in the Middle East. Yet, another Sykes-Picot Agreement is unlikely to occur again because Beijing and Moscow strive for hegemony in terms of economy and security.
So what security patterns can we expect in the post-Sykes-Picot Middle East?
China knows that the Sykes-Picot system has collapsed. Beijing will need to focus more on a region-wide peace diplomacy, either through bilateral or multilateral engagements.
Beijing strives to ensure neutrality. China wants to ascertain that regional actors-which play a role in the Belt and Road Initiative- will remain either pliant or neutral toward Chinese expansion. President Jinping is convinced that by reasserting China’s role as main diplomatic player, he will strengthen country’s relations with Saudi Arabia.
In reality,however, a balanced stance towards regional actors will be hard to maintain. China will need to devise a political formula, and gain incentives in return, for example by propping up dictatorial regimes in favor of foreign interests.
Could Belt and Road become a prologue to a more advanced collaboration in terms of security and military cooperation? What about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?
SCO members maintain cordial relations with each other, however their political interests are driven by different goals. Look at Iran, India, and Pakistan. Even Turkey could become a potential source of discord. SCO could become a helpful conciliation tool in terms of dispute settlement between Member States, but it cannot be compared with NATO for example.
How does the Netherlands perceive China’s ambitions to lead global economy?
I think the Netherlands is still a bit on the fence. The Dutch government plans to intensify economic cooperation with China. The Netherlands organizes a large number of trade missions. We have opened a number of new liaison offices in China in recent years. Yet, on the political and the security side, the Dutch maintain moderate approach. It is not easy to decipher China’s intentions.
Thank you for the conversation.
Willem Oosterveld is a Strategic Analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. He specializes in the areas of defence, security, development and the Middle East studies. He holds degrees in political science, law and history. He has experience of working for economic intelligence enti Johannesburg, Jakarta and Casablanca.
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niedziela, 8 kwietnia 2018, 16:32
Mr. Oosterveld, your \"expertise\" really baffles me. To say that \"It is not easy to decipher China\'s intentions in the Middle East\", or that \"It is not clear, however, whether we could translate Russia’s involvement (in Aramco, by buying its stock) into political clout\" needs truly abyssmal depth of thought. To inform the public that \"Russian and Chinese interests are converging, especially in terms of maintenance of stability and security in the region. Moscow and Beijing provide support for Iran and Syria, and fight Islamic terrorism\" goes even further, deep inside the territory of sheer stupidity, making you in fact a useful idiot, as defined by Lenin. Both Russia and China are sworn enemies - not competitors, rivals, opponents, but enemies - of the West. Their strategic goal is to destroy both USA and Western Europe, in that USA completely, as the force blocking their effort to conquer the world, and, maybe, with the role of high quality cheese, wine and sightseeing tours for Western Europe. Middle East is an element of this effort, and both Russia and China are interested in pushing West out of this region, while seeding war and unstability in that region is first phase of this push-out (by the way, Daesh, otherwise called ISIS, was created, organized and armed by Russia and was commanded by former Saddam Hussain\'s officers, while \"Al Baghdadi\" was only a smokescreen - in order to set Middle East afire, in the continuation of \"international terrorism\", organized by the Soviets in the 60/70 years of XX century). To sum it up - your expertise will be pathetic even in kindergarten. By the way - what is your approach to the downing of MH17 by the Russians? Moderate, too? I\'m not surprised.
HCSS
Great interview although I miss questions on Chinese interests in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
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Turning on health services remotely
by Klara Henderson
Dr Merrilee Frankish and PNG colleagues (Credit: Australian Doctors International)
Written by Klara Henderson
To identify practical opportunities to achieve equitable access to health in the Pacific and amplify Australia’s development impact in this area, we need to gain access to often neglected populations. Across lower middle income countries, 63% of the population live in rural or remote areas. For those in the Pacific, receiving health care might mean walking over forested mountains or navigating open oceans for hours in small boats, options not always available even in the case of life or death. Research on rural health services and the ratio of rural and remote population to health worker tells the sobering story that rural and remote health workers are not only under-skilled but often simply absent, particularly in low income countries. In short, skilled healthcare workers are most needed in the poorest areas within the lowest income countries. But providing access to health where it is most needed is not easy to do.
How can we find ways to both up-skill and make rural settings attractive locations to work for healthcare workers?
Australian Doctors International’s (ADI) solution to achieving equitable access to health for those living in rural and remote areas across the Pacific is to direct our attention and utlitise our model of providing health access to remote communities by systematically up-skilling the rural and remote front-line health workforce in PNG (and later, other Pacific countries) and tracking what skills and competencies that workforce has. We know from evidence presented by WHO and others, that if we can provide education in rural locations to healthcare workers that is focused on content that responds to their expressed needs, we can not only up-skill these scarce and much needed healthcare workers, but also increase their desire and motivation to remain and practice in areas where access to health is limited.
ADI’s innovative solution and the 3-Minute Aid Pitch presented at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference ties three components together to ensure healthcare workers feel supported and want to stay rural to do their jobs:
Know the rural and remote healthcare workers, what location they work in, what training they have received, what competencies and skills they have, when their last in-depth training session was. This informs us of the knowledge gaps across rural areas. ADI proposes to do this by building and managing a register of rural healthcare workers against rural health needs.
Train healthcare workers in training centres close to their homes on in-depth topics that meet their needs, mindful of the medical resources readily accessible to them, and thus start to fill gaps at both individual worker and system-wide levels.
Support the healthcare workers by backing up the in-depth training with case-based on-the-job training in the familiarity of their own health clinic from an Australian doctor, utilising the equipment and medicines they have regular access to.
ADI has been conducting in-depth training (recommendation #2) for the last four years in one province in PNG, so we know that this recommendation works. And over the last two years we have built in case-based and group-based training (recommendation #3) to our patrols. We argue there is a great need to support rural and remote healthcare workers by expanding these and implementing recommendation #1 – across other provinces in PNG and indeed other Pacific countries with under-serviced rural populations. To our knowledge, this is a unique idea designed to address access to health by up-skilling rural healthcare workers on topics they need, in ways they need, and thereby also increasing their desire to remain in their rural location and achieve global health access goals and improve rural health outcomes.
ADI aims to focus our efforts on building frontline capacity and health capital – by doing this we can improve access to health for the rural and remote poor and turn on remote health services across the Pacific.
This was originally presented as part of the 3-Minute Aid Pitch (3MAP) at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference. Watch the 3MAP livestream replay, listen to the podcast, or view the presentations.
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Klara Henderson is CEO of Australian Doctors International (ADI), and has been a member of ADI's Program Committee since 2014. Klara has worked with organisations such as WHO, the World Bank, Gavi, UNAIDS, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations on the front line in Ghana, Kenya, PNG, India and Thailand, conducted health evaluations, and authored numerous publications, including on access to health in low resource settings.
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1. H.Con.Res.127 — 112th Congress (2011-2012) Expressing the sense of Congress regarding actions to preserve and advance the multistakeholder governance model under which the Internet has thrived. Sponsor: Rep. Bono Mack, Mary [R-CA-45] (Introduced 05/30/2012) Cosponsors: (63) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Foreign Relations Committee Reports: H. Rept. 112-564 Latest Action: Senate - 09/10/2012 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (All Actions) Tracker:
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14. H.R.1930 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) End Polluter Welfare Act of 2015 Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5] (Introduced 04/22/2015) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Ways and Means; Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources; Science, Space, and Technology; Energy and Commerce; Agriculture; Appropriations; Financial Services; Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 08/18/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment. (All Actions) Tracker:
15. H.R.4304 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Jumpstarting Opportunities with Bold Solutions Act Sponsor: Rep. Scalise, Steve [R-LA-1] (Introduced 03/26/2014) Cosponsors: (53) Committees: House - Natural Resources; Budget; Small Business; Education and the Workforce; Oversight and Government Reform; Judiciary; Energy and Commerce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Science, Space, and Technology; Rules; Financial Services; Agriculture; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 06/13/2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:
16. H.R.15 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Joe [D-FL-26] (Introduced 10/02/2013) Cosponsors: (200) Committees: House - Judiciary; Foreign Affairs; Homeland Security; Ways and Means; Armed Services; Natural Resources; Agriculture; Education and the Workforce; Energy and Commerce; Oversight and Government Reform; Budget; Science, Space, and Technology; Financial Services; Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 03/26/2014 Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Garcia. Petition No: 113-9. (All Actions) Notes: On 3/26/2014, a motion was filed to discharge the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform, the Budget, Science... Tracker:
17. H.R.3574 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) End Polluter Welfare Act of 2013 Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5] (Introduced 11/21/2013) Cosponsors: (12) Committees: House - Ways and Means; Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources; Science, Space, and Technology; Energy and Commerce; Agriculture; Appropriations; Financial Services; Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 12/16/2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry. (All Actions) Tracker:
18. H.R.4290 — 111th Congress (2009-2010) New Deal for a New Economy Act Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17] (Introduced 12/11/2009) Cosponsors: (56) Committees: House - Education and Labor; Judiciary; Science and Technology; Natural Resources; Agriculture; Financial Services; Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 03/29/2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. (All Actions) Tracker:
19. H.R.2998 — 111th Congress (2009-2010) American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30] (Introduced 06/23/2009) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Foreign Affairs; Ways and Means; Financial Services; Education and Labor; Science and Technology; Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources; Agriculture; Oversight and Government Reform; Judiciary Latest Action: House - 07/23/2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. (All Actions) Tracker:
20. H.R.2454 — 111th Congress (2009-2010) American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30] (Introduced 05/15/2009) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Science and Technology; Energy and Commerce; Foreign Affairs; Financial Services; Education and Labor; Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources; Agriculture; Ways and Means Committee Reports: H. Rept. 111-137 Latest Action: Senate - 07/07/2009 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 97. (All Actions) Tracker:
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21. H.R.6316 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Climate Market, Auction, Trust & Trade Emissions Reduction System Act of 2008 Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25] (Introduced 06/19/2008) Cosponsors: (92) Committees: House - Ways and Means; Energy and Commerce; Foreign Affairs; Science and Technology; Financial Services; Education and Labor; Natural Resources; Agriculture; Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 11/19/2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. (All Actions) Tracker:
22. H.R.6899 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3] (Introduced 09/15/2008) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Natural Resources; Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means; Oversight and Government Reform; Judiciary; Financial Services; Transportation and Infrastructure; Budget; Rules; Science and Technology; Foreign Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 11/18/2008 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1118 under authority of the order of the Senate of 11/17/2008. (All Actions) Tracker:
23. H.R.2950 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1] (Introduced 06/28/2007) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Science and Technology; Education and Labor; Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources; Oversight and Government Reform; Financial Services; Foreign Affairs; Small Business; Judiciary; Armed Services; Intelligence (Permanent); Agriculture Latest Action: House - 04/25/2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. (All Actions) Tracker:
24. H.R.2809 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) New Apollo Energy Act of 2007 Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1] (Introduced 06/21/2007) Cosponsors: (30) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Rules; Ways and Means; Education and Labor; Foreign Affairs; Judiciary; Financial Services; Science and Technology; Oversight and Government Reform; Natural Resources; Agriculture; Budget Latest Action: House - 04/25/2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research. (All Actions) Tracker:
25. H.R.4603 — 109th Congress (2005-2006) Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Act of 2005 Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18] (Introduced 12/16/2005) Cosponsors: (51) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Resources; Agriculture; International Relations; Education and the Workforce; Science; Financial Services Latest Action: House - 05/01/2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. (All Actions) Tracker:
26. H.R.6 — 109th Congress (2005-2006) Energy Policy Act of 2005 Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6] (Introduced 04/18/2005) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Education and the Workforce; Financial Services; Agriculture; Resources; Science; Ways and Means; Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Reports: H. Rept. 109-190 (Conference Report) Latest Action: 08/08/2005 Became Public Law No: 109-58. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions) Tracker:
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27. H.R.1640 — 109th Congress (2005-2006) Energy Policy Act of 2005 Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6] (Introduced 04/14/2005) Cosponsors: (14) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Science; Resources; Education and the Workforce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Financial Services; Agriculture Committee Reports: H. Rept. 109-215 Latest Action: House - 07/29/2005 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 122. (All Actions) Notes: For further action, see H.R.6, which became Public Law 109-58 on 8/8/2005. Tracker:
28. H.R.4503 — 108th Congress (2003-2004) Energy Policy Act of 2004 Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6] (Introduced 06/03/2004) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Science; Ways and Means; Resources; Education and the Workforce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Financial Services; Agriculture; Budget Latest Action: Senate - 06/17/2004 Received in the Senate. (All Actions) Tracker:
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29. H.R.6 — 108th Congress (2003-2004) Energy Policy Act of 2003 Sponsor: Rep. Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) [R-LA-3] (Introduced 04/07/2003) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Science; Ways and Means; Resources; Education and the Workforce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Financial Services; Agriculture Committee Reports: H. Rept. 108-375 (Conference Report) Latest Action: Senate - 11/21/2003 Motion by Senator Frist to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the conference report to accompnay H. R. 6 was not invoked (Roll Call Vote No. 456) entered in Senate. (All Actions) Tracker:
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30. H.R.1491 — 108th Congress (2003-2004) Securing Transportation Energy Efficiency for Tomorrow Act of 2003 Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8] (Introduced 03/27/2003) Cosponsors: (22) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure; Science; Ways and Means; Resources; International Relations; Financial Services Latest Action: House - 04/10/2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:
31. H.R.4 — 107th Congress (2001-2002) Energy Policy Act of 2002 Sponsor: Rep. Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) [R-LA-3] (Introduced 07/27/2001) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Science; Ways and Means; Resources; Education and the Workforce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Budget; Financial Services Latest Action: House - 10/10/2002 NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO OFFER MOTIONS - Mr. Waxman notified the House of his intent to offer motions to instruct conferees on the bill H.R. 4. (All Actions) Tracker:
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32. H.R.1270 — 107th Congress (2001-2002) Comprehensive Fiscal Responsibility and Accountability Act of 2001 Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] (Introduced 03/28/2001) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means; Energy and Commerce; Armed Services; Science; Resources; Financial Services; International Relations; Veterans' Affairs; Intelligence (Permanent) Latest Action: House - 04/24/2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Procurement. (All Actions) Tracker:
33. H.R.375 — 107th Congress (2001-2002) Department of Commerce Elimination Act Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39] (Introduced 01/31/2001) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Financial Services; International Relations; Armed Services; Ways and Means; Government Reform; Judiciary; Science; Resources Latest Action: House - 03/15/2001 Executive Comment Requested from Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:
34. H.R.5317 — 106th Congress (1999-2000) Comprehensive Fiscal Responsibility and Accountability Act of 2000 Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] (Introduced 09/27/2000) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means; Commerce; Armed Services; Science; Resources; Banking and Financial Services; International Relations; Veterans' Affairs; Intelligence (Permanent) Latest Action: House - 10/20/2000 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment. (All Actions) Tracker:
35. H.R.2452 — 106th Congress (1999-2000) Department of Commerce Elimination Act Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39] (Introduced 07/01/1999) Cosponsors: (16) Committees: House - Commerce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Banking and Financial Services; International Relations; Armed Services; Ways and Means; Government Reform; Judiciary; Science; Resources Latest Action: House - 09/01/1999 Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade. (All Actions) Tracker:
36. H.R.1470 — 106th Congress (1999-2000) Corporate Responsibility Act of 1999 Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1] (Introduced 04/15/1999) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Ways and Means; Resources; Agriculture; Science; Banking and Financial Services; Budget; Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 04/30/1999 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy. (All Actions) Tracker:
37. H.R.1319 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) Department of Commerce Dismantling Act Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39] (Introduced 04/14/1997) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Commerce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Banking and Financial Services; International Relations; National Security; Agriculture; Ways and Means; Government Reform; Judiciary; Science; Resources Latest Action: House - 01/06/1998 See H.R.2667. (All Actions) Tracker:
38. H.R.2667 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) Department of Commerce Dismantling Act Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39] (Introduced 10/09/1997) Cosponsors: (47) Committees: House - Commerce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Banking and Financial Services; International Relations; National Security; Agriculture; Ways and Means; Government Reform; Judiciary; Science; Resources Latest Action: House - 10/28/1997 Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade. (All Actions) Tracker:
39. H.R.1340 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) Corporate Responsibility Act of 1997 Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1] (Introduced 04/15/1997) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Ways and Means; Resources; Agriculture; Science; Banking and Financial Services; Budget; Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 04/28/1997 Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops. (All Actions) Tracker:
40. H.R.1171 — 105th Congress (1997-1998) Omnibus Corporate Welfare Reduction Act of 1997 Sponsor: Rep. Kasich, John R. [R-OH-12] (Introduced 03/20/1997) Cosponsors: (9) Committees: House - Agriculture; Resources; Commerce; Science; International Relations; Transportation and Infrastructure; Ways and Means; Banking and Financial Services Latest Action: House - 04/14/1997 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy. (All Actions) Tracker:
41. H.R.2534 — 104th Congress (1995-1996) Corporate Responsibility Act of 1995 Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large] (Introduced 10/25/1995) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Agriculture; National Security; Banking and Financial Services; International Relations; Commerce; Resources; Transportation and Infrastructure; Science; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 11/17/1995 Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy. (All Actions) Tracker:
42. H.R.2517 — 104th Congress (1995-1996) Seven-Year Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act of 1995 Sponsor: Rep. Kasich, John R. [R-OH-12] (Introduced 10/20/1995) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Budget; Agriculture; Banking and Financial Services; Commerce; Economic and Educational; Government Reform; International Relations; Judiciary; National Security; Resources; Rules; Science; Transportation and Infrastructure; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 11/06/1995 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. (All Actions) Tracker:
43. H.R.1756 — 104th Congress (1995-1996) Department of Commerce Dismantling Act Sponsor: Rep. Chrysler, Dick [R-MI-8] (Introduced 06/07/1995) Cosponsors: (74) Committees: House - Commerce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Banking and Financial Services; International Relations; National Security; Agriculture; Ways and Means; Government Reform; Judiciary; Science; Resources Committee Reports: H. Rept. 104-260 Latest Action: House - 09/21/1995 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 104-260, Part I. (All Actions) Tracker:
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44. H.R.1923 — 104th Congress (1995-1996) Restructuring a Limited Government Act Sponsor: Rep. Solomon, Gerald B. H. [R-NY-22] (Introduced 06/22/1995) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: House - Agriculture; National Security; Banking and Financial Services; Budget; Economic and Educational; International Relations; Government Reform; House Oversight; Commerce; Intelligence (Permanent); Resources; Judiciary; Transportation and Infrastructure; Rules; Small Business; Science; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 09/05/1995 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Legislative and Budget Process. (All Actions) Tracker:
45. H.R.4224 — 103rd Congress (1993-1994) Lower Mississippi Delta Initiatives Act of 1994 Sponsor: Rep. Lambert, Blanche M. [D-AR-1] (Introduced 04/14/1994) Cosponsors: (13) Committees: House - Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Energy and Commerce; Natural Resources; Public Works and Transportation; Science, Space and Technology Latest Action: 07/27/1994 See S.21. (All Actions) Tracker:
46. H.R.3958 — 103rd Congress (1993-1994) Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1994 Sponsor: Rep. Schaefer, Dan [R-CO-6] (Introduced 03/03/1994) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; House Administration; Energy and Commerce; Intelligence (Permanent); Natural Resources; Judiciary; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works and Transportation; Rules; Small Business; Science, Space and Technology; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/19/1994 For Further Action on Helium Provisions See H.R.3967. (All Actions) Tracker:
47. H.R.3400 — 103rd Congress (1993-1994) Government Reform and Savings Act of 1993 Sponsor: Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3] (Introduced 10/28/1993) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Energy and Commerce; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; House Administration; Judiciary; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Natural Resources; Intelligence (Permanent); Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works and Transportation; Science, Space and Technology; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means | Senate - Governmental Affairs Committee Reports: H.Rept 103-366 Part 1; H.Rept 103-366 Part 2; H.Rept 103-366 Part 3; H.Rept 103-366 Part 4; H.Rept 103-366 Part 5; H.Rept 103-366 Part 6; H.Rept 103-366 Part 7; H.Rept 103-366 Part 8; H.Rept 103-366 Part 9; H.Rept 103-366 Part 10 Latest Action: House - 05/24/1994 Title XI, Section 11001, Incorporated Into H.R.4003. (All Actions) Tracker:
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48. H.R.3721 — 103rd Congress (1993-1994) Violent and Repeat Offenders Act of 1994 Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Michael [D-TX-25] (Introduced 01/25/1994) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; House Administration; Energy and Commerce; Natural Resources; Judiciary; Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works and Transportation; Rules; Science, Space and Technology; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 04/28/1994 See H.R.4278. (All Actions) Tracker:
49. H.R.41 — 103rd Congress (1993-1994) Invest in America Act Sponsor: Rep. Gejdenson, Sam [D-CT-2] (Introduced 01/05/1993) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Foreign Affairs; Energy and Commerce; Natural Resources; Public Works and Transportation; Science, Space and Technology Latest Action: House - 02/11/1993 Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations. (All Actions) Tracker:
50. H.R.5139 — 102nd Congress (1991-1992) Industrial Reinvestment and Defense Diversification Act of 1992 Sponsor: Rep. Gejdenson, Sam [D-CT-2] (Introduced 05/12/1992) Cosponsors: (11) Committees: House - Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Foreign Affairs; Energy and Commerce; Interior and Insular Affairs; Public Works and Transportation; Science, Space and Technology Latest Action: House - 09/16/1992 Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD. (All Actions) Tracker:
51. H.R.2807 — 102nd Congress (1991-1992) Forest and Community Survival Act of 1991 Sponsor: Rep. AuCoin, Les [D-OR-1] (Introduced 06/27/1991) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Agriculture; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Interior and Insular Affairs; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Science, Space and Technology; Ways and Means Latest Action: 05/07/1992 See H.R.4899. (All Actions) Tracker:
52. H.R.4150 — 102nd Congress (1991-1992) Economic Growth Act of 1992 Sponsor: Rep. Michel, Robert H. [R-IL-18] (Introduced 02/04/1992)(by request) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: House - Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Education and Labor; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; House Administration; Energy and Commerce; Interior and Insular Affairs; Judiciary; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works and Transportation; Rules; Science, Space and Technology; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 03/18/1992 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law. (All Actions) Tracker:
53. H.R.1078 — 101st Congress (1989-1990) Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989 Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Claudine [R-RI-2] (Introduced 02/22/1989) Cosponsors: (144) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Science, Space and Technology; Ways and Means; Foreign Affairs; Public Works and Transportation; Government Operations; Agriculture; Interior and Insular Affairs; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Armed Services; Merchant Marine and Fisheries Latest Action: House - 08/03/1990 Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from Justice. (All Actions) Tracker:
54. H.R.3143 — 101st Congress (1989-1990) National Energy Policy Act of 1989 Sponsor: Rep. AuCoin, Les [D-OR-1] (Introduced 08/04/1989) Cosponsors: (38) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce; Science, Space and Technology; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Foreign Affairs; Small Business; Armed Services; Public Works and Transportation; Interior and Insular Affairs; Agriculture; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 01/23/1990 Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOT. (All Actions) Tracker:
55. H.R.577 — 101st Congress (1989-1990) Separation of Powers Act of 1989 Sponsor: Rep. Dornan, Robert K. [R-CA-38] (Introduced 01/20/1989) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Veterans' Affairs; Interior and Insular Affairs; Science, Space and Technology Latest Action: House - 02/15/1989 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization. (All Actions) Tracker:
56. H.R.5460 — 100th Congress (1987-1988) Global Warming Prevention Act of 1988 Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Claudine [R-RI-2] (Introduced 10/05/1988) Cosponsors: (39) Committees: House - Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; Energy and Commerce; Interior and Insular Affairs; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Public Works and Transportation; Science, Space and Technology; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 11/15/1988 Referred to Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Hazardous Materials. (All Actions) Tracker:
57. H.R.5380 — 100th Congress (1987-1988) National Energy Policy Act of 1988 Sponsor: Rep. AuCoin, Les [D-OR-1] (Introduced 09/26/1988) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; Energy and Commerce; Interior and Insular Affairs; Small Business; Science, Space and Technology; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 11/03/1988 Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. (All Actions) Tracker:
58. H.R.2520 — 100th Congress (1987-1988) Separation of Powers Act of 1987 Sponsor: Rep. Dornan, Robert K. [R-CA-38] (Introduced 05/27/1987) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Foreign Affairs; Interior and Insular Affairs; Science, Space and Technology; Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 06/09/1987 Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. (All Actions) Tracker:
59. H.R.5227 — 99th Congress (1985-1986) Separation of Powers Act of 1986 Sponsor: Rep. Dornan, Robert K. [R-CA-38] (Introduced 07/23/1986) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Foreign Affairs; Interior and Insular Affairs; Science and Technology; Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 08/19/1986 Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. (All Actions) Tracker:
60. H.R.3964 — 97th Congress (1981-1982) Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 Sponsor: Rep. Jones, James R. [D-OK-1] (Introduced 06/18/1981) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; District of Columbia; Education and Labor; Foreign Affairs; Energy and Commerce; Interior and Insular Affairs; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works and Transportation; Small Business; Science and Technology; Veterans' Affairs; Ways and Means Latest Action: 07/31/1981 See H.R.3982. (All Actions) Tracker:
61. H.R.5622 — 96th Congress (1979-1980) Citizens Energy Act of 1979 Sponsor: Rep. Moffett, Toby [D-CT-6] (Introduced 10/17/1979) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Commerce; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Public Works and Transportation; Interior and Insular Affairs; Science and Technology; Ways and Means; Judiciary Latest Action: House - 10/17/1979 Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
62. H.R.5227 — 96th Congress (1979-1980) Energy Supply Act Sponsor: Rep. Biaggi, Mario [D-NY-10] (Introduced 09/11/1979) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Armed Services; Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Government Operations; Interior and Insular Affairs; Commerce; Public Works and Transportation; Science and Technology; Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 09/11/1979 Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
63. H.R.5186 — 96th Congress (1979-1980) Energy Development and Demonstration Corporation Act Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Manuel, Jr. [R-NM-1] (Introduced 09/05/1979) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Interior and Insular Affairs; Commerce; Science and Technology Latest Action: House - 09/05/1979 Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:
64. H.R.5117 — 96th Congress (1979-1980) Synthetic Fuels Development Act of 1979 Sponsor: Rep. Emery, David F. [R-ME-1] (Introduced 08/02/1979) Cosponsors: (32) Committees: House - Banking, Finance, and Urban Affrs; Science and Technology; Interior and Insular Affairs; Commerce; Government Operations Latest Action: House - 08/02/1979 Referred to House Committee on Government Operations. (All Actions) Tracker:
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Brandi Smith
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Serving Up The Right Content At The Right Time
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About the episode
We’re quickly realizing that unaligned demand generation and content marketing teams are a universal struggle at B2B SaaS companies. Understanding how content marketing leads to revenue and growth is something we know intuitively, but for most, it’s still more art than science.
Brandi Smith is the VP of Demand Generation and Marketing at Uberflip. She sits down with us to talk about how the company pushes customers through its content funnel, and how they use their tools to target different personas with unique content. But, the journey doesn’t end there. At Uberflip, multi-touch attribution is the key to unlocking the insight the company needs to understand how content marketing is making an impact where it matters most -- the company’s bottom line.
Don’t have 30 minutes to spare? Jump ahead to key sections outlined below, or keep scrolling for a full transcript of the episode.
[03:42] What’s your day-to-day as the VP of demand generation?
[07:10] What kind of content are you currently using in your funnel throughout various stages?
[10:22] Tell me a little bit about how you push people across the funnel via content whether it’s a webinar or podcast, how are you moving them from one stage to another?
[11:50] What metrics are you tracking?
[14:44] So you push somebody in through content, you get them through the funnel, where do you attribute the value for that actual conversion?
[21:26] How do you use Uberflip to target those different personas with different content?
[27:07] How do you break content marketing and demand generation silos?
"Marketing is now really ultimately a science. We have to prove what it is that we’re doing and prove out that the budget we’re requesting and asking for is going to make an impact on the business and get approval for it."
- Brandi Smith, Uberflip
Episode is brought to you by
Matthew Kammerer
Vanessa King
Joshua Schnell
Matthew: How did you first get started in marketing?
Brandi: So, I actually went to school specifically to major in marketing, and the rest is essentially history. I’ve been in B2B technology marketing primarily with startups and high-growth organizations for 18 years and really haven’t looked back. I love the challenge behind establishing that right marketing foundation and strategy to meet aggressive growth goals and really ultimately looking at everything I’m doing and how it’s truly driving impact for an organization.
Matthew: It’s so rare that people get started in that formal route. Did you feel what you learned there was more textbook or real world, and how did that help you?
Brandi: So, I’ve found textbook has been somewhat handy but really the real world experience is what has driven me and where I am today. I had a really solid mentor really early on in my career. He’s probably the most phenomenal marketer that I’ve worked with, and because of him I’m where I am today.
He took the time and the patience and exuded all of his experience and strategic mindset down to me through all of the various programs and strategies that we were working on together in a very small tech startup organization. I think I was employee number 30, and he and I were a team of two. Ultimately his mentorship and guidance is what springboarded me to the next step of my career.
Matthew: That’s awesome. Tell me a bit more about what Uberflip does.
Brandi: That’s a great question. Sometimes we’re trying to figure that out ourselves and how we fit into all of these great marketing trends that marketers are focusing on today. Ultimately, at the end of the day we’re a cloud-based content experience platform. We’re empowering B2B marketers to create personalized content experiences at scale.
What we do is enable marketers to better leverage their content to meet their goals by providing the tools they need to boost engagement, generate leads, and ultimately fuel demand generation for their organization.
Matthew: How long has Uberflip been around?
Brandi: Since 2012, so we’re in our seventh year now. Going back to how we’re assisting marketers, where we help them personalize those content experiences and that scale is really across demand generation programs, account-based marketing programs, sales enablement, and ultimately their content marketing and inbound strategies.
Matthew: Solid. This is going to be a perfect fit. So, what’s your day-to-day as the VP of demand generation?
Brandi: Well, I’m directing a lot of functions within my team and all of them are very heavily focused on driving pipeline and revenue growth. My day like most execs’ tends to be filled with meetings, unfortunately, and it doesn’t leave room for much else. I spend a lot of my evenings kind of catching up.
But, I focus on strategy but also on mentoring my team of five amazing marketers that focus on demand generation, account-based marketing, field marketing, and events. Really, we spend a lot of our day collaborating on strategic program development, discussing our programs and campaigns and their results, how to continuously optimize. We have multiple connects with the sales team each week across our various functions to ensure continuous alignment between our two groups and more. There’s really never a dull moment.
Matthew: I want to hop back to the mentor question just a little bit. How did you find your mentor originally?
Brandi: It was actually through a job that I applied for. He was looking for an assistant marketing manager and I was in contract position and I wanted something permanent. I simply applied for it, and I managed to land the gig. I hate to say it, but it was sheer dumb luck that I was able to land a great job and function with a man who ended up being a true mentor. I don’t think that happens very often.
Matthew: Have you picked up any mentees yourself?
Brandi: I think I have, actually. There’s one woman who I’ve worked with in a couple of different companies and who comes to me on a regular basis asking for some guidance or input or my thoughts on various things here or there. I tend to try to do that with my team as well. I always try to push them beyond what they feel what their limits are and help them see that they have so much more potential and guide them down that potential road. And really ultimately look to constantly explore the unknown and extend themselves past the limits that they think they’re capable of.
Matthew: I want to talk about content marketing because it’s part of your job at Uberflip, but also because your product helps team better use content in the marketing and sales funnels. So, how does content fit into demand generation at Uberflip?
Brandi: Content fuels and is the basis to all of our marketing programs and strategies, and ultimately is for any marketing department. We have a variety of content available for any stage in the buyer journey, so we’re delivering the right message to the right audience at the right time.
We’ve actually created and follow what we call the content experience framework, which helps and arms marketers with a scalable approach to creating personalized content experiences at any stage of the buyer journey. The framework outlines five easy steps to help create focus, team alignment, and truly deliver meaningful experiences across all B2B marketing strategies including inbound or content marketing, demand gen, account-based marketing, and sales enablement.
So at the end of the day we leverage this framework and we leverage content to fuel all of our different programs and strategies. It’s really the basis of everything we do.
Matthew: When we say content it’s a really broad term, right? So what kind of content are you currently using in your funnel throughout various stages?
Brandi: We’re actually using a really broad range of content types simply because every individual and prospect has a preferred method of interaction with our brand or any brand, really. We look to leverage that broad range of content to ensure that we engage our audience in a manner in which they prefer.
We have a variety of content designed to fit every stage of that buyer’s journey, as I mentioned earlier. Whether they’re top, middle, or bottom of funnel, we have everything from email nurtures, ebooks, videos, podcasts, infographics, blogs, webinars, Slideshares, customer stories, assessments, quizzes. Again, we have a broad range and it’s geared toward what our potential buyer prefers in terms of an interaction and touchpoint.
Matthew: It’s so preferential based on individual folks who are consuming that. Overall, which is performing best?
Brandi: Actually, we’re seeing a lot of great traction from our webinars. When I came in, we very much had to build out a good solid metrics foundation. So I’ve been doing a lot of that over the last several months. We got a good foundation in place this past summer and now being a couple of quarters in, we can actually dig in to see what specific webinars are driving the best results or what specific pieces of content are.
We’re not 100% there yet, but we’re getting to that point with our attribution and reporting structure and Salesforce, how we’re tracking campaigns through our Marketo, UTM parameters for various things we’re doing across the web, paid ad strategies and what not. We’re just getting to that point.
So I don’t have a specific answer aside from we have noticed some of our webinars are performing exceptionally well, and we’re now drilling in to see exactly what that looks like at a far more granular level so we can focus on what is working and eliminate what isn’t and continue to look at ways to drive better results.
Matthew: That infrastructure is such a challenge. It’s so hard, but it’s so valuable to lay that groundwork.
Brandi: It really is. When you look at Scott Brinker’s MarTech landscape, I think there’s almost 7,000 pieces of technology that are classified in various ways out there. And it’s truly really challenging for a CMO or a VP of marketing to wrap their head around what’s available within that landscape and what they truly actually need within their organization to understand how they’re impacting the business.
Matthew: It’s true. I’m just thinking about that budget line item. Gets a little wild.
Brandi: It does, and marketing is now really ultimately a science. We have to prove what it is that we’re doing and prove out that the budget we’re requesting and asking for is going to make an impact on the business and get approval for it.
Matthew: Tell me a little bit about how you push people across the funnel via content whether it’s a webinar or podcast, how are you moving them from one stage to another?
Brandi: A lot of that is nurture. We have nurture campaigns where individuals come in through a variety of different avenues or pieces of content and we’re pushing them through nurture. But it’s not just through our Marketo instance as an example. We’re also looking at nurturing them through paid ads, paid social. We have a variety of different ways that we’re sending out those various messages based on where they are in the pipeline and funnel.
Matthew: Who’s leading the charge on the nurturing side? Is it the person who’s doing paid ads is also leading nurturing, or is it living under one specific person?
Brandi: No, so that is sitting with our marketing programs manager. She runs all of our nurture programs, all of our nurture strategy, builds them out, executes on them, A/B tests everything so we’re constantly optimizing that way.
But she’s also managing our paid ads strategy, too, so that way it’s all interconnected and integrated. She has visibility into what’s going out at any particular point in time and with having access and experience in that tech stack, she can also push out those key messages based on where they are in the journey at the right time as well.
Matthew: That makes a lot of sense. When you’re measuring these things with the foundation you laid over the summer, what metrics are you tracking?
Brandi: We’re tracking things like the number of MQLs that we’re bringing in on a fiscal quarter, what our MQL to sales accepted lead conversion rates are, how many of those sales accepted leads are actually converting into qualified leads and then opportunities. We’re monitoring what our MQL sources are by date, the percentage of pipeline that marketing is actually influencing, what sales is sourcing vs what marketing is sourcing, what our lead sources are month over month. Things of that nature.
As we go a little more granular with a couple more quarters of data under our belt, now we’re starting to look at what MQLs are going to potentially be coming in. Predicting what that MQL volume is across various programs because we’re planning a quarter in advance. So our Q4 is fueling our Q1 MQLs, as an example. So now Q1, we’re going to be able to look at our lead sources and predict where our MQLs are going to come from.
We’re digging into really understanding what specific programs are working and which are not so we can start allocating more spend to what is working, remove spend from what isn’t. We’re getting granular on our cost per lead and cost per MQL so we can better predict that. Ultimately, we want to have visibility into all of the programs and functions and our spend into those, but again we’re kind of getting there.
Matthew: In the nurture process, what are the active stages you can push them through? Is it just paid ads, or is it just emails? What are the real action points you can use to drive someone through that?
Brandi: I actually believe that it’s truly a multichannel approach. Having that multichannel strategy in place. You can nurture someone, but are they paying attention to your emails? Or are they actually paying attention more on what you’re putting out over LinkedIn or some of your social profiles? Or are they paying attention to the paid ad programs that you have in place, like retargeting after they visit your website? So having content syndication programs running and doing those webinars with third parties or your partners.
We ultimately look to take more of a multichannel approach to make sure we’re getting them from every angle, and we’re constantly having that visibility. So yes it’s nurture, yes it’s paid ads, yes it’s also various third-party programming and partnership programs as well. By having that multichannel approach, you’re guaranteed to get them on a spectrum in which they’re willing to be engaged, but you’re also visible to them wherever they are on the web or wherever they are in a given day.
Matthew: So you push somebody in through content, you get them through the funnel, where do you attribute the value for that actual conversion?
Brandi: We are actually leveraging multi-touch attribution. We’re looking at that first touch and then all of the touches between that last touch as well before it actually converts and goes over to sales.
What we haven’t actually done yet is put in programs with sales where we nurture through content once they become an actual opportunity. We’re nurturing with content ahead of them becoming a sales opportunity. What we are working toward is having that touch point when it’s also with sales. We’re not quite there yet, we had to get some foundational stuff with nurture in place. But ultimately it’s the multi-touch attribution piece where we’re monitoring every single touch that we’re having with our marketing content with our prospects and buyers and taking a look at which pieces of content are actually driving results and value and those conversions.
Matthew: Yeah, that’s the same conversation I’m having with so many marketers right now. Something like a network that we operate that’s largely a native network, Carbon Ads, where you show a single image on whether it’s a web documentation page for developers or a design community that designers go to, we lean so heavily on first touch to influence somebody. But largely these are research-based decisions that are happening. So this contextual, first-touch spurs a decision but I see so many conversions come in through the tail end through just an organic search term or even paid search. It’s a challenge we’re seeing on our side as well.
Brandi: I think most marketers are seeing it, and not everyone has the luxury of having something like a Bizable in place where they can truly monitor and understand what’s going on across all of their various channels and content. We’re fortunate to have a fairly large tech stack to support a lot of that, so it’s a challenge for most. Even with the tool.
Matthew: We’ll figure it out some day, and then we’ll factor in offline and then it’s all going to get messy again.
Brandi: Yeah, like I said. It’s not a science right?
Matthew: Exactly. So let’s talk about collaboration between teams that are working together on these sorts of things. How do the content and demand generation teams work together to plan the content that’s being developed?
Brandi: I think a lot of organizations are facing that lack of integration between demand and content marketing functions. But as I mentioned earlier, content is what fuels inbound, demand generation, account-based marketing, and sales enablement strategies. At the end of the day, without content, these strategies can’t be executed on.
In my experience, often times the content team is the driver of the types of content being created for the org to use with little input from demand or sales or other functions across the organization on what will engage and inspire target audiences.
But it’s really different here at Uberflip. Our team is integrated and aligned across product marketing, customer marketing, content experience, demand generation, sales, and customer success. Ultimately, we view the content experience team as a critical element to hitting our pipeline and revenue goals.
We’re all working toward a common goal of establishing integrated campaigns that address what our audience wants to achieve regardless of if it’s our customers or our prospects. Our best performing campaigns are those that have that tight alignment across the entire team. If organizations don’t have that cross-functional alignment between their teams, there’s a massive disconnect and there’s ultimately a challenge in gaining buy-in and supporting content delivery to your audiences.
Matthew: How do you fix that? Is it aligning goals, is it housing them in the same department? What should an organization consider if they don’t have that alignment right now?
Brandi: I think it really depends on your team size. Here, we are actually creating common goals and objectives across our entire team. So we are ultimately working toward the same key performance indicators. I’ve found if everyone is working toward that common goal, they’re more likely to shoot for the same set of stars.
We as a collective team have goals and objectives that we’re actually incentivized on on a quarter-by-quarter basis. If one area of the team misses the mark, the whole team misses the mark. We rally together as one to make sure stuff actually gets done.
Then we also schedule regular discussions and brainstorming sessions cross-functionally across our marketing team but also with other groups. We have weekly team marketing meetings, and some of those are brainstorming sessions where someone can come in and say, “I’m working on this, but I need everybody’s ideas and thoughts and input on it.” Or we’re rolling out a new A/B testing strategy and tagging everyone in our team to come to the table with what their test is for the month and how they’re going to measure it and what their hypothesis is and everything. Again, if you’re getting everybody to align and work toward those common goals and objectives, they’re more prone to actually work collaboratively together to make sure it’s done.
Matthew: You’re living the dream being able to be on the same page on some of those things. It’s great.
Brandi: Honestly, it’s a true blessing because I’ve been in a lot of organizations where there’s a really significant disconnect within the marketing team. It just makes things exponentially harder to achieve and get things done.
Matthew: Is it safe to assume that your targeting a few different personas across your lifecycle here?
Brandi: We are, actually. At the end of the day we’re targeting marketers. We’re specifically looking to target marketers that are focused on content marketing, demand generation, and account-based marketing. Demand gen often times is responsible for sales enablement pieces as well. That’s ideally who we want to target, but also the VP and CMO when it comes to marketing teams simply because we’re fuelling support for a lot of different marketing programs and strategies. Having that alignment both at a more senior and admin level is actually really critical within an organization.
Matthew: How do you use Uberflip to target those different personas with different content?
Brandi: We leverage our platform across all of our different marketing strategies and programs. We create personalized content experiences literally at scale for our ABM target accounts with customized content streams to individuals, to companies, to specific industries. What could take an organization 30-60 minutes per landing page to build in marketing automation could actually take use minutes within our own platform.
Our sales team also creates custom content streams for their prospects where they embed into their emails the direct content that’s relevant to them that maps to their job role, their job function. Maybe it’s a custom stream specific to their organization and their areas of interest as it relates to our product, customer stories and so on.
We even create streams to support our webinars, events, and campaigns which we drive our audience to with content that’s relevant to the topic discussed as an example as well. We distribute our monthly customer newsletter via a stream filled with content relevant to the monthly focus as well. This is actually a living stream, so our customers can continuously access new information that’s being added all of the time.
We also use our platform to centralize, organize, and distribute our content via our website. So visitors coming in can quickly locate and navigate through our resources to access content relevant to their areas of interest while our AI engine continuously serves up content suggestions that are aligned with their intent signals, which then allow for that personalization to be continued.
At the end of the day, there’s so many use cases for Uberflip so we look to continue to leverage our platform across everything we do to really demonstrate the power, the value, and the capabilities it delivers when looking to create that exceptional content experience.
Matthew: That’s wild. Do you use any paid channels right now to get content in front of the right people?
Brandi: We do.
Matthew: Tell me about those channels. Any results or tips you can share?
Brandi: We use a number of paid channels to get our content in front of both prospects and customers. From targeted paid ad and paid social programs, content syndication, third-party webinars, sponsored reports, email, event speaking engagements. It’s anything and everything that you can imagine.
Matthew: Tell me more about the content syndication side. I’m curious about that.
Brandi: We’ve done your typical content syndication with a vendor where it’s just kind of out there for anyone and everyone. But we’re now tapping into some very specific ABM programs where we’re leveraging target accounts. So Madison Logic, as an example, we’re launching a pilot with them for our one to many accounts that is literally just over 9,000 accounts right now where we don’t have a lot of intent signals from these accounts so we’re doing a paid ad strategy that feeds into our content syndication program with them for our various pieces of content and drives them back to our website.
We’re being a bit more specific with our content syndication and launching it more with the accounts that we want to get into as a part of our ABM strategy. We still have some general content syndication programs running with some really great pieces of content that we’ve seen to convert the highest and bring in the best quality style of leads, but it’s more so for ABM and the accounts that we want to attract.
Matthew: After talking with a few guests this season, I’ve started to notice it’s really common to have the unalignment between the content and demand teams. We’ve talked a little bit about that, but have you found that to be the case with your buyer personas or even past teams you’ve worked with?
Brandi: Very much so. Prior to joining Uberflip I was at an organization where the content team really just operated in a silo. They created an editorial calendar but it wasn’t really mapped to what product marketing was working on or what demand gen was working on, or what customer marketing really needed and felt was valuable for customers. They just churned out what they wanted to churn out, which makes all of these other functions exponentially harder. Particularly on the customer or demand marketing side, because ultimately demand is fueled by content.
And if the content is missing the mark in terms of inspiring your target or ideal account profiles and getting them interested and wanting to engage and learn more, you’re spending a lot of dollars on programs that simply ends up being a waste. It really creates a significant challenge both from a team morale standpoint but also how you’re spending your budget and ultimately driving revenue for your organization.
Matthew: How do you break those silos?
Brandi: I think a lot of the time it actually comes from top down. If your marketing leader, your CMO, or your VP of marketing, is really driving you toward that common goal and inspiring you to work collaboratively together, that can typically work. But sometimes at the end of the day, you have hard headed people and you have to evaluate what is truly the right fit for the team. Sometimes you have to make some truly tough decisions.
Matthew: What advice do you have for marketers looking to grow in their careers?
Brandi: I think learning never stops. Whether you’re early into your career or you have 20 years under your belt, it never really stops. Regardless of where you are in your career, you should always look to grow and really seek out a mentor. Attend educational conferences or industry conferences, look to build a solid network of marketers. If you have local user groups and meetups, attend those regularly. Network the heck out of them. Hire people who have strengths in areas that you don’t. There’s strengths that I have in certain areas, but I know that I’m weaker in others and I much prefer to hire people who can fill those gaps for me. Essentially just look to always learn, grow, and evolve.
Matthew: How do you give back as a mentee? I always feel like I take advantage of my mentor.
Brandi: It’s taking everything that you learn, implementing it, sharing those results, and also looking to mentor someone else. Pay it forward.
Matthew: Where can folks find you online?
Brandi: Twitter my handle is @brandismith01 and you can find me on LinkedIn.
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Hannah Miller (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an aspiring writer who's been given a chance to work for a magazine by her new friend Marty Gold (Richard Lewis). First friends and now co-workers, Hannah and Marty struggle poorly to conceal their mutual attraction. What unfolds is classic television comedy. In the style of Hepburn and Tracy, Curtis and Lewis mix slapstick with sophisticated wit as they navigate the waters of an interoffice romance.
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Source: She, Q., Jin, X., Li, Q., & Tang, C. Y. (2012). Relating reverse and forward solute diffusion to membrane fouling in osmotically driven membrane processes. Water Research, 46(7), 2478-2486.
Series/Report no.: Water research
Abstract: Osmotically driven membrane processes, such as forward osmosis (FO) and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), are attracting increasing interest in research and applications in environment and energy related fields. In this study, we systematically investigated the alginate fouling on an osmotic membrane during FO operation using four types of draw solutions (NaCl, MgCl2, CaCl2 and Ca(NO3)2) to elucidate the relationships between reverse (from draw solution to feed solution) and forward (from feed solution to draw solution) solute diffusion, and membrane fouling. At the same water flux level (achieved by adjusting the draw solution concentration), the greatest reverse solute diffusion rate was observed for NaCl draw solution, followed by Ca(NO3)2 draw solution, and then CaCl2 draw solution and MgCl2 draw solution, the order of which was consistent with that of their solute permeability coefficients. Moreover, the reverse solute diffusion of draw solute (especially divalent cation) can change the feed solution chemistry and thus enhance membrane fouling by alginate, the extent of which is related to the rate of the reverse draw solute diffusion and its ability to interact with the foulant. The extent of fouling for the four types of draw solution followed an order of Ca(NO3)2 > CaCl2 >> MgCl2 > NaCl. On the other hand, the rate of forward diffusion of feed solute (e.g., Na+) was in turn promoted under severe membrane fouling in active layer facing draw solution orientation, which may be attributed to the fouling enhanced concentration polarization (pore clogging enhanced ICP and cake enhanced concentration polarization). The enhanced concentration polarization can lead to additional water flux reduction and is an important mechanism governing the water flux behavior during FO membrane fouling. Findings have significant implications for the draw solution selection and membrane fouling control in osmotically driven membrane processes.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2012.02.024
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Egypt receives $2bn worth bids to establish waste-to-energy projects - Daily News Egypt
Business Egypt receives $2bn worth bids to establish waste-to-energy projects
Egypt receives $2bn worth bids to establish waste-to-energy projects
Arab, foreign companies find appetite to invest in the sector after cabinet’s approval of feed-in tariff
Mohamed Farag November 1, 2019 Comments Off on Egypt receives $2bn worth bids to establish waste-to-energy projects
Both Ministries of Electricity and Environment have received a load of proposals to establish waste-to-energy projects after the cabinet approved the feed-in tariff for such projects. Total investment bids received from Arab and foreign companies amounted to $2bn.
A government source told Daily News Egypt that bidding companies included Entag, Egyptian Company for Solid Waste Recycling (ECARU), Empower Energy, Global Knowledge Company (GKC), China Power International Development, Recovered Energy Group, Intro Group, Shanghai Electric, and others.
The cabinet set the feed-in tariff for waste-to-energy projects at 140 piasters per kW/h. The tariff will be payable in EGP and will remain in place for 25 years. Under the tariff decision, the governorate in which the project is set up will pay 103 piasters per kW/h, while the remaining 37 piasters will be paid by sanitation organisations falling under the Environment Ministry’s jurisdiction.
According to the cabinet’s decision, the land of the project will be allocated by the hosting governorate on a usufruct scheme. Furthermore, each governorate – where the plant is located – will be responsible for providing the needed waste for the plant free of charge.
Khalid Al-Farra, a consultant for the waste-to-energy tariff, said the 140 piasters tariff set by the cabinet is feasible. According to the technical and financial studies upon which the tariff was determined, it is attractive and very encouraging for investment, and took into account the interests of both the state and investors, he added.
Ehab Tahoun, chairperson of the South Korea’s GKC Group, said the government-approved tariff is encouraging and attractive for investment, and opens the way for companies to invest heavily in this sector. The group aims to enter a waste-to-energy project with $225m investment in the first week of December, he revealed.
Tahoun explained that the target project’s incineration capacity will reach 600 tonnes of waste per day, adding that the project will be financed by a Saudi investor. GKC also aims to establish 10 power plants in Egypt in the coming period.
Hatem El Gamal, chairperson of Empower, said his company aims to launch four waste-to-energy plants in Egypt with investments up to EGP 400m.
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Aiming to provide state-of-the-art fitness assessments to members, Brimbank City Council has introduced Evolt 360 body scanning technology at its Sunshine and St Albans Leisure Centres.
The new technology gives members the tools to assess their overall fitness levels and accurately measure what is really going on inside their body.
The system performs a full body scan and provides members an easy to use method of measuring key health indicators including muscle mass; body fat percentage; fitness age (age match to body) and score; total body water; basal metabolic rate; and hydration and bone mineral content.
A Council statement advises “the test itself is as easy as standing on a set of scales – it’s completely non-invasive and takes less than two minutes to perform.
“This newest technology is ideal for anyone beginning a new training regime, looking to track their progress and identify areas of improvement.
Within moments, comprehensive results are produced, detailing the important information required to design an individual program, tailored to our member’s specific needs to get the best results.
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Ronnie A. Schawang, 80, of Rulo, passed away Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at Lincoln. He was born on Oct. 13, 1934 at Falls City to the late William and Mary (Nitzsche) Schawang.
He was raised on a farm northeast of Falls City and graduated from FC Sacred Heart High School in 1952. Following graduation, Ronnie farmed with his father. He married Nancy Hersh on Feb. 1, 1964 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Rulo. When married, the couple established their home on a farm northeast of Falls City. He farmed and raised livestock his entire life and was also a substitute school bus driver.
Ronnie was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and was the Rural Volunteer Fire Department from 1966 until 2000.
He’s survived by his wife, Nancy Schawang, of Rulo; daughters, Jackie (Terry) Way and Martha (Todd) Chapple, both of Rulo; brothers, Willie Schawang, of Falls City, and David (Jan) Schawang, of Hastings; grandchildren, Tessa and Tyler Way, and Sydney and Courtney Chapple.
Ronnie was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Wayne Schawang.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 18, 2015 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Rulo, with Fr. David Oldham as presiding priest. Inurnment will be at Arago Cemetery at a later date. A Parish Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Friday at Dorr and Clark Funeral Home. The family will greet friends following the rosary.
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Myanmar Rohingya minority battered by persecution and corruption
Image courtesy of VOA via YoutubePresident Obama will be in Myanmar later this week for the East Asia Summit. A story Thursday by Jane Perlez of the New York Times reminded the president and the rest of the world about the plight of Myanmar’s one million Rohingya people and their victimization by corrupt police and immigration officials.
The Rohingya are part of a Muslim minority in the mainly Buddhist country. They have to prove their family has lived in Myanmar for more than 60 years to “qualify for second-class citizenship or be placed in camps,” Perlez said. Few can produce the proof the government requires.
Most Rohingya want to leave Myanmar and are trying to do that.
“In the last three weeks alone,” the Times said, “14,500 Rohingya have sailed from the beaches of Rakhine State to Thailand, with the ultimate goal of reaching Malaysia.”
A big obstacle for those trying to leave are corrupt police. They demand bribes from the human smugglers who arrange boats trips to Thailand.
One smuggler told the Times that police recently demanded a $2,000 bribe for letting a boat leave carrying 20 Rohingya.
The smugglers offered slighly less but the police wouldn’t accept it, so the trip didn’t happen.
Last week, President Obama called President Thein Sein of Myanmar and asked him to address the “tensions and humanitarian situation in Rakhine State” where most Rohingya live, the White House said.
The Rohingya have long been persecuted in Myanmar. After attacks on them in 1978, around 200,000 fled to Bangladesh, the NYT said. The latest attacks in 2012 left hundreds of Rohingya dead and dozens of their villages burnt to the ground.
At least a quarter of a million Rohingya now live in camps with little access to medical care, and most are forbidden to leave.
Matthew Smith, the director of the NGO Fortify Rights said officials in Myanmar are complicit in the human smuggling.
“We’ve documented Myanmar police and armed forces taking payments as high as seven million kyat ($7,000) in return for a boat’s passage to sea,” he told the New York Times.
In some cases, the Myanmar Navy escorted boats filled with fleeing Rohingya and operated by criminal gangs out to international waters, Smith said.
The Times said a 20-year-old Rohingya student paid a “broker” $4,000 that his family raised to fly 90 minutes from a Rohinga camp in the north to Myanmar’s capital Yangon in the south, where life is better for Rohingya.
The student said the broker gave more than 75 percent of the cost to immigration officials who control departures by Rohingya from the camps.
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