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It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Book Journey!
Today I'm Reading...
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver delivers a gripping story about two sisters inexorably altered by a terrible accident. Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it's too late. In this edgy and compelling novel, Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue, loss, and suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves, and each other.
What Else I Plan to Read This Week
An emotional contemporary YA novel about love, loss, and having the courage to chase the life you truly want. Reeling from her mother's death, Georgia has a choice: become lost in her own pain, or enjoy life right now, while she still can. She decides to start really living for the first time and makes a list of fifteen ways to be brave - all the things she's wanted to do but never had the courage to try. As she begins doing the things she's always been afraid to do - including pursuing her secret crush, she discovers that life doesn't always go according to plan. Sometimes friendships fall apart and love breaks your heart. But once in a while, the right person shows up just when you need them most - and you learn that you're stronger and braver than you ever imagined.
What I'll be Listening to This Week
When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.
So there you have it, the two books that I plan on reading this week. What are you reading this week?
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South Africa: Opening Remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Council on Foreign Relations Meeting, New York, USA
Photo: GCIS
President Ramaphosa addressing the Council on Foreign Relations meeting, at the Council offices in New York. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa (Pretoria)
Thank you for this opportunity to share with you some perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of the current global environment.
As you would be aware, this year South Africa is celebrating the centenary of the founding father of our democracy, President Nelson Mandela.
This celebration has provided us with an opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made as a young democracy and the tasks that still lie ahead of us.
It has also reinforced the need for South Africa to continue to build on the legacy of President Mandela in working towards a peaceful, just and prosperous world.
We remain inspired by the role he played as a bridge-builder and seek to follow his example in bringing together divergent perspectives.
At this moment in global history, as we seek to navigate the challenges confronting the political, security and economic architecture that has evolved over the last 70 years, we are convinced of the value of Mandela's approach to consensus-building and the peaceful resolution of conflict.
This view is reinforced by a number of disturbing global developments.
The resurgence of geopolitical rivalry, which has not been experienced since the Cold War era, has huge implications for international peace and security.
There is a growing challenge to important multilateral arrangements, characterised by the withdrawal from commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, on climate change, financing for development and in nuclear non-proliferation.
The rise of trade protectionism threatens the multilateral trading system we agreed in Marrakech in 1994 and Doha in 2001.
There appears to be little prospect of the resolution of intractable conflicts in the Middle East and in Africa, nor has the international community managed to effectively address growing political intolerance, acts of terrorism and right-wing extremism.
While globalisation has brought many opportunities and much progress, it has also contributed to growing inequality among states and within states.
These challenges are by no means insurmountable.
However, they do require a return to a cooperative and inclusive approach to international relations.
The idea that might is right is wrong.
There is an opportunity for the world leaders, international organisations and civil society to work together to restore the primacy and relevance of multilateralism.
At the same time, we need to emphasise the importance of a more proactive approach to the maintenance of international peace and security.
We can do that by paying particular attention to preventive diplomacy, which should be supported through closer coordination and partnership between the United Nations and regional organisations such as the African Union.
We need to strengthen the rules-based international trading system and move with speed to transform other multilateral institutions and global governance structures to be in line with the current realities of the 21st century.
This should include reform of the UN Security Council, which is limited in its ability to respond to current security challenges by virtue of its structure, composition and relative lack of accountability.
For the global development agenda to succeed we have to ensure the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its means of implementation, the Climate Change Paris Agreement and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development.
To do so, we need to build meaningful partnerships between UN member states, international organisations, civil society organisations and the private sector.
As South Africa, we are determined to use every means at our disposal, including our participation in global forums, to advance the African Union's Agenda 2063 and to consolidate regional integration.
We are working together with our fellow African countries to establish a Continental Free Trade Area, which would fundamentally transform Africa's economies and consolidate the continent's position in the global trading system.
This dream – of a single African market for goods and services – has been made possible by sustained economic growth and greater political stability.
Despite the progress, however, there are still areas where instability and conflict continue to cause great misery and hardship.
We are still confronting challenges in places like South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Lesotho and areas of the Great Lakes, the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin.
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South Africa will continue to play its part in conflict resolution in these areas, and in combating threats to regional and international peace and security.
South Africa will take up a non-permanent seat on the Security Council from next year to December 2020.
We will dedicate our tenure on the Security Council to continuing the legacy of Nelson Mandela, whose values of peace, reconciliation and respect continues to inspire Africa and indeed the whole world.
In line with the philosophy and practice of the Mandela years, South Africa continues to seek warm fraternal relations and strong economic ties with all the countries of the world regardless of size, influence or alignment.
We remain firmly committed to rules-based multilateralism as the most sustainable and effective approach to the management of international relations – and will continue to advocate for the needs and interests of developing countries to be placed at the top of the international agenda.
I thank you.
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Copyright © 2018 The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
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In Accordance with the Times
“Achievement is not the most important thing – authenticity is.” ~ Unknown
There is a lot to be said for being a resourceful person, and the independent film industry has a budget conscious filmmaker who used all his smarts to produce a film that is both historically correct and thrilling. Every detail of the film was planned and produced in the most economical way possible to bring the feature film to fruition and yet, it can still boast of drawing big name stars, James Cromwell and Michael Wincott, into the cast.
The movie? A Lonely Place for Dying and at the helm in the director’s seat is Justin Evans. Many of the crew members filled multiple rolls, which allowed the movie to stay within budget. Digital visual effects authentically brought back 1972 and recreated everything from backdrops to sounds and sights of this period piece.
This award-winning film continues to make its rounds on the film festival circuit and it has already secured foreign film distribution rights. I look forward to seeing it! Finally, my husband and I will be able to see what our son,Marc, was so entrenched in from a very surprising place! Marc Leonard and Daniel Broadway were the visual effects artists for the film.
For more information on this thrilling independent film, the director, the writer and how the visual effects were done, pick up the Summer 2010 issue of Movie Maker Magazine off the newsstand or subscribe at www.moviemaker.com/subscribe. Look for the article Period Piece on the Cheap. And to check out what else this independent film production company is up to, visit www.humblemagi.com.
Actor James Cromwell, in “A Lonely Place for Dying.”
Categories: Art, Building community through partnerships, Businesses supporting independent filmmaking, Careers, children, children and the arts, cornerstonefulfillmentservice, documentary filmmakers, fulfillment in the Arts, global order fulfillment, Independent Business, Independent filmmakers, Independent Publishers Resources, Independent Publishing, Inspiration, Marketing for Independent Publishers, order fulfillment for independent publishers, order fulfillment for independent publishers, screenwriting, shipping, world wide shipping, Writing, writing and publishing Tags: A Lonely Place for Dying - independent film, Daniel Broadway, James Cromwell, Justin Evans, Marc Leonard, world wide distribution, www.humblemagi.com, www.moviemaker.com
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Christine Lindsay – Shadowed in Silk
3 – 7 February 2014
Australian Christian Readers Blog Alliance
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WhiteFire Publishing Sept 2011
She was invisible to those who should have loved her.
After the Great War, Abby Fraser returns to India with her small son, where her husband is stationed with the British army. She has longed to go home to the land of glittering palaces and veiled women . . . but Nick has become a cruel stranger. It will take more than her American pluck to survive.
Major Geoff Richards, broken over the loss of so many of his men in the trenches of France, returns to his cavalry post in Amritsar. But his faith does little to help him understand the ruthlessness of his British peers toward the Indian people he loves. Nor does it explain how he is to protect Abby Fraser and her child from the husband who mistreats them.
Amid political unrest, inhospitable deserts, and Russian spies, tensions rise in India as the people cry for the freedom espoused by Gandhi. Caught between their own ideals and duty, Geoff and Abby stumble into sinister secrets . . . secrets that will thrust them out of the shadows and straight into the fire of revolution.
Christine Lindsay writes historical inspirational novels with strong love stories, and she takes pride in her Irish roots. Her great grandfather and grandfather worked as riveters in the Belfast shipyard, one of those ships her ancestors helped build was the Titanic. On her mother’s side it was stories of ancestors who served in the British Cavalry in India that seeded Christine’s long-time fascination with the British Raj and became the stimulus for her Twilight of the British Raj series.The Pacific coast of Canada, about 200 miles north of Seattle, is Christine’s home where she lives with her husband, David, and they enjoy the visits from their adult children and grandchildren. Like a lot of authors, Christine’s chief editor is her cat
www.christinelindsay.com
Amanda’s Review
I have to admit I read Shadowed in Silk after Captured by Moonlight, so in the wrong order. But it didn’t really matter too much. It was great to read the story of characters that were only mentioned a little in the second novel. They both can be read as stand alone novels.
Once again I was transported to the exotic setting of India amidst the turmoil of political upheaval. That backdrop gave the story great tension and kept me turning the pages. And I loved the way the romance built between the main characters. There were enough twists and turns to keep me satisfied until I put Shadowed in Silk down with a sigh of contentment.
I look forward to the third instalment of the Twilight of the British Raj series and I recommend Christine’s novels to anyone who loves a good romance with a bit of suspense and a different setting.
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Scouting Report: Cleveland Browns
August 4, 2016 August 4, 2016 22robertsa 2016, NFL, NFL Scouting Reports, Uncategorized Browns, Cameron Erving, Carl Nassib, Cleveland Browns, Corey Coleman, Danny Shelton, Desmond Bryant, Duke Johnson, Emmanuel Ogbah, Gary Barnidge, Hue Jackson, Isaiah Crowell, Jordan Payton, Josh Gordon, Nate Orchard, Paul Kruger, Rashard Higgins, RG3, Ricardo Louis, Robert Griffin III, Scooby Wright III, Shon Coleman, Spencer Drango
The Browns are still well, the Browns. So you can’t expect very much from this team. RG3 may help a little bit under center, but come on Hue Jackson?! You expect him to pass as the starting QB when he hasn’t been good for 4 years? They had a good draft, they have some more elite wide receivers after cutting Dwayne Bowe and Brian Hartline, and losing Travis Benjamin to the Chargers, who signed him as a free agent. They got Corey Coleman and reinstated Josh Gordon, who is still suspended four games, and will return
against Tom Brady’s Patriots. Brady will also be hungry for revenge after a suspension of his own. They also got Demario Davis on defense, but otherwise, this is the same old team. How many wins can the Browns even get with the talent they have?
3 Players to Watch
1. Carl Nassib, DE
With Desmond Bryant out for the season, the Browns now have a hole at defensive end. They drafted both Carl Nassib and Emmanuel Ogbah at the position, but Ogbah is set to play outside linebacker for the Browns. That leaves Nassib with the starting job. He does have competition, Xavier Cooper is also strong at the position, but this third round pick was a very intriguing selection, a former walk-on at Penn State who broke out senior year with 15.5 sacks. The NFL may take some time for him to get used to, and NFL.com was concerned he could be a one year wonder, but personally, I think this rookie could be a breakout candidate, and this year is his oppurtunity with Desmond Bryant missing the season.
2. Duke Johnson, RB
I think this sophomore running back has more talent than Isaiah Crowell, at least potential talent at full development. The running back only had 104 carries for 379 yards in his rookie season, but this passing back also has put up 61 receptions for 534 yards and 2 TDs. If he fully develops, he could be a multi-purpose back that scores rushing and receiving touchdowns. I expect his TD numbers to go up in 2016, along with his total yardage.
3. Scooby Wright III, ILB
“Hey, the Browns are so bad, they signed Scooby Doo!”
“No, I think you got the wrong Scooby.” Yeah. Wrong Scooby. This is Scooby Wright III. You probably haven’t heard of him. He’s an inside linebacker who was originally projected to be selected in Round 3 of the NFL Draft, but went to the Browns in Round 7 instead. Personally, I think this college stud should act like a third rounder on the Browns, possibly even fight for Christian Kirksey’s current starting job. I know, what’s with the weird names? In 2 seasons with the Browns, Kirksey, a third round pick in 2014, has only racked up 5.5 sacks. Wright racked up 14 sacks in the 2014 college football season, that’s more than one per game, after none in freshman year. The question is, can Wright put up the same numbers he did in his healthy years in college, and can he be consistent? In the three games he did play last year, he got 2 sacks. Can he put up the same numbers in all 16 games?
3 Questions That Must Be Answered
1. Can Robert Griffin III ever match
his 2012 stats again?
In his rookie season, RG3 led the
Redskins to a division win and strong playoff run, making for an amazing rookie year. But he got hurt in a playoff game. In 2013,
Griffin never fully recovered. He was sidelined for the last three games for Kirk Cousins. Back then, Cousins wasn’t what he is now. He wasn’t developed yet, and at the start of 2014, RG3 earned the job back. Somehow, his terrible 2013 numbers passed for a starting job? The Redskins had a serious QB problem that year. RG3 got hurt again in week 2 and Cousins started for seven games. RG3 came back in Week 9, but he still did nothing. RG3 was still not quite back to what he was, and with Kirk Cousins shut down for the season with his own injury, the Redskins had to rely on Colt McCoy to start for the remainder of the season. McCoy eventually got hurt and RG3 had to start the rest of the season. In 2015, Griffin struggled regressively in the preseason, and lost his job to Kirk Cousins permanently, falling to third on the depth chart also behind Colt McCoy. Cousins broke out, leading the Redskins back to the playoffs in an easy division, and RG3 never saw action, and eventually was released. The Redskins must have been sick of his tactics. Then Cleveland signs him and names him starter? Over Josh McCown? After last year’s disgrace. Wow, Hue Jackson. Just, wow. Griffin looks promising in the preseason, but it’s not a guarantee he’ll get back to business, and stay healthy. I personally think he’ll do alright, but he still won’t be what he was, and I can’t tell you he won’t get hurt. Good move keeping Josh McCown, Cleveland.
2. Will Josh Gordon perform well, and stay out of trouble?
Most people believe Josh Gordon’s recent reinstatement will benefit the Browns. Personally, I’m questioning whether Gordon is in football shape. He’s battling a preseason injury for a reason. After a long suspension, it’s not easy to go back to what you were before the ban. Gordon will be able to play in preseason games, but will remain suspended for regular season games until Week 5. I don’t think Gordon will go back to being the guy who was a league leader in receiving yards right away. It will take time for Gordon to redevelop his skill, if he ever does. I’m starting to wonder, did the drugs affect his performance? It’s also not a guarantee that Gordon will stay out of trouble. If he has issues later in the season, he could receive more discipline. Gordon shouldn’t have even been reinstated in the first place! I think Gordon should be grateful he was reinstated, and drop the drugs so he can just play football again, but will he?
3. Will strong drafts in 2015 and 2016 pay off?
In the last two years, the Browns have drafted many key players. Danny Shelton, Nate Orchard, Cameron Erving, Duke Johnson, Corey Coleman, Emmanuel Ogbah, Carl Nassib, Rashard Higgins, Ricardo Louis, Jordan Payton, Shon Coleman and Spencer Drango have all came from the last two years’ drafts. Most of these guys aren’t completely developed yet, but a lot of them have potential. Danny Shelton is a major breakout candidate, after decent numbers last year. He was a 12th overall pick, after all. Nate Orchard has contributed to the pass rush, as well. Cameron Erving could emerge into a starter, and Duke Johnson is blossoming into a work horse RB. In this year’s draft came four receivers. Corey Coleman should be an immediate force, while Rashard Higgins, Ricardo Louis and Jordan Payton could see receptions off the bench. Personally, I think Higgins and Payton are two underrated receivers that could fight for WR4 and WR5 jobs. I also think both o-linemen and pass rushers should see time on the field, Nassib could even start. I like the duo of Nassib and Ogbah to rack up 6 or 7 sacks. Personally, I think Drango is the best option at right guard. All these guys should eventually fan out, and some will affect the season.
3 Bold Predictions
1. Duke Johnson will lead in not just rushing yards, but lead Browns non-QBs in total yards
Duke Johnson is no one-trick pony, even in football. He doesn’t just scramble well, he makes catches. Personally, between his rushing yards and receiving yards and TDs he purs up, he’s an intriguing pick to lead Browns non-QBs in total yards and TDs. There is Gary Barnidge, who could go for more TDs, but although Barnidge should be starting material at tight end, he won’t match last year, or even come close. Josh Gordon will be missing 4 games, so Johnson has time to get a head start on him, and the rest of the receiving group hasn’t quite panned out yet, even Corey Coleman and Andrew Hawkins. What about Isaiah Crowell? Honestly, I think Duke Johnson will be started over Crowell this year. Crowell hasn’t proven to be a quality starter, and I would give the sophomore RB, part of a legendary rookie running back class a try at the starting job. Duke J0hnson is a major sleeper, and he will breakout in 2016.
2. Only 2 players will reach 8 sacks on Browns, but who?
The Browns pass rush can be pathetic at times. Without Desmond Bryant, it will be even harder. Personally, I think that only 2 players will even rack up 8 sacks. Some of you might even be wondering who could do that? I like Paul Kruger personally. The veteran has had plenty of sacks in his career, 8 should be easy for him, if he can get back on track after a rough 2015. The other guy being Danny Shelton. Like I said, this guy is a major sleeper. I’d expect more from the former 1st round pick in 2016. He’s yet to earn a sack in his career. 2016 is his year, especially if he wants to keep the starting job.
3. The Browns will lead the AFC North in rushing yards
Hue Jackson sure likes to run the ball. He has two powerful running backs in his backfield, but why do they top backfields with guys like Le’ Veon Bell and DeAngelo Williams? Jeremy Hill and Giovani Bernard? Well, Bell will be suspended for the first four games, so his rushing totals will be cut in to, and DeAngelo Williams is an aging back. Jeremy Hill is good, but Gio Bernard also gets some of his yards in receptions. Isaiah Crowell and Duke Johnson are two underrated backs that could breakout, and it wouldn’t be bold predictions without a shocker like this.
Schedule Breakdown
The Browns don;t have many opportunities for wins, so they must take advantage of the opportunities they do have. They open the season in Philadelphia against Doug Pederson’s Eagles. I think this game is winnable, as I am disgusted by the Eagles’ off season rebuild, but home field advantage should pay off for the Eagles, who should top the just as bad Cleveland Browns. The rebuilt Ravens should be tough as well.
Then come matches against the Dolphins and Redskins. The Dolphins aren’t great, but they do have some mediocrity around the team. They just don’t compare to the rest of the league. But they are better than the Browns, especially when at home. The Redskins still have a strong receiving group, and the defense is getting better, definitely enough to top the Browns.
They have absolutely no chance against Brady in his first game back, and a revamped Titans offense should thrive at home. Cincinnati may be on the decline, but they still have enough weapons to blowout the Browns. This would put Cleveland at 0-7. Then comes a mtch-up against the Jets, in Cleveland. I see home field advantage kicking in, and even with Ryan Fitzpatrick leading a strong Jets offense now, the defense has lost steam since last season, and the Browns offense, Josh Gordon, RG3, Corey Coleman, Duke Johnson, Isaiah Crowell and Gary Barnidge, should be enough to edge out the defense and get their first win.
The Cowboys should be tough when nearly at full strength. DeMarcus Lawrence, maybe even Randy Gregory will be back, and I think the defense is underrated. In addition to a stellar offense, that should be enough to down the Browns in Cleveland, and if Cleveland loses to the Ravens at home, it won’t be any easier on the road, even with Josh Gordon in his sixth week. The Steelers’ QB/RB/WR combo is tough for the Browns as well, but in a division match-up, I could see the Browns splitting, and pulling the upset trigger in this game. Their underrated offense will take advantage of the Pittsburgh D, and the Steelers offense won’t do enough. They will be dealt a loss in Pittsburgh, though. The Giants’ revamped defense will compliment the offense and give them the road win. Going into the bye, the Browns would be just 2-10. If you count the Steelers match-up after the bye I called a loss, I have them at 2-11 so far.
After the bye, they have two winnable match-ups. The first one is hosting the Bengals, another division match-up, but especially after how well the Bengals have done against the Browns, I don’t see the Browns beating the Bengals and Steelers and not the Ravens. So they lose that one. In Buffalo, the strong draft plus the developing talent they already had should be too good for the Browns. The second winnable match-up comes against the Chargers. Although the Philip Rivers led offense is intriguing, Hue Jackson’s underrated Browns offense should be all over a weak defense. Then they close up the season in Pittsburgh. They can’t win this game under any circumstances, and at 3-12, they will have given up already. I see a loss here.
My Prediction
The Browns will never be that good without some moves, and I don’t see many winnable match-ups on the schedule. But this underrated offense could pull an upset or two, and I can at least see the Browns beat the Chargers at home and maybe the Jets. Two, three, maybe four wins sounds pretty reasonable, but they will likely place last in the conference.
Final Projected Record: 3-13
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journals + iTunes = ?
Andromeda Uncategorized June 20, 2010
Finally got around to reading this tab I’ve had open for ages (sorry, can no longer remember whom to hat tip!) about a pessimistic take on Elsevier’s business model, and was struck by the following:
At the APE Conference in Berlin in January 2010 there were several presentations on article-level impact metrics — it is at least plausible to imagine a world in which the value of the franchise of each individual journal decreases and the value of the franchise of the individual articles increases.
This reminds me very much of the ongoing music-industry business-model freakout, some of which centers on the dissolution of the “album” as an important object in favor of more easily customized and remixed singles.[*] Surely I am far from the first person to have thought of this analogy, and there must be people who understand the business landscape for journals well enough to have thought through this analogy; anyone know where I would find them?
[*] I have to say, sometimes I feel little sorrows that the mix tapes I once spent so long making, and that were once made so carefully for me, may no longer be a meaningful genre. We put so much time into, not just the overall blend of the songs, but story arcs, and striking transitions. But this is only possible when the mix tape is a standalone object that gets played in a single order — it crashes to pieces on the shoals of iTunes.
Which is not to say I regret iTunes; I listen to more diverse music these days, and have a few really useful playlists, and I like the serendipity of shuffle. Just that — few goods are unmixed, and here’s the casualty of progress. (And how d mix tapes fit into the analogy?)
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John Murphy says:
I wish it were possible to give someone an iTunes playlist: put together a playlist of music from the iTunes store, pay what it would cost to buy all of the tracks, then send it to someone. That someone would get all the tracks they don’t already have, and then get the balance in cash. (Bonus points if it lets you specify suitable substitutions, like when the same song exists on both the original album and a ‘greatest hits’ album)
Grant Gould says:
I’m of two minds — on the one hand, iTunes totally needs more playlist-oriented and social tools. On the other hand, it’s a massive piece of already too-slow bloatware. I think that Apple is hemmed in by their decision to make it entirely a monolithic app rather than a web app.
Your playlist-gift-purchase idea is excellent — we actually started building such an app at Oxy a couple of years ago — but gets ugly if your gift crosses a national or regional border. The same songs may not be available for license in different countries, or may be licensed for different amounts, or may be in a country where “database copyright” makes playlists copyrightable. Worse, many online music sellers are experimenting with dynamic pricing, so you don’t know in advance what a different person at a different time will be charged for the same track. And the recent Pink Floyd licensing foofraw will only make this stranger.
Andromeda says:
Can you go into more detail on the last two sentences?
Also, I’m not clear how your first sentence isn’t answered by Genius, except insofar as you inexplicably do not like it.
(1) Dynamic pricing is when a vendor computes an item’s price as a function of the buyer, time, popularity, etc. rather than having a single fixed price. Some music retailers don’t do this much (indies, Apple today), some do it a bit (Amazon, Apple in the near future), some do it a whole lot (BMG Napster, IIRC).
(2) Pink Floyd recently won a legal battle against their label’s licensing of their music to iTunes. They successfully argued that their original contract only licensed their label to resell the whole album, and didn’t apply to iTunes single-track sales. The contract term in question was unusual but not rare (especially among prog-rock bands); expect to hear more about this in the future.
(3) Genius is clever, but it’s not very social — all of the sharing it enables is totally passive. The standard model of social media I learned is that a social media system consists of three things:
– Clustering (eg, friend-lists)
– Active sharing (eg, comment on posts, retweet, “like”)
– Passive sharing (ie, your posted stuff is findable by people in your cluster)
Genius has the third of these but not to my knowledge the first two. So I don’t think of it as a social tool — it is built on social data, but to my knowledge you aren’t meant/able to interact with it in a social manner.
The other thing about mix tapes, from a librarian point of view, was they were not exactly copyright-compliant, were they?
I suppose not, although the current copyright regime makes me cranky, and insofar as I’ve bought (or even become aware of) music it’s largely because of mix tapes.
Oddly I find myself much more sympathetic to sharing mix tapes than sharing random tracks — I suppose in part because it’s my background so it seems normal to me — but partly because there’s an added artistry involved in making a good mix tape, and I want my intellectual property environment to support remixing and creation. (Sigh.)
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Monk Lewis: “thy skull discern a deeper hell”
Posted on November 10, 2012 by Angelyn
Many readers of Regency-era literature recognize the name “Monk” Lewis.
But who the devil was the fellow?
Monk Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 – 1818) was the son of a wealthy Jamaican planter. His mother ran off with the music teacher when her son was six. He later supported her financially and socially, and then she became lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Wales.
His success was almost entirely dependent on his classic tale of The Monk. This was the Gothic poem of a holy man’s descent into depraved evil.
She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss;
‘Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven,
I expect you to keep your vows to me.’
It was an astonishing success, all the more so because the author was not of age. The first edition was followed by a second and third. The most objectionable passages were edited out for having caused much grief to his family. Someone said of Lewis, and perhaps others:
“Twenty is not the age at which prudence is most to be expected.”
He never married. When he came into his fortune, the aristocrats who had previously welcomed him into their salons–the Hollands, Lansdowne and others–now despised him. Lewis pouted at first, reading during dinner and criticizing the company to be had at Oatlands.
Oh! Wonder-working Lewis! Monk, or Bard
Who’d fain would make Parnassus a church-yard
Lo, the wreaths of yew, not laurel, wreath thy brow
Thy Muse a Sprite! Apollo’s sexton, Thou!
—-Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Even his fellow poets attacked him, and over one work alone. What was it about The Monk that attracted such great vitriol?
The work was a morality plot, normally despised by the young, but delivered so cleverly that even Austen’s Northanger Abbey was bound to mention it as the best thing since Tom Jones. All harkened to it like a Pied Piper with its horrific plot and violent supernaturalism. Rape, live burial, grisly murder and the downfall of the once-sanctified and now defiled. These lurid themes became interwoven in a new genre–the Gothic tale.
It was all Lewis was ever known for. But it was enough.
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Jenna Jaxon on November 10, 2012 at 6:14 am said:
I did an independent study in grad school on Gothic literature and read The Monk. I thought it was fantastic (I’m a Stephen King fan BTW) and wondered by people didn’t still read it. I’ll have to go back and re-read it now you’ve reminded me of it. It certainly was head and shoulders above the rest of its genre for the time. 🙂 Loved this post, Angelyn!
Angelyn on November 10, 2012 at 7:51 pm said:
I quite agree with that assessment, Jenna—the gothic tale needs to revisit its roots from time to time.
ellaquinnauthor on November 10, 2012 at 3:23 pm said:
How sad that he was abandoned by everyone. What a great talent.
I can’t think they abandoned him because his fortune was built upon slave labor. Rather, I believe they were all envious of such early talent.
dwwilkin on November 10, 2012 at 4:25 pm said:
Reblogged this on The Things That Catch My Eye and commented:
Another Regency Personality, Engelyn comes through again, and well worth checking out.
Many thanks, David.
Joy Smid on November 11, 2012 at 12:31 am said:
I love gothic tales and I especially like this blog.
Angelyn on November 11, 2012 at 3:01 am said:
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November 21, 2019 - 5 arses
There are quite a few reasons that I am surprised that Unai Emery has held onto his job at Arsenal to this point. Among the straws that really ought to have broken the camel’s back by now is Emery’s treatment of expensive ‘club assets’- for want of a better phrase. We were told when Emery was hired that he could slot into a director of football style structure now in operation at Arsenal.
The available evidence suggests quite the opposite. Emery has made it clear that he is not entirely happy with two of the club’s biggest investments over the last two summers, with Lucas Torreira and Nicolas Pepe treated with a level of indifference that feels pointed. Pepe has fallen into Europa League rotation just as soon as his vaguely promising performances translated into end-product.
The director of football model was once openly decried in England. The argument went that buying players a manager might not was a formula ripe for friction and ill-feeling. The model is now widely accepted, but that doesn’t mean those anxieties are entirely unfounded. I think Emery has tried to demonstrate that he doesn’t want all of the players he has been bequeathed.
However, it is the use of Lucas Torreira that has ‘intrigued’ the most. The Uruguayan’s agent is shouting his client’s unrest from the rooftops via loudhailer. Arsenal possibly anticipated a fairly quick sell-on when they bought Torreira from Sampdoria in 2018, but they were probably thinking more along the lines of profitable sale to a superclub after a glorious spell destroying Premier League midfields.
Emery has suggested that creating friction with players is part of his coaching philosophy. It doesn’t appear to be working too well at Arsenal at this moment in time and it is a surprise that the club don’t seem to be too concerned about it driving away players that were supposed to represent a brave new world for Arsenal.
When Emery does start Torreira, he tends to use him higher up in the midfield as a pressing agent so that he can win the ball high up the pitch and force turnovers. “He can achieve with his quality to get to the box and get closer to score,” Emery explained in October. “He is very intelligent about getting space around the box and taking chances.”
Gol de Edinson Cavani. Que centro de Lucas Torreira. Gana Uruguay. pic.twitter.com/OKp614NijA
— NB 🎥 (@nahuelbeaug) November 18, 2019
Essentially, Torreira is being asked to replace Aaron Ramsey, which has confused many. The idea of using an energetic player in a more advanced position is not without merit in this day and age when so many teams pass out from the back. The problem is that Arsenal’s press is not coached rigorously or particularly co-ordinated, which limits Torreira’s effectiveness in such a role.
Sometimes we can be a little preoccupied with positional graphics and precise roles when the reality is that formations and tactics can be fluid. As fans we can become especially preoccupied with the deployment of defensive midfield players. We are anxious and, occasionally, a little irrational and a tough tackling defensive midfield player helps to allay some of our anxieties. It’s the light in the hallway when we are afraid to sleep in the dark.
Maurizio Sarri felt the full frustration of the media and the Chelsea faithful last season when he played Ngolo Kante ahead of Jorginho, who played a deep lying playmaker position. It felt anathema to many to see one of the world’s primary ball winners positioned anywhere other than the edge of his own penalty area, snuffing out danger. When it comes to defensive midfielders, fans are not so much traditionalists as puritans.
Yet the noises from the Torreira camp suggest the player is as uncomfortable with the positional rethink as the supporters are. With Granit Xhaka booting the door down on the departure lounge, the Gunners are not really in a position to sacrifice another deeper midfield player. Xhaka’s scorched earth policy has given Emery the perfect excuse to marry Torreira and Guendouzi at the base of his midfield.
I always had a hunch that Emery’s reticence to name Xhaka as captain was partly due to doubts over his long-term future in the team. Xhaka is not as bad a player as he is often made out to be, he has become increasingly ill-suited to the Arsenal team. This situation has been exacerbated this season because Matteo Guendouzi is now the player that receives the ball from the centre-halves and distributes.
Lucas Torreira appreciation post.
🙌 @LTorreira34 pic.twitter.com/jmWZwsRHby
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) November 9, 2018
Reducing Xhaka’s involvement in collecting and distributing from deep in this way has neutered him and reduced his influence, which made Emery’s insistence on picking him for every game even more difficult to understand. With Guendouzi effectively already doing Xhaka’s job, the coast ought to be clear for Lucas Torreira to perform his ball winning routine and allow Guendouzi to make the play.
However, I do think it’s worth asking whether Torreira’s early exploits were overplayed. Arsenal fans were so desperate to see a player of Torreira’s ilk it was understandable if we all went a little overboard after those early performances. Indeed, his approval rating rose after attacking contributions- with crucial goals against Spurs and Huddersfield last winter.
His form notably dipped during the festive season and, at that point, his role was not materially different to the one he had performed with such commendation in the autumn. Many of us put that down to fatigue after arriving from Italy, but it could just as feasibly have represented a regression to the mean.
As Andrew has outlined on the blog many times in recent weeks, it is very difficult to make assessments of individual players in a team that looks so fundamentally broken with a coach grasping for solutions by the game. The confidence of the players has visibly sagged and the odour of bad mojo is pungent- especially where Torreira is concerned.
I am not sure whether Torreira is the defensive midfield saviour he was anointed as last year, but I am also sure that he is a better, happier player than the one we’re seeing when played in a simpler, more digestible role. It would also be a shame to lose him before we get an opportunity to see how good he is. It took Arsenal a long, long time to find a player like Lucas Torreira, it’s not a search they should be forced to repeat again so soon.
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If you’re wondering how particle animations work, going back to their beginnings is a pretty good start. In 1982 cinema viewers were treated to one of the first on-screen particle simulations in Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. Kirk, Spock and Dr McCoy watch as one Dr Carol Marcus explains the genesis project in a pre-recorded presentation. The trio see the Genesis Demo as a simulation on a computer. In the magazine American Cinematographer, Alvy Ray Smith described the 67 second sequence as created from several different computer-generated components, including the particle animation of fire spreading across a planet created from code written by Bill Reeves. Beginning with a projectile (the genesis torpedo) speeding toward and hitting the planet surface, the sequence continues with a fire, initially at the point of explosion before spreading out. Immediately, other CG elements populate the imagery – fractal mountains, lakes, oceans of water, and finally an atmosphere looking like that of Earth complete the evolution of the new planet from its fiery origins.
The Genesis Demo set the foundation for the thirty-five years between now and then. Bill Reeves’ 1983 article ‘Particle Systems,’ is a great place for starting to get to grips with particle animation. Reeves writes in a very informative way, and you don’t need to be able to make sense of the equations to gain some insight into his software. As he explains, when creating a shape using particles, its dimensions are given by the volume of a particle cloud, meaning the specific boundaries of it’s shape are not fully defined (he uses the word determined). Because a particle cloud is continuously generated, objects created in this way are dynamic and fluid, as opposed to static. This makes particle animation ideal for ‘fuzzy systems’: smoke, fire, clouds, moving water, sparks, fog, snow, and dust. For particles animating the spread of fire across a planet, their motions and transformations are tied to the solution of equations. These form the basis of algorithms that mathematically model the physics of natural phenomena, water crashing down from a height, the swirl of snow or smoke. Reeves included a randomised (stochastic) input that controlled the emission of the particles, and the software also granted a model builder some control over how the physics of the system would play out. As Reeves explains it: ‘To control the shape, appearance, and dynamics of the particles within a particle system, the model designer has access to a set of parameters. Stochastic processes that randomly select each particle’s appearance and movement are constrained by these parameters.’ The Genesis Demo wasn’t the first time that particle animation was used for things like smoke and galaxies, but Reeves introduced randomness and a degree of creative control to the process.
Still: particle animation of fire used in the Genesis Demo
In the thirty five years since Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, particle animation software has developed, with packages like Houdini, Maya’s Particles and Blender widely used in visual effects for cinema, animation and games. These increasingly sophisticated systems still rely on solving equations to simulate an object such as water in Moana or sand in Mad Max: Fury Road’s toxic storm. Simulations are often widely applauded for their degrees of accuracy in the movements and transformations of particles. At the same time, developers constantly aim to enhance the control available to visual effects artists. While particle animation algorithms are designed around physics, visual effects are not just about simulating reality. Often, something dramatic is what’s needed, and that is where artistic control comes in. The challenge for software developers is too make their packages open to artistic control. The challenge for people interested in cultural politics is to understand the ways and the extent to which simulations are not altogether real.
William T. Reeves (1983) ‘Particle Systems: Technique for Modelling a Class of Fuzzy Objects.’ Computer Graphics 17 (3) 359-376.
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Ashley in Uncategorized January 31, 2019 972 Words
One of the most intriguing books about popular culture in a while went on sale last month. Richard Weight‘s Mod: A Very British Style is not a rose-tinted, nostalgic romp through the history of a movement that has had profound impact on British culture, but a serious academic (yet still very readable) study of what Mod is and was and how the 60s Mods have influenced British society.
It scope – which goes way beyond most books about Mods -has already attracted criticism from hardcore Mods who may or may not have a point that the author talks too much about the influence of German art school Bauhaus at the expense of say, how Makin Time and The Prisoners took Mod in a new direction in the 80s.
It doesn’t help Weight‘s case that there is the odd detail too that isn’t quite right. Nevertheless even if he has Blur coming from Chelmsford rather than Colchester, he still makes some fascinating observations
For me the pivotal part is Weight‘s dissection of how the 60s Mods – not the original late 50s/early 60s ones who were a different tribe altogether – changed the way Britons live, think and most of all shop.
But the one connection he only loosely makes is how the mid-60s Mods influenced British politics. Which is a shame because there is a lot of evidence to suggest when those youngsters hit adult life they became the foot soldiers of the politics we now know as Thatcherism.
The parallels really are quiet scary.
When Mod was at its mainstream peak – between 1963-66 – it was a movement that had the following traits.
1 Hierarchical – the scene was dominated by Faces – think Sting in Quadrophenia – who had the best gear, the classiest scooters etc. Mods who couldn’t match the sartorial eloquence of their superiors were known by the A List as Tickets.
2 Individualistic – although there were, for want of a better word, uniforms, for most Mods the devil was in the detail. Your suit had to tick the right boxes in say number of buttons, but choosing the right material and colour to make it your own was just as important As Paul Smith, a tailor who was an original Mod, would become known for – Mod clothes were all about classics with a twist.
3 Conservative – Mods weren’t trying to change society in a outwardly political way. In fact according to Weight and others many Mods respected and admired their elders and parents and wanted to not just emulate them but better them.
4 Aspirational and acquisitive – Much of Weight‘s book focuses on the Mods obsession with shopping, not just for clothes but for other items too. He attributes much of the success of Habitat in the 70s and Ikea more recently to the way that style and design were passed on from the Mods to subsequent generations.
5 Southern and class-based – Mod was also more of southern England tribe than a northern one and most of its adherents came from, what in old money would be referred to as the more aspirational sector of the working class. In other words these were youngsters whose parents had manual jobs, but thanks to improving post-war educational standards they were able to take on skilled work or white collar jobs in offices.
Ultimately these were youngsters who had seen the deprivation that their parents had endured through the war years and before and wanted better.
Thatcher’s supporters
Take a look then at the demographic which propelled the Conservatives to power in 1979 and kept them there for the best part of two decades. They were young-ish, based in the south and were drawn from upper working class and lower middle class groups. They were clearly aspirational and wanted their own homes (to buy their own council houses?) yet not seeking big changes in British society. Sound familiar?
If you look too at the end of the Callaghan government – Andy Beckett’s When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies is a great re-telling of the story – Sunny Jim was largely betrayed by Union leaders whose workers were constantly pushing for more money to maintain standards of living that they had accrued in the earlier part of the decade. Just take a look at the groups who went on strike during the winter of discontent – public sector employees, nurses, train drivers – these are all arguably comprised of individuals who fit the class profile of the 60s Mods.
The irony is that while the old school union leaders unwittingly ushered in their worst nightmare – a government that would destroy much of their power base – their younger members got a government that was far more in keeping with the values that Mod had endowed in them in the 60s. It was a government that they voted for time and time again because its shared the same visions and enacted legislation like the buying of council houses – that fitted their aspirations. Bear in mind too that the unemployment that characterised much of the 80s was more prevalent in the north than the south.
One 70s Mod who said he would vote Tory in 1979 was Paul Weller. He now says it was a publicity stunt but it must have made sense at the time. And there’s a good chunk of the mid-60s Mod aristocracy who are either Conservatives – including Kenny Jones, Bill Wyman, Phil Collins and Bryan Ferry – or are largely ambivalent about politics.
Ultimately though the changes that Margaret Thatcher made to Britain were because a society had emerged which made her world view more acceptable. And I wonder if that society had been shaped by a youth culture that defined Britain a decade earlier.
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Henslow, John Stevens, 1796-1861, 2 results 2
MacDonald, Flora C. (Flora Christena), 1935-, 1 results 1
Burke, John, 1787-1848, 1 results 1
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Part of Home Made Visible collection
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It’s Christmas eve, December 24th, 1994 at Kristina Wong’s family home in Scarborough, Ontario. Kristina Wong is about to experience her first Christmas. In the film you can also see her dad and her two sisters. Her mom is filming. Kristina recalls how her parents filmed a lot of her and her siblings growing up and stopped by the time she reached her teens."
Fifth birthday
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It’s June 1993. Kristina Wong and her family celebrate her older sister Kathleen’s 5th birthday in their family home in Scarborough, Ontario. Visible here are Kristina’s Aunt Linda, Aunt Lai, her other sister, Melissa in teal and her cousins: Bethany, Eric, Matthew and Steven. Her mom, Lin is in the bright pink shirt opening the cake. Her father, Michael films behind the camera. About a minute in Kristina appears as a baby in pink."
First birthday celebration
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It’s Dec 30th, 1994 the day after Kristina Wong’s first birthday. She celebrates with her dad, mom and two sisters in Scarborough, Ontario. Kristina recalls that growing up in Scarborough in the 90s, ‘everyone was an immigrant. To me, I lived beside Pacific Mall so everything was very Asian growing up so I felt more Canadian than Chinese versus the opposite.’’"
Family dinner eating Injera and Tsebhi from a large dish
Item consists of a home movie of a family eating a meal together and discussing a Portuguese related class assignment.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Lu Asfaha’s family begins the day by preparing their home roasted coffee for the Jebana (coffee pot) on the Assumption of St. Mary. Raised in a family of Christian Orthodox, Lu grew up taking the day off to observe this religious holiday with her family. Food, drinks and even a custom cake is ornamentally laid out to celebrate the day. Lu can be seen animatedly gesturing to the camera as she talks to her uncle behind the camera, a common occurrence in their home movies.
The only footage selected that did not take place on the Assumption of St. Mary is a typical family dinner of the Asfaha eating Injera and Tsebhi from a large dish. Common to many cultures from across the African continent, her family can be seen eating by hand, enjoying the flavourful dish. The adults appear to handle the spice level better than the children.
When asked about her identity, Lu speaks of the unique experience of being Eritrean in Toronto. Being from an East African identity that has a significantly smaller population compared to the Somali and Ethiopian one, the specific social location of Eritreans tends to be either rendered invisible or lumped in with the dominant East African identities represented in the city."
Happy St. Mary Day
Item consists of a home movie showing a cake with "Happy St. Mary Day" text decoration, children sitting on a couch eating cake, and a child dancing in front of the camera.
Kavadi : hooks
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "At nine-year-olds, Abhirami Balanchandran visits Sri Lanka for two months with her family for the second time. It was 2003 and during the civil war so it required multiple checkpoints before she was able to reach her hometown of Jaffna located in the north. They visited for Thaipusami, where she witnessed Kavadi for the first time. Kavadi is a ritual done for the Murugan, God of War where the back is pierced with several hooks while people partake in ceremonial dance. It was traditionally done for both sacrifice and preparation for war. It was Abhi’s first time witnessing something like that from her community which was definitely a cultural shock. ‘It was jarring, fascinating and beautiful.’ So much has changed since this video was taken and looking back at the footage of what Jaffna looked like has skewed her idea of what home looks like."
Preparing their home roasted coffee for the Jebana
Item consists of a home movie of home documenting the preparation of home roasted coffee.
Kavadi : hanging from pillars
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "At nine-year-olds, Abhirami Balanchandran visits Sri Lanka for two months with her family for the second time. Here her and her family join several other Tamils come to witness Thuku Kavadi] where a person’s back is pierced with hooks hanging from a pillar, with no harness or anything else holding them up. It looks like you're flying. Abhi recalls asking her mom, ‘How do they do that?’ and her mom told her people train for months with such deep meditation that they transcend pain from their bodies. Sometimes they are suspended for as long as two hours. This ritual is also a part of the ceremonial festival Thaipusam for Murugan, the God of War."
Parade 2, Alex Gros Louis, V.H, 2-2875
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "There is a parade likely in celebration of the fourth of July, in Apache Junction, Arizona. As a Railroad Engineer, Alexander Gros-Louis traveled a good part of his life by train, and spent many summers in Arizona to escape the Quebec winters. Seen in the clip are people in uniform dressed in navy blue, red and white, fire engines, and the Fire Chief. Most notably though, the camera spends time on Natives in full dress riding through the parade on horses. Seen on the sidelines are Alexander’s half-brother Paul-Henri and sister in law. "
West-Coast 1969 Molinon Temple, snow storm, 1971 Home, Alex Gros Louis, Village Huron, Quebec
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "There is a heavy snow storm on Alexander Gros-Louis’ veranda sometime in the 1950s. The Gros-Louis family are Huron Wendat, and the footage is shot on the reserve in Wendake, Quebec, which is twenty-five minutes from Quebec City. Snow storms are quite commonplace in Wendake. Every surface is covered in white, and the shot on Super 8 film looks very dreamy. Seen in the shot is a snowmobile that looks to be from the fifties era. At the time there were no street lights or paved roads, and they weren’t plowed regularly. People in Wendake were quite poor. Although it’s a bit different now, it’s still very working class. Seen briefly in the shot, are Alexander’s son and grandson, both named Paul.
Ron Gros-Louis is Alexander’s grandson. He and his wife, Patricia retired to Wendake from Montreal. They don’t see Wendake any differently than any other small town.
There are currently 2,134 people of Huron-Wendat ancestry. Most of whom are descended from the 300 ancestors who came from Huronia in what is now part of Northern Ontario's Simcoe and Grey counties. Wendake has been an Indigenous reserve since 1697. On the reserve are some Cree, Inuit, and Montagnais peoples from the northern parts of Quebec, there to attend high school and university as some schools in the north do not go past elementary. There are therefore a lot of Indigenous languages being spoken.
Life was very restrictive for Indigenous people at the time that Alexander Gros-Louis grew up. You had to sign in and out of the reserve with an Indian agent, and there was a lot of marginalization, surveillance, and policing by keeping track of who was entering and leaving the reserve.
Alexander couldn’t join the army, because he was labelled as a "savage," in official documentation. A childhood lack of Vitamin D caused rickets, which left him with bowed legs throughout his life. He left the reserve at the age of fourteen to work as a lumberjack in Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and eventually as a taxi driver in Montreal. He worked shovelling coal for Canadian National Railways on steam locomotives, and afterward became one of the first Indigenous engineers for the CNR."
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It’s 1997 and four-year-old Abhirami Balanchandran is being taught how to read by her mom. In her family home at Markham and Eglinton in Scarborough, Ontario, her mom goes through the alphabet with her one by one. Abhi looking back sees her funny facial expressions and sees a ‘very inquisitive, more playful version of herself…. It’s a sweet reminder.’"
Family reunion 70
Project and donor contributed description follows: "A clip documenting the Red Packet (hóngbāo) ceremony taking place at Mr. Wong’s 70th birthday celebration in 2002.
During this ceremony family members were called up in a particular order to accept a red envelope of money from Mr. Wong.
Deanna Wong, Mr. Wong’s daughter who found and digitized this video, recalls that family members were called up according to age and lineage.
For example, Mr. Wong’s siblings would be called first, followed by their children and grandchildren. In this video Mr Wong's eldest son, Terry was called first, and then, since their middle son Ted was not present, Deanna, the youngest of the three, came next. Following her came Terry's kids from eldest to youngest. And since Deanna nor Ted had children at the time, the eldest cousin and his wife, and their kids etc followed.
As the eldest of 13 siblings, Mr. Wong would have had many envelopes to hand out!
Originally from Hong Kong, Mr. Wong came to Canada to study engineering at McGill University in the mid-1950s, where he met Deanna's mother.
Mrs. Wong's father, Deanna maternal grandfather, immigrated to Canada in 1921 and paid the $500 head tax in order to enter the country. Mr Wong's father, Deanna’s paternal grandfather, was a doctor specializing in acupuncture, which was illegal in Canada at the time, so he settled in California. Now his family lives around the world, including the United States, Singapore, Japan, and in various places in Canada. This milestone birthday presented a great opportunity for a family reunion. And to accommodate everyone, this celebration took place in the home of Deanna’s eldest brother and Mr. Wong’s eldest son, Terry.
Now a longtime resident of Toronto, Deanna calls Winnipeg home where she and her two brothers grew up. Although they were one of the few families of colour around, she remembers her neighbourhood and her experiences fondly. Her parents, particularly her mother, worked hard to build a Chinese community where the children could have Chinese friends and be exposed to their culture. They started a Mandarin school, even though Cantonese was their mother tongue, and began a summer camp.
Family and community come together again at this celebration, one of many for the Wong family."
Wong family
Kwanzaa celebration at the Halifax Public Library
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "At Auburn Highschool in North Preston, Nova Scotia, LaMeia Reddick attended an applied broadcast journalism class, where she had the opportunity to learn and explore directing, interviewing, production and editing.
The school had its own news station, and LaMeia could nurture her interest in recording stories of african canadian content. The stories students recorded would be broadcast for the school. In the footage, LaMeia documents a big Kwanzaa celebration at the Halifax Public Library, a large and diverse gathering of people of African diaspora, from various backgrounds, faiths, cultures, and ethnicities. The celebration includes performances with drums, song and dance. LaMeia interviews Tracey Jones about the meaning, origin, and seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Karen Hudson, the principal at Auburn Highschool was influential to LaMeia, and continues to make a long lasting impression on the culture and students at the school. She has introduced African enrichment to the school’s programs, including afrocentric math class, which helps black students excel at math. She continues to be an important role model and won the top principal in Canada award. LaMeia had a really positive experience at the school; having a black female principal as well as the courses available to her contributed to her future successes and set her up on the right path. "Having a school that valued your cultural experience and taught me about it, provided me with opportunities to nurture that part of myself, as well as understand my identity which [teenagers] are in the process of formulating."
The footage is a testament to how hard Principal Karen Hudson worked to introduce African culture to kids. LaMeia is interested in sharing the footage with Karen, and would like to interview her now. Karen and LaMeia live in neighboring communities, North Preston and Cherry Brook, which are large Indigenous and Black communities in Canada."
Singing folk songs and playing the dhol
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "On one of her trips to Delhi, Mariam attends her mom's cousin's second wedding. Cousins, aunts, and extended family are gathered on the floor and sofas. Women are dressed in bright yellow and orange saris and joy radiates through song as the bright sunlight washes the shot.
The family is singing folk songs and playing the dhol, a South Asian drum, in a town dialect that would only be recognizable to someone from the state of Uttar Pradesh (U.P) and perhaps Delhi.
The songs are familiar to Mariam, but she doesn’t understand what is being said. They are part of an oral tradition, sung in celebration and passed down from generations. The folk songs cannot be found online and aren’t "officially" preserved.
Mariam remembers that holding the camera was very enjoyable, and she documented hours of what she calls mundane footage of family eating lunch and going about everyday activities, mostly on her yearly trips to India to visit extended family. She is a filmmaker, and plans to create short films with selected clips from her home movies.
Mariam’s transition to Canada is complex and layered: ‘Having grown up in Dubai, I carry a sense of knowing what it feels like not being from where you grew up [...] I didn’t process how difficult it was [to move to Canada] because [at first] I was excited to be [in Montreal], and put my heart into classes and the university experience.’"
Christmas : part 4 of 4
[between 1978-1982]
Item consists of a video recording that features children opening Christmas presents and performing a dance in a living room. Project and donor contributed description follows: "During this Christmas, the family have their cousin Sau Fong visiting. The children are waving excitedly to the camera as they open and show their gifts. Over the years, uncles and aunts would occasionally stay with the Lo family while studying English at the local college. Home movies were one of the ways they stayed connected to relatives in Macau and shared their life living in Canada. Copies were routinely made to send back.""
Twins giving a tour of the house
Project and donor contributed description follows: "Lorna "… remembers filming that specific clip’—the video of the twins giving a home tour of their new home. The camera would routinely come out during gatherings, a feature in the background of their lives, but this was the one home movie Lorna remembers the most. She remembers seeing the house and thinking "A room dedicated for toys, that was unheard of. I thought it was the greatest thing." Moving into this home marked a new chapter in the Lo’s family history."
Backyard harvest
Project and donor contributed description follows: "The year is 1981 and the Lo family are spending a summer afternoon picking vegetables and fruits from their backyard. One of the twins, Lorna helps their father harvest cabbage while the other twin, Vivien keeps Aylwin – the youngest and only a year old accompanied on a blanket. Featured through out the clip is the one outdoor activity that remained a family tradition over the year, picking apples from the beloved Crab Apple tree"
Item consists of a video recording that features two children playing on a swing set in the winter. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Their extended family are visiting from Macau for their first Winter visit. For many of them it was the first time experiencing the Canadian cold. "I remember we were outside playing in the snow for a really long time… the adults were playing in it just as much as the kids", Lorna recalls. The children can be seen playing on the swing bundled up in coats and snow pants."
Item consists of a video recording that features children opening and playing with Christmas presents. Project and donor contributed description follows: "During this Christmas, the family have their cousin Sau Fong visiting. The children are waving excitedly to the camera as they open and show their gifts. Over the years, uncles and aunts would occasionally stay with the Lo family while studying English at the local college. Home movies were one of the ways they stayed connected to relatives in Macau and shared their life living in Canada. Copies were routinely made to send back.""
Item consists of a video recording that features adults outside on a snowy day and two children playing on a swing set in the winter. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Their extended family are visiting from Macau for their first Winter visit. For many of them it was the first time experiencing the Canadian cold. "I remember we were outside playing in the snow for a really long time… the adults were playing in it just as much as the kids", Lorna recalls. The children can be seen playing on the swing bundled up in coats and snow pants."
America/Canada Visit Sep 89 Family Video : part 4 of 4
Project and donor contributed description follows: "As their first visit to Canada, they take them to tourist sites. Pictured here are views of rides at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE).
S’s father, who is the eldest sibling of their generation, attracted a lot of family to visit because it is customary for people to always visit the eldest. Since S's father was the first of his siblings to come to Canada, everyone was excited to visit. It was also quite an accomplishment for a man with a physical disability to seek an independent life overseas for himself and his family so this was often admired."
Item consists of footage a family traveling to the Metropolitan Toronto Zoological Society. Project and donor contributed description follows: "In this clip, it’s the family’s first visit to Canada so the Jabbars take them to tourist sites. Seen here, the family is entering their vehicle on their way to a day excursion. S’s father is getting into a large vehicle from the late eighties. The car accommodates hand-breaks, since her father could not use his legs due to his disability.
Since S's father was the first of his siblings to come to Canada, everyone was excited to visit. It was also quite an accomplishment for a man with a physical disability to seek an independent life overseas for himself and his family so this was often admired."
Project and donor contributed description follows: "As their first visit to Canada, they take them to tourist sites. Seen here, the family is enjoying a picnic at the Toronto Zoo.
Project and donor contributed description follows: "The clip shows a view of the landscape outside of the family’s high-rise window. Seen are full, lush green trees, and in the distance is the Lake Ontario water line. The footage frames the wide six lane Kingston Rd. looking East. The view overlooks a sea of red rooftops, a suburban residential landscape of apartment towers in the distance and detached single family homes."
Imaan & Ali Feb 2003 for (India) : part 3 of 3
Project and donor contributed description follows: "Muslim by faith, the children practice memorizing the Quran in Arabic. Their parents teach them to recite one line at a time to ensure that they learn at a young age. They know that seeing this would bring their grandmother joy and make her proud. The video letter is a way to connect with her through these recitations of a shared faith as she doesn’t speak English."
Iran vacation
Item consists of footage of landscapes, cityscapes, and heritage sites in Iran. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Both Bita and her father, Abbas, contributed to this write up. Bita felt protective of her family and their image, and chose to contribute a clip that didn’t centre people but a place. The scenery itself is a beautiful valuable contribution of a country in flux.
In 1998, Abbas visits Iran with his daughter Bita for the first time in sixteen years since moving to Canada. Bita at the time was a shy eight year-old and recalls that she didn’t speak for the first three weeks of the trip and that this was her first time leaving Canada.
In this clip Abbas is alone behind the camera capturing historical sites. He was prompted to take this trip because an Iranian friend in Vancouver couldn’t go home and asked him to make these movies of Cyrus the Great, Isfahan, etc. and to bring them back to show on local Persian TV. He did end up making these movies on a miniDV camcorder but never did give them to his friend.
The clip starts out at night time in Shiraz, with the Takht-e Lamshid built for Cyrus the Great. Then moves on to Isfahan, the "Great Mosque" that in farsi they call the Shah Mosque based in Naghsh-e Jahan Square. Abbas recalls at the time wondering how locals knew he hadn’t been living their for 16 years. People could tell that he had left and was living somewhere else. For Abbas, these clips show a country rich with stories and pride.
After years of searching for these tapes, they found them again in the summer of 2018 the night before Bita returned to Iran for the second time in her life."
Project and donor contributed description follows: "The children are practicing Urdu by reciting what they know: a well-known Indian nursery rhyme about a thirsty crow, and a biryani song that the family made-up because the boys found it amusing. The video letter of the boys practicing Urdu is a way to build and maintain a relationship with their grandmother who doesn’t speak English."
Project and donor contributed description follows: "IThe children are reciting; reciting a shopping list, nursery rhymes like "itsy bitsy spider," and their ABCs. The video letter of the boys learning to write and spell is a way to build and maintain a relationship with their grandmother from afar."
Sacré-Cœur Christmas concert
Item consists of footage of speeches, performances such as children singing, and audience members at a francophone Catholic school's Christmas recital. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Stella Isaac’s sister films her at her elementary school, École élémentaire catholique du Sacré-Coeur during their annual Christmas concert in 2004 at la Paroisse du Sacré Coeur located at Sherbourne and College. The footage captures a particular experience and community of mostly Black students of Congolese, descent attending the French school, which was located at Sherbourne and Bloor. Now located near Christie Pits, the community and neighborhood is no longer remembered in the same way. On stage during the concert the school’s principal mentions the students’ practice of prayer exemplifying the experience of religiosity at the school.
Education at Sacré-Coeur is rooted in Catholicism and Christianity. Stella recalls a time when students in the class would put their Bibles and crosses on their tables before tests for an extra blessing. This was normal practice. Stella enjoyed attending a Catholic School and has fond memories of the experience, especially when receiving mentorship from particular teachers who pushed their students to prepare for success in their futures. "I have a slight obsession with this time period and this school, especially as it relates to what it was like educating Black students. It was in an environment where I had a teacher that completely pushed us and believed in us and our intelligence.
The footage also documents images of Stella’s younger brother, Jordan, who has Down Syndrome. She describes him lovingly: "It was nice seeing my little brother making tons of noise and yelling my sister’s name, rubbing my mom’s face."
In relation to Home Made Visible, Stella shares: "It’s great to allow families the opportunity to revisit old footage, explore their history and share that. A lot of people don't think of Black people in Canada just existing. It’s a great way to change the Canadian narrative.""
3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 4 of 4
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 with the first half consisting of children and adults gathered in a garage and backyard, and the second half capturing Niagara Falls during the wintertime.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant's childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre's childhood, they documented the family's life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that "it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language."
Birthdays in Greater Vancouver Area
Item consists of footage of children playing, celebrating birthdays, opening presents, and eating sweets. Project and donor contributed description follows: "This footage documents a series of four of Derek Kwan’s birthdays in Vancouver in the nineties between October 1991 and 1994.
In October 91, the setting is a McDonald’s ball pit in the greater Vancouver area. Surrounded by friends, family and cousins, Kwan and other kids are wearing the McDonald’s card paper hats eating birthday cake, with his mom sitting behind him. At present opening time, seen in the shot is his uncle, cousins, and grandma.
For Derek’s 3rd birthday in October 1992, we are located in Richmond, a suburb 20 minutes away from the city of Vancouver. We are indoors and adults are encouraging Derek to hit a piñata of Mickey Mouse’s head that was made by Derek’s mom, Victoria. She loved to create themed birthday parties, and DIY party favors with her friends, and Derek remembers having a piñata every year, until he got too old for it.
Victoria made the piñata incredibly strong, and it’s very difficult to break. Eventually the adults jump in and start helping the kids break through the Mickey piñata. Derek shares: "Disney holds cache to it as a kid growing up in the 90s as the happiest place on earth."
Each year, when Derek opens his gift, he consistently receives boxes from the Bay, which he notes is interesting as a staple Canadian store. At his third birthday he also receives a table hockey set, another inherently Canadian gift, and the family excitedly surrounds the set.
At Derek’s fourth birthday in 1993, we are located at Chuck E Cheese. Much like the McDonalds ball pit, Chuck E Cheese was a go-to sport for 90s kids birthday parties. Derek receives action figures, and a ninja turtle toy.
Documented at Derek’s fifth birthday in 1994, is Derek’s childhood home in East Vancouver, where he lived during elementary and high school. We see the backyard and kids playing surrounding the basketball hoop.
Derek shares that thoughts of being Chinese took a back seat and he didn’t think too deeply about it growing up. East Vancouver was very diverse and being white was the minority. He grew up around Chinese, Vietnamese, Pilipino and East Indian people. Although race wasn’t a forefront in Derek’s mind, it was brought to his attention during family functions when everyone spoke Cantonese, and for cultural festivals like Chinese New Year."
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1976 to 1978c onsisting of a party with adults and children dancing, footage of and from the top of the CN tower, a child playing around the house and pool, and a child playing with a soccer ball wearing a 1978 Argentina Championship t-shirt.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant's childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre's childhood, they documented the family's life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that 'it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language'."
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 consists of several everyday moments including children playing in the snow during winter and by the pool during the summer, parties and celebrations, a trip to Niagara Falls, and a tour of a house for sale.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant's childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre's childhood, they documented the family's life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that 'it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language.'"
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 featuring adults and children having a barbecue in a park, hanging out in a car, and meeting Santa Claus.
N-5-6-7-8-9- 1976 (Jampi)
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1976 primarily featuring a child playing in his house and park; the first third of the clip consists of urban and rural landscapes.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Jean-Pierre Marchant's parents immigrated from South America in the early 1970s before he was born. His mother is from Argentina and his father is from Chile. Jean-Pierre was born in Vieux-Rosemont, Montreal, and spent the first year of his life there before they all moved to (what was then) the suburbs in Saint-Hubert, Longueuil, about 14 km from downtown Montreal. Jean-Pierre recalls day trips with his parents to the United States and Toronto. On this day, the family captures the roads and cityscapes of New Hampshire."
Project and donor contributed description follows: "Mom and Joyce picking up the wrapping and cleanup, etc."
Acting out play titled Fun with Toy
Project and donor contributed description follows: "George Chan gets Kate and her siblings to act out a play he’s labelled 'Fun with Toy' The toy is the mechanical alligator that came directly from China right before Christmas along with customized clothes. They play doctor and nurse with their new presents, the Ben Casey kits.
Stan, plays a mischievous boy who startles the doctor played by Kate. Linda plays the nurse, and Joyce plays the mother of a sick child (the doll). Kate calls it a 'play toy within a play of toys'."
Christmas turkey dinner
Item consists of footage of carving and eating a turkey dinner. Project and donor contributed description follows: "It’s Christmas dinner in 1953, the Chan family sits around the table, Stan, Joyce, Linda and Kate. They are joined by Dad’s first son, Karl Chan, sitting to the right of Kate’s mother, Clara. Karl came to help out in the Virden Café as Virden was in the midst of an oil bloom. Kate’s dad George always remained behind the camera. "
Opening presents and playing
Project and donor contributed description follows: "Kate and her siblings open presents and set the scene for a play her dad directed with typewriter and doctor/nurse kits. Kate’s mom is in the silk housecoat. Joyce plays piano and they all gather to sing around her."
House with Christmas decorations
Item consists of footage of a snowy house with Christmas decorations on the lawn. Project and donor contributed description follows: "George Chan filmed Christmas decorations in town, day and night."
Queen Elizabeth's Christmas message
Project and donor contributed description follows: "George films the TV and captures Queen Elizabeth's message to start off the Christmas day."
RCMP dinner at Virden Café
Item consists of footage of a town with Christmas decorations and individuals at a restaurant. Project and donor contributed description follows: "An RCMP dinner at Virden Café including all of the grooms and brides."
RCMP weddings : part 4 of 4
Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the 1960s Kate’s dad, George admired the RCMP and made a point of befriending them. This segment includes four RCMP weddings. Here at Virden United Church George, like much of the town, waits to see the bride and groom. George would later go on to screen these films at the town Holiday parties.
The Chan family was the only Chinese family in the community and his relationship with the RCMP helped him maintain his business as the owner of the Virden Café. It also helped that Kate’s mother, Clara, was Russian and hostess at their café."
Christmas 1962 sign
Item consists of footage of a sign with Christmas 1962 written on red. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Christmas 1962: George captures holiday decorations, neon lights, dinner and his kids opening presents, etc."
Chinese New Year preparations
Project and donor contributed description follows: "On January 24th, 1963, Kate’s mother, Clara Chan, prepares for Chinese New Year the night before, setting the table and filling red envelopes with money her kids.
Cut to the next day where Stan, Joyce, Linda and Kate, are coming downstairs to receive their red envelopes. Everyone sings around the piano as Joyce plays. Upon further observation Kate’s friend notices that they are singing 'Away in a Manger'.
Clara is a Russian refugee who came to Canada after the war in 1950. Fortunately for Clara the Manitoba law that prohibited white woman from working in Chinese restaurants was repealed in 1948. Her parents met in the Virden Café in 1950."
Stan marching with his tuba is in his Virden Band uniform
Project and donor contributed description follows: "Filmed by Kate and Stan’s dad, George, in 1963. George staged this shot of Stan is in his Virden Band uniform marching with his alto horn in his bedroom before going downstairs into the world. Four years later the Virden Band would go on to play at Expo ’67 in Montreal."
Virden Cafe sign
Item consists of footage of a sign that reads: "Virden Cafe : fish & chips, chop suey". Project and donor contributed description follows: "The neon lit café sign of the Virden Café at night, Kate’s dad’s Chinese Canadian restaurant."
Bathroom mirror selfie
Project and donor contributed description follows: "Ahead of his time Kate’s dad, George, takes one of the original selfies and films himself in his bathroom mirror on Super8 Kodachrome film in 1963. Kate’s brother, Stan, recalls seeing his dad set up lights to make this possible.
George was a real film buff, a fan of Charlie Chaplin, and actively sought out arts and culture. Life and Time magazines came through the mail every week, and Kate says if it weren’t for him taking up these interests she wouldn’t have a worldview outside of small town Prairie Manitoba."
Item consists of a video clip recording filmed by Shenaz Baksh from 2005 consisting of employees at their desks working and drinking beers. Recording also features the CN tower with cranes and construction of Liberty Village in the foreground.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Liberty Village in 2005 was a rapidly changing place, and Shenaz Baksh, equipped with a brand new Super 8 camera decided to document it. The community had changed so much and by the brief shots of construction seen outside her office window, would only continue to change more. This gave Shenaz all the more reason to archive her workplace of five years. Nearing 15 years later, Shenaz's coworkers marveled less at how spaces change over time, like Shenaz had intentioned, but more at their youthful appearances."
Mahaica Market, Guyana
A video clip recording from 2003 consists of black and white footage featuring wide and panning shots of market stalls, mid and close shots of merchant interactions with customers, and tracking shots of customers walking through the market.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "As a child, Shenaz wandered Mahaica Market with her mother shopping for the weeks groceries. As an adult and as a filmmaker, Shenaz wanted to capture her childhood memories and archive the vendors in the market. For Shenaz, recording her trip back to her childhood community had less to do with being Guyanese and more to do with being a filmmaker and an artist."
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "In 2008, Shenaz sets up her Super 8 camera to test it out on the trip from Scarborough to North York and back again. The footage moves at double time, in a time lapse, due to the short filming capacity of Super 8 cameras. Her aunt accompanies her on the first leg of the trip, her expression almost static in the bright winter sunshine. As her aunt exits the car at her destination, Shenaz sets up the camera on the dashboard to face her for a moment, slipping on her sunglasses. The camera is later refocused on her father in the passenger seat, as she drives him to his chemotherapy session. For the last portion of the road trip, Shenaz turns the camera onto the road itself, finally parking in front of her home where she began."
Item consists of a video clip recording representing a portion of a VHS cassette from Christmas Day in 1992 featuring the narration of a sunrise and featuring panning shots of a snowy street and building in Peterborough.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "'This is Friday, Dec 25th, 1992,' Leah's dad, Sam, begins the voice-over in this clip made in the Burke's family home in Peterborough, ON. Her father describes the beautiful sunrise that clear Christmas morning. It contrasts the weather from just a week prior when there was a record breaking 70 cm of snow, which was the worst snowfall in the province in 90 years. This filming style and voice-over in the Burke's home movies was characteristic of her father, Leah says, 'He wouldn't wait for anybody, he would just start filming.'"
Item consists of a video clip recording representing a portion of the VHS cassette from 1992 consisting of a brother cooking breakfast on Christmas and a sister filming a tour of the house.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It's Christmas, 1992, and within the short span of this clip the presence of almost Leah Burke's whole family is felt. From her dad offscreen singing along to gospel (Mahalia Jackson's 'Go Tell It On the Mountain), to her brother, the then sullen teenager, seen cooking pancakes for family breakfast, to finally Leah, who weaves through the house filming. She reveals herself as the documentarian in a mirror reflection waving ‘Hi'. In present day, Leah recalls, 'This is a typical Burke house family moment'."
Christmas '92
Item contains home movie footage from a family's Christmas celebration in Peterborough.
England '1990
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "'The year is 1990, and the Burke Family is on vacation in Bristol, England. This is filmed where Leah's father, Sam grew up. All of Leah's aunts and uncles had houses in the same neighbourhood, and this is a family reunion of sorts. Here, Leah, age eight or nine, dances to ska and lovers rock with her mother, Rita and Great Aunt Sweeney, while her dad is seen off in the background, and her older brother, Jason, films.
Her dad has roots in Jamaica and her mother has roots in Guyana. At different points in their lives both immigrated to England, and later met each other there. Her parents then set off to Canada during the Pierre Trudeau years in 1972 to raise a family. The Burkes now call many places home.'"
Montreal snow storm
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1971 consisting of a Haitian family and their neighbours shoveling snow and digging out the street. Recording also features children playing in the snow and a tractor plowing the street. Video was filmed by André and Ginette Valcin.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "On March 4th, 1971, Montreal saw the “Storm of the Century", a massive snowstorm brought 43cm of snow and 100/km winds to the city. It would take 41 years for this snowfall record to be broken. People lost electricity for as long as ten days. Nadine recalls living on St. Leonard and not being able to see through her patio doors and that the only people who could get around were emergency vehicles and snowmobiles. Of course this major setback meant snow days for everyone, and Nadine's parents and neighbours got to shoveling. In a predominantly Italian neighbourhood, Nadine suspects her family may have been the only Black family on this street. With no school, five-year old Nadine took pleasure in the Montreal pastime of building snow forts."
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1969 consisting of a Haitian Canadian family in New York celebrating a birthday and Christmas. Video was filmed by André and Ginette Valcin.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It's November 1969 in New York City and the Valcin Family is celebrating Nadine's dad birthday. Four year old Nadine waves at the camera and helps blow out her father's candles. We see Nadine's mother cutting the cake. Later in the day, Nadine, drinking her juice from a cocktail glass, is engrossed in a serious conversation with her father. Her mom, a filmmaker in her own right, is behind the camera shooting on Super 8mm film. Months later the camera is pulled out again to document Christmas, a very exciting time for Nadine was an only child. Her brother and sister, not yet born, were fascinated to see these images of their eldest sister as a child. This private but celebratory occasion is one the whole family dresses up for. Nadine dons an all white pantsuit she later swaps for something more comfortable, while her parents sport equally stylish crisp suits. The clothes become secondary to the gift unraveling- the toy car, doll, keyboard, all slowly collecting around her. Nadine was born in Montreal, Quebec, and these reels capture a short span of her life between the ages of 3 to 5 when the Valcin family relocated to the US. Her father passed in 1999, so the Valcin family was happy to revisit these memories of him."
Longbeach CA : MUNY BIRTHDAY
Muny : baby shower : Ngày Đầy Tháng
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1992 consisting of a Khmer-Krom family celebrating a birthday.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "The Truong/Tram family's home movie footage shot in VHS format on January 25th 1992, captures the 1-month old birthday party of their youngest son in Brantford, ON, shortly after moving from Hull, Quebec. A full and lively gathering, their celebration includes families chatting over a community meal, speeches, gift giving, dancing to 80's music, and loving footage of a peaceful baby enjoying the party. The Truongs/Trams are of Khmer-Krom ethnicity, translating to 'Khmer of the South'. The Khmer-Krom are an [unrecognised] Indigenous group and ethnic minority in the South of Vietnam. Many Khmer people who inhabited the same refugee camps in Vietnam later immigrated together to Canada. When the Truongs/Trams arrived in Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau, Quebec) in 1989, they were able to regularly connect with a Khmer community at gatherings like these. The Troung/Tram family have since relocated to Toronto ON where they continue to celebrate and take pride in their identity, and attend Khmer language and dance classes. The Khmer Buddhist Temple of Ontario in Hamilton remains central to them and their community. Mother, Trinh Nha Truong, was happy to share her footage with Home Made Visible because she wants to show other Canadians that ‘our people live in Canada too.'"
Montréal live band
Azada Rahi 1/1 A
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1995 consisting of children and teenagers from the Raptors Junior Dance Pak rehearsing a dance routine at the SkyDome.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Here, November 2nd ,1995, at the SkyDome (presently the Rogers Centre) the Pak rehearses the same routine over and over in preparation for the opening performance at the first-ever Toronto Raptors game. On the day of the performance, Azada recalls pushing through the stomach flu to perform, her hard work could not go to waste, and it was a very exciting time. They had already performed at the Toronto Raptors opening dinner gala the previous summer. The Junior Dance Pak continued to dance at games and other functions for some time, though Azada only stayed with them for about a year and a half to two years."
Azada Rahi 1/1 B
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1996 consisting of children and teenagers from the Raptors Junior Dance Pak dancing on stage behind Six Nations country singer Rebecca Miller singing and introducing the YTV Achievement Award recipients.
Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "In 1996 the Pak was hired to perform at the YTV Achievement Awards. Dawning matching plaid and denim ensembles, the Pak backup danced for Indigenous Canadian country singer, Rebecca Miller. This country line-dancing number was one of three performances they did at the Awards that evening, including one with Aashna Patel."
Azada Rahi 1/1 C
Item consists of a video clip recording from 1996 consisting of children and teenagers from the Raptors Junior Dance Pak line dancing on stage behind Six Nations country singer Rebecca Miller singing "Listen to the Radio" at the YTV Achievement Award recipients.
Royal Ontario Museum programs
Part of Selma Odom fonds
File consists of a manuscript note detailing an event held at the Royal Ontario Museum 7 April 1976.
Northern Lights Festival Boréal
Part of Mariposa Folk Foundation fonds
Mariposa Folk Festival '85
Brian McNeill
Dalcroze demonstration records
Part of Madeleine Boss Lasserre fonds
File consists of manuscript notes and other records pertaining to demonstrations of Dalcroze Eurhythmics staged in Toronto and environs. File also includes some of Lasserre's teaching notes.
Dalcroze scrapbook
File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper and other clippings related to Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
Earth Day Festival
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds
Burlesque - 2001 : Kennedy - biography : family
Dance tape
Bluebell PTS. 3-4-5-6-7-8
Toronto - 1920s 1999 : Mike Filey : Sigfrid + Roy
That's entertainment : Busley Beskely - Broadway melody : Fred Astaire + Ginelenor Powell
Red Skelton : funny faces III
Item consists of a live recording from Hamilton Place, Hamilton.
Scrapbook of my travels
Item consists of a scrapbook which primarily includes newspaper clippings pertaining to the Hollywood Hotel Revue.
Scrapbook of my travels : photocopies
Gilda Haddock en “por un millon, yo me vuelvo...” : Miami Beach Theater
Richard II produced by John Barton : poster : signatures
Item contains signatures of the cast including Richard Pasco and Ian Richardson.
Mirthmakers Revue : Kobe base special services with USO camp Show presents Variety Show
8-9 Apr. 1947
Item consists of promotional poster for USO Camp Show in Japan at the Koshien and Shurakkan theatre.
An evening with Red Skelton at the O'Keefe Centre
10-11 Sept. 1993
Leopard cap
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USO Camp Show : garrison cap
USO Camp Shows : pins
USO Camp Shows : patch
Select photos : Niagara Falls
Whiskey row marathon : 1st
Scrapbook : On Tour - 1946 USO Unit Hospital 11A
Scrapbook : On Tour - 1946 USO Unit Hospital 11A : photocopies
File pertains to Miami beach (March 1945), Durham NC.
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By Mitch Mosk Columns, Music, Today's Song May 24, 2015
Today’s Song: “O You” – Peace
It’s a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon in New York, and how better to bask in the warm glow of spring than with the aid of some fresh new sunshiney tunes? English indie rock band Peace are by no means the Beach Boys, but “O You,” the opening track off the group’s sophomore album Happy People (Feb 9, 2015 via Columbia), is a catchy, feel-good number with all the right ingredients to boost your sunny day bliss.
Peace exhibit the English rock and carefree attitudes of Oasis and Blur, but with the enthusiasm and gusto of Vampire Weekend. In fact, Andy Gill’s review of Happy People for The Independent describes the album experience to be “like listening to peak-period Oasis, but with the snarls replaced by smiles.” It’s an apt description, and one that fits “O You” particularly well. The song leans on the positivity of the refrain, “I’m just trying to change the world that you live in / O You / Trying to make it better for your children / O You,” a statement that should resonate with many listeners.
Ultimately, it’s the music that gives “O You” its warmth. Shimmering guitars cascade like waterfalls over an orchestral bed of strings in the song’s entrance, a theme revisited time and again throughout “O You.” The verses start small, with palm-muted guitars keeping the song’s motif alive while a soft, organ-toned keyboard lays down an almost in-audible, yet very present bottom layer. Strings build the second verse into a fuller expansion of the first, and allow for a deft transition into the hearty chorus. Vocalist Harrison Koisser is just one piece of the chorus: He is accompanied by ringing strings, subtle harmonies, glittering chimes, and, somewhere in the mess of it all, that whole-toned made-for-Britpop electric guitar.
It’s the kind of chorus that I’ll listen to without the verses, and bask in its musical and lyrical innocence. “I’m just trying to change the world” is an innocuous statement, but the musical accompaniment brings out a rainbow of colors and tonalities that allow the chorus to transcend your everyday do-good message. The elements of hope and sincerity in those simple words are believable enough for “O You” to pass as more than a cheesy attempt at feel-good music. It’s all about how you say it, and these guys did it right.
Peace are definitely British punks – it’s damn near impossible to find a picture of the group smiling – but “O You” is one of the happiest rock songs to come off a major label release this year. It may not be your prototypical sunny day song, but Peace’s “O You” shines brightly in both music and message. Give a listen to Today’s Song and let its revelry overwhelm you with good vibrations.
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Listen: Happy People – Peace
“O You” – Peace
Maybe it’s me that’s changed, or the TV that’s changed
Your children are growing up, your children have slowly started
Learning, twisting, turning inside out
The 90’s were cool, I’ve heard all about
The 80’s were better, I have no doubt
The blue screen has bent
I’m just trying to change the world that you live in
O You
Trying to make it better for your children
Your children are playing up for reason unknown to us
It seems that they might’ve sussed that when you inherit something
Broken, twisted, pillaged raped and burned
You won’t have a devil’s chance to learn
That breaking a finger having fun is tragic enough when
Hot lover, chemically blessed
Soul brother, spiritual mess
Hypnotizer, not another six string sympathiser
Happy People – Peace
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Mitch is the Editor-in-Chief of Atwood Magazine and a 2014 graduate from Tufts University, where he pursued his passions of music and psychology. He currently works at Universal Music Group in New York City. In his off hours, Mitch may be found songwriting, wandering about one of New York's many neighborhoods, or writing an article on your next favorite artist for Atwood. Mitch's words of wisdom to fellow musicians and music lovers are thus: Keep your eyes open and never stop exploring. No matter where you go, what you do or who you are with, you can always learn something new and inspire something amazing. Say hi here: mitch[at]atwoodmagazine[dot]com
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Brokerages Set Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) PT at $51.00
Posted by James Conley on Dec 8th, 2019
Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (NYSE:TSM) have received a consensus rating of “Buy” from the five analysts that are presently covering the company, Marketbeat reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation and four have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 12 month target price among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is $51.00.
A number of analysts recently issued reports on the company. Morgan Stanley raised Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, September 4th. Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $55.00 target price on shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. in a research report on Monday, September 30th. Finally, ValuEngine downgraded Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 2nd.
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Shares of NYSE:TSM traded up $0.54 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $54.94. The company had a trading volume of 5,426,513 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,963,977. The company has a quick ratio of 1.52, a current ratio of 1.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.03. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $52.40 and its 200 day moving average price is $44.74. The stock has a market cap of $282.12 billion, a PE ratio of 24.53, a P/E/G ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 1.00. Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. has a 1-year low of $34.22 and a 1-year high of $55.03.
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. (NYSE:TSM) last released its earnings results on Thursday, October 17th. The semiconductor company reported $0.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The business had revenue of $9.40 billion for the quarter. Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. had a return on equity of 20.05% and a net margin of 31.58%. On average, research analysts expect that Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. will post 2.14 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Northwest Investment Counselors LLC acquired a new position in Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. during the third quarter worth approximately $25,000. Quest Capital Management Inc. ADV acquired a new position in Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. during the third quarter worth approximately $32,000. Trustcore Financial Services LLC increased its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. by 129.9% during the second quarter. Trustcore Financial Services LLC now owns 699 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 395 shares during the last quarter. Horan Capital Advisors LLC. acquired a new position in Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. during the third quarter worth approximately $33,000. Finally, JNBA Financial Advisors increased its position in Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. by 87.5% during the second quarter. JNBA Financial Advisors now owns 902 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $35,000 after buying an additional 421 shares during the last quarter. 19.31% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
About Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacturing, selling, packaging, testing, and computer-aided design of integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices. The company manufactures masks and electronic spare parts; researches, develops, designs, manufactures, sells, packages, and tests color filters; and offers customer and engineering support services.
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Unlocking the gates: Giving disadvantaged children a fairer deal in school admissions
by Barnardo's Policy and Research Unit
This report, tackles the issue of fair admissions to secondary schools in England.
Not the End of the Story: supporting teenage mothers back into education
by Jane Evans with Martha Slowley
This report shows that, while pregnancy presents real challenges for very young mothers, it should not mean the end of education or abandonment of ambitions for the future.
Second chances: Re-engaging young people in education and training
by Jane Evans, Deborah Meyer, Anne Pinney and Barbara Robinson
Second Chances dispels the stereotype that young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) are 'idle' or 'feckless', hanging around on street corners rather than getting a job.
Young people's experiences of, and solutions to, identity related bullying: Research report
by Vikki Butler
This research, involving 77 young people, examines young people¿s experiences of bullying- not just those who are bullied, but also young people who bully and young people who witness bullying in day to day life.
201011 Nov 2010
Beyond the Rhetoric of Youth Homelessness
by Barnardo's
Understanding what brings young people to the point of homelessness and what can be done to improve the support available to them.
Child health: What works and what counts?
by Dr Mary Duffy and Diana McNeish
Outlines broad patterns in healthcare and illustrates why efforts to reduce inequalities should focus on implementing interventions for which there is good evidence of effectiveness.
Child Rights and Resilience Conference Notes - Geneva
In June 2005 the International Catholic Child Bureau hosted an international consultation on Child Rights and Resilience in Geneva.
Index of wellbeing for children in Scotland report
by John McLaren
Barnardo¿s Scotland has produced an Index of well-being for Children in Scotland. The index ranks outcomes for children in Scotland on a range of measures and compares Scotland with other OECD countries.
Interchange 78 - Transitions in the lives of children and young people: resilience factors
A report describing effective strategies in health, education and social work for helping children to cope with periods of transition and change by promoting resilience.
Promoting children's emotional health - a research review
by Rachel Smith
Examines the impact of emotional ill-health upon children and young people. The review looks at potential risk and protection factors and interventions promoting resilience.
Raising awareness and promoting positive mental health and well-being among young people - The role of peer support
by Sharon Vincent, Susie Warden and Mary Duffy
The report presents the findings of a research study which explored young people's views and experiences of peer support.
Staying on - briefing paper and DVD
by Anne Pinney and Alison Worsley
This briefing asks young people's views on the Government's plans to make young people stay on in education or training until they are 18.
St Helen's school and Vincent Street homezone feasibility study
by J. Bevan, V. Butler and G. Gibson
This report looks at young people's experiences of outdoor play in Swansea.
Obliterating the limits: can arts projects raise pupil achievement and encourage participation in the process of change?
by Katherine Curtis, Tony Newman and Jo Stephens
Research report phase one of the Generation 2020 project
This report presents a model for undertaking participatory research with 6-11 year olds; findings regarding children¿s access to services and recommendations for service development.
SCIE practice guide 6: Involving children and young people in developing social care
The guide proposes that organisations adopt a whole systems approach to participation.
An evaluation of the Keighley Choices Programme
by Home Office and Barnardo's
The Keighley Choices programme targeted the voluntary and community sector to support their involvement in preventing and reducing substance misuse and related offending by vulnerable young people aged 10-19 years. This evaluation examines the extent to which Keighley Choices increased the capacity of local organisations to identify and respond appropriately to children and young people at risk of substance misuse and/or offending.
Committed to Rights (part 1) - Good practice case studies
Good practice examples illustrating how participatory work can improve outcomes for children in trouble.
Committed to Rights (part 2) - Information sheets
Committed to Rights (part 3) - self-auditing checklists
Committed to Rights (part 4) - Synopsis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Protecting self and keeping safe
by Mel Foley
WINNER - Children & Young People's Services "Stay Safe Award" 2006. A pack of materials for social workers, teachers & youth leaders to use in delivering effective education on sexual exploitation.
Nae Danger
Made by young people who have been affected by sexual exploitation, Nae Danger looks at issues around risk and keeping safe.
History of Barnardo's from 1845 to the present day
Learn about the history and work of the UK's biggest children's charity.
Barnardo's Children
A history of Barnardo's work with children.
Let's find out about Barnardo's
Learn about the history and work of the UK's biggest children's charity. For Key Stage 2, ages: 7-11.
Barnardo's timeline
Download, print off and display your very long timeline in your classroom (or take it home) and find out about major historical events in the UK and at Barnardo's.
Reaching families in need: Learning from practice in Barnardo's Children's Centres
This briefing highlights good practice enabling Sure Start Children's Centres to extend their reach to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged families.
Like any other child? Children and families in the asylum process
by John Reacroft
Like Any Other Child?, highlights the abject poverty, racial harassment and demoralising uncertainty, faced by children and families in the asylum system (Martin Narey, Barnardo's former Chief Executive).
Levelling the playing field
by Jessica Cundy, with economic analysis by Ritu Patwari
This short report highlights Barnardo's work to support vulnerable 16 and 17-year-olds into education, employment and training. The report makes four key recommendations about making social mobility a reality for these young people.
Cutting them free: How is the UK progressing in protecting its children from sexual exploitation?
by Policy, Research & Media
To mark the anniversary of the Cut them free campaign we've published a new report Cutting them free: How is the UK progressing in protecting its children from sexual exploitation.
Locking up or giving up? Why custody thresholds for teenagers aged 12, 13 and 14 needs to be raised
by Jane Glover and Pam Hibbert
This report outlines the findings from an analysis of the cases of 214 children aged 12, 13 and 14 who were sentenced to a Detention and Training Order in 2007/8 (46% of the total for this age group).
School's out, or is it?
This briefing is based on research with 30 young people aged 13-18 years, in three Barnardo's alternative education and training services in the North East - Palmersville Training, The Base and B76.
Professional briefing on family mediation in Northern Ireland: research and practice
This briefing outlines the findings from an evaluation of Newry Family Resource Centre's mediation service.
Locking up or giving up - is custody for children always the right answer?
This briefing examines the latest available government data for England and Wales (1996-2006) and reveals that despite continued low levels of violent crime, the use of custody for children aged 10-14 has increased 550%.
It doesn't happen here - The reality of child poverty in the uk
by Neera Sharma with a commentary by Donald Hirsch
The lives of 3.8 million children in the UK - one in three are blighted by poverty. This report is based on interviews with over 40 families with whom Barnardo's works.
The end of the road - report on asylum and immigration
by Nancy Kelley and Lise Meldgaard
This report gives evidence of the serious damage being done to vulnerable children by a new asylum and immigration policy.
Whose Child Now?
by Lisa Stacey
Barnardo's report "Whose Child Now?" revisits the issue of child sexual exploitation 11 years on from our first report in 1998, 'Whose Daughter Next?'
Lost in transition: the urgent need to help young school leavers in the recession
by Nicola Smith and Anne Pinney
At last Autumn¿s party conferences, Barnardo¿s highlighted the urgent need to help over 200,000 young school leavers across the UK who were already trapped in unemployment.
Supporting Prisoners' Families
by Naomi Clewett and Jane Glover
Supporting Prisoners' Families outlines Barnardo's work with children and families of prisoners across the UK.
201103 Mar 2011
On our Own Two Feet
Barnardo's is working in partnership with Action for Children to call on the Government to set up an asset-based savings account (ISA) for looked after children.
In Loco Parentis - A Demos report commissioned by Barnardo's
by Celia Hannon, Claudia Wood and Louise Bazalgette
The report examines what the care system would look like if it were reconfigured to avoid the delay, instability and abrupt transitions that many young people still experience and demonstrates that a smoother, more proactive care system could also be less costly to the state.
201102 Feb 2011
No Fixed Abode: the accommodation struggle for young people leaving custody in England
by Jane Glover and Naomi Clewett
This report shows that children as young as 13 are being released from custody into unsuitable and unsafe housing, leaving them vulnerable to reoffending at huge cost to themselves, society and the Exchequer.
Priced Out
This report highlights the pervasive impact of escalating fuel costs on the poorest families who are spending £442 less than they need to keep their homes heated to an adequate standard of warmth. The report makes a number of recommendations and urges the UK Government and the Welsh Assembly to work with Ofgem and the 'big six' energy companies to address the issue of fuel poverty through a number of measures which include making sure that all customers, including those on pre-payment meters, are on the lowest tariffs.
Barnardo's Eggciting Challenge (Primary School - Key Stages 1 and 2)
This fun activity gives children the chance to decorate a hard boiled egg. Their challenge is to look after it for a week.
Barnardo's Big Bean Challenge (Primary School - Key Stages 1 and 2)
This practical activity challenges children to plant and care for their own runner bean and watch it grow into a beanstalk.
Barnardo's Big Bounce (Primary School - Key Stages 1 and 2)
This entertaining activity challenges children to bounce as many times as they can, using different types of bouncing. Children will understand the importance of daily exercise whilst also learning about the physical effects on the body.
Barnardo's Care and Share Challenge (Primary School - Key Stages 1 and 2)
Take up the Care and Share Challenge for a fun take on friends and friendships, and you could be helping fund Barnardo's work with children seriously affected by bullying.
Barnardo's Big Bauble Challenge (Primary School - Key Stages 1 and 2)
Design a bauble for your class Christmas tree or wall, make a wish that will help make a child's life better, and raise money to help make your wish come true.
Year 7 Lesson plan 1 - Discover Barnardo's and the charity sector
Here children will gain an understanding of the charity sector as a whole, Barnardo¿s development over the ages and the plight of vulnerable children in the UK.
Year 7 lesson plan 2 - Understanding Barnardo's Communication with the Public (Part One)
Pupils will engage with posters from previous Barnardo's advertising campaigns. They will assess the communication materials¿ effectiveness by examining language devices, imagery and general form.
Year 7 lesson plan 3 - Understanding Barnardo's Communication with the Public (Part Two)
Building on the previous lessons work pupils will be asked to compare the effectiveness of different posters.
Year 7 lesson plan 4 - Create your Own Poster for Barnardo's
Pupils will use their media analysis skills to make their own poster for Barnardo's.
Tough love, not get tough: Responsive approaches to improving behaviour in schools
This briefing shows that schools which succeed in engaging children and improving behaviour for the long term respond to their pupils' needs by offering an authoritative approach to discipline which addresses the underlying causes of bad behaviour, which often lie in problems at home.
Mind the Gap: Ensuring All Disadvantaged Children Benefit from the Pupil Premium
New Barnardo's research out today finds that the Government's pupil premium funding - introduced last year to improve the education outcomes of the country's poorest children - does not adequately support all disadvantaged children through their education.
201110 Oct 2011
Not a world away: The sexual exploitation of children and young people in Northern Ireland
by Dr Helen Beckett
This research report indicates the prevalence and character of child sexual exploitation across Northern Ireland. It shows that this abuse affects both young females and young males. It also highlights how those with existing vulnerabilities experience a disproportionate risk.
Tackling child sexual exploitation: Helping local authorities to develop effective responses
by Dr Caroline Paskell, with the Local Government Association
This practice briefing outlines the key components of effective local action on child sexual exploitation. It draws on good practice examples to show how local authorities, police and other core agencies can work together to ensure young people are better protected, and victims of this abuse are better identified and supported.
Family support for children and families affected by imprisonment: A handbook for Families First services in Wales
This handbook is designed to be an accessible aid to practice for busy staff and their managers as they strive to develop their reach to the children and families of prisioners.
201407 Jul 2014
Evaluation of Barnardo's Safe Accommodation Project for Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Young People
by Lucie Shuker
The University of Bedfordshire valuated the Barnardo's Safe Accommodation Project, which piloted the use of specialist foster placements for young people at risk, or victims, of sexual exploitation and/or trafficking, for the first time in England, as well as providing training to foster carers and associated professionals, and 1-1 support to young people in other care settings.
Digital Dangers
The impact of technology on the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and young people
Health impact of sexual exploitation on adolescents
by Department of Health and Chanon Consulting
Appendix to Health Working Group Report on Child Sexual Exploitation The independent national Health Working Group on Child Sexual Exploitation has published a report designed to help health services improve the health and wellbeing of children who have experienced sexual exploitation. The report makes recommendations on how NHS, local authority and other health commissioners and practitioners can help protect children, identify and intervene in cases of child sexual exploitation and help children with recovery.
201112 Dec 2011
A vicious cycle
by Ivan Mathers and Neera Sharma
A vicious cycle shows how problem debt can have a persistent and invasive impact on the lives of families struggling to live on low incomes.
The Value of Early Intervention
This report evidences the value of early intervention based on a sample of Barnardo's Children's Centres services.
Are we nearly there yet, Dad?
by Jessica Cundy
Supporting young dads' journeys through fatherhood
Paying to work: childcare and child poverty
New Barnardo's research out today highlights how the high cost of childcare will cause substantial difficulties for many parents seeking to enter work, or work longer hours, once the Government's new Universal Credit system is introduced.
Looked after children with additional support needs in Scotland
by Jessica Cundy and Mary Duffy
This research was commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland to develop a fuller understanding of the issues facing looked after children with additional support needs, and the systems and processes that provide them with additional support for learning.
Staying the course
Staying the Course takes a close, initial look at the new 16-19 Bursary Fund for England and its impact on disadvantaged 16 to 19-year-olds in education and training.
Every Night You Cry: Case studies of 15 Bristol families with a father in prison
This report has been produced to raise awareness of the emotional and practical impact that the imprisonment of a father has on his children and family.
She just cries and cries: Case studies of Devon families with a father in prison
What Works in Achieving Adoption for Looked After Children: An Overview of Evidence for the Coram/Barnardo's Partnership
by Di McNeish & Sara Scott, DMSS Research
This review was commissioned by Barnardo's and Coram to support our partnership initiative which provides consultancy and support to local authorities with the aim of increasing the number of children adopted from care and reducing delays in making and implementing decisions about adoptive placements. This work forms part of the Department for Education 'Pathways to Permanency project'.
Developing pathways into children and family services for mothers involved in the criminal justice system
This briefing report has been developed to support links and partnership working between professionals in the criminal justice system and in children and family services.
201305 May 2013
Still our children
Seven organisations, Barnardo's, The Care Leavers Association, Catch22, the Fostering Network, TACT, Voice and The Who Cares? Trust - are calling on the Government to reform the system in a new briefing, "Still Our Children", published today.
Sure Start Hartcliffe, Highridge and Withywood Evaluation of the Family Link Worker Service
by Karen McInnes and Emma Burton
This evaluation looked at the organisation and delivery of the family link worker service at Hartcliffe, Highridge and Withywood Sure Start local programme.
'What works for children' initiative
City and York universities, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, have been working with Barnardo's to explore how research can be applied to childcare practice.
SCIE Knowledge review 07: Improving the use of research in social care practice
by Isabel Walter, Sandra Nutley, Janie Percy-Smith, Di McNeish and Sarah Frost
This review examines effective ways of promoting research use in social care, explores models of research use that include staff at different levels and settings in social care, and looks at what organisational structures are needed to realise the aim of using research to improve practice.
Making connections linking research and practice summary
by Mike Hughes, Diana McNeish, Tony Newman, Helen Roberts and Darshan Sachdev
The purpose of this report is to review of factors which promote or inhibit the dissemination of social care research and its application in practice.
The National Independent Visitor Standards
by The National Independent Visitor Network
The National Independent Visitor Development Project aims to raise awareness around the role of the independent visitor (IV) for looked after children.
Commissioning for Better Outcomes
Understanding local authority and voluntary sector experiences of family services commissioning in England.
Sexual Exploitation: Sex, Secrets and Lies
'Sexual Exploitation - Sex, Secrets & Lies', Your Guide examines the risks young people face and explore ways of keeping safe. The colourful, easy to read booklet is illustrated and has been designed to be used by young people as well as family members and carers who are concerned about the safety of young people.
On the Outside: identifying and supporting children with a parent in prison
Barnardo's knows that children whose childhoods are disrupted for any reason face worse outcomes than children with more stable backgrounds. This is why we work directly with more than 200,000 vulnerable and disadvantaged children every year in 900 services across the UK.
Feels Like Home: Exploring the experiences of newcomer pupils in primary schools in Northern Ireland
by Dr Donna Kernaghan
The overall purpose of this research was to investigate both the experiences of newcomer pupils and staff in primary schools in Northern Ireland.
The National Independent Vistor Data Report
by Kris Graham and Alexandra Gordon
The Case for Early Support
Ahead of the 2015 general election, Barnardo's linked with four other children's charities to lead the "A Stitch in Time Campaign," highlighting the importance of prevention and early intervention in public services.
Working with children who are victims or at risk of sexual exploitation: Barnardo's model of practice
by Wendy Shephard in collaboration with Becky Lewis
This paper sets out the models and processes used to sexually exploit children and young people, and Barnardo's model of practice in engaging and supporting these children.
Working with children with a parent in prison: Messages for practice from two Barnardo's pilot services
by Owen Gill and May Jacobson Deegan
This report highlights the practice learning emerging from two of our pilot services based in the community that worked with children and their families affected by imprisonment.
Unprotected, Overprotected: meeting the needs of young people with learning disabilities who experience, or are at risk of, sexual exploitation
by Anita Franklin, Phil Raws and Emilie Smeaton
This exploratory research study aimed to increase understanding of how to meet the needs of children and young people with learning disabilities who experience, or are at risk of, child sexual exploitation (CSE).
Locked Out: Children's Experience of Visiting a Parent in Prison
Locked Out: children's experiences of visiting a parent in prison is a research report from Barnardo's based on conversations, interviews and focus groups with children who visit their father in prison. They told us that some changes need to be made to help them feel more comfortable about accessing their right to have contact with their father in difficult circumstances.
It's Not On The Radar
by Carron Fox
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) can affect all children, including those with disabilities, regardless of their gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, faith or economic background.
Barnardo's Online Grooming Survey 2016
by Carron Fox and Gunes Kalkan
This snapshot survey of five Barnardo's sexual exploitation services across the UK shows the prevalence of online grooming and the number of children who had gone on to be sexually exploited after being groomed online.
Rapid Evidence Assessments: Child Sexual Exploitation
by Silvie Bovarnick, Sara Scott, Di McNeisha, Jenny Pearce
These Rapid Evidence Assessments are based on the available evidence in relation to prevention education, outreach work and direct work with sexually exploited or at risk children and young people. They bring together key messages from research and what works, as well as key features that underpin effective work with young people.
Neglected Minds: A report on mental health support for younger people leaving care
by Nicola Smith
This report looks at the mental health needs of care leavers and what could be done to better support them.
Journey to Justice
by Hannah Marsden
Prioritising the wellbeing of children involved in criminal justice processes related to sexual exploitation and abuse.
Involve us, Respect us
by Fox, C & Le Blanc, O
The Government has announced that Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) will be compulsory in all schools in England from September 2019. This means that all primary school children will be taught about relationships and all secondary school pupils will be taught about relationships and sex. This report is for policy makers who are designing statutory guidance on how RSE should be delivered. It is also for schools, teachers and support workers who deliver RSE to young people - who we refer to as 'educators'.
Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision
What children and young people think of the Government's Green Paper.
Rapid Overviews on prevention and promotion interventions for child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing
by Anna K. Macintyre & Dimitar Karadzhov
These two Rapid Overviews, one on universal prevention and promotion interventions for vulnerable groups, and one on selective prevention and promotion interventions, for child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing, were commissioned by Barnardo's to provide a mapping of the types of interventions that have been evaluated.
What works in responding to child sexual exploitation
by Sara Scott, Di McNeish, Silvie Bovarnick and Jenny Pearce
This publication aims to provide an accessible summary of research evidence to inform practice for children and young people affected by child sexual exploitation (CSE). Like earlier 'what works' titles, it deals with a complex topic, where the evidence is rarely straightforward and where there remain some important gaps.
'Staying Put' for young people in residential care: a scoping exercise
by Collaboration between the National Children's Bureau, The Who Cares? Trust, Action for Children, Barnardo's, Together Trust and the Centre for Child and Family Research, Loughborough University.
This report explores options for providing an equivalent of staying put for young people in residential care and the potential challenges and costs that will need to be taken into account for effective implementation.
How much do you know about Generation 'Selfie'?
by Barnardo's in partnership with Ipsos MORI
This report is based on research conducted by Ipsos MORI into the views and concerns of young people, with a focus on those from the most disadvantaged background.
Evaluation of Barnardo's Supported Lodgings
by Kate Sewel
This report presents findings from an Evaluation of Barnardo's Supported Lodgings provision.
Supported lodgings provide family-based support to young people who cannot live with their own families and who are not yet ready for independent living.
by Emilie Smeaton
This report presents evidence-based learning from an evaluation of Barnardo's SECOS (Sexual Exploitation Children's Outreach Service) child sexual exploitation (CSE) service based in Middlesbrough.
Running away from hate to what you think is love
by Barnardo's and Paradigm Research
Our new report, produced in collaboration with Paradigm Research and funded by Comic Relief is the culmination of one to one interviews with more than 40 children from a range of backgrounds who have run away and been victims of sexual exploitation before the age of 16. Their experiences starkly demonstrate the variety of reasons why children choose to runaway and how easily they can find themselves at risk and in danger of being sexually exploited. The research also shows that running away can be the result of having been exploited for sex.
by Rosemary Pickering and Anne Wilson
Safety finger rhymes for groups of children 2-6 years
Someone to Care Experiences of leaving care
by by Barnardo's
"Someone to Care" is based on face to face research with 62 care leavers and contrasts their emotional circumstances with the expectations we have for our own children.
An unfair system. All babies count: spotlight on the criminal justice system.
by Susan Galloway, Alice Haynes and Chris Cuthbert
This report is one of a series of Spotlight reports published as part of the NSPCCs All Babies Count campaign. All Babies Count aims to raise awareness of the importance of pregnancy and the first year of life to a child's development. Existing reports in this series explore the impact on babies of parental drug and alcohol misuse and perinatal mental illnesses.
Evaluation of Barnardo's Families and Communities Against Child Sexual Exploitation programme
by Barnardo's (funded by DfE) independent evaluation by the University of Bedfordshire's International Centre
The two year FCASE programme has been based in existing Barnardo's specialist CSE services in three locations across England.
Nightwatch: CSE in Plain Sight
by Kate D'Arcy and Roma Thomas
An independent evaluation of Barnardo's Nightwatch - a Department of Education (DfE) pilot designed to increase awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation among businesses of the night-time economy (NTE).
Families in need of food parcels - the food poverty crisis unwrapped
Christmas dinner can often be food parcel for many children, a Barnardo's report reveals, because rising living costs and changes to the welfare system are driving increasing numbers of vulnerable families to use emergency food services. Between 2007 and 2012, food prices rose between 19 per cent and 47 per cent. The cost of essentials such as food and fuel also increased, as benefits were cut, reducing the income of the poorest households. "Families in need of food parcels: the food poverty crisis unwrapped", is a nationwide survey of Barnardo's services which explores families' growing use of emergency food schemes. It found 94% of applicable projects reporting an increased or high demand for food banks or vouchers in the past year.
Running from hate to what you think is love (summary)
Domestic Violence Risk Assessment for Children
by Barnardos
Barnardo's NI are delighted to have developed the DVRAC - Domestic Violence Risk Assessment for Children in partnership with Dr. Helga Sneddon from Outcomes Imps.
Appendix 1 faith and culture safeguarding children checklist
Care leavers accommodation and support framework
by Barnardo's in partnership with St Basils
Young people leaving care need somewhere safe and suitable to live to help them make a positive transition into adulthood. Good housing underpins success in other areas of life.
Evaluation of the Community Support for Offenders' Families service
This report sets out the findings from an evaluation of the Community Support for Offenders Families service.
Health impacts of child sexual exploitation
Appendix to Health Working Group Report on Child Sexual Exploitation. The independent national Health Working Group on Child Sexual Exploitation has published a report designed to help health services improve the health and wellbeing of children who have experienced sexual exploitation. The report makes recommendations on how NHS, local authority and other health commissioners and practitioners can help protect children, identify and intervene in cases of child sexual exploitation and help children with recovery.
The Way Forward: a report for care leavers
by Natasha Slater
Our new report 'The way forward' shows research that Barnardo's has conducted with young people leaving care that we work with. This report shows what is important to them.
Feeling the pinch: the impact of benefit changes on families and young people
This report draws on this experience to provide a first-hand account from Barnardo's services on the impact changes to benefits have had on vulnerable families across England and Wales. It uses the results of a recent survey of 138 Barnardo's services to paint a detailed picture of how families have been impacted by a variety of changes to benefits, and the difficult choices many of our families and young people have faced.
Youth And The Internet: a guide for policy makers
by Jonathan Rallings
This report highlights concerns about the impact the internet is, and may be, having on young people, emerging from two central ideas beginning to gain traction in public debate:
That the effect of the internet age may (or may not) represent a more fundamental divide in the 'generation gap' than previous experience of technology impacting on young people.
That teenagers' emotional needs do not seem to have significantly altered in a generation, but the consequences of teenage behaviour are now radically amplified - for good as well as bad - by the internet.
Growing Up: an evaluation of horticultural therapy with young people who have a learning disability
by Victoria Gray Armstrong
This evaluation report brings together the statistical information from the Growing Up project as well as a wealth of qualitative evidence from interviews with trainees, families, staff, volunteers and referral agencies. The analysis of this data offers insights into what service users have found valuable about the Growing Up experience and what is working well to carry forward into the future.
201408 Aug 2014
Research on the Sexual Exploitation of Boys and Young Men: a UK Scoping Study
Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this research explores the ways in which boys and young men are being sexually exploited; the differences and similarities between male and female victims of sexual exploitation and what services are currently available for boys and young men.
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Soping Study into the Sexual Exploitation of Boys and Young Men
Over the last few years, there has been an increasing public and political focus on child sexual exploitation (CSE). Large-scale criminal trials have highlighted the issue and several research projects and reports have contributed to our understanding.1 However, the focus remains on female victims, with little attention given to males affected by sexual exploitation.
Working with children and young people who experience running away and child sexual exploitation: An evidence-based guide for practitioners
The aim of this guide is to provide practitioners working with children and young people with learning from an action research study addressing the relationship between running away and child sexual exploitation (CSE) so that, where appropriate, this learning can be incorporated into direct practice.
A profile of children referred to Barnardo's fostering service in England
by Policy Team and Research, Evaluation and Impact Team
This report reveals the extent of the challenges facing the growing number of children in foster care in England.
On My Own The accommodation needs of young people leaving care in England
by Strategy Unit
On My Own reveals that vulnerable care leavers worry about the risk of becoming homeless and are experiencing severe difficulties with finding appropriate accommodation, having a choice in their housing and managing living alone for the first time.
The costs of not caring: Supporting English care leavers into independence
by Richard brady
The Barnardo's report, The costs of not caring: supporting English care leavers into independence, is based on in-depth qualitative research with twenty care leavers and finds that some local children's services are placing care leavers in unsuitable housing with 'unrealistic' expectations as to how well they can cope with living alone.
Welsh language: Unprotected, Overprotected: meeting the needs of young people with learning disabilities who experience, or are at risk of, sexual exploitation
Nod yr astudiaeth ymchwil archwiliadol hon oedd gwella dealltwriaeth o sut i ddiwallu anghenion plant a phobl ifanc ag anableddau dysgu sy'n profi CSE (camfanteisio¿n rhywiol ar blant).
Bringing Five to Thrive Alive: two approaches to implementing Five to Thrive within Barnardo's
by Bridget Pettitt
Five to Thrive, developed by Kate Cairns Associates, is a flexible approach that offers learning for practitioners and parents. It is designed to enhance awareness of the central ingredients for healthy brain development in babies, with five key activities - Respond, Cuddle, Relax, Play, Talk - described as the 'building blocks for a healthy brain.'
Not Just a Girl Thing: A Large-scale Comparison of Male and Female Users of Child Sexual Explitation Services
by Ella Cockbain, Helen Brayley and Matthew Ashby
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is increasingly recognised in the UK and internationally as a child protection and crime prevention priority. Yet, research and responses have focused heavily on girls and young women, leaving fundamental knowledge gaps around the characteristics and needs of boys and young men affected by CSE. The study introduced in this document formed part of a wider collaborative research programme designed to improve understanding of and inform responses to the sexual exploitation of boys and young men in the UK.
Barnardo's LINK Adoption Support Services - An Evaluation
by Anna Ludvigsen
This document reports on the findings of an evaluation of Barnardo's LINK Adoption Support Service.
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Rockets Lose Protest
NBA Denies Houston Rockets’ Protest, Disciplines Three Officials
On Monday, the NBA announced that Adam Silver has denied the Houston Rockets protest stemming from their 135-133 double-overtime defeat to the San Antonio Spurs back on December 3.
With 7;50 remaining in the fourth quarter, James Harden stole the ball and converted on a dunk, but due to the force of the slam, the ball miraculously propelled around the basket after going in and bounced off the rim before dribbling out of bounds. The San Antonio Spurs received possession and would fight back to force overtime.
The Rockets asked the NBA to either award the team the victory, or to replay the final 7:50 minutes at a later date.
Despite agreeing that the referees misapplied the rules, commissioner Silver believed the Rockets had ample time to overcome the official’s error and maintain their 102-89 fourth quarter lead.
The game will therefore go down as a loss for the Rockets, while the three referees officiating the game have all been disciplined for misapplying the Coach’s Challenge rules.
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Barbados Government Responds to Professor Michael Howard
Posted on September 10, 2018 by David 149 comments
Prime Minister Mia Mottley responds in quick time to Professor Michael Howard’s Sunday Sun article – David, blogmaster
Barbados Economic Recovery Team’s responses to the questions posed by Professor Michael Howard on page 26A in the Nation’s Sunday Sun for Sunday, September 9, 2018:
Ques: What are the projected dollar cuts for current expenditure over the loan period?
Ans: The loan period is for 4 years, with the last disbursement in May 2022. Projected expenditure cuts over this period amount to $571 million.
Ques: Has fiscal revenue been overestimated, given the fact that the economy is in recession, and large job cuts will occur which will further reduce tax revenue yield?
Ans: The fiscal revenues have not been overestimated. They take into account the economic business cycle and all factors impacting it, including any possible job losses.
Ques: How many workers in the public service and the SOEs are estimated to be sent home?
Ans: The program does not take the draconian and outdated approach by targeting some number for sending home workers. The objective of reform to the SOEs and to Central Government is to make the public sector fit for the challenges of the twenty first century through modernising and improving the efficiency, quality and cost effectiveness of the public sector. This will mean adjustment and rationalisation of SOEs and some Government Departments. It will also mean retooling and empowering, retraining and enfranchising some of the public sector workers to improve effectiveness. There will be job losses in some areas but there will also be employment gains in other areas where deficiencies have long set in. The net effect is likely to be a reduction in public sector employment but the number is also likely to be far smaller than the numbers bandied around and all will be offered some alternative, be it in the modernizing and digitizing program, an extensive training program, early retirement or a job in the private sector.
Ques: Is there any estimated money value of severance payments in relation to job retrenchments?
Ans: This is still being worked out at the level of the Social Partnership.
Ques: Are there any preliminary estimates to show how many SOEs will be merged, shut down or privatised, or the savings to be derived from these actions? Will user fees be charged for certain services, and if so, which ones?
Ans: The SOEs reform process began with what can be considered the most comprehensive consultation in our modern history from the Social Partnership to the leadership to the wider public, to identify potential for efficiency gains, cost recoveries, and enfranchisement through divestment of entities and/or activities. Indeed, almost 5000 persons participated in answering 93 questions in an on-line survey. There is consensus from the consultation process that 29 entities must be transformed with a savings of about $115m by end of 2019/20. It is hoped that around one third of these reductions will be felt by the end of 2018/19 with the balance in the following fiscal year. Additionally, all Government entities will benefit from stronger timelier financial accounting and oversight.
On the issue of user fees, there are currently four entities which provide an essential public service that the private beneficiaries have a capacity to pay for and where they do so in many other countries. These entities are the Vital Statistics of the Supreme Court Registry, the Land Registry, the Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office, and the Financial Services Commission. The process of moving to full cost recovery of these activities through user fees will also involve an initial and ongoing independent review of the potential for greater efficiencies, for example, through the use of new technologies and approaches, to keep these fees to international norms or lower. The Transport Board and Sanitation Services are also entities where increasing user fees are being considered as part of cost-recovery process but these two entities also present opportunities to empower and enfranchise Barbadians, e.g. helping drivers and their teams own their buses and sanitation trucks, bid for work from the Government and commit to minimum standards of public service. As such, any increase in user fees for these two entities be a small part of a larger restructuring effort within these entities.
Ques: Is there an estimated target for the new bus fare?
Ans: No, as any increase will be part of a comprehensive transformation process involving improving efficiencies and reducing cost.
Ques: What are the “conditionalities” or requirements for the IMF loan?
Ans: The conditionalities of the IMF loan are the targets set by Barbados itself under the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation program (BERT). These are: i) achieving a 6 percent primary balance by fiscal year 2019/20 and maintaining it for the next four year; ii) no further accumulation of arrears; iii) reducing transfers to SOEs by no less than the amount identified under the BERT program; iv) any increase in public debt must be consistent with keeping the debt-to-GDP ratio on the downward trajectory to reach 60 percent by 2033; and v) maintain social spending at a level consistent with protecting the most vulnerable in society.
Ques: What will be the nature and perceived impact of debt restructuring?
Ans: The public debt was deemed unsustainable by every possible measure and every international institution (as reflected in the numerous downgrades to the very bottom of the rank of rated countries), including the IMF. Not only the stock of debt but the servicing of the debt was also choking the life out of the economy. Indeed, the gross financing needs of Government reached 41 percent of GDP in 2017 as highlighted in the IMF 2017 Article IV Report on Barbados. As such, the Government announced a comprehensive debt restructuring, including external debt to commercial creditors and treasury bills, on June 1, 2018. Significant progress has been made in discussions with both domestic and external creditors and an exchange offer for Barbados dollar-denominated debt was issued on September 7, and the plan is to table an exchange offer external (US dollar-denominated) debt to commercial creditors shortly. Government debt held by the Central Bank of Barbados and by the NIS will also be restructured. The successful restructuring of the debt will put the debt on a sustainable path to reach 60 percent by 2033 and free up much needed fiscal space for keep infrastructural and development spending.
Ques: Was an increase in public sector salaries and pensions, as well as removal of UWI fees an appropriate economic policy, given that the stated goal of annual IMF briefings, as well as the present programme, is to reduce current expenditure?
Ans: This was absolutely an appropriate policy and one which received zero push back from the IMF. The design of economic policy must not only consider the current circumstances but also what has gone before. In doing so, it is clear that the appropriate policy is an increase in salaries and pension, given that the public workers in Barbados have not had a salary increase in over a decade and because of inflation the cost of living has increased considerably. This (the increase in salaries) then becomes the baseline on which the forwarding looking polices can be designed. Similarly, the imposition of UWI fees had created hardship for many Barbadian students, even more so in an environment of a prolonged economic recession. The removal of fees had to be dealt with immediately and be incorporated in the baseline. The same can be said of the additional expenditures to address the sewage and sanitation problem, which required immediate attention.
Ques: Is the flat tax (a modified poll tax) printed on the water bill an unfair or inequitable levy, which will impact proportionately heavier on the poor than on higher income groups??
Ans: We have protected the poorest and most vulnerable with higher pensions and welfare payments. The adjustment is skewed to the most fortunate in our society by raising the top tax rate and corporate tax rates, but we also believe that we are all in this together and everyone should make a contribution even if it is as small as $1.50 per household per day or 30 cents for everyone in the average-sized household.
Ques: Is the IMF loan of US$290 million too small for an extended Fund programme, given our very low level of reserves, and our extremely high level of debt?
Ans: No it is not too small for an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) as it represents 220 percent of quota and any amount above 100 percent of quota is considered ‘high access’. Yes, Barbados could have benefited from even higher access to build reserves buffers, given our vulnerability to external shocks and natural disasters. However, we must also be mindful that the greatest benefit of the endorsement by the IMF of our economic recovery and transformation program is the catalytic role such an endorsement plays. Our development partners, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank have both pledged significant amounts of financing, approaching BDS$300m for Barbados once our program is approved by the IMF Executive Board, which is likely to be in a few weeks. Together we are likely to receive BDS$1bn of support to our reserve from our multilateral partners as a result of the IMF supporting BERT .
Ques: Is a previous detailed report by the IMF on the SOEs available, which would offer some guidance in our monetary and financial situation, rather than having to depend on a qualitative consumer survey?
Ans: While a report by the IMF on the SOEs is available and can be sourced from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, we opted to rely on the comprehensive survey of the Barbadian public which reflects the wishes and views of Barbadians. Not only is this consistent with the principle of us – Barbadians – developing the Barbados Economic and Transformation program, but all the research show that where the public has a say in the design of economic policy, the implementation of said policy is more likely to be successful.
Ques: Are loans from financial institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank, where we can tap funds, also not subject to conditionalities?
Ans: No and this is because many institutions and institutional investors rely on the IMF endorsement, which is taken to imply that the country’s program is based on a coherent and consistent set of policies that are highly likely to be successfully implemented and with the desired outcome. This is the catalytic role of IMF support we referred to above.
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Not unexpectedly for the blp yardfowls to pleat big rocks at OSA
OSA is not my favorite cup of tea as i blamed him for alot of the borrowing that is not burdening the country
However he made some excellent points which cannot be over looked or simply push aside
What stricks most is his close up and personnel analysis of what Mia is doing wrong in her negotiations with the IMF (which) to him disadvantage barbados into receiving more support from the IMF
He belives that the burden of the taxpayer would be prolonged and barbados would be caught in a vicious cycle of revolving loans.to pay recurring debt
William Skinner
Like him or not Arthur is correct. The real problem is that we beating up on the Pulic Servants and accusing the workers, in general, as being lazy.
In the mean time,the private sector is getting a free pass. The truth will eventually come out.
It is very ironic, that the much maligned Sandals, is going to invest more money in our struggling economy than all its critics.
I maintain that it is the private sector leadership, that lacks creativity , innovation and vision.
How can we expect to go forward with these corporate parasites.
Butch (Sandals) and Doyle (Crane) both expatriate business people.
Where is the investment from the local corporate McGuffies ?
NorthernObserver
stop lying please.
you mean YOU BELIEVE that. He NEVER SAID this.
In fact, if the IMF money is not enough, he is requiring more IMF money….hence, more debt? And he said this would likely have to come from ‘other sources’.
And he slammed government in Barbados in general….by saying the IMF will not tolerate lax or corrupt operating practices. He means like years without an annual report, or outside commissions to obtain government business.
Then another one of your effing dreams….”What stricks most is his close up and personnel analysis of what Mia is doing wrong in her negotiations with the IMF (which) to him disadvantage barbados into receiving more support from the IMF”
What BULLSHIT. What WAS actually reported was…”Arthur reminded the audience that a country’s access to IMF financing was based largely on its quota with the fund rather than its needs. Arthur questioned the adequacy of the $590 million earmarked for Barbados, which is about 220 per cent of Barbados quota under the fund.”
do you understand what 220% means? Barbados is getting MORE than its quota. read MAM & Company got 2.2 times MORE than it was allotted (quota).
@WS
it is in Guyana, USA, Ecuador, Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica, etc etc. They know well enough to avoid Barbados, let the foreigners deal with it, there are bigger fish elsewhere. Bajans do not abuse foreigners like they do their own.
Colonel Buggy
Loan Sharking – Chinese Style
http://www.cadtm.org/China-to-take-over-Zambian-international-Airport-for-debt-repayment-default
NOrthernbObserver
The money is insufficient
Need to borrow incurres more debt
Debt which comes with more burden for taxpayers
So what is your problem
Your head is very hard. Don’t borrow, undervalue and sell the few assets we own and continue to service debt at usurious interest rates.
Hal Austin
@William,
Recently I said that wealth redistribution and inequality are not part of the political discussion in Barbados, and poor BERT is totally ignorant of such topics. I suggested an inheritance tax, but was ignored.
You should read Warren Buffet, writing in the New York Times (Aug 14, 2011) : “While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while mot Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labour but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest”, thereby getting a bargain 15 per cent tax rate. Others own tax index futures for ten minutes and have 60 per cent of their gain taxed at 15 per cent, as if they’d been long-term investors.”
It should be compulsory reading for the BERT technocracy. @William, architects of the neoliberal econo0mic thought that crashed the global economy in 2008, kept their heads down for aw bit, now they have resurfaced blaming big government for all the economic problems.
They conveniently ignore the subsidies they get, the tax breaks, the advantages they get when the state acts as investor of first; they want greater austerity, rather than bigger growth. They conveniently forget that the billions spent by the US, EU, UK and Japan have been used to buy bad debt off the big banks and insurance companies. They have corrupted the classical labour theory of value and replaced it with some nonsense called the Marginal Revolution with something called the theory of market prices. In other words, if an asset has a rice, it is generating value.
Therefore, the more an executive earns, the more value s/he creates. What a fib? @William, Th US government spends $32bn annually subsidising Bi Pharma, yet the buggers continue to increase the cost of pharmaceuticals. Elon Musk has received over $5bn in government subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX, mot of it from NASA and the department of energy; the UK government spent £45bn bailing out RBS bank. @William, the suckers are ordinary tax payers.
In Barbados it works because there is no national debate; there is howling and shouting from the hysterical mob; one minute about a dodgy will and family inheritance, the next about the genius of the former prime minister that led us in to this mess.
@William, it does not matter if I am talking crap as long as I have a PhD from Trump University, or am a retired professor, or a burnt out QC or the village idiot.
We don’t even have $1 yet, and the money is insufficient? LOL
See all of who else will loan us money WITHOUT the IMF facility. I don’t meed to tell you that, because that is why your former boys began tapping into the NIS and cranking up the printing presses.
All the years I was on here pushing for less deficits, all you could tell me was about the social economy. Now, you understand suddenly that debt is a burden? It isn’t a burden, it is all about the maintaining the social economy. The GoB is supporting the poor and vulnerable, they even gave employees a small raise.
Mariposa,
You may not be an economics professor, or a PhD, but you are spot on. If you borrow you incur more debt. Kenneth Rogoff has told us that highly indebted nations cannot easily grow themselves out of their debt, without some form of heterodox policy intervention.
@Maripsda, this is precisely what is needed; new ideas; new policies; new approaches. If BERT puts waffle in, they will get waffle out. Policy is as much about shaping markets as it is about regulating them. BERT will fail.
@HA
inheritance taxes are among the easiest to avoid.
Northern Observer,
Wealthy families employ highly paid accountant s and lawyers in order to avoid tax. Bust remember, ta avoidance is legal; tax evasion is illegal. Better an inheritance tax than no tax at all.
External Creditors disappointed
https://m.nasdaq.com/article/external-creditors-disappointed-with-barbados-debt-talks-20180911-00452
inaccuracy #1
“The decision to suspend payments came as a shock to foreign investors who had assumed they would be excluded from any debt restructuring.”
Did they expect, given the massive ‘home grown’ debt, the GoB would essentially attack itself (the NIS), by killing payments (restructuring) on locally owned debt, while leaving them whole? See what happens when you ass-u-me? (they really meant ‘hoped’)
Just as it was in the “recent past” when there was a “consortium of ac’s,” we BU is now being similarly confronted with a “consortium of Mariposas.”
I’m forced to remind them that, when Barbadians were critical of the former inept DLP administration, they were constantly reminded by Donville Inniss, Sinckler, the DLP operatives and yard-fowls……..that rather than criticize……
……..they should “BRING SOLUTIONS.”
But now the “shoe is on the other foot” …………the DLP operatives assigned to BU are now using the forum to be overly critical of the current BLP administration…….
………WITHOUT presenting any SOLUTIONS.
in the end, like with many taxes, it catches those it wasn’t really targeted at, and misses those at whom it was aimed.
Mr. Skinner
You seem to have purposely ignored the fact that Sandals was given 40 years tax free concessions…….including “all import duties, taxes, imposts and levies of any nature whatsoever, VAT on the provision of services that directly relate to construction works…..”
Also, SANDALS signed an agreement with Appleton Rum, which will see that Jamaican brand being sold as the first choice rum, ahead of Barbadian rums such as ESAF, Mount Gay, Old Brigand and Cockspur. Hotel bookings are made in the USA. All Barbados will gain from Butch is a few low level jobs at Sandals….as is the case with Sandy Lane.
It is also ironic that the same Arthur you are now praising as being correct……was the same Arthur who, during one of his lectures in November 2016, said the tax concessions granted to the Caribbean hotel chain Sandals were hurting the island’s finances, already reeling from a decline in revenue from the offshore financial services sector.
He also mentioned…….“In consequence, international business and financial services have migrated from Barbados, leading to a decline in revenues directly generated by the sector from $356 million in 2007 to $97 million in 2013.”
Artax an excellent contribution ,these Dems like Mariposa/ac,William skinner just criticizing for criticizing sake they are yet like the try a thing Government have yet to present anything of consequence going forward.Their agenda is to try to pull down Ms motley,s Government,hoping that Bajans would be crazy enough to re-elect those in my view wild boys ever again.However based on the election of a two time and four time loser to the top posts,this will not happen as they both have to win a seat first,capiche.
To be fair, you can’t place William Skinner in the same category as Mariposa, T. Inniss….or even the resident pantomath.
Although Mr. Skinner is critical of BOTH the BLP and DLP……..he always provides this forum with an alternative perspective. For example, he presented an extract from the NDP’s manifesto relative to that party’s youth policies, which clearly indicated that, over the years, both the traditional political parties have not presented any meaningful policies….educational or otherwise……for Barbadian youth…….
………other than “wuk-up fetes,” featuring Barbadian “bashment calypsonians” and Jamaican dub entertainers…….as well as the usual night cricket and football tournaments……which are organized during the election campaign period.
However, I agree that the usual suspects are “criticizing for criticizing sake” and “they are yet to present anything of consequence going forward.”
So the shoes is on wunna blp yardfowls feet…wear them
Now look at the retort from the blp yardfowls criticise the dlp supporters but not one word to say about OSA giving two thumbs down to Mia policies
But ha ha ha OSA is not alone in his criticisms of this Mia lead govt
Now the external creditors have a no holds barred criticism of this govt also
Boy uh tell uh not only barbados creditworthiness is in the toilet but the necessary trust needed in negotiations
What a dam shame
@ Lorenzo
It’s obvious that you want to brand me as some DLPBLP apologist. You have to be completely out of your mind! Ask anybody on this blog about my contributions. Please leave me out of your family fight. I have no uses , political or otherwise for the decadent BLPDLP duopoly. I wish Ms. Mottley well as I did wish Mr. Stuart well. Mr. Stuart failed miserably. I will comment on Ms. Mottley as I see fit. At present , she is doing ok but her policies like those of the DLP
hold no excitement for me. Kindly leave me out of your family crap. And I mean crap.
@ Artax
Thanks for your objective comments.
External creditors…….”expressing disappointment with how debt negotiations are proceeding after the government launched a debt exchange that didn’t include” them………
……….is interpreted by the yard-fowl as “Now the external creditors have a NO HOLDS BARRED criticism of this govt also…”
The pass mark at DLP Yardfowl College has to be below 30%……..and Astor Watts or Jester Ince is the principal.
Mr Skinner,i have read your contributions over time ,and as far as I am concern you are a Dem apologist,you can pull wool over other people,s eyes but to me although not as ridiculous as mmariposa,T Inniss and the pitbull turn poodle Fractured,you are on here as a spin bowler for the Dems and I call you out as I see you,capiche.You claim Ms motley is doing an alright job yet no where have I seen you state this but at the drop of a hat you ready to criticize.I stand by what I stated before,concerning you,you can like it or lump it.
interest is the lenders return on his risk, therefore the higher the interest the higher the implied risk of repayment. CS knew exactly what they were doing, and now, having already been fully repaid their capital they will lose some of their excessive expected profits. that’s what you get for lending to a country headed hell bent on destroying itself with deficits. they can thank big chris. they are of course sorry that they couldn’t force the sale of the hilton at 50% off, but sometimes that is how the cookie crumbles.
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It is interesting that former prime minister Owen Arthur is now calling for regional alliances to combat the global economic crisis. He is right. I have previously called on this blog for a pooled Caricom-based foreign reserves fund and a CARICOM-based financial regulator in order to prevent a future Clico debacle. Of course, all this should have been part of the CARICOM-CSME discussions, which t one point was led by Mr Arthur.
Are we now going to have a grown-up debate, or yell and shout as usual?
Negroman
An interested meeting took place on Thursday 13 September regarding the type of separation packages the government will offer public servants who will be terminated.The most amazing aspect of this meeting was that members of the private sector including two individuals from Sagicor who admitted they have limited knowledge of how the public sector functions are the principal players in the formulation of those separation packages. One of them is Mrs Estwick wife of Mia Mottley cousin. One of the proposals put forward is that entrenched public servants take their money and invest in Guyana. I was made aware that government is willing to make provisions for that. On another note a minister of the present government is trying to influence public officers when booking flights for ministers and public servants when going overseas on official business to use his travel agency.That is Mia version of accountability,transparency and having no corruption in her administration.
Roverp
I have a problem with fork-tongued economists! During the past TEN plus years of DLP in office, I never heard much of the economists say that BARBADOS was in a LOCAL RECESSION and that that LOCAL RECESSION lasted about seven years or more. All of a sudden they now have talk and looking for instant results and quick to point everything under the sun.
Roverp,
That is just the way house servants work!
The Prime Minister has outlined her vision for every Barbadian child speaking some level of Mandarin Chinese by 2030.
She has declared it was becoming increasingly necessary for Barbadians to have some level of competence in the main Chinese language, as she joined in celebrating the 69th anniversary of the founding of modern state of China at a cocktail reception.
“Our Government has set itself some very simple objectives by 2030, that each Barbadian child under the age of 18, among other things, should have been given the opportunity to be bilingual. While we recognize that English and Spanish are predominantly the two languages spoken predominantly in our hemisphere, we recognize that it is impossible to live in this world today without having a level of proficiency in mandarin,” said Mottley.(Quote)
Here is further proof, as if it were needed, of our prime minister, the every woman, instructing the nation that we must learn Mandarin by 2030 – 12 years. Is this our education strategy going forward? But BERT promises a knowledge-based economy, is this it? Is learning Mandarin an economic priority? We also got the tyrannical Chinese talking to us about law and order. Are we mad?
Apart from evidence of Chinese cultural colonisation, once again the prime minister is ignoring her ministers and speaking across all portfolios. The woman has not a single idea of what kind of society she wants Barbados to be. Maybe she thinks we should all be Chinese.
Why are her ministers tolerating this? Why are our media not critiquing this government? Or, are they prepared to give her six months? The problem with that is that in six months time there may not be a Barbados as we know it.
The woman is power obsessed; she must be in the limelight at all times and on all subjects. Is this the strategy of the Chinaman Mr Jong? It is all going to end in tears.
Defsult
This woman is as crazy as a bed bug
T.Inniss
You asked why are our media not critiquing the prime minister.
Well because they are all in her back pocket.They were the ones sent out to push her agenda to create negative news against every dems govt minister and every dems policy and to push for regime change.
Now their role is to highlight everything she says as if its the most brilliant ever and to blunt criticism.
You see it everywhere – even here.
First it was declaring that her policy was every child should be able to swim.
Now its every child should speak mandarin.
This is the same hodge podge nonsense we saw back in the 90s when she shut down all the Nations schools and took the children up at the wildey Gym to listen to Edwin Yearwood.Steupes.
Bush Tea
China was generous to Djibouti – until they could not repay. Now China owns their harbour.
They ‘helped’ Maldives with a loan – and now own 40% of State-ownes resorts.
Madagascar lands are now owned by China
Zambia’s airport will be Chinese owned from next month
Ethiopia’s railway is now Chinese
Kenya’s mines now belongs to China – they could not repay the ‘generous’ loans….
It takes a SPECIAL kind of brass bowl to walk DIRECTLY from one kind of slavery to another even worse situation,
…so wunna DONE know why Mia needs to have us speaking Mandarin by 2030….
We gotta know what the new masters will be beating our donkeys for…..
Sargeant
@BT
Those who do not learn history are condemned to repeat it
Colonialism then
Colonialism now
Colonialism forever
It is the price we pay for spending more than we earn. The problem is that the majority of Barbadians are ignorant about connecting the dots.
September 21, 2018 11:55 AM
I wonder if ‘Mia cares’ Mottley is hearing the cries of those retired persons who have invested all their savings in government bonds.From the very first instance when these bonds were introduced bajans knew that they were safe and they would get what was agreed.
In comes Mia ‘she got this’ Mottley and in the first week of her administration she defaulted on the debt without talking to the foreign creditors,without consulting with anyone except Avinash and Clyde .Knowledgeable persons including Owen and Delisle Worrell advised against it
Now pensioners in one swoop has been placed into near destituition as all their savings which over the years they have been investing in government bonds now find themselves getting 1% interest on their investment and the period of investment move from 5 years to 15 years.
Pensioners,retirees,and those investing their small savings have been wiped out because of the shyte Mia did by defaulting on the debt without studying she head good.
Lord help us all !
speaking mandarin by 2030…..why not tackle english first
So True T Inniss. What a manical decision
Having no alternatives Mia bushwhacked the whole country
As if not enough for the pensioners to swallow the bitter Clico Pie initiated under OSA reigns
She gives no thought or concern for the pensioners losing more of their savings
What a dunderhead
I wonder what June fowler of the Clico Policy Holders Assoc is going to do now that Mia has rescinded on the decision taken by finance minister Sinckler (which I didn’t agree with) to give a financial pay out of some sort to these policy holders.
Every other week BLP supporter June Fowler railed against the last government and nothing they said was ever good enough.So much so that Sinckler in frustration called her a bald pooch cat – which was thoroughly unacceptable as a minister of government.In a similar vein I suppose to what a former prime minister in the safety of the house of Assembly lambasted ordinary citizens of Barbados (by name) who he felt were too critical of him.
What we are seeing with people like June Fowler,the private sector,the Unions and those in the media – is that their Morning Words and their Evening Words don’t match up.
Toni Moore,Akanni McDowall,Mary Redman,David Ellis,Peter Wickham,Sanka Price,Eddie Abed and private sector persons – now all are asking people to hold hands and sing “Lets Hold Hands and Show We Love Bdos”.lol
We are now being urged by these said two mouth Demons that we should suffer in silence and in a sense wrap ourselves around the Bdos flag.
Wuhloss looka dis ting though.
@Lawson,
Again TInnis all you said is true
Now the names you mentioned have become faceless toothless rats expecting bajans to rally around a flag of pain and suffering
They all need spraying with BAY GONE
On another note – didn’t Leodean Worrell – Chairperson of the BWA say that she is going to publish the invoices from David Simmons and her payment made for the legal advice to the Water Authority.
She strongly rejected the notion of a $150,000.00 payment to Mia’s cousin and former Chief justice David Simmons.Yet more than 1 week later,and after promising to send this information to all the media houses we see squat.
You hear the media persons asking any questions?
T. Inniss the same can be said of Mottley after one hundred days and counting
While on the campagain trail Mia promised to release the financials of her ministers
@T.Inniss
You missed the retraction and apology in Barbados Today this week?
Poor you.
The pressure is On level Red
You better not gloat David BU cause you could be next
A govt without an opposition is in the drivers seat
One can bet that apology came after a memo was sent
Apologize or else
A retraction would have suffice.but an apology
Apologises come before beheading
Just maybe Barbados Today thougt hard and long about making the fatal mistake of choosing a public beheading
What an embarrassment Barbados Today
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James D. Bezanson
M, #221, b. 16 January 1847, d. 20 October 1869
Father Benjamin Bezanson b. 7 Dec 1805
Mother Sarah Lyon b. 1804, d. 18 Dec 1869
James D. Bezanson was born on 16 January 1847.1 He died on 20 October 1869 at Hants County, Nova Scotia, at age 22.1
Joseph Herman Bezanson
M, #222
Sarah Mariah Bezanson
John Lewis Bezanson
William Richard Bezanson
M, #225, b. circa 1856
William Richard Bezanson was born circa 1856.1
Census 1871 William Richard Bezanson appeared on the census of 1871 in the household of Benjamin Bezanson at Windsor, Nova Scotia.2
[S401] Unknown compiler, "1871 Census Index, Hants County, Nova Scotia", Windsor, Dwelling 171, Family 209, where his age was given as 14.
[S401] Unknown compiler, "1871 Census Index, Hants County, Nova Scotia", Windsor, Dwelling 171, Family 209.
Ernest Bezanson
M, #227, b. 26 July 1809, d. 23 March 1884
Martha Freelove Millett b. 18 Jul 1812, d. 17 Aug 1885
Benjamin James Bezanson+ b. 4 Sep 1833, d. 10 Dec 1913
George Millett Bezanson+ b. 27 Feb 1836, d. 2 Mar 1918
Edward Manning Bezanson+ b. 4 Aug 1838
Sara E. Bezanson b. 10 Dec 1840, d. 20 Jun 1891
Mary Ann Bezanson+ b. 18 Feb 1843, d. 1926
James A. Bezanson+ b. 20 Jun 1846, d. 25 Sep 1927
Nathaniel Bezanson+ b. 24 Feb 1849, d. 5 May 1904
Amos Lovett Bezanson+ b. 19 Sep 1852, d. 23 Sep 1911
David Harris Bezanson+ b. 12 May 1855, d. 11 Oct 1934
Rosella Bezanson b. c 1865
William Bezanson was born on 26 July 1809 at Chester, Nova Scotia.1,2 He married Martha Freelove Millett on 21 February 1833. He was 23. She was 20. The ceremony was performed by Reverend Joseph Dimock.3,4,5 William Bezanson died on 23 March 1884 at Waterville, Nova Scotia, at age 74.6
Census 1871 William Bezanson and Martha Freelove Millett appeared on the census of 1871 at Hants County, Nova Scotia, with Amos Lovett Bezanson, David Harris Bezanson and Rosella Bezanson.7
Census 1881 William Bezanson and Martha Freelove Millett appeared on the census of 1881 at Windsor Forks, Nova Scotia, with Rosella Bezanson.8
[S193] John Wesley Houghton, Houghton Genealogy of 1912, 413 (ID #1434), where the date is "2, 22, 1833."
[S630] George E. Levy, Diary of Joseph Dimock, 130.
Martha Freelove Millett
F, #228, b. 18 July 1812, d. 17 August 1885
Father George Millett b. 14 Apr 1781
Mother Annabella Etter b. 22 Jul 1786, d. 12 Aug 1874
William Bezanson b. 26 Jul 1809, d. 23 Mar 1884
Martha Freelove Millett was born on 18 July 1812.1,2,3,4 She was christened on 13 September 1812 at St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Chester, Nova Scotia.5 She married William Bezanson on 21 February 1833. She was 20. He was 23. The ceremony was performed by Reverend Joseph Dimock.1,6,7 Martha Freelove Millett died on 17 August 1885 at age 73.1,8 She was buried in Kenvtille Cemetery.1 The date of death, 17 August 1885, comes from The Houghton Genealogy, but her gravestone reads "d. Aug 14, 1886, 72 yrs."1,9
Census 1871 William Bezanson and Martha Freelove Millett appeared on the census of 1871 at Hants County, Nova Scotia, with Amos Lovett Bezanson, David Harris Bezanson and Rosella Bezanson.10
Census 1881 William Bezanson and Martha Freelove Millett appeared on the census of 1881 at Windsor Forks, Nova Scotia, with Rosella Bezanson.11
[S159] Don Shankle and Kim Stevens, "Lunenburg Births, Marriages and Deaths", June 19, 1999.
[S18] International Genealogical Index (IGI), Batch Number K534091, Source Call Number 1376192.
[S193] John Wesley Houghton, Houghton Genealogy of 1912, 413 (ID #1434).
[S193] John Wesley Houghton, Houghton Genealogy of 1912, 413.
George Millett Bezanson
M, #229, b. 27 February 1836, d. 2 March 1918
Annabelle Lane b. 1832, d. 12 Aug 1874
Lora Bezanson b. s 1861, d. 17 Apr 1862
Lillian Amelia Bezanson+ b. bt 1863 - 1864, d. 17 Sep 1953
Nancy Bezanson b. c 1865
Mary Bezanson b. c Aug 1866, d. 21 Nov 1872
Martha Bezanson+ b. 1872
Lorinda Millett b. 14 May 1853, d. b 1891
Emma Theresa Bezanson+ b. 3 Aug 1875
Elias Payzant Bezanson+ b. 10 Dec 1877, d. 19 Apr 1952
Ralph Bezanson+ b. Jun 1880, d. b 15 Apr 1940
Elizabeth Barkhouse b. 29 Aug 1841
George Millett Bezanson was born on 27 February 1836.2 He married Annabelle Lane on 28 January 1860. He was 23.2 George Millett Bezanson became a widower at age 38 upon the death of his wife Annabelle Lane on 12 August 1874.3,4 George Millett Bezanson married Lorinda Millett on 26 November 1874. He was 38. She was 21.2 George Millett Bezanson and Lorinda Millett were first cousins. George Millett Bezanson became a widower upon the death of his wife Lorinda Millett before 1891.2 George Millett Bezanson married Elizabeth Barkhouse on 10 October 1908 at Wolfville. He was 72. She was 67.5 George Millett Bezanson died on 2 March 1918 at Greenwich, Nova Scotia, at age 82.6,2 He was buried in Willowbank Cemetery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.6,7
Census 1871 George Millett Bezanson and Annabelle Lane appeared on the census of 1871 with Lillian Amelia Bezanson and Nancy Bezanson and with Anne Demond, servant, age 22.8
Census 1881 George Millett Bezanson and Lorinda Millett appeared on the census of 1881 at Falmouth, Nova Scotia, with Lillian Amelia Bezanson, Martha Bezanson, Emma Theresa Bezanson, Elias Payzant Bezanson and Ralph Bezanson.9
Census 1891 George Millett Bezanson appeared on the census of 1891 at Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia, with Emma Theresa Bezanson, Elias Payzant Bezanson and Ralph Bezanson.10
Census 1901 George Millett Bezanson appeared on the census of 1901 at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, with Elias Payzant Bezanson and Elizabeth Barkhouse.11,12
Census 1911 George Millett Bezanson and Elizabeth Barkhouse appeared on the census of 1911 at Main Street, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, with Mary O'Leary (F, 60), a lodger.13
[S1] Dorothy Evans, Bezansons from Nova Scotia, 59, which reports her date of death as circa 1872.
[S320] George Newbury, "Vaughan Community Cemetery", 5 Dec 1999, "BEZANSON, Anabell, d Aug 12, 1874 broken, wife of George,?,d Apr 17, 1862 6 mos, Mary B., d Nov 21, 1872 6 yrs 3 mos", where commas in the quoted section indicate new lines in the transcription.
[S143] Marriage Records of Kings County (published), Vol. 2, 124, 101, Date=10 Oct 1908.
[S14] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Death Registrations", Bezanson, George M [indexed as Benjamin, George]; Registration Year: 1918; Book: 40; Page: 397; Number: 1122.
[S351] Family History Committee, Cemetery Records of Kings County, Section 12, Stone 215, "George Bezanson buried 1918, age 82. no stone."
[S5] 1871 Canadian Census; Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia; Roll: C-10540; Family: 218; Page: 61.
[S652] Library and Archives Canada, Canada Census, 1881, Census Place=Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia, FHL Film=1375809, NA Film=C-13173, District=18, Sub-district=B, Page=5, Household=26, Name=George Besanson.
[S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), 1891, Gaspereaux, Location=g, Page=3, Line=3-6, Family=13, where Emma Theresa is "Tressa."
[S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), Year=1901, Location=Wolfville, Code=Aa, Community=Wolfville town, Family=185, Page=18.
[S617] Automated Genealogy, "1901 Census of Canada", District=NS KINGS (#36), Subdistrict=Wolfville (Town/Ville) a(1) Page 18, Line=43, Family=185, Name=Bazantson George.
[S5] 1911 Canadian Census; Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia; Family: 74; Page: 7.
Elizabeth Barkhouse
F, #230, b. 29 August 1841
Father Michael Barkhouse b. c 1800
Mother Maria Barbara Wentzell b. 4 Aug 1804
(?) Wilds
George Millett Bezanson b. 27 Feb 1836, d. 2 Mar 1918
Elizabeth Barkhouse was born on 29 August 1841.1,2 She married (?) Wilds.3 Elizabeth Barkhouse married George Millett Bezanson on 10 October 1908 at Wolfville. She was 67. He was 72.4
Census 1901 Elizabeth Barkhouse appeared on the census of 1901 in the household of George Millett Bezanson at Wolfville, Nova Scotia.5,6
Census 1911 George Millett Bezanson and Elizabeth Barkhouse appeared on the census of 1911 at Main Street, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, with Mary O'Leary (F, 60), a lodger.7
[S1] Dorothy Evans, Bezansons from Nova Scotia, 59, where the birth date was "1842."
[S159] Don Shankle and Kim Stevens, "Lunenburg Births, Marriages and Deaths", June 19, 1999, "BARKHOUSE","Ann Eliz","B","1841-08-29","1841-09-25","SJAL","Michael & Anna",,.
Annabelle Lane
F, #231, b. 1832, d. 12 August 1874
Nancy Bezanson4 b. c 1865
Annabelle Lane was born in 1832.1 She married George Millett Bezanson on 28 January 1860. He was 23.1 Annabelle Lane died on 12 August 1874.2,3 She was buried in Vaughan Community Cemetery, Vaughan, Nova Scotia; her marker includes the inscription, "broken wife of George", but there is a line break between the word "broken" and the phrase "wife of George". I do not know how to interpret it.3
Lorinda Millett
F, #232, b. 14 May 1853, d. before 1891
Father George Henry Millett b. 16 Oct 1816
Mother Rebecca Croft b. 11 Dec 1825, d. 12 Dec 1914
Lorinda Millett was born on 14 May 1853.1,2 She married George Millett Bezanson on 26 November 1874. She was 21. He was 38.3 Lorinda Millett and George Millett Bezanson were first cousins. Lorinda Millett died before 1891.3
[S1] Dorothy Evans, Bezansons from Nova Scotia, 59, which has the date year only.
Lora Bezanson
F, #233, b. say 1861, d. 17 April 1862
Father George Millett Bezanson b. 27 Feb 1836, d. 2 Mar 1918
Mother Annabelle Lane b. 1832, d. 12 Aug 1874
Lora Bezanson was born say 1861.1 She died on 17 April 1862.2 She was buried on 18 April 1862 in Vaughan Community Cemetery, Vaughan, Nova Scotia.2
[S320] George Newbury, "Vaughan Community Cemetery", 5 Dec 1999, this is a guess; the source does not include the child's name. The only child unaccounted for is Lora. Her birth date is estimated according to her age at death as inscribed on the marker (6 mos).
[S320] George Newbury, "Vaughan Community Cemetery", 5 Dec 1999, this is a guess; the source does not include the child's name. The only child unaccounted for is Lora.
Lillian Amelia Bezanson
F, #234, b. between 1863 and 1864, d. 17 September 1953
Etter Millett b. 25 Dec 1851, d. 30 Nov 1928
Gordon Millett7 b. c 1887
Lillian Amelia Bezanson was born between 1863 and 1864.1 She married Etter Millett on 19 November 1881 at Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia. He was 29.1,2 Lillian Amelia Bezanson became a widow upon the death of her husband Etter Millett on 30 November 1928 at Hantsport, Nova Scotia.3 Lillian Amelia Bezanson died on 17 September 1953.1
Census 1871 Lillian Amelia Bezanson appeared on the census of 1871 in the household of George Millett Bezanson and Annabelle Lane.4
Census 1881 Lillian Amelia Bezanson appeared on the census of 1881 in the household of George Millett Bezanson and Lorinda Millett at Falmouth, Nova Scotia.5
Census 1891 Etter Millett and Lillian Amelia Bezanson appeared on the census of 1891 at Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia, with Gordon Millett and with Avard Bishop (M, 18.)6
[S143] Marriage Records of Kings County (published), Vol. 1, 147,101; Etter's givenname is spelled "Esther", and Lillian Amelia appears as "Amelia."
[S14] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Death Registrations", Franklin Etter Millett; Registration Year: 1928; Book: 124; Page: 472.
[S5] 1891 Canadian Census; Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia; Roll: T-6317; Family: 93; Page: 18.
[S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), 1891, Gaspereaux, Location=g, Page=18, Line=21-23, Family=93.
Etter Millett
M, #235, b. 25 December 1851, d. 30 November 1928
Lillian Amelia Bezanson b. bt 1863 - 1864, d. 17 Sep 1953
Etter Millett was also known as Franklin Etter Millett.1 He was born on 25 December 1851 at Chester, Nova Scotia.1 He married Lillian Amelia Bezanson on 19 November 1881 at Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia. He was 29.2,3 Etter Millett was a miller at Falmouth, Nova Scotia, at the time of his marriage.4 He was a saw miller according to the census of 1891.5 He died on 30 November 1928 at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, at age 76.1
Census 1881 Etter Millett appeared on the census of 1881 in the household of George Henry Millett and Rebecca Croft at Gaspereau, Nova Scotia.6
Census 1920 Etter Millett appeared on the census of 1920 at Hartwell Avenue, Littleton, Massachusetts, in the household of Charles and Margaret Hartwell.7
[S143] Marriage Records of Kings County (published), Vol. 1, 147, 101.
[S652] Library and Archives Canada, Canada Census, 1881, Census Place=Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia, FHL Film=1375809, NA Film=C-13173, District=17, Sub-district=G, Division=2, Page=21, Household=99.
[S4] 1920 U.S. Federal Census; Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_710; Image: 567; ED: 175; Page: 7A; Lines: 28-33.
Mary Bezanson
F, #236, b. circa August 1866, d. 21 November 1872
Mary Bezanson was born circa August 1866.1 She died on 21 November 1872.2 She was buried in Vaughan Community Cemetery, Vaughan, Nova Scotia.2
[S320] George Newbury, "Vaughan Community Cemetery", 5 Dec 1999, the date is estimated according to her age at death as inscribed on her marker (6 yrs 3 mos).
Martha Bezanson
F, #237, b. 1872
Edward A. Croft b. 4 May 1857
Merton Croft+9 b. 1890, d. 1970
Ethel Croft+7 b. 12 Jun 1891
Annie Croft+7 b. 19 Oct 1895, d. 1979
George Croft8 b. 11 Jul 1898, d. 19 Sep 1928
Ross Croft8 b. 11 Mar 1901
Clara Croft7 b. Sep 1905
Roy Eldon Croft+8 b. Aug 1910, d. 3 Aug 1996
Martha Bezanson was born in 1872.1 She married Edward A. Croft on 4 December 1889 at Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia. He was 32.2,3
Census 1881 Martha Bezanson appeared on the census of 1881 in the household of George Millett Bezanson and Lorinda Millett at Falmouth, Nova Scotia.4
Census 1891 Edward A. Croft and Martha Bezanson appeared on the census of 1891 at Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia, with Jacob Croft and Merton Croft.5
Census 1901 Edward A. Croft and Martha Bezanson appeared on the census of 1901 at Kings County, Nova Scotia, with Lee Croft, Ethel Croft, Annie Croft, George Croft and Ross Croft.6
Census 1911 Edward A. Croft and Martha Bezanson appeared on the census of 1911 at Greenfield, Nova Scotia, with Lee Croft, Ethel Croft, Annie Croft, George Croft, Ross Croft, Clara Croft and Roy Eldon Croft.7
Census 1921 Edward A. Croft and Martha Bezanson appeared on the census of 1921 at Gaspereau Village, Nova Scotia, with George Croft, Ross Croft and Roy Eldon Croft.8
[S683] Daniel F. Johnson, "Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers", Volume 74, Number 1795, from The Daily Telegraph, December 18, 1889, "m. Gaspereaux, N.S., 4th inst., by Rev. M.P. Freeman, Edward A. CROFT / Martha M. BEZANSON, both of Greenfield."
[S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), 1891, Gaspereaux, Location=g, Page=19, Line=4-8, Family=95.
[S5] 1901 Canadian Census; Ward 7, Kings, Nova Scotia; Family: 158; Page: 17.
[S5] 1911 Canadian Census; 22, Kings, Nova Scotia; Family: 91; Page: 10.
[S5] 1921 Canadian Census; Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia; Sub-District: 15; Page: 8; Lines: 9-13.
[S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), 1891, Gaspereaux, Location=g, Page=19, Line=6, Family=95, where his age is "8/12" (8 months).
Nancy Bezanson
Mother Annabelle Lane1 b. 1832, d. 12 Aug 1874
Nancy Bezanson was born circa 1865 at Nova Scotia.1
Census 1871 Nancy Bezanson appeared on the census of 1871 in the household of George Millett Bezanson and Annabelle Lane.1
Emma Theresa Bezanson
F, #239, b. 3 August 1875
Mother Lorinda Millett b. 14 May 1853, d. b 1891
James Woodland b. 1873
Isabelle Woodland6 b. 26 Apr 1911
Emma Theresa Bezanson was born on 3 August 1875 at Falmouth, Nova Scotia.1,2 She married James Woodland on 17 January 1898 at Harvard, Massachusetts. She was 22.2,3 Emma Theresa Bezanson lived at Melrose, Massachusetts.
Census 1881 Emma Theresa Bezanson appeared on the census of 1881 in the household of George Millett Bezanson and Lorinda Millett at Falmouth, Nova Scotia.4
Census 1891 Emma Theresa Bezanson appeared on the census of 1891 in the household of George Millett Bezanson at Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia.5
[S12] Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM), "Birth Registrations", Bezanson, Emma; Registration Year: 1875; Book: 1813; Page: 30; Number: 664.
[S504] Ancestry.com Message Board, Boards>Surnames>Woodland, "Family tree" posted by Richard J. MacHugh, January 30, 2001.
[S840] Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988", Isabelle Woodland; Harvard Birth Register; 26 April 1911.
James Woodland
M, #240, b. 1873
Father Frederick Archibald Woodland1
Mother Katherin (?)1
Emma Theresa Bezanson b. 3 Aug 1875
James Woodland was born in 1873.1 He married Emma Theresa Bezanson on 17 January 1898 at Harvard, Massachusetts. She was 22.2,1
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Home Movies Netflix defends playback speed testing amid backlash
Netflix defends playback speed testing amid backlash
Samantha Rigby
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Netflix has responded to the growing concerns raised by filmmakers regarding a playback speed feature.
The streaming giant was recently embroiled in a controversy over a feature that allows subscribers to playback content at variable speeds. Now, the company is saying that they are hearing out creator concerns and have no plans of introducing a new feature soon.
Vice president of Netflix Keela Robison published a blog post addressing the issue on Monday. The exec confirmed that the tests are ongoing. This allows Android mobile device users to manipulate playback speeds of Netflix content by slowing down as much as half the original speed or going one-and-a-half times faster.
“It’s a feature that has long been available on DVD players – and has been frequently requested by our members. For example, people looking to rewatch their favorite scene or wanting to go slower because it’s a foreign language title.”
Robison further claimed that users have frequently requested the feature.
“We’ve been sensitive to creator concerns and haven’t included bigger screens, in particular, TVs, in this test,” Robison wrote in the blog. “We have no plans to roll any of these tests out in the short term. And whether we introduce these features for everyone at some point will depend on the feedback we receive.”
Strong advocates against the feature include director Judd Apatow and “El Camino” actor Aaron Paul. Film industry personalities have also joined them as they expressed their disapproval of the experimental feature. Many feel that this “manipulation” takes away the artistic aspect of films from creators.
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[TOP PICK] 6:00 pm ($10, which includes one free drink): A solo show by Leslie Goshko (delightful & razor-sharp storyteller/comic; WNYC, Sirius XM, Huffington Post, host of Sideshow Goshko) which she describes as follows: “Oh my gosh, you guys, I’m so excited about this! For the first time since I was like 12 (and for the first time ever in NY), I’m performing a solo night of music, combining my love of comedy, storytelling, and music for an old-fashioned piano party featuring everything from Elton John to George Gershwin. I so hope you can join me” at the West Village’s Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street): Leslie Goshko’s Old-Fashioned Piano Party
[TOP PICK] [$] 7:00 pm, 7:15 pm, 8:45 pm, 9:15 pm, 10:30 pm, and 12:15 am ($20-$24 per show, plus 2-item food/drink min.): Tonight’s lineups include Ben Bailey, Gregg Rogell, Gina Yashere, Lynn Koplitz, and Keith Robinson at the 7:00 show; Ted Alexandro, Greer Barnes, Dov Davidoff, and Gina Yashere at the 7:15 show; Ben Bailey, Greer Barnes, Dov Davidoff, Gina Yashere, and Keith Robinson at the 8:45 show; Ben Bailey, Lynne Koplitz, and Tony Woods at the 9:15 show; Gary Gulman, Dov Davidoff, Lynne Koplitz, Keith Robinson, and Tony Woods at the 10:30 show; and Gary Gulman, Greer Barnes, James Smith, Lynne Koplitz, and Tony Woods at the 12:15 show, with four of the shows at Comedy Cellar (117 MacDougal Street, between 3rd Street & Minetta Lane), and the 7:15 and 9:15 shows at Village Underground (130 West 3rd Street, off Sixth Avenue): Comedy Cellar Saturday
[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm & 11:00 pm (FREE TICKETS if you reserve in advance by calling (212) 260-2445 and mention HyReviews.com, but there’s still a 2-drink min. per person): Ted Alexandro (one of the very finest stand-ups in the country; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, two Comedy Central Presents half-hour specials; comedy album I Did It; frequently opens for Louis C.K.), Mike Britt (Comedy Central), and more performing stand-up at the only comedy club in the East Village: Eastville Comedy Club
7:30 pm ($10): Improv powerhouses Charlie Todd, Jim Santangeli, Natasha Rothwell, and more at UCB Chelsea interview an audience member about where he or she grew up and then “turn that town’s tourist attractions, landmarks, hangouts, local celebrities, urban legends, and more into a hilarious show made up on the spot:” The Curfew: Not From Around Here
7:30 pm ($10): Sharp Magnet improvisors “perform organic freeform improvisation in two mind-blowing parts; the only rule is that there are no rules:” The Weave
[$] 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm ($39.25 & 2-drink min.): A cast member of the much-missed Chappelle’s Show headlining through Sunday at the Carolines Comedy Club: Donnell Rawlings
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($20; no min.): Ted Alexandro (one of the very finest stand-ups in the country; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, two Comedy Central Presents half-hour specials; comedy album I Did It; frequently opens for Louis C.K.), Dan St. Germain (enormously likeable and rapidly rising star who has several TV shows in the works; Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central Half-Hour Special, The Electric Company, MTV, VH1), Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing?; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Christian Finnegan (Conan O’Brien, co-star of TBS’ Are We There Yet?; three Comedy Central specials; MSNBC, VH1’s Best Week Ever, Chappelle’s Show, The Today Show), Marina Franklin (Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Chappelle’s Show, VH1), Angelo Lozada, and more performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): Ted Alexandro, Dan St. Germain, Ben Bailey, Christian Finnegan, Marina Franklin, and More
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($10): Improvisors make up a religion based on an audience suggestion—e.g., The Church of the Carrot, The Church of Crime—and then make up hymns, readings, sermons, sacraments, and more on the spot at The PIT downstairs lounge: Fake Church
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($10): Improv groups Big Black Car (which includes Chris Grace, Nate Starkey, and Ashley Ward) and The Baldwins (which includes Micah Sherman Brigid Boyle, and Sarah Nowak) make stuff up at The PIT upstairs theatre: BBC and The Baldwins
[FREE] 8:00 pm: NYC stand-ups performing at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Ray DeVito, Ben Kronberg, Nick Cobb, and/or Tim Dimond: Shoot the Shite
[FREE] 8:30 pm: NYC stand-ups (not announced) performing at The Irish Exit (978 Second Avenue, off 52nd Street, in the back room) hosted by Gary Vider (hilarious writer & deadpan stand-up; for sample jokes, please click here): Comedy at Irish Exit
[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($10): One of the gutsiest and most hilarious troupes in comedy history—with honors including being Cage Match Champion for three years in a row, and winning the 2011 ECNY Award for Best Improv Group—UCB Chelsea’s genius improvisors Death by Roo Roo
[TOP PICK] [$] 9:00 pm ($20): Michelle Buteau (FOX’s Enlisted, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central, VH1’s Best Week Ever, The Jenny McCarthy Show; for stand-up video about Utah, sharing, and tits, please click here), Stuckey & Murray (terrific comedic singing duo; Chelsea Lately, NBC, VH1, Fuse), Bonnie McFarlane (HBO, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central), Craig Baldo (Conan O’Brien, Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central, VH1, The Onion), Maeve Higgins (UK star), and The Wolfe Brothers perform for this monthly stand-up & storytelling show at CSV (107 Suffolk Street, between Rivington and Delancey in LES): Moonwork
9:00 pm ($10): Magnet improvisors team up with poets at Kiss*Punch*Poem
[$] 9:30 pm ($11.34 online or $15 at the door): A young all-guy improv troupe making stuff up at The PIT upstairs theatre: Gentlemen Party
9:30 pm ($10): Sketch comic Chris Aurilio performs a one-man show that he hasn’t bothered to title very creatively at The PIT downstairs lounge: The Chris Aurilio Solo Show
[TOP PICK] 10:00 pm ($10): UCBT Artistic Director Nate Dern, Zhubin Parang (writer for The Daily Show), Tracey Wigfield (writer for 30 Rock), Michael Kayne (Baby Wants Candy, Diamond Lion), Aaron Jackson (Newsadoozies), and more form an improv troupe at UCB East that won this year’s prestigious Cage Match championship by springboarding scenes off interviewing an audience member about his or her love life: What I Did For Love
[TOP PICK] 10:00 pm ($20; no min.): Ted Alexandro (one of the very finest stand-ups in the country; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, two Comedy Central Presents half-hour specials; comedy album I Did It; frequently opens for Louis C.K.), Mike Lawrence (nerd persona but razor-sharp mind has made this stand-up a rapidly rising star; Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central Half Hour, John Oliver’s NY Stand-Up, comedy album Sadamantium), Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing?; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Christian Finnegan (Conan O’Brien, co-star of TBS’ Are We There Yet?; three Comedy Central specials; MSNBC, VH1’s Best Week Ever, Chappelle’s Show, The Today Show), Rachel Feinstein (finalist on Last Comic Standing; Comedy Central, HBO, The Apprentice, opens for Sarah Silverman on tour), Pete Davidson (MTV’s Guy Code), Angelo Lozada, and more performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): Ted Alexandro, Mike Lawrence, Ben Bailey, Christian Finnegan, Rachel Feinstein, and More
[FREE] 10:00 pm: NYC stand-ups take a comedic look at the world’s problems at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Tom Dillon: Love, Poverty, and War
[FREE] 10:00 pm: Gay and lesbian comedy at The Creek downstairs lounge in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Michelle Delgado: Queer in the Cave
[TOP PICK] [$] 10:00 pm ($20): Ted Greenberg (Emmy-winning David Letterman writer) performing a fun, fast-paced theatrical comedy show—complete with audience interaction and audience rides home!—at the West Village’s Soho Playhouse: The Complete Performer
[TOP PICK] 10:30 pm ($10): At UCB Chelsea, improv group Grandma’s Ashes—which includes stellar talents Ryan Karels, Morgan Grace Jarrett, Brandon Scott Jones, and more—takes your written secrets and turns them into very funny improv scenes: Grandma’s Ashes: We Won’t Tell
[TOP PICK] 10:30 pm ($10): Sharp improvisors Nick Kanellis & Peter McNerney making up scenes at The Magnet as comedy duo Trike
[TOP PICK] 11:30 pm ($5): Sketch comedy that aims to have you “laughing until blood pours out of your throat and eyes and you die and you go to hell and you’re like ‘god damn that was worth it!’ to Satan and he’ll be like ‘Yeah, I know, I was there, it was dope'” at the UCB East theatre: O.S.F.U.G. A Fast Fuckin’ Sketch Show
[TOP PICK] [FREE] Midnight: Women and gay men perform comedy as straight men for this unique show at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Scott Talentt: Dudes Being Dudes Being Dudes
Midnight ($20; no min.): Mike Lawrence (nerd persona but razor-sharp mind has made this stand-up a rapidly rising star; Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central Half Hour, John Oliver’s NY Stand-Up, comedy album Sadamantium), Christian Finnegan (Conan O’Brien, co-star of TBS’ Are We There Yet?; three Comedy Central specials; MSNBC, VH1’s Best Week Ever, Chappelle’s Show, The Today Show), Rachel Feinstein (finalist on Last Comic Standing; Comedy Central, HBO, The Apprentice, opens for Sarah Silverman on tour), Pete Davidson (MTV’s Guy Code), Aaron Berg (TV series 24 Hour Rental, documentary A Universal Language), and more performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): MIke Lawrence, Christian Finnegan, Rachel Feinstein, and More
Saturday Open Mics and Jams
[FREE] 4:00 pm: An unusually early weekly open mic stand-up show (“starts late enough to sleep off that hangover but ends just in time to begin a new one”) at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Jhoel Walkowski & Evan Davis: The Amateur Hour
[FREE] 5:30 pm: Walk-in open mic comedy show—stand-up, character, or funny story—providing 5 minutes per comic at The Fifth Estate Bar (506 5th Avenue, off 12th Street) hosted by Meghan O’Keefe: Open Mic-hael Douglas
5:30 pm ($5): Walk-in open mic, with sign-up at 5:15 pm and each stand-up performing for 5 minutes, at the Comedy Village Comedy Club (107 MacDougal Street): Comedy Village
Best Inexpensive Stand-Up, Improv, Sketch, and Storytelling
Upright Citizens Brigade Chelsea
(307 West 26th Street; 150-seater; shows free-$10; one of the most respected comedy theatres in the world)
Upright Citizens Brigade East
(153 East 3rd Street; 99-seat main theatre, bar area for open mics; shows free-$10)
(123 East 24th Street; 99-seat upstairs theatre, 40-seat downstairs theatre; shows free-$15)
The Magnet
(254 West 29th Street; 60-seat theatre; shows $5-$10)
The Creek and the Cave
(Queens’ Long Island City; 40-seat theatre upstairs, 25 downstairs; virtually all shows free)
Best NYC Stand-Up Comedy Clubs
(117 MacDougal Street; among the finest daily stand-up lineups in the world; 2-item min.)
(239 Third Avenue; recent competitor to Comedy Cellar; no drink min.—support this policy!)
Carolines Comedy Club
(1626 Broadway; focuses on the world’s top headliners, who perform hour-long sets; 2-drink min.)
(208 West 23rd Street; headliners on weekends, specialty & lineup shows weekdays; 2-drink min.)
(85 East 4th Street; strong weekend lineups; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.)
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.)
Laughing Devil
(4738 Vernon Blvd., by #7 train; Queens LIC club, with MST3K-style movie night on Thursdays; 2-drink min.)
From legendary NYC comedy site Brooklyn Vegan: If you want to know what is happening in NYC comedy on a particular day, you gotta get hip to this dude Hy Bender and his site Best New York Comedy. The site is updated daily and features a super exhaustive look at what is happening in the NYC comedy world that particular day. The site is updated religiously…It is your daily comedy itinerary and it scares me how on top of his shit this guy is.
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Continuous Integration (CI) Pipeline with NetApp and CloudBees Enterprise Jenkins
Bikash Roy Choudhury
In my previous blog I wrote about continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous deployment (CD), and the challenges organizations may undergo while aspiring to adopt a DevOps practice. The shift toward agile development has forced business owners to be more exploratory and innovative, emphasizing speed in the application development workflows.
The new type of applications is also known as adopting microservices; run them as cloud-native applications.
Testing code in an iterative manner improves code quality by identifying bugs in the code in the early stages. Multiple instances of the code can be developed, built, and deployed in containers. CloudBees Enterprise Jenkins is one of the most popular CI tools that are commonly used by developers. Customers choose to run different services, including Jenkins, in containers, which provides homogeneity in the development and deployment environments along with horizontal scalability. This means applications developed in one platform should run on another. Containers are ephemeral in nature but still require persistent storage for resiliency, data recovery, and scalability. While CloudBees Jenkins is also being widely consumed for CD, in this blog we focus on the CI pipeline with CloudBees Enterprise Jenkins and ONTAP 9.
During the code development and deployment process, data is generated, stored, processed, and managed on NetApp storage solutions. NetApp offerings provide persistent storage for Docker containers with the NetApp Docker Volume Plug-In (nDVP). NetApp also jointly worked with CloudBees to develop a plug-in that reduces developer code checkout from source code repositories such as GIT, Perforce, and Continuous build and test cycle time and developer workspace creation and at the same time improves storage space efficiency and reduces storage costs. Native NetApp® technologies such as thin-provisioned FlexVol® volumes, FlexClone® volumes, and Snapshot® copies seamlessly integrate with CloudBees Enterprise Jenkins builder templates using RESTful APIs. CI pipeline with CloudBees Enterprise Jenkins and NetApp improves overall customer or user experience through automation, iterative testing, and data resiliency.
The primary reasons for the NetApp and CloudBees joint activity are to abstract and integrate NetApp technologies and empower the CI admins and the developers in seamlessly integrating the CI workflow using RESTful APIs. The CI team and developers no longer have to depend on storage admins to configure and expose the functionalities that accelerate the development process. This integration also leads to additional benefits to the business and the application owners in the development environments. For more information, refer to TR-4547. Following are some of the benefits with this approach:
Improve developer productivity. This allows instantaneous user workspaces and dev/test environments for databases. These database environments may be used for patch testing, database changes, unit testing by developers, and QA during staging without risking the source codebase or the production database.
Provide faster time to market. Reduced checkout/build times and iterative testing (fail fast, fix fast) reduce the errors and thus reduce the technical debt. This also improves the code quality.
Improve storage space efficiency. User workspaces and databases created for dev/test do not take any additional storage space from their parent production volumes. This reduces the storage costs in cloud/platform 3 environments and yet provides total ownership and control over the data.
Enable developers to use native NetApp technologies in the development workflow by using APIs in a consumable model.
The CI and development environments should adhere to some best practices for better code quality and manageability. As illustrated in Figure 1, having a local SCM repository on NetApp storage is recommended. The source code can be cloned from a private or public repository, or new code can be created for development.
Separate development branches or CI code branches can be created on different NetApp volumes. If the code branch is small, then the entire source code is pulled in a single development branch or CI code branch volume. This development branch or CI code branch volume is used as a location to sync up with all the dependencies such as tools, RPMs, libraries, compilers, and so on to perform a full build.
After a successful full build in the CI code branch volume, a NetApp Snapshot copy is taken on the volume. The CI code branch volume now consists of source code, all the dependencies, .jar files (if this is Java code), and all the prebuild artifacts. Now the CI environment is complete. This process reduces a considerable amount of traffic to the SCM volume. Only code changes are submitted or checked into the SCM volume. The builds (developer, CI, or nightly) are performed in the CI code branch volumes.
The developer logs in and checks the latest NetApp Snapshot copy and creates an instant clone of the CI code branch volume. This clone is storage space efficient and is prepackaged with everything that the developer would need to write and make changes to the code. This clone is used as a workspace for the developer. After proper code changes are submitted, reviewed, and checked by Gerrit, unit tests, or some kind of pre-check-in analysis tool, the changes are pushed and committed to the SCM volume.
The changes submitted in the SCM are propagated into the respective CI code branch volume, and an incremental build is performed followed by a NetApp Snapshot copy. Every Snapshot copy taken after an update to the CI environment provides the developer with the most recent cloned copy of the code changes. This is an iterative and important phase of the CI pipeline.
A predefined set of scheduled CI tests is performed on successful developer builds to further harden the code changes by identifying any errors in the code. Depending on the requirement and the development scenario, a nightly build may be scheduled at the end of the day. Upon successful completion of the CI or nightly build, the contents of the CI code branch volume are zipped and copied in the build artifact volume. The copy of the build can be now promoted to QA for additional testing and further deploying it into production from the build artifact volume.
In the CI pipeline setup, the Jenkins master runs in a container. All the components such as the local SCM repository (GIT), development branches or CI code branches, user workspaces, and build artifact illustrated in Figure 1) are mounted on Docker containers. These components run as a Jenkins slaves ties to the Jenkins master. The Docker containers use the nDVP to mount the NetApp volumes to provide persistent storage.
This entire workflow, which uses NetApp volumes, Snapshot copies, and FlexClone volumes, is stitched in the CloudBees Jenkins CI pipeline using Docker containers and ONTAP® RESTful APIs. The Jenkins master runs in a Docker container on a physical host or a VM. The Jenkins slaves also run in Docker containers in sibling mode.
The architecture of the NetApp and Jenkins plug-in using a Docker container is as shown in Figure 2. The Docker engine runs on the VM or the physical host and passes the Docker socket from the host to the container and runs nDVP on the host VM as well as the Jenkins master container. The main purpose of nDVP is to attach NetApp volumes to containers while spinning them off in order to leverage features such as storage efficiency and resiliency that NetApp has to offer. For more information, refer to TR-4547. To download the Jenkins plug-in, visit https://github.com/netapp.
For an opportunity to chat with NetApp subject matter experts, stop by our booth K8 at Jenkins World, Santa Clara Convention Center, September 14-15. To see a demo of the Jenkins plug-in, join me at a Birds of a Feather session on Wednesday, September 14, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Room Great America J.
Bikash Roy Choudhury is a Principal Architect at NetApp. He is responsible for designing and architecting solutions for DevOps workflows relevant across industry verticals including high tech, financial services, gaming, social media, and web-based development organizations that address customer business requirements in these markets. He also works on validating solutions with Red Hat (RHOSP-IaaS), Apprenda (PaaS), Docker Containers, CloudBees Jenkins, IBM Bleuemix PaaS and Perforce Helix using RESTful APIs and integrating them with NetApp ONTAP software in private, hybrid, and public clouds. In his current role, Bikash drives integrations with strategic DevOps partners, including Red Hat, CloudBees, Perforce, Apprenda,
JFrog Artifactory, IBM, and Iron.io.
Bikash has over 16 years of data management platform experience. Before joining NetApp, he worked for eight years at key accounts as a professional services engineer. For three years he was a systems administrator working on various UNIX platforms. Bikash received an MSCIS from the University of Phoenix, San Jose, and a BSc in computer science engineering from a distinguished engineering college in India.
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Beat Tools: Generative Music Software for PCs
As I wrote the title of this post, I suddenly realized: “There is nothing sexy about the words “generative music.” Just hearing them places you in the land of people in lab coats, looking at Matrix-like code, and listening to really unmusical, experimental music.
After you know what generative music is (see: prior post covering its definition), you might feel pangs of anger, confusion, and befuddlement. I mean, what’s so sexy about losing creative control? This is what generative music forces you to grapple with: letting the machines make music for you. In Beat Connection, we’ve explored how to take the reins of your music. Today, let’s ease that grip a bit. Let’s find the ghost in the machine.
Cluster analysis.
– Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, From Oblique Strategies
As we’ll discover, generative music software is comprised of tools that we can use to spur our own creativity. Maybe to get us out of a rut, or to use as a base from which to build, or maybe to let the thing do its thing and truly surprise you. Trust me, it’s sexy to discover things that are truly out of your control. There is something inherently provocative about understanding the ins and outs (at least superficially) of things that even people who create the software are struggling to understand.
Generative music software that we’ll first explore on the PC, reexamines how we look at music, taking it apart so that one can truly mine their interfaces for new ideas. In my opinion, generative music software is better at explaining how to construct music to the self-taught musician than reams of musical theory. In a weird way, as music has become increasingly piped into our world via algorithms, generative music software seems more “natural” to comprehend for anyone entirely alien to the music creation process itself.
Let’s flip the logic back to us, the creators. What tools are out there, on a personal computer, that allow us to “create” generative music? Below, we’ll explore them. In a future post, we’ll look at tools for tablet devices that introduce tactile feel to a seemingly two-dimensional world.
Wotja: Generative Music
Wotja, one of the entryways to generative music, has been with us since the beginning when translating such ideas to PCs was in its infancy. In the very early ’90s, then known as KOAN, it was a bit of software developed by England-based SSEYO and used by Brian Eno to create his Generative Music 1 with SSEYO Koan software. In time, KOAN, segued to become Noatikl, then, to its current iteration as Wotja.
As seen above, Wotja takes apart the granular ideas of musical terms we know, giving us deep control over what the software will try to understand as your musical instructions. Cells, modules, and tracks easily let you create a generative source and pipe out notes that follow musical logic-based ideas.
A really deep program, Wotja can auto-generate whole performances called “Mixes” where its built-in synth engine randomly loads different instruments and uses pre-determined templates to generate musical moods like “swirl,” “drift,” and “warm 1,” etc. Edits in the autogenerated mix reveal different types of instrument playback: some follow the melodies of other tracks, others cycle through “fixed patterns,” while others are designated as “ambient” sources holding notes for prolonged periods.
For example, sliders in a group called “Phrase Gap” control the duration in seconds between musical phrases. Other sliders like “Chord Depth” control the chance that musical intervals will be taken among chordal changes. In the above sound example, I created a simple three-track mix featuring a pad, a keys sound, and a lead type of sound. Equally, on Ableton Live, I selected patches from Arturia’s CZ-V, Korg Gadget’s Chiangmai, and Ableton Live’s Tension which would sound sympathetic to the melodic unfurling. For 20-some odd minutes (once Ableton Live was receiving Wotja’s MIDI signals) I let it do its thing and recorded the outcome of this generated music.
Wotja works both as standalone software (that can actually generate and mixdown whole audio files) or as a MIDI device capable of triggering other instruments in a DAW environment. Using its internal logic and mapping it with my own curated sounds, this joint effort truly surprised me with the results heard above.
CEMA Research: Nodal Music
When I first fired up CEMA Research’s Nodal Music software I, truth be told, could not make heads or tails of it. What you’re staring at is a grid system. On that grid system you see something reminiscent of airline or train transit systems. Various nodes are visualized and connected. You press play and the whole grid system lights up, flashing, and beating to the sound of actual music playing. Neural networks — those networks that mimic our own human connections — form the basis of Nodal’s processes. It’s fascinating to see but hard to comprehend, at first.
After you read the manual, things become much clearer. Nodal Music breaks down musical events — let’s say a 1-bar 4/4 loop — into nodes. A four-to-floor melody would (in theory) be a square. In each square you’d span connecting lines four cells to denote four beats per note struck. From there, you can start weaving different nodes to do different things.
One node can run cycles through each note, on each of the four points. You can instruct that node to deviate and double back one beat. Or duplicate another node, connect it to this one, and have it affect certain beats. And you could have it say: “cycle within this node, from three different notes, and every time you select a different note, make sure to go into this other vector to play a certain musical cycle of indeterminate end.”
Nodal is a very visual animal that really opens itself to musical exploration and improvisation. It’s unique as a sequencer (which I imagine is what most would think it really is) but shines as a semi-self-working improvising instrument, capable of generating compositions that run the gamut from entirely alien to surprisingly musical. In the above sound example I loaded Nodal’s “The Cascades” example and simply captured a 6-minute performance of it using the same Ableton Live setup used in the previous section.
Wave DNA: Liquid Music
Now we’re moving to a line that blurs from generative to compositional tool. Wave DNA’s Liquid Music is generative music software because it’s able to come up with whole melodies, harmonies, and compositions based on determined musical ideas. To put it simply, it’s a MIDI melody and chord designer.
Let’s say, you run Liquid Music as a plug-in in your DAW. Fire it up and pick, via button press, that you want to create something in the key of C Major. Next, the software itself explodes with options.
Do you want to create a certain chord progression, I-V-VI-VII? Would you like to show simpatico chords that could expand on a melodic line? Do you want to change a certain chord into an arpeggiating line? Can you make this section “happy,” “sad,” etc.? Can you add some Latin or African-based or other, loose groove to this rhythm? From there it goes even deeper.
Liquid Music lets you begin with an inkling of an idea (sometimes no idea at all) and draw out that sketch into full compositions. Central to it is a painting tool that you can use to paint ascending or descending melodies. Once you do so, you use its built-in tools to carve out what you want that line to do.
If you don’t like how it’s going, you can always let Liquid Music surprise you — there’s a button for that. Once you do like something, you can drag and drop that idea straight into your DAW as a clip or MIDI file.
Beginning with the Key layer preset something in the key of “Bittersweet in Eb” I was able to carve out in pieces that above bit of Chicago House music on a French Filter bender you’re hearing in the example. The only thing I added was a drum machine (which the groove practically begged for).
Music Mouse – An Intelligent Instrument
Now we’re drilling toward generative systems that function more as “instruments” rather than pure sequencers. A very early software-based generative instrument, Music Mouse, developed by American music composer Laurie Spiegel in 1986, was originally meant to be used by musicians who had access to either a Macintosh, Amiga, or Atari computer. Today, a browser based version exists that replicates nearly the exact same feel of using the original (albeit using Google Chrome’s browser-based MIDI output capabilities).
Based on the interaction between a grid and your computer’s mouse, Music Mouse automated the process of actually knowing chord and scale technique to movement. As you move over the grid (based on the positioning of your mouse), the software takes over. Constraining itself to determined melodic patterns, on a four-by-four border, Music Mouse follows whatever harmonic idea, articulation, and other musical techniques are set on the left side of the screen.
The beauty of Music Mouse is you don’t have to know a lick of music or technique to actually make something musical. It relies on the user — in this case, the mouse mover — to listen deeply and use keyboard shortcuts to instantly change voicing, articulation, harmonic scales, etc. — all the things that make music, without having to stop your computer, pick up a manual and sift through hundreds of settings (or theory) to get there.
Music Mouse features a unique mode where you simply leave the mouse on a part of the grid you particularly like the sequence of and it takes over. From there, hitting ‘a’ activates pattern mode, allowing you to arrange its not-so-random patterns in a musical way. This is something hard to describe as brilliant until you actually try it.
Move the mouse — you’re playing the instrument. Leave the mouse — the instrument “follows” your train of thought and takes over. The above song I created in the example was an impromptu jam using the same three instruments as before.
Audiomodern: Riffer
Audiomodern’s Riffer is the midway point between Liquid Music and Music Mouse. Far more spartan in nature, Riffer, like its name implies, creates riffs for you. This app exists in the PC and tablet realm, and evolved from a previous Max 4 Live plugin called Random Riff Generator PRO 2. Using riffs based in a certain key or scale, you’re then able to randomize each note’s duration, volume, and playback. Riffing on a riff, in a way.
Great for melodic patterns more than chordal harmonies, Riffer is as straightforward a bit of software as you can find that introduces you to “generative” musical ideas. Hit the dice and notes are randomly placed on the keyboard roll that are within the scale selected. From there on, you can adjust velocities, add some shuffle, and change the quantization of that pattern.
Riffer is great if you just want quick melodies that you can modify more to your liking. You’re able to tie notes together and sustain sections, much like you would in any other sequencer.
What makes it a truly generative monster is the ability to hit that infinity symbol and let Riffer simply generate scaled, random melodies for you. Once you hear something that sounds just right you can hit a lock icon and remove the infinity button. Voila! You’ve just “created” a new melody you can easily import to your DAW and use as a loop or send off to MIDI land.
Google AI: Magenta Studio
The final bit of PC software I’ll introduce you to is Magenta Studio. Made by a small tech startup some of you might know of: Google. Magenta made its debut in some fashion via Google Doodle, introducing to the world both the musical ideas of J.S. Bach and of machine learning. Of course, Johann, or Mr. Bach, needs no introduction, but machine learning might.
Machine learning is a developing technology. In the case of Magenta Studio, it’s software constructed to be fed melodic information and to generate musical ideas based on multitudes of data (of musical nature) fed to it. In a perfect vacuum, it’s expected to observe and learn from the given data (chords, grooves, etc.) then extrapolate from that raw data what it’s being asked to do.
For a lay musician as myself — one not remotely adept at understanding something in software coding land — I imagine it as a tool to explore alternate melodies or to generate drum patterns loosely based on an existing melody.
Neural networks, software logic that revolutionizes AI (artificial intelligence) does behind the scenes things in Magenta Studio which, in theory, can take these ideas further in the future. Existing randomization relies on chance but generative software is attempting to behave like a sentient creature would. To have some inkling of that nascent, logical process (in music software form) is an interesting thing to try to comprehend and use.
In Magenta Studio’s case, this kind of machine learning is being asked to do a few things: continue a melodic idea, take two ideas and blend them into one new idea, generate melodic or drum patterns from scratch, adjust the feel of an existing note pattern, or create a drum pattern out of a melodic note pattern. In a nutshell, that’s what the modules within Magenta Studio — Continue, Interpolate, Generate, Groove, and Amplify — do, respectively.
At the moment, the results of the generated ideas aren’t entirely musical. What you get out of Magenta’s tools requires you to curate the best creations. I did my best with its aid to help me “remix/rethink” the music created in the WaveDNA: Liquid Music section.
However, you can understand what it’s attempting to do — even if your own thought process expected more. Only time will tell if our fears of machine-generated music will ever pan out. In the next post we’ll look at tablet apps that use touch and other forms of generation to “create” music.
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Ken Burns and the Vietnam War: Ten Items to Watch For
On September 17th, a new TV documentary series on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns (famous for past series on the U.S. Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, among others) and Lynn Novick begins its run on PBS. Airing in ten parts over 18 hours, the series promises a comprehensive look at the war from all sides, with the catchphrase “There is no single truth in war” serving as a guiding light. Initial excerpts suggest the series isn’t looking to provide definitive answers, perhaps as a way of avoiding political controversy in the Age of Trump.
I’ll be watching the series, but I have ten points of my own to make about America’s war in Vietnam. As a preamble, the Vietnam War (American version) was both mistake and crime. What’s disconcerting in the U.S. media is the emphasis on the war as an American tragedy, when it was truly a horrific tragedy inflicted upon the peoples of Southeast Asia (Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians). Yes, American troops suffered and died in large numbers, yet Southeast Asian casualties were perhaps 50 times as great. Along with wanton killing came the poisoning of the environment with defoliants like Agent Orange; meanwhile, mines and unexploded ordnance from the war continue to kill people today in Southeast Asia. In a sense, the killing from that war still isn’t over.
With the caveat that we should reserve judgment until we’ve seen the series, let’s keep these ten points in mind as we watch:
1. To most Americans, Vietnam is a war. And war is a distorting and limiting lens through which to view cultures and peoples. Will Burns recognize this distortion?
2. The series talks about hearing voices from all sides of the conflict. But will the Vietnamese people, together with Laotians and Cambodians, really have as much say as Americans?
3. The U.S. suffered nearly 60,000 troops killed. But Vietnamese killed numbered in the millions. And the destruction to SE Asia — the spread of the war to Laos and Cambodia — was on a scale that rivaled or surpassed the destruction to the American South during the U.S. Civil War. Will that destruction be thoroughly documented and explained?
4. Whose point of view will prevail in the documentary? What will be the main thread of the narrative? Will the war be presented as a tragedy? A misunderstanding? A mistake? A crime? Will the “noble cause” and “stabbed in the back” myths (the ideas that the U.S. fought for freedom and democracy and against communism, and that the U.S. military could have won but was prevented from doing so by unpatriotic forces at home) be given equal time in the interests of a “fair and balanced” presentation? Will these myths be presented as alternative truths of the war?
5. Which American war in Vietnam will be presented? Even when we talk of the American part of the Vietnam War, there were at least four wars. The U.S. Army under General William Westmoreland fought a conventional, search and destroy, war. The Air Force wanted to prove that airpower alone, specifically bombing, could win the war. The Marines were more interested in counterinsurgency and pacification. The CIA and special ops types were engaged in psychological warfare, assassinations, torture, and god-knows-what-else.
6. The American presence in Vietnam became so overwhelming that by 1967-68 the Vietnamese economy was completely distorted. We brought American materialism and profligacy to a nation that was, by comparison, impoverished and “backwards” (from our perspective, of course). Material superiority bred and fed cockiness.
Consider Meredith Lair’s book, “Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War” (2011). It details the non-combat experiences of U.S. troops in Vietnam. Here’s a telling book blurb written by historian Christian Appy: “Meredith Lair’s fascinating analysis of rear-echelon life among American G.I.s dramatically challenges our most common conceptions of U.S. military experiences in Vietnam. From steaks to steambaths, swimming pools to giant PXs, the amenities provided on large bases not only belie conventional images of that war, but also stand as dramatic testimony to the desperate and unsuccessful effort of American officials to bolster flagging troop morale as the war lurched toward its final failure.”
Will this orgy of American-driven materialism be documented?
7. Anti-war protests and serious unrest within the U.S. military led to the end of the draft and the creation of an “all-volunteer” military. Has this decision contributed to a more imperial U.S. foreign policy facilitated by a much more tractable military of “volunteers”?
8. Short of nuclear weapons, the U.S. military used virtually every weapon in its arsenal in SE Asia. The region became a test/proving ground for all sorts of weapons and concepts, from “smart” weapons and electronic fences and sensors to horrendous pounding by conventional bombs to war on the environment using defoliants and massive bulldozers to … well … everything. All sorts of pacification theories were tested as well, along with COIN and “small wars” and unconventional tactics to search and destroy to Vietnamization to … well … again, everything. SE Asia became a laboratory and its peoples became lab rats. Will this reality be fully documented?
9. It’s essential that people realize President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, knew the war was a lost cause no later than 1969. (Their conversations on tape prove this.) All they were looking for was a “decent interval” between a peace treaty (“peace with honor”) and what they saw as the inevitable collapse. They got that (in)decent interval of roughly 2.5 years. The Congressional decision to cut off funding to South Vietnam was convenient for the Nixon/Kissinger acolytes, since it allowed them to shift the blame for South Vietnam’s collapse in 1975 to Congress as well as to the usual “suspect” elements in American society, i.e. the peace movement.
Will the duplicity and hypocrisy of Nixon/Kissinger be adequately documented?
10. Finally, an important aspect of the Vietnam War was the breakdown in discipline within the U.S. military, which helped to drive the eventual elimination of the draft. Part of this breakdown was driven by drugs, a trade in which the CIA was implicated. At The Intercept, Jeremy Scahill interviewed Alfred McCoy, who wrote the book on this drug trade. Here’s an excerpt from their recent interview:
Alfred McCoy: And in 1970 and ’71, there were rumors that started coming back from Vietnam, particularly 1971, that heroin was spreading rapidly in the ranks of the U.S. forces fighting in South Vietnam. And in later research, done by the White House, [it was] determined that in 1971, 34 percent, one-third of all the American combat troops fighting in South Vietnam were heavy heroin users. There were, if that statistic is accurate, more addicts in the ranks of the U.S. Army in South Vietnam than there were in the United States.
And so what I did was I set out to investigate: Where was the opium coming from? Where was the heroin coming from? Who was trafficking it? How is it getting to the troops in their barracks and bunkers across the length and breadth of South Vietnam? Nobody was asking this question. Everyone was reporting on the high level of abuse, but nobody was figuring out where and who.
So I started interviewing. I went to Paris. I interviewed the head of the French equivalent of the CIA in Indochina, who was then head of a major French helicopter manufacturing company, and he explained to me how during the French Indochina war from 1946 to 1954, they were short of money for covert operations, so the hill tribes in Laos produced the opium, the aircraft picked it up, they turned it over to the netherworld, the gangsters that controlled Saigon and secured it for the French and that paid for their covert operations. And I said, “What about now?” And he said, “Well I don’t think the pattern’s changed. I think it’s still there. You should go and look.”
So I did. I went to Saigon. I got some top sources in the Vietnamese military. I went to Laos. I hiked into the mountains. I was ambushed by CIA mercenaries and what I discovered was that the CIA’s contract airline, Air America, was flying into the villages of the Hmong people in Northern Laos, whose main cash crop was opium and they were picking up the opium and flying it out of the hills and there were heroin labs — one of the heroin labs, the biggest heroin lab in the world, was run by the commander-in-chief of the Royal Laotian Army, a man whose military budget came entirely from the United States. And they were transforming, in those labs, the opium into heroin. It was being smuggled into South Vietnam by three cliques controlled by the president, the vice president, and the premier of South Vietnam, and their military allies and distributed to U.S. forces in South Vietnam.
And the CIA wasn’t directly involved, but they turned a blind eye to the role of their allies’ involvement in the traffic. And so this heroin epidemic swept the U.S. Army in Vietnam. The Defense Department invented mass urine analysis testing, so when those troops left they were tested and given treatment. And what I discovered was the complexities, the complicity, of the CIA in this traffic and that was a pattern that was repeated in Central America when the Contras became involved in the traffic.
These ten items highlight just some of the complexities of the Vietnam War and its effects throughout Southeast Asia. How many of these will be tackled honestly in Ken Burns’s new series? We shall see, beginning in two weeks.
Posted on September 3, 2017 September 4, 2017 by wjastorePosted in Asia, US Military, US Politics, warTagged Cambodia, Communism, Containment, Ken Burns, Kissinger, Laos, Nixon, noble cause, PBS, peace with honor, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Westmoreland.
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25 thoughts on “Ken Burns and the Vietnam War: Ten Items to Watch For”
Bruce Smith says:
Hah ha! For some some reason whenever I see W. J. Astore or Alfred McCoy I jump to read! Now WJA publishes one of his essays! lol!
Though seriously, 2 great writers & thinkers. I’d guess a few generations apart, proper thinking & morals remain the same: you’re both on the right track.
I spent my life as a “capitalist”, unlike yourselves in the military. Yet we had sympathy for draftee’s in Vietnam. We too could have been drafted, but worked for an advertising company that had JP Stevens, fabric maker for army uniforms & tents etc. as an account. We only worked 20 minutes a week; other clients Coca-Cola, Buick, etc. MANY hours. It was a con game between big business & Military Industrial Complex. Not that we complained! And NEVER engaged in anti war marches! “Neutral”.
Now I’m an old bastard at 72! Have all limbs; brain maybe so-so.
Time to make amends. Of course it’s WORSE today, but I think with writers like WJA & McCoy, we’ll S-L-O-W-L-Y start to win. The so called “Wolfowitz Doctrine” is basically dead. At least colonists of the past took over, controlled, then plundered.
We, US & puppets, today just wreck & destroy. The old colonists were far smarter!
The cost of stealing their resources is FAR higher than they are worth!
Which is why Houston is underwater. Plenty to fight in Afghanistan for lithium, but bankrupt at home.
Jesse Barton says:
Folks should know that the heroin trafficking addressed in question 10 extended into Army bases in West Germany. At least that was the situation at the artillery base where I was stationed.
I’m a product of this war. I was in the Navy from 1967 to 1971. I am now suffering from at least two physical conditions to Agent Orange exposure ads I was a machine gunner on a riverboat when Admiral Zumwalt decided to defoliate the riverbanks. But this is not about me. As a history professor, have you delved into what I believe is the real root cause of our involvement in Viet Nam. During WW2, Ho Chi Minh was our ally fighting the Japanese along side the OSS operatives in the northern sections of the country. After the end of the war, a parade was held in Hanoi honoring some of the OSS operatives. Meanwhile Truman put Viet Nam on the backburner since he had Marshall implementing his plan to rebuild Europe. Which was deemed more important. After WW2, colonialism should have been put to rest. But we all know the French and Michelin were given cart blanche to go back for the rubber plantations and whatever else. Ho Chi Minh defeated them too. We then bail out the French yet again. Also the ridiculous excuse of the US containing Communism, mainly the Chinese is totally ludicrous. The Vietnamese did not and do not want to be colonized by anyone. Including the Chinese who they have been fighting off and on for 5000 years. They certainly didn’t want us either. Would we tolerate a foreign some other country trying to change our form of government through invasion?
Greetings, Mike. Always good to have another Brown Water Navy veteran aboard.
For your information, you can find an extensive discussion of this upcoming Ken Burns documentary at The Contrary Perspective website: Vietnam Redux: An Open Letter to Ken Burns, with over a hundred comments to date, many of them dealing with the overall history of America’s military misadventure in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) as well as the recollected personal experiences of some who took part in that history. You might find that discussion of interest.
As for my own insignificant part in this history, I have put together some pictures and an accompanying narrative — still incomplete in places — at The Misfortune Teller. I began the website as a place to put my virulently anti-war poetry, but I later expanded it to include a seventeen-year project putting together a pronunciation guide to the Japanese version of the Threefold Lotus Sutra. Then, I decided to add a still-developing page of references to some of the reading that has most guided my own intellectual and literary development. A work-in-progress, certainly, and one that I’ll probably never finish in this lifetime. Still, it did all start for me on a specific date, three years into my six-year enlistment in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club (a.k.a., the United States Navy):
TO: COMMANDING OFFICER
NAVAL NUCLEAR POWER TRAINING UNIT
IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO 83401.
BUPERS TC B1889. TRF JUL 69 EM2 MICHAEL R. MURRY, USN, B81 75 63 TO RPT NET 0001, 20 AUG 69 BUT NLT 1500, 21 AUG 69 TO CO NAVPHIBASE CORONADO FOR 7 WKS TEDUINS COI (4 WKS ACADEMIC PHASE AND 3 WKS SERE) COMPTEMDUINS AND WHEN DIRECTED BY CO NAVPHIBASE FFT TO RPT NET 001, 17 OCT 69 BUT NLT 1500, 18 OCT 69 TO SUPT NAVPGSCOL MONTEREY FOR DUINS 32 WKS WITH DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE WEST COAST BRANCH COI VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE (CRS NO. O4VS32KO470) CLCVN 20 20 OCT 69/ENDING 18 JUN 70. COMPLY OPNAVINST 11101.20 CIC 2NCG05197563. FOR CHNAVADVGRP MACV: ULTIMATE ASSIGN TO CHNAVADVGRP MACV AS AN ELECTRICAL ADVISOR PARA/LINE N14/14.
Translation from military gobbledegook into plain English:
Electricians Mate Second Class Michael R, Murry will transfer from the Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and report no later than 1500 (three o’clock in the afternoon) on the 21st of August 1969 to the commanding officer of the Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado Island (near San Diego) for seven weeks of temporary duty instruction (4 weeks academic phase and 3 weeks Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE)) at the conclusion of which he will report no later than 1500 on the 18th of October 1969 to the Superintendent Naval Postgraduate School Monterey for 32 weeks of duty instruction with the Defense Language Institute West Coast Branch in the Vietnamese Language (Southern Dialect), course beginning on 20 October, 1969 and ending 18 June, 1970. In compliance with Operational Naval Instructions he will ultimately be assigned to the Chief of Naval Advisory Group, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, for duty as an Electrical Advisor.
Which all leads up to my relationship with Admiral Elmo Zumwalt — whom you mention in your comments — and the affect that this man had upon my subsequent life, all of it no doubt unintentional on his part. But that story remains for another comment some other time.
I’ve read most of the better histories of the United States and Asia, but I’d like to know your own story, as this information will no doubt help us enrich our understanding of the unfolding history which continues to produce us all.
Mike Murry — Kaohsiung, Taiwan
r zemanek says:
A Navy nuke power guy with SERE training and more than half a year of Vietnamese language instruction…posting from Taiwan…nothing to see here, move along. Bet you don’t have any good stories to tell!
Mike: I can only sympathize with you, and hope your conditions get better, but your essay is RIGHT ON!
Thanks. If you know, just what were we supposed to win. Whatever that elusive concept is, were are repeating it all over again in the Middle East. What and how are we going to win in Sandland?
That is a great question. Check out Major Danny Sjursen’s article at TomDispatch.com today. Here’s an excerpt:
“If ever you have the urge to do just that, ask yourself the following question: Would I be able to confidently explain to someone’s mother what (besides his mates) her child actually died for?
What would you tell her? That he (or she) died to ensure Saudi hegemony in the Persian Gulf, or to facilitate the rise of ISIS, or an eternal Guantanamo, or the spread of terror groups, or the creation of yet more refugees for us to fear, or the further bombing of Yemen to ensure a famine of epic proportions?
Maybe you could do that, but I couldn’t and can’t. Not anymore, anyway. There have already been too many mothers, too many widows, for whom those explanations couldn’t be lamer. And so many dead — American, Afghan, Iraqi, and all the rest — that eventually I find myself sitting on a bar stool staring at the six names on those bracelets of mine, the wreckage of two wars reflecting back at me, knowing I’ll never be able to articulate a coherent explanation for their loved ones, should I ever have the courage to try.”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176323/tomgram%3A_danny_sjursen%2C_whose_side_are_you_on/
weldonberger says:
I wonder if they address Nixon’s pre-election sabotage of LBJ’s peace talks, which Johnson and others have described as treason.
Excellent question.
MonotonousLanguor says:
Yes, it will be interesting to see how the political decisions will be presented. I suspect a good deal of arrogance lurked in the back of some of these decision makers minds. The USA had become accustomed to instigating coups, saber rattling, or outright military interventions especially in Latin America to achieve a desired result. Perhaps North Vietnam and the Viet Cong was viewed within this prism of arrogance. The long history of Vietnamese resistance to foreign invaders was ignored.
I was a combat infantryman with the 1st. Cavalry Division along the Cambodian border 1970-71. I was a part of the invasion of Cambodia. I knew even as a “grunt” the Army of South Vietnam would lose once the last American Combat forces and support troops, including the Air Force were gone.
Tran Van Tra was a Viet Cong and NVA Lt. General. There is an extensive report Part 5 from the Paris Agreement to Complete Victory, he authored in 1982 on the internet: http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/Vietnam.pdf General Tra, mentions China had given signals in the 1960’s that the USA was free to act in Vietnam as long as the USA did not clash with China.
There is one other part, the degradation of Vietnamese Society. There were brothels set-up from south of DMZ to the South China Sea. You could go on R&R to several different cities outside of Vietnam. Back in Vietnam there were “hooch girls” who would clean up the hooches (barracks) or other buildings. Some engaged in prostitution.
No book or TV Program can completely bring home the Vietnam War. It was in Vietnam when I saw people frantically going through our garbage before it was buried in a pit. It is like a factory hog farm. I can describe the eye burning stench and could show you pictures or video of it. You will not be able to experience it or understand it from a book or other media.
Great comment, ML. Some things must be lived to be understood, and your experiences in theater in Vietnam fall in that category. I’ve read a lot of combat memoirs about Vietnam, but I don’t pretend to understand what the war was really like. We catch glimpses in memoirs, many of them powerful and ghastly. They make an impression, but they don’t haunt me because I didn’t live them.
Thank you for the post Prof Astore.
There is so much literature on Vietnam war, for a late comer, it is overwhelming to know where to start and there is no agreement regarding anything related to this war and I guess that will continue as Mr James Reston Jr states……
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reston-vietnam-refought-20170903-story.html
I still have to read the book by Frances Fitzgerald, “Fire in the Lake” however did read “Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon & the Destruction of Cambodia” by Shawcross which was shocking to say the least. I am hoping to read “On the Frontlines of the Television War”……….memoir by a TV Cameraman, Yasutsune “Tony” Hirashiki.
Can’t say I will watch the documentary live…. have seen enough carnage already what with all the wars raging all around us. Can not take anymore lies. Will await reviews!
Thanks for the link to the op-ed article by James Reston in The Los Angeles Times, RS. I especially apprecieated the following observation:
“It is with bitter irony that the Vietnam generation has witnessed the friendly visits of Presidents Clinton and Bush (both of whom avoided the war) to Hanoi.”
Personally, I never begrudged anyone avoiding a needless, pointless war that anyone in his or her right mind would have avoided if they could. Nor did I ever resent reconcilliaton with a united and independent Vietnam. We Americans had no business fighting the Vietnamese in the first place. I just wish that we had sent a genuine advocate for peace, like Jane Fonda, as our official representative, and not some cynical, self-serving “Commander-in-Brief” who loved war and couldn’t wait to start more of them as long as someone else did the fighting and dying. So, I dealt with the bitter irony as best I could eleven years ago on my birthday:
Written on the occasion of President George W. Bush finally making the trip to Vietnam on November 17, 2006, decades after a better American woman, Jane Fonda, made the trip in his place. Three-and-a-half years into his own Vietnam-style debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan — disasters that he would bequeath to his successor two years later — Dubya the Dimwit proved to the world that what he didn’t learn about America in Vietnam he wouldn’t learn about America in the Middle East, either.
Hanoi Haiku
In Hanoi at last
Red-carpet in return for
Our carpet-bombing
The words no one heard,
Due so many years after:
“We apologize”
Deputy Dubya
Sheriff Cheney’s Barney Fife
Lost in Mayberry
Gullible Goofy
The boy who cried Wolfowitz
Far too many times
Naked ruler’s brand new clothes
Viewed through glasses green
A cakewalk in its last throes
Now a glacier race
Four Years an “instant”
Nothing happens right away
Broken-egg omelets
George Orwell’s Catastrophic
Shop till the troops drop
Buy a plane ticket or two
Your part in the “war”
Rob the future now
They will never break our will
Those grandkids of ours
Lecture the victors
About their First and Second
Indochina Wars
Where did we get him?
How come we can’t do better?
We look so stupid
Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright 2006
Or this, written two years later (2008). And now, nine years later still (2017), Deputy Dubya the Third (Donald Trump) takes over and …
“All In” on a Bad Hand
Shrub had an urge to waste and splurge,
But now we moan a mournful dirge.
Procrastination has its aims,
Yet never offers truthful claims.
Again we stay to stall for time,
‘Till Shrub can cover up his crime.
Like Vietnam in desert sands,
Iraq once more has tied our hands.
The violence goes down, we say;
So that just means we have to stay.
The violence goes up and so
That just means we can never go.
We train them to dependency
So that they’ll never once break free.
We’ve given them vast wounds to nurse,
And English, so they’ll learn to curse.
Thus, mission-creeping with a “surge,”
We flog ourselves with our own scourge.
But Dick says Shrub the burden bears:
Deciding stuff while chaos flares.
This propaganda catapult
Continues to our minds insult.
His lies he’s never once un-spun,
Or failed to twist the Truth for fun.
So now he waits for greater fools
To buy his worthless quagmire jewels.
We’ve gone “all in” on Shrub’s bad bet.
How stupid can one nation get?
Rapier says:
The Vietnamese who fought to expel the French and then us did so, to use a sort of analogy; 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week, for 25 years if they lived that long, without pay. They fielded perhaps the best motivated best disciplined best lead army of the 20th century. Against that America had one answer. Blow it up. That didn’t work either but it was good for business and provided the majority of Americans with the thing they most love. Blowing up someplace that isn’t America.
Which we have continued to do for nearing 50 more years with no end in sight.
Mr Ken Burns on making the documentary …….
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-ken-burns-vietnam-war-20170906-htmlstory.html
Thanks for the link, RS.
Sometimes I wonder about Ken Burns. Take the following, for example:
“I do believe in our exceptionalism. I am not Pollyanna-ish; we simply have to hold ourselves to a much higher standard than anyone else is held to. I think that’s part of the American promise.”
Sure. I thought American exceptionalism means no accountability or legal obligations whatsoever for the ruling corporate/military junta. As George Orwell put it in 1984: “In Oceania, there is no law.” So much for that “higher standard.” More like no standards whatsoever — for us.
And then this series of connected whoppers:
“I think the military learned a lot of practical stuff. They didn’t like having collateral damage, so they learned precision bombing. They didn’t like having their planes shot out of the air, so they developed stealth technology. They didn’t want the press getting into every nook and corner, so they invented the embedded thing.”
“We don’t as a people blame the soldiers anymore; that’s one of the best and most durable things I think we’ll never, ever forget.”
Translation: We don’t blame the generals and admirals, no matter how many decades they spend locating unnecessary and pointless wars to fight — just to keep in practice — and then losing to any and every rag-tag group of barely armed goatherds and poppy farmers they can find. But when something goes wrong and the American people find out about it, the brasss always blames the enlisted men. See Private Bradley/Chelsea Manning for only one example. He/she ruined everything for the ticket-punching career brass by committing journalism because the “in bed with” Pentagon sycophants wouldn’t do their job. No accurate reporting on our secret and uncounted “wars” allowed The American people certainly can’t forget what they never hear about in the first place.
When Mr Burns looks up at the sky in his world, I wonder what color he sees?
I think I’ll watch NASA’s broadcast of the Cassini/Huygens spacecraft’s final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere on September 15th. Twenty years in space and thirteen of them spent exploring a fascinating planetary system. Shows what the United States and Europe can accomplish together when they don’t squander decades and trillions of dollars blowing up impoverished Asian and Muslim countries so the fuck-up-and-move-up brass can decorate themselves like Christmas trees. After that, I think I’ll take some time off from the Internet and wait until someone else reports on whatever Mr Burns and company have produced.
Thanks again for the link.
Yes, thanks for the link, RS. Burns thinks he can be an objective umpire calling balls and strikes, without taking a position on the game.
But that’s impossible in history. When you decide to be studiously neutral, that means you’re taking a side, especially as an American viewing U.S. intervention into Vietnam.
I also like the way he casually admits we’ll never get thorough, no-views-barred, journalistic coverage of wars as we had in Vietnam. In other words, all wars after Vietnam have been heavily edited and directed, so to speak, by the Pentagon, with all those “embedded” reporters acting as so many cheerleaders. Tall about a legacy of Vietnam!
A true journalist would call this reality out as the worst form of censorship, as it implies a glorification of war by government propaganda.
>> Unlike the other wars of this century, of course, there were deep divisions about the wisdom and rightness of the Vietnam war. Both sides spoke with honesty and fervor. And what more can we ask in our democracy? And yet after more than a decade of desperate boat people, after the killing fields of Cambodia, after all that has happened in that unhappy part of the world, who can doubt that the cause for which our men fought was just? It was, after all, however imperfectly pursued, the cause of freedom; and they showed uncommon courage in its service. Perhaps at this late date we can all agree that we’ve learned one lesson: that young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win. Ronald Reagan Remarks at the Veterans Day Ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial November 11, 1988. <<<
Reagan carried on and amplified the myth that we fought in S.E. Asia for the "cause of freedom". No acknowledgement that the USA added an accelerant to the fires. By the time the United States ended its Southeast Asian bombing campaigns, the total tonnage of ordnance dropped approximately tripled the totals for World War II. The Indochinese bombings amounted to 7,662,000 tons of explosives, compared to 2,150,000 tons in the world conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombs_in_the_Vietnam_War
Plus, we used Agent Orange.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Stephen King
I wasn’t in the service (drew 232 in the draft lottery) but I have read many books and heard personal accounts by/of those who were in wars. It’s very common to run across, “he never spoke of it”. Even family members will tell of being unable to get a vet to tell what happened. From this alone, those who have not served should understand that war, even if one had been an eager volunteer, is not a place most want to return to later. This is why I feel sick to my stomach when viewing a smiling and honored Henry Kissinger who represents so well those who glory in moving the pieces, making the “courageous decisions” over the chessboard of power.
Today, an hour ago while riding my bicycle, I was surprised to come upon a war memorial in town, that, though I have lived here most of my life, I did not know existed. Put up in 1929 by the DAR, it is a cylinder upon which march ranks of four men one after the other, each rank from a different war – the Revolution, Civil War, Spanish-American, and “World War” (not WW1 because in 1929 there had yet to be a second). All of those represented are mute, because long gone. With the Vietnam War we have plenty, of all nationalities, still alive to speak up and tell their stories independent of official mythology. The disturbing thing about the Ken Burns production is my sense that people believe this will be the definitive story, when such a thing is impossible.
Though I don’t have a TV to view it, I look forward to the critique of the production and the comments that will appear here.
Memory comes back to us in different forms, at different times. When memory comes for me, I try to deal with it by rearranging words into particular forms and sounds. Then, at least, I can convince myself that I’ve put memory to some creative use instead of letting memory create a cripple out of me. Something like:
The Good Ship Memory Hole
One dark and stormy night this tepid tale
Began, and waking from a dream, it ended.
Unmoored, the uncrewed Fantasy set sail
On twilight seas where day and nighttime blended.
The empty sky complained to no avail
About the disbelief it had suspended.
The tide went out and with it went the boat
Adrift and rudderless, no one commanding.
The fog rolled in and swallowed in its throat
The strangled cry of something dim demanding
To know the reason why the fishes gloat
To see a thing beneath their understanding.
The wind, that vagrant quantity, died down,
And then arose to drive the ship before it.
No Ahab paced the deck to rage and frown.
No fickle fate consented to abhor it:
That nightmare stream in which the dreamers drown;
The mind awaiting waking to restore it.
The whales and dolphins swam along beside.
The albatrosses soared, the gulls they glided.
The barnacles hung on to bum a ride.
The turtles temporized, their time they bided,
Until the seals would cease them to deride;
Till someone, somewhere, sane, this scene decided.
The ocean rudely rolled, the eyes they crossed,
As stomachs down below grew sour and trembled.
The passengers turned pale; their lunch they lost;
And wondered why they ever had assembled
To voyage to the void at such a cost —
And who the ticket-selling fraud resembled.
No Ishmael survived the trip who knows
Why thought reflected off the waves and scattered,
Absorbed into the swirling ebbs and flows
That left the crazy craft careened and battered
Upon Amnesia reef where nothing grows
Except forgetfulness of things that mattered.
My aunt was a faculty member at Kent State Univ when the horrible tragedy happened ( she is retired now ). To this day, she has not said a single word about it or her reaction to it ( she is totally apolitical ). The expression on her face if one brings up the subject is indescribable.
When all is said and done, WAR brings a kind of SADNESS to those affected by it ( directly and indirectly ) which is heartbreaking.
Written [eleven] years ago in 2006, but just as relevant today: the unfolding saga of America reducing itself to passive intellectual incarceration, mesmerized by the moving colored images emanating from a glowing television screen; like the island aborigine Boobies cut off from the world’s cultural mainland; like prisoners kept underground who can only see shadows dancing on the walls of their cave and not the marionettes and puppeteers on the elevated stage behind them who produce and cast the shadows that they mistake for reality. In the accelerating economic insecurity enveloping so many Americans today, we can see the usual and historic:
Boobie Top-Down Class Warfare
(from Fernando Po, U.S.A., America’s post-literate retreat to Plato’s Cave)
It happened back in Vietnam
Some [four] score years ago
When those within the upper class
Declined to serve, and so
They coined Selective Service to
Select who wouldn’t go
They called themselves the brightest and
They called themselves the best
And then they sent their countrymen
Into a hornet’s nest
But not themselves, of course, because
They’d passed the privilege test
These parents of a George and Dick
Thought Communism bad
But worried that some other lands
Would find it not as sad
As slaving for the rich ones whose
Rank greed had made them mad
So sympathizing with the rich
No matter what they did
The parents of a George and Dick
Sent someone else’s kid
To fight the dreaded communists
No matter where they hid
But not their George and Dick, of course,
They couldn’t spare the time
And Vietnam seemed far away
Immersed in war and grime
An atmosphere too turbulent
For orchids in their prime
These studly hot-house orchid types
Worked hard to dodge the light
Their parents helped them jump the line
To keep them out of sight
Arranging for deferments that
Would keep them from the fight
And so the years of war went by
And communism won
Which had exactly no effect
On those who had the fun
Of skipping out and turning tail
To take off on the run
Soon Vietnam recovered from
The blasting it had got
And communists turned businessmen
To hatch a common plot
With those who liked cheap labor
And cared less why some had fought
Still some remained embittered by
The waste made of their lives
And swore they’d never live again
Like worker bees in hives
Content to feed the rich who dined
With sharpened forks and knives
But Boobie schools taught only fraud
And fiction to the young
With fantasy and fables coined
To see the truth unstrung
Till history became a fog
That never bit or stung
On schedule, Boobie Dick and George
Found Politician Town
And learned that pandering for votes
Could win some safe renown
Affirmatively actioned up
They never could fall down
The millions seemed to flow their way
And stuck to them like paste
They spent what others raised for them
With no thought for the waste
Since someone else’s money had
The sweetest sort of taste
They made a deal between themselves
To do a pantomime
With Dick to do the thinking while
George mouthed a lisping rhyme
And so with the Supine Court’s help
They grabbed for our last dime
The Boobie George then tripped and crashed
Into this truth sublime:
That Boobies hated freedom and
Considered it a crime
Dick told him then what he should do:
Just work them overtime!
With not a moment left to think
The Boobies wouldn’t know
Where all their beads and shells had gone
Or why they couldn’t show
A single thing as evidence
That they had labored so
Once George and Dick gained access to
The treasury’s largesse
It hardly seems surprising that
It soon contained much less
A fact which few observers seemed
To think of with distress
But “stupid is as stupid does,”
The stupid do and say
Confronted by a wealthy thief
They genuflect, then pay;
With eyes and minds shut fast like that
They make such tempting prey
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Filtering and grouping with .map()
You have seen how to group by a column, or by multiple columns. Sometimes, you may instead want to group by a function/transformation of a column. The key here is that the Series is indexed the same way as the DataFrame. You can also mix and match column grouping with Series grouping.
In this exercise your job is to investigate survival rates of passengers on the Titanic by 'age' and 'pclass'. In particular, the goal is to find out what fraction of children under 10 survived in each 'pclass'. You'll do this by first creating a boolean array where True is passengers under 10 years old and False is passengers over 10. You'll use .map() to change these values to strings.
Finally, you'll group by the under 10 series and the 'pclass' column and aggregate the 'survived' column. The 'survived' column has the value 1 if the passenger survived and 0 otherwise. The mean of the 'survived' column is the fraction of passengers who lived.
The DataFrame has been pre-loaded for you as titanic.
Create a Boolean Series of titanic['age'] < 10 and call .map with {True:'under 10', False:'over 10'}.
Group titanic by the under10 Series and then compute and print the mean of the 'survived' column.
Group titanic by the under10 Series as well as the 'pclass' column and then compute and print the mean of the 'survived' column.
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Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer
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Treanor, C.J. | 2019| Psychosocial interventions for informal caregivers of people living with cancer| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |6. Art. No| CD009912| DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009912.pub2.
Reviewers have assessed the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions designed to improve the quality of life (QoL), physical health and well‐being of informal caregivers of people living with cancer compared with usual care. Their findings have now been published by Cochrane.
Psychosocial support for informal caregivers of people living with cancer
Increasingly, people who are not health professionals provide care for a partner, family member or friend affected by cancer, which can have negative effects on their health and well‐being. Psychosocial interventions that comprise psychological or social support and involve direct interaction between a healthcare professional and caregivers (or caregiver‐patient pairs) may help to address the negative health effects for caregivers.
Review question
What is the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions compared to usual care for informal caregivers of people living with cancer on a range of outcomes related to health and well‐being?
We found19 trials that compared psychosocial interventions with usual care, in studies that included almost four thousand participants. Studies included caregivers of people affected by different cancers across all stages of the disease. There were differences in intervention make‐up. Intervention examples include providing information and/or teaching caregivers (or caregiver‐patient pairs) coping, communication or problem‐solving skills to manage symptoms or improve relationships. Interventions were delivered by nurses, psychologists or other professionals on an outpatient basis or at home via telephone.
There may be a minimal benefit for caregiver quality‐of‐life immediately after the intervention, but this may not last. Psychosocial interventions may have little to no effect on quality of life for patients six to 12 months post‐intervention, but we are uncertain whether or not interventions improve quality of life for patients immediately post‐intervention.
Psychosocial interventions may have little to no effect on caregiver depression, anxiety, distress and physical health and patient anxiety and distress at any time after the intervention, or on patient depression immediately and patient physical health six to 12 months post‐intervention. Psychosocial interventions probably have little to no effect on patient physical health immediately post‐intervention or patient depression three to six months post‐intervention.
Three studies reported adverse effects including increased distress and sexual function‐related distress and lower relationship satisfaction levels for carers, increased distress levels for patients, and intervention content that was seen as inappropriate for some participants. No studies looked at cost‐effectiveness or intervention satisfaction for caregivers or patients. Because the quality of evidence was low generally, findings must be treated with caution.
Psychosocial interventions do not impact to a clinically meaningful degree outcomes for caregivers irrespective of patient cancer stage or type. Perhaps, other outcomes (e.g. relationship quality) or other psychosocial interventions (e.g. meditation) may be more helpful for caregivers. Interventions should be subjected to better conducted trials. Intervention development should involve caregivers and pay particular attention to individual personal needs (Source: Cochrane).
Read the full review and abstract at Cochrane Library
NHS prepares to fast-track ‘game changing’ cancer drugs that target genetic mutations
The NHS is preparing to fast-track the introduction of ‘game changing’ new cancer drugs that target tumours according to their genetic make-up rather than where they originate in the body | NHS England
The revolutionary treatments – known as ‘tumour agnostic’ drugs – can be used against a wide range of cancers and could offer hope to patients with rare forms of the disease that may previously have been untreatable.
The first of the new cancer drugs, which target genetic mutations that accelerate the growth of many types of tumours and have particular benefits for children, are set to come on to the market within months.
With such treatments, testing the tumour’s genes or other molecular features assists in deciding which treatments may be best for an individual with cancer, regardless of where the cancer is located or how it looks under the microscope. Molecular testing therefore becomes a first and essential element of treatment planning.
Around 850 patients a year could benefit from the frontrunners while many thousands a year are eventually expected to benefit from other tumour agnostic treatments on the horizon.
Full story at NHS England
The acceptability of addressing alcohol consumption as a modifiable risk factor for breast cancer: a mixed method study within breast screening services and symptomatic breast clinics
Sinclair J, McCann M, Sheldon E, et al | 2019| The acceptability of addressing alcohol consumption as a modifiable risk factor for breast cancer: a mixed method study within breast screening services and symptomatic breast clinics| BMJ Open |e027371|doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027371
New research now published in the BMJ Open, recruited women attending NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) mammograms, symptomatic breast clinics and healthcare professionals in these settings, the study used a mixed-methods approach- interviews and surveys- to ask women about their knowledge and attitudes towards alcohol as a risk factor for breast cancer.
The findings highlight that only 20 per cent of women in the sample recognised alcohol as a breast cancer risk factor, almost half of NHS staff identified it as a risk factor.
Objectives Potentially modifiable risk factors account for approximately 23% of breast cancers, with obesity and alcohol being the two greatest. Breast screening and symptomatic clinical attendances provide opportunities (‘teachable moments’) to link health promotion and breast cancer-prevention advice within established clinical pathways. This study explored knowledge and attitudes towards alcohol as a risk factor for breast cancer, and potential challenges inherent in incorporating advice about alcohol health risks into breast clinics and screening appointments.
Design A mixed-method study including a survey on risk factors for breast cancer and understanding of alcohol content. Survey results were explored in a series of five focus groups with women and eight semi-structured interviews with health professionals.
Setting Women attending NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) mammograms, symptomatic breast clinics and healthcare professionals in those settings.
Participants 205 women were recruited (102 NHSBSP attenders and 103 symptomatic breast clinic attenders) and 33 NHS Staff.
Results Alcohol was identified as a breast cancer risk factor by 40/205 (19.5%) of attenders and 16/33 (48.5%) of staff. Overall 66.5% of attenders drank alcohol, and 56.6% could not estimate correctly the alcohol content of any of four commonly consumed alcoholic drinks. All women agreed that including a prevention-focussed intervention would not reduce the likelihood of their attendance at screening mammograms or breast clinics. Qualitative data highlighted concerns in both women and staff of how to talk about alcohol and risk factors for breast cancer in a non-stigmatising way, as well as ambivalence from specialist staff as to their role in health promotion.
Conclusions Levels of alcohol health literacy and numeracy were low. Adding prevention interventions to screening and/or symptomatic clinics appears acceptable to attendees, highlighting the potential for using these opportunities as ‘teachable moments’. However, there are substantial cultural and systemic challenges to overcome if this is to be implemented successfully.
Read the article in full from the BMJ Open
BBC News Women not aware enough of breast cancer link to alcohol
Societal impact of treatment of early breast cancer
RAND Europe has the findings from a study on the societal impact of early breast cancer. The findings are published in the following reports:
Understanding the societal impact of treatment of early breast cancer: What are the non-clinical outcomes associated with disease progression? – summary report of the cross-analysis of data gathered through the three phases
A Review of the Research Landscape for Treatment of Early Breast Cancer – this first phase was a mapping review on the published literature of the impacts of treatment of early breast cancer
Findings from a systematic review to explore the patient and societal impacts of disease progression in women who were treated for early breast cancer – this second phase was a systematic review on non-clinical outcomes of recurrence after treatment of early breast cancer
Factors affecting access to treatment of early breast cancer: Case studies from Brazil, Canada, Italy, Spain and UK – this third phase was a qualitative study assessing the factors affecting access and delivery of treatment for early breast cancer.
Waiting times for elective and cancer treatment
Only 38% of NHS trusts meeting 62-day waiting times standard for referral to treatment for cancer patients. Waiting list for elective care has increased by 1.5 million since March 2013.
The Public Accounts Committee has published NHS waiting times for elective and cancer treatment. The report finds the percentage of patients treated within waiting times standards continues to get worse for both elective (non-urgent care) and cancer treatment.
It also finds NHS organisations are not being sufficiently held to account for ensuring patients’ rights to treatment within maximum waiting times for elective care and that national organisations lack curiosity regarding the impact of longer waits on patient outcomes and patient harm.
Report conclusions and recommendations
Full report: NHS waiting times for elective and cancer treatment
Further detail: NHS failure to meet waiting times targets risks patients’ lives
Teenagers and Young Adults Cancer Services
NHS England | June 2019 | Teenagers and Young Adults Cancer Services
NHS England has launched a 60-day consultation to seek views on proposed changes to teenager and young adult’s cancer services. These are used by teenagers and young people aged between 16 up to the day before their 25th birthday. In some cases, and with the agreement of Children’s Cancer Services, they may also treat teenagers from the age of 13.
The aim of the service specifications is to improve the outcomes and experience of teenagers and young adults with cancer.
This consultation guide sets out:
How care is currently provided.
The proposed changes and reasons for these.
How the proposed changes will be implemented
The consultation is open until 4 August 2019
Full details are available from NHS England
NHS England The UK should stop obsessing over GDP. Wellbeing is more telling
Improving outcomes for people with skin tumours including melanoma
NICE | 2019| 2019 surveillance of melanoma: assessment and management (NICE guideline NG14) and improving outcomes for people with skin tumours including melanoma (NICE guideline CSG8)
NICE will update the following guidelines:
Melanoma: assessment and management (NICE guideline NG14)
Improving outcomes for people with skin tumours including melanoma (NICE guideline CSG8)
Full details are available from NICE
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Life History of the Colonel
Life History of the Colonel (Pandita sinope sinope)
Genus: Pandita Moore, 1858
Species: sinope Moore, 1858
Subspecies: sinope Moore, 1858
Caterpillar Host Plants: Uncaria spp. (Rubiaceae)
The adult is structurally close to the Athyma spp., with robust bodies and broad wings, but with the key difference of having the forewing cell slenderly closed instead of being open. Cells on both forewing and hindwing are short, roughly about one-third of the total length from wing base to wing margin. The wings are orange in base color. Above, the markings have dark brown shading in the basal halves of both wings. Each wing has a blackish brown post-discal band and three dark lines in the marginal areas. These post-discal and sub-marginal ands are broader and darker in the female. Beneath, the markings on the wings are almost identical to those above, with lesser brown shading in the basal area.
A Colonel feasting on the Singapore Rhododendron in a wasteland.
A Colonel sunbathing on a perch in the nature reserve.
Another sunbathing Colonel in the nature reserve.
This species is uncommon in Singapore. Sightings of the fast flying adults have been confined to several patches of clearings in the Central Catchment Nature Reserves, and several wastelands in the western and north-western parts of Singapore. Individuals have been sighted visiting flowering plants in the wastelands and forest clearings,
Thus far, only one species of Uncaria growing in the Central Catchment Nature Reserves is known to be utilized by the Colonel locally. Early stages of the Colonel also adopt the same feeding and frass-management routines as described for the Commander and Athyma species in earlier blog articles. Another plant, Nauclea subdita (Rubiaceae), has been recorded as the host plant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by an avid ButterflyCircle member, LC Goh.
Local host plant: a Uncaria spp. found in the nature reserves.
The eggs of the Colonel are laid singly at the tip of a leaf on the host plant. The eggs are somewhat globular in shape, with surface marked with hexagonal pits and bearing short spines at pit corners, giving them the appearance of minute sea-urchins. Each egg has a diameter of about 1mm.
Two views of an egg of the Colonel laid at a leaf tip. Diameter: 1mm.
Two views of a mature egg of the Colonel. The head and mandibles are visible in the right view.
The egg takes about 3 days to hatch. The young caterpillar emerges by eating away part of the egg shell. The rest of the egg shell becomes the first meal for the newly hatched, which has a cylindrical pale yellowish green body covered with many small tubercles and short setae. The head capsule is yellowish brown in color.
Two views of a newly hatched caterpillar of the Colonel, length: 2mm.
Similar to the feeding habit of the Athyma spp., the 1st instar caterpillar of the Colonel also feeds from the leaf tip and leaves the midrib intact and protruding. A frass chain is also constructed laboriously by the young caterpillar at the tip of the exposed midrib. Between feeds, the caterpillar rests on either the exposed midrib or the frass chain. In later instars, the caterpillar tends to rest near where the protruding midrib joins the remaining lamina. At this site, it also attempts to camouflage itself with a collection of frass pellets secured with silk threads to the lamina. After reaching about 4.5-5.0mm in 2.5-3 days, the caterpillar moults to the 2nd instar.
A 1st instar caterpillar of the Colonel.
Top: newly hatched (2.5mm in length) resting near its frass chain in its early stage
of construction. Bottom: same caterpllar, now 1-day old, (3.5mm in length) resting on the
same but longer frass chain.
An early 1st instar caterpillar of the Colonel working on lengthening its frass chain.
One 1st instar caterpillar resting on the exposed midrib/frass-chain structure.
The body color of the 2nd instar caterpillar is pale brown with a series of lateral dark patches and a faint dorsal band black in color. Besides tiny tubercles covering most of its body surface, the 2nd instar caterpillar also features short and branched spines dorso-laterally and spiracularly. The head capsule is light brown and dotted with a number of conical tubercles. As it grows in this star, sub-spiracular white patches become visible on abdominal segments, most prominently in segment 6 to 9. This instar lasts about 3 days with the body length reaching 7-7.5mm.
2nd instar caterpillar, newly moulted, length: 4.5mm
2nd instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 7mm
The 3rd instar caterpillar has slightly longer dorsolateral spines, with pairs on thoracic segments longer than the rest. Its head capsule is dark brown to black irorated with pale brown tubercles. This instar takes about 3 days to complete with body length reaching about 10-11mm.
3rd instar caterpillar, newly moulted, length: 6mm
3rd instar caterpillar, late in this stage. .Lengths: 9mm (top) and 11mm (bottom).
The 4th instar caterpillar has much longer dorso-lateral spines which are heavily branched. The body is brown to reddish brown in color. Besides conical tubercles, the head capsule also carries some short spines. This instar lasts 3 days with body length reaching about 18mm-19mm.
Two views of a 4th instar caterpillar, newly moulted, length: 10mm.
Two views of 4th instar caterpillar, late in this stage. Lengths: 16mm (top); 17mm (bottom)
The 5th and final instar brings about a drastic change in appearance. Now the branched dorso-lateral spines very well developed on all body segments with those on the meso- and metathorax being the longest. Newly moulted caterpillar has deep reddish brown spines, but the color changes to pinkish red as the caterpillar grows. The body base color is initially a mix of green and brown, but this soon changes to a uniform green color as growth proceeds in this instar.
There is one prominent pinkish red saddle mark on the 5th abdominal segment (as typical in many Athyma spp). The light to dark brown head capsule has much longer and pointed spines. As with other members of the Limenities subgroup, when disturbed, the caterpillar adopts a characteristic posture with the anterior body arched and the head tucked beneath the thorax.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar, late in this stage, length: 29mm.
Frontal view of the head capsule of a 5th instar caterpillar.
The 5th instar lasts for 6 days, and the body length reaches up to 30-32mm. On the last day, the color of the body and the spines changes to yellowish brown and then eventually to pale brown. The caterpillar ceases feeding and wanders around. Eventually it comes to a half on a branch/stem or a leaf underside, where the caterpillar spins a silk pad from which it soon hangs vertically to take on the pre-pupatory pose. Within the few hours prior to pupation, the caterpillar gradually relaxes and lengthens to a straight posture. Waves of contraction soon travel from the the rear end to the head until the pupation event kicks in.
Two views of a 5th instar caterpillar, late in this stage, with color changes taking place.
Pre-pupatory larva. Left: early stage with in curl-up posture. Middle: soon to pupate with
straightened posturet. Right: near the end of the pupation event.
Pupation takes place a day later. The pupa suspends itself from the silk pad with no supporting silk girdle. It is almost entirely pale brown in color with segments and parts outlined in a darker shade of brown. The abdominal segments are slender, and the thoracic portion being larger and expanded laterally. Dorsally, there are two prominent processes curved towards each other. When disturbed, the abdominal segments flex laterally, and could stay in that position for a period of time. Length of pupae: 18-19mm.
A time-lapse sequence of the pupation event
of the Colonel caterpillar
Two views of a shining pupa of the Colonel.
After about 5 days of development, the pupal skin turns translucent as the development within the pupal case comes to an end. The spots and streak on the forewing upperside also become discernible. The following day, soon after day break, the adult butterfly emerges from the pupal case.
A newly eclosed Colonel resting on its empty pupal case.
A newly eclosed Colonel, proudly showing us its uppersides.
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Canada judge tells jury in deadly oil derailment trial to press on
FILE PHOTO: Workers and firefighters work on the remains of downtown after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada, July 8, 2013. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger/File Photo
MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian judge on Tuesday told jurors to continue deliberations, despite their difficulty in reaching a verdict in the joint trial of three former rail employees in the 2013 Lac Megantic train derailment that killed 47 in Quebec, local media said.
The jury had earlier told the judge it was at an impasse, said Charles Shearson, a lawyer for one of the three defendants.
In July 2013, the downtown section of the town of Lac Megantic was destroyed following the derailment of a Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd train carrying crude oil.
Locomotive engineer Tom Harding, 56, operations manager Jean Demaître, 53, and rail traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59, face charges of criminal negligence causing death in the crude-by-rail disaster, according to court documents.
The three worked for the now-defunct Montreal Maine & Atlantic railway which operated the runaway train that was carrying 7.7 million liters of volatile Bakken crude oil, according to a 2014 accident report.
The derailment sparked calls to improve rail safety in North America, with Canada ending the use of one-man crews to move dangerous goods and enhancing protection standards for tank cars used to transport crude by rail.
The trial comes amid an expected resurgence in rail shipments of less volatile Canadian crude in 2018 as tight pipeline capacity is pushing more oil onto railroads.
The jury, which has been in deliberations for six days, had previously asked Quebec Superior Court Judge Gaetan Dumas for a dictionary and to clarify judicial matters, like the concept of “reasonable doubt,” local media reported. Their request for the dictionary was refused.
All three pled not guilty and did not testify during the trial in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Reporting By Allison Lampert; Editing by Sandra Maler and Lisa Shumaker
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Calgary parent up in arms after breaking kneecap on unmaintained city walkway
West Springs resident Cheryl Gunja is concerned that the City is not clearing an icy pathway near her daughter's school. Gunja slipped and broke her knee cap on the pathway this past week. She was photographed at her home on Sunday January 22, 2017. GAVIN YOUNG/POSTMEDIA
The short path leading to the back doors of St. Joan of Arc School has become a treacherous walk for Cheryl Gunja and her seven-year-old daughter, Vivian, who have to slip and slide over 30 cm of packed snow and ice before they make it to the school doors.
Last week on their regular walk to school, Gunja said she broke her kneecap when she slipped and fell trying to help her daughter down the path. That same day, Gunja said two other children — one who was sent to hospital with a bloody face — wiped out on the same path.
“Someone is going to get seriously hurt,” Gunja said. “This isn’t just a regular walkway — it’s a walkway right beside the school used Monday to Friday by 200-plus kids, morning and afternoon.”
While there is a longer path leading to the front of the school that has been cleared, Gunja said the majority of students trek across the slippery side path to enter the school through the back.
Neighbours and parents with kids attending the school have been complaining about the icy walkway for months, and Gunja said a petition was even started by community members to instate a crossing guard to help direct vehicles and pedestrians in an area she said is “heavily trafficked daily.”
“The city was notified about it multiple times,” Gunja said. “I called to let them know of the area and they said it’s low priority. What if I had broken my neck? What if it was my daughter instead of me?”
Postmedia reached city officials Sunday afternoon, but they did not provide a comment on the story.
The City of Calgary’s website notes that “all snow and ice must be completely removed from City pathways and sidewalks” within 24 hours after snow stops falling. On the city’s sidewalk snow clearing map, parks nearby St. Joan of Arc School are routes flagged for city snow removal, but there are sections of green around the school indicating areas where no snow removal occurs.
The city’s site also notes “residential and commercial area sidewalks are the responsibility of the property owners,” but Gunja said neither the school, the city nor any residences near the path have claimed responsibility for keeping the path clear.
Dealing with her own long and painful recovery that may require surgery, Gunja said her main concern is the 850 students attending St. Joan of Arc School at risk of slipping and falling as a result of an unmaintained walkway.
“My question is, who’s responsible?” she said. “It’s just so frustrating because I wonder how many people there are like me who have gotten hurt out there.”
West Springs resident Robert Gunja walks on an icy connecting pathway near his daughter’s school on Sunday January 22, 2017. This past week Robert’s wife Cheryl slipped and broke her knee cap on the ice. The Gunja’s say the City had said they were not responsible for maintaining the pathway which is also not on school or residential property. After learning about the fall the City did spread some gravel in the area. Gavin Young / Postmedia
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Pages with broken file links, Call of Duty 2 Single Player Levels
Outnumbered and Outgunned
88 Ridge
Retaking Lost Ground
Toujane, Tunisia
March 10, 1943, 1800 hrs
1. Delay the German offensive while the brigade pulls out of Toujane
2. Fight your way to the armored car and take the gunner's seat
3. Escape from Toujane
toujane_ride
Multiplayer map
Elements of Toujane
"What in blazes are you waiting for, man? Get this thing moving, MacGregor!"
— Captain Price
"Outnumbered and Outgunned" is the fourteenth level in Call of Duty 2.
John Davis (playable)
O.P.5
Simons (K.I.A.)
The following sections are a walkthrough.
Getting Started Edit
The level begins with the player in a building in front of an MG42. Man it and begin firing at the troops outside. Some troops on the right will be out of range, so get off the MG42 and take them out. After a while, an armored car will appear on the left. When the car is getting close, get off the MG42. When the car gets into position, it'll open fire, but not before MacGregor tells the player to duck. The car will fire another few shots.
After it fires the second time, the door behind the MG42 will burst open, revealing two troops. Eliminate these threats with the SMG, then go down the stairs. At the bottom is a table with two enemies behind it, so be careful. The player can either rush them or toss a grenade to flush them out. The player can also take out the two soldiers coming from the door with the Lee-Enfield.
When they're dead, go through the doorway behind them to get outside. Turn left and follow the road back to the area that was just fired at with the MG42. There are about three troops behind crates, with the car far back. Take out the troops near the crates first, then aim at the gunner in the car and take him out. When he's out, run to the car and wait for Price and MacGregor to catch up. When they get in there, they'll hijack the car, which allows the player to get to the gun.
Spawn.
Using the MG42.
The armoured car coming up.
The troops that come out of the door.
Troops behind the Table.
Going to the car.
At the car.
Car Ride Edit
After getting in, a legion of German soldiers will pour in from the left and right. Chief among them are two Panzerschreck-wielding soldiers (one from the left and one from the right), so be careful and get ready to fire at them upon seeing them. After a while, the car will begin to roll out.
First, there will be a half-track approaching from the front. Blow it up with the gun. The player will then take a turn and be on another street. There's a rocket-equipped troop on a roof to the right, this will be immediately after the turn has been made.
A turn is made on another street. There will be another soldier on the right. At the end of the street the player will run into a tank, this results in the player going all the way back and taking another route.
This time, be alert for an outside room with railings and a light-brown roof on the right. There's another rocket troop there, take him out ASAP. The car will turn past that house and take a right. There are two rocket troops on a roof to the right halfway through the turn. When they're out, the tank will appear again, this time with two rocket troops on its left. Take out the troops first, then quickly shoot the tank. When the tank is dead, the player continues forward.
As the player advances, a truck filled with troops will approach from behind. Don't focus on the troops; destroy the truck. It's destruction will kill all of the troops in one blast.
Fire at the enemies until having to take a detour because the tunnel ahead collapsed. When on the road, look right and scan the rooftops for a soldier with a Panzerschreck. When he's dead, turn in the direction the car is going and take out the rocket troop near the turn before he fires.
After the car takes the turn, it will run into mines and explode.
Rocket Troops that appear while you're getting the car started.
Halftrack.
Rocket Troop 2.
The tank.
Rocket Troop 5 (with another one right behind him).
Rocket Troops to the left of the tank.
The pursing truck.
Since the tunnel has been destroyed, you'll have to go another way.
Getting to the Exit Edit
Get away from the car and get into the building from the right. Peek out, and there will be a car filled with troops driving up. Despite the fact that the car can be destroyed with a grenade, it is not a good idea as when the grenade hits the ground, the troops will already be out and running away from the truck. Instead, shoot at them with the Lee-Enfield or any other weapon available. When they're dead, go just past the building and turn right. There will be an alley. Go up and find two soldiers and an MG42 that was waiting to ambush the player had he/she gone past past the enemy car. Take them out, then go right.
The player will see some of the allies up ahead. There are enemies hiding behind the sandbag barriers at the front, snipe them. When the hiding soldiers are dead, go forward, and notice some troops hiding behind some crates. Here the player can either use a grenade to flush them out or take them out with the SMG.
Keep going forward until seeing a ruined tank. There's a porch on the right (next to the tank) that's ideal for taking out enemies, but there's a troop behind the tank. Get near the right side of the tank, get to the tank's behind and take out the troops hiding behind it, then go on the porch and take out the rest.
When all enemies are dead, head forward to the exit.
These troops will arrive soon after your car explodes.
Take out the troops hiding behind the sandbags from a distance.
Troops near some more crates.
Get to the porch on the right and take out the troops from there.
File:Call of Duty 2 Walkthrough Part 14 - Outnumbered and Outgunned - British Campaign
Mounted MG42
Kar98k
Panzerschreck
When selecting the level from the Mission Select menu, the title of the level is "Armored Car Escape".
The player can switch back to their weapon while in the armored car.
While using the cannon, there is a chance to shoot down British RAF planes, but they appear with a red reticle.
After killing the Gunner on the armored car, if the player looks at the gunners corpse, the crosshairs will be red, as though he is still alive.
Main article: Outnumbered and Outgunned/Transcript
Campaign Levels of Call of Duty 2
Red Army Training · Demolition · Repairing the Wire · The Pipeline · Downtown Assault · City Hall · Comrade Sniper
The Diversionary Raid · Holding The Line · Operation Supercharge · The End of the Beginning · Crusader Charge · 88 Ridge · Outnumbered and Outgunned · Retaking Lost Ground · Assault on Matmata · Prisoners of War · The Crossroads · The Tiger · The Brigade Box
The Battle of Pointe du Hoc · Defending the Pointe · The Silo · Approaching Hill 400 · Rangers Lead the Way · The Battle for Hill 400 · Crossing the Rhine
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Transaction volume of Chinese company takeovers by foreign companies 2008-2016
Published by Shu Han, Sep 23, 2019
The graph shows the transaction value for foreign takeovers of Chinese companies until 2016. In 2016, the transaction volume of Chinese companies taken over by foreign companies amounted to about 26 billion yuan.
Transaction volume of Chinese company takeovers by foreign companies from 2008 to 2016 (in billion yuan)
Transaction value in billion yuan
Note: 1 yuan equals approximately 0.15 U.S. dollars and 0.13 euros (as of July 2017).
Figures include company buyouts, sales and mergers.
Value of M&A transactions globally 1985-2018
Largest M&A deals worldwide 2018, by transaction value
Leading M&A advisors worldwide in 2019, by number of transactions
Number of China outbound TMT deals Q1 2016-Q2 2019
Statistics on "Mergers & acquisitions in China"
Number of company takeovers with Chinese participation 2018
Transaction value of company takeovers with Chinese participation 2008-2018
China: number of cross-border and domestic company takeovers 2009-2018
China: value of cross-border and domestic company takeovers 2009-2018
Number of company takeovers with Chinese involvement in 2018, by sector
Value of company takeovers with Chinese involvement 2018, by sector
China’s overseas M&A value 2018, by sector
Number of domestic real estate M&A deals in China 2015-2017
Number of China's overseas real estate M&A deals 2015-2017
Number of announced clean tech M&As in China Q2 2015-Q2 2017
Number of Chinese company takeovers in key regions 2018
Value of China's outbound M&As 2018, by region
Key destinations of China's outbound M&As H1 2018, based on deal value
Value of China's outbound M&As in Europe 2013-2017
Transaction value of foreign company takeovers by Chinese companies 2016
Largest company takeovers with Chinese involvement in China in 2011, by transaction value
Transaction value of company take-overs with Chinese participation in 2011, by industry
Transaction value per company takeover with Chinese participation 2014, by industry
Media M&A: largest global deals in 2014
Distribution of global M&A deals 2008-2012, by value
Media M&A: largest deals worldwide 2017
Private equity sector share in total deal value in Central and Eastern Europe in 2016
Volume of crowdfunding transactions by way of financing Spain 2015
Number of foreign takeovers by Chinese companies 2008-2016
Transaction value of transportation and logistics M&A's 2014-2018
Italy: value of early-stage private equity investments 2012-2017
Value of private equity deals in Canada in 2018, by industry
Financial advisors ranked by M&A transactions value in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Media M&A: value of transactions worldwide 2006-2017
Regional distribution of global merger and acquisition deals in 2012, by value
Number of Chinese company takeovers by foreign companies 2016
Value of merger and acquisition deals in Europe 2013-2015
Value of the leading corporate consumer takeovers Q1 2012, by buyer name
AdTech: number of M&A deals worldwide 2013-2019
Mergers and acquisitions in China Stock Exchanges Banking Industry in China Chinese IPOs Startups in China
Zero2IPO. (January 19, 2017). Transaction volume of Chinese company takeovers by foreign companies from 2008 to 2016 (in billion yuan) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 18, 2020, from https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/279554/transaction-value-takeovers-of-chinese-companies-by-foreign-companies/
Zero2IPO. "Transaction volume of Chinese company takeovers by foreign companies from 2008 to 2016 (in billion yuan)." Chart. January 19, 2017. Statista. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/279554/transaction-value-takeovers-of-chinese-companies-by-foreign-companies/
Zero2IPO. (2017). Transaction volume of Chinese company takeovers by foreign companies from 2008 to 2016 (in billion yuan). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 18, 2020. https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/279554/transaction-value-takeovers-of-chinese-companies-by-foreign-companies/
Zero2IPO. "Transaction Volume of Chinese Company Takeovers by Foreign Companies from 2008 to 2016 (in Billion Yuan)." Statista, Statista Inc., 19 Jan 2017, https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/279554/transaction-value-takeovers-of-chinese-companies-by-foreign-companies/
Zero2IPO, Transaction volume of Chinese company takeovers by foreign companies from 2008 to 2016 (in billion yuan) Statista, https://cdn1.statista.com/statistics/279554/transaction-value-takeovers-of-chinese-companies-by-foreign-companies/ (last visited January 18, 2020)
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Home » Celebrities » Fearne Cotton’s X Factor clash with Simon Cowell over Dannii ‘leg fondle’
Fearne Cotton’s X Factor clash with Simon Cowell over Dannii ‘leg fondle’
Fearne Cotton was still a relatively unknown star when she joined X Factor spin-off, The Xtra Factor, in 2007.
She only stayed for one series before quitting and being replaced by her good friend Holly Willoughby, but during that time admitted she struggled to strike up a rapport with boss Simon Cowell .
"I found it difficult with Simon Cowell, to say whether we actually ever got on," she told Company magazine in 2010.
"He's charming, a good giggle but, at the same time, you're always aware that he's this authority, and you respect that."
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What's more, she described Simon as a "massive flirt" and said she once had to reprimand him for apparently fondling judge Dannii Minogue's leg while the cameras were rolling.
“Simon does flirt with Dannii a hell of a lot," she told heat magazine back in 2007.
“During one of my links the other week, I was interviewing Dannii when he squeezed her thigh, off shot! Thinking everyone could see it, I went, ‘Simon!’
“There’s definitely a bit of flirting going on."
Rumours of an affair between Simon and Dannii began to circulate from the moment the Australian star joined the panel in 2007.
After announcing that she couldn't wait to be "up close and personal on a daily basis with Simon," the pair were spotted holding hands in a car following Children In Need.
At the time Dannii, 40, admitted to flirting with Simon, but denied fancying him. She said: “But that man could flirt with a book, a wall, anything.
“I don’t fancy him and I don’t have a type I go for, but I like a man who makes me laugh, who’s intelligent and speaks his mind.”
But in an interview for unauthorised biography, Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell, the reality mogul claimed he was in 'genuine love'.
“I had a crush on her. It was Dannii’s hair, the sexy clothes, and the t**s," he revealed in comments said to have prompted Dannii to stop talking to him.
“I was like a schoolboy. She was foxy. She was a real man’s girl. Very feminine."
One person who wasn't happy about the apparent development was their fellow judge Sharon Osbourne, who had sat with just Simon and Louis Walsh on the panel since day dot.
And Sharon didn't hold back when it came to slagging Dannii off, telling Piers Morgan's Life Stories she quit because she couldn't stand even sitting next to her.
"I didn't hate her because hatred is very close to love and takes a lot of emotion and I don't have that time for her. She was like an insect, a mosquito that wouldn't go away," she said harshly.
Meanwhile, in Sharon's autobiography Unbreakable, she openly accused Dannii of having it off with Simon.
"She had an uppity attitude as she was f***ing the boss," Sharon wrote.
"She clearly felt shagging Simon gave her vicarious power and it was so immature, not to mention deeply irritating to deal with."
For Dannii's part, she later said her four years on the show and been 'publicly destroyed' week in, week out by Sharon 'broke' her.
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A&S Hall of Fame 2016 - Judith Lesnaw
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Ricardo Paul-Llosa: A Bilingual Recital
This November 4th at the Niles Gallery @ 4PM join us for a Poetry Recital by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, the most prominent Cuban-American poet today!
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Niles Gallery
Kentucky Poetry Festival
Come celebrate National Poetry Month during first annual Kentucky Poetry Month, sponsored by the University of Kentucky's MFA in Creative Writing!
2015 Kentucky Poetry Festival Events
Off the Ground Featuring Bianca Lynne Spriggs
Common Grounds on High Street
Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow, Bianca Lynne Spriggs is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. She is the author of Kaffir Lily (Wind Publications, 2010), How Swallowtails Become Dragons (Accents Publishing, 2011), and the forthcoming titles, Call Her By Her Name (Northwestern University Press, 2016), The Galaxy is a Dance Floor (Argos Books, 2016), and Circe's Lament: An Anthology of Wild Women (Accents Publishing, 2015). Her work may be found in numerous journals and anthologies. Open mic to follow!
KFP College Showcase
James F. Hardymon Theater, inside the Davis Marksbury Building on the UK's campus, 329 Rose Street
Creative writing college students from around Kentucky will read their poetry.
A Reading by Louisvillian Poets, feat. Jeremy Clark, Adam Day, Lynnell Edwards, Michael Estes, and Martha Greenwald
Louisville Poets will read their work.
Verse in Type
Clark Art & Antique, 801 Winchester Rd, Lexington, KY 40505
Broadside display from the King Library Press.
UK Libraries King Library Spring Seminar
Boone Center
Tuesday April 28th
Dara Wier and Emily Pettit will lecture for the King Library as Keynote Speakers. King Library Press Broadside Contest Award winner will read.
Waxing Gastronomic: Food Poetry Open Mic
Donut Days on Southland
Dara Wier & Emily Pettit, Visiting Writers Series
UK Art Museum
Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including You Good Thing (Wave Books, 2013); Selected Poems (2009); Remnants of Hannah (2006); Reverse Rapture (2005), and many others. She teaches workshops and form and theory seminars and directs the M.F.A. program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Emily Pettit is the author of Goat in the Snow (Birds LLC), and two chapbooks How (Octopus Books) and What Happened to Limbo (Pilot Books). Her poems can be found in Skein, Thethe, Sixth Finch, Wolf in a Field, Le Petite Zine, Forklift Ohio, Glitterpony, Diagram, Octopus, H_ngM_n and elsewhere. She has a MFA from the University of Iowa where she was a Maytag Fellow. She teaches writing and literature at Elms College, poetry workshops at Flying Object and is publisher and editor of jubilat (the literary magazine) and at factory hollow press.She is an editor for notnostrums (notnostrums.com) and Factory Hollow Press. More poems can be found online (Octopus, Sixth Finch, Strange Machine) and in print (Invisible Ear, and, soon, Skein and SUPERMACHINE.)
Holler, featuring Normandi Ellis, Roger Bonair-Agard, AlexanderSings
Al’s Bar
Wednesday April, 29, 2015
Open mic starts at 8:00pm
We celebrate national poetry month with the return of Normandi Ellis, author of Words on Water, and the debut of two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, Roger Bonair-Agard, his latest Bury My Clothes, a long list finalist for the National Book Award. Providing music is Louisville based old time/folk artist AlexanderSings! Alejandro Udisco Kentucki). As usual open mic opens and closes the show. Bring some extra bones for the Holler bucket. Support your local arts. See y'all there!
Write or Die Poetry Slam (Presented by Bianca Spriggs/Hosted by the Raven House)
Ravenhouse 3229 Raven Cir, Lexington, Kentucky
8:30pm, doors open at 8:00pm
Eight poets from around the state and region will compete in a three-round elimination spoken word competition for a first prize of $500 (sponsored by The Morris Book Shop) and a second prize of $300 (Sponsored by UnderMain). The feature and celebrity judge for the night is award-winning poet, Roger Bonair-Agard. Opening musical performances by Designer Flow and J. Cannon. DJ Warren Peace will be on the one's and two's. And special bonus, Thomas Kirkland, veteran slam emcee, will be dusting off his mic for the occasion! There will be a full spread, BYOB. Admission is $20. Capacity is 80 attendees, so get there early for this fast-paced, one-of-a-kind event! You can purchase tix in advance here: http://theravenhouse.brownpapertickets.com. A portion of the proceeds will go towards each of the performers that night as well as the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning!
Roger Bonair-Agard Interview
William T. Young Auditorium
Thursday April 30th, 2015
Poet and spoken-word artist Roger Bonair-Agard was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States in 1987. His collections of poetry include Tarnish and Masquerade (2006); Gully (2010); and Bury My Clothes (2013), which was a long-list finalist for a National Book Award. A Cave Canem fellow, Bonair-Agard performs his work and leads workshops internationally. He is the cofounder and artistic director of the louderARTS Project and teaches poetry at the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Facility in Chicago.
Ekphrastic Poetry Prize DEADLINE
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky and the University of Kentucky MFA Program in Creative Writing present The Kentucky Poetry Festival’s Ekphrastic Poetry Prize. First prize: $100. Deadline: May 01st. Entries must pertain to the permanent collection, or a current or past exhibit at The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky. Please indicate the name of the work and the artist’s name with entry. Contest is open to all poets, excluding current MFA poetry students at the University of Kentucky. Entrants may submit up to 3 poems as a single attached file with the format firstname_lastname2015 to: kpfpoetrycontest@gmail.com. For inquiries contact us at kpfpoetrycontest@gmail.com
Poetry in the Greenhouses
Michler's Florist, Greenhouses & Garden Design, 417 E Maxwell St, Lexington, KY 40508
Readings by Steven Alvarez, Dan Howell, Leatha Kendrick, George Ella Lyon, Maurice Manning, Christopher McCurry, Kimberly Miller, Gurney Norman, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Richard Taylor, and Jeff Worley
Open mic to follow.
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 7:30pm to Friday, May 1, 2015 - 7:00pm
Lexington and UK's campus
UK-SHU Students Summit Program
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The Brexit debate is far from over: there will have to be a further vote
Britain has voted for Brexit. What comes next is remarkably unclear. James Strong argues that four questions remain: whether to invoke Article 50, what mandate the Leave campaign possesses, what sort of exit deal Parliament will approve and what will happen if there is an early general election.
First, when will the Brexit negotiations begin? This morning David Cameron broke two promises he made during the referendum campaign. He resigned as Prime Minister. And he announced that he would not immediately inform the European Council that Britain wishes to withdraw from the EU, in line with Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. This is significant. Once a state activates Article 50, it has two years to negotiate its future relationship with the remaining 27 member states. After two years its membership terminates automatically.
Boris Johnson. Photo: Ian Burt via a CC-BY-2.0 licence
Cameron’s successor, presumably Boris Johnson, will have to decide in October whether or not to invoke Article 50. Early in the campaign, Johnson suggested that Britain might yet be able to wring a better deal (e.g. further restrictions on freedom of movement) out of other EU states if the government already had a mandate to leave. Most EU leaders have ruled out this option. But that doesn’t mean they won’t consider now. Remember, most didn’t take the prospect of Brexit entirely seriously during the previous round of negotiations. And even if they did take the prospect seriously, it makes no sense from a bargaining perspective to admit that you are willing to offer more to a bargaining partner who does something you don’t want. We could yet see a second re-negotiation followed by a second referendum in which Prime Minister Johnson successfully campaigns for Remain, having achieved his primary goal by becoming Prime Minister.
Second, what sort of mandate does the leave camp have? Two key concerns appear to have driven the leave vote – fear of mass immigration and a desire to repatriate sovereign authority currently pooled with other EU states, for example the power to alter employment regulations or to negotiate new free trade deals. To an extent these concerns can both be resolved by leaving the EU. But many of those who argue for a leave vote on sovereignty grounds nevertheless still want Britain to have the best possible trading relationship with other EU states, which makes sense since most of our exports go to them. They say they would like Britain to stay in the European single market as far as possible. Both Norway and Switzerland are in the single market but not the EU, so there is precedent here. The problem is that the rest of the EU sees free movement of people as one of the fundamental pillars of the single market. In other words, the price of retaining access to the EU market is likely to be allowing free movement of people. There is a fundamental clash between the desire to remake Britain as a free-trading nation and the desire to restrict immigration (this is true conceptually as much as in practice). So what sort of deal will the post-leave government pursue? I suspect the answer is that it will be unable to negotiate a deal because it will be unable to concede on free movement, leaving Britain outside of the single market by default at the end of its two year withdrawal period.
Thirdly, and relatedly, what sort of deal will parliament approve? Most MPs favour remaining in the EU, but they will have to sign off on any post-Brexit agreement. Will they be willing to do so in principle? Probably, given most have more respect for the electorate than is often implied. But, again, what sort of deal will they have a mandate to approve? One that retains access to the single market at the cost of allowing free movement, or one that cuts off both? The differences are stark, and the reality is that the leave vote is split between the two broad approaches. There will have to be a second referendum, like it or not.
Fourthly, what happens if there is an early general election before the two years are up? This is entirely possible, though the Fixed Terms Parliament Act sets a high bar (assuming the government does not lose a confidence vote, which it probably wouldn’t, two-thirds of MPs have to vote for an early election, which means both Labour and the Conservatives have to be confident they’ll win). It could happen if the Conservative Party splits, which looks like a realistic possibility. It could also happen if the worst economic predictions of the Remain camp come true. If the hit to business confidence already apparent in the markets continues into a recession, that in turn could undermine the government’s position. The prospect of an early election is interesting for this reason: What if the Labour Party campaigns on a pro-EU mandate, and wins? Could a new government withdraw the Article 50 notification before the two year period is up? Article 50 doesn’t say, which means presumably the possibility is there. But it would have to be negotiated, and Europe may be in no mood for second guessing.
The Brexit debate is far from over, in other words. One way or another there will have to be a further vote.
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Dr James Strong is a Fellow in Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Jim Farr says:
Leave means leave.
Not for big fish in suits from hugo boss. They will decide what “leave” means.
Mark Donovan says:
A simple stance … i.e. straight-forward and simplistic, the complications of the real world are brushed aside.
Michaela French says:
I agree, leave is what the democratic vote stated so the politicians in power need to negotiate what Leave stated, our own sovreinity and control of our borders, if the EU says the Single Market is on the deal of free movement of people; the politicians have no choice but to reject it. More worrying at the moment is the way MP’s are behaving, Scotland who only voted in 2014 to remain in the UK is not accepting the democratic will of the UK to Leave the EU; Nicola is ignoring the mandate of the Scottish people who voted to accept the UK Government and acting as if Scotland is suddenly a seperate counrty passing a motion in Hollyrood giving Scotland a mandate to have discussions with the UK Government, other devolved administrations, the EU Institutions and member states to explore options to protect Scotland’s place in the EU. This is clearly MP’s acting on their own accord over and above what the electorate voted for, and it is happening in the Labour Party too. Jeremy Corbyn was voted in resoundingly by the members of the Labour Party, but the MP’s were not happy with the member’s choice (see the Daily Telegraph articles since Jeremy’s election with MP’S complaining about Corbyn selection) so the MP’s have decided they know better than the electorate, here we have MP’s thinking they are above the electorate forgetting they are their to do the will of the people not to do what they want. The referendum was about a political class who have forgotten that they are there to serve, thinking they own the place, doing whatever they want and forgetting the electorate who put them there. Its about time the politicians realise things have changed, democracy is democracy and we will no longer let the Etonians or the aspiring Etonians do what they want and forget they are here to serve us, that’s what this vote was about….. the established order is crumbling and we need a new way of doing things, one where politicians tell the truth, one where politicians respect the wishes of the electorate and act for the people, by the people…. the revolution is happening.
nothing is ever set in stone.
it was a non-binding referendum
time will tell if the leave needs to be reconsidered.
Only a silly person draw a line in the sand at low tide and says its immovable.
MSpence says:
“Leave means leave” ? Really?
It doesn’t seem to be shaping up that way as of 13.19, 24/6/16
Boris Johnson has said there is “no need for haste” after the UK voted to exit the European Union.
Mr Johnson also sought to reassure those who voted Remain saying: “We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe”.
I’m interested in the 3million jobs linked to the EU and the 44% of exports that go to the EU. What will happen to them?
Leave means leave. You cannot make it mean something else.
There will not be another EU referendum.
Are you silly enough to claim that 3 million jobs will go?
As to the 44% of exports that go to the EU [some of which are re-exports by the way] there will be tarrifs both ways on exports & imports. The EU has a massive trade surplus with us, ask the Germans..
The people have decided. It is not open to sore losers to ask fror a replay.
The Truth says:
I wouldn’t be too sure of yourself Jim Farr, there’s a long way to go yet. It’s a mere four months since Boris the Opportunist decided to back the Leave campaign, prior to this he had always been an advocate of remaining in the EU. What makes you think he won’t have another change of heart? Let’s see how he feels when he’s achieved his ultimate goal of leading the Tories and becoming PM, then renegotiating the terms of our membership of the EU with the weight of the electorate’s mandate behind him? Sorry to break it to you, but ‘Leave’ does NOT necessarily mean ‘Leave’! Thankfully.
It does not matter if Boris has a change of heart or an epiphany.
It`s a done deal.
Carved in stone. No government is going to say to the people that their decision given in a referendum is not to count.
What are they to say? Sorry but you don`t know what you have done – you are a simple minded lot, so let the intelligentsia take a crack at it on your behalf.
Where are you going to find politicians that stupid?
Oli f says:
Well, we seem to have found an electorate that stupid (51.9% of it anyway, yourself presumably included)
“stupid” – I think the word you meant to use was “honest”. As you say, not much chance.
Jim Hearn says:
Nothing is a done deal, people who feel strongly enough can do whatever they feel needs to be done to ensure the right outcome. Simple
It would be interesting though Jim, if after a cooling off period and the realisation that a lot of the Leave vote was based on lies fed to these voters…How they would not vote?
BorisJ says:
Erm well it is non-binding so there’s no actual deal… lets just all sit down and have a chat
What concerns me is at the start of the campaign, the prime minister and in some respect parliament gave the voters as choice to choose whether to stay in Europe or to leave and if one side loose the vote. They then have to accept that they have lost and try to work together for the best of the country. That is how democracy works, parliament then carries the wishes of the people who won. But what concerns me and I guess a few other people, is that parliament is now saying that even so the other side one the vote. They did not understand what they was voting for, so there for they should be treated as little children and stand in the corner for doing something wrong. If they do that, they will loose the trust of the voters and more importantly they will damage the trust in democracy. Then where will we be.
There is noting carved in stone. Maybe you were not aware of that, but the referendum was, legally speaking, a non-binding referendum. In other words, the government and the parliament asked the British peoples (plural, yes) their opinion. If this was sold to you as a legally binding referendum, somebody duped you, and you were wrong to believe them.
Now, I am not saying that the parliament could ignore this, or that it would be the right thing to do to do so (in fact, I think that it would be wrong) but 1) it still has to pass a parliamentary vote (by a qualified majority, probably 2/3 of the House of Commons, on this I am not sure, but it is at least the majority) and 2) it probably has to be voted separately by the Pàrlamaid na h-Alba and the Parliaments of the other devolved regions (Wales and North Ireland).
Also, since in the British system a MP is bound to his or her constituency, a MP needs serious motives to vote in a way that differs from the majority of the constituency. This is the way democracy works in the UK: it is a representative democracy after all, a method that has guaranteed governability and stability for centuries, so, albeit imperfect, it has value. This means that the brexit vote is very important and it has to be taken seriously, but it is only the first step in a complex road towards Article 50. And if the road ends with staying in the EU, or with England and Wales leaving, Ireland reuniting and Scotland leaving, all of these options would be perfectly valid in a democratic framework.
Leave clearly does not mean leave.. The people?? What about those who voted stay? And if the majority weren’t misinformed, they would have voted stay too!
Of course leave means leave. Otherwise why ask the question? If Remain had won would you be saying Remain did not mean Remain?
Sore loser ? Maybe Boris has become a “sore winner” or should that be “sore whiner” or sore wiener ?
you say ‘sore looser’ Jim like it was a popularity contest.
Its not.
Gavin Thompson says:
Is your hatred of the EU and our European friends so great you would sacrifice the economy and millions of jobs – just for the pleasure of saying “Go home Polish scum’ ‘ YOU Will lose. Your kind have no place in the modern world.. You offer nothing and will get nothing in the end except the hate you have unleashed back a hundredfold on yourselves.
Reply to Gavin Thompson. You are the one who is demonstrating pure hatred. Your comment is a disgrace.
Rich mawdsley says:
Is there recognition of the idea that the leave vote was a ‘generally disaffected’ vote?
My fear is that people who feel that politics doesn’t represent them and/or that society doesn’t give them what they need will have voted leave because it represnts change. The concern is that they haven’t given thought to whether it is the right change.
There was a commentator this morning (can’t remember who) talking about buyers regret. I wonder if there are many people bregreting it this morning
It really does not matter if every single person who voted for Brexit was drunk.
The die is cast.
What are you intending to do – ask for another referendum because you feel that maybe this one was some sort of mistake & if that second one goes your way a Brexiteer can also ask for a third referendum because your victory was not kosher?
What is done is done.
The people’s vote is not binding on the people though. To take your example: if every single person who voted for Brexit was drunk, then if they all changed their minds when they sobered up, then yes, they could have another referendum and change the result. I’m not optimistic it will happen, but Parliament may yet force the issue at a General Election in which – following the negotiations with the EU – either or both Conservative and Labour offer an In platform. If returned to power, they would have a mandate to stay.
Constitutionally this referendum is not binding on this Parliament, although it will be treated as though it were.
Have you spoken with your own MP?
I have talked with my MP.
Look, if parliament throws out the referendum result & initiates a new referendum what will happen at the following general election? Each MP who voted out this referendum result will face the wrath of the people & most if not all would not get re-elected.
The will of the people will be respected by parliament.
I will leave this forum now as my purpose is served.
It has been an emotional roller coaster for all who are passionate about Brexit & Remain.
Now we have a country to help & our people to care for in our own modest way.
What are you even talking about?!!!
If I was drunk when I voted, then I would have to live with the result.
Those voting Brexit were cold hard “sober”. And possibly the only side that had 100% turnout.
Please try to understand that it did not go the way you planned because you were complacent and now have to live with not having taken us seriously.
All revolutions have happened this way.
Jim, if your doctor tells you , that you have cancer do you go home and die?
or do you ask a specialist for a second opinion.
This is in effect what the leave vote is too many. A terminal no coming back from decision.
whats the harm in a second opinion? Do you fear it? If your so confident that it should be of no issue to you.
That it is, tells us a lot. It tells us you are unsure in your position and probably well aware a second vote will reverse the first.
Thats why a referendum in a democracy is often called the imperfect democracy.
James Strong says:
I think there is some scope for buyers’ regret, especially if the economy takes a big hit. Widespread reports already this morning of leave voters who voted as a protest and didn’t expect to win. They might be willing to vote differently in, say, a future general election.
But it’s also clear a large number of people genuinely see leaving the EU as a possible solution to real problems, especially immigration and wider problems associated with immigration like shortages of good jobs, housing, school places and medical services.
What is unclear is what proportion of the leave vote was a vote to cut off EU immigration, and what proportion was a vote to regain sovereignty but keep strong trade links. Since we probably can’t both cut immigration and keep trade links, it does matter that, at the moment, it’s unclear which option the vote calls for. The default will be to cut trade links and cut immigration, and I suspect that’s the most likely option. But many people in the government, including Boris and Gove, would rather keep us in the single market. They won’t get a deal that cuts off all EU immigration. But if they got a deal that went some way towards restricting it, they might be willing to offer the voters a chance to say yes or no to it.
The Brexit vote was indeed a case of buyers’ regret.Thankfully, whatever the shysters and pocketfillers do, well over half of England and Wales have had enough buyers’ regret to vote out overwhelmingly.
In hindsight, the UK should have never joined the EEC, but it seemed like a good thing at the time.Indeed, it was a good thing for a great many people.Money for nothing is such rallying point for a certain kind of people.But the party was over a long time ago, for a lot of people.The people who insist on partying on do so clearly at the expense of the disenfranchised.That is one lesson the people on the gravy train are refusing to take on board, but take on board that lesson they will-they will learn the hard way.It was ever thus.
well over ?
less than 40% turned out to vote. just fractionally over half of those voted leave.
Harly by any fair description ‘overwhelming’
indeed the whole thing was underwhelming.
Unclear? says:
I’ve been whinging for months there should have been at least three options
– Stay
– Leave but stay in EEA
– Leave, period
Like you say we’re gonna have to do this all over again
I voted leave but didn’t expect to win
I’ll vote leave again unless we get some significant changes which I very much doubt,
Those who say parliament cannot ignore the vote are talking through their arses
Cameron should have made it clear thst this is just advisory nih
Carole Naylor says:
Why not have politicians cast aside party loyalty in favour of putting the country first and realigning themselves in relation to what they want for Britain for the future? A bit like they have to do when the country is at risk in a war. Heaven knows the country and the future is definitely at considerable risk! Boris and Brexit politicians of all persuasions could then stand in a general election. BUT the manifestos of each party standing must be crystal clear and binding as far as economic circumstances will allow. If politicians could put aside self interest long enough to declare with passion what they really want for Britain’s future we could vote with confidence and set out to help achieve a better future for our children.
Rich, That works both ways. Those that voted on the basis of inertia or for status quo may well now feel that they should have had the courage to vote out.
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C Pearman says:
Jim Farr you do realise that sticking your fingers in your ears and reciting the mantra “What’s done is done” simply doesn’t actually make it so? You do? Ah, OK, I think I see where the problem lies…..
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I fear Jim Farr is right. The constitutional convention by now is that the popular will prevails. Look at the Scottish referendum. The ‘vow’ made by the major parties had to be kept. There would be a popular uprising if supercilious politicians decided to dish the majority of voters. There won’t be a second referendum.
As to terms of negotiations, exiting via Article 50 is not the only way out. Article 165 of the 1969 Vienna Agreement on the Law of Treaties could be used to leave in three months. I have suggested this to the Leave campaign. Again the 1972 European Communities Act could simply be repealed by Parliament.
As to the single market, the fetish surrounding it is overblown. All sorts of other countries do better trade with the EU than we do from outside it by paying a small tariff. Ideally a free trade treaty abolishing all tariffs would be in the best interest of both sides. The U.K. would also abolish the EU external tariffs to gain cheaper food and other cheaper imports. The alternative to being inside the EU is to be outside it like most of the world which grows faster.
The EU meanwhile should want to reach a fair, friendly and quick agreement with the U.K. since it will have to stave off huge internal disagreements and calls for more referendums. If there is to be a second referendum it won’t be in Britain but in another EU member state. It is not the UK that faces dissolution but the EU.
Ask Granny says:
Your last sentence: ‘It is not the UK that faces dissolution but the EU’
Is what The Referendum was all about
Oh, Sked. Aren’t you the one who laid the foundation for the racist and xenophobic UKIP? Why schould we take you serious.
so in other words, you want to cherry-pick the bits that suit but not share in the bits that don’t.
Riddlywalker says:
Paul- I just watched a mini documentary set in Bolton, and a lot of the Leave voters seemed to be under the impression that they were voting to preserve the National Health service, or to keep out refugees. Does ‘confused by lies and fear’ count in the same way as ‘drunk’… ? How to sober them up after years of grinding abuse and austerity is another question.
Christina Ashcroft says:
I am sceptical that Boris Johnson wants to run for PM and possibly go to the country fir an election, then renegotiate.
I think this was planned, he has misdirected the electorate, as he originally wanted to stay, and I think he still does.
I really feel Johnson cannot be trusted. He has orchestrated thus to get the PM job
Manuel Chavez says:
Congratulations to the brave people of Great Britain who rejected the elite of Brussels who have zero immigrants in their lives but force millions of them on the lower classes. Just seeing the weeping liberal sore loser renain comments made my whole year. I lived in Whitby for 5 years so spare me your lane insults I am celebrating your Independence Day. Sore LOSERS!!
The remain sore losers are embarrassing themselves. Remember the UK citizens were never given the vote to join the EU in the first place.
I have no doubt that there will be attempts by the elites and left in the UK to ignore this vote and to make sure they stay in the EU.
Herx says:
There has been a record 700,000 signature collected in less than a day
putting a motion in the parliment for a second referendum, clearly the close call and number of turnout does not hold up the current results in good perspective https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215
Do all who signed have the right to sign it could any one who does not have the right to
cardiff leav says:
And there removing names from that petition because of fraudulent names, 77 thousand have been removed so far.
R Mac says:
Whether Jim Farr is right or wrong, the key message from the vote is that we live in a disunited kingdom which will now in effect fall apart.
Those who voted for brexit have exercised their democratic mandate for a far greater degree of control over their national borders, The fact that there are likely to be more borders to patrol and less co-operation with those on the other side of them will presumably be a source of great comfort as we all take to the appointed lifeboats.
There are plenty of examples of nation states falling apart – unfortunately none of those seem to be very amicable or to the economic benefit or real security of those involved.
A very dark day for Great Britain, although it will be refreshing to at least have the opportunity for the euro sceptics to be able to show us just how much the dead hand of Europe and all those pesky immigrants who were clearly displacing the enfranchised have been holding little England back.
Go for it guys – I am breathless with enthusiasm to see just how much of the promised dividend is realised and whether in 5 to 10 years time we will be more concerned with a diaspora of the young and talented than with unreasonable fear that jonny foreigner is, in fact, an implacable enemy – only interested in stealing a place in front of us in A&E.
Still a bad loser
its not a popularity contest.
what do ou fear so much in the question going to the people a second time?
You can’t have annual referendums. They are once in a generation decisions.
R. Mac seems to be just a bad loser. Clearly there are lots of them about.
Congratulations – it would appear that you have achieved great things in your own opinion.
I sincerely hope that your vision of a UK ‘freed’ from Europe lives up to your expectation, and the fact that it has been won the basis of a deceitful campaign that pandered to the worst rather than the best in what was our country does not bother you.
If however what is in fact achieved is the Balkanization of Great Britain rest assured that a very large proportion of the country will indeed be as you say ‘bad losers’, including many of those who voted based upon jingoistic and unsustainable falsehoods and who will have to reap the whirlwind arising from the seeds they have sown. .
I wonder if you are one of them – or whether you are with the crew who believed that the ends justified the means?
I think you need to get out a bit more mate
I keep hearing about these fears that the ‘losers’ have…I note you blow a lot of hot air but dont actually say how your fears manifest. Could you please tell me the last five times that being either in or out of the EU chas or could affect you as an individual directly…no citing nonsence mantras about falling pound and stock markets….when did it actually affect you directly…..go on your last five
Its good to see that the majority didn’t buy in to the scaremongering “project fear” the remainers peddled for months.
I believe that many voted to remain based on fear of economic devastation, and would have voted leave if they knew that it wasn’t the case.
Remember that when Sweden had a Euro referendum in 2003 they had all the experts, EU, IMF, economists, Nobel prize winners etc predicting an economic wasteland if Sweden dared to reject the Euro. And popular pro-Euro politician Anna Lindh was murdered less than a week before the referendum.
Sweden of course voted to reject the Euro, and has turned out to be better off for it, despite the scaremongering of the international elites and the highly educated experts.
The UK too was told during the 1990s they would miss out on an economic paradise if they failed to join the Euro. I can even remember continental politicians mocking the UK for consciously choosing to remain out and that they (the continentals) would reap the benefits from it. Again, many experts peddled the Euro and begged the Major and Blair governments to join. And guess what happened, the UK didn’t join and was better off for it.
So will it be this time, after speculators and rich bankers have thrown their little temper tantrum.
Back in 2005, we in the Netherlands were told by the European Commission (Margot Wallstroem) that if we dared to reject the EU Constitution it would lead to war. She made an emotional speech at the site of the old Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt (Terezin) making this very claim. No war in Europe happened.
The pattern is clear. The pro-EU side, IMF, World Bank, experts, economists always seem to send out dire warnings of war and/or economic wasteland if the voters don’t back what they the elites want. And it never does happen. The track record of these dire warnings isn’t very good at all. And it gets worse when you realize that none of them saw the economic crash of 2008 coming.
Still a bad loser.
Alan , you are the loser !!! Will shall see in the end who is going to do the work that the immigrants are doing ? No brit will go work the low paid jobs , they prefer to stay home and get benefits! Who will pay for their benefits then ??? The least of this country’s problems is immigration, at least from Europe. Educate yourself on the facts!
Andrew Brightwell says:
Calling someone a bad loser doesn’t help much, Alan. And if you’re aware enough to spot that fault you should probably have the good grace to ease up on pointing it out.
What would be far more elevating is if you told us exactly what you’d like to see the government do to bring people together and build a consensus for a new post-EU settlement. As you and others keep reminding the 16 million who voted for something different, they lost. So to the winners come the spoils.
I dislike name calling and petty point scoring in politics, as I imagine most people do. I also think that when people have been given a mandate they should be listened to. But this was an in/out referendum, which doesn’t infer a mandate outside the narrow confines of the question that was asked. It’s therefore entirely fair to point out that we haven’t had a proper discussion about what comes next. And it’s also fair to point out that one tool at our disposal to resolve this would be another referendum on any post-Brexit deal, which is James Strong’s assertion. (I imagine it’s quite likely at some point there will at least be a referendum in Scotland.)
It’s also fair to point out that with the country so divided any conclusion we come to has to be as inclusive as it can be (I worry a referendum would be unlikely to lead to greater consensus). We need to sort out what the rejection of the EU meant, how that affects our relationship with other countries (what economy do we build in the places where, frankly, there is no economy? How do we ensure at the same time that London continues to be a successful entrepot, if that is what we wish it to be? If so, should it be given far greater political and economic freedom? Do we set a future in which we accept a diminished role in the world and at some point step down, for example, as a permanent member of the security council of the UN – at least once Scotland leaves? What kind of immigration policy do we have? How do we ensure that people do agree with the new relationship we have with the EU and what checks do we have on that as our demographics continue to change and when our balance of trade might one day improve?)
As such, I think this blog post raises some important initial points – and jabbing away with the ‘sore loser’ tag hardly helps to further what is already a fractious and acrimonious debate. So please use your fingers for something more productive than chipping away at those who are quite understandably upset. We are all, after all, in the same boat.
Wait, wait, this is either brexit, bremain or get out of the way.
There is only one adjective that separates us then matey.
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I have to agree with you however that the only way for this to succeed (a word that in all other contexts has no right to be used in these circumstances) is if the Brexit campaign now does not falter and pushes through quickly.
Happily unlike you I can foresee no circumstances in which that is anything other than a pipe dream held by the most zealous brexiteers.
As the full consequences of what is likely to happen unfold on the british people I think you will have to face many more searching questions about just what life in a ‘free’ britain (which will in all probability no longer exist as a single state) will be like and whether there will be any appreciable impact on net immigration at all – other than that caused by emigration of those who no longer feel welcome or comfortable here.
You pulled the pin and characterise me as a bad loser because I don’t like getting blown up – you are of course correct. But only time will tell who the biggest losers are likely to be.
As the rolling stones said ‘you can’t always get what you want’ you have tried now but whether you will ‘get what you need’ is highly questionable.
Tell your legal mates to get their skates on – the only problems they have to fix are:
The lack of a PM that will move quickly,
The uncertainty as to which parts of the UK they have a mandate from.
The fact that ‘mistakes’ were made in representing the consequences of brexit.
To be frank I see no difficulties there at all that could not be solved by a bit of legal skullduggery or perhaps a bit of martial law – whether what is left afterwards is worth it I will leave to your judgement. That whole scenario was played out in europe many times in the last century I hope for the sake of my children that we are not now set for a re-enactment.
Michael Chambers says:
For information, this is the letter I wrote to my local MP:
I write as a constituent who is very disappointed by the vote for Brexit.
I believe strongly that this is a time for all pro-EU MPs to immediately put aside party and personal differences. I want to suggest that pro-EU MPs across all parties unite to dissolve the current parliament, and then form an electoral pact so that there is only one strong, pro-EU candidate for each seat at the subsequent General Election. The Brexit campaign could do likewise.
If legally necessary, there should also be a vote to amend current legislation relating to fixed-term parliaments, and thereby enable a snap election to take place.
This would, of course, be seen as a second referendum in all but name. However, I believe that this is a necessary step in our current, unusual circumstances; I say this not just because of the huge consequences of leaving the EU (which are dawning on more and more people), but also because a huge majority of current MPs are pro-EU, and cannot be expected to have the appetite for the task of Brexit anyway.
Steering through Brexit will be a mammoth job which would require MPs and ministers to take a whole range of decisions on our behalf over many years, as is the norm in a representative democracy. It would not make sense for pro-EU MPs to undertake this task, especially in the absence of a clear mandate for the implementation of a specific Brexit manifesto. In this respect, this referendum campaign was significantly different from, and less conclusive than, the 2014 Scottish referendum and General Elections.
In this further, and hopefully definitive election, it would make sense for all pro-EU candidates to be clear in their belief that they commit, and that the nation should commit, to the EU, warts and all.
In any event, I wish you the best in these turbulent times, and thank you for your hard work on our behalf.
Sorry, I posted my previous comment twice. I agree fully with you. I started this campaign as a Eurosceptic but, as I waited for the Brexit manifesto to be hammered out, it dawned on me gradually that a serious drive for a positive Brexit should have started at least 20 years ago. The lack of unity, cynicism, xenophobia, populist rabble-rousing, and political amateurism left me convinced that there was only remotely credible vision for this nation, which has been made in Brussels, and which we should feel lucky to have had a part in, given the immature way the UK has dealt with European allies for so long. There has been no positive home-grown vision for our nation since 1945. We won’t accept this as a nation until we hit the skids, which is now happening.
Mike Mada says:
Since when is a majority not real? I’m finding it bizarre for the Remain voters to sort of ‘not like’ the result and consequently say there were all sorts of reasons for it being ‘wrong’.
More people voted for Brexit than Remain. It may be there could be some sort of ‘Buyers Regret’ for some, but the converse it true also. A ‘win’ for Remain ‘might’ have caused for many to feel they had made a mistake. Or is that so out of line with your belief system that you cannot appreciate that.
Finally, if those who vote Leave did so without knowing what they were voting for, whose fault is that?
British (and European) politics comes out very badly from this, but what do they care, they have rarely taken any accountability for their actions anyway.
D Carter says:
A fair vote was held and the outcome was leave. Obviously this won’t please everyone but I would just say instead of name calling all the leave voters and trying to get the outcome reversed as it didn’t suit you put your energy into making this work. Yes there will be a period of upheaval but I am confident things will settle.
Dry your eyes and move on remain voters!
Alan , the worst is yet to come!
CarlFoer says:
Excuse me? NO, the rest of Europeans won’t suffer the consequences of such uncertainty. Voting is an act of responsibility. So LEAVE, means LEAVE, period. No more negotiations, no more chances, no more parasitism.
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The debate is far from over. A referendum is not legally binding (check out stuff on the BBC news website). The Scottish referendum was different they voted to stay and not change anything which is why the leave campaign had to accept the majority vote.
If there is a General Election and the winning party has a manifesto to remain within the EU, we remain as General Election trumps referendum (again check out the BBC website and the legalities of it all)
In the article, the author states that DC broke a promise when he resigned yesterday. In fact he declared early on during the campaign that he would tender his resignation on June 24th if the Leave campaign won.
Today, we are still members of the EU, there is a long way to go before we leave, if we do.
Alan, the Remainers might be bad losers however, at least they are not dreaming up conspiracy therories as to why the majority voted to leave.
Reply to Emma. Your naive faith in the BBC is touching but very misplaced. Referendums do trump general elections. They only happen when Parliament decides a question is so big that the voters–not Parliament–must decide. Their verdicts are never overturned. On issues as basic as sovereignty they are the correct instrument to use. Parliament itself cannot decide whether a people should be ruled by others. And Parliament has acknowledged this in two EU and one Scottish referendum. Devolution was also legitimised in this way. So the referendum verdict will be upheld. If it is not Parliament far from asserting its sovereignty will deservedly forfeit the loyalty of the sovereign people with consequences I hate to imagine.
As for conspiracy theories, Remain is full of them, principally that the vote was won by lies, racism and ignorance. It has what I have called a new stab-in-the-back legend blaming the workers rather than the Jews. The result is a nascent Remain fascism working for the overthrow of a majority vote.
You need to think very carefully before boosting it.
George Orwell says:
Replace ‘Squealer’ with The Media. Replace ‘Napoleon’ with The EU (in current form), replace ‘Snowball’ with Democratic Rights, replace ‘Jones’ with Sovereignty, replace ‘debates’ with Referendums 🙂
‘Afterwards Squealer was sent round the farm to explain the new arrangement to the others.
“Comrades,” he said, “I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills–Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?”
“He fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed,” said somebody.
“Bravery is not enough,” said Squealer. “Loyalty and obedience are more important. And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s part in it was much exaggerated. Discipline, comrades, iron discipline! That is the watchword for today. One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?”
Once again this argument was unanswerable. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop. Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” And from then on he adopted the maxim, “Napoleon is always right,” in addition to his private motto of “I will work harder.”‘
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Stephen McNair says:
The Leave campaign won by never offering a coherent policy on anything except exit. The half of the electorate who voted remain were clear what they wanted – to remain in, and reform the EU in some way. The Leavers, on the other hand split into two diametrically opposed groups. On one side, were those who passionately want more protection for our industries, improved public services and reduction/a ban on immigration; and on the other side people who want an unfettered free market, with a bonfire of regulations (including protections for workers, consumers and human rights), and who have explicitly said they are in favour of immigration (Gove and Johnson). These two are opposites. When a new Government emerges, it will be obliged to come off the fence, at which point one or other of these groups will be surprised, disappointed and angry, and many of them will wish they had joined the remainers. A general election before the expiry of the 2 year Article 50 period, could easily elect a “return” Government.
Vic Thorn says:
Considering that countries are now queuing to trade with Britain and Junkers has turned round and said you must leave as soon as possible. I think this whole conversation is rubbish. there has been no Armageddon, no world war 3 or being blown up as the poster above describes. Things are moving along quite nicely. Contrary to popular belief there are no sovereign states inside the UK, it is the sovereign state. So for once in your lives, live with democracy and let’s get on with it.
Quentin Bargate says:
Remain lost. Accept the result and impliment it instead of fabricating reasons not to do so.
M OG says:
I only wonder if EU can afford and will allow UK all this time to make up their mind this way?!
Technically, doesn’t UK now blocks any future EU refor/development? As a member it has veto and voting rights, but no interest, mandate and credibility to use them to approve any new EU laws along other members, which – to my understanding – puts EU in a legal and political impasse for at least 2-3 years…
Can UK’s voting and veto rights be suspended until it makes up it’s mind? There are provisions limiting these rights in Article 50, so logically, it is in EU’s interest to get UK to trigger Article 50 asap.
If UK can hold EU ransom this way – Cameron and Johnson’s crime is much greater than Brexit alone!
Anna K says:
We should not underestimate the anti-EU feeling in other EU countries. A Dutch colleague tells me that a recent survey revealed that 53% of the Dutch would vote out if they had the chance; a recent poll in France puts ‘leave’ on 60%. There is simmering discontent in Sweden and Spain. There is poisonous rancour against Germany in Greece. The Dutch and the French have a difficult relationship etc. etc. I actually voted remain, hoping that a narrow win for remain would be a shot across the EU’s bows, a frightener to curtail its meddlesome incompetence. But Juncker is pressing for the UK to be ‘punished’ to deter others from leaving. Punishing the UK might have that effect on them, but they are unlikely to regard the EU positively in that case. If a reformed EU is not a possibility, implosion is.
Justin Flanagan says:
Just get over it! Democracy has prevailed and vote leave won. I am shocked at the ‘pro remain’ sore loser attitude.
There will not be another referendum and you have 2 choices.
1) Pack your bags and go live elsewhere.
2) Accept the decision and adopt my ‘believe and Britain WILL achieve’ attitude.
sonia foot says:
Well theres 8000 jobs at Nissan in sunderland will be going as the subsidies that they get in the euro zone will be stopped, not to mention the knock on effect of the 30.000 people they employ in the UK. Bank of America are moving 2000 jobs to Luxembourg. So all in all it’s a result all round and the immigrant’s wont be taking any jobs because there will be none to take.
Jacob Chacko says:
Why is it that people cannot accept that millions of people have voted and a majority have voted leave. There is a view held among a huge segment of the population that their destiny is in the hands of the ‘establishment’ run by the ‘ elite few’. Asking for a new referendum simply reinforces the view that elections willed be called and referenda held until ‘ the elite’ have their way. The failure of the popular vote will unleash forces far worse than the economic disruption caused by brexit.
Sean Matthews says:
Fun discussion. Looks to me like people here are confusing politics with a board game. The difference between politics and a board game is that in a boardgame the rules are given. In politics they are not. Anecdotal buyers remorse is probably not sufficient justification for a rerun, but the explicit statements by leading Brexiteers that they, essentially, lied in their campaign (no, the 350m/week is unlikely to go to the NHS, no, emigration is not likely to come down significantly, etc.) means that there are reasonable moral grounds for revisiting the decision through some constitutional device. I’ll be interested to see what happens over the next couple of weeks, and I think it is not actually in the interests of the rest of the EU to insist on the triggering of article 50 immediately. To have the UK come back with its tail between its legs would be a major coup.
brian knott says:
The Fixed Terms Parliament Act can be repealed by a simple 50% plus one vote.
jackker says:
As someone looking in from Ireland I can confirm that there will indeed be a second referendum.
Hi I did vote to leave and it was not because of imagration. I realise that we would have to strike trade deals and free movement would be apart of that. Also we need imagration to acquire the skills Britain is lacking. I would prefer a point system but realise I won’t happen.
I voted because I feel that too many decisions are made for our country by people who don’t know our views. I would like more power to be given back to us and for us to decide what happens to the UK. Including the ability for us to decide and make our own laws for the Benifit of UK. If this was granted I would sign to remain str8 away.
Also why should Scotland only get 30% of the fishing quoter of the fish that is caught off its own coast line. Surely that is wrong.
The UK I think will be looked at over time as a steady choice for a lot of businesses. Especially if more unrest carries on throughout Europe and the feeling of uncertainty with the Euro grows. It’s a long game I’m thinking of not short term. I can do without nights out if I have to, if it give us a better future for our kids. I could be completely wrong tho.
How ever I do recognise that many people do feel and have made clear. That they have been led astray by the comments and pledges by some of the leave campaign politicians. So much to the point that they say they would change their vote. If that is the case I would be happy with a second referendum ( I don’t think will happen) if that’s what the people of the UK want. Personally my vote would stay the same. I’ve said I would be happy paying an emergency tax over the next 3-5 years to give UK a stronger outlook/ position.
Fredfern says:
I have one question. Why in previous elections has no one called for a new election because they didn’t like the result. Politicians lie, it’s their job, it’s how they get elected. Over 17 million people, the largest turnout ever in British history, voted out.?
Louize Petch says:
Nothing can be done until parliament repeals the European Communities Act 1972. Only then can Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty be invoked to the effect that GB want to leave the EU. A referendum gives voice to the electorate but there are other legal processes that must be followed before we are out of the EU. if you are unhappy discuss with you MP as they can influence what happens next in parliament.
Hayden Rogers says:
So, what’s the plan for after we leave the EU guys? Guys? Where are you guys?
Get over it and pull the country together. No one likes change, but we all make changes in our life and be brave as British people are and love your country and let’s move forward. Give the Brexit team a chance as the way it is going there will be a lot more countries leaving the eu.
I agree with this article, which is in fact neutral about the issues in the referendum. This referendum was not like the Scottish Indy vote of 2014 or any general election because there was no Brexit manifesto which a Leave vote could mandate. It was just “leave” and then work out the details afterwards.
The Leave campaign never grasped the nettle and hammered out a negotiating platform or agreed on a Brexit ministerial team in waiting. As the article points out, they never faced up to the trade-off between free trade and free movement of people. They suggested that we “could” have our cake and eat it because we are so powerful. They did this in order to cynically maximise their campaign advantage.
So now MPs and ministers are left with a plethora of hard policy decisions to make, none of which yet have a mandate. I predict that the Brexit movement will try to continue to fudge real policy commitments with the idea of blaming an eventual poor deal on EU bullying. But over time, the Brexit movement will fracture more and more as pressure grows on them to be clear about policy, they themselves realise the mess they have put themselves in, and the economy worsens. We are seeing British politics at its worst.
Nicholas Hinde says:
As usual a very metro view. Lots of country people (which does not equal stupid) want us to have a UK agricultural policy rather than an EU one based on the interests of highly subsidised and inefficient French farmers and German agri-green ideology.
mclnfrance says:
The French government held a referendum on Mastricht in the 70’s i believe. The vote result was then ignored by the President and negotiatilns went ahead.
The French held a referendum on Mastricht in the 70’s. The result was then ignored by the then President and negotiatilns went ahead.
British politics at its worst is all those Remainers who refuse to accept the result of a democratic referendum.
We always said the EU was undemocratic. Its supporters seem no better. Pity the UK isn’t Ireland or Denmark which were forced into second referendums when necessary by their own undemocratic elites in alliance with the Commission. The peasants have revolted. Get used to it.
Once a new cabinet is in place Brexit will take place quickly and smoothly.
But Alan, the problem is that the Leave vote is an empty mandate, with no detail. If we assume that the Brexit campaign organise themselves into a government which Parliament gives its confidence to, it will then have to decide its platform for negotiations with the EU. As far as I can see, what Brexiteers and their supporters want is the same current full access to the single market with no corresponding obligation to accept free movement. What we know so far from EU leaders is that this will not be acceptable. So what is our fall-back position? Surely this was a reasonable thing for the voters to have known, going into the polling booth last Thursday? Why don’t we know this by now, Alan? You’re more expert on these matters than me. I await your answer.
There are only two facts material to this debate:
1. Did a majority of voters vote to leave the European Union in the referendum? Answer: yes
2. Is there a mechanism by which that vote can be given effect to? Answer: yes – Article 50 of the EU Treaty. This provides a fixed 2 year timetable to leave
There is no room for ambiguity. No uncertainty. It might be the wrong decision, or it might not be, but a decision has been made. That was the only purpose of the referendum. Whether we like it or not, it cannot be undone and it must be respected.
The point of Brexit was Brexit, not a general election.The government, which in fact oversaw this referendum and now has egg on its face because it refused to stay neutral and let people make up their minds on the basis of informed debate instead of the frankly ridiculous scare campaign, now has the job of dealing with the outcome.Cameron has spat out his dummy, so it is up to his successor or whoever will form the next government to deal with it.You want a fall-back position?That is the fall-back position.The Bremainders lost the vote, they lost the debate, now it looks like they will also lose the next election, for their answer to everything is the EU will provide, and their question to everything is that they are lost in a democracy the size and calibre of the UK.Never mind Scotland and N Ireland.Rump UK can do fine without them.Look at the money England has thrown at Northern Ireland since the beginning of the Troubles.Think of the difference Scotland within or without rump UK will make.Nowt!
the EU is undemocratic, as told you by Mr Nigel Farage the man elected to represent the UK, who barely managed to make it there…
You never accepted previous mandates handed down by the electorate or stopped agitating for the cause you believe in.
Why should those of us opposed to that view simply fall into line, rather than follow your example?
That just wouldn’t be British.
Stop being such a bad loser (QED)
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Stephanie Roberts says:
Democratic, perhaps, but certainly not truthful. The sheer dishonesty of some of the claims during the campaign was breathtaking, even for politicians.
On the contrary, I always accepted the results of general elections and referendums. The last one on Europe was in 1975. Nobody suggested that the outcome was illegitimate.
Today we are being told the day after Brexit’s victory that the result should not be recognised. David Lamy MP is saying Parliament should ignore it while Sturgeon who has now lost two referendums over the British question has threatened a veto ( unconstitutional and undemocratic) . Political argument is fine. By all means let that continue. But the pro-Europeans are now toying with more sinister and underhand expedients. Don’t dress up anti-democratic manoeuvres as the opposite. You are playing with fire.
The referendum was called by a Pro-EU prime minister. He set the question ( modified for fairness by the Electoral Commission ) as Remain or Leave. It was not a general election. The Leave Campaign was a coalition of people who advised voters to vote Leave. It was not an official opposition with an alternative manifesto. You know that.
What it said was not what you are saying. Gove said he did not want the UK to remain in the Single Market. Lawson pointed out that most states in the world were outside the EU and were nearly all doing economically better. Johnson pointed out that only Antarctica was doing worse as a continent. All knew negotiations would be needed but there was not even a commitment to trigger Article 50. There are other ways of exiting. So we are left to suppose–I have no inside information– that if freedom of movement is rejected–as taking back control implies– then the UK will simply seek to negotiate a free trade treaty but if necessary will just trade with the EU as the US, China and most states do under WTO rules. If you had been paying attention you could have worked this out for yourself. Meanwhile EU external tariffs will be dismantled to allow us to import cheaper food and goods from North America and Asia , EU red tape will be abolished on the 94% of companies not trading with the EU and £10 billion a year will be saved from EU membership costs. You could have worked this out too.
Finally, until a new prime minister and cabinet are in place no government programme can be announced.
You could have worked that out too.
Meanwhile relax, watch Wimbledon and await your better future calmly over strawberries and cream washed down with a G and T.
Whatever happens now we are playing with fire. I would suggest deliberately and cynically lying to the electorate during the run up to such an important vote could also be described as sinister and underhand – although I accept that given the public standing of the political classes and the debate they engender, it could potentially be argued that expecting anything else (of either side) would be naive.
Just what level such misrepresentation must reach before it might be identified as a corrupt practice and what the tests that would have to be applied to such evidence will be for others to judge.
One thing is clear – today’s UK political environment is in flux – largely driven by the ‘clever’ positioning of referenda – One designed to separate labour from its heartland vote and the other to put a sticking plaster over internal schisms in the conservative party over Europe.
The consequences of that cleverness are now coming home to roost in all sorts of unanticipated ways.
The first referendum worked too well.
The second has backfired so spectacularly that it has unleashed the equivalent of a neutron bomb – affecting the political calculations of everybody involved – even Mr Farage seems to grasp just how toxic what has now been unleashed will become.
The situation is unprecedented and the risks are far higher than anyone anticipated – those that plunge onward might at some distant point in the future be seen as visionary leaders (and I’m afraid I cannot see anyone that fulfills those criteria from the current crop) but that is far from a foregone conclusion.
I have just as critical a view of the arguments from Remain as you have of those from Leave. The difference between us is that I would have accepted the legitimacy of the verdict if it had gone the other way.
You are still in denial. You are also rationalising steps that undermine democracy. But then the EU ‘ a sempre ragione’. The precedent is rather worrying.
no you wouldn’t.
we can tell just by how much you are labouring your point that you are not a person who would accept.
Peter Canning says:
Hello to you all. I live in Cambridge. I voted for Remain as did Cambridge by a 3:1 majority. The fact is the senior people in the ‘Vote Leave’ campaign were quite clearly racist and so many of their arguments were inaccurate and misleading. There are no unelected MEPs, we have 832 unelected Lords.Another thing is that Gove, Johnson and Farage have admitted that their figures were wrong. The savings to the NHS, in a paper by medical researchers at Imperial College London, said the savings to the NHS from a Brexit would only be £22 million, which wouldn’t cover the NHS budget deficit. There is also the fact that now we have had the Brexit vote, we will have to trade with the 27 member states of the EU and will have no say over the rules. Finally NS has threatened to block Brexit and possibly Stormont will do the same.
Exuse me!? I voted leave and I am under 40 I am most certainly NOT racist.
My elderly parents voted Remain, and are not wrinkly little Englanders.
Deal with the change before you without resorting to insults.
Can I say that if both sides were transparent with facts then the common people would of been more understanding of the situation.
We all know the £350m was a big fat lie and a more realistic figure is more like £160m after rebates. Why can’t someone tell us what we get for this ????
This would people understand with the basic outgoings against incomings ( bit like our wages and our expenditures)
Simple language that we all understand as opposed to what will happen if we don’t vote for the right side.
Would there be such an outcry if the Remainers had ONE vote to decide the outcome in their favour????
Would they accept another referendum if the Brexiteers weren’t satisfied???
This is what makes me sick
If some people decided they couldn’t be bothered/ they wished to make a protest no show/ they were anxious about the outcome so did not take part/ thought that it would never happen……WHATEVER the reason for not voting and it being so close, the democratic process of a referendum to decide the fate of the country belonging to the European Union HAS BEEN DECIDED.
If only these protestors would use that energy to getting along with change.
i welcome whole heartedly a second opinion on such a crucial matter.
Tahir Ashraf says:
Unfortunately the majority of those who have voted to leave have been gripped by the politics and division, for which there must remain no place in 21st century Britain. I wonder if there ought to be legal proceedings against those who ran the false aspects of the Leave campaign.
Musiewild says:
Two thirds of MPs ought to put country way before party and demand a general election in the next few weeks, before Article 50 is triggered. If they were honourable they would do so. They could then campaign on a single issue – remain in the EU – and let the 48% vote for them along with all those who now see the folly of their vote to leave. Such an election would override the referendum.
I don’t understand the optimism of the Leavers on here. It’s so far from the current reality. China expressed its concerns about its impact today. For a country apparently serious about going “out into the world”, we have prepared for it spectacularly badly. Yet we have this invincible hubris that somehow countries will be tripping over themselves to offer us favourable bilateral trade deals. Racist insults now rising on the streets. This campaign has stirred a kraken.
I keep reading that the UK will return back into the fold of the commonwealth.
Im in that commonwealth, in NZ. We left you in the 70’s when first you left in favour of the EEC.
We have new markets, new friends, and have no appetite to be back inside anyone’s fold.
I still listn to all the scaremongers from the journalists, newsrooms and the people who can make an influence in the changes that they may not like but they have to accept.
The voice of the common man/women has spoken and it is a shame that it has been ignored before the divisions have occurred
If we are not careful we will damage our great country beyond repair. Some may say this has happened others may not but we need to galvanise and keep our good people to run the country.
Let’s get this into proportion
If you trade overseas and it benefits you you wiould of voted for remain
if you are the man/women on the street you will resent being told what to do (I call it the rising if the peasant in the early 1900s )
If the mass wants change why is that so wrong and it is the clever people in this world who can make this happen
Let’s get together and make this happen as I am getting fed up with the negatativity of this and we have not even left yet.
As a business man who employs around 100 people in the south of BIrmingham can I predict
1) The pound will be stronger than the Euro
2) We will retain the trading relationships with most countries
3) Another country will exit the Euro community
4) Britain will survive and be prosperous
5) New markets will open and we will thrive
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D Gillard says:
To all the negative responses above, I have never read so much rubbish!. There will not be another referendum vote. Get over it!!!!! Stop acting like petulant children. This is coming from someone who voted remain. Get behind the country, stop throwing your toys out the pram. What’s done is done, the majority have spoken and have one this vote. this is a democracy after all, that means the higher vote wins, in case you didn’t get it !!!!’, be patient it’s only been 3 days for goodness sake, just calm down and give it a chance and then you can watch this country grow into something great, which it will do, once everyone pulls together to show the world we are united. You are all getting very boring by keep banging on about this, just grow up and accept it!!!!
I feel embarrassed to be associated with the remain group, you all seem to want a dictatorship not a democracy. Calm down and give us all a break. YOU ARE BORING!!!! I’m beginning to think if you achieved another vote I’d vote Brexit, you have convinced me, so keep up the good work, you may help Brexit achieve 20 million next time ha ha.
a petulant child would be one who resorts to over use of English grammatical marks to try to make their point …..???? !!!!
The government whoever it maybe, actually needs Freedom of movement, growing our population has been how we have managed to stay out of recession since the last financial crisis. With an ageing population indigenous growth in the workforce is simply not enough.
Poor Remainers. . Their world has collapsed and they cannot accept the democratic decision of the people. They find sustenance by calling opponents racist and quoting their own skewered sets of statistics.
Get real. If Remain had won and Brexiteers had objected to the outcome they would have been pushed aside and the Remain camp would have insisted on the referendum verdict being final.
I have no more time to waste on the childish whining and whinging of these sneering, fair weather democrats. They should grow up and accept they lost. God knows, we had to put up with membership of their corrupt, undemocratic, economically devastated, crappy wannabe superstate for decades.
Actually, Alan on so low a voter turnout, with so close a result, if there had been the reverse, and it was followed by a cry if dismay I’d be happy to go back for a 2nd opinion.
and a compulsory vote.
after all, we can’t have such an important decision made by “unelected people’s” and all that 😉
PS: and those of use who are Uk citizens living outside of mainland UK who didn’t get to vote, get a vote. After all, we are the ones probably most affected by the exit.
For me, the answer to this debacle is an immediate GE. There is a mandate only to Leave, and not for any combination of the huge variety and number of policy choices which will have to be made in order to implement a Brexit.
The current Parliament is pro-EU, so the voters should have the right to elect MPs who will take forward more specific Brexit policy choices based on manifesto commitments. Of course, if the voters vote for a majority of MPs who have made a manifesto commitment to ignore the referendum result, then the latter is dead in the water. Then democracy will have prevailed, and we can try to recover from this madness.
Is it my imagination or have Bremainers only now woken up?There appears to be sour grapes a-plenty from the losers.One reason I can think of, the EU philes have yet to understand the position Europe is in, in the world and as a collection of nation-states which are subjected to an experiment in neo-feudal rule under the auspices of international high-finance and the transnational corporates.It is fine for people to ignore it.They will not be able to ignore it indefinitely.Another thing, the alienation many people have felt in our modern democratic liberal so-called free enterprise society is not only due to federalising globalists, but if people concentrate upon the EU for the moment, and its inexorable internalities which have no way of being resolved and which can only get worse as this project is forced along, then the people have their priorities right.
First taxkle the biggest and most important obstacle.The position of Brexiters is also not understood by Bremainders, whereas the other way around, I think, Brexiters understand Bremainders very well, by and large.
The onus is on Bremainders to get to grips with the political and economic factors which have made a groundswell of discontent in the EU translate into Brexit.There are many people in the EU who as yet support this project.They are unaware of the fact that within five years many of them will turn against it.This is due to the scientific facts of who is aware of what.People who know certain facts cannot unknow them.They moght forget, but when economic and political factors weigh more heavily as time goes on, that is not an option until far into dotage, by which time their awareness of their situation will have spread and deepened.
Anyway, it cannot be but that many people miss out on the gravy train kept on the road with QE and gratuitous spending to buy support for the EU project.Many so advantaged naturally ascribe their good fortune to their own efforts, since they have been made to study, work(in a fashion) and go through some hoops to get where they are.Judging by the surfeit of professional, in more than one respect sometimes, and academic writers voicing an opinion, expert or otherwise, on politics, economics, finance, etc., it does not long to work out that we have an army of people somehow getting paid for a living, some of whom do fine analyses and many who are writing in support of a status quo which they are desperate to support simply because their living depends on it.The western democracies have long had more academics, economists and other assorted experts than what it sensibly knows what to do with.They are being looked after, somehow, by others who perform productive work.It might be assumed that experts who support the status quo also do productive work.However, if that support flies in the face of certain basic facts, parameters and the vagaries of human nature, which are sometimes exposed as slavishness and sometimes have rebellion as an overriding factor pushing events, then sooner or later the experts start getting it wrong.
And another thing.Those in power in the worldly sense, whether it be spiritual/religious or material/political, they never give up volutarily.Generally, they would sooner all hell broke loose and all came crashing down than give up the power they have acquired.That is humanity.It has been known for ages.Bremainders have some catching up to do.
2% is hardly a ‘groundswell’ especially when its only 2% of 37.8% who voted.
Rob Tottenham says:
I disagree. For better or worse, according to one’s point of view, the debate on whether we remain or leave is over and now it is up to the government to negotiate the terms on which we leave. My advice for remainers is to argue their preferences for these terms rather than seeking to overturn the decision of the British people made on the largest turnout since 1992.
Rob: 4 of the major partners have stated clearly their terms.
Out is out. There is no picking the best bits and discarding the bits you don’t like.
There is no negotiation about it.
The only choice the govt has left to it is to call 50 or not.
And that is now a debate that the sitting govt and MP’s will be considering.
Good points – tell me – are you really from the planet Zog?
Or is it just that you are now so far into your dotage that you just like a good wind up after a few too many G&Ts on a Sunday night?
In the same line of reasoning and using the ‘Evil Empire’ theme you so ably describe (at length).
You can’t kid me – it is really about the fact that the Germans want us to leave because with their aging population they are desperate to attract young fit and highly motivated refugees to their economy so they can keep the lights on and the factories churning out Beemers as the oldsters recline in peaceful bliss.
In the meantime their secret agents have succeeded in invading Britain and making the crotchety old gits there massively fearful that the influx of immigrants attracted into their economy will in fact only be there to jump the queue in the NHS or to claim in work benefits while making no contribution to the economy at all (erm other than actually working in the NHS of course, or in other areas where they might produce stuff and pay taxes – you know – that sort of thing).
With any luck the poor sods will throw themselves into the path of a pratfall of political clowns and academics who all believe in an ideal world outside of the EU and really resent having to co-operate with anyone – even each other – to the extent that they have not even come up with a coherent or shared vision of “Life after Leave” – not in scope apparently.
As an added bonus it’s highly likely that this strategy will also result in the UK shaking itself to pieces – at which point my little sith padawan, your victory will be complete.
So JJ my last two questions are:
Who’s the other Sith? and
Has anyone ever truly understood you?
Mac Mac, you’ve got me flummoxed.My troll alarm is going berserk, but my intuition is telling me you are unemployed.I will google planet Zog, but I never heard of it.Me looking like an academic, you from a village?
Dunno, the LSE is into serious stuff, not fiction as you like it.So, the reading is nothing, it is the understanding which matters.Do you need more clues?
The vote was democratic the vote to leave won and Britain will be strong again independent same as Iceland who jailed the banksters gangsters and maybe Britain will need to do the same.
I’m afraid I’ve been having a little bit of fun.
Your troll alarm, is unfortunately wrong, never been unemployed and am in my fifties having left school in Scotland just after the winter of discontent, and went directly into employment at age 17.
Currently run a small IT business which I founded three decades ago in the South East which, together with my personal contributions, means I have during my working career generated in excess of £50M in tax revenues for HMG, over 20% of which has been on the basis of work undertaken elsewhere in the EU and in global export markets.
The original premise of debate here was “The Brexit debate is far from over: there will have to be a further vote”.
To return seriously to that topic my opinion simply stated is that any second vote would only legitimately be triggered in the event of one of two eventualities:
One – an allegation of corrupt practice can be raised and it can be proven to the satisfaction of those judging the charge that it is sustainable and could credibly be proven to have resulted in a false ballot.
I believe that while this may happen it is highly unlikely to be provable.
Two – That the consequences of Brexit – once we are in full possession of the detailed economic plans and timetable for Brexit has such a dramatic impact upon the British People and the Nation State currently constituted as the United Kingdom that it is apparent that a further mandate is required to allow for Brexit of all or part of the UK to proceed.
To be clear the second vote will not ask the same questions as the one we have just had answered by the country. Which result I personally accept – notwithstanding the dire consequences that trying to implement it without a reasonable national consensus on the actual plan to implement it which has not – in my view at least, either been considered or been achieved within the population at large.
The coming days will see whether this view is in fact the one that prevails or whether the narrow implementation of a long held economic goal can be railroaded through despite significant misgivings in the majority of people – regardless of whether they voted for remain or leave.
As a matter of interest I have encountered many mythic UK Governmental initiatives which in my opinion and repeated attempt to access do not actually exist – the Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme under Labour and The Conservatives is one such, but as yet I have never encountered any Brussels ‘Red Tape’ that has had the slightest negative consequence for our business either here or abroad.
I do however understand your point about academics – whose main objective sometimes seems to be to identify ‘Gravy Trains’ not so much to decry, but to climb aboard.
Brexit has a mandate – but it is not a blank cheque.
Yes Mac, fine, but…, why is there a need for another vote?When the UK voted to stay in, by a bigger margin, to be sure, was there another vote after the future of the EEC now EU was made public?The referendum, as I said earlier, was a vote on Brexit.The people decided to Brexit, the English decided overwhelmingly to Brexit.Now you, or some group of persons, is asking for a plan or some guarantee.If the plan looks good, well, let’s have another vote.If the plan does not look good, well, no need for another vote, the govment will simply disregard the result of the referendum, like the EU Commissars ignore results from referendums which does not suit them, or they make the people vote again after browbeating them for a year.I think we can agree that the people who wanted Brexit had decided they wanted no more of this kind of autocratic technocratic absolutist rule.That was the point of the vote.Now you or some persons are suggesting the government of the UK should take over where the EU Commissars were given their marching orders by the British people, or peoples as Brendan O’Leary would have it, who is comparing chalk with cheese, confusing the two unions in the UK with the UK and its EU membership.Anyway, all is fair in love and war, as they say.Politics is war by all and any means.Politics will go on.
2% is not over whelming, not in a world when in politics a margin of error is 5%
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David Cotton says:
Probably the worst article I have read since the Referendum.
Leave won the Referendum, we are Leaving the EU, get over it. There will be no going back and no second Referendum.
The Conservative Party will not split, trade will flourish, and Project Fear will be seen to be the lies that they were.
The Labour Party might well split. Ukip will flourish.
Brexit was the greatest victory for the British people since forever!
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The last time the UK voted on EU membership not only was the margin for ‘yes’ far larger across the country (67.2%) – there were only two areas (Shetland and the Western Isles) that actually had a majority ‘no’ vote.
It is easy to see why Alan had no difficulty in accepting that result gracefully.
One of the most corrosive aspects of this referendum’s result is that in very large and important parts of the country (whole countries, regions and most major cities) there is a majority for remain. Although I appreciate that under the rules of democracy we all abide that the value of each person’s vote is equal the current result cannot be described as anything other than a poisonous one which also opens up fault lines between the old (brexit) the young (remain) the more educated (remain) and the less well off, disaffected and economically abandoned (brexit).
In short there is no ‘overwhelming’ majority as there was in 1975, and our more advanced analytics just highlights the multiple fault lines in our society, crystallised by a single issue perhaps but in reality arising from many factors.
While I might agree that one of the main reasons that people voted brexit was as you put it
“The people who wanted Brexit had decided they wanted no more of this kind of autocratic technocratic absolutist rule.”
Who really knows? I do however disagree that the events in 1992 or 1993 in Denmark (or TBF anywhere else in Europe with regard to Maastricht) would carry much relevance or resonance with them. If this underlying motive is really what was driving them, it is far more likely that they were using the referendum as a proxy protest vote at the complete absence of any sort of effective regional economic development plan that applied to them or communicated the message that anyone in government in the UK (or in the more prosperous parts) gives a stuff about them.
This failure is nothing to do with Europe, but can and should be squarely laid at the door of the UK Government.
Alan is correct in his analysis that what we have now is dangerous for democracy, because it potentially pits the disenfranchised against the economically active and entitled, The old against the young, cities against the countryside and the Scots against the English.
It is almost impossible to imagine a more divisive outcome, which in the end will really be little to do with Europe, despite the earnest hopes of some, and the battlecry for brexit.
please don’t forget the 100,000’s of expats denied a vote because we have lived in the EU for ‘to long’
our voice should have been heard.
Was it a proxy for a protest?I doubt it, Mac.Is it dangerous for democracy?The EU most certainly is dangerous for democracy.The establishment parties in rump UK are also dangerous for democracy.The groundswell against the status quo is imo only the beginning.Would you say that Bernard Connolly is uneducated and disadvantaged?What is happening re Brexit cannot be isolated from socalled populist trends elsewhere in the West.Where it leads, who knows, but I envisage a long struggle.It is much like the dynamics in a family with abusive relationships.Once the abused starts to struggle, they have already decided to get out of it come hell or high water.I know from experience, and from reading about it.A lot of women in the West are still struggling with it.Once one understands, the similarities with the EU clique and the disenfranchised as family dynamics becomes patently obvious.
Alan Sked was happy to say that if the outcome had been in favour of Bremain, he would have accepted it.Most of the Brexiters would not in my estimation.The undercurrent feeding anti-EU feeling is quite different from the pro-EU contingent.The former is active and growing due to a greater awareness and straitened circumstances, the latter are saying ” I’m alright, Jack”, and defending an increasingly untenable position.
Neo-feudal rule will not be pretty.Other than replace half the electorates with desperates from failed states in the third world, the Establishment of whatever political sheen has no plan for the politically disenfranchised in the EU.Voting as a majority is not going to help them either.Just imagine if UKip were to gain the most votes in the next general election.Would the reault be honoured by the incumbents?Let’s see what happens next.
With a total uk population of 64 m only 27% voted to leave EU.
Even on an electorate of 46 m only 38% voted to leave the EU.
This is NOT a mandate for financial and political disaster!!!
The vote was against the inequality in our country not against our continued membership of EU.
OUR POLITICIANS MUST STAND TALL AND REFUSE TO INITATE OUR DEPARTURE.
But given your logic they themselves would have no democratic mandate to oppose.
The Remainers attempt to delegitimise the referendum result is interesting on many fronts, but the complaints over the relative slimness of the majority are particularly so. The second reading of the 1972 European Communities Bill was secured with a majority in the H of C of eight, so if just five MPs had voted the other way it would not have been secured. The five most marginal Tory constituencies at the 1970 election had a combined majority of just 331 – so, you could argue, entry into the EU was secured on the votes of 166 people. In any event, a massive constitutional change was achieved with the slimmest possible margin. There was never a popular buy-in and this has festered for 43 years.
We were told from every possible source the economy would suffer if we left
We were told by EU there would be no access to the single market without free movement
Yet STILL 17.4m voted Leave
What exactly is it that Remain voters think we missed? ……
We understand the economy will dip until we re-establish trading arrangements with the rest of the world
However we just don’t think everything has to be sacrificed to the alter of the economy any more …. we the social fabric of our society and the ability to make our own decisions is worth the short term economic price
The REAL question is the long term one, which system do you want to end up in?
An EU Superstate where no important decisions are taken at Westminster any more and your vote becomes worthless as one of 500m, or where decisions are all taken at Westminster.
Plus EU economy is flatlining (has been for ages), EU unemployment is 10% (UK is 5%), currently we out in £9bn more than we get back and the Italian banks are now in crisis looking for a €140bn bail out (apparently the tip of the ice berg) ….. need I go on
The question U.S. if we were not already in the EU would we seriously seeking to join it????
You are right Debbie. I cannot understand those who see the EU as a land of milk and honey. The introduction of the euro has devastated its economy and society and undermined its political stability. It has no solutions to its major problems and lacks any real influence internationally. It now seems to want to create a European army and to expand its territory by accelerated membership talks with Turkey. In short it is an economic and political mess which could implode at any time. Yet even on this blog there are submissions from naifs who view it a a sort of Fairyland. These are purblind European nationalists.
Hi Alan, no I just dint get it. Whilst I would describe Remain voters in those terms I really don’t understand the attraction. You might enjoy watching on BBC iPlayer the Andrew Neil Sunday Politics (London) Programme BBC1 shown on 10/7/16. About half way through one of the guests reported that the official Remain campaign team tried to identify five reasons to stay in the EU but couldn’t find one! They also had no answer to the question of uncontrolled immigration. That’s why their campaign focussed exclusively on the negative impact of Leaving on the economy.
You really have to ask yourself the Q if the official Leave campaign couldn’t think if a one good reason to stay in that would be attractive to the electorate then there probably isn’t one!!!
In my view the EU is deeply undemocratic. It’s factually the case that there has been a slow and steathly transfer of power away from Westminster since we joined the EEC over 40 yrs ago. This has gone WAY, WAY beyond the mandate they have ever had from the electorate. Voting to Remain is voting to continue with this trend, and if we have on,y been asked once in 40+ years (and that only with a fight) then I’m not holding my breath to ever be asked again in my lifetime. This is our only chance to stop the continuing erosion of our own a government. It saddens me that do many people are just looking short term and have not observed the overall direction of travel over a 40+ year period.
“Dr James Strong is a Fellow in Foreign Policy Analysis and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.” In other words, Dr James Strong has been radicalised by the establishment. Democracy is a dirty word unless it produces the result Dr Strong believes in.
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I voted to remain. Another refurendum and I’m OUT and I’m not the only one. Some things are more important than getting your own way.
I agree coming out of the EU will be a complex affair, but I am surprised at how many of my friends who voted Remain thought they were voting for the status quo. When we last got a vote on this it was in 1975 about the ‘common market’ (trading zone) between about 6 or 8 states. This has morphed into a political union between 27 countries (now!) most of whom share a single currency. Why does this matter? Three key reasons:
1. It tells you that your views don’t matter. You would think if someone was going to change the content of your job or the street you live in they would consult you. The decision they have taken have much more far reaching effects than that, they now make our laws ….. but they didn’t ask you if they could do that. Don’t we also need to ask WHY they didnt want David Cameron to consult the British public through a referendum?
2. It also tells you the Direction of travel. From a common market of 6 or 8, to a political Union of 27 with no consultation with you, so where next? But you say that was all in the past and we are happy with it now. Ok …but will you be happy with it in the future? Go onto the EU Commission website and look at Appendix 1 of the 5 Presidents Report. (The 5 Presidents are the key leaders in the EU). This sets out plans to take over all the key financial institutions of Eurozone countries over the next 9 years (by 2025). They want to establish a Eurozone treasury. Well what does our Goverment treasury do? It I sets tax rates, borrows money, which affects businesses (and jobs) as well as deciding on the level of public service spending and so on. So a EU treasury is clearly going to want to function likewise. The EU also want to unify the central banking function …. for this read the role the Bank of England which sets interest rates for mortgages and savings and has a major role to play with high street banks.
Ok we were not part of the Eurozone …. but my point is it tells you where this whole project is heading. Once these Treasury and Central Bank powers transfer away from your Government you have lost control over your economy.
By the way this is not a conspiracy theory … these plans are published and freely available on the EU Commissions website.
3. The rules and decision making dynamics have changed. When we first joined we were able to stop by the power of Veto anything we did not agree with. That was an important safeguard. Now it works on a majority vote (I believe 55% of the number of states or if the states who agree represent 65% of the EU population). Did you know that according to EU official statistics since 2009 the UK has been more out voted on issues than any other nation except for Greece.
In summary then we are part of a set up that can out vote us on the transfer of more powers away from our Parliament and who have made no commitment to ask YOU about that.
You make not think much of Westminster but atleast it is in our country and you can go and protest outside of it, or Libby your MP. Do you even know who you MEP is? I didn’t. Did you know they cover a population roughly 10 times the diar of your MP? So if you have a complaint about how things are fine and fix iver it’s because the power has transferred to Brussels …. what chance do you think you have of being heard … assuming you can get to see your MEP that is.
I don’t think this is about immigration, a single market or any other specific issue. I think this is about YOU!! YOU RIGHT TO BE HEARD and have a say in how things are run in the country you live in.
I wonder how many Scottish voters who are so fierce about their independence realise the plans the EU have to diminish the powers of member states to the pint where they can no-longer claim to be managing their own affairs.
Well put, and that is only the tip of the iceberg.As an aside, the Autralian Fin Review has an opinion piece telling its readers that the Senate (Federal) will not have much to do from now on.Increasingly, it is being let out that elected representatives are only stooges.How long have they been stooges in fact?It can not be credible to argue, under the circumstances, that even the Executive in government has much say on those issues which matter to the transnational corporations.
Democracy in the West is not really all that well-established.There is a lesson here for everybody, if people wish to take notice and educate themselves.
democracy in the west is just fine, however, your knowledge is showing some holes geographically.
Sorry to break it to you but Australia isn’t in the EU.
Just like the middle east and all them Muslims you probably hoped will now be evicted.
I am a convinced Remainer, and it’s hard to see any silver lining at the moment. Nevertheless, I think the Remain camp need to be very careful about portraying all Leavers as Neanderthal racists, or just plain ignorant. The EU and its supporters have been in denial for far too long about the unpopularity of the institution – and above all its decision-making processes, which are difficult to defend even by those of us who favour staying in. If they had responded sensibly to the messages clearly sent in previous referendums eg in Denmark on Maastricht; Ireland on the Treaty of Nice; France and the Netherlands on the EU Constitution then perhaps we wouldn’t be where we are today. 17.5m people did not vote leave because they are all racists or stupid, or even just because of immigration, many of them voted that way because of a genuine dislike of the way business is conducted within the European Union.
Also, the “we wuz robbed” refrain is ludicrous when the Remain side had every possible advantage (including money; the backing of all major businessmen, economists, statesmen, political parties, and the civil service; and, of course, the advantage of the status quo). Nor do I buy into the argument that somehow young people have been betrayed by a selfish older generation. Firstly, no one can possibly argue (or can have thought) that there would be short term gain in a Brexit vote, so those oldies who voted Leave did so because they thought it right for the long-term not for the short term. Secondly, only 35% of under 25-year-olds voted so they really have only themselves to blame.
Of course there has been some ‘buyer’s remorse’, but when hasn’t there been? I can hardly think of a single election after which the winner’s popularity has not sunk, sometimes quickly and dramatically, but that doesn’t justify a re-run of every election a couple of months later. If I am right that a large part of the problem stems from ignoring the previous warning signals from Denmark, Ireland, France, and the Netherlands, then trying to reverse the 23 June result (which no doubt could be done) would just build up even more resentment for the future, and not just in the UK.
Our best hope now is a very steady hand in Number 10; some very clever civil servants working on a compromise agreement; and a bit of goodwill from the EU…perhaps unlikely!
Clark the Bark says:
Can remain voters please stop moaning.The EU is all about money not people.Did you not hear what they said after vote,pack your bags and leave.The people of the UK need to pull together and move on for the future of all our children.I voted leave,I am middle aged and have a degree in Sociology and Economics. UK will survive without the EU.Protesting is a quieter way of rioting.Bob Geldof and Tony Blair,who will come out of the woodwork next.
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The remain voters are really saying, “although there was a referendum, only the remain should vote”. So much for democracy! Good job the young men and women who went to war to make this country free did not refuse to go. Where would we be now?
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Michael Romberg says:
I think the referendum vote was decisive and should be accepted – as far as it goes. Once the Conservatives have a new leader he or she should as their first action seek Parliamentary approval to invoke Article 50. And all MPs – whether Leavers or Remainers – should support that. It is wrong to campaign either for a second referendum now when nothing has changed or for MPs to subvert the process. The people have spoken – Remainers like me lost – we need to accept the verdict.
However, the Leave campaigners made inconsistent proposals for what should happen after Brexit. They made forecasts about how the EU would respond that seem unlikely to be realised. Some have scuttled away. There was no plan. So there can be no mandate for actual Brexit.
The central dilemma of Brexit planning is that we either have full membership of the single market and accept freedom of movement; or we control immigration and therefore trade into Europe from outside and accept that we also do not have free movement into the EU.
Some Brexit campaigners acknowledged that dilemma. They were happy to be outside, and forecast a glorious economic and social future – although the weight of experts was against them.
But others said that the EU would give us a relationship on our terms. Or used misleading terminology such as “access to” the single market to cover a fudge.
There are a million details to sort out and that will take years. But when the new government negotiates with the EU it should be possible quickly to resolve that central question: Membership of the Single Market or not.
We should then have the real Brexit referendum, when the terms of Brexit are clear. Having a single worked up proposal would change everything. It would not be a re-run of the June vote. Some voters – both Leave and Remain – would wish to change their mind; others will vote the same way. All of us should have the chance to choose between two fully worked up proposals.
And there is another reason why people will wish to have another chance. It is not only Remain voters who are horrified by the turn the country has taken. There were lots of reasons why people voted Leave. I am sure that many Leave voters are as appalled as I am by the rise in hate attacks. OK, that is the work of criminals. But ought we not to be equally horrified by front runner Theresa May’s willingness even to consider the forced deportation of EU citizens who are living lawfully in the UK? That is what it means when she refuses to guarantee them continued rights of residence. We need to be clear that it is the referendum result that has validated that sort of nasty behaviour. And those who voted Leave for non-Xenophobic reasons need to ask whether they are happy living in a country where those views are legitimised.
Finally, to win the referendum on the terms, Remain campaigners need also to devise a set of domestic social and economic policies that will enable the 52% to benefit from the open tolerant diverse EU economy and society that the Remainers see as the advantages of membership. People will not vote Remain to please us. So we need to show how Britain in the EU will be good for them and their children. That will require a new focus on early years and school education, removal of the barriers to growth, the better integration of immigrants into society. None of that is new. But the Leave vote was a clear statement that we are not doing it well enough.
So I recommend that readers write to your MP and call for the real Brexit referendum on the terms to take place 12 to 18 months after Article 50 is invoked. It should be an amendment to the legislation to invoke Article 50.
Remain is still hysterical and in denial. I am happy to guarantee the right of EU nationals already here to stay. Even Farage has said this. Theresa May has no plans to forcibly evacuate these people. She merely wants to delay a guarantee until the EU agrees a similar one for Brits now resident there. There is no racist plot. At this stage there is some uncertainty as to the future because (a) the Leave campaign was a coalition assembled around a single referendum question and not a government in waiting (b) because Cameron and Osborne ( our Remain government) had instructed the civil service not to draw up any contingency plans whatsoever and (c) because the final result will depend on a new prime minister and cabinet, not to mention negotiations. All this is obvious and straightforward.
So is the constitutional position. The people have spoken. Parliament will carry out their instruction to implement Brexit. There will be no second referendum to overturn it and no general election till 2020. By then the EU will look very different and so too will the British economy and British political parties.
In the meantime the greatest danger is of Remainers creating a new stab-in-the back legend like Hindenburg in 1918. Then the Jews were supposed to have betrayed the wonderful German Reich. Today the blame is placed on idiotic workers deceived by racist politicians who have betrayed a glorious EU. Putin believes that the great Soviet Union was betrayed in a similar way by traitors. The result in Germany and in Russia was/ has been the rise of fascism. Today, those who feel the EU–whatever its reality– was betrayed by liars, racists and idiots are in danger of creating their own version of fascism with their talk of overthrowing democracy– the referendum result–by whatever means. They should take care. Britain will not accept their fascism.
Britain should take care indeed. Any undermining of Democracy will have serious long term consequences, especially for the poorest in society. I am particularly galled by MPs who are seeking to subvert the outcome of the referendum. They fail to distinguish between being a paid lobbyist and a lobbying MP who has to operate within the bounds of a Democtratic system. This includes a duty to uphold not undermine the integrity of that democratic system.n
Stephen Putt says:
In the next vote all British in Europe should be allowed to vote. Even those who live outside UK longer than 15 years but inside Europe. It is only fair if a referendum which will affect them, they can take part. If we could vote the first time there would be no Brexit.
Adrian Low says:
Four polls since Brexit all now put the REMAIN camp in front. There has been a steady change of mind since the referendum so that it is no longer possible to say this is the will of the people. The more polls the more it is clear that a small but sufficient number of leave voters have changed their mind.
The will of the people, now, is not 3.8% majority for leave but between 3% and 9% majority for remain. And that is just analysing the polls of people who actually voted. If there were a second referendum it is likely that there would also be a greater turnout for remain in any case and that would probably give a much greater majority.
The will of the people, now, is to remain, It changed within five days of the referendum.. The 3.8% majority was too small for it to give a totally secure decision of the people. See all the analysis on the http://www.no2brexit.com website.
Reply to Adrian. Please stop and grow up. Polls shown on BBC Newsnight showed 2% on each side had changed their mind. But so what? Are we to have a referendum every day of the week when one side or the other thinks it has a temporary advantage? Should we re-run general elections every week as opinion polls change? You lost. Get used to the idea. You cannot say what the will of the people’s will be. Remember the last time? All the polls predicted a Remain win. So much for your argument.
It’s true “Brexit means Brexit” – we cannot have a re-run referendum and must leave the EU. The question is, what next?
We simply should have had 2 questions in the referendum The Leave/Remain one we had – and another, if we left, what would be best – an EEA Norway-style option or a Do-It-Yourself trade deal with negotiations with individual countries.
Personally, I feel the EEA option is attractive. It has access to the Single Market – but without the disastrous Common Agricultural Policy or the political add-ons. This graphic shows clearly the advantages. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QgTb5KX-K8U/V1gZSyt8lmI/AAAAAAAAB90/QWfTSG10OtE_jl6FzCov50VTP1Z1D_gFQCLcB/s1600/EFTA%2BEEA%2BScorecard.jpg
The 48% who voted Remain would no doubt opt for this option, as would many Brexit voters – for whom sovereignty not migration was the number one issue.
We have to be honest and accept that net migration simply isn’t going to come down to tens of thousands – it hasn’t from outside the EU – where we have control. Many Brexit supporters will be upset by this – but frankly, they were misled.
There is trade off – economy or immigration. Most will now vote for economic benefits and security of EEA membership over the uncertainty of the alternative.
The position is now that seven out of the last eight polls show that the UK is not in favour of Brexit. That is significant. When the ‘will of the people’ is measured in a referendum and the day after sufficient LEAVERS for a reversed decision are already saying that had they known the result they would have voted differently, there is something deeply wrong with a democratic system that ignores that. It may have been a wish to give the government a good kicking in an opportunistic protest vote that backfired, but overall it seems the country is not now in favour of leaving the EU.
It is foolish simply to ignore that fact. This is not like a general election, as Mr Sked suggests. They are reversible every five years, this is not, it is set for the foreseeable future. When the decision is very close in a general election, in the past, it would mean a second election often in the same year. More recently it meant a mid-way coalition. Sometimes, the government would be defeated in a confidence vote and that would lead to a new vote. This is not like that at all.
Either we are a democratic society which does listen to the will of the people and recognise, in this case, that the closeness of the result does not give a categorical mandate for such a fundamental change when 7 out of 8 polls now show vote would go the other way or we bamboozle our way to exit blithely ignoring the polls. That ignorance of the fact is neither ethical nor democratic.
Lucy Hay says:
And what if the vote was leave again? Do you want a third vote? People fought for this country to secure our DEMOCRACY, the exact reason why we should no longer be a part of what has become a superstate.
The issue with this whole process is that barely anyone actually understands it other than “the establishment” (whose best interest is remaining in the EU…) Hence why we get spoon-fed lots of loaded propoganda on both sides that is complete rubbish and on the most part highly irrelevant. The people who want a second referendum in the hope that people would “change their minds” fail to understand that people like myself fully researched the facts and didn’t vote based on the NHS receiving however many millions or billions more pounds (the loose point was that we spend a lot of money on EU membership, which we do). I voted based on the fact that losing my democracy is the scariest thing I can imagine. This has only been made worse by the fact all of the BBC coverage (which is tax-payer funded and supposedly “unbiased”) was the most pro-remain channel I’ve seen throughout this entire process. The Question Time panel and audience is clearly loaded and all of the coverage following the result made it out like we’d just entered the apocalypse, when over half of the country had made a clear decision. If people who do not really understand what remaining would mean are willing to sacrifice their democracy because they don’t want to pay for visas to go on holiday then the people in this country genuinely baffle me…
Also, the whole “people steal our jobs concept” is massively oversimplified. People from countries with a lower living cost can afford to do, for example, cleaning jobs in the UK, on ridiculously low wages. If they weren’t here and prepared to do that, guess what would happen? Companies would actually have to start paying an actual decent living wage for those kinds of jobs and people in this country may actually be able to support a family on that wage. It’s nothing to do with not welcoming people into this country, it’s the fact that companies are allowed to take advantage of that and drive wages down. Furthermore, our healthcare, education and housing systems can’t support an infinite amount of people; that’s not racist it’s common sense. We should continuing welcoming people to this country, but in a controlled manner and not to solely benefit the establishment and “big” business.
The absolutely appalling “deal” we’ve been offered is worse than what we currently have. Our corner was fought atrociously, a sneaky last ditch last ditch attempt from the establishment to get a bad deal and entice a second referendum. Let’s have a no deal Brexit if it comes to it, see if the EU put tariffs up despite the fact they exported £67 billion worth of goods more than we did to them last year. That obviously just wouldn’t happen and it’s incredibly frustrating that the basic facts aren’t explained to people and they don’t understand this, so people on both sides undoubtedly voted for misinformed reasons. However, I for one as a young, 21 year old voter am more scared of losing my democracy than anything else that could happen. If this vote is overturned I’ll never vote again and I’m sad at what we’ve become as a country. Fight back against the establishment, make your voice heard and make sure we leave this car crash and preferably get a new political party soon who are actually in favour of normal people.
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SEC Power Poll, Week 11
I briefly thought about listing LSU and ‘Bama one and two, and then randomly pulling names out of a hat in homage to Coach Boom, but decided to play it straight, figuring he can’t tell the difference anyway.
LSU (10-0, 6-0). The Tigers beat Western Kentucky (42-9) a little more handily than Kentucky did (14-3). Maybe that’s what separates the top from the bottom of the conference in Muschamp’s mind.
Alabama (9-1, 6-1). The word of the day in Tuscaloosa is “rematch”. That’s how they keep their minds off field goal kicking.
Arkansas (9-1, 6-1). Seal clubbing Tennessee is no great achievement. We’ll see if they don’t come to paint in Baton Rouge in a couple of weeks.
Georgia (8-2, 6-1). It looks like as many preseason pundits were as wrong with the meme about winning the East with three conference losses as they were about Mark Richt’s hot seat.
South Carolina (8-2, 6-2). A best ever six conference-win season, a legitimate shot at ten regular season wins and the only thought on the mind of every Gamecock is how did they ever lose to Auburn.
Auburn (6-4, 4-3). Gus Malzahn sure looked a lot smarter when Cam Newton was taking the snaps.
Florida (5-5, 3-5). It’s the first time Florida has finished a season in the East with a losing conference record. Welcome to mediocrity, Gators.
Vanderbilt (5-5, 2-5). The really impressive part of what they’ve done this season is that they’re only minus-12 in conference net scoring. (Last year Vandy finished minus-175.)
Mississippi State (5-5, 1-5). Some might say that keeping games close for three quarters or so against the upper-tier teams in the SEC is a sign that MSU is close to becoming good. Others might say it’s a sign that the offense really sucks. Count me in the latter group.
Tennessee (4-6, 0-6). In the preseason, I doubt even the most pessimistic Vol fan saw a first-ever 0-6 start in conference play and UT opening as a one-point dog at home to Vanderbilt coming.
Kentucky (4-6, 1-5). I guess that makes Joker Phillips the first black SEC head coach to lose to another black SEC head coach.
Mississippi (2-8, 0-6). They managed to make Kentucky look good for the second straight week, as the only thing worse than losing to Vanderbilt by 30 on the road was losing by 20 at home to Louisiana Tech.
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UGAfoo
What if Arkansas beats LSU? In that scenario, Bama could make it to the SECC since the tie breaker would go to the BCS standings. Then if two teams are within five spots in the BCS it goes to head to head. I think this rule is junk. Especially this year when three teams could be in the top 6 or 7 in the BCS.
The three team tiebreaker rule..
The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game, unless the second of the tied teams is ranked within five-or-fewer places of the highest ranked tied team. In this case, the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the representative in the SEC Championship Game.
I’m not convinced that Arky has the o-line and defense to stay with LSU.
I would say LSU has played the tougher schedule of the two anyway.
The good Senator writes;
“Welcome to mediocrity, Gators.”
Thanks for the kind welcome. It is a place that Georgia fans can help Florida fans understand
Florida lived in that neighborhood for quite a long time until recent history.
As long as “over a generation of greatness” can be defined as “recent history.”
DawgGoneIt
Grab a drink and a blanket. Make yourself comfortable. It will be a few seasons before FU’s name gets pulled out of the sack.
“We used to be good and you used to be bad.”
I like you, Mike, and I’ve come to expect better smack out of you than this. That’s just sad. Have they broken your will?
Other than I am not sure Georgia has quite risen above “slightly above average.” Define that as good if you like.
According to Chris Low, prior to this weekend, the combined record of all the FBS schools that Georiga has beaten is thus; 23-31 (.426). I doubt this weekend’s results improved that by much. Florida lost, Ole Miss lost, Tennesee lost, MSU won and Auburn comes in at 6-4. So, without looking it up, the updated combined scores of the teams UGA has beaten is something like 29-38, still at 43%
*yawn* you really should just go troll a Furman message board or something, Mike, nobody’s buying the shit you’re selling anymore.
Well the Dawgs are more “average” than that farce in your swamp. The records of UFs victims: 15-34 (.306). How does that taste?
Indeed. I had written before, at the WLOCP we saw two average teams, the winner being less average than the other.
Saint Johns Dawg
Yes, UGA even beat shitty teams like Florida this year … you are correct.
Mike, Blutarsky’s comment really should be: Welcome back to mediocrity, Gators, where you lived for generations. 😉
“It is a place that Georgia fans can help Florida fans understand.”
How’s the weather down there in third place, Mike?
And, speaking to mediocrity, assuming we take care of business this weekend, UGA will be the only team to have gone to the Dome 4 times in the past decade.
What about LSU? Assuming they go, I think they will have been there 4 times in ten years and 5 times since the turn of the century. They went in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007. Anyway, congrats. Those four SECCG games STILL puts UGA in overall 3rd place in the SEC East. Not the SEC. The SEC East. Third Place. (Guess which team in the East has a commanding lead in SECCG appearances?)
Mike, that would be correct on LSU. I had wiped from memory their trip in 2003.
As for overall trips, it is unfortunate for Dawg fans the SECCG has coincided with the best era in Gator football history, along with some of the worst in UGA history. That said, we’re working on it. Good luck in your bowl game.
Muschamp's Liver
Is Mike a little surly today?
A Guy
They’ll have to wrestle the feisty Paladins to the ground to guarantee that!
Indeed. They remind me a lot of Coastal Carolina
I was thinking about this at lunch. Florida has had by far and away it’s two best runs during the SECCG Era. Can anybody possibly expect that 20 year run to ever happen again? I mean, the odds are that they’ll never replicate that. Odds are very few teams will replicate what they’ve done over that time. So, if you are a Florida fan, you’ve got to be sitting there right now, thinking how the best of times are now in the rearview mirror. That’s got to be a bit depressing…
Those two great runs would be the best of times for ANY SEC program, anytime, the way you describe it. And I agree with your description.
That doesn’t mean Florida cannot be successful as perceived by other SEC programs. For example, if Florida goes to the SECCG 4 times in ten years, that is fine.
I mean, congratulations on your school’s athletic accomplishments from the 1990’s. Is that what you’re looking for?
Which is why he said, “Welcome.” You don’t welcome someone to a place that you’re not familiar with.
Ben writes;
“You don’t welcome someone to a place that you’re not familiar with.”
Indeed. Wear it like a badge of honor, Ben!
If you’re talking accomplishments, it’s either what happened in the last game or what’s happened over the history of the rivalry. You have neither.
We beat you this year. We also lead the overall series. Face it, we’re better than you right now and historically. If you want to change the first, then do something about it in Jacksonville next year – if you can. If you want to change the second, it would likely take the third best decade in Gator football to get there in ten years.
As expected, Mike has no reply.
My goodness. How about what we have accomplished in my life time? Or even yours? In either case, the accomplishments in both time frames is far more than UGA has accomplished. Far more
Senator you know I love your work but you’ve got to watch out with quotes about Florida like: “It’s the first time Florida has finished a season in the East with a losing conference record.” it could lead the younger among us to believe Florida never has had a losing record in conference (since they don’t remember a time when there wasn’t an east and west) thus falling right into the Gator Fan meme that college football was invented in the early 90’s.
We’re on it Brandon. Bear in mind divisional play didn’t start until after Florida started playing football. Prior to that Florida had some good conference records, but never a crown. One of the truest things Mark Bradley ever said was in the mid 80’s, when Florida made noises for a few years, was “Gators always hated, never pitied.” It’s still true.
You Georgia folks need to brush up on your history a bit. Florida won its first SEC title (at least the first one that they were allowed to keep) in 1991. Which was exactly one year before divisional play.
And guess which SEC East team went to five consecutive SECCGs? A feat never duplicated. Ever. By any team.
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We’d love to have you, Mike. Come back to where you once experienced your SEC glories in 1992!
1991 … the year Mike became a Florida fan.
20011 … the year he proved that point on Get the Picture blog.
Actually, I became a Florida fan about 20 years before 1991. And you know what? Going back that far, Florida STILL has accomplished more than Georgia.
Last time I checked, 1991 was in the early 90s. Bragging about Florida’s great teams of the 90s is … well, that’s exactly what Brandon was getting at.
Here in Georgia, it’s 2011, and Florida sucks. Not in the “I’m a Georgia fan so f*** Florida; Florida sucks” kind of way. I mean Florida is a truly putrid football team right now, and there appears to be no hope of them getting better in the near future.
You used to be such an amicable Gator fan back when you still believed Florida was better than Georgia. What in the world happened? Oh, right …
In closing: I’m a Georgia fan so f*** Florida; Florida sucks. (They really do.)
No argument with your descriptions of Florida football this year. In fact, I saw similar descriptions of Georgia football about this time last year.
kckd
You’re wrong on the Cocks Senator. Not all are wondering about Auburn. Instead a few are asking how the SEC could send UGA to Atlanta when they are not the true SEC East champ. Their reasoning: SCU had a better “divisional” record. And yes, they really think it’s BS that we are going on a “techinicality” like having the best conference record.
Why have a conference if conference games don’t count? Want to change the rules if we don’t get the result we want? Wah! Wah! Wah!
I visited Garnet and Black Sunday night and had a swell time needling them. The general propositions, of which they’re certain, are: (i) Arkansas would kill Georgia, (ii) LSU will kill Georgia, and (iii) their victory over us was the result of superior skill and coaching, regardless the fact that Spurrier said after the game that Georgia was the better team.
Three weeks or a month ago I would’ve said LSU, Bama, and Ark. would crush the Dawgs; but UGA is getting better every week. That defense will keep the Dawgs in the game against just about anyone. None of those teams have faced a power running game that has balance and can move the ball with multiple wide receivers and solid running. What will they try to take away? As a Dawg fan, I’m happy to get back into the SECCG; but I don’t want the team to be satisfied with just getting there. I hope CTG has the defense ready to dominate anyone in that game. The Dawgs are playing well enough to be anyone in the country. GO DAWGS!!!
The Hawgs can move the ball. LSU will have their hands full with them.
Auburn…well, they are not a good team. In fact they need to pocket their travel money and stay home.
Vandy…in my view you guys are better than Auburn and Florida. After you beat Tennessee more people will take note. Our victory over you guys should have been a red flag that Georgia and Vandy are better than most bloggers and sportswriters see and understand. It is always hard to drag the stupid along until they’ve been rolled in the dirt for awhile.
Tennessee…young and talented and too many injuries. But you guys will be tough in 2012…especially if you get another TE and RB.
Ole Miss, just phone it in now. The only thing that counts is who will be your staff next year…and the fields are ripe unto harvest.
Finally, we see the Dawgs RBs begin to emerge and run with speed and authority…plus finish the run and punish the tacklers.
Does anybody want to get in front of the the Dawgs TEs. Bobo has a spread offense…how many players on offense touch the ball…alot. You guys are fun to watch. Maturity and confidence.
The early harvest from the vineyards has arrived, and the grapes are making for some sour faces:
– Bama….OT rules aren’t fair!
– USCe….Only divisional records should count, in years when it helps only us of course.
– BoomFR’s….(the sourest of all) It don’t matter how bad we be, ya’ll are bad too! Everyone of you! We’re still the best…history tells us so. I was guaranteed it.
Charlie Pell. 0-10-1 redux
Oh, you just nailed that Kentucky line. Well done!
The Lonesome Stranger
It may have just begun to sink in to Mike The Gator that he could be in for a very rough slog over the next handful of years. You might need something from Charlie’s cooler, Mike.
Thanks, but I keep an ample supply of brown liquor on hand
I wouldn’t be so quick to write off florida for the next couple of years if there’s one axiom of college football it’s that you really can’t predict what will happen in a given year especially the upside of a program like uf with those kinds of resources. that being said i’ve always hated that uga fans seem to almost think we can only beat uf when they’re down which i blame as a lingering hangover from 3-18. personally i want muschamp to continue his “everyone in the sec except uga” type success he had at auburn and lsu. While i’m at let me also point out why uf has won sec and nat’l titles while uga often gets left out: uf wins sec east intra divisional games (i think less than 10 sec east losses in the last 10 years) uga does stupid crap like lose to usc or kentucky. doesn’t take a math genius to figure out a loss to an sec east opponent is worse than a loss to an sec west opponent. formula for richt and the program’s success is pretty simple: start beating sec east teams.
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More Freud, less football coach: Schultz on Richt
While I suppose it was inevitable that the Crowell dismissal would be the inspiration for another Jeff Schultz column in which he appoints himself Mark Richt’s scold, yesterday’s piece took a slightly different tack from where Schultz usually goes when the criminal element rears its ugly head in Athens town.
That may be the consequence, as Schultz concedes, of the fact that nobody can accuse Richt of sitting on his hands anymore when a player, even one as important as Crowell was, crosses a line.
Richt, to his credit, no longer responds to players’ criminal or just plain stupid actions by merely making them run stadium steps or suspending their dessert privileges. He has come a long way from enabling Odell Thurman. He suspends players. He kicks them out. He tries to make them understand that getting four or five stars stamped on your forehead by a recruiting site and the ego trip of a signing-day news conference shouldn’t be accompanied by a sense of entitlement (even if it too often does).
Or, it may be because certain issues are both beyond Richt’s control and not matters that Richt’s peers need address, again, as Schultz concedes: “Some of Georgia’s problems can be attributed to having a tougher drug-and-alcohol policy than other schools.”
But seven kids are gone, gone, gone from Georgia’s vaunted Dream Team class. And that means somebody’s got to shake a vigorous finger in Richt’s direction. Jeff Schultz is more than happy to supply that finger. It’s just that instead of tut-tutting about an out of control program, it’s now about not winning enough.
The problem now is that too many of the players Georgia is recruiting should be red-lined. The line of risk needs to be pulled back.
Obviously, Richt and his staff are getting a lot right. The Bulldogs are favored to win the SEC East. They’re projected to open the season as a top-10 team.
But imagine if they actually had everybody there.
So Richt’s a guy who needs to be held accountable when he tolerates bad behavior, and he’s also a guy who needs to be held accountable when he doesn’t. How does that work exactly? Well, it would seem to start by weeding out the bad seeds before they ever get to campus.
Have the negative headlines of this offseason given him reason to pay closer attention to a recruit’s personal blemishes?
“We do find out as much as we possibly can,” he said. “There are rules on how many times we can call a kid and see him in person. We try to maximize those things.”
Sorry. But losing seven of 26 kids from one recruiting class in one year screams that there’s a need for a better filter.
What sort of filter? Schultz doesn’t have an answer – and again concedes that there probably isn’t an easy one.
Richt was accurate when he said, “To say that issues aren’t happening around the country isn’t really realistic.”
Every major program in the country wanted Isaiah Crowell coming out of high school. There wasn’t a one of them which wouldn’t have taken his signature on the dotted line had it been offered. And there wasn’t a word of warning when Crowell hoisted that puppy in the air that Richt was making a serious mistake in signing him. Indeed, Schultz himself had this to say after Ealey and King left the program: “Fact is, the Dogs were going to rise or fall next season on the strength of freshman Isaiah Crowell, any way.”
So somehow Mark Richt is supposed to be able to reach into the hearts and minds of men (well, seventeen-year old men, anyway) and divine an evil purpose that no one else can see. In other words, Mark Richt’s biggest flaw as a head coach is that he’s not the greatest amateur psychiatrist on the planet.
That’s not a standard Schultz has failed to deploy before. If you’ll recall, he was very critical of Richt’s search for a replacement for Willie Martinez, not because Grantham was a poor choice, but because Richt got used during the search process by the likes of Foster, Chavis and Smart to get better contracts from their existing employers. As I pointed out at the time, that premise ignores the way the hiring process works. But in Schultz’ mind, it should have been obvious to Richt than none of those men were ever serious about coming to Georgia.
Of course, the beautiful thing here is that none of us know if Richt and his staff have turned down certain kids who they felt were too big a risk (although given Georgia’s alarming number of open scholarships, I suspect that’s been the case more than we suspect), kids who indeed went on to become problems in college. But I bet Jeff Schultz could write a doozy of a column about a talented kid whom Richt wouldn’t take a chance on, then went on to college and managed to become a success on and off the field. (I’m looking at you, Deion Bonner.)
Speaking of Bonner, maybe Schultz thinks it would be a good idea for Richt to avoid recruiting Columbus Carver entirely. After all, Bonner and Crowell make for two pretty significant flame outs in a short time. Here’s how another Carver grad might answer that:
“I hear that a lot. It ain’t Carver. It’s not Carver It’s the individual,” Jones said. “There’s a lot of great players that that have went on from Carver: Oklahoma State, Duke University, Ole Miss. I mean we’ve got a lot of players in Division I football. It’s the individual that makes mistakes. … It’s never the school, it’s the players.”
Jones, of course, is one of those players that has avoided trouble, despite a rough upbringing.
That’s why you take a risk, if you’re Mark Richt. It’s not just because you have to recruit where the talent takes you, although that’s certainly a large part of it. It’s also, though, because you honestly believe you can make a difference with the kids you bring into the program. You’re not always going to be right about that. But I don’t think that means you should give up altogether.
UPDATE: Michael Felder has a succinct rebuttal to Schultz – “Georgia doesn’t have a discipline issue. They have a getting caught issue.”
74 responses to “More Freud, less football coach: Schultz on Richt”
The same attrition takes place other places. It’s just they plan for the attrition at Alabama and LSU and sign 25 players for 18 slots, knowing 7 players will a) do something criminal along the way, b) screw up academically, or c) have significant injuries.
Richt can’t control the actions of everyone on his team, but he can control the number of athletes he has at his disposal.
With the luck UGA has had over the last several years, I have no doubt that the first time Richt does that, not a single kid will get injured or arrested.
Then the ones that don’t contribute should have to go elsewhere. Where in the US Constitution does it say that everybody is entitled to a spot on UGA’s roster for the whole 4 years? Actually, that is part of the problem. At Bama, for example, everybody knows that if he doesn’t bust his ass somebody else who will is going to take his scholarship. But not at UGA, nooooo. Show up, don’t get caught smoking dope or fondling girls who don’t want to be fondled or with a gun, and you got it made for 4 years (5 if you redshirt). What do you think would happen to YOUR job if you didn’t really contribute? What are we teaching the kids on the Georgia team with a policy that accepts them as members of the team even when they don’t contribute either because of lack of effort or because it turns out they really don’t possess the skills to help out? What does that evoke in the players who DO bust their asses to contribute, seeing others who don’t contribute, still there and on the team? 69 scholarship players on the roster and we haven’t even had any injuries because fall practice hasn’t started yet. Roster mismanagement is the single biggest mistake that CMR commits, over and over and over and over…………
Come on Mayor, that’s grade A bullshit and you know it. The problem with taking that stance is you start obfuscating the true mission of a University (higher education) with the success of the football team.
Let’s say a kid that earns a scholarship to UGA out of high school based on his athletic merits comes in and never cracks the two-deep. This kid busts his ass every day at practice, but for whatever reason he never develops beyond what he was coming in from high school and rides the pine. Let’s also say that this kid is an exemplary student – never misses a class, is going to graduate on time with good grades, and has never once run afoul of John Q. Law. Can you say with a straight face that there is a legitimate reason for cutting that kid’s scholarship because he fit the definition of a college student to a Tee, but just couldn’t cut it on the football field?
The problem is that there is no objective manner to assess whether this kid’s scholarship should get cut. At least with academic based scholarships there is a set criteria that a student knows he/she must achieve to maintain the scholarship. With athletic scholarships, it’s all subjective judgment based on the head coach’s evaluation which I think is far more power than any one person should have over a kid’s education. I think it’s utter bullshit that anybody could justify cutting some kid’s scholarship because he didn’t pan out as a great football player, but is doing everything else expected of him as a college student and represents the University well. I’m not sure that’s water I want my alma mater to start treading in. Of course, YMMV.
Well-said.
Let me clarify that I have no problem with cutting a kid that is doing all the wrong things (i.e.not going to class, not getting grades, getting in trouble with the law, etc.). Ultimately, there needs to be a set objective criteria that could cause one to lose his athletic scholarship and takes some of the leverage away from coaches in the relationship.
Sooooo, you are OK with getting rid of kids that don’t meet YOUR criteria but are not OK with getting rid of kids that don’t meet somebody else’s criteria. Right. Got it. This reminds me of the old joke about asking a woman: “Would you sleep with me if I gave you $10,000,000?” After a “yes” answer then offering $5. When she says: “NO! What type of girl do you think I am?” then the retort is : “We’ve already established that, now we’re just haggling over the price.”
No, try re-reading that. I’m okay with getting rid of a kid’s scholarship when said kid doesn’t meet an OBJECTIVE criteria over somebody’s (the coach) SUBJECTIVE criteria. I can objectively measure whether a kid is going to class, getting appropriate grades, or how many arrests he has.
I cannot objectively measure how good a kid is performing on the football field. That is in the eye of the beholder and a coach shouldn’t have that type of power over a kid’s education. He should have to prove, without a doubt, that objective parameters of the scholarship were violated before revoking it.
Far too long the coaches have held this power over kids and abuse it everyday. Until there is a transparent, objective criteria set forth on scholarship offers, I will continue to support a player when he is shuffled out the door by the likes of Saban/Spurrier/Miles just because he wasn’t good enough on the football field.
Just to play devil’s advocate here but there’s not as big a distinction between you and the Mayor’s criteria in certain situations, say in a hypothetical situation where all of a University’s classes are graded on a curve. In that case losing your scholarship because you couldn’t crack the two deep would be as objective as losing your scholarship because you couldn’t crack the top 25% of your class.
Back to the discussion at hand, first, i think we can all agree even if Georgia commits to scholarships for a full 4 years for everyone, We need to start using up all of our scholarships. Having only 70 scholarship players not counting former walk ons is absurd. Second, I wouldn’t have a problem, with cutting a guy’s scholarship if the coach deems the player can’t contribute on the field. Provided a few conditions. 1) the player knew that was a possibility when he signed 2) the player can transfer elsewhere without sitting out any time at all, and 3) the player can remain on academic scholarship without counting towards the team’s limit so as to continue his education. Yeah i know these aren’t realistic but I’m talking ideal hypothical situation here.
#3 is the big one for me. I completely agree with those conditions, though. It’s the transparency in the system that has to improve before I will trust a coach over a player. Coaches use the power play on kids by threatening scholarships because they know they can and there’s nothing a kid can do about it.
Also entirely agree on using up all the available scholarships. There’s got to be a better way to get to the 85 number than what we’re doing now. Honestly, I don’t disagree with the Mayor at all with respect to roster management issues. I take issue with his assertion that we should just freely run kids off that are basically dead weight from a football perspective, but could be perfectly productive students/members of the UGA community.
+1 on the using all available scholarships. How Saban accomplishes #3 apparently is by saying that the kid is permanently injured and arranging for the kid to keep his scholarship via a medical hardship. I think the former player has to continue to do something with the team such as work as a manager or some such. Does anyone out there in blogland know?
Don’t worry, Bonner is in “pre-trail” intervention, according to the AJC. Not sure what that entails.
Seriously, though, what is a coach supposed to do here? Rock, meet hard place.
DawgFaithful
I read this crap yesterday. Schultz is an F—-ing moron. We’re recruiting the same kids that everyone else in the country is. Crowell was the #1 RB in America and was from GA. If he would have gone to Alabama and won the Heisman, Shultz would have written an article bashing Richt for letting the top players in the state get away. Furthermore he takes a shot at the “dream Team” for losing 7 of its members to attrition. I think the Dream Team has worked out pretty well: Corey Moore, Malcolm Mitchell, John Jenkins, Ray Drew, Chris Conley(Fla. Game), Jay Rome, Amarlo Herrera, Ramik Wilson etc. All contributors and current/future starters. I’d say that was a pretty good haul. 1 of the kids that was dismissed for theft was Nick Marshall. He broke every QB record in GA his senior year. Were we not supposed to go after an athlete like that? What red flags was Richt supposed to see there? We recruited him as a DB but it was well known that Paul Johnson was recruiting him hard at QB. Nick Marshall said that Johnson told him if he came to Tech he would make him a Heisman winning QB. If he’d gone to Tech and gotten himself kicked off their team, do you think Shultz would have written a few paragraphs of swill condemning Johnson for his recruiting methods? I think not. Just look at this guy’s picture in the paper. He looks like the biggest Dbag on earth. Probably got his ass kicked regularly growing up. What else could have turned this moron into the Swill Merchant that he is today.
Mr. Sanchez
More evidence of his idiociy…
“He has come a long way from enabling Odell Thurman. He suspends players. He kicks them out.”
You mean the Odell Thurman who was suspended multiple times. Or the Odell Thurman who got kicked out of the program and had to spend a year at Ga Military before being allowed back? Yeah, Mark Richt’s willingness to suspended or kick off a star player has come along way since the time when he was willing to suspend and kick out star players.
Worst. Newspaper. Columnist. Ever.
Be careful now with that “worst ever” stuff. You either don’t remember, or have forgotten about Terrance Moore.
Here’s the question I was expecting you to ask in this piece, Senator, and the question I’d like to see Jeff Schultz answer. He references “recruiting risks” in this piece, intimating that there were some sorts of warning signs about Isaiah Crowell or some of the other players Georgia has recruited over the years who have seen early exits from Athens.
I want to know exactly what warning signs there were. Certainly, they weren’t readily apparenty to Schultz, since he neither he nor any other sportswriters covering Georgia (the school or the state) took the chance to write about them. I recall Crowell’s commitment being hailed as a Georgia victory. Certainly, all the other schools out there were recruiting his ass, so they must have missed or ignored these supposed warning signs, too.
What indications were there that the Marshall, Sanders, and Seay would end up trying to steal stuff? Were there any? All accounts I read of those young men said they were going to be assets to the school.
It’s been well documented that UGA’s policies on certain offenses are tougher than other schools and it’s been well documented that UGA is a lot more free with information than other schools. Perhaps we just hear about UGA’s problems more than those at other schools? Regardless, I want to know: How were any of these players undue risks? And how does he account for the players that Georgia DID take a pass on because of worries about their backgrounds? Let’s hear it, Jeff. What were the signs? Because if being from a poor neighborhood and impoverished family makes you a risk, then a LOT of colleges are taking flyers one risky athletes. And if that’s the only “risk” you see, then you need to re-evaluate some of your attitudes.
And that’s saying NOTHING about the borderling slanderous idea that Richt was soft on discipline at any point in his tenure. I expected to lose at Clemson in 2003, for example, because half of the damn team was suspended. Player discipline was NEVER limited to “running stairs or losing dessert privileges.” Enabling Odell Thurman? Richt kicked his ass off the team after a fight and then let him come back *a year later*… he was arrested for underage alcohol (shocker in a college town) and suspended for that. Then, Richt suspended him for three games in 2004 (including a crucial conference game against South Carolina) for another offense. Richt wasn’t enabling anyone, he was disciplining him. Odell screwed up in post-collegiate life.
Rambo offered by Bama and almost every other SEC team
Ogletree…ditto
Branden Smith….ditto
Crowell…ditto (plus half the country)
Commings…South Carolina
Pretty weak, but then again, it is Schultz. As much as I dislike Bobby Petrino, Schultz’s questions for John L. Smith on Wednesday were disgraceful.
Amen. Schultz loves to ignore evidence and rewrite history. He loves to say someone is doing something wrong but never has any helpful insight into what they’re dong right. In short, Schultz is nothing more than the bullhorn of the frustrated idiot class of football fans.
I would do anything for him to come onto this message board and defend himself, though I doubt very seriously he can find a defense of his position. He was avoiding criticism in the comments of the AJC while playfully responding.
I really loathe that guy’s writing. Circular logic all over the place and snark that isn’t even funny. It’s a terrible combination.
REVEREND THOMAS JOHNSON
Haven’t bought a copy of AJC in 10 years – seems my life has been a little brighter ever since. http://www.wedgeorgia.com
+1 Rev. Going on 20 years for me.
Everyone recruits the smae kids, the only thing you can control is your discipline standards once they’re on campus as well as how many kids you sign. The only thing Richt needs to do differently is sign more kids and be more discreet and I would argue be a little laxer in how he punishes them as well. Or basically the complete opposite of what Schultz thinks is the problem.
Why do we even waste our time talking about this guy? Schultz is a troll.
ZerPointZero
Reading Schultz makes you stupider. I don’t read him because he is 1. Not at all funny and 2. Brings nothing to the table.
I am baffled that he has a job.
He could write all nice things about UGA and I would feel the same way.
He is a hired D-Bag. I feel sorry for his lack of talent.
Schultz is a gaseous fuckwit. What about the hundreds of players under Richt that have not done stupid things, but instead have done great ones? What about Matt Stafford, #1 NFL pick and who seems like a pretty charitable dude? Thomas Brown, who is coaching now? Nothing about them?
Young men do stupid things all the time, particularly if they don’t have stabilizing influences at home, this is hardly limited to the Georgia program. Schultz is basically slamming Richt for not having a crystal ball and divining Crowell’s idiotic choices.
the pity of schultzie isn’t that he’s dumb, it’s that he’s lazy. when he was the thrashers beat writer one could read his articles and actually learn something. too much proximity to the dipshittery of mark bradley and deluded personal piety make for a nasty mix on deadline.
I gave up reading the shallow, poorly thought out columns from Schultz years ago. He’s a “don’t do this” object lesson for critical thinking.
No one buys newspapers anymore. Jeff has been hired to write whatever it takes to get eyeballs on a website so advertisers will pay to hawk their wares. It’s the equivalent of the talk show host who panders to our most prurient interests to get people to listen. Newspapers are not in business to sell news or stories anymore than radio and television are in the business of entertainment. They’re all in the advertising business. Period. They need to sell ads or they become unemployed. Period. He’s simply doing what he gets paid to do. We shouldn’t expect anything else. More importantly, we shouldn’t contribute to it by sending folks over there to see what he wrote. Ignore him. Us getting worked up only gets Jeff a raise.
True to all dat. Unfortunately, I can’t tear myself away from following the Blog (and its incidental risks ie. Shultz) especially in the dark and pigskin-less days of July.
Go 30 days cold turkey. I promise you won’t miss anything about the AJC. Seriously. There is nothing of value on their site.
This. Spend a little time with out them, and you’ll wonder why you ever gave a damn about that rag soon enough.
I meant THIS august blog — haven’t touched the AJC production in years.
What we all have to do in unison and across the board—do NOT click on links that lead to Schultz or anybody else at the AJC. Every time we do that we reward them for the asinine tripe they print. I actually wish the Senator wouldn’t include the link to that nonsense on this blog. Tell us what the moron said but do NOT reward that dope with the gift of a link.
These revisionist, hindsight observations are sickening. As many above have pointed out, UGA recruited the same athletes as all other SEC schools, the difference is UGA actually enforces standards the others choose not to employ. If they had forgiven the transgressions those of those seven athletes from the Dream Team, would that make UGA and Richt a better program? It is so dumb as to not be worthy as a discussion point.
The better journalist might look deeper into the tragic circumstances of unwed births and broken homes that haunt the black community nationally, or the permissive society/schools that ignores the damages broken homes inflict on these young people, be they white, or black. To attack a man with the character of Mark Richt while ignoring the real issues surrounding these problems is cowardly and shallow. Someone should haul Schultz outside the AJC offices and whale the hell out of him. Better yet, his bosses at the much despised AJC should ask him for the “rest of the story” about other programs’ policies, or identify what steps are being taken to address a national shame are. Short of those additional paragraphs, they should fire his sorry ass for making another “Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious” piece designed only to fill space while imparting no new information while tearing into one of the few positive people in these guys lives. Never buy an AJC, and never click on their links, the paper has done enough damage in its time.
He has to feed the AJC comment page trolls. It is what drives the clicks and their revenue stream these days.
You had to know this was coming from the AJC. Like I posted about Towers and the context /article of the writer from the Birmingham News, today’s alleged sportswriters do not write about sports but about themselves. They like to attack coaches, players, and universites like many journalist do today. They pick and select the programs and coaches they like. They buy into the liberal elities and shelter the Penn States / Paterno plus faculty and the Dukes / Duke faculty / President.
The AJC is a liberal, yellow, newspaper. Look at every writer they have.
If I was the AD I’d have a long talk in Athens about how they report on the sports at UGA. That article is one in a long list of articles highly critical of UGA. CMR does what he can do for the University, the players, the team, and the overall program at Georgia. He has done a very good job. UGA has a great system in place for discipline. It is fair and it is even handed. No coach is more sincere, honest, and genuinely interested in athletes and students at UGA than Mark Richt.
Crowell is an edge player. He demonstrated that at Carver and in the play-offs when UGA stepped up its push. Did the coahces at UGA misjudge him, perhaps…that is the complaint some of us have about the RB position coach. Most fans who follow teams and regions in the lower half of the state understand the set-up in Columbus. One school has all the football players, another all the baseball players, and another the basketball players. Compare Columbus to any other town in Georgia and their high school program. Now why does Schultz address that situation as to whether it is factual or not, or what Carver does. That would be too hard for a Jeff Schultz…like all those writers who failed to see the early signs at PSU or at Duke.
So what does it all mean. Crowell you messed up and wasted a great opportunity. Maturity. Can you coach that?. Perhaps, but anybody who has ever had a 15 to early 20’s son knows it is rough. You hug them one moment and the next you want to kick their butt. And then you think back to your own life. And CMR has a staff, an alumni base, and almost 100 young men who work out every day. Those guys are always on the edge. Crowell’s a good guy, but he was immature and for whatever reason he never understood where he was at at this point in his life.
CMR has these qualities that a Jeff Schultz does not have but feels free to rake CMR on a consistent basis. LIfe experiences in football as a player at top program that has had its issues. A highly regarded OC under one of the most respected coaches in the NCAA D1. A program the set in the top 5 for years. A man deeply rooted in Judeo-Christian faith. An outstanding family man. An outstanding employee and ambassador for the University and athletics at UGA.
Jeffl Schultz is immature. He is a piss poor sports writer. He has a job for life at a piss poor newspaper. He is aware of both of those facts. He is so conflicted about it he can not stand the success of any coach or player. He revels in these kind of situations.
Crowell was dismissed. No one will dismiss Schultz at the AJC. But the AD can sure revoke his press pass. If he wants to write, let him buy a seaon ticket and make a contribution ot the Bulldogs.
Three outstanding players at Hoover, and not one word or sentence about these outstanding young men and their commitment to themselves and their team mates. That never crosses the mind of a Jeff Schultz…a poor, bitter sportswriter from the AJC…one in a long list of them.
Well said, Will. I do not for the life of me understand why CMR, McGarity and the rest of the at Butts-Mehre put up with Schultz or anyone else at the AJC. I hate to say it but Corch had it right. If they were saying negative things about his program they didn’t get access. McGarity of all people should understand this.
DamnGoodDawg
The more I read their moronic babble, the better chances those clown dicks get to keep their jobs and keep writing biased, anit-UGA stories. I don’t read the AJC anymore, because the more I read their moronic babble, the better chances those clown dicks get to keep their jobs and keep writing biased, anit-UGA stories. I don’t read the AJC anymore…
Ugh, see, it’s a vicious cycle and just gets me even more irritated. And then I get this weird vein popping out of my forehead, and my wife is like “whats wrong with your head?” And I’m like “this terd-licker at the AJC said this about the Dawgs and…” And she gives me this look like, who the hell is Jeff Shultz, and why do you even care what he writes?
Exactly… why do I care what he writes.
As far as passing on kids who may be potential trouble, Dexter Moody also comes to mind.
http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-state-sports/2012/03/27/dexter-moody-suspended-indefinitely/
I’m guessing “Scoop” Schultz is unaware that Odell was arrested for a traffic violation during his redshirt year and as a result was kicked off team and sent to GMC for awhile.
I believe he was actually kicked off for a fight in addition to that. Then had two suspensions during meaningful games. Odell wasn’t enabled at Georgia.
Wish folks would stop defending Mark Richt, when Richt gets criticism that he deserves. Less than 70 scholarship players? No sugar coating, that’s inept management, name another SEC team with that. Yes, Richt doesn’t know ghow to stop it, and has no clue as to what’s causing it. Wake up homers.
That’s justified criticism, and I have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with is having an AJC columnist spin things in ways that aren’t true and writing things that simply aren’t the case; I have a problem with Jeff Schultz writing that Mark Richt was soft on discipline and that he has enabled these players. 70 scholarship players isn’t soft on discipline. If anything, it’s tough on discipline, because he is showing the door to players we need.
However, TAdams, I’ll ask you the same thing that I asked above: what warning signs did Richt supposedly miss? We’ve passed on players with character issues in the past, and these players supposedly came highly referred and with no previous legal issues. What could Richt have done differently? Certainly, he has laid down the law that future transgressions will get people kicked out. What else is there to do, outside of changing UGA’s policies that force his hand whereas the Alabamas of the world don’t have the same problem?
Fools/tools like him don’t have answers, in fact that don’t really have thoughts. Just like to sit in the weeds and bitch and attack. Don’t really get how we have fans that better belong with a Bama, tosu, Barn, TN, etc. where all that matters is winning….even if you have to sacrifice any integrity or principles that true winners have. Be thankful for the good man we have at the helm. It isn’t that you have to agree with every decision or policy he makes, or every play call, just knwing he is committed to doing things the right way and will always represent us in a way that makes us proud is all I need from him. That is what makes you want to be a homer, I just wish we had a way to get those who don’t like our home out of the bunker. Guys like that don’t fit the R&B I know and love.
R u talking about Schultz or SkepticDawg or TAdams?
Newspaper Conspiracy theory–out to get Mark Richt? Really man? Jeff Schultz won an award for top 10 sports jourbnalist in the country, he knows more about football than whoever runs this blog, sure man, aliens are real too 🙂 Or hmm, for the rational sports fans out there, not fanatics, maybe Jeff Schultz has a point??????
So tell me, Mr. Rational Sports Fan, since I’m obviously too stupid to figure it out on my own, how would you screen the bad apples out?
WARNING!!!! TROLL ALERT- WARNING!!!-TROLL ALERT
Danger Will Robinson! Danger!
The other Billy Mumy!
I’d take “whoever runs this blog” in an intellectual cage match over Jeff Schultz any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
Thrice on Saturdays?
We need you to tell us more wise one.
Oh, Jeff, we see right through that user name.
Re: Jeff Schultz Award Winning Sports Journalist–Janet Cooke won the Pulitzer Prize while at the Washington Post for a story that later was established to have been a complete and utter fabrication. Just sayin.’
LOL. Yeah, like winning an “award” is reason enough to take everything Schultz says as fact. That one made me nearly spit my beer all over my monitor I laughed so hard. This guy must jerk off to Oscar and Emmy award actors too, huh?
Isaiah Crowell would still be playing for Saban, Chizik, Dooley, Spurrier, Meyer, and Miles. Not one of those guys would have pulled the plug at the point that Richt did.
And ditto for Mettenberger.
Indeed, Mett is playing for Les Miles as we speak. And a kid who stole from UGA players’ lockers last fall has a full ride to Clemson University. Not everyone passes on some of the players that UGA either passes on or shows the door.
Eh, I’m going to have to disagree there. I don’t think the football coach has much say in the matter once a kid gets popped for felony weapons charges. However, I don’t think there’s any way in hell this would have happened in Tuscaloosa because Saban micro-manages that program so much that a football player wouldn’t be driving around at 3AM on a Thursday without a chaperone or somebody from the program watching him.
You may be right, especially about Saban not having a player in the situation that Isaiah was in.
Saban doesn’t allow his players to emerge from an alley or ride in Mudcat’s car? I honestly believe if Crowell and company had gone through a roadblock in Tuscaloosa, Saban would have been the first person called. I wish I knew who the football player was that Jimmy Williamson caught screwing his wife/mom/daughter or whatever. Dude harbors more of a grudge than Spurrier does.
Umm, did I just agree completely with something in the Bleacher Report? [Head Explodes]
No surprise here. Schultz doing what Schultz does. Sensationalism and agitating. That’s the only thing that gets his articles hits on the ajc’s site. People read it for the same reason some folks flip over to MSNBC from time to time. It’s like a train wreck. Schultz hates UGA because it, and more strangely and incongruously represents two demographics that he holds in contempt. Well to do Southerners and middle to lower middle class Souterners (in his mind those awful people who drive pick up trucks), almost exclusively conservative and nothing like him. See, Schultz isn’t the only one who can play the amateure shrink game.
Any high school student-athlete, with even the most impressive and clean resume, who passes every evaluation with flying colors, is perfectly capable of a tragic mistake while in college. As an old theologian once said, there is no limit to the depth to which we are able to fall. True for you and me, true for adolescent males. Point being – there is no exact science to reading the heart of a young man, and what may lurk beneath. Senator is right – Richt is no Freud. Even Freud would have embraced Crowell on signing day and hoped for great things from the young man, and known deep down (with Richt) that it could all be undone in a moment of weakness and foolishness.
Profound. Indeed profound.
To weigh in on the “crappy journalism” issue rather than the “bad apple” issue, I have to say the inverted quality gap between MSM sportswriters and sports bloggers–nearly all of whom are unpaid–continues to amaze me. And the thing is: Schultz is hardly the worst sportswriter at the AJC, and the AJC does not have the worst sports section of the remaining major metro newspapers. It does make me crazy that the AJC used to train its best talent in the sports section (going back to Roy Blount, Jr., and before that, all the way back to Ralph McGill), and still somehow can’t, in the most incredibly employer-controlled labor market in an incredibly employer-controlled economy, find better writers than the people they have. But the problem seems to go well beyond Atlanta, and obviously infects the MSM TV networks as well.
As an online journalist myself, I know we’re all living in hell right now, until such time as the economics of the industry get sorted out and/or the world ends. But sports journalism is particularly screwed up, which is why we should all give daily thanks that folks like the Senator are willing to do this as sidelines.
This was probably the worst article I’ve ever read.
As someone said previously, the idiots at the Urinal & Constipation would have been killing Richt if he hadn’t signed Isaiah or the Dream Team. Now they get to kill him because a bunch of college kids do stupid stuff (surprise surprise).
Why doesn’t Schultz write an article about Nick Saban not being a good enough parent, or devoting too much time to football (instead of kids), since apparently his daughter kicked the shit out of her sorority sister OVER A YEAR AGO, A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED, and the first anyone hears about it was when a lawsuit was filed last week?!?!?! But no one in the media will write that story, because they know the odds of getting any interviews or access to Saban or Alabama after a story like that are about -1000%; but they can trash our coach, and our players, and our former players, with impunity….
I wouldn’t wipe my ass with yesterday’s sports section….
Man vs Man. Richt vs Schultz. Coach vs local sportswriter. If you want to lay out a comparison as a basis for Schultz to hammer CMR again, then why omit the coaching record and awards CMR has in his resume, then think about the intangibles. The young men who have left the program, played well, individual accomplishments of players, the support fans and alumni have poured into the university, the inspiration CMR provides people in this state, and etc.
I’m alum of UGA. I give to the funds. I had my roommate from metro Atlanta flunk out after two quarters becuase he partied every night. Now did the Admissions office misjudge him. No. He meet the requirements. He did not have the motivation or desire to compete in a classroom with his peers. He lacked maturity. A lot of us fans see that in kids on both sides of the field. Crowell showed that several times as a freshman. Other kids in that recruiting class who remain meet the same requirements are playing. CMR’s fault. I think not. These guys have to start taking responsibility for themselves and their team. Crowell has no shame or character. He was lazy. How many kids would love to play in that program and attend classes in colleges that are very good. Walk off campus with a degree and a high recommendation from a man like Richt.
I’ll test Schultz accomplishments in a few weeks on Friday night in the stadiums of football class 1-AAAAAA [that be Valdost, Lowndes, Camden Colquittt County, and company]. I’ll ask those fans if they know Jeff and his world class awards. I would dare say right now not one soul will know who in the hell this guy is give a damn about his trophies or framed paper.
Closing, I doubt if CMR cares about any individual awards he has or will recieved. He is not than kind of man. The man cares about faith, determination, and growth. I’ve never heard any kid who was dismissed or suspended complain about CMR.
But I did not see Schultz write one word about those three young players who were at Hoover. Schultz used that opportunity, Media Days, to attack CMR rather than write about the players who were there, their play, and their development under CMR..
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About that whole dysfunctional staff thing…
Mike Ekeler doesn’t exactly look back on last season in Athens fondly. (h/t)
Despite a powerhouse pedigree featuring some of the most renowned football programs in the nation, one thing mattered above all else to Ekeler.
“I’ve worked at some of the greatest schools history-wise in the game,” Ekeler said. “But what it boils down to is people. You can be at the University of Georgia and be miserable if you’re working with shitty people. I really enjoy my work environment and the players here.” [Emphasis added.]
I’ve said it before — when they write the book about Mark Richt’s last year at Georgia, it’s gonna be something else to read.
UPDATE: A carefully worded retraction…
Miss quoted. I said, you can work at Georgia, USC, Nebraska, LSU etc and if you work with bad people it stinks. Loved working for CMR.
— Mike Ekeler (@CoachEkelerUNT) October 13, 2016
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It doesn’t need to be a book. There should be a long-form piece by Dawgnation or someone. There’s so much there, it seems.
Call it “. . . And Everyone Hated Jeremy”
or How Richt takes the fire out of DCs.
I’d say JP was pretty fired up when he called out Richt in his house on the Sunday meeting after GA/FL.
Rumored…..but the rumor was he called out Schotty, not Richt. Richt was supposedly the one who interfered. He should have let them go at it imo… : > )
as opposed to what we have now????….compare and contrast.
How about a lyric poem on the order of The Odyssey?
Aunt Edna
Mike Ekeler. Putting the “mean” in Mean Green.
Guy is rightfully salty I guess. A quick throwback to his comment from earlier this year: “I’m pretty proud of the new record I set,” said Ekeler, speaking by phone during a short return to Athens this week. “I’m the only coach in the history of the NCAA to be part of two staffs that get fired after winning 10 games and finishing with a top-10 defense. I’m pretty sure that’s never happened. I’d be willing to bet it hasn’t.”
illini84
Wait till Jack writes his.
So many career assistant coaches are so used to stuff like what happened at UGA last year that they are numb to it. That vagabond life has to get old but they accept it. Ekeler ain’t on his last stop you can bet.
If you’re arguing that last year was same old, same old in Athens, it wasn’t.
AugustaDawg
Jeremy Pruitt wouldn’t know tactfulness if it sat full weight on his face. The bull in the china shop was appalled at his behavior. The cameras caught him getting chippy with Saban on the sideline two weeks ago. Laner just takes that shit.
I noticed that when it happened. Saban yelled at him and he yelled back at Saban. I think Saban is such a strong coach that he doesn’t get his fi fi hurt by his Coordinators expressing their opinions. It not like he didn’t know Pruitt and his personality. The guy can coach and to Saban that’s the bottom line. Mark would have been better served if he had had a no assistant can speak to the media. Pruitt’s bomb throwing would have been less public. We will see if Pruitt is all we imagined over the next 3 – 4 weeks. Kiffin has certainly earned his pay check under Saban. If he had started his career under him he would have been much better at his HC jobs.
For guys like Ekeler it is. He admitted to being on staffs that got fired 2X after winning 10. It may not have been the norm for 15 years under Richt but it sure wasn’t peaches and cream for the staffs between Dooley and Richt.
I never get enough of the juicy gossip (as in, really, I don’t hear it). Who were the bad apples?
My thoughts as well. I dont need to know the issue(s). However, I would like to know who caused them.
Well, we could assume that Mark Richt was really an asshole despite outward appearance. Or we could go with the gadfly in the system, Jeremy Pruitt. My money is on the latter.
I don’t see Richt as an asshole, he has more of a passive aggressive streak. On a football team, I’ll take the asshole.
SO!!!…you knew what went on behind closed doors??
Just as much as those blaming Pruitt for being an A-hole
since you put it that way, I see him more of a guy who does not like to throw people “under the bus”. Nor does he yell and scream at them on the sidelines. My guess is, he handles that stuff behind closed doors without the yelling and screaming. Treats them with respect, I do not see that as “passive aggressive” at all. The biggest fault that he had imo…was maybe his loyalty (see WM)….and that is not always a bad thing. I appreciate what he did in Athens, it will be hard to duplicate it.
I’m beginning to get the sense that not everyone liked Jeremy Pruitt.
Couple this with Rocker’s mutiny quote last year, the noise after the Florida game, and the one negotiating issue that was a 100% nonstarter for McG….I think you can pretty well piece together what happened last year.
yeah, but there is more to it. There has to be.
How did the O staff come up with our game plan for the Florida game with a bye week to prepare? It was basically “let’s keep doing what isn’t working, but with a less skilled QB”.
Why did Richt change philosophies after the Florida game? Seems like he should have done that two weeks earlier.
I could go on and on and on.
My feeling is that Richt stepped in at Florida once he realized BS was in over his head.
Two new coordinators were coming to town, no matter what.
But I have no reason to believe BS was the one making things miserable around the program. Once some guys on the team are a couple of years removed, the story will come out.
I have a theory, but like everyone else’s, it’s pure speculation.
Hold on now…….the HC hires who he wants, hitches his star to those coaches….overall staff hirings and raises given to those hirings at our beloved institution in the past 3-4 years had serious questions arise, before, during and after said hirings.
Oh agreed. Ultimately it looked like Richt didn’t have control of his own ship. Thus, he’s not here anymore.
I don’t KNOW anything. Just my impression from reading the tea leaves: Pruitt made a back channel run at Richt’s job post-Florida. While the powers that be squashed it, the optics were that Richt didn’t have his own staff in line. Just my thoughts, mostly likely 100% off base.
This is from a Dawgnation interview with Ekeler 9 months ago
“I learned a valuable lesson watching Brian Schottenheimer. He came into a situation where he tried to run an offense that was already in place and didn’t run his offense, so to speak. I didn’t want get into a situation like that after watching the difficulties that he had. When you do that – and I watched it happen – as a coordinator, and it’s not really your stamp but it’s your name, that’s not a good gig. That’s why I chose to go to North Texas with a guy I think is a rising star as a head coach and a great friend of mine.”
That makes it sound like Schottenheimer was told to run the Richt/Bobo offense and he had trouble doing it. Why Schottenheimer’s running of something other than his own offense wasn’t better discussed before he got the job idk.
Ekeler also thanked Richt for the opportunity Richt gave him (so did Richt hire him?) but pointedly said nothing about Pruitt and instead offered this when asked why he took the DC job at N. Texas:
“I had a chance to go to another SEC school, a couple of Big Ten schools, the Pac-12. But it wasn’t as sole coordinator. I want to get out front and lead and do it the way I want to do it and treat kids the way I want to do it, and I want to work with people I want to work with. I don’t want to be in rooms with people I don’t enjoy and don’t have much in common with.”
So Ekeler seems to have disliked Pruitt, but liked Richt and Schottenheimer, even though Richt and Schottenheimer didn’t seem to see eye to eye.
I wonder what would have happened with the coaching staff if Richt hadn’t been fired.
Snoop Dawgy Dawg
I remember that interview and my confusion then as well. the BS(initials and description) offense never looked like an attempt to run the legacy Richt/Bobo offense. I don’t doubt that Richt gave guidance to BS on things. He’s the head coach. that’s his job. But it just did not look like BS calling the Richt/Bobo offense. it looked fundamentally different while still being a pro style, multiple offense.
of course, ekeler doesn’t have a reason to lie about it, so I’ve continued to be confused by his statements.
I suspect the playbook and terminology went unchanged but BS was calling plays.
But let’s be candid…the offense was a hopeless mess b/c of the QB play. If AM had come back and played last year, I’ve no doubt we’d have performed better against UT and UF (Bama,not so much)
AM was out of eligibility after his senior season in 2013. He wasn’t eligible last year or the year before.
There was a halftime interview with Aaron Murray last season and he called it a different offense. As I recall, some the blocking schemes changed going from Friend to Sale.
I find it hard to believe that a guy with Mark Richt’s experience spent two weeks brain storming and trotted out Bauta to run a pro style offense. Richt seems fine at Miami, so I doubt he has lost his faculties. Who thought that would work? Now, if they had gone to Bauta, changed the offense to suit him, and it was a disaster, then it would make sense.
But then after the WLOCP it gets really ugly behind the scenes, so Richt takes control and we go to an ugly field position offense that eeks out wins. Heck, that’s what McEllwain did at Florida after he lost Greir and his offense started to be a shit show.
To put this in perspective, if Bobo was there I bet we see Bauta with a lot of wild dawg and trickery. We see Ramsey running some option on 3rd and 4th and short to keep the punt return team off the field. We see some new shit from a team that had 2 weeks off.
I’m waiting for the tell all book, because this is only one chapter. 😉
I think that he florida game plan might have been something, but it was going to be a lot more wild dawg with Sony. Sony breaks a long run on the first play, he breaks his wrist and then the play gets called back. Train immediately derails and we didnt really have a plan B.
Also from that earlier interview with Chip Towers after he was let go:
“I want people to know I really, really enjoyed the University of Georgia and really appreciate the opportunity Mark Richt gave me. I did not know those other guys before I stepped in,” he said. “… I knew no one when I came here. I’d never met Jeremy Pruitt; I’d never met Tracy Rocker; I’d never met Kevin Sherrer. Coach Richt gave me the opportunity and I’ll forever be grateful for that. Everywhere I’ve ever been, I’ve learned things, and I learned some valuable lessons (at Georgia). I’ll take away some things that I’ll value.”
“The Jeremy Pruitt Indoor Practice Facility” isn’t going to happen? Without that press conference the administration probably would still be saying stuff like ‘at the spring meeting we are planning to discuss forming a committee to determine if we should form a working group to explore the possibility of putting together a panel of experts to determine the feasibility of exploring the issues involved in this major step going forward and tentatively preparing a report to be delivered at next years Board meeting, or possibly the year after that if more time is needed. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
JP was an asshole. That doesn’t mean he lit a fire in Athens and said fire had some positive consequences.
garbled that…he did light the fire that made some positive contributions, though he was disliked.
chuckdawg
That press statement is spot on.
Look at it this way: Todd Grantham twice publicly embarrassed the program, plus played footsie with the NFL every year, plus had a horrible unit in 2013, and yet by all accounts, was coming back in 2014 until Petrino plucked him.
Pruitt was much better at his job IMO, yet regardless of who the coach was in 2016, was almost certainly not coming back. That should tell everyone how bad it was: they could stomach Grantham, but not Pruitt.
Pruitt made everyone uncomfortable right down to the janitors. He wanted the Bama Way as opposed to the Richt/Georgia Way but he wasn’t the head guy. Perhaps he woke everybody from their slumber and we ended up with a new head coach. After 15 years Richt was on borrowed time under any circumstances.
Maybe the locker room talk bothered Ekeler.
For all the positive results we saw on defense, JP was a negative energy, vampire that was divisive as an employee. Many organizations have highly skilled people who are cancers that cause bigger problems than they are worth. If it is a large corporation with strong resources, you can isolate them and still benefit from their skills. In a group as small, and interactive, as as a college coaching staff, there is no avoiding the problem. For Ekeler’s strong, public statement it must have been really bad inside the foxhole.
I have a buddy who works at BM. Not going to reveal his job title or the details that would give away his job, but he told me Pruitt tried to fire him on 3 different occasions. And by try, he’d say ‘GD it. This again? Johnny, you’re fired’… in a room full of people after something completely out of his control went awry. He said he learned to ignore him when he did it since Pruitt wasn’t his boss. Dude was a straight up horse’s behind.
FWIW. He told me in the spring that he really enjoyed working for Richt, but he’s a better person than he is a coach. He readily admitted it was time for him to go and that thus far he was really enjoying working for Kirby. ‘Great guy, best not to make him repeat himself.’
Thanks for sharing, and this is almost identical to the information I’ve heard as well (sans the firing part — obviously our sources are different). Unfortunately I heard the same re: Richt for quite a few years from insiders — great man, fair to pretty good coach, and yes it was time for a change, as the overall program itself was quite stale.
As for CKS, from what I understand he generally is liked, but he too can be abrasive at times and basically can wear on you quite a bit, as he’s demanding of pretty much everyone. Basically, if CMR is on one extreme, Pruitt the other, Smart is somewhere in the middle though slightly towards the Pruitt end of the spectrum. Speaking of Pruitt, I said last year at this time that he absolutely would not be retained under any circumstances (I believe I put the odds at 1-2%.) That dude was totally out of control.
Sounds about right RE: Smart’s demeanor. Same guy also told me that the Richt/Pruitt blowup at Richt’s house was VERY real. And that Thomas Brown was ready to take him down.
Yep, indeed. CMR, BMac, and TB were all very close, while Pruitt was close with Sherrer and, well, that’s pretty much it. As mentioned below, Schotty and Ekeler had their own little clique going on. So yea TB would certainly have his back, and IMO would have utterly destroyed Pruitt in a fight (if it had come to that).
Yet people still want to complain that Richt got shown the door? If even half of this stuff is true; coaches fighting, coaches firing support staff without authority, cliques forming, it represents a complete lack of leadership and failure of management.
“TB ….. IMO would have utterly destroyed Pruitt in a fight”
Ehhh, I don’t know. I saw TB in person once while he was still in school showing a recruit around the Ramsey Center, and I was stunned by how small he actually is. At the time, I was amazed that he could do what he did on the football field at that size. Admittedly, someone that size who plays football well is surely tough. But in my experience, winning fights has a lot to do with attitude, and I think Pruitt’s attitude would match TB’s and Pruitt has a decided size advantage as well. I am glad it didn’t come to that; I really don’t need to find out.
He is small height wise — I believe around 5-9. But TB is strong as heck, and I think he benched 400+ and squatted 600+ during his heyday. Also a tough dude as well with a mean streak in him if needed. Maybe you’re right, but my money would be on TB.
Not just strong, the strongest player, pound-for-pound, in UGA history. At least as of 2006.
5’8″ 190lbs. 470 bench, 610 squat.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/08/31/uga_94757.shtml#.V__YauArKhc
I stood right next to him. He might be 5′ 7″. There’s no way he was 190 pounds. But don’t get me wrong – I admired what he could do and he is in the top 25 of my favorite Dawgs – I just don’t think that is the same thing as ‘taking somebody out’. Those weights he was lifting weren’t fighting back. It’s just not the same thing.
Let’s remember who you are comparing him to — Jeremy Pruitt. JP is a rather short guy himself. Dude is quite dumpy looking (sadly like most middle aged American men), and basically just looks soft. Not exactly someone who you would be all that nervous about if he challenged you to a fight.
TB is short, maybe, but he ain’t little. Fighting with him would be like fighting with a barrel of cement, if the barrel of cement was also quick as a hiccup. I’m taking TB and laying the points in that matchup. Pruitt would have found out pretty quickly the difference between being a mouthy redneck and being an actual badass pretty fast, I suspect.
I’ll always be grateful to Pruitt for what he did for our program. I don’t care one bit whether Richt, Schottenheimer, Ekeler, McGarity, etc. are mad at him. The Butts-Mehre Country Club needed to be burned to the ground and he was just the man to do it.
Mostly agree, though he could have employed a lot more tact overall. He needs to be thanked for moving the construction of the IPF up at least 3-4 years — something CMR failed to accomplish — but again he was way over the top too. It would be akin to a new COO coming in and calling out the terrible structure currently in place while recommending a litany of really smart solutions…then abrasively approaching you/your colleagues privately and calling you a pathetic loser, lazy, idiotic, and basically a worthless employee (whether accurate or not).
I agree. I didn’t say I wanted to work with or for the guy, just that I was grateful to him for what he did. And I don’t know that I would ever hire him either.
Although, if he’s such a cancer, you have to wonder why Saban brought him back for round 2 of having him on staff. My guess is that there isn’t as much incompetence for Pruitt to rage against in Tuscaloosa, so it’s not as much of an issue there.
Can’t imagine where we’d have been in 2014 and 2015 without CJP.
– He was easily the top recruiter during his stint.
– He turned an awful D around in a very short time.
– We’re getting an IPF because of Pruitt. Nobody else even deserves more than a slight mention when credit for the IPF is discussed.
Trash CJP all you want. But when his career is over he’ll have far, far more championship rings than CMR or anyone else on the ’14 and ’15 staffs.
Oops, should have said ‘people can trash Pruitt all they want’. Obviously, I agree with ATL Dawg’s post.
This is all very true. BTW, let’s not forget that Schotty and Ekeler were very close and are basically good friends, so no surprise that he was generally miserable last year as well.
If all of these accounts of the assholeishness of JP are correct, then you have to wonder and possibly admire that Saban either has a way to negate the ill effects JP brings to the program or actually uses it in some positive way. Since the prospects of JP undermining Saban and “the process” are non-existent, one has to wonder if Pruitt’s way fits “the process” to a T and as thus was anathema ( yes I’ve been waiting to use that word) to CMR’s patchwork staff’s un-melded methods and philosophies.
Perhaps JP detected a sense of lack of focus..or slight confusion..in the program and either tried to fix it with unseemly actions, or execute a coup against CMR. Either way he was out of place, even though he may have been right about the failing tendencies of the status quo.
Regardless, JP has to know that he is now at his pinnacle job, unless he aspires to succeed Saban one day. I’d say he’s a lot more like NS than Junior is.
Bama is a well oiled machine with an extremely strong, omnipotent leader; so its only natural that CJP would fall right in line and behave accordingly. However, when things are in disarray and you have a weak leader at the helm, guys like CJP are going to basically run wild and try to rule the ship themselves. Saban knows this, thus he had little qualms about bringing Pruitt onboard.
From the linked article:
“With a resume that has coaching gigs at the University of Southern California, Oklahoma University, Louisiana State University, Indiana University, Nebraska University, and most recently, the University of Georgia, there is little doubt Ekeler could have landed just about anywhere in the country he wanted to go.”
“I’ve worked at some of the greatest schools history-wise in the game,” Ekeler said. “But what it boils down to is people. You can be at the University of Georgia and be miserable if you’re working with shitty people. I really enjoy my work environment and the players here.”
Paraphrasing the great Tim Wilson:
“Hell, if you’ve been fired 9 times, maybe it’s you.”
I think this Ekelar guy is probably a bigger asshole than Pruitt.
This guy is Captain dipshit.
His comment about being the only guy who got fired after fielding a top 10 defense.
It’s all about ranked teams:
In 2015, record 0-3
Defensive scoring ranking in 2015 vs ranked teams- 12th in conference, 49th nationally
Average points given up vs ranked teams in 2015:
That will get your ass fired every time.
Correct, and well said. This also is what ultimately got CMR fired — his rather pathetic record vs. ranked opponents, which was something like 13-27 over his final 5 years. Yet, even today people continue to trot out the tired line of how pathetic is was to fire a 10 win coach…all while conveniently leaving out that, of those 10 wins, exactly zero of them came against teams with a winning record.
right on, and you can see a jersey change did Mark Richt no good, still gets his ass kicked vs ranked teams.
Yea but he won his first 4 games at The U by an average margin of 30 points! See?…we made a mistake firing him! Not just our own fans, even Colin Cowherd jumped on that train last week and was espousing such B.S. — conveniently leaving out that they beat app state, FAU, GT, and Fl. A&M. Not exactly a brutal schedule.
It always comes down to your record in big games and/or your record vs. ranked opponents; padding your record on the UK’s, Vandy’s (most years), and Troy’s of the world means nothing.
Richt can’t outcoach ranked teams, that’s not ever going to change.
He will lose to V Tech (the only other ranked team on his schedule) and
very possibly 1-2 more losses to unranked teams (NC, Notre Dame, NC St).
His Qb and Rb’s both struggled vs FSU, Miami’s only ranked matchup so far,
so Mark Richt being the OC didn’t change anything. Glad we didn’t buy that lie.
Well I’m not quite as pessimistic on CMR as you, and let’s give him a year or two at UM before judging him. I personally wish him well, though I don’t think his stint at UM will go as smoothly as others have predicted.
With that said, if I had to briefly sum up the difference between CMR and Smart, and why I strongly feel that UGA will be a consistent, major power sooner than later (with a natl championship coming our way by 2020), it would simply be this:
Olddawg 55
I watched the game, fellows, and while both struggled to impose their will equally, let’s not forget it took a blocked extra point to win the game. Additionally, CMR is a first year coach, too! Did you see the Nichols St game??
Dude, really? CMR is 56 and has been a HC for 16 years. Smart is 39 and has been a HC for 4 games. Trying to compare these two as relative equals is utterly absurd.
FSU did play 1/3 of the game without their starting QB too. Manny Diaz had his defense ready to play. Miami’s offense looked meh at best.
Miami offense looked pretty bad with Mark Richt as OC vs FSU.
Rushing:
2.2 ypc
Kaaya’s qbr dropped from the 90’s in the previous 2 games to 63.
And Kaaya was sacked 3 times for 15 yards.
Also, you don’t expect an experienced Qb like Kaaya to be ranked 7th in the ACC in qbr.
http://www.espn.com/ncf/qbr/_/group/1
North Texas has only played 1 team that’s currently ranked in the top 25, Florida, and they lost 32-0.
Same ole shit from Ekeler. A new jersey/team can’t change the coach.
You have one guy that is a million dollar mistake.
You have another guy that is pissing everyone off, not a little, a lot.
And you have the rest of guys saying all kinds of cra cra.
Not the best recipe for job keeping.
Ekeler thinks most of us value a good defensive performance vs Southern U or Ky,
more than how you play in the big games like Bama, Tenn, and UF in 2015.
Of course you can modify your stats by beating up on the little guys, but true
colors come out when you play the ranked teams.
2012, 2013, and 2015 have sucked royally there.
2014 was the only year we ranked #1 in def scoring vs ranked teams, and Ekeler wasn’t here.
Misspelled misquoted
Meanwhile the J. Reid Parker Director of Atheletics is still hanging on somehow.
I know it’s meant to be funny, but I’d encourage people to not use “J.Reid Parker” as a punchline.
He was an esteemed faculty member in Forestry for decades and survived the sinking of the Leopoldville during WWII.
Even more to the point that McGarity is in over his head. Has not matched the hires and sucess than none other than Mr Panties himself and wears that title. And I’m sure lakedawg in no way disrespected that esteemed faculty member.
Omd.
I’m just glad that shit is over.
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Georgia’s football playoff expenses
Marc Weiszer has the numbers here, and they’re fairly pedestrian looking as these things go. So pedestrian, in fact, that I only have two thoughts in response:
Georgia spent $9,410 at the Chick-fil-A Dwarf House as part of its expenses for the national title game. All at once?
One trembles a little mulling over what Michael Adams would have spent — and what he would have spent it on — were he still school president last season.
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Well, there are 172 players and coaches listed on the official roster but I’m sure there’s a lot more folks joining in when it’s time to put on the feed bag. Maybe they fed the Redcoat band too.
barneydawg
Adams would have given the 200 guests in his suite their own personal big screen TV so they could check out the replays. The swag bags would have had Dom Perignon and a gift card for a Buckhead condo.
I hope the only thing ever named for him on campus is the sewage treatment plant.
If Adams were still prez this would have never happened. He was the brakeman on the football program simply because he didn’t like the “football crowd.” His words not mine.
Re: Mike Adams…..His spending would have been on private jets and rooms at the Ritz for himself, his family and his entourage plus lavish private parties for same, before, during and after the games. Limousines to carry him and his crowd around would be a given. Then, of course, there would be the commemorative oil painting of Adams at the Rose Bowl. Master of all he surveys!
No doubt he would have taken the G-V from Ben Epps to Charlie Brown!
Adams wife would have been the caterer at the event(s).
Wonder if they went through the drive-thru for that order or if they had to go inside to pick it up
No doubt – the drive thru.
Getting some of our linemen, coaches, band members, and alumni through that little door would have been an unacceptable liability risk for The Georgia Way.
ApalachDawg
Adams the single worst hire for our university. How this man ever got our gig is beyond me.
Kevin Ramsey is a close 2nd
the HOPE scholarship money produced students, higher stats for those students, and buckets of money for UGA. For Adams to claim credit for most of it is like a rooster claiming credit for the sunrise. What an arrogant narcissist. UGA is way better off with him gone.
Works out to something like $45 a head if you figure around 200 people. With catering fees included I’m sure. The normal person will spend $10-12 for just a little ol’ meal at Chick-fil-A these days (they’ve gotten really expensive) so a football player probably eat at least $25 worth of food in a meal.
Yeah I don’t think Isaiah Wilson et al were just getting the 4 piece nuggets off the value menu. Them boys gotta eat!
That’s a bit misleading. A #1 combo is less than $8. CFA has gotten more expensive, but so has everything else.
The grilled chicken sandwich combo will cost you about $15. I don’t know where you eat, but I can get a big bowl of Mediterranean from Cava for about $10, or a giant burrito from Qdoba for about the same price. You can get twice as much chicken from Raisin Cane’s for less money.
Where are you getting Chick-Fil-A? The airport? I had the Grilled Chicken Sandwich combo today at the Avalon in Alpharetta and it set me back just under $8.
It’s $8.79 before tax, but sure $15.
And you know they order way more than they need. There’s always leftovers when the food is on the Ath Dept. I used to scoop 7 or 8 grilled cool wraps into my bag before they dumped the rest.
I’m sure the numbers are eye popping to some people; especially those who could care less about sports, much less college football. With that said, I’m not sure you can put a number against what the same amount of advertising and publicity would cost to promote the University. This was an easy spend…
But which Dwarf House was it??? Inquiring minds want to know…
THE Dwarf House is in Hapeville.
Second-finest restaurant in Hapeville.
The Georgia Way flashin’ that cash, baybee!
THE Best Dwarf house for sure…last time I was there, they still had straight fries….good burgers too.
Is there any other? I thought the only Dwarf House was Hapeville.
There is one in Woodstock and one in Jonesboro that I have been to, am pretty sure , have seen several others around also…
Fayetteville has one for sure, maybe one in Rome…Truetts Grills are similar…I know there is one of those in Morrow and McDonough. Griffin & Newnan had one until recently, torn down and rebuilt as ChickFilA’s…I think…
Well, I’d say it’s a near certainty that last season would have never happened if El Douche had still been in power.
^^This. Adams screwed up the Georgia football program with his over-involvement from the day he hit campus. I don’t think it is a coincidence that what is happening now with Georgia football is occurring after he left. That bastard had his foot on the program’s neck for years.
Is the assumption that $9410 is a a large catering bill? There were 391 people in the travel party for just the team, staff, and families to the Rose Bowl, so I would assume that number was the same for the title game. I don’t know if that also includes the band and other officials, but $9410 sounds like a pretty cheap meal.
As far as Michael Adams goes, he may have opted for Flemings rather than Chick-fil-a!
Mcgarity still wonders who got the Grilled Chicken club and large chocolate shake
+1 Perfect.
“Oh, it was Mr. Leebern. Never mind.”
I was gonna say he is probably more of a straight mixer type of guy, but I guess maybe you could put some Kahlua or Bailey’s in the milkshake…
Adams policy to not take into consideration family ties sent thousands of would be Bulldogs to Auburn, Bama, and SC. Tragic mistake that new admin continues
I don’t think that is something the Admin has control over anymore…
Do you think politicians are gonna stand up and tell some Yank in Atlanta that her child can’t go to Georgia even though it has better grades than Tim from Bainbridge because four generations of Tim’s family went to Georgia?
Those days are “gone with the wind”…
Does paragraph 13 say we didn’t sell our full allotment of tix to either the Rose or CFP?
Sorry, it says they were for families of staff
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Iain Andrew Greenwood
Guest researcher
greenwood@sund.ku.dk
Introductory remarks on publicationslist
I have over 70 papers and book chapters concerned with the regulation of smooth muscle activity by ion channels and receptors.
TMEM16A is implicated in the regulation of coronary flow and is altered in hypertension
Askew Page, H. R., Dalsgaard, T., Baldwin, S. N., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Povstyan, O., Olesen, Søren-Peter & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, Jun 2019, In : British Journal of Pharmacology. 176, 11, p. 1635-1648
MicroRNA-153 targeting of KCNQ4 contributes to vascular dysfunction in hypertension
Carr, G., Barrese, V., Stott, J. B., Povstyan, O. V., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Figueiredo, H. B., Zheng, D., Jamshidi, Y. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, 7 Jul 2016, In : Cardiovascular Research. 112, p. 581-589 9 p.
Molecular and functional characterization of Kv 7 channels in penile arteries and corpus cavernosum of healthy and metabolic syndrome rats
Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Olesen, Søren-Peter, Greenwood, Iain Andrew & Dalsgaard, T., May 2016, In : British Journal of Pharmacology. 173, 9, p. 1478-1490 13 p.
Fundamental role for the KCNE4 ancillary subunit in Kv7.4 regulation of arterial tone
Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Carr, G., Lundegaard, Pia Rengtved, Olesen, Søren-Peter & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, 15 Dec 2015, In : Journal of Physiology. 593, 24, p. 5325-40 16 p.
Contribution of Kv7 channels to natriuretic peptide mediated vasodilation in normal and hypertensive rats
Stott, J. B., Barrese, V., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Leighton, E. V. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, Mar 2015, In : Hypertension. 65, 3, p. 676-82 7 p.
KV7 potassium channels: a new therapeutic target in smooth muscle disorders
Stott, J. B., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, 12 Dec 2014, In : Drug Discovery Today. 19, 4, p. 413-424 12 p.
Vasorelaxant effects of novel Kv7.4 channel enhancers ML213 and NS15370
Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Bentzen, Bo Hjorth, Stott, J. B., Povstyan, O. V., Sivaloganathan, K., Dalby-Brown, W. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, 9 Jun 2014, In : British Journal of Pharmacology. 171, 19, p. 4413-4424 12 p.
Contribution of kv7.4/kv7.5 heteromers to intrinsic and calcitonin gene-related Peptide-induced cerebral reactivity
Chadha, P. S., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Carr, G., Stott, J. B., Zhu, H., Cole, W. C. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, Apr 2014, In : Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 34, 4, p. 887-93 7 p.
Contribution of KV7 Channels to Basal Coronary Flow and Active Response to Ischemia
Khanamiri, S., Soltysinska, E., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Bentzen, Bo Hjorth, Chadha, P. S., Schmitt, Nicole, Greenwood, Iain Andrew & Olesen, Søren-Peter, 30 Sep 2013, In : Hypertension. 62, 6, p. 1090-1097 8 p.
Pharmacological dissection of K(v)7.1 channels in systemic and pulmonary arteries
Chadha, P. S., Zunke, F., Davis, A. J., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Linders, J. T. M., Schwake, M., Towart, R. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, Jun 2012, In : British Journal of Pharmacology. 166, 4, p. 1377-87 11 p.
Reduced KCNQ4-encoded voltage-dependent potassium channel activity underlies impaired ß-adrenoceptor-mediated relaxation of renal arteries in hypertension
Chadha, P. S., Zunke, F., Zhu, H., Davis, A. J., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Olesen, Søren-Peter, Cole, W. C., Moffatt, J. D. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, 2012, In : Hypertension. 59, 4, p. 877-84 8 p.
Downregulation of Kv7.4 channel activity in primary and secondary hypertension
Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Chadha, P. S., Davis, A. J., Harhun, M. I., Cockerill, G. W., Olesen, S. P., Hansen, R. S. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, 2 Aug 2011, In : Circulation. 124, 5, p. 602-11 10 p.
Expression and function of the K+ channel KCNQ genes in human arteries
Ng, F. L., Davis, A. J., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Harhun, M. I., Yeung, S. Y., Wan, A., Reddy, M., Melville, D., Nardi, A., Khong, T. K. & Greenwood, Iain Andrew, Jan 2011, In : British Journal of Pharmacology. 162, 1, p. 42-53 12 p.
Expression profile and protein translation of TMEM16A in murine smooth muscle
Davis, A. J., Forrest, A. S., Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Valencik, M. L., Wiwchar, M., Singer, C. A., Sones, W. R., Greenwood, Iain Andrew & Leblanc, N., Nov 2010, In : A J P: Cell Physiology (Online). 299, 5, p. C948-59
Molecular and functional characterization of Kv7 K+ channel in murine gastrointestinal smooth muscles
Jepps, Thomas Andrew Qvistgaard, Greenwood, Iain Andrew, Moffatt, J. D., Sanders, K. M. & Ohya, S., Jul 2009, In : A J P: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology (Online). 297, 1, p. G107-15
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Start Over You searched for: Authors Chase, A. W. (Alvin Wood), 1817-1885 ✖Remove constraint Authors: Chase, A. W. (Alvin Wood), 1817-1885 Formats Text ✖Remove constraint Formats: Text Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works Dates by Range 1850-1899 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1850-1899
1. Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoemakers, harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, farriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovators, farmers, and families generally : with a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities
Chase, A. W. (Alvin Wood), 1817-1885
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Published by R.A. Beal, 1880
2. Dr. Chase's third, last and complete receipt book and household physician, or, Practical knowledge for the people, from the life-long observations of the author: embracing the choicest, most valuable and entirely new receipts in every department of medicine, mechanics, and househould economy : including a treatise on the diseases of women and children, in fact, the book for the million, with remarks and explanations which adapt it to the every-day wants of the people arranged in departments and most copiously indexed
Detroit, Mich. and Windsor, Ont. : Published by F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1890
3. Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes, for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoe makers, harness makers, painters, jewlers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, farriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovaters, farmers, and families generally : to which have been added A rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments
Ann Arbor, Michigan : Published by the author, 1866
4. Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes ... to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments, with a copious index
Ann Arbor, Mich. : R.A. Beal, 1872
5. Dr. Chase's third, last and complete receipt book and household physician: or practical knowledge for the people from the life-long observations of the author, embracing the choicest, most valuable and entirely new receipts in every department of medicine, mechanics, and household economy : including a treatise on the diseases of women and children, in fact, the book for the million, with remarks and explanations which adapt it to the every-day wants of the people, arranged in departments and most copiously indexed
Detroit, Mich. : Dickerson, 1889
6. Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes ... to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Published by the author, 1865
8. Recepte von Dr. Chase, oder, Belehrung für Jedermann: eine sehr werthvolle Sammlung von ungefähr 800 praktischen Recepten ... : ebenso enthaltend eine gründliche Behandlung von Brustfellentzündung, Lungenentzündung &c, sowie der Krankheiten des weiblichen Geschlechts : ungeordnet nach den betroffenden Gebieten, mit Anmerkungen und Erklärungen
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Verlag des Verfassers, 1865
9. Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists ... and families generally : to which have been added a ratiional treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments
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Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes ... to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments2
Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes ... to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments, with a copious index1
Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists ... and families generally : to which have been added a ratiional treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments1
Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoemakers, harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, farriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovators, farmers, and families generally : with a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities1
Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes, for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoe makers, harness makers, painters, jewlers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, farriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovaters, farmers, and families generally : to which have been added A rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments1
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Rotary tools for threaded fasteners — Performance test method
ISO 5393:2017 specifies a laboratory performance test method for power assembly tools (referred throughout the document as "tool") for installing threaded fasteners.
ISO 5393:2017 provides a method for the measurement of torque repeatability (scatter)
- over a range of torque rates as specified in this document,
- over a range of torque adjustment as defined by the manufacturer, and
- over a number of operating cycles as defined by the manufacturer.
ISO 5393:2017 provides a method for the measurement of the precision of the built-in torque measurement system for tools incorporating such a feature. See Annex E.
ISO 5393:2017 gives instructions on equipment parameters, what to test for and how to evaluate and present the test data.
ISO 5393:2017 is applicable to tools
- of any power source, e.g. pneumatic, hydraulic, and electric, including battery-powered,
- which apply torque in a generally continuous manner, and
- within the torque range 0,5 Nm to 2 000 Nm. Outside this range, it is acceptable to modify the test method providing that the modification is documented in the test report.
ISO 5393:2017 is not applicable to
- impact or impulse wrenches,
- ratchet wrenches or wrenches with ratcheting clutches, and
- other tools which advance fasteners in discontinuous increments, overcoming static friction at each increment.
ISO 5393:2017 allows a test to be performed at any test torque level; however, in order to minimize the number of test joints necessary for a wide range of test torque levels, a list of preferred test torque levels is provided in Annex A.
Pneumatic tools and machines
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公司新闻(英文)
September 4, 2019 / 11:59 AM / 4 months ago
CORRECTED-US STOCKS-Futures higher as robust Chinese data eases growth worries
Uday Sampath Kumar
3 分钟阅读
(Corrects paragraph 7 to remove reference to falling 10-year yield)
* Futures up: Dow 0.75%, S&P 0.77%, Nasdaq 0.96%
By Uday Sampath Kumar
Sept 4 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday after encouraging data from China allayed concerns of slowing global growth in the backdrop of an ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China.
A private survey showed activity in China's services sector expanded at the fastest pace in three months in August, a boost to the world's second-largest economy struggling to reverse a prolonged slump in its manufacturing sector.
Wall Street's three major indexes fell on Tuesday after the United States and China imposed new tariffs on each other's goods over the weekend and on data showing weak U.S. factory activity in August.
Markets have struggled in August as escalating trade tensions and the inversion of a key part of the U.S. yield curve, often seen as a sign of recession, drove investors away from risky assets, pushing the S&P 500 1.8% lower for the month.
The benchmark is now 4% away from its record high hit in late July.
Intel Corp, Qualcomm Inc and Micron Technology Inc rose between 0.7% and 3% in premarket trading.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Bank of America Corp and JPMorgan Chase & Co were also trading higher.
Investors will also keep a close watch on the monthly jobs report, which is due on Friday, to gauge the likelihood of another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve at its mid-September meeting.
At 7:17 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were up 195 points, or 0.75%. S&P 500 e-minis were up 22.25 points, or 0.77% and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 72.75 points, or 0.96%.
Among other stocks, Tapestry Inc shares rose 2.5% after the Coach handbag maker said Chief Executive Officer Victor Luis was stepping down.
Activision Blizzard Inc gained 2.2% after brokerage BMO Capital Markets upgraded the videogame publisher's stock to "outperform."
Tyson Foods Inc shares fell 5.1%, after the United States' biggest meat processor cut its 2019 earnings forecast, citing a litany of causes including a recent fire at its Holcomb slaughterhouse and volatility in the commodity market.
On the data front, a report from the Commerce Department is expected to show U.S. trade deficit in July narrowed to $53.5 billion from $55.2 billion in June. The report is due at 8:30 a.m. ET. (Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)
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← Under the spell of mommy power
Schadenfreude – owner’s fall. Neighbour’s glee. →
Elections are underway across the country, and it is this time when larger-than-life celebrities descend from their celluloid screens onto political arenas.
As a nation, we breathe movies, we talk movies, we dance movies, we sing movies. Unemployment climbs to staggering heights, yet movie halls brim with die-hard fans. Movies are to us what oxygen is to our bloodstream. Movies and politics are two sides of the same theatre in India. At curtain call, both put up an extravaganza of selling dreams.
Therefore, even our political canvas has a huge influence from the movies. The south of India has a reputation for making its celluloid heroes step right out of the screen and into the legislative assembly. We have this furtive hope in our hearts that a man who can say “poda rascala” and shoot down enemies by flicking a cigarette at them will deliver us from poverty, unemployment and debt. Years ago, M G Ramachandran ruled Tamil-speaking hearts through his histrionics on screen and continued to do so off-screen as the matinee-idol-turned Chief Minister. He took under his tutelage his romantic angle from the movies, Jayalalitha, who until recently reigned as the queen of Tamil Nadu politics.
Govinda, the boy from Virar, a distant suburb of Mumbai, danced his way into the hearts of his fans, and soon nursed political ambitions, alongside his disco dancer peer, Mithun Chakraborty. While Mithun became a Rajya Sabha member, Govinda contested on a Congress ticket and won by a decent margin. But, when his regular absence from Parliament kicked up a storm, he quit. His grouse: as if winning was not enough, they now want me to attend Parliament! His taunt, tujhe mirchi lagi toh mein kya karoon, boomeranged badly.
Much before him, Sunil Dutt, a veteran actor, debuted in politics and proved himself to be a good son of Mother India. From holding the position of Sheriff of Bombay in 1981, to joining the Congress party in 1984, he went on to become in 2004, India’s Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, a post he held until his death. He worked hard for the cause of the slum dwellers.
Not one to be left behind, the angry young man of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, aspired to spread his magic in the world of politics, and contested from Allahabad, and went on to a big win against stalwart Bahuguna. Soon enough, he called it quits when the Bofors issue threatened to put up a Deewar between him and his stellar movie reputation.
When it comes to elections, we Indians are known to carry our hearts on our sleeves. History is witness to the scripting of blockbusters off-screen as well.
Hema Malini, draped in her exquisite handlooms, prancing in the fields of Mathura, has a strong chance of reaping in the votes. Farmers, parched for a spark of excitement in life, find it too-good-to-be true to have the nation’s dream girl ride into their backyards atop a tractor. Going by the whopping win she had the last time, she Kent go wrong this time.
The newest entrant this year is the Rangeela girl – Urmila Matondkar. “I am no longer Masoom,” screams her new persona as she smiles down from the front pages of tabloids that announce her acquisition of a Congress ticket. She is the party’s new hope in the North Mumbai constituency, where its image has been fading steadily.
In the past few years, the BJP has been consistently wooing celebrities into its ranks. At its Sampark se samarthan campaign recently, it extended invites to Madhuri Dixit and Lata Mangeshkar. While the former, although still striving to make an impressionable comeback to stardom, nay nay-ed the offer, the latter cooed a polite no.
Shotgun Sinha’s dalliance with politics has been quite steady now. Accustomed to moving from one production house to the other in the movie industry, he broke his allegiance with the BJP, and now espouses the cause of the Congress party, but not before he unKhamoshed and let out a spiel of fury aimed at his earlier home – the BJP.
While it’s obvious that film stars have a big fan following which results into big votes, do they make good politicians when elected? Firstly, do they attend parliamentary activities? Do they ask appropriate questions or even take part in debates? Try as much as I want to, I find it impossible to imagine Hema Malini engage in discussions revolving around…aagh…the imagination refuses to budge any more. Does Urmila realise that smiling cutely does not resolve empowerment issues?
Jaya Prada, now a seasoned two-termer, is dipping her dainty toes in the BJP waters. Earlier she was a Samajwadi Party member, and now she shares star power in BJP along with Paresh Rawal and Hema Malini. Latest news has it that Paresh Rawal has drawn the curtains on his political career. Perhaps, he realises the hera pheri here is a different monkey business. Even then, this time around, the BJP is flapping the most multi-starred banner.
The strategy is crystal clear. Party bigwigs know that celebrities are nothing more than big crowd pullers. If they can perform at weddings, why can’t they at the country’s biggest circus??
In the end, for the voters, elections offer three things: entertainment, entertainment and entertainment. What we forget is that unlike a three-hour escapade, this one’s an enduring sufferance.
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5 Women-Led Podcasts You Need to Know About
By Hannah Edington • 1 year ago
Photo by Belder Boddah
Podcasts are an easy way to listen and learn as we go about doing our daily routines. As they have grown more and more popular in our culture, the choice for what we listen to is daily expanding.
We can easily opt for the most popular podcasts, or whatever our friends might be listening to, but for a bit of encouragement and some diversity speaking into our lives, the following are five picks for women-led podcasts.
01 | Business With Purpose
Hosted by Molly Stillman of the blog “Still Being Molly,” this weekly podcast features interviews with CEOs and founders of purpose-driven companies, NGO’s, and initiatives to have a fantastic impact in our everyday lives. Through hearing the stories of these incredible interviewees, Molly encourages her listeners to develop in their daily lives as they seek to improve the world around them. Despite the often intense and deep stories of those featured on the show, Molly manages to be a funny, compassionate, honest, and utterly lovable hostess at the same time.
02 | The “Clever Girls Know” Podcast
Bola of “Clever Girl Finance” uses her podcast to help women learn to manage their money successfully. By telling her story of getting out of debt and saving over $100,000 in only three and a half years, Bola engages listeners in ways to provide for themselves, their families, and save for the future. The podcast also features interviews with women who provide practical advice and encouragement. This podcast is fantastic for women seeking to pursue their financial dreams and live a life that has money managed.
03 | Thread the Future
Intent on striving towards a socially conscious world, Thread the Future is hosted by Bri of Triple Thread Co, focusing on meaning, success, and opportunity within a community and how we can use these to generate positive change. Learning from entrepreneurs and ethically driven people, listeners can be inspired to pursue their dreams in light of change. As Bri slows down on the podcast to nurture her new baby, now is the perfect chance to catch up on old episodes!
04 | The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey
Featuring interviews with incredible women who are influencing and changing the face of authentic modern-day womanhood, The Happy Hour is a delight to listen to. While those featured on this podcast may have deep and intense lessons to teach the listener, every episode is met with fun and a light-hearted spirit. This is a podcast that will prove to leave the listener in a good mood and with the feeling of having spent an evening with a few good friends and a glass of wine.
05 | That Sounds Fun with Annie Downes
Here is a podcast that crosses the board with Annie’s amazing choices for guests that range from comedians to musicians to businessmen and women and everyone in between. Annie opens the door to their lives and allows them to blend their unique talents of teaching and entertaining, while ultimately just sharing about life in general. Another podcast to leave you in a good mood for the day, The Sound Fun will provide you with new mentors, no matter what your field or interests.
The best part about podcasts is that one always leads to another. While these women have provided something amazing for listening ears, there are countless others. However, if you are seeking to expand the voices of women speaking into your life, these five are an excellent start.
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Hannah Edington is a writer, teacher, and an entrepreneur living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her long-term goals include writing about life in developing nations, working with widows and single moms to start businesses, and starting a family with her soon-to-be husband.
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Benefits of Working at Corning Children’s Center
What Our Staff has to Say
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Assessing Needs
Importance of Accreditation
Fees and Enrollment
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Prospective Families – Importance of Accreditation
Accreditation is a well-established mark of quality. While there are some differences in the approach to accreditation, all of the major accrediting organizations require a voluntary and rigorous self-evaluation based on a defined process, provide external evaluation by a group of professionals, foster continuous improvement, and award accreditation only to those centers that demonstrate integrity and quality across multiple factors.
The three primary agencies that evaluate and accredit child care and early education centers in this region are:
Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
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Corning Children’s Center currently maintains accreditation from the Middle States Commission. We undertake the extensive process of self-evaluation and welcome peer professionals to review our findings and visit our school because we are committed to offering the finest care and education. The accreditation process forces us to examine ourselves thoughtfully and thoroughly, to assess what we do well and what we could do better, and gives us knowledgeable and impartial feedback from professionals. Our affiliation with Middle States also provides us with multiple learning resources for our staff and easy access to current research on child development, learning, and teaching.
While there is no such thing as a guarantee of 100% quality, we are convinced that the accreditation process is a very valuable tool and a worthy measure of excellence.
Corning Children's Center strives to set the standard in early care and education by inspiring learners, leaders and dreamers.
Our program was among the first early-childhood centers to receive accreditation from Middle States, and we have maintained this accreditation since 2005.
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Comcast Business Announces Strategic Cybersecurity Initiatives
Strategic engagements with Fortinet and Akamai will drive continued innovation in cybersecurity solutions for Small Business and Enterprise customers.
Comcast Business today announced two strategic initiatives aimed at driving increased innovation in cloud-based cybersecurity solutions for customers of all sizes – SMB through Enterprise. The collaborations with industry leaders Fortinet and Akamai were announced during Comcast Business’ 5th annual Analyst Day at the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia.
“In today’s hyper-connected world, cyberthreats are becoming more sophisticated and prevalent. No organization is too large or too small to be a target,” said Bob Victor, SVP of Product Management, Comcast Business. “These strategic initiatives will drive increased cybersecurity innovation across our product portfolio, helping customers of all sizes stay protected and secure. We’re thrilled to work with these two industry leaders and look forward to unveiling the output of these relationships in the near future.”
Comcast Business is collaborating with cybersecurity market leader, Fortinet, to bring advanced security solutions to midsize and enterprise customers via Comcast Business’ award-winning ActiveCoreSM software-defined-networking (SDN) platform. The engagement will seek to integrate capabilities of Fortinet’s FortiGate-VM Next-Generation Firewall Virtual Appliance and Fortinet Security Fabric to help protect against a variety of security threats, including malware and attacks that simultaneously target different network vulnerabilities.
“Organizations undergoing digital innovation need an efficient and advanced security solution designed to protect their WAN edge. We believe the right solution offers deep visibility, robust protection, management simplicity and optimal performance to mitigate risk, manage operational expense and improve TCO,” says John Maddison, EVP of products and CMO at Fortinet. “We welcome the opportunity to work with Comcast Business to deliver integrated security solutions – to help protect critical data from the network core to the edge.”
In today’s hyper-connected world, cyberthreats are becoming more sophisticated and prevalent. No organization is too large or too small to be a target.
Bob Victor
Senior Vice President of Product Management, Comcast Business
Comcast Business announced a strategic partnership with leading cybersecurity provider Akamai, to develop cloud-based cybersecurity solutions aimed at protecting small business customers from increased cyberattacks. Nearly half of small businesses in the United States suffered a cyberattack in 2017, according to a recent study. These solutions are designed to mitigate this rising risk and will provide small business owners greater visibility into their network safety with personalized dashboards and customized reports detailing network activity and threats.
“While cybersecurity remains a high priority for most organizations that conduct business online, many SMBs lack the internal resources to address those challenges themselves,” said Dane Walther, SVP and GM, Media & Carrier, Akamai. “We’re excited to partner with Comcast Business in an effort to close that gap and help make cloud-based security services anchored by strong threat intelligence more accessible to a broader range of businesses.”
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Introducing Crackdown, plus an update
https://citedpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Cited-Subscriber-Update.mp3
We’d really hoped to get you a new Cited season this fall, but we’re delaying. However, we have a new podcast to share with you. Crackdown. Read More
Podcasts every Thursday. Broadcasts from CiTR 101.9, CJSF 90.1, CKDU 88.1, CIVL 101.7, and WVBR 93.5.
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Update: Cited is on Break
We would usually be back in the fall for a new season. However, we're not coming back this time. We're taking a break. We're planning to make a bigger version of Cited in fall 2019, but we need to gear up and retool. That means fundraising, hiring, and producing. Thanks for sticking with us. Read More
#64: Site C and High Modernity
In British Columbia, energy experts want to transition off of fossil fuels. We look at B.C.'s indigenous history to ask whether the province can decarbonize and decolonize at the same time. Read More
#63: The Battle of Buxton
The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat? It's a small preview of what's to come in a time of rising seas. We team up with 99% Invisible to tell the story. Read More
#62: The Invisible Climate Migrants
On today's show we meet two Bangladeshi Canadians whose stories speak to the unequal way climate change is felt around the world. UPenn Sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen talks about his hopes and fears for a warming planet. Read More
#61: The Ongoing Cultural Genocide of Indigenous Canadians
Many indigenous leaders say Canada's foster care system is a continuation of cultural genocide against their people. We tell the story of one BC community's struggle to wrest control from the government, and reinstall indigenous child welfare. Read More
#60: The Spotted Owl or: How the Right Won the Working Class
Judi Bari's effort to ally forest workers and environmentalists could have changed the course of climate activism forever. Could her parable help us today? Read More
#59: Why are Vancouver’s Hospitals Getting More Violent?
This week Cited partners with Travis Lupick, reporter and editor with The Georgia Straight, to uncover a worrying trend in Vancouver's health care system. Since 2010, rates of violence and aggression have steadily increased in the city's two largest hospitals. The question is why?
#58: The Patients and the Profit
More and more, Canada is outsourcing its elder care to for-profit companies. On this week's episode, Sam goes to Stanford Seniors Village to investigate what that means for some of the country's most vulnerable citizens. Read More
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Richmond Hustings Court
Information about the Hustings Court in Richmond, VA during the Civil War
The Hustings Court, when presided over by a judge, had the powers of a Circuit Court. The Hustings Court was also sometimes referred to as "Judge Lyon's Court" in the newspapers.
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1864-02-08, Richmond Dispatch; Forde’s appeal for a new trial is denied, and sentence of 18 years reiterated. More appeals to follow. Forde addresses the court, explaining his action – interesting details
1864-04-16, Richmond Dispatch; The Supreme Court has heard the appeal for a new trial of Robert S. Forde, and will rule on this next week
1864-04-27, Richmond Dispatch; Forde is granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, but will remain in jail until the trial date is set by Judge Lyons
1864-05-31, Richmond Dispatch; major prosecution witness again Robert S. Forde is charged with stealing a cow
1864-06-07, Richmond Whig; details on a woman who told "Beast" Butler that Mayor Mayo had been thrown into Castle Thunder (false rumor)
1864-06-28, Richmond Dispatch; Hustings Court matters: new trial of Robert Forde is continued until the next term of the court
1864-07-07, Richmond Dispatch; new trial of Robert Forde postponed until the next term on motion, and Forde sent back to jail.
1864-07-15, Richmond Dispatch; Man accused of stealing a horse is granted bail
1864-07-15, Richmond Dispatch; Summary of Mayor's Court decisions reported on July 15, 1864
1864-07-16, Richmond Dispatch; thirty odd persons granted permission to sell liquor
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Trump Prohibits Pre-Exisiting Conditions Defense
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Re: Trump Prohibits Pre-Exisiting Conditions Defense
@rk9152 wrote:
@mickstuder wrote:
Unable to nullify the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Congress, the Trump administration has instead chipped away at the ACA’s foundations in an attempt to effectuate its collapse. That collapse hasn’t happened yet. In fact, ACA exchange market appears to have recovered from last year's doldrums. But, another key ACA pillar is now vulnerable to being eliminated.
A lawsuit by 20 U.S. Republican states seeks to invalidate pre-existing condition protections contained in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
A pre-existing condition is any disease or condition for which an applicant for health insurance has sought medical care. The lawsuit also seeks to remove ACA provisions regarding community rating. Here, community rating refers to the setting of insurance premiums without adjusting for a person’s health status.
The lawsuit, Texas v. Azar, was filed in February 2018 by Texas and 19 other states. It builds on the recent repeal of the ACA’s individual mandate, which was part of last year’s tax reform law. In the case, the plaintiffs argue that because the mandate was an essential part of the ACA, the entire law should be invalidated.
Remarkably, the U.S. Department of Justice stated in a court filing it would not defend ACA in the litigation. In fact, it went further by arguing in a court brief that ACA protections for pre-existing conditions should be ruled unconstitutional.
A ruling is not expected until later this year.
However, if the 20 states prevail, over 50 million Americans with pre-existing conditions could lose partial or whole coverage, or face much higher premiums.
Source - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2018/10/08/possible-removal-of-pre-existing-conditions-prot...
I am all for permitting coverage for babies born with a problem. I am all for insuring that when a person changes insurance companies due to a change in employment. And, no doubt, there are other situations I would approve of pre-existent not being used as a factor.
However, take a 47 year old who has been quite capable of purchasing insurance all his working life but opted not to. He is diagnosed with something dire and expensive. What do we do? Do we buy car insurance after the accident? Do we buy homeowner's insurance after the fire?
Does everyone with Car Insurance share the burden of the few who Crash - YES
Does everyone with Home Insurance share the burden for the few who's Homes Burn - YES
Even having covered people with Pre-existing conditions do Health Insurance Companies make Billions in Profits - YES - Absolutely and it's Obcene to try and Lump Everyone Who Has Ever Been Treated for any Medical Condition into a Category called Pre-existing Conditions
A Patient could break their leg in a Car Accident where they had No Fault and now for the Rest of Their Lives They Are Expected to pay Higher Health Insurance Premiums regardless of whether or not after their Broken Leg healed perfectly - ever cost the Health Insurance System another Dime
Source - https://www.axios.com/profits-are-booming-at-health-insurance-companies-1513302495-18f3710a-c0b4-4ce...
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@GailL1 wrote:
OR premiums would be adjusted accordingly, up and down, and all states would set up a reinsurance program like Alaska, Minnesota and several others who already have or are pursuing them, to cover some of the healthcare cost of these high healthcare users over a certain limit -
Thus everybody is covered at a much more reasonable premium rate.
This Comment assumes - ALL Patients with Pre-existing Conditions - are - "high healthcare users" - thats totally false & misleading....................
Having High Blood Pressure - a Disease that more than 75 Million Americans suffer from - is considered a PRE-EXISTING CONDITION - I've had Clinically Diagnosed High Blood Pressure for 35 years - I take a 10mg pill daily that costs my Insurance Company about $0.5 Cents per month and has controlled my High Blood Pressure for 35 years without any further expense to the American Healthcare System
This is just one example of the absurd ridiculous arguments that attempts to demonize anyone who has had any kind of Medical Treatment for even the most benign common Medical Conditions that are easily controlled and inexpensive but are used to put Patients into High Risk - High Healthcare User - Categories so they can be premium gouged by Health Insurance Behemoths
Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth Group — the big five for-profit insurers — cumulatively collected $4.5 billion in net earnings in the first three months of 2017.
That was by far the biggest first-quarter haul for the group since the ACA exchanges went live in 2014. Other major insurers, such as the Blue Cross and Blue Shield companyare also thriving
In fact the only time Health Insurance Companies report losses is when they make Poor Business Decisions and either Cheat Medicare and pay fines or they try to Merger and ceate even Bigger Monopolies that FAIL
Like the 1 Billion Aetna had to pay Humana
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Bah! Let 'em take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Justice Kavanaugh isn't about to vote yes on anything, that would in any way, gut the ACA. Senator Susan Collins said so!
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Then let's talk with numbers -
If health insurers were limited in what they had to pay out on a yearly basis for anybody - let's say to $50,000 then everybody's premium would be based on that limit. Not singling anybody out no matter their condition or wonderful health.
The premiums would still be set based on a risk assessment but not on a person-basis - it would be set based on a numbers factor of how many people, perhaps by age group, would reach those upper limits of health care cost in a single year - no matter the cause - some pre-existing condition or some health related bad luck like an accident or such.
We don't need to reinvent the wheel - we just need to have people's medical needs covered to a certain extent by insurance - be that insurance private or public.
We don't have to single them out by personal health - the limit before going on the reinsurance program would be by medical dollar limit used.
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@ChasKy53 wrote:
Yep, premiums would be adjusted "accordingly" alright ..... "accordingly" to pre-existing conditions. And the key word (which you should have put in large bold print) is 'UP'.
Why try and sugar coat this?
Insurance is ALL about risk - all kinds.
IF that risk factor is limited, in this case by the reinsurance program, then premiums for everybody would NOT be adversely affected that much because of that preset risk dollar amount.
IF that reinsurance program was overseen by government - state or federal - like we already do for other government based coverage like Medicare and Medicaid - then we could be assured that high medical care users are getting what they need as what is deemed medically necessary.
I don't think that people with any sort of pre-existing condition should be denied health insurance, but insurers and people who have the insurance who do or don't have high healthcare cost should have reasonably set premiums which are not so volitile because of high health care cost of a relatively few. IF the limit is set on a dollar basis of what is spent during a years time, then this would NOT have the assignment made on any type of conditon - pre-existing or a sudden occurences because the risk is mitigated by the spent amount.
Your long post is actually advocating those with pre-existing conditions paying higher premiums.
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Republicans are doing everything they can to kill the ACA, if they do the 40K or so Americans that die every year as a result will be on them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/09/28/heres-how-the-trump-administration-is-hur...
Here’s how the Trump administration is hurting enrollment in Obamacare
At its heart, the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — is about figuring out how to pay to provide more people with insurance coverage. Before the policy was enacted, insurers balked at covering those with preexisting conditions for the simple reason that such customers are expensive. Cover a lot of expensive people and you either need to enroll more healthy people (who will pay premiums but use fewer resources) or raise premiums.
Obamacare opted for the former, mandating that Americans have health insurance or pay a tax penalty. Without those healthy people paying into the system, insurers that have to provide coverage for those with preexisting conditions might be left with no choice but to increase premiums.
In other words, enrolling those healthy people is central to making Obamacare work. And in light of that, it’s probably not surprising to discover that the administration of President Trump is taking a number of steps that, intentionally or not, will undercut the number of healthy people who enroll.
Here are a number of ways that’s happening.
Slashed funding for enrollment groups. Earlier this month, The Post reported that navigator groups — organizations that work to enroll participants in Obamacare in states that don’t operate their own insurance exchanges — would see sharp cuts to the funding they receive from the federal government. Some groups saw reductions of as much as 92 percent of what they’d received in the past, part of the administration’s decision to cut funding overall by 41 percent.
The biggest cuts, we learned, were to groups in the South and the Midwest. Nebraska will lose 81 percent of its funding; Indiana, 82 percent; Louisiana, 80 percent. Among the populations targeted by navigator groups are young people, a population that tends to be much healthier on average, for perhaps obvious reasons.
Thirty-five organizations in 21 states targeted young people specifically.
Cut funding for enrollment advertising. The administration announced plans to cut its advertising budget for enrollment from $100 million to $10 million at the end of August — a 90 percent decrease. As Vox subsequently reported, a sharp decrease in advertising in Kentucky after that state elected a Republican governor led to a big drop-off in visits to the enrollment website in the state.
“Our analysis tells us that state-sponsored television advertising was a substantial driver of information-seeking behavior in Kentucky during open enrollment,” a report on the cuts read, “a critical step to getting consumers to shop for plans, understand their eligibility for premium tax credits or Medicaid, and enroll in coverage.”
Shutting down the enrollment website for hours a week. The open enrollment period for 2018 runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, the critical period during which enrollment is encouraged. Last week it was revealedthat for 12-hour blocks on several Sundays during that period, Healthcare.gov would be down for maintenance. The only Sunday on which the site isn’t scheduled to be down from midnight to noon is on Dec. 10, the last Sunday of enrollment.
Halted participation in enrollment events. Talking Points Memo noted in August that a Latino group that had worked with the Department of Health and Human Services in past years to enroll people in Obamacare suddenly found itself shut out. While the administration of President Barack Obama had provided Spanish-language materials and sent surrogates to events to encourage enrollment, that stopped in 2017.
“We haven’t had any of those discussions,” the policy director of one group told TPM. “It almost completely stopped as soon as the new administration came in.”
This week, a similar report from Mississippi. Vox’s Dylan Scott learned that an organization in that state that had similarly worked with HHS in the past to put together events would not be receiving any such help from the federal agency in 2017. The Mississippi Health Advocacy Program had expected agency staff to participate in events aimed at encouraging enrollment across the state and, as recently as this month, had received confirmation that the partnership would move forward. Then, on Monday, it received notice that no HHS staff would be participating.
Asked for comment, a spokesman for HHS told Vox that as “Obamacare continues to collapse, HHS is carefully evaluating how we can best serve the American people who continue to be harmed by Obamacare’s failures.”
The measures above are likely to hurt enrollment numbers — helping to push Obamacare toward just such a point of failure.
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Yes, you can totally use beer, coffee and hemp for 3D printing
Posted 11:07 AM, July 26, 2016, by CNN Wire, Updated at 12:24PM, July 26, 2016
NEW YORK — Sure, 3D printing is cool, but a startup in Fargo, North Dakota, is taking it to the next level.
3DomFuel is recycling a collection of unusual products and turning them into material called filament that can be used for 3D printing.
“You can 3D print products made from beer, coffee and hemp,” said 26-year-old John Schneider, cofounder and chief marketing officer of 3DomFuel, a maker of 3D print filament dubbed 3D-Fuel.
“The dominant material for 3D printing is still plastic for both desktop printing and commercial 3D printing,” he said.
But Schneider and his business partner Jake Clark, 24, were itching to try something unique.
“It’s already a pretty competitive market for plastic filaments,” Schneider said. “We wanted to differentiate ourselves.”
Their search for unconventional materials began in 2015.
“We found a local company that specialized in mixing agricultural waste with plastics to create new materials,” he said. “It was doing this with coffee waste from local roasters and we decided to try it.”
Although it took about a dozen tries before the process worked, the duo was pleased with the results. Not only was 3D-Fuel able to extrude the coffee-based raw material into filament, “it also smelled so good, like sweet latte,” said Schneider.
Aesthetically, the coffee filament — appropriately called “Wound up” — offers more texture than plain white and off-white alternatives.
“The color of it is deep brown with varying shades of brown flecks in it,” Schneider said.
What could you make with it?
“It’s perfect for printing novelty items like coffee filter holders and sleeves for cups but not a coffee cup itself,” he said. “It’s still plastic material and not ideal for hot beverages.”
Coffee was only the beginning: “It worked out so well for us that we wanted to try other intriguing materials,” Schneider said.
Those included beer and hemp. The beer filament, called “Buzzed,” is made using waste material from the malting process mixed with plastic. Meanwhile, the 3D hemp filament is called “Entwined” and includes byproduct from industrial hemp crops mixed with plastic.
“Many people have asked us if the beer filament smells like old beer. Luckily it doesn’t,” he said. “It’s pleasant, like freshly-harvested barley.”
The smell, however, evaporates once the printing is done. “It’s the same thing with the coffee-based material,” he said.
Currently, 30% of 3DomFuel’s product mix includes filaments made from unusual materials. “We’re already experimenting with more materials to grow our offerings of recycled filaments,” he said.
Even though coffee, beer and hemp-based filaments cost about 60% to 80% more than the standard plastic filament (with an average price of $49.99 for a 500g spool), Schneider said demand has been robust.
“The word is spreading,” he said. “We’re seeing double-digit sales for these materials.”
Schneider said customers are using Buzzed to 3D print custom beer tap handles, coasters and 6-pack holders, too.
“Folks from the hemp industry have reached out to us,” he said. “They love seeing other innovative ways to use hemp.”
Schneider hopes the recycled filaments can one day be embraced by larger industries such as medical and aerospace manufacturers.
The efforts could also help address a longstanding question around waste in the 3D-printing industry.
“We’re often asked what we do with old materials and old prototypes,” said Schneider. “Now, we can show consumers how we are using renewable resources to support sustainable manufacturing.”
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Thu, 2016-05-19 23:27 -- Jessie MacAlpine
Today was an eventful and emotional day, beginning with public viewing and school tours in the morning. Following a quick lunch, finalists dressed to impress for the Awards Ceremony held this afternoon at Theatre St-Dennis. The venue was breathtaking and soon filled with finalists, delegates, family members and friends excited to share in the collective success of each and every young scientist from across the country.
Prior to the ceremony, the theatre was filled with the cheers and chants of each of the provinces. Finally, the lights dimmed and the phenomenal Master of Ceremonies Dominic Tremblay began the show. Following the Special Awards, the Executive Director of Youth Science Canada, Brad McCabe, spoke about the incredible accomplishment of each student in being selected to attend the Canada-Wide Science Fair. It is a truly prestigious honour that demonstrates the innovative spirit of each finalist.
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On that note, tomorrow will begin with public viewing in the morning. The afternoon will then include project take down and free time before the Farwell Boat Cruise on the St. Lawrence River. Finalists and delegates will be able to celebrate the end of a memorable week in Montreal by watching the sunset beyond the city skyline and enjoying the company of their many new friends.
Today’s fun fact about Montreal is that it is actually a UNESCO city of design.
Tomorrow’s weather looks fantastic with a high of 23 degrees and sunshine all day. It will be a fantastic day for a farewell boat cruise before finalists and delegates head back to their hometowns across the country.
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McConnell Responds To Republican Restaurant Harassment: ‘This Is All About Intimidation’
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responded to public protests of him and Republican leaders at restaurants, saying the protests are “all about intimidation” in a Thursday press conference.
“This is all about intimidation,” McConnell said at a Kentucky press conference, “not about persuasion but about intimidation. And I assure you that I will not be intimidated by these groups of socialists who apparently prefer open borders. Let’s understand what they are suggesting here: Getting rid ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and having no one at all control the borders. What I worry about is that that point of view seems to be moving into the United States Senate.”
McConnell continued, “There are three credible Democratic United States senators thinking of running for president who have come out for getting rid of ICE. Senator Gillibrand from New York. Senator Warren from Massachusetts. Senator Harris from California. No border security at all? So, I repeat, I will not be intimidated by protesters. Honestly, I enjoyed my lunch, and I’m just sorry that other people at the restaurant seem to have been inconvenienced by all of this.”
The Senate Majority Leader also added “it’s not about persuasion. It’s about intimidation,” and that he “will not be intimidated by these people.”
McConnell was accosted Saturday as he was leaving a restaurant in Kentucky. (RELATED: Socialist Protesters Confront Mitch McConnell Leaving Restaurant)
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‘Bachelorette’ Contestant Peter Denies Breaking Up With His Girlfriend To Go On The Show
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Beloved “Bachelorette” contestant Peter addressed allegations that he had broken up with his girlfriend specifically to go on the show.
In an interview published Tuesday with People magazine, Peter said his ex-girlfriend Calee Lutes was telling the truth but not all the truth.
A post shared by Calee Lutes (@caleelutes) on May 7, 2019 at 1:20pm PDT
“There was a lot of truth to what she said in her story, but there is also a lot of truth that wasn’t mentioned,” Peter told People magazine. “The show had absolutely nothing to do with me ending that relationship.”
Lutes came forward at the beginning of July and claimed that she had been dating Peter for six months before he suddenly ended their relationship. The model alleged that she and Peter had been talking about moving in together. Later she learned that Peter had been cast for Hannah Brown’s season of “The Bachelorette” after noticing a producer had followed him on Instagram. (RELATED: Hannah Brown Admits She Actually Had Sex 4 Times In The Windmill During ‘Bachelorette’ Finale)
“He absolutely betrayed me,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “He interviewed for a reality dating show while simultaneously planning a future with me. I trusted him entirely and he pulled the rug out from under me.”
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Peter denied that he ended the relationship to be on the show and said the interview process started months after he had ending things with Lutes.
“It’s obvious that I hurt someone that I really did care about,” Peter said. “That was never my intention. And for that I’m sorry. Breakups suck!”
Breakups do suck, Pete. I wasn’t sure I believed this girl when her allegations first came out. They don’t seem as likely as the girlfriend allegations against Jed. I’m sure they had a serious relationship, but it sounds more to me like she’s trying to find something concrete to blame the ending of their relationship on.
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Sophie Brown likes to work hard and play hard. Trapped in a relationship she can’t escape from, alcohol becomes her best friend. Unable to accept she has a problem, she becomes increasingly dependent on booze. Full of remorse and afraid of her own behaviour, Sophie finally agrees to accept help and enters rehab, where the road to recovery begins. When one of the friends she makes there disappears, Sophie knows she is up against time to find and save her.
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A drug lord fathers his lesbian niece’s child, but not in the usual way!
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Two Englishmen have dreams of setting up a business in the sun, but trouble follows them.
Their first brush with death came at Bangkok’s airport on Nick’s first day in the Kingdom.
Action, laughs, romance and tears follow as the story moves at a breathtaking pace.
Violence and tender moments collide as the gullible pair meet a dodgy ship’s engineer, two lovely French girls more interested in dogs than romance, and a tall Welsh man, with a very chequered drug background who leads them all into more trouble. The last person they need to encounter is a lesbian newspaper reporter with a deadly family secret.
The tale unfolds into an action-packed finale.
“I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry,
all very worrying.” Janet Brookman
“How can anybody have so many
worries on a paradise beach?” Tim Mellish
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THE THRILLING ORIGIN OF BARRETT MASON, THE CIA’S COWBOY
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A rookie spy thrown into the deep end before he knows how to swim, Barrett Mason must hunt a fellow Texan turned Islamic extremist through London’s deadly underbelly.
Before Barrett can bring his man to justice, he must wrestle with his new mentor: a bitter CIA vet who would sooner jump off Big Ben than let a greenhorn like Barrett call the shots. Even when Barrett sees the horrible truth through the murky games of spies.
Success means laying old ghosts to rest. Failure means letting a terrorist mastermind smear the streets of London with innocent blood.
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“This book is as good as any “Jack Reacher” book I have ever read, and I’ve read them all. I thoroughly enjoyed, and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book…” -Amazon Reviewer
“Barrett relentlessly does the job his country trained him to do. A great read for people who love patriotism, determination, and a do or die mind set.” -Amazon Reviewer
Fans of Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Child’s Jack Reacher, Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, and LT Ryan’s Jack Noble will be hooked by the heart-pounding, life-or-death adventures of Barrett Mason.
Was it suicide … or murder? Detective Sergeant Solomon Gray is driven to discover the truth. Whatever the personal cost.
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When teenager Nick Buckingham tumbles from the fifth floor of an apartment block, Detective Sergeant Solomon Gray answers the call with a sick feeling in his stomach. The victim was just a kid, sixteen years old. And the exact age the detective’s son was, the son Gray has not seen since he went missing at a funfair ten years ago. Each case involving children haunts Gray with the reminder that his son may still be out there – or worse, dead. The seemingly open and shut case of suicide twists into a darker discovery. Buckingham and Gray have never met, so why is Gray’s number on the dead teenager’s mobile phone?
Gray begins to unravel a murky world of abuse, lies, and corruption. And when the body of Reverend David Hill is found shot to death in the vestry of Gray’s old church, Gray wonders how far the depravity stretches and who might be next. Nothing seems connected, and yet there is one common thread: Detective Sergeant Solomon Gray, himself. As the bodies pile up, Gray must face his own demons.
Crippled by loss Gray takes the first step on the long road of redemption. But is the killer closer to home than he realised?
Set in the once grand town of Margate in the south of England, the now broken and depressed seaside resort becomes its own character in this dark detective thriller, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride, and Peter James.
Dig Two Graves is the first in the Solomon Gray series. Pick it up now to discover whether Gray finds his son in this thrilling new crime series.
“It’s just too damned good, I loved it.”
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“What a joy.”
“Could not put it down.”
“Grittiness seeps out of this book from every pore.”
“The author has hooked me in yet again.”
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“This is a must read.”
“A stunning book and a new series that has become a must read.”
-M.W. Craven, author of the Washington Poe series
“A compelling murder mystery with a multilayered and engaging new hero. Great read.”
Mason Cross, author of the Carter Blake thriller series
“A damaged detective, haunted by a tragic past, a young son missing or dead, a man on a quest for redemption. Detective Sergeant Solomon Gray is a fine creation and Dig Two Graves an intriguing, nourish mystery. Keith Nixon is a sparkling crime fiction talent.”
Howard Linskey, author of the Detective Ian Bradshaw crime series
“A dark, uncompromising tale of loss, murder, and revenge. Glorious noir, which takes the police procedural elements and gives them new life. I can’t wait to read the next step in Solomon Gray’s journey for answers …”
Luca Veste, author of the Murphy and Rossi crime series
“… deeply emotional, a dark rollercoaster ride.”
Ed James, author of bestselling DI Fenchurch series
“Keith Nixon does for Margate what Peter James did for Brighton … As dark and brooding as the wind-lashed shores of the North Sea, and with its disturbing echoes of the Elm Guest House scandal and suggestions of deep-seated institutional corruption, Dig Two Graves is a superb addition to the rich Brit Crime scene.”
Tim Baker, CWA shortlisted author of Fever City
London isn’t ready for the investigative skills of New York Detective Bex Wynter…
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A teen accused of murder. A cop running from her past. Is she his only salvation?
Bex thinks she might find peace in London, away from painful reminders of her husband’s death. Instead she’s met with suspicion and misgiving from her new team who fiercely contest her every move. That doesn’t stop her taking neophyte detective Reuben Richards under her wing as she investigates a teen accused of murder.
She’s about to teach her British cohorts that she’ll never stop fighting for justice. Not for herself, but for those who can’t fight for themselves. But with an investigation yielding more questions than answers, is she fighting for the wrong cause?
You’ll love this realistic police procedural mystery in a shorter package you can binge read in one night!
When your partner goes missing
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Living with Saci is set in the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo, Brazil. It tells the story of Teresa da Silva, an overweight, depressed, drink dependent, and her struggles in the city. Estranged from her daughter, who lives with the ex-husband in England, life seems to constantly deal Teresa a bad hand. She begins to wonder whether the mischievous character from Brazilian folklore, Saci, might have something to do with it. Events seem to be taking a turn for the positive when she meets Felipe, who asks her to marry him. But when he disappears, Teresa finds that she is the object of suspicion.
She is looking for redemption; he wants a way out, but their fateful collision in a small town could kill them both…
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I used to have everything I wanted, at the top of my game. But one wrong move and not only was my heart shattered, but I lost my job. But now I am going to get it back. I am going to go rogue and go undercover in this small Texas town to catch one of the most dangerous MCs red-handed, and I am going to get my job back and then some. They will beg for me back.
I cannot f this up.
But what happens when my heart gets involved again?
They call me Jade because of my heritage; Korean American. You won’t see a hell of a lot of those in these parts, but what you will see are criminals. A lot of fu criminals, and I am one of them.
I am a member of the Red Crows MC. They were there for me when I had no one, but now I want out. I don’t want to be a criminal anymore.
The problem is that I am in too deep, and there is only one way out. And I might just be taking the woman I have fallen fast and hard for down with me.
A fun, flirty mystery
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Presley Thurman is a Human Resources manager who is up for a promotion and the only thing standing in her way is co-worker Gladys who is also a candidate.
Presley and Gladys aren’t the best of friends so when Gladys turns up murdered Presley is the logical suspect.
She didn’t like Gladys, but she certainly didn’t kill her. Presley has to clear her name before not only does she lose out on this big promotion but even worse! She ends up in jail.
Mama’s dead. Her money is gone. And her accountant is missing.
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Though born to heirloom pearls, designer dresses and lush garden parties, Savannah social icon Patricia Falcon and three of her closest friends spend their days in Savannah’s dark side rescuing abused women. When Patricia’s darling mother, a prominent philanthropist, drops dead, the police are baffled by her untimely death. Patricia is devastated and recruits her three friends to help her investigate what she believes is murder.”Savannah Sleuth” is a page-turning journey from Savannah’s Southern wealth and grace into the hidden corners of Savannah and across two continents in a deadly pursuit of justice.
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Unsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim?
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Graysie Castellanos is ready to take her final bow. When the traveling singer inherits a rundown mine, she thinks it’s her golden opportunity to provide her adopted daughter with a happy childhood and a prosperous future. But their bright new beginning crumbles underfoot when the townsfolk of the Sierra Nevada mining town start dropping dead of mysterious causes.
If Nathan Russell had listened to his gut, he’d have cleared out of Grass Valley before the first corpse turned cold. But the Aussie-born adventurer refuses to abandon the gorgeous singer and her young child to their doom. And when his old rival arrives in town looking to stir up trouble, he only gets pulled deeper into the mystery of the dark forces taking control.
With no choice but to press forward, Graysie and Nathan must solve the riddle of the deaths before the shadowy culprit adds their names to the tombstone.
Poisoned Legacy is the first book in the absorbing Of Gold & Blood historical mystery series set on the California frontier. If you like accurate details, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a glimmer of romance, then you’ll love Jenny Wheeler’s sparkling saga.
They say the pen is mightier than the sword. In Sleepwater’s world, words are literally more powerful than bullets.
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Leo could always make people believe anything she says—really believe. When her chest burns and the words come from her mouth, her targets’ eyes glaze over, they forget their own thoughts, and they’ll do anything she says. It’s what keeps her alive after being on the run and living on the streets for years. But after using it on her girlfriend and her dad’s drug dealer, it’s also what got her here on the streets in the first place.
Then Sleepwater finds her. When Leo discovers there are others out there with similar powers, scattered across the country, she can’t say no to the underground organization. After all, what’s a little sit-down with the only people who may ever understand her? What she doesn’t expect is to be thrust into Sleepwater’s guerrilla war, hunted by government agencies, and used as a weapon. Worse than that, she might be more valuable not for what she can do but for who she was before they found her.
Now an International Bestseller.
How much would you risk for a stranger?
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Introduction to a nail-biting new thriller series which will have you on the edge of your seat! Perfect for fans of Lee Child, J. B. Turner, Mark Dawson and David Baldacci.
Manchester, England 1996
When ex-Royal Marine and Firefighter Adam Sterling rescues Kim from an inferno, she reminds him of someone in his past.
Kim is being targeted by a violent arsonist, but why? She’s in witness protection but even Eddy Arkwright, the policeman investigating her attack can’t find out why.
Adam feels compelled to help her, but can he keep her out of the clutches of the people hunting her?
He has to use all his abilities as a firefighter plus some older skills as he fights to survive and save Kim.
“A thrilling, scary, rollercoaster of a ride.”
“gripping and truly frightening.”
“characters incredibly believable with intriguing back stories.”
A gritty tale of bent pride, fighting and loss in small-town England
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Adam Smith’s star is on the rise – he’s a talented young rugby player with a wife, a child on the way and a future. He also likes a fight. All that is about to change when a drunken Saturday night leads to a confrontation with a man who is prepared to go the distance – at any cost.
If the suspense doesn’t kill you – the twist will.
Kidnapped in Colombia – The thrilling real life travel adventure of two backpackers facing the ultimate nightmare.
“Masterful Suspense! Superbly crafted, and I love the structure of going back and forth between present tense and flashbacks, stretching time, even making time stand still. Genius! I know it’s a cliche to say “couldn’t put it down”, but it was true in this case, causing me to miss my bus stop (in Buenos Aires now as it so happens) because I was so hooked!“
“Great read. Fast paced Suspense. Thoroughly enjoyed the suspense of all the twists and turns – its journey through many lives and situations. Each page left a feeling of uncertainty about what was coming next. Couldn’t put it down and it read all in one go.“
“I love the way this story unfolds. The author knows how to stretch 3 seconds to tell the most awesome story! For those of us who love to travel and know what the world can be like, but still love it and all of the people out there. Great story!“
“True Story. You know sometimes you watch movies or books and they say these events are all based on true stories, but then you find out later that, that isn’t the case. Yeah, this story isn’t one of those. From the beginning, we jump into a world full of youthful adventure and mishap, of a young man looking to find himself and maybe looking for love. We follow him as he travels the world trying to make ends meet living his dream and then through the papers of this book you’ll go on a joyride with him through his ups and downs. A great book. A great read. A memorable story.“
“Fascinating and humorous way of writing. A book from a traveller about his own experiences, but not as you expect. From the first page on it is fascinating because you don’t know what happens in those three seconds when the authors life is at a risk. He goes back in time to different places of the world he travelled and sketches the people with so much love and humour. Also you see an author capable of writing about himself with a good portion of humour. Sometimes I laughed out loud. And you believe him, every word. A must-read!“
Meet John Seal rookie CIA agent.
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Rookie CIA agent’s job is to protect America against cyber attacks from enemy organizations and terrorists whose tactic is to disrupt lives as a means to leverage their agenda.
John finds himself in the middle of Barcelona during the Saint Joan Festival where he meets his handler for the first time. During his high stakes first mission, he is faced with hard decisions and is forced to go against his moral compass to complete his assignment leaving him to wonder if he is the right man for the job.
Does John have what it takes to be a covert operative, or will he fail and possibly lose his life?
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A young widow. A missing family member. Can a broken scientist find the strength to search for the stepbrother who destroyed her family?
A year after her fiancé’s sudden death, volcano seismologist Dr. Cassidy Kincaid hopes that a research trip to her favorite Costa Rican volcano will lift her spirits. But a call from a family member forces a change in plans. Cassidy’s stepbrother, Reeve, has gone missing in the nearby surfing hub of Tamarindo.
The last thing Cassidy needs is a risky adventure, especially one involving Reeve. His most recent visit ended with a police officer shoving him into a patrol car.
However, Cassidy discovers that Reeve had called her on the night he was last seen. Had it been a desperate cry for help?
Driven by guilt, Cassidy vows to find Reeve. As the mystery draws her deeper into the dark corners of paradise, Cassidy must call on all of her fragile reserves to stay alive. As the web of lies and deceit weave tighter around her, will she manage to find the truth about Reeve in time to save him?
Rescuing Reeve is a twisty tale of suspense. If you like heart-thumping action, exotic settings, stories of bravery, broken heroines, and deception, then you’ll love Amy Waeschle’s captivating novel.
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Jamie Thompson’s never been good at taking chances. Young, beautiful and from a wealthy family she’s had little reason to. She has it all. Everything but what she values most—her freedom. So she counts the cost and flees her CEO father’s domination to a Texas border town where a friend has set up a job for her.
What she didn’t count on is meeting Ricky Benson. Ricky’s dream of pitching in the big leagues shattered by an injury, he’s killing his disappointment with booze and blondes. Jamie knows he’s trouble, but she sees the good side of him too. What she doesn’t see coming is the shocking crime that throws her world into turmoil and threatens her new-found love for Ricky.
Life is a gamble, Jamie’s learning, and she finds that for love she may have to risk it all.
A thrilling mystery with suspense and romance
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Heading toward the capital of Malawi, three foreign aid workers, are forced to stop for an unauthorized roadblock set up by rural villagers.
After the villagers converge upon the vehicle, they pull one of the workers from the SUV and execute their ruthless savagery.
As journalists Leo Bronson and Vivian Thomas investigate the aid worker’s brutal death, they uncover a heinous plot born of rumors, rage, and a centuries-old superstition involving bloodsuckers.
But, did the villagers attack because they feared the worker wanted their blood? Or, could they have been coerced into carrying out the violent act?
If you love a thrilling mystery with danger and a touch of romance, then you’ll enjoy The Secret Rival! Start reading today!
A receipt for two cups of coffee in the gutter near a body leads Detectives Zannos and Wong to the New Delhi Donut shop.
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Four days before Thanksgiving, the dead body of a paralegal is found dumped on a residential street in Midtown Detroit. A receipt for two cups of coffee in the gutter near her body leads Detectives Zannos and Wong to the New Delhi Donut shop. Questions arise – why was her body moved? Who broke her fingers?
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A secret smuggler’s warehouse. Bikers with big guns. Walt’s wildest assignment yet.
If you like Travis McGee, Jack Reacher, and Doc Ford, treat yourself to the instantly entertaining adventures of Walt Asher.
Just when infomercial writer Walt Asher has a perfect Sunday afternoon lined up, his plans get blown to hell. That’s when hell-raiser extraordinaire DG calls to cash in an outstanding favor. No questions. No answers. It’s not a request. Walt’s ride has arrived…
Whisked away to the woods along Florida’s Gulf coast, Walt finds himself in a secret smuggler’s warehouse, surrounded by bikers with big guns, and facing the strangest assignment of his life: Write an infomercial selling DG’s eleven ton mountain of marijuana.
Illegal? Yep. Insane? Yep. Impossible? Not for Walt. He always finds the right words to sell. But when bullets start to blast the studio apart, will Walt find the right words and weapons to make it out alive?
A small-town sheriff has some unfinished business in the big city…
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“For fans of this genre, the gritty power in Etzil’s writing is hard to deny.”
“With rapid chapters, snappy dialogue, and more vengeful fight scenes than you can shake a stick at, Urban Justice is a rollicking, thrill-a-minute book.”
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Jack Lamburt doesn’t negotiate with drug dealers. When he learns that his girlfriend Debbie’s sister is keeping company with New Jersey gang leaders, he opts to spring her the only way he knows how. With a hail of bullets and blood…
On his quest to get Debbie’s sister free, Lamburt attracts the attention of an FBI agent eager to take the vigilante down. Things get even hairier when a drug lord goes on the war path to reverse the sheriff’s rescue mission with some deadly revenge. With Debbie and her sister in the crosshairs, Lamburt must outsmart and outshoot a growing list of enemies…
Urban Justice is the standalone second book in a series of vigilante thrillers starring Sheriff Jack Lamburt. If you like brutal action, high-tech villains, and unflinching violence, then you’ll love John Etzil’s gritty series.
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Newly joined Siamese twins – work that one out!
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A thriller set in Thailand.
This is the sequel to the popular ‘Not Far Enough From Worries’. Kev and Skylab pit their wits against Camilla, the beautiful but ruthless lesbian.
This dark novel starts in Hua Hin, a sleepy seaside town in Thailand. “Not much ever happens there.” Don’t you believe it! A thriving gambling hub, wives kill husbands to raise a stake for the next turn of a card. Never owe the debt-collector or his mother. You may be set alight!
Kev and Skylab are now the guardians of a very talented child, amongst other skills, he can tell if you are lying, making Kev very nervous, fortunately, the only person Nick will talk to is Camilla’s daughter, Philippa. That ability is useful if you want a casino.
Characters to avoid on a dark night are Mik and Mak, Thai twins, yes, real Siamese Twins. You’ll have to think about that comment. Their ‘friend’ Randy has some mental issues. He ends up missing part of his body!
The action moves to Bangkok for a fast, hard-hitting surprise. Horror when you don’t expect it!
This is book two in the ‘No Worries’ series. Book 3 ‘Children With No Worries’, to be published 2019.
WORRY NO MORE
“Siamese twins?”
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In a haven for artists on a small island in the Caribbean, Ella Sapphire has finally found a place where she belongs. But as her art flourishes, her funds flounder. Desperate to remain in paradise, she accepts a job that is too good to be true, plunging her into the dangerous world of an island cartel.
On his 25th birthday, Beaujean Ali meets a beautiful artist who makes him yearn for a life less complicated than his own. When the stranger sets him up to be attacked, he must find out which of his friends is really a foe, while protecting the artist who has stolen his heart.
If you like heart-pounding action, tropical settings, and star-crossed lovers, then you’ll love Angel Vane’s The Hidden Threat.
A con artist betrayed by his partners. A plot for revenge. Can he and his new partner outwit his old crew & and escape with the cash and their lives?
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In 1989, where it all begins…
Paul Kendal, 26 years old, is a con artist in a robbery crew. When he has all the information necessary to disarm their targets’ alarm systems and empty their safes, his partners go to work.
Originally, it seemed like a sweet plan, but as he begins to have doubts, his partners double-cross him. Now he wants payback. For that he needs a new partner.
Carol, 17 years old, uses her movie-star good looks to entice victims for her boyfriend to mug. But when her boyfriend lands in jail, Paul makes her an offer she can’t refuse…
The Double Cross is a novella-length dark crime thriller that tells the story of how the Travelers met. If you like fast moving action, unpredictable plot twists, and criminal chicanery, you’ll love this prequel to Michael P. King’s Travelers series.
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Psychiatrist Grant Garrick had it all: a thriving therapy practice, a bright, loving, and beautiful wife, a 15 year-old son filled with potential, and a gorgeous home on acreage overlooking the Puget Sound. Life couldn’t get much better.
Then tragedy struck.
Read the novella, Book 1, the prequel to the Psychiatrist Grant Garrick suspense-thriller series.
Learn why he defies danger and adventures beyond the boundaries of his profession to help solve his patients’ problems.
A missing coin, murder and mystery are at the core of this fast-paced archaeology thriller!
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Filled with mystery and suspense, you will be glued to the pages!
When an uninvited guest wakes Charles and Izzy Hunt in the middle of the night, the event sets Charles on the trail for a lost coin dating back to World War II.
Enlisting the help of Nick Cain, an antiquities reporter, Charles follows the clues to rural Japan and eventually Papua New Guinea where battling the dense marshlands and alligator infested waters, are the least of his worries.
With money-hungry assailants hot on his trail, his action-packed journey runs fraught with danger and crime in a quest to uncover the truth behind the missing ancient heirloom.
The Papua Incident is a fast-paced archaeology action adventure thriller that you won’t want to put down until you finished it!
If you like reading modern-day Indiana Jones adventure thrillers, then this is right up your alley. Crammed with real-life history and actual artifacts, it has plenty of twists and mystery to keep you flipping the pages. The Papua Incident sets the stage for the five-star Alex Hunt Archaeological Adventure Thrillers series.
The RHAPTA KEY – Book #1
The GILDED TREASON – Book #2
The ALPHA STRAIN – Book #3
Six Stories of Cold War Noir
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Six Stories of Cold War NoirAn heiress who can’t seem to keep her legs closed. A Russian plan for dominating the space race. An assassin with a penchant for rich food and sadistic murder. When you’re alone in the cold, passion and betrayal are commodities and love hangs on by an icy thread. From the author of The Bone Church and Cold, comes a white knuckle tour de force of Cold War noir.
A gripping psychological thriller filled with mystery, suspense and intrigue, that keeps you guessing from beginning to end.
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On a rainy September morning baby Cassandra is kidnapped while her mother cowers in a closet. Shea is a victim of post-partum depression.
When Detectives Darby and Mel begin to dig the truth becomes more and more murky. Ugly secrets from the past emerge. No one is above suspicion, least of all Shea, herself. In her desperation to find her baby who can she trust? Someone is watching . . . And nothing is as it seems . . .
Reiko Watanabe / Inspector Aizawa Book 0
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Tokyo, March 1931
The Great Depression has wrecked Japan’s economy, leaving thousands unemployed, desperate, and angry. Dark rumors swirl around the city, hinting at an impending coup d’é tat against the civilian government. Inspector Kenji Aizawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department must go undercover and infiltrate the Kusanagi Society, one of the right-wing groups that are threatening to overthrow the government. As Aizawa goes deeper into Tokyo’s underworld, he meets Masaru Ryusaki, the leader of the Kusanagi Society and a key figure in a vast conspiracy involving the Imperial Japanese Army. Aizawa must thwart Ryusaki’s plot or risk Japan being thrown into chaos.
The exciting prequel to the Reiko Watanabe/Inspector Aizawa series, Conspiracy in Tokyo dives into an often overlooked period in Japanese history filled with danger and intrigue.
One ancient myth. One crazed Neo-Nazi. Once chance at redemption…
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Hiram Kane is in Prague to visit his friend and mentor, Professor John Haines, when a deranged Neo-Nazi kidnaps a dozen innocent Jewish children.
Kane and Haines suddenly find themselves drawn into a deadly race against time to save the victims, before the psychopathic modern-day monster twists an ancient Jewish myth to her wildly unhinged and nefarious desires.
Innocents will die. That is inevitable. The question is, how many can Hiram Kane save?
The Golem of Prague is an exciting new intro novella to the bestselling Hiram Kane action thriller series. For fans of Russell Blake and Clive Cussler, Steven Moore’s latest offering will leave you breathless.
To delve into the globetrotting world of Hiram Kane, download your copy of The Golem of Prague, today!
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Ten-year-old, Danny Madsen, has been missing for four days when Jesse Carlton begins his own search for his godson on a frigid, snowy night. Driving along a deserted rural road, Jesse hits a stretch of black ice at the same time Danny appears from the thicket. Unable to control the car, Jesse slams into the boy and watches helplessly as Danny’s body flies back into the dark brush.
When Jesse regains consciousness, he has no recollection of how he and his car wound up in a ditch. However, there’s a witness: Charles Hastings, the sociopathic kidnapper who chased Danny through the brush and into the path of Jesse’s car.
Hastings takes this chance to set up Jesse so he’ll take the fall for both Danny’s disappearance and death. And so the mind games begin—an onslaught of psychological manipulation that devastates Jesse, his wife, Danny’s parents and the cops’ investigation. Inexplicably, the torment continues even after the primary suspect is killed and the rollercoaster of emotions and confusion seems never-ending, until the truth is revealed and turns everyone’s world upside down.
Welcome to Essex County. Expect no mercy.
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What would you do if you found a suitcase in the woods?
What would you do when someone came looking for it?
Out of prison, but still on parole, Max just wants to keep his head down, go to work and maybe grab a cold beer at the end of his shift. He doesn’t even care that the program stuck him in Essex – a nice, but nowhere small town. With his head already full of bloody and painful memories, he’d like it just fine if his past and future stayed nice and quiet.
Too bad the present just got really messy.
A body in a tree. A missing briefcase. A Russian hit man. A DEA agent bent on revenge. Not to mention a sheriff with dangerous ambition and some pissed off bikers. Things are suddenly very interesting in sleepy Essex county. Bodies are turning up. Secrets are coming out. Questions are being asked.
It’s not good being the new guy in a small town.
Once an Irish teenager with a horrible past. Now he is head of the Vatican Bank.
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From Ireland to The Vatican chronicles the journey undertaken by Liam Murphy in morphing to become Father Antonio Sorbello, The machiavellian head of The Vatican Bank – The most powerful financial branch of The Catholic Church.
This is the companion novella to the novel KNICK KNACK PADDY WHACK.
Liam Murphy travels from his native Ireland, through Turkey, Spain and France before finally finding himself in Rome Italy. Along the way, men and a single woman enter and exit his life, each one playing an important role in helping to shape the man he becomes. Follow the events, or is it fate, that fall onto Liam’s pathway and propel him forward until ultimately arriving at the Vatican where his future has already been planned out by others who have been watching him from afar.
Underground sources connected to The Vatican have their own agenda. To be successful they need Sorbello to co-operate and follow their directions, syphoning off money for future projects but, Father Antonio Sorbello has his own plans. If he can do both, he will, otherwise, hard decisions will need to be made.
This Novella can be read as a standalone work or in conjunction with Knick Knack Paddy Whack and its follow up novel To Give The Dog A Bone, both of which are available in the Amazon store. Coming in 2019, the third in the Luc Bruget trilogy, Rolling Home. A thrilling conclusion where Liam / Antonio’s destiny and legacy will be decided.
From Ireland To The Vatican is an action packed roller-coaster ride, guaranteed to have you wanting to seek out more about Liam Murphy / Father Antonio Sorbello, the life he leads and the conspiracies that lie at the heart of the Catholic Church.
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Sloane Romano never dreamed she would leave the pampered life of a crime bosses’ daughter. A betrayal by her husband undid her cloistered life and sent her running into a world she never knew existed.
Finding herself at a Mossad training facility, alone and uncertain what her future would bring, a test was thrown into her path. Succeed and a shadowy world of espionage and danger would test her at every turn.
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Scrapping on the streets suited Ben Jackman until his past returned to ask a favor. Run, hide or fight? If only the favor didn’t involve the girl.
Two years into his self-imposed exile, Marvin, Ben’s ex-best friend seeks him out to ask a favor. Money and documents have come into his possession implicating the Black Hat criminal cartel in a planned coup of the Man’s government. His life is in danger and he needs Ben to keep the documents hidden until he can procure his safety
When Marvin is found dead Ben is accused of his murder. And with that accusation, the Black Hats assume Marvin passed the incriminating evidence to him.
Ben turns to his childhood sweetheart but that is his first mistake. Losing the bag containing the documents was his second.
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The legend of Voodoo Lucy begins when twenty-eight-year-old Lucinda Jones leaves Tupelo, Mississippi, and her alcoholic, abusive, father behind to start a new life in New Orleans. In the city where jazz bands play until the first light of dawn and no one ever seems to sleep, Lucy falls in love with the eccentric, distinctive characters of the French Quarter, but soon runs afoul of a criminal gang boss and his crew. Lucy herself is no saint—she’s long gotten by through running small-time cons, but when she dreams up a profitable voodoo-laced scam and dares to testify against a killer, Lucy’s life starts to spiral out of control. With friends on both sides of the law and a drug gang who wants her dead, can Lucy scheme her way out of danger and into the life she’s always dreamed of?Fans of Vito Zuppardo’s “True Blue Detective” series will enjoy this story, which takes readers back to Mario DeLuca’s rookie year on the beat and Zack Nelson in action as a NOLA PD homicide detective, as well as the early days of the infamous Cornerview Gang and the other unsavory characters that prowl the colorful, charming French Quarter. Grab a beignet and a cup of chicory coffee and get your copy now!
The pages turn themselves in this riveting, suspense-filled thriller that reviewers say is both gripping and heart wrenching.
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Angela is beautiful and charismatic on the outside. But on the inside, evil rages and she’s determined to get anyone and anything she wants. And now with her biological clock ticking, she seduces her old friend Philip, and his partner Jonathan, into having a child with her through artificial insemination.
As time passes, Angela’s mask of deceit slips away and she leads the fathers-to-be on a relentless, agonizing journey filled with lies, anguish and finally tragedy that forever changes the lives of everyone involved.
If you enjoy books like The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl and classics like Fatal Attraction and Misery, you’ll love this gripping thriller of fiction, a novel of pure suspense that will keep you on the edge… even weeks after turning the final page.
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A gripping psychological thriller with a twist of noir set around the beaches of South Australia.
Detective Lincoln Drummond is in disgrace. Once a rising star, he’s been packed off to the small Australian town of Failie, where he is unknown and unwelcome. He’s determined to arrest those responsible for a series of high-profile antiques robberies. When he meets Mina, a struggling antiques dealer with a criminal father, it seems a quick arrest is all he needs to get his career back on track.
Mina Everton has worked to overcome the slur of being the daughter of a man who skipped town with his mistress and the town development fund. She’s on the cusp of opening the doors for her antiques business when Drummond arrives on her doorstep and seems far too eager to see her as a suspect.
Their attraction is as strong as their mistrust…
Determined to save her business and disprove Drummond’s suspicions Mina reluctantly falls in with crime boss Slab Carlson who offers help her expose the truth behind the robberies—if she helps him first. But Mina gets in too deep.
When Drummond discovers she’s involved with Carlson he believes his worst fears are realised.
And then he finds the body…
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Murder was my best option.
Would you kill to stay out of prison?
I planned for everything, everything but a homeless kid. Welcome to the worst day of my life.
I had seen dozens of colleagues discarded in the financial crisis as mega corp struggled to remain profitable. I would be next and I needed a Plan B. But my Plan B was on the other side of the law.
‘Grow and Go’ I called it. I was in the 19th month of my 36 month plan. I left life as a hard-working corporate project manager for a 3 year solo project. Then onto permanent vacation and the good life in the islands. After a rough start I was feeling confident.
The kid was looking for a dry place to sleep, away from the rain, the cops, and predators. Jackson, Mississippi is a tough town. Been that way as long as anyone can remember.
Some tests we’re not supposed to fail. I wasn’t ready to be tested.
Enter the paranoid world of our narrator, where good and bad aren’t clearly defined and trust is a mistake.
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Cheyenne Harrington tries to adjust to life after a bad divorce when her apartment is ransacked. She is terrorized by an unknown force. Everywhere she looks, she wonders if each face she sees is the one who pillaged her apartment. Cheyenne starts to have second thoughts. She suspects her ex-husband but realizes it couldn’t be further from the truth.
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In 1929, Helen Blackstone is forced to do the unthinkable—return to her childhood home.
A place full of secrets and lies … where her mother had gone mad.
Helen had hoped she had left those dark days behind her, but when her brother is threatened, she uncovers a shocking truth that changes everything …
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A serial killer on the loose. Another victim. A sudden turn of events.
“They never see it coming… never suspect or wonder. Too busy chasing money and relationships – desperate to prove themselves to people who don’t care. Consumed by pointless conversations and hollow attempts to appear happy, a serial killer is the last thing on anyone’s mind…”
This time it’s the demons turn
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Phegru found the perfect human. All she needed was to remain undetected until she could gain complete control. On the verge of her success, a meddling human priest interfered. Phegru is left clinging to everything she has set into motion, knowing the day when she has complete control is nigh. And when that dark day comes…even God won’t be able to save that meddling priest.
When a legendary assassin questions his memories, life gets messy for his brotherhood. But is reality less plausible than the memories he accepts?
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When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career.
When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe little teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career. But will the reality he unravels be less believable than memories he never questioned?
Although short, this novella packs a punch as it explores the inevitable challenges of a futuristic world where memory implants, memory erasures, and maybe even magic are a reality. Action packed with carefully researched world building, Assassin Hunter will leave your brain scrambling to vainly guess the ending while hanging on the edge of your seat. Fans of X-Files and Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files are in for a treat as they meet Vaya Sage and the craftiest nemesis he’s encountered so far. Blurring the lines between dark fantasy, science fiction, and crime thrillers, this novella is uniquely poised to become a favorite.
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A hardened criminal. A gut-wrenching revelation. Loyalty, brotherhood, and honor will be tested to the breaking point.
Austin Conrad’s past is a book of contradictions. A decorated war hero turned jaded enforcer for a ruthless outlaw motorcycle club, the honor he once had is jolted back to the surface with a devastating discovery about the club he called home. Can this hardened criminal look the other way, or will honor drive a wedge between him and the brotherhood that embraced him?
Blood Brothers is the gripping prequel to author Dusty Sharp’s acclaimed Austin Conrad series. This full length novella is available exclusively to members of Dusty Sharp’s VIP Reader Group.
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A modern killer thriller that flips the genre on its head, the Truth Files is binge reading at its best.
‘The most horribly entertaining villain I’ve ever encountered.’ Simon Vesker, Buzzfeed.
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Corporate Truth: A corporation is a psychopath in the purest form. It will prey upon the weak, exploit the intelligent, and corrupt the virtuous—solely to maximize profits. Within this hostile world, sociopaths and narcissistic personalities are highly valued, in fact, they thrive.
From inside his high-rise office, ruthless sociopath Justin Truth surveys his panoramic view of New York City.
This is his city. His country. His America.
Justin is on a mission to conquer the corporate giant, Soda-Cola. He will threaten, backstab, manipulate, blackmail, sabotage, and cut the throat of anyone who gets in his way.
And it’s all going to his cold, calculating plan—or is it?
As his thirst for power within Soda-Cola grows, his darker side grows even darker, thrusting Justin high into the ranks of America’s most dangerous and prolific serial killers.
One detective stumbles onto the truth, however. Detective Ross Smith finds Justin’s trail of murders—murders painstakingly disguised as accidental deaths. But can an aging detective more consumed with doing what’s right than playing internal politics bring down a high-functioning, murderous, corporate sociopath?
As Ross gets closer to the truth, he’s faced with a choice: put his badge, family, and life on the line, or further his career by following orders.
Will the truth come out before it’s too late—for everyone?
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The prequel to the Lagotti Family series, this stand-alone novella follows Frank Lagotti as he tries to get some bread to pay the rent and maybe make some seed capital so he can rob a bank one day. His pal Louis might be the brains of the outfit but he also has a keen interest in sex and drugs – not a great mix when your future rests on the next robbery and he’s the one who has planned everything out to the finest detail. Or not.
Can they pull off the job with their motley gang or will the cops come screeching round the corner and shoot them all to hell?
The Lagotti Family series follows Frank and his girlfriend Mary Lou as they rob a bank, try to escape and live off the proceeds of their crimes – spanning thirty years of American crime family life.
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Depressed photographer Tom Friday is a man who can no longer suspend disbelief. Conspiracies are everywhere; false flags, government manipulation and profiteering banks sucking the lifeblood from society.
But now he is starting to have vivid hallucinations. Are they drugging him as well? Paranoia turns into reality when he comes face to face with a gut-wrenching conclusion; all his memories are false. He is really, Joseph Miller, an MI6 assassin suffering severe amnesia? And western society’s survival hinges on him regaining his memory?
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Castile de Granada, 1492: Risking her life, Spanish author Ana-Maria de Carbonela vowed to keep an unknown yet powerful healing herb?s location hidden. It remained a secret ?
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When Sandy Bay’s crème de la crème congregate to raise money for charity, Meghan Truman is proud to have her tasty desserts the talk of the party. She’s not so proud when the wealthiest couple in Sandy Bay are discovered dead and rumors circulate around town that her brownies are the cause of this tragedy.
This murder case casts a dark shadow over Meghan’s budding romance with handsome Officer Irvin who’s disappointed that she’s once again at the center of another murder investigation.
With everything to lose, Meghan must work hard to clear her name, restore broken relationships and solve this murder mystery before everything she’s worked so hard to build comes crumbling down.
Book 2 in the Sandy Bay Cozy Mystery series, which can be read in one to two hours! Can be read as a standalone, but enjoyed better as part of a series. Perfect for a lunchtime read. If you love cozy mysteries with an amateur female sleuth, mouth-watering culinary desserts and a gripping murder mystery, then you’ll love Meghan Truman and the quirky characters in Sandy Bay!
No cliffhanger, swearing or graphic scenes!
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Compare & Contrast: Mocking Awards Shows
By Charlie Sweatpants 8 Comments
Categories: Compare & Contrast, Please End This Fucking Show and Simpsons
Tags: Angry Dad: The Movie, Black Widower, The Front
“You know the rules, awards for excellence in entertainment are contraband, no Emmys, no Oscars, not even a Golden Globe.” – Prison Guard
One of the more revealing ineptitudes of “Angry Dad: The Movie” is the way it fails to copy not one, but two different Simpsons episodes that did the exact same thing it did. (This is particularly stunning coming from a show that loves repeating jokes and unabashedly lives off of fan nostalgia.) Of course, both of those older episodes did things much quicker, and managed to actually mock the kidding-but-serious way awards shows take themselves and their participants. I am speaking of both the Emmys in “Black Widower” and the generic (but Emmy statue lookalike) Annual Cartoon Awards in “The Front” (which are awarded at the Springfield Civic Center the night before it’s closed for roach spraying).
In “Black Widower”, Krusty comes out to present the award for “Best Supporting Performer in a Children’s Program”. Right there, the show is already making fun of the uselessness of the Daytime Emmys by creating a nonexistent, but not implausible, category for sidekicks. Taking the whole enterprise one level further into satiric silliness, Krusty reads a list of the enjoyably wacky nominees:
Clockwise from top left: Droopy Drawers, Colonel Coward, Pepito (the Biggest Cat in the Whole Wide World), and Suck Up the Vacuum
None of those four characters merit too much attention, but each gets his (its?) own little moment of personality. We see the improbably hot companion of Droopy Drawers reassuringly pat him on the hand. Colonel Coward freaks out from nerves just a little bit, and Pepito waves like the good natured mascot he is. Suck Up, who looks more than a little terrifying and can’t possibly be human, is too good to attend this complete sham. The entire thing takes only ten seconds before the main plot resumes.
Despite not containing much more content than a vacuum cleaner in Spain, none of the plodding parodies in “Angry Dad: The Movie” move nearly as quickly. It’s not even close:
“The Triplets of Belleville” takes about forty seconds.
“Persepolis” is also forty seconds.
“Toy Story” managed to be only thirty seconds (but certainly felt longer).
“Wallace & Gromit” was sixty-five seconds (as in more than a minute!).
“Angry Dad” was a comparatively tame twenty seconds.
That’s five clips, totaling well over three minutes of screen time, in an episode that’s barely twenty minutes long. And that doesn’t even count Halle Berry’s part. For comparison’s sake, please note that the College Humor video of the McBain clips, which the killjoys at FOX legal have already taken down (shhh, reverse Spanish version), was only slightly longer, and it was from five separate episodes over three seasons.
In “The Front” almost the exact same thing – awards show presentation with clips and a celebrity voice – is done in a small fraction of the time. Brooke Shields and Krusty come out so Krusty can read the terrible joke about his hair, the kind of thing that awards shows still trot out to this day. He instantly goes off script and starts bitching while Shields gamely plays it straight. Once he storms off the episode goes right to the parodies. First is “Strondar: Master of Akom”, the “wedding episode”:
Does it takes forty seconds to parody He-Man? No, no it does not. It requires less than five seconds and gives us Not He-Man, in his formal S&M gear, tugging nervously at his Chippendales-style bowtie choker. That goes immediately to “Action Figure Man”, the “How to Buy Action Figure Man” episode:
This one is really amazing, because it takes only a few words and a couple of seconds but manages to send up pretty much the entire genre of children’s cartoons, including the incessant merchandising that makes them so very lucrative and the way shameless marketing is used to get kids to basically extort their own parents. The final “clip” is the only one they didn’t make up themselves but, once again, they didn’t need half a minute to make a quick joke about the fact that new episodes of The Ren & Stimpy Show were less than forthcoming at the time.
From the time Shields introduces the first clip until we get to “Barbershop of Horrors” takes less than thirty seconds. The whole sequence, from Krusty and Shields walking on stage to Grampa winning the award, is only ninety seconds. Zombie Simpsons takes three and a half minutes to complete the same thing, and that’s before you get to the respective acceptance speeches. In “The Front”, Grampa immediately launches into his anti-cartoon tirade without a moment of hesitation. For his candor he is pelted with fruit thrown by people in formalwear. In “Angry Dad: The Movie”, Bart launches into a tedious monologue about how many people he needs to thank, and is then joined on stage by Homer for some wrap up exposition.
Parodying famous cartoons like “Toy Story” and “Wallace & Gromit” is a fine thing for a show like Zombie Simpsons to try to do. But trotting out so many of them for so very long means they’re going to feel like filler, even if they had been packed with insightful humor. “The Front” could’ve dragged its parodies out, but instead it kept them short and funny, and in doing so left itself time for its own little short, “The Adventures of Ned Flanders”.
[Edited 1 March 2010 to change “Vacom” to “Akom”, see comments for details.]
Crazy Noises: Angry Dad: The Movie
Categories: Crazy Noises and Simpsons
Tags: Angry Dad: The Movie, Hurricane Neddy
“Yes, Mr. Sherman, everything stinks.” – Calmwood Mental Hospital Doctor
In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we’re keeping up our Crazy Noises series for Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we’ve elected to use the technology that brought the word “emoticon” to the masses: the chatroom. Star Trek image macros are strictly forbidden, unless you have a really good reason why Captain Picard is better than Captain Kirk. This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (especially on “jowl”).
Among the shorter of the many long (long, long) skits during “Angry Dad: The Movie”, Zombie Simpsons had Homer stick a deck of playing cards (he happened to be carrying) down the back of his pants and shuffle them with his ass. The cards eventually emerge (unstained) fanned out from his waistline. Then they make a big show of him opening a bottle with his butt. That last concept is so inventive that I was only able to find three videos of people doing the same thing after one search on YouTube (plus a deer). But the butt-shuffling sent my mind instantly to the episode of The Critic where Marty’s in the talent show. Skip to the 4:25 mark here, and listen to Jay Sherman, in response to his son smoking a pipe with his belly button, say:
“You know, my butt can deal blackjack, but this is Marty’s night.”
The Critic was a show that never got the chance it deserved, and since it was funny as hell it makes sense that Jean and company would raid it for material, but inherently goofy things like this work much better when alluded to rather than spelled out.
Charlie Sweatpants: Ready to get this over with?
Mad Jon: Yep
Charlie Sweatpants: I am not at a complete loss for words about this episode, but the only three that come to mind are "what", "the", and "fuck".
Mad Jon: Yeah, once again it was quite the effort to watch. I turned it on right when I got home from work, and I still feel exhausted.
Charlie Sweatpants: There were so many things that were a minute or longer when they could’ve been two seconds.
The Ricky Gervais thing might not have even been worth two seconds.
Mad Jon: I know the idea was to piggy back on the "Angry Dad" episode all those season ago, but I really felt it had to be thought of in the light of "The Front". A goal that was exponentially more difficult.
I can’t figure out why Gervais is in everything. I really don’t find him funny.
Also I am not British.
Charlie Sweatpants: I don’t have anything against him, I’ve seen him be pretty funny, but this was a trainwreck.
Mad Jon: It took me a few minutes of the tip scene to even figure out who he was. It really didn’t look anything like him.
Charlie Sweatpants: I swear I could almost see him turn to the camera and say "That’s it. That’s the joke."
Mad Jon: Ha ha, yeah that’s about right.
Charlie Sweatpants: Then I can yell "You suck, McBain!" and all would be well.
Mad Jon: Did you notice how long the guest voice credit roll went? I was only aware that there were like 2 or 3. Boy, was I wrong.
Charlie Sweatpants: Yeah, it was like six deep.
And everyone got to do the same thing: voice themselves and pretend to make fun of themselves.
Remember when this show loathed the rest of the entertainment industry? Good times.
Mad Jon: Yes, once again it was their turn to ride the bike.
Yes, Yes I remember, back when travel was done on Blimps and Taco Bell used meat.
Charlie Sweatpants: There were the Pixar parts, and the Wallace & Gromit part, and the Triplets of Belleville part . . . these aren’t parodies, they’re more like love letters that lack even a hint of originality.
Dear Pixar, we love you, signed Zombie Simpsons.
Mad Jon: Also the clips went on for fucking ever.
Charlie Sweatpants: Oh, I know.
Mad Jon: The clips from "The Front" look so much better in comparison than they already are.
"Clip not done yet"
Charlie Sweatpants: Yeah, they used to actually create stuff. Now it really is like those "Epic Movie" pieces of crap where they photocopy something and expect me to slap my fins together for understanding the reference.
Mad Jon: Well, the references were topical. -ish.
Charlie Sweatpants: I’m sure they were very proud of themselves for that little photo of Gervais that said not to allow him to host.
I didn’t even watch the Golden Globes and I got that one. Savvy.
Mad Jon: Oh yeah, I probably should have picked up on that while I was struggling to figure out who he was.
I also didn’t watch the Golden Globes.
Charlie Sweatpants: Well, we kinda just did. There are few things ugly in deeper ways than when big budget entertainment pretends to satirize itself for its foibles.
While we’re on the topic of things that went on way too long, how about that Itchy & Scratchy thing?
Or Bart’s ride around the house?
Or the awards receiving montage.
Mad Jon: Yeah I was hoping you’d bring that up. There wasn’t one last week right? That’s good, this weeks was bad enough for both.
Charlie Sweatpants: Someone on the staff has a lot of kung fu movies with five star ratings on Netflix.
Mad Jon: I remember a few weeks ago I tried to defend a few of the new I&S. Man I look even stupider than that time I burned my eyebrow off with a flaming shot of Yukon Jack.
Charlie Sweatpants: That was pretty bad, but this is worse.
Mad Jon: Why does everything have to take soooo long?
Charlie Sweatpants: The training montage alone was longer than many classic I&S skits.
Mad Jon: probably twofold as long.
Also, how many more episodes this season do you think will have a Banksy reference?
Charlie Sweatpants: Well, they like him. He did more for them publicity wise than anyone else recently. And that’s despite episodes like this one where they cram in guest stars cheek by jowl.
Mad Jon: Soon enough they will run out of A-listers to throw 3 or 4 in each week.
Charlie Sweatpants: There are always new celebrities.
Mad Jon: Yeah, but this seems like a locust swarm to me as of late.
Charlie Sweatpants: There does seem to have been an inordinate number of episodes with two or more guest voices this season.
Mad Jon: Like most Zombie recurrences, it kills a bit of time and can be crammed in pretty much anywhere.
Charlie Sweatpants: Very true. This one displayed an unusual level of apathy towards storytelling, even by their standards. The Pixar guys don’t get defeated, the chair guy vanishes halfway through the episode, Lisa’s at the table read with Bart for some reason. They really can’t be bothered.
It’s impressive in a way, like when a three year old tells a story and begins every sentence with "And".
Mad Jon: Yes sir. The difference being that I would applaud a three year old for being excited to tell me a story.
I really did forget about the Aero chair guy until you just mentioned him.
Charlie Sweatpants: That’s exactly my point. He vanishes like a puff of smoke halfway through.
Mad Jon: It’s a good point.
Charlie Sweatpants: Anything else here? Normally I ask if there’s anything good, but I can’t think of a single decent thing that I saw that wasn’t immediately ruined by going on ten times longer than it should. Homer’s Taco Day line at the power plant comes to mind.
Mad Jon: Yeah, it turns out he still has a job after all.
I really can’t think of anything else good, or really bad that we haven’t mentioned.
The only time I smiled was when Lisa mentioned that she saw all the Pixar movies and slipped in "except for Cars".
Charlie Sweatpants: Yeah, that was at least decent.
And true. Cars sucked.
Mad Jon: Notice how the decent things in the last few years are always two seconds long.
But that’s all I got. Like I said, I had to struggle even more than usual to pay attention.
Charlie Sweatpants: This was less of an episode and more a series of YouTube ready videos that someone, someday will figure out how to – excuse me I have to use a bad word here – "monetize" on Hulu.
Mad Jon: Think about the future.
Knowing Your Audience
Categories: Ratings FAIL and Simpsons
Tags: Angry Dad: The Movie, Radioactive Man
“Thank god we’re back in Hollywood, where people treat each other right.” – Movie Guy
No sooner do I make fun of Zombie Simpsons for its relentless Hollywood navel gazing than they spend an entire episode navel gazing in Hollywood. Starting with that interminable Itchy & Scratchy thing and running through awards ceremony cliches and a stunning number of glacially slow short films, this thing was one long exercise in entertainment industry self congratulations. (I’m sure these sorts of things will get people at L.A. area cocktail parties to praise them, but for the rest of us it’s a little less fun.) In between all that we were treated to some truly bizarre set pieces that had nothing to do with anything. Was Lisa hallucinating when the Pixar lamp attacked her? Was that the theme music for Jurassic Park and, if so, why? What ever happened to the chair guy?
This episode was like watching one of Michael Bay’s more impatient films. Characters and storylines appear and disappear at random, most scenes have nothing to do with the ones before or after them, and all the pyrotechnics can’t conceal how poorly constructed the whole thing is. You’ve got twenty minutes to fill, you shouldn’t be worried that people are going to click to a different browser tab every ninety seconds. These are not YouTube videos or, at least, they’re not supposed to be.
Anyway, the numbers are in and while they’re up from last week they’re still bad. Last night’s unintentional warning about the dangers of attention deficit disorder was left on by 6.35 million people while they clicked around Twitter and Facebook. That’s the second lowest number all season, though it’s going to need to get worse if Season 22 is going to take Season 20’s crown for least watched.
All Glory Is Fleeting
Categories: Simpsons
Tags: A Star Is Burns, Angry Dad: The Movie
Image used under Creative Commons License from Flickr user cliff1066™.
“Arggh, my groin!” – George C. Scott
There’s new Zombie Simpsons in about an hour. It’s gonna be bad:
Bart’s cartoon about an angry dad is turned into Angry Dad: The Movie and quickly becomes a critics’ favorite. When Russell Brand (guest-voicing as himself) presents the Golden Globe to Bart’s film, Homer usurps the podium and gives his own acceptance speech. The film’s winning streak continues with Homer taking credit at each ceremony, so when Angry Dad receives an Oscar nomination, Bart keeps it a secret.
With the help of DJ Kwanzaa (guest voice Smoove), Homer and Marge arrive at the ceremony just as Halle Berry (guest-voicing as herself) presents the award. Bart’s fellow nominee, Nick Park (guest-voicing as himself), helps him realize that creating a film is a team effort, and Bart gives credit where credit is due.
The Oscars are essentially a three-and-a-half-hour self promotion scheme. The whole point is to remind people that they believe in the essential decency of movie stars and the magic of talking pictures. The Simpsons made fun of that. Zombie Simpsons is helping with the marketing.
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Jared Weitz came from humble beginnings and nearly settled for a humble fate. But associates say an ordinary, uneventful life wouldn’t have suited him – he works too hard and figures things out too quickly.
Almost ten years ago Weitz, 33, was parking cars to earn money for community college. After finishing at St. Johns University, he almost made plumbing his career. But now he’s CEO of United Capital Source LLC, an alternative-finance brokerage with deal flow of between $9 million and $10 million a month and an annual growth rate of over 65 percent.
Business associates, former bosses and his small cadre of employees all seem to revere Weitz for his honesty and straightforwardness. They consider him a personal friend. They say he continues to grow as a businessman and as a human being while taking pleasure in helping others do the same.
Geographically, Weitz has the good fortune to know where he belongs – the city of New York is in his DNA. “Every time I fly back,” he said, “I’m so happy to land.” His love affair with the city began in Brooklyn. He was born there and raised in a Brighton Beach apartment in the shadow of Coney Island. When he was 16, the family moved to Oceanside on Long Island.
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Implementing Lessons from MRAP
Besides improving off-road mobility and maneuverability, M-ATV will implement lessons learned from the initial operations with MRAP vehicles in theater. For example, the new all-terrain version is required to be much quieter; the objective goal calls for interior noise level at each seating position to permit eight hours of continuous exposure without hearing protection. Another requirement, clearly specified, is negotiating water obstacles. Another lesson is the need for side lights, for night time route clearing and patrol. M-ATV will be provided with side-light illumination for visibility to the side of the vehicle up to 100 meters during night operations. Another aspect addressed in the requirement is fording performance. While the vehicle will not have amphibious capabilities, it is required to ford hard bottom fresh water to depths of up to 1.5 meters (60 inches) without special preparation or kits.
Mobility sustainment after combat damage is also a major concern. The vehicle shall be capable of traveling at least one kilometer after suffering a single 7.62mm perforation in the engine oil system, or coolant system, or fuel storage system. It will also be equipped with run flat tires, to sustain mobility up to 30-50 miles, traveling at a speed of 30 mph, after suffering multiple hits at two tires.
The vehicle will come with attachments and ‘A kits’ assemblies enabling ‘plug in’ of government furnished mission equipment (GEF). The vehicles are provided with an impressive set of systems. Standard gear will include navigation (DAGR), communications (SINCGARS), intercom, command and control (FBCB2) and displays, driver’s vision enhancer (DVE), and two rear view ‘Check six’ cameras. Standard protection equipment will include overhead wire mitigation systems, IED jammers. Route clearing vehicles will also carry Counter IED gear such as Rhino, and SPARKS.
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The Rhino, which protrudes like a giant horn, is an electrical device mounted on the front of the vehicle and is designed to detonate roadside bombs along a route before the convoy reaches them. Specialized vehicles, such as the counter sniper vehicle configuration will also include the Boomerang sniper detection system and remotely operated weapon station (CROWS II). To sustain all these systems M-ATV will be equipped with power generation sustain 500 amperes capacity. The vehicles will be provided with a unit-level Battle Damage Repair Parts (BDR) package per supporting up to 25 repairing IED and other battle damages incurred by M-ATVs.
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Stanimir Valtchev
Secção de Energias Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica
Name: Stanimir Stoyanov Valtchev
Date & Place of Birth: 1951 in Lovetch, Bulgaria
Nationality: Portuguese and Bulgarian
E-mail: ssv @ fct.unl.pt
Web Page: http://pessoa.fct.unl.pt/ssv (other page)
I. Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, obtained from Instituto Superior Técnico – IST (Portugal), in collaboration with University of Technology – TU Delft (the Netherlands), defending the thesis: “Series Resonant Power Converter for Contactless Energy Transfer with Improved Efficiency” http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:10c8de50-d48a-416b-96d5-0f329a90a903.
Previous degrees in Electrical Engineering, obtained from Technical University of Sofia – TUS (Bulgaria). Received the Honour Award (together with an engraved wrist watch) for achieving the best academic result, 5.45 of SIX (curricular) and 6.00 of SIX for the MSc thesis: “Technology of semiconductor devices, applying solid BN wafers as in–situ dopant” (1974). Because of these achievements could start PhD studies without applying to the required national contest. This opportunity was lost because of the compulsory military service.
Secondary school degree from 19th school, Sofia, Bulgaria, class of mathematics, score 5.62 of SIX.
I. TECHNICAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1964 Member of the City Radioclub of Sofia: several amateur electronics constructions.
1969-1971 Involved in research activities during the university studies in the field of Radio techniques.
1973-1974 Involved (during studies) in semiconductor device technology development, paid a partial salary as a Researcher of the Scientific Research Division of TU Sofia.
1974 Project Engineer in the Institute of Medical Equipment (group of therapy apparata), designing automated bicycle ergometer for heart disease rehabilitation.
1974-1976 Military university and service, specializes in radars.
1976 Leads a project in the Institute of Medical Equipment, designing a cross field interference device for deep muscular and nervous disorders therapy.
1977 Admitted in the Power Electronics Laboratory at the Technical University – Sofia as а Research Engineer.
1978 Won a contest and was appointed for the position of Scientific Researcher 3rd Grade (equivalent then to the Teaching Assistant position) at TU Sofia. Worked on Research and Development projects:
Power supplies for High-Voltage CO2 lasers, highest precision, medical purposes, and for He–Ne lasers, portable, instrumentation purposes. Cooperation with the Factory of Lasers in Riazan, USSR.
DC–DC power converters (high switching frequency) and DC-AC UPS converters, 600 W, mobile, phase–shift regulation.
1979 Approved for the position of Scientific Researcher 2nd Grade (equivalent then to the position of Senior Assistant). Projects:
Experimenting on HF transistor converters, also super-resonant, up to 440 kHz (leader of the project). Wind generator, 2 kW induction heating equipment (leader of the project), etc.
1984-1986 Collaborated with the Laboratory for Manipulators and Robots of the same university, working on projects:
UPS converter 24VDC/220VAC, up to 5 kW with HF switching synthesis of the sine wave, Drives for DC motors as controlled brakes in Capacitor–Winding Machine,
Electronic trailer for measuring the road–tire cohesion for the Traffic Control Department of the Research Institute of Police,
Automatic infusion syringe for hospital purposes (project together with the Mechanical Engineering Faculty),
Portable equipment for measuring and recording of the sportsmen exerts during rowing (used later in other sports),
HF low noise power supply for multichannel portable data acquisition system for geophysical purposes, etc.
1986 Approved for the position of Scientific Researcher 1st Degree in the Laboratory for Manipulators and Robots. Appointed Assistant–Director of the Centre of Robotics (later became a new faculty).
1987 Research in TU Delft, the Netherlands, experimental 2 kW MOSFET power converter to verify the ideas (already had in Bulgaria) for efficient operation at super–resonant frequency. During the stay in the Netherlands participated in the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Demand–Side Management and Electricity End–Use Efficiency" in Povoa do Varzim, Portugal. In June 1987 appointed Universitair Docent in TU Delft.
1988-1991 Back in TU Sofia, being Principal Assistant Professor, main projects:
HF DC/DC 2.5 kW “booster” converter implemented in Super–Resonant mode with split inductances (15 output stages in parallel, sharing the load), tested successfully in the Power Supply Factory, Pernik.
Miniaturized 160 W HF power supply with a new amorphous iron wound core, power supplies for the public transport, etc.
1991-1992 Stay at TU Delft by TEMPUS individual grant. During planned by TEMPUS visit to Portugal held a seminar at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal on the Resonant Conversion operation, research on:
High frequency resonant converter, Multi-kilowatt super-resonant X–Ray generator single phase supplied, 100 kW, 150 kV.
1993 Research projects on power converters in TU Sofia – Bulgaria).
1994 Invited by colleagues from IST (TU–Lisbon) to the factory FRAEP to lead a project of HF high–efficiency soft–switching power supply 220VAC/40–60VDC/20A, with a power factor correction at the input. Invented and implemented original topology for a phase–shift regulated converter to achieve high efficiency (96%) at 250 kHz switching frequency. A version of the topology was presented at conferences, having received high appreciation. It is used in many students’ works, later on.
1995-1996 Contracted as a consultant of INESC and of enterprise TAPE for the area of Power Converters (Portugal).
1995-2000 Contracted as a consultant of the enterprise Signaal Special Products (then part of Holand Signaal, the Netherlands). Projects included resonant and “classical” power converters, also solar power and contactless power transfer (up to 97% efficiency in 15 kW contactless transfer was achieved).
2000-2002 Contracted again as a consultant of INESC (power supplies).
2000-2008 Researcher of Institute of Telecommunications (IT), in IST–Lisbon.
2008-… Researcher of the Institute UNINOVA of FCT–UNL, Lisbon.
2009-… Collaborates also with the “Energy Processing” group in TU Delft.
II. TEACHING
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA – BULGARIA
1977–1986 Teaching the laboratory classes in Power Supplies Equipment, being appointed Teaching Assistant in part-time regime (this position is allowed to full–time Scientific Researchers).
1987 Appointed Universitair Docent (Assistant Professor) in TU Delft (starting June 1987).
1988 By the contest opened in the same time in Bulgaria (announced already in 1986), received the position of Principal Assistant Professor at the Department of Power Electronics (TU Sofia).
1989 Granted a definitive position (tenure) as a Principal Assistant Professor in TU Sofia.
1977–1994 Supervisor of the graduation theses of more than 50 engineers, many of whom foreigners (began supervising theses as External Supervisor at the time when was still working at the Institute for Medical Equipment). Took part in the jury of many more graduation theses.
1977–1988 Taught more than 500 students of practical and laboratory classes.
1988–1994 Teaching mainly theoretical classes of Power Supply Equipment. Lectured (theory) and examined (orally) more than 700 students.
1989–1994 Appointed as responsible for two subjects, part of a New Master of Science Program:
Modern Power Transistor Converters (4th year students),
Switched–Mode Power Supplies (postgraduate students).
1989–1991 Participated in creating of the new Faculty of Industrial Engineering (where all subjects are taught in English) in cooperation with the Brunel West London University and TU Sofia.
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS
1987–1988 Assigned the position of Universitair Docent (i.e. Assistant Professor) at TU Delft, the Netherlands, in the Laboratory of Power Electronics.
1987–1992 Advisor and co–advisor of MSc. students.
2009 Collaborated also by substituting in lecturing (during a short stay)
INSTITUTIONS IN PORTUGAL
A. FUNDETEC
1995–1996 Lecturing four subjects of the course FUNDETEC (European qualification program in Electrical Engineering and Electronics ).
B. HIGHER INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS (ISTP), MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
1995–2003 Lecturing (theory and practice) of the subject: Automation and Control (1st semester of the 4th year Mechatronics Engineering).
1996–2003 Lecturing (theory and practice) of the subject: Electrical Measurements (2nd semester of the 3rd year Mechatronics Engineering) and the subject Instrumentation (2nd semester of the 3rd year Mechatronics Engineering).
1997–2003 Lecturing (theory) of the subjects: Electronics I (1st semester of the 3rd year Mechatronics Engineering) and Electronics II (2nd semester of the 3rd yearMechatronics Engineering).
2000–2003 Lecturing (theory and practice) of the subjects: Power Electronics I (1st semester of the 4th year Mechatronics Engineering) and Power Electronics II (2ndsemester of the 4th year Mechatronics Engineering).
2002–2003 Lecturing (theory) of the subjects: Theoretical Electrotechnics I (1st semester of the 3rd year Mechatronics Engineering) and Theoretical Electrotechnics II (2nd semester of the 3rd year Mechatronics Engineering).
1995–2003 Supervised more than 10 final projects of students.
C. HIGHER INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES AND ADMINISTRATION (ISLA – SANTAREM), INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
1996–2002 Lecturing (as Invited Auxiliary Professor, theory and practice) of the subjects: Power Electronics I (2nd semester of the 3rd year Industrial Electrical Engineering) and Power Electronics II (1st semester of the 4th year Industrial Electrical Engineering).
1997–2002 Lecturing (theory and practice) of: Numerical Methods (2nd semester of the 3rd year Industrial Electrical Engineering).
1998–2002 Lecturing (theory and practice) of: Electronics of Regulation and Commanding (1st semester of the 4th year Industrial Electrical Engineering).
1996–2002 Supervised final projects of more than 15 students.
D. HIGHER TECHNICAL INSTITUTE (IST/UTL), ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
2000–2001 Lecturing (practice) of: Power Electronics (1st semester of the 5th year Electrical and Computer Engineering – branch: Control and Robotics). This work was done as educational support to IST (in substitution of the PhD study fees due to IST).
2000–2008 Co–supervised final projects of at least 7 students.
E. UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA – FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FCT/UNL), ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
2002–… Lecturing (theory and practice) of: Power Electronics in Actuators (2nd semester of the 4th year Master Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering).
2002–… Lecturing (practice) of: Theoretical Electrotechnics (1st semester of the 2nd year Master Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering).
2002–… Lecturing (theory and practice) of: Instrumentation and Electrical Measurements (2nd semester of the 3rd year Master Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering).
2008–… Lecturing (theory and practice) of Instrumentation and Monitoring (3rd sem.) of the new Master Course in Renewable Energy.
2008-… Lecturing (theory and practice) of Power Electronics (4th sem.) of the new Master Course in Renewable Energy.
2002–… Supervised theses of 9 MSc students and supervises 7 more.
III. MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
1986–1987 Assistant Director of the Center of Robotics. This Center later became the Faculty of Robotics at TU Sofia – Bulgaria.
1990–1994 Deputy Dean for the Foreign Students at TU Sofia (position related to the whole university, responsible for the educational problems of the foreign students, post–graduates and PhD students).
IV. CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Efficient energy conversion, e.g. soft–switching techniques, super-resonant operation, etc.
Drives and actuators, energy transfer (also contactless), energy harvesting from solar, thermal, mechanical and other renewable sources of energy, microminiaturized power converters.
Electric vehicle: battery management, energy management and transfer (also contactless), etc.
V. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
IEEE (M., 1991, SENIOR MEMBER, 2008),
Power Electronics Society of IEEE (since 1991),
Industrial Electronics Society of IEEE (since 1993),
VI. HONORARY AWARDS
1960… From the school, for results at the Math Olympiads, dedicated books and diplomas.
1974 From TU Sofia, for being top of the class (MSc Graduation).
1997 From IEEE, “Meritorious Paper Award” for article published in 1996, diploma.
VII. LANGUAGE SKILLS
Bulgarian, fluency: oral and written (school diplomas)
Russian, fluency: oral and written (school and university diplomas)
English, fluency: oral and written (school, university and other diplomas)
Dutch, fluency: oral and written (three levels Dutch language diplomas)
Portuguese, fluency: oral and written (no specific course)
Other language courses taken (weaken knowledge):
Czech, 1970
German, 1977–78
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Beautifully Fragile
I feel very fragile lately.
I have been fragile for years, but it was a moment of clarity and surprise when a medical assistant shook her head and said so to me.
You’re so fragile.
The idea was foreign to me. I was the girl who dug trenches in hard, red clay to bury water lines, planted gardens and carried heavy loads. The girl who bathed dogs and people and wiped up vomit from the floor.
When she told me I was fragile, I laughed.
Now I have time. I’m not a girl anymore.
It’s a strange place, but not bad. Tears dampen my cheeks almost daily. But what days they are.
My daughter comes in from a trip to the movies.
“Bree asked me if I was a daddy’s girl.” She bites her bottom lip, trying to hide a smile. She looks at me from underneath her lashes but I can see her eyes, the way they shine. “I told her yes.”
And here I go again, wiping my eyes with a tissue.
My middle boy, the one who drives me crazy, the one too much like me and too much like his father, says to his little brother who is now a man, “I am proud of you.”
Their conversation continues to flow around me while I am stayed, becalmed in the current, bathing in that singular moment, hardly able to breathe and not really caring if I ever do again.
I cry at the note taped to the television, “Watch anime with me,” and at the memory of how he always laughs at my lame joke about anime and anemone. An invitation into his world is a prize. This is not a carnival prize, but a gold medal prize to be carried and worn over the heart.
My husband comes in, weary from work but too stubborn to admit it. He stands, reading the endless to-do list on the refrigerator. When I see him with the youngest man-child and get a glimpse of the crazy, terrorizing love that comes with being this boy’s father, the wild rawness, the manliness of it, moves me.
Against such things it’s hard to keep fists clenched tight around the small threads of bitterness gathered up over days and years. Maybe that is where the salt for all these tears was being held, waiting for release.
There are always ready tears for my eldest, who does nothing to make me cry, and so I do. What can I say? Mothers understand.
It took a long time to get here. I always, always knew it was all worth it. All the books and articles and wise women said so.
So the fragile girl laughed and wiped up vomit and held tight to little (and not-so-little) hands whether they wanted it or not. She waited by the phone and did not yell. She saved her keening for another day and stood as tall as five foot something allowed. Love made her strong.
It’s not a bad place. Not a bad place at all.
Who knew being overwhelmingly, beautifully fragile would come from being so strong? (Tweet This)
Momma Told Me, Titus 2 Tuesdays, UNITE
Just Me, My Essays and Short Stories beauty, family, life, parenting, relationships
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You've Likely Been Hacked. And Your Details are For Sale.
What's Working with Cam Marston presented by Coastal Alabama Community College
LC May - Brand Ambassador for Clyde May's Alabama Style Whiskey
Clyde May was never without a still somewhere in the woods of Bullock Country, Alabama. His special Christmas offering, which he only sold to family and friends, was flavored with apple slices and aged in oak barrels. Today Clyde May's Alabama Style Whiskey is sold in all 50 states and is represented by his grandson, LC May, who carries the family's reputation with great pride. We discuss the whiskey business, how social media is selling whiskey, and how LC prefers his whiskey after a long week on the road.
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One would think a milkshake that runs upwards of $10 would have a very limited market. Not true. Begun in Gulf Shores, Chelsea and Logan Green have discovered a robust market for their magnificent creations and are now operating several stores with plans in the works for franchise operations. And the cherry on the top is an offer from Mark Cuban on ABC's Shark Tank to help them grow. Listen to their story.
info_outline Gratitude: An Exploration of Post Traumatic Growth
Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD has a book called Happier in which he explores the topic of gratitude and how exhibiting gratitude makes you more grateful. It's an upward spiral, he says. Following Dr. Ben-Shahar we meet Stephanie Anderton and Rob Stuardi, both of Mobile, who experienced significant illnesses and, as a result, have a true sense and depth of gratitude that only the challenges caused by their illnesses could have awakened. It's an uplifting show for the holiday season. Gratitude - Getcha Some.
info_outline Joel Sartore, leader of National Geographic's Photo Ark, is Doing Work that Matters
Joel Sartore has grand ambitions. Photographing every animal in human captivity requires exhausting travel to the four corners of the earth. But he's on a mission to catalog these creatures, great and small, for human posterity. He's lived most of his life with a camera in his hands and his eye for backgrounds, expressions, and framing the subject matter has gained him accolades throughout his career. And while you'd think he may be over good photography, he's still captivated by a really good picture.
info_outline Joel Salatin's Returned to the Roots of Farming to Great Success
Joel Salatin took a ragged and depleted farm in Virginia and returned it to a producing plot of land. Along the way, Joel learned some marketing skills, gave speeches, wrote articles and books, was featured in a documentary, and has built a following of farmers and consumers who have elevated him to nearly celebrity status. Listen as he tells his story, learn where he gets his next ideas, and learn what's coming.
info_outline Scott Tripoli - General Manager of Point Clear's Iconic Grand Hotel
Scott Tripoli had to have the GM job at the 1000 room Hilton in Orlando to qualify for his current role as General Manager at the 400 room Grand Hotel in Pt Clear, Alabama. Tripoli has guests return year after year, for generations, to experience the charm of this special hotel. They know what to expect, they know what they like, and they count on Tripoli to deliver it year after year. He does, and he tells us how.
info_outline Jeff Brinson is a Professional Sales Coach and Teaches his Clients to Rethink Sales
Jeff Brinson began selling books door to door for the Southwestern Company while a college student. He excelled at the work and today teaches sales managers and sales teams about the right frame of mind to tackle sales. His instruction on how to define your target market, how to mine your contacts for referrals, and finding good sales people is a breath of fresh air in an age old profession. "The riches are in the niches."
info_outline Innovation and Entrepreneurship via Univ of South Alabama's I-Corps
Drs Michael Chambers and Andrew Byrd know the questions to ask, the people to talk to, and the processes to explore to get your business idea or invention started. If it's going to fail, they want it to fail fast so that you can quickly pivot and take the idea in a different direction where a market may be eagerly awaiting your idea. It's intense and rigorous and not for everyone but Drs Chambers and Byrd agree - entrepreneurs are often the most satisfied people they know and their drive can't be stopped.
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Joe Brown owns Your CBD Store of West Mobile. Dr Jan Roberts teaches at the NYU Silver School of Social Work and has a weekly podcast called New Hemp Times. Between the two of them, they know the chemical composition of CBD, how the body reacts to it, and to manage expectations about what it might can do for you. Both Joe and Jan emphasize buying only quality product that has been tested by a third party testers. Listen as they get us up to speed on the potential of CBD.
info_outline Bowden Sarrett - Travel Agencies Remain Alive and Well and Worth Their Weight in Gold
The internet has not destroyed travel agencies. In fact, the internet has given travelers so much information, so many choices, that many travelers want someone to hand craft their vacation for them. Bowden Sarrett and her team at Brownell Travel will do just that. Their exclusive process called Discover More asks customers questions designed to get to the root of customer's travel goals. From there, Bowden and her team craft the perfect itinerary.
Glenda Snodgrass says you and I have probably already been hacked. Many times. And our information is for sale on the Dark Web - which is a real place - to the highest bidder. Even little ole you and little ole me are targets for these industrious and entrepreneurial criminals. Glenda walks us through what to know, what to do and, most importantly, how things work in the world of internet cyber crime.
Also on this episode David Webb talks about a product with no peer, no equal, and a special place in his heart and belly.
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Grant of Perpetual, Non-Exclusive Easement to Board of Water Supply, County of Kauai, for Construction, Installation, Reinstallation, Use, Maintenance, Repair, and Removal of Two Water Meters and Appurtenant Water Pipelines, Valves, and Related Waterworks Equipment; Lihue Town, Lihue, Kauai, Tax Map Key: (4) 3-6-005:011 por.
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to B T Kuwahara LLC for the Purposes of Conducting an Environmental Assessment, Keonepoko Homesteads, Puna, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: 3rd/1-5-07:55.
Deny Request for Extension of Lease Term Made Pursuant to Act 207, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, General Lease No. S-3621 Crescent City Properties, Inc., Lessee, Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: 3rd/2-2-49:06.
Sale of Storm Drainage Easement Reservations 1 and 2 in Favor of the State of Hawaii to Robert Glenn Bloom, Jr. and Bebi Latiefa Bloom, Paukaa, South Hilo, Hawaii, Tax Map Key:3rd/2-7-20:14.
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Hawaii Explosives & Pyrotechnics, Inc. for Set up and Firing of Aerial Fireworks Display on December 31, 2012, Ouli, South Kohala, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: 3rd/6-2-02: seaward of 04.
Grant of Perpetual, Non-Exclusive Easement to Ernest J. Freitas, Jr., Trustee Under Revocable Trust Declaration dated December 20, 1990, for Access and Utility Purposes, Waimea, South Kohala, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: (3) 6-4-030: Portion of 014.
Request Approval to Exchange the Vehicle Access Location fronting Kuakini Highway on Lands under Governor’s Executive Order No. 3821 to Department of Accounting and General Services, Makai portion Keauhou 1, North Kona, Hawaii, Tax Map Key:3rd/7-8-07:61.
Request for Consent to Mortgage, General Lease No. S-5228, Wilfred Kaupiko, Lessee, Milolii-Hoopuloa, South Kona, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: 3rd/ 8-9-014:058.
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Hawaii Explosives & Pyrotechnics, Inc. for Aerial Fireworks Display Purposes at Honolua, Lahaina, Maui, Tax Map Key:(2) 4-2-004: seaward of 015.
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Hawaii Explosives & Pyrotechnics, Inc. for Set up and Firing of Aerial Fireworks Display on November 20, 2012, Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 2-3-037:021 (Portion).
Amend Prior Board Action of November 10, 2011, Item D-15 by Allowing Payment of the Consideration in Installments; Grant of Term, Non-Exclusive Easement to Robert E. Cambra and Agnes K. Freitas Trust for Seawall and Filled Land Purposes, Kaalaea, Koolaupoko, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 4-7-014:seaward of 010.
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to K & S Helicopters, Inc. dba Paradise Helicopters and Croman Corp. for Safety Zone Relating to the Building Maintenance Work on the Adjacent Private Property on November 12 and 19, 2012, Makaha, Waianae, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 8-4-004:006 seaward.
Delegation of Authority to the Chairperson to Establish a Reasonable Schedule of Visiting Hours and Authority to Close or Restrict Public Use of All or Portions of Any State Park When Necessary for the Protection of the Area and/or the Safety and Welfare of Persons or Property, Pursuant to Hawaii Administrative Rules, Section 13-146-4(a)
Request by the Diamond Head International Music Festival, Inc., to Use Diamond Head State Monument Once a Year for Two Years for a Two-Day Diamond Head Crater Celebration Music Festival
Request for Approval of Aqua Engineers Inc. as the Selected/Sole Bidder and to Execute a Contract for Services to Operate and Maintain the Water Systems at Kōke‘e State Park and Polihale State Park, Kōke‘e State Park Wastewater Treatment Facility, and the Kōke‘e State Park and Wailua River State Park (Wailua Marina Section) Sewage Pumping Stations on Kaua‘i
F. AQUATIC RESOURCES
Request for Authorization and Approval to Issue a Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Conservation and Management Permit to the Monument Co-Trustee Representatives of the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources, for Access to State Waters to Conduct Conservation and Management Activities
J. BOATING AND OCEAN RECREATION
Approve Revised Development Plans for Waikiki Landing Project at Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor (AWSBH); Exempt Waikiki Landing Project from City and County of Honolulu Special Management Area Permit Requirements; Apply the State Preemption of City and County of Honolulu Land Use Ordinance; Approve Lease of Fast and Submerged Lands at AWSBH; Grant Non-Exclusive Term Easement of Adjacent Fast Land at AWSBH; Amend Development Agreement with Honey Bee USA, Inc. dated December 17, 2009; Extend Development Agreement; Authorize Subdivision; Grant Non-Exclusive Access Easements; Authorize Deregistration from State of Hawaii Land Court; Approve Right-of-Entry; Kalia, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. Tax Map Key Nos: (1) 2-6-010:003 (por), 005 & 016; 2-3-37:020Approve Amendments to Harbor Lease No. H-87-25 at AWSBH to Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki LLC as affecting Proposed Waikiki Landing Project; Approve Termination of Settlement Agreement and Indemnification Agreement with Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki LLC, Kalia, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. Tax Map Key No. (1) 2-6-010:003 (por); 2-3-037:012.
The Board may go into Executive Session pursuant to Section 92-5 (a)(4), Hawaii Revised Statutes, in order to consult with its attorneys on questions and issues pertaining to the Board’s powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and liabilities.
K. OFFICE OF CONSERVATION AND COASTAL LANDS
Conservation District Use Application (CDUA) HA 3626 for a Single Family Residence (SFR) and Related Improvements by John and Maureen Gapp Located at Maku`u, Puna, Hawai`i, Tax Map Key: (3) 1-5-010:032
M. OTHER
Issuance of Revocable Permit to Federal Bureau of Investigation for Inconsistent Use (non-aeronautical), Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 1-1-72:5
Amendment No. 1 to State Lease No. DOT-A-91-0017 Federal Express Corporation, South Ramp, Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 1-1-72:58
Request for Public Hearing, Amendment to Waive State’s Right to Use or Occupy the Surface of the Property to Mine and Remove Minerals during the Term of the Ground Lease of Prior Board Action of August 12, 2011, Item D-4, Consent to Lease of Lands Under Governor’s Executive Order No. 4345 to Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Kaka’ako, Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 2-1-051:042 and 043
Issuance of a Sublease to BWB Consultants, Inc. dba Grand Café & Bakery for a Restaurant, Bar and Grill, including Related Activities such as Catering for Events; Retail and Office Use at the No. 1 Capitol District (formerly the Hemmeter Building), Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 2-1-17-001.
Consent to Assignment of State Lease Nos. DOT-A-96-0029, DOT-A-05-0007, DOT -A-06-0012 and DOT-A-09-0003, Helicopter Consultants of Maui, Inc. to Branford Castle, Inc., Kahului Airport, Maui, TMK: (2) 3-8-01: portion of 19; Honolulu International Airport, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 1-1-72:79; Lihue Airport, Kauai, TMK: (4) 3-5-01: portion of 8
ALL MATERIALS LISTED ON THIS AGENDA ARE AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW IN THE DLNR CHAIRPERSON’S OFFICE OR ON THE DEPARTMENT WEBSITE THE WEEK OF THE MEETING AT: http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/chair/meeting/index.html
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DATE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 08, 2013
Approval of September 12, 2013 Minutes
C. FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE
Request Approval of a Forest Stewardship Agreement with Susan Kaye Lundburg Trust to Participate in the State Forest Stewardship Program, TMK (3) 4-1-004:045, Hamakua District, Island of HawaiiAnd
Request Approval of Declaration of Exemption From Chapter 343, HRS Environmental Compliance Requirements for the Project.
Acceptance of Two Grant of Easements from John J. Cogan, Trustee of the John J. Cogan Revocable Living Trust in Favor of the State of Hawai’i for Access across a portion of Forest Ridge Way to Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, Tax Map Key: (1) 2-5-015: Adjacent to 014 & 018, Honolulu, O’ahu.
Request for Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Kauai Bodyboarding Association for Bodyboarding Contest on December 7 & 8 and December 14 & 15, 2013 at First Ditch Beach, Kekaha, Kauai, Tax Map Key: (4) 1-2-002:seaward of 036. (KDLO)
Authorize a One-Year Holdover of General Lease No. S-3795 to Hawaiian Telcom, Inc., or its Assignee, GTP Structures I, LLC, for Telecommunication Purposes, Hanapepe, Waimea, Kauai, Tax Map Key: (4) 1-9-003 portion, and Waimea, Kauai TMK: (4) 1-4-001 portion. (KDLO)
Forfeiture of General Lease No. S-4436, Tenrikyo Taiheiyo Kyokai, Kapaa, Kawaihau, Kauai, Tax Map Key(4) 4-5-008:008. (KDLO)
Consent to Sublease of General Lease No. S-5976, Hospice of Hilo, Lessee, to Technology Credit Corporation, Sublessee, Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: (3) 2-4-001:179. (HDLO)
Mutual Cancellation of General Lease No. S-4191 to the University of Hawaii (UH) for the Mauna Kea Science Reserve and Issuance of New Direct Lease to UH for Mauna Kea Science Reserve Purposes; Mutual Cancellation of General Lease No. S-5529 to UH for the Hale Pohaku Mid-Level Facilities and Issuance of New Direct Lease to UH for Hale Pohaku Mid-Level Facilities Purposes; Extension, Amendment and Restatement of Grant of Term Easement S-4697 to UH to Extend the Easement Term by Approximately 45 Years and Update the Easement Instrument with Current Provisions Approved by the Department of the Attorney General, Kaohe, Hamakua, Island of Hawaii, Tax Map Keys: 3rd/ 4-4-15:01 por., 09 & 12. (HDLO)
Approval in principle for the acquisition of private lands situate at Kealakehe, North Kona, island of Hawaii, identified as Tax Map Key No.: (3) 7-4-020:10 (portion) for the proposed Kona Judiciary Complex. (HDLO)
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Envisions Entertainment & Productions, Inc., Hawaii Representative for Pyro Spectaculars, Inc. for Aerial Fireworks Display Purposes at Honolua, Lahaina, Maui, Tax Map Key:(2) 4-2-004: seaward of 015. (MDLO)
Denial of Request to Modify Fee for Right-of-Entry Permit to Hawaii Explosives & Pyrotechnics, Inc. for Aerial Fireworks Displays at Duke Kahanamoku Beach situate at Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key No.: (1) 2-3-037:021 (portion). (ODLO)
Consent to Sublease General Lease No. S-5805, Waikiki Community Center, Lessee, to Hawai`i LGBT Legacy Foundation, Sublessees, Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 2-6-025:008. (ODLO)
Approval to Enter into License Agreement with Federal Aviation Administration on behalf of the Department of Accounting and General Services, Information and Communication Services Division for Telecommunication Facility Purposes, Maunalua, Honolulu, Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 3-9-009:portion of 001. (ODLO)
Amend Prior Board Action of August 8, 2012, Item D-10: Withdrawal from Governor’s Executive Order No. 3867 to the Department of Agriculture for the Kahuku Agricultural Park, Approval, in Principle, of the Issuance of a Direct Lease to Na Pua Makani Power Partners, LLC, for a Commercial Renewable Wind Energy Generation Facility; and Issuance of a Right-of-Entry Permit, Kahuku-Malaekahana, Koolauloa, Oahu, TMK: (1) 5-5-08:6Amendment: The Amendment Seeks the Board’s Approval of a Negotiated Development Agreement Between the State and Na Pua Makani Power Partners, LLC, as an Interim Agreement Prior to Entering into a Formal Lease Agreement.
Report on the Status of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case No. 12-02279, Hawaii Outdoor Tours, Inc., Debtor, Filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Hawaii, Including a Report on the Hearing before the Bankruptcy Court Scheduled for November 6, 2013. Discussion will entail at least the following:a. Trustee’s Motion for Order (A) Authorizing the Assumption of Certain Unexpired Non-Residential Real Property Leases and (B) Establishing Cure Costs; Declaration of David C. Farmer; Exhibits “A” to “C”; and
b. Trustee’s Motion for Order Authorizing: (I) Sale of Hotel Assets, Free and Clear of Liens and Encumbrances; (II) Assignment of Unexpired State of Hawaii General Lease No. S-5844 of Non-residential Real Property Free and Clear of Liens and Encumbrances; and (III) Partial Distribution of Sales Proceeds.
The Board may hold a discussion in Executive Session pursuant to Section 92-5(a)(4), Hawaii Revised Statutes, in order to consult with its attorney on questions and issues pertaining to the Board’s powers, duties, privileges, immunities and liabilities.
NO STAFF SUBMITTAL
Request to amend prior Board action of March 8, 2013, Item D-8, approval of the modification and assignment of the Development for the former Ewa Feedlot site at Campbell Industrial Park, Honouliuli, Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: (1) 9-1-031:001. The purpose of the amendment is to modify (1) the Assignee previously approved by BLNR; (2) the area proposed for development; (3) the proposed development plan; and (4) certain milestones, benchmark deadlines and other terms and conditions previously approved by the Board. (ODLO)
Authorize a One-Year Holdover of General Lease No. 3163, Robert Emmett Hamilton and Susan Weinert Hamilton, Trustees under The Hamilton Joint Revocable Trust, Lessee, to be Immediately Followed by the Issuance of a Month-to-Month Revocable Permit and Issuance of a Bill of Sale Transferring All Improvements on the Property to the Lessee, Ocean View Lease Lots, Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: (3) 2-1-007:029. (HDLO)
E. DIVISION OF STATE PARKS
Issuance of Revocable Permit to Discover Hidden Hawai’i Tours, Inc., for Use of the Nutridge House and Grounds as a Pilot Project, Pu’u ‘Ualaka’a State Wayside, Opu, Makiki, O’ahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 2-5-019:004 (por.)
F. DIVISION OF AQUATIC RESOURCES
Request for Approval of Special Activity Permit 2014-23 for Mr. Alex Filous, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Biology Department, to Take, Tag and Release Alive, Certain Marine Fishes From Within the Molokini Shoal Marine Life Conservation District, Maui for a Study of Fish Movement In Response to Human Activities.
J. DIVISION OF BOATING AND OCEAN RECREATION
Delegation of Authority to the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources (Board) to Approve a Grant Agreement to Navateck, LTD to Survey Ocean Recreation Activities in the South Oahu Ocean Recreation Management Area to Identify Potential Safety/Liability Issues Emerging from New Trends in Water Sports Activity.
Authorize the Termination of General Lease No. B-00-1 and Easement to Lana’i Company, Inc., Castle & Cooke Resorts, LLC and the Issuance of the New Lease and Easement by way of Direct Negotiation to Lana’i Resorts, LLC, DBA Pulama Lana’i Manele Small Boat Harbor, Manele, Country of Maui, Island of Lana’i, Tax Map Key (2) 4-9-17:06.
K. OFFICE OF CONSERVATION AND COSTAL LANDS
Conservation District Use Application (CDUA) OA-3677 for a 5-acre Pilot Cacao Farm by the Ohulehule Forest Conservancy LLC, Located at Waikane, Ko’olaupoko District, Island of Oahu, Tax Map Key (1) 4-8-006:001.
Conservation District Use Application (CUDA) for a Single Family Residence by Peter Dungate, Located at Pahoehoe I, South Kona, Island of Hawai’i, Tax Map Key (3) 8-7-007:011.
Conservation District Use Application (CUDA) for a Water Pipeline by Kuahiwi Ranch, Located at Old Plantation Spring, Kaiholena, Kau, Hawaii, Tax Map Key (3) 9-7-001:001, 004, and 016.
L. ENGINEERING
Authorization to Enter Into Agreements with the Private Property Owners of 1071 Koohoo Place, 1081 Koohoo Place, 1111 Koohoo place, 1115 Koohoo Place, 1123 Koohoo Place, 1129 Koohoo Place, 1129A Koohoo Place, 1135 Koohoo Place, 1141 Koohoo Place and Declaration of Exemption from Environmental Assessment Requirements Chapter 343, HRS, and Chapter 11-200, Hawaii Administrative Rules for Job No. J45C041A Lanikai Rockfall Mitigation, Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii.
Appointment of Sumner Erdman to Serve as Director of the Central Maui Soil and Water Conservation District.
Certification of Election of Scott Crawford and Appointment of Annette Smith to Serve as Directors of the Hana Soil and Water Conservation District.
Amendment to Prior Board Action of 8-23-13, Item M-3, Issuance of a Direct Lease to Island Movers, Inc. Honolulu International Airport Request Amendment to Location and Tax Map Key, Area, and Annual Lease Rental TMK: (1) 1-1-072: 5, 6, 34 & 35 (Portion).
Issuance of Right-of-Entry to Aloha Petroleum, LTD., Hilo Harbor, Island of Hawaii, Tax Map Key NO: 3rd/2-1-09: Portions of 07 & 62.
Issuance of a Lease to the United States of America, Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, for Support and Mooring Facilities at Hilo Harbor, Waiakea, South Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Tax Map Key NO. 3rd/ 2-1-09: (Portion).
Issuance of a License Agreement to the United States of America, Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, for Security Camera on the Aloha Tower, Pier 9, Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, Tax Map Key No. 1st/2-1-01:15 (Portion).
Issuance of 1)Right-of-Entry Permits for the Construction of an Elevated Guideway, a Rail Transit Station, and Pedestrian Connector(s), and the Installation and/or Relocation of Utility Facilities: 2) A Grant of Non-Exclusive Term Easement for an Elevated Guideway, A Rail Station, and Pedestrian Connector(s); and 3) Grant of Non-Exclusive Term Easement(s) for Utility Facilities at Honolulu International Airport, Moanalua, Honolulu, Hawaii TMK: (1) 1-1-03, (1)1-1-04, and (1)1-1-14.
ALL MATERIALS LISTED ON THIS AGENDA ARE AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW IN THE DLNR CHAIRPERSON’S OFFICE OR ON THE DEPARTMENT WEBSITE THE WEEK OF THE MEETING AT: dlnr.hawaii.gov/meetings
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CQranking Info Center
CQranking Info Center :: CQ Men :: Results Share
zingo
Subject: Classic Haribo and Trofeo Luis Puig Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:04 am
for me,
Classic Haribo is 1.3 and Trofeo Luis Puig is 1.2
Riccoen
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:30 pm
http://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=16213
3rd classified wasn't David MARTIN VELASCO, it was the Colombian Ruben Alverio MARIN VALENCIA. This rider:
http://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/rider.asp?riderid=552
LeonCQ wrote:
all changed till here
A.Rabadan
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:19 am
http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=15649
Laszlo Bodrogi appears as French in 2000 Hungary's ITT Championship, while he turned to French nationality in 2009, not before.
The same happens with 2000 German road Championships, when Steffen Wesemann (2nd) appears as Swiss. I don't know when he changed her nationality, but if he's in the German results...
Thanks! This is caused by the fact that these results have been added with the existing Rider List, where Wesemann is Swiss and Bodrogi is Hungarian. We'll change it manually...
Lobee
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:26 am
I assume it was not the 1988-Marco Zanotti, who was 8th in the Classic Haribo in 2000.
http://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/rider_palm.asp?riderid=16632&year=2000&all=1¤t=0
SportingNonsense
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:38 am
Manx International TT
The Manx International Road Race is currently in the CQ db, but I believe the TT a week earlier may also have been UCI registered.
From Chris Newton's website (What looks like a British Cycling report from the time of the race): http://www.chrisnewton.ndo.co.uk/Articles/2000/0006-ManxTT.htm
Including the line:
The field for the UCI-ranked event was depleted by the absence of the teams from Estonia, France and Germany. All three were delayed by Saturday's air traffic control problem affecting flights across the UK and didn't arrive on the island in time to ride.
The results of the 2000 race:
1. Stuart Dangerfield ................... (Camel Valley C&TC)........... 1 26 17
2. C. Newton (Middridge CRT) ...... 1 27 25
3. D. McCann (Ireland) .. . ......... 1 28 44
4. M. Bottrill (Middridge CRT) ....... 1 28 51
5. A. Roche (Emyvale CC) ......... 1 29 29
6. J. Gilfillan (Team Hed)........... 1 30 15
7. T. Evans (Ireland) .............. 1 31 51
8. M. Laursen (Belgium) ........... 1 32 37
9. G. Werckx (Belgium)............ 1 40 10
10. S. Morrison (Omega) ........... 1 40 45
Newton's website also has reports for the 1998 and 1999 editions.
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:07 pm
Arkadiusz WOJTAS was disqualified as winner of the Course de la Solidarité Olympique 2000 (doping/pseudoefedrine).
The official UCI results can be found here: http://oldsite.uci.ch/english/palmares_2000/road_results2000_05d.htm
Subject: Vuelta a Colombia 2000 Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:07 am
Stage 8 winner was in fact Jair Humberto Bernal Sepulveda
http://members.fortunecity.es/pedalear/Vcol/Vcol2000.htm
MarkCQ wrote:
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:36 pm
3rd in the 3rd stage of the Vuelta Independencia Nacional (22/02/2000) was not Robert LEA(id=4425) but Robert LEE (id=14383)
A small correction in the result of the 2000 RR Championships of New Zealand
7 NZL19741226 SHAPLEY Bryce
8 NZL19750113 MITCHELL Stuart
9 NZL19670918 ANDERSON Gary John
10 AUS19770613 POAD Jaaron
7 SHAPLEY Bryce
8 BURNDRED Geoffrey
9 MITCHELL Scott
10 ANDERSON Gary
By the way, the official UCI results of all National Championships of 2000 can be found here:
http://www.construccion.uniovi.es/miguel/2000/natcam/ncm00.pdf
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:28 pm
4th in the RR Championship of Egypt (25/06/2000) was not Azehim ABASS but Mahmoud ABASS
ingsve
2nd overall in Tour of Sweden 2000 should be Erik Dekker and not Arjan Dekker.
Corrected; this means Erik Dekker jumps from 18 to 16 in the 2000 CQ Ranking
Hans wrote:
Sorry, but I don't think that the result has been changed in the database
Apart from the fact that number 8 Geoffrey BURNDRED does not appear in the UCI result, the main info is that MITCHELL is not called Scott but Stuart and that his UCI code is NZL19750113.
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:33 pm
7th in the RR Championships of Argentina of the year 2000 was not Jorge BUSTAMANTE LOZA from Peru but the Argentinian Jorge BUSTAMANTE (ARG19690705).
Same for the 8th place in 2001 and the 7th place in 2003 of the RR Championships of Argentina.
thanks, changed
KoRood
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:39 am
Nr. 10 in the Grote Scheldeprijs on 19/04/2000 must be Matthew Gilmore from Memory Card-Jack & Jones, not Justin Gilmore from the Zaxby's team.
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:56 am
In the final general classification of the Tour of Japan (held in May 2000) Christophe Waelkens from Belgium is mentioned as nr. 2. This must be Piotr Wadecki from Poland/team Mroz, according to the archives on the official website.
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:26 am
I think 2 corrections are needed in the Giro dell'Appennino (11-06-2000):
nr. 10 must be Oscar Pozzi instead of Alessandro Pozzi
nr. 14 must be Niklas Axelsson instead of Martin Axelsson
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:03 am
In the national championship ITT of Kazakhstan (22-06-2000) nr. 7 is Denis Tretyakov, but he is Russian and only 16 years old at the time. I think nr. 7 must be Sergey Tretyakov.
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:36 pm
There is something wrong with the CQ-points in the EnBW GP (29-07-2000). This duo-time trial is rated 1.2. If you look at the CQ-points for each individual rider, you'll see that the winners get different points: Rich 80, Schmidt 48. Also at the nrs. 2: Camenzind 40, Hunter 36. And so on. Besides the incorrect differences, aren't these points too high? The GP Eddy Merckx (27-08-2000) is exactly the same rated duo-time trial, and there the winners only get 40 points (half of the CQ-points a winner gets for an individual 1.2-race, which seems okay). But the funny thing there is, nobody gets 12 points (40-20-16-8-...) and even the duo's finishing 11, 12 and 13 get points, where I think they shouldn't get any. They were just the nrs. 21-26 if you look at them individually.
Shouldn't be this the points in the 1.2 duo-time trials:
1: 80 (nrs. 1 duo-TT: 40 each)
9: 16 (nrs. 5 duo-TT: 8 each)
11: 8 (nrs. 6 duo-TT: 4 each)
12-20: 5 (nrs. 7-10 duo-TT: 2 each)
Corrected; correct points scale for 1.2:
Okay, that's clear. Thanks for the explanation and the correction.
Can you also take a look at the CQ-points at the Joseph Vogeli Memorial (13-08-2000)? The riders in this 1.4 duo-TT get also too much points: Dekker gets 40 points, Wauters 24, instead of 20 each. Nrs. 2 Boscardin and Cotar get 20 and 18 points, instead of 12 each.
The same is going on in 1.5 duo-TT's Duo Normand (24-09-2000) and GP d'Europa (22-10-2000). In both races the winners get different points: 15 and 9 instead of 7 points each. Nrs. 2 get 8 and 7 points, instead of 4 points each. And so on.
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Two more corrections:
1) Nr. 14 in Trofeo Matteotti (30-07-2000) is Oscar Pozzi, not Alessandro Pozzi.
(Source: http://qn.quotidiano.net/2000/07/30/1156999-CICLISMO-SYNIUSKINE-VINCE-IL-TROFEO-MATTEOTTI.shtml)
2) In stage 3A of the Regio Tour (11-08-2000) Alessandro Petacchi did not get the 15 CQ-points for his victory.
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:47 am
In the Japan Cup (29-10-2000) Japanese Yasuharu Nakajima finished 7th. But he was only 15 years old at the time. I think nr. 7 must be Yasuhiro Nakajima, born 08-05-1970.
MarkCQ
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:38 pm
Corrected till here
frenchfan
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:58 am
In 2000 Laszlo Bodrogi was Hungarian, so he rode the national championships of Hungary under the Hungarian flag and not the French one.
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Subject: Re: Results 2000 Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:29 am
I clicked on 'unknown yet' in the result of stage 2 of the Fenkil Northern Red Sea.
In the 2000 Volta ao Algarve GC, the rider who finished 27th is listed as "unknown yet".
Cyclingnews suggests this Mr. Nobody is in fact:
27 Orlando Sergio Gomes Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 5.08
Subject: Re: Results 2000 Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:32 pm
Sylvester wrote:
But the same result gives this Orlando also on 10th place ...
Subject: Re: Results 2000
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Dissolution rate of alpha-doped UO2 in natural groundwater
Kaija Ollila (Corresponding Author), Emmi Myllykylä, Merja Tanhua-Tyrkkö, Tiina Lavonen
The objective of this work is to determine whether the presence of trace elements in natural groundwaters affects the dissolution rate of uranium dioxide in the presence of alpha radiation that causes radiolysis of water. The study is a part of the project Reducing Uncertainty in Performance Prediction (REDUPP) under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). The project aims to reduce uncertainties related to the extrapolation of the results of laboratory experiments to the conditions expected under geologic disposal. Thus far, synthetic groundwater has been normally used in the experiments. The synthetic groundwaters used do not contain all of the chemical elements that occur in natural groundwaters. Three natural groundwaters were chosen for the dissolution experiments with 0%, 5%, and 10% 233U-doped UO2 samples. These include a brackish groundwater, a saline groundwater and a low ionic strength groundwater. At the time of writing this paper, the dissolution experiments have been finished in the first groundwater, which was a moderately saline, brackish groundwater. The groundwater samples for the experiments were taken from a borehole in the Olkiluoto site in Finland. The measurements for dissolution rates were conducted under reducing conditions established using metallic iron in solution and an argon atmosphere in the glove box. The isotope dilution method was used to decrease uncertainties due to precipitation and sorption effects. The resulting dissolution rates in OL-KR6 natural groundwater were generally somewhat higher than the rates measured previously in synthetic groundwaters under similar redox conditions. No clear effect of alpha radiolysis could be seen for tests with lower SA/V, while those for higher SA/V indicated that the dissolution rate was higher for the 10% 233U-doped UO2, suggesting the effect of alpha radiolysis under these conditions.
Journal of Nuclear Materials
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2013.09.019
Radiolysis
Uranium dioxide
performance prediction
Ollila, K., Myllykylä, E., Tanhua-Tyrkkö, M., & Lavonen, T. (2013). Dissolution rate of alpha-doped UO2 in natural groundwater. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 442(1-3), 320-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2013.09.019
Ollila, Kaija ; Myllykylä, Emmi ; Tanhua-Tyrkkö, Merja ; Lavonen, Tiina. / Dissolution rate of alpha-doped UO2 in natural groundwater. In: Journal of Nuclear Materials. 2013 ; Vol. 442, No. 1-3. pp. 320-325.
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BREAKING: ‘Babylon 5’ Reboot in the Works, Snyder Named as Showrunner, Wahlberg to Star
August 22, 2018 Posted in Crude ReviewsTagged Aubrey Plaza, Babylon 5, Damon Lindelof, John Sheridan, Mark Wahlberg, Melissa McCarthy, Reboot, Zack Snyder
Shock and surprise for sci-fi fans today as Warner Bros announced that they will soon be starting production on a brand new ‘Babylon 5’ TV series, under the direction and creative control of Zack Snyder (‘Man of Steel’, ‘300’, ‘The Justice League’) and starring Mark Wahlberg and Melissa McCarthy, to be released in Fall next year.
Also confirmed to be on board with the project so far are Damon Lindelof, who will be leading the writing team, J.J. Abrams as Executive Producer, and Aubrey Plaza playing an as-yet unnamed character.
At a Warner Bros-hosted press conference, showrunner Zack Snyder confirmed his excitement to be working on this new series, which he confirmed will be a reboot of the cult-classic sci-fi show which first aired in 1994.
Zack Snyder: “This is such a great project to be involved in. This will be my first television project, my first series, and I’m really looking forward to it. I love anything to do with space, and science fiction, and I can’t wait to get started filming on what’s going to be a fantastic, mind-blowing show.”
Questioned about what plans had already been made for the new, rebooted Babylon 5 series, Snyder revealed a few interesting details.
Snyder: “We really want to capture what made the original Babylon 5 so special, and so loved by fans, so Damon [Lindelof] and I, we sat down and really tried to distill the core themes. Obviously, war is a huge one, this big military conflict, so we want to bring those big, iconic space battles to life, with modern day special effects and CGI.”
On the exact nature of the reboot, and what sort of themes might emerge, Damon Lindelof had some insight.
Damon Lindelof: “Obviously we want to stay loyal to the original show, and all the incredible drama and tension that it was so well known for. A lot of the original show focused heavily on political intrigue and that sort of thing, but we think the fans really want a more action-packed, emotionally intense story, with more direct conflict between the characters.”
One of the biggest surprises was the casting of Mark Wahlberg (‘Planet of the Apes’, ‘Pain & Gain’, ‘Transformers 5’) as the show’s lead, replacing Bruce Boxleitner as Commander John Sheridan. Snyder was enthusiastic about this casting choice.
Snyder: “This is a big, big stamp of approval for the show, getting such a massive star like Mark involved. Like me, Mark is new to TV drama, but he’s the kind of big-screen actor who will bring a really cinematic feel to everything. […] John Sheridan is a great character, and Bruce [Boxleitner] did a fantastic performance, and we think Mark has the right kind of frenetic, macho energy to live up to that great legacy.”
This will be Wahlberg’s first role in a TV drama series after a lengthy and very successful career in movies. Best known for serious, hard-hitting action roles, his casting as Sheridan gives a strong hint at the direction the new series will go in. Leaked images of costume tests also give us an idea of the aesthetic of the new show, and the cleaner, more modern view of the future it will be presenting.
Mark Wahlberg, AKA Commander John Sheridan, donning an early version of a new, all-in-white Babylon 5 uniform.
The other confirmed casting choice is Melissa McCarthy (‘Bridesmaids’, ‘Gilmore Girls’, ‘Saturday Night Live’), who was confirmed to be playing not one, but two of the characters from the original series.
Snyder: “We had real difficulty deciding on what direction to take some of the characters in, like Londo, and G’Kar. These were two really funny, really light-hearted comic relief characters and we didn’t just want to re-tread the same ground. We already had McCarthy on board to play Londo. Then – and this was suggested by Warner Bros – then there was this great idea of why not get her playing G’Kar as well?
“The friendship between these two aliens is such an integral part of the story, why not have them played by the same person? There’s really no better way to build that kind of comedic, buddy-cop chemistry between two characters than if they’re played by the same person. And Melissa, she’s so talented, so so talented, she’s going to make these two roles really stand out, she’s an absolute star.”
The Babylon 5 reboot will mark McCarthy’s first major return to serialised TV since ‘Mike & Molly’. Early concept art for her Londo make-up was leaked at the press conference, to give an idea of some of the aesthetic changes that we’ll see in the 2019 series, along with a pre-production rendering of the CGI makeover that G’Kar and the other Narn will receive.
LEFT: Concept art for the new Londo Mollari, played by Melissa McCarthy. RIGHT: Early renders of the new-look G’Kar, to be voiced by Melissa McCarthy.
Snyder: “Of course, once we had Londo and G’Kar cast, then we had to think about the other classic pairing from the old show, Vir and Lennier. And then the guys at Warner Bros had another completely out-of-the-box idea: if you already have Melissa playing Londo and G’Kar, why not have her also playing the other odd couple, Vir and Lennier?”
Lindelof: “Right, right. So then Zack and I, we just looked at each other, and, yeah, it made perfect sense. Melissa is just so wonderful in any role she plays, and we figured, it can’t hurt to have more opportunities to feature such an amazing talent on the show.”
Other roles are yet to be confirmed. No mention was made of who was on board to play the likes of Delenn, Garibaldi, Doctor Franklin, or Ivanova. The only other cast member mentioned by name to be confirmed is Aubrey Plaza, although Snyder was cagey on her role, suggesting only that she is likely to be involved with Commander Sheridan.
Snyder: “We’re thrilled to have Aubrey on board. She’s already a TV veteran, and we have some really interesting stuff planned for her character. I can’t give too much away right now, but she’s going to have a big part to play in all this. Her and Mark [Wahlberg] have a fantastic, intense chemistry together, and the relationship between the two of them is going to be a highlight of the series.”
Whilst details on the story are still being kept strictly behind closed doors, at least until production begins, fans are obviously eager to hear what’s in store for the revamped Babylon 5 and its diverse cast of characters. The invited press leaned heavily on Damon Lindelof to lift the veil a little on what he had in store from a narrative perspective.
Lindelof: “Look, I can’t get into too much right now… Zack, are you… Will you stop me if I go too far…? Okay, alright, I’ll be careful.
“There’s so much mythology that the original series built up, but we really want to use this as an opportunity to tread new ground with this universe. Right at the forefront of the original story was this big, epic war between the Vorlons and the Shadows, and it had these really clearly delineated lines between good and evil. Y’know, angels on one side, demons on the other, really classic ‘war in heaven’ stuff, where we all knew who were the good guys and who were the bad guys.
“We want to break that down a bit, muddy the waters. Modern-day audiences demand a mystery, y’know, secrets, hidden identities and so on, so we’re going to explore that path a little more, move away from the Lord of the Rings-style ‘good and evil’ and really break down those borders, y’know?
“So, the story’s going to start with Commander Sheridan, as I think it should, and he’s… am I okay to talk about this? Alright, so he’s commanding Babylon 5. Now, originally, Babylon 5 was a station, this weird kind of hodge-podge living space to keep peace or whatever. But modern audiences really want things more defined, so we’ve redesigned Babylon 5 to be this awesome new ship, a big battleship, that they use to enforce peace and protect humanity.”
Early conceptual renders for the new titular vessel Babylon 5.
Lindelof: “So this big ship, it’s really badass, and what we’re trying to do is shift the focus away from all of that big mythology stuff and get into the real grittiness of this universe. So Sheridan, he’s not the Sheridan we’re used to, he’s this inquisitor-style character, and he’s using the Babylon 5 to track down these evil rebels, terrorists, basically, breaking away from government rule.
“So that’s the theme we really want to play with, the idea that anyone could be one of these terrorists, even on board his ship, and he never knows who might turn on him. We’re drawing a lot of inspiration from, like, how we feel today, y’know, where there’s terrorists everywhere, and how does the government, like, how does the military, like Sheridan, protect people from them, from those terrorists, what kind of moral compromises do they need to make?
“So we’ve still got some of those great alien characters, like Mondo and Jekkar, but we’re keeping them more as sidekicks, really, as the comic relief they always used to be, kind of just in the background, and the real drama, that’s all going to be human-based. Like, it’s an allegory, metaphorical, y’know? We think fans are going to love it.”
[Zack Snyder nods in agreement]
It seems as though everything’s been thought out well ahead of time, and it looks like there’s a clear direction for the series to go down. But for now, it will presumably be a waiting game until more details are released closer to the first air date.
There wasn’t much more information shared at the press conference, but rumours are already circulating in industry circles about some aspects of the show. Danny Elfman is on record to be in discussion with Warner Bros for a television soundtrack, and many are assuming that he will be composing for the rebooted B5.
And whilst most of the main characters from the old show are yet to be cast, there are already suggestions that the role of the sinister Bester, previously played by Star Trek’s Walter Koenig, may be offered to Snyder-collab Ben Affleck in what would be his first major TV role.
Production is to start soon on the new series with the pilot episode, ‘Do You Bleed?’, set to begin filming early in the new year. All sorts of news may come out between now and then, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated.
Neither J. Michael Straczynski nor any of the original Babylon 5 crew or cast were available for comment at the time of writing.
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WO£F says:
I at first thought this was serious. But hrmmm… Melissa McCarthy starring as both Londo and G’kar? And as Lennier and Dellen? Then using pics from the “planet of the apes” remake, claiming it’s an early costume of the Babylon 5 uniform… what a sick joke. Not even close to funny. Whoever thought this was a great idea to post this obviously fake news should have looked at J.M.S media posts. Warner Bros. holds the rights to Babylon 5: the series and has no plans of ever allowing it to be used. J.M.S only owns the rights to the B5 movies. No studio will go ahead with a reboot unless all the rights are owned by one entity.
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tropolite says:
If this is legit it cannot happen with Londo and G’Kar with McCarthy. These aren’t comic relief these are principle characters with some very heavy story arcs. It would be much better (to keep the and retain the fans and new ones) to rework the original and remaster it to HD. You will save money and time and you will not Piss off the many B5 fans.
Tim Christ says:
are you telling me the concept “art” for babylon 5 is the sulaco from aliens, and the roger young from starship troopers? really. this cant be a real article.
KDL says:
Ok I will start by approaching it like Dr Who. I see you’ve been doing up the TARDIS a bit . I DON’T LIKE IT. G’Kar and Lando are both men . Plus they have G’Kar looking like the Gorn from Star Trek Enterprise : A Mirror Darkly. Sorry folks I’m not impressed .So far all I see is a re-visit of the BSG Reboot which was not that great IMO .
GhettoRap says:
I think its real. Everything is getting a remake these days, plus lets face it Babylon 5 was a remake of deep space 9 anyway. I’m hoping that this will be like 300 in space, but also that because they have Mellissa McCarthy a bit like bridesmaids too.
John Mitchell says:
Muppetry… all I read in this reply is muppetry.
Dan Scott says:
For Gods sake man, if you are going to say something inflammatory like this at least have the sense to do some research first.
Babylon 5 was pitched to Universal years before DS9, it looks like the producers of DS9 copied elements of Babylon 5s premise.
A lot of stuff on the net about it.
How can Babylon 5 be a remake of a show produced at the same time?
WrathOfKhan says:
I’m not saying that Babylon 5 would be good as 300/bridesmades in space, but this guy have a point. DS9 is a star trek and Gene Rodenby died in 1991 – so clearly the ideas for DS9 musc come from before 1991. I’ve just googled it and B5 came out in 1994 – so there was plenty of time for JMS to copy them. Maybe he got them when he was pitching to universal.
WitherTax says:
That is not how it went… Babylon 5 got plagiarized BY DS9- Micheal pitched it to the Trek producers a few years before either show existed, and they just took his idea, and kicked him out. There was almost a lawsuit over this, and you can do research yourself.
wusolja says:
@WrathOfKhan
Dead wrong! Babylon 5 was being pitched to different networks for 5 years. That’s before it came out in 1993.
http://jmsnews.com/Messages/Message/21322
keith b. rigsby says:
‘G-R.’:
you’re either IGNORANT, or, an instigating fool. Are u familiar wit tha ‘chiken-&-the-egg’ premise?? ‘B5’ was pitched, by J.M.S., to the ‘gods’ of Star Trek, who swiftly & summarily STOLE & fully PLAIGARISED, HIS creativity & hard work, to release the entirely crappy ‘D.S.-9’. get ur facts straight.
Keith B. R.
Interesting concept except that Babylon 5 was pre-DS9. Both great shows but Star Trek ripped off B5 not the other way around.
GhettoRap… Just let’s get the facts right shall we… Babylon 5 was written well before DS9 and the writer of B5 took the DS9 to court and it was eventually settled out of court. B5 and Michael Straczynski definitely came first and in fact was rejected from CBS, then CBS suddenly came up with DS9. Even the commentators said how ‘different DS9 was to all the other Star Trek franchises’. That should say it all right there.
This news though HAS to be BS. Melissa McCarthy starring as both Londo and G’kar… are you f’king kidding me?! No, Just No. They are not just a comic relief, they are principle characters and have a very strong arc. They are NOT comic relief. Just by this article if this is truly what they are thinking of for a B5 reboot. No Thanks.
Peter Nock says:
B5 was first on tv, they were made at the same time
B5_thebest says:
actually, Warner brothers was approached by JMS BEFORE the concept of deep space nine the star trek franchise stole the idea form JMS not the other way around..
Timothy A Miller says:
BULLSHIT! JMS pitched it to CBS, they turned it down, and then “coincidentally” popped up a far inferior ripoff. Screw ‘Space Mall 9″!!!
Matthew Pieffer says:
“SPACE THE FINAL FRONTIER” , but all Hollywood can do is the same old shows with fresh faces why not do something original ,, tiered of these rehashing of old shows, there are plenty of other books in the genre .
Yannick Docq says:
the creator of Battlestar Galactica 75 can’t remake Babylon 5? BSG 75 did an awesome job on their stories, ships and space wars. I say they should do Babylon 5. just a thought. i would love to have them to remake Babylon 5
Ren Val Hier says:
This is bullcrap,McCarthy is a bad choice for a sci-fi franchise like B5,its not a retarded comedy series
healthwordsblog says:
I pray to God what you are saying is true, because the Babylon 5 being described in this article is not the one I remember and love.
What a hoot.. and fake news… Londo and G’kar comic relief buddies? They were the antithesis of that.. the meat of Bab5 was all about their ‘conflict ‘. Nice try..😎
That’s very rude. Next, you’ll be trying to claim that the leaked script from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ (https://crudereviews.net/2018/08/05/exclusive-leaked-script-from-the-pilot-episode-of-star-trek-picard/) is fake as well.
Radioman says:
How stupid do you think we are? One of those ships is the Avatar Class Titan, from “Eve” another is for the newest Galactica series
Ralphie says:
the left ship is the Rodger Young from Starship Troopers and the right is The Sulacco from Aliens
Adam Armstrong says:
First “Why?” Babylon 5 was an excellent series that told this epic story in five chapters, each season being a chapter. It had one of the best series endings that completed the story. Very emotional ending as well.
Second, Melissa Mccarthy playing four characters, two of which were never the comic relief of the show? That ridiculous.
Third, Babylon 5 is a battleship? No freakin way.
Zack Synder is a hack. His super hero movies are a joke and terrible. Terrible casting choices. Weak stories. Everything thrown into the story except the kitchen sink. Too much reliance on CGI. George Lucas anyone?
I hope that this is a fake story. I can’t believe the original creator of the series would ever allow this to happen.
Please dont screw up tbe roles of Molori and J’kar with a woman. These was male roles. I sure JJ ABRAMS is behind this. All of us who love BABYLON 5 send in your discuss. Mark is cool as Sheridan. But dobt change what was good. Go back to the colors or military colors. Get Jason Stateham for security chief Garibaldi. Delynn Get the character strait with people that will bring back fan. Dont ruin it like you have Star Trek timeline bull. JJ stay out. Find who worked on the Original show. Too help!!!# but I thank u for bringing it back. Not saying a woman cant play a role but let male playing parts to males. Pleassssse! Aliens, Human, old ones so forth. Dont blow it it will be cancelled after 3 season. Break a record 10 seasons. So many ideas out . Ill write it shoot heck just dont mess it up.
Love It. I’m a Bab5 fan and love the way this will wind up the Bab5 nerds. Super job.
technomancerral says:
For your entertainment, I was internally screaming the further I went down the page until they got beyond the realm of plausibility and I realized what was going on…. and then checked the comments to be sure. It was sounding like every person quoted had barely watched the show if at all, and were getting every single theme and nuance WRONG.
Mefistófeles De Oliveira Filho says:
Stupid and childish joke, dude! Why waste our time (and your time) with a low quality joke? Get a life or get a shrink, but don’t waste our time that way. And please don’t bother to reply me saying how sad you are with my comment and blablabla. Even the best jokes have a timing, and your’s is approaching quickly the Worst Joke Ever docking bay.
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JM Davis says:
Here is a hand grenade. Please pass it on to your technical staff.
Julie V. says:
First you say that you are staying true to the original then you change B5 from a space station/neutral meeting place to a battle ship? I’m very disappointed. The name of the place implies a multicultural place.
Next you’ll want to reboot Deep Space 9 and have it chasing bad guys all over the Gamma Quadrant.
AJC1973 says:
Why cant people get that this is a joke and appreciate it as such?
BECAUSE it’s not funny.
rocketride says:
How about because it was spectacularly heavy handed?
telescopicHORSE says:
I personally think that having Melissa McCarthy casted in this way is one of the most progressive and mature choices made by the producers here. I can’t wait to see now.
This is brilliant. I hated that old show, I am so glad they are going to finnally fix it. All of you who don’t think Mellissa McCarthy can play these roles are probably the same sexists that ruined the new ghostbusters for everyone.
Think about it, a man played all those parts in the original. So you are sexist if you don’t think that a woman can do the same job.
Professional Reviewer says:
I totally agree! This is exactly the progress we need. The old show lacked diversity and was incredibly backwards in its representations, I literally can’t even watch it for that, omg!
Also I like the heavier focus on action and war, showing that women of various colors too can be used as cannon fodder in wars for stability, control and freedom which is a truly inspiring message to young girls and women everywhere.
TransdimensionalVoretex says:
I think everone saying this is fake, or that they don’t want it are fake B5 fans. Think about how long its been since this show got the respect it deverved. Its amazing that a big studio is taking it seriously.
jp161 says:
Well that was superbly un-funny.
nietzschebob says:
This was hilarious thank you so much. What’s even more hilarious is the bulk of these comments, keep up the good work internets!
Special kudos to the guy who went on an anti-women rant because he believed McCarthy was going to be playing 4 roles.
damnyou@hotmail.com says:
I think this is a joke. I agree that it’s disgusting, because it’s not obvious. This type of “fake news” should be banned. I will no longer visit website because I was looking for B5 news, and was tricked.
Rorange says:
It’s bullshit my friend…
Fuck you crudereviews, really fuck you
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Here is another hand grenade. Now your editorial staff won’t feel left out.
Snyder, your remarks show how ignorant you are regarding Babylon 5. Warner Brothers, I guarantee you suits have a sure fail on your hands. All without any input from JMS. Shame!
Now I see, it’s a joke and a crummy one at that. I’m slow but I figured it out.
Jerry B says:
Oh the hope when I read this ‘news’, the consternation when I read who was involved and what they thought about the original.
Then came the dawning realisation. It’s a wind up. Especially when the pre production shots all showed stuff from other movies and shows. Some of it was pretty clever. Just the mention of Zack Snyder got my hackles up. You couldn’t pick a more inappropriate director if you tried. Kudos to whoever wrote this, you knew exactly what buttons to press.
humanityforest says:
just sighs
twat.
This is all fake
A concerned Fan says:
I’ve got mixed feeling about this to be honest.
Sure, it’s great to get more action with updated CGIs and all and I really want to see those epic battles with modern aesthetics, as they’ve always been the most important part of Babylon 5! Also, the casting is superb and will finally add the diversity and depth the old B5 was lacking.
But it needs a bit more than just acting and characters… it needs stories that connect them. And I can’t imagine anybody better for the job of telling deep and inspiring Sci-Fi stories than Alex Kurtzman, so I seriously hope they’re gonna recruit him for this project as the visionary and talented man he is. Make it happen!
This is bullshit… The “New Look” for G’kar Is a picture of a Gorn from star trek enterprise… Also- the ships are from other sci-fi works… The large ship at the bottom is a picture of a Titian from EVE online…
I want a B5 reboot as much as the next sci-fi fan, but JMS himself said it would never happen… Atleast without him.
Every person pictured is from other shows/movies except for the ludicrous one of McCarthy as Londo. Curse you for wasting my time. FAKE NEWS.
JEREMY Lister says:
Re-do the special effects…perhaps.
But you can’t improve on perfection.
Love B5
Please make Babylon 5 a reality? I hope that you will continue to the end, I only hope that it will be bigger and better then the original?
This has surely got to be a joke.
I would love to see a good B5 reboot, but this could only be done with JMS at the helm.
This reads like someone read a sysnopsis of the show and watched a couple of episodes.
The Vorlons and Shadows are clearly good and evil…. Reeeaaallyy?
Londo and G’Kar are comic relief characters???
To be honest, all WB really need to do is find the original B5 model data they lost, re-render in widescreen HD and 4K, and then they could re-release on Bluray and 4K Bluray.
B.S. just look at the imdb of these people, and see that its not there. and thank god for that. melissa McCarthy shouldn’t be in anything
All you have to do is look at the pictures and subtitles to know it’s BS. They’re all from other franchises and quite recognizable. Even someone who didn’t recognize that might notice the uniform for “Sheridan” that says “Davidson,” for god sake.
Lurch says:
Just don’t dumb it down too much fellas or overseas sales will plummet.
It’s good this is not going to happen: Mark Wahlberg and Melissa McCarthy… the idea gives me nightmares. One lead with the charisma of a shop window manequin and the other a very un-funny comedian with wrong gender! All I’m asking for is that a watchable version of the greatest Sci-Fi show ever is finally being released on BD or DVD. I don’t care if it is in 4:3 instead of widescreen… but the blurry and cropped FX sequences have really been a big letdown… it looked brilliant at the time on TV and VHS but the DVDs destroyed the whole viewing experience. It’s like one scene is crisp, the next is low res blurry and full of artefacts, the next one is crisp again, and back and forth between the two. Hurts my eyes and my heart!
Well I LOVED the B5 series and would love a SERIOUS reboot. But wouldn’t it be B6? B5 was nicely wrapped up and if I remember “destroyed”. Make a Bad Ass B6 ship that is way advanced and powerful than B5. Please lets not ruin it with Muppets like some of the crap in Star Wars. Lets not ruin this with Melissa McCarthy playing ANYTHING. I probably wont even watch it if she is in there. We don’t need stupid “funny” stuff. Some comic relief is fine but lets not get stupid with it. Mark would be create!! Get some GOOD writers that will provide a great storyline PLEASE.
What a load of twaddle. Seriously as a life long B5 fan I was at first excited by the news then doubt started creeping in then BAM !!! The so called early B5 Wahlberg uniform shot !! Honestly any fan worth their salt would have known that uni is from Planet of the Apes, jeez even the name patch says Davidson not Sheriden as article would have you believe.
Get a grip the peeps who post such nonesense and stop taking the piss with devoted fans of not only B5 but other Sci Fi legends.
Lee Jones says:
This isn’t probably true, but if there was one person I would not mind being the show runner of a re-booted “Babylon 5”, it would be Zack Snyder. Mark Wahlberg as the star? Eh . . . I don’t know.
Zathras says:
Sadly Abrams and Lindelof are awful enough writers to actually ruin this. The real giveaway was the designs for the new B5.
I hold Snyder in slightly higher regard.
A huge HUGE mistake not to invite Bruce Boxleitner to continue as Sheridan. The guy you have selected is by far inferior to him, both in appearance and talent. Boxleitner made us all watch it, even through the occasional humps in the story (like never having been shown how the good guys took out Mr. Bester the PsyCore villain). I will not watch this silly concoction unless Boxleitner is on the cast! Delenn was actually way too ugly and old to be Sheridan’s bride, in my opinion, so I would nt mind seeing somebody else playing her role. And while at it, call this project Babylon 6 and not Babylon 5 which ended with the station being shut down and eliminated, and let Garibaldi play Garibaldi. I wonder what Strazinsky has to say about your “innovative” ideas, LOL!
Oh, looks like I was fooled into believing this project is seriously being planned….hahaha! I must give you 5 stars for the mockery! And sorry for misspelling Straczinsky. Nice honest hard working guy and a great story teller.
lyall ross says:
i would love a reboot or the original to finish off its story lines , i loved this show it was the best space show stark trek was cheap compared to this show. some of the great actors from the old show have passed away which is sad. but having Melissa McCarthy playing several roles of main people sounds stupid as its not a comedy and she cant play straight . and as for mark Wahlberg he would kill the role not a good choice . i wouldn’t watch it in what this site has described. but then as others have said it want happen .
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(Originally posted on Digby’s Hullabaloo on April 28, 2012)
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor.
-Charlie Chaplin
I now quit public affairs and I lay down my burden.
-Edward VIII
Take this job and shove it.
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Here’s something you or I will likely never be asked: “Acceptasne electionem de te canonice factam in Summum Pontificem (Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?).” Now, some of us may have rehearsed an Oscar, or Grammy award acceptance speech, just for fun. Or contemplated a response to: “Do you prefer to receive your Lotto winnings in lump sum, or as annual payments?”
Realistically, of course, we are more likely to face queries like “Paper…or plastic?” or “How do you plead to these charges?” However, in the event you have speculated about how the world looks from inside the Popemobile, a Franco-Italian import called We Have a Pope offers a test drive.
Actually, this newly elected Pope, formerly known as Cardinal Melville (Michel Piccoli), is not so eager to leave his gilded cage and flit onto the St. Peter’s Square balcony. His unexpected response to “that question” is to go into a full-blown panic attack. As puzzled speculation among the thousands waiting patiently in the Square spins into dark rumor, the pontiff’s handlers brainstorm ways to snap Melville out of his accelerating malaise. They decide to take drastic measures. Loathe as they are to do so, they bring in a (gulp) psychoanalyst (director Nanni Moretti) to see if he can get right to the heart of the matter.
It becomes apparent that the hapless shrink (a non-believer, no less) cannot ply his trade with a flock of hand-wringing cardinals eavesdropping to make sure he doesn’t ask any “inappropriate” questions. He is chagrined to learn that Vatican rules dictate that the cardinals be present; even more so when he finds out that he is to be sequestered on the premises until “we have a Pope”.
Exasperated, he puts in a plug for his ex-wife, also a psychoanalyst, with a caveat that she is obsessed with “parental deficit”. Melville is whisked off (unbeknownst to the cardinals), for a session with the ex (Margherita Buy). It still doesn’t take. Shortly after the visit, Melville gives his handlers the slip. The rest of the film is divided between following Melville’s misadventures around Rome, and how the boys back at the ranch are killing time (the chief handler has convinced them that Il papa is resting comfortably up in his apartment).
Moretti has some great ideas here (he also co-wrote, with Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli), but none of them gel, making his film an uneven and ultimately unsatisfying affair. The setup reminded me of Theodore J. Flicker’s 1967 political satire, The President’s Analyst, which likewise framed the narrative by humanizing someone who holds a larger-than-life position of power and responsibility by depicting them to be just as neurotic as anybody else.
Moretti seems unsure where he’s going; just when you think he’s delivering a humanist character study, he lurches into silly slapstick (an overlong segment with the cardinals playing “prison volleyball” falls flat). If it is intended as satire, the targets are too soft (I’m shocked! Shocked to learn that the Holy See is a cloistered world of gossipy, fussy old men, padding around in slippers and funny robes!).
There is one intriguing moment where the psychoanalyst, who has been killing time reading the Bible (the only book in his room), holds it up in front of the cardinals and says, “In this book, are all the symptoms of depression: feelings of guilt, weight loss, suicidal thoughts.” But alas, Moretti tosses the idea out there and then abandons it.
The film works best when Piccoli is onscreen. His performance is warm, funny and touching, particularly when he takes his Roman Holiday-esque sojourn through the city. In these scenes, his character reminded me of the angel in Wim Wenders’ WIngs of Desire. who elects to leave a hermetic bubble of rituals and spiritual contemplation to revel in the simple joys of everyday life; to rediscover his humanity. It’s only in these brief moments, that Moretti’s film, and his star, shines. It reminds us that, at the end of the day, the man behind “The Pope” is nothing but a man.
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Bargain and Free eBooks for Friday (10/17)
Today’s News and Notes:
More great free ebooks for you to enjoy.
★ BOOK OF THE DAY ★
The Last Track: A Mike Brody Novel
by Sam Hilliard
Imagine if being late meant a child disappeared forever. That is the fear that drives Mike Brody: the man you want, when the one you love is missing. Mike is more than just a master tracker. An ex-Special Forces operative, Smoke jumper, and now extreme adventure tour guide, he also possesses a unique ability to tap into the memory and emotional state of those he pursues. In The Last Track, a police detective recruits Mike to help find an asthmatic boy lost in the dense woods surrounding a dude ranch in Montana. An unwitting murder witness, the boy burrows ever deeper into the rugged terrain, fearful of being found. As Mike and a local officer search for the boy, the killer follows them. While the investigation expands, his ex-wife, a well-connected journalist, uses her contacts to unravel the truth behind the murder. Her discoveries threaten to snare them all in a treacherous conspiracy . . .
(Note: Books were free when this was sent. Check the price before downloading as prices may have changed.)
The Cat Manual
by Michael Ray Taylor
Humorous advice for cats, by cats.
The author “discovered” the feline world’s best-kept secret in a file hidden on his mother’s computer by her cat, Cleo, and now shares it with humanity for the first time. Topics covered range from avoiding visits to the vet, to the artful display of captured prey, to getting in the way of a human trying to read anything, including this paragraph.
Twelve Years A Slave: Narrative Of Solomon Northup
by Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup was born a free man but was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Northup was a slave for 12 years in Louisiana before he was rescued. The narrative Northup wrote on his experience is one of the most famous accounts of slavery.
Perfection Unleashed
by Jade Kerrion
When the perfect human being, Galahad, escapes from Pioneer Laboratories, the illusory peace between humans and their derivatives–the in vitros, clones, and mutants–collapses into social upheaval. The first era of the Genetic Revolution was peaceful. The second is headed for open war.
The alpha empath, Danyael Sabre, does not feel compelled to risk his cover of anonymity and get involved, until he finds out that the perfect human being looks just like him.
Two men, one face. One man seeks to embrace destiny, the other to escape it. But destiny has a name–Zara. Assassin.
Yesterday’s Gone: Season One
by Sean Platt
On October 15 at 2:15 a.m. everyone on Earth vanished.
Well, almost everyone.
A scattered few woke alone in a world where there are no rules other than survival… at any cost.
A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty New York, in search for his wife and son.
A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now an endangered species.
A mother shields her young daughter from danger, as every breath fills her with terror.
A bullied teen is thrilled to find everyone gone. Until the knock on his door.
A fugitive survives a fiery plane crash. Will he be redeemed, or return to what he’s best at: the kill?
An eight year old boy sets out on a journey to find his missing family. What he finds will change him forever.
And there’s a few people who aren’t surprised that this happened at all. In fact, they’ve been dreaming about this day for years.
These survivors aren’t alone…
Someone or something is watching them.
And waiting…
Strangers unite.
Sides are chosen.
Will humanity survive what it never saw coming?
The only certainty is that Yesterday’s Gone.
Himalayan Hump
by John Robert McCauley
Inspired by true stories during World War II, the Air Transit Command and its heroic flyers and crews were the savior to end the war against the Axis powers. Without their courage, dedication, teamwork and valor and flexible thinking, World War II would not have ended in 1945. This story focuses on how a baseball player’s life was dramatically changed by the forces of fate. Follow Bucky’s dangerous missions into Africa, India, Burma and China, which are filled with suspense and intrigue and experience his close encounters with death to save millions of lives from the German and Japanese invaders.
Love, Lies And High Heels
by DEBBY CONRAD
It never hurts to be rich, but . . .
Who would have guessed a lie could bring them together?
LUKE GALLOWAY doesn’t lie. Well, not normally. And never about anything as serious as death. But, somehow Luke’s friend and business partner, Sam Paris, convinces Luke he needs to do just that. Sam believes the only way his daughter will come back to see him is if he were dying. And so the lies begin . . .
RUSTY PARIS has been alone most of her life. Her parents were divorced when she was very young. She was pushed off to boarding schools, while her mother made a hobby of marrying rich men. She doesn’t remember much about her father, only that he never made an attempt to be a part of her life for the past twenty-one years. But all that is about to change. When she gets word he is dying, she runs home to be by his side, which puts her right in the path of that scoundrel Luke Galloway.
Luke has no room in his life for rich heiresses. Been there. Done that. From the first time Luke and Rusty meet, they clash. She considers him nothing more than a lowly ranch hand who enjoys riling her temper. He finds her arrogant and prissy. But that doesn’t mean he can fight his attraction to her, nor hers to him. And when they find out they’ve both been duped by Rusty’s father the sparks really start to fly.
The Truth About Butterflies: A Memoir
by Nancy Stephan
They belong to each other, Nancy and Nicole–mother and daughter. They’re two halves of a whole, two facets of the same breath–until the day Nicole exhales. . . and never inhales again.
After the death of her daughter, and quickly losing her own battle with grief, Nancy decides to move from the house she can no longer bear to live in. While packing, she comes across a box in the attic. Inside this box, Nancy uncovers treasures she didn’t know existed and evidence that her and her daughter’s lives had been more divinely entwined than she could’ve imagined.
The Truth About Butterflies is a true story of grief, hope, and transformation, and a single enduring truth: Life cannot be restrained by death.
The Letter Writing Project
by Wendy Wolff
The Letter Writing Project isn’t just a book – it’s an emotionally liberating experience that could change your life. Through graceful and enlightening prose, and her own profound story of loss, author and esteemed public advocate Wendy Wolff elucidates the often forgotten power of letter writing. The ink on paper represents a permanent gesture heal toxic relationships, vent to those who did you wrong, and tell the ones you hold close how much you love them. Change is now you’ll see – just pick up a pen.
Redbud Corner: Book 1 Of The Distant Shores Series
by JoHannah Reardon
When a young Chinese girl comes to study at an American university in the quaint little town of Redbud Corner, she meets an intriguing, attractive man that challenges everything she has ever believed in. Will she listen to him? Or will she choose the handsome, successful man back home in China?
September Tango
by Scarlett Jade
Zoe always loved Calvin, who left Major, Alabama after high school and joined the military, never knowing her feelings. They are reunited five years later, and their passion runs hot. As Zoe’s life is rocked with bombshells, Calvin leads the way, teaching Zoe to follow the rhythm of her heart.
Sora’s Quest
by T. L. Shreffler
Sora Fallcrest always dreamed of adventure, but as a member of the nobility, she learned the ways of a Lady instead. Now seventeen, she is expected to choose a husband and marry. She plots to run away, but just as she is stepping out the door, she runs into a mysterious man–and is kidnapped.
Abducted from her manor, Sora is plunged into a world of magical races, arcane jewelry and forgotten lore. She finds herself at the mercy of a dangerous assassin, haunted by an even darker past. She yearns for freedom, but he won’t let her go–not when her Cat’s Eye necklace is the only thing that can save his life.
But the necklace itself presents a problem. It is an ancient device from the long forgotten War of the Races, and its magic has the ability to steal souls. Can Sora learn to wield its power–or will the power wield her?
The Fire And The Light
by Tracy A. Akers
Fear is a great motivator.
Fear of the truth can be even greater.
In the world of Aredyrah, things are not what they seem. An ancient Purge has plunged the island into darkness, isolating its cultures by superstition and fear. Dayn lives in the northernmost region of Kirador and know nothing of the great city-state of Tearia far to the south. All he knows is this—the Kiradyns are the only survivors of a god’s fiery wrath, and he looks nothing like them. Meanwhile Ruairi, a prince destined for greatness, resents his Tearian obligations, longing for a life he can never hope to have. But when tragedy takes his beauty as well as his name, he finds himself exiled by the very beliefs he once held dear. Both boys long for acceptance in societies that cling to religious ideals, but when fate throws them together, Dayn and Ruairi discover some unwelcome truths: not only are they bound by blood and prophecy, but the teaching they have been raised on are nothing more than lies. Will they reveal what they have learned, risking their lives and the security of those they love? Or will they keep silent, denying their destinies and the future enlightenment of their world?
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Review: ‘One Christmas Night’ by Hayley Webster
Christmas is ruined on Newbury Street, Norwich, following a spate of burglaries. Rumours are swirling that the thief may even live on the street. Instead of festive cheer, the residents are filled with suspicion and dread.
The police have increased their presence on Newbury Street and as Christmas creeps closer, their investigations reveal that everyone has something to hide.
But Christmas is a time for miracles… and if they open up their hearts and look out for each other, they might discover the biggest miracle of all.
Hayley Webster has written a lovely book with believable characters that the reader roots for. I really enjoyed the fact that ‘One Christmas Night‘ combines a mystery with heartwarming subplots.
As the story went on, I got more and more involved in the lives of these characters. I really admire that Webster manages to move the reader without being overly-sentimental.
Although it’s an easy read, ‘One Christmas Night‘ tackles serious subjects like racism, fraud and coercive control. I haven’t read a book with such a compelling cast of characters since ‘The Casual Vacancy‘.
I couldn’t put ‘One Christmas Night‘ down – it is the perfect festive read.
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Tagged book, characters, mystery, read, reader, story, subplots, written
**I Will Miss You Tomorrow Blog Tour**
I’m really pleased to be taking part in the blog tour for Heine Bakkeid’s ‘I Will Miss You Tomorrow‘, the first in a new Norwegian crime series.
Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-Chief Inspector Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of Frei, the woman he loved but has lost forever.
Yet when Frei’s young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this.
Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon finds himself deep in treacherous waters. He’s lost his reputation – will he now lose his life?
My thanks to Raven Books for inviting me to be a part of the tour and to Heine for taking the time to answer my questions.
I grew up in the North of Norway, in a place called Belnes. Just five houses, with the polar night looming above, the mountains behind us and the sea in front. It’s the kind of place where, as a kid, you can run around all day, play, and not see another human being. I used to read a lot, and developed a sturdy imagination, something that resulted in me getting lost I my own thoughts whenever and wherever I was. I still get lost in my own thoughts, usually thinking about characters I have created/want to get to know better, scenes I want to write, plots, and forget that I’m with other people, people that expect me to answer back when they talk to me. (My wife especially, finds this hilarious😊) Growing up in such a small place, you kind of get to be comfortable in your own skin and being on your own. Becoming a writer was therefore the perfect match for me, also because writers are often easily forgiven for being kind of weird sometimes, so …
And what can you tell us about ‘I Will Miss You Tomorrow’?
One of the things that has always fascinated me is how men, the kind of men I grew up around, handled their problems. It’s kind of expected that you sort yourself out and get on with your day. The main characters in crime fiction always seem to have certain traits; when you first meet them, they are broken in some way or form, and I always wondered why. How did they get there, to this point? So, when I first started writing about Thorkild Aske, I knew that this was something that I wanted to explore in the series. But also, what happens with a lone investigator-type, who doesn’t even want to fix himself, who can’t put himself together and just get on with it, but who actively sabotages his own well-being. So, when we first meet Thorkild in ‘I Will Miss You Tomorrow‘ he’s just been released from prison, has lost his job as an Interrogation Officer with the Internal Affairs and is heavily abusing the pain medication his psychiatrist has given him. He is then forced to travel to the far north to investigate the disappearance of a young man who was renovating an old light house. What he then finds, is a young woman without a face in the breaking sea.
How long have you been writing?
I started writing in my late twenties in 2003. I was studying programming in Stavanger and was well on my way to become a System Developer. Being a writer isn’t really something people from where I come from see as an option. Programming is as close to the inner circles of hell as you can get; it’s so structured, narrow, and has no freedom to go beyond the boundaries of the programming language, and I hated it.
One night, I had been hung up on this scene with this character (which later became Thorkild Aske) for a whole week and couldn’t sleep, so I just got up and started writing, hoping the scene would go away so that I could get some sleep. I wrote about fifty pages the following days, but quickly realized that I was way too young to write about such a character and decided that I was going to wait with the Thorkild Aske books until I got older.
But I still loved writing, this new-found way to escape the pains of programming, so I just kept writing and finished my first novel for young adults the same month as I completed my bachelor’s degree. I told myself that if the manuscript got published, I would become a writer, and if not, I would go on to my Master’s degree and slowly die, one day at a time, in some stupid office.
What was your journey to publication like?
I still know by heart the first line in the official letter from the publishing house that took on my manuscript. They had sent the manuscript to a well-known Norwegian YA-author who was consulting for them. “Finally, something that is pure gold, in an otherwise regular work day where everything is just so-so.” (I’m really butchering the English language on this one😊) So, with those words in mind I felt that I had moved a couple of inches away from that office space in hell, and decided to tell my wife that I was starting over again, from scratch with only my student debt in my backpack. I was going to become a writer. The book got published in 2005, and three years and three books later, in March 2008, I quit my day job and became a writer full-time.
Are you working on anything at the moment? Can you tell us about it?
Right now, I’m working on the fourth installment of the Thorkild Aske series. The story takes place in Stavanger, where the police have just dug up the body of one of their own, a dirty cop who went missing in 2011, a man that Thorkild Aske shares a personal past with. This one is going to get pretty intense.
What do you like most about writing?
As I said in the beginning, for as long as I can remember, I have been reading and making up my own stories and creating scenes in my head. Becoming a writer was the perfect outlet for this affliction. Telling stories is also the one thing that makes me truly happy.
What do you like least?
Editing. If I find a better way to tell a story, I will go and rewrite. This makes the editing process longer and more painful.
What are you reading at the moment?
‘The Secret History‘ by Donna Tartt. Very promising😊
Who has been the biggest influence on your writing?
The Norwegian writer and poet André Bjerke. He wrote children’s books, poems and psychological mystery novels in the 1940’s.
I did these writing courses for school kids in Norway after I got published and saw all the raw talents that were out there, young girls and boys that reminded me of myself at that age. I used to tell them to forget the “good student” type of writing and find their own expression, their own way to tell a story, to portray characters, their emotions and so on. Because that is what readers (and publishers) are looking for: something unique, different. That, and to edit, edit, edit and edit.
What’s been your proudest moment as a writer?
This one, most definitely😊 Being published in the UK, the land of Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter and C. J. Sansom, among so many others. Though, I must admit that my new favourite author is actually Irish: Adrian McKinty. The Sean Duffy series: wow, just … wow!
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Review: ‘Have You Seen Her’ by Lisa Hall
Nanny Anna only takes her eyes off Laurel for a second, thinking Laurel was following her mum through the crowds. But in a heartbeat, Laurel is gone.
Laurel’s parents are frantic. As is Anna. But as the hours pass, and Laurel isn’t found, suspicion grows. Someone knows what happened to Laurel but they’re not telling.
My mum recommended ‘Have You Seen Her‘ to me and I could not put it down. The narrative is simple yet effective, sucking the reader in.
Set in a small village, ‘Have You Seen Her‘ explores the reaction of a community after a child goes missing. Sadly, it seemed an all-too-familiar scenario which added some realism to the story.
Alongside evocative descriptions of place, Hall’s exploration of her characters sets up a great mystery where anyone could be guilty. I thought her descriptions of Laurel’s parents and their relationship were particularly strong.
‘Have You Seen Her‘ is the first of Lisa Hall’s novels that I’ve read but it certainly won’t be the last.
Tagged characters, descriptions, mystery, narrative, novels, read, reader, relationship, story
Review: ‘The Body Lies’ by Jo Baker
When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big city and the scene of a violent assault she’s desperate to forget. But despite the distractions of a new life and single motherhood, her nerves continue to jangle. To make matters worse, a vicious debate about violence against women inflames the tensions and mounting rivalries in her creative writing class.
When a troubled student starts sending in chapters from his novel that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the lecturer recognises herself as the main character in his book – and he has written her a horrific fate.
Will she be able to stop life imitating art before it’s too late?
Starting with an assault on our unnamed pregnant protagonist, ‘The Body Lies‘ drops the reader straight into a world where this woman is almost constantly at the behest of the men around her – from her husband who won’t look for a new job in order to facilitate a move to a place she feels safer in to the head of department who continuously expects her to take on more and more work despite her inexperience and the difficulties she has managing her work-life balance to the students who snipe at one another in her class, overruling her at every point.
By leaving this character nameless, Jo Baker says a lot about her interpretation of the world – and how the character is unable to make herself heard and understood in her male-dominated life. However, don’t think that ‘The Body Lies‘ is a novel that is constantly screaming about inequality – its power lies in the fact that the author has managed to subtly weave the point in to almost every sentence without the reader even being conscious of it. The way the issues are presented is almost ‘normal’, reflecting how insidious sexism and inequality is in our society today. You may not notice it but it is happening.
Jo Baker’s skill for beautiful prose makes ‘The Body Lies‘ a truly stunning literary thriller. The slow-burn tension allows us to empathise with the main character, understanding the pressure she is under and how burdensome it is to be a woman. The imagery Baker creates heightens the tension at key points as well as showing the reader the beauty of the world despite the horrific events that occur in it.
‘The Body Lies‘ is a compelling study on what it is to be a woman, how women are subjugated and taken advantage of in many areas of their lives and how unsafe many of us feel on a daily basis.
I’m genuinely not sure I’ll find a more engaging read this year.
Tagged character, Creative Writing, fiction, imagery, literary, motherhood, novel, prose, protagonist, read, reader, tension, thriller, woman, women, writer
Review: ‘The Woman in the Photograph’ by Stephanie Butland
An empowering, feminist and moving novel that will change the way you see the world.
In 1968, Veronica Moon, a junior photographer for a local newspaper, is frustrated by her (male) colleagues’ failure to take her seriously. Then she meets Leonie on the picket line of the Ford factory at Dagenham. So begins a tumultuous, passionate and intoxicating friendship. Leonie is ahead of her time and fighting for women’s equality with everything she has. She offers Veronica an exciting, free life at the dawn of a great change.
Fifty years later, Leonie is gone, and Veronica is almost a recluse, her stellar career somewhat derailed by one of the most infamous photographs of the twentieth century.
Now, that controversial picture hangs as the focal point of a new feminist exhibition curated by Leonie’s niece. Long-hidden memories of Veronica’s extraordinary life begin to stir. It’s time for Vee to break her silence, and step back into the light.
Stephanie Butland captures the historical impact of feminism from the sixties onwards, right up until the present day, wonderfully. Using key moments, Butland weaves the lives of her characters into the realities of the UK’s first female prime minister to the #Time’sUp and #MeToo movements. The structure of the novel helps Butland combine Leonie and Veronica’s stories with the historical setting, giving the reader a sense of context.
I really enjoyed the prickliness of Leonie, the woman who irrevocably changes Veronica’s life in many ways. She is militant and unapologetic, says what she feels and doesn’t care if that offends anyone. It would have been easy to make her a right-on feminist stereotype with little in the way of redeeming features but the way in which Butland brings nuance to this character is magnificent. Her depiction of Leonie is thoughtful and thought-provoking, making her a whole person rather than a caricature.
‘The Woman in the Photograph‘ is a strong statement about women’s rights, how far we’ve come and how far we still have left to go. I really loved the exploration of how lack of equality for women, even now, is more subtle but no less insidious.
Stephanie Butland has taken her writing to the next level with ‘The Woman in the Photograph‘.
Out today, ‘The Woman in the Photograph‘ is a must-read.
Tagged characters, feminism, feminist, novel, read, stories, structure, writing
**When I Lost You Blog Tour**
I am delighted to be today’s host on Merilyn Davies’s ‘When I Lost You‘ blog tour.
As most of you will know by now, I am due to have a baby very soon and therefore my review for this book will be posted in due course (will I ever have time to read again?!).
However, today, we have an excerpt from ‘When I Lost You‘ to whet our appetites. I am sure it will make you want to put this book to the top of your TBR pile.
My thanks to Merilyn and Rachel Kennedy for allowing me to be part of this wonderful tour.
A screen sits to the left of the judge, and displayed on it is my child: a fragile, beautiful daughter, who had barely begun her life before the chance to live it was taken from her.
‘Not lost,’ the lawyer is saying, his wig a little frayed, in sharp contrast to the fresh youth of his closely shaven skin. ‘Her life wasn’t lost, it was stolen.’ He emphasises the words, ones I’ve heard endlessly during the two-week trial, by looking in my direction. He doesn’t linger, it’s more a glance – the way a painter uses a gentle brushstroke to shape the outline of an image before colouring it in – but it’s enough to make sure the jury remember I am the image he is painting: mother, killer, guilty.
I shift a little in my seat. The packed courtroom is hot and the white blouse I’m wearing sticks to my armpits, the polyester scratching against my skin. I see a juror glance in my direction and freeze; he’s the one my lawyer warned me about.
‘Third one from left, hipster beard,’ he’d said in the cell as we waited to be recalled on that first day. ‘Jeans and a tight jumper. He’s got it in for you, so make sure you don’t fidget too much or it makes you look guilty, but move a bit, because too little makes you look heartless.’
I am a trapeze artist – one wrong move and I fall into a cell, seven foot by nine. I steady my breathing and look down at my feet, concentrating on the new brogues I’m wearing, their brown shine complementing the sky-blue suit my husband bought me for the trial.
‘Here,’ he’d said, handing me the plastic bag he’d paid five pence for, then sitting down across from me in the noisy, smelly visiting hall. ‘I’m pretty sure it’s your size, but I kept the receipt just in case.’
I didn’t remind him we had no time to exchange it. I just smiled my thanks and stuffed it by my feet next to the cooler bag full of fruit and biscuits. He took my hand. ‘We’ll get you out of here, my love,’ he’d said. ‘As soon as they see you, they’ll understand, and then this nightmare will be over.’
I lost myself for a moment in his touch, the lightness of it, a soft caress. I marvelled again at how resolutely he’d stood by me. Against all evidence to the contrary, he’d refused to ever accept my guilt. But then his words returned – ‘This nightmare will be over’ – and they dragged me back to the bowels of the prison where the whispered threats told me otherwise.
Extracted from When I Lost You by Merilyn Davies, out now in eBook and published in paperback by Arrow, Penguin Random House on 22nd August.
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Review: ‘Out of the Ashes’ by Vicky Newham
When a flash mob is interrupted by a sudden explosion, DI Maya Rahman dashes to the scene. A fire is raging through Brick Lane, one of the city’s most infamous streets, the site of Maya’s childhood home. The discovery of two charred bodies in the burnt-out building transforms an arson attack into a murder case.
With witnesses too caught up in the dancing to have seen anything useful, Maya faces a complicated investigation without any leads. Then, when reports of a second, even more horrifying crime land on Maya’s desk, it’s obvious there’s more at stake than she could ever have imagined. She must solve the case – before all of East London goes up in flames
Having really enjoyed the first novel in the DI Maya Rahman series – ‘Turn a Blind Eye‘ – I had high expectations for ‘Out of the Ashes‘. I was not disappointed!
Vicky Newham reflects the rich diversity of London well, building complex characters within the wider narrative of an explosion on Brick Lane. There are plenty of nuances to these characters, making them well-rounded and believable. I cared about the characters, even the ones that weren’t wholly “good”. In fact, I liked them all the more for their flaws.
Newham builds a rich, compelling picture of the residents affected by the explosion and how far-reaching the consequences of the past can be. I also love the way in which Maya’s own backstory interlinks with the central storyline, too.
Exploring serious themes of racism, immigration and gentrification, ‘Out of the Ashes‘ delivers a depth that many crime novels lack.
I can’t wait to read more from Vicky Newham.
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Albanian Journalists Practice English for Press Conferences
Nine Albanian journalists working in print and television met at the U.S. Embassy in Tirana to take part in a mock press conference with Public Affairs Officer Ryan Roberts. The event came after a twelve-week English for Journalists course led by English Language Fellow Harry Leeds and Professor Brunilda Kondi of the University of Tirana. During the session, the journalists posed questions about regional politics and U.S.-Albanian relations using the style and speaking techniques they had learned about during the course.
“The classes were great. Besides having the opportunity to write news stories in English, it was really useful to learn the technical terms,” said Vladimir Karaj, Vice Editor-in-Chief at the influential newspaper MAPO. The course took place at the American Corner in Tirana, making use of the print and electronic resources available there. The participants plan to write for English language media in the future and attend press conferences conducted in English.
Fellow Chloe Bellows Opens a Dialogue on Inclusion and Finds Herself Inspired
In her first conference plenary in Brazil, English Language Fellow Chloe Bellows presented an idea about using a children’s book, It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr, to discuss diversity, tolerance, and inclusion.
Fellow Francisco Resto Reaching Out Across Borders in Ukraine
Everyone is up and moving about when English Language Fellow Francisco Resto is leading class in Ukraine. Student-centered learning means that students are engaged kinesthetically, auditorily, and visually in the classroom. And the mind is kept equally active. Resto sometimes uses the ‘Sherlock Holmes Method to Teaching ESL,’ incorporating an educational mystery game that boosts…
Fellow Elizabeth Plummer Makes an Impact as an Educational Technology Trainer in South Africa
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2009 Dodge Challenger: Essential Details
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The all-new 2009 Dodge Challenger merges the best American muscle-car characteristics — unmistakable design, world-class handling, powerful engines and technology — to delight driving enthusiasts across several generations.
“Our all-new 2009 Dodge Challenger is a modern-day muscle machine representing the best from the past and present,” said Mike Accavitti, Director – Dodge Brand and SRT Global Marketing, Chrysler LLC. “Nearly 40 years following the debut of the original, we are bringing Dodge Challenger back and loading it with essential hardware, styling and technology desired by today’s buyer.”
The Dodge Challenger is a five-passenger, two-door coupe produced from Chrysler’s proven rear-wheel-drive platform that delivers the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300. Developed with Dodge’s credo of “bold, powerful and capable,” the Challenger delivers a modern two-door muscle car.
Three models will be offered in North America: Dodge Challenger SE, Dodge Challenger R/T and Dodge Challenger SRT8.
Essential Hardware
The Dodge Challenger SE, powered by the 3.5-liter High Output V-6 with a four-speed automatic transmission, produces 250 horsepower (186 kW) and 250 lb.-ft. of torque (339 N•m).
The Dodge Challenger R/T features the new-generation 5.7-liter HEMI® V-8 engine with a five-speed automatic transmission that produces 372 horsepower (277 kW) and 401 lb.-ft. of torque (544 N•m). For 2009, the HEMI engine is upgraded to get, on average, a 4 percent improvement in fuel economy, an increase of more than 30 horsepower and up to 20 lb.-ft. improved torque over a greater range of engine speeds. The Dodge Challenger R/T also offers a precision-shift, six-speed manual transmission — the first for a new-generation HEMI-powered car — that produces 376 horsepower (280 kW) and 410 lb.-ft. of torque (556 N•m) when running on premium fuel. The Dodge Challenger R/T can go from zero to 60 mph in less than six seconds.
The 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT8 features an SRT-exclusive 6.1-liter HEMI V-8 engine mated with a new-for-2009 six-speed manual transmission or a five-speed automatic transmission with Auto Stick that generates a blistering 425 horsepower (317 kW) and 420 lb.-ft. of torque (569 N•m). The vehicle can go from zero to 60 mph in less than five seconds.
Patterned off the Dodge Charger architecture, the front short- and long-arm suspension and five-link independent rear suspension system on all Dodge Challenger models provides excellent ride and handling characteristics.
Essential Styling
The Dodge Challenger design team stayed true to the concept revealed at the 2006 North American International Auto Show, while drawing upon elements from the original Challenger. The result: a bold, aggressive muscle machine that blends nostalgia with modern Dodge style.
“Our designers captured the mind’s-eye view of what people today remember about the Dodge Challenger from nearly 40 years ago,” said Trevor Creed, Senior Vice President – Design, Chrysler LLC. “Their challenge was to excite today’s customer by capturing the emotion of the original Challenger, while offering today’s comfort and performance.”
On the exterior, the long, raised performance hood with scoops and recessed grille with round dual headlamps are reminiscent of the original Dodge Challenger. The bold A-line, or character line, that runs from stem to stern gives the all-new 2009 Dodge Challenger an instantly recognizable muscle-car profile. Retro dual rectangular exhaust outlets complete the look from the rear.
On the interior, the trapezoidal theme of the door-panel cove and gauge cluster, dark headliner and slanted shifter console are inspired by the original Dodge Challenger. The modern interpretation of the Dodge Challenger offers exceptional rear seating for a two-door coupe, achieving best-in-class rear head (37.4 inches) and leg (32.6 inches) room compared to the competition. Coupled with best-in-class cargo space (16.2 cu. ft.) — equal to the Dodge Charger — the all-new 2009 Dodge Challenger offers added comfort and functionality.
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The all-new 2009 Dodge Challenger offers customers a full range of innovative technologies including:
uconnect gps provides cutting-edge audio and navigation with integrated voice recognition and touch screen for easy operation
uconnect phone provides convenient, voice-activated communication with Bluetooth® cellular phones
uconnect studios with SIRIUS® Digital Satellite Radio offers a variety of commercial-free radio programs and music
Keyless Go allows the driver to start the vehicle with the simple push of a button
Remote Start starts a secured vehicle with the key fob
More than 25 Safety and Security Features
Dodge Challenger offers more than 25 safety and security features including:
Supplemental Side-curtain Air Bags extend protection to all outboard front- and rear-seat passengers
Anti-lock Brakes (ABS) modulate the brakes for the driver to provide steering control while braking
Electronic Stability Program (ESP) applies selective braking or throttle reduction to control oversteer and understeer
Brake Assist ensures maximum braking action during panic stops
All-speed Traction Control reduces the throttle and/or applies selective braking to optimize traction during acceleration
Hill Start Assist (HSA) for Manual Transmission application assists the driver in launching the vehicle on an incline
Automatic Headlamps turn headlamps on at dusk and off in the daylight without driver intervention
Tire Pressure Monitoring (TPM) alerts driver about low tire pressure(s) in order to facilitate safe handling
The all-new 2009 Dodge Challenger will be built at the Brampton Assembly plant in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It will be built on the same assembly line as the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300.
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French painter and engraver
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism, together with Henri Matisse and Maurice de Vlaminck.
1 Quotes of André Derain
1.1 The Wild Men of Paris', 1910
2 Quotes about André Derain
Quotes of André DerainEdit
sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes of André Derain
There is only one kind of painting: landscape. It is the most difficult. It has also, I believe, the most simple kind of composition. Because no one can stop us from imagining the world in the way that pleases us most.
Quote from Derain's letter to Maurice de Vlaminck, c. 1906; as cited in 'Report: André Derain's 'Trees by a Lake', by Cleo Nisse and Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, p. 5
I have found a boat, small with two sails, that would make me happy. Unfortunately, I need one hundred francs.. ..and I haven't got it! If you want, I could give you two canvases which you could sell, just to make you some many and you could give me the hundred francs.. .Kahnweiler [Paris' art-dealer] is the only one who gives me money, and just what we need to live on.
Quote from Derain's letter, 23 August 1909 to Maurice de Vlaminck, in Lettres à Vlaminck, p. 205; as cited and translated in 'Report: André Derain's 'Trees by a Lake', by F. Whitlum-Cooper and Cleo Nisse, p. 10 - note 8
The Wild Men of Paris', 1910Edit
Quotes from 'The Wild Men of Paris', by Gelett Burgess , in 'The Architectural Record, Vol XXVII, May 1910, p. 406-407
What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own.
There is often more psychic appeal in a so-called ugly woman than there is in a pretty one; and, in my ideal, I reconstruct her to bring that beauty forth in terms of line or volume.
If I paint a girl in the sunlight, it's the sunlight I am painting, not the real girl; and even for that I should have the sunlight on my palette. I don't care for an accidental effect of light and shade, a thing of 'mere charm'.
The Japanese see things that way. They don't paint sunlight, they don't cast shadows that perplex one and falsify the true shape of things. The Egyptian figures have simplicity, dignity, directness, unity; they express motion almost as if by a conventional formula, like writing itself, so direct it is. So I seek a logical method of rendering my idea.
These Africans being primitive, uncomplex, uncultured, can express their thought by a direct appeal tot he instinct. Their carvings are informed with emotions. So Nature gives me the material with which to construct a world of my own, governed, not by literal limitations, but by instinct and sentiment.
Quotes about André DerainEdit
sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes about André Derain
In the years that followed [i.e. 1905 onwards], Derain made a great series of compositions with life-size figures. Some of them he exhibited in the ['Salon des] Indépendants' – a bullfight, a painting with bathers. The bathers were luckily bought and remain preserved for us. Derain burnt all the others in 1908, you see. Not even photographs of them are in existence. Thus the most important original material for the investigation of his development in 1907 is missing.. .[During the 1905–1907 period] he pursued an entirely different path.
Quote by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1920; in his monograph André Derain', Leipzig, 1920, p. 5
Around 1908 Derain dropped the use of bright unbroken colors of Fauvism, like Maurice de Vlaminck did
Neither Derain, nor myself, were what was conveniently called in this period the bohemians, the bad men: we were simply nonconformists, the outsiders
Quote of Maurice de Vlaminck, c. 1929; as cited in Derain et Vlaminck: 1900-1915, by Jacqueline Munck and Maïthé Vallès-Bled; catalogue of Lodeve Museum, 2001, p. 24 - ISBN 10: 8820214903 / ISBN 13: 9788820214906
..knowing both [ Picasso and Derain], I feel personally (though I should like to express it as tentatively and hesitatingly as possible) that Derain, by pushing along the road which Picasso pointed down only to turn aside, has arrived at a weightier, more moving conception of pictorial expression.
Quote of Roger Fry, in Picasso' in Reed - A Roger Fry Reader, p. 344; as cited in 'Report Derain', by F. Whitlum-Cooper and Cleo Nisse, p. 16 - note 30
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- understand the correlation between structure and function at the different organizational levels.
- acquire a knowledge of genetic principles and develop the ability to read, design and evaluate genetic pedegrees in order to assess the genetic basis of human disorders.
- Appraise the implication of human evolution for the bio-medical research.
- - understand the correlation between structure and function at the different organizational levels.
- mechanisms and consequences of sexual reproduction
- Appraise the implication of human evolution for the bio-medical research
basic knowledge of chemistry, physiscs and biology
basic knowledge of chemistry, physic and biology.
The purpose of this course is to give a general overview of biological and genetic concepts and mechanisms in an evolutionary perspective and to gain an appreciation of the importance that biology plays in understanding human health
1. Sexual reproduction: meiosis. Male and female gametogenesis and their hormonal regulation.
3. The modern evolutionary synthesis. Microevolution and its causes. The origins of species. Evolution of Vertebrates: an overview. Evolution of the mammalian middle ear. Primates, Australopitecines and the genus Homo. The evolution of bipedal locomotion and brain in Hominids
1. The Nature of science and biology: methods and organizing concepts. The unifying principle of biology: The Theory of Evolution. Darwinian Medicine. Origins and evolution of life on Earth
3. Mendel e the gene idea. Extension of mendelian genetics: the complex relationship between genotype and phenotype. The chromosomal basis of sex and X-linked disorders.. Human genetics: alterations of chromosome number or structure; recessively and dominantly inherited disorders and point mutations. Pedigree analysis.
4. The modern evolutionary synthesis. Microevolution and its causes. The origins of species. Evolution of Vertebrates and the rise of Hominids. The evolution and genetics of language in Hominids.
5. Biological basis of human behavior. Genes, environment and their interaction. Nature and Nurture. Imprinting and the attachment theory. Evolutionary Psychology.
Solomon et al., Biology
Solomon et al., Fondamenti di Biologia, Edises
During classroom lectures I will illustrate and discuss the state of the art, concepts and experiments in the specific issue of biology. The lectures will be in an interactive format and students are strongly encouraged to ask questions and insert comments. In class exercises on pedigree analysis and use of database resource OMIM ((Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man).
During classroom lectures I will illustrate and discuss the state of the art, concepts and experiments in the specific issue of biology. The lectures will be in an interactive format and students are strongly encouraged to ask questions and insert comments
A written exam will be given during class time comprising of.
Final exam, which has to be taken together with the other topics of the integrated course, is written (20 multiple choice or T-F questions and two open–answer questions) and oral.
Other informations
Additional course material on evolution of Hominids and of language and on human genetics is available on the course website
Additional course material on ear evolution in vertebrates and on Hominid evolution is available the course website
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HCM City: 10 trln VND anti-flood facility to be operational late 2019
Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on March 12 conducted a field trip to inspect the progress of the flood prevention project in the city.
VNA Wednesday, March 13, 2019 09:54
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HCM City leaders on March 12 check the progress of the Tan Thuan sewage system, a multi-trillion VND flood-prevention project in District 7. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on March 12 conducted a field trip to inspect the progress of the flood prevention project in the city.
He urged the parties concerned to make every effort to put the first phase of the project, worth nearly 10 trillion VND (430.8 million USD), into operation in late 2019.
“This project plays a very important role in preventing flooding in a 570sq.m central area and along the Saigon River, an area with 6.5 million people,” Nhan said.
He asked six districts to speed up compensation and site clearance so that land can be handed over to the investor – Nam Trung Group before the end of June.
Six tide-control gates at Ben Nghe, Tan Thuan, Phu Xuan, Muong Chuoi, Cay Kho and Phu Dinh, as well as flood control dykes, are being built in districts 1,4,7,8, Binh Chanh and Nha Be.
Begun in 2016, the project resumed in February after being suspended in April last year.
Nguyen Tam Tien, CEO of Trung Nam Group, said the project had faced problems in the disbursement of loans and land clearance. “If the city hands over land for the project in June, we pledge to complete the project by the end of this year. It is already 72 percent complete.”
Representatives of the six districts promised to hand over the land to the investor in June.
Tran Vinh Tuyen, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, said the districts should collect the land for the investor before June 30. “If not completed, the heads of localities must be responsible to the city People’s Committee.”
The municipal People’s Committee would work with the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to provide loan term extensions for the investor, he added.
The unit to operate and manage the project must have sufficient skills and technical qualifications, he said.
In January next year, the city People’s Committee should hire a unit to operate the project after it is completed.
The municipal Department of Construction has submitted a plan to the People’s Committee to develop 218 anti-flooding projects this year, with total investment of nearly 8 trillion VND (345 million USD). Of the figure, 77 projects were carried over from last year.
This year, the city is also dredging rivers and canals, and repairing damaged sewer systems.-VNA
Nguyen Thien Nhan 10 trln VND anti-flood facility to be operational in late 2019 flood prevention project in HCM City Saigon River Trung Nam Group flooding in HCM City Vietnam News Agency vietnamplus Related stories Ho Chi Minh City
Saltwater encroaches deep into Mekong Delta
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has forecast saltwater intrusion for 10 of the 13 provincial-level localities in the Mekong Delta this dry season, and the phenomenon has already appeared in eight so far.
Thua Thien-Hue takes measures to protect wild birds
Authorities in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have issued an order to protect wild birds after a large amount of birds moved to settle in residential areas.
Vietnam aims to ensure water security
By 2050, 60 percent of farming areas in Vietnam will be equipped with water-saving irrigation systems, according to the country's Water Management Strategy, which was recently approved by Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.
Thanh Hoa police detain two wildlife traffickers
Police of the central province of Thanh Hoa on January 11 detected and detained two people illegally trafficking 16 live pangolins totally weighing 71 kg.
Nearly 50 wild animals successfully rescued
Up to 48 wild animals were successfully rescued in December 2019 thanks to close coordination between Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) and relevant agencies.
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Black garden ant
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Species of ant
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Black garden ants tending to mealybugs
Lasius
L. niger
Lasius niger
Black garden ant with a spider's mandibles
The black garden ant (Lasius niger), also known as the common black ant, is a formicine ant, the type species of the subgenus Lasius, who is found across Europe and in some parts of North America, South America, Asia and Australasia. The European species was split into two species; L. niger, who is found in open areas; and L. platythorax, who is found in forest habitats.[1] It is monogynous, meaning colonies contain a single queen.
Lasius niger colonies can reach in size up to around 40,000 workers in rare cases, but 4,000–7,000 is around average. A Lasius niger queen can live up to 15 years and it has been claimed that some have lived for 30 years. Lasius niger queens in the early stages of founding can have two to three other queens in the nest. They will tolerate each other until the first workers come, then it is most likely they will fight until one queen remains. In certain circumstances, it is possible that there can be multiple queens in a single colony if they are founding somewhat near each other and eventually their two tunnels connect.[citation needed] Under laboratory conditions, workers can live at least 4 years.[2]
Lasius niger is host to a number of temporary social parasites of the Lasius mixtus group including Lasius mixtus and Lasius umbratus.
1 Appearance
2 Life cycle
2.1 Mating flights
2.2 New nest
2.3 Egg to ant
2.4 Colony established
2.5 Quarantine behavior
3 Long-lived queens
3.1 Mutualism
4 Habits
4.1 Eating habits
Monogyne
Queen phenotype 9 mm long, glossy black color but appears to have slight brown stripes on her abdomen. The queen can reach 6-9mm in length and is smaller than a new queen. After a queen mates, she removes her wings and digests her wing muscles as food over the winter.
Male phenotype 3.5–4.5 mm long, slim, colour black. Only produced by queens when the nuptial flights are approaching. They appear with a dark glossy body with a different shape from the workers, almost resembling a wasp in appearance. They have wing muscles which stand out from the rest of the body. They are 5-7mm long and have delicate wings.
Worker phenotype 3–5 mm long, workers are dark glossy black. As the colony gets older it has been known for workers to increase in size over generations.
Major phenotype Lasius niger do not create a major caste.
Nest building Nests underground, commonly under stones, but also in rotten wood, and under roots.
Nutrition Nectar, small insects such as codling moth larvae, fruit, will farm aphids, cockroaches, beetles.
Life cycle[edit]
L. niger queens with and without wings
Mating flights[edit]
Ants mate on the wing, so "flying ants" are alates (reproductive individuals), which includes males and gynes (virgin queens). The mating (or nuptial) flights of Lasius niger usually occur around June to September throughout the species' range; in North America flights usually occur during the autumn, whereas in Europe they generally take place during the hot summer months of July and August. Flights can contain thousands of winged males and females.[3]
Disparities between local weather conditions can cause nuptial flights to be out of phase amongst widespread populations of L. niger. During long-lasting, hot summers, flights can take place simultaneously across the country, but overcast weather with local patches of sunshine results in a far less synchronized emergence of alates.
Once the queens have mated they will land and discard their wings and begin to find a suitable place to dig a tunnel. Meanwhile, males generally only live for a day or two after the mating flights and will then die.
New nest[edit]
After removing her wings, a queen will move quickly to find moist ground, then start digging a tunnel. Once the tunnel has been completed, the queen will block the entrance and retreat to the bottom. Subsequently, she will dig out a small chamber. This will serve as the claustral chamber of the new colony. Generally, a queen will begin to lay eggs immediately after the construction of the chamber, and the eggs will hatch after 8–10 weeks. Until the eggs hatch and the larvae grow to maturity, a Lasius niger queen will not eat, relying on the protein of her wing muscles to be broken down and digested. In some cases, a Lasius niger queen may eat her own eggs in order to survive.
Egg to ant[edit]
Lasius niger nest
Lasius niger, like other ants, have four stages of development: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Lasius niger lay tiny, white, kidney-shaped eggs with a smooth sticky surface which helps them to be carried in a group instead of one by one. After hatching Lasius niger proceed onto the larva stage resembling tiny maggots. The larvae need to be fed by the queen (or workers in the case of an established colony) if they are to mature; as they feed the larvae grow, shedding their skin, doing so usually three times in total. With each molt, the larvae grow hooked hairs which allow them to be carried in groups. When Lasius niger larvae reach the last molt they are generally too big to be carried as part of a group and so are carried individually. Once the larva grows big enough it spins a cocoon around itself. To aid this process a queen (or workers) may bury the larva so that it can spin its cocoon undisturbed, and begin a process of metamorphosis. Once the process is complete the Lasius niger worker emerges from the cocoon. At this stage, the callow worker is completely white but will darken over the course of an hour until it has turned black.
Colony established[edit]
The first worker ants that emerge are very small compared to later generations. At this point the workers immediately begin to expand the nest and care for the queen and brood; they eventually remove the seal from the entrance to the nest and begin to forage above ground. This is a critical time for the colony as they need to gather food quickly to support future growth and particularly to feed the starved queen, who would have lost around 50% of her body weight. From this point on the queen's egg laying output will increase significantly, becoming the queen's sole function. The later generations of worker ants will be bigger, stronger and more aggressive because there is more nutrition for them at the larval stage. The initial brood being fed only by the scarce resources available to a queen will be much smaller than brood supported by a team of foraging and nursing workers. Provided workers are able to find food, at this stage the colony will see an exponential rise in population. After several years, once the colony is well established, the queen will lay eggs that will become queens and males. Black ants often make large nests with extensive tunnel connections.
Quarantine behavior[edit]
When building their colony, the ants structure it so as to inhibit the transmission of different contagions.[4] Different communities within the colony are segregated by a limited number of connective nodes, allowing for greater protection of vulnerable hive members, such as larvae and pupae, and the queen.[4]
Additionally, individual infected ants have been observed as spending more time foraging outside of the hive, venturing farther than other ants, and limiting their interactions once within the hive again.[4]
Long-lived queens[edit]
Although worker ants live for at least four years, queens can survive for almost 30 years.[5] Understanding the basis for the greater longevity of queens has a bearing on the general unsolved problem in biology of the causes of aging. In the study of long-lived queen ants it was found that queens have a higher expression than genetically identical workers of genes involved in processing damaged macromolecules.[5] Genes with higher expression included those that are necessary for repair of DNA damage (see DNA damage theory of aging) and genes involved in proteasome-mediated, ubiquitin-dependent, protein catabolic processes.
Mutualism[edit]
The Plebejus argus butterfly lays eggs near nests of L. niger, forming a mutualistic relationship.[6][7] This mutualistic relationship benefits the adult butterfly by reducing the need for parental investment.[6] Once the eggs hatch, the ants chaperone the larvae, averting the attacks of predatory organisms like wasps and spiders as well as parasites. In return, the ants receive a saccharine secretion fortified with amino acids from an eversible gland on the larvae’s back.[6][7] As first instar larvae prepare to pupate, the ants carry the larvae into their nests.[6] Once the larvae become pupae, the ants continue to provide protection against predation and parasitism.[7][6] The butterfly leaves the nest when it emerges in June.[7]
Habits[edit]
These ants are regarded as a nuisance and scavenge in kitchens, garbage and also dog excrement, therefore potentially spreading diseases such as salmonella. The most effective control measure is to find the colony and treat it.
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Eating habits[edit]
Feeds on anything, especially if sweet. These ants 'milk' (stroke) aphids for their honeydew. When an ant finds food, it lays a scent (pheromone) trail to its nest for other workers to follow.
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Taxon identifiers
Wikispecies: Lasius (Lasius) niger
ARKive: lasius-niger
BugGuide: 761638
EPPO: LASINI
Fauna Europaea: 81299
Fauna Europaea (new): b8f1589e-2b7d-4fca-a2b2-9469888944de
Plazi: 71C714E6-EB6D-03B3-0326-EFE58757ADFB
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Hymenoptera of Asia
Hymenoptera of Europe
Hymenoptera of North America
Insects described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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Project unrAvelLing sLow modE travelinG and tRaffic: with innOvative data to a new transportation and traffic theory for pedestrians and bicycles
Researcher (PI) Serge Hoogendoorn
Summary A major challenge in contemporary traffic and transportation theory is having a comprehensive understanding of pedestrians and cyclists behaviour. This is notoriously hard to observe, since sensors providing abundant and detailed information about key variables characterising this behaviour have not been available until very recently. The behaviour is also far more complex than that of the much better understood fast mode. This is due to the many degrees of freedom in decision-making, the interactions among slow traffic participants that are more involved and far less guided by traffic rules and regulations than those between car-drivers, and the many fascinating but complex phenomena in slow traffic flows (self-organised patterns, turbulence, spontaneous phase transitions, herding, etc.) that are very hard to predict accurately. With slow traffic modes gaining ground in terms of mode share in many cities, lack of empirical insights, behavioural theories, predictively valid analytical and simulation models, and tools to support planning, design, management and control is posing a major societal problem as well: examples of major accidents due to bad planning, organisation and management of events are manifold, as are locations where safety of slow modes is a serious issue due to interactions with fast modes. This programme is geared towards establishing a comprehensive theory of slow mode traffic behaviour, considering the different behavioural levels relevant for understanding, reproducing and predicting slow mode traffic flows in cities. The levels deal with walking and cycling operations, activity scheduling and travel behaviour, and knowledge representation and learning. Major scientific breakthroughs are expected at each of these levels, in terms of theory and modelling, by using innovative (big) data collection and experimentation, analysis and fusion techniques, including social media data analytics, using augmented reality, and remote and crowd sensing.
A major challenge in contemporary traffic and transportation theory is having a comprehensive understanding of pedestrians and cyclists behaviour. This is notoriously hard to observe, since sensors providing abundant and detailed information about key variables characterising this behaviour have not been available until very recently. The behaviour is also far more complex than that of the much better understood fast mode. This is due to the many degrees of freedom in decision-making, the interactions among slow traffic participants that are more involved and far less guided by traffic rules and regulations than those between car-drivers, and the many fascinating but complex phenomena in slow traffic flows (self-organised patterns, turbulence, spontaneous phase transitions, herding, etc.) that are very hard to predict accurately. With slow traffic modes gaining ground in terms of mode share in many cities, lack of empirical insights, behavioural theories, predictively valid analytical and simulation models, and tools to support planning, design, management and control is posing a major societal problem as well: examples of major accidents due to bad planning, organisation and management of events are manifold, as are locations where safety of slow modes is a serious issue due to interactions with fast modes. This programme is geared towards establishing a comprehensive theory of slow mode traffic behaviour, considering the different behavioural levels relevant for understanding, reproducing and predicting slow mode traffic flows in cities. The levels deal with walking and cycling operations, activity scheduling and travel behaviour, and knowledge representation and learning. Major scientific breakthroughs are expected at each of these levels, in terms of theory and modelling, by using innovative (big) data collection and experimentation, analysis and fusion techniques, including social media data analytics, using augmented reality, and remote and crowd sensing.
Project acronym ARTECHNE
Project Technique in the Arts. Concepts, Practices, Expertise (1500-1950)
Researcher (PI) Sven Georges Mathieu Dupré
Summary The transmission of ‘technique’ in art has been a conspicuous ‘black box’ resisting analysis. The tools of the humanities used to study the transmission of ideas and concepts are insufficient when it comes to understanding the transmission of something as non-propositional and non-verbal as ‘technique’. The insights of the neurosciences in, for example, the acquisition and transmission of drawing skills are not yet sufficiently advanced to be historically restrictive. However, only in the most recent years, the history of science and technology has turned to how-to instructions as given in recipes. This project proposes to undertake the experimental reconstruction of historical recipes to finally open the black box of the transmission of technique in the visual and decorative arts. Considering ‘technique’ as a textual, material and social practice, this project will write a long-term history of the theory and practice of the study of ‘technique’ in the visual and decorative arts between 1500 and 1950. The three central research questions here are: (1) what is technique in the visual and decorative arts, (2) how is technique transmitted and studied, and (3) who is considered expert in technique, and why? This project will make a breakthrough in our understanding of the transmission of technique in the arts by integrating methodologies typical for the humanities and historical disciplines with laboratory work. Also, by providing a history of technique in the arts, this project lays the historical foundations of the epistemologies of conservation, restoration and technical art history precisely at a moment of greatest urgency. The connection between the history of science and technology and the expertise in conservation, restoration and technical art history (in the Ateliergebouw in Amsterdam) this project envisions builds the intellectual infrastructure of a new field of interdisciplinary research, unique in Europe.
The transmission of ‘technique’ in art has been a conspicuous ‘black box’ resisting analysis. The tools of the humanities used to study the transmission of ideas and concepts are insufficient when it comes to understanding the transmission of something as non-propositional and non-verbal as ‘technique’. The insights of the neurosciences in, for example, the acquisition and transmission of drawing skills are not yet sufficiently advanced to be historically restrictive. However, only in the most recent years, the history of science and technology has turned to how-to instructions as given in recipes. This project proposes to undertake the experimental reconstruction of historical recipes to finally open the black box of the transmission of technique in the visual and decorative arts. Considering ‘technique’ as a textual, material and social practice, this project will write a long-term history of the theory and practice of the study of ‘technique’ in the visual and decorative arts between 1500 and 1950. The three central research questions here are: (1) what is technique in the visual and decorative arts, (2) how is technique transmitted and studied, and (3) who is considered expert in technique, and why? This project will make a breakthrough in our understanding of the transmission of technique in the arts by integrating methodologies typical for the humanities and historical disciplines with laboratory work. Also, by providing a history of technique in the arts, this project lays the historical foundations of the epistemologies of conservation, restoration and technical art history precisely at a moment of greatest urgency. The connection between the history of science and technology and the expertise in conservation, restoration and technical art history (in the Ateliergebouw in Amsterdam) this project envisions builds the intellectual infrastructure of a new field of interdisciplinary research, unique in Europe.
Project acronym ASICA
Project New constraints on the Amazonian carbon balance from airborne observations of the stable isotopes of CO2
Researcher (PI) Wouter Peters
Host Institution (HI) WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Summary Severe droughts in Amazonia in 2005 and 2010 caused widespread loss of carbon from the terrestrial biosphere. This loss, almost twice the annual fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the EU, suggests a large sensitivity of the Amazonian carbon balance to a predicted more intense drought regime in the next decades. This is a dangerous inference though, as there is no scientific consensus on the most basic metrics of Amazonian carbon exchange: the gross primary production (GPP) and its response to moisture deficits in the soil and atmosphere. Measuring them on scales that span the whole Amazon forest was thus far impossible, but in this project I aim to deliver the first observation-based estimate of pan-Amazonian GPP and its drought induced variations. My program builds on two recent breakthroughs in our use of stable isotopes (13C, 17O, 18O) in atmospheric CO2: (1) Our discovery that observed δ¹³C in CO2 in the atmosphere is a quantitative measure for vegetation water-use efficiency over millions of square kilometers, integrating the drought response of individual plants. (2) The possibility to precisely measure the relative ratios of 18O/16O and 17O/16O in CO2, called Δ17O. Anomalous Δ17O values are present in air coming down from the stratosphere, but this anomaly is removed upon contact of CO2 with leaf water inside plant stomata. Hence, observed Δ17O values depend directly on the magnitude of GPP. Both δ¹³C and Δ17O measurements are scarce over the Amazon-basin, and I propose more than 7000 new measurements leveraging an established aircraft monitoring program in Brazil. Quantitative interpretation of these observations will break new ground in our use of stable isotopes to understand climate variations, and is facilitated by our renowned numerical modeling system “CarbonTracker”. My program will answer two burning question in carbon cycle science today: (a) What is the magnitude of GPP in Amazonia? And (b) How does it vary over different intensities of drought?
Severe droughts in Amazonia in 2005 and 2010 caused widespread loss of carbon from the terrestrial biosphere. This loss, almost twice the annual fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the EU, suggests a large sensitivity of the Amazonian carbon balance to a predicted more intense drought regime in the next decades. This is a dangerous inference though, as there is no scientific consensus on the most basic metrics of Amazonian carbon exchange: the gross primary production (GPP) and its response to moisture deficits in the soil and atmosphere. Measuring them on scales that span the whole Amazon forest was thus far impossible, but in this project I aim to deliver the first observation-based estimate of pan-Amazonian GPP and its drought induced variations. My program builds on two recent breakthroughs in our use of stable isotopes (13C, 17O, 18O) in atmospheric CO2: (1) Our discovery that observed δ¹³C in CO2 in the atmosphere is a quantitative measure for vegetation water-use efficiency over millions of square kilometers, integrating the drought response of individual plants. (2) The possibility to precisely measure the relative ratios of 18O/16O and 17O/16O in CO2, called Δ17O. Anomalous Δ17O values are present in air coming down from the stratosphere, but this anomaly is removed upon contact of CO2 with leaf water inside plant stomata. Hence, observed Δ17O values depend directly on the magnitude of GPP. Both δ¹³C and Δ17O measurements are scarce over the Amazon-basin, and I propose more than 7000 new measurements leveraging an established aircraft monitoring program in Brazil. Quantitative interpretation of these observations will break new ground in our use of stable isotopes to understand climate variations, and is facilitated by our renowned numerical modeling system “CarbonTracker”. My program will answer two burning question in carbon cycle science today: (a) What is the magnitude of GPP in Amazonia? And (b) How does it vary over different intensities of drought?
Project acronym COAT
Project Collapse Of Atmospheric Turbulence
Researcher (PI) Bas Johannes Henricus Van de wiel
Summary This project aims to predict the cessation of continuous turbulence in the evening boundary layer. The interaction between the lower atmosphere and the surface is studied in detail, as this plays a crucial role in the dynamics. Present generation forecasting models are incapable to predict whether or not turbulence will survive or collapse under cold conditions. In nature, both situations frequently occur and lead to completely different temperature signatures. As such, significant forecast errors are made, particularly in arctic regions and winter conditions. Therefore, prediction of turbulence collapse is highly relevant for weather and climate prediction. Key innovation lies in our hypothesis. The collapse of turbulence is explained from a maximum sustainable heat flux hypothesis which foresees in an enforcing positive feedback between the atmosphere and the underlying surface. A comprehensive theory for the transition between the main two nocturnal regimes would be ground-breaking in meteorological literature. We propose an integrated approach, which combines in-depth theoretical work, simulation with models of various hierarchy (DNS, LES, RANS), and observational analysis. Such comprehensive methodology is new with respect to the problem at hand. An innovative element is the usage of Direct Numerical Simulation in combination with dynamical surface interactions. This advanced technique fully resolves turbulent motions up to their smallest scale without the need to rely on subgrid closure assumptions. From a 10-year dataset (200m mast at Cabauw, Netherlands) nights are classified according to their turbulence characteristics. Multi-night composites are used as benchmark-cases to guide realistic numerical modelling. In the validation phase, generality of the results with respect to both climate and surface characteristics is assessed by comparison with the FLUXNET data-consortium, which operates on a long-term basis over 240 sites across the globe.
This project aims to predict the cessation of continuous turbulence in the evening boundary layer. The interaction between the lower atmosphere and the surface is studied in detail, as this plays a crucial role in the dynamics. Present generation forecasting models are incapable to predict whether or not turbulence will survive or collapse under cold conditions. In nature, both situations frequently occur and lead to completely different temperature signatures. As such, significant forecast errors are made, particularly in arctic regions and winter conditions. Therefore, prediction of turbulence collapse is highly relevant for weather and climate prediction. Key innovation lies in our hypothesis. The collapse of turbulence is explained from a maximum sustainable heat flux hypothesis which foresees in an enforcing positive feedback between the atmosphere and the underlying surface. A comprehensive theory for the transition between the main two nocturnal regimes would be ground-breaking in meteorological literature. We propose an integrated approach, which combines in-depth theoretical work, simulation with models of various hierarchy (DNS, LES, RANS), and observational analysis. Such comprehensive methodology is new with respect to the problem at hand. An innovative element is the usage of Direct Numerical Simulation in combination with dynamical surface interactions. This advanced technique fully resolves turbulent motions up to their smallest scale without the need to rely on subgrid closure assumptions. From a 10-year dataset (200m mast at Cabauw, Netherlands) nights are classified according to their turbulence characteristics. Multi-night composites are used as benchmark-cases to guide realistic numerical modelling. In the validation phase, generality of the results with respect to both climate and surface characteristics is assessed by comparison with the FLUXNET data-consortium, which operates on a long-term basis over 240 sites across the globe.
Project acronym COBHUNI
Project Contemporary Bioethics and the History of the Unborn in Islam
Researcher (PI) Thomas Alexander Eich
Summary COBHUNI will for the first time provide a comprehensive investigation of the History of the Unborn in Islam until today. This aims at diversifying our understanding of how pre-natal life is conceptualized in texts of Islamic normativity. At the center will be the analysis of statements in the Qur’an and the prophetic sayings (Hadith) relating to the unborn and the commentary tradition which evolved around them over ca. the last millennium. The objectives of COBHUNI: 1. Thematically: Showing how processes of communication a) between religious communities, b) different regions within the Muslim community, and c) the emergence of modern medicine impacted on the imagination of the unborn. 2. Conceptually: Drawing on three new approaches in the study of Islam: a) emergence of Islam within the context of late antiquity, b) canonization studies, and c) study of exegetical literature. 3. Methodologically: Developing and applying computerlinguistic approaches to Arabic text material and thus improving significantly on the state of the art of Arabic Digital Humanities. The realization will encompass the analysis of the text material along two axes. Vertical axis: citations and cross-referencing within the exegetical tradition; Horizontal axis: contextualizing the exegesis and scrutinizing links to other genres. I have been working on contemporary Islamic Bioethics since 2003 and since 2008 I have broadened my research to the historical scope of the topic. With my comprehensive experience in the study of Contemporary Islamic Bioethics and historical texts from Islamic Normativity and my knowledge in the study of Arabic Qur’an and Hadith exegesis I will be able to successfully lead this cutting-edge project. My team will generate additional data and enhance the IT applications necessary for its analysis. My project will offer powerful approaches to show the complex web of influences impacting on the imaginations of the unborn in Islam.
COBHUNI will for the first time provide a comprehensive investigation of the History of the Unborn in Islam until today. This aims at diversifying our understanding of how pre-natal life is conceptualized in texts of Islamic normativity. At the center will be the analysis of statements in the Qur’an and the prophetic sayings (Hadith) relating to the unborn and the commentary tradition which evolved around them over ca. the last millennium. The objectives of COBHUNI: 1. Thematically: Showing how processes of communication a) between religious communities, b) different regions within the Muslim community, and c) the emergence of modern medicine impacted on the imagination of the unborn. 2. Conceptually: Drawing on three new approaches in the study of Islam: a) emergence of Islam within the context of late antiquity, b) canonization studies, and c) study of exegetical literature. 3. Methodologically: Developing and applying computerlinguistic approaches to Arabic text material and thus improving significantly on the state of the art of Arabic Digital Humanities. The realization will encompass the analysis of the text material along two axes. Vertical axis: citations and cross-referencing within the exegetical tradition; Horizontal axis: contextualizing the exegesis and scrutinizing links to other genres. I have been working on contemporary Islamic Bioethics since 2003 and since 2008 I have broadened my research to the historical scope of the topic. With my comprehensive experience in the study of Contemporary Islamic Bioethics and historical texts from Islamic Normativity and my knowledge in the study of Arabic Qur’an and Hadith exegesis I will be able to successfully lead this cutting-edge project. My team will generate additional data and enhance the IT applications necessary for its analysis. My project will offer powerful approaches to show the complex web of influences impacting on the imaginations of the unborn in Islam.
Project acronym CONNECTINGEUROPE
Project Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging
Researcher (PI) Sandra Ponzanesi
Summary Many immigrants enter Europe both legally and illegally every year. This creates multiple challenges for the Union, including the gender and ethnic segregation of migrant groups, especially women. While it strives for an inclusive and integrated society as envisioned by the EU motto ‘Unity in Diversity’, it is still often perceived more as ‘Fortress Europe.’ This project focuses on the ‘connected migrant’, studying how virtual communities of migrants, or digital diasporas, convey issues of technology, migration, globalisation, alienation and belonging capturing the lives of migrants in their interaction with multiple worlds and media. More specifically, it will investigate whether digital technologies enhance European integration or foster gender and ethnic segregation, and, if so, how. Using a multi-layered and cutting-edge approach that draws from the humanities, social science and new media studies (i.e. internet studies and mobile media), this research considers: 1. How migration and digital technologies enable digital diasporas (Somali, Turkish, Romanian) and the impact these have on identity, gender and belonging in European urban centres; 2. How these entanglements are connected to and perceived from outside Europe by focusing on transnational ties; and 3. How digital connections create new possibilities for cosmopolitan outlooks, rearticulating Europe’s motto of ‘Unity in Diversity.’ The outcomes of this work will be innovative at three levels. a) Empirically, the project gathers, maps and critically grounds online behaviour by migrant women from a European comparative perspective. b) Methodologically, it breaks new ground by developing new methods of analysis for digital diasporas contributing to the development of ‘postcolonial’ digital humanities. c) Conceptually, it integrates colonial and migrant relations into the idea of Europe, elaborating on the notion of cosmopolitan belonging through virtual connectivity.
Many immigrants enter Europe both legally and illegally every year. This creates multiple challenges for the Union, including the gender and ethnic segregation of migrant groups, especially women. While it strives for an inclusive and integrated society as envisioned by the EU motto ‘Unity in Diversity’, it is still often perceived more as ‘Fortress Europe.’ This project focuses on the ‘connected migrant’, studying how virtual communities of migrants, or digital diasporas, convey issues of technology, migration, globalisation, alienation and belonging capturing the lives of migrants in their interaction with multiple worlds and media. More specifically, it will investigate whether digital technologies enhance European integration or foster gender and ethnic segregation, and, if so, how. Using a multi-layered and cutting-edge approach that draws from the humanities, social science and new media studies (i.e. internet studies and mobile media), this research considers: 1. How migration and digital technologies enable digital diasporas (Somali, Turkish, Romanian) and the impact these have on identity, gender and belonging in European urban centres; 2. How these entanglements are connected to and perceived from outside Europe by focusing on transnational ties; and 3. How digital connections create new possibilities for cosmopolitan outlooks, rearticulating Europe’s motto of ‘Unity in Diversity.’ The outcomes of this work will be innovative at three levels. a) Empirically, the project gathers, maps and critically grounds online behaviour by migrant women from a European comparative perspective. b) Methodologically, it breaks new ground by developing new methods of analysis for digital diasporas contributing to the development of ‘postcolonial’ digital humanities. c) Conceptually, it integrates colonial and migrant relations into the idea of Europe, elaborating on the notion of cosmopolitan belonging through virtual connectivity.
Project acronym EdGe
Project The molecular genetic architecture of educational attainment and its significance for cognitive health
Researcher (PI) Philipp Daniel Koellinger
Summary Since many social and economic outcomes are moderately heritable, it is in principle possible to discover genetic variants associated with them. Such discoveries could yield new insights into the causal pathways underlying human behaviour, the complex interplay of environmental and genetic factors, and the relationship between socio-economic traits and health. This proposal builds on a recent genome-wide association study on educational attainment (EA) led by the applicant (Rietveld et al. 2013, Science), which identified for the first time specific genetic variants robustly associated with a socio-economic outcome. The project will leverage the unique resources of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC), which is co-led by the applicant. The proposed research will extend existing knowledge by: 1) discovering additional genetic variants and causal pathways associated with EA; 2) developing methods to use the available genetic association results in novel, more efficient ways; 3) shedding new light on characteristics related to EA such as economic preferences, cognitive function, and cognitive health; 4) showing how policies promoting EA interact with genetic predisposition; 5) using genetic information to better understand the causal effects of educational policy interventions, 6) developing better tools to identify individuals at risk for cognition-related diseases before the onset of symptoms; and 7) identifying causal pathways of genetic influence on cognitive health via neurobiological measures. The project aims to elucidate the complex causal pathways connecting genes, environment, individual characteristics, and health-related outcomes; make methodological contributions applicable in genetic epidemiology and the social sciences; and contribute towards designing more effective public policy, which could improve public health and lower health costs.
Since many social and economic outcomes are moderately heritable, it is in principle possible to discover genetic variants associated with them. Such discoveries could yield new insights into the causal pathways underlying human behaviour, the complex interplay of environmental and genetic factors, and the relationship between socio-economic traits and health. This proposal builds on a recent genome-wide association study on educational attainment (EA) led by the applicant (Rietveld et al. 2013, Science), which identified for the first time specific genetic variants robustly associated with a socio-economic outcome. The project will leverage the unique resources of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC), which is co-led by the applicant. The proposed research will extend existing knowledge by: 1) discovering additional genetic variants and causal pathways associated with EA; 2) developing methods to use the available genetic association results in novel, more efficient ways; 3) shedding new light on characteristics related to EA such as economic preferences, cognitive function, and cognitive health; 4) showing how policies promoting EA interact with genetic predisposition; 5) using genetic information to better understand the causal effects of educational policy interventions, 6) developing better tools to identify individuals at risk for cognition-related diseases before the onset of symptoms; and 7) identifying causal pathways of genetic influence on cognitive health via neurobiological measures. The project aims to elucidate the complex causal pathways connecting genes, environment, individual characteristics, and health-related outcomes; make methodological contributions applicable in genetic epidemiology and the social sciences; and contribute towards designing more effective public policy, which could improve public health and lower health costs.
Project acronym ESTUARIES
Project Estuaries shaped by biomorphodynamics, inherited landscape conditions and human interference
Researcher (PI) Maarten Gabriel Kleinhans
Summary ESTUARIES are shallow coastal water bodies with river inflow shaped by biomorphological processes, with patterns of channels and shoals, sand/mud flats, tidal marshes, vegetated banks and peat. Development was influenced by early Holocene landscape that drowned under sealevel rise, and by human interference. Estuaries harbour highly productive natural habitats and are of pivotal economic importance for food production, access to harbours and urban safety. Accelerating sealevel rise, changing river discharge and interference threaten these functions, but we lack fundamental understanding and models to predict combined effects of biomorphological interactions, inherited landscape and changing drivers. We do not understand to what extent present estuary planform shape and shoal patterns resulted from biomorphological processes interacting with inherited conditions and interference. Ecology suggests dominant effects of flow-resisting and sediment de/stabilising eco-engineering species. Yet abiotic physics-based models reproduce channel-shoal patterns surprisingly well, but must assume a fixed planform estuary shape. Holocene reconstructions emphasise inherited landscape- and agricultural effects on this planform shape, yet fossil shells and peat also imply eco-engineering effects. My aims are to develop models for large-scale planform shape and size of sandy estuaries and predict past and future, large-scale effects of biomorphological interactions and inherited conditions. We will significantly advance our understanding by our state-of-the-art eco-morphological model, my unique analogue landscape models with eco-engineers and a new, automated paleogeographic reconstruction of 10 data-rich Holocene estuaries on the south-east North Sea coast. We will systematically compare these to modelled scenarios with biomorphological processes, historic interference and inherited valley geometry and substrate. Outcomes will benefit ecology, archeology, oceanography and engineering
ESTUARIES are shallow coastal water bodies with river inflow shaped by biomorphological processes, with patterns of channels and shoals, sand/mud flats, tidal marshes, vegetated banks and peat. Development was influenced by early Holocene landscape that drowned under sealevel rise, and by human interference. Estuaries harbour highly productive natural habitats and are of pivotal economic importance for food production, access to harbours and urban safety. Accelerating sealevel rise, changing river discharge and interference threaten these functions, but we lack fundamental understanding and models to predict combined effects of biomorphological interactions, inherited landscape and changing drivers. We do not understand to what extent present estuary planform shape and shoal patterns resulted from biomorphological processes interacting with inherited conditions and interference. Ecology suggests dominant effects of flow-resisting and sediment de/stabilising eco-engineering species. Yet abiotic physics-based models reproduce channel-shoal patterns surprisingly well, but must assume a fixed planform estuary shape. Holocene reconstructions emphasise inherited landscape- and agricultural effects on this planform shape, yet fossil shells and peat also imply eco-engineering effects. My aims are to develop models for large-scale planform shape and size of sandy estuaries and predict past and future, large-scale effects of biomorphological interactions and inherited conditions. We will significantly advance our understanding by our state-of-the-art eco-morphological model, my unique analogue landscape models with eco-engineers and a new, automated paleogeographic reconstruction of 10 data-rich Holocene estuaries on the south-east North Sea coast. We will systematically compare these to modelled scenarios with biomorphological processes, historic interference and inherited valley geometry and substrate. Outcomes will benefit ecology, archeology, oceanography and engineering
Project acronym FamilyComplexity
Project Intergenerational Reproduction and Solidarity in an Era of Family Complexity
Researcher (PI) Matthijs Kalmijn
Summary One of the important consequences of the Second Demographic Transition has been the increasing complexity of families. The aim of this project is to study how rising family complexity has affected two fundamental aspects of intergenerational relationships: reproduction and solidarity. Theoretically, family complexity is distinguished into four dimensions: (a) the length, timing and nature of exposure to the child, (c) biological relatedness to the child, and (c) characteristics of parent-parent ties (triadic effects), (d) characteristics of the wider family network. Using insights from several disciplines, I develop a common theoretical framework for understanding intergenerational reproduction and solidarity. To test the theory, an innovative multiactor survey is developed with an oversampling strategy in which for each adult child, information is collected on all parent figures, and for each parent, information on all adult children. In addition, register data are used to analyze one aspect of reproduction in a dynamic fashion (educational reproduction) and vignette data are used to analyze one aspect of solidarity in more depth (norms prescribing solidarity). By studying reproduction and solidarity as outcomes, I shift the traditional focus from examining how the SDT has affected individual well-being, to the question of how the SDT has affected relationships. In doing so, I analyze a new problem in demography and sociology and contribute to classic debates about population ageing and social inequality. Theoretically, the study of family complexity yields unique opportunities to test ideas about the nature of intergenerational relationships and will shed new light on the traditional dichotomy of social vis-à-vis biological bases of intergenerational relationships. Methodological innovation is made by developing solutions for well-known problems of multiactor data, thereby strengthening the theoretical relevance of survey data for the social sciences.
One of the important consequences of the Second Demographic Transition has been the increasing complexity of families. The aim of this project is to study how rising family complexity has affected two fundamental aspects of intergenerational relationships: reproduction and solidarity. Theoretically, family complexity is distinguished into four dimensions: (a) the length, timing and nature of exposure to the child, (c) biological relatedness to the child, and (c) characteristics of parent-parent ties (triadic effects), (d) characteristics of the wider family network. Using insights from several disciplines, I develop a common theoretical framework for understanding intergenerational reproduction and solidarity. To test the theory, an innovative multiactor survey is developed with an oversampling strategy in which for each adult child, information is collected on all parent figures, and for each parent, information on all adult children. In addition, register data are used to analyze one aspect of reproduction in a dynamic fashion (educational reproduction) and vignette data are used to analyze one aspect of solidarity in more depth (norms prescribing solidarity). By studying reproduction and solidarity as outcomes, I shift the traditional focus from examining how the SDT has affected individual well-being, to the question of how the SDT has affected relationships. In doing so, I analyze a new problem in demography and sociology and contribute to classic debates about population ageing and social inequality. Theoretically, the study of family complexity yields unique opportunities to test ideas about the nature of intergenerational relationships and will shed new light on the traditional dichotomy of social vis-à-vis biological bases of intergenerational relationships. Methodological innovation is made by developing solutions for well-known problems of multiactor data, thereby strengthening the theoretical relevance of survey data for the social sciences.
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Project acronym C8
Project Consistent computation of the chemistry-cloud continuum and climate change in Cyprus
Researcher (PI) Johannes Lelieveld
Host Institution (HI) THE CYPRUS RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Summary We have developed a new numerical method to consistently compute atmospheric trace gas and aerosol chemistry and cloud processes. The method is computationally efficient so that it can be used in climate models. For the first time cloud droplet formation on multi-component particles can be represented based on first principles rather than parameterisations. This allows for a direct coupling in models between aerosol chemical composition and the continuum between hazes and clouds as a function of ambient relative humidity. We will apply the method in a new nested global-limited area model system to study atmospheric chemistry climate interactions and anthropogenic influences. We will focus on the Mediterranean region because it is a hot spot in climate change exposed to drying and air pollution. The limited area model will also be applied as cloud-resolving model to study aerosol influences on precipitation and storm development. By simulating realistic meteorological conditions at high spatial resolution our method can be straightforwardly tested against observations. Central questions are: - How does the simulated haze-cloud continuum compare with remote sensing measurements and what is the consequence of abandoning the traditional and artificial distinction between aerosols and clouds? - How are cloud and precipitation formation influenced by atmospheric chemical composition changes? - To what extent do haze and cloud formation in polluted air exert forcings of synoptic meteorological conditions and climate? - Can aerosol pollution in the Mediterranean region exacerbate the predicted and observed drying in a changing climate? The model system is user-friendly and will facilitate air quality and climate studies by regional scientists. The project will be part of the Energy, Environment and Water Centre of the newly founded Cyprus Institute, provide input to climate impact assessments and contribute to a regional outreach programme.
We have developed a new numerical method to consistently compute atmospheric trace gas and aerosol chemistry and cloud processes. The method is computationally efficient so that it can be used in climate models. For the first time cloud droplet formation on multi-component particles can be represented based on first principles rather than parameterisations. This allows for a direct coupling in models between aerosol chemical composition and the continuum between hazes and clouds as a function of ambient relative humidity. We will apply the method in a new nested global-limited area model system to study atmospheric chemistry climate interactions and anthropogenic influences. We will focus on the Mediterranean region because it is a hot spot in climate change exposed to drying and air pollution. The limited area model will also be applied as cloud-resolving model to study aerosol influences on precipitation and storm development. By simulating realistic meteorological conditions at high spatial resolution our method can be straightforwardly tested against observations. Central questions are: - How does the simulated haze-cloud continuum compare with remote sensing measurements and what is the consequence of abandoning the traditional and artificial distinction between aerosols and clouds? - How are cloud and precipitation formation influenced by atmospheric chemical composition changes? - To what extent do haze and cloud formation in polluted air exert forcings of synoptic meteorological conditions and climate? - Can aerosol pollution in the Mediterranean region exacerbate the predicted and observed drying in a changing climate? The model system is user-friendly and will facilitate air quality and climate studies by regional scientists. The project will be part of the Energy, Environment and Water Centre of the newly founded Cyprus Institute, provide input to climate impact assessments and contribute to a regional outreach programme.
Project acronym EMIS
Project An Intense Summer Monsoon in a Cool World, Climate and East Asian Monsoon during Interglacials with a special emphasis on the Interglacials 500,000 years ago and before
Researcher (PI) André, Léon Berger
Summary Asian monsoon is a spectacular occurrence in the climate system. What make it so powerful are the combination of thermal contrast between the World s largest landmass (Eurasian continent) and ocean basin (the Indo-Pacific Ocean) and the presence of the World s largest ridge, the Tibetan Plateau. Climatologically, monsoon regions are the most convectively active areas and account for the majority of global atmospheric heat and moisture transport. Moreover, the economy, culture and rhythms of life of 60% of humanity are critically influenced by the evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon. The need to better understand the monsoon leads inevitably to the close inspection of its activity during the geological times to provide a long-term perspective from which any future change may be more effectively assessed. Our research proposal aims to understand the seeming paradox of the exceptionally intense East Asian summer monsoon (actually the strongest over the last one million years) which occurred during the relatively cool interglacial (MIS-13), 500,000 years ago. This will be done using first a model of intermediate complexity (LOVECLIM) to achieve a number of sensitivity experiments to the astronomical forcing, the Eurasian and North American ice sheets, the Tibetan Plateau and the Ocean. Ocean-atmosphere coupled general circulation models will then be used to confirm the main processes underlined by LOVECLIM, in particular those related to the wave train topographically induced by the Eurasian ice sheet, to the Tibetan Plateau, to the sea-surface temperature and to their role in reinforcing the East Asian summer monsoon. This monsoon of MIS-13 will be compared with the monsoon which occurred during the other interglacials of the upper Pleistocene and Holocene (about the last 700,000 years). All simulation results will be compared with the available proxy records, in particular-but not exclusively-those coming from the loess-soil sequences in China.
Asian monsoon is a spectacular occurrence in the climate system. What make it so powerful are the combination of thermal contrast between the World s largest landmass (Eurasian continent) and ocean basin (the Indo-Pacific Ocean) and the presence of the World s largest ridge, the Tibetan Plateau. Climatologically, monsoon regions are the most convectively active areas and account for the majority of global atmospheric heat and moisture transport. Moreover, the economy, culture and rhythms of life of 60% of humanity are critically influenced by the evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon. The need to better understand the monsoon leads inevitably to the close inspection of its activity during the geological times to provide a long-term perspective from which any future change may be more effectively assessed. Our research proposal aims to understand the seeming paradox of the exceptionally intense East Asian summer monsoon (actually the strongest over the last one million years) which occurred during the relatively cool interglacial (MIS-13), 500,000 years ago. This will be done using first a model of intermediate complexity (LOVECLIM) to achieve a number of sensitivity experiments to the astronomical forcing, the Eurasian and North American ice sheets, the Tibetan Plateau and the Ocean. Ocean-atmosphere coupled general circulation models will then be used to confirm the main processes underlined by LOVECLIM, in particular those related to the wave train topographically induced by the Eurasian ice sheet, to the Tibetan Plateau, to the sea-surface temperature and to their role in reinforcing the East Asian summer monsoon. This monsoon of MIS-13 will be compared with the monsoon which occurred during the other interglacials of the upper Pleistocene and Holocene (about the last 700,000 years). All simulation results will be compared with the available proxy records, in particular-but not exclusively-those coming from the loess-soil sequences in China.
Project acronym FATE
Project Functional Biology of Hepatic CD8+ T cells
Researcher (PI) Matteo Iannacone
Host Institution (HI) OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL
Summary CD8+ T cells have a key role in eliminating intracellular pathogens and tumors that affect the liver. The protective capacity of these cells relies on their ability to migrate to and traffic within the liver, recognize pathogen- or tumor-derived antigens, get activated and deploy effector functions. While some of the rules that characterize CD8+ T cell behavior in the infected and cancerous liver have been characterized at the population level, we have only limited knowledge of the precise dynamics of intrahepatic CD8+ T cell conduct at the single-cell level. In preliminary data for this project we have developed several advanced imaging techniques that allow us to dissect the interactive behavior of CD8+ T cells within the mouse liver at an unprecedented level of spatial and temporal resolution. We predict that this approach, combined with unique models of hepatitis B virus pathogenesis and a new model of hepatocellular carcinoma created ad hoc for this proposal, will generate novel mechanistic insights into the spatiotemporal determinants that govern the capacity of CD8+ T cells to home and function in the virus- or tumor-bearing liver. Specifically, we plan to pursue two main goals: 1) To assess how the anatomical, hemodynamic and environmental cues that characterize hepatocellular carcinomas shape CD8+ T cell behavior and function; 2) To characterize intrahepatic T cell priming events that induce functionally defective T cell responses. Results emerging from these studies will advance our knowledge on how adaptive immunity mediates pathogen clearance and tumor elimination. This new knowledge may lead to improved vaccination and treatment strategies for immunotherapy of infectious diseases and cancer.
CD8+ T cells have a key role in eliminating intracellular pathogens and tumors that affect the liver. The protective capacity of these cells relies on their ability to migrate to and traffic within the liver, recognize pathogen- or tumor-derived antigens, get activated and deploy effector functions. While some of the rules that characterize CD8+ T cell behavior in the infected and cancerous liver have been characterized at the population level, we have only limited knowledge of the precise dynamics of intrahepatic CD8+ T cell conduct at the single-cell level. In preliminary data for this project we have developed several advanced imaging techniques that allow us to dissect the interactive behavior of CD8+ T cells within the mouse liver at an unprecedented level of spatial and temporal resolution. We predict that this approach, combined with unique models of hepatitis B virus pathogenesis and a new model of hepatocellular carcinoma created ad hoc for this proposal, will generate novel mechanistic insights into the spatiotemporal determinants that govern the capacity of CD8+ T cells to home and function in the virus- or tumor-bearing liver. Specifically, we plan to pursue two main goals: 1) To assess how the anatomical, hemodynamic and environmental cues that characterize hepatocellular carcinomas shape CD8+ T cell behavior and function; 2) To characterize intrahepatic T cell priming events that induce functionally defective T cell responses. Results emerging from these studies will advance our knowledge on how adaptive immunity mediates pathogen clearance and tumor elimination. This new knowledge may lead to improved vaccination and treatment strategies for immunotherapy of infectious diseases and cancer.
Project acronym HIIS
Project The humoral innate immune system: long pentraxins as a paradigm
Researcher (PI) Alberto Mantovani
Host Institution (HI) HUMANITAS MIRASOLE SPA
Summary The innate immune system consists of humoral and a cellular arm, but attention has largely been focused on cells and their receptors. The humoral innate immune system (HIIS) is generally represented as a collection of diverse molecules (collectins, ficolins, pentraxins). A tenet underlying this application is that in spite of molecular diversity, the HIIS is built on general principles and logic conserved in evolution. This general view will be put to a test capitalizing on the discovery by the applicant of the long pentraxin family, the prototype of which is PTX3. PTX3 is a multifunctional fluid phase pattern recognition receptor, highly conserved in evolution, at the interface between innate immunity/ inflammation and female fertility /matrix remodelling. The specific aims of the studies outlined herein are: 1) better define the repertoire of HIIS receptors by identifying new receptor(s) (eg PTX4) and ligands as well as interaction among receptor families (eg Ficolins); 2) pursue the structure and function of PTX3 as well as of newly discovered related molecules; 3) using genetic and cellular approaches define the relative importance of different cellular sources (eg lymphatic tissue); 4) based on 1-3, address fundamental mechanisms and logic in the interplay between cellular and humoral innate immunity; 5) explore the applicative potential of long pentraxins as diagnostics; 6) based on 1), engineer new pentraxins as potential therapeutics. The focus will largely be on unexpected turns, based on preliminary results, including: coupling of members belonging to different molecular classes; mechanisms of regulation of innate immunity (pathways of complement activation; P-selectin and leukocyte trafficking); the role in the extracellular matrix of lymphatic vessels.
The innate immune system consists of humoral and a cellular arm, but attention has largely been focused on cells and their receptors. The humoral innate immune system (HIIS) is generally represented as a collection of diverse molecules (collectins, ficolins, pentraxins). A tenet underlying this application is that in spite of molecular diversity, the HIIS is built on general principles and logic conserved in evolution. This general view will be put to a test capitalizing on the discovery by the applicant of the long pentraxin family, the prototype of which is PTX3. PTX3 is a multifunctional fluid phase pattern recognition receptor, highly conserved in evolution, at the interface between innate immunity/ inflammation and female fertility /matrix remodelling. The specific aims of the studies outlined herein are: 1) better define the repertoire of HIIS receptors by identifying new receptor(s) (eg PTX4) and ligands as well as interaction among receptor families (eg Ficolins); 2) pursue the structure and function of PTX3 as well as of newly discovered related molecules; 3) using genetic and cellular approaches define the relative importance of different cellular sources (eg lymphatic tissue); 4) based on 1-3, address fundamental mechanisms and logic in the interplay between cellular and humoral innate immunity; 5) explore the applicative potential of long pentraxins as diagnostics; 6) based on 1), engineer new pentraxins as potential therapeutics. The focus will largely be on unexpected turns, based on preliminary results, including: coupling of members belonging to different molecular classes; mechanisms of regulation of innate immunity (pathways of complement activation; P-selectin and leukocyte trafficking); the role in the extracellular matrix of lymphatic vessels.
Project acronym KupfferCellNiche
Project Determining the instructive tissue signals and the master transcription factors driving Kupffer cell differentiation
Researcher (PI) Martin Wim V GUILLIAMS
Summary We have recently shown that contrary to common hypotheses, circulating monocytes can efficiently differentiate into Kupffer cells (KCs), the liver-resident macrophages. Using self-generated knock-in mice that allow specific KC depletion, we found that monocytes colonize the KC niche in a single wave upon KC depletion and rapidly differentiate into self-maintaining KCs that are transcriptionally and functionally identical to their embryonic counterparts. This implies that: (i) access to the KC niche is tightly regulated, ensuring that monocytes do not differentiate into KCs when the KC niche is full but differentiate very efficiently into KCs upon temporary niche availability, and (ii) imprinting by the KC niche is the dominant factor conferring KC identity. Understanding which cells represent the macrophage niche, which signals produced by these cells imprint the tissue-specific macrophage gene expression profile and through which transcription factors (TxFs) this is mediated is emerging as the next challenge in the field. We here propose an original strategy combining state-of-the-art in silico approaches and unique in vivo transgenic mouse models to tackle this challenge specifically for KCs, the most abundant macrophage in the body. We hypothesize that the liver sinusoidal endothelial cell (LSEC) to which the KC is attached represents the most likely candidate to sense KC loss, recruit new monocytes and drive their differentiation into KCs. Thus, this proposal aims to: (I) determine the TxFs through which the niche imprints KC identity, (II) map the LSEC-KC crosstalk during KC development, (III) generate LSEC-specific knock-in mice to study LSECs in vivo, (IV) demonstrate which LSEC factors influence KC development and function. Importantly, understanding how the KC-TxFs and the LSEC-KC crosstalk control KC development and function will be essential for the development of novel therapeutic interventions for hepatic disorders in which KCs play a central role.
We have recently shown that contrary to common hypotheses, circulating monocytes can efficiently differentiate into Kupffer cells (KCs), the liver-resident macrophages. Using self-generated knock-in mice that allow specific KC depletion, we found that monocytes colonize the KC niche in a single wave upon KC depletion and rapidly differentiate into self-maintaining KCs that are transcriptionally and functionally identical to their embryonic counterparts. This implies that: (i) access to the KC niche is tightly regulated, ensuring that monocytes do not differentiate into KCs when the KC niche is full but differentiate very efficiently into KCs upon temporary niche availability, and (ii) imprinting by the KC niche is the dominant factor conferring KC identity. Understanding which cells represent the macrophage niche, which signals produced by these cells imprint the tissue-specific macrophage gene expression profile and through which transcription factors (TxFs) this is mediated is emerging as the next challenge in the field. We here propose an original strategy combining state-of-the-art in silico approaches and unique in vivo transgenic mouse models to tackle this challenge specifically for KCs, the most abundant macrophage in the body. We hypothesize that the liver sinusoidal endothelial cell (LSEC) to which the KC is attached represents the most likely candidate to sense KC loss, recruit new monocytes and drive their differentiation into KCs. Thus, this proposal aims to: (I) determine the TxFs through which the niche imprints KC identity, (II) map the LSEC-KC crosstalk during KC development, (III) generate LSEC-specific knock-in mice to study LSECs in vivo, (IV) demonstrate which LSEC factors influence KC development and function. Importantly, understanding how the KC-TxFs and the LSEC-KC crosstalk control KC development and function will be essential for the development of novel therapeutic interventions for hepatic disorders in which KCs play a central role.
Project acronym PATCHYCOLLOIDS
Project Patchy colloidal particles: a powerful arsenal for the fabrication of tomorrow new super-molecules . A theoretical and numerical study of their assembly processes
Researcher (PI) Francesco Sciortino
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
Summary An unprecedented development in particle synthesis is providing methods to generate high yield quantities of nano- and micro-particles of different shapes, compositions, patterns and functionalities and an unprecedented diverse spectrum of particle patchiness, significantly extending the naturally available choices. These methods draw from the diverse fields of chemistry, physics, biology, engineering and materials science, and, in combination, provide a powerful arsenal for the fabrication of new particulate building blocks, the molecules of tomorrow materials, self-assembling into molecular-mimetic and unique structures, fluids, and gels made possible solely by their design. The new particles offer the possibility to go beyond the spherical interaction case, to move from the colloidal atom to the colloidal molecule --- providing valence to colloids --- and to further strength the analogies between colloids and globular proteins. The present theoretical and computational project aims at providing new ideas for developing effective methodologies of bottom-up manufacturing, at providing the scientific community with the background necessary to fully control the self-assembly of these new building blocks as well as solutions to relevant condensed-matter physics problems. The project also aims at developing realistic models of DNA-functionalized nano and micro particles, presently the most promising and versatile building block of bio-colloid materials. Understanding the assembly of patchy particles will offer fine control over the three-dimensional organization of materials, as well as the combination of different materials over several length scales, making it possible to design a spectrum of crystal polymorphs and self-assembled ordered and disordered structures unprecedented in colloid science.
An unprecedented development in particle synthesis is providing methods to generate high yield quantities of nano- and micro-particles of different shapes, compositions, patterns and functionalities and an unprecedented diverse spectrum of particle patchiness, significantly extending the naturally available choices. These methods draw from the diverse fields of chemistry, physics, biology, engineering and materials science, and, in combination, provide a powerful arsenal for the fabrication of new particulate building blocks, the molecules of tomorrow materials, self-assembling into molecular-mimetic and unique structures, fluids, and gels made possible solely by their design. The new particles offer the possibility to go beyond the spherical interaction case, to move from the colloidal atom to the colloidal molecule --- providing valence to colloids --- and to further strength the analogies between colloids and globular proteins. The present theoretical and computational project aims at providing new ideas for developing effective methodologies of bottom-up manufacturing, at providing the scientific community with the background necessary to fully control the self-assembly of these new building blocks as well as solutions to relevant condensed-matter physics problems. The project also aims at developing realistic models of DNA-functionalized nano and micro particles, presently the most promising and versatile building block of bio-colloid materials. Understanding the assembly of patchy particles will offer fine control over the three-dimensional organization of materials, as well as the combination of different materials over several length scales, making it possible to design a spectrum of crystal polymorphs and self-assembled ordered and disordered structures unprecedented in colloid science.
Project acronym TRUE DEPTHS
Project deTeRmine the trUe dEpth of DeEp subduction from PiezobaromeTry on Host –inclusions Systems
Researcher (PI) Matteo ALVARO
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA
Summary Subduction of one tectonic plate below another is the primary cause of catastrophic geological events such as earthquakes and explosive volcanism that directly impact thousands of kilometers of coastal and mountain areas located on convergent margins. Real-time geophysical or seismic data only provide static snapshots of these subduction zones today. Therefore, quantitative understanding of the rates and true depths of subduction can only be achieved by determining the pressure-temperature-time-depth histories of Ultra-High-Pressure Metamorphic (UHPM) rocks that have been subducted to pressures greater than 3 GPa and subsequently exhumed. Conventional mineral thermo-barometry is severely challenged in UHPM terraines and thus the mechanisms attending the downwards transport of crustal material, and its return back to the Earth’s surface (exhumation), are still a matter of vigorous debate. The TRUE DEPTHS project will develop X-ray diffraction analysis of the anisotropic elastic interactions of inclusion minerals trapped inside host minerals. I will develop non-linear elasticity theory to provide a method that will be uniquely able to determine whether significant deviatoric stresses are recorded by UHPM rocks. By applying this method to samples from carefully selected field areas, I will be able to determine if metamorphic phase equilibria represent the true depths of UHPM, in which case subduction to depths in excess of 90 km must occur. Alternatively, quantitative measurements of large deviatoric stresses could indicate that tectonic over-pressure can account for the observed phase equilibria, thus not requiring deep subduction. If overpressurized domains are present in tectonically thickened lithosphere, they may represent a driving force for stress release leading to earthquakes. The results will provide new constraints on earthquake triggering mechanisms and how the styles of subduction and its detailed mechanisms have evolved over Earth’s history.
Subduction of one tectonic plate below another is the primary cause of catastrophic geological events such as earthquakes and explosive volcanism that directly impact thousands of kilometers of coastal and mountain areas located on convergent margins. Real-time geophysical or seismic data only provide static snapshots of these subduction zones today. Therefore, quantitative understanding of the rates and true depths of subduction can only be achieved by determining the pressure-temperature-time-depth histories of Ultra-High-Pressure Metamorphic (UHPM) rocks that have been subducted to pressures greater than 3 GPa and subsequently exhumed. Conventional mineral thermo-barometry is severely challenged in UHPM terraines and thus the mechanisms attending the downwards transport of crustal material, and its return back to the Earth’s surface (exhumation), are still a matter of vigorous debate. The TRUE DEPTHS project will develop X-ray diffraction analysis of the anisotropic elastic interactions of inclusion minerals trapped inside host minerals. I will develop non-linear elasticity theory to provide a method that will be uniquely able to determine whether significant deviatoric stresses are recorded by UHPM rocks. By applying this method to samples from carefully selected field areas, I will be able to determine if metamorphic phase equilibria represent the true depths of UHPM, in which case subduction to depths in excess of 90 km must occur. Alternatively, quantitative measurements of large deviatoric stresses could indicate that tectonic over-pressure can account for the observed phase equilibria, thus not requiring deep subduction. If overpressurized domains are present in tectonically thickened lithosphere, they may represent a driving force for stress release leading to earthquakes. The results will provide new constraints on earthquake triggering mechanisms and how the styles of subduction and its detailed mechanisms have evolved over Earth’s history.
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Project acronym ABEL
Project "Alpha-helical Barrels: Exploring, Understanding and Exploiting a New Class of Protein Structure"
Researcher (PI) Derek Neil Woolfson
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Summary "Recently through de novo peptide design, we have discovered and presented a new protein structure. This is an all-parallel, 6-helix bundle with a continuous central channel of 0.5 – 0.6 nm diameter. We posit that this is one of a broader class of protein structures that we call the alpha-helical barrels. Here, in three Work Packages, we propose to explore these structures and to develop protein functions within them. First, through a combination of computer-aided design, peptide synthesis and thorough biophysical characterization, we will examine the extents and limits of the alpha-helical-barrel structures. Whilst this is curiosity driven research, it also has practical consequences for the studies that will follow; that is, alpha-helical barrels made from increasing numbers of helices have channels or pores that increase in a predictable way. Second, we will use rational and empirical design approaches to engineer a range of functions within these cavities, including binding capabilities and enzyme-like activities. Finally, and taking the programme into another ambitious area, we will use the alpha-helical barrels to template other folds that are otherwise difficult to design and engineer, notably beta-barrels that insert into membranes to render ion-channel and sensor functions."
"Recently through de novo peptide design, we have discovered and presented a new protein structure. This is an all-parallel, 6-helix bundle with a continuous central channel of 0.5 – 0.6 nm diameter. We posit that this is one of a broader class of protein structures that we call the alpha-helical barrels. Here, in three Work Packages, we propose to explore these structures and to develop protein functions within them. First, through a combination of computer-aided design, peptide synthesis and thorough biophysical characterization, we will examine the extents and limits of the alpha-helical-barrel structures. Whilst this is curiosity driven research, it also has practical consequences for the studies that will follow; that is, alpha-helical barrels made from increasing numbers of helices have channels or pores that increase in a predictable way. Second, we will use rational and empirical design approaches to engineer a range of functions within these cavities, including binding capabilities and enzyme-like activities. Finally, and taking the programme into another ambitious area, we will use the alpha-helical barrels to template other folds that are otherwise difficult to design and engineer, notably beta-barrels that insert into membranes to render ion-channel and sensor functions."
Project acronym ADREEM
Project Adding Another Dimension – Arrays of 3D Bio-Responsive Materials
Researcher (PI) Mark Bradley
Summary This proposal is focused in the areas of chemical medicine and chemical biology with the key drivers being the discovery and development of new materials that have practical functionality and application. The project will enable the fabrication of thousands of three-dimensional “smart-polymers” that will allow: (i). The precise and controlled release of drugs upon the addition of either a small molecule trigger or in response to disease, (ii). The discovery of materials that control and manipulate cells with the identification of scaffolds that provide the necessary biochemical cues for directing cell fate and drive tissue regeneration and (iii). The development of new classes of “smart-polymers” able, in real-time, to sense and report bacterial contamination. The newly discovered materials will find multiple biomedical applications in regenerative medicine and biotechnology ranging from 3D cell culture, bone repair and niche stabilisation to bacterial sensing/removal, while offering a new paradigm in drug delivery with biomarker triggered drug release.
This proposal is focused in the areas of chemical medicine and chemical biology with the key drivers being the discovery and development of new materials that have practical functionality and application. The project will enable the fabrication of thousands of three-dimensional “smart-polymers” that will allow: (i). The precise and controlled release of drugs upon the addition of either a small molecule trigger or in response to disease, (ii). The discovery of materials that control and manipulate cells with the identification of scaffolds that provide the necessary biochemical cues for directing cell fate and drive tissue regeneration and (iii). The development of new classes of “smart-polymers” able, in real-time, to sense and report bacterial contamination. The newly discovered materials will find multiple biomedical applications in regenerative medicine and biotechnology ranging from 3D cell culture, bone repair and niche stabilisation to bacterial sensing/removal, while offering a new paradigm in drug delivery with biomarker triggered drug release.
Project acronym AMAIZE
Project Atlas of leaf growth regulatory networks in MAIZE
Researcher (PI) Dirk, Gustaaf Inzé
Summary "Understanding how organisms regulate size is one of the most fascinating open questions in biology. The aim of the AMAIZE project is to unravel how growth of maize leaves is controlled. Maize leaf development offers great opportunities to study the dynamics of growth regulatory networks, essentially because leaf development is a linear system with cell division at the leaf basis followed by cell expansion and maturation. Furthermore, the growth zone is relatively large allowing easy access of tissues at different positions. Four different perturbations of maize leaf size will be analyzed with cellular resolution: wild-type and plants having larger leaves (as a consequence of GA20OX1 overexpression), both grown under either well-watered or mild drought conditions. Firstly, a 3D cellular map of the growth zone of the fourth leaf will be made. RNA-SEQ of three different tissues (adaxial- and abaxial epidermis; mesophyll) obtained by laser dissection with an interval of 2.5 mm along the growth zone will allow for the analysis of the transcriptome with high resolution. Additionally, the composition of fifty selected growth regulatory protein complexes and DNA targets of transcription factors will be determined with an interval of 5 mm along the growth zone. Computational methods will be used to construct comprehensive integrative maps of the cellular and molecular processes occurring along the growth zone. Finally, selected regulatory nodes of the growth regulatory networks will be further functionally analyzed using a transactivation system in maize. AMAIZE opens up new perspectives for the identification of optimal growth regulatory networks that can be selected for by advanced breeding or for which more robust variants (e.g. reduced susceptibility to drought) can be obtained through genetic engineering. The ability to improve the growth of maize and in analogy other cereals could have a high impact in providing food security"
"Understanding how organisms regulate size is one of the most fascinating open questions in biology. The aim of the AMAIZE project is to unravel how growth of maize leaves is controlled. Maize leaf development offers great opportunities to study the dynamics of growth regulatory networks, essentially because leaf development is a linear system with cell division at the leaf basis followed by cell expansion and maturation. Furthermore, the growth zone is relatively large allowing easy access of tissues at different positions. Four different perturbations of maize leaf size will be analyzed with cellular resolution: wild-type and plants having larger leaves (as a consequence of GA20OX1 overexpression), both grown under either well-watered or mild drought conditions. Firstly, a 3D cellular map of the growth zone of the fourth leaf will be made. RNA-SEQ of three different tissues (adaxial- and abaxial epidermis; mesophyll) obtained by laser dissection with an interval of 2.5 mm along the growth zone will allow for the analysis of the transcriptome with high resolution. Additionally, the composition of fifty selected growth regulatory protein complexes and DNA targets of transcription factors will be determined with an interval of 5 mm along the growth zone. Computational methods will be used to construct comprehensive integrative maps of the cellular and molecular processes occurring along the growth zone. Finally, selected regulatory nodes of the growth regulatory networks will be further functionally analyzed using a transactivation system in maize. AMAIZE opens up new perspectives for the identification of optimal growth regulatory networks that can be selected for by advanced breeding or for which more robust variants (e.g. reduced susceptibility to drought) can be obtained through genetic engineering. The ability to improve the growth of maize and in analogy other cereals could have a high impact in providing food security"
Project acronym AsthmaVir
Project The roles of innate lymphoid cells and rhinovirus in asthma exacerbations
Researcher (PI) Hergen Spits
Host Institution (HI) ACADEMISCH MEDISCH CENTRUM BIJ DE UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Summary Asthma exacerbations represent a high unmet medical need in particular in young children. Human Rhinoviruses (HRV) are the main triggers of these exacerbations. Till now Th2 cells were considered the main initiating effector cell type in asthma in general and asthma exacerbations in particular. However, exaggerated Th2 cell activities alone do not explain all aspects of asthma and exacerbations. Building on our recent discovery of type 2 human innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) capable of promptly producing high amounts of IL-5, IL-9 and IL-13 upon activation and on mouse data pointing to an essential role of these cells in asthma and asthma exacerbations, ILC2 may be the main initiating cells in asthma exacerbations in humans. Thus we hypothesize that HRV directly or indirectly stimulate ILC2s to produce cytokines driving the effector functions leading to the end organ effects that characterize this debilitating disease. Targeting ILC2 and HRV in parallel will provide a highly attractive therapeutic option for the treatment of asthma exacerbations. In depth study of the mechanisms of ILC2 differentiation and function will lead to the design effective drugs targeting these cells; thus the first two objectives of this project are: 1) To unravel the lineage relationship of ILC populations and to decipher the signal transduction pathways that regulate the function of ILCs, 2) to test the functions of lung-residing human ILCs and the effects of compounds that affect these functions in mice which harbour a human immune system and human lung epithelium under homeostatic conditions and after infections with respiratory viruses. The third objective of this project is developing reagents that target HRV; to this end we will develop broadly reacting highly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies that can be used for prophylaxis and therapy of patients at high risk for developing severe asthma exacerbations.
Asthma exacerbations represent a high unmet medical need in particular in young children. Human Rhinoviruses (HRV) are the main triggers of these exacerbations. Till now Th2 cells were considered the main initiating effector cell type in asthma in general and asthma exacerbations in particular. However, exaggerated Th2 cell activities alone do not explain all aspects of asthma and exacerbations. Building on our recent discovery of type 2 human innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) capable of promptly producing high amounts of IL-5, IL-9 and IL-13 upon activation and on mouse data pointing to an essential role of these cells in asthma and asthma exacerbations, ILC2 may be the main initiating cells in asthma exacerbations in humans. Thus we hypothesize that HRV directly or indirectly stimulate ILC2s to produce cytokines driving the effector functions leading to the end organ effects that characterize this debilitating disease. Targeting ILC2 and HRV in parallel will provide a highly attractive therapeutic option for the treatment of asthma exacerbations. In depth study of the mechanisms of ILC2 differentiation and function will lead to the design effective drugs targeting these cells; thus the first two objectives of this project are: 1) To unravel the lineage relationship of ILC populations and to decipher the signal transduction pathways that regulate the function of ILCs, 2) to test the functions of lung-residing human ILCs and the effects of compounds that affect these functions in mice which harbour a human immune system and human lung epithelium under homeostatic conditions and after infections with respiratory viruses. The third objective of this project is developing reagents that target HRV; to this end we will develop broadly reacting highly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies that can be used for prophylaxis and therapy of patients at high risk for developing severe asthma exacerbations.
Project acronym BacRafts
Project Architecture of bacterial lipid rafts; inhibition of virulence and antibiotic resistance using raft-disassembling small molecules
Researcher (PI) Daniel López Serrano
Summary Membranes of eukaryotic cells organize signal transduction proteins into microdomains or lipid rafts whose integrity is essential for numerous cellular processes. Lipid rafts has been considered a fundamental step to define the cellular complexity of eukaryotes, assuming that bacteria do not require such a sophisticated organization of their signaling networks. However, I have discovered that bacteria organize many signaling pathways in membrane microdomains similar to the eukaryotic lipid rafts. Perturbation of bacterial lipid rafts leads to a potent and simultaneous impairment of all raft-harbored signaling pathways. Consequently, the disassembly of lipid rafts in pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus generates a simultaneous inhibition of numerous infection-related processes that can be further explored to control bacterial infections. This unexpected sophistication in membrane organization is unprecedented in bacteria and hence, this proposal will explore the molecular basis of the assembly of bacterial lipid rafts and their role in the infection-related processes. These questions will be addressed in three main goals: First, I will elucidate the molecular components and the mechanism of assembly of bacterial lipid rafts using S. aureus as model organism. Second, I will dissect the molecular basis that links the functionality of the infection-related processes to the integrity of bacterial lipid rafts. Third, my collection of anti-raft small molecules that are able to disrupt lipid rafts will be tested as antimicrobial agents to prevent hospital-acquired infections, abrogate pre-existing infections and develop bacteria-free materials that can be used in clinical settings. I will use a number of molecular approaches in combination with cutting-edge techniques in flow cytometry, cell-imaging and transcriptomics to clarify the architecture and functionality of lipid rafts and demonstrate the feasibility of targeting lipid a new strategy for anti-microbial therapy.
Membranes of eukaryotic cells organize signal transduction proteins into microdomains or lipid rafts whose integrity is essential for numerous cellular processes. Lipid rafts has been considered a fundamental step to define the cellular complexity of eukaryotes, assuming that bacteria do not require such a sophisticated organization of their signaling networks. However, I have discovered that bacteria organize many signaling pathways in membrane microdomains similar to the eukaryotic lipid rafts. Perturbation of bacterial lipid rafts leads to a potent and simultaneous impairment of all raft-harbored signaling pathways. Consequently, the disassembly of lipid rafts in pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus generates a simultaneous inhibition of numerous infection-related processes that can be further explored to control bacterial infections. This unexpected sophistication in membrane organization is unprecedented in bacteria and hence, this proposal will explore the molecular basis of the assembly of bacterial lipid rafts and their role in the infection-related processes. These questions will be addressed in three main goals: First, I will elucidate the molecular components and the mechanism of assembly of bacterial lipid rafts using S. aureus as model organism. Second, I will dissect the molecular basis that links the functionality of the infection-related processes to the integrity of bacterial lipid rafts. Third, my collection of anti-raft small molecules that are able to disrupt lipid rafts will be tested as antimicrobial agents to prevent hospital-acquired infections, abrogate pre-existing infections and develop bacteria-free materials that can be used in clinical settings. I will use a number of molecular approaches in combination with cutting-edge techniques in flow cytometry, cell-imaging and transcriptomics to clarify the architecture and functionality of lipid rafts and demonstrate the feasibility of targeting lipid a new strategy for anti-microbial therapy.
Project acronym BACTERIAL RESPONSE
Project New Concepts in Bacterial Response to their Surroundings
Researcher (PI) Sigal Ben-Yehuda
Host Institution (HI) THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Summary Bacteria in nature exhibit remarkable capacity to sense their surroundings and rapidly adapt to diverse conditions by gaining new beneficial traits. This extraordinary feature facilitates their survival when facing extreme environments. Utilizing Bacillus subtilis as our primary model organism, we propose to study two facets of this vital bacterial attribute: communication via extracellular nanotubes, and persistence as resilient spores while maintaining the potential to revive. Exploring these fascinating aspects of bacterial physiology is likely to change our view as to how bacteria sense, respond, endure and communicate with their extracellular environment. We have recently discovered a previously uncharacterized mode of bacterial communication, mediated by tubular extensions (nanotubes) that bridge neighboring cells, providing a route for exchange of intracellular molecules. Nanotube-mediated molecular sharing may represent a key form of bacterial communication in nature, allowing for the emergence of new phenotypes and increasing survival in fluctuating environments. Here we propose to develop strategies for observing nanotube formation and molecular exchange in living bacterial cells, and to characterize the molecular composition of nanotubes. We will explore the premise that nanotubes serve as a strategy to expand the cell surface, and will determine whether nanotubes provide a conduit for phage infection and spreading. Furthermore, the formation and functionality of interspecies nanotubes will be explored. An additional mode employed by bacteria to achieve extreme robustness is the ability to reside as long lasting spores. Previously held views considered the spore to be dormant and metabolically inert. However, we have recently shown that at least one week following spore formation, during an adaptive period, the spore senses and responds to environmental cues and undergoes corresponding molecular changes, influencing subsequent emergence from quiescence.
Bacteria in nature exhibit remarkable capacity to sense their surroundings and rapidly adapt to diverse conditions by gaining new beneficial traits. This extraordinary feature facilitates their survival when facing extreme environments. Utilizing Bacillus subtilis as our primary model organism, we propose to study two facets of this vital bacterial attribute: communication via extracellular nanotubes, and persistence as resilient spores while maintaining the potential to revive. Exploring these fascinating aspects of bacterial physiology is likely to change our view as to how bacteria sense, respond, endure and communicate with their extracellular environment. We have recently discovered a previously uncharacterized mode of bacterial communication, mediated by tubular extensions (nanotubes) that bridge neighboring cells, providing a route for exchange of intracellular molecules. Nanotube-mediated molecular sharing may represent a key form of bacterial communication in nature, allowing for the emergence of new phenotypes and increasing survival in fluctuating environments. Here we propose to develop strategies for observing nanotube formation and molecular exchange in living bacterial cells, and to characterize the molecular composition of nanotubes. We will explore the premise that nanotubes serve as a strategy to expand the cell surface, and will determine whether nanotubes provide a conduit for phage infection and spreading. Furthermore, the formation and functionality of interspecies nanotubes will be explored. An additional mode employed by bacteria to achieve extreme robustness is the ability to reside as long lasting spores. Previously held views considered the spore to be dormant and metabolically inert. However, we have recently shown that at least one week following spore formation, during an adaptive period, the spore senses and responds to environmental cues and undergoes corresponding molecular changes, influencing subsequent emergence from quiescence.
Project acronym Danger ATP
Project Regulation of inflammatory response by extracellular ATP and P2X7 receptor signalling: through and beyond the inflammasome
Researcher (PI) Pablo Pelegrin Vivancos
Host Institution (HI) FUNDACION PARA LA FORMACION E INVESTIGACION SANITARIAS DE LA REGION DE MURCIA
Summary Inflammatory diseases affect over 80 million people worldwide and accompany many diseases of industrialized countries, being the majority of them infection-free conditions. There are few efficient anti-inflammatory drugs to treat chronic inflammation and thus, there is an urgent need to validate novel targets. We now know that innate immunity is the main coordinator and driver of inflammation. Recently, we and others have shown that the activation of purinergic P2X7 receptors (P2X7R) in immune cells is a novel and increasingly validated pathway to initiate inflammation through the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and the release of IL-1β and IL-18 cytokines. However, how NLRP3 sense P2X7R activation is not fully understood. Furthermore, extracellular ATP, the physiological P2X7R agonist, is a crucial danger signal released by injured cells, and one of the most important mediators of infection-free inflammation. We have also identified novel signalling roles for P2X7R independent on the NLRP3 inflammasome, including the release of proteases or inflammatory lipids. Therefore, P2X7R has generated increasing interest as a therapeutic target in inflammatory diseases, being drug like P2X7R antagonist in clinical trials to treat inflammatory diseases. However, it is often questioned the functionality of P2X7R in vivo, where it is thought that extracellular ATP levels are below the threshold to activate P2X7R. The overall significance of this proposal relays to elucidate how extracellular ATP controls host-defence in vivo, ultimately depicting P2X7R signalling through and beyond inflammasome activation. We foresee that our results will generate a leading innovative knowledge about in vivo extracellular ATP signalling during the host response to infection and sterile danger.
Inflammatory diseases affect over 80 million people worldwide and accompany many diseases of industrialized countries, being the majority of them infection-free conditions. There are few efficient anti-inflammatory drugs to treat chronic inflammation and thus, there is an urgent need to validate novel targets. We now know that innate immunity is the main coordinator and driver of inflammation. Recently, we and others have shown that the activation of purinergic P2X7 receptors (P2X7R) in immune cells is a novel and increasingly validated pathway to initiate inflammation through the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and the release of IL-1β and IL-18 cytokines. However, how NLRP3 sense P2X7R activation is not fully understood. Furthermore, extracellular ATP, the physiological P2X7R agonist, is a crucial danger signal released by injured cells, and one of the most important mediators of infection-free inflammation. We have also identified novel signalling roles for P2X7R independent on the NLRP3 inflammasome, including the release of proteases or inflammatory lipids. Therefore, P2X7R has generated increasing interest as a therapeutic target in inflammatory diseases, being drug like P2X7R antagonist in clinical trials to treat inflammatory diseases. However, it is often questioned the functionality of P2X7R in vivo, where it is thought that extracellular ATP levels are below the threshold to activate P2X7R. The overall significance of this proposal relays to elucidate how extracellular ATP controls host-defence in vivo, ultimately depicting P2X7R signalling through and beyond inflammasome activation. We foresee that our results will generate a leading innovative knowledge about in vivo extracellular ATP signalling during the host response to infection and sterile danger.
Project acronym DARKSIDE
Project Harnessing the Dark Side of Protein Folding: Manipulating Aggregation for Recombinant Protein Production
Researcher (PI) Daniel Kaganovich
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN GOETTINGEN - GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAET GOETTINGEN - STIFTUNG OEFFENTLICHEN RECHTS
Summary Nearly all desirable biological activities, whether for the purposes of nutrition, pharmacology, biofuel production, or waste disposal, can be carried out by proteins. Nature has furnished a vast array of bioactive and biocatalytic tools, and with the advent of rational protein design nearly any imaginable bioactivity is at our fingertips. There is, therefore, a pressing need for cost-effective, safe, and easily scalable strategies for generating Recombinant Proteins (rProteins). The main bottleneck for mass-producing a whole host of valuable biologically active rProteins is the difficulty of recovering functional proteins from expression hosts. This difficulty stems largely from the lack of sufficient know-how for manipulating protein biogenesis in the cell. The key component of protein biology, whether in the context of rProtein production or cell viability, is enabling a protein to achieve its proper folding state. Most proteins do not fold on their own – they require the assistance of a vast network of folding managers, or chaperones. The cellular chaperone machinery not only assists protein folding, it also carries out quality control, ensuring that proteins that are damaged or unable to fold for other reasons are properly disposed of through degradation or protective aggregation. The aim of this proposal is to understand the protein biosynthetic pathway in sufficient detail, so as to be able to manipulate its overall function. My eventual goal is to exert control over folding and aggregation in order to produce higher yields of functional rProteins in eukaryotes. The biotechnological strategy will consist of: 1. Manipulating aggregation to remove damaged endogenous proteins from the folding proteome, thus diverting more resources to the folding of rProteins; 2. Manipulating the allocation of cellular chaperone resources between folding, degradation, and aggregation; 3. Utilizing aggregates to produce substantially higher amounts of functional rProteins.
Nearly all desirable biological activities, whether for the purposes of nutrition, pharmacology, biofuel production, or waste disposal, can be carried out by proteins. Nature has furnished a vast array of bioactive and biocatalytic tools, and with the advent of rational protein design nearly any imaginable bioactivity is at our fingertips. There is, therefore, a pressing need for cost-effective, safe, and easily scalable strategies for generating Recombinant Proteins (rProteins). The main bottleneck for mass-producing a whole host of valuable biologically active rProteins is the difficulty of recovering functional proteins from expression hosts. This difficulty stems largely from the lack of sufficient know-how for manipulating protein biogenesis in the cell. The key component of protein biology, whether in the context of rProtein production or cell viability, is enabling a protein to achieve its proper folding state. Most proteins do not fold on their own – they require the assistance of a vast network of folding managers, or chaperones. The cellular chaperone machinery not only assists protein folding, it also carries out quality control, ensuring that proteins that are damaged or unable to fold for other reasons are properly disposed of through degradation or protective aggregation. The aim of this proposal is to understand the protein biosynthetic pathway in sufficient detail, so as to be able to manipulate its overall function. My eventual goal is to exert control over folding and aggregation in order to produce higher yields of functional rProteins in eukaryotes. The biotechnological strategy will consist of: 1. Manipulating aggregation to remove damaged endogenous proteins from the folding proteome, thus diverting more resources to the folding of rProteins; 2. Manipulating the allocation of cellular chaperone resources between folding, degradation, and aggregation; 3. Utilizing aggregates to produce substantially higher amounts of functional rProteins.
Project acronym DCBIOX
Project Phagosome functions and antigen cross presentation in primary dendritic cells
Researcher (PI) Sebastian Amigorena
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUT CURIE
Summary T cell cross priming (the initiation of CD8+ T cell responses to antigen that are not expressed by dendritic cells, DCs) requires the phagocytosis of antigens by DCs and their presentation on MHC class I molecules, a process referred to as “cross presentation”. Here, we propose a series of integrated approaches to address the most fundamental mechanisms of cross presentation and explore the use of this process for translational purposes in human cancer. This proposal will pursue three main objectives: 1) To analyze the mechanisms of control of antigen cross presentation and phagocytic functions in DCs. We will use genome wide screens and conditional KO mice, associated to quantitative assays for phagosomal functions and cross presentation, to investigate the molecular mechanisms of cross presentation in vitro and in vivo. 2) To study the epigenetic programing of cross presentation during the ontogeny of mouse DC subpopulations. We will define a “cross presentation gene signature” that will be validated by systematic gene silencing in vitro and we will analyze the epigenetic basis of control of cross presentation-related genes developing DCs. 3) To investigate the regulation of cross presentation in human primary DCs and to develop translational approaches in cancer. We will study cross presentation and phagosome functions in primary human DC subpopulations and its regulation by innate receptors for the development of original immunomodulation and vaccination strategies. We will explore the use of DCs cross presentation abilities in solid tumor infiltrating DCs and their use for prognosis in cancer. The results of this project will unravel fundamental mechanisms of phagocytosis and its control by innate signals in mice and humans. The proposal also aims at defining new possible strategies for cancer treatment and prognosis.
T cell cross priming (the initiation of CD8+ T cell responses to antigen that are not expressed by dendritic cells, DCs) requires the phagocytosis of antigens by DCs and their presentation on MHC class I molecules, a process referred to as “cross presentation”. Here, we propose a series of integrated approaches to address the most fundamental mechanisms of cross presentation and explore the use of this process for translational purposes in human cancer. This proposal will pursue three main objectives: 1) To analyze the mechanisms of control of antigen cross presentation and phagocytic functions in DCs. We will use genome wide screens and conditional KO mice, associated to quantitative assays for phagosomal functions and cross presentation, to investigate the molecular mechanisms of cross presentation in vitro and in vivo. 2) To study the epigenetic programing of cross presentation during the ontogeny of mouse DC subpopulations. We will define a “cross presentation gene signature” that will be validated by systematic gene silencing in vitro and we will analyze the epigenetic basis of control of cross presentation-related genes developing DCs. 3) To investigate the regulation of cross presentation in human primary DCs and to develop translational approaches in cancer. We will study cross presentation and phagosome functions in primary human DC subpopulations and its regulation by innate receptors for the development of original immunomodulation and vaccination strategies. We will explore the use of DCs cross presentation abilities in solid tumor infiltrating DCs and their use for prognosis in cancer. The results of this project will unravel fundamental mechanisms of phagocytosis and its control by innate signals in mice and humans. The proposal also aims at defining new possible strategies for cancer treatment and prognosis.
Project acronym DECRYPT
Project Decrypting signals in the crypt
Researcher (PI) Philippe, Joseph Sansonetti
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUT PASTEUR
Summary Pathogens and symbionts: War and Peace at mucosal surface in intestinal crypts. In the proposed program called DECRYPT, I wish to strengthen novel orientations of our laboratory aimed at decrypting the dialogue between the microbiota and the host, while keeping a balance with the study of pathogens, both being analyzed at their interface with the gut mucosa to further our knowledge of the homeostatic and pathogenic mechanisms that respectively characterize a healthy and a diseased gut. The intestinal crypt is a key location to study this dialogue because it contains the stem cells, the differentiation and transit amplifying/proliferative compartments that are essential for epithelial regeneration at homeostasis, and restitution following an aggression. It is also embedded in a niche of immune cells that participate in homeostatic and pathological processes under microbial stimuli. Thus the breaking nature of my project will bear on the demonstration that crypt homeostasis depends on signals “emitted” by the microbiota, thereby stressing the depth of our symbiosis with the microbial world, and on the demonstration that the crypt is also the target of enteric pathogens like Shigella, thus introducing the novel paradigm that pathogenesis is not only matter of inflammatory destruction of infected tissues, but also of altered epithelial restitution. An extension of this paradigm is that loss or subversion of the microbiota-crypt homeostasis may account not only for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), but also for colon cancer. This fundamental knowledge will also be the basis for translational research, particularly the search for molecules that boost antimicrobial defenses and comfort homeostasis. In summary, I propose a balanced combination between the “cellular microbiology of pathogens” and the “cellular microbiology of symbionts”.
Pathogens and symbionts: War and Peace at mucosal surface in intestinal crypts. In the proposed program called DECRYPT, I wish to strengthen novel orientations of our laboratory aimed at decrypting the dialogue between the microbiota and the host, while keeping a balance with the study of pathogens, both being analyzed at their interface with the gut mucosa to further our knowledge of the homeostatic and pathogenic mechanisms that respectively characterize a healthy and a diseased gut. The intestinal crypt is a key location to study this dialogue because it contains the stem cells, the differentiation and transit amplifying/proliferative compartments that are essential for epithelial regeneration at homeostasis, and restitution following an aggression. It is also embedded in a niche of immune cells that participate in homeostatic and pathological processes under microbial stimuli. Thus the breaking nature of my project will bear on the demonstration that crypt homeostasis depends on signals “emitted” by the microbiota, thereby stressing the depth of our symbiosis with the microbial world, and on the demonstration that the crypt is also the target of enteric pathogens like Shigella, thus introducing the novel paradigm that pathogenesis is not only matter of inflammatory destruction of infected tissues, but also of altered epithelial restitution. An extension of this paradigm is that loss or subversion of the microbiota-crypt homeostasis may account not only for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), but also for colon cancer. This fundamental knowledge will also be the basis for translational research, particularly the search for molecules that boost antimicrobial defenses and comfort homeostasis. In summary, I propose a balanced combination between the “cellular microbiology of pathogens” and the “cellular microbiology of symbionts”.
Project acronym EvoEPIGEN
Project Evolved Replication Systems for Epigenetics
Researcher (PI) Andreas Marx
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ
Summary Cells have a broad functional and morphological diversity due to differential gene expression. Research in epigenetics combines the study of inheritable, phenotypical changes in the gene expression pattern of a specific cell type that are not caused by a transformed nucleotide sequence of the genetic code itself. Epigenetic marks are represented by a variety of molecular mechanisms including DNA methylation. Alterations of DNA methylation play a crucial role in the onset of diseases like cancer. Many DNA methylation-based biomarkers have been evaluated and the analysis of epigenetic alterations is a promising tool for disease diagnostics, prognostics, and prediction of drug response. In future, this will allow to adapt therapies to a person, which will increase the chance for successful treatments, minimizing side-effects of chemotherapy and administration of ineffective drugs and thus, prevent the onset of follow-up problems that are associated with these events. Thus, cost-effective but robust means that allow the analysis of DNA methylation-based biomarkers are of urgent need. Several methods for analysis of these biomarkers are employed. However, those that have the required resolution are laborious, time-consuming, and error-prone and thus, prevent broad applications of DNA methylation profiling in clinical diagnostics. The aim of this project is to overcome the barriers that prohibit using DNA methylation profiling in broad clinical applications for diagnostics, prognostics, and prediction of drug response. The objectives will be reached by a multidisciplinary systemic approach harnessing the power of organic synthesis (i.e. new synthetic modified nucleotides), biochemical and structural enzyme studies, and directed evolution of DNA polymerases tailored for new replication systems for epigenetics. The evolved replication systems will be superior to known techniques by superseding the bottle necks of current approaches paving the way for broad applications.
Cells have a broad functional and morphological diversity due to differential gene expression. Research in epigenetics combines the study of inheritable, phenotypical changes in the gene expression pattern of a specific cell type that are not caused by a transformed nucleotide sequence of the genetic code itself. Epigenetic marks are represented by a variety of molecular mechanisms including DNA methylation. Alterations of DNA methylation play a crucial role in the onset of diseases like cancer. Many DNA methylation-based biomarkers have been evaluated and the analysis of epigenetic alterations is a promising tool for disease diagnostics, prognostics, and prediction of drug response. In future, this will allow to adapt therapies to a person, which will increase the chance for successful treatments, minimizing side-effects of chemotherapy and administration of ineffective drugs and thus, prevent the onset of follow-up problems that are associated with these events. Thus, cost-effective but robust means that allow the analysis of DNA methylation-based biomarkers are of urgent need. Several methods for analysis of these biomarkers are employed. However, those that have the required resolution are laborious, time-consuming, and error-prone and thus, prevent broad applications of DNA methylation profiling in clinical diagnostics. The aim of this project is to overcome the barriers that prohibit using DNA methylation profiling in broad clinical applications for diagnostics, prognostics, and prediction of drug response. The objectives will be reached by a multidisciplinary systemic approach harnessing the power of organic synthesis (i.e. new synthetic modified nucleotides), biochemical and structural enzyme studies, and directed evolution of DNA polymerases tailored for new replication systems for epigenetics. The evolved replication systems will be superior to known techniques by superseding the bottle necks of current approaches paving the way for broad applications.
Project acronym FLAMMASEC
Project "Inflammasome-induced IL-1 Secretion: Route, Mechanism, and Cell Fate"
Researcher (PI) Olaf Groß
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG
Summary "Inflammasomes are intracellular danger-sensing protein complexes that are important for host protection. They initiate inflammation by controlling the activity of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Unlike most other cytokines, IL-1β is produced and retained in the cytoplasm in an inactive pro-form. Inflammasome-dependent maturation of proIL-1β is mediated by the common component of all inflammasomes, the protease caspase-1. Caspase-1 also controls the secretion of IL-1β, but the mechanism and route of secretion are unknown. We have recently demonstrated that the ability of caspase-1 to control IL-1β secretion is not dependent on its protease activity, but rather on a scaffold or adapter function of caspase-1. Furthermore, we and others could show that caspase-1 can control the secretion of non-substrates like IL-1α. These insights provide us with new and potentially revealing means to investigate the downstream effector functions of caspase-1, including the route and mechanism of IL-1 secretion. We will develop new tools to study the process of IL-1 secretion by microscopy and the novel mode-of-action of caspase-1 through the generation of transgenic models. Despite the important role of IL-1 in host defence against infection, dysregulated inflammasome activation and IL-1 production has a causal role in a number of acquired and hereditary auto-inflammatory conditions. These include particle-induced sterile inflammation (as is seen in gout and asbestosis), hereditary periodic fever syndromes, and metabolic diseases like diabetes and atherosclerosis. Currently, recombinant proteins that block the IL-1 receptor or deplete secreted IL-1 are used to treat IL-1-dependent diseases. These are costly treatments, and are also therapeutically cumbersome since they are not orally available. We hope that a better understanding of caspase-1-mediated secretion of IL-1 will unveil mechanisms that may serve as targets for future therapies for these diseases."
"Inflammasomes are intracellular danger-sensing protein complexes that are important for host protection. They initiate inflammation by controlling the activity of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Unlike most other cytokines, IL-1β is produced and retained in the cytoplasm in an inactive pro-form. Inflammasome-dependent maturation of proIL-1β is mediated by the common component of all inflammasomes, the protease caspase-1. Caspase-1 also controls the secretion of IL-1β, but the mechanism and route of secretion are unknown. We have recently demonstrated that the ability of caspase-1 to control IL-1β secretion is not dependent on its protease activity, but rather on a scaffold or adapter function of caspase-1. Furthermore, we and others could show that caspase-1 can control the secretion of non-substrates like IL-1α. These insights provide us with new and potentially revealing means to investigate the downstream effector functions of caspase-1, including the route and mechanism of IL-1 secretion. We will develop new tools to study the process of IL-1 secretion by microscopy and the novel mode-of-action of caspase-1 through the generation of transgenic models. Despite the important role of IL-1 in host defence against infection, dysregulated inflammasome activation and IL-1 production has a causal role in a number of acquired and hereditary auto-inflammatory conditions. These include particle-induced sterile inflammation (as is seen in gout and asbestosis), hereditary periodic fever syndromes, and metabolic diseases like diabetes and atherosclerosis. Currently, recombinant proteins that block the IL-1 receptor or deplete secreted IL-1 are used to treat IL-1-dependent diseases. These are costly treatments, and are also therapeutically cumbersome since they are not orally available. We hope that a better understanding of caspase-1-mediated secretion of IL-1 will unveil mechanisms that may serve as targets for future therapies for these diseases."
Project acronym GreenProteases
Project The Proteolytic Machinery of the Plant Apoplast: from Basic Understanding to Improved Recombinant Protein Production
Researcher (PI) Renier Adrianus Leonardus Van Der Hoorn
Host Institution (HI) THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Summary The plant proteolytic machinery involves over 700 proteases that control the (in)activation of proteins. Surprisingly, although every protein is regulated by proteolysis, only very few natural substrates of plant proteases have been identified, and the diverse roles of e.g. secreted proteases are still poorly understood. These questions have become even more urgent since glyco-engineered plants are increasingly used for the production of recombinant proteins (RPs) to produce therapeutic antibodies, enzymes and hormones. Notably, transient expression by infiltrating leaves with Agrobacterium cultures (agroinfiltration) is cheaper, safer, more scalable and faster than any other protein expression system. However, glycosylated RPs are secreted into the apoplast where they are cleaved and degraded by plant proteases, many of which accumulate upon agroinfiltration. Therefore, secreted plant proteases cause heavy yield losses and obstruct the true potential of molecular farming in plants. The aim of this project is to comprehensively understand the roles of proteases in the plant apoplast and to use this knowledge to improve recombinant (glyco)protein production in plants by targeted protease depletion. To achieve this aim, my four objectives are to: 1) identify the major apoplastic proteases and their natural substrates and unravel proteolytic pathways; 2) annotate biological roles to secreted proteases in cellular homeostasis and microbial colonization; 3) understand substrate selection and develop software to predict cleavage sites in apoplastic substrates; 4) improve RP production by targeted (multi)protease depletion. My expertise on secreted plant proteases puts me in an excellent position to develop a model system for proteolysis in plants and solve a key problem in a new, growing industry in Europe. This project will add a new, exciting direction to my research program and connect basic and applied science.
The plant proteolytic machinery involves over 700 proteases that control the (in)activation of proteins. Surprisingly, although every protein is regulated by proteolysis, only very few natural substrates of plant proteases have been identified, and the diverse roles of e.g. secreted proteases are still poorly understood. These questions have become even more urgent since glyco-engineered plants are increasingly used for the production of recombinant proteins (RPs) to produce therapeutic antibodies, enzymes and hormones. Notably, transient expression by infiltrating leaves with Agrobacterium cultures (agroinfiltration) is cheaper, safer, more scalable and faster than any other protein expression system. However, glycosylated RPs are secreted into the apoplast where they are cleaved and degraded by plant proteases, many of which accumulate upon agroinfiltration. Therefore, secreted plant proteases cause heavy yield losses and obstruct the true potential of molecular farming in plants. The aim of this project is to comprehensively understand the roles of proteases in the plant apoplast and to use this knowledge to improve recombinant (glyco)protein production in plants by targeted protease depletion. To achieve this aim, my four objectives are to: 1) identify the major apoplastic proteases and their natural substrates and unravel proteolytic pathways; 2) annotate biological roles to secreted proteases in cellular homeostasis and microbial colonization; 3) understand substrate selection and develop software to predict cleavage sites in apoplastic substrates; 4) improve RP production by targeted (multi)protease depletion. My expertise on secreted plant proteases puts me in an excellent position to develop a model system for proteolysis in plants and solve a key problem in a new, growing industry in Europe. This project will add a new, exciting direction to my research program and connect basic and applied science.
Project acronym HIVINNATE
Project Characterisation and Manipulation of Primate Lentiviral Interactions with Innate Immunity
Researcher (PI) Gregory John Towers
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Summary Our aim is to seek detailed molecular level understanding of the interactions between HIV-1 and innate immune sensors expressed in myeloid cells. We have demonstrated that HIV-1 replicates in primary human macrophages without triggering interferon production. However, by specific mutation of HIV-1 proteins or by manipulating interaction with host cofactors we can reveal the virus to innate immune receptors and activate an antiviral response leading to secretion of soluble type 1 interferon and cessation of replication. We propose to define the sensors and the details of the antiviral pathways that are activated in macrophages using proven RNA interference techniques reading out activation of innate immune responses by measurement of secreted interferon and induction of gene expression. We have also characterised small molecules that potently inhibit HIV-1 by revealing HIV-1 to innate immune sensors. In collaboration with crystallographers and medicinal chemists we aim to improve the potency and specificity of these drugs and to use them to study the anti-HIV-1 innate immune response. DC are sentinels of innate immunity and their infection induced maturation leads to interferon production and DC dependent T cell maturation that defines the nature and potency of the immune response. We will examine the effect of triggering innate responses in DC using HIV-1 mutants/drug treated wild type virus on allogeneic responses, by measurement of T cell proliferation and function and in an ex vivo CD8 T cell killing assays using peripheral blood CD8 cells from HIV‑1 infected patients. In this way we will uncover the molecular details of HIV-1’s interaction with innate immunity and discover how the virus replicates in primary immune cells without detection. This work will make a significant technical and intellectual contribution to an important emerging scientific field focusing on understanding and manipulating the complex relationship between HIV-1 and innate immunity.
Our aim is to seek detailed molecular level understanding of the interactions between HIV-1 and innate immune sensors expressed in myeloid cells. We have demonstrated that HIV-1 replicates in primary human macrophages without triggering interferon production. However, by specific mutation of HIV-1 proteins or by manipulating interaction with host cofactors we can reveal the virus to innate immune receptors and activate an antiviral response leading to secretion of soluble type 1 interferon and cessation of replication. We propose to define the sensors and the details of the antiviral pathways that are activated in macrophages using proven RNA interference techniques reading out activation of innate immune responses by measurement of secreted interferon and induction of gene expression. We have also characterised small molecules that potently inhibit HIV-1 by revealing HIV-1 to innate immune sensors. In collaboration with crystallographers and medicinal chemists we aim to improve the potency and specificity of these drugs and to use them to study the anti-HIV-1 innate immune response. DC are sentinels of innate immunity and their infection induced maturation leads to interferon production and DC dependent T cell maturation that defines the nature and potency of the immune response. We will examine the effect of triggering innate responses in DC using HIV-1 mutants/drug treated wild type virus on allogeneic responses, by measurement of T cell proliferation and function and in an ex vivo CD8 T cell killing assays using peripheral blood CD8 cells from HIV‑1 infected patients. In this way we will uncover the molecular details of HIV-1’s interaction with innate immunity and discover how the virus replicates in primary immune cells without detection. This work will make a significant technical and intellectual contribution to an important emerging scientific field focusing on understanding and manipulating the complex relationship between HIV-1 and innate immunity.
Project acronym HNAEPISOME
Project Directed evolution of a synthetic episome based on hexitol nucleic acids (HNA)
Researcher (PI) Vitor Bernardo Bernardes Pinheiro
Summary A long term goal of synthetic biology is the assembly of a cell from its individual components. A genetic element based on synthetic nucleic acids capable of stable propagation, a synthetic episome, is the minimal genetic element required for the systematic development of all cellular components of a synthetic organism based on artificial nucleic acids. Recent progress in DNA polymerase engineering has successfully isolated variants with expanded substrate spectra capable of efficiently synthesising hexitol nucleic acids (HNA) from DNA templates, and capable of synthesising DNA from HNA templates. Together, they demonstrate that HNA can serve as a genetic material. However, the unavoidable DNA intermediate in HNA replication and their limited processivity greatly limit the potential of these polymerases for the development of an HNA episome. To establish an HNA episome, processive HNA-directed HNA polymerases as well as accessory proteins to support episome maintenance and replication are required. The bacteriophage phi29 requires only four proteins (including polymerase, terminal protein, single-stranded and double-stranded DNA binding proteins) and two DNA elements (origin of replication and high affinity sites for its double-stranded DNA binding protein) to replicate and maintain its linear genome, making it a suitable starting point for the development of an HNA episome. We propose to develop novel in vitro selection methodologies that will allow the directed evolution of a minimal HNA episome based on the phi29 system – including the isolation of an HNA-dependent HNA polymerase, a modified terminal protein and single-stranded as well as double-stranded HNA binding proteins. In addition to being a landmark result in synthetic biology, such HNA episome can form the basis of safer genetically modified organisms, in which the traits are encoded outside biology in an HNA episome dependent on the continued supply of artificial substrates for its maintenance.
A long term goal of synthetic biology is the assembly of a cell from its individual components. A genetic element based on synthetic nucleic acids capable of stable propagation, a synthetic episome, is the minimal genetic element required for the systematic development of all cellular components of a synthetic organism based on artificial nucleic acids. Recent progress in DNA polymerase engineering has successfully isolated variants with expanded substrate spectra capable of efficiently synthesising hexitol nucleic acids (HNA) from DNA templates, and capable of synthesising DNA from HNA templates. Together, they demonstrate that HNA can serve as a genetic material. However, the unavoidable DNA intermediate in HNA replication and their limited processivity greatly limit the potential of these polymerases for the development of an HNA episome. To establish an HNA episome, processive HNA-directed HNA polymerases as well as accessory proteins to support episome maintenance and replication are required. The bacteriophage phi29 requires only four proteins (including polymerase, terminal protein, single-stranded and double-stranded DNA binding proteins) and two DNA elements (origin of replication and high affinity sites for its double-stranded DNA binding protein) to replicate and maintain its linear genome, making it a suitable starting point for the development of an HNA episome. We propose to develop novel in vitro selection methodologies that will allow the directed evolution of a minimal HNA episome based on the phi29 system – including the isolation of an HNA-dependent HNA polymerase, a modified terminal protein and single-stranded as well as double-stranded HNA binding proteins. In addition to being a landmark result in synthetic biology, such HNA episome can form the basis of safer genetically modified organisms, in which the traits are encoded outside biology in an HNA episome dependent on the continued supply of artificial substrates for its maintenance.
Project acronym HOMEOGUT
Project Immune mechanisms that control the homeostasis of the gut and that are deregulated in intestinal pathologies cancer
Researcher (PI) Maria Rescigno
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Summary This project stems from an ERC STG grant that I received in 2007 (DENDROworld) in which we analyzed several aspects of the homeostasis of the gut and how defects in controlling this process could result in different pathologies, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and cancer. In the present project, we will continue working on the immune homeostasis of the gut and we will focus on fundamental questions in mucosal immunity. Three important and novel questions will be addressed in this project. The first aims at understanding how the gut microbiota is restrained from reaching systemic sites and hence it is tolerated only locally. We think that we have identified a new barrier at mucosal sites that avoids systemic spreading of bacteria via the blood stream. This is a very selective barrier that resembles the blood brain barrier and occurs at the level of enteric endothelial cells. The second question is closely related and tries to identify the role of the microbiota in the establishment/maintenance of this barrier and to understand its role during infection with enteric pathogens or in other circumstances (like pregnancy, liver disease). Finally, we want to characterize the activity of an anti-inflammatory mediator that we have identified. This is a short isoform of the well-known cytokine called TSLP. We think that this isoform is the one involved in the homeostasis of the intestine as it is the only one produced by epithelial cells in health and is downregulated during chronic inflammation. This project is divided into three major aims. 1. Analysis of a putative gut vascular barrier that resembles the blood brain barrier and of the mechanisms leading to its disruption 2. Analysis of the role of the microbiota in the formation and maintenance of the Gut vascular barrier (GVB). 3. Elucidation of the activity of TSLP short isoform. This is a multidisciplinary project requiring expertise in mucosal immunology, microbiology, bioinformatics and endothelium.
This project stems from an ERC STG grant that I received in 2007 (DENDROworld) in which we analyzed several aspects of the homeostasis of the gut and how defects in controlling this process could result in different pathologies, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and cancer. In the present project, we will continue working on the immune homeostasis of the gut and we will focus on fundamental questions in mucosal immunity. Three important and novel questions will be addressed in this project. The first aims at understanding how the gut microbiota is restrained from reaching systemic sites and hence it is tolerated only locally. We think that we have identified a new barrier at mucosal sites that avoids systemic spreading of bacteria via the blood stream. This is a very selective barrier that resembles the blood brain barrier and occurs at the level of enteric endothelial cells. The second question is closely related and tries to identify the role of the microbiota in the establishment/maintenance of this barrier and to understand its role during infection with enteric pathogens or in other circumstances (like pregnancy, liver disease). Finally, we want to characterize the activity of an anti-inflammatory mediator that we have identified. This is a short isoform of the well-known cytokine called TSLP. We think that this isoform is the one involved in the homeostasis of the intestine as it is the only one produced by epithelial cells in health and is downregulated during chronic inflammation. This project is divided into three major aims. 1. Analysis of a putative gut vascular barrier that resembles the blood brain barrier and of the mechanisms leading to its disruption 2. Analysis of the role of the microbiota in the formation and maintenance of the Gut vascular barrier (GVB). 3. Elucidation of the activity of TSLP short isoform. This is a multidisciplinary project requiring expertise in mucosal immunology, microbiology, bioinformatics and endothelium.
Project acronym HostingTOXO
Project Toxoplasma gondii secretes an armada of effector proteins to co-opt its host cell transcriptome and microRNome to promote sustained parasitism
Researcher (PI) Mohamed-Ali Hakimi
Summary Toxoplasma gondii is a widespread obligate intracellular protozoan parasite causing toxoplasmosis, a severe disease in immunocompromised or congenitally infected humans. It can infect any type of nucleated cells and grow inside a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) from where it directs profound changes in their transcriptome, proteome and microRNome. During invasion and creation of the PV membrane, apically oriented organelles called micronemes and rhoptries are discharged, followed later by release of dense granules content (DG). Recent advances have highlighted few strain-specific parasite effectors released from the rhoptry into the host cells where they neutralize cell autonomous immunity defences or subvert the host cell transcriptome thereby governing the fate of immune response and disease outcomes. Considering the magnitude of the repertoire of mRNA- and microRNA-encoding genes that is differentially regulated in host cells, it seems certain that other critical rhoptry- and DG-resident proteins that interact with host signaling pathways await discovery. By integrating diverse genomic-scale analyses and using reverse genetic, we identify novel DG proteins that are singularly exported beyond the tachyzoites-hosting PV to the host cell nucleus, thus extending the scope of the function of DG proteins beyond their dedicated role in vacuole formation. This collection of novel parasite effectors will be invaluable towards our goal of understanding how T. gondii actively remodels the genome expression of its hosting cell with profound and coupled impact on both parasite developmental process and the host immune response. We propose i) to characterize thoroughly the function of novel effector proteins secreted by T. gondii and ii) to explore how their synergistic or antagonist effects on host gene regulation contribute to promote sustained parasitism. An original line of research will be dedicated to determine by which means T. gondii re-programs the host microRNome.
Toxoplasma gondii is a widespread obligate intracellular protozoan parasite causing toxoplasmosis, a severe disease in immunocompromised or congenitally infected humans. It can infect any type of nucleated cells and grow inside a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) from where it directs profound changes in their transcriptome, proteome and microRNome. During invasion and creation of the PV membrane, apically oriented organelles called micronemes and rhoptries are discharged, followed later by release of dense granules content (DG). Recent advances have highlighted few strain-specific parasite effectors released from the rhoptry into the host cells where they neutralize cell autonomous immunity defences or subvert the host cell transcriptome thereby governing the fate of immune response and disease outcomes. Considering the magnitude of the repertoire of mRNA- and microRNA-encoding genes that is differentially regulated in host cells, it seems certain that other critical rhoptry- and DG-resident proteins that interact with host signaling pathways await discovery. By integrating diverse genomic-scale analyses and using reverse genetic, we identify novel DG proteins that are singularly exported beyond the tachyzoites-hosting PV to the host cell nucleus, thus extending the scope of the function of DG proteins beyond their dedicated role in vacuole formation. This collection of novel parasite effectors will be invaluable towards our goal of understanding how T. gondii actively remodels the genome expression of its hosting cell with profound and coupled impact on both parasite developmental process and the host immune response. We propose i) to characterize thoroughly the function of novel effector proteins secreted by T. gondii and ii) to explore how their synergistic or antagonist effects on host gene regulation contribute to promote sustained parasitism. An original line of research will be dedicated to determine by which means T. gondii re-programs the host microRNome.
Project acronym HumAntiViruses
Project Human Antibody Responses to Viruses
Researcher (PI) Hugo Denis Misaël Bernard Mouquet
Summary In addition to polyreactive “natural antibodies” that act as the first line of defense against invading pathogens, “humoral memory” is composed of high affinity antibodies that mediate long-lived immunity against infectious agents, e.g., providing protection against re-infection. The molecular dissection of anti-pathogen B-cell responses using modern technologies to generate specific monoclonal antibodies allowed breakthrough discoveries on antiviral responses to Influenza and HIV. The goal of this proposal is to study memory B-cell antibody responses to human pathogens, especially viruses, by generating and characterizing envelope specific antibodies from infected patients. I propose three aims to address what I believe to be some of the most exciting questions in the field of antiviral B-cell immunity. I propose to study: (i) the development and dynamics of memory B-cell responses to HIV; (ii) the mucosal antibody response to HIV; (iii) the memory B-cell response to Chikungunya virus. The antibodies that will be produced may be of therapeutic interest, but more importantly, their characterization will lead to a better understanding of human antibody responses to infectious agents, and may uncover candidate immunogens for vaccine development.
In addition to polyreactive “natural antibodies” that act as the first line of defense against invading pathogens, “humoral memory” is composed of high affinity antibodies that mediate long-lived immunity against infectious agents, e.g., providing protection against re-infection. The molecular dissection of anti-pathogen B-cell responses using modern technologies to generate specific monoclonal antibodies allowed breakthrough discoveries on antiviral responses to Influenza and HIV. The goal of this proposal is to study memory B-cell antibody responses to human pathogens, especially viruses, by generating and characterizing envelope specific antibodies from infected patients. I propose three aims to address what I believe to be some of the most exciting questions in the field of antiviral B-cell immunity. I propose to study: (i) the development and dynamics of memory B-cell responses to HIV; (ii) the mucosal antibody response to HIV; (iii) the memory B-cell response to Chikungunya virus. The antibodies that will be produced may be of therapeutic interest, but more importantly, their characterization will lead to a better understanding of human antibody responses to infectious agents, and may uncover candidate immunogens for vaccine development.
Project acronym HyLife
Project Exploiting hybrids between annual and perennial plant species to identify genes conferring agronomically important traits
Researcher (PI) George Michael Coupland
Host Institution (HI) MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Summary Flowering plants exhibit a variety of different life cycles. This variation contributes in nature to adaptation to diverse environments and in agriculture to optimising crop yield. Annual monocarpic species flower once during their life, produce seeds and then undergo generalized senescence leading to death of the plant. By contrast polycarpic perennials survive seed production and live for many years flowering repeatedly. Most of our major crops are monocarpic annuals but perennials predominate in many ecological niches. Perennials exhibit phenotypic traits that would be advantageous for crops, such as an extended growing season, long duration of flowering and seed set as well as longer roots that more efficiently utilize nutrients and water supply. The high productivity of perennials explains their current use as sources of biomass. I propose here to use the progeny of hybrids between annual and perennial species in the Brassicaceae to isolate genes that confer key differences between these life histories. The utility of such genes in improving annual crops will then be tested. Arabis alpina and Arabis montbretiana are sister species that are respectively perennial and annual. We produced hybrids between these species and from them derived segregating populations by backcrossing. Here I propose to extensively genotype and phenotype these populations to identify genes promoting or suppressing senescence after flowering as well as those controlling the duration and extent of flowering. Orthologues of these genes will be identified in closely related Brassica species and alleles conferring perennial traits introduced into annual oil seed rape using genetic as well as transgenic strategies. Particularly those genes suppressing senescence and extending the duration of flowering will be tested for their effects on yield. This knowledge-based approach to introducing perennial traits into annual crops is expected to generate novel phenotypic variation that enhances yield.
Flowering plants exhibit a variety of different life cycles. This variation contributes in nature to adaptation to diverse environments and in agriculture to optimising crop yield. Annual monocarpic species flower once during their life, produce seeds and then undergo generalized senescence leading to death of the plant. By contrast polycarpic perennials survive seed production and live for many years flowering repeatedly. Most of our major crops are monocarpic annuals but perennials predominate in many ecological niches. Perennials exhibit phenotypic traits that would be advantageous for crops, such as an extended growing season, long duration of flowering and seed set as well as longer roots that more efficiently utilize nutrients and water supply. The high productivity of perennials explains their current use as sources of biomass. I propose here to use the progeny of hybrids between annual and perennial species in the Brassicaceae to isolate genes that confer key differences between these life histories. The utility of such genes in improving annual crops will then be tested. Arabis alpina and Arabis montbretiana are sister species that are respectively perennial and annual. We produced hybrids between these species and from them derived segregating populations by backcrossing. Here I propose to extensively genotype and phenotype these populations to identify genes promoting or suppressing senescence after flowering as well as those controlling the duration and extent of flowering. Orthologues of these genes will be identified in closely related Brassica species and alleles conferring perennial traits introduced into annual oil seed rape using genetic as well as transgenic strategies. Particularly those genes suppressing senescence and extending the duration of flowering will be tested for their effects on yield. This knowledge-based approach to introducing perennial traits into annual crops is expected to generate novel phenotypic variation that enhances yield.
Project acronym IBDlipids
Project Lipid antigens in intestinal inflammation and tumor development
Researcher (PI) Sebastian Zeißig
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
Summary Lipids play crucial roles in metabolism, immunity and cancer. In addition to their function as inflammatory mediators, lipids serve as antigens presented by CD1d and activate a subset of T cells called natural killer T (NKT) cells. While NKT cells are critical for human immunity, their uncontrolled activation contributes to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a group of diseases characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation and an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Specifically, NKT cells are the major source of pathogenic TH2 cytokines in the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis (UC), are sufficient to cause intestinal inflammation in mice, and are required for colitis and colitis-associated cancer in a mouse model of UC. These observations suggest that targeting of lipid antigen presentation may be of therapeutic value in IBD, where current therapies are of limited efficacy and aim at control rather than cure of disease. Here, I propose to identify the lipid antigens responsible for NKT cell-mediated intestinal inflammation and colitis-associated cancer in human IBD and mouse models of intestinal inflammation and to develop therapeutic strategies for interference with pathogenic lipid antigen presentation. Specifically, I propose to characterize the intestinal inflammation- and cancer-associated CD1d lipidome based on novel in vitro and in vivo models of cleavable CD1d and a recently established lipidomics approach. Furthermore, I propose to develop strategies for inhibition of the generation, loading and presentation of inflammation- and cancer-associated lipid antigens. These studies combine biochemical, immunological and high-throughput technologies in an interdisciplinary manner to provide the knowledge required for the generation of novel, efficacious therapies for the treatment of IBD. These studies will have major implications for IBD and other inflammatory, infectious, and neoplastic diseases at mucosal barriers.
Lipids play crucial roles in metabolism, immunity and cancer. In addition to their function as inflammatory mediators, lipids serve as antigens presented by CD1d and activate a subset of T cells called natural killer T (NKT) cells. While NKT cells are critical for human immunity, their uncontrolled activation contributes to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a group of diseases characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation and an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Specifically, NKT cells are the major source of pathogenic TH2 cytokines in the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis (UC), are sufficient to cause intestinal inflammation in mice, and are required for colitis and colitis-associated cancer in a mouse model of UC. These observations suggest that targeting of lipid antigen presentation may be of therapeutic value in IBD, where current therapies are of limited efficacy and aim at control rather than cure of disease. Here, I propose to identify the lipid antigens responsible for NKT cell-mediated intestinal inflammation and colitis-associated cancer in human IBD and mouse models of intestinal inflammation and to develop therapeutic strategies for interference with pathogenic lipid antigen presentation. Specifically, I propose to characterize the intestinal inflammation- and cancer-associated CD1d lipidome based on novel in vitro and in vivo models of cleavable CD1d and a recently established lipidomics approach. Furthermore, I propose to develop strategies for inhibition of the generation, loading and presentation of inflammation- and cancer-associated lipid antigens. These studies combine biochemical, immunological and high-throughput technologies in an interdisciplinary manner to provide the knowledge required for the generation of novel, efficacious therapies for the treatment of IBD. These studies will have major implications for IBD and other inflammatory, infectious, and neoplastic diseases at mucosal barriers.
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Google is giving you more storage for your money with its Google One
Daniel Howley
Technology Editor
Yahoo Finance August 15, 2018
Google’s One is its new cloud storage service.
On Wednesday, Google (GOOG, GOOGL) announced that it will begin offering its Google One service to all users around the world. Google One is the name of the overall service that will encompass all of your Google Drive offerings, as well as a number of added benefits including a new pricing structure, family sharing and, for some reason, reduced rates for hotels booked through Google Search.
Google has been slowly upgrading existing paid Google Drive users to One over the past few months. However, now is the first time people will be able to sign up for One rather than getting Drive and then being upgraded at random.
What’s different?
You might already know Google Drive; it’s where your work documents, unfinished manuscripts, spreadsheets, photos and videos live in the cloud. You already get 15GB of free storage with Google Drive, and for most people that’s plenty of data. But when you add in the photos and videos you might save to drive along with the the various documents you save in the cloud, the 15GB looks smaller and smaller.
Google currently offers a 100GB plan for $1.99 per month and a 1TB plan for $9.99 per month. That’s usually more than enough for most people. You can go beyond that all the way up to 30TB for $299 per month, but unless you’re an amateur photographer, you probably don’t need that much.
Google One will let you split your storage with your family.
With Google One, however, you’ll get a 100GB plan for $1.99, a new 200GB plan for $2.99, and a 2TB plan for $9.99. It’s good to see Google added a new offering between 100GB and 1TB, considering the large price jump between the two.
Google’s One plans are extremely competitive, which is impressive when it comes to this already cutthroat space. Apple’s (AAPL) iCloud offers 50GB of storage for $0.99 a month, 200GB for $2.99 or 2TB for $9.99. That matches Google’s pricing but leaves out the option for a 100GB plan for $1.99.
Microsoft’s (MSFT) OneDrive sells a 50GB plan for $1.99 a month, a 1TB plan with access to Office for $6.99 a month and a 5TB plan with Office for $9.99 per month. Still, there’s nothing between 50GB and 1TB.
DropBox (DBX) sells a 1TB plan for $9.99 a month or 2TB for $19.99 per month, while Box (BOX) offers 100GB for $10 per month.
Family sharing and hotel savings
Google One also brings a family sharing feature that will let the main account holder dole out invitations to family members who can then use as much data as they want. The option makes for a more effective use of storage — you and your kids don’t each need 200GB of storage — but it would make more sense if you could, say, allocate a set amount to each person in your plan. This way one person doesn’t bogart the storage space, leaving the rest of you with nothing.
Seemingly apropos of nothing, Google is also offering One customers access to savings on hotels booked via Google Search. The company says users will be eligible for between 15% and 40% off bookings depending on which hotel they choose.
You can look for the new Google One to roll out in the U.S. today and around the world in the coming weeks.
Editor’s Note: This post was updated to reflect that Google One is coming out in the U.S. today.
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Psst, Rihanna’s got a new luxury fashion line coming with LVMH
Rumour has it that the new Rihanna fashion line will come with clothing, leather goods and accessories and can be expected to arrive as soon as late this year.
Sneaky, sneaky, RiRi. Unbeknownst the world, it has just been discovered that Rihanna has been working on the down low with Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy on a luxury fashion line.
This is both surprising and not surprising, given that LVMH is the one who developed the singer’s highly popular makeup line Fenty Beauty. The part no one saw coming is the one where said new fashion line will be built from scratch.
LVMH has built its impressive portfolio of luxury fashion brands that includes Christian Dior, Givenchy and others largely through acquisition. The same applies to its ownership in brands spanning champagne, cosmetics, and resort properties.
Rumour has it that the new Rihanna fashion line will come with clothing, leather goods and accessories and can be expected to arrive as soon as late this year, launched the same time as her ninth album.
We can see the reason behind LVMH’s interest in Rihanna. Since launching Fenty Beauty with her in September 2017 via its Kendo brand incubator initiative that promotes new products and labels, the makeup line has been growing rapidly. LVMH said in a statement in April last year that it expected the line to reap in US$500 million in retail sales by the end of 2018.
Inside sources from LVMH revealed to WWD that the conglomerate started putting together Rihanna’s fashion team approximately six months ago in Paris. It is being directly overseen by chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH Fashion Group Sidney Toledano. They’ve described Rihanna as very hands-on and extensively involved in product development.
The singer’s close ties with LVMH spans all the way back to 2015 when she attended a Christian Dior show. She appeared in the fashion campaign ‘Secret Garden IV’ shot at one of CEO Bernard Arnault’s most treasured properties shortly after and premiered a range of futuristic sunglasses later, sealing herself the role of brand ambassador.
(Source: WWD)
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Marius Lassaux 8-4-1-0 (KO 4)
Bouts 13 Rounds 90
KO Ratio 31% Opposition Ratio --
Residence Laval, Mayenne, France
Boxer Division welterweight
Manager Trainer
Marius Lassaux Career Record
LB/KG
13 0/0 33-20-11 Marcel Forgeon 0/0 L (PTS 10) 02 Feb 1929 Romorantin, Loir-et-Cher, France
12 0/0 12-3-1 Marcel Thouvenin 0/0 W (PTS 10) 08 Feb 1927 Central Sporting Club, Paris, Paris, France
11 0/0 1-1-1 Joseph Donat 0/0 L (TKO 0) 28 Dec 1926 Central Sporting Club, Paris, Paris, France
10 144/65 5-1-0 Frank Brown 146/66 L (RTD 1) 29 Nov 1926 National Sporting Club, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom
9 0/0 7-1-1 Lucien Berard 0/0 W (PTS 10) 23 Nov 1926 Central Sporting Club, Paris, Paris, France
8 0/0 2-2-0 Maurice Wendel 0/0 W (PTS 10) 10 Oct 1926 Central Sporting Club, Paris, Paris, France
7 0/0 0-0-1 Jules Dujardin 0/0 W (TKO 4) 26 Sep 1926 Central Sporting Club, Paris, Paris, France
6 144/65 12-4-1 Andre Soudan 145/66 D (PTS) 04 Jul 1926 Hippodrome-Théâtre, Roubaix, Nord, France
5 0/0 17-10-2 Edmond David 0/0 L (PTS 8) 08 Apr 1926 Salle Wagram, Paris, Paris, France
4 0/0 2-2-2 Jim Fournaise 0/0 W (PTS 10) 04 Apr 1926 Central Sporting Club, Paris, Paris, France
3 0/0 2-1-2 Albert Isnard 0/0 W (TKO 7) 19 Feb 1926 Central Sporting Club, Paris, Paris, France
2 0/0 0-2-1 Camille Maniere 0/0 W (TKO 5) 17 Feb 1926 Salle Wagram, Paris, Paris, France
1 0/0 debut Deluynes 0/0 W (TKO 5) 14 Feb 1926 Gymnase Christmann, Paris, Paris, France
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas
More photos just posted, including a look at a Thai casket factory; a visit to ComPeung, an artist's village a few kilometers outside Chiang Mai, and the Land Foundation; a dog named Kitty and this cat, spotted obstructing sales of knock-off wallets at the Chiang Mai night bazaar the other night. Tonight we're camping at The Land...
Elephant topiary
On the palace grounds in Bang Pa-In, Thailand. Click here for the full panoramic image or here for more photos from Bang Pa-In and nearby Ayuthaya.
Ko Kret stencils
Any idea what these are? Phone booths? Audio advertising kiosks? Found behind a building Ko Kret, north of Bangkok.
Ko Kret colors
We spent yesterday on Ko Kret, a car-free island in the Chao Phraya River just north of Bangkok. Known for its Mon pottery -- hand-thrown and carved red-clay vessels -- it also offered some picturesque and quirky photo-ops. Will post more when we arrive in Chiang Mai.
Bangkok back alleys
I got myself lost the other day killing time. I wandered a central Bangkok neighborhood, not touristy at all, figuring I could walk the soi (small street) around the block and end up where I started. Not so. First, I spaced out, peering into people's houses and workplaces (off a dark alley, I saw a silkscreen shop where a handful of guys were making what appeared to be knock-off Mickey Mouse t-shirts, then a seamstress shop where a half dozen women were making navy blue work pants). Then I got more distracted snapping photos of back alley murals and graffiti, including one that I'm told is a grade school or high school logo converted into a tag (and crossed ouy, apparently, by a student at a rival school).
By the time, I refocused on my route, I realized I was at a dead end, at the very end of a long soi in a neighborhood few farang (foreigners) have probably gone. A bunch of 10-year old boys approached, trying out their English. They led me through one of the boy's houses and out the other side to a rubble strewn vacant lot. Gesticulating wildly, one eager kid conveyed that straight ahead and "To the right!!!!" was the way back. I gave a heartfelt "korp khun krap" along with the wai gesture of respect (which I think is usually mainly used by younger people addressing elders) and followed his directions, stopping occasionally to respond to a dozen or so shouted "Good Byes" and much giddy waving.
Makha Bucha Day
Two nights ago, on the full moon of the third lunar month, we attended the Makha Bucha Day celebration at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a gigantic new temple complex outside of Bangkok. The day commemorates two events that happened exactly 44 years apart: 1,250 "Arhantas" converged, unbidden, to hear Buddha give the principles of Buddhism, called The Ovadhapatimokha: To cease from all evil, to do what is good, to cleanse one's mind. Forty-four years later on this day, Buddha announced he'd be attaining nirvana three months later; that is, he'd die. Wat Phra Dhammakaya is a modern temple, and 100,000 people reportedly came for this week's ceremony. The complex has many facilities, but the event, which drew monks and families from all over Thailand and the world, was held outside in an area surrounding the "cetiya," or stupa. The temple is lit with spotlights that illuminate a dome covered by 300,000 statues of Buddha, each measuring 15 centimeters high. A detail from the temple's website: I can't say I understood much of what went on, but the bare fact of being in the midst of 100,000 chanting people focusing on peace was extremely powerful. Like, armhair-standing-on-end powerful. Words don't do it justice. (And unfortunately, neither do my photos.)
Chang!
Ok, it's a little cliche to come to Thailand to ride an elephant. But I've never seen one up close. We stopped along the road to Khao Yai to meet the family that leads tours through the jungle. We didn't take the 30-minute, ten-baht ride, but I sat on one of the stubbly 35-year-old elephants and fed it bamboo shoots.
Dan Kwian
On the way from Korat to Khao Yai ("Big Hill," the famed national park), we stopped in Dan Kwian for a little research trip. Known for its deep-red clay and the locally made pottery -- everything from tourist kitsch (see bottom image) to historical replicas of temple art to sophisticated glazed vessels -- Dan Kwian has seemingly hundreds of potters and stores. One of the best, I'm told, is the shop run by Mok's sister in law, former wife of her late brother. Behind her store is an extensive operation that produces local clay and its products. After chatting with a bird trained to say "Sawatdee ka!" we made our way back to the clay pits, kilns, and shipping area.
See more photos here.
"Beautiful Banyan"
Outside of Phimai is what's touted as Thailand's -- and possibly Southeast Asia's -- oldest and biggest banyan tree. Dubbed Sai Ngam (Beautiful Banyan), it's an island measuring around 15,000 square meters made up of one tree and its endless network of roots and branches. As Buddha meditated under a banyan (ficus) tree to achieve enlightenment, visitors flock to Sai Ngam to seek fortune of their own. Vendors are on hand to sell sell birds, oysters, and various kinds of fish to release to bring health, prosperity and good luck. We bought some oysters and a pair of eels to free in the water, which is just beyond a small temple where one can make offerings and prayers and the central banyan, which is draped with ceremonial flower strands.
Soi Dog, Phattai
A street dog in Phattai
Saamlaw
To get from the ruins in Phimai to Thailand's oldest banyan tree, Sai Ngam, just a few kilometers outside Phimai, we hired a Saamlaw, the ubiquitous three-wheeled bicycle cabs. The bike itself had some intricate, if beat-up, detailing, and the driver truly earned his 50 baht fee (and the 50 baht tip we added).
Prasat Phimai
The tiny town of Phimai in Nakhon Ratchasima province is home to a complex of Buddhist sanctuaries dating back to the 11th century A.D. Created a century before Angkor Wat, it's one of Thailand's most important Khmer temples. More images here.
Phimai Monks
Spotted these monks just outside the ruins in Phimai, northeast Thailand, and barely had time to snap a shot as they passed. See the larger version.
Doggy in the window
It was a very surreal taxi ride in Bangkok the other day. First the cab driver, a middle-aged guy who spoke no English, became enamored of the blonde hair on my forearm, so much so that he started rubbing it and purring. Then I spotted this typical Bangkok home. The dog had wedged himself in the bars of the gate, but seemed content to bark at passersby as if everything was normal.
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Super Tuesday as seen from Thailand: Audio interview with Suthichai Yoon
When I woke up on Super Tuesday, primary results were already coming in, and a prominent national media expert was on TV discussing the outcomes that were unfolding.
No, I didn’t sleep in: I’m in Thailand, thirteen hours ahead, visiting family, and that commentator was Suthichai Yoon, the group editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Nation, the country’s only Thai-owned English-language daily newspaper. In two days I’d be meeting with Suthichai on a personal call -- to discuss media and say hi from an old friend, Jim Boyd, former mentor to Minnesota Monitor and a Harvard Nieman fellow with Suthichai years ago. Given the chance to meet one of Thailand’s pre-eminent political thinkers, I decided to ask him a few questions about how the American presidential race is playing in Asia, and how our trade, diplomatic and economic policies affect people half a world away.
Photo: Santikan Boontongkumkaewmanee
First Thai pix
A few shots from our first two days in Bangkok, including a couple of this street cat (note monks' feet).
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Lots of Future Shock
In LA en route to Bangkok, we spent the weekend with our friends Aimee and Becky. It's our first trip to LA, so we're grateful for good tourguides, who took us everywhere, from the Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City to REDCAT, the Mandrake bar and a Chinese restaurant in Arcadia that serves possibly the world's best dumplings to the galleries in Chinatown. At one, Bonelli Contemporary, we saw this sweet piece, Joshua Callaghan's Lots of Future Shock (click for a much larger version; detail below), assembled from dozens of reissues of Alvin Toffler's 1970 futurist text Future Shock.
More LA photos here.
Paul Schmelzer is managing editor of Walker Reader, the Walker Art Center's digital magazine; creator of Signifier, Signed; a former editor at Adbusters; and contributor to Artforum.com, Cabinet, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Progressive, Raw Vision, Utne and others. More >>
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Fans Are Saying Last Goodbye To ‘Home And Away’ Star Ben Unwin Who Passed Away At 41 Years Old
Ben Unwin was a beloved Australian actor, who gained fame after portraying Jesse McGregor on the popular TV soap opera Home and Away.
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Unwin played his famous role from 1996 until 2000 and then reprised it again from 2002 to 2005. Despite having a successful TV career, Ben decided to change his life path and studied law to work as a solicitor.
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However, we will not see the handsome actor on the screen anymore and not because he left the TV industry.
Untimely passing
Ben Urwin, sadly, passed away last week. The actor was just 41 years old and one day away from his 42nd birthday.
On August 14, a NSW police, reportedly, attended the actor’s home after receiving a call regarding a welfare concern.
The cause of the TV star’s demise hasn’t been revealed yet but it’s not been named as suspicious. It is believed that mental health issues might have been involved in Unwin’s untimely passing.
Fans are devastated over the news
It's saddening, RIP, condolences to the family and friends 🙏
— Sue (@Somaya39) 20 August 2019
Oh no 😢 I'm totally shocked 💔
— Weatherstormgraphy ⚡ (@Johnted_113) 20 August 2019
How sad. I remember Jesse on home and away growing up. Rip.
— Orfac (@ORFAC1) 20 August 2019
Sad and So young.
— 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 (@JenniferGrey7) 20 August 2019
How devastating. Home and Away great Ben Unwin - famous in the soap as hunky Jesse - has died one day before his 42nd birthday. RIP https://t.co/r7YHarrUYI pic.twitter.com/B43KLfJyZ7
— Dan Wootton (@danwootton) 20 August 2019
We share our sorrow with social media users and Unwin’s family, hoping that the actor has finally found peace.
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HG Schmitz
Guitarist, Programmer & Producer in Duisburg, Germany
HG Schmitz - Sunny
OTTO ROSENBERG - SUNNY This is a completely unpolished live recording. No over dubs or other bric-a-brac. I've posted the song a few weeks ago already but there were some technical faults I had to improve. So I deleted it and here is the repost. A musician who's well known to me offered me this track Otto Rosenberg once recorded. Unfortunately, Otto passed away several years ago. I never met him in life but I am totally fascinated by his skills on the acoustic guitar. The Django Reinhardt feel in his playing is unmistakable. With this post I want to appreciate his extraordinary work. 'SUNNY' is a classic. The song got written in 1958, my year of birth, by Bobby Hebb. Many famous artists covered it, as there are Georgie Fame ('66), Sony & Cher ('66), Manfred Mann ('66), Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington ('68), Stevie Wonder ('68), James Brown ('69), Ella Fitzgerald ('71) and also Boney M ('76), just to mention a few. There are many more but Otto's version is the only one I know which is played completely instrumental. RIP Otto - wherever you are right now. The footage of the video shows pictures of springtime in Norway in a time lapse. 03 / 2019
I'm 59 years old, started to play the guitar about 18 years ago. At the same time I began to learn how to use a sequencer - in this case Cubase SX3.
My first concert was Frank Zappa, 1973, in Munich/Germany. I was 15 years old.
I'm playing an IBANEZ SA 220 FM guitar - not a jewel, but I love her ! Own an Alesis QS 6 synthesizer and lots of vst's and virtual mastering stuff.
This site is a union of great musicians. I would like to present my music to a larger crowd of persons, who are involved in making music on the base of homerecording - just to listen and to learn.
Frank Zappa - Pink Floyd - Genesis (the early ones) - Yes - Led Zeppelin - Miles Davis - Bob Marley - The Beatles - The Rolling Stones, The Who - Queen - David Bowie - U2 - ... etc.
Of course - Frank Zappa !
I think I would choose Frank Zappa's "Roxy and Elsewhere" or Genesis's - "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway".
Hey Fandals and Fandalistas ! PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT ! http://fandalism.com/nduss/d8HE A band from The Netherlands named DISHKING This is the coolest rock 'n' roll I heard in the past few months here on Fanda. This tune and the page of STEF VAN GELDEREN deserves way more attention. Enjoy !!
GIMME SOME GOOD FOOD !!! Coming today, 7th of February, 7pm German and Norwegian time.
Hi There ! All blues lovers should have a listen to this song. My dear German friend CHRISTIANE SPRUIT sang to the music of Mr. DAVE BELL from Canada. A treat for your ears !!! http://fandalism.com/noperforming/dMTF
Hi Everybody ! I had the honor of joining Chris on this project. All instruments, lyrics and vocals got done by her, except the guitar solo at the end and some additional drums. Her song deserves way more listeners. That's why I posted this little promo. Please listen to the music here: http://fandalism.com/noperforming/dH6T
Hg Schmitz - Christiane spruit
MY BABY !
Hg Schmitz - My sweetheart
Coming up tomorrow at around 7 or 8pm European time. The new project of Hilde and myself !! "SWEETS" - a rock ballad ! Hope to see ya !!
The idea of doing a monster project like "THE EXPERIMENT" is a really great one. Hilde and I are proud being a part of it. Hope to see you all at the 6th of May when the project starts.
JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD + HG SCHMITZ - DIRTY WORLD (Sweet Snugness), 2015 Tonight at 20.00 European time Johnny and I are going to post our new common project. We hope to welcome you on our pages. Cheers !!
Ladies and Gentlemen ! There is a guy from Germany named DINO CUOCO I met him for the first time years ago on a German music internet platform. Dino is working in pop music, dancefloor and electronic music productions. He loves using his synthesizer and he sings. Dino came as a new member to Fando a few weeks ago. Please welcome him and adopt him to the community. Here you'll find his page: http://fandalism.com/lanuck Thanks for your attention.
SARTE SJELER - a new song and video which is getting released at 20.30 European time, Thursday, 20th of November.
Hg Schmitz - Sarte sjeler
Ladies and Gentlemen ! Johnny Grauengaard and I have posted a song called "THE NEW GENERATION" a few days ago. Now Johnny created a so called "Radio Version" of this song to use it for the support of the Swedisch organiation "Hjärta För Barn" what means "Heart For Children". Johnny is the ambassador of this organisation. We want to support this aid agency and we would like to ask you for your support as well. All the money is going to the kids. So here are the links to Spotify and iTunes: http://open.spotify.com/track/4UwS5JhKAc8fajkAyrXnIZ https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/the-new-generation-single/id928362821 Hope there are lots of people who have a heart for kids ! Thank you !!
Hg Schmitz - The new generation
Hi Everybody ! Please watch out for our new post tonight.
Ladies and Gentlemen ! You should listen to this: http://www.fandalism.com/intrieritheory/daRi I'm really shocked that nobody has been on that page for showing a mark of recognition to this song and musician. For all lovers of Funk - trust in me - you won't get disappointed ! HG
Ladies and Gentlemen ! Many of you know about the music of Annemiek Beex from The Netherlands. I had the opportunity to work with her on several songs now. Annemiek gave me the tip to a musically friend of her - Jan van Gelderen - who is a drummer and guitarist from The Netherlands as well. So I watched his Fando page today and I was deeply impressed ! This man and his music deserves much more listeners ! I think he is truely a hidden treasure on Fandoland. Please, cum on, and give him your mark of recognition. I promise you won't get disappointed !! Greets to everybody !! HG
Hey Ladies and Gentlemen !! We have a beautiful time ! Kind regards to everyone !! Hilde and HG !!!
Hilde and myself decided to proclaim that we found each other and fell in love. I am going to Norway as soon as possible to take her in my arms. Sometimes life is writing strange stories. We both are very happy about it.
Ladies and gentlemen ! Sybil Pinkney / Singer Artist You must listen to this incredible vocalist ! Please pay her some attention 'cause she deserves it so much ! You won't be disappointed, folks ! Promised ! http://www.fandalism.com/fudgi/b49l Dear greets to everybody, HG
Hg Schmitz - Sybil pinkney / singer artist
Hi Girls - Hello Guys ! 5 days of fear and uncertainty are over. I'm back from hospital and I'm feelin' better now. I'd never expected that so many people of the Fanda Community paid their attention to that. Gave me strength and hope and I really know how to appreciate this. So let me tell you: The summation of all those people who sent me recovery wishes is so large that I can't write to everybody individually. It would take weeks. I'm deeply impressed by your support and sympathies. Thank you very much to anybody ! This is not only a community at Fandalism. It is some kind of family. What happened to me is not a big thing. But the best poof for the warm and caring social behaviour of this Fanda Family is the benefit video for Sarah Vachon. Nancy, Kirk and Dave - you have my deepest respect for organizing this. But also all the other supporters of this relief action, as there are Carol Forsloff, Annemiek Beex, Darcy Jeavons, Don Borgal, Jason Mark Yates, Keith Adkins, Lee-Zette, Mark Taylor, Peter Evans, Ricardo Osbourne, Sharon Lukemire and Yvalain - you all did a great and humanly job. Please pardon me if I have forgotten to designate somebody. Have to say that I feel really well to be a part of this family and I'm quite proud about. Maybe my English is not the best but I think you will understand what I wanted to say. Hans-Gerd
Hg Schmitz - Thank you all !!!!!
HG SCHMITZ - GONNA PROVE THAT BLACK IS WHITE, 2016 / 2018 This is my final Fandalism post for a very long time. I have to give top priority to other important things which are coming up during the next months of my life. The song is a hard rock tune I started to produce in 2016. The final recordings and programmings and also the end-mix I did in October 2018. Sometimes there are people who don't believe in your capabilities and intentions. In that case you have to PROVE THAT BLACK IS WHITE. Idea & Composition All Instruments & Programmings Recordings Arrangements Mix & Mastering by HG SCHMITZ HG, 04 / 2019 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Gonna prove that black is white/ 2016 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - KILLER, 2015 / 2018 This is some kind of progressive rock with a strong flavour of metal music, but it isn't pure metal. I have to admit that this is one of the most complicated tunes I did in the past few years. Originally recorded in 2015 I had to change and improve a lot of details. It was a real challenge making this production to what it is now. Actually, drum programmings are some of the easier works to do. But here I came to my limits. It was also quite difficult to mix all those different distorted guitar sounds I used when I recorded the tracks back in 2015. The good thing is that the digital possibilities of today allow you to take your advantage of getting the best out of it. I hope you like what you hear. HG, 2015 - 04 / 2019 © 2015 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Killer/ 2015 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - CATCH FOR BREATH, 2011 / 2018 This is an instrumental hard rock track which got originally recorded in 2011. It was never released before. I have tried to refine the sounds of the separate tracks and put them together to a new mix. I feel quite contented with the final results, although the sound quality hasn't become perfect. Anyway, I hope to get your feet tapping to the rhythm. HG, 2011 - 03 / 2019 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Catch for breath/ 2011 / 2018
JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD - HG SCHMITZ ALL AROUND ME, 2018 After a longer time Johnny and I started a new project. This pop song is for the women in our lives. We owe them the strength we need for daily life, we owe them happiness and love and we couldn't exist without them. What Mia is for Johnny, Hilde is for me. Our ladies deserve getting worshipped for all activities we men aren't capable to do or understand. They push and support us when we are down and they stop and criticize us when we are on the wrong track. What would we men be without them ? JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD: Lyrics Vocals Vocal Arrangements Final Mix & Mastering HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition All Instruments & Programmings Arrangements Pre-Mix & Mastering Video Editing Johnny & HG, 02 / 2019 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - All around me/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - KNOCK ON WOOD, 2015 HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANCK !! Congratulations and all best wishes from Hilde and myself. This isn't blues but it comes from my heart. It is classic rock 'n' roll and I hope you'll get infected. Thanks for many years of friendship without having seen each other face to face. Thanks for all your enjoyable music you have created and the kind words you left to the posts of many musicians on Fanda inclusive Hilde and me. Thanks for being you and staying as you are. Have fun today on the 11th of December - the day of your birth. Be happy and full of joy, you deserve it well. Franck, Friend, Ever, For Ever !!! HG, 2015 - 12 / 2018 © 2015 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Knock on wood/ 2015
HG SCHMITZ - CAN'T STAND THE HEAT, 2012 / 2018 This so far unreleased instrumental hard rock song got originally recorded and produced in 2012. It had no title until this year's summer. The temperatures here in Germany had been disproportional high. The fan on my living room ceiling was my very best friend at that time. It had been so hot that working on music was almost impossible. That's why I decided for this particular title while I remastered the tune. The footage I found on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. No copyright infringement intended. HG, 2012 - 12 / 2018 © 2012 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Can't stand the heat/ 2012 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - FEEL FINE, 2017 As some people might know I'm not a big friend of doing cover versions. My cup of tea is doing my own stuff. But what I really like to do is playing a little around with music styles or well-known types of famous songs without covering them. By way of example I want to mention the song 'Whole Lotta Love'. The original recording is simply unique but I also know hundreds of recordings which are sounding quite similar to the style of how LZ's song is made. And there are many other examples, for instance 'Smoke On The Water'. So what I want to say is this: I bet that 95 % or more of all the people who are listening to 'FEEL FINE' will get reminded of one particular tune which was a milestone in music history. The original song nobody can make better and that's why I don't even tried. But what I wanted to do is to create my own piece of music related to the type of that famous song. I have used a text-to-speech software named 'Balabolka' for the very spartan vocal parts. You can choose between several male and female voices 'Balabolka' offers you. I have decided for the so called 'Peter' voice. The footage of the video got taken from Vimeo for strictly non-commercial purposes. It shows the nature and landscape of Norway. Please enjoy your listen well and tell me of what artist you got reminded. HG, 2017 - 11 / 2018 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Feel fine/ 2017
JAMES NOBLE - HG SCHMITZ DIRTY BIRD, 2012 / 2018 This song James and I recorded and realized originally in 2012. We first posted it as an audio upload from Soundcloud. After more than 6 years I started remastering the whole stuff and created a video for the tune. There are two other songs we did in 2012 which we are going to post in upcoming future. Dear James, the recordings we made back then in 2012 had been big fun for me because those were the days when the whole Fandalism thing started. Our collaborations we did at that time are still some of the best I'd ever been involved in. I'm very glad we can re-release the first of these 3 songs today which I mentioned above. JAMES NOBLE: Solo Lead Guitar HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition All Other Instruments and Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering Video Editing James & HG, 2012 - 11 / 2018 © 2012 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Dirty bird/ 2012 / 2018
TYLER SELPH - HG SCHMITZ A HURRICANE PARTY, 2018 A few weeks ago Tyler posted a version with exactly these lyrics as a spoken text on the same video footage - but without music. Inspired by JARUSKA BALIS Tyler and I started working on a musical version. I sent him an instrumental which has been unreleased so far and asked him if this would be the appropriate instrumental stuff for the lyrics of his 'Hurricane Party'. As you see - it was the right stuff. Here you'll find the original version Tyler posted and also lots of other songs he has produced: http://dev213.fandalism.com/tyzoid8 TYLER SELPH: Lyrics Vocals Vocal Arrangements Video Editing HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition (Instrumental) All Instruments & Programmings Arrangements (Instrumental) Mix & Mastering Btw, the original title of the instrumental was 'Dark Clouds Are Coming Up'. Doesn't that fit to an upcoming hurricane ? Tyler & HG, 11 / 2018 © 2018 Lyrics and credits below. They see that it’s coming they’re right there in its path They think that its funny they get high and they laugh But the weather man says, you gotta get out of town But they choose instead to keep on partying down They play their guitars while others all dance They know there’s a risk but they’re taking the chance It’s a Hurricane party and they’re there with their friends And they’ve got no idea how their story will end... Cause this Hurricane it’s not like those before It’s a wild raging beast and it’s coming ashore And it’s here to destroy everything in its way But they’re planning on dancing the whole night away Yeah they have so much fun none of them realizing Outside all that the water is filling the gutters and rapidly rising Then a brilliant blue flash and they hear a loud boom Then the lights all go out there in every single room Though they're there in the darkness they still feel no fear They light up some candles they’ve got lots of beer And then there’s no wind yeah the storms passed them by But they’ve no idea that they’re right in the eye..! And then just like that the wind hits one-fifty Windows all break out everything gets real iff A wild howling wind blows their candles all out It’s now gone pitch black and they’ve all got to shout To the attic they yell so they all start to climb But it’s obvious now they’ve all run outta time Cause this Hurricane well it hasn't got a heart And it’s coming to scare and to tear everything apart This Hurricane no not like those before This Hurricane it should not be ignored This Hurricane when this beast comes to town Well that’s sure not the time to be partying down Less you all wanna drown… when this beast comes around But see they rolled the dice and they all took a chance Played their guitars while others all danced Poured lots of shots and they all did a toast As that Hurricanes eye got so close to the coast Now believe it or not they all somehow survived It's a miracle really that they’re still alive...
Hg Schmitz - A hurricane party/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - FOREVERMORE, 2018 Exactly 5 years ago on the 11th of November 2013 my sweetheart Hilde and I became a couple. So it is our 5th anniversary we are celebrating today. And tomorrow on the 12th of November is Hilde's birthday. My dear Snuff, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !! I don't wanna miss any single second of the time we are together now. Knowing and loving you is the best time of my life. It was a hard period for us. Everytime when I came over to Norway I had to leave you again and it still hasn't changed. But I don't give up hope and stay optimistic. We are going to make it, Baby. This song I wrote and recorded in 2016. It got never released before. The footage of the video shows Hilde's hometown Lillehammer in Norway. She lives in a paradise and I want to be there soon - forevermore. I LOVE YOU MY DEAR !!! HG, 2016 - 11 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Forevermore/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - NO-WAY-MELODY OF 2018 Inspired by the Genesis song 'Broadway Melody Of 1974' from the album 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'. Actually I'm not a friend of doing cover versions. And what I did here is not really a cover. I always thought that the main theme of this song, which is so brilliantly thought out, would also be a great basement for adding some variations. So I tried to make it my own and played a little around. The animations in the video are excerpts from the original live projections of 'The Lamb' concerts people saw in the background of the stage during the shows. I discovered this footage on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 10 / 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - No-way-melody of 2018
TYLER SELPH - HG SCHMITZ I'M SO STUPID, 2018 The instrumental of this song got originally recorded in 2017. I'd been in search for a male vocalist since a longer time and after TYLER SELPH did a tremendous great job on one of my latest posts (Dead On Time) I asked him if he likes to participate and join me on this tune here. To my joy he agreed. Tyler started writing the lyrics. Actually, the instrumental had an other title as the song is called now. We changed it because Tyler created a story about a man who got betrayed and left by his girlfriend and the content of this story had absolutely no connection to the title I used first. Although the man's friends warned him not to trust this woman he fell in love and got terribly disappointed by her. Finally he realized how stupid he has been starting a relation to her. His heart got broken and his ego destroyed. So our song became an anti-love song and what I adore the most on Tyler's lyrics and words is the way how he put the negative atmosphere and mood of a broken love into his vocal performance. From my point of view I'm feeling absolutely satisfied with the final results. Tyler's work has lifted up our hard rock song to a higher level. He's a blessed and highly talented singer artist with huge versatility. This project will definitely not be our last collaboration. The video got taken from Vimeo for strictly non-commercial purposes. TYLER SELPH: Lyrics Vocals HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition Guitars Drums & Bass Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering Video Editing We want to thank everybody for watching and listening. Tyler & HG, 10 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - I'm so stupid/ 2018
HARRY THOMPSON - KAI LIEBERT - CJ BERRY - KJELL JOHANSSON - HG SCHMITZ - BLIND FLIGHT, 2016 Somehow this video got lost on my YOU TUBE channel and because of that it also wasn't available on FANDALISM anymore. I knew I had saved it on one of my hard disks somewhere but couldn't find it. Now I rediscovered it and thought it would be worth a re-post. BLIND FLIGHT is one of the most extraordinary projects I'd ever been involved to. 5 musicians from 4 different countries came together for creating some music. As for me I can say that this collaboration is one of the highlights in my personal history of making music. HARRY THOMPSON (USA): Drums & Percussion Additional Keyboards Arrangements Final Mix & Mastering Video Editing KJELL JOHANSSON (SWEDEN): Bass Guitar CJ BERRY (UNITED KINGDOM): Solo Lead Guitar KAI LIEBERT (GERMANY): Keyboards HG SCHMITZ (GERMANY): Idea & Composition Rhythm & Lead Guitars Horn Programmings Recorded in 2016. © 2016
Hg Schmitz - Blind flight/ 2016
TEDD VAN WAGNER - HG SCHMITZ MISTAKE, 2018 A short story about autism. The basics of this tune got recorded and programmed in 2010 and 2011. For years it had just been a not fixed idea but I worked on it from time to time. The concept became clearer and clearer when I discovered a video which captured me. It is a short film about an autistic person that gets thrown off the track by just a tiny little mistake in his daily routine. I found it in 2016 and one year later I asked Tedd if he would like to join me on this project. He agreed. Tedd is always a contact person when you try to touch some unusual stuff. The idea was to create a progressive and psychedelic piece of music based on a reggae groove and that's like a house with opened doors for Tedd. He sent me his adds in March 2018. It took a little time to insert his instrument tracks to the project. The final results are talking for itself. We both know that this kind of music isn't for everybody's ears. It needs to get used to. But exactly that was the challenge. The exercise was to put some experimental ideas to a groove of traditional reggae music. So please listen to what we have done. TEDD VAN WAGNER: Lap Steel Lap Steel played with e-bow Electric Sitar Electric Guitar HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition Rhythm and Lead Guitars Drums, Percussion, Horns, Keys, Flute & Bass Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering Video Editing You never know when the unexpected sound and music is going to shackle you. Perhaps it happens here and now. We hope so. Tedd & HG, 10 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Mistake/ 2018
MARK TAYLOR - HG SCHMITZ MASK OF EMOTIONS (Extended Band Version) This is the very first collaboration MARK TAYLOR and I have ever done. Let me tell you some background details of how we came together. Around 3 weeks ago I listened to an acoustic guitar piece from Mark and loved if from the first second. I asked him if he would give me his permission for working on the sound because the recording was a little quiet. He agreed and so I gave it a try. I couldn't resist playing a little pad melody to the song and when I sent it to Mark he liked it very much. Additionally I told him that this tune has a huge potential for doing a band version on the basement of his original recording. Mark gave me his okay and so I started creating some drums and bass programmings. The original song was a little short for a band version. So I extended the song and Mark's video from 2.20 to 3.42 minutes. In my comment to his post on Fanda I told him that I think the song sounds very sweet and almost cuddly. I wanted to keep this emotion when I added my instruments and from my point of view the final results are confirming my intentions. Dear Mark, I'm very happy about our first common music work. As I told you before I envy you for your skills in acoustic guitar pickings - something I always neglected to learn. This little acoustic piece you recorded sounds so inconspicuous but in real it is a great composition. Thank you so very much for giving me the chance of becoming a part of it. MARK TAYLOR: Idea & Composition Acoustic Guitar Original Video Recording HG SCHMITZ: Drums & Bass Programmings Pad Melody Mix & Mastering Additional Video Editing Mark & HG, 10 / 2018 © 2018 by Mark Taylor
Hg Schmitz - Mask of emotions (extended band version)
MELVIN DONOVAN - HG SCHMITZ GENTLE GOING, 2011 / 2018 In April 2018 I sent the instrumental of this tune, which got originally written and recorded in 2011, to Melvin and asked him for writing some lyrics and singing to it. Parallelly, I'd been working with my cohabitee Hilde on our pop rock opera. The opera had absolute priority and so 'GENTLE GOING' fell into the background. In the past weeks we started working on the song again and finally we got it made. I knew from the beginning that Melvin is the perfect cast for this kind of music. It is a love ballad based on acoustic guitar and an arrangement for drums, bass, electric guitar and strings. This simply is Melvin's bag. He never disappoints me and relating to a music style like this he always delivers exactly what I'm wishing for. So he did here. The lyrics of the tune are on the video running along with Melvin's vocal. Please enjoy watching and listening, Ladies & Gentlemen. Melvin Donovan: Lyrics & Vocals HG Schmitz: Idea & Composition All Instruments & Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering Video Editing Melvin & HG, 2011 - 10 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Gentle going/ 2011 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - TALKING BULLSHIT, 2009 / 2018 This song originally emerged in 2009 from the idea of making a song about people who like to rant. You find cants everywhere - in lyrics of very famous songs, politicians spitting them out endlessly, especially in TV shows and well known movies you'll find them, and even you and myself are using them thoughtlessly. If you'll take a concerted look to that subject you will discover a lot of statements here and there which are completely empty of sense and value. We all aren't free from TALKING BULLSHIT sometimes. The crazy thing about it is that we almost need these words of 'higher wisdom' for getting our validations in daily life, even if they are totally unnecessary and self-evident. TALKING BULLSHIT is an instrumental hard rock song. I did a first remaster in 2012 but haven't felt completely contented with the drum line. So I progammed a new one and improved the sound of all separate instrument tracks. There are no keys or synths used, just the drums and bass programmings and the varying guitars I played. In the video I have used words I created spontaneously, which you can't find in any language all over the globe. Just trying to make you understand ironically, how much useless verbal stuff we produce. Enough of all that BLAH BLAH now ! Please enjoy watching and listening. HG, 2009 - 09 / 2018 © 2009 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Talking bullshit/ 2009 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - BIG BLAST, 2011 / 2018 This is another harder rock song from 2011 I have remastered in the past few weeks. The biggest blast of all times got caused by the nuclear bomb. The video shows how naive the American military handled the first tests they did after the invention of that super weappon. From today's point of view it is unbelievable how careless and inconsiderate the responsible persons acted at that time. Please enjoy your listen everybody. HG, 2011 - 09 / 2018 © 2011 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Big blast/ 2011 / 2018
STRAIGHT WAY TO HELL, 2013 / 2018 I'm not very experienced in playing and recording metal but exactly this fact was the challenge for me here. I have worked in almost all kinds of styles and genres so far but there are just a few, maybe 2 or 3 tracks, you can call metal. Actually, it isn't my prefered style of music but in my opinion a musician should have done it once in his life. I realized this project all over the year 2013. Haven't worked on it constantly but now and then. Normally the programming of the drums is one of the easier exercises but this drum line almost drove me insane. It was very difficult to give the kit the sound of a real metal kit and the double kicks were very hard to program and mix. The song contains no keys or synths. Just used to play a rhythm lead and a solo lead guitar in addition to the drums and bass programmings. You can call me a bloody beginner in case of metal music but for that I'm quite satisfied with the results. This one is going at full throttle !!! Please enjoy your listen, everybody. HG, 2013 - 09 / 2018 © 2013 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Straight way to hell/ 2013 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - RAT POISON, 2011 / 2018 This is another remastered song which got originally recorded and arranged in 2011. I had to program a completely new drum line cause the original one from 2011 wasn't usable. RAT POISON is a hard rock track that belongs more into the category of 'melodic hard rock' than to the metal genre. The video material I found on Vimeo and used it as always for strictly non-commercial purposes. The problem was that the footage of the main story had just a length of 1 minute. Those little rat clips had only a few seconds. So the exercise was to cut the scenes into pieces, stretching and editing them and using those fragments in a way which filled up the entire tune. RAT POISON had once been on Fandalism as an audio upload from Soundcloud but I deleted it a long time ago. The sound quality (especially of the original drum programming) was not to compare with the remastered version you will hear now. I'm feeling quite confident with the final results. Anyway, the audio player of You Tube is one of the worst I know. It sucks a lot of the original audio quality you'd been working for, intensively. The cover photo got shot by my sweetheart Hilde at a subway station in Oslo, Norway. I just edited and mirrored it, horizontally, and put the two halfs together to one pic. HG, 2011 - 09 / 2018 © 2011 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Rat poison/ 2011 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - SIZE REALLY MATTERS, 2011 / 2018 There was no video, the sound quality was very bad, the original arrangements were horrible but the composition itself had huge potential. So what to do ? I started reworking that tune at the beginning of August 2018. There had been lots of tracks left I hadn't used for the original version from 2011. So I began sighting those unused tracks and I found a couple of recordings which I finally added to the new arrangement. If I look retrospectively at this project I can't explain to myself why I haven't worked with those tracks from the beginning. I can't describe what kind of style I should mention in case of this song. There are elements of fusion, rock and also pop music. The most difficult part of the tune was the drum programming. Thinking back to 2011 I must have had a lot of time for doing that work. I'd been totally surprised about myself when I listened to the programmings for the very first time after more than 7 years. Sometimes you do things you don't even know how to appreciate right. Now I do. The video I found after a long time of searching on Vimeo. I used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. Please enjoy watching and listening. HG, 2011 - 08 / 2018 © 2011 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Size really matters/ 2011 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - DEAD ON TIME, 2016 / 2018 This is an instrumental funk rock song from 2016 which never got released before. I'd been looking for a video since a long time and finally found it on Vimeo. I used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. The footage shows the story of a workaholic who's living for his job only. He's missing the good sides of life, falls into depressions because of too much stress and in the end it kills him. Maybe some of the viewers may think this stuff is way too morbid or even ghoulish. I don't think so. In terms of getting devoured by your job and daily resposibilities, what is making you sick, the video comes to the point. HG, 2016 - 08 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Dead on time/ 2016 / 2018
DANNY ROFFE - HG SCHMITZ - STAY IN BED TODAY, 2018 After more than 2 years Danny and I decided to work on a common song again. In April 2018 I sent him an instrumental and asked him for his participation. Fortunately he agreed and so we started to work on the project. Danny is one of the musicians and guitarists I'm looking up to. Whatever he touches is becoming gold. In case of this tune I wanted Danny to join me because of his affinity for floyd-ish sounding guitar arrangements, which he's able to play as nobody else I know. To my big surprise he also wrote some lyrics and sung the lead vocals. His voice here reminds me of Paul Carrack, the former vocalist of the band Mike & The Mechanics. Please enjoy your listen, everybody. Danny Roffe: Lyrics Vocals Lead and Slide Guitar Arrangements Video Editing HG Schmitz: Idea & Composition All other Instruments & Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering 08 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Stay in bed today/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - JERK CHICKEN, 2016 This is a previously unreleased reggae track from 2016. I used the video footage for strictly non-commercial purposes. It was taken from Vimeo. HG, 08 / 2018 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Jerk chicken/ 2016
BEN PODDER + HG SCHMITZ - CRAZY 'BOUT YA, 2011 / 2018 This is the second song with vocalist BEN PODDER I have reworked and remastered. It got originally recorded in 2011. On this tune Ben demonstrates his ability of singing the Funk. At the risk of repeating myself I have to say that he is one of the best male vocalists I've ever worked with. His phrasings and ad-libs are a raving delight and his voice is so powerful and simply unique. CRAZY 'BOUT YA is definitely one of the most challenging projects I'd ever been involved in because my works on the programmings of the elaborate horns arrangements almost killed me. Enjoy your listen well, everybody. BEN PODDER: Lyrics Vocals HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition All Instruments & Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering Video Editing Ben & HG, 2011 - 06 / 2018 © 2011 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Crazy 'bout ya/ 2011 / 2018
HILDE SVENDSRUD - DANNY ROFFE - HG SCHMITZ - BEAM ME UP TO SOMEWHERE, Remake Version 2018 This is some Rock 'n' Roll ! Many listeners may remember this tune, others probably never have heard it. The song got originally recorded in 2013. HILDE SVENDSRUD: Lyrics Vocals Video Editing DANNY ROFFE: Rhythm Guitar Solo Guitar (Danny's part starts at 4.50) HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition Rhythm Guitars Lead Guitars Programmings of: Drums Bass Keys Arrangements Mix & Mastering Danny Roffe is a master on his instrument. It is always a huge pleasure having the opportunity of working with him. This applies as well to the past as to the future. Almost 1 year after Fandalism got launched in January 2012, Hilde and I got the chance of working with Danny for the very first time. That makes this production to a very important part of our personal history. Any further informations you will find in the video. And now let's rock !!! Hilde, Danny & HG, 2013 - 07 / 2018 © 2013 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Beam me up to somewhere/ remake version 2018
HG SCHMITZ - SAVED FROM DROWNING, 2018 This song is for KJELL JOHANSSON. Dear Kjell ! There isn't anything I can give to you, except some music. Actually you deserve way more as just a song. In the most dangerous and awkward crisis I'd ever been in all my life, you rescued me by acting so very selflessly. You made me feeling relieved and at the same time I'm totally ashamed. 'And when you think, things have come to an end, a little light from heaven will be sent' . . . This particular light came from Sweden. Right now I really don't know why and how, but the day will come when I return the favour to you. You can bet your life on that. I want to thank you sinserely my friend. Humans like you have become rare in this world. As I know you, you aren't the typical fan of pop music, lol. So I decided for a quite jazzy tune. And as you know me, I can't do jazz without a tiny little touch of funk. Please enjoy the music and see it as my mark of recognition. HG, 07 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Saved from drowning/ 2018
BEN PODDER + HG SCHMITZ - THEN YOU CAME, 2009 / 2018 Many years before I became a member of Fandalism I posted my music on a German internet page. There I met a vocalist named BEN PODDER. We started recording several songs together. THEN YOU CAME is one of these tunes. It got recorded in 2009 Ben's voice meshes perfectly with Funk, Soul and R&B. When I hear him singing he always reminds me to Peter Gabriel, especially on this song here. Unfortunately, we lost contact since a couple of years. He is one of the most skilled and talented singer artists I've ever worked with In 2012 I did a first remix/remaster of THEN YOU CAME. It got released on Fandalism as an audio upload from Soundcloud. Now there is a video behind the music. BEN PODDER: Lyrics Vocals HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition All Instruments & Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering Video Editing Ben & HG, 2009 - 06 / 2018 © 2009 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Then you came/ 2009 / 2018
SAGOBA + HG SCHMITZ - CELEBRITY CITY, 2018 One more time I had the pleasure and opportunity of working with Sam. I don't have to place emphasis on his skills as a vocalist anymore. He provided evidence of that many times before. You are always on the right path having such a high talented musician and vocalist at your side. We have worked on several other projects before and it has always been an honor for me having the chance of working with him. And so it is on this production here. Please listen to our 'CELEBRITY CITY' - a jazzy tune that Sam's unique voice takes to a top level. SAGOBA: Lyrics Vocals Organ Arrangements Final Mix & Mastering HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition All Other Instruments & Programmings Arrangements Pre-Mix & Mastering Video Editing 06 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Celebrity city/ 2018
HILDE SVENDSRUD + HG SCHMITZ - TALES OF LOVE AND EVILNESS, 2018 Since many years Hilde and I had the idea of doing some musical stuff like this. The instrumentals of the songs we used got written and recorded between 2014 and 2017. In the beginning of September 2017 we started to realize our intention of creating a Pop Rock Opera. After more than 8 months of intensive and time consuming work we can proudly announce that we have finished our project and fulfilled ourselves a dream. TALES OF LOVE AND EVILNESS is subdivided into 14 chapters. The Intro of our story gets followed by 13 vocal songs and 1 instrumental track which acts as the Outro. Viewers and listeners have to be patient if they want to experience the whole project. The total length amounts to 1 hour and 7 minutes. Hilde and I are well aware that not everybody will hear and see on our work to full content but we are sure that you will miss something if you do not. There are further informations about production details, cast and characters at the end of the video. We would like to thank sincerely all those people who were involved in this project. Without you a realization would not have been possible. Lyrics: 01 AS IF Hey Mr. Manson - how are you doin' ? I wanna introduce myself to you Take a good look into my face I'm standing right in front of you I don't like your attitude You don't see me as I am You just want me for pleasure But it's not who I am As if my face gets blury As if I got no mind As if my pain don't move me As if I'm out of time As if you understand me But all you see is fame You wanna make me your way But my soul is not for sale Hey Hey Yeah HEY ! Take a good look ! Come on ! My souls is not for sale As if I do what you want me to do Stay away from me Stay away from me Stay away from me Don't come any closer ! As if I wanna do As if I wanna do What you want me to Stay away from me Stay away from me Stay away from me Stay away from me 02 BREAK A LEG ! I wish you all luck in this world There you're sitting on your throne of shame I wish you all the good fortune I wish you love Love and fame I wanna see you moving I don't wanna see you cry Don't wanna sing your lullabies I just wanna wave goodby So Break a leg Break a leg As you jump into A new kind of journey Cause now it's only you Hey Hey Hey Maybe one day Maybe one day You will see.... I wish you to be okay I wish you find back to the person that you used to be I hope your cigarettes won't kill you and your drinking will chill you I hope your heart of stone will melt I hope you keep your health I hope your lovers won't forsake you I hope you don't look back And regret your actions And your silly life Cause is it time for pride Or is it time for shame Now it is only yourself you gotta blame Break a leg Break a leg Someday you will see Someday you will see You will see Somewhere deep inside your heart I hope you will enjoy the chances you get And the doors that close and open Before you shut them I hope you have thought about The consequences and the options You can get If you bet on the right horse that you're looking for the right quality Before you hit the floor BEFORE YOU HIT THE FLOOR ! Yeah ! I say: Break a leg ! Break a leg ! Break a leg ! You don't get nothing more from me now !! Break a leg ! Come on Break a leg - And then you go ! Hoooo ! I don't look back But I wish you All luck in this world Break a leg ! So, break a leg ! 03 NOT A SINGLE WORD ANYMORE Doubts - Are running like soldiers In my Mind Are running like soldiers In my Mind Where am I ? How did I come here ? The evil is standing In the shadow You better run for your life You better run for your life Soldiers of doubts Hunt me down You put a spell on me You hurt me I don't wanna speak a word - Annymore Speak I'm lying in the silence Please forgive me That I lost my face I lost my believing I lost my words I lost my world Come running Back to me ! Run Run run run 04 DASTARD BASTARD That Dastard Bastard I want him Out ! Here he comes again That Dastard Bastard He will kill again It never ends He will strike again That Dastard Bastard He will hit again He's not a friend - NO ! I don't wanna hide no more I don't wanna hide no more I don't wanna hide no more I don't wanna hide no more He is mean ! He's so mean He's insane He's a snake He's a killer And he's a fake That Dastard Bastard - I wanna punch him down ! I better put my killer boots on Ready to run I'm ready to hit you down - You Dastard Bastard ! I don't wanna hide no more I don't wanna hide no more Here he comes again That Dastard Bastard He will kill again It never ends He will strike again That Dastard Bastard He will hit again It never ends - NO ! I don't wanna hide no more - Dastard Bastard I don't wanna hide no more I don't wanna hide no more - Dastard Bastard I don't wanna hide no more He is mean And he is insane He's a snake He's a killer He's so mean He's insane He's a snake He's a killer He's a fake I better put my high killer boots on Cause I gonna fight this Dastard Bastard down - Yeah !!! 05 SPEAK OUT THE TRUTH Speak out the truth !!! I wanna find back to my love Love can burn you Lies can hurt you Love can burn you Lies can hurt you Love can burn you Lies can hurt you Love can burn you Lies can hurt you Love can burn you ! Lover's dreams will fade Lover's eyes will weep Lover's hearts get ripped apart 'Cause liars are the ones we trust How can I lie ? How can I hide ? How can I live without you ? How can I lie ? How can I hide ? How can I live without you ? Do you love me like I do ? Do you love me like I do ? Speak out the truth Speak out the truth Lover's dreams will fade Lover's eyes will weep Lover's hearts get ripped apart 'Cause liars are the ones we trust Lover's dreams will fade Lover's eyes will weep Lover's hearts get ripped apart 'Cause liars are the ones we trust How can I lie ? How can I hide ? How can I live without you ? How can I lie ? How can I hide ? How can I live without you ? Speak out the truth Do you love me like I do ? 06 TOUCH DOWN Your words keep coming back Like a déjà vu Like honey on my plate I use to drink in the morning I use to smoke in the evening I use to put on my make up To try to hide all my breakups I use to run from my place To try to put on a straight face I use to hide behind dead things To try to cope in my blury days And now I'm Heading for a touchdown I'm heading for a touch down All the covers of the pills You fed me with to improve my skills All their taste and all their mess Make me to a dull princess I'm ready for a touch down It feels like a nervous breakdown inside my head Telling me It's alright Telling me It's time to break out It's alright Please - hold on Cause I am gonna fall I'm gonna fall ! Your words keep coming back Like a déjà vu Like honey on my plate Bam !!!! 07 FOOD FOR THOUGHT Neon signs and pretty faces Fancy brands and personal crises Big disasters in the news Swimming in your orange juice Food for thought is all around us Even when we sleep at night We get pushed into the corners From money hunter's evil lies Plastic is fantastic Pumps you up in every way Politicians doing their acts In different movies everyday Amusing Abusing Followers Excusers Distroying Annoying Confusing Amusing All the stuff you gotta swallow All the places you want to see All the stuff you got to absorb All the places you want to be Hoohoohoo Hoohoohoo Hahahaaa Hahahaaa Beauty queens of Hollywood Walk the boulevard The boulevard of broken dreams Where poison looks like butterflies Aahahahaaaaaaa Food for thought is all around us Even when we sleep at night Even when we sleep at night Even when we sleep at night Plastic is fantastic ! Beauty queens of Hollywood Walk the boulevard of broken dreams FOOD FOR THOUGHT ! Boulevard of broken dreams Where poison looks like butterflies FOOD FOR THOUGHT ! FOOD - FOR THOUGHT ! 08 INTO THE MIDDLE OF MY HEART In my dreams you came to me I saw your face so clearly You open your mouth You speak to me I hear your voice so near And then I knew I had to Find back to you I knew I had to find A way To the place into the middle of my heart There's where you lie Beside me The snow is falling on my face Like frozen little angels Trying to make... Footprints on the ground I almost hear the sound Of their laughter Still around me I can see All the love you gave to me Find my way To the place The place into the middle of my heart There's where you lie Beside me The place into the middle of my heart I nearly lost you on my way I nearly lost you And now I find back to you On the way Into the middle of my heart So I had to find back to you Find back to you I knew I had to find A way Find back to You Find back - To You ! 09 MATTER OF PRINCIPLE It's a matter of principles I got my principles I got my principles in life I got my mind loaded About what's wrong or right For every action There's another reaction The way you see it You got to believe it So yeah ! You gotta treat others The way you want them To treat you You gotta treat others The way you want them To treat you It's written in the holy book It's a simple kind of view I got my principles What's new ? For every action There's another reaction The way you see it You got to believe it For every action There's another reaction The way you see it You got to believe ! It's a matter of principle Oh - come on ! I got my spot But I keep my head up high I got my reason I got my principles in life It takes a hero to walk the line It takes a hunter to hunt I got my principles It's a matter of principles A matter of principles Oh yeah ! Matter of principles It's a matter of principles Oh yeah ! 10 WHAT MORE CAN I ASK FOR When I sit here Thinking about you And all the things We use to do When I sit here in the silence I finally realize The little things in life What's important and what's not worth to worry about 'Cause it don't make sense It don't even matter In the big picture It don't even counts Just like tears won't ease my pain Like how they won't disappear When you're not around here What more can I ask for ? What more is left to say - anyway ? What more can I ask for ? What more is left to say ? So I crawled up on my feet I got my bag And all I had Was a number I could dial Oh yeah ! This time it is forever It won't be long 'Til I'm standing as I am Outside your door Knocking hard as my heart beat goes ! What more can I ask for ? What more can I ask for ? What more can I ask for ? What more is left to say - anyway ? What more can I ask for ? What more is left to say ? 11 TRICKY GAMES You better keep your tongue straight in your mouth When you're dealing with the devil in disguise You better play your cards right If you wanna survive Ladies Night You better put on a straight face When you're drinking champagne With the guys You better wear your million dollar dress When you stick your nose into the white lines On the edge Of this tricky games You better walk straight with blind eyes When you're standing by the cross That will change your life What won't kill you will thrill you You better keep on a straight face Play these tricky games Play your cards right Play these tricky games Play these tricky games Tricky games Tricky games I'm walking on the edge Tricky games Play your cards right Of this tricky game Tricky games Tricky games Tricky games Tricky games TRICKY GAMES ! 12 BRIGHT LIGHT Let the music flow into you Let the music flow into your soul Let the music flow into you Let the music flow into your soul I put my dancing shoes on This time nothing can go wrong I'm feeling strong again I wanna dance alone, oh yeah ! I feel like dancing, baby I feel like dancing all night long I feel like dancing, baby I feel like dancing all night long I saw a bright light coming Coming my way I saw a bright light coming Coming my way I'm feeling strong again I wanna dance alone, oh yeah ! I feel like dancing, baby I feel like dancing all night long I close my eyes I feel like dancing, baby I feel like dancing all night long I let myself go hooohoooo ! I feel like dancing, baby I feel like dancing all night long I saw a bright light coming Suddenly up in the sky I saw a bright light coming Alright ! Shine on me, yeah Shine on me Shine on me, yeah Awwww.... Bright Light Bright light Light Baby's gonna join the show again Here we go again On the road again Baby's gonna take control again To be strong again Fell in love again Baby's gonna join the show again Here we go again On the road again Baby's gonna take control again To be strong again Fell in love again So put the music on ! Put the music on, yeah Put the music on again Let the music flow into you Let the music flow into you Let the music flow into your soul I feel like dancing I feel like dancing all night long I feel like dancing, baby I feel like dancing all night long I saw a bright light coming A bright light coming Hey yeah ! I saw a bright light coming A bright light coming Coming my way I know so many things now That I didn't know before I feel so much stronger now Than I did before 13 THE WILD YEARS Ain't it funny how it All comes back to you Some things are hard to swollow Some things you gotta chew Some pain is hard to stand Some things get out of hand Some changes are quite funny Sometimes it's hard to land Somehow you keep on Movin' Some of you pick your fights Along the way The wild years are over now Maybe they just begun The wild years are over now Maybe they just begun Some bruises will remind Some losers waist your time Some struggles comes your way Fight back and turn around So hold - on be strong Make sure your art of living Is about a way of givin' Come on come on come on The wild years are over now Keep on fighting For love Keep on fighting For love Love ! Wild years are over Wild years are over Ahaaaaa ! It's so funny How things turned out Wild years are over Wild years are over Turn around Turn around The wild years are over now Maybe they just begun The wild years are over now Maybe they just begun
Hg Schmitz - Tales of love and evilness - a pop rock opera in 14 acts
CJ BERRY - HG SCHMITZ - WIN-WIN-SITUATION, 2018 CJ and I started producing this fusion track in late 2017. But suddenly my PC crashed down and I had no access to the data of the broken hard disk drive anymore. Months went by before a good friend of mine made it possible to restore all the files which I thought would be lost for all times. So I started working on the tune again but then the next shock appeared. CJ became sick and he still hasn't recovered completely yet. All these bad circumstances made it really difficult to finish the song but finally we got it done. CJ BERRY: Solo Lead Guitar Arrangements HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition All Other Instruments & Programmings Arrangements Mix & Mastering Video Editing CJ & HG, 05 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Win-win-situation/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - SHAKE WELL BEFORE USE !, 2018 This is some straight forward stomping rock 'n' roll. The guitar tracks got originally recorded in 2009. Everything else I programmed completely new. A few days ago I had just the separate guitar tracks. The final arrangements of combining the new drums and bass programmings with the formerly loose guitar tracks made the whole thing to a serious song. The video I found on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 05 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Shake well before use !/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - S.T.U.P.I.D., 2011 / 2018 This is an instrumental pop rock song from the album 'Freshness" which I produced in 2011. It once got released on Fandalism as an audio upoad from Soundcloud. Now I have improved the sound quality of the entire recording and created a video what took a lot more time as the remaster of the song itself. I'm becoming more and more experienced in using the Adobe video software. It isn't all perfect but I made some progress. S.T.U.P.I.D. is the first new release of 4 remastered tracks from that album. I'm still working on the videos for the other 3 ones - ARMED TO LOVE, LOVERS AND HATERS and TOO MANY SUCKERS. Step by step I will post them in upcoming future. HG, 2011 - 05 / 2018 © 2011 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - S.t.u.p.i.d./ 2011 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - EXPERT TESTIMONIES, 2018 This is an unreleased instrumental funk song from 2016. I'd never been satisfied with the drum line and so I programmed a completely new one the last days. The title EXPERT TESTIMONIES occurred by reason of my fight against the German state. Around 3 years ago I applied for my pension because I'm incapable of work since I got sick almost 5 years ago. They send me from doctor to doctor for more and more expert testimonies. I had to lawyer up and went to court and now they play on time. I'm still waiting for the trial and I'm totally unsure about how long they want to let me wait. It is a helpless situation. HG, 2016 - 04 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Expert testimonies/ 2018
ANNEMIEK BEEX & HG SCHMITZ - TO MY MIND, 2018 After I'd finished my works on this jazzy pop song I actually felt pretty well with the final results. But then I had doubts. And I was right. On the original version I programmed a piano line which got more or less created by using the famous '2-finger-search-system'. The melody became very nice but it was just a sequence of single tones without any chord playing. I'm a lousy keyboarder. So I asked Annemiek Beex for joining me and that was a fantastic idea. I requested her to play as close as possible to the original melody of the programmings and she did it as swift and exact as an arrow. There is a difference of miles between a piano programmer like me and an educated piano player of her size. Annemiek is simply a genius on her instrument. She gave the atmosphere to the tune which was missing in my programmings. There is a special kind of depth in the music now that I wasn't able to create. Her skills on the piano are extraordinary great and I'm very happy about having her on board for this project. Thank you very much, Annemiek. ANNEMIEK BEEX: Piano HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition, All Instruments & Programmings, Arrangements, Mix & Mastering, Video Editing Annemiek & HG, 04 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - To my mind/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - I SAY HI, 2016 / 2018 My dear Baby ! Today I SAY HI to you. My last public declaration of love I sent you a longer while ago. It was time for doing it again. Music and video are just for you. This so far unreleased song is for my sweetheart Hilde. Since we met around 5 years ago she makes me happy everyday. I can't imagine a life without her anymore. We are still separated from each other and can't live a normal life at one and the same place. But we never give up and the day will come when we realize our dream. I wanted to post the tune way earlier but couldn't find the right video for it. Now I discovered the perfect one on Vimeo. It was really worth waiting for that. I used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. I love you my Snuff ! HG, 2016 - 04 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - I say hi/ 2016 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - DEMONIAC SNACK ATTACK, 2018 I know about some people who eat all the time - at least it seems to be like that, lol ! The special person I think about will know who I mean. One of those folks is myself. There are situations when I can't stop from stuffing me with food which isn't really healthy for the body. But in moments like that health doesn't count. It feels as if a 'DEMONIAC SNACK ATTACK' is coming over you without any chance of escape. And exactly this fact is the subject of the song I recorded around September and October 2017. It is a rock tune with influences of pop and punk. The video got finished a few days ago. HG, 2017 - 04 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Demoniac snack attack/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - NOT THAT I'M AWARE, 2011 / 2018 This is some straight rock 'n' roll. NOT THAT I'M AWARE is a so far unreleased song which got originally written and recorded in 2011. Around 2 weeks ago I started remastering the original tracks and tried to improve the entire sound quality as good as possible. HG, 2011 - 03 / 2018 © 2011 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Not that i'm aware/ 2011 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - A REGGAE TRILOGY, 2018 This is a compilation of 3 instrumental reggae songs from different production times. 1. Nutty As A Fruitcake - 2016 2. Essential Elements - 2017 3. In This Manner - 2008 Song 1 & 2 are unreleased tracks until now. Song 3 got posted before on Fandalism as an audio upload from Soundcloud but the new remastered version has a way better sound. The video to track 1 will show you the house and "garden" of Bob Marley. Video 2 is a presentation of daily Jamaican life and some indigenous people from the island. The 3rd video shows an older Jamaican man who is doing his morning hygiene at a riverbank before dressing up himself in a strange kind of typical Jamaican ritual. All 3 videos got taken from Vimeo for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 03 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - A reggae trilogy/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - PACK IT IN !, 2018 This one is for hard rock lovers. It's becoming loud, folks !!!! I have an affinity for this kind of music. From time to time I like to rock hard. Written, Played, Programmed, Recorded, Arranged, Mixed & Mastered by HG SCHMITZ. HG, 02 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Pack it in !/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - WATER IS WHAT WE NEED, 2017 Reggae is what I need ! Again and again ! This is an unreleased song from 2017. Please enjoy ! HG, 2017 - 02 / 2018 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Water is what we need/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - PERIODICAL BEHAVIOUR, 2008 /2017 This is another unreleased song from the past which got remixed and remastered in 2017. The original recording tracks and programmings are from 2008. 'PERIODICAL BEHAVIOUR' is an instrumental rock song. The video takes an ironic look at some of our daily rituals and habits. I found it on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 2008 / 2017 - 02 / 2018, © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Periodical behaviour/ 2008 /2017
HG SCHMITZ - TALKING GERLISHWEGIAN, 2018 If you aren't capable of speaking the language of your girlfriend, and your sweetheart can't speak your own mother tongue you have to make a compromise of meeting in the middle. My sweetheart is Norwegian. I am German. So we communicate in English cause that's what we both are able to understand and speak. But now and then we amend some words of our mother languages to our conversations and that sounds quite funny sometimes. We created our own special kind of accommodation. 'TALKING GERLISHWEGIAN' is a simple instrumental pop rock song from the beginning of this year which relates to that subject. The footage and pictures of the video were taken from Vimeo for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 02 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Talking gerlishwegian/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - SHADE-LOVING SOULS, 2018 An alternative rock song with influences of funk and pop music. The structure of the arrangement doesn't follow the normal and ordinary rules of usual build-ups in rock or pop music. I have tried to veer away from a normal structure. There isn't a real A-part or B-part and there are no repeats of parts which are normally appearing in pop & rock arrangements. There is an intro and an outro but between the opening and the finishing part verses and choruses are variegating again and again. It depends on the listener where to find a bridge part. The one hears it here, the other one there and maybe there are also people who can't find a bridge at all. I have worked in just 2 basic tonalities - E and F - what makes the tune sounding quite simple. For all the guitars I have used several virtual amps of the 'Guitar Rig 4' tool, as well the guitar sounds are from that tool. I've played all the guitars directly into my PC. The drum programmings were made with the sounds of the 'BFD 2' drum software and the keys and synths got programmed with the 'Nexus' tool. The bass programmings got done with 'Trilian' from Spectrasonics. The video installation got created with the Adobe Premiere Elements software. Enjoy ! HG, 01 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Shade-loving souls/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - QUICK ART, 2018 This song is some Progressive Funk. All tracks got originally recorded and programmed in 2016 but since that time I'd never been working on a constructive arrangement. That I did in the past 2 months. Finally I started working on the video. On Christmas Hilde got a new video editing software from me. The former one she usually used she gave to me. It is way better as any other video tool I ever owened before. But I have to learn how to use it and this video here is one of my first attemps. 'Quick Art' is an homage to the life of Hilde and me and Hilde's two cats - four creatures who definitely became one. HG, 01 / 2018 © 2018 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Quick art/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - HOSTAGES OF TIME, 2007 / 2018 Progressive Rock isn't what I do every day. But there has been a time when I experimented with a lot of different styles. 'Hostages Of Time' occured in a period between 2006 and 2007. The original tracks weren't usable because of many sound deficits, except the drum line. Step by step I redid all recordings and programmings and the very final step was the video. It became quite simple but it goes with the message of music and title pretty well. Have a good time everybody - wherever you are in this world. HG, 2007 - 01 / 2018 © 2007 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Hostages of time / 2007 / 2018
JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD + HG SCHMITZ - MAN ON THE MOON, 2014 / 2018 This pop rock song got written by Johnny in 2014. He sent me a rough copy and asked me for doing some adds. So I started immediately working on the tune. Finally I added some additional drums and the entire C-part which starts at around 2:24. Somehow we both almost forgot about this song. I can remember that we planed to make some variations on the arrangements and Johnny thought the drum rolls at the beginning of the song were too heavy. At that time in 2014 we also worked on several other projects and maybe that has been the reason why "The Man On The Moon" got out of our sight. Finally I re-discovered the song and started working on a remaster. The video I found on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD: Idea & Composition Keys & Synths Main Rhythm Guitar Drums Bass Lyrics Vocals Arrangements Pre-Mix & Mastering (2014) HG SCHMITZ: Add. Drums Add. Bass Add. Rhythm Guitars Solo Guitar Arrangements Final Mix & Mastering (2018) Video Editing (2018) Johnny & HG, 2014 - 01 / 2018 © 2014 This is a Grauengaard / Schmitz Production
Hg Schmitz - Man on the moon/ 2014 / 2018
HG SCHMITZ - KICK IT OFF, 2017 / 2018 Around a year ago there was a time when my Marshall amp broke down. At a moment's notice I couldn't record guitar stuff anymore. What to do in a situation like this ? So I started working on some electronic productions by using different kinds of synths, keys, electronic drums and midi-guitars. Finally 3 songs occured and "Kick It Off" is one of them. The music style is hard to describe. I would like to call it "Electro-Funk-Pop-Rock" with a touch of Techno, lol. For the drums and percussion I used the Electronic Kit from EZ Drummer. All other recording tracks got programmed with a bunch of synths, such as Nexus, Predator, Blue, Moog Modular, Memorymoon, etc. I also used the sounds of the Hypersonic 2 multi-instrument tool from Steinberg, especially for the midi guitars. In the end it became a rhythmic and danceable something which wasn't really planed at the beginning and that's exactly what makes me so obsessed of creating music. It was great fun seeing the development while working on the tune. I feel quite contented with the final results. HG, 2017 - 01 / 2018 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Kick it off/ 2016 / 2017
HILDE SVENDSRUD - JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD - HG SCHMITZ DO YOU FEEL LOVE, 2018 The first song we like to post in the new year is a co-production of Hilde, Johnny and myself. It is a pop song with Hilde and Johnny on vocals. We started this project a while ago around November 2017. On the 2nd day of Christmas Johnny surprised us with the final version when I'd been in Norway visiting my Baby. Hilde started immediately with her video works and voilà - here it is ! HILDE SVENDSRUD: Additional Vocals, Video Editing, Cover Pic JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD: Lyrics, Lead Vocals, Moog Solo, Vocal Arrangements, Final Mix & Mastering HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition, All Instruments & Programmings, Instrumental Arrangements, Pre-Mix & Mastering If not said somewhere before we like to wish everybody a Happy New Year. Hilde, Johnny & HG, 01 / 2018 © 2018 All Rights - Svendsrud / Grauengaard / Schmitz Lyrics: `DO YOU FEEL LOVE` Hilde: Mmm... Sometimes it feels like... Sometimes... So many times - quite alright - ah ha Isn’t it funny how we are Johnny: Strangers on the telephone Souls who are all alone Broken dreams your heart is bleeding When you’re down when you’re on your own Just smashed the telephone 'Cause love is like a fist there's beating Someone in the universe Someone’s gonna hit you first Someone’ll hit your heart drum. Do you feel love Do you feel love Do you feel love Hilde: it’s alright, it’s alright Johnny: Do you feel love Hilde: it’s alright, it’s alright - it’s alright Johnny: If you’re gonna take my heart. Be honest from the start. You’ve just have to take it easy. I’ve been down on that road. When love was a sinking boat. And I don’t want a girl who teases me. Someone in the universe Someone’s gonna hit you first Someone hit your heart drum. Hilde: Your heart drum. Johnny: Someone in the universe Someone’s gonna hit you first Someone hit your heart drum. Do you feel love Hilde: Do you feel love Johnny: Do you feel love Hilde: Do you feel love Johnny: Do you feel love Hilde: it’s alright, it’s alright - ah ha Johnny: Do you feel love Hilde: it’s alright, it’s alright - it’s alright. Johnny: Someone in the universe Hilde: Touching the sky Johnny: Someone in the universe Hilde: It’s alright, it’s alright - it’s alright Johnny: Someone in the universe Hilde: Ah ah ah I touched the lover, I touched the shining star Johnny: Someone in the universe Hilde: Yeah yeah Johnny: Someone in the universe Hilde: Uh uh uh uh
Hg Schmitz - Do you feel love/ 2018
HG SCHMITZ - LET THERE BE LIGHT, 2017 Most of the recording tracks I used for this song are from 2010, except the drums and bass programmings which are brand-new. Finding the video on Vimeo was a sheer stroke of luck. I'd been searching for a longer time to find some adequate footage and what I finally discovered is the perfect fit that meshes definitely with the title of the song. The video shows one of the most unusual and felicitous fashion events I have ever seen. This is what I call innovative and creative art. The makers, especially the lightning choreographs, did a tremendous great job as I think. Just having the idea of doing something like this deserves top appreciation. Please enjoy music and pictures. HG, 12 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Let there be light/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - NO TIME FOR NOTHING, 2008 / 2017 What you will hear now is an instrumental jazz song with R&B influences. It is one of my early attempts of creating elaborate horns arrangements. The tune got posted on Fandalism for the very first time as an audio upload from Soundcloud in 2008 but shortly after the release I deleted it again because I didn't felt satisfied with the sound quality. More than 9 years later I added some footage to the music and improved the sound as good as possible. I haven't recorded any new tone for the new mix. All tracks are definitely from 2008. For everybody who is interested in looking for the virtual instruments I utilized, as well the guitars I played and the appropriate recording equipment I used, here is a list. Used software for the programmings: Drums: Addictive Drums, EZ Drummer (Rock - Pop Kit) Percussion: EZ Drummer (Percussion Kit) Bass: Trilogy (previous version of Trilian from Spectrasonics) Keys & Synths: Hypersonic 2 from Steinberg, Nexus, Blue from Rob Papen FX's: Hypersonic 2, Nexus Trumpets: Sample Modeling - The Trumpet Saxes: SaxLab from LinPlug Played instruments: Acoustic Guitar: Ovation Microphone: Neumann Electric Guitars: Ibanez SA 220 FM, Gibson SG Amp: Marshall Mix & Mastering: Lexicon, Waves HG, 2008 - 12 / 2017 © 2009 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - No time for nothing/ 2008 / 2017
KENT TAYLOR + HG SCHMITZ - PANTYWAISTS, 2013 / 2015 This funk tune from 2015 shows Kent's skills on the drums. In the past 2 weeks I have remastered the entire recording, well knowing that his birthday is coming up. And today is the day of the days ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER !! All best wishes from Hilde & I and kind regards to Ruth. Have a good toke and plenty of beers. KENT TAYLOR: Drums & Video Editing HG SCHMITZ: Idea & Composition, All Instruments & Programmings, Arrangements, Mix & Mastering (Remastering) Kent & HG, 2015 - 12 / 2017 © 2015 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Pantywaists/ 2013 / 2015
HG SCHMITZ - EXTINGUISHERS IN HELL, 2016 / 2017 This is a hard rock track I recorded and produced in 2016. The final mix and mastering I did in October 2017. It would be a cool thing ( in the truest sense of the word ) having an extinguisher with you when you go to hell. HG, 2016 - 12 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Extinguishers in hell/ 2016 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - LISTEN UP !, 2017 This is a piece of fast forward stomping instrumental Rock 'n' Roll. All the guitar recordings, drums and bass programmings are from 2016. The final mix and mastering I did in October 2017. There are no keys or synths used. HG, 11 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Listen up !/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - FROG IN MY THROAT, 2010 / 2017 This is another unreleased track from the vault. It is an instrumental rock song which got originally recorded in 2010. I started remastering the project around 2 months ago and tried to improve the sound quality as good as possible. It didn't became perfect but now I like to post it because I feel almost satisfied with the final results. HG, 2010 - 11 / 2017 © 2010 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Frog in my throat/ 2010 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU, 2017 This song is just for you, Snuff. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR !!! Here are some numbers: 2102400 minutes or 35064 hours or 1461 days or 208, 7142857143 weeks or 48,7 months ...or better to say 4 years and one day !!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the time we are together now. I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART and I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU !!!!!
Hg Schmitz - I would give my life for you/ 2017
SA.GO.BA. - HG SCHMITZ HIT THE JACKPOT, 2017 This funk song has been a hard one to do. What sounds so easy and simple was a very hard and difficult job, as well the instrumental work as Sam's vocal creation. Some obstacles impeded an earlier finishing of the tune. My PC collapsed and I couldn't work on music for several weeks. Sam had severe health problems and had to set priorities to his recovering. Finally we did it and today we want to present our new common song. Please listen to Sam's thoughts, fears and feelings he had the night before hurricane Irma came. SA.GO.BA.: LYRICS, VOCALS, VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, FINAL MIX & MASTERING HG SCHMITZ: IDEA & COMPOSITION, ALL INSTRUMENTS & PROGRAMMINGS, INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS, PRE-MIX & MASTERING, VIDEO EDITING Sam & HG, 10 / 2017 © 2017 This is a Sa.Go.Ba. / Schmitz Production
Hg Schmitz - Hit the jackpot/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - JUST ABOUT THE LIMIT, 2017 This is an alternative hard rock song I had in my folder of unreleased tracks since a longer time. Posting it was overdue. The footage of the video I found on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. The cover photo got shot by Hilde Svendsrud while we visited the city of Oslo, Norway. In the background you can see the residence of the Norwegean Royal Couple. HG, 10 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Just about the limit/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - SLAP IT OUT !, 2017 Another song from the vault. This is an instrumental punk rock tune which got constructed in 2017. The guitar tracks I used are originally from 2009. All this material has never got arranged as a seriously real produced song. The drums and bass programmings are completely new and it has been some kind of a puzzle to get it all together working well with the guitar stuff. Finally the track became 2.55 minutes long and I'm very glad I could realize it to what it is now. For all lovers of speedy punk rock. Please enjoy ! HG, 10 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Slap it out !/ 2017
HILDE SVENDSRUD - JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD - HG SCHMITZ - 'OUT-OF-FOCUS, 2017' This new project Hilde and I created in coproduction with JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD from Sweden. I'm always fascinated about how well Hilde and Johnny blend with each other when they sing together. They both have an affinity for this kind of pop music. The song is structured very simple and easy and maybe that's the reason why it became so catchy. Simplicity is the key and so I abstained from elaborate keys or guitar solos, deliberately, while working on the instrumental. Please enjoy your listen well, everybody. HILDE SVENDSRUD: VOCALS, VIDEO EDITING JOHNNY GRAUENGAARD: LYRICS, VOCALS, VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, ADDITIONAL GUITARS, FINAL MIX & MASTERING HG SCHMITZ: IDEA & COMPOSITION, DRUMS, KEYS & BASS PROGRAMMINGS, GUITARS, ARRANGEMENTS, PRE-MIX & MASTERING Hilde, Johnny & HG, 09 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS All Rights - Schmitz / Svendsrud / Grauengaard
Hg Schmitz - 'out-of-focus'/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - LIGHTS AT NIGHT, 2009 / 2017 A classic rock instrumental - originally recorded in 2009, remastered 2017. Currently I rework several recordings from the past. There's a lot of stuff that wants to come out of the vault, lol. "Lights At Night" is just one of those tracks that got constructed and arranged with guitar snippets from different time periods. The drums and bass programmings are completely new. Sometimes I feel totally astounded about all the useful material I discover that I once recorded while practicing on the guitar. I have never expected this stuff could be worth that much for creating serious song arrangements. The video I found on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 2009 - 09 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Lights at night/ 2009 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - THE POPE ON SPEED, 2007 / 2017 This funk rock tune got originally recorded in 2007. I once released it as an audio upload from Soundcloud. But I felt unsatisfied of having no video for the background. So I started searching for some footage on Vimeo and voilà - I found this little animated cartoon which fits perfectly to the music. This is a satiric and ironic view on the pedophiliac misconducts of many members from the Catholic Church. The only way to stand those unacceptable deeds which - as the official statements of the high-ranking church dignitaries said - had been 'individual cases', is taking it with a little humor. Talking about 'exceptions' makes the whole scandal even more worse and the Catholic Church becomes more and more implausible. They still sing their praises of the celibacy. The video got used for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 2007 - 09 / 2017 © 2007 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - The pope on speed/ 2007 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - SCARED OF HEIGHTS, 2017 This is an alternative hard rock song. The guitar tracks I used are from different recording periods. Some of them are from 2006, others from 2011 and 2015. Bass and drums got programmed during the past 3 weeks. I am totally afraid of heights. Don't really know where my phobia comes from. The strange thing is that my fears only appear when I'm somewhere in the open air what means that I don't have any problems with heights as long as I'm in closed rooms, for instance while flying in an aeroplane, sitting in a restaurant of a television tower or looking out of the window of a higher building. Sometimes it even scares me passing a high bridge with my car. The video I found on Vimeo and used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 09 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Scared of heights/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - RAPID, 2005 / 2017 This rock song got originally recorded in 2005. After the total loss of my PC around 3 months ago this project from the past is my second release using my new equipment. The song got remastered approximately 2 or 3 weeks before my former computer collapsed. This is the first publication. I took the video from Vimeo for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 2005 - 08 / 2017 © 2017 HGS Productions
Hg Schmitz - Rapid/ 2005 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - STROKE AND HEART ATTACK, 2004 / 2017 After an odyssey of computer problems I'm back now. During my absence from Fanda several good friends of mine had severe health issues. For those people I want to post this song. It is a funk rock tune which got originally recorded in 2004. After I got all my data back of what I thought it was lost for all times I decided for re-posting this one. May all you guys have a quick recovery. HG, 2004 - 08 / 2017 © 2004 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Stroke and heart attack/ 2004 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - SARTORIAL ELEGANCE, 2011 Written, recorded and programmed in 2011 this song got posted on Fanda in 2015 as an audio upload from Soundcloud. Now I have remastered the tune and put some footage behind the music. The video shows excerpts from the 'MidnightMare Fashion Show'. I'm not very familiar with fashion presentations and I can't keep Gucci apart from Chanel but this kind of clothing the models wear on the catwalk I really like. Probably it is because of the colours 'cause I'm a fan of black and white. This kind of fashion isn't too excessively stylish and can be worn by everybody. Have fun with the music. HG, 07 / 2017 © 2011 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Sartorial elegance/ 2011
MELVIN DONOVAN - GABRIELLA GAINES - HG SCHMITZ - WE REAP WHAT WE SOW, 2017 In a way this song is a counterbalance to the lastest posts I did. 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW' is some kind of folk rock, or better, country rock. I always liked to have alternation in styles and I want to keep on doing that. My partner on this tune is MELVIN DONOVAN who invited his granddaughter to participate in doing some additional vocals. Thank you very much GABRIELLA GAINES for having been with us here. After a few months of the Trump administration the whole world could see how sick this man is in his brain. He is nothing but a narcissist and psychopath. The best proof for that was his behaviour at the G7-meating in Europe, lately. All the voters of Trump reap what they sow now and that's what the footage of the video is all about. I'm feeling so sad for all the people who didn't voted for him but have to put up with him now. MELVIN DONOVAN: LYRICS, VOCALS, 12-STRING GUITAR GABRIELLA GAINES: ADDITIONAL VOCALS HG SCHMITZ: IDEA AND COMPOSITION, ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC GUITARS, DRUMS AND BASS PROGRAMMINGS, ARRANGEMENTS, MIX AND MASTERING, VIDEO EDITING Gabriella, Melvin & HG, 05 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - We reap what we sow/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - ACTUALLY... - 2010 / 2017 Another track from the past. 'ACTUALLY' is an instrumental alternative rock song which got originally recorded in 2010. I never released it before because I didn't felt contented with sound and arrangement. Even today the sound quality isn't perfect but the re-arrangement of the entire track became pretty well now. One word to my friend MELVIN DONOVAN. Mel - when I was looking for a video I found this one on Vimeo. The title reminded me of you. I really don't know why the filmmaker decided for this title but I had to smile when I first read it. The movie is called "Melvin The Magical Mixed Media Machine". LOL !!!!!!! Please enjoy Ladies and Gentlemen ! HG, 2010 - 05 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Actually... - 2010 / 2017
CHET FORTUNE & HG SCHMITZ - SUDDENLY (written by Billy Ocean) I don't do cover versions very often. But when Chet asked me to participate on a reggae version of this classic I couldn't resist. CHET FORTUNE: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Drums, Arrangements HG SCHMITZ: Drums, Percussion, Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Arrangements, Mix & Mastering, Video Editing Please enjoy everybody ! Chet & HG, 05 / 2017
Hg Schmitz - Suddenly/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - IF TOUCHES COULD KILL, 2007 / 2017 I think many people who are creating music know about the situation of incompleted and unfinished projects which once got started but never finished. After a while you almost forget about them because you go on working on other productions. 'IF TOUCHES COULD KILL' is a good example for that. I started working on this particular tune in 2007. Solely the guitar tracks were in a satisfying condition when I rediscovered the song. All the rest - bass, drums, the sound quality of the entire tune and the arrangement - needed improvements. In the middle of 2016 I began reworking the whole material. Originally the title of the song was "If Looks Could Kill". I finished my works around the beginning of December 2016, right in time for Franck Szypura's birthday on the 11th of December. So this song became his birthday present. It was just an audio track. A while later I found the video I finally used on Vimeo. Everybody who's watching it will understand immediately why I changed the title from "If Looks Could Kill" to "If Touches Could Kill". The new title meshed with the story line of the movie to 100 %. "If Touches Could Kill" is a classic rock song. There are no synths and keys used, just drums and bass programmings and my guitars. Please enjoy ! HG, 2007 - 05 / 2017 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - If touches could kill/ 2007 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - BLOOD RUNS COLD, 2010 / 2017 This is some pop rock with a punky vibe, originally recorded in 2010. I'd been working on the remaster of the instrumental around 3 weeks ago shortly before I went to visit my sweetheart in Norway for a fortnight. After my return to Germany yesterday I tried to detract myself from being in a bad mood because of missing my baby. So I decided spontaneously to post this song today. The video got taken from Vimeo for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 2010 - 04 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Blood runs cold/ 2010 / 2017
ALBERT DESOTO - HG SCHMITZ JUSTICE IS A CONSTANT FIGHT, 2017 The instrumental of this rock song got originally recorded in 2006. In October 2016 I sent it to Albert after I did a remaster of the whole material. Somehow I heard Al's voice on the tune even before I asked him to sing to it and I'd been feeling very glad when he agreed to my request of becoming my partner for this production. Step by step we implemented the project and today we can proudly present the final results of our works. Dear Albert ! Your lyrics and the pictures you used for the video are showing Hilde and me that you have totally understood about her and my situation. You have put yourself into our place and you have also realized the unsatisfying circumstances we had and still have to walk through since 4 years. When Hilde and I watched the video for the first time we felt deeply touched and we both want to thank you very much for your empathy. Albert DeSoto: Lyrics, Vocals, Arrangements, Video Editing HG Schmitz: Idea & Composition, All Instruments & Programmings, Arrangements, Mix & Mastering Please go to Albert's Fanda page, too, which you will find here: http://www.fandalism.com/albeone Albert & HG, 2006 - 04 / 2017 © 2017 - HGS PRODUCTIONS LYRICS: Justice when it’s denied, takes hold of everything, you took something that belonged to me, how about a little common courtesy? I need your love, can you give it back I don’t want to have a heart attack You are misunderstood Hold tight, play back, jump out if you could You are so misunderstood lay it down on the line all night like you should Insults when their applied, sharp words are severing I said some things that I did not mean, that might have been a bit extreme This emotion has a lock on me, only love will set me free. You are misunderstood Hold tight, play back, jump out if you could You are so misunderstood lay it down on the line all night like you should Please don’t be ashamed of the things you said to me right here That is not the point I’m trying to make with you right now I’m so in love with you You are misunderstood You are so misunderstood But I like It Now is not the time to air it out with me right now Please come back to me and see what it was meant to be your so misunderstood
Hg Schmitz - Justice is a constant fight/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - HEY FRANK, 2001 / 2017 In all probability this is the very first serious recording I ever did. Around one year after starting playing guitar I programmed a drum and bass groove that steadily repeats, added an organ and layed a solo guitar improvisation over it. Technically it is nothing special but I like the melody I played. All over the years I have tried to redo the whole solo but I always failed. I never came close to the original recording, neither in tone nor in melody. It was one of those moments back in 2001 when I did something instinctively which I can't repeat in exactly the same way. Finally I decided to improve the original tracks as good as possible and here are the results. HG, 2001 - 03 / 2017 © 2001 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Hey frank/ 2001 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY, 2011 / 2017 Just an homage to my musical idol - Mr. Frank Zappa. For everybody who shares my sympathy for this awesome musician. Can you imagine what beautiful kind of music this man could have created if he wouldn't have passed away so very early ? I miss him and those times of creative music writing. HG, 2011 - 03 / 2017 © 2011 - HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Great googly-moogly/ 2011 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - BRUSH YA TEETH WELL, 2008 / 2017 For MR. NIGE ROBINSON. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRO, from Hilde and I. This is a mixture of rock, pop and funk. We hope you like it. Have a splendid day today because this day is yours. Best wishes from us. HG, 2008 - 03 / 2017 © 2008 - HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Brush ya teeth well/ 2008 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - LET'S DO IT NOW AND HERE ! 2002 / 2017 This particular song is a very special one for me. Never had the time for reworking the old tracks but now I finally got it made. They all got originally recorded in 2002. The first release was in 2005. 1999 I started playing guitar seriously and at the same time I began to learn how to work with Cubase. Haven't had a clue about how to use a sequencer correctly at those days. Anyway, I always knew that the recordings from 15 years ago had some kind of potential. "LET'S DO IT NOW AND HERE" is the very first reggae tune I ever produced. What I love the most is that steady monotone groove of the tune. 7.15 minutes are passing by as if it were only 2. The guitars got recorded by playing them with the sounds of the "Guitar Rig 2" directly into my PC. Haven't used an amp. From my point of view of today I can't really believe something like this is possible. The organ and the clavinet got programmed with the "Hypersonic 2" VST from Steinberg. This program is running on 32 bits only and I'm very happy I kept one PC which is able to work with it. The sounds are simply marvelous. "Hypersonic 2" is a multi-instrumental tool offering you sounds for basses, keys, synths, strings, drums, percussions and many more. For the drum line I used the BFD 2 tool and the bass got made with the forerunner of "Trilian" called "Trilogy" from Spectrasonics. Please enjoy the song and don't be too critical with your assessments. This tune is from my very early days. HG, 2002 - 03 / 2017 © 2005 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Let's do it now and here !/ 2002 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - THE HUMAN FACTOR, 2007 / 2017 After several posts of collaborations with different musicians and releases of songs I produced with my cohabitee Hilde Svendsrud I decided to remaster one of my solo projects which I like to present today. Currently Hilde works on the videos for two of our new "Schmitzruds" productions. Both songs are completely finished but the videos are missing. That gives me the time to post this tune I have produced by my own. It is a rock song that contains no other instruments as acoustic and electric guitars, bass and drum programmings. "The Human Factor" got originally recorded in 2007. The tune needed some improvements which I have done while remastering all the tracks a few weeks ago. Now I found a really cool video on Vimeo that I used without any commercial purposes. All Instruments & Programmings, Arrangements, Mix & (Re)Mastering by HG SCHMITZ Please enjoy ! HG, 2007 - 03 / 2017 © 2007 - HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - The human factor/ 2007 / 2017
MELVIN DONOVAN + HG SCHMITZ - EVERYTHING WILL TURN OUT WELL, 2017 Approximately 2 months ago I got inspired of recording a country song what I have never done before in my life. The person who motivated me was DAVE RODRIGUEZ and so this song is dedicated to him and his wife ANNETTE. During the production process of the instrumental I knew already who to ask for writing the lyrics and singing to the song - MELVIN DONOVAN. And once again it was the right choice. I'm very happy he joined me on this project. In uncertain times of the Trump administration in the USA millions of people all over the world are feeling afraid of dark times coming up. This "president" is totally incapable. One possiblity to stand the situation is pure optimism and so I called the song "EVERYTHING WILL TURN OUT WELL". Melvin's lyrics are critical, informative, provocative, sarcastic and funny at the same time. As a German I wouldn't have been able of writing a text like this as Melvin did it in his mother tongue. He also did an awesome great job by presenting his words on the vocal. MELVIN DONOVAN: LYRICS & VOCALS HG SCHMITZ: IDEA AND COMPOSITION, ALL INSTRUMENTS AND PROGRAMMINGS, ARRANGEMENTS, MIX AND MASTERING, VIDEO EDITING Please don't stop watching the video after the credits have passed. There is some interesting footage I attached to the end. Melvin & HG, 02 / 2017 © 2017 - HGS PRODUCTIONS Entire Lyrics: Hey, Bobby Lee, Betty-Lou, sister-Sue and Johnny, too There's a new circus rolling into town (Just come on down) A herd of elephants marching up the street That new orange clown, that everyone just dyin' to meet Bring your hammers and your saws We're gonna build us a great big wall Everything, everything will turn out well (What the hell) Everything, everything is going to turn out well (in the end) Going to DC going to drain that big old swamp Anyone that gets in our way, well we're going to stomp But first, let's have There'll be chili, kegs of beer Come on folks from far and near Everything, everything will turn out well Everything, everything will turn out well (But what's that smell) Alright, let's see, let's get rid of that old Obama Care And get Hillary the hell out of our hair Next up, we'll put, Rex T as head of State His close ties with Putin, will sure to help make America GREAT (AGAIN!) Fill the cabinet with the heads of Goldman Sachs The same guys that caused the market crash a few years back Put Steve Bannon in charge of a big old axe Heads will roll if there's even a hint of any pushback Everything, everything will turn out well (In our dreams) Everything, everything will turn out well (What the hell) (In our dreams) Everything, everything will turn out well Everything, everything will turn out well But what's that smell?
Hg Schmitz - Everything will turn out well/ 2017
SAGOBA + HG SCHMITZ - MY DOCTOR IS A FOOL, 2017 Sam and I are very glad we can proudly present our new common work today. This project took us a few months to finish it. Sam stuck in his works of producing an album and I'd been working on several other projects during that time. But today our baby got born ! The title "MY DOCTOR IS A FOOL, 2017" relates on an experience I made with a pain therapist last year. I want to spare you mentioning any details of that quaint meeting I had with this man. All I can say is that he acted so unbelievably strange that I decided to choose this title for my current project I'd been working on at that time. SAGOBA: LYRICS, VOCALS, ORGAN, ARRANGEMENTS, FINAL MIX & MASTERING HG SCHMITZ: IDEA AND COMPOSITION, ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS & PROGRAMMINGS, ARRANGEMENTS, PREVIOUS MIX & MASTERING, VIDEO EDIT We hope you'll like what you see and hear. Thanks to everybody for watching and listening. SAGOBA & HG, 02 / 2017 © 2017 - HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - My doctor is a fool/ 2017
HG SCHMITZ - GET ME GOING, 2016 Dear Melvin ! I almost forgot about your birthday today but fortunately I got a wink from my Skype birthday reminder. HAPPY BIRTHDAY from Hilde and myself. In October and November last year I posted several reggae tunes on You Tube without releasing them on Fanda. I have decided for a special one of them and want to dedicate it to you. I know you haven't been a huge fan of reggae music before we met as you said by yourself. This music can be so very heartfelt and I hope you will like this particular song I have chosen. This is a very unusual love story. A srew found it's nut. The ways of love are incomprehensible. Another remaster of a reggae tune which got originally recorded in 2006. The video "Screwed Up" I found on Vimeo. I used it for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 2006 - 11 / 2016 © 2006 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Get me going/ 2016
HG SCHMITZ - LMFAO, 2016 How to create my own raree show ? That's the question Will asked himself and the video is showing how he realised it. Animalistic ! I found this little video on Vimeo and decided to use it for my song, spontaneously. Idea, Composition, All Instruments And Programmings, Arrangements, Mix And Mastering by HG SCHMITZ Originally recorded and programmed in 2007, remastered 10 / 2016. HG, 01 / 2017 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Lmfao/ 2016
MELVIN DONOVAN + HG SCHMITZ LIFE IS THE HARDEST, 2007 / 2017 The instrumental of this song got originally recorded in 2007. I had the opportunity of using the equipment from my friend Philip who also had been responsible for the recordings of the acoustic guitars. A while ago around the last quarter of 2016 I asked Melvin if he likes to write some lyrics for the tune and to sing to it. He's always my favourite choice when I'm doing music which is going into any direction of folk. And my choice was right - Melvin never disappoints me. He also added his unmistakably sounding 12-string acoustic guitar which became an absolute winner for the song. MELVIN DONOVAN: LYRICS, VOCALS, 12-STRING GUITAR, COVER PIC HG SCHMITZ: IDEA AND COMPOSITION, ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS AND PROGRAMMINGS, ARRANGEMENTS, MIX AND MASTERING Please enjoy, Ladies and Gentlemen ! Melvin & HG, 2007 - 01 / 2017 © 2017 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Life is the hardest/ 2007 / 2017
HG SCHMITZ - TOO MUCH DATA, 2005 / 2016 This is my very first post in 2017. In our fast moving times life gets more and more influenced by masses of data. As a person who got born in the late 50's I remember times when only 2 TV programs were available, telephones had dial plates and my most professional recording equipment was a Dolby-C tape recorder. Today there's a lot more of media. And of course, there is also way more data that creeps into our brains causing an overdose of information. This song got originally recorded in 2005. I had just a very few guitar bits from that time I could use. Bass and drums got programmed completely new. There are no other instruments used. TOO MUCH DATA is a simple structured punk rock tune. HG, 2005 - 11 / 2016 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Too much data/ 2005 / 2016
HG SCHMITZ - ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES, 2006 / 2016 HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENT TAYLOR ! We both Hilde and I want to send you our best wishes. 60 - it's a magic number ! In 2 years I will reach that age where you are now. Here is some Deep Roots Reggae for you ! Jah, Mon !! Enjoy !! Written, recorded and programmed in 2006. Remastered 2016. All tracks are the original ones from 10 years ago. I limited myself to use this stuff only and haven't added any new tone. Just let me say some words to the video. Cannabis can be a magical help for people who are suffering under horrible pains. It isn't just the drug devil as many people see it. Reggae like this is and stays one of my favourite music styles. I'm still working on some more remasters. HG, 2006 - 12 / 2016 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - All the bells and whistles/ 2006 / 2016
KAIBOARD + HG SCHMITZ - BAREFOOT JIGS ON PUSHPINS, 2016 This is my very first common project with Kai we did by our own. He once told me he'd been playing in a metal band in the past. So we decided to work on an instrumental that I recorded several years ago - not really a metal but a hard rock tune. ( or is it metal ??? ) Kai played all keys and synths, did the final mix and mastering and edited the video. I played the guitars and programmed bass and drums. Kai's skills on the keys are tremendous. It is such a piece of luck for me having him as my partner on this tune. This song is for all lovers of harder rock 'n' roll. The German fraction from Munich and Duisburg - Kai & HG, 12 / 2016
Hg Schmitz - Barefoot jigs on pushpins/ 2016
HG SCHMITZ - BREVITY'S THE SOUL OF WIT, 2005 / 2016 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to DOUG STEIGERWALD ! All best wishes from Hilde and I, Doug !! One more post of a recording from the past for all the rockers of you. Another very simple structured punk rock tune - LOUD, SPEEDY, HOT & SHORT. Originally recorded in 2005. Remastered in 2016. HG, 2005 - 12 / 2016 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Brevity's the soul of wit/ 2005 / 2016
HG SCHMITZ - MISIMPRESSIONS, 2016 This is reggae music - some deep roots reggae. The song got originally recorded in 2006. It was my year of doing a lot of reggae stuff. I have started to remaster a serie of songs from that time. "MISIMPRESSIONS" is one of them. I love this monotone groove and the simplicity of that tune. Less is really more sometimes. The song contains no complex guitar solos or other elaborate arrangements. Even the horns are very simple but this is exactly what the song needs. So I hope you like it the same as I do. HG, 2006 - 11 / 2106 © 2016 HGS - PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Misimpressions/ 2016
HG SCHMITZ - COMING TRUE, 2016 This is one more release of a reggae production I did originally in 2006. All instrument tracks are from that time. If you are really believing in something it will come true one day. That's what this song is about. Sometimes your dreams relapse but if you keep on fighting to realise them they will come true. This song is for my Baby. I found the video footage called "The Windmill Farmer" on Vimeo. It is such a sweet little animation that speaks out of my soul. HG, 2006 - 11 / 2016 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Coming true/ 2016
HG SCHMITZ - SHIFTED, 2007 / 2016 This funk tune got originally recorded in 2007. The remix and remaster is from 2016. I have added a new drum line and improved the synth solo as good as possible. All other instrument tracks are from 2007. Idea, Composition, All Instruments And Programmings, Arrangements, Mix And Mastering by HG SCHMITZ. Video taken from Vimeo for strictly non-commercial purposes. HG, 2007 - 11 / 2016 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Shifted/ 2007 / 2016
HG SCHMITZ - THREE YEARS, 2016 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR SNUFF !!! Yesterday, one day before your birthday, we had been "Three Years" together. That's why I called your birthday song like this. Everything else that has to be said you will read in the video. I wish I could be there today. I LOVE YOU ! HG, 11 / 2016 © 2016 HGS PRODUCTIONS
Hg Schmitz - Three years/ 2016
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, AC DC, Peter Gabriel, The Rolling Stones , Gentle Giant, Keith Richards, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, Peter Tosh, The Tubes
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From the UK we got news of two new deals for favorite authors, one publishing experiment that may be a first as one author decides to "rescue" a twenty year old unpublished novel of a friend and one great fantasy review index is on again!
Gary Gibson author of the superb Dakota Merrick series to be concluded next year in "Empire of Light" was offered a three book deal by Tor.uk. From his announcement of this great news:
"I just got an offer for Tor for three new books, starting with Final Days, which I've blogged about in the past. The other two books are a sequel to Final Days, called The Thousand Emperors, and Core (very much a working title), a standalone story set in the same world as Stealing Light and its sequels."
One of Liviu's top six sf authors of the 00's - and that was before I was aware of new deal - this announcement confirms that Gary Gibson is a superstar in the making! One more reason to soon write the long announced dual review of Mr. Gibson early novels: Angel Stations and Against Gravity. Until then, read Robert's FBC review of Stealing Light and Liviu's FBC review of both Stealing Light and Nova War. We also have a dual interview with Gary Gibson - mostly done by Mark Chitty from Walker of Worlds with some questions from Liviu.
In another deal, newer but also favorite author Jaine Fenn got an offer for two more books set in her Hidden Empire series in which already two books are out and one is due next Spring. They will be penned as JN Fenn since it seems initials are all the rage today. Here is the announcement from Ms. Fenn's website:
"finding out that Gollancz want to buy the next two Hidden Empire books, thus collapsing the waveform in a most gratifying way. There's a full press release on my agent's blog. In short, the fourth book will be entitled Bringer of Light and is due out in 2011, and the fifth will be Queen of Nowhere, due out in 2012. Like the first three, they will be self-contained stories that add to the overall picture, and will feature some of the characters introduced in the earlier novels. "
For now read Liviu's FBC Review of Ms. Fenn's Hidden Empire debut Principle of Angels and of the second installment that takes place in parallel with the first, Consorts of Heaven (FBC Review HERE). Book 3 Guardians of Paradise is another asap book and will be reviewed here when published.
In a possibly first Gary Gibson is also running a publishing experiment for a friend of his Fergus Bannon. The book in question is called "Judgement" and is available for a very modest fee as a DRM-free multi-format ebook from Smashwords, the first half of the book excerpted for free and Mr. Gibson and Bannon are offering free copies under some conditions too. More HERE:
The blurb: 'It started with a few isolated incidents. A mob shootout in Las Vegas, a firefight in the Central American jungles - one apparently unconnected event after the other, hinting at a worldwide conspiracy of unprecedented proportions. But before long CIA computer specialist Bob Leith realises it's something much more than mere globalised terrorism, something literally not of this world ...'
The reasons for the experiment in Mr. Gibson's words:
Several days ago, I wrote about an excellent unpublished novel by a writer I've known for nearly twenty years. Fergus Bannon finished his book just in time for real life to scupper any serious attempts at placing it with either an agent or a publisher. As a result it wound up forgotten in a drawer for a long, long time until I asked to see it. I liked it so much I was determined that it shouldn't simply vanish. And since Fergus has zero time or opportunity to do anything about it, I volunteered to try and get it out there in some way.
Edit later: in the comments below Mr. Gibson indicated that now the novel is available online also on its dedicated site HERE which contains more material from Mr. Bannon.
In a review related news, our friend Jeff from Fantasy Book News and Reviews is continuing his excellent index of fantasy novel reviews from around the blogosphere. A great resource that is quite time-wise costly in keeping updated, I strongly recommend it for a good overview of the main fantasy blogosphere review activity. Here at FBC we keep our own index of reviews but our focus is much more eclectic so for many well known fantasy novels that are not reviewed here, one place to find a bunch of reviews is to visit Jeff' site.
Gary Gibson, science fiction writer said...
Seriously cool of you to mention Judgement. You might be interested to know that I decided to also set up a webpage where you can now read the complete novel online. It's still very much under construction right now, with more to come, but the book is now in place - the address is fergusbannon.blogspot.com
Thank you for your kind words; I added an edit above with the indicated link.
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Queering Fashion | First Person #3 | PBS Digital Studios
Oh my gosh, hello! Another episode of First Person is coming right at your face. (Music) Today’s episode is all about fashion. We are
going to be sitting down and talking with Nicolette Mason Rae Tutera and Arabelle Sicardi,
three really important queer people in the fashion industry. Fashion is huge, it isn’t
just what we wear and I think a lot of times we think that but in all honesty fashion hinges on a pretty strict binary.
If you’re a man you’re supposed to look a particular way If you’re a woman you’re suppose to look a particular way, and there’s not much going on outside of that binary. Also, being a woman
in the fashion industry is super tricky because we’re told not only how we’re
supposed to appear but how we’re supposed to appear based on how others are looking at us and who
those others should be. It can be really troublesome, and that’s why it’s really important
that we have queer voices in the fashion space. We’re gonna head down to the Dressing
Room which is an amazing boutique and café on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and
talk to Nicolette and Rae and Arabelle all about their thoughts on being these unique voices, these important voices within the fashion industry. Like starting kind of at the bottom, how did you get involved in fashion and start writing about fashion, like how did that all happen in your life? -–I grew up in LA and I feel like you’re just like inundated with fashion from a very young age and I was always like very conscious of trends and of designers and yeah there was always a stack of like Vogue magazines and Harper’s Bazaars at my house. And I would tag along with
my mom to the hair salon and read magazines there, so I don’t honestly remember a time when I wasn’t conscious of fashion. Everyone knew about me before probably
I knew about myself in terms of my sexuality. and probably plenty of people knew about me too in terms of my gender presentation. I just came across like my 3rd grade school photo, and like I’m a boy. Ya know, I have slicked back hair. But it’s hard to be that third-grader when you’re an adult. I
really wanted to be a visible adult but in order to be one I also had to be
masculine in a way that made other people uncomfortable. I had my first custom suit made when I was 25. The suit was the crossover garment for me. The blog, um, I just wanted people to know I was there. and I wanted them to know that they could go into a sort of traditionally masculine landscape designed for men and exist there and thrive there. —Feel comfortable there. –I pretty much knew I was queer For, uh, ever (Laughs) The reason I really loved fashion from the very beginning was Rrei Kawakubo from comme de garcon. –I’m gonna do just a quick haul slash brag video on what I got at the comme de garcon sample sale. –She designs for women who don’t give a sh– about what their husband thinks. It allowed me to see identity through a queer lens of resistance. Not about other peoples desires, its about seeing how you relate to the world and how you interact with it. –I mean it makes a lot more sense to me
now just having you explain the tiniest bit of it that so many other designers are doing
are designing for other people to look at it as opposed to the person saying
like this is something I have autonomy over I want to feel this
relationship with this piece of clothing, –Yeah and it’s not to discredit the people ‘cuz like people they want to be wanted by other people. I’m not saying I don’t have feelings and I don’t want to connect to other, but I want to be seen in the exact way I want to be seen in the exact way that I want to be seen; I don’t want to have to negotiate that for other
people’s comfort, and I’m totally invested in making people
uncomfortable in my writing. –The more I started coming in to my queer identity the more confused I was about my personal style, and so I went through this really weird period of my life where I try to like
force myself to wear like skinny jeans and hoodies all the time (laughs) and I look so not myself and there were
like vests involved, there was a fedora. It’s just like so painful because I was like forcing myself to look like this the only representation I’ve ever seen of queer women. –Gosh I’m so glad I’m not wearing a hoodie or a fedora, ya know? –Yeah, hoodies are great and you know what if that is someone’s personal style they should be empowered to wear it, but it was not mine. –Was any of it for you also recognizability? –Totally, yeah. –If I walk down the street, I don’t tend to dress in like things that would
make me recognizably queer –Absolutely, absolutely. You know it’s like femmes are pretty invisible that’s why it’s really important for me to be visible and um be out in my identity so that other people can have I don’t call myself a role model but I
know that I am for a lot of people –Absolutely –and and that’s important. –Do you think
there’s something that can be done in in the fashion world specifically
like what what can people do to create better
spaces more, open spaces? –I think that a lot of designers
are moving away from the super feminine ideals in fashion which is nice I think ultimately more diversity across the board is going to help but there still is a problem in fashion where you know I can count the number of out
gay women in the fashion industry that I know who
are like very prolific in the space, who have notoriety, who get press probably on one hand. –When, when most of us see fashion it’s portrayed in like the either/or but I find it very rare and I know that
people very close to me find it very rare to see formations of dress that break out of those two places. –When I imagine queerness and stuff it’s not about um.. like the authentic self, I’m not trying to find the real me. I’m trying to find new versions of me all the time and like there are designers that are queer and that see this space and
they they’re being seen right now. I don’t
know how long that they’ll last because the industry might not be ready for them.
–What needs to be done in the fashion world to allow people to dress the way
that they want to dress, is kind of what I’m after. –Personally, I would love to stop seeing the centering and prioritizing of thin, white, masculine of center affluent bodies it’s, again absolutely they should be represented
but there are so many other identities and cultures and body types, and shapes, and expressions that exist in the queer community and they’re so
rarely put front and center –As someone who kind of fits that demographic, I totally agree. –Thank you (laughs) –That’s not the only version of queer that’s possible like I’m really interested in seeing how
people interpret femininity in an androgynous way. Or like you can be androgynous without being masculine. –What you just said probably nobody has
ever heard before. –Yeah –You know what I mean, I think that would be sort of groundbreaking to people –That you can be really feminine and still be– –Yeah –Queer fashion person. –The binary is just a thing that we play into because that’s what we’ve been taught. –Why do we keep mimicking the same traditional gender roles and
prioritizing masculinity within the LGBT community like I really genuinely try to understand that. –You know you were talking earlier about the visibility of like seeing yourself on the tumblr dashboard I know like it sounds silly but yeah but just like seeing someone who you’re like oh I can I can dress like this I can look like
this and I know that like we get questions all the time from people who
are like hey I don’t I don’t want to wear a suit
to a wedding and I don’t wanna wear dress to a wedding and don’t know what
to wear and that’s a visibility that I think is really deserves attention and growth
and –I agree, and those folks are often pressured into choosing a dress or a suit –I really do want to thank all three of you for being here like it’s an important conversation. The more it’s talked about the bigger change will happen Thank you for being with us. –Thanks for having us. Hey, thanks for watching It was super fun to be down at the Dressing
Room thank you to them for allowing us to be in their space and of course you can follow Nicolette
Rae, and Arabelle all over the internet: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. You should because they’re awesome and
they’re doing a lot of important work. And also please follow us and subscribe to
our channel so that you can stay up to date on all of the new episodes. Last but not least please talk to us in the comments and
let us know what issues you want us to tackle and what people you want us to speak to. We’ll be listening, we’ll be responding to your comments and your voice is quite
literally going to shape this show so we look forward to hearing from you and an awesome day! Bye! Bye! (Laughs) (Music) Subtitles by the Amara.org community
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Hey, all! We'll be here answering questions and taking ideas. Please let us know what you think!
Episode 3: Queering Fashion is here! With Nicolette Mason, Arabelle Sicardi, & Rae Tutera. Let us know what you think!
Jenn Hawkins
I'm learning so much from these videos! Thanks for giving me a place to see and hear without being judged for not understanding everything happening in the LGBTQ community. All of this is very new to a small town girl from the South. It's nice to feel like I can learn and understand what's happening in the world outside my bubble. You're awesome, Kristin!
Alex Gonçalves
I would love to see an episode about MOGAI 🙂
Gonnie Z
As an androgynous genderqueer person I usually find myself making my own clothes, since I can't find any brand that targets my demographic even the slightest, so it is good to hear this new queer voices in the fashion world.
QUEER FASHION IS THE BEST FASHION
Jay Re
Great video, Kristin! 🙂
When I was younger I went through this weird tomboy-phase and felt like I didn't fit in in society. I startet to wear really feminine clothes then with the aim to not stand out and people liking what I was wearing. But which time I realized that this style wasn't me and I my style got more androgynous and I found new (and way cooler) things and styles that fit me and I'm comfortable with.And there are so many ways one can combine both feminine and rather masculine clothes.
I really hope there is going to be more unisex fashion in the next years, because I think gendering certain cothes just because of which shape they have, is just stupid. Like why am I supposed to buy a women's shirt which one which's label says "Men" fits me better? 😀
And I have one question: You've talked about the "I don't want a dress, but neither a suit"-thing and that's ironically exactly the problem I have about upcoming prom. Do you (or anyone else) have any alternatives or ideas for me? Thx
Lauren G.
This is such a great series already. I am so glad this exists. I looked more into Rae from this and it's pretty amazing to see someone like me existing between genders in the way she does.
TheTwigCrackedAnd
This series is greaaat! Just want more.
More trans/genderqueer people would be cool 🙂 Also issues of appearance are really interesting in how the binary is always there. I was reading about the trend of "unisex" fashion but the pictures were only of women wearing suits. What about men wearing dresses? what about other kinds of clothes??
and i second another commenter, what is the solution when one doesn't want a suit or a dress?
Thank youuuuuu for this series!!
Florian Iñigo
in the same topic of fashion, you should interview Elliott Alexzander from House of Alexzander and GenderFlux
David Shi
It occurs to me that there's also a huge economic/financial aspect to fashion, especially since it is an industry. Like how masculine clothes are priced, etc. Also pockets.
I'd be interested in seeing queer scientists interviewed on this channel! I'd recommend my hero Cosima Niehaus, but since she's a fictional character on Orphan Black, that might be tricky.
Squirrely Sun
Great video….awesome topics discussed.
Sahdirah
Please talk about asexuality and aromanticism (and give them their own episodes, they deserve it).
I didn't hear the WORD asexuality (as in, an orientation people can have) until maybe 3 or 4 years ago, and it was thrown out on the end of LGBTQIA without explanation of what that actually is and then the conversation moved on about another topic, so I never realized that could be me. I only learned about what it actually is about 5 months ago, and I could have save myself a lot of pain and frustration if I'd known this existed. We are very, very invisible, and particularly vulnerable to a lot of aggressions because of society's compulsory sexuality – please learn about our nuances and talk about us. AVEN is a good place to start.
Justice McCartney
Thank you for this! As someone who regularly likes to challenge fashion stereotypes in general. As a man I enjoy bright colors, which are traditionally only available to women when it comes to fashion. I have a suit maker I like because he lets me chose the colors and cuts www.rubythreads.net They only do traditional men's cuts on the suits but are open to anyone who wants a custom measured men's suit. I also have started finding clothing that fits how I like then using them as patterns and making new garments with the fabrics I want so I end up with traditional lines in non-traditional colors and prints. I am going to play with the lines a bit soon though.
Kay Reserva
Great show. It would be nice to have you look into the camera instead of above. I definitely like the topics being talked about.
By the way, Kristin you look like Erin Burnett from CNN. Lovely blue eyes 🙂
SinWagons
Thanks for the video! Nicolette Mason is so cool.
Linda Dianne
Love that this episode is dedicated to #QueerFashion <3
Idk, I have to disagree about the strong binary in fashion. While I agree that historically speaking that may be true, the quote unquote 'androgynous look' is HUGE right now. Virtually everywhere I look there is a wide array of clothes to choose from in which the only differing aspect between 'men's' and 'women's' clothing is the sizing. From dark rectangular glasses to flannels/button ups to Oxford shoes, to that Cara Delavigne shoot, to 'meggings', fashion is rapidly becoming intermingled as the lines blur between masculine and feminine trends.
Gwen Sweeten
I agree with many other commenters that asexuality would be a great topic to discuss.
Kris Glad
I really appreciate that y'all put your guests' preferred pronouns in their lower third. It's really nice not to have to make those assumptions in order to participate in the discussion. Thanks (:
Timothy L
Thank you for the Closed Captioning on your video premier. Being Deaf Queer is a problem and I would like to see a program on Disability LGBT community.
Grace Bonney
This is so great. I'm so glad this is a show and that we can start to talk about more serious issues in the community and hear different viewpoints and personal experiences.
AllieBoomer
As a bisexual cis woman who presents in a pretty feminine manner, this video, and Nicolette in particular, spoke volumes to me. I feel pretty invisible a lot in queer spaces. I just don't want to present in a stereotypically queer way, but I still want to be noticed without wearing a sign that says "I'm queer, ask me how."
I kind of feel like the queer community has adopted some of the boxes and stereotypes given to us by straight people. Looking one way or another seems to be the only signifier for some people as to whether or not someone is queer. And that's super harmful, and can lead to loads of erasure. It's frustrating
Kade R
That was very interesting; it's not something that I generally think about, but now that it's been put out there…it's an issue that I recognize and can relate to. The societal pressure to conform into gender roles and the traditional styles they carry is definitely a problem. And the variety in queer representation, being mostly white males, is definitely lacking. Most people find it hard to find other options and inspiration they feel comfortable with as there is so little representation and variety for queer role models. Anyway, great video! Very thought provoking~
Chelsey Blair Kendig
So excited to see that the first comment featured on the video it's about the queer disabled community. I very much want to hear more about this
Griffin C
Another super interesting episode. Loving this series!!! Gonna share this with all of my twitter followers and on facebook 🙂
I have gotten an email from my school's GSA advisor replying to my request of watching one episode of First Person per meeting & she happily accepted my request!!! Super excited 🙂
Jessie Randall
The closed captioning on this is beyond hilarious, I'm sorry
It would be incredibly awesome if you could discuss the issues relating to queer communities and queer dating especially for teens/young adults, because there's a lot of blurred lines between friendship and other attractions in those groups, as well as a lot more inter-friend group dating that happens with queer teens as we all band together against a heteronormative world. I've never heard anyone talk about that but I think that there's absolutely a different dynamic among groups of cishet friends and groups of queer/LGBT/MOGAI friends which would be really cool to explore.
Zoe Zachariah
loved it! rally great views and opinions. i felt understood and like its okay to dress how i feel and not how society might want me to dress.
Also i would love an episode on the fluidity of sexual orientation/gender expression. People who don't put a label of "I'm bisexual, homosexual, transsexual, etc" on themselves but just love who they love i guess. i don't know i just feel like there is a lot of pressure to label yourself and others these days and i think its totally okay if one wants to but i feel like a lot of people are forced into a box.
Does this make sense? Maybe an episode on gender expression would be cool to. or interviews with people who don't fit clearly into "lesbian" "gay" "male" "Femininie" etc.
Do ya get me? 🙂
ps. love your work!
JustMatty
I really love this channel! It brings light to the LGBT+ Community and show how diverse it is. I can't wait until the next video, @First Person ! Just as many people requested, I think you can do asexuality, demisexuality, and aromantic. Or even non-binary gender identities. Most of these identities are unknown to many people and doing episodes can show many people that these identities do exist. 🙂
Rory Montgomery
This was awesome. Being agender, I so struggle with reminding myself that clothes and just clothes. They aren't inherently gendered. People do that and are gonna perceive me however they want. I just wish they could see I'm not the female I look like or someone striving for androgyny/masculinity.
Also, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease do a video on polyamory. My partner and I have been talking about it A LOT lately, and the more resources, the better!
Cerridwen Johnson
definitely enjoyed this one, and would love to see a follow up in the future.
Fashion is something that I have never really thought applied to me: I am not butch, I am not femme, I am not really any anything. But lately clothes and appearance has become more important to me, in my life.
I think a part of it is that it is hard to find your style when you are not comfortable with your identity. I have noticed that the more comfortable I have gotten with me, with who I am, the more interest I take in my appearance. Rather than dressing to fade into the background, I want to be noticed. Not as much as a member of any community, but just as me.
Keep up the good work! And thanks for this show!
Fernanda Miranda Saldívar
This is great! I'm loving every episode. And this one was just on point. I agree with what someone else said about why should we always have to buy in the women's section when I can see myself totally wearing a men's shirt but doesn't fit correctly.
Aidanthebird
Thank you for doing this series! Also, more trans feminine people. They are often the most attacked and denigrated people in society, so more visibility and more of their stories being told is a good thing. You can try Carmen Carrera, who is a fairly prominent trans woman. There's also Princess Joules and a bunch of others.
Meli Hull
After every episode of this show, I get all filled with this warm bubbly feeling of happiness about getting to connect with these people whose experiences I wouldn't have gotten to know about. Thanks so much for making this show. Very good and fascinating conversation. Representation of all kinds is so important.
Lauriekay
I spent five hours torturing my best friend, doing her hair, ripping through her wardrobe and choosing clothing for her, and I should have just sent her here
6:48 – "That's not the only version of queer that's possible. Like I'm really interested in seeing how people interpret femininity, like in an androgynous way, or like you can be androgynous without being masculine"
Excellent. This is great.
Joy Westkameper
This show is going so well! I have loved each episode so far.
Zerika Z
As an AMAB Demigirl I've always struggled on presenting feminine leaning androgynously because then I just look like cis boy me.
I've gotten a bit better at presenting more effectively, but the erasure of non binary and the consistently being told that I'm actually a drag queen and cross dressing is beyond frustrating.
SorryAri
You should talk to some high school lgbtq activists!
It would be really great if you could do an episode about disability in the queer community, or two videos- one about more physical disabilities and one about mental illness, but also about how queer spaces need to be more accessible.
Monika Willis
I love Nicolette Mason, she and I have similar outlooks, and both went through a hoodies and vest phase. Although I as a queer fashion designer think differently from the ones expressed here. One of the things I love about fashion and fashion people is that they are accepting of differences. That fashion is interested in the grey areas of the binary, fringe areas of everything really. Whilst I agree that the easily accessible parts of fashion are quite gendered and that queer women aren't overly represented – I personally have always feel like I was accepted in the industry and by my friends there are that I was never judged for being queer even if I was judges on what I wore.
Lora McManus
I really appreciate this video and I can relate to it a lot as a super, super femme queer woman of color. I agree with some of the comments above– it would be so great if we could get a video on asexuality. I'm very involved in that community myself. Also, I think some other great topics to explore might be gender non-conforming people, the intersection between LGBTQQIAP identity and people of color, and gender/sexuality in media. If you need any help finding people to speak on any of these issues, please feel free to reach out to me. I am very involved in the LGBTQIAP+ community and have many contacts across the country that I would be happy to put you in touch with.
stormtroopette
Omg Kristen, you're so cute, when they all start talking about being androgynous and feminine you're getting all excited but you're totally silent to give them the floor too haha YOU'RE SO QUIET YET SO EXCITED OMG haha
LisaThinksALot
The feminine androgynous thing. Yes.
I loved this episode so much!
Phoenix Ramsey
Kristin! What brand is that super sweet shirt? My friend thrifted one just like it and I have to find one!
Victória Moraes
WOW! I can't express how much I love this video.
Yes!! I was just a bridesmaid at my friend's wedding but felt weird wearing a dress. I'd feel just as weird wearing a suit though. In thinking about my own wedding, which I hope to have someday, I have no idea what to wear and, so far, have settled on jeans and a flannel because why not? My gf wants a white dress but is all about the flannel/jeans for me cause she knows I'll be comfortable wearing that. I'd love more info about options for wedding attire outside of the binary.
cx45830
When you think about it, clothes are just pieces of material which are cut into different shapes and that denotes whether something is masculine or feminine…
Sometimes my mum will say, you look very boyish even when all the clothes I wear come from the women's section. I think clothes should not be separated by gender but only by size.
Alex Gasaway
Awesome episode!
Amy Pollicino
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Profile: Exchange Pub + Kitchen
Katy Yocom
With the Exchange Pub + Kitchen, Ian Hall has taken a historic New Albany building and transformed it into a stylish restaurant that would fit right into SoHo. With the Exchange as an anchor, the future looks bright for New Albany’s once-sputtering downtown revival.
Ten years ago, New Albany native Ian Hall — then in his late 20s and already a 10-year veteran of the restaurant business — made a vow to himself. “If I’m going to be in this business, by the time I’m 30 I’m gonna own my own place,” he remembers deciding.
It might not have been the most prudent decision. But then, Hall is a risk-taker. In the past 10 years, he has added the following items to his resume: opened a bar that seemed like a good idea at the time; staved off impending financial ruin; engineered a desperate relaunch, from failing bar to strip-mall gastropub; seen his floundering fortunes reversed with one good newspaper review; bought a ramshackle historic building he describes as “four walls and half a roof”; launched his own restaurant design company to restore, repurpose, and remodel the building into a 200-seat restaurant; and — with the help of executive chef Robert Temple — turned it into one of New Albany’s leading dining spots.
And he’s not done yet. Now that the Exchange Pub + Kitchen has gotten its feet solidly underneath it, he’s opening a Comfy Cow franchise just in time for ice-cream season.
Clearly, Ian Hall is building up momentum.
At 37, Hall looks a bit like an overgrown kid, tall and thin, clad in sneakers and skinny jeans, and sporting a short spiky ‘do that stands up in front. He’s a talker and an enthusiast. The list of things he loves includes the following: New Albany, the restaurant biz, interior design, repurposing architectural materials, and striking up partnerships with local purveyors. For the past year and a half, he’s brought all those passions together in the building he lovingly restored at 118 West Main.
RESTAURANT GEEK
When Hall says he’s passionate about the restaurant business, he’s not just talking about food and beverage. Ask him about the building, and you might find yourself getting a high-energy tour in which Hall points out everything from the salvaged original transoms (now serving as entryway décor) to the tabletops made from repurposed original floor joists.
“I’m kind of a restaurant geek,” he admits. He cites the various design ideas he admires in local restaurants, such as the flow of the Silver Dollar and the indoor/outdoor patio space at Drake’s in St. Matthews. The idea for the floor plan came from BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse. Rye inspired the open kitchen. “We’re trying to build the perfect restaurant from an aesthetic standpoint and from a food standpoint,” he says. “It’s got to look great, but it’s got to work.”
He’s excited about the open kitchen and the high ceilings in the main dining room; to address the noise factor, he built in high-backed booths that enclose diners in their own private space. He’s pumped about the space at the front of the restaurant, where garage doors open onto the wide sidewalk, providing outdoor seating in nice weather. He’s happy about the staircase leading to a private dining room upstairs, featuring a pretty, carved-wood antique back bar with a French flair. With its distinct spaces, the restaurant gives people options for a whole evening—a cocktail at the bar, dinner in the dining room, and then a trip upstairs for a late-night cocktail afterwards. “People say, ‘I didn’t expect this in New Albany,’” he says. “It’s got more of a Chicago feel to it.”
As for the food, “We had a niche we wanted to fill—a rotating, progressive, seasonal menu that no one else was doing,” he says. Chef Temple offers casual but top-quality food with a focus on cooking from scratch using locally sourced products. “We don’t get stale here,” Hall says. The winter menu, for instance, featured a Korean barbecue small plate, an orange pomegranate salad, and bucatini carbonara. Beyond the creative seasonal offerings, certain items stay on the menu, including the Exchange burger ($14), made with 3D Valley Farms Angus, gorgonzola, caramelized onions, portabella mushrooms, and arugula on a Klaus’s pretzel roll; fish and chips ($14), featuring beer-battered basa, fries, tartar sauce, and slaw; and steak frites ($16) accented with compound butter. Behind the bar, the focus is on bourbon, craft beer, and boutique wines.
GROWING UP IN THE BIZ
Hall got to know the restaurant business early. As a six- or seven-year-old, he rolled silverware to help out his dad, Michael, then general manager of the restaurants at the Hyatt Regency. (Or maybe Dad was just keeping him occupied?) As a restaurant kid, he happily devoured escargot, oblivious to what he was eating. “My dad got me involved in this business without ever meaning to,” he says. “He told me ‘Don’t ever go into the food business.’”
Hall ignored his father’s advice. He started at 18 as a busboy and dishwasher (“the toughest position in the restaurant”) at Buckhead’s in Louisville, then served, bartended, and eventually helped open the Jeffersonville store. His next stint was as beverage manager at Rocky’s, then as a bartender (or “showtender”) at Legends.
He married in 2000. Until the kids came along (Payton, now 10, and Madison, 6), the bartender’s hours suited him fine. Once they arrived, the crazy schedule had to change. On top of that, he began to itch to spread his wings. He made that fateful and perhaps-just-a-wee-bit-naïve vow: restaurant owner by 30.
His bank, Chase, wouldn’t loan to him. No problem: he turned to a local option. Your Community Bank wrote him a loan, and he and his wife, Nikki, took out a second mortgage. And in 2007 he opened MYbar, a sports bar/lounge aimed at 20-somethings.
It was tough going. Twenty-somethings, it turned out, weren’t big spenders, and it hurt sales that MYbar didn’t serve food. They fell behind financially. Ian took a gig bartending at Proof to help make ends meet. To be blunt, the bar was tanking. And Ian and Nikki had their house tied up in it. They looked at their options and didn’t like any of them. It was time for a Hail Mary.
Hall shuttered MYbar, spent six weeks reinventing the business model and remodeling the space, and reopened as the New Albany Exchange Pub + Kitchen gastropub in January 2010. Things took a while to gel. The location was tough—off Grant Line Road, in a strip mall so confusing that even GPSs got the directions wrong. Ian and Nikki had sunk a lot of personal money they would never recoup into revamping a leased space. The restaurant went through more than one chef.
Hall started looking for an exit strategy. “Our plan was to get it back on its feet, get it cleaned up, and then get the hell out,” he says.
But slowly, things began coming together. Hall began thinking maybe he’d stick with it after all. Then, in November 2011, Marty Rosen gave the Exchange a good review and three stars in the Courier-Journal. “That was the day the lights went on,” Hall says. “People were calling because they couldn’t find it. At 4:30 [a half-hour before opening], the parking lot was filled up. We got our ass handed to us that first weekend.” But it proved that they were onto something. Even if some diners weren’t quite sure what a ‘gastropub’ was, they tried it, liked it, and kept coming back. More good press followed.
Back on his game, Hall knew what he wanted to do. He located the property on West Main, an 1875 Italianate building that once housed Schrader Stables, and bought it. (Loans were still not exactly forthcoming, so Hall financed it through the developer, Steve Resch of Resch Construction.) “Most people would have looked at it and seen a disaster,” he says. “I looked at it and saw tables and chairs.” He opened the location in December 2012, a week after closing the Grant Line Road location.
It was a scary move, he admits. The restaurant went from 80 seats in the strip mall to 200 seats downtown (125 in the main dining room, the rest in the bar and private dining space). “We didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into,” he admits. “We didn’t know how it would catch on.” But it did, and they’re filling the dining room regularly, serving 1,500 to 2,000 people a week, Hall estimates, doing lunch and dinner six days a week.
At the Exchange, Hall plans to add brunch on Saturdays and Sundays sometime this spring to coordinate with the New Albany Farmers’ Market. On top of that, there’s a Comfy Cow franchise. Hall has had a working relationship with Comfy Cow owners Tim and Roy Koons-McGee for the past three years, talking about developing a proprietary flavor for the Exchange, but never quite getting it done. No matter; the Exchange offered Comfy Cow ice cream and Hall noticed that customers loved it. Meanwhile, a customer approached Hall, looking for a tenant for a building he owned. Hall looked at the building and thought it fit the Comfy Cow vibe, pressed tin ceiling and all. Meetings were taken, in which Hall thought he was simply the middleman connecting the landlord and Comfy Cow. Instead, somehow, he ended up a franchisee, partnering with the landlord.
“Phase Two was always going to be another restaurant,” he says. “I never thought I would own an ice cream [franchise], but I loved the aesthetic when I walked in.” And meanwhile, the Exchange finally got its signature ice cream flavor: egg, bacon, maple and brown sugar.
The Comfy Cow location, set to open the week after Derby, will also house the office of Ian and Nikki’s restaurant design and consulting company, BRAND Hospitality Group (BRAND stands for Bar, Restaurant, and Nightlight Development). They started the company to build out the Exchange, moved on to their own Comfy Cow franchise as their next client, and hope to build momentum once they have an office opened.
At 109 East Market, the Comfy Cow venue is easy walking distance from the Exchange. And speaking of things Hall loves about New Albany, that’s one of them. He hails the town’s newly burgeoning restaurant row for keeping things compact. A handful of impressive options lie within a two-square-block area, from the Exchange to Louis le Français to Habana Blues and more. “I love it when people come down without a specific restaurant destination,” Hall says. “They figure they’ll walk and pick it out.” In Hall’s opinion, its density makes the New Albany dining scene not just as good as Louisville’s rangier restaurant rows on Bardstown Road, Frankfort Avenue, and East Market — but better.
Did we mention Hall is an enthusiast? He loves his hometown, and he’s happy to be part of its coming-out party. “It’s not about money,” he says. “It’s about taking downtown and revitalizing it. I grew up here and I wanted to be a part of it—on the front end of getting people to come down here.”
That, he’s doing, with the Exchange and Comfy Cow all in one snug square block. Hall envisions growing both businesses in their current locations and opening more Comfy Cows. For the moment at least, there’s not another restaurant in his plans.
But then, he’s got a big birthday coming up in a couple of years.
“Guess I need a new goal for 40,” he says.
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EU to celebrate Shalit swap despite concerns
The EU is set to cheer the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, expected on Tuesday (19 October), despite concerns it could pave the way for military strikes on Hamas and Iran.
According to plans negotiated by Egyptian, German and Israeli intelligence, Shalit, who was captured by Palestinian militant group Hamas five years ago, will be handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza before noon local time.
Hamas poster. The 25-year-old is to be reunited with his family after five years and four months of complete isolation (Photo: Tom Spender)
The NGO will take him via the Rafah crossing point to a secure area in Egypt's Sinai peninsula for 15 to 20 minutes and then to Israel via the Kerem Shalom point. Israel will at each stage of the process release tranches of 477 Palestinian prisoners. A second set of 550 prisoners is to be freed in December.
The deal was finalised by Egyptian security chief Murad Muwafi and the new head of Israeli military intelligence Yoram Cohen. But the blueprint for the handover was drawn up by Gerhard Conrad, currently the chief of staff in the German intelligence service, the BND.
BND spokesman Dieter Arndt told EUobserver Conrad worked on the plan for the past two and a half years. "Almost the whole draft of the contract was done by Conrad. It was a long term involvement, but the final glory belongs to Egypt alone," he said.
Arndt noted that Conrad took off his BND hat for the work before returning to the service: "It was a personal thing. He was not acting on behalf of the federal government of Germany or the BND, but on behalf of all sides, Israel and Hamas, for the whole time the negotiations were going on." EU governments are banned from negotiating with Hamas because it is on the union's blacklist of terrorist entities.
The EU last week endorsed the deal on humanitarian grounds. "I warmly welcome the news that Gilad Shalit will soon be able to return home after five years of captivity, putting an end to the long ordeal that he and his family have endured," foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton said.
An EU diplomat earlier told this website Shalit's release could help with EU endorsement of Palestine's bid to upgrade its UN status and reopen the question of delisiting Hamas from the terrorist register.
But despite the atmosphere of good will, some commentators believe the Shalit swap spells trouble for the region.
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Etymology, History of languages, and Linguistics (EHL)
Noun genders, why? what for?
Thread starter demalaga
demalaga
España castellano
Which is the advantage in a language to use genders?¿How many genders are in different languages?¿For what reason appear or desappear?
For example it seems that English have very little left of the ancient genders, still it uses different personal pronouns ( He, She, it) but little more (It is my opinion but don't intend to be dogmatic and would thank any correction)
Turkish does not have different personal pronouns.So the pronoun "o" is used for all nouns.Arabic has got masculine and feminine, but uses also special accordings with verbs and adjectives depending whether or not the noun is a rational thing (a human person, an angel, and so on)and the plural irrational things are treated like singular feminine (Is it not strange?)
Also Polish makes different concordances and case endings deppending whether is a rational or irrational, or even a living thing (animal) or unanimated.So Polish has really five genders.¿What could be at the origin of this abundance of genders?
Maroseika
The main advantage of the genders is a stronger distinctness of the speech. In Russian verbs differ in genders in the Past form and that is very convinient.
Nouns referring to the animated things have different forms, and this is also very convinient.
For example we don't need such constructions in Russian like English he-fox, she-cat, etc. Almost all the amimals have different names depending on their gender.
Besides of the gender Russian nouns are subdivided into aimated and inanimated (they are declined differently in the Gen.).
Genders are peculiar to the most Indo-European languages and match the ancient division of the things masculine-feminine and/or alive/not alive.
There are three genders in all ancient languages such Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and many modern - German, Russian, Dravidian.
Other languages have only 2 genders - masc/fem, such as Semitic, Baltic, Celtic, Roman, some languages have another 2 genders - medium/not medium - Hittite, Sweden.
African languages usually have another system - classes instead of genders, and the number of classes may be very large - 15-20 and more. Each class is declined differently, and even fem. and musc. nouns (animated) may be in the different classes (but usually in one "lass of people").
Spectre scolaire
Moving around, p.t. Turkey
Maltese and Russian
Maroseika said:
The main advantage of the genders is a stronger distinctiveness of the speech.
Then, what about those languages which do not possess gender distinction - most notably Turkic languages? Are they indistinct?
I think you are actually alluding to a better explanation yourself:
African languages usually have another system - classes instead of genders, and the number of classes may be very large - 15-20 and more.
It is a primordial concern among humans to arrange the world according to different categories. In religion there are categories of all kinds – “do this, don’t do that”, “this animal is edible, that one is not”, etc., etc. in order to distinguish yourself from your neighbor who might do this and that in slightly different ways. I can’t see that language should be less important in terms of ‘categorization endeavors’.
Look at Chinese and the incredible phenomenon of measure words to get an idea as to how gender distinction in, say, Indo-European languages might be expressed in very different ways.
You don’t even mention American-Indian languages and aboriginal languages in Australia where quite sophisticated rules – we would probably say “alien rules” – of nominal distinctions play an all-important role.
Seen from outside, I think gender distinction in Indo-European languages is an archaism indicating an old categorization of the world – something we have been schlepping along with us since the mist of time.
Spectre scolaire said:
Then, what about all those languages which do not possess gender distinction? Are they indistinct?
Surely not. But in these languages distinctness is achieved with another means.
For me our way looks more convinient, of course (in fact more habitual).
Seen from outside, I think gender distinction in Indo-European languages is an archaism indicating an old categorization of the world – something we have been schlepping along with us for quite a long time.
Each and every feature of our language is a kind of archaism, because our language as a whole roots in the deep antiquity. Does it mean we should reject it?
People are really divided in men and women (as well as in many other categories). On my opinion, this division reflexion in the language is fine and very convinient.
Hernan Pons
Everyone has a point. Don't forget that languages are codes that reflect their users' worldviews, and each system is loaded with belief systems, rituals and particular cosmovisions that must be represented in the ways speakers conceive and interpret the world. Moreover, languages change and accommodate to societal evolution and the need for gender or plural distinction may evolve as life evolves. As an example, take the modern distinction we use nowadays between 'husband/wife/significant other' to specify the gender of the recipient say, for instance, in insurance policies.
The same goes for any categorial taxonomy that the human kind deems necessary to incorporate. Commentaries are welcome.
To Maroseika:
There is no value judgment in my posting (at least there is not meant to be any) – but I can easily come up with one:
Turkish is a very ‘economical language’. I can’t think of any other which is.
And yet, I am fascinated by many utterly uneconomical languages. Why should we say ‘one language’, but ‘two languages’ when I have already said two? Obviously there is very little I can do about it. And I can’t explain why indeed Turks say “good nights” when going to bed. Cultural emphasis reflected in their language?
You were asking in the first place “What is the advantage for a language to have genders?” Now you have answered the question saying –-
People are really divided in men and women (as well as in many other categories). On In my opinion, this division reflexioncted in the language is fine and very convenient.
May I ask why this is so convenient?
Hernan_Pons said:
languages are codes that reflect their users' worldviews, and each system is loaded with belief systems, rituals and particular cosmovisions that must be represented in the ways speakers conceive and interpret the world.
I agree. But I am not sure what you mean saying that
languages change and accommodate to societal evolution and the need for gender or plural distinction may evolve as life evolves.
Do you mean that gender may develop as an element of language change or that gender is already an intrinsic element in a language reflecting what you call the “users’ world views”?
Just a detail, but one of considerable epistemological importance.
İyi geceler! It is bedtime in Beijing.
There was an interesting discussion about this in the Cultural Discussions forum, Gender in languages - why? See also Pc gender eradication.
Deutschland ~ Deutsch/Sächsisch
I think Spectre Scolaire has a very good point here: Why do we use the plural in English, German, and Spanish, but not in Japanese or Chinese? The French could cope without pluralization, actually, because it's very often only written, rarely spoken (okay, ces sounds different from ce(tte), but this is almost an exception). Why should we differentiate between animate and inanimate in Arabic, Czech, and Polish, but not in Portuguese or Norwegian? Why does Hindi use the verb to be, even though there's already a conjugated verb in the sentence, but Turkish can perfectly do well without to be in the present tense? What are those strange tenses and moods in Ancient Greek, Gujarati, and Turkish for, if German and Arabic could express everything with only the present and past tense (the rest are composed tenses; moods are often optional or stylistic)? Cases are the same problem: They make German, Latin, and Ancient Greek vary with their word orders, where case-less languages would become incomprehensible (German: Den Fisch aß der Hund, but English The fish ate the dog). Why do some languages need tones or symbols for one or more words to express themselves better, but many languages can use different tones for the same word without changing its meaning and employ letters that can be learned separately to put together a complete word?
It's the same with genders: Some languages may use it as a pecularity (Germanic languages wouldn't need it, see English the car/the man/the woman), others must have it to distinguish between masculine and feminine, which would not be possible otherwise (see Arabic baytu 'l-imraa'a al-kabiir huwa ... or baytu 'l-imraa'a al-kabiira huwa "the big house of the woman is ..." <-> "the house of the tall woman is ...").
As you can see with English, it works very well without genders for inanimate nouns, but we use them in German. It always sounds strange to mean when the Dutch say de man (the man), which sounds like German die Mann, which would be grammatically incorrect. However, they can do very well without genders in both English and Dutch, but why can't we in German? The answer is: We can! But we don't need it.
Nevertheless, there have been several changes of cases and cases in German: I think the sign rune has changed from neuter *rûnô to feminine Rune in German. The word zuîval was neuter in Old High German and is now masculine as Zweifel. I can't tell you why that happened, but it is for sure that some endings can determine the gender (which is the case for rûnô [-o] and Rune [-e]). I think words ending in -el in New High German are masculine, not sure about Old High German -al.
However, why do we need to explain why we use genders? In some centuries, German will lack its genders, too, and it won't sound strange, because they will be erased bit by bit; maybe at first the neuter and then the feminine. Cases will be removed (they are sometimes in colloquial speech already), and it will adjust to English and Dutch. I'd even venture to say that English is the language that has developed the furthest among all Germanic languages. Dutch is on the best way to catch up, and (High*) German is still very far back. I'd exclude the North Germanic languages, because they have developed some pecularities regarding definite articles and genders. It would go too far to explain this phenomenon here.
*I'm using High German here, because some dialects only use two cases (nominative and dative or accusative, depending on the region) and there's often no difference between the masculine and feminine attribute ("mein Mann" and "mein Frau < miin Fruu").
I've already tried to answer to this question on the example of Russian.
- We may use special word for each animated being. I may be mistaked, but I suspect of the English-speakers not being so much happy with all their he-oxes.
- Due to feminine ending of Russian verbs in the Past feminine speech phonetically differs from the musculine one and that seems to me beautiful. Besides, it makes the speech clearer.
- Declension of the nouns also differs depending on the gender, enriching the language with the delightful colours.
I only regret of the dual number, Russian language has lost about 600 years ago, because it also sounded differently depending on the gender.
- Medium gender gives us additional instrument to express our attitude to something, when we want to outline intermediate character of somebody.
In short, the more instruments in the langauage the better.
Athaulf
Croatian/Bosnia, Croatia
And yet, I am fascinated by many utterly uneconomical languages. Why should we say ‘one language’, but ‘two languages’ when I have already said two? Obviously there is very little I can do about it.
I would be surprised if any human natural language were found to be "more economical" by any objective measure (I'm talking about spoken languages, of course -- writing systems can be, and have been designed with more or less redundancy). Human language must have a large information redundancy in order to be understandable easily and reliably, and I don't think there is any difference between languages in the ease and reliability of oral communication between native speakers.
I have written about this topic in a recent post in this forum. In short, in any language, it's easy to find examples of complicated rules about syntax and agreement that could be eliminated without reducing its expressive power. Gender agreement rules certainly fall into this category. However, if such rules were eliminated, the reliability of communication would be reduced, since it would no longer be possible to identify misspoked or misheard sentences by the fact that these rules have been violated. It would also increase the number of syntactically ambiguous sentences.
Whodunit said:
However, why do we need to explain why we use genders? In some centuries, German will lack its genders, too, and it won't sound strange, because they will be erased bit by bit; maybe at first the neuter and then the feminine. Cases will be removed (they are sometimes in colloquial speech already), and it will adjust to English and Dutch.
That's not necessarily true. Nobody knows how languages will develop in the future. Some gender rules might remain for a very long time, perhaps so long that the language change will change its course and start moving in a synthetic direction, which could bring a resurgence of the gender system. We can't know.
I'd even venture to say that English is the language that has developed the furthest among all Germanic languages. Dutch is on the best way to catch up, and (High*) German is still very far back. I'd exclude the North Germanic languages, because they have developed some pecularities regarding definite articles and genders.
Actually, I think that grammar of Afrikaans is about as analytic as English. Certainly, any other Germanic language could be only a distant third on the scale you mention.
Athaulf said:
But isn't it a fact that each langauge is tightly connected with the national mentalitet?
For example, free order of the words in Russian allows you to turn your speech in any direction right in the middle of the sentence, while strict order of English and especially German makes you to plan more thoroughly what exactly you are going to say.
Absence of time categories in the most of African languages - doesn't it allow the natives to treat the time itself less seriousely?
Redundance of the tenses in Spanish - doesn't it make them structure the time better than Russians who have only one past time?
Maybe this conclusion are too superficial, but what if not?
But isn't it a fact that each langauge is tightly connected with the national mentalitetmentality?
Actually, my point above has little to do with these issues. What I had in mind is the purely technical role of gender (and other) agreement rules in increasing the reliability of communication by adding redundancy.
For those who aren't familiar with these information-theoretical concepts, here is a familiar example that represents a very good analogy: credit card numbers. The last digit of the credit card number doesn't carry any information -- it has to be calculated as a mathematical function of the preceding numbers, and there is no freedom in its choice if all of the preceding numbers are given. Therefore, if you know a credit card number that is missing the last digit, you can easily compute it and complete the number. So why this redundant digit that carries no information? The reason is error detection: if an error happens and you have a credit card number with one or more wrong digits (e.g. if the card scanner malfunctions or the number is mistyped or misheard over the phone), it is highly likely that the last digit won't match this calculation any more, and the error will be detected before proceeding with the transaction.
Similarly, redundant agreement rules help error detection in human communication. A misspoken or misheard sentence might easily end up violating the agreement rules, whereas if such rules didn't exist, it would still be a valid sentence with a different (and wrong) meaning. The same goes for complicated syntax rules: a wrongly transmitted sentence will sound suspicious if it violates the expected word order. Synthetic languages rely more on the former mechanism, and analytic ones more on the latter. This aren't the only redundancy mechanisms in human languages, but they certainly are important. Of course, none of these mechanisms are 100% reliable: a mistaken sentence might still end up respecting the syntax and agreement rules by accident, just like a mistaken credit card number might still add up correctly by accident. But it does increase reliability and reduce the probability of misunderstanding.
The problem with such conclusions is that they aren't supported by any practical examples. For examples, Russian has far fewer verbal tenses, aspects, and moods than English or Spanish, and yet there is nothing in those languages that you couldn't express with equal precision in Russian. It's easy to come up with theories like this, it's but far harder (and usually impossible) to actually find some concrete examples of real-life situations in which they become relevant.
- Due to feminine ending of Russian verbs in the Past feminine speech phonetically differs from the musculine one and that seems to me beautiful.
(This holds for all Slavic languages, not just Russian.)
Grammatical gender in human language has its origin in 'categorization', a fundamental human cognitive capacity. Without it we wouldn't survive. Being able to make generalizations (i.e. create categories) and discern differences (draw boundaries) is necessary for us. Thus grouping objects, activities, whatever, into categories is something that, in one way or other, is reflected also in our languages.
However, simply grouping nouns into various sets is not sufficient to warrant the technical label 'gender'. Some form of agreement phenomena must also be involved. If a language simply categorizes nouns into declensions, without employing any kind of agreement, then it's usually not considered to be gender, in the technical sense.
The reasons why grammatical gender occurs and persist (or even originates) in languages is not well understood, though explanations have been offered. The most common explamation is usually text cohesion, i.e. if a text involves several participants and uses lots of pronominals referring back and forth, then its easier to track the proper referents for each individual pronominal. However, this explanation often breaks down when there are several participants of the same gedner/noun class. Nevertheless, text cohesion is the most commonly advanced reason for why gender+agreement persists in languages. (Redundancy is not sufficient to explain its existence, though it certainly plays a part in its persistence.)
There is no major difference between grammatical gender and noun classes. The basic premise for both types is that nouns are categorized into two or more categories (which may be semantically-based to various degrees) and that these categories are also marked as agreements on adnominals (adjectives, demostratives), pronouns, and verb (subject marking, sometimes also as object marking).
The semantic basis of genders/noun classes is often exagerrated. Genders are labelled 'masculine' and 'feminine' in many European (and other) languages, but they are seldom (never?) equatable with the categories 'male' and 'female'. A certain overlap does exist, true, but they are not identical. The semantic basis of genders in the so-called noun class languages, like Swahili, is also often exaggerated. Even though semantic parametres can often be discerned, to a certain degree, there are numerous exceptions to the rules. Virtually every comprehensive grammar of a Bantu language includes "miscellaneous nouns" that do not fit into established semantic definitions.
What do you mean? In German, you can vary with the word order due to cases and genders:
The dog ate the fish.
Der Hund aß den Fisch nicht. (neutral)
Der Hund aß nicht den Fisch. (emphasis on den Fisch)
Nicht der Hund aß den Fisch. (emphasis on der Hund)
Den Fisch aß der Hund nicht. (emphasis on den Fisch)
Den Fisch aß nicht der Hund. (emphasis on both den Fisch and der Hund)
Nicht den Fisch aß der Hund. (special emphasis on den Fisch)
Es aß der Hund den Fisch nicht. (poetic, neutral)
Es aß der Hund nicht den Fisch. (poetic, emphasis on den Fisch)
Es aß nicht der Hund den Fisch. (poetic, emphasis on der Hund)
It would even be possible to say Es aß den Fisch der Hund nicht, but that is almost incomprehensible, because it sounds both archaic and poetic. However, grammatical rules would allow it.
I missed this part:
Which African languages lack "time categories"? Please specify.
If you're referring to tense-marking by way of inflections (as in European languages) versus time marking with adverbials, then it's actually the other way round. The semantics of temporal adverbials are "more temporal" than are the meaning of tense inflections.
Inflections usually carry additional atemporal meanings, and are often used in ways that go against expected meanings. Consider, for instance, the use of the so-called historical present, the neutral-tense use of grammatical present tense ("dogs are faithful", "birds fly", "water contains hydrogen", etc.), the added aspectual meanings of many tenses (e.g. progressive is...Ving in English), and so on. Temporal adverbials seldom carry these extra grammatical meanings, and require a much more "serious" consideration of time.
ireney
Modistra
Greek Greece Mod of Greek, CC and CD
I don't feel I am ready for any conversation that goes beyond the "because" and other obvious reasons for the existence of one, two, three or no gender at all in any language or discuss the relative merits of any language (not in a qualitative manner at least) but I thought some may find the following threads interesting:
pc gender eradication
Gender in languages - why?
There was a lot of interesting (and heated) discussion about grammatical genders in this thread too.
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