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Hurricane warning goes into effect in Bermuda as Gonzalo nears
28 December 2019: Typhoon Phanfone strikes Philippines
9 October 2019: Scheduled power outages in Northern California begin
2 October 2019: Hurricane Lorenzo hits Azores, heads towards Ireland
19 September 2019: Hurricane Humberto strengthens to Category 3 while approaching Bermuda
16 September 2019: Tropical Storm Humberto upgraded to hurricane status
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Bermuda, in the North Atlantic Ocean, is under a hurricane warning after Hurricane Gonzalo was upgraded to Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale earlier today.
The hurricane is moving up the North Atlantic Ocean with 140 mph winds (about 225 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. The storm is supposed to come near Bermuda on Friday, and could actually hit Bermuda, according to officials. As a precaution, Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport plans to close until the storm has passed.
The hurricane has already hit the Caribbean earlier this week. One person was killed and a dozen others were injured in that region.
Last weekend, another storm hit Bermuda, causing a power outage and residents were recovering from the damage. Winds from that storm reached 70 miles per hour on Sunday morning and it reached hurricane status on Sunday evening, only to be downgraded again later that night.
Meanwhile, tropical storm Ana in the Pacific Ocean is being monitored and officials predict will become a hurricane this weekend. Winds from this storm reached 60 mile per hour. It could hit Hawaii if it stays on its predicted path.
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Shelby Lin Erdman. "Hurricane Gonzalo bears down on Bermuda" — CNN, October 16, 2014
Doyle Rice. "'Dangerous' Hurricane Gonzalo roars toward Bermuda" — USA Today, October 16, 2014
"Hurricane Fay Recap" — The Weather Channel, October 14, 2014
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'MURIKA!
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Legend of the 47 Rōnin
The Genroku Akō Vendetta 1701-1703
‘When we forty-seven men shall have performed hara-kiri, I beg you to bury us decently.
I rely upon your kindness. This is but a trifle that I have to offer; such as it is,
let it be spent in masses for our souls!’
– Tales of Old Japan (1910)
The Revenge of the 47 Rōnin is one of Japan’s most famous tales. Even though the Keanu Reeves movie from 2013 wasn’t very good, the original story that it was (very loosely) based on is pretty epic. It’s a story of samurai warriors on a mission to redeem their fallen master – the kind of thing that should make for an awesome action movie! Crazy thing is, the 47 Ronin were real…
The Genroku Akō Vendetta has become one of the most celebrated tales in Japanese history – spawning dozens of books, plays and movies. It’s a tale that symbolizes loyalty and honor above all else, a central tenant to Japanese culture that still permeates modern society… it’s also a tale that has a lot of death, so much death. Similar to a knight’s code of chivalry, the samurai warriors of Feudal Japan were governed by the Code of Bushido, which included 8 virtues – first established by the teachings of Yamaga Soko:
Righteousness – a warrior acts out of justice for all and putting the good of others above themselves.
Compassion – they use their power for good and always act with benevolence, going out of their way to help others in need.
Courage – according to Nitobe Inazo: “Hiding like a turtle in a shell is not living at all. A true warrior must have heroic courage. It is absolutely risky. It is living life completely, fully and wonderfully. Heroic courage is not blind. It is intelligent and strong.”
Integrity – a samurai always fulfills a promise, his words are actions.
Respect – a warrior’s conduct is integral to life. There is no need to prove one’s strength, only to use it when absolutely necessary.
Duty – the samurai are loyal to the end, even in the face of death.
Self-Control – they are responsible for all their words, actions and emotions in the face of temptation.
Honor – how one acts is a reflection of who they are. No one can hide from themselves.
It was a time of relative peace, but it was also a time of paranoia and corruption. Japan had cut itself off from the rest of the world and were openly hostile to foreigners. During the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), Japan was ruled by the Shogun, in the name of the emperor. The Daimyō (Lords) were land-owning clan-leaders, each had the loyalty of an army of samurai, who answered directly to the shogun. The Samurai were basically hired mercenaries with really cool threads, fancy swords, and a strong sense of honor.
One day, in 1701, two daimyō arrived at Edo Castle (in modern-day Tokyo) to prepare a reception for the imperial envoys. The two lords: an older and experienced diplomat, Lord Kamei (of the Tsuwano Domain), and the 34 year old …uh, less experienced, but very devout Confucian – Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori (of the Ako Domain) – to keep things simple, we’ll just call him Asano.
So this dude Asano and his buddy, Kamei, met up with Kira Kozuke-no-Suke Yoshinaka (Kira for short), a super up-tight high-ranking official. Kira wasn’t just an arrogant jerk, he was also pretty corrupt it turns out. No one’s exactly sure why Kira was rude to them, but we’re pretty sure he wasn’t happy with the gifts presented to him.
Kira was such a colossal douche that Kamei was considering putting a katana through his chest, but he was advised against it, since whatever he did would be reflected on all those under him. If he was convicted of murder, all of the samurai of his clan would share the blame. Plus, it was extremely illegal to pull out a weapon within the palace walls. It would be like pulling a gun in the White House. Kamei instead gave in and bribed Kira to gain favor in the court. This put all the pressure on Asano, who wasn’t having any of it.
Then one day, things got really heated in the grand corridor (the Corridor of the Pines), when Kira publicly called out Asano as a “country bumpkin without manners”!
Samurai Jack does not approve.
Asano wasn’t quite as cool-headed as Kamei, so he kind of lost his shit… Immediately after the insult left Kira’s lips, Asano’s blade was in his hands. Before Kira could wipe his smug grin off his face, Asano did it for him with a lightning quick slash of his dagger. Asano’s dagger got lodged into a nearby pillar before Kira even realized he’d been cut on the cheek. A palace guard immediately stepped in like a referee breaking up a fight during a hockey match.
While I kind of don’t blame Asano for flipping out, Kira didn’t see it that way. As a result of Asano’s actions, the Shogun ordered that he commit seppuku (ritualistic suicide). It essentially involves stabbing and slicing one’s innards open. It’s a pretty intense way to go. Before doing so, Asano wrote a poem:
“More than the cherry blossoms,
Inviting a wind to blow them away,
I am wondering what to do,
With the remaining springtime.”
Following his death, Asano’s entire fiefdom in Ako was confiscated, his land and fortune seized, his family left destitute and all the samurai who served him were rendered master-less – they became Ronin…
The Vendetta
320 of Asano’s loyal samurai were now dishonored in the eyes of the Shogunate. Most of them followed their master into the after life rather than face the ridicule of their peers… all but 47. Forty Seven hardened samurai warriors who thought this Kira guy could use a lesson in manners. Instead of just accepting their fate, they decided to avenge their master’s honor. Meanwhile, Kira became paranoid of an attack on his life. He began to beef up the security as he holed up in Edo Castle.
One night, the disgraced ronin gathered together in secret to plot revenge. A man named Ôishi Kuranosuke Yoshio stepped forward to lead the vendetta. Oishi urged his fellow ronin to be patient. They would disperse, bide their time, communicating in secret and wait for the right moment to attack. The 47 ronin hid their armor and weapons away until Oishi called on them.
The former samurai seemingly went their separate ways and blended in with the commoners, many of them taking up menial jobs. Oishi on the other hand seemed to have fallen on hard times. After leaving his family (for their own protection) and spending all his money on geisha and sake (hookers and alcohol), Oishi was a man with nothing left to live for… Well, nothing left but booze and babes.
He soon gained a reputation as a notorious drunk on a month-long bender that would make “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” look like a Meg Ryan rom-com. Rumors began to circulate of a bitter ronin drunkenly wandering from brothel to brothel and fist-fighting anyone who looked at him funny…
One day, a prominent samurai from Satsuma was passing through Kyoto and came across a hungover hobo lying in the street. People pointed and laughed at the homeless man passed out in the street, but the samurai recognized the lowly beggar as Oishi. The samurai became furious and cursed at Oishi for disgracing Asano’s memory. The samurai kicked Oishi in the face before spitting on him.
Word of Oishi’s fall from grace reached Kira who began to relax. Little did he know that it was all part of the plan. While Kira was busy spying on Asano’s former retainers, one of the ronin managed to steal the blueprints to Kira’s stronghold. After months of planning their revenge, the time had finally come.
On December 14th, 1702, just as the snow began to fall, the 47 Ronin attacked!
Armed with swords, battering rams and ladders, the ronin scaled the walls of the fortified palace. Archers were posted to stop anyone from sounding the alarm. Oishi led a contingent at the front gate, while his son led an attack force from the rear of the compound. They silently snuck through Kira’s mansion, subduing guards as they went. A drum sounded, signaling the attack.
Oishi and his son fought through a legion of armored samurai. Kira awoke to the sound of clashing swords and fled in terror, hiding behind his female servants. The ronin killed 22 of Kira’s men and wounded 16 more. When Oishi and his men sliced their way to Kira’s room, they found it abandoned, but Oishi knew that he couldn’t have gotten far. After a quick search, one of them found a secret passageway that led to the courtyard.
They soon found Kira hiding in an outhouse. Oishi approached with a lantern and identified Kira by the scar on his face that Asano had dealt him. Oishi bowed and calmly explained that they were there to avenge their fallen master, then he offered Kira a wakizashi, the very same knife that Asano had used to kill himself. When Kira didn’t respond, Oishi removed his head from his shoulders.
That’s some serious “Kill Bill” shit.
Kira’s head was placed at Asano’s grave site (in Sengaku-ji) and the townspeople praised the ronin as heroes. Unfortunately, the government didn’t quite see it that way. With their task complete, the Forty-Seven Ronin turned themselves in to face judgement. Instead of outright executing them as criminals, the Shogunate allowed the remaining ronin to commit seppuku. Which is weirdly the Japanese equivalent of “and they lived happily ever after” I guess.
The selfless sacrifice of the ronin convinced the Shogun to reinstate Asano’s family name – and all those who served under him. Long after the Forty-Seven warriors joined their master in the afterlife, their deeds live on. Word of their sacrifice spread from village to village and soon the 47 Ronin became an immortal inspiration.
The story was turned into a drama titled “Chūshingura” which translates to “The Treasury of Loyal Retainers”. It was adapted into numerous fictionalized accounts with different time periods, exotic locales and fantasy elements. It even inspired a Romeo and Juliet rip-off about two star-crossed lovers who commit suicide because they can’t be together.
Today, the final resting place of the 47 Ronin at Sengaku-ji Temple is hollowed ground and December 14th is a national holiday: The Ako Festival or Gishi-sai. A day dedicated to one moral lesson: don’t be a dick (or else an army of samurai will murder you in the middle of the night).
ERIK SLADER
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http://www.samurai-archives.com/ronin.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-47-ronin-story-195577
oldtokyo.com/the-47-ronin-genroku-ako-vendetta
http://www.japanvisitor.com/japanese-festivals/festival-ako
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido
Erik Slader is the creator of “Epik Fails of History” a blog (and podcast) about the most epic fails… of history. With Ben Thompson, Erik is the co-author of the Epic Fails book series. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Media, once managed a comic book shop, has a weakness for fancy coffee and currently lives in Green Cove Springs, Florida with too many cats.
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Cheri K Davis says:
I am pretty sure you mean to say “hallowed ground”. Definitely no “hollowed ground”. Hallowed ground: sacred, honored, or beatified place. Hollowed ground: place that is dug out or excavated
thank you for the story. Not sure it needs a movie review in it since you are really focusing on the historical story. I appreciate your detail. C
Erik Slader says:
Thank you! And yeah that was a typo. 🙂
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Laidlaw Vows Best From Kiwis
The All Blacks 7s side are all geared up for battle in the 2018 Oceania Sevens Championship which starts at the ANZ Stadium today. New Zealand are in Pool
by nikolau ravai , suva
The New Zealand 7s team after the training session at Albert park on November 8,2018.Photo:Simione Haravanua.
The All Blacks 7s side are all geared up for battle in the 2018 Oceania Sevens Championship which starts at the ANZ Stadium today.
New Zealand are in Pool B with New Caledonia and Nauru
Training at Albert Park yesterday, coach Clark Laidlaw said the side is confident of doing their best during the two-day event
“We are very excited to play this weekend and the focus is to try and win. We are always here to win,” he said.
“There are some good areas in the game that we need to improve on.
“This will be a good build-up to the Dubai Sevens later this month.
“The initial aim is to qualify for 4th place in the World Sevens Series.
“We have young with some experienced players in the team which is a great thing.
“The players have been gelling and working together during the preparation.”
New Zealand will play Nauru at 4.36pm, New Caledonia at 7.45pm.
Edited by Osea Bola
Feedback: nikolau.ravai@fijisun.com.fj
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۱۷ اکتبر
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۱۷ اکتبر در تقویم گرگوری، دویست و نودمین (در سالهای کبیسه دویست و نود و یکمین) روز سال است. ۷۵ روز تا پایان سال باقی است.
۲ مناسبتها
رویدادها[ویرایش]
۵۳۹ پیش از میلاد - کوروش کبیر پادشاه ایران بابل را تصرف و یهودیان را پس از ۷۰ سال تبعید و اسارت آزاد و اجازه بازسازی معبد اورشلیم را صادر کرد.
۱۶۱۰ - لویی سیزدهم پادشاه فرانسه با حضور در صومعه رِم تاجگذاری کرد.
۱۶۶۲ - چالرز دوم انگلستان دونکرک شهری در شمال فرانسه را در قبال ۴۰ هزار پوند به این کشور فروخت.
۱۸۰۰ - بریتانیا کنترل کوراسائو مستعمره هلند را در دست گرفت.
۱۹۱۲ - در جریان جنگ اول بالکان و درگیری بین امپراتوری عثمانی و مونتگرو، صربستان، یونان و بلغارستان نیز به امپراتوری عثمانی اعلان جنگ دادند.
۱۹۱۷ - در طی جنگ جهانی اول برای اولین بار بریتانیا، آلمان را بمباران کرد.
۱۹۳۳ - آلبرت انیشتین از آلمان نازی متواری به آمریکا مهاجرت کرد.
۱۹۳۴ - آل کاپون رهبر مافیا و گانگستر معروف آمریکایی،متهم به فرار مالیاتی شد.
۱۹۴۱ - زیر دریاییهای ارتش آلمان نازی برای اولین بار در جنگ دوم جهانی کشتی آمریکایی "یو اس اس کارنی"(DD-432) را مورد حمله قرار داند.
۱۹۴۳ - راه آهن برمه-تایلند افتتاح شد.
۱۹۶۶ - در مرگبارترین حادثه برای سازمان آتشنشانی نیویورک ۱۲ آتشنشان در آتشسوزی یک ساختمان کشته شدند.
۱۹۶۶ - بوتسوانا و لسوتو به سازمان ملل متحد پیوست.
۱۹۷۳ - در پی حمایت چند کشور غربی از اسرائیل در جنگ با سوریه سازمان اوپک فروش نفت به این کشورها تحریم کرد.
۱۹۷۷ - چهار روز پس از سرقت پرواز شماره ۱۸۱ خطوط هوایی لوفتانزا و فرود آن در موگادیشو پایتخت سومالی کوماندوهای آلمانی گروگانهای باقی مانده را نجات دادند.
۱۹۷۹ - مادر ترسا برنده جایزه صلح نوبل شد.
۱۹۸۰ - در چارچوب روابط واتیکان و بریتانیا ملکه بریتانیا از شهر واتیکان دیدار کرد.
۱۹۸۹ - در اثر زلزله ای به بزرگی ۷٫۱ ریشتر در سان فرانسیسکو آمریکا ۵۷ نفر به طور مستقیم و ۶ تن به صورت غیر مستقیم کشته شدند.
۲۰۰۱ - رحبعام زئیفی وزیر گردشگری اسرائیل به عنوان اولین وزیر این کشور توسط گروه جبهه مردمی آزادی فلسطین ترور شد.
مناسبتها[ویرایش]
روز وفاداری در کشور آرژ
روز جهانی مبارزه با فقر
زادروزها[ویرایش]
۱۹۱۲ - ژان پل یکم، پاپ و رهبر کلیسای کاتولیک.
۱۹۱۵ - آرتور میلر، نویسنده و نمایشنامهنویس آمریکایی.
۱۹۲۶ – روبرتو لیپی، رانندهٔ مسابقات اتومبیلرانی فرمول یک اهل ایتالیا (د. ۲۰۱۱)
۱۹۷۰ - مهتاب کرامتی، بازیگر، تهیهکنندهٔ فیلم، کنشگر حقوق کودکان، بشردوست و مدیر هنری ایرانی.
۱۹۷۲ - امینم، آهنگساز و خوانندهٔ رپ آمریکایی.
۱۹۷۹ – کیمی رایکونن، رانندهٔ مسابقات اتومبیلرانی اهل فنلاند
مرگها[ویرایش]
۱۹۱۸ - ریتا هیوورث، بازیگر آمریکایی.
۱۹۴۰ - فلورانس اسکاول شین، هنرمند و نویسنده آمریکایی.
۱۹۹۸ - جوان هیکسون، بازیگر تئاتر، سینما و تلویزیون انگلیسی.
ویکیپدیا:یادبودهای برگزیده/۱۷ اکتبر
دکتر انوشیروان کیهانیزاده. «روزنامک». http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/. دریافتشده در ۱ دی ۱۳۸۶. پیوند خارجی در |اثر= وجود دارد (کمک)
در ویکیانبار پروندههایی دربارهٔ ۱۷ اکتبر موجود است.
ماهها و روزهای گاهشماری میلادی
امروز: ۳ ژانویه ۲۰۲۰ میلادی
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ژوئیه
اوت
سپتامبر
October 17 in recent years
2019 (Thursday)
2018 (Wednesday)
2017 (Tuesday)
2016 (Monday)
2015 (Saturday)
2014 (Friday)
2010 (Sunday)
October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 75 days remain until the end of the year.
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1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1346 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
1448 – An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
1456 – The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
1660 – The Nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
1817 – The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered.[1]
1827 – Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Milan.
1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
1861 – Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
1941 – World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
1943 – The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
1943 – Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
1945 – A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
1956 – Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
1961 – Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
1965 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
1966 – The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
1969 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.[2]
1970 – FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1977 – The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education.
1980 – As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing Sixty-three.
1989 – The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
1992 – Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
2000 – The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
2003 – Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise.
2005 – The Colbert Report, an American satirical news television program and talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert, premiered on Comedy Central.
2018 – The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
2018 – Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
2019 – Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.[3]
Births[edit]
503 – Lý Nam Đế, first emperor of Vietnam (d. 548)
1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, French priest and saint (d. 1303)
1493 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1500 – Alonso de Orozco Mena, Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. 1591)
1577 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
1577 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1582 – Johann Gerhard, German theologian and academic (d. 1637)
1587 – Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (d. 1620)
1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1687)
1629 – Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646)
1688 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer (d. 1726)
1711 – Jupiter Hammon, American poet (d. 1806)
1719 – Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic (d. 1792)
1720 – Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1795)[4]
1725 – John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (d. 1797)
1729 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic (d. 1817)
1735 – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist (d. 1803)
1759 – Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter (d. 1814)
1760 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French economist and philosopher (d. 1825)
1760 – Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic theorist (d. 1825)
1768 – Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838)
1779 – Louis Charles, French prince of the blood (d. 1808)
1779 – José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820)
1780 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1781 – Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist (d. 1833)
1784 – Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (d. 1854)
1785 – Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist (d. 1816)
1792 – John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong (d. 1826)
1797 – Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d.1841)
1803 – Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (d. 1876)
1810 – Adolphe-Félix Cals, French painter (d. 1880)
1811 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American pastor and educator (d. 1876)
1813 – Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (d. 1837)
1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian historian, scholar, and poet (d. 1888)
1817 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and scholar (d. 1898)
1821 – Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (d. 1882)
1828 – Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (d. 1890)
1833 – José E. Días, Paraguayan general (d. 1867)
1835 – Louis-Léon Cugnot, French sculptor (d. 1894)
1835 – Paul Haenlein, German mechanical engineer (d.1905)
1840 – André Gill, French caricaturist (d. 1885)
1844 – Gustave Schlumberger, French historian (d. 1929)
1845 – John J. Gardner, American politician (d. 1921)
1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1859 – Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)
1860 – Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (d. 1927)
1864 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943)
1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950)
1867 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (d. 1956)
1871 – Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (d.1929)
1876 – Hippolyte Aucouturier, French cyclist (d. 1944)
1878 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba (d. 1953)
1880 – Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector (d. 1977)
1881 – Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (d. 1959)
1882 – Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine (d. 1904)[5]
1883 – Alexander Neill, Scottish educator (d. 1973)
1883 – Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (d. 1966)
1886 – Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
1889 – Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author (d. 1988)
1890 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
1892 – Theodor Eicke, German SS general (d. 1943)
1892 – Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator (d. 1983)
1893 – Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979)
1894 – Prince René, Italian Prince of Denmark (d. 1962)
1894 – Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (d. 1968)
1895 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982)
1895 – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958)
1896 – Roman Petrovich, Russian prince (d. 1978)
1898 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violinist and educator (d. 1998)
1898 – Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1991)
1898 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
1900 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
1900 – Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (d. 1968)
1901 – Emma Gamboa Alvarado, Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)[6]
1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
1903 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)
1903 – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general (d. 1976)
1905 – Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996)
1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1907 – John Marley, American actor (d. 1984)
1908 – Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (d. 1988)
1908 – Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league player (d. 1980)
1908 – Red Rolfe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1969)
1908 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007)
1909 – Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
1909 – Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (d. 1962)
1909 – Joaquín Satrústegui, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 1992)
1910 – Ester Wier, American author (d. 2000)
1910 – Marina Núñez del Prado, Bolivian sculptor (d. 1995)[7]
1912 – Pope John Paul I, Catholic pope from August 1978- September 1978 (d. 1978)
1912 – Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001)
1912 – Jack Owens, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1982)
1913 – Faik Türün, Turkish general (d. 2003)
1913 – Robert Lowery, American actor (d. 1971)
1913 – Marian Marsh, Trinidadian-American actress and environmentalist (d. 2006)
1914 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 – José López Rega, Argentinean politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
1917 – Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (d. 1991)
1917 – Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer
1917 – Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1917 – Alfred Benlloch Llorach, Spanish inventor (d. 2013)
1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
1918 – Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)
1918 – Luis Alberto Solari, Uruguayan artist (d. 1993)
1919 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic
1919 – Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (d. 2014)
1919 – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
1920 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2010)
1920 – Zully Moreno, Argentine actress (d. 1999)
1921 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
1921 – Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)[8]
1921 – Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
1922 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
1922 – Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
1923 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1923 – Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (d. 2001)
1924 – Don Coryell, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
1924 – Anton Geiser, Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)
1924 – Giacomo Mari, Italian football midfielder (d. 1991)
1924 – Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone
1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sportscaster (d. 2010)
1926 – Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
1926 – Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
1926 – Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (d. 2011)
1928 – Santiago Stevenson, Panamanian singer and minister (d. 2007)
1928 – Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan politician (d. 2017)
1929 – Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1930 – Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (d. 2003)
1930 – Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (d. 2003)
1930 – Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author (d. 2017)
1931 – Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and playwright (d. 2012)
1931 – José Alencar, Brazilian businessman and politician (d. 2011)
1931 – Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer (d. 2008)
1932 – Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
1933 – William Anders, Hong Kong-American general and astronaut
1933 – The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and nun (d. 1985)
1934 – Alan Garner, English author and playwright
1934 – Johnny Haynes, English-Scottish footballer (d. 2005)
1934 – Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist (d. 2015)
1935 – Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014)
1935 – Michael Eavis, English farmer, founded the Glastonbury Festival
1935 – Carlos Pairetti, Argetine racing driver
1936 – Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1936 – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic
1936 – Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (d. 1993)
1937 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor
1937 – José María Álvarez del Manzano, Spanish politician
1937 – Aida Navarro, Venezuelan mezzo-soprano
1937 – Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (d. 2011)
1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (d. 2007)
1938 – Les Murray, Australian anthologist, poet, and critic (d. 2019)
1938 – António Calvário, Portuguese singer and artist
1939 – Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (d. 2015)
1940 – Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
1940 – Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
1940 – Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (d. 2018)
1941 – Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
1941 – Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist
1941 – Paul Ellison, American musician
1942 – Steve Jones, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
1942 – Gary Puckett, American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Ignacio Rupérez, Spanish diplomat and journalist (d. 2015)
1944 – Ángel Cristo, Spanish circus performer (d. 2010)
1946 – Ronni Chasen, American publicist (d. 2010)
1946 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (d. 2012)
1946 – Cameron Mackintosh, English producer and manager
1946 – Adam Michnik, Polish journalist and historian
1946 – Drusilla Modjeska, English-Australian author and critic
1946 – Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
1946 – Manuel Ibáñez, Mexican actor and comedian
1946 – Julio Miranda, Argentine politician
1946 – Daniela Payssé, Uruguayan politician (d. 2018)
1946 – José Perramón, Spanish handball player
1946 – Jaime Ravinet, Chilean politician
1946 – Rüdiger Wittig, German geobotanist and ecologist
1946 – Akira Kushida, Japanese vocalist
1947 – Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
1947 – Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1947 – Robert Post, American educator and academic
1947 – Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco
1948 – Robert Jordan, American soldier and author (d. 2007)
1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (d. 2018)
1948 – George Wendt, American actor and comedian
1948 – Osvaldo Castro, Chilean footballer
1949 – Owen Arthur, Barbadian economist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados
1949 – Bill Hudson, American musician and actor
1950 – Philippe Barbarin, French cardinal
1950 – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
1950 – Sandra Reemer, Indo-Dutch singer (d. 2017)
1951 – Annie Borckink, Dutch speed skater
1951 – Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
1951 – Shari Ulrich, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and violinist
1951 – Dirk Beheydt, Belgian football player.
1953 – Joseph Bowie, American trombonist and bandleader
1953 – Domenico Penzo, Italian footballer
1954 – Carlos Buhler, American mountaineer
1955 – Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek economist, academic, and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
1955 – Mike Bratz, American basketball player
1956 – Fran Cosmo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Mae Jemison, American physician, academic, and astronaut
1956 – Pat McCrory, American businessman and politician, 74th Governor of North Carolina
1956 – Stephen Palumbi, American academic and author
1957 – Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
1957 – Steve McMichael, American football player, wrestler, and sportscaster
1957 – Vincent Van Patten, American tennis player and actor
1957 – Antonio Galdo, Italian journalist
1957 – Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (d. 2002)
1957 – Pino Palladino, Welsh bassist
1957 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek folk singer
1958 – Howard Alden, American guitarist
1958 – Alan Jackson, American singer-songwriter
1958 – Craig Murray, British diplomat
1958 – Sandra Mozarowsky, Spanish actress (d. 1977)
1959 – Ron Drummond, American author and scholar
1959 – Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2016)
1959 – Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1959 – Norm Macdonald, Canadian actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
1959 – Richard Roeper, American journalist and critic
1959 – Mustafa Aberchán, Spanish politician
1959 – Eugenio Hernández Flores, Mexican politician
1960 – Guy Henry, English actor
1960 – Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
1960 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer (d. 2013)
1960 – Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
1961 – David Means, American short story writer
1962 – Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
1962 – Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
1962 – Jay Humphries, American basketball player
1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
1963 – Toby Young, English journalist and academic
1964 – Gregg Wallace, English television presenter
1964 – Margarita Liborio Arrazola, Mexican politician
1965 – Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
1965 – Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
1966 – Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
1966 – Danny Ferry, American basketball player and manager
1966 – Mark Gatiss, English actor, screenwriter and novelist
1966 – Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and sportscaster
1967 – Simon Segars, English businessman
1967 – Nathalie Tauziat, French tennis player
1967 – René Dif, Danish musician
1967 – Pedro González Vera, Chilean footballer
1968 – Graeme Le Saux, English footballer and sportscaster
1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1968 – David Robertson, Scottish footballer and manager
1968 – Alejandra Ávalos, Mexican artist
1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer and sportscaster
1969 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American rapper, producer, and actor
1969 – Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Wood Harris, American actor
1970 – Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
1970 – John Mabry, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1970 – J. C. MacKenzie, Canadian actor
1971 – Blues Saraceno, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1971 – Kim Ljung, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bass player
1971 – Martin Heinrich, American politician
1971 – Derrick Plourde, American drummer (d. 2005)
1972 – Eminem, American rapper, producer, and actor
1972 – Tarkan, German-Turkish singer
1972 – Akio "Musashi" Mori, Japanese karateka and kickboxer
1973 – Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer and coach
1973 – Rubén Garcés, Panamanian basketball player
1974 – Ariel Levy, American journalist and author
1974 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
1974 – Obdulio Ávila Mayo, Mexican politician
1974 – Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress
1974 – Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player
1974 – John Rocker, American baseball player
1974 – Darío Sala, Argentine footballer
1974 – Gabriel Silberstein, Chilean tennis player
1974 – Dhondup Wangchen, Chinese director and producer
1975 – Francis Bouillon, American-Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Jericó Abramo Masso, Mexican politician
1975 – Vina Morales, Filipino actress and singer
1976 – Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Seth Etherton, American baseball player
1976 – Carlos Loret de Mola, Mexican journalist
1976 – Kevin Maher, English-Irish footballer and coach
1977 – Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
1977 – Alimi Ballard, American actor and producer
1977 – Bryan Bertino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Walter Calderón, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 – Marko Antonio Cortés Mendoza, Mexican politician
1977 – Ryan McGinley, American photographer
1977 – André Villas-Boas, Portuguese footballer and manager
1978 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
1978 – Jerry Flannery, Irish rugby player and coach
1978 – Erin Karpluk, Canadian actress
1978 – Chuka Umunna, English lawyer and politician
1979 – Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist
1979 – Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek martial artist
1979 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
1979 – Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
1980 – Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
1980 – Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistani cricketer
1980 – Isaac Mina, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Angel Parker, American actress
1980 – Alessandro Piccolo, Italian race car driver
1980 – Justin Shenkarow, American actor
1981 – Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer
1981 – Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 – Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
1981 – Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist
1982 – Rubén Ramírez, Argentine football striker
1982 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
1982 – Marion Rolland, alpine ski racer
1983 – Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
1983 – Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
1983 – Felicity Jones, English actress
1983 – Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
1983 – Riki Miura, Japanese actor
1983 – Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
1983 – Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
1983 – Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
1983 – Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer
1984 – Chris Lowell, American actor
1984 – Giovanni Marchese, Italian footballer
1984 – Randall Munroe, American author and illustrator
1984 – Luke Rockhold, American mixed martial artist
1984 – Anja Eline Skybakmoen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and bandleader
1984 – Gottfrid Svartholm, Swedish computer specialist
1984 – Jared Tallent, Australian race walker
1985 – Carlos González, Venezuelan baseball player
1985 – Max Irons, English-Irish actor
1985 – Collins John, Dutch footballer
1985 – Tomokazu Nagira, Japanese footballer
1986 – Alexandre Bonnet, French football midfielder
1986 – Antoni Bou, Spanish motorcyclist
1986 – Aija Brumermane, Latvian basketball player
1986 – Constant Djakpa, Ivorian footballer
1986 – Yannick Ponsero, French figure skater
1986 – Nicolás Richotti, Argentine basketball player
1987 – Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
1987 – Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
1987 – Elliot Grandin, French football winger
1987 – Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1988 – Sergiy Gladyr, Ukrainian basketball player
1988 – Tori Matsuzaka, Japanese actor and model
1988 – Marina Salas, Spanish actress
1989 – Débora García, Spanish football midfielder
1989 – Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
1989 – Sophie Luck, Australian actress
1989 – David Timor, Spanish footballer
1990 – Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
1990 – Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
1990 – Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
1990 – Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
1990 – Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
1991 – Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
1992 – Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
1992 – Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
1993 – Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
2001 – Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer
Deaths[edit]
AD 33 – Agrippina the Elder, Roman wife of Germanicus (b. 14 BC)
532 – Pope Boniface II
866 – Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph (b. 836)
1271 – Steinvör Sighvatsdóttir, Icelandic aristocrat and poet
1277 – Beatrice of Falkenburg, German queen consort (b. c. 1254)
1346 – John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
1346 – Maurice de Moravia, Earl of Strathearn
1456 – Nicolas Grenon, French composer (b. 1375)
1485 – John Scott of Scott's Hall, Warden of the Cinque Ports
1552 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
1575 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
1586 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1616 – John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
1660 – Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
1690 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
1757 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
1776 – Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
1780 – William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
1781 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)[9]
1786 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
1868 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
1887 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
1889 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
1893 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
1910 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
1918 – Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)
1928 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
1931 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and academic (b. 1884)
1937 – J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
1938 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theoretician (b. 1854)
1948 – Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (b. 1869)
1955 – Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
1956 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
1958 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1958 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
1962 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
1963 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
1965 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 – Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
1966 – Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
1967 – Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)
1970 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1921)
1970 – Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1970 – Quincy Wright, American political scientist and academic (b. 1890)
1972 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
1972 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887)
1973 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (b. 1926)
1978 – George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
1978 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
1979 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1979 – John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
1979 – Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
1981 – Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
1981 – Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
1981 – Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
1983 – Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
1987 – Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
1991 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
1992 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
1992 – Orestis Laskos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1993 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
1996 – Chris Acland, English musician & drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
1998 – Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
1998 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
1999 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
2000 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
2000 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
2001 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
2001 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
2001 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
2002 – Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
2004 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
2006 – Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
2006 – Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
2007 – Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
2007 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
2007 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
2008 – Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1955)
2008 – Levi Stubbs, American singer (b. 1936)
2008 – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
2009 – Norma Fox Mazer, American author and educator (b. 1931)
2009 – Vic Mizzy, American composer (b. 1916)
2011 – Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
2012 – Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
2012 – Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
2012 – Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
2012 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
2012 – Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2013 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
2013 – Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)
2013 – Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
2013 – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
2013 – Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (b. 1966)
2014 – Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (b. 1937)
2014 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (b. 1943)
2014 – Tom Shaw, American bishop (b. 1945)
2014 – Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (b. 1919)
2015 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (b. 1926)
2015 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2015 – Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2015 – Tom Smith, American businessman and politician (b. 1947)
2017 – Gord Downie, Canadian musician (b. 1964)[10]
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Ignatius of Antioch
John the Short (John Colobus)
Marguerite Marie Alacoque (formerly)
Nothhelm
Rule of Andrew
Victor of Capua
October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Dessalines Day (Haiti)
Digital Society Day (India)
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Loyalty Day (Argentina)
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^ Mikhailova, Yulia; Michiko, Ikuta (2007). "Forgotten Heroes: Russian Women in the War". In Kowner, Rotem (ed.). Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: Volume 1: Centennial Perspectives. Folkestone: Global Oriental. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-9052-4603-8.
^ Diaz-Arias, David; Viales Hurtado, Ronny; Marín Hernández, Juan José (2019). Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-5381-0241-1.
^ Nystrom, Andrew Dean; Konn, Morgan; Swaney, Deanna (2004). Bolivia. London: Lonely Planet. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-7410-4018-0.
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THE BEST CAMPING SPOTS NEAR VANCOUVER
Nature is good for your brain, so unplug, pack up the MEC tent, and take a quick drive to the cheapest form of therapy on the West Coast: camping! With Whistler north, Okanagan east, Washington south, and Vancouver Island a quick hop west, we've got favourite campsites in every direction.
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Golden Ears Provincial Park
You know that picture of someone wearing flannel and a wide brim hat, paddling across a picturesque lake? That could be you at Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park. The park has three campgrounds along the lake’s busy shoreline, but the boat access-only campsites are a hot ticket if you can get your hands on a canoe or kayak (rentals at the Alouette day-use area or at MEC). Paddle to Moyer Creek, The Narrows, or Alouette River on the Instagram-famous lake; or skirt Pitt Lake to camp at Raven Creek, or North or South Osprey Creek.
Cat Lake
The lakes in Squamish are a little less obvious than the massive Stawamus Chief park. But they’re always worth the extra effort. While the families head to Alice Lake, take your floaties and beers to Cat Lake. This body of water can get noisy, but if you don’t mind sharing the rope swing or docks, it’s a real treat. Fitt Tip: wheelbarrows ease the walk in, and the campground is well-serviced with bear-proof lockers at every site.
Juan de Fuca Provinical Park
Missed the boat on booking the West Coast Trail? Or looking for something a little easier on the legs? The Juan de Fuca Trail is your go-to. The 47-kilometre trail follows the west coast of Vancouver Island (nothing but blue between you and Japan!) to Botanical Beach in Port Renfrew. Trek from any of the four trailheads, or hunker down for some oceanfront camping and surfing at Sombrio Beach.
Porteau Cove Provincial Park
One look over Howe Sound and you'll forget downtown is only 45 minutes away. Turn off the Sea to Sky Highway past Lion’s Bay to find this waterfront gem featuring 44 vehicle-accessible campsites, as well as 16 walk-in sites. It’s an easy, popular little trip, and prime real estate for meteor shower nights (so we have to recommend you reserve early). There’s an easy lookout hike, nearby bike trails, and a couple of sunken ships for scuba divers.
E. C. Manning Provincial Park
Drive three hours east of Vancouver and you’ll hit E.C. Manning Provincial Park. Right smack in the middle of the Cascade Mountains, the park is an underrated outdoor mecca. The best news? At least one of the four drive-up campgrounds stays open through the winter. But for your fair weather friends, hit up the campsites around Lightning Lake. You can hike as little as 15 minutes to as much as six days, or you can stay waterside where general store snacks are a quick walk away.
Howe Sound Crest Trail
The views from the Howe Sound Crest Trail are straight up spectacular. The 29-kilometre trail starts in the Cypress Bowl, overlooks Howe Sound, summits the iconic Lions, and treks down to Porteau Cove. Pack light for the steep uphills right out the gate to St. Mark’s Summit, and plan to camp at one of the four preferred spots 11 kilometres in. The trail is point-to-point, so drop a second car at the Porteau Cove parking lot or be prepared to call in a favour with a friend for a pick-up.
Pemberton—of Joffre Lakes fame (hiking to the turquoise glacier lakes is a must if you haven’t already)—is a quick 20-minute drive north of Whistler. Pop up the tent at the Nairn Falls campsite and you’ve got yourself a home base that has easy access to waterfalls, hot springs, and hikes through an endless backcountry. This site is a safe bet or a solid, late-night plan B if the spots at Joffre Lakes are taken.
Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park
Blonde raccoons. Prehistoric-looking moon snails the size of your fist. Not to mention a whole lot of history: native fishing villages, Japanese salteries, English sandstone quarries, and coal mines have all found a home here. It’s all packed onto a blip of a provincial park called Newcastle Island and is so worth the trip. Repeat this to yourself as your board your second ferry of the day (Vancouver to Nanaimo to Newcastle Island — bear with us here). Luckily, this ride is only 10 minutes out of Nanaimo’s inner harbour, and once you get to the island the 18 walk-in and five group campsites are very nearby. Fitt Tip: catch the public ferry from Nanaimo’s inner harbour to Newcastle Island during the summer, or hop on a private water taxi for the rest of the year.
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Fitt Tip: not into booking months ahead? Search first-come, first-served (FCFS) campsites on the BC Parks camp reservation for a last-minute weekend trip.
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State Attorney Drops Battery Charge Against Flagler Beach Commissioner Eric Cooley, Closing the Case
October 5, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments
Eric Cooley, left, speaking with News-Journal reporter Matt Bruce this morning outside the courtroom, just after the charge against Cooley was dropped. (© FlaglerLive)
The misdemeanor battery charge against Flagler Beach City Commissioner Eric Cooley was dropped this morning, minutes before a scheduled hearing before a county judge.
Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis filed the document indicating his office will no longer prosecute Cooley at 8:40 a.m., as Cooley himself waited for his hearing on a bench outside the courtroom.
“The victim does not want to go forward with charges and will not cooperate with the State,” the formal document announcing the intention not to prosecute states. “Since there are no independent witnesses who saw the domestic battery, the State is not able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Cooley called the statement “a PR dig. He’s blaming the victim,” while his attorney, Angelique Kelley, who was standing in for Cooley’s usual attorney–Josh Davis, who was out of town–said statements of the sort don’t usually accompany such documents. Lewis said it’s not unusual: some assistant state attorneys issue the document without a statement. He generally issues them with a statement.
“It just depends on who the prosecutor is,” Lewis said, rejecting Cooley’s statement. “I don’t think we’re blaming the victim. The community is going to want to know why we couldn’t go forward with the case. We’re just explaining. We’ve done everything we could to get her to come down.”
Cooley was arrested on June 29 at his home, which he had shared until then with the alleged victim, who also worked with him at 7-Eleven, the store he owns on Ocean Shore Boulevard in Flagler Beach. The allegation, reported by a store employee, was that Cooley had kicked the alleged victim in the leg and grabbed her by the throat, an incident alleged to have happened in the store’s cooler. Flagler Beach police initially reported to the store, then turned over the investigation to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, whose deputies arrested Cooley at his home later that day. The victim initially sought to pursue charges. Cooley acknowledged that there’d been arguments and disagreements but denied all acts of violence.
The original arrest report reads as if there were other witnesses, which led to rife speculation in town that the state could make the case against Cooley without the alleged victim. There is also store surveillance video that, numerous people have speculated, supposedly shows the alleged violent encounter between Cooley and the victim. In fact, there were neither independent witnesses nor indications on the video that could corroborate actual acts of violence, Lewis said.
“That’s what everybody talks about, ‘it’s all on video,'” Cooley said, indicating that it isn’t. (See the full videos below.)
“We’ve interviewed all the witnesses,” Lewis said. “The report says there’s an independent witness, but that person once we actually interviewed them didn’t actually see it. So that’s why we can’t go forward. There’s no witnesses to the actual battery. There’s witnesses to surrounding circumstances, but we can’t prove the crime through surrounding circumstances.”
By Aug. 16, the alleged victim no longer wanted to pursue the charge. She wrote Lewis an email imploring him to drop the charge without backtracking from initially implicating him. “I feel that God and Karma are already catching up with him,” she wrote. “I do not want to inflict any more pain to him, even though I have every earthly right to.” She was not willing to continue to subject herself to media glare and people’s reactions. The prosecution had no case without her.
“We’ve been trying to see if the victim would cooperate, so we’ve asked law enforcement in the community there, where she’s at out of state,” Lewis said, “and they finally made contact with her, and she’s made it clear that she doesn’t want to cooperate or participate at all.” The 47-year-old woman soon after the incident had returned to her town of origin in Richwood, W.Va.
“We’ve reached out to her multiple times on the phone and left messages, we sent two subpoenas to her, she hasn’t responded back to us at all,” Lewis said.
The State Attorney’s Office could have enforced the subpoenas, but it would have entailed extraordinary means, including a show-cause hearing before a judge who, if the witness is not present, could then issue an arrest warrant and have the witness dragged before court: that would have re-victimized the very victim the state is ostensibly in a position to protect.
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Cooley was on a bench outside County Judge Melissa Moore-Stens’s courtroom before 9 a.m. today, with Kelley, awaiting what would have been a hearing called for by his attorney to press the prosecution for a trial date, now that the speedy-trial clock has run out. The trial would have had to be set at today’s hearing for sometime in the next two weeks. But a bailiff came out of the courtroom before 9 to tell Cooley that the hearing was cancelled, and that Moore-Stens was scheduled for a meeting with other judges. Kelley got on the phone with Lewis and said she would not be leaving the courthouse without a written document indicating the status of the case. She soon returned from the State Attorney’s Office with the “nolle prosequi” document–the dropped charge. It may not be re-filed, in effect ending the case.
Cooley said he would reserve comment until he’d spoken with Davis, but allowed that while he was relieved, he nevertheless would have preferred to go to trial, where all evidence would have been laid out and, he said, he would have been more clearly exonerated. With charges merely dropped, he said–which does not equate to the kind of exoneration he was seeking–he won’t get that chance.
The case had spawned a brief sideshow involving Sheriff Rick Staly, when Davis attempted to “muzzle” Staly’s statements on the assumption that statements had been prejudicial to Cooley (the court denied the motion). The case also clearly added a layer of controversy to the Flagler Beach City Commission, where members of the public repeatedly addressed Cooley’s continued presence on the panel since his arrest.
On Aug. 9 former Commissioner Joy McGrew addressed the commission “with a sad heart,” as Cooley is occupying the seat McGrew once held. McGrew opted to retire from the commission, and publicly and enthusiastically endorsed Cooley.
“This is about you Eric, and I’m sorry,” McGrew told Cooley and the rest of the commission that day. “I know you’re innocent until proven guilty. I also know that once you step into a public position, which you have, the standards are not like they are out here. In the best and highest interest of this city, it would be my request to you to consider asking your fellow commissioners if they would allow you to be excused, be absent, until it’s proven one way or the other. I hold your position and their position with the greatest of honor, and when we run into troubles, if it’s truly in your best interest, that being the city, then you have to look at issues from a different angle.” She also suggested to the commission to consider having “leeway if this situation ever happens again” to allow the commissioner in that position–facing charges–not to forfeit the seat if it takes more than three meetings for the case to be resolved. Currently, the city charter calls for forfeiture of a member of the commission misses three successive meetings.
Reached by phone today after the charge was dropped, McGrew reflected a long time then said: “From my perspective as a past elected, political person, we all have to live with what we do, be able to put our head on the pillow at night.” McGrew said it was the alleged victim’s and the state’s choice, for whatever reasons, not to go forward. “I guess Eric has to–Eric and the commission and everyone else–have to live their truth.”
McGrew reiterated her suggestion to the commission that some policy or rule be develop enabling a commissioner in similar situations to step down for the duration of a legal case, without forfeiting the seat. Asked if she was withdrawing her endorsement of Cooley, McGrew said: “I think that’s pretty irrelevant. Nothing was proven, nothing is going to court, so why would I do that? I would hope that any and all persons that go into that position realize they have to hold themselves to a higher standard.”
The 7-Eleven Surveillance videos: 5:30 to 6 a.m., June 22:
6 to 6:30 a.m.:
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Welcome to Flagler County! Where domestic violence seems to be legal, or at least tolerated as long as you are part of the elected officials.
Really says
Sounds like the abusive power and control Domestic violence bully, verbal or otherwise got away with one. Vote him out. …
Dropped charges is not an exoneration??? Yeah right!!! Innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of ANY doubt in a court of law is NOT the same as GUILTY until proven innocent in a court of social media. Waste of time, money and resources that could have been used for a more purposeful reason.
Mmpatint says
Ok so let me get this correct,elected officials do not get treated as the rest of the county?why🤔what about the other 500 non elected officials sitting in jail under the exsact same circumstances?so now we can see Cleary justice is far from blind and if you are a regular citizen your nothing?🤔seems very fabricated,but hay,it just goes to show you it’s truly a war on ppl who can’t afford good lawyers and easy throw the book at those with lack of education. That’s just great.wonderful job
Look at the video Mr. DA man lol. When it escalates to outright physical violence next time its on your hands VOTE him out
ASF says
He will do it again. Then every one will go “TUT-TUT…How could this have happened…and we never saw any signs at all!”
Again says
Josh Davis for Sheriff!!!!!! True American badass
Chris Howell says
Well what did you expect. Grease the right palms and you can get away with anything. Welcome to Flagler County.
Cybercrimes says
Obviously none of you previous posters work in law enforcement nor know how the justice system works. Unfortunately this is a common occurrence whether it be for domestic violence or a simple battery (no persons related or sexually involved). Often times if a victim does not wish to cooperate or “do anything”, then the state attorney will drop the charges/case. This is very frustrating for law enforcement deputies/officers because they put in so much time for these cases just for the victim to decide to “back out”.
Usually for domestic violence cases, the state attorney can still continue the charges even though the victim does not want to cooperate. However if they do not have enough evidence to continue the case (prove) then they will drop the charge. Seems to be what happened here. I get the suspect is some type of elected official or what not, but this holds true (dropped charges) even with the common nobody.
What about the 7-11 employee who called in the first place? I guess they’re not considered to be an eyewitness.
Mr. Cooley may have gotten away with this from a legal standpoint but his true self has been exposed and the court of public opinion finds him guilty. I will not patron his store and if I ever see him in public I will tell him exactly what I think.
We get the SYSTEM. He still did and will continue to do. Hence he deserves the comments from WE the usually misinformed common nobody’s . Obviously VOTE him out.
Wow says
My Dad was a cop and the calls he most hated were domestic violence. The reason is that more Han half the time the victim dropped the charges next day.
Jason smith says
This is a disgrace! I have a friend who was a retired Flagler Beach Police Officer who was also diagnosed with ptsd. He had an injunction placed against him because he wanted to end his life in a park in Palm Coast. He violated his injunction and was sentenced to 12 months county jail and was locked in his cell for 23 hours a day. His only time out of his cell was to call his daughter and wrote a letter to his son. Before being released from jail the prosecutor Jason Lewis filed official charges of aggravated stalking against this man. Now he is on probation and had to wear an ankle monitor for 12 months. Why do you pick and choose? This is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard. Both of his ex wives expressed that they did not wish to go forward with the charges and the state attorney prosecuted him anyway! WHY??
Yes, what about the employee who called? She had to have called for a reason. The victim told/showed her what happened to her. So why didn’t this person testify in court? I get it because the victim dropped charges, but when someone has been physically abused, those who know the victim as spoke with the victim and saw the damage should still be able to testify as to what the victim said and showed.
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The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH), with the support of its partner brands and the Miami Design District Associates (MDDA), is pleased to announce that the next edition of Watches & Wonders Miami will take place February 12-14, 2021.
The move to postpone the 2020 event reflects a strategic decision taken by the FHH to focus all efforts on the debut of the new Watches & Wonders Geneva concept which is scheduled for this coming April 25 29, 2020.
With Miami continuing to grow as a global hub for art, culture and luxury overall, the FHH remains committed to the city, and the Miami Design District in particular, as an ideal setting for the Watches & Wonders concept. The timing, which will coincide with the popular Presidents Day weekend, will enable the FHH to deliver the optimal experience for attendees and partner brands, as well as allow for continued partnership with the Miami Concours and Miami Yacht Show.
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To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 November 1788
From Edmund Randolph
Richmond Nov. 5. 1788.
My dear friend
On saturday next the election of senators will come on. The running names are yourself, R. H L. & Gr—s—n. Your friends have resolved to nominate you; being well assured, that their labours will not be in vain. It is a mortification to me, that the election shd. be brought on before my seat commences. But Carrington has, I presume, been this day elected, and will be here to morrow. When I say, that we are well assured of success, we go upon this estimate, that you will have fifty single votes and fifty promiscuously obtained.1 But you know, that mistakes may occur after the best inquiry.
The assembly have done nothing; but enter into some preparatory resolutions. Among others is one for excluding all fœderal officers, except the military, from posts in the states:2 The patrons differ in the principles, and the scheme may possibly be abortive from this cause. But H——y is decided in its favor; and all powerful.
RC (DLC). Docketed by JM. Apparently incomplete, with subsequent page (or pages) missing.
1. In his letter to JM of 10 Nov., Randolph explained what a “single” vote was: “The ballot was opened on Saturday, and at least fifty gave you single votes; that is, threw their other votes on persons, not nominated,”
2. This resolution was adopted on 4 Nov. (JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond, In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1790 are brought together in three volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828, and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , Oct. 1788, p. 25).
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-11-02-0246
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Randolph, Edmund
“To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 November 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-11-02-0246. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 11, 7 March 1788–1 March 1789, ed. Robert A. Rutland and Charles F. Hobson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977, pp. 335–336.]
From Madison to Randolph [2 November 1788]
From Randolph to Madison [10 November 1788]
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Samsung Galaxy Note9 handled on video, Galaxy S9+'s camera setup confirmed
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Category: U.S. Constitutional Grounds for Reconsideration to Dismiss
DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION TO DISMISS AND STRIKE THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT WITH A SECOND OBJECTION TO THE SAME PLAINTIFF’S VERIFIED COMPLAINT
Filed under: "Scienter", Abuse of the Legal Process, Action in Trover, Consumer Service Fraud, Conversion, Malicious Prosecution, U.S. Constitutional Grounds for Reconsideration to Dismiss — Leave a comment
Village of Lombard,
NOTICE OF FILING
DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION TO DISMISS AND STRIKE THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT WITH A SECOND OBJECTION TO THE SAME PLAINTIFF’S VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR DEMOLITION AND FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
Attn. Judge Ken Popejoy, Chancery Division To:Circuit Court Clerk
18th Judicial Circuit Court Mr. Chris Kachiroubas
CC: Law Firm of Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd.
Mr. Howard C. Jablecki, et al. Attn. Mr. Joseph E. Birkett
Attorneys for the Plaintiff Illinois State’s Attorney
20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1660, 503 North County Farm Road
Chicago, Illinois 60606-2903, USA Wheaton, Illinois 60187 USA
Tel. 312-984-6400; To Whom It May Concern
Now comes Gardenia C. Hung, as Defendant Pro Se, to reinstate all of the Defendants’ responses and supporting arguments in this Motion for Reconsideration to Dismiss and Strike the Verified Complaint with a Second Objection to the same Plaintiff’s Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief, on legal constitutional grounds upholding the Illinois homeowner’s right to repair Lombard real estate property pursuant to the Constitution of the United States of America, the State of Illinois Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Victims of Crime Act, Illinois Human Rights Act, Housing and Urban Development Act, Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, 815 ILCS 505/1 et seq.; 815 ILCS 505/2 et seq., Unlawful Prohibited Practices; 815 ILCS 510/1 et seq., Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act; Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 USC §45 et seq.
Counsel Howard C. Jablecki’s response for the Plaintiff disregards U.S. constitutional issues in this legal action, since in the State of Illinois, Lombard homeowners have constitutional rights to repair Lombard Historical real estate property in the County of Du Page, United States of America. Mr. Jablecki is subject to perjury upon stating that, “In this case, Defendant Hung has not provided adequate grounds for this court to reconsider its denial of the motion to dismiss…” “Defendant Hung has alleged no newly discovered facts, no change in the law, and no error in this Court’s application of the law aside from its use of “fancy legal terms”. (Village of Lombard v. Gardenia C. Hung and Robert S. Hung, et al., Plaintiff’s Response to Defendant’s Motion for Reconsideration of Motion to Dismiss, Page 3).
For the record, Defendants petition to reinstate all legally filed evidence, as follow:
1. Defendants’ Response/Answer to Summons. Counterpoint: At Issue Legal Memorandum in Opposition to the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief to Support the Defendants’ Compulsory Counterclaims to Setoff/Offset the Verified Complaint from Plaintiff on legal grounds for “action in trover”, criminal conversion of property, consumer service fraud, breach of the Fair Housing Partnership Resolution Contract and Real Estate Liability for Lombard Old Houses.
2. Affidavit of Damages in Excess of $50,000.
3. Amended Defendants’ Response/Answer to Summons. Counterpoint: At Issue Legal Memorandum in Opposition to the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief to Support the Defendants’ Compulsory Counterclaims in the sum of $2,000,000, two million, to Setoff/Offset the Verified Complaint from Plaintiff on legal grounds for “action in trover”, criminal conversion of property, consumer service fraud, breach of the Fair Housing Partnership Resolution Contract and Real Estate Liability for Lombard Old Houses.
4. Abridged to 10 Pages, Defendants’ Response/Answer to Summons. Counterpoint: At Issue Legal Memorandum in Opposition to the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief.
5. Defendants’ Motion for Discovery, Exhibit A, to Petition Attorney’s Fees under §10(A)C of the Consumer Fraud Act for “action in trover”, in the sum of $32,497.41
6. Defendants’ Amended Petition, Exhibit B, in Motion to Accept All Legal Expenses in the sum of $33,725.41 for Reimbursement Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 137 and §10(A)C of the Consumer Fraud Act, 815 ILCS 505/1 et seq.
7. Defendants’ Combined §2-615 Motion to Dismiss and §2-619 Motion to Strike the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 137.
8. MOTION FOR DISCOVERY, EXHIBIT C, AS EVIDENCE FOR CONTRACTS A-1, B-1, AND C-1, AS PROOF OF PROPOSED PLANS FOR RESTORATION, REPAIR CONSTRUCTION, REMODELING, AND REHABILITATION IN ORDER TO BRING THE LOMBARD HISTORICAL BRICK BUNGALOW INTO COMPLIANCE WITH MUNICIPAL BUILDING CODE.
9. SUBPOENA REQUEST FOR PLAINTIFF TO PRODUCE ALL HOUSEHOLD KEYS
BELONGING TO DEFENDANTS, ET AL. AT 502 S. WESTMORE-MEYERS ROAD, LOMBARD, ILLINOIS 60148-3028, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
10. 1993-2007 DAMAGES AND LOSSES AT THE HUNG FAMILY REAL ESTATE AT
502 SOUTH WESTMORE-MEYERS ROAD, LOMBARD, DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS 60148-3028
MEMO OVERVIEW REPORT BY GARDENIA C. HUNG, M.A., DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR.
ROBERT HUNG, J.D.
11. DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR OBJECTION TO THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR DEMOLITION
AND FOR INJUCTIVE RELIEF.
12. DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION TO DISMISS AND STRIKE THE VERIFIED
COMPLAINT WITH A SECOND OBJECTION TO THE SAME PLAINTIFF’S VERIFIED COMPLAINT
FOR DEMOLITION AND FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.
Plaintiff’s response states improper opinions, contrary-to-fact statements, and fails to consider all of the newly discovered evidence presented and filed in conformity to proof before this court, along with all the supporting arguments reported by U.S. law enforcement agencies and the State of Illinois on behalf of the Defendants, included as a Second Objection to the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief.
Defendants hereby reinstate all the legal documentation and supporting arguments presented to date before this court, in this Motion for Reconsideration to Dismiss and Strike the Verified Complaint with a Second Objection to the same Plaintiff’s Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief. For the record, Defendants have submitted into evidence as Exhibit C, Contracts A-1, B-1, and C-1, underwritten by ZSC INSURANCE RESTORATION SERVICE, LLC., P.O. Box 56553, Chicago, Illinois 60656-0553, ZeesGroup.com, in conformity to proof of the proposed plans for Restoration, Renovation, Repair Construction, Remodeling, and Rehabilitation presented during November 2006 and January 2007, by Gardenia C. Hung, in order to comply with the Village of Lombard Municipal Building Code Violations caused by the Plaintiff in this legal ‘action in trover’ and ‘conversion’ of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow owned by the Hung Family in Du Page County, Illinois, United States of America.
The Hung Family is seeking monetary compensation for Damages and Losses to include Contracts for Special Disaster Restoration Construction Repair Services in the sum of $281,830US contracted and underwritten by ZSC Insurance Restoration Services LLC for repair at the expense of the Village of Lombard Community and DuPage County.
Plaintiff’s Counsel Howard C. Jablecki presents false arguments based on improper opinions and hearsay, not well supported in fact to justify condemnation, demolition, and injunctive relief without affording to the Defendants the option to repair with due process and just payment in “cash” for compensation at a fair market value upon sale of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow owned by the Hung Family, under the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of Illinois. Defendants as Lombard homeowners have the right to repair this Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow in Du Page County, Illinois, United States of America.
Counsel Howard C. Jablecki’s allegations for demolition and for injunctive relief do not state a public purpose or present specific plans for reuse of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow by the Village of Lombard, et al. The Verified Complaint fails to prove that the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow is “Unfit for Human Habitation”, since the Hung Family has been Lombard resident homeowners since 1993 to date, in 2008, for the last 15 years now.
Consequently, Defendants have petitioned to redress grievances as victims of crime in the Village of Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois, based on constitutional grounds, as follow:
Section 11-31-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code (65 ILCS 5/11-31-1) pertaining to demolition by a municipality is unconstitutional because it does not allow the Defendants, as Lombard resident homeowners in Du Page County, Illinois, the right to repair the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road, owned by the Hung Family. In City of Aurora v. Meyer, 38 Ill. 2d. 131 (1967), the Supreme Court construed the statute as meaning that, “if the specific defects that render a building dangerous and unsafe ‘may readily be remedied by repair’, demolition should not be ordered without giving the owners a reasonable opportunity to make the repairs.” Furthermore, in the previous Supreme Court Rule 23 (166 Ill. 2d R. 23) order (Village of Lake Villa v. Stokovich, No. 2-00-0943 (2001), the Illinois Supreme Court in the exercise of its supervisory authority directed the presiding judge to vacate the judgment in the Circuit Court of Lake County ordering demolition and to address the Defendants that Section 11-31-1 is unconstitutional. Defendants assert that ordering demolition without giving a homeowner a reasonable time to repair her/his property without considering the cost constitutes an unlawful infringement upon rights of real estate ownership and/or a due process violation;
Section 11-31-1 constitutes an invalid delegation of legislative power in the Village of Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois, in the United States of America;
Plaintiff and Counsel, Howard C. Jablecki et al. are abusing the Court’s discretion in “scienter” with guilty knowledge, as accomplices for direct cause of action for Damages and Losses to the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow, as noted on record, and by non-disclosure and/or exclusion of key evidence leading to the current damages, losses, and disrepair of the subject property;
This Court is abusing the Defendants, as Lombard resident homeowners, by admitting the Plaintiff’s speculation as improper opinions, not well grounded nor supported by facts of evidence for restoration and preservation of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow, already on record to comply with provisions of the municipal building code;
Keith Steiskal’s finding on May 5, 2006 as stated, does not validate that the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow is dangerous and unsafe, requiring demolition under Section 11-31-1. Keith Steiskal’s “improper opinions and hearsay” under Section 11-31-1 is against the manifested weight of evidence and the Defendants’ proposed restoration plans which have sought alternative remedy and relief in the form of bringing the subject property into compliance;
This Court has erred in denying the Defendants’ Combined §2-615 Motion to Dismiss and §2-619 Motion to Strike the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief, based on the presiding judge’s “improper opinions and hearsay” about “improper language” and “fancy legal terms”, abuse of the legal process, malicious prosecution, “scienter”, negligence per se, consumer service fraud, and obstruction of justice;
The municipal ordinance violations alleged in Counts I, II, and II for Injunctive Relief do not apply to the subject property, nor are these allegations supported or warranted by existing laws under the Constitution of the United States of America, the State of Illinois Constitution, Bill of Rights, Victims of Crime Act, Human Rights Act, Housing and Urban Development Act, Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, 815 ILCS 505/1 et seq., 815 ILCS 505/2 et seq., Unlawful Prohibited Practices; 815 ILCS 510/1 et seq., Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act; Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 USC §45 et seq., and
The Court’s order on Monday, November 29, 2007 by Judge Kenneth Popejoy, based on “improper use of language and fancy legal terms” is still so deficient as to require a Judicial Review for Reconsideration pursuant to legal, constitutional grounds under the Constitution of the United States, and the State of Illinois Bill of Rights.
Defendants hereby present a Second Objection to the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief in this petition to redress grievances as victims of crime. Please take notice that assertion by the Defendants of Lombard homeowners’ right to repair is protected under the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution and Sections 2 and 15 of the Bill of Rights of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1979, art. I, §§2,15) which upon review supports the constitutionality of a statute de novo (Miller v. Rosenberg, 196 Ill. 2d 50, 57 (2001).
Wherefore, Defendants reinstate Combined §2-615 Motion to Dismiss and §2-619 Motion to Strike the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 137, as noted.
For the record, Plaintiff as the Village of Lombard et al. has “defrauded”
the real estate investment of the late Mr. Roberto Hung, and daughter, Gardenia C. Hung, et al. by direct cause of action in conversion of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow into a distressed real estate property as an “access to crime” in the Village of Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois, through conspiracy, heinous/hate crimes, damages, losses, disrepair, and personal injury, to include the murder of the late Mr. Roberto Hung. Consequently, Plaintiff owes the Defendants the obligation, the duty, and service to repair the subject property, damaged by Negligence Per Se and breach of duty, on legal grounds for “action in trover”, criminal “conversion” of real property owned by Gardenia C. Hung, to include consumer service fraud.
For the record, as noted on the Defendants’ pleadings filed in this court, the Village of Lombard and DuPage County, have contributed directly and indirectly to the extensive structural damages and losses to the Hung Family real estate property at 502 S. Westmore Avenue and Washington Boulevard in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois, U.S.A.
Plaintiff’s allegations are not well supported in fact to justify condemnation, demolition, and injunctive relief without stating a public purpose or presenting specific plans for the reuse of the property. Thus, the Verified Complaint is incomplete, inconclusive, and invalid. The subject property owned by the Hung Family is not a dangerous, unsafe building nor a health hazard or safety risk to the community.
In conclusion, Defendants have reinstated and re-submitted a Second Amended Response to the Verified Complaint in this Motion for Reconsideration to Dismiss the Verified Complaint with a Second Objection to Demolition and Injunctive Relief, thus presenting valid constitutional arguments for historical preservation and restoration, remodeling, and repair construction of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow owned by the Hung Family, at the expense of the Plaintiff, also known as the Village of Lombard, et al., All Employees, accountable and liable for all damages, losses, and disrepair to the subject property as a direct cause of action, in access to crime by the Lombard Police Department.
WHEREBY, Defendants pray for remedy and relief to sustain this Motion as a Second Objection to the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief, based upon constitutional grounds, as noted, with the proposed plans for restoration and historical preservation of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow owned by the Hung Family, at the cost and expense of the Plaintiff.
WHEREFORE, Defendants also pray to sustain Combined §2-615 Motion to Dismiss and §2-619 Motion to Strike the Verified Complaint for Demolition and for Injunctive Relief pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 137, upon judicial review for reconsideration with justice, equity, and fairness, under God. Defendants petition for additional relief and financial remedy in affording the Defendants the right to repair Illinois real estate property, as follow for:
(1) GENERAL DAMAGES AND LOSSES IN THE SUM OF $123,200, AS NOTED IN CONTRACT C, IN CONFORMITY TO PROOF;
Furthermore, Defendants also pray for any other remedy and relief provided by this court with due process and just payment in “cash” for compensation at a fair market value upon sale of the Lombard Historical Brick Bungalow owned by the Hung Family; as this Court deems just, fair, and equitable due to family tragedy, hardship, and poverty as victims of crime, under the Constitution of the United States of America and the State of Illinois Constitution, Bill of Rights, with justice, under God.
Respectfully submitted by,
Gardenia C. Hung, M.A., PRO SE
Lombard, Illinois 60148-3028
Dated on January 25, 2008,
_________________________ Gardenia C. Hung, M.A.
In the County of Du Page, State of Illinois, United States of America
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Kim Seon Ho/ Kim Sun Ho ( 김선호) Mr Dimples - Variety - 1N2D Season 4
By triplem, September 26, 2018 in actors & actresses
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Another photo shoot for ARENA Magazine with Autumn theme..
PREPARE YOUR HEART!
irilight 63,024
4 hours ago, ixxdhx81 said:
Thank you @ixxdhx81. He looks great with these colors.
@triplem, @ixxdhx81, thank you for all the updates. Photos and videos... Can never have too many with him...
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From a variety show.
His fan cafe hits 3000 members!
If I am not mistaken, the shoot for CTG already ended rite? He even posted it on his insta, notified his fans that he just finished the last shoot.
Wonder what will his schedule on Nov 10th, that makes him to switch schedule with the other actor for his play Memory in Dream.
They said they change the schedule because KSH has another schedule for shoot.
P.S. Seems he did some "cleaning" again for his instagram. Glad I already downloaded all his insta pictures (but not the recent ones). LOL!
Wrap up party last night.. 26.10.2019
Lookin fresssshhh in PINK!
Already jumped to another work!
Pict from his stage practice (Memory in Dream).
Pizza Party!
Pict Source: Oh Inha IG. (@5_ina)
Oh my GOD! Oh my GOD!!! He received offer to appear as new member of 2 Days 1 Night for the new season.
I'm cryinggggggg!!!!
I was planning to give up watching the show as I'm still hurt with the former members. I really like this variety show.
I read the first news that he's confirmed for the show, then it makes sense he changed his performance schedule on Nov 10th.
But then another news come from Salt said he received the offer and already had a meeting with the production team. Waiting for KSH confirmation.
Keep calm and waiting for the official news. I hope he take the offer. I really like this variety show!!!
Source: http://www.theceluv.com/article.php?aid=1572914367288166010
The new members for the new season of 2D1N(?)
VIXX’s Ravi And Kim Seon Ho In Talks To Join New Season Of “2 Days & 1 Night”
by D. Kim
More stars are in talks for the newest season of “2 Days & 1 Night”!
Previously, it was revealed that Kim Jong Min, Yeon Jung Hoon, Moon Se Yoon, and DinDin are being discussed for the fourth season of the program.
On November 5, it was reported that VIXX’s Ravi and Kim Seon Ho will be joining the new season.
In response, Ravi’s agency commented, “His appearance is being discussed with the production team.” Kim Seon Ho’s agency also responded, “It is true that a meeting was recently held with the ‘2 Days & 1 Night Season 4’ [team], but nothing has been decided. We are waiting for the broadcasting station’s decision on his potential appearance.”
The new season of “2 Days & 1 Night” is set to begin filming this month and will premiere in December.
cr: Soompi
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@ixxdhx81 it’s confirmed! Yay !!!!
Updated November 5 KST:
The cast has been set for the fourth season of “2 Days & 1 Night”!
On November 5, the program confirmed Kim Jong Min, Yeon Jung Hoon, Moon Se Yoon, Kim Seon Ho, DinDin, and VIXX’s Ravi as the new cast.
The producing director Bang Geul Yi commented, “A never-before-seen season of ‘2 Days & 1 Night’ will be born with a combination of variety show veterans and fresh members who have not been on variety shows much. Along with the special qualities of ‘2 Days & 1 Night’ that previously received love, the fourth season will be upgraded with new qualities.”
Stay tuned for the premiere of the new season in December!
https://www.soompi.com/article/1363767wpp/vixxs-ravi-and-kim-seon-ho-in-talks-to-join-new-season-of-2-days-1-night
Oh! And we got his profile picture for his stage-play Memory in Dream.
Aaaahhh.. Today was such a good DAY!
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Sunho... him... joining.... 1N2D.... S4.... I'm speechless.
I was already happy enough when he joined one of my fave shows Waikiki and now he's appearing on one of my variety shows!
To be honest, he's an interesting addition, he appeared once as a guest in Amazing Saturday to promote CTG a few weeks ago and now he's a fixed member in 1N2D. The best part is that we got to know more of his personality and as much as I hate/love it, I want to see him suffer as well. . I personally think he will do well, he's witty, funny and I want to see him bond with Kim Jongmin. Although, I'm a bit worried that he might be typecasted as a 'funny' guy.
@ixxdhx81 what is the play about ? Ahh if only we could watch it
@MarianM yeah won’t want him to be typecast as well because from all his emotional scenes in CTG, I would love to see him in a heavier drama. Nevertheless being on variety is good exposure for him
On 11/6/2019 at 12:15 AM, triplem said:
We only can depend on the media preview and curtain call (fan cam). But Idk if he'll be on it or not. His first performance is set to be on Nov 10th. Two performances (14:00 and 18:00).
My rough translation.
It's about a romance story centered in New York area. He married a woman, lead a band and a taxi driver.
Sadly, if I am not mistaken, he'll die in this story..
Anyone got time to translate???
Not his schedule to perform today, but still come to support the other casts. First day opening! Memory in Dream.
Congratulatory flowers from KBS 2D1N for his stage play Memory in Dream.
He's been using this emoticon a lot lately.. ◡̈
Curtain call from Memory in Dream.
2 Days 1 Night Season 4 first shooting todayyyyyyy!
[Drama 2019] V.I.P, 브이아이피
Han Ji Min 한지민
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Franchisee Opens Teriyaki Shop in Lapeer, Michigan!
by Team TMAD | Nov 20, 2019 | News | 0 comments
Congrats to franchisee, Katie Catlin for opening her Teriyaki Franchise in Lapeer, MI!
The team opened on Monday, 11/11 and had their grand opening event on Tuesday, 11/12 – The community of Lapeer has been buzzing about this opening and are loving the Madness!!
Katie decided on joining Teriyaki Madness as a way to give back to the people of Lapeer. She wanted to bring a more diverse, healthier, late-night food option to the community, saying, “I was sold on Teriyaki Madness from the moment I tried the food. There is so much flexibility to make the bowl as healthy as you want, and the food is made fresh to order.”
Katie intends to use her Teriyaki Franchise as a platform to give back to the local schools and autism advocacy groups that have helped her family. Katie is a mother of three children and her youngest is autistic. The Lapeer community has offered consistent support and provided her son with life-changing options for academic enrichment and social development. Katie partnered with Banbury Cross Therapeutic Equestrian Center for her fundraiser day because this organization has given her son the opportunity to grow and get all the support he needs.
Charlene Richardson, one of the New Shop Openers, was there for the opening and said, “Katie has put in hard work to put together a team of amazing people and the support of the community has been tremendous! There were lines outside the door in the snow and there has been a steady flow of people excited to try the Madness!”
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Last night at London’s Mandrake Hotel, months of planning came to an end as an expert panel of judges chose the winner of the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. British talent Molly Goddard fended off the competition; Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida of Marques Almeida, Huishan Zhang, Rejina Pyo, Samantha McCoach of Le Kilt, and David Koma, to take home the top prize of £200,000.
The BFC/Vouge Designer Fashion Fund was sponsored by Vogue, Burberry, Harrods, JD.com, Label/Mix, Paul Smith, Rodial and Topshop and is enjoying its 10 anniversary this year. Competitors were asked to lay out their business plans and collections in front a judging panel, which was headed by Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful OBE and British Fashion Council CEO Caroline Rush CBE and included industry heavyweights such as Jourdan Dunn, Burberry chief marketing officer Sarah Manley, Harrods chief merchant Helen David, Label/Mix creative director Gemma Metheringham, journalist Sarah Mower, JD.com president Xia Ding, Rodial founder Maria Hatzistefanis, Topshop CEO Paul Price and designer Erdem Moralioglu. Enninful could not speak of Goddard higher."[She] is an original. She has a singular vision and an extraordinary focus that has propelled her label to an international level. A playful edge and a strong DNA make for a singularly off-beat formula. She is the definition of talent and what Britain does best in this creative industry."
Based in east-London, Goddard’s tiny team of four have been impressing fashion lovers across the world since her launch in 2014. Her attitude and dedication to fashion epitomises her success over the past few years, although it was never guaranteed. “I failed my masters, I had nothing to show for those two years, and I needed something, imagery, so I could get a job,” she said. “I did the party presentation” – a get-together of friends, wearing her clothes – “because I thought I’d get a job. But then we got orders. I didn’t have any set-up so it was just me, sewing away. Then, it’s like, ‘Molly Goddard, the brand!’ and I think, God, I never even decided that that’s what I wanted to call it! I should have named it something wild.”
Known for her exaggerated proportions, puffs of tulle and smocked dresses inspired by children’s clothing, Goddard will go down with a prestigious set of previous winners including Christopher Kane, Erdem, Jonathan Saunders, Mary Katrantzou, Mother of Pearl, Nicholas Kirkwood, Palmer//Harding, Peter Pilotto and Sophia Webster. When asked what she will do with the money, she said, “I’d love to hire someone who can help with product development...I want to make the best of everything – more interesting, more exciting clothes!”
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‘House Of Cards’ Will Come To An End After Season 6
By eelyajekiM | @ | October 30th, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Season 5 of Netflix’s political drama, House Of Cards, saw Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) assume the power of the President of the United States when Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) was forced to step down due to a political scandal.
Now it seems like the fantasy is becoming reality. In light of the sexual assault allegations against Spacey, House of Cards will come tumbling down after its sixth season.
Topics: News, Television
Tags: Anthony Rapp, Beau Willimon, House of Cards, Kevin Spacey, Netflix, Robin Wright
TV Review: House Of Cards 5.1 “Chapter 53”
By Dr. Zaius | @ | May 31st, 2017 at 4:00 pm
Season 5 Episode 1: “Chapter 53
Directed by Daniel Minahan
Written by Frank Pugliese
Created by Beau Willimon
Starring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Paul Sparks, Joel Kinnaman, Neve Campbell, Boris McGiver, Jayne Atkinson, Damian Young
Air Date: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017
Somewhere over the past year the line between television drama and reality blurred. There is a President who talks down to people, commit heinous acts of violence and depravity, we have issues with the Russians, and we live in a perpetual state of fear from terrorist cells worldwide… quick, am I talking about America 2017 or Season 4 of House of Cards? A show that cuts this close to reality is not going to be shy with the current scope of American politics, and I expect this will be a unique and interesting season for Netflix’s award winning political thriller. I wait with baited breath to see how far the writers will push the boundaries.
Spoilers below.
Topics: Recaps, Reviews, Television, TV Reviews
Tags: Beau Willimon, Boris McGiver, Damian Young, Daniel Minahan, Frank Pugliese, House of Cards, Jayne Atkinson, Joel Kinnaman, Kevin Spacey, Michael Kelly, Netflix, Neve Campbell, Paul Sparks, Robin Wright
‘House Of Cards’ Season 5 Trailer: Frank Underwood Puts A Dark Twist On The Pledge Of Allegiance
By eelyajekiM | @ | May 1st, 2017 at 2:00 pm
As much as I’d like to avoid being political on posts, it’s hard not to draw wild parallels between the 2016 Presidential campaigns and what’s going on with Netflix’s House Of Cards. A new trailer for the upcoming fifth season highly acclaimed Netflix original series just dropped, and despite it taking place in a fictional world, one has to imagine that there are at least some similarities to what happened in the months leading up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
There’s the charts, the maps, the scandals, and the terrifying notion that someone not only thinks lowly of the people of a nation, but also that he is planning to rule it for the foreseeable future. Check out the latest trailer for House Of Cards below. Oh, and of course minor spoilers will follow.
Topics: News, Television, Trailers
Tags: ​​Derek ​Cecil, ​Jayne Atkinson​, ​Neve Campbell​, House of Cards, Joel Kinnaman, Kevin Spacey, Michael Kelly, Netflix, Paul Sparks, Robin Wright
Netflix Releases ‘House Of Cards’ Season 5 Trailer On Inauguration Day
By eelyajekiM | @ | January 20th, 2017 at 3:27 pm
Whether or not you support the 45th President of the United States, politics will always make for good drama on TV. And since today is Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration, Netflix could not have picked a better time to release the first teaser trailer for Season 5 of of their hit political drama House of Cards.
Watch the Season 5 announcement teaser trailer here below.
Topics: Politics, Television, Trailers, Videos
Tags: House of Cards, Netflix
Emmys 2016: Winners Of The 68th Annual Emmy Awards
By Olympus Athens | @ | September 18th, 2016 at 11:21 pm
The 68th Annual Emmy Awards aired tonight, and host Jimmy Kimmel needed to get to the show. His opening skit was a medley of shows in cars – from our Modern Family to Veep to James Corden of The Late Late Show … leading to their karaoke performance of Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.” You just cannot unsee that… but you won’t want to. It all culminates in a Game Of Thrones finale.
Watch the opening bit here and check out the list of nominees and winners just below.
Topics: Awards, News, Television
Tags: ABC, American Crime, Baskets, Emmy Awards, Emmys, Emmys 2016, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Jimmy Kimmel, Modern Family, Mr. Robot, The People v. O.J. Simpson, Transparent, Veep
Watch The ‘House Of Cards’ Official Season 4 Trailer
By Olympus Athens | @ | February 11th, 2016 at 11:00 am
#FU2016 seems like art imitating life, but the art is soooo much more fun. Netflix has released the House of Cards official season 4 trailer, and it is as ominous as we know Frank Underwood’s (Kevin Spacey) dark abyss of a soul to be.
Check out the official trailer below.
Tags: Cicely Tyson, Derek Cecil, Dominique McElligott, Elizabeth Marvel, Ellen Burstyn, House of Cards, Jayne Atkinson, Joel Kinnaman, Kevin Spacey, Kim Dickens, Mahershala Ali, Michael Kelly, Molly Parker, Nathan Darrow, Netflix, Neve Campbell, Paul Sparks, Robin Wright
Watch ‘House Of Cards’ Season 4 Announcement Video!
By Olympus Athens | @ | December 16th, 2015 at 7:46 pm
Last night, during the GOP debate, a hopeful campaign video aired, promising a “new day in America.” This America is one where more people will be put to work. The video does not name the comprehensive “America Works” plan, but all of us #FU2016 campaigners know who the most ruthless presidential candidate is, the man who is hoping to be elected for real…
President Frank Underwood of Netflix’s House Of Cards.
Check out the video and tweets below.
Topics: News, Television, Videos
Tags: Beau Willimon, Derek Cecil, House of Cards, House of Cards Season 4, Kevin Spacey, Mahershala Ali, Michael Kelly, Nathan Darrow, Netflix, Robin Wright
The Drill Down 365: Like Tears In Rain: Remembering Leonard Nimoy and More
By Mr. BabyMan | @ | March 6th, 2015 at 12:49 pm
This week, Dwayne and Andy are again joined by Greg Davies (from TARDISBlend, Blendover, and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts) as we discuss: Valve’s VR headset is unveiled, the most funded project on Kickstarter, the FCC defends Net Neutrality, Blade Runner 2, and we say goodbye to sci-fi legend Leonard Nimoy…
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Topics: Features, Gadgets, Movies, Podcasts, Sequels, Technology, The Drill Down
Tags: Apple, Avengers: Age of Ultron, FCC, Google, HBO, HBO Now, Hilary Clinton, House of Cards, HTC, iPad, iPhone, Leonard Nimoy, Macbook, Marvel, Mobile, Modern Family, Mr. Spock, MVNO, Net Neutrality, Pebble, Pebble Time, Pebble Time Steel, President Obama, Re Vive, Smart Watch, Star Trek, Tom Wheeler, Twitter, Valve, Vive
Sesame Street’s ‘House Of Cards’ Parody ‘House Of Bricks’ (Video)
By Dr. Zaius | @ | February 23rd, 2015 at 10:37 pm
For over 40 years, Sesame Street has been a go-to source for quality children’s fun combining education and crazy nipper characters. But lately, the word on the street has been Sesame’s hilarious parodies of adult-themed shows. The best kids shows are the ones that keep the parents involved. So from the makers of True Mud, Upside Downton Abbey, and Big Birdman comes their latest, House of Bricks, which you can watch here below.
Capitalizing on the popularity of Netflix hit show House of Cards (returning for a third season next week), here the story is about Frank Underwolf, yep, the big bad wolf with Kevin Spacey’s patented southern drawl, as he looks to take down three political pigs in Washington, DC.
Topics: Humor, News, Television, Videos
Tags: House of Cards, Sesame Street
‘House Of Cards’ Season 3 Promo ‘White House Portrait’ (Video)
By Empress Eve | @ | February 15th, 2015 at 11:00 am
Last month, we got the first trailer for the upcoming third season of House Of Cards, the Netflix original political drama starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
With the launch of Season 3 quickly approaching, the streaming network has released a new promo entitled “White House Portrait.” Watch the promo here below, and also check out the motion poster.
Tags: House of Cards, Kevin Spacey, Netflix, Robin Wright
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Posts Tagged ‘Snoopy’
* A lost eighth continent was recently discovered underneath the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe, but it’s all pretty boring actually.
* How the US built the world’s largest immigrant detention system. A list of companies that contract with ICE.
* Checking in on Duke and UNC under siege.
* 2019 Genius Grant awardees, including Lynda F’ing Barry.
* Only an English major can prepare you with the psychic resilience needed to endure a lifetime under capitalism.
* Allegations of white supremacy are tearing apart a prestigious medieval studies group. The Whitesplaining of History Is Over.
* The kids are all right: Students protest demonstration policy, deliver letter to Zilber.
Inspiring photos of @MarquetteU's undergrads protesting investments in fossil fuels and Puerto Rican debt. @PresLovell should have divested from Baupost a long time ago! #solidarity from #MUnion pic.twitter.com/hv5SVL0j4w
— Tom 🌹 (@TomHansberger) September 24, 2019
* Student activists at UNC Chapel Hill have created a text alert system that warns the campus when racist groups are nearby.
* Wisconsin students make up smallest share of UW-Madison freshman class in at least 25 years. The Great Decline.
* And on the China and college beat: US universities see decline in students from China. China’s Higher-Ed Ambitions Are at Odds With Its Tightening Grip on Academic Freedom.
* Impacts ‘accelerating’ as leaders gather for UN talks. Earth’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It’s Accelerating. ‘Unprecedented Conditions’ Will Rule the Oceans This Century, Striking New Report Finds. The African Congo Is Quietly Being Deforested As The Amazon Rainforest Burns. Scientists Set Out to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study Climate Change. On white supremacy and green living. The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History. This is daytime. Nation Perplexed By 16-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Want World To End. “You’re So Accustomed to the Erasure and the Normalization of Catastrophism.”
Turns out the hippies were right about almost everything and no one will ever admit it even if it means the f'ing species dying out.
— David Roberts (@drvox) September 24, 2019
young people telling septuagenarians how much they despise them for what they did to the planet is good, actually
* It’s called M-Journal, and it will help you convince your professor that you’re citing a real academic source.
* Shoulda been Bruce.
* Can a burger help solve climate change?
* The Bible may have a naming discrepancy, and a Duke researcher plans to correct it.
* I might have done this one already, but what the hell: Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living.
* A real “hold my beer” moment for neoliberalism: A doctor and medical ethicist, who happens to be Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, argues life after 75 is not worth living.
* Time travel is real y’all.
* Chris Ware, whose Rusty Brown is finally out, about which I am very excited, celebrates Peanuts.
* Epic Disasters: Revisiting Marvel & DC’s 1980s Famine Relief Comics.
* What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.
* Normal society that is definitely normal and good.
* Autism aesthetics.
* Die a villain, or live long enough to rebound as a hero.
* Will Google’s quantum computing breakthrough change everything?
* The 50 Best Video Games of the 21st Century. Surprisingly solid #1 and #2 picks.
* And I’d like to see Ol Donny Trump wriggle out of this jam! Impeachment step by step.
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The Return of Sunday Reading! Just Kidding!
* I have a short piece on resistance to automation in the forum of the new issue of ASAP/Journal. Check it out!
* I’m really stunned to see that the Tiptree Award is on the verge of being renamed. The details of the end of her and her husband’s life are definitely troubling — but decanonizing Tiptree over this single ambiguous incident at the end of her life seems to me to be of a completely different order than the Campbell or the Lovecraft renamings, where the entire body of creative output is being reevaluated.
* Faith in science fiction and fantasy.
* 64% of Americans support labor unions but membership is at a record low.
* In academia we need unions more than ever—whether one is an adjunct or tenure track. Our higher education system is being hollowed out by administrators who see institutions of learning as businesses, and are making money at students’ & workers’ expense.
* How Far Does Your Tuition Dollar Go?
This institution spends $0.49 on instruction for every dollar it collects in tuition.
This is a Private Nonprofit Four-Year College, University, and/or Professional School and the tuition collected per full-time student or equivalent is $22,584.
How does this school stack up?
The average public institution spends $1.42 on instruction for every dollar collected in tuition.
The average private nonprofit institution spends $0.84 on instruction for every dollar collected in tuition.
The average for-profit institution spends $0.29 on instruction for every dollar collected in tuition.
* A Brief History of Academic Mysteries, Campus Thrillers, and Research Noir.
* Inside the African essay factories that churn out university coursework for 115,000 cheating British students every year.
* Meritocracy Is Killing High-School Sports.
The book posits an Iron Law of Meritocracy, in which meritocratic systems will collapse in on themselves because eventually inequality of outcomes grow so vast, it's impossible to provide equality of opportunity. What you then get is something like aristocracy and oligarchy.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 30, 2019
* Adjunct Faculty in an Adjunct Country. Beatriz Llenín Figueroa on the situation at the University of Puerto Rico.
* Syllabus: Critical Algorithm Studies.
* Dialectics of the new Popeye’s chicken sandwich. Panera is losing nearly 100% of its workers every year as fast-food turnover crisis worsens. Waffle House has an official poet laureate.
* Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State. Amazon is lying about Ring and facial recognition. Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame.
* YouTube reinstated these extremist and white nationalist channels, apologized to them.
* How 9 People Built an Illegal $5M Airbnb Empire in New York.
* The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet.
* “Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.”
the idea that Omega Point aliens will someday be able to resurrect me on the basis of my public writing is 89% of the reason I’m still on Twitter https://t.co/l348wObaXp
to be perfectly honest I have a little bit of a Roko’s Basilisk fear that I’ve *already* been resurrected on the basis of my social media posts in some techno-gnostic simulation scenario and that’s why absolutely everything is garbage
* Twitter’s promise vs. Twitter’s reality.
* Immigration panic: how the west fell for manufactured rage. Trump administration seeks to deport children with life-threatening illnesses.
* It Is Very Bad That Our President Reportedly Lied About Trade Negotiations With China. Let’s Compare Donald Trump’s Week to the Impeachment Articles Brought Against Nixon, Clinton, and Johnson.
* There’s no FEC anymore. There’s not really an NLRB, either.
* Dear America, universal health care is what real freedom looks like.
* How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism.
* Capitalism Is Making Us Sick: A Q&A With Emily Guendelsberger About Her New Book, On the Clock.
* 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind.
* Liberalism in Theory and Practice.
Basically our – very neoliberal – plan for everything these days is to dump the consequences for contradictions we refuse to resolve on the most vulnerable, the over-stretched, and the future itself, and monetize every miserable step of it all the way down.
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) August 30, 2019
* The Children’s Crusade: This Colorado charter school is teaching 6th graders how to fight back against shooters.
* Well guys, I’m about to walk out the TNR office doors for the last time. But before I do, I want to share some hard truths about climate change I’ve learned in the last 2.5 yrs reporting here.
* North Carolina’s Climate Change Blind Spots Make Dorian More Dangerous. Rising seas ‘could displace 280m people,’ draft UN report warns. New Miami Hurricane Hazard: Dockless Scooters as Projectiles.
* On pregnancy in the Anthropocene.
* The Climate Trail.
* How to Win Wisconsin. And elsewhere on the Wisconsin beat: Wisconsin workers embedded with microchips.
* The rape charges were dropped because the victim’s credibility was “seriously, seriously questionable” and the charges could not be proved beyond reasonable doubt, said Justice Danny Chun. The agreed-upon facts are inarguably rape.
* Meanwhile, a Maryland teen has been labeled a child pornographer for sharing a video of her own sex act.
* Good news: Sacklers could hold on to most of personal fortune in proposed Purdue settlement.
* On the greatness of Peanuts (when it was good).
* In the age of the psychonauts.
* “It’s time to talk about James Mattis’s involvement with the Theranos scandal. He’s selling a book, not saving the country from Trump.”
* “Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.”
* First is third. Second is first. Third is second.
* The Longest Walkable Distance on Earth.
* Here’s a thing that no one asked for but that I think we all need: the style guide alignment chart.
Okay, folks. Here's a thing that no one asked for but that I think we all need: the style guide alignment chart. pic.twitter.com/fuqglnUEE6
— Jonathon Owen (@ArrantPedantry) August 30, 2019
* Compulsory homosexuality in Ireland! Marxist-lesbianism is the state ideology!
* DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, Too.
* Dicey Dungeons rules.
* The Slinky was invented by accident.
* Jordan Peele drops a surprise flick.
* Donald was the first child ever diagnosed with autism. Identified in the annals of autism as “Case 1 … Donald T,” he is the initial subject described in a 1943 medical article that announced the discovery of a condition unlike “anything reported so far,” the complex neurological ailment now most often called an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. At the time, the condition was considered exceedingly rare, limited to Donald and 10 other children—Cases 2 through 11—also cited in that first article.
* On precocious puberty, the hell you didn’t even know was possible.
* Sing to me, muse, of the man of twists and turns…
* My five-alarm-fire Star Wars 9 and Notorious RBG predictions, for the record.
* We’re all rooting for you, sweetie.
* And science has finally found the secret to happiness.
But, doctor, I am the Joker
— Andrew Ferguson (@epiktistes) September 1, 2019
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Finely Curated May Fifth Links (Aged to Perfection)
* I’ve had a couple of short pieces of writing go up in the last few weeks: a piece on the often overlooked epilogue to The Handmaid’s Tale at LARB and a followup piece on Infinity War and franchise time at frieze.
* Maybe my favorite Infinity War take. Bady! Nussbuam! Loofburouw! Scalzi! Dreyfuss! We’re the good guys, right? Pop Culture Won’t Save Us. How one movie genre became the guiding myth of neoliberalism.
* There’s also been a couple other good pieces lately pushing on whether Handmaid’s Tale really should have had a second season.
* Two from Jaimee: “Frosted Palm” and “The Books in the Bushes.”
* The 2018 Marquette Literary Review is up. And so is SFRA Review #324!
* CFP: Third Issue of The New Americanist/ Special Feature Section: “Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory.”
* CFP: An Anthology on Carrie Fisher.
* CFP: Special Double Issue: Disability Studies and Ecocriticism.
* Wakandacon 2018.
* The 2018-2019 NESFA Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest is open from Spring 2018 through July 31, 2018.
* Twitter thread: we already live in a boring dystopia.
* Most-Liked Tweets of Famous Poets.
* Welcome to Midwestworld.
* Fred Moten in the New Yorker!
* Janelle Monáe in Rolling Stone!
* Maybe the best “there’s just one story and we tell it over and over” I’ve ever done.
* Channeling the anti-Trump #Resistance, a slew of recent books seeks to reduce democracy to a defense of political “norms.” But overcoming today’s crisis will take more political imagination.
* Three Identical Strangers, a dark documentary about identical triplets who were separated-at-birth. Amazing story. I wish I’d waited for the movie before Googling it.
* How a tiny protest at the U. of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.
* Sexism and academia.
* Just in time for my summer syllabi: Junot Diaz #MeToo Accusations Surface. No Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018.
* Michigan State. Michigan State. Michigan Goddamn State. SIU. Columbia. University of Illinois at Chicago. George Mason. UNC. And in some rare good news: Oregon.
* There is no campus free speech crisis: a look at the evidence.
* “The root cause of the F.B.I. investigation are the N.C.A.A. rules limiting — actually, prohibiting — compensation for players,” he said. “And none of the recommendations speak to them — none of them.”
* What does a non-academic job search look like for a rhet/comp PhD student? I put compiled some numbers to illustrate my experience over the last 3 months.
* What Jack Kirby proposed for the plaques on the Pioneer space probes.
* Infiltration into left-wing groups is just the sharp edge of an entire armory of political policing.
* Chicago’s drinking water is full of lead, report says. Newark Water Tests Show High Lead Levels, Prompting Threat of Lawsuit.
* Vaccine refusal is contagious — and there’s no cure.
* What’s Wrong With Growing Blobs of Brain Tissue?
* One of the most worrisome predictions about climate change may be coming true.
* The arc of history is long, but Somehow, Jaxxon the Ridiculous Green Space Rabbit Has Made It to the New Star Wars Canon.
* How a Genealogy Site Led to the Front Door of the Golden State Killer Suspect.
* New Documents Reveal How ICE Mines Local Police Databases Across the Country.
* ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenship.
* Is the US Border Patrol Committing Crimes Against Humanity?
5. But these theories do not have any explanatory power regarding why the vote broke down the way it did demographically. Only one broad demographic seemed to be receptive to the kind of campaign that Trump ran on: white people. https://t.co/sdoOzrSVTL pic.twitter.com/UHEM9e3A0W
— Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) April 26, 2018
* Chisholm concluded there was “no basis to conclusively link” the death of Trammell, which occurred in May, to the officers’ actions.
* LEGO crime boss busted in Portland. No jury in the world would convict him.
* Escapism and Springsteen.
* Happiness begins at 50.
* AI as alchemy.
* $5,751.
* Lessons From Rust-Belt Cities That Kept Their Sheen.
* The Mighty Thor’s conclusion signals the end of a Marvel Comics era. What an odd comic this was. And meanwhile: This is the Dark Side of the Rainbow of our time.
* Enjoy a tarantula burger in Durham, North Carolina.
* Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm.
* In New Jersey, the top lobbying spenders are from the following industries: energy, healthcare, insurance, and… balloons.
* A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.
* eFterlife. Batmen and Robins. Natural selection. Good grief.
* ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Interactive Movie in the Works at Fox.
* Two years old, but who cares: “It smelled like death”: An oral history of the Double Dare obstacle course.
* And sure, let’s make ice-nine, at this point why not.
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Infinite Sunday Infinite Reading
* From last week, a rare “actual content” post: White Male Critic Asks Why If Wonder Woman Is Really So Great Why Didn’t She Prevent the Holocaust.
* Princess Buttercup Became the Warrior General Who Trained Wonder Woman, All Dreams Are Now Viable. The Strange, Complicated, Feminist History of Wonder Woman’s Origin Story. Who mourns for the space kangaroos? I’m Pretty Sure Steve Trevor Lied About His Dick Size in Wonder Woman. Classic DC.
* Black Panther next! Everything We Learned From the Black Panther Teaser Trailer.
* Why you should go to the Octavia Butler sci-fi conference at the Huntington. I’ll be there!
* Bob Dylan Delivers His Nobel Prize Lecture, Just in Time.
* Scenes from the class struggle at Evergreen.
Weinstein’s Law states that in any campus argument the first person to call Fox News loses. https://t.co/dDvTH176OH
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 10, 2017
* Evergreen headlines: Humanities Majors Drop.
* Eight reasons why universities can’t be the primary site of left organizing.
* Academics at UNC want to know what was wrong with plans for a class dealing with athletics scandals, including one at Chapel Hill.
* UWSP student asks court to force poetry professor to give her an A.
* The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History.
* Fifty years of One Hundred Years of Solitude. No Magic, No Metaphor.
* Apple’s new HQ is a retrograde, literally inward-looking building with contempt for the city where it lives and cities in general.
* Corbynmania! How Labour Did It. Why Corbyn Won. Theresa May’s desperation could undo peace in Northern Ireland.
* Excerpts from James Comey’s Opening Statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee or from Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day? The Comey testimony was riveting reality TV. I asked 6 legal experts if Trump obstructed justice. Here’s what they told me. Trump Can Commit All the High Crimes He Wants. Republicans Aren’t Going to Impeach Him. How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money into His Business. Trump’s DOJ says Trump can still get paid. Our A.I. President. A Noun, a Verb, and Vladimir Putin. All this and Trumpcare isn’t even dead. What Will Happen to Us? Four Cartoonists on A Life Without the Affordable Care Act.
“I cast Rule of Law.”
“The spell has no effect.”
“The spell has no ef
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?
— Moby Dick (@MobyDickatSea) May 4, 2016
* Reporter Covering Inauguration Protests Now Faces 75 Years in Prison.
* I think we may have had the Russians all wrong.
* Noam Chomsky explains the twentieth century.
* What if Your Cellphone Data Can Reveal Whether You Have Alzheimer’s?
* What’s really warming the world?
* Candidate opposing Steve King drops out of race citing death threats and a possible inability to get health insurance. America!
* Twilight of the comics direct market.
* Before I go: A mother’s hopeful words about life in its waning moments.
* The toddler survived with some scar tissue—but not everyone who gets Powassan, POW for short, is so lucky. With no treatment available, half of all people who contract the virus suffer permanent brain damage; 10 percent die. And while POW is nowhere near as prevalent as that other tick-borne summer scourge—Lyme—it is starting to show up more often.
* People tend to avoid sick people, even if they don’t consciously now that they are sick, according to a new study published in PNAS.
* The addicts next door. Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever. In one year, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War did. The last words of a ‘heroin junkie’: There seems to be no escape.
* Not only will this happen in your lifetime — this tweet has accelerated the process.
10/2019: Chocula Revealed
5/2020: Boo Berry
10/2020: Untitled General Mills Project
5/2021: The Fruit Brute
10/2021: Chocula v. Frankenberry https://t.co/SIwttxFhv1
— Todd VanDerWerff (@tvoti) June 7, 2017
* Shock finding: Tax evasion is shockingly prevalent among the very rich.
* On dying alone.
* On Aug. 15, 1977 at 10:16 p.m. ET Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope detected a curious signal from deep space. Nearly 40 years later, we finally know what caused it and, sadly, it’s not aliens.
* Donald/Donald. Don’t stop till you find the panda. How to succeed. Now my story can be told. Should we be concerned about that? What’s the problem with Florida? Can I interest you in a war on non-transport accidents? If you want a vision of the future. The state is that human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Zoos.
* In tiny Townville, S.C., first-graders are haunted by what they survived — and lost — on a school playground. Gut-wrenching.
* How Bostonians Defeated the Olympics.
* White supremacists love Vikings. But they’ve got history all wrong.
* The Myth of General Lee.
* Peanuts and the Civil Rights Movement.
* ‘Life or death for black travelers’: How fear led to ‘The Negro Motorist Green-Book.’
* For the first time ever, a video game has qualified for an Academy Award.
* When David Fincher nearly directed a Star Wars sequel trilogy.
I always thought of Star Wars as the story of two slaves [C-3PO and R2-D2] who go from owner to owner, witnessing their masters’ folly, the ultimate folly of man…
* How Wookieepedia Tackles the Insanely Difficult Task of Chronicling the Entire Star Wars Universe.
* This week in the richest society in human history.
* At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard.
* Make this movie!
The all-rookie crew of Skylab 4, after discovering they were being secretly monitored & pushed to work 16 hour days mutinied after 6 weeks.
— Taylor R. Genovese (@trgenovese) June 9, 2017
* Compatibilism: A Parable.
* I’ve always known this is how it will end for me.
* Everett Hamner will be recapping Orphan Black season five for LARB.
* Some economies just can’t be disrupted. Grilled cheese for instance.
* Pinball’s back, baby!
* So is — Mary Poppins? Fine, I guess.
* C. L. R. James in the Age of Climate Change.
* The Unexpected Afterlife of American Communism.
* Al Franken was a great guest on Marc Maron, if you missed it. Crazy to say it, I think he might actually run for president. Then again, why not him?
* RIP, My Batman.
West’s Batman/Bruce Wayne is, and will always remain, the single most important screen incarnation of the character, for better or worse: For better because it was the most surprising, at times confounding, interpretation of the Caped Crusader, feather-light and hilarious precisely because of the character’s seeming lack of self-awareness; for worse, in the eyes of some fans, because it encouraged millions of people who had never picked up a Batman comic, or any comic, to be amused by the sight of adults dressing up in wild outfits and pretending to punch each other in the face. Every subsequent, high-profile reinvention of Batman, whether in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s The Killing Joke, Tim Burton’s alternately perverse and sincere Batman and Batman Returns, Christopher Nolan’s operatic trilogy, and Zack Snyder’s funereal Batman vs. Superman, is, first and foremost, a reaction against the Adam West–driven Batman series.
* And the bad news never stops: Sleeping In Is Deadly, Popular People Live Longer, Adolescence Lasts Forever, and So Does High School.
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Another Very Busy Couple of Weeks, Another Absolutely Too Long Linkpost
* ACLA 2016: The 21st Century Novel at the Limit. Feminism and New Generations of Old Media. Aesthetic Distance in a Global Economy.
* And one for NEMLA: Women Authors from the Great War.
* Special Issue CFP: Queer Female Fandom.
* You broke peer review. Yes, I mean you.
* Graduate students are employees when that’s bad for them, and students when that’s bad for them.
* Last year, Yale paid about $480 million to private equity fund managers as compensation — about $137 million in annual management fees, and another $343 million in performance fees, also known as carried interest — to manage about $8 billion, one-third of Yale’s endowment. In contrast, of the $1 billion the endowment contributed to the university’s operating budget, only $170 million was earmarked for tuition assistance, fellowships and prizes.
* Why financial aid might make college more expensive.
* Scenes from the schadenfreude at UIUC.
* TurnItIn doesn’t even work.
* First, Do No Harm? The Johns Hopkins System’s Toxic Legacy in Baltimore.
* SF short of the month: the found footage / time travel narrative “Timelike.” “Suicidium” is pretty good too. Both are very Black Mirror.
* Salon’s Michael Berry interviewed me and a bunch of other SF scholars recently on the greatness of Dune.
* No more fire, the water next time: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Global Warming and White Supremacy.
* Hobbes v. Snoopy.
* Science fiction and class struggle, in Jacobin.
* Precrime comes to Pennsylvania.
* Seven habits of unsuccessful grad students. Job market secrets from the English department at U. Iowa. How to avoid awkward interactions during your tenure year.
* Clinton’s ed plan poised to continue the bad disruptivation of the Obama administration. Yay!
* Northwestern Football Players Cannot Form Union, NLRB Rules. Former Berkeley Football Player Sues Over Concussions. UNC-Chapel Hill Reports New Possible NCAA Violations.
* Coca-Cola and the denialists.
* Life extension and prison.
* Abandoned college campuses of Second Life.
* Yes, your gadgets are ineluctably engineering your doom.
* What If Stalin Had Computers?
* The NLRB might (finally) shut down the temp economy.
* On average, it’ll take four minutes for you to get to the end of this piece, and quite frankly you should be spending those four minutes asleep.
* Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance.
* Sesame Street and neoliberalism, but like for real this time.
* Why 35 screenwriters worked on The Flintstones movie.
* Yes, We Have “No Irish Need Apply.”
* Epigenetics: Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children’s genes.
* Evergreen headline watch: “Michigan Fails to Keep Promise to Native Americans.”
* UC Davis workers: “We exposed students to asbestos.”
* Understanding Neal Stephenson.
* The Bucks as case study for the stadium scam. Bucks affiliate the Biloxi Shuckers and their endless tour.
* They had no inkling about what was really going on: Gubb was a serial fraudster who made a living by renting houses, claiming to be a tenant, then illegally subletting rooms to as many residents as he could cram in—almost always young women desperate for a piece of downtown living.
* How a jerk scams a free quadruple espresso at Starbucks 365 days a year.
* US and Boeing developing a targeted EMP weapon. Looking forward to the surplus sale.
* Another car remotely hacked while driving. If a Cyberattack Causes a Car Crash, Who Is Liable?
* How Much Of California’s Drought Was Caused By Climate Change?
* By 2100, Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean. You probably can’t undo ocean acidification even if you find a way to pull carbon out of the air.
* The climate hackers.
* The ice bucket challenge may have been a much bigger deal than you thought.
* In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county’s black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida.
* The bail trap.
* The end of Columbia House.
* An oral history of Six Feet Under.
* Death penalty abolition in Connecticut.
* Being Stephen Colbert.
* Happy Earth Overshoot Day.
* The new Cold War is a Corn War.
* Donald Trump and fascism. This is the moment when Donald Trump officially stopped being funny.
* Writing the second half of the Harry Potter series replacing Cedric Diggory with a Slytherin.
* Banksy’s Dismaland.
* Twilight of the Bomb.
* Interactive widget: How to fudge your science.
* Science proves parenthood is a serious bummer.
* How We Could Detect an Alien Apocalypse From Earth.
* Who mourns for the Washington Generals?
* Well, it makes more sense than the official story: ‘Aliens prevented nuclear war on Earth’: Former NASA astronaut makes unexpected claim.
* Is Howl the Netflix of podcasts? Watch Earwolf’s user base revolt.
* The kids today and the end of funny. The unfunny business of college humor.
* Racial Bias Affects How Doctors Do Their Jobs. Here’s How To Fix It.
* Here comes Star Wars Land.
* NBC chairman threatens ALF reboot if Coach reboot is successful. Just give them what they want! Pay anything!
* Controlling the Narrative: Harper Lee and the Stakes of Scandal.
* Hell, with same-day delivery.
* Locked in Solitary at 14: Adult Jails Isolate Youths Despite Risk.
* I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave.
* Mars One Is Still Completely Full of Shit.
* A Troll in the Lost City of the Dead.
In 2010, anonymous emails started popping up in the inboxes of Department of the Interior officials. The messages accuse museums across the country of failing to deal with their massive collections of Native American bones. Those remains are there illegally, the emails allege, and should be returned to the tribes to which they belong. They’re all signed “T.D. White.”
* Science proves the universe is slowly dying
* How DC has played Suicide Squad all wrong.
* The law, in its majestic equality, permits both rich and poor to sleep outside.
* Dutch Artists Celebrate George Orwell’s Birthday By Putting Party Hats On Surveillance Cameras.
* Ancient whistle language uses whole brain for long-distance chat.
* “We’re Fighting Killer Robots the Wrong Way.”
* An early YA novel gets lost in the Freaky Friday canon.
* My dad was right! Social Security really is a Ponzi scheme.
* Don’t freak out, but scientists think octopuses ‘might be aliens’ after DNA study.
* Don’t bring your dogs to work.
* Today in Wikipedia hoaxes.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal continues to overthink Superman in the best possible way.
* Architects are trying to raise $2.8 billion to build this city from Lord of the Rings.
* You Know Who Hates Drones? Bears. They love pools though.
* Don’t say it unless you mean it.
* And we shall Truffle Shuffle no more forever.
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All the Weekend Links, Existential Despair on the Side
* In case you missed it: the call for papers for SFFTV‘s special issue on the Mad Max franchise. And our Star Trek special issue is still open, too!
* Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment.
* Horror in Charleston.
* What that means is that in South Carolina, the Confederate flag abides by its own rules. While governors—as well as the president—can usually order that all state and national flags within their jurisdiction be flown at half-staff, this one is exempt. Instead, the Confederate flag’s location can be changed only by a two-thirds vote by both branches of the General Assembly. “In South Carolina, the governor does not have legal authority to alter the flag,” said a press secretary for Haley. “Only the General Assembly can do that.” Take down the flag.
* Confederate flag in Orlando to be burned in symbolic burial.
* Denmark Vesey, Forgotten Hero. A recent flashback.
* Meet Debbie Dills, Florist Who Called in Tip that Led to Dylann Roof’s Arrest.
* It’s Juneteenth.
* We still need to talk about white male pathology.
* The Treasury is going to put a woman on the $10. That’ll fix it!
* Poverty and the brain.
* What Would Happen If We ALL Stopped Paying Our Student Loans, Together?
* California Says Uber Driver Is Employee, Not a Contractor.
* Tech isn’t really making a “sharing” economy. So what is it making? The Servitude Bubble.
* Reasonable Doubts About the Jury System.
* Hemingway’s rough drafts.
* We Regret to Inform You That in 4 Days You and Your Family Will Be Deported to Haiti.
* Women’s soccer will only achieve greater growth when we have a FIFA not run by sexist men.
* Performance-Based Funding Can Be Fickle, One University’s Close Call Shows. Florida State would have lost $16.7 million if its median graduate had earned just $400 less.
* 7 Seriously Bad Ideas That Rule Higher Education.
* “When a non-tenure-track lecturer position is the fairy tale reward for a PhD and more than 7 years on the job market, it’s time to break things.”
* The Cult of Jurassic Park.
* The sheep look up: don’t drink the water edition.
* Did abortion cause the drought? I say teach the controversy.
* It’s a weird, weird world: Obama is going to be on WTF. I’ll never accept this is real.
* Theses on Hating.
11. Enthusiasts have hitherto only loved the world in various ways; the point is to hate it (too).
* Precarity rising.
* Maladministration killed Sweet Briar, says former board member.
* The Best And Worst Airlines, Airports And Flights, Summer 2015 Update.
* ‘Screen Time’ For Kids Is Probably Fine.
* Your Children Won’t Be Able To Live In Space, Without A Major Upgrade.
* Another pedagogy gimmick, but at least it’s cheap: roleplaying games.
* Science explains why you hate the word “moist.”
* There Have Only Been 9 Days This Year When Police Didn’t Kill Someone.
* Another piece on the trolley problem and the self-driving car.
* Vermont vs. the Affordable Care Act.
* Euthanasia and non-terminal illness.
* Harris Wittels’s sister remembers her brother.
* SethBling wrote a program made of neural networks and genetic algorithms called MarI/O that taught itself how to play Super Mario World. This six-minute video is a pretty easy-to-understand explanation of the concepts involved.
* X-Men and the spectrum.
* Making the world safe from Marjane Satrapi.
* Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation.
* A people’s history of Singled Out.
* Game of Peanuts.
* Everything you want, in the worst possible way: please god don’t ever let Captain Worf happen.
* No pricey pension plans, some argued. No promotions based solely on seniority. No set hours for a given workweek. No prohibitions against layoffs. Unions! Catch the fever!
* The arc of history is long, but Mitch Horwitz is doing a Netflix comedy series with Maria Bamford.
* Didn’t we do this one already? All six Star Wars films at once.
* And if you want to know why there’s no future for our civilization, just read this.
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All The Wednesday Links!
* I got some really good news the other day: an NEH Summer Stipend! Here’s the full list of $22.8 million in awards and offers for 232 humanities projects.
* Two of the poems from the award-winning first collection of my partner, Jaimee Hills, are up at Waywiser Press: “Synaesthesia” and “Derrida Eats a Dorito.”
* I taught #GamerGate in my video game class yesterday. It wasn’t my favorite day of the semester, not by a long shot, but TNI‘s “Gaming and Feminism” post was a great help, particularly the link to Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games: Women as Background Decoration: Part 2 and Playing with privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male. I didn’t spend that much time on it, but I’m still tickled by Why So Few Violent Games?
* Salvage-Marxism embraces the Socialist rococo, the feel-good where we can and the feel-bad where we must, the utopian and the unflinching. Salvage will bring together the work of those who share a heartbroken, furious love of the world, and our rigorous principle: Hope is precious; it must be rationed.
* An ontology of the present is a science-fictional operation, in which a cosmonaut lands on a planet full of sentient, intelligent, alien beings. He tries to understand their peculiar habits: for example, their philosophers are obsessed by numerology and the being of the one and the two, while their novelists write complex narratives about the impossibility of narrating anything; their politicians meanwhile, all drawn from the wealthiest classes, publicly debate the problem of making more money by reducing the spending of the poor. It is a world which does not require a Brechtian V-effect since it is already objectively estranged. The cosmonaut, stranded for an unforeseeable period on this planet owing to faulty technology (incomprehensibility of set theory or mathemes, ignorance of computer programmes or digitality, insensibility towards hip-hop, Twitter, or bitcoins), wonders how one could ever understand what is by definition radically other; until he meets a wise old alien economist who explains that not only are the races of the two planets related, but that this one is in fact simply a later stage of his own socio-economic system (capitalism), which he was brought up to think of in two stages, whereas he has here found a third one, both different and the same. Ah, he cries, now I finally understand: this is the dialectic! Now I can write my report! Fredric Jameson, “The Aesthetics of Singularity.”
* Terry Pratchett: “Not having battles, and doing without kings.”
* Confabulation in the humanities.
* Fantasy scholarship needs theory. Badly.
* The first African science fiction short story? Leonard Flemming’s ‘And So It Came To Pass.’
* Adam Kotsko: Notes toward an overanalysis of a failed sci-fi spin-off.
* Did the Anthropocene Begin with the Deaths of 50 Million Native Americans? Defining the Anthropocene. The Inhuman Anthropocene.
* Scars of the Anthropocene: Japan builds a sea wall.
* Nestle Continues Stealing World’s Water During Drought. A $600-Million Fracking Company Just Sued This Tiny Ohio Town For Its Water.
* Devastating report finds humans killed almost 3 million whales last century.
* Costa Rica powered with 100% renewable energy for 75 straight days.
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The important point here is that this deal puts the lie to the complaint we hear so often that college doesn’t prepare people for the real world. Our CFO, the guy who orchestrated this deal, has just landed a very lucrative job with the Australian firm he sold the parking to. It’s called synergy, baby! Look it up.
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It’s that mass contigency– the dramatic rise of at-risk academic labor like adjuncts and grad students– that creates the conditions that Cooke laments on campus. In the past, when a far higher portion of college courses were taught by tenured professors, those who taught college courses had much less reason to fear reprisals from undergraduates. They had the protection of the tenure system and often the benefit of faculty unions that could agitate on their behalf. But with so many instructors in a state of minimal institutional protection or authority, lacking long-term contracts, benefits, or collective bargaining, the risk of angered students multiplies. Adjuncts don’t even need to be fired; they can just not get any classes the next semester. Grad students don’t even need to be fired; they can just have their job applications placed on the deny pile. This is why I think the problem is actually probably much larger than the high-profile anecdotes would suggest. The greatest impediment to real pedagogical and political freedom on campus is self-censorship due to labor insecurity. Discussion of contingency is almost entirely absent in Cooke’s essay.
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Top Cow at Comic-Con International 2010
Posted on July 12, 2010 by Brett
BE AMONG THE FIRST TO START THE ARTIFACTS JOURNEY
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 12, 2010 – Top Cow Productions, Inc.’s race to Artifacts will include a stop at this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, the world’s biggest and most exciting popular convention, from July 22nd – 25th.
Top Cow will once again storm into the convention and set up shop at booth #2629. Among the goods to prepare attendees of CCI 2010 for the race to Artifacts will be exclusives, preview books, free goodies, variant comics and trade paperbacks, including free copies of Artifacts #0 as well as other comics, posters and bookmarks (while supplies last).
Attendees are invited to join Marc Silvestri (Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia), President Matt Hawkins, and Publisher Filip Sablik for an exciting and lively multimedia presentation about Top Cow’s plans for 2010 and 2011 in comics, film, television and much more. Be the first to hear announcements and updates on film projects including Witchblade, Magdalena, Alibi, Wanted, and The A-Team. Plus announcements on new comic projects with creators including Ron Marz (Artifacts), Jeff Katz (American Original, Freddy vs. Jason), Phil Hester (The Darkness) plus surprise guest directors, screenwriters, producers and more! The panel will be featured in room 9 from 1:30-2:30pm under the title Top Cow: “We Create” Multimedia, on Saturday, July 24th.
The schedule for signings as well as portfolio reviews at Top Cow booth #2629 will be released at a later date and will be available online at www.topcow.com as well as at the booth at the start of each day.
Joining the Top Cow team at booth #2629 will be Marc Silvestri, Ron Marz (Artifacts), Phil Hester (The Darkness), Michael Broussard (Artifacts), Kenneth Rocafort (Velocity), Jeremy Haun (Berserker), Eric Basaldua (Witchblade Annual), William Harms (Impaler), Rob Levin (Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box), Bryan Edward Hill (Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box), Nelson Blake II (Magdalena), Marc Bernardin (Genius), Adam Freeman (Genius), Jeff Wamester (The Darkness: Four Horsemen), David Hine (The Darkness: Four Horsemen), Jason Rubin (The Iron Saint), Joshua Ortega (Necromancer), Rick Loverd (Berserker), Sheldon Mitchell (The Darkness), Rahsan Ekedal (The Crazies, Echoes), Joshua Hale Fialkov (The Crazies, Echoes), Randy Queen (The Darkness/Darkchylde: Kingdom Pain), Sarah Queen (The Darkness/Darkchylde: Kingdom Pain), Jonathan Lincoln (Tracker), Rick Basaldua (The Darkness) and several other surprise guests.
Fans should note that because of anticipated crowding issues; artists appearing at the Top Cow booth will only be able to do a limited amount of free sketches per sitting. Sketch tickets will be available at the beginning of each day of the show. Sketch tickets are limited one per fan per day. Fans must be present at the appointed signing time to redeem their sketch ticket. Not all artists appearing at the Top Cow booth will offer free sketches and fans should inquire at the booth on the morning they plan to get a sketch for availability.
Also at the Top Cow booth #2629, the publisher will offer several items exclusive to Comic-Con International including three convention variant cover comic exclusives, two limited edition hardcovers, and an unannounced bargain-priced anthology book.
Fans who stop by the booth will be among the first to grab a copy of the debut issue to mega-event series, Artifacts by Marz and Broussard. Artifacts promises to be Top Cow’s most ambitious series to date and will weave together story lines from a number of Top Cow titles, including Witchblade, The Darkness, Angelus and Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box. It has been known for some time that thirteen mystical Artifacts guide the fate of the Top Cow Universe. For centuries, it’s been whispered that bringing together all 13 artifacts would bring upon mankind’s destruction. The series will begin with a mysterious figure who seeks to put Armageddon into motion. Artifacts #1 will arrive in stores on Wednesday, July 28th.
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North High School will hold its Chamber Music Recital on Wednesday, April 22, beginning at 7 p.m., in the school auditorium, 35 Polo Rd. Students will perform under the direction of music instructors Janine Robinson and Joseph Rutkowski. Dr. Robinson will also be playing the piano.
The evening will include 13 pieces by noted composers, including Milhaud, Mozart, Handel, Clara Schuman (wife of Robert), Haydn, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Gavrillin, Schubert, Kodaly and Murray Houliff. Mr. Houliff, a colleague of Mr. Rutkowski, plans to be present at this recital.
Student performers (alphabetically, with their instrument or voice part) will include: Chris Peter Angelidis (oboe), Abigail Berkower (flute), Rachel Berkower (violin), Jinging (Amber) Chen (snare drum), Andrew Chi (clarinet and piano), Samuel Sang Cho (cello), Cordelia Ding (flute), David Elyaho (violin and viola), Solomon Elyaho (clarinet and bass clarinet), Emily Gold (cello), Lauren Goldsamt (violin), Leereone Hakami (violin), Juyeon (Heather) Han (soprano), Molly Hwang (tenor drum), Michael Jan (piano), Weiyin (Mimi) Jiao (viola), Joosung (Joshua) Kim (clarinet), Jason Lam (bass drum), Zachary Lee (flute and piano), Alec Li (snare drum), Keva Li (violin), Bradford Lin (cello), David Liu (piano), Maya Mualem (oboe), Joshua Nouriyelian (bass), Milleno Pan (piano), Scott Rothbaum (clarinet), Shannon Sarker (violin), Isabelle Sehati (flute), Amy Shteyman (piano), Eddie Syn (bass), Austin Tam (bass drum), Kejia (Madeleine) Wang (tenor drum), Benjamin Watson (clarinet), Matthew Weinstein (violin), Elana Xu (violin), Megan Xu (viola) and Isabel Yang (violin).
The public is warmly invited to attend this free recital for what promises to be an outstanding evening of chamber music. For more information, please contact Mr. Rutkowski at jrutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us.
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Jam Echelon Day
From Hack Story
MASSIVE DISINFO CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY RE: JAM ECHELON DAY
JAM ECHELON WEB SITE UP BUT STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION: http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net/
1. the original alert
2. the story as it originally appeared in Wired News
3. the second alert, intended to act as a counter to the disinformation
4. the first response from Linda Thompson of the AJF
5. the second response from Linda Thompson
6. a short note
...................................................................... ITEM 1
Subject: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY: Global JAM ECHELON Day [Oct. 21]
http://www.wodip.opole.pl/~laslo/Echelon-links.html
STAND UP FOR THE FREEDOM TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION!
We the monitored have decided to stand up against the very real, very intrusive, and ultimately oppressive global surveillance system known as Echelon. Echelon is a vast mainframe set up by the New World Disorder in order to monitor the world's electronic communications for subversive keywords. Every time you send someone an email with keywords like "revolution" and "hacktivism" [for instance], Echelon's computers make a note of it. If you forward emails with regularity with words on Echelon's extensive keyword list, you may be marked for human "hands-on" monitoring.
On October 21, 1999 , netizens around the globe are implored to send out at least one email with at least 50 keyword words. You need not be privy to knowing exactly what words Echelon uses. It is safe to assume that words such as "revolution" and "manifesto" and "revolt" [etc.] will work. Just be sure to sound as subversive as possible. There isn't even any need to write a cohesive paragraph or sentence. Echelon's computers does not understand the language anyway. It only knows to look for certain words. By doing this we can at least temporarily jam the global surveillance system.
This day of action will be timed to preceed Stop Police Brutality Day by one day so that emails about actions can be sent out with little scrutiny due to what will already be an enormous workload for Echelon.
Now is a chance for anyone, regardless of computer expertise, to become an instant hacktivist - best of all, no software is needed [other than your regular email program].
Of course, feel free to conduct such subversiveness any time. The larger Echelon's workload, the more free our speech.
After October 1, we ask global netizens to merely stop censoring themselves for fear of spooky scrutiny. By merely deciding to speak in the spirit of unabashedly subverting the DOMINANCE paradigm, we will make it quite difficult for Echelon to do its job.
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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO LIST THE DATE AS OCTOBER 21, 1999[not before widely disseminating disinformation] SEE: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/22102.html
Hackers Ascend Upper 'Echelon' by James Glave
3:00 a.m. 6.Oct.99.PDT
Mossad. Bomb. Davidian. M15.
If the hunch of a loose-knit group of cyber-activists is correct, the above words will trip the keyword recognition filter on a global spy system partly managed by the US National Security Agency.
The near-mythical worldwide computer spy network reportedly scans all email, packet traffic, telephone conversations -- and more -- around the world, in an effort to ferret out potential terrorist or enemy communications.
Once plucked from the electronic cloud, certain keywords allegedly trigger a recording of the conversation or email in question. Privacy activists have used the words in their signature files for years as a running schtick, but on 18 October, the American Justice Federation hopes to trip up Echelon on a much wider scale.
"What is [Echelon] good for?" asked Linda Thompson, a constitutional rights attorney and chairman of the American Justice Federation.
"If you want to say we can catch criminals with it, it is insane that anyone should be able to snoop on anyone's conversations."
"Criminals ought to be caught after they commit a crime -- but police are not here to invade all our privacy to catch that two percent [of criminal communications]," she said.
On 18 April, Thompson, along with Doug McIntosh, a reporter for the federation's news service, and members of the hacktivism mailing list community, invite anyone concerned about the system to append a list of intriguing words to their emails.
Specifically, they suggest the following keywords:
FBI CIA NSA IRS ATF BATF DOD WACO RUBY RIDGE OKC OKLAHOMA CITY MILITIA GUN HANDGUN MILGOV ASSAULT RIFLE TERRORISM BOMB DRUG HORIUCHI KORESH DAVIDIAN KAHL POSSE COMITATUS RANDY WEAVER VICKIE WEAVER SPECIAL FORCES LINDA THOMPSON SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP SOG SOF DELTA FORCE CONSTITUTION BILL OF RIGHTS WHITEWATER POM PARK ON METER ARKANSIDE IRAN CONTRAS OLIVER NORTH VINCE FOSTER PROMIS MOSSAD NASA MI5 ONI CID AK47 M16 C4 MALCOLM X REVOLUTION CHEROKEE HILLARY BILL CLINTON GORE GEORGE BUSH WACKENHUT TERRORIST TASK FORCE 160 SPECIAL OPS 12TH GROUP 5TH GROUP SF
The campaign has spread around the Net and has been translated into German. Organizers hope "gag Echelon day" catches on on a global scale as a means of raising awareness of the system.
Neither the NSA, nor its UK equivalent -- the Government Communications Headquarters -- has admitted that the system exists, although its capabilities have been debated in the European Parliament.
Australia's Defense Signals Directorate, an agency allegedly involved in Echelon, recently admitted the existence of UKUSA, the agreement between five national communications agencies that reportedly governs the system.
Last fall, the Washington-based civil liberties group Free Congress Foundation sent a detailed report on the system to Congress, but the system was not debated.
The latest effort hopes to further boost public awareness of the system.
"Most people are angry about it," said Thompson. "When you find out it is not some science fiction movie, most people will be outraged." But an Australian member of the activist community hopes that "jam Echelon day" will be about public awareness of technologies of political control, not about generating paranoia.
"Public awareness should empower -- not scare people aware from using the Net," the activist, who identified himself only as Sam, said.
From: "John Doe" <wethemonitored@hotmail.com> Subject: Jam Echelon Day [OCTOBER 21] - The Disinformation Has Begun Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 16:36:05 EDT
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!!!
Jam Echelon Day [OCTOBER 21] - The Disinformation Has Begun
It has come to our attention that a group known as the American Justice Federation has suddenly decided to sponsor an event of the same name as the alert sent out last week, namely Jam Echelon Day.
We would like to let it be known that the original initiators of this global day of action have never corresponded with or heard from, in any manner, this organization. We take exception to the group's attempted sabotage of the event which they hope to accomplish by going global, via Wired News, with the date of Otober 18, instead of October 21.
October 21 was carefully chosen as a date for the staging of the event to preceed Stop Police Brutality Day. Given the fact that Jam Echelon Day WILL TAKE PLACE ON OCTOBER 21, we will make what would otherwise be merely an exercise in futility into an event that should produce tangible results, i.e. making it easier for groups to coordinate actions for Stop Police Brutality Day - by sending the snoops a-huntin' for phantom subversives with revolution-oriented keywords.
The founder of the American Justice Federation is one Linda Thompson, the famous[or infamous] producer of the corruption expose entitled Waco: The Big Lie. Though it would be easy to assume that as such, she would be sort of an icon in the patriot and militia movements [not just based on that but based on her supposed views - search under "Linda Thompson"+militias], she has repeatedly drawn harsh criticisms from such groups. Why? Is it because of irresponsible and detrimental actions such as the media release that her group, the American Justice Federation, just unleashed?
The American Justice Federation, Linda Thompson included, ought to leave well enough alone. The people have already had enough of organized take-overs of grass roots movements.
AJF, Linda Thompson this is for you:
BACK OFF!
from WE THE MONITORED.
From: Linda Thompson <bama@latrading.net> Reply-To: bama@latrading.net To: lindat@latrading.net Subject: Unreal Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 22:06:56 -0500
Wow. I just got an email from a guy (using a hotmail account with the name "Robert Kemp") claiming to have originated the date of the Echelon day and claiming not to know how to get ahold of me (BUT HE SENT ME AN EMAIL).
Also, the article on Wired has *moved* (it isn't the lead story now)
AND* it says the "jam echelon date" is *21* October instead of October 18.
There is also now a *correction* stating that the "jam echelon day" was started by the Activism List and that AJF didn't set the "jam echelon date" and that "Wired regrets the error," however, I *repeatedly,* and in writing had told the writer, James Glave, that I had never heard of a "jam echelon day" and we had *nothing* to do with setting "Oct. 18" (or any other date). I have all those emails.
The writer of the article wrote to me, out of the blue. The whole things appears to have been a set up -- a propaganda piece to associate the "jam echelon" effort with "militia" to discredit it (and me) and of course, acting like Echelon "hasn't been proved to exist" which is, of course, utter bullshit.
Echelon is a worldwide eavesdropping system that listens in on all telephone and computer communications. If it spots certain "keywords," it records your telephone call or email and intelligence agents "analyze" it (put you in their database.) Gag the echelon computer. Put this tagline on all your computer communications and use some of these keywords in every telephone conversation.
TAKE THIS, ECHELON!
FBI CIA NSA IRS ATF BATF DOD WACO RUBY RIDGE OKC OKLAHOMA CITY MILITIA GUN HANDGUN MILGOV ASSAULT RIFLE TERRORISM BOMB DRUG HORIUCHI KORESH DAVIDIAN KAHL POSSE COMITATUS RANDY WEAVER VICKIE WEAVER SPECIAL FORCES LINDA THOMPSON SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP SOG SOF DELTA FORCE CONSTITUTION BILL OF RIGHTS WHITEWATER POM PARK ON METER ARKANSIDE IRAN CONTRAS OLIVER NORTH VINCE FOSTER PROMIS MOSSAD NASA MI5 MI6 ONI CID AK47 M16 C4 MALCOLM X REVOLUTION CHEROKEE HILLARY BILL CLINTON GORE GEORGE BUSH WACKENHUT TERRORIST TASK FORCE 160 SPECIAL OPS 12TH GROUP 5TH GROUP SF
http://jya.com/echelon-dc.htm <-- See this http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21577.html <--See this http://jya.com/crypto.htm#Echelon <--library of articles on NSA & echelon http://home.icdc.com/~paulwolf/echelon.htm <-- another library of articles on echelon.
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and running your country.
From: Linda Thompson <bama@latrading.net> Reply-To: bama@latrading.net To: Robert Kemp <sensuant@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: jam echelon day Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:53:34 -0500
From: Linda Thompson <bama@latrading.net> Save Address Block Sender Reply-To: bama@latrading.net To: Robert Kemp <sensuant@hotmail.com> Save Addresses Subject: Re: jam echelon day Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:53:34 -0500 Reply Reply All Forward Delete Previous Next Close
Robert Kemp wrote: > > Ms. Thompson, you are misinformed.
About what? Please quote what is misinformed, precisely, that is attributable to me.
This latest effort originated on a > listserv about two weeks ago that you are not on. > > How can I say for sure? > > Because I was the one that proposed it to the group and I did not get the > idea from anyone else. I did it all by my lonesome [the initial idea anyway > - suggestions followed]. > > Jam Echelon Day alerts have been circulating the globe for about two weeks > and have been translated into French and German, perhaps more by now. I > don't know who told you that THEY had come up with the idea but I personally > spent hours upon hours posting an alert written entirely by me in hundreds > of internet forums. Whoever is claiming credit for this ought not to be > counted amongst those you trust, because it is a lie. > > At any rate, I thank you for helping the idea to take root in as huge a > forum as Wired News. > > Nice job on The Big Lie, by the way. The truly amazing thing about all of > this [aside from just how much steam this effort has accumulated] is that I > have been trying to hunt you down for ages, only because I cannot seem to > find out how to order the video. Could you help with that? > > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > > http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/thirdeye.html > > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > > "To be truly radical, one must make hope > possible, rather than despair convincing." > - Raymond Williams > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Some say Echelon is not real. Then why the massive disinformation campaign launched against this day of action? Consider Wired News complicit.
Now, on to the next obstacle which, I am sure, lies just around the corner.
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:08:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl> To: Maurice Wessling <maurice@xs4all.nl>, evel <evel@xs4all.nl>, jesse@tao.ca Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Echelon en Hacktivism (fwd)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:06:32 -0400 From: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com> To: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl> Cc: Eveline Lubbers <evel@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Echelon en Hacktivism
(feel free to pass this on, obviously)
geert@xs4all.nl (Fri 10/08/99 at 12:43 PM +0200):
> > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:03:36 +0200 > > From: Eveline Lubbers <evel@xs4all.nl> > > Subject: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) Re: Echelon en Hacktivism > > > > Just to let you know how things ended, > > Maurice tells me:
> > The idea originated at the hacktivism mailing list.
grtz.
fyi, the idea of doing it *for a day* may have originated on the hacktivism mailing list, but the idea is close to a decade old-- it's called 'spook fodder.' tim may, author of the 'cyphernomi- con,'[1] has been putting a block of 'interesting' words in his .sig for at least seven years (see, for example, the cypherpunks archive[2]); lots of other people have, too--i remember seeing X-Spook-Fodder headers in email years ago.
like most 'hacktivist' projects, it's amazingly naive. if indeed this action will cause problems for echelon etc., the people who run it (and other such systems) will be well prepared to circum- vent *one day* of technical difficulties--because, of course, they know about the action in advance. but it *won't* cause them prob- lems, afaik, because NSA analysis techniques aren't based on sim- ple dictionary searches of signal streams; on the contrary, if this action has any effect at all, it will probably be as a nicely defined case study for analyzing vectors of transmission and met- rics of participation and of what people *think* is 'threatening' to the establishment. that kind of an argument is never a good reason *not* to do something, that's not my point in saying it.
echelon is an ongoing problem, and it's only very dimly understood. has anyone actually bothered to review the US Patent and Trade Of- fice patents filed on behalf of the NSA to *see* what techniques the NSA might be using? i haven't, but i'm told they're there[3]-- and that they're much more oblique and sophisticated than just grepping for text. the recent announcement that the CIA is spon- soring a venture capital firm[4] suggests a much weaker link in the intelligence establishment--that their efforts to function ef- fectively forces them to reveal some of their technqiues indirect- ly, through patent filings and so on.
doing kind of thing would be much more useful that misleading tens of thousands people into thinking they're making a difference when they're not--and letting them sit back after a hard day of 'hack- tivism' to rest in a false sense of security.
[1] http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/ [2] http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/cyphernomicon.contents.html [3] http://www.uspto.gov/ [4] http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/22004.html
cheers, t
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How accurate are ancient history busts?
This question links to a blog article of dubious quality about the life of Nero. One sentence however got me thinking (emphasis mine):
Though many historical accounts of Nero describe him as weak and frail, one may know merely by looking at a bust that he had a noble face from which blue eyes burned fiercely.
My first reaction was to reject the argument outright, but it made me think about the accuracy of the busts carved during ancient history, such at these: Julius Caesar, Nero, Plato, Shapur II.
I found a forum post asking the same question. One of the answer refers to verism, which is an artistic movement advocating realism, hence producing accurate representation of historical figures. However, it is a movement that was happening only in the Roman Empire, and not consistently during its reign.
How can historian assess the accuracy of busts and statues of ancient history? Has there been research about this?
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I'd imagine that, given the cost, that the busts were intended to flatter the figure they were based on. So like any good portrait artist, the sculptors would accentuate the good points and play down the flaws. – Steve Bird Jul 6 '16 at 16:22
Are you asking mostly about busts that were carved contemporaneously? Because busts carved after the death of the individual would naturally have substantially less accuracy, except where based on accurate portrayals. – called2voyage Jul 6 '16 at 16:32
You can compare the busts with each other, and with corresponding textual records. In some cases (Richard III), you can compare them with skeletal remains. – Mark C. Wallace♦ Jul 6 '16 at 17:19
Some Roman busts are believed to be based on death masks, so they'd be accurate. But it's going to depend on the situation. – Gort the Robot Jul 6 '16 at 17:49
I have often wondered about the premature balding aspect of many of the famed figures of Rome actually. – Doctor Zhivago Jul 7 '16 at 2:04
Some busts and statues were made when the person was alive, others were copied from these. So in some cases one can be reasonably certain that there is a close similarity with the original. I suppose this applies to all Roman emperors, for example. Probably to the busts of some famous Greeks, like Pericles, or Greek/Macedonian rulers of Egypt and other Hellenistic states. As a check we have coins with the portraits of many of those personages. Certain faces of antiquity are easily recognizable because of the multitude of depictions of the same person which have a lot of similarity.
What if all the depictions exaggerated the subject in the same way? How can you be certain that it is accurate? For example, pseudo-athlete style exaggerates the physique, and verism exaggerates signs of age. – congusbongus Jul 8 '16 at 0:31
For Nero, in particular, look at the English Wikipedia page. There are very many portraits, including even a caricature. Together they give a very good impression of how he looked. At various stages of his life. – Alex Jul 9 '16 at 7:37
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Rupert spills the beans on Angie
The email inbox here at Hoaxtead Research is a funny thing. We receive all sorts, from death threats and lectures from people who still believe there’s a cult operating in Hampstead, to tips and information about ongoing stories. But every now and then we find something truly special—as we did last night.
Rupert Quaintance IV was arrested on Wednesday last, and while we’re still in the dark about his current whereabouts and legal status, we were most interested to receive an email from someone who was in touch with him via Facebook text in the days leading up to his arrest.
Our anonymous informant offered us a series of screenshots from a conversation they’d had with Rupert. We think they offer some intriguing insights, not only into Rupert and his relationship with Angie, but his opinion of the Hoaxtead pushers as a whole, and the potential future of his so-called ‘documentary’.
We present the screenshots to you here, just as we received them:
There you have it: Rupert finds Angela “disgusting”, “abusive”, and “gross”, and he was unimpressed with her claim that they were “in love with each other”. We wonder whether Angie really does understand the depth of Rupert’s loathing for her. As we’ve seen, she has an uncanny ability to twist reality until it suits her purposes, and there’s no reason to believe she’d do any differently in her relationship with Rupert.
We were interested to note that Rupert is dismissive of the “MKULTRA porn” that Angela and her fellow Hoaxtead pushers find so fascinating; and he says “I have distanced myself from all of them. I’ve seen all I need to”.
Is it safe to say that having accepting Angela’s generosity in paying for his flight to London, Rupert suddenly discovered that he’d bitten off far more than he could chew?
He sounds deeply disappointed in his grand European adventure now: not only does he despise Angie, but even the sainted Kevin Galalae is starting to sound like a less than delightful travel companion. (Not that anyone could have predicted that.) He’s broke, he’s been arrested, he’s disgusted with the entire business.
In fact, here are a couple of snippets from Rupert yesterday, responding to a slagfest between Angie and Yannis:
If we didn’t know better, we’d say the fight’s gone right out of him. Ah well, bravado and big talk will only get one so far. If Rupert’s wise, he’ll take that as a lesson.
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137 thoughts on “Rupert spills the beans on Angie”
Gone but not forgotten Rupert…. Not by a long chalk. After what you’ve done, of your own volition, you don’t get to come back from this. NO matter how you paint it you issued threats against innocent people. Desecrated things that matter, and made false accusations against people who had done nothing wrong. – all in pursuit of some childish idiotic ‘dream’ you have of fame. You’ve hurt little children; left them with nightmares, maybe scarred them for life. Disrupted the lives of decent families. No….. You don’t walk away from that.
You’re NEVER coming back from this and can forget any ideas of ‘making it’ in entertainment. You never had any skill or talent anyway – but this ends it. Take yourself OFF the internet completely and hope and pray somebody lets you shovel shit for a living.
How to deactivate your account Rupert…..
1) Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page.
2) Click “Security” in the left column.
3) Choose “Deactivate your account”, then follow the steps to confirm.
And BTW I think the lads may be round for a chat later. Don’t get up though; they’ve got a key……
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/resources/images/1926763/
It’s simple. People have been terrorised by the stuff and people he thinks is so great to get involved in …….. for ratings …….. a quick buck. Well done Rupert.
Well, it’s not like we didn’t try to warn him….
He obviously has no concept of the damage he’s done or how angry people are. Quite why he would chose to exploit and offend the very people that might have helped his ambitions is beyond any fathoming. But he needs to understand his days as a backwater hotel clerk were the pinnacle of his career.
It’s interesting: I think one reason people are so furious with Rupert is his incredible arrogance, combined with the truly terrible choice he made to follow Angie, who is clearly a foul individual, a liar with no conscience and no scruples. So many bad choices, and where has it led? Hardly to the success and fame he craves.
He obviously thinks increasing an Internet radio station’s ratings is worth it. He’s more mercenary than I thought, and that’s an incredible streak of cruelty to carry round. I pity him to be honest. It is a trait of psychopaths. As is grandiosity.
I saw him be rude to the Erith woman. That sealed it for me. That was him being natural, himself, with a woman who did nothing more than look out of her front door at what was going on in the alley by her flat.
Yes, that was Rupert in an unguarded, unrehearsed moment. It was not a pretty sight.
Rupert is a spoilt brat, lazy and dim-witted. And fundamentally dishonest. This is one reason why he thinks fame can simply be grasped without paying the appropriate dues. – He’s never grown beyond that childish ‘pretend’ stage where one day you can be a Fireman and in the afternoon a Doctor; his life is just play-acting. And he’s got away with that because no-one has made him stand on his own two feet. ….This internet ‘radio’ station? Just a child’s toy really; the 21st century equivalent of a CB set! ‘Film maker’? Wandering around like some twelve-year-old with a toy camera…. It’s all just childish fantasy.
But I’m afraid he went far too far when he started interfering with the real lives of grown-ups.
Yes, that’s the real crux of it: when his actions started causing people to fear for their children’s safety, it stopped being fun and games.
I think Joe Kerr says everything I think so no need to repeat it except I don’t forgive anyone who has contributed to the attempts to destroy even further, the lives of the 2 kids in this drama and their father and all those other innocent North London folk including that poor woman who fled her church flat with her kids.
Everyone else’s comments are also spot on.
And you do not get to tell the world : ” these people want to fuck little kid’s arseholes and it almost makes you want to try it to see what it’s like” or say you pissed up against a church wall ( I’m non-religious but have total respect for anyone’s religious beliefs and would never insult them for it) of infer you carry a knife which is a serious crime in the UK and then ramble on about how many bloody guns you and your mum have, and put these things on the web for the direct purpose of making people believe it’s true and then back peddle like crazy. moaning when it all goes arse over tit.
And staying with and being friendly with people like Power-Disney and then calling her all sorts of names because the whole shemozzle fell apart just shows that you ain’t no Southern Gentleman and are still just an arrogant prick.
Is there a link to that? I missed that. Need to see any Rupert Action that re-enforces his capacity to be a Class One Prat.
Yes, it’s not as if Angie wasn’t obviously a lying manipulator from the start. Seems odd to be surprised now.
It was on his GoFundMe page, I believe.
I watched the video on his GoFundme page (hard going- arrogance abounds) but I had to stop for a while after spluttering my tea yet again when he boasts the:
“trolls said I would be arrested..and I came through here twice now and no problems whatsoever” LOL.
It’s true..he cannot deny we didn’t warn him about everything that has unfolded.
Also note : Angie has now added a post to her Irish demo stating “this is how the Irish do it” (apparently the Irish ‘do it’ like every other bloody nation does) several hours after Hoaxtead queries the photo and one cleverly unmasked it as not a snap taken in London.
Poor Angie- it’s all unraveling.
Is Rupert still in England?
It seems to me that Rupert must be waiting for a court case otherwise why is he sticking around.
Perhaps he didn’t listen to the people on here because we told him so and that made him want to stick by Angela longer than he has.
At least he has finally realised what she is.
I don’t understand re the Yannis “YUCK” Emmanuol situation why Rupert didn’t just delete the whole thread where he says he’s had enough etc. If it was too much just delete…
As for tor this Quaintance goose ludicrously stating the UK will be “legalizing child sex abuse” perhaps he should read this report:
“”Even if the true prevalence of child sexual abuse is not known, most will agree that there will be 500,000 babies born in the US this year that will be sexually abused before they turn 18 if we do not prevent it,” according to the Children Assessment Centre (CAC).
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report Child Maltreatment 2010 found that 16% of young people aged 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized in that year, and over the course of their lifetime, 28% of young people in the US, aged 14 to 17, had been sexually victimized.”
Quaintance is a vacuous lightweight phony who seized upon a scheme fomented by an Irish scammer as a way of getting a free trip to the UK but it blew up in his face.
# and what DID happen to those pals in Rome on their hunger strike? Dropped for being no longer of use?
The real problem for Rupert Wilson Quainance is that he has now ensured an entire internet trail of his infractions, scams and arrest has been laid out for all the world to see. We still don’t know the details of his arrest but we will eventually.
When people go for a job these days (unlike in my youth) there are another 200 seeking that job. Antone with the slightest mark against their name doesn’t get past first base. Unfair but that’s reality and probably as true in Culpepper as in London.
If his dad does work associated with the CIA I reckon he would be appalled with his son’s reckless adventure. Rupert should atone for his actions by taking up genuine charity work in Culpepper- feeding the homeless and so on until he has redeemed himself.
Sounds to me by the very muted way he is posting remarks and his “I’m outa this particular scam” and ” I wuz fooled by a crazy lady” he may still be in the UK and has been advised by a lawyer to cool his language.
I think if he were back in the USA he would be laying into how ghastly and corrupt the British cops are and the legal system is run by pedos and The Cult deliberately silenced the Great Warrior etc etc, yadda yadda, blah,blah blah.
## I still believe it’s all about a visa irregularity and it’s not uncommon for Immigration to delay immediately deporting an offender and because illegal workers are such a huge problem they may chose to charge him and put him through the court process for maximum publicity.
Of course even I can be wrong !!
LOL, Angela will shit when she sees this.
And Rupert will be so pissed off when he realises his convo wasn’t as private as he thought. EC’s contact has really done a number on him and stabbed in in the back. So sneaky, so mean…and I for one truly appreciate it. Hehe 😀
A lot of these old posts and comments have taken on a whole new meaning now. LOL 😀
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/qbert-gets-cold-feet
I’m trying to find an old screenshot of a conversation that Danielle George (I think) had with Rupert around March/April, in which he admitted that the donations to his GoFundMe (especially Angie’s £1,000) were a bit much and implied that he was regretting getting involved…
Sorry, I can’t find the screenshot in question but this is a related one, posted at the time:
Oh now I see the Rome hunger striker IS Kevin Galalae- so hard to keep track of these truthers.
I see there is yet another of these ‘TV Networks ” which are just Youtube channels but this one called WHDT World Television service goes all out with a suited talking head and a back drop that looks very kosher and so on but really- it’s just another form of deception by amateurs imitating real TV networks and trying to give the appearance of a solid entity when it’s just cheap smoke & mirrors.
On this one the ‘newsreader’ says in 2014 that Galalae’s hunger strike may force The Pope to ..oh I don’t know…do something like come out of The Vatican and speak to Kevin but of course he did sod all connected with them.
What a strange world they inhabit. I mean we do live in a strange world full of media we can’t really trust but this Truther Mob take it to a whole new level where they fool themselves and a few 100 devoted followers if they are lucky.
And they call us a Cult !!
Oh and lest we forget:
(Go to 4:57)
Back-tracking par excellence:
From early April:
I wonder whether it was Papa Quaintance the Turd or Ma Kazza who used to whack Rupert with a paddle.
And it does rather beg the question of why she’s been unable to upload any real pics of the child abuse rally that she, ahem, definitely did attend.
My prediction is that in her next video, Angie will bang on about how Rupert was brainwashed and/or mind-controlled by the cult while he was in police custody.
Rupert handled this opportunity badly, he would have been better to have taken note of journalists such as Louise Theroux in approaching the Hamsptead subject from a less confrontational, objective and open-ended point of view. I doubt many of those opposing the hoax were willing to talk to Rupert, so all he has is the material of crazies such as Jake Clarke and Neelu Berry to play with for his “documentary.”
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV was never middle of the road in his public actions and words, he waged war on the innocent victims of this hoax, he waged war against Satanism, he waged war on the children. Rupert is the one Satan Hunter who has pissed me off the most.
People’s mothers read about all this stuff that Abraham Christie and Ella Draper torturned their children into saying about them. People’s mothers know about shit through people’s doors. People’s mothers know about emails sent to everyone at their child’s workplace. People’s mothers know that their children have fireproofed their doors against arson and petrol bombs. People’s mothers know their families have had to move. People’s mothers know their grandchildren have had to move school because of a pair of evil POS.
Rupert and his mum get really butthurt. People in the UK are supposed just be all smiles and nicey nicey about all this utter evil.
I think we’ve got to wait until Thursday for the latest update “show”.
Madam says she is travelling tomorrow.
Well it’s not to Luton’s Coral Unit or Luton Airport but to Lanzarote.
Nice work if you can get it.
Funny how Angela never explains how she gets the money she lives on, or how she pays for all of her travel, mmm…
From what I have heard, the present Pope is quite good at getting back to people if they approach him through the regular channels. I don’t suppose he would get back to anyone who was clearly mad and accusing him of being involved in a New World Order depopulation plot.
The truth is more like, Rupert’s had a complete break from the manipulating Angela and come to his senses finally.
He’s realised all the people he’s involved himself with in this hoax are “nuts” in some way.
He can’t wait to get back home to Mom and wants to break away from everyone involved with this Hampstead saga, but they came on his fb page and stirred things again for him.
Yucky Yannis and Agitator Angie.
He will come out of this realising there was no such thing as a free lunch.
As for any future career well there probably never was going to be one anyway.
Rupert had all the privileges and didn’t get anywhere…
Angela Power Disney is now carrying Rupert’s baby, after their nights of sexual passion.
amama says:
Nevertheless “they’re all nuts” is a sign that a glimmer of reality is beginning to shine through the brain clouds. “All nuts”. Group psychosis, folie a multitude.
This is fascinating stuff. We did speculate that Rupert might not be as green as he is cabbage looking. The thing is, Hoaxtead is not the sort of subject that can be turned into a documentary. The involvement of children makes it almost impossible to do without breaching existing court orders or further invading the privacy of the victims. The Hoaxers can be exposed, but their victims will want to remain anonymous.
She will have about every benefit and hand out milkable from the system,together with a few charity wheezes,insurance fiddles and no doubt other yet to be uncovered earners.
The woman is one of lifes opportunists and void of any scruples or conscience. She considers herself entitled and can do precisely as she pleases.She even believes she has the big G covering her arse!!!If anything does not “fit” with her world(like say the truth)she will seek onlt to to eliminate it.
Nothing will ever change inside Angie but the world can hopefully learn to give her a wide berth.Sadly after all this there will be fresh victims and until she is raptured in one way or another that is the unfortunate situation.
I suspect her kids bit by bit will gravity away from her grip and she may at best receive occasional duty xmas cards etc.The real worth and wheat in life will seep away through the cracks and Angie will end up as a sack of shit decaying in an obscure u bend of history.Not a beautiful life.
What a fucking idiot he is…..
I’m certain they have the equivalent of our FE/HE colleges over there. If he wanted to get into performance why didn’t he sign up for a course, join some theatre groups, perhaps even move on to study at Bachelor level? Too lazy and stupid to pay his dues that’s why.
Journalists such as Louise Theroux are educated people who took the time to learn and understand the rules and work with the backup of a team of experts….. Directors, Commissioning Editors, Lawyers and Paralegals, Researchers, PR, Technicians et.
Rupert is (literally) some wanker with a flea-market tripod, a shitty toy video camera of the type your Granny might take on holiday, lacking the patience to edit and with no clue of how the law or the world works.
That prank is just nasty 😮
Actually, if you know what you’re doing a subject like Hoaxtead might well yield, or at least contribute to a legitimate documentary. A skilled professional would understand perfectly how to work within the constraints of standard reporting restrictions. An honest agent would faithfully report the story that emerges. And they would understand the limits that professionalism places on someone positioning themselves as an insider; especially in terms of their future reporting.
Rupert, on the other hand, is every bit as cabbage as he is cabbage looking. He’s done, I doubt the hotel will have him back now, they’ll be made aware of his antics and the likely impact on bookings. He should perhaps apply to the local Cleansing Department; though I can understand if people object to him walking the streets and coming near their children.
Seems to be a film prop….. I agree, you shouldn’t go around doing that to people, but it’s really skilfully made.
Keep digging, fruitloop!
By the way, how’s this for shoveling? She’s posted that comment under the pics of her posing by Big Ben etc., not of the one of the Dublin water bill march that she hilariously tried to pass off as a London child abuse rally. She knows full well what pics we’re referring to.
And as for Kristie Sue Costa, the mad bint has actually been PMing a number of us (not the other way round), desperate for dirt on Angie’s fake pic and ‘alleged’ no-show. LOL
The KSC ‘article’ is up:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/believe-the-children/panem-circenses/251732221889110
This really is a bloody soap opera, isn’t it. And in this Angie v Kristie episode, it’s impossible to know who to root for, as they’re both arseholes. A plague on both arseholes, I say.
“Since early-2015, there have been extensive online efforts to discredit the testimony of the two children involved in the Hampstead allegations, and in particular, the integrity of their mother who first reported the allegations to authorities.”
Actually, Kristie Sue, Ella discredited herself bye…er…NOT reporting the abuse to the authorities. No, that was left to her brother-in-law Jean Clement, because Ella and Abe couldn’t be arsed.
How she manages all this when her bank account is empty I really can’t fathom.
Yes, that’s my understanding as well.
KSC has written a whole section on ‘Spreading Horrible Rumours’.
“Angela claims the information came from a reliable source (in her opinion) yet has not seen any concrete evidence to confirm or deny the allegations to date. Quite an irresponsible act to publish such allegations without seeing the evidence, or doing a little research…”
No hypocrisy there, then.
Incoming…… A collective response to Rupert follows.
1) You’re a liar… There is blending in and there is rolling about in the shit. Delusional idiot that you are, you thought you could just play Journalist and score a free world tour. You backed the wrong donkey. But in the process you CHOSE to abuse a lot of innocent people. As Joe points out, many of them are the very folk that could have assisted you in your aspirations. Your doors are now closed.
2) You got caught in the middle because you ran there and started goading people. Take a look in the mirror you fucked-up puny little stick insect. Yes, you’re not only a ‘disappointment’ your a fraud and a failure. And there is a cost to that.
3) You want to apologise? Then you remove EVERY piece of social media content you ever posted and you leave a single paragraph apology on them all. You go back to Virginia and live the life of the nobody you are. And pray, just pray, that when you inherit nobody comes after you for every sorry penny you never earned. Be aware that you’ve upset REAL Journalists REAL Lawyers and REAL entertainment people. Lift your face off the floor you’re sweeping and they’ll see to it you’re living in a cardboard box under a bridge just like your Italian friends. Capiche?
4) You didn’t get “investigatey”. – That’s nowhere in your skillset. You are a delusional arsehole. Your and your family’s name are now MUD thanks to your antics. You’ll get your shitty little toy camera and flea market tripod back. Expect your holiday snaps to be erased; but in any case… Use a frame of it and a great big huge machine will come along and sue the Quaintance clan into obscurity. – We don’t care if your brother has a machine gun or mommy packs a piece in her knickers. What we do will be legal and justified, unlike the shit you got up to.
5) We expect to see you deleting yourself by 00:00 hours GMT on the 20th of September.
Oh, now, don’t confuse her with facts. You know how she gets.
Hahahahahahaha!! 😂😂😂
Nobody believes for a moment you were ever going to “burn the activists down”. IF that were the case you would NEVER have used rhetoric that left little children frightened to go to sleep at night in case you ‘kicked down the doors’ of their school or even their home. You wouldn’t have hurt and frightened little old ladies by implying you were literally pissing on their sincerely-held Christian beliefs ( some fucking ‘conservative’ you are!) and waiting around the corner with a ‘biscuit’ (i.e. blade) in your pocket!
Where the fuck do you get off leaving some respectable straight-laced old person too frightened to go to church on a Sunday?
It’s quite comical that you tried to play the tough guy Rupert, you’re such an underdeveloped little man! But still, anyone who knew what they were doing and was capable of infiltrating such a group would have known better than to cross that line. Incidentally – the ‘group’ responsible for the above response includes the very Lawyers who hope to have the opportunity to financially cripple you and your family. And some very angry policemen too! You have a chance to walk. – Walk! Fast and far!
For Ghost of Sam, if you have not found it already.
Rupert being “charming” from about 2m20 on
uh?, dont know why that is not showing but for Ghost of Sam.
Go to his Facebook page
hi its rupert
click on videos and it is a fairly recent one labelled ‘UK Pedos: Update 2’. He starts his ‘hearts and minds’ charm offensive (!) on the local people at about 2m20s
Don’t worry, mate – it is showing. If you can’t see it, it’s because you’ve been blocked by Rupert. And don’t take that personally – he does it to all of us, LOL.
Whatever Rupert has been busted for, his experience has reduced him to a cowardly cringing puppy.
Yes, the problem of course is that when we expose her lies, she must lie about having lied. It’s all very complicated.
He was that already. – Thought he could snarl like a big dog.
Oh, at very least. And I will see your “they brainwashed/mind-controlled Rupert” and raise you a “they injected Angie with cancer”. I’m still fully expecting a cancer scare from her, and I’m sure it’ll be linked in some way to “MKULTRA”.
I had a puppy once who used to run around yapping and piddling on the carpet. If you scolded him, he’d yap louder and piddle more…he never really seemed to realise that the yapping and piddling were what caused the scolding.
Eventually, that dog was able to be housetrained. I wonder if the same will be said for Rupert?
Yes, I think “what’s wrong with Angie” comes down to a malignant personality disorder. She’s stated this in at least one of her videos, seemed to think it was a joke. It’s not.
He is a cringing puppy with no teeth.
She’s already done the cancer scare thing, though. She mentioned it the other day, saying she was cured using cannabis. She must be running out of scam ideas now.
Yes, before he decided to come here to raise hell, he might have thought just a little bit about the people he would be attacking. It’s not as if this was a spur of the moment decision: he and Angie had plenty of time to work it all out, and the hoax has been debunked several ways, in various places around the internet.
I cannot imagine being so dense as to think that he’d be welcomed, or even received neutrally, by people who have been through what the victims of this hoax have endured.
Two new ones from MKD/CCNE:
Not really…… Talk is circulating now of the Quaintances being sued. Certain individuals have obtained diagnosis of what for the moment I’ll mis-label ‘PTSD’ type ilness as the result of what Rupert did aggravated by Karen’s involvement/endorsement. And some of these people have the knowledge connections and financial clout to start proceedings against him through the U.S. courts. – Unlike Rupert, they’re not fantasists. And are angry enough to start throwing six-figure lawsuits at both Rupert and Karen.
He and his family might not be left with a house for him to be house-trained to!
Haha, Angie will be over the moon to see she’s been soundtracked by her bête noire Cliff Richard 😀
Running out of scam ideas? Angie? Nevah!
Not odd, just dishonest.
You mean the one that ahem, definitely did happen? The one that didn’t consist of two Collies and a man who thought he was going to meet Stirling Moss? The one that didn’t collapse due to being overrun by nutcases?
what a coincidence! sabine who was involved in the hollie greigg scam was good friends with ella, what are the odds?
Astonishing, isn’t it? We posted a series about the genesis of the hoax some time ago; it might be time to revive those posts. 🙂
The very one! I’m waiting for a firsthand account of the event…will let you know when it comes in.
I thought she was a huge fan of Cliffs? Especially as her life is all about driving as fast as possible towards the edge of one!
If she is, she hides it very well!
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He couldn’t have regretted it that much as he kept asking for more money at every opportunity that he had.
Surely if yesterday was any success, numbers wise then Angie wouldn’t hesitate to post the photos up. So i think her silence says it all.
He was that…… In fact he was milking it for all he was worth right up to the point where the Police lifted him. He’s only back-pedalling now because he realises he’s in serious trouble, his toys have been taken off him and there is a very good chance he and his mother are going to be hit with substantial lawsuits.
And it is a pleasure to see Rupert for the coward that we said he was all along.
No wonder Cliff says they have almost destroyed his life.
How many goons are there out there just like this Irish battleaxe that simply accept any accusation as long as it involves their favourite subject- child abuse (apart from one of the allegations had Cliff on roller skates, skating down a High Street and suddenly veering into a ship to grope a lad and out again and then return a few minutes later, quick fumble and then zoom off on his skates!)
Whatever happens with this Hoaxtead case which I believe will peter out of it’s own accord eventually given the main players are now all facing court and are bound to be given even stricter silence orders – I’m determined this Power-Disney dame is not let off the hook. She must pursued and exposed so no-one gets taken in be her again.
As for Rupert Quaintance now claiming he was never really part of these fanatics, who does he think he’s kidding? He actively encouraged people to post images of the children. And now I’ve seen his arrogant go at some poor lady who opened her door and probably wondered why some goon was wondering up and down her alley way- he shall not be forgiven for his rudeness.
Obviously no-one went to that rally because they weren’t going in the first place. For the vast majority of Hoaxers this matter is already becoming a bore and they are looking for a new sensation. It was just the hardcore and they all got arrested, except Angie and her pathetic attempt to pretend there was a rally- she’s just one really bad liar.
The Hollie Greigg case proved you could cause immense damage in people’s lives (the falsely accused) and almost get away with it. But those brave ladies fought back and eventually cleared their names but it took a few years.
i think Ella took note and thought she could cause the same grief for her ex-husband but with the career criminal Abraham Christie on the case the whole thing blew up into a drama that hit the national media and blew up in their faces.
MK Ultra 666esque level of dark image play there Spiny.Top work 😉
Rupert on APD “Lets just say when I visited her, oh it was terrible.”
Call me inquisitive, but I’d love him to expand on that..
And lest we forget they got the scamming bastard Robert Green incarcerated.
He says he has a recording of Angela and Kevin being abusive to him. I’d pay to hear that.
I dont suppose he has made contact with that nurse at Jakes clinic whom he insulted and blazened across the internet.He is in damage limitation made. When he is back in his safe space with momie he will most likely revert to type eg complete wanker.
His antics are unforgivable even if he was an 18 year old kid,the fact that he is pushing 40 makes this individual terminally beyond the pail.Well done Karen for defending him and not reigning him in.Shit child, shit parents.
This is exactly why people are talking about going after them financially Mik. When he was posting here as FOTW the other night he was as arrogant as ever and only started to get rattled when it became clear he was fooling no-one. Once he gets back to the US he will start imagining himself invincible again. Him and the old bat that raised him need hitting where it hurts; with these ‘types’ that’s in the pocketbook.
Yeah come on Rupert if ya gonna splll the beans go the full hog.
Actually Sam/Lisa, one of the big problems with the Hollie Greig case is that the authorities FAILED to clear the names of the people Green had defamed. The ladies you refer to didn’t get anyone put away. – Green was jailed for breach of the peace, mainly on the basis that he had frightened people on a certain Aberdeen housing estate. Which – like the carry on with Neelu and Sabine – was a completely inappropriate charge. Green only went down because instead of defending himself he tried to use his own trial as a platform to pursue his wider bizarre agenda. His subsequent visits inside were due to him breaching various orders and conditions.
It’s was, I’m told on good authority, said by one of Scotland’s leading criminal defence lawyers that Green’s conviction was “unfortunate and unnecessary”. – But (as was also put to me) ‘his own mother’ sitting as Sheriff would have had no choice but to convict him and the complete pile of bloody nonsense he offered as a ‘defence’ was of absolutely no relevance to the charge he was facing! There isn’t a shred of doubt that beyond what she was compensated for the allegations in relation to Hollie Greig are not supported by a shred of evidence, and actually debunk themselves (like Hoaxtead). But the one thing that keeps it ‘in the air’ is that the whole debacle represents a twisted failure of justice. – The links to McKenzie and other well-known scammers, and even (arguably) a now-convicted child rapist only make the waters surrounding the Hollie Greig hoax muddier!
Don’t tell him that…he’ll have a pay-per-view site up next, LOL.
I know, it’s interesting. Not quite the way Angie would like the world to see it, but that’s no surprise.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that the way the nutters convince one another that their ‘news channels’ are legit is by dressing them up to look like…well, the dreaded mainstream media (MSM)?
Rupert: “…I’d really like my equipment back…” seems to be the crux of the biscuit, IMO.
I think he’s hoping that “I totally agree with the police now”, etc., will facilitate the return of his equipment.
But I already bought it, through a “seized items” auction, and crushed it in an industrial garbage compactor 🙂
What a terrible thing to do, JS! Now you owe Rupert at least $5.
Rupert has said himself that his dream is to live by being on camera and has looked at Alex Jones as an inspiration. However, most of what Jones puts out is attacking adults that to some degree expect to be attacked. Politicians and big business…etc.
This case involves the average person and their children. People have truly been harmed by this case and they are still being attacked. To put it mildly, Rupert was very misguided to have chosen this as a subject matter, regardless of how neutral he now claims to be. Even more misguided to have aligned himself with Angie, one of the worst for spreading misinformation, disinformation and outright lies.
As others have said, the most interesting documentary angle would be looking at the dynamics of Angie and her friends. If you look at documentaries about WBC, survivalists, UFO enthusiasts, Scientologists…etc, what makes it interesting is the relationships between those members and what brings them together. The likes of Angie, Sabine, Neelu, Belinda…etc, really are a cult. A cult worthy of investigation. The only real cult in this case.
Very much so, Dave. Scarlet Scoop was saying that when she founded the blog a year and half ago, but it bears repeating.
C.I.A says:
https://m.facebook.com/notes/believe-the-children/panem-circenses/251732221889110/?__mref=message_bubble
Rupert can dream, as many do, until he’s blue in the face. But he’s clearly unprepared to learn the basics of the craft to which he aspires. He’s what we call a ‘mug punter’. And has bought the snake-oil version of media success. He’s not bright enough to realise that people like Alex Jones are just the 21st century evolution of the old side-show travelling salesmen. And they are basically there to shift ‘Dr Good’ style rubbish. – Additionally, these guys are seriously invested in the literacy of their genre and the technology which underpins it….. It’s a cold business.
Rupert remains just a random tosser with a toy video camera. – And it’s maybe part of the great game that the likes of Alex Jones isn’t honest enough to reign a clown like this in. He won’t be ‘too keen’ on competition for his audience share. And where it does ’emerge’ it will be from within a carefully vetted ‘inner circle’. As for Angie, Neelu Sabine and the rest of the ‘McKenzie Group’ scams. – They seem to be part of a relatively small ‘pool’ of London based criminals that have been running various scams since at least the early 1980s. I do know of people who are researching themes surrounding them. More than that I’d prefer not to say.
He’ll get his toy rubbish back eventually, minus the harassing material which will be erased. Of course, he MAY have to return to London to collect it; by which time he’ll be banned from entering the UK. – I did enjoy “Catch 22”.
What he had was cheap junk anyway.
I can’t find the comment now, I think it might have been from Joe, about Deatheaters and how clownish showboating not only contributes nothing to Child Protection but actively distracts from the serious work on Child Protection issues. I wanted to say how much I appreciated that comment, whomever you are.
Particularly disturbing to me is Deatheaters obsession with the mythology of child “snuff” porn, and like so many similar conspiranoids, their uncritical acceptance of Dave McGowan’s “The Pedophocracy” as an accurate revelation & analysis of “what’s really going on”. Actually, McGowan was a sh*t researcher, none of his material was original research – he simply compiled other people’s paranoid misinformation into one grand thesis with no understanding of the original source info that he misquotes and misinterprets to serve his own purposes.
For example – in the late 1990’s the Russian Mafia was running some boy-porn operations and selling videos of their “work” over the internet. (They were selling some of the ‘models’ too, even more disturbing!)
The FBI, Interpol and Russian police worked together to bust one of these operations, which had a “pedo necros” listing in their ‘catalog’. (These titles turned out not to be actual “snuff”, just child S&M being marketed that way). Police investigators turned this operation into one of their favorite and most effective stings. They traced the server through which the porn operation was marketing their stuff and caught the operator by surprise, at the controls. Instead of shutting it down, they replaced the operator with a specialist investigator who took over the controls and carried on the operation for several months, playing the role of the server operator. This allows them to access the info about customers necessary to trace them, research them, and target the ones with access to children for priority arrests.
After the conclusion of the police sting, when the operation really was shut down and customers were arrested, the Italian press published some email conversation evidence which revealed the true depravity of some child porn customers. One example, which I’m not going to quote precisely, went like this:
Snuff seeking customer: “I’ve been burned before. How do I know this will be the real thing?”
Operator: “Trust me, this one dies”
McGowan and his idiot fans use this as proof that the Russian mob really was selling “snuff” porn, demonstrating that they don’t understand the “Operator” in that conversation was THE POLICE INVESTIGATOR, dutifully playing the role of mobster porn marketer. Although he knows better, he is doing his best to lure this customer into making a purchase – he REALLY wants this snuff-seeking sicko’s info, from the purchase, because he is the type of depraved pervert who will be targeted for priority arrest – for obvious reasons.
McGowan’s naive assumptions about this are accepted as fact by people like Deatheaters and the misinformation about it is repeated over & over throughout their networks.
It possibly was myself Justin; I’m not alone in questioning this infantilisation of what is a particularly dreadful, soul-sucking and just ‘dirty’ form of abuse. One of the lowest ebbs humanity can sink to.
In the late 90s the internet was much smaller and slower. And I understand where the press ‘were coming from’ in publishing that account as they did. Hindsight being 20:20 I doubt the wisdom of it though as it does seem to have encouraged a fanciful narrative. Surprised they could stream much in the way of video back then. I’ve recently learned that even these days material is typically sent on USB media, partly to evade the attention busy servers might draw.
I see a comment above about will Angie pull a cancer scare. No doubts. She is like Janet Schrodenberg (sorry if thats bad spelling) She has claimed many times to have had cancer. Ironically dim jim is talking to her and her good friend Adeybob on twitter, even with the news their good friend Darren Laverty is looking to be sentenced for trolling a survivor and Sonya Poulton. He really doesn’t have a good nose for wrong’ens. Janet is harbouring her brother in holland, i won’t begin to talk about her brother and his crime, its too horrid to post.
I am aware of certain feuds between people, convictions, arrests. I generally keep my opinion to myself really.
The sting with a police operator is how Sabine’s friend got caught and convicted.
Fair dues
There’s a truly interesting story about who actually benefits, has their aims furthered, by lurid tales of child abuse cover ups. I can tell you, Anjem Choudary’s very last tweet, one last year, gone because his account was deleted, included the hashtag #TedHeath. He was also complaining about child protection. Also, who also is well know for government sponsored media peddling outright conspiracy stuff? Iran and Russia for a start off the top of my head. Which politician is riding the wave of support from basement conspiracists and admires Putin?
I’m not conspiracy minded myself but I have seen this stuff benefit bad people. When people trust no one in government or authority someone is going to step into that vacuum and I only see bad portents so far.
I’m somewhat aware of the technique Ginger….. The police do what they need to do. If they’re banging these perverts up they get no criticism from me.
@Joe – sorry, I might not have given you a wrong impression from my bare-bones account of that operation. My understanding is, the mobster’s website had a catalog divided into categories, under each of which there were small ‘teaser’ clip samples from the VIDEOTAPES that they were selling. People might recall this case from the surprising revelation that the mobsters actually used a well known international courier service to deliver the video cassettes to their customers.
And as JK said, Rupert’s only regretting it now because he realises he’s in big trouble and his toys (i.e. camera equipment) have been confiscated. I very much doubt there’s a genuine sense of remorse for the damage he’s done.
Agreed, Dave. Before we let Jones off the hook, though, I feel I should point out that he too jumped on the Hampstead bandwagon at one point and sought to fan the SRA flames. Somewhere there’s a video of him ranting about it but I can’t seem to find it.
Is this the comment you’re looking for, Justin?:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/will-angie-show-her-face-at-todays-protest/#comment-43374
Ah! I see! I did wonder, but then you can put nothing past these characters. IIRC correctly sending a video file was just about possible back then, but it would have been at very low resolution and reduced frame rate. And possibly taken days to download. – And right enough, what would cause the minimum suspicion BUT a mainstream courier.
Hey diddle,diddle
The bats on the fiddle
The old cow jumped over the moon.(Resulting from a serious bullshit generated methane overload)
The coyote did laugh
to see such fun
because her shit stirring spoon is now firmly stuck right up her arse.
Angie spotted embarking on a new career stealing Xmas tress.
The more I think about it Spiny, Jones has run plenty of stories as sickening as this case. I missed the video in which he discusses this. Interestingly, Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars, called this as a hoax early on, and has also had run ins with Rupert.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she does really get throat cancer or emphysema the amount of fags she gets through.
Don’t wish it upon her or anyone but it would be ironic if she did as who would believe her?. I also think the cigarettes are why she has that throaty voice and note, she is always coughing.
I think Angela Power Disney has a natural nose for associating with paedophiles, hence her choosing Rupert and Jake, both who I think are latent paedophiles. I think all efforts to keep Jake and Rupert away from children will save a child from being badly raped or abused.
For those who may have missed it first time around, the Radio 4 documentary ‘The Satanic Cult That Wasn’t’ by David Aaronovitch does a decent job and generated the usual flack from the usual suspects (always been a source of great disappointment that Bea Campbell still props up the belief in SRA)
But, anyhoo, worth a listen, as is the two parter, The Anatomy of a Panic, that R4 did a month later about the history of SRA..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r40r5
Angie as always posting endless links to dodgy satanist pedo tales (is this what she means by being an “activist” against child abuse?- surfing the net?)
These clots never do real research though. One of her latest grabbed my attention because it mentioned Australia but alas, it lead to the well known “truther” nutcase Henry Makow.
I chose a random paragraph (can’t take reading their entire B/S) and yes, there was one glaring and idiotic mistake which amply demonstrates this dangerous mob of sheeple (they are the ‘sheeple’ blindly accepting every nutcase’s web rantings.
It claimed the US Federal Reserve also own the Reserve Bank in Australia. Not so-the US Federal Reserve is a privately owned entity that wields much power.
The Australian Reserve Bank is a government body and always has been. It’s directors and CEO are government appointees and it oversees control of private banks with some of the strictest controls on banks in the world, so much so that an Aussie bank has never gone bust and they all make huge profits with the Reserve Bank setting interest rates and this is one reason why Australia wasn’t hit by the 2007/8 financial collapse in the US and basically rode out the calamity relatively unscathed.
So no devil-worshipers there.
Yes, why bother with actual research when you can rely on guesswork and innuendo?
You can generate judge the worth of these programmes by the volume of screeching they elicit from the other side.
#Yup
I think the pay out to Hollie by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (am I right?) seemed to confuse matters a lot and made people assume there was more substance in the outlandish claims than there was. We have seen something similar with Bishop Bell recently. I know some clerics who are very angry that the Church of England paid out a lot of money on the basis of very little investigation and managed to blacken the reputation of a man who many still regard very highly.
Hollywood has a lot to answer for. Usually characters in movies become great successes through “putting their heart into it” or “really wanting it” rather, than studying or training over a period of many years (not that that would make an interesting story line).
I hope the investigations into the McKenzie Group are going to produce some results.
The CICA payout was made on the basis that – on the balance of probability – she was abused as a child. And it’s actually fairly clear who is implicated in that. It’s also the case that the evidence surrounding THAT issue implicates the mother as being complicit in covering up that abuse. The waters were muddied further by the determination of some factions to discredit these official findings…… i.e. It wasn’t enough to clear the names of the defamed and debunk Anne Greig’s fabrications. It remains the case therefore than many credible people are convinced there was ‘something to hide’; although it’s not what Green tried to promote. The recent conviction of Hugh Mitchell may light a few lights, time will tell, the Police need the opportunity to do what they need to do. But it I hope it will all unravel in the end.
You’re right in suggesting the CICA payment was conflated by Green and his cohorts as if it proved other things had happened. It was effective because that (court) decision has weight, and trying to debunk it only drew suspicion on the people doing so. But then that IS Green’s (and McKenzie’s) ‘way of working’. The Irony is that if he had been convicted in some way that allowed his fairy stories to be explored in court, not only would the people he defamed had their names PROPERLY cleared in court (as they have a right to) but it might well have brought a whole house of cards tumbling down. It’s really not good enough that the only place these women have been vindicated is in an article written by a spud-faced wee nyaff who many people opine might well wind up on a sex-offender’s wing himself one day!
And this is where the interesting comparison with the Berry/McNeill case comes in. – They ‘got off’ quite easily on a technicality. Had Green offered any kind of relevant defence, the probability is that he would have walked too! That’s not just my opinion but one I’ve heard from a well-known Scottish QC! The question that arises from this is why did the authorities go to such lengths to avoid PROPERLY shutting the hoax down? SO, why ARE the authorities – the Crown Office and the CPS – fucking these cases up so royally? Answers on the back of an open cheque for about £500K please!
The amount of public money and police time wasted when these cases aren’t prosecuted properly is downright criminal.
I know a man who was generally regarded as a “wrong un'” by people in the village. He did a lot of minor things and was filmed by the police doing something serious which should have put a stop to many of his activities. The case fell through thanks to the intervention of a senior police officer who happened to be a member of the same golf club. The man in question continued in his ways and is now in prison for the murder of his own wife. (I can’t be more specific – I am very close to my source who knows exactly went on but has sworn me to secrecy).
I’m sure she’s already stated on previous videos that she has been diagnosed with COPD due to her smoking.
Lmao, classic picture Spiny. He does have bit of a bean head doesn’t he?
Then there is the more routine human cost…… Is it not the case that someone felt sufficiently unsafe in their flat near the church that they moved out? And we have another family just moved up here from Hampstead that include this very hoax among their reasons for getting out! The Hollie case wrecked businesses and severely disrupted lives, for what? – I do realise that people may be jealous of the Hampstead lifestyle and in some cases people might have rubbed others up the wrong way. But by what measure is hoaxing any way to ‘deal with’ such things?
I think it may be a symptom of “post-factual” politics. If reality doesn’t suit you, just make shit up. Quite depressing really. The French Revolution was in part started by scurrilous pamphlets about the alleged sex lives of Lois XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Whatever corruption there was in the ancien regime, drowning nuns in the Seine wasn’t the answer to anyone’s problems.
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Health and Wellbeing Research at the Open University
The Health & Wellbeing PRA aims to support and bridge inter and multi-disciplinary work across The Open University and engagement with external stakeholders, charities, business/industry and the public sector.
Over the last couple of years, we have been fortunate to fund projects which have facilitated OU colleagues from across the University to undertake a project with both internal and external colleagues in a bid to scale up and submit larger funding grants. Below you will find different examples of how the Health and Wellbeing PRA has supported such research grants.
Health & Policing Sandpits 2018
The Health & Wellbeing PRA (H&W PRA) and the Centre for Policing, Research & Learning (CPRL) at the Open University held 2 health and wellbeing in policing sandpits in May 2018. These 2 events brought police personnel together with OU colleagues from across all 4 faculties: WELS, FASS, FBL and STEM. Each sandpit lasted one full day, allowing insights, knowledge and expertise to be shared, and enabling this collaboration to identify needs and requirements associated with the health and wellbeing of policing personnel.
To date, the sandpits have been successful in launching collaborative projects, including identifying at least two grant applications that are being co-created with colleagues from different police forces/organisations. More details on these grants will follow in the coming months.
Organisers of the Health & Policing sandpits were Professor Graham Pike, who is the research lead for the CPRL, Dr Hannah R. Marston, who is the research fellow for the H&W PRA, and Dr Helen King who is the project manager in the CPRL.
Positive outcomes from the OU Guyana visit
Thanks to Seed Corn funding from the OU Health and Wellbeing PRA, Dr Helena Ann Mitchell was able to present a ground breaking research programme at the 90th Anniversary Celebrations for the Guyana Nurses Association. The programme aims to establish the first mental health nursing BSc in collaboration with the University of Guyana. During her five day visit Dr Mitchell met with and gained endorsements and letters of support from the University of Guyana, Minister of Health and Chief Medical Officer. She is pictured with the President of Guyana David Granger, and Betty Why.
In collaboration with colleagues at the Open University and Leicester University, Dr Mitchell is now targeting a number of major funding opportunities including the British Academy ‘International Interdisciplinary Research Projects’ call and the MRC ‘Global Mental Health’ call address 1. and 2.
We’re pleased to report on a successful project conducted by Andrea Berardi (Faculty of STEM & member of the Digital Health & Wellbeing SIG) in conjunction with colleagues from Lancaster University who received funding from the Health & Wellbeing PRA in February 2018, which has since led to scaling up the work and submitting a grant to PHIND.
The successful completion of this Health and Wellbeing PRA funded pilot study titled: “Transmedia storytelling for improving wellbeing outcomes in the Makushi Indigenous community of Yupukari, Guyana”, has enabled Dr Andrea Berardi to attract a strong consortium of partners, including the recently launched Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health, Lancaster University’s Centre for Health Information, Computation and Statistics, and industrial partners such as 2iC for upcoming funding calls.
This research will engage the Makushi Indigenous population of Guyana, located within a strategic holo-endemic malaria epicentre, in order to pilot a novel digital and participatory malaria surveillance and management strategy. Dr Berardi and his colleagues will use a spatial-temporal predictive tool for the dynamics of the Anopheles vector to promote proactive and sustainable community-led interventions. The intended research will lay the foundations for a major out scaling initiative through the Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health. The digital health revolution is still in its infancy and this study will provide the urgent baseline research for a step-change in the operational evidence-base for large-scale implementation of ‘last-mile’ digital health systems within Low and Middle-Income Countries.”
In January 2018, Dr Hannah R. Marston (PRA Research Fellow, Digital Health & Wellbeing SIG Lead) and Dr Duncan Banks (Snr Lecturer in Faculty of STEM) were successful in gaining Health & Wellbeing PRA funding to undertake a scoping review to ascertain existing work in the area of wearable devices for monitoring palpitations for diagnosis of Arrhythmia (AR).
To date, Drs Marston and Banks have been working with Dr Matthew Fay a General Practitioner at the Willows Medical Practice, based in Queensbury, Bradford, West Yorkshire who actively uses wearable devices to monitor his patients presenting with palpitations.
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Heather Whaley
by heatherwhaley
You know how gun enthusiasts get all upset when we talk about universal background checks for all gun sales, and they say that the real problem is fixing our mental health system? Do they mean that we need to cure mental illness, and only that will lead to reduced gun violence? What about the neighbor who has been a responsible gun owner for years, but is experiencing the first signs of Alzheimer’s, or depression? If we could cure Alzheimer’s we would. Do we have to just keep our fingers crossed and wait for science to provide the answer? Do they advocate yearly mental health screenings for all citizens – including gun owners – as part of the sensible mental health system? Because I knew a man who was sharp as a tack one year, and the next couldn’t recognize his own wife and thought she was an intruder. What if he’d had a gun? Would love an honest answer to my honest question.
A lot of the gun conversation in our country is actually detrimental to solving the real problem that we have, which is a lot of people dying, particularly children, by guns. It’s a really shameful aspect of our nation, and one which we should be able to solve, but we are not going to do it with an us vs. them debate. Don’t gun owners also want to reduce the number of people who die by gun violence? I think so. And don’t gun violence prevention activists enjoy the personal freedoms that come with being an American? Yes.
Personally I don’t really care if you own guns or not, although I’d rather my neighbors didn’t own weapons that could shoot through their walls and mine. I just care that you keep your guns safely locked up, and that they are not allowed into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. Which is actually what most people feel, too.
But look at Chris Christie, who just vetoed a ban on .50 caliber long-range rifles, that are capable of taking out a vehicle, and “will penetrate most commercial concrete and brick walls,” according to McMillan’s website. How is that good for anyone? If you keep a firearm at home to protect yourself and your family, how are you going to protect yourself against a guy with one of those, which are legal to own in every state but California? Chris Christie was compelled to veto that ban because the NRA has dug in their heels against any gun reform whatsoever, and advocated a sort of “any gun for anyone” stance, and he’s not strong enough to stand up to the NRA. If you do a search for this kind of ammo, you see a lot of “Zombie Apocalypse” references. Seriously. Where’s the sense in that? Other countries with sensible gun laws have sport shooters, so it’s not a matter of “athletes” not being able to practice their sport. Full disclosure: I don’t think golfers are “athletes” either.
What’s the answer? Investing in Kevlar? Living in an underground bunker? I don’t know. And of course any sort of sensible debate is predicated by the idea that both sides actually use sense. Are we just too far apart in ideology to even recognize what sense is anymore? Anyway, I’m confident that I will be able to outrun the Zombie horde. Maybe these guys should buy some running shoes.
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Ibiza is famous for its nightlife, but the island has more to offer than just its club scene.
The smallest of the three major Balearic islands, Ibiza was first discovered in 654 BC by the Phoenicians who named it ‘Ibossim’, meaning ‘island of pines’. Away from the tourist areas, many parts of Ibiza are World Heritage sites and their picturesque scenery is popular for filming and photo shoots.
The island has a strong hippy background, dating back to the 1930s when many liberals escaped to Ibiza as a result of General Franco’s fascist rule. In the 1960s, Ibiza became a mecca for hippies as hoards of them swarmed to the island, attracted to its bohemian culture.
Although the club scene briefly took over as Ibiza’s identity in the late 1990s, its hippy roots are now re-emerging with a new ‘hippy chic’ breed of tourism – with the elite seeking a part of the barefooted, kaftan-wearing, yoga-practising lifestyle. The hippy movement is still evident on the island, with two major open-air hippy markets taking place every week at Es Cana and Las Dalias, along with Sunday evening bongo sessions on Benirras beach.
In the late 1990s, Ibiza gained a notorious reputation from the fly-on-the-wall Sky TV show ‘Ibiza Uncovered’, which depicted the hedonistic clubbing scene of drunken shirtless Brits waving cans of lager. Although the club scene is still an important and thriving part of Ibiza tourism, this is only part of what the island has to offer. Tourism in Ibiza has now given way to a more upmarket breed of tourist and is fast becoming the playground of the rich and beautiful – in fact, it has often been referred to as ‘the new St Tropez’. Luxury villas and multi-million pound yachts, belonging to the so-called ‘wet set’, are changing the face of Ibiza to capitalise on its bohemian vibe, with yoga retreats and 5-star minimalist hotels.
From September onwards, the tourist season dwindles considerably, most of the big clubs close down for the winter and the island becomes an altogether quieter and different island.
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8. The famous Egg monument in San Antonio represents its claim as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, containing a model of his ship, the Santa Maria.
9. According to 2005 statistics from the Balearic Institute, just over half of Ibiza’s population were not born on the island.
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Winter and the holidays can be especially challenging to maintain social connections, including for those with limited mobility, yet virtual technology enables communicating regardless of weather or circumstance.
Friends and family are just a phone call or email away, and, while maybe not as good as the real thing, virtual platforms offer new ways to engage with like-minded others.
Facebook, for example, provide endless special interest “groups,” which for history buffs facilitates sharing vital knowledge of time and place that is especially relevant to every community’s elders.
Gary Coffrin no longer lives in Miles City, Mont., where his father ran Coffrin’s Old West Gallery until 1980. Yet Coffrin stays well-connected to the region.
From his home in northern California where he restores photos and provides valuations and printing of high-quality Western imagery, Coffrin is a frequent poster on sites catering to local history.
Coffrin, who considers himself tech-savvy and has even taught PC application courses, got into photo restoration after taking a Photoshop class four to five years ago at a local college. Eventually he posted those images on Facebook, then sought out vintage photos, primarily of eastern the Montana and occasionally the Dakotas.
In addition to his own Facebook site, Coffrin posts to MONTANICA!, a private group with 29 moderators and more than 92,000 members. He has contributed to Miles City’s Range Riders Museum and Montana Memory Project, about which he has also posted.
“With each post, I could do enough research to add some historical context to each photo,” said Coffrin, who studied philosophy at both Arizona State University and University of Montana. “I always felt that posting a photo without background information and info about the photographer was either frustrating or a tease.”
He limits his posts to 850 character and figures he spends an equal amount of time on restoration as research.
Coffrin is partial to Old West photographers, like Frank Jay “F. Jay” Haynes, William Henry Jackson, and especially Layton Allen “LA” Huffman, whose photography graced Coffrin’s home as a child in Miles City.
“Part of the reason I like LA Huffman is he captured things in eastern Montana that were never going to be seen again,” said Coffrin, who has the largest private collection of copies of Huffman’s extensive glass plate negatives. “Huffman’s documentation of cowboy life on the open range—their activities, their chuck wagons, how things were organized—was unparalleled.”
Although he doesn’t post as often as he used to, Coffrin pays attention to the number and types of comments he gets on each post. When readers posted identifying details on several images from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, for example, Coffrin was able to easily update his original posts.
The only drawback to social media? “It’s a time suck, of course,” said Coffrin, laughing.
Post Falls, Idaho-based Keva Wolfe figures her involvement in social media is a full-time job, yet she eschews financial gain.
“What I get out of this is connecting people with their community who otherwise are disconnected,” said Wolfe, who started the group, Old School North Idaho on Facebook in 2015 after spending two years contributing to another local site and liking it.
“Having those deep roots and growing up in this community—on horseback—I knew everyone,” said Wolfe, a fourth-generation local whose father was one of 11 boys.
Wolfe and two siblings run their father’s Post Falls bar, where Wolfe installed a photographic display of local history. And when one of her bartenders was accosted at work, Wolfe witnessed the power of social media firsthand.
After Wolfe posted about the incident online, the alleged perpetrator was discovered several states away via social media within 30 minutes.
The rules for Old School North Idaho are simple: Be kind and courteous. That means no profanity—civilized discussion is welcome—no hate speech or bullying, no promotions or spam, no political rhetoric.
The most popular posts tend to revolve around food, but also local landmarks, terminology such as a pop, not a soda and a crick, not a creek—prominent families, and events like field grass burning, the annual 4th of July parade, and turn-of-the-century regattas on Lake Coeur d’Alene.
Wolfe taught herself how to use social media effectively—she administers several other north Idaho sites—and has along with four other administrators grown the membership to more than 23,000 in the past four years.
Participating in the group, said Wolfe, gives members an opportunity to exchange info, but also to clarify varying recollections of the same person, place or event. “And we get a written record.”
She has also connected with site contributors face-to-face, like Adrienne New, whose efforts to save a historical building in nearby Rose Lake, Idaho prompted her to get more involved on social media.
“The key is to share this info,” said New.
Although Facebook is the most dominant social media platform, it’s not the only one. The non-profit site, OurWorldInData estimates nearly 3.5 billion, or one in three people, use Facebook, followed in descending order by YouTube, Instagram, WeChat, Tubmlr, TikTok, Weibo, Google-Plus, Reddit, Twitter, and Pinterest.
The Pew Research Center shows technology usage from smart phones to social media steadily increasing amongst seniors. A 2019 study tracking social media usage amongst age groups found usage of any platform is, predictably, highest amongst three age groups: 18-24, 25-29, and 30-49 year olds. Facebook usage for 50-64 year-olds, however, was close to the average at 68 percent usage and 46 percent for those 65 and above.
Although both Wolfe and New would be considered seniors, participation in the Facebook group and interest in local history is by no means defined by age.
“Yes there are many people in their 80s who grew up here,” said Wolfe, “but there’s a big influx of people who moved here who want to know about the area.”
New sees social media as a new form of repository for local history, but also a way to build community.
“We have to keep finding that common ground,” says New. ISI
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The Role of Discrimination in Determining Occupational Structure
Andrew M. Gill
The author of this study attempts to isolate the role of discrimination in determining racial differences in occupational structure. Logit techniques are used to identify and distinguish between determinants of the probability that an individual will choose an occupation and the probability that an individual will be hired for a desired job. The empirical results indicate that much of the under-representation of blacks in managerial, sales and clerical, and craft occupations can be attributed to employment discrimination. These findings thus seriously challenge human capital models, which treat occupational distribution as resulting from individual choice.
Andrew M. Gill, 1989. "The Role of Discrimination in Determining Occupational Structure," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 42(4), pages 610-623, July.
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A novel therapy for resistant hypertension
Sharad V Shetty
Therapeutic intravascular ultrasound is a promising alternative for renal denervation
Sharad V Shetty MBBS MD DM FRACP
Fiona Stanley Hospital , Royal Perth Hospital and Perth Cardiovascular Institute
Ali M Safaa MBChB FRACP
The Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
Systemic hypertension represents a major economic and public health challenge worldwide, considering its high prevalence and the fact that it is one of the most important modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renal disease.1
However, it is estimated that almost 20% of hypertensive patients have resistant hypertension (RHTN), defined as failure to achieve target blood pressure (BP) despite adherence to optimal doses of at least three antihypertensive agents, including a diuretic.2
Over the last two decades, there has been increasing evidence suggesting that RHTN may, at least in part, be mediated by chronic activation of the renal sympathetic nervous system (SNS).3 Consequently, the renal SNS has emerged as a promising potential target to improve the treatment of RHTN patients, since both the efferent and afferent fibres lie primarily within the adventitia of the renal artery to each kidney; an ideal approach to modulate the renal SNS should aim to achieve selective renal artery denervation with no damage to adjacent structures.
Several different modalities that are currently being tested in both preclinical and clinical settings vary in their potential benefits and pitfalls. These include the radiofrequency ablation (RFA), ultrasound neural ablation, chemical ablation and cryoablation technologies.
Radiofrequency ablation-based renal denervation
RFA is one of the first technologies used in this area, utilising different types of catheters to deliver alternating electrical current to contact points, resulting in tissue damage by both direct resistive heating of the tissue in direct contact with the catheter tip and by thermal conduction to deeper tissue. The catheter tip energy delivery heats up tissue to a target temperature of 50–70C°, where an abrupt rise of impedance suggests overheating and tissue charring at catheter tip. A number of factors can influence tissue destruction, including catheter electrode number and size, tissue apposition and duration and the level of power applied from the RF generator to the targeted tissue. Many catheter designs have been used in preclinical and clinical settings, with varying characteristics in terms of delivery system, number and configuration of electrodes, duration of ablation and cooling mechanisms.
The most widely tested one is the SymplicityTM Renal Denervation System (Medtronic Inc. Minneapolis, US), using a single unipolar electrode, typically four to six ablations per artery (two minutes duration each). Despite its promising results earlier (Symplicity HTN-1 and Symplicity HTN-2), the double blind, sham-controlled study (Symplicity HTN-3, n=530) failed at its primary efficacy endpoint of office reading systolic blood pressure at six months.4
The EnligHTNTM Multi Electrode Renal Denervation System (St. Jude Medical) has emerged as a more user-friendly RDN technology, utilising a basket mounted four-electrode system, available in two sizes, and achieves target tissue ablation by two ablations/artery (90 seconds sequential ablation per electrode). EnligHTN I trial was a prospective, multicentre clinical study of 46 patients that reported promising results in terms of safety and efficacy.
This was followed by the EnligHTN II trial (started in January 2013), an observational study to further evaluate the mean reduction in systolic blood pressure at six months across all patients post-procedure and within subgroups with varying degrees of kidney functionality. EnligHTN III, announced in May 2013, is another, non-randomised study to be conducted in Austaralia and New Zealand, with view of enrolling up to 50 patients with RHTN, to assess the safety and performance of the next generation EnligHTN RDN System (the ability to deliver simultaneous ablations, potentially reducing the total ablation time from 24 minutes to four minutes).
There are other RFA devices specifically developed for RDN purposes that are still in their preclinical or early clinical use.
Ultrasound energy-based renal denervation
Applying the same principle, with the use of high intensity ultrasound (HI-US) waves energy can induce the required level of thermal injury to achieve proper neural ablation. The major advantages of US technology are the lack of need for direct tissue contact and the ability to directly target the adventitial layer of the renal artery, where the neural bundle of interest usually lies. However, this deeper denervation property may be potentially harmful to adjacent structures, like the psoas muscle and the bowel.
The Therapeutic Intra Vascular Ultra Sound (TIVUSTM) System
This is an ultrasound-based RDN system, developed by Cardiosonic Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel), that utilises the HI-US property to achieve safe and therapeutic thermal renal artery denervation.
TIVUSTM mechanism of action
The TIVUSTM system has two main components: a control console that generates non-focused HI-US waves that are directly delivered into the tissue of interest via a catheter-mounted US transducer. This catheter tip transducer is positioned inside the renal artery at a safe distance from the artery wall, hence delivering the non focused HI-US at the desired tissue depth, at which point the high frequency mechanical oscillations transform into heat with a temperature range of 50–80°, a temperature high enough to produces irreversible axonal degeneration and permanent neural cell damage,5 resulting in adventitial RDN.
One advantage associated with the use of this technology compared to the conventional RFA technology is the avoidance of renal artery wall mechanical damage, since the US transducer is positioned in the middle of the vessel lumen, thereby avoiding any direct contact with arterial intima. This can also be of particular use in patients with previous renal artery stenting, in which the RFA technology is ineffective given the mechanical barrier presented by the stent in the artery wall. Another advantage of using the TIVUSTM system is the uninterrupted renal blood flow during HI-US delivery, allowing cooling of the US transducer as well as the intimal layer of the renal artery.
TIVUSTM technical and procedural aspects
The TIVUSTM (Cardiosonic Ltd. Tel Aviv, Israel) first generation catheter was a unidirectional, as was the second generation catheter, but the latter was steerable, while the third (and the most advanced) generation, is the Multidirectional TIVUS™ catheter (Figure 1).
This catheter is introduced through a common femoral arterial access, using a 6Fr compatible catheter, with an overall usable length of 645mm. It has a radiopaque tip that helps positioning it in the renal artery over a 0.014” guiding wire, using fluoroscopic guidance. There is a lever at the catheter handle that can open and close a petal-shaped distancing device, through which the ultrasonic element position can be maintained in the centre of the renal artery.
One of the safety enhanced features this technology possesses is the transducer’s indication of distance from the artery wall, as well as the presence of thermistors that provide screen displayable live feedback of temperature of blood flowing over each of the ultrasonic elements during the procedure. These two features enable to apply therapy when deemed to be safe, or alternatively, automatically turn the energy off when required.
The circumferential nerve ablation is achieved through three well-spaced and self-contained locations (30 seconds/ablation) along the renal artery. The procedure is then repeated for the contralateral renal artery.
TIVUSTM preclinical and clinical data
The TIVUS™ preclinical animal work included over 250 swine samples, assessing safety and performance in comparison to existing RFA-based technology. These studies showed neither statistically significant kidney function alteration nor luminal narrowing on angiography, yet the therapy was shown to be effective as evidenced by an average of 50% reduction (42–93%) in norepinephrine concentration compared to independent non-treated animals.
The TIVUS™ clinical trials were prospective, multicentre, non-randomised, single-arm, and open-label clinical studies, using both unidirectional and multidirectional catheters.
TIVUS™ I
This was the TIVUS™ first in man (FIM) study carried out in six centres across Europe, Australia and Israel. Inclusion criteria were severe resistant hypertension with systolic office blood pressure >160mmHg, ambulatory systolic BP >135mmHg whilst on three or more antihypertensive medications (including a diuretic). The procedure was performed using unidirectional catheter (including a steerable catheter) and a modular console. The study completed successful enrolment of 15 patient plus an additional three patients under compassionate use due to impaired renal function and prior stent. All patients were successfully treated with no device related complications. Patients were followed up for six months for efficacy end point and up to 12 months for safety end points. The reduction in BP achieved was consistent with the coexisting RFA RDN trials. Other advantages identified were positive user feedback, less painful procedure compared with RF technology (evidenced by substantially less analgesics and site feedback), and less contrast use given the inherent characteristics of US.
TIVUS™ II
This is multicentre, prospective, non-randomised trial aims to validate safety and performance of the TIVUS™ multidirectional catheter. It started enrolling patients at seven participating centres in Australia, Europe and Israel in August 2013, with an estimated total of 80 patients to be recruited (25 patients being enrolled to date), and an estimated study completion date in December 2016. The study has three concurrent registries, all with a documented 24 ABPM systolic BP of >135mmHg (Table 1).
Anatomical eligibility, just like other RDN trials, mandated a minimum renal artery diameter >4mm diameter and >20mm length. Renal artery stenosis of <50% and renal artery aneurysms, were allowed to be enrolled at the interventional cardiologists’ discretion.
An interim report of 18 recruited patients was presented in EuroPCR 2014,6 of those, 14 (78%) were males. Fifteen patients were enrolled according to inclusion criteria and three treated under compassionate use applications (two patients post-renal stent and one with impaired renal function).
The baseline mean office BP was 174.3/88.4mmHg, with an average of 4.7 antihypertensive medications. Patients underwent TIVUSTM bilateral RDN with median treatment points of eight. All 18 procedures were performed successfully with no device-related complications. At one and three month follow-up, patients’ office BP decreased by 28/10mmHg (n=18), and 25/10mmHg (n=16), respectively. Two patients required anti-HTN medication reduction.
Other invasive ultrasound energy-based RDN technologies
The PARADISETM catheter system (ReCor Medical, Menlo Park, CA, USA) is another ultrasound based RDN catheter. The system uses a six French compatible over the wire catheter, the distal tip of which holds an ultrasound transducer contained within a low-pressure inflatable balloon. This balloon allows cooled fluid to circulate and hence prevents endothelial wall damage, with the main advantage, once inflated, is allowing uniform circumferential distribution of ultrasound energy into the surrounding artery. One of the anticipated benefits of this system over the traditional RFA RDN is a shorter procedure time, largely driven by shorter energy delivery cycle due to its circumferential nature and therefore less treatment sites are required.
Data from three month follow-up in patients with resistant HTN treated using the PARADISE system showed promising results with an average reduction of office and home BP of –36/–17 and –22/–12mmHg respectively.7 ReCor Medical has reported six month follow-up data in six patients in a company press release demonstrating an average of 33mmHg systolic BP reduction [ReCor Medical, 2012a]. Renal DenervatIon by Ultrasound Transcatheter Emission (REALISE) trial is currently underway [Clinical Trials.gov identifier: NCT01529372] will help further assess this technology.
Non-invasive ultrasound-based technology
The use of external ultrasound is currently being investigated by Kona Medical, Campbell CA. The system is designed to deliver a low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) energy from an external source to the renal nerves. FIM trials involved treating five participants (presented at TCT, 2012) were undertaken in Australia and employed two unilateral ablations performed three weeks apart. There were no major adverse events mong the treated patients, and mean BP reduction was –30.1/–11.4mmHg at three weeks.
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Monitoring staff hand hygiene compliance
Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues
Healthcare-associated infections are not accidents and could be prevented by means of implementing a “safety culture” within hospitals
Prof Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues MD PhD
Prof Didier Pittet MD MS CBE
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) et Faculté de Médecine
World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety
Like the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, we dream about a world where people will, whether alone or in public, always do the best they can. In this world, there will be no place for monitoring anyone’s attitude.1 Unfortunately, we are very far from that dream picture, and monitoring some key professional activities is necessary to ensure human and environmental safety.
The term “safety culture” started to be used after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident,2 which highlighted that many of the events we call incidents or accidents do not really deserve that label, in the sense that they are direct consequences of human acts. Deep analysis of past nuclear events, airplane disasters, railway crashes, and ships sinking, reveals that the vast majority of them could be prevented if every step of the related workflow process was conducted within a safety culture perspective.
It is the same with healthcare-associated infections, since it has now been widely demonstrated that most of its episodes are not “accidents” and could be prevented by means of delivering safer care within the healthcare setting.3,4
But unlike those major catastrophes, healthcare-associated infections don’t draw too much public attention and thus do not elicit a sufficient responding attitude from healthcare settings.5,6 It is mainly for that reason that it continues to “silently” kill hundreds of millions of people worldwide each year, affecting every healthcare facility in every country and health system.7
Promoting hand hygiene procedures within the healthcare setting is considered the most effective measure to prevent healthcare-associated infections and enhance patient safety.8–10
World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations
Looking at the proposal of the WHO multimodal strategy for hand hygiene improvement,9 there are five elements that are considered essential requirements for achieving best practice in healthcare settings:
(1) Providing alcohol-based hand rub at the point of patient care and continuous access to hand hygiene agents and related items;
(2) Assuring continuous healthcare workers education on hand hygiene;
(3) Performing observation of hand hygiene practices and providing timely performance feedback;
(4) Displaying reminders in the workplace (Figure 1);
(5) Creating a safety culture in the whole institution.
When considering healthcare settings in Europe, most institutions have already implemented recommendations one, two, and four.11 Now it is time to move on and amplify the implementation of monitoring staff compliance with hand hygiene, which will certainly contribute to the amplification of an institutional safety climate.
Monitoring compliance with hand hygiene
The easiest and cheapest way to estimate hand hygiene compliance is to regularly measure alcohol-based hand rub and soap consumption within each ward or unit. Although simple to implement, this will only provide a general assessment of the picture, with no further details on individual compliance for specific indications. Of course, this is better than not monitoring anything, but, in our view this should only be used as a single strategy in low-resource settings, or in low-risk facilities, such as those providing ambulatory care.9
Several approaches have been proposed in literature for hand hygiene compliance monitoring. At the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), we developed a peer-based, direct observation method 20 years ago, which is still considered the gold standard by WHO today.9,12 Besides having a strong conceptual foundation, this method identifies all the opportunities for hand hygiene (Figure 2) that are clinically relevant for both patient and healthcare worker health, and has been validated and used in a wide range of facilities in different countries, continents and cultures.9,10,13 Beyond that, it provides both an opportunity for the infection control practitioners to identify local obstacles for hand hygiene, and to give immediate customised feedback to the healthcare worker.
More recently, automated monitoring of hand hygiene practices have been proposed as an alternative to the direct observation, claiming to consume less human resources and to provide larger and more representative data sets, subjected to less observation bias and Hawthorne effect.14,15
Proposed automated systems to date are based on bottle counters, radiofrequency, ultrasound, real-time location systems, or detectors of alcohol vapours. They aim to monitor compliance with hand hygiene based on surrogate markers of the “Five Moments” approach. Such surrogates include healthcare workers entering or exiting a patient’s room, or approaching or leaving a patient’s bed. This would account for monitoring compliance with moment number one (before touching a patient), four (after touching a patient) and five (after touching patients surroundings), while missing moments number two (before clean/aseptic procedure) and three (after bodily fluid exposure), which are also extremely relevant from the patients and the healthcare workers perspectives, respectively.14,15
Although promising, to date no automated monitoring system has proved to be able to monitor and improve hand hygiene compliance with all the five moments, nor has been proven effective in preventing healthcare-associated infections. Implementation cost is another matter of concern with automated systems.14,15
Independently of the method of monitoring hand hygiene compliance, adequate feedback should be provided to healthcare workers in a timely manner, otherwise monitoring would be useless. Usually they want to know what their compliance rates are and even to compare their own rate with colleagues’ rates.9
Besides individual feedback, it is important to provide feedback at team (or group) level and eventually on a public level. Group-level feedback and compliance rate comparisons provide internal benchmarking and promote a safety culture within the institution.9
Although it is still a matter of debate, we believe that external benchmarking of hand hygiene practices will become increasingly common in the near future, and may even become mandatory for healthcare facilities.9
In conclusion, while Pythagoras’ dream has not come true, every hospital must drive efforts to continuously monitor its own hand hygiene practices, and deliver appropriate feedback to its healthcare workers. Although these efforts are great, the benefits to patient and healthcare worker safety are remarkable.
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Pittet D et al. Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices. Lancet Infect Dis 2006;6:641–52.
Pittet D et al., Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene. Infection Control Programme. Lancet 2000;356(9238):1307–12.
Pittet D et al. Hand hygiene: still not sufficiently recognized in European hospitals. Hospital Health Care 2006/2007.
Bellissimo-Rodrigues F et al. Selfishness among healthcare workers and nosocomial infections: a causal relationship? Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 2014;47(4):407–8.
Allegranzi, B. and Pittet D, Healthcare-associated infection in developing countries: simple solutions to meet complex challenges. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2007;28(12):1323–7.
Allegranzi B, Storra J, Dziekana G. The First Global Patient Safety Challenge “Clean Care is Safer Care”: from launch to current progress and achievements. Journal of Hospital Infection 2007;65(S2):115–23.
WHO. Guide to Implementation: A Guide to the Implementation of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy, 2009.
Allegranzi B et al. Global implementation of WHO’s multimodal strategy for improvement of hand hygiene: a quasi-experimental study. Lancet Infect Dis 2013 ;10:843–51.
Latham JR et al. The role and utilisation of public health evaluations in Europe: a case study of national hand hygiene campaigns. BMC Public Health 2014;14:131.
Pittet D, Mourouga P, Perneger TV. Compliance with handwashing in a teaching hospital. Infection Control Program. Ann Intern Med 1999;130(2):126–30.
Sax H et al. My five moments for hand hygiene: a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene. Journal of Hospital Infection 2007;67:9–21.
Edmond MB, Marra AR. New technologies to monitor healthcare worker hand hygiene. Clinical Microbioly and Infection 2014;20:29–33.
Ward MA et al. Automated and electronically assisted hand hygiene monitoring systems: a systematic review. Am J Inf Control 2014;42:472–78.
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Distribution of War Booty: Justice (Ahadith 2759 – 2763)
Narrated by Nafi from Ibn Umar (radiallaahu `anhu)
Allah’s Apostle (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) sent a Sariya towards Najd, and Abdullah bin ‘Umar (radiallaahu `anhu) was in the Sariya. They gained a great number of camels as war booty. The share of each one of them was twelve or eleven camels, and they were given an extra camel each.
Narrated by Ibn ‘Umar (radiallaahu `anhu)
Allah’s Apostle (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) used to give extra share to some of the members of the Sariya he used to send, in addition to the shares they shared with the army in general.
Because some people need more encouragement than others?
Narrated by Abu Musa (radiallaahu `anhu)
We got the news of the migration of the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) while we were in Yemen, so we set out migrating to him. We were, I and my two brothers, I being the youngest, and one of my brothers was Abu Burda and the other was Abu Ruhm. We were over fifty (or fifty-three or fifty two) men from our people. We got on board a ship which took us to An-Najashi in Ethiopia, and there we found Ja’far bin Abu Talib (radiallaahu `anhu) and his companions with An-Najaishi. Ja’far (radiallaahu `anhu) said (to us), “Allah’s Apostle (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) has sent us here and ordered us to stay here, so you too, stay with us.” We stayed with him till we all left (Ethiopia) and met the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) at the time when he had conquered Khaibar. He gave us a share from its booty (or gave us from its booty). He gave only to those who had taken part in the Ghazwa with him. but he did not give any share to any person who had not participated in Khaibar’s conquest except the people of our ship, besides Ja’far and his companions, whom he gave a share as he did them (i.e. the people of the ship).
Narrated by Jabir (radiallaahu `anhu)
Allah’s Apostle (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) said (to me), “If the property of Bahrain had come to us, I would have given you so much and so much.” But the Bahrain property did not come till the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) had died. When the Bahrain property came. Abu Bakr (radiallaahu `anhu) ordered somebody to announce, “Any person who has money claim on Allah’s Apostle or whom Allah’s Apostle had promised something, should come to us.” So, I went to him and said, “Allah’s Apostle had promised to give me so much an so much.” Abu Bakr (radiallaahu `anhu) scooped up money with both hands thrice for me.” (The sub-narrator Sufyan illustrated this action by scooping up with both hands and said, “Ibn Munkadir, another sub-narrator, used to illustrate it in this way.”)
Narrated Jabir (radiallaahu `anhu): Once I went to Abu Bakr (radiallaahu `anhu) and asked for the money but he did not give me, and I went to him again, but he did not give me, so I went to him for the third time and said, “I asked you, but you did not give me; then I asked you (for the second time) and you did not give me; then I asked you (for the third time) but you did not give me. You should either give me or allow yourself to be considered a miser regarding my case.” Abu Bakr (radiallaahu `anhu) said, “You tell me that I am a miser with regard to you. But really, whenever I rejected your request, I had the inclination to give you.” (In another narration Jabir added:) So, Abu Bakr (radiallaahu `anhu) scooped up money with both hands for me and asked me to count it. I found out that It was five hundred. Abu Bakr (radiallaahu `anhu) told me to take twice that amount.
Narrated by Jabir bin Abdullah (radiallaahu `anhu)
While Allah’s Apostle (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) was distributing the booty at Al-Ja’rana, somebody said to him “Be just (in your distribution).” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) replied, “Verily I would be miserable if I did not act justly.”
Tags: Allah, army, book 53, booty, bukhari, cause, distribution, ghazi, hadith no 2759, hadith no 2760, hadith no 2761, hadith no 2762, hadith no 2763, justice, khumus, muslim, one fifth, share, volume 4, war, warrior
The Millionaire Sahaabi Who Died in Debt (Hadith No. 2755)
Ahadith 2751 – 2754 (below) are repeats. See linked text for related posts.
Narrated by Aslam
‘Umar (radiallaahu `anhu) said, “Were it not for those Muslims who have not come to existence yet, I would have distributed (the land of) every town I conquer among the fighters as the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) distributed the land of Khaibar.”
Narrated by Abu Musa Al-Ashari (radiallaahu `anhu)
A bedouin asked the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam), “A man may fight for the sake of booty, and another may fight so that he may be mentioned by the people, and a third may fight to show his position (i.e. bravery); which of these regarded as fighting in Allah’s Cause?” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) said, “He who fights so that Allah’s Word (i.e. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.”
Narrated by ‘Abdullah bin Abu Mulaika (radiallaahu `anhu)
Some silken cloaks with golden buttons were presented to the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam). He distributed them amongst his companions and kept one for Makhrama, bin Naufal. Later on Makhrama came along with his son Al-Miswar bin Makhrama (radiallaahu `anhumaa), and stood up at the gate and said (to his son). “Call him (i.e. the Prophet) to me.” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) heard his voice, took a silken cloak and brought it to him, placing those golden buttons in front of him saying, “O Abu-al-Miswar! I have kept this aside for you! O Abu-al Miswar! I have kept this aside for you!” Makhrama was a bad-tempered man.
Narrated by Anas bin Malik (radiallaahu `anhu)
People used to give some of their datepalms to the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) (as a gift), till he conquered Bani Quraiza and Bani An-Nadir, whereupon he started returning their favors.
This hadith talks about Zubair ibn al-Awwam (radiallaahu `anhu), one of the earliest converts to Islam, how he owed a lot of debt to people when he died and how his son, Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr (radiallaahu `anhu), paid it all off within a short period of time by selling Zubair’s highly-valued properties. It’s just an interesting account that kept surprising me.. if millionaires are considered rich today, what would be their rank in society in those days? Yet, the Sahaaba were not afraid to give everything up for Allah, treat the poor and rich, slave and free, dark and fair alike. Is it humility that we’re missing today, or Imaan?
Narrated by ‘Abdullah bin Az-Zubair (radiallaahu `anhu)
When Az-Zubair (radiallaahu `anhu) got up during the battle of Al-Jamal, he called me and I stood up beside him, and he said to me, “O my son! Today one will be killed either as an oppressor or as an oppressed one. I see that I will be killed as an oppressed one. My biggest worry is my debts. Do you think, if we pay the debts, there will be something left for us from our money?” Az-Zubair (radiallaahu `anhu) added, “O my son! Sell our property and pay my debts.” Az-Zubair (radiallaahu `anhu) then willed one-third of his property and willed one-third of that portion to his sons; namely, ‘Abdullah’s sons. He said, “One-third of the one third. If any property is left after the payment of the debts, one-third (of the one-third of what is left) is to be given to your sons.” (Hisham, a sub-narrator added, “Some of the sons of ‘Abdullah were equal in age to the sons of Az-Zubair e.g. Khubaib and ‘Abbas. ‘Abdullah had nine sons and nine daughters at that time.” (The narrator ‘Abdullah added:) My father (Az-Zubair) went on drawing my attention to his debts saying, “If you should fail to pay part of the debts, appeal to my Master to help you.” By Allah! I could not understand what he meant till I asked, “O father! Who is your Master?” He replied, “Allah (is my Master).” By Allah, whenever I had any difficulty regarding his debts, I would say, “Master of Az-Zubair! Pay his debts on his behalf .” and Allah would (help me to) pay it. Az-Zubair was martyred leaving no Dinar or Dirham but two pieces of land, one of which was (called) Al-Ghaba, and eleven houses in Medina, two in Basra, one in Kufa and one in Egypt. In fact, the source of the debt which he owed was, that if somebody brought some money to deposit with him. Az Zubair would say, “No, (i won’t keep it as a trust), but I take it as a debt, for I am afraid it might be lost.” Az-Zubair was never appointed governor or collector of the tax of Kharaj or any other similar thing, but he collected his wealth (from the war booty he gained) during the holy battles he took part in, in the company of the Prophet, Abu Bakr, ‘Umar, and ‘Uthman. (‘Abdullah bin Az-Zubair added:) When I counted his debt, it turned to be two million and two hundred thousand. (The sub-narrator added:) Hakim bin Hizam met Abdullah bin Zubair and asked, “O my nephew! How much is the debt of my brother?” ‘Abdullah kept it as a secret and said, “One hundred thousand,” Hakim said, “By Allah! I don’t think your property will cover it.” On that ‘Abdullah said to him, “What if it is two million and two hundred thousand?” Hakim said, “I don’t think you can pay it; so if you are unable to pay all of it, I will help you.” Az-Zubair had already bought Al-Ghaba for one hundred and seventy thousand. ‘Abdullah sold it for one million and six hundred thousand. Then he called the people saying, “Any person who has any money claim on Az-Zubair should come to us in Al-Ghaba.” There came to him ‘Abdullah bin Ja’far whom Az-Zubair owed four hundred thousand. He said to ‘Abdullah bin Az-Zubair, “If you wish I will forgive you the debt.” ‘Abdullah (bin Az-Zubair) said, “No.” Then Ibn Ja’far said, “If you wish you can defer the payment if you should defer the payment of any debt.” Ibn Az-Zubair said, “No.” ‘Abdullah bin Ja’far said, “Give me a piece of the land.” ‘Abdullah bin AzZubair said (to him), “Yours is the land extending from this place to this place.” So, ‘Abdullah bin Az-Zubair sold some of the property (including the houses) and paid his debt perfectly, retaining four and a half shares from the land (i.e. Al-Ghaba). He then went to Mu’awlya while ‘Amr bin ‘Uthman, Al-Mundhir bin Az-Zubair and Ibn Zam’a were sitting with him. Mu’awiya asked, “At what price have you appraised Al-Ghaba?” He said, “One hundred thousand for each share,” Muawiya asked, “How many shares have been left?” ‘Abdullah replied, “Four and a half shares.” Al-Mundhir bin Az-Zubair said, “I would like to buy one share for one hundred thousand.” ‘Amr bin ‘Uthman said, “I would like to buy one share for one hundred thousand.” Ibn Zam’a said, “I would like to buy one share for one hundred thousand.” Muawiya said, “How much is left now?” ‘Abdullah replied, “One share and a half.” Muawiya said, “I would like to buy it for one hundred and fifty thousand.” ‘Abdullah also sold his part to Muawiya six hundred thousand. When Ibn AzZubair had paid all the debts. Az-Zubair’s sons said to him, “Distribute our inheritance among us.” He said, “No, by Allah, I will not distribute it among you till I announce in four successive Hajj seasons, ‘Would those who have money claims on Az-Zubair come so that we may pay them their debt.” So, he started to announce that in public in every Hajj season, and when four years had elapsed, he distributed the inheritance among the inheritors. Az-Zubair had four wives, and after the one-third of his property was excluded (according to the will), each of his wives received one million and two hundred thousand. So the total amount of his property was fifty million and two hundred thousand.
Read this hadith in Arabic here.
Before anybody gets ideas as to how he acquired all this wealth, it must be noted that he was alive till the Battle of the Camel and he participated in most of the battles fought from Badr till Camel, if not all. Fighters had shares in war booty and wealth was pouring in from all sides after Conquest of Makkah. So it does seem very likely that a fighter of the Muslim army, and a commander at that, would accumulate this much with the passage of time. Even property worth 50 million plus? Yup!
Tags: abdullah, Allah, awwam, book 53, booty, bukhari, cause, debt, hadith no 2751, hadith no 2752, hadith no 2753, hadith no 2754, hadith no 2755, inheritance, khumus, millionaire, money, muslim, one fifth, rich, sahaba, volume 4, war, wealth, zubair
The Muslim Gentleman (Ahadith 2715 – 2716)
Hadith no. 2714 (below) is a repeat. Read it here.
When the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) returned (from Jihad), he would say Takbir thrice and add, “We are returning, if Allah wishes, with repentance and worshipping and praising (our Lord) and prostrating ourselves before our Lord. Allah fulfilled His Promise and helped His Slave, and He Alone defeated the (infidel) clans.”
Today’s Ahadith:
We were in the company of the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) while returning from ‘Usfan, and Allah’s Apostle was riding his she-camel keeping Safiya bint Huyay (radiallaahu `anhaa) riding behind him. His she-camel slipped and both of them fell down. Abu Talha (radiallaahu `anhu) jumped from his camel and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! May Allah sacrifice me for you.” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) said, “Take care of the lady.” So, Abu Talha covered his face with a garment and went to Safiya (radiallaahu `anhaa) and covered her with it, and then he set right the condition of their she-camel so that both of them rode, and we were encircling Allah’s Apostle (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) like a cover. When we approached Medina, the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) said, “We are returning with repentance and worshipping and praising our Lord.” He kept on saying this till he entered Medina.
That he and Abu Talha (radiallaahu `anhu) came in the company of the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) and Safiya (radiallaahu `anhaa) was accompanying the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam), who let her ride behind him on his she-camel. During the journey, the she-camel slipped and both the Prophet and (his) wife fell down. Abu Talha (the sub-narrator thinks that Anas said that Abu Talha jumped from his camel quickly) said, “O Allah’s Apostle! May Allah sacrifice me for your sake! Did you get hurt?” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) replied,”No, but take care of the lady.” Abu Talha (radiallaahu `anhu) covered his face with his garment and proceeded towards her and covered her with his garment, and she got up. He then set right the condition of their she-camel and both of them (i.e. the Prophet and his wife) rode and proceeded till they approached Medina. The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) said, “We are returning with repentance and worshipping and praising our Lord.” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) kept on saying this statement till he entered Medina.
“Take care of the lady” = How to be a gentleman 101.
Abu Aaliyah, blogger at The Humble “I”, talks about being a true gentleman under Islamic guidelines:
It is often claimed that in Victorian or Edwardian England, respectability essentially meant maintaining a reputable facade while encouraging all sorts of hypocrisies. How much or how little can one generalise in such a matter is up for debate. Yet at its core, the widely cherished notion that there was a respectable way to conduct oneself; that there was a decent and honourable way of being a true “gentleman” (as opposed to a hypocritical one) – well that’s a very Islamic idea. A gentleman was someone who was restrained, courteous, considerate, well mannered, had public dignity, and was aware of boundaries; particularly when in mixed company.
The Islamic concept of futuwwah, “spiritual chivalry,” is where we find the ideals of the true Muslim gentleman best expressed. Futuwwah embodies the virtues of dignity and respectability (haybah), refined and noble conduct (adab), and preferring others to oneself (ithar), along with courage (shaja‘ah), magnanimity (sakha’ah) and striving to destroy the idols of one’s ego (mujahadat al-nafs).
Society no longer speaks of a true gentleman. That’s of a bygone era – of Edwardian England; an Englishness long dead and buried. As a nation we need to review where this has led us: if it’s been, on balance, for our betterment? Furthermore, as Muslims themselves start to relax these principles, can we see in where it has led others, where we too might be heading?
An excerpt from an article written by Imam Khalid Latif on the same topic:
In the Qur’an, the Prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, is referred to in Arabic as fata, a young, noble man who knows how to handle his responsibilities. His sense of integrity and commitment are remarkable.
From this word fata is derived the Arabic word, futuwwa, which essentially translates as chivalry. Being gentle, loyal, modest, honest, compassionate, humble, trustworthy and selfless is having futuwwa. In the medieval period of Islam, orders were established around this principle of futuwwa that emphasized members uphold these traits and seek to serve society, putting their needs after the needs of those around them. They would teach young men how to honor their responsibilities while today we are forced to figure it out on our own. Chivalry is in our tradition. We just have to embrace it again and empower individuals to be those role models that our communities desperately need.
[Read more: Are You a ‘Muslim’ Gentleman?]
So chivalry is not just how the Western culture sees it; holding the door open, pulling out the chair, paying for dinner/date etc. This is all just one aspect of it. The true concept of being a gentleman has much more to it than appearances and treatment of women (not the least important by any means), it has to do with maturity, modesty, dignity, compassion, honesty etc.
An interesting blog I came across that gives equal importance to self-grooming for the “modern Muslim gentleman” and includes tips and how-to’s, check out “thegentlemuslimman“.
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Praying Two Nawaafil Before Being Killed – Whose Sunnah is it? (Hadith No. 2678)
Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle sent a Sariya of ten men as spies under the leadership of ‘Asim bin Thabit al-Ansari, the grandfather of ‘Asim bin Umar Al-Khattab. They proceeded till they reached Hadaa, a place between ‘Usfan, and Mecca, and their news reached a branch of the tribe of Hudhail called Bani Lihyan. About two-hundred men, who were all archers, hurried to follow their tracks till they found the place where they had eaten dates they had brought with them from Medina. They said, “These are the dates of Yathrib (i.e. Medina), “and continued following their tracks. When ‘Asim and his companions saw their pursuers, they went up a high place and the infidels circled them. The infidels said to them, “Come down and surrender, and we promise and guarantee you that we will not kill any one of you” ‘Asim bin Thabit; the leader of the Sariya said, “By Allah! I will not come down to be under the protection of infidels. O Allah! Convey our news to Your Prophet. Then the infidels threw arrows at them till they martyred ‘Asim along with six other men, and three men came down accepting their promise and convention, and they were Khubaib-al-Ansari and Ibn Dathina and another man So, when the infidels captured them, they undid the strings of their bows and tied them. Then the third (of the captives) said, “This is the first betrayal. By Allah! I will not go with you. No doubt these, namely the martyred, have set a good example to us.” So, they dragged him and tried to compel him to accompany them, but as he refused, they killed him. They took Khubaib and Ibn Dathina with them and sold them (as slaves) in Mecca (and all that took place) after the battle of Badr. Khubaib was bought by the sons of Al-Harith bin ‘Amir bin Naufal bin ‘Abd Manaf. It was Khubaib who had killed Al-Harith bin ‘Amir on the day (of the battle of) Badr. So, Khubaib remained a prisoner with those people. Narrated Az-Zuhri: ‘Ubaidullah bin ‘Iyyad said that the daughter of Al-Harith had told him, “When those people gathered (to kill Khubaib) he borrowed a razor from me to shave his pubes and I gave it to him. Then he took a son of mine while I was unaware when he came upon him. I saw him placing my son on his thigh and the razor was in his hand. I got scared so much that Khubaib noticed the agitation on my face and said, ‘Are you afraid that I will kill him? No, I will never do so.’ By Allah, I never saw a prisoner better than Khubaib. By Allah, one day I saw him eating of a bunch of grapes in his hand while he was chained in irons, and there was no fruit at that time in Mecca.” The daughter of Al-Harith used to say, “It was a boon Allah bestowed upon Khubaib.” When they took him out of the Sanctuary (of Mecca) to kill him outside its boundaries, Khubaib requested them to let him offer two Rakat (prayer). They allowed him and he offered Two Rakat and then said, “Hadn’t I been afraid that you would think that I was afraid (of being killed), I would have prolonged the prayer. O Allah, kill them all with no exception.” (He then recited the poetic verse):– “I being martyred as a Muslim, Do not mind how I am killed in Allah’s Cause, For my killing is for Allah’s Sake, And if Allah wishes, He will bless the amputated parts of a torn body” Then the son of Al Harith killed him. So, it was Khubaib who set the tradition for any Muslim sentenced to death in captivity, to offer a two-Rak’at prayer (before being killed). Allah fulfilled the invocation of Asim bin Thabit on that very day on which he was martyred. The Prophet informed his companions of their news and what had happened to them. Later on when some infidels from Quraish were informed that Asim had been killed, they sent some people to fetch a part of his body (i.e. his head) by which he would be recognized. (That was because) ‘Asim had killed one of their chiefs on the day (of the battle) of Badr. So, a swarm of wasps, resembling a shady cloud, were sent to hover over Asim and protect him from their messenger and thus they could not cut off anything from his flesh.
Isn’t it a beautiful end to a beautiful story? Here are the original verses of Khubaib’s (radiallaahu `anhu) poetry that he said before being martyred:
“I being martyred as a Muslim, Do not mind how I am killed in Allah’s Cause, For my killing is for Allah’s Sake, And if Allah wishes, He will bless the amputated parts of a torn body.”
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Battle of Uhud (Hadith No. 2673)
Narrated by Al-Bara bin Azib (radiallaahu `anhu)
The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) appointed ‘Abdullah bin Jubair (radiallaahu `anhu) as the commander of the infantry men (archers) who were fifty on the day (of the battle) of Uhud. He instructed them, “Stick to your place, and don’t leave it even if you see birds snatching us, till I send for you; and if you see that we have defeated the infidels and made them flee, even then you should not leave your place till I send for you.” Then the infidels were defeated. By Allah, I saw the women fleeing lifting up their clothes revealing their leg-bangles and their legs. So, the companions of ‘Abdullah bin Jubair (radiallaahu `anhu) said, “The booty! O people, the booty ! Your companions have become victorious, what are you waiting for now?” ‘Abdullah bin Jubair (radiallaahu `anhu) said, “Have you forgotten what Allah’s Apostle said to you?” They replied, “By Allah! We will go to the people (i.e. the enemy) and collect our share from the war booty.” But when they went to them, they were forced to turn back defeated. At that time Allah’s Apostle (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) in their rear was calling them back. Only twelve men remained with the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) and the infidels martyred seventy men from us. On the day (of the battle) of Badr, the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) and his companions had caused the ‘Pagans to lose 140 men, seventy of whom were captured and seventy were killed. Then Abu Sufyan asked thrice, “Is Muhammad present amongst these people?” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) ordered his companions not to answer him. Then he asked thrice, “Is the son of Abu Quhafa present amongst these people?” He asked again thrice, “Is the son of Al-Khattab present amongst these people?” He then returned to his companions and said, “As for these (men), they have been killed.” ‘Umar (radiallaahu `anhu) could not control himself and said (to Abu Sufyan), “You told a lie, by Allah! O enemy of Allah! All those you have mentioned are alive, and the thing which will make you unhappy is still there.” Abu Sufyan said, “Our victory today is a counterbalance to yours in the battle of Badr, and in war (the victory) is always undecided and is shared in turns by the belligerents, and you will find some of your (killed) men mutilated, but I did not urge my men to do so, yet I do not feel sorry for their deed” After that he started reciting cheerfully, “O Hubal, be high!” On that the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) said (to his companions), “Why don’t you answer him back?” They said, “O Allah’s Apostle What shall we say?” He said, “Say, Allah is Higher and more Sublime.” (Then) Abu Sufyan said, “We have the (idol) Al Uzza, and you have no Uzza.” The Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wasallam) said (to his companions), “Why don’t you answer him back?” They asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! What shall we say?” He said, “Say, Allah is our Helper and you have no helper.”
وَلَقَدْ صَدَقَكُمُ اللَّهُ وَعْدَهُ إِذْ تَحُسُّونَهُم بِإِذْنِهِ ۖ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا فَشِلْتُمْ وَتَنَازَعْتُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ وَعَصَيْتُم مِّن بَعْدِ مَا أَرَاكُم مَّا تُحِبُّونَ ۚ مِنكُم مَّن يُرِيدُ الدُّنْيَا وَمِنكُم مَّن يُرِيدُ الْآخِرَةَ ۚ ثُمَّ صَرَفَكُمْ عَنْهُمْ لِيَبْتَلِيَكُمْ ۖ وَلَقَدْ عَفَا عَنكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
“And Allah had certainly fulfilled His promise to you when you were killing the enemy by His permission until [the time] when you lost courage and fell to disputing about the order [given by the Prophet] and disobeyed after He had shown you that which you love. Among you are some who desire this world, and among you are some who desire the Hereafter. Then he turned you back from them [defeated] that He might test you. And He has already forgiven you, and Allah is the possessor of bounty for the believers.” [3:152]
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Jada revolves around a local football player, who is talented enough to reach the international level but is kept back by his financial situation. This sports drama is an inspiring story about breaking barriers.
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Kathir does justice to his role while Yogi Babu`s one-liners do not entertain. Kishore, in a small role, does well and makes his presence felt. The female lead appears in just one scene in the latter half only to ask the hero where he is and that she has been missing his presence. ...Read full review
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Kathir who has been choosing good scripts has landed in a wrong project with Jada. He has done justice to his role and performed earnesty but the script lets him down. There is no scope for him to perform even in the so-called emotional scenes. Yogi Babu`s comedy tests our patience, the rest of the actors also failed to score. ...Read full review
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Kathir has great potential, that is the best take away out of Jada. His acting is very natural and leaves behind traces of the talented VS. With a good physique and sense of humor, he has a long way to go and hope he chooses only the best of scripts. Yogi babu has become a mandatory checkbox for any movie to tick. Of course he showed immense potential and was treated like the comedian we wanted, but sadly his one liners, body language and co-actor bashing seems to have become too monotonous. ...Read full review
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To celebrate the impending release of No Time To Die, Empire has debuted two brand new images from No Time To Die. The first image focuses on Rami Malek’s villain, while the second image puts the spotlight on James Bond and his new aid Nomi, who has been rumoured to take on the 007 moniker in wake of James Bond’s absence.
Not much is known of Rami Malek’s Safin, though he certainly looks terrifying in the No Time To Die trailer that was released earlier. Rami Malek has been rumoured to play an environmental terrorist and is set to be James Bond’s most powerful and conniving adversary to date. You can check out the image of Rami Malek’s villain from No Time To Die below.
The image gives us a solid look at Rami Malek’s Safin, something we didn’t necessarily get in the No Time To Die teaser. The footage from the latest James Bond film did a solid job of concealing Rami Malek’s character, making his reveal all the more special. In the image, we are pointed towards what appears to be Rami Malek’s lair/headquarters. It also appears that Rami Malek’s face is disfigured, though there’s no indication as to why it is like that.
In the second image, we see James Bond and Nomi looking at a computer screen which presumably has some important or damning information that brings James Bond out of retirement. Nomi, played by Lashana Lynch, is rumoured to have absorbed the 007 moniker after James Bond retired after Spectre. This hasn’t been confirmed, but it would certainly make for interesting world-building in the James Bond franchise. You can check out the photo of James Bond and Nomi below.
Daniel Craig’s James Bond Emerges From The Shadows In New ‘No Time To Die’ Photo
What are your thoughts on Rami Malek’s look in No Time To Die? Are you excited to see James Bond back on the big screen? Comment below and let us know!
Here is the official synopsis for Daniel Craig’s No Time to Die:
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a script co-written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, No Time to Die stars Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Lea Seydoux, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah.
No Time To Die will be released in theaters on April 8, 2020.
Source: Empire
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The myths of Indian nationalism
Review by Nagesh Rao
Issue #94: Reviews
The Indian Ideology
By Perry Anderson
Verso, 2013 · 192 pages · $19.95
First published as a series of essays in the London Review of Books, this is a provocative book that deftly cuts through the mythologies of Indian nationalism. The essays and the book have elicited several critical responses from Indian readers; this review concludes with a defense of Anderson’s core project and pace a few of his detractors. Taken together, these essays offer a challenge to Indian intellectuals, particularly of the Left, to break decisively with a set of ideas that make up what Anderson calls the Indian Ideology. The Indian Ideology relies on and reinforces a series of myths that project India as having miraculously achieved what other post-colonial nations have not: a functioning democracy, a secular state, and a united body politic. Anderson’s critique takes in a wide range of scholarship to systematically demolish each one of this triune of cherished myths.
Anderson offers his book as “a short study . . . a synthesis [with] no pretension to exhaustive totalization.” His aim is to take a critical look at an “overlapping consensus” between Indian liberalism—exemplified in the work of Amartya Sen, Ramachandra Guha, Sunil Khilnani, and others—and the rhetoric of the Indian state. This consensus mystifies the past and glosses over the contradictions of the present. Not only liberalism, but also “wide reaches of the area self-defined as to the left of this mainstream” have accommodated to the Indian Ideology, “a nationalist discourse in a time when there is no longer a national liberation struggle against an external power, and oppression where it exists has become internal.”
India is often spoken of as a nation with an ancient past, bound by common traditions several millennia old. A dream of unity and continuity through the ages is the cornerstone of nationalist conceptions of India. However, “the sub-continent as we know it today never formed a single political or cultural unit in pre-modern times,” writes Anderson. “Of the three larger empires it witnessed, none covered the territory of Nehru’s Discovery of India.” Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and other leaders of the Indian National Congress (later the Congress Party) held firmly to this dream of unity, insisting on seeing the subcontinent as “one undivided land made by nature,” as Gandhi put it. The “idea of India” was of European origin, writes Anderson, but soon became the sine qua non of anti-colonial thought.
The Father of the Nation, however, was a late convert to anti-imperialism and the demand for full independence from the British. Gandhi said he embraced swaraj (which Anderson likens to Home Rule within and under an overarching imperial sovereignty) over independence; he considered the latter “a foreign importation of doubtful value.” Moreover, if Gandhi was opposed to communal (Hindu-Muslim) conflict in the name of national unity, he was opposed to class conflict as well, and infamously stood against strikes and other forms of class struggle against landlords and employers. Gandhi also fought to maintain elite leadership and control of anticolonial agitation. “He did not want to evict the British in India if to do so was to risk a social upheaval. Revolution was a greater danger than the Raj.”
While there was something “distinctive and spectacular” about Gandhi’s ability to mobilize masses of people, charismatic leaders, writes Anderson, are “largely a given in any nationalist movement.” Gandhi was “a first-class” organizer and fund-raiser who transformed the Congress from a cohort of lawyers and professionals into a mass organization. But Gandhi introduced “a massive dose of religion” into the national movement, and his deeply held religiosity had fatal consequences for the movement and the subcontinent as a whole. His religion “was to a peculiar extent home-made,” a “strange pot-pourri . . . [of] Jain-inflected Hindu orthodoxy and late Victorian psychomancy.” While he might have been sincere in his personal belief that all religions are equal, politically, Anderson writes, “one religion was, inevitably, more equal than the other.” Gandhi did little to prevent the marginalization of Muslims within and by his own party.
Gandhi’s reputation as a champion of oppressed castes is likewise overrated, for while he rejected the jati system of sub-divisions among the major varnas (castes), he never repudiated caste as such. As Anderson writes, “In due course, he would try to dilute varna with successive adjustments to make it more palatable to egalitarian opinion, [saving] the irreducible core of its identification with Hinduism itself, as religious belief in the moral duty of hereditary avocation and its bearing on the transmigration of the soul.” Gandhi’s fast unto death against the “communal award” was directed against Ambedkar’s demand for separate electorates for Untouchables (Dalits, in today’s language).
Nehru, although not a believer himself, tacitly accepted the expediency of yoking religion and politics together. He saw Hinduism as (in Nehru’s words) “a national religion, with all those deep instincts, racial and cultural, which form the basis everywhere of nationalism today.” Muslims had steadily lost ground politically and economically under the British Raj, but the Hindu-dominated Congress did little to accommodate their particular demands.
The “legitimating ideology of the Congress had always been a secular nationalism” but it was a “monolithically Hindu” organization by the mid-1930s, when Muslims constituted a mere three percent of its membership. Congress had the support of the overwhelming majority of the Hindu electorate, but it could point to only a few Muslims among its leadership. “Common sense indicated that from a position of such strength, it would be necessary to make every feasible concession to ensure that the quarter of the population that was Muslim would not feel itself a permanently impotent—and potentially vulnerable—minority. Ignoring every dictate of prudence and realism, Congress did the opposite. At each critical juncture, it refused any arrangement that might dilute the power to which it could look forward.”
When Congress triumphed in regional polls (with a limited franchise) in 1937, Nehru took this as a sign that Congress now represented all Indians, when in fact the party had been unable to even field candidates in “close to 90 per cent of Muslim constituencies.” Congress’s ultimate failure lay in its refusal to drop “the fiction that it represented the entire nation.” Accommodating itself to Hindu majoritarianism while standing for an undivided India, Congress “accepted Partition as the price of a strong centralized state in which it could be sure of a monopoly of power.” In other words, although Congress saw itself as the sole representative of a singular nation—thus rejecting the “two-nations theory” of Jinnah and the Muslim League—this “monopoly of national legitimacy” was easily traded in for a “monopoly of power” in a divided nation, once Partition was on the table.
To those schooled in Indian nationalist history, Anderson’s most unsettling claim is that the Raj cannot be seen as an “efficient cause” of Partition. Colonial divide-and-rule policies were not the reason for the schism between Hindus and Muslims, he insists; rather, “[t]he ultimate drivers of the split were indigenous, not imperial.” He writes that while the British acceded to demands for separate electorates for Muslims and Hindus with alacrity, they thereafter did nothing to deliberately stoke communal strife. Their ideal, Anderson suggests, was the Punjab, characterized by “inter-confessional unity . . . a strong regional identity [and] loyalty to the Raj.” Here, Anderson underplays the lasting significance of instituting separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims, as it facilitated the subsequent spectacular growth of Hindu-dominated Congress political machinery.
Some reviewers have bristled at what they identify as Anderson’s Orientalism when he asks whether division along religious lines was inevitable among a people “so steeped in the supernatural.” Indeed, Anderson doesn’t quite renounce the essentialist argument but his analysis is somewhat more probing than such a reading would suggest. Indian intellectuals, he writes, are “caught in a fork” when it comes to understanding Partition. On the one hand, if Partition was inevitable, then “the culture whose dynamics made confessional conflict politically insuperable becomes [an] occasion for collective shame.” On the other hand, if Partition was avoidable, then “the party that led the national movement to such a disastrous upshot stands condemned.” While one could argue that the divisions between Hindus and Muslims ran so deep that no political force could overcome it, and that therefore Partition was inevitable, Anderson insists, Congress must ultimately be held accountable for not taking “any intelligent steps to avert it, and many crass ones likely to hasten it; and when it came [for acting] in a way that ensured it would take the cruelest form, with the worst human consequences. For even were a scission of the subcontinent foreordained by its deep culture, its manner was not.”
With Partition, Congress inherited (wrested control of) the lion’s share of the colonial spoils. It also inherited the British system of representation, and adopted a Westminster parliamentary model that eschewed any notion of proportional representation—evidence, Anderson writes, of the “Anglophone provincialism of the Congress elite.” The Constituent Assembly was itself a British-created body, and was thus “not an expression of [Indian democracy], but of the colonial restrictions that preceded it.” While the Constitution was a progressive document for its time, it nevertheless reflected the interests of this elite, so that “some 250 of its 395 articles were taken word for word from the Government of India Act passed by the Baldwin cabinet in 1935.” Moreover, the Constitution
did not . . . describe India as a secular state, a term that it avoided. Nor did it institute equality before the law, a principle also eschewed. There would be no uniform civil code: Hindus and Muslims would continue to be subject to the respective customs of their faith governing family life. Nor would there be interference in religious hierarchies in daily life: untouchability was banned, but caste itself left untouched. Protection of cows and prohibition of alcohol were enjoined, and seats reserved in Parliament for two minorities, Scheduled Castes and Tribes—Dalits and Adivasis in today’s terminology—but not for Muslims.
In subsequent decades, Muslim fears of marginalization within a Hindu-dominated political system would prove to be warranted; the government-sponsored Sachar Commission report of 2006 establishes beyond doubt the second-class status of Muslims in India.
Anderson compares India with Ireland and Israel as examples of a sub-group of twentieth-century nationalisms in which religion played a central role from the outset. Although India did not institute a confessional state, “no Congress leader had been capable of openly and vigorously combating Gandhian pietism. . . . After Independence, Gandhi’s own doctrines were consigned to the museum, but his saturation of politics with Hindu pathos lived on.” While Nehru’s daughter and political heir Indira Gandhi made “a show of secularism by writing a belated commitment to it into the constitution,” in practice she too made appeals on the basis of religion when the occasion demanded. In this Hinduized political milieu, the turn to neoliberalism in the late eighties and early nineties provided fertile ground for “the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] to enter, Likud-style, into its inheritance.” The problem, Anderson suggests, is that “Indian secularism never sharply separated state and religion, let alone developed any systematic critique of Hinduism.” Instead, Hinduism has been embellished as a faith of tolerance and pluralism, “its teeming multiplicity of different deities, beliefs and rituals a veritable template for a modern multi-culturalism.” Such an enfeebled secularism could scarcely withstand the rise of the BJP-RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) variety of Hindu nationalism.
While criticisms of the Indian state’s compromised secularism and shaky democracy abound, few intellectuals have broken with the idea of a unified India based on the borders inherited from the Raj. According to the Indian Ideology, the unity and integrity of this inheritance is nothing short of miraculous, a testament to the validity of the Idea of India and to the secular and democratic nature of the Indian state. As Anderson points out, however, post-Partition India was consolidated as a Republic through the most undemocratic means. If Congress failed to achieve the unified India of Nehru’s dreams, it did manage to wrest the lion’s share of the spoils of the Raj including its administrative and repressive apparatus, which it retained more or less intact. The first decades of the Republic saw the continuation of many colonial practices of repression and control, and colonial-era laws were retained or brought back into service as necessary to put down challenges to Delhi’s rule.
Repression was central to the process of national “unification.” Hyderabad, for instance, was brought to heel but only after nearly 40,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed by bands of Hindu pogromists aided by government forces in a two-week massacre that few Indians learn about today. Kashmir was annexed through a combination of diplomatic deceit and military intervention and continues to be held against the will of its inhabitants, yet most Indians hold firmly to the idea that Kashmir is an inseparable part of India. The northeastern states were similarly annexed but with an even greater degree of impunity. The king of Manipur was summarily deposed when he declared independence and the kingdom was incorporated into the Indian union. The notorious Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), based on British colonial legislation, was put into effect by Nehru in 1958 in a bid to repress demands for an independent Nagaland, and remains to this day the legal fig leaf for brutal state repression wherever Indian rule is challenged. Indian democratic institutions “were thus from the start anchored in a system of electoral distortion, and armor-plated with an ample repertoire of legal repression.”
Anderson acknowledges that in this respect, India is not alone: “All liberal democracies are significantly less liberal, and considerably less democratic, than they fancy themselves to be.” What then is the secret of Indian democracy? With appalling levels of poverty and inequality, and with multiple regional challenges to the union, what has held Indian democracy together? Why has mass discontent “not exploded in demands for social reparation incompatible with the capitalist framework”? Anderson writes that the answer lies in “the historic peculiarities of [India’s] system of social stratification,” namely, the caste system, which with
the truly deep impediments to collective action, even within language communities, let alone across them, lay in the impassable trenches of the caste system. . . . Hindu social organization fissured the population into some five thousand jatis. . . . Caste is what preserved Hindu democracy from disintegration. Fixing in hierarchical position and dividing from each other every disadvantaged group . . . it struck away any possibility of broad collective action . . . that might otherwise have threatened the stability of the parliamentary order over which Congress serenely presided for two decades after independence, as it became the habitual framework of the nation. (111-12)
Anderson’s view of caste in this account is one-sided and top-down. While he correctly identifies the hierarchies of the caste system as an obstacle to social change, he does not pay enough attention to the history of struggles from below that challenge a rigid and static view of the hegemony of the system. Interested primarily in the form of the state that emerged with independence, Anderson focuses on the battles fought by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, the great Dalit leader and drafter of the Indian constitution, against a privileged, caste-ridden, Hindu-majoritarian, Congress-led state bureaucracy.
But while Ambedkar emerged as the pre-eminent Dalit leader, he was not alone. Indeed, his appeal rested on, and was amplified by, struggles from below. Largely missing from Anderson’s account is the rich history of movements of Dalits and oppressed castes, often involving alliances that crossed caste boundaries, often in coalition with Muslims, that continued into the decades leading up to independence, and have continued since. Castes and caste-boundaries have been shaped and reshaped by such struggles; this malleability reflects the system’s strength, its adaptability, but also its impermanence. An excellent account of such struggles from below that challenged not only Brahmin hegemony, but also that potentially posed a challenge to nationalism itself, can be found in G. Aloysius’ Nationalism without a Nation in India.
Nevertheless, Anderson’s broader claim about the centrality of caste to the stability of Hindu-majoritarian hegemony in Indian politics is valid. Ambedkar had argued that caste inequality was a contradiction that Indian democracy would have to overcome if it were to survive. Anderson pushes this argument further: Ambedkar, he writes, “underestimated the system of inequality against which he had fought for so long. It was not a contradiction of the democracy to come. It was the condition of it. India would be a caste-iron democracy.” Caste, for Anderson, is “the secret of Indian democracy,” its enabling condition and not just an obstacle to its realization.
When first published in the London Review of Books, Anderson’s essays caused quite a stir, and several critical responses proliferated online. The book has likewise attracted criticism from different quarters. Ananya Vajpeyi’s review carried by The Caravan, a progressive Indian magazine, takes Anderson to task for presuming to write critically of Indian nationalism’s revered icons like Gandhi and Nehru. Pankaj Mishra, writing in Foreign Affairs, decries Anderson’s “world-historical pessimism” about the “future of India.” Vijay Prashad, in his review for Naked Punch, complains that Anderson fails to recognize the “vitality” of Indian nationalism.
While the reviews differ in their specifics, they share a general disdain for Anderson’s claim to expertise on matters South Asian; as Ananya Vajpeyi uncharitably put it, Anderson’s essays exude a “sense of belated discovery.” Anderson’s arguments, writes Vajpeyi, “have been made much more thoroughly and consistently by Indians themselves, especially those who share his ideological orientation. We know quite well the clay feet of our heroes, the tarnish on their statues, the chinks in their armour.” Other reviewers adopted a similarly defensive stance, chastising Anderson for saying what others have said before, and asking him to keep his Westerner’s views to himself. This begs the question: if Anderson is merely repeating what others have said before, then why the kerfuffle? The subtitle of Vajpeyi’s review is telling: “Why the idea of India cannot be trivially [sic] dismissed.” Each element of his critique on its own seems palatable enough to Vajpeyi and others, but questioning the very idea of India raises their hackles.
Vajpeyi faults Anderson for his ‘flagrant—nay, malign—misreading of the nature, meaning, and role of “Hinduism” in India’s political life,’ absurdly suggesting that Anderson sees Indian secularism as a “fraud and an exercise in bad faith because Indians are Hindus.” Nowhere does Anderson suggest this. What he does argue is that the leadership of the nationalist movement and the state that it inherited “have rested, sociologically speaking, on Hindu caste society,” hence the marginalization and treatment of Muslims as second-class citizens. This is why he argues that “Indian secularism is Hindu confessionalism by another name.” Where Vajpeyi, following Wendy Doniger’s lead in her book The Hindus, wishes to defend Hinduism and to distinguish it from the politics of Hindutva, Anderson is interested in how Hindu rule has been consolidated over and against the multiplicity of India’s famed diversity and stated secularity. He has less to say about Hinduism as such than about the instrumental use of confessional appeals by those who contended for and inherited the political machinery of the Raj. Vajpeyi’s defense of India’s “historically deep . . . modalities of toleration that have been explored and theorized in this part of the world over the past two-and-a-half millennia” does nothing to dent Anderson’s critique of the way that Hindu dominance has been written into its post-colonial political system. Meanwhile, her celebration of the “achievement of a democratic order in one of the world’s most diverse and hierarchical cultures” simply reiterates elements of the Indian Ideology that Anderson holds responsible for India’s milquetoast liberalism.
Pankaj Mishra, well known for his opposition to the Indian state’s treatment of Kashmiris and to the Indian public’s indifference to it, is no uncritical Indian patriot. But Mishra’s explicit anti-Marxism puts him at odds with Anderson’s project. Mishra too, like Vajpeyi, acknowledges the validity of the different strands of Anderson’s critique. Despite these points of agreement, just as Vajpeyi takes umbrage at Anderson’s temerity to question India’s “very existence as a single nation” so too does Mishra “balk at following Anderson to his final destination, which is to bluntly deny India much of a future in the modern world.” Mishra laments what he calls Anderson’s “world-historical pessimism” but being pessimistic about the permanence of nation-states isn’t an intellectual (or even a Marxist) crime. For Mishra and others, Anderson goes too far in his criticism of the idea of a united India. Mishra consequently misreads and distorts elements of Anderson’s argument. For instance, Anderson suggests that parties like the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have led anti-caste struggles into a cul de sac of identity politics, but Mishra tendentiously reads this as an instance of Anderson’s “secular rationalism” and Western-centrism.
Vijay Prashad rightly points out that Anderson’s book would have been strengthened by a close reading of one or more of the texts that Anderson holds up as representative of the Indian Ideology today. But Prashad wishes to reclaim the Nehruvian era as a progressive one, and therefore takes issue with Anderson’s claim that the rise of the BJP does not signal a major break in the trajectory of the Indian state. Anderson certainly overstates his case, but Prashad’s defense of the Nehruvian state rings hollow against Anderson’s account of the combination of repression and chicanery with which the Indian state was consolidated through those decades following independence. Prashad also highlights a glaring lacuna in Anderson’s book—it lacks any discussion of the Indian Left. Anderson acknowledges this gap in his Preface, and leaves open the question of the Left’s relationship to the Indian Ideology, except to suggest that the hegemony of the Indian Ideology is something the Left has had to contend with. Prashad argues that “[h]ad Anderson engaged with the writings of the Left he would have [had] to concede an important point, that Indian nationalism was far richer than Gandhi’s contribution and Gandhi was not as sacrosanct as Anderson makes him out to be.” He writes that vigorous critiques of Gandhi appeared from within the fabric of Indian nationalism, but Anderson “reduces nationalism to Gandhi . . . and fails to recognize its vitality that has only now seemed to run its course. Indian nationalism was not stillborn. It had a very good run, but now finds itself on life support.”
Prashad, in other words, urges us to pay closer attention to the writings of the Marxist left to reassure ourselves of the vitality of Indian nationalism. Where Prashad seeks to defend Indian nationalism in the name of the Left, presumably to safeguard it from appropriation by the Hindu Right, he fails to ask the questions that Anderson’s analysis leads to: How has the Indian Ideology hobbled the Left? Why have Communists (with the notable exception of Maoists) taken the idea of a unitary India for granted? Why do Indian Communists continue to speak of national unification as a heroic accomplishment, and national unity as a sacred ideal, and what are the consequences of such thinking?
Anderson’s critique of the Idea of India should not be seen as narrowly applicable to the liberal mainstream of Indian opinion. Anderson himself vaguely refers to “wide reaches of the area self-defined as to the left of this mainstream” that have accepted the Indian Ideology as their own. For the Left, Anderson’s critique raises a number of questions that it leaves tantalizingly unanswered. If democracy, secularism, and national unity as they are enshrined in liberal nationalist thinking are values that the Left must give up, where does that leave us? What could or should replace the “Idea of India”? What are the implications of this analysis for our understanding of the subcontinental state system and for the future of struggles for national self-determination and social emancipation? The Indian Ideology offers few answers to these questions, but is an excellent conversation starter.
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Weaver/Poje (CAN) capture Ice Dance gold at ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2015
Seoul / Republic of Korea
The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2015 continued Friday at Mokdong Arena in Seoul, Korea.
Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) capture Ice Dance gold
Canada’s Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje captured the gold medal. The U.S. teams Madison Chock/Evan Bates and Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani danced to the silver and bronze medals respectively.
Weaver/Poje’s dance to “The Four Seasons” in an arrangement of Max Richter was highlighted by intricate footwork and beautiful lifts. The World silver medalists earned a level four for the twizzles, lifts and the spin while the step sequences garnered a level three. The Canadian Champions picked up 109.15 points, just short of their seasons best and totaled 177.46 points to move up from third and win their second Four Continents title since 2010. „It wasn’t easy yesterday coming from behind, but that’s a position that we’ve been in for seemingly our whole career so it was nothing new to feel like we had to fight for this free dance. There is a little bit of extra gusto in there, because the desire to move up and that helped us to perform today”, Weaver said.
Chock/Bates produced a strong Free Dance to “An American in Paris” as well, completing level-four twizzles, lifts and spin as well as level-three footwork. The ISU Grand Prix Final silver medalists posted a new personal best with 105.80 points, but with a total of 176.18 points were edged out of the gold by 1.28 points. “Today wasn’t our best skate but it was definitely a solid performance. We’re happy with the week we’ve had. We had good skates and good practices. It’s great to go to the world championships with some fire in our bellies”, Chock commented.
Dancing to Waltzes by Johann Strauss, Shibutani/Shibutani picked up level fours for the lifts and the spin, but he wobbled on the twizzles that were graded a level three. The brother-and-sister team scored 101.14 points, which is a new personal best but nevertheless slipped from second to third at 170.79 points overall. “I’m actually really surprised that happened. Twizzles are usually one of our strongest elements and we can do them with our eyes closed so it was uncharacteristic. We were focused throughout the program and were very much in the moment. It felt really good even through that point and we finished the program with lots of good energy”, Alex Shibutani told the press.
Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) remained in fourth place with their dance to “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (162.25 points). 2014 World Junior Champions Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker (USA) moved up from sixth to fifth at 149.98 points while Alexandra Paul/Mitchell Islam (CAN) dropped one spot to sixth at 149.92 points.
Satoko Miyahara (JPN) wins Ladies Short Program
Satoko Miyahara of Japan won the Ladies Short Program. Gracie Gold (USA) came second and Japan’s Rika Hongo is sitting in third place.
Miyahara nailed a triple Lutz-triple toe, a triple flip, double Axel and three level-four spins in her routine to “The Magic Flute” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The 2014 Four Continents silver medalist posted a new personal best score with 64.84 points. “I am very happy to be in first place. The free skating is still to come and I’d like to prepare for that. Although I executed my triple-triple combination well I thought I could have had a better performance. It was not a 100 percent satisfactory”, the 16-year old Japanese Champion noted.
Gold opened her program to the Adagio from Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg with a triple Lutz-triple toe but bumped into the boards at the exit. The U.S. silver medalist recovered to complete a triple loop and level-four spins and footwork, however, she singled the Axel. Gold scored 62.67 points.”I can do a lot better. I was still able to skate an OK program and will still be in the running for a medal, if not first place. The triple Lutz-triple toe was completed although I was too close to the barrier. The mistake on the Axel was silly. I know I can do a double Axel”, the NHK Trophy Champion commented.
Hongo’s performance to “Le Corsaire” featured a triple toe-triple toe, a triple flip, double Axel and a level-four combination spin. The Japanese silver medalist picked up 61.28 points, slightly surpassing her previous personal best. “I was really nervous to compete for the first time at Four Continents. But I was trying to have fun and I did. My jumps weren’t perfect, but the expression was quite satisfactory”, the 18-year-old said.
Polina Edmunds (USA) finished not far behind in fourth with 61.03 points. Zijun Li (CHN) follows in fifth at 60.29 points and Alaine Chartrand (CAN) rounds up the top six (58.50 points).
The ISU Four Continents Championships continue Saturday with the Men’s and Pairs Free Skating. For more information, full entry lists and results please see: www.isu.org and http://www.4conti2015.com/eng/html/index.php.
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Duhamel/Radford (CAN), Ten (KAZ) strike gold at Four Continents
Edmunds (USA) skates to gold at ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
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Sep 26, Megargee rated it it was amazing Bicycling across Asia from western Russia to Beijing inAustralian adventurer Tim Cope felt confined by the need to follow existing roads instead of roaming freely across the steppes through which he passed.
Although he had not sat on a horse since he was Bicycling across Asia from western Russia to Beijing inAustralian adventurer Tim Cope felt confined by the need to follow existing roads instead of roaming freely across the steppes through which he passed.
Although he had not sat on a horse since he was seven when he promptly fell offCope traveled to Mongolia in where he purchased the first three of the 13 horses and one camel he would employ on the trip. This journey, with interruptions, would take three years to complete.
On the way Cope kept a detailed journal of the places he visited, the extraordinary people he encountered, ranging from thieves to priests, and the adversities he and his animals faced along with his thoughts about the how Central Asia has evolved from nomadism to more urban sedentary cultures.
A Walk Across Americathe animals make this narrative unique. Unlike Tim and Tigon, the horses and camel had to live off the land so there is a constant search for grass, grain, and water across the arid deserts and steppes. Humans and animals alike are subject to illness and injury, and subject to the depredations of thieves as well as the hospitality of strangers along the way.
The bonds that grow among the equine, canine and human fellow travelers are an important part of the narrative.
This lengthy is illustrated with numerous color photographs of the people and places encountered, and there are ample maps, a good index, a bibliography, interesting end notes and even a glossary of Mongolian, Russian, Kazackian and other terms encountered.·On the Trail of Genghis Khan published by Bloomsbury ($).
·Tim Cope will speak about his experiences at a World Expeditions event in Perth on September 26 at the State Library of Western Australia, 26 Francis Street, Perth Cultural Centre, pm for 7pm start. ON THE TRAIL OF GENGHIS KHAN: AN EPIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE LAND OF THE NOMADS Tim Cope Bloomsbury (USA, ) • Inspired by a desire to understand the nomadic way of life, Australian adventurer and author Tim Cope embarked on a remarkable journey: 6, miles on horseback across the Eurasian.
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Vulnerabilities discovered in HANA-based products
Sebastian Bortnik, Onapsis
Security firm Onapsis has worked with SAP’s product security and engineering teams to patch several high-risk vulnerabilities discovered in HANA-based products, including HANA 2, S/4 HANA and HANA-based Cloud applications.
The vulnerabilities, which would allow an attacker to take full control of the HANA platform remotely without needing a username and password, affect a specific components called SAP HANA User Self Services, which was not enabled by default.
“This level of access would allow an attacker to perform any action over the business information and processes supported by HANA, including creating, stealing, altering and/or deleting sensitive information. If these vulnerabilities are exploited, organisations may face severe business consequences,” said Sebastian Bortnik, head of research, Onapsis.
“We hope organisations will use this threat intelligence to assess their systems and confirm that they are not currently using this component, and therefore are not affected by these risks. Even if the service is not enabled, we still recommend that these organisations apply the patches in case a change is made to the system in the future.”
Patches for the vulnerabilities are provided in SAP Security Note #2424173 ‘Vulnerabilities in the User Self-Service Tools of SAP HANA’ and Security Note #2429069.
The issues were originally discovered on the newly released SAP HANA 2 platform, but further analysis revealed that several older versions were also vulnerable, with the loopholes present since the User Self Service component was first released two-and-a-half years ago.
Onapsis CEO and co-founder Mariano Nunez said that SAP developed and released a patch very quickly compared to the company’s past vulnerability submissions.
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Natural Products ExpWHOA! (aka: Why I’m now even fatter than this blogpost)
I did it. I went!
And if you follow me on Instagram (which you can do by clicking my new awesome badge up there to your right, yeah, the blue one, click it) then you know that I saw a ton of new vegan products and ate two tons since I ate at least two of everything I saw.
Last year, when I first got to know Special Needs Eater, she had just returned from a trip to the Expo in her capacity as writer extraordinaire for SuperVegan. And I got to listen to her Wonkavilian description of a wonderland of vegan foods, many never before seen by human eyes!
Back then, I could hardly imagine that a humble vegan blogger (me) who had barely been vegan blogging for three months (me again) would one day roam the halls of a place (more like palace) that I have to tell you makes vegan dreams disappointing by making vegan reality superior.
But that is how far your insufferable servant has come! Because this year I accompanied SNE to the NPE and I’ve got the photos to prove it! So without further ado (to yeu and yeu and yeu) here’s my roundup of Paper Spoon Expo West 2013! I mean, Natural Products Expo West 2013!
Okay, here’s what I saw on day one keeping in mind that my day one was day two and my day two was day three. Oday? Great!
When Follow Your Heart says “mini sandwich” they don’t kid around! I’m still looking for the sun-dried tomato.
The first exciting booth I saw was Follow Your Heart. We all know them, the creators of the most often misspelled product in the world: Vegenaise! And look, they were debuting a new roasted garlic flavor. I tried it, I liked it, I moved on.
Congressman/Mayor/Councilman/Presidential candidate Dennis Vegan Kucinich!!! (Most people are not this happy to see me.)
And while moving on, I saw my first vegan celeb of the Expo, Dennis Kucinich, a man who very well might have been the first vegan president of the United States if way more people had voted for him and if you don’t count the first “almost vegan” ex-president of the United States, William Veganson Clinton.
Amy’s got ice cream!
The next stop of note was the Amy’s booth. Amy’s keeps growing and they had a big ol’ booth. Now I’m not much for frozen food so I almost walked right past — until I noticed an ice cram cart! That’s right, Amy’s is getting into the ice cream business! I was skeptical, but their mint chocolate chip was good! It arrives in July.
No furkin’ way! Pot Pie AND Quiche? Yes, it’s true!
The next stop is a big one so get ready: Tofurky! Well, I’m excited to report that the Tofolks at Tofurky have been Tofurking ’round the Furk to bring you a huge array of new items. They’ve got a Pot Pie and a Quiche, and they’ve also got some Pockets, which I’m disappointed they didn’t call Tofockets. All are due this summer.
Is that some tofu in your pocket or are you just glad to oh never mind.
Not only that, they’re going after Field Roast with a gourmet line of sausages! I also stopped by the Field Roast booth but I didn’t take any photos. Why? Because they didn’t have a single new product and not only that, some honcho I talked to wouldn’t even give me a hint of what’s coming down the pipeline. All he would say is, “Have you tried our frankfurters?” Dude, those have been out for like 40 years in vegan time. Get off your hammock and Tofurk!
UPDATE! So even though the honcho wouldn’t tell me about any new products, it turns out he gave a party the night before to debut his new Field Roast burgers! That’s him in the middle in the photo below. Did he really think he could keep his new burgers secret in an era of cellphone cameras and social media? Did he really think it was a good idea to tell some vegan bloggers about them but mislead others? What a gigantic doofus! No wonder I’m seeing less and less of his products at Whole Foods! And by the way, those frankfurters he asked me if I tried? They’re awful, with a nasty aftertaste.
That guy in the middle needs some lessons in how to run a business, not to mention a remedial class in social media. What a buffoon!
I wonder if these new Tofurky artisan sausages, which they told me are coming to stores as early as April, will put Field Roast out of business since they’re way better than what Field Roast has been selling.
New Artisan Sausages from Tofurky. I didn’t put quotes around the word Artisan but we all know they’re there, k? Three flavors: Chick’n & Apple, Andouille Cajun Style, and Spinach Pesto.
I was so overwhelmed by all the Tofurkkovation that I almost walked past a small booth but boy am I glad I didn’t, because this small product I’d never heard of, NutBurgers, was one of the best things I ate at the Expo. Like I said I’m not a big fan of frozen food, but I will definitely buy some of these the first time I see em. Oh, and I did not post this photo on my Instagram because Special Needs Eater taught me a lesson which is that you can’t tip everything on your Instagram because then no one will check out your blog post. Speaking of which, be sure to check out Special Needs Eater’s very own Expo roundup blog post on SuperVegan.
I think this was a sample size because the box says each patty contains 290 calories and this looks like 288 tops.
But the Expo isn’t all NutBurgers and roses. Nope, there’s a few disasters too. And the biggest debacle of the Expo was the Lightlife booth. I didn’t even make the word Lightlife clickable because I’m not in the mood to support them at all. And I’m not going to bother wasting time on it here, since they’ve already apologized to me, but if you want to know what happened then you can read the world’s largest Instagram caption to find out.
And Lightlife wasn’t the only debacle. The Blue Diamond almonds booth was another fiasco. They were giving out samples of some new crackers and I asked if they were vegan. The woman said, “Yes, they are.” So I tried some. Then when I got home, I did some more research before including them here, because I always double check to make sure I’m not recommending something that’s not vegan, and it turned out they have butter in them! I mean seriously, it’s the Natural Products Expo and you’ve got people working there who either don’t know what “vegan” means or haven’t been trained about the products they’re promoting? Pathetic!
But back to fun. And one of the fun things about the Expo is seeing the weird products that people come up with. There was a breakfast cereal named Holy Crap. I’m not kidding. You can click that link and you’ll see it really exists. And they asked me to try it. And I would not. Nor would I have tried a breakfast cereal named Raw Sewage. Sorry, just can’t do it. But I did try something called Guacamame, which is guacamole made from mommies! Okay, it’s late, sorry. It’s guacamole from edamame, and their big selling point is that it doesn’t oxidize, which I thought was another word for rust, so I guess avocado rusts? I’m not saying it beats guacamole but guacamame is guacatasty.
My prediction is that the next dance craze to sweep the country after the Harlem Shuffle will be the Guacamame!
Another fun thing about the Expo is getting to voice your complaints to the top honchos of the companies that drive you crazy with the idiotic ways they handle their products. For example, the Boca sales rep was completely unaware that the chik’n nuggets they had on display have been completely unavailable in Southern California for months. “What makes you think they’re not available?” I was asked. To which I replied, “Because I’ve tried multiple stores of multiple supermarket chains and have had multiple conversations with multiple grocery managers who tell me they’ve been trying to get the product back on their shelves for months.” “Oh. I’ll look into it. Thanks for telling me!”
Next stop was the Earth Balance booth. Earth Balance recently introduced four new vegan products for your supermarket’s snack aisle: cheddar flavor puffs, buttery flavor popcorn, cheddar flavor popcorn, and P.B. Popps, which is some kind of Cracker Jacky peanut butter coated popcorn thing. I found the puffs and the cheddar popcorn at the Whole Foods near me a few weeks ago, and tried them both. I liked the puffs and ate the bag right away. I didn’t love the cheddar popcorn. And I was unable to find the other two anywhere in LA. So I was psyched to get to try them at the Expo.
The buttery popcorn was only okay. But the P.B. Popps were crazy good! In fact, the only thing that would keep me from eating an entire bag at once is the scary lady on their webpage who’s gonna hit me with her wooden spoon if I overdo it.
I suggest you hop on these popps.
Oh, and I figured out why the company is called Earth Balance — because it’s a balance of the joy of the Popps and the sadness of this little white bread sandwich they were serving to demonstrate their mayo:
Check out the name of this product. That is some in-the-moment mayo!
After Earth Balance we hit the Go Veggie! booth, where I met their Glaswegian food master who claimed to have “a Ph.D in tofu”! Go Veggie!, for! those! not! in! the! know!, used to be called Galaxy. So now they’ve rebranded themselves and created a line of vegan cheeses that they’re marketing to people (vegans) who *never* refer to themselves as veggies. In fact, to tell a vegan to “Go Veggie!” is like telling us to go backwards. It’s even a different sound. Vegetarians get the “juh” sound and we get Hard G. Anyway, despite their misnamed company, the Go Veggie! people are all very nice. And they had the Spork Sisters there serving a delicious strawberry cream cheese mousse that was made with Go Veggie!’s strawberry vegan cream cheese. Hmm, I wonder if that Ph.D got his degree from Veggie U., because then I could understand the rah-rah name Go Veggie! But if that wasn’t the case, then Go Figure!
Sporkberry Mousse
And do you know who else was at the Expo? The Justin’s peanut butter people, though I did not see Justin himself. Maybe he was stuck to the roof of the Expo! Hahahahahahaohsorry. I think all vegans know Justin’s. Justin’s sells a dark peanut butter cup that is crazy good. PROVIDED YOU EAT IT REAL FAST. That’s right — one time I bought a whole box of these and after about two weeks the remaining ones went bad. I guess that actually speaks well of the product — it’s not preserved up the wazoo (which was my favorite Edward Albee play) but trust me you don’t want to eat a faded brown decomposing peanut butter cup. I say this as a cautionary tale because Justin’s — which since releasing the dark chocolate peanut butter cup has released about three hundred delicious looking candies THAT ALL CONTAIN MILK — has finally gone back and done something for us vegans, by introducing a big ol’ bag of their DPBCs so we don’t have to keep buying them two at a time. (Or buying a box of two-at-a-times which costs the same as 2 multiplied by however many packs are in the box.) Now I didn’t ask how much of a discount the big bag will provide, but I hope it’s substantial. And I also hope they find another way to market these in March besides Halloween, because the only thing scary about these peanut butter cups is what my LDL is going to be after eating a whole bag.
Happy Halloween! Uhh… it’s March.
So by now you can only imagine how full I was, and the 6 p.m. closing time was approaching so it was probably time to just call it a day and OH MY GOD IT’S THE GARDEIN BOOTH!!! Okay, to be honest, that only goes a little way toward explaining my excitement upon seeing what @SpecialNeedsy called the Gardein of Eden. And it’s kind of interesting because, between you and me, their products aren’t that good. Hey, hold on, wait, hear me out. I love Gardein! It’s just not that good. I love their hamburger sliders. I eat them a lot. Even though they taste highly processed. And kinda don’t sit well. But that doesn’t stop me. Ditto my trips to Veggie Grill which is Gardein that someone else cooks for you! And I think my love for Gardein is rooted in its fast food replacementology. Because there was always something I liked about McDonald’s. And it wasn’t the food. Okay, it’s the food until you get to a certain age, maybe in your mid to late 20’s, when McDonald’s goes from tasty food to pore-extruded greasy film forcefield. But I still kept going back to McDonald’s, despite how ill it would make me feel, because I’d been brainwashed into seeing it as part of my happy childhood. But one of the things that veganism saved me from, besides myself obviously, was the end result of that apparent need to re-experience my perceived happy childhood. With Gardein, I get to re-live the vegan childhood that I never had! Oh wait, time’s up for this session? Let me quickly add that they debuted a crazy amount of new products, and allowed me to taste a few.
I really liked the new Crispy Chick’n Sliders. Of course the ones in the box won’t come with lettuce, tomato and sauce like these ones did, and I doubt they’ll be crispy when I microwave them which is the way all sliders are meant to be slid, but even taking all that into conslideration, they were really good!
I also tried the new Sizzling Szechuan Beefless Strips — which weren’t so much sizzling as sitting in a cold plastic sample cup — but they still tasted like they could be tasty.
And they also have a Teriyaki Beefless Jerky they’re coming out with, but since jerky might be the single most disgusting food product I can think of — and doubly-disgusting if you buy it at a 7-Eleven — I see no need for a vegan version. But if you like it, this is what the package looks like:
It’s beefless AND meat-free!
Okay, seriously, Gardein introduced so many new items that it was getting silly already:
I could keep posting photos of new Gardein products but instead I’m going to just give you a photo of all of it, courtesy of SuperVegan/SpecialNeedsEater who was smart enough to take a shot of the whole shebang:
Gardein of Eatin’ — as captioned and photographed by SuperVegan/SpecialNeedsEater
And even though we were full from the Gardein booth, we forged on, and managed to make one more stop before wrapping up DAY ONE. Last but not least, the nice folks at Vege USA have two new vegan items from their Vegetarian Plus line headed your way. And I tried ’em both and liked ’em both.
DAY TWO!
Day two was, for all intents and purposes, Ice Cream Day! First up was DF Mavens, from New York. Now before I tell you how good this was, I want to tell you there’s someone running around online trying to start a controversy about it. Apparently, their first run of containers listed honey as an ingredient, even though the company says there was never honey in the product. But instead of trashing the mislabelled containers and eating the cost of a reprint, they did something stupid and used these containers. Not a great way to make a first impression. However, they say the problem is behind them and swear there never was honey in there. I have no way of knowing if the person devoting a lot of time to kvetching about this online is a competitor or just someone with too much time on their hands, but I do have a way of knowing if their ice cream is good or not, because I put some into my body, and it was good indeed.
DF Mavens New Orleans Sweet Praline Vegan Ice Cream
Next up was Maggie’s Conscious Vegan Cuisine. Maggie is from North Carolina but has more attitude than entire boroughs of New York. She seemed skeptical about giving me a taste of her food. But I skepticaled her right back and she caved. Maggie had three flavors she was sampling and one of them was really good. Her website calls it “Lentils with Curry & Lime” but I know she worked the word “Thai” into her description when she was telling me about it. Either way, it was good. And Maggie is quick to tell you it comes in microwavable BPA-free jars. One thing Maggie wasn’t quick to tell me was that she’s also got a Vegetable Korma flavor which she wasn’t sampling. Well that sucks because I used to love Vegetable Korma pre-vegan and haven’t found a single one since. Also, I’ll give Maggie the benefit of the doubt that she really means “conscious” not “conscientious” since I did kind of feel the lentils were looking at me (though not with as much attitude as Maggie).
Maggie’s Conscious Vegan Cuisine. I heard that later in the afternoon, some of the cuisine hit its head and was rendered unconscious, but I can not confirm that report.
The next stop was hard to believe, even though SpecialNeedsEater had tried to prepare me for it: The Daiya Booth! Daiya’s space at the Expo was Mothership-sized, with what seemed like hundreds of nattily attired minions scurrying to and fro dishing out samples of brand new sliced cheeses, cream cheeses, and, are you ready, pizzas! While I stood stunned like a Daiya in the headlights, SpecialNeedsy was alert enough to snap a photo of the entire Daiya Displaiya:
Behold the Daiya Displaiya, photo courtesy of specialneedseater.com
Being your humble vegan servant, I tried to sample as many of the new Daiyaties as I could. I had some Chive & Onion Cream Cheese Style Spread on a bagel, which was good, some Margherita Pizza, some Daiya Cheeze Lover’s Pizza, and some Mushroom & Roasted Garlic Pizza, all of which were good especially the mushroom and garlic one which was great. However, I am sorry to say that I cannot be so positive about the new Swiss cheese singles, nor the Provolone. These tasted nothing like Swiss or Provolone, and I mean not even a tiny amount. They were both pretty flavorless, with a chalky, powdery texture. No wonder they were serving them only in sandwiches, with bread and lettuce to hide the nastiness (though when I asked for a piece of each of them plain, they obliged me). I really have no idea why Daiya decided to release these when they’re clearly not good enough yet but oh well, at least the pizzas are killer. The pizzas, by the way, are coming in August, while the cream cheeses and new Swiss, Provolone, and Cheddar slices all arrive in April.
Coming in August
Coming in April
I know what you’re thinking: What happened to Ice Cream Day?! Well settle down, because my next stop was Mr. Dewie’s! Mr Dewie’s is an almond milk ice cream from Oakland that is dewielicious. I think their mint chip was my favorite ice cream of the entire Expo and that’s saying something because there was lots and lots of ice cream. And let me just say that not only was the ice cream good, but Mr. Dewie’s proprietors, Ari and Andrew Cohen, might have been the nicest, most personable exhibitors at the Expo, right up there in a tie with the Chicago Vegan Foods folks. Plus, I discovered the top secret reason why the product is called Mr. Dewie’s. I’m not allowed to divulge my source, so let’s just say a little twitter birdie told me.
Ari Cohen, who with his brother Andrew just might one day be more famous than the Coen No H Brothers.
Next stop was the Beyond Meat booth. For those who might not know, Beyond Meat was one of the big stories of Vegan Year 2012. In fact, I think it’s the most hyped vegan product of all time. And unfortunately, it rarely lives up to the hype. From what I’ve learned, it’s very hard to prepare, although in skillful hands it can be great, and I’ve had a few preparations that were truly delicious. But most of the time, and especially when found in the prepared foods section of Whole Foods stores, it’s terrible. Sometimes it’s mushy, sometimes it’s hard. And if you read my blog regularly, you know I’ve often criticized Beyond Meat for their numerous shortcomings. Well, Beyond Meat had a giant booth at the Expo. And they were giving out lots of samples. But unfortunately, what I ate at their booth wasn’t good! It’s truly baffling, I have to tell you. One of the preparations they were offering at the Expo was some type of southwestern style concoction with corn and hot sauce. Did anyone really try this and think it was good? And while Beyond Meat has been exclusively known for their fake chicken so far, at the Expo they debuted their new fake ground beef crumbles in a chili they were serving, and sadly the chili just wasn’t good. Here’s my suggestion to the Beyond Meat people: hire a competent, perhaps well-known vegan chef to showcase your product, not the talentless dolt who you’ve currently got under contract.
Yuck. Seriously, did anyone enjoy this strange corn and hot sauce mixture?
Chili made with Beyond Meat’s new fake ground beef crumbles. This did not taste good at all.
But one thing I will say about Beyond Meat is that the people who work on their management team could not have been friendlier. And it turns out they were familiar with my work, had read all the unflattering things I’ve written about their work-in-progress product, and were still pleasant as could be. They explained to me why things have gone so wrong for them, and their explanation went something like this: They never intended to debut their product via the Whole Foods prepared foods counters nationwide, but what happened was that after Mark Bittman of the New York Times wrote about Beyond Meat while it was still in its developmental stage, a frenzy broke out, and they felt the need to rush the product onto the market to capitalize on all the excitement. They claimed that their intention all along has been for the vast majority of their sales to come from the packaged Beyond Meat strips that were only just announced TODAY and still will not be on your grocer’s shelves until next month at the earliest. They say they anticipate that the prepared foods will only be a small slice of their business.
Okay, but someone at the company, whether pushed by their investors or not, still made the decision to rush the product onto the market via the Whole Foods prepared foods departments. And that is where the real problem occurs, because as they explained to me, in that context, they are merely an ingredient. And the Whole Foods employees who use their product to make the prepared foods often misuse the product. For example, I was told that when the product is frozen, it needs to be thawed to room temperature, but that some of the Whole Foods staffers try to speed up the thawing by placing the Beyond Meat in the oven to defrost it, which badly damages the product. This was offered by way of explanation as to why the product is often mushy and sometimes rock hard.
Kim Fernandez, vice president of retail sales, and Mary Adams, vice president of marketing at Beyond Meat. These people could not have been friendlier or more professional to someone as insufferable as yours truly, and Beyond Meat is lucky to have them!
Furthermore, I was told that the Beyond Meat “merchandisers” assigned to Whole Foods have very little say in how Beyond Meat is used, prepared, displayed and sold. Some Whole Foods stores allow these merchandisers to give advice to their staff, but some do not. This would go some of the way toward explaining why still, nearly a year later, I often see what is clearly Beyond Meat displayed in Whole Foods prepared foods cases with ingredient cards that falsely claim the product you’re buying is made with Gardein and not Beyond Meat, even though these items haven’t been made with Gardein for months.
But clearly much if not all of the blame for the fiasco that has been Beyond Meat falls on the company itself. It’s obvious that despite the rush of publicity they received, they should not have rushed the product to market, especially now that I have learned that their intention all along has been for the vast majority of their sales to come from the retail packs, which as I said, ARE STILL NOT AVAILABLE. Instead, they debuted their product to the public in a way that they had very little control over, and as a result, when the retail packages finally reach consumers, they will be trying to get people to buy a product that has been badly damaged and which the vast majority of vegan, vegetarian, and health-oriented consumers have already had a bad experience with.
And the fact that their product was displayed in untasty preparations at their own trade show exhibit really makes you wonder how much of the blame lies elsewhere, or if they’re simply in denial about the incompetence that surely must exist at the top levels of this company.
And as I always do, let me just say again that I have seen the product be exceptional, and that chefs have told me that in the right hands no other meat substitute can compare. And as always, I wish them well, because of course I want nothing more than to have Beyond Meat be a delicious alternative to meat that will lead millions of people around the world to swap it out for the millions of pounds of chicken they now consume. But they’re probably not going to get there without wholesale changes in the upper echelon of the company.
This is what the Beyond Meat retail packs will look like when they finally reach stores some day.
One final thought about Beyond Meat: When the retail packs are finally available, it should be sold at Bed, Bath and Beyond, doncha think? Okay, let’s move beyond Beyond Meat because there’s still a lot more to cover. The next stop was Upton’s Naturals, where I spoke with the super-friendly Nicole Sopko, a vice president, who was giving out little pieces of sandwich made with their new bacon seitan. But what I really wanted to find out about was their vegan pastrami. I never got to try it before Phoney Baloney’s closed its storefront location in Irvine, and so I wanted to find out if any restaurants were currently serving it in the Los Angeles area, since it’s a food-service-only product. Nicole told me that I might be able to find it at Locali and was trying to think if there was any other place I could find it when her boyfriend, Dan Staackmann, the owner of Upton’s came back to the booth. Perfect, I thought, the owner will know for sure! But as friendly as Nicole was, Dan was unfriendly! Dude, what’s your problem? I’m a fan of your food, I want to buy more of it, I want to publicize it to my followers, and this is how you act? Well, these two are clearly in love, so I guess it’s yet another case of opposites attract. UPDATE: Dan e-mailed me after reading this post to apologize and explain that it had been a long, stressful week for him. I thought it was big of him to reach out like that and so perhaps I misjudged him and the situation.
It was hard to taste the seitan the way it was presented. I mostly tasted bread and lettuce, and I should have removed the seitan from the sandwich to try it on its own.
One thing about the Expo is that the time zooms on by, kind of like the opposite of writing a blog post about the Expo. So before long we realized that we only had an hour or so left! Luckily, we made it to the Chicago Vegan Foods booth, because as I said earlier, these were some of the nicest people at the show, and they were giving out all kinds of samples. Chicago Vegan Foods, for a company that basically sells three products, has to be one of the more diverse companies out there. What they’ve got is Teese, their tasty fake cheese, then Dandies, their tasty vegan marshmallows, and now, some darn tasty vegan soft serve ice cream!
Nachos made with Teese. These were decidedly ballpark-style, with no guac, beans or salsa, but they were tasty nonetheless. And who can resist hot Teese from a pump?!
I was particularly excited about the Dandies because I’ve heard so much about them but had never tried them before. And they were really, really good. More than just the taste, the Dandies also recreated that telltale powdery texture and mouthfeel of a truly legit marshmallow. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever had a better marshmallow, vegan or non-vegan. And I’ve heard they even melt like a real marshmallow. In fact, the only thing they don’t contain is torture. I also learned the history of Dandies: There was the original size, then they came out with a larger size, and coming soon, a retail pack of mini-marshmallows, which up until now have only been available as a food service item.
I think Dandies are probably the best marshmallows I have ever had. In fact, they are simply… darn, I wish I could come up with an adjective!
But perhaps the most interesting thing I learned at the Chicago Vegan Foods booth is that Veggie Grill is trying out their soft serve at its new Laguna Niguel location. And, I hear, if things go well there the soft serve might become available at all Veggie Grill locations! I sure hope so, because the chocolate that I sampled was really good!
Coming soon to a Veggie Grill near you?
Like I said, time was running out so we quickly moved on and found the Hodo Soy booth. This, proclaimed @SpecialNeedsy, is the best tofu in the world! Wow, that’s quite a statement. So I did some sampling and you know what? It was pretty dang good! If Hodo Soy sounds familiar, maybe it’s because it’s the Oakland-based company that is providing the tofu for Chipotle‘s new sofritas burritos, which are currently being tested at seven Chipotle locations in San Francisco. And the owner of Hodo Soy told us that if things go well, the sofritas should be available in Los Angeles this summer!
I need this in a store near me!
One of the booths I was excited to see was The Real Deal chips people. I recently went looking for the new Lay’s Potato Chips sriracha flavor only to learn that they were made with cheese. Boooo! But someone left a comment on my Instagram letting me know that The Real Deal makes sriracha chips that are good. And then, lo and behold, there they were at the Expo! But then, no and behold, they were out of samples of the sriracha chips. However, even so and behold, the woman was nice enough to give me a full-size retail bag straight off their display since the Expo was drawing to a close anyway. And I am happy to report, these little scoop shaped chips are really tasty. They’re also gluten-free, and if you’re a gluten-free vegan, be sure to check out SuperVegan’s excellent roundup on all the GF goodies (gfoodies?) at the show.
One of things I almost forgot to mention was that while grazing at the Chicago Vegan Foods both, I ran into Jackie of Vegan Yack Attack fame, who is one of the nicest vegan humans I have met. We chatted for a bit and she told me I should try the WayFare ice cream from Montana. Well, if I wasn’t going to miss any ice cream at the Expo, I certainly wasn’t going to miss any recommended ice cream, so off we went.
And on the way to Montana we passed another vegan ice cream that I’d heard about, NadaMoo. Unfortunately, the the women manning their booth were NadaFriendly. Even though there was still a good half hour to go in the Expo, they were already packing up and refused to give us a sample. Luckily, one of the men womaning the booth took pity on us and gave us some ice cream. And I am sorry to report that this was just not good. In fact, it was the worst ice cream of the Expo.
I will Nada be buying this.
So despite eating bad ice cream, a hardship which brings to mind Lewis and Clark, like those determined explorers we persevered and headed for Montana. And finally, there it was, four unrelated companies sharing a giant Made in Montana booth. And you know what? Vegan Yack Attack was right, the WayFare ice cream turned out to be WayGood. And here’s the most interesting part: it’s oat-based! And oats in your ice cream beats horse in your burger any day.
Oh, it’s just some delicious oat-based Vermont maple ice cream from Montana.
By now the Expo really was just about over. And we had almost seen it all. As we raced to finish up, and turned the corner for the last row of booths, we stumbled across a vendor who turned out to be one of my favorites of the entire show, The Elegant Vegan. Not only did The Elegant Vegan have some delicious brownies for us to try, but they gave us samples of their extraordinary pickled items. Ever had pickled kale before? Me neither, and it was GOOD!
And that was it, the last booth of the Expo. As proud as I was of myself after Day One for not being so stuffed that I couldn’t eat on Day Two, I was proud after Day Two that while my stomach was stuffed, my brain still had enough space left to think about one more thing: Girl Scout Cookies! You see, the Girl Scout cookies sold in L.A. County are not vegan, because they come from Little Brownie Bakers, which puts milk in all their cookies, BOO! However, the Girl Scouts of Orange County get their cookies from the other bakery that makes cookies for the Girl Scouts, ABC Bakers. And a mere four blocks from the convention center, outside a supermarket in a non-descript shopping center, we made one final score.
Vegan I tells ya, VEGAN!!!
THE END. (Until about an hour after I got home, when I ate some of the cookies.)
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Storytelling for Dayz: Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit 2019
November 6, 2019 November 5, 2019 itsmaryk
“Stories are more than processing current moments. Stories are the packaging of what we can look back on.”
This is how Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones began the 2019 Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. Radhika shared a story about beginning her career as a Russian journalist shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. News has always been crazy; we’re just now even more aware with it at our fingertips.
Life can fly by with our attention spans still trying to process a million other things at once. Stories are the stamps we place to document what the hell is going on in this world.
I was fortunate enough to be my best friend’s +1, and we were posted up by Vogue for a week at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. To document what the actual fuck was happening, I took a photo of my room service pancakes in bed while working on my laptop. However, I didn’t actually eat those pancakes with sticky maple syrup while in bed. I’m not a psychopath.
I also live-tweeted most of the conference. While most have been deleted at this point (#sorrynotsorry), that is my way to stay focused and attentive to every conversation. It’s like taking notes, but live, and with #VFSummit. Katie Couric and Vanity Fair both retweeted me, so that’s pretty cool.
Yeah, it was an incredibly glamorous week of being surrounded by really cool people in really cool places, and I definitely didn’t belong. Still, I know my passion and my talent intersect with my ability to see connections and patterns that form into great stories. At my core, I’m a storyteller, and it was an inspiring week of stories.
And now, I name drop.
Bob Iger, Disney CEO, and Jon Favreau, some actor/ producer, spoke about storytelling in the digital age. For someone who works in marketing for a tech giant, it’s a little sad to think that the entertainment industry invents all the cool shit, but I’m also grateful they do. The next step in the evolution of filmmaking is using a video wall entirely in the set that doesn’t require any green screen editing. This way, you can immediately see and use the digital effects while shooting instead of editing in after (aka saving time and making people’s lives a million times easier). Also, I want to buy Disney+ but I also recently purchased a DVD player to watch all my old Disney movies, sooooo we’ll see.
Alan Patricof and Tristan Harris talked about regulating big tech and the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab (yeah, it’s a thing). This was my favorite conversation, and Harris dropped some serious nuggets.
“Technology is not a neutral mirror. It’s influencing our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors. More people are on Facebook than are Christians. Tech people aren’t bad people, but their jobs are to harness humans’ attention.”
“Step into our privacy utopia — you still get tech addiction, mental health issues, and radical extremism because the business model (well, monopoly), is on human attention. Attention capitalism persists even with privacy.”
Hasan Minhaj and Kal Penn talked about being politically active comedians. Also, Kumar worked for the Obama administration? Did anyone else not know this??
“Jokes can change the world, but some have no impact. You should make art regardless.”
Anthony Scaramucci’s walkup song was “bad guy” by Billie Eilish, and he talked shit about Trump the whole time.
AS: “No matter which side you’re on, we all need to come together to knock Trump out of office.”
VF: “So if it’s Elizabeth Warren vs. Donald Trump, who do you vote for?”
AS: “Well, I can’t answer that rhetorical question.”
We got a sneak peek of Queen & Slim with the writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas with Lester Holt.
“That’s what we do as artists. We make enough noise that you HAVE to notice us.”
Martha Stewart was there to talk about the new Food Network app. I kept walking past her all day, and I later got a signed book (and one of her cookies!). I love her.
Katie Couric asked asking Sheryl Sandberg all the hard questions about Facebook… and not getting many answers. “She’s smooth, isn’t she?!” Sandberg emphasized the reliance on third-party content moderators. The technologies are still a major work in progress, and it likely will remain that for the duration of the 2020 election. Fake news spreads 6x faster than true news, soooo buckle up.
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RuPaul announced his new show, and he made us all laugh while being absolutely fabulous as always.
Gwyneth Paltrow spoke with Jenna Lyons, and I loved every bit of it as I expected.
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AND I [g]OOP!
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Back at our hotel, they had a private screening for Motherless Brooklyn.
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“HRI = home rider invasion. Peloton lovers migrate to NYC for a studio experience. They’ll meet the instructor, but also meet each other. They spend time together outside of the studio and connect like a homecoming. ‘For the first time, you’re not lonely in your basement. There’s a whole community supporting you.’” — this sounds an awful lot like CHAARG and aSweatLife!
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Nikita Dragun, LaurDIY, and Swoozie spoke about being YouTubers while dressed in stripper heels.
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, talked about cryptocurrency so that non-tech people could check the box of “knowing a bit about blockchain.”
James Murdoch spoke with Radhika Jones, and with that, I walked out excited to tell more stories in new, innovative ways for the rest of my life (and with a goody bag).
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Why team motivation is an important factor in football betting
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If you take a good look at sports betting, you will discover that team motivation can be a game changer in certain situations. Most of the time, massively gifted teams will lose games because they’re not well motivated for the occasion.
There is a popular saying that says that ‘Talent does not always win games’
This concept is most often applied when punters lose money to underdog or underrated teams, but the reverse can also apply.
Sometimes, the most talented team can be regarded as the underdog based on criteria other than, pure ability to play the game. Under certain circumstances and conditions, good teams may underrate poor teams.
However, as a sports bettor, you must understand that it’s not always the case. Sometimes the lesser team may want to put on a very good show and motivation can play a big factor in making this a reality. A lot of times when the lesser teams play at home, they tend to be very motivated to win against the bigger teams.
Bear in mind that football betting odds can sometimes be misleading and if you read between the lines, it’s sometimes easy for punters to discount motivation as a key factor within an upcoming match.
This means that you could discover the underdog is more motivated than the traditional ‘big guns’, who may be sometimes less motivated, if they’re not mentally conditioned to approach every team with the same intensity and respect.
As a sports bettor, you need to carry out your research to discover attractive soccer bets using motivations as a good place to start...
A lot of people talk about vengeance or revenge as a motivating factor in the online sports betting world.
Punters who only rely upon stats, may not consider how motivation is very important to the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ a specific stat, such as a winning run or a head to head record may exist.
That’s why punters should not overlook motivation as key element, but also as part of a wider contributing factor to the overall statistical performance of any team.
Why is team motivation devalued when it comes to betting?
The motivation of an opposing and competing team is often an undervalues factor in the result of football sporting games. It’s not unusual that one team has more to play for than the opposition.
As a punter, you must consider…What’s at stake? What happened in the prior games for both teams (their head to head)? What were the recent fixtures? What are their current league positions?
Remember that a group of players coming off a major and unexpected loss are be more likely to be driven to win than a team who themselves are coming off a slender win.
The motivation, in this case, is centered on team talent which is a significant factor to consider.
As a football punter, you have to understand team motivation and be on the lookout for perfect scenarios. Some football clubs are more motivated to win against other teams at various stages of the season.
Do you know that a team that is among the top four in the English Premier League, who have already wrapped up their Champions League qualification could be playing a team fighting for their lives in the relegation zone and are just one point from safety?
Under normal situations, you would bet on the top four team to win the match. Nonetheless, they have an important Champions League semi-final match coming up on Wednesday and have nothing to play for in the English Premier League.
Therefore, they may naturally have more motivation to play a fixture in the impressive Champions League match, whereas, a fixture against lower league opposition may not have the same plug on their emotions.
This may mean, the favourite may have little or no motivation to win the match against a low placed opponent, because they will surely rest their top stars to avoid any injuries.
Most people only believe in motivation when talking about the players on the field, but motivation could be something throughout the club hierarchy and therefore, infecting a winning team with a losing mentality and poisoning winning runs with potential losses.
On paper, the odds will still be within the favour of the team placed higher within the league table, but in reality, it's usually the outsiders who are motivated to win the match.
In most cases like this, when the soccer statistics are moving towards your favour. You may have a greater chance to back the underdog to win at enormous odds rather than trying to scalp trade on betting exchanges obtain smaller returns through soccer betting arbitrage.
The above scenario doesn't always occur, but when it does occur, you will continually kick yourself at having missed the opportunity. Obviously, things are never as easy, as I’ve described, but don't let the odds fool you.
Let’s use Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. as a case study
In the English Premier League 2018/2019 season. Wolves was one of the teams within the EPL that performed admirably against the top six teams in the Premier League.
Wolves' were always on another level whenever they played against the top six teams, which I would argue was helped by motivation; not just the players, but the club, the management, the fans and everyone connected with the club.
As an example, Wolves humiliated Arsenal FC trashing them 3-1, by doing so, they set a record during the 2018/2019 season.
Wolves won more Premier League games against the top six teams (4 wins) compared to the lower teams. This is what team motivation can do to an underdog.
Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Top Six, 2018/2019 English Premier League
* Manchester United 1-1 Wolves FC
* Wolves FC 1-1 Man City
* Arsenal FC 1-1 Wolves FC
* Spurs 1-3 Wolves FC
* Wolves FC 2-1 Chelsea FC
* Wolves FC 2-1 Manchester United
* Chelsea FC 1-1 Wolves FC
* Wolves 3-0 Arsenal FC
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Injuries have a way of affecting the mood of a team most times. You need to know who’s out injured; the significance of that player and the quality of the replacement.
Some teams have ‘super subs’ (although they may not like that nickname), who are as skilled as the first-choice striker or midfielder and the crucial thing to note is that they are more motivated to prove themselves as first choice players. This trick is often used by managers and coaches to draw the best performance from their playing staff.
Therefore, occasionally it pays to back a team when their star player(s) are out injured. That’s because many less experienced punters will react excessively to injuries forgetting there are good value bets.
On the other hand, if there is more than one injured star player, or perhaps it’s the captain or on the pitch motivational leader of the team, then you should be wary, very wary indeed.
How can you use motivation for your next bet?
As we’ve examined; team motivation is an important element to consider as a recreational or professional punter. Motivation can be the difference between winning and losing a bet, which requires carrying out extensive research before placing bets, so you can attempt to be on the winning side.
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A Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra has sought the appearance of Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal in a PIL seeking directions to restrict candidates from contesting from two constituencies simultaneously.
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The PIL has been filed by advocate and social-political activist Ashwini Upadhyay praying that Section 33(7) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which allows a person to contest a general election or a group of bye-elections or biennial elections from two constituencies, be declared ultra-vires to the Constitution and its basic structure.
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CTGF in kidney fibrosis and glomerulonephritis
Naohiro Toda1,
Masashi Mukoyama2,
Motoko Yanagita1 &
Hideki Yokoi1
Inflammation and Regeneration volume 38, Article number: 14 (2018) Cite this article
Glomerulonephritis, which causes inflammation in glomeruli, is a common cause of end-stage renal failure. Severe and prolonged inflammation can damage glomeruli and lead to kidney fibrosis. Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is a member of the CCN matricellular protein family, consisting of four domains, that regulates the signaling of other growth factors and promotes kidney fibrosis.
Main body of the abstract
CTGF can simultaneously interact with several factors with its four domains. The microenvironment differs depending on the types of cells and tissues and differentiation stages of these cells. The diverse biological actions of CTGF on various types of cells and tissues depend on this difference in microenvironment. In the kidney, CTGF is expressed at low levels in normal condition and its expression is upregulated by kidney fibrosis. CTGF expression is known to be upregulated in the extra-capillary and mesangial lesions of glomerulonephritis in human kidney biopsy samples. In addition to involvement in fibrosis, CTGF modulates the expression of inflammatory mediators, including cytokines and chemokines, through distinct signaling pathways, in various cell systems. In anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) glomerulonephritis, systemic CTGF knockout (Rosa-CTGF cKO) mice exhibit 50% reduction of proteinuria and decreased crescent formation and mesangial expansion compared with control mice. In addition to fibrotic markers, the glomerular mRNA expression of Ccl2 is increased in the control mice with anti-GBM glomerulonephritis, and this increase is reduced in Rosa-CTGF cKO mice with nephritis. Accumulation of MAC2-positive cells in glomeruli is also reduced in Rosa-CTGF cKO mice. These results suggest that CTGF may be required for the upregulation of Ccl2 expression not only in anti-GBM glomerulonephritis but also in other types of glomerulonephritis, such as IgA nephropathy; CTGF expression and accumulation of macrophages in the mesangial area have been documented in these glomerular diseases. CTGF induces the expression of inflammatory mediators and promotes cell adhesion.
Short conclusion
CTGF plays an important role in the development of glomerulonephritis by inducing the inflammatory process. CTGF is a potentiate target for the treatment of glomerulonephritis.
Glomerulonephritis causes inflammation in glomeruli and occurs alone or as part of diseases such as vasculitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, cancer, and infections. Glomerulonephritis is a common cause of end-stage renal failure. Severe and prolonged inflammation can damage glomeruli and lead to kidney fibrosis. Kidney fibrosis is the unifying pathological feature of diverse renal disease. Emerging evidence suggests that connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is a key player in the progression of kidney fibrosis. In addition, CTGF is known to participate in cell migration, proliferation, and inflammation. The efficacy of CTGF inhibition previously observed in a wide variety of animal models is now being evaluated in clinical trials. Therefore, CTGF appears to be a candidate therapeutic target for kidney disease. In this review, we present the current knowledge of the involvement of CTGF in kidney disease, especially glomerulonephritis.
Connective tissue growth factor
CTGF/CCN2 is a member of CCN family of matricellular proteins. CTGF was isolated with an antiserum directed against the platelet growth factor from human endothelial cells in 1991. CTGF is a 36- to 38-kDa cysteine-rich secreted protein with 349 amino acids [1]. CCN family of human proteins contains six members. The name of CCN family is derived from the first letter of the first three identified members of the family CCN1-CCN3. The family members other than CTGF are cysteine-rich angiogenic inducer 61 (Cyr61/CCN1), nephroblastoma overexpressed genes (Nov/CCN3), and Wnt-inducible signaling pathway proteins 1–3 (WISP1-3/CCN4-6). CCN proteins are numbered in the order of their discovery, as proposed in 2003 [2]. Except for CCN5 which lacks domain 4, these proteins share a multimodular structure, with an N-terminal secretory signal peptide followed by four distinct conserved domains: the insulin-like growth factor-binding protein domain (domain 1; IGFBP), von Willebrand factor domain (domain 2; vWC), thrombospondin type 1 repeat (domain 3; TSP1), and a cystine knot (domain 4; CT). A hinge region susceptible to protease cleavage links domains 1 and 2, and domains 3 and 4 (Fig. 1). Human CTGF gene is located on chromosome 6q23.1 and has five exons that each encodes a signal peptide and domains 1 to 4 [3].
Schematic representation of the CTGF structure and interaction with the molecules. IGFBP, insulin-like growth factor binding protein domain; vWC, von Willebrand factor C domain; TSP-1, thrombospondin type 1 repeat domain; CT, C-terminal domain. Integrins were shown in each α and β subunits
CTGF not only acts through their own putative receptors but also modifies various growth factors and cytokines. The specific receptor of CTGF has not been identified, and each domain of CTGF can bind to multiple ligands. These includes insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), fibronectin (domain 1: IGFBP), TGF-β1, bone morphogenetic factors, α5β3 integrin (domain 2: vWC), low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP-1), VEGF (domain 3: TSP1) and Wnt, integrins, heparan sulfate proteoglycan, LRPs, and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR; domain 4: CT). Thus, CTGF can simultaneously interact with several factors with their four hands. As the microenvironment differs depending on the types of cells and tissues and differentiation stages of these cells, the diverse biological actions of CTGF on various types of cells and tissues would depend on this difference in microenvironment [4].
CTGF and development, and physiological functions
CTGF is expressed in various tissues in midgestation embryos, with the highest levels found in vascular tissues and maturing chondrocytes. Analysis of CTGF knockout mice reveals that CTGF deficiency leads to skeletal dysmorphisms due to impaired chondrocyte proliferation and extracellular matrix composition. CTGF is important for cell proliferation and matrix remodeling during chondrogenesis and is a key regulator coupling extracellular matrix remodeling to angiogenesis at the growth plate [5]. In kidney development, CTGF mRNA is presented in the immediate precursors of glomerular visceral and parietal epithelial cells in the comma- and S-shaped stages, but not in the earlier stages of nephron development. During the maturating glomerular stages, CTGF mRNA expression is maximal and present only in differentiating glomerular epithelial cells. CTGF protein is also present in the precursors of mesangial cells and glomerular endothelium [6]. The role of CTGF in kidney development cannot be excluded, but Falk et al. reported that 90% CTGF reduction does not lead to structural changes and albuminuria [7].
CTGF and kidney fibrosis
Kidney fibrosis is a common pathological feature in chronic kidney disease and characterized by glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Various cytokines and growth factors are reportedly involved and associated with fibrogenic and inflammatory processes. Of these, TGF-β has been shown to play a central role in the development of renal fibrosis [8]. Igarashi et al. reported that CTGF is induced by TGF-β1 in wound healing and that there is a strong correlation between skin sclerosis and CTGF expression in the dermal fibroblasts of patients with systemic sclerosis [9, 10]. Mice overexpressing CTGF in fibroblast are susceptible to acceleration of tissue fibrosis that affects the skin, lung, kidney, and vascular system, most notably the small arteries [11]. In addition, CTGF-dependent activation of the tropomyosin-related kinase A receptor induces TIEG-1, a transcriptional receptor of Smad7, which represses Smad7, a natural receptor of TGF-β signaling. Thus, activation of CTGF increases phosph-Smad2/3, promoting transcription of Smad-responsive genes including CTGF itself. These results indicate that CTGF may be involved in fibrosis.
CTGF expression in fibrosis is also reported to occur in the kidney area. Exposure of mesangial cell to recombinant human CTGF significantly increased production of fibronectin and collagen type I. Induction of CTGF in rat mesangial cells due to high glucose levels is mediated by TGF-β [12]. The study of human kidney biopsy samples from various kidney diseases has revealed that CTGF expression level is increased in glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis [13]. Thereafter, many animal and in vitro experiments have demonstrated the pivotal role of CTGF in kidney fibrosis.
Relationship of CTGF expression levels in plasma or urine with kidney function has been reported [14, 15]. In patients with CKD, an independent association is observed between plasma CTGF level and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). In addition, plasma CTGF level correlates with residual kidney function in patients with end-stage kidney disease [14].
An interventional study of an animal model is first reported by Yokoi et al. Treatment of CTGF antisense oligonucleotide markedly attenuates the induction of fibronectin and collagen expressions in the rat unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) model [15]. Another study also showed the efficacy of CTGF inhibition by CTGF antisense oligonucleotide in subtotal nephrectomy of TGF-β transgenic mice [16].
In diabetes, the role of CTGF in disease development has been reported. Increased CTGF expression has been documented both in glomeruli and in tubulointerstitium [13]. Urinary CTGF is elevated as a result of both increased local production and reduced reabsorption due to tubular dysfunction and correlates with albuminuria and GFR. Thus, urinary CTGF might be as a suitable marker of diabetic nephropathy [17]. Overexpression of CTGF in the podocytes of a streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes model is sufficient to exacerbate proteinuria and mesangial expansion through functional impairment and loss of podocytes [18]. In a 16-week STZ-induced diabetic nephropathy model, CTGF heterozygous mice (CTGF +/−) with 50% lower CTGF expression develop less albuminuria, mesangial expansion, and glomerular basement thickness [19]. In cultured embryonic fibroblasts from wild-type mice, glucose increases the expressions of pro-collagens 1 and 4, fibronectin, and TSP1. By contrast, activation of these genes by high glucose is attenuated in CTGF+/− embryonic fibroblasts from wild-type mice [20]. On the other hand, Falk et al. reported that a heterozygous deletion of CTGF does not prevent severe kidney fibrosis. They examined the effect of CTGF on the progression of renal scarring in long-term STZ-induced diabetic nephropathy, in the advanced stage of obstructive nephropathy following UUO and in aristolochic acid (AA)-induced tubulotoxic nephritis by using heterozygous CTGF knockout mice. Unlike in mild and relatively early STZ-induced diabetic nephropathy, scarring of severely and chronically damaged kidneys induced by STZ, UUO, and AA is not attenuated by a 50% reduction in CTGF levels relative to normal levels [21].
Possible efficacy of anti-CTGF therapy has been explored by a genetic deletion and neutralizing antibody. Of these, FG-3019, a human monoclonal antibody to CTGF, has been used in some animal models, including pulmonary fibrosis, peritoneal fibrosis, and systemic sclerosis. These studies showed successful treatment for fibrosis by inhibition of CTGF [22]. In addition, FG-3019 has also humper tumor growth in mouse models of pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, and melanoma [23, 24]. Moreover, FG-3019 has been used in clinical trials for pulmonary fibrosis and pancreatic cancer and no serious adverse effects have been observed [25]. Although treatment for diabetic kidney disease with microalbuminuria using FG-3019 is well tolerated and associated with decreased albuminuria, there are no active trials in renal field [26].
CTGF and glomerulonephritis
Acute and chronic inflammation usually precedes the development of organ fibrosis. Activated inflammatory cells release many factors, including profibrotic cytokines such as TGF-β, and chronic inflammation leads to the development of fibrosis. CTGF is well known to participate in this fibrotic process. Apart from this fibrotic effect, several reports have showed the upregulation of CTGF expression in glomerulonephritis. Glomerulonephritis often develops from intra-glomerular activation via the classical or alternative complement pathway. Immune complexes can form different compartment of the glomerulus, which determines the resulting histopathological lesion, as different glomerular cell types are primarily activated. The result of histological lesions determined the classification of glomerulonephritis. Immune complex deposition in mesangial cell activates mesangial cells lead to mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis, such as IgA nephropathy. Subendothelial immune complex deposition activates endothelial cells, as seen in lupus nephritis classes III and IV. Subepithelial immune complex deposition activate podocytes, as seen in membranous nephropathy usually cause massive proteinuria. Immune complex deposition in glomerular basement membrane (GBM) induces anti-GBM disease. Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated glomerulonephritis develops the absence of immune complex deposits, as it is driven by both ANCA and cellular immunity [27]. Ito et al. showed that CTGF is strongly upregulated in the extra-capillary and severe mesangial proliferative lesions of IgA nephritis, crescentic glomerulonephritis, and focal segmental sclerosis in various human kidney biopsy samples [6, 13]. Another study reported that CTGF is strongly expressed in cellular and fibrocellular crescents and proposed that it is involved in extracellular matrix production by parietal epithelial cells [28]. The mRNA expression of CTGF in kidney biopsy samples from chronic glomerulonephritis is higher than that in control samples [29].
Animal models of glomerulonephritis also reported increased expression of CTGF. In anti-Thy-1.1 nephritis, CTGF mRNA expression is strongly increased in mesangial proliferative and extra-capillary lesions. Glomerular CTGF expression is maximal on day 7, in association with increased TGF-β1 mRNA and protein expression levels. The kinetics of CTGF expression strongly suggests a role in glomerular repair, possibly downstream of TGF-β, in this model of transient renal injury [30]. In the acute phase of rat crescentic glomerulonephritis, a major component of crescents was macrophages, which do not express CTGF mRNA. However, in the advanced phase, crescentic cells strongly express CTGF mRNA and epithelial marker but do not express the macrophage marker ED1, which suggests that parietal epithelial cells synthesize CTGF. Blockade of endogenous CTGF using antisense oligonucleotide significantly attenuates TGF-β1 and PDGF-BB-induced extracellular matrix accumulation in parietal epithelial glomerular cells [28].
The relationship of plasma and urine CTGF levels with kidney function in glomerulonephritis was previously reported. CTGF mRNA is expressed at the site of chronic tubulointerstitial damage and correlated with the degree of damage [13]. In patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies-associated glomerulonephritis, plasma CTGF levels are associated with cellular crescents but are not correlated with renal function. The plasma CTGF level at baseline predicted renal survival more accurately than the acute glomerular nephritis classification [31]. In lupus nephritis, renal CTGF mRNA expression correlates inversely with baseline GFR and was also higher in patients with subsequent decline in GFR [32]. These results indicate the relationship of CTGF with glomerulonephritis.
Anti-GBM nephritis is an animal model commonly used to study a type of immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis [33]. Anti-GBM nephritis is caused by autoantibodies specific for α3 chain of type IV collagen. Neutrophil recruitment to the kidney starts several hours after the induction of anti-GBM nephritis and its mediated by interleukin-17A (IL-17)-producing γδT cell. The adaptive immune response is initiated by mature dendritic cells that depend on CC-chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2). In earlier stage, immune responses that are mediated by Th17 cells which recruit neutrophils and macrophages cause sustained kidney inflammation [27]. Usually, CTGF is known to be a downstream mediator of TGF-β. Blockade of TGF-β in the early stage of anti-GBM nephritis in rat ameliorates renal function and histological changes such as crescentic formation and interstitial fibrosis [34]. The gene expression profile of anti-GBM glomerulonephritis revealed that CTGF is expressed as early as on the first day of disease induction preceding TGF-β1 expression [35]. Rodrigues-Diez et al. showed that the C-terminal domain 4 of CTGF induced renal Th17 inflammatory response. In vitro, stimulation of human CD4+ T lymphocytes with CTGF domain 4 results in differentiation of the Th17 phenotype [36]. These results mean that CTGF might be involved in inflammatory responses and is a candidate for therapeutic target for glomerulonephritis.
Complete deletion of CTGF is a desired in an experimental approach for evaluating the contribution of CTGF to the development of renal disease. However, CTGF knockout mice die shortly after birth. To investigate the role of CTGF in the glomerulonephritis model and the contribution of endogenous CTGF expression, we generated a full length of CTGF floxed mice and established tamoxifen-inducible systemic CTGF knockout (Rosa-CTGF cKO) mice by crossing Rosa-CreERT2 mice [37]. The gene expression of CTGF in the kidneys of Rosa-CTGF cKO mice is decreased by 80%. After induction of anti-GBM nephritis, Rosa-CTGF cKO mice exhibit 50% reduction of proteinuria and decreased crescent formation and mesangial expansion as compared with the control mice. In addition to the increases in the expression levels of fibrotic makers such as Tgfβ1, Acta2, and Fn1, the glomerular mRNA expression of MCP-1 (Ccl2) and F4/80 (Adgre1) is increased in the control mice with anti-GBM nephritis, and this increase is reduced in the Rosa-CTGF cKO mice with nephritis. Accumulation of MAC2-positive cells in glomeruli is also reduced in Rosa-CTGF cKO mice. It is interesting that this amelioration of anti-GBM nephritis is not observed in podocyte-specific CTGF deletion. Furthermore, mesangial cell CTGF cKO mice with nephritis show similar phenotype to Rosa-CTGF cKO mice [38]. In addition, Rosa-CTGF cKO mice with peritoneal fibrosis also exhibit almost 50% reduction in MAC-2 (macrophage marker)-positive cell infiltration and Cd68 mRNA expression in the peritoneum (Fig. 2) [39]. These results suggest that CTGF from mesangial cell, not podocytes, may be required for the upregulation of MCP-1expression not only in anti-GBM nephritis but also in other types of glomerulonephritis, such as IgA nephropathy, because CTGF expression and accumulation of macrophages in the mesangial area are documented in these glomerular diseases [38].
Macrophage recruitment in Rosa-CTGF cKO mice with anti-GBM nephritis at the earlier stage. a Representative photomicrographs of the kidneys at 1 week after induction of anti-GBM nephritis (PAS staining). Left upper panel, control mice with anti-GBM nephritis; right upper panel show, Rosa-CTGF cKO mice with anti-GBM nephritis. Bar represents 50 μm. b Immunohistochemical studies for MAC-2 at 1 week after induction of anti-GBM nephritis. Bar represents 50 μm. c Changes in proteinuria at 1 week after induction of anti-GBM nephritis. d The number of MAC-2-positive cells at 1 week after induction of anti-GBM nephritis. Values are expressed as means ± s.e. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 vs. control GBM
Role of CTGF in adhesion and migration
During development of inflammation, transmigration of leukocytes to the inflammatory site is a major step. Inflammatory stimuli activate endothelial cells to express adhesion molecules and chemokines which recruit leukocytes. An increasing number of studies have shown the function of CTGF in adhesion and migration.
CTGF modulates the expression of inflammatory mediators, including cytokines and chemokines through distinct signaling pathways in various cell systems [40]. Direct application of CTGF osteoarthritis synovial fibroblast increases the MCP-1 expression in a time- and dose-dependent manner. CTGF-mediated MCP-1 production is attenuated by αVβ1 integrin-neutralized antibody. Pretreatment with focal adhesion kinase (FAK), MEK, AP-1, and NF-κB inhibitor also inhibits the potentiating action of CTGF. CTGF-mediated increase in NF-κB and AP-1 luciferase activities are inhibited by FAK, MEK, and ERK inhibitors [41]. In vivo, Sanchez-Lopes reported that systemic administration of CTGF in mice for 24 h induces marked infiltration of T lymphocytes and macrophages in the renal interstitium and leads to elevated renal NF-κB activity. Administration of CTGF increases the renal expression of chemokines (MCP-1 and RANTES) and cytokines (INF-ϒ and IL-6) that recruit immune cells and promote inflammation [42]. In rat mesangial cells, CTGF expression induces production of fractalkine, MCP-1, and RANTES in a time- and dose-dependent manner via the p42/44 MAPK-, PI3-K/AKT-, and NF-κB-dependent signal pathways [43]. MCP-1 expression is reduced by CTGF inhibition in TGF-β1-treated mesangial cells. Treatment with recombinant CTGF can overcome this effect of endogenous CTGF inhibition. In tubule-epithelial cells, CTGF increases MCP-1 gene expression through activation of NF-κB and mitogen-activated protein kinase [42]. Thus, CTGF is thought to regulate proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines and induces leukocyte migration in kidney inflammation.
Previous reports have demonstrated that CTGF enhances adhesion through interactions with integrins and fibronectin in various cell types. These results showed that the absence of CTGF prevents cell adhesion and treatment of CTGF increases cell adhesion. This CTGF-mediated adhesion occurs through integrin and fibronectin expressions [44]. As regards macrophage or monocyte adhesion, Schober et al. reported that activated monocytes adhere to Cyr61 (CCN1) and CTGF through αMβ2 integrin and cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans [45]. Another report showed that CTGF induces peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) migration in a dose-dependent manner. In the presence of heparin, which binds to CTGF, the chemotactic response to CTGF is reduced. Cell surface heparin sulfate is required for CTGF-mediated PBMC migration [46]. Osteoarthritis synovial fluid and supernatants from CTGF-treated osteoarthritis synovial fibroblasts increase migration of monocytes. In addition, CTGF-mediated migration is inhibited by MEK and ERK inhibitors [41]. Mesangial cell adhesion and CTGF are also reported. CTGF significantly increases cell surface α5β1 integrin levels relative to the basal levels in human mesangial cells (HMC). CTGF and TGF-β increased cell adhesion to fibronectin, the main α5β1 substrate. Antisense CTGF reduces the number of adherent cells with TGF-β stimulation. CTGF controls α5β1 expression by HMC in vitro [47]. We investigated the effects of CTGF on the adhesion of macrophages to activated mesangial cells. Fluorescein-dye-labeled RAW264.7 cells are co-cultured with recombinant TNF-α-stimulated mesangial cells on culture plates. The increase in macrophage adhesion by TNF-α stimulation is significantly inhibited by CTGF knockdown in mesangial cells, and this reduction is negated by exogenous CTGF administration. These results suggest that CTGF induces macrophage accumulation in glomerulonephritis by enhancing both chemotaxis and adhesion and that reduction of CTGF expression, particularly in mesangial cells, ameliorates nephritis via inhibition of macrophage infiltration (Fig. 3) [38].
CTGF mediates chemotaxis and adhesion of macrophages as well as ECM production in mesangial cells. Anti-GBM nephritis elicits upregulation of CTGF in mesangial cells. CTGF derived from mesangial cells increases MCP-1 (CCL2) expression, which induces macrophage migration and ECM proteins, including integrin αv and fibronectin, which contribute macrophage adhesion with mesangial cells
CTGF and inflammatory mediator
The regulation of CTGF expression by an inflammatory mediator has been reported. It was found that the effect of TNF-α on CTGF expression is dependent on cell systems or exposure time. The sequences between − 244 and − 166 of the CTGF promoter were necessary for TNF-α to modulate CTGF expression [48]. TGF-β1 induces CTGF gene expression via Smad-binding element (SBE) and a unique TGF-β1 response element which is located between − 162 and − 128 of the CTGF promoter [49]. Short-term treatment of mesangial cells with TNF-α, like with TGF-β, significantly increases secreted CTGF per cell. TNF-α combined with TGF-β further increases CTGF secretion and mRNA levels and reduces proliferation. However, long-term treatment with TNF-α or TGF-β alone does not increase CTGF protein levels [50]. In synovial cells, TNF-α can also induce CTGF production [51]. By contrast, TNF-α downregulated CTGF in human lung endothelial cells and in normal and scleroderma fibroblasts in a dose- and time-dependent manner [52, 53].
Several reports indicated that CTGF modulates the expression of inflammatory mediators. Stimulation with CTGF induces TNF-α expression in macrophage [38]. Osteoarthritis synovial fibroblast stimulation with CTGF induces concentration-dependent increases in IL-6 expression level. CTGF-mediated IL-6 production is attenuated by αvβ5 integrin-neutralized antibody [54]. In tubule-epithelial cells, CTGF increases the IL-6 gene expression through activation of NF-κB and mitogen-activated protein kinase [42]. In clinical, the serum level of CTGF in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was higher than in normal controls and active RA patients showed higher serum CTGF level than inactive RA patients. Furthermore, CTGF level was decreased by infliximab, anti-TNF-α antibody [55]. These results suggest that CTGF induces inflammatory mediators.
CTGF is a downstream mediator of the profibrotic properties of TGF-β. In addition to fibrosis, CTGF has multiple functions, including cell adhesion and migration. CTGF expression is upregulated in glomerulonephritis. Deletion of CTGF can ameliorate anti-GBM glomerulonephritis by reducing macrophage accumulation in mice. Further studies are required to investigate the use of CTGF as a potential target for the treatment of glomerulonephritis.
CTGF:
GBM:
GFR:
IFN-γ:
Interferon-gamma
IL-6:
MCP-1:
Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1
RANTES:
Regulation and activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted
STZ:
Streptozotocin
TGF-β1:
Transforming growth factor beta1
TNF-α:
Tumor necrosis factor alpha
VEGF:
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The authors would like to express science appreciation to Prof. Hideyuki Okano for giving us the opportunity to write this review article and to all lab members and collaborators.
This work was supported in part by research grants from JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Numbers 17K16080 to N.T. and 25461246, 26461225, 17K09697 to H.Y.)
Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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Department of Nephrology, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan
Masashi Mukoyama
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HUGE Solar Eruption a Warning of 2012 Storm?
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X-class flare erupts from a sunspot the size of Jupiter
A POWERFUL solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said.
The massive sunspot, which astronomers say is the size of Jupiter, is the strongest solar flare in four years, NASA said yesterday.
The Class X flash – the largest such category – erupted on Tuesday, according to the US space agency.
“X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events that can trigger radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms,” disturbing telecommunications and electric grids, NASA said.
Astronomers have been predicting a solar cycle known as Solar maximum, predicted to hit with full force in 2012, could be one of the most damaging on record.
Similar storms back in 1859 and 1921 caused worldwide chaos, wiping out telegraph wires on a massive scale, but the potential for damage in the digital era could be much greater.
A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause “$1 to 2 trillion in damages to society’s high-tech infrastructure and require four to 10 years for complete recovery”.
On Tuesday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a large coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with the flash that is blasting toward Earth at about 900km per second, it said.
The charged plasma particles were expected to reach the planet’s orbit tonight.
The flare spread from Active Region 1158 in the sun’s southern hemisphere, which had so far lagged behind the northern hemisphere in flash activity. It followed several smaller flares in recent days.
“The calm before the storm,” read a statement on the US National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Service.
“Three CMEs are enroute, all a part of the Radio Blackout events on February 13, 14, and 15 (UTC). The last of the three seems to be the fastest and may catch both of the forerunners about mid to late … February 17.”
Geomagnetic storms usually last 24 to 48 hours, “but some may last for many days”, read a separate NWS statement.
“Ground to air, ship to shore, shortwave broadcast and amateur radio are vulnerable to disruption during geomagnetic storms. Navigation systems like GPS can also be adversely affected.”
The China Meteorological Administration reported that the solar flare had jammed shortwave radio communications in southern China.
It said the flare caused “sudden ionospheric disturbances” in the atmosphere above China, and warned there was a high probability that large solar flares would appear over the next three days, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Another previous major disturbance of the Earth’s electric grid from a solar incident, in 1973, a magnetic storm caused by a solar eruption plunged six million people into darkness in Canada’s eastern-central Quebec province.
The British Geological Survey said meanwhile that the solar storm would result in spectacular Northern Lights displays.
One coronal mass ejection (CME) arrived on February 14, “sparking Valentine’s Day displays of the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) further south than usual”.
“Two CMEs are expected to arrive in the next 24-48 hours and further… displays are possible some time over the next two nights if skies are clear,” it said.
The office published geomagnetic records dating back to the Victorian era which it hopes will help in planning for future storms.
“Life increasingly depends on technologies that didn’t exist when the magnetic recordings began,” said Alan Thomson, BGS head of geomagnetism.
“Studying the records will tell us what we have to plan and prepare for to make sure systems can resist solar storms,” he said.
Warnings of a ‘Solar Catastrophe’ in 2012
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Acupuncture and Herbs Stop Shingles Pain, Outperforms Drugs
Posted on November 5, 2018 November 5, 2018 by Evan F.J. Murao
Needles being inserted perpendicular to the paraspinal muscles bilaterally.
Acupuncture and herbs prove effective for the treatment of shingles. Researchers from three independent studies conclude that acupuncture and herbal medicine significantly relieve rashes and pain associated with the herpes zoster virus (shingles). Importantly, acupuncture and herbal medicine outperformed antiviral and anti-inflammatory medications, indicating that usual care protocols are suboptimal without inclusion of acupuncture and herbal medicine.
The shingles viral infection is characterized by painful blisters, usually located in a single strip on either side of the trunk, neck, or face. Even once the blisters have subsided, patients can be left with severe neuralgia (nerve pain), which may last for several weeks or months. According to Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) principles, this condition usually falls into the category of either excess liver fire, liver and gallbladder damp heat, or spleen deficiency with accumulated pathogenic dampness. Rashes associated with shingles are sometimes referred to as “snake string sores” in TCM, reflecting the nature of their physical presentation.
People’s Hospital
The first study we will look at today was conducted by researchers at the People’s Hospital of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone. [i] A total of 88 patients with a clinical diagnosis of a herpes zoster infection were recruited and randomly assigned to an acupuncture and herbal medicine observation group or a drug control group (including anti-inflammatory and antiviral medications).
The acupuncture and herbal medicine group produced significantly greater patient outcomes. This includes a higher cure rate, a higher overall effective rate, and a lower failure rate. The results indicate that standard procedures to alleviate shingles in hospital and outpatient settings absent acupuncture and herbs are definitively not the most effective means to provide relief to patients.
The observation group comprised 20 male and 24 female participants with a mean age of 43.6 years. Their mean duration of disease was 3.4 days. The control group comprised 18 male and 26 female participants, with a mean age of 42.8 years. The mean duration of disease in this group was 3.6 days. There were no statistically significant differences in baseline characteristics between the two groups at the outset of the investigation.
The control group was treated with conventional drug therapy including:
• Acyclovir (200mg, three times a day)
• Vitamin B1 (10mg, three times a day)
• Ibuprofen slow release capsules (300mg daily)
• Acyclovir topical ointment
The observation group was treated with a modified version of the herbal formula Long Dan Xie Gan Tang containing the following herbs:
• Sheng Di 30g
• Che Qian Zi 30g
• Ban Lan Gen 30g
• Huang Qin 15g
• Chi Shao 15g
• Zhi Zi 15g
• Da Qing Ye 15g
• Long Dan Cao 12g
• Ze Xie 12g
• Chai Hu 10g
• Dang Gui 10g
• For patients suffering from concurrent constipation, Da Huang (10g) was added to the formula.
• For patients with symptoms of exuberant heat, Sheng Shi Gao (30g), Zhi Mu (15g), and Mu Dan Pi (15g) were added.
• For patients with pus-filled blisters, Pu Gong Ying (30g) was added.
• For patients with severe pain, Zhi Ru Xiang (10g) and Zhi Mo Yao (10g) were added.
The herbs were decocted in water and one dose was taken daily, divided into two portions for morning and evening consumption. The patients in the observation group were also treated with acupuncture at the following acupoints:
• Huatuojiaji (MBW35)
• Zhigou (TB6)
• Yanglingquan (GB34)
• Yinlingquan (SP9)
Acupuncture was also administered locally in the area of herpetic rashes. Needles were inserted into the spaces between blisters, approximately 1.5 cun apart. The needles were manipulated slightly then withdrawn immediately, and the puncture was not sealed with cotton. The incidental drawing of a small drop of blood was considered a beneficial effect. The affected area was also warmed with a moxa cigar. Treatment was administered once daily. Both groups underwent treatment for a total of ten days, with an initial assessment of rashes after five days.
Patients with a complete resolution of rashes and clinical symptoms (including pain) were classified as cured. In patients with at least a 30% improvement in rashes and pain reduction, the treatment was classified as effective. In patients showing less than 30% improvement in rashes and no change or worsening of pain, the treatment was classified as ineffective.
In the drug control group, 15 patients were cured, 21 cases were classified as effective, and 8 cases were classified as ineffective, yielding a total effective rate of 81.8%. In the acupuncture and herbal medicine observation group, 25 patients were cured, 18 cases were classified as effective, and one case was classified as ineffective, yielding a total effective rate of 97.7%.
A combination of acupuncture and herbal medicine has been used for the treatment of shingles for over 1,000 years. This modern study confirms the efficaciousness of a common TCM protocol for the treatment of herpes zoster. A rethinking of usual care standards seems appropriate based on the findings. At the Healthcare Medicine Institute (HealthCMi), we examine traditional acupuncture continuing education standards and repeatedly find that an integrative medicine model for the treatment of shingles is superior to drug monotherapy. Let’s take a look at the second study in our review of shingles treatments.
Changjizhou and Jimusa’erxian TCM Hospital
The second study conducted by researchers at the Changjizhou and Jimusa’erxian TCM Hospital (department of acupuncture and moxibustion) determined that acupuncture and herbal medicine are effective for the treatment of shingles. [ii] For this study, a total of 40 patients were recruited and randomly assigned to either an observation or control group.
The observation group was comprised of 12 male and 8 female participants, ages 18–63 years (mean age 35.5 years). Their duration of disease was 1–10 days (mean duration 5.5 days) at the outset. The control group was comprised of 13 male and 7 female participants, ages 18–65 years (mean age 36.5 years). Their duration of disease was 1–8 days (mean duration 4.5 days). There were no statistically significant differences in baseline characteristics between the two groups at the outset of the investigation.
Both groups were treated with herbal decoctions according to their TCM differential diagnoses. Patients diagnosed with excessive heat in the liver channel were prescribed a version of Qing Re Zhi Tong Tang containing the following herbs:
• Lian Qiao 15g
• Jin Yin Hua 15g
• Huang Lian 10g
• Long Dan Cao 5g
• Gan Cao 5g
• Ling Ci Shi 25g
Patients diagnosed with spleen deficiency with accumulation of pathogenic dampness were prescribed a version of Chu Shi Wei Ling Tang containing the following ingredients:
• Cang Zhu 10g
• Chen Pi 10g
• Shao Bai Zhu 10g
• Fu Ling 15g
Both decoctions were taken as a daily dose for a total of 21 days. Patients in the observation group also received acupuncture in the area affected by the herpetic rash. Following standard disinfection, 3–6 needles were inserted surrounding the rash at a distance of approximately 0.5–1cm. The needles were inserted transversely to a depth of 20–50mm, angled towards the midpoint of the rash. The needles were manipulated using a balanced reinforcing-reducing method and were retained for 30 minutes. Treatment was administered daily for 14 days.
For patients whose rash and clinical symptoms fully resolved, treatment was classified as markedly effective. For those whose rash improved by more than 70% and experienced some reduction in pain, treatment was classified as effective. For those whose rash improved by less than 30% and experienced no reduction in pain, treatment was classified as ineffective.
In the control group, there were 10 markedly effective, 6 effective, and 4 ineffective cases, yielding a total effective rate of 80%. In the observation group, there were 15 markedly effective, 4 effective, and one ineffective cases, yielding a total effective rate of 95%.
The patients also rated their pain using a visual analog scale (VAS). VAS scores of 7–10 indicated severe, unbearable pain. Scores of 4–6 indicated severe but tolerable pain, 1–3 indicated mild pain, and scores of 0 indicated a complete absence of pain. At the beginning of the study, mean VAS scores in the control group and observation group were 7.36 and 7.25 respectively. By the end of the study, scores decreased significantly to 4.20 and 2.04 respectively, with significantly greater improvements in the observation group. The results indicate that a combination of acupuncture and herbs is more effective than using only herbal medicine.
Yungang Community Sanitation Service Center
The final study we will examine was conducted by researchers at the Chinese medicine and acupuncture department of the Yungang Community Sanitation Service Center in Beijing. [iii] A total of 36 herpes zoster patients were recruited for the study and were treated with acupuncture, herbs, and cupping therapy. The study group was comprised of 8 male and 28 female patients, ages 25–78 years. Of these participants, 8 had a disease duration of less than 2 days, 11 had a disease duration of 2–14 days, and the remaining 17 participants had a disease duration of over 14 days at the outset of the study.
Treatment Procedure
All patients were treated with a version of Long Dan Xie Tang and Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin. The ingredients were as follows:
• Hei Shan Zhi 15g
• Huang Bai 10g
• Mu Tong 10g
• Sheng Gan Cao 10g
• Ye Ju Hua 10g
• Zi Hua Di Ding 10g
• Pu Gong Ying 10g
• For patients suffering from concurrent constipation, Da Huang (10g) and Lai Fu Zi (10g) were added to the formula.
• For patients with symptoms of excessive heat, Huang Lian (10g) was added.
• For patients with severe pain, Chuan Lian Zi (10g) and Yuan Hu (10g) were added.
The herbs were decocted in water on a daily basis and were subsequently divided into three portions to be taken morning, noon, and evening. Acupuncture was administered in the area of the herpetic rashes. Needles were inserted between blisters and were stimulated using a reducing method to elicit a distending pain in the region. Needles were retained for 30 minutes.
• For patients whose symptoms originated in the area of the limbs, Quchi (LI11), Taichong (LV3), and Chezi (LU5) were added.
• For those whose symptoms originated on the back of the torso, Huatuojiaji (MBW35) and Hegu (LI4) were added.
• For those with a TCM diagnosis of liver fire blazing, Taichong (LV3), Chize (LU5), and Zhigou (TB6) were added.
• For those with a TCM diagnosis of damp-heat in the Stomach and Spleen, Xuehai (SP10) and Sanyinjiao (SP6) were added.
• For those with a TCM diagnosis of qi stagnation and blood stasis, Geshu (BL17) was added.
Needles at Huatuojiaji points were inserted perpendicularly to a depth of 0.7–0.8mm. The needles were manipulated using a balanced reinforcing-reducing method, and after the arrival of deqi, were retained for 20 minutes. Needles at the remaining acupoints were inserted and manipulated using a lifting, thrusting, and rotating reducing technique. These needles were also retained for 20 minutes. Treatment was administered daily for a total of ten days.
Cupping therapy was administered on every third day of the treatment period. A three-edged needle was used to puncture the skin surrounding the herpetic blisters. For those with a relatively small area affected by the rash, a single puncture was made. For those with a larger rash, the punctures were made approximately 3–5cm apart. A cup was then placed over the puncture(s) and were retained for 10 minutes.
Patients with a complete resolution of both rashes and associated pain were classified as recovered. For patients whose symptoms resolved almost completely, the treatment was classified as markedly effective. For patients whose symptoms partially resolved, the treatment was classified as effective. For patients whose symptoms did not improve or worsened, the treatment was classified as ineffective.
For patients whose symptoms had been present for less than two days, all 8 were fully recovered, yielding a 100% effective rate. Among those whose symptoms had been present for 2–14 days, 5 were classified as recovered and 2 were classified as markedly effective, yielding a total effective rate of 63.6%. For those whose symptoms had been present for over 14 days, one was classified as recovered and one was classified as effective, yielding a total effective rate of 11.8%.
The results of three independent studies indicate that acupuncture combined with herbal medicine is a highly effective treatment combination for rashes and pain associated with the herpes zoster virus. Additionally, treatment is significantly more effective the earlier it is administered. For more information, contact us at Inner Chi Hawai’i to learn about treatment options tailored uniquely to you.
[i] Cao Bo (2018) “Clinical Study of Longdan Xiegan decoction Combined with Acupuncture and Moxibustion for Herpes Zoster” Guide of China Medicine Vol.16(25) pp. 174-175.
[ii] Zhang Qin, Ding Yujie (2018) “Study on the Effect of Dialectical Treatment with Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture on Clinical Symptoms of Herpes Zoster Neuralgia” Cardiovascular Disease Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Vol.6(25) pp. 134.
[iii] Zhao Yun (2018) “Observation on the Effect of Combined Chinese Medicine and Cupping Method on 36 Patients with Herpes Zoster” Traditional Chinese Medicine Vol.16(16) pp.172-174.
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"Today, I'm going for the gold. You get it, "Booster Gold"."
— Booster in Night of The Bat
Michael Jon Carter
The Man of the Future
Black (with yellow-tinted goggles)
Red Velvet (ex-wife)
Football Player (formerly)
Night Watchman (formerly)
Member of the Justice League (current)
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Enhanced Strength
Enhanced Longevity
Energy Blasts
Time Travel and various other abilities
Gauntlet Lasers via Energy Blasters
Legion Flight Ring
Force Field Belt
Time-Travel Circuitry
Visor Devices
Night of The Bat/Shazam Slam
Booster Gold is fame and fortune seeking superhero from the future.
In the year 2462, star athlete, Michael Carter fell on hard times, homeless and forced into a low-paying job as a night watchman in a space-time museum. It was at this point in his life that he met wealthy heiress Margo Montgomery, who he quickly fell in love with. As the two were about to be married, Carter realized that he had to do right by Margo and excused himself from the ceremony to regain his former glory. In order to do so, he stole a Legion of Super-Heroes flight ring, a power suit, and a time machine from the future collection of the museum he worked at to travel to the past and become the unlikely hero known as Booster Gold! He uses his knowledge of history to prevent crimes before they happened. Most of Booster's allies in the Justice League see him as nothing more than an egotistic showboat of no real value to the team. Truthfully, however, Booster safeguards the very fabric of space/time, detecting alterations and ruptures in time and setting out to fix them.
Booster Gold is an arrogant superhero who at first glance appears to only be in the job for fame and fortune until its revealed he wanted to make enough money to support his then wife Margo. He is shown to lack common sense, as shown when he tried to create a theme park with live dinosaurs (having not seen more than ten minutes of Jurassic Park, he had no idea that it would fail), advertised tours of the Watchtower not knowing that it would attract supervillains, and wasted much of his wife's money on poor investments, causing her to become the supervillain Red Velvet and attempt to destroy him by going back in time.
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REDMOND, Wash. - A 20-month-old child was hospitalized with serious injuries Wednesday after falling from the sixth floor of a Redmond apartment complex and landing on top of a parked car.
Police got an emergency call at about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday from Redmond Square Apartments after the toddler fell out of a window. Authorities said the toddler was laying on a mattress pad on the floor and propped himself up to the window, falling out. The window is reportedly only about one foot off the ground inside the apartment, making it accessible to the child.
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Lu just happened to bike to work Wednesday instead of driving his car, which would've left his parking spot empty at the time of the fall.
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It's a fall that's turned Lu into a believer of miracles.
"I can't say I do normally, but this time, I don't know how else to term it," he said.
The child was taken to Harborview Medical Center after the fall. A hospital spokesperson said Wednesday evening that he was in serious but stable condition.
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A few weeks ago Yellow and I came up with a new game that we play called "I'm So Goth". Last night when sleep was not favoring us and Damien was already in bed, Renea and I camped out in the guest room and rolled around the bed laughing our monkey asses off playing this game. Here are the best bits - feel free to add your own in comments!
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I bleed black."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that the decorating magazine I read is Martha Stewart Dying."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I fucked the devil and gave him 3rd degree burns."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I'm the only thing bats can see coming."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth that it's always night when I go out because the sun is scared shitless of me."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I make Jesus consider Agnosticism."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth that the three nails used to crucify Jesus are all on the fingers of my right hand."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that the video of my 5th birthday party is considered a snuff film."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I ate My Chemical Romance and shit out Bauhaus."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I have patent leather pajamas."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth Siouxsie calls me for make up tips."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that you say tomato, I say eating people's souls."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth that the Batman movies were filmed in my house."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I sleep upside down in a closet."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I live in Helena Bonham Carter's hair."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth my phone number is 666-GOTH."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth that my Godfather is Aleister Crowley."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I'm only allowed outside on Halloween."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I fucked Wednesday Addams... She's now known as Friday Addams."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I was born wearing combat boots."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth my kidneys are pierced."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that when I walk near a church I burst into flames - or as I like to call it, taking a bath."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I have 666 tattoed on my soul."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth my blood type is midnight."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I knew Rob Zombie when he was still Bobby The Ghost."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that it's called Gothy-Goth."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I have a part time job filling for Evil on his days off."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I hired you for that job."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I have a voodoo doll of Tipper Gore."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth my shadow can kill a death eater."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth that I went to see a concert by the Really Nice Blokes and stared down the lead singer - by the encore they'd renamed themselves The Damned."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I cry mascara, whether or not I'm actually wearing it."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I made Anton Lavey convert to Christianity."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I wear Brimstone cologne."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I have a suit made from Ed Gein."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I really do eat nails for breakfast and tacks for snacks."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth that if it looks purple but I say it's black, then goddamnit, it's fucking black."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that after I saw the tape of The Ring, it took Samarra 10 days to get up the nerve to call me."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I have a fishnet umbrella."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that the dark is scared of me."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I use black Q-Tips."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth that I spell the word 'goth' with a silent 7."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth that when I stare at holy water I can make it boil and freeze at the same time."
lolasenvy: "I'm so goth I don't have a washer/dryer, I have a darker/gother."
jesus_h_biscuit: "I'm so goth I lost my virginity to a ghost in a coffin."
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Rabbi Steven Krul, left, and Prof. Gary Stein supervise the certificate program.
On this episode of the Seekers of Meaning Podcast, Prof. Gary Stein and Rabbi Steven Krul of Yeshiva University take time out from the Neshama: National Association of Jewish Chaplains conference in Cherry Hill to visit the Professional Podcasts studios where we record the program. Stein and Krul oversee Yeshiva’s Certificate Program in Gerontology and Palliative Care for rabbis and cantors. They provide an update on the program and some retrospective thoughts about the online curriculum’s first year.
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Dr. Gary Stein, Professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work
Gary L. Stein, JD, MSW, is Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work – Yeshiva University, where has taught social policy, health care practice, palliative care, health care ethics, law and social policy, and LGBT practice in the master’s and doctoral programs since 2006. His interests include palliative and end-of-life care, bioethics, health care policy and practice, social policy, disability, elder care, and LGBT issues. Prof. Stein has been Vice Chair of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network since 2006. Most recently, he was awarded a fellowship with the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program/Congressional Fellowship Program for 2016-2017; his projects were with the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging, and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). Prof. Stein was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Program Award in 2010, through which he was guest faculty at the Lancaster University, U.K. International Observatory for End of Life Care. He was a consultant on disability and health care planning for the RAND Corporation. Prof. Stein was formerly the Executive Director of New Jersey Health Decisions, where he was responsible for developing projects to improve end-of-life care, promote more informed medical decision-making, and foster citizen involvement in healthcare and bioethics issues. Prof. Stein is a recipient of the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network’s 2017 Career Achievement Award, the Project on Death in America’s Social Work Leadership Development Award (2001), and the Rose Dobrof Award (2011) for his publication on LGBT older adults. In 2018, he was appointed to the New York State Palliative Care Education and Training Council.
Rabbi Steven Krul
Rabbi Steven Krul, LCSW, is a Clinical Social Worker and currently serves as the Program Coordinator for the Rabbinic Certificate Program in Gerontology & Palliative Care at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Krul has vast experience in the fields of Grief Counseling & End-Of-Life Care and is also on staff as a Bereavement Counselor at MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care.
Rabbi Krul has both developed & coordinated the MJHS Hospice Bereavement Internship Program for Graduate School students. Rabbi Krul has also served in roles as a Hospice & Palliative Care Social Worker and Chaplain/Pastoral Care Coordinator. Rabbi Krul has experience with various fields within healthcare and Mental Health, however, since the year 2010 the fields of End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care have become a primary focus and mission for Rabbi Krul.
Rabbi Krul completed his Rabbinic Internship at Congregation Ahawas Achim in West Orange, NJ and has served as a Rabbinic Assistant & part of the Rabbinic staff at the Young Israel of Hewlett. Rabbi Krul received his Rabbinical Ordination from Yeshiva University in 2009.
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CREDIT (Clockwise from Top Left): Amazon; Disney; Pamela Littky/FOX; Rhys Thomas/IFC
Under the known laws of physics, it is currently impossible to watch every TV show (or even just every good show) airing new episodes in a given year. But for those of us who treat televisual consumption as a transcendent pursuit, we do our best to fit in as many programs as possible, which means that there are more than ten or even twenty shows worth recognizing in an annual best-of list. So this year, I decided to rank as many shows as I thought were worthy of recognition and provide blurbs for the ones where I really needed to say something.
Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 9/20/19
jmunney Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television Ad Astra, Between Two Ferns, Between Two Ferns: The Movie, black-ish, Brittany Howard, Crank Yankers, Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Disenchantment, Emmys, Evil, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jaime, Loro, mixed-ish, Schooled, Single Parents, South Park, Superstore, The Conners, The Goldbergs, The Good Place, The Masked Singer, The Unicorn, Young Sheldon Leave a comment
CREDIT: Netflix
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
–Ad Astra (Theatrically Nationwide) – Dad Astra.
–Between Two Ferns: The Movie (Streaming on Netflix)
–Loro (Limited Theatrically) – Bunga bunga!
–Disenchantment Season 1, Part 2 (September 20 on Netflix)
-Creative Arts Emmy Awards (September 21 on FXX)
-71st Primetime Emmy Awards (September 22 on FOX)
–The Conners Season 2 Premiere (September 24 on ABC)
–black-ish Season 6 Premiere (September 24 on ABC)
–mixed-ish Series Premiere (September 24 on ABC)
–The Masked Singer Season 2 Premiere (September 25 on ABC)
–The Goldbergs Season 7 Premiere (September 25 on ABC)
–Schooled Season 2 Premiere (September 25 on ABC)
–Single Parents Season 2 Premiere (September 25 on ABC)
–It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 14 Premiere (September 25 on FXX)
–South Park Season 22 Premiere (September 25 on Comedy Central)
–Crank Yankers Season 5 Premiere (September 25 on Comedy Central)
–Superstore Season 5 Premiere (September 26 on NBC)
–Young Sheldon Season 3 Premiere (September 26 on CBS)
–The Good Place Season 4 Premiere (September 26 on NBC)
–The Unicorn Series Premiere (September 26 on CBS)
–Evil Series Premiere (September 26 on CBS)
-Brittany Howard, Jaime
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Postdoctoral Associate Positions in Theoretical Astronomy & Astrophysics
Northwestern University expects to offer postdoctoral associate positions in theoretical astronomy and astrophysics starting in fall 2020.
These positions will be part of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern. Successful applicants will benefit from interaction with a broad interdisciplinary group of researchers and will be immersed in a diverse and dynamic intellectual environment (learn more about CIERA’s programs and activities). CIERA researchers have exclusive access to two high-performance computer clusters, providing access to 1,344 compute cores. Additional HPC resources, including high-memory nodes, are available through Northwestern’s Quest cluster (see https://ciera.northwestern.edu/high-performance-computing/ for more information). A dedicated Computational Specialist is also on staff to assist CIERA researchers.
Of particular interest this year are candidates who will work with:
Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère on galaxy formation modeling (including cosmological simulations, star formation and stellar feedback, supermassive black hole growth and feedback, IGM/CGM/ICM, and large-scale structure). In the case of overlapping interests, joint appointments with the cosmology group at Argonne National Lab or with the theoretical astrophysics group at Fermilab are possible. Please mention in your cover letter if you are especially interested in a collaborative appointment with one of these laboratories,
Prof. Vicky Kalogera on gravitational-wave data analysis and astrophysical interpretation of gravitational-wave measurements,
Prof. Fred Rasio on the modeling of dense star clusters (globular clusters, galactic nuclei), and, in particular, the dynamical formation of GW sources, X-ray binaries, and binary pulsars, or
Prof. Tchekhovskoy on modeling compact object accretion and ejection in a wide range of astrophysical contexts (including compact object mergers, magnetic stellar explosions, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray binaries, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, tidal disruptions, and active galactic nuclei)
Please submit applications electronically on Academic Jobs Online #14389. Applications should include a CV (including a list of publications with the most important 1 to 3 publications indicated with an asterisk), a three-page statement of research accomplishments and plans, and arrange for at least three letters of recommendation to be uploaded to Academic Jobs Online. All questions should be sent by email to CIERA-Jobs@northwestern.edu. Applications received by December 1st, 2019 will receive full consideration. Later applications will be considered until all positions are filled.
Please state that you are applying for a Theoretical Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Associate position in your cover letter. If you wish to simultaneously apply for a CIERA Postdoctoral Fellowship position, submit a single copy of your application materials and specify all positions in your cover letter. Applicants must complete their Ph.D. requirements prior to appointment.
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Mixed micelles of sphingomyelin and phosphatidylcholine with nonionic surfactants
489 Biochimica et Biophysics @ ElsevierlNorth-Holland Acta, 5’73 (1979) Biomedical Press 489-500 BBA 57384 MIXED MICELLES OF SPHINGOMYELIN WITH N...
Mixed solutions of cationic and nonionic surfactants
Mixed micelles of polyoxyethylene-type nonionic and anionic surfactants in aqueous solutions
Nonionic micelles in mixed water-glycerol solvent
Mixed bilayers of anionic and nonionic surfactants on alumina
Mixed micelle formation of anionic and nonionic surfactants
Solubilization of pyrene by anionic–nonionic mixed surfactants
Cationic Mixed Micelles
Stabilization of some emulsions with nonionic surfactants
Nonionic surfactants: chemical analysis,
Properties of microemulsions based on mixed nonionic surfactants and mixed oils
Biochimica et Biophysics @ ElsevierlNorth-Holland
Acta, 5’73 (1979) Biomedical Press
BBA 57384
MIXED MICELLES OF SPHINGOMYELIN WITH NONIONIC SURFACTANTS EFFECT
ROBERT Department (U.S.A.) (Received
OF TEMPERATURE
J. ROBSON
and EDWARD
of Chemistry, November
AND PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE
AND SURFACTANT
A. DENNIS
of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
7th, 1978)
Key words: Triton X-l 00; Solubilization; transition; (Mixed micelle)
Sphingomyelin;
Phosphatidylcholine;
Summary Mixed micelle formation of the polydisperse nonionic surfactant Triton X-100 as well as its homogeneous analogue, p-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl) phenoxynonaoxyethylene glycol (OPE-9), with bovine brain sphingomyelin or dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine has been characterized by column chromatography on 6% agarose. At 4O”C, mixtures of OPE-9 and either sphingomyelin or dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine give a narrow size distribution for mixed micelles. At this temperature the size distribution of Triton X-lOOcontaining mixed micelles is complicated because of the polydispersity of the oxyethylene chains. At 20°C narrow size distributions are observed for mixed micelles of sphingomyelin/Triton X-100 and sphingomyelin/OPE-9 up to at least 0.06 mol fraction of lipid. For dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine this is observed only with OPE-9. At intermediate mol fractions of lipid (around 0.25), two populations of mixed micelles exist for sphingomyelin/Triton X-100, sphi.ngomyelin/OPE-9, and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine/OPE-9. At high mol fractions of lipid only one population of mixed micelles again exists. At 2O”C, sphingomyelin forms a clear solution with Triton X-100 and OPE-9 to a lipid mol fraction of at least 0.46 and 0.67, respectively. Dipalmitoyl phosphatidykholine forms a clear solution with OPE-9 to a lipid mol fraction of at least 0.57 at the same temperature. Triton X-100 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine do not form stable, clear solutions at 20°C unless the lipid mol frac-
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Abbreviation: OPE-9,p-(1,1.3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenoxynonao~y~thY~~~~
dyCol,
tion is extremely low. These results show that surfactant polydispersity and temperature are important determinants in the solubilization of lipids by nonionic surfactants. It is also shown that pure surfactant micelles and lipid/surfactant mixed micelles do not co-exist in the same solution.
Introduction Phospholipids dispersed in water form large aggregates with molecular weights ranging in the billions [ 1,2]. Upon the addition of surfactant at concentrations above its critical micelle concentration, the phospholipid is solubilized and forms mixed micelles [ 31. The nonionic surfactant Triton X-100 has been utilized extensively in studies on the size, molecular weight, shape, and structure of mixed micelles [4,5]. The analyses are complicated by the fact that Triton X-100 is polydisperse, displaying an entire range of chain lengths of the polar oxyethylene moieties, with an average of about 9-10 oxyethylene units per molecule. To eliminate this difficulty a molecularly homogeneous species of Triton X-100 containing exactly nine oxyethylene units has been p-( 1 ,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenoxynonaoxyethylene synthesized glycol (OPE-9), and mixed micelles prepared with this surfactant and various phospholipids have been characterized [ 61. Micelle size can be determined by a number of methods which include light scattering [ 7-91, ultracentrifugation [ 5,10,11], and gel chromatography [4,6]. The latter method is particularly useful for the separation of different sized surfactant/phospholipid mixed micelles and determination of the sizes by comparison to suitable standards. Previous studies [4,6] have shown that both polydisperse and monodisperse surfactants solubilize a variety of phospholipids to form mixed micelles whose size is similar to that of the pure surfactant micelles when the mol fraction of phospholipid is low. Yedgar et al. [ 51 utilized ultracentrifugation to investigate Triton X-100 and sphingomyelin mixtures and concluded that mixed micelles form only at a mol ratio of Triton X-100/ sphingomyelin in below 4 : 1 and that at a mol ratio greater than 4 : 1, the excess Triton X-100 forms pure surfactant micelles that co-exist with the mixed micelles. These results would appear to be at variance with our previous work with Triton X-100 and phosphatidylcholine mixtures. Furthermore, phospholipids undergo a thermotropic phase transition [12, 131 at a temperature dependent upon the hydrocarbon chain length, degree of unsaturation and polar headgroup, and we have suggested that at temperatures around the thermotropic phase transition, mixed micelle formation is also affected [4]. We have now used gel chromatography to investigate the effect of temperature on Triton X-lOO/sphingomyelin mixtures and OPE-S/sphingomyelin mixtures above and below the thermotropic phase transition of pure sphingomyelin bilayers. The results indicate an effect of temperature that correlates with the phospholipid phase transition on mixed micelle formation and show that pure Triton micelles and mixed micelles do not co-exist under any conditions examined. We have also used the synthetic phospholipid dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine to further verify that at temperatures near the
thermotropic phase transition mixed micelles is affected. Experimental
of pure phospholipid
bilayers,
the formation
Materials p-(l,l,3,3-Tetramethylbutyl)phenoxynonaoxyethylene glycol (OPE-9) was synthesized as described previously [6 3. The following materials were obtained and utilized directly: Triton X-100 (Rohm and Haas), dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (Calbiochem), bovine brain sphingomyelin (Avanti Biochemicals), blue dextran 2000 (Pharmacia), AMP (Sigma), Bio-Gel A-5m (BioRad, a 6% agarose gel of 100-200 mesh), yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (Calbiochem), Escherichiu coli fl-galactosidase (Boehringer Mannheim), bovine liver catalase (Calbiochem), bovine serum albumin (Mann), and bovine fibrinogen (Calbiothem). All other chemicals were of reagent grade. Agarose chromatography The agarose column and elution conditions have been described previously [ 61. All samples were applied as a 1.0 ml aqueous solution containing 50 mM surfactant, 10 mM Tris-HCl at pH 8.0,lOO mM NaCl, 0.02% sodium azide, and the indicated amounts of phospholipid. The samples were prepared by adding the appropriate volume of 200 mM surfactant to dry phospholipid followed by the addition of buffer. To effect solubilization, the samples were vortexed and heated for a brief period (about 10 min) at 40-50°C in a water bath. Whether samples were applied to the column immediately or were allowed to stand at room temperature for up to 1 h, the elution profiles were not altered. Blue dextran 2000 and AMP were included in the samples as markers for the void volume and total volume, respectively. Phospholipid content of samples was determined by digestion in perchloric acid and a phosphate analysis according to Eaton and Dennis [ 141. The concentration of T&on X-100 and OPE-9 was determined by absorbance at 276.5 nm. The small absorbance of sphingomyelin at this wavelength was subtracted based on the absorbance of equivalent concentrations of sphingomyelin in chloroform/methanol. Triton X-100 in cloudy fractions (excess dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at 20°C) was determined by dissolving an aliquot of the sample in an equal volume of methanol, and comparison with suitable standards in water/methanol. The column was calibrated by eluting at 20°C a number of protein standards. The proteins used in order of increasing Stokes’ radii are: bovine serum albumin (35 a), yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (46 a), bovine liver catalase (52 A), Escherichia coli /?-galactosidase (69 II), and bovine fibrinogen (110 W). A calibration curve was obtained by plotting Stokes’ radii of the proteins versus the cube root of KaV (Porath’s relationship [ 151). Results Gel chromatography of surfactant/sphingomyelin mixed micelles Elu tion profiles at 20°C. The elution profile for Triton X-100 micelles eluted from a 6% agarose gel column is shown in Fig. 1A. Because monomers of
Fig. 1. Gel ~~mato~aphy of bovine brain sphin~omyeBn and Triton X-100 mixtures at 20°C on 6% agarose which was pm-equilibrated with and the elution carried out with buffer containing 0.4 mM Triton X-100. The following samples were applied to the column: (A) 50 mM Triton X-100, (B) 50 mM Trtton X-100 plus 5 mM sph~gomyeBn, (C) 50 m&f Triton X-100 plus 17 mM sphingomyelin, (D) 50 mM T&on X-100 plus 25 mM sphingomyelin, and (E) 50 mM Triton X-100 plus 42 mM sphingomyehn. The void volume (V) and total volume (T) of the column are indicated. Fig. 2. Gel chromato~aphy of bovine brain sphingomyelin and OPE-9 mixtures at 2O*C on agarose which was pre-equilibrated and &ted with buffer containing 0.4 mM OPE-9. The following SamPIes were applied to the column: (A) 50 mM OPE-9, (Bf 50 mM OPE-9 plus 3 mM sphingomyehn. (C) 50 mM GPE9 plus 17 mM sphmgomyelin, (D) 50 mM OPE-9 plus 50 mM sphingomyelin, and (E) 50 mM OPE-9 Plus 100 mM sphingomyelin.
surfactant are in equilibrium with the micelles and mixed micelles, surfactant at 0.4 mM (sligh~y above the critical micelle concentration) was included in the elution buffer to avoid the production of monomers as the surfactant micelles pass through the column. When mixed micelles containing 5.0 mM bovine brain sphingomyelin and 50 mM Triton X-100 were applied to the column, the sphingomyelin and Triton X-100 were applied to the column, the sphingomyelin and Triton X-100 components eluted together (Fig. 13). However, as the sphingomyelin mol fraction is increased from 0.09 to 0.25 the mixed micelles elute from the column (Fig. 1C) with the sphingomyelin slightly preceeding Triton. At a sphingomyelin mol fraction of 0.33 the mixed micelles elute once again with Triton and sphingomyelin almost co-chromato~aphing (Fig. 1D). As equimolar ratios of Triton X-100 and sphingomyelin are approached (Fig. lE, mol fraction 0.46), co-eluting peaks are again observed. Fractionation of polydisperse Triton due to the molecular heterogeneity of the surfac~nt may occur as the mixed micelles pass through the column. The possibility that the polydispersity of the surfactant was responsible for the two overlapping peaks was investigated by employing the homogeneous surfac-
tant OPE-9. This surfactant is structurally identical to Triton X-100 in the hydrophobic region of the molecule, but differs in that there are exactly nine oxyethylene units composing the polar region. In Fig. 2A is shown the elution profile of OPE-9 micelles. This elution pattern is more symmetrical and the peak widths are narrower than for Triton X-100 micelles. Mixed micelles containing 3.3 mM sphingomyelin and 50 mM OPE-9, which corresponds to a lipid mol fraction of 0.06, elute at almost the same position as the pure OPE-9 micelles, and the peaks are similarly symmetrical. However, as the mol fraction of sphingomyelin is increased to 0.25, two non-coincident peaks are observed: one for OPE-9 and one for sphingomyelin. The peak richer in OPE-9 elutes nearer the position of pure OPE-9 micelles. Note that this elution pattern is very similar to that observed with Triton X-100 at the same sphingomyelin mol fraction (Fig. lC), but the two peaks are more easily resolved because of the narrower size distribution of the OPE-9 micelles. When the sphingomyelin mol fraction is 0.45, one symmetrical mixed micelle peak elutes as is shown in Fig. 2D. The elution volume of these mixed micelles is near the sphingomyelin peak of Fig. 2C. The one-peak elution profile is observed up to a sphingomyelin mol fraction of 0.67 (Fig. 2E), although some broadening in micelle size distribution is noted by the tailing of the peak. Elu tion profiles at 40°C. The thermotropic phase transition of bovine brain sphingomyelin is very broad and its maximum is around 37°C [ 16-181. The possibility existed that since these columns were run below the phase transition of the lipid, the anomalous two-peak elution profiles observed around a mol fraction of 0.25 for both Triton X-100 and OPE-9 mixed micelles were due to a temperature effect on the formation of the mixed micelles in the same temperature range as the thermotropic phase transition of the pure lipid bilayers. To test this possibility, pure surfactant micelles and mixed micelles were eluted from columns maintained at 40°C. The elution profile of 50 mM Triton X-100 at 40°C is shown in Fig. 3A. Two peaks are observed, with the peak tube nearest the void volume exhibiting a lower cloud point [19,20] than the peak tube of the main peak. For nonionic surfactants of the polyoxyethylene class, as the oxyethylene chain length increases for a particular series, the cloud point increases [21]. Therefore the observation of a cloud point lower than that of Triton X-100 (64°C) is indicative that two populations of micelles exist containing surfactant having different distributions of oxyethylene chains. We have also analytically observed fractionation of the oxyethylene chain species across the eluted peaks, with the shorter oxyethylene species eluting before the longer chain length species (Robson and Dennis, unpublished observations). Interpretation of results utilizing Triton X-100 at 40°C are thus complicated by the cloud point/ fractionation phenomena. In Fig. 3B is shown the elution profile of Triton X-100 with sphingomyelin at a lipid mol fraction of 0.13. A complicated two peak pattern is observed, and is comparable to the two peak pattern observed at 40°C for Triton X-100 alone. Both peaks are shifted towards the void volume, and the relative amount of Triton X-100 in the first eluted peak is accentuated compared to Triton X-100 in Fig. 3A.
Fig. 3. Gel chromatography of Triton X-100 and OPE-9 alone and with sphingomyelin at 40°C under the same conditions as in Figs. 1 and 2. The following samples were applied to the column: (A) 50 mM Triton X-100, (B) 50 mM T&on X-100 plus 7 mM sphingomye~n. (C) 50 mM OPE-9, and (0) 50 mM OPE-9 plus 14 mM sphmgomyelin.
For comparison, the elution of OPE-9 micelles is shown in Fig. 3C. Note that the one peak is very symmetrical. In Fig. 3D is shown the elution profile of OPE-9 and sphingomyelin mixed micelles at a lipid mol fraction of 0.22. Again only one peak is observed which is both symmetrical and only slightly larger than the pure OPE-9 micelle peak. What is apparent is the presence of only one peak for both OPE-9 and sphingomyelin, and that these peaks co-elute with a constant mol fraction lipid equal to that applied to the column. This is in contrast to the elution profile observed for Triton X-100 and sphingomyelin at 20°C with a mol fraction lipid of 0.25 (Fig. lC), and for OPE-9 and sphingomyelin mixed micelles at 20°C at a similar mol fraction lipid (Fig. 2C). In both cases two non-coincident peaks are observed. Gel chromatography of ~urf~cta~t~dip~lmitoyl phosphatidylcholine mixed micel~es The synthetic single species lipid dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine has a thermotropic phase transition of 41°C [22-251. With Triton X-100 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at a lipid mol fraction of 0.25, the solution is clear at 40°C. At room temperature the solution turns cloudy within a few minutes. For experiments at 20°C the samples were heated briefly (5-10 min) in a 60°C water bath which upon cooling resulted in a clear solution. Elution was begun immediately. The elution profile is shown in Fig. 4A for Triton X-100 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at a lipid mol fraction of 0.25. Two peaks emerge, the first near the void volume is cloudy and contains almost all lipid and almost no Triton X-100. The second peak elutes near that size of pure Triton X-100 micelles at ZO”C, and contained lipid in a mol ratio of about
Fig. 4. Gel chromatography of Triton X-100 and OPE-9 with dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine Conditions are the same as in Figs. 1 and 2. The following samples were applied to the column:
at 2O’C. (A) 50 mM
Triton X-100 plus 17 mM dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine. (B) 50 mM OPE-9 plus 3 mM dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, (C) 50 mM OPE-9 plus 6 mM dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, (D) 50 mM OPE-9 plus 17 mM dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, (E) 50 mM OPE-9 plus 50 mM dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, and (F) 50 mM OPE-9 plus 67 mM dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine.
12 to 1. The lipid recovered in these two peaks accounted for the total lipid applied to the column. For dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine with OPE-9 at a lipid mol fraction of 0.25, the solution remains clear at room temperature for several days. The results of gel chromatography experiments for an increasing mol fraction of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine in OPE-9 micelles is shown in Fig. 4B-4F. As can be seen in Fig. 4B only one peak elutes for OPE-9 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine mixed micelles at a mol fraction lipid of 0.06. As more lipid is added two peaks emerge from the column (Fig. 4C-4E). The one nearest the total volume is a peak approaching the size of OPE-9 micelles, and in fact has a lipid mol fraction of about. 0.07-0.08 (Fig. 4C and 4D), and is smaller than 0.12 for Fig. 4E. The larger sized peak has a constant lipid mol fraction of about 0.56. Fig. 4F shows a single peak eluted at a lipid mol fraction of 0.57, which is equal to the mol fraction applied, At 40°C Triton X-100 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine give a complicated elution pattern (not shown) reflecting the polydispersity of Triton as discussed for Triton and sphingomyelin. With OPE-9 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at 40°C [6] as the mol fraction of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine is increased, the micelles become progressively larger. Only one peak is observed for both OPE-S/dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine mixtures, and the phospholipid mol fraction remains fairly constant across the peak corresponding closely to the lipid mol fraction applied to the column. Micellar size The Stokes’
radii for the micelles
and mixed
micelles
with phospholipids
496 TABLE I STOKES’ RADII GOMYELIN
FOR TRITON
AND OPE-9 MICELLES AND MIXED MICELLES WITH SPHIN-
T(“C)
Mol fraction lipid applied
R,(i)
0.33 0.46 OPE-9
OPE-9
o.ogb 0.22
Mol fraction lipid eluted a
0.00 0.07-0.11 0.17 0.33 0.33 0.40 0.40-0.48
0.00 0.06 0.15 0.29-0.37 0.45 0.594.77
0.00 0.00 0.14 0.06-0.16
0.00 0.09 0.21-0.23
a A range of values Indicates a variable lipid mole fraction across the peak, and does not refer to errors in measurement which are much smaller. b Taken from Ref. 6. TABLE II STOKES’ RADII FOR TRITON X-100 MITOYL PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE
AND OPE-9 MICELLES
AND MIXED MICELLES WITH DIPAL-
‘f-i-)
niton
41 44 >200
0.00 0.06 0.06 0.56 0.07 0.56 0.12 0.53 0.56-0.66
0.00 0.00 0.09-0.11 0.04-0.12
0.25 0.50 0.57 Triton X-100
0.00 0.08 z1.00
a A range of values indicates a variable lipid mole fraction across the peak, and does not refer to er+ors in measurement which are much smaller.
LIP’D
Fig. 5. A graph of Stokes’ radii of mixed micelles at 20°C versus mol fraction lipid, obtained from Tables I and II and from the data of Yedgar et al. [51. Data are shown for: OPE-9/dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (o); Triton X-lOO/dipslmitoyl phosphatidylcholine 0); OPE-S/sphlngomyelin (o----O this work); and Triton X-lOO/sphingomyelin ((0 -•D), (mu); Triton X-lOO/sphingomyelin (a--d), Yedgar et al. 161.
were calculated by comparison with protein standards of known radii. In Table I is shown the Stokes’ radii for micelles and mixed micelles with sphingomyelin with both surfactants. In Table II is shown the Stokes’ radii for micelles and mixed micelles with dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine. Included in both tables are the mol fractions of lipid observed in each eluted peak, calculated at the maximum peak height. The addition of lipid increases the size of the micelles dramatically, although in a regular manner. In Fig. 5 is shown the relationship between the Stokes’ radii and the mol fraction of lipid for mixed micelles at 20°C. When more than one peak eluted off the column the mol fraction lipid shown was that measured at the micelle peak. What is significant is that when two non-coincident peaks were observed, the eluted peaks at a particular mol fraction are of the size predicted by a regular relationship among all the homogeneous mixed micelles. There is a very regular relationship for both Triton X-100 and OPE-9, although the micelles are larger for the Triton X-100 species for all comparable mol fractions. Discussion Mixed micelles of both a polydisperse and monodisperse nonionic surfactant with beef brain sphingomyelin and with dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine have been characterized using agarose gel chromatography. Previous work on the characterization of mixed micelles with Triton X-100 and egg phosphatidylcholine, dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine (prepared by transesterification of egg phosphatidylcholine), or mixtures of phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine have shown that the mixed micelles with low mol fractions lipids all have sizes similar to micelles of pure surfactant
micelles (Ref. 4, and Roberts, Adamich, Robson, R.J. and Dennis, E.A., manuscript in preparation). Increasing the lipid concentration increases the size of the micelles, and multiple mixed micelle species are formed which are shown here to. be due to the surfactant oxyethylene polydispersity. Utilizing the homogeneous surfactant OPE-9, mixed micelles of lipid at 28°C are observed to increase in size in a regular manner as the lipid mol fraction is increased, and the size of the mixed micelles is independent of the lipid head group and the number of fatty acyl chains for dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, lyso-phosphatydylcholine, and palmitic acid [6]. OPE-9 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine or sphingomyelin are also similarly sized at similar mol fractions when examined at temperatures above the thermotropic phase transition of the pure lipids. A report by Yedgar et al. [5] for mixed micelles of Triton X-100 and .sphingomyelin appears to be inconsistent with our studies of mixed micelle formation. Their study concludes that mixed micelles of Triton X-100 and sphingomyelin form only with less than 4 Triton molecules per sphingomyelin molecule, and that micelles more dilute in sphingomyelin will not form. In fact at higher mol ratios of Triton/sphingomyelin, they report that pure surfactant micelles co-exist with 4/l (Triton/sphingomyelin, mol/mol) mixed micelles. These studies were performed at 2O”C, which is below the thermotropic phase transition of pure sphingomyelin bilayers. With OPE-9 and sphingomyelin at 20°C we have since found a narrow distribution of micelle sizes (similar to that of pure OPE-9 micelles) when the mol fraction of lipid is less than 0.06. At mol fractions of around 0.25, it appears that two populations of micelles elute from the column. When the concentration of lipid is increased further to about 0.5 mol fraction, only one population of micelles now elutes. The results with sphingomyelin and the polydisperse Triton X-100 at 20°C are completely consistent with the results using OPE-9, but the two populations of micelles at intermediate mol fractions do not appear to be of a size difference that are easily separable on the agarose column used. Qualitatively, however, when the mol fraction lipid is low, one population of micelles exists, in intermediate mol fractions two populations of micelles exist, and above a certain mol fraction only one population of micelles exists. Thus, these results are consistent with the observation of Yedgar et al. [5] of two populations of micelles, but our analysis suggests that both are mixed micelles, but of differing size and composition. Since two sizes are not observed at temperatures that are above the thermotropic phase transition of the pure lipid, the two peaks with sphingomyelin and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine must be due to a temperature effect in the region of the thermotropic phase transition of the pure lipids. In the studies of Yedgar et al. [5] utilizing ultracentrifugation, they found a single Schlieren peak for mixed micelles between a lipid mol fraction of 0.21 to 0.68, and two Schlieren peaks at 0.14. Their interpretation was that homogeneous mixed micelles do not exist with sphingomyelin mol fractions from 0.0 to 0.21. (A mol fraction of 0.21 corresponds to a Triton/sphingomyelin mol ratio of 4/l.) They concluded that if more than four Triton molecules are present per sphingomyelin molecule, the lipid will be solubilized by Triton at a mol ratio of 4/l and the excess Triton would form pure surfactant micelles.
Our results with OPE-9 and Triton X-100 with sphingomyelin show that the lipid is completely soluble in the surfactant micelle up to a mol fraction of 0.25, at which point two mixed micelles coexist until a mol fraction of 0.330.46 is reached, when one mixed micelle population again predominates. The two Schlieren peaks observed by Yedgar et al. [5] at a mol fraction of 0.14 = 6/l) may be a result of the same phenomena we (Triton/sphingomyelin observe at 0.33 mol fraction, but they were not able to analyze the composition of the two peaks. As Yedgar et al. [5] point out, their calculation of the sedimentation coefficient for the two peaks may be in error because of the Johnston-Ogston effect, and indeed the peak they assign to pure Triton may be a mixed micelle with a low mol fraction lipid since the sedimentation coefficient difference between pure Triton X-100 micelles and a mixed micelle of low mol fraction would probably not be detectable. Yedgar et al. [5] have observe homogeneous micelles from 3.8/l to 0.47/l Triton/sphingomyelin. We observe a homogeneous micelle at about 2/l (Triton/ sphingomyelin, mol/mol) and lower. This discrepancy may be due to the similarity in sizes of the two micelles around 3/l to 2/l that may not be detectable by the ultracentrifuge and/or because of the slightly different lipid these investigators utilized. Note that the sphingomyelin they used was partially hydrogenated, which may change the phase transition and the micelle forming characteristics. That a temperature in the range of the phase transition is the cause of the two micelle species cannot be proven easily by analyzing mixed micelles with Triton X-100 at temperatures above the phase transition of the pure lipid because two kinds of micelles with different populations of chain lengths are formed even in the absence of lipid. The presence of lipid accents this polydispersity further. For OPE-9 and sphingomyelin at 40°C a narrow distribution of micelle sizes exists. This temperature is above the thermotropic phase transition of pure lipid bilayers. With dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and OPE-9 at 2O”C, it is interesting that in the mol fraction range of 0.11 to 0.50, there are only two micelle sizes eluted from the column, irrespective of the applied mol fraction lipid. However, the relative concentrations of each micelle population depends on the initial concentration of lipid. In this intermediate mol fraction range, these two micelle sizes elute with a mol fraction of 0.06-0.07 for the smaller sized mixed micelles, and a mol fraction of 0.55 for the larger sized mixed micelles. An increase in lipid increases the relative concentration of the micelle with the larger mol fraction of lipid. It seems intriguing that in a solution of surfactant and phospholipid a mixed micelle with a mol ratio of OPE-S/dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine of 0.8/l and one with a mol fraction of 15/l are together more stable than single mixed micell& of an intermediate mol ratio. No fractionation of the surfactant or phospholipid can occur as these are both monodisperse, pure compounds. Perhaps the ‘mixed micelles’ at 0,8/l OPE-S/lipid are more of a very small bilayer type structure than a micelle and should be referred to as ‘quasi-micelles’ [ 41. It may thus be concluded that when the temperature of the mixed micellar solution is below the phase transition of the pure lipid bilayers (at least for sphingomyelin and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine), more than one population of thermodynamically stable mixed micelles may exist in solution simultaneously
depending on the mol fraction of lipid, and that these may be separated by gel chromatography. However, there is no evidence that pure surfactant micelles and mixed micelles can co-exist as has often been stated [26--281 based upon the conclusions of Yedgar et al. [ 51. Our results described here with Triton X-100 and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine are consistent with previous experiments using centrifugation and gel chromatography [4] and ‘H NMR [29] where it was shown that lo-14 mol of Triton were needed to solubilize a mol of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at room temperature. At 40°C however, the lipid is much more soluble [3]. There is a striking difference in solubility between Triton X-100 and OPE-9 towards dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at 20°C. With OPE-9 the solution is clear at least to a lipid mol/fraction of 0.57. As is seen though, two mixed micelles are present in intermediate mol fraction ranges. In this case the lower temperature causes two mixed micelles to form rather than one mixed micelle and a very large, cloudy bilayer-like structure nearly devoid of Triton. Acknowledgements Financial support was provided by National Science Foundation 76-21552. We thank Dr. Karol Mysels for helpful discussions.
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Soft penalty
Referees award penalties for an infringement in the penalty area, for example a defender may handle the ball or foul an opponent but sometimes it is not always easy to make these decisions. We use the phrase ‘soft penalty‘ to describe a situation when a referee gives a penalty that should not really have been given; perhaps a player had dived or pretended to win the penalty. The opposite of soft penalty would be a stonewall penalty which is a clear penalty with no doubt attached to it. Soft penalty.
Example: The Irish manager felt the penalty decision was soft and that the referee had fallen for the dive
Similar words and phrases connected to penalties include: Panenka and seen them given
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TV commentators have just said that the referee’s decision to rule Das Bost’s header out for a push was a soft one, i.e. the referee should not have ruled it out. A soft decision.
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“[F]ixed terms of members of boards shall expire on May 1.” So says Wis. stat. 15.07(1)(c), the portion of state law that governs when the terms of state board members—including members of the UW System Board of Regents—come to an end. So it was curious to see that the UW System’s “Regent Bios” page, which is ordinarily kept assiduously up to date, continued to list John Behling, Regina Millner, and Ryan Ring as Regents until very late in May of this year. Behling continued to be listed as Regent President.
Millner and Behling served successive two-year stints as Regent President from 2015 to 2019. They were the first two appointees of former governor Scott Walker to serve as Regent President. Their presidencies were marked by a nearly nonstop state of outright calamity throughout the UW System: things that existed prior to 2015 but no longer do include real tenure for faculty; strong (not merely consultative) shared governance powers for faculty, staff, and students; more than $100 million in biennial funding from the state; nearly 15% of the UW-Milwaukee faculty; and the UW Colleges.
A less well-known but no less major change initiated in 2015 involved the way that UW System campuses select new chancellors. Under the previous policy, search and screen committees for chancellors had to be made up of at least half faculty from the campus in question, alongside staff, students, community members, and others. A Special Regent Committee was appointed to serve as liaison between the search committee and the full Board of Regents, which would ultimately appoint one of the finalists selected by the search committee.
Under the new policy (updated once again in 2017, before it was ever used), the Regents have taken over the entire process. Whereas chancellor search committees were previously unlimited in size, they now contain exactly ten members: five Regents, two faculty, one staff member, one student, and one community member. The Special Regent Committee remains, though its role is far less clear under the new system, and in both of the chancellor searches that have taken place so far the Special Regent Committee has consisted of the same five Regents who serve on the search committee.
The first chancellor search conducted under the new regime took place at UW-Whitewater. It was a mess from the start. The former chancellor resigned abruptly a week before Christmas last year, forced out by the Regents and System President Ray Cross in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal involving her husband. Rather than wait until the normal academic hiring cycle to search for a replacement, the Regents barrelled ahead immediately, with predictable results: two of the four finalists dropped out of the search, one of the remaining finalists was the interim chancellor whom Cross had initially decreed would be ineligible for the permanent position, and the faculty were so egregiously sidelined that it prompted an open letter of protest from the UW-Whitewater Faculty Senate and resolutions of support from governance bodies around the System.
This brings us back to our lingering Regents. Despite the rush, the Whitewater search process spilled into May, past the expiration of Regina Millner’s term as Regent. Millner was a Regent member of the Whitewater search committee and a member the Special Regent Committee, and she appears to have continued to take part in those committees’ deliberations and votes after May 1. It’s unclear whether she (or Behling or Ring) took part in the subsequent full Board of Regents vote, which was described simply as “unanimous.”
Unfortunately, Millner’s policy-bending decision to linger on the search committee past the expiration of her Regent term is not isolated. In what can only be described as a brazen act of clinging to power, John Behling appointed himself to the chancellor search committee at UW-Stout less than a month before his term on the Board expired. The Stout search is barely under way and Behling’s term as Regent ended over a month ago, but the latest Regent committee list names Behling as a “Regent Emeritus” member of the Special Regent Committee for the UW-Stout search.
To be clear, there is no such thing as a Regent Emeritus. John Behling is no more a Regent Emeritus than I am a Regent-in-Waiting. This is a silly, made-up title that is being used to justify Behling’s lawless insistence on remaining on the search committee. Wisconsin law says that John Behling is no longer a Regent. Regent policy says that the search committee and Special Regent Committee need five Regents. Behling himself helped craft the policy as Regent Vice President and Regent President! This isn’t complicated.
Whatever one thinks of Behling’s legacy as Regent President, his refusal to depart presents a crisis of governance for the UW System that should alarm everyone. The Board of Regents has arrogated to itself the power to conduct chancellor searches, but it is willing to bend the rules to allow a former Regent to have a hand in doing the people of Wisconsin’s work. This is simply wrong. The Board of Regents consists of the members it consists of, not the members its current and former leadership might wish it consisted of. It is hard not to see connections with other recent instances where Wisconsin Republicans have refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new Democratic governor, and taken legally dubious steps to blunt his power. John Behling is no longer a Regent because Scott Walker lost his bid for reelection. By permitting Behling to remain on the chancellor search committee for UW-Stout, the Board of Regents is acting out the fantasy of a Walker victory. His behavior, as well as that of the Board, is scandalous.
This story has yet to garner much media attention, despite the fact that state board appointments have been a major point of contention in connection with the ongoing litigation over last year’s lame-duck legislation. Indeed, Behling himself took a pointed (and highly inappropriate) political stand against the new governor in April, when he insisted on the validity of two Regent appointments that had been enjoined by a judge, and allowed those Regents to participate in the Board’s April meeting.
The Board of Regents needs to rectify this situation immediately. Behling is obviously without shame and will not step down; anyone who would step down in this situation never would have appointed himself in the first place. The Board must remove him. If the Board has even a minimal interest in appearing non-partisan, it would be wise to name one of the new Evers appointees as his replacement on the Stout search committee and Special Regent Committee. Even if not, there is simply no justification for allowing John Behling to continue to serve. The Board is inexplicably allowing a former member to create a governance crisis that will only further erode confidence in the UW System from all sides.
Over the past several years, the Regents have continually professed a need to win the confidence of the public. Once again, they are failing.
Laboratories of austerity
UW-Stevens Point has attracted national attention for its administration’s plan to shutter the bulk of its majors in the humanities and social sciences. UW-Superior’s administration summarily suspended 25 programs in October, sidestepping the governance process and triggering a vote of no confidence in the chancellor. And the UW Colleges and Extension is being dissolved as a freestanding institution, its 13 campuses to be absorbed by nearby UW universities barely 9 months after UW System President Ray Cross’s surprise restructuring announcement last fall.
In other words, we are now seeing exactly the kinds of developments that were made possible by the statutory changes to tenure and shared governance in 2015 and the resulting Regent policies on faculty termination via program change, which triggered no confidence votes in Cross and the Regents across the System in the spring of 2016. The ideological vision behind those changes is apparent in the squeezing of campus budgets and in the content of the resulting program change proposals, which uniformly point toward narrow job training and “career pathways” and away from the broad educational mission that makes a university what it is.
The elitism underpinning this set of developments has not gone unnoticed. The Colleges’ predicament was accelerated by the 2015 regionalization of administrative services, taking advising and other support away from where it was most needed on the System’s open-door campuses. The UW-Superior administration struck a remarkably patronizing tone, suggesting that its many first-generation students might be overwhelmed by the range of choices available at a truly comprehensive university. And the UW-Stevens Point administration has spun a tendentious hunch about its students’ career planning into a suggestion that they seek fancy things like English and history degrees elsewhere. This is not a strategic retreat from the educational ideal so that the university might be saved; it is an abandonment of our neediest students, of entire regions in central and northern Wisconsin, and of the democratizing mission of the public university.
The Stevens Point situation, in particular, cannot be understood in isolation from that of the Colleges. Stevens Point is set to absorb two Colleges campuses this summer. The Colleges restructuring was undertaken ostensibly to address a budget and enrollment crisis; merger with nearby UW institutions was presented as a favorable alternative to closing multiple campuses. What has never been made clear, however, is how the merger is supposed to mitigate any of the underlying issues. By going this route, Cross and the Regents have delayed the Colleges’ reckoning until after the reelection campaign of the governor who appointed them, and have offloaded responsibility for the truly tough decisions to local campus administrations, to boot. We’ll soon see what emerges from these laboratories of austerity.
Finally, it bears mentioning that the amounts of money involved here are not large. UW-Stevens Point’s administration says it is aiming to close a $4.5 million two-year budget gap. At UW-Superior, the budget deficit is $2.5 million. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin Legislature approved $3 million in new funding in the 2017-19 biennium for a new “public leadership” center named after former GOP governor Tommy Thompson…at UW-Madison.
As the saying goes, show me your budget and I’ll show you your values. There is money to preserve and enhance UW-Superior, UW-Stevens Point, and the UW Colleges. There is money to restore Wisconsin’s commitment to world-class public higher education for all. The infrastructure is there, built by generations. It’s not a hard lift for us now. It just requires leadership willing to make the choice.
Fund the freeze
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate will vote on a resolution of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents on Monday. The proximate cause is the egregious handling of Madison’s faculty layoff policy by System legal counsel, Cross, and the Regents, all of which is detailed at length in the text of the resolution. A further contributing factor is Cross’s much-publicized decision to scrap the Chancellors’ presentations on the effects of the 2015–17 budget cuts at the Regents meeting earlier this month (“no whining!”). All of this is set against the backdrop of the nonstop crisis that has been with us since Scott Walker unveiled his 2015–17 budget proposal fifteen months ago, starting with Cross’s questionable and ill-fated decision to advocate a public authority model for the university system, and continuing through the gutting of shared governance, the weakening of tenure, and the soft-pedaling of the cuts’ fallout.
The prospect of a no confidence vote has caused a surprising number of legislators to lose their minds. When a purely symbolic gesture by faculty elicits immediate threats of material retaliation from a powerful State Senator, it’s because it hits uncomfortably close to the mark. Those Republican legislators who have weighed in have, predictably, played the class resentment card against faculty in an attempt to divert attention from the substance of the complaint. In the current Wisconsin context, this means invoking the four-year tuition freeze early and often, and accusing faculty of not caring about tuition-paying students and families. (No one ever bothers to explain how weakening tenure and shared governance will prevent tuition from rising, of course.)
Tuition had been in the news even before the no confidence resolution came to light. At the most recent UWM budget forum, Chancellor Mark Mone repeated his (and, by extension, UW System leadership’s) hope that the Legislature will allow for a modest tuition increase in the next budget. This led Rep. Dale Kooyenga to opine, “I just don’t get how the left can say the tuition cap is bad but yet many of the same people are ‘feeling the Bern,’ saying we need to have free college altogether.” UW leadership is displaying the same political cluelessness around tuition that it did in the early public authority days, and legislators are wasting no time using administrators’ remarks as a pretext for beating faculty senseless. (And if Mark Mone voted for Bernie Sanders, I will eat ALL THE HATS.)
So let’s be clear: I know I speak for many UW faculty when I say that we endorse the tuition freeze and want it to continue. If anything, tuition should be decreased. But a tuition freeze has to be funded by the Legislature. Right now, the UW System is in the midst of a four-year unfunded mandate coupled with steep cuts in base funding, and it is hurting students. A tuition freeze does no good when you can’t enroll in the classes you need and end up taking longer to graduate. It does no good when it means the program you wanted to major in has to shut down. Shifting costs away from students is the morally correct thing to do; declining to fund those shifted costs is pure deception.
All of which brings us back to the no confidence resolution. The only way to contain tuition costs is for the state to agree to bear those costs through increased funding to the system. The only way to get the state to increase funding is to make a compelling case to the public that our current path is harming students and families. Ray Cross has moved, instead, to stifle public discussion of the cuts’ effects. The Board of Regents has adopted tenure and layoff policies that will make it easier to accommodate continued austerity, and that will thus encourage additional cuts. This is the heart of the case for no confidence.
Faculty are on the side of students and families. Fund the freeze, fund a tuition decrease, restore our public commitment to public higher education.
by Nicholas Fleisher 1 Comment
UW tenure: as little as possible
“Tenure weakened in Wisconsin.” So says the national AAUP in response to the UW System’s now-official policies on tenure, faculty layoff, and post-tenure review, which were adopted by the Board of Regents this past Thursday, unaltered in their essentials from the problematic drafts issued by the Tenure Policy Task Force in January. At the Regents meeting there was much talk of difficult decisions and harsh new realities. The first casualty of the new policies, it seems, is the pretense that they might be consistent with nationally recognized standards.
The formal decline of tenure in Wisconsin has coincided with renewed media interest in faculty pay. System President Ray Cross said in an interview earlier last week that, while changes to tenure “are causes to make faculty nervous…the real reason I think faculty are being lured away is compensation packages.” The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported on faculty retention efforts at UW-Madison, detailing the tens of thousands of dollars in raises and additional research funds that a handful of faculty have negotiated in the face of job offers from elsewhere. The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that the end of tenure will bring a financial windfall for UW professors near and far.
Indeed, the elephant in the room last Thursday was money, particularly the Regents’ apparent unwillingness or inability to advocate for more of it in the face of legislative slashing and burning. The overarching goal of the new policies, we were repeatedly told, is to give chancellors flexibility. Flexibility, of course, is code for a host of austerity measures predicated on the consolidation of power in administrative hands. It can also be read here as a byword for Regental buck-passing: far from standing up to legislators, the Regents have turned around and told chancellors to stand up to faculty, all while adopting policies that create a glide path for further cuts. The time to draw a line in the sand was yesterday; instead, our new flexibility-enhanced chancellors will be able to use program prioritization and other means to enact a kind of financial emergency in slow motion.
Conspicuously absent from Thursday’s discussion was any suggestion from the new policies’ proponents that the changes will help the UW System regain the confidence of legislators. Rather, endless austerity was presented as a given, with faculty chided for their lack of business sense. The obvious cynicism of this line of attack didn’t prevent some faculty from rising to the bait, telling reporters of their long experience issuing layoff notices to academic staff. The divide-and-conquer reflex was evinced by UW-Madison’s chancellor, as well. In her prepared remarks and subsequent blog post, she spoke of the “different needs” of the various UW System campuses, a framing that meshes entirely too well with that of the right-wing Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, which in a recent manifesto questioned whether tenure is needed at every UW campus.
Tenure has been modified, shared governance curtailed. Local media has turned its normalizing gaze to outliers at the very top of the faculty pay spectrum. The flagship’s chancellor appears poised to throw the rest of the System under the bus. Campuses are struggling to absorb the $250 million in cuts handed down in the current cycle. And with negotiations over the next biennial budget less than a year away, the Board of Regents has adopted policies that will make it politically easier for legislators to cut again.
Welcome to the 21st century, indeed.
UW tenure: a challenger appears
With the UW System Board of Regents set to adopt new tenure policies next week, Wisconsin’s right-wing policy apparatus has sprung into action. On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) released a report questioning the value of tenure and urging the Regents to adopt policies allowing them to terminate tenured faculty for the full range of reasons delineated in Act 55: program discontinuance, curtailment, modification, and redirection. The issue at the heart of the Tenure Policy Task Force’s work since last summer—namely, whether it is possible for the Board of Regents to adopt policies that are more stringent than those now enumerated in statute, and thereby to salvage something resembling tenure in Wisconsin—has thus been brought once again to the fore.
To repeat what has been said many times: allowing institutions to terminate tenured faculty for reasons of program curtailment, modification, and redirection—i.e., changes short of full discontinuance—is totally incompatible with academic freedom. It is an open invitation to administrative abuse and political intrusion into the university. Tenure is the guarantor of academic freedom. The Regents have claimed since the summer that tenure will be safe in the UW System, and this claim has always rested on the proposition that the Regents will able to limit the range of circumstances in which tenured faculty can be fired, i.e. that the offending statutory language of Act 55 is “merely permissive.”
The Regents have thus implicitly acknowledged that an institution where tenured faculty can be fired for reasons of program curtailment, modification, or redirection is an institution that does not have tenure in any meaningful sense. But this is what WPRI is now expressly advocating.
The WPRI report also offers some hints as to what future efforts to weaken tenure in the UW System will look like. In particular, it suggests a classic divide-and-conquer strategy, questioning whether tenure is necessary in the UW Colleges and Extension, or at the four-year non-doctoral campuses. UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee faculty thus must be prepared to stand up for tenure everywhere in the UW System.
The publication of the WPRI report underscores the importance of ensuring that the policies adopted by the Regents next week are as strong as possible. To that end, the Faculty Representatives to the Board of Regents and the faculty members of the Tenure Policy Task Force have unanimously endorsed a set of recommended changes to the draft policies approved by the Education Committee last month. Those recommendations address some of the well-documented deficiencies in the draft policies, which were written with minimal faculty input, despite the best efforts of the task force members.
WPRI and its backers want to kill tenure in the UW System. Faculty across the System are, with remarkable unanimity, asking for modest changes to the draft policies that no Regent who actually cared about tenure and academic freedom could reasonably oppose.
Thursday should be interesting.
[Update, 3/5/16: Chuck Rybak offers an assessment of the WPRI report here.]
UW tenure: endgame
Two weeks ago today, the Education Committee of the UW System Board of Regents unanimously approved the new policies on tenure, faculty layoff, and post-tenure review developed by the Tenure Policy Task Force, forwarding them to the full Board for approval at its March 10 meeting. Hank Reichman at the Academe Blog has a writeup of the day’s proceedings. The policies were approved essentially unmodified: there was a minor change in the definition of the remediation time-frame in the post-tenure review policy. The faculty layoff policy was approved as drafted, with no discussion, despite the fact that the Education Committee had convened an extraordinary session with all Regents present for the express purpose of discussing the policies. Okay, then.
With no substantive changes to the earlier drafts, the policies’ many problems remain. Several Regents have tacitly acknowledged the existence of those problems by impugning the character of the policies’ critics rather than defending the policies solely on the merits. Regent President Regina Millner said that some faculty leaders would have complained about the policies “no matter what we wrote.” System President Ray Cross said, “It’s frustrating to me that the emotional reaction on the part of some folks failed to realize the substance of tenure was simply moved from statute to board policy.” Such emotional reactions apparently include that of the national AAUP, which wrote the following in a joint statement with AFT-Wisconsin: “We remain concerned, however, that some of the provisions in the draft regent policy documents fall far short of [AAUP] standards.”
The claim that tenure has simply moved to board policy is belied by Cross’s comment, two sentences later, that the new policy “also had to honor language in new legislation”. Chuck Rybak lays bare the illogic in the space of a tweet (journalists, take note!):
@djvanness @HerzogJS Cross's comments make no sense here at all. It can't have "merely moved" but then also honor changes in statute!!
— Chuck Rybak (@ChuckRybak) February 6, 2016
Cross appears to be referring here to new legislation around post-tenure review, describing it as “new legislation concerned about accountability with reasonable timelines and processes to deal with underperforming faculty, and to reward faculty who exceed expectations.” Likewise, Regent Gerald Whitburn, the chair of the Education Committee, said of the UW System’s existing post-tenure review policy (adopted in 1992) that “It did not facilitate accountability and result in an even playing field across our institutions. Frankly, I think that’s why the Legislature did what they did.”
The thing to know about this, though, is that on post-tenure review, the Legislature did nothing. The Legislature made massive, largely destructive changes to the UW System in Act 55 (the 2015–17 biennial budget), but nowhere in Act 55 did they require the Board of Regents to make changes to its post-tenure review policy. It’s entirely plausible that individual legislators have told the Regents that they would like to see such changes, but there is no legislation to this effect. (Again, journalists, hello?)
A major remaining concern about the faculty layoff policy is the question of whether faculty may be laid off or terminated in program changes short of discontinuation. Chapter 36, as amended by Act 55, clearly says yes. The Regent policy says that layoff and termination can happen in cases of program discontinuance, but is silent on curtailment, modification, and redirection. After the policies were approved by the Education Committee two weeks ago, both UW System counsel Tom Stafford and Regent John Behling, who chaired the task force, insisted that the Board would not be permitted to lay off or terminate faculty in program changes short of discontinuation:
“Stafford told reporters Friday that if the proposed policies are adopted, regents would need to vote to change the policy before exercising their statutory power to lay off faculty for program changes short of discontinuation.”
“The new policy allows for faculty to be laid off only if their program is discontinued, however, and ‘clearly restricts’ UW officials from using the other justifications lawmakers gave them, said Regent John Behling, who led the task force that wrote the policy.”
If this is indeed the intended interpretation of the policy, then surely the Regents wouldn’t object to amending the policy to include a positive assertion to that effect? Perhaps something like “Notwithstanding the powers granted to the Board by Wis. Stat. s. 36.22 (2)(a), no faculty member shall be laid off or terminated as a result of a budget or program decision requiring program curtailment, modification, or redirection, unless that decision requires program discontinuance.” Such a change would be consistent with statute, would help build confidence with faculty, and, per the Regents’ own characterization, would be semantically innocent.
by Nicholas Fleisher 2 Comments
Modify and redirect
This week the UW System Board of Regents will take up the draft policies on faculty layoff and post-tenure review developed by the Tenure Policy Task Force, the latest versions of which were circulated on January 22. The policies go before the Education Committee not at its regular Thursday meeting, but at an extraordinary session on Friday, with all Regents in attendance. The policies will go before the full Board for approval at the Regents’ March meeting.
The draft policies are substantially similar to the versions released in December before the final meeting of the task force, and many of the criticisms of the December drafts apply to the current drafts, as well. The “educational considerations” that are to serve as the fundamental criteria for program discontinuance decisions are still defined in such a way as to be inseparable from financial considerations. Negative post-tenure review decisions are still not subject to institutional grievance procedures, a gross violation of due process; failure to complete a remediation plan can lead to dismissal for cause, in a cavalier expansion of the definition of just cause for dismissal. And the preamble to the faculty layoff policy still purports to quote AAUP’s language on using layoff as a last resort, when in fact it says only that all feasible alternatives must be “considered” (AAUP says “pursued“).
One improvement from the December drafts concerns the institution’s responsibility to faculty who are laid off. Both the financial emergency section and the program discontinuance section now contain the following language: “As provided in Wis. Stat. s. 36.22 (12), institutions shall devote their best efforts to securing alternative appointments for faculty laid off under this section, and also shall provide financial assistance for readaptation of faculty laid off under this section where readaptation is feasible.” This is an aesthetic improvement to the policy, not a substantive one, since the protections enumerated here reside in statute (36.22 was created as part of 2015 Act 55, the biennial budget bill), but it is nonetheless welcome. Wisconsin’s newly amended statute appears to be consistent with the AAUP’s Recommended Institutional Regulations on this point. [Update: Dave Vanness points out that AAUP RIR calls for a year’s severance pay for faculty for whom a suitable alternative position cannot be found, whereas 36.22 and the Board’s draft policy do not.]
What remains conspicuously absent from the draft policy on faculty layoff is any specific forswearing of the Board’s statutorily granted powers to lay off or terminate faculty in cases of program curtailment, modification, or redirection, i.e. program changes short of outright elimination or closure. The ability to make such micro-changes to programs invites all kinds of administrative abuse and is a clear threat to academic freedom.
Let’s go through this piece by piece. We begin with Wisconsin statute:
Wis. Stat. s. 36.22 (2)(a): “The board may, under this section and s. 36.21, with appropriate notice, lay off or terminate any faculty member when such an action is deemed necessary due to a budget or program decision requiring a program change.”
Wis. Stat. s. 36.22 (1)(b): “‘Program change’ means program discontinuance, curtailment, modification, or redirection.”
So, state law now says that tenured faculty can be laid off for essentially any reason whatsoever. The UW System has a thing called tenure, but it bears no resemblance to tenure as defined by the AAUP, every normal university in America, and pre-2015 Wisconsin. This was the starting point for the Tenure Policy Task Force’s work; it’s old news by now.
Now to the draft policy language:
Faculty layoff draft policy (preamble): “As provided in Wis. Stat. s. 36.21 and Wis. Stat. s. 36.22, and Chapter UWS 5 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (Board) has authority, with appropriate notice, to terminate through layoff a faculty appointment when necessary in the event of a financial emergency, or a program decision resulting in program discontinuance.”
True, but incomplete. Continuing on:
“The Board is permitted by Wis. Stat. s. 36.21 to adopt procedures relating to faculty layoff. Consistent with Chapter UWS 5 and Wis. Stat. s. 36.22, this Board policy sets forth those procedures. Faculty layoffs at University of Wisconsin System institutions may be undertaken only in accordance with this policy, Chapter UWS 5, Wis. Stat. s. 36.21, and Wis. Stat. s. 36.22.”
It’s hard to see how this rules out the possibility of layoff for the several reasons enumerated in 36.22 (2)(a). Remaining silent on the matter of curtailment, modification, and redirection doesn’t mean that layoffs for those reasons are barred, or even that they are against Board policy…since the draft policy explicitly says that faculty layoff can occur in accordance with 36.22! This isn’t exclusion by omission; it’s a glaring lacuna in Board policy.
It would be easy for the Board to adopt specific language addressing these points, e.g. by including a clause that says, “Notwithstanding the powers granted to the Board by Wis. Stat. s. 36.22 (2)(a), no faculty member shall be laid off or terminated as a result of a budget or program decision requiring program curtailment, modification, or redirection, unless that decision requires program discontinuance.” Such a clause wouldn’t contradict statute: negated “shall” is consistent with positive “may” (different ordering sources, if you want to get technical about it). This is where the “merely permissive” rubber of the 36.22 language could have hit the Board policy road, as Ray Cross and Becky Blank repeatedly insisted it would. Instead, we have a draft policy that does nothing to address the problem at the root of the Wisconsin tenure crisis, and that, if approved in this form, will consummate the elimination of tenure in the UW System in all but name.
Finally, it’s worth noting that the “discontinuance, curtailment, modification, or redirection” language wasn’t plucked from thin air: it’s been part of the Wisconsin administrative code governing academic staff in the UW System for years. Per UWS 12, academic staff with indefinite appointments—the analogue of tenure—are subject to layoff in all of the above scenarios. 36.22, in combination with the Regents’ selectively silent draft policy, puts tenured faculty on an equally bad footing. Academic staff in the UW System have, and faculty soon will have, wholly inadequate guarantees of academic freedom. It’s time to fix this for everyone.
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Konnet Power Pyramid
Category: Console Hardware
Published: Monday, 06 September 2010 05:26
Being both a console and PC gamer, sometimes I find myself neglecting one or the other due to a lack of time to do both. Recently it has been console gaming. When I do have time to play, I always have to fight with finding a controller that is charged and ready to go; I just don’t have time to wait around for it to charge or to mess with awkward play and charge setups. I was sorting through some of our PR and came across a product that fit the bill perfectly for me: Konnet’s Power Pyramid. Let’s take a closer look.
XCM Hot Rock Wii Case
Written by Lersar
In the US you can only buy the Wii in the white variety. If you wanted the colors that Nintendo teased us with at expos long passed, then keep dreaming. Enter XCM, a company which specializes in case replacements for consoles and handhelds. How do they stack up against the official thing? I will be reviewing the II Hot Rock case for the Nintendo Wii.
Nyko BluWave PS3 Infrared Remote
Published: Friday, 21 August 2009 01:09
If I accidentally hit the R1 button and skip another scene in my movie, I may go insane. And what button brings up the menu? Square? Why isn't there some kind of simple remote out there, one that's not huge and inconvenient, but one to help capitalize on one of the PlayStation 3's greatest features? Thankfully, there is. Nyko's BluWave Infrared remote may be the answer, and they've generously sent us a sample to see for ourselves.
Nyko Charge Base 360
The next gen of gaming consoles finally found the salvation that had been hinted at ever since Nintendo tried incorporating a wireless receiver for the original NES. Wireless controllers have finally been adequately and correctly instituted into this current wave of systems. However, in doing so, two of the three leaders of console world, Nintendo and Microsoft, have become the battery companies' best friends. Granted, the controllers on any platform have a decent battery life, but if you find yourself with no rechargeables or replacements on hand, well, you're S.O.L. In the end, the former of the two, rechargeable batteries, are without a doubt the way to go (sorry Duracell), not only saving you from constantly purchasing replaceable disposables, but also allowing for convenient charge methods. Today, we sit down with Nyko's latest, the Charge Base 360.
Thrustmaster Dual Trigger Gun NW
Published: Sunday, 19 April 2009 23:48
Nintendo may have struck an untapped gold-mine with their latest console, but it seems to come at a high price for those of us who were once devoted and loyal fans. The casual crowd is the company's target this go around, much to the dismay of the rest of us. So for a lot of people, the Wii sits as a very expensive white paperweight in their home. I, for one, often go months at a time without powering on the console. Occasional flukes serve to breathe some life into the system, with first-party Nintendo titles being the most obvious. However, what I've found to be a hidden gem on the Wii is the light-gun game remakes, as well as the new ones developed specifically for the Wii. These games take the one advantage Wii controls have, ie pointing the controller at the screen, and utilize it in a very natural way. Of course, when you play a light-gun style game, you are missing a critical component of the equation: the light-gun. Simply pointing a Wiimote at a screen and imagining that you're shooting bullets out of it is kind of lame, so quite a few companies have developed light-gun shells for your Wiimote. Thrustmaster, being one of them, sent us their Dual Trigger Gun NW to test on its own and against perhaps the most popular shell, the Nyko Perfect Shot. Here's how it measured up...
XCM Xbox 360 Controller Case
Published: Wednesday, 01 April 2009 05:01
It doesn't matter what your interest or hobbies are there will always be a group of people who aren't happy with having the same thing as everyone else. Because of that people "mod" or modify just about anything you can think of. There are large industries just about creating parts specifically in the automobile industry and more recently the computer industry. You will find those same people in the console gaming community, people like Ben Heck have made a name for themselves doing just that. Because of that popularity there are company's now that make parts to help you along if this is your thing. XCM is one if not the biggest company that does this. Today I will be looking at a replacement case with led lighting for your Xbox 360 controller. This is very interesting for me both because I love to mod everything and because I hate how I can't ever tell the difference between my Xbox 360 controllers. I'm hoping that this case will satisfy both of those issues.
ThrustMaster T-Nchuk Wireless Adapter
Everyone hates cords. They're messy, tangle easy, and are simply an unwanted restriction. With the next generation gaming consoles putting some much emphasis on wireless controllers and accessories, companies have begun to eliminate wires that do still exist. One of the more obvious is the cord that connects the Nintendo Wii's remote the the nunchuck controller, and ThrustMaster generously sent us their solution to test.
XCM Xbox 360 Hard Drive Shell
Published: Friday, 27 March 2009 13:33
There are quite a few reasons why a person would need a new 360 hard drive shell, which is essentially an enclosure in the console gaming world. One may be simply that the factory shell has broke, another may be that you simply don't like the color of your current shell. But the third, and perhaps the instance where XCM holds value, is for system mods; no where on this shell do you see the company's name, advertisements, numbers, or writing of any kind. It is simply a blank shell, ready to serve whatever your purpose may be.
XCM Sniper 3.0 Plus
Published: Thursday, 26 February 2009 06:26
The PC vs. Console argument has been an ongoing battle. With new consoles focusing on online play the issue mainly comes down to controls in FPR and RTS games. Diehard PC gamers have a hard time playing those games with a controller, and console gamers don't see the need for a keyboard and mouse. Until recently, if you wanted to play console games you had to use a normal controller. XCM recently released their Sniper 3.0 Plus, an adapter to be able to use a mouse and keyboard on your favorite console games. Well considering or focus on gaming and gaming gear I had to get my hands on the Sniper 3.0 Plus. As a PC FPS gamer, I could not wait to jump in and see how well I could do on console games with my preferred input device.
AxeWraps Skins: The Blaze
Let's be honest: when it comes to expressing yourself, cute stickers and colored plastic just don't seem to cut it. So when you decide to to deck out your guitar peripheral, you want to do it with some style. AxeWraps graciously sent us one of their Rock Band guitar skins, The Blaze, to put to the test.
Measure Twice Products Guitar Stand and Wall Mount
Published: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 07:04
I recently reviewed the Guitar stand from Dudethingcreations. As it turns out, they aren't alone in the market for Guitar Hero and Rock Band guitar stands. A company by the name of Measure Twice Products also produces a 4-guitar stand with a drastically different design. They also produce a Wall mountable hanger available in two different designs. Today we will be looking at both; I plan to figure out if their stand will stand up to our abuse.
Dudethingcreations Guitar Stand
Between our unhealthy obsession for Guitar Hero and Rock Band games and the need for equipment for the LanOC events we have a few too many guitars lying around. Because of this we began to have a nest of guitars and wires. Considering the popularity of the games I'm sure we are not the only one with this problem. Because of this there have been a variety of company and people who have many creative ideas on how to deal with this problem. A couple of guys in Texas had our same problem and designed a stand to hold 4 guitars and one microphone. After "selling like hotcakes" on Ebay they decided to step it up with a new website and some additional help, and that's how Dude thing Creations came about. Today I will be taking a closer look at their Gaming Guitar Stand. This will hopefully help clean up the mess in our living room.
Logitech Cordless Vantage PS3 Headset
Published: Sunday, 04 January 2009 04:30
The Sony Playstation 3 as a console has so far offered up a questionable gaming experience for those who have purchased it. Realistically, however, the system does have its own distinct titles - many of which deliver solid multiplayer content. Resistance 1 and 2, LittleBigPlanet, and Warhawk all serve up delicious online fare just for starters and with the inception of Home for the PS3, it's safe to say that like the Xbox 360, online play is an integral part of the PS3 experience. At this point, in order to maintain an edge in an online game, a headset is basically required in order to establish proper teamwork. Since Sony hasn't seen fit to provide their supporters with an official Sony headset as of yet, it's up to the third parties to pick up the slack. This is where Logitech comes in with their Cordless Vantage headset, an interesting device fit to take advantage of the PS3's Bluetooth capabilities. They were kind enough to send us one, so that we might put it to the test.
Nyko Cord Free
When the Wii was announced the wireless remote shaped controller caused confusion an intrigue. A system without wires was a welcome change to the console coming with a mess of a wired controller and a premium price to go wireless. Then the nunchuck came to light and there was a collective groan. A wireless controller with wired peripherals sounds like madness. MADNESS? This is Nintendo! They promised a solution but never delivered which led to 3rd party companies like Nyko to swoop in and save the day. I will be reviewing the Cord Free nunchuck by Nyko.
Rock Pedal Kick Pedal
Published: Wednesday, 12 November 2008 05:01
So how many times have you broke a Rock Band kick pedal while playing "Run to the Hills" on expert? None? Me either. Drums are too damn hard. I have, however, managed to break two while playing savagely through the medium career. All this serves to prove is that the Rock Band peripherals are terrible. Not that this is news to anyone at this point. It's a good thing that some people have taken up a proactive solution to this problem. The visionaries at Rock Pedal have formulated an answer to kick pedal woes: the Rock Pedal. Coincidence, or company name based off the product? You be the judge. Silly comments aside, they were kind enough to send us not one rock pedal, but two in preparation for the LanOC v3 Drum-off. Since then, we've had the opportunity to test the product proper, and this is what we thought....
Nyko 360 Charge Station
Published: Sunday, 29 June 2008 04:01
There isn’t anything like being in the middle of a game and having to stop to change batteries. Let’s hope you have fresh batteries someplace in the house. If not its going to mean you’re going to have to make a quick trip to the store to pick up few AA batteries. This is where Nyko comes in with their Charge Station for the Xbox 360. Check out what we thought of it.
Tuniq TX-2 Thermal Compound
Published: Thursday, 05 June 2008 05:07
CPU heat has presented an interesting problem since the dawn of the computer decades ago. Whether you are a hardcore overclocker, or are merely attempting to build the most stable system possible, extraordinary cooling solutions must be relied upon in order to dissipate heat in a reliable manner. In order to keep pace with newer and hotter components, companies like Tuniq, a division of Sunbeamtech, offer up creative new products to help beat the heat. Tuniq TX-2 is their latest thermal compound, and we’re going to see how it measures up.
HeroGear Les Paul Guitar Skin
Published: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 07:07
Shredding with Slash, blazing through the umpteenth solo of Through the Fire and Flames, becoming a national idol, and taking down a rock deity in a grueling battle of axes is an everyday thing for most of us. No longer can our guitar skills be measured on this mortal plane, rock gods we have become....when it comes to Guitar Hero that is. This game has become a worldwide phenomenon, sweeping the young and the old into its frenzied maw. Unfortunately, when something grows as popular as Guitar Hero has, it's a little difficult to remain unique when millions are lugging around the same machine molded toy guitar. Our friends at HeroGear have come up with a solution to this with guitar skins specially designed and fit to add a little flair to anyone's guitar:
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Home > Research Help > Recommended Resources by Subject > Art Terms and Materials
ART TERMS AND MATERIALS //
This is a subject guide for finding materials on visual art terms and artists' tools and materials in the Greenfield Library at the University of the Arts®. Send any questions about this topic to Mary Louise Castaldi, Reference Librarian, MCastaldi@uarts.edu.
Books located in the reference stacks: specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias or handbooks are particularly helpful for finding basic background information on a topic. The following is a list of books in the Greenfield Library reference stacks. These books must be used only in the library.
ART, GENERAL
The dictionary of art. Jane Turner, editor. Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
-*-Really an encyclopedia, this is the most current full-length encyclopedia devoted to art currently available. Always check the index in volume 34-*-
REF N31 .D5 1996 v. 1-34
Grove art online -*-Electronic version of the dictionary of art-*-
Harris, Jonathan (Jonathan P.) Art history: the key concepts. Routledge, 2006. REF N5300 .H278 2006
Langmuir, Erika. The Yale dictionary of art and artists. Yale University Press, c2000. REF N33 .L353 2000
Lucie-Smith, Edward. The Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms. Thames and Hudson, 2004. REF N33 .L75 2003
Mayer, Ralph. The HarperCollins dictionary of art terms and techniques. HarperPerennial, 1992. REF 751 M45h 1992
Metzger, Philip W. The artist's illustrated encyclopedia: techniques, materials, and terms. North Light Books, c2001. REF N8510 .M48 2001
McGraw-Hill dictionary of art. McGraw-Hill, 1969. REF N33 .M23 v. 1-5
The Oxford dictionary of art. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2004. REF N33 .O93 2004
Pierce, James Smith. From abacus to Zeus: a handbook of art history. 7th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, c2004. REF N33 .P5 2004
Reynolds, Kimberley. Illustrated dictionary of art terms. Bedrick, 1984, c1981. REF N33 .R49 1984
ART, SPECIFIC
Atkins, Robert. Artspeak: a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1945 to the Present. 2nd ed. Abbeville Press, 1997.
-*-Short definitions of art movements, art forms, and critical terms. Most entries are broken into who, when, where and what. Compare time coverage with Artspoke below. Both Artspeak and Artspoke have timelines in the front-*-
REF N6490 .A87 1997
Atkins, Robert. Artspoke: a guide to modern ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1848-1944. Abbeville Press, 1993. REF N6447 .A85 1993
Baldwin, Gordon. Looking at photographs: a guide to technical terms. J. Paul Getty Museum in association with British Museum Press, c1991. REF TR9 .B35 2009
Bassett, Jane. Looking at European sculpture: a guide to technical terms. J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, c1997. REF NB50 .B37 1997
Brown, Michelle. Understanding illuminated manuscripts: a guide to technical terms. J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, c1994. REF ND2889 .B76 1994
Campbell, Alastair. The designer's lexicon: the illustrated dictionary of design, printing, and computer terms. Chronicle Books, 2000. REF Z246 .C2 2000
Carr, Dawson W. Looking at paintings: a guide to technical terms. J. Paul Getty Museum in association with British Museum Press, c1992. REF ND31 .C37 2009
Chilvers, Ian. A dictionary of twentieth-century art. Oxford University Press, 1998. REF N6490 .C5317 1998
Cohen, David Harris. Looking at European ceramics: a guide to technical terms. J. Paul Getty Museum in association with British Museum Press, c1993. REF NK4083 .C64 1993
The Focal encyclopedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science. 4th ed. Elsevier/Focal Press, c2007.
REF TR9 .F6 2007
Greenfield CDs & CD-ROM GCD106 (Ask at the Circulation Desk)
Goldman, Paul. Looking at prints, drawings, and watercolours: a guide to technical terms. 2nd ed. J. Paul Getty Museum, c2006. REF N34 .G62 2006
Kostelanetz, Richard. A dictionary of the avant-gardes. Routledge, 2001. REF NX456 .K67 2001
McDarrah, Gloria S. The photography encyclopedia. Schirmer Books, c1999. REF TR9 .M39 1999
Mora, Gilles. PhotoSpeak: a guide to the ideas, movements, and techniques of photography, 1839 to the present. 1st ed. Abbeville Press Publishers, c1998.
REF TR15 .M63 1998
The Oxford companion to twentieth-century art. Edited by Harold Osborne. Oxford University Press, 1988.
-*-Highly recommended! Contains biographical material as well as definitions of artistic movements and terms-*-
REF N6490 .O94 1988
Patin, Thomas. Artwords: a glossary of contemporary art theory. Greenwood Press, 1997. REF N71 .P32 1997
Understanding art: a reference guide to painting, sculpture, and architecture in the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Sharpe Reference, c2000. REF N5940 .A7813 2000 v.1-2
Walker, John A. Glossary of art, architecture & design since 1945. 3rd ed. G.K. Hall, 1992. REF N34 .W34 1992
ARTISTS' MATERIALS
Gottsegen, Mark David. The painter's handbook: a complete reference. Rev. and expanded. Watson-Guptill Publications, 2006. REF ND1500 .G6155 2006
Krug, Margaret Manning. An artist's handbook: materials and techniques. Abrams, 2007. REF ND1500 .K78 2007
Mayer, Ralph. The artist's handbook of materials and techniques. 5th ed. Viking, 1991. REF ND1500 .M3 1991
Metzger, Philip W. The North Light artist's guide to materials & techniques. 1st pbk. ed. North Light Books, 2001. REF N8530 .M48 2001
Mills, John W. The encyclopedia of sculpture techniques Watson Guptill Publications, 1989. REF NB1170 .M528 1989
Rossol, Monona. The artist's complete health & safety guide. 2nd ed. Allworth Press, c1994. REF RC963.6.A78 R67 1994
Smith, Ray. The artist's handbook. DK Pub., 2003.
** "The complete, practical guide to the tools, techniques and materials of painting, drawing and printmaking." **
REF N7430 .S54 2003
The University Libraries combine their holdings in one ONLINE CATALOG. Use it to find books, videos, CDs, scores, journal titles, etc. To locate all of the materials the library holds on a topic, it is most efficient to search by subject. Use the following SUBJECT HEADINGS to find materials in addition to the Reference Books listed above. Be careful to follow the exact spelling and form. These subject headings are standard and are used in most libraries.
ART--DICTIONARIES
ART--ENCYCLOPEDIAS
ART, MODERN -- 20TH CENTURY -- DICTIONARIES
ART--TECHNIQUE
ARTS, MODERN -- 20TH CENTURY -- DICTIONARIES
PAINTING--TECHNIQUE
PHOTOGRAPHY--ENCYCLOPEDIAS
PHOTOGRAPHY--HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC
SCULPTURE--TECHNIQUE
Magazine and journal articles will always be the best place to look for current information on your topic. Periodical indexes are research tools that allow you to search for articles in journals and magazines.
Go to the library's Research Tools and Resources page for a list of the UArts Libraries' subscription databases, indexes, and reference works.
I've found articles I want to read. Now what?
There are different ways to find an article once you retrieve a citation in the index:
See if there is a link in the index you're using to a full-text article online and download it or e-mail it to yourself.
Check to see if our library holds the journal title. Look up the journal title or the ISSN*** in the catalog and look at the holdings.
***What is an ISSN? ISSN stands for International Standard Serial Number and is a unique number for a magazine or journal (not individual articles, but the magazine/journal title itself). You can use it in the UArts Libraries catalog and in many periodical indexes and databases. Searching with a number is much more precise than typing out a long title.
Use interlibrary loan to request materials not owned by the UArts Libraries.
See what other libraries in the area hold the journal.
There are many art education-related sites and resources available on the Internet and World Wide Web. The few listed here should provide many links to other sites.
American Art Therapy Association, Inc. - Resources and Links
http://www.arttherapy.org/atres.html
National Art Education Association
https://www.arteducators.org/
See About Us for a description of the organization. This is one of the premier professional organizations for art educators. Student discount memberships are available, and NAEA publications are available at a discounted members' rate. To check the University Libraries catalog for NAEA publications, search by author for National Art Education Association.
ARTSEDGE: The National Arts and Education Information Network
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
"ARTSEDGE - the National Arts and Education Network - supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience."--quoted from About Us. Includes news, teaching materials, and professional resources. ArtsEdge is a program of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and includes materials on performing arts as well as visual arts.
The Getty: Education
http://www.getty.edu/education/
The education portion of the Getty Museum's Web site. Includes a searchable database of lesson plans, a listserv, and material for museum education studies.
Links for Teachers from Joyce Kasman Valenza's Springfield Township High School Virtual Library
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/tealinks.html
An excellent starting point for teachers in any discipline. Valenza used to write a weekly column in the Philadelphia Inquirer on education and the Internet. From the Springfield Township High School Virtual Library home page you may also want to explore "Links for Students", which includes clip-art resources, information literacy resources, and more.
National Gallery of Art: Loan Materials Finder
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/loanfinder/
"The National Gallery of Arts Education Division provides slide teaching programs, multimedia programs, videocassettes, CD ROMs, DVDs and videodiscs to millions of viewers each year. These programs are intended to foster awareness of the visual arts and make Gallery collections accessible to a broad audience beyond the Gallery's walls. They are circulated free of charge to educational institutions, community groups, and individuals throughout the United States."--from About Loans. See also the National Gallery of Art's Web page on its education division: http://www.nga.gov/education/.
No Subject Left Behind: A Guide to Arts Education Opportunities in the 2001 Education Act [PDF]
No Subject Left Behind
"This publication provides an overview to programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. These laws are the basis for most federal funding for the nation's schools."
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/icom/vlmp/
"The VL [Virtual Library] is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and the Web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web." Source: About the Virtual Library
Art History Resources on the Web / Chris Witcombe
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
An often-recommended site. Organized primarily by country or by time period, you need to know where your artwork or artist falls within those categories. Do some research in the library first! If you are a UArts student, faculty or staff member, start with the online Grove Dictionary of Art to find basic information on your subject before trying sites like this.
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Posts Tagged ‘Abaidat’
LIBYAN TRIBES – DO THEY STILL MATTER? (The first of an occasional series about the tribes of Libya) Updated 10th April 2013
Anyone observing the British House of Commons in action in the weekly ritual called Prime Minister’s Question Time during the closing days of October 2012 will be hard pressed to believe that the ‘class war’ is unimportant in the UK. At the same time observers of the deadly clashes around Bani Walid in Libya will be driven to the view that tribal loyalties are still influential in that war torn country. In both countries it is still possible to arouse old enmities and tribal affiliations.
The Bani Walid clashes, though ostensibly to eradicate the last Gaddafists, are largely between two traditional tribal rivals – the Warfella confederation based on Bani Walid and the Misurata confederation based in the city of Misurata.
I argue that Muammar Gaddafi re-tribalised Libya by promoting members of his own tribe and that of his second wife into key positions in his regime.
I also argue that tribal loyalties are reasserting themselves in the volatile and dangerous conditions prevailing in Libya as the country struggles to form a democratic government and a civic society.
There are few authoritative studies of the Libyan tribes available. Gaddafi discouraged research by anthropologists and we are thus largely stuck with out of date information. In attempting to write about the Libya tribes I am taking a considerable risk. I know that and I hope Libyans will rush to correct my errors and fill in the gaps in my knowledge.
There follows in this blog-site a series of notes on the Libyan tribes. As background reading I hope you will bear with me and read this extract from the second draft of my book – ‘Libya – The History of Gadaffi’s Pariah State’. It is based largely on the work of E.E. Evans-Pritchard and the Italian scholar di Agostini both of whom may well be out of date but remain the best sources I can find. NB English spelling of Arabic names evolves over time.
THE TRUE ARABS ARRIVE IN LIBYA
1050 and 1051 came the Hilalian migration [into Libya]. Two Arab tribes which came from the Najd, the Beni Sulaym and the Beni Hilal, had been driven into Egypt as a result of a thwarted attempt to enter Arabia. They had settled in Upper Egypt but were true Bedouin with a way of life which was not appreciated by a population amongst whom they failed to co-exist.
The Fatimid Caliph of Egypt encouraged the two tribes to move westward into Cyrenaica (East Libya), Tripolitania (West Libya) and Tunis to squeeze out the indigenous Berbers who were attempting to assert their independence. The new invaders occupied much of Libya with notable savagery. There was a difference, however. It was a belligerent migration, rather than a military conquest.
There are no records of the number of Beni Sulaym or Beni Hilal who took part in this migration. The tribes moved lock, stock and barrel, though in this case it would be better to say tent, stock and camel. The Bedouin are adapted to migrant pastoralism. The Beni Hilal and the Beni Sulaym were capable of moving, slowly over great distances with their adaptable sheep, goats and camels. The camel provided transport and was useful militarily. Their tents are readily erected or struck by females with long experience of transhumance. In this way, the Hilalian migration bought not only intact families but also an intact and conservative culture into Libya.
The Benin Sulaym, the senior tribe, found Cyrenaica congenial and many of them settled there. The Beni Hilal drove on westwards. Five of the Tripolitanian tribes are said to descend from them. The historian, Peter Wright, has suggested that the Beni Sulaym had finally completed their settlement of the northern part of Cyrenaica in the 1060s.
The descendants of the Beni Sulaym are still spread over a large area in Egypt and Tunisia. There are two tribes which claim descent from them in Tripolitania. However, those occupying modern Cyrenaica founded nine famous aristocratic Bedouin tribes. These nine, the so called Sa’adi tribes, are divided into two branches, the Jibarna and the Harabi.
The Jibarna tribes are the ‘Awaquir, the Magharba, the Abid and the Arafa. The Harabi are the Abaidat, the Hasa, the Fayid, the Bara’asa and the Darsa. These nine tribes have pushed out a number of other Beni Sulaym, such as the Aulad Ali who now occupy much of the Western Desert of Egypt……….
Whilst the ancient history of the Beni Sulaym is unknown to the great majority of people of the nine tribes, they are fanatical genealogists and will recount their perceived line of descent from the so called mother of the nine tribes, the eponymous Sa’adi. That they all claim descent for one mother is important because, when faced with a common enemy, the Saadi tribes make common cause……..
The nine tribes own their own homelands by right of conquest. They are, in this regard, freemen and are referred to as Hurr (free or noble). Anyone who can successfully claim descent from the founding mother Sa’ad is a nobleman or Hurr by birth and has the right to the natural resources of his homeland. Each of the nine tribes are divided and subdivided with each section having the right to its homeland (its watan).
There are other tribes which are not descended from the founding ancestress, Sa’ad. They are known as the Marabtin which roughly translated means ‘tied’ and they are sometimes referred to as client tribes.
These are tribes which do not own land. They use it by permission of the Sa’adi tribes and pay dues in kind.
It is time to ask how relevant the Hilalian invasion of Libya is today. As E.E Evans-Pritchard wrote of their descendants when he encountered them in 1943; “[they are] as Arab as any people in the world, proud Tammim and Quarash not excepted”. The tribes that claim descent from the Hilal and Beni Suliem had, until recently: “the same tented, pastoral, way of life, the same social organisation, the same laws and customs and manners, and the same values”. [E.E. Evans-Pritchard, The Sanusi of Cyrenaica, Oxford University Press, 1973, p 46,47.]
John Oakes (26th October 2012)
Update 5th November 2012 ….. The tribal leaders of Eastern Libya met in Benghazi after the untimely death of US Ambassador Stevens. This piece is rather long but worth reading because it shows that the tribes are still relevant: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/7514/libyan-eastern-tribal-chiefs-population-and-govern
Update 10th April 2013…..The tribal leaders met to call for action to disband the militias which are still dominting life in Benghazi;
http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/04/10/cyrenaica-tribal-leaders-demand-suppression-of-illegal-militias-pledge-full-support-for-zeidans-government/
Posted in Libya
Tagged with Abaidat, Abid, Arafa, Awaquir, Bani Walid, Bara’asa, Beni Hilal, Beni Sulaym, Cyrenaica, Darsa, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Fayid, Fezzan, Gaddafi, Hasa, Hilalian migration, Hurr, Libya, Magharba, Marabtin, Misurata, Saadi tribes, Tripolitania, Warfella, watan
LIBYA – WAS OMAR MUKHTAR OR T.E. LAWRENCE THE BEST GUERILLA LEADER?
Yesterday was the anniversary of the execution of Libyan hero Omar Mukhtar. This is a short note in memoriam.
The Italian occupation of Libya, which commenced in 1911, entered an aggressive phase during Mussolini’s Fascist regime. Then Italians colonists launched a campaign of ‘re-conquest’. They began to pacify the defiant tribes with no little brutality.
Organised resistance by the tribes was impossible so they pursued a classical guerrilla war where Italian sentries were shot, supply columns ambushed, and communications interrupted. There was a succession of small actions and acts of sabotage in different parts of the country.
At first the Italians responded by courting the favour of those tribes, or parts of tribes, near the towns. By offering employment, subsidies and arms, they hoped to turn them against the rebels. In their minds there were two types of tribe, the sottomessi, that is the submitted, and the rebelli,
They thought they had gained the loyalty of the sottomessi to support them against the rebelli. They were to be constantly disappointed. The sottomessi supplied arms, ammunition, food, intelligence, shelter and funds to the rebelli. Sometimes the tribal sheiks would arrange amongst themselves who would submit and who would take the field.
To their consternation, the Italians had overlooked or misinterpreted, as many do, the powerful Bedouin law. The nine Sa’adi tribes of East Libya and their clients were all Bedouin, jealous of each other and hostile to tribes other than their own. The males of each tribe were duty-bound to avenge a slain kinsman. The group of males within the tribe who shoulder this collective responsibility is called the amara dam. The other side of this coin is the duty to protect and aid a living kinsman. This is at the root of Bedouin values. The common ancestry and the kinship of the Sa’adi tribes overrode the lesser demands. The tribes were united by blood, Islam and a common way of life against the Italians.
As the Italian proconsul Graziani wrote of the Second Senussi War. “The entire population thus took part directly or indirectly in the rebellion.” However the guerrilla war was led by some notable families who have received less attention than they deserve. They were the Abbar and the Kizzih of the Awaquir, the Saif al Nasr of the Aulad Suliman, the Bu Baker bu Hadduth of the Bara’asa, the Lataiwish of the Magharba, the Abdalla of the Abaidat, the Asbali of the Arafa, the Suwaikir and the Ilwani of the Abid and the Bu Khatara bu Halaiqua of the Hasa. The homelands of the tribes which these families led stretched from the desert south of the present city of Sirte to the Marmarica in the east around the city of Tobruk. All of this territory was ideal for guerrilla warfare.
The tribal leaders were formidable but they needed the coordinating hand of a leader. They found it in the person of Omar Mukhtar who brought not only his considerable energy and talents into the field but also the network of Senussi lodges and intelligent personnel stretched throughout the tribal homelands. The Islamic Senussi order had for a long time planted seminaries amongst the Bedouin tribes of Eastern Libya. They were staffed by a leader or sheik and a band of the Ikwan (brothers) who educated the young and gave religious and practical leadership.
In the Senussi sheik, Omar Mukhtar, they had a leader who, though he was was well gone in age, was an experienced soldier, a talented tactician with an almost unique ability to keep the peace between the fractious tribal detachments which he commanded, perhaps because of his Bedouin birth. His parents were members of a Minifa (Marabtin al-sadqan) tribe from the Marmarica. Between 1912 and 1931 he planned all the gruella operations, gathered and evaluated the intelligence, organised the logistics and finance and led a band of his own.
The Italians response grew more heavy handed as the war progressed. They found that the sottomessi were supplying the rebellei, so they commenced by disarming the non-combatant tribesmen. They went on to harsher methods to stop the flow of rebel volunteers, ammunition and weapons, money and food from the sottomessi. They used the well tried methods of arrests, restricting civilian movements, deportations, aerial bombardment and strafing of recalcitrant tribes. They blocked and poisoned desert wells, confiscated precious livestock and barbed wire was liberally strewn around to restrict the seasonal migrations. The rate of executions was alarming but it was in concentration camps that the sottomessi who were much depleted in health, morale and numbers.
They went after the Senussi lodges, destroying them and deporting their leaders. They captured Omar Mukhtar in September 1931 when he was ambushed near Baida. He was wounded in an arm. His horse was shot and pinned him to the ground. He was taken prisoner and tried in a hurry. The Italians made a spectacle of his final moments. He was hanged at a place called Suluq before an audience of 20,000 Libyans assembled there by their colonial masters. The rebellion was ended. A number of tribal leaders attempted to escape to Egypt.
The work of British WWI leader of the Arab Revolt against Turkish rule, T.E. Lawrence, is now studied by military personnel as the consummate strategist of guerrilla warfare. He was, first and foremost, an intellectual soldier. He wrote this in his ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’.‘Suppose we were an influence (as we might be), an idea, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile as a whole, firm-rooted, and nourished through long stems to the head, we might be a vapour, blowing where we listed. Our kingdoms lay in each man’s mind, as we wanted nothing material to live on, so perhaps we offered nothing material to the killing. It seemed a regular soldier might be helpless without a target. He would own the ground he sat on, and what he could poke his rifle at.’
Omar Mukhtar’s most formidable enemy the Italian proconsul Graziani wrote this: ‘[the situation was] like a poisoned organism which sets up at one point of the body, a poisoned bube. The bube in this case was the fighting band of Omar al Mukhtar, resulting from the entire infection,.. the entire population took part in the rebellion.’ Guerrilla warfare is most successful when these conditions prevail but in the end the Italians intimidated, decimated and bribed the population into submission. Omar Mukhtar was an octogenarian and still fighting when others of that age are hors de combat! There is a lesson in this for soldiers and geriatrics!
So was Omar Muhktar or T.E. Lawrence the best guerrilla leader?
Omar Mukhtar coordinated and led the Cyrenaican tribes in a guerrilla war against the Christian Italian occupiers of their homelands. The Italians had displaced the tribes from the more fertile regions in the Gebel Akhdar and replaced them with Italian colonists who were given plots of land on which on which to farm.
Whilst giving proper weight to the tribal leaders already mentioned above, it is clear that the overall strategy and coordination of the long and brutal battle to regain their land was exercised by one charismatic and talented man in the person of Omar Mukhtar. He was able to use the extensive network of Senussi Ikwan who were trusted by the tribal leaders.
It is clear that the Senussi leadership brought the tribes together in a battle against a common enemy but it must not be forgotten that the sense of kinship amongst the nine Sa’adi tribes of Cyrenaica was a major factor in keeping the revolt going. Nor should we forget that Omar Mukhtar was able to lead a legitimate jihad against the Christian colonists. His rebellion was crushed and he was hanged before a crowd of 20,000 Libyans assembled by the Italians in September 1931.
To criticise T.E. Lawrence is unpopular, especially in Britain. He was elevated to hero status after the Great War for his role in the Arab Revolt against the Turks which supported the British and Commonwealth armies in the capture of Damascus in October 1917. Lawrence was, in fact, a British Liaison Officer attached to the Sherifan leader, Emir Feisal.
Lawrence was not the only British officer involved in the affair but he was notably influential, not least because he was the conduit through which the large British subsides reached the key players in the Arab Revolt. He was able to persuade the British to wager huge amounts of money on the Sherifan leadership of whom they knew very little.
After the war he gained what we now call ‘celebrity status’ as the ‘Uncrowned King of Arabia’ through the person of an American showman called Lowell Thomas who toured around the UK and USA with a slide show in which he portrayed Lawrence as a romantic hero. After World War One there was a deep need amongst the British to find an individual war hero to offset mass slaughter of trench warfare in which individuality was destroyed.
John Oakes (with thanks to the historian and anthropologist E.E. Evans-Pritchard)
Update 22nd January 2013
An Omar Mukhtar museum is planned for Benghazi according to the Libya Herald
http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/01/21/omar-mukhtar-museum-for-benghazi/
Update 12th November 2014
It is reported that the statue of Omar Mukhtar has disappeared from Tripoli.
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Local actors take centre stage in new play being performed in Lichfield
by Ann Mayo 30th May, 2017 30th May, 2017
Ian Henderson and Adrienne Swallow
Four talented actors will be telling a fascinating story in a new play in June.
Each of them has played prominent roles in productions for some of the top dramatic societies in Lichfield.
The play, Boothby’s Gift, is penned by another Lichfield actor and writer, David Titley.
It features Ian Henderson as Sir Brooke Boothby, the man responsible for bringing the famous Herkenrode Glass from an Abbey in Belgium to Lichfield in 1803.
Adrienne Swallow plays Mother Josephine, the last Abbess of Herkenrode, Nigel Lowe is the Deputy Commisioner Jean-Baptiste Arnoul and Ian Parkes plays property developer Pierre Libotton.
Ian Parkes and Nigel Lowe
Six years ago, Nigel Lowe, known for his performances with Lichfield Players, Shakespeare in the Park and Lichfield Operatic Society, decided to pursue more of his passion for acting and became a professional featured/supporting artiste in the film and TV industry.
His TV appearances include Broadchurch, Peaky Blinders, Father Brown and Danny and the Human Zoo which starred Lenny Henry. Films include Theory of Everything, Mission Impossible and The Muppets Most Wanted.
Adrienne Swallow is a featured performer with Lichfield Players and Shakespeare in the Park and is well-known for her appearances with Intimate Theatre – notably as Mrs Lee in Cider with Rosie and in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.
Ian Henderson is also a regular performer with Intimate Theatre, most recently in a Lichfield Festival production of Hedda Gabler. He has appeared in 13 productions with Shakespeare in the Park and at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham in Ayckbourne’s Season’s Greetings.
Ian Parkes can be seen regularly in Lichfield Players’ productions, most recently as Rene in Allo Allo. With other local groups he has performed in Animal Farm, As You Like it, God of Carnage, Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime and Waiting for Godot.
Boothby’s Gift, a Lichfield Mysteries production, will run on June 9 and 10 at Wade Street Church. Tickets are £8, available from the Samuel Johnson Birthplace on Market Square or on the door. For details call 01543 264972 or visit www.lichfieldmysteries.co.uk.
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30th May, 2017 at 12:07 pm
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We remember Herbert Cavanagh
birth Kennington, London United Kingdom Source:6550728 6th August 1893
service Royal Navy Engine Room Artificer 4th Class M1111 HMS Vindictive Source:6550728 2nd August 1914 - 30th June 1916
service Royal Navy Engine Room Artificer 4th Class M1111 HMS Vindictive Source:6550728 27th September 1916 - 30th March 1917
service Royal Navy Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class M1111 HMS Vindictive Source:6550728 31st March 1917 - 12th December 1917
service Royal Navy Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class M1111 Portsmouth Naval Base (HMS Victory) Source:6550728 13th December 1917 - 28th February 1918
death Romsey, Hampshire United Kingdom Source:8867384 1983
First Names Herbert
Initials H
Last Name Cavanagh
Royal Navy M1111 HMS Vindictive Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
Royal Navy M1111 Portsmouth Naval Base (HMS Victory) Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
Royal Navy M1111 HMS Vindictive Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
HMS Vindictive
The battered cruiser HMS VINDICTIVE at Dover after the Zeebrugge raid, 23 April 1918
Keith1947
HMS Vindictive listing for VC ballot - page 5 of 6
Under the terms of clause 13 of the VC statutes, in cases where a body of men was deemed to have been so gallant, the best way to select VCs was by a ballot, enabling the men themselves to decide. Following on from a ballot for the Royal Marine participants, a ballot was held for the Royal Navy participants. These latter were the ships crews of Vindictive, Iris II, Daffodil, as well as the men of the Naval Storming Party. Captain Carpenter of the Vindictive, and AB McKenzie who belonged to B Company of the seaman storming party, were awarded the VC as a result of the ballot. Unfortunately, the six page list does not break out 1. the parties by company and embarked ship, nor 2. who was crew on HMS Vindictive. Storming Party men do have HMS Hindustan recorded as their depot for Mar-Apr 1918 on their service records. In addition to what was on the original list, a "prior posting" column has been added, as well as the company if known. It can be seen that the men tend to be grouped by ship
Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids April 1918
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Seamen Storming Party and ratings who crewed HMS Vindictive
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Zeebrugge and Ostend Raid April 1918: Distinguished Service Medal Recipients
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England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription Trevor65535
Zeebrugge DSM to M6218 Harris at auction Keith1947
HMS Vindictive Keith1947
HMS Vindictive listing for VC ballot - page 5 of 6 Keith1947
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Reference: ADM188
Title: Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1919
Description: The Royal Navy Seamen records contain the complete service histories of 373,000 ratings who joined the service between 1899 and 1919.
UPP: GBM/ADM188/301293
Connected by: Trevor65535
Additional: Details match known facts
Name: Dix Noonan Webb
Title: Zeebrugge DSM to M6218 Harris at auction
Description: Lot 776 Date of Auction: 22nd June 1999 Sold for £3,800 Estimate: £2,000 - £2,500 A rare Great War D.S.M. and Bar group of twelve awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer H. A. Harris, Royal Navy, awarded the D.S.M. for the Zeebrugge Raid, and a Bar to the D.S.M. for the subsequent raid on Ostend, one of only four double D.S.M’s for these two raids
Connected by: Keith1947
URL: https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/lot-archive/lot.php?department=Medals&lot_id=48027
Title: HMS Vindictive
Description: The battered cruiser HMS VINDICTIVE at Dover after the Zeebrugge raid, 23 April 1918
Title: HMS Vindictive listing for VC ballot - page 5 of 6
Description: Under the terms of clause 13 of the VC statutes, in cases where a body of men was deemed to have been so gallant, the best way to select VCs was by a ballot, enabling the men themselves to decide. Following on from a ballot for the Royal Marine participants, a ballot was held for the Royal Navy participants. These latter were the ships crews of Vindictive, Iris II, Daffodil, as well as the men of the Naval Storming Party. Captain Carpenter of the Vindictive, and AB McKenzie who belonged to B Company of the seaman storming party, were awarded the VC as a result of the ballot. Unfortunately, the six page list does not break out 1. the parties by company and embarked ship, nor 2. who was crew on HMS Vindictive. Storming Party men do have HMS Hindustan recorded as their depot for Mar-Apr 1918 on their service records. In addition to what was on the original list, a "prior posting" column has been added, as well as the company if known. It can be seen that the men tend to be grouped by ship
Additional: This listing of '[a.] “Vindictive” & [b.] Storming & Demolition Parties. 23. 4.18 ' was sourced from: ADM 116/1656 Operations against Zeebrugge Casualties Vol. 2 It can be seen from the men's individual service records that they are stamped "Participated in the ballot for VC granted for operations against Zeebrugge..." A digital image of the original can be seen for Bertrand Percy Trees J27231
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The Sky-Watcher Dobsonian Telescope 203mm/1200mm (8") have a "paraboloidal" primary mirror to eliminate spherical aberration and a four-arm, secondary- mirror bracket with fine supports (0.5mm thick), to reduce diffraction spikes and light loss. In addition, this model includes a 2" focuser with a 1.25" adapter, allowing the use of either eyepiece size. This model also includes the new feature-tension control handle.
WHAT is Dobsonian Telescope and WHY the Tension Control Handle?
A simple, elegant form of an alt-azimuth mount made to carry a Newtonian reflector was popularized by John Dobson in the late 1970's. The Dobsonian mounted telescope is popular among amateur astronomers and telescope makers because of its simplicity. In its simplest form, the Dobsonian mount consists of a box which allows the optical tube assembly to pivot in altitude, while the box itself is swiveled on a base in azimuth.
The Dobsonian mount usually relies on the friction between the side bearings on the optical tube of the telescope and a frictional material on the saddle to hold the optical tube in place. If there is too much friction, the telescope is difficult to move to center an object in the filed of view. If there is too little friction, the telescope will not sty where it is positioned. This makes stabilizing the optical tube of the telescope difficult when using a Dobsonian mount, especially when accessories, such as a finderscope or an eyepiece, are added to the optical tube. As long as the amount of friction is at an appropriate level, and therefore stabilization of the optical tube is achieved, the telescope can remain in its desired position to view an object and maintain its position even when the mount is rotated.
The devices for stabilizing a telescope on the Dobsonian mount currently available include: a sliceable weight to counter balance the weight of the telescope, a friction lock that must be adjusted to inhibit movement of the telescope, and a spring attached between the telescope tube and mount to aid in stabilization. These devices are inconvenient to use because they do not provide a simple and user-friendly way to adjust the friction.
The object of the Sky-Watcher Tension Control Handle invention (US Patent No. 6,940,642) is to provide a tension adjuster that users can easily turn to add or reduce tension, thereby increasing or decreasing the friction between the optical tube and the sideboard of the mount. By providing such a tension adjuster, the telescope does not need to be balanced in order to stay in position. The tension adjuster can be tightened such that the optical tube can stay in a position but can still be moved when prompted to adjust the position of the optical tube. Alternatively, the tension adjuster can be completely tightened to lock the optical tube in position.
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On November 29, 2019 By MarshaIn Arts & Entertainment, Lifestyle
Now that Thanksgiving is officially over, and the holiday season is officially here, it’s high time for me to curl up in the coziest blanket ever, prepare a gigantic bowl of kettle corn popcorn, and watch some of my favorite movies to get in the mood for the holidays.
Unlike many people–who may need to watch Elf every year to kick off the season or who love Love, Actually–I feel as though my favorite holiday movies are a bit less conventional.
Sure, I’ll probably view some more traditional holiday movies during the season. But when I think about the films I just can’t do without between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, I’m not mulling over White Christmas, A Christmas Story, It’s A Wonderful Life. or totally predictable Hallmark Channel fare.
Here’s what I want to watch instead when it’s time to deck the halls:
If you’re wracking your brain to come up with the holiday connection in this film classic, there isn’t one. However, during my early teens, our local NBC affiliate would broadcast this movie musical on Thanksgiving evening, so it’s become a subconscious signal that the holiday season has finally arrived.
The Sound of Music isn’t just one of my favorite holiday films. It’s my favorite movie of all time. Based on a true story, novitiate Maria is sent to be governess to the seven children of a retired naval captain in Salzburg, Austria. War looms while romance blooms–you know the story.
Favorite scene: When the captain invites Maria to dance the Laendler, an old Austrian folk dance, and that moment happens. You know the one.
Long before she featured in Stranger Things, and decades before he starred in Ford vs. Ferrari, Winona Ryder and Christian Bale were Jo March and Theodore Lawrence in 1994’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s literary classic Little Women.
The start of the film is set on a snowy Christmas morning in Concord, Massachusetts, and the narrative begins as the four March girls navigate their first Christmas without their father at home, while he’s away serving as a chaplain in the Civil War. It’s ultimately a coming-of-age story told through the eyes of budding writer Jo.
Favorite scene: Do I have to pick just one? The whole sequence of Beth’s illness still leaves me in tears 25 years later and after countless viewings.
One of my favorite actresses, Sandra Bullock, the effortlessly charming Bill Pullman, and a cast of so many memorable supporting characters.
When Chicago metro toll-collector Lucy Moderatz witnesses the robbery of Peter Callahan in the train station on Christmas Day, hijinks ensue. Enter a huge misunderstanding, a busybody family, and a budding romance. Le sigh.
Favorite scene: When the whole Callahan family (sans Peter and Jack) are gathered around the living room, and Lucy finally gets a glimpse of what it might be like to be part of a family at Christmas. Sniff.
Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001)
A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth cast as the Darcy character? Peak Renée Zellwegger? Win, win. Told over the space of a whole year, beginning and ending with the Christmas holidays, it’s your typical boy meets girl, boy and girl hate each other immediately, boy and girl realize they’ve been all wrong about each other, and boy and girl fall in love. Yes, it’s a tired trope, but this telling is beautifully irreverent and is ultimately all about self-acceptance.
Favorite scene: When Bridget scores the interview everyone wants (with an assist from Mark Darcy) and finally gets an honest-to-goodness career win. It’s a true fist-pump moment.
While I’ve got each of these four films on DVD, you can watch all of these movies on Amazon Prime Video.
What holiday films are you watching this year to get in the mood for the season? An out of curiosity, you have seen The Sound of Music, haven’t you?
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I love ‘Sound of Music’ so much I am making my family go to Salzburg in February so I can take a movie tour 😆
I’m so happy for you! I haven’t been to Austria yet, so I’m looking forward to hearing about your trip. Hope you hit up some yarn shops while you’re there!
The yarn shops are already in the itinerary 😊
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On voting on our own remuneration
November 14, 2016 Uncategorizedmartinfodor
Last week the 70 Councillors in Bristol held a vote on whether or not to increase their own remuneration. Of course there was a fuss in the press about this. So why did it happen and what was the result?
Being a politician of course means making political decisions. But when councillors get asked to vote on their own remuneration (it’s not actually pay), things get messy. Is it a win win, to agree how much we are worth, or a lose-lose, to create a storm of opprobrium from all around us who are aghast that we can justify more money while staff are made redundant or sacked due to government austerity cuts….?
“we are making it even more likely that the people
deciding vital changes to our essential services …..
are not the diverse mix of residents typical of our city”
In the end we voted this down, with a whipped vote against the motion to agree the Independent Remuneration panel’s recommendations (for a rise) by the largest group, and many of the rest of us abstaining. But it wasn’t even the first time. The dilemma facing the 70 councillors this month (again) is that we’d already received the report from our independent body and we’d already sent it away.
Last year at a lively debate the then city councillors rejected our own Independent Review Panel’s recommendations for a raising of the basic Councillor allowance (received by all elected members) and for a new formula to cover additional “Special Responsibility Allowances” (SRA) for all the extra posts that exist, like Lord Mayor, Cabinet Members, and committee chairs, plus the elected Mayor. We said come back with something else. They have, and the report has been postponed for another year, but were we ever going to be happy?
Our basic allowance
The last time allowances were adjusted was 2011 and it’s true to say they are now quite out of line with other comparable cities. In Bristol an elected Councillor currently gets just over £11,500 for almost every single aspect of being a local ward Councillor – ie there are minimal extra expenses, allowances for meetings, or support for travelling, or late meetings, or for the 24/7 nature of ward casework – apart from an offer of broadband or a phone line, plus a large I Pad for each member to use. Some of the similar cities Bristol gets compared to get £13000 basic allowance.
As of 2014 there is also no pension at all, as the coalition’s local government Minister, our then Bristol West MP, removed the pension allowance. So from this basic allowance, minus National Insurance, we get a monthly income but nothing more. This is not to make a special plea, but it does matter that the allowance is for an assumed 18 hour working week, and when surveyed Bristol members said they typically work about 30 hours. I certainly get emails 7 days a week, plenty of weekday meetings and briefings, and committees to prepare for, and I also get invited to a great many more local and city meetings than I can attend, sometime 3 a night.
So on the one had councillors feel that the basic ward member’s allowance is overdue for review. It is certainly smaller than many other cities we compare ourselves to. And we certainly feel the need for something more if we are to attract a new, more diverse, and widely drawn group of local government politicians. The Green Group I’m part of has included everyone from single parent, retired, young and those who have no other means of income. Until I became a committee chair with an extra SRA I was using savings to pay basic living costs. I know a colleague complained of being driven into overdraft each time they had to move and pay landlord and agents’ fees each six months (like many others in our city). There’s also no prospect of a pension after years of service, of course. So the allowance is hardly an invitation to take part in local decision making, and little of a stepping stone to national politics, even though that would be valuable experience to ensure they actually have real experience of public service management.
But on the other hand we also find our selves in the ridiculous situation that of course, politically, how could a bunch of councillors be expected to vote themselves a raise while the Mayor is cutting almost 1000 jobs from our hard pressed staff, many of who me have had no meaningful rise for all the years of government austerity policy, and while we debate the cuts of very basic services, affecting residents’ lives in so many ways: meals on wheels, home care, public health, pest control, libraries (again), parks, and road safety projects. It’s not councillors voting for job losses and service cuts, it’s government imposed, but while the council implements cuts how can we vote ourselves a rise?
Of course we already have an independent review body to look into this and to sort it out – but they report to us! They don’t agree the decision, they just recommend to us. And if we turn this down (again) they would – if they can stomach it – yet again send us a report suggesting a raise. We could, and indeed have, quibbled the intricacies of whether cabinet members now do more than under the last Mayor (more discretion) so get more of an SRA, or do less, as there are now 10 not 5 or 4, so must have less of a brief to manage. The ratios could be adjusted in many ways. Maybe the Mayor has less to do if his cabinet, now costing the city twice as much, also has more responsibility – so we could keep the dreaded ‘budget envelop’ the same but share it out differently?
A storm about the cuts
Politically it all boils down to facing a storm: will councillors decide their “pay”? Not ‘should we value local politicians more?’ Personally I find it very difficult, as there are clearly strong arguments on both sides. Last time I refused to vote myself a rise. This time I abstained as we can’t take more funds from the council. And yet it is ridiculous: we have to make a decision (and again did not) and yet we are required officially, to receive the report.
We need a more diverse mix of people in this vital political frontline where cuts are faced but ironically, by refusing to agree a higher allowance, we are making it even more likely that the people deciding vital changes to our essential services or at least how we respond to the cuts are not the diverse mix of residents typical of our city, but a select group who can afford to spend time involved in local politics. Typically characterised as ‘stale, pale and male,’ and certainly not changing very fast in makeup, despite the increased diversity we’ve helped foster in recent years.
It’s clearly “to be continued …….”
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Quick Start Guides: Getting the Most From This Year's Hottest Gadgets
By Josh Catone 2010-12-25 15:25:09 UTC
This post is part of the Mashable 10, Mashable's gift guide of the 10 hottest gadgets that our editors think should be on everyone's wish lists this holiday season. If you were lucky enough to receive one of those gifts, our handy quick start guides should get you up and running. Our complete list of guides is below. To view gift suggestions, click here.
Weeks of waiting? Over. Wrapping paper, ribbon and clear tape? Everywhere. Your next move? That's easy: Take that new gadget you're staring at, set it up, plug it in and start using it. And of course, there's certainly nothing wrong with that approach, but if you want to get the most out of your new electronics, you need a game plan, and Mashable is here to help.
Whether you got an iPad or a Kindle, a new camera or TV, a Roku or an Xbox, we've got you covered. In the past two weeks we've been creating quick start guides for each of the gadgets in our 2010 holiday gift guide to help you get the most from your gifts.
These guides will get you up and running with your new gadget by helping you select the best apps, accessories and tutorials on the web. You'll go from novice to pro in no time.
Let us know in the comments what you got this holiday season!
1. HOW TO: Get Started With Your New iPad This guide will let you know to what to read, download and explore to get off and running with your new iPad.
2. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your New Android Device Here's a concise list of the Android apps and accessories that we couldn't live without.
3. HOW TO: Get Started With Your New Amazon Kindle Are you the recent recipient of everyone's favorite little e-reader? Here's how to make the most of Amazon's third generation Kindle right out of the box.
4. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your New iPod Touch We've compiled a list of five must-have accessories and five must-download apps so you can get rolling with your iPod touch right out of the box.
5. HOW TO: Get the Most From Your New Laptop Lucky you. Someone was generous enough to give you a shiny new laptop, maybe even that swanky HP Envy 14 we raved about in our gift guide. Here's how to get started.
6. HOW TO: Get Started With Your New Wi-Fi Router Need help setting up that new router? We're going to show you some tips and resources that'll get you off to a good start.
7. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your New Nikon D3100 If this is your first DSLR (or your first Nikon), chances are that you'll be looking into some accessories and tips to get the most from your camera. Check out our handy quick start guide.
8. HOW TO: Get Started With Your New Roku Player The Roku is easy to use and pretty self-explanatory in terms of features, but we’ve managed to track down some tips and tricks to make your streaming entertainment box as awesome as possible.
9. HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Home Theater Here's a checklist of the nine essential ingredients you'll need for the ultimate home theater. Whichever of the pieces you just unwrapped, here are the complementary components to make everyone in your neighborhood jealous.
10. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your New Xbox 360 With Kinect Lucky enough to score this year's hottest gaming peripheral? We have some suggestions for how you can get the most from your new motion control machine.
Topics: accessories, Gadgets, gear, Gift guides, Holidays, hp en, HP ENVY 14, iPad, iPod Touch, Kindle, mashable 10, mashable 10 quick start, nikon d3100, roku, Tech, Xbox 360, Xbox Kinect
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Pianist emerges from TARDIS to play 'Doctor Who' theme song cover
By Brian Anthony Hernandez 2015-04-21 14:17:18 UTC
Mashable Debuts exclusively premieres music, videos, artwork, trailers and more. You saw it here first!
Let composer Sonya Belousova warp your senses with her powerful piano cover of Doctor Who's iconic theme song.
Flanked by the TARDIS and shrouded in smoke, the Russian pianist goes through several outfit changes while playing the tune on a beautiful TARDIS-colored piano in the video, above, which is premiering on Mashable.
"It is so recognizable, and yet it — like the Doctor himself — has gone through many modifications in its 50 years, so that presented a great opportunity for me to explore this theme musically in a completely new direction," Belousova told Mashable.
Tom Grey, a longtime fan of Doctor who since Tom Baker's fourth doctor, directed the video.
"We made the decision to use costuming elements from all 12 Doctors," Grey said. "It was certainly a challenge to put together feminized versions of every Doctor costume, but luckily there is a great Whovian cosplay community that has been incredibly supportive of us." Belousova added that they did more than 50 takes in the 12 costumes: "It nearly killed me."
Belousova, known on YouTube as Player:Piano, has also pounded the ivories to cover music from The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, The Legend of Zelda, Tetris and more.
The duo will also release a darker "I Am The Doctor" theme cover this year. "It will be much more complex orchestration wise than just solo piano," Belousova said.
Doctor Who returns in the fall with a two-part season premiere — "The Magician's Apprentice" and "The Witch's Familiar."
Trevor Noah shares his thoughts on the latest impeachment developments
Rep. Ayanna Pressley reveals alopecia diagnosis and bald head in powerful video
Daily Show imitates Facebook to remind Trump who his friends are
Jonas Brothers star in cute music video with their wives. Sophie Turner steals the show.
Topics: Entertainment, Mashable Debuts, Music, Television
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology manufacturer that sells electronics, software, and online services. The company is the world’s largest information technology company, and the world’s third-largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung and Huawei. Its products include the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Macbook computers, iPod, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod smart speaker, macOS and iOS operating systems, iTunes, Safari web browser, iTunes Store, iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Apple Music, and iCloud storage platform. The company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to sell its first product, the Apple I computer. It held its initial public offering (IPO) in 1980. It opened its first retail stores in 2001, and unveiled the iPhone in 2007. Jobs resigned from his position as CEO in 2011, and was replaced by Tim Cook. It became the first U.S. company to achieve a valuation of over $700 billion in February 2015.
The Airport Express. It only took seconds to find this photo in the archive.
Image: Apple
The Apple Archive is a massive trove of Apple-related nostalgia
Written by Stan Schroeder
One for Apple lovers.
MacBook Pros might soon get a new Pro Mode that will boost power at the expense of fan noise and battery life.
Image: Mashable
Upcoming 'Pro Mode' could soon provide a boost to your MacBook
More power, less battery life.
The U.S. government is pressuring Apple to unlock an iPhone. Again.
Written by Jack Morse
Did someone say encryption backdoor?
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Apple will replace some iPhone battery cases for free
Written by Anna Iovine
If you bought one between January and October of 2019, you may be eligible.
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Oh sh*t, the 2nd gen AirPods are finally back at their Black Friday price
Written by Leah Stodart
The lowest price they've ever been on Amazon won't last for long.
The best iPad you can get for your money, but cheaper.
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Best laptop and tablet deals this weekend: Get $200 off an iPad Pro, and more
Written by Dylan Haas
Discounts on Dell, Lenovo, and HP, too.
U.S. government officials place pressure on Apple to unlock an iPhone
Written by Saavon Smalls
The phone belongs to a now-deceased Royal Saudi Air Force lieutenant.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 comes with an S Pen, too.
Image: samsung / mashable photo composite
Best deals on laptops and tablets this week: Score $100 off Samsung Galaxy S6 and more
You can have a little tech, as a treat.
The Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is $100 off.
Image: microsoft / mashable photo composite
Best laptop and tablet deals this weekend: Shop Microsoft Surface, MacBook, and more
Lots of Microsoft Surface tech is heavily discounted.
The new AirPods Pro are back on sale on Amazon — but there's a catch
Written by Haley Henschel
You know how they say "patience is a virtue"?
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Michelle Collinson
Position: Principal Statistician
Areas of expertise: Statistics; Clinical Trials; Cancer & Palliative Care; Phase III; Pilot & Feasibility studies; Cluster RCTs; Funding/Grant Applications.
Email: M.Collinson@leeds.ac.uk
Location: 1070 Worsley Building
Website: Twitter | Researchgate | ORCID
I obtained a BSc. (Hons) in Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2001 and an MSc in Statistics from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 2002.
Following university, I held roles within the Government Statistical Service and Banking before joining the Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) at the University of Leeds in 2008, as a Medical Statistician. I was promoted to Senior Medical Statistician in 2010 and Principal Statistician in December 2018.
I am an experienced Statistician and triallist with over 10 years’ experience of successful design, implementation and delivery of charity and NIHR funded clinical trials research. Working within the Complex Interventions Division at CTRU I have collaborated with clinicians and researchers across a variety of research areas including cancer, older people, diet & obesity, mental health and skin. My significant research experience extends to the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of large definitive phase III trials, in addition to cohort, observational, pilot and feasibility studies.
I am the strategic lead for the emerging clinical trials portfolio of research focussing on the evaluation of complex interventions in cancer and palliative care including supportive, psychological, behavioural and lifestyle interventions.
Nationally, I am a member of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (Yorkshire & North East) funding committee and a core member of the National Cancer Research Institute Supportive and Palliative Care Clinical Studies Group (CSG) and the Early Disease and Acute Treatment Toxicities subgroup. I also serve on a number of national Trial Oversight Committees including Data Monitoring Committees and Trial Steering Committees, for national research funders.
Strategic lead of Cancer & Palliative Care research within the CTRU Complex Interventions Division
Design, implementation, delivery and reporting of clinical trials and related research
Collaborating with leading clinicians/researchers to develop successful grant applications
I am leading the CAncer Together with other Chronic Health conditions (CATCH) project; a 20-month study aiming to understand the size, population characteristics and general practice healthcare resource use for people living with cancer and other health conditions. This project is independent research funded by Macmillan Cancer Support.
In addition, I am collaborating on a range of other studies including research examining the demographics, intervention priorities and outcomes of people living with comorbid cancer and dementia (CanDem-Int); an evaluation of supported exercise training for men with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy (STAMINA); and a pilot trial developing and feasibility testing an acceptance and commitment therapy intervention for improving medication-taking behaviour in women with early-stage invasive breast cancer (ACTION).
MSc Statistics
BSc Mathematics & Statistics
Society for Clinical Trials
NCRI Supportive & Palliative Care Clinical Studies Group
NCRI Early Disease and Acute Treatment Toxicities Subgroup
Regional Advisory Panel Member for the Research for Patient Benefit
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2 December 2005 16:37pm
By ISAF. Image, Ellen MACARTHUR got 2005 off to a record breaking start and put sailing on the front pages:© DPPI
Part 1: January To March
2005 - ISAF Year In Review
With the memory of Athens still clear in the mind and the post Olympic hangover still affecting the smaller boats, 2005 began with the sailing world's focus turned to the offshore world. The Vendée Globe was well underway and Ellen MACARTHUR looked to be on record breaking time as she continued her single-handed circumnavigation of the world.
2005 proved to be another memorable year in the sailing world and began in truly record breaking fashion with the World Sailing Speed Record Council soon rushed off it's metaphorical feet as established marks tumbled, seemingly one after another.
MACARTHUR Making Waves
RIOU Wins Dramatic Vende Globe
Orange II Smashes Another World Record
Alinghi Split With COUTTS
SCHEIDT First Headline Maker In Olympic Classes
VEAL Perfect In Moth Worlds
New Faces For A New Year
News Off The Water
Follow the blue links and click on the pictures for more on each story
MACARTHUR began the year in style, setting a personal best 24 hour run of 484.5 miles to help stretch her two and a half day lead on Francis JOYONs (FRA) single-handed round the world record as she pursued her own round the world record. Within two weeks, MACARTHUR on the trimaran B&Q was flying towards Cape Horn, and close to holding a five day advantage over JOYONs time. Just under 45 days after the start of her record attempt she rounded the final Southern Ocean cape in extremely testing conditions of 30 to 40 knots.
Ellen MACARTHUR's record breaking feat
made news around the world
Benoit Stichelbaut/DPPI/Offshore
However within a couple of days of sailing in the west Atlantic, the unstable winds were already having their affect on her theoretical lead. Over the next ten days MACARTHUR zig-zagged northwards off the coast of South America and was powerless as her lead over JOYONs time gradually dwindled, until on 24 January with 4,559 of the 21,760 nautical miles remaining it disappeared completely. With the doldrums approaching, things were not looking good.
However, at this point in JOYONs record attempt, the Frenchman had suffered a traumatic time himself, and MACARTHUR was able to re-establish a lead of over a day as she crossed the equator. She made further gains sailing out of the doldrums to lift her back up to three days ahead, before the Azores put the brakes on B&Q cutting MACARTHURs lead and giving her another exhausting day, with only 20 minutes sleep in 24 hours. Within 600 miles of the finish there was further drama as a storm approached, a concerned MACARTHUR expressed her worries to the shore team in a call saying, 'It's pretty bad already, it's going to be horrendous... Going to be lucky to come through this without breaking something or capsizing, to be frank, because its already really rough and its going to get really, really rough. The waves are going to be absolutely huge and we're going to be going straight across them which is the worst thing you could possibly do. I'm really worried. Just got to keep things together for the next 24 hours.'
'I cannot believe it,
I absolutely cannot
believe it.'
Ellen MACARTHUR seemed a little
surprised at breaking the solo round
the world record
MACARTHUR and B&Q survived the storm, bar one hard disk failure on her main navigation computer, but her lead had dropped again, this time to less than two days but less than 400 miles remained and MACARTHUR was within touching distance of the finish. JOYONs record time had seen him power towards the finish, and as MACARTHUR battled to find a favourable course to the Ushant lighthouse, she lost more time to the Frenchman, with her lead now down to barely a day.
But MACARTHUR was not to be denied. At 22:29:17 UTC on Monday 7 February 2005, she crossed the finish line of Ushant, 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds after starting her record attempt, a full day and eight hours faster than JOYON, to set a new solo, non-stop round the world record. Minutes after crossing the line an overjoyed MACARTHUR commented, 'I cannot believe it, I absolutely cannot believe it. It hasn't sunk in yet. I don't think until I see faces again that it's really going to sink in. It's been an absolutely unbelievable journey, both physically and mentally. I'm absolutely overjoyed.'
Two days after crossing the line, MACARTHUR was welcomed back to her leaving port, Falmouth with an overwhelming reception, propelling sailing onto newspaper front pages and television news channels around the world and overnight transforming her into a household name.
MACARTHUR made her name two years earlier after finishing second in the Vende Globe, and the famous French single-handed race was grabbing the headlines again at the beginning of 2005. Nine days before MACARTHUR rounded Cape Horn, Jean LE CAM (FRA) led the single-handed fleet round the Chilean land mark and in doing so broke the previous fastest time established by Michel DESJOYEAUX (FRA) four years previously.
Vincent RIOU sailed to a stylish Vende
Benoit Stichelbaut/Effets Mer
At that stage LE CAM was 190 miles ahead of Vincent RIOU (FRA), with third place Mike GOLDING (GBR) also within striking distance as the leaders entered the Atlantic. Within two days of passing the Horn, the gap between the top three had narrowed to just 93 miles and by 9 January, after 18,000 miles of racing just a paltry five miles separated them. Three days later, after 66 days and with over 18,000 miles covered GOLDING seized the lead, but it was to be short lived with RIOU regaining pole position as GOLDING fell into a small depression.
RIOU then turned the screw, gradually extending his lead so that when he crossed the equator on 19 January he led by over 100 miles from LE CAM and over 200 miles from GOLDING. As the finish approached a record time was looking more and more likely, but just who would set it was still undecided. Although RIOU still maintained control, the distance between him and the two chasers was shooting up and down. As the front trio passed through the 1,000 mile to go barrier the battle for first intensified before on 31 January, with 615 miles to the finish LE CAM snuck into the lead, moving 0.7 miles ahead of RIOU.
'I am awash in a
sea of happiness.'
The normally restrained Vincent
RIOU has a flash of poetic
inspiration as the finish of the
Vende Globe approaches
Once again though RIOU was to display his resilience and calm under pressure, quickly hauling in his fellow countryman and then rapidly pulling out a 100 mile lead as he came within 100 miles of the finish at Les Sables dOlonne. At 22:49:55 UTC on Wednesday 2 February RIOU skippered PRB across the finish line to a rapturous reception and to smash the race record by almost six days. After 23,680 miles of racing it was just a mere six and a half hours before LE CAM came in to finish second, with GOLDING completing a dramatic race by nursing Ecover in for the final 50 miles after his keel broke off.
There was to be further French round the world success courtesy of Bruno PEYRON (FRA) and his team onboard the maxi catamaran Orange II. On 24 January they crossed the start line of the Jules Verne Trophy between Ushant and Lizard Point on their way around the globe with two aims in mind - beating the 63 days, 13 hours and 59 minutes it took Olivier DE KERAUSON (FRA) and Geronimo to claim the Jules Verne Trophy and then bettering the round the world record of American Steve FOSSETT and Cheyenne of 58 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes. What followed was one of the most impressive displays against the sailing clock ever seen, with PEYRON and his 13 crew obliterating both records as Orange II sped across the worlds oceans.
Bruno BEYRON led Orange II's blitz around
the world's ocean
Gilles Martin-Raget
After just seven days at sea, and in spite of unexpected weather conditions, latitude 0 was crossed and within a fortnight of starting Orange II had hit the Roaring Forties, covered nearly 2,000 miles in just three days and was close to breaking the 24 hour world speed record. PEYRON was obviously delighted, but his experienced head was always thinking ahead, as he looked to find a compromise between 'surrealistic' speeds of 30 knots plus and the need to spare men and gear for the voyage ahead.
By 16 February, after just 23 days at sea Orange II had reached the halfway point of her journey running a massive 2,000 nm ahead of FOSSETTs record time. The record pace continued as PEYRON and his team headed towards Cape Horn with the Frenchman growing in confidence as the days passed by, commenting, each day makes us stronger, each day makes us more efficient.'
After 32 and a half days Orange II rounded Cape Horn, crossing the South Pacific in a record breaking sub eleven days. However after rounding the Cape trouble emerged in the form of a whale, struck in a collision whilst Orange II was racing along at 25-30 knots. The whale hit both the port daggerboard and the rudder, and PEYRON was forced to wait a couple of days before calm seas allowed a diver to repair the damage. However the check bought positive news with no major damage. Now it seemed that the greatest threat was the awaiting doldrums. On day 43 the catamaran hit a ridge of high pressure which cut her speed in half.
'For the moment,
all things considered,
its not been so bad!'
Bruno PEYRON's reaction after Orange
II broke three records after rounding
Cape Leeuwin
Facing four to five days of slow progress PEYRON was pragmatic, It could be worse. Weve known for some time that this was going to be difficult. Weve been preparing for it and were doing what we have to do he commented. All the Frenchman could do was grin and bear it as the days slipped by and Orange II continued to cruise along. By day 45 it looked as though the magical 50 day barrier, for so long a very realistic prospect, was now out of Orange IIs grasp. PEYRON could not help but reflect that, 'If we had had the same conditions as Cheyenne after the Horn of Brazil, we would have finished in 48 days.
Within a few days and as the finish at Ouessant beckoned, the mood changed from the what might have been 50 days, to a focus on getting to the finish as fast as possible and a 30 knot south southwesterly duly obliged to accompany the catamaran to the finish. On day 50 at sea PEYRON reflected on the surge of delight on board as their record breaking voyage drew to a close, 'You have to savour the last few miles, the last few hours... Its so good to see the look in the eyes of all the crew. There is no need for a long speech to understand what is happening between us. In principal, we are 24 hours from the finish. There is a regular 30 knot airflow and the sailing is good. We are gliding along in complete safety. We couldnt have dreamt of a sweeter note to end on.'
50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 4 seconds after setting out, and after circumnavigating the globe at an average speed of 22.2 knots, Orange II crossed the finish line to smash both FOSSETT and DE KERSAUSONs times. An emotional PEYRON was on the radio just after crossing the finishing line to describe the atmosphere onboard, 'It's more emotion than joy. It corresponds to the long hard slog. So there's no explosion. It's intense, violent, just like this round the world voyage. I really love this night, and we're going to try to make the most of it.' Compliments and well wishes flew in from all sides with ISAF President Gran PETERSSON (SWE) and French President Jacques CHIRAC amongst those sending messages of congratulations. For PEYRON, twelve years after first setting the Jules Verne Record, the Trophy was again back in his hands.
Russell COUTTS and Alinghi said goodbye
to one another at the start of 2005
The start of 2005 may well have been dominated by goings on offshore, but unsurprisingly their was plenty of drama supplied by the
'Both parties have
agreed to make no
further comments.'
The Russell COUTTS/Alinghi saga
comes to an abrupt end
to-ings and fro-ings of the Americas Cup syndicates as the deadline day for acceptance for the 32nd Cup in 2007 approached. China Team joined forced with Le Defi to emerge as the first Chinese syndicate to challenge for the Cup, but the biggest story proved to be one centring around who would not be racing in Valencia, Spain in two years time. Russell COUTTS (NZL) and Defenders Alinghi (SUI) announced they had amicably settled their differences, but this would mean COUTTS would have no chance of a fourth consecutive Cup win, and Europes first ever Cup winners, and the Cup itself, would be without its star man.
However Alinghi still seemed to have the magic touch when it came to the action on the water as their latest recruit Ed BAIRD (USA) swept to victory against Mathieu RICHARD (FRA) in the final of the ISAF Grade 1 Marseille International Match Race in France.
BAIRDs winning ways were reflected in the ISAF World Match Race Rankings, were he held continued to hold the number one spot through both the 14 January and 23 March Rankings releases. By the end of March BAIRD had held on to the top spot for eight consecutive months, the experienced American a seemingly unmovable force since winning his second consecutive ISAF Match Racing World Championship in Russia back in July 2004. In the Womens Rankings Marie BJRLING (SWE) was equally untouchable at the top.
Paige RAILEY won her first senior regatta in Miami
whilst Xavier ROHART and Pascal RAMBEAU
celebrated victory at the Star Worlds
Daniel Forster/Rolex & Diego Yriarte
Over in the Olympic Classes, 2005 got off to a predictably slow start with many of the Olympic stars taking a break after the intensity of an Olympic campaign. However for Robert SCHEIDT (BRA), fresh from a second Olympic gold medal in the Laser, the year began in earnest after just four days with the start of the ISAF Grade C1 Star South American Championship. After three successful Olympic campaigns in the Laser, SCHEIDT hinted that his future in the Olympics could be elsewhere and he teamed up with Bruno PRADA to great success in January, finishing second behind Lars GRAEL and Marco LAGOA (BRA) in only his second ever ISAF Graded Star regatta and then headed to the Worlds in Buenos Aires, Argentina in February. SCHEIDT and PRADA sailed with great skill in Argentina, but with a fleet packed full of the worlds very highest achievers they could not quite pull off a podium finish. They ended sixth overall, whilst Frenchmen Xavier ROHART and Pascal RAMBEAU claimed the title ahead of Olympic Champions Torben GRAEL and Marcelo FERREIRA (BRA).
The first major Olympic Classes regatta of the year, the ISAF Grade 1 Sail Melbourne in Australia felt the full brunt of the Olympic hangover, with just three of the eleven classes receiving sufficient entrants to meet the ISAF Grading criteria. Victories went to Roope SUOMALAINEN (FIN) in the Laser, Mathew BELCHER and Nick BEHRENS (AUS) in the 470 and CHENG Kowk Fai (HKG) in the Mistral.
'Its just so exciting to be here.'
Paige RAILEY looks forward to her first ISAF Graded
event, which she promptly went on to win
By the time of US SAILINGs ISAF Grade 1 Rolex Miami OCR in late January the fleets were filling out and the competition heating up. In the new Olympic equipment for the Womens One Person Dinghy, the Laser Radial, former ISAF Youth Worlds Champion Paige RAILEY (USA) got her senior career off to a flying start with a win in Miami followed by a victory at the ISAF Grade 1 Laser Midwinters East. Results which gave her joint first place in the inaugural release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings for the class along with Laser Radial World Champion Krystal WEIR (AUS). For the young American it was to be the start of a fantastic debut year. Amongst the first place finishers understandably dominated by the home Americans were Olympic silver medallists John LOVELL and Charlie OGLETREE (USA).
RAILEY and WEIR were amongst 55 women on the very first release of the Rankings for the Laser Radial on 2 February, a number which had more than doubled to 115 by the third release of the Rankings on 30 March.
The Tornado Rankings reflected some of the most interesting action in the first three months of the year. In part thanks to their win in Miami Americans LOVELL and OGLETREE rose to the number one spot on 30 March, but perhaps of more significance was the new name in the top five on 2 February. It would prove fitting that Spanish Tornado team Fernando ECHAVARRI and Anton PAZ made an impact on the very first Rankings release of 2005, a year in which they would go on to sail superbly. In March, at the ISAF Grade 2 Barcelona Sailing Week, they justified their high Ranking by taking victory and swiftly followed it up with another strong performance on their home waters to finish fourth at the ISAF Grade 2 Princess Sofia Trophy in Palma de Mallorca.
Olympic silver medallist in the Finn Rafael TRUJILLO carried on the theme of Spanish success, having risen to the top spot in the Rankings for the first time in February. He maintained that position in the Rankings of 4 March and 30 March thanks to a second place in Barcelona and a sixth at the Princess Sofia. The action in Palma also saw RAILEY to the fore again, scoring her third successive victory in the Radial after also winning the ISAF Grade 1 Laser Midwinters East in the USA.
Amongst the other Olympic Classes, the top spots shuffled around as sailors took a well earned big, whilst long time leaders Ingrid PETITJEAN and Nadege DOUROUX (FRA) in the 470 Women, Chris DRAPER and Simon HISCOCKS (GBR) in the 49er, Faustine MERRET (FRA) in the Mistral Women and Fredrik LF and Anders EKSTRM (SWE) in the Star stayed firm in their number one spots.
Meanwhile for SCHEIDT, despite his temporary deflection to the Star, such was his success in the Laser that he held the top spot right in all three of the early 2005 Rankings releases.
Rohan VEAL hydrofoiled to unbeaten success
at the Moth Worlds
Sport The Library
If RAILEY was impressive in Miami on her home waters, then Rohan VEAL (AUS) was completely outstanding on his during the Moth World Championship. Taking place as part of Sail Melbourne, the Moths raced off Port Phillip Bay, with VEAL using his hydrofoil to
'I had plans in place
for the last Worlds in
France, but they did
not come off. This
time was different.'
Rohan VEALs brief appraisal of his eight bullet
from eight race victory at the Moth Worlds
unparalleled success, winning every one of the eight races to take the World title at a canter. Brad SUMNER and Belinda WALKOM (AUS) produced an equally decisive display to take the very first World Championship of the year in the Hobie 18, again decided at Sail Melbourne. In fact not only did they manage 100%, but they did it over a 13 race series. There was more home success at the Hobie 17 Worlds, held concurrently with the Hobie 18s, thanks to Aaron WORRALL (AUS), whilst Richard PERINI's (AUS) Evolution continued the Australian winning streak at the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds in March, just clinching an incredibly tight series on countback from Neville CRICHTON (AUS).
Other World Championship titles at the start of the year went to Jochen SCHMANN and Ronald PIEPER in the Swiss boat Artemis XII in the 5.5 Metre. Lindsay IRWIN and Andrew PERRY (AUS) took the World crown in the International 14, as did fellow Australians Nick JERWOOD Janet JERWOOD in the Flying Fifteen.
Whilst the stars of sailing were competing in Miami, Melbourne, Marseille et al or racing across the worlds oceans, the young hopefuls
The stars of the future were out in force at
the beginning of the year
had their eyes firmly set on Busan, Korea and the forthcoming Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship. The Australians were one of the first nations to name their team, after the Australian Youth Championship in the first fortnight of the year. A few weeks later the Dubai International Junior Regatta saw some of the top tips for the future gather in the UAE, with Sweden taking home the team trophy.
Back in Australia on the match racing scene, Kiwi Simon MINOPRIO upset home sailor Michael DUNSTAN to win the Warren Jones Youth Regatta in Perth for the second year in succession. Back in the fleets, Adel KHALID (UAE) sailed a superb series to win the Sail The Gulf regatta in Doha, Qatar with over a day to spare in February.
Moving on to March and US SAILING announced their team for the ISAF Youth Worlds, with Paige RAILEY returning to the youth scene one last time to spearhead her nations medal drive in the Laser Radial. Meanwhile over in Italy, the Lake Garda Optimist Meeting once again boasted an enormous fleet of over 600 young sailors. Paul SNOW-HANSEN (NZL) also made his mark in the Optimist on his home waters in New Zealand, completing the 'triple crown' of Junior Sailing by adding the Optimist National Championship title to his wins in the Tanner and Tauranga Cups.
Away from the water ISAF awarded former member of the ISAF Medical Commission and ISAF International Race Officer Frank NEWTON (GBR) with an ISAF Silver Medal in recognition of his many years of outstanding voluntary contribution to the sport of sailing and ISAF. Meanwhile in January, Serge JORGENSEN (USA) took the helm of the International Foundation for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) after the retirement of Ian HARRISON (GBR).
In Great Britain their was great news for deaf sailors with the charity Deaf Sailing UK set up to work alongside RYA Sailability. In the USA an all-time record of more than 250 sailing programme directors, organizers, and volunteers travelled from across the country to Miami, Florida, to attend US SAILING's National Sailing Programmes Symposium. Meanwhile in the US Virgin Islands, the St. Thomas Antilles School sailing team found a novel way to promote itself by issuing a team calendar, just one of the many examples throughout the year of the efforts made to get out on the water around the world.
ISAF President Gran PETERSSON
chaired the ISAF Executive Committee
in February
There was no let up for the Race Officials at the start of the year, before 2005 was even a month old the volunteers that make racing in our sport possible were gather in Dubai, UAE for an ISAF Judging Clinic tied in with the Maktoum Sailing Trophy. Later in the year in March, the ISAF Chief Umpire Seminar And Performance Assessor Workshop brought together 53 International Umpires from 20 nations in a seminar designed to give them the information and tools for the them to become Chief Umpires.
Moving from the governance of the action on the water, to the action off it, ISAF President Gran PETERSSON (SWE) chaired the first formal meetings of the recently elected ISAF Executive Committee from 6-8 February. Amongst the issues discussed was the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition Format an unsurprising hot topic which would reappear throughout the year.
The first three months of 2005 had seen the sailing world successively gripped as they followed the progress of record breaking boats, day-by-day, hour-by-hour and even minute-by-minute on internet, radio, television and in the newspapers. Ellen MACARTHUR, Vincent RIOU and Bruno PEYRON demonstrated the fortitude, intelligence, skill and sheer bloody-mindedness that encapsulates the great offshore sailors and the advancing world of technology allowed an insight to their travels never before seen. Whilst RIOUs victory displayed all the tactical nouse a race around the world demands, MACARTHUR and PEYRONs battles against the clock saw emotions rise and fall as depressions approached and speeds soared. All in all the start of 2005 was a time when sailings ocean goers took centre stage.
But what of the rest of the year? More records would fall, Olympic stars would return and the changes would just keep on coming.
Part 2 of the ISAF Year In Review will be published Friday 9 December. Subscribe at ISAF Sailor.
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An Incomplete List of Things
We Left Behind on the Moon
A short film by Arlen Parsa
We came. We saw.
We littered.
On each of mankind's six historic moon landings, dozens of objects were left behind-- indelible imprints that outlasted Neil Armstrong's famous first footprint (which was likely obliterated during the lander's return liftoff).
Experimental documentary filmmaker Arlen Parsa's brief irreverent ode to lunar litter, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre, is a reminder that evidence of mankind's existence will likely still be around even after we're gone.
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A (Slightly More) Complete List of Things We Left Behind on the Moon
In all, humans have left an estimated 400,000 pounds of space waste on the moon. While there exists no definitive list of all objects left behind by the manned missions of the 1970s, it’s helpful to consider the tidbits that remained after the very first mission. In 2000, the New Mexico State University Anthropology Department received a grant to study the Apollo 11 mission logs and compile a list of items left behind on the moon. Here are some of the items they found:
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Descent Stage
U.S. 3′ x 5′ Flag
Laser Ranging Retroreflector
Passive Seismic Experiment
Neil Armstrong’s Apollo Portable Life Support System
Neil Armstrong’s and Buzz Aldrin’s Space Boots
Empty Food Bags
A Gold Replica of an Olive Branch
A plaque signed by Richard Nixon
A pair of tongs
A small aluminum capsule
Plastic covering for flag
8 Foot Aluminum tube
Left hand side stowage compartment
Two Core Tube Bits
York mesh packing material
A palate assembly
1 Antenna
4 Urine collection assemblies
1 Cable assembly for tv cameras
1 Wide angle lens
1 Lunar day lens
4 Waist tethers for EVAs
1 Life line
2 Pairs of lunar overshoes
2 Film magazines
1 Small scoop
1 Trenching tool
Discussion Guide Questions
This series of questions is designed to provoke discussions about space exploration and the environment. You can download the entire set with a recommended classroom exercise as a printer-friendly PDF.
Environmental Questions:
How do you feel about the amount of “lunar litter” we left behind? Was it right? Unavoidable?
Is leftover debris from the manned missions different from the various probes the US and the USSR landed on the moon in the 1970s?
Some radioactive nuclear waste can take millions of years to fully break down and become non-toxic. Since space is infinitely large, some people have suggested we send it into space. What do you think?
Would you feel differently if an alien civilization sent their waste towards our solar system?
Humans have launched thousands of satellites into space, and sometimes these break apart and “space debris” is created. NASA says that they track 22,000 bits of this debris orbiting Earth, sometimes as small as 5 centimeters in size. Sometimes these collide at high speed with the International Space Station, causing damage. What do you think the challenges might be in cleaning this up?
Space Exploration Questions:
Why do you think we haven’t been back to the moon since the 1970s?
As Neil Armstrong made headlines worldwide when he set foot on the moon in 1969, many people predicted that everyday people would venture into space as tourists by the year 2000. Why do you think this hasn’t happened?
Future space tourists might want to visit the spot of the original moon landings. Should they be allowed to?
NASA no longer launches its own shuttles, instead relying on the Russian government to boost its astronauts to the International Space Station, and private companies to launch supplies. Many believe the future of space exploration will be in the hands of private companies instead of the government. What do you think some of the strengths of this approach might be? What about some of the weaknesses?
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To see more work by the filmmaker Arlen Parsa visit his official website. Other films include: a funny long lost opera documentary film, a Chicago affordable homeownership documentary, and a documentary about a historic Chicago hospital closing.
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10 November 2015 · Andy Brister ·
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Aurora seizes opportunities in Australian residential market and sets sights on NZ
Lux catches up Fred Nimarota, sales director at Aurora Australia, as the LED specialist sees opportunities in the residential sector and targets growth in New Zealand.
The Australian market is tough, but there are a lot of opportunities
The commercial market has taken a big hit and only a handful of projects are of serious value. Residential is where it’s at currently. At Aurora, we are in a very good position – the opportunities all along the eastern seaboard are enormous. The key is having the right product at the right price to be able to serve the residential market.
We are very focused and clear about where our strengths lie
We specialise and are very strong in four key sectors: retail, commercial, wholesale and residential. We have a product suite that meets what electrical engineers, wholesalers and the residential market look for. One of our biggest strengths lies in our research and development in terms of technology, then the suite of products that cater for that technology.
It’s a fairly saturated market in terms of suppliers
Everyone is looking for a point of difference. The groundwork that Aurora has done over the years, in terms of where the market is going to be from 2017-2020, allows us to be at the forefront and lead the market, whether that’s innovation in LED technology or innovation in controls [Aurora founder and CEO Andrew Johnson also is also founder and CEO at IoT specialist Gooee].
New Zealand is a similar market in some respects
Australia and New Zealand share some joint standards but building codes are slightly different. Our suite of products caters for both markets. There is an opportunity to promote our products and technology and we are looking for partners in NZ at this moment in time.
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The Amazing Race: Season 01 (2001)
The first season of the elaborate reality/adventure series The Amazing Race finds 11 teams, each consisting of two "related" players, competing throughout the world for a one-million-dollar prize -- all the while racing against the clock and staying within the tight budgets established in the first episode. Among the teams this season are Rob Frisbee & Brennan Swain, Frank & Margarita Mesa, Bill Bartek & Joe Baldassare, Drew Feinberg & Kevin O'Connor, Nancy & Emily Hoyt, Lenny Hudson & Karyn Jefferson, Paul Alessi & Amie Barsky, and David & Margaretta Groark. The first leg of the race takes the teams from New York to South Africa, thence through France, Tunisia, the Sahara, Italy, England, India, Thailand, China, and Alaska. In episode nine, the couple who seem to be the "sure winners" are eliminated for deliberately avoiding one of their physical tasks. Without revealing any more, it can be noted that the first team to arrive at the final pit stop in Flushing Meadows, NY -- and, in so doing, winning the million-dollar grand prize -- consists of two males. Hal Erickson, Rovi Read Less
The first season of the elaborate reality/adventure series The Amazing Race finds 11 teams, each consisting of two "related" players, competing throughout the world for a one-million-dollar prize -- all the while racing against the clock and staying within the tight budgets established in the first episode. Among the teams this season are Rob Frisbee & Brennan Swain, Frank & Margarita Mesa, Bill Bartek & Joe Baldassare, Drew Feinberg & Kevin O'Connor, Nancy & Emily Hoyt, Lenny Hudson & Karyn Jefferson, Paul Alessi & Amie ... Read More
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News » Noted
Assessor fined, Pride Fest a go, Broadmoor to buy Norris Penrose, and more
by Griffin Swartzell , J. Adrian Stanley and Pam Zubeck
Assessor gets fined
Mark Lowderman, El Paso County assessor, has been fined $14,580 by a judge for campaign finance violations that occurred during the primary election for county treasurer.
In late May, Lowderman mass-mailed local seniors, reminding them about a homeowner tax exemption for which they qualified. Karon McCormick, an active Republican Party member, complained, saying the mailing was designed to support his campaign for treasurer, using county funding.
Lowderman, who won the primary and faces no opponent in November, says the complaint was "dirty politics." Sounding positive in a phone interview, Lowderman says he plans to appeal. McCormick argues that his odds of succeeding are nil.
"The only thing he can appeal is the judge's decision, and the judge has gone strictly by the law of campaign finance," she says.
Of the $14,580, half would go to the county to cover the cost of the mailing. — GS
Fire resources spread thin
Residents in north Colorado Springs will see Fire Station 22 open sometime next year, but it might not lead to better fire protection.
Speaking at Councilor Joel Miller's July 9 town hall meeting, firefighter Dave Noblitt said the city's plan is to open the station without its own apparatus; instead, it will use a four-person engine company transferred from Station 19, at 2490 Research Pkwy. No new staff will be hired.
Station 19 has one engine company and one truck company.
Noblitt told the 55 citizens on hand that the company officer will have to make a "best guess" at which apparatus to assign to Station 22.
Noblitt added that national standards call for 15 firefighters to be on the scene of a structure fire within eight minutes, 90 percent of the time, with two engines and one truck company. Fire crews have fallen short of city standards up north for six years running ("A splash of cold water," cover story, Dec. 11, 2013).
Miller, who represents northern District 2, told the Independent later he was surprised Mayor Steve Bach would ignore national fire standards in staffing stations. — PZ
Pride Fest a go
In the March 5 news story "Pride and payments," we told you that Colorado Springs Pride was struggling to pay the city back for services provided for the 2013 Pride Fest. Unless Pride could pay $6,401.14 in debt, plus half the estimated city costs of Pride Fest 2014, this year's celebration would be canceled.
Though they struggled to make timely payments, Pride came through in the end, paying their debt plus a $5,401.91 deposit. Pride Fest will take place July 19 and 20 in America the Beautiful Park; for more details on the event, see p. 22 and/or the Inclusion Awards booklet in this week's Indy. — JAS
Event center to Broadmoor
The Broadmoor Hotel plans to purchase the Norris-Penrose Event Center, located at 1045 Lower Gold Camp Road, from the nonprofit Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation for an undisclosed price.
The 70-plus-acre property includes a stadium that can hold up to 10,000, a 36,000-square-foot special events facility, a 6,000-square-foot meeting facility, and stables. The deal will allow the rodeo to use the facility for two weeks each year to host its signature rodeo free of charge.
The property was once a public asset. The county agreed to sell about half of the 150 acres, then known as the Penrose Equestrian Center, to the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Foundation in November 2004 for $10 and the foundation's promise to spend $2 million on renovations of the property's stadium. The county agreed to chip in about $500,000 toward the stadium project at the time of sale.
Broadmoor CEO and president Steve Bartolin says as he understands it, the county gifted the property because it was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and it badly needed repairs and upgrades. Bartolin says foundation leaders decided to sell it so they could focus more energy on helping military families and preserving Western heritage.
Anschutz Corp., the owner of the Broadmoor Hotel, has been on a buying spree in the last few years in Colorado Springs. The company, led by billionaire Philip Anschutz, has purchased the Gazette, the Pikes Peak Cog Railway and naming rights to the Broadmoor World Arena. It is also in the process of purchasing Seven Falls. — JAS
Noted The Broadmoor Hotel Norris-Penrose Event Center Steve Bartolin Pride Fest Joel Miller Mark Lowderman Dave Noblitt Anschutz Corp.
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Sally Gardner’s Tinder may be a slow-burning winter story but it ignites a classic fairy tale
Stacey Mcintosh and Imogen Russell WilliamsThursday 5 Dec 2013 6:00 am
Tinder is a winter tale written by Sally Gardner (Picture: David Roberts)
Award-winning author Sally Gardner is best known for her historical fiction aimed at children and young adults: meticulously researched, vividly peopled and often spiked with intoxicating magic.
This year’s Carnegie-winner, Maggot Moon – the tragic story of a dyslexic teenager, set in an alternate dystopian England – was a departure from her previous norm. Now her latest book rings the changes yet again.
Tinder, an illustrated story for teenagers, is a shadowy, sharp-fanged take on the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Tinderbox, examining the horrors of war and its aftermath.
In a cruel fairy-tale forest, wounded Otto Hundebiss, unwilling young veteran of the Thirty Years War, meets and defies Death. Healed by a half-beast half-man who gives him five charmed dice to guide him on his way, Otto encounters both his heart’s desire – and his most traumatic nightmares.
He meets Safire, a fierce young girl with whom he falls deeply in love, and the predatory Lady of the Nail, who’d like to relieve him of his virginity and possibly his life.
From her, he obtains a tinderbox giving him mastery over three great werewolves and the heaps of treasure they guard. Now weighed down with wealth and determined to win Safire’s love, Otto enters the town governed by the Duke, her father, intending to track her down. But strangers are viewed with hostility here – its inhabitants keep on being found torn to pieces…
As befits the tradition she’s working in, Gardner’s language is as simple and clear as a forest spring. Delicate images (‘a moth’s meal of a cloak’) meet big, coarse ones (‘a spit-roasted sort of face’) to create a tapestried, intricate landscape, full of mystery, grief, terror and seduction.
Nothing here can be taken at face value – clothing, people, talismans and beasts are all deceptive. Everyone, and everything, is telling their own story.
David Roberts’s illustrations contribute hugely to the book’s nightmarish beauty. The shadowed eyes that peer from his dense, etched-looking images have definitely witnessed horrors, his thorny-fanged wolves are terrifying and his palette of whites, dark greys and blacks is occasionally livened with a shocking splash of red, to great effect.
Complementing Gardner’s direct and vivid language, he provides compelling portraits of the cast, both dead and alive: from the enigmatic Lady of the Nail, with her small black mask and single, snail-coiled fingernail that straightens to a dagger when she strikes, to Otto himself, hapless and drowned in a new cloak that ‘could easily have been employed as a sail’.
This picture book is emphatically not for pre-schoolers, nor for the under-12s – this is a once-upon-a-time story with the real cruelties of history left in (at 18, Otto has already seen the soldiers who press-ganged him murder his parents, hang his brother and rape his sister).
But any teenager or adult who loves a fairy-tale retelling that pulls no punches but asks more questions than it answers will delight in Tinder: a slow-burning winter story, flaring every so often into fierce, finger-burning flame.
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Christmas In Weird Places: December 25 on a North Sea oil rig
By James Hockaday
Monday 23 Dec 2019 8:00 am
Being 95 miles away from dry land and your family might sound like the worst way to spend December 25.
But that’s how Chris Seymour has spent six Christmases during his 15 years in the oil and gas industry.
The maintenance supervisor says it feels like he has a second offshore family, with plenty of ‘camaraderie’ and ‘banter’ on board Neptune Energy’s Cygnus gas platform, which makes up 6% of the UK’s gas production.
It’s a round-the-clock, year-long operation, so Chris and the crew start Christmas day off with a 6am meeting and safety checks, before he gets the chance to speak to his wife and young son.
He told Metro.co.uk: ‘We use Facetime offshore which makes a difference as we can see family opening presents.
Chris takes a selfie with some workmates aboard the rig (Picture: Neptune Energy)
Not the first place you’d associate with Christmas, but the crew still manage to have fun (Picture: Neptune Energy)
‘You can call home from any of the phones on board and we all have phones in our cabins, so contacting home at Christmas is very easy.’
Before tucking into an ‘amazing’ festive menu the crew get a few laughs at each other’s expenses with their secret Santa presents.
Chris added: ‘Let’s just say it’s important to have a good sense of humour. There’s great camaraderie offshore and people tend to be upbeat.
‘There’s lots of laughing and plenty of banter and we look out for one another.’
Chris, from Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, said last year one of the scaffolders printed a hymn sheet and asked the crew to sing during their morning brief.
Offshore workers definitely aren’t left hungry at Christmas (Picture: Sodexo)
Their rendition of We Wish You A Merry Christmas in the control room was so loud people two floors below in the galley phoned upstairs to ask what the commotion was all about.
Staff dressed as Santa and reindeer have also been known to appear, hauling presents for everyone on shift.
In 2014, workers on the West Phoenix oil rig posted a video of an uplifting, but somewhat out of tune performance of Do They Know It’s Christmas Time.
They ask viewers to donate to the British Heart Foundation and pretend to play keyboards, a bass guitar and spanners hanging from the ceiling.
You might not think it, but Christmas dinner on a north sea oil rig would be the envy of many people, with a choice of turkey, goose, beef and all the trimmings.
Susan Elston, senior vice president of Sodexo’s UK offshore operations, says the catering firm’s food is ‘that bit more special’ on December 25.
She says the cooks aboard their 300 sites around the world really get creative, with lavish seafood spreads, ice sculptures and mouth-watering cakes.
They often pack fancy dress outfits before heading overseas so the workers can expect to be served by a shepherd, king or sumo wrestler on Christmas Day.
It’s usual for other members of staff to give a hand with the washing up, so the kitchen crew have some time to sit down and enjoy the food they’ve worked so hard to prepare.
Alcohol is largely prohibited on offshore oil rigs in the UK, but workers have a selection of non-alcoholic beer and wine to wash down their fine cheeses and chocolates.
A wide array of grub laid out on a North Sea rig by Sodexo for the festive season (Picture: Sodexo)
It’s a great time for caterers on board to flex their creative muscles more (Picture: Sodexo)
The combination of heavy machinery, flammable liquids, and being slap bang in the middle of the ocean are just some of the reasons for the alcohol ban.
After stuffing themselves with food, staff will head to the TV lounge and watch films and shows like most of their families would back home.
Workers try to get all major projects out of the way ahead of December 25, so only the bare minimum is required to keep things ticking along.
But staff are always at the ready just in case.
Susan added: ‘The potential for an emergency remains. That could be anything from some kind of glitch in the system or the lights shut off.
‘In the vast majority of those cases there will be a stand down and everything is fine. There will be people in the control room still monitoring everything.’
Massive spreads of fresh seafood are a big a mouthwatering highlight for many staff (Picture: Sodexo) Some of the food on board would be the envy of many people back on dry land (Picture: Sodexo)
After everyone is fully stuffed on the Cygnus rig, people get stuck into some darts, pool, table tennis and bingo.
There are a number of competitions with prizes up for grabs and a raffle – which could get you anything from holiday vouchers to a tangerine.
Chris, originally from Grimsby, added: ‘The offshore installation manager draws the raffle tickets and it’s usually a boisterous affair depending on who wins.’
The father-of-one does miss being able to watch his wife Emily and two-year-old Abel open their presents in person.
He added: ‘We have our own Christmas day when I get back home though, so we still manage some of the festivities as a family.
‘I suppose when I am offshore I have a different family to spend Christmas with.’
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He Goes to Work!
Source: NYT
The New York Times reports "Obama Orders Secret Prisons and Detention Camps Closed" today in 3 executive orders. The man goes right to work -- and so I am reminded of the classic song with that very theme:
Obama also "gets paid to rock the nation" -- how apropos.
Posted by The Metropolitician on January 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Our First Photo Book!
As they say, if it ain't getting done right, do it yourself. And we took that to heart, in making the photo book about Korean lifestyle, the street, and fashion that I always wanted to make but couldn't get a Korean publisher to make. So we're within 2-3 weeks of having our own photo book hit the shelves. Here's the working design for our HUGE 35x26 cm, landscape-oriented photo book. I've teamed up with Denise, another photographer for Feetmanseoul.com, and she just happens to be a book designer by trade. Synergy, baby.
This is what happens when two motivated people put their heads, cameras, and skills together -- synergy, baby -- more and bigger and better than just the sum of two peeps. Then, when you ask other talented folks around you to pitch in their talent and time on things like styling and makeup, modeling, and logistical concerns, just a few people can do the work of many.
This is what I've been working on for the past few months, and it's about to pay off. Look for preview PDF's of the content, online pre-ordering, and a several kickoff events very, very soon.
Ya'll gonna buy our book, right?
Posted by The Metropolitician on January 22, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Beginning of All Change Is With the Dream
No, I'm not going to the expected Martin Luther King, Jr. thing, because ya'll already know. I'm going to go with my favorite piece of pop culture as the segue into what I want to say:
The major hat tip for this post goes to FanBoy.com's post "How Star Trek Culturally Prototyped the 21st Century." Yeah, people always talked about the show have been "ahead of its time" to the point that to describe the show this way has become almost cliche. And I've already talked about Star Trek a lot on this blog as well.
But as the inauguration passes me, and I do my occasional re-watches of old Trek, I am continuously reminded of how far we've come. And to insist on putting an ostensibly Russian character on the bridge in the middle of the Cold War, a black woman, and an Asian American on TV screens back then, along with a "devil-eared" alien -- talk about visualizing WAY past anything anyone would have ever thought possible at the time.
[Source: Fanboy.com]
No wonder Martin Luther King, Jr., when hearing from Nichelle Nichols that she was planning to hear the show, asked her to stay on because Star Trek was the only show he let his own children watch on TV. And that speaks volumes.
Hail to da Chief!
I'm gonna be very happy in the next 24 hours, as I get ready for the inauguration of the first black POTUS, a.k.a. the grandaddy-est HNIC the world has hitherto-fore seen.
Reminds me of one of my favorite lines from a Ludacris song:
"We all in together now, birds of a feather now, jus' bought a plane so we changin' the weather now!"
Woop-woop!
The Metropolitician on 101.3 TBS eFM
For those who've been tuning in on Mondays at 11AM for the past several weeks, you'll know I've been a recurring guest on the Soul of Asia show, with Sara Kim.
Well, we're settling into a regular format now, so I'll be a regular guest talking social commentary and criticism on the air. We should have lots of fun topics -- so be sure to catch me on Mondays at 11 with Sara.
And it's live, so always wish me luck!
Platon -- Kickass Photographer and Someone You Wanna Know
We're in the midst of the photo book that we hope will rock the Korean photo and fashion scene to the core, and in keeping up with my favorite photographer, I came across this awesome audio interview he did for the Eddie Adams workshop.
Wait -- you don't know Platon? You kinda do, I think -- you just don't know you do.
And for the real fun? You wanna hear some hilarious narration behind the stories of many of his pictures? I encourage you to listen to the link to the audio while viewing his portraits from his site as he talks about them. Photographer or not, this will be one of the most entertaining and funny 30-minute stretches of time you'll ever spend in front of the computer.
Umm, besides when you first downloaded naked people through your computer for the first time back in 1995. Hehe.
Now, That's Creative
"Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper."
You install an app on Facebook and "sacrifice" 10 friends for a Whopper. And the funny thing is, it shows up in your feed as "Michael sacrificed X for a free Whopper."
This is gonna hurt me more than it will you, fair-weather Facebook friends!
Hahaha. That's a good campaign, BK.
Do Foreigners Really "Pose a Threat" to the Korean Populace?
Or is this unfounded, racist reactionism?
And as for the requirement to screen for HIV for working in a classroom, this just furthers the already discriminatory attitude towards HIV-infected members of Korean society, who are forced to move out of their homes, fired from their jobs, and reduced to absolutely pariah-status. HIV is not SARS, and this is already a human rights violation, before even extending this to non-Koreans trying to work in a hagwon.
Here's the press release, which I just received from the Association for Teachers of English in Korea:
January 5, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Amendment to Immigration Control Act Proposed to Korean National Assembly
LEAD: On December 30, 2008, a bill was introduced to the Korean National Assembly proposing an amendment of the Immigration Control Act. The Association for Teachers of English in Korea responds.
On December 30, 2008, a bill was introduced to the Korean National Assembly proposing an amendment of the Immigration Control Act. The bill seeks to establish the "legal basis to require foreigners applying for an employment visa to submit a criminal background check and health certificate" [1].
A complete translation of the reasons (제안이유) for the bill's introduction is as follows: "Nowadays, the number of foreigners working in Korea is increasing, but a good many [Korean: 상당수] have previous convictions for drug and sexual crimes or carry infectious diseases. As we require measures to deal with the threat they pose to our society's public order and our people's health, we herein prepare the legal basis to require that foreigners applying for an employment visa submit a criminal background check and a health certificate." [1]
E-2 visa holders are already required by the Korea Immigration Service to submit to drug checks, medical checks including an HIV test, and criminal background checks, however, the proposed bill states the revision would apply to "foreigners applying for an employment visa". This is a markedly larger group of foreigners than just E-2 visa holders. Further, by becoming an Act of the National Assembly, it becomes much more difficult to challenge.
An identical bill was introduced to the National Assembly on October 24, 2007 (5 days after the arrest of Christopher Paul Neil on October 19, 2007), but consideration was delayed due to the BBK controversy, and it expired with the adjournment of the 17th session of the National Assembly.
The October 2007 bill was introduced by twelve Members of the National Assembly. The December 2008 bill was introduced by 18 Members and is said to represent a broad political consensus. It is scheduled for vote within the next two months. The bill (in Korean) is available in PDF from the Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK). See below for contact information.
The Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) calls on the author(s) of this bill to provide their evidence that "a good many" (상당수) foreigners working in Korea have previous convictions for drug and sexual crimes or carry infectious diseases. Obviously, with the stringent checks being done on E-2 visa holders, they are not part of the "good many" foreigners mentioned. How many E-1, E-6, E-7, and/or C-4 visa holders have been discovered to have criminal convictions or infectious diseases? This evidence cannot be produced because it does not exist.
Names of the 18 Members introducing the December 2008 bill:
신학용 - 박기춘 - 구본철 - 송영선 - 안민석 - 김희철 - 박종희 - 김우남 - 양정례
김종률 - 강성종 - 김충환 - 심재철 - 박상돈 - 진성호 - 원혜영 - 김성곤 - 강창일
Names of the 12 Members introducing the October 2007 bill:
신학용 - 강창일 - 박상돈 - 김태년 - 김영주 - 정봉주 - 이계안 - 한광원 - 송영길 - 김교흥 - 김부겸 - 홍미영
About the Association for Teachers of English in Korea
The Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) is a newly forming group representing teachers of English in Korea. Media inquiries are handled by Communications Director Tony Hellmann, at [email protected] or 010-3993-2484.
[1] Based on a translation of the original Korean document.
As anyone who has lived in Korea for a long time knows, the politics of shame and bad PR work wonders here. Spread the word about increasing racial scapegoating of foreigners for what are really very domestic problems.
PERCEPTION: Foreigners are AIDS-carrying, child molesting threats to youth.
REALITY: There are almost no documented cases of child molestation from foreigner teachers, even though half-baked (or even made up) cases make it to the papers, with no retractions after BS is called. In fact, the cases of sexual violence and abuse carried out in normal KOREAN schools shocks as they make the news daily, but no one's calling it a pattern.
PERCEPTION: Foreigners are bringing in drugs and even selling it in large numbers in the country, and foreigner crime is increasing.
REALITY: The overall crime rate amongst foreigners is up, but only in relation to rising numbers of foreigners overall. In terms of proportional numbers, the crime rate for foreigners across the board is far, far lower than for the Korean population, as a few responsible venues (namely, the Chosun Ilbo) have pointed out.
The context of all this is the creation of a racist whipping boy for all problems, foreign and domestic.
Some More Thoughts On the Korean Internet and Cultural Barriers to Content Production
It seems that predictions I've made are coming true. Seems arrogant to say, but I make certain predictions, some people say I'm a blowhard, then when they come true, everyone forgets that I was...ahem...right.
If you read what I said in "Web 2.0 and Korean Media" in December 2006, the summer after they rolled out "UCC" (YouTube-style "user-created content" in the form of embeddable videos) a couple years after YouTube had hit it big, you'd remember I said:
Enter the Korean concept of "User Created Content." Sure, it's probably a term picked up in the communications field somewhere, but it's a Korean concept, deployed in a Korean way. The big companies here are pushing "UCC" to the people as ways they can "get in on the action" and create content (THAT WE'LL USE) with the implied promise of perhaps being able to become as famous as all those YouTube people you hear about in the news, like that guitar kid everyone is talking about and who got on Korean TV because of it.
Problem is, I think it's doomed to failure. The overall trends are going in exactly the opposite direction, and savvy Korean netizens are going to be demanding their real user power, and will resent being crippled by ugly Daum and Naver blog templates, and creating content for portal sites, which is essentially what they are doing.
The biggest sponsors of the UCC drives are, not surprisingly, big Korean media companies. I call this system the jaebeol media model, and it is particularly and uniquely Korean. Make video content and we will let you put it on our site, for the company's commercial benefit. It's pretty much using the content – with limitations, set templates, and rigid feature sets – for the benefit of the company...
...Maybe it's a peculiarly Korean way of doing things, but I don't think it can be sustained for very long, especially since the rest of the world is offering all kinds of free space, open-source freedom, and the ability for the market to grow and expand without control from the top. The Korean model offers – not surprisingly, given this country's style of business and governance – top-down, centralized control, limitations, and lack of a user-centric experience.
I remember people back then laughing at Google's increased vigor in making headway in the Korean market, since Naver will NEVER lose its dominance, right? People laughed and said Google overly-American dedication to simplicity would NEVER go over in Korea, and its little attempts at coloring up the Google Korea site with cute little animations was something akin to pitiful. People also laughed when YouTube Korea rolled out, swearing up and down that they'd be crushed by the better resolution of the domestic sites. Those techheads missed the point.
I've been saying, since that post, as well as in "The Mis-execution of Korean UCC" in April 2007, when I continued criticizing the utter lack of content on Korean UCC, that the Korean Internet is woefully devoid of ideas, and pitifully cordoned off from the rest of the world. Like the Korean economy, this is not just a side-effect, but totally intentional and a key part of how it succeeds.
In the 2006 post, I called the Korean Internet a "jaebeol" system, which I very much think it is. Inherent in the system isn't a core of intensely creative people and ideas that find expression in a myriad different ways, that come together and combine in unpredictable ways.
For instance, who knew how the synergy between blogging, embeddable video, other social media such as Twitter, social bookmarking, and other things would come together? It's led to new forms of media, business models, and ways of disseminating information itself. It's changed pop culture, politics, and so many other fields in a real -- not gimmicky -- way.
The Korean Internet? With broadband that leaves the US in the dust, no real problem of a "digital divide", computers everywhere, a high degree of technical skill with all kinds of programs and electronic devices, and a youth culture that is deeply socially invested in the Internet -- where's the beef? Meaning -- where's the content?
Where are the new ideas? Why didn't Koreans invent YouTube, Digg, or Twitter, or even the concepts of blogging, podcasting, or social bookmarking? Where are the funky new business ideas, new revenue models, or even (and especially) THE CONTENT?
That's the main problem you have with the Korean Internet. It's insular and doesn't think ahead. Take my piece on the stupidity of Pandora TV in "Pandora.TV Suck Rizzocks" in which I point out how ludicrously stupid it was to require ActiveX controls to watch a stinking video, and how dumb it was to require watching a 15-second commercial before EACH video.
Why can a non-specialist see how fucking braindead this was? Isn't the point of being a video portal to have as wide a database as possible? So what was with the labyrinthine registration process, ActiveX downloads, and watching commercials all damn day. I predicted that Pandora would drop that ActiveX shit like it's hot, but that's not even a good prediction; it's just common sense. The point of streaming video ISN'T to go to your stupid website and watch it THERE: YouTube's success was partially enabled by it being able to easily embed video ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE ELSE, fools. Argh. Of course, Pandora.TV switched over to Flash-based video only a couple months after my rant. Could have saved a year of wasted time by just doing what YouTube had already been doing for years -- duh! If you're gonna copy, at least get the IMPORTANT part right, right? And in the fall of 2007, Pandora announced they were switching to Flash-based viewing as if they'd figured out some really cool shit for the very first time. Duh.
Or there's MNCast, which I'd always liked, and was always Flash-based and always easy to embed. The resolution was killer. It was kinda better than YouTube, minus the Korea-only database of content. But still.
WHY NOT MAKE IT AN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SITE, with menus in English? Keep the Korean ones, too. It's the INTERNET. It doesn't matter where people are. When Metacafe and Revver were trying to do the same thing, MNCast could've been a player. But they weren't. Because it apparently never occured to them to market themselves as a general-purpose media site. After I'd had that ever-so-shockingly-revolutionary thought, MNCast later added some lame-ass English menu for whomever they thought international users were, or to make themselves seem more global...to themselves. Who cares? Too little, too late.
The Korean Internet is completely controlled by conglomerates, called "jaebeol" in Korean. The traditional jaebeol were and are Samsung, Hyundai, Daewoo, peeps like that. On the Korean Internet, they're called Naver, Daum, Cyworld, and other names. But the point is still the same: they control the production of nearly all the content on the Korean internet, their blogs, cafe bulletin boards, and other forms of content are proprietary and territorial. One has to login to Naver to even VIEW certain items for sale on one bulletin board, or open pages of a cafe or blog. Getting listed in Naver's search engine? Unless you paid money or are a Naver blog or other product, you're essentially not going to show up at all. Unless you pay the piper directly. Which is how Naver makes its money.
There is no room for real innovation, no incentive for it. Even the possible incentive would be to make an internet idea good enough for Naver to just buy it. Good, say you? Sure, that's the goal of many a startup. But the reason Korea will never invent a Facebook -- the most highly traveled site in the world -- is because if someone had that particular idea, it would just be bundled into the functions of the existing portal site, be in Korean only, require a Korean citizen ID number, and not at all be open-sourced for other parties to freely make applications for.
You'd just get Cyworld, which is a dying idea, akin to Friendster. Done Korean-style, you don't get a new PLATFORM that is compatible with other Web 2.0 company -- Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, anything can be integrated into Facebook. In Korea, you just get macro-sized monstrosities that simply suck in resources to themselves as Naver-Godzilla prepares for continued battle with King Kong-Daum.
Where's the room for the little guy? The startups? The good ideas that suddenly pop up from a college kid into one of the biggest sites on the Internet?
They get crushed by the jaebeol-monsters, of course.
And that's without having gotten to the cultural environment in which both the actual and virtual jaebeol exist within, but have also helped sustain -- the complacent, consumptive nature of social/Internet participation.
Now, I'm getting into territory that I can't "prove" or quantify materially. You either will or will not feel me on this issue, but I believe in what I'm saying here: there are too many cultural barriers here that prevent the production of "UCC" or the promulgation of innovative ideas. That's on top of the fact that there's a huge, gaping absence of business/capital infrastructure to support such ideas even if they DID exist.
Without getting into totally separate conversations, Korea is now facing a slow, core meltdown that is far different, more challenging to fix, and fundamental than most people tend to consider it. The ongoing failure of the Korean Internet to innovate is just another sign of the problem. It's possilby the best sign, too.
Simply put, Korean Internet infrastructure ROCKS. Korea's a small country with a centralized government that can wire everywhere on the peninsula with fiber-optic, supersonic, pro-bionic, high-ionic, gin-and-tonic Internet supercable in the blink of an eye. It doesn't cripple upload speeds to a fraction of download. Computers are everywhere, as are bootleg copies of Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator that are thought to be as automatically present as Clock or Calculator on a given Windoze XP install. The Internet is everywhere you wanna be in Korean society.
Except that every media form or function on the Korean internet was originally invented somewhere else (usually the American Internet) that was researched, reheated, and rolled into a "new" function on one of the Korean portal-jaebeols.
That's the key, and what Koreans are used to. Down even to the style of consumption, as when you leave your Samsung-constructed apartment building in your Samsung-built car and use your Samsung phone to tell your best friend doing laundry in a Samsung washing-drying machine to meet you at the Samsung Plaza to shop for clothes made by a Samsung designer. Isn't that scary?
No. For a long time, that's been very REASSURING to the average Korean consumer. And it's no different from Naver. Although things are fraying a bit a the edges, most people LIKE the fact that Naver is like a proto-god figure here, magically dispensing information with authority, hosting your blog, hobbyist cafe, filtering your news, and doing just about anything you can imagine. In fact, right now, Naver's social/psychological/cultural power simply can't be conveyed in terms that say, Americans, can understand. Because the WAY people relate to Naver ain't nothing but a Korean THANG, baby. Unless you use Naver every day like we over here do, you just can't understand.
But what one should understand is that this isn't thought of as a negative. In Korea, one doesn't use the Internet; ones uses NAVER. Of course, there are others, too. But you get the point.
You don't check the BBC for news. Or go to your favorite (and non-portal) social bookmarking site. Or update your blog at a non-portal, commercial blog service. Or even know what Wordpress is. Open-source? That's for Naver to use and base its private blogging service on -- not for YOU to do the same.
Partially because of the language barrier, partially out of habit, and partially because the portals keep people dependent on them and discourage weaning, the Korean internet is amazing insular. But that doesn't mean it doesn't get influenced from the outside, it just means that Korean Internet users don't often go outside the Korean Internet. Yet, it's those who parse, Koreanize, and implement outside ideas for the Korean Internet who make the big bucks.
Take Naver's recent makeover, for instance. I remember saying 4 years ago that Korean big media is losing touch with its base, and that Korean tastes have become far more varied, complex, and Americanized than Korean media realizes. I said this a lot in reaction to Koreans who often would categorically tell me that "Koreans only like variety shows" or "Koreans don't like American-style media." Then what's with the runaway success of pretty much every major American television show on Korean TV?
The same thing I said to those who would tell me "Koreans like complex things on Internet pages." Really? Or is that the assumption that leads to Korean internet pages always being complex and busy? I think that the Korean consumer -- especially on the Internet -- simply doesn't have many other options, and it's assumptions such as these that lead to a lack of new ideas, a willingness to take risks with any that are there, and help foster a deadly conservative Internet culture.
People laughed at YouTube when it opened here. They also scoffed at Google Korea trying to add a few doodads to its pages. Funny how the new Naver after the New Year has very much simplified and streamlined its notoriously busy front page in a way that I guess few would have imagined just a couple years ago. Because "Koreans like complex web pages."
Just like "Koreans don't eat cheese and pizza will never catch on" (80's) or "Koreans just don't use iPods." Uh-huh.
Let me make a 2009 prediction. I've seen the market share of iPods go from 2% in the brick-iPod days to 17% in the single year after the 1st-generation Nano was introduced. During Steve Jobs' speech, I rightly predicted that the market share would jump off the charts, simply because of 1) price, 2) form factor, and 3) aesthetics. iPods were simply too big, didn't have the megabyte-for-the-buck oomph, and simply weren't sexy enough. At that point, I knew they had the Korean market. And I was right.
I don't know what the present market share is, but anecdotally speaking, more than half of the MP3 players I see on public transportation and on the streets are iPods. Definitely at least half.
And there's a very high market awareness of the iPod Touch, and expectation about the iPhone, which should be able to make it to market this year in Korea.
I hereby predict that if the iPhone is released here, along with the opening of an iTunes Korea music store, podcasting will hit the critical mass it needs to take off here, mostly because of the pre-existing content out there, and not because so many Koreans will start producing their own podcasts. Even after the buzz has died down back in the West, I think podcasting is going to help drive iPod sales as more language and other programs recommend the hardware purchases, and as the platform of iPod users grows to the point that people start taking advantage of it.
In short, now's a good time to be podcasting, and I'm going to be restarting Korea's first podcast -- Metropoliticking in Seoul -- under a new name and format, and taking things a bit more slow and carefully. More on that later.
Ah -- this has been a truly Metropolitical rambling. The overall point was that the Korean Internet faces some huuuuge content-production problems, as does the overall "information economy." Korea's slowly coming up against a wall, and it's mostly determined by authoratative systems of control and education reinforced by top-down modes of social interaction and consumption, atop a social rigidity and risk-averseness seldom seen in other countries and cultures.
Korea, I think, is faced with more cultural/social rigidity that results in hardware being bereft of good software, to use that metaphor. The problem in the US seems to be just the opposite, as we let the "hardware" of our education system, science and math programs, and other aspects of the educational environment rot away; Americans are culturally/socially all about self-expression, high self-esteem, and a "look at me" culture in general -- that's not our problem. It's the hardware machine that's breaking down.
But if I were to pick between the two situations, I'd choose the latter. Hardware's easy to fix, especially if money and commitment can come; however, deeply-ingrained cultural/social patterns that refuse to budge even after infrastructure has seems to be a pretty nasty problem, especially when competing on a global level.
I hope all this gabbing and prognosticating has resulted in some ideas worth chewing on. I apologize for the length, but hey -- it's me!
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Children Of Mom Found Dead In Dania Beach Canal Sent To Foster Care
By Oralia Ortega June 19, 2018 at 6:26 pm
Filed Under:Body Found, Custody Hearing, Local TV, Miami-Dade Police, Murder, Oralia Ortega
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A court hearing to determine what will happen to two children struck by tragedy was held Tuesday.
The father of those children was arrested last week and charged in the death of their mother.
Maribel Torres’ body appeared to be found in a Dania Beach canal near Griffin Road and I-95 last Thursday.
Miami-Dade Police say Maribel’s husband Jimmy killed her and tried to dispose of the body.
Relatives filed into a Miami-Dade courtroom Tuesday for a custody battle involving the Torres’ children.
“A witness came forward that [Jimmy] confessed to murdering my sister, put her in a box and put her in a canal,” said Mabel Montesino, Maribel’s sister. “The witness took detectives to the canal where they took out the box and my sister’s remains in it.”
In court there were allegations made that the victim’s daughter found a pornographic video of her father.
“She went on to show me photos on her phone of her father engaging in oral sex with a minor that she had saved on her phone,” said Montesino.
A relative told the judge the victim’s daughter has been asking what happened to her mother.
“And she asked me if I thought her father had killed her mother and I didn’t know how to respond to it and I told her to google her mom which just said that she was missing,” Montesino said.
The judge decided the children were better off with the state than with family for now.
“My gut feeling is that the children will be better off at this time in foster care,” said Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesias. “No one, no one, no one can talk to these kids about the tragedy in their life. Whoever’s responsible, whoever’s not, they’ve lost two parents.”
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Archive for May 10, 2017
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WhatsApp Extends Encryption to iCloud Backups
Tim Hardwick:
WhatsApp has offered end-to-end encryption on its messaging service for some time, but that encryption did not previously extend to iCloud backups of messages. Given that Apple holds the encryption keys for iCloud, a subpoena of Apple or an unauthorized iCloud hack could potentially allow access to WhatsApp messages backed up there.
However, WhatsApp has moved to prevent that possibility by also pre-encrypting the backup files.
According to Russian-based Oxygen Forensics, third-party hacking tools are able to download the encrypted WhatsApp data backed up to iCloud and then generate an encryption key to decrypt the data using the associated SIM card. The tools could potentially be used by police with access to a phone where the WhatsApp account has been deactivated but the encrypted messages are still stored in iCloud.
This is more protection than iMessage offers for iCloud backups, but it seems like both could benefit from allowing the user to specify a backup password, as is possible for local backups via iTunes.
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Apple Music Redesign
Jason Yuan:
What you’ll find below is a case study offering potential solutions to address some of Apple Music’s problems, as well as ideas for future development. My process was guided by qualitative user research, Apple’s official Design Principles, and my own designer intuition.
I think Apple should focus on integrating existing social media with Apple Music instead of trying to push yet another one on its already overburdened consumers.
My solution was to implement a gesture that most users are already familiar with — the double tap — into the Now Playing experience. I observed that many users tried to press the “floating” album art in the present release (it just looks so delightful)…why not add a response?
Apple Music Design iOS iOS 10
Amazon (via Hacker News):
Echo Show brings you everything you love about Alexa, and now she can show you things. Watch video flash briefings and YouTube, see music lyrics, security cameras, photos, weather forecasts, to-do and shopping lists, and more. All hands-free—just ask.
Introducing a new way to be together. Make hands-free video calls to friends and family who have an Echo Show or the Alexa App, and make voice calls to anyone who has an Echo or Echo Dot.
Seems like a good idea, at a good price, although I agree that the design is not very attractive. Based on Phil Schiller’s comments, I assume that Apple is working on something similar, and that it will work with FaceTime, which is more convenient. It’s too bad that there are so many incompatible video calling platforms.
Alexa Amazon Amazon Echo Speech Recognition
30 Years of PopChar
Günther Blaschek:
It all started back in 1987, when I tried to find a few special characters in the Symbol font. Apple’s Key Caps utility was not very helpful because I had to try all sorts of keyboard combinations to see which characters were available.
“Desk accessories” were an exception, as they were accessible from the Apple menu and could open a window on top of the current application. I therefore created a desk accessory called “Character Map” which displayed all symbols in a given font and let me copy and paste them into a text document.
Starting with version 3 (2006), PopChar had a search function for finding characters by their Unicode name. But what do you do if you don't know the name of a character?
In 2014, we extended PopChar 7 with a graphical “shape finder”.
Click a button, draw a shape and let PopChar search for characters that look like this.
To survive all these changes, PopChar has been redesigned and re-implemented from ground up again and again.
I think this is a good example of an app where the paid upgrade model worked well. Looking at the initial version, you might have thought that it was pretty much done. It solved the problem; how many more features could it need? It doesn’t seem like the kind of app that would need a lot of maintenance or that customers would want a subscription for. Yet platforms changed, Unicode and Emoji emerged, and the app continued to receive development attention and thrive. By App Store standards, 30 Euros is a lot for what seems like a little utility, but it’s a deceptively small app. There is a lot of functionality and design there, and from what I’ve heard from customers over the years, people love it.
App Subscriptions Business Emoji Font History Keyboard Mac Mac App macOS 10.12 Sierra PopChar Unicode
Sierra Bluetooth Problems Due to GCD?
Howard Oakley:
One of the well-known problems in multi-tasking and concurrency is deadlock, when one task sits waiting for another, and the other task cannot proceed until the first task is complete. GCD is not immune from deadlock, and there are some curious issues which have arisen in El Capitan and Sierra which look suspiciously as if deadlock may have been their root cause.
I am also beginning to wonder if some of the persistent problems which we have experienced with Bluetooth disconnects, in both El Capitan and Sierra, are the result of issues within GCD, rather than in the Bluetooth drivers themselves. Even now, with Sierra 10.12.4, seldom a day passes without my Magic Trackpad 2 spontaneously disconnecting, then reconnecting.
These are all made the more complex by GCD’s heuristics, its ‘smart’ dispatching system. When trying to identify and diagnose problems, predictability is one of the most important properties, but because of those complex heuristics nothing about GCD follows clear and simple rules.
Previously: Sierra Bluetooth Problems and the Logitech K811 Keyboard.
Update (2017-05-15): Howard Oakley:
libdispatch (‘old’ GCD) provides facilities which include the management and dispatch of code threads or Operation Objects, which can be distributed optimally across the processor cores available in a Mac. In particular it manages multiple dispatch queues.
Centralized Task Scheduling (CTS) allows a developer to assign criteria for when a task should be performed, so that scheduled and other tasks can be deferred when necessary, for example when a laptop is running from its battery rather than mains power.
I hope that I have shown that Duet Activity Scheduler (DAS) manages heuristically a pool or queue of tasks or activities, and determines when to dispatch them for execution.
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September 30, 2019 Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech ICCV, Research
Embodied Amodal Recognition: Learning to Move to Perceive Objects
By Jianwei Yang and Zhile Ren
With the rapid development of computer vision, several technologies such as object detection and image classification are becoming mature and effective. Those vision algorithms play important roles in many real-world systems, enabling applications ranging from augmented reality to self-driving cars.
The pipeline for designing a typical computer vision system is to download or curate a large dataset of annotated images from the internet, and train deep neural networks to generate desired outputs such as bounding boxes, segmentations, etc. Those images usually contain well-posed objects, and usually have prototypical viewing angles in the scene. However when we deploy the trained system in robots to perform scene understanding tasks, a robots’ vision is very different from “internet vision”, because objects are usually occluded in cluttered environments. This is inevitable because cameras or depth sensors only capture the visible part of the scene.
In this paper, we aim to develop AI agents that can understand an entire scene when only parts of it are visible. This is called Amodal Recognition. For instance, an amodal object detection+segmentation system would output not only the correct object label, but also the full extent of object shape and bounding box in the image (See Fig. 1).
To perceive an occluded object, humans can move in the scene to gather information from new viewpoints. A recent study [1] shows that toddlers are capable of actively diverting viewpoints to learn about objects, even when they are only 4 to 7 months old.
Inspired by human vision, the key thesis of this work is that agents should also learn to move to perceive occluded objects. Specifically, agents should learn to move in the scene to gather information of the occluded object, and then perform amodal perception tasks. As shown in Figure 1, to recognize the class and shape of a target object indicated by the red bounding box, agents will learn to actively move toward the target object to unveil the occluded region behind the stump.
Figure 1. An illustration of the Embodied Amodal Recognition, where the robot learns to move to perceive occluded object (the sofa in red bounding box).
What is the new task?
In this paper, we introduce a new task called Embodied Amodal Recognition (EAR) where agents actively move in a 3D environment for amodal recognition of a target object, i.e., predicting its category and amodal shape as well. We aim to systematically study whether embodiment (movement) helps amodal recognition. Below, we highlight three design choices for the EAR task:
Three sub-tasks. In EAR, we aim to recover both semantics and shape for the target object. EAR consists of three sub-tasks: object recognition, 2D amodal localization (a 2D bounding box enclosing the full extent of the object), and 2D amodal segmentation (a 2D mask enclosing the full shape of the object). With these three sub-tasks, we provide a new testbed for vision systems. A sample prediction output can be found in Figure 1.
Single target object. When spawned in a 3D environment, an agent may see multiple objects in the field-of-view. We specify one instance as the target, and denote it using a bounding box encompassing its visible region. The agent’s goal is to then move to perceive this single target object.
Predict for the first frame. The agent performs amodal recognition for the target object observed at the spawning point. If the agent does not move, EAR degrades to passive amodal recognition. Both passive and embodied algorithms are trained using the same amount of supervision and evaluated on the same set of images.
Figure 2. Comparison of passive amodal recognition pipeline and embodied amodal recognition pipeline (Ours).
Based on the above choices, we propose the general pipeline for EAR shown in Figure 2. When the agent doesn’t move in the scene (Fig. 2a), object recognition algorithms cannot fully recover the shape of the object due to heavy occlusion. However, when agents learn to move in the 3D environment (Fig 2b), the predicted output is more reasonable.
What is our model?
We propose a new model called Embodied Mask R-CNN. The perception module extends work presented in Mask R-CNN [2] by adding a recurrent network to aggregate temporal features. The policy module takes the current observation and features from the past frames to predict the action. The full formulations and experimental results can be found in our paper. We highlight some of the key designs in our model.
Amodal Recognition Module
The amodal recognition module is responsible for predicting the object category, amodal bounding box, and amodal mask at each navigational time step. Our amodal recognition module has a similar goal to Mask R-CNN [2]. In our task, since the agent is already provided with the visible location of the target object in the first frame, we remove the region proposal network from Mask R-CNN and directly use the location box to feed into the second stage. In our implementation, we use ResNet-50 [3] pre-trained on ImageNet as the backbone.
Given the sequential data {I_0, I_1,…,I_t} along the agent’s trajectory, aggregating the information is challenging, especially when the 3D structure of the scene and the locations of the target object in the later frames are not known. To address this, we propose a model called Temporal Mask R-CNN to aggregate visual features across multiple frames, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. The pipeline of object amodal recognition module.
Learn to Move
The goal of the policy network is to propose the next moves in order to acquire useful information for amodal recognition. We disentangle it with the perception network, so that the learned policy will not overfit to a specific perception model.
Similar to the perception network, the policy network receives a visible bounding box of target object and the raw images as inputs, and outputs probabilities over the action space. As shown in Figure 4, the policy network has three components. At step t, its inputs consist of the first frame, current frame, as well as a mask representing the visible bounding box of the target object in the initial view.
Besides image features, we also encode the last action in each step. We use a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) to get the action feature. We then link together the image feature and action feature and pass them to a single-layer GRU network for integrating history information. The output is then sent to a linear layer with softmax to derive the probability distribution over the action space, from which the action is sampled. We learn the policy network via reinforcement learning.
Figure 4. Pipeline of action module
What do we learn?
Embodiment helps amodal recognition. In our experiment, we find that agents that move in the environment consistently outperform agents that stay still. Interestingly, even when moving randomly, the agent still performs better than the passive one.
Our model learns a good moving strategy. An intuitive moving strategy is following the shortest-path to the target object. However, using the same recognition model, our agent finds a better moving strategy, and the performance is on par or slightly better than those using the shortest-path move.
Improvements over action step. In general, the performance improves as more steps are taken and more information aggregated, but eventually saturates. This is because the agent’s location and viewpoint might change significantly after a number of steps, thus it becomes more difficult to aggregate information.
To summarize, in this work, we introduced a new task called Embodied Amodal Recognition, — an agent is spawned in a 3D environment that is free to move in order to perform object classification, amodal localization and segmentation of a target occluded object. As a first step toward this task, we proposed a new model that learned to move strategically to improve the visual recognition performance. Through comparisons with various baselines, we demonstrated the importance of embodiment for visual recognition. We also show that our agents developed strategic movements that were different from shortest path, to recover the semantics and shape of occluded objects. The details can be found in our paper here.
This work will be presented at the 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
[1] Bambach et al. Toddler-inspired visual object learning. NeurIPS 2018.
[2] He et al. Mask R-CNN. ICCV 2017.
[3] He et al. Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition. CVPR 2016
Jianwei Yang is a fifth-year Ph.D. student studying computer vision, machine learning, vision and language, and robot learning. Zhile Ren is a postdoc under Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, and Irfan Essa. His research interest is in computer vision where he mainly works on 3D scene understanding applications, embodied artificial intelligence, optical flow, and image manipulation.
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Home \ News \ SMITE Celebrates 20 Million Player Milestone
SMITE Celebrates 20 Million Player Milestone
Stewart Chisam, President of Hi-Rez Studios, took to Twitter today to share with fans the news that the mythological free-to-play MOBA game, SMITE, continues its march of success as the game has attracted over 20,000,000 players.
The last time the team published numbers relating to the total player count for SMITE was in January of this year, at which point over 14 million people had played the game. In just a few short months that number has increased by nearly 50%, likely due to the continued success and coverage of both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the award-winning MOBA game.
Smite continues to grow. Over 20 million have now played (was 14 million last time we published # in Jan. at SWC). pic.twitter.com/EYJmqBT6m9
— HiRezStew (@schisam) May 23, 2016
Thanks to its familiar and accessible third-person perspective SMITE has been able to introduce an entirely new audience to the competitive nature and in-depth mechanics of the MOBA genre and with content arriving on a regular basis across all platforms, there’s no stopping the battleground of the gods.
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Why Celebrities Use Burner Accounts and Why You Need One Too
Famous People Caught Using BurnerSocial Media Accounts
You Too Can Create Your Own SecretBurner Accounts
How to Create Burner Accounts
Benefits of Using Burner Accounts
Just a few years ago, I wouldn’t have believed it if someone told me celebrities use burner accounts to defend themselves or even to promote their activities on social media. Don’t famous people have better things to do than troll the Internet under fictitious names? Well, the recent revelations about Kevin Durant’s burner accounts and the equally fake Bryan Colangelo’s “wife” accounts were a real eye-opener. It turns out that there are a lot more celebrities using burner accounts than we thought. Celebrities use burner accounts for a host of reasons, from defending themselves anonymously to self-promotion under a different name, or to just use social media as a regular guy/girl without attracting too much attention.
There are many celebrities with multiple burner accounts out there, and for a good reason. For famous people, having a social media account is most often for promoting their work, music, sports, movies, much more than for personal or private use. Take an indulging moment and picture yourself as a famous person who wants to engage and interact with your small circle of real close friends and family. Would you do it in your wildly popular Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other profile where millions of followers react to every post you make or would you rather create an anonymous account for personal use? You’ll agree that it does indeed make sense for a celebrity to create a burner account where he or she can post content and use social media just like any other non-celebrity would.
Famous People Caught Using Burner
There are many celebrities who’ve been caught using fake accounts for diverse reasons. Bryan Colangelo, the Philadelphia 76ers general manager, was recently accused of breaching his employer’s trust when he was caught posting anonymously on Twitter. According to a recent report in the online news organization, Ringer, Colangelo had created several anonymous Twitter accounts that he regularly used to showcase his team strategy, criticize players, and defend himself online as a different person, especially on his fashion taste. It is even claimed that Colangelo went as far as asking journalists to prod further on players’ unreported medical information under a different name. The allegations are currently being investigated by the Sixers management.
Colangelo is not the only celeb caught using burner accounts. Kevin Durant, yes the same NBA Star who played for the Golden State Warriors, also used a burner account on Twitter for the sole purpose of defending himself against online character assassination. Still in the sports arena, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s wife, Jane Skinner Goodell, also used secret accounts on Twitter to back her husband secretly on the Internet.
Kevin Durant created burner accounts on social media and used the fake profiles to argue with anyone who dared to say anything negative about him. Everyone believed the account genuinely belonged to a fan of Durant ready to stand up for the player until the truth came out in a bizarre twist of events. It turns out Durant replied to some people in Twitter from his real account while referring to himself in third person and in the same tone as his alter ego.
He was actually defending his decision to leave Oklahoma City for the Warriors a year earlier but it seems in the confusion forgot to log out of his real verified Twitter account and log into his burner account before throwing a few virtual punches online. He spoke as his alter-ego in his real account and somehow people realized he had a few other fake accounts.
It is even said that Durant has a burner account on Instagram going by the name
“quiresultan.” Well, there’s nothing wrong with having a secret anonymous Twitter or Instagram account. After all, Durant is human and has feelings just like you and I. He has the right to act
on his feelings and unwarranted negativities in any way he can as long as it doesn’t ruin his image. What better way to hit back at those who attempt to defame him than a fictitious Twitter account posing as another independent person with a more objective opinion?
I too would likely do the same in his shoes. I, as a celebrity, might take time to create fake social media accounts, fake personas, fake email addresses, use disposable phone numbers numbers, and the works. Other notable people in sports who admitted to have used burner accounts to keep tabs on their players include the longtime basketball coach of Duke University, Mike Krzyzewski, and Adam Silver, the current NBA Commissioner.
It’s not only famous people in the world of sports who use burner accounts. There are many
other celebrities who create fake personas to lurk online and interact with family and friends. News reporters also use such accounts stay updated on stories without anyone tracking them. Movie actors such as John Hamm and Kate Moss are known to have stealth social media accounts. Kate Moss revealed she has a fake Instagram account that she uses for “spying” purposes while Kim Kardashian admitted to having a secret Snapchat account. Prince Harry reportedly has a secret Instagram account that he uses to follow the charities he works with.
There is also James Comey, the well-known former FBI Director who used an anonymous
Twitter account going by the name @ProjectExile7 to stay updated on news and whatever else was going on in the country. Decades ago, President Trump used to communicate with reporters under different aliases such as John Barron and John Miller. There are numerous celebrities using burner accounts for a wide range of personal or professional reasons.
You Too Can Create Your Own Secret
Burner Accounts
Burner accounts are not just for famous people. Regular people like you and I can also create secret anonymous social media accounts and engage with people with greater freedom and privacy. In this information-driven age, where millions of people engage and form relationships online via social media, we are no different from celebrities, except for the fact that their posts are seen by millions of eyeballs.
There are many benefits of functioning online as a private person including privacy, freedom, and protection of your personal data. The problem is how exactly to create these burner accounts without being found out. Famous people didn’t invent burner accounts. The accounts are being created every day by regular people from parents keen on keeping tabs on their kid’s activities to teenagers seeking to post content online privately.
Here are a few tips on how you can successfully create and keep on using a more private and anonymous burner account on any social media platform.
If you are going to create a more private and anonymous Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or
Instagram account, the first thing you need to do is to develop the mentality of a social media detective. Avoid using information that can expose your true self such as an email account or phone number associated with your real name or the names of your family members, close friends and colleagues. Use completely different details in everything from your name and email to your telephone number. For example, Colangelo was found out because he used his wife’s telephone number in some of his accounts. Don’t use data that can be traced
back to you, your family, close friends, workplace, or any part of your life.
Staying anonymous online requires some element of discipline and caution. Always ensure
that you keep your location setting off every time you use the social media platform discreetly. It is even recommended to hide your real IP address using a reliable VPN service as your content can easily be traced back to your location via the IP address. The most important part of the entire process when signing up to a social media platform anonymously, whether it is Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat, is to use a temporary phone number and email
address. The email address can easily be created on providers such as Google’s Gmail and by getting a disposable telephone number.
Having a burner account gives you the freedom to use social media platforms with more privacy and freedom just like the celebrities using such accounts do. As a parent, you can easily use a burner account to follow your child’s social media profile and monitor their online activities and know the kind of people they socialize with. You can do the same to your spouse, especially if there are trust issues that you want to confirm.
Any regular user of social media platforms can also benefit from the high level of privacy accorded by a burner account. And just like a celebrity, you can use multiple burner accounts to defend yourself from people trying to ruin your image online. People will trust your point of view when it is supported by other accounts you have created.
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Airman Marion L. Mussili shaking hands with Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. immediately after their arrival at MATS (Military Air Transport Service) terminal, Andrews AFB (Air Force Base), Maryland from Europe. Congressman Moore interceded in the confinement of Airman Mussili by the Greek Government after his conviction for hitting a pedestrian with a military vehicle. Moore then brought the airman back to the states with him.2
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. shaking hands with Airman Marion L. Mussili after their arrival at MATS (Military Air Transport Service) Terminal, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland from Europe. Moore interceded in the confinement of Airmen Mussili by the Greek Government after his conviction for hitting a pedestrian with a military vehicle. Moore then brought the airman back to the states with him.2
A close up of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic medal awarded to Congressman Moore1
A colored photograph of Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing with an unidentified man in front of some flowers. A crane can be seen in the background near a building.1
A colored photograph of Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing with an unidentified woman. Flowers can be seen beside and behind them.1
A group of unidentified young men on the steps of the Capitol Building. The boys are wearing uniforms. A portrait of Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr., cut in a circle, has been glued to the photograph.1
A head shot of Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr.. On the back of the photograph is a note written in Greek.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr (front, second on the right) looking at a document being held by Congressman William M. McCulloch. Four other unidentified congressmen are reviewing the document as well.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing in front of the statues on the Erechtheion.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. (back, left) looking over and discussing a document with three other unidentified men.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. (center) walking beside the Parthenon with two unidentified men.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. (center) with two unidentified women and one man on the steps of the Capitol Building. The Capitol dome can be seen under construction.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. (front, center) with Girl Scout Troops 91 and 18 of St. Vincent's De Paul School in Elm Grove on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. leaning on a marble pillar talking to an unidentified man.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. looking at something in the distance. The Parthenon can be seen in the background.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. pointing out something to three unidentified people. They are standing in the snow in front of the Capitol Building, which is under construction.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. pointing something out to an unidentified man. The capitol building is in the background.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. receiving the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic from an unidentified man.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. shaking hands with an unidentified Greek man in Athens, Greece. The Parthenon can be seen in the background. A note, in Greek, is written on the back of the photograph.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. shaking hands with an unidentified man.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. shaking the hand of an unidentified man.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. sitting on the steps of the Capitol Building with Girl Scout Troop 415.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing in front of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing in front of the Parthenon.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing on the capitol steps with five unidentified people. He is holding the book "Handicapped: Not on the Job!"1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing on the steps of the Capitol with an unidentified couple.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing outside the Parthenon with an unidentified man. An officer is also partially shown looking at some papers.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. standing with three unidentified women. The West Virginia Seal is in the background.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. talking to an unidentified Boy Scout from Troop 665.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. talking to an unidentified Greek man in Athens, Greece. The edge of the Parthenon can be seen in the background.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. talking to an unidentified Greek man in a coat. The edge of the Parthenon can be seen in the background.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. talking to three unidentified men. The Capitol building can be seen in the background.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. talking with an unidentified man as they walk away from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Two other unidentified men are walking with them; one appears to be a officer.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. talking with an unidentified man in sunglasses. They are standing in the Parthenon1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. talking with two unidentified men. They are standing in the Parthenon.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. tipping his hat in farewell from the steps of a military plane. The side of the plane says 'Military Air Transport Services'.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. walking around the Parthenon. An unidentified man is taking a photo behind him. An officer is also standing behind him.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. walking away from the Erechtheion. Three other unidentified people are following behind him.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. walking away from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Two unidentified men are walking with him; one appears to be an officer.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. walking away from the Parthenon. An unidentified man is beside him.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. walking up the Parthenon steps with an unidentified man.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. with an unidentified man in the Parthenon1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. with an unidentified man.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. with his wife Shelley Moore. Moore is wearing a tux and Shelley is in an elegant dress with elbow length gloves.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. with two unidentified men walking outside the Parthenon.1
Congressman Arch A. Moore, Jr. with two unidentified young men. The Capitol Building can be seen in the background.1
Congressman Arch Moore Jr. in Greece for the trial of U.S. Airman Marion Musilli of Benwood, West Virginia.1
Congressman Arch Moore Jr. in Greece for the trial of U.S. Airman Marion Musilli of Benwood, West Virginia. Some officers can be seen standing behind Moore.1
Congressman Arch Moore Jr. in Greece for the trial of U.S. Airman Marion Musilli of Benwood, West Virginia. Some officers can be seen standing in the background.1
Twelve unidentified women holding a very long petition.1
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McCulloch, William M. (William Moore), 1901-19801
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Photograph of a group of women holding a very long petition
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Photograph of Congressman Moore and an unidentified group looking at the book, "Handicapped: Not on the Job!"
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Photograph of Congressman Moore looking over a document with three unidentified men
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Photograph of Congressman Moore talking with an unidentified man
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Photograph of Congressman Moore with three unidentified people on the steps of the Capitol Building
United States Capitol Complex (Washington, D.C.) and Legislators--United States
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Legislators--United States
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Photograph of Congressman Moore talking to three unidentified men
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Photograph of Congressman Moore shaking hands with an unidentified man
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Photograph of Congressman Moore with Girl Scout Troops 91 and 18
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Motherwell December 12, 2016 Books, Culture
A few of Motherwell’s favorite parenting books
By Lauren Apfel
@laurenapfel
Catastrophic Happiness, by Catherine Newman
The parent I want to be floats in and out of my life, and some days it speaks through me, and other days I lunge after it like a shaft of sunlight.
Motherhood is a wild ride and Newman captures its nuances (and paradoxes) perfectly in this memoir, which is as humorous as it is heart-tugging. The wonderful anecdotes that make up the book—about tantrums and manners, boredom and hard conversations—are specific to Newman’s own family. But so much of the emotion she conveys is universal.
Child, Please, by Ylonda Gault Caviness
Mama had balance—without really even trying—and without a gaggle of contrived self-help tips telling her how to get it. She and her friends didn’t sit around and gab about balance between drags on their cigarettes, saying, “Girrrl, I gotta get me some balance!”
Caviness starts her parenting journey in the way of many modern mothers, sacrificially and intensively. And very differently from how she was raised herself. Over time, though, she realizes her own Mama had it right—a smart, strong, black woman full of “old-school” wisdom. This is the story of how those lessons helped Caviness “check herself” before she “wrecked herself.” You can read Motherwell’s excerpt of Child, Please here.
The Gift of Failure, by Jessica Lahey
Every time we rescue, hover or otherwise save our children from a challenge, we send a very clear message: that we believe they are incompetent, incapable, and unworthy of our trust.
In an age where parents are more involved in their children’s lives than ever before, and more invested in their success, Lahey’s book is a breath of fresh air. A middle school teacher who has witnessed the worst of helicopter parenting, she shines a light on how crucial it is to step back and let our kids fail, in big ways and small, and offers pragmatic advice on how to encourage them to take responsibly for themselves. See Motherwell’s author Q&A with Jessica Lahey here.
Girls & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein
In their sexual encounters, girls, it seemed, were growing more accustomed to coercion and discomfort than, say, orgasm.
A bold and original cultural commentary on exactly what it says in the title. Orenstein has interviewed over 70 girls in this book to uncover what they think, feel and fear about sex in the twenty-first century. The results will make you cringe and they will make you livid, but the take-home is a crucial one. Open dialogue with your daughters—and sons—about sexual consent, pleasure, reciprocity and dignity is the only way forward. See Motherwell’s original series on Girls & Sex here and our review here.
Mamaleh Knows Best, by Marjorie Ingall
I’m going to say it straight out: Jewish parenting methods are responsible for the outsized success of the Jewish people. But to paraphrase the old Levy’s rye bread slogan, you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Jewish mother.
If the idea of a Jewish mother conjures up unsavory images plucked right out of Portnoy’s Complaint and Seinfeld—of nagging, overbearing, guilt-inducing women—Ingall’s book works to set the record straight. Not only does she turn the stereotype of the Jewish mother on its head, but she deftly paints a picture of the ways in which mamalehs through history—with their emphasis on independence, original thinking, discipline and education—have managed to raise exemplary children.
The Middlepause, by Marina Benjamin
I’ve never felt us to be more mirrored…While her hormones rage, mine are plummeting. She’s discovered sleep; I’m suddenly insomniac. Her memory is a fine-tuned thing; mine is perpetually tripping up. At the same time, both of us ricochet between crankiness and euphoria.
Not a parenting book per se, but a deeply thoughtful account of what it means to turn fifty in a culture increasingly obsessed with youth. Benjamin gracefully chronicles her experience with ageing, and with menopause in particular, exploring the effects it has on her body, her psychology and her role as both mother and daughter.
My Heart Can’t Even Believe It, by Amy Silverman
And then one day around Sophie’s seventh birthday, I woke up and realized she was no longer my daughter with Down Syndrome. She was my kid and I loved her not because I was supposed to.
Silverman’s daughter, Sophie, has Down Syndrome and this memoir tells the story that began unfolding the day she was born. It is an honest and touching look at the way life changes after such a diagnosis—the medical issues, the developmental stumbling blocks, the concerns for the future—but also the ways in which it doesn’t: a mother’s persistent support of her child. You can read Motherwell’s excerpt of My Heart Can’t Even Believe It here.
The Science of Mom, by Alice Callahan
Science can help us sidestep the opinions and philosophies and anecdotes that fuel parenting debates. We look to science not to confirm what we want to believe or to prove others wrong, but rather to make the best decisions we can as parents.
New parents face an onslaught of contradictory information these days about how best to raise their kids. As laypeople, it’s very difficult to sift through the evidence and figure out what’s hype and what’s fact—especially with the internet heralding one scientific study after another. Callahan’s book is invaluable for doing this work for us: illuminating the science behind the hard parenting questions, e.g. breastfeeding and sleep training, in a manner that is balanced, thoughtful and reassuring.
Unfinished Business, by Anne-Marie Slaughter
The message that a woman’s traditional work of caregiving—anchoring the family by tending to material needs and nourishing minds and souls—is somehow less important than a man’s traditional work of earning an income to support that family is false and harmful.
A very important book that lays bare the emotional, structural and cultural barriers to achieving true gender equality in the workplace—and the home. Slaughter, who is famous for interrogating the idea that women can “have it all” and finding it wanting, exposes the mantras that we have historically clung to about male and female roles as the half-truths they are. She then offers real avenues for change by encouraging a shift in the way we understand the concepts of breadwinning, caregiving, and the balance between them.
Untangled, by Lisa Damour
When you understand what makes your daughter tick, she suddenly makes a lot more sense. When you have a map of adolescent development, it’s a lot easier to guide your daughter toward becoming the grounded young woman you want her to be.
A smart and systematic examination of the female transition from childhood to adolescence. As a clinical psychologist with a specialty in teenage girls, Damour sees predictable patterns in how they develop. Isolating seven distinct “strands” of growth, the book is full of sound, practical advice about how to parent through the “normal” issues tween and teen girls struggle with, such as harnessing their emotions and rejecting authority. But it also lets you know when it’s time to worry.
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Anne K. Ross on December 13, 2016 at 11:55 pm
Thanks for the great list. I’d add Beyond Rain Man: What One Psychologist Learned Raising a Son on the Autism Spectrum.
exoticnita54 on December 12, 2016 at 2:14 pm
A really good selection..
Where were these when I needed some advice and wisdom…
Maaan..
my boys kicked my Butt….
Winter is here, but my baby is not
The so-called simplicity of boys
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Why is Daenerys called a foreign invader by Randyll Tarly?
In GoT Season 7 Episode 5 - Eastwatch, before Randyll Tarly
and his son are incinerated by Drogon,
he asks Tyrion why he is supporting a foreign invader.
The Targaryens were ruling Westeros from King's Landing hundreds of years before and the Baratheon dynasty is probably not more than 20 years old.
He actually seem to have fought on the Targaryen side, during Robert's Rebellion (something that the TV series doesn't show) but the Battle of Ashford is why he one of the great commanders in Westeros.
So why does he claim Dany to be a foreign invader when she is actually the daughter of the Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen?
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Doesn't he explain that in the dialogue? – Paulie_D Aug 15 '17 at 10:33
Rickon...? Dickon... got a laugh every time in our house. – disassociated Aug 15 '17 at 10:48
Essentially, although technically Danaerys is Westeros-born...having been born on Dragonstone she spent most of her life on Essos.
Then she brings a barbarian horde of Dothraki, Essos Unsullied and Dorne allies to invade Westeros.
"One with no ties to this land; with an army of savages at her back."
Randyll can a very inflexible person when he believes himself right and so, to him, this makes her a foreign invader and he couldn’t accept rule by a foreigner.
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I would expand this mentioning that in the minds of many westerosi lords, the Targaryens are invasors from a foreign land, no matter how long has passed since that first invasion (at least, in the show it seems so, I have no idea how this is explored in the books) – Federico Aug 15 '17 at 12:23
Randyll arc was kind of foreshadowed when Sam brings Gilly to Horn Hill. He considered her to a foreign savage as well.... – Skooba Aug 15 '17 at 12:54
@Federico The Targaryens over time did build up local mixing and alliances through marriage and all that. Baratheons after all come from Orys Baratheon, also a Valyrian ancestor, and had domain over a kingdom (Stormlands). On top of that, Velaryons, Hightowers, Arryns, Harroways, Strongs, Martells, Daynes, Darrys, they all had some family ties to the Targaryens (and nearly Lannister of course). The North is fairly isolationist, but that's a quirk of the North, it doesn't seem as pronounced elsewhere. Much of this is glossed over in the show of course. – DariM Aug 15 '17 at 21:37
@Federico: the Targaryens are invasors from a foreign land, no matter how long has passed since that first invasion That first invasion created Westeros. Before the invasion, Westeros did not exist (not as a unified nation, at least). Therefore, the Westerosi aren't really opposed to Aegon's invasion, which is literally the founding of their country as they know it. Targaryens have recently become hated due to the Mad King's crimes. But they were historically accepted as rulers before the Mad King. – Flater Aug 21 '17 at 10:29
@DariM but that's a quirk of the North, it doesn't seem as pronounced elsewhere Dorne seems similarly isolated. They shared some ties (Rhaegar-Elia), but they are politically separated (still calling themselves kings and princes without objection from the Iron Throne, for example). – Flater Aug 21 '17 at 10:32
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poet of the twilight
My father read John le Carré novels. They filled his shelves. I never thought much about them or read one until I began writing. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Smiley's people, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Blew my eyes open. Can't say I didn't find them complicated but amazing in his descriptions of places, characters, telling details and locations. And touching because as a reader I cared about these characters, felt them, experienced the emotions, those nuanced details that brought alive a 'safe house' near the London docks operated by the Circus, the apartment of an exiled Russian factory worker in Paris. So aeons ago when le Carré still toured for his books, my father wanted to see him speak at a huge venue next to our City Hall. Before I could buy tickets he begged out. Now I realise that while his spirit wanted to, his body and mind wouldn't cooperate, he was in the beginnings of Alzheimers. But I attended and it was amazing. Not only hearing a writer talk - my first time listening to an author and what an author and speaker! - but of his process, his past in the espionage world and the poignant stories of his father, a con man and criminal, who he had to bail out repeatedly. Maybe it eased his own way into the secret world and maintaining a facade.
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
Then next day I called the venue to see if I could buy a tape (before podcasts) for my father.
Oh you know le Carré just called me before you did, said the woman in the office. Really? Why?
He wanted to write and thank the techs for their help and asked for their names. Hadn't there just been a podium, microphone and well lit stage? Yet such attention to detail. Thoughtful. But maybe that came from his training as a runner of 'joes'. Still, what a thing to do.
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
He writes in pen, and his wife types up his work. He said the Bodleian library practically threw up their hands when they asked him to donate his papers. Boxes and boxes and boxes worth.
To me, and whether you agree or not, or a fan or not, he's been a voice through his work and layered characters. He's more than a national UK treasure but a living world treasure. Solzhenitsyn, Gunter Grass and many who spoke to our conscience are gone now. Who else has witnessed the Berlin Wall going up and later when it came it down and wrote about those times in ways that brought the readers as witnesses. How Smiley's nemesis, the Russian Karla had one weak spot - love for his daughter - that's a universality one can relate to. How the world he paints isn't black or white but shades of grey. He's seen the world through many decades of war and the Cold war, met the players, gone behind the lines, wrote a spy story while employed at MI5, took on big Pharma before it became popular, and for an eighty plus year old man speaks lucidly and insightfully how what's happening now feels like he remembers in the rise of facism in the 30's.
Proceeds from the tickets go to Medicines sans Frontieres
I'd recommend hearing le Carré (David Cornwell) in his own voice while you still can.
Cara - Tuesday https://www.johnlecarre.com
Labels: An Evening with George Smiley, Cold War, John le Carré, Medecins sans Frontieres, MI5, Smileys People, Soldier, Spy, Tailor, Tinker
CWA Awards and London Fun
Annamaria on Monday
I am in London, where I travelled for the CWA banquet and a chance to meet up with some friends. But the huge highlight of the trip was attending the CWA Dagger awards ceremony with Leye Adenle, one of Sunshine Noir's two (out of the six!!!) nominees for best short story.
Stan warned us that the affair was very posh, so Leye and I did our best to make a good impression.
The tables were set with place cards that put us pals opposite each other.
When I picked up my phone to snap this picture through the candles..
I found Leye taking the same photo of me.
The competition for the our category was stiff, and the award went to LC Tyler, but we agreed that our Sunshine hotties snagging two of the six spots was a huge honour. (This spelling courtesy of my laptop knowing that I am in the UK at the moment.)
I noted that of the six nominees for the International dagger...
...the only Nordic entry won,...
...but I was encouraged to note that four of the six nominees were hot clime writers--two Italians and two Spaniards.
A huge THANK YOU to the delightful Ali Karim for the picture of
Leye and me above.
I spent the ensuing two days in my usual guise, as a Nerd in Paradise, researching at the British Library:
A few of the front page images that grace the walls of the Newsroom in the library
Three of the four volumes of bound copies of British East African newspapers
that were at my disposal.
You know you're a nerd when you look at a huge book full of these and say,
"Yum."
Labels: Ali Karim, Annamaria Alfieri, British East Africa, CWA Dagger Awards, Leye Adenle, Ovidia Yu, Sunshine Noir, the British Library
Walking With Kobo Daishi - A Visit To Okunoin
--Susan, every other Sunday
On both of my last two trips to Japan, I spent significant time beneath the towering ancient cedars of Okunoin - Japan's largest cemetery.
A map of Okunoin. Kobo Daishi's mausoleum is at the top, and the entrance at the bottom left.
The cemetery stretches over a mile from end to end, and has over 200,000 graves--some of which serve as the spiritual grave sites for multiple people rather than just one.
The Nissan Corporation tomb - erected on behalf of all employees, past and present.
The cemetery begins at Ichi-no-hashi (the first bridge), where a paved path leads visitors into the cedar-lined path that runs through Okunoin from end to end.
Visitors bow before crossing Ichi-no-hashi into Okunoin.
Lanterns along the side of the path illuminate the way on cloudy days and after dark. (The cemetery is open year round, 24 hours a day - and it is haunted, but not in a menacing way, as I've written about here before.)
Illuminating the way.
According to Shingon doctrine, anyone buried--in part or entirely--at Okunoin will return to life first at the time Miroku (the Buddha of the Future) returns to earth at the end of days. For that and other reasons, since the cemetery's founding in the 9th century, many adherents of the Shingon faith (and others -- anyone can be buried at Okunoin, if (s)he believes in the teachings of Kobo Daishi, Buddhist or not) have wanted to be buried on the mountain.
Buddhas in their kerchiefs and bibs
Kobo Daishi, the priest who brought Shingon Buddhism to Japan from China, is buried there too - though Shingon doctrine states he's actually still alive, in a state of eternal meditation that will continue until Miroku returns.
You can't photograph Kobo Daishi's mausoleum, so here's a buddha for you instead.
Visiting Okunoin, and seeing his mausoleum, is often referred to as "Visiting Kobo Daishi" - and he has many, many visitors. Okunoin is a popular tourist destination for Buddhists and non-Buddhists, Japanese people, and foreign visitors.
It doesn't hurt that the cemetery has glorious foliage displays each autumn, either.
Autumn blazing at Okunoin.
Or that its graves have incredible character:
The best Buddha anywhere.
Some monuments are built on behalf of companies for the benefit of their employees, like the Nissan tomb I posted above. There's even a tomb erected by a termite company--on behalf of the insects it kills in the course of business. (I don't have a picture of that one either, because despite three days of exploring, I haven't found it yet. Stay tuned. I haven't given up.)
Many side paths branch off from the main one.
Many famous Japanese people are buried (or have mausoleums or monuments) there, including several shoguns and numerous daimyō (medieval warlords).
The mausoleum of Uesugi Kenshin, erected during the 16th century.
Their monuments stand directly beside those of ordinary people, men and women whose names and achievements are now mostly lost to history.
Many tombs. Many lives.
In all my travels, I have never been to a place as silently peaceful as Okunoin. The cedars rise to the sky like protective sentinels, guarding the dead who lie beneath.
The graves don't ever seem to end.
The well-tended graves and kerchiefed Buddha statues speak of a place where the dead may not be visible, but remain as loved and remembered as any living person could ever hope to be.
Dead, but not forgotten.
It is a place where even the most troubled, stressed-out heart can find peace, and where anyone with reverence for the spirit and the residents of the place is not only welcome, but invited to walk and think and be.
It is a holy place, where real, lasting peace feels possible, tangible, and close.
These photos don't do justice to its beauty, so I hope, if you ever have the chance, you'll go and visit Kobo Daishi beneath the trees.
I can assure you, it will be a day well spent.
Labels: Buddhism, cemeteries, graves, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese history, okunoin, Shingon, Susan Spann
Greece Created Democracy, But Did You Know It Also Saved It?
Today, October 28th, is a Greek national holiday; one of two publicly revered ones to be precise. The other, March 25, commemorates the day in 1821 that Greece declared its Independence from the Ottoman Empire and fought until 1832 to obtain it.
Today’s holiday, “Oxi Day” (pronounced “O-hee” and meaning “no” in Greek), represents the moment in 1940 when Greece set in motion events ultimately saving democracy for the world. As Adolph Hitler’s Chief of Staff later said, “The Greeks delayed by two or more vital months the German attack against Russia; if we did not have this long delay, the outcome of the war would have been different.”
“Oxi,” together with two other words uttered nearly two and a half centuries earlier by Spartan King Leonidas in response to Persian king Xerxes’ demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons—“Molon Labe” (pronounced mo-lone laveh), meaning “come and take them”—is all you need to know to understand how Greeks react to adversity.
Those three words represent the essence of the Greek will, and permeate their attitudes toward virtually all things. Some say that leaves them open to manipulation by nationalistic political jingoists seeking to distract their attention from otherwise serious, underlying national problems and shortcomings…but what nation these days is free from that.
Despite all the trials and tribulations endured by this nation of eleven million over the past near decade, and the certainty of more difficult times to come, to those of you who wonder if the Greek spirit will somehow throw in the towel—I simply say as I’ve said before, ‘NO.”
King Leonidas I
And here’s how Oxi Day came to pass.
On the morning of August 15, 1940, the Greek navel vessel Elli was in the harbor of the Cycladic island of Tinos. It was peacetime and the light cruiser was anchored to participate in a major Greek Orthodox holiday, The Dormition of the Theotokos (Assumption of the Virgin Mary). Without warning the Elle was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine, killing nine and wounding twenty-four. Although fragments of the torpedo clearly identified its source, the Greek government officially declared the nationality of the attacking submarine as “unknown.” The Greek government may have been reluctant to declare the attacker as Italy, and therefore immerse itself in war, but the people knew who was behind it.
Two months later, around dawn on the morning of October 28, 1940, after a party at the German embassy in Athens, the Italian ambassador approached Greece’s Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas and demanded that Greece surrender to the Axis powers or face immediate war with Italy. He offered Greece three hours to decide. Italy had seven times the population of Greece, seven times the troops, ten times the firepower, and total air superiority.
Ioannis Metaxa
The Prime Minister’s response was simple: “Oxi.” And less than two hours later Italian troops stationed in Albania invaded Greece. Occupation of Greece was critical to Hitler’s plan for isolating British troops in North Africa. The Italians expected it to be a three-day war. They learned otherwise.
Oxi became the battle cry of the Greek people. Within weeks the Italians were driven back into Albania, and repelled by the Greeks at every effort to occupy Greece. It became clear to Hitler that Italy was not up to the task and on April 6, 1941 Germany invaded Greece, but it took even the Nazis five weeks to succeed. Greek resistance had thrown off Hitler’s plans to capture Russia before the winter of 1941.
The Greeks were the first people in Europe (outside of Great Britain) to stand up to the demands of Germany and its allies, but their one hundred eighty-five days of resistance took a horrific toll on their country:
One million of Greece’s citizens (13% of the population) are estimated to have died from battle, starvation, resistance, reprisals and concentration camps.
Greece’s infrastructure, economy and agriculture were destroyed.
Greece’s gold, works of art, and treasures were plundered.
Civil war followed and many emigrated.
On a purely economic basis, it is estimated that in standing up to the Axis’ threats Greece was left in financial straits twice as bad as it finds itself in today… and its societal costs were inestimably worse.
So today, as Greece struggles under different serious challenges, for those who seek to capture the extent of Greece’s national determination in a phrase, let me offer a quote from someone who understood as well as anyone on earth what the world once more owed to Greece: “Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but Heroes fight like Greeks.” Winston Churchill.
Xronia Polla, y’all.
Labels: Greece, Molon Labe, Oxi Day, World War II
The End Of Things. And bobolinks?
Today I am at the end of the world. It is a place called after a prince who became a king and then became a potato.
There is nobody here. It’s a half hour drive to buy a loaf of bread if you are lucky. It’s a full hour plus to be certain of the bread. And an internet signal that is slightly weaker than a distressed honey bee trying to toss a caber; a lot of activity achieving nothing.
The roadways have been closed with giant boulders, all leaving one option at a junction, and that choice takes you right back to where you started. Entrance and exit barriers are all raised. The ticket offices are closed, the attractions lie dull and motionless. And silent.
The long empty road runs to infinity in front and behind, a long streak of grey as far as the eye can see. There’s a triangular sign warning that the speed limit is 9 km an hour. Not 8. Not 10, but 9.
Volleyball nets packed away, swings hang loose blowing slightly in the breeze. The flag is wrapped round the flagpole, the maple leaf will not see the light of day until there is some daylight to see but there is rebellion in the quiet yet tuneful chink chink chink of the metal clasps drumming on the flagpole with the rhythm of the wind. The music is gone but not forgotten.
At the marina, there are sun bleached posters for pickleball and line dancing. Four oldies have been abandoned, overlooked on the checklist by their relatives and left behind. The buggies are parked at the side of the pontoon, on the pontoon itself sit the gang of four, in collapsing deck chairs, wrapped in warm blankets. I know that tomorrow there will be three, then two then one. It’s like watching the end of Beaches in slow motion.
We have made friends with a black squirrel, a chipmunk – well we think hes a chipmunk but watching Alvin gave us no idea of scale- wee brown guys with two go faster white stripes? Alvin had led me to believe that his chipmunks were the size of small dogs, or large rabbits. Maybe they and these ones are stunted by the lack of ....everything.
We are also friends with a small green frog we meet every morning as we walk the streets looking at the empty houses, fire pits covered over, buggies cling filmed in blue tarpaulin, chairs tied onto the verandah, windows closed, blinds down nobody at home. We are intrigued by the ancient hearse on the front lawn, and by a stuffed white Alsation stuffed on the back of a sofa, waiting.
There are a few folk hanging around, they are either inflatable or have pumpkin heads and rags for clothes and are looking a bit weatherbeaten. I don’t think they are going to last. The end of the month will be it.
I am looking for a bobolink. Having no internet, I have no idea what it is but I am determined to find one. He sounds fun.
The waves though never cease to pound the concrete beach.
Yesterday I found a dance floor. Deep in the vegetation my feet realised they were on Terrazzo, the black and white tiles are now shades of grey but still easily seen. There once was a hotel here, over a million visitors in the hundred years the building occupied this site beside the lake. A small placard has a couple of pictures and the interesting snippet that the ladies used to walk to promenade on their way down to dinner, wearing the latest fashions. Spinsters ( not ladies obviously) would sit and read books while the young men played jazz and cards, never the twain met. They also had a three hole golf course.
I wonder what they did to cope with the excitement.
This morning, the sun is shining. The dream catchers lie still but it has a sense of expectation. I wonder what the dreamcatcher is hoping for. The big one that hangs from the wooden roof of a house on Elm Street looks busy. I bet who carved that street name on the tree was having a laugh.
We are on a pull through site, that suggests that we are expected to pull through.
I guess many don’t.
I think we are at the end of the world while at the end of the world if you see what I mean, both physically and chronologically.
There are no pictures, The hard working internet bee cannot cope.
But with no internet and no human interaction I am writing. And I am reading.
I am reading books by Antti Tuomienen.
I think I might have read too many.
I used to be Scottish. I am now dystopian.
Caro Ramsay 27 10 2017. Even that date. It's too much.
Writing with-
Bouchercon was great fun (as it always is), and I had a super panel. In the first place it was on a topic that really interests me—how mystery and thriller authors go about writing collaboratively—and second the authors on the panel are all award winning, New York Times bestselling authors, and, equally important, they are very interesting and experienced writers. I was the moderator, so I could find out all the things I’ve always wanted to know from them.
The panelists were:
Reed Farrel Coleman, who continues the enormously popular Robert B Parker Jesse Stone series. Reed has just pocketed his fourth Shamus award and has won just about everything else going except the Edgar—and he’s been a finalist for that four times.
JT Ellison is a big name in her own right with standalones and series, and has won the ITW Thriller award. She writes the ‘Brit in the FBI’ series with Catherine Coulter and their latest collaboration—The Devil’s Triangle—has everything, the lost ark, weather control technology, higher than high tech, even an underground motorcycle chase. (JT said that had come to Catherine in a dream—literally—and she had to fit it in somehow!)
Chris Grabenstein writes witty mysteries on his own, and has won the Anthony, Agatha and Sid Feischman humor awards. He also produces a prolific series of wildly successful books for young readers with James Patterson. He was this year’s Bouchercon4kids guest of honor.
Charles and Caroline Todd write the popular Inspector Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford mysteries set at the time of the First World War. They’ve won the Barry, Agatha, McCavity, and Mary Higgins Clark awards, and been short listed for the Edgar. Charles and Caroline kindly stepped in for Max and Barbara Collins who had to drop out because of some medical issues shortly before the convention.
So you can see why it was a dream panel assignment for me; not only did I have a group of great authors, but their work spanned the whole spectrum of collaboration.
I started off by asking each of them how the collaboration had started for them, and how it worked.
Reed took over the Jesse Stone series from another author, who parted ways with Robert B Parker's estate. He read all the previous books, trying to get himself into RBP's style. Then he got some really good advice from a friend who is a great Elvis fan. The friend has seen all the films, heard all the records, seen all the Elvis impersonators. The advice was simply this: all the Elvis impersonators were just that-they could never be Elvis. Reed took the advice to heart, found his own style consistent with the series, and has just launched the fourth book. It seems to work. The Hangman's Sonnet started right up the New York Times best seller list.
Reed speculated that a writing partnership has to have a boss (at least if both authors are still alive), and JT confirmed that Catherine was the boss. Her agent was approached by Catherine’s, and so she flew out to Catherine’s home to discuss a collaboration. It went well from the start, but Catherine is the big name, so she has to be happy with the style, plot and writing. JT’s own books are more in the police procedural space, and so she enjoys writing the James Bond style thrillers. Thrillers give a freedom from the more constrained murder mystery.
Chris confirmed that ‘Jim’ Patterson was the boss. They went back a long way because Jim was Chris’s first boss at an advertising agency. When he approached Chris many years later about a collaboration on books for kids, Chris jumped at it.
Chris gave us a very different view from the rather snobbish one of Patterson having a slave pen of writers who do all the work and then have their names dropped off the books. Patterson is incredibly hard working and Chris estimates that he does more than half the work on the collaborative effort. He works on eight books simultaneously each month. His office has eight desks each with the work for one of the projects. Chris often wakes to phone messages about their latest book. Overall, a very enjoyable experience, he says.
Charles and Caroline told us the history of their collaboration. Both shared an interest in history, and enjoyed visiting England and the period of the early nineteen hundreds. Caroline said she chose Charles by default; none of the others in her family wanted to write with her. Charles just smiled and nodded.
Their first idea came from a true case of a soldier whose body had been found where it was unexpected, and no one had really determined what the real story was. Speculating about that case gave them ideas for their first Rutledge book, A Test of Wills. Caroline once told me that they were unsure of who the murderer was right up to the last few chapters. That's serious pantsing!
They write and research together - pretty much as we do. When things seem to one of them to be going offtrack, their solution is to work out what is best for the character.
As for Michael Stanley, two days ago we launched our sixth Detective Kubu book Dying to Live. Each of our books has followed a slightly different path. The first was pure pantsing, and we did everything together - writing, research, learning the craft. The second book we outlined and stuck to the outline pretty well. It worked, and we felt we had found the successful formula for efficiently writing books. Until the third book. We wrote the outline, but found it didn't work when we actually wrote the book. We shrugged it off, gave the characters their heads after that, and they galloped through the book - except we didn't know how it ended. Till we did. And so on. Now we expect each book to have something of its own writing style. We like being surprised as much as the readers do!
All the panelists seemed to be pretty happy with their collaborations (although Reed mentioned one with Ken Bruen which had not gone so well). It works for us and our readers!
We're on the road! Here are our upcoming events:
TONIGHT October 26, 7:00pm
Mystery to Me bookstore
1863 Monroe St, Madison, WI 53711
Free registration at Eventbright or by calling the store
October 27, 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Aunt Agatha’s
213 S 4th Ave # 1A, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Dinner (6:00pm) and discussion (7:00pm).
Please contact the store beforehand for details
October 30, 7:00pm
Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore
7419 W. Madison Street
Discussion and refreshments
November 1, 7:00pm
2100 Snelling Ave, St Paul, MN 55113
7:00pm. Discussion
November 4, 10:30am.
514 Allegheny River Blvd, Oakmont, PA 15139
Coffee and Crime
Labels: Bess Crawford, Catherine Coulter, Charles Todd, Chris Grabenstein, Detective Kubu, Ian Rutledge, James Patterson, Jesse Stone, JT Ellison, Michael Stanley, Reed Farrel Coleman, Robert B Parker
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Michael Jackson’s final studio album is a deep dive into his turn-of-the-century psyche. While the building blocks of his funk-pop remain intact, subtle touches—8-bit glitches on the pleading title track, hiccuping synth beats on the sultry “Heartbreaker”—reveal his close study of Y2K-era pop savants like Timbaland and Missy Elliott. The ballads, however, stick to classic soul-pop ideals; “Butterflies” swoons and sparkles, Jackson’s infatuation heightened by the song’s featherlight arrangement, while the steadfast “You Are My Life” focuses on his voice’s ever-potent sweetness.
Invincible Michael Jackson
Break of Dawn
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℗ 2001 MJJ Productions Inc.
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Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics.
Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, Axelle Gérgoire, The Soil Map (detail), Terra Forma,manuel de cartographies potentielles, 2019. © the artists.
Why Detroit?
In the article published in NESS 2 “If the Earth is not a Globe, How to Sketch it?” Bruno Latour and Alexandra Arènes define the Critical Zone: “The Critical Zone (CZ) is defined by scientists as the thin veneer at the surface of the planet. This is the zone between the ‘rocks and the sky’ on which all human activities concentrate. The CZ is not a scientific concept, but rather an appeal from many different, previously disparate, disciplines to concentrate their collective attention on the same zone ‘in an interdisciplinary–holistic–way.’ This zone is ‘critical’ in the many meanings of the word because it is one of the main interfaces of the planet, still poorly known and also fragile, given the impacts humans have had on it.” In 2020, they will explore further the CZ in an exhibition at ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Here is a sneak peek at both the exhibition and their firsthand experience of a Critical Zone published in NESS 2.
Inside the RiverLab, a laboratory for the field. Courtesy Alexandra Arènes.
Orgeval Observatory of the Critical Zone, Ile-de-France, agricultural plateau, monotonous landscape. With our feet in the mud (the most terrestrial sediment of all), we followed a Chinese delegation that came to visit the RiverLab technology. When we got there, there was almost nothing. A green container is installed near a small stream. The interior houses a fully equipped mini-laboratory: computers, measuring tubes, refrigerator, etc. Of course, we did not understand what it is used for or how it works. Scientists presented the RiverLab in very technical terms. We gradually understood that they are measuring the chemical composition of the nearby small river every thirty minutes, which is a challenge and a major breakthrough for understanding chemical exchanges in the CZ. Indeed, these measures allow them to understand, and consequently forecast, the hydraulic regime of the Seine (whose 100-years flood is approaching!). We began to understand that the CZ is saturated with water, like a sponge that swells, charges, and discharges according to climatic variations. One of us is struck by the precision with which scientists feature the behavior of the river. They do not use descriptive morphological terms, as can be used in landscape architecture, but they bring the river to life through the use of physiological terms.
We began to understand that the CZ is saturated with water, like a sponge that swells, charges, and discharges according to climatic variations.
First disorientation/change of scenery. At night, the river does not have the same chemical composition as during the day. More ions, less cations (or vice versa). The same phenomena occur in the event of flooding or seasonal change: these events are reflected by the tiny particles that are transported by the river and observed by scientists who are now able to discern them. The RiverLab is a kind of temporal microscope. Scientists capture the movement of a component, such as nitrate leached from the ground, through the ripples appearing on the screens. They can therefore, element by element, reconstruct the composition of the river under scrutiny. Scientists collect data, submit results to colleagues, try to decipher the pathway of the elements in the watershed and their temporalities, and develop the basic techniques to establish their observations. However, their work is not simply data gathering as they must constantly speculate on the composition of agents whose actions terraform the observatory’s landscape in one way or another. The Orgeval is a typical multi-layered aquifer system managed by agricultural practices for centuries.
Recently, our contact from the Critical Zone Observatories (CZO) and the scientific mentor of our inquiry, Jérôme Gaillardet, sent us a quote from Alexander von Humboldt, the famous explorer-scientist- botanist-geologist: “every corner of the globe is a reflection of the whole Nature.” This could be translated into: “every observatory of the CZ is a reflection of Gaia.”
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Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
9.5. – 4.10.2020
By now everybody knows that there is an existential threat to our collective conditions of existence, but very few people have any idea of how to cope with this new CRITICAL situation.
It is very strange, but citizens of many developed countries are disoriented; it is as if they were asked to land on a new territory, an Earth that they have long ignored having reacted to their action. The hypothesis we want to propose is that the best way to map this new Earth is to see it as a network of CRITICAL ZONES, which constitute a thin skin a few kilometers thick that has been generated over eons of time by life forms. Those life forms had completely transformed the original geology of the Earth, before humanity transformed it yet again over the last centuries.
Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, Axelle Gérgoire, The Soil Map (detail), Terra Forma, manuel de cartographies potentielles, 2019. © the artists.
The ZKM thus continues the comprehensive engagement and collaboration with local communities and institutions that was explored during the Open Codes exhibition (2017–2019), opening up a space for common action and discussion to recompose the world we live in: Over a period of five months ZKM will host an exhibition conceived as a scale model to simulate the spatial novelty of this new land as well as the diversity of relations between the life forms inhabiting it. It will serve as an OBSERVATORY OF CRITICAL ZONES allowing visitors to familiarize themselves with the new situation. This special combination of thought experiment and exhibition was developed by Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour in their previous collaborations at ZKM. Iconoclash in 2002, Making Things Public in 2005, and Reset Modernity! in 2016 constitute the three former “thought exhibitions” (Gedankenausstellungen) that resulted from their intensive working relationship which now spans twenty years.
Curated by: Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel with Martin Guinard and Bettina Korintenberg / Curatorial Committee: Alexandra Arènes, Jérôme Gaillardet, Joseph Koerner, Daria Mille, and the Critical Zones Study Group at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) / Collaborating partners: Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG), State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Hydrogeochemical / Environmental Observatory: The Strengbach Catchment
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Running along Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street to 105th Street, Museum Mile is an illustrious stretch of world-class museums in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Notably, participating museums host an annual event, the Museum Mile Festival, to share their beautifully curated selection of arts and artifacts with the public for free. For those living close by, proximity to the city's cultural heart is a unique and treasured benefit of living in the neighborhood.
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Australian telescope captures new image of Milky Way's magnetism
Using a wide spectrum of radio waves the scientists have been able to disentangle different astronomical objects from each other.
Thursday 21 November 2019 12:18, UK
Image: New view of the Milky Way from Australia
A new image of the centre of the Milky Way has been revealed by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Australia.
The radio telescope has produced an image which ranges in colours from red to blue, with the huge golden filaments indicating enormous magnetic fields.
Supernova remnants - the gaseous expanses left behind after stars explode - are visible as little spherical bubbles, while regions of massive star formation show up in blue.
Image: Artist's impression of a supernova. Pic: ESO/M. Kornmesser
There is also a supermassive black hole - known as Sagittarius A* - at the centre of our galaxy, but it is hidden by the bright white region in the centre of the image.
Some astrophysicists even believe that there are about 10,000 smaller black holes surrounding the supermassive one.
These are very difficult to detect however behind the powerful radiation of astronomical objects between the very centre of the galaxy and Earth.
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, from Curtin University, said: "This new view captures low-frequency radio emission from our galaxy, looking both in fine detail and at larger structures.
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"Our images are looking directly at the middle of the Milky Way, towards a region astronomers call the galactic centre," added Dr Hurley-Walker.
Conducted as part of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, the images were created from MWA data using a supercomputer based in Perth.
This data covered a wide range of radio frequencies, which enabled the scientists to disentangle different overlapping objects as they observed the complexities of the centre of our galaxy.
Dr Hurley-Walker said that two of the supernova remnants were "orphans" because they found in a region of sky where there are no massive stars.
This suggested that future searches across other similar regions without any massive stars could also yield supernova remnants.
"This is really exciting for us, because it's hard to find supernova remnants in this phase of life-they allow us to look further back in time in the Milky Way."
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Taskforce from all authorities in Manchester to help support Thomas Cook staff after the collapse of the company
PLANS to support Thomas Cook staff affected by the collapse of the travel company have been drawn up by the city-region’s authorities.
Roughly 3,000 people were working for Thomas Cook in Greater Manchester, with more than 900 cabin crew helping 2.8 million travellers through Manchester Airport each year, a tenth of the airport’s passenger numbers.
From tomorrow, affected staff will be able to access advice and support via a single web portal – www.gmthomascook.com with accompanying contact email address info@gmthomascook.com. One-to-one support will be made available via the website.
A taskforce featuring trades unions, Jobcentre Plus, Manchester Airports Group (MAG), local authorities and others has been set up within 24 hours of the business’s failure, signposting affected people to advice and support with the stated aim of assisting employees retrain or find new opportunities as soon as possible.
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said: “My heart goes out to all those affected by the collapse of Thomas Cook. I have been at the airport today meeting staff representatives and I know this news has hit them very hard, leaving them without a job and in many cases three weeks’ pay.
“But we need to give people more than just warm words, which is why we have been working hard today to put in place practical support. The Greater Manchester family has been swift to respond and it’s good that a website and contact telephone number have been established where staff can log on, register and access practical support and information when it comes to next steps.”
The GMCA helped to co-ordinate a similar taskforce for those employees affected by the relocation of Shop Direct from Oldham to the East Midlands in 2018 – on that occasion more than 200 at-threat jobs were safeguarded and retained in Greater Manchester, with assistance provided to a further 1,400 people.
The new taskforce is currently working with Manchester Airport Group and other airlines who have the airport as a base to establish the current number of job vacancies, with discussions ongoing around a possible jobs fair for Thomas Cook employees.
Mark Hughes, Chief Executive of the Growth Company, added: “It’s undoubtedly an incredibly tough time for employees of Thomas Cook and all associated employers and industries. The Growth Company stands ready to support all those impacted by this very sad turn of events.
“The website and helpline are places which people can visit to find where they can establish their employment and redundancy rights, find out about organisations to contact to discuss job opportunities, money matters and much more besides.
“People who have worked for Thomas Cook for 20 years or more have in many cases not ever had to consider what a new career might look like and even where to begin job hunting. And the more we learn about the needs of those people affected, the more we can begin to ensure everything on the new website is useful and appropriate, because fundamentally we want to help as many people as quickly as possible access all the support they need and swiftly find new jobs.”
In addition to the website and email address, a helpline has been set up for Greater Manchester-based Thomas Cook employees: 0161 393 6443. Lines will be open from tomorrow morning, Monday to Friday, 8.00am until 8.00pm, and will connect employees straight to an advisor.
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Trafford Centre is now the home of the first permanent UK virtual reality cinema
Wild Immersion hails successful trial and announces first permanent UK venue in Manchester
Global VR company, Wild Immersion, is opening its first permanent UK interactive cinema facility at intu Trafford Centre, following a successful trial this summer.
Described as the ‘World’s First Virtual Nature Reserve’, Wild Immersion aims to take consumers deep into real-life wildlife locations, introducing seven new and unique Virtual Reality (VR) films, having filmed over 140 species in over 40 countries.
The company is now taking over the location that was previously occupied by Giraffe on the first floor of The Orient and will be opening its new 40-seat theatre permanently at the start of October.
The attraction aims to provide both information and entertainment, being endorsed by Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of The Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace. Along with existing venues in Switzerland, France and Finland, the new Trafford Centre site will be donating a percentage of profit to the
Jane Goodall institute to support its conservation work and help promote the natural world we all share.
Wild Immersion CEO Grégoire Moisson comments: “Our mission is to connect users with animals and raise awareness of the dangers so many species face, as well as help protect them in an ever-changing world.
“We have already opened Wild Immersion venues in several major cities around Europe – and following extensive trials, are delighted to officially open our first permanent UK venue here in Manchester. Our next step will be to launch venues outside of Europe to help entertain while spreading a very important message.”
Alison Niven, Centre Director at intu Trafford Centre, comments: “Following a successful trial this summer, we’re delighted that Wild Immersion is taking a permanent site within the centre. It’s a truly fantastic leisure activity that will make the whole family smile with awe.”
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“Winter War miracle” – Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union
Finland and Russia lost tens of thousands of military personnel and civilians in the short brutal war - and organisations caring for veterans are looking for ways to keep the Winter War spirit alive.
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File picture of Lightbringer Winter War Memorial in Helsinki / Credit: News Now Finland
Finland is marking the 80th anniversary of the start of the Winter War on 30th November 1939.
The conflict began when the Soviet Union attacked Finland without a declaration of war, sparking 105 days of fierce fighting which left tens of thousands dead, wounded and captured on both sides – although the Russians suffered the heaviest losses by far at the hands of Finnish forces.
This weekend wreaths will be laid, and a candle lit for every day of the war, at the National Memorial to the Winter War – Lightbringer – in Helsinki’s Kasarmintori Square.
There are hundreds of men and women still alive today who took part in the Winter War, and thousands more who participated in the other two conflicts which proceeded it during the time of World War Two: the Continuation War of 1941 to 1944; and the Lapland War of autumn 1944.
Troops on the march, Lappeenranta, 19th December 1939 / Credit: SA-Kuva
“I’m quite sure this will be the last kind of milestone anniversaries, we have them every ten years and next time for the 90th anniversary I don’t think we’ll have any war vets from the Winter War left” says Sakari Martimo from the Military Veterans Foundation, one of three organisations representing the interests and welfare of Finland’s war veterans.
Although the number of surviving Winter War veterans is dwindling, with just 700 to 1000 left, the last Finnish war veterans from the WWII era are expected to live until 2036, and Martimo explains the reason why.
“When the Lapland War against Germany broke out, we had to take care of all the cows and horses and evacuate them to the south. This task was given to children of school age, 10 and 12 years old. Since they were officially working for the Finnish Defence Forces, and in an area of operations, they were also entitled to have this status of war veteran” he says.
Troops laying mines in the road at Summa, 14th December 1939 / Credit: SA-Kuva
The Winter War miracle
The Winter War came just 20 years after the bitter divisions of Finland’s Civil War, but the country pulled together when faced with a common enemy from the east.
Sakari Martimo describes this as the ‘Winter War miracle’.
“Although we were really poor and our military was really poorly equipped, we were able to repel the attacker. That’s the thing we call the miracle of the Winter War” he tells News Now Finland.
A national sense of unity, and cohesion of purpose, saw the Finns through the most serious external threat the young had ever faced.
“If you put all the resources the Soviet Union had and the very small resources we had, they would have given us five days, seven days, one week and we would have been overwhelmed. But it took roughly four months and the Soviets were not able to overrun Finland, because of the national spirit. And that’s why we call a miracle – the culmination of the narrative of the Finnish nation” Martimo, himself a former career military officer, explains.
Battalion commander Captain Ahde gives instructions to a patrol in Kollaanjoki (now part of Russia) 1st January 1940 / Credit: SA-Kuva
While the primary task of the organisations looking out for the welfare of veterans and their spouses is to do what they can to support those still alive, they’re already looking to the future.
The next objective is to educate younger generations and keep the spirit and memory of the veterans alive.
“We have to talk more about the tradition of this war, so we won’t have any kind of gap. So we will end the first task” of caring for the veterans and their widows or spouses “and then start the new task” says Martimo.
“The same generation that fought three wars, they rebuilt Finland. Cities were bombed. We had a lot of wounded people, dead people, and that same generation was able to bring us back to normal life” he says.
“We are really grateful for that generation and that’s why we really want to praise them and keep the fire under the kettle, not to forget them.”
Lotta Svärd Women’s Auxilliary Corps volunteers at Air Surveillance Centre in Sortavala (now in Russia) / 7th January 1940 / Credit: SA-Kuva
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Soundtrack For Your Weekend: Shiny Toy Guns, Paper Route and Meiko
May 1, 2009 Morgan Levy
If you’re looking for a little groove for your weekend (forgive us for the use of the term “groove”), it’s a good weekend to be in Nashville. Not that three days of music is necessarily unusual here in the Music City, but three days of music that we actually want to hear? A rare occurrence indeed!
Tonight, check out Shiny Toy Guns at the Exit/In. We’ve heard that Shiny Toy Guns shows turn into pretty epic dance parties, and what better way is there to spend your Friday night? Opening for Shiny Toy Guns are local bands Autovaughn and Mike’s Pawn Shop. The show starts at 9pm (doors at 8pm) and it’s $15 at the door.
Saturday night, get to the Exit/In early for the Paper Route CD release show with Mikky Ekko and Brian Lee & His Orchestra. The internet has been buzzing with cries of “ZOMG PAPER ROUTE IS AWESOME!!1″ since their new CD, “Absence,” released on Tuesday, and this could be one of your last chances to catch these hometown heroes before they blow up. The last Paper Route show at the Exit/In was ridiculously packed, so stake out a spot early if you plan on maintaining a shred of comfort. Show starts at 9pm, and it’s only $12 at the door.
Sunday night, if you’re not worn out from Friday and Saturday’s shows, come hang at 3rd & Lindsley to see one of our absolute favorite artists, Meiko. Meiko keeps coming through Nashville, and we keep missing her, but we’ve vowed that this will be the day. She’ll be playing with Cory Chisel and Trey Lockerbie, and the show is only $12 in advance (but with service fees, ends up around $15). Doors are at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm.
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