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HOW YOU CAN FIGHT BACK 10
PROOF OF CALIFORNIA POLITICAL FELONIES 34
PROOF OF CONSPIRED MEDIA MANIPULATION 23
PROOF OF ELECTION RIGGING AND GOOGLE LIES 40
PROOF OF ELON MUSK CORRUPTION SCAMS 39
PROOF OF FUSION GPS-LIKE ATTACKS 25
PROOF OF RARE EARTH MINING CORRUPTION 52
PROOF OF SILICON VALLEY FRAT BOY CARTEL 4
PROOF OF THE DARK MONEY BRIBES AND PAYOLA 143
PROOF OF THE OLIGARCHS DEGENERACY 93
PROOF OF THE TECH CORRUPTIONS 1
PROOF THAT CLEANTECH WAS STOCK SCAM 11
PROOF THAT SILICON VALLEY SPIED FOR OBAMA 116
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PROOF OF THE OLIGARCHS DEGENERACY
• “I’ve Had This Story for Three Years… (ABC) Would Not Put It on The Air” says Good Morning America Breaking News Anchor, and 20/20 Co-Anchor Amy Robach. “It Was Unbelievable… We Had - Clinton, We Had Everything…”
• Robach: “We Had Her Whole Allegations About Prince Andrew…I Got a Little Concerned About Why I Couldn't Get On.”
• Amy Robach Describes How She Interviewed a Woman Who Had the Courage to Come Forward “Years” Ago About Epstein: “She Had Pictures, She Had Everything. She Was in Hiding for Twelve Years. We Convinced Her to Come Out. We Convinced Her to Talk to Us.”
• Robach Details ABC’s Initial Response to Her: “Who's Jeffrey Epstein? No One Knows Who That is. This is a Stupid Story
• Robach: “Now it's All Coming Out … I Freaking Had All Of It…”
(New York, NY) Newly revealed footage leaked by an ABC insider has exposed how network executives rejected allegations against Jeffrey Epstein years ago, even though there was content regarding the merit of those claims in-hand.
Amy Robach, ‘Good Morning America’ Co-Host and Breaking News Anchor at ABC, explains how a witness came forward years ago with information pertaining to Epstein, but Disney-owned ABC News refused to air the material for years. Robach vents her anger in a “hot mic” moment with an off-camera producer, explaining that ABC quashed the story in it’s early stages. “I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts (Now Virginia Guiffre) [alleged Epstein victim]. We would not put it on the air. Um, first of all, I was told “Who's Jeffrey Epstein. No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.”
She continues, “The Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.”
Robach goes on to express she believes that Epstein was killed in prison saying, “So do I think he was killed? 100% Yes, I do…He made his whole living blackmailing people... Yup, there were a lot of men in those planes. A lot of men who visited that Island, a lot of powerful men who came into that apartment.”
Robach repeats a prophetic statement purportedly made by Attorney Brad Edwards “…[T]here will come a day when we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known,” and Disgustedly Robach states “I had it all three years ago.”
Project Veritas intends to continue its investigation into corruption in the Mainstream Media. We encourage that Brave insiders at these organizations come forward with any information they have, so that the public knows what is really going on within these media companies.
Jeffrey Epstein And The Political Sex Cults Of Silicon Valley Money Laundering
By Michelle Celarier
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photos: Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor.
“I’m hearing about the parties, hearing about a guy who’s throwing money around,” says Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management. While stories about young girls swarming Epstein’s waterfront mansion and the sex parties he hosted for the rich and powerful were the talk of the town, Kass was more focused on how this obscure person, rumored to be managing billions of dollars, had become so wealthy without much of a track record.
Kass was well-connected on Wall Street, where he’d worked for decades, so he began to ask around. “I went to my institutional brokers, to their trading desks and asked if they ever traded with him. I did it a few times until the date when he was arrested,” he recalls. “Not one institutional trading desk, primary or secondary, had ever traded with Epstein’s firm.”
When a reporter came to interview Kass about Bernie Madoff shortly before that firm blew up in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, Kass told her, “There’s another guy who reminds me of Madoff that no one trades with.” That man was Jeffrey Epstein.
“How did he get the money?” Kass kept asking.
For decades, Epstein has been credulously described as a big-time hedge-fund manager and a billionaire, even though there’s not a lot of evidence that he is either. There appears little chance the public is going to get definitive answers anytime soon. In a July 11 letter to the New York federal judge overseeing Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, Epstein’s attorney offered to provide “sealed disclosures” about Epstein’s finances to determine the size of the bond he would need to post to secure his release from jail pending trial. His brother, Mark, and a friend even offered to chip in if necessary.
Naturally, this air of mystery has especially piqued the interest of real-life, non-pretend hedge-funders. If this guy wasn’t playing their game — and they seem pretty sure he was not — what game was he playing? Intelligencer spoke to several prominent hedge-fund managers to get a read on what their practiced eyes are detecting in all the new information that is coming to light about Epstein in the wake of his indictment by federal prosecutors in New York. Most saw signs of something unsavory at the heart of his business model.
To begin with, there is much skepticism among the hedgies Intelligencer spoke with that Epstein made the money he has — and he appears to have a lot, given a lavish portfolio of homes and private aircraft — as a traditional money manager. A fund manager who knows well how that kind of fortune is acquired notes, “It’s hard to make a billion dollars quietly.” Epstein never made a peep in the financial world.
Epstein was also missing another key element of a typical thriving hedge fund: investors. Kass couldn’t find any beyond Epstein’s one well-publicized client, retail magnate Les Wexner — nor could other players in the hedge-fund world who undertook similar snooping. “I don’t know anyone who’s ever invested in him; he’s never talked about by any of the allocators,” says one billionaire hedge-fund manager, referring to firms that distribute large pools of money among various funds.
Epstein’s spotty professional history has also drawn a lot of attention in recent days, and Kass says it was one of the first things that raised his suspicions years ago. Now 66, Epstein didn’t come from money and never graduated from college, yet he landed a teaching job at a fancy private school (“unheard of,” says Kass) and rose through the ranks in the early 1980s at investment bank Bear Stearns. Within no time, Kass notes, Epstein was made a partner of the firm — and then was promptly and unceremoniously ousted. (Epstein reportedly left the firm following a minor securities violation.) Despite this “squishy work experience,” as Kass puts it, at some point after his quick exit, Epstein launched his own hedge fund, J. Epstein & Co., later renamed Financial Trust Co. Along the way, he began peddling the improbable narrative that he was so selective he would only work with billionaires.
Oddly, Epstein also claimed to do all the investing by himself while his 150 employees all worked in the back office — which Kass says reminds him of Madoff’s cover story. Though it now appears that Epstein had many fewer employees than he claimed, according to the New York Times:
Thomas Volscho, a sociology professor at the College of Staten Island who has been researching for a book on Mr. Epstein, recently obtained [a 2002 disclosure] form, which shows [Epstein’s] Financial Trust had $88 million in contributions from shareholders. In a court filing that year, Mr. Epstein said his firm had about 20 employees, far fewer than the 150 reported at the time by New York magazine.
Given this puzzling set of data points, the hedge-fund managers we spoke to leaned toward the theory that Epstein was running a blackmail scheme under the cover of a hedge fund.
How such a scheme could hypothetically work has been laid out in detail in a thread on the anonymous Twitter feed of @quantian1. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but in summary it is a rough blueprint for how a devious aspiring hedge-fund manager could blackmail rich people into investing with him without raising too many flags.
Kass and former hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson both emailed the thread around in investing circles and both quickly discovered that their colleagues found it quite convincing. “This actually sounds very plausible,” Tilson wrote in an email forwarding the thread to others.
“He somehow cajoled these guys to invest,” says Kass, speaking of hypothetical blackmailed investors who gave Epstein their money to invest, but managed to keep their names private.
The fact that Epstein’s fund is offshore in a tax haven — it is based in the U.S. Virgin Islands — and has a secret client list both add credence to the blackmail theory.
So what did Epstein do with the money he did have under his management, setting aside the questions of how he got it and how much he had? One hedge-fund manager speculates that Epstein could have just put the client money in an S&P 500 index fund, perhaps with a tax dodge thrown in. “I put in $100 million, I get the S&P 500 minus some fees,” he says, speaking of a theoretical client’s experience. Over the past few decades, the client would have “made a shitload” — as would Epstein. A structure like that wouldn’t have required trading desks or analysts or complex regulatory disclosures.
Kass has kicked around a similar idea: Maybe Epstein just put all the client money in U.S. treasuries — the simplest and safest investment there is, and the kind of thing one guy actually can do by himself.
If the blackmail theory sounds far-fetched, it’s worth keeping in mind that it was also floated by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. “Epstein … also got girls for Epstein’s friends and acquaintances. Epstein specifically told me that the reason for him doing this was so that they would ‘owe him,’ they would ‘be in his pocket,’ and he would ‘have something on them,’” she said in a court affidavit, according to the investigative series in the Miami Herald that brought the case back to the public’s attention late last year.
In the 2015 filing, Giuffre claimed that Epstein “debriefed her” after she was forced into sexual encounters so that he could possess “intimate and potentially embarrassing information” to blackmail friends into parking their money with him. She also said photographic and video evidence existed — an assertion that looms especially large now that federal investigators have found a trove of images in Epstein’s home safe.
How Jeffrey Epstein Made His Money: Four Wild Theories
Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. Photo: Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty Image
Billionaire is a word that’s often thrown around when discussing Jeffrey Epstein, but unlike some of his other common modifiers — convicted sex offender, pedophile — there’s scant proof as to his financial bona fides. The bulk of Epstein’s wealth is believed to come from his money-management firm for ten-figure investors, although his only known client is Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner, who reportedly ditched Epstein over a decade ago.
After sex-trafficking charges were handed down on Monday, executive-suite financiers discussed how absent Epstein was from the field: “He’s supposed to run an enormous FX [foreign-exchange] trading firm,” said Enrique Diaz-Alvarez, chief risk officer at Ebury. “But I never once heard of him or his firm or anyone who worked or traded with him.” And as Forbes wrote in a 2010 blog post with a very direct title — “Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Is Not a Billionaire” — his money-management firm based in the U.S. Virgin Islands “generates no public records, nor has his client list ever been released.”
As we wait for more information to emerge in the investigation’s coming months, speculation is pouring out on how Epstein made his wealth. To make up for the lack of public information on his revenue stream, people are turning to unverified theories on how Epstein maintained such a sterling financial reputation in addition to his millions. But first we’ll start with the knowns.
Epstein’s mysterious career
According to a 2002 profile in New York — the one with the Trump quote — Epstein dropped out of Cooper Union and NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences before finding a job teaching calculus and physics at the Dalton School in the mid-1970s. Epstein was hired at the prestigious Manhattan college-prep institution by the father of Attorney General William Barr, and his students included the son of Bear Stearns chairman Alan Greenberg. In 1976, Epstein joined Bear as a floor trader’s assistant, making partner in a mere four years. By 1981, he was out, setting up the J. Epstein & Co. money-management business the next year. New York described his business strategy in 2002:
He would take total control of the billion dollars, charge a flat fee, and assume power of attorney to do whatever he thought was necessary to advance his client’s financial cause. And he remained true to the $1 billion entry fee. According to people who know him, if you were worth $700 million and felt the need for the services of Epstein and Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you from Epstein.
In Vicky Ward’s recent process piece on her reporting of an Epstein profile for Vanity Fair in 2003, she lays out some of her thoughts on the matter of a possible benefactor. In addition to a claim from a Ponzi schemer that Epstein was kicked out of Bear Stearns in 1981 for “getting into trouble,” Ward suggests that Wexner may have helped bankroll the financier. Ward writes: “While Epstein’s friends speculated that retailer Les Wexner was the real source of Epstein’s wealth, Wexner (who called him ‘my friend Jeffrey’) never commented on this, though he did send me an email praising Epstein’s ‘ability to see patterns in politics and financial markets.’”
No one knows how much he’s worth
According to his lawyers, around the time of his notorious plea deal in Florida in 2008, Epstein’s net worth was over nine figures. The figure was “a bone of contention with Epstein’s lawyers,” Spencer Kuvin, an attorney representing three of Epstein’s alleged victims, told the Palm Beach Post in 2008. “In the litigation itself we were never able to get him to produce verified financial information. The ‘nine figures’ came by negotiation. It kept going up and up and up. They started at zero — they wouldn’t tell us at all.”
As Bloomberg states, “Today, so little is known about Epstein’s current business or clients that the only things that can be valued with any certainty are his properties.” According to a document submitted in advance of Epstein’s bail hearing, his Manhattan townhouse is estimated to be worth around $77 million. Then there are the properties in New Mexico, Paris, the U.S. Virgin Islands, his private jet, a fleet of 15 cars, and a Palm Beach compound estimated at $12 million.
But even the real-estate holdings have an air of mystery to them. Epstein purchased, or received, the Manhattan townhouse from Wexner around 1998. But there were no property records on the mansion’s transfer until 2011, when the company Wexner used to buy the place transferred it to an Epstein-owned company for $0. Epstein signed the document for both sides.
Financial Conspiracy Theory #1: Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme has been floated as a possible source of Epstein’s wealth since as early as 2009, when Business Insider noted that multiple red flags pointed to a possible Madoff-like fraud. The secrecy of his client list; the “administrative” nature of all 150 of his employees in 2002; the absolute control over investors’ money, and the $1 billion basement investment required — all signs could point to Ponzi, although there’s no concrete evidence. In the story, finance writer John Carney raised a vital question, considering Epstein’s (limited) time in jail during the 2008 financial crisis: “How could Epstein’s one-man show not fall apart while he was in jail during one of the most volatile years in history?”
In addition, one of his early employers in finance, Steve Hoffenberg, was convicted of running one of the largest pre-Madoff Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. According to journalist Vicky Ward, Hoffenberg brought on Epstein in 1981 after he left Bear Stearns. “He has a way of getting under your skin,” he told Ward. Hoffenberg paid Epstein $25,000 per month for his work as a consultant for Towers Financial, though Epstein had left well before Hoffenberg pleaded guilty in 1994 to defrauding investors to the tune of $450 million. For years, it appeared Epstein had no exposure in the Towers Financial case, until 2018, when shareholders filed a putative class action suit against him for his alleged role in the Ponzi scheme. In a separate New York state case in 2018, Hoffenberg reportedly detailed Epstein’s alleged involvement in the scam.
Theory #2: Blackmail
As the Intercept D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim noted, a piece of evidence detailed in the SDNY’s detention memo could hold a great deal of blackmail potential:
CD's in Epstein's safe labeled: "Young [Name] + [Name]"
That looks an awful lot like they found the blackmail tapes https://t.co/4tR9Mya7lL
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) July 8, 2019
And in a 2015 court filing, alleged Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre claims that U.S. authorities were in possession of footage of her having sex with members of Epstein’s elite friend group. “Based on my knowledge of Epstein and his organization, as well as discussions with the FBI, it is my belief that federal prosecutors likely possess videotapes and photographic images of me as an underage girl having sex with Epstein and some of his powerful friends,” she said. Giuffre claimed that Epstein “debriefed her” after she was forced into sexual encounters so that he could possess “intimate and potentially embarrassing information” to blackmail friends into parking their money with him.
Theory #3: Epstein “Belonged to Intelligence”
One of the more mysterious quotes of this whole conspiracy-adjacent mess comes from Alexander Acosta, the current Labor secretary, who arranged for Epstein to get off with just a wrist-slap in 2007, when he was a U.S. attorney. According to Vicky Ward, when Acosta was being interviewed for the Labor secretary job, he was asked if his involvement in the Epstein case would be a problem during his confirmation hearings.
Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers …
Whether that’s the American intelligence community, the greater point-one-percent brain trust, or just a garbage excuse, the answer was good enough for the Trump administration to go forward with Acosta’s nomination.
Theory #4: Offshore Tax Schemes / Money Laundering
Because Epstein’s wealth is held offshore and is shrouded in mystery, some speculate that he may have made his money in tax schemes or money laundering. According to a well-developed, if factually void, pan-conspiracist take from finance Twitter’s Quantian, Epstein could have blackmailed his social circle into investing with him, then dumped the cash in an offshore account to avoid taxes. Or, similar to the Ponzi scheme conspiracy — and, again, without basis in fact — there is so little paperwork on the funds that the whole thing could just be a rig for money laundering.
What could the coming investigation reveal?
Because so little is known about Epstein’s wealth and his ambiguous-to-the-point-of-suspicious Financial Trust Company, pretty much any revelation would help shed light on the financial black hole. But because the Southern District of New York’s Public Corruption Unit is handling the case, the likelihood of a financial or tax-related charge is much higher than if another arm of the mother court were in charge. Gene Rossi, a trial analyst for Law & Crime, suggested that the PCU could provide more flexibility on charges, including money laundering, corruption, or tax-related crimes: “The sky’s the limit.”
Stopping Elon Musk's money mirage
By Mona Salama
Declaring the company's first quarterly profit in over two years as a "historic quarter," Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised that the future of Tesla will be brighter, expecting the fourth quarter and "all quarters going forward" to be profitable. But what reason do taxpayers and lawmakers have to believe him?
Tesla has had only three profitable quarters in the 15 years since its creation. The third-quarter results reported that Tesla made a $312-million profit due to a surge in production and sales of the Tesla Model 3 sedan. The earnings were thanks in part to the company's cost-cutting, spending less on future models, and delaying of payments to suppliers.
Despite the strong recent showing, doubts still linger over whether Tesla can consistently make a profit and meet its production targets. Much of the uncertainty comes because of statements coming from Musk himself, who recently told Axios that his company had been "within single digit weeks" of death. If the financial books at Tesla are really that bad, prospective Tesla buyers, investors, and government funders don't have much to cheer about, especially since the federal electric vehicle tax is slated to get cut in half by Jan. 1.
Musk has a history of embellishing the truth and making things up in a seeming attempt to artificially gain the confidence prospective investors. According to the Wall Street Journal, FBI agents recently contacted former Tesla employees to determine whether Musk willfully attempted to defraud investors for personal gain. Further, he prompted an SEC investigation by falsely claiming on Twitter that he had the "funding secured" to take his company private at $420 a share. They settled their lawsuit under the agreement that he step down as chairman of Tesla for three years and pay a total of $40 million in fines.
The criminal securities fraud investigation intensified when the Justice Department requested documents from Tesla focusing on Tesla's Model 3 production issues dating back to 2017. Musk in February 2017 laid out an aggressive Model 3 production plan to produce 5,000 vehicles a week. By the end of 2017, Tesla produced a total of only 2,700 Model 3s.
This culture of debt-taking and book-rigging appears to be a pattern across Musk's spread of businesses. Just this month, SpaceX, Musk's rocket company, sought to borrow a $750-million leveraged loan led by Bank of America Corp. However, SpaceX slashed the requested funds to $250 million after the bank balked at SpaceX's desire for "wide latitude to raise additional debt in the future."
The reason for this ask is obvious: SpaceX appears to be as cash-strapped as, if not worse off, then Tesla. Last month, Bloomberg found that SpaceX hid key details about its financial situation, "[including] amounts that customers had prepaid and [excluding] costs related to non-core research and development" in its earnings report to give off the illusion of profitability to investors. Corroborating evidence from the Wall Street Journal in 2017 shows SpaceX turning a small fraction of its revenue into operating profit. This should be alarming to investors, for investing in any of Musk companies or Musk himself should be seen as a high risk, with the reward of total failure.
One surprising quarter of supposed positive earnings after seven straight losses won't fool the American people. It shouldn't fool Washington, either. Musk has a long rap sheet of inflating his numbers and to-do lists to hide his problems, misleading investors and omitting information that affects his company's market value. This rampant dishonesty distorts the economy and interferes with the private decisions of government leaders and the citizenry at large. It can't be tolerated – not anymore. With the DOJ and FBI finally investigating the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, there finally appears to be a chance that he will, through a criminal case, be slapped with more than a fine.
It is time to stop Musk before more damage is done and more money is wasted.
Mona Salama is a political analyst, fashion influencer, and freelance author.
GOOGLE'S MASS PUBLIC MANIPULATION PROGRAM IS BASED ON HOFFER
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AN ORGANIZED CRIME RICO LAW VIOLATION MATTER INVOLVING SILICON VALLEY OLIGARCHS AND THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF AND OTHER POLITICIANS THEY BRIBED
Every aspect of these assertions can be, or already has been, proven in FBI investigations, GAO investigations, Grand Jury hearings, civil jury trials, Congressional investigations and major investigative journalism broadcast news reports.
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY VEHICLE MANUFACTURING LOAN
AND LOAN GUARANTEE SLUSH-FUND CORRUPTION
The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program is a $25 billion direct public finance program funded by Congress in fall 2008 under the guise of "providing debt capital to the U.S. automotive industry for the purpose of funding projects that help vehicles manufactured in the U.S. meet higher mileage requirements and lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil. " The PR department for the U.S. Department of Energy spends nearly a million dollars per year seeking to manipulate news and social media to try to pitch their message that the program was a "success". In fact, it has been, and remains today, one of the most criminally corrupt failures in American history.. It was only a "success" as one of the biggest political slush-funds ever created!
Victims had global character assassination and propaganda-media defamation reprisal attacks operated against them by White House staff and their political financiers: Elon Musk, Larry Page, Steve Jurvetson, Eric Schmidt, Steve Westly, John Doerr, et al. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
Victims were attacked because 1.) they helped law enforcement investigate the attackers, 2.) They competed with the attackers that attacker's products and the Silicon Valley Cartel attackers chose to "cheat rather than compete". Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
The attackers spent over $30M, part of that using taxpayer resources, attacking the victims as proven in the financial transaction records from Google, Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Media Matters, Fusion GPS, et al. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
Victims had been previously funded by the U.S. Government and had a multi-decade relationship with the highest offices of the Government, which provided them with deep knowledge of the crimes that were committed. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
The U.S. Department of Energy is used as a political slush fund to pay back campaign finance millionaires while blockading the competitors of those millionaires from reaching the market or receiving funding. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
The only entities who participated in the global character assassination and propaganda-media defamation reprisal attacks were those entities owned and controlled by the attackers. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
Through corrupt rare-earth mining scams and control of federal contracts and grants, attackers had planned to acquire at least one trillion dollars in unjust gains and illegal profiteering. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
This amount of money they sought, and the "Mafia-like" structure they adopted, caused the suspects to engage in the most extreme crimes, including murder and "Deep State" coup attempts. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
A significant number of person's who were in conflict with the attackers have died in suspicious manners. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
The suspects have hired the largest numbers of lobbyists and corporate manipulation lawyers in U.S. history in order to manipulate political decisions. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
The suspects have spent more money on political bribes than any group of men has spent in the last century. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
The suspects placed top federal law enforcement and agency bosses (ie: Michelle Lee, Steven Chu, Kamala Harris, James Comey, et al) from their own Cartel, into top government positions, with orders to run cover and protection schemes for them. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
California State officials including the Governor, Controller, The Senators, Secretary of State and regional officials participated in these crimes and pocketed the initial profits from these crimes in covert investment banking. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
Tesla Motors, Google, Netflix, Facebook, Linkedin, Amazon and other tech Cartel members operate with a common goal of psychological mass ideology manipulation and monopolistic profiteering based on government sponsored anti-trust violations and server control exclusivity. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
The attempted cover-ups of these crimes continues to this day. Jury and FBI-compliant evidence proves this as fact.
A case study in pay-to-play cronyism
By Dan Epstein (Counsel to The White House)
News flash: Government subsidies and special-interest favors go hand in hand.
The latest example comes from a federal green-energy loan program. Last month, the DC District Court ruled that Cause of Action, where I am executive director, can proceed with a lawsuit against the Department of Energy. We’re suing the federal government for the blatant political favoritism in its $25 billion “Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program.”
In principle, this taxpayer-funded program was supposed to support the manufacture of energy-efficient cars. In practice, it rewarded a select few well-connected companies.
Since the program was created in 2008, numerous businesses have applied for its taxpayer-backed financial support. Yet only a small number were approved. Among the lucky few were two electric car manufacturers: Teslaand Fisker.
Both companies’ political connections run deep, especially Tesla’s. The company’s founder, Elon Musk, was a max donor for President Obama. One of its board members, Steven Westly, was appointed to a Department of Energy advisory board. And another Obama bundler, Tesla investor and adviser Steven Spinner, secured employment in the department’s Loan Program Office—the very office that gave the company a taxpayer-backed loan.
Fisker also has friends in high places. The company, which has since gone bankrupt, was backed by a San Francisco venture capital firm whose senior partners donated millions to the 2008 Obama campaign and other Democrat causes. One partner, John Doerr, parlayed his support into a seat on the President’s Council of Jobs and Competitiveness.
Such connections can allow a company to exert political pressure to enrich itself. Unsurprisingly, Department of Energy emails show that such pressure was rampant in its loan programs.
There’s no shortage of examples. The department’s leaders—including then-Secretary of Energy Steven Chu—repeatedly promised to deliver results to politicians like Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). One emails reads, “DOE has made a political commitment” to approve a company’s loan. Another says the “pressure is on rea lheavy” from none other than Vice President Joe Biden. And still another shows an employee asking, “what’s another billion anyhow?”
Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration gave Tesla and Fisker preferential treatment, and then some.
The Department of Energy revised its review process in order finish the companies’ applications faster. The government gave them extraordinary access to its staff and facilities—even to the point of having government employees personally walk them through the loan application and approval process.The department ignored its own lending rules in order to approve the companies’ loans. And it renegotiated the terms of some loans after the companies could not keep their original commitments or were experiencing financial difficulties. Tellingly, Fisker has since gone out of business, despite receiving over a billion dollars in loans through this federal program.
Now contrast this preferential treatment with what happened to XP Vehicles and Limnia, neither of which have the same political connections. (My organization is suing the Department of Energy on their behalf). The two companies partnered to manufacture an energy-efficient sport utility vehicle that would have competed with Tesla and Fisker’s cars. They applied for loans in 2008 and 2009 under the same loan program.
The department refused them both—and it used bogus reasons to do so.
For starters, the department made claims that were laughably false. To take one example: It rejected XPV’s application because its vehicle was powered by hydrogen. It was an electric SUV. It also raised objections that it didn’t raise with other companies whose applications were approved. For instance: The bureaucracy criticized the proposed all-electric vehicle for not using a specific type of gasoline. Yet Tesla and Fisker received the loans despite producing similar all-electric cars.
In light of these obvious problems and hypocrisy, both companies presented the Department of Energy with detailed rebuttals. Yet the government failed to respond. To this day, both XPV and Limnia are awaiting a satisfactory reply. In the meantime, XPV has gone out of business, unable to compete against its politically connected—and subsidized—rivals.
This casts the Department of Energy’s loan program in a new light. It was sold to the American public as a means of promoting energy-efficient vehicles. Instead, it was used to benefit a select few well-connected companies. It was a blatant crony handout, paid for by the U.S.taxpayer.
Sadly, similar examples are widespread in Washington. That’s no surprise considering the feds spend roughly $100 billion a year in taxpayer-funded handouts to businesses. This breeds the sort of government-business collusion Americans think is rampant in Washington. In fact, over two-thirds of likely voters think the federal government helps businesses that hire the most lobbyists, shake the right hands, and pad the right pockets. They’re right.
This points to a simple conclusion: Politicians and bureaucrats shouldn’t use the public’s money to pad private companies’ bottom lines. As the Department of Energy’s green-vehicle loan program shows, the capacity for corruption is immense—and inevitable.
Investigator’s Statement:
Note: We have absolute and indisputable intelligence agency, FBI-verifiable and forensic expert proof of all of these assertions.
The program was used by the Obama Administration to provide crony payola kick-backs to financiers and friends of the Obama Administration and to attack the competitors of the Silicon Valley financiers of the Obama Administration.
As of 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy claims that they "overhauled" and "re-did" the ATVM program and it's sister program: the Loan Guarantee Program. In fact, that is false.
When you peel back the onion-skin of corruption around the covert stock market and investment bank holdings of Eric Schmidt, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Elon Musk, etc.; you find that they are invested in something called "rare-earth mining". Rare earth mines are generally in third world nations and use child slave labor. These toxic corrupt operations are responsible for more murders, beatings, rapes and genocides (over control of these "blood minerals") than anything on Earth. These minerals are used in the electric cars, cell phones and solar panels that Silicon Valley has attempted to control. So, you see, it isn't about "saving the environment"; it is about greed, bribes and corruption on an epic scale.
The program continues today as a political slush-fund and it is as corrupt as ever. It has NOT been "cleaned-up"! It is STILL a cesspool of corruption! Obama hold-overs and corrupt insiders, with personal conflict-of-interest stock and revolving door career deals, still control the funds and steer the monies exclusively to their friends.
The program has not funded any company who is not a campaign-finance friend of the Obama Administration. The DOE program attacked, lied to, stalled, delayed, gate-keeper blocked and harmed any Applicants who competed with Tesla, Fisker and the Obama financiers. Through the Silicon Valley control of the facade group: "The National Venture Capital Association", DOE ensured that NO car company or solar company in America could get funded, by any private means, without Silicon Valley oligarch approval. The DOE is a corrupt organization operated by corrupt insiders for corrupt purposes!
DOE's two main manipulation tricks are: 1.) STONE-WALLING - Where DOE staff throw outsider Applicant's filings in a box and forget about them for many years in a Lois-Lerner'd review process that takes any commercial bank only 2 weeks to complete. DOE spends years doing hyperbolic nothings in order to delay campaign financiers competitors, and 2.) INTERPRETIVE LYING - Where DOE staff make up things that Applicant's never said and twist the Applicant's words into anything BUT what the Applicant's intended, in order to manipulate non-favored Applicant's into negative interpretations. DOE staff never even called outsider Applicant's for clarity discussions of any key data. They did not want to hear the truth, they couldn't handle the truth! They only wanted their crony's to win the funding!
Every applicant who applied, who was not a crony insider, hard-wired, Obama bagman was DEFRAUDED, LIED TO, STONE-WALLED and used as a smoke-screen to hide the true nature of the crony payola scheme operated by Secretary of Energy bosses Chu, Moniz and Perry. They are owed money to pay for their damages from tort-based interference in their businesses and other fraud-related DOE-operated causes-of-action.
Silicon Valley oligarchs hired "Lobbyists" (who are political operatives who offer bribes to politicians without ever using the word "bribe") to take-over the program. Silicon Valley insider McKinsey staffed the DOE department while working for the Silicon Valley oligarchs. In a typical corruption example: Steve Spinner worked at DOE handing out money to Solyndra which his wife Alison Spinner worked at as Solyndra's lawyer, while the DNC mailer referred to each of them as the "top West Coast fund-raisers for the DNC".
Originally Obama's "car Czar" Steven Rattner (indicted for stock market securities fraud), working from the West Wing of the White House, had offered a portion of the money to Detroit Auto Unions if the Detroit Unions ordered all of their members to vote for Obama in exchange for bail-outs. Obama insiders David Plouffe (indicted for payoffs to Rahm Emanual), David Axelrod, and Robert Gibbs extended the deal to the Silicon Valley oligarchs in exchange for global search engine manipulation favoring Obama.
Charges against the Department of Energy supported by the factual evidence:
- DOE officials told Applicant's they had to pay tens of thousands of dollars in order to apply for the LGP monies but with-held responses until after the dead-line had passed in order to cut non-Obama financiers out of the running.
- Google provided the staffing for the agencies involved, the media manipulation for the politicians involved, and was the beneficiary for some of the funds in a 4-way conflict of interest in which Google staffed the largest contingent of Obama White House staff.
- Steven Chu handed massive amounts of DOE cash to Russian billionaires from Ener1, Severstal and other Russian connections even though they were foreign billionaires who had no need of U.S. taxpayer subsidies. If one wants to look at dirty Russian collusion, they need look no further than Steven Chu, the architect of the failed Iran Nuclear deal and corrupt Uranium One deal. Steven Chu and Rahm Emanual ordered DOE's Sandia Livermore Labs and Argonne Labs (who they were both connected to) to manipulate Applicant data in order to only favor campaign financiers companies.
- DOE abuses of process defrauded non-insider Applicants out of billions of dollars of their savings and investor monies yet DOE never offered those that it harmed and recompense.
- DOE officials owned stock market stock and revolving door job promises in the very companies that they were supposed to be conducting "due diligence" on.
- Tesla Motors and SpaceX were staged as campaign finance dark money conduits to transfer taxpayer cash from government treasuries to private parties and then into campaign funds without transparent public disclosure.
- The Obama Administration promised an exclusive on Afghanistan mining deals to Frank Guistra and the Silicon Valley oligarchs for lithium, indium, cobalt and rare-earth metals mining after USAID pitched ( http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/TBaffwKixYI/AAAAAAAAH74/Wee8LTQfo3k/s1600/afghanminerals.jpg ) manipulated reports from McKinsey Consulting saying that "Afghanistan was the Saudi Arabia of lithium and had trillions of dollars of lithium" to dig up. It turned out to be a lie to get oligarchs to support Obama's Afghan invasion. ( http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3063/pdf-page.jpg ) DOE helped sell this lie because the Russians had already scoured Afghanistan and found it to be fairly worthless as a mining potential. Elon Musk bought into this for his battery monopoly. This is why Steven Chu gave so much money to Russians at Ener1 and Severstal. DOE staff were fully aware of this. ( http://www.mining.com/1-trillion-motherlode-of-lithium-and-gold-discovered-in-afghanistan/ )
- Google, a Tesla investor and bromance buddy with Elon Musk, hired more lobbyists for DOE influencing than anybody had ever hired before in U.S. history. Google hides all negative news stories about Musk and Tesla and only shows fake news hype about Musk, Tesla and SpaceX because Larry Page and Elon Musk share an apartment and financial programs.
- The DOE ATVM and LGP programs are based on arbitrary metrics which are not even followed by DOE evaluation staff. There is a secret black-list in operation to keep companies who are competitors to Obama's financiers from ever getting funded. Even though many Applicant's beat every "winner" in Obama's DOE handouts, they were excluded, denied and discriminated against simply for competing with Obama's Silicon Valley oligarchs.
- Steven Chu, after getting thrown out of office, went to work for the very people he was supposed to have been conducting due diligence on. Chu is considered to be one of the most criminally corrupt public officials ever in charge of an agency aside from his peer, who also made corruption history: Eric Holder, who helped Comey cover-up the crimes.
- The DOE ATVM and LGP programs resulted in: THE LARGEST DISTRIBUTION OF TAXPAYER CASH TO THE MOST COMPANIES THAT THEN WENT IMMEDIATELY WENT BANKRUPT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA! Not only has the DOE ATVM and LG program been NOT A SUCCESS, they have been a disaster!
- Goldman Sachs and Deloitte engineered INTENTIONAL bankruptcies so that their Silicon Valley oligarch clients could claim windfall tax write-offs which the U.S. Treasury said resulted in "unjust gains" for those oligarchs. In other words, the tech oligarch billionaires took U.S. taxpayer subsidies, which they did not need, and then bankrupted their own companies so that they could reap profits in tax write-offs. On top of this Goldman Sachs skimmed "fees" off-the-top for arranging these deals, at taxpayer expense, and then ALSO profited from the "bumps" to the stock market valuations in pump-and-dump crimes. TO BE CLEAR: MANY OF THESE BANKRUPTCIES WERE TAX SKIMS CREATED TO FAIL! After realizing this, Applicants and Congressional insiders forced ALL of the kick-back funded companies into bankruptcy as payback for the corruption and abuse of their resources. Said one Senator: "If they want bankruptcies, we will give them bankruptcies..."
- Lachlan Seward, one of the DOE money laundering insiders, threatened Applicant's that if they "made trouble" they "would never be funded by DOE as long as they lived".
- When Tesla Motors got their DOE money approved they had NO DESIGN AND WERE PLANNING TO BUILD A FACTORY. Both of which were against the so-called Section 136 Rules. Tesla used the DOE money to hire engineers to design the car from scratch as proven by the engineers that were hired. Tesla was running all over the country trying to stage a real estate scam with Dianne Feinstein's Husband's company CBRE. Tesla even got sued for these real estate scams. DOE stated that the "rules" said you already had to have a factory and a design, which the other applicants had. So, against the "rules" Tesla got the money and figured out the car LATER and did not use a pre-existing factory until they were later forced to follow the rules.
- For the same kind of commercial loans, Bank of America and Wells Fargo take 4 weeks to approve loans this large. DOE staff were either too stupid to review loans in less than 3 years or were intentionally stone-walling every applicant who was not an Obama crony.
- As shown by this letter: https://news.wttw.com/sites/default/files/Letter%20from%20Bright%20Automotive%20to%20US%20Dept%20of%20Energy.pdf ...and hundreds of Congressional reports, DOE staff proved themselves to be liars and scumbag political manipulators at every turn.
- The public has not seen the entire FBI and SEC investigation records on the FBI raid and investigation of Solyndra because the records point straight back to the White House Oval Office!
- A Congressional report on the ATVM and LG programs exposed layers and layers of crony payola.
- The only Judges who got to rule on the cases were "Obama Judges" appointed by or beholden to the Obama Administration.
- A CBS News 60 Minutes segment called: "The Cleantech Crash" revealed that many of the assets of the ATVM and LGP disasters had been funded by the taxpayers and then sold to China in deals that benefited Diane Feinstein's family and financiers. Later Dianne Feinstein was found to have Chinese spies and insiders on her staff. The Feinstein family owned the stock, staffing services, construction company and services companies at Tesla and Solyndra, which Feinstein got the federal cash for. Her staff then went to work at Tesla and Solyndra.
- Although felony-class crimes occurred, no DOE officials have ever been charged with crimes..although multiple FBI officials have been charged with covering up those crimes.
- Vice President Al Gore, John Doerr and Vinod Khosla have had all of their finances tracked and connected together through covert routes that reveal insider stock trading and government policy manipulation, in this case, for their own personal profiteering.
- Attorney General William Barr has been formally asked, by Applicants, to appoint a federal Special Counsel to investigate this matter.
- The Dark Money FEC campaign finance limits were exceeded by the Silicon Valley oligarchs by many magnitudes in this novel deployment of quid-pro-quo and search engine rigging services for political favors and funding.
- There has not been a single person involved in "green" DOE funding programs who cared anything about "green energy". The use of the term "green" was a psychological ploy to seek to pacify the public with a crunchy granola positive vibe while stealing taxpayer money in plain sight.
- The Obama White House produced a "white list" of friends companies who could get funded and a "black list" of their competitors who could never be funded because Silicon Valley financiers said so. These lists were created from input from John Doerr, Steve Westly and Doerr's business partner: Al Gore. Even though most Applicant's beat the metrics, features and national security issues of favored Obama Applicant's, no outsiders and no non-campaign financiers would ever be approved.
- The very first Applicant for the ATVM fund was XP Vehicles, which was solicited to apply by DOE and Barbara Boxer's office. The 1.) Section 136 law, 2.) DOE videos of meetings and 3.) DOE documents clearly state that Applicant's would be reviewed on a "first-come, first served" basis per the federal law. When XP, which was black-listed by the White House because it competed with Obama financiers Tesla and Fisker, moved far ahead in the Applicant list, DOE illegally changed the rules so that "first come - first served" was ignored and only favored insiders were reviewed. XP, Brammo, EcoMotors, Elio, etc. were all "bottom drawered". Even though XP hand delivered, to DOE and Congress, more customer order proofs than ALL other Applicant's combined, DOE insiders, who held stock in competing companies, placed XP on a permanent black-list.
- As of December 28, 2008 DOE staff already decided who would "win" the money, and who would not, because the entire program had been hard-wired, via lobbyists and insiders, to only go to the "white list" applicants. Nobody who was not on the original "white list" could ever get DOE funding. It only takes one "insider" at DOE, from the Obama Administration (many are still there) to kill any application, no matter how much better that proposal is compared to every other applicant.
- U.S. Department of Energy and White House officials hired Nick Denton's sleaze-ball tabloid empire comprised of Jalopnik, Gawker Media and Gizmodo Media to run character assassination and defamation campaigns, in partnership with the DNC's Google, to attack any person who exposed the corruption scam at DOE.
- The GAO wrote multiple federal reports confirming that DOE was running one of the most poorly administrated non-transparent operations ever and that DOE staff were not even following the Section 136 law.
- White House and DOE staff hired Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik defamation bloggers to attack those who exposed the plot. Patrick George At Jalopnik attacks outsiders under contract with Elon Musk and DNC. Silicon Valley campaign finance oligarchs hire him to run hatchet jobs on innocent outsiders and then Gawker-Gizmodo-Jalopnik uses their financial partnership with the DNC's Google to push the character assassination articles to the top of Google web products and searches. Patrick George, Adrian Covert, John Hermann and Nick Cook are the sexually degenerate cabin boys that report to boy-loving sleaze-tabloid oligarch Nick Denton. They created the Fake News crisis in the media by flooding the internet with defamation posts and reprisal hatchet job articles designed to damage political enemies of the Socialists. They coordinate a large number of the character assassination efforts at Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, CNN, New York Times and other propaganda outlets.
- DOE staff never even communicated with Applicant's, who were not Obama insiders; yet Tesla, Fisker and other Obama insiders got hundreds of phone calls, meetings and careful help to hand-hold them through the process to make certain that they got their payola while the outsiders only got blockades, Lois Lerner "missing hard drives" and stone-walls.
- The DEFRAUDED staff and employees of Bright, XP, Limnia, ZAP, Brammo, and the other Applicant's, have NEVER gotten a fair court hearing, Congressional or IG hearing that was not compromised by an Obama Judge or stock-owning insider. They are owed money for their damages from the deeply corrupt DOE programs!
- The Obama Administration officials who carefully manipulate the DOE and federal process for crony favorites include: Steven Chu, Kathy Zoi, Carol Battershal, Steve Westly, Steven Spinner, John Podesta, Jonathan Silver, Danial Cohen, et al; with cover-up support from James Comey, Eric Holder, Steve Rattner, et al...
- Over a thousand other criminal and ethics violation charges are charged against DOE and its associates yet no actual interdictions have taken place in California or federal government actions because the "Deep State" cover-ups are so extensive. The raw criminality of the U.S. Department of Energy in these matters is verified, proven and audacious...
AG Barr Finds White House Power Was Used By Obama Administration To Spy On American Citizens And Run Dirty Tricks Reprisal Operations
In his first pair of interviews since being sworn in, Attorney General Barr told Fox News and WSJ that he was pursuing the investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe - an investigation he has tasked
John Durham, the US Attorney from Connecticut, with leading - because Americans need to know whether the government "put a thumb on the scale" to try and undermine President Trump both during the campaign and during the first two years of his term, just like "we need to ensure that foreign actors don't influence the outcome of our elections."
Separately, he told WSJ that "government power was used to spy on American citizens...I can't imagine any world where we wouldn't take a look and make sure that was done properly."
Barr has doubled-down on using the term 'spying', which has angered Democrats, after first using it during Senate committee testimony from April 10, where he uttered the now-infamous phrase "I think spying did occur."
The AG has declined to elaborate on what prompted these concerns, though he has said he'd be interested to see the underlying intelligence that sparked the FBI decision, in the summer of 2016, to open a counterintelligence investigation. At this point, Durham's review isn't a criminal investigation, and Barr hasn't offered a timetable for when the investigation might be completed. Ultimately, the probe could lead to changing FBI protocols involving investigations into political campaigns.
Appearing to respond to Barr's interviews, President Trump declared that his campaign was "conclusively" spied on.
My Campaign for President was conclusively spied on. Nothing like this has ever happened in American Politics. A really bad situation. TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!
As far as we know, the FBI first started investigating the campaign after an Australian ambassador told his superiors that George Papadopoulos had appeared to know about Russian plans to release 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton. The FBI later sent an informant, Stefan Halper, and a woman who identified herself as a research assistant, to meet with Papadopoulos and push him to say whether Russia was helping the Trump campaign.
The Corrupt Greentech VC Influence Over Washington
Katie Fehrenbacher
- How Silicon Valley Oligarchs Took Over The Obama Administration
There’ve been a couple articles in the past few weeks pointing to President Obama as the “clean tech investor in chief” and the presidential VC with bets on clean energy. The real trend is that venture capitalists focusing on greentech seem to have had an unprecedented influence on U.S. federal policy and allocations of the stimulus package.
When I attended the Department of Energy’s (DOE) first ARPA-E conference (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) earlier this year in Washington D.C., I was struck by how many venture capitalists were there. I shared a cab back to the airport with some familiar Silicon Valley faces, and was told if your firm didn’t have a dedicated person in Washington — in some circles they call them lobbyists — maneuvering grant and loan programs, you weren’t able to be competitive.
Just look at the figures from the stimulus package (which I am fully in support of): somewhere between $50 billion and $80 billion into clean power and energy efficiency initiatives (depending on how you slice it). The Obama administration has gone out of its way to seek the advice of green-leaning venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in the Valley on how to spend that colossal amount and what programs would be the most affective.
Kleiner Perkins managing partner John Doerr is on President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and was able to convince Vice President Al Gore to join Kleiner, in addition to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Kleiner’s investments have had some successful government bids, most notably the $529 million loan to Kleiner portfolio company Fisker Automotive out of the DOE’s highly competitive Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing, or ATVM, program. Fisker plans to use the loan to build its factory and launch its electric vehicle in 2011.
If you remember, another winner of the $25 billion ATVM program was Tesla Motors (s TLSA), which, as most of us know, was backed by venture capitalists from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Technology Partners, and Vantage Point among others.
I attended Khosla Venture’s LP meeting earlier this year where the firm announced that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair would be joining the firm as Senior Advisor. Several of my journalism peers were comparing the political influence Blair could wield to what Kleiner was doing with Gore.
The Obama administration appointed former venture capitalist Jonathan Silver as its loan chief to lead both the DOE’s loan guarantee and ATVM loan programs. About a third of the DOE’s loan guarantee commitments went to venture-backed startups, including thin film solar maker Solyndra and solar thermal company BrightSource.
I wondered earlier this year if the loan guarantee for Solyndra wasn’t a mistake, given the company has one of the highest manufacturing costs out of its competitors. The company withdrew its IPO plans, citing poor market conditions. The Government Accountability Office also found that the loan guarantee process treated some companies unfairly in their bids and risked “excluding some potential applicants unnecessarily.”
There’s nothing inherently wrong with venture-backed companies getting government support, and the energy sector needs even more federal funding to create innovation. I support Doerr and Bill Gates’ calls for boosting federal government investing to $16 billion per year into energy innovation. All I’m saying is that this level of influence should be watched.
You have probably seen the many issues with Elon Musk And Tesla Motors including:
"His corrupt cobalt mines promote genocide in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising"
"His corrupt cobalt mines promote mass rape in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising"
"His corrupt cobalt mines promote child slave labor in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising"
"His is not faithful to his girlfriends"
"The workers that build his batteries die or sicken from toxic poisoning"
"Tesla bribes U.S. Senators with cash and stock in order to get free taxpayer funds"
"He is addicted to drugs and booze"
"He has sociopath mental issues"
"He is a narcissist"
"Tesla has had more recalls for safety defects, per volume, than any other car maker. Musk refuses to allow the use of the word RECALL but the facts are the facts."
"It is so easy to hack any Tesla and crash it, break into it or give it bad braking orders that it is criminally negligent to allow Tesla's on the street. Even the Chinese have hacked Tesla's from the other side of the world!"
"His partner: Steve Jurvetson, has been charged with sex and corruption issues"
"He arranged government kick-backs with the White House"
"He is the world's biggest government mooch"
"He is a member of the Palo Alto Mafia"
"Google (who is a major Tesla investor) hides all negative Musk/Tesla news and hypes TSLA stock in order to profiteer with TSLA stock. This is a violation of federal SEC laws"
"More drivers have been caught driving drunk, in Tesla's, than any other car Per Capita produced"
"Larry Page is Musk's bromance buddy and he uses Google to cover-up Musk's scandals"
"His so-called 'foundation" is just a payola and tax evasion scam for his family"
"His batteries are the most dangerous use of lithium ion storage ever conceived"
"His partner: Panasonic has been charged with multiple corruption, dumping, price rigging and manipulation crimes around the globe"
"Almost all of the internet 'Tesla Fanboys' are Russian troll farms and hired bloggers that Musk pays vast amounts of money to in order to hype up a fake image for him"
"His SpaceX is nothing more than a domestic spy satellite company"
"Musk's brain chip company tortures small animals in bad science experiments"
"His father screwed his daughter and got her pregnant"
"Dianne Feinstein and her family own Musk interests"
"You can't put out the fires when his batteries explode"
"The fumes from his thermal battery vapors give you cancer, lung and brain damage"
"Elon Musk only takes over other people's ideas. He took over Tesla and ran it into the ground, he destroyed SolarCity with his brothers self-dealing scam, his brain cap company just cuts open the heads of helpless animals and all SpaceX does, now that Musk took it over, is launch satellites that spy on civilians and manipulate media..."
etc......
You may have run across Musk’s self promoting, narcissistic, multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype but here is the other side of the coin. We know these facts from personal interaction with Musk, his companies and his politicians. Everything in this letter can be proven in a jury trial, Congressional hearings or live TV debates. Musk will do anything to keep this information from getting out but… it is too late for him! While this may sound like a bad Hollywood movie script. It all really happened and there is now massive hard copy evidence to prove it.
Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources from the Department of Energy and the California political tax pool. This is proven when you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony payola kick-backs.
The Energy Dept (DOE) has been covering-up organized crime activities at DOE in which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off DNC campaign financiers and to pay for CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors. DNC campaign financiers and DOE staff share stock market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts. The deal was: Obama funds Tesla, Musk conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of insider Musk stocks.
Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag, woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader. We can put this in writing because all of those identifications regarding Musk can be proven in court and are documented in existing lawsuits and news stories.
Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about himself. Musk thinks he is the 'Jesus' of Silicon Valley and he will do anything to make the public think so. Musk is insecure because his father was abusive and his “trophy wife” Mother is overbearing so he developed sociopath-like mental issues. Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a 'psychotic narcissist. He public stated on an investor call that he uses drugs and alcohol to get through the night. We have the tapes.
Musk relies on Google and the DNC Main Stream News (MSN) to hide bad news about him. Fake News manipulator Google is run by Larry Page. Larry is Musk's investor and bromance ‘Butt buddy’. They share an apartment. Musk uses massive numbers of shell companies and trust funds to self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market insider trading. His brother ran Solar City and is now under federal investigation for securities fraud.
DOE corruption—appointed and elected officials should face prison time
An exhaustive review of 350+ pages of leaked emails regarding the Obama administration’s handling of the various green-energy loan and grant programs makes several things very clear: they lied, engaged in favoritism, and rushed application approvals to suit the political agenda of the White House. At the same time, worthy projects that went through a complete due diligence process were denied or ultimately withdrawn, as the lengthy approval process “taxed investors’ patience”—as was the case with Aptera Motors, which worked closely with the DOE for two years.
Paul Wilbur, President and CEO at Aptera, didn’t think they were treated unfairly. He told me, “At the end of the day, we couldn’t get through the process.” But, he admits, he hasn’t read the emails.
Aptera was trying to build a very efficient electric vehicle with an under $30K price point. Wilbur met with Secretary Chu who could see the value in the technology. But our research shows that value was not the deciding factor in which projects got funded and which ones didn’t. Wilbur reports that he didn’t donate to any candidate. He wanted to keep the whole process clean and do what was “good for America.”
The report from the House Oversight Committee says Aptera first applied for an ATVM loan in December of 2008 and “shut down on December 2, 2011.” The report implies that Aptera was led on: “After numerous negotiations with DOE, in September 2011, Aptera received a conditional loan commitment of $150 million if the company was able to raise $80 million privately.” And: “The loans given to Fisker and Tesla gave Aptera hope that DOE would eventually act on their application. More importantly, since the DOE continued to engage with the company throughout the time period, management was convinced that DOE was interested and willing to provide financing for the company.”
Aptera’s 100% US technology has since been sold to a Chinese company.
Aptera was applying for an Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan (ATVM). Only five loans were given out through the program and all have political ramifications. Christine Lakatos, who has worked with me on the green-energy, crony-corruption reports I’ve written, has done thorough research on the topic. She has read each and every one of the 350+ pages of emails released on October 31 and has written a blog post specifically addressing the ATVM program and its hijinks. As she cites, Fisker and Tesla (which Romney referenced in the first debate), got loans in 2010 and then the Vehicle Production Group’s loan was the only ATVM loan closed in 2011; all have ties to Obama bundlers. The other two ATVM loans went to Ford and Nissan—both of which, according to the House report, “were heavily engaged in negotiations with the Administration over fuel economy standards for model years 2012-2016 at the time the DOE was considering their applications. Both companies eventually expressed publicly their support for these standards, which the Administration described as the ‘Historic Agreement.’”
Armed with the sweeping knowledge of the House reports and subsequent hearings, evidence from DOE staffers (many of whom were appointed by Obama), Lakatos’ research, and personal experience, a different ATVM applicant has now taken its case to court citing “corruption and negligence.”
On November 16, 2012, XP Technologies filed a lawsuit against the federal government concerning the DOE’s denial of XP Technology’s loan guarantee application. The complaint alleges: “criminal activities did take place by DOE staff and affiliates.” A November 23 press release announces that XP Technologies is now represented by Cause of Action, “a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses investigative, legal, and communication tools to educate the public on how government accountability and transparency protects taxpayer interests and economic activity.”
According to the document filed on November 16, “Plaintiffs' backgrounds include extensive issued patents on seminal technologies in use world-wide, White House and Congressional commendations and an engineering team of highly experienced auto-makers. Plaintiff brought a vehicle design, which was proposed as the longest range, safest, lowest cost electric vehicle, to be built in America in order to deliver extensive American jobs nationwide. No other applicant, or award ‘winner’, has succeeded in meeting, or (is) intending to meet, that milestone. XP Technology developed a patented lightweight, low-cost, long-range, electric vehicle using air-expanded foam-skinned material for a portion of the polymer body and received numerous patents, acclaim and superior computer modeling metrics over any competing solution. XP presented a vast set of letters of support to DOE from pending customers. Major auto-industry facilities and engineers had joined forces to bring the vehicle to the defense, commercial and consumer market.”
Over the weekend, we had an exclusive interview, on condition of anonymity, with a senior official at XP Technologies about the lawsuit and the experience.
He reported: “Staff from within the DOE have provided evidence which is quite compelling.” As Aptera's Wilbur made clear, the individuals within the DOE were very thorough. One of the emails, in the 350+ pages, was from Secretary Chu himself in which he criticized staffers for taking a “principled stand,” which held up the approval process of projects the White House wanted advanced. Another indicated that the pressure to rush was coming from “above the agency.” Overall, the emails show that projects were rushed so that announcements could coincide with visits, speeches, and photo ops—as well as providing talking points for the president.
Our XP source told us “We experienced, and have been provided evidence of, applicant submissions and reviews being modified in order to benefit some and disadvantage others, and the business connections between the different parties associated with the ones that benefited is quite extraordinary.” The leaked emails support this accusation, specifically regarding the “business connections.” In her post, Lakatos calls it “green fraternizing.” The emails show that certain applicants and decision makers went bike riding together, had coffee meetings, sleepovers, beer summits, parties, dinners, and fundraisers.
While he didn’t provide us with a name, the XP official said, “We experienced a senior senator blockading our efforts and then providing favors to a competitor, which then benefited his family financially.” The discovery the lawsuit will provide will expose the “senior senator,” but our previous research shows that Senator Harry Reid’s actions seem to fit the XP official’s comment.
XP Technologies believes that “DOE officials changed the first-come-first-served published rules and standards of the funding in order to take applicants in order of who they favored and who had purchased the most influence instead of the order in which they applied, as required.”
Having extensively studied the DOE’s various loan programs, including the ATVM, Lakatos and I agree with our source’s startling conclusion: “Based on the evidence provided by investigators, and experienced directly by our team, it is hard to imagine that at least one or more elected, or?appointed, officials might not be seeing measures ranging from censure or even federal prison time.”
Time, the lawsuit, and subsequent investigation will tell.
While the House Oversight Committee has been digging deeply into the mismanagement and corruption of the green energy loans, the media has paid little attention. Other than our report, the October 31 release of the emails cited here received virtually no news reporting. Even the Fox News Channel ignored the story. The plight of promising companies like Aptera and XP Technologies would have gone unnoticed if not for the lawsuit. The legal complaint attracted attention.
On November 16, the Heritage Foundation broke the XP story: “A lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges mass favoritism in the Department of Energy’s decisions to award federal grants to major car companies to develop electric vehicles, according to a legal complaint obtained by Scribe.”
On November 19, Lakatos, whose work is listed as “evidence” in the legal complaint, received a call from Fox News’ Gary Gastelu—who reported on the story on November 20. The next day, Fox News covered the lawsuit on America’s Newsroom. Even the Drudge Report picked up on the story.
XP has a litigation website on which the company states: “The case has nothing to do with complaining about not getting the loans. It has everything to do with HOW the applicants didn't get the loans!” They are communicating with other applicants about participating in the lawsuit.
The XP story and subsequent media coverage offers a lesson for others—especially industries who have been wronged by the Obama Administration’s practices (such as energy). The lawsuit may—or may not—send officials to federal prison, as our XP source suggests, but it could go a long way to winning in the court of public opinion.
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World Health Day – April 7, 2020
Awareness, Health
Tue Apr 7
The World Health Organization (WHO) created World Health Day in 1950 as a way to focus the greatest minds in healthcare on the issue of global health.
Every April 7, WHO selects a theme with topics ranging from depression to climate change to malaria. Not only does World Health Day inspires us all to learn more about global health, but it plays an important role in setting the world health agenda for years to come.
WHO is focusing on universal health coverage this year.
Even today, millions of people around the world still have no access to health care.
How to Observe World Health Day
Organize a conversation in your community about the year's theme
WHO offers free information toolkits for organizers. Take the challenge and lead a conversation in your community about a current healthcare issue.
Read up on past year's themes
With over 50 years of health days in the archives, it can be an interesting exercise to look at how far — or not — we have come in healthcare. You might learn something interesting and relevant even from older information.
Schedule Your checkup
Make sure that you're eating, sleeping, and exercising right — but also try to see a doctor at least once a year!
Why World Health Day is Important
World Health Day inspires action on a global scale
World Health Day is one of WHO's eight official global health campaigns. The day sparks awareness activities and media reports.
It's a chance to learn something new
By choosing a different theme each year, World Health Day ensures that we are always learning! WHO picks each year's subject based on a current pressing health issue and dedicates the week to conferences and activities about the topic.
It brings us together
World Health Day can also be an important day to reflect on your own health. Conversation can help reduce stigma associated with illness and lead to more people seeking support and treatment.
World Health Day dates
2020 April 7 Tuesday
2021 April 7 Wednesday
2022 April 7 Thursday
2023 April 7 Friday
2024 April 7 Sunday
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"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" ~ Hippocrates
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The dietary phytonutrient I would like to discuss in sulforaphane. The reason is simply, I did not know much about this nutrient, even though it was often discussed in many blogs and articles. “Although the plant kingdom is the source of thousands of phytochemicals, little is known about the way in which food-derived phytochemicals support the maintenance of human health and especially those associated with cellular defense mechanisms” (Houghton, Fassett, & Coombes, 2016). As the science of nutrigenomics evolves and our understanding of the many interactions between phytochemicals and endogenous cytoprotective mechanisms grows, the significance of plant foods in human health is becoming appreciated among the health community. The interlinked science of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics give us the ability to reveal genetic polymorphisms which many compromise an individual’s biochemical function, providing a more targeted opportunity to personalize a treatment program. The discovery that food-derived molecules are in constant conversation with the complex intracellular control systems via signaling pathways has revealed that food is much more than a source of micro- and macro-nutrients. The health benefits of popular polyphenolic phytochemicals, such as those found in green tea, grape seed, red wine, curcumin, pomegranate and olives function hormetically, and their mechanisms out weight much more than their antioxidant capabilities.
The classification of cruciferous vegetables includes species from the Brassicaceae genus, and this includes Brassica oleracea including broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and kale, but also Raphanus genus which includes types of radishes. The most researched cruciferous vegetable is broccoli (both vegetable and sprouts), a “source of bioactive compounds with nutrigenomic potential” (Houghton et al., 2016). Although these vegetables can provide a good source of micronutrients, their value to human health can be attributed to the glucosinolates, which when enzymatically hydrolyzed, are capable of modifying gene expression (Houghton et al., 2016). Broccoli plants contain a very important isothiocyanate (ITC) called sulforaphane.
Genes impacted
Sulforaphane has been found to be a potent Phase II detoxification enzyme inducer, including enzymes such as NQ01 and the family of GST’s, both required for the detoxification of steroids and environmental toxins (Houghton et al., 2016). In fact, the NQO1 inducer potential of broccoli-derived sulforaphane was highest when compared to the ITC’s of cabbage, kale, and turnips, which may explain why broccoli is researched more extensively than other Brassica vegetables. Additionally, in data from studies comparing the NQO1 inducer activity, sulforaphane demonstrated the highest value. “The comparative NQO1 inducer activity of these phytochemicals is sulforaphane > andrographolides > quercetin > curcumin > silymarin > tamoxifen > beta-carotene > genistein > lutein > resveratrol > I-3-C > chlorophyll > 𝛼-cryptoxanthin > zeaxanthin” (Houghton et al., 2016). The induction of the detoxification enzymes by sulforaphane is associated with anticarcinogenic effects of broccoli.
Sulforaphane is also an inducer of Nrf2 target genes and belongs to one of the nine identified classes of chemical Nrf2 activators. Nrf2 is known as the “Master Regulator” of Cell Defense (Houghton et al., 2016). “It is a master regulator of a diverse set of more than 200 cytoprotective genes encoding proteins that neutralize and detoxify both endogenous and environmental toxins, regulate factors in cell cycle and growth, and facilitate the maintenance of a high quality proteome” (Lewis, Mele, Hayes, & Buffenstein, 2010). There are a broad range of genes that Nrf2 targets, and these include those coding for cytoprotective proteins, antioxidants, drug-metabolizing enzymes, heat shock proteins, growth factors, and heavy metal binding proteins. Vitamin D receptor (VDR) is also an Nrf2 target gene induced by sulforaphane. One of the most important roles of Nrf2 is in the ability to regulate GSH biosynthesis and detoxification through direct regulation of GCL and NQ01 (Lewis et al., 2010). Nrf2 also participates in the inflammatory response, repressing multiple pro-inflammatory genes including TNF-a, IL-1b and IL-6, cell adhesion molecules, prostaglandin metabolites, matrix-metalloproteinases, and inducible nitric oxide synthase (Lewis et al., 2010). Nrf2’s participation in the inflammatory cycle appears to have benefits on cardiovascular function and also protects arterial endothelial cells from inflammation (Lewis et al., 2010)
Some of the direct benefits GSH biosynthesis(Lewis et al., 2010):
Increases cell’s ability to scavenge ROS
Increase elimination of xenobiotics
Inhibits the formation of free radicals, preoxynitrite formation and NO induced neuronal apoptosis (neuroprotectant)
Important reservoir for cysteine (a cofactor in metabolism, hormone biosynthesis, and conjugation in GST-mediated detoxification)
Sulforaphane is the cruciferous plant’s natural insecticide (Goffe, 2019). Plants of Brassica genus contain glucoraphanin (GRN), an inactive precursor compound that is activated with myrosinase (MYR) enzyme through cutting, chewing and disrupting the broccoli plant cell structure to initiate the synthesis of sulforaphane (Houghton et al., 2016). In fact, when the insect chews the plant, the GRN and MYR that are separated into different compartments come into contact to result in an enzymatic reaction, yielding SFN (Joffe, 2019).
“For consumers to take advantage of the cytoprotective benefits of broccoli and other crucifers, steps must be taken to conserve the integrity of the sulforaphane released”(Houghton et al., 2016). It is important that proper preparation methods are applied and that bioactive supplements are chosen. For example, five minutes of microwave cooking results in 74% loss of glucosinolates while high pressure boiling leads to 33% loss. Fresh broccoli is also believed to have 10x more sulforaphane than frozen broccoli since the freezing process may destroy MYR. Heating can decrease epithiospecifier protein (ESP) activity and increase sulforaphane formation in broccoli; too much heat will break down MYR too much and reduce sulforaphane content. It is recommended to steam 1-3 minutes to preserve sulforaphane in the broccoli. Microwaving is recommended at 30-45s with a 900W microwave. Boiling will destroy MYR.
Commercial attempts to produce sulforaphane releasing supplements have resulted in mostly forms with little or no bioactivity. In addition, the majority of available broccoli sprout or seed supplements contains the precursor GRN, but the MYR has been deactivating it. That means the supplement really does not contain sulforaphane. “The ideal sulforaphane-releasing supplement would retain GRN and MYR enzyme in the form of a whole broccoli sprout with nothing but water removed” (Houghton et al., 2016).
One way to obtain the benefits of sulforaphane listed is to eat the broccoli sprouts. It eliminates the problem that may occur with supplements that do not have the adequate levels of MYR to enzymatically activate sulforaphane. I recently bought this kit I am going to try to make them myself.
Houghton, C. A., Fassett, R. G., & Coombes, J. S. (2016). Sulforaphane and Other Nutrigenomic Nrf2 Activators: Can the Clinician’s Expectation Be Matched by the Reality? Oxid Med Cell Longev, 2016, 7857186. doi:10.1155/2016/7857186
Joffe (Y.) (2019) Food, Gene Expression, and Diet [Power Point] Retrieved (2019, June 14) from https://learn.muih.edu/courses/8262/pages/week-8-resources?module_item_id=251802
Lewis, K. N., Mele, J., Hayes, J. D., & Buffenstein, R. (2010). Nrf2, a guardian of healthspan and gatekeeper of species longevity. Integr Comp Biol, 50(5), 829-843. doi:10.1093/icb/icq034
MyBiohack (n.d.) The 15+ Benefits of Broccoli Sprouts and Sulforaphane (And How to Prepare Them). Retrived (2019, June 14) from https://mybiohack.com/blog/the-15-benefits-of-sulforaphane-glucoraphanin-broccoli-sprouts-nrf2-cancer-longevity-aging-cooking
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Kansas ministry connects church to greater community
by | 08 Aug, 2019
There are two brightly painted buses parked outside Central Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas. These two buses are part of the church’s Heaventrain KC ministry — one of which is a chapel-on-wheels, and the other is a professional mobile kitchen.
Every Saturday from May to November, the buses visit various communities by partnering with local churches to serve and build relationships with the community members throughout the Kansas City area.
“As the buses approach a site, a train whistle sounds,” said Julie Stevens, Central Church pastor of children and families. “Kids literally come running! We build relationships through activities like face painting, parachute play, and football, and then children and families are invited on the chapel bus for a high energy worship service. After learning Bible stories, ministry and message come together when a hot healthy meal is served from the food bus.”
Each site is strategically selected to connect with families from many different financial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, and the buses visit the same communities every week. Some of the partner churches and volunteers focus on sites where they are present each week, while others serve at all the sites for either one day or once a month during the season.
“We strive for a consistent presence,” Stevens said. “We’re passionate about teaching the transformative Word of God and building and inspiring leaders within the community.”
Heaventrain KC started nearly two years ago when the church staff felt a call to extend their reach outside of the church.
“We sensed a holy urgency to get outside the church and invest in the community,” Stevens said. “God rallied His people to pray — funds were raised to purchase and renovate two buses. After several months of preparation, God’s vision became a reality. In October 2017, we hit the streets!”
Though Heaventrain is a relatively new ministry to the Kansas City area, the original idea is deeply connected to Stevens’ call to ministry.
“My friend and mentor, Pastor Phil Batten, began Heaventrain in Cleveland, Ohio, about 37 years ago,” Stevens said. “As a teenager, my call started on his bus. Though Heaventrain KC is a separate ministry, both of the Heaventrain KC buses have been dedicated in loving memory of Pastor Phil.”
The ministry has expanded its reach over the last two years, breaking down cultural boundaries and connecting with spiritually and physically hungry families along the way. Stevens and the rest of the Heaventrain KC team are really excited about what’s in store in the ministry’s future.
“We live in a world that is desperate for hope, peace, and grace,” Stevens said. “God’s calling us to go the extra mile to spread the Gospel.”
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South Central College-Faribault
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NCES College Navigator search plug-in
The NCES College Navigator search plug-in provides the ability to directly execute basic College Navigator searches from a web browser. The plug-in uses OpenSearch technologies, which are supported by Mozilla Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 7+ and Google Chrome web browsers.
Install NCES College Navigator search plug-in ( Español )
When using the browser search plug-in, in addition to the existing Name of School search function you can also enter state and jurisdiction abbreviations, for example: –
"dc" returns all schools in the District of Columbia,
"institute pr" returns all schools with "institute" in their name in Puerto Rico,
"community md" returns all schools with "community" in their name in Maryland,
"community dc md va" returns all schools with "community" in their name in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
You can also combine a search with a ZIP code, which defaults to the 5-mile search distance: –
"64101" (a Kansas City ZIP code) returns all schools within 5 miles of ZIP code 64101, including schools in Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS,
"mo 64101" returns schools within 5 miles of ZIP 64101 in the state of Missouri.
"tech mo 64101" returns schools within 5 miles of ZIP 64101 in the state of Missouri with "tech" in their name.
If you know the exact IPEDS ID of a school, you can also search by the ID.
Note: The order of the search terms does not matter, although if you enter multiple ZIP codes only the last ZIP code you enter will be used.
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Keeping Out the Noise, Letting In the Sound
Noise Education
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Home » Noise Education » What Is the Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) and How to Use It?
What Is the Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) and How to Use It?
When buying earplugs, earmuffs, and some noise-isolating earbuds, you will notice a label Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) together with a number. For example, 3M’s Peltor X5A earmuffs have an NRR of 31, while Howard Leight’s Max Lite earplugs have a comparable NRR of 30.
What is the Noise Reduction Rating (NRR)?
The NRR is a single number rating given in decibels.
Every hearing protector sold in the U.S. has to have an NRR-label as per EPA regulation. It was devised to give purchasers and users of hearing protection a guideline what level of noise protection they can expect from their earplugs or earmuffs when properly fitted.
In addition to the NRR, earplugs and earmuffs are accompanied by an attenuation table detailing by how much they reduce noise at different frequencies. This table comprises actual test results and is the basis for the calculation of the NRR.
And – it can give you a good picture of the strengths and weaknesses of the hearing protection you are considering.
Here is the attenuation table for the 3M Peltor X5A (over the head) earmuffs, NRR 31 dB:
And here is the table for the Howard Leight Max Lite foam earplugs, NRR 30 dB:
How are earmuffs and earplugs tested to determine their NRR?
What are the highest NRR earplugs and earmuffs?
How to use the NRR?
How can you find out whether your earplugs or earmuffs are effective for you?
How to estimate your hearing protector attenuation when wearing both earmuffs and earplugs?
Noise Exposure and Duration
How can you measure the noise level you are exposed to over time?
What are A-weighting and C-weighting?
Ten test subjects undergo a test called real ear attenuation at threshold (REAT) to determine the average attenuation at each of the 9 frequencies detailed in the table above.
The details of the test method are specified in ANSI standard S 3.19-1974.
In a nutshell, for each frequency, subjects listen to a pulsed test noise to determine the threshold of hearing for the uncovered ear and the threshold with the hearing protector in place.
The difference between the two thresholds for a given frequency is the attenuation at that frequency. Each of the 10 subjects undergoes the test 3 times; so we obtain 30 different results for each frequency. The attenuation noted in the table is the mean of the individual results.
The NRR is then calculated from the means (using two standard deviations) in this attenuation table, assuming pink noise with a sound level of 100 dB at each frequency.
Note that while the earmuffs and earplugs in the example above have almost the same noise reduction rating, there is a marked difference between the two at different frequencies.
The earplugs seem to be doing better at lower frequencies, while the earmuffs seem to be better at the middle frequencies. Check this post for more on the relative benefits of earmuffs and earplugs.
The highest-rated earmuffs I have come across have an NRR of 30 or 31. Most of them are passive earmuffs, that is, they don’t have electronics that amplify environmental noise while at the same time attenuating hazardous noise levels. Two exceptions are included in the table below.
The earplugs with the highest NRR I know of are foam earplugs with an NRR of 33.
Be careful when comparing noise reduction ratings provided by the manufacturer or importer.
Some companies advertise earmuffs with an NRR of 36 or 37. Upon closer inspection, they are using the SNR (Single Number Rating), which is obtained by testing according to European Standard EN 352-1:2002.
In the United States, the standard for testing hearing protection and calculating the NRR is still ANSI S3.19-1974.
As per EPA regulation, all hearing protectors sold in the U.S. must be labelled with the NRR. The SNR might be printed in addition if the same protectors are also being sold in Europe:
The SNR for most earmuffs and earplugs is several decibels higher than the NRR.
Here are some of the highest-rated earmuffs:
3M Peltor X5A 31 37
Howard Leight Thunder T3 30 36
3M Peltor Optime 105 30 35
Howard Leight Leightning L3 30 34
Howard Leight Impact Pro Industrial (electronic) 30 33
Howard Leight Impact Pro Shooters (electronic) 30 33
As for earplugs, the highest rated I have come across by reputable brands have an NRR of 33. Here is a selection. All of the following are foam earplugs:
Howard Leight Max 1 33 37
3M Yellow Neons (312-1250) 33 36
Moldex Sparkplugs 33 35
Hearos Xtreme Protection 33 –
Mack's Maximum Protection 33 –
For earplugs much more than earmuffs individual fit matters. NRR-33 earplugs can easily turn into 10-dB earplugs if they don’t properly seal the ear canal.
The National Institute for Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends derating foam earplugs by 50% and earmuffs by 25%. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recommends derating all hearing protectors by 50%. See the section How to use the NRR below for more on this.
So far, I haven’t found earplugs that block more noise for me than the highest-rated earmuffs. This may be due to the shape of my ear canal.
In addition to the NRR, EPA also mandates supporting information, including an attenuation table detailing the different test frequencies and an example how the NRR can be used:
However, both OSHA and NIOSH are more conservative than the EPA formula used in this example.
There are a few issues with the NRR:
It was obtained in a lab with the subjects sitting still.
The hearing protector was fitted by the experimenter (not the test subjects).
Fitting earplugs so that they completely seal the ear canal takes practice. But this is paramount if you want to get even close to their NRR. Even when fitted properly, not all earplugs will work for you.
With some, you may get a very good seal while others barely block any noise, despite them having the same NRR.
Putting on earmuffs is more straightforward, and despite some earplugs having a higher NRR, the highest rated earmuffs I own block noise better for me than all earplugs I have used.
In a nutshell, the EPA formula in the image above is in many cases way too optimistic.
Important Note: The following information is for educational purposes for do-it-yourselfers working around the house.
To stay on the safe side, for exposure limits I would generally follow the recommendations by the NIOSH.
Your work place may fall under more specific and sometimes different regulations, such as the ones enforced by the OSHA. You will have to check with safety personnel in your company and the OSHA/regulatory agency responsible for your industry.
So how can a lay person use the noise reduction rating?
First, you want to remember to stay below 85 dBA. Noise at or above 85 dBA is hazardous.
If you are running power tools at home or in your workshop, mowing your lawn, or blowing leaves, do you know how loud these tools are?
If you have access to an iPhone or iPad, I suggest you get the NIOSH Sound level meter app.
Set the app as seen under Noise at Work in the following screenshot (settings):
Run your circular saw, grinder, leaf blower, or lawn mower and check how loud they are.
If the noise level is at or above 85 dBA, get good earmuffs or earplugs or both to protect your hearing.
Suppose you have measured your lawn mower at 93 dBA.
You are considering the 3M 1100 earplugs with an NRR of 29.
We are conservative and derate foam earplugs by 50% as recommended by the OSHA and NIOSH:
We use the following OSHA formula (since we are measuring in dBA, we subtract an additional 7 dB before derating):
Noise level entering the ear = unprotected noise level in dBA – (NRR – 7) x 0.5
93 dBA – (29 dBA – 7) x 0.5 = 82 dBA.
The earplugs attenuate your lawn mower’s noise to below 82 dBA. This is below 85 dBA, and an acceptable level, provided they fit well.
The OSHA and the NIOSH use slightly different formulas for derating hearing protection.
Also, the NIOSH derates foam earplugs by 50% and earmuffs by 25%, while the OSHA recommends uniform 50% derating of all hearing protection.
For the sake of simplicity, in this example, we have used the OSHA formula and uniform derating. You can find the NIOSH formulas here. (page 64)
For exposure limits we use the more conservative NIOSH recommendations.
While quite accurate, as the NIOSH points out, their app is not a certified type-2 sound level meter. As per OSHA, a type-2 sound level meter is the minimum you need to conduct official workplace measurements.
The NIOSH has devised Quickfit, a simple hearing test with which you can check whether your earplugs /earmuffs provide at least 15 dB of attenuation.
The reasoning is that if they don’t properly seal your ear canal, they are likely not even going to provide that level of attenuation.
First you listen to a pulsed test noise without your hearing protector fitted. Use either speakers in a quiet room or over-the-ear headphones (only for earplugs).
Adjust the volume so that you can barely hear the test noise, i.e., the sound level is just at the threshold of your hearing.
Fit your earplugs/muffs.
Listen to the second pulsed test noise. This noise is 15 dB louder than the first one. If your earplugs are fitted well, you should not be able to hear that noise.
If you do hear it, you need to refit your earplugs or muffs, and if they don’t work after repeated attempts, you need to find a different type that works for you.
Quickfit can be found at the NIOSH website. The sound files are also available for offline download.
Unfortunately, you can’t just add the NRRs. You can only add 5 decibels to the protector with the higher NRR.
Suppose you are using earmuffs with an NRR of 31 and earplugs rated 30.
You are using an angle grinder and have measured it at 100 dBA.
Estimated exposure (only earmuffs) = 100 dBA – (31 – 7) x 0.5 = 88 dBA.
This is still a hazardous noise level, so you add earplugs with an NRR of 30 underneath.
Since the earmuffs are rated higher, you use these in the calculation and then subtract 5 dB for the earplugs:
Estimated exposure (double protection) = 100 dBA – (31 – 7) x 0.5 – 5 = 83 dBA.
So far we have used the current noise level, measured with the NIOSH app, in our calculations.
The OSHA and NIOSH are concerned with noise exposure over time. Their exposure limits are stated as 8-hour time weighted averages (TWA).
In its publication Occupational Noise exposure, the NIOSH recommends an exposure limit (REL) of 85 dBA (as an 8-hour time-weighted average = TWA). Exposures at or above 85 decibels are hazardous.
Note: The NIOSH’s recommended exposure limit and exchange rate are more conservative than the limits currently permitted by the OSHA. You can find the OSHA limits in the brochure Hearing Conservation.
Suppose the noise your angle grinder emits doesn’t vary over time. Then, if you were using it for 8 hours, your unprotected TWA would be 100 dBA. This would be 15 dB above the limit recommended by the NIOSH. You would very likely incur hearing loss over time.
The NIOSH recommends a 3 dB exchange rate when determining the duration a worker should not equal or exceed given a certain noise level. For every three dB more, the duration is cut in half.
For example, if for 85 dBA you are supposed to stay under 8 hours then for 88 dBA you have to stay under 4 hours.
So three decibels is a big thing!
The following table excerpt (from the NIOSH publication) shows the duration for other noise levels:
Exposure Level (dBA)
100 0 15 0
103 0 7 30
If you were using the grinder ( you measured at 100 dBA) without any hearing protection (don’t do this!), you would have to limit yourself to less than 15 minutes, provided you weren’t using any other noisy equipment during your working day.
Daily Noise Dose
The daily noise dose (D) is a useful way to combine time periods with different noise levels. D must be kept < 100%.
The formula to calculate D for multiple noise exposures is: D = [C1/T1 + C2/T2 + Cn/ Tn] × 100
Cn is the total time of exposure at a specified noise level, and Tn is the duration you have to stay below for this noise level (see table above).
Let’s say you have mowed the lawn (93 dBA) for 60 minutes and used your grinder (100 dBA) for 10 minutes. (both without wearing hearing protection)
According to the table, at 93 dBA we must stay below 76 min. So we get dose D1: (60/76) x 100 = 79%.
At 100 dBA, we have to stay below 15 min: D2: (10/15) x 100= 67%.
D= D1+ D2 = 79%+67% = 146%.
D exceeds the maximum allowed daily noise dose. (It must be kept at < 100%).
You can measure the noise level by using either a sound level meter or a noise dosimeter.
The NIOSH app mentioned above can be used as a sound level meter and a noise dosimeter, but it is not approved for official workplace use. (See below)
A sound level meter measures the noise level at a certain point in time and does simple averages over shorter periods of time.
If the noise you are exposed to is fairly constant for longer time periods, a sound level meter can be used to estimate the 8-hour time-weighted average noise exposure (TWA).
If you move around a lot and/or are exposed to different noise sources throughout a working day, it becomes difficult to calculate the TWA.
A noise dosimeter, which you wear throughout the day, records noise exposure over time and automatically calculates the noise dose and the TWA.
Most sound level meters and noise dosimeters can be switched between dBA (A-weighting) and dBC (C-weighting). Meters also allow switching between slow and fast response.
When measuring noise, A-weighting (slow response) is generally used.
To perform noise measurements at your work place, you need at least a type-2 sound level meter or noise dosimeter. Type-2 meters have an accuracy of +/- 2 dB and have to fulfill additional requirements as per ANSI standard S1.4-1983. The requirements for type-1 meters are even higher. They have an accuracy of +/-1 dB.
The meter has to be calibrated before and after use and in addition at least annually according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
While very useful for home use, the NIOSH app doesn’t fulfill all conditions required of a type-2 meter. To fulfill the OSHA’s requirements, you need a calibrated type-2 meter.
However, you can use the app to get an idea whether your workplace may be too loud and alert safety personnel in your company.
Our ear‘s sensitivity varies with the frequency: it tends to be most sensitive at 4000 Hz and least sensitive for low frequency sound.
A-weighting corresponds roughly to our ear’s sensitivity at a moderate sound level (40 dB at 1000 Hz) and tends to deemphasize lower frequencies when compared to C-weighting. (e.g., for the 125 Hz band, the difference is about 16 dB.)
Because it provides nearly equal weight at all frequencies, using C-weighting is safer if the noise is dominated by low-frequency components.
When selecting earmuffs or earplugs, you can use dbC to calculate whether the hearing protectors provide sufficient protection. If only dbA are available (as in the example above), subtract an additional 7 dB from the hearing protector’s NRR.
Noise level entering the ear = unprotected noise level in dBC – NRR x 0.5
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Home / Community / Habitat home ready for move in
Habitat home ready for move in
Todd Rogers, chief strategy officer for Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona, and Regina Crandall, volunteer family liaison for HFHCA, present housewarming gifts including a bottle of sparkling cider and a plant, to the Woldemariam-Balcha family (photo by Teri Carnicelli).
Members of the City of Phoenix YouthBuild program, who worked on the house, were present for the dedication ceremony (photos by Teri Carnicelli).
The home built for the Woldermariam-Balcha family by Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona at 4th Street and Las Palmaritas is now ready for move in. A dedication ceremony was held on May 18, with the family and officials from Habitat for Humanity on hand, as well as members of Phoenix YouthBuild who worked on the home, and Wells Fargo Bank, which supported the construction costs and also provided teams of volunteers to assist with construction.
Habitat for Humanity builds, renovates and repairs simple, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
Kagnew Woldemariam-Balcha and his wife, Bekelech, along with their son, Dawit, 16, and daughter, Tsion, 14, emigrated from Ethiopia four years ago seeking the “American dream.” After putting in more than 1,000 hours of sweat equity on this and other Habitat homes, they are now ready to see that dream come true as the proud owners of a Platinum Leed Certified brand-new home, which includes many energy efficiencies as well as a solar power system donated by American Solar. The home is 1,336 square feet and includes three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
The land for this home was provided by the city of Phoenix Neighborhood Stabilization Program; it previously was the site of a dilapidated, vacant, foreclosed house. In addition to providing the land for the home, the Neighborhood Stabilization Program is providing the family with homebuyer education and $15,000 in purchase assistance.
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30-year-old Ottawa man charged with animal cruelty
Blair CrawfordMore from Blair Crawford
Updated: March 8, 2019 9:10 AM EST
In Facebook posts, an Ottawa man claims to have given his pit bull-type pup cannabis edibles and the animal is pictured with its muzzle tied shut.Facebook
A 30-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with animal cruelty after his social media posts showing an abused dog were reported to police.
Facebook photos posted in February showed the tawny-coloured pit bull-type dog with its muzzle tied shut with captions bragging that the dog had been given cannabis edibles to eat. The posts sparked outrage online.
Ottawa police identified the suspect and on Feb. 25 attended a home in the 2800 block of Cedarwood Drive. They also located the dog, which was taken into care by the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Aron Yardon, 30, was charged that day, but police did not release his name until Thursday.
The charge comes as enforcement of animal cruelty laws in Ontario are in limbo. In January, a judge in Perth ruled the OSPCA’s authority to enforce animal cruelty was a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. On Monday, the society said it would stop enforcing the law when it contract with the province expires on March 31.
The charter challenge was brought by a property rights advocate Jeff Bogaerts of the Ontario Landowners Association in Lanark and supported by the animal rights group Animal Justice.
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New Ann Arbor Businesses to Watch in 2019
Oxford Companies June 29, 2019 Articles
Business is booming in our city. Here’s a look at all that’s new and thriving in 2019.
Every year brings several new businesses to the Ann Arbor area. Whether it’s a restaurant venue opening up on Main Street, a keystone company expanding operations, or a fresh crop of startups budding to life, Ann Arbor seems set to continue its rise as a Michigan economic powerhouse. This year is no exception, which is why we’ve rounded up of some of the Ann Arbor businesses making headlines.
Top New Ann Arbor Restaurants
Ann Arbor has long boasted a food scene dynamic enough to rival cities several times its size. Here are just a few that have opened their doors in the past months.
Anna’s House, E Eisenhower Pkwy
If you’ve been on the lookout for a new favorite brunch spot, Anna’s House may be the just the place you’ve dreamed of. With a cozy atmosphere, a menu filled with comfort food classics, and a staff committed to delivering warm, friendly service, it’s sure to win over a dedicated group of regulars for years to come.
Blue Llama Club, Main St.
Most restaurants and night clubs have to make a choice between being known for their food or their music. Blue Llama Club hopes to impress with both. Their venue not only hosts internationally-recognized jazz artists, but a small plate with recipes inspired by all-time jazz legends.
The Circ Bar, South 1st St.
Located in a building that was built in 1853 and used to house a brewery, The Circ Bar is currently making a name for itself with industrial chic décor and a menu that revels in new takes on old pub fare classics. It’s also the right choice for anyone interested in some late-night karaoke.
Jim Brady’s Ann Arbor location, Main St.
Jim Brady’s has had a restaurant operating out of Detroit since 1954. But their new downtown location brings that oldies charm to Ann Arbor’s Main Street. With three floors, each featuring a different design style, it combines a classic diner feel with a ritzy retro vibe that harkens back to its Detroit roots.
Loomi Cafe, Kerrytown
What began in a humble street cart has taken root in a small Kerrytown café. Loomi specializes in a fusion of global cooking styles which they refer to as “New American Ethnic Cuisine.” With a tantalizing blend of flavors, they’re already positioned to become an Ann Arbor favorite.
Naked Burrito, Carpenter Rd.
The premise behind Naked Burrito is simple: Everything you love about burritos, but without the tortilla wrap. Their menu features foods from a variety of cuisines, so whether you want to stick with the traditional Mexican fillings or branch out into five spice duck or cumin spiced lamb, the choice is yours.
Poke Poke, S State St.
Actually, deconstructed wrap food seems to be a trend these days. Poke Poke—Sushi Unrolled offers sushi bowls featuring fresh selections of ingredients in unique flavor combinations. With locations all over southeast Michigan, their newest opening near the Diag seems to be a sure hit with the student population.
Michigan Celebrates Small Businesses (MCSB) Awards Ann Arbor Innovators
Restaurants aren’t the only hot businesses in Ann Arbor, even if they do grab the most headlines. Several businesses were also recently listed by MCSB as being among the top 50 Michigan businesses to watch in 2019. These include four that were sponsored by Spark, Ann Arbor.
AdAdapted
AdAdpated is a marketing platform that offers a new way for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPGs) companies to target clients on social media. It helps users create custom-designed ads that are easy to add to the app of their choice.
Genomenon
Gene-based research is one of the biggest fields in biotechnology right now, but many researches are hampered by difficulties in searching for disease-gene-variant relationships in scientific literature. Genomenon makes this search and discovery process more efficient with its specialized search engine.
Groundspeed Analytics
Specializing in data science and artificial intelligence, Groundspeed Analytics provides deep insights into unstructured information for commercial property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers and managing general agents. Groundspeed Analytics also won the SmartZone Best Small Business of the Year award.
Pyramid Consulting International
As a business consulting group, Pyramid Consulting International has worked with Fortune 500 companies and multinationals to develop and implement business strategies that help organizations succeed on a global scale.
SkySpecs
Driving by a team of robotics and aerospace engineers, SkySpecs works within the wind power industry to provide automated drones that can perform aerial inspections of wind turbines that are faster, safer, and more efficient than manual drone inspections.
Google Plans Expansion of Ann Arbor Offices
Since Google opened offices in downtown Ann Arbor in 2017, the influx of tech jobs in the area has further cemented Ann Arbor as a hotbed of innovation. Now it’s planning a further expansion of its Michigan offices, investing $17 million in growing its office footprint in both Ann Arbor and Detroit.
According to a report from the Detroit Free Press, Google will be leasing an additional floor of its current Detroit headquarters, while also leasing an additional building in Ann Arbor, bringing its total office footprint in Michigan up to 260,000 square feet. Google also currently employs 600 people across the state, but the newest additions could grow that number by several hundred more.
New businesses in Ann Arbor bring jobs, new quality of life experiences, and new ideas.
The growth of business in Ann Arbor is full of positive news for everyone who lives and works in the area. With a growth in jobs bringing additional employment opportunities, new restaurants adding fresh takes on global cuisine, and a burst of startups contributing to the talent pool, there are few better places for businesses to be.
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The purpose of a study was to identify the national trends of exposure to pediatric procedures during neurosurgical residency and to subsequently evaluate how neurosurgery residents' experiences correlate with the minimum requirements set forth by the American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
ACGME resident case logs from residents graduating between 2013 and 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. These reports were analyzed to determine trends in resident operative experience in pediatric procedures. The number of cases performed by residents was compared to the required minimums set by the ACGME within each pediatric surgical category. A linear regression analysis and t tests were utilized to analyze the change in cases performed over the study period.
A mean of 98.8 procedures were performed for each of the 877 residents graduating between 2013 and 2017. The total number of pediatric procedures declined at a rate of 1.7 cases/year (r2 = 0.77, p = 0.05). Spine and cerebrospinal fluid diversion procedures showed decreasing trends at rates of 1.9 (r2 = 0.70, p = 0.08) and 1.2 (r2 = 0.70, p = 0.08) cases/year, respectively. The number of trauma and brain tumor cases were shown to have increasing rates at 1.0 (r2 = 0.86, p = 0.02) and 0.3 (r2 = 0.69, p = 0.08) cases/year, respectively, with trauma cases showing significant increases. There was also a trend of increasing cases logged as the lead resident surgeon by 12.9 cases/year (r2 = 0.99, p < 0.001). The number of cases performed by the average graduating resident was also significantly higher than the minimums required by the ACGME; residents, on average, performed 3 times the required minimum number of pediatric cases.
Neurosurgical residents graduating from 2013 to 2017 reported significantly higher volumes of pediatric neurosurgery cases than the standards set for by the ACGME. During this time, there was also a significant trend of increasing cases logged as the lead resident surgeon, suggesting more involvement in the critical portions of pediatric cases. There was also a significant, but not clinically impactful, decrease in pediatric case volumes during this time. However, the overall data indicate that residents are continuing to gain valuable pediatric experience during residency training 1).
278 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) training programs were assessed to identify 923 full-time faculty members with spinal surgery designation defined by spine fellowship training or surgeon case volume >75% spine surgeries. Faculty were assessed with respect to parent discipline, years of fellowship training, academic rank, gender, and academic productivity (h index).
The spine-teaching workforce contains 55% orthopedic surgeons and 45% neurosurgeons with wide gender asymmetry overall and at all faculty ranks. Of the female spine surgeons, those with neurosurgical training (64.44%) nearly doubled the number with orthopedic training (35.56%). Academic productivity increased with academic rank similarly for both genders and subspecialties. Orthopedic spine surgeons had a higher mean fellowship number than neurological spine surgeons. Fellowship time of completion (intra-residency/infolded vs. post-residency) did not significantly affect h-indices. Addition of fellowship(s) conferred academic productivity benefit for orthopedic surgeons only.
Neurological and orthopedic spine surgery show similar patterns for spread of faculty across academic ranks and trends in academic productivity. There is marked gender disparity seen in both neurosurgical and orthopedic surgery with fewer female spine surgeons seen at every academic rank. Orthopedic spine surgeons have a greater mean fellowship number than their neurosurgical counterparts and lack of fellowship correlated with a lower academic productivity in orthopedic but not neurological spine surgery 2).
Resident work hour regulations are a major concern in residency training programs. Previous studies have noted the risks inherent in daytime sleepiness during the post-call period, including potential adverse patient outcomes.
Residents' self-perceptions of their degree of physiologic sleepiness were poor and that levels approached those of clinical sleep disorders.
Additional studies have shown the negative impact of sleep deprivation and the effects on decision making and memory.
Due to these concerns, the American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has mandated limits for resident work hours.
A night float system has been implemented in many institutions to address these concerns and to help in achieving this goal.
The daytime physicians are relieved by a night team that admits patients and takes care of patient-related tasks. The day team then returns the following day to continue the care of the patients. Thus, the extended hours of the post-call day are avoided.
Although NF is a potential solution, it has generated a number of concerns. Residents feel that NF does not provide adequate teaching and view the rotation as more of a “service” rotation rather than as a learning opportunity.
Another concern is the discontinuity of care, which may result in poor patient satisfaction and adverse outcomes.
Many studies examining the perceptions of residents towards the NF system have been limited by small sample sizes ranging from 10 to 24 residents, brief surveys consisting of 10 to 30 questions, experiences of a group of residents in a single hospital or a single post-graduate year, and a lack of comparison between a NF and a non-NF system.
White MD, Zollman J, McDowell MM, Agarwal N, Abel TJ, Hamilton DK. Neurosurgical Resident Exposure to Pediatric Neurosurgery: An Analysis of Resident Case Logs. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2019 May 21:1-7. doi: 10.1159/000500299. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31112956.
Post AF, Dai JB, Li AY, Maniya AY, Haider S, Sobotka S, Germano IM, Choudhri TF. Workforce analysis of spine surgeons involved with neurological and orthopedic surgery residency training. World Neurosurg. 2018 Oct 6. pii: S1878-8750(18)32198-3. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.09.152. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30300715.
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Impact of Renal Sympathetic Denervation on Left Ventricular Structure and Function at 1-Year Follow-Up
Manuel de Sousa Almeida, Pedro de Araújo Gonçalves, Patricia Branco, João Mesquita, Maria Salomé Carvalho, Helder Dores, Henrique Silva Sousa, Augusta Gaspar, Eduarda Horta, Ana Aleixo, Nuno Neuparth, Miguel Mendes, Maria João Andrade
BACKGROUND: Catheter-based sympathetic renal denervation (RDN) is a recent therapeutic option for patients with resistant hypertension. However, the impact of RDN in left ventricular (LV) mass and function is not completely established. Our aim was to evaluate the effects of RDN on LV structure and function (systolic and diastolic) in patients with resistant hypertension (HTN).
METHODS AND RESULTS: From a single centre prospective registry including 65 consecutive patients with resistant HTN submitted to RDN between July-2011 and April-2015, 31 patients with baseline and 1-year follow-up echocardiogram were included in this analysis. Mean age was 65 ± 7 years, 48% were males, 71% had type 2 diabetes. Most had hypertension lasting for more than 10 years (90%), and were being treated with a median number of 6 anti-hypertensive drugs, including 74% on spironolactone. At 1-year, there was a significant decrease both on office SBP (176 ± 24 to 149 ± 13 mmHg, p<0.001) and DBP (90 ± 14 to 79 ± 11 mmHg, p<0.001), and also in 24h ABPM SBP (150 ± 20 to 132 ± 14 mmhg, p<0.001) and DBP (83 ± 10 to 74 ± 9 mmHg, p<0.001). There was also a significant decrease in LV mass from 152 ± 32 to 136 ± 34 g/m(2) (p<0.001), an increase in LV end diastolic volume (93 ± 18 to 111 ± 27 mL, p = 0.004), an increase in LV ejection fraction (65 ± 9 to 68 ± 9%, p = 0.001) and mitral valve E deceleration time (225 ± 49 to 247 ± 51 ms, p = 0.015) at 1-year follow up. There were no significant changes in left atrium volume index or in the distribution of patients among the different left ventricle geometric patterns and diastolic function subgroups.
CONCLUSIONS: In this single centre registry of patients with resistant hypertension, renal denervation was associated with significant reduction in both office and ABPM blood pressure and a significant decrease in left ventricle mass evaluated by transthoracic echocardiogram at 1 year follow-up.
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de Sousa Almeida, M., Gonçalves, P. D. A., Branco, P., Mesquita, J., Carvalho, M. S., Dores, H., ... Andrade, M. J. (2016). Impact of Renal Sympathetic Denervation on Left Ventricular Structure and Function at 1-Year Follow-Up. PlosOne, 11(3), e0149855. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149855
de Sousa Almeida, Manuel ; Gonçalves, Pedro de Araújo ; Branco, Patricia ; Mesquita, João ; Carvalho, Maria Salomé ; Dores, Helder ; Silva Sousa, Henrique ; Gaspar, Augusta ; Horta, Eduarda ; Aleixo, Ana ; Neuparth, Nuno ; Mendes, Miguel ; Andrade, Maria João. / Impact of Renal Sympathetic Denervation on Left Ventricular Structure and Function at 1-Year Follow-Up. In: PlosOne. 2016 ; Vol. 11, No. 3. pp. e0149855.
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AB - BACKGROUND: Catheter-based sympathetic renal denervation (RDN) is a recent therapeutic option for patients with resistant hypertension. However, the impact of RDN in left ventricular (LV) mass and function is not completely established. Our aim was to evaluate the effects of RDN on LV structure and function (systolic and diastolic) in patients with resistant hypertension (HTN).METHODS AND RESULTS: From a single centre prospective registry including 65 consecutive patients with resistant HTN submitted to RDN between July-2011 and April-2015, 31 patients with baseline and 1-year follow-up echocardiogram were included in this analysis. Mean age was 65 ± 7 years, 48% were males, 71% had type 2 diabetes. Most had hypertension lasting for more than 10 years (90%), and were being treated with a median number of 6 anti-hypertensive drugs, including 74% on spironolactone. At 1-year, there was a significant decrease both on office SBP (176 ± 24 to 149 ± 13 mmHg, p<0.001) and DBP (90 ± 14 to 79 ± 11 mmHg, p<0.001), and also in 24h ABPM SBP (150 ± 20 to 132 ± 14 mmhg, p<0.001) and DBP (83 ± 10 to 74 ± 9 mmHg, p<0.001). There was also a significant decrease in LV mass from 152 ± 32 to 136 ± 34 g/m(2) (p<0.001), an increase in LV end diastolic volume (93 ± 18 to 111 ± 27 mL, p = 0.004), an increase in LV ejection fraction (65 ± 9 to 68 ± 9%, p = 0.001) and mitral valve E deceleration time (225 ± 49 to 247 ± 51 ms, p = 0.015) at 1-year follow up. There were no significant changes in left atrium volume index or in the distribution of patients among the different left ventricle geometric patterns and diastolic function subgroups.CONCLUSIONS: In this single centre registry of patients with resistant hypertension, renal denervation was associated with significant reduction in both office and ABPM blood pressure and a significant decrease in left ventricle mass evaluated by transthoracic echocardiogram at 1 year follow-up.
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CHRIS’ STORY – MANAGING MEASLES IN MALAWI
I am a Registered Nurse. I’ve worked in paediatric infectious disease in Darwin, indigenous and remote communities throughout Australia, and ski fields here and overseas. I’ve also worked in a few war zones, which are often reservoirs for communicable diseases, so when I come home I can see the benefit of the vaccination programs we have here and feel pretty lucky.
I few years ago I was sent to East Africa to work as a Vaccination Nurse to try and combat and contain a measles outbreak. It was one of the hardest things I’ve been involved in, and the first time I had seen deaths from preventable diseases other than tetanus and cervical cancer.
I was part of a bigger team. My journey started with a surprise phone call from the Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) office in Sydney, which saw me on a plane that night to Paris, and two days later I was in the African bush. We set out in teams of two visiting Remote Health Clinics, identifying measles victims, treating them and counting the fresh graves of the victims.
We then mapped together a plan where we set up points where we could vaccinate as many people as possible. They had to be within walking distance of a village. It may be a church, a village hall or even the shade of a tree. A mother there often has four very young children so you have to be strategic as walking with 4 kids under 6 can be hard on a mum. I was in charge of a team of about 100 African health workers who were divided into 12 teams and sent to remote areas. Between us we would vaccinate about 20,000 kids a day.
I told my teams I wanted them to have left the base by 05:15 each morning, but most were gone before 04:45, such was the dedication of my health workers. We would then return at night fall, restock the vaccines and ice bricks, and prepare to start all over again in a different location. Bed time was often 01:30 for me and the French logistics guy. A shower was a bucket of brown cold water pulled by a long 20m rope from a dark deep well.
During the day I would drive around to my teams and check how they were going and help them organise themselves, check the vaccine cold chain, negotiate with village chiefs, and make sure they were working safely. Malawi has a 20% HIV rate, so the potential for needle stick injury is an ongoing concern. Some things I will never forget. As I moved further south over a period of two weeks the incidence of measles was increasing. I drove to the top of a hill above a dry river where a mud walled church with a thatched roof was sitting alone in the baking sun. Here one of my teams had set up their vaccination station. The church had a separate entrance and an exit. The people would walk in one way and out the other getting vaccinated in-between. I remember a large wooden cross with Jesus Christ looking down over us as we worked. I am not religious, but I stood there wondering if he was helping us in any way. Such is the way thoughts can travel in desperate situations.
Out the front of the church sheltering in what was left of the morning shade were two mothers cradling the limp bodies of their teenage boys. Their eyelids were swollen and shut, lips swollen and airways nearly closed. I pulled out my stethoscope and listened to their chest. There was barley a whisper of air going in and out of their lungs.
I popped an drip in, ran some fluid, and gave the kids some medication to help open their airways, though it was a token effort as they were nearly gone. I arranged for the kids to be taken 100 miles away to a catholic hospital that was already barely coping. “Where do you send a sick kid to in a county like Malawi?” I asked myself.
After the ambulance left I then wondered if instead I should have just organised for the teenagers to go back to their homes to be with their families to die, or if they had even a slim chance they could fight back. I then went to the village cemetery to count more fresh graves, and spoke to the health worker about the teenagers he had been managing. A few hours later the car returned with the bodies of the two boys, who had died on the way to hospital. I lost it at the health worker and asked him why he didn’t contact a hospital earlier as it was one of the few villages that had phone reception. He told me it was because he didn’t have credit for his phone.
I contacted the MSF base, and sent another team down to that village to teach the health workers how to treat measles, and I gave him some phone credit. Transport in these villages is often a bicycle or an ox cart which is slower than walking pace. Vehicles are few and far between so you have to take the referral of patients in context with the situation. Someone gets sick, where do you refer him or
her to? About this time my driver had to return home, as his 30 year old brother had died of measles.
A week later I found myself trying to negotiate with Christian Elders who didn’t believe in modern medicine. That’s another terrible story. This was just the start of many frustrating episodes on that mission and why I’m passionate about community health.
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Measles alert, Gold Coast.⚠️ MEASLES ALERT ⚠️
The Gold Coast Public Health Unit has been notified of another case of measles on the Gold Coast.
This person arrived at Gold Coast Airport on Saturday, 28 December 2019, at 7.35am from Sydney on flight JQ402 and was diagnosed after arrival.
This person also attended a movie theatre at Coomera Westfield on Monday, 30 December 2019, for a 7.30pm viewing.
People at the airport around the flight time of arrival, and people who attended Coomera Westfield movie theatre around the time of this screening, as well as the public in general, need to be alert for symptoms of measles over the next three weeks.
The initial signs and symptoms of measles include fever, lethargy, runny nose, moist cough and sore red eyes.
This is followed a few days later by a blotchy, red rash which often starts on the face and then becomes widespread over the body.
If you have any of the measles signs or symptoms contact your GP and remember it is very important to call the medical practice first if you think you might have measles, so that staff can take precautions to avoid spreading it to others.
You are generally considered to be immune to measles if:
You were born before 1966; or
You have had two documented doses of a measles containing vaccine (such as MMR); or
You have measles immunity proven on blood testing; or
You have had laboratory-confirmed measles disease.
Anyone who does not meet the above criteria would benefit by contacting a GP regarding immunisation. Vaccination now will not prevent infection from this particular exposure, but it will help protect you in the future. The measles vaccine is provided free for any person born during or since 1966.
More information on the measles virus is available at visit the Queensland Health website or call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84). ... See MoreSee Less
Sydney- measles. Locations where infectious person went are listed below.We are asking people to be on the lookout for symptoms of measles after a Sydney man in his 20s reported visiting several locations in the inner west, CBD, east and north since becoming infectious on Friday, December 27.
Friday, December 27: he travelled on a 12:30pm bus from Wollongong to Central Station, then took a bus from Central to St Peters.
Saturday, December 28: he travelled by train from Sydenham to Bondi Junction around 10am to 11am. He then took a bus from Bondi Junction to Bondi Beach, arriving around 12pm. After spending the day at Bondi Beach, he then returned home on the same route around 5pm.
Sunday, December 29: he travelled by train from Sydenham Station to Central Station at 11am and then took a train from Central Station to Berowra Station at 12:15pm. He returned on a train from Berowra Station to Central Station at 3pm, then another train from Central Station to Sydenham Station.
Monday, December 30: he went to Marrickville Metro between 3pm and 4pm.
Tuesday, December 31: he went to Marrickville Metro and a GP in Marrickville from around 10:30am to 1:30pm.
There’s no ongoing risk at those places, but please be on the look out for symptoms, which include fever, sore eyes and a cough followed three or four days later by a red, blotchy rash spreading from the head and neck to the rest of the body.
If you do develop symptoms, please call ahead to your GP to ensure you do not wait in the waiting with others.
For more information on measles, please visit: health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/measles/Pages/default.aspx ... See MoreSee Less
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Finally some good news out of Samoa.
The state of emergency has been lifted after the measles outbreak there has finally been bought under control — by a vaccination drive that has managed to push vaccination rates to nearly 95%.
This outbreak has killed 81 people, most of them babies and young children, and sickened more than 5,600 others.
Vaccines work. Vaccine preventable diseases kill.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/29/samoa-ends-measles-state-of-emergency-as-infection-rate-slo... ... See MoreSee Less
Samoa ends measles state of emergency as infection rate slows
Six-week state of emergency is lifted after disease killed 81 people and sickened more than 5,600 ot...
“Expectant mothers can pass on the virus to unborn children and rare complications include scarring of the baby, limb deformities and brain damage. Sick children whose immune systems are suppressed are also vulnerable, Professor McCartney said.
"Particularly patients with cancer or others on treatment that will be lowering their immunity," she said.
Six-year-old Matilda Harley is recovering from a recent liver transplant.
Her father, Craig Harley, says common childhood illnesses can be serious in a child with reduced immunity and can cause problems including pneumonia and inflammation of the brain.” ... See MoreSee Less
Fresh calls for people to vaccinate their children after chickenpox rise in NSW
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Chickenpox is cropping up across New South Wales, prompting fresh warnings for parents to vaccinate ...
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'Science isn’t enough': Queensland Health admits vaccine info 'failure'
Queensland Health admits it has failed to do enough to stop the spread of vaccine misinformation in ...
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Use of spanking for 3-year-old children and associated intimate partner aggression or violence
Catherine A. Taylor, Shawna J. Lee, Neil Guterman, Janet C. Rice
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to examine associations between maternal and paternal use of corporal punishment (CP) for 3-year-old children and intimate partner aggression or violence (IPAV) in a population-based sample. METHODS: The study sample (N = 1997) was derived from wave 3 of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Mother and father reports regarding their use of CP and their IPAV victimization were analyzed. IPAV included coercion and nonphysical and physical aggression. RESULTS: Approximately 65% of the children were spanked at least once in the previous month by 1 or both parents. Of couples who reported any family aggression (87%), 54% reported that both CP and IPAV occurred. The most prevalent patterns of co-occurrence involved both parents as aggressors either toward each other (ie, bilateral IPAV) or toward the child. The presence of bilateral IPAV essentially doubled the odds that 1 or both parents would use CP, even after controlling for potential confounders such as parenting stress, depression, and alcohol or other drug use. Of the 5 patterns of cooccurring family aggression assessed, the "single aggressor" model, in which only 1 parent aggressed in the family, received the least amount of empirical support. CONCLUSIONS: Despite American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendations against the use of CP, CP use remains common in the United States. CP prevention efforts should carefully consider assumptions made about patterns of co-occurring aggression in families, given that adult victims of IPAV, including even minor, nonphysical aggression between parents, have increased odds of using CP with their children.
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-0314
Intimate partner aggression or violence
Taylor, C. A., Lee, S. J., Guterman, N., & Rice, J. C. (2010). Use of spanking for 3-year-old children and associated intimate partner aggression or violence. Pediatrics, 126(3), 415-424. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-0314
Use of spanking for 3-year-old children and associated intimate partner aggression or violence. / Taylor, Catherine A.; Lee, Shawna J.; Guterman, Neil; Rice, Janet C.
In: Pediatrics, Vol. 126, No. 3, 2010, p. 415-424.
Taylor, CA, Lee, SJ, Guterman, N & Rice, JC 2010, 'Use of spanking for 3-year-old children and associated intimate partner aggression or violence', Pediatrics, vol. 126, no. 3, pp. 415-424. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-0314
Taylor CA, Lee SJ, Guterman N, Rice JC. Use of spanking for 3-year-old children and associated intimate partner aggression or violence. Pediatrics. 2010;126(3):415-424. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-0314
Taylor, Catherine A. ; Lee, Shawna J. ; Guterman, Neil ; Rice, Janet C. / Use of spanking for 3-year-old children and associated intimate partner aggression or violence. In: Pediatrics. 2010 ; Vol. 126, No. 3. pp. 415-424.
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Hit by drought and power cuts, Zimbabwe steps up battery storage
By Lungelo Ndhlovu
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As worsening drought slashes the country’s hydropower production, creating lengthy power cuts, Zimbabwe’s industries are beginning to turn to solar panels and battery storage systems to keep business humming.
Distributed Power Africa (DPA), a subsidiary of mobile phone provider Econet Global, has over the last year begun installing solar panels and Tesla-supplied battery packs on 65 of its telecommunications towers across Zimbabwe.
The batteries replace the use of polluting diesel generators to provide backup power when grid electricity is cut, said Divyajeet Mahajan, DPA’s CEO.
The systems are drawing growing interest from businesses and industry in other sub-Saharan countries as well, from South Africa to Kenya, he said.
Mahajan called the switch to solar panels with battery power storage “a major development in improving energy security for critical users”.
But the switch has faced a range of obstacles, from the still substantial price tag to theft of the batteries.
Both South Africa and Zimbabwe have seen a growing rate of battery theft, said Kezito Makuni, Econet’s chief operating officer.
“For Tesla lithium-ion battery installations at our base station and sites, we have contracted our own technicians to install these batteries with the specific reason to avoid issues of theft of these batteries,” he said in a telephone interview.
In October, thieves stole 24 of the batteries from one Econet facility, though the men were arrested and the batteries recovered, Zimbabwe’s police service said.
Still, battery systems are increasingly seen as key to ensuring a reliable power supply in southern Africa, both as countries slowly adopt more solar power – available only during the day without storage systems – and as frequent droughts hit the hydropower production the region relies on, said Man’arai Ndovorwi, a renewable energy engineer with the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority.
COSTS – AND JOBS
So far, the systems are used mainly for industry as they remain too expensive for many households, said Washington Zhakata, the director of Zimbabwe’s Climate Change Management Department.
“Lithium-ion batteries can alleviate power shortages even at individual level, but the cost might be high,” he said. But commercial power providers also can use the systems to feed backup power into the main grid to serve homes, he said.
A battery system capable of running a telecom tower for up to 10 hours costs $13,000, Mahajan said.
To help companies afford the batteries, Mahajan’s company offers leasing options as well as selling the equipment, he said.
Shepherd Chawira, president of the Matabeleland chapter of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, said many industries and businesses in the country have been forced to turn to diesel generators as the power supply becomes unreliable as a result of drought.
“Industry is faced with crippling levels of insufficient energy, coupled by unsustainable power tariffs and inflation. These factors lead to increased costs of doing business and this affects the output,” he said.
“It is also costly for industry to run for more than 10 hours on diesel, considering that fuel prices are also going up,” he said.
Chawira said companies without backup power have been forced to scale down operations or close shop, leading to job losses.
Zimbabwe’s government, which sees a switch to more renewable energy as a way to curb the problems, in July removed import duties on solar-power equipment and accessories.
Tendai Marowa, an energy management consultant who works with the government on climate change issues, said he was hopeful that as use of battery storage systems rises around the world, the costs of the equipment would fall.
“I think with time, because of commitments and investments going into that technology by private companies across the globe… we should have batteries that are more user friendly and they should also be affordable,” he said. (Reporting by Lungelo Ndhlovu ; editing by Laurie Goering : (Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate)
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University of California, Davis, Library., Dept. of Special Collections.
Materials from the construction and opening of the Recreation Hall (now Activities and Recreation Center) and photographs of various Campis Recreation programs including: Outdoor Adventures, the Craft Center, and Equestrian Center.
1973 (issued)
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Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17 of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publications is given on behalf of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
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1. Djawe, Kpandja. The changes of antibody levels to MsgC variants over time in HIV-infected men.
Degree: MS, Medicine : Environmental Health, 2008, University of Cincinnati
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211893247
► The Major Surface Glycoprotein (Msg) is a crucial protein complex in Pneumocystis pathogenicity and is involved in host-organism interaction. Our objectives are to analyze the… (more)
▼ The Major Surface Glycoprotein (Msg) is a crucial protein complex in Pneumocystis pathogenicity and is involved in host-organism interaction. Our objectives are to analyze the antibody responses to four MsgC clones in three patient groups and to determine the factors associated with PcP death. Tobit regression model was used to analyze the mean antibody differences. We found higher odds of antibodies rise to MsgC1, MsgC8, and MsgC9 if the first AIDS-defining disease was PcP versus others (OR [95%CI]: 6.2 [1.1-35.4], the same). The mean antibodies to MsgC8 at last clinic visit was significantly higher in PcP patients compared to colonized and non-colonized patients (11.0 vs 2.3, 2.6, respectively). PcP patients had a highly rate of previous PcP diagnoses (73%) compared to the other groups (43% each). Our results suggest that PcP death was associated with higher antibody levels to MsgC8, and previous episode of PcP. Advisors/Committee Members: Buncher, Ralph (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology
Djawe, K. (2008). The changes of antibody levels to MsgC variants over time in HIV-infected men . (Masters Thesis). University of Cincinnati. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211893247
Djawe, Kpandja. “The changes of antibody levels to MsgC variants over time in HIV-infected men.” 2008. Masters Thesis, University of Cincinnati. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211893247.
Djawe, Kpandja. “The changes of antibody levels to MsgC variants over time in HIV-infected men.” 2008. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Djawe K. The changes of antibody levels to MsgC variants over time in HIV-infected men. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Cincinnati; 2008. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211893247.
Djawe K. The changes of antibody levels to MsgC variants over time in HIV-infected men. [Masters Thesis]. University of Cincinnati; 2008. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211893247
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2. Kuo, Hsiao-Hsuan. Early Responses in Antibody-Mediated Rejection of Vascularized Organ Transplants.
Degree: PhD, College of Sciences and Health Professions, 2014, Cleveland State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1415091284
► Organ transplantation remains to be the only solution for end stage organ failure. However, the immune system of transplant recipients can recognize the donor tissues… (more)
▼ Organ transplantation remains to be the only solution for end stage organ failure. However, the immune system of transplant recipients can recognize the donor tissues as foreign and start immune responses targeting the grafts. This process will lead to loss of function and rejection of the transplants. Different forms of rejection can be classified based on the major component of the immune responses: cellular rejection (cell-mediated rejection) and humoral rejection (antibody-mediated rejection). In cell-mediated rejection, grafts are destroyed by allo-reactive CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes, whereas antibody-mediated rejection is initiated by pre-existing or de novo antibodies to the graft produced by B lymphocytes. Current immunosuppressive drugs are able to effectively inhibit cell-mediated rejection. However, options for treating antibody-mediated rejection are limited and not very successful due to incomplete knowledge of factors involved in antibody-mediated rejection development. We devised a model of vascularized organ transplantation to elucidate the initial stages of antibody-mediated rejection. Complete MHC mismatched kidneys or hearts were allografted to immunodeficient mice. After perioperative inflammation subsided, donor specific alloantibodies to MHC class I antigens were passively transferred to the recipients. Within 1 hour after a single transfer of antibodies, a complement split product, C4d, was deposited diffusely on capillaries, and von Willebrand factor was released from endothelial cells and coated intravascular platelet aggregates. Platelet transported molecules (Platelet Factor 4 and serotonin) accumulated in the graft at 100 to 1000 fold higher concentrations compared with other inflammatory molecules (IL-1ß, MCP-1, MIP-1a and RANTES). Activated platelets which expressed P-selectin interacted with endothelial protrusions and infiltrating macrophages. In the kidney transplant model, the inflammatory changes were accompanied by increased levels of acute renal injury markers (IL-18, NGAL, and clusterin). When alloantibodies were transferred repeatedly for 1 week to replicate a more sustained alloantibody response, increased Mac2 positive macrophages localized to the grafts. Platelet depletion treatment by CD42b antibody 1 hr prior to alloantibody transfer decreased platelet mediators and the accumulation of macrophages. A trend of decreased acute renal injury markers compared with control groups was also observed. Our findings indicate that platelets are one of the components in the initial stage of antibody-mediated rejection. Platelets augment early inflammatory responses in antibody-mediated rejection, and selective inhibition of platelets may be beneficial for graft survival. Additionally, levels of platelet derived mediators may be markers of antibody-mediated rejection. Advisors/Committee Members: Baldwin, William (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology; Biomedical Research
Kuo, H. (2014). Early Responses in Antibody-Mediated Rejection of Vascularized Organ Transplants . (Doctoral Dissertation). Cleveland State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1415091284
Kuo, Hsiao-Hsuan. “Early Responses in Antibody-Mediated Rejection of Vascularized Organ Transplants.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cleveland State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1415091284.
Kuo, Hsiao-Hsuan. “Early Responses in Antibody-Mediated Rejection of Vascularized Organ Transplants.” 2014. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Kuo H. Early Responses in Antibody-Mediated Rejection of Vascularized Organ Transplants. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cleveland State University; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1415091284.
Kuo H. Early Responses in Antibody-Mediated Rejection of Vascularized Organ Transplants. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cleveland State University; 2014. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1415091284
3. Clay, Corey Davis. <i>Francisella tularensis</i> Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen Dictates the Outcome of Human Complement Activation.
Degree: PhD, Integrated Biomedical Sciences, 2009, The Ohio State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253617563
► <i>Francisella tularensis</i> is a Gram-negative facultative intracellular bacterium that is a potential weapon of bioterrorism when aerosolized. Macrophage infection is necessary for disease progression… (more)
▼ <i>Francisella tularensis</i> is a Gram-negative facultative intracellular bacterium that is a potential weapon of bioterrorism when aerosolized. Macrophage infection is necessary for disease progression and efficient phagocytosis by human macrophages requires serum opsonization by complement. Microbial complement activation leads to surface deposition of highly regulated multimeric protein complexes that can promote opsonization or membrane lysis depending on the nature of the complexes formed. Outcomes of complement activation by bacteria largely depend upon the fate of complement component C3 following deposition. Functional cleavage fragments derived from C3 include C3b, which promotes both opsonization and microbial lysis, and C3bi, which specifically promotes opsonization. Here, we study interactions between <i>F. tularensis</i> and the human complement cascade to gain a better understanding of the processes of immune evasion and cellular infection employed by this deadly bacterium. We examine mechanisms of resistance to complement-mediated lysis, the nature of C3 component surface deposition, and mechanisms of complement activation. We show that, upon incubation in fresh non-immune human serum, Schu S4 (<i>F. tularensis</i> subsp. <i>tularensis</i>), <i>F. tularensis</i> subsp. <i>novicida</i>, and LVS (<i>F. tularensis</i> subsp. <i>holarctica</i> live vaccine strain) are resistant to complement-mediated lysis. LVSG and LVSR are variant strains derived from LVS that have altered surface carbohydrate structures and are susceptible to complement-mediated lysis in serum. C3b deposition, however, occurs on each strain tested, indicating that complement is not solely activated by variant strains. Complement-susceptible strains fix markedly increased amounts of total C3-derived fragments. Specifically, the presence of C3b is persistent compared to C3bi only on susceptible strains and the deposition of downstream complement components C5 and C7 is significantly greater. These results indicate that upon binding to wildtype strains, C3b becomes rapidly cleaved to form C3bi, which facilitates opsonization and evasion of downstream lytic components of complement. Characterization of differences in the production of important surface glycans between resistant and susceptible strains and employment of targeted mutant strains allowed us to determine that LPS O-antigen plays a significant role in dictating the outcome of complement activation and the nature of C3 deposition on <i>F. tularensis</i>. Both O-antigen producing and O-antigen-deficient strains rely heavily on the classical complement activation pathway. C1, a component of the classical pathway, is required for optimal lysis of complement-susceptible strains, and for optimal C3 deposition on all strains. Furthermore, we show that wildtype and O-antigen-deficient strains activate the classical pathway in an uncommon manner that is independent of antibody. The direct binding of C1 is reduced in the presence of O-antigen, which limits the activation… Advisors/Committee Members: Gunn, John (Advisor), Schlesinger, Larry (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology; Microbiology
Clay, C. D. (2009). <i>Francisella tularensis</i> Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen Dictates the Outcome of Human Complement Activation . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253617563
Clay, Corey Davis. “<i>Francisella tularensis</i> Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen Dictates the Outcome of Human Complement Activation.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253617563.
Clay, Corey Davis. “<i>Francisella tularensis</i> Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen Dictates the Outcome of Human Complement Activation.” 2009. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Clay CD. <i>Francisella tularensis</i> Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen Dictates the Outcome of Human Complement Activation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2009. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253617563.
Clay CD. <i>Francisella tularensis</i> Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen Dictates the Outcome of Human Complement Activation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2009. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253617563
4. Jaime-Ramirez, Alena Cristina. HER2 and Folate Receptor Targeted Therapy is Enhanced by NK Cell-Activating Cytokines.
Degree: PhD, Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program, 2013, The Ohio State University
► The anti-tumor effects of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAb) may depend on immune effector cells that express Fc receptors (FcR) for immunoglobulin G. Natural killer (NK)… (more)
▼ The anti-tumor effects of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAb) may depend on immune effector cells that express Fc receptors (FcR) for immunoglobulin G. Natural killer (NK) cells are innate immune effector cells that play a crucial role in cancer rejection and immunosurveillance. Importantly NK cells express the Fcgamma receptor IIIa (FcgammaRIIIa) and various cytokine receptors, which can be activated upon encountering antibody-coated targets and cytokines in the tumor microenvironment. Previous work from our group reported a significant association between elevated IFN-gamma levels in patients receiving Trastuzumab plus the cytokine interleukin-12 (IL-12) and more favorable outcomes in phase I clinical trials. We hypothesized that co-administration of IL-12 with an anti-HER2 mAb (4D5) would enhance the FcR dependent immune mechanisms and IFN-gamma production and contribute to its anti-tumor activity. We aimed to elucidate the cell type responsible for this elevated IFN-gamma production and further determine how this subset affected combination therapy. Treatment with IL-12 and 4D5 significantly inhibited the growth of CT-26HER2, a murine cancer cell line that expresses human HER2. Combination therapy was associated with increased circulating levels of IFN-gamma, MIG and RANTES. IFN-gamma deficient mice demonstrated that this cytokine was necessary for the observed anti tumor effects of therapy with IL-12 plus 4D5. Dual therapy induced tumor necrosis and depletion studies confirmed that NK cells mediated the anti tumor effects of this treatment combination. In an effort to extrapolate our findings with other antibody and cytokine therapies, a novel folate immunoglobulin (F-IgG) construct was created to direct innate immune cells to folate receptor-expressing cancer cells. We hypothesized that F-IgG could bind to tumor cell folate receptors (FR) and mediate NK cell antibody dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and cytokine production, an effect that would be enhanced by cytokine therapy. F-IgG bound to both human KB and HeLa and murine L1210JF FR over-expressing cancer cells. Recognition of F IgG by NK cell FcgammaRIIIa receptors led to phosphorylation of the ERK transcription factor and increased NK cell CD69 expression. NK cell lysis of KB tumor cells was synergistically enhanced following treatment with IL-2, IL-12, IL-15 or IL-21. Moreover, NK cell production of IFN-gamma, MIP-1-alpha and RANTES was significantly increased in response to F IgG coated KB target cells in the presence of IL-12. Studies in a murine leukemia model confirmed the anti-tumor activity and intra-tumoral localization of F IgG, an effect that was enhanced by the NK cell activating cytokine IL-12. As was observed with IL-12 and 4D5 dual therapy, the anti-tumor effect of F-IgG and IL-12 was dependent on NK cells, and led to decreased tumor cell proliferation in these studies. Taken together, these data suggest that tumor regression in response to 4D5 or F- IgG plus IL-12 is mediated through the NK cell compartment. These studies… Advisors/Committee Members: Carson, William (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biology; Biomedical Research; Immunology
Jaime-Ramirez, A. C. (2013). HER2 and Folate Receptor Targeted Therapy is Enhanced by NK Cell-Activating Cytokines . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364465780
Jaime-Ramirez, Alena Cristina. “HER2 and Folate Receptor Targeted Therapy is Enhanced by NK Cell-Activating Cytokines.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364465780.
Jaime-Ramirez, Alena Cristina. “HER2 and Folate Receptor Targeted Therapy is Enhanced by NK Cell-Activating Cytokines.” 2013. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Jaime-Ramirez AC. HER2 and Folate Receptor Targeted Therapy is Enhanced by NK Cell-Activating Cytokines. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364465780.
Jaime-Ramirez AC. HER2 and Folate Receptor Targeted Therapy is Enhanced by NK Cell-Activating Cytokines. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364465780
5. Williams-Bey, Yolanda. The effect of regulatory T cells on an age-altered specific CD8 T cell response following influenza infection.
Degree: 2010, Drexel University
The elderly population is a major user of our health care resources. With this population of people growing faster than any other age group, it… (more)
The elderly population is a major user of our health care resources. With this population of people growing faster than any other age group, it is important to find ways to reduce the increasingly high morbidity and mortality rates due to infections.Several studies have demonstrated that both aged mice and humans have a reduced CD8 T cell response to influenza infection. Further, it has been demonstrated that these alterations result from both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Recently, it has been observed that there is an increase in the regulatory T cells (Treg cell) percentage in aged mice. No study has evaluated if this increase in Treg cells could be an extrinsic factor which suppresses the expansion and function of CD8 T cell responses during acute influenza infection. Therefore, we hypothesized that a major contributor to the extrinsic changes that effect T cell responses in aged mice are Treg cells.We compared the phenotype and function of Treg cells from aged and young mice. Interestingly in vitro depletion of Treg cells had no effect on CD8 T cell responses in young or aged mice. Further there appears to be no significant differences in the ability of Treg cells from aged mice to suppress specific CD8 T cells isolated from TCR transgenic (Tg) mice compared to Treg cells isolated from young mice.Although we found no differences in the function of Treg cells of aged compared to young mice in vitro, this does not mean that Treg cells do not demonstrate an age-associated differential impact in vivo following influenza infection. To evaluate the potential impact of Treg cells of aged mice on CD8 T cell expansion and function we studied the kinetics of Treg cells following influenza infection of young and aged mice. Following influenza infection Treg cells expand in aged but not young mice. Further the peak of CD8 T cell expansion and IFN-γ production in aged mice coincides with contraction of expanded Treg cell percentage and activation. We believe that this increased expansion early during infection in aged mice interferes with CD8 T cell expansion and function.
Ph.D., Immunology – Drexel University, 2010
Advisors/Committee Members: Murasko, Donna, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University.
Subjects/Keywords: Biology; Immunology; T-cells – Research
Williams-Bey, Y. (2010). The effect of regulatory T cells on an age-altered specific CD8 T cell response following influenza infection . (Thesis). Drexel University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3346
Williams-Bey, Yolanda. “The effect of regulatory T cells on an age-altered specific CD8 T cell response following influenza infection.” 2010. Thesis, Drexel University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3346.
Williams-Bey, Yolanda. “The effect of regulatory T cells on an age-altered specific CD8 T cell response following influenza infection.” 2010. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Williams-Bey Y. The effect of regulatory T cells on an age-altered specific CD8 T cell response following influenza infection. [Internet] [Thesis]. Drexel University; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3346.
Williams-Bey Y. The effect of regulatory T cells on an age-altered specific CD8 T cell response following influenza infection. [Thesis]. Drexel University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3346
6. Nash, Reginald George. Immunodiffusion studies with Ascaris suum Goeze, 1782 and Toxocara canis (Werner), 1782.
Degree: PhD, Department of Zoology, 1964, Michigan State University
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology – Research
Nash, R. G. (1964). Immunodiffusion studies with Ascaris suum Goeze, 1782 and Toxocara canis (Werner), 1782 . (Doctoral Dissertation). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:36650
Nash, Reginald George. “Immunodiffusion studies with Ascaris suum Goeze, 1782 and Toxocara canis (Werner), 1782.” 1964. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:36650.
Nash, Reginald George. “Immunodiffusion studies with Ascaris suum Goeze, 1782 and Toxocara canis (Werner), 1782.” 1964. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Nash RG. Immunodiffusion studies with Ascaris suum Goeze, 1782 and Toxocara canis (Werner), 1782. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1964. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:36650.
Nash RG. Immunodiffusion studies with Ascaris suum Goeze, 1782 and Toxocara canis (Werner), 1782. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1964. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:36650
7. Measel, John W. The immunoglobulins of mice :.
Subjects/Keywords: Health Sciences, Immunology.; Immunology Research.
Measel, J. W. (1970). The immunoglobulins of mice : . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oklahoma. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11244/2887
Measel, John W. “The immunoglobulins of mice :.” 1970. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oklahoma. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11244/2887.
Measel, John W. “The immunoglobulins of mice :.” 1970. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Measel JW. The immunoglobulins of mice :. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oklahoma; 1970. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/2887.
Measel JW. The immunoglobulins of mice :. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oklahoma; 1970. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/2887
8. Canan, Cynthia Hsin-Tzu. Impacts of Aging and Inflammation on <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Control.
Degree: PhD, Biomedical Sciences, 2016, The Ohio State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479895740309589
► The global demographic is shifting at a dramatic rate. Between the years 2000 and 2050, the number of individuals 60 years and older is expected… (more)
▼ The global demographic is shifting at a dramatic rate. Between the years 2000 and 2050, the number of individuals 60 years and older is expected to double accounting for more than 20% of the total population worldwide. This shift in the distribution of the population is primarily a consequence of decreased fertility rates in women and increased life expectancy of elderly individuals. Although people are getting older, there is little evidence to suggest that they are also getting heathier. The World Health Organization recently reported that there has been no significant change in the rates of mild to moderate disability, including susceptibility to infectious disease, of elderly individuals in high-income countries. Increased susceptibility to infection in old age is made even more evident by the disproportionate rate of influenza, pneumonia and <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> infections with advanced age. Disease progression in the elderly is often prolonged and exacerbated leading to increased morbidity and mortality. In this work, we sought to gain further understanding of immune changes that can lead to disease susceptibility with advanced age.Aging is often accompanied by a low-grade, systemic inflammation term inflammaging, which has been implicated in several age-associated diseases including coronary heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, inflammaging has been proposed to alter immune function in elderly individuals, although direct support for this concept is lacking. In this work, we demonstrate that old mice can also experience inflammaging, suggesting an evolutionarily conserved phenotype. We also demonstrate that inflammation in old age is associated with altered immune function. By modulating inflammation in both young and old mice, we were able to further define the impact of inflammation during <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> infection. Overall, this collective work expands upon our understanding of inflammation induced immune changes and how susceptibility to infectious disease in old age may be altered to enhance the lifespan and health span of elderly individuals. Advisors/Committee Members: Turner, Joanne (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; inflammaging; aging
Canan, C. H. (2016). Impacts of Aging and Inflammation on <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Control . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479895740309589
Canan, Cynthia Hsin-Tzu. “Impacts of Aging and Inflammation on <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Control.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479895740309589.
Canan, Cynthia Hsin-Tzu. “Impacts of Aging and Inflammation on <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Control.” 2016. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Canan CH. Impacts of Aging and Inflammation on <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Control. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479895740309589.
Canan CH. Impacts of Aging and Inflammation on <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Control. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2016. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1479895740309589
9. Haseley, Amy M. The Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on Oncolytic Virus Therapy for Glioblastoma.
Degree: PhD, Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program, 2012, The Ohio State University
► Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most devastating diseases of the central nervous system, leaving patients with a median survival of 12-15 months following… (more)
▼ Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most devastating diseases of the central nervous system, leaving patients with a median survival of 12-15 months following standard of care treatment. Oncolytic herpes simplex viruses (OV) are genetically modified to selectively infect and kill cancer cells by lytic destruction, and have been increasingly recognized as effective therapies against gliomas, reducing tumor burden and enhancing animal survival in pre-clinical studies. The efficacy of this therapy, however, is limited by the ever-changing tumor microenvironment which helps confer resistance to subsequent virus infection. In this thesis document we take a closer look at some of the changes which occur within the tumor microenvironment following OV therapy, and use the insight gained to create more sophisticated oncolytic viruses to combat glioblastoma. To reduce the increase in angiogenesis reported following OV therapy, we first describe the construction and testing of a novel oncolytic HSV-1 derived virus: 34.5ENVE (viral ICP34.5 is Expressed by Nestin promotor and Vstat120 Expressing). This virus showed significant glioma specific killing and anti-angiogenic effects in vitro and in vivo. Treatment of mice bearing subcutaneous and intracranial glioma with 34.5ENVE resulted in a significant increase in animal survival, with 100% (subcutaneous) and 75% (intracranial) of mice showing a complete response. Histology and dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE MRI) revealed reduced microvessel density and increased tumoral necrosis in tumors treated with 34.5ENVE compared to tumors treated with a control virus. Collectively, these results describe the enhanced therapeutic efficacy of a transcriptionally driven OV by way of exploiting its impact on the tumor microenvironment. Next, we describe the role of Cysteine rich 61 (CCN1) in the tumor microenvironment on OV efficacy. CCN1 is a secreted extracellular matrix (ECM) protein elevated in cancer cells that modulates their adhesion and migration by binding cell surface receptors. We examined a hypothesized role for CCN1 in limiting the efficacy of oncolytic viral therapy for glioma, based on evidence of CCN1 induction that occurs in this setting. Expression is up-regulated in a variety of cancers, including glioma, resulting in a worse prognosis for these patients. As a significant induction of secreted CCN1 shortly following oncolytic viral therapy of glioma cells has been shown, we evaluated its role in the cellular response to viral infection. We found that exogenous CCN1 in glioma ECM orchestrates a cellular antiviral response that reduces viral replication and limits oncolytic virus efficacy. Gene expression profiling and real time PCR analysis revealed a significant induction of type-I interferon responsive genes in response to CCN1. Using function blocking antibodies we discovered this effect was mediated by CCN1 binding the a6ß1 integrin receptor, resulting in the rapid secretion of IFNa which was essential for this innate antiviral… Advisors/Committee Members: Kaur, Balveen (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology; Neurosciences; Oncology; Virology
Haseley, A. M. (2012). The Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on Oncolytic Virus Therapy for Glioblastoma . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1350413344
Haseley, Amy M. “The Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on Oncolytic Virus Therapy for Glioblastoma.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1350413344.
Haseley, Amy M. “The Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on Oncolytic Virus Therapy for Glioblastoma.” 2012. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Haseley AM. The Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on Oncolytic Virus Therapy for Glioblastoma. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1350413344.
Haseley AM. The Effect of the Tumor Microenvironment on Oncolytic Virus Therapy for Glioblastoma. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2012. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1350413344
10. Johnson, Ellen Elizabeth. Characterization of the immune response of mice to LPS administered per os and per nares.
Degree: MS, 1976, Montana Tech
URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6647
Subjects/Keywords: Polysaccharides.; Immunology Research.
Johnson, E. E. (1976). Characterization of the immune response of mice to LPS administered per os and per nares . (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6647
Johnson, Ellen Elizabeth. “Characterization of the immune response of mice to LPS administered per os and per nares.” 1976. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6647.
Johnson, Ellen Elizabeth. “Characterization of the immune response of mice to LPS administered per os and per nares.” 1976. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Johnson EE. Characterization of the immune response of mice to LPS administered per os and per nares. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 1976. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6647.
Johnson EE. Characterization of the immune response of mice to LPS administered per os and per nares. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 1976. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6647
11. Meade-White, Kimberly D. Characterization of a cleavage-defective HIV-1 envelope protein.
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology Research.; HIV.
Meade-White, K. D. (2000). Characterization of a cleavage-defective HIV-1 envelope protein . (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6228
Meade-White, Kimberly D. “Characterization of a cleavage-defective HIV-1 envelope protein.” 2000. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6228.
Meade-White, Kimberly D. “Characterization of a cleavage-defective HIV-1 envelope protein.” 2000. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Meade-White KD. Characterization of a cleavage-defective HIV-1 envelope protein. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 2000. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6228.
Meade-White KD. Characterization of a cleavage-defective HIV-1 envelope protein. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 2000. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6228
12. Becker, Larry J. Characterization of the immune response in mice treated with materials toxic for macrophages.
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology Research.; Macrophages.
Becker, L. J. (1977). Characterization of the immune response in mice treated with materials toxic for macrophages . (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6652
Becker, Larry J. “Characterization of the immune response in mice treated with materials toxic for macrophages.” 1977. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6652.
Becker, Larry J. “Characterization of the immune response in mice treated with materials toxic for macrophages.” 1977. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Becker LJ. Characterization of the immune response in mice treated with materials toxic for macrophages. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 1977. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6652.
Becker LJ. Characterization of the immune response in mice treated with materials toxic for macrophages. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 1977. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/6652
13. Grant, Alicia. The globalisation of variolation.
Degree: PhD, 2013, Kingston University
URL: http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/44308/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.789338
► Variolation is the undervalued and frequently overlooked precursor of vaccination appeared in the 18th century Europe as the first effective prophylaxis against smallpox. This thesis… (more)
▼ Variolation is the undervalued and frequently overlooked precursor of vaccination appeared in the 18th century Europe as the first effective prophylaxis against smallpox. This thesis aims firstly to investigate and redress the neglected path from untreatable smallpox to vaccination, in selected countries with a focus on the influence of England on the spread of variolation to other countries. Secondly, to present variolation not only as the origin of immunology but also as the catalyst for the conception and introduction of public health. New findings noted briefly, ranged from unanticipated documents to re-evaluations, as in the first chapter, of the accepted role of Sir Hans Sloane in initiating variolation in England. Originally Turkey, chapter two, was not selected as a country but researching the religious acrimony in England after Lady Mary Montagu's 'ethnic' variolation of her daughter, this thesis contests, with much evidence to the contrary, the widely held Eurocentric belief that the Ottoman Muslims used variolation in the 18th century. In the third chapter, concerning the latter half of the century in England and France, the scope of the contribution of the 'quack' Robert Sutton is reappraised. In Russia, many 'unsung heroes' were discovered long before the accepted initial variolation in 1768 of Czarin Catherine II by Dr. Thomas Dimsdale. A reassessment of aspects of the character of the latter followed the discovery of an archival letter from his mentor's sister in England; also the unacknowledged plagiariam in his book of Robert Sutton's new improved method of variolation. The probability of Russian students bringing the method of variolation from China to Turkey is coutnered. In Sweden, investigation led to the relocation of an account of variolation long regarded as lost - sent by King Charles XII in 712 while in exile in Turkey - lying between the patient prescriptions of his surgeon Dr. Neumann for 300 years in Uppsala University archives. In addition, this study contests current conclusions drawn from Sweden's 18th century statistics. The final chapter of the Colonies of America challenges the claim that Washington's laudable variolation of his troops in 1777 was 'the first mass variolation in history'.
Subjects/Keywords: Health services research; Infection and immunology
Grant, A. (2013). The globalisation of variolation . (Doctoral Dissertation). Kingston University. Retrieved from http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/44308/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.789338
Grant, Alicia. “The globalisation of variolation.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Kingston University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/44308/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.789338.
Grant, Alicia. “The globalisation of variolation.” 2013. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Grant A. The globalisation of variolation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Kingston University; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/44308/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.789338.
Grant A. The globalisation of variolation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Kingston University; 2013. Available from: http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/44308/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.789338
14. Wallen, William Charles, 1943-. STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF IMMUNE INDUCTION OF INTERFERON AND CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY .
Degree: 1972, University of Arizona
Subjects/Keywords: Interferon.; Immunology – Research.
Wallen, William Charles, 1. (1972). STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF IMMUNE INDUCTION OF INTERFERON AND CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/287933
Wallen, William Charles, 1943-. “STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF IMMUNE INDUCTION OF INTERFERON AND CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY .” 1972. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/287933.
Wallen, William Charles, 1943-. “STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF IMMUNE INDUCTION OF INTERFERON AND CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY .” 1972. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Wallen, William Charles 1. STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF IMMUNE INDUCTION OF INTERFERON AND CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1972. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/287933.
Wallen, William Charles 1. STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF IMMUNE INDUCTION OF INTERFERON AND CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1972. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/287933
15. Lau, Aden Ho Yin. An immunological perspective of the mucosal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis – lymphoid neo-organogenesis and humoral immunity.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115371
► Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is defined by the symptomatic inflammation of the nose and paranasal sinuses longer than 12 weeks. These symptoms include nasal discharge, nasal… (more)
▼ Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is defined by the symptomatic inflammation of the nose and paranasal sinuses longer than 12 weeks. These symptoms include nasal discharge, nasal obstruction, facial pain and pressure, leading to a substantial impact on the quality of life of CRS patients. CRS can be phenotypically classified into either CRS without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) or CRS with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), based on the presence of endoscopically visualized nasal polyps in the middle meatus. Interestingly, ectopic accumulations of lymphoid cells are often observed within the nasal polyps of CRSwNP. This raises the question as to whether these aberrant lymphoid cell aggregates play a role in orchestrating the perpetual inflammation in CRS. Studies in the past have identified the increased amount of local class-switched antibodies in nasal polyps, but few studies have investigated the source of these immunoglobulins and utilized specific markers to study the presence of the organized lymphoid structures and their relation to disease severity in the context of CRS. This thesis investigates the significance of organized lymphoid neo-organogenesis in CRS pathogenesis and its effect on humoral immunity within both CRSsNP and CRSwNP patients. Advisors/Committee Members: Vreugde, Sarah (advisor), Lester, Susan (advisor), Rischmueller, Maureen (advisor), School of Medicine (school).
Subjects/Keywords: Research by publication; CRS; inflammation; immunology
Lau, A. H. Y. (2018). An immunological perspective of the mucosal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis – lymphoid neo-organogenesis and humoral immunity . (Thesis). University of Adelaide. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115371
Lau, Aden Ho Yin. “An immunological perspective of the mucosal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis – lymphoid neo-organogenesis and humoral immunity.” 2018. Thesis, University of Adelaide. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115371.
Lau, Aden Ho Yin. “An immunological perspective of the mucosal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis – lymphoid neo-organogenesis and humoral immunity.” 2018. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Lau AHY. An immunological perspective of the mucosal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis – lymphoid neo-organogenesis and humoral immunity. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 2018. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115371.
Lau AHY. An immunological perspective of the mucosal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis – lymphoid neo-organogenesis and humoral immunity. [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115371
16. Clever, David C, Clever. T Cell-Intrinsic PHD Proteins Regulate Pulmonary Immunity.
► Local immunity is an important feature of metastatic sites. Circulating tumor cells must evade secondary site immune responses for successful metastasis. The lung is a… (more)
▼ Local immunity is an important feature of metastatic sites. Circulating tumor cells must evade secondary site immune responses for successful metastasis. The lung is a common metastatic site for numerous cancer types including malignant melanoma. While the diffuse pulmonary vascular architecture contributes to metastatic seeding, we hypothesized that organ-specific immunoregulatory mechanisms establish the lung as an immunologically permissive niche for tumor colonization. T lymphocytes play a critical role in coordinating organ-specific immune responses. Pulmonary T cell responses are restrained despite continuous exposure to innocuous foreign antigens. Excessive T cell effector activity within the pulmonary environment can result in adverse immune-mediated pathology. Thus, T cells must possess an intrinsic mechanism to sense their entry into the lungs and subsequently suppress responses against harmless self and foreign antigens. Consequently, however, such mechanisms might also repress T cell responses against infiltrating metastatic tumor cells.In the lung parenchyma T cells are exposed to localized concentrations of molecular oxygen (O2) as much as 2 to 3-fold higher than other lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues. The prolyl-hydroxylase (PHD) family of proteins forms the cellular oxygen sensing machinery. We hypothesized that oxygen sensing by T cell-intrinsic PHD proteins coordinates an immunosuppressive program in the lung. Utilizing a mouse model with a T cell-specific deletion of all three PHD proteins (PHD-tKO), we found that T cell-intrinsic oxygen sensing is required to prevent mild autoimmune inflammation of the lungs. PHD proteins enable environmental oxygen to limit pulmonary type helper (Th)-1 responses, promote induction of CD4+-regulatory T (Treg) cells, and restrain CD8+ T cell effector differentiation and function in the steady state and following exposure to innocuous environmental antigens.Consequently, T cell-intrinsic PHD proteins establish the lung as an immunologically favorable metastatic niche and powerfully license colonization by circulating tumor cells. Tumor infiltration is accompanied by PHD protein-dependent induction of pulmonary Treg cells and suppression of IFN-¿-dependent tumor clearance. Strikingly, T cell-intrinsic deletion or pharmacological inhibition of PHD proteins limits tumor colonization of the lung. Thus, the PHD proteins represent a novel therapeutic target to enhance anti-tumor T cell-mediated immunity.Adoptive cell transfer immunotherapy (ACT) is an emerging therapeutic strategy that harnesses the power of tumor specific T cells to mediate extensive tumor regression. Pharmacologic inhibition of PHD proteins using the small molecule DMOG promotes the effector capacity of tumor-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. Importantly, following transfer into tumor bearing hosts, DMOG treated tumor-specific T cells mediated superior tumor regression at multiple sites of disease compared to control treated cells.Collectively, our results provide the first demonstration of an… Advisors/Committee Members: Michael , Caligiuri (Committee Chair), Larry, Schlesinger (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology; Biomedical Research; Tumor Immunology, Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, T cell differentiation, Pulmonary immunity, Mucosal immunology, Autoimmunity
Clever, David C, C. (2016). T Cell-Intrinsic PHD Proteins Regulate Pulmonary Immunity . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471868519
Clever, David C, Clever. “T Cell-Intrinsic PHD Proteins Regulate Pulmonary Immunity.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471868519.
Clever, David C, Clever. “T Cell-Intrinsic PHD Proteins Regulate Pulmonary Immunity.” 2016. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Clever, David C C. T Cell-Intrinsic PHD Proteins Regulate Pulmonary Immunity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471868519.
Clever, David C C. T Cell-Intrinsic PHD Proteins Regulate Pulmonary Immunity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2016. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471868519
17. Hare, John Andrew. THE EFFECT OF BCG PROPHYLAXIS ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO SYNGENEIC MURINE TUMORS.
Degree: PhD, 1975, Montana Tech
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology Research.; Cancer Research.
Hare, J. A. (1975). THE EFFECT OF BCG PROPHYLAXIS ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO SYNGENEIC MURINE TUMORS . (Doctoral Dissertation). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/9934
Hare, John Andrew. “THE EFFECT OF BCG PROPHYLAXIS ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO SYNGENEIC MURINE TUMORS.” 1975. Doctoral Dissertation, Montana Tech. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/9934.
Hare, John Andrew. “THE EFFECT OF BCG PROPHYLAXIS ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO SYNGENEIC MURINE TUMORS.” 1975. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Hare JA. THE EFFECT OF BCG PROPHYLAXIS ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO SYNGENEIC MURINE TUMORS. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Montana Tech; 1975. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/9934.
Hare JA. THE EFFECT OF BCG PROPHYLAXIS ON THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO SYNGENEIC MURINE TUMORS. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Montana Tech; 1975. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/9934
18. Key, Marc Evan. Immune response to malignant melanoma in mice treated with phytohemagglutinin.
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology Research; Cancer Research; Phytohemagglutinins
Key, M. E. (1976). Immune response to malignant melanoma in mice treated with phytohemagglutinin . (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/2647
Key, Marc Evan. “Immune response to malignant melanoma in mice treated with phytohemagglutinin.” 1976. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/2647.
Key, Marc Evan. “Immune response to malignant melanoma in mice treated with phytohemagglutinin.” 1976. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Key ME. Immune response to malignant melanoma in mice treated with phytohemagglutinin. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 1976. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/2647.
Key ME. Immune response to malignant melanoma in mice treated with phytohemagglutinin. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 1976. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/2647
19. Carpenter, Dell Ronkowski, 1930-. Interferon induction by Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice .
Subjects/Keywords: Influenza – Research.; Immunology – Research.
Carpenter, Dell Ronkowski, 1. (1971). Interferon induction by Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice . (Masters Thesis). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318293
Carpenter, Dell Ronkowski, 1930-. “Interferon induction by Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice .” 1971. Masters Thesis, University of Arizona. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318293.
Carpenter, Dell Ronkowski, 1930-. “Interferon induction by Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice .” 1971. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Carpenter, Dell Ronkowski 1. Interferon induction by Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice . [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arizona; 1971. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318293.
Carpenter, Dell Ronkowski 1. Interferon induction by Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice . [Masters Thesis]. University of Arizona; 1971. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318293
20. Miller, Robert Donald, 1945-. The effects of a synthetic inducer of interferon (polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid) on a synergistic combination of influenza virus and Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice .
Subjects/Keywords: Interferon.; Influenza – Research.; Immunology – Research.
Miller, Robert Donald, 1. (1972). The effects of a synthetic inducer of interferon (polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid) on a synergistic combination of influenza virus and Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice . (Masters Thesis). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318298
Miller, Robert Donald, 1945-. “The effects of a synthetic inducer of interferon (polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid) on a synergistic combination of influenza virus and Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice .” 1972. Masters Thesis, University of Arizona. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318298.
Miller, Robert Donald, 1945-. “The effects of a synthetic inducer of interferon (polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid) on a synergistic combination of influenza virus and Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice .” 1972. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Miller, Robert Donald 1. The effects of a synthetic inducer of interferon (polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid) on a synergistic combination of influenza virus and Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice . [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arizona; 1972. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318298.
Miller, Robert Donald 1. The effects of a synthetic inducer of interferon (polyriboinosinic acid-polyribocytidylic acid) on a synergistic combination of influenza virus and Diplococcus pneumoniae in mice . [Masters Thesis]. University of Arizona; 1972. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318298
21. Dardas, Richard Boyce. Relationship between chicken immune globulins and a rheumatoid-like-factor present in normal chicken serum.
Degree: PhD, Department of Microbiology and Public Health, 1963, Michigan State University
Subjects/Keywords: Serum; Immunology – Research; Poultry – Research
Dardas, R. B. (1963). Relationship between chicken immune globulins and a rheumatoid-like-factor present in normal chicken serum . (Doctoral Dissertation). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:17707
Dardas, Richard Boyce. “Relationship between chicken immune globulins and a rheumatoid-like-factor present in normal chicken serum.” 1963. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:17707.
Dardas, Richard Boyce. “Relationship between chicken immune globulins and a rheumatoid-like-factor present in normal chicken serum.” 1963. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Dardas RB. Relationship between chicken immune globulins and a rheumatoid-like-factor present in normal chicken serum. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1963. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:17707.
Dardas RB. Relationship between chicken immune globulins and a rheumatoid-like-factor present in normal chicken serum. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1963. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:17707
22. Lindenbergh, P.L. Hard wired pathways: The relation between immunological and molecular research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
Degree: 2016, Universiteit Utrecht
URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/337640
► Like in many biomedical domains, in oncology multiple sub-disciplines are active. Among others, molecular biologists and immunologists study cancer and aim to develop novel therapies.… (more)
▼ Like in many biomedical domains, in oncology multiple sub-disciplines are active. Among others, molecular biologists and immunologists study cancer and aim to develop novel therapies. The recent clinical successes of immunotherapy considerably improved the credibility of tumour immunologists, which triggers the shifting of disciplinary boundaries. Taking the relation between immunological and molecular research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute as a case study, this thesis provides insight into the relation between biomedical sub-disciplines. Building on the work of Latour, Gieryn, Fleck, and Laudan, Part I of this thesis describes the outcomes of an anthropological field study performed at the institute’s Divisions of Immunology and Molecular Carcinogenesis in 2014. A comparison of these divisions shows that their relation was asymmetrical in 2014. While the immunologists have integrated multiple aspects of molecular theory and methodology in their daily routine, no evidence was found for the opposite. Based on a combination of archival sources and oral histories, Part II sets out to give a historical explanation of this asymmetry. It describes how the new molecular approach united former virologists, cell biologists and geneticists in the ‘80s and how this approach could turn into the new standard at the institute, despite of the fact that the first molecularly targeted therapies only hit the clinic in the late ‘90s. In so far the immunologists did not meet the new molecular standards, their credibility was considerably reduced. Hence, in the ‘90s the new generation of immunologists aimed to integrate aspects of the molecular approach into their work. Conversely, the molecular biologists could permit themselves to ignore the immunologists and their studies. No credibility was to be gained by adopting aspects of the immunological approach, which explains the asymmetric relation between both sub-disciplines at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Advisors/Committee Members: Huisman, Prof. dr. F.G., Theunissen, Prof. dr. L.T.G..
Subjects/Keywords: biomedical research; cancer; cancer research; oncology; immunology; molecular biology; medical history; medical anthropology
Lindenbergh, P. L. (2016). Hard wired pathways: The relation between immunological and molecular research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute . (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/337640
Lindenbergh, P L. “Hard wired pathways: The relation between immunological and molecular research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/337640.
Lindenbergh, P L. “Hard wired pathways: The relation between immunological and molecular research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.” 2016. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Lindenbergh PL. Hard wired pathways: The relation between immunological and molecular research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/337640.
Lindenbergh PL. Hard wired pathways: The relation between immunological and molecular research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2016. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/337640
23. Kyle, Jean E. Proteins of oocysts sporozoites and merozoites of Eimeria falciformis.
Subjects/Keywords: Proteins Research.; Eimeria falciformis.; Immunology Research.
Kyle, J. E. (1986). Proteins of oocysts sporozoites and merozoites of Eimeria falciformis . (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/7461
Kyle, Jean E. “Proteins of oocysts sporozoites and merozoites of Eimeria falciformis.” 1986. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/7461.
Kyle, Jean E. “Proteins of oocysts sporozoites and merozoites of Eimeria falciformis.” 1986. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Kyle JE. Proteins of oocysts sporozoites and merozoites of Eimeria falciformis. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 1986. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/7461.
Kyle JE. Proteins of oocysts sporozoites and merozoites of Eimeria falciformis. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 1986. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/7461
24. Nauman, Grace Ann. Humanized Mouse Models for Xenotolerance and Autoimmunity.
Degree: 2019, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jst1-a717
► Mice with human immune systems, generated by transplanting human CD34+ cells into immunodeficient mice, are essential tools for studying phenomena unique to the human immune… (more)
▼ Mice with human immune systems, generated by transplanting human CD34+ cells into immunodeficient mice, are essential tools for studying phenomena unique to the human immune system or poorly reproduced in existing mouse models. Human immune tolerance induction, function and autoimmunity have been poorly modeled in conventional murine models, which often have poor predictive value for preclinical development. Models that allow the study of human immune cells with the reproducibility and flexibility of small animal models are required. In our lab, humanized mouse models have been used to study preclinical protocols for human xenotolerance induction and to better understand the immunological underpinnings of human autoimmunity. These are each areas of critical unmet medical need. Xenotolerance-inducing protocols may be necessary to allow long-term survival of a transplanted pig organ in a human patient, and, with more than 113,000 Americans currently waiting for a life-saving organ, the need to expand the pool available for transplantation is urgent. Additionally, clinical options for patients with autoimmune diseases are limited. Currently, most patients with autoimmunity are only diagnosed after significant immune damage of target organs. Predicting who will develop autoimmunity – and who will not – before damage occurs would be very useful but is currently very difficult. Small animal models that can better help us understand how human autoimmunity develops could help us develop protocols for early detection and even prevention. We have developed a personalized immune model to study the development of an individual patient’s immune system in a transplanted mice to better understand immune abnormalities that underlie autoimmunity. We have used existing humanized mouse models to answer important questions related to human xenotolerance induction and autoimmunity, but in the studies described here we have worked to extend our capacity to use these models to study human T cell development and peripheral function. We would like to be able to study both the initial selection of T cell receptors (TCRs) in the thymus based on their ability to recognize antigen in the context of presenting MHC without reacting unduly to self-antigen, as well as in the periphery, where T cells interact with peripheral antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to maintain homeostasis and respond to antigen. First, we have incorporated TCR transgenesis into our humanized mouse models to allow greater precision in studying thymic selection in our humanized mice. Developing a system for this would allow us to study in greater detail mechanisms of human xenotolerance induction, including confirming that a swine thymus can support positive selection of T cells with human-restricted TCRs to allow a future xenotransplantation patient to maintain immune competence, while also robustly tolerizing human T cells expressing pig-reactive TCRs. We will also expand this system to study the thymic selection of human T cells with autoreactive TCRs to better understand…
Subjects/Keywords: Immunology; Autoimmunity; Xenografts; T cells; T cells – Research; Animal models in research
Nauman, G. A. (2019). Humanized Mouse Models for Xenotolerance and Autoimmunity . (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jst1-a717
Nauman, Grace Ann. “Humanized Mouse Models for Xenotolerance and Autoimmunity.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jst1-a717.
Nauman, Grace Ann. “Humanized Mouse Models for Xenotolerance and Autoimmunity.” 2019. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Nauman GA. Humanized Mouse Models for Xenotolerance and Autoimmunity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2019. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jst1-a717.
Nauman GA. Humanized Mouse Models for Xenotolerance and Autoimmunity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jst1-a717
25. Al-Adlaan, Asaad A. A NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ROLE OF OSTEOACTIVIN/GPNMB INPOST-TRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS.
Degree: PhD, College of Arts and Sciences / School of Biomedical Sciences, 2017, Kent State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent15114587826723
► Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative form of arthritis leading to joint disability. Ithas been estimated that more than 15% of world’s population have joint diseases,… (more)
▼ Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative form of arthritis leading to joint disability. Ithas been estimated that more than 15% of world’s population have joint diseases, andmore than 27 million Americans have OA. Furthermore, European Union has more than39 million people with OA, and probably by 2020, these numbers will be doubled. Multiplefactors induce OA leading to stimulate articular cartilage chondrocytes to produce theproteolytic enzymes these enzymes included matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and adisintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs (ADAMTS) which worktogether to degrade joint articular cartilage leading to osteophyte formation and stiffeningof joints. So far, there are no medications that can treat OA, and all medicines such as analgesics, corticosteroids, and non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are usedto reduce the pain and inflammation.GPNMB also called Glycoprotein Non-Metastatic Melanoma Protein B (GPNMB)is a type I transmembrane glycoprotein expressed in multiple cell types and involved inmultiple cell functions such as proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Studiesdiscovered the role of GPNMB in tumors, neurons, muscles, and bones while the role ofGPNMB in cartilage is unknown. Our study aims to discover the role of GPNMB incartilage homeostasis in post-traumatic OA.microRNA (miRNA) is a small non-coding RNA consisting of ~22 nucleotides whichregulate gene expression through targeting the 3’UTR region of the target mRNA. miRNAaccounts for 1-5% of the human genome and regulate at least 30% of protein-codinggenes and are involved in cells functions regulation. In our study, we focused on theimpact miRNA-150 on GPNMB in vivo and in vitro.The current study is composed of three hypothesizes. First, GPNMB has an anti-inflammatoryrole in osteoarthritis by reducing the catabolic genes such as MMP-3, MMP-9, MMP-13, ADAMTS4, and interleukin-6 (IL-6). Second, GPNMB is negatively regulatedby miRNA-150 in chondrocytes. Third, GPNMB binds to the CD44 receptor in articularchondrocytes leading to the inhibition of pERK and p-NFkB-65.Five mouse models were used in this study to define the function, mechanism, andregulation of GPNMB in cartilage which involved C57BL/6, DBA/2J, DBA/2J Gpnmb+,CD44 knockout and miRNA-150 knockout mice.Our data showed that GPNMB is expressed in normal articular chondrocytes, andexpression level was higher in damaged cartilage. IL-1ß- induced inflammatory factorsinvolved interleukin-6 (IL-6) and cartilage degradation enzymes such as MMP-3, MMP-9,MMP-13 and ADAMTS4 were downregulated following extracellular domain GPNMBtreatment. Furthermore, immunoprecipitation data showed that GPNMB binds to theCD44 receptor in chondrocytes. We also found that GPNMB inhibits pERK and pNFkB-65 proteins through the CD44 receptor. We also showed that miRNA-150 regulateGPNMB and miRNA-150 knockout has chondroprotective effects in post-traumatic OA.In conclusion, GPNMB is highly expressed in damaged compared to theundamaged cartilage. GPNMB has an anti-inflammatory effect… Advisors/Committee Members: Safadi, Fayez (Advisor), Gail, Fraizer, (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology; Molecular Biology; Osteoarthritis, inflammation, miRNA-150, CD44, GPNMB
Al-Adlaan, A. A. (2017). A NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ROLE OF OSTEOACTIVIN/GPNMB INPOST-TRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS . (Doctoral Dissertation). Kent State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent15114587826723
Al-Adlaan, Asaad A. “A NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ROLE OF OSTEOACTIVIN/GPNMB INPOST-TRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Kent State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent15114587826723.
Al-Adlaan, Asaad A. “A NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ROLE OF OSTEOACTIVIN/GPNMB INPOST-TRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS.” 2017. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Al-Adlaan AA. A NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ROLE OF OSTEOACTIVIN/GPNMB INPOST-TRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Kent State University; 2017. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent15114587826723.
Al-Adlaan AA. A NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ROLE OF OSTEOACTIVIN/GPNMB INPOST-TRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Kent State University; 2017. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent15114587826723
26. Ravneberg, David Huehl. The Innate Immune Response to <i>Francisella tularensis</i>.
Degree: MS, Pathology, 2009, The Ohio State University
► The human immune system is a network of cells, physical barriers, and antimicrobial proteins that keep foreign microorganisms from causing serious disease. Despite many layers… (more)
▼ The human immune system is a network of cells, physical barriers, and antimicrobial proteins that keep foreign microorganisms from causing serious disease. Despite many layers of protection, certain microbes have developed methods of evading the immune system and in some cases, using the host immunity to their advantage. The potential biowarfare agent <i>Francisella tularensis</i> is a highly infectious bacterium that has evolved mechanisms to use immune cells for its benefit. In this thesis we examined two aspects of the innate immune response to <i>F. tularensis</i>. Initially we investigated the role of the cytokine IFN-¿ and the signaling molecule Akt in the production of nitric oxide in macrophages. This investigation included a titration of amount of IFN-¿ required to ‘prime’ the macrophages, a temporal profile of the production of NO as well as inhibitor/transgenic studies to gauge Akt’s impact on the iNOS cascade. Secondly, we tested the immune response to different subspecies of <i>Francisella</i>. Our results showed a striking difference in the level of the immune response to some virulent strains, but not others. Curiously, the moderately pathogenic strain of <i>Francisella</i> seems to evade the host immune response more effectively than strains of greater virulence. Our examination into this immunity gap involved measuring cytokine responses, bacterial growth, intracellular signaling and microarray analysis of infected cells. The studies included in this thesis offer two different approaches to investigating the unknowns during <i>Francisella</i> infection – research into the molecular mechanisms responsible and descriptive study of a novel global phenomenon during infection. Advisors/Committee Members: Tridandapani, Susheela (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology; Microbiology; Francisella; novicida; tularensis; holarctica; iNOS; Akt; infection
Ravneberg, D. H. (2009). The Innate Immune Response to <i>Francisella tularensis</i> . (Masters Thesis). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245416584
Ravneberg, David Huehl. “The Innate Immune Response to <i>Francisella tularensis</i>.” 2009. Masters Thesis, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245416584.
Ravneberg, David Huehl. “The Innate Immune Response to <i>Francisella tularensis</i>.” 2009. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Ravneberg DH. The Innate Immune Response to <i>Francisella tularensis</i>. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. The Ohio State University; 2009. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245416584.
Ravneberg DH. The Innate Immune Response to <i>Francisella tularensis</i>. [Masters Thesis]. The Ohio State University; 2009. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245416584
University of Toledo Health Science Campus
27. Zhang, Nan. Identification of Receptors and Signaling Pathways Involved in Borrelia burgdorferi-Elicited IL-10 and Potential Therapies for Lyme disease.
Degree: PhD, Biomedical Sciences (Infection, Immunity, and Transplantation), 2014, University of Toledo Health Science Campus
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=mco1405591577
► B. burgdorferi (Bb) is an extracellular spirochetal bacterium that causes Lyme disease, a significant vector-borne illness in North America and Eurasia. Bb is transmitted into… (more)
▼ B. burgdorferi (Bb) is an extracellular spirochetal bacterium that causes Lyme disease, a significant vector-borne illness in North America and Eurasia. Bb is transmitted into the skin by an infected-Ixodes tick bite. Despite eliciting strong immune responses, Bb persists within host tissues for extensive times and periodically re-emerges to cause disease. One of the important mechanisms by which Bb evades host immune clearance is its rapid elicitation of high levels of IL-10, an anti-inflammatory cytokine, which suppresses the host immune responses critical for efficient Bb clearance. To date, the IL-10-/- mouse line is the only reported animal model that shows enhanced clearance of Bb. However, the mechanism of how B. burgdorferi elicits this dysregulated IL-10 response is largely unknown. Macrophages (MØs) reside in skin tissues where Bb is initially transmitted into the host, and these cells rapidly secrete high levels of IL-10 upon Bb stimulation. The initial studies of my dissertation project were to elucidate signaling pathways that are critical for the dysregulated IL-10 production by Bb-stimulated MØs, with the ultimate goal of identifying potential Lyme disease-therapeutic targets by blocking those signaling pathways more specific to IL-10 production.Early experiments indicated that Bb-induced IL-10 in MØs did not require phagocytosis. TLR2 signaling was necessary for Bb-induced IL-10 in MØs, as well as pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-a, IL-6), nitric oxide and chemokines (KC, MIP-2a, MIP-1a, MIP-1ß). Bb activated intracellular protein kinase pathways in MØs, including PI3K, MAPK pathways (p38, ERK, JNK) and the NF-¿B pathway. Blockade of JNK and NF-¿B pathways not only reduced Bb-induced IL-10, but also other cytokines and chemokines assessed. However, blockade of either PI3K or p38 or ERK pathway was more specific to diminished IL-10 induced by Bb, as levels of most pro-inflammatory mediators were not affected. In addition, the secretion profiles of cytokines and chemokines were similar in experiments where MØs were stimulated with Bb lipoprotein OspA, suggesting lipoproteins on intact Bb are major stimulants.Experiments were then focused on the p38 MAPK signaling as a pathway that might be blocked to provide direct suppression of IL-10, while allowing production of pro-inflammatory mediators capable of controlling Bb infection. p38 MAPK signaling was substantially decreased in TLR2-/- MØs compared to wild-type MØs. Mice treated with the specific p38 inhibitor SB203580 during Bb infection demonstrated decreased IL-10 production, similar levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, increased levels of neutrophil-recruiting chemokines, and reduced Bb numbers compared to vehicle-treated skin tissues at day 1 post-infection. The reduced Bb numbers were also noted through day 4 post-infection. Linear regression analyses showed that reduced Bb numbers correlated with low IL-10 transcript levels in skin. Intravital confocal microscopy on ear tissues showed that neutrophil numbers were elevated when p38 MAPK pathway was… Advisors/Committee Members: Pan, Z. Kevin (Committee Chair), Wooten, R. Mark (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology; Borrelia burgdorferi, IL-10, p38 MAPK, neutrophil
Zhang, N. (2014). Identification of Receptors and Signaling Pathways Involved in Borrelia burgdorferi-Elicited IL-10 and Potential Therapies for Lyme disease . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Toledo Health Science Campus. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=mco1405591577
Zhang, Nan. “Identification of Receptors and Signaling Pathways Involved in Borrelia burgdorferi-Elicited IL-10 and Potential Therapies for Lyme disease.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toledo Health Science Campus. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=mco1405591577.
Zhang, Nan. “Identification of Receptors and Signaling Pathways Involved in Borrelia burgdorferi-Elicited IL-10 and Potential Therapies for Lyme disease.” 2014. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Zhang N. Identification of Receptors and Signaling Pathways Involved in Borrelia burgdorferi-Elicited IL-10 and Potential Therapies for Lyme disease. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toledo Health Science Campus; 2014. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=mco1405591577.
Zhang N. Identification of Receptors and Signaling Pathways Involved in Borrelia burgdorferi-Elicited IL-10 and Potential Therapies for Lyme disease. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Toledo Health Science Campus; 2014. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=mco1405591577
28. Allen, Rebecca G. Macrophage Microbicidal Activity is Enhanced by Stressor-Exposure.
► Exposure to social stressors is known to prime the innate immune system for enhanced reactivity to inflammatory stimuli, but the mechanisms by which stressor… (more)
▼ Exposure to social stressors is known to prime the innate immune system for enhanced reactivity to inflammatory stimuli, but the mechanisms by which stressor exposure can enhance immune activity are not well-defined. In mice, exposure to a social stressor called social disruption (SDR) increases circulating cytokines and primes splenic macrophages for an enhanced capacity to kill Escherichia coli, primarily through an increased production of the highly microbicidal compound peroxynitrite. Previous results demonstrate that the intestinal microbiota are in part responsible for the SDR-induced increase in circulating cytokines; reducing the microbiota through the use of a broad spectrum antibiotic cocktail prevented the SDR-induced increase in IL-6 and MCP-1. These studies tested the hypothesis that intestinal microbiota also contribute to the stressor-induced increase in the ability of splenic macrophages to kill <i>E.coli</i>. To test this hypothesis with SDR, groups of co-housed male mice were repeatedly defeated through direct interactions between the resident mice and an aggressive intruder. Following stress, <i>E. coli</i> were co-cultured with the splenic macrophages, and the number of bacteria within the macrophages was enumerated at 20 and 90 min (to determine the number of bacteria phagocytosed and then killed, respectively). We also measured changes in iNOS and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression as well as production of both superoxide anion and its reaction product with nitric oxide, peroxynitrite. When endogenous bacterial populations were eliminated through the use of germ free mice or reduced in mice treated with an antibiotic cocktail were stressed with SDR, we failed to observe the characteristic increases in pro-inflammatory cytokine and iNOS expression, superoxide anion, and peroxynitrite production. This lack of stressor-induced changes in splenic macrophage activity was associated with the failure of the stressor to enhance bacterial killing typically associated with SDR. However, when germ free mice were conventionalized to contain the normal gut microbiota and exposed to SDR, the enhanced pro-inflammatory cytokine and iNOS expression, superoxide anion, peroxynitrite, and ultimately the enhanced killing were restored. Additionally, the ability of the gut microbiota to prime splenic macrophages is associated with stressor-increased translocation of bacteria and their products from the intestinal lumen, as evidenced by an increase in circulating peptidoglycan. Importantly, the enhanced translocation of bacterial products is linked with stressor-induced mast cell degranulation and disruption of the intestinal epithelial barrier. When mast cells were inhibited from degranulating in vivo, stressor-exposure failed to enhance splenic macrophage microbicidal activity. Overall, these results indicate that the stressor-enhanced activity of CD11b+ splenic macrophages requires the degranulation of mast cells to disrupt the intestinal barrier and allow the translocation of bacteria and their… Advisors/Committee Members: Sheridan, John (Committee Chair), Bailey, Michael (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Immunology; Stress; macrophage; bacterial killing; gut microbiota; peroxynitrite
Allen, R. G. (2012). Macrophage Microbicidal Activity is Enhanced by Stressor-Exposure . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1324960758
Allen, Rebecca G. “Macrophage Microbicidal Activity is Enhanced by Stressor-Exposure.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1324960758.
Allen, Rebecca G. “Macrophage Microbicidal Activity is Enhanced by Stressor-Exposure.” 2012. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Allen RG. Macrophage Microbicidal Activity is Enhanced by Stressor-Exposure. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1324960758.
Allen RG. Macrophage Microbicidal Activity is Enhanced by Stressor-Exposure. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2012. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1324960758
29. Lu, Jingwei. Development of Effective Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer Using Adoptive gamma-delta T Cells and Small Targeting Molecules.
Degree: PhD, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, 2013, The Ohio State University
► Ovarian cancer is the second leading cancer in women and the leading cause of death from gynecological cancer. Most ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed at… (more)
▼ Ovarian cancer is the second leading cancer in women and the leading cause of death from gynecological cancer. Most ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed at advanced stages with no effective treatment. Human innate and adaptive immune system play a critical role in providing first line of defense against tumor development and regulating tumor progression. The gammadelta T cells, a sub-population in human lymphocytes, bears both the characteristics of innate and adaptive immunity, and was found to be infiltrated in tumor tissue in ovarian cancer patients. The infiltration of gammadelta T cells was found to be associated with a brief disease-free interval in advanced ovarian carcinomas. In my Ph.D. study, I mainly focus on illustrating the molecular mechanisms between the interaction of Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells, a sub-population of gammadelta T cells, and ovarian tumor cells and explored its possible development of an efficient immunotherapy for ovarian cancer patients. In the first step of the study, we found that Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells differentially reduced the proliferation and growth of several ovarian tumor cell lines. Upon co-culture with Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells, A2780 cell line (resistant to Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells-mediated lysis) showed reduced expression of cell-cycle related molecule and entered into equilibrium stage, which is characterized by reduced proliferation. The interaction between Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells and A2780 was found to be partially mediated by NKG2D-MICA recognition. Up-regulation of pErk1/2 was found to be able to partially overcome the resistance of A2780 cells and made the A2780 cell line to move forward towards apoptosis when co-cultured with Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells. In the second part of the study, we focused on illustrating the molecule mechanisms, which regulate the resistance characteristics of ovarian tumor cells towards Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells, and, more specifically, the ATM/ATR signaling pathway, which lies on the upstream of pErk1/2. In this study, we found that down-regulation of ATM/ATR pathways induce down regulation of MICA in ovarian tumor cells resulting in resistance towards Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells. Stimulating ATM/ATR pathway enhances the MICA expression and sensitizes resistance ovarian tumor cells towards Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells mediated lysis. We further show that combining current approved chemotherapeutic drug Etoposide, which induces ATM phosphorylation along with Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells promote the cytotoxicity of resistant ovarian tumor cells. These finding illustrate the detailed molecular signaling pathway that involved in regulating tumor cells to evade immune cells recognition and lysis. The study also indicated that drug promoting ATM signaling pathway might be sued as a combination therapy with Vgamma2Vdelta2 T cells for treating ovarian cancer. Advisors/Committee Members: Das, Hiranmoy (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biology; Biomedical Research; Cellular Biology; Immunology; Medicine; Molecular Biology; Oncology
Lu, J. (2013). Development of Effective Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer Using Adoptive gamma-delta T Cells and Small Targeting Molecules . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366380793
Lu, Jingwei. “Development of Effective Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer Using Adoptive gamma-delta T Cells and Small Targeting Molecules.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366380793.
Lu, Jingwei. “Development of Effective Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer Using Adoptive gamma-delta T Cells and Small Targeting Molecules.” 2013. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Lu J. Development of Effective Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer Using Adoptive gamma-delta T Cells and Small Targeting Molecules. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366380793.
Lu J. Development of Effective Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer Using Adoptive gamma-delta T Cells and Small Targeting Molecules. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366380793
30. Aguilar, Roberto, III. Development of A Testicular Cancer Vaccine.
► Testicular cancer mainly affects men between the ages of 20 and 35 but is the most common male neoplasm between the ages of 15 and… (more)
▼ Testicular cancer mainly affects men between the ages of 20 and 35 but is the most common male neoplasm between the ages of 15 and 34. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) states that localized testicular cancer has a recurrence rate of 15-20% and tumors that are Sertoli or Leydig cell derived fail to respond to chemotherapy or radiation treatments. The recurrence rate may increase to 32% if at diagnosis the tumor is greater than 4 cm in size with invasion of the rete testes. To improve therapy for testicular cancer, we examined the usefulness of a testicular cancer vaccine. We reasoned that such a vaccine may strengthen the body’s natural oncologic defenses and assist in the elimination of local and systemic metastases. Also, the vaccine could be administered as adjuvant therapy in conjunction with current standard of care involving surgery and chemotherapy. Inhibin- is a protein involved in spermatogenesis and is secreted by Sertoli and Leydig cells of the testes. Inhibin- is also expressed in many testicular tumors. We found that vaccination against recombinant mouse inhibin- provides protection and therapy against transplantable I-10 mouse testicular tumors in male BALB/c mice. Similarly, we found that vaccination with the immunogenic p215-234 peptide of inhibin- (In 215-234) provides protection and therapy against the growth of autochthonous testicular tumors that grow spontaneously in male SJL.AMH-SV40Tag transgenic mice. Our results provide a rational basis for developing immune control of testicular cancer. Advisors/Committee Members: Tuohy, Vincent (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical Research; Biology; cancer vaccine; immunology; testicular cancer
Aguilar, Roberto, I. (2016). Development of A Testicular Cancer Vaccine . (Doctoral Dissertation). Cleveland State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1461270103
Aguilar, Roberto, III. “Development of A Testicular Cancer Vaccine.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Cleveland State University. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1461270103.
Aguilar, Roberto, III. “Development of A Testicular Cancer Vaccine.” 2016. Web. 18 Jan 2020.
Aguilar, Roberto I. Development of A Testicular Cancer Vaccine. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cleveland State University; 2016. [cited 2020 Jan 18]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1461270103.
Aguilar, Roberto I. Development of A Testicular Cancer Vaccine. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cleveland State University; 2016. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1461270103
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Home Conspiracy Vault Flower Essences
During the New Age Movement of the 1970s and 1980s,
many discovered aromatherapy, the fragrant essences of certain
plants that are believed to assist the healing process and
the opening to spiritual awareness. So in like measure, many
discovered the healing powers of flower extracts, substances
first isolated by British homeopathic physician Edward Bach
(18861936) in the 1920s. During his early years at the Homeopathic
Hospital in London, Bachs observation of a patient he
was asked to diagnose led him to believe that there were 12
basic personality types. Each personality type was distinguished
by a common set of moods, states of mind, and underlying
weaknesses. He began a search to find substances that could
treat these personality peculiarities that ultimately allowed disease
to exist.
He discovered the first of these remedies in 1929. He next
developed the process of extracting from the plant its healing
substance and doing it in such a way as to enhance its properties.
He went on to isolate 11 additional plant essences, all like
the first located in flowering plants. His discoveries were introduced
to the world in a 1931 text, Heal Thyself. Having found
the 12 basic substances, he turned his search to additional essences
that could help people with specific problems. Through
the 1930s, 26 such essences were isolated. Periodically as a set
of new discoveries was made, he published a new edition of his
book, the last appearing in 1936 as the Twelve Healers and Other
Remedies A Simple Herbal Treatment. He died shortly thereafter
and his remedies were largely unnoticed through the war years.
His work was carried on by several close associates who worked
out of his home, which had been transformed into the Dr. Edward
Bach Healing Center.
The idea of flower essences was rediscovered in the 1960s
by an American herbalist, Leslie J. Kaslof, who created an
American affiliate to the Bach Centre and is largely responsible
for making flower essences known in North America. Through
the 1970s the Bach remedies were integrated into the larger
holistic health movement. Among those influenced by Kaslof
was Richard Katz, who began to experiment on a set of uniquely
California flowers from which he extracted an additional set
of remedies. In 1979, he founded the Flower Essence Society
to publicize the new remedies.
The spread of the message of the Flower Essence Society
suggested that flowers from a number of different locations
could be the source of equally potent remedies, and through
the 1980s and 1990s, other enterprises such as Alaskan Flower
Remedies and Pegasus Products (Colorado) were founded. Second,
the original observation of Bach that there were 12 personality
types was suggestive of a possible correlation between
flower remedies and astrology. In fact, astrologers, such as
Donna Cunningham, discovered such to be the case, and
through the 1990s various astrologers found them a meaning
supplement to their work.
Cynthia Kemp, an astrologer, founded Desert Alchemy to
provide specific lower remedies related to specific events noted
in a chart. Another astrologer, John Stowe, founded Earthfriends
to produce both flower remedies and aromatherapy
products. As astrological remedies, flower essences have enjoyed
a heretofore unprecedented popularity.
Bach, Edward. The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies A Simple
Herbal Treatment. 3rd ed. London C. E. W. Daniel, 1936.
Chancellor, Philip M. Handbook of the Bach Flower Remedies.
New Canaan, Conn. Keats Health Books, 1980.
Flower, Amanda Cameron Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology 5th Ed.
Cunningham, Donna. Flower Remedies Handbook. New York
Sterling Products, 1992.
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Newly Married Justin Bieber Gushes Over His ‘Boyfriend’ On Instagram
December 19, 2018 16:16PM
The singer has had this special someone in his life for years.
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Just because Justin Bieber is married to Hailey Baldwin doesn’t mean he’s not keeping his options open. In fact, the “Boyfriend” singer seemed to have found love with another man!
Turns out Justin has fallen for a rapper he’s previously collaborated with, Jaden Smith! Justin featured Jaden on his track “Never Say Never” in 2011, which was used as the theme song in a remake of The Karate Kid.
The “One Time” singer commented under Jaden’s recent picture on Instagram and alleged he was his boyfriend.
“Thought I was your boyfriend,” Justin commented. The pop star recently married Hailey. She has yet to address her husband’s possible other relationships.
Jaden responded, “You know that you are.” The “Icon” rapper claimed on several occasions that Tyler the Creator was his boyfriend.
Regardless of whether or not Justin and Jaden are dating, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before star Noah Centineo shared his love for Jaden but got no response. Noah commented, “I love you.” Noah previously gushed over Selena Gomez on Instagram as well.
Do you think Justin and Jaden are dating? Sound off in the comments below!
ONE YEAR AGO, TODAY
Justin Bieber's Mom Pattie Gushes Over New Daughter-In-Law Hailey Baldwin
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Follow up on Fritz Frequencies’ Grove
Posted on March 28, 2012 by Scot Hull in Components, Loudspeakers // 4 Comments
Who’s Fritz?
Fritz Heiler makes loudspeakers. He’s the man behind Fritz Frequencies, a one-man shop working out of Los Angeles, and all his gear is Made in the USA. But it’s just him, which pretty much explains why he’s so into the compact 2-way designs — little 2-ways are so much easier to sling around. His work is collecting praise in high places, and the reason for it is pretty obvious — he not only loves what he does, he’s really good at it, too.
Quite frankly, he’s precisely why being an audiophile is so much fun.
Great designs and great components make great speakers, so it isn’t terribly surprising that some of the classics, like Totem or Proac or Dunlavy or [insert great speaker company here] have provided some very fertile ground from which have sprung some of the latest Fritz models. Speakers like the Carbon 7 may have started out with bits found Proac speakers. The Grove may have started out similarly, from cues taken from Dynaudio or Totem speakers. The end result, though, is pure Fritz.
He makes his own cabinets. All his drivers and whatnots come wholesale and are installed, just-so, with a capacitor-less series crossover from Acoustic Reality. He’s meticulous. Each new speaker starts life as a mirror pair, one that he builds to spec, but then varies one element in the mirror, so he can A/B them while voicing — by ear — to see which variable, which parameter, which setting, sounds closer to perfect.
He told me a story about a high school reunion where he met up with someone he’d once sold speakers to. They told him that their grandkids had been thrilled to uncover a big pair of Fritz’s very early efforts tucked away into a closet and had excitedly fired them up — and completely rocked out. That sort of thing gets Fritz all misty-eyed. And it should! That’s a multigenerational kind of cool.
Now in the business full-time since a semi-retirement from his “day job” almost a decade ago, Fritz has collected a bit of acclaim at some of the Western regional audio shows. Neil Gader at TAS reviewed the popular Carbon 7 this past January. That speaker is now on their “Recommended Components List”. This is serious work, indeed.
Over the years, Fritz has worked with some of the world’s best drivers. Raal. Scanspeak. SEAS. His latest thinking about driver combos is on his website. Currently, he’s noodling on another set of speakers featuring Accuton’s famous ceramic drivers, but so far, he hasn’t been satisfied with the low-end. “I think I have a solution there, though” he says while I telepathically shrieked “do it!” — I think this would be an awesome speaker to see come to life. And find it’s way into my system! Ahem.
Another project, closer to fruition, is a possible tweaking of the Rev5 (so named because of Scanspeak’s 5″ Revelator mid range driver that he put in the cabinet) in the next month or so. Stay tuned for that — because when it’s ready, it’s coming here. Oh yeah!
Entering the Grove
A couple of weeks ago, Fritz sent me some of his less-well-reviewed speakers, a model he calls the Grove. Well, they’re almost the Grove. The cabinet I got was an older version, without the fancy magnet-embedded fascia that he’s now shipping. New models don’t have the holes that the pics here show — and can come in any number of veneers. Price is now $1600 due to the scarcity of the rare-earth magnets he uses in this design.
Anyway, I yanked them out of their crates and immediately hooked ’em up and started the music playing. You can read about all that in Part One.
The name is tongue-in-cheek nod to Totem’s Forest speakers. Why? Well, I guess you could say that this is one of the roots from which this model grew. The vented mid-range driver is a Dynaudio clone made by Chinese company HiVi, and it’s pretty close to the original, which is lucky because Dynaudio doesn’t sell theirs to the public anymore. Lucky for Totem, that is, as their Forest (and several others in the Totem lineup) is based on that driver design. A couple of other speakers use HiVi drivers, too, but it’s the Totem models that stand out as making the most obvious use (the Model 1, Mani and a few others all sport Dynaudio drivers, so I suppose Dynaudio is still selling to someone).
The Fury
Since the Groves appeared, I had them mostly on my desktop and wired into one of a pair of integrated amps, either a $4,100 Luxman L-505u, or a $1,500 Red Wine Audio Signature 15. This is definitely a near field set up, and while not necessarily universal in use or configuration (they’re pretty big for sitting on a desk), I am really happy with the sound I got this way. On the Red Wine, the sound was big, deep, and rich.
Moving up, the Luxman is another sweet integrated amp. It has a phono stage. It has a headphone amp. It has blue dials that show you current flow. It’s big, it’s silver, and it’s a Stereophile Class A rated amp.
When hooked into the Luxman, the Grove dropped weight as if it had suddenly come home from spending a few months with Jillian Michaels. The mid range is more transparent. The mid bass is more defined. In comparison, the Grove sounded murky and muddy when it was paired with the Red Wine, but now, the speakers are all buff and ready to play.
Speaking of which. The voice coil on the back of that HiVi driver is a big 3″. That’s a lot, and a lot for an amp to muscle around. So … that means that life will equal power. More power = more life.
… Which brings me to the Plinius. The SA-Reference is a monster of an amp. It’s also $17k or something near it. Huge and 125lbs. 250wpc in Class A/B at 8ohms, with the first 100wpc as all Class A. If it was green, it’d be The Hulk. I actually used to call it “The Beast” whenever I turned it on, because it dimmed all the lights in the basement. That is, until I got it it’s own 20amp feed. Yep, 20amps, and just for the amplifier. That amp is spoiled. But it’s worth coddling. I’m tempted to say that “the amp has the best bass I’ve heard”, which sounds a bit weird as the amp doesn’t really have bass. It passes current. What I mean is that every speaker I hook it to is about to have it’s best-ever bass performance.
With the Luxman, with it’s extremely capable 100wpc, the Grove sounds clear, linear and extended. The jump up to the Plinius adds depth, layers, textures, tone and holography. It’s like stepping into a 3-D image. And not one of those cheesy Avatar images where the canon is the only thing that waves under your nose. Here, we’re talking reproduction in real space. When feeding the Grove this steady diet of New Zealand aluminum, the Grove really opens up. Dynamics, power, drive — it’s was all there with the Luxman, but now, we’ve moved from black belt up to Chuck Norris. Ahem.
I did just about all of my far field listening with the Luxman. Though the spin with the Plinius was a lot of fun, it’s just an absurd comparison to put a $17k amp with a $1600 pair of speakers. Interesting to know what the speakers can offer something to such an expensive amp, sure, but no one is going to do this. What they might do, however, is reach for a big Plinius integrated. That would be interesting.
Wiring was from Black Cat Cables, using the wire from the new Morpheus line. I used these cables because my reference loom from WyWires would have blown the price-appropriateness out of the window of reasonability. The Morpheus cables are also tilted a bit more toward the lean-and-extended side of the spectrum and away from the warm-and-smooth-but-frequency-extreme-challenged cables. I thought the match appropriate for these speakers.
Okay, so, let me dig in a little more specifically. Louis Armstrong’s marvelous LP, Satchmo Plays King Oliver, has one of my favorite tracks by the famous trumpeter, a delicious down-tempo dirge called “St James Infirmary”. This is a rather thoroughly covered cover, but I think most of those are simply played too fast. Here, the music is powerful and mournful, and sort of ominous — if you can get the bass to fill out. Played back over the Grove, I got the shivers. Satchmo is all growl here and the sound coming out of the Grove will convince you that your diet is far too light. We’re talking mo’ butter and roux, here, son. Gwanta heff us sahm etouffee tonigh’, son! Mmm, mmm.
Switching to digital at some undefined later point, I queued up a neat track called “My Name”, off of Living Road by Lhasa. Another eerie track (there must be something in the water over here), the song really emphasizes the quiet spaces to fill the listener with a taste of some vicariously experienced horror. It’s awful. And wonderful. And through the Grove, the notes ring out clearly, fully, and explosively. I love this track.
Want bass? Jem’s Finally Woken CD has a fun little sexy-time tune called “Come On Closer” with a really cool deep-bass progression that’s rather simple and very weighty. While not as skull-crushing as the bass on the Martin-Logan display at AXPONA this year (my new bass reference), by way of the Grove, it was, nonetheless, akin to being hit in the face with a mallet.
I (very) recently sold a pair of Totem Model 1 Signatures, which were my reference monitor for years and years. The bass on these little 12″ tall speakers is legendary — and it uses the same vented Dynaudio driver that the HiVi emulates so successfully. It’s has to have a crazy excursion because there’s no other reasonable explanation why those little Totems can do what they do.
Natural comparison for the Grove, right?
Well, no. Compared to the Grove, my old Model 1s gave up, went out, and decided on an early 3-martini lunch, instead. It’s not that the Grove played louder, sounded bigger, filled more space, had better layering or had better image-lock. It was more refined. So much so, that I think I’m going to have to give up the comparisons with Totem — the Grove doesn’t really sound like the old Totem line. I prefer it, but it’s not the same.
If pushed, I’d say I was much more reminded of my brief stint with a pair of Totem Mani-2 speakers, which are far closer to the Grove in size. And output. You want to know why Stereophile classifies the Mani-2 Signature as a “full range” (not LF-restricted) speaker? It sounds HUGE. Yes, it’s compact, it just doesn’t act that way. You got a problem with that? This is precisely how the Grove plays, too, but … it does so for almost 1/4 the price of the $5500 Mani-2 Signature. Hmm? Hmm. Hmm!
The Grove sports a silk-domed Morel tweeter, another nod to a Dynaudio heritage, which I personally happen to prefer to the metal tweeters, such as, say, might be found in the old Totems. While I got plenty of good imaging on either speaker, I find the Morel to just have that little bit of more — an addition that brings a healthy dash of added refinement and delicacy to the top end. Happily, there’s also no etch, no bite, no grain, and no bad treble juju — something I’ve had to be cautious with on the old Totems. Component matching is always important, but I find the Grove more friendly to a wider variety of gear, including very linear and extended amps, probably because of that sweet little tweet.
To me, Tekton Designs provides an interesting comparison. Both companies strive to create value at affordable prices, and both companies are striking examples of how much audio excellence has come down to the entry-level market. They take different approaches but get to, pretty much, the same place. Not that I’d recommend anyone actually get on to the audiophile train, but for those that have already been infected with the disease and are looking to get their leg up and over the rail that marks the barrier between healthy and dangerous territory, either company presents a fantastic entry into the world of audio’s high-end.
Tekton’s approach leverages a Spartan aesthetic and pairs it with low-cost pro-audio bits and bobs. The goal is to recreate the scale and feel of the live event — Tekton speakers play big, clear and loud — and as for the traditional audiophile widgets and whatnots, well, Tekton has historically steered clear. The notable exception being the recent — and very welcome — introduction of SEAS drivers to the line up.
As I mentioned, Fritz goes a different route. His current designs start as seeds cast off from other audiophile greats before he tweaks them into something more, and his models leverage those audiophile-grade parts, which he then puts into an audiophile-grade box. “The best, for less” if you will. If I had to bet, I think most audiophiles will cozen to the Fritz approach a bit more readily, if only because they’ll probably have heard of the bits and bobs that Fritz uses, because they’re audiophile brands.
Either way you end up, you’re in for a treat.
The $1400 Tekton Lore S is a truly remarkable speaker, and ranks up with the best values I know of in today’s high-end. If it is more detailed than the Grove, it’s not by much. It’s also not as coherent, and while the bass goes deeeper, it’s not as controlled. Both speakers tend toward neutral, but I found the Grove to be more forgiving with average recordings. On the Grove, the high-res re-releases of the Smashing Pumpkins Gish and Siamese Dream are a wonderfully dynamic and exhilarating listen. On the Tekton, they’re a little tedious.
In an altogether unfair move, the smoother and much more expensive (at $2500) Tekton Pendragon evens the playing field, if only a bit, before tilting it all hopelessly wingwangy. The Grove comes across as more refined than either Tekton but it is a great deal more detailed than the Pendragon. However, the Pendragon counters by going far lower and plays WAY louder. All the imaging benefits of a small-box 2-way get overwhelmed by the grandiosity of the sound stage put together by the Big Tektons’ honkin’ twin-10″ drivers and vast speaker cabinet. Said another way, I can kill you with the Pendragon, where the Grove can only be set to stun. Like I said, it’s not a fair comparison, but then, the prices are “only” $900 apart. Interesting to see what you could get, or lose, if you chose to spend more — and have a lot of extra space to fill.
The Grove sounds a bit fat in the mid range (and down through the mid-bass, actually), until it gets adequate power. The Vaughn Pinot Monitor, another compact speaker I happen to have on hand, is a bit different. Sorry — that’s a bit like saying that up is “a bit different” than down. The two speakers, for all that they’re about the same size, go in different directions, so comparisons are really hard. The Pinot is far faster on its feet and more neutral — and never sounds “fat” regardless of what you feed it. The Pinot is almost 9dB more sensitive, so bring out your low-power amps — in fact, tubes sound better here, much better than, say, my high-power solid-state amps, which sound thin. With the Grove, better put those tubes back on the shelf — and this is what makes things tough. The Grove is more detailed, with fuller tone and a deeper, more forceful bass — just make sure you bring the watts.
So, that leaves a lot of odd-ball speaker comparisons of somewhat limited utility, now all scattered across the page like so many leaves and about as helpful. Let me add one more.
The Joseph Audio Pulsar is my reference-class compact speaker. It’s devastatingly good. It’s also eye-wateringly expensive at $7k a pair. Is it worth it? That is impossible to say — I think so, but I know a lot of you would choke at the very idea. Ever hear about that non-linear price-performance curve? Yeah. We’re on it. Going up significantly and clearly from the Grove almost entails something wacky happening to pricing. Okay? Now, putting all those considerations aside, let me just get this out of the way — the Pulsar is the best sounding compact speaker I’ve ever heard. The fact that it’s my reference isn’t doing any particular competitor any favors, so let’s just use it as a whetstone for a moment. No, the Grove isn’t able to successfully pull off a David-and-Goliath routine here — by every measure, save cost, the Pulsar is clearly the better speaker. But — of all those I’ve mentioned so far, it’s also the only speaker that is clearly better.
First and Last and Always
Take a poll. Ask a thousand randomly selected audiophiles what their first audiophile-grade speaker purchase, new or used, was. Chances are pretty high that the answer is Totem.
My first audiophile-grade speakers were Totem Forests. I bought them from a friend who then promptly went out and picked up a pair of used Totem Shamans! But it was this first acquisition of a pair of Totems that, arguably, set my feet along this winding path … let’s just say that I’m a Totem fan from way-back.
But, things change. Markets fluctuate. The value of the US Dollar vs the Canadian Dollar did the unthinkable. And time passes …. I sold all that gear years ago but the Forests remain a darling in my memories. Timeless? It’s a great speaker, sure, but it isn’t the value play it was 8 years ago.
“You cannot step twice into the same stream” is an old philosophical saw. Thank you, Heraclitus. I think being that literal is a bit boring, even if it’s strictly true, so perhaps you’ll forgive me when I say that my time with the Grove has been a wonderful trip. Ah, the memories! And while I have moved on since those heady, pre-kid days, it’s also nice to see that the sound that got me started has also moved on. Traded up, if you will. If I’d had this, back then? My system might still be “back then”, too.
Pair up your Groves with a big amp from Peachtree or maybe NAD and you’ll have a killer system — one that would absolutely smash what I started out with, back then — and would be a great deal cheaper.
Here’s the quotable finale for you. The Grove is a big-hearted box speaker that will dig deep, throw up a huge sound stage, carve all your players in generous 3-D images, tip-toe through your tulips, make you coffee, call you darling, and make you believe it with a visceral twinge of nostalgic longing that’s on par with a swift kick in the gut. Okay, maybe that was just me, but hey, who doesn’t like coffee? I’m always appalled at how much great sound costs, and for the most part, us audiophiles are pretty much stuck paying it if we want that sound. Or need it. So, it is with great relish that I turn to Fritz. Still, not exactly cheap, but assuming that you’re already playing at this level, you won’t have to choose to give up your cake — you can eat that sumbitch, too.
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2 Comments on Follow up on Fritz Frequencies’ Grove
Mark Mendenhall // March 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM //
Probably the most enjoyable, fun review I’ve ever read, and I’ve read far too many! Excellent comparisons.
stew // March 29, 2012 at 1:11 PM //
John “Fritz” Heiler is a very generous person. While writing a review for the Merril DCA 5.5 drivers for Affordable$$Audio a few years back, he suggested he could send me a pair of enclosures. For whatever the reason that never happened. John had suffered a loss to his family and I did not have the need to bother him . I ended up emailing him. He suggested a 11-12 litre sealed enclosure. I cut a new baffle for a salvaged pair of enclosures I had (old, nice Wharfedale Denton IIs) and installed the Merrills. To say I wasn’t prepared would be an understatement.
This is just a single example of his personal generosity. I am sure there are many others out there. I still listen to my ugly salvaged enclosures with the full-range Merrills almost every single day in my main system.
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Tonight: Michael Moore on Iraq, Guns, and the Pope
On the 10 year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, this evening Piers Morgan will welcome Michael Moore for a live, face to face interview.
Taking to his Twitter account, which boasts nearly 1.5 million followers, earlier today the filmmaker offered some reflection:
10 yrs ago tonight. To think, our own president did this. He was an American, but he told a lie so he could send other Americans off to die.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) March 19, 2013
Joining "Piers Morgan Live" for the entire hour, Moore will share the trademark brand of candor and insight that has made him a household name, in the process landing his films on lists amongst some of the most influential, controversial, and polarizing of the last quarter of a century.
Outspoken on politics, the environment, and the economy, the 58-year-old native of Michigan is also particularly passionate about assault weapons and firearm legislation, a theme that led to his 2002, Academy Award winning movie "Bowling for Columbine."
Based around the events that led to the massacre at Columbine High School, Moore has since become a national voice on gun control, last discussing the matter with Morgan in July, following the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.
So frustrated and enraged by the incident and those before it, Moore promised that he wasn't "going to come on another one of these damn TV shows either, after the next one of these shootings." It was a pledge he kept, even through the December tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
However, in advance of what he's calling a "Mass Movement Against Gun Violence," tonight Moore will again address an issue about which he says "now is the moment to make this happen."
Tune in this evening at 9 as the man behind such films as "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Roger & Me" further addresses topics he deems critical to the future of the country.
1. On the Popoe, Why dos anybody need Rome, Italy's permission to do anything or on how to raise our families? seduce our bank accounts. Dint God implement FreeWill?
March 19, 2013 at 6:51 pm | Report abuse | Reply
That's funny so your getting upset about the amount of control the Pope has over the Catholic Church, but at the same time you advocate the control the government should have over the freedom and const*tional right of Americans. Sounds like you need a checkup from the neck up.
CR how are ya. do you have a serious issue to talk about? The pope is just my opinion, pretty silly watching for that white smoke and feeding for the approval of the wobbling cardinals and the grand Pope to make a discion in ones life for the future of your family CR!
March 19, 2013 at 7:18 pm | Report abuse |
Scott go and get your checkup!
Beth Thind
I applauded Piers and Michael Moore in last night's interview. I completely agree with everything talked about–especially the constant lack of any meaningful assault weapons bans passing in congress. Even govenor John Hinkenlooper of Colorado today passed a law requiring background checks for private and online gun sales and a ban on ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. I also emailed senator Harry Reid re his lack of courage in the senate to strongly promote with his colleagues passing the bill against the sale of all assault weapons. Thanks for encouraging we citizens, Piers.
On the Iraq war. Thanks Bush regime for starting an illegal war you say was just to satisfy a personal agenda ( my opinion, but millions say it). Still today in your books you glorify the president and vice president ( the puppet master of the scam) decimated our economy with the bill and the loss of over 4000 american soildiers! come on, tell me why it was justified. America wants to hear the psycotic logic for the Blunder!
And where would the world be today if we hadn't have gone into Iraq? The decision to go in, or not, was a right versus right decision. Unless you've lived in the Middle East and experienced the oppressive and brutal society that many Muslims live under you have no place to comment.
$ 4 trillion richer in the US bank, 4000 live american troops , the middle east would have took care of Saddam, and we woludnt have been duped in the biigest scam the presidancy has ever brought apon the history of its existance CR1
I think you've forgotten the Vietnam War which was a much bigger scam, if you want to put it that way, which cost over 58,000 American lives.
Well you know what. They had a Tax leid to pay for the vietnam war . And we had a tax put forth for every War, except Bush's deceptive Iraqi war and the afganastan war that with the two that deleted our surplus from the clinton era and totaled to the 6 – 7 trillion in added deficeit ( debt ) to our economy right now. Do some more research.
Scott, I thought you were worried about saving lives, not the costs?
Just like any other scam the victim brains is squeezed out first. You need to wake up and see who is running our country, it's not the dish rag Mosloms it's Israel stupid.
March 19, 2013 at 11:15 pm | Report abuse |
Jeff.
Thanks congress for authorizing it
March 19, 2013 at 10:13 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Ok now, GUNS. In no way did anybody say ban all guns. But yet, Ignorant, stupified individuals, while some with guns already dont think we should do anything about the out of sight deaths and viloence from guns. No need for a National gun registry thats a data base to start the quest for weeding out the criminals and getting illegal guns of the streets in TIME, not tomorrow as the excuse keeps coming it wont make a difference ( The do nothing whackos and people who have something to hide) yet it will in time crack down on the sleazy street gun dealers and the unaccountable doings at some sanctioned gun shows ( Ethics, man) Go ahead and deny logic and common sense, but us very concerned americans will follow through with the new gun legislation. Lokk on your TV and the world CNN etc. the laws are on the floor and change is imminent. Keep rejecting the assault weapons banned the NRA right fenatics, your are so much helping our cause in the soon elections. the Nation sees your votes and change is coming. And the GOP is with its denial of equality rights for all, and rejection of womens rights, Keep up the arguement. Good as gold!
The polls are slipping. Even in left leaning Colorado, public opinion has shifted dramatically away from the ban and restrictions the state legislature has tabled. Lawmakers there badly misread the pulse of voters. The losers in Colorado will be the Democrats.
Gov. Cuomo's poll ratings have also slipped since his over reaching on the gun issue.
Political ambitions never drives the best policy. Cuomo's 2016 presidential ambitions are shot, he will never be president now. NYS is the 4th largest gun owning state in the country. I think many gun owners are just waking up to what's happened. Cuomo's bill was so far reaching not only from a const*tional standpoint but also from the impact it has had on traditional shooting sports in the state and businesses that it has devasted in that field that it simply doesn't pass the smell test. The bill's passage certainly didn't follow protocol.
Don Wilkinson
Don't own a gun, but listening to Michael Moore makes me want to join the NRA. If you want to get something done, get some credible spokespersons. Moore is not credible.
harhar
Piers and Michael look like kin.
harhardehar
Piers and Michael look like kin. Aye
Amanda Ryan
Why won't my posts go up?
Scott – Seriously! Heres some logic an common sense for your idiotic argument. The argument is framed as follows: Ban assault weapons in order to prevent another Sandy Hook. In 2011, the number of deaths where an assault weapon was used is .012 (1%). This fact leads one to logically conclude that a ban on assault weapons does nothing to stop or prevent future deaths. So why do it? Why not pursue legislation that will actually make a difference. Such as, allow law abiding citizens to carry their guns and be able to respond when some maniac decides to go on a shooting rampage! The police and the government can only respond after the fact. They cannot protect you or your family against someone that wants to hurt you. They can only pursue and arrest them after you are dead!
Logic: TheSandy Hook shooter got his guns from his mother, who got them legally because there was no assault weapons/high capacity clip ban.
Does anyone know how to send an email to harry Reid? I tried harry_Reid@Reid.senate.gov but it did not work.
March 20, 2013 at 4:43 am | Report abuse |
We had a gun registry in Canada for 15 years. Here is what we found. Many people did not register their guns in the first place, making them criminals who`s only crime was not registering. Those who did register were constantly worried that the lists of the guns had fallen into the wrong hands and that they would now be victims of break and enters or even violent home invasions.The gun registry database was hacked into more than 400 times the police admitted. Gun owners were also worried that the police would now treat them differently than those who did not own guns.That is, they felt the police would approach them with fear and be triggy happy, expecting that perhaps they might be shot. Every time the police attended a call, they were warned that there were registered guns there. Of course there might be guns at any residence because not all people registered their guns in the first place, giving the police a false sense of security. Anonymity of gun owners who had guns actually protected all citizens because nobody was sure if those inside might be armed. Even those without guns had this protection. Neighbours would snitch on others who had unregistered guns. In one case, a senior citizen in his 80`s who had a couple of un-registered guns innocently confided in a neighbour whom he thought he could trust with this information. The senior was arrested at gun point, taken to police headquarters, stripped of his clothes and thrown in a cell. His guns were destroyed. He was later released and charged with a criminal act. The gun registry also relies on serial numbers. If those serial numbers are removed, the gun immediately becomes untraceable and the person who the gun is registered to can sell or lend or give that gun away and it can not be traced back to them. Gun owners are not audited and if there were, they could claim that gun stolen or lost in the bottom of a big lake when they were boating with it when the boat turned over accidentally.The registry could also be used by a tyrannical government to disarm the people.History has proven this.
Real gun control begins at home. The money spent on a registry would be better spent giving grants for gun safes and trigger locks. Licensing is used here in Canada and anyone caught with a gun without a license has their guns taken and they are charged. A gun registry is a witch hunt and puts citizens in a bad position all around.
You think, Youd really better look again and put your money where you mouth is. the GOP (NRA) is on a roller coaster of tradgedy with its 1950's political agena and ideas. They stooped to low efforts to have sarah palin to the RNC to again divide the base, (we love the show). The head of the new RNC sloagan is helarious with his New age ,re-wording of the old, out dated sloagan of the war against women and the right to prochoice, gay rights, OH: thrying to encourage the minorities with new vrebage that they want their vote but they dispises you even though your the new majority, Oh that hurts! Now lets talk about the new gun legislation thats on the floor now ( turn to the world news) and see the legislation gain power to restore american safty. Those GOP that vote NO are being watchd by the american population as a whole right now and will get annilated at the next election. Ill be there to remind you!
Wow sm. you really have buried your head in the sand. You have had too much to drink of the liberal Koolaid. The tax and spend policies of your liberal buddies will come home to roost before long. The GOP will be there to pick up the pieces and save this country.
I believe in reform and a more equal society, but what I can't tolerate is an arrogant government that wants to legislate the way and means I can protect myself and family.
Id think you might not know how to handle a gun, You might hurt yourself. I could be wrong. thanks for reposting the video ,that puts half a smile on my face. talk to ya soon sir.
Just to remind you of that arrogance Scott, I'm posting your favorite video!
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzEd6MNihlg&w=640&h=360]
At least the girl is cute!
What a moron
Gil Ostler
As a Canadian watching the Iraq war day in and day out ... i'm proud of my government for staying out of Iraq and the ensuing quagmire that it has become ... Americans should read Vincent Bugliosi's book " The Case Against George W. Bush for Murder " ... it will illuminate you greatly about what he and his conspirators did and what should and can be done about them.
I was rather embarrassed by Canada's none commitment. Jean Chretien's decision to stay out was merely political to placate his liberal base in Quebec. His decision not to enter was not based on any moral conviction, that's for sure. Sadly it's impact is still being felt vis a vis US Canadian relations today.
I agree with you about Canada. When an allied coalition is in a binding agreement all coutries should follow through with their obligations with their stated concerns noted. In a million to one chance Canada was invaded they would call on the allied coalition with expectations to assist. Its their choice,but it could come back tobite them in the butt. I was totally against bush's ( Chainey as the pupet master) Iraq war, we were all ready commited to a serious war>
Ya it figures another bad seed to our north we should of beaten you back in the 1700 wars Canada is a pain in the butt you all wine and talk lots of crap about the us but where do you go for healthcare and to make millions keep you're crappy singers up there please and don't come here for health visits we have to deal with our own broken Obama care now I use to own a home in dig by so I have herd it all from my relatives
March 20, 2013 at 12:59 am | Report abuse | Reply
Thomas the Canadian.
not sure if you are aware, but we have full healthcare coverage in Canada with the best cancer hospitals and leading edge science. So I am confused by your comment. Why would a Canadian drive over the boarder to the US to pay for their hospital bill when it's free in Canada. Moron.
Also as a Canadian that make over 200k a year. I am proud to pay 50 percent taxes to make sure that me and all other Canadians who can't afford it have well taken care of , hospitals, streets, infrastructure. Also I'm glad we didn't go to Iraq. We don't feel the need to go to war or pick fights in the playground. We would rather play like adults and do business with our words not out fists. In the mature world of adults that's why your country is falling apart and ours is thriving. Maybe you should come to Canada and get a health check up. 😉 it's free.
@Thomas the Canadian. If health is so good in Canada, why did the former Permier of New Foundland opt to have his heart operation in the US?
March 20, 2013 at 11:25 am | Report abuse |
Griff.
"You an Englishman, and you're just another a dictator, Pierse?? You're no better than Obama. I don't wonder Britain don't want you!!"
This is a serious question, what is your issue or what are you trtying to get across to us on this website besides are current knowledge that you cant stand Piers, But you pop up on here every other night. I just cant get a grasp on where you stand on any issue, Please enlighten us. just curious, are you British ?
Gail young
As usual, Michael Moore is bringing it! Awesome. Someone with refreshing courage. 6,500 dead in a war that was a lie.
The only thing Michael Moore is bringing are donuts to stuff his face with after the show.
Don't own a gun, but listening to Michael Moore makes me want to join the NRA. His appearance will result in record gun and ammo sales tomorrow. If you really want to accomplish something get some credible guests.
Ray Barnes
You're right about Moore being a motivator to action, I just wrote both my state Senators to OPPOSE any proposed gun control measures and I just donated $100 to the NRA. The second ammendment is the freedom that guarantees all others.
Morgan and Moore ......... I am thankful they are only a couple of talking heads that wish a for totalitarian society. They will be making their millions pedaling the absurd while all the rest of us are working for wages that actually provide the goods and services that serve society. Like the watching the Kardashians, sometimes I have to tune in to see what the media can actually put on the air and get sponsors to pay for!
brasstacs
I'm sick of liberals spewing about banning semi automatic rifles which are incorrectly called assault rifles....According to the FBI more people are killed in this country each year with hammers then with rifles..Foaming.Libs like Michael Moore and Piers Morgan haven't a clue about what they're talking about...because if they did their outrage would be directed where it should be directed and that's at the criminal thugs ...By far the most shooting deaths done in this country are done by criminal thugs shooting other thugs with illegal handguns...None of these bans would have prevented any of those mass shootings,and these libs know it...The bans that ended in 2004 proved that these bans don't work and were a dismal failure..this is a fact and not a theory.
hey, I genuallyam just curious, Do You Own A semi-automatic gun? or are you just argueing just to argue about something that dosent effect you at this point in time. Do you have government conspiracy theories , do you attend on using an assaut weapon ( the sloppy cutting machine which is uncontrollable in the mdst of a flash accurance) to shoot first and ask questions later. inquireing minds liked to know.
colleen kelly mellor
Tried to email harry reid to tell him to put back assault rifle ban but hit a wall when "nevada" listed as his region..I'm in nc and ri..mike..give us the email address exactly where our message can get thru
Harry reid doesnt care about you get over it
On guns, as Canadians, my family and I will no longer travel to the United States. We've always known of the right to bear arms, but, recent events are just too shocking and serious for us to feel safe.
Your comment is completely ridiculous. You have a greater chance of being struck by lightning, killed in a road accident, or hit by a drunk driver than being shot in the US. On a per capita basis there have been nearly as many mass shootings in Canada. Remember most of the shootings that happen in the US or any country for that matter are more often than not gang related and occur in deprived neighborhoods, neighborhoods you are unlikely to ever visit. Get real! You're just being silly!
Dear CR. Ridiculous or not, you in your country have mass shootings in public places involving innocent bystanders. We do not in Canada have the gun violence equal to the same proportion of our population. This speaks for itself. Frankly, the whole right to bear arms is nothing short of ridiculous and dangerous.
What about all the shootings in Toronto and Vancouver. Reports of these are in the press almost daily.
Adam NYC
What fantasy world are you living in? As of a decade or so, the # of people killed by guns in the US was greater than Canada and dozens of other countries, and it was greater by 2,3, 5, or 10 times. I'm sure that the figures haven't changed much since. Nice way to argue– just invent stats out of thin air!
Adam it sounds like you are making the stats up now. The overall homicide rate (murder by all means) in the US is just over twice that of Canada's. If you want to do some other comparisons using Canada, Canada's overall homicide rate is nearly two and half times higher than countries like Switzerland, Germany and France. Surprisingly though these three European counties are some of the biggest gun owning nations on the planet and are ranked 3rd, 4th and 5th globally in terms of private gun ownership. On a per capita basis the Swiss own more than twice the number of guns as Canadians, and the Germans and French more than 50% more. So if guns are really the problem these three countries should have significantly higher homicide rates than our good neighbor to the north, but they don't. All three have some of, if not the lowest homicides rates in the world. The problem in this country is not about the number guns we own, but about the vast and ever growing inequality gap that exists.
Great Elizabeth – stay out! We don't need your liberal money.....
Steve, you are nothing short of rude and only hurt the perception of Americans.
Hey, I'm from Canada and listening to these two fear mongering idiots on gun control makes me want to stay out of the US too .. not because of guns, but because of lefty idiots like those two!
that's fine with me, you can stay in Canada, I live in Las Vegas and I OPEN CARRY, because I can, and I will, and it is legal to do so. So if you don't like our country, then don't come here.
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I am so sick of this guy, he needs to go back to England and take Mike Moore with him. They are so stupid to think Guns kill people rather than look at the person behind the gun. Looking at it the way they do, what is the difference in saying Cars kill people. Guns are a mechanical device just like a car. More people are killed by cars than guns. So whats next, take our cars? If they don't like guns, then don't use them but who are they to force their opinion on others.
When are the fanatics in the NRA going to come up with a new argument? No assault weapons ban assures us that Newtown will happen again. Cancer doesn't kill people, people kill people! Why do you want to see more children murdered?
The name "Michael Moore" is not spoken in my household, EVER.
Why because you all can't read or understand English?
If criminals obeyed our laws, we would have zero murders.
Laws are like locks, they only keep honest people outside the door.
No government can legislate what is in the mind of an individual citizen, even one who is mentally incompetent.
Law abiding citizens did not kill anyone in Columbine, Aurora or Sandy Hook.
Piers and Michael have very well placed emotions, just misplaced anger.... Their anger should be focused on the judges and legislators who take the teeth out of crime sentences for criminals, including the ones who illegally use a firearm in the commission of a crime. The idea of declaring schools "gun free zones" is absolutely stupid... Since when do criminals obey laws ??? That's why they are called criminals !!! Make the punishment harsher for violent crimes, and don't weenie out on using the death penalty !!! I don't care if it is a deterrent to another criminal or not, eliminate the criminal that performed the heinous acts !!! Piers... you keep talking about the kill rate with guns for the past year... more people were killed last year with hammers, you twit !!!! Don't jump on some emotional bandwagon.... work towards something that is constructive, that can provide real results !!!! Criminals certainly are NOT going to turn in their guns just because a ban exists on them... And now Michel is talking about the damage from an AR type rifle and how the bullets "shred" the bodies of the little kids... has he ever seen what a single shotgun blast does to a body ??? What a moron Michael Moore is....
I am NOT an NRA member, nor do I own a gun... however, I understand the rights to own and maintain a firearm, and acknowledge that a firearm, in the hands of a criminal, can be devastating.... however the key point is IN THE HANDS OF A CRIMINAL !!!! Law abiding citizens do not do what these evil people do.... Do not for a second think that any "assault" rifle ban is going to even touch the real problem, because it won't.... Even if you could round up every single pistol and rifle of any type in this country in one instance, the bad guys would still get them.... from China, from Korea, from Syria, from wherever they could, and still perform evil in this country.... Once again, that's what makes them CRIMINALS !!!!
The fact that you are discussing this issue with this moron as opposed to any ordinary person off the street fits the stupid premise of your mind dulling show......to a "T".........
Can you please post Harry Reid's e-mail address or scroll it at the bottom of the screen, please?
Where is Mr. Moore's outrage at the entertainment industry? It has been reported that the Sandy Hook killer treated his killing spree as a video game.
Remember, Moore is not likely to vilify the very industry he works in!
Piers and Michael both need to quit whining. This is America. Go home Piers
Keep up the good work Piers!!!!
Michael Moore is correct about the Criminals who took us into the Iraq War(s) based on Total Lies... However, Michael Moore is WAY OFF BASE when it comes to the Gun Control issue!!! Obama is just a continuation of Bush in so many ways - he has issued "Executive Orders" that would make Hitler look like a Schoolboy... Make no mistake: Globalists Absolutely Want to Disarm America! ...
Stand strong, America - Flush Fiendstein's Gun Control Bill, Completely!!!
Adam did not use a Bushmaster at Sandy Hook it was all done with a pistol. I wish Piers would get his facts straight.
Amalee
WHO CARE WTH HE KILLED THEM WITH???!!!
The fact is they were killed. If you ask me, they're ALL ASSULT WEAPONS.
..next thing we hear is he shot them from behind, in the dark, they were all handicapped minorities killed for oil, eh.
Mine is not an assault weapon. It has never assaulted anyone. Mine has kindness. When a criminal attempts to harm my family. I will then kill them with kindness.
Hes a lib he doesnt care about facts just emotions
Jerry Conchilla
You and Michael Moore talked about how the Connecticut shooter used an assault rifle to shoot each child multiple times.
HE DID NOT USE AN ASSAULT RIFLE!! The rifle was found in his car. He used pistols to kill the kids. You have got to read the reports before you distort the truth.
Betty Robbins, Ph.D.
Dear Piers,
Please ask one of your guests on gun control why it is that we have agrede we can regulate the 1st Amendment, the foundation of Democracy, yet not the 2nd Amendment. I cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater or burn a cross in my neighbor's yard. Those acts are illegal,and regulated under the 1st Amendment,; yet I can purchase assault rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. How perverted are these priorities? Please explain.
Shame on Harry Reid. Does he not have any child in Iraq, any grandchild in a public school, any loved one going to a shopping mall?
Sentekin Can
Ms. Robbins, Thanks for speaking our minds. As all over the world the rich (republicans here) and starts the wars, the poor kids fight and die.
Can you please put HARRY REID'S email up for everyone to see?? I missed it and when looking for it found that it isn't listed. (Because of the amount of emails)- Micheal Moore is right, we all need to email this government turd if we want change in this country. I am a monther of two elementaryschoolers and i know I'm gonna stand up and do something.
Yeah, right after you posy your email.....
http://www.reid.senate.gov
Aviti811@gmail.com
Have a field day.
michael weir
peirs and Michael, those kids was just babies, their blood cries out for us to do something,
V felix
Sent my emails to Reid, Rubio and Nelson. Lets see if I get an answer other than a form letter. Whole gun issue makes me ill. Where are the politicians with guts? Vote them out in the next election if they can't pass a gun control law. It's not a lifetime job
Thank you harry reid!
WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY TODAY,CRY BABY PIERS MORGAN GOT HIS , AND HE IS SAD BECAUSE WE DIDNT BAN THE ASSAULT WEAPONS, WHO REALLY THOUGHT WE WOULD OR SHOULD, HAHAHAHA AT YOU, CRY PIERS CRY, YOU CRY BABY, GET OVER IT, THIS WOULDNT FIX ANYTHING ANYWAY, GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE , PEOPLE DO , I HAVE GUNS THEY DONT SHOOT ANYBODY, THEY SHOOT PAPER , AT GUN RANGES ONLY.
Amen dana
Hmmmm, I'm thinking they got a discount on a nice hotel room for the night .. with a California King sized bed?
Democrats promote the culture of death via their endorsement of abortion. We have an entertainment industry that promotes a culture of violence. The Sandy Hook killer was obsessed with violent video games. So why have we not heard Piers or Mr. Moore calling out their fellow liberals and co-workers in the entertainment industry on their role in the rise of violence in our country?
If we are to believe that simply viewing a cigarette ad will cause people to smoke, it follows suit that viewing violent movies and games causes people to act out that way. Will Mr. Moore have the guts to call out his fellow rich liberals in the media for their part in this?
It's really sad when Michael Moore is considered an expert witness on anything. When a conspiracy theorist comes on and spews generalities as facts it turns us off! Shame on them for accusing responsible gun owners of wanting tragedies like sandy hook to happen. Graffic images and discussion on children being murdered is not appropriate.
Pam Arterburn
Somebody tell Piers to let Michael Moore talk. He needs to LISTEN rather than talk on top of MM and change the direction of the conversation every 30 seconds. Jesus. Whatever happened to a host who actually understood that the GUEST should be the focal point of an INTERVIEW? Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Dick Cavett, Johnny Carson–Piers, watch these shows and study up. You ranting while an expert is sitting there NOT talking is not an interview!
Piers, Please keep it going. "When good people do nothing"....disaster happens/has happened. Thanks for your tenacity and courage. Couldn't care less about the whinning 2nd Amenders...stupid, stupid, stupid non-thinking paralyzed in another century folk.
Tedd
“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” - Edmund Burke
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
It’s only been 70 years since WW2 ended. And already, many people have forgotten the important teachings from the most unfortunate event, for example, how Hitler so quickly came to power in a formerly “democratic” country and triggered a world war, and how over 60 MILLION people were killed in the atrocities of WW2.
“Our children's safety and future” is the VERY reason why we the people need to be well-armed. Lives equal to 6,000 years of gun victims can be lost only in a matter of a few years if we couldn’t prevent another world war...
That is why we the people must always watch what our government does and always have the power over the government (by physically outgunning them) and make sure that any power-hungry politicians with tyrannical tendencies know their limit, that their wildest dreams wouldn’t ever come true (so they won’t even dare try) because the people have the power to fight against the corrupt government to the bitter end. And it is our moral obligation to pass on this “power of the people” to the later generations as our Founding Fathers intended, to ensure that our great-great-great-grand-children will enjoy the freedom that we enjoy today. We must fight tooth and nail to preserve the Second Amendment.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
Tedd, You are on the money. The event that cemented my belief and support in the second ammendment happened when I was reading a book on the holocaust in my high school library. I'm a pretty tough guy, but it brought me to tears. There was a photo of a soldier with his rifle aimed at the back of a civilian woman's head, the woman clutched her child in her arms as she walked past women that were already shot dead by the soldiers. Undoubtedly, she was dead seconds after the picture was taken...along with her child. There have been far more people killed by their governments during genocidal "cleansings" than have been killed by civilian criminal activities and murders and in nearly all cases the first thing that must happen is the people must be rendered powerless and this is achieved by removing their strength of arms. The second ammendment is there as a final check and balance on a government that already has considerable checks and balances. The second ammendment guarantees that the people retain the power to augment the government by force of arms should the government fail to be by the people and for the people.
We need a president like him.
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/03/bill-whittles-virtual-state-of-the-union-guns-in-america-video-2588444.html
Twelve million unarmed men, women and children were unable to resist being murdered by their own National Socialist government in Germany. Perhaps fifty million unarmed men, women and children were murdered by their own Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Fifty million Chinese murdered by their own government under Mao who also disarmed his people, and in Cuba and in Vietnam and in the killing fields of Cambodia. Now you say that can't happen here. You say we're protected. BY WHAT?? By the Const*tution that you're in the process of destroying? You are in violation of your oaths of office but so much as introducing this legislation let alone passing it. My fellow Americans, the previous inhabitants of this chamber watched as one hundred million people were murdered after being disarmed by their own governments. Every single one of those men, women and children, were as real and precious and irreplaceable as the children at Newtown. And I tell you here and now that I will be damned if I let that happen to the American people.
rhyll peel
Piers and Michael
you are not alone...there are like-minded people....we are as dumbfounded and angry... yes, active grassroots conversation and vocalizing is the answer....thank you thank you for your courage....you've earned your respected positions,
a grateful Canadian
Paul Choudek
I listen to you and Michael Moore talk about the thousands of people who die as a result of guns What is your stance on the millions of kids who have been aborted?
People just want to pretend away what is happening to innocent children on a regular basis. It's easier for people to live in denial than face what life in America has become. It seems people think it will never happen to them or their children. Gun control or reality check? I don't know which one we need more!!! If we stop talking about it, it will go away. Wake up!
Kevin from Washington
So, do the people screen posts at Piers Morgan's blog?
Piers thank you for being a "people's reporter". I have sent the following e-mail after your comments to Harry Reed:
"As a Democrat I am extremely disappointed your retreat in gun control issue. I hope you will pay more attention to the opinions of people who elected you.
Respectefully,
Sentekin Can"
Joe stenmiller
What the ??? After Piers in the past makes faces and sarcastic comments about people who dont know their facts, he repeats with an air of believing it 1 Million gun deaths in US since Lennon died with Yoko Ono as his source. Recent national homicide stats, not all with guns is 14k per year. How do you comeint up with a millon gun deaths. Yet he repeats it and it scrolls below the screen – this is crap – not journalism. Shame for such nonsense. This is why the general public take anti-gun nuts less seriously than defenders of the 2nd amendment.
IT IS TIME YOU ALL READ THE SECOND AMENDMENT , WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, IT HAS BEEN RECENTLY DISCUSSED BY THE SUPREME COURT, AND THEY HAVE DECIDED THAT, YES THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS AND IT SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. PERIOD WHAT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND . GUNS DID NOT KILL KIDS AT A SCHOOL OR IN A MOVIE THEATER , CRAZY PEOPLE DID , GET MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES GOING NOT GUN CONTROL YOU FOOLS
Dana, you are so correct, I would love nothing more than to deport Morgan, and they can take Moore with him
Lainie
What gives Piers Morgan the right to criticize the United States of America! We are no longer British colonies. He needs to shut up and take his pompous British butt back to England. Will they pay him big bucks to do nothing but criticize? I doubt it.
Dawn Marie Rae
Thanks Piers for your continuing coverage for gun control, and especially tonight with Michael Moore. I sent this to my two senators and addressed it to Harry Reid:
I don't need a reply and I am also not living in Nevada, but you might want to get the footage of Piers Morgan Live with Michael Moore that is running tonight, especially after your cave-in today on the bill for an assault rifle ban, et all. You should be ashamed after all that has happened. I am a well-read person and don't come to this opinion lightly. I hope you'll reconsider making the bill all-encompassing, or at the very least, put it up for a vote, despite the supposed lack of support from you and your colleagues. I am sure you expected backlash on this, I hope you get more. Does the NRA pay the congress that much to discard even the semblance of trying for a vote? An email goes to my senators in Texas as well.
Piers likes beating his drum but he doesn't understand EVERYTHING involved.Assualt rifles,ok the ruger mini 14 is a common ranch rifle with a 10 round magazine,but a new folding stock 30 round mag laser optics and you have an assualt rifle.Same gun just a cosmitic dress up.And let's say you do get the ban.Then what?You think people are just going to give up thier guns.NO cops will have to take them and you will have even more killings and a possable civil war.But then hey that would be great for CNN.
If someone wants to kill they will find a way.Timothay McVey killed 100's and he didn't use a gun.
Here is a challenge for Piers,have someone take you to the slums of Detriot and drop you off and let you walk at night 20 blocks by yourself and see how far you get and see if you feel completly safe being unarmed.Take your cell phone and call 911 when you need to,but the cops only come AFTER a crime has been comited not before.
WELL SAID LEE, ITS ABOUT TIME THERE IS SOME COMMON SENSE , AND YOU ARE TRULY CORRECT,THIS WAS BAD LEGISLATION THAT WOULD NOT HELP ANYTHING.
Kevin from Washington State
Piers and Micheal, I did contact my Senators, as well as my State Representatives, and I told them all that if they were to vote for ANY gun legislation, I would vote them out of office.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
For those Canadian viewers and Michael Moore especialy this Canadian news piece by the CBC is quite revealing about the gun violence in Chicago. None of community activists, gang members or victims interviewed believe that stricter gun laws will have any impact. The message from the hoods most affected by gun violence resoundingly say it is all about jobs and providing hope for the future that will stop the killings. The problem is we live in one of the most unequal societies in the western world. If countries like Switzerland, the 3rd largest gun owning nation in world, with one the lowest homicide rates on the planet can live with guns, what does it say about our society? You have to wonder whether our politicians are really listening.
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CR, I agree with this post (you did not insult this time) and that career criminals will always find a means including the use of illegal weapons. However, it is unlikely that the recent school shooting would have taken place, or to the extent that it did, had the boy's mother not had so many guns in the house. The point is that with guns so readily available, it is all too easy for killings to happen whether planned or spur of the moment anger as we also see too often.
But that is down to parental responsibility. Banning a particular type of gun just because it looks scary is just paying lip service to the greater problem. There are 300 million guns in circulation in this country and an estimated 6 million A15 style rifles, along with millions of others types of rifles that the media hasn't even begun talking about yet. Any ban that comes into effect will not see the confiscation of these, they will always be in circulation along with the 10s of millions of large capacity magazines. As I said in the post above, the Swiss are the 3rd largest gun owning nation on the planet, most Swiss homes own an assault rifle, and yet they have one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Now that you know the Swiss are a gun loving nation too, would it put you off visiting there? Likewise would it put you off visiting Germany or France who are ranked 4th and 5th in the world in terms of private gun ownership? Again the Germans and French have equally low homicide rates as the Swiss. Or would you feel safer visiting Britain that has a virtual gun ban? Surprisingly though Britain's overall homicide rate, despite having very few guns in private circulation has one of the highest homicide rates in Western Europe, and was named only a few years ago by the EU as the violent crime capital of Europe. One's own perception is often wrong.
I totally agree, Piers and Michael, and share your outrage. I sent an email to Senate leader H. Reid and urged others on FB to do so.
Reid pulled the bill because it will not have enough votes to pass, that is a fact.
It is just 'feel good' 'window dressing' and would not have stopped the mass murders in Aurora, Columbine,
Sandy Hook or in Arizona where Rep Giffords was shot and others killed.
None of the proposed gun bans would have prevented any of those evil mass shooting...The lies and deceit on the Morgan show with the foaming liberal "fat boy" Michael Moore was disgusting,,This turd would use as a prop the pictures of the victims and the families of the victims for his gun grabbing agenda knowing full well that no bans would have prevented that evil or any other shooting tragedy..what a miserable excuse of a human being this and fat revolting "thing" is...Morgan as usual was milking this for all he could for his miserable ratings,and was rejoicing that Moore actually made him look thin.
LOL!! LOL!! Couldn't have said it better! Is it me, or was Moore sitting in two chairs?
Some sobering thoughts from a former judge!
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Thanks for posting these are the hard cold and truthful facts...refreshing from all the liberals binging on liberal ideology,and deceitful propaganda.
P Lindsey
Connecting Feinstein's "looks like a mean weapon" ban and the Moscone/Milk murders in SF is ridiculous. Dan White used a .38 Special, a revolver, not an "assault rife" or even a semi-automatic pistol. Piers Morgan + Michael Moore: put them together and they still don't have a whole brain.
George Koenig
I bet they have bodyguards with firearms and not a single shot muzzleloader either. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Tonkatwn
Just now watching this on the West Coast. Can anybody give me the minute entry when Piers & Michael start making out?
Thanks michael, I just emailed Harry Reid and told him to get his head out of his ass and include the assault weapons ban in the Gun Ban Bill.
Anada, let me know when you take a weapons course, and actually know what an assault weapon is. after 18 years in the army, I believe that I have a better idea than you. take a minute and read the second amendment... it sure looks like you are exercising your first. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED...
R.Slye
as a non-citizen of America who are you to discuss our 2nd amendment. Don't you have problems in your own country you could go solve. You might not believe in god and you might not believe in guns,but when someone kicks your door down the first thing you will do is call someone with a gun and pray they get there in time.
Dan V.
Piers, Keep it going on the need for gun control and strong law enforcement.
The Harry Reid announcement today convinces me there is weakness, corruption and self interest in government. If it's all about self interest and money, then I for one am boycotting Vegas trips while this fool is in office.
Wow... watching this episode with Michael Moore talking about the "evil" NRA and how they want to push killing with guns. When Michael Moore himself said (re: the latest school shooting) ..."it only took one bullet to kill these kids, what is going through his mind to continue to shoot them". People... Guns do not kill people, people kill other people. So, he says a statement saying what is wrong with this persons' mind not the gun he used. He is just a Progressive wanting to push this country to a level of incompetence and socialistic behavior. They want to have more strict background checks. did you know the guy who killed all those kids went through three differernt background checks and was rejected everytime!!! Okay... so lets make any possesion of guns illegal, now to see how this works, look south of the border! The cartels run that country, because they are the only ones who have the guns... and money, so they now own most of the police, because the police don't want any of their family killed. If only criminals have guns, we are all doomed!
Now... don't get me wrong, I don't want anyone killed with guns unless someone is protecting themselves or another.
Chicago... DC... even CT have very strict gun control. What went wrong? TX, AZ have very open gun possession laws, a different tale there. People like Michael Moore and the host of this show have a political agenda that is not good for this country or it's citizens. America Must Stand Proud and not be deterred by Progressive Liberals, who use Hollywood as a way to manipulate the masses. Remember, we are all Americans and these people need to stop driving a wedge between people who love this country and what She stands for. -Thank you for your time...
Steve Grosnickle
My wife and I are US citizens living in Canada. We watch in horror as the US society refuses to make decisions to protect the people (i.e. the gun culture that is rampant throughout society). In Canadian society the rights and safety of the whole are more important than one’s individual rights. For example, gun registration is mandatory and restrictions on gun ownership are imbedded in the law. As a result there are very few people killed due to gun violence. People accept this as a part of good governance and a requirement for a civil society. I just hope that the American society comes to their senses and realizes that freedom without rules creates anarchy in the streets.
On your show today you asked people to contact Harry Reid and express anger at backing down on the amendment to ban assault weapons. I’m unable to get on the site (I have no US address) so I’m making my voice heard through your show. Keep up the fight. It is an important one.
Piers the poll number are falling, kind of similar to your viewer ratings. The vast majority of Americans don't support a ban. The country is divided down the middle, so youvcan't misleadingly claim a vast majority.
The BBC has just reported Newtown is seeing a spike in pistol permit applications from residents since the tragedy. Local police are saying this is due in part to the tragedy, but also due to the threat of stricter new gun laws.
If there is an average of 10,000 gun murders per year or less since John Lennon died 33 years ago that equals 300,000 plus murders .Where is Yoko Ono getting her statistics that there have been over 1.2 million murders with guns in America since Jonh Lennon died? She has quadrupled the statistics. I think I have over inflated the10,000 per year average. More lies to try to take guns away from law abiding citizens.
Well spotted even if you triple the annual number you don't get to the number they published. The rule is simple, don't believe anything CNN says if they are prepared to publish Tweets as gospel from flakey sources.
j g
You're counting the number of murders? really? You actually see a difference between 10,000 and 1,000.000 murders?Are you sure you counted all of the little children that were murdered in Newton. 10 million murders a year wouldn't change your mind!
Morgan's credibility as a journalist are shot, his shows audience numbers are plummeting, I wonder how much longer before CNN pulls the plug?
God please for give them, because their guns will kill their kids more than any war they engage in. Shame
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!
God please forgive all the drivers and passengers, because their CARS will kill our kids more than any guns. SHAME.
By far the most common type of injury accident involving children are those that also involve motor vehicle collisions. According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA), nearly 250,000 children are injured every year in car accidents. This means that on any given day nearly 700 children are harmed due to accidents on our roadways. OF THE 250,000 KIDS INJURED EACH YEAR, APPROXIMATELY 2,000 DIE FROM THEIR INJURIES. Children make up about 5% of total fatalities due to car accidents. In fact, for children between the ages of 2 and 14, “motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death.” Car accidents are also the leading cause of acquired disability (e.g., brain injury, paralysis, etc.) for children nationwide. And approximately 20% of the children who die in a car accident each year are killed in accidents involving a driver who is legally intoxicated. Nearly half of these children were killed while riding as passengers in an automobile driven by an intoxicated driver.
http://www.articlesbase.com/law-articles/children-car-accidents-the-alarming-statistics-695796.html
So many postings – no wonder, Mr. Morgan has touched again the American Heart – the Gun -.
Great show! Thank you CNN!
But you must know Piers is doing it solely for his ratings, right?
But that's just it his viewer numbers are plummeting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/usa/9361012/Piers-Morgan-brings-worst-ratings-to-CNN-prime-time-slot-in-21-years.html
It must be frustrating to the viewers to explain (and of course insult) that a gun is a good thing for all Americans, and Mr. Morgan just don't get it. "All you need is a gun" and not "All you need is love". NRA makes the billions + politicians get the votes + people think they are a big deal with weapons (since wild west) = Guns are staying, right the way it is! Period.
againistgunviolence
Kudos to Piers Morgan and Michael Moore for taking a stand against gun violence.. Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone that rejected the catholic church but not JESUS, organized a mass movement against assault weapons, by not reelecting any of the democrats and republicans that opposed the 'assault weapon ban'.
Scare The Pilgrims
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P, MORGAN NEEDS TO RETURN TO HIS COUNTRY AND LEAVE THE UNITED STATES TO AMERICANS. IT IS NOT RIGHT PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES COME HERE AND TRIES TO CHANGE OUR LAWS TO MATCH THE LAWS OF THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY. IF HE LIKES GUN CONTROL SO MUCH AND DON'T LIKE OUR LAWS, THEN GO BACK TO ENGLAND AND LEAVE US ALONE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A GUN GET OFF A SHELF BY ITS SELF AND DO ANYTHING. IF HE IS SO STUPID TO THINK GUNS DO THE HARM, THEN I WANT HIM TO FILM A GUN SHOOTING A TARGET WITHOUT A PERSON PULLING THE TRIGER.
I absolutely respect and love Michael Moore. And I totally agree with him. Something has got to be done and if the President can't do it who can?
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Parliamentary submission 10
120 records – page 1 of 6.
Car Seat Restraints for Children – Update 2007
https://policybase.cma.ca/en/permalink/policy9066
2007-Dec-01
The Canadian Medical Association recommends that children with a weight between 18 and 36 kg (40-80 lbs) and a height of less than 145 cm (4 feet 9 inches) (at approximately eight years old), be required to be fastened in a properly secured booster seat in the back seat when passengers in motor vehicles.
Car Seat Restraints for Children (2001)
Counterfeit Drugs
The Canadian Medical Association calls on the Government of Canada to: - implement an anti-counterfeit drugs strategy which could include track-and-trace technology, severe penalties for infractions, and an alert network to encourage reporting by health professionals and patients; and - work with other countries and international organizations on a global effort to stop drug counterfeiting.
Self-regulation of physicians
2007-Sep-26
The Canadian Medical Association Board of Directors expresses its strong support for self-regulation of physicians and opposes any legislation that undermines this principle.
Canada Extended Health Services Act
The Canadian Medical Association will develop a policy framework and design principles for access to publicly funded medically necessary services in the home and community setting that can become the basis for urging governments to develop a Canada Extended Health Services Act.
Catastrophic prescription drug program
The Canadian Medical Association urges the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada to conduct a detailed study of the socio-economic profile of Canadians who have out-of-pocket prescription drug expenses to assess barriers to access and to design strategies that could be built into a catastrophic prescription drug program.
The Canadian Medical Association believes that the issue of the continuum of care must go beyond the question of financing and tackle questions related to the organisation of medicine and to the shared and joint responsibilities of individuals, communities and governments in matters of health care and promotion, prevention and rehabilitation.
Informal caregivers
The Canadian Medical Association and its provincial/territorial medical associations and affiliates recommend that governments undertake pilot studies to support informal caregivers and long-term care patients, including those that: a. explore tax credits and/or direct compensation to compensate informal caregivers for their work; b. expand relief programs for informal caregivers that provide guaranteed access to respite services in emergency situations; c. expand income and asset testing for residents requiring assisted living and long-term care; and d. promote information on advanced directives and representation agreements for patients.
The Canadian Medical Association, provincial/territorial medical associations and affiliates urge governments to ensure adequate mental health resources are available to the military personnel and their families.
The Canadian Medical Association will seek the assistance of governments and other stakeholders to initiate a review of the infrastructure gaps, deficiencies and bottlenecks that exist along the continuum of care.
Long-term health care
The Canadian Medical Association urges governments to study the creation of a compulsory contributions-based social insurance plan to cover long-term health care needs.
Public prescription drug insurance plans
The Canadian Medical Association calls on the federal government to provide adequate financial compensation to the provincial and territorial governments that have developed, implemented and funded their own public prescription drug insurance plans.
The Canadian Medical Association urges the federal government to review variability in models of delivery of community and institutionally based long-term care across the provinces and territories as well as the standards against which they are regulated and accredited.
Inclusion of expensive drugs
The Canadian Medical Association urges the federal government to assess the options for risk pooling to cover the inclusion of expensive drugs in public and private drug plan formularies.
Expanding the public plan coverage of health services
The Canadian Medical Association believes that any request for expanding the public plan coverage of health services, in particular for home care services and the cost of prescription drugs, must include a comprehensive analysis of the potential sources of financing for this expansion.
Canada Health Act
The Canadian Medical Association and its provincial/territorial medical associations will advocate for a discussion on opening the Canada Health Act because it limits the ability to fund "the continuum of care".
Independent prescribing authority
The Canadian Medical Association recommends that pharmacists not be given independent prescribing authority.
Putting Patients First: Patient-Centred Collaborative Care - A Discussion Paper
The Canadian Medical Association endorses the strategic policy directions outlined in the CMA document Putting Patients First: Patient-Centred Collaborative Care - A Discussion Paper as necessary elements of any collaborative care team.
The right to prescribe medications
The Canadian Medical Association and its provincial/territorial medical associations and affiliates recommend that the right to prescribe medications independently for medical conditions must be reserved for qualified practitioners who are adequately trained to take a medical history, perform a physical examination, order and interpret appropriate investigations, and arrive at a working diagnosis.
Delegated professional prescribing
The Canadian Medical Association affirms that within a multidisciplinary practice delegated professional prescribing is only acceptable when led by a physician clinical leader with ultimate responsibility for patient care.
Patient-focused funding for hospital services
The Canadian Medical Association will work with the provincial/territorial medical associations to co-host a workshop on the financial and patient care implications of patient-focused funding for hospital services and pay-for-performance for physician services.
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Meet the 18-Year-Old Model Who Looks Like Elsa From ‘Frozen’ [PHOTOS]
Thomas Chau
@annafaithxoxo, Instagram
The Internet has a new crush this week, as 18-year-old Anna Faith has become a new superstar with over 290,000 Instagram followers and over 17,000 Twitter fans.
So who is she? Well, she is a dead ringer for Elsa from Disney's 'Frozen'!
So much, in fact, that she's asking her fans to petition Disney and ABC to cast her as Elsa in the hit television series, 'Once Upon a Time.'
"I need everybody's help!!! Please let Once Upon A Time know that I would love to audition for the the role as Elsa in their TV show!!! Thank you so much!!!" she writes in the caption of one of her photos.
The Season 3 finale of 'Once Upon a Time' teased that the sisters from 'Frozen,' Elsa and Anna, would be appearing in Season 4. Casting for the roles, however, have not been announced which is why Faith is petitioning hard right now for at least an audition.
Anna's Instagram feed is full of shots of Anna as Elsa, and also features photos of her putting smiles on little girls everywhere as they "meet" the Snow Queen of Arendell. She also partners with a friend who dresses as Elsa's sister, Anna.
No matter what comes of her campaign to get an audition with ABC, it's nice to see that at the very least, she's brightening the days of 'Frozen' fans everywhere with her smiles and pictures.
Next: How 'Frozen' is Leading a New Disney Renaissance
Filed Under: Frozen
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P Grimaldi, creative
Creative graphics, design, online and print, Modesto Ca
Modesto View
LOGOS & ART
Modesto’s own news mecca for entertainment and night life in our community.
PGrimaldi currently directs the overall design, advertising production and print publication of Modesto View Magazine. And since 2012 we have seen the growth of readership, advertising and distribution of Modesto’s most popular entertainment news monthly. MV’s continued success can be attributed to an upgraded visual presentation of positive information and focus on Modesto. Creative, localized covers, local stories and photos enhance the publication’s appeal. Consolidating a team of creative professional photographers and writers, Modesto View has gone on to receive over 9 Gold Recognition Awards from two leading media organizations, MarCon and HERMES Creative Awards under our art direction.
Modesto View Magazine proudly announces two GOLD Awards and one Honorable Mention presented by the 2013 MarCom Awards, honoring excellence in marketing and communications. MarCom is sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. Since 1994, AMCP has judged over 160,000 entries. MarCom is one of the oldest, largest and most visible awards in the creative industry.
P Grimaldi, Creative is responsible for visual content, ad production and art direction for Modesto View Magazine. It is published by Chris Murphy, editor and creator, and supported by Sierra Pacific Warehouse Group of Modesto. Modesto View is produced monthly, and its mission has been “Serving Civic Pride Since 1997”.
This is a first attempt by Modesto View Magazine to enter a major publishing design competition since Pete Grimaldi has taken over revamping its print production and layout in 2011. “We have developed a reader friendly layout, accommodating more creative advertising while maintaining the magazines sense of fun and excitement about the community it serves.” The magazine’s winning covers feature the work of Modesto photographer Michael Mangano as well as many other local artists and contributors.
Three complete 32-page issues were entered and all three received MarCom notice. July’s “Modestocana” issue and October’s “Halloween” issue were both awarded GOLD MarComs while August’s “Summertime Fling” received an Honorable mention. All magazines were recently published in 2013 and establishes this niche publication’s winning visual direction going forward.
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Quiz: Can You Name All of These Movie Cats From One Screenshot?: HowStuffWorks
Can You Name All of These Movie Cats From One Screenshot?
Lauren Lubas
Image: Lifetime
Passing this quiz will mean you are one fur-midable movie lover. The great news is that you don't have to be CAThletic to get a passing grade, but you might have to be a little bit clever to get the hang of it, and you'll definitely have to be LITTERate to some extent.
Let's face it, people love to put animals in movies, even if they can be difficult to deal with sometimes. Animals appeal to younger audiences, and they show adult audiences what the characters' personalities are like. That's why you'll see a lot of cats hanging around movie sets, showing off their cool demeanor and skittish ways.
If you're a cat lover, chances are you've seen some of the most memorable cats to hit the big screen, and you might even recognize some of the obscure ones. But do you think you can name all of these cat stars from an image? Take this quiz to see if you can PURRfectly match the name to the image. If you don't get a perfect score, don't worry, you can always claw your way back and retake the quiz.
Davis Entertainment Company/ Paws, Inc./ 20th Century Fox
This lump of a cat was voiced by Bill Murray. Do you know his name?
Heathcliffe
Marmal
Any '80s kid knows Garfield better than they know most members of their family. The lasagna-loving cat was awesome to see as a cartoon, and when he was eventually brought to the big screen, fans were ecstatic.
Walt Disney Pictures/ Buena Vista Pictures
In "Hocus Pocus," you'll find a talking cat that goes by what name?
Trinx
Binx
Finx
As one of the most memorable cat puppets to grace the big screen, Thackery Binx is both intelligent and protective of the humans he finds ... even if one of them decided to light the black flame candle.
DreamWorks Animation/ PDI/DreamWorks/ DreamWorks Pictures
In the "Shrek" series, what's the name of the cat that loves to fight?
The uptight cat who takes his fighting seriously was voiced by Antonio Banderas. This cat was such a hit with audiences, he even got his own movie and ended up in several shorts as well.
Working Title Films/ Amblin Entertainment/ Monumental Pictures/ The Really Useful Group/ Universal Pictures
This sad movie cat sings the iconic song, "Memory." Can you name her?
Bombalurina
Grizabella
An impressive array of celebrities bring Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical to the big screen — Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Rebel Wilson, Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson, to name a few. It's Jennifer Hudson who gets to belt perhaps the show's most recognizable song, "Memory."
Tribeca Productions/ Nancy Tenenbaum Productions/ Universal Pictures/ DreamWorks Pictures
Do you remember the name of Robert DeNiro's cat in "Meet the Parents"?
Mr. Hinx
Mr. Fink
Mr. Jinx
Mr. Link
Mr. Jinx (aka Jinxy Cat) is a well-trained cat that can do pretty much everything a dog can do. But he lacks the strength and opposable thumbs to flush a toilet, which Greg Focker learns the hard way.
Walt Disney Productions/ Buena Vista Distribution
This might be a toughie. Do you know the names of the Siamese cats from "Lady and the Tramp"?
Ti and Stan
Flan and Ram
Can and Don't
While we don't really hear their names in the movie, Si and Am are some of the meanest cats on the big screen. They tear things up, knock things down, plan to steal milk from the baby and blame everything on the dog.
Walt Disney Pictures/ BrownHouse Productions/ Buena Vista Pictures
Who is Mia's furry friend in "The Princess Diaries"?
Fat Louie
Rodshire
When a seemingly hopeless girl finds out she's royalty, she has to learn all of the right moves. Feeling like she doesn't belong, the only one she can turn to is her cat, Fat Louie.
New Line Productions/ Capella International/ Moving Pictures/ Eric's Boy/ KC Medien/ New Line Cinema
Dr. Evil's cat went by what name?
Mr. Hogsmeade
Mr. Bigglesworth
Mr. Lasereyes
Poor Mr. Bigglesworth. He is just a simple, fluffy cat who loves his master, but then loses all his hair during the freezing process. While it's clear he is played by two different cats, it's still a funny moment in the "Austin Powers" movie franchise.
This meme star even got his own movie. What is his name?
Stumpy Cat
Disgruntled Cat
If you never heard of the "Grumpy Cat" movie, don't worry; you're not alone. This cat's angry face was such a huge internet sensation, he made his way to the big screen, in a comedy, of course.
Color Force/ Lionsgate Films
What's the name of this crabby cat from "The Hunger Games"?
There's nothing like a good movie about a dystopian future, and the series that started that was "The Hunger Games." Who doesn't want to watch a bunch of people try to kill each other off in order to entertain the population?
Walt Disney Pictures/ Walt Disney Animation Studios/ Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Do you know the name of this street smart cat from "Bolt"?
Bolt is a dog actor who really believes he's a hero. However, when he gets lost, he has to find his way home, and he realizes he's no hero at all. Luckily, he meets a streetwise cat named Mittens who helps him out.
"The Aristocats" focused completely on a cat family. What was the mother's name?
Dukess
When Duchess and her kittens inherit a rich woman's fortune, they become targets for ... pretty much anyone who wants money. This leads to a pretty intense adventure where the cats are constantly in peril.
Imagine Entertainment/ Universal Pictures/ DreamWorks Pictures
Mike Myers plays this cat in the Dr. Seuss classic. Do you know his name?
Rabbit Cat
Though many believe that "The Cat in the Hat" movie was a little weird, it did have some great and funny moments. However, people are still a little weirded out by Mike Myers playing a man-sized cat.
Walt Disney Pictures/ Roth Films/ The Zanuck Company/ Team Todd/ Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Do you recognize this cat from "Alice in Wonderland"?
Hampshire Cat
Cashier Cat
Whisker Whispers
Everyone recognizes the Cheshire Cat from "Alice in Wonderland." In the Disney version, he's purple and white, and will gladly confuse you for funsies. Like most everyone else around Wonderland, he's pretty mad.
20th Century Fox/ Brandywine Productions/ 20th Century Fox
The cat in "Alien" makes it through. What is his name?
Marknar
There are few survivors on "Alien," but you will be happy to know that the cat named Jonesy is one of them. He's considered the unsung hero of the film, and so well-loved that people have made tributes to him.
Walt Disney Pictures/ Walt Disney Feature Animation/ Silver Screen Partners III/ Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
He played an orphan in a 1988 Disney animated film. Can you name him?
It was only a matter of time before Disney showed their take on "Oliver Twist." They lightened up the dark material by turning the characters into cats and other animals. Oliver is played by a little orange cat who is just the most adorable thing you've ever seen.
Can you name this overweight cheetah from "Zootopia"?
Pawmaster
Chief Pawster
Clawhauser
There are many large cats in "Zootopia," but the most memorable one is the cheetah that has a special love for sweets. Without any exercise, Officer Clawhauser packs on the pounds, but that's just extra love for him to spread around.
Warner Bros. Pictures/ Heyday Films/ 1492 Pictures/ Warner Bros. Pictures
In the "Harry Potter" series, what is the name of Filch's cat?
Mrs. Norris
Crookshanks
Scabbers
Even if you weren't a fan of Filch, you probably felt terrible when Mrs. Norris ended up getting petrified by the basilisk. There she was, minding her own business, drinking water, when all of the sudden, she saw a reflection of the terrible beast.
Fuji Television/ Toho/ Columbia Pictures/ Triumph Releasing Corporation
What is the name of the cat who starred in a 1986 film opposite Otis?
Rilo
"The Adventures of Milo and Otis" was a very realistic movie about a dog and a cat who get lost. While there are some animal cruelty issues with the making of the film, the English version was well-loved by children in the 1980s.
Walt Disney Productions/ RKO Radio Pictures
Do you know the name of the wicked stepmother's cat in the 1950 version of "Cinderella"?
Walt Disney didn't pull any punches when it came to clearly showing who was evil in his movies. Therefore, when the wicked stepmother first calls her cat by his name, audiences really shouldn't be surprised. He may as well have been called Satan.
"Pet Sematary" had many creepy animals. Can you name this cat?
In "Pet Sematary," we learn that there is a place where you can bury dead pets and they will come back to life. Of course, since it is a Stephen King film, they don't come back quite the same as they were before they died. Church gives us a little insight as to what happens when the dead don't stay dead.
Geppetto's cat in "Pinocchio" was named what?
Ripshack
Although Figaro doesn't get a whole lot of screen time in "Pinocchio," he may be one of the cutest cats that Walt Disney animators ever created. He loves to dance around and play with the old man who takes care of him.
Warner Bros. Pictures/ Lego System A/S/ Lin Pictures/ Lord Miller Productions/ Vertigo Entertainment/ Animal Logic/ Warner Bros. Pictures
"The Lego NINJAGO Movie" from 2017 incorporated a real cat, which was giant to the Lego world. What was its name?
Mintre
Meowthra
Miggs
A clear take on Mothra, Meowthra is a real cat that finds its way into a Lego city, and the results are hilarious. She's the six-toed fluffy demon who will not stop until she has made NINJAGO her personal litter box.
Walt Disney Pictures/ Walt Disney Feature Animation/ Buena Vista Pictures
Jasmine's pet tiger in the 1992 version of "Aladdin" was named what?
Of all of Disney's animal sidekicks, Rajah is definitely the coolest. He doesn't have to say much, but shows that he is protective of Jasmine and will gladly attack anyone who even annoys her.
Blue Sky Studios/ 20th Century Fox Animation/ 20th Century Fox
Denis Leary voices this saber-toothed tiger in "Ice Age." What's his name?
Not all saber-toothed tigers want to eat everything they see. Some of them are willing to help. The down-to-earth Diego is reluctant to help the new people he meets, but in the end, we see he has a heart.
Hermione gets a cat that hates Ron's rat. Do you know his name?
Mr. Norris
Buckbeak
Aragog
We learn that Crookshanks is half-cat, half-Kneazle, based on his appearance. He has the sense to know when people are bad or good, which shows why he was always after Scabbers, who ended up being Wormtail.
Can you name this cat from a 1974 award-winning movie?
"Harry and Tonto" is the story of a man and his cat traveling around the United States. The movie came out in 1974, a time when no one realized that such finicky animals could be trusted to go about traveling.
Phoenix Productions, Inc./ Columbia Pictures
"Bell, Book and Candle" is an oldie but a goodie. Do you remember the cat's name from that movie?
Pyewacket
Movies about witches were few and far between in the 1950s, but there were a few good ones. This one included a Siamese cat named Pyewacket who was the family of the witch Gillian Holroyd, played by actress Kim Novak.
This cat is named after her attitude. Do you know what it is?
Slappy
"Cats rule and dogs drool" is the motto for Sassy, the cat from "Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey." She likes nice things but will get her paws dirty for her friends if they are in need.
New Line Cinema/ RatPac-Dune Entertainment/ Monkeypaw Productions/ Detroit Pictures/ Principato-Young Entertainment/ Warner Bros. Pictures
Can you name this little kitten who gets into a lot of trouble?
When you get a kitten, you probably think you're in for some great snuggles, but when you find a little one and it gets you out of a depression, things change for you. That is, until someone takes your cat and you will do anything it takes to find it.
Marvel Studios/ Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
This technically isn't a cat, but it looks like one. Can you tell us its name?
We don't see a whole lot of cats in superhero films, but when Goose takes the stage in "Captain Marvel," you can't focus on anything else. He's a cat that can take a lickin' and keep on purrin'.
Stage 6 Films/ Shooting Script Films/ Prescience/ Iris Productions/ The Exchange/ Sony Pictures Releasing
What is the name of this street cat from the movie named after him?
Crebs
"A Street Cat Named Bob" is the story of a man with a substance abuse problem who takes in a street cat to help him get over his addictions. He brings the cat everywhere with him in this heartwarming story.
Digit Anima/ Folimage/ France 3 Cinéma/ Emage Animation Studios/ Gébéka Films
Can you tell us the name of the cat in "A Cat In Paris"?
"A Cat In Paris" is an animated film that shows what a cat burglar and his sidekick cat do for a living. The animation in this film is unique and mirrors the darker storyline in a very artistic way.
Fundamental Films/ EuropaCorp
A man gets trapped in a cat's body in "Nine Lives." What is his name?
Seller Martin
Mr. Fuzzypants
Mr. Whipples
Furball
When a man obsessed with work gets his daughter a cat from an ominous pet store, things get a little crazy. The man is turned into a cat after a spell is put on him, and he has to learn how to reconnect with this family, or he gets stuck that way forever.
Turner Feature Animation/ Warner Bros. Family Entertainment/ Warner Bros.
Who is the dancing star of "Cats Don't Dance"?
Making it big in Hollywood is difficult enough, but when you're a cat, you have many more challenges to face. For Danny the cat, Darla Dimples, a child star who hates cats, is one of those challenges.
Columbia Pictures/ Amblin Entertainment/ Parkes/MacDonald Productions/ Sony Pictures Releasing
The cat in "Men in Black" was a very important part of the plot. What is his name?
An alien in a mortician's body warns that in order to prevent war, the Men in Black can find the galaxy on Orion's belt. The obvious solution is to look at the constellation, but the truth is, it's on the cat's collar.
Columbia Pictures/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/ Scott Rudin Productions/ Yellow Bird/ Sony Pictures Releasing
Not all movie cats get happy endings. Do you remember this little guy from "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"?
Jelnon
If you're looking for a great and inspirational movie that involves cats, it is not recommended that you watch "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." The poor cat gets defiled in terrible ways in order to stop an investigation.
This cat was brought in to find and destroy a mouse in "Mouse Hunt." Do you remember his name?
Cat-astrophe
Marxcat
Catzilla
When Ernie and Lars Smuntz inherit a mansion, they learn of a mouse that has pretty much taken over. They do everything to get rid of the mouse, including bringing in the big guns with Catzilla.
In the original "True Grit," you will find this cat with a very honorable name. What is it?
General Sterling Price
Prince Aspen
Prong Longhorn
Captain Herald Markham
You won't find General Sterling Price in the remake of "True Grit," but he did show up in the original from 1969. The movie starred John Wayne, who introduced General Sterling Price as his nephew.
Re-Animator Productions/ Empire International Pictures
Can you name this cat that was brought back to life in "Re-Animator"?
Jemiah
Rufus was brought back to life by the crazy scientist who wanted to play God. Obviously, this leads to consequences that are far beyond natural ... even if the cat looks completely fake.
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FFB: The Avenging Saint - Leslie Charteris
Here's another well known character who is most assuredly not completely forgotten, but I think the novels are at least overlooked these days. No doubt many people are familiar with Simon Templar in one of his many TV or film incarnations. I think I had only read one or two stories in my teen years and had never bothered with the novels. The Avenging Saint (1930) is the US paperback title for Knight Templar, the third novel featuring Simon Templar and the second part in a trilogy detailing his battle with criminal mastermind Dr. Rayt Marius. It's probably best to read all three in order starting with The Last Hero (or The Saint and the Last Hero) in order to get the true effect of the books. Having begun with The Avenging Saint -- a bracing action-packed thriller -- I feel compelled to go back to the first before continuing onto Getaway (aka The Saint's Getaway). The first book is frequently referenced here and the ghost of Norman Kent (the last hero of the first book's title) hovers over this second entry. I want to know him as the man not the memory.
Simon Templar is sort of a forerunner to all the superspy characters that became all the rage in the 1960s. Though he is a direct descendant of the gentleman thief character (he starts off as a criminal with a gang of Robin Hood style thieves) I found The Saint to have more in common with hero pulp characters like Doc Savage and even James Bond.
Sonia and Vassilloff are married (UK reprint)
The story is very simple. Templar is out for revenge after one of his friends is killed at the hands of Marius, a weapons expert bent on starting the next world war. There is a kidnapping of a millionaire's daughter, an elaborate plan to arouse the ire of her oil tycoon fiancee by forcing a marriage to a Russian aristocrat. There are confrontations with the villains, daring escapes and rescues, more disguises and false beards than an Arsene Lupin book, fist fights galore, and several jaw dropping stunt sequences. I dare any reader to resist succumbing to the pull of this story.
It all sounds terribly old fashioned like something out of E. Phillips Oppenheim when I reduce it to its bare bones, but it's so breezily told with wit and verve you can't help but get swallowed up. When Templar strips naked, dives into a frigid ocean and single-handedly overtakes a motor boat by punching out one of Marius' thugs, lashing him to the wheel and then manipulating the controls with a makeshift rudder and ropes tied to the tiller while being dragged behind the boat in the water you can only marvel at the preposterous ingenuity of it all. Charteris seemed to have been a born screenwriter rather than a novelist who was decades ahead of Hollywood in terms of stunts and thrills. And he was only 23 when he wrote this book.
Simon Templar alternates between a flippant and condescending adventurer to a stern and humorless Nemesis throughout the book. He can exhibit a gleeful almost boyish attitude calling all the bad guys "sweetheart" and "old dear" in one moment then delivering an expert jab to a rogue's jaw rendering neatly unconscious with that one blow. I think he did this about twelve times over the course of the book. And there is a running gag about how he always looks immaculately dressed after all his fights. He even goes the the trouble of saving his clothes in the boat escapade by neatly tying them into bundle he ties to his head while he's steering the boat. Later, he takes that bundle apart, dresses himself on board the villain's yacht looking as if he's ready to join a posh dinner party. You have to smile and laugh at it all.
Charteris can get carried away with himself though. He has a terrible weakness for purple prose of the gaudiest kind. Here are a few examples:
"The jaws of the perambulating mountain oscillated rhythmically, to the obvious torment of a portion of the sweetmeat which has made the sapodilla tree God's especial favour to Mr. Wrigley." (describing Inspector Teal, a large portly policeman who enjoys chewing gum)
"...and the quintessential part of the plot, so far as Simon Templar was concerned, was how soon -- with a very wiggly mark after it to indicate importunate interrogation."
(I'd just use the question mark and forgo the cuteness)
This kind of silliness tapers off thankfully. I made only five notations of egregious examples of these kind of indulgent lapses. The two above were the most flagrant. As I read on the purple prose either disappeared or I was no longer being critical of the lapses. It was Simon Templar himself who won me over.
Or more precisely Charteris' exuberance for Templar won me over. Whether steering motorboats with ropes while submerged in the sea or descending a rope from an airplane onto a moving train the Saint is the premiere action guy. A superhero whose only super powers are sheer guts and bravado. Forced marriages, bondage ropes, fisticuffs and firearms, the delirious dreams of a warmonger are no match for this one man army. The world of Simon Templar may be old fashioned but I find it utterly addictive. I'm off to read more right now.
Labels: adventure, espionage, Leslie Charteris, Simon Templar, spies
The Passing Tramp January 25, 2013 at 2:42 AM
Todd Downing gave a good review to a Saint book. Of course he had a great fondness for the Wallace-Rohmer-Oppenheim classical thriller. Didn't Roger Moore play the Saint on television for most of the 1960s?
John January 25, 2013 at 10:25 AM
Moore is definitely the best known of the TV and film versions of Simon Templar. Later Ian Ogilvy played The Saint in a short-lived UK series from ITC. It played in the US as well. I remember watching it when I was in high school, but it didn't compare with the Roger Moore series.
A new TV Saint is coming this year with some of the characters fromthe early books. Adam Rayner (of whom I know nothing) is Templar, Eliza Dushku (formerly of Dollhouse) is Patricia Holm, and German actor Thomas Kretschmann is Rayt Marius. Moore and Ogivly apparently will have cameos. I'm not sure where it will be aired, but it's sure to be on cable if it's shown here in the US. You can read more about it at the excellent Saint fan website.
dfordoom January 25, 2013 at 2:56 AM
The Saint books are tremendous fun and it's a pity they're so seldom read these days. There have been many attempts to portray Simon Templar on both the big screen and small screen but none have quite equalled the fun of the books.
Thanks for stopping by, Al. I am a brand new Simon Templar fan. I really enjoyed this book -- purple prose and all. More reviews on The Saint coming in February and March. I'm doing the novels first (including the two that link up with this one) and then will work on the stories and novellas of which there are many. I was surprised to learn that Charteris even dabbled in SF. But I guess that SF and fantasy crossover should be expected in espionage books of this era with all the mad scientists that turn up as villains.
Hoppy Uniatz January 25, 2013 at 5:32 AM
Mulholland Books in the UK will be republishing 35 Saint books in both print and digital. The first four titles are due out at the end of next month. A US publishing deal will be announced soon. And principal photography on a TV pilot for a new series of The Saint is just finishing,
Thanks, Hoppy. Imagine one of Chareteris' characters visiting this blog! I'm honored - and on my first Saint post as well.
Great to hear about Simon Templar coming back in print. Well deserved and long overdue. It's a pain trying to find decently priced paperbacks of the Saint books. Most of my copies I acquired years ago at very affordable prices (under $4 each). Plus, they're all in excellent condition (that unretouched photo of the paperback at the top of the post is of my personal copy) compared to what is offered for sale these days. Sad.
Didn't know that the new Saint movie was only a pilot for a series and that it hasn't yet been sold. I hope it'll be picked up by some enterprising TV people soon.
Patrick January 25, 2013 at 5:44 AM
The Saint is a wonderful creation by all accounts, but I've never read any of the books. I want to but just haven't gotten around to them. Then again, I have yet to read ANTIDOTE TO VENOM even though I went and bought it immediately after reading your review, so I guess it's just par for the course.
I know you're focussing on contemporary book reviews and your James Bond marathon, Patrick. You ought to read one of these early Saint novels and do a Bond comparison. You'd be surprised how much Fleming owes to Charteris. I also think you'd get a kick out of the series. No dreary psychological backstory or religious misinformation, that's for sure! ;^)
pattinase (abbott) January 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM
Only familiar with the TV show and just barely that.
Ron Smyth January 25, 2013 at 11:38 AM
These books are indeed great fun. I well remember how happy I was to discover, after watching the Roger Moore TV series, that there was a book series also. My favourite was THE SAINT IN NEW YORK, probably because I found Prohibition for some reason, to be a perfect settling for a swashbuckler.
TomCat January 26, 2013 at 6:42 AM
I've always been open to give The Saint books a shot, but never gotten around to them. However, this does remind me that I have one by Havank on my TBR pile and he translated nearly forty of Charteris novels, with whom he felt a kinship, in Dutch and his writing apparently influenced Havank's own work.
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Prashant C. Trikannad January 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM
John, you have really pushed me towards picking up the two unread books of Simon Templar. I'll probably read one of these soon and review it. The Saint is definitely one of the more unusual and interesting fictional characters I have read. I have been looking for some of the Simon Templar comics online but without luck so far.
Bev Hankins January 26, 2013 at 7:27 PM
I haven't read any of the novels. I did read The Saint Omnibus (all--or most--of the short stories) back during my first year of blogging. I recall dubbing one of the review posts as "The Saint Goes Marching Out..." Very fun stories...I've got one of the books sitting on the TBR stack. Not sure when I'm going to get to it though.....
Yvette January 29, 2013 at 12:21 PM
I've never read any Saints, John, but I was very familiar with the television show never missing an episode. I also love the Saint movies with, I think, George Sanders (?) as the Saint.
If I ever run across one of the Saint books I will definitely read it. Best I can promise since I'm assuming they cost the earth at Alibris and elsewhere. But maybe I'll double-check and be surprised. :)
PS I added these wonderful covers to my A Vintage Mystery pinterest board here. http://pinterest.com/yvettespaintbox/a-vintage-mystery/
As for your lending library thingy - I'm dying to read Alphabet Hicks. HINT!!
Hint taken! Watch your mailbox for incoming packages.
Yvette February 8, 2013 at 3:58 PM
Watching and waiting, John. HINT! Don't toy with me, mister. :)
paulthewordsmith October 3, 2014 at 6:39 AM
Simon Templar, the Saint, is one of the most memorable characters of all time and the episodes in which Roger Moore starred are pased on Charteris" stories. The RKO films and many of Ian oglivy's episodes are, too. The villains form "The Last Hero, The Avenging Saint, and Getaway" are used again in a novela caled "The Simon Templar Foundation".
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Is Puerto Rico your country or is it the USA?
Is Puerto Rico your country or is it the USA? - Monday, August 27, 2012 - (author unknown)
Answer: Oh, most definitely, the USA!!!
"¡Por favor. El amor y el interés fueron al campo un día y pudo más el interés que el amor que te tenía. Además, no todos los boricuas sonríen todo el tiempo!”
Memorias de un Gay Sesenton: the City College and 'la isla de la ... - Monday, August 27, 2012 - gerardo torres
the City College and ‘la isla de la simpatía”
Juan Ramón Jiménez was so impressed by a particular Puerto Rican quality, the smiles, that the Nobel laureate wrote a book, Isla de la Simpatía, dedicated to this marvelous and soothing quality. Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico smile when greeting you; and they do so whenever they encounter each other, unless they are in some kind of struggle, but other than that they smile. Though, most Puerto Ricans in New York have not lost this quality, not all have kept smiling when encoutering each other.
When I started to work at the College, there were seven Puerto Ricans working at the School of Education. By the end of the seventies, most of them were either not given tenure, or, for obvious reasons others decided to leave. It was the seventies and all of these faculty members integrated the political situation of these unique colonials with the content and process of educational programs. The very progressive school did not seem to be very interested in identifying and hiring members of this ethnic group. It is easier to discuss and study Dewey and Piaget without having to face issues of colonialism in your backyard, linguistic and political oppression.
Not until the late eighties and nineties, when it was convenient for the School to bring Puerto Ricans into the faculty, my own sense of loneliness and defensiveness began to fade away. Other than two or three colleagues, the rest was simply a bunch of dishonest characters dressed up as progressives; pleasant but “hipócritas a la máxima potencia.” Thus, when Puerto Ricans were brought to work in a place where my accent and educational ideas were continuously under criticism, it was great once more to be surrounded by people I thought would understand where I was coming from and support me. And to some extent they did, until the Puerto Rican “sonrisa” showed me how naïve I was.
When coming across one of the new employees, I gave her a big smile. She looked at me and continued walking as if I did not exist. I shared my bewilderment with another colleague who most probably told the “seriota” (this is the term PRs use to refer to people who do not smile); and suddenly, whenever I went into the office of the “seriota” everyone in the office where the “seriota” worked was smiling at me and sarcastically saying, “Hello, Gerardo”. I went from cultural solidario to a payaso.
It was very naïve on my part to think that simply because someone was a PR I was going to be greeted with courtesy and cultural understanding. Luckily I had my friends with whom I shared everything that happened at the very progressive school, and while smiling they answered, “¡Por favor. El amor y el interés fueron al campo un día y pudo más el interés que el amor que te tenía. Además, no todos los boricuas sonríen todo el tiempo!”
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Flexible periodical micro- and nano-structuring of a stainless steel surface using dual-wavelength double-pulse picosecond laser irradiation
Mindaugas Gedvilas, *a Justinas Mikšysa and Gediminas Račiukaitisa
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The picosecond laser-induced ripple formation on the stainless steel surface upon irradiation with linearly-polarized single-pulse and dual-wavelength cross-polarized double-pulse trains in air was studied experimentally. The characteristic switching of the ripple period and orientation were observed depending on the inter-pulse delay in the dual-wavelength cross-polarized double-pulse train irradiation experiments.
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Paul Ryan is better known for his outspoken fiscal conservatism than for leading on conservative Catholic social causes.
Ryan as VP pick continues election year focus on Catholicism
By Dan Gilgoff and Dan Merica
Washington (CNN) – Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate promises to cast a spotlight on American Catholicism in an election year when the tradition has already been a major focus.
Ryan, a Catholic who chairs the House Budget Committee, is better known for his outspoken fiscal conservatism than for leading on conservative Catholic social causes like opposing abortion and gay marriage.
But Romney called attention to Ryan's religion Saturday in introducing him as his running mate: "A faithful Catholic, Paul believes in the worth and dignity of every human life," Romney said.
And socially conservative groups were quick to praise Ryan's selection, with the president of National Right to Life saying that "Ryan has a deep, abiding respect for all human life, including unborn children and their mothers, the disabled and the elderly."
Ryan’s advocacy for cutting taxes and trimming the deficit — he is the architect of the GOP’s proposed federal budget — married with his willingness to talk about fiscal belt-tightening in moral terms and his low-key social conservatism speak to a political moment in which the economic concerns of the Tea Party and the social focus of the Christian right have merged into a relatively cohesive anti-Obama movement.
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Ryan’s presence on the ticket also could increase Romney’s appeal among the millions of middle-of-the-road Catholic voters who populate key swing states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Catholics are considered the quintessential swing vote, and no presidential candidate has won the White House without winning Catholics since at least the early 1990s.
With Romney, a Mormon, selecting a Catholic, Obama is the only Protestant in the 2012 presidential race (Vice President Joe Biden is also Catholic).
"As a conservative Catholic, Ryan is likely to appeal to a number of Catholics in the Midwest,” said John Green, a professor of religion and politics at the University of Akron in Ohio. “Catholics who are concerned about religious liberty, he is certainly a positive there."
The Catholic Church has helped frame this year’s election by strenuously opposing a rule in President Obama’s health care law that requires insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage to nearly all American employees, including those at Catholic colleges and hospitals. The Democrats have said that Romney’s and the GOP’s support for the Church’s position constitutes a “war on women,” while Romney and his party say Obama’s rule represents a “war on religion.”
In an interview with CNN, former GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich, who is Catholic, said that Ryan would shore up support in a Catholic community that feels it is “under siege.”
Romney released an ad Thursday repeating the war on religion charge. Next week, Sandra Fluke — a Georgetown University law student who was thrust into the national spotlight after radio show host Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut” for her role in supporting Obama’s contraception rule — will introduce the president at a stop in Denver.
Ryan’s own Catholicism became a major issue this year, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops criticizing his proposed federal budget for what the bishops said would be its adverse impact on the poor.
The bishops cautioned against overreaching budget cuts that endanger “poor and vulnerable people.” The bishops’ message called on “Congress and the administration to protect essential help for poor families and vulnerable children and to put the poor first in budget priorities.”
This split between politically conservative and liberal Catholics has existed for decades in the Catholic Church. But with Ryan running for vice president, some experts expect this divide to be sharpened.
"What Ryan will highlight is a division within the Catholic community,” Green said. “More politically liberal Catholics are very critical of the Republican approach and the Ryan budget, but Ryan has taken them head on.”
In an April speech at Georgetown, a Catholic school, Ryan defended his budget in religious terms.
“The work I do as a Catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine as best I can make of it,” Ryan said. “What I have to say about the social doctrine of the Church is from the viewpoint of a Catholic in politics applying my understanding of the problems of the day.”
Ryan’s $3.53 trillion budget doubles down on past proposals to overhaul Medicare and other government programs that are seen as politically sensitive. While the budget has little chance to become law, it draws a distinct contrast with Democratic views on spending.
That speech, along with other statements that put his budget into religious terms, led liberal Catholic groups to openly protest Ryan’s budget.
In particular, NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic nuns that speaks out on social justice issues, went on a bus tour around the country to protest the Ryan budget.
In an interview with CNN, Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of NETWORK, said Ryan has co-opted sacred Catholic teachings and twisted their meanings.
This line of attack will intensify in the coming months because of Ryan’s nomination, says Deal Hudson, a religion and politics expert who ran President George. W. Bush’s Catholic outreach in 2000 and 2004.
“I think the Catholic left will make this the drumbeat about Congressman Ryan,” Hudson said. “That is why it is so important for the campaign to effectively get out in front of this argument.”
According to Hudson, it is possible to defend the Ryan budget from Catholic attacks, it will just take a campaign that “realizes this is what they face."
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Posts Tagged ‘Least Action Principle’
MINIMIZING EVIL As the Greatest Good
Do the ends justify the means, or the means, the ends? Neither. A completely different answer awaits. We have to change our considerations of complex issues from unsophisticated, uncouth, flying blind, to something much more subtle, inspired by the turn towards more subtle analysis that physics itself had to take, in the last three centuries (just post-Newton).
“Maximization of agency towards greater good”… is the only good. Why?
Because the world is fast, and getting faster, exponentially. We are confronted to an increasingly violent shoot storm. Philosophy is not just a consolation anymore. Philosophy has become the only pragmatic way out of a gathering multidimensional cataclysm.
Yes, it is also an excretion storm. Humanity is excreting, all over the planet, creating lethal imbalances all over. Contemplate the Great Barrier Reef, in Australia, one of the world’s greatest biological structures. 2,300 kilometers long, 350,000 square kilometers in area. Yet, it is suddenly threatened by utter destruction. Why? Australian agriculture, all these plants, eaten by all these hungry vegetarians, out there. (In full truth, sugarcane is the primary culprit.)
Crown of Thorns, 35 Centimeters Across: Science Always Beats Fiction!
Yes, of course, the spikes will make you bleed, and they are venomous.
Massive production of plants requires a lot of phosphates, and other fertilizers. The latter gets into the sea. One thing leads to another. And then the babies of a killer starfish, the Crown of Thorn starfish, survive at roughly 100 times their natural rate. And the ladies Crown of Thorns are rather prolific: they produce up to twenty million eggs each. What is the Crown of Thorns prefered diet? Live coral. Crown of Thorns have already eaten their way through roughly half the Great Barrier Reef.
It is a science fiction situation, it requires a science fiction solution (philosophy will tell you as much). There are too many killer starfishes already. One needs killer robots. They are been developed: the starfish terminators have eyes, and they recognize Crown of Thorns with 99.9% precision, and inject them with bile, to which the Crown of Thorns is highly allergic.
Autonomous killer robots at sea: what could go wrong? Are sharks next? Of course! Not to terminate the species, but to make the swimmers safe (we could reprogram for plutocrats, some will insinuate…). Proper usage of philosophical evil optimization theory shows that, only this way, is evil minimized.
So welcome, killers robots!
Take another example: lack of awareness, and the evil Clintons, helped by the Bush of Oblahblah, let the financial plutocracy grow completely out of control. The silly ones will give money, clothing, even food, and feel emphatic, happy about themselves, and their pacific tendencies. Does the Will to Peace generate peace? A philosophical question. And the answer is awful: when a bushel of wheat goes from the American Middle West to Africa, it is bought and sold virtually, by the financial traitors… No less than 2,000 times! Then they live in plush mansions. Of course those traitors are culprit. But so are those who let them thrive, namely all those ready to vote for crooks (names starting with “C”).
Shoot storm? Yes, not just animal waste and dirt that is flying, but outright bullets. To wit: extremely violent wars out of nowhere. Contemplate Rwanda, Somalia, the Islamist State. Worse could be around the corner: a (nuclear) war of India with Pakistan, quickly generalizing, is imaginable.
Science fiction, some will sneer, from the bottom of their feel-good ignorance.
But 2015 was considerably warmer than 2014, which was, itself, the warmest year, ever, by a long shot. Greenland is melting, fast. A collapse of ice shields in Antarctica, little talked about, looks imminent (at least to me).
Science fiction, some will scoff, and turn around, to study nothing. Yet, look at the Zika virus, propped by global warming. The USA is scrambling to study it. It did not exist six months ago, as a problem for WHO. Now it’s a total panic. Brazil just attributed 4,000 cases of microcephaly to that virus carried by mosquitoes. Four countries advised women not to get pregnant, more will follow. Tomorrow.
Genetic engineering may be a way to stop Zika. Otherwise, massive usage of poisons (which
already started). This sort of question are all highly philosophical, they are always choices between an evil, and the other.
In Libya, the West, led by France, destroyed a bloody despotic regime, practicing mass murder, but then, the West dropped the ball. On the philosophical ground of non-intervention, and Obama “leading from way behind” France, the West let the Natives argue between themselves to find out how they would organize this country, which is more than 4,000 years old.
That was a serious debate: Libyans have had some outstanding issues, of civilizational grade, for millennia (so do Algeria, Tunisia, even Morocco). One of these issues is whether the 3,500 years old alphabet could, or even ought, to be used, in parts where it still exists, rather than the youngish alphabet brought by the invading Arab armies, armed with their “Submission” (= Islam).
However, profiting from the chaos, the Islamist State moved in. And now it’s moving ever more, as the West is destroying it in the Orient.Now France wants to attack and destroy the Islamist State in Libya. Is this philosophically correct? (I think so, can’t wait!)
Philosophical questions are everywhere, and they are not just fascinating, but they have to drive policy. The situation is much more acute than when Seneca was advising emperor Nero, or when emperor Marcus Aurelius was playing stoic philosopher.
To all these questions, only one context in which to frame the answers: relativity. Relativity of knowledge, relativity of evil, relativity of consequences, relativity of action.
So yes, “maximization of agency towards greater good” is where it’s at. Not just where ethics ought to be at, but where action should be.
(Massimo P. and his friends have what seems to me roughly the same approach to goodness of “maximizing agency“; see: “From ancient to modern From ancient to modern Stoicism — part I“. It’s pretty clear that it was always the overriding principle of my approach to philosophy. I thank Massimo in passing for giving me the occasion of planting my claws and fangs into something juicy, in other word, making my thoughts more, well, effective by providing a debating ground.)
Can we find some inspiration in science? Yes, of course. Look at physics: energy is not of the essence. The essence is the potential, not the absolute energy. It is the potential which sits on the right hand side of the De Broglie-Schrodinger equation. Thus it’s the potential which acts (contemplate the Bohm-Aharanov effect).
Physics is dominated by the principle of least action (found by Maupertuis, during the Enlightenment). Least action of evil, such is modern stoicism. Keeping in mind that inaction is itself a form of action.
Notice that the old problem of the “ends which justify the means” has been completely reformulated in a much larger physical and philosophical universe. The entire, immense power of modern logic, mathematics and physics can then be brought to bear. It is not a question of carrying the equations over: equations constitute only logical foam. What is deeper than the equations, what really gets the logic going, is the context they represent.
For example, a way to formulate Quantum Physics, related to the Least Action Principle, is to consider the “sum over histories”… Well, just as human history itself. Causalities, entangled, are all over histories.
Ethics has got more complicated, but, in this vastly richer landscape, minimal energy, minimal evil solutions abound.
This is not just the great age of science, it’s the greatest age of philosophy. In the age of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, the empire was in danger, from forces, in and out. Now civilization itself is in question, and even worse, the biosphere itself is threatened. It’s an ecology most propitious to a blossoming of philosophy. The greatest questions ever, await the greatest answers.
And much inspiration has to come from science, whose main job is not just to find the facts, but sophisticated logics to give them meaning. Today’s most sophisticated logics and mathematics are far ahead of the best known yesterday.
We want goodness? Let’s maximize agency towards goodness. The Principle of Least Evil, in other words.
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Patricia Prijatel
Journalist Patricia Prijatel and her family built a tiny cabin in a remote Colorado mountain valley where they embraced the silent, the wild, and the beautiful—until June 2013, when the East Peak Fire incinerated their forest. Their beloved cabin was saved by firefighters, but their woodlands and their gorgeous mountain—the East Spanish Peak—were devastated.
After the fire was contained, after the camera crews left, the ruin of the land and its people grew, with flash floods on eroded land; invasive weeds crowding out grass and seedlings; hurricane-level winds breaking healthy trees in half; dangerous orphaned animals; toxic air; and disease-causing stress in all living things.
Prijatel and her family returned after the fire to do what they could to help the mountain rebuild. Burn Scars: A Mountain Valley Memoir follows them through six years of living in a changed ecosystem. They learned that nature has the last word, especially when it is unleashed from its normal patterns. The land that had been their healer and refuge now needs healing.
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Date: June 14, 2018Author: Paul Cockshott 8 Comments
Allin and I have at times been criticised for proposing the use of labour time accounting in Towards a New Socialism . Surely, people have said, you can not use abstract labour in a socialist economy since abstract labour is a specific historical phenomenon of capitalism?
The idea that under socialism there is no abstract labour, only concrete labour, has become common among English speaking Marxists in recent years. This is probably due to the influence of the work of Rubin whose book on the Marxist theory of value was translated from the Russian over forty years ago.
I have long thought that the concept of abstract labour presented in Rubin is mistaken and unscientific. I published, in the journal Critique, a critique of Heinrich’s very similar account of abstract labour. What I did not know at the time was that there were old Soviet critiques of Rubin on this very topic. I am reproducing one below from 1926 that essentially adopts the same position on the topic as Allin and I did when we wrote TNS. It is clear from reading Dashkovskij that the concepts of labour time accounting we deploy were actively being debated by some economists in the 1920s. Unfortunately very little of this literature has been translated.
A few years ago Allin and I went to the archive section of Glasgow University Library whose Soviet Studies collection contains microfilm copies of some of the old communist theoretical journals from the 1920s to try and chase up critiques of Rubin. Although I can not read Russian, he can. But it turned out that the films had so degraded that the relevant articles had now become unreadable. It is fortunate therefore that someone has translated the Dashkovskij and placed it in the public domain.
Abstract labour and the economic categories of Marx
Isaak Dashkovskij
This article of Dashkovskij which appeared in Under the Banner of Marxism 1926 nr. 6, is a critique of the theory of his namesake Isaak Rubin.
Abstract labour and the economic categories of Marx 1.
The detailed elaboration of Marxist economic theory, which already several years is conducted in the Soviet Union, gave in many directions fruitful results: larger clarity of understanding, more exact formulation of the laws and positions on a series of new problems, not touched upon in pre-revolutionary Marxist literature. But every silver lining has its cloud. So too it happens, that the new attempts of “deepening” theory lead to “splitting empty abstractions into four empty parts.” To their number should be, in our opinion, counted the attempt of I. Rubin to “sociologize” the concept of abstract labour, which in the latest times is repeated, slightly diluting the formulations of Rubin in an eclectic soup, by A. Voznesenskii (see his article in the journal “Pod Znamenem Marksizma”, No. 12 of 1925). To subject to critique the new-found theory is all the more necessary as “Essays on the theory of value” by I. Rubin enjoys the well deserved reputation of one of the very best works on Marxism, and this leads many to the temptation to take as true the there given interpretation of the category of abstract labour and the conclusions from it, although they clearly are at variance with the formulations and views of Marx. With the present note I have in mind, with the help of the minimum necessary literature references, to prove the incompatibility of Rubin’s theory, not only with the letter, but also with the spirit of the Marxist analysis of bourgeois economy, leaving for myself the right to return, if it is required, to this theme in more full “armament.”
The fundamental definition of Marx, concerning the twofold character of labour, reads: “On the one hand all labour is, speaking physiologically, an expenditure of human labour power, and in its character of identical or abstract human labour, it creates and forms the value of commodities. On the other hand, all labour is the expenditure of human labour power in a special form and with a definite aim, and in this, its character of concrete useful labour, it produces use values” 2. The new commentators consider it necessary to change or complement this definition of Marx on the basis that in its present form it contains only “physiologically defined abstract labour, valid for all forms of economy” 3. They proceed from the point that all categories of Marxist political economy, among this number also the category of abstract labour, must be, firstly, social, and secondly – historical concepts. Let’s approach the question beginning with the “historical” point of view.
The fundamental economic categories in Marx carry a historical character – this is true. Not true, however, is the claim, that Marx operates in his study exclusively with such categories. In addition, the epithet “historical” has a distinct meaning in Marx, although this distinctiveness very often is ignored even by very attentive researchers. To clarify this statement we turn to Marx’s “Outline of the critique of political economy”, taking from it a formulation, which, on first sight, would even seem to directly contradict our point of view. At the end of the first chapter “On production” Marx writes:
“To summarize: There are characteristics (/determinations) which all stages of production have in common, and which are established as general ones by the mind; but the so-called general preconditions of all production are nothing more than abstract moments with which no real historical stage of production can be grasped” 4. Not much before Marx points out, that “the elements which are not general and common, must be separated out from the determinations valid for production as such, so that in their unity – which arises already from the identity of the subject, humanity, and of the object, nature – their essential difference is not forgotten.”
So, for the specific understanding, for the understanding of the form of every economic epoch the general determinations are not valid precisely because they relate equally to all epochs. But does this mean that they are completely not needed to us? What does it mean to understand the specificity of any phenomenon? It means – to show in which specific form, in which concrete configuration operate the social laws, characteristic of the given genus of phenomena. Strip, for instance, “the specifically capitalist character of both wages and surplus-value”, and “before us will appear already not these forms, but merely their rudiments, which are common to all social modes of production” 5. To boil down the specific form to its common rudiments in theoretical form also is the task of every science, for which there would be no place, if “the form of appearance and the essence of things coincided.”
Historical epochs are not separated from one another by a Chinese wall of full discriminating dissociation. They have a common ground – the production and reproduction of material life. The ignoring of this common ground Marx ridiculed, for instance, in one of his letters to Kugelmann.
“The chatter about the need to prove the concept of value arises only from complete ignorance both of the subject under discussion and of the method of science. Every child knows that any nation that stopped working, not for a year, but let us say, just for a few weeks, would perish. And every child knows, too, that the amounts of products corresponding to the differing amounts of needs demand differing and quantitatively determined amounts of society’s aggregate labour. It is self-evident that this necessity of the distribution of social labour in specific proportions is certainly not abolished by the specific form of social production; it can only change its form of manifestation. Natural laws cannot be abolished at all. The only thing that can change, under historically differing conditions, is the form in which those laws assert themselves. And the form in which this proportional distribution of labour asserts itself in a state of society in which the interconnection of social labour expresses itself as the private exchange of the individual products of labour, is precisely the exchange value of these products.” 6
Political economy is the science of the specific social forms, in which is realized the “exchange of matter between man and nature.” To understand these forms knowledge is necessary of the basis of every economic system, common to all epochs of human history. The categories and laws, which relate to it, will carry a “super-historical” character, and, nevertheless, they are a mandatory introduction in the study of a historical economic form – for instance, capitalist production. This will be, if anything, an universal sociological determination, which forms the fundament of economic study, not the entrance in the system of political economy in the precise sense of the word. To such common determinations relates, for instance, the teaching on the production forces. That chapter of Marx’s “Outline” which investigates the common rapport of production, distribution, exchange and consumption, can in this way serve as a sample of such “super-historical” analysis. To this same type relates the chapter in volume 1 of “Capital”, describing the process of labour. Very clearly Marx moves on this “material-technical” point of view for more graphic depiction of the specific capitalist forms of production. Such pages, devoted to the conditions of reproduction of the basis of capital or the study of its ground, invoke the different duration of turnovers of capital. Marx notes, for instance, that also under socialist forms of economy the difference in duration of turnover – or period of production – will have great significance for the whole social system. “Under socialized as well as capitalist production, the labourers in branches of business with shorter working periods will as before withdraw products only for a short time without giving any products in return; while branches of business with long working periods continually withdraw products for a longer time before they return anything. This circumstance, then, arises from the material character of the particular labour-process, not from its social form.”
In general, in “Capital” and in “Theories of surplus value” are scattered many valuable thoughts, relating, so to say, to the domain of “super-historical economy”, to the domain which makes up the favorite subject of study of bourgeois economy, notable, however, of surpassing trifle banalities. Precisely bourgeois economy compromised in the eyes of Marxists this necessary constituent element of economic theory, concentrating all attention on the general laws and erasing every border between different economic social forms of production. For this it consciously or unconsciously transfers to all epochs the categories and laws of bourgeois economy. Marxist theory set science a limiting frame, made the forms of economic relations the center of study. But Marxist literature after Marx very often turned to the reverse absurdity – to the full disregard of the common laws of economic life which hide behind one or other of the “forms of appearance.”
It may seem, that our reasoning goes along the line of Bogdanovist theory, according to which the task of economic study begins only then when with the help of abstract analysis the external shell of phenomena can be overcome, releasing them from the particularity and “appearance” hiding the in them common economic bases (see Bogdanov’s introduction to the new edition of his “General theory of capitalist economy”, 4th edition of the “Course” of Bogdanov and Stepanov (1925, 306), and also the discussion on the subject of pol. economy in the pages of “Vestnik Kommunisticheskoj Akademii”). But this is only an apparent similarity. We consider, that economic theory in the real sense of the word begins precisely then when from the common laws the study moves to the analysis of the “form”, and not the other way. The viewpoint of Bogdanov is the viewpoint of all bourgeois economy, making the “highest laws” the center of science. We consider it, however, from the other side, a mistake to desire to limit economic science exclusively to the domain of form and even the one specific form of capitalist-commodity production. How can one boil down the “form of appearance” of things to their rudiments, if these rudiments are unknown? 7.
Let’s turn now to the historical categories in the real sense of the word. Don’t we deal here with an actually similar sum of concepts? Can we not, for instance, consider the category of “profit”, “capital”, “rent”, “wage labour”, “commodity”, etc. – to be similar to the concept of “abstract labour”, “labour power”?
On this account we already find a fairly clear and exhaustive consideration in the “Outline”. Every concrete economic epoch includes in it “many determinations”, playing in relation to it the role of “simplest abstraction” or “category.” These categories must be found by means of abstract(/generalizing) analysis, dissecting reality into its elements. When the categories are found and determined, begins the reconstruction in thought of the concrete reality from which they were first obtained 8. Looked at in such connection, these abstract determinations have full meaning only in such concrete situation, which represents the starting point of analysis, and must be situated in the the sequence which answers to their position in the real phenomena. However here the case is possible where a few of these categories develop not in the historical succession which conforms with their place in abstract theory. They can, for instance, precede that historical epoch in which they get more fully developed. Thus, for example, money gets its all-round meaning only in conditions of capitalism, but historically exists long before the capitalist era. To the contrary, other categories get their definition exclusively in the frame of determined social formations, like, for example, surplus value, capital, wage labour, wages, etc.
“Bourgeois society is the most developed and the most complex historic organization of production. The categories which express its relations, the comprehension of its structure, thereby also allows insights into the structure and the relations of production of all the vanished social formations out of whose ruins and elements it built itself up, whose partly still unconquered remnants are carried along within it, whose mere nuances have developed explicit significance within it, etc. Human anatomy contains a key to the anatomy of the ape. The intimations of higher development among the subordinate animal species, however, can be understood only after the higher development is already known. The bourgeois economy thus supplies the key to the ancient, etc. But not at all in the manner of those economists who smudge over all historical differences and see bourgeois relations in all forms of society… Further, since bourgeois society is itself only a contradictory form of development, relations derived from earlier forms will often be found within it only in an entirely stunted form, or even travestied. For example, communal property. Although it is true, therefore, that the categories of bourgeois economics possess a truth for all other forms of society, this is to be taken only cum grano salis. They can contain them in a developed, or stunted, or caricatured form etc., but always with an essential difference” 9.
In this way, an enrollment of the basic categories of political economy, appraising commodity production, with historical disregard, does not yet solve the question about the character, about the physiognomy of every of them. Further study is necessary. One must establish, whether a given category is a new formation, is characteristic exclusively to the given social system, distorted remnants of previous epochs, or further developed elements, laying already in the preceding period. Herewith it could happen, that the historical sense of a given category will consists only in the fact that its proper economic content, having a common character for different or even for all epochs, could only in the most full image be manifested in the given situation. Below we’ll see, that precisely to this last group the concept of abstract labour relates, which Marx in detail analyses in set out connections. Standing still at the plan of setting out the subject of political economy, Marx writes:
“The order obviously has to be, firstly the general, abstract determinants which obtain in more or less all forms of society, but in the above-explained sense, secondly the categories which make up the inner structure of bourgeois society and on which the fundamental classes rest” 10. And the enumeration goes further of elements of bourgeois society in the actual sense of the word.
These common abstract determinations are, on the one side, super-historical, relating to all epochs, on the other, – historical, in that only at a particular historical stage they get fully developed, appearing in comprehensive form. Marx relates the category of abstract labour precisely to this group. Abstract labour is not a category, constituting the internal structure of bourgeois society. It relates to all epochs, in so far as it is taken as a concept, but it becomes a “practical truth” only on a particular stage of historical development. Such category could be called conditional-historical(/условно-историческим).
Rubin considers it necessary to give the concept of abstract labour another meaning. “The expenditure of human energy as such, in a physiological sense, is still not abstract labor, labor which creates value, even though this is its premise. Abstraction from the concrete forms of labor, the basic social relation among separate commodity producers, is what characterizes abstract labor” 11. This abstraction happens on the market, where products of labour are exchanged for others and thereby turn private into social, and concrete into abstract labour. The latter arises not in production, but in the act of exchange. The conversion of concrete into abstract labour is not a mere logical abstraction, for finding a common unit of measure, but is a spontaneous social act, really happening on the market. Where there is no market and exchange, there is also not this conversion. Then the social character of labour is expressed directly in natural or concrete form, in as much as different labours are performed by members of the aggregate social organism in the manner of a conscious distributive function. If abstract labour is considered merely as physiological expenditure of energy and thus given a super-historical character to it, then it’s not understandable, in what way the non-historical category – abstract labour – can create such an historical category, as value.
So in broad terms goes the thought of Rubin, from whom Voznesenskij borrows the basic arguments, adding to them dubious props. Thus, for Voznesenskij, abstract labour, although both including in itself historical and social moments, does not stop at the same time to be physiological labour and, as such, exists already in the process of production.
It should be remarked, that the general form of Rubin’s viewpoint can be met in the much earlier work of T. Grigorovich “Theory of value in Marx and Lassale”, where the conception of abstract labour is given the same sense… “Labour, creating exchange value, i.e. abstract-general labour, is a product of such an economic regime, under which production is not for oneself, but for other consumers, and under which production is not only for consumption, but also for the benefit of exchange” (p. 77)12.
And so, the twofold character of labour and the category of abstract labour – are forms, inherent exclusively to commodity production. All other systems of production know only labour in its natural concrete form. Abstract labour – is an historical category.
First of all, in these expositions clarity is absent on the question of what should be understood in this case under historical category. But from the whole course of analysis it is clear that the concept “historical” bares here the narrowest meaning, i.e. abstract labour, in Rubin’s opinion, is a category of commodity economy in the same sense, as money, value, commodity, capital, etc. Here we must note the direct break from Marx, who in his “Outline” in detailed image analyses this question. Marx describes, what complex evolution the conception of labour undertook in the mercantilists, monetarists, physiocrats, classics, when from separate aspects of labour, like commercial or agricultural, the classics went to the abstract universal conception of activity, creating wealth, or labour in general. “It might seem that all that had been achieved thereby was to discover the abstract expression for the simplest and most ancient relation in which human beings – in whatever form of society – play the role of producers. This is correct in one respect. Not in another” 13. And further he shows, that this simple abstraction, “which expresses an immeasurably ancient relation valid in all forms of society, nevertheless achieves practical truth as an abstraction only as a category of the most modern society” (p.28). In other words, Marx relates abstract labour to the conditional-historical categories, to use the above-given terms. Abstract labour, labour in general, labour as physiological expenditure of muscles, nerves and so on – is a concept, going back far outside the internal organization of commodity production, a general concept. But in practice it can apply fully only under specific conditions. What are these conditions? Firstly, the possibility to generalize from concrete forms of labour, an indifferent relation to them is conceivable only on such a stage of economic development, when not one form of labour is dominant. Secondly, this presupposes such an economic order, where with the most ease individuals move from one type of labour to another, where specific labour “is a matter of chance for them, hence of indifference. Not only the category, labour, but labour in reality has here become the means of creating wealth in general, and has ceased to be organically linked with particular individuals in any specific form.”
“This example of labour shows strikingly how even the most abstract categories, despite their validity – precisely because of their abstractness – for all epochs, are nevertheless, in the specific character of this abstraction, themselves likewise a product of historic relations, and possess their full validity only for and within these relations” (p. 28) 14.
The conception of abstract labour developed fully only with commodity production, but by itself it relates to all epochs. What must be its internal content, in order to be able, though it would be only in this limited sense, to relate to all epochs? Precisely this, which Marx gives: labour, as expenditure of physiological energy in indifferent form. The definition, which Rubin gives, does not allow to transfer the category of abstract labour outside of commodity production.
If abstract labour, exists, so to say, ideally in previous to commodity production epochs, finding only in the commodity world ground for its practical manifestation, then what is its fate in the circumstance of transition from commodity to organized socialist production? Does this category disappear under socialism? The answer to this question is given by the analysis of those conditions, under which, for Marx, abstract labour gets the significance of practical truth. We enumerated them above. Among them there is not one, which would be “abolished” in socialism. On the contrary, in socialist society they get further developed.
The absence of any specific dominant type of labour, easy transfer from one type of labour to another, loss of the connection of the labour process with determined individuals – all this occurs under socialism in its highest development. It is arrant nonsense – the “position” of A. Voznesenskij, that under socialism specialization stops. “If we take family for a society, then we say: here the labour of individual members of production becomes labour general directly in its concrete form. It does not cease being connected to determined individuality (personhood) and determined speciality.” This is a fully distorted perspective of development. Let’s recall, how apropos this Engels derided Duhring. “It is true that, to the mode of thought of the educated classes which Herr Dühring has inherited, it must seem monstrous that in time to come there will no longer be any professional porters or architects, and that the man who for half an hour gives instructions as an architect will also act as a porter for a period, until his activity as an architect is once again required. A fine sort of socialism that would be—perpetuating professional porters.”
In this same spirit Marx and Engels state in their work “German ideology”, published in the first volume of Ryazanov’s “Archiv”… “In communist society… society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.” 15
Of course, if Marx and Engels would voice these thoughts in our day, they would illustrate with more modern examples. But it does not change the substance of the matter.
Capitalist technique led to the point that not only for the worker the concrete content of his labour becomes indifferent, but that the very manifestations of labour in their concreteness (labour in the economic sense, as “life necessities”) increasingly draw closer to one another, in as much as one after another function of human organs is substituted by the work of automates. This process gets an even more gigantic development under socialism. Hence, those economic relations, which created the soil for the separation of concrete from abstract labour under capitalism, will develop even more after its downfall. The weakening of the duality of labour will then happen not in the sense of a return to patriachism, to the attachment of people by determined specialities, but in the sense of drawing more and more close the forms of concrete labour, transforming them in an uniform process of expenditure of energy under the supervision on the working machine. Outside this process labour changes into a simple “play of life forces”, to which economic categories in the true sense already do not relate. “Labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want” 16.
Rubin utilizes for the proof of his theory the chapter on commodity fetishism, where Marx, counter-poses commodity production to other forms of production, to clarify the characteristic particularity of the organization of labour in the epoch of commodity production. From this chapter he endeavors to make the following conclusion: under all other economic forms (in patriarchal order, in feudalism, in society of free associated producers), every determined work, every concrete form of labour is at the same time also directly social labour, but in commodity production labour can find its social character, only by taking the form of its opposite – abstract labour. Abstract labour is there the fundamental specific category of commodity production. Let’s verify.
In every consciously organized social economy labour is social already in its direct concrete form. That is true. In commodity production it becomes social through turning in abstract labour. That is also true. But is it true, that for this reason the category of abstract labour becomes superfluous in all other forms of production, besides a commodity one?
That would be so if abstract labour would only have such an assignment, which is imputed to it, if its whole role would boil down to give determined forms of labour the character of social labour, in conditions of commodity production. But the issue is that even in those economic forms, where concrete labour emerges directly in social quality, where it does not need the curved mirror of reified relations and abstract categories, the function of abstract labour is absolutely necessary, in as much as the issue is about the calculation of social labour energy. The calculation can happen only with indifferent, i.e. abstract counting units. In the same chapter on commodity fetishism Marx with full determination shows, that all mystifications of commodity production happen not at all from the change of concrete in abstract labour, but from the reified expression of this abstraction. About what is the issue in that chapter?
About commodity fetishism. Marx clearly and distinctly shows, that neither in concrete labour, nor in abstract labour, as such, there is any mystique, any mysteriousness at all.
“So far as it (a commodity) is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about it, whether we consider it from the point of view that by its properties it is capable of satisfying human wants, or from the point that those properties are the product of human labour… The mystical character of commodities does not originate, therefore, in their use value. Just as little does it proceed from the nature of the determining factors of value (i.e. abstract labour. I.D.). For, in the first place, however varied the useful kinds of labour, or productive activities, may be, it is a physiological fact, that they are functions of the human organism, and that each such function, whatever may be its nature or form, is essentially the expenditure of human brain, nerves, muscles, etc. Secondly, with regard to that which forms the ground-work for the quantitative determination of value, namely, the duration of that expenditure, or the quantity of labour, it is quite clear that there is a palpable difference between its quantity and quality. In all states of society, the labour time that it costs to produce the means of subsistence, must necessarily be an object of interest to mankind, though not of equal interest in different stages of development. And lastly, from the moment that men in any way work for one another, their labour assumes a social form.”
Whence, then, arises the enigmatical character of the product of labour, so soon as it assumes the form of commodities? Clearly from this form itself. The equality of all sorts of human labour is expressed objectively by their products all being equally values; the measure of the expenditure of labour power by the duration of that expenditure, takes the form of the quantity of value of the products of labour; and finally the mutual relations of the producers, within which the social character of their labour affirms itself, take the form of a social relation between the products 17.
So, not in abstract labour, which makes up the “content determining value”, must one search the particularity of commodity production, not in the equality or equalization of different human work and not in the measurement of these works’s labour time, nor is it the very social connection of producers, but exclusively in this, that all these definitions get a reified expression. Other social forms do not have the need for this roundabout:
“there is no necessity for labour and its products to assume a fantastic form different from their reality. They take the shape, in the transactions of society, of services in kind and payments in kind. Here the particular and natural form of labour, and not, as in a society based on production of commodities, its general abstract form is the immediate social form of labour. Compulsory labour is just as properly measured by time, as commodity-producing labour; but every serf knows that what he expends in the service of his lord, is a definite quantity of his own personal labour power.”
In commodity production the private labour of independent producers turns social on the market, firstly, because, its products take the form of commodities, and, secondly, because thanks to this mutual equating of commodities and only through equating takes place this generalization(/abstraction) from concrete particular labour, changing concrete in abstract labour. Through abstraction from the concrete form through the mediation of the category of abstract labour there exists the social connection. In organized forms of production the social connection exists, as a pre-given fact. Labour in the very beginning emerges as social, and not private labour, the product must not transform into a commodity in order to get a social claim; it is a social product with the first moment of its existence. Therefore also labour is here social labour already in its particular concrete forms, not needing for this any sort of transformation and generalization. From this would follow such a chain of conclusions: in organized society there are no commodities, but only products. There is no private labour, but only social labour, the work of the conscious organs of the social whole. There is no abstract labour, but only concrete labour.
However this erected scheme could be adopted as a whole only in the case that the real concepts of “commodity”, “private”, “abstract” were located in an uniform symmetrical position to the other series of definitions, “product”, “social”, “concrete”. Meanwhile, these antitheses are not equivalent. That the categories “commodity”, “private” labour disappear, once only the market production ceases – this is understood by itself. This follows from the very definitions. We name commodities products of labour, going for exchange. Once there is no exchange, there are no commodities. We name private labour the labour of independent, autonomous producers. If we liquidate their autonomy, if they turn into direct subordinate organs of the whole, then thereby disappears the category of private labour. To the concept of abstract labour now likewise is tried to give such a meaning, which would lead to the destruction of this category with the transition to other forms of production. This follows from the point that the social character of labour, which in market production is expressed with the help of abstraction, in organized society emerges directly.
Such a mechanical exposition about symmetric laws represents, however, the purely arbitrary construction of the new commentators. In Marx it is not. In his polemics with Gray on the question of the direct measurement of the value of commodities without the help of money, Marx wrote: “Commodities are the direct products of isolated independent individual kinds of labour, and through their alienation in the course of individual exchange they must prove that they are general social labour, in other words, on the basis of commodity production, labour becomes social labour only as a result of the universal alienation of individual kinds of labour. But as Gray presupposes that the labour-time contained in commodities is immediately social labour-time, he presupposes that it is communal labour-time or labour-time of directly associated individuals. In that case, it would indeed be impossible for a specific commodity, such as gold or silver, to confront other commodities as the incarnation of universal labour and exchange-value would not be turned into price; but neither would use-value be turned into exchange-value and the product into a commodity, and thus the very basis of bourgeois production would be abolished.18” It’s easy to note, that in this in brief but clear counter-position of commodity and socialist production, is missing exactly that link, to which Rubin clung: the antithesis of concrete and abstract labour, although it is emphasized that in socialist society labour needs no intermediary links of exchange and alienation, to become social labour.
Abstraction in relation to labour is necessary not only to turn private forms of labour into the qualitatively indifferent category of social labour. It’s necessary also both for the summation and for the accounting of the labour process in any society, which, as Marx underlines, always is interested in the amount of expended labour time. Rubin himself in another chapter of his work speaks of the equalization of different forms of labour to one another as well as of equalization of things, for instance, from the point of view of their relative utility (in socialist production). The difference between socialist and commodity production consists only in this, that in commodity society the equalization of labour is possible exclusively through masked forms of comparison of products of labour, like commodities, whereas in socialist society these two acts are completely independent from one another. This is the aptly captured difference. But in what form must this equalization of labour happen?
The comparison of labour, expressed in various concrete forms, is possible only through their reduction to one standard. A. Voznesenksij says, that “concrete labour can magnificently be measured precisely in its concrete form. In relation to this was not left any doubt by the observation of Marx in § 4, ch.1, vol. 1 of “Capital”, when he investigates feudal production, in particular, family peasant production.” In these notes of Marx there is not what A. Voznesenskij found there, who simply doesn’t understand about what the issue is. “Concrete labour can be measured in concrete form.” But what, in substance does such measurement mean?
To measure – means count an amount. The amount of labour must be expressed in determined units. If Voznesenskij takes for such unit any concrete thing, like the product of concrete labour, then in the count it will play not the role of a thing, as such, but of an index of the determined amount of labour energy 19. The very attempt to measure with the help of given things the amount of labour of other industries would result in comrade A. Voznesenskij’s complete unawareness of the fetishism of the money form, of bringing it in this completely unexpected way into socialist society. The attempt to turn away from abstract labour leads… to commodity fetishism, such is the fate of excessive “deepening” of concepts. The measure of labour in any production system exists for Marx in nothing other than labour time, under the help of which must happen also for Rubin the equalization of different forms of labour to one another. Here is what Marx says about socialist production. “After the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, but still retaining social production, the determination of value continues to prevail in the sense that the regulation of labour-time and the distribution of social labour among the various production groups, ultimately the book-keeping encompassing all this, become more essential than ever” 20. Characterizing the social relations in the first phase of communist society, Marx writes:
“the social working day consists of the sum of the individual hours of work; the individual labor time of the individual producer is the part of the social working day contributed by him, his share in it. He receives a certificate from society that he has furnished such-and-such an amount of labor (after deducting his labor for the common funds); and with this certificate, he draws from the social stock of means of consumption as much as the same amount of labor cost! The same amount of labor which he has given to society in one form, he receives back in another. Here, obviously, the same principle prevails as that which regulates the exchange of commodities, as far as this is exchange of equal values. Content and form are changed, because under the altered circumstances no one can give anything except his labor, and because, on the other hand, nothing can pass to the ownership of individuals, except individual means of consumption. But as far as the distribution of the latter among the individual producers is concerned, the same principle prevails as in the exchange of commodity equivalents: a given amount of labor in one form is exchanged for an equal amount of labor in another form 21.”
In the second phase of communism these “birthmarks” disappear, and communist society leaves the womb of capitalism, in as much as the issue is about principles of distribution. But there remains, however, another necessity – the correct distribution of labour between different branches and comparison of costs and results inside every factory. Without quantitative account of labour here organized production is not possible. But which labour here is being accounted?
Labour in general, as determined form of productive energy, regardless of the form of its manifestation. If Rubin and Voznesenskij consider this labour abstract labour, they must make a special third category for it, because it is inconceivable to account concrete labour with abstract units. The very concept of accounting means generalizing from any quality. Arithmetic is the abstract science of numbers.
But to us will be replied so: the fact that concrete labour can be considered from the quantitative side, does not yet make it abstract labour. The process of accounting is a generalizing operation. But the generalizing here exists only in contemplated form. Real life is not concerned with these abstractions, but with the concrete forms of labour and the determinations of consumption goods. On the contrary, in commodity production the process of generalization from the concrete property of labour and things is a real act, of everyday and every hour taking place on the market. Here is that abstraction, laying in the very objective nature of exchange, and which generates the category of abstract labour.
What, however, role is fulfilled by this “objectivized” abstraction?
The role of regulator of social production. Does this economic necessity disappear under socialism?
No, on the contrary, regulation only under socialism gets an all-sided character. Regulation assumes the accounting of labour, the calculation abstracting from concrete property and quality. If the regulation of labour – is an economic necessity under socialism (and under every other form of production, in as much people always were interested in the amount spent of existing labour on production resources), then in such a system of measuring the necessity continues of generalizing from concrete labour. Abstraction in those conditions – is not a luxury, not an empty game of fantasy, but a life requirement. In commodity society it takes place spontaneously and through the mediation of things, in organized society – consciously. But from this its qualitative nature does not derive. The difference is only in this, that under socialism “principle and practice are no longer at loggerheads, while the exchange of equivalents in commodity exchange exists only on the average and not in the individual case” (Critique of the Gotha Programme).
In this way, not only labour in the epoch of commodity economy, but also all labour of people, producing in society, “all socially determined individual production” characterizes, for Marx, the dual character of labour. The distinction consists only in the following. In commodity production this duality of labour acquires practical demonstration in the process of exchange. On the other side, in commodity society concrete useful labour emerges directly, as private labour. Social labour it becomes only through things, through commodity exchange, which simultaneously converts concrete labour in its opposite. On the contrary, in all other economic forms both concrete and abstract labour are only two sides of the same social labour. Concrete labour is social labour in the sense that it satisfies in particular form a particular social requirement in the quality of a specific division of social labour. Abstract labour is social labour in the sense that with it is expressed the social character of equated heterogeneous work. Further, from the objective point of view concrete labour also in conditions of commodity economy likewise is social labour. This is expressed in the point that the product of labour must be useful, must satisfy a social demand. “The twofold social character of the labour of the individual appears to him, when singularly reflected in his brain, (only) under those forms which it (this social character) takes on in everyday practice by the exchange of products. In this way, the character that his own labour possesses of being socially useful takes the form of the condition, that the product must be not only useful, but useful for others, and the social character that his particular labour has of being the equal of all other particular kinds of labour, takes the form that all the physically different articles that are the products of labour – have one common quality, viz., that of having value” 22. Here we have the reply as well to the second reproach which was directed at the address of the physiological definition of abstract labour, – the reproach that such definition does not give the social character of labour. In the opinion of Rubin, the counter-position of concrete and abstract labour is not a counter-position of genus and species concepts, but the analysis of “labor from two standpoints: the material-technical and the social. The concept of abstract labor expresses the characteristics of the social organization of labor in a commodity-capitalist society” 23.
Such an approach to the question is, in our opinion, incorrect. Both definitions of labour, as concrete, and as abstract, already contain the preceding social character of labour. In the beginning of his “Outline” Marx writes: “To begin with, the question under discussion is material production. Individuals producing in a society, and hence the socially determined production of individuals, is of course the point of departure.” Concrete labour is not at all only a material-techinical category. Rubin himself, in another place says, referring to Marx, that in every other society, but a commodity one, the social character of labour is expressed in its directly natural form. Therefore it, in those conditions, becomes a category with social content. But also in commodity production concrete labour only in appearance, only subjectively for the producer is a material-technical category, of private labour. From the point of view of the whole process of reproduction it emerges as socially determined labour, because on society depends the character and direction of private useful work. In as much as concrete labour splits into forms and subforms together with the progress of the social division of labour, and in as much the latter is a social fact, then also concrete labour thereby acquires a social character. Yes otherwise it also could not be, because the concepts of “concrete” and “abstract” relate not to different things, but to one and the same thing, to social labour, which is given, as the primary matter of production life.
Together with this is resolved also the question about the social character of abstract labour. Abstract labour is social labour, taken from the point of view simple, homogeneous human energy, taken not in the diversity of its function, manifestations and results, but in the uniformity of its physiological process. But society is not an organism in the deep physiological sense of the word. The expenditure of physiological energy can happen socially not directly, but through individuals, as its members, emerging consciously (in organized society), or unconsciously (in a commodity one), as organs of the social whole. The reduction of abstract labour to a simple, impersonal, though also carried out by individual persons, expenditure of physiological energy – that also is the highest expression of the social character of labour, regardless of the fact that in appearance it represents to oneself a naturalistic category. “Physiology” in the given case is a pseudonym of depersonalized, absolute equality of all forms of human labour, the equality of all producers, taken, as such, i.e. in the simple quality of conductors of social energy. What more social content can one demand from economic categories? 24
But, perhaps, here abstract labour is charged with another requirement? Perhaps, here under social content is understood a content, adequate for any specific social relations and varying together with them?
This brings us to the question about the historical character of abstract labour, and here remains only to repeat our consideration about the historical categories in general.
Let’s stand now before the third objection against the physiological conception of abstract labour. “It is not possible to reconcile a physiological concept of abstract labor with the historical character of the value which it creates. The physiological expenditure of energy as such is the same for all epochs and, one might say, this energy created value in all epochs. We arrive at the crudest interpretation of the theory of value, one which sharply contradicts Marx’s theory.” 25 And in another place: “The accepted conception of abstract labor as labour expenditure in the physiological sense of the word, inevitably is a naturalistic interpretation of Marx’s theory of value.” 26
First of all, absolutely nothing justifies the argument, that a historical category needs to arise only from another historical category. After all in the final light every historical form of production has its fundament in the eternal relation between man and nature, the forces of production, given by nature, and labour, “which itself is only the manifestation of a force of nature – human labor power” (Critique of the Gotha Programme). This labour and this labour power are the sources of every development and, hence, every historical category. He who claims, that historical categories can be generated only by other likewise historical categories, leaves out of sight, that a category is in general only the form of appearance of ahistorical laws, as Marx recalled in the by us cited letter to Kugelmann. Concerning the special question on the correlation between value and abstract labour, then the argument here basically is about a simple misunderstanding of the word “create”, to which is attached a deep materialist sense. Thus, Rubin writes: “Only by the firm establishment of this concept of abstract labour, we correctly understand the fundamental position of the marxist theory of value, stating, that labour “creates” value. On first sight this position prompts a whole series of questions and problems. Labour, labour activity is nothing phsyicial, belonging to the world of phenomena of nature. If this labour creates value, it’s clear, the latter represents a sort of property of a thing as such, as an object of nature” 27. All these problems stem not from taking abstract labour in the physiological sense, but from taking the word “create” in the vulgar physical sense. Meanwhile, Rubin himself puts this word in quotes, feeling, that this term must be understood differently. Value is created by abstract labour in the sense, that it assumes the form of value of a product of labour. “Exchange value is a definite social manner of expressing the amount of labour bestowed upon an object” (Marx) – and that is all. It’s clear, that the mode of expression can and must carry a historical character, whereas that which serves as the subject expressed, does not depend on the evolution of social form. There is not any difficulty or contradiction here, if we only give things their real meaning.
Meanwhile, if we hold on to the defintion of Rubin – and here we move to the positive part of his theory – then it’s necessary to come inevitably to the conclusion, that not abstract labour creates value, but, on the contrary, the category of value creates the category of abstract labour. In Rubin there are several different and almost always muddled definitions of abstract labour. Let’s give some of them. “Abstraction from the concrete forms of labor, as the basic social relation among separate commodity producers, is what characterizes abstract labor” (p. 102). (Abstraction… is abstract labour – not an entirely intelligible definition). “Abstract labour emerges only in the real act of market exchange. Physiological equability(/equalization) of different forms of human labour exist always and by itself represent a fact, indifferent for the social forms of production. But the equability of different forms of labour, created in commodity production by the process of exchange, the equability between labours, spent in different branches of production, the flowing of labour from one branch to another branch, so to say, the aspiration of all labour reservoirs of society toward an equal level, – this is a social phenomenon, inherent to commodity production and finds its expression with the concept of abstract labour” (p. 103).
This definition too is awkward (“the striving of reservoirs toward an equal level”). But it is above all patently erroneous. To begin with: to say, that “the equalization of different forms of labour, created in commodity production in the process of exhange”, is a phenomenon, inherent only to commodity economy – means to say nothing. By itself it’s understood, that there, where there’s no exchange, there’s no commodity production. The other affirmation, that the aspiration of labour to equal levels, the striving to equalization etc. is typical only of commodity production, obviously is untrue. Among other things, Rubin uses here the term “social” in the sense, analogous with the term “market” or “commodity” production. Such usage of the term is far from accepted.
Finally, it should be noted here, that for Rubin abstract labour emerges only “in the act of market exchange”, and, hence, before exchange does not exist.
Further on Rubin even more emphasizes this position, indicating, that the equalization of labour in commodity society happens not directly, “but through exchange, not in the process of production. The concept of abstract labor expresses the specific historical form of equalization of labor.”
Rubin thinks, that, “only by the firm establishment of this conception of abstract labour, we can correctly understand the fundamental position of the marxist theory of value.” In what consists this correct understanding?
In this: …“If abstract labour is understood socially, the expression of the social form of organisation of labour in commodity production,” then “this abstract labour, in other words the commodity form of production, also creates the value of the products of labour, i.e. that property of them, which is the result of the given social (commodity) form of production, but attributed to the things… Not labour as such, but only the organisation in the given social (commodity) form creates value. Thus, and only thus, should be understood the position, that abstract labour creates value” (p. 109). However, if in this consists the whole result of the lenghty exposition, then in vain our author has spent so much effort. That, what he here “proved”, is also not at all the required proof. Indeed: we here arrived to the point that the concept of abstract labour is completely blurred in mist, being identified with the concept of commodity produciton as a whole, after which it doesn’t take any trouble to prove, that precisely commodity production creates value. Who did not know this? The theoretical excursus turned out to be in the full sense fruitless. Further attempts of the author to get out of the difficulties only increase the confusion. The interrelation between abstract labour and value he further develops in the following way: “The relations between abstract labor and value cannot be thought of as relations between physical causes and physical effects. Labour – that is abstract labour, is the production relation between private commodity-owners, connected through exchange. Value – is the material expression of that production relation. Labour and value are connected between each other like the production relation of people and its material(/reified) form… Such precise sense, as was already shown, has the expression of Marx that value is “reified,” “materialized”, “congealed” labour. Value is the reified expression of the specific social properties of labour, and precisely, the organisation of it on the basis of the independently operating production of private commodity-owners and their connections in exchange.” (p. 110).
The more words, the less sense. To say “labour… is a production relation” – is the same as to say “production – that is production relation”, i.e. nonsense. Labour is then the ground, on which is build the relation, but labour and labour relation – are the same thing. That value is “reified” labour – this is true, but this must be understood in the same sense like the expression “labour creates value”, i.e. not in the physical, but in the figurative sense, namely: labour gets its material(/reified) expression in things, representing the labour relation.
But worst of all is that all the by us cited defintions of abstract labour lead to the inevitable conclusion: not labour creates value, but on the contrary. In fact: abstract labour emerges only in exchange. But exchange is before all else an exchange of things, equalizing one to another. The process of this exchange also is the process deriving value, as the relation between producers. The category of abstract labour in the rubinist conception is the result of the whole process, and not its starting point. Things, in this way, get in the scheme of Rubin a rather peculiar sequence, and the whole labour theory of value gets a metaphysical character.
The content of all the by us cited attempts at defining abstract labour – if only there was any content in them – leads in Rubin to splitting empty abstractions into four. This is not only a generalization from the concrete properties of labour, this – is an abstraction from labour, as impersonal physiological activity, an abstraction from an abstract concept. For Rubin physiologically universal labour – is only a prerequisite of abstract labour, but not the same labour, just as the concrete form of labour – is a prerequisite for the deduction of physiological labour. In this way, not only value, but also abstract labour does not include in itself a single atom of matter. The concept of labour is finally lost and replaced by a perfectly sterile, vague and confused social-economic excursus at the end of which we arrive at the conclusion, that abstact labour – is not labour, but only the known form of its organisation. For what is this Haarspalterei necessary? We already above dismantled its “social-historical” motives. But Rubin underpins the necessity of such definition with two more arguments. He believes, that only the by him given definition of abstract labour gives the possibility, firstly, to install an exact distinction of the concepts “labour” and “labour power”, and, secondly, to grasp the meaning of the marxist position, that labour by itself does not have value.
“Only from this viewpoint, – Rubin says, – we elucidate the sharp difference which Marx installed between labour, as creator of value, and labour power. It would be completely useless to construe these two concepts, as two real objects, distinguished by their natural properties. This is precisely the treatment of Buch: “Labour – is the process of the transformation of potential energy of our body into mechanical work… Labour power – is the stock of potential energy of our organism, not yet transformed into mechanical labour”. Such mechanical position completely distorts Marx. “Labour” and “labour power” are not different objects of the external world, but different social characteristics of labour, different “Formbestimmtheiten.” Abstract labour, creating value, – this is the expression of commodity society, as the aggregate of autonomous private housefolds, connecting production relations by exchange. Wage labour or labour power – this is the expression of labour, separated from the means of production, opposed to it and incorporated with them in the form of an employee contract between capitalists and workers” (p. 111). We gave these lines amply in order to show in all clarity the inevitable distortion of marxist categories, if they are forcibly squeezed in the rubinist “social-historical scheme.” Rubin effectively erases here every border between “labour” and “labour power”, taken, as phenomena of the external world. The attempt to separate them he beforehand announces hopeless, though he justifies with nothing his unappealable verdict. Meanwhile, the formulation, which we find in Marx, does not leave any doubt on this account: “That which it (political economy. I.D.) calls value of labour, is in fact the value of labour-power, as it exists in the personality of the labourer, which is as different from its function, labour, as a machine is from the work it performs” (Capital. vol. 1, ch. on wage). It seems that a clearer expression is not possible. For Marx, the distinction between labour power and labour lays exactly in the real world and in the conditions of capitalist production, where all phenomena take perverse form. In Rubin there is the diametrically contrary view: in the external world labour power and labour – are one and the same. They exclusively become distinct viewed under the angle of commodity-capitalist production. Here is an irreconcilable contradiction with Marx 28.
But not for this reason, of course, should Rubin’s viewpoint be rejected. The point is that the theory of Rubin leads straightly to a depiction of the value of labour power, as the pay for labour, i.e. to the confusion of the nature of the worker’s wage with its outward false appearance, against which Marx sent the sharpest arrows of his critique. If the worker’s wage is the pay for labour, then the entire theory of exploitation is suspended in the air. The viewpoint of Rubin is a return to classical economy, which in fact did not differentiate the concepts “labour” and “labour power” and precisely therefore could not go beyond the range of bourgeois ideology. “The social-historical specificity” of abstract labour leads us, in this way, further and further away from genuine marxism. We already don’t speak about the point that the attempt to give a “social” characteristic to the concept of labour power belongs to the same type of inventions, as the many definitions of abstract labour, which we cited above. Labour power without further ado is renamed hired labour, now then, and wage labour without specific difficulty(/labour) can be defined, as a social historical category, inherent to capitalist production. That which would have to be shown, namely – whether “labour power” and “wage labour” are synonyms, Rubin leaves without any proof. With such logic of course anything can be proven.
Meanwhile, labour power, for Marx, is the power which “exists in the personality of the labourer.” In another place Marx says: “Labor – is itself the manifestation of one of the forces of nature, human labor power” (Critique of the Gotha Programme). The concept of labour power Marx applies in connection with the characteristics of corvee labour: “Every serf knows that what he expends in the service of his lord, is a definite quantity of his own personal labour power.”
The definition of labour power which Rubin gives, relates to labour power, turned into commodity, i.e. to the specific social form of its existence in the frame of capitalist society. But in that case this definition is a simple tautology. When labour power takes on the quality “commodity”, it thus already represents capitalist relations of production.
Little more fortunate is the other definition of labour power, which Rubin gives a few lines beneath (he is not at all stingy on definitions). “Labour power expresses the production relation between workers and capitalists, connecting them through the exchange of things” (exchange of money for labour power) (p. 112). Hence, here again labour power is not considered in general, but in the determined form of commodity.
But in order to become commodity, labour power first of all must be a “thing”, i.e. an object of the external world. Precisely this fact also permits it to have value, because value is an inherent “thing” in social exchange. And from this same point of view “labour” has no value, because it is not a object of exchange, is not a thing, but only a function of a “thing” – labour power.
The same also Rubin says, though he pierces the correct definition through a heap of by himself piled obstacles and contradictions. “Labour, as social-production connection, finds its expression in the reified form of value, but is not itself a “thing”, “value”. From this it is understandable, that “labour” (more exact socially organised labour in commodity form) creates value, but itself has no value. Wage labour or labour power (more exact, labour in its classic contrast to capital) emerges in commodity form, has value, but doesn’t create it” (p. 112). Here again the incorrect formulation: “labour= production relation”, labour power= wage labour, that leads to the ridiculous and putrid position – wage labour doesn’t create value (?!). But if this shagginess is dropped, then remains the correct conclusion: labour is not a “thing”, labour power is a “thing.” From this comes their different relation to value. But from this already follows, that between labour and labour power there is a fundamental distinction, laying in their objective nature. Why was it necessary to make a fuss, erasing between them every border, in order then to rebuild it again? The effort(/labour), spent on this research, not only has not any value, but, very likely, also does not create it.
The “theory” of Voznesenskij, which combines Rubin with Marx, cramming into the category of abstract labour all possible definitions, is not worth specially standing still before. In Rubin the attempt to “sociologize” the concept of abstract labour has the character of internal consistency, that brings it to the absurd. In Voznesenskii – ordinary eclecticism, representing not any theoretical interest.
We showed, that the position of Rubin does not ensue from the character of the Marxist categories and in substance of its parts contradicts, both in letter and in spirit, the content which Marx put into his defintions. Before us now remains in conclusion to resolve the last question: is not the theory of Rubin correct in substance next to Marxist theory? Perhaps there is enough ground in order to build the basic definitions of political economy on the scheme, laid out by Rubin, disregarding the point that it does not accord with Marx. To this question could be given a positive answer only on one condition: if the categories of Rubin would help us better to understand reality than the categories of Marx, to better understand the mechanism of commodity-capitalist production. But the point is that exactly this demand they do not fulfill.
To what lead the attempts of Rubin?
Briefly said, they lead to the commitment to drive out from the subject of political economy every living matter, to deprive the theoretical system of Marxism of its material fundament. If abstract labour – is not labour in the physiological sense, if labour power – is not an object of the real external world, if all this – is an incorporeal “sociologized” abstraction, an impalpable “relation” of “commodity society” – at best, then, it follows, these categories place in the same series the remaining categories of bourgeois economy, like profit, interest, capital, classes etc. But indeed then disappears every objective support for scientific study of bourgeois society. In fact: the task of economic science must consists in reducing the specific capitalist forms of appearance of the laws of social “production life” to these same laws, in order to let “appear” through abstract analysis, the inner side of the economic fabric, blurred, masked by contradictory forms of capitalist production. The basic categories of this economy, like capital, profit, etc. represent economic phenomena in a false form, in a curved mirror. In order to expose this fetishism of superficial phenomena, study itself must in all cases possess the tools and categories not in fetishised order, it must in its abstract analysis place itself outside the categories of bourgeois production. Otherwise it itself will be in their captivity, as this also happened with the classical school, to the best of its representatives – Ricardo. But where lays that ground, leading us from the border of the bourgeois worldview? This – is the viewpoint of labour in its universal sense. To what boils down the marxist analysis of bourgeois society? It shows, that profit does not grow from capital, or rent or land, that capital and value – are not the property of things, as such, that money too is not the shining appearance, for which it is held, that all this – are only forms of appearance of universal abstract labour, the primary matter, from which is forged social production, classes and their numerous relations. On this fundament is build the whole theory of surplus value, the whole theory of exploitation. Only the condensation of all social-economic relations to labour can expose the mystification of bourgeois economic form, and that is the merit Marx attributed before all else to the classical school, although it could not realize the whole theoretical task to its necessary end. “It is the great merit of classical economy to have destroyed this false appearance and illusion, this mutual independence and ossification of the various social elements of wealth, this personification of things and conversion of production relations into entities, this religion of everyday life. It did so by reducing interest to a portion of profit, and rent to the surplus above average profit, so that both of them converge in surplus-value; and by representing the process of circulation as a mere metamorphosis of forms, and finally reducing value and surplus-value of commodities to labour in the direct production process.” (“Capital”, vol. 3, part 2). If to us now is replied, that also that “labour”, to which we boil down, as to a cornerstone, all phenomena of commodity-capitalist production, is also not labour in the actual sense of the word, but only the form of the same commodity production, then the structure hangs in space, and theory rotates in a closed circle of “social-historical” categories, like a squirrel in a wheel. The whole scheme gets the character of the famous explanation: the earth on whales, the whales on water, the water on earth. To this inevitably must lead the exorbitant zeal in sociologizing concepts, the “expulsion of matter” from economic study. This is a step back from the materialist method of Marx to the side of that fetishism of economic relations, which Rubin very succesfully debunks in other parts of his book.
1. The name of the article discussed. Ed. (Chapter 14 in the Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value. Some passages which Dashkovskij quotes and criticizes were apparently dropped or altered by Rubin in subsequent editions. The third edition of Rubin’s Essays, on which the English translation was based, appeared in 1928. The 4th edition dates from 1930. In appendix nr. 2 (p. 240-54) Rubin gave a reply to Dashkovskij’s critique. Translator’s note)
2. Capital, vol.1, Bazarov-Stepanov translation, p. 13.
3. If the definition of abstract labour consists only in this, then why did both Marx and Engels give this category such a big significance? – asks Voznesenskij. That labour produces, on the one side, useful things, and, on the other side, is an expenditure of human energy – could such a truism be considered a scientific discovery? We answer this perplexed question, with another question. Every economy assumes, on the one side, means of production, and on the other – labour power. This is also a truism. Does it follow from this, that the teaching of Marx about the organic composition of capital is not worth a button? The whole question at issue is what usage Marx made from these “truisms”, which were known still in ancient times and, nevertheless, remained out of the field of sight of the most perspective theoreticians of the classical school.
4. K. Marx, Outline of the critique of political economy (p.13 in the 1923 “Moskovskij Rabochij” publication) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch01.htm
5. Capital, vol.3, part 2 (p. 415 of Bazarov-Stepanov, 1923) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch50.htm
6. Letters of K. Marx and F. Engels, (p.176-7, 1923 “Moskovskij Rabochij”) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/letters/68_07_11.htm
7. An interesting consideration apropos this we find in one of Engels’s letters. “By economic relations, – Engels writes, – … we understand the way in which human beings in a definite society produce their necessities of life and exchange the products among themselves (in so far as division of labor exists). Consequently the whole technique of production and transportation is therein included. … Under economic relations are included further, the geographical foundations upon which they develop and exist” etc. (Engels to Borgius) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894/letters/94_01_25a.htm In order to understand these words it’s necessary, however, to keep in mind, that Engels here replied in a broad way to a question about the “basis” and “superstructure” of every society. From this point of view the economic basis must include in itself all these elements. Furthermore, Engels at the end of the letter stipulates, that he does not consider all of his formulations sufficiently clear. For all that the importance of these “super-historical” elements of economic study are not subject to doubt.
8. The classical school of political economy carried out fundamentally the first part of theoretical work, selecting from concrete reality the simplest concepts. Marx could therefore begin his analysis directly with this point, to which his forerunners brought theory – with the simplest determinations of “commodity”, “labour” etc. From this certain of the modern Marxists draw the conclusion, that in general there is no need in scientific study to proceed from concrete reality.
9. “Outline of”, p.28-29
10. “Outline of”, p.-29.
11. I. Rubin. Essays on Marx’s theory of value, second edition, p. 102 http://www.marxists.org/archive/rubin/value/ch14.htm
12. Published together with Hilferding’s first version of Finance capital in “Marx-Studien. Band 3”: Die Wertlehre bei Marx und Lassalle von Tatiyana Grigorovich, Wien 1910, the history of a scientific misunderstanding (Russian edition 1923). (Tatiana Pisterman)
13. “Outline of”, p. 28
14. Z. Tseitlin makes an interesting note drawing together the method of Marx with the method of natural science, making a parallel between Marx’s teaching on abstract labour and the teaching on the atom. The concept “atom” relates to all epochs of scientific history, just like the concept “labour” – to all periods of social history. The atom, like labour has a “double substance.” Nevertheless, science could develop until the discovery of the atom only to a definite stage of scientific history, through the analysis of “complex concrete phenomena in which the atom represents a general evenly distributed category. In the primitive nebula, as also in primitive society the atom and labour although both were general categories, but, on the other side, stipulated this or that individual configuration.” With the further development of the solar system the diversity augments of the combinations, of chemical connections, in which the atom emerges, as a general category. The atom more and more de-individualizes “in practice.” Scientific activity of man from its side contributes to the multiplication of the number of combinations of chemical elements.” “Without a doubt the power of man over the forces of nature reaches such a degree, that the atom, like labour, becomes “indifferent,” i.e. can obtain any combination for any goals.” The atom is an historical category in the sense that only in that stadium of scientific development, when matter changes into a complex concreteness, the general character of this category emerges most clearly. See more detailed consideration in Z. Tseitlin. Science and hypothesis. p. 171-73.
15. Archiv K. Marx and F. Engels, book 1, p. 223.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm
16. Marx, Critique of the Gotha programme.
17. Capital, vol.1, p. 39.
18. “Outline of”, p. 94. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/ch02b.htm
19. This is how Marx characterizes the count of labour through the amount of produced commodities: “It is not, therefore, a question of measuring the value of the piece by the working-time incorporated in it, but on the contrary, of measuring the working-time the labourer has expended by the number of pieces he has produced. In time-wages, the labour is measured by its immediate duration; in piece wages, by the quantity of products in which the labour has embodied itself during a given time.” (Capital, vol.1, p. 534). http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch21.htm
20. Capital, vol. 3, p. 389 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch49.htm
21. Marx, Critique of the Gotha programme http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm
23. I. Rubin, Essays, p. 100.
24. In A. Voznesenskij this thought is expressed in vulgar-materialist form. He writes: “Abstract labour – that is not individual labour, but social labour. That is not labour of any individual, any person; it represents by itself social energy, the energy of society as a whole.” Unfortunately nobody has yet discovered in society, as such, muscles and a nervous system, with which it could expend “without individuals” its energy.
25. Rubin, Essays, p. 100.
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jlowrie says:
One wonders how many excellent debates have disappeared? I imagine that Dashkovskij is building on the debate between two schools of economics in the twenties, one ”The Idealists” led by Rubin and the other ”The Mechanists” led by Bogdanov and Skvortsov. Rubin argued that the category of value did not apply under socialism, while Bogdanov had argued that value was ‘natural’
Germ says:
Noa says:
I’m this article’s translator (click the link in my handle for other translations, e.g. an article against Rubin’s take on the price of production, by V. Dunaevsky).
Another critic of Rubin, namely Aleksandr Finn-Enotaevsky, wrote a series of articles, which I translated for a planned HM Book Series volume on Rubin, in which he held the position that value is trans-historical (would send you a draft if you’re interested).
We’re always looking for more Russian translators of soviet stuff (tons of new scanned material is now online), so if Allin has time for it, there are plenty of projects he could start/join.
Noa Rodman
Paul Cockshott says:
Thanks I would be interested. I suggest you contact him directly. We were stymied by the extent to which the old microfilms of the russian texts had degraded.
redbuccaneer says:
This is amazing article. Thanks for translating it! Paul I have a related question.
In in a future communist society, skilled work would be counted as non-skilled work. Would 1 hour of skilled work be counted as 1 hour of non-skilled work?
I did not translate it, merely republished. Is one hour of skilled and one hour of unskilled the same under first phase of communism?
Depends if you are taking the standpoint of the individual or of the social budget.
The individual is paid 1 hour of tokens whether they are skilled or not.
The social budget must account for the cost of training so that a good produced with skilled labour must be marked up in terms of its labour value to include all of the costs of training required to produce the skilled labour that made it.
Ah I see. Thanks to Noa, and you for bringing it to your readers’ attention.
Thats sounds very reasonable and logical.
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How Madonna and Estranged Son Rocco Are Reconnecting in London
Madonna and Rocco have found that laughter truly is the best medicine for their strained relationship.
By Phil Boucher
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Madonna sure knows how to quell a rebel heart.
While still in the midst of an ongoing custody battle with ex-Guy Ritchie, Madonna and her estranged son Rocco, 15, have been mending their strained relationship in London for the past few weeks, and the emphasis has been purely on fun.
Along with visiting the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill to watch a screening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Madonna reportedly allowed Rocco to invite pals over to her London home.
On a recent, eventful weekend, Madonna took Rocco to see a Saturday night performance of edgy Soho show You Me Bum Bum Train and followed up on Sunday with dinner at one of London’s coolest hangouts, the Chiltern Firehouse.
Mid-meal, the Material Girl Instagrammed a picture of herself enjoying the night, cocktail in hand, writing: “Kisses from the Firehouse Tower @chilternfirehouse.”
Most recently, the pair visited the “Strange and Familiar” photography exhibit at London’s Barbican arts centre on Monday. As with many of their outings, Rocco had a gang of pals in tow.
Free of her touring obligations, Madonna seems to be heeding the advice of British High Court judge Justice MacDonald, who urged her and Ritchie, “to seek, and to find an amicable resolution” at the conclusion of their English legal case in April.
“It would be a very great tragedy for Rocco,” MacDonald added “if any more of the precious and fast receding days of his childhood were to be taken up by this dispute.”
The custody battle has raged on both sides of the Atlantic since December, when Rocco refused to return to New York after spending some time with his dad in the British capital.
Other than a recent vacation in The Maldives with Ritchie and his wife, model Jacqui Ainsley, Rocco has remained in London, while Madonna has sought to force his return through the courts.
This all changed at the conclusion of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” tour in March. The singer flew to London on April 7 and has since made a determined effort to learn more about her son’s London lifestyle – even visiting the skatepark where a series of tabloid photos have shown Rocco drinking alcohol and smoking suspicious looking cigarettes.
“Madonna spent a couple of hours milling about watching the skateboarders and buskers on the South Bank, but nobody noticed her,” a source tells PEOPLE.
“She just strolled around, hat and glasses on with a security guard beside her. She didn’t ride a skateboard but she watched them for quite a while. She seemed pretty interested in the place.”
Her and Rocco’s relationship isn’t the only thing that has benefitted from the new approach: Ritchie has visited Madonna’s home on occasion since she landed in London, spending time with his ex and their son.
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Clinical Effects and Antivenom Dosing in Brown Snake (Pseudonaja spp.) Envenoming - Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-14)
G Allen, Simon Brown, Nicholas Buckley, Margaret O'Leary, Colin B Page, Bart Currie, Julian White, Geof Isbister
Background: Snakebite is a global health issue and treatment with antivenom continues to be problematic. Brown snakes (genus Pseudonaja) are the most medically important group of Australian snakes and there is controversy over the dose of brown snake antivenom. We aimed to investigate the clinical and laboratory features of definite brown snake (Pseudonaja spp.) envenoming, and determine the dose of antivenom required.
Methods and Finding: This was a prospective observational study of definite brown snake envenoming from the Australian Snakebite Project (ASP) based on snake identification or specific enzyme immunoassay for Pseudonaja venom. From January 2004 to January 2012 there were 149 definite brown snake bites [median age 42y (2–81y); 100 males]. Systemic envenoming occurred in 136 (88%) cases. All envenomed patients developed venom induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC), with complete VICC in 109 (80%) and partial VICC in 27 (20%). Systemic symptoms occurred in 61 (45%) and mild neurotoxicity in 2 (1%). Myotoxicity did not occur. Severe envenoming occurred in 51 patients (38%) and was characterised by collapse or hypotension (37), thrombotic microangiopathy (15), major haemorrhage (5), cardiac arrest (7) and death (6). The median peak venom concentration in 118 envenomed patients was 1.6 ng/mL (Range: 0.15–210 ng/mL). The median initial antivenom dose was 2 vials (Range: 1–40) in 128 patients receiving antivenom. There was no difference in INR recovery or clinical outcome between patients receiving one or more than one vial of antivenom. Free venom was not detected in 112/115 patients post-antivenom with only low concentrations (0.4 to 0.9 ng/ml) in three patients.
Conclusions: Envenoming by brown snakes causes VICC and over a third of patients had serious complications including major haemorrhage, collapse and microangiopathy. The results of this study support accumulating evidence that giving more than one vial of antivenom is unnecessary in brown snake envenoming.
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Allen, G., Brown, S., Buckley, N., O'Leary, M., Page, C. B., Currie, B., ... Isbister, G. (2012). Clinical Effects and Antivenom Dosing in Brown Snake (Pseudonaja spp.) Envenoming - Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-14). PLoS One, 7(12), 1-9. [e53188]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053188
Allen, G ; Brown, Simon ; Buckley, Nicholas ; O'Leary, Margaret ; Page, Colin B ; Currie, Bart ; White, Julian ; Isbister, Geof. / Clinical Effects and Antivenom Dosing in Brown Snake (Pseudonaja spp.) Envenoming - Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-14). In: PLoS One. 2012 ; Vol. 7, No. 12. pp. 1-9.
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Reduction of post-surgical pericardial adhesions using a pig model
Alizzi, Ali M., Summers, Phillip, Boon, Virginia H., Tantiongco, John-Paul, Thompson, Teresa, Leslie, Belinda J., Williams, David, Steele, Mike, Bidstrup, Benjamin P., and Diqer, Al-Mutazz (2012) Reduction of post-surgical pericardial adhesions using a pig model. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 21 (1). pp. 22-29.
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.10.002
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Background: Post-surgical pericardial adhesions pose an increased risk of complications during redo sternotomies. Adhesive tissue formation is a normal response to tissue injury and involves complex patho-physiological processes including the actions of prostaglandins to cause plasma leakage and fibrin formation. The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of two non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (Indomethacin and Rofecoxib) and a barrier (Coseal, a polyethylene glycol) to limit adhesion formation following cardiac surgery in a pig model.
Methods: Forty-four piglets were allocated equally to four treatment groups: Group 1: Control, Group 2: intramuscular Indomethacin, Group 3: oral Rofecoxib and Group 4: Coseal sprayed on the heart. A full median sternotomy was performed on each animal and the heart exposed. Adhesions were induced by rubbing tissues with gauze, applying sutures and leaving blood in the pericardial sac before chest closure. Plasma inflammatory markers including prostaglandin E2 and thromboxane B2 were measured preoperatively and on Days 2, 5 and 10 after surgery. Eight animals from each group were slaughtered after 12 weeks and 3 after 25 weeks. Adhesions were assessed macroscopically and microscopically.
Results: Compared to the Control group, the extent of adhesions was significantly less in all other groups whilst adhesion density was least in the Indomethacin and Coseal groups. Indomethacin and less so Rofecoxib, inhibited the synthesis of prostaglandin E2 and thromboxane B2 but there were no significant changes in other inflammatory markers. Conclusions
We conclude that systemic Indomethacin, and locally applied Coseal are suitable methods to markedly reduce pericardial and retrosternal adhesions.
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‘NUTS’: Julian Symons annotates Stephen Spender
2 Comments Posted by richardawarren on September 8, 2016
Having in my time bought a few too many second hand books that turned out to disappoint, it’s rewarding when the reverse happens.
Some years ago, I forget where, I picked up for a quid a damp-buckled copy of Stephen Spender’s Life and the Poet, 1942, in which Spender attempts to reposition the role of the progressive artist and intellectual post-Spain, post-Popular Frontism. This was published by Secker & Warburg as Searchlight Book No 18, a series edited by George Orwell and T R Fyvel, billed as broadly popular, patriotic and anti-fascist. (Of the 17 projected titles listed here, only ten actually appeared before the printer’s paper stock ran out.) Searchlight Books were hardback with a dust jacket, but mine has paper covers, so must be a review copy.
And indeed, a reviewer has made his or her reactions known in some enjoyably bad tempered annotations, summarised inside the front cover:
Mr Spender wrote but apparently never went “Forward from Liberalism”. This is a wretchedly poor book, illogical, disconnected, apologetic & generally unsound.
Life and the Poet does indeed seem hastily shoved together, sloppily thought through and in places just badly written. Spender dedicates it to “Young Writers in the Armed Forces, Civil Defence and the Pacifist Organisations of Democracy”, which by covering all options avoids offence, but indicates something of the hand wringing equivocation he feels obliged to deliver.
“Before finishing the last chapter of this book,” he confesses, “and while revising the first five chapters, I have already been called up into the Fire Service. Yet I may stimulate in the minds of a few people the urgent necessity of a faith in poetry, or, rather, the poetic attitude …”
Our reviewer is not impressed by this excuse. Here are a few passages he/she found objectionable, with his/her reactions transcribed in italics:
Spender: ‘Generally unsound’
Without saying that Tolstoi, Turgenev or Henry James were socialists, one might draw revolutionary political conclusions from the life which they describe in their novels. Yet to believe … that the true picture of life in fiction today would inevitably have a socialist political implication is entirely different from preaching that … novels should preach socialism and see everything through red-coloured spectacles.
In the case of a really great novelist or poet there might even be no difference, because his observation and his conclusions would be indivisible. But in the case of those lesser artists, there is a tremendous difference.
If the political conclusions were sound then the Novel will be too. The rest of Spender’s thesis is nonsense.
Listening to these [Left Wing] lectures on literature, it seemed to me that the principles were right, but their application was always wrong.
Well what the hell?
The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities – such as science, art, religion – is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise.
Aim? Politics has no aim, any more than evolution has.
So the political agitator is driven to deny that there is anything in life outside the struggle for power … Therefore you must pretend that everyone on your own side who is killed is a hero gladly giving his life for your cause without indulging in any feelings as a separate individual which might be irrelevant. Indeed, you go on to deny that anything in the nature of an individual really exists or has ever existed.
Oh do I?
Politics then become the only reality, and … [Artists, thinkers and scientists] make a merit of stifling the light that is in them: to become scientists who deny that scientific enquiry can ever be objective, poets who deny their own individuality, who show no curiosity about man’s situation in the whole of life and the universe, novelists who have no interest in human beings except to prove that one race or class is superior to others.
Mr Spender appears to have all the intellectual’s concern for his own piddling little individuality. What does he mean by superior? Dominant? Obviously no class is “Better” – No one suggests any one is.
Political evils must be met by other, greater political evils until the war is won. Yet, just because of this, it is all the more important that the “happy few” who uphold values of art, poetry and science should state as clearly as they can what the function of those values in life is, in order that new social patterns may grow around such an understanding.
Ha! Ha! Spender & Co, world-lovers & leaders.
Politicians establish a Sabbath of institutions which petrify, until at last they are shattered by revolutions. Yet to the revolutionaries, who are also politicians, Man … is still only made for their new Sabbath, which, they are determined, differs from the old Sabbath in that it will never be destroyed.
Nonsense. If Mr S will tilt at Marxists he should get to know some Marxism, which denies the possibility of a fixed, static, immutable policy.
What is important is Man. The creative mind must never entirely subscribe to any kind of Sabbath – Pharisaic, Jewish, Christian, Roman, Communist or British Imperialist.
How nice for the creative mind.
Part way through chapter two our annotator loses patience with the chore of annotation, but has made his or her position pretty clear. The book’s owner did not think to add a name, so who was this irascible Marxist?
As it happens, the sentiments chime rather well with “A Poet in Society,” a review of the book by Julian Symons in the first issue (1943) of the second series of Now, the anarchist political-literary review edited by George Woodcock at Freedom Press. (See here for another aspect. As it also happens, the handwriting of the annotations is not incompatible with the very few samples of Symons’s writing I can see online, though I can’t pretend that the similarities are absolutely conclusive.)
Symons: acerbic
Symons is best known as a writer of crime fiction in later life, but was then the founder of Twentieth Century Verse, an independent Marxist (usually tagged a “Trotskyist”), and a reviewer of clinical and acerbic penetration. While Woodcock aimed to align the new series of Now with an “anarchist point of view,” contributors did not necessarily “subscribe to anarchist doctrines,” and in an editorial intro he carefully separates himself from the “hard things” that Symons has to say, defending “a certain virtue” in Spender’s “doubt of the value of politics as a means of social action.” Maybe he was anxious to avoid offending Orwell, later a contributor to the magazine.
In his review Symons tackles both Life and the Poet and Spender’s latest poetry collection, Ruins and Visions. The poems he finds “fine” and “moving”, but with Life and the Poet he finds himself “in violent disagreement,” denouncing it as “a high, thin and cloudy view of the poet’s nature and function,” marked by “the confusion of thought and frequent clumsiness of phrase which we have learned to expect and regret … Sometimes,” he adds, “this leads him into sentimental rubbish … It is impossible to comment usefully upon writing at this level.”
His critique follows the annotations at a distance while, naturally enough, losing some of the immediacy of his anger. One or two of our annotated passages in particular are fastened on. Spender, who believes in no absolute, is criticised for setting up “the creative mind” (see the final passage above) as a kind of absolute. The fourth annotated passage above, on the “ultimate aim of politics,” comes in for particular scrutiny:
Man is a social animal: and his creative activities – “activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State” – are part of his social life. It follows that to talk about a statement of artistic aims round which political means will crystallise is to talk nonsense. A new view of society must precede a new view of art: society fashions art, art does not create a society. It is therefore a delusion to believe that any artistic aims are ultimate, since no state of society is ultimate: artistic aims are instead fashioned out of the social life of the time, which is in turn influenced by the tradition of social life and art which it has accepted as a heritage. “Eternal aspirations,” loneliness, and yes, the “creative mind” itself vary in form with the society that contains them. A society gets the art it deserves.
The heavy stress placed on “life” in this book is occasioned by an irrational dislike for the logic which binds the poetry written today inside our routine of living; a routine which exists as much for those who try to be “free” and who write from a position of freedom which is in fact false, as for those who are consciously and even willingly bound.
This is all excellent common sense, and seems to me highly relevant to today’s facile, commodified and over-valued art scene, still lubricated by persistent notions of art and poetry as magical, “alternative,” special or visitation from without.
Symons was surely one of the sharpest minds at work on the Left during this period. In a contribution to Now 5 on “The End of a War: 8 Notes on the Objective of Writing in our Time,” he references, interestingly, Wyndham Lewis’s Men Without Art, making entirely valid use of the perceptions of a writer working “from an attitude very different from mine.” (Symons knew Lewis well, and respected him.) In Now 6 his demolition of Cyril Connolly (“The Condemned Playboy”) is a pleasure to read.
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Royal academician goes bonkers: the mysterious Stanley Jackson
7 Comments Posted by richardawarren on August 14, 2016
It’s good when something rather wonderful turns up unexpectedly, especially if it involves a “lost” British surrealist. Or quasi-surrealist, even. Yesterday the postman delivered my copy of Now 4, George Woodcock’s anarcho-arty-literary review put out under the Freedom Press banner, this issue apparently from late 1944. A few pages away from what I’d been looking for were four bonus and totally bongoid images by an unheard-of artist, with this curious little write-up:
PATTERN OF FRUSTRATION
Four Drawings by Stanley Jackson
The work of Stanley Jackson has not yet received the attention that it undoubtedly merits, the main reason for this being that it deals with subjects which society prefers to ignore – death, frustration, the hopelessness of individual life and the pointlessness of accepting the current solutions. In this sense Stanley Jackson is a Romantic in outlook for he sees man as a victim of his environment, and has no faith in the political panaceas which glib-tongued orators espouse so convincingly, and with such cost to mankind. In the past he had paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy, but his present development represents a withdrawal from the academic field towards a personal maturity which can only be expressed in less rigid forms.
Pattern of Frustration is, in my opinion, one of the clearest statements of the evolution of the individual in society. In the first reproduction we see the apparently solid footing suddenly merging into nothingness, and from this moment the individual is caught up in the struggle which can end only in defeat. The symbolism of the second phase needs no explanation while the third part shows the ephemeral moment when an ecstatic realisation is glimpsed. The final stage is portrayed in the last reproduction – the moment vanishes to be followed by the inevitable frustration – either the individual has to accept and adapt himself, or he faces annihilation. From this dilemma there is no escape.
A. J. McCARTHY.
Phase of Introspection
The Exquisite Moment of Scintillation
Ultimate Despair
Frustration? Er, well, yes. This doesn’t exactly flood the subject with clear light. A J McCarthy is no easy name to place, but I’m pretty sure that this has to be the A J McCarthy who wrote widely on jazz in the ‘fifties and who lived at this point in Notting Hill. I imagine Jackson was a mate. As for Jackson himself, he was born in 1917 but at the moment I can find little else. It seems that he did his time as a serviceman, but he is nowhere credited as a war artist. The National Army Museum holds a competent oil portrait of a soldier of the Madras Guards, done in 1943, signed with that name in a style not incompatible with the signing on our four images, while auction value websites throw up just one image of a painting of wartime refugees, shown here, and list a still life and a couple of watercolour views possibly by the same man – precious little survival for his “academic” phase and RA showings.
The four images in Now (click them above to enlarge) show a technical competence compatible with these two earlier pieces, but in every other respect they are light years away; their “Jaxon” signature suggests, for whatever reason, a very deliberate dissociation, while their cartoony plasticity and psycho-content surely owe much to the example of the wonderful Reuben Mednikoff, potholer of the unconscious. (See this post.) They’re described as drawings, but the rather grainy reproductions suggest that, if not pastels, they might even be paintings.
In the same issue of Now, McCarthy’s slightly baffling use of the term “frustration” is echoed, and perhaps explained, in a stodgy opener by editor George Woodcock on “The Writer and Politics” which bemoans the “schizoid frustration [my emphasis] … of the modern intellectual when confronted by social issues,” and proposes a disengagement of the writer from collective political activity as the only guarantee of uncontaminated authenticity. All part of the ongoing wriggling and repositioning of British leftist writers post-Auden and post-Popular Front. McCarthy’s outline implies that the crisis of Woodcock’s writer is experienced by every individual in a modern society in their compromised relations to social and political forces. (Woodcock’s position amounts to a neo-Stirnerism, an egoist or existentialist anarchism, which was common ground among Freedom Pressers, Apocalyptics and Personalists at the time. See also my piece on the anarchism of Henry Treece. More to come, incidentally, on the “anarchist” poetry of Woodcock and Alex Comfort in future posts.)
The works’ four titles have to be Jackson’s own, but is the sequence title “Pattern of Frustration” just McCarthy’s after-gloss on a selection of Jackson’s images? Or was that meta-meaning part of the artist’s intent? It’s hard to be sure. If the latter, these would not be surrealist works; rather than emerging from a process of automatism they would be symbolisations of pre-existing ideas. And it’s maybe true that they lack something of the unexpectedness of the comparable but genuinely automatic imagery of Mednikoff, Grace Pailthorpe or Sam Haile. So are they merely contrived and cynical pastiches of the surreal?
I don’t think so. And to be honest, I don’t care. I think they’re great, and it’s a huge pity we only have them in black and white. The fragmented amoeboids sucked past blasted trees through the sgraffito wind tunnel of Awareness are a classic image of wartime angst, while the John Tunnard-ish outline face of Ultimate Despair (great title), while practically toppling over into comic doom, sits brilliantly over the strange pointy-breasted nude and the drooping background monsters. What’s really going on here? Is it too glib to ascribe this extraordinary lurch into psychologism to the trauma of Jackson’s wartime experiences? It’s hard to imagine what might otherwise account for it, so perhaps not.
And what happened to these works of Jackson’s “personal maturity”? Do they survive? And are there more of the same out there? I need to know. If you can tell me, use the comments option, please!
Minor post script
On closer inspection, there is another war period Jackson hidden on the Art UK site, an oil of boat builders at Madras, listed as by E Jackson. However, subject location, painting style and signature are all compatible with the National Army Museum picture, and it’s easy to take an “S” for an “E”. The painting is here. It’s owned by Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery and was bought in 1970. It’s a decent, unremarkable work, and I’m struck again by the extraordinary transition in Jackson’s career.
Incidentally, is it just me, or do others find the Art UK site, with its annoying, floating, pinterest-style, pick n’ mix pages, a lot harder to use than the old Your Paintings site?
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Frontiers of feminist issues online: understanding the tensions and opportunities at the intersection of innovation, digital rights and security
Digital innovation is bringing many benefits to the world, but the online world in which that innovation happens is also playing a significant role in amplifying inequalities, prejudice, sexism and harassment. From new forms of employment, labour and access, to pervasive surveillance, unfettered data collection and challenges of privacy, the online ecosystem is disrupting power relations, but also entrenching unequal gender dynamics. Many women, girls and other marginalized communities around the world do not have equal levels of access to, nor the skills to use, digital tools. But the deeper, sometimes unspoken, problem is that those who do acquire access and digital skills can face other challenges such as privacy invasion or harassment and bullying that seeks to marginalize female or feminist voices. Worries about surveillance, or privacy, or being taunted online can have a chilling effect, particularly on those who are already vulnerable.
But what are the policy options to address these challenges, and how can research support these policy processes? We know that sometimes policies meant to address vulnerable populations online can become tools for deeper, more invasive surveillance and censorship. The purpose of this session is to build a better understanding of the frontier issues in feminist/gender-related issues online – from access and labour, to digital rights, to supporting more inclusive and safe online spaces – and what the evidence base looks like on these issues. We want to hear about and discuss how researchers and civil society actors are working to counter the marginalization of women, girls and gender non-conforming voices, and how we can develop programming that supports and empowers feminist voices. But moreover, we want to push the boundaries of the discussion around these frontier issues – from data privacy to artificial intelligence. We are bringing together panelists who work on a broad range of gender-related and/or feminist issues in technology, and will explore the kinds of policy research that can help support inclusion.
Ruhiya Kris Seward
Helani Galpaya
Anja Kovacs
Director, Internet Democracy Project
Dr. Anja Kovacs directs the Internet Democracy Project in Delhi. India, which works towards an Internet that supports freedom of expression, democracy and social justice. Anja’s research currently focuses especially on questions regarding cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy... Read More →
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Joana Varon
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Republican lawmaker allegedly punched wife who undressed too slowly before sex
by A.R. Shaw
Photo via Mississippi House of Representatives
A Republican lawmaker allegedly abused his wife over sex. Mississippi state Rep. Doug McLeod was arrested following an altercation at his Lucedale, Mississippi, home on May 18.
According to the Associated Press, McLeod was at his home with his wife and the two were about to have sex. At some point, McLeod questioned his wife about her failure to undress in a timely manner. He then allegedly punched his wife in the nose, bloodying her face.
Another woman, reportedly his daughter, called the police. When police arrived, they arrested McLeod who appeared to be drunk. McLeod’s wife finally came outside after cops assured her they would keep her away from her husband. However, she refused to go to the hospital by ambulance.
Following the incident, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn called for McLeod’s resignation on May 23.
“I have attempted to contact Rep. McLeod to request his resignation if, in fact, these allegations are true,” Speaker Gunn said in a statement. “These actions are unacceptable for anyone.”
Tags: assault, crime, domestic violence, Mississippi, politics
A.R. Shaw
A.R. Shaw is an author and journalist who documents culture, politics, and entertainment. He has covered The Obama White House, the summer Olympics in London, and currently serves as Lifestyle Editor for Rolling Out magazine. Shaw's latest book, Trap History, delves into the history and global dominance of Trap music. Follow his journey on TrapHistory.Com, Twitter @arshaw and Instagram @arshaw23.
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
If you have not read Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” then take a moment to do so.
The story describes a city that is perfect except for one thing. One child must suffer so that others can be happy. Furthermore, the people who live in Omelas are all shown the suffering child when they come of age, so no adult lives in Omelas without knowing how the system really works.
This is, of course, an apt analogy for statism. Every state exists through taxation, which victimizes at least one person. All states in history have inflicted additional suffering on both those who live in their territory and those outside of it. So Omelas might be considered an ideal state — one with minimal suffering and maximum happiness.
In the story, those who come of age in Omelas do one of two things. Most rationalize the abuse of the child and continue to live their comfortable lives. However, a few decide instead to leave Omelas. In the same way, those who support government are the majority in modern society. They want to live in Omelas and are willing to sacrifice others to do so. A few, however, realize that this is unethical and make the hard choice to reject statism regardless of the changes it might bring.
Importantly, limited government libertarianism does nothing to escape this fundamental problem. The minarchist sees the benefits of liberty but instead of pursuing total liberty for all people with a relentless passion, he hesitates. He makes excuses. Eventually, he finds himself giving in and trying to justify a little bit of suffering so that most people can be safe and happy.
Except the real world is not idealized fiction. When a minarchist gives up his own liberty, and sacrifices the liberty of others, what does it buy him? Not a Utopian paradise. Instead people get somewhat-free markets and moderate amounts of personal liberty. At best, it is a rough approximation of freedom. At times, it is a glint of hope in society slipping towards totalitarianism. On a few sad occasions, it is only an echo in the dark of democide and war.
On the other hand, anarchist libertarians are intransigent. They would give up all of the niceties and comforts in the world rather than commit crimes against a single innocent person. In other words, they do not give in to evil. As the motto of Ludwig von Mises says, “Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito”.
It is a lesson budding libertarians should learn, but often only come to understand after months or years of intellectual struggle. It is hard to accept that government is totally illegitimate. It means recognizing that changing the world is not as simple as voting, campaigning, lobbying, or trying to fix a broken system. It means something much more arduous and much more dangerous: bringing down the most menacing and most powerful criminal organization in history. It means working towards a goal that will likely not come to fruition for decades, if not centuries.
On the other hand, it also means that victory will usher in an entirely new era of liberty and prosperity. It will be one of the greatest achievements in history and truly something one can be proud to take part in. It may seem daunting, but you will not be alone on the journey. Many have already begun walking and are waiting for you to join them. More will come to follow, once you have led the way.
This entry was posted in editorial and tagged anarchy, ethics, Libertarianism, minarchy, Omelas, Tho Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula Le Guin, utopia on February 21, 2014 by rothbarddotcom.
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by Derek Stewart
Photo credit: Sports Illustrated
Making a website is like trying to build the perfect woman for 10,000 virgins. At the end of the day, nobody is going to be happy, and you're going to have to figure out what to do with all of the unnecessary holes you created. When I first started Rough Copy, it was a simple blog with mostly funny articles. It was powered by Drupal and I ran an MMA picks tournament using a fantasy football plugin that I modified.
A few years ago I decided I wanted to devote the entire site to the sport of mixed martial arts, so I decided to develop my own system to track events and fights. I designed the database and wrote the code to power half a dozen features across the site.
The idea behind Rough Copy is pretty simple. People can sign up, pick winners, and leave 1-5 star ratings for all of their favorite events and fights. Unfortunately, explaining this concept to people on the internet is like standing on the side of an interstate shouting at oncoming traffic. It's only shocking when thousands of other people are doing it, but then you become just another person blocking traffic and, wait a second, is that one chick naked?
Here are five lessons I learned while building this monstrosity.
1. Everything Becomes an Insane Labor of Love
Building a website from scratch requires supervillain levels of attention to detail. The only difference is that instead of a singular hero attempting to destroy your Doomsday device, you have to worry about thousands of people surfing the web using offbrand tablets and 4k televisions. Even if your fancy new webapp is whizzbanging along on modern platforms, what about the guy running IE7 with javascript disabled? For every feature you add, you have to assume that 95% of your audience won't be able to figure out how to use it and that the other 5% will actively attempt to convert your code into an evil AI. Before I make any decision, I first ask myself, "If I were the world's dumbest man or the world's smartest dolphin, what would I do here?" And then I make sure that nothing self-destructs whenever an unsuspecting person or evil dolphin does the thing.
Take an event page for example. An event requires several different components working together. First you need a database to store all of the information you want to keep, and you're going to need to document everything so you know which table columns reference other tables. For an event we display information about the event, fights associated with the event, fighters associated with the fights, reviews, videos, related news, and other important data. Suddenly a simple event requires at least ten tables.
Now you need a way to manage all of this data. This requires building a secure administration section to access, add, remove, and edit items. You also need a user system with different levels of permissions for users. Most content management systems make it simple to handle these tasks, you install, configure, and you're done, but you have to create all of this yourself without one.
All of the steps I have detailed so far just describe how to get and maintain data. Once you have created the structure, you have to actually add the information. As of this writing our database has over 3000 fighters and nearly 6000 fights. All of these had to be researched and entered, which was an insane and tedious process. Though we have all of the UFC fights, most of the Bellator fights, and all of the Invicta FC fights, this is still only barely scratching the surface of a sport with hundreds to thousands of local and regional promotions across the globe. Actually displaying all of this data to users is yet another layer. How will you show all of this stuff to users in a clean and concise manner? What happens when there is none? What happens when the system is expecting a number but someone enters potato? These are legitimate concerns that turn what should be a fairly straightforward process into a long and winding one where each simple step requires 20 substeps.
2. Internet Marketing Is Its Own Convoluted Process
Early 2000s internet was a simpler time. There were only like 200 websites and they all talked about the same grainy deer cam footage of some seedy producer rummaging around in Paris Hilton's vagina like a raccoon digging through the trash for old apple cores. Search engines weren't very advanced yet and there wasn't much competition anyway, so virtually anything you published had a fairly good shot at hitting the front page of Google. I once managed to briefly hit the top of Google for "celebrity sex tape" searches with an article and a few good links.
If you're unfamiliar with my writing history, I generally post something whenever I want before disappearing into the wilderness just like Brock Lesnar does between paychecks. So far it has been an effective means of attracting a wide variety of maniacs, but modern advancements have made that lifestyle much more difficult to maintain. Consistency with writing schedules has never been my strong point.
Today's internet consists of various social media platforms, each with its own unique approach allowing people with similar interests to tell each other that they should probably kill themselves. Twitter allows you to shout into the abyss at anyone willing to listen and Facebook is where friendship goes to die. As more and more brands compete for the limited availability in your various feeds, you have to constantly adapt to stay relevant. I would rather spend my time writing articles and building new components for the site than being involved in a constant cycle of forever-changing self-promotion, but a large part of the process is asking for feedback and drinking to deal with the resulting abuse.
I've gotten hundreds if not thousands of emails from marketers spewing the same SEO garbage about how they can optimize conversions my website. There are companies out there that exist only to write a simple article about a subject and feed it to a robot that spits out several thousand permutations of that article so that they can publish them on free accounts for the purpose of building backlinks to a website and strengthen it's search rankings. Shady marketers will comment spam the shit out of your links on any forum or blogger site too lazy to set up security measures for these things.
3. There's No Money in Internet Advertising for Small Sites
Gaining traffic to a website is a lot like finding your first job. In the same way that you need experience to get a job but first need a job to gain experience, you need to first have an audience to attract a larger audience. When I started this site, I never expected to become the next Scrooge McDuck, though I did come to enjoy a similar pants-free lifestyle. If you're on the internet looking to become a millionaire, writing silly articles about beefy combat isn't going to get you there. Most smaller to midsize sites are run by people with day jobs, myself included. A lot of the work is done by volunteers, or contributors as they're called for wink wink nudge nudge legal and tax issues. However, I did assume that throwing up a few banner ads would at least generate enough revenue for the site to run itself. I was laughably wrong.
In order to make enough money to cover the cost of printing the check, you generally need at least two million page views every month. Ad networks vary in payouts and how they work, so you have options ranging from using simple text links to turning your entire creation into a shrieking minefield of pop-ups, pop-unders, and auto-playing videos daring you to play pornographic video games or purchase some gold. I decided to go with a few sidebar and content placements because I personally don't believe in selling someone digitial syphillis under the ruse of their genuine interests.
Remember that first job analogy a couple of paragraphs ago? Well, the same holds true for producing content. Producing lots of unique content consistently enough to get these views requires multiple people, and when you add other people the equation, your pet project is no longer an after hours hobby, it's an investment. This is largely irrelevant though, because...
4. Low Effort Clickbait > Original Content
In recent news, Brazilian knockout king Vitor Belfort joked during an interview that he would like to face the 0-1 GOAT known as Phil "CM Punk" Brooks. Within hours the internet was flooded with dozens of articles reporting on the fight as though he were serious, and social media was flooded with people complaining about the integrity of the sport being compromised with such an outlandish human sacrifice. In reality, this fight wouldn't even be sanctioned in Brazilian soccer, and their referees sometimes get decapitated after stabbing the players. The further away from an original source that you go, the less likely you are to find people who appreciate or understand nuance well enough to convey information accurately, especially when there is a language barrier involved.
Creating a news story is as easy as writing a paragraph citing a single word tweet and spewing enough hyperbolic diarrhea into a title to pique the interests of people in an already over-Buzzfeeded world. If reporting on the latest Conor McGregor tweet is too much effort, you can always just blatantly steal content from other people. Freebooting is the process through which people rip videos and upload them to Facebook. Before the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight back in 2015, the folks over at Noober Gaming created a parody of it in the style of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. It was immediately ripped and sponsored across countless Facebook pages. The video has five and a half million views on YouTube but lost hundreds of thousands to content mills who believe that black borders with three crying laughing emojis across them count as commentary and critique. In other news, LMAO WHO DID THIS!? Uploading... StarWars.mp4
The problem is that not only is this stuff encouraged but it's also actively rewarded. The process for having content removed is long and convoluted for people without an army of lawyers on standby, and there are no real consequences for offenders. If you push out enough crap, you can meet all of the technical qualifications to be included in Google's news carousel. Technical in the sense being less a matter of technology and more in the sense that politicians use to describe their understanding of consensual sex. Google's main concern regarding news is that you produce enough content with enough different verifiable authors. You can get listed in this without ever doing a bit of original research and without adding much in the way of additional context. As long as other people are willing to contribute to the human centipede of poor reporting it doesn't matter. Then again, if you're the type of scumbag opportunist willing to profit off of dirt sheets and stolen material, you're probably still scratching your head back at the word "consensual."
A while back Ronda Rousey did a body pain spread for Sports Illustrated. We embedded the video and ran an ad for it. It was the most successful campaign we've ever run, as we only paid roughly $0.002 per click as thousands of people rushed boner first to see some near nudity. After a certain point it just becomes an issue of economics. Do you spend your money promoting highly researched articles that generate low click rates, or do you just flash some titty and call it a day?
5. Congratulations, People Hate You
Step one to being hated by thousands of people on the internet is existing. There isn't really a step two, only different ways to exponentially increase that number. One of my favorite and least favorite things about what I do is watching strangers hundreds of miles away react with hypothetical violence. For example, if I were to say that Josh Koscheck fights like he enjoys making sweet love to sweaty armpits, I would likely have at least one angry person inform me that Kos could beat my pussy ass. Both comments are true, but only one person in this instance doesn't understand how jokes work. If I were to post this on twitter, I would just be a troll, but if I posted it in paragraph format, then I'm a sports writer. Or analyst. Or ESPN anchor. Or supreme lord wordmaster. Fuck it, be creative.
For every article you post, 80% of people won't acknoweledge it, 15% will click, and 5% won't click but will still argue with the headline in the social media comments. This is because everybody on the internet is already the smartest person alive, and nobody needs to read something to tell strangers that they're wrong. Sometimes my tone is silly, sometimes it's informative. It just depends on how I feel about the subject matter. I assume that most people are smart enough to differentiate between the two. Five Stages of Cain Velasquez and the Reebok article are obviously tongue in cheek, while my Hits and Misses columns can be fun or cranky depending on how I felt about an event. Sometimes you just run out of ways to say that something is unremarkable.
Like every sport, MMA has winners and losers, and its fanbase has subdivisions. Writing anything negative about a fighter means having to deal with potential backlash from those fighters and fanbases. Tess Munster has defended more belts than Conor McGregor and all she has to do is find a long enough snake willing to die for her pants, but don't tell that to anyone using an image of a soccer player as a profile picture. Now that we've gotten all of the Europeans out of here, this is a great time to say that McGregor is the best thing to happen to the Irish alcohol industry since poverty. You're not going to please everyone, and some people are just going to miss your point no matter what you do, so all you can do is push what you enjoy, see if people respond to it, and adjust as necessary. At least that's what I'm going to do, and I'll see the rest of you in an angry DM later this evening.
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C100 Events & Updates – Get Involved!
From one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay area.
C100 Canadian Intern Event
Are you a Canadian undergraduate student in the Bay Area currently on an internship? C100 invites you to our Canadian Intern Event on December 4th – a short but sweet event filled with insights from top Canadian tech leaders, raffle prizes(including 2 tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s Volta and a gift card redeemable for dinner at Nopa!)
Our amazing speakers for the evening:
Vanessa Yang
Head of Creative at Apple
Ashish Fernandez
Program Manager at Google
Join us for food, drinks, inspiring conversation, incredible raffle prizes, and make connections to support the next phase of your career!
48 Hours in the Valley Nominations are Open!
In May 2019, C100 will bring 30 early stage companies to the SF Bay Area for our signature event 48Hrs in the Valley. This one-of-a-kind program includes mentorship, thought partnership, and venture guidance from experts and peers. C100 has hosted over 250 companies at 48Hrs since the program’s inception in 2010.
48Hrs applications are by nomination. You may be nominated by a C100 Partner,Charter Member, or 48Hrs Alum in your network.
Applications are reviewed by committee on a rolling basis. The first committee review is next week, please nominate and/or apply before Dec 3rd to be considered in the first round.
C100 Hosted Breakfast Panel in Toronto for 48Hrs Alumni
This past Friday C100 hosted and incredible group of 48Hrs in the Valley alumni for a power breakfast panel at the Shopify office in Toronto. Our guest panelists Dominic Perri (C100 Charter Member and Director of Biz Dev at Dropbox) and Nilam Ganenthiran (Chief Business Officer, Instacart) not only shared some great perspectives, but also got the group pumped up to take on the day. We can’t wait to host another. Stay tuned for updates on more events like this in 2019!
The Logic, Canada’s best source for in-depth reporting on the innovation economy, is coming to San Francisco as part of The Information Accelerator program. To celebrate, The Logic is offering C100 community members a special 25% discount on annual subscriptions. Just press the button below and enter the following promo code at checkout: C100.
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Partner Announcement: Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank is a valued partner of C100 and for the first time ever, SVB is including Canada in its annual Startup Outlook Survey.
If you are an executive at a Canadian tech and healthcare company, we encourage you to take 10 minutes to answer the survey so SVB’s report can accurately capture the vibrancy of Canadian tech industry. Survey closes on November 30th.
Take the Suvey Before Nov 30th Here!
What Do You Want to See from C100 in 2019?
As the end of the year nears and a new year inches closer, the C100 team is reflecting on all of the events hosted, programs run, and connections made in 2018. It was a big year for C100 and 2019 looks to be even bigger.
As we continue to explore new programming please don’t hesitate to share your ideas with us. We simply can’t do what we do without you.
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CAN Announcements
A newsletter from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
Last Colloquium of the Semester Dec 4
Hildebrand Scholar’s Roundtable
Join Canadian Studies for the final Colloquium of the Fall 2018 Semester. Three outstanding young scholars will present their work, followed by Q&A.
Kimberly Huynh
PhD Candidate, Civil/Environmental Engineering
“Water-driven methane transport in Burns Bog, British Columbia, Canada.”
Desiree Valadares
PhD Candidate, Architecture
“The Reparative Logics of World War II Confinement Camp Preservation: British Columbia, Alaska and Hawaiʻi in Context”
Alexandra Havrylyshyn
Postdoctoral Scholar, Berkeley Law
“A Spirit of Liberty That is Dangerous to the Republic: The World Louisiana Slaves Encountered in France (1818-1848)”
Canadian Studies Colloquium
11:30 AM, Tuesday December 4
223 Moses Hall
The below comes to us from our friends at the C-100
C100 is hosting an open event for Canadian Interns in the Bay Area
C100 is a global community of influential Canadians in technology who are committed to supporting, inspiring, and connecting the most promising Canadian entrepreneurial leaders. Driven by our community commitment, we aim to empower the next generation of successful companies by providing mentorship, community, connections and thought leadership.
On December 4th, C100 will host a Canadian Intern Event for Canadian interns in the Bay Area. This free event is for co-op/intern students across several universities from Canada who are finishing up their fall internships. The event will attract Canadian interns with the goal of providing opportunities for students to network and learn from both peers and professional Canadian speakers in the tech industry.
The C100 is looking forward to hosting an amazing group of interns with the goal of providing opportunities for students to network and learn from both peers and professional Canadian speakers in the tech industry!
Engaging keynotes from top Canadian tech leaders (Be inspired)
Interactive panels (Raise your hand)
Funny Icebreaker (Meet other interns)
Meal and drinks (Did someone say free food)
Grand raffle prizes (Test your luck – seriously you don’t want to miss these – prizes valued up to $200 each!)
DATE: Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
WHERE: San Francisco Bay Area (Specific location details will be shared with participants 1 week before the event).
This event is open to all Canadian interns in the Bay Area. RSVP to save your spot here. For any questions or inquiries, please contact csong@thec100.org for more information.
Don’t miss this incredible intern only event and end your internship the right way!
The Below comes to us from our friends at the University of Winnipeg
Postdoctoral Fellow in History with a focus on German-Canadian migration or Canadian-German relations
The Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg invites qualified candidates to apply for the one-year Postdoctoral Fellow position in History with a focus on German-Canadian migration or Canadian-German relations. Application Deadline: 30 March 2019. Position Start: 1 July 2019 or 1 August 2019.
Applicants may have completed doctoral research on any aspect of Canadian history, German history, or any other national history, or transnational history with any focus such as gender, class, race, environment, economics, law, empire, etc. Applicants are expected to develop a self-generated program of research that explores a German-Canadian aspect of their doctoral work. Alternatively, applicants way wish to begin a new research project that focuses on the German-Canadian perspective of a broader issue (refugee history, business history, international relations, etc.). Previous research in German-Canadian Studies is not a requirement. The Postdoctoral Fellow position in History with a focus on German-Canadian migration or Canadian-German relations is made possible by a generous donation from the Spletzer Family Foundation.
The Postdoctoral Fellow position is open to scholars at an early stage of their academic careers (within ten years of completing their Ph.D.). The position is open to international applicants.
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. in history or other field relevant to history.
Postdoctoral Fellow will conduct original research on a topic in German-Canadian history (migration, ethnicity, white settler colonialism, whiteness studies, international relations, transnational networks, transcultural encounters, gender, working-class, economic history, etc.).
International applicants will have to apply for a work permit from Citizenship and Immigration Canada upon approval of position.
Postdoctoral Fellow must reside in Winnipeg for the duration of the position.
Postdoctoral Fellow must present their findings to the wider research community at the end of the position tenure.
$50,000.00 over 12 months.
$1,469.00 research costs
Office space (shared)
UW Library privileges
Applicants should send a cover letter, proposal with timeline, and curriculum vitae to the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg: a.freund@uwinnipeg.ca.
Announcement of results: 15 April 2019
Located in the heart of Treaty 1 Territory and the traditional homelands of the Métis Nation, The University of Winnipeg is a diverse, multicultural urban campus committed to academic excellence, community engagement, and social and environmental sustainability.
The University of Winnipeg is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of racialized communities, indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.
Karen Brglez, M.A.
German-Canadian Studies
University of Winnipeg
k.brglez@uwinnipeg.ca
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Canadian happenings in the Bay Area
Are you new to California? “…there is a community feel in a lot of neighborhoods so be a little brave and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised as to how warm and kind the majority of Americans are,” says Sayona Kahnamooei Freeman. Read our Blog and meet Sayona!
PLUS find out what’s happening in the region.
Saturday, Dec 1st – Film Screening: Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer
Tuesday, Dec 4th – Networking: Canadian Intern Event
What about 2019?!
Jan 8th-23rd – Theatre: Come From Away (discount!)
Saturday, Feb 16th – Hockey: Canucks play the Sharks!
Thursday, March 7th – Hockey: Canadiens play the Sharks!
Enjoy more news and all the event details below!
Canadian Profiles: Sayona
We are thrilled to introduce a new series on our DML Blog featuring Canadians from the Bay Area Canadian community. Recent transplant (Toronto to San Jose) and DML volunteer, Dorin Greenwood, took it upon herself to meet some fascinating Canadians and will be sharing their stories on our Blog. The first one, featuring Sayona Kahnamooei Freeman is now posted.
New York Times: The Canada Letter
What SHOULD Canada do about 24 Sussex Dr.?
Digital Moosers cheer on the Leafs and the Sharks
Close to 100 folks gathered recently to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs take on the San Jose Sharks. The Leafs won, and everyone had a great time perched above one of the goal ends in their VIP seats. Mike Wilson, the Ultimate Leafs Fan even stopped by to share some stories and gather new ones. Check out the pictures on our Facebook album.
Looking ahead… Canadian talent alert
Halifax’s Ben Kaplan – Folk Musician – performs at the Bing Concert Hall (Stanford) onMarch 16, 2019.
OCM’s Quarterly Folio
One Capital Management’s Autumn Folio highlights the Free Trade agreement between The United States, Canada and Mexico as well as a look back of the how we got here.(Sponsored content).
More upcoming events
Saturday, Dec 1st
Awesometown Entertainment of Toronto has produced a heart-warming Christmas animation about a horse that dreams of being one of Santa’s reindeer, and it’s coming to the Lark Theatre in Marin County! Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer features the all-star voice talent of Josh Hutcherson, Samantha Bee, Martin Short, Morena Baccarin, Jeff Dunham and John Cleese.
Tuesday, Dec 4th
Calling all Bay Area Canadian Co-op students/interns! Join the C100 and guest speaker, Ashish Fernandez (Program Manager, Google) at this free event for co-op/intern students from all universities in Canada.
More information>>
Jan 8th to Feb 3rd, 2019
Are you going to this Tony nominated musical, written by Canadians?! If so, and you’d like to connect with other DML members the night you are going, please comment on Facebook. If you are still looking for tickets or want to get more, Digital Moose Lounge members get 10% to 25% off tickets* using the discount code “DML.”
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Saturday, Feb 16, 2019
Join the Digital Moose Lounge and BC Trade as we cheer on the Vancouver Canucks vs. the San Jose Sharks! DML ticket holders will hang out in the “Veranda” area before and during the game to mix and mingle with the group. Your ticket includes access to a private DML balcony, dinner and 2 drink tickets at our private bar.
Then… coming up in March: Join our friends at Québécois en Californie – Bay Area as they host fans for the Canadiens vs. Sharks game on March 7th.
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Mission Matters: News From Wreaths Across America – November 2018
From the Wreaths Across America.
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Please watch this special message from executive director and dedicated volunteer Karen Worcester
Wreaths Across America Advances its Mission to Normandy
On Saturday, Dec. 1, Wreaths Across America will, for the first time, place 9,387 Maine-made, balsam veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of all U.S. service members laid to rest at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, located in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
At the same time, Across the North Atlantic ocean, a 5 ft Freedom Wreath will be placed at the Liberation Monument located at Liberty State Park in New Jersey, to commemorate this historic event.
“On this day, the Wreaths Across America Freedom Wreath is placed simultaneously with wreaths being placed on headstones of 9,387 fallen U.S. Heroes at Normandy-American Cemetery and Memorial in France,” explains Wreaths Across America’s Executive Director Karen Worcester. “We do this to honor and remember all who have given the ultimate sacrifice in the name of liberty and freedom. To quote Winston Churchill, ‘never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’”
Escort to Arlington Hits the Road!
The Wreaths Across America annual escort of handmade, balsam wreaths heading to Arlington National Cemetery from Maine has become known as the country’s longest veterans’ parade, and this year, the weeklong journey kicks off on Saturday, Dec. 8. Grand Marshal – National President of American Gold Star Mothers Inc., Becky Christmas – will lead the caravan as it travels down the East Coast stopping at schools, memorials and other locations along the way to spread the mission to REMEMBER, HONOR and TEACH.
The escort is scheduled to make stops in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Washington D.C. before arriving at Arlington National Cemetery on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 15 – National Wreaths Across America Day.
Chevrolet, who has generously sponsored the escort vehicles transporting participating Gold Star families and veterans for the last four years, will again provide 12 wrapped vehicles in addition to sponsoring 4,000 wreaths for Arlington.
“Our support of the Wreaths Across America mission to Remember, Honor and Teach has become a touching annual tradition to Chevrolet and its employees,” said Dan Adamcheck, regional director, sales, service and marketing for Chevrolet. “There is nothing like the patriotism we experience during the escort to Arlington and we are truly looking forward to this year’s events.”
We hope to see you on the road!
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Sponsor Veterans’ Wreaths
We’re on a mission to remember, honor and teach. Join us by sponsoring a wreath to be placed in honor of a veteran this December. We’ll ensure that their sacrifice is remembered yet again and passed on to a new generation of Americans.
Faces of The Mission
From this small but dedicated staff in Columbia Falls, Maine, we want to say THANK YOU for your support. The mission to Remember, Honor and Teach, means so much to so many and with the help of our incredible volunteers and sponsors, we are able to touch many more.
We’re here if you need us!
Wreaths Across America only places LIVE balsam wreaths on National Wreaths Across America Day.
Why? Because we do not “decorate” headstones. We are honoring all veterans and active military members by placing live wreaths on the headstones of veterans. The fresh evergreens have been used for centuries as a symbol recognizing honor and as a living tribute renewed annually. We want people to see the tradition as a living memorial to veterans and their families.
Join the mission to Remember, Honor, Teach in your own community.
It’s Not What We DO, But WHY We Do It
By Wayne Hanson, Chairman of the Board
Growing up in Maine from third grade through college, I was always interested in history, especially American History. In fact my degree from the University of Maine in 1967, was a Bachelor of Science in Education majoring in Physical Education with minors in History and English.
Today, I find myself back in Maine at Wreaths Across America’s Headquarters preparing for a trip to France on Wednesday. Now, I have never been to France, or even that part of Europe at all. However I have the pleasure of traveling to France as part of WAA’s advancing its mission to Remember, Honor and Teach by participating in a wreath laying ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France to remember and honor the 9,387 American veterans who died in the World War II D-Day landings and ensuing operations at Normandy.
I have been involved as a volunteer with Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery since 1993 and have been a member of WAA’s Board of Directors since 2007. Over that period of time, I have come to know Morrill Worcester as a dedicated patriot with a desire to place a wreath on every one of our fallen American military veterans’ markers Nationwide. Not only has Morrill wanted to place a wreath on every marker Nationwide, but he has also had the dream of doing so to remember and honor those American service member who perished overseas fighting to secure the freedoms of those who were oppressed. Historically, WAA has sponsored locally-made wreaths for 26 foreign cemeteries. But for the first time ever, this Saturday, December 1, Morrill Worcester’s donated Maine made balsam fir Veterans’ Wreaths will be placed on the markers of those veterans buried at the Normandy American Cemetery in France, and I’ll be standing with him there to place the first one.
To see how this program has grown and watch the dedication and commitment of those who support its mission is truly incredible. I am honored to have been part of Wreaths Across America’s story and its future.
Don’t Miss: “Reports From The Road”on the Annual Wreath Escort to Arlington National Cemetery as we Remember, Honor and Teach.
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WWI DISPATCH November 27, 2018
From the World War One Centennial Commission.
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U.S. Mint’s 2018 WWI Commemorative Silver Dollar only available to Dec. 27
We bring you this story as a repeat from November of last year. The U.S. Mint’s 2018 World War I Commemorative Silver Dollar is a collectible coin that is only available for another four weeks. The coin makes a wonderful holiday present — and it gives you the opportunity to directly participate in the creation of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington DC. A $10.00 surcharge from every coin sale will go to our Centennial Commission to help build the Memorial. The designer of the Centennial Silver Dollar is Leroy Transfield (left). He is an experienced sculptor from New Zealand. His design was picked through an open international competition, hosted by the U.S. Mint, and this is his first coin for them. Click here to revisit our conversation with him about the coin, the inspiration, and his own personal ties to World War I.
“A First Look” events build awareness of and excitement for new WWI Memorial
America paused to remember World War I on the 100th anniversary of its close: At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ended. America’s entry the previous year set the course of American history and ignited passions of allegiance and heroism in the four million Americans who served and the 116, 525 men and women who sacrificed their lives. For a period of five days this month, November 8 through November 12, citizens could look into the lives and stories of diverse groups and individuals who served and supported the US military in WWI. Nine public events held in Pershing Park, Washington, D.C., site of the National World War I Memorial, saluted all military and veterans who served in WWI and the 100 years since. Click here to read more about the A First Look special events that paid tribute to the significance of the anniversary of the Armistice.
For the Armistice Centennial, the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission hosted a number of events — concerts, religious services, education symposia, commemorations, gatherings — across the National Capital region, over the course of 8-12 November. The schedule represented an incredible partnership with such remarkable teammates as the Kennedy Center, the National Cathedral, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and many, many others. Called the ACE Events — for Armistice Centennial Events — they brought together long-term supporters of the Centennial activities over the years, with new members of our World War I community, many of whom have direct and indirect ties to people who served in the war. Click here to view galleries of photos that show the preparation and execution of some of the Commission’s own ACE events.
New Art Exhibit at the National Museum of the Marine Corps Highlights WWI US Navy and Marine Corps Combat Scenes
To commemorate the centennial of the end of World War I, curators of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy art collections collaborated in a joint exhibition, “A World at War: The Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy in World War I” at the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC). This collection of artwork by 42 artists depicts the experiences of Marines, Sailors, and civilians during “the war to end all wars.” Click here to read more about this collection of WWI artwork that was created by service members, some of America’s leading illustrators, and even some unknown artists.
Commissioner Naylor in Veterans Voices: “Veterans, Write your Story!”
Writing in the Fall 2018 issue of Veterans Voices magazine, World War I Centennial Commission Commissioner Dr. Matthew Naylor, who is also President and CEO of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO, encourages modern-day Veterans to follow the example of Americans who served in WWI: write about your experiences in the service of your nation. He notes that “sharing the veteran experience empowers the serviceperson and benefits their community” while “fostering a connection between the two while also deepening the connection between society and the military.” Click here to read Dr. Naylor’s entire thoughtful article connecting WWI Veterans with their contemporaries in the 21st Century.
You can help share the written or spoken World War I memories of your own ancestors, family members, or others who served our nation 100 years ago by submitting their information to the WWI Centennial Commission web site’s Stories of Service section, using the submission form here.
Michigan celebrates the life of Eugene I. VanAntwerp during special event for Armistice Day Centennial in Detroit
The Michigan World War I Centennial Committee hosted a special commemorative ceremony to honor a heroic native-son, and to dedicate this year’s Veterans Day/Armistice Day to his memory. Our Centennial Commission was represented at the ceremony by Commissioner Debra Anderson. That native-son was Eugene I. VanAntwerp (left), former mayor of Detroit from 1948-1959, and National Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars 1938-1939. Click here to read the entire story about VanAntwerp’s military and industrial contributions to America’s war efforts.
“Connecticut Fights, The Story of the 102nd Regiment” commemorative edition
The Connecticut State Library has released the limited first edition republished “Connecticut Fights: The Story of the 102nd Regiment” by Capt. Daniel Strickland. This book is a remarkable account of the World War I experiences of this legendary infantry regiment. Christine Pittsley, Project Director for the Connecticut State Library’s “Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories” shared the announcement with us. Click here to read the entire article about how this historic volume was reassembled from 70-year old printed pages to tell again the stories of the CT heroes.
From the World War I Centennial News Podcast
Historian Corner: David Pietrusza
In November 2nd’s WW1 Centennial News Podcast, Episode 96, host Theo Mayer spoke with historian David Pietrusza about one of history’s deadliest pandemics, the Spanish Flu. This virus wreaked havoc on the war-weary peoples of the world, killing an estimated 50 to 100 million. Despite its massive impact, the history of the Spanish Flu is largely forgotten or ignored in the broader discussion of WW1. Mr. Pietrusza answers questions about the origins and consequences of the Spanish Flu, and why so little attention is paid to it. Click here to read a transcript of the entire absorbing interview,
WWI Centennial NEWS Podcast
The WW1 Centennial News Podcast is about WW1 THEN: 100 years ago this week, and it’s about WW1 NOW: News and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.
Available on our web site, iTunes, Google Play, Podbean, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio on Demand. Spotify listen on Youtube. New – Comment and ask questions via twitter @TheWW1podcast
Episode #99
Host: Theo Mayer
What are we thankful for on this Thanksgiving? | @ 00:25
How to help build the National WWI Memorial in Washington DC | @ 02:45
Memorial Sculptor Sabin Howard on the sculpture design | @ 06:55
President Wilson’s 1918 Thanksgiving Proclamation | @ 10:50
Commission Executive Director Dan Dayton | @ 15:55
Commission Chairman Terry Hamby | @ 17:25
Literature in WWI This Week
Accidental Tourism and War Memorials
By Eric Chandler
As a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, writer Eric Chandler discusses the voyage he’s taken (mostly on foot!) to grasp the lasting impact of WWI.
In this week’s WWrite post, “Accidental Tourism and War Memorials,” Chandler, author of Hugging This Rock, Outside Duluth, and Down In It, brings us along with him as he jogs through major American and Canadian cities searching for traces of WWI amidst other war memorials.
Read this compelling post about Chandler’s awakening to the presence of World War I history in our daily lives at WWrite this week!
Doughboy MIA for week of Nov. 26
A man is only missing if he is forgotten.
Monday’s MIA this week is Private Melvin Tinsley. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 21 March, 1895, Melvin Darden Tinsley joined the United States Marine Corps on June 26th, 1917 and took his training at Parris Island, South Carolina. Assigned to the 48th Company/6th Marines/2nd Division, Private Tinsley arrived overseas on November 20th, 1917. He served in the Toul Sector, the Aisne Defensive, at Chateau Thierry, and finally during the Aisne-Marne Offensive, where he was severely wounded in action on July 19th, 1918 at Soissons. He died later that day of his wounds. Nothing else is known of his case at this time.
Would you like to help us solve Private Tinsley’s case? Can you spare ten dollars? Why not give ‘Ten For Them’ to Doughboy MIAand help us make a full accounting of the 4,423 American service personnel still listed as missing in action from WW1. Make your tax deductible donation now, with our thanks.
Official WWI Centennial Merchandise
“Nothing Stops These Men” Key Tag
Still one of the favorite WWI Centennial Commemoration items, this handsome key tag is a great addition to your keys! Inspired by an original World War One poster, this key tag features the dramatic image of a bayonet advance on the enemy, with the United States flag in the upper corner.
A functional way to show your patriotism, this 1-1/4” long, custom key tag has a bright gold finish, with color-fill, and is offered exclusively through the World War One Centennial Commission.
This and many other items are available as Official Merchandise of the United States World War One Centennial.
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You can now purchase the limited edition US Mint World War I Commemorative Coin, in combination with our specially-designed display stand, personalized with information about your WWI ancestor. This will make a great collectible gift for family members and descendants of those who served in World War I. Personalization can include: rank, full name, enlisted date, deceased date, unit/decorations, battles, cemetery, etc. If you have already purchased the Commemorative Coin from the US Mint, you can order just the personalized display. Both the combo set and display alone are available at here. Supplies are limited.Proceeds from the sale of this item go towards funding the building of the National World War One Memorial in Washington DC.
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A Story of Service from the Stories of Service section of ww1cc.org
Submitted by: Gus and LaWanda Zimmerman {Grandson}
John B. Kane was born around 1893. John Kane served in World War 1 with the United States Army. The enlistment was in 1917 and the service was completed in 1919.
Story of Service
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My grandfather, John B. Kane, an architect who lived in the Philadelphia area, died when I was twelve years old. He never discussed his time in the service during WWI.
When my mother was an adult, she discovered a book he wrote to her when she was ten years old. The “little story” was typed on fragile onion skin paper, written as though he were telling his young daughter stories about his military service. We speculate that he wrote the book because WWII was just starting, and he couldn’t imagine how the leaders would allow such monumental sacrifice to occur again.
WWI was the first time Americans fought overseas, consequently resulting in the formation of the Graves Registration Service. His drafting experience was put to good use by designing and plotting the first of many American cemeteries in France.
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REMINDER: USNSCC Arkansas Division – Wreaths Across America Fundraiser
From our U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC) Arkansas Division.
I can’t believe how fast this year has flown, as the holidays are already here again. As many of you know, one of our annual fundraisers is Wreaths Across America.
Wreaths Across America is a great way to Honor and Remember our fellow Veterans by laying remembrance wreaths on their graves.
Each wreath is $15. Arkansas Division gets $5 per wreath that we sale with our Group ID code.
So please help us to decorate San Francisco National Cemetery with as many wreaths as possible by spreading the word, making each wreath sold a win, win.
Our link: https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/22107/Overview/?relatedId=0
Group ID code: CA0142P
Our direct link is set up with our code, but just in case it isn’t there I included it also.
Thank you so much for supporting Arkansas Division and Wreaths Across America!
IS3 Garza
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CYBER MONDAY OPPORTUNITY – Commemorative WWI Silver Dollar
Cyber Monday Holiday Special
To Get This U.S. Mint issued
Commemorative WWI Silver Dollar
Authorized by Congress, only two commemorative coins per year are developed by the US Mint to celebrate and honor Americans. The World War I, 2018 Centennial Silver Dollar honors the 100th anniversary of America’s involvement in World War I, and raises funds to help build the US National World War I Memorial in the nation’s capital.
This is a true limited edition collectible, minted at the Philadelphia Mint. The coin is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the U.S. Mint.
The limited edition coin will only be available from the U.S. Mint
until December 27, 2018, 11:59 p.m. EST
Get from U.S. Mint
Optional Personalized Display
to Honor YOUR ancestor
Because this rare coin continually increases in value, it can become a valuable heirloom that can be kept in your family for years to come, along with the memory of your family’s WWI veteran.
To support this, we have designed a special coin display stand with an engraved personalization plate to honor your World War I ancestor. This will make a great collectible gift for family members and descendants of those who served in the War that Changed the World.
Coin & Display Stand
This purchase will help to build the
National World War I Memorial in Washington DC
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What is Death Stranding?
Hideo Kojima is mad. It’s not an insult, in fact it’s one of the things I admire about him. His mind can come up with some of the most complicated and unusual worlds ever seen. He created the Metal Gear franchise and somehow made it make sense when everything in it suggests its rubbish. His new studio is about to release Death Stranding, and I have been looking forward to the game since the very first strange trailer a couple of years ago.
Last Friday, the review embargo passed, and people started to talk about it. I was intrigued and I wanted to know exactly what I would be getting myself into this coming weekend when it hits the shelves. In Death Stranding, you are essentially a delivery man walking around a desolate world, and the world is populated by various obstacles, be that a valley, a river or a base of people who want to hurt you. Oh, and by weird ink monsters that you need to use your connection to your BB to fight somehow. BB stands for Bridge Baby, and that’s why you have a new-born floating in orange jelly strapped to your characters chest the entire time. Because Kojima.
That is essentially the core game play. Walking around, admiring scenery and then figuring out how to get across it to your destination. You’re supposed to be trying to reconnect one side of America to the other, because somethings happened (the death stranding) that has caused it to be disconnected and just generally not a great place. The graphics look great, and the character models look stunning with performances that are reported as being excellent by all reviews I have seen.
The cast is incredible, and if they are all as committed to this and deliver, it will be a great story to see unfold. However, I have a huge issue with my potential play through of this game, it sounds so incredibly boring. The main mechanics of the game revolve around you walking and balancing the cargo you are couriering along to someone else. It sounds like you’re literally walking between cut scenes, to then be given something to take to someone else. It’s an odd game play cycle, but perhaps the multiplayer elements make it more interesting?
Well that’s another worry for me. If the idea is for me to build structures and find ways around to get me from point A to point B and so on, then the multiplayer seems like it might end up eliminating much of the interesting parts of that. The MP in Death Stranding is odd in that you don’t see other players, but you can find the structures they have placed. People can leave signs for other players with instructions, and even leave useful structures to get around issues.
Initially that sounds good, and I understand what the developers are aiming for, creating a game that encourages you to help others is a noble idea. My concern is that due to the success of the game, it will become a game that is full of other people’s structures, making the game a cakewalk and therefore your path will just be strolling between cut scenes as I mentioned, with no player agency or anything pushing your plot forward.
The game pushes you to have to return to a base and have a shower every few hours, or days in game, because you are a messy boy. You also need to sleep and recover and be ready for the next day when you will select what equipment you need and go out again for another walk to another destination. This level of detail is dangerously close to a game I really appreciated but was bored to sleep of after a few hours, Red Dead Redemption 2.
RDR2 was stunning, a technical marvel and a great story in an incredibly well realised world. The problem I had with it, was the gameplay was slow, unsatisfying and at times boring. It took forever to get anywhere in RDR2, and Death Stranding is a game entirely based on it taking a while to get places. This is a game about the journey, which I normally enjoy, see Borderlands 3, a game where the story is meh, but the journey is fantastic, because the game play is exciting and engaging.
What all this has pushed me towards is that right now, having not played myself, I am really wondering whether Death Stranding is going to be a game I can bring myself to play through. It takes between 35 and 45 hours to complete the story if you mainline the game, and that’s a big commitment to a game when I am yet to be intrigued by any game play I have seen. Right now, Death Stranding is close to becoming a game I watch a super edit of the acted scenes and enjoy the story that way, because I don’t really want to spend my weekend walking around with a screaming baby.
Yep the baby screams if its unhappy. You must cradle your controller and rock it to calm the fucker down. I really hope this game shocks me and I love it. Kojima is a genius, anyone who can create Metal Gear has to be, but I am not sure I can stick with him for this one.
‘Til Tomorrow.
ChAzJS
Author chazjs93Posted on Nov 5, 2019 Nov 5, 2019 Categories Ramblings, The Daily BlogTags Death Stranding, Games, gaming, Hideo Kojima, Kojima, Preview, Video GamesLeave a comment on What is Death Stranding?
Call of Duty Modern Warfare Multiplayer Review
If you’re like me, you will have played the Call of Duty campaign to get you back into the swing of things before you charge into the Multiplayer. I did so once I had completed the campaign and I am 8 hours in, which isn’t much but it’s enough to get a feel for the game modes. Has it managed to capture the magic from Modern Warfare 2’s heyday?
Judging Modern Warfare against those rose-tinted standards is difficult. I probably spent just as much time being murdered on the old games, I just remember the highlights. Calling in a Nuke on Highrise and finishing the game with 31 kills and no deaths in a Team Deathmatch was a moment probably up there with my best in multiplayer achievements. Second only to my legendary exploits on FIFA Pro Clubs.
Over the years Call of Duty’s multiplayer had become a frantic wall running triple jumping horror show for me. Every time I would play, I would be slaughtered in most matches by people at angles I wouldn’t even think to check. That changes with this year’s CoD. Everything is stripped back, it’s you, a gun, 3 perks and some grenades. That simplicity means it relies more on your skills and reactions, and although I am far from being the Rambo I once was, I am thoroughly enjoying it again.
CoD has always had the best FPS gun play in the world; I don’t think that has ever changed. aiming and shooting feels so good on Modern Warfare that just letting that shine leads to some great multiplayer fights. I will shout “Oh fuck off” nearly every time I am killed, but in reality, the kill-cam doesn’t lie, I got hit, and I died.
This year the Killstreaks are more restrained, but still very useful. The UAV is a vital tool and although most players after level 24 will equip cold blooded to be hidden from this, just forcing an opponent to select that over something like the hardline perk is a tactical advantage in its own way. The air strikes are different, with you forced to be able to see the area and mark it with a laser before the bombs drop meaning a little more risk if you want to get it right. You can’t bomb the ever living fuck out of the other side of the map just to try and spawn kill people anymore, unless you run over there and risk being killed by the spawning team.
I mentioned the Nuke earlier, but as far as I can tell that is not in play here. The top killstreak is the Juggernaut armour, which whilst fun, is probably one I will never see equipped by anyone. The Chopper Gunner is pretty much the top dog in the killstreaks. CoD’s killstreaks have not changed much in general because they’re one of the most satisfying gameplay mechanics in any multiplayer. You’re constantly rewarded for getting multiple kills and that determination to get the next notch on the list keeps you playing.
In terms of modes I haven’t seen before, the new Cyber Attack is a welcome addition. It’s essentially a faster Search & Destroy, but with games that last just as long. Each team must grab a device and plant it at the opponent’s base, but you only get one life. You can be revived though, which adds an interesting slant to the gameplay. If you’re the last person against 2 or 3 enemies, you suddenly feel the need to be sneaky and get to your teammates and revive them and even up the game. It means that the game can be evened up during the fight and I have already seen games go from 1v1 to 6v6 again. It’s a cool mode and one I will probably get deeper into once I have honed my skills a little more in the bread and butter for me which is Team Deathmatch.
CoD classic modes are still present, Search and Destroy, Headquarters, Domination all present and active. The one mode I am yet to play much of is Ground War, which is CoD’s take on Battlefield’s larger more all-out war approach. I will be giving it go but I like my Call of Duty to be close maps and fast action.
I was a little sceptical going into this new Modern Warfare. The love I have for Modern Warfare 2 is deep, and it’s a game that really made me realise how great this franchise can be. Since then, the yearly titles have never reached the same heights for me, but this game is threatening to do exactly that. I don’t have the same number of hours to commit to this game that I used to, but I am very happy that I finally have a Call of Duty game to enter the rotation of regular games I play.
In a marketplace flooded with Battle Royale’s and hero shooters, Modern Warfare is a throwback to the games that started the multiplayer shooter genre off. It’s a return to form for the franchise and a game I will be playing long after release for the first time in years. CoD is Back.
9/10 – CoD’s multiplayer is back to its best.
Author chazjs93Posted on Oct 29, 2019 Categories Game Review, Game Reviews, The Daily BlogTags Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Cod MW, CODMW, Games, gaming, Modern Warfare, Multiplayer, MW, Video GamesLeave a comment on Call of Duty Modern Warfare Multiplayer Review
Call of Duty Modern Warfare – Campaign Review
It’s been a long time since I have been remotely excited to play any Call of Duty game. As soon as the double jumping, wall running craziness started, I was out, and I have tried a few of them with no success. This year’s entry is a reboot of the classic Modern Warfare titles that essentially made CoD into the biggest game on the planet for a long time. The single player campaign was a big part of the original MW games, and this new iteration is no different.
First, I have to mention the graphics. This is the most realistic looking game I have ever played. It competes with even the Sony first party games and sets the bar for Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part 2 to beat over the next year. The characters are all stunningly detailed and their facial animations are impeccable. This is the closest we have ever come to real people being rendered in game and it really does help sell the immersion.
This year it seems the story writers were given licence to make whatever they want and told to try and be controversial. They succeed at times, and at others it feels like they’re trying to be a bit too edgy. For the majority of the story, I was invested in the characters and the events and CoD legend Captain Price coming back with his unbelievable moustache got me to buy in even more. As the story continues, it’s a pretty standard CoD affair, there are twists and turns but nothing you won’t see coming story-wise. The story is there to give you reasons behind each mission, and those missions are where Modern Warfare steps out from the crowded FPS genre.
During the very first mission, I knew this was a bit different. Your character feels slower, each step feels more deliberate than the sprinting and diving for cover CoD is known for. As you work your way through the mission, you take out the guards as you get used to the shooting and how good it feels to be back playing CoD, or at least that’s how I felt being a lapsed CoD player. At one point in the mission, you enter a warehouse, and the lights are cut out. Its pitch black except for the light radiating from the torch you have that only illuminates a circle in front of you. All the sudden, I didn’t feel like an invincible soldier. The footsteps I could hear in my headphones were unnerving, I knew there was enemies. The tension in these moments is something no FPS has given me in years, if ever. As soon as I saw movement, I aimed at it, sometimes I nailed an enemy, other times I aimed at nothing.
Those moments are scattered throughout the campaign, and the tension is created in different ways. One of the most talked about missions is “Clean House” which is an incredible, slow paced mission that has you doing exactly what the mission name suggests, cleaning out a house. Not a house in the middle east that has been blown apart by a war. Oh no this is just a regular Town house in North London which is full of men, women, children. Some of them are armed. Some of them are terrified. Some of them are terrified, and then they grab an AK-47 and you must take them out.
The shock value feels earned in missions like “Clean House”. As the end of the campaign approaches it starts to wear out, and it’s a little too much. Eventually you’re a little desensitised to the situation of “person looks like they’re surrendering and then they grab a gun”. There are other missions that have their moments, Piccadilly Circus is a stunning recreation and the events happening there are frightening for someone who has walked around the area countless times, and the Embassy mission is the longest one in the game and changes up the gameplay multiple times to give things a slight twist and keep you on your toes.
I honestly did not expect much from this new Modern Warfare’s campaign. I was excited to see Price and the shooting mechanics of MW have never been beat. It turns out that I really enjoyed playing through this campaign, and at the end I was sitting in my chair squealing with delight about the name drops and references. I did not expect CoD to get that kind of a reaction from me. Modern Warfare has brought me back to the series, and even if it takes a couple years between this and the sequel, I am very excited to see what comes next in the rebooted story.
I have jumped in and played a big chunk of multiplayer, and I will talk about that more later in the week. The fact I have played a lot should tell you something though, as I have already sunk more hours into this multiplayer than the last few CoDs combined. The campaign is a reason to play Modern Warfare, and the Multiplayer may just be the reason I stick around.
Good: Incredible Graphics, Stunning set pieces, and some brilliant missions that change up the CoD formula.
Bad: The story will never be that great in CoD games, but it doesn’t really need to be. Some scenes that are shocking for shock’s sake that don’t add to the narrative at all.
8/10 – Modern Warfare is back and I am very happy about it.
Author chazjs93Posted on Oct 28, 2019 Categories Game Review, Game Reviews, The Daily BlogTags Call o Duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty, Captain Price, CoD, Cod MW, Game Review, Games, gaming, Modern Warfare, MW, Price, Video GamesLeave a comment on Call of Duty Modern Warfare – Campaign Review
Bethesda annoys everyone.
I hate being ill. Yesterday I spent the day laying on the couch staring into space and wishing I was at work. A rarity for me, to wish I was at work, but not being able to focus properly on anything meant I wasn’t even using the time to watch films or something that could be useful for this site.
Thankfully Bethesda gave me something to write/rant about with the Fallout 76 subscription being launched. On top of the initial £39.99 that they ask for to allow you to play the game, they have now stuck a price on several features that have been heavily requested by the small but passionate community playing that game still.
I never jumped into it, it never struck me in quite the right way despite initially intriguing me. The idea of a multiplayer coop fallout game was something I had always wanted. To be able to run around Fallout 4 with a mate or three would have really added to the already great experience. What I did not want was a relatively empty world populated only by other players. No NPC’s no single player story.
Upon launch the game was met with terrible reviews and it came out with bugs that had been fixed by the communities’ mods on Fallout 4, suggesting that the players were more capable than the developers of the game. That aside, a community began to develop, people love the fallout world and therefore wanted to enjoy this world despite Bethesda’s own mistakes.
Now, ages after release they are releasing a subscription service that players will have to buy on top of the initial fee, in order to get a load of new features. On the one hand I understand why they feel entitled to some money for the development time spent on this, but on the other hand these are not ground-breaking features. They’re essentially Pay to win features like a move-able fast travel point and unlimited storage for the materials you collect in the world.
I have been tempted over the last year or so to jump into 76 and see what it’s like, this has now turned me off completely. It also has put questions in my head about Bethesda in general. They were once my favourite studio. Fallout New Vegas & Skyrim are two top tier games that I will always love. Skyrim came out in 2011, a year after New Vegas, and since then they have not made a game that has really blown anyone’s socks off. Fallout 4 was just more fallout. It released 5 years after New Vegas, and yet was built on the same engine with basic graphical improvements and not much in the way of new gameplay mechanics besides the crafting/building of the settlements. The shooting was improved, but for a 5 year cycle the game felt very similar to its predecessors.
The call for a new engine has been going for years, and although that is not really the right thing to be calling for (The game engine has changed a lot over the years), it’s the easiest way of saying Bethesda need to produce something new. Outer Worlds will be with us this weekend, and that game looks much better than Fallout 4 and it’s going after the same audience. Whatever their next game is will be scrutinised for bugs and errors, things that were once put down to Bethesda’s ambition and their games being so huge in every way.
That excuse has been burnt to a cinder because of games like The Witcher 3, which have released with bigger worlds, more stories, and a lot fewer game breaking bugs if any. Bethesda can’t afford another Fallout 76, and if the past is anything to go by, the next game will likely be an Elder Scrolls title.
Now I am a little bit protective of that property, and I will be so annoyed if they fuck it up. I have played through Skyrim 5 times, on 3 different platforms. I will play the next game on day 1, and if they only give me Skyrim with a fresh paint job and a new map, I will be…probably too in love with the world to care but deep down I will be furious. I want Bethesda to be the best again, but right now they’re so far behind the Naughty Dogs and Respawns of the world I am worried they may have had their best days already.
That was a long winding roundabout way for me to say “I want a new elder scrolls game” but that’s just where I ended up today. Hopefully Friday’s post will be about something more relevant.
‘Til then.
Author chazjs93Posted on Oct 24, 2019 Oct 24, 2019 Categories Random, The Daily BlogTags Bethesda, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Fallout 76, Games, gaming, Gaming News, News, Video GamesLeave a comment on Bethesda annoys everyone.
Borderlands 3 Spoiler review
Finally, I have finished Borderlands 3. By finished, I mean completed all the main story missions and rolled credits. It honestly felt like a weight off my shoulders, right before the release of Ghost Recon. Now that it’s out of the way I can just focus on being incredibly excited to see Joker this weekend. I am going to go into the spoiler for the end of the game now so if you’ve not got there yet, don’t read on unless you don’t care for spoilers. To be honest, there isn’t much worth spoiling.
Borderlands 3 ends how it starts, with loads of shooting. The final battles and final levels are all just jump and shoot bullet sponge bosses, which is ordinarily fine, but being outshone by other bosses earlier in the game isn’t a great look for Tyreen and Troy Calypso. The twins who have been one step ahead of you and the Crimson Raiders all game finally confront you, but don’t use any of the powers we have seen them display through the games story cut scenes up to this point, its flabbergasting.
Finally found a reason to use the word flabbergasting.
Troy Calypso has become a powerful Siren in his own right and has been using an ability called “Phaselock” on an entire Moon to pull it towards a planet. Does he use this Phase lock on you, the one who has wiped out thousands of his minions and is now clearly the only obstacle in his way? of course not. It’s not even acknowledged as something he could do in the final battle with him.
Tyreen spends the game leeching peoples life away with ease, even stripping Crimson Raiders leader Lilith of her powers. You fight her and she has essentially become a god we are told. Well tell that to my machine gun. She is the final fight in the story mode, and it’s one of the easiest fights in the game, perhaps surpassed only by Troy. I didn’t come close to dying in either fight and all they involved was jumping over some sweeping attacks and running in circles and shooting them.
Perhaps I had overpowered weapons and a higher-level character? Well according to the game I was levels below both Troy and Tyreen, and my guns even lower than that. The guns are the only reason it was slightly enjoyable to play through, as I was continuously throwing my Tediore submachine guns around, so I had a mini army of turrets. The range of guns really is this game saving grace.
I must point out that I didn’t want to be pummelled Dark souls’ style in Borderlands 3, I just wanted to see something a bit different for the final few fights. There is a Vault monster earlier in the game where the attacks it has are wildly varied, and then it affects the actual battle area you are fighting in and you have to think about what you are doing and where you are positioned, as well as pumping him full of bullets, and fighting off minions. It’s a challengingly fun boss fight, and me and a mate played it and really enjoyed it. That high bar is never touched again, and it is a more intimidating presence than the “Destroyer” that is spoken about and then revealed at the end.
Mechanics aside, the story is quite good, and I found it entertaining and its attempts at an emotional twist at the end are well done. I am not entirely sure what or how Lilith does what she does, but it certainly looks cool. Borderlands has set up Siren’s to be this bad ass thing, but I have no idea what their powers are supposed to be. They all seem to be capable of whatever the story requires of them. The main issue I have with the story in Borderlands 3 is that the character you play as, the one doing all the work, is completely unimportant to the story. You’re referred to as Vault Hunter all game, not by the name of the character you chose, and you’re not in any of the cut scenes.
It’s so odd, you spend 20 minutes fighting a boss battle, only for your guy to be completely ignored in the scenes. Quite what the point in all the customisation was is beyond me, as you only ever see your character when you perform an Emote or get into a vehicle. I played as Zane, and early game I felt like there was a connection brewing between Zane and Ava, a parent daughter type thing, and perhaps that was intended. The final missions she comes along and maybe that was supposed to pay off there, but due to Zane being missing from every cut scene. I felt sort of detached from the main story. Sure, Tyreen and Troy did some awful stuff, but no character has ever shared a scene with my green haired bad ass, so why do I care. It feels like I was playing as a mercenary whose job was to do the shooting for Lilith.
I feel like I am being harsh on a game I did enjoy playing, but it’s because the potential for this game is sky high. Better writing more intelligently set up boss fights with some challenging mechanics in there and including your character in the story would have made this a 10/10 game of the year contender. As it is, it’s a solid game, and a good return to a really fun universe. I hope the next borderlands game takes what 3 has achieved and really builds on it. Perhaps giving us the chance to make a completely new character and make them have whatever abilities we choose. It would be something new, and the range of characters we already have is certainly one I want to see more of.
That’s it for Borderlands 3 for me, and therefore this will probably be the last post about the game for a while. Hope you’ve enjoyed reading it!
Author chazjs93Posted on Oct 3, 2019 Oct 3, 2019 Categories Game Review, Game Reviews, The Daily Blog, UncategorizedTags Ava, Borderlands 3, Borderlands 3 Review, Borderlands 3 Spoilers, Games, gaming, Lilith, Spoiler Review, Tannis, Troy Calypso, Tyreen & Troy, Tyreen Calypso, Video GamesLeave a comment on Borderlands 3 Spoiler review
Comedians in armchairs and am I ruining Games for myself?
Comedians are great. They are people who have dedicated themselves to making people laugh. There aren’t many other professions where the key function is to make people feel great. There is also a huge range of comedians from the relatively wholesome Russell Howard to the dark humour of a Jimmy Carr or the one liners of Tim Vine.
Last night I went to a show in Southend performed by Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell. The trio have been taking the piss out of each other for years on Would I Lie to You? and I have watched countless hours of that show so to see them all together was a laugh. The format of the show is unusual, half a quiz with audience interaction, and then bringing the audience in even more in the second half. It’s a couple of hours of laughter and a strange insight into people’s thoughts on Southend in general.
The trio’s chemistry has been built over years on a show and they all bring their own comedic style to the show. Rob Brydon is the “Host” of sorts, and his showmanship suits that perfectly. David Mitchell and Lee Mack are middle class chalk and working-class cheese and they both play into the stereotypes they’re known for from the TV show. Essentially the show is all set up for the three of them to just show off their comedic skills, and it is a great vehicle for them. The speed they come up with jokes is impressive and with the audience I was in, they were not given the best material to work with. Drug Dealers, dating problems, Wedding cake and Dead cats all came up and none of those are particularly funny situations.
It reminded me a lot of several of the podcasts I listen to, like the Kinda Funny Podcast or Collider Live, where the bulk of the show is the interaction between the people on the podcast and the funny stories and conversations that come from that. The live stage show aspect allows Brydon Mack and Mitchell to include the audience a lot more, although email questions are used, and I know a lot of podcasts use that or twitter for audience interaction. I am hoping when I open my podcast app on my way to work soon, I will be able to find the three of them in podcast form as they have the kind of chemistry that serves that medium well.
Sunday Night Comedy aside, I finally picked up Borderlands 3 again yesterday after a weekend of FIFA and a week of not playing Borderlands. The game is in an odd place for me. Whenever I am playing it, I enjoy it a lot. The loot cycle is as satisfying as any I have played and the gun play is superb, but it doesn’t have me clamouring for more. It is suffering from the same problem The Division 2 gave me, and that doesn’t bode well.
The Division 2 is another game I thoroughly enjoy playing. Again, it does everything right when you’re fighting through the streets of Washington DC, and yet I haven’t had any desire to carry on. I played it solidly for a good 2 weeks in between work and other commitments and got quite a way through the main story. With the division, the story is almost unimportant, you’re in DC, here is a load of bad guys, go shoot them. It flirts with trying to present some motivations for the characters but there isn’t a single character I could name from the games world which is a bit of a damnation of the story in the game.
Borderlands 3 has a more interesting story, but for some reason I just don’t have the motivation to carry on. I will play it a little this week after work, and maybe even on Sunday again in a hungover state after the wedding of one of my best friends, but then Ghost Recon will be ready to go, and I can’t see Borderlands outlasting that.
I was so ready to dive into both The Division 2 and Borderlands 3 when they were releasing, that perhaps I over hyped the games without realising. I was convinced I would be all into smash borderlands continuously, and it didn’t happen. I listened to countless Division 2 previews and knew how I wanted to build my character before I even downloaded the game, but I never finished the main story.
Perhaps it is all my own doing, and I am setting the bar too high and the games are falling below it. Ghost Recon Wildlands was a worse game than both the games I have mentioned in this, and I played it to completion and unlocked nearly every gun and attachment in the game. It was a surprise to me though, I went in knowing nothing about the game and I think that added intrigue about what might be around the corner is what kept me coming back.
The hunger I have for information about games, movies, and TV shows has ruined a lot of surprises for me over the years – for example I knew Han Solo was dying in The Force Awakens long before the film’s release – but I can’t help myself. A huge part of the enjoyment of Marvel and Star Wars films for me is the anticipation. The guessing of what might happen. That translates to games in the form of knowing how the gameplay works before I have touched the game. I normally avoid story spoilers but quite frankly most video games have shoddy stories, especially the first-person shooter genre.
Maybe I will avoid all Ghost Recon Breakpoint previews and see if that game can get its hooks into me. It does have John Bernthal, so it’s got that going for it. I want to be able to say I beat the Punisher in a gunfight, so I guess I am already signed up to go all the way through the game.
I will put up my FIFA 20 full review tomorrow, I have played a lot of it and it’s really confusing. Until then, thanks for reading!
Author chazjs93Posted on Sep 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 Categories Ramblings, The Daily BlogTags Borderlands 3, Brydon Mack and Mitchell, Comedians, comedy, David Mitchell, Games, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, John Bernthal, Lee Mack, Punisher, Rob Brydon, The Division 2, Video GamesLeave a comment on Comedians in armchairs and am I ruining Games for myself?
The Autumn Video Game Budget
Borderlands 3 signalled the beginning of the period that hurts all gamers wallets. For some reason this 3-month run up to Christmas is when the decision makers at the big companies decide to release every game that people have been looking forward to. I get it, Christmas is coming, but surely some of them should have brought their releases forward or delayed them into 2020 to avoid the overload.
Without using google, I can list off PES 2020, Borderlands 2, FIFA 20, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Destiny 2’s newest expansion Shadowkeep which is like a new game, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, The Outer Worlds, Death Stranding and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. If we optimistically say £50 per game, that’s £450 to keep up with the conversation and that’s assuming I haven’t missed any games.
Okay now I have googled it and I missed the new Pokémon and Doom Eternal. They round it off to a cool £550. So, there is ELEVEN games potentially fighting it out for your Christmas list just of the ones I would have any interest playing. If you want to keep up when you’ll need to have a fair amount of disposable income to do so, and that is without looking at all the types of games I wouldn’t play like 2D platformers and puzzle games.
I understand the need for Sports games to be released at the start of new seasons in their respective sports, so PES and FIFA, NHL and Madden all kind of have their set release windows and that’s just how it has always been. Those games sell millions and always will because they have people invested so deeply in them. Games such as Call of Duty or Ghost Recon though, make less sense to me.
Ghost Recon seems set to be one of the losers in this fight. The last game was a game I thoroughly enjoyed, and I am excited for the next one, but there is so much competition around at the time. For me, it means Destiny 2’s expansion will be put off until the Christmas break and I will probably not go for one or the other between Outer Worlds and Call of Duty. In general, though, Ghost Recon isn’t nearly as popular as a title like Call of Duty or Borderlands and doesn’t have the curiosity around it that a game like The Outer Worlds has going for it.
Surely releasing it back in august, when there was a huge gap for a meaty game like Ghost Recon to fill would have been a better move from a business sense and got more people interested in playing it. As it is the over saturation of the industry in the autumn months will probably mean the game gets cannibalised by its competition.
A similar thing happened a few years ago to a Tomb Raider game, which was a single player story driven action adventure game that released one week after Spiderman on the PS4. The result was that I didn’t pick it up until it was on the game pass on Xbox, meaning they missed out on the money I would have happily paid if they had released at a less busy time.
I know this post won’t change anything, but I would love to see these big games show a bit more common sense and move out of the way of each other rather than fight it out.
It’s a slow news day and last night I just carried on with Borderlands 3. I posted my review yesterday, but I am trying to convince myself to finish the entire game. That’s never a good sign, but I am now at that point where I am having to convince myself to boot it up. It’s not because it’s a bad game, it just hasn’t grabbed my attention the way some games do.
It’s only 10 days now until FIFA 19 releases, and the inevitable time vortex that game is for me will mean a load of FIFA related posts. As it is, I am avoiding that type of football because Arsenal persist with playing out from the back despite it clearly not working, and now I am a full time NFL fan.
So, if anyone ask’s how my team did at the weekend, they won 43-0 against the Miami Dolphins.
Author chazjs93Posted on Sep 17, 2019 Categories Ramblings, The Daily BlogTags Autum, Borderlands 3, Budget, Call of Duty, Death Stranding, Destiny 2, fifa 20, gaming, Gaming News, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Star Wars, Video GamesLeave a comment on The Autumn Video Game Budget
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A Fourth Grader Invented Salt ...
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A Fourth Grader Invented Salt & Straw’s New Avocado Toast Flavored Ice Cream
by Malia Wooten September 6, 2019
The new flavor will debut alongside four others on Friday, September 6!
Have you ever bit into your savory piece of green toast and thought to yourself, “this would taste so good in the form of ice cream!” If not, don’t be too hard on yourself for not being as open-minded as an eleven-year-old…
Salt & Straw hosts a “Student Inventors” series every year, where elementary schoolers submit their ideas of what they feel would be the next best flavor. This year, three schools submitted around 800 innovative ideas for new flavors and it was Lana from Larchmont Charter who caught the eye of ice cream maker Tyler Malek.
“She has the pulse on L.A.,” said Malek in a statement to Los Angeles Magazine.
Her flavor submission included specific instructions on how to create this rather unusual frozen treat: “First get your vanilla base and don’t flavor it too strong because you have to keep the avocado flavor strong. Add chunks of avocado for texture. Add some salt and pepper. Then chop up some bread to make bite-size pieces, mix it all together and you’re done.”
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Though avocado toast appears to be pretty strange to eat in ice cream form, Salt & Straw takes pride in offering a wide range of flavors having served everything from Chocolate Gooey Brownie to Freckled Chocolate Zucchini Bread! Malek admitted that the actual process of creating this particular winning ice cream wasn’t the easiest – he and his team struggled with perfecting the taste and texture, trying everything from water, milk, and sour cream (the winning ingredient.) You’ll even spot pieces of slightly caramelized Tartine bread brushed with butter, olive oil, salt, pepper and sugar in the mix.
The other four ice cream flavor winners include and Chocolate, Almond, Croissant Crunch; Churro Horchata; Pomegranate Pink Panther; and Nutella Strawberry Banana! All five ‘Student Inventor’ flavors will be available in stores beginning Friday, September 6.
Lana, the fourth-grade genius, has yet to try her avocado toast ice cream come to life. Malek just hopes that when she does, it tastes exactly as she envisioned!
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What is the impetus for major sites being HTTPS-exclusive now?
I've noticed that there are a good number of sites (Google, Twitter, Wikipedia) that are serving up every page over HTTPS.
I can understand given that everyone is concerned over privacy now, but has there been some sort of best practice/impetus for this change?
Perhaps it's one of those things that it's just easier to use, because you get certain guarantees out-of-the-box?
It's been explained to me that it could be because of privacy concerns that were emphasized when the Firesheep Firefox plugin was released at Toorcon 12, but that was two years ago, and I seem to recall major sites making the switch to HTTPS-exclusive more recently.
casperOnecasperOne
Even Wikipedia is going that way - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148273/… – user658 Sep 25 '12 at 12:23
I'm pretty sure that Firesheep was indeed the impetus, but implementing https is non-trivial, so some sites are still getting round to acting on it. – MikeFHay Sep 25 '12 at 15:48
Fun fact: security.stackexchange.com mereley redirects to the non-SSL site – Tobias Kienzler Oct 30 '12 at 9:26
HTTPS is the easiest solution to a large number of security problems:
Every form of Man In The Middle attack is completely impractical over an HTTPS connection (you'd need to either break SSL or hack into a certificate authority). This includes protecting your users while they're on public wifi.
If any page isn't secure, and a user clicks a "login" link (which is presumably HTTPS), an attacker could replace it with a link to an insecure version that steals passwords. The only secure way to do this is either to serve the whole site over HTTPS or make sure users pay attention to the URL bar. Only one of those two options is possible.
Since all of your pages are secure, you don't need to think about which pages are secure and which ones aren't (user clicks login -> redirect to HTTPS version -> user logs in -> redirect back to HTTP -> user goes to their profile -> redirect to HTTPS...).
Modern browsers give mixed content warnings if an HTTPS page contains insecure content (styles, scripts, images, etc.). Most browsers treat this kind of page as if it's not secure at all (showing the scary red URL box). The easiest way to make sure you never run into this problem is to just serve all of your content over HTTPS.
If you're HTTPS-only, you can enable HTTP Strict Transport Security to further reduce vulnerability to MITM attacks (once a user has been to your site once, their browser will always choose the HTTPS version, even if directed to a http:// URL).
Honestly, I don't know why anyone doesn't enable HTTPS. It's completely trivial and it can be free.
Brendan LongBrendan Long
I thought CPU overhead might have been an issue, but apparently not: stackoverflow.com/questions/548029/… – Suman Sep 25 '12 at 17:39
@Suman Yeah, in my experience, it's completely insignificant. It's also been my experience that developers are more expensive than servers, so even if you needed more powerful servers, it's still worth it to save your developers time thinking about these things. There is the issue that the TLS handshake requires more round-trips than a normal TCP handshake, but this is handled with TLS session resumption (which is unfortunately not always enabled by default). – Brendan Long Sep 25 '12 at 17:55
Unfortunately, is not not by any means "completely impractical" to hack into a CA. – SLaks Sep 30 '12 at 15:49
"Attacks" are bad press. With a HTTP site, an ill-intentioned attacker could alter data in transit, making his name or logo appear in lieu of the intended page. That's not critical in any way for a site which hosts only public information (e.g. Wikipedia), but it looks bad nonetheless. With HTTPS, there is some level of "visible protection": the attacker will not be able to put his signature in the genuine site; instead, he will have to mount an alternate version with a fake certificate, at which point the browser will display a warning. It is all about making such attacks "obvious" in the eye of the public at large.
Another reason, less rational but probably more common, is the following "logic" as it goes in the minds of many managers: "Security is GOOD, it protects against BAD PEOPLE and EVILDOERS and TERRORISTS. HTTPS is security, so let's go sprinkle HTTPS everywhere we can." This is flawed in may ways, but this does not prevent people from thinking that way.
And there is fashion, of course. If Google goes HTTPS-everywhere, then it would be marketingly suicidal, and possibly bad taste, not to do the same.
Thomas PorninThomas Pornin
Even a site which hosts only public information may gain from HTTPS. Take Wikipedia. 1) Privacy: less information is leaked about what articles users are reading; the IP packets only show IP addresses, while the HTTP GET is encrypted. 2) Confidence: "you first visited this site on..." shows that the user didn't mistype the URL, and the fact that the data was signed proves it's from the expected site. – Nathan Long Sep 25 '12 at 22:01
In addition to privacy, it's worth noting that currently SPDY requires HTTPS to negotiate support.
While there are lots of other ways this could have been implemented while maintaining backward compatability with HTTP/1.1, I can only assume that it was causing problems for a lot of proxies. It looks like HTTP/2.0 is likely to go the same way.
HTTPS undermines the distributed caching model of HTTP which has a huge impact on performance - so for most of us, that means relying on third-party CDNs - which rather defeats the purpose of having a secure point-to-point communication in the first place.
(the only time I had a box rooted was via a vulnerability in openSSL around 10 yrs ago - so perhaps I've got a rather distorted perspective on SSL ;)
Don't get me wrong - I don't think there's a beter protocol level security solution than SSL/TLS but it's not nearly enough on its own; there are still a lot of gaps to shore up (cookies, XSS, DNS)
Reinstate Monica - M. Schröder
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SPDY? Would you elaborate on that? – casperOne Sep 25 '12 at 13:42
@casperOne: The whitepaper is at dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper – Brian Sep 25 '12 at 14:01
SPDY looks good, as long as we remember CRIME - security.stackexchange.com/questions/19911/… – Rory Alsop♦ Sep 25 '12 at 14:21
I agree with all of the above, but should add that the move to https was for pretty much all but Google a response to the Firesheep Plugin for Firefox. This allowed you to easily hijack a users session who was on the same network as you, write email from them, post on Facebook and Twitter etc. now with https enabled this cannot be done.
I mention Google as their gmail login was not vulnerable to this. They have moved to https to 'protect user privacy'. Personally I am not 100% sure about this.
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"It is the same stupid old normal we've always had."
From AAP in smh.com.au September 28, 2010 - 11:41AM
Crisis on repeat: We're chimps with no memory
Fisher Investments chief executive Ken Fisher says the economic conditions facing the world today are not dissimilar to previous downturns, like that seen in the early 1990s.
"If you read the media from 1991 it sounds just like it does today," he told the Forbes CEO Conference today.
"We're chimpanzees with no memory.
"Our problems in this environment, that we think are so unique, so abnormal.
"We keep chewing the cud. We go over the same stupid wrong pessimistic stories... ruminating on them again and again."
Mr Fisher said unlike five out of six US investors, who "believe we are going sideways or going down", he was bullish about the future.
"I believe the next 10 years will be just as good as the 1990s," he said.
"In my mind, I think the period we have ahead of us is as good as we have ever had ahead of us, at a time when people believe we have a lackluster world ahead at best."
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Articles and other news featuring Baykeeper's role in protecting the Bay
$1.4 million settlement agreement in sewer spill
San Francisco Chronicle | January 14, 2012 | Sick of Sewage
A Menlo Park sanitary district has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a long-running lawsuit accusing the utility of spilling tens of thousands of gallons of sewage into creeks and sloughs that drain into San Francisco Bay.
Environment panel might hold up America's Cup in San Francisco
San Francisco Examiner | December 14, 2011 | America's Cup
Groups that have raised environmental concerns about the America’s Cup said Wednesday that they intend to slow down the development approval process if the Planning Commission will not do so.
America's Cup tries to clear air with anti-pollution rules
The Examiner | December 2, 2011 | America's Cup
New measures for improving air quality during the America’s Cup have some skeptical conservation organizations warming up to the event.
America's Cup Plan to Curb Invasive Seaweed: Scrape Piers by Hand
The Bay Citizen | November 3, 2011 | America's Cup
The latest proposal to prevent the spread of invasive seaweed as San Francisco prepares to host the America's Cup would have scuba divers painstakingly remove the pest by hand from old piers before they are torn down.
Cosco Busan Owners, Operators to Pay $44 Million for Oil Spill Damage
The Bay Citizen | September 23, 2011 | Oil Spills
Nearly four years after the Cosco Busan, a container ship, clipped the Bay Bridge and dumped 53,000 gallons of toxic fuel into San Francisco Bay, the ship's owners and operators agreed to pay a combined $44 million to compensate for the damage the spill caused.
$44 Million Settles Cosco Busan Oil Spill in Bay
San Francisco Chronicle | September 20, 2011 | Oil Spills
The shipping companies responsible for the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill, which polluted San Francisco Bay and killed thousands of birds and fish, have agreed to pay $44.4 million to restore habitat and reimburse the agencies that responded to the disaster, state and federal officials announced Monday.
Editorial: Senators need to stand up for California's oil spill prevention program
Mercury News | September 2, 2011 | Oil Spills
The fight over whether to maintain California's oil-spill response and prevention program is a classic Sacramento showdown pitting Big Oil against public safety and the environment.
Some raise concerns over upcoming America's Cup
KGO-TV | August 12, 2011 | America's Cup
Environmentalists are concerned over the impact that the upcoming America's Cup race may have on the bay.
America’s Cup environmental review draws criticism
Way Out West News | July 25, 2011 | America's Cup
Heavy construction. Massive crowds. Congested waterways. Based on the city’s recently released draft environment impact report (EIR) for the 2013 America’s Cup, these threats, along with others, are an unavoidable addition to the international event.
America's Cup 2013: Planning Hurdles Begin In San Francisco
Huffington Post | July 16, 2011 | America's Cup
The America's Cup is expected to create 8,000 jobs and inject more than $1.4 billion into the region's economy when the world's fastest yachts take to San Francisco Bay in 2013. But the anticipated 5 million spectators – with 500,000 on "peak" days – will test the Bay Area's transportation network, sanitation systems and the environment...
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For all your real estate needs in California... Specializing in beach properties on the coast, the Westside, Silicon Beach and greater LA. My website: www.sandralew.com Email: sandy@sandralew.com Mobile: 310-963-1623 CalBRE#01920376 RE/MAX Estate Properties 124 Washington Blvd. Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Southern California home sales jump, prices rise in March
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Median home prices have climbed 2.4% from February to $425,000. Compared to a year ago home prices have climbed 6.3% which is a much slower pace than the previous year of 15.8 % in March 2014. That is good news as shows the housing market is stabilizing. The slowing appreciation is more realistic of a normal market and while boosting equity for homeowners also gives those who who want to buy a more realistic opportunity to do so.
Signs direct home shoppers to open houses in Huntington Beach last June. Southern California home prices are up, after remaining essentially flat for nearly a year. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
By Andrew Khouri - April 16, 2015
The Southern California housing market awoke from a winter slumber last month.
That’s according to numbers out Thursday from real estate firm CoreLogic that show home sales jumped 11.1% in March from a year earlier -- the first gain in three months.
Prices were up too, after remaining essentially flat for nearly a year.
With few homes on the market and more families searching for a house during the typically busy spring season, the median price climbed 2.4% from February to $425,000.
The median -- the point at which half of homes sold for more and half for less -- had held around $415,000 since May.
Compared to a year earlier, prices increased 6.3%, a slower pace than the 15.8% annual pop seen in March 2014.
Economists have said slowing price appreciation should give more families a chance to purchase a home as the economy strengthens, while still boosting equity for existing home owners.
Home sales jumped across Southern California in March, rising in Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-home-prices-20150416-story.html#
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Is Snapchat's rapid growth changing Venice's funky vibe?
Snapchat is another new successful tech start-up which in only two years has grown to 200 employees in the Silicon Beach area. This is one of the great examples of small companies turning into large corporations and changing the city scape of Venice and surrounding areas to continue attracting the well heeled techies who've made Venice even more expensive to live and do business.
Snapchat leases a handful of buildings along Market Street in Venice.
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By Paresh Dave - March 31, 2015
Snapchat first set up in Los Angeles in a funky old bungalow on Venice Beach, a little start-up with only 14 employees. Two years later, the messaging app is rich, famous and expanding fast.
The company is still in Venice, but with 200 employees it has far outgrown its cozy house on the beach. It's about to nearly double its footprint in Venice with a lease for 40,000 square feet in several buildings at Venice and Abbot Kinney boulevards, according to real estate experts and property records.
Snapchat expansion: In the March 31 Section A, an article about the expansion of tech company Snapchat in Venice Beach said that Google was moving its operation from Venice to Playa Vista. Some employees will remain in Venice. In addition, the article misspelled Venice resident Jack Hoffmann's name as Hoffman.
Some residents say the tech company's rapid expansion will alter the character of Venice, a longtime enclave for poets, artists, musicians, roller skaters, beach freaks and unclassifiable eccentrics. They gripe about a continuing influx of well-heeled techies who've made Venice a more expensive place to live and do business.
As "Silicon Beach" expands, it's bound to transform the laid-back environment that has attracted dozens of start-ups. Snapchat, the most famous — and highest-valued — start-up in Los Angeles, serves as a lightning rod for foes of gentrification.
"The clock can't be turned back after Venice is built out to support large corporations and not small businesses," said James Briggs, chief executive of Briabe Mobile Inc., a mobile marketing company and tenant at the Abbot Kinney complex since 2007.
The frictions caused by tech industry gentrification are not new. Similar dramas are playing out in San Francisco and other old-line communities disrupted by Silicon Valley companies. Luxurious private buses filled with tech workers have become a vivid metaphor for the widening wealth gap in San Francisco.
Snapchat Chief Executive Evan Spiegel, who grew up in Los Angeles and attended Stanford University, said he chose Southern California to escape both corporate and Silicon Valley culture. Walks on the beach helped Spiegel and his business partner Bobby Murphy dream up new features for the app.
If it continues to expand in Venice, though, it will have to grow horizontally. And growth for Snapchat, with a reputed value of $15 billion, a growing list of features, and millions of users around the world, appears inevitable.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-snapchat-real-estate-20150331-story.html#page=1
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Allgaier wins at Phoenix to race for Xfinity championship
AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Justin Allgaier raced to his first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory of the season Saturday at ISM Raceway to advance to the championship finale.
Allgaier will race Christopher Bell, Cole Custer and reigning champion Tyler Reddick for the title next Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Only Reddick has a championship.
"We said we needed to come in and win to get to Homestead, and we did that," Allgaier said.
Allgaier cried as he crossed the finish line, the emotions of a frustrating season. He'd gone 39 races without a win, nearly all year just a season removed from a five-win campaign. He was on the cutline to race for the title next week at Homestead, but with only Bell already locked in, Allgaier was one of five drivers vying for three spots.
Custer locked up the second berth on points after the second stage, and the race was on. But Bell had controlled the race through the first two stages and a win-to-get-in scenario seemed improbable.
Until Bell was flagged for speeding on pit road and dropped from the lead to 13th. He had worked his way through traffic to eighth when he spun with a flat tire. Bell, the championship favorite, finished 16th.
Custer was second, Reddick third while John Hunter Nemechek and Zane Smith rounded out the top five.
The win was the eighth career victory for Allgaier at JR Motorsports, most by a driver in team history.
"To have the year we've had, it's not been a bad year, but to not be able to get to victory lane," Allgaier said. "To do what we did, we didn't have the best car, Christopher did, but then we capitalized and now we have a lot of momentum going into Homestead."
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School in Birmingham ends lessons on LGBT+
by Tomáš Tengely-Evans
Published Tue 19 Mar 2019
Activists have long campaigned against homophobia in schools, such as Section 28 which saw children told that gay relationships were abnormal (Pic: Guy Smallman)
A primary school in Birmingham has dropped a programme that includes LGBT+ education after weeks of parent protests.
Parkfield Community School indefinitely suspended the No Outsiders in Our Schools programme on Thursday. This involved lessons on diversity as part of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE).
Many Muslim parents have organised weekly protests outside the school gates and kept around 600 children at home last month.
School management has made the argument more difficult by linking the lessons to the Prevent programme that targets Muslims. It should have no place in LGBT+ education.
Ezra of Hidayah, an organisation that provides support and welfare for LGBT+ Muslims, told Socialist Worker, “We are really disappointed that the protests have resulted in the suspension of the lessons.
“This will seem like a victory to the parents, but the children will need the lessons. I go into schools and so many are surprised to see us because they’ve learnt that you can’t be LGBT+ and Muslim.”
There should be more RSE education in all schools and children shouldn’t miss out on it. The LGBT+ lessons should be reinstated at Parkfield school.
There are different shades of opinion within the protests.
Some parents put forward homophobic views and don’t want positive mentions of LGBT+ people in education.
Others hope to achieve a compromise that keeps a different form of LGBT+ education.
Salma Yaqoob, a Birmingham campaigner, said that after a recent get-together of parents and LGBT+ people, “Parents affirmed support for teaching of the Equality Act, including tackling LGBT+ discrimination”.
Abiding by the Equality Act can mean different things to different people.
Some parents accept equal rights for LGBT+ people, but deny that people can identify as both Muslim and gay.
Ezra explained that Muslims have different positions. “Some have a really conservative belief,” she said. “But a lot of Muslims think that both Muslim and LGBT+ people share oppression and then others think that being both is fine.”
She added, “You have to take the argument to the conservatives.”
Tue 19 Mar 2019, 13:00 GMT
Out for freedom - socialists and the fight for LGBT liberation
Bigotry makes Birmingham school drop LGBT+ lessons
LETTERS—How should we approach Birmingham school protest?
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Top storylines for NFL Week 6
Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports
Week 6 around the NFL offers a whole host of tremendous matchups. Can the San Francisco 49ers continue their dominating early-season run against the division-rival Rams in Los Angeles?
Over in the AFC, Patrick Mahomes will do battle with Deshaun Watson and the Texans as his Chiefs look to rebound from a bad loss last Sunday night.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Redskins and Dolphins will do battle in the toilet bowl in South Beach on Sunday with potentially the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft on the line.
These are among the top storylines for Week 6 of the NFL season.
Tom Brady looks to get right on Thursday night
Each of the past two games have seen Tom Brady throw an interception in the red zone. That comes after he threw just one red-zone pick in his past 21 games. We’re not ready to panic yet. After all, New England is 5-0 on the season and has outscored its opponents 155-34.
At issue here is competition. Brady has dominated four teams on the schedule that have combined for a 1-17 record. His one game against a good team in that of the Buffalo Bills back in Week 4 saw Brady put up a career-worst performance. Taking on a Giants team Thursday night that’s yielding a 106.7 quarterback rating on the season, Brady should be back to dominating.
Battle for relevance in Tampa Bay
It’s looking more and more like the Drew Brees-less Saints are running away with the NFC South. They have won three consecutive games under a super impressive Teddy Bridgewater and will be getting their future Hall of Famer back here soon. This means there’s pressure on the Panthers and Buccaneers heading into a divisional matchup in London in Week 6.
Carolina has now won three consecutive games since former undrafted free agent Kyle Allen took over for the injured Cam Newton. In fact, he’s 4-0 as a starter for the team. As it relates to the Buccaneers, they have been inconsistent. Coming off a seven-point loss to the Saints in New Orleans, the 2-3 squad must show out here in order to remain relevant in the division. It’s that simple.
Do the Browns have any fight?
This is not a hyperbolic question. Cleveland’s performance this past Monday night in a 31-3 loss to the San Francisco 49ers really has us wondering whether the preseason hype surrounding this team was even remotely sane. Not only did Cleveland lose by four touchdowns, it showed no real fight. Baker Mayfield put up 58 net passing yards on 22 attempts. The Browns had less than 50 total yards in the second half. They couldn’t even manage garbage-time points.
Now set to take on a red-hot Seattle Seahawks team that’s 4-1 on the season, we’re going to find out relatively quickly whether the Browns have any fight in them. They might be 2-3 on the season, but we’re looking at a team that could be on the brink. It will be interesting how the Browns show up early this week.
Chargers must end skid to remain relevant
Following a disheartening home loss to the previously winless Denver Broncos, it’s now time for Philip Rivers and Co. to impose their will against a lesser and injury-plagued team. Los Angeles hosts a one-win Pittsburgh Steelers squad and rookie undrafted free agent Devlin Hodges on Sunday night.
If you’re wondering who Hodges is, you’re certainly not alone. He was signed this past offseason as a camp arm after starring at Samford. Following the scary injury Mason Rudolph suffered last week, Hodges will get the start here. At 2-3 on the season, the Chargers must dominate inferior competition. Even a narrow win will place into question their standing as legit playoff contenders moving forward.
Statement game for the Lions
Following a much-needed Week 5 bye, Matt Patricia and Co. continue to fly under the radar. Detroit remains one of just eight teams with a single loss or fewer heading into mid October. It just recently went tit-for-tat with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. One game-changing play altered the outcome of that matchup.
Nonetheless, the Lions have a real opportunity to prove a point in Green Bay on Monday night. In the midst of a tremendous season, can Matthew Stafford hang with Aaron Rodgers in a one-on-one duel that’s been lopsided? This will tell us a lot about where the Lions stand as the NFL soon enters the midway point of its season. A win would make them legit threats in the division. A loss, and mediocrity will likely be the name of the game in Motown once again. No pressure!
Needing more from Marcus Mariota
It’s simple. The Tennessee Titans need to see more from their “franchise quarterback” if they want to be considered serious contenders in the pedestrian AFC South. Mariota is coming off a Week 5 outing that saw him complete 13 passes in a 14-7 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
Mariota continues to struggle getting the ball down the field and to his top receivers. Corey Davis and A.J. Brown combined for just 55 yards last week. Set to take on a one-win Broncos team coming off a surprising victory over the Chargers, it will be telling what Mariota has to offer his Titans. Another lackluster performance will tell us what we seemingly already knew. He’s not a starter-caliber quarterback on a playoff-worthy team.
No new narrative in Big D
The Dallas Cowboys should have absolutely no issue disposing of a disastrous New York Jets team in Jersey on Sunday. Dallas’ first three games (all wins) came against squads with a combined 2-12 record. They outscored said teams, 97-45. Since then, the Cowboys have taken on two good teams in that of the Saints and Packers, scoring a combined 34 points while losing both outings.
What does that tell us? Dallas has yet to get up against good teams while taking advantage of lackluster opponents. Nothing the team does this week outside of laying an egg against the Jets will change this narrative. After that, Dak Prescott and the Boys have nine consecutive games against teams that are currently .500 or better. Let that resonate for a second.
Protecting Minshew Mania in Duval
Despite falling to the Carolina Panthers last week, Jacksonville has seemingly found itself a keeper in rookie sixth-round pick Gardner Minshew. The youngster is completing nearly 67% of his passes with nine touchdowns and one interception this season. It’s one of the best starts we’ve seen from a rookie in NFL history.
Minshew and his Jaguars now host a red hot New Orleans Saints team this week. At 2-3 on the season, they want to make a statement in front of their home crowd. A big win here would also go a long way in remaining in the divisional race in what has been an average AFC South this season. Expect Jaguars fans to bring it big time Sunday afternoon.
Battle for the first pick in South Beach
If you are hanging out in South Beach on Sunday and actually attend this game between the Dolphins and Redskins, we have one simple question for you. Where did your life go wrong? The Redskins head into this game at 0-5 and just fired Jay Gruden. They have been outscored by 78 points in five games.
Though, that does not compare in any way to that travesty that are the Miami Dolphins parading around as a real NFL team. Brian Flores’ squad has been outscored by a combined 137 points in four games. The loser of this toilet bowl will have the inside shot at landing the No. 1 overall pick and Tua Tagovailoa. Then again, he might just decide that returning to Alabama is the best life decision.
Lamar Jackson looks to turn it around
Not only has Baltimore’s second-year quarterback hit that proverbial sophomore slump, he slammed right into it and has been thrown for a loop. Jackson has tossed four touchdowns compared to five interceptions over the past two games after opening the season with seven scores and zero picks. He was saved last week by an injury-plagued and mistake-filled Steelers squad.
Heading into Sunday’s game, Baltimore sits at 3-2 and in first place in the AFC North. It will be taking on a winless Bengals squad that just fell to the hapless Arizona Cardinals at home. If this is not a get-right game for Jackson, it could spell doom for his Ravens moving forward on the season.
Statement game for Kirk Cousins
Cousins played so well last week against a bad Giants team that it invited a phone call from President Trump. We’re not too sure what to make of that. What we do know is that this struggling quarterback has been downright disastrous against winning teams throughout his career.
Taking on the 3-2 Eagles at home on Sunday, Cousins has an opportunity to change the narrative. Can he come up big against a good team? A lot is riding on this for the Vikings as they attempt to navigate through what has been a competitive NFC North this season. Another game that sees Cousins lay an egg might invite a different type of call from fans in Minneapolis. The NFL’s version of impeachment.
Dan Quinn fighting for his job
Falcons owner Arthur Blank made it clear following last week’s embarrassment in Houston that Quinn’s job is safe. That’s no surprise. Blank has been a loyal owner during his tenure. He’s also not going to publicly blast his head coach. That’s all fine and dandy. But at 1-4 on the season, Atlanta is on the brink.
Heading into the desert to take on a one-win Cardinals team, Quinn has to be feeling the heat. If his team were to fall to one of the least-talented squads in the NFL, a pink slip could be imminent in the not-so-distant future. Atlanta laid down and took it from Deshaun Watson and Co. last week. A similar performance Sunday would likely spell doom for Quinn’s Falcons career.
No, we have not figured out Patrick Mahomes
It’s amazing. Mahomes completed 22-of-39 passes for 321 yards without an interception in last week’s 19-13 loss to the Colts. It’s led to talking heads somehow concluding that NFL teams have figured out the reigning MVP.
This is about the most ridiculous story of the 2019 season. It joins handshake-gate as the biggest representation of what has been a crazy calendar year. It’s also about as false as can be. Through five games, Mahomes has passed for 1,831 yards with 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions. He now takes on Deshaun Watson and the high-flying Texans on Sunday. Expect Mahomes to shut up those critics in a big way.
Your undefeated San Francisco 49ers
Ask the Cleveland Browns how overrated these 49ers are. Heading into last week with a perfect 3-0 mark, skeptics concluded that Kyle Shanahan’s squad was nothing more than a farce. San Francisco responded by drilling Cleveland to the tune of 31-3, making Baker Mayfield look like a wide-eyed rookie in the process.
The 49ers now have a chance to continue proving their worth as one of the game’s elites against struggling quarterback Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. Another big win for this up-and-coming team would go a long way in determining San Francisco to be legit Super Bowl contenders. No, that’s not a typo.
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When the title gets tarnished by fraud but not taken away
In the coming years, this could be the week in which this sports era is known as the asterisk era.
Over the course of a decade wearing a solar camera, rogue chemists, executives with pliant morality and Soviet espionage, two-handed troublemakers – science and technology – have been for seemingly limitless crooks to win on diverse playgrounds such as the Olympic Games, Major League Baseball, NFL and Horse Racing.
Houston Astros's plagiarism plan, launched in a sober but unclear report from the baseball commissioner on Monday, is the latest incarnation of that old sports saw, if you're not cheating. You will not try. World Series 2017 champions have mingled high-tech with low-fi – use a TV screen near the dig to watch the catcher give his throw signals, then have his teammates smash the trash to Let the batter know what's going to happen.
For clean sports advocates, this looks like a more powerful weapon that athletes, teams and organizations have used to win the game and wear a fair play police shirt, adding a The truth about a champion spilling out too late.
In 2014, the Russian Olympic Committee stepped up the transport of medals by asking doping experts to cooperate with the country's intelligence services to transfer urine samples through a hole in the test lab wall. On the way to the six Super Bowl championships, the New England Patriots have been convicted of using …
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Thomas wins play-off for Tournament of Champions victory
Thomas finished at 14 under after a four-under 69, which included seven birdies and three bogeys, having also dropped a shot at 16.
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American Justin Thomas claimed a second Tournament of Champions title. - Getty Images
Justin Thomas claimed a second Tournament of Champions title with a thrilling play-off victory on Sunday. The American birdied the third play-off hole in Kapalua, Hawaii to edge out Patrick Reed in windy conditions.
Thomas added to his 2017 triumph at the Tournament of Champions and moved onto 12 PGA Tour victories. It came after a poor finish to his final round in regulation, when he was forced to take a penalty on his way to a bogey at the last.
Reed produced a brilliant final round with a 66 that sent him into the play-off with Thomas and defending champion Xander Schauffele (70).
Thomas and Reed birdied the 18th at the first attempt, eliminating Schauffele, before battling to pars. With light fading, Thomas managed another birdie after a superb approach shot to close out his victory.
"For some reason I was supposed to win this week," he told the Golf Channel.
"I got very, very lucky to even have that putt. I got very fortunate, but I also stuck to my process and tried to stay positive.
"I just tried to tell myself there's a reason I'm still here and we've still got a chance to win and we were fortunate to do that."
Patrick Cantlay (68) finished outright fourth at 11 under, a shot ahead of Rickie Fowler (69) and Joaquin Niemann (70).
Reed impresses as Schauffele takes lead at Tournament of Champions
PGA Tour: Schauffele maintains lead at Tournament of Champions
Niemann grabs lead at Tournament of Champions
Thomas set to tee it up at first PGA Tour event of 2020
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कागज़ की क़ैद
January 3, 2020 / Sreenath Sreenivasan / 0 Comments
कागज़ पर खिंची सीधी लकीरें, सलाखों से कम नहीं
कैद हैं इस कारावास में न जाने कितनी कहानियाँ
सलाखें भी ऐसी कि आर-पार कोई सार ना दिखे
और पन्ना पलटें तो फिर कई सीधी लकीरें...
कई क़ैद नज़्म...कई अनकही कहानियां...
कोरे कागज़, कोरी किताबें, क़ैद कई प्रश्नों के प्रेत
कब छूटेंगे प्राण इनके, कब सींचेगा कल्पना के खेत?
इस सवाल से जूझते हुए तू
कभी उम्मीद में, कभी हताशा में
उन सलाखों के परे छिपे शब्दों की पुकार ढूंढे
सन्नाटे में दूर कहीं जो मद्धम सी लोरी सुनाई पड़े...
जब तलक तेरी सोच झांक कर आज़ादी को ढूंढे
जब छलक कर उफ़ान मारे अभिव्यक्ति की बूंदें
तब कागज़ और कलम की नोक में घर्षण होगा मंद सा
चुप्पी के ताले तोड़े बोलेगा मन मलंग सा
हिचक की हिचकी से बेहतर आखिर
शब्द और स्याही की सरिता
बह जा इस पावन धारा में
मुक्त कर हर कैद वो कविता
उठा कलम, रचते चला चल,
मुक्त कर हर क़ैद कहानी
जो स्वर्ग समाए हर सर्ग में,
अमर हो मानुष की वाणी...
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Finding an Equinox in Life on Solstice
December 22, 2019 / Sreenath Sreenivasan / 0 Comments
December 21. The eve of the solstice. A local celestial event that bathes earth in different hues of light, with peculiar views of the sun, no matter where you are on the planet.
As the tilt of northern pole, reaches its furthest extremity with respect to the earth’s annual pilgrimage around the sun, the Northern hemisphere, curled up in the windy winter, witnesses the shortest day of the year. At the same time, the south pole, leans closest to the sun, as the southern hemisphere saunters in summery delight, witnessing the longest day of the year, just a few days before a Christmas celebrated sans the celebratory snowfall.
And the closer you are to the poles, the more fascinating the spectacle. Beyond the Arctic Circle, the sun wouldn’t hover even for a moment in the sky, drenching the area in darkness, while within the Antarctic Circle, the sun would efface the night, as it suspends in the sky all through the 24 hours that make a day.
The gentle tilt of the earth gives us so much to celebrate – the gift of seasons, the trade winds, a breath-taking biodiversity and of course, seemingly unearthly events of solstices.
While a solstice is a fascinating earthly phenomenon that marks the extremes of the duration of daylight, the human conception of a day, its length and the value derived from it is rarely synchronous to the event. There are cultural and psychological influences at play that dictate our relationship with the duration and depth of what we now understand as a day.
In the sweep of advancing technology, our species has successfully conquered darkness with illumination. Culturally, we’ve moved beyond the local solar day, thanks to household electrification. Being a flick of a switch away from illumination past sundown, our days have become longer for sure.
However, as far as we have come from being dictated by nature beyond us, we are still tethered to our own human nature. On a psychological level, each human perceives the length of a day differently. It’s an experience as personal as a dream that nobody else is privy to. A day spent in good company or spent being meaningfully engaged, breezes past elegantly. But a day spend without purpose slithers painfully, adding undesired friction in our stride.
Evidently, a ‘long day’ at work is a phrase that’s being used far too often in our cultural parlance, part due to the wear-out, part in lament of a day divested of depth. Gone are the times when daylight was celebrated as an incantation for living life outdoors in the field and the nights were a hymn that decreed us to rest peacefully.
Most of us have lost the privilege of retiring from work as the sun retreats beyond the horizon. Global connectivity and economic metrics can dictate us to work as the sun rises and sets in a more prosperous part of the world, time zones apart.
Our days have come far beyond the solar day. Incandescence has bled into our earthly night as we forget the value of the most natural de-markers of dusk from dawn.
And along with that, we’ve lost the romance for the spirited rise of the sun. We have a hard time recollecting the last instance when we watched the parting winter sun paint splendid hues in the sky, with a dazzling Venus in its tow. Perhaps the further away we are from such natural invitations for contemplation, the more unsettled we become deep inside.
We live in a funny era, where after unsettling elegantly designed natural equilibria, we run around like chickens to find balance in life!
The workdays are becoming longer, so are the commutes, and sleep is drifting further away from being a continuum of placid repose.
The best thing about a good night’s sleep, just like a good day’s work, is how you only remember the beginning and the end, while all the magic that happens in between is effortless as a flamboyant stroke on the canvas by a painter in flow. A good day at work and a good night of sleep are precursors (and pre-requisites) of each other, in our daily cyclic dance. And more than duration, what matters most in either engagements, is depth.
Nowhere else is this profundity of engagement better exhibited during childhood days. The presence in each moment of wakefulness, in each moment at play is at its zenith. And the hours of sleep are as deep as they can be, in preparation for another day full of joy and zeal.
Perhaps what we need more than longevity in life, is the elegant passage of time, both in sleep and in wakefulness. And, as time passes elegantly, the notions of length of the day would matter little, for what would matter more is the completeness in our involvement in all states of our consciousness.
Then shall we find a balance, not a perennial solstice in our workdays where the days are always long, but an equinox, with profound presence throughout, both in sleep and in wakefulness, regardless of the position of the sun in the sky, regardless of the state of our consciousness.
Today is the shortest day of the year. Perhaps, for a change, it would be nice to give up control of the luminosity around us, and watch the sun paint a silhouette in the far horizon. If we choose to do so, the Venus shall burn brighter, in its retreat into the afterglow. While the length of the day today on 21 December, might be the shortest this year, the presence in the moment, as we pore the sky in wonder, shall be a worthy consolation.
एक दर्शन ऐसा भी !
अभी तो सवेरा हुए कुछ ही पल हुए थे
कि गुप्ता जी मंदिर की ऒर चढ़ावा लिए चल पड़े थे
दूर प्रांत से ज्ञानी बाबा आये थे नगर में
भक्तों का तांता लगा था मानो हर डगर में
दर्शन पाने को आतुर आये बाबा की पनाह में
थी कतार ऐसी लंबी पुराने मंदिर की राह में
पर इस मंगल अवसर पर गुप्ता जी ने देखा कुछ ऐसा
कि जैसे कामधेनु के बगल में खड़ा हो काला भैंसा !
गुप्ता जी ने देखा राह पर झाड़ू लगाता एक गरीब
बौखलाए सज्जन की मानो बाहर ही निकल आई जीभ
वो बोले,
सोच था होगा दिव्य मिलन, पर मिला ये झाडुवाला मलिन
इस कलमुहे को झाड़ू लगाना था क्या आज ही के दिन?
अपशगुन हाय अपशगुन, मेरी किस्मत ही है मारी
जो ढूंढता चला ब्रम्हा को और पल्ले पड़ी ये बीमारी
पावन इस अवसर का यह तो रायता फैला रहा है
जो झाड़ू लिए यह भिखारी धूल उड़ाता जा रहा है
इस तरह झाड़ू लगाने का भला कोई अर्थ है?
जो धूल तो कल फ़िर जमेगी, ये काम ही देखो व्यर्थ है !
अरे क्या दर्शन पाने का आखिर उचित है यह काल?
सोच बैठे गुप्ता जी रख कर मुँह पर रुमाल
फ़िर शंखनाद से प्रारंभ हुआ पावन सा प्रवचन
विचलित से शांत हुआ कुछ गुप्ता जी का मन
फ़िर घंटो तक बाबा बोले सभी दिव्य ग्रन्थों का सार
ब्रम्हा विष्णु महेश की लीलाएं अपरम्पार
ज्ञानी बाबा बोले
सैकड़ो बार यह सृष्टि बनी, और सैकड़ो बार नष्ट हुई
यह महिमा मण्डित प्रकृति भी धूल में ध्वस्त हुई
फ़िर उसी धूल से फूटे पुनः जीवन के यह नव अंकुर
फ़िर नारद बोले नारायण और छूटे संगीत के पहले सुर
और इसी तरह बारम्बार चलेगी सृष्टि की अद्भुत माया
यहां देवता भी सर्वनाश से मुक्त नहीं रह पाया
पर पुनः होगी रचना, होगा सृष्टि का नवसर्जन
तू काम में बस राम ढूँढ़, कर हर चिंता का विसर्जन
भावुक होकर गुप्ता जी ने कर तो दिया दंडवत प्रणाम
पर मन में शंका थी एक, भला पूछे कैसे सरेआम?
ख़ैर हिम्मत जुटा कर गुप्ता जी ने पूछा ही लिया
कि बाबाजी उत्पत्ति और विनाश का चक्र पल्ले पड़ता नहीं
जो सृष्टि का एक कण भी सर्वनाश से बचता नहीं
जो तांडव तले कुचलेगा सब तो क्यों रचा ब्रम्हा ने संसार
क्यों झेलते हैं ब्रम्हा बार बार, अपनी ही सृष्टि का संहार?
जो भस्म बनेगा आखिर ब्रम्हांड तो ब्रम्हा क्यों रचते हैं
क्यों बार बार इस व्यर्थ परिश्रम से छूटे नहीं बचते हैं?
मैं तो सोच बैठा था की देवताओं का भीषण है पराक्रम
पर देखे तो बनता है उनका जीवन बस है निरंतर श्रम
उत्पत्ति, जीवन और विनाश, ब्रम्हा, विष्णु और महेश
यह सृष्टि है इनकी माया, या इनके नसीब में लिखा है क्लेश
अचरज को मेरी कृपा कर सुलझा दो मेरे गुरूजन
एक उत्तर ऐसा दो कि बस शांत हो जाए विचलित मन
पर ज्ञानी बाबा ने धरा मौन, हर भक्त हुआ उठ खड़ा
प्रवचन हुआ पूरा पर गुप्ता जी के पल्ले कुछ ना पड़ा
घर जाते हुए उन्होंने सोचा
जो देवता की भी हर रचना है व्यर्थ आखिरकार
जो सृष्टि का विनाश होता है बार बार
ऐसे में किसी भी काम का कोई अर्थ है भला जी?
इस सवाल में उलझे चल पड़े चकराए गुप्ता जी
मंदिर की राह में था धूल और धुंध का माहौल
मुह पैट रुमाल धरे गुप्ता जी का खून गया खौल
वो बोले
इस झाड़ू वाले का दिखना ही था अपशगुन का पैग़ाम
जो दर्शन हुए तो भी ना मिला विचलित से मन को आराम
रोज़ धूल उड़ाता है सड़क की न जाने क्यों ये अनाड़ी
जो धूल कल फिर वहीं जमनी है, व्यर्थ है ये दिहाड़ी
और फिर हवा चली ज़ोर से, एक तूफान सा उठा पड़ा
गुंजित हुआ शंखनाद, मंदिर का घंटा बज पड़ा
फूलों की हुई वर्षा, वातावरण हुआ स्वर्ग सा सज्जित
रौशनी हुई दिव्य, धूल का बवंडर हुआ प्रज्ज्वलित
और जैसे ही धूल का बवंडर साफ हुआ
गुप्ता जी ने अपनी ऐनक संभाली
और सामने सफेद दाढ़ी में झाड़ू लिए ब्रम्हा जी खड़े थे !
A Frozen Conscience
October 8, 2019 / Sreenath Sreenivasan / 0 Comments
A tree is felled
The Earth shakes,
The man with the axe, Unmoved
On the subtle sense of smell
September 22, 2019 / Sreenath Sreenivasan / 2 Comments
The sense of smell.
Suffused silently in the ebb and flow of breath, such is its subtlety that we seldom take note of its presence. But as easy it is for us to imagine a person who can’t see, hear or speak, can we imagine a person who can’t smell? It almost feels as if such a person couldn’t be alive, for the loss of the sense of smell feels akin to loss of the breath itself.
The olfactory sense is perhaps one of the most visceral of all, for unlike the sense of sight that is related to the eye, or the sense of hearing associated with the ear, or the sense of touch felt by the skin, it doesn’t seem as easy to associate an organ with the sense of smell. While we do breathe in from the nose, there’s something mysterious about how we make sense of smell, a working far more complex that merely sniffing through our nostrils.
There is an evocative potential in every scent. Each lingering scent that we’ve experienced in our life is meticulously bookmarked in the brain as a memory. And what makes the memory so special is that the scent that brings it forth cannot be reproduced at will.
You can listen to an old song that you wish to hear, or look at a photograph you had clicked years ago, as you can still pull those out at will from a digital repository.
But how do you pull out the aroma that used to emanate from the kitchen at your grandmother’s place when you visited her at age 6?
Having said that, should you inadvertently find someone crushing coriander seeds in a mortar and pestle in the neighborhood, it could teleport you to your grandmother’s kitchen in an instant.
Such is the evocative energy !
While we humans do not have as keen a sense of smell as animals, it has been instrumental in our survival and perpetuation through the ages.
Odour plays a significant role in mating. Attraction has a lot to do with finding a partner with an agreeable and enchanting scent.
But there’s a role that an unpleasant odour play as well. Think of the miracle of nature, that any food that is unappetizing or toxic to our biology invariably emits an unpleasant odour, steering us clear from the idea of consuming it.
A person’s natural odour, until not too long ago, was an identity in itself. However, once humankind figured out the science of aromatics, the deep personality in the natural scent of a human has wafted away, and a dab, a drop, a drizzle, of a synthetic concoction has effaced our natural olfactory fingerprint.
Modernity has only made us feel insecure about our own musk. And in a world where cultural aspirations tend to funnel towards a white-collar office job, breaking into a sweat while at work has sadly, lost its charm.
Sweating is the body’s natural mechanism to cool-off, flush out toxins and bring a soothing relief from stressful physical work.
A moist layer of skin, a dripping brow, the sublime sweetness of a saline secretion, were all tangible testimonies to the effort we put into our work.
At some level, after a hard day at work, as the evening breeze brushed against a peasant’s skin, along with the heat it took away from the body, the sweat also took away all pent up stress.
In our modern office environment, where we are conditioned to the extent that even the air we breathe is but conditioned, and as we attribute more respect to cerebral work, the association of sweat with hard work has been reduced to a mere metaphor.
Now, as we’ve begun to associate sweat with drudgery, with no way to dissipate stress through our pores, have we not designed a drudgery for ourselves in our sterile work environment?
Should the proliferation of stress management workshops ever come as a surprise?
Sweat and body odour are seen (through the lens of modernity) as problems, which can be remedied if one is willing to tow the line of advertizing and spend money.
‘The scent of desire’, ‘The musk of Masculinity’ and if you’re willing to believe, the advertizers, they’ve even concocted ‘The scent of success’!
Granted some of us need respite from the pungent chemistry of certain pairs of underarms, but how does the noxious, repulsive blend of body odour and a synthetic fragrance help us in such a situation?
Perhaps a little hygiene and moderation in what we put into our bodies would help us all?
The culture of seeking synthetic scents isn’t merely the case of addressing the symptom and not the cause. It is emblematic a morbid mentality of thinking that our natural body odour is a problem in itself.
Can one’s natural identity become a problem? Good luck feeling secure if you’re riding on that train!
Natural scents are ethereal. But so are the subliminal traps of synthetic aroma and crafty advertising, that aren’t the easiest to circumvent in our current social culture.
But once purged from the platter of aromatics, you would realise that it’s far more romantic to get a whiff of your beloved’s pheromones, secreted solely to enchant you, than any synthetic scent on the shelf. That a baby deserves to smell like its subtle self and is better off without the generic scent of carcinogenic talcum powder. The freshness of a pair of clothes dried naturally in the sunlight far surpasses what a fragrant fabric conditioner can do. And your natural musk, in whatever health at the moment, is in fact, all yours.
In closing, I would like to share an interesting sensory discovery. The other day, I walked into a shop in the old city that sells attar, a traditional, steam-distilled perfume. One of the latest fragrances on the shelf was called ‘the smell of the earth’.
While it smelt surprisingly similar to the smell of the earth, the lingering aroma also left me wondering.
How far have we drifted away from the earth, to need to seek it’s aroma so desperately, albeit, in a packaged synthetic concoction?
We have progressed to an extent to have deciphered the science of smell.
But it’s one thing to smell like the earth,
And another to smell of it.
On choosing your pleasures wisely
September 6, 2019 / Sreenath Sreenivasan / 1 Comment
Nature has – as a provision for an evolutionary fillip- designed us to be a pleasure seeking species. It is our basic instinct to maximize pleasure and alleviate pain. From the joy in the warmth of an embrace, to the alluring magnetism of a baby’s smile, to the existentially satisfying act of procreation, nature has designed our experience of pleasure to meet its longing for itself, through our perennial pursuit for posterity.
Up until a few decades ago, our pleasures were few and far in between, and certainly, not accessible at will. To even get a bowl of french fries, one had to wait for the winter harvest. Think of the ubiquity of our starch laden indulgence in our tech-dictated age, where it is just a few taps away on the screen!
Technology has ushered in pleasures at a rate far beyond a human’s capacity to experience them. The brain, stimulated constantly by novel stimuli, seems to be in overdrive from the rush of dopamine and serotonin. The ease with which pleasures are available to us in today’s age also begs us to contemplate about where exactly pleasure morphs into peril, access into addiction. How many addictions have we sanitized to normalcy?
Have we, in seeking pleasure, forgotten to discern which pleasures are worth pursuing and which ones are best avoided?
Before we talk about discernment, let’s simplify the types of pleasures we go out to seek.
At the risk of sounding simplistic, I believe that broadly, there are two kinds of pleasures:
1. The Simple Pleasures
2. The Easy Pleasures
The simpler pleasures of life are, in most cases, accessible to one and all without discrimination. A simple pleasure of life is accessible in the following two ways.
A Simple Pleasure :
a. Accessible by a Deep Presence : Think of a calming wind caressing your skin, a field of sunflowers in full bloom, glancing your finger on a touch-me-not plant, or watching the luminous courtship dance of fireflies on a dark night. These are simple pleasures accessible to anyone who is mindfully present in the moment.
b. Accessible by a Deep Perseverance : Think of the time when you created something new, a demanding pursuit that was awarded with the simple pleasure of a smile that stems from deep within, on realizing the beauty of what you’ve created. It could be a pot, a play, a sketch, a symphony, a code or a caramel cookie. Manifesting anew gives joy abound.
However, we are confronted with another kind of pleasure in today’s day and age. The Easier Pleasure.
The Easier Pleasures are :
a. Accessible as Cheap-Thrills : (vices, addictions, passive digital entertainment, sexual self-gratification, pornography)
b. Accessible as Lifestyle Frills : (Consumption borne out of wants and not needs, individualism to the point of corruption of the longing for fraternity, the culture of seeking identity from objects)
How does one discern between the two types of pleasures?
There’s a straightforward test to know the difference between a simple pleasure and an easy pleasure. A simple pleasure is borne out of creation. It could be the pleasure one gets from creating something or in marveling in being able to experience what someone else/ nature has created.
An easier pleasure is borne out of consumption. Through most of human history, the easier pleasure was accessible only to a select few. But with worldwide access to the internet, the easier pleasures have become accessible to much of our generation.
What if I were to suggest that the quality of your life is a function of the choice you make when confronted with the promise of experiencing pleasure?
While you have been designed to be a pleasure seeking being, and the body doesn’t discern a detrimental pleasure from a favorable one (it fires up the same happy hormones in either case!), the responsibility of making a wise choice rests on your own mind.
The more lasting pleasures are the ones that have been earned through perseverance, or through a solemn presence in the unfolding moment – the simpler pleasures that one is more likely to reminisce about around a warm fire-place on a winter evening.
Creating something is perhaps the most demanding pleasure of them all that calls for a devotion that is absolute. But it is a much more character building than the pleasure that comes from the effortlessly accessible act of crude consumption.
The prospect of a meaningful life rests on how well you are able to navigate the pleasure paradigm. While the easier, short-term pleasures are easy to access, they seldom qualify as prized nostalgia, nor do they chisel your character to reveal a more glorious manifestation of your self.
Steering our pleasure-seeking self in the direction that asks for presence and perseverance is the prudent choice.
And when in a dilemma in choosing between the promise of two pleasures, ask yourself which one of the two is an easier pleasure and which one is the simpler pleasure. Once you can discern that, set sail to the winds of the latter.
For wisdom lay in choosing your pleasures wisely.
On finding purpose in life
August 26, 2019 / Sreenath Sreenivasan / 2 Comments
Imagine a stone age ancestor staring at a luminous galactic spiral in the vistas of the night sky. At some moment, while still years away from development of language, a higher consciousness was awakened in his being, as he asked himself a question that has befuddled the minds of every descendant ever since.
‘What am I here for?’
‘Does life really have any purpose?’
Simple as the question seems, even after all these years, humankind is yet to find a definitive answer to it.
We have unraveled many mysteries of the distant galaxies that our hominid ancestors were fascinated by. But even to this day, as we stare through a telescope at the rings of Saturn, or at a nebulous galaxy cluster lights years away, the same question resurfaces, as if the spectacle of the grandeur of the cosmos serves as a precursor to this elementary existential inquiry.
At this very moment, while a majority of humans that are alive are trying to find the answers to the meaning of existence in their own ways, there is a section of the demographic that exists so deeply in the present that the thought of finding a reason for existence does not ever occur.
Kids have never asked this question!
But the moment they begin to ask this question, they are beyond the cusp of childhood. Most of us reading this are past that phase. And in moments of solitude, especially when confronted with a thing of beauty, or the melancholy that accompanies the realization of our finitude, do we dwell on our existential relevance.
‘Why am I here?’
In the grand scheme of things, most of us do not have an answer to that question.
But should that be a reason to not seek?
Perhaps a change in perspective can come to the rescue.
While in the grand design of the universe, baffled by the perspective of the telescope, as you find yourself to be clueless about the reason for your existence, shift your gaze , re-focus and look at the world through the lens of your eyes, at the immediate world that surrounds you.
Shift your focus from the timelessness of the cosmos to this very fraction of the continuum of time.
In that moment, ask yourself the same question.
More often than not, you will find a convincing answer. Each living moment, you have a reason to do something. A motivation drives you to be alive and be involved in the world around you.
You could be at home, waiting for a loved one, or chasing your cat around the room to feed her, or wondering about your next work of art. You could be crying because you’ve not come to terms with a loss, or smiling because you heard from a long lost friend, you could be humming your favorite tune, be deeply engrossed in the work that you love best or snuggled up on your couch doing absolutely nothing.
In each of these instances, at the heart of the moment, you find a reason to exist.
Look around and ask yourself,
What am I here for?
Perhaps to be of help, to share your labor, to make someone’s day, to serve with devotion, or to take care of someone you love, perhaps your own self?
Once you reconcile with the unfathomable vastness and the vastness of the unfathomable, and focus on what brings meaning to the present moment, what role you must play in the little world around you, your heart will be reassured with an abiding sense of purpose.
Perhaps true meaning dwells in these little crevices of time, where you must do every little thing you do, with a lot of love.
But don’t shy away from the telescope just yet. For in that moment, as the lenses gather starlight, you are there to be fascinated, just like the stone age ancestor, transfixed by the cyclopean canvas of the cosmos.
कर्म और फ़ल
आख़िर फल मुझे क्यूँ मिलता नही
ऐसा रहा हरदम तुम्हारा रवैय्या
पर जो धक्का तुम लगाओ ना सही
तो भला क्या काम आएगा पहिया?
प्रतिभा है तुम्हे भेंट में मिली
पर मेहनत करना है तुम्हारी ज़िम्मेदारी
जो सत्य, सत्त्व और समर्पण मिले
तो साकार होंगी कोशिशें सारी
जो दीप भले तेल से छलके
भीनी सी हो सूत की बाती
जो मन में ज्वाला न जागे
तो कैसे रोशन हो दुनिया सारी?
कस लो कमर, करो तुम परिश्रम
अब पीछे छोड़ो तमस का घेरा
जब कसर रहे न कोई कम
तब ना रहेगा दिया तले अंधेरा
अब उठो और उठाओ तुम्हारा शस्त्र
कलम हो, कुल्हाड़ी हो या हो सितार
बलिदान से संवरेगा हर नक्षत्र
आखिर कर्म से ही होगी तुम्हारी नैय्या पार।
Entropy as a guide to making better choices in Life
Life is full of situations where we must make a choice. And it is the choices that determine the future course of our journey.
Each choice can affect the entropy of the existing situation in two ways. It can either
A) Conserve order
B) Disrupt order
Consider the example of a traffic signal. One can either follow the rules as prescribed , conserve order and ensure the smooth functioning of a system that is designed to be efficient and safe as long as the rules are adhered to.
Or, one can act in self interest, try to cut corners and disrupt the system. In this case though, breaking the order comes at the cost of the overall safety and efficiency of the system. The selfish behavior of breaking order comes at the cost of ease and well being of everyone else. Perhaps it is in the best interest of everyone to conserve order in this case.
But it is not imperative to conserve order at all times. Ossified ideologies, broken systems, dated models of education are meant to be disrupted. The disruption is a form of non- conformity that ushers in innovation.
Preserving order in such a case is detrimental to the progress of every stakeholder. If each of us remains selfish and chooses conformity over creativity, a dated system prevails at the cost of the possibility of a better future.
But if one is driven by the cause of a greater good and chooses to disrupt the order, a revolution whose time has come may find momentum.
Perhaps it makes better sense to take decisions based on whether your choices and actions are directed to bring a greater good in the community.
The decision that ensures the well-being of all is the best choice, whether it dictates to preserve order or to disrupt it.
Wisdom lay in recognizing when you are supposed to conserve order and when to create chaos, and acting or not acting, in the greater interest.
Rescued by a river
May 16, 2019 / Sreenath Sreenivasan / 0 Comments
On the mighty plains, under the setting sun,
There flowed a mighty river
On its silty banks, there sat a lost man,
Much did he cry and quiver.
Through snuffles and shivers, he
gathered his voice, a few words he spun
To mother river, thus spoke, a beaten farmer son.
In utter grief, he partook in a dip, and the river knew of his tears
To allay her son of all his fears, the river whispered in his ears.
When met with rocks of refusal, my child,
Do not stop, and submit to surrender
Like a gushing river in monsoon swell,
With a lovely grace, charge and meander.
But mother, when will it end, this dreadful season of sorrow?
Without a rain, why should I sow, hope for tomorrow?
Trust the gradient of life, flow, do not ask for a reason why
Believe and be true to your spirit, surely shall you thrive
And even if the farmland is parched, desolate, run dry
The clouds are riding on the wind, wait as they arrive.
How long could I wait for, it has been too long a while
When the hand that feeds the world sleeps hungry, life seems all too futile.
To deem life futile is but futile my son, do not submit to a passive revolt
Ever wondered why I drain my fresh water in an ocean full of salt?
My end may seem tragic, but my life is magic, despite tides high or low
For the meaning of life is not in the end, but in all the life I create as I flow.
So, arm yourself with a sickle, and set out on your challenging quest
When fortune finds you working hard, shall you reap a bountiful harvest
Gather all your courage my son, despite darkness however deep
Arise, awake and march on, there is no time for you to weep
You have a world to feed after all, and promises plenty to keep
Set out in the field and make a change, even a little step is a giant leap.
The clouds heard their conversation, and together did they ply
To congregate and condense, to become a river in the sky
And thus the elements conspired with nature at the helm
As the first drop of rain and the last teardrop of the farmer, fell in tandem
And amid the drizzle, in ecstasy, the farmer ran to his farm
And the wise old river, blessed her child, and flowed on with a loving charm…
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Editors' ChoiceNanotechnology
Tumor-hunting nanorobots
Keyue Shen
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Email: keyue.shen{at}usc.edu
Science Translational Medicine 28 Feb 2018:
Vol. 10, Issue 430, eaas8968
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aas8968
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Email: keyue.shen@usc.edu
For correspondence: keyue.shen@usc.edu
A DNA nanorobot kills tumors by blocking the blood supply.
Solid tumors often develop an abnormal, excessive vasculature to meet the demand for nutrients and oxygen for cancer cell survival and growth. Blocking tumor vasculature is thus an attractive therapeutic strategy to starve tumor cells. However, it is critical that such a therapy could distinguish and block tumor blood vessels without affecting those in healthy tissues. Here, Li et al. offer a solution with a “smart,” tumor-hunting nanorobot design that uses DNA origami and encapsulated thrombin. The DNA robots selectively trigger intravascular thrombosis (blood clotting) in tumors, resulting in necrosis and inhibition of tumor growth in mouse models.
The authors designed a nanorobot consisting of a DNA origami nanotube self-assembled from a rectangular DNA origami sheet, with thrombin molecules attached and shielded on the inner side. The nanotube is “zipped” with fastener strands containing DNA aptamers that recognize nucleolin proteins selectively expressed by tumor vasculature. Upon reaching the target, the nanotube is “unzipped” back to a sheet to expose thrombin molecules, which induce blood coagulation. The researchers first characterized the structure and configuration of the thrombin-functionalized nanorobots. They confirmed the catalytic activity of thrombin in the nanorobot, the closed and open states of the nanorobot, and the recognition of cell-surface nucleolin by the fastener strands. The authors then showed that the fasteners could dissociate upon binding to recombinant or endothelial-expressed nucleolin, which in turn exposed the encapsulated thrombin within the nanorobots to cause blood coagulation. Nanorobots injected into tumor-bearing mice accumulated in tumor vasculature but were cleared from normal organs. They further demonstrated advanced thrombosis in tumor vessels and inhibition of tumor growth in mouse models of breast cancer, melanoma, lung, and ovarian cancer. The authors evaluated the safety of the nanorobot system and showed there was no cytotoxicity in cell cultures, nor observable thrombi in the cerebral microcirculation or evidence of an inflammatory immune response in mice. Last, the safety of nanorobots was confirmed in Bama miniature pigs, which resemble human anatomy and physiology.
Overall, Li et al. demonstrated that the DNA nanorobot system can achieve targeted delivery of therapeutic thrombin in tumor blood vessels, blocking tumor blood supply and inhibiting tumor growth without safety concerns. The technology has the potential to treat not only primary tumors but also metastases. However, although the nanorobot-treated tumor-bearing animals in the study showed improved survival, they still succumbed to the cancer—which makes it necessary to explore combinatorial options to further improve the efficacy.
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, A DNA nanorobot functions as a cancer therapeutic in response to a molecular trigger in vivo. Nat. Biotechnol. 10.1038/nbt.4071 (2018).
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Filmmaker Name: Rachel Lears, Martín Ubillos
Birds of Passage presents a lyrical journey through the everyday lives of two young Uruguayan songwriters. Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capital, leaving behind their respective hometowns on the borders of Brazil and Argentina. After many years of composing songs that reflect their origins, both decide to explore new horizons and each seeks to fulfill the dream of recording an album.
While Yisela struggles to reconcile the emerging possibilities of a career in Uruguay with her plans to move to Argentina, Ernesto confronts personal conflicts that threaten to sabotage his creative passion. The film fuses the arts of documentary film and music, interweaving the songs and stories of these two young composers. With striking vérité cinematography and an unforgettable soundtrack, Birds of Passage explores the challenges of being a young artist and the art of searching, inside and outside oneself.
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Certificate of Outstanding Achievement in International Feature Film, Williamsburg Int'l Film Festival, 2011
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Sydney Latin American Film Festival, Australia, 2010
Cinemaissi Festival of Latin American Cinema, Finland, 2010
Atlantic City International Film and Music Festival, 2010
National television broadcast in Brazil on Canal Futura, 2010
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Nominee to head NSA, Cyber Command: ‘Attacks must come with a consequence’
By Jon Dougherty • March 2, 2018
Foreign Intelligence
Intelligence Reporting
Tagged Cyber Command, cyberattacks, North Korea, NSA, Russia
Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the nominee to be the next commander of Cyber Command and director of the NSA, told the Senate Armed Services Committee 1 March in prepared remarks that the U.S. must be prepared to “impose costs” on any power that launches cyberattacks.
The U.S. has bolstered its ability to integrate cyber into traditional military operations but, Nakasone said, so have potential adversaries.
In order to combat and deter future cyber threats, Nakasone told the Senate panel that the U.S. needs to impose costs on adversaries to “ensure mission success by persistent delivery of cyberspace effects in defense of our Nation and in support of our combat forces.”
In testimony before the Senate panel earlier this week outgoing NSA and Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers said Russian President Vladimir Putin has “come to the conclusion that there’s little price to pay and that therefore, ‘I can continue this activity.'”
Nakasone said currently U.S. adversaries do not fear a response for cyber activity. However, it listed ways to change that calculus:
– a strategy and doctrine for how the U.S. operates, which will also send a message to adversaries;
– establishing norms so adversaries and bad actors can’t fill the international void and lastly; and
– not to think of cyber as only a cyber response. [source]
Analysis: The previous administration was criticized often for failing to take substantive action against those who launched cyberattacks against the U.S. and U.S. companies — including Russia and North Korea. Nakasone has identified that shortcoming; Rogers confirmed it. Will the Trump administration’s strategy change? You have to think that is likely given that Nakasone — an obvious advocate for cyber response — was nominated by the president to head Cyber Command.
Jon Dougherty
Jon E. Dougherty is a political, foreign policy and national security analyst and reporter with nearly 30 years of experience in both fields. A U.S. Army veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, he holds BA in Political Science from Ashford University and an MA in National Security Studies/Intelligence Analysis from American Military University.
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Tag Archives: Ale and Hearty
Arts, Books and Postcards, Community Arts, Events, Heritage, Plays and musicals
Heritage Open Days – Brighton
26th August 2016 Kev
Find out more about our series of free Heritage Open Days events in Brighton from 8th-11th September:
Heritage Open Days – Brighton (Free)
Thursday 8th September:
A creatively curated daytime event, with workshops, exhibitions, talks, and a free cafe.
The event taking place on Thursday 8th September 1-5pm 2016 is part of national Heritage Open Days events. During this special drop-in event, Fabrica opens its doors to the public for an afternoon of stimulating and engaging activities and exhibits. This free event includes creative workshops, heritage activities and screenings.
Book your free place here
Friday 9th September:
Dr Geoffrey Mead will lead an early evening tour for The Boys on the Plaque project, looking at the stories from soldiers on a WWI memorial plaque (based at Fabrica gallery), who with connections to this area of the city.
The tour runs from 6-7.30pm and starts from Fabrica gallery, 40 Duke Street, Brighton BN1 1AG. The event is free but booking is necessary here.
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Friday 9th & Saturday 10th September:
Ale and Hearty – brewing & ale exhibition
Friday 9th from 1-7pm & Saturday 10th from 1-5pm
An exhibition specially for Heritage Open Days which focuses on the history of brewing in Lewes, East Sussex and its related industrial and agricultural links from the 18th Century to the present day, a period of some 200 years. The exhibition looks at working life in relation to Breweries, agricultural workers and rural life and trades.
A project in partnership with Harveys Brewery.
Strike a Light, in partnership with Brighton & Hove Library and Information Service, and Fabrica showcases its WWI themed project The Orange Lilies – Brighton and Hove Soldiers in the Somme.
The project focuses the city’s legacy of the Somme and a significant event on the eve of this (where huge numbers of Brighton soldiers fell), The Battle of Boar’s Head (also known as The Day that Sussex Died), as a key part of WWI, and its subsequent impact on Brighton and Hove.
Come along and find out more about this epic piece of local history, and find out ways to get involved with the project, learn about film making and gain research skills.
These are funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Ale and Hearty Exhibition for Heritage Open Days
Ale and Hearty Exhibition – Brighton
Strike a Light hosts an exhibiton event for Heritage Open Days on Friday 9th September 1-7pm & Saturday 1-5pm
Mezzanine Level, 8 Marshalls Row, Open Market, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, BN1 4JU
An exhibition specially for Heritage Open Days which focuses on the history of brewing in Lewes, East Sussex and its related industrial and agricultural links from the 18th Century to the present day, a period of some 200 years. The exhibition looks at Lewes’s working life in relation to Breweries, agricultural workers and rural life and trades. It also links in with abstinence and religious culture locally at the time, as well as a clear relation between trades and society through social clubs.
The exhibition runs along these thematic lines –
Breweries in decline
Hops and songs
old breweries
Revival of micro breweries
Friday 9 September: 12-7pm
Saturday 10 September: 1-5pm
There is an accessible lift by the stairs to the Mezzanine level and doors upstairs are wheelchair accessible.
Inside Brighton’s Open Market (off London Road) on the top Mezzanine Level. Access lift beside stairs to the Mezzanine level
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Books and Postcards, Heritage
Brighton Breweries of note
10th February 2016 Kev
Pleased to see two Brighton landmarks in this list of old breweries of note in the UK just published in the Built to Brew document from Historic England. This links in nicely with our Ale and Hearty project from 2014, although a shame that Harveys Brewery in Lewes wasn’t mentioned.
The two Brighton ones depicted are the old brewery on Black Lion Street, Brighton and a long gone one we’d never even heard of in old Portslade village.
The Black Lion Brewery in Brighton is said to date from the mid 16th century, although the buildings we see in this late 1960s view are probably early 18th century. Door openings on first and second floors allowed brewing materials to be hoisted up and into the brewery. It was once owned by Flemish refugee Deryk Carver who was burnt at the stake in Lewes in 1555 for refusing to recant his Protestantism. He was put in a barrel before his execution in order to mock the brewing profession. The Black Lion was rebuilt as a facsimile in 1974, but the cellars beneath, which may be 16th century, still exist.
The middle of the 19th century was a crucial period for the development of brewery architecture. With the introduction of steam power around the start of the 19th century came the professional brewery engineers who rapidly rose to dominate the field of brewery design and construction. One such practice was Scammell and Colyer who designed the Portslade Brewery in Brighton for Dudney & Sons in 1881. The most distinctive feature is its tall, detached, decorative chimney with a massive base sporting the company logo entwined with barley stalks and bunches of hops.
Read more about beer and breweries in Built to Brew: The history and heritage of the brewery, written by architectural historian Lynn Pearson and published by Historic England in 2014.
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Arts, Events
New Strike a Light Associates
18th November 2015 Kev
Strike a Light hosts a dedicated group of related Associates who include specialists in an extensive range of related professional areas from Production Management to Arts Production to Teaching, and Administration.
This way of working means that we are flexible and adaptable, creating a bespoke team for each project. This has led us to a more efficient and economical way of working. We are a practical, friendly, and approachable team – we care about what we do and we it shows!
We’re pleased to announce our new Associates for Strike a Light:
Associates:
Dr Sam Carroll managed Strike a Light’s Ale and Hearty project from August 2013 to January 2014 and also took on the role of Heritage and Education Resource Facilitator, producing the learning resource and booklet “Ale Tales”.
Sam specialises in Life History Research with a wide range of experience in both the academic and community arenas across many research projects as trainer, tutor, project worker, project manager, student mentor and consultant. She has taught on post-graduate programmes at the University of Sussex and open courses at the Mass Observation Archive. She is the Community Heritage Researcher for the AHRC funded Gateways to the First World War Engagement Centre (University of Kent) and the Administrator for the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories (University of Brighton).
Clare Hankinson has collaborated with Strike a Light on creative heritage projects in Brighton since 2010 as event organiser, project coordinator, and fundraiser. She is currently the Audience Development Manager – Older People for Fabrica, Brighton to engage older people with contemporary art.
Through this and her parallel Project Manager role, she works with artists and facilitators to explore different ways of meeting and engaging audiences, through exhibitions and events at Fabrica, other arts venues and in the community. She is also a freelancer and artist in her own right and runs her own creative practice in a studio at Phoenix Brighton.
Cath Tajima-Powell worked most recently on Strike a Light’s Ale and Hearty Heritage Lottery Funded project. She has a wide base of experience working in accessible heritage events and community projects as well as art festivals and creative industries.
Direct engagement and good communication are the keystones for her contribution on many successful projects such as Coastal Currents Arts Festival, Stade Development, Ale and Hearty, the Martlett (HLF projects), and Heritage Open Days. As founder of a popular local lifestyle magazine and brand she also has excellent marketing and fundraising skills.
Luan Blake has worked with freelancers from Strike a Light in various capacities. She is currently working on her new large scale project called Machine Women, drawing out theunheard voices and experiences of female factory workers and machinists in the UK. The project includes research, oral testimonies, clog dancing, film, installation and performance.
Luan is a performance practitioner, and was the Artistic Director of Ragroof Theatre from 2000-2012 (www.ragrooftheatre.co.uk). She led Ragroof to deliver many successful touring, heritage and participatory theatre projects in the South-East, the UK and internationally. Luan is also a freelance teacher, project manager, and volunteer co-ordinator, working within the arts and heritage sector.
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Arts, Community Arts, Events, Heritage
Ale and Hearty – final celebration event
2nd January 2014 Kev
Celebration times c’mon!
We’re looking forward to hosting our final celebration event for the Ale and Hearty project in Lewes, East Sussex on Saturday 18th January.
This will be a culmination of our 12 month Heritage Lottery funded project and will showcase our exhibition, postcards, book about the heritage and education around this theme, as well as a panel of speakers including Miles Jenner – the master brewer of Harveys Brewery, the Revd Godfrey Broster – brewing chaplain at Rectory Ales, David Muggleton – Editor of the Quaffer and the noted singer and folklorist John Copper. We are lucky to have them all appearing at our event.
We will also have ale, food, activities and all manner of exciting things to be explored.
The event is free (though donations would be gratefully received to support the work of the hosting organisation Strike a Light), however it is a bookable event, so should you wish to attend this day, then please email aleandheartylewes@gmail.com to book your free .
Image with kind permission of the Hastings Reference Library
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Platform retirement and end of support for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 retirement
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*1 Environmental contribution: Volume of CO2 emissions reduction contributed by society’s use of the OMRON Group’s energy generation and energy saving products and services.
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OMRON strives to offer products and services beneficial to the global environment. The aim is to make the reduction in environmental impact through its products and services greater than the environmental burden caused by its production activities. In this way, OMRON will work to expand the company’s environmental contribution in order to help lessen environmental impact in a more efficient manner.
FY2018 Overview
In fiscal 2018, OMRON achieved an environmental contribution amounting to 1,055 thousand tons of CO2. This shows OMRON’s significant contribution to reducing environmental impact through its business activities. It also means that OMRON’s environmental contribution was far greater than the total CO2 emissions from OMRON Group production sites worldwide (193 thousand tons of CO2) for seeven consecutive years.
Environmental Contribution by Products and Services
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At OMRON, the degree of environmental contribution is accounted from direct effects of the products themselves, and indirect effects through the use of products or services.
Reduction in CO2 emissions by improved energy-saving performance of an OMRON product compared to a reference product.
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Energy-saving effect (W/units) × Operation time (hours/year) × Average number of years in use × CO2 emission factor × Number of units sold in a year
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Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research/ creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art
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Robot Ludens
Julia Ghorayeb Zamboni
The present research is an artistic investigation of machines as players. Even though machines cannot play in the same terms as humans, they can make the audience believe they can, trough role-play. When machines play, the viewers often perceive them as living and conscious entities, while simultaneously aware that these lifelike features are not real, and that machines are only ‘pretending’ to be living beings. The name of the piece, Robot Ludens, is a reference to the book Homo Ludens, a Study of the Play-Element in Culture, written in 1938 by J. Huizinga, which was the first book extensively dedicated to the study of the activity of play. In this work, other than emphasizing the notion of life in machines, we discuss how death could be played by devices that have never been alive. It presents a diptych with two scenes: machine playing alive, and machines playing dead, which are presented side by side. The work juxtaposes two pairs of spider-like robots and 27″ monitors. The two screens are placed horizontally on top of a table, each hosting a small spider-like robot. The two monitors display the same background image, which depicts the corner of a room, where a 2D character moves around. The virtual characters represent spider’s shadows that walk around and get distorted in the walls. These shadows interact with the robot through the touchscreen interface in the two panels. In one of the panels, the robot is playing alive and walking in an area of the monitor that represents the “floor” of the virtual world. This robot engages with the virtual shadow, which moves around playfully trying to catch the robot. In the second panel, the monitor displays the same virtual environment as in the first, except that it is rotated by 180 degrees. The robot is turned off and lies on its back “playing dead” while its shadow is slowly changing its outline around the inert machines.
The project has been presented at ZKM Open Codes.
Sponsored by Hexagram. ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Dr. Bill Vorn, Dr. Luis Rodrigues and HYCONS lab, Dr. Mia Consalvo, Gavin Kenneally and CAPES
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Michael Di Perna- Robot control, robot-computer interaction, computers synchronization
Disrael Camargo - Processing environment (images generation)
Stephen Menzies–Animation of shadow’s sprites
Mailis Rodrigues–Transformation of sprites into grid Robot
Cut- Oriented the selection of robots
Natasha Vesper-Register of the work with photos and videos
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Nelly Furtado Premieres “Parking Lot”
Filed Under:Dance, Music Video, nelly furtado, new music, surreal, vibe it out, video premiere
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Nelly Furtado claims “we ain’t doing nothing,” in her new song “Parking Lot,” but her video suggests otherwise.
Wearing a hot pink jacket and leopard pants, Furtado struts around in a parking lot packed with customized Mini Coopers and onlookers. Furtado took to Twitter and shared her favorite car from the video.
My favorite minicooper was the one wrapped with post it notes enjoy the New video for #PARKINGLOT vevo.ly/PB2YUk
— Nelly Furtado (@NellyFurtado) September 18, 2012
It doesn’t take long before Nelly starts dancing in this video, but this isn’t your typical dance. Sticking with the parking lot theme, Furtado and the onlookers dance with their arms out like they are each driving cars while she sang, “Bring your car to the parking lot and ride all night till you get a spot.”
Directed by Ray Kay, who also directed Britney Spears’ “Til the Word Ends” and Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” Furtado and her crew definitely found plenty of parking spots to make this video.
In the behind the scenes cut, Furtado talked about the making of this video. “We vibed it out in front of the chain-link fence and then we got on top of the car for some more jamming out,” she said.
This video is packed with jamming, and although Nelly credits her dancers for making this video a success, she also took a moment to show off cars that weren’t as noticeable in the video, including one covered in faux-fur, Christmas lights, one that was inspired by Barbie and another that looked like a baby tiger.
“This is video is going to have some special effects,” said Furtado. “We’re going to have some real interesting, cute creations with headlights. It’s going to be kind of surreal.”
Was it surreal for you? Watch the full video now.
-Ashley Quadros, 100.5 NOW/Sacramento
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Tasmanian Magic Project
The Tasmanian Magic Project is the first of its kind in the world and provides a template for similar surveys both in Australia and overseas. The Project is open to participation and/or affiliation with University schools and departments tasmagic.wordpress.com
The Hidden Hexafoils: The Tasmanian Magic Project
August 26, 2019 Tasmanian Magic ProjectFeature Article, Issue Fifty One, Note, The Historical Treasury
From https://tasmagic.wordpress.com/:
You can learn more by contacting Dr Ian Evan via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TasmanianMagicProject/
The Project has been established to find and record evidence of the material culture of magic in the State during the nineteenth century.
Magic left no contemporary documentary record but its role in the lives of Tasmanians is evident in the evil-averting (apotropaic) marks on their houses and other structures and in objects concealed in buildings. Concealed objects including shoes and garments have been found in houses and other buildings in many locations throughout Tasmania.
Apotropaic marks have been found at Shene, Pontville, at Woodbury, Antill Ponds, at Redlands, Plenty, in the Courthouse at Richmond, at the former Rose and Crown Inn at Lewisham, at Dysart and Lonsdale at Kempton, and at Narynna, Battery Point, Hobart.
Marks found to date include hexafoils, merels, a consecration cross, concentric circles and burn marks. Numerous caches of concealed shoes and other objects have been found throughout Tasmania. The most notable discovery, that of 39 concealed shoes and a variety of other objects, occurred at Woodbury, north of Oatlands.
The use of magic appears to have been an aspect of cultural practices brought from England by settlers, convicts, the military, and members of the Colonial administration. The fear of attacks by escaped convicts, bushrangers and Indigenous Australians may have played a part in the use of protective magic.
The Project’s survey of Tasmania is expected to produce results that will be applicable Australia-wide and of international significance. Several international scholars with expertise in this field have expressed their support for the Tasmanian Magic Project. These include Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol and Professor Owen Davies of the University of Hertfordshire. The Project has the endorsement of the Government of Tasmania.
The Tasmanian Magic Project is the first of its kind in the world and will provide a template for similar surveys both in Australia and overseas. The Project is open to participation and/or affiliation with University schools and departments. Places will be available for senior students in history, archaeology, architecture or anthropology.
The Project will be based near Oatlands in the Midlands and will carry out a survey of historic houses and associated outbuildings in areas between Hobart and Launceston. Teams of researchers will visit houses by arrangement with their owners. Houses and outbuildings will be carefully examined and any identified magic marks will be photographed and recorded.
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These Are the World's 10 Most Youthful Cities
By Jack Linshi
New York City is the most popular city for people ages 15 to 29, according to a survey published Thursday.
The Toronto-based YouthfulCities surveys thousands of young people each year about various city-specific topics, including culture, employment, sports, and produces this ranking of the world’s most youthful cities.
“The word youthful is used to describe attributes of youth and it is a universally positive concept,” including connectivity, openness and inventiveness, according to the project’s mission statement.
New York City, thanks to its strong scores in the arts, climbed to the top spot from No. 3 last year. Toronto, which took the crown in the 2014 list, slid this year to No. 6.
Here are the top 10 most youthful cities:
See the full list of 55 cities here.
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Honolulu, Hawaii Best Place for Lifelong Health The heavenly climate helps, but the key to well-being here also includes enviable health care and a rich cultural tradition of looking out for one another.
Colin Anderson—Blend Images/Corbis
San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. Best Place for Eating Right. The "farm to table" movement began here. The region's bounty of produce and year-round growing season make eating healthy—and local—a natural.
Burlington, Vt. Best Place for Raising Healthy Kids This New England city offers great schools, excellent pediatric care, loads of culture and limitless options for healthy outdoor fun all year long.
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Silicon Valley, Calif. Best Place for Workplace Wellness With treadmill desks, meetings on bikes, time off for creativity, and gobs of organic food, tech titans are reinventing how to stay healthy on the job.
Jim Wilson—The New York Times/Redux
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. Best Place for Aging Well Yes, it can be cold. But with a plethora of stimulating activities and a robust web of support, the Twin Cities prove that growing old doesn't mean slowing down.
Denver and Boulder, Colo. Best Place for Keeping Fit The urge to get outside and get moving is contagious in these Rocky Mountain cities, where physical challenge is built into the landscape.
Celin Serbo—Aurora Photos/Corbis
Plano, Texas Best Place for Staying Safe Once a rural outpost, this booming, diverse city has kept its small-town vibe, thanks in part to a police force and community that knows how to work together.
Misty Keasler—Redux for TIME
Portland, Ore. Best Place for a Healthy Environment Small, walkable neighborhoods, 300 miles of bike paths, and urban policies that foster active living and sustainability make for one clean, green city.
Boston, Mass. Best Place for Health Care This history-rich city is home to some of the nation's most advanced medical institutions and policies that help ensure that quality care is available to all.
K.C. Cohen—Courtesy of Boston Children's Hospital
Provo and Orem, Utah Best Place for Spiritual Well-Being A stunning Rocky Mountain backdrop and a tight-knit population that lives its faith contribute not only to this region's serenity but also to lower rates of disease.
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Could an ‘Evil Twin’ Trick Your iPhone’s Facial Recognition?
By Aric Jenkins
The iPhone X made its highly-anticipated debut Tuesday at Apple’s keynote event and one of its standout features is what the company calls Face ID. Gone is the fingerprint-required Touch ID, and in is a facial recognition software that allows users to unlock the phone, authenticate downloads and make purchases with Apple Pay. Naturally, the question on everyone’s mind is: can this technology be hacked?
Apple insists Face ID, which maps its user’s mug with 30,000 invisible dots within its so-called TrueDepth camera, is secure and stores data locally on the phone — which should prevent hackers from being able to breach information from a larger database. But what if it wasn’t a remote cybercriminal trying to access your phone from a distance but rather someone much closer like, say, a family member? Like a twin.
“Could an identical twin trick the machine? I suppose the answer is yes,” said Mike Shultz, founder and CEO of Cybernance, an Austin-based cyber risk management firm.
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“I think a twin could be a possible problem if you were truly an identical twin,” added Chris Dore, an attorney at Edelson PC who specializes in consumer technology and privacy issues.
Both were quick to point out that for a twin to pick up their sibling’s phone and unlock it, they would have to possess a striking similarity to their sibling because Apple’s Face ID promises to analyze its subjects down to the fine details. While a user can grow a beard, get a haircut or put on a hat and still be able to access their device, according to Apple, the minuscule differences in face shape will be the primary measurement for the technology.
“It’s going to come down to a very, very granular level of measuring pieces of your face,” Dore explained. “It’s looking at measurements like in between your pupils and the edge of your mouth to your ear.”
“It works because [the iPhone X] has two very high-definition cameras spaced apart so you can get 3D imaging and really look at, ‘Is that ear one-ninth of an inch farther out on this guy or that guy?” Shultz added.
Identical twins develop from the same fertilized egg, so genetically they are exactly alike. Physical differences can arise, but they are a product of environmental changes over time, according to the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah. With this in mind, it’s feasible for twins raised in the same home environment to be virtually indistinguishable — especially if they are still young.
But ultimately, you may not have to worry about an evil twin because other forms of authentication for the iPhone could emerge, according to Rodger Desai, CEO of mobile authentication provider Payfone. Technology that can recognize how you hold your phone and type can properly identify ownership, he said.
“The larger problem is fraud for when the twin will pretend it happened when it didn’t,” Desai added. “And just like a credit card, if I say it was fraud one time, the company will forgive. But do it three times in a row and they’ll cancel it.”
Dore isn’t sure the issues end there, however. He fears that people will figure out how to unlock users’ phones without them realizing it.
“It would appear you could pick up someone’s phone and if you were near them and unlock it,” he said, adding that while unease for friends or spouses is one thing — the use of this method by law enforcement could be an even greater risk.
“Let’s say I arrest someone. I can pick up their phone and hold it in front of their face and unlock it,” Dore explained. “This creates very interesting fourth amendment questions,” he said, referring to the constitutional right of people to not be unreasonably searched without a warrant.
Of course, these scenarios are all hypothetical until the iPhone X releases later this fall. But experts and consumers alike will be keeping their eye on how the technology plays out. And should you have an identical twin, it’s in your best interest to make sure they’re not an evil one.
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"The Glass Menagerie"
Chattanooga Theatre Centre
The remarkable play that brought a brilliant young writer named Tennessee Williams to national attention when it premiered on Broadway in 1945. It involves a lost writer, his mother, awash in memories of her Southern belle past, his painfully shy sister, and the effect a visit from a gentleman caller has on all their lives. Williams’ most personal work for the stage continues to captivate audiences...
This performance will be open captioned.
Ticket prices: $11 - $25
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Accessible Programs, Theater
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The Stringer
Saturday 18th of January 2020 (UTC)
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Perth City Council fob off Matargarup homeless & say they cannot help homeless
by Gerry Georgatos
The calendar event of Homeless Week will recycle itself in August and the Lord Mayor of the City of Perth will cut the red ribbon in Forrest Chase – in the heart of the CBD – and drop in a speech of how much more needs to be done for the homeless. Pretty rich for the City of Perth who do near next-to-nothing for the homeless. In fact some of us are of the view that they may do more damage than anything else. Recently, the City of Perth smashed a homeless friendly precinct, a safe space of 41 tents – moving on the homeless back to the congested alleyways, condemned squats, lonely outskirts of the city centre – exposing the homeless once again to not only the elements but vulnerable to all forms of violence.
Perth City Council should do a no show during Homeless Week as they have done an effective no show on responding to homelessness.
The conduct of the Council in their handling of the Matargarup homeless precinct appears a throwback to the 1940s. On Thursday scores of police in militia formation marched into Matargarup escorting scores of City of Perth workers led by their CEO, Gary Stevenson who was wearing a hard hat directing the show. It was a sad sight.
Police were unusually aggressive in their responses – six move on notices (I was one of them) and three arrests – two Aboriginal Elders – Yamatji Elder Julie Dwyer and Nyungah Elder Bella Bropho.
The police issued me with a move on notice for speaking up (loudly).
Where are the homeless supposed to go?
Back to where they came from – alleyways, city precinct squats, lonely parks, condemned squats – vulnerable to the elements and to various violence.
A few weeks ago, Producer of The Stringer, Jennifer Kaeshagen and I had met with the City of Perth CEO, Gary Stevenson at his office to discuss ways forward for Matargarup. I am a person of my word and promised to him that the half hour conversation would remain off the record. I keep my word.
When Mr Stevenson led the raid on the island on Thursday – the fourth such raid in 8 weeks – I said to him, “There is no honour here today Gary.”
“These are mostly homeless people Gary, where are they to go?”
“We should be discussing homeless friendly precincts and ways forward.”
Mr Stevenson responded, “We’ve been over all that.”
There should be homeless friendly precincts in every major hub in Perth.
Furthermore as this camp was established on Matargarup (Heirrison Island) by the Nyungah (Noongar/Bibbulmen) people it was ‘lawful’. Historically, Matargarup was a birthing site for the Nyungah/Noongar/Bibbulmen people and all around the birthing site there was camping, hunting and fishing and a meeting place. Under Western Australia’s Aboriginal Heritage Act, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs has Matargarup registered as a First Nations’ site for camping, fishing and hunting. Native Title law is supposed to override all other laws. One High Court appeal after another has upheld this intention.
Furthermore the Local Government Act, section 3.7 states, “A local law made under this Act is inoperative to the extent that it is inconsistent with this Act or any other written law.”
Therefore Local Government by-laws are overridden by established Native Title rights and the State’s Aboriginal Heritage register. In fairness to others, such as Mr Stevenson, who has experience as a Native Title practitioner, he may believe otherwise.
A pro bono lawyer for the homeless – Fremantle based Barrister, Stephen Walker – said, “That the campers are legally entitled to camp on Heirisson and it is unlawful for the campers to be moved on as Native Title overrides Local Government law.”
“It is my view that their possessions should not have been removed.”
“I would suggest that the police have no legal right to be involving themselves in this matter. I will be contacting the police about this,” said Mr Walker.
The police may have wrongfully involved themselves in supporting the local council action.
Obviously the Council has its legal counsel. In my view, both the City of Perth legal counsel and the campers’ legal representative Stephen Walker should seek a ruling from the Supreme Court, unless they can sit down and discuss the issues with the best intentions, not with either party seeking to dominate.
However I fear that the political climate may see the State Government do the dirty here and de-register Matargarup as a place of camping, hunting and fishing. The State Government has been on a delirious bent of de-registering sites right across the State.
Last night I wrote to Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi and her eight fellow Councillors.
I wrote to the Lord Mayor, “It is an unbelievable statement to be making to anyone that the City of Perth has found ‘housing’ for the ‘genuine’ homeless at Heirisson.”
“It is not just factually inaccurate but an untrue statement that your Council has by any means substantively assisted any of the homeless families or individuals into any housing or transitional accommodation.”
“You stated that you can ‘attest’ to their transition into ‘housing’. I do not understand how you have formed this belief.”
“One of the families your Council raided on the island on Thursday was of a chronically homeless mother and her four daughters. How do I know they are homeless? I have been assisting them for a year.”
I asked the Lord Mayor if I could meet with her and the Councillors to discuss the possibility of homeless friendly precincts. I have been working with the homeless for many years and Jennifer Kaeshagen and I have secured accommodation for homeless families and individuals. Jennifer also coordinates the First Nations Homelessness Project.
I stated to the Lord Mayor, “You could lead the way with such a precinct.”
“There is no greater legacy that one can have than to improve the lot of the most vulnerable, and indeed to save lives.”
To her credit, the Lord Mayor replied soon after receiving my email.
“The CEO has been working tirelessly on approaching the Heirisson Island issue responsibly. The poor word choice is now corrected – we apologise – so let’s agree we are all doing the best we can under testing circumstances.”
I really do not comprehend that people can miss who is actually under the testing circumstances – the homeless.
The Lord Mayor continued, “The CEO is now copied in and any reply further as it is under his operational control, not the Council’s where this matter is concerned.”
I responded that the discussing of homelessness and a homeless friendly precinct that in my view it is a matter for the Councillors.
“I am asking to meet with you and your Councillors, even if it is at a Council meeting with say 15 minutes or preferably prior to the meeting privately with the Councillors, not on the issue of any operational matters but on the issue of a homeless friendly precinct and on the issue of homelessness. These are issues for the Council. Obviously Gary would be present.”
“Such a preliminary meeting can inform whether yourself and your fellow Councillors would consider further discussion and research and hence any proposals on these issues.”
“This is all I am asking for.”
The Lord Mayor’s response, “Gary will respond further.”
On reflection I realised it was a waste of time. I reminded myself of the Council’s position on ‘begging’ in the city and the by-laws it pushed through – an 8:1 vote. The single vote against the by-law was by Councillor Reece Harley. I have not seen Mr Harley in years however he was one of the Guild Presidents at Murdoch University during the period I was the Murdoch University Guild General Manager. Of course Mr Harley would be opposed to the anti-begging policy as he was involved with Swags for the Homeless. I am also aware of his ongoing work with the homeless particularly with the Salvation Army and of his calls for more to be done for the homeless and also for a much needed Aboriginal controlled homeless drop-in centre somewhere in East Perth. I am sure he continues trying to crack the hard wall that is the consciousness of the Perth City Council. But in the end he is a lone hand as the 8:1 vote demonstrates.
My next port of call is Member for Perth, Eleni Evangel. Ms Evangel, is working to put a task force together to respond to homelessness issues in the city and greater city precincts.
In the meantime our most disadvantaged are being smashed from all quarters.
Some police officers involved in the raid have confided in myself and in Ms Kaeshagen that they had no choice, that they did not want to do what they did but that “as long as we wear this badge we have to do what we’re told”.
I understand this but I do not accept this. You are who are you are 24/7, not just part of the time. I sit on Government boards but also stand uncompromised at all times whether at Government levels or at the coalface. Unless we lead strongly on issues we delve into the dangerous belief that incremental change will make a difference, where indeed instead the divides widen.
One police officer said, “I didn’t like what happened today. We don’t want to move on the homeless but we have no choice. Many of us try to help them.”
Another police officer said, “We got directions from above, what can we do?”
I do believe in conscientious objection. I live it.
A police officer said, “If I did that, I’d be out of the job.
I do not wish anybody any ill. I would love us all to sit down together and discuss the ways forward. All of us; Mr Stevenson, Lord Mayor Scaffidi, the police, the State Government, the Matargarup homeless.
I will continue supporting the Matargarup refugee camp for the homeless. Who does the City of Perth Council think they are ‘stealing’ the tents from the homeless?
– Declaration of impartiality conflict of interest – Gerry Georgatos, the writer of this article, and Jennifer Kaeshagen, producer and editor of The Stringer have been supporting the Matargarup refugee camp for the homeless. They have both met with Mr Stevenson to discuss the ways forward for the Matargarup camp. Both are heavily involved in homelessness issues.
Update: As this article was uploaded Mr Stevenson emailed Gerry Georgatos that he would work with Gerry Georgatos on a brief on the Homeless Friendly Precinct Gerry Georgatos is advocating and that Mr Stevenson will subsequently assess whether it can be submitted to the Councillors for their deliberation.
Relevant reading:
City of Perth goes after the beggars
Councillor Reece Harley stands up to be counted on Council which seeks to outlaw begging
ABC coverage of the raid on Matargarup
SBS coverage of the raid on Matargarup
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colin penter says:
Great article Gerry. Well said. Interesting to see this report appear in the press about the Mayor’s obvious conflicts of interest and her gross hypocrisy. She profits directly from the homeless crises in the CBD. http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/perth-lord-mayor-lisa-scaffidi-silent-on-filthy-grand-central-backpackers-hostel-hovel/story-fnhocxo3-1227332298247
John Wilsosn says:
A good article. I would like to raise some issues. However I will also state they need to be addressed recognising that state laws may vary and you will need to check for inconsistencies under the Commonwealth constitution 1901, I now address them for your information and consideration.
1. Local government has no standing except as a department of the state, therefor the trading corporations calling themselves councils and attempting to act as a third tier of government are invalid.
2. local government has no authority of governance; to raise taxes; create new laws, etc. At best they can be no more than an agent, depot of the Department of Local Government.
3. S 109 Commonwealth states clearly that a state law that is inconsistent with the Commonwealth is invalid to the extent of the inconsistencies.
4. I am sympathetic to members of the police force as they are to some extent the meat in the sandwich. However, arguing that they are only carrying out the directives of senior management is a false argument as under the Nuremberg code it was clearly established that is not a valid excuse.
5. If a member of the police force is threatened with dismissal or other sanctions for not complying with an unlawful action, then management, including any Minister is likely to face charges of intimidation, misuse of power, etc.
6. Action that takes away common law rights under the Constitution is possibly an act of sedition, treason, etc. against the lawful government. Lawful government being the people. Under the Constitution the people are the highest authority, (government) and parliament is its servant; not the other way around. However, if we remain apathetic and lazy the vested interests of the rich and the political parties will continue to misbehave until all rights and entitlements are taken away and you finish up merely as an asset of a corporation without any rights at all.
John McBain says:
This is a terrible and un-necessary situation.
Most Australians acknowledge this land was taken from the First Nations peoples by superior force.
Here is a piece of land that is virtually unused by our society – it would do no harm to allow people to camp there, and to use it as a tent embassy as happens in our national capital.
It is a ridiculous situation when the WA Police force who act under state authority enforce local government by-laws prohibiting camping rather than uphold state legislation saying this place is a registered site where camping is a legal activity.
One good thing that may come out of this is the issue of homelessness may be addressed.
The associated issue of defunding remote communities is now showing signs at last of being reconsidered.
Hopefully the government will respond in a considered manner and not revert to deregistration of this place.
The current proposals to weaken Aboriginal Heritage protection, and to re-interpret the existing act so as to allow deregistration of sites as significant as the Burrup Peninsular are also very concerning.
The recent day of action attracted support across the nation and internationally.
It is the case that the international community is watching Australia and Western Australia in particular at this time.
Consider the recent words of Prince Charles :
Prince Charles on Thursday night (Friday morning AEST) said the exhibition explored the “immense impact” of European settlement, and dealt with difficult and painful episodes in Australian history, including dispossession, social dislocation and the stolen generations.
“(But) my great hope is that exhibitions of this kind can help build a bridge to enable indigenous and non-indigenous people to communicate with, and understand, one another more effectively,” he said.
“If it can also inspire us to regain that sense of reverence for the natural environment, which is so much a part of the innate wisdom of all indigenous communities around the world, then perhaps it will have helped us all to learn to be better custodians of the planet.”
Hopefully the sort of dialogue referred to in the article will produce positive outcomes as an example of the sorts of communication Prince Charles refers to.
Caitlin na Houlihan says:
Briefings – Linda Colley: Magna Carta http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05sgl85 [10/5/2015] 26 days left to watch
The Legacy of Magna Carta Magna Carta Episode 4 of 4 Listen in pop-out player http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wwkh8 King John’s Great Charter, formally agreed in a field at Runnymede in 1215 [10/5/2015]
WGAR News says:
Raid on Matargarup homeless people’s camp
WGAR News: WA police dismantle tents at Heirisson Island Aboriginal protest: ABC NewsRadio’s Tracey Holmes speaks to activist Gerry Georgatos
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/05/03/wgar-news-wa-police-dismantle-tents-at-heirisson-island-aboriginal-protest-abc-newsradios
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Perth City Council fob off Matargarup homeless & say they cannot help homeless
* News Analysis & Video: Rewa Harriman, Maori Television: Nyungah people remain steadfast despite police raids
* Audio Interview: ABC NewsRadio’s Tracey Holmes speaks to activist Gerry Georgatis: WA police dismantle tents at Heirisson Island Aboriginal protest
* Video: 9 News Perth, YouTube: Show of Force
* Video & News Analysis: Deborah Dupre, Examiner: Australia apartheid: Secret war on Aborigines prompts global May Day protests
* News Analysis: ABC News: Arrests as police remove tents at Perth’s Heirisson Island Aboriginal protest
* News Analysis: Steve Holland, SMH: Arrests as Indigenous protests continue on Heirisson Island
* News Analysis: Online News Team, Maori Television: Perth Police attempt to close down tent embassy on Heirisson Island
* News Analysis: NITV News: Protesters arrested as police close down Heirisson Island protest camp
* News Analysis: Eru Rerekura, Radio New Zealand News: Global Aboriginal rights protests
* Updates: The Stringer, facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheStringerNews
* Video: Jennifer Kaeshagen, facebook: “Elder Herbert Bropho today delivering a moving speech on the steps of WA Parliament at the rally to protect the Homelands.”
* News Analysis: Chris Mason, The Stringer: Matargarup
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Beware the ‘framing’ of the conversation – ‘consultation’ is a dirty word – Don’t close any Homelands – end of story
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
RE: Furthermore the Local Government Act, section 3.7 states, “A local law made under this Act is inoperative to the extent that it is inconsistent with this Act or any other written law.”
1. Magna Carta 1215-1218 to 1297 is a WRITTEN LAW that is in force in WA and it applies in Perth to protect property by ensuring that persons may only be deprived of their property by due process of law: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30334812 & http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30641742
2. The Statute of Marlborough 1267 is a written law in force in WA that legally prohibits any person, including a local government corporation, from enacting revenge against a person infringing rights of property, person or liberty without an order of a court before which the person to be adversely affected by the sought order legally has in natural justice a right to appear and oppose the necessary order: see how someone could use the power of distress re: the Statute of Marlborough (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30334812)
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Up to this point each Mission: Impossible film has operated on their own mechanisms. The 1996 Brian De Palma-directed original felt like an organic extension of the 1960’s television series it drew its inspiration from; the 2000-released sequel was an orgy of unsubtle combat buoyed by the favoured-slow motion of Hong Kong filmmaker Jon Woo; J.J. Abrams’ second sequel in 2006 felt slightly more grounded in comparison, coming off like an appendage of the director’s own TV project Alias; 2011’s Ghost Protocol, under the eye of Brad Bird (The Incredibles), adopted the IMAX gimmick and went for broke in what possibilities lay in extravagance; and Christopher McQuarrie’s Rogue Nation in 2015 adhered to the modern temperament of the genre by delivering spectacle that didn’t overrun an intricate story.
So where do we sit with Fallout? The 6th entrant in this surprisingly robust series – one that has defied expectation at practically every turn – is very much a continuation of Rogue Nation, perhaps earning it the right to be considered the series’ first legitimate sequel. Christopher McQuarrie (the first director to pull returning duties behind the camera) clearly knows how to juggle the extremities of the genre, and whilst he is working with a story that is rife with obstacles, he never lets it get the best of him; and why should he when he wrote the damn thing! Instead he places trust in his ingredients, and what’s the one base flavour that is sure to never fail? One Mr. Tom Cruise.
At this point it’s getting a bit tired to continually defend Cruise from an acting perspective. His personal life and beliefs are open to criticism, but as an entertainer he’s undoubtedly one of the most committed to the craft. Since the series’ conception Cruise has been performing all his own stunts and, much like each respective film, they’ve only gotten more high-stake (i.e. dangerous) as they’ve gone along. It was highly publicised that Cruise fractured an ankle bone during a stunt that required him to leap from roof-to-roof throughout a London-based sequence (the footage ultimately remains in the finished film), and instead of taking the recommended 9 weeks off he returned to set a mere 5 weeks later, only to shoot a sequence that required extensive running throughout the streets of Paris. You can’t tell me that isn’t dedication to your job.
As for why Cruise is jumping across rooftops and running throughout Parisian streets, well that’s because his unstoppable IMF agent Ethan Hunt is looking to foil the nuclear plot of a mysterious villain known only as John Lark, the leader of a group of international libertines dubbed The Apostles. Lark is due to score a suitcase full of plutonium through a trade with a sensual arms dealer known as The White Widow (The Crown‘s Vanessa Kirby, seemingly channeling Vanessa Redgrave), and it’s come down to Ethan and his right-handers Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) to infiltrate the deal.
This would all be well and good if Ethan wasn’t being monitored by strapping assassin August Walker (Henry Cavill, proving the Justice League-disrupting moustache was worth the growth), called out by CIA Director Erica Sloan (Angela Bassett) who believes Hunt is no longer as dedicated to the job as he should be. Add to that complication the return of Rogue Nation‘s shadowy MI6 agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) and homicidal anarchist Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), and you’re left with a plot that could potentially buckle under its own weight.
It does help to pay attention to the various double, even triple crossing McQuarrie’s script throws about with reckless abandon – not helped by the onslaught of action set-pieces that have been masterfully choreographed to steal focus at every turn – but there’s a brilliance at work here where everything falls so neatly into place once the dust has settled. But really, who cares about details when the film’s alphas Hunt and Walker graduate from a dazzling hand-to-hand combat in the men’s room of a Parisian nightclub to a helicopter chase above the clouds of Kashmir before battling atop a towering cliff, all the while a duo of bombs begin their inevitable countdown towards expected doomsday.
When it boils down to it, Fallout may still be somewhat cliched in terms of genre mentality, but it knows how to toy with the expected and present itself as a fresh product that we can’t help but gobble up in excess. Now, is it too early to request M:I-7?
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Listen Up: Will Hearables Become a New Tech Category?
Tech investors, take note: "Hearables" (smart wireless headphones) may take the wearable technology category to another level.
By Debbie Carlson November 24, 2016 2 min read
Wearable technology, such as Fitbit (FIT) and the Apple (AAPL) Watch, have been all the rage the past few years as devotees use these devices to track step counts, heart rates, and other health metrics.
But wearables may be getting an upgrade.
Wireless headphones may become the latest trend in the world of wearables. These devices received wide attention after the latest release of the iPhone and Apple’s introduction of wireless headphones.
Hearables like the wireless Apple Airpods, and smart speakers such as Amazon’s (AMZN) Echo, may just be the beginning of a whole new segment of technology.
Electronics trade magazine EE Times cites research by WiFore Consulting that says hearables will be the fastest-growing wearable market, with sales over $16 billion forecast by 2020.
“The reason is that hearing is perhaps the most important sense—even more than vision. Ask any videographer, and they will confirm that a good audio track trumps the video track, which users will forgive for glitches if the audio track is pristine,” the magazine said.
And hearables might be able to make further inroads than the Fitbit and other one-function wearable technology, according to Wired magazine. Unlike novelty-based items that consumers must be convinced to wear, ear devices feel more natural, the magazine said, adding that since the Walkman debuted in 1979, portable headphones have become the most widely adopted wearable device in the world.
But Should Your Portfolio Listen?
Although the $16-billion-by-2020 forecast from WiFore seems extreme, EE Times pointed out that Samsung has also entered the market, possibly making it seem more realistic. Samsung’s Gear IconX ($199) features touch controls, 4 GB for music and storage, and fitness tracking. Alphabet-owned Motorola (GOOGL) has the Hint ($129), which has some limited smart capabilities, and Sony is also expected to come out with wireless earpieces.
Aside from the big names in wireless earphones like Alphabet, Apple, and Samsung, there are a few smaller companies in this space. Earlier this year German-based company Bragi launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to create the first wireless earphones, the Dash ($299). They also hold music, storage for up to 1,000 songs, fitness and heart rate tracking, and an ear bone mic for calls.
Several other companies are looking to break in. Privately owned Doppler Labs plans to have its “Hear One” ready in time for the holidays. The firm says its device will allow users to stream music, take phone calls, reduce unwanted noise, amplify speech, and more.
As with other wearable technology, most of the publicly traded companies producing these hearable devices include them within a portfolio of many other technology devices. So right now, investing in a pure-play “hearable” company isn’t possible. But given that technology changes quickly, there may be a different hot trend in the years to come, so prudent investors may choose to consider a diversified tech company.
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Russia sees ‘strategic’ value in Syria, not regime
Stephen Starr
There is little doubt Russia’s bombardment of northern and western Syria has changed the broader dynamics of the war. Instead of pursuing its stated aim of degrading the Islamic State (ISIS), Moscow has gone after the Syrian regime’s de facto chief threat: rebel groups operating close to Latakia province and north of Aleppo. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces have their tails up.
At first glance this suggests Russia has never been more serious in its support for Assad. Yet there are several counterpoints observers can pick apart as to where Moscow’s support for Assad may be aiming.
The fact that Russia appears nowhere on lists of leading international donors of humanitarian assistance for Syrians, nor has any interest in taking in Syrian refugees, tells us that winning the hearts and minds of Syrians is not a priority. It sees the Syrian regime as a short-term strategic partner.
Unlike Iran, Russia has not offered Assad a blank cheque nor is it investing in long-term civilian projects, such as building banks or hotels; Russian oligarchs are not buying property in Syria and Russia has not based large numbers of troops or military hardware in or around Damascus, the obvious centre of power in a post-war Syria.
The announcement on March 15th that Russian forces currently engaged in the conflict in Syria are to begin withdrawing came as a surprise to the international community. But it may also be an indication that while Moscow will continue to support the regime in Damascus, it does not necessarily mean that it will blindly support the president.
When the Russians first entered the fight in Syria to help the beleaguered Assad, he must have thought that he and his regime were saved. This latest move by the Russians, however, may well be an indication that the regime may be saved but no such assurances can be made concerning the president.
The regime may remain the chief actor in Syria through its control of Damascus and the Mediterranean coast, but we must not forget that millions of Syrians still support the regime either through blind faith or a palpable fear of any alternative. Alongside it, Iranian military and civilian officials, who enjoyed a strong presence in the city even before 2011, can be expected to stay on.
Recent statements from Russian diplomats and leaders suggest that the relationship is not as watertight as a cursory look gives.
Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, went out of his way on February 19th to play down Assad’s comments vowing to retake all of Syria.
“I heard President Assad’s remarks on television… Of course they do not chime with the diplomatic efforts that Russia is undertaking,” he said in an interview with Kommersant, adding that “the Syrian president is acting according to a certain political framework. And here I think we should take into consideration not what he says, with all the respect to the statements of such a high-ranking individual, but what in the end he will do.”
In January, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a German newspaper how Russia's granting asylum to Edward Snowden “was far more difficult than to do the same for Mr Assad”. He has also made it clear how he thinks Assad has “made many mistakes in the course of the Syrian conflict”.
Arguably, the reason for these apparently contradictory positions is that Russia does not see Assad as an integral, long-term partner in Syria but it does see Syria’s strategic territorial position in the Middle East as something it wants to be part of.
Just how dependent is Damascus on Russia? While the Assad regime has been known for decades to be as conniving and ruthless as just about any other political or military force in the region, it increasingly appears to be placing its eggs in one basket vis-à-vis its relations with Russia. Certainly Hezbollah and Iran have deeply established ties with Damascus but with a negotiated settlement that would involve the United States and others the only way of ending the war, neither has any real political capital at that level.
All this points to the fact that Russia is fighting in Syria to secure Russian, not Assad’s, interests. Remarkably, Russia’s tiny, rented naval base in Tartus on Syria’s Mediterranean coast is its only military facility outside the former Soviet Union.
The former superpower has seen its star decline since 1989 and today in Syria it sees Washington’s disinterest as an open door on the path to the head of the international diplomatic table.
The advances Russia can secure in the coming months will be critical because Moscow will want to nail down its and Assad’s positions before a new US president — perhaps the hawkish Hillary Clinton — is elected.
That means 2016 will very probably see an upturn in violence before a breakthrough to peace transpires. Then and only then, when all international actors are serious about ending the war, will Russia’s real intentions for Assad become apparent.
Written By Stephen Starr
Stephen Starr is an Irish journalist who lived in Syria from 2007 to 2012. He is the author of Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising (Oxford University Press: 2012).
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The Caucus | Two Polls Show a Santorum Surge
Two Polls Show a Santorum Surge
February 13, 2012 5:30 pm February 13, 2012 5:30 pm
Two new national polls provide fresh evidence of Rick Santorum’s surge among Republican voters and one of them suggests that Mitt Romney’s effort to court conservatives has hurt him with the independent voters who will be critical to winning the general election in the fall.
A survey conducted Wednesday through Sunday by the Pew Research Center shows Mr. Santorum with 30 percent of the vote among Republican and Republican-leaning voters, virtually tied with Mr. Romney, who has 28 percent. A month ago in the survey, Mr. Romney held a commanding lead over Mr. Santorum, 31 percent to 14 percent.
A separate national poll by Gallup also conducted Wednesday through Sunday shows a similar surge for Mr. Santorum. The Gallup poll also has both men essentially tied, with Mr. Romney at 32 percent and Mr. Santorum at 30 percent. A Gallup poll released a week ago, on Feb. 5, showed Mr. Santorum at 16 percent, well behind Mr. Romney at 37 percent.
“Gallup Daily tracking conducted in the days after Santorum’s sweep of three little-anticipated nominating contests last week shows national Republicans responding as they have each time there has been a big win or an upset in the caucuses and primaries thus far — by jumping on the winner’s bandwagon,” the organization wrote on Monday.
The Pew survey suggests that Mr. Santorum is surging among conservative voters who have expressed doubts about Mr. Romney’s commitment to their causes. Mr. Santorum holds large, double-digit leads over Mr. Romney among voters who agree with the Tea Party and evangelical Republicans.
“Santorum is now the clear favorite of Republican and G.O.P.-leaning voters who agree with the Tea Party, as well as white evangelical Republicans,” the Pew survey found. “Currently, 42 percent of Tea Party Republican voters favor Santorum, compared with just 23 percent who back Romney. Santorum holds an almost identical advantage among white evangelical Republican voters (41 percent to 23 percent).”
The Pew survey asked all voters nationwide about the general election. In head-to-head matchups with President Obama, both Mr. Santorum and Mr. Romney come out behind, according to the survey.
Mr. Obama would beat Mr. Romney 52 percent to 44 percent if the election were held today, according to the survey. Mr. Obama would defeat Mr. Santorum 53 percent to 43 percent.
But the biggest warning for Mr. Romney may be among independents, according to the survey. In mid-January, the Pew poll found that 50 percent of independents preferred Mr. Romney, while just 40 percent said they would vote for Mr. Obama.
In the more recent survey, those numbers have flipped. Now, 51 percent of independents say they support Mr. Obama, while just 42 percent say they would vote for Mr. Romney.
The Pew Poll was based on interviews conducted by land line and cellphone with 1,172 registered voters of whom 552 were Republicans or independents who leaned Republican. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points for voters and 5 points for Republican and Republican leaners.
The Gallup results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of a daily tracking poll. The sample of 1,162 registered voters with party identification of Republican or independent and leaning Republican has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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Design News & Trends
Monotype Lays Out All Of The Type Trends You Need To Know For 2020
by Bill McCool on 01/12/2020 | 4 Minute Read
When you see a piece of packaging, type is one of the most important foundational elements of the packaging. Brands with memorable typefaces—the ones you can instantly recognize—are drilled down into our very subconscious, and they can serve as a clear expression of a product’s identity.
But it’s also an element that can bring harmony to the voice of any given product when coupled with the other assets of a design, whether it’s an illustration, logo, pattern, or even a wild color.
Late last year, Monotype released a report on the type trends we’d see in 2020, saying that, “typefaces can deliver a clear, consistent, and identifiable voice wherever they appear. The individual shapes of letters imprint themselves on us, working as an immediate cue. Consumers might not be able to explain what a brand’s typeface looks like, but they’ll know it when they see it.”
Here are the five trends Monotype defined for the coming year.
The Need For Global Language Coverage
If you’re a mom and pop business, likely you don’t have to worry about this. But a global brand? Well, you have to worry about this.
Your brand can live in several markets, and while the English language might be the great unifier, that’s not going to fly in a global economy. You can’t just slap your brand’s identity on a piece of packaging in Mandarin and call it a day, you need to have a type that can represent your brand across multiple languages. Now, you can pair some types together in hopes of achieving some harmony, or you could spend some coin developing something more global.
This is why Monotype developed the Neue Frutiger World typeface alongside Akira Kobyashi, as it covers over 150 languages and scripts, including Arabic and Vietnamese, as brands need to be sensitive to the stylistic and cultural nods of any given country.
The Rise Of Variable Fonts
Last year, Monotype surveyed purchasing habits, and they found that 24% were confident that variable fonts would change future usage and how they’re made; 39% didn’t even really know what that meant.
So what are they?
It’s “a single font that acts as many,” and according to Monotype, variable fonts are going to be huge in the coming decade. That’s because instead of digging around through multiple files, all of your data is in one place, and this single font has all of the possible widths and weights you would need, promising more flexibility and ease of use.
Emphasis On Geometric Sans Serifs
Ah, yes, the geometric san serif, aka, the most-entrusted font for building trust in the world of tech. Spoiler alert—they’re not going away any time soon.
And for a good reason. If you’re building out the branding for a start-up, having a wordmark that’s clean and legible inspires confidence when you’re trying to entice a consumer or client. They’re safe and non-divisive, and they have an air of class and professionalism in tow. As we noted in our 2019 Trend Report, proprietary fonts were all the rage (hello, Dunkin’ and Netflix), and the geometric serifs were the clear beneficiary. Even Starbucks got in on the action this past year with Sodo Sans, and by the end of this year, every major brand will probably have their BRAND NAME + SANS.
Type As Icon: Inline and Engraving
Most global brands have leaned in so far on geometric sans fonts that they’re starting to look like 45 at an impromptu press conference. That’s why anything that doesn’t look like a Netflix or Airbnb can feel like a breath of fresh air—yes, they’re clean, but also, yawn? It’s sort of like picking Classic Blue as your color of the year.
Monotype says that this new decade will see the return of inline fonts and hyper-decorative styles, meaning lots of mustache-twirling and calligraphy (at least, that’s how we sort of envision it).
Look, minimalism will never die and don't believe any rend report that says as much, but it is OK to, you know, actually design every now and again.
A.B.R. Always Be Rebranding
Remember how we talked about flexible logo systems in our Trend Report?
To be a brand strategist in 2020 means that you are always looking ahead, and the next rebrand is just right around the corner.
"Customers are in more places than ever, from geography to the device or surface they’re using," said Monotype Senior Director of Creative James Fooks-Bale Fooks-Bale. "And by the time you think you have things set, a new device, platform, or form of content creation has been added to the pile."
Your logo, just like the type your brand might utilize, needs to be adaptable across a wide range of platforms where that brand lives. Yes, unify what your brand’s identity is, but give it the space to evolve naturally.
Go here to learn more about Monotype’s 2020 Trends In Type report.
Bill McCool
Bill McCool is an editor and writer based out of Los Angeles. Though new to the world of design, he has always been a storyteller by trade and he seeks to inspire and cultivate a sense of awe with the work and artists he profiles. When he's not winning over his daughters with the art of the Dad joke, he is usually working on a pilot, watching the Phillies, or cooking an elaborate meal for his wife.
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SaFE vs LeSS vs DaD vs LeadingAgile: Scaling agile frameworks
January 8, 2020 in Technology
As larger organizations scramble to apply agile software development methodologies to the challenges inherent in an enterprise-level company, it’s important to understand the pros and cons of the different approaches.
When the Agile Manifesto hit the street in 2001, it combined several methods, sometimes called "lightweight methods," under a single banner. Scrum, DSDM, ExtremeProgramming (XP) and Crystal were all "agile" in that they matched the spirit of the manifesto. These methods enable small teams to do their best work, getting the paperwork out of the way and bringing the customer into the conversation.
The focus on "small teams" worked for small teams. Today, larger organizations want to move toward more agile methods, too. The methods they’re interested in extending the original methodologies to include larger teams, coordination, and oversight. They also introduce risk; an experiment that goes wrong for the entire IT department is much more dangerous than for a team that experiments for a few months.
Example of Large-Scale Solutions
Most large organizations commit to a single software development framework. Companies that don't – that try to pick and choose the best pieces from each – still want to create a single vision. Either way, making the right choices requires understanding them all, their strengths and weaknesses, when and how they make sense.
What left from Scrum and XP?
Teams execute a project at a time (at least, we hope they do). Organizations execute programs – combinations of several projects that may overlap. Larger projects are built by teams of teams, or teams of teams of teams, that may work in different physical locations. This type of work requires coordination. Larger organizations typically want a loose-tight coupling – giving the teams the freedom to innovate while creating just enough shared expectations to make cross-team coordination easier. Managing the work-in-progress, the planned work and the scheduling of when projects start and stop becomes much more complex.
Then there is the legacy problem of switching to an agile approach. One senior manager of a Fortune 500 hotel chain described his rollout process as “a dozen people on one conference call, taking systems down and back up again, over a five-hour period.”
Scrum, XP, Crystal and the other first-generation development methodologies don’t provide an answer to these questions. We’ll explore how the new methods address these needs.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
SAFe is one of the leading frameworks for scaling Agile at the enterprise-level. It follows lean-Agile principles to help businesses continuously and efficiently deliver value on a regular and estimated schedule.
SAFe provides guidance at all levels of software development: Team, Program, LargeScale Solution (Value Stream), and Portfolio, so as to align enterprise-level strategies with the team working on a solution. Here is how it manages development agility at the enterprise level.
In a general Agile framework, there is a Scrum and Kanban team that comprises a development team, scrum master, and product owner. Such a framework works when there are 2-3 teams with 5-9 team members.
When the number of teams extends (say there are 10 teams), a single product owner and a scrum master for a team are not sufficient enough to manage requirements and facilitate the teams. To handle multiple teams at a larger scale, there is a program layer in the SAFe framework. The program layer has roles like Product Manager who provides guidelines to all the product owners working for individual teams. Then, there are Release Train Engineers who act like chief impediment officers for all the teams. A System Architect defines, communicates, and shares an architectural and technical vision for the Agile Release Train (ART).
Agile Release Team (ART) is a name given to multiple development teams at the program level. These teams deliver their work incrementally in 8-12 weeks long sprints. This time box during an Agile Release Train is called Program Increment (PI).
At a large stream level, there is a value stream engineer to manage Agile Release Trains (ARTs), Solution Manager to define vision and roadmap for the solution, and a Solution Architect for the technical and architectural vision of solution under development.
Moving up, at the portfolio level there are epic owners and enterprise architects who define the base for a portfolio of solutions. For this, a Portfolio Kanban is used that defines an MVP of the solution, a lean business case, and starts implementation on approval. An enterprise architect works across value streams and programs to help provide the strategic technical direction that can optimize portfolio outcomes. The enterprise architect often may act as an epic owner for enabler epics.
SAFe is a prescriptive framework. It organizes and structures how software development activities should be performed and in what order. The SAFe framework can be adopted for large scale projects that have at least 50-125 team members in it.
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
LeSS is a scaled version of a one-team Scrum, which focuses on directing the attention of all the teams towards the product. It maintains basic practices of Scrum but has some basic differences from regular Scrum meetings:
There is a product backlog, but for the product and not for the team
There is only one Definition of Done for all the teams
All teams are in common sprint to deliver a common shippable product
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) literally scales up the activities in Scrum, applying them at the team-of-teams level. In LeSS, large-scale planning takes one or two members from each team to form a second meeting; there is a daily standup that does the same as the daily scrum. The “overall retrospective,” which happens the week after the end of a sprint, likewise pulls representatives from each team to discuss large program issues. On top of these, LeSS also adds open space, town hall meetings, and other coordination and communication activities.
The formal LeSS Rules for two to eight teams fit on the front and back of a page; the version for product teams of up to a thousand people, LeSS Huge, is not much larger. Craig Larman, co-creator of LeSS, claims that large organizations add unnecessary complexity through single-function groups, handoffs, and weak or slow feedback. “Rather than introduce a method which adds a Band-Aid on top of this…we are trying to change the organizational design to create multi-skilled feature teams. These ideas are in contradiction to how organizations are usually set up.
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DaD)
While scrum assumes a team is in flight, it does not include where the team started, or how to make “sprint zero” decisions, such as the base technology platform, the programming language, and the architecture. That’s where Disciplined Agile Delivery (DaD), Scott Ambler’s framework, begins, including the inception of the project, architecture and team formation, and the end – production, operational use, and support. Where “Scrum” tends to assume a team exists in maintenance mode, DaD does not, giving the team time to decide on the platform, build tools, project schedule and the other challenges that happen for product development more and maintenance efforts less.
There are 10 roles that a DaD project has. While five of them are primary, five are secondary. The primary roles will occur, regardless of the scale that a project has; while the secondary roles are added to the primary roles as the demand or scalability expands.
The reason why the number of members in a Scrum and DaD varies is the difference in scope that both the frameworks handle. Scrum has its focus on leadership and change management while DaD focuses on the entire delivery lifecycle. Thus, with a larger scope, there are more roles in DaD.
LeadingAgile
Based in Atlanta, LeadingAgile was founded in 2010 and quickly developed an international reputation as a company that provides executive-level consulting on large-scale agile transformations. Instead of a “scaling framework,” LeadingAgile provides a "transformation framework" that begins by evaluating a company’s planning goals relative to predictability or adaptability. This methodology also asks if product functionality is expected to Emerge (discovery based on market need) or Converge (delivering specific requirements and features at pre-determined intervals).
LeadingAgile then offers guidance to improve delivery based upon what is driving the business today, while establishing a foundation to achieve where the IT organization needs to be to support the business tomorrow. The company organizes groups of teams into “expeditions” which move progressively through “basecamps,” developing the skills needed to improve business outcomes over time. CEO Mike Cottmeyer calls this a “transformation roadmap,” because LeadingAgile focuses on aligning objectives, creating transparency and improving business performance over implementing abstract models and rules.
Heart of Agile
In a nutshell, at the enterprise level, the heart of Agile asks these questions:
Independent of anything else going on, how will you increase collaboration?
Accounting for everything else going on, how can you increase trial and actual deliveries to consumers?
How will you get people to pause and reflect on what's happening to and around them?
What are some experiments your people will do at different levels in the organization to make a small improvement?
These questions are designed to help an organization decide which small change to make next in the pursuit of Agility, and to the ground that change in the context of this organization and this moment, instead of relying on someone else's revealed wisdom. In short, they focus on responding to change instead of following a plan.
The dominant framework, SAFe, provides a way for a large IT group to organize itself as teams of teams of agile teams. LeSS does the same by focusing on improving communication between the teams. Starting by making high-functioning Agile teams that can ship working software on demand, and the scale problems disappear, while the other consultants tend to recommend small changes to adapt an organization toward a more Agile ideal.
Once we dig past “scale” to the real problem your company is most interested in solving right now, then one of these solutions might make more sense than the others.
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Scientists prove tailgating doesn't get you there faster
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Berthold Horn and Liang Wang. Credit: Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL
We've all experienced "phantom traffic jams" that arise without any apparent cause. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently showed that we'd have fewer if we made one small change to how we drive: no more tailgating.
Specifically, the team's new journal article argues that if we all kept an equal distance between the cars in front of and behind us - an approach that MIT professor Berthold Horn describes as "bilateral control" - we would all get where we're going almost twice as quickly.
"We humans tend to view the world in terms of what's ahead of us, both literally and conceptually, so it might seem counter-intuitive to look backwards," says Horn, who co-authored the article with postdoctoral associate Liang Wang. "But driving like this could have a dramatic effect in reducing travel time and fuel consumption without having to build more roads or make other changes to infrastructure."
Horn concedes that drivers themselves are unlikely to change their forward-looking ways anytime soon, so he suggests that car companies update their adaptive cruise-control systems and add sensors to both their front and rear bumpers. (Most of today's systems only have front sensors.)
According to Horn, traffic would get noticeably better even if just a small percentage of all cars were outfitted with such systems. In future work funded in part by Toyota, he plans to do simulations to test whether this method is not just faster for drivers, but also safer.
The team's work has been inspired in part by how flocks of starling birds move in tandem.
Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Birds have be doing this for centuries," says Horn. " To program this behavior, you'd want to look at the birds all around you and not just the ones in front of you."
According to the CSAIL team, for decades there have been hundreds of academic papers looking at the problem of traffic flow, but very few about how to actually solve it.
One proposed approach is to electronically connect vehicles together to coordinate their distances between each other. But so-called "platooning" methods require detailed coordination and a massive network of connected vehicles. In contrast, the CSAIL team's approach would simply require new software and some inexpensive hardware updates.
Horn first proposed the concept of "bilateral control" in 2013 at the level of a single car and the cars directly surrounding it. With the new paper, he has taken a more macro-level view, looking at the density of entire highways and how miles of traffic patterns can be affected by individual cars changing speeds (which his team refers to as "perturbations").
"Our work shows that, if drivers all keep an equal distance between the cars on either side of them, such 'perturbations' would disappear as they travel down a line of traffic, rather than amplify to create a traffic jam," says Horn.
The team's article will be published this week in the journal IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Leave a buffer for your bumper: Study contradicts practice of traffic light tailgating
More information: Wave Equation of Suppressed Traffic Flow Instabilities, (PDF)
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FB forced to act after #FBRape campaign
Daily mail reports:
Facebook agrees to block content that makes fun of sex assaults against women after furious campaign
Hashtag #FBRape had 50,000 tweets and 4,500 support emails in a week
Group say Facebook ‘allows content endorsing violence against women’
#FBRape calls on companies to pull adverts until Facebook bans material
Nissan, Nationwide UK and more have pulled ads until Facebook complies
Women’s action media reports:
Last Tuesday, Women, Action & the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and author/activist Soraya Chemaly launched a campaign to call on Facebook to take concrete, effective action to end gender-based hate speech on its site. Since then, participants sent over 60,000 tweets and 5000 emails, and our coalition has grown to over 100 women’s movement and social justice organizations.
Today, we are pleased to announce that Facebook has responded with a important commitment to refine its approach to hate speech. Facebook has admirably done more than most other companies to address this topic in regards to content policy. In a statement released today, Facebook addressed our concerns and committed to evaluating and updating its policies, guidelines and practices relating to hate speech, improving training for its content moderators and increasing accountability for creators of misogynist content.
Facebook has also invited Women, Action & the Media, The Everyday Sexism Project and members of our coalition to contribute to these efforts and be part of an ongoing conversation. As part of these efforts, we will work closely with Facebook on the issue of how Community Standards around hate speech are evaluated and to ensure best practices represent the interests of our coalition.
For details regarding Facebook’s response, please visit https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/controversial-harmful-and-hateful-speech-on-facebook/574430655911054
allowed on facebook!
Date rape drugging – it’s OK by facebook!
original content from:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332548/FBRape-campaign-Facebook-agrees-block-content-makes-fun-sex-assaults-women-furious-campaign.html
http://www.womenactionmedia.org/facebookaction/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2332028/FBRape-campaign-Companies-pull-adverts-Facebook-refuses-remove-anti-women-content.html
from Huffington Post report – from 7 days after #FBRape began-
WAM is already claiming success, reporting that 15 companies – including Nissan UK, House of Burlesque and Nationwide UK, have pulled ads from Facebook.
On Tuesday Sky, American Express and Dove found themselves in the crosshairs.
Marketing Magazine reports Dove – which markets itself as a purveyor of products for “real women” – is now “working aggressively with Facebook to resolve the issue”.
Procter and Gamble’s response was: “We can’t control what content they [our advertising] pops up next to. Obviously it’s a shame that our ad happened to pop up next to it,” Think Progress reports.
While conceding Facebook has proven willing to crack down on other forms of hate speech, including anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic speech, an open letter calls on the company to take “swift, comprehensive and effective action addressing the representation of rape and domestic violence.”
Signed by over sixty feminist groups, it calls for Facebook to:
1. Recognize speech that trivializes or glorifies violence against girls and women as hate speech and make a commitment that you will not tolerate this content.
2. Effectively train moderators to recognize and remove gender-based hate speech.
3. Effectively train moderators to understand how online harassment differently affects women and men, in part due to the real-world pandemic of violence against women.
taken from http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/28/fbrape-will-facebook-heed-open-letter-protesting-endorsement-rape-domestic-violence_n_3346520.html?1369754572
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New Definition of Domestic Abuse for the UK
The UK has finally updated it’s definition of Domestic Abuse to apply to 16 and 17 year olds, closing the loop hole that allowed 16 and 17-year olds to get married, or live independently with no protection from abusive and/or violent partners. The definition also includes same-sex relationships if they are intimate ones.
via the New Definition for Domestic Abuse.
Do you know Domestic Abuse is not only Domestic Violence?
Coercive behaviour is now included, which is: an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten their victim.
Teenagers at risk
The British Crime Survey in 2009/10 found that 16-19-year-olds were the group most likely to suffer abuse from a partner, so this change in the law is crucial.
This definition, which is not a legal definition, includes so called ‘honour’ based violence, female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage, and is clear that victims are not confined to one gender or ethnic group.
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What About Bob?: An Abuser’s Tactics Named and Exposed
Sharing a wonderful post today about how abusive people try to manipulate those raising awareness.
Abusive Tactics Identified:
1) Inappropriate familiarity.
2) Defining reality: claiming special or superior insight into the victim’s thoughts and motives – “I would question your heart.”
3) Shifting blame from the guilty party to the victim, working to instill self-doubt – “Is that really necessary?”
”Bob, we have heard these tactics before many times. We reject them.”
via What About Bob?: An Abuser’s Tactics Named and Exposed.
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[BREAKING] Pope announces big Lord’s Prayer change
For Catholics around the world, the Lord’s Prayer is changing forever.
Pope Francis has declared a change to the prayer known to 2.2 billion Christians worldwide.
According to the papacy, the phrase “Lead us not into temptation” is a mistranslation from the original intention of the prayer. So Francis has decreed it will be changed to “do not let us fall into temptation.”
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The original translation implies that it is God that pushes us into temptation; it’s Satan that pushes us, say Catholic authorities.
“I am the one who falls; it’s not him pushing me into temptation to then see how I have fallen,” Francis explained, according to a Fox News translation. “A father doesn’t do that, a father helps you to get up immediately. It’s Satan who leads us into temptation, that’s his department.”
Not everyone is a fan of the change.
“I was shocked and appalled,” Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, told The Seattle Times. “This is the Lord’s Prayer. It is not, and has never been, the pope’s prayer, and we have the very words of Jesus in the New Testament. It is those very words that the pope proposes to change. It is not only deeply problematic, it’s almost breathtaking.”
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David Pao, an expert from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, was also critical.
Pao told The Christian Post that the new translation is incorrect because it’s ignoring the next line: “And deliver us from evil.”
“First, this ‘permissive’ reading is not explicitly expressed in … Matthew 6:13, and ‘lead us not into temptation’ remains the best and most natural rendering of this petition,” Pao.
“Second, if ‘temptation’ is understood as ‘temptation that leads to sin”, then it is important to emphasize that God does not lead people into such ‘temptation,'” Pao continued. “Nevertheless, the underlying Greek word behind ‘temptation’ can also refer more generally to ‘testing,’ and the Bible does describe God bringing His people into times of ‘testing.'”
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Francis also approved changes to The Gloria as well. It will change the line, “Peace on earth to people of good will” to “Peace on Earth to people beloved by God.”
The adapted Lord’s Prayer will be available “within months” in Catholic churches.
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Chimp Rescuer Sets Up Sting Operation to Seize Baby from Exotic Pet Trafficker
February 2, 2018 by Donny Moss — Leave a Comment
When chimpanzee rescuer Jenny Desmond heard that exotic pet traffickers were attempting to sell a baby in Monrovia (the capital of Liberia), she swung into action, working with local wildlife authorities to both rescue the chimp and capture the perpetrator. Desmond, who runs Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue and Protection (LCRP) with her husband Jim, set up a sting operation to lure the trafficker onto her property; document him asking for money; and have him arrested by the Forestry Development Authority (FDA), the government agency that enforces Liberia’s wildlife laws. Desmond captured the sting on camera:
The trafficker, who appeared to be in his 20s, told Ms. Desmond and the FDA official that he purchased the chimp from hunters. In Liberia, as in other African countries with a wild chimpanzee population, poachers kill adult chimps for bushmeat and sell their babies as exotic pets.
Jenny Desmond of Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection comforts Ella, a baby chimp who is clinging on to the exotic pet trafficker who was attempting to sell her.
Before the Desmonds created a chimpanzee sanctuary, Liberian officials turned a blind eye to the sale of baby chimps because they didn’t have a place to bring them following a confiscation. The lack of enforcement has, until now, enabled the exotic pet trade to flourish. While the Desmonds continue to receive confiscated chimps, they anticipate that the numbers will dwindle over time as poachers and traffickers come to the realization that authorities are confiscating animals and prosecuting the crimes.
Two of the approximately 20 chimps rescued by Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection after being held captive
Since arriving in Liberia in 2015, the Desmonds have rescued over 20 chimps, all of whom are being housed in a makeshift sanctuary. In December, 2017, they leased a 100 acre tract of forested land on the local river where they plan to build a proper sanctuary from the ground up. The sanctuary, LCRP, will have enclosed areas in the forest so that the chimps can live in a semi-wild environment by day; night time housing for the younger chimps; a clinic; a commissary for food preparation; isolation areas for new arrivals to prevent the spread of illnesses; housing for caregivers and volunteers; public areas for education and conservation programs; and administrative offices.
After being confiscated by wildlife authorities, Ella, a victim of the exotic pet trade whose mother was killed by poachers, finds peace and happiness at Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection (LCRP)
Please support the life-saving rescue and conservation work being conducted by Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection.
Filed under: Experimentation
Tagged with: chimpanzees, Jane Goodall
IBM Issues Public Statement Severing Ties With New York Blood Center Over Chimp Abandonment
May 16, 2017 by Donny Moss — Leave a Comment
In a statement posted on its website, IBM announced that it has severed all ties with the NY Blood Center on account of the organization’s decision to abandon 66 chimpanzees with no food or water on islands in Liberia. IBM joins NYBC’s other long term corporate partners, MetLife and Citigroup, in demanding accountability from the organization.
IBM severs ties with NY Blood Center over chimp abandonment
The announcement, which states that IBM has suspended its blood drives, marks the end of a 54 year relationship between IBM and NYBC.
IBM has terminated its 54 year partnership with IBM on account of the abandoned chimps
IBM donated space to the New York Blood Center for blood drives.
IBM’s decision to sever ties with the NY Blood Center marks the end of a 54 relationship.
The news comes after a protest at IBM and months of discussions with animal welfare advocates who have been working to convince NYBC’s corporate parters to demand accountability from the organization.
The Care2 petition asking IBM to demand accountability from NYBC was signed by over 163,000 people.
The NY Blood Center abandoned 66 chimps on islands with no natural food or water and cut all funding for their care. Here, the chimps await the daily delivery of food and water. (Photo: Jenny Desmond for HSUS)
After NYBC abandoned the chimps, the animals went a week with no food or water.
After conducting research experiments on approximately 500 chimpanzees for 30 years and promising to provide the survivors with lifelong care, NYBC decided to abandon the 66 surviving chimps with no food or water on islands in Liberia, leaving them to die of starvation and thirst. Using money donated by the public, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has stepped in on an emergency basis to cover the monthly costs associated with feeding the chimps.
Among the many organizations that have spoken out against the New York Blood Center are Citigroup, MetLife and the Jane Goodall Institute
Dr. Jane Goodall, one of many leaders in the animal welfare community who have spoken out against NYBC’s decision to starve their chimps, wrote the following in a letter to the organization’s CEO, Christopher Hillyer, “I find it completely shocking and unacceptable that NYBC would abandon these chimpanzees and discontinue support for even their basic needs. Your company was responsible for acquiring these chimpanzees and thus has a moral obligation to continue to care for them for the remainder of their lives.”
The NY Blood Center made a promise to provide their chimpanzees with lifelong care.
In February, TheirTurn’s Donny Moss traveled to Liberia to visit and document the abandoned chimps; the Liberians who stepped in on a voluntary basis to save their lives; and Jenny and Jim Desmond, the American couple contracted by HSUS to oversee the care of the chimps.
Please thank IBM for taking a principled stand against the New York Blood Center by retweeting this tweet.
Please join the Facebook page, New York Blood Center: Do the Right Thing, to stay apprised of the campaign to hold NYBC accountable and to participate in online actions on behalf of the abandoned chimps.
Chimps abandoned by the New York Blood Center on islands in Liberia await their daily delivery of food and water.
Tagged with: chimpanzees, chimps, Citigroup, IBM, Jane Goodall, MetLife, New York Blood Center
Saved From the Brink of Starvation (VIDEO)
May 8, 2017 by Donny Moss — Leave a Comment
Two years after the New York Blood Center (NYBC) abandoned 66 chimps on islands in Liberia with no food or water, TheirTurn traveled to the West African nation to meet the American and Liberian heroes who stepped in to save them from the brink of death.
After conducting research experiments on over 400 chimpanzees for 30 years and promising to provide the survivors with lifelong care, NYBC decided to abandon the 66 surviving chimps, leaving them to die of starvation and thirst. In addition to abandoning the chimps, NYBC abandoned all of the Liberians tasked with caring for the chimps, who were totally dependent on humans for survival. Many of the Liberians, who were impoverished and suffering from the effects of the Ebola epidemic, continued to work on a volunteer basis until the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) stepped in and reinstated their salaries using funds donated by thousands of individuals and animal welfare organizations from around the world.
The New York Blood Center abandoned 66 chimpanzees on islands in Liberia with no food or water (photo: Jenny Desmond for HSUS)
Dr. Jane Goodall, one of many leaders in the animal welfare community who have spoken out against NYBC’s decision to starve their chimps, wrote the following in a letter to the organization’s CEO, Christopher Hillyer, “I find it completely shocking and unacceptable that NYBC would abandon these chimpanzees and discontinue support for even their basic needs. Your company was responsible for acquiring these chimpanzees, some we understand even from the wild, and thus has a moral obligation to continue to care for them for the remainder of their lives.”
Jenny Desmond (pictured on left) and her husband Jim were hired by HSUS to oversee the care of the chimps abandoned by the New York Blood Center
Tagged with: chimpanzees, chimps, Jane Goodall, New York Blood Center
Activists Confront NY Blood Center’s Michael Hodin Over Abandoned Chimps
April 17, 2017 by Donny Moss — Leave a Comment
As New York Blood Center (NYBC) board member Michael Hodin walked toward his Manhattan home, activists protesting his decision to abandon 66 chimps with no food or water confronted him face-to-face for the first time. During previous protests outside of his luxury condo, Hodin has always watched from his windows.
Hodin, who is the CEO of the for-profit Global Coalition on Aging, stands by the Blood Center’s decision to abandon the chimps. “Hodin advocates for elderly humans, yet he signed off on a plan to leave elderly chimps to starve to death,” said Donny Moss of TheirTurn. “Elder abuse is elder abuse, regardless of the species. How sad that Mr. Hodin can’t connect the dots.”
Photo on the right by Jenny Desmond for HSUS
During the past year, the abandoned chimp protests at Hodin’s apartment have become more heated, as neighbors have grown weary of the presence of activists. In October, 2016, the New York Post ran a story about the protests (War Between Nonprofits Rages over Care of Research Chimps) in which a spokesperson for NYBC, Rob Purvis, made false claims about the activists: “There have been attempts to enter trustees’ residences, and photos of trustees’ children and grandchildren have been posted online.”
Christopher Hillyer, the CEO of this charity, had a compensation package that exceeded $1.5M as of 2014.
After conducting research experiments on almost 500 chimpanzees for 30 years and promising to provide the survivors with lifelong care, NYBC decided to abandon the 66 surviving chimps with no food or water on islands in Liberia, leaving them to die of starvation and thirst. Using money donated by members of the public, Citigroup and The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has stepped in on an emergency basis to cover the monthly costs associated with feeding the chimps.
NYBC made a commitment to provide the survivors of its experiments with lifelong care, but the organization changed its mind, leaving the chimps to starve to death on islands with no natural food or water.
Please join the Facebook page, New York Blood Center: To the Right Thing, to stay apprised of the campaign to hold NYBC accountable and to participate in online actions on behalf of the abandoned chimps.
Tagged with: chimpanzees, chimps, Jane Goodall, Michael Hodin, New York Blood Center
Chimp Advocates Stage Disruption in IBM’s Lobby
January 24, 2017 by Donny Moss — Leave a Comment
After being strung along for months with promises from IBM, advocates fighting on behalf of the chimps abandoned by the NY Blood Center (NYBC) staged a disruption in the company’s lobby in NYC. IBM is one of NYBC’s largest corporate partners.
Over the past four months, IBM gave advocates the distinct impression that the company was genuinely concerned about the abandoned chimps and that it planned to demand accountability from NYBC, which operates a lucrative blood collection site at an IBM campus in upstate New York. Advocates now realize that company’s ongoing expression of concern was merely strategy to contain them — with the hope that they would go away.
Advocates say that, as IBM misled the community by stringing them along, a real atrocity with real victims was taking place. Advocates also say that, as long as IBM continues to turn a blind eye to NYBC’s crime while maintaining a mutually beneficial alliance with the organization, the company remains complicit.
Advocates stage protest at IBM building in NYC (Photo by Michael Whitley Photography
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For a 30 year period starting in the mid-1970s, NYBC conducted experiments on approximately 500 chimpanzees in Liberia, where they could capture, breed and experiment on them with little regulatory oversight. After completing the research, NYBC moved the survivors onto six islands with no natural food or water and made a public commitment to provide them with lifelong care.
In May, 2015, the NY Times reported that NYBC had “withdrawn all funding,” leaving the chimps to die of starvation and thirst. In order to keep the chimps alive, Liberians who had been employed by NYBC to deliver food and water, began to care for them on a volunteer basis. With virtually no resources and burdened by the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, these volunteers kept the chimpanzees alive until a coalition of over 30 animal conservation groups, led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), raised funds from the public to pay for the chimps’ care on an emergency basis.
Chimpanzees abandoned by the NY Blood Center on islands in Liberia
NYBC, which has earned an estimated $500 million in royalties off of the research conducted on the chimpanzees, has publicly stated that it has no “contractual obligation” to pay for the chimps’ food and water and has shifted the financial burden of caring for their captive chimp population to the animal welfare community. Advocates are now demanding that NYBC’s corporate partners, like IBM, hold the organization accountable for its crime.
Sign the petition to IBM.
Use this tweet sheet, which targets IBM and other NY Blood Center partners.
Join the Facebook page: New York Blood Center: Do the Right Thing to stay apprised of news and to participate in online actions to pressure the NY Blood Center to provide lifelong care to their former laboratory chimps.
Tagged with: chimpanzees, IBM, Jane Goodall, New York Blood Center
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System and network security
Computer security news, advice and opinion
What's cyber security?
Computer security, cybersecurity or information technology security (IT security) is the security of computer systems in the theft of or damage to their own hardware, applications, or digital information, in addition to in the disruption or misdirection of their solutions they supply. The area is becoming more important because of greater reliance on computer technologies, the web and wireless system standards like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and as a result of development of "smart" devices, such as televisions, smartphones, and the numerous devices which constitute the"Internet of things". Due to its complexity, both regarding science and politics, cybersecurity can also be one of the significant challenges in the modern world.
Organizations face many threats to their data systems and information. Knowing all of the fundamental elements to cyber safety is the first step to fulfilling these threats.
Types of cyber security.
The reach of cyber protection is broad. The core regions are explained below, and some other fantastic cyber security plan must take all of them into consideration.
Critical infrastructure.
Critical infrastructure includes the cyber-physical systems which society is based on, for example, electricity grid, water purification, traffic lighting and hospitals. Plugging a power plant to the world wide web, as an instance, makes it vulnerable to cyber attacks. The solution for associations accountable for critical infrastructure would be to carry out due diligence to safeguard recognize the vulnerabilities and protect from them. Everyone else must evaluate the way an attack on critical infrastructure that they rely on could impact them and develop a contingency plan.
Network security.
Network security guards against malicious intrusion in addition to malicious insiders. Ensuring network security frequently requires trade-offs. By way of instance, access controls like additional logins may be required, but slow down productivity. Tools used to track network safety create a great deal of information -- so much that legitimate alarms are often overlooked. To help better handle network security monitoring, safety teams are using machine learning how to flag abnormal traffic and alert to risks in real time.
Cloud security.
The business's move to the cloud generates new safety challenges. By way of instance, 2017 has seen nearly weekly information breaches from badly configured cloud cases. Cloud suppliers are creating new safety tools to help business users secure their information, however, the bottom line remains: Moving into the cloud isn't a panacea for performing due diligence in regards to cyber security.
Application security.
Application security (AppSec), especially web application security, has become the weakest technical point of attack, but few organizations adequately mitigate all the OWASP Top Ten web vulnerabilities. AppSec begins with secure coding practices, and should be augmented by fuzzing and penetration testing. Rapid application development and deployment to the cloud has seen the advent of DevOps as a new discipline. DevOps teams typically prioritize business needs over security, a focus that will likely change given the proliferation of threats.
Internet of things (IoT) security.
IoT describes a huge array of crucial and non-critical cyber physiological systems, such as appliances, sensors, printers and safety cameras. IoT devices often ship in an insecure condition and give little to no security, posing risks to not just their customers, but also to other people online, since these devices frequently find themselves part of a botnet. This presents special security challenges for the home users and society.
Top 10 Active Directory Service Accounts Best Practices in 2019
Category: Blog Created: Monday, 11 November 2019 17:32
With Windows Active Directory, a range of different account types can be set up with the necessary permissions, access, and roles. These include service accounts, which are intended for use when installing applications or services on the operating system. Common types of Active Directory service accounts include built-in local user accounts, domain user accounts, managed ... Read moreTop 10 Active Directory Service Accounts Best Practices in 2019
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With Windows Active Directory, a range of different account types can be set up with the necessary permissions, access, and roles. These include service accounts, which are intended for use when installing applications or services on the operating system. Common types of Active Directory service accounts include built-in local user accounts, domain user accounts, managed service accounts, and virtual accounts. These accounts have broader privileges and greater access to the infrastructure than other accounts, which makes them vulnerable to security exploitation.
In this article, I’ll set out best practices for keeping your service accounts secure as well as explain why the final and most important service accounts best practice is making sure you have a solution like Access Rights Manager to provide critical insights into your AD permissions.
Jump ahead:
Keep access limited
Create service accounts from scratch
Don’t put service accounts in built-in privileged groups
Disallow service account access to important objects
Remove unnecessary rights
Set access by using the “Log On To” feature
Limit time frames
Control password configuration
Enable auditing
Implement access rights management software
How Active Directory Service Accounts Work
Each type of Active Directory service account has its own operation purposes.
Built-in local user accounts include the System account (for local system administration), the Local Service account which accesses network services with no credentials, and the Network Service account which accesses network resources using the computer’s credentials.
Domain user accounts are intended for use by services and are centrally managed by Active Directory. It’s possible to create a user account for a single service, or to share it across multiple services. However, with domain user accounts, you can only grant the privileges required by the service, and you need to reset passwords regularly.
Active Directory managed service accounts are similar to domain user accounts, but the password is reset regularly and automatically. With Active Directory managed service accounts, you can only assign one user account per computer, and each account can be used with multiple services on the computer. Alternately, you can create separate accounts for each service.
The benefits of a managed service account include heightened security and ease of maintenance. Moreover, these accounts can run services on a computer with the possibility of connecting to network services as a specific user principal. However, it’s important to regularly audit these accounts, in addition to following Active Directory service account best practices to ensure security.
Active Directory Service Accounts Best Practices
Keep access limited. Ensure you only allocate AD service accounts the minimum privileges they require for the tasks they need to carry out, and don’t give them any more access than is necessary. In many cases you can remove the functionality for remote access, terminal service login, internet access, and remote control rights.
Create service accounts from scratch. Don’t create service accounts in Active Directory by copying old ones, as you might accidentally be copying from a service account with much higher privileges than you need. This could lead to security issues and account misuse if you give someone an account with access to resources or information they shouldn’t be privy to.
Don’t put service accounts in built-in privileged groups. Putting service accounts in groups with built-in privileges can be risky, because each person in the group will have access to the service account’s credentials. If there’s account misuse, it can be hard to figure out who the offender is. If you need a service account for a privileged group, create a new group with the same privileges and allow access only to the service account.
Disallow service account access to important objects. Use an access control list to protect sensitive files, folders, groups, or registry objects from misuse by AD Service Accounts. To disallow access, go into an object and open the “Properties” window to access security permissions, add an account to the “Permission Entry” list, and set the status to “Deny.” This will prevent the service account from accessing the object. If you need to give someone specific access to the object, you can add them, then switch them back to “Deny” later, when they’ve finished their task.
Remove unnecessary rights. Denying nonessential user rights is helpful to keep security measures strong. This includes “deny access to this computer from the network,” “deny logon locally,” and “deny logon as a batch job.”
Set access by using the “Log On To” feature. When you create a service account in Active Directory, you can allow it to only log on to certain machines to protect sensitive data. Open Active Directory Users and Computers, then “Properties.” In the “Account” tab, click the “Log On To” button and add the computers to the list of permitted devices the service account can log on to.
Limit time frames. You can add extra security by configuring AD service accounts to be allowed to log on only at certain times of day.
Control password configuration. You can set a service account so the user can’t change their own password. You can also set it so the account can’t be delegated to someone else. This ensures the administrator controls the password, and nobody other than authorized users has access to the account.
Enable auditing. Be sure to enable auditing for all service accounts and related objects. Once auditing is enabled, regularly check the logs to see who’s using the accounts, when, and for what purposes. Auditing is one of the most important of the best practices: it helps ensure security, verifies internal processes and compliance measures are being followed, and can discover any issues or breaches before too much time passes.
Implement access rights management software. Carefully managing your Active Directory service accounts is crucial to preventing misuse of broad access and privileges. An access rights management tool can be beneficial to ensure user accounts are set up and managed with appropriate permissions and access.
I recommend SolarWinds® Access Rights Manager (ARM), which is built to automate account management process and reduce the time you need to spend provisioning. The software also includes detailed auditing and compliance monitoring tools to help you meet strict security compliance requirements, including policy- and industry-specific compliance regulations such as GDPR, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.
The auditing tools in ARM are simple and easy to use, and they allow you to quickly create auditor- and management-ready reports on account use as well as behavior to show adherence to important security processes.
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The Week Ahead: Which Housing Markets are Overvalued?
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On Tuesday, CoreLogic will release its report giving insights into U.S. Home Prices in December with a forecast from January. The report, titled "U.S. Home Price Insights" features an interactive view of CoreLogic's Home Price Index and is designed to provide an early indication of home price trends. The report also forecasts home price levels for single-family homes and highlights markets that are currently priced above the median national home price and those that are underperforming.
According to the last home price insights report for November 2018 with forecasts from December, home prices were expected to increase by 4.8 percent on a year-over-year basis from November 2018 to November 2019. On a month-over-month basis, home prices were expected to decrease slightly by 0.8 from November 2018 to December 2018.
“The rise in mortgage rates has dampened buyer demand and slowed home-price growth. Interest rates for new 30-year fixed-rate loans averaged 4.9 percent during December, the highest monthly average since February 2011. These higher rates and home prices have reduced buyer affordability. Home sellers are responding by lowering their asking price, which is reflected in the slowing growth of the CoreLogic Home Price Index,” said Dr. Frank Nothaft, Chief Economist at CoreLogic.
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Forensic auditors urge action on CIFIA Bill
The Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors of Nigeria (CIFIA) has called on the House of Representatives to follow the Senate and pass the CIFIA Bill in order to boost the fight against corruption.
CIFIA’s Chief promoter, Dr Victoria Enape, made the appeal at the induction/ training of new members in Abuja, with the theme “Transition to Forensic and Investigative Audit.”
The Bill for an Act to establish the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors of Nigeria was jointly sponsored by Sen. Ahmed Lawan, the Senate Majority Leader and Sen. Andy Uba.
The Bill has been passed by the Senate and waits passage by the lower chamber before transmission to the president for assent.
Enape, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, advised the Federal Government to embrace the current trend of forensic and investigative auditing to revamp the nation’s economy and check fraudulent practices.
She said if the Bill was enacted, it would help position forensic fellows in various organisations and agencies to check illicit financial flow in the country.
Enape said: “Our appeal is that the Bill should be given speedy concurrence at the House of Representatives, so that it can be moved to the president for assent.
“After presidential assent, we will be able to do anything Nigeria wants us to do to assist in ensuring prevention of fraud.”
Enape also called for synergy with stakeholders in order to ensure that forensic auditing which was a new trend in global auditing became a reality in Nigeria.
“Therefore forensic auditors must not necessary be only accountants considering the nature of the works involved,” she added.
On his part, a fellow of CIFIA, Mr Mavis Ighota, said that the induction would enable the professional diversity in response to the urgent globalisation in the fight against fraud and corruption.
According to him, CIFIA is soliciting for collaboration with ICAN and other professional bodies in order to achieve their respective goals.
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“We are no threat to any professional body in Nigeria but only trying to fill a vacuum” she said.
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DAD: How Disciplined Agile Delivery Approaches Enterprise
CI/CD / Cloud Native / Development / DevOps
4 Sep 2017 9:00am, by Jennifer Riggins
There’s no doubt agile software development works for small teams. But what happens as you scale up? What about if you want more than developers to behave with agility?
The Disciplined Agile Delivery framework (DAD) looks to answer the many, many questions that an enterprise faces during this transformation. We sat down with the two founders of DAD to learn just how it works, how it compares with other agile frameworks, and how they believe architecture should be at the center of enterprise agile.
“We were observing that these customer organizations were either succeeding with agile or roughly succeeding with it, but it was a very long and arduous process and expensive, figuring out continuous integration and continuous deployment, issues around governance, graphic distribution, how does architecture fit in? All of these organizations are struggling with the same issues,” Scott Ambler, co-author of “Disciplined Agile Delivery,” along with Mark Lines.
On the other hand, “We also observed that every person and every team and organization is different.”
Ambler continued to say that a lot of the popular scaling agile methodologies are very prescriptive. “We know there are many ways to approach these daily needs, many ways to run retrospectives and daily stand-ups,” he said.
The authors wrote their first Disciplined Agile Delivery book in 2012. “Here are the issues, and how are you going to coordinate. Here are the options and here are the tradeoffs of those options,” Ambler said, describing the book.
“We’re first believers that choice is good and context counts — and the choices you make and your skills and culture will determine how you make decisions as a team.” — Scott Ambler
They argue that Scrum or other more prescriptive methodologies may work for awhile, but teams are constantly changing and constantly evolving.
“But a lot of coaches need to figure this all out on your own — we’re special, we’re unique,” Ambler said. “ But other people have been down this path before. If you are dealing with this problem, here are three or four different choices that people made. Here’s a range. We don’t need to figure it out on our own.”
DAD focuses on streamlining the whole software development lifecycle, from conception to construction to transition of delivery to deployment. It includes Scrum’s change management collaboration techniques, but also addresses architecture, testing and governance in an agile manner.
Ambler says a lot of businesses are doing a lot of “Waterscrumfall.”
Scrum doesn’t prescribe for the beginning, so he contends that “Organizations are very good at doing planning, heavy upfront stuff — because Scrum says figure it out — and heavy upfront deployment.”
This means that the development process may be agile or Scrum, but the beginning and the end is very traditional, heavily planned Waterfall. Disciplined Agile Delivery is a combination of lean change management and agile, focusing on optimizing the whole.
“How do we optimize this software delivery or solution delivery activity throughout the lifecycle then you streamline more in continuous delivery mode?” — Scott Ambler
DAD is also focused on the realization that different teams do different things, so you can’t prescribe the same framework across a large organization. Depending on the level of maturity of the teams, they could be doing Kanban, Scrum, Lean Startup, continuous deployment, or a combination.
Ambler asks, “Shouldn’t your framework support multiple life cycles? Why don’t we just revel in that and let’s support that and help their transition?”
He says a team might start with a “Scrumish” lifecycle, but as the team matures, they may not see the need to do daily standups or bi-weekly retrospectives, since they spend all day together. They also might migrate to a continuous delivery approach through agile or lean. What matters is, while they started with something like Scrum a year ago, it will have drastically evolved from there.
Ambler says it’s never just about software development, which is what most agile coaches concentrate on.
“This stuff is being governed. Someone’s keeping an eye on the money. Are we actually building things that make sense for our company? In a lot of organizations the governance is a tad dysfunctional because they are traditional.” — Scott Ambler
“If you are an agile or lean team, there should be lean or agile governance,” he continued. “It’s completely different than what they’ve been doing. They need help. They need a light-weight, risk-based governance approach, not a heavy docs approach.”
Since writing the first book, the DevOps lifecycle has taken off, which has now been brought into the DAD framework, as development, security, data, operations and support all need to go agile for agile to really happen.
Ambler offered the example of one of their clients Barclays bank, which has more than a 1,000 DAD teams working often asynchronously. When security is so important like it is in the financial industry, it’s impossible to empower each of these teams to release on demand. There needs to be a cross-organization release management. For any large scale operation, there is going to be internal support desk that manages this process too, something that most frameworks and methodologies don’t factor in at all.
He went on to even say that you can’t just have development behaving in an agile manner, IT, enterprise architecture and even human resources, finance, procurement, marketing and sales have to be involved.
“If the rest of the organization doesn’t know how to leverage IT or it’s not a great relationship with IT, then you have a problem,” Ambler said. “My agile development team is going to touch all these other aspects in an organization. Anybody you rely on, they at least got to interact with you in an agile manner.”
Only with a cross-enterprise orchestration can you reuse and recycle lessons learned in both management and engineering.
“A very common problem is the business don’t want to step up and get involved. They’re not agile,” warned Ambler. “In a lot of orgs, we see a lot of sub- or local optimization — we have a great dev team, but they are being shot in the foot by their finance guys.”
What you need to figure out is how everything fits together inside a large enterprise and how you can use agile to streamline all the way through.
How Does DAD Compare with Other Agile Frameworks?
There are many agile frameworks that look to scale agile, however the most popular only focus on scaling Scrum throughout the software development teams.
As Mark Lines put it, “The scaling frameworks are patterns to address a particular problem — scaling up the development effort for a very large team. They are all enterprise frameworks and solutions for solving enterprise problems.”
DAD’s objective is not just to specifically to solve that problem.
Lines calls it “a collection of good ideas to address particular team-based and org-based concepts.”
While the very popular frameworks, such as Large-Scale Scrum (SAFe) and the Less framework, have specific prescribed actions, he calls DAD more of a “process decision framework.”
“Every day you make dozens of decisions to try and be successful. People aren’t aware the decisions are available to them. We lay out options — like mod programming or pair programming,” Lines said, as they work to present the choices available to the wider organization.
DAD pulls from more than a hundred different agile methods, that can work complimentarily. Lines said Barclays went with DAD because of its inherent flexibility.
“Contrast that with Less. What if it’s not the right answer because Large-Scale Scrum says Scrum everywhere. Lean is a better approach to Scrum in many situations. Or everybody has to do Kanban or X,” he said.
Lines pointed out that you can do DAD alongside SAFe or Less because choices need to be made then too.
He argues that DAD accelerates the learning an organization goes through because all the options are laid out explicitly. While the concept of “fail fast” may work in a smaller startup setting, it can be too risky for an enterprise setting.
“If you don’t reference something like Disciplined Agile, the chances are you’re going to make a lot of choices and fails, but by referencing some proven ideas, you’re probably going to succeed earlier,” Lines said.
As the industry moves toward a blend of continuous delivery and deployment, with a lot of automation and DevOps, development can no longer be isolated. All pieces of an enterprise must work together to orchestrate in the name of overall shared business goals.
The Importance of Architecture in Agile at Scale
One thing that isn’t discussed in Scrum that’s important in agile at scale is architecture. Perhaps one of the most compelling parts of DAD is the role of architecture owner, who is in charge of making sure all architectural decisions are consistent across an organization, looking forward to avoiding technical debt.
While you want to keep your upfront modeling as lightweight as possible in agile, Ambler said that DAD includes some architectural modeling and some requirements modeling at the start, so an enterprise thinks through the whole technical strategy.
“Early in construction you want to prove the architecture works with working code,” he said.
In Disciplined Agile Delivery, you actually implement the highest risk requirements first. This may not always be the highest value choices, but you aren’t investing in work that will eventually fail.
“You de-risk your overall effort, straight out of the unified process,” Ambler said, as you prove whether your system works or doesn’t.
DAD emphasizes the importance of architecture providing guidance to all teams, particularly development. Lines and Ambler argue in favor of an architectural vision for an entire company. They even contend the architectural team should be guiding the whole business on who should be running what experiments.
“You don’t want everyone to play around with experiments,” Ambler said.
Those filling the roles of Enterprise Architect are also most aware of what’s being retired. If an enterprise is moving away from Windows, you don’t want teams building .NET apps.
And Ambler argues that when architecture is working in an agile way, productivity and quality dramatically improves, as they guide constraints.
This all folds in with one of Disciplined Agile Delivery’s seven principles: enterprise awareness.
“My team is only one of many teams. We should be working toward guidelines and the business vision. And that can evolve, but, at the end of the day, we should be reusing legacy data sources instead of creating another customer database.”
Ambler said this all fits together for an enterprise that approaches agile with mature thinking.
Feature image by Tim Graf on Unsplash.
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Cloud gaming isn’t even here yet and Bethesda already has to fix it
by Rachel Kaser — in Gaming
Bethesda revealed at this year’s E3 it would be offering something called Orion — a solution for game streaming that promises to make game streaming more feasible for those without the high-speed internet cloud gaming demands. Given that the whole industry seems to be pushing in that direction, this and similar solutions could be immeasurably helpful.
At first blush, Orion sounds like Bethesda‘s own offering in the cloud gaming arena — but it’s not. According to the company, its purpose is to reduce the amount of bandwidth a game requires and reduce latency. To do this, a company licensing a game engine would have to license Orion as well and incorporate it into the engine. Bethesda claims it can, “achieve dramatic latency reductions of up to 20% per frame as well as up to a 40% reduction in required bandwidth.” It also promises Orion will allow stream providers to reach “a bigger audience, at reduced costs, with a superior level of service.”
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Of all the companies to start offering solutions to game developers who might otherwise be turned off by the likes of Stadia, Bethesda isn’t the one I’d have thought would be the first — but good for them. I also highly doubt they’ll be the last.
Stadia’s offering, while the company has tried to dress it up in accessible terms, does require quite a lot from your internet connection. In order to stream games at 4K speeds, you have to have a download speed of over 35 Mbps. Even the baseline service requires at least 10 Mpbs, and often you’ll be streaming under non-optimal conditions (someone else in the house watching Netflix or, Cthulhu forbid, streaming games themselves). You can take Stadia’s speed test here to see how you rate.
For the moment, it’s alright because gaming’s not entirely based on cloud streaming… yet. But all the major companies are investing heavily in the streaming side of their business — not to the extent of Google Stadia, but they certainly seem to think it’s a technology worth incorporating into their existing console infrastructure. Microsoft and Sony have set aside their differences to partner on cloud streaming tech, and even Nintendo is reportedly “evaluating” cloud streaming.
So I anticipate Bethesda won’t be the first company to start offering solutions for those who can’t afford the internet speeds demanded by cloud gaming. Polygon reports, “Bandwidth savings using a single Orion technique, in a 10-minute gameplay test, goes from 23.43 Mbps with the technique off to 13.67 Mbps with the technique on.” That’s a huge difference, and could make all the difference for fence-sitters who aren’t sure they can stomach the price otherwise.
The downside to Orion is that it can’t really be implemented by consumers. It has to be integrated into the game engine itself by the developers. That’s likely to be a problem for all those hoping to offer a similar solution — there’s really no way to offer anything directly to consumers that’ll allow them to play games at the resolution of their choosing with low latency.
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Blackstone sells Weston hotel for $12M
Blackstone paid $10M for the 94-key hotel in 2016
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Blackstone sold a 94-key Marriott hotel in Weston for $12.38 million, three years after purchasing the property.
The New York-based private equity firm sold Towneplace Suites by Marriott at 1545 Three Villages Road for $131,702 per key, records show. Coral Gables-based Kenne RE, led by Gustavo Blanco, purchased the property.
The buyer secured a $10.3 million mortgage from Starwood Capital Group to finance the acquisition.
Blackstone paid $10.2 million for the hotel in 2016, records show. It was built in 2002 and totals 50,237 square feet. The property is near I-75 and the Weston Hills Country Club in the far western part of Broward County.
Blackstone has been an active investor in South Florida’s hotel and multifamily markets. In July, the company scooped up three Broward hotels for $43.2 million.
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June 4, 2019 / 1:57 AM / 7 months ago
PRECIOUS-Gold holds near 3-month peak as trade fears boost safe-haven demand
June 4 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose on Tuesday, holding near a more than three-month high hit in the previous session, as worries over a global recession due to trade conflicts drove investors to find refuge in safe-haven assets.
* Spot gold was up 0.1% at $1,326.49 per ounce by 0136 GMT, after touching its highest since Feb. 27 at $1,327.90 on Monday.
* U.S. gold futures rose 0.3% to $1,332.20 an ounce.
* The Nasdaq confirmed it was in a correction on Monday as stocks extended their recent sell-off amid the mounting trade worries. Global stock markets shed over $2 trillion in value in May.
* U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United States is seeking to “level the playing field” with China after decades of unfair trade practices, but his Dutch counterpart said tariffs would hurt international trade.
* Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump said the tariffs that his administration has imposed on Chinese imports were not pushing up U.S. inflation and were prompting manufacturers in the Asian powerhouse to move elsewhere.
* U.S. manufacturing growth slowed further in May to its weakest pace of activity in more than two-and-a-half years, defying expectations for a modest rebound, a national purchasing managers’ survey showed on Monday.
* Mexican officials said that Mexico can reach an agreement with the United States to resolve a dispute over migration that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten punitive tariffs, as high-level talks were set to begin in Washington.
* U.S. Treasury yields slip to their lowest levels since September 2017 following remarks from St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard who said a U.S. rate cut may be “warranted soon” because of global trade tensions and weak U.S. inflation.
* A gloomy economic outlook is prompting traders to increase bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates sooner rather than later.
* In late U.S. trading, federal funds futures implied traders saw about a 67% chance the U.S. central bank would reduce key short-term borrowing costs by a quarter point at its July 30-31 policy meeting.
* Holdings of SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, rose 2.21% to 759.65 tonnes on Monday from Friday, its best one-day percentage gain in nearly three years.
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* 0130 Australia Net Exports Contribution Q1
* 0130 Australia Retail Sales MM April
* 0430 Australia RBA Cash Rate June
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* 0900 EU HICP-X F&E Flash YY May
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* 1200 Brazil Industrial Output MM YY April
* 1400 US Factory Orders MM April
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One of our most popular John McLeod wooden bread boards designed to be well suited to work either as a simple counter top bread board or kitchen chopping board. A comfortable bread board with handle that makes easy work of the lifting of the board and the sliding off of chopped vegetables into a cooking pot. We make it in two sizes and both light and dark woods to accommodate all the variety of users such a board can serve.
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John McLeod is one of that small group of people who have had the good fortune to have made a dream for life come true. John started wood turning when he was 10 years of age after his father gave him a birthday present of a small treadle wood turning lathe. The actual lathe is pictured here.
John had an established career as manager of the largest plumbing and heating engineering company in Scotland involved in the plumbing and heating engineering of schools, hospitals, University buildings and some 600 houses a year. The dream of having his own wood turning business was always there and he allied that to going to the West Coast of Scotland, living in the Highlands enjoying his fishing, his shooting and his dogs and making and selling his hand turned products to markets far and wide.
In 1967 John decided to emigrate to Canada but before settling in Canada he visited Vermont and that was when it all started.
Turning down a number of employment opportunities he decided that this was the place where he wanted to make his dream come true and so in a borrowed workshop he set about making his first group of products and samples.
They were well received by the market, and in fact a display of his woodware was in the window of Georg Jensen on 5th Avenue, New York, in 1967. In addition to his wholesale business a retail store was opened in Wilmington.
By this time he was engaged in constructing a house from an 1836 barn and the workshop was in the basement.
Well time moved on and the basement was no longer big enough so the property at our present location was purchased.
The present-day, 15,000 square foot facility has developed from the property in the adjoining photograph.
In 1996 John decided to develop a method of wood turning which would ally the traditional skills with advanced technology.
This coupled to the prior years of experience and development has contributed to the unique character of our products.
None of this of course occurs without a great deal of hard work and commitment and some considerable personal expense The saving grace for John has been longevity in that he has come through all the ups and downs and been able to experience the fulfillment of his dream. He skis, he fishes, he hikes with his Labradors and he spends a great deal of time out at sea on his boat.
Retirement? No way! With Tommy to back him up and to take the daily pressures off, the business is just too interesting and too exciting to leave. There are new designs, there are new product,s there are new customers, there's new technology, there's new challenges and problems to be solved. It's all exciting.
As you can guess a wonderful support for 25 years has been John's wife Mary Ann. Her experience as a store owner in her own right in California and her expertise as a buyer for major retail companies were welcome contributions.
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Pokemon Sun & Moon Appearance: How to Change Hair, Clothes, Eye Color
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Published on November 18, 2016 | Updated on November 19th, 2016 at 08:18 pm Sharon Coone
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How to Change Your Appearance in Pokemon Sun and Moon
At the start of Pokemon Sun and Moon, you’re only given a handful of character customization options. You choose from only one of four presets, and then head on your way. Not exactly satisfying, so here’s how to change your appearance in Pokemon Sun and Moon.
How to Change Hairstyle and Hair Color
To change your hair, you’ll have to head to a salon. These are found in most cities, with the first you’ll run into being in Hau’oli City. You can recognize these buildings by the scissors logo out front.
Once you’re inside, you’ll have to cough up 5000 Pokemon Dollars for a new hairstyle and color. It’s 2000 just for a color change, and 4000 for just a haircut. These prices are paid upfront, and you won’t be able to preview styles. Basically, you’re blind picking for a large chunk of cash, and stuck with what you get unless you have another few thousand dollars.
To save you some money, here’s a collection of all male and female hairstyles available.
How to Change Clothes
Like in previous games, you’ll have to purchase new clothing from apparel shops. Head to town and find the store with a shirt sign out front. Inside, you can head into the fitting room and use the mirror to change between clothes you already own. If you want to buy new outfits, talk to the clerk inside the store.
How to Change Eye Color and Lipstick
You can change your eye color and lipstick color (if you’re playing a female character) in the fitting room mirror as well.
Now that you’ve changed your appearance to your liking, be sure to check out more Pokemon Sun and Moon tips, tricks, and more in our ever-expanding Ultimate Guide.
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by Urban Views RVA February 26, 2019
Consider the recent case of actor Jussie Smollett where he reported a homophobic racist attack and then within a 10-day period was being accused of making a false report (LYING) to the Chicago Police. The same Chicago PD with a horrendous record of cover-ups, murder and assault charges, harassment and over-policing of the Black Community was now building a case against a Black man who had just reported to them what clearly appeared to be a Hate Crime. Strange. It feels like a script from a television soap opera or a Reality –TV show. The fact that Smollett is a star on a hit television nighttime soap opera on FOX certainly feeds into the “drama” surrounding the case. If this is a case of bearing false witness or filing a false report and Smollett is guilty, then there should be consequences for those actions to be sure. However, we cannot look at this case separately from our reflection on truth and falsehood and, in what context do we assign blame and criminal charges and in what context do we just tolerate lies and lying as if it’s just “business as usual”?
The President of the United States has an extremely dubious relationship with the truth and has been documented by numerous major news sources on a daily basis for the extraordinary amount of lies he tells. It could be argued that the consequences of the lies told by the President put an entire nation in jeopardy and even have a global impact. However, more directly to the point is this, lies may be lies, BUT clearly “All LIES ARE NOT EQUAL.”
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The presumption of guilt that is assigned to black and brown bodies exacerbates the criminalization of the “behaviors” and the assertion that Black people are inherently guilty. There have been a rash of hash tags demonstrating this phenomenon. #BBQBecky, #SittinginStarbucksWhileBlack, #GolfingWhileBlack, #EatingatSubwayWhileBlack, #DrivingWhileBlack, #WearingSocksWhileBlack are all cases where 911 was called and Black people were confronted, harassed, arrested, and in the case of Sandra Bland, ended up dead because of the lies and false witness they were victimized by when the story was told by their white accusers. So Truth is Truth, but ALL Lies are Not Equal.
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For many professionals, responding to emails takes up a sizable chunk of work time.
While writing an email seems simple enough, there are mistakes many employees make when sending or receiving work messages.
From avoiding the “reply all” button to double-checking for errors, here are 15 email etiquette tips every professional should know.
Whether we like it or not, responding to emails consumes much of our time on the job.
American workers spend approximately five hours a day checking work and personal email, according to a study from Adobe. As work becomes more flexible, employees are scrolling their inboxes while watching TV, laying in bed, driving, in the bathroom, during work meetings and meals, and even while driving, Adobe found.
Despite the fact that we’re glued to our reply buttons, career coach Barbara Pachter said plenty of professionals still don’t know how to use emails appropriately.
Because of the sheer volume of messages we’re reading and writing, we may be more prone to making embarrassing errors, and those mistakes can have serious consequences.
Pachter outlines the basics of modern email etiquette in her book “The Essentials of Business Etiquette.” We pulled out the most essential rules you need to know.
Jacquelyn Smith, Vivian Giang, and Rachel Sugar contributed to earlier versions of this article.
SEE ALSO: The perfect way to start an email — and 29 greetings you should avoid
Include a clear, direct subject line.
Examples of a good subject line include “Meeting date changed,” “Quick question about your presentation,” or “Suggestions for the proposal.”
“People often decide whether to open an email based on the subject line,” Pachter said. “Choose one that lets readers know you are addressing their concerns or business issues.”
Use a professional email address.
If you work for a company, you should use your company email address. But if you use a personal email account — whether you are self-employed or just like using it occasionally for work-related correspondences — you should be careful when choosing that address, Pachter said.
You should always have an email address that conveys your name so that the recipient knows exactly who is sending the email. Never use email addresses (perhaps remnants of your grade-school days) that are not appropriate for use in the workplace, such as “babygirl@…” or “beerlover@…” — no matter how much you love a cold brew.
Think twice before hitting ‘reply all.’
No one wants to read emails from 20 people that have nothing to do with them. Ignoring the emails can be difficult, with many workers getting notifications of new messages on their smartphones or distracting pop-up messages on their computer screens. Refrain from hitting “reply all” unless you really think everyone on the list needs to receive the email, Pachter said.
Include a signature block.
Provide your reader with some information about you, Pachter suggested. “Generally, this would state your full name, title, the company name, and your contact information, including a phone number. You also can add a little publicity for yourself, but don’t go overboard with …read more
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How it Works: Datalytics
Posted on November 30, 2014by Andrea Mostosi
I few days ago I have been at Codemotion in Milan and I had the opportunity to discover some insights about technologies used by two of our main competitor in Italy: BlogMeter and Datalytics. It’s quite interesting because, also if technical challenges are almost the same, each company use a differente approach with a different stack.
Datalytics a is relatively new company founded 4 months ago. They had a desk at Codemotion to show theirs products and recruit new people. I chatted with Marco Caruso, the CTO (who probably didn’t know who I am, sorry Marco, I just wanted to avoid hostility 😉 ), about technologies they use and developer profile they were looking for. Requires skills was:
Backend developer: Java, MongoDB, Node.js, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop and all the cutting edge technologies related to big data (Semantic Web and Machine Learning)
Frontend developer: HTML5, CSS3, Angular.js and D3.js
Their tech team is composed by 4 developers (including the CTO) and main products are: Datalytics Monitoring™ (a sort of statistical dashboard that shows buzz stats in real time) and Datalytics Engage™ (a real time analytics dashboard for live events). I have no technical insights about how they systems works but I can guess some details inferring them from the buzz words they use.
Supported sources are Twitter, Facebook (only public data), Instagram, Youtube, Vine (logos are on their website) and probably Pinterest.
They use DataSift as data source in addition to standard APIs. I suppose their processing pipeline uses Storm to manage streaming input, maybe with an importing layer before. Data is crunched using Hadoop and Java and results are stored on MongoDB (Massimo Brignoli, Italian MongoDB evangelist, advertise their company during his presentation so I suppose they largely use it).
Node.js should be used for frontend. Is fast enough for near real time application (also using websockets) and play really well both with Angular.js and MongoDB (the MEAN stack). D3.js is obviously the only choice for complex dynamic charts.
I’m not so happy when I discover a new competitor in our market segment. Competition gets harder and this is not fun. Anyway guys at Datalytics seems smart (and nice) and compete with them would be a pleasure and will push me to do my best.
Now I’m curios to know if Datalytics is monitoring buzz on the web around its company name. I’m going to tweet about this article using #Datalytics hashtag. If you find this article please tweet me “Yes, we found it bwahaha” 😛
[UPDATE 2014-12-27 21:18 CET]
@DatalyticsIT favorite my tweet on December 1st. This probably means they found my article but the didn’t read it! 😀
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More about big-data ecosystem
Posted on July 16, 2013by Andrea Mostosi
Last month while I was inspecting the Hadoop ecosystem I found many other software related to big-data. Below the (incomplete again) list.
N.B. Informations and texts are taken from official websites or sources referenced at the end of the article.
Facebook Scribe (Github)
“Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine.”
Scribe servers are arranged in a directed graph, with each server knowing only about the next server in the graph. This network topology allows for adding extra layers of fan-in as a system grows, and batching messages before sending them between datacenters, without having any code that explicitly needs to understand datacenter topology, only a simple configuration.
Scribe was designed to consider reliability but to not require heavyweight protocols and expansive disk usage.
Facebook McDipper
“McDipper is a highly performant flash-based cache server that is Memcache protocol compatible.”
Facebook heavily use Memcached in early stages and when RAM’s cost became too expensive had to find a different solution. This is why McDipper was born. It is not different then other projects like Fatcache or Edis. As many DBMS did, they try to mimic an in-memory caching engine in order to extend available space. SSD are fast enough to have no problem about speed loss.
Facebook Haystack
“The new photo infrastructure merges the photo serving tier and storage tier into one physical tier. It implements a HTTP based photo server which stores photos in a generic object store called Haystack.”
A system specifically designed to serve static content using HTTP as fast as possible. Haystack can be broken down into these functional layers –
Haystack Object Store
I talked about it in a previous post.
Facebook Memcached (Github)
“Here at Facebook, we’re likely the world’s largest user of memcached. We use memcached to alleviate database load. memcached is already fast, but we need it to be faster and more efficient than most installations.”
Twitter Storm (Github)
“Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation.”
There are just three abstractions in Storm: spouts, bolts, and topologies.
A spout is a source of streams in a computation. Typically a spout reads from a queueing broker such as Kestrel, RabbitMQ, or Kafka, but a spout can also generate its own stream or read from somewhere.
A bolt processes any number of input streams and produces any number of new output streams. Most of the logic of a computation goes into bolts, such as functions, filters, streaming joins, streaming aggregations, talking to databases, and so on.
A topology is a network of spouts and bolts, with each edge in the network representing a bolt subscribing to the output stream of some other spout or bolt.
Twitter Snowflakes (Github)
“Snowflake is a network service for generating unique ID numbers at high scale with some simple guarantees.”
Twitter needed something that could generate tens of thousands of ids per second in a highly available manner. This naturally led us to choose an uncoordinated approach.
These ids need to be roughly sortable, meaning that if tweets A and B are posted around the same time, they should have ids in close proximity to one another since this is how we and most Twitter clients sort tweets. Additionally, these numbers have to fit into 64 bits.
To generate them in an uncoordinated manner, we settled on a composition of: timestamp, worker number and sequence number. Sequence numbers are per-thread and worker numbers are chosen at startup via zookeeper (though that’s overridable via a config file).
Twitter Fatcache (Github)
“Fatcache is memcache on SSD. Think of fatcache as a cache for your big data.”
SSD-backed memory presents a viable alternative for applications with large workloads that need to maintain high hit rate for high performance.
Like Facebook McDipper, Fatcache try to overcome memory limitations. It maintains an in-memory index for all data stored on disk. An in-memory index serves two purposes: cheap object existence checks and on-disk object address storage.
To minimize the number of small, random writes, fatcache treats the SSD as a log-structured object store. All writes are aggregated in memory and written to the end of the circular log in batches – usually multiples of 1 MB.
Twitter FlockDB (Github)
“FlockDB is a database that stores graph data, but it isn’t a database optimized for graph-traversal operations. Instead, it’s optimized for very large adjacency lists, fast reads and writes, and page-able set arithmetic queries.”
It is a distributed graph database for storing adjacency lists, with goals of supporting:
a high rate of add/update/remove operations
potientially complex set arithmetic queries
paging through query result sets containing millions of entries
ability to “archive” and later restore archived edges
horizontal scaling including replication
online data migration
Non-goals include: multi-hop queries (or graph-walking queries), automatic shard migrations
FlockDB is much simpler than other graph databases such as Neo4j because it tries to solve fewer problems. It scales horizontally and is designed for on-line, low-latency, high throughput environments such as web-sites.
Twitter Twemcache (Github)
“We built Twemcache because we needed a more robust and manageable version of Memcached, suitable for our large-scale production environment.”
Apache Kafka (Github)
“Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log.”
It is designed to support the following
Persistent messaging with O(1) disk structures that provide constant time performance even with many TB of stored messages.
High-throughput: even with very modest hardware Kafka can support hundreds of thousands of messages per second.
Explicit support for partitioning messages over Kafka servers and distributing consumption over a cluster of consumer machines while maintaining per-partition ordering semantics.
Support for parallel data load into Hadoop.
Kafka is aimed at providing a publish-subscribe solution that can handle all activity stream data and processing on a consumer-scale web site.
Apache Gora (Github)
“Gora is an open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support.”
Apache Mesos (Github)
“Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It can run Hadoop, MPI, Hypertable, Spark”
Main features are
Fault-tolerant replicated master using ZooKeeper.
Scalability to 10,000s of nodes using fast, event-driven C++ implementation.
Isolation between tasks with Linux Containers.
Multi-resource scheduling (memory and CPU aware).
Efficient application-controlled scheduling mechanism.
Java, Python and C++ APIs for developing new parallel applications.
Web UI for viewing cluster state.
Apache Spark (Github)
“Spark is an open source cluster computing system that aims to make data analytics fast both fast to run and fast to write. To run programs faster, Spark provides primitives for in-memory cluster computing: your job can load data into memory and query it repeatedly much more quickly than with disk-based systems like Hadoop MapReduce.”
Spark was initially developed for two applications where keeping data in memory helps: iterative algorithms, which are common in machine learning, and interactive data mining. In both cases, Spark can run up to100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce. However, you can use Spark for general data processing too.
Shark: Hive on Spark (Github)
“Shark is a large-scale data warehouse system for Spark designed to be compatible with Apache Hive. It can execute Hive QL queries up to 100 times faster than Hive without any modification to the existing data or queries. Shark supports Hive’s query language, metastore, serialization formats, and user-defined functions, providing seamless integration with existing Hive deployments and a familiar, more powerful option for new ones.”
Shark is built on top of Spark, a data-parallel execution engine that is fast and fault-tolerant. Even if data are on disk, Shark can be noticeably faster than Hive because of the fast execution engine. It avoids the high task launching overhead of Hadoop MapReduce and does not require materializing intermediate data between stages on disk. Thanks to this fast engine, Shark can answer queries in sub-second latency.
Fluentd (Github)
“Fluentd is an open-source tool to collect events and logs. 150+ plugins instantly enables you to store the massive data for Log Search, Big Data Analytics, and Archiving (MongoDB, S3, Hadoop)”
The fundamental problem with logs is that they are usually stored in files although they are best represented as streams (by Adam Wiggins, CTO at Heroku). Traditionally, they have been dumped into text-based files and collected by rsync in hourly or daily fashion. With today’s web/mobile applications, this creates two problems.
Need ad-hoc parsing: The text-based logs have their own format, and analytics engineer need to write a dedicated parser for each format. But that’s probably not the best use of your time. You should be analyzing data to make better business decisions instead of writing one parser after another.
Lacks Freshness: The logs lag. The realtime analysis of user behavior makes feature iterations a lot faster. A nimbler A/B testing will help you differentiate your service from competitors.
This is where Fluentd comes in. We believe Fluentd solves all issues of scalable log collection by getting rid of files and turning logs into true semi-structured data streams.
Kestrel (Github)
“Kestrel is a very simple message queue that runs on the JVM. It supports multiple protocols: memcache: the memcache protocol, with some extensions, thrift: Apache Thrift-based RPC, text: a simple text-based protocol”
A cluster of kestrel servers is like a memcache cluster: the servers don’t know about each other, and don’t do any cross-communication, so you can add as many as you like. The simplest clients have a list of all servers in the cluster, and pick one at random for each operation. In this way, each queue appears to be spread out across every server, with items in a loose ordering. More advanced clients can find kestrel servers via ZooKeeper.
Cloudera Impala (Github)
“Impala is an open source Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) query engine that runs natively on Apache Hadoop”
With Impala, you can query data, whether stored in HDFS or Apache HBase – including SELECT, JOIN, and aggregate functions – in real time.
To avoid latency, Impala circumvents MapReduce to directly access the data through a specialized distributed query engine that is very similar to those found in commercial parallel RDBMSs. The result is order-of-magnitude faster performance than Hive, depending on the type of query and configuration. (See FAQ below for more details.) Note that this performance improvement has been confirmed by several large companies that have tested Impala on real-world workloads for several months now.
Structure diagram:
HadoopDB
“HadoopDB is an Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads”
HadoopDB is:
A hybrid of DBMS and MapReduce technologies that targets analytical workloads
Designed to run on a shared-nothing cluster of commodity machines, or in the cloud
An attempt to fill the gap in the market for a free and open source parallel DBMS
Much more scalable than currently available parallel database systems and DBMS/MapReduce hybrid systems.
As scalable as Hadoop, while achieving superior performance on structured data analysis workloads
Hypertable
“Hypertable is an open source database system inspired by publications on the design of Google’s BigTable. The project is based on experience of engineers who were solving large-scale data-intensive tasks for many years.”
This project is for the design and implementation of a high performance, scalable, distributed storage and processing system for structured and unstructured data. It is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience to machine and component failures. Data is represented in the system as a multi-dimensional table of information. The data in a table can be transformed and organized at high speed by performing computations in parallel, pushing them to where the data is physically stored.
http://highscalability.com/product-scribe-facebooks-scalable-logging-system
http://blog.treasure-data.com/post/16034997056/enabling-facebooks-log-infrastructure-with-fluentd
http://blog.treasure-data.com/post/13047440992/fluentd-the-missing-log-collector-software
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The Apache Hadoop ecosystem
Posted on May 30, 2013by Andrea Mostosi
Few days after Google released its papers on 2003 many developers started implement them. Apache Hadoop is the biggest result of that implementation. Around Hadoop many other technologies was born and the Apache Software Foundation helped the most promising to grow up. Below there is an (incomplete) list of the Hadoop-related softwares.
Apache Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce)
“Hadoop is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.”
The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) offers a way to store large files across multiple machines. Hadoop and HDFS was derived from Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.
Apache Hive (Github)
“Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop […] Hive provides a mechanism to project structure onto this data and query the data using a SQL-like language called HiveQL.”
MapReduce paradigm is extremely powerful but programmers use SQL to query data from years. HiveQL is a SQL-like language to query data over the Hadoop filesystem.
An example of HiveQL:
CREATE TABLE page_view(viewTime INT, userid BIGINT,
page_url STRING, referrer_url STRING,
friends ARRAY<BIGINT>, properties MAP<STRING, STRING>
ip STRING COMMENT 'IP Address of the User')
COMMENT 'This is the page view table'
PARTITIONED BY(dt STRING, country STRING)
CLUSTERED BY(userid) SORTED BY(viewTime) INTO 32 BUCKETS
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '1'
COLLECTION ITEMS TERMINATED BY '2'
MAP KEYS TERMINATED BY '3'
STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE;
Apache Pig (Github)
“Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. […] Pig’s infrastructure layer consists of a compiler that produces sequences of Map-Reduce programs. […] Pig’s language layer currently consists of a textual language called Pig Latin”
If you don’t like SQL maybe you prefer a sort of procedural language. Pig Latin is different than HiveQL but have the same purpose: query data.
An example of Pig Latin:
set default_parallel 10;
daily = load 'NYSE_daily' as (exchange, symbol, date, open, high, low, close, volume, adj_close);
bysymbl = group daily by symbol;
average = foreach bysymbl generate group, AVG(daily.close) as avg;
sorted = order average by avg desc;
Apache Avro (GitHub)
“Avro is a data serialization system.”
It’s a framework for performing remote procedure calls and data serialization. It can be used to pass data from one program or language to another (e.g. from C to Pig). It is particularly suited for use with scripting languages such as Pig, because data is always stored with its schema in Avro, and therefore the data is self-describing.
Apache Chukwa (Github)
“Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems. It’s built on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Map/Reduce framework and inherits Hadoop’s scalability and robustness.”
It’s used to process and analyze generated logs and has different components:
Agents that run on each machine to collect the logs generated from various applications.
Collectors that receive data from the agent and write it to stable storage
MapReduce jobs or parsing and archiving the data.
Apache Drill (Github)
“Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets, based on Google’s Dremel. Its goal is to efficiently process nested data. It is a design goal to scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be able to process petabyes of data and trillions of records in seconds.”
Idea behind Drill is to build a low-latency execution engine, enabling interactive queries across billions of records instead of using a batch MapReduce process.
Apache Flume (Github)
“Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic application.”
It is a distributed service that makes it very easy to collect and aggregate your data into a persistent store such as HDFS. Flume can read data from almost any source – log files, Syslog packets, the standard output of any Unix process – and can deliver it to a batch processing system like Hadoop or a real-time data store like HBase.
Apache HBase (Github)
“HBase is the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store.”
It is an open source, non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google’s BigTable, is written in Java and provides a fault-tolerant way of storing large quantities of sparse data. HBase features compression, in-memory operation, and Bloom filters on a per-column basis as outlined in the original BigTable paper. Tables in HBase can serve as the input and output for MapReduce jobs run in Hadoop.
Apache HCatalog (Github)
“HCatalog is a table and storage management service for data created using Hadoop”
Hadoop needs a better abstraction for data storage, and it needs a metadata service. HCatalog addresses both of these issues. It presents users with a table abstraction. This frees them from knowing where or how their data is stored. It allows data producers to change how they write data while still supporting existing data in the old format so that data consumers do not have to change their processes. It provides a shared schema and data model for Pig, Hive, and MapReduce. It will enable notifications of data availability. And it will provide a place to store state information about the data so that data cleaning and archiving tools can know which data sets are eligible for their services.
Apache Mahout (Github)
“Mahout is a machine learning library’s goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries”
It’s an implementations of distributed machine learning algorithms on the Hadoop platform. While Mahout‘s core algorithms for clustering, classification and batch based collaborative filtering are implemented on top of Apache Hadoop using the map/reduce paradigm, it does not restrict contributions to Hadoop based implementations.
Apache Oozie (Github)
“Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs.”
Tasks performed in Hadoop sometimes require multiple Map/Reduce jobs to be chained together to complete its goal.
Oozie is a Java Web-Application that runs in a Java servlet-container and uses a database to store:
Workflow definitions
Currently running workflow instances, including instance states and variables
Oozie workflow is a collection of actions (i.e. Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs, Pig jobs) arranged in a control dependency DAG (Direct Acyclic Graph), specifying a sequence of actions execution. This graph is specified in hPDL (a XML Process Definition Language).
Apache Sqoop (Github)
“Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases.”
Sqoop (“SQL-to-Hadoop”) is a straightforward command-line tool with the following capabilities:
Imports individual tables or entire databases to files in HDFS
Generates Java classes to allow you to interact with your imported data
Provides the ability to import from SQL databases straight into your Hive data warehouse
After setting up an import job in Sqoop, you can get started working with SQL database-backed data from your Hadoop MapReduce cluster in minutes.
Apache ZooKeeper (Github)
“ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.”
it is an open source, in-memory, distributed NoSQL database, typically used for storing configuration variables.
Apache Giraph (Github)
“Giraph is an iterative graph processing system built for high scalability. For example, it is currently used at Facebook to analyze the social graph formed by users and their connections. Giraph originated as the open-source counterpart to Pregel, the graph processing architecture developed at Google”
While it is possible to do processing on graphs with MapReduce, this approach is suboptimal for two reasons:
MapReduce’s view of the world as keys and values is not the greatest way to think of graphs and often requires a significant effort to pound graph-shaped problems into MapReduce-shaped solutions.
Most graph algorithms involve repeatedly iterating over the graph states, which in a MapReduce world requires multiple chained jobs. This, in turn, requires the state to be loaded and saved between each iteration, operations that can easily dominate the runtime of the computation overall.
Giraph attempts to alleviate these limitations by providing a more natural way to model graph problems:
Think like a vertex!
Keep the graph state in memory during the whole of the algorithm, only writing out the final state (and possibly some optional checkpointing to save progress as we go).
Rather than implementing mapper and reducer classes, one implements a Vertex, which has a value and edges and is able to send and receive messages to other vertices in the graph as the computation iterates.
Apache Accumulo (Github)
“Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage and retrieval system.”
It is a sorted, distributed key/value store based on Google’s BigTable design. Written in Java, Accumulo has cell-level access labels (useful for security purpose) and server-side programming mechanisms called Iterators that allows users to perform additional processing at the Tablet Server.
Apache S4 (Github)
“S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data.”
Developed by Yahoo (which released the Yahoo’s S4 paper) and then open sourced to Apache. Inspired by MapReduce and Actor model for computation. Basic components are:
Processing Element (PE): Basic computational unit which can send and receive messages called Events.
Processing Node (PN): The logical hosts to PEs
Adapter: injects events into the S4 cluster and receives from it via the Communication Layer.
Apache Thrift (Github)
“Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services”
It is an interface definition language that is used to define and create services for numerous languages It is used as a remote procedure call (RPC) framework and was developed at Facebook for “scalable cross-language services development”. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently together.
To put it simply, Apache Thrift is a binary communication protocol.
http://harish11g.blogspot.it/2012/02/apache-chukwa-hadoop-bigdata-mapreduce.html
http://www.slideshare.net/arinto/apache-flume
http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/hcatalog-tables-metadata-hadoop-5451.html
http://www.infoq.com/articles/introductionOozie
http://engineering.linkedin.com/open-source/apache-giraph-framework-large-scale-graph-processing-hadoop-reaches-01-milestone
http://jayatiatblogs.blogspot.it/2011/02/introduction-to-s4.html
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How it works: Facebook – Part 2
Posted on March 27, 2013by Andrea Mostosi
In previous post I analyzed Facebook main infrastructure. Now I’m going deeper into services.
Facebook Images
Facebook is the biggest photo sharing service in the world and grows by several millions of images every week. Pre-2009 infrastructure uses three NFS tier. Also with some optimization this solution can’t easily scale over a few billions of images.
So in 2009 Facebook develop Haystack, an HTTP based photo server. It is composed by 5 layers: HTTP server, Photo Store, Haystack Object Store, Filesystem and Storage.
Storage is made on storage blades using a RAID-6 configuration who provides adequate redundancy and excellent read performance. The poor write performance is partially mitigated by the RAID controller NVRAM write-back cache. Filesystem used is XFS and manage only storage-blade-local files, no NFS is used.
Haystack Object Store is a simple log structured (append-only) object store containing needles representing the stored objects. A Haystack consists of two files:
the actual haystack store file containing the needles
plus an index file
Photo Store server is responsible for accepting HTTP requests and translating them to the corresponding Haystack store operations. It keeps an in-memory index of all photo offsets in the haystack store file. The HTTP framework we use is the simple evhttp server provided with the open source libevent library.
Insights and Sources
[Facebook Note] Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos
Facebook Messages and Chat
Facebook messaging system is powered by a system called Cell. The entire messaging system (email, SMS, Facebook Chat, and the Facebook Inbox) is divided into cells, and each cell contains only a subset of users. Every Cell is composed by a cluster of application server (where business logic is defined) monitored by different ZooKeeper instances.
Application servers use a data acces layer to communicate with metadata storage, an HBase based system (old messaging infrastructure relied on Cassandra) which contains all the informations related to messages and users.
Cells are the “core” of the system. To connect them to the frontend there are different “entry points”. An MTA proxy parses mail and redirect data to the correct application. Emails are stored in the same structure than photos: Haystack. There are also discovering service to map user-to-Cell (based on hashing) and service-to-Cell (based on ZooKeeper notifications) and everything expose an API.
There is a “dirty” cache based on Memcached to serve messages (from a local cache of datacenter) and social information about the users (like social indexes).
The search engine for messages is built using an inverted index stored in HBase.
Chat is based on an Epoll server developed in Erlang and accessed using Thrift and there is also a subsystem for logging chat messages (in C++). Both subsystems are clustered and partitioned for reliability and efficient failover.
Real-time presence notification is the most resource-intensive operation performed (not sending messages): keeping each online user aware of the online-idle-offline states of their friends. Real-time messaging is done using a variation of Comet, specifically XHR long polling, and/or BOSH.
[Facebook Note] Scaling the Messages Application Back End
[Facebook Note] The Underlying Technology of Messages
[Facebook Engineering] The Underlying Technology of Messages Tech Talk
[Facebook Note] Facebook Chat
[HighScalability] Facebook: An Example Canonical Architecture For Scaling Billions Of Messages
Original Facebook search engine simply searches into cached users informations: friends list, like lists and so on. Typeahead search (the search box on the top of Facebook frontend) came on 2009. It try to suggest you most interesting results. Performances are really important and results must be available within 100ms. It has to be fast and scalable and the structure of the system is built as follow:
First attempts are still on browser cache where are stored informations about user (friends, like, pages). If cache misses starts and AJAX request.
Many Leaf services search for results inside theirs indexes (stored into an inverted index called Unicorn). When results references are fetched from the indexes, they are merged and loaded from global datastore. An aggregator provide a single channel to send data to client. Obviously query are cached.
On 2012 Facebook starts from the core part of typeahead search to build a new search tool. Unicorn is the core part of the new Graph Search. Formally is an in-memory inverted index which maps Facebook contents as a graph database would do and you can query it as graph traversing tool. To be used for Graph Search, Unicorn was updated to be more than a traversing tool. Now supports nested queries, scoring and support for different kind of resources. Results are aggregated on different levels.
Query lifecycle is usually made by 2 steps: the Suggestion Phase and the Search Phase.
The Suggestion Phase works like “autocomplete” and Is powered by a Natural Language Processing (NLP) module attempts to parse text based on a grammar. It identifies parts of the query as potential entities and passes these parts down to Unicorn to search for them.
The Search Phase begins when the searcher has made a selection from the suggestions. The parse tree, along with the fbids of the matched entities, is sent back to the Top Aggregator. A user readable version of this query is displayed as part of the URL.
Currently Graph Search is still in beta.
[Facebook Note] The Life of a Typeahead Query
[Facebook Engineering] Typeahead Search Tech Talk
[Facebook Engineering] Under the Hood: Building Graph Search Beta
[Facebook Engineering] Under the Hood: Indexing and ranking in Graph Search
[Facebook Engineering] Under the Hood: Building out the infrastructure for Graph Search
Resources and insights
This post and the previous one are based and inspired by the answer of Michaël Figuière to the following question on Quora: What is Facebook’s architecture?
Additional stuff:
[Quora] What exactly is Facebook Unicorn?
[InfoQ] Scale at Facebook
[SiliconAngle] MySQL Isn’t Going Anywhere Soon, but HBase is a Great Addition to the Tool Belt
[TechCrunch] How Big Is Facebook’s Data? 2.5 Billion Pieces Of Content And 500+ Terabytes Ingested Every Day
[SlideShare] Facebook Messages & HBase
[myNOSQL] Fun With Numbers: How Much Data Is Facebook Ingesting
[Gigaom] Facebook is collecting your data – 500 terabytes a day
[LifeHacker] How Facebook Built Graph Search: Unicorns And Failed Interfaces
[CNET News] Understanding Unicorn: A dive into Facebook’s Graph Search
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Virtual memory and Redis cluster: to scale Redis is hard
Posted on March 7, 2013by Andrea Mostosi
Redis is a RAM based key-value store. RAM is expensive. Hard disks (even SSD) are slow. It’s the truth, we know.
A few months ago people tried to use Redis instead of MySQL (or similar SQL DBs) as main datastore. When you do, is easy to clash against the memory limit. As we learned from operative systems, first solution is to use your disk space to “enlarge” your RAM. Redis versions from 2.0 to 2.6 offer a Virtual Memory implementation.
Virtual Memory seems to be really useful in many cases. If only a small part of your keys get the vast majority of accesses you can efficiently keep only that part of keys into RAM and leave the remaining part on disk.
To enable Virtual Memory you can switch it on using vm-enabled yes and set the memory limit using vm-max-memory. Additionally you can fine tune the configuration using vm-pages and vm-page-size for swap file and vm-max-threads for concurrency.
Anyway since version 2.4 Virtual Memory is deprecated. This is the official note about it:
Redis VM is now deprecated. Redis 2.4 will be the latest Redis version featuring Virtual Memory (but it also warns you that Virtual Memory usage is discouraged). We found that using VM has several disadvantages and problems. In the future of Redis we want to simply provide the best in-memory database (but persistent on disk as usual) ever, without considering at least for now the support for databases bigger than RAM. Our future efforts are focused into providing scripting, cluster, and better persistence.
The alternative is Redis cluster. It will be a “distributed and fault tolerant implementation of a subset of the features available in the Redis stand alone server”. At the moment is a work in progress. There are some client-side implementation (for Node.js, for Ruby and more) but not yet an official, standalone version.
Virtual memory deprecation and Redis cluster long developing time make me think about a simple idea:
Redis is not ready to be the main datastore for a huge dataset, not yet.
More about Redis scaling
http://petrohi.me/post/6323289515/scaling-redis
[2013-03-09 UPDATE] @olinicola advises me a post by @antirez about to use Redis in memory and to swap on SSD. His response is the same:
TL;DR: the outcome of this test was expected and Redis is an in-memory system 🙂
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I am a long-time faculty member in the English department at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and the director of the Games Institute (uwaterloo.ca/games-institute). The Games Institute was created to study game, game-driven interactions and technologies, and, in a broader scope, any form of rich, compelling engagement with digital technologies.
The Games Institute has been the focus of both my research and administration since 2010, culminating in 2012 with the awarding of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant to form a games research network.
Called IMMERSe (The Interactive and Multi-Modal Research Syndicate), The SSHRC-funded project establishes a network of seven universities and six industry partners to conduct research into player experience and behavior, with studies focusing on player immersion, player presence, player relationships, and player addiction. The SSHRC award is $2.55M, with cash and in-kind contributions from academic and industry partners increasing the total award to $5.8M. Collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and multi-institutional from its inception, the network includes researchers from the arts, the social sciences, engineering, and computer science.
IMMERSe and the Games Institute have the goals of helping to drive game research, immersion/experience research, academic-industry collaboration in games, extensive training of graduate and undergraduate students for participation in academic research and industry careers, and extensive outreach with communities, governments, the media, and game companies large and small.
To this end, the Games Institute has initiated projects outside the SSHRC Partnership Grant, including a five-year project working with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival on a series of games and digital media properties for the purpose of linking students of high school age more directly with the understanding and appreciation of Shakespearean theatre. This project has been enlarged to include an extensive digitization of the Festival’s physical archives (costumes, masks, wigs, swords, and props) for various purposes, including the use of those archives in digital media productions and the tracing and preservation of production history. In another project, the Games Institute is collaborating with the SiG@Waterloo (Social Innovation Generation) to design game-like interactions with computer simulations of political, economic, and social systems for use in SiG’s Change Lab. In yet another, the Game Institute is partnering on the creation of a game with the creator of a smartphone app designed to help people track allergens in foods. Along with IMMERSe, these three projects suggest the broad range of potential sources of games research.
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