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Poor Charlize Theron
Because we all have deep wells of sympathy for gorgeous, billionaire blondes, here’s why Charlize Theron thinks you should feel sorry for her today: she’s just too pretty!
“Jobs with real gravitas go to people that are physically right for them and that’s the end of the story,”says the woman who won an Oscar for playing serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster.
“How many roles are out there for the gorgeous, fucking, gown-wearing eight-foot model?” Charlize said in the May issue of British GQ, whining that “when meaty roles come through, I’ve been in the room and pretty people get turned away first.”
This coming from a woman who not only has a robust career as an actress, but also makes millions on the side every year modelling for Dior and the like. Sucks to be her!
Weirdly, her best example of beauty-discrimination is a role that she actually did get. “I was auditioning for a lot of stuff where they thought I was too pretty,” Theron recently told the Wall Street Journal, complaining that she almost didn’t get a role in the 1997 film Devil’s Advocate because director Taylor Hackford thought she was too good looking to play such a gritty role. “Devil’s Advocate was probably the hardest — they put me through the wringer,” Charlize told the publication recently, “Taylor just wasn’t convinced. He was like, ‘If you were his wife, why would he cheat on you?’ So there. She’s also too pretty to be cheated on. And definitely too pretty to realize how stupid she sounds. I mean, if you’re going to show up to accept Spike TV’s “Decade of Hotness” award, you just have to be prepared to accept all the terrible fallout that comes along with it.
So here’s a list of ugly women Hollywood cast instead of Charlize Theron, the woman too pretty to land jobs in a looks-obsessed industry:
Nicole Kidman – this ugmo got the lead role in Moulin Rouge instead of Charlize, who can’t sing, incidentally, but the main reason was of course, her distracting beauty, which is why they replaced her with Kidman, who after all, only models for Chanel, Jimmy Choo, and Omega, though that’s not an exhaustive list.
Theron was originally cast as Greta Wegener in The Danish Girl but she was just too beautiful, so she has to be replaced by someone far plainer – Gwyneth Paltrow (who admittedly models for Hugo Boss and Estee Lauder), who actually was still too damned beautiful, so they got rid of her and went with the plainest woman they could think of, Marion Cotillard (yes, she technically models for the same brand as Charlize – Dior – but it’s in the uglier handbag section, so it barely counts), and then they thought, jeez, I don’t know, maybe even crummy old Marion is still just a little too pretty for this, so let’s call up that frumpy dancer, Alicia Vikander (who barely manages a Louis Vuitto n campaign)
Theron was in consideration for the role of Helen Gandy in J. Edgar, but the director realized, no, this woman is just too beautiful, and so he hired the repulsive Naomi Watts instead, once voted #2 in the French edition of FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006”, presumably right behind Miss Theron, and a model for Pantene and Ann Taylor.
Charlize’s utter radiance has had to be replaced not once but twice by plain Jane Reese Witherspoon, in both Sweet Home Alabama and Legally Blonde (a role arguably meant for an attractive blonde woman, but I suppose there’s attractive and there’s too attractive). Luckily Witherspoon, ranked #1 on E!’s Hollywood’s Hottest Blondes, had time between her successful Gap modelling campaign to accept these wallflower roles.
And then there was the time Charlize auditioned for the role of Rose in Titanic. James Cameron must have also been ultimately discouraged by her exquisiteness, poked around for someone a little less stunning and thankfully landed upon the face of Lancome herself, Kate Winslet. Gross.
So there you have it. Charlize has suffered immensely from her beauty. But she’s not always replaced by uglies. Sometimes she’s replaced by the just so-so, the average people, like you and me, like Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider. She’s no Charlize, so few are, but since she’s definitively a few rungs lower, a solid 6 on a good hair day, she was able to land the role of a video game character, who are known for their realistic-looking women.
So there you have it: Charlize Theron is beautiful, and also a bit of an ass. Stay tuned tomorrow to find out how she’s also been discriminated against for being white.
This entry was posted in Jay and tagged Charlize Theron, discussion, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard on April 5, 2016 by Jay.
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30 thoughts on “Poor Charlize Theron”
By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff April 5, 2016 at 7:15 pm
Okay. This was just too funny! Seriously though? What is the matter with these people?
Jay Post author April 6, 2016 at 11:37 am
I don’t know! It’s hard to believe she didn’t realize how terribly this would be perceived.
Sometimes I wonder about people in Hollywood.
Carrie Rubin April 5, 2016 at 7:28 pm
Ha! Loved your humor in this. Great satire.
Liz A. April 5, 2016 at 7:29 pm
Just goes to show, if you want to, you can find ways to complain about anything.
Well I know I’d love to have her problems!
ridicuryder April 5, 2016 at 7:37 pm
Holy Fuck!!! Is this the reason I haven’t been approached for Honorary Asshole status? Because I’m too pretty!!
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful….
Half a 1000 Miles April 5, 2016 at 7:56 pm
I would leave a comment, but I’m just too smart and funny and everyone would feel bad.
Well in that case, thank you for sparing us. We’d probably have to delete your comment if it was all that.
calensariel April 5, 2016 at 8:21 pm
That’s the most wonderfully snarky piece I’ve read on here! Great job! Shall we send her a sympathy card and bouquet? 😀
Yes,maybe we’ll take up a collection.
We might need to make the card ourselves becuase I doubt Hallmark has a section for this.
Wendell April 5, 2016 at 8:40 pm
Funniest thing I’ve read in a while. I actually think Theron is gorgeous and a great actress, but it sounds so vapid to come out and complain about being too hot. Great post.
She is very beautiful. I just think her beauty probably opened about one million more doors than it ever closed.
ruth April 5, 2016 at 8:52 pm
I love your biting sarcasm Jay! I like Charlize but seriously, that tone deaf and egotistical comment just proves how out of touch these people are. It’s just appalling to even be talking about such shallow matters, esp in a public interview!
I know. Don’t they usually have handlers to veto these comments? Out of touch is too true.
The Vern April 6, 2016 at 3:04 am
I would haft to read the original article on where she was quoted. Maybe she is discouraged because she is a good actress and just because she is beautiful. Roles shouldn’t haft to to go to someone who is not on the same level. Shit as I type this I sound just as vain. I’ll just shut up now, but good article anyways
J. April 6, 2016 at 4:53 am
Quite surprising given ol’ Charlize has recently received mad props for Mad Max, no? Maybe she was a little misquoted? Y’know, she said something about having to prove that she can do gritty … or prove herself as an actress? Cause, eh, … She is a good actress though.
Holly April 6, 2016 at 10:58 am
Yep, and thin-shaming is just as prevelent, accepted and demeaning as fat-shaming.
(Devil’s Advocate and gritty role? I think the director may have been delusional there…)
reocochran April 6, 2016 at 12:11 pm
I bow to your views on Charlize. She may need to go for Mom roles in comedies ?!
table9mutant April 6, 2016 at 1:07 pm
Bwahaha!!! This post is brilliant. Damn! Didn’t know she was like this. This has ruined Fury Road for me a bit!! 😉 Man, celebrities do annoy me sometimes… Gwyneth Paltrow stories are always the funniest/most annoying. These people need a dose of reality.
Christopher April 6, 2016 at 2:33 pm
I want to believe this is pure satire, that Theron is really smarter than that and wouldn’t say something so stupid. Admittedly there are different kinds of “smart” and intelligent people sometimes have a staggering lack of self-awareness, and many of us make the mistake of being oblivious to our privilege.
And maybe her desire for better roles is in part because she knows Hollywood’s history of turning its back on attractive women once they reach a certain age and she wants to rely on more than her looks.
Yeah, I might feel sorry for her if I weren’t laughing so hard.
aidymcglynn April 6, 2016 at 2:51 pm
Need to sit down a minute – its heartbreaking.
Silver Screenings April 6, 2016 at 6:25 pm
Haha! Brilliant post!
kmSalvatore April 6, 2016 at 7:41 pm
I needed a good laugh thanks!! Poor Charlize 😂😂😂😂😂
yourdaughtersbookshelf April 6, 2016 at 9:47 pm
Great post! Poor Charlize, it must be SO hard to be SO pretty. And rich. Heartbreaking.
Philosofishal April 7, 2016 at 2:02 pm
Reblogged this on Philosofishal and commented:
Maybe Sideshow Charlize should get that leg length reduction surgery that is so popular with the disenfranchised supermodels these days.
Divorce With Me April 7, 2016 at 5:17 pm
LMAO! I am dying with this! She is absolutely gorgeous but sheesh! Wouldn’t she think she sounded obnoxious and arrogant?!
Anna (Film Grimoire) April 12, 2016 at 8:45 am
Life is so tough!
Ahdad April 13, 2016 at 5:41 am
It was hilarious, even though you took the piss of one of my countrymen! She made up for Mad Max though, so she can say anything for the next three months.
StephLove April 13, 2016 at 9:07 pm
Thanks for the smile.
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The Work of Writing Nine: Listen to Your Characters
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I’ve been watching Ellen DeGeneres’ eponymous sitcom, “Ellen,” (as opposed to her eponymous talk show, “The Ellen Show.” I think they missed an opportunity to call her new game show “The Ellen Game Show,” but I digress).It had some issues. It dumped most of its cast after the first season, keeping only Ellen’s male best friend and roommate, who in turn, was later sent “to Europe.”
Though there’s no question of Ellen’s own flawless sense of comedy, the structure around her really didn’t work, not until the show was nearly over. And the reason was obvious. Ellen’s character, Ellen, wasn’t allowed to fully be herself until towards the end of the run.
The character Ellen was gay. Looking back at those early eps where’s she’s uncomfortably dating men, it’s clear. And shoving a character into a role that doesn’t fit her never works.
It never, ever works.
So Ellen the actor’s perfectionism may have driven the show, may have kept it from capsizing, but the truth is if Ellen the character had come out early in the run, or had already been out, the show would be a comedy classic.
I suspect Ellen the actor knew it, and that’s why her character did, eventually, come out, as the actor Ellen did as well (though she was never really “in.”). And from that point, from Ellen the character’s journey of questioning to acknowledgement, that’s when the show bloomed.
Then there were the boycotts and protests and Ellen was treated incredibly abysmally. Which encapsulates why it didn’t happen sooner and why it should have happened sooner.
We would have no “Will & Grace” without “Ellen.”
Note, this isn’t about the idea that a gay actor can’t “play straight.” Actors can and do play anyone; that’s acting. Rosie O’Donnell, for example, as Tutu in “SMILF,” a straight woman greatly disappointed by love. It’s a central part of who she is. For Tutu to exist in this moment in time, she couldn’t be different.
Here’s the point: if something isn’t working in your manuscript, ask yourself if you’re being true to your characters. Are you honestly following their wants and desires, or those you chose to impose? If you don’t allow your characters their freedom, the story will end up stilted, the elephant in the room wallpapered over, but still there and still elephanty.
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#AtoZChallenge: TV Talk: TV!
Sue, the most-complete T-Rex ever found, at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Silly me, racking (grammar nerd alert: I checked, and the correct racking in this cliche is the one without the W. Are you surprised? I was) my Monday-morning brain for a T-word when the obvious choice was right in front of me. Literally.
I love TV and I’m not at all embarrassed to shout it from the rooftops. Well,maybe not rooftops, because that’s a really good way to convince people that you’re somewhere on the other side of off, and then they can’t quite look you in the eye when you pass in the lobby and it’s all kinds of awkward.
Sounds like the plot of a sitcom, dontcha think?
Anyway, it’s possible I don’t always watch TV for the same things other people do. Or maybe we’re all doing it, but we just don’t talk about it. Like my UK police procedurals I treat as my own private tour, from from London to Shetland and around again. Never focus on the bodies; always focus on the sweeping views and the interesting nooks and crannies only the locals would know. If you look around the death and depravity, they’re very charming.
I haven’t watched one set in Ireland yet, though, so if you know of one I can stream, please share!
There are my “bottom of the pile” shows, ones I watch because I like seeing between the cracks of what people mean to show us. Those shows include the so-called “Housewives” (none of them seem to be real ones), where over-privileged women screech at one another that they’re owed apologies. Those shows are a form of people watching, but only if you don’t buy into their sleight of hand, only if you look at the corners they’re desperately trying to hide.
And then my favorite group: the Pinnacle Shows. Combining superior writing, acting, and almost always, cinematography, they’re my event shows. “Doctor Who,” “Orphan Black,” “Fargo,” “Better Call Saul,” “Wynonna Earp,” “Call the Midwife,” “Outlander.”
No doubt shortly “The Handmaid’s Tale.” And probably “American Gods.” There are many on the streaming services as well: “Grace & Frankie,” “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Orange is the New Black,” (if it recovers), “Transparent.”
There’s no particular genre; no particular aesthetic. Their common thread is superior storytelling paired with extreme talent in all aspects of the production. Some of them — “Breaking Bad,” its prequel, “Better Call Saul,” and “Fargo,” — are far outside my usual genre selection, but they are too special to miss.
It’s as though television has swapped places with film; it’s the long format now, offering worlds up on worlds with mere presses of buttons.
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TV Talk: Binge It! Humans
OK, sci-fi TV buddies, I’ve been going through some serious withdrawal since the gripping, “Orphan Black,” “12 Monkeys” and fantasy fav, “Grimm” fluttered away to hiatus. And don’t even get me started on our year-long time-out from “Doctor Who.”
So, thumbing through my various watch lists, I came across “Humans.” Wow.
A species of my absolute favorite British-American hybrid, “Humans” explores what happens if we have truly human-like artificial intelligence. I’ve got to wonder, given all the science-fiction writers who’ve warned of what will come, why we continue to pursue it, but hey, some people never read to the end.
Unlike much American-based sci-fi, British science-fiction isn’t about explosions and bullets and chases, whether in space or in the future or in the past or on the way from the past into the future. British shows tend to explore the cultural questions, the impact on relationships, the way technology shapes our interaction with the world.
There’s a deeply reflective quality to it, both in the examination of issues and in the sense that it — like all good sci-fi — mirrors us back to us through a more palatable filter.
“Humans” accomplishes all of these things while still remaining captivating television. It’s quick, the plotting inevitable yet not predicable, and the acting is phenomenal.
It’s also got Jen (Katherine Parkinson) from “The IT Crowd,” so, I mean, there’s that. And she’s amazing.
“Humans” airs on AMC in the US and Channel 4 in the UK, and will be released in the UK first; it’s coming back to the US some time in 2017. Plenty of time to catch up! It’s available to stream from Amazon Prime, or directly from AMC, though you’ll need your cable provider info.
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TV Talk: Binge It! My Mad Fat Diary
It’s another British show! You all know how much I enjoy my across pondular entertainment, and this one was exceptional. Though I strive to make these TV talks spoiler free, there is one aspect regarding the structure of the show I have to raise, but I’ll try to keep it academic.
Still with me? Fab.
“My Mad Fat Diary” follows Rae, a 16-year-old girl living in Stamford, Lincolnshire in 1996. Recently released from a psychiatric ward, we’re with her, through the tool of her diary, as she navigates teenaged life out in the world. Based on Rae Earl’s (purportedly) real diaries from 1989, published as My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary, it’s a must-watch for anyone who’s ever, you know, been a teenager.
Though it’s about teenagers, it isn’t really for teenagers. It’s a show packed with truths about who you think you are versus how others see you; truths about relationships in all directions; truths about coping, no matter your stage of life.
It’s extremely well-written, with fleshed-out, believable characters, and enough humor to balance its sometimes stark subject matter.
But perhaps the most intriguing thing about “My Mad Fat Diary” (and here’s the possibly spoilerly bit) is the use of the unreliable narrator. It’s very much a first-person story, and that choice is used to excellent effect later on in the series.
It’s those seemingly small writing decisions that accumulate and tell a compelling, must-watch story. And it’s a complete story. The entire show is available to stream on Hulu.
Or binge. I dare you to try to stop.
Date September 8, 2016
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TV Talk: Real Housewives of…Everywhere
If you follow me on Twitter (come on, I know you want to) you’ve been subjected to my barrage of Real Housewives tweets. Real Housewives of Orange County (RHOC); Real Housewives of New York (RHONY) and Real Housewives of Melbourne (RHOMelbourne) are currently on rotation. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills joins in when there are new episodes.
Recently, someone I follow (I can’t find the tweet or I’d post it, so if it was you, please let me know so I can edit this and add it) asked what I thought was a really good question: Why do women watch the Real Housewives when it depicts women so poorly?
I definitely didn’t have an immediate answer. As a feminist, it made me stop and wonder at myself. What am I getting out of these shows?
More than you’d think. And a lot of that stems from the audience watching with me.
First, though, I think it’s pretty clear that the Housewives, as a whole, don’t represent women, let alone all women. They live in a world of fantasy and casual inch-thick makeup, where real is a word that always has implied quotes.
They’re pushed together under artificial circumstances for which they’re perpetually overdressed, where glances from amused, regular guests shatter any illusion of normalcy. I’ve yet to meet someone who knows someone like a “Real” Housewife in real life. They have a job, and they do it.
There’s a reason they feel so familiar from franchise to franchise. They are meant to entertain, and they do.
Which brings me to the best part of these shows. The audience.
While the Housewives can embody the worst stereotypes about women, together we get to dismantle them in delicious, technicolor snark. Take Countess Luann, for example, who, like quick-dry crazy glue, stuck to a man who’d “dated” several of her friends, even after seeing photographic proof of him kissing another woman after their engagement.
Who does she blame? The woman who told her — who cultivates her own nest of mean girl stereotypes — and the “clutches” of the woman he kissed. Not the rather aptly-named “Tom,” who left her after an evening together to meet this other woman.
But the beauty of it? The number of viewers, men and women alike, pointing out the ridiculousness of that route to denial. It’s the opportunity, publicly, to smash that idea of convenience that it’s man-grabbing women, and not wandering men, who deserve the scorn.
Is now a good time to mention that Luann and Tom were on dates with other people when they met? Hmm. Moving on.
And then there’s the flip side to the show, the opportunity for women who are eternally the objects of other people’s gossip to show their genuine selves, like RHOMelbourne’s Gamble Breaux (Wolfe). A woman who enjoys gilding herself in full high-glamour glitz and married to a much older man, Gamble’s been a target of all of the possible permutations of rumors.
And she’s shed them with grace and humor. She seems to be a what-you-see-is-what-you-get person, faithfully interacting on Twitter week-to-week without any negativity toward her costars. Rather than reinforcing stereotypes, she crushes ideas we might have had about “someone like her.”
Is Real Housewives harmful to the perception of women? I doubt it, frankly. I think the depictions of women as window-dressing and little more than accessories is far worse. With the Housewives, the women are entire people, some good, some kinda unbearable. But people.
And that’s all feminism is about at its most fundamental level. Women being seen and treated as people.
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TV Talk: Guilt
If you’ve never heard of “Guilt,” here’s all I need to say: Giles from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with an American accent. You in?
A summer offering from Freeform TV — once rather inappropriately known as ABC Family, given other shows like “Pretty Little Liars,” — “Guilt” is loaded with the technicolor soapy unreality that’s all Freeform. Only set in London.
In this kinda Amanda Knoxian drama, British police accuse American Grace of the murder of her Irish flatmate, Molly. As has become standard, the mystery spins its tangled tendrils over the course of the season.
And if you feel like there’s something strangely familiar about the young actress playing Grace, you should: She’s Daisy Head, Anthony Stewart Head’s daughter. I can’t help but imagine them practicing their American accents together, maybe over tea and crumpets. Because that is all that British people are allowed to eat. And tea sandwiches. That’s why they don’t have the same obesity problems. Tea sandwiches are very small.
One of the things I enjoy about true British television is the diversity of appearance. Everyone is not smoothed and sanded down to a uniform look; they don’t seem like they’d lined up at the plastic surgeon to be given the #7.
Apparently Freeform TV felt that needed to change, and “Guilt” has that same air as their other shows, that insistent emphasis on attractiveness, so much so that it can distract from the story line.
But I’ve got to admit, it’s a pretty good story line. I binged it OnDemand and caught up to real time pretty quickly. Given that the season finale airs next week, that’s some binging.
Will “Guilt” change your life? Unless you’re one of the characters in this glossy mystery, I’d say not. But it’s definitely makes the list of a worthwhile summer “Guilt”y (see what I did there?!) pleasures.
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TV Talk, British Edition: Miranda
Oh, British television. How I love my British TV, from comedies to cop dramas.
So many cop dramas.
But Miranda is not one of them. Nope, Miranda — a sitcom written by and featuring the hilarious Miranda Hart — encompasses so much of what I love about British television.
Let’s start with the writer-driven material. Very little of what we have on television here comes from the minds of the people who star in it, and while Hart didn’t completely produce the show herself, it feels like she might have. Which only adds to the sense that the Miranda on the show would genuinely be a friend if only she didn’t only exist for half-hour bursts. When actors create their own characters, it leads to a different kind of depth.
And a different kind of performer on TV.
Here, all nearly all actors, but particularly women, must be smoothed to a near-Photoshop perfection, whether on or off-camera. Women must conform to certain standards, unless cast specifically because they don’t, making that a vital aspect of the character.
Here, the fear of deviating from established beauty norms radiates from the screen. Often casting makes female characters intended to reject beauty norms laughable, such as the young Hayden Panettiere as a nerd on Malcolm in the Middle.
But not in the UK. No one but Miranda Hart could have brought the character of Miranda to life. And there, she was given the freedom to do it.
Yet this show isn’t a statement, it’s thirty minutes of laugh-out-loud moments where we can recognize ourselves, our own human awkwardness, the funny side of how we relate to others and the world around us. Miranda is a cozy blanket of humor, kind and inclusive; it’s that warm glow from a window on the street, coming from a room where we’re all invited.
All seasons of Miranda are available to to stream on Hulu. But I warn you, take it slowly. You’ll miss her when it’s over.
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Elizabeth Sheldon appointed Vice President for Security aerospace trade body ADS
Biztech founder member Elizabeth Sheldon, Chairman of digital forensics specialist Evidence Talks, has been appointed as Vice President for Security of aerospace trade body ADS and is expected to serve a three-year term in the role.
Elizabeth brings a wealth of experience and industry-acknowledged successes in presenting the case for cyber security, coupled with a growing reputation as a business leader and authority on security market trends. Instrumental in Evidence Talks’ phenomenal growth and success, which saw the company achieve its biggest ever order from a US government agency in 2016, she is frequently called upon to speak on a range of topics from matters of national security to child exploitation and gender equality in the workplace.
Reporting to new President Colin Smith, Chairman of the Aerospace Growth Partnership and former Director of Engineering and Technology at Rolls Royce, as chair of the ADS Board, she will play a key role in helping to shape the organisation’s policies and future initiatives.
For the full press release click HERE.
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Blackpaint 597 – Striders and Chariots and Modern Art in Madrid
Giacometti at Tate Modern
Well I know he’s great and the creator of unmistakeable, iconic figures that define stillness and movement and contain both humour and pathos – but he is a little repetitive. You say that the repetition is a mark of his obsessive drive to attain the unattainable, a heroic, almost tragic striving for perfection…but he is a little same-y. Maybe I’ve seen too much Giacometti (NPG a while back, Sainsbury Centre in Norwich more recently); but this is a big exhibition with lots of rooms. Maybe it’s the breathless hero-worship he seems to inspire in the women art lovers of my generation, that I suspect has as much to do with the brooding, rugged, Italian peasant features as the art.
Anyway, the good things:
The dancing, or falling figure on the posters.
The Chariot figure on wheels.
The flint axe-head sculptures, cut off below the shoulders, several of which, to me, seem to resemble the Duke of Edinburgh, Her Majesty the Queen, Princess Margaret and Charles de Gaulle.
The pictures on board or canvas that he has blackened so that they resemble sheets of lead, from which the even darker features of his sitters loom; a change from his usual ochre, orange, grey and black, with thin, ink-like lines.
The outsize figures, including the strider in the last room (a ringer for Prince Phillip, if he’d had his hands behind his back); a welcome change from the usual size. It’s a good exhibition, essential probably, so don’t be put off by my jaded comments.
Reina Sofia Museum (of 20th Century Art), Madrid
I’ve just spent four days in Madrid, three of them in art museums, so pretty much enough for three blogs. The first of these we entered at 4.00pm, “fresh” off the plane – and emerged at closing time, 9.00pm, hungry and dehydrated. Not because we couldn’t find the exit, but because there was so much excellent art to see. I’m just going to put up our photos with, here and there, my perceptive and witty comments to add to your visual enjoyment.
Schwitters
Behind glass, so my partner’s form can be made out in the centre, taking the photo and enhancing the quality of the artwork.
Lovely little cubist picture.
Oscar Dominguez
He of Decalcomania fame – lots of Dominguez in this museum.
Another Dominguez – The Thrower.
It’s rather hard to make out, but it’s a legless, headless and handless black torso, with a thick shard of glass chopping into it at the top. Compare these two little assemblages as Surrealist images with the Dali painting below:
Dali, The Invisible Man
It seems to me that the Dominguez pieces express in each case a clear idea, or at most a couple of ideas, succinctly, rather as Magritte does. They are surrealistic, that is to say contradictory or paradoxical (to be “properly” Surrealist, I think they should also be dreamlike – not sure they are); but they also have clarity. That, I think, is not the case with the Dali, despite the facility of depiction and the multiple images detract from the painting. Then again, I don’t like Dali – but then, I’m not that keen on Magritte either, so moving on –
Picasso – no comment necessary.
Picasso again – just to point out the roughness (or texture, or painterliness) of the grey, orange and red areas in the lower picture; unusual, I think, in Picasso’s work and the better for it – not that the untextured stuff isn’t stupendous…
Angeles Santos, The Gathering (1929)
There were several paintings by Santos and another painter, whose name escapes me, f.rom the 20s and 30s, in this style – I include them because they remind me rather strongly of Paula Rego’s work (although I much prefer Rego’s execution).
And then, a roomful of CoBrA stuff, to my surprise:
Corneille – I like the yellow with the red line.
Appel, Figures
And then, rooms of abstract expressionism, Tachisme and pop Art:
Yves Klein, his version of Nike
Tapies, Blue with four Red Bars. Does what it says on the can.
Guerrero – It’s a (huge) matchbook with a few missing.
There’s a lot more to see (Bruce Connor, Bay Area and LA artist, and the making of “Guernica” – both special exhibitions, so NO PHOTO, por favor!) so you’ll need to go to Madrid forthwith. Next time, the Prado.
Here are a couple of mine:
Seated Back, pastel blue
Seated Front, pastel green
Tags:Appel, Dali, Dominguez, Giacometti, Guerrero, Klein, Ortiz, Picasso, Rego, Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Santos, Schwitters, Tapies, Tate Modern
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Blackpaint 486 – What’s Left of Cork Street and Singer Sargent at the NPG
Cork Street Galleries
Arriving at the RA on Thursday for the Diebenkorn, I found that it didn’t start until the weekend, so went round the remaining Cork Street galleries to see what was to be seen:
At the Redfern Gallery, a beautiful sketch of a headless woman that sent me looking for more on the net – couldn’t find more drawings though, other than sketches of dress designs. Also at the Redfern, some lovely Adrian Heaths, John Wells, Paul Feiler, Roger Hilton.
At Waddington’s, great Milton Avery, Dubuffet – an enormous statue of one of his black and white men – a couple of big Rauschenbergs and a great little messy Tapies, a bit like a miniature of Gillian Ayres’ big breakfast in Tate Britain (it’s not called that, but if you see it, you’ll see what I mean).
Richard Long – Spike Island
At Alan Cristea, some great Longs, prints on paper with aluminium support; two red swirling lines, reminiscent a little of the Twomblys in Tate Mod, and a brown one with dirty protest overtones, as if Jasper Johns had been imprisoned in the H blocks (look it up, younger reader) and joined in.
Carole Hodgson
At Flowers, some beautiful drawings – or paintings – of hulking, indistinct human forms blending into dark backgrounds; rather like Piper’s Welsh rockscapes. Small, interlocking sculptures and some bigger ones, rolls of some stiffened paper and sacking mixture, in ginger and rust colours.
Singer Sargent at the National Portrait Gallery
NOT full, as I had suspected, of loads of SS paintings normally on show in London; I only recognised Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth and the kids in the garden with the lanterns – all the rest were new to me and a good proportion were wonderful. No-one can do white silks and satins like Sargent, with the exception of Millais maybe; Millais does a super realist rendition (see the Black Brunswicker below), Singer Sargent does a few strategic strokes. His subjects often look as if they have turned towards a call and he has captured them with a snapshot; Madame Allouard – Jouan (below) is the best example.
See also Madame Ramon Subercaseaux, turning to us from her seat at the piano, the black Franz Kline lines on her dress…
Madame Edouard Pailleron, the beautiful, but rather drained – looking redhead in the meadow (maybe its the outdoor location)…
Next to her, the staggering portrait of her children; the girl, about to step out of the canvas in her fancy white dress, the boy staring out with a strange intensity…
The Rodin portrait – could be a Rembrandt…
Vernon Lee; I know her from “the Virgin of the Seven Daggers” Corgi paperback from the early 60’s. he did this in three hours according to the booklet…
Robert Louis Stevenson and his Wife; Stevenson is walking out of the picture – Degas? Sickert?
Self Portrait ; George V or maybe Tsar Nicholas II come to mind…
Edwin Booth; look at those hands! I’m always impressed by painters who give good hand. For a laugh, I said to my partner he was John Wilkes Booth’s brother – wish I’d said it louder, it turns out he was...
Group with Parasols; composition like a Rubens sketch, colours totally different…
And lots more – fabulous, beautiful exhibition; I’ll be going again.
This is the Millais I mentioned, by the way; check out that dress, as the young people say;
Deep End, Skolimowski
I know I’ve written about this before, but the swimming pool looks like something out of 1930s Yerevan (I imagine): all greens, blues and oranges that match Jane Asher’s hair…
And some life drawings to be going on with…
Tags:Allen Jones, Carole Hodgson, Cristea Gallery, Deep End, Dubuffet, Flowers Gallery, Jasper johns, John Singer Sargent, Millais, Milton Avery, Redfern Gallery, Richard Long, Tapies
Bela Tarr
In “Satantango”, his three DVD, 7 hour film, Irimias and Petrina sleep together, like Morecambe and Wise, in a little cubicle, in their overcoats. Petrina covers the sleeping Irimias with a blanket.
When the charismatic Irimias is not there, his disciples lose faith – rightly, of course – and only the faith of Lajos’ wife is unshaken; she does them the disservice of talking them round again. Only Futaki, with his grim, thin, vinegary face, is unconvinced and strikes out alone. I haven’t seen the end yet, however; maybe he comes around again. Another hour or 90 minutes to go.
I’m seeing shades of Beckett and Bunuel in Tarr’s work. I was going to say he stands at the opposite pole of my other obsession, Fellini – but then there are the whales, in “Satyricon” and “The Werckmeister Harmonies”… I suppose what I really like about Tarr is the complete lack of pretension in his work.
An Ordinary Dog, by Gregory Woods
“Jerome”, one of Woods’ poems in the above collection, is clearly based on a painting of the eponymous saint; I can’t decide which one, however. Woods mentions Jerome resting his slippered feet” on the upholstered ribcage of a dormant lion” – I thought the Durer, but no slippers and the lion is a foot or so away from the saint’s feet. Maybe I’m being too literal; one of my many faults. The last line – “Call me trivial but I can hear his stomach rumbling” – reminds me of that poem in Penguin Poetry of the Thirties, “The Progress of Poetry” by Christopher Caudwell:
“In evening’s sacred cool, among my bushes
A Figure was wont to walk. I deemed it an angel.
But look at the footprint. There’s hair between the toes!”
Just done another umber, alizerin, grey and black panel that looks (intentionally) a bit rough and rugged, like something from the beach at St. Ives, a chunk of sunk rowing boat maybe. I thought of sticking some real wood to it, making it a sculpture or collage at least – then, flicking through an art book, came on Schwitters’ stuff done in the 20’s and a host of others, of course – Burri and Tapies with the sacking – and thought I’d better leave it. There is nothing new under the sun, as I keep finding out – anew every day.
His sculpture “Capricorne” , of a seated, bull- headed (Minotaur?) figure, flanked by a standing “wife” (Tanning) with a fish-shaped head – actually, the fish looks more like a hammer about to crash down on the bull’s head – holds in his right hand – what? It looks to me like a giant toothbrush, which of course is entirely possible in Ernst’s work. It’s now destroyed, anyway – book doesn’t say how.
The Minotaur
Must be one of the most frequently recurring images in art; I can think of Ernst, Picasso of course, Keith Vaughan, GF Watts… Actually, that’s about it. I’ve just checked and, apart from a load of fantasy comic illustrations and figurines, a Greek vase and a Canova sculpture, I can’t find any others. In film, there’s “Oedipus Rex” and “Satyricon”, of course.
Tags:Bela Tarr, Burri, Durer, Greg Woods, Max Ernst, Messina, Minotaur, Schwitters, St. Jerome, Tapies
Laura Cumming on Banner
Laura Cumming (Observer, Sunday) says the Harrier is “a predator to the nearby prey of a Sepecat Jaguar lying beached and inverted on the floor. Both planes are undeniably magnificent, powerful, menacing; and stalled.” She’s wrong about the Harrier – it’s a caught fish, a skate-ray-shark type thing, hanging dead, waiting to be gutted. The whole exhibit conveys impotence, not power or menace, although to be fair, she does end by saying the planes, exhibited as they are, “are reduced to – admittedly spectacular – curiosities.”
Dorothy Cross
Reading a catalogue the other day, I came across an artefact by this artist, entitled “Dishes”. Made in 1992, it consisted of small enamel plates, a bowl and a cup, the last with a cow’s teat stretched over the top. The catalogue stated that since 92, “she has employed udders on numerous occasions”.
This led me to consider the various odd materials that artists have employed and to want to make a list of them (I’m aware that list making is a classic obsessive activity and I’ve done a few already, so this will join the list of things which I won’t be doing in future in this blog).
Anyway-
Dead Animals. Damien Hirst occurred to me first, but the shark and the sheep and the cow are themselves, albeit “mediated” by Hirst – he hasn’t made anything out of them. if I included them, I’d have to include Fiona Banner’s planes and really, all other readymades. I suppose the flies and the rotting meat are a composite, so they count, as do the butterflies.
Blood. Mark Quinn, Hermann Nitsch and the Vienna Actionists.
Sand, sacking and suchlike. Burri, Tapies, Nicolson, Sandra Blow.
Piles of powdered pigment. Kapoor.
Rotting flowers, fruit and vegetables. Anya Gallacio.
Palm trees, earth, straw. Anselm Kiefer.
Oil. That Richard Wilson installation that Saatchi exhibited.
Elephant dung. Ofili, of course.
Faeces. Terence Koh, Piero Manzoni (allegedly – but who knows whether it was really in the tins?) and, no doubt, others.
Urine. Helen Chadwick’s pissholes in the snow, or “Piss Flowers”.
all those bits and pieces used by “Art Informel” and Arte Povera artists, the collagists like Schwitters, etc.
Fat and felt. No prizes.
In fact, I’m going to stop here, because the list becomes ridiculous, when you include sculpture and installation.
Necrotic Art
Photos of corpses by Sally Mann, photo of Damien posing with a head, dead mother of Dorothy Todd in the turtle burners’ Portrait Prize, plus the organic items listed above, lead me to wonder if body parts or even whole bodies might one day be exhibited as art, either as readymades or material. After all, mummies, Lindow Man, dried-out corpses can all be seen in the British Museum and a host of other institutions – but they are “science”, medicine maybe, anthropology at least. I suppose you could argue that Von Hagen is already doing it with his plastination roadshow, which undeniably has artistic as well as scientific aspects. Plastination, however, prevents decomposition and sanitises (so I’ve heard). I’m sure that considerations of decency and good taste would prevail……
Tags:Blow, Burra, Dorothy Cross, Fiona Banner, Hermann Nitsch, Hirst, Kiefer, Laura Cumming, Mark Quinn, Tapies
Altdorfer/Elsheimer
Unfortunate names, these, as will become clear: I’ve been doing a Tanning/Carrington with them (see Blackpaint 121, 122) and mixing them up. Albrecht Altdorfer is the one who did the Battle of Issus – Alexander the Great a tiny figure on a white horse, in the middle of hordes of soldiers – and Adam Elsheimer, the one who did the stoning of St. Stephen – the one in the NG of Scotland at Edinburgh, in which the kneeling Stephen very slightly resembles a cartoon character, Tintin perhaps. My partner points out the more important artistic feature of the triangular structure formed partly by the ray of light from the angel.
Anyway, I discover from Wikipedia that they are about 100 years apart – Altdorfer 1480-1538, Regensburg and Elsheimer 1578-1610 (only 32), born Frankfurt but lived and worked in Rome. Altdorfer apparently did the first “pure” European landscape in oils, Landscape with Footbridge, in 1518 – 20 (see Blackpaint 132, 133). he also did an astonishing Birth of the Virgin, in which a posy of flying babies, cherubs, whatever, circle in the air, hand in hand with angels, above said mother and baby.
I was surprised, too, to read in “Art of the 20th Century” (Taschen) that Altdorfer has been cited as a forerunner of gestural painting, along with Turner, Kandinsky et al. I can only think it’s because of his expressionistic skies and clouds and his willingness to ignore perspective and distort human figures – his figures tend to be extremely elongated, for instance. On both these grounds, however, you would have to include El Greco too, surely.
The fact that Altdorfer, as a member of Regensburg town council, was implicated in the expulsion of the Regensburg Jews links him to another German, or rather Austrian, painter of the 20th century, albeit an amateur, or “failed” one.
To return to painting, I think, in any examination of gesturalism or abstraction in European art you would have to include Arthur Melville’s little picture of 1889 (Blackpaint 139) – are there earlier examples of “pure” abstraction in British painting, or European painting, for that matter? please comment, if you know.
I love built-up surfaces, done with paint, glue, sand, cement, sacking, slabs of stuff slatched down with a palette knife or just the hand and then scraped and scratched – Fautrier, Dubuffet, Tapies, Burri, Sandra Blow, Jaap Wagemaker and, I suppose, Asger Jorn too, as in “Proud, Timid One”.
Listening to Brooks and Dunn;
“I did my best, but her west was wilder than mine”.
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Bladensburg History Timeline
From the 1700’s to 2017 – – A past to remember. A future to embrace.
Take the Bladensburg Timeline Journey
Beall Town
Beall Town had been established in the 1720s and was officially recognized as a town by the Prince George’s County Court in 1732. However, its viability as a port was extremely short lived.
“Freshets”
In 1738, just four years before petitioning for a new town, the residents of Beall Town complained that “freshets” [floodwaters] had “brought down trees and trash which…choak’d up the channel in the said branch so that boats and other craft cannot be brought up to lod or relod goods at the usual landing place.”
Sir Thomas Bladen
The Town of Bladensburg was renamed after Sir Thomas Bladen who in 1742, began his term as provincial Governor of Maryland. He was the first governor to be born in the Province. He served until 1747.
In 1742, the Bladensburg became the first governmental entity to pass a fire prevention ordinance. The simple ordinance stipulated that all residential and commercial buildings had to be equipped with a smoke chimney.
As of 6 June 1746, only 18 of the lots had been improved according to the stipulations of the act. Christopher Lowndes’ house, Bostwick, and those built by David Ross and William Hilleary (the William Hilleary House) were among them.
Market Master’s House
With the establishment in 1747 of a government tobacco inspection system, Bladensburg became a designated tobacco inspection and grading port. The Market Master’s House is evidence of that role.
A “Hundred”
By 1761 it had grown so much that it was designated a “hundred” [similar to an election district] of Prince George’s County.
Colonial Seaport
A seaport during the colonial period, Bladensburg is best remembered for the Battle of Bladensburg (1814) during the War of 1812. The defeat (August 24, 1814) here of American troops under Gen. W. H. Winder enabled the British under General Robert Ross to march on Washington, D.C., and burn many of the public buildings. Its role as a seaport faded as the Anacostia River silted up and larger ships could no longer reach the port.
Despite the outlawing of dueling four years before, the Town was also the scene of the historic duel in which Stephen Decatur, the naval hero, was mortally wounded in 1820 by James Barron.
William Wirt
The Town was home of William Wirt, anti-Masonic candidate for president in 1832. He was an author statesman and U.S. Attorney General.
B&O Railroad
A sharp decline of passengers was experienced in Bladensburg when an extension of the B&O was permitted into the District of Columbia in 1835.
Festival at Spa Spring
In 1844 the Whigs from Baltimore City, Washington, Georgetown, and the surrounding country held their festivals at the Spa Spring where the ladies from Baltimore City furnished and served the banquet.
Town Incorporated
The town was incorporated in 1854. Schools and churches were constructed, including the first Freedmen’s Bureau school for African-Americans in 1866.
Army of the Commonweath
In the wake of the economic “Panic of 1893”, social reformer Jacob Coxey and his “Army of the Commonwealth,” consisting of approximately 500 unemployed workers, marched from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate at the Capitol for unemployment relief. Afterwards, Coxey and his Armystayed at the George Washington House Hotel in Bladensburg. Floodwaters forced the Army to flee Bladensburg on May 20, 1894.
Street Cars Arrives
In 1910, the Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad, a street car company, began running cars along a single track from a modest waiting station and car barn near 15th and H Streets NE along Bladensburg Road NE to Bladensburg. The company was chartered by the state of Maryland on February 13, 1905 and authorized to enter the District on February 18, 1907. Construction began by March 22, 1908.
The Growing Town
The town experienced its most significant growth in the early 20th century with the construction of the first two residential sections of the town in 1914 and 1917. Named Decatur Heights, the subdivisions had gridded streets platted on the north and south s ides of Annapolis Road.
The Peace Cross
Known also as “Peace Cross.” The Snyder-Farmer Post of the American Legion of Hyattsville erected the forty foot cross of cement and marble to recall the forty-nine men of Prince George’s County who died in World War I. The cross was dedicated on July 13, 1925, by the American Legion.
WWII Era Expansion
Hilltop Manor is an apartment complex consisting of eight brick garden apartment buildings, each of which is divided into two to six units or sections, constructed in 1942 and 1943. It was one of the first garden-apartment complexes constructed in the county as a result of the population increase of the Washington metropolitan area during World War II.
The Story of Bladensburg Continues…
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Getting Started in Modern Warfare®: Campaign
The fate of the world is in your hands, soldier. Read on to get the basics in starting the visceral and gripping narrative Campaign of Modern Warfare.
As we mentioned in our first Getting Started guide, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® comes with three separate experiences within the greater Modern Warfare universe.
In this article, we’ll cover the basics of Campaign, the single-player story mode where you’ll engage in covert operations alongside Captain John Price to protect the world from stolen chemical weapons.
Although all three game modes can be excellent springboards into the greater Modern Warfare universe, the campaign background into the universe’s overall story and an expansive introduction to the game’s mechanics.
With that in mind, here’s how you can get started in Campaign:
An Intro to the Campaign in Just Two Sentences
After chemical weapons fall into the wrong hands, Captain John Price and the SAS partner alongside the CIA and the Urzikstani Liberation Force to stop a potential global catastrophe. Play as SAS Sgt. Kyle Garrick, CIA Agent Alex, and ULF Leader Farah Karim in locales ranging from London to the Middle East, as this joint task force battles through betrayals, moral dilemmas, and tough situations with global implications.
Choosing a Difficulty
Before the first mission begins, you’ll be asked to choose a difficulty setting. Here’s what each of these four difficulty settings mean:
Recruit: For players who are new to Call of Duty®. As the description states, Recruit is perfect for those experiencing a Call of Duty game – or even just an FPS game in general – for the first time. It’s also great for those who want to experience the Campaign’s story without facing too many challenges.
Regular: Your abilities in combat will be tested. This is the “normal” difficulty setting for Campaign. Infinity Ward marks this as the baseline difficulty, meaning it should warrant some skill without posing an extreme challenge. Those familiar with previous Call of Duty games may want to start here instead of Recruit.
Hardened: Your skills will be strained. Consider this a direct step up from Regular. Hardened may be great for a player who has played multiple Call of Duty Campaigns. Expect a bit more of a struggle against enemy forces.
Veteran: You will not survive. No, Infinity Ward isn’t kidding; there is little room for error when playing Campaign on Veteran. Given how difficult this setting is, it may not be the best setting for a first-time playthrough. Instead, Veteran is perfect for those who are dead set on being challenged or looking to earn some serious cred… Just be careful about what you wished for.
Realism: Veteran with limited HUD.
Basic Tips for Campaign
No matter what difficulty setting you choose, the basic controls and game mechanics within Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Campaign are all the same.
You will be put in the boots of your playable character in a first-person perspective. Follow on-screen instructions to advance in the Campaign and eliminate those who intend to impede your progress.
During normal gameplay, your character may take damage and lose health. While there is no health bar nor hit points visible, relative health can be gauged by how your screen looks. Does the screen look clear? Then you’re healthy. Is everything starting to go black and white? Well… Get to cover, or else it’s good night.
In every difficulty setting, health regenerates over time. After taking damage, it may be wise to hide behind cover or disengage from combat temporarily in order to get back to full health.
While playing Campaign, your game will automatically save at certain points so that, should you need to exit the game for whatever reason, you’ll pick up right where you left off. When the “Checkpoint reached” messages appears, do not turn off the power or close the game, as this may corrupt your progress.
Veteran Status: Mastering the Campaign
If you’re looking to play the Campaign at higher difficulty settings, you might need to know more than just the basics.
Infinity Ward went the extra mile to make this Campaign a tactical experience, using the help of retired military consultants to add to its authenticity. With that in mind, succeeding at high difficulty settings may involve a bit of thinking like a Tier One Operator would.
A major component of that is exercising caution while in combat. In most scenarios, you will be outnumbered, so using cover to shield against oncoming fire, moving tactically throughout the play area, and paying close attention to surroundings for potential enemy locations are all some good tactics to consider.
Practice also makes perfect; don’t be discouraged if you make a mistake or take a while to figure out how to complete a mission effectively. Just dust off your boots, take a breath, and try again. It may also be best to complete the Campaign on an easier difficulty setting before tackling a Veteran playthrough. This way you will have an understanding of each mission, which should help against tougher enemy forces.
And, should you complete the Campaign on Veteran and are still craving a challenge within this experience, fear not: Infinity Ward knows how to get real when it comes to testing the most hardcore Campaign experts.
The narrative of Campaign is one that should not be spoiled, so this will be our lone guide in explaining what to expect within this game mode.
Needless to say, we wish you the best of luck in saving the world, soldier. And after you do, the story continues in Special Ops… Or you can continue your Tier One Operator career through Multiplayer.
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Happy Halloween!! Creepy Books Ahead…🎃
Date: October 31, 2016Author: Book It Blog 0 Comments
Today is the creepiest day of the year! So let’s add to the creep and read something twisted, spine tingling and sure to keep you up at night with the lights on. This list below has some super creeptastic books for your reading pleasure!
All Is Not Forgotten
by Wendy Walker
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It begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect.
Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory. Her father, Tom, becomes obsessed with his inability to find her attacker and seek justice while her mother, Charlotte, struggles to pretend this horrific event did not touch her carefully constructed world.
As Tom and Charlotte seek help for their daughter, the fault lines within their marriage and their close-knit community emerge from the shadows where they have been hidden for years, and the relentless quest to find the monster who invaded their town — or perhaps lives among them — drive this psychological thriller to a shocking and unexpected conclusion.
The Kept Woman
by Karin Slaughter
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The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.
With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop.
Studying the body, Sara Linton — the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover — realizes that the extensive blood loss didn’t belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim — a woman — who has vanished… and who will die soon if she isn’t found.
Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers — a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away.
But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case… and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends — and even the suspects he pursues.
Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller — a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.
The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
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From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware — this time, set at sea.
In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for — and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong…
With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10 — one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.
by Shari Lapena
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It all started at a dinner party…
A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors — a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives…
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all — a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.
Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they’ve kept for years.
What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family — a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.
Only Daughter
by Anna Snoekstra
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In 2003, 16-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared.
She’d been enjoying her summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen — a presence in her room at night, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched — though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come.
Eleven years later she is replaced.
A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec.
Soon the impostor is living Bec’s life. Sleeping in her bed. Hugging her mother and father. Learning her best friends’ names. Playing with her little brothers.
But Bec’s welcoming family and enthusiastic friends are not quite as they seem. As the impostor dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of the real Bec Winter — and soon realizes that whoever took Bec is still at large, and that she is in imminent danger.
Under the Harrow
by Flynn Berry
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When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house, what she finds is entirely different: Her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder.
Stunned and adrift, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets that surround it, Nora is under the harrow: distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers.
A riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters, the distortions of grief, and the terrifying power of the past, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
The Butterfly Garden
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$4.99 on Kindle today!
Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.
In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees… and a collection of precious “butterflies” — young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.
When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.
As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding…
by B. A. Paris
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This was our book club pick this month! So good!
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.
Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.
Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.
From bestselling author B. A. Paris comes the gripping thriller and international phenomenon Behind Closed Doors.
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When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen…
But that woman’s husband died last week. And Jean doesn’t have to be her anymore.
There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.
Now there’s no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage.
The truth — that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…
All the Missing Girls
by Megan Miranda
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Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women — a decade apart — told in reverse.
It’s been 10 years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.
The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.
Told backwards — Day 15 to Day 1 — from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night 10 years ago.
Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.
Don’t You Cry
by Mary Kubica
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In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend and roommate Quinn Collins to wonder where Esther is and whether or not she’s the person Quinn thought she knew.
Meanwhile, in a small Michigan harbor town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where 18-year-old Alex Gallo works as a dishwasher. He is immediately drawn to her charm and beauty, but what starts as an innocent crush quickly spirals into something far more dark and sinister than he ever expected.
As Quinn searches for answers about Esther, and Alex is drawn further under the stranger’s spell, master of suspense Mary Kubica takes readers on a taut and twisted thrill ride that builds to a stunning conclusion and shows that no matter how fast and far we run, the past always catches up with us in the end.
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
by Iain Reid
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You will be scared. But you won’t know why…
I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.
Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”
And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.
In this smart, suspenseful, and intense literary thriller, debut novelist Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago’s early work, Michel Faber’s cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is an edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, this novel pulls you in from the very first page… and never lets you go.
by Lisa Lutz
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, Lisa Lutz’s latest blistering thriller is about a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past: You’ll want to buckle up for the ride!
In case you were wondering, I didn’t do it. I didn’t have anything to do with Frank’s death. I don’t have an alibi, so you’ll have to take my word for it…
Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It’s not the first time.
She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive’s eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy — and dangerous — alliance is born.
It’s almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret… can she outrun her past?
With heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, The Passenger is an amazing psychological thriller about defining yourself while you pursue your path to survival. One thing is certain: The ride will leave you breathless.
Hidden Bodies
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I read the first book in this two book series….very twisted!! It has a ton of sexual content, so beware if that bothers you. I posted the info for Book #1 below.
In the compulsively readable follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.”
Hidden Bodies marks the return of a voice that Stephen King described as original and hypnotic, and through the divisive and charmingly sociopathic character of Joe Goldberg, Kepnes satirizes and dissects our culture, blending suspense with scathing wit.
Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past 10 years, this 30-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him.
In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can’t stop looking over his shoulder. The problem with hidden bodies is that they don’t always stay that way. They re-emerge, like dark thoughts, multiplying and threatening to destroy what Joe wants most: truelove. And when he finds it in a darkened room in Soho House, he’s more desperate than ever to keep his secrets buried. He doesn’t want to hurt his new girlfriend — he wants to be with her forever. But if she ever finds out what he’s done, he may not have a choice.
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No One Knows
by J.T. Ellison
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I read this one. You can find my review by clicking the reviews button on my home page.
In an obsessive mystery as thrilling as The Girl on the Train and The Husband’s Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will make you question every twist in her page-turning novel — and wonder which of her vividly drawn characters you should trust.
The day Aubrey Hamilton’s husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn’t want to move on; she wants Josh back. It’s been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage — they were happy, weren’t they? — screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn’t Josh show up at his friend’s bachelor party? Was he murdered? Did he run away? And now, all this time later, who is the mysterious yet strangely familiar figure suddenly haunting her new life?
In No One Knows, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Nicholas Drummond series expertly peels back the layers of a complex woman who is hiding dark secrets beneath her unassuming exterior. This masterful thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Paula Hawkins will pull readers into a you’ll-never-guess merry-go-round of danger and deception. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops… no one knows.
Please have a safe and Happy Halloween! Let me know if you pick up any of these books!
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What Should The U.s. Army Learn From History? Recovery From A Strategic Deficit
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5 (or so) Female Celebrity Autobiographies Perfect for the Beach!
The following plucky and familiar female celebrities offer real-world lessons and problems in a comedic and comforting way in their autobiographies. Settle down, have a laugh (and most likely a cry as well) as you divulge into the worlds of Hollywood’s finest and funniest females.
Image via Giphy
I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson
Comedian and Broad City alum muses on the endings as she drives across the country by herself. Coming out of a break-up with a significant other and a Comedy Central show, Jacobson faces the next chapter of her life while tracking sleep patterns, reviewing local restaurants, and doodling album covers listened to along the way. Jacobson opens up about dating a woman for the first time in her career in an honest and comedic way. She combines anecdotes, illustrations, lists and notes to take the broad out of the city and onto the road for a shift in Jacobson’s career while maintaining her sharp and witty familiarity.
This Will Only Hurt a Little– Busy Phillips
Following a launch (and cancellation) of her own late night talk show, Busy Tonight, fans must retreat to her 2018 autobiography to hear her raspy voice again. Recently opening up about abuse on the set of Freaks and Geeks and her own experience with abortion, Phillips has proven herself an advocate to be reckoned with. Revealing the secrets of Hollywood and the countless names Phillips has encountered during her career, This Will Only Hurt a Little exposes the experience of being a female in Hollywood in a new and honest way.
Scrappy Little Nobody– Anna Kendrick
Following the success of Pitch Perfect, Kendrick’s 2016 memoir features a collection of essays about auditions, anxiety and A capella. Kendrick highlights the importance of her small projects and the fulfillment of small successes as an actor and singer. Kendrick pairs honesty and comedy in an absorbing way as she recalls going from a scrappy little nobody to a scrappy little somebody.
Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
Following her first release, You Can’t Touch my Hair, comedian Phoebe Robinson unveils her 2018 second act. Equally as smart and emotional, Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay does exactly what the title suggests- mask all the terrible turmoil in the world in dazzling comedy and relatability. Robinson shares cringey and comical personal anecdotes for readers to laugh at and pretend they can’t relate to. This Girl Code alum proves her writing skills yet again and has us all hoping for a part three.
5. Anything by Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler or Tina Fey
It would be unfair to address the comedians of Hollywood without mentioning these three boss-lady authors whose books have been making us LOL since 2011. Every book that these leading ladies release confirms more and more what we already knew about the hilarity and smarts of these three women. Each one of their books reveals how these stars came to be (and continue to be) with personal essays, lucid advice and inner workings of a comedian’s mind we didn’t know we needed. If re-runs of their respective sitcoms are not enough for you, dive into the pages of the just as bubbly and personal ladies behind the characters.
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Singulart | Magazine > Interviews > Francesco D'Adamo about how to paint music
Francesco D'Adamo about how to paint music
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
My name is Francesco D’Adamo and I’m close to be 39. I dedicated myself full time to painting and music and I live in the area of Bologna, Italy.
How did you find your voice as an artist?
I can’t say if I found my voice so far. Yet I know where I’m searching it: in a line between what I know and love and what still eludes me. There is my own space to search further.
The Second Chimera, 2017, acrylic, oil, collage, gouache on canvas, 70×100 cm
You are deeply fascinated by music and art – how do you transfer music through painting? Which techniques do you use? What are the biggest challenges here?
I have been working for years on relationships between music and painting, trying to combine and create a dialogue between those languages. In my point of view they’re like two twin sisters dressed up in a different way. I work trying to translate their formal values from one medium to the other, making the sign becoming sound and vice versa, transposing musical rhythm into the physical space of painting, trying to move a certain tone layering into musical harmony and so on. They’re suggestions and observations (yet more agreeable than one might believe) which help me a lot to give direction and coherence to my work.
I use all techniques and materials that I consider suitable to my research. The challenge is related to the very physical nature of a painting: its drama must happen and be fulfilled in that space, without any external references or explanatory descriptions. A canvas is silent and it must speak only as painting.
What have been the highlights of your artistic career so far?
All the moments in which I still feel a sense of mystery and completeness when looking at a painting of mine are definitely highlights for me. On a more concrete level, last year I held a solo exhibition named “Chimere” where I could to take care of every aspect and I am very satisfied with it. I am working on a similar but wider project to be held in Bologna later this year, an exhibition that will combine visual, musical and literary aspects.
Synesthesia, 2015, Acrylic on paper, 40×50 cm
Which artists do you admire?
Speaking of painting my thoughts go immediately to Afro Basaldella, Alberto Burri, Mario Sironi, William de Kooning, Umberto Boccioni and few others. Their works (although different from each other) attract me in a profound and magnetic fashion. They seem to share a strong desire for beauty, in an intense, lyric and fulfilled way. But painting is only a part of a larger game in which composers, musicians, directors, writers, photographers are involved and whose artistic ideas I deeply admire, having, each with its own language, a profound influence on me.
Do you have a vision of what your artistic future might look like?
I hope to keep alive the desire and the energy to develop and go deeper, keeping a strong tension towards what still has to reveal itself, in whatever artistic field this may be.
Trojan Horse, 2018, acrylic, collage on canvas, 90×130 cm
Francesco D’Adamo on Singulart:https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/francesco-d-adamo-522
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CEA Standing Up for Student, Parent, and Teacher Rights
by Laurel Killough on March 8, 2016
CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams spoke to members of the legislature’s Education Committee during a public hearing.
“This bill is essentially a hostile takeover of Network Schools—it’s incredibly anti-democratic,” CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams told legislators yesterday, saying that CEA strongly opposes Senate Bill 5551.
While debate on a CEA proposed bill to undo the link between SBAC and teachers’ evaluations received the lion’s share of testimony at an Education Committee hearing, other issues important to the future of education in Connecticut—many of which focused on the rights of students, parents, teachers, and community members—were also discussed.
Williams said that SB 5551 would subvert elected boards of education, remove transparency, curtail responsiveness to the community, repeal collective bargaining, and create a czar—who may be a charter school vendor—to oversee Network Schools. “It is a top-down model that is designed to benefit those who want corporate control over our schools. It eliminates meaningful partnerships with parents, teachers, and administrators,” he said.
“Essentially we have a proposed bill that would undermine democracy in Connecticut’s urban areas and likely further privatize our public school system,” said Jacob Werblow, an assistant professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University and Harber Fellow of Education at Wesleyan University.
The bill would eliminate the role of school governance councils, which the legislature created to give parents and teachers in low-performing schools a greater voice. “I have served on a school governance council in New Britain,” Werblow said. “I can tell you that it is a valuable structure that provides parents in working-class communities a real opportunity to have a say in their child’s education.”
Problems with SBAC and Inappropriate Penalties for Schools
Speaking on House Bill 5555, CEA Research and Policy Development Specialist Ray Rossomando urged legislators to ensure that the voices of parents, educators, and voters are heard on important policy matters.
HB 5555 would prohibit mastery test participation rates from affecting a school or district’s state rating and would prohibit certain funds from being withheld from districts based on those participation rates.
“The state Department of Education has exceeded its authority on a number of fronts to impose punitive measures on school districts for participation rates that do not reach the 95% threshold sought by the No Child Left Behind act,” Rossomando told legislators. “Districts risk losing $21.5 million of federal education funding at the hands of the SDE, all without any consideration by the Connecticut General Assembly. This is unconscionable.”
Rossomando said that legislators need to carefully consider both the problematic consequences being unilaterally threatened by the state Department of Education and why so many parents opted their children out of the SBAC exam last year—leading to low participation rates at some schools. “Clearly, the reason that so many people across the country are rejecting SBAC testing is the SBAC test itself and the invalid ways that it is being used,” he said.
Referencing the many problems with SBAC, Williams asked the Education Committee to amend HB 5550 to require that the current Mastery Examination Committee—which the legislature created last year—pursue a request for proposals process for a different mastery examination for grades 3 through 8.
“The majority of states have abandoned the SBAC test and PARCC tests, and substituted other mastery exams. Connecticut wisely abandoned SBAC for high school students. We should not forget our elementary and middle school students,” Williams said.
Improving Minority Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Research shows that having teachers that look like them and share their experiences is important to students’ academic success. Speaking on SB 379, CEA Educational Issues Specialist Michele O’Neill said that CEA strongly supports initiatives to increase the recruitment and retention of minority teachers. She also urged legislators to go further to better engage more communities in order to better recruit and retain minority educators.
“Members of CEA’s Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee have recommended that we need to reach out to potential teachers of color before college,” O’Neill said. “Creating programs in our high schools that engage students of color who are interested in teaching is essential to creating pathways to careers in education.”
O’Neill also asked that the membership of the existing Minority Teacher Recruitment Task Force and the new Minority Teacher Recruitment Policy Oversight Council include teachers of color from both CEA and AFT-Connecticut so that the insights and experiences of these teachers are reflected in the groups’ work.
Testimony of CEA Director of Policy, Research, and Reform Donald Williams
Testimony of Jacob Werblow, assistant professor of Educational Leadership at Central Connecticut State University
Testimony of CEA Research and Policy Development Specialist Ray Rossomando
Testimony of CEA Education Issues Specialist Michele O’Neill
Click here to watch video of the entire Education Committee hearing.
Tags: network schools, SBAC, testing
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Jared Rubin, Ph.D. Receives Second Award for Book "Rulers, Religions, and Riches" Recognized as Best Book in Global Economic History
Congratulations to Jared Rubin, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society. Dr. Rubin’s book Rulers, Religion, and Riches won the Lindert-Williamson Prize by the Economic History Association for Outstanding Book in Global Economic History. The Lindert-Williamson Prize is awarded every third year for the best book in the world economic history published in the preceding three years.
Rulers, Religions, and Riches examines why the modern economy was born in Europe, despite the Middle East being far ahead of Europe for centuries following the spread of Islam. Dr. Rubin’s book argues that the religion itself is not to blame; the importance of religious legitimacy in Middle Eastern politics was the primary culprit. Muslim religious authorities were given an important seat at the political bargaining table, which they used to block important advancements such as the printing press and lending at interest. In Europe, however, the Church played a weaker role in legitimizing rule, especially where Protestantism spread. It was precisely in those Protestant nations, especially England and the Dutch Republic, where the modern economy was born.
Rulers, Religions, and Riches was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press and was already an award-winning text before winning the Lindert-Williamson Prize. In 2018 Dr. Rubin was recognized by the Society of Institutional and Organizational Economics with the Douglass North Best Book Award, for having the best research in institutional and organizational economics published during the previous two years.
“It is an incredible honor to have my book awarded twice by my peers. I poured a lot into the book, and I am so delighted and grateful that it had been received so positively,” said Dr. Rubin.
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Student Spotlight: Travis Kennedy (MBA ’21)
November 12, 2019 by Travis Kennedy | Graduate & MBA
Born and raised in Southern California, I joined the Navy in 2006 with the goal of becoming a Navy SEAL. After graduating from SEAL training in 2008, I went on to complete the Special Operations Combat Medic course. From there, I was stationed at SEAL Team Four where I completed two successful combat deployments to
December 16, 2019 by Zina Gorin | Student Voice
On December 4, 2019, I presented the results of a research project I’ve worked on for six months with professors Kara Bentley, Ph.D., Charlene Chu, Ph.D. and Cristina Nistor, Ph.D. about eco-influencers using social media. I am a double major in Economics and Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing and am graduating one semester
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The three unanswered questions from the Roger Scruton hit job
The New Statesman has apologised to Sir Roger Scruton. In a statement published on its website, the magazine has admitted that in April this year its deputy editor, George Eaton, tweeted out ‘partial quotations’ from an interview with the philosopher ‘including a truncated version’ of a quotation. The New Statesman has further admitted that the effect of this quote-tampering was that:
‘The views of Professor Scruton were not accurately represented in the tweets to his disadvantage. We apologise for this, and regret any distress that this has caused Sir Roger.’
It is good of the New Statesman to finally admit what any fair observer has known for months. And to catch up with what I revealed on the cover of The Spectator magazine three months ago. Which is that Eaton misrepresented statements by Sir Roger Scruton which led to his immediate sacking from his unpaid government appointment. This sacking was carried out by the relevant government minister, the otherwise irrelevant James Brokenshire.
George Eaton’s now-deleted post on Instagram
I do not doubt that the New Statesman feels ‘regret’ at ‘any distress’ that Eaton’s reporting has caused. And it is good to finally admit its reporter’s errors. But at least three very serious questions remain unaddressed.
The first is the impact that this had on Sir Roger’s career and reputation. It is all very well for the New Statesman, under pressure, to admit what everybody else has been able to see for months. But Eaton’s reporting led to Scruton being sacked from his government appointment. What will now be done to make up for this? Indeed what are James Brokenshire or this nominally conservative government of ours going to do, now that it is clear that Scruton was sacked on the basis of what Eaton how accepts are misquotations.
Secondly, what of the other papers and media which ran news reports about Scruton’s alleged quotes? Will these newspapers also realise that they were misinformed by Eaton and that as a result of quotes the New Statesman no longer stands behind, these papers in turn published falsehoods?
Finally, what of George Eaton himself? After a certain amount of sabbatical, he appears to still be on the staff of the New Statesman, though his Twitter bio now describes him as being a mere ‘assistant editor’. Is there any meaningful distinction in this tumble from deputy to assistant? If so it is hard to see.
All of which is of course a prime example of why so many people have come to distrust the media. A journalist at a leading British magazine has been allowed to misrepresent quotes, as a result of which someone has been sacked. The magazine has had to issue a public apology over the conduct of its own reporter. And yet what happens to him? Nothing. The journalist has been allowed to remain on the staff of the magazine, with the still-lofty title of assistant editor. Which speaks volumes about the importance placed on truth and accuracy.
I feel for the other journalists at the New Statesman, who may well think that if they had acted as Eaton did, they’d be out in a shot. How will they now persuade anyone to give them an interview, since their assistant editor has been allowed to indulge in misquotation without any meaningful repercussion? So long as George Eaton remains in the magazine, he will embody its compromised values and a new nadir for British journalism as a whole.
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790% rise in environmental crimes in India between 2016 and 2017: NCRB data
A criminal feat: Latest NCRB records show that environmental crime in India has jumped 790% between 2016 and 2017 however experts have cast doubts on the data | Photo: Mongabay
By Editorial Team / October 27, 2019
Environmental crimes in India shot up 790% between 2016 and 2017 – from 4,732 to 42,143, according to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB)’s Crime Statistics Report for 2017 released this month. Tamil Nadu led the list of states – 20,914, which is 49.6% of all the crimes committed followed by Rajasthan (16%) and Kerala (16%). The hike has been attributed to the inclusion of the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003, to the list of environment offences, which has, on its own, added 30% more offenses to the total.
The NCRB’s data for 2017 was released after a delay of more than a year. Experts pointed to ‘fundamental flaws’ in the way environmental crime data is collected in India.
India’s power sector hit by bad loans worth Rs1 lakh crore
The position of India’s power sector has gone from bad to worse. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) reported that around 1 lakh crore worth of loans given to thermal power companies have gone bad. These loans make up 18% of the sector’s total outstanding debt. TERI has blamed the ‘imprudent capacity expansion’ between 2010 and 2015, the demand growth slowdown after 2012, among other reasons for the bad debts.
According to a recent RBI report, the total debt burden of India’s states is on the rise – Rs52.58 lakh by FY20 – and one of the major reasons being cited for this is the indebtedness of power distribution companies or discoms. Union power minister RK Singh has said major structural reforms are on the cards of the sector.
Trump administration to begin process to pull out US from Paris agreement
It’s finally happening – the Trump administration is preparing to formally withdraw the US from the Paris agreement. Once the process has begun, the withdrawal could take up to a year, according to the rules of the Paris accord. US president Donald Trump confirmed the pull-out saying the accord would have shut down domestic producers with excessive restrictions while giving a free hand to ‘foreign producers’. “What we won’t do is punish the American people while enriching foreign polluters,” he said, adding: “I’m proud to say it, it’s called America First.”
Justin Trudeau re-election paves way for net-zero emissions in Canada by 2050
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s party was re-elected by a narrow margin this fortnight, putting the spotlight on the leader’s primary campaign promise – the country achieving net zero emissions by 2050. “Canadians have voted in favour of a progressive agenda and strong action on climate change,” he said. Experts said Canada will not how to set out a clear agenda to achieve this target, adding an increase of Canada’s 2030 target in the next year is “inevitable”.
Australia’s land-clearing practice wiping out billions spent to control carbon emissions
The Australian government has committed a huge chunk of taxpayer money to climate change projects, and spent nearly $62 million on a policy to plant 20 million trees. But all that effort is getting massively cancelled because of the significant stepping up of land clearing programmes in several states, mostly for agriculture. If this continues, two years of land clearing will completely eradicate all the money spent on controlling carbon emissions. The number is alarming. Using government figures, the Wilderness Society estimates a Melbourne Cricket Ground-sized area of forest and bushland was cleared every two minutes in 2017.
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Pollen gene flow and genetic isolation of Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. (Leguminosa...
Genetic conectivity of the tree Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. in small forest fragm...
Conservation genetics of copaiba in diferent vegetational formations located in th...
Pollen dispersal distance and patters and spatial genetic structure in a small iso...
Study of flow and contemporary pollen dispersal, mating system, spatial distributi...
Ecological and genetic processes that affect Copaifera langsdorffii remnant popula...
Recruitment and genetic diversity of Copaifera langsdorffii Desf. regenerants in small forest fragments
Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Effective date (Start): January 01, 2013
Effective date (End): December 31, 2013
Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology
Principal Investigator: Karina Martins
Grantee: Ana Flávia Francisconi
Home Institution: Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias para a Sustentabilidade (CCTS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Sorocaba , SP, Brazil
The immediate consequence of forest fragmentation in tree species is the loss of genetic diversity due to the reduction in population sizes. In the medium-term, the small population sizes and the spatial isolation of forest remnants constrain gene flow and cause inbreeding. Small populations are also more sensitive to the loss of genetic diversity caused by genetic drift. Our study aims to evaluate the dynamics of Copaifera langsdorffii natural regeneration and the genetic diversity of seedlings and saplings in small forest fragments in Sorocaba-SP. This project is part of major research, supported by FAPESP (Process 2012/01274-4), which aims to study the conservation status of C. langsdorffii populations in small forest fragments and the quantification of contemporary gene flow among a set of forest remnants. It's the first initiative to employ the molecular genetics approach to study tree populations in Sorocaba region. In 2012, fourteen 100m2 plots were installed in six small forest fragments in Sorocaba municipality, SP. In this project, all C. langsdorffii (> 30 cm height) inside the plots will be measured and recorded. Seedling and sapling densities relative to reproductively mature trees will be compared between fragments. Each six months, we will evaluate recruitment and seedling and sapling mortality in order to compare the dynamics of regeneration between fragments. Seedlings and saplings will be genotyped with at least eight microsatellite markers. Inbreeding and genetic diversity estimates will be compared between fragments and size classes (seedlings x saplings x adults). (AU)
MARTINS, KARINA; KIMURA, RENATO KENJI; FRANCISCONI, ANA FLAVIA; GEZAN, SALVADOR; KAINER, KAREN; CHRISTIANINI, ALEXANDER V. The role of very small fragments in conserving genetic diversity of a common tree in a hyper fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forest landscape. CONSERVATION GENETICS, v. 17, n. 3, p. 509-520, JUN 2016. Web of Science Citations: 5.
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Breast Cancer More Aggressive, Deadlier in African Women than Caucasian Women
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(June 20, 2017) – Dr. Olufunmilayo (Funmi) Olopade, a native of Nigeria and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at the University of Chicago, has dedicated her career to unraveling breast cancer biology in women of African descent. Her pioneering research, published in leading scientific journals, has shown that the disease “hits earlier and harder” in Africa than among Caucasian women in the United States. BVGH’s new African Access Initiative (AAI) will help address the cancer crisis and build the capacity and infrastructure needed to support further research on Africa’s cancer landscape and clinical trials of existing and new treatments. Dr. Olopade and Dr. Pol Vandenbroucke, Vice President of the Medical Strategy at Pfizer, will join BVGH’s Board of Directors to strengthen its expertise in oncology and healthcare delivery in Africa. Click here to read more.
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Calgary police locate parents of tot found wandering alone
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Calgary police say they’ve located the family of the tot found wandering alone in Dover on Saturday night.
Around 8:15 p.m., the girl, believed to be about two or three years old, walked into the garage of a home in the 2000 block of Dover Road S.E., where a woman was working, Calgary police said in a written statement issued early Sunday morning.
The woman tried to search the neighbourhood for the girl’s parents, but called police after no one said they knew who the child was.
She was unable to identify herself, prompting a public plea for help from police, who also released a picture of the girl.
Just after noon Sunday, investigators had located the girl’s family, thanking the public for tips that rolled in Sunday morning.
Both the girl and family are safe, added police.
Citing the need to protect the privacy of the girl and her family, police said in a news release that no further details would be released.
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Maciel vs. Fashion Coiffures: pregnancy and employer’s continued obligation under the “Code”
March 30, 2016 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Wages and Compensation
The applicant alleged that she was terminated when on her first day of work she disclosed to her manager, Ms. Cinzia Conforti, that she was pregnant. In contrast, the respondents attributed her termination to the applicant’s alleged request to work part-time, although she had been newly hired for a full-time position.
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Sex based discrimination and poisoned work environment
February 24, 2016 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Training and Development, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
Does an employee have to be “sexually” harassed in order for there to be a breach of the Human Rights Code? This issue was determined in a recent decision from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
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Family status under the Code: Recent developments
January 28, 2016 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Union Relations, Wages and Compensation
The seminal cases dealing with discrimination based on family status more often than not address the issue of caregiving. In the recent case, Knox-Heldmann v. 1818224 Ontario Limited o/a Country Style Donut, the Tribunal demonstrates that discrimination based on family status is not restricted to caregiving.
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No “give and take” required by employee in accommodation under the Human Rights Code
September 29, 2015 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Integrated Accessibility Regulation, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Standard for Employment, Wages and Compensation
The applicant, Michele Macan, filed a human rights application alleging discrimination with respect to employment due to disability. The respondent, Stongco Limited Partnership, rejected the allegations, instead submitting that the applicant’s disability was “not a reason, a factor, or even considered in its decision to terminate the applicant”.[1] The respondent alleged that her termination was […]
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Respondents challenge $100,000.00 human rights decision
August 26, 2015 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll
While more often than not the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario’s decisions are not challenged, there are two processes by which this can be done.
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The Human Rights Code and Res Judicata: G.G. v. […] Ontario Limited
July 29, 2015 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Recruiting and Hiring
Generally speaking, res judicata (Latin for “a thing adjudicated”) is the legal doctrine which prevents the same matter from being tried a second time once there has been a verdict or decision in regard to that matter. Under Ontario’s Human Rights Code, a criminal matter being decided in regard to a matter that contains a breach of the Human Rights Code does not necessarily prevent an applicant from filing at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. This was the case in G.G. v. […] Ontario Limited.
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Poisoned work environment, discrimination, and undue hardship under the “Code”
June 22, 2015 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development
A recent Ontario Human Rights case further underscores the employer’s ongoing duty to accommodate to the point of undue hardship, and that Code based harassment or discrimination constitutes a breach under the Human Rights Code of Ontario.
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Rollick v. 1526597 Ontario Inc.: “heavy handed and unjustifiable conduct”
April 9, 2015 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services HR Analytics, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Rights, Training and Development
The recent Human Rights decision of Rollick v. 1526597 Ontario Inc. o/a Tim Horton’s Store No. 2533, addresses what the Tribunal characterized as “heavy handed and unjustifiable” conduct on the part of the employer, when dealing with an employee with a disability.
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Emra v. Impression Bridal Ltd.: The hefty price of ignorance of the ‘Code’
February 23, 2015 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Accessibility Standards, Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Integrated Accessibility Regulation, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Standard for Employment, Training and Development, Wages and Compensation
The human rights case of Emra v. Impression Bridal Inc. reminds us that a disability may be hidden, but when brought to the employer’s attention, it should not be ignored
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Lugonia v. Arista Homes: Pregnancy, short-term contracts and the “Code”
January 27, 2015 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Pensions and Benefits, Recruiting and Hiring, Wages and Compensation
In the summer of 2013 the applicant, Amanda Lugonia, began a new job at the same time she discovered she was starting a new family, the result of which was instant dismissal from her new employer. The respondent denied that the applicant’s pregnancy was a factor in the termination of her employment and in addition denied knowledge of the pregnancy, claiming the reason for her termination was due to lack of “fit”.
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The cost of racial stereotyping: Adams v. Knoll North America
December 23, 2014 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Employee Relations, Employment/Labour Standards, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development, Wages and Compensation
Following a verbal altercation with his supervisor, the applicant was terminated after he refused to partake in an anger management program as a requirement of his continued employment. On October 31, 2008 the applicant filed an application with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario alleging discrimination based on race. The respondents, Knoll, denied the allegations.
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Sexual harassment under the Code: Smith v. The Rover’s Rest
November 28, 2014 Kevin Sambrano, Sambrano Legal Services Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Human Rights, Notice, Damages and Settlements, Payroll
The case of Smith v. The Rover’s Rest, 2013 HRTO 700 is a recent case dealing with sexual harassment and reprisal under the Human Rights Code of Ontario. At the time of the incidents, the applicant, Debbie Smith was a 39-year-old mother being paid $7.00 per hour as a bartender at the Rover’s Rest in […]
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The Emperor's Crown and Other Enigmatic Perversions
N.B. This post was originally written about a mystery, but the mystery is now solved. See the wonderfully worldly description in the comments section.
The problem with the Internet is that there's not nearly enough information on obscure sexual practices. It's really quite maddening. For example, I was re-reading Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt when I came across this line:
There was a brothel in Havana where the Emperor's Crown was admirably performed by three nice girls.
Now, I'm proud to say that I have a depraved and horrible mind. I know what felch means, I know what changing at Baker Street is, and I know at least 5,636,336 synonyms for the word perineum. But I have no idea what the Emperor's Crown might be. So I googled it. And what did I find? Nothing nil zero zilch rien.
It's actually a rather important point in the novel, now lost to understanding.
There are several competing problems with understanding the language of filth. The first is that obscenities are not written down enough, except on the walls of lavatories, which are then demolished or repainted. The second is that those places where they are written down tend to be terribly dubious. There is, for example, a splendid book called Roger's Profanisaurus that lists rude words and their meanings. It is revised each year in time for Christmas and then appears on the tables in Waterstones. Yet ten years of revisions have not got rid of the fact that a chap I know spuriously entered the name of another chap I know with an obscene definition. It's still there. I check every year.
The Urban Dictionary, which is in some ways terribly useful, is the same. There's an Auden poem that opens:
Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle
I happened to mention this aspect of doom to Mrs Malaprop and she didn't know what a sea dingle was. I reached for a dictionary, she for a computer. I found that a dingle was another word for a dell (hence Dingly Dell in Pickwick Papers is a tautology). She found this definition from the Urban Dictionary:
A sex act involving two people in which salmon roe is used as lubrication
Now, that ain't true. I know that ain't true. That's somebody who's read a little too much Auden (if that's possible) and is having a laugh. The problem is that the two best resources for the investigation of obscene English are tainted, infected. They have informational herpes.
And where does that leave the Emperor's Crown? What were the three nice girls doing so admirably? Perhaps Graham Greene was making it up. Almost any words in the right context can sound obscene. Have you ever done a flick Geoffrey? A koala gherkin? A Dutch steamboat?
If you have any idea what the Emperor's Crown is, do leave it in the comments. Otherwise the details may be lost to future annotators of this great novel. All that the prudish, priggish web would tell me was that the Emperor's Crown is usually bestowed by the Pope.
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Moptop 9 March 2010 at 10:29
I expect it's something like a Crown of Sonnets, where the last line of one sonnet becomes the first line of the next.
So the bottom (figuratively speaking) of one nice girl is joined to the top (ditto) of another nice girl.
That’s the most baffling thing…I can’t find a single dirty reference, and I’ve tried it in French, German and Spanish for good measure.
I was half-sure it was something dirty in French, but it’s not.
Bonvicino 9 March 2010 at 14:01
I'm bound to say, when I read the line I thought straightaway of the Dutch steamboat. But you've piqued my curiosity, and I will see if I can discover anything when I'm not at work.
As a first step I think I'll visit a brothel and ask for one.
The other day I heard a constituency described as an all female three way marginal which taken the wrong way could sound rather outre
I am rather fond of the Alabama hot pot myself.
M.H. Forsyth 9 March 2010 at 22:56
How does that differ from Lancashire?
They take their socks off.
The Antipodean 19 June 2010 at 09:16
Is the Dutch steamboat related to the Dutch oven at all?
This blog is terribly educational, and I may need to add the Urban Dictionary (infected though it is) to my Search Provider list.
On a slight tangent, it reminds me of the names for the cons in the Ocean's... movies.
The Emperor's Crown...
I guess you have to ask someone as old as I about that as much of this type of thing happened during the time of Batista.
There is no nice way to put this (to describe this) other to just say what it is.
One man -- three women.
Man is on his back -- one woman (kneeling forward) has her pelvis over the man's face
while he orally performs on her, another woman (also kneeling forward with her head on the man's chest) mounted on his member and a third woman - again kneeling forward - orally performing on his testicles.
The outline is:
/\/\/\
Perhaps that was best left in Havana of that day....
Mark Pritchard 16 October 2010 at 22:56
Curiously, almost the same line is in Greene's autobiography, "A Sort of Life": "This surely must have had some moral object, though one which eludes me today when I remember how deftly the 'Emperor's Crown' used to be performed by three girls at once in a brothel in Bautista's Havana." This obscure reference sent me to the internet and thus to this post. I'm grateful for the explanation.
miguelspebble 19 February 2017 at 08:47
Seven years later, reading Greene, I am here for the same reason!
The Emperors Crown is a technique that involves ladies hoisting another lady up in a pulley system that leaves her nether regions exposed. With some care and giggling the ladies move the hoisted girl over the mans erect member and can hoist her up and down. However the real explosion occurs when the ladies turn the girls body around several times to twist the ropes holding her. And the at the right moment let her revolve freely on the mans erection ... KABOOM! A modest version of this technique can be seen in the film SIDDHARTHA whtre he is tempted by sexual delights.
Trew 25 March 2017 at 22:44
This explains why "The Emperor's Crown is rated The Beat backpacking hostel in Perth, Australia!"
"The Emperors crown"is a sexual act where the man lies flat on his back while the first of the three girls sits on his face.The second girl straddles his erect penis ,and the third girl isvface down ass up while juggling the scrotum in her mouth .It was said that when viewed from the side ,it resembled a crown .
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No Problem With The Handcuffs
Kevin Elwardt photo of The Handcuffs at an earlier concert. From The Handcuffs Facebook page.
The catchy rock songs The Handcuffs have recorded over the course of three CDs came across loud and clear during a performance at Northalsted Market Days. Led by the husband and wife team of singer-guitarist Chloe F. Orwell and drummer Brad Elvis, the Chicago-based band has landed a number of songs on TV shows, and plays the local scene on a semi-regular basis. On Sunday, The Handcuffs opened with the energetic “Mickey 66” and continued at a relentless pace throughout the hour-long show.
A touch of glam and a consistently hard guitar attack mixed within classic pop melodies makes it challenging to slap a label on this four woman/one man quintet. Plus, chief songwriter Brad Elvis is pretty adventurous when it comes to lyrics. Orwell, a charismatic front person, acknowledged the predominantly gay Market Days crowd from time to time, and dedicated the provocative tale of cross-dressing, “Vinyl Isabella,” to “all the trannies in the crowd.” The song segued nicely into a bit of “Lola” by the Kinks, and The Handcuffs later offered a rollicking cover of Mott The Hoople’s “All The Way To Memphis.”
Otherwise, it was an impressive set of originals like “Miss You On Tuesday,” “Kiss This Goodbye,” “Dirty Glitter,” and “Jet Baby.” New guitarist Susie Q exuded the mystique of a western gunslinger as she powered each song, and broke free for some extended solos. At one point, Orwell instructed the crowd to chant Q! in the guitarist’s honor. Orwell also had some interactive fun during “Gotta’ Problem With Me?” As she sang, “You gotta a problem with me?”, the audience pointed at her and shouted “We gotta a problem with you!” It takes a lot of confidence to encourage a crowd participate that way.
The Handcuffs have been working in the studio on their fourth release. The two new songs performed on Sunday, “Keep Your Mouth Shut!” and “Fluffer” (I’m guessing at the titles) gave a strong indication that the band shows no signs of slowing down.
Marty Wombacher said...
The Handcuffs rule and rock! Saw them in April and it's their best line-up ever! Can't wait for the new CD to come out.
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The First Kiss Hypothesis by Christina Mandelski
November 3, 2017 November 3, 2017 lenoreo1 Comment
Nora Reid believes scientific laws control everything, even love. With her grandparents’epic first kiss story cemented in her brain, Nora develops a hypothesis she’s determined to prove:for each person in the world, there is exactly one other person, and at first kiss, they’ll experience an immediate and intense reaction.
But after four years of zero-reaction kisses, she comes up with a new theory: maybe that pesky crush on her stunningly hot best friend Eli Costas is skewing her results.
She needs to get rid of him, and fast.
Eli Costas is an injury-prone lacrosse star with a problem—the one chance he had at winning over the girl next door resulted in the most epically sucktastic first kiss ever. And now she’s…trying to get rid of him? Hell no. It’s time to disprove her theory and show her exactly what she’s missing.
Game. On.
Disclaimer: This book contains a stunningly hot lacrosse player who isn’t above playing dirty to win over the stubborn girl-next-door of his dreams.
3.5 stars — I received a free copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.
Well that was an up and down ride!! It started off really strong, I absolutely adored the author’s voice in this one. There was a bit of sassiness and snark that was delightful. I spent time both loving and hating BOTH characters, but in this case (unlike my previous read), I’m happy to say they redeemed themselves and showed those two words I love in characters: GROWTH AND CHANGE!
Nora was an intriguing, if frustrating, heroine! It’s funny, b/c at first I thought she was going to be really snarky, but that didn’t really last. I felt for the damage she sustained from her divorced parents, and their rather toxic relationship. I also liked that it wasn’t something we saw that much (as we never met the father), but you could see the damage in so many subtle little ways…not the least of which was her ridiculous hypothesis. As a reader, I found it really hard to watch her hang onto her theory with such a tightfisted grip. But I guess she really wanted to believe she could avoid her mother’s mistake. I sometimes think the smartest people can just not see the most obvious things sometimes. Hence the frustrating part of Nora. She also had a bit of high school damage. By holding on to this theory, and testing it out on all the boys, she’d kind of alienated herself from many of her fellow students…and my heart broke for her trying to navigate that.
Eli was just as intriguing, and honest to god, just as frustrating…but in a completely different way. I had completely different expectations for this story, and particularly for Eli. I honestly thought he was always in love with her, and figured this was his chance. But it’s not quite that. Quite frankly, that confused and frustrated me. If he just knew he loved her and was finally making his move, I’d have been immediately on board (I love those stories). But he was so confusing!! And confused! He wanted to get another chance with Nora and he wanted to prove her hypothesis wrong using himself as an example, but he kept initially framing it as though that was all he wanted…like for her own good, so she wouldn’t be lonely. But dude, that’s kind of dickish. And so I was confused how that was going to go. And worried. But I’ll get back to that in a moment. I was also startled by his personality and attitude sometimes. I expected a more laidback sweet guy, and he wasn’t quite that. Honestly, he actually felt like a really realistic depiction of a teenage guy. He had all this anger bottled up sometimes…which from what I understand from my husband is a common teenage boy problem, testosterone and all. He didn’t always appreciate his parents. He wasn’t the most tactful with Nora. It was odd. And yet I still liked him. He still had these great moments. And I guess I kind of liked that he was a bit oblivious to his own feelings, at least it was different.
I was honestly REALLY concerned when I got to what I thought was the climax. Eli behaved VERY BADLY. Like, a total jerky douchebag. Like, yelling and sneering. I was ready to wash my hands of the story, I didn’t think it could turn around. But there was more story left than I had anticipated. And you know what? To my GREAT surprise, I actually appreciated how the story played out afterwards. I’m still not super impressed with how Eli handled that particular moment, but I actually felt like I saw him go through all the emotions after that. I saw him grow up a bit. I saw him make realizations. And Nora too! I was freaking ecstatic with the final scene! Like it was actually everything I was wanting! I was shocked! I’m not saying everyone will be happy with it…just like I’m not saying everyone will have as big a problem with the climax. But it worked for ME.
As an aside, can I say that I really liked a lot of the secondary characters?? The parents were actually pretty great. Flawed, but great. Eli’s friend, Koviak, was cooler than I was expecting… And even Tex was an OK character. Abby was meh though. BUT the secondary character star for me was Eli’s little brother (who is on the autism spectrum). Both Eli and Nora showed their best selves with Ari. And he was just kind of delightful.
So yeah. I thought this was going to be a 3 star. But I’m even rounding up! Just shows how important a great ending is.
3.5-stars, contemporary, friends to lovers, sports, young adult
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← The mascot formerly known as Russ
“So who’s playing where?” →
Random observations from last night’s SEC opener
Is this the quintessential Vanderbilt moment, or what?
Of course, let’s keep that in perspective: even if the official had flagged Carolina on the play, it still meant Vanderbilt had to cover about half the field in about 100 seconds. That was anything but a given for a team that amassed less than 300 total yards on the night.
Still, it helps make for a nice, warm moral victory.
On to a few specifics:
The game was closer than I thought it would be, for two reasons, both of which should be troubling to South Carolina. First, the injury to Connor Shaw. It’s funny – all those years we watched Stephen Garcia run recklessly and never get hurt and Shaw, a gamer who runs with a much more organized purpose than Garcia ever did, gets banged up. The Gamecock offense, which wasn’t exactly lighting things up before Shaw was hurt, completely shut down in his absence. And it’s not like Shaw won’t be facing a few formidable front sevens in October. It’s a little scary to consider how much is going to be left of him after the Florida game.
The second reason, the shocker of the night, was how much South Carolina missed Alshon Jeffery. Especially the threat of Alshon Jeffery. The ‘Cocks gained a whopping 67 yards through the air. Their leading receiver was Marcus Lattimore. Shaw couldn’t throw anything longer than an intermediate-level pass with any authority, even before his injury. (There was only one completion of as much as 20 yards and that was to the tight end.)
Lattimore wasn’t 100 percent, but he was still the best player on the field. The Vanderbilt defense keyed on him, which allowed Shaw to rack up almost 100 yards rushing, but still, when it came down to crunch time, Lattimore showed he had it in him to take over a game. He’s got some rust to shake off, but he’ll get better. He’ll have to.
For all the smart-assery we’ve heard from the OBC about the schedule, I bet he’s not too unhappy right now about Georgia not being his week two opponent.
The South Carolina secondary is definitely the weak link on the defense. And there are some passing attacks that are going to take advantage of that.
The “SEC – Year of the Quarterback” meme took a hit last night. I’ve already mentioned Shaw’s deficiencies. Rodgers looked like the same erratic passer he was last year. He did have that nice 78-yard hookup with Jordan Matthews, but he had more than his fair share of head scratchers.
I really, really like Vanderbilt’s coaches. Despite being obviously overmatched on both lines, they did everything they could to scratch, claw and compensate for that. The Vandy defense, in particular, looks like it’s going to be a pain in the ass to deal with.
And I thought Lorenzo Ward did a competent job masking the weakness of his secondary. Take away that one busted play in coverage that allowed Vandy’s touchdown of the night and there wasn’t a whole bunch else. He’ll do all right this year.
It sure looks a lot easier to kick off for a touchback.
Who thought a Spurrier-coached team would be so boring?
For Vanderbilt, it’s going to be a year when everyone talks about grit, determination and being well-coached. Not so much about winning, though. For all their toughness, the Commodores held a 13-10 second half lead against a team with a one-armed quarterback… and lost. There’s still too much of a talent gap in Nashville. Vandy isn’t going to upset a better team without help on the turnover front, and even then, as last night showed, that’s not always going to happen.
South Carolina is a deeper team than it’s ever been and that helped last night. But you have to wonder how far the Gamecocks can go with that passing attack, even if Shaw stays healthy going forward. You also have to wonder if South Carolina’s front seven can do enough to compensate for the back four against a team with a more consistent passing game than Vanderbilt’s. The OBC would seem to have his work cut out for him.
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129 responses to “Random observations from last night’s SEC opener”
DugLite (formerly The other other Doug)
You know Connor Shaw has to be hurting this morning. I bet he didn’t sleep well last night. Looked to me like a separated shoulder. That Vanderbilt defender hit his knee in just the right spot to separate it. No malice was intended and then that tackle where Connor was upended and he landed flat on his back. You could see the shoulder moving as it is not intended. Gonna be a long year for the cock lovers.
I texted my buddies the same thing in the 4th qtr, I said “Shaw is playing on adrenaline (and probably cortisone) right now, but that shoulder is gonna hurt like a sonofabitch in the morning”. I’m sure he’ll be back by their Missouri game, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he misses the next couple of weeks or so.
And ECU is not a bad team by any means. The Cocks could have a tussle on their hands in next weeks’ game.
My thoughts: Lattimore in a knee brace was down to humans status. Shaw is one tough cookie. Vandy got slightly jobbed on the non PI call, but the better team won. USC looked eminently beatable.
As you can see clearly in the replay, the referee was right there and looking right at it. Had as clear a view as they ever get, I’d bet, and called nothing.
It’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder.
It’s the kind of thing we see go against Georgia at least a half dozen times a year.
I think he was making up for the missed call against Vandy in the 1st quarter. I’m not excusing it, but it happens.
Which call do you mean? I don’t recall anything as obvious.
The Vandy defender never made a play on the ball, just barrelled into a leaping receiver on a catchable ball. It was probably about a 20 yardish pass that obviously would have kept their drive alive. Perhaps not as obvious as an elbow claw, but obvious nonetheless.
I used to wonder , but I don’t so much anymore. I am lining up more solidly behind The Mayor in his assertion that there is a narrative that is pushed by the SEC home office to favor given teams in certain situations throughout the season. It hurts to watch football games with that in mind, but I cannot logically make sense of so many blatantly missed rulings.
And who wants to bet this is the crew the Dawgs draw against USCe? This must be the cream, right, they having worked the opening night game.
dboy
Yea, im not a conspiracy theorist, but it is more than a trend that the favored, top 10 SEC team get the critical call against a lower ranked opponent. Especially toward the end of the season and the favored team is poised for a BCS berth. It has happened over and over x 5 years or so…back to the florida Corch / Tebow days.
The Florida Arkansas game and UT/Bama games in 2008/2009 were particularly bad, ref-wise. Especially that Arky game.
The alternative hypothesis is that SEC officials are mostly incompetent. I’m not ruling that out.
It was amusing to watch Jesse Palmer talk about how Georgia was so lucky with it’s schedule. Then, by the end of the game when it was obvious Carolina was in no way ready to face a team like the Dawgs appear to be, South Carolina was the lucky one. Just goes to show what a crock of shit this schedule whining is.
That, and it made me wish Jesse Palmer had joined Craig James in running for some sort of political office….
That was a bad no call by the ref, to be sure. Vandy was scrappy. They will beat somebody. I just hope it is not us.
The game was decided by 2 calls. The first was in the first half where Clowney was clearly in the neutral zone, a Vandy lineman jumped and a 48 yard Vandy field goal got taken off the board because of a bogus procedure call on Vandy. One of the TV announcers even said it at the time. The penalty took Vandy out of field goal range. Those 3 points changed the way the end of game scenario played out completely (all Vandy would have needed to win would have been a FG). The other is the call you referenced above. There was clear pass interference on that play as repeatedly shown by multiple replays. If the Vandy receiver catches that pass Vandy has a first down at about the Cock’s 35 with a minute to play. This type of outcome determining call or no-call by SEC refs has happened with such frequency that one cannot believe it is an accident–and the calls always go in favor of the team that is considered “better.” There is something crooked going on here. The fact that it happens so frequently and that the SEC office never seems to do anything about getting rid of the offending refs screams that the SEC front office is in on it. The SEC is fixing games and the SEC honchos are doing. Slive–it’s all about the $$ with him and anything to get the top-rated teams in the SEC into the highest paying bowls is what he is all about. This crooked refs thing started about the time Slive showed up as Commish. Not a coincidence, IMHO.
HahiraDawg
PI isn’t a spot foul in college. Vandy would have had it barely in USCe’s territory.
Thanks, HD. You are right. The Dores only would have gotten a first down at about the Cocks’ 40. But the bad call came on 4th down and effectively ended the game. Same effect. And it wasn’t an accident.
Jerry Rogers
What does it matter. PI should have been called and it does not matter where the ball would have been placed. This discussion about if it would have helped Vandy or not is silly. And it was so obvious and the ref., if that is what he is, was looking right at ti.
I didn’t see the game, but this
“Clowney was clearly in the neutral zone, a Vandy lineman jumped and a 48 yard Vandy field goal got taken off the board because of a bogus procedure call on Vandy”
–if described accurately– would have been a correctly-called penalty on Vandy, yes? Can’t the defense can be in the neutral zone prior to the snap of the ball as long as they don’t touch anyone? And the OL cannot move in any case until the ball is snapped, so the penalty would have been on Clowney only if the center snapped the ball when Clowney was in the NZ. If an OL moves after getting set it’s always on the OL unless someone is touched or the defender crosses the line of scrimmage, thus going past the NZ.
Is that right?
ugadawg9288
In cases like last night, no. According to the NCAA rule book, Section 18 Article 2 (Offside) If a player is in or beyond the neutral zone when the ball is snapped OR (as what happened last night) he “threaten’s an offensive lineman, causing an immediate reaction, before the ball is snapped.”
Clowney jumped into the NZ, causing a reaction from the Left Guard of Vandy, and, of course, the zebras penalize Vandy for it.
But the attendant argument made by the TV crew was that Clowney lunged but stayed out of the NZ, legally enticing the VU lineman to jump. From the replay angle it was hard to be totally sure if he trespassed into the NZ, but I believe he did. (Of course, the SEC has a ref right on the line of scrimmage — and he would be objective. Right? Right??!!!!)
As the rule reads, if a defensive player jumps and causes a reaction from an offensive lineman, it’s offside. (S 18, A 2-D in the 2012 NCAAF rule book)
Regardless of the neutral zone?
I went back and watched it and it did appear that it should have been on SC, as the Mayor said…I think they still would have had to kick the FG over, though.
Thanks for the clarification! Not being snarky–Does the rulebook really actually have a misplaced apostrophe like that in “threaten’s”?
woops, no, that was just my bad
And can somebody please how Jesse Palmer how to properly tie a necktie? What a goober.
Maybe that’s what is done by our Neighbors to the North.
You mightnot think he is a goober if you got a look at the broad who tied it hurriedly.
Palmer is Canadian. They can’t even get bacon right much less a necktie.
I thought both teams looked average at best. Franklin’s play calling was just crazy at times and probably cost him the game.
The worst thing I saw was another horrible, inexuseable blown call by an SEC ref. He was right there.The whole world saw it and so did he. So you’ve gotta ask , “Why?…why wouldn’t he call such a blatant pass interference?”. I don’t care who won, and even though Vandy would still have to go a long way, they deserved the chance. Once again, we see an SEC ref’s ineptness or crookedness (if the shoe fits, wear it) very possibly determine the outcome of a game. I don’t want to lose like that (again) and I don’t want to win like that.
Also, the player with the worst shoulder pain may be Vandy’s right defensive end…His arm was almost pulled off several times during pass rushes. I think it was called once. Bottom line….I hate the SEC refs. I don’t trust them one bit.
My pic in the pool took a hit on the point spread. I’m 0-1
+1 Ug. See my post above.
These refereeing decisions can truly turn a man away from actual gambling. It is entirely possible that two totally objective decisions changed the outcome last evening. The disallowed first half FG; the non-PI call. Those get called correctly and I believe Vandy wins. Their kicker seems very accurate, he just does not have a 55-yard leg.
These ref decisions could turn a man away from watching football. That no-call on PI offended my sense of fair play and ruined the whole dadgum game for me. I cannot imagine the ref did not see it. We need replay and challenges, one of the few things we should borrow from the NFL.
Replay on referee decisions in the SEC may make for 4-hour games!
I spaced that we have replay but no
Ahelp for no calls I am going to effijng vthursday thise phokne.
How did South Carolina go from having a bunch of 6’5″ wide receivers to having nobody taller than 5’9″? They might be able to squeak out wins over teams like Vandy with that offense (at least until Shaw goes out for the year), but I’m not even sure they’ll beat Florida if that’s as good as their passing game is going to be. Of course, it’s the first game, so it may not be completely representative of their potential.
That was an interesting stat. I sae that and wondered… Is Willie Martinez their receivers coach?
That 5’9″ stat is crazy. I don’t know how you possibly think you can win in the SEC with 5″9″ and under WRs. You would think an offensive genius like Spurrier would realize this. Seriously, if I’m recruiting WRs for an SEC team, height is a major considerations. DBs are getting bigger, and most college quarterbacks simply have not developed enough to consistently hit those smaller targets.
Good analysis, Senator. The Gamecock front 7 certainly is going to be stout, but Vandy gashed them at times. Clowney just appears to be a man among boys. I hope Gates is ready for him. I’m not sure the Cocks can beat any team with a pulse on offense if they play like that the rest of the year.
Yeah, Clowney is a big, fast dude, but he sure seemed to disappear from time to time, against an offensive line that would be small in some Georgia high schools.
He looked gassed most of the game…and when he would get gassed, he would compensate by attacking too hard from the snap and would take himself out of the play through simple misdirection.
Vandy has some coaches….but Rogers is limited. He isn’t his brother, as much as ESPN who will probably have Vandy on TV 5-7 games this year want him to be. There is a reason he is 24 and hasn’t started a full season in D1 yet. He’s got talent, but isn’t an elite QB. (or at least hasn’t proven it). Not to mention their receivers are pretty raw, too.
Marcus Lattimore is a man. I kept thinking after they had bottled him up most of the 2nd half that he would break a big run if they kept going to him…sure enough. He had 4 plays of over 8 yards in the 4Q including runs of 11 and 23 yards. Carolina had the ball 10:18 in the 4Q….Lattimore is the ulimate 4Q weapon in a close game.
I think a lot of Lattimore’s late runs has to do with Vandy’s depth and USCe being a… sigh… legitimate SEC program.
It’s like how you see all those almost-upsets scroll across the ESPN ticker. The fbs teams might have the ability to give them a game for a half or 3 quarters, but superior athletes playing 60 minutes will always be in a position to win in the 4th quarter.
“superior athletes playing 60 minutes will always be in a position to win in the 4th quarter.”
-True, See the SEC championship game LSU vs UGA.
This is why we need a full compliment of scholarship players. We will beat 95% of teams due to our first string talent level… but when we play LSU / Alabama, we will be at a disadvantage. They have stellar depth and our player wear down playing nearly every snap while they are constantly subbing. This is especially important on defense. We wilted numerous times late in games last year. Most notably LSU and secondarily vs Mich St. The fact all those defensive players forgo the NFL and returned to UGA gives us some hope, not only from the skill and experience that they bring, but it dramatically increases our depth at those positions.
It is Vandy of lore (at least in their good years). Play right with the power teams for 3 quarters but lose by either an agonizing mistake or seeming official incompetence.
I would like a Chris Brown style breakdown of the zone read play against the 3/4. With what I saw from Shaw and the small receivers, we should take our chances in man coverage and load up to stop that play.
Things I noticed of note:
– As predicted.. Clowney was gassed. He played limited snaps last year and now that he is playing the whole time.. he is struggling in the 4th quarter. We’ll have to see how that plays itself out over the next few weeks.
– It was noted Shaw’s arm strength is weak.. I think it was most evident in that first TD attempt.. his WR had the break and was wide open.. Shaw threw it a bit late, but with any zip on it it’s a TD.. instead it should of been a pick but was batted away easily.
– Branden Smith will be extremely valuable in our game.. for once he will be the same size as the WR he’s lined up against.
The Adorables sacked uSC 3 times and forced two turnovers. Then outgained South Carolina 276-272 in total offense. I thought the stats were fairly even. Vandy left 10 points on the field. Getting inside the Cock-a-doodle-doos 5 and not scoring which Latty promptly took advantage of. The penalty which nullified the long fg. Looked to me that uSC was in the neutral zone. I thought there was some suspect calls including that pass interference no call. The OBC probably didn’t sleep much last night and Shaw is still in the whirlpool.
+1. See my post above AHD.
They’re in trouble. Their O-line was getting whipped by a smallish defensive line, and that’s probably the easiest DL they’ll face in SEC play. Shaw looks incredibly pedestrian without Jeffrey. That secondary has big holes. October is going to be rough for the Fightin’ Poultry.
Even if their line gets better they still have very little at the skill positions outside of Lattimore. Shaw sucks.
I love the irony of Spurrier having a running QB who can barely throw. He hasn’t been able to get any kind of decent QB to Columbia…you know that frustrates the hell out of him, and I love anything that sticks in Stevie’s craw.
I said somewhere in a prior comment thread that S.Car. is this year’s iteration of Ole Miss 2009. It’ll be Spurrier’s best 7-5 team EVRZ!!!! This, I suspect, is why Spurrier trolled all summer about their schedule. They’re just not a good football team. I see losses against ARK, LSU, UGA, UF and Clemson.
We’ll beat them by two touchdowns. If we hold onto the ball, and establish a running game early, it’ll get ugly for them fast.
Clowney was gassed in the FIRST half. He is in for a long season.
rocksalt
+1, Pollack (DGD!) and Palmer were talking up Clowney, and I believe he had a TFL and a sack. But, he sure wasn’t the all-universe terror that we were expecting. Vandy’s left tackle was listed as a “playmaker” during the broadcast, so maybe he’s a grown man (how many times did Pollack say that during the broadcast?), but he was standing up Clowney a LOT. That, the QB, the O-line, and the smurf receivers…number 9 ranking may be a stretch.
The Cocks will always get a 5-spot bump in rankings as a direct result of having Spurrier. He is just a character, and subliminally AP voters judge that he is good for an extra win somewhere along the line.
Not to play Devil’s Advocate here, but please remember that teams generally improve between the first games and the second. Also, Vandy is not a door mat these days (please remember our game against them last year for referrence). So, USCe had a scrappy opener and looked rusty and flawed. And then they do what they normally do…….lean on Latty and their D. Did we really think their formula would be any different this year? to me, the only shocking part was how their front 4 didn’t seem to get great pressure. They had their LBs up at the line on almost every play. I believe this is why the secondary got exposed. It felt a little like a Free Willie D.
I generally agree with this assessment. I think SC was playing it close to the vest, and when Shaw got hurt, then they really packed it in. Lattimore is still the man. I wasn’t that impressed with Clowny. He’s good, but I didn’t see “great” out there last night. And SEC officials can really stink it up. That non-call at the end of the game was terrible, though I still think SC wins even if the call is made.
We’ll get a full game from SC, though we can definitely win. I still think we’ll whip Vandy by 2 TDs at least.
I don’t think USC was playing it ‘that’ close to vest.. maybe early.. but they quickly realized they could lose that game.
I don’t think they were playing that close to vest either. I truly believe their offense is zone reads and Latty, all day long. Shaw gives them the threat of keepers on that play, as well as some option. Outside of that, I don’t see them airing it out. My point was, they will improve on this. I don’t think Shaw will suddenly become a more proficient passer, but they will clean up their offense and work on the D. They will give us fits, like they do every year. Vandy though……..I think Grantham smells blood in the water. I’d watch myself if I was them. They were scrappy, but man…….that offense stalled like my old Chevy Celebrity. And that D-Line of theirs got pushed around a good bit.
But do they still win if the score is 17-16 as it perhaps ought to have been? Spears, the VU placekicker, was dead straight last night and only missed the 3rd qtr. attempt because it was 52 yards out.
My, my. A lot of brazen optimism today. Aren’t we the ones that generally start the season notoriously slow? Let’s see how Missouri goes before we get too excited.
… and Craig James is gone from the Thursday night crew. You missed the best part.
SECDAWG
Hey Mr. Franklin, you’re still Vandy, no respect losers.
I think SC could be better than what we saw last night, as they tend to look sloppy in the first game. Having said that, if Lattimore can’t go all season, THEY ARE SCREWED. And the kid is just coming off major surgery, Spurrier is not going to be able to work him to death like he wants.
Agree with you about Lattimore. Without him, that offense is inept at best and downright horrendous at worst. They have literally nothing outside of him. And another thought: it’s going to be a miracle if Shaw can make it through this season in one piece playing like that. Kid is tough and I respect his desire to win, but he was getting his ass whipped last night. No way he can keep that up.
Agree… and those cortisone shots will be less effective.
I’m suprised that the cock trolls are absent this morning. I thought they’d be out early, crowing about being in first place.
Come on out, you awesome roosters! Crow about it!
Give ’em time. Natty Lite meth induced semi-coma’s are hard to overcome first thing in the morning.
FisheriesDawg
Has South Carolina’s Thursday night opener ever been remotely indicative of the quality of their team?
I’ll wait to see a few more games before I decide whether or not they’re gonna be a cakewalk in October. It may still work out in our favor that we’re playing them late rather than early.
In that they usually aren’t very good, and they usually don’t look very good in the opener, yes, it’s pretty indicative.
The mascot formerly known as Russ says that based upon what he saw of last night’s game, SEC officiating promises to be just as, if not even more, shitty than it was last season. With the way OBC was bent over with hands on knees at the end of the game, Russ wonders why OBC was trying to lick his balls but guesses it could be because of South Carolina’s super-tough schedule. But the thing that really irritates Russ is that the Cocks couldn’t even cover the spread in the Jon Fabris Invitational.
That’s a good UGA IX! Keep your chin up — you just received a promotion. And OBC should be licking the balls of that side judge.
Dat judge would bite chOU!
Did Spurrier just forget to recruit WRs? I wouldn’t take any of those guys over King/Bennett/Mitchell/Brown.
Smity
The VANDY moment was throwing the INT on the 3 yard line for about an 80 yard return. That’s Vandy football right there.
Where are all the Cock fans that have been over here clucking for the last few weeks?
Maybe we shoud help them out. Sun do shine Cocka-Doodle-Doos!
+1 … that’ll put the Cock in your Walk. Let’s play that the Sunday after the Dawgs storm through Columbia. “Pride comes before the fall” and all that, but I like The Grantham matched against the offensive personnel I saw last night.
1. The non-INT call serves Vandy right after their go-after-the-kneecap shots from last year.
2. Getting over a severe knee injury usually takes two full years. RB’s can go after one year or a few months of rehab, but aside from a rare occasion, it’s a two year recovery. Think Lumpkin.
3. SC’s front 7 is good and will get better, but the secondary will be exposed by the better passing games.
4. I thought Vandy’s D played well, particularly their smallish Dline.
5. A shoulder contusion is no small injury. That will linger for a long time.
After watching that game, I’m honestly not sure that South Carolina will give us a much harder time than Vandy.
Yep. Agree. More worried about Vandy than SC right now. Of course, that could change after a few more games, but the SC offense, outside of Lattimore, is pathetic.
It’s early yet but same ol same ol from the refs, a? Clowney was very unimpressive to me but, again, it’s early yet.. Anybody hear Palmer say Shaw remind him of Elway trying to get into the endzone in the SB? Elway- really?!? John Elway?!? Yeah, that’s what I thought about as Shaw dove at the goal line. That Palmer guy is good.
And I had no idea Shaw’s arm was that unimpressive. I mean, it’s still early but how ya gonna get that better?
The game went pretty much as I expected, close with Vandy finding a way to lose. That turnover at the goal line just ripped their guts out and they aren’t good enough to have a 10-14 point swing go against them. Give Vandy credit for scrapping, blast any Vandy friends you have for not showing up, and put aside any thoughts of SC doing the improbable and winning the East.
SC has a very good defensive front, a good RB, and nothing else of note. I think they have 4-5 losses this year and their brief run at being relevant may be over. Clemson will over shadow them in recruiting the state of SC and they don’t have much to offer out of state prospects, particularly as their over the hill coach nears the end. He could barely get across the field at the end of the game. Until SC fans starting acting like Bammer fans, I had nothing against their program. Now I will enjoy watching them sink back to their traditional level of a struggling team hoping to make secondary bowls every few years to avoid Birmingham/Shreveport/Nashville. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group.
Agreed entirely. Establish the run, protect the ball, and we win going away.
+1. If the Cocks go about 7-5 this season and Lattimore leaves for the NFL it wouldn’t surprise me at all if SOS retired. I don’t believe that he would want to be mired in mediocrity for the rest of his life.
*chuckling*
One thing I got out of the game is that Vandy can HIT! They worked over Shaw when he was in there. But the Lattimore hit over the middle, and the hit on the TE were awesome. So, good defenses vs. bad offenses is what I saw last night.
On the Lattimore hit I swear that the ball never hit the ground before the Vandy defender picked it up. Maybe Vandy dropped it subsequently, but Vandy scooped it up as Lattimore was bobbling it over his shoulder on the ground.
Personally, I thought Lattimore caught it, turned and then got hit, dropping the ball. Which should have been a fumble, not an incomplete pass.
…and I also didn’t like to see a flag thrown on Hal #23 for the hit on SC’s tight end. You can argue it both ways, but for me that was a guy trying to prevent a long pass completion and not a malicious cheap shot. Those 15 yards helped in forging the 17-13 SC lead.
It’s called separating the man from the ball. Although unintentional, it was close enough to the new rules for them to use as an excuse to flag it. If ‘Tree had been the hitter, they would have had to get us back into the stands after that call.
If Tree had been the hitter I don’t believe the TE end would have hopped right back up. He would have been helped up….. and led to the sideline with one or two teammates for him to lean on. Gonna be some slobber knockin’ in Chickumbia by a solid Georgia D.
I thought so, too. Amazing how all these bad calls go one way, isn’t it?
Dawgwood, you finally said what objective observers saw. Many are blaming the whole thing on a down SC offense. Vandy’s hits had as much to do with it as anything. We agree. Vandy’s D is not to be taken lightly.
I was definately cheering against Spurrier, but did anyone else notice the Vandy D-Line was lined up off-sides most of the evening?
Missed that, but their Ends were not getting many breaks on “holding” calls.
I noticed the time between some of the snaps, especially when Vandy was on a late first half drive. At least one of them was very short. The SEC just needs to abolish it’s Ref pool and pay other conferences to send their refs.
I mean it. They SUCK and I believe some of them are blatantly dishonest.
Ug, things are the way they are for a reason. Think about it. How long would bad calls like this be going on if Slive and the rest of the SEC brass were not allowing it? If you were in charge of a multi-million dollar business with national TV exposure and week after week one of the core elements of your business was being shown on national TV to make incredible mistakes with millions of people watching, how long would you allow that to continue? The bad calls happen, I would argue, BECAUSE of Slive, et al.
The non-PI penalty aside, I thought that Vandy kind of lost the game in the 3rd and then early 4th qtr. They had all the momentum after halftime, crowd was in the game, the defense was stonewalling the backup QB (and then tentative Shaw), they were playing on SCU’s side of the field, and all they could put up was a lousy field goal during this entire stretch. When there is blood in the water, you’ve got to attack; make hay while the sun is shining….you know what I mean.
Seems like Vandy was content with keeping it a close game until late, and then taking their chances. This is a typical underdog mentality (that Georgia is frequently guilty of as well)–assuming that something good will happen at the end. As long as Lattimore is playing for the Cocks, I wouldn’t want to be in a one-possession game in the 4th quarter against SCU. He has frequently shown an ability to take over a game in these late stages–melting precious clock along the way,
I pretty much figured they’d lose when they attempted the 51-yard field on 4th and 3 from the South Carolina 34. If you’re Vandy, up by 3, I feel like you have to go for it there.
Or at least punt -that is a semi-aggressive move there, too. I told my wife at that moment that with depth on their side there was no way SC would not score another TD, that stupid FG reminded me of the kind of tepid 4Q response that CMR is sometimes guilty of.
How true (unfortunately).
He’s rarely been the underdog in thsoe situations, and early in his career he could count on his defense to shut the door most of the time.
In my mind, there were 3 bad non-calls that went USCe’s way and took points off the board for Vandy.
1. The first quarter interception by Shaq Wilson on the (horrible) screen pass. Shaq literally pushed Stacy out of the way to get the interception.
2. The false start that should have been an offside call on Clowney. He clearly jumped into the NZ causing a Vandy player to react.
3. The non-call PI at the end of the game.
Yes, USC was the better team, but sometimes the better team doesn’t win and I would like to see what would have happened with competent refs.
But I think we probably did see SC at their worst, and Vandy at their best.
SC is probably not as bad as they looked, but worse than their fans hoped for ….
Vandy is probably not as good as they looked, but about what their fans hoped for. .ugadawg9288 is right, the turn around inside the SC 5 was a bush-league call. It was a typical Vandy implosion.
First games can be wierd. But I do think SS should throw the refs a thank-you party.
Vandy is pretty good on defense, not so much on offense although Zac Stacy is a legit SEC back. They aren’t going to be the doormat that we are all used to.
Connor Shaw has a noodle arm. That out cut in the endzone which should have been a TD took FOREVER to get there. Reminded me of the out route that Joe TIII threw against Vandy that went back for a pick-6. Now that his throwing shoulder is all jacked up he is going to have even less velocity on his throws. The defensive plan for SC should be stack the box to stop the zone read and make him beat you throwing the ball.
SEC officials are horrendous! How do you miss such a blatant PI that happens right in front of you?
You don’t. You just decide you can’t hurt the team you want to win and pretend you didn’t see it. If he says “I didn’t see it”, then it’s time for him to get the hell out of his striped uniform..If he says, “I saw it but I didn’t think it was bad enough to call”, he needs to get the hell out of his striped uniform. If he says, “I’ll be honest…I cheated”, then he needs to trade his striped uniform for another striped uniform. Why? Because peoples careers, players attitudes, season records, who goes to what bowl ($$$$$$), who becomes a champion, the perception of a program (Vandy always sucks), and the reputation and public perception of the SEC is at stake. Me thinks I do NOT protest too loudly. It’s gotten way too old.
An official should never, never, never determine the winner of a game. The players and coaches should. Too often we’ve seen that taken away.
Amen, brother. Preach on!
Wow! again, Ug. Methinks you don’t protest too loudly.
They didn’t miss it… they just didn’t call it.
What do you (anyone) think will be the reprocussions (if any) of that blown pi call last night? Has Franklin spoken out at all? Has he any recourse? Do you imagine the SEC is groaning over a problem that everyone knows about that rears it’s ugly head during crunch time in the very first game of the year? I can accept an occasional blown call, but in the SEC, it’s epidemic and has been for years…Franklin can be a fireplug…I wonder if he’ll take it sitting down or raise mortal hell. Remember…if they can screw Vandy, they can also screw Georgia (BIG scoop there, huh?).
I guess I’m ranting because I really, really was optimistic it was fixed.
The SEC will suspend the guy for a game or two and move right ahead. One miss-call I can understand, but it appears often in SEC games that there is a snowball effect where the bulk of bad decisions doom a certain team. Of course, I may be overly sensitive to one side or the other. I don’t exactly know.
Nope. No suspension. Nada. Won’t happen.
My thoughts on Vandy:
Rodgers is an athletic QB, but under pressure makes major mistakes on a routine basis. If SC’s D had been anything other than pedistrian, they would have had half a dozen INTs.
I thought their coaches did a decent job of hiding their teams flaws( for the most part).
Thoughts on SC:
Force Shaw to stay in the pocket and their is no way you can loose. One of the weakest looking arms I’ve seen in a while, no zip whatsoever.
D line looks good, but get past that and the rest of the D appears below average at best.
Too bad both of those d-bags couldn’t lose by a blown call. Sigh.
This aligns with my thinking.
Although, I found myself cheering against SC more than against Carlton.
The type of Conner shoulder contusion often leads to loss of strength.
We should definitely see this for that ref:
http://blog.al.com/solomon/2009/10/sec_referee_marc_curles_part_o.html
Some refs got fired over the off-season. Anybody know who?
When you think about the first throw Connor made…how weak it was, you have to wonder if his shoulder wasn’t already injured and last night was just a re-injury. Could Spurrier have possibly kept a QB summer injury a secret? I’ll give Shaw this…he’s a tough cookie. But I just can’t imagine Spurrier recruiting a kid without a zippy arm. Wonder.
I saw a knee get Shaw between the lower part of the shoulder blade and the spine, right into the muscle. Some tissue had to separate and will prolong his healing, but a shot before games will keep him in there until it heals completely.
SC’s D secondary was unimpressive and it showed early in the 2nd qtr. Clowney is smooth and impressive. You have to treat him almost like Jarvis until halftime.
William (8:43 post), agree about teams improving as the season progresses.
Lost in our pool , but won in two others. I thought the point spread was dead on, so I hedged. Got 7 points for one, but only 1 for the other. That ought to tell you how torn I was while deciding.
Wore the colors in my visit to the optometrist this morning (red and black shirt, white hat with University of Georgia written across the front). He remarked that his son had graduated from Tech and I said, “Oh, you mean ‘the North Avenue Trade School’, don’t you?”. He smiled and remarked he had seen that on one of his son’s shirts. The optometrist went to Purdue at the same time I was getting my Masters at UGA and we had a pleasant football conversation that mentioned another school, ND, quite a lot. You young punks wouldn’t understand.
How much is UGA having to pay Buffalo to come to Georgia, I heard FSU is only paying Murry State $425 G’s.
Watched part of the game and the Outlaw Josey Wells. Maybe South Carolina is overrated and Vandy is underrated. Hard for peple to understand that the scholarship limits can impact teams.
Thought both teams played poorly, bad game plans, and poor play calls. Not a good opening game for the SEC.
Speaking of the good, the bad and the ugly, did you catch The Outlaw Jersey Whale the other night? I did and thought he would be a good offensive line coach if someone can capture him when he beaches himself
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/08/28/the-outlaw-jersey-whale/
TDawg
The USC Dline looked gassed early…size and depth definitely SAVED them!
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So near, and yet so far.
One thing I can’t help wondering about after reading this piece by Bill Shanks – okay, one thing after I wondered why the Macon Telegraph can’t find somebody who writes better than Bill Shanks – is would people be moaning about an 8-4 season in 2013 if C.J. Mosley hadn’t tipped that pass and Mitchell had come down with it to put last year’s Georgia squad in a national title game?
My point here isn’t to play woulda, coulda. I’m simply asking how much Georgia making a title game after winning the SEC would have changed your current perception of the program and Richt, assuming your feelings are similar to those of Shanks’. If your position is that it wouldn’t have and that 2013 reflects not so well on either, I respect your intellectual consistency. If, though, you admit that you wouldn’t feel nearly as harshly about both had Georgia faced Notre Dame, are you really saying that your disappointment boils down to a tipped pass?
Again, I’m not asking if you agree with Shanks’ arguments. I’m sure many of you do. I’m just curious how much you’d be complaining if Mosley hadn’t made a great play. Tell me in the comments.
171 responses to “So near, and yet so far.”
I’ve been one that botches now an then about coaches, but I am all for this coaching staff staying in place. The only caveats are I really have my doubts about Lakatos being the right guy… And Grantham needs to show his ability to adapt in some of his coaching philosophies. But I see very little that isn’t fixable. Given the adversity the coaches and players have had to gace this year, it’s hard for me to bitch about 8-4, and the most maddening thing is that we had a real deal offense that could have gotten it done with a serviceable defense, which I really don’t think we had, even when healthy….. And I HATE that for Aaron Murray most of all. But the coaching turnaround Mark Richt did behind the scenes that led us to last year’s outcome and almost outcome, convinced me that we can’t ask for much more, IMO.
I had the same thought earlier this year when Murray’s legacy was being discussed. For the people that thought he was “pretty good” or “slightly above average” (yes, I heard plenty of it). The difference between “Legend” and “slightly above average” is supposed to be more than a fingertip.
The real question to ask is would this season have been a disappointment had the injuries been less intrusive? With a healthy Gurley UGA beats Vandy and Missouri. I firmly believe that. And with a healthy WR core I think we beat AUB. So would 10-2 or 11-1 be a disappointment? Some seasons are lost due to unforeseen issues. 2013 was one of those seasons. It sucks, but that’s life. But if 2013 is the final straw that breaks a fan’s back, that seems silly to me.
I get that. The problem is that most people have already made up their minds on Richt, so the injuries this year are similar to the injuries in Goff’s last year, in that detractors are overlooking their impact because their minds are already set.
Spot on. People see AUB winning and get pissed (as do I). But sometimes it’s harder to accept there isn’t much to be done. AUB is playing for a national title with a defense ranked 95th !!! in YPP. Think about that. You know how hard it is to pull that off? You need not just some luck, but an enormous amount of it. Georgia is in a better position than every school in the SEC except Bama moving forward. People need to understand that.
If we’re going to play “what if” with injuries, a healthy Gurley for the entire game, and certain and full game from 100% Gurely plus Malcom Mitchel and we’re talking about possibly not losing a game, even with a mess on D. (The Vandy and UT games aren’t close, and the Missouri and Auburn games look like the Sakerlina and LSU games.)
But that would be a mix of the luck to stay healthy, and Murray + Gurely carrying us.
As crappy as part of this season has been, the lackluster results will hopefully spark far more effort than making the title game with a lesser squad than 2012’s. (For example, the questioning of Friend and the OL is a lot less loud if we went 12-0 or 11-1.)
Saying that our disappointment boils down to a tipped pass is pretty simplistic. We had a heck of a break with the blocked FG returned for TD and we didn’t capitalize on it in the end. Without that play (that rivals Auburn’s FG returned for TD in every aspect except timing and final outcome) we’re down by 11 on our final drive (and possibly 14 if the FG is good).
We had the lucky break we always wanted but we didn’t play well enough the rest of the game to capitalize on it. That’s the difference between teams like us and teams like Auburn.
Again, I’m not asking you to vent (or, in your case, re-vent). I’m simply asking if Georgia had made the play at the end to win the game, would it affect your perception of the program?
If you don’t want to answer the question, that’s fine. But I really don’t want to hear the same old stuff rehashed in this thread. Thanks.
I assumed your question was at least a little rhetorical. How could someone NOT feel better about their team after a MNC?
If I’m asking for responses, I think you can assume the question wasn’t rhetorical.
Senator, if the tipped pass in the 2012 SECCG had been an isolated event I would agree with your premise. Unfortunately, it is not. Rather, the tipped pass is another in a long line of end of game failures/in game failures that the coaching staff and its defenders want to lay off as “bad luck.” Just like the tipped pass to the opposition in the ’13 Auburn game was “bad luck.” Just like the missed FG in the bowl against Michigan State was “bad luck.” I could go on and on and list a whole lot of similar events that cost us games during the CMR tenure but what’s the point? The truth is these all occurred as a direct result of end of game coaching errors. I don’t want CMR’s head. I want him to learn from his mistakes and start making decisions that win games rather than lose them. Ivy Leaguer had it right in a post yesterday. CMR needs to get an expert to analyze the reasons behind this and fix the problem but he appears to be in denial or too stubborn to do that.
How is the tipped pass a coaching failure? How is the Auburn play a coaching failure? The Barn QB threw the ball up into double (triple coverage). When the ball was released, every coach on that field thought the same thing: INC or INT, game over. The tipped pass was absurd. It was tipped in just the right way to fall to just the wrong person. Does it suck to come up short (in excruciating ways)? Damn right it does. But throwing the baby out with the bath water is a dangerous game. Ask Nebraska, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Alabama (pre Saban), etc…
Well, one could argue that the pass was tipped because Gurley didn’t step into Mosley like he was supposed to on the play. Or that throwing it to the front of the end zone rather than deeper into the end zone brings a tipped pass that is going to be caught short into play. But whatevs.
This. The pass was tipped because the RB didn’t meet Mosley at the LOS and instead let him into the backfield before picking up the block. Watch the replay on Youtube, folks.
A segment of the Georgia fan base and Bill Shanks in a web chat circa 1863-
“Stonewall is a good general, but he’s not Robert E Lee. Why is he so stoic and reserved? He sure does win a lot of battles, but he’s never won the big one. His faith makes him soft. Can’t we get someone like Grant or Sherman that get angry when they lose? I want some emotion. And don’t tell me that getting shot by friendly fire isn’t bad leadership instead of luck? It’s always something with him…i got shot by friendly fire. I caught pneumonia after the amputation.”
I blame the Confederate pickets. What happened in Chancellorsville stays in Guinea Station. Sure, he had a combat reputation as a genius with no off-switch but what kind of offensive and defensive coordinator was he “as displayed by his weak and confused efforts during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond in 1862.” (¿Amirite wiki?)
Both you guys got it all wrong. Stonewall Jackson was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s not his or the Confederate picket’s fault. Sh!t just happens. It’s fate, Kharma, whatever you want to call it, but it certainly isn’t anything that could have been avoided with better communication or planning. I for one am sick and tired of people like you 2 trying to blame what happened to Gen. Jackson on lack of preparation or some other controllable phenomena. It’s just bad luck. Quit trying to blame some innocent kid on sentry duty for killing the best General in the Confederate Army. How was he to know that the General was going to ride by at night? He did exactly as he was taught–shoot first and ask questions later. He just reacted instinctively. It is not necessary for him to think, he’s just a soldier not a commander. And Stonewall never could have foreseen that riding through combat lines at night might result in one of his own troops shooting him. How could anyone ever imagine such an unforeseeable thing? Next time the Kharmic Bitches will be on our side and Grant will get shot by HIS people. Just wait and see. This will all turn out fine for the South in the end. Let’s just keep on going like always–no changes. We are destined to win.
I don’t disagree. I think it was likely a freshman mistake, rather than a coaching error.
So every single failed play is a coaching failure? Got it.
JonDawg
Surely you’ve noticed that sign hanging around that dead horse’s neck that states just that..
Seriously. The tipped pass was a coaching error? It was a guy on the other team making a play.
I’d say, yes, it would affect it. Having a 3rd SEC title (by way of beating everyone’s favorite deity) and playing for (and most likely winning) the title would. However, I also think people need to realize how much luck goes into these things. Look at Auburn. Take the two games they won to close the reg season out of it. They still needed Mich St to beat Ohio State. They did nothing in 2013 Georgia didn’t do in 2002. Only difference is Ohio State converts a 4th and 7 against Purdue in 2002 and Michigan State beats the Buckeyes in 2013.
Then you have the tipped pass last year. You also have a different voting mindset this year compared to 2007, when many felt UGA was the best team to close the year, but was jumped by a team 4 places behind them due to not winning their division. The state of the program is much stronger than the debbie downers want to admit, but I get seeing your rivals win adds to that.
Especially in comparison to the Goff and Donnan years.
Jim Donnan’s last 4 years he was 35-13. That’s a winning percentage of 73%, which is almost exactly the same as CMR’s. Just sayin.’
And what was Donnans record against Tenn, Florida, Auburn and Tech those years?
Something like 6-12. (There were some games Tech, I believe, had to forfeit). There was an interesting article I read once about Donnan, talking about, in retrospect, what a good record he had in light of the fact that FU and UT were in the top 5-10 teams nationally the whole time Donnan was HC at Georgia, each winning a national championship during that span. Tech had O’Leary as its HC and had the best stretch it ever had since Bobby Dodd in the 50s, too. Donnan won the second most games in his 5 year tenure of any coach starting out at Georgia in history up to that time. The higher one was back in the 20s. Donnan didn’t get fired because of losing too many games. That’s a myth. He got fired because (1) he was a prick and (2) he refused to replace his son as QB coach when given a direct order to do so by Mike Adams. The “he had a bad record against our main rivals” argument was just used to justify to the masses Adams’ firing of Donnan.
And I would say it was Quincy Carter that got him fired. But Auburn was not a top 5-10 program at the time. And Tenn was still a top 5-10 program when Richt arrived in Ga. And Auburn has been one consistently in Richts tenure. Fact is, we fire Richt, we will get goff Redux. Then we will hire a coach who will have to work to get us to what Richt has us at now and then will have to be lucky where Richt has not been.
Who is saying fire Richt? I’m certainly not. I’m just saying that Donnan’s record isn’t as bad as some have portrayed it to be. P.S. Q: What do Billy Graham and Quincy Carter have in common? A: They both can get a stadium full of 100,000 people to jump to their feet in unison and scream, “JESUS!!!”
A blocked kick returned for a touchdown equates to a kid missing a 57 yarder and THAT being returned for a touchdown?
No. It Doesn’t.
That’s not even the entire story. Your question leaves out the timing of both plays.
The sequence of touchdowns in a close game is irrelevant because no single touchdown contributes to the final score any more than any other touchdown. The timing only magnifies the *perception* of the play. Auburn’s FG return for TD didn’t help them win any more than the first TD they scored during the game. If you flip the order of the TDs the end result is the same, the odds of the FG returned for TD is the same, but nobody is talking about “luck.”
ETennDawg
Valid point. But, do you think Auburn returns the kick if it were the 3rd qtr? I am thinking they would have watched it sail and taken the ball around midfield. Perhaps scoring, perhaps turning it over on downs, perhaps turning it over, perhaps losing Marshall to injury.
Point being, if Alabama attempts the FG sometime other than the end of the game – Auburn doesnt return it.
This season would still be disappointing even if we’d won the 2012 SECCG and the BCSCG, mainly because of the injuries, but also because of the shafting in Nashville and the hand of Satan at Auburn. But, had we won out in 2012, at least the program wouldn’t seem as star-crossed as it does now.
I did not read the article because I do not want to give him the page hit. If his argument is that Richt has not gotten UGA to a BCS championship game and that makes him an inferior coach to Les Miles, then I ask. Richt lost 1 game in 2002 but did not play in the BCS championship because Ohio State completed a long 4th down pass to beat some Big ten team and stay undefeated. Miles got his crystal football with a 2 loss team and only got into the game because Pitt upset West Virginia. What coaching did Miles do that Richt would not have been able to do on behalf of Pitt to cause WVA to lose? What would Miles had done differently as coach of the Bulldogs in 2002 to make Ohio State miss that 4th down pass?
Corch Irvin Meyers was more fortunate with a 1 loss team in 2006 than we were with a 1 loss team in 2002. Meyers, WHILE BUSY COACHING IN THE SEC CC, made some brillant coaching moves on behalf of UCLA to cause UCLA to upset number 2 USC, The Shanks of the world say, “Meyer can get a team to the BCS. Richt cannot, as if Meyer woudl have personally intercepted Ohio State’s 4th down pass in 2002.
A few years ago Shanks’s bitching was that Richt had not beaten Florida enough. Now we have beaten it 3 ties in a row he has to complain about something else. If we win the playoffs in 2014 he will bitch that Richt cannot repeat and is no better than Chizik if we do not win again in 2015.
It’s actually worse that that…his argument is that Richt can’t coach because:
(a) he didn’t throw a tantrum in 2008 when Bama was killing them
(b) he is a bad coach because we don’t get the lucky breaks. Seriously…luck happens when you have a ‘special season’
Oh..and that South Carolina would have run off Spurrier if he went 10-19 against ranked opponents…which makes total sense because Spurrier didn’t start his first 5 seasons at Carolina with a sub .500 record in the SEC and has won tons of SEC titles while he has been there.
Exactly. SC NEVER has won an SEC title and only holds 1 conference title in THEIR ENTIRE HISTORY. SC began the whole trend of the “East” title
If Spurrier won even one SEC conference title for SC, Columbia would burn itself down in ebullent celebration before re-building the Capitol in his likeness.
I think it’d change our perceptions, of course, but not really change reality. We’ve got a great coach and program. My biggest concern is that we don’t and haven’t had a D that can win the dang game. It’s always up to the offense to win some last minute miracle or seal the deal because we sure as heck can’t count on the D winning it for us.
-Bama we led in the 4th (and by 11 in the 3rd)
-Clemson we led 21-7
-Vandy we led by 10 in the 4th
-Mizzou we pulled within 2 in the 4th and couldn’t stop a backup QB to get the ball back to our All-Conference kicker.
-Auburn…you know the story.
Win the game for us. Win it. Stop them. We’re ahead. We made the play. Stop them. Even against LSU, the offense had to go BACK down the field and score. When we scored I didn’t even celebrate because there was too much time left and we hadn’t stopped them all day.
Had Mosley not tipped that pass, we still wouldn’t have stopped them and that story would be the same, we’d just have a crystal football to go with it. And, I wonder if we can win with the style of ball we play if we just can’t stop people. Every D has games they can’t stop people. See LSU vs. us or Bama vs. A & M. But we never stop people. That bothers me. We never seem to have enough points. I’m always worried about that. Without the injuries this year, it might not matter. We might have just outscored folks. The two most disappointing moments for me were Mizzou and Tech. With a depleted roster in a huge game at home, coming off 3 straight wins when the offense carried us, we needed the D and Mizzou shredded us right out of the gate. Same thing at Tech. Back-up QB finding his footing, we need the D to stand up and keep us in this game…and they shred us. The D doesn’t seem to have a gas pedal, and I’m not sure what that means going forward.
We were babies back there, that’s for sure, and they’re going to get better. I believe that. I hope we have the staff over there to do it, but, frankly, I’m unsure. I’m hopeful Grantham surprises me.
Had Mosley not tipped that pass, we still wouldn’t have stopped them and that story would be the same, we’d just have a crystal football to go with it. And, I wonder if we can win with the style of ball we play if we just can’t stop people.
That’s a fair question. So is that how you feel about Auburn? Because Shanks obviously doesn’t.
This. Shanks says we should imulate auburn and then rants about the D. I could be wrong but I think our D was actually better than theirs this year.
I’m fully in favor of immolating Auburn.
It’s ready. Al from Dadeville has already cleared the foliage. The only thing to worry about now are the machine gun pillboxes on the TOOMER’S DRUGS® fortification and taking out the Forestry Department fire tower pickets
I think the difference is that Auburn is trying to score 50 every game and just rolls with it, and I’m not sure we are. I thought about them, because their D is wretched, and they didn’t stop us on that night on the Plains. Had we 10 more seconds, I think we win the game anyway.
It’s the style. We play kind of like Bama. We’re more explosive, but we’re not trying to go a hundred miles per hour the whole game and score 50. I’m okay with that. We play kind of hoping our D will put up some resistance, but we can’t.
For the record, I don’t think the Auburn ‘dynasty’ will last. I think FSU will smoke them. I think defenses will figure out that offense and game-plan and recruit to stop it. I think they’ll never have a good D there, and it will eventually cost them. What has happened with them this year is nearly unexplainable, as we all know. Like Tech, I don’t think they’re D will ever get a good look in practice to prepare them, which will end up costing them over the long haul.
No one can stop the Florida Marilins of the SEC West. Of course, no one can stop Jameis either.
What’s with all of this whining regarding 2002 and a 1 loss GA team not getting to play for the MNC? We’d have played for it with one loss in at LEAST 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Every SEC team that has won it since then either had an undefeated season or multiple seasons with only 1 loss. We’ve never had an undefeated season and we’ve only had ONE season with only 1 loss. Sorry folks, but the banter about our 2002 season should be dropped.
LSU won the SEC in ’07 with two losses.
And UGA can only blame themselves for that.
LSU also only lost once in 2004 and were undefeated in 2011, so my statement still stands. We should put together more than one good season before complaining about being unlucky, because every other SEC team that’s played for a MNC (or won) has done so.
Again, you’ve been there, done that with the luck stuff. Please give it a rest in this thread.
Half of the posts in this thread have some variation of “UGA was unlucky in 2002, 2007 and 2012.” This feeling has been re-hashed hundreds, if not thousands, of times on this blog. It really bothers you that I’m voicing a dissenting opinion for the second time?
165 is right. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, Bluto. Almost all the Disney Dawg posts above are just regurgitating “bad luck, bad luck, bad luck” to the point of absurdity, and basically ignore the reasons behind why things happened.
If your reply is meant for my post above, I am not whining about not playing for the BCS NC in 2002. I was pointing out that factors beyond the control of the SEC champions’ coaches affect whether the SEC champ could get into the BCS CG.
If the complaint about Richt boils down to the fact that he was not able to get into the BCS game then the comparison between the teams above us not losing and the good fortune UF in 2006 or LSU in 2007 had shouldn’t “be dropped.”
By the way, the 2005 SEC champion had 2 loses, as well.
Both of those teams have put together multiple seasons like ours in 2002. We’ve only put together one. The more often you put yourself in position to take advantage of luck, the more lucky you will appear.
No, LSU has not put together multiple seasons as ours in 2002. It lost 2 games in 2007. It has 1 one loss BCS championship (2003). UF, it is true, does have has one more 1 loss SEC championship than us.
What is your response to the point of this thread? The question is, “If we had completed the last play pass for a TD and beaten Alabama and then beaten ND would your [perception of Richt and the program change for the better?” You have typed a bunch of words but have not answered the question.
I answered the question above. It’s a silly question and of course the answer is yes. I’m saying these things because the comments are flooded by disney dawgs who pretend like Georgia has had nothing but bad luck and other programs have nothing but good luck.
Oh, as far as 1 or 0 loss conference championships, Florida has FOUR in the past 20 years (1995, 1996, 2006 and 2008). LSU has TWO (2003 and 2011). Auburn has THREE (2004, 2010 and 2013).
Seems like putting together a good season more than once every blue moon tends to yield good results, huh?
Try to keep up 😉
Why is it a silly question to ask if a single play has much of an effect on how you view the program?
1) It assumes, pretty boldly, that the pass would have been a TD even though Malcom Mitchell was covered pretty tightly (and it just as likely could have been picked off)
2) Generally speaking, playing for a MNC is going to make anyone view their program better than playing in the Capital One bowl will, and
3) The question pretends like the tipped pass is the only reason we didn’t play for the MNC. We were only a tipped pass away because of how lucky we were to have a blocked field goal returned for a TD earlier in the game. How can you ignore this play but attribute so much to Auburn’s similar play against Bama? And then go on to talk about “intellectually consistency”…?
By the way, Bluto, what’s your answer to the question?
Which question is that? 😉
You’re missing the fucking point.
I’m not asking about luck. Say what you will about how Georgia got there, the fact remains that it was one play away from beating Alabama. For purposes of this one stinking post, I don’t care how Georgia put itself in position to pull that off, but the fact remains it was there. All I want to know is if it had been a Georgia player making a great play instead of Mosley, would Shanks have written the same column? And if your feelings about the program would be different, what does it say that one play can have such an impact on your view of things?
Why is this so hard for you to grasp? Others in this thread seem to have figured out what I’m interested in.
I grasp it, and I’ve answered your question (twice).
What’s your answer to the question?
You answered this?
And if your feelings about the program would be different, what does it say that one play can have such an impact on your view of things?
I must have missed it. Sorry.
It means I am the same as every other fan and care more about actual results than “coulda woulda shoulda.”
A single play can change everything. Except for Josh Harvey-Clemons knocking an INT (or drop) away from Tray Matthews, Alabama is playing FSU in the Natty, all else being equal. How much differently is Bama and Bama’s season viewed if they’re playing for 3 in a row in a few weeks?
Question I’d like to explore: If you KNEW you’d be playing in the Natty once every 5 years, would you accept 2 losing seasons in the 4 out years? My answer: hells yeah.
I think most fans would.
Went back and read your original post again and my question answers your question. Your premise: Pass isn’t tipped, Mitchell makes catch, UGA plays in Natty. I’ll extend the premise: UGA likely wins Natty against ND. So your question becomes, “Would people who are bitching about 8-4 be doing so if UGA won the Natty last year?” We agree that most fans would put up with 2 losing seasons in 5 just to PLAY in the Natty much less win it. Ergo, most fans would not be bitching about 8-4 if pass isn’t tipped and Mitchell makes play.
Funny you should say that Senator because several of our posters just in the few days were waxing on eloquently about how UGA’s program under CMR is superior to Auburn because the Dawgs are more consistent–none of those ridiculous lows to balance off against those undeserved highs (like winning the BCSNC) as Auburn has done. “We’re better because we stay on an even keel.”
I used the word “most”, Mayor.
FWIW I agree with you on that point.
Greg B.
I honestly think that his articles screams “read me”. Maybe that is his plan, because everything that I have read in the past seems that way. If you break down the season this year, I honestly think that CMR may have done his best coaching job since he has been here. The team played hard every down. Luck is a big part of your season and record. This is probably the worst year as far as injuries….especially key injuries, that I have ever seen any college team have. In short, I was happy the way the team performed this year under the circumstances. I certainly was happy last year. Again, luck is a big part of it….Richt is the best coach the Dawgs have ever had. I am proud of the team.
The play of last year’s SECCG wasn’t the tipped pass, it was the fact that we didn’t stop Yelton on 3rd and 5 which gave them a first down. We hit him but Williams didn’t wrap up, and Yelton got the 1st by an inch. We all remember the next play where McCaron went up top for the score. THAT was the play that lost the game.
But that’s not what I’m asking about!
I’m beginning to sense that getting people to stay on topic is futile. 😉
Yeah but I don’t care. I enjoy hijacking the topic.
The answer from any sane person would be “yes, I feel better about our program after winning the SEC and National Titles. Even with all the problems associated with this year, it’s hard to repeat therefore I can accept the disaapointment of this season”.
“it’s hard to repeat therefore I can accept the disaapointment of this season”.”
I had a dream that I was in Auburn…
Like trying to herd cats….. OK I’ll jump in… from my perspective if we had won the SECCG (and most likely MNC) last year I think I would have the same level of frustration regarding how this season went, but may have cut the coaches additional slack because they proved they could get us to the mountain top.
66DAWGnNC
The problem with such a question dear Senator is you have too many “coaches” on this blog that know more about how to win both a SEC and National championship more than Mark Richt does. My advice to them: apply for the dang job! Surely some one out there is looking for a “coach” that has all the answers and can win all their games.
Right, only those “in the arena” should have an opinion, right?
“I ALMOST won the trial and kept my client off death row. If I had just remembered to call that one witness! Oh well, I’m still a great lawyer and next time I’ll do better!”
Yeah, right, that works just about as well.
Hard to give me a straight answer, eh?
Yes, I’d certainly feel differently about Richt and the status of the program if we had won the SEC championship game played for the BCS championship last year. Feel better?
Silliest question ever.
I have been a trial lawyer for 35 years this coming June (UGA Law class of 1979, proud to say.) I can tell you that I have seen juries rule against great lawyers. Lawyers cannot change the facts and sometimes crappy assistant D.A.s get convictions because their facts are just better. I have seen Bobby Lee Cook walk out of a courtroom after a jury convicted his client.
Bobby Lee Cook is a terrible lawyer who relies on luck and can’t win the big one. Nick Saban has never lost a case.
A couple of points Senator: I agree Shanks isn’t the greatest writer in the world, but the quality of his writing doesn’t diminish the purpose of his point which has been consistent for almost 6 years. He wants his alma mater to win a national title and doesn’t think Richt can get them there (an opinion that incidentally, he isn’t alone on). Is that really so horrible? He thinks Richt is sheltered from a lot of criticism because he’s a good man. That’s hard to prove for sure one way or the other, but I can see where he’s coming from there. He’s right about UGA fans selling the program short and the defeatist attitude of “who are you going to get that’s any better?” Five years ago, no one outside of Palo Alto knew who David Shaw was. Ten years ago, Gus Malzahn was coaching high school football in Arkansas. Fifteen years ago, Nick Saban was going 8-4 in the Big 10 and couldn’t get Michigan St. over the hump. To think that Mark Richt is the only football coach in the country that can win big at UGA is myopic to the point of absurdity.
Also, it’s time to get past the “tipped pass” story line. We didn’t lose to Alabama because of a tipped pass. We lost because Bama ran for 350. We lost because of timeout management in the second half (shocking development, I know). We lost because once we got up by 10, Alabama’s play sheet could have fit on a cocktail napkin and we couldn’t stop it. Garner never built any depth on the line, JJ and Kwame played with horrible technique, and Grantham never subbed for Tree and Robinson, even though he had Herrera and Wilson.
YMMV of course, but I personally don’t see a lot inappropriate with Shank’s comments. People can disagree of course, but it’s hard to dismiss out of hand as being completely off base.
To answer the Senator’s question I would say, “Yes” and you would say “No,” right?
Not that it’s on topic, but UGA gave up 512 yards in the SEC championship game last year. Auburn gave up 534 yards in the SEC championship game this year. Perhaps Malzahn is too Christian to have a good defense.
@gatriguy: Excellent post!
What you two mental midgets seem to be missing is that it DOESN’T MATTER HOW we got to the last play of the game last year. How does the result of that one play in a vacuum color your perception of the program and Coach Richt?
This is not a hard question yet the two of you can’t seem to come up with a straight answer. Let me answer for you: If we had won the SEC and MNC last year the two of you would be crowing from the highest peaks about how awesome “WE” are and how “WE” won (even though the two of “you” didn’t do squat). You would wear something that says “UGA 2012 National Champions” everyday and your car/truck/moped would be covered in every sticker imaginable. But the reality is that pass was tipped and we didn’t win, so you sit here and bitch and moan about everything associated with the program. Funny how one tipped pass can change everything for small minded people.
Awww. Poor Disney rocket dawg haz hurt fee fees. Only sunshine and rainbows about our dogs until he stops PMS’ing.
What a drama queen. Heaven forbid someone put forth an opinion different from yours. Geeze.
“I agree Shanks isn’t the greatest writer in the world”
Here we should note that Bill Shanks was a huge supporter of Jeff Francoeur, and that Charlie Weis is better at his job than St. Jeffy is at his. Moving on.
“He thinks Richt is sheltered from a lot of criticism because he’s a good man.”
“Five years ago, no one outside of Palo Alto knew who David Shaw was. Ten years ago, Gus Malzahn was coaching high school football in Arkansas. Fifteen years ago, Nick Saban was going 8-4 in the Big 10 and couldn’t get Michigan St. over the hump. To think that Mark Richt is the only football coach in the country that can win big at UGA is myopic to the point of absurdity.”
Sure, but getting rid of a good-to-great coach for (enter hot new sh*t here) seems to be what the derp portion of the UGA fanbase so desperately desires, and to that, we put up a big picture of Dan Mullen and call it a day. Richt is the devil we know, and it isn’t 2009-2010 anymore. That would’ve been the time to move on. He’s gotten us to within a whisker of the national championship since. You fire him now, and who….exactly…..would want to come coach? At a program that cans coaches to the whim of Internet Fanboys? Keep in mind that Papa John was initially wary of coming to Florida because they sacked the Zooker after only three seasons.
“Also, it’s time to get past the ‘tipped pass’ story line. We didn’t lose to Alabama because of a tipped pass.”
We lost to Alabama for a number of reasons, one of which is a tipped pass. That’s brought up a lot because of how small the thing was that kept us from knocking off the champs. That’s *important*. If you don’t see that, then you’ve already made up your mind about Richt.
“We lost because of timeout management in the second half (shocking development, I know).”
If anything, the team that botched timeouts was Alabama, when Saint Saban apparently thought he could take his TOs to the second half and boned his team out of a potential TD drive to end the first half. (Also, Alabama was called for delay of game on a fake punt. And gave up a fake punt. And a long FG return for a TD. If there was any team that looked shaken and not particularly well coached that night, it was the one in crimson.)
“People can disagree of course, but it’s hard to dismiss out of hand as being completely off base.”
It’s red meat for morons. It matters squat to this program’s future. If that troubles you, there’s the door. Others (Will Trane, Ivy Leaguer) seem to have taken it, thankfully.
The Senator asked for opinions, I offered mine. You disagree. That’s fine, but not everyone does. I’m not anti-Richt. I’m not “anything” Richt. I’d like to see him win a national title at UGA, but that’s bc I want a NC. Conversely. If one side or the other decides it’s time for a change, I’m fine with that too.
Honestly, after reading all this, we got the right guy with the wrong luck. Sometimes, the tips, regular season stars aligning and injuries don’t line up. Its tough to argue you need another coach with better luck, but my golly, after watching Auburn this year, maybe there is such a thing.
This is not to say that a good chunk of this isn’t on Richt. He’s made mistakes. But as maddening as this is for some to hear, his good character and the way he treats the kids has given him some padding.
If given a choice, I WANT to see us win with Richt. But I can’t say how I would feel if we broke it all up, grayshirted and oversigned a bunch of kids, then won the National Championship on the back of a starting QB who was kicked off Texas A&M after stealing a personally signed laptop from Johnny Football.
This is basically where I’m at too: I WANT Richt to get it done, but I honestly wouldn’t be disappointed if there was a change either.
I would, if it ensured a period of instability and turnover with no clear path to just getting back to where we are now. I don’t want to be Nebraska.
Why are you so certain we would get it wrong? Have we hired the ONLY coach in America that win at UGA?
What makes you so sure we would get it right? Hiring someone better than CMR is less than a coin flip…way less.
Would be interested to see a post on how a many programs in the last few years got it wrong vs got it right.
An uninformed guesstimate is
Alabama, LSU, South Carolina, Clemson, FSU, Miami, Texas A&M, Ohio State, Penn State, Duke, Ole Miss, Arizona State, Stanford, Oregon, Washington State, Vanderbilt, Iowa State, Auburn, Central Florida, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Miss. State, North Carolina
Wrong:
Nebraska, Florida, Tennessee, Southern Cal, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, Virginia, Southern Miss, Cal, Pitt, Rutgers, South Florida, Maryland, Michigan
Even:
Kentucky, Navy
In fairness you should list FU as being both right and wrong.
And Auburn.
Whatevs? How do you not win a national championship with Andrew Luck? Harbaugh and Shaw suck.No excuse.
And Clemson? Dabo can’t even win the ACC.
Miami? Duke? North Carolina? See Clemson.
Ohio State hasn’t won a championship since 2002. They should have fired Tressell in 2003 and hired Saban. And Corch had it lined up and CHOKED! FIRE HIM!
Carolina hasn’t won the SEC. FIRE SPURRIER!
Oregon? Puh-leeze! With all that Nike money, they should be UNDEFEATED!
Miss State and Ole Miss? Huh? They can’t beat Bama! Losing to Bama by a lot is the sure sign your coach should be FIRED!
Throwin in some perspective there eh Irwin? Nice.
When you list Alabama as a got it right are you referring to offering the job to Rich Rodreguiz before offering it to Saban? Had Rich Rod said “Yes” Saban would be somewhere else.
The only moment I keep coming back to from this season is the end of the LSU game…I still well up watching Richt and Murray at the end of that game. That 4 game stretch was as difficult as any the Georgia program has had to go through in 40 years. And Georgia beat two top 10 teams and came within a field goal of beating three.
Before injuries, this was a team that was talented enough and coached well enough to win a championship. If you watched Georgia football this season and came away with the idea that Richt can’t coach, I don’t know what you were watching.
As far as not making the championship game, I don’t know how it would change my perspective if it were different. I know this…I watched a team that was that close to the mountaintop have its goals and dreams shattered by injuries, suspensions, and bad calls…and that team didn’t quit. It didn’t ever show any signs of quit, period. The fact that these kids were mentally able to mount the kind of comebacks that they did against Auburn and Tech is remarkable.
Exactly. If you told any one of us in the hot month of August that we would be sitting at the end of September 3-1, we’d have started reserving hotel rooms in Pasadena.
Our team had it all this season to be a contender for the crystal ball, which makes the rest of the season so damn frustrating October forward. We were decimated by injuries, and our defense was never there to help carry the load at the end. Still, but for our offensive injuries we win at least two more (2 of our 3 SEC losses, you pick) and are in the SEC Championship game.
No, it wouldn’t change my perception of Richt or the program, which is that we are consistently good, never great and we’re going to be perennially about the third best team in the conference. We played our hearts out against Bama but the difference between the two programs is a lot more than 5 yards. I also don’t understand why it’s a given we would have beaten Notre Dame. We most likely win a shootout but don’t kid yourself into thinking we would have dominated the golden domers the way Alabama did, especially without John Jenkins.
I think a better question might be how we would feel if 2009-2011 hadn’t have happened? If you take those outlier years out and I’m not sure there is much to debate.
There is no question but that the fire Richt crowd would have clammed up had we gotten to the BCS championship game, even if they would claim otherwise. After all, being unreasonable is sort of their specialty. I don’t think that, like Bill Shanks, that you can judge a coach on an isolated flop like the 2008 Bama game or last year’s USC game. I think you have to look at two things: 1) are we bringing in the talent necessary to compete at the highest level? 2) are the players buying in and playing hard for 4 quarters? I think that we’ve improved dramatically since we hit bottom a couple of years ago on both counts. Moreover, I don’t think people realize that the odds of the next coach being more successful are very, very low. Could it happen? Sure? Why just take a chance simply because you can? Especially when there is no reason we can’t be in the discussion for a playoff spot in 2014.
I’ve debated this several times with the people who have been on the ‘Fire Richt’ campaign since 2008. The response is about the same that this thread has garnered. I don’t think it would change my perception of the year or the program itself. This year was just frustrating and there’s just no way to overcome that sort of decimation we saw on the depth chart.. I’m not even sure Saban has recruited well enough to overcome that. My perception of the program overall wouldn’t change, which is that we have a really good coach and a really good program. Are we great? By no means. Have we had our moments? Absolutely.
I personally feel that we should consider ourselves fortunate to get as close as we did in 2012 considering what we were up against: a semi-professional franchise located in Tuscaloosa. Until our Athletics Dept and the Board ‘commit to the G’ in the same way the fan base, players and coaches do, we will always be what I described earlier. A good, but not great program/team with it’s fair share of moments (2002, 2007, 2012). The playing field is not level and what Richt has done in spite of that is one of the more impressive things I’ve seen.
Wow. I actually feel dumber for reading that. Thankfully I didn’t even know this guy existed until now. I guess he’s trying to take F-baum’s place.
“I’m just curious how much you’d be complaining if Mosley hadn’t made a great play.”
I would be bitching a lot more (if, in fact, that’s even possible) because an 8-4 would be a thermonuclear hotseat. After all, if you win the tournament once, why can’t you do it again stat!
Well, I’m not on the Fire Richt Bandwagon, so I’m not sure the question applies to me, but I’ll answer it. Of course an SEC title (and likely NC) last year would change my perception of the program. How could it not? And I would view anyone who says otherwise with skepticism, to say the least.
You are literally correct when you say that means one’s opinion comes down to a tipped pass, but that is a tad simplistic. That particular cat could be skinned many ways.
rampdawg
I live in the Macon area. I have to listen to Bill Stanks all the time. Bill is a spoiled sounding child of the me me me now now now era. Bill Stanks would have wanted Bobby Bowden and Tom Osborne fired. Why? Because FSU and Uof N didn’t win it all early or often enough. Forget all the good winning seasons they had. Bill wants it last year, this year or 8 years ago, or he’s gonna throw a hissy fit till he gets his way A lot the same can be said about a lot UGA fans on your site. Bobby and Tom were showed patience, and all the fans of the schools they coached for, were rewarded in time with multiple championships. I guess it’s the time we live in now. The rod was spared, and now we have to keep listening to whiny, big mouthed, spoiled brats who were given everything they wanted now, now, now.
Been a dawg for 52 yrs and I think Mark Richt best coach we have ever had. Dooley played a lot of bad teams every yr, but we only had two chances for a national championship. Herschel Walker yrs. Most yrs 7-3 6-4 or 8-2. Be thankful for what we have.
pcidoc
I’m sure I dont represent the mainstream opinion but the tipped pass doesn’t change my opinion of Richt or the program at all. It seems to me that Shanks and those who agree with him are wrong minded in feeling that the only successful season is one that ends with the MNC. That means 120 plus teams fail each season and only one is a success. I’d sure love for the Dawgs to get one but realize a successful season can’t be defined based on getting the crystal. That tipped pass meant to me that the team I love fought valiantly against a team that was heavily favored for the entire game, even after things went against them. I was extremely proud of that game even in the loss. Again I want my team to get that championship but playing with class, representing my University well on and off the field and not cheating matter as much to me.
Ho Lee Shit! Can’t believe all the Richt-supporting comments that question the author’s question. While it was alluded to by Shanks, the question should have been posed for Grantham, not Richt.
I don’t feel very down on Richt and the program right now, but If we had won that game I’d be swaggering around a little more, thinking that this year is just a little bump in the dynasty.
I find it hard to believe anybody wouldn’t sincerely feel better (or not as bad) about this year with Richt and the program, if we’d won that game and then beat ND last year.
To answer your question directly, I would not be complaining as much if Mosley hadn’t made that play. Mitchell would have a TD and we’d have beaten ND like they stole something.
Mitchell did make the play and another team got to beat ND like they stole something. I never wanted our guys to get back to the SEC title game as badly as I did this year–I’m sure that’s true for other fans, not to mention the players and coaches. That made the year’s disappointments that much harder to take. And it does make me more skeptical of our program and its leadership.
In short, that tipped past is leading me slowly to the grim conclusion that our favorite program is one that chronically underachieves. Call it bad luck, call it bad staff, call it inadequate administrative support, call it whatever you want. We are the flagship program in a state flourishing with football talent–we have a better deal than any other SEC team in that regard. But our program continues to demonstrate maddening tendencies that I simply no longer believe will be corrected, because they haven’t been. I won’t rehash them, because we know what they are, and you’ve made it clear that’s not the question you’re asking.
Right now, all I have is a sort of diminishing hope that somehow next year all the lights will finally go “On.” But my actual expectations are well short of that, based on past experience that includes that fateful tipped past.
Boom! Pretty much nailed it.
Well said S.D.
I am pretty much where you are SD. Think back to when CMR first took over at UGA. He said: “There has been a lid on this program and we are going to blow that lid off.” (Or words to that effect.) It appears to me that the lid is back on the program.
I have thought that same thing many times during the latter part of this season.
Sorry. Can’t give Shanks a click. He’s a troll.
Just because Football Jesus®* moved our luck and never smiles on us (except for having home rather than road games against USCe and LSU this past season) is there ever a regression to the mean for bad signs
*”Football Jesus (n.) — a separate, auxiliary Jesus maintained by America’s Christian God to handle all pre-, in-, and post-game prayer requests, as the big guy is kept somewhat busy with sick children, lost pets, failing crops, and what have you.”
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9599552/holly-anderson-college-football-grantland-dictionary
sethdavidmiller
I’ll admit that I’ve given that one play a lot of power over me in relation to my opinion of this coaching staff and the program as a whole. If it goes the other way, this season would still be brutal, but I’d be much more confident about the program.
Being honest with myself is hard, but I think it matters a ton and, sometimes, legacies are written (or changed) based on one, brief moment.
So it goes with Richt & the current UGA football program.
Seriously, Senator…throwing red meat out for the whiners? How charitable in this season of giving.
In the spirit of creating turmoil, let’s revisit a constant theme that is presented here quite often by both sides of the Richt argument…”with all of the talent in Georgia” we should de facto win a MNC as the flagship institution. This line of reasoning is the most flawed of all. Georgia turns-out some fantastic players and because of that, is also heavily recruited by all other schools. Texas, California, Florida, Louisiana and Pennsylvania also have tons of talent. There is no direct relationship to in-state high school talent and State U. winning the MNC. Yet this belief colors the perception of UGA’s program for far too many, including Mr. Shanks. If this “we have the in-state talent, why aren’t we doing better?” argument were valid, then why is it we only have 1980 to show for it since the 1960’s? You can’t blame Richt for this…try as you might.
Could another HC win the MNC at UGA? Of course…its the perfect hypothetical so why not support the position. But like I pointed-out the other day, there have only been 8 gentlemen to lead their teams to the MNC while Mark Richt has been at Georgia. 4 – 5 of them are no longer with their teams and have proven scandals left behind. So did UGA choose poorly in taking a chance on Richt? As the Senator points-out, what evidence is there that the powers controlling the HC position at UGA (which goes far beyond the AD) are capable of picking the new NC that can turn the corner?
Frankly, I wish the Senator had asked the whiners why they aren’t screaming at the top of their lungs for us to go get Mack Brown. He’s available, has exactly the resume they demand, and won’t be all that expensive. I’d love to hear the rationale for this conspicuous silence.
“I’d love to hear the rationale for this conspicuous silence.”
Because Georgia hiring Mr. Football would be too much of a good thing for Spurrier?
“The cruelest and most accurate thing ever said about Mack Brown came from Steve Spurrier. Spurrier was then the coach at Duke. Brown was at North Carolina. Spurrier was fashioning himself into a monomaniacal offensive strategist. Brown was becoming a Reaganesque CEO. When sportswriters traveled that little corner of the ACC, Spurrier would say, ‘I just don’t think I know enough about the game to compete with Mr. Football.’…..
Spurrier wouldn’t let the slur go. By 1997, he’d moved to the University of Florida and won a national championship. The sportswriter John Feinstein sent Spurrier a note saying that if he thought he was so great, he should go back to Duke. “Nah,” Spurrier wrote in his reply, “I don’t think I could deal with the pressure of competing with Mr. Football again every year.”
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10134500/the-end-era-mack-brown-texas-longhorns
And yet…here we are 20 years later with Mack Brown sitting on just as many national championships as Steve Spurrier.
No….doesn’t change my view of our team. Shanks is a finebaum wannabe and a hack.
How about the coaching staff address these two issues…:
I am all for running a clean program, running a program that values academic excellence, family atmosphere etc….some people say it’s only a game and we do the best we can and there are more important things to focus on in life……but there is also doing the BEST you can and training the players to be the best, holding the coaches to be the best and bearing down on EVERY detail of the program to make sure the University and the kids and alumni are absolutely getting the most out of their program possible. It’s not happening up there. It’s a joke. It’s not even CLOSE at UGA. Aaron Murray and Stafford go through that program and not SEC titles in those 7 years. AJ and Moreno too.
A microcosm of this is this:
Between 2007-2012 these are the following recruiting numbers:
Auburn 164 players
LSU 151
S Car 163
UGA 130
That is a joke, with these numbers you just can’t compete and that is why UGA is 6-17 against ranked opponents. I understand you don’t want to oversign and gray shirt and run kids off, but you also can use some common sense and understand there is going to be attrition like Nick Marshall and Chris Sanders and some of the OL that have quit. We started FOUR true freshmen on defense this year in Wiggins, Floyd, Matthews, Langley and. That is 100% unacceptable for a team that could’ve made a run. It lost us every game. Clemson was a joke with Connor Norman and Brandon Langley playing. Neither played much the rest of the season.
The 2nd microcosm is the fact that every year our special teams is horrible. Pathetic.
Punt return team 103rd nationally
Kickoff return 111
Punt team 74th
Kickoff coverage 96th
special teams blunders in 2013 and how they impacted the scoreboard.
· Botched field goal in the third quarter against Clemson (Georgia lost by three)
· Fumbled snap on a punt in the second quarter against South Carolina (South Carolina scored a touchdown one play later)
· 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the second quarter by North Texas (Cut the Mean Green deficit to seven)
· Blocked punt returned for a touchdown in the third quarter by North Texas (tied the game)
· Blocked punt returned for a touchdown in the third quarter by Tennessee (tied the game)
· Fake field goal for a touchdown in the second quarter by Vanderbilt (gave Vandy the lead)
· Fumbled punt return late in the third quarter against Vanderbilt (Vandy scored a touchdown on the ensuing drive to cut Georgia’s lead to six)
· Bad snap on a punt in the fourth quarter vs. Vanderbilt (Commodores scored the game-winning touchdown one play later)
Maybe he magically puts it together next year. I really hope so. I hope the talent so overwhelms the other teams, we can’t help but win.
And success is not wins and losses per se or if they win a MNC or not, although that is a part of it, success is much more attributed to playing at the highest level possible every week given your talent and resources. Demanding excellence. It is NOT playing just good enough to win games and having a coach not demand and correct mistakes and not communicate to the public, the alumni and the players and coaches that “we expect to play better, this was not the way we expect to perform at GA (and when playing far inferior competition) and we will make the necessary changes to make sure it does not ….”
Hope you don’t mind me commenting on this.
As an outsider, I think y’all should be hugely disappointed in this year – despite AND because of the tipped pass.
In the pre-season, I believe I had UGA pegged to go 11-1 with the loss being to Clemson. You guys were the team I feared the most of the other 13. Yes, there were losses on defense, but the offense looked to be unstoppable.
In my opinion, the loss in the SECCG last year should have stoked a fire for a title run this year. So from that perspective, 8-4 would be a huge downer.
It did stoke the fire of a title run. We were on that title run until we had our best offensive skill players on the shelf with multiple game or season-ending injuries. When we went to the spread, there wasn’t a defense that could handle the combination of Scott-Wesley, Bennett, Conley, and one of the tight ends with Gurley/Marshall out of the backfield. That’s with our best big play guy hurt on the first play from scrimmage with Malcolm Mitchell. Eventually, Murray gets hurt the week before our rivalry game.
Bama would have had some of the same issues with Cooper, Yeldon, Drake and others. Then to lose McCarron the week before Auburn, I’m not sure you guys could have survived all of that to go 11-1.
I’m disappointed but it’s about the defense for me. When the offense was trying to find its way less a bunch of pieces, the defense and special teams didn’t pull their weight.
I hear ya.
I guess I was coming from the perspective of simply looking at the end results from each year.
Hard to do that, though.
There is a difference b/w being disappointed and thinking the program is in a state of complacency, needing new leadership, etc.
I’m disappointed in 8-4. Especially after the 3-1 start against three top 10 teams. But you can’t lose your grip on reality.
This team had to play Mizzou, a top 10 team, and Vandy pretty much without Mitchell, Gurley, Marshall, Scott Wesley, Bennett, Matthews, Rome, Rumph, Norman, and Reggie Wilkerson.
I’m disappointed Georgia finished 8-4, but it is different than 2009 when you just wondered if it had passed the team by. It feels more like 2006 when it was easy to get down about losses to Kentucky and Vandy, but I felt good about the way the team competed and how Stafford was developing, etc.
In the last three seasons, the two where the team hasn’t been decimated by injuries, Georgia made the SECCG and in the other has a chance for 9 wins and finished 5-3 in the SEC. The schedule sets up favorably in 2014…ya’ll can keep whining about the program. I’m going to watch Mason get ready for the bowl game and the 2014 campaign.
A10Penny
All of us would be happier if that pass was caught. But were any of us happy with the Defense last year with the talent we had? Imagine how it would have been without Jarvis.
It’s a very interesting question. First, if Moseley hadn’t tipped that pass, it would have been either incomplete or intercepted.
But say we had won the NC last year, because that’s what would have happened if we had either scored on the next play or spiked the ball with 3 plays left to score.
Had that happened I don’t see how it’s possible for anybody’s perception of the program to not have changed. A national championship is very toxic, for at least a year or two, and in a good way.
Having said that, I can honestly say my take on what’s wrong with the program would not have changed (or at least would have changed back by midseason) because it has never been based on W’s and L’s or Championships. After the Vandy game my stance would have been the same as it is now, and of course the rest of the year would support that as well.
The Vandy game was the final block of evidence that a long-term systemic problem has still not been addressed. And that’s one thing a NC could not have changed.
“…it’s an incompletion or interception”. Let’s go to the source, Aaron Murray, who states in post game interviews that “Oh, it’s a touchdown. The defender has his back to the play and it’s just up to Malcolm to go up and get it”.
In defending HIS decision to not order Murray to spike the ball, CMR quotes consultant, Homer Smith, who says that spiking the ball is for a team without a plan. We had one and wanted to execute to that advantage.
You guys criticize the program all you want, but at least try to get your facts straight.
Murray is not the source. Richt is not the source. EVER. The only real source in football is the film.
If you are interested in facts, I suggest you study the film. I’ve studied a lot of film, and that’s the way I see it. To me, it’s obvious.
Further, I don’t get off on criticizing the program. I do, however, point out reality, the best I can discern it. But I know better than to think everybody will agree with it.
Just curious how it would have either been incomplete or intercepted, but not completed….for a touchdown? I’m pretty sure all 3 of those things are possible as they are with any pass thrown in football.
Because if you are sufficiently negative about the program, or, depending upon your point of view, simply being brutally realistic, it’s a given that Vince Dooley’s famous dictum about throwing the ball (“three things can happen… and two of them are bad”) is overly generous. 😉
Thanks for clarifying that, Senator. As soon as I read that, I knew exactly what the rest of his comments would look like. It was too easy when he started it out the way he did.
Because on the replay you can see that MM was covered pretty tightly. I actually agree with the decision to not spike the ball there, but to just assume that the pass was a guaranteed TD is a bit of a stretch.
And I think it’s a bit of a stretch just to assume it’s not a completion. Again, all 3 things are a possibility: incompletion, interception, TD.
I agree. I’m not saying that it definitely wouldn’t have been a completion. I’m just saying a completion was far from guaranteed.
Fair question.
Best I can tell you is go back and watch the film. Notice that the trajectory of the ball, projected forward if un-tipped, is right at the pylon or even just outside of the goal line.
Then look at the route (which was poor), the coverage, and go from there.
Hahaha. Alright, man. There’s no sense in arguing with someone like you. I love that you threw MM under the bus there as well, job well done.
Raleigh St. Claire
Mark Richt routinely fields teams that are terrible at special teams and defense and has done so since 2005.
He also fields teams that invariably show up to 2-3 games per year totally unprepared and unmotivated. See, e.g., the Carolina game in 2012 and the first half of the Auburn game this year among many many others.
He is not a championship coach any longer. He does not coach teams that do the small things well. He is not detail oriented and he is several steps below coaches like Saban, Meyer, and even Malzahn.
Richt is never again going to win another championship of any kind. And, in the process, he’s going to waste the careers of players like Gurley, just like he did with Stafford, Moreno, Green, and now Murray.
He needs to go because barring scheduling luck, like in 2011 and 2012, he’s a 3-4 loss per year coach. He’s simply incapable of preparing a team week in and week out to get better results.
I mean, look at his Gator Bowl press remarks where he said you can’t win every game and that this season was a success. Those arent the types of comments made by a coach who demands excellence and is focused on championships.
Next year will be just like this one. Terrible defense and shockingly bad special teams. The sheep who love Richt more than UGA will find yet another excuse to explain away the bad coaching and then we’ll do it all over again in 2015.
All the while, the other teams in the conference will actually be doing the things necessary to out themselves in the best position to win big.
I prefer a different solution, because I want Richt to succeed.
But I certainly agree with your diagnoses. Each offseason, I hope Richt will reach out for a solution, one which would involve systemic intangible changes, and I hope he will this year. But he never does.
So I hope you are wrong, but fear you are right.
I want Richt to stay and to figure out the overwhelming issues that he is seemingly blind to. But those that support him ask yourself this: What top coach, Saban, Carroll, Meyer, Spurrier, Miles, Shaw….whoever, when they had a team ranked #1 in the country has ever been BLOWN OUT in their own stadium and down 31-0 at halftime? Please answer this for us. And people that see the blue sky and talk about last year and a dropped pass in the SECC……just ask yourself this, what team has ever won a national title when they had been BLOWN OUT (South Carolina) earlier in the year and struggled to beat several other inferior teams? I have supported Richt for years but 08 started the slide (that Bama game was unacceptable and as unprepared a team as I have ever seen) and honestly, when I heard him interviewed after the TN game this year, a team that SUCKED and was BLOWN OUT by Oregon and has been decimated by all the coaching changes, I was embarrassed for the players and as an alumni that my coach said NOTHING about the way we played and how unacceptable it was and that we will do everything in our power to correct these mistakes and we have an obligation to the players to coach them better and hold them accountable and WE WILL get better because this is not the way we play at UGA……nothing. Frankly it was embarrassing.
That same Bama team that beat UGA 41-30 (that was the final…I assume those points count, right?) made it to #1 and then got down to Utah 21-0 in the first quarter before losing 31-17.
But that has never happened to Saban, right? Because that would SUCK!
I mean…it’s not like Bama got down 20-0 in the FIRST QUARTER of a GAME LAST YEAR….AT HOME…AND LOST…then won a national championship or anything. That would SUCK!
And Auburn was so unprepared that they were down 21-0 against Bama in 2010 (and 21-7 the week before to UGA!!!).
The 2008 Florida team lost to Ur Ole Miss at Home.
The 2007 LSU team lost to two teams that would finish below .500 in the SEC and unranked.
And I agree that it was embarrassing that Richt didn’t crap all over the team after watching 4 guys go down with ACL tears during the game. Those kids deserved to be publicly humiliated.
By the way, one tiny…eetsy beetsy detail….Auburn was losing 21-0 at the end of the first half against LSU this year. THEY WERE UNPREPARED! WHAT TEAM GOES AND GETS BLOWN OUT IN THE FIRST HALF AND THEN PLAYS FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER ONLY BEATING GEORGIA VIA A MIRACLE AND SNEAKING BY MISS STATE! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH ALL CAPS BLAH!
What world do you people live in? Is it one without TV? Does Google not exist in your corner of the universe?
Embarrassed is really the right word.
You are smoking something fierce if you are comparing UGAs program to LSU, Florida, Bama and Auburn. 6-17 against ranked teams is yes, an embarrassment. There is a difference between crapping on the team (which I never advocated) and holding them accountable. If you think the way they played against TN and Vandy was acceptable then that is your opinion.
I thought you made a point about top coaches not getting blown out at home when they are #1? Oh riiiiiiiiiiight…I forgot, that point wasn’t really a good one so on to the next one, I assume.
Since 2010, Florida is 4-15 against ranked opponents. Of course, UGA is 2-2 against Auburn, 3-1 against Florida, and 1-1 against LSU over that stretch…BUT THERE IS NO COMPARISON OF THESE PROGRAMS! Embarrassment! Hyperbole!
Again, if you watched the Tennessee game and didn’t see how those kids continued to compete and grind after watching their teammates continue to fall to injuries, then it isn’t really worth any more effort looking up facts that show how bad your opinions are.
{“I was embarrassed for the players and as an alumni that my coach said NOTHING about the way we played and how unacceptable it was and that we will do everything in our power to correct these mistakes and we have an obligation to the players to coach them better and hold them accountable and WE WILL get better because this is not the way we play at UGA……nothing. Frankly it was embarrassing.”}
A good point, IMO. And a fair point.
Richt doesn’t have very many faults (outside of some apparent coaching faults that have nothing to do with his personality), but this is one. He does not publicly hold himself or his coaches accountable, i.e., doesn’t always put the blame where it should be.
After a loss like the 2012 SECCG, where his team played about as well as they could (and didn’t crap all over themselves), and showed heart, fight and resilience, it is proper for a coach to present himself and his program the way Richt did .. as being proud of his team for the way they played and the effort they gave in hard-fought, classic SEC battle.
But after most of the losses we experience, where we play sloppy ball and pretty much beat ourselves, and perhaps even embarrass ourselves to some extent, some accountability is very appropriate, even called for.
The best coaches do it all the time. For example, Dooley always did it, Bryant always did it (though losses from beating yourselves were rare for both), Today, you will hear Spurrier say something like, “We need to coach better”, or “I need to coach better.” Saban will say something like, “that’s our fault and our responsibility as a coaching staff, and it’s our task and responsibility to make sure the problem is taken care of.” And so on down the line.
But you don’t hear anything like that from Richt. He almost seems to refuse to hold himself or his coaches accountable. If there’s any accountability at all, it falls on lack of “execution” .. in other words, on the players in general (he does protect his players, as he should). This might not be absolute (though I can’t think of an exception) but, certainly overall, that’s the way it is, and that’s the way it has been.
But Richt would do well to make public accountability a habit, IMHO. It has served other coaches well, and would serve him well. It would go long way both internally and externally. Because sometimes his ‘cover’, or ‘shield’, is stretched so thin, it IS embarrassing. Further, in many instances, it doesn’t gel with what he stands for. Let reality be what it is, and be accountable. Be HONEST and forthright about what happens, no matter how bad.
I even suspect this could be one of the causative elements of the systemic problem that has been integrated into the program for so long now. That is to say, one reason why we can’t consistently play solid football. Richt never lets the weight of accountability fall down upon his players and coaches. He acts as a shield, and never lets it hit. Not even upon himself.
{“There is a difference between crapping on the team (which I never advocated) and holding them accountable.”}
Well said. I don’t believe in crapping on the team, either. Or Richt, Assistant Coaches, McGarity .. or anybody else. I love the program as much as anybody, and I’m sure you do.
Therefore whatever is said – whether in person, in the Dawgosphere, or anywhere else – should have SUBSTANTIVE cause, evidence, grounds, or logic behind it, as it relates to football. Or it shouldn’t be said at all. And almost all of the time, it should be related directly to football, and not anything else.
I think of it as simply being honest, telling the truth, just being realistic and calling it like it is, good or bad. I’ve never thought of it that way, but holding them accountable is a fair way of putting it, too .. there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I’d even go as far as to say that is a desirable quality in a loyal fan and supporter. Provided they know that they are talking about, and freely admit when they are wrong.
Here’s honesty….either you didn’t watch the Tennessee game or you have no concept of what happened during the Tennessee game or you don’t want to talk about the Tennessee game and instead just want a platform to talk about some general point you think needs to be made.
I submit that if either of you really think the Tennessee game and how coach Richt handled himself after the game was an embarrassment, then you both represent the worst of the Georgia fan base. One that doesn’t appreciate the blood, sweat, and emotions poured into every game…and how that affects coaching, players, etc. Embarrassed to pull out a win in Knoxville? When you have 3 guys already out and another 4 go down during the game with possible season ending injuries? Funny you mentioned Spurrier…they lost to Tennessee the next week with a full squad. I guess he should have been fired on the spot.
Nah, not after he said he should have coached them better. 😉
#slowclap
My post didn’t refer to the Tennessee game at all, but to Richt’s public accountability in general. And it is accurate.
The rest of what you said doesn’t reflect anything I’ve said or believe, and i won’t have you putting words in my mouth.
If you’re going to disagree and/or criticize me, fine. But at least know what you’re doing when you criticize or lecture me. It’s likely I’ve forgotten more about what goes into a football game than you’ll ever know. So please think, and get the facts straight before you fire off.
I have a vague recollection of Richt after the Tennessee game, and recall no problem with it. It was a tough day. But my post regarding his public accountability, above, stands.
“If you’re going to disagree and/or criticize me, fine. But at least know what you’re doing when you criticize or lecture me.”
Fine. The entire first paragraph of your post was about the Tennessee game. Your second quote about crapping on the team was from a post about the Tennessee game. That’s what it was about. Game over. Done. Fin.
Only three options here…
#1- Your post ‘did have something to do with the Tennessee game’
#2- You think that by cutting and pasting and leaving off the word “Tennessee”, you have completely changed the subject matter of the quote and the discussion.
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,” <—Churchill on Ga-Florida…nothing to do with WWII.
"We dare not fail to see the insidious nature of this new and deeper struggle. We dare not fail to grasp the new concepts, the new tools,
the new sense of urgency we will need to combat it"<—-JFK on Georgia's problems in the secondary, nothing to do with Cuba
#3- You are literally Donny from the Big Lebowski
Were you listening to the Dude's story, Donny?
Were you listening to the Dude's story?
So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know…
I had no thought of Tennessee when I wrote that post, Irwin Dear. Nothing you say can change that.
But who really cares? it doesn’t matter. Carry on.
So if you had no thought of Tennessee, does that just mean you copy and paste without reading and/or understanding…
because that actually would explain a lot.
~~~~~>>>
How dare you. For that, you can KMA.
Just to add a little different flavor since most of the discussion has been around an unlucky and its negative implications to other seasons, but I wonder how everyone would feel about Richt’s coaching tenure if an Auburn DB didn’t stumble covering Michael Johnson in the corner? It’s a singular lucky play in one season many years ago, but reading so many messages above where posters feel Richt had his team just as positioned for a MNC as other SEC coaches have since, I wonder how everyone would honestly feel about Richt’s tenure if he hadn’t stumbled and made a play on the ball?
It’s an interesting thought.
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BMC Proceedings
Proceedings of the 13th European workshop on QTL mapping and marker assisted selection
A two-step approach combining the Gompertz growth model with genomic selection for longitudinal data
Ricardo Pong-Wong1 &
Georgia Hadjipavlou1
BMC Proceedings volume 4, Article number: S4 (2010) Cite this article
We used the Gompertz growth curve to model a simulated longitudinal dataset provided by the QTLMAS2009 workshop and applied genomic evaluation to the derived model parameters and to a model-predicted trait value.
Prediction of phenotypic information from the Gompertz curve allowed us to obtain genomic breeding value estimates for a time point with no phenotypic records. Despite that the true model used to simulate the data was the logistic growth model, the Gompertz model provided a good fit of the data. Genomic breeding values calculated from predicted phenotypes were highly correlated with the breeding values obtained by directly using the respective observed phenotypes. The accuracies between the true and estimated breeding value at time 600 were above 0.93, even though t600 was outside the time range used when fitting the data. The analysis of the parameters of the Gompertz curve successfully discriminated regions with QTL affecting the asymptotic final value, but it was less successful in finding QTL affecting the other parameters of the logistic growth curve. In this study we estimated the proportion of SNPs affecting a given trait, in contrast with previously reported implementations of genomic selection in which this parameter was assumed to be known without error.
The two-step approach used to combine curve fitting and genomic selection on longitudinal data provided a simple way for combining these two complex tasks without any detrimental effect on breeding value estimation.
A longitudinal trait is a composite of phenotypes recorded over time which have a complex genetic correlation structure. Different types of non-linear functions have been used to model a time-dependent trait and dissect its genetic components. For instance, the Gompertz model has been used for analysing the polygenic components [1] and growth QTL [2] for live weight in sheep. Genomic selection (GS) commonly refers to a new class of methods for genetic evaluation using very dense marker maps covering the entire genome [3]. The overall trend so far has been that GS increases the accuracy of the breeding values, especially for those individuals without phenotypic information.
The objective of this study was to estimate genomic breeding values for the trait at time 600 (t600), which resided outside the range of longitudinal yield data provided by the QTLMAS2009 workshop. We implemented a two-step procedure in which first the Gompertz function was fitted to the data for each individual and, then genomic selection was performed on the predicted phenotype at t600 and on the parameter estimates derived from the fitted Gompertz curve.
The data provided by QTLMAS2009 is fully described in [4]. It consisted of 100 full-sib families, each with 20 offspring. Half of the offspring (training set) have both phenotype information of yield at 5 distinct time points (0, 132, 25, 397, 530) and genotype data on 453 SNP markers across 5 Morgans. The remaining offspring (candidate set) had only genotype information.
To obtain genomic breeding values for t600, we used an approach composed by two independent steps: Firstly, a Gompertz growth curve was used to model the performance records across time, and to estimate the model descriptors (A, B, C) which best fit the phenotypes of each individual. Secondly, genomic evaluation was applied to obtain genomic estimated breeding values (GEBVs) for t600 using two different methods: I) estimating GEBVs for the model parameters (A, B, C; i.e. 3 GEBVs per individual) and using them to estimate the breeding value for t600 from the Gompertz function; II) predicting the phenotypes at t600 from evaluating the Gompertz function with the estimated parameters and later applying genomic selection on the predicted t600 phenotypes.
Growth model
The Gompertz equation is of the form: y(t) = Ae{-e[Be(C-t)/A]}, where y(t) is the yield at time t; A the final yield; B the maximum growth rate and C the age at maximum growth rate. The curve fitting was implemented using nonlinear regression in SAS [5]. The Gompertz function was fitted to each individual separately to estimate individual model parameters A, B, C. Subsequently, the fitted individual equations were used to predict the trait at t600 (or t600 GEBVs if using the parameter GEBVs).
Genomic evaluation
A Bayes B type of analysis was used as first described by Meuwissen et al.[3]. Under a Bayesian framework the model accounts for the fact that not all SNPs affect the trait in question. The model assumed in the method is:
where y is the vector of phenotypes; b contains the fixed effects and X is its incidence matrix; α i is the allelic substitution effect for SNP i; g i is the vector of genotypes (1, 2 & 3 for genotypes 00, 10/01 and 11, respectively) for SNP i; and e the vector of residuals distributed N(0, ). The allelic substitution effects α for each SNP are assumed to be from a mixture distribution with probability π of having an effect on the trait and with probability (1- π) of not affecting the trait at all. If the SNP is affecting the trait, its allelic substitution is distributed N(0, ).
The implementation of the model was done using Gibbs sampling. The parameters , and π were also calculated in the analysis using flat priors. So far, the implementations of Bayes B reported in the literature have not estimated π, but assumed it was known without error.
For each analysis, a MCMC chain was run and the first 10000 cycles were discarded as burn-in period. Following this, 10000 realisations were collected, each separated by 50 cycles between consecutive realisations. The posterior mean was used as the estimate for each parameter of interest.
Growth model parameters
The Gompertz model provided a good fit of the data (see additional files 1 and 2) with the curve fitted for each individual being statistically significant. To further test how well the Gompertz curve fitted the phenotypic data, phenotypic values were predicted at all 5 time points for which observed phenotypic data was available. The Pearson and Spearman correlations between the true and predicted phenotypic values at t530 were above 0.99, with similar high correlations obtained for the other 4 time points. These high correlations remained when comparing the GEBVs calculated for both the true and predicted phenotypes.
Estimation of GEBVs for the parameters of the Gompertz curve
Univariate analyses were performed to each of the three parameters of the Gompertz function. The correlations between the univariate GEBVs for the three parameters were high (correlations between GEBVs for A-B, A-C and B-C were 0.97, 0.71 and 0.59, respectively. The posterior means of π for A, B and C were 0.059, 0.082 and 0.219, respectively. The posterior probabilities for the SNPs having an effect on the parameters A, B and C, and their estimated allelic substitution effects are shown in Figures 1 and 2, respectively. The results suggest that parameters A and B are affected by the same SNPs, with some others affecting parameter C. This is consistent with the high correlation between GEBV for A and B
Probability of an individual SNP affecting the parameters A, B or C.
Estimated allele substitution effect for A, B and C. The size of the effects are rescaled relative to the largest allele effect within each parameter (i.e. highest effect=1).
Estimation of GEBVs for the trait at a given time point
The GEBVs for t600 obtained by evaluating the Gompertz function with GEBVs for A, B and C (method I) were very similar to those calculated from method II which evaluated the predicted performance at t600 (see Figure 3). The correlation between both approaches for calculating GEBVs was 0.99, with GEBVs from method I having slightly larger variance. The GEBVs obtained from the genomic selection on the predicted trait at t600 show a very similar trend as found for parameters A and B, with the same SNPs of large effect found for A and B also affecting t600 (see additional file 3). The estimate of π for t600 was 0.048.
Scatter plot of t600 GEBVs calculated from evaluating the Gompertz function using GEBVs of A, B, C (x-axis) and calculated from Genomic selection on the predicted phenotype at t600 (y-axis). The GEBV not scaled on the same mean.
Comparison with the true model used to simulate the data
The true model used to simulate the data was the logistic growth curve (see [4]) described as . Both the logistic and the Gompertz models are characterised by an ‘S’ shape growth with an asymptotic maximum yield, but the parameters describing them have different meaning. Comparing both functions, parameters A and Φ1 have similar definition. The equivalence between the other parameters is less clear, which explains the results obtained. GEBVs for A, B were highly correlated to the true values for Φ1, but poorly with Φ2 and Φ3 (Table 1. For correlations within training and candidate sets see additional file 4). Moreover, the analysis of parameters A and B showed that the SNPs with the highest probability of having an effect on the trait were located at the positions where the six QTL affecting Φ1were simulated. Locations containing QTL for parameters Φ2 and Φ3 were less associated with QTL affecting the parameters of the Gompertz curve.
Table 1 Pearson (lower diagonal) and Spearman (upper diagonal) correlations between true and estimated breeding values for t600 and the parameters used to simulate or analyse the data.1,2
Despite that the Gompertz curve was not the true model, its use provided very accurate GEBVs for t600. The correlation between the true breeding values and GEBVs are presented in Table 1 and additional file 4. Both methods of estimating GEBVs yielded similar accuracy. The Pearson and Spearman correlations between true and estimated breeding value with methods I and II for all individuals in the pedigree were above 0.93.
In this study, the proportion of SNPs affecting the trait, π, was estimated in the analysis. This contrasts with previously reported implementations of Bayes B where π was assumed to be known without error. The π values were slightly overestimated, partly due to the low linkage disequilibrium between SNPs (average r2 between consecutive SNP was 0.15) and also to the fact that the Gompertz function was not the true model. However, the success in estimating such an important parameter from the data itself, even when assuming a uniform prior, provides an improvement in genomic evaluation relative to assuming that π is known without error.
The two-step approach of growth model fitting and genomic selection on model parameters and on predicted phenotype appeared to be a simple and reliable strategy. Despite that the Gompertz curve was not the true model used to simulate the data, the correlations between true and estimated breeding values at t600 were very high (Pearson and Spearman correlations above 0.93). The approach of estimating GEBVs for phenotype at a time of interest using GEBVs of the three parameters and evaluating the Gompertz function could be beneficial when GEBVs are needed for different time points. In this study, the proportion of SNP affecting the trait was estimated from the data, contrasting with previous implementation of genomic selection where this proportion has been assumed to be known without error. The results from this study showed that separate implementation of the growth modelling process and genomic evaluation provided huge simplification of the methodology with no detrimental effect on the final results.
GH acknowledges the GENACT Project, funded by the Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Research Training, as part of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission. This work has made use of the resources provided by the Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility (ECDF) (http://www.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/). The ECDF is partially supported by the eDIKT initiative. (http://www.edikt.org.uk).
This article has been published as part of BMC Proceedings Volume 4 Supplement 1, 2009: Proceedings of 13th European workshop on QTL mapping and marker assisted selection.
The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/4?issue=S1.
QTL:
Quantitative Trait Locus
SNP:
GS:
GEBV:
Genomic Estimated Breeding value
MCMC:
Monte Carlo Markov Chain
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Coster A, Bastiaansen J, Calus M, Maliepaard C, Bink M: QTLMAS 2009: Simulated Dataset. BMC Proc. 2010, 4 (Suppl 1): S3-10.1186/1753-6561-4-S1-S3.
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The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9PS, UK
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Correspondence to Ricardo Pong-Wong or Georgia Hadjipavlou.
RPW and GH carried out the analyses and drafted the manuscript. Both authors have read and contributed to the final text of the manuscript.
Additional file 1: (PDF 37 KB)
Pong-Wong, R., Hadjipavlou, G. A two-step approach combining the Gompertz growth model with genomic selection for longitudinal data. BMC Proc 4, S4 (2010) doi:10.1186/1753-6561-4-S1-S4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-6561-4-S1-S4
Gompertz Model
Allelic Substitution Effect
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The Saturday Comics: Thanksgiving Covers
from November 24, 2012
Comics are just like reality. They celebrate the same holidays we do. Wether it be Christmas, Thanksgiving, or the anniversary of the day Superman rocketed to Earth, you can find a cover to commemorate the event. And sometimes, like your uncle Moe at the dinner table, they tell strange stories. Let’s see what comics have to say about Thanksgiving.
Donald Duck. Patriot. Member of the NRA. And fearsome turkey hunter. will he catch the turkey? Will his nephews outsmart him? Will that ancient gun explode the moment he pulls the trigger?
Things are getting desperate for that poor turkey. He’s really buttering up, or perhaps hitting on, Donald. Hey , if you were going to be served for dinner you’d go to extreme lengths to survive too.
I guess the turkey won. And it looks like Donald has found some appropriate replacements. I am not sure under what circumstances ducks will turn to cannibalism, but Huey, Dewey, and Louie? Them’s good eating.
Let’s see if Bugs Bunny can do any better.
This is one proactive turkey. If I were Bugs I’d be thinking about letting Elmer Fudd go after this one.
Yup, this turkey is not taking things lying down. I think the odds are pretty good that Bugs will end up on the bird’s dinner table.
Nope, Bugs Bunny won, but judging from the crazed look in his eyes he may never be the same again. Poor guy has been traumatized for life.
So far the turkeys are taking pretty good care of themselves, but can they beat the Justice Society?
Yes they can. This turkey is managing to elude Flash, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern. He’s the Lex Luthor of turkeys, and just as bald. What is next for the foul fiend, world domination?
Next up is a bird who ended up roasted but still seems to have gotten some sort of revenge.
It seems that Solomon Grundy is immune to salmonella poisoning. I would never accept dinner at Grundy’s house. Would you expect an undead swamp monster to wash his hands after restroom? I don’t think so.
This is just weird. Aside from Lana having a crush on her own brother for all those years, why would Superboy wear his costume around the house and to serve dinner?
And lastly, I had to end with something that, while not a comic book, is what the season is all about.
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The Saturday Comics: My Personal Top Ten
This is my personal Top Ten Comics list. This is not a list of the best comics, most important stories, or biggest hero brawls. These comics all have some personal story or meaning for me. I’m going to buck Top Ten tradition and not count down from ten. I’ll start with number one because as a whole, the first three comics would be all I’d need if the rest of my collection was lost. If I could only save three comics from a disaster, the first three are those comics. And I still have my original copy of almost every comic in the list.
FANTASTIC FOUR 320
I had given up on comics at one point. Totally dropped every series I bought, and at that time I bought nearly everything Marvel put out and about half of DC. It wasn’t the expense, and it was expensive, but it was the quality. I wasn’t enjoying them nearly enough. So I dropped every comic but- and here is my mistake- one, DC’s Star Trek. That was the one and only series I still bought. Well one day I was at the comic store and I saw FF 320. It was a classic Hulk vs. Thing battle. In the history of comics, Hulk vs. Thing is a perennial. But this was different. The Hulk was… grey. And the Thing was extra rocky, with spikes. And Crystal was back on the team? And some sort of primitive-looking she-Thing? Of course I was hooked, but above it all was Doctor Doom, leering down over the chaos. I HAD to buy that issue. And I was back into comics. Just as an aside, the story continued in that month’s Hulk, which had the worst art I ever saw, then or now, and nearly sent me right back out of comics. But I was hooked all over again.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 252
This is the famous issue where Spider-Man’s black costume debuts. That symbiote goes on to become venom, but that was in the future. This isn’t even the origin of the costume, just the first appearance. We had to wait for a later issue of Secret Wars for that. This comic comes in at number two because I could not find it anywhere at all in Brooklyn. It had so much hype that it sold out as soon as it hit the stands. And many copies didn’t even hit the stands as speculating dealers kept them for themselves. What puts this on the list is the fact that my father drove all over New Jersey, checking every newstand, magazine store, and gas station trying to find a copy for me. And late one night, he came home with three.
World’s Finest 271
If you are a casual reader this is a tough issue to get through. This comic combines two of my favorite things- comics and Old Time Radio. This issue tries to bring old Superman radio storylines from the 1940’s show into comic-book continuity by placing them on Earth 2, home of the older Superman who debuted in the 30’s. Atom Man, Superman’s greatest foe on the radio appears here, as well as numerous other scenes that were only transmitted on the radio and were totally unfamiliar to most readers. For most fans this comic, I’m sure, was a confusing mess, but for me, it was a perfect synthesis of two of my most enjoyable hobbies.
While it did not make the top ten, I also have to mention Batman 253, which also combines OTR and comics, as Batman met The Shadow.
ALL-STAR COMICS 69/70
The one on the right, #69, might be the oldest comic I own. It is also the oldest one I remember owning. I still remember the shelf with my pile of beat-up comics right over my bed when I was a kid and I distinctly remember this one. Number 70 is the debut of the Huntress, the daughter of Earth 2’s Batman. I loved this storyline. The JSA had just gone through a “civil war” where a mind-controlled Bruce Wayne, the Commissioner of Police, enlisted old-time JSA members to bring in the “renegade” new JSA members. Hero vs Hero, the heartbreaking collapse of Bruce Wayne, and more heroes than most comics, I still love these issues.
Batman dead? All his greatest villains in one issue? And Lex Luthor too? Could it get any better? Yes it could. This was only the first part of a four-part story in which each villain, on “trial” in Two-Face’s underworld court, tried to take credit for Batman’s murder. This series was the victim of something that I am sure you’ve heard collector’s say before- my mother threw them out. Back in the pre-internet days I spent a lot of time tracking those issues down. BTW- they were reprinted just last year.
GODZILLA 11
This one is easy. Godzilla, King Kong stand-in, giant robot. This was like one of my favorite childhood movies come to comics.
SUPER FRIENDS 7, 8, 9
Take your pick, any issue or all of them. This is not just the arc that introduced Zan and Jayna, but it teamed the Super Friends with dozens of heroes from around the world and from different times. (Later on, DC retconned most of those heroes into The Global Guardians.) Sure the Super Friends was aimed at kids. I was a kid, and they didn’t get better than these. Just look- Four-armed aliens, dinosaurs, and the world at stake. While Zan and Jayna are near-jokes today, their debut issues were near-perfection. I literally read the covers off of them.
GOLD KEY STAR TREK
I had five of these issues when I was young. Many of them, especially the earliest issues, were written and drawn by people who had no conception of Star Trek beyond the bare-bones descriptions and it showed. However, like most Gold Key comics, there was a charm to them, something in their simple layouts that won fans over. But I was now a teenager and not as interested in comics as I was other things so I sold those issues, and got nowhere near what I should have for them. I didn’t care at the time but in later years as I came to appreciate comics in new ways, especially the fairly-rare Gold Key, it gnawed at me and I eventually went online and bought new copies of each issue I sold.
DC BLUE RIBBON DIGEST 21
DC used to put out small reprint comics, digest sized, which meant they fit almost perfectly in your back pocket. This particular one, of which I somehow own two, is a reprint of a couple of Justice Society stories and when I was young, I liked Earth 2 better than the regular continuity. The reprint work was awful, the scaled down art looked murky, the paper was the cheapest and thinnest possible, and the lettering at that size was simply hard to read. But I loved the digests, and this one in particular, because they were the trade paperbacks of their day, reprints of stories that would not be reprinted anywhere else.
BATMAN VS. HULK/SUPERMAN AND SPIDER-MAN
You can get these in reprints today but they won’t be in the original, over-sized format, about as big as a newspaper page. This is actually the second Superman/Spider-Man comic, but I still prefer the Batman/Hulk issue. But take your pick, there was nothing better than seeing worlds collide. Back then there were no other DC/Marvel crossovers, and no other comics you could spread out on the floor and read all day. I spent many mornings like that, laying on the living room rug reading the oversized specials. For many years, whenever I tried to sketch the Hulk, that pose from the cover is how I drew him.
What If? 34/ What If? 11
Issue 34 cracked me up as a kid and it cracks me up now. Issue 11 is an exercise in ego, as Stan Lee positions himself as the leader of the Fantastic Four. It was many years until I knew some behind the scenes stories about the creation of this issue, like why Steve Ditko doesn’t appear and how Jack Kirby refused to draw Roy Thomas.
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How does the full-size board change the game of Go?
My Go board has two playing surfaces, one big and the other small. As a Go beginner, I have been playing on the reduced size board. I assume this is recommended because it makes games shorter, and there is less to keep track of. But as a beginner, I'm having trouble seeing what benefits playing on a larger board might bring.
Why would I want to play on a bigger board? How does the game change? Or another way of putting this - why doesn't everyone play on the smaller board size?
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The small board focuses on close fighting. You're right; it is recommended for beginners for developing fighting skill and tactics, but the strategy component is lacking--at least when compared to a 19x19 board.
The big board is not just like playing 4 small board games next to each other. Through ladders and potential escape routes, the stones on one side of the board interact with the stones on the other side. When you start playing on big boards this is a very hard part of the transition because on a 9x9 or even 13x13 board you don't have to keep thinking about stones that seem to be far away. This is related to the concept of "influence", which is largely absent on smaller boards, but is of great strategic importance on the bigger board.
A Go teacher in my area likes to say that what makes professional Go games really interesting is the trades. You see professionals let massive groups die yet come out ahead, because in so doing they gain forcing moves that make up for it elsewhere. A popular example is the Yi Sedol ladder game. These sorts of trades are nearly impossible on a small board, and the game is much more exciting with them.
Overall, on a big board Go
is more complex, which many would argue means more interesting
uses both tactics and strategy
for an amateur, allows for more mistakes. You can mess up in one area, but still come back, playing better elsewhere and using leftover aji
allows for more varied games. There are many different opening styles on a full size board, and they will lead to games that feel very different.
is more fun!
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It is also different from "playing 4 small board games next to each other" because there aren't as many places to play where you're close to an edge of the board, which affects strategy (and tactics!) in many ways. I like to refer to those effects collectively as "surface tension". – Karl Knechtel Jan 26 '12 at 3:34
Great answer. Also remember that there is relatively more territory in the center than the edges on 19x19 where the cornors and edges matter more on smaller boards. – TimothyAWiseman Jan 27 '12 at 17:11
To use a metaphor, what's the difference between a barroom brawl and a full-scale war? The brawl is faster and just as decisive at the end, but if you rush the front lines of an opposing army swinging a barstool, you'll probably not get very far. You need to rely on your commanders and your fellow soldiers to get you close enough that your barstool will actually connect.
In other words, a 9x9 game is tactical whereas a 19x19 game is strategic. Consider the following Go proverb:
The third line is for territory, the fourth line is for influence
This is the fundamental difference between a high move (fourth line or higher) and a low move (third line or lower). Territory is valuable for obvious reasons: that's where you get your score from. Influence is also valuable, but for less obvious reasons: you use influence to fight and either secure more territory, or destroy your opponent's territory.
Now, on a 9x9 board, the ratio between influence and territory is heavily biased towards the territory side; almost the entire board is on the third line or lower, and the only space above the fourth line is the center point. This makes a game on the smaller board faster, but focuses very much on close-range tactics rather than wide-scale strategy. Usually it's one quick but brutal fight which ultimately determines the winner of the game.
On a 19x19 board, however, roughly half the board is "territory" and half the board is "influence". Rather than one short but violent fight, the game focuses just as much on deploying your troops and fortifying your defenses. You'll often end up with a series of skirmishes, none of which necessarily decide the game on their own. You may lose a battle, or even many battles, yet you can still win the war.
On the larger board, playing for influence is can be just as important as playing for territory; very often a move that secures territory for yourself will allow the opponent to gain influence, and vice versa. Whether you decide to play a territory-heavy or an influence-oriented style, understanding this balance becomes essential to victory.
This subtlety is almost entirely missing on a 9x9 board.
Now whether you prefer to while away your idle hours with the occasional drunken fistfight, or you'd rather start up World War III, that's very much up to you. At my local go club, it is not uncommon to see people playing nothing but 9x9 games all day long, and other people breaking out the 19x19 board and nothing else. Often players will switch between the two boards from game to game. Both board sizes allow for enjoyable and viable games, but even with the exact same rules the games will be completely different.
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Early in my Go education I played black with a 4 stone handicap on a 13x13 board. My opponent invaded the 3,3 point in all four corners, and I played the Joseki perfectly - but lost miserably.
On a 19x19 board I would have been in healthy shape with tremendous influence into the centre, as well as 4 half-sides, instead of owning a tiny area barely half what my opponent had carved out in 4 corners.
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Teams, Clubs & Tournaments EUW
Team "In Effect" looking for DIA V+ JUNGLER
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We are a team consisting of players in low diamond with peaks of high diamond before and recently rebuilt the team around our core roster of 3 players knowing each other for a few years now. Our goal is to build up a great team again and we want to go as high as we can in the semi-pro scene, growing and improving as a team with the aim of winning tournaments like Go4LoL in the end. We usually play around 3-4 times a week, practicing in scrims and FlexQ during the week and then playing tournaments or Clash, when it will be released, at the weekend. Right now we are looking for a JUNGLER matching our goals with being at least DIAMOND V in SoloQ and preferably, but not necessarily DIAMOND V+ in FlexQ, eager to play on a regular basis and being able to commit for a team for the longer-term. We expect a decent level of mechanics, having a good amount of communication able to shotcall in the early game , knowing how to play macro oriented and how to work as a team. Though, most importantly, you should have an ambitious and mature mindset willing to improve, knowing how to take losses and being able to take criticism in a constructive way. We as a team offer a friendly and competitive environment with players, who are very experienced in working on a team, aiming to build up a team that stays with a coach once the roster is complete. For organizing or theorycrafting team-related aspects, we have a Discord server aswell as a Google sheet, where everybody works collaboratively. If you are interested by now feel free to message me on League with informations about you, why you want to join the team and and then we can arrange dates for the scrim games. My summoner name is "XDemi"
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Come Back Home Again by Jessica Prince
March 18, 2019 March 17, 2019 bookfancybookblog
Title: Come Back Home Again
Author: Jessica Prince
Series: Hope Valley
Temperance Levine had her entire world ripped away from her at eighteen. What had once been a life full of light and happiness was torn to shreds in the blink of an eye. With nothing left but a broken heart and painful memories, she ran away from the only home she’d ever had and tried to start over somewhere else. But the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, and sometimes all you can do to heal old wounds is come back home again.
The day Temperance left him was the worst day of Hayes Walker’s life, and he’d spent every one since then merely existing. The future he’d imagined had gone up in smoke, and all he could do was take life one step at a time. But when tragedy brings Tempie back to Hope Valley, he knows this is the only shot he’ll have at getting his happiness back, and there’s no way he’ll let this chance go to waste.
After years apart, Tempie and Hayes are finally starting over and looking toward the future. But when their sleepy little town is rocked to its core, Hayes will be forced into a battle he never saw coming. Now he’s not only fighting for the future he always dreamed of, but also trying to protect the only woman he’s ever loved.
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Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boy–she refuses to accept that he inherited her attitude and sarcastic nature no matter what her husband says.
In addition to being a wife and mom, she’s also a wino, a coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of books–romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says it’s a passion…there’s a difference. Not that she’d expect a boy to understand.
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Novitec’s McLaren 720S Gets a Facelift with 795HP
Power was the main focus of the earlier encounter of Novitec with the McLaren 720S but the latest one’s focus is now on the styling in an extremely track-focused kind of way.
Meant for those who can don’t want to bother with fuel prices, McLaren 720S’s body kit is composed of a revamped front bumper complete with reshaped lower intakes of air and an apron that is notably more aggressive. Its room also features an air scoop, a different bumper at the rear, new side skirts, a two-tone finish, new wheels, and an active wing.
With the installation of the aftermarket parts, Novitec’s McLaren 720S N-Largo looks equally aggressive with the Senna. And even though this might not cater to the taste and preferences of everyone, it is not often that you see a wide body kit in a British supercar. This is a guaranteed head turner and thanks to the former upgrades Novitec done on the 720S, this exotic model given birth to in Woking can turn up with more power compared to the McLaren Senna.
Thanks to the Inconel exhaust system and ECU remap, the twin-turbo 4.0-L V8 engine manages to churn out up to 806 PS or 795 hp per 593 kW in top form. This is 6 PS or 6 hp per 4 kW more compared to what you will typically expect from the Senna. This translates to a sprint of 0 to 100 km/h or 0 to 62 mph which will only take 2.7 seconds or one tenth of a second faster compared to the track-oriented hypercar. The top speed at 346 km/h or 215 mph also goes beyond that of Senna’s.
With its menacing look and as much power available coming from the tuner, it will not take long before this crazy Macca hits the drag strip.
Supercar Performance Hits McLaren 570S Spider
Total output of 646 horsepower at 7450 rpm and its peak torque is 510 pound-foot at 6250 rpm.
XP Green McLaren 570GT Will Be Released in 6 Versions Only
Every XP Green car will be finished with Saddle Tan interior leather that comes with green leather inserts in seats and contrast stitching that’s also green.
2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed Welcomes 2018 McLaren 570S Spider
McLaren 570S Spider features the same 3.8L twin-turbo V8 that takes pride of its 443 pound-foot of torque and 562 horsepower.
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No breaking seal of confession for abusers, church insists
U.S. bishops hear pope on pro-life, transgender issues
‘Marxist communism’ returning to Spain, cardinal warns
Bishops urge Central African Republic leaders to face challenges in 2020
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Simple Christians: Ordinary Trappist martyrs gave extraordinary witness
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Trappist monks and a guest are pictured at the Monastery of Notre Dame de l’Atlas near Medea, Algeria, in this undated photo. Seven Trappist monks of the monastery were murdered in 1996 by the members of the Armed Islamic Group. They will be beatified Dec. 8 in Oran, Algeria. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Dicastery for Communication)
By Junno Arocho Esteves • Catholic News Service • Posted November 20, 2018
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After Islamic terrorists stormed the Algerian monastery he called home, Trappist Father Christian de Cherge felt compelled to put pen to paper and write down his testament.
Father de Cherge, prior of the Monastery of Notre Dame de l’Atlas, said he held no ill will to those who would eventually kill him. In his letter, written between Dec. 1, 1993, and Jan. 1, 1994, he said he knew extremists in the country followed a “caricature of Islam” and urged his loved ones to not confuse Muslim “religious tradition with the all-or-nothingness of the extremists.”
“I do not see how I could rejoice that this people that I love should be globally blamed for my murder,” the Trappist monk wrote.
The sense of impending doom felt by Father de Cherge would prove correct when he and six of his fellow Trappists — Fathers Christophe, Bruno and Celestin as well as Brothers Luc, Michel and Paul — were murdered in 1996 by members of the Armed Islamic Group in Tibhirine, Algeria.
More than 20 years after their martyrdom, the seven Trappist monks will be beatified along with 12 of their fellow martyrs who were killed between 1993 and 1996, while Algeria was locked in a 10-year armed conflict between government forces and extremist Islamic rebel groups.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, will preside over the Dec. 8 Mass and beatification for the six women and 13 men in Oran, Algeria.
In anticipation of their long-awaited canonization, the Vatican publishing house, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, presented a new book on the lives of the Trappist martyrs: “Simply Christians: The Life and Message of the Blessed Martyrs of Tibhirine.”
The book, written by Trappist Father Thomas Georgeon, postulator of the monks’ canonization cause, and Francois Vayne, communications director for the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, details the lives of the monks before their martyrdom.
In a video message shown during presentation of the new book Nov. 19, Father Georgeon said that while the church will formally recognize the sanctity of the seven Trappist martyrs, St. John Paul II recognized their holiness soon after their death.
The graves of monks murdered in 1996 are seen in the cemetery of the Monastery of Notre Dame de l’Atlas near Medea, Algeria, in this undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Dicastery for Communication)
Father Georgeon said the book’s cover features a picture of a mosaic located in the Vatican’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel: it pictures Father de Cherge, flanked by two martyrs of the church. He said he asked Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, who designed the mosaic, how the Trappist monk was included in the final design.
Father Georgeon recalled Father Rupnik “told me that he met the Holy Father (St. John Paul) to present the project, but there were doubts of including Father Christian only three years after his death. The canonical process of his beatification had not begun.”
“The Holy Father gave him a big pat on the back and told him, ‘This monk must absolutely be included in the mosaic. You will see that he will obtain great graces for us.’ It was a prophetic word from St. John Paul II, who was the first to spread the monks’ reputation of holiness,” the postulator said.
Vayne, who was born and raised in Algeria until his teens, told journalists the memory of his martyred friends continues to move him. He recalled often visiting the Tibhirine monastery, which “was the lung of the diocese.”
Through their work in helping others and their witness in staying with their people despite the risks, the monks are a testament to the brotherhood that exists between Christians and Muslims, Vayne said.
Just as Pope Francis said that martyred Christians of different denominations share “an ecumenism of blood, we can also speak of a Muslim-Christian interreligious brotherhood of blood,” Vayne said.
Cardinal Becciu, who wrote the book’s preface, told Catholic News Service that the example of the Trappist martyrs teaches Christians today to be “strong, courageous, faithful and coherent” in the face of persecution and to give “themselves to the cross, even though going to the cross brings extreme consequences.”
Recalling Father de Cherge’s final testament, Cardinal Becciu said the martyred prior knew until the day he died how to distinguish between “the Islam that he knew and he experienced” and the beliefs of extremists who “betrayed Islam in its essence.”
“He knew an Islam that was tolerant and, in being in contact with (Muslims), he saw them as respectful, friendly people who needed help. They were ready to help and receive (the monks) in their homes. So, he couldn’t react by saying, ‘All Muslims are that way’ and give a global judgement,” Cardinal Becciu told CNS.
Franciscan Father Giulio Cesareo, editorial director of the Vatican publishing house, said the lives of the Trappist martyrs detailed in the book also dispel the myth that the path to holiness is lived only by “people who do extraordinary things, who do a lot of penance, work so many miracles or who are out of the ordinary.”
Although the monastic experience is something that not all Christians live, the Trappist martyrs “gave of themselves in what did” through their daily activities, which ranged from blacksmithing to providing medical care for their Algerian neighbors,” Father Cesareo told CNS.
“This is a great message for all of us because, in the end, we think that saints are far away,” he said. “Instead, we are all saints in the measure in which we live within this logic of giving ourselves (to others).”
The Monastery of Notre Dame de l’Atlas near Medea, Algeria, is pictured in this undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Dicastery for Communication)
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Published on July 6th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Latest Study Shows Ocean Temperatures Rising Faster Than Expected
July 6th, 2017 by Steve Hanley
Oceanographers say the world’s oceans are heating up faster than expected. They warn that higher ocean temperatures will have a significant impact on global warming and climate change. Lots of people, many of them senior political leaders in the United States, dismiss climate scientists as nerds who worship data and care not a fig for the needs of business. Chances are, most of them would plead guilty to that charge because absent data, there is no science. However, the needs of businesses are also inherently tied to a livable climate and human society, and they understand that as well.
The Oceans Are Temperature Buffers
The earth is like a giant terrarium. If it gets too hot, species die. If it gets too cold, species die. The oceans act as a temperature buffering system. They can absorb enormous amounts of heat and sequester it for decades, centuries, or even longer. If the atmosphere gets too hot, some of that excess heat gets absorbed by the seas. If the atmosphere cools, some of that heat is given up again to stabilize temperatures.
You chemistry majors out there will remember that a buffer can operate over a wide range of conditions to stabilize a chemical reaction, but once its limits are exceeded, all hell breaks loose. That’s what has climate scientists concerned. A new study says ocean temperatures are rising much faster than expected, signalling that the oceans’ ability to buffer global temperatures may be in danger.
Monitoring Oceans Is Difficult
But gathering accurate data about the seas is difficult. If you cut down a tree, its rings will reveal a wealth of information about climate conditions during its lifetime. But the trackless ocean has no such reference points. Prior to 2005, most temperature readings of ocean waters were taken by the British Navy. Their technique was to throw a bucket overboard, haul it back on deck, then stick a thermometer in it. That was great for recording surface temperatures but disclosed nothing about conditions at deeper levels.
During World War II, the British suspended their measurement program. The US Navy took over but recorded its measurements differently. It used hull-mounted sensors instead. Suddenly, significant differences in the data were noted, causing alarm in the scientific community. As it turned out, the hull sensors were near the ships’ engines and heat from the engines warmed the water near the hull.
In 2005, the ARGO system of electronic temperature buoys was deployed, giving scientists their first consistently reliable data. But those buoys were often dropped from cargo ships and so they tend to be concentrated along shipping lanes. The ARGO system now consists of some 3,800 autonomous buoys that report their data regularly via satellite. They are more uniformly distributed in the world’s oceans and record temperatures at different depths, giving scientists a more complete picture of condition in the oceans.
Scientists must be careful to eliminate what is known as “sensor bias” from their findings. Different teams of scientists also can interpret the data differently, which gives climate deniers an opening to challenge all scientific findings as nothing more than opinions. That allows them to say their opinions are just as valid, even though they posit the world is precisely 3,500 years old, that humans once walked among dinosaurs, and the sun revolves around the earth.
New Study Shows Ocean Temperatures Rising
A new study published in the journal Climate Dynamics looks at ocean temperature data from three different sources. Each analysis reaches somewhat differing conclusions about the actual temperature of the oceans but they all agree on one thing — ocean temperatures are going up and the rate of change is faster than anyone realizes.
John Abraham was one of the scientists who participated in the study. He points out the differences the three groups report in their findings, but says “the central fact is that regardless of how you measure, who does the measurements, when or where the measurements are taken, we are warming.”
Ocean heat content increase globally (top frame) and in four ocean basins (bottom frames). Illustration: Wang et al. (2017), Climate Dynamics
More Research Needed
Abraham advocates for more and better monitoring of ocean temperatures in order to better understand the data, acknowledging that information provided by the ARGO network is relatively recent and requires quite a lot of statistical interpretation. “We recommend a comprehensive evaluation in the future for the existing ocean subsurface temperature datasets. Further, an improved ocean observation network is required to monitor the ocean change: extending the observations in the boundary currents systems and deep oceans (below 2000 meters) besides maintaining the ARGO network.
“In plain English, it will be important that we keep high quality temperature sensors positioned throughout the oceans so in the future we will be able to predict where our climate is headed. We say in science that a measurement not made is a measurement lost forever. And there are no more important measurements than of heating of the oceans.”
Abraham and his colleagues will have to look beyond the United States for logistical and financial help. President Tweet doesn’t care a flying fig leaf about the oceans or the environment and won’t until Mar-A-Lago disappears beneath the waves.
Source: The Guardian | Photo credit: CSIRO
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The History of CNC Machines
John T. Parsons (1913-2007) of Parsons Corporation in Traverse City, MI is considered the pioneer of the numerical control, the precursor to the modern CNC machine. For his work, John Parsons has been called the father of the 2nd industrial revolution. He needed to manufacture complex helicopter blades and quickly realized that the future of manufacturing was connecting machines to computers. Today CNC-manufactured parts can be found in almost every industry. Because of CNC machines, we have less expensive goods, stronger national defense and a higher standard of living than is possible in a non-industrialized world. In this article, we’ll explore the origins of the CNC machine, different types of CNC machines, CNC machine programs and common practices by CNC machine shops.
Machines Meet Computer
In 1946, the word “computer” meant a punch card operated calculation machine. Even though Parsons Corporation had only made one propeller before, John Parsons convinced Sikorsky Helicopter that they could produce extremely precise templates for propeller assembly and manufacturing. He ended up inventing a punch-card computer method to calculate points on a helicopter rotor blade. Then he had operators turn the wheels to those points on a Cincinnati milling machine. He held a contest for the name of this new process and gave $50 to the person who coined “Numerical Control” or NC.
In 1958, he filed a patent to connect the computer to the machine. His patent application arrived three months before MIT, who was working on the concept which he had started. MIT used his concepts to make the original equipment and Mr. Parsons’ licensee (Bendix) sub-licensed to IBM, Fujitusu, and GE, among others. The NC concept was slow to catch on. According to Mr. Parsons, the people selling the idea were computer people instead of manufacturing people. By the early 1970s, however, the US army itself popularized the use of NC computers by building and leasing them to numerous manufacturers. The CNC controller evolved in parallel with the computer, driving more and more productivity and automation into manufacturing processes, especially machining.
What is CNC Machining?
CNC machines are making parts around the world for almost every industry. They create things out of plastics, metals, aluminum, wood and many other hard materials. The word “CNC” stands for Computer Numerical Control, but today everyone calls it CNC. So, how do you define a CNC machine? All automated motion control machines have three primary components – a command function, a drive/motion system, and feedback system. CNC machining is the process of using a computer-driven machine tool to produce a part out of solid material in a different shape
The CNC depends on digital instructions usually made on Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) or Computer Aided Design (CAD) software like SolidWorks or MasterCAM. The software writes G-code that the controller on the CNC machine can read. The computer program on the controller interprets the design and moves cutting tools and/or the workpiece on multiple axes to cut the desired shape from the workpiece. The automated cutting process is much faster and more accurate than a manual movement of tools and workpieces which is done with levers and gears on older equipment. Modern-day CNC machines hold multiple tools and make many types of cuts. The number of planes of movement (axes) and the number and types of tools that the machine can access automatically during the machining process determine how complex a workpiece a CNC can make.
How To Use A CNC Machine
CNC machinists must gain skills in both programming and metal-working to make full use of the power of a CNC machine. Technical trade schools and apprenticeship programs often start students on manual lathes to get a feel for how to cut metal. The machinist should be able to envision all three dimensions. Today software makes it easier than ever to make complex parts, because the part shape can be drawn virtually and then tool paths can be suggested by software to make those parts.
Type of Software Commonly Used in the CNC Machining Process
Computer Aided Drawing (CAD)
CAD software is the starting point for most CNC projects. There are many different CAD software packages, but all are used to create designs. Popular CAD programs include AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and Rhino3D. There are also cloud-based CAD solutions, and some offer CAM abilities or integrate with CAM software better than others.
Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
CNC machines often use programs created by CAM software. CAM allows users to set up a “job tree” to organize workflow, set tool paths and run cutting simulations before the machine does any real cutting. Often CAM programs work as add-ons to CAD software and generate g-code that tells the CNC tools and workpiece moving parts where to go. Wizards in CAM software make it easier than ever to program a CNC machine. Popular CAM software includes Mastercam, Edgecam, OneCNC, HSMWorks, and Solidcam. Mastercam and Edgecam account for almost 50% of the high- end CAM market share according to a 2015 report.
What’s a Distributed Numeric Control?
Direct Numeric Control which became Distributed Numeric Control (DNC)
Direct Numeric Controls were used to manage NC programs and machine parameters. It allowed programs to move over a network from a central computer to onboard computers known as machine control units (MCU). Originally called “Direct Numeric Control,” it bypassed the need for paper tape, but when the computer went down, all its machines went down.
Distributed Numerical Control uses a network of computers to coordinate the operation of multiple machines by feeding a program to the CNC. The CNC memory holds the program and the operator can collect, edit and return the program.
Modern DNC programs can do the following:
Editing – Can run one NC program while others are being edited
Compare – Compare original and edited NC programs side-by-side and see the edits
Restart – When a tool breaks the program can be stopped and restarts where it left off
Job tracking – Operators can clock into jobs and track setup and runtime, for example
Displaying drawings – Show photos, CAD drawings of tools, fixtures and finishes parts
Advanced screen interfaces – One touch machining
Advanced database management – Organizes and maintains data where it can be retrieved easily
Manufacturing Data Collection (MDC)
MDC software may include all the functions of DNC software plus collect additional data and analyze it for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). The Overall Equipment Effectiveness depends on the following: Quality – the number of products that meet quality standards out of all products produced Availability – percent of the planned time that specified equipment is working or producing parts Performance – actual running speed compared to planned or ideal running rate of the equipment.
OEE = Quality x Availability x Performance
OEE is a key performance metric (KPI) for many machine shops.
Machine Monitoring Solutions
Machine monitoring software can be built into DNC or MDC software or purchased separately. With machine monitoring solutions, machine data such as setup, runtime, and downtime are automatically collected and combined with human data such as reason codes to provide both historical and real- time understanding of how jobs run. Modern CNC machines collect as much as 200 types of data, and machine monitoring software can make that data useful to everyone from the shop floor to the top floor. Companies like Memex offer software (Tempus) that takes data from any kind of CNC machine and puts in into a standardized database format that can be displayed in meaningful charts and graphs. A data standard used by most machine monitoring solutions which has gained ground in the USA is called MTConnect. Today many new CNC machine tools come equipped to provide data in this format. Older machines can still provide valuable information with adapters. Machine monitoring for CNC machines has become mainstreamed just within the last few years, and new software solutions are always in development.
What are the Different Types of CNC Machines?
There are countless different types of CNC machines today. CNC machines are machine tools that cut or move material as programmed on the controller, as described above. The type of cutting can vary from plasma cutting to laser cutting, milling, routing, and lathes. CNC machines can even pick up and move items on an assembly line.
Below are basic types of CNC machines:
Lathes: This type of CNC turns the workpiece and moves the cutting tool to the workpiece. A basic lathe is 2-axis, but many more axes can be added to increase the complexity of cut possible. The material rotates on a spindle and is pressed against a grinding or carving tool that makes the desired shape. Lathes are used to make symmetrical objects like spheres, cones, or cylinders. Many CNC machines are multi-function and combine all types of cutting.
Routers: CNC routers are usually used to cut large dimensions in wood, metal, sheets, and plastics. Standard routers operate on 3-axis coordinate, so they can cut in three dimensions. However, you can also buy 4,5 and 6-axis machines for prototype models and complex shapes.
Milling: Manual milling machines use handwheels and lead screws to articulate a cutting tool onto a workpiece. In a CNC mill, the CNC moves high accuracy ball screws to the exact coordinates programmed instead. Milling CNC machines come in a wide array of sizes and types and can run on multiple axes.
Plasma Cutters: The CNC plasma cutter uses a powerful laser to cut. Most plasma cutters cut programmed shapes out of sheet or plate.
3D Printer: A 3D printer uses the program to tell it where to lay down small bits of material to build the desired shape. 3D parts are built layer by layer with a laser to solidify the liquid or power as the layers grow.
Pick and Place Machine: A CNC “pick and place” machine works similar to a CNC router, but instead of cutting material, the machine has many small nozzles which pick up components using a vacuum, move them to the desired location and put them down. These are used to make tables, computer motherboards and other electrical assemblies (among other things.)
CNC Machines can do many things. Today computer technology can be put on just about machine imaginable. The CNC replaces the human interface needed to move machine parts to get the desired result. Today’s CNC’s are capable of starting with raw material, like a block of steel, and making a very complex part with precise tolerances and amazing repeatability.
Putting it All Together: How CNC Machine Shops Make Parts
Operating a CNC involves both the computer (controller) and a physical setup. A typical machine shop process looks like this:
A design engineer creates the design in the CAD program and sends it to a CNC programmer. The programmer opens the file in the CAM program to decide on the tools needed and to create the NC program for the CNC. He or she sends the NC program to the CNC machine and provides a list of the correct tooling setup to an operator. A setup operator loads the tools as directed and loads the raw material (or workpiece). He or she then runs sample pieces and measures them with quality assurance tools to verify that the CNC machine is making parts according to specification. Typically, the setup operator provides a first article piece to the quality department who verifies all dimensions and signs off on the setup. The CNC machine or associated machines are loaded with enough raw material to make the desired number of pieces, and a machine operator stands by to ensure that the machine keeps running, making parts to spec. and has raw material. Depending on the job, it’s often possible to run CNC machines “lights-out” with no operator present. The finished parts are moved into a designated area automatically.
Manufacturers of today can automate almost any process given enough time, resources and imagination. Raw material can go into a machine and completed parts can come out packaged ready-to-go. Manufacturers depend on a wide range of CNC machines to make things quickly, accurately and cost-effectively.
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America Is Unprepared For The “Jobs Apocalypse” Automation Will Bring
Filed Under:Automation, jobs, Low Skilled Workers
(CBS) — In coming years, U.S. workers, especially low skilled, low wage workers, are set to face a major economic disruption as automation and the robotic revolution are expected to replace millions of jobs once held by humans.
But policymakers and businesses are ill-prepared to help workers navigate the transition and adapt the skills needed to survive the “economic tsunami,” Axios Editor Steve LeVine reports.
“The biggest takeaway is that the future is now,” LeVine told CBSN in an interview on Friday.
“We’re not prepared at all,” he said, for the “jobs apocalypse” resulting from automation.
Part of the problem is that policymakers are not moving quickly enough to update the education system and provide workers with the skills that will be needed when these bottom-tier jobs are replaced by automation.
“You see scores of companies complaining they can’t find enough skilled labor…they are not prepared to train new workers. And as a country we have not even started talking about, ‘How do we retrain our workforce?'” LeVine said.
At least 10 million U.S. jobs are at high risk of losing out to automation in the next decade as companies replace them with machines, a recent analysis from research firm CB Insights found.
Some of the top jobs at risk include “fast casual cooks.” Think burger makers and coffee servers.
One burger chain in California is already making use of a robot, called “Flippy,” to cook burgers.
Movers, warehouse workers and retail workers including cashiers are also threatened, according to the report.
As autonomous cars move from myth to reality, taxi drivers, too, could become a thing of the past.
CBS News’ Jillian Harding contributed to this report.
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Action Comics #1011 Review: An Unsettling Calm Before the Leviathan Storm
By Nicole Drum - May 22, 2019 10:30 am EDT
(Photo: DC Entertainment)
For the past several issues, Action Comics has been consumed with the lead up to "Event Leviathan". That's meant a lot of table setting with the world's intelligence agencies and more being taken out or crippled to clear a path for Leviathan and the ultimate goal to take down Superman. That's also meant some lackluster issues at best but in Action Comics #1011 everything seems to come back together again and finally, with morning poised to bring about whatever Leviathan’s plan is, the stakes feel real—even with the issue taking a somewhat nervous, unsettled tone to get there.
The issue kicks off with what might be one of the great sequences of Brian Michael Bendis' run thus far. Kate Spencer, who we saw previously speaking with Bones, makes her first appearance actively in her masked vigilante Manhunter role in the DC Rebirth continuity, but before she suits up, she takes down Maggie Sawyer and her team of Special Crimes Unit officers. It's a tight, well-executed sequence that starts with a nap on the couch and ends with an escape jump from a building and a "I'm going to need a lawyer." Not only is the sequence a visual treat with the story being told as much in words as it is in the art that carries the action—Steve Epting crushes it here—but it also sets the tone for the issue: troubling, urgent, and a little desperate.
What works very well in the issue overall is that while readers are toldand should know by now—that the world is in absolute chaos, very little time is wasted on trying to show that. Action Comics #1011 isn't an issue cluttered up with visual attempts to drive home the stakes. Instead, it's more of a recap of sorts, in a very real way creating an outline of everything Superman and Lois knows thanks to their own observations and a lot of information handed to them by Spyral.
Another element of the issue that works quite well is the back and forth conversations between Superman and Lois as well as with Jimmy Olsen who was supposed to be babysitting Amanda Waller at the Fortress of Solitude until she got away. It's direct, largely to the point, but very real. Leviathan is a mystery that even Superman hasn't fully solved and there’s a tension to that conveyed in the beats of the dialogue, and it leaves a rather unsettling taste in the reader's mouth.
However, for all of that, the issue suffers a bit from what much of the lead up to "Event Leviathan" has and that's an overall feeling that the issue feels more like a Batman story with the brightness of a Superman one. It's the intrigue, the criminal empire aspect of it all, the darkness that is lurking just around the corner paired with the lighter, bright colors one expects from the Man of Steel. For readers who have been keeping up with Bendis' run on Action Comics, they're probably used to that by now, but it can be a little jarring at times for those hopping in, curious as to what all this Leviathan business is about.
Overall, while Action Comics #1011 doesn't really deliver on any big shocks or reveals, it is an intriguing issue that pushes the narrative right to where it needs to be to head into "Event Leviathan". The players are in place and, as the last panel of the issue says all that's left is who is Leviathan, what do they want, and what happens tomorrow? And it's a question readers will want answered even more now.
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Moon Knight Reportedly Features Debut of Cult-Favorite Marvel Monster
As the writer's room for Moon Knight begins to assemble and development on the Disney+ series begins to take place, more and more rumors surrounding the show have started to circulate. First, it was the fact legendary Moon Knight baddie Raoul Bushman would be having a role in the upcoming show. Now, those in the scoop game have suggested the series will be adding another classic Marvel icon to its line up.
According to MCU Cosmic, the show will feature the live-action debut of Jack Russell — probably more commonly known to you as Werewolf By Night. The character has been long rumored to appear in the MCU at some point, though the jury was out on whether that'd come in Moon Knight or the Mahershala Ali-starring Blade. It's a fitting inclusion; Moon Knight/Marc Spector first appeared in the Marvel mythos in Werewolf By Night #32 as an antagonist to Russell's character. Russell himself first debuted in Marvel Spotlight #2 (February 1972).
The character has appeared as a member of the Midnight Sons at one point, meaning he, Moon Knight, and Blade could eventually lead towards to a darker, more grounded team-up with some of the MCU's more serious and horror-based characters. Whatever the case, Moon Knight showrunner Jeremy Slater says fans of the character are in for "one hell of a ride."
“I was seven when I bought my first Marvel comic, and my life was changed on the spot,” Slater tweeted earlier this fall. “It’s no exaggeration to say that joining the MCU is the single greatest honor of my career. I’m thrilled and terrified and deliriously happy. And while I won’t be able tell you anything in regards to story or casting, I *can* tell that you we’ve assembled a room full of brilliant writers who truly love this character, and we’re all hard at work crafting something special for you. So stick around and stay tuned. Moon Knight is on the way, and it’s going to be one hell of a ride”
Moon Knight has yet to set a release date.
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Discussion How fucking sick are people
How fucking sick are people
g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero GalaxyPosts: 17,608
hippiemom wrote:
I just finished that book and thought it was outstanding.
Ahnimus ... it's an autobiography by a man who was a child soldier in Sierra Leone, and the long rehabilitation after he was rescued from the fighting by UNICEF. He tells how it happens ... he lost his family, was running for his life with some other boys, trying to avoid being recruited as a soldier by either side. He finally had no choice other than to join, or he'd have certainly died. He talks about the gradual indoctrination, how drugs were freely available to dull their senses so they'd become fighting machines, the psychological process that takes over and eventually numbs the mind to the endless brutality.
It's a story of war, but I think you can learn a lot about what goes on in the mind of anyone who is horribly brutalized over a long period of time, as are many of the people in our own prisons.
What you say here is true, with my short time in the military I was trained to kill. I could do it very well, I was mentally trained for war anywhere in the world. Trained so well that I was begging for a war to breakout anywhere in the world, I wanted to be there to lead my men.
Luckly I'm completely the opposite of that kind of mentality now, however many friends of mine have never turned themselves around from that kind of mental thinking.
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RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
Sounds exactly like parts of the movie Blood Diamond. The RUF.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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fraidknot Posts: 38
it took 9 posts to get someone to blame this on the US and not the evil bastards who actually did it. That is actually surprising; I figured it would be the first post blaming bush for burning this boy.
I don't venture into the politics boards here much, but I saw this and its damn appalling... but then again, I think as an American, I just don’t get some of the things done in other countries. I’ve heard of the ritual genital mutilation, or the honor killings, or the education of young men to hate others. (when I was in school, no one said kill the Muslims.) I think as an American, I need to look at this report as sad, messed up, horrible, and pray for this boy and his family... but I also need to realize that many Americans and others would use this as a way to spread discontent and negativity with the US involvement in Iraq.
I get the argument that war is hell and our own guys commit crimes sometimes... but lets think about this story honestly and not use it as a way to drum up support for your cause...
Thanks to the military guys commenting here for your service to our nation.
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Songburst Posts: 1,195
People do sick shit all over the world. Is this better or worse than the guy from Indianapolis who threw his 4 year old out to freeze to death in the dead of winter last year? As dumb as the war is, it's not the wars fault or Bush's fault or Al Qaeda's fault that some nuts burned this kid. Some people are just fucking crazy and have no respect for life.
1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
fraidknot wrote:
Sadly though stories like this has happened and IS happening as we speak 1000 times over and I was looking at the big picture as to why this could happen to this innocent child. It just bothers me to no end that it is believed that Americans or I should say American soldiers are NOT capable of such heinous acts in Iraq.
Sadly we're trained to kill, however when your young and thrown into some hideous situations well some outlandish things can happen.
I pray for peace in Iraq and for peace to this boy and his family. War is truly hell.
g under p wrote:
It just bothers me to no end that it is believed that Americans or I should say American soldiers are NOT capable of such heinous acts in Iraq.
I admited that it happens... 1000 times over is kind of an unqualified statement... but it sure does happen. and its wrong... but its not like GW or Cheny or an American Soldier had anything whatso ever, even undirectly to do with this and its sad that the real problem isnt what people see. There are awful people out there, and someone or some nation should do something about them before it gets worse.
WE should all start killing people we don't like...Wow...think of how much better the world will be.....everyone killing each other...and they killed two friends...and they killed two friends...and so on....and so on....awesome...
What...are you serious, if we had not invaded and occuppied Iraq over half a million Iraqi people would be still alive TODAY! You think every time we drop a bomb it kills only the so called enemy, innocent bystanders like alittle boy like this gets killed. We must wonder why there appears to be an endless supply of freedom fighters.
Think for a moment...imagine the US invaded occupied, your resources taken no water, electricity your family destroyed upon suspicion of being the enemy. Would you sit by and do nothing and that same invasion would be traced right back to whomever ordered such invasion? "The Decider"
sponger Posts: 3,160
blackredyellow wrote:
It takes a sick person to blame this on the US.
No kidding. Who can read a story like that and still have the stomach to turn it into a political debate? Unbelievable.
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mdigenakis Posts: 1,337
"Don't let the darkness eat you up..."
-Greg Dulli
wait a sec....who is (illegally) occupying who, and doing what again?
Oh yeah...almost forgot...
Juberoo Posts: 472
The US government is responsible for the war. Thus by extension, they are responsible for the suffering and violence going on there.
Makes much more sense, to live in the present tense.
A truly liberal person is conservative when necessary.
Pro-life by choice.
Which is why we here at home will also continue to suffer as more of these soldiers come home with emotional and mental damage. Their "indoctrination" will affect us all here as well. The violence, the ugliness....it will continue to be perpetuated once they return home.
Juberoo wrote:
Right...it's not like Saddam was torturing children to extract information from their parents.
Jeanie Posts: 9,446
Helping Youssif
No aid organizations have taken up Youssif's cause at this point. CNN and CNN.com will keep you updated if this changes.
Hope somebody does something to help this child. He's going to need a lot of reconstructive surgery and lifelong medical attention most likely.
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Jeanie wrote:
People probably are mistaking the "Help Youssif" cause for a self-help program.
sponger wrote:
I was waiting for someone to say this. I was going to, but refrained. No country is perfect. The American occupation is not making it any better unfortunately.
RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
You mean the invasion.... The occupation is making it better considering that the country will most likely get thrown into a full blown civil war once the US leaves. The invasoin itself may have opened pandora's box, but the occupation is the only thing keeping things from getting croatian on their asses. Why can't arabs just stop treating each other like dogshit? Blaming the US will never solve any of their problems. But, if it's one's agenda to use instances like these to suit an anti-western agenda, then all power...
Possibly! Seems a little sad that no aid organization has taken an interest in his case as yet. Although I guess they're probably already strapped.
Be good if someone did.
The problems going on there now are far worse than the problems from Saddam's regime. Just ask the Iraqi people. They want the troops out. Never wanted them there in the first place. There was no need to forge a war on and destroy an entire country to capture a single man.
blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
It makes me laugh when people say things like "the Iraqi people want...." Almost as much as when American politicians say "the american people want to know about..." when waging a political debate.
Have you personally talked to Iraqis about this?
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No but several soldiers I've known have. Not to mention media outlets who have recorded Iraqi's comments. Are you going to tell me that you have had your head in the sand for the past several years? Do you really believe that the Iraqi people want this?
I don't have my head in the sand, and I don't believe that the Iraqi people want this. I'm sure that there are some people in Iraq (especially Shi'a) who were happy that we took out Saddam, but many who were fine with what was going on.
From what I've hear (via the media), most people in the areas with the violence and the refugees want us out, but at the same time want to be safe. I'm not sure how safety would be accomplished on their own. But through the same media, I've heard accounts from Iraqis who aren't thrilled with the occupation, but are better off than with Saddam.
I just thought that the blanket statement that you made was off-base like when one political party in this country says they are doing what the american people want... Iraq, like all countries are made up of individuals.
recent poll shows 2/3 of Americans lack knowledge of Forign Politics and only a third understand US politcs. The problem is that we dont know which group the people who post to this board are in. My hunch is that most are uninformed or misinformed.
Our actions there have killed some, and disfigured others, but not this boy and no responsible journalist would agree with it being tied to the U.S.
War kills people and if it happened here people would be killed... who disputes this? You want to prevert this boys disfigurment into an anit-war thing, go for it, but it lacks substance. I dont know why peace-mongers feel the need to cling onto stories like this one as proof the US is "bad" when there are far more solid and tangible things out there.
I think we should be in Africa stopping genocide, but the peacemongers dont really support that, they only support stopping George Bush... which helps show their true colors.
I hope your media is not CNN, FOX, MSNBC and local media. Rupert Murdock even owns The Wall Street Journal now imagine what that news org will be like in a year.
Sure many are fine with what's going on if you like no sewage, electricity, no running water in their 140 degree heat days, no emergency help fire medical. Absolutely if you want or need any of those services.
Sorry to say this but there's violence ALL over Iraq.
As far as what's happening in Africa it starts with the Commander in Chief, "The Decider" oh but he's preoccupied with Iraq and then again there's not too much oil in Central Africa. I've protested on 3 occasions here in DC about what's happening in Dafur what have you started to do. It won't start with Bush.
I've spoken to the the tragedy that happened to this boy earlier in this thread and I'll say again this would not have happened to him had we not invaded and occupied Iraq. It appears you feel war is the anwser well you get what we have here this little boy's dilema.
When you stir up a hornet's nest things like this can and will occur.
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Rep. Courtney Statement Following Release of Long-Awaited USDA Regulations on Hemp Manufacturing
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March 14, 2018 by Concepts Portal 1 comment on "Is Steady State Theory the real competitor of the Big Bang Theory?"
Is Steady State Theory the real competitor of the Big Bang Theory?
Steady State Theory is (or was) not the real competitor of the Big Bang Model as Steady State also submits to the notion of ‘Expanding Universe’. In case universe is not expanding then both Big Bang and Steady State theories are equally wrong. Thus if there is competition, that is within single niche. It is not exactly like competition between two different camps. They both operate within a single camp and the actual competing camp has yet to emerge.
March 13, 2018 by Concepts Portal 5 comments on "What is Evidence of the Big Bang Theory and how solid is that Evidence?"
What is Evidence of the Big Bang Theory and how solid is that Evidence?
The only so-called evidence of the Big Bang Theory is that Georges Lemaître had derived Hubble type redshift-distance relationship in light coming from far off galaxies from relativistic (GR) equations in year 1927 whereas Hubble could experimentally find this relationship in year 1929. In this way, it is claimed that (GR based) mathematics had already successfully predicted that important relationship two years before its actual discovery.
But this so-called evidence of the Big Bang Theory is not acceptable because Georges Lemaître had not derived that relationship from (GR) equations. In year 1927, he had derived that relationship not from GR equations but from a method which he took from Hubble himself.
Georges Lemaître’s 1927 French article remained unnoticed until he, with the help of his former teacher Arthur Eddington, published English translation of his 1927 article. That English Translation was published in year 1931 i.e. two years after the experimental discovery of redshift-distance relationship.
There was huge blunder in the 1931 translation article. In the original French article, there was whole para under equation No.23 where Lemaître had clearly mentioned that he had data of redshifts of various galaxies and he also took method of finding distance of those galaxies from Hubble. But in the manipulated translation of 1931, this whole para was replaced by a single sentence.
This crucial omission was in the notice of Arthur Eddington and he was guiding Lemaître to present translation in that particular way. Yes, he is the same Arthur Eddington who already had authenticated whole General Relativity through his famous (may be notorious) 1919 experiment of confirming bending of light ray during solar eclipse.
And following is translation of omitted para under eq.23. This translation is given at the end of this paper.
In 1931, the strategy worked and GR equations were projected, through a manipulated translation, as having extraordinary magical powers. But equations had no magical power as such. It was a trick. Arthur Eddington was already expert in those tricks.
For further details please see: A Philosophical Rejection of The Big Bang Theory
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Analysis of Pattern and Extent of Deforestation in Akure Forest Reserve, Ondo State, Nigeria
Isaac Adelakun Gbiriisaac.babatunde6@gmail.com 1 and Nathaniel Olugbade Adeoye 2
1 Department of Geographic Information Systems, 211212, Oyo, Nigeria
2 Department of Geography, 220282, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Volume 12: Issue 1-2
https://doi.org/10.2478/jengeo-2019-0001
Forest Reserves in Southwestern Nigeria have been threatened by urbanization and anthropogenic activities and the rate of deforestation is not known. This study examined the vegetation characteristics of Akure Forest Reserve using optical remote sensing data. It also assessed the changing pattern in the forest reserve between 1986 and 2017. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver was used to capture the location of the prominent settlements that surrounded the Forest Reserve in order to evaluate their effects on the forest. Landsat TM 1986, Landsat ETM+ 2002 and Landsat OLI_TIRS 2017 with 30m resolution were classified to assess the spatio-temporal changing pattern of the forest reserve. The results showed different composition of vegetation, which include undisturbed forest, secondary regrowth and farmlands. The study further revealed that in 1986, 2002 and 2017, undisturbed forest constituted 63.3%, 32.4% and 32.1% of the entire land area respectively, while secondary regrowth occupied 8.3% in 1986, 9.5% in 2002 and 15.6% in 2017. The farmlands had erratic growth between 1986 and 2017. It was 16.9% in 1986, 22.1% in 2002 and 17.5% in 2017. The bare ground exhibited inconsistency in the coverage. In 1986 the areal extent was 11.5%, when it increased to 36% in 2002 and decreased to 31.9% in 2017. In conclusion, the study revealed the extent of forest depletion at Akure Forest Reserve and it is therefore important that the residents, the government and the researchers show major concern about some of the critical factors to human beings that are responsible for forest depletion.
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Store employees, Sabino Hernandez, Wilson Segarra, Manuel Pauta hold signs outside Stop & Shop, located at 44 Lake Ave. Ext. in Danbury on Tuesday morning, April 16, day six of the workers' strike. Photo Credit: Donna Christopher
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Customers were not seen entering the Stop & Shop store at 44 Lake Ave. Ext. in Danbury, where about 15 store employees held signs and stood in the sunlight out front to stay warm on a breezy 50-degree morning Tuesday, April 16, day six of the workers' strike in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
One of the striking workers, Sabino Hernandez, confirmed this.
"They support us," he said, pointing to a table, where boxes of Dunkin' coffee and other food items had been dropped off since early morning from members of the public.
"Managers are running the store," Hernandez told Daily Voice.
Fellow striker Wilson Segarra said he worried about how he'll pay his family's expenses since going almost a week without wages.
"I pay a lot of bills and taxes. It's expensive to live here," said the Danbury father of three. "I have two maybe three days pay coming only. I have to get another job now."
At Trader Joe's on Mill Plain Road two miles away, the store managers could not comment on whether or not shoppers not crossing Stop & Shop picket lines were shopping at there store more since the strike began April 11.
But one of the shoppers, New Milford resident Dorothy Shackelford said she has sought alternatives to support the Stop & Shop strikers.
"The other day I shopped at the Big Y and today it's Trader Joe's," she said. "I won't cross the picket line because I support the workers. They need to be paid a fair wage. I think it's ridiculous that some of them have to work two jobs just to make ends meet."
Outside Stop & Shop in Danbury at around 9:30 a.m., Jody Barr, the executive director of Council 4 American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employers, AFL-CIO, based in New Britain walked over to shake the hands of store employees on strike.
"We're here to support them," Barr said. "We want the negotiations to come to a conclusion so they can go back to work. We represent 30,000 members including these workers here. We donated $2,500 to a strike fund for them. We will continue to make a $500 donation every week as the strike continues.
State. Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury who lives nearby in Danbury also stopped there around the same time. "This is the store I shop in. Whats really nice is seeing the whole community say, 'Enough is enough. These are courageous workers."
The company hasn't updated its April 15 post on its website that "Providing excellent health care for eligible associates continues to be an important part of our offer" and that negotiations on new contracts for the company's 31,000 associates in New England continued Monday with the support of federal mediators.
Meanwhile, Tuesday morning, April 16, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) issued a release that he will meet with Stop & Shop workers in Dayville and Groton who are striking to demand that Stop & Shop provide affordable healthcare and fair compensation.
Tuesday, April 16 Stop & Shop posted on their website. "As you may already know, some of our store Associates in MA, RI, and CT are currently on strike, so it’s not "business as usual" at Stop & Shop today. Our NJ and NY stores are not affected."
"We are committed to resolving our labor negotiations as quickly as possible so that our employees can return to their jobs and we can get back to serving you and the community," said the post.
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Ford Recalls Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pickup Trucks
Ford announced it is recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles. Photo Credit: Ford
Nearly 262,000 heavy-duty Ford pickup trucks are being recalled nationwide due to faulty tailgates that can open unexpectedly.
Ford Motor Co. announced that it is recalling F-250, F-350, and F-450 Super Duty pickup trucks that were produced between 2017 and 2019. Trucks subject to recall feature electric tailgate latch release switches in the tailgate handle.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has already opened an investigation into this issue.
According to Ford, water may be able to enter the electrical wiring system that operates the electric tailgate latch-release. The part is housed in the tailgate handle. If water gets in, it could potentially cause a short circuit and the tailgate may open unexpectedly, whether the truck is parked or in motion.
There have been no reports of crashes or injuries involving any tailgates opening.
Ford said owners will need to take their F-Series Super Duty trucks to a dealer, where a modification will be made to the tailgate wiring harnesses. A technician will also install a release switch for free. Owners of recalled items are expected to be contacted the week of Jan. 20 next year.
A second, smaller recall involving fewer than 4,000 Ford Explorers and Aviators with 3.0-liter engines. The recalled Explorers and Aviators are all 2020 models.
“The convolute protective sleeve on the liquid fuel line is not long enough, which may allow for potential hard contact with the convolute-protected vapor fuel line,” Ford said. “Over time, with vibration and engine roll, hard contact between the two fuel lines could cause the convolute on the vapor fuel line to rub through the plastic liquid fuel line.”
Dealers will fix the problem by replacing the defective convolute with a full-length piece and tying it down with a strap. The recall reference number for the Aviators and Explorers is 19S49.
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Alabama Abortion Law Will Make It Even Harder For House Republicans To Win
As the backlash grows, national Republican are getting nervous about eroding support with women.
35 weeks ago by Susie Madrak
Morning Joe had a segment on the backlash from the extreme new Alabama abortion law.
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Alabama's new abortion law goes too far, but declined to say whether it should be overturned. As Republicans navigate the growing backlash over the nation's strictest abortion legislate, here's what he had to say," Mika said.
REPORTER: Do you think that law goes too far?
MCCARTHY: It goes further than I believe, yes. I defend my pro-life position for my whole political career. But I also believed in rape, incest or life of the mother. There were exceptions. That's what republicans have voted on in this house. That's what our platform says and I believe that's the point of what you find many of us of where we stand.
"The distancing comes as the national party struggles to make inroads with suburban women before their 2020 reelection campaigns, while state Republicans move to remove the rape and incest exception from their increasingly stringent anti-abortion bills to push the issue before the sport."
"Gene, you know, fools rush in. They overreach. I know a lot of Democrats were concerned when New York state passed abortion bills that I think 14%, 15% of Americans supported," Scarborough said.
"Now Republicans have snatched, as they often do, snatched defeat out of the jaws of political victory and have gone the other way and their extremism is scaring the hell out of a lot of Americans who might even be pro-life and, you know, those educated, suburban, Republican women that started to move away from the Republican party in '18, they're in a full-out sprint now."
"Yeah, I think that's all this law is ever going to accomplish actually, is in the political sense to hurt Republicans and to drive those women and men away from an extremist law that is -- the anti-abortion forces, and I don't support them, but they have been doing well with an incremental approach to try to restrict abortion," Gene Robinson said.
"You know, how many weeks and this and that. They've been doing well with that. This so far overreaches, I actually -- I'm not convinced it will ever get to the Supreme Court. I think it will be immediately enjoined, immediately struck down, struck down at the appeals level and I don't think the Supreme Court wants to hear this case. This is a bad case. I don't think they will want to take it up. But meanwhile, it's there on the books and Republicans are going to have to answer questions about it and they're going to have to say where they stand on it and it's going to hurt them."
"The Supreme Court, after it's overturned, will deny cert, they won't listen to it. The only thing this Alabama law will do is set back the pro-life issue for years. My gosh, Planned Parenthood will raise so much money. Let's wait and see how much money Planned Parenthood raises off this extreme law in a week," Scarborough said.
I wish I could believe SCOTUS will refuse this case. But the legal experts I know who follow the court closely are worried, and the abortion rights groups are gearing up for a full reversal of Roe v. Wade. The silver lining, I guess, is that sharia law is clearly not good for Republicans who want to take back power in the House -- unless the Russians decide to throw them an assist.
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Jason Vance’s Sounds, Stories & Suppers of Appalachia
13-Apr-2019 13-Jan-2020 Cultures CapsulesAndrew Benincasa, appalachia, banana pudding, banjo, bradshaw mountain, cheeseball, cultures capsules, dirt pudding, jason vance, mcdowel county, MR PUPPIES, playing spoons, potato soup, recipe, spoon playing, spoons lesson, suppers, vance family, West Virginia
This Cultures Capsule is based on an event held in March 2019, when more than 30 people braved the unseasonably cold weather in Brooklyn to attend ‘Jason Vance’s Sounds, Stories and Suppers of Appalachia.’
Attendees were taken on an immersive, virtual journey to Bradshaw Mountain, engaging all of our senses to have a deeper experience of the stories Jason shared. We were treated to five courses of tasty food from the Vance family cookbook prepared by MK (per the taste specifications of Jason), served alongside many stories and songs, several of which were original song. And Jason also taught us how to play spoons and how to flat-foot (dance).
Jason expanded our appreciation of the rich culture Appalachia prides itself on, and we were left wanting to both to attend their next family reunion on Bradshaw Mountain (and we all and we’d be welcomed as family if we did), and tell others about the misrepresentation of the people from that region, and how that misunderstanding hurts us as a country.
A selection of the songs, recipes, stories are included here, along with a fun lesson in playing the spoons so that you can take yourself and your guests on this immersive cultural journey tonight!
The amazing art in the header was created by the one and only Andrew Benincasa.
Story Sounds Tastes Bonus
We came to know Jason Vance via Brooklyn Music Factory when my son and I took our respective music lessons. Jason would talk about his big, amazing family reunions in the mountains of West Virginia that he looked forward to each summer, and gush about the music and the food that was such a bit part of these celebrations. I tried to imagine what it was like down on his ma-maw’s porch, eating potato soup and bopping to the music and energy all around me.
Unable to travel down to West Virginia, I did the next best thing: I invited him to collaborate on an event here in Brooklyn, bringing the rich tastes, tunes and tales of Bradshaw Mountain to Ditmas Park, as only a descendant of the Vance family could.
Over the course of two hours, Jason had us on the edge or our seats listening, laughing, learning, and even shedding a tear with him.
and also out of our seats, trying out some flat footing, and how to play the spoons.
Jason told us so many small tales that all came together to paint the picture of his family and his upbringing in West Virginia, and these stories brought us through a wide range of emotions. We laughed so hard from his stories like that of his grandma’s “PTA shower,” and how not to make the same mistake as him when jamming on spoons with Appalachian musicians. We grew sad at tales of loss, frustrated at the fraught history that maligned people like his family and continues to be an issue in this country today, but also joyous from the stories that exuded love. The songs he sang (while simultaneously playing played banjo, suitcase percussion, and harmonica), were deeply felt – both in our hearts and our bodies – as we bopped our heads and clapped along.
A Norman Rockwell updated for a joke referenced during the show. What are they saying?
We were also educated. Jason provided a brief history of how misconceptions and divisions arose, a classic divide-and-conquer in our own backyard that has devastating repercussions even today.
“When you grow up in Appalachia, long, long, long ago, at the Southern aristocratic urgings, Southern poor whites and mountain whites became “white” in this ;divide and conquer strategy.’ And then you become white.
So then, the force is you have your own culture that is pure and beautiful as it is, but your culture is a lesser version of this culture that is ‘uber’ white and this forced assimilation is always present.” – Jason Vance
So instead of taking the news media’s word for it, step into the experience of a family that has been thriving on Bradshaw Mountains for more than 160 years, by listening to the music of these playlists, cooking some of his family recipes, sharing the stories and of course, how to play the spoons! Then maybe you can tell your friends, and the misconceptions about the people and rich culture of Appalachia can be overcome.
It’s your lucky day: a two-for-one special for this Cultures Capsule!
This first, free Spotify playlist captures the essence of that cold night in March. It includes some of the songs he played that night, plus some extra songs to continue the grooves. He chose to end the evening in the same way the Vance Family reunions do: with all attendees in a circle, singing lively versions of “Amazing Grace” and “Will the Circle be Unbroken.” Not included are some very moving original songs that you will have to experience the next time we host this show.
Following “Will the Circle be Unbroken” are some songs he recommended to keep the vibe going for your recreation of this experience. Generally, he also recommends these albums for further listening pleasure: Genuine Negro Jig and Leaving Eden, and Dona got a Ramblin’ Mind, all by the Carolina Chocolate Drops; The Cold Mountain Soundtrack; and O.C.M.S. by Old Crow Medicine Show.
Next up is the playlist Jason provided to accompany the cooking for our recipe testing cooking. I hadn’t had these dishes before, never mind tasted his family’s versions, so he and I, and some lucky friends of his got to enjoy the fruits of our delicious testing, with this playlist on, helping to give the flavor of Appalachia all the while, of course.
By and by, lord, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky.*”
* Chorus of “Will the Circle be Unbroken,” an old standard hymn, a high-energy version of which is played following “Amazing Grace” at the conclusion of Vance family reunions each year.
The infamous cheeseball!
On that cold March night in 2019, the below dishes were served:
Appetizers: Cheeseball, Salami & Crackers, and Ma-Maw’s punch
Entrees: Potato Soup, Cornbread Salad
Desserts: Banana Pudding, Dirt Pudding
Below we have shared the recipes for the famous cheeseball, potato soup and banana pudding. Enjoy and let us know how it goes! @culturescapules #culturescapsules.
Cheeseball!
No gathering of Jason’s family is complete without a cheesball
For Jason, there was no question that a Cheeseball had to be part of the appetizers for this event, because it would always be on the table at Vance family gatherings, accompanied by two types of salami, as well as crackers. From Carol Goss
2 packs of 8 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup creamy Italian dressing
2 boxes crackers, to serve
1-2 dried sausage varieties, sliced
Soften cheese. Mix with dressing and return to fridge to harden.
Shape into “ball” (or 1/2 a sphere on a plate) and roll in the chopped pecans to coat the ball.
Return to fridge until ready to serve, alongside crackers and salami.
Dale Vance’s Potato Soup
potato soup with all the fixins
9 cups russet potatoes, peeled* & diced (~4 lbs potatoes)
3 cups diced yellow onion (~1 large one)
water, to cover (~8 cups)
ground pepper, to taste
1 12 oz can evaporated milk
optional: celery, or cream of celery soup
2, 12 oz packages of bacon (traditionally it was Bacon Bits, but we cooked/crumbled our own for the recipe testings and event)
18 oz grated cheddar cheese
1 1 lb box Saltine crackers**
Cook bacon until crispy and allow to cool on a paper towel.
Wash, peel and dice vegetables.
Toss into a large pot and just barely cover with water. Put temp to high, add salt and a bit of pepper and cook until potatoes are cooked thru (potatoes easily prick with a fork; ~15 minutes), being careful to stir often so that potatoes don’t stick to the bottom. Reduce heat slightly if it begins boiling over.
Meanwhile, crumble or chop the cooled bacon, and grate the cheddar (if necessary), putting each in separate serving bowls and keep aside.
Once potatoes are fully cooked, reduce heat to medium and add condensed milk and butter, and continue to cook, stirring frequently to combine, being careful that it doesn’t boil over. Taste for salt and adjust accordingly.
Serve with Saltines, bits of bacon and grated cheddar cheese, and imagine yourself on a rocking chair.
* Jason requested that we try not entirely peeling the potatoes. We left about 1/3 of the skins on, and enjoyed the added color, texture and flavor.
**Saltines can be found here
Here’s a video of the potato soup as it’s being made, and you can hear not only the food cooking but the music that helped it along, from the second playlist here. If only you could smell it, too. So simple, and so delicious.
Oh, that Cornbread Salad! For a taste of that, you’ll have to come out the next time we host this show. To get notified, Join our mailing list here.
Banana Pudding is yet another staple of Vance family gatherings. Here, we’ll treat you to a sneak peak of the recipe straight from the Vance family book of recipes!
bacon cooling while I make the banana pudding…
Fun fact: when testing recipes, we happened to eat this still warm, and Jason’s mind was a bit blown. He’d only ever eaten it cold! He hadn’t said as much so I had just left it on the counter while we all ate our cornbread salad. I’ve now had both ways, and both are great, but Jason is likely to want to eat his warm from now on (and I wouldn’t disagree).
One final note on the Banana Pudding: the recipe in the Vance Cookbook calls for making a meringue to top it with, but per Jason’s memory and taste, he requested canned whipped cream, so you may want to grab some of that.
Dirt Pudding
…and delicious Dirt Pudding was dessert number two…
And the creamy, crunchy, sweetness that is Dirt Pudding! For a taste of that, you’ll have to come out the next time we host this show. To get notified, join our mailing list here.
Bonus File
Learn to Play the Spoons!
Grab your wooden spoons if ya got ’em! Otherwise, get two matching metal spoons (preferably with wider ends on the handle side), which will help you control them.
And if you tried this one at home, we want to hear about it! If you listened to the music provided, tasted the food, learned a bit about life on Bradshaw Mountain, tell us what you think! And please tag us at #culturescapsules and @culturescapsules so that Jason, and the rest of us can see and get inspired ourselves!
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CVLT Nation Interviews Nic
Sean Reveron 2016-07-07
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TJ Kliebhan interviews NIC.
Czech artist Nic have granted CVLT Nation the band’s first interview in English. Because of the language barrier and not every member of Nic speaking fluent English, the band felt comfortable addressing the questions together and speaking as a group.
Why the decision to go nameless?
Nic: This was one of our friend’s idea. She came up with the idea of the black censorship rectangle that is used to cover things that are not supposed to be seen. At the time, we were struggling to find a band name that we would like and were finding out that most band names are just cool sounding words or phrases without any deeper meaning, anyway. We decided to go nameless, and we thought it fit to the music perfectly. The truth is, other people forced us to start using the name Nic (which means “nothing“ in Czech) after we were starting to be called many different weird names that people were making up in order to be able to refer to us. We sometimes feel discouraged that with this name we basically buried all our chances to succeed. But we think we are doing pretty good for a band that is basically impossible to Google.
The Demo has seemed to achieve success and praise from black metal fans across the globe. Not too many bands ever expect their demos to be vinyl worthy. How much of a surprise has all this been?
Nic: We knew that it could have some impact, at least in the Czech Republic, but the amount of success really surprised us and keeps surprising us even now. About the name “Demo,” when we talk about the record we talk about what we think of as the EP. The title “Demo” is not written on the record and “Demo” was what we wrote on Bandcamp when uploading the record, not really thinking about it any deeper. We got texts like an hour after it went up saying, “‘Demo’? Really?”
Demo by ██████
What were those recording sessions like?
Nic: We made it DIY in a small cabin in our friend’s garden. We were going for a low cost, and our friends helped us mix it. We released it on cassettes, and then vinyl after demand for that appeared.
Why do you think the album has had somewhat of a global appeal? Is it the nature of the genre which tends to transcend language barriers with raw aggression?
Nic: This is a hard question that we don’t know the answer to. We can only say how we see it from our perspective. We think we play the music a little different than other bands in this genre. We have heavy influence and roots in hardcore and the emo/screamo scene, and maybe combining these elements with the more traditional ones is what makes us sound different. Of course, there is no doubt that bands like Wolves In The Throne Room, Deafheaven, and others were also a heavy influence for us. It wasn’t really the thing to do at the time we started this and relased the music. We think our stuff is more emotionally impactful and more about screamo than metal, really. We wish we had a better answer.
The Demo seems to deal primarily with the loss of someone. Was there a singular event that triggered the lyrical themes?The lyrics seem to come from a specific event.
Nic: Yes, the lyrics are about loss, loneliness and dealing with that. The intention was to describe the phases of this process of losing in our record. There are four parts to one story, and four songs on the record. The first one is about self-pity, the second about sacrifice, the third about the inability to do harm to others when face to face with them, and the last about self-acceptance.
What drives you to make this specific type of music? Does it have to come from a dark place?
Nic: We don’t think it necessarily has to come from a dark place. Honestly, we don’t find the music to be that dark or depressing. We don‘t think our lyrics are all that mysterious, or use woodsy imagery like a lot of acts that sound like us. We focus on humans, real life, and crisis. People can take it from there.
Why do you think Europe produces so much of the quality black metal we hear today and has been such a driving influence for the genre over the last few decades?
Nic: We’re not really listening to that much black metal these days, so we don’t think any of us feel educated enough to comment. Yeah, it does seem popular. Black metal has strong roots in Europe, mainly northern, and the genre is always shifting, evolving, incorporating other musical elements. We like American black metal more because it is more free and open to new ideas. Europe has this obsession with being “trve” that we’re not really in to.
Do you guys subscribe to any of the classic characteristics that come along with black metal? Do you reject any?
Nic: We do not feel we belong to any black metal scene, so we do not really feel we share much or have anything in common. We come from the hardcore scene. True black metal diehards don’t like our music, typically. We’re ok with this, though, because black metal can be so oppressive and exclusive, too. We reject all kinds of human oppression. Especially the Nazi movement in black metal and all that bullshit. We want to be inclusive.
How do you feel about the shoegaze label you guys get then? It’s getting more and more common to incorporate shoegaze elements into black metal. How does Nic work to distinguish itself from the other bands that play this very popular style at the moment?
Nic: We use these elements because we have always liked them in hardcore or black metal. I don’t think we are willingly trying to distinguish ourselves. We just like what we make. One of our huge influences is Envy and bands like them that incorporate shoegaze into their music. We try to use them in our own way, but like we said before, we’re most heavily into screamo/hardcore and that’s what we identify as.
How has coming from the Czech republic influenced the music?
Nic: We don’t see any influences that are specifically Czech. This kind of music has no real roots here, and if we could name two biggest influences, I would say Cascadian black metal and French screamo.
Since 2013, we’ve only seen a couple splits from the band. What is the plan for the future?
Nic: We are writing music for a full length, but it’s going rather slowly because of our working duties, and living in different cities. This year we are planning to continue writing new music and playing more shows than last year, which was really slow for us. We will also go on a Euro tour with our buddies from Old Soul in July.
Check out Nic on their European tour at one of the dates below.
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NIDA’s African American Researchers and Scholars Work Group (AARSWG) is one of the four ethnic/minority advisory workgroups established by NIDA to forward its efforts to increase the numbers of underrepresented investigators conducting drug abuse research, and to increase its support of appropriate research on drug abuse in minority communities. The AARSWG was convened in 1994 to advise the NIDA Director on the unique drug abuse research and drug abuse research development needs of the African American community that, ultimately, will result in more effective prevention and treatment approaches in African American populations. Work group members are comprised of NIDA and NIH-funded researchers, educators, treatment providers, and community-based practitioners.
Major Highlights and Accomplishments
The AARSWG has successfully supported and mentored new African-American investigators through the sponsorship of four (4) annual Addiction Research Training Institutes; held intensive research grants preparation booster sessions; convened annual Mini Medical School forums on drug abuse topics pertinent to African American communities; actively lobbied for increased interest in drug abuse research in professional associations, such as the American Association of Criminology and the American Psychological Association; has been instrumental in establishing a NIDA Southern African Initiative, encouraging collaborative drug abuse and related research between NIDA and Southern African researchers; and increased African American representation as reviewers in the NIDA/ NIH review process. In addition, AARSWG workgroup members have successfully mentored and advised each other in pursuing research funding from NIDA and other NIH/PHS agencies.
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The recent Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) legitimizes discrimination on the basis of religion. There have been large scale protests across India against this law to which the government has responded with brutal force. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 25 people have been killed since the protests started on December 12. A student has also allegedly lost his eyesight in the crackdown against the protests and many protestors have fractures, serious wounds and internal bleeding. On Sunday 5th January, the violence appears to have escalated with masked mobs attacking students and academics at Jawaharlal Nehru University who were protesting against a steep fee hike.
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Cine-MRI (1)
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The localization of thiamine pyrophosphatase activity in the acinar cells of stimulated and non-stimulated sublingual glands of the rat (1976)
Kim, S. K. ; Han, S. S. ; Nasjleti, C. E.
Histochemistry and cell biology 47 (1976), S. 89-99
Topics: Biology , Medicine
Notes: Summary The distribution of thiamine pyrophosphatase (TPPase) activity in the acinar cells of the rat sublingual gland has been studied at various stages of the secretory cycle following stimulated secretion. The rats were stimulated to secrete by an intraperitoneal injection of isoproterenol and pilocarpine. In non-stimulated glands, TPPase activity is detected mainly in 3–4 cisternae at the inner concave side of the Golgi complex and in some adjacent condensing vacuoles as in other cells. In the acinar cells 1 to 2 h after stimulation, however, reaction product for the same enzyme activity is detected in the cisternae at the outer aspect, as well as the inner aspect, of the Golgi complex and even in the cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). About 4 h after stimulation, TPPase activity becomes concentrated in 3–4 disternae at the inner concave side of the Golgi complex as in the acinar cells under non-stimulated conditions. Morphological observations of the acinar cells 1 to 2 h after the stimulation have indicated that the reorganization of the Golgi complex and ER is a major event which occurs at this stage. It is possible that this cellular event is related to the occurrence of TPPase activity in those sites which normally show negative reaction in non-stimulated state.
Surgical outcome of pediatric hydrocephalus treated by endoscopic III ventriculostomy: prognostic factors and interpretation of postoperative neuroimaging (2000)
Kim, S. -K. ; Wang, K. -C. ; Cho, B. -K.
Child's nervous system 16 (2000), S. 161-168
Keywords: Key words Hydrocephalus ; Endoscopic III ventriculostomy ; Outcome ; MRI ; Cine-MRI ; Children
Notes: Abstract In order to analyze the surgical outcome according to clinical characteristics and to evaluate the correlation between clinical improvement and neuroimaging changes, we retrospectively reviewed 32 children who had undergone endoscopic III ventriculostomy (ETV) from February 1994 to May 1998. There were 15 boys and 17 girls, with a mean age of 5.2 years (range: 1 month to 13 years). The etiology of the hydrocephalus was primary aqueductal stenosis in 18 patients, secondary aqueductal stenosis caused by tumors in 5, IV ventricle outlet obstruction in 5, and hydrocephalus associated with meningomyelocele in 4. The mean duration of follow-up was 19.4 months (range 1–50 months). Overall, surgical outcome was regarded as good in 21 of 29 patients. Surgical outcome was poor in patients younger than 1 year (P〈0.05). Neuroimaging 1 month after ETV showed a decrease in ventricular size in 11 of the 16 patients with good surgical outcomes. Five showed minimal changes only. In patients with good outcomes, ventricular size tended to decrease as time passed. Resolution of periventricular edema, flow void in the III ventricle on T2-weighted axial images, and cine-MR imaging were sensitive indicators of good outcome. We suggest that ETV be considered as a primary treatment option in patients older than 1 year of age with noncommunicating hydrocephalus. In addition, time factors should be taken into consideration when surgical outcome is judged. Changes in ventricular size could not predict surgical outcome completely in themselves. Therefore, a comprehensive postoperative assessment should be made with the help of T2-weighted MRI and cine-MRI.
An abutment screw loosening study of a Diamond Like Carbon-coated CP titanium implant (2005)
KIM, S. K. ; LEE, J. B. ; KOAK, J. Y. ; [et al.] HEO, S. J. ; LEE, K. R. ; CHO, L. R. ; LEE, S. S.
Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
Journal of oral rehabilitation 32 (2005), S. 0
Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Notes: summary The aim of this study was to quantify the extent of abutment screw loosening and thus understand the role of frictional and wear factors in abutment screw loosening by using a cyclic loading device to compare Diamond Like Carbon (DLC)-coated and non-coated implants. The properties of DLC films, including hardness, wear resistance, chemical stability, and biocompatibility, are similar to those of real diamond materials. In this study, a 1-μm thick DLC film served to protect and lubricate a layer of commercially-pure titanium affixed to the top of a dental implant (external hexagon-shaped implant). A cyclic loading force was then applied to the top of the prosthetic portion of the implants in order to determine the difference in looseness of the titanium abutment screw between ten DLC-coated implants and ten non-coated implants. The abutment screw loosening tests were performed with 100 N of force at a frequency of 20 Hz. Data indicate that implants with a DLC coating are more resistant to an applied force (P = 0·002) than are those without the coating. We hope these results will be useful for preventing implant abutment screw loosening.
A study of the effects of chewing patterns on occlusal wear (2001)
Kim, S. K. ; Kim, K. N. ; Chang, I. T. ; [et al.] Heo, S. J.
Oxford UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
Notes: The chewing cycle is a functional movement, closely related to occlusion, the neuromuscular system and the central nervous system. Although actual chewing paths are complicated and vary from individual to individual, there are two typical patterns. One is more vertical in nature and is similar to a chopping movement. The other is a more lateral type that is similar to a grinding movement. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of chewing patterns on occlusal wear. Fifteen subjects exhibiting a chopping–chewing pattern and 15 subjects exhibiting a grinding–chewing pattern were selected using a jaw tracking device. The occlusal wear values, obtained by both ordinal and Woda’s arbitrary scales, and frequencies of non-working facets were calculated for each group. The occlusal wear values in all teeth and in each segment, obtained by the use of the ordinal scale did not vary significantly between the chopping and the grinding type group. However, the occlusal wear values of the grinding type group in all teeth and in posterior teeth segments, obtained by the use of Woda’s arbitrary scale, were significantly greater than those of the chopping type group. Frequencies of non-working facets in posterior teeth showed no significant differences between the groups.
Comparison of two different PCR amplification products (the 18-kDa protein gene vs. RLEP repetitive sequence) in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium leprae (2003)
Kang, T.-J. ; Kim, S.-K. ; Lee, S.-B. ; [et al.] Chae, G.-T. ; Kim, J.-P.
Clinical and experimental dermatology 28 (2003), S. 0
Notes: Summary To determine the best molecular method for diagnosing leprosy, two sets of Mycobacterium leprae-specific primers were compared. Fresh biopsies and slit skin smear samples were obtained from 67 leprosy patients and examined by touchdown (TD) PCR using primers amplifying either a 129-bp fragment of the RLEP repetitive sequence or a 360-bp fragment of the 18-kDa protein gene of M. leprae. Seventeen of 30 (56.7%) biopsy specimens and four of 37 (10.8%) slit skin smear specimens were positive using the primer for the 18-kDa protein gene, whereas 24 of 30 (80%) biopsy and 27 of 37 (73%) slit skin smear samples showed detectable PCR products in the RLEP repetitive sequence. Twenty-one of 31 cases (67.7%) with a bacterial index of zero were PCR positive for the primer RLEP repetitive sequence. These results demonstrate that detection of M. leprae using PCR with primers to a RLEP sequence is more sensitive and specific than PCR with the 18-kDa protein gene primers and also slit smears with acid fast staining. PCR of RLEP repetitive sequences is therefore a useful means of detecting M. leprae DNA even when it is present at very low levels.
Effects of hydrogen peroxide on the light reflectance and morphology of bovine enamel (2002)
Kwon, Y. H. ; Huo, M. S. ; Kim, K. H. ; [et al.] Kim, S. K. ; Kim, Y. J.
Notes: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a bleaching agent (30% hydrogen peroxide) on the surface of bovine enamel using a scanning electron microscope and a UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer. Five non-carious bovine incisors were bleached for 0, 1, 2 and 3 days using 30% hydrogen peroxide. The light reflectance spectrum was measured using a spectrophotometer with diffuse reflectance mode. Colour values and colour differences in the teeth were evaluated from the reflectance measurements with the CIE L*a*b* colour coordinate system. Surface alterations in the bleached and unbleached teeth were studied using a scanning electron microscope. The change of reflectance in the teeth was related to the change of colour. Most reflectance change occurred within a 1-day bleaching, and this result was confirmed by a CIE L*a*b* colour coordinate system. The colour differences in the bleached teeth were significant enough to be perceived by the observer's eye. The comparison of bleached to unbleached bovine enamel revealed that the bleached surface showed non-uniform slight morphological alterations, and it developed varying degrees of surface porosity. This study indicates that the bleached bovine teeth showed apparent colour differences as well as slight morphological alterations after bleaching.
Effect of magnetic field on the electrodeposition of Fe, Co into the pores of anodic film on aluminum (2000)
Kwon, H. W. ; Kim, S. K.
[S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Applied Physics 87 (2000), S. 6185-6187
Source: AIP Digital Archive
Notes: Ferromagnetic Fe or Co was electrodeposited into the pores in aluminum anodic oxide film to produce a magnetic anodic film, and the effects of magnetic field during electrodeposition on the deposition characteristics of the metals and coercivity of the produced anodic film were investigated. Fe was electrodeposited into the pores in anodic film using a mixed solution (pH=3.8) of FeSO4(NH4)SO4.6H2O (0.20 mol/l) and H3BO4 (0.48 mol/l) at 20 °C with constant applied voltage of 10 V, and Co using a mixed solution (pH=4.5) of CoSO4,7H2O (0.10 mol/l) and H3BO4 (0.48 mol/l). It has been found that for the Fe-deposited anodic film the coercivity increased with increasing length of deposited Fe particles and decreased with increasing diameter (or porosity). The application of magnetic field during electrodeposition of Fe had little influence on the coercivity of the anodic film. For the Co-deposited anodic film the coercivity increased with increasing length of deposited Fe particles and increased unexpectedly with increasing diameter. The perpendicular coercivity of the Co-deposited anodic film was significantly increased by the application of magnetic field during the electrodeposition. The unexpected coercivity increase with diameter and the increase of the perpendicular coercivity of Co-deposited film by the application of magnetic field were closely related to the preferred orientation of Co crystals in the anodic film. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.372650
A Research Note KINETIC STUDY OF RETROGRADATION OF CASSAVA STARCH GELS (1976)
KIM, S. K. ; CIACCO, C. F. ; D'APPOLONIA, B. L
Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Journal of food science 41 (1976), S. 0
Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes: The kinetics of crystallization of cassava starch during aging were studied at different temperatures using the expression θ= exp(-ktn), where θ is the fraction of uncrystallized material remaining after time t. The values for the rate constant (k) indicated that the firming process for the cassava starch gels was characterized by a negative temperature coefficient. The Avrami exponent (n) was found to be unity over the range of temperatures studied (2-30° C), suggesting that the mechanism of starch crystallizatión is instantaneous nucleation followed by rod-like growth of ciystals.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1976.tb14434.x
Fine structure of cell types in an ameloblastoma (1979)
Kim, S. K. ; Nasjleti, C. E. ; Whatherbee, L.
Journal of oral pathology & medicine 8 (1979), S. 0
Notes: Abstract. An unusually large and old ameloblastoma, which revealed a diverse histological appearance, was studied by light and electron microscopy. In the tumor, the epithelial component formed several patterns in the collagenous stroma. The epithelial islands, consisting of tall columnar cells surrounding the inner core of stellate cells, mimicked the cells of the inner enamel epithelium and stellate reticulum, respectively, of the normal enamel organ. The ultrastructural appearances of the columnar cells, however, were only similar to those which are seen in undifferentiated preameloblasts. Areas of squamous metaplasia were present, and these squamous cells were structurally similar to the cells al the base of the oral epithelium. Some epithelial cells containing numerous lipid granules and mitochondria formed a network of cords. The connective tissue stroma was made up of fibroblast-like cells which appear to be metabolically active. In addition, multinucleated giant cells were present in the connective tissue stroma near the epithelial component.
Various methods to determine the gonadal development and spawning season of the purplish Washington clam, Saxidomus purpuratus (Sowerby) (2005)
Kim, S. K. ; Rosenthal, H. ; Clemmesen, C. ; [et al.] Park, K. Y. ; Kim, D. H. ; Choi, Y. S. ; Seo, H. C.
Berlin, Germany : Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Journal of applied ichthyology 21 (2005), S. 0
Topics: Biology , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes: The monthly variation in reproductive cycle, condition factor (fatness), gonad index (GI), ovarian egg diameter and biochemical composition [RNA, DNA content and their ratio RNA/DNA (R/D)] were compared to determine the spawning season of the purplish Washington clam, Saxidomus purpuratus, collected from the west sea of Taean, Korea. All these factors were correlated to the spawning season from May to October. Monthly variation and concentration of the R/D ratio especially represented indicative information about the processes of gonad development and spawning patterns. The increases in R/D ratio in the ovaries corresponded with increases in ovarian egg diameters and the GI during the spawning season. The peak of R/D and RNA content in females was a good indicator of sexual maturation and the DNA content in males. During winter between November and January, the value of fatness, GI, egg size, RNA and DNA content were lower than in other seasons, indicating depletion of energy reserves and lower metabolic demands because of colder temperatures.
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New Noninvasive Blood Glucose Test Promises Alternative to Painful Pricking
For those living with diabetes, monitoring blood glucose accurately is necessary to control diabetes and prevent diabetes-related complications.
Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently evaluated the accuracy of an MIT-developed technology to monitor blood glucose levels without needles or a finger prick.
Early results show that the noninvasive technology measures blood glucose levels as effectively as a finger prick test — without having to draw blood.
“Currently, blood glucose levels are tested through a finger prick or intravenously. The approach we studied is noninvasive and uses a laser to monitor glucose levels in the skin,” said Dr. Anandhi Upendran, director of biomedical innovations at the MU School of Medicine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and co-author of the study.
“With diabetes on the rise, the development of an accurate, efficient and inexpensive alternative method to test blood glucose levels is an urgent clinical need.”
How Would the Device Work?
Developed by researchers from MIT, the device uses a technique called Raman spectroscopy to measure the chemical composition of skin and extract the amount of glucose out of other skin compartments.
A fiberoptic cable attached to a wristband passes laser light onto the skin to detect different components in the skin, such as fat tissue, protein, collagen and glucose molecules.
The shifts in wavelengths associated with glucose present in the blood create a “molecular fingerprint” that can be used to determine glucose levels.
“This is a technology that we have been pioneering for more than 20 years,” said Dr. Jeon Woong Kang, a research scientist with MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center and co-author of the study.
“We know that handheld skin prick tests are not always accurate and may be uncomfortable for patients. The gold standard is intravenous blood testing, but frequent blood draws may not be an option for many patients,” she added.
Kang said the team was pleased to find that their initial results show Raman spectroscopy can measure glucose levels that are comparable to the finger stick devices.
“We hope that we can refine this method to be a noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring sensor,” she says.
How was the Device Tested?
The study measured the blood glucose levels of 20 healthy, non-diabetic adults prior to drinking a glucose-rich beverage.
Blood glucose levels were then measured in intervals over the next 160 minutes using three methods: spectroscopy, IV blood test, and a finger-prick.
The tests are designed to determine how much glucose remains in the blood and if a patient’s insulin-regulating mechanisms are working effectively.
The researchers found that spectroscopy predicted glucose values as accurately as a finger prick test.
With more testing, the researchers hope spectroscopy can become an alternative method to test glucose levels in patients in clinical care settings who are not capable of frequent blood draws and, one day, in other settings as the technology becomes smaller and more portable.
Future studies will examine the accuracy of the technology in patients with diabetes.
The study was published by Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.
Primary funding for the study is from the National Institutes of Health, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and the Office of Medical Research at the MU School of Medicine.
Image credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Devin Kirby Harald Frey Brandon Key Tray Buchanan Amin Adamu Mychael Paulo Ladan Ricketts Sports Men's basketball Men's sports Basketball College basketball College sports Men's college basketball
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Frey leads Montana St. past S. Dakota St. 77-70
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BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Harald Frey had 23 points as Montana State topped South Dakota State 77-70 on Thursday night.
Amin Adamu had 19 points and six rebounds for Montana State (6-3). Ladan Ricketts added 11 points. Mychael Paulo had 10 points for the hosts. Devin Kirby grabbed 15 rebounds.
Douglas Wilson had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Jackrabbits (6-5). Tray Buchanan added 15 points and six rebounds. David Wingett had 13 points. Brandon Key scored 10 points.
Montana State takes on North Dakota State on the road next Monday. South Dakota State takes on Colorado State on the road on Tuesday.
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Mainframe Solution Application Development
IBM Rational Software takes mainframe applications and development to a new level
8/4/2011 9:13:51 AM | By Ryan Rhodes
When it comes to an enterprise business system as long-established as the mainframe-spanning nearly 50 years now-users can routinely encounter a host of legacy applications and development tools that seem almost archaic when compared to the OSs, applications and development tools accessed today on other platforms.
However, legacy mainframe applications and tools remain in use for a variety of perfectly good reasons, not the least of which being familiarity-many green-screen apps were developed in-house-functionality, ease-of-use, robustness and overall stability. Many companies still use 3270 green-screen applications and tools to access mainframe functions and capabilities for developing new and maintaining core business applications.
As a text-based UI, green-screen emulation offers some advantages over more familiar modern GUIs, particularly for high-volume data entry purposes, but also in terms of general ease-of-use with its consistent layout and lack of scrolling.
Additionally, green-screen development tools such as Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) are still widely used by System z development teams. "While a textual UI may always seem more primitive, once you get beyond that stigma there's definitely an efficiency to it that's hard to break away from," says Scott Greer, a UI architecture developer for IBM's Rational Software group. "After a certain amount of experience with a text UI, people tend to memorize the layout, the content, and the commands to the point that navigation becomes second nature."
Green-screen advantages and user devotion notwithstanding, the simple fact is businesses increasingly must move forward and evolve to stay competitive, provide greater access-to Web- and mobile-based users, for example-attract new development talent, etc. The majority of new and upcoming business computing professionals are familiar with and gravitate toward modernized apps and GUIs.
Therefore, it's not surprising Web-based GUIs are gradually usurping green-screen and text-UI applications. Both IBM and outside vendors offer a variety of modernization options that provide updated tools for accessing and developing mainframe applications. In some cases, modernized Web UIs put a new face on existing green-screen applications. Other applications and development tools bypass the green screen entirely, providing a separate platform for developing, maintaining and debugging mainframe applications.
"There are a lot of apps still out there people are using that can be modernized," says Will Smythe, product manager for IBM's Rational Software group. "IBM Rational has a set of products aimed at modernizing applications and the way applications are developed. And although these tools have existed for awhile, customers are still just learning about them for the first time."
Updating the mainframe is part of a larger IBM-wide Rational initiative dubbed enterprise modernization (EM), intended to deliver solutions that allow customers to gradually update critical IT systems to modern architectures and technologies in a cost- effective manner. By leveraging Rational EM products, customers can inject new life into their existing application portfolio while leveraging modern skills to help chart an ongoing innovation and modernization roadmap.
The primary Rational mainframe EM application development product of note is Rational Developer for System z (RDz), an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is designed to simplify, improve and modernize the z/OS programmer experience, while still allowing the use of more legacy tools.
"RDz has tools for traditional COBOL, PL/I, and Assembler application development in an Eclipse-based environment," says Smythe. "But it also has tools for doing Web-SOA, Web 2.0. So, you can think of it as an all-in-one package for multi-platform development, where traditional applications are leveraged in new, modern solutions. There's also a flavor of RDz that features the EGL open- source programming language. EGL is an ideal technology for all types of developers, but specifically allows developers with traditional skills to do Web and SOA development. EGL also improves deployment flexibility with its ability to compile into standard Java, JavaScript, or COBOL."
With this focus on modernization, mainframe green- screen application and development tool purists can nevertheless rest easy. Legacy mainframe applications and tools will continue to be available for the foreseeable future, and rumors about IBM retooling its green screen are unfounded. Still, in an ongoing effort to dispel the persistent but unwarranted narrative of the mainframe as a "dinosaur," IBM's Rational Software and its EM initiative will continue to develop and refine modernization tools for the next generation of mainframe professionals. Raising awareness of the EM solutions will be important as the mainframe makes inroads into emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere.
"There's a case to be made that some mainframe users out there have been so focused on legacy applications and development tools that they're unaware of the many modernization tools available, both from IBM and other vendors," says Smythe. "I've seen large IBM shops that have huge investments in WebSphere, CICS, System z, but they had no clue that Rational has solutions that apply to them in the System z development space, or other tools for modernization like HATS or EGL."
Destination z will explore IBM Rational EM solutions-such as RDz, HATS and EGL-in greater detail in a series of articles that highlight the modernization applications and tools available in the mainframe space.
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When a user speaks to a device with Alexa, the speech is streamed to the Alexa service in the cloud. Alexa recognizes the speech, determines what the user wants, and then sends a structured request to the particular skill that can fulfill the user's request. All speech recognition and conversion is handled by Alexa in the cloud.
Every Alexa skill has an interaction model defining the words and phrases users can say to make the skill do what they want. This model determines how Alexa communicates with your users.
The following sections provide examples and more detail around how users communicate with Alexa and what you need to do as a developer when designing a skill.
Note that the interaction model described here is focused on voice interaction. If you are developing a skill that includes screen display, video, or touch interaction on an Alexa-enabled device with a screen, also refer to Best Practices for Designing Skills for Alexa-Enabled Devices With a Screen.
How Users Interact with Alexa
What is an Interaction Model?
Examples of Interaction Models
Interact with a Custom Skill
Interact with the Smart Home Skill API
Interact with the Video Skill API
Interact with the Flash Briefing Skill API
Interact with the Music Skill API
Next: Learn what you need to get started
End users interact with Alexa's abilities in the same way – by waking the device with the wake word (or a button for a device such as the Amazon Tap) and asking a question or making a request.
In addition, with Alexa-enabled devices with a screen, the end user can touch the screen to interact with Alexa, if the skill supports this interaction.
For example, users interact with the built-in Weather service like this:
User: Alexa, what's the weather?
Alexa: Right now in Seattle, there are cloudy skies…
Interacting with a custom-built skill to look up tide information is very similar, although the user can include a name identifying the skill ("tide pooler" in this example):
User: Alexa, get high tide for Seattle from Tide Pooler
Tide Pooler: Wednesday February 17th in Seattle, the first high tide will be around 1:42 in the morning, and will peak at about 10 feet…
Similarly, a user can tell a skill to control a particular cloud-enabled device such as a light. In this case, the light must be connected to the Internet (such as via a smart home hub). The user names the specific light ("living room lights" in this example):
User: Alexa, turn on the living room lights
A light previously configured and named living room lights is turned on.
Alexa: OK.
In the context of Alexa, an interaction model is somewhat analogous to a graphical user interface in a traditional app. Instead of clicking buttons and selecting options from dialog boxes, users make their requests and respond to questions by voice:
Voice User Interface (Interaction Model)
Typical Graphical User Interface
Make a request User says, "Alexa, get high tide from tide pooler." User clicks a button.
Collect more information from the user Alexa replies, "For what city?" and then waits for a response. App displays a dialog box and waits for user to select an option.
Provide needed information User replies, "Seattle." User selects options and chooses OK.
User's request is completed Alexa speaks the requested information:
"Wednesday February 17th in Seattle, the first high tide will be…"" App displays the results of the request.
When users speak questions and make requests, Alexa uses the interaction model to interpret and translate the words into a specific request that can be handled by a particular skill. The request is then sent to the skill.
You define your own interaction model when creating a custom skill. The Smart Home Skill API, Video Skill API, Music Skill API, and others provide a built-in interaction model.
Note this phrase a user can speak:
User: Alexa, get high tide for Seattle from Tide Pooler.
"Tide Pooler" is the invocation name that identifies a particular skill.
"get high tide for Seattle" is a phrase in Tide Pooler's interaction model. This phrase is mapped to a specific intent supported by this skill.
Alexa uses this custom interaction model to create a structured representation of the request called an intent. Alexa sends the intent to the Tide Pooler skill. The skill can then look up tide information and send back a response.
Users can also invoke custom skills without using an invocation name: Alexa, get the high tide for Seattle. In this case, Alexa attempts to find a skill that can respond to the user's utterance. Alexa then creates the intent and sends it to the skill.
"turn on the…" is a phrase recognized by Alexa's built-in interaction model. Alexa recognizes that this is a request to turn on a light.
The words "living room lights" identify a particular device that the user has previously configured and named. Note that this is the name of the device to control, not the name of the skill. The user does not need to say an invocation name for this type of skill.
Alexa uses the pre-built interaction model for smart home requests to create a structured representation of the request, called a device directive. Alexa sends the device directive to the specific skill that can control the "living room lights" device. This skill turns on the specified lights by communicating with the device cloud over the Internet, then returns a response indicating whether it was successful.
User: Alexa, play Manchester by the Sea
"play…" is a phrase recognized by Alexa's built-in interaction model. Alexa recognizes that this is a request to play content.
The words "Manchester by the Sea" identify a particular video title. Note that the user does not need to say an invocation name for this type of skill.
Alexa uses the pre-built interaction model for video skills to create a structured representation of the request, called a device directive. Alexa sends the device directive to the specific skill that controls playback of video content. This skill plays the content by communicating with the service that controls the content, and returns a response indicating whether it was successful.
User: Alexa, what's my flash briefing?
"What's my flash briefing" is a phrase recognized by Alexa's built-in interaction model. Alexa recognizes that this is a request to read and stream content from feeds that the user previously selected.
Alexa uses the pre-built interaction model for content requests to invoke the flash briefing feature. Alexa loads the content feeds the user has selected to include in their flash briefing and streams the content.
User: Alexa, play Poker Face by Lady Gaga on skill name.
"Poker Face by Lady Gaga" identifies a particular song title.
"skill name" identifies the skill to invoke to play this content.
Alexa uses the pre-built interaction model for music skills to create a structured representation of the request, then sends that request to the specified skill. This skill communicates with the service that manages the content, then returns a response with the requested content for playback on an Alexa-enabled device.
Next: Requirements to Build a Skill
Go back to: Understand the Different Skill Models
If you know what you want to build now, start with one of these:
Custom Skills
Music Skills
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November 19, 2018 Karen Talley Mead 0 Comment
Dev Technology Honored as Community Leader Through CARE Awards
Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) selected Dev Technology as a leader in community impact, family-friendly policies and employee engagement to receive its Companies As Responsive Employers (CARE) Awards.
For more than 25 years, the CARE Awards have recognized outstanding companies that make Northern Virginia a better place for everyone to work, live and play. Community engagement—along with outstanding employee engagement and culture, and progressive family-friendly policies—is a key pillar of CARE-ing companies.
This year, Dev Technology was honored as a responsive employer for its deep community impact, outstanding employee engagement and culture, and progressive family-friendly policies. CARE Award winners are selected based on their performance in the categories of community involvement and impact, health and wellness benefits, work-life programs and policies, and development and education programs.
Dev Technology supports the local community through organizations such as Cornerstones, Homestretch, Fairfax County Family Services, So Others Might Eat, South Lakes High School Boosters Club, the After School All-Stars, Wounded Warriors, the Border Patrol Foundation, and others. Dev Technology also has an employee-led “Fun Patrol” that organizes opportunities for employees to get involved in the community. This includes an annual charity drive, volunteer events, charity fun runs and walks, and food and clothing drives. Dev Technology also has a charitable matching policy for employee requests. At a minimum, we match 100% up to $100 per employee.
Dev Technology offers comprehensive health benefits to our employees and their families. This includes medical, dental, and vision. In addition to traditional benefits, we offer unique benefits such as healthy snacks in our offices, Friday yoga classes, a mentorship program, reimbursement for a fitness tracker, and telework options. Our headquarters location in Reston also has a massage chair, ping pong table, Ms. Pac Man arcade game, and a giant Jenga.
“We founded Dev Technology with a primary goal of making a great place for people to work,” stated Susie Sylvester Duggal, Dev Technology Co-Founder and Executive Chair. “And we have always been passionate about supporting our community. As we have grown over the past few years, it has provided us with even more opportunities to give back. We are lucky to have passionate employees who enjoy helping out and getting involved.”
“CARE Award winners are leaders in our community who are both inspirational and aspirational,” shares Stephanie Berkowitz, president and CEO at Northern Virginia Family Service. “They continue to show us through their actions and their values that our economy, our community and our bottom lines are strongest when we engage deeply both within our community and with our people.”
Awards were presented at the 26th Annual CARE Awards Breakfast, held Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, at the Sheraton Premiere Tysons Corner. For more information visit nvfs.org/careawards.
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H&M and Best Buy sign up to American Express Twitter discounts
By David Moth March 7th 2012 11:41
American Express is offering its customers the chance to earn money off a selection of goods by tweeting special offer hashtags from retailers.
Amex cardholders in the US can connect their account to their Twitter profile, and a coupon will be ‘loaded’ onto the card if they compose a tweet including one of the hashtags.
When the customer redeems an offer, the discount will be applied within their next card statement.
Retailers including Best Buy, McDonald’s, Whole Foods Market and H&M have already signed up to the programme, which is built around American Express’ Smart Offer APIs.
This is similar to an offer Amex launched last year that allows its customers to earn discounts through a Facebook app called ‘Link, Like, Love’.
In a press release announcing the Twitter offers, American Express vice chairman Ed Gilligan said the company is turning Twitter content into commerce by connecting cardholders to merchants.
With the continued convergence of online and offline commerce, our closed loop continues to enable us to bring seamless, relevant ways to connect our cardmembers and merchants on the most powerful social and digital platforms.”
The Twitter offers are a great PR tool for Amex as it delivers exactly what consumers want from social media engagement with brands – exclusive discounts and money off.
A survey from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and social technology business Lithium found that 67% of consumers expected to be eligible for exclusive offers if they followed, liked or linked to a brand on social media.
There’s likely to be some unhappy customers though, as it’s so easy to sign up that each limited availability discount code probably won’t be available for very long.
Despite this, Amex has shown that it understands what its customers want from social media engagement and is pulling out all the stops to give it to them. Let’s just hope it’s prepared to manage the community of people that might be complaining about a deal running out in a day…
Blog American Express Customer Experience discounts H&M Online PR Social twitter
Facebook launches real time analytics
More than ever, businesses are understanding that data is important. But the main importance lies in not how much you collect but how you use it.
At the Facebook Marketing Talks Live event, Facebook’s David Software Engineer, Louis Eisenberg, explained how Page Insights can help build connections and engage a wider audience with your content. The most exciting announcement of this break away session had to be the roll out of real time analytics for Facebook pages.
February 29th 2012 21:38
Bulmers uses Facebook timeline to showcase 125-year history
Much has been written over the past few days about the updates to Facebook’s brand pages, and how to utilise the timeline to showcase a company’s history.
Obviously the brands best placed to make the most of this are those with a history worth shouting about, which is why Manchester United has been highlighted as a good example of early best practice.
March 2nd 2012 13:25
How social CRM will change the way brands deal with customers
Type ‘social CRM’ into Google and you get around eight million results, most of them using a different definition of the term.
But what can social CRM really achieve? And how can this potential be quantified?
In an ideal world, social CRM would give us the ability to integrate a brand’s existing customer data with their social media interactions.
In theory, social CRM should provide detailed information from a number of different sources and make the info available to whoever needs it.
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SXM Festival: The Epitome Of What A Festival Can Be
The Friendly Island has it all figured out - SXM is a perfect party in tropical paradise.
Joe Burchard
To put it simply, SXM was the best festival that I’ve been to (needless to say I’ve been to almost all of the ‘big name festivals’ worldwide). It’s easy to tell why Saint Martin’s nickname is “The Friendly Island” as locals greet tourists with big smiles and helping hands. The art, music, and setting for this festival are truly astounding, as they meld together to create an experience that is near impossible to find anywhere else. The bottom line is: get your flights, book your villa, and start preparing for next year, because this festival is just about as good as it gets.
Saint Martin - The Friendly Island
SXM Festival
Skimming just feet above the heads of the sunburned tourists below, we jolted to a stop at the Princess Juliana International Airport in Saint Martin. After an awkward cheer from ‘those people’ on the plane, we departed onto the tarmac to check through customs. A fast-moving line and friendly customs agents welcomed us with smiles as we cruised through the security checks with ease.
A little background: Hurricane Irma, the strongest storm in the Caribbean's recorded history, decimated Saint Martin and the surrounding archipelago in 2017. Due to the storm, the 2018 edition of SXM was cancelled and the SXM team focused on the rebuilding process of the island. With an estimated 95% of the buildings on the island getting damaged, and 60% being entirely uninhabitable, it's remarkable that the island was able to recover in such a quick and effective way. Many of the locals we talked to praised the SXM team for their involvement with the recovery - a breath of fresh air to the typically contemptuous relationship that locals often share with large-scale festivals such as this.
Saint Martin Is A Tropical Paradise
Christa Snyder
We rented a car and headed over to our beautiful villa for the night. During our drive, the destruction from Irma was apparent, but not overwhelming. There were destroyed boats resting upon reefs, houses with roofs ripped off, and piles of rubble that we passed on our drive. Strangely, this destruction seemed to only add to the wonderful experience, instead of detracting from it. Most importantly, it didn't affect any of the infrastructure that was needed to travel around the island. The juxtaposition of the utter chaos with the kind, loving, and determined locals filled my heart with a sense of genuine pride for the people I met.
SXM Villas Are Affordable and Gorgeous
One of the many great things about SXM is that the accommodations available are not only cheap, but also mind-blowingly gorgeous. Every villa that I visited on the trip looked like a billionaire's dream house: multiple pools, marble counters and walls, and Doric columns poking out behind palm trees. For half the price of a four-star hotel in the US, I couldn't help but think about what a steal these villas were. We made a hefty dinner preparing for the week ahead and watched the sun disappear behind the blue horizon. This was the first time that I realized the sunsets and sunrises on this island are some of the best in the world– truly indescribably stunning.
"Look at where we are, the beaches are beautiful, the people are happy, and the weather is perfect – everything is full of smiles on the friendly island." - Mac, Junglebee Snorkel Tours
The first official day of the festival we decided to take off from music and explore all that the tropical paradise had to offer. One of the reasons that I think SXM is such a must-go festival is because of the striking location, which looks like it was ripped right out of a postcard. Perfect weather and wonderfully welcoming locals ensured that everywhere we traveled was a pleasant experience.
Snorkeling at Creole Rock
We took a snorkeling/sightseeing trip around the island, stopping at Creole Rock, Ilet de Pinel, and Maho Beach to name a few. The views were incomprehensibly beautiful. Schools of colorful tropical fish darted beneath our boat as we sipped piña coladas on the deck above. Truly, this was the first place I’ve been where the advertisements look less beautiful than reality.
Looking across the vibrant blue water, I asked our guide, Mac, why people should visit. He contemplated his answer for a minute then laughed to himself, “Look at where we are, the beaches are beautiful, the people are happy, and the weather is perfect – everything is full of smiles on the friendly island.”
Ended Up At Lotus
On the third day we rose late with vicious sunburns. We took the day to stay away from the scolding UV rays. After a family dinner at the villa, we drove over to Lotus to see some of my most anticipated acts of the week perform. Getting there just in time for Sepp B2B Gescu, the first thing that struck me about this venue was how surprisingly proper everything was. The sound was crisp, the vibe was intimate, and the drinks were cheap. The two Romanian stars took the crowd on a wild journey through their signature sound – weaving complex textures over the top of deep grooves. Following an hour longer performance than programmed, the two relieved the decks to Lamache and Dana Ruh who quickly turned up the heat. Lamache is one of my personal favorite DJs and if you ever get the chance to see him, jump on the opportunity. Playing back to back with Dana restrained his set than I've seen before, but nonetheless these two tore the club apart. By the time the lights were flipped on, the entire dance floor was screaming for "one more song!"
SXM FUSE Jungle Party at Loterie Farm
After hearing so many great things about the jungle party from the 2017 edition of SXM, we hopped into our rental van and took a direct line to the FUSE jungle party. Situated within what is surely one of the most unique and dramatically gorgeous venues I’ve ever been to, this party was "hands up, heads down" from the moment we walked through the entryway. A dance floor with a massive wade pool greeted us at the Loterie Farm center. Private cabanas receding into the hillside, and a DJ booth built within a tree house stood firmly above the pool, cultivating an extremely unique vibe. Seb Zito, Archie Hamilton, and Enzo Siragusa tore the dance floor up – first individually, and then as a B2B2B trio. I’ve seen the FUSE guys countless times, but this party was absolutely perfect for their tech house-laden sound. Everywhere I looked, there were gorgeous people with massive smiles on their faces dancing hard. The fellow partygoers were as welcoming as the Saint Martin locals, and the staff at the events were extremely kind. If you're heading to SXM for 2020, the jungle party is an absolute must.
SXM VIP Villa Party Sunset
On the fifth day I decided to check out the VIP villa party for a few hours before meeting back up with my friends. This is one of the few festivals that buying a VIP tickets truly makes sense. Whereas most festivals provide a VIP bathroom or lounges outside of the speaker’s dispersion area, SXM made sure that the VIP goers got their money’s worth. Situated on one of the most beautiful pieces of real estate I’ve ever seen, the VIP villa party provided some pleasant melodic techno overlooking one of those world-famous Caribbean sunsets. Filled with breathtaking moments, this villa party provided a perfect rest for the next few days of savagery.
The Art Walk at SXM
After soaking up the sun for a few hours, I joined back up with my crew and drove over to Happy Bay. Being that it was my first time at the venue, I was absolutely in awe when I walked through the gate. The artwork was simply some of the best immersive art that I’ve seen. Built with material taken from the debris and rubble left behind by Irma, the main stage was adorned with palm-tree phoenixes (a symbolic gesture providing commentary on the festival’s rise from ashes), and insanely detailed projection mapping onto a monolith akin to the monolithic Moai of Easter Island. Venturing onto the beach, a neon walkway appeared that offered a creative pathway to the side-stage built from spiraling driftwood.
Not only was the art spectacular, but the food available from the vendors were phenomenal as well. Being a vegan, it's usually very difficult for me to find food at festivals. The SXM team did a spectacular job sourcing a slew of vendors who provided nutritious and reasonably-priced options. The squash burgers were spectacular, and the smoothies available were nourishing and delicious. Hats off to the whole team for putting their superb food court together.
SXM Moai Art
After taking the time to explore all of the art, I checked out Digby, who did a spectacular job with a growing crowd. Diving into breaks, minimal, electro, and house influences, it was easy to see why Digby has become one of the rising stars in the underground scene. Following Digby, DJ W!LD took over the decks pushing a more techy sound. Loaded with hip-hop and '90s R&B samples, the veteran DJ did a superb job keeping the crowd interested but never making the vibe too cheesy. Up next was Sammy Dee, who offered one of my favorite sets of the weekend, offering a genre-bending set that is impossible to describe. The Perlon staple weaved intricate tracks together seamlessly and really set the tone for the rest of the evening. The Perlon vibes continued as Japanese minimalist Fumiya Tanaka, took the stage. There were glimmers of greatness, but some of the tracks were a little too experimental for my personal liking. That said, Tanaka had me dancing the whole time and did a wonderful job infusing jazzy elements to the minimal sound of the night.
SXM Happy Bay Arc Stage w/ DJ W!LD
Sonja Moonear saw a return to form, as she sucked the dance floor back in and got people into party mode. Her infectious smile and dance floor-oriented selection saw the crowd getting loose and wild with her at the helm. Highlighted by VID’s gorgeous edit of Everything But The Girl's "Wrong," the mesmerizing set was programmed perfectly before Zip took over. The Perlon head honcho wasted absolutely no time getting to work as he picked track after track of ripping grooves that had that dance floor in frenzy through the sunrise. With Ricardo Villalobos popping in and out of the picture like a performance artist, the two icons looked almost cartoonish with the palm leaf-strewn terrarium inside the main stage. After a tough debut at SXM two years prior, Villalobos showed once again why he is considered one of the best in the world. Bouncing around without a care in the world, he dug through his record collection picking out gem after gem of deep, minimal grooves. I still have no idea how that man mixed so flawlessly with how much socializing he did behind the decks, but I suppose that is the mystery and awe that comes with any Villalobos performance.
SXM Ocean Stage
Returning to Happy Bay after sundown, we found ourselves getting to the beach just in time for Apollonia and SIT. Popping between the venues, we first saw Apollonia in prime form as they bounced their way through 3 ½ hours of house rippers. Over at the Ocean Stage, built nearly entirely out of twisted driftwood, SIT, Digby, and Dewalta offered a master class on minimal grooves as they went B2B2B for over 5 hours. With an intimate crowd, there wasn’t much more a minimal lover such as myself could ask for. Mind-bending textures and deep, vicious grooves extended across the beach as partygoers danced just 50 feet from the Caribbean Ocean. DJ W!LD closed things out on the Ocean Stage with a similar set to his one the day before while Dubfire played a (personally surprising) impressive set of dark techno slammers. We headed home and unfortunately passed out before getting back to Lotus for Traumer, who supposedly kept the club open six hours longer than originally planned.
Digby at the Happy Bay Ocean Stage
Parting Notes:
Most festivals have a slew of things that they could improve upon, but SXM carries itself like a veteran festival that has all of the kinks figured out. Though we didn't get to check out all the venues and all the parties, every one that I went to was truly special in its own way. I genuinely can't emphasize enough how much this is a must-go festival. If you're smart, you'd be booking flights and planning for the the 2020 edition.
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RNH >>>> Gagner >> Horcoff >>>>> Belanger: Final scoring chance plus-minus 2013 season
David Staples, Edmonton Journal
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins improved on the attack and on defence.
Sam Gagner improved on the attack, but not on defence, where he got worse.
Shawn Horcoff’s game slipped a bit.
Eric Belanger saw his game fall off the cliff.
That’s what the Neilson individual scoring chances numbers tell us for each Oilers centre this year as compared to last season.
You will notice that the centres all tend to have positive plus-minus numbers, save for those who have had a really, really bad season. That is due to the nature of the centre position and the game of hockey. In Roger Neilson’s rating system, any player who contributes to a chance gets a plus, while players who make mistakes on chances against get a minus. In hockey, you’ll find that three or four players contribute to each scoring chance, on average, while two or three make mistakes on a scoring chance against. This means that on a team that gives up as many scoring chances as it creates, there will be more plus marks handed out than minus marks. Most forwards, and especially wingers, will end up in plus territory in this rating system, but that does not mean they are getting the job done. What’s crucial is their ratio of plus-to-minus marks, and the gap between them and others in their performance.
Centre is a position with a lot of attack responsibility and a fair amount of defensive responsibility as well.
To make sense of a centre’s plus-minus in the Neilson system, the basic rule is that to be considered to be doing a good job, a centre should help create about 1.5 chances for every chance against that they make a mistake on. This year Ryan Nugent-Hopkins met that test and no one else did. Last season, not one Oilers centre met that test, though Gagner came close.
RNH’s accomplishment this year is all the more impressive considering the tough quality of competition he faced. The kid’s defensive play is astonishing for his age. Watch him closely and you’ll see a player who plays the body first, then the puck. Horcoff does the same, but he lacks RNH’s speed and quick hands. Gagner is more of a play the puck type, while age simply appears to have caught up with Belanger on defence and on the attack.
As for new pick-up Jerred Smithson, the Oilers face a tough choice with him. He appears to be a new version of Lennart Petrell, only with the bonus of being able to take faceoffs. So he’s big, tough, kinda slow, not much on the attack, OK on defence, physical enough. Perhaps he makes sense as the 13th forward on the team next year, though it’s possible the Oilers can find a slightly more dynamic player this summer for that role as well.
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Chicago 6 Final
Vegas 4 F-SO
Florida 4 Final
Los Angeles 1 Final
Buffalo 1 18:03
Dallas 0 1st Int
Phoenix 123 Final
Detroit 136 Final
Atlanta 103
Philadelphia 89 05.8
Cleveland 104 10:02
Toronto 91 11:03
Orlando 62 5:42
LA Lakers 59 Halftime
Player grades: Unlikely heroes Sheahan, Archibald lead the charge as Oilers drop Coyotes 7-3
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EduResearcher
Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice in Education
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Charter Schools & “Choice”: A Closer Look
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Is Charter School Fraud The New Enron?
Roxana Marachi, PhD / March 16, 2017
Preston Green, Bruce Baker and Joseph Oluwole have a new publication forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal:
Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron?: An Examination of the Gatekeepers That Protect against Dangerous Related-Party Transactions in the Charter School Sector.
The authors map the roles that gatekeepers played in the failure of Enron with parallel processes that are occurring within the charter sector. The following segment summarizes concerns outlined in the piece and underscores the need for greater attention to oversight procedures as current policy trends push toward unchecked charter growth:
“Enron’s collapse was significant because it exposed the deficiencies of gatekeepers that had the responsibility of protecting the integrity of the markets. These gatekeepers included Enron’s auditor Arthur Andersen, independent analysts, credit rating agencies, corporate boards,and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the case of the Enron debacle, all of these watchdogs failed to detect the dangers caused by Fastow’s conflict of interest.
Related-party transactions are now posing a threat to the charter school sector. Charter schools are a deregulated departure from traditional public schools because they are exempted from laws governing budgets and financial transparency. Similar to Fastow, unscrupulous individuals and corporations are using their control over charter schools and their affiliates to obtain unreasonable management fees for their services and funnel money intended for charter schools into other business ventures.
In spite of this evidence, the federal government has consistently attempted to increase the number of charter schools without pushing for oversight. This policy approach is alarming because it will create more opportunities for illegal related-party transactions. Also, this approach runs the risk of harming students in low-income and minority communities – the very children whom charter schools are supposed to serve. Therefore, charter school gatekeepers must learn from the Enron debacle by becoming more prepared to guard against the dangers posed by related-party transactions. These gatekeepers include auditors, governing boards, authorizers, state education agencies (SEAs), and the U.S. Department of Education.”
The remainder of the article reveals processes by which weak oversight structures resulted in the Enron fallout and documents how various levels of charter school gatekeepers mirror those practices. The authors identify several measures that can be taken to strengthen the ability of charter school gatekeepers to protect against the dangers described. They cite from the Office of the Inspector General’s Audit Assessment of Charter and Education Management Organizations and add the following specific recommendations in their conclusion:
“We have found that independent auditors must make detecting illegitimate related-party transactions a priority. States should also increase the capacity of regulatory bodies to conduct audits of charter schools. For instance, states could either:
(1) have regulatory agencies conduct periodic audits of all charter schools; or
(2) conduct risk assessments of charter schools and audit those schools most vulnerable to fraud. Finally, states should authorize regulatory bodies to conduct discretionary audits if they suspect that a charter school operator is engaging in fraud.
With respect to charter school governing boards, we recommend that states should do the following:
(1) forbid persons from serving on charter school boards if they or their immediate family members have a significant financial stake in a contractor or vendor;
(2) require governing boards to be structurally independent from their EMOs;
(3) require board members to receive training regarding their supervisory responsibilities; and
(4) require governing boards to receive specific training regarding leases.
With respect to charter school authorizers, we advise that states require them to review all vending and lease contracts and reject those that would be harmful to the charter schools’ interests. Furthermore, states should:
(1) require SEAs to monitor the relationships between charter schools and their contractors; and
(2) coordinate with authorizers with respect to conducting investigations of suspected illegal activities.
Finally, we advise the U.S. Department of Education to do the following:
(1) develop risk assessments that account for risks posed by charter school-EMO relationships;
(2) develop strategies that would enable state gatekeepers to reduce the risks posed by related-party transactions; and
(3) require states to implement fraud prevention programs as a prerequisite for the receipt of charter school funding.” [Emphasis added]
Green, P. C., Baker, B.D. and Oluwole, J. (2017). Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron?: An Examination of the Gatekeepers That Protect against Dangerous Related-Party Transactions in the Charter School Sector. Indiana Law Journal, 93. (Forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2924886
For additional work by the authors, see also:
Green, P. C., Baker, B.D., and Oluwole, J, (2013). Having It Both Ways: How Charter Schools Try to Obtain Funding of Public Schools and the Autonomy of Private Schools. Emory Law Journal, 63, 303-337. Available at: http://law.emory.edu/elj/_documents/volumes/63/2/articles/green-baker-oluwole.pdf
Oluwole, J., and Green, P. (2016). School Vouchers and Tax Benefits in Federal and State Judicial Constitutional Analysis. American University Law Review, 65,1335-1435. Available for download at http://www.aulawreview.org/images/pdfs/65.6/oluwolegreen.pdf.
Green, P. C., Baker, B.D., Oluwole, J., & Mead, J.F. (2015). Are We Heading Toward a Charter School ‘Bubble’?: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. University of Richmond Law Review, 50, 783. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2704305.
For more on concerns related to privatization, see Charter Schools & “Choice”: A Closer Look.
[Image above adapted from Bursting Bubble / Mac.Else Von Berlin via Flickr / Creative Commons]
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Destination Hockey
Drive 4 Five
By The Fans, For The Fans
Inside the USPHL PAL Junior Islanders
Posted on November 6, 2019 November 4, 2019 by melissacontino1819
Development, pride and passion. The USPHL Junior Islanders care about building not just players, but individuals. I sat down with three players from the team and asked them not only how the league works, but how various personalities can come together to create a great product.
Evan LaBrash is an 18-year-old from Ontario Canada who was traded to Florida. He stated that trades work basically the same as the NHL, without being able to trade for draft picks. Player-on-player trades are very common and sometimes players are just sent away “at the drop of a dime.”
This league also creates young stars. When asking if this league could lead to something like the Olympics or World Juniors, 20-year-old defenseman Mykyta Volobuyev answered that he was lucky enough to play for his home country Ukraine for the World Juniors.
I also asked the players if there are any rules and regulations that the Junior Islanders coach requires them to follow. 18-year-old forward Will Space stated that rules such as no hats while wearing a suit were in order. Though Volobuyev states that “that’s just good style.”
The team also has a group chat check in every night where everyone has to send their number in order until they get to 26 with their last name, similar to a roll call. This group chat makes sure no one is out doing something they’re not supposed to be doing.
They also have a curfew of 10:30 p.m. each night. During away games, the team has an itinerary to make sure the team stays on schedule and is not doing anything wrong. The coach will even go around from room to room to make sure each player is in their room.
In order for players like LaBrash and Volobuyev to play so far from home, they find themselves living with billet families. That’s where their other teammate Will Space comes into play.
Space and his family were kind enough to open their home for the two international defensemen in order for them to play with the Jr. Islanders. Volobuyev, who has been living in the United States since he was 14 years old, says that he sees his family every summer and winter break.
When asking them about what living with other teammates does, they said it formed a great bond on and off the ice. LaBrash and Volobuyev (both defensemen) would often find themselves paired together during games.
Both Space and Volobuyev are working and playing hockey at the same time. When asking how they balance both of those things, Space stated that most kids balancing things like work and school will do the same thing: work and school in the morning and then hockey in the afternoon.
Space also stated that during practice everyone is on the ice at the same time, while after practice the players who work will work out and do video after ice time, while people who don’t work will work out before.
When asking them about their personal life I asked if there are players they base their playing on. They responded by saying that there are players that they like, but that they enjoy making their own mark. Though they do enjoy watching some specific players such as Alexander Radulov for Mykyta, Duncan Keith for Evan and old-time Islander Jason Blake for Will, as well as defenseman P.K. Subban.
I also asked the young players what made them pick hockey as a sport that they wanted to dedicate their life to, as well as what makes it so special for them.
“It’s just a thrill, like every time you skate down the ice you don’t know what’s going to happen,” LaBrash said.
With Volobuyev, he stated that although he hated hockey at first and wanted to quit, he has grown to love it. While Space’s answer was similar to LaBrash, he added that he loved that “there’s always something happening. Other sports there’s always resting time. There’s always something happening whether someone is getting punched in the face or scoring a goal.” This quote is something most hockey fans can easily agree on.
Seeing what these young players are doing in order to play the sport they love is amazing. It is clear that Junior Islanders Volobuyev, Space and LaBrash have a bright future ahead of them.
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Foundation stone laid for MENA’s first automotive facility
DUBAI, H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority, DSOA, today laid the foundation stone for the W Motors Automotive Facility at the Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE, the first manufacturing facility of its kind in the Middle East, with an investment of AED370 million.
The groundbreaking event was also attended by Dr. Mohammed Al Zarooni, Vice Chairman and CEO of the DSOA, and Ralph R. Debbas’, W Motors Founder and CEO.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed said, “As the comprehensive geo-economic map of the emirate is being developed by the Dubai Free Zones Council, in line with the ‘Fifty-Year Charter’ launched earlier this year by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, which will accelerate the drive for further economic diversification and give it more momentum, free zones such as the Dubai Silicon Oasis continue to be the hub of choice for cutting-edge companies looking for advanced business ecosystems that provide full traction for the launch and growth locally, regionally, and globally.”
Spread over an immense 120,000 sq.ft., the first phase of the project is set to be completed by 2020. The production of all W Motors vehicles will move to this location, including the limited series Fenyr SuperSport, upcoming new vehicles, electric and autonomous models, as well as all the vehicles under the company’s Special Projects Division.
Phase One will be divided into three blocks: the Manufacturing Division will comprise a mechanical workshop, an assembly area, a “Concept and Prototype” manufacturing zone, and will feature the latest machines equipped with advanced smart technologies for the production of carbon fibre, aluminium and other parts.
The main building will include the design, engineering, research and development and training centres along with an autonomous and technology development department. Also, the W Motors Gallery, which will showcase all models, will become a unique experiential space for visitors from all over the world.
Phase Two of the project will be the W Motors Automotive Academy, developed in partnership with leading regional and international educational institutions. It will offer Automotive Design, Engineering, Transportation and AI-themed courses, in addition to certified programmes catering to students and interns from all over the world.
Dr. Mohammed Al Zarooni, Vice Chairman and CEO of DSOA, said, “Dubai Silicon Oasis offers businesses a unique ecosystem that allows them to leverage their strengths and benefit from Dubai’s role as a springboard for businesses seeking growth in the GCC which holds opportunities worth more than $1.5 trillion across all economic sectors.”
Speaking of the huge milestone for the company, Debbas said, “Today is a momentous day for W Motors, and takes us a big step closer to vastly developing the automotive industry within the region and specifically aligned with Dubai’s vision of becoming a global leader in innovation. We have worked closely with the DSOA to bring our production facility to life; now, the countdown to opening our doors is on!”
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Dr Soumya Swaminathan appointed as Chief Scientist at WHO
by Dayana Antony
in International, Women, World
The ‘sweeping reforms’ of the World Health Organisation(WHO) has named Dr Soumya Swaminathan as the organisation’s Chief Scientist in a new department.The new appointment comes as she was working as the Deputy Director General of Programs of WHO.
Dr Soumya was the daughter of DR.M.S Swaminathan,’father of Indian green Revolution’ and educationist Mina Swaminathan in Chennai on May 2 1959.She did her MBBS from Armed Forces College and then pursued an MD at All India Institute of Medical Sciences.She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in paediatric pulmonology from the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and then worked on tuberculosis and HIV related research and awareness programs.It was in 2017,Dr Soumya appointed WHO as the DDGP.
The WHO’s new division will focus on digital health and innovation in order to stay on par with latest scientific and digital advances in the realm of healthcare.
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abdullah gül, abgs, ahmet davutoğlu, AKP, cyprus, Fitch Ratings, geert wilders, olli rehn
Finally an official EU center in Istanbul, Fitch increases Turkey’s ratings, Dutch MPs cancel trip
In Turkey in Europe, Turkish economy, Turkish foreign policy on December 6, 2009 at 00:31
The new EU Center in Beşiktaş. DHA photo.
The EU Center will be jointly facilitated by the Turkish Ministry of State’s EU General Secretariat and the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s EU Affairs Department. VIA
FT.com | Brussels Blog | EU leaders face make-or-break summit decision on Turkey
Turkey and the EU: hurtful uncertainty | Şevket Pamuk | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Istanbul Metro Station, Taksim: Turkish Conquest of Constantinople. Photo by Jenny White
(click here for the full NY Times article). FOUND IN: Ottomania: The Empire Strikes Back
Dutch MPs cancel trip to Turkey | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Disappointment in Turkey over cancelled trip
Turkish MPs are disappointed the Dutch parliament has cancelled a fact-finding mission about the country’s wishes to join the European Union, the NRC reports on Thursday.
Wilders and Turkey’s anti-democratization camp
by KLAUS JURGENS
Foresight analysis measures the potential impacts of foreign and domestic policy actions. For the purpose of writing this column I have chosen a number of Dutch and Turkish actors as part of a simulation exercise, and without meaning it to be derogatory in any way, have put them into a grid system of four adjacent boxes.
BB+ for Turkey
from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M
* Thanks to economic growth and tight fiscal policy, since the 2001 financial crisis, public sector debt has come down to manageable levels..
* Reforms and restructuring have strengthened the banking sector.
* Economic growth rests on more solid foundations, driven by a dynamic private sector, productivity gains, and higher value-added production.
* The prospect of economic convergence with the European Union, demographic dynamism, and the country’s pivotal regional position tend to enhance the Turkish market’s attractiveness.
* With its extensive external financing needs, the highest of all emerging countries, Turkey remains very dependent on capital markets.
* The sharp rise of foreign currency debt in the private sector has increased its exposure to exchange rate risk.
* The antagonism between the government and militant Kemalists remains a recurring source of instability. Read the rest of this entry »
AKP, cage plan, erdogan, Ergenekon Case, gareth jenkins, izmir, taner akçam
Here Comes the Pain- Part II. Former military chiefs are questioned Today
In Turkish judiciary, Turkish military, Turkish politics on December 5, 2009 at 16:55
Oh God, even an ordinary sergeant feels and acts like a God in the barracks and now I wonder what these Chiefs feel. Falling from heaven? While Western accomplices like Gareth Jenkins (a great critique of Mr. Jenkins’ report –Between Fact And Fantasy:- that questions the Ergenekon Trial can be found here in Turkish) works hard to spread pro-Ergenekon viewpoints abroad, judiciary process continues and today we reach another top point:
Oramiral Özden Örnek Orgeneral Aytaç Yalman Orgeneral İbrahim Fırtına
Questioning of former military chiefs in Ergenekon trial begins
The accusation said no hard evidence has been found to directly link the top commanders to the Ergenekon gang, but the coup journals show that the
Turkey braces for commander’s testimony in plot probe (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Thomas Grove ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Three retired military commanders were expected to testify this weekend at an in-camera investigation into a plot to overthrow Turkey’s Islamist-inspired
there is too much pain for the Ergenekon gang. Arbitrarily I named part I here:) A huge roundup follows:
AKP, chp, dersim, Ergenekon Case, kemal kılıçdaroğlu, mhp, videos, wiretapping
As “Cagers” caged…
In Turkish politics on November 21, 2009 at 18:05
A new leaked document claims that “Operation Cage” by the Ergenekon gang planned assassinations on non-Muslim Turkish citizens to provoke and contain AKP rule…
Ministry announces number of people tapped
Hurriyet Daily News- The ministry had earlier said that within the last five years, 69 judicial officers were tapped – 56 of them related to the Ergenekon case
Third letter from military source raises tensions in Turkey (SETimes.com)
Turkey probes fresh allegations of anti-govt plot
They say these conspirators belong to a shadowy, nationalist group dubbed the “Ergenekon” network. A judge suspended until Monday a hearing in the
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu of CHP backed down and gave support to Onur Öylem who had explicity supported the Dersim Massacre of Alevite citizens. Two those who claim him to be the “Gandhi of Turkey”: Gandhi my ass.
A documentary on Dersim Massacre (In Turkish)
In order to create a Turkish nation from above, Turkish nationalists waged a campaign against non-Turkish and non-Muslim elements of the empire.The First World War served as an excuse for the Young Turks, then the Turkish goverment, to exterminate Armenians. It was a deliberate and sustain war, in the course of which hundreds of thousands Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks had been ruthlessly killed or forced into exile.The collapse of the Ottomans had left a power vacuum, filled by another section of the Turkish nationalists, called Kemalists at a later time.In 1937-38, i.e., at a time when world attention was focused on the Second World War, the Turkish nationalists commited another genocide. This time the victims were Dersimis, who are also known as Kızılbash or Alevis. Approximately 40.000-70.000 of them were killed and thousands were taken into exile. The Dersim Genocide of 1937-1938 was on one hand a continuation of the Kızılbash extermination of the Ottoman times and also an extermination of an ethnically distinct and separate people from Turks.
AKP, chp, dersim, dtp, kurdish initiative, mhp, Orhan Pamuk
Step by step, Kurdish initiative continues….
In Turkey and Kurds on November 14, 2009 at 16:06
We were expecting more fist-fighting in the parliament meeting on Friday but relatively civilized quarrels dominated Friday’s meeting. Main opposition CHP is gone all crazy- literally indeed- and their reaction is ridiculous and beyond reason. Their childlike reaction and nearly criminal discourse (one higher official of CHP explicity stated that the best solution is what the State did during Dersim Rebellion, that is outright massacre…) have to be contained. I believe that AKP, DTP and a few liberals with possible indirect support from MHP can further the Initiative. Yes, MHP, nationalist party, does in fact acted quite civilized yesterday and despite their harsh criticism on the Kurdish Initiative their love of and support for the State may turn out to be a positive sign in this case. Because they wery well realized that this initiative may help unite the nation again. Armed suppression did not work as the the three decades had demonstrated…
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal addresses members of parliament as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (L) and his Education Minister Nimet Cubukcu listen in the background during a debate at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, November 13, 2009. Turkey’s parliament is set to discuss on Friday reforms designed to boost the rights of the country’s Kurdish minority and end a 25-year separatist conflict, moves seen boosting its European Union membership ambitions.REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Turkey unveils reforms for Kurds
from BBC News
The Turkish government announces plans to expand the rights of Kurds, who for years have alleged discrimination.
A full list of reforms in Turkish here. Read the rest of this entry »
AKP, özal, başbuğ, chp, erdogan, kurdish initiative, mhp
Turkish opposition is a major obstacle for further democratization
In Turkey and Kurds, Turkish military, Turkish politics on November 11, 2009 at 11:49
Yesterday, main opposition MEPs made a scene in the Parliament, of course supported by MHP second biggest opposition party which led to scuffles while debates on the Kurdish Initiative continued. It is unfortunate that these two opposition parties can and may actually stop the process….
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) MPs hold banners during a debate at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara November 10, 2009. Turkey’s parliament is set to discuss on Tuesday reforms designed to boost the rights of the country’s Kurdish minority and end a 25-year separatist conflict — moves seen boosting its European Union membership ambitions. Banners are all about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey from 1923 and founder of the modern secular state, who died on November 10, 1938 when he was 57.REUTERS/Umit Bektas Read the rest of this entry »
AKP, Ergenekon Case
A list of “politically suspicious” websites in Turkey
In Turkish military, Turkish politics on November 5, 2009 at 12:04
Several dailies and websites quoted this list yesterday. I am not sure if this document really belongs (can be verified like some previous documents) to some military officials and thus leaked. I use it as a collection of politically oriented websites from a diverse set of positions…
adnan menderes, AKP, Atatürk, Ergenekon Case, Erik Zürcher, murat belge
“The people of the republic, the army of the republic!
In Turkey in Europe, Turkish judiciary, Turkish military, Turkish politics on October 31, 2009 at 16:16
Honestly speaking, I have a date this evening which is more exciting than any news. But as a self-discipline man, I neglect my blog and and readers and here will offer you another roundup on Turkish politics, with a particular interest in anniversary celebrations and Ergenekon case… There are also some links to good articles… Talk to you soon:)
Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Chief of General Staff General Ilker Basbug (L) are accompanied by military officials as they attend an official ceremony to mark the 86th anniversary of Republic Day at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of secular Turkey, in Ankara October 29, 2009. REUTERS/Umit Bektas Read the rest of this entry »
AKP, baykal, erdogan, secularism
with camera, without camera
In Turkish politics on October 16, 2009 at 16:15
So some ice-breaking manouevres happen between PM Erdoğan and main opposition leader Baykal. Mr. Baykal plays the capricious partner. They have to meet and talk about reforms but this could not be done because of Baykal’s boycott. So we hear Erdoğan sends a gently written letter and Baykal replies him back and they are now deciding the time, place and conditions of their date. Latest request includes having cameras, having all the meeting recorded. Erdoğan did not like the idea according to today’s news reports. Since when dates are recorded anyway? 🙂
a huge roundup on Turkish politics. (it looks like Erkan is back with roundups) Read the rest of this entry »
AKP, bursaspor, censorship, ceylan önkol, diyanet, diyarbakırspor, engin çeber, erdogan, Ergenekon Case, human rights, mehmet baransu, pkk, uğur dündar
Turkey and human rights – Some progress and many setbacks
In Documents, Turkey and Kurds, Turkey in Europe, Turkish judiciary, Turkish military, Turkish politics, Turkish Society, Turkish women on October 8, 2009 at 09:21
I am still optimistic, still, really. But there are not all good news here.
In the mean time: a first case. a policeman arrested because of assault to a young citizen:
Police Officer Arrested After Attacking Student
Efkan Bolaç, lawyer of the severely beaten student Güney Tuna, stated that 8 police officers were involved in the assault on her client: “Tuna was not …
PM Erdoğan’s speech at his party convention was discursively promising:
This Star daily headline underlines the fact that PM Erdoğan named political outsiders of Republican history from a wide range of political opposition.
[CROSS READER] Democratic initiative leaves its mark on AK Party congress
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) held its third ordinary party congress on Saturday at the ASKİ Sports Hall in Ankara. Read the rest of this entry »
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Elsa Garcia
La Luna Sera La Luna
Tejano Award Nominees
Ya Te Vi
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Serie 3x4 (Roberto Pulido, Elsa Garcia, Ram Herrera)
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A contemporary of Selena's, Houston-based Tejano singer Elsa Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico and raised on her grandfather's ranch, but she emigrated to the U.S. when she was relatively young. Nonetheless, the blonde-haired singer (she calls herself the only "guera" singing Tejano) maintained her ties to Mexican culture and remains committed to singing in Spanish. She's one of the few Tejano artists who did get radio play in Mexico in the 1990s, an honor she doesn't take lightly. Sarah Bardeen
A contemporary of Selena's, Houston-based Tejano singer Elsa Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico and raised on her grandfather's ranch, but she emigrated to the U.S. when she was relatively young. Nonetheless, the blonde-haired singer (she calls herself the only "guera" singing Tejano) maintained her ties to Mexican culture and remains committed to singing in Spanish. She's one of the few Tejano artists who did get radio play in Mexico in the 1990s, an honor she doesn't take lightly.
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Parent Category: Articles Section
Category: Saints and Icons
Written by Fr. Thomas Hopko
In the Orthodox Church the icons bear witness to the reality of God’s presence with us in the mystery of faith. The icons are not just human pictures or visual aids to contemplation and prayer. They are the witnesses of the presence of the Kingdom of God to us, and so of our own presence to the Kingdom of God in the Church. It is the Orthodox faith that icons are not only permissible, but are spiritually necessary because “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (Jn 1:14). Christ is truly man and, as man, truly the “icon of the invisible God” (Col 1:15; 1 Cor 11:7; 2 Cor 4:4).
The iconostasis or icon screen in the Orthodox Church exists to show our unity with Christ, his mother and all the angels and saints. It exists to show our unity with God. The altar table, which stands for the Banquet Table of the Kingdom of God, is placed behind the so-called royal gates, between the icons of the Theotokos and Child and the glorified Christ, showing that everything which happens to us in the Church happens in history between those “two comings” of Christ: between his coming as the Saviour born of Mary and. His coming at the end of the age as the King and the Judge.
The icons on the royal gates witness to the presence of Christ’s good news, the gospel of salvation. The four evangelists who recorded the gospels appear, and often also an icon of the Annunciation, the first proclamation of the gospel in the world. (In Greek the gospel is the evangelion, the authors of the gospels the evangelistoi, the annunciation the evangelismos).
Over the doors we have the icon of Christ’s Mystical Supper with his disciples, the icon of the central mystery of the Christian faith and the unity of the Church in the world. It is the visual witness that we too are partakers in the “marriage supper of the lamb” (Rev 19:9), that we too are blessed by Christ “to eat and drink at my table in my kingdom” (Lk 22:30), blessed to “eat bread in the Kingdom of God” (Lk 14:15).
Over and around the central gates are icons of the saints. The deacon’s doors in the first row (for the servants of the altar) usually have icons depicting deacons or angels, God’s servants. The first row also has an icon of the person or event in whose honor the given building is dedicated, along with other prominent saints or events. Depending on the size of the iconostasis, there may be rows of icons of the apostles, the major feasts of the Church, the prophets and other holy people blessed by God, all crowned on the top by the cross of Christ.
In recent centuries the iconostasis in most Orthodox churches became very ornate and developed into a virtual wall, dividing the faithful from the holy altar rather than uniting them with it. In recent years this development has happily been altered in many places. The iconostasis in many church buildings now gives first place to the icons themselves and has become once more an icon “stand” or “screen” (stasis) rather than a solid partition.
Besides the iconostasis, Orthodox Church buildings often have icons or frescoes on the walls and ceilings. The “canon” of Church design is to have the icon of Christ the Almighty in the center of the building, and the icon of the Theotokos with Christ appearing within her found over the altar area. This latter icon is called the “image of the Church” since Mary is herself the prototype of the entire assembly of believers in whom Christ must dwell. In the altar area it is also traditional to put icons of the saints who composed Church liturgies and hymns. Directly behind the altar table there is usually an image of Christ in glory—enthroned or transfigured or resurrecting, and sometimes offering the eucharistic gifts.
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Australian Foreign Minister condemns Fiji media decree
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The military-controlled government of Fiji has imposed restrictions on foreign media ownership and jail terms for journalists whose work violates the "public interest or order".
Image: Wikimedia Commons.
Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has publically condemned the Fiji Media Decree which went into effect Monday. The decree, the full title of which is "The Media Industry Development Decree 2010", implements restrictions on foreign media ownership and jail terms for journalists whose work violates the "public interest or order". The decree also introduces a new media code and complaints authority.
Various news, media and press coroporations, including News Limited have been handed a sanction by the military controlled government, under Frank Bainimarama to sell or close 90% of their Fijian branches. The mandate also extends to imprisoning journalist who are deemed against "public order".
“For the first time we have a legislation that is all encompassing (the media journalists and consumers), it’s actually empowering the people of Fiji in ensuring that their views are heard,” said Sharron Smith-Johns.
Smith said these actions are another example of the Pacific nation's military rulers disregarding the civil rights of its people, and would likely result in financial and economic backlash.
"We worry very much that this arbitrary move sends a very bad signal as far as future investment in Fiji is concerned, let alone the very bad signal it sends in terms of freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and democratic rights," he said.
Four years after ousting the former democratically elected Qarase government, the sanction entitled 'The Media Industry Development Decree 2010' follows strings of intimidation of reporters by soldiers, deportation of foreign new media executives and censorship of "negative" stories about the current military administration. Attorney-General of Fiji Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum claims that foreign media outlets are "purveyors of negativity", an argument that the entire administration defends.
Chairman of News Limited, John Hartigan has criticised former Prime Ministers John Howard and Kevin Rudd of Australia, for not pressuring the military leaders of Fiji into holding elections. Fiji is currently suspended from the Commonwealth for the same reasons.
"Fiji defends laws to jail journos" — The Australian, June 30, 2010
"Australian foreign minister’s comments on Fiji Media Decree exaggerated : SMITH JOHNS" — Pacific Islands News Association, June 29, 2010
Michael McKena. "Foreign Minister Stephen Smith condemns Fiji over press crackdown" — The Australian, June 29, 2010
"Smith condemns Fiji press crackdown" — The ABC, June 28, 2010
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Refaeli in 2011
(1985-06-04) 4 June 1985 (age 34)
Hod HaSharon, Israel
Arik Weinstein
(m. 2003; div. 2005)
Adi Ezra (m. 2015)
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Elite Model Management (New York)
Marilyn Agency (Paris) [3]
MP Management (Milan) [4]
Premier Model Management (London) [5]
Uno Models (Barcelona) [6]
Scoop Models (Copenhagen) [7]
Model Management (Hamburg) [8]
Wilhelmina Models (Los Angeles) [9]
PARS Management (Munich) [10]
Stockholmsgruppen (Stockholm) [11]
Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי; born 4 June 1985) is an Israeli model, television host, actress, and entrepreneur. Refaeli is considered among the most internationally successful models to come from Israel.[12] She was on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and was voted No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012. As a television host, Refaeli has hosted of The X Factor Israel since 2013 and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.[13][14][15]
As a result of her modeling and investment career, her net worth was estimated at US $20 million in 2015, and was the highest paid model in Israel according to Forbes Israel in 2013.[16][17]
2.1 Modeling
2.2 Film and television
2.3 Business and investment
3 Activism and charity
4 Controversies
4.1 Tax evasion
4.2 Avoidance of military service
5-year-old Refaeli with her mother Tzipi Levine in 1990
Refaeli was born and raised in Hod HaSharon, Israel, to a secular Jewish family.[18] In Hebrew, her first name means "wild" (as in nature), and her surname literally means "God heals" and is a derivative of the biblical angel Raphael.[19] Her parents were both born in Israel, and her grandparents were immigrants from Europe and of Sephardic Jewish (Italian-Jewish) and Ashkenazi Jewish (Lithuanian-Jewish, and Polish-Jewish) descent.[18] Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors.[20] Her mother was a successful model in the 1970s under her maiden name, Tzipora "Tzipi" Levine.[21]
Career[edit]
Refaeli at age eighteen
Modeling[edit]
Refaeli began modeling at the age of eight months, when she first appeared in commercials. Orthodonture at 12 interrupted her modeling until she was 15,[22] when an Israeli fashion awards ceremony awarded Refaeli "Model of the Year" (2000).[23] She played prominently in campaigns for the fashion brands Castro and Pilpel, and she starred in a Milky pudding commercial.
She has appeared in editorials for French, American, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Ukrainian Elle, Spanish Vogue, British, Russian, Australian, and Vietnamese Harper's Bazaar, V, French and Dutch L'Officiel, American, British, Italian, German, Spanish, and Indian GQ, i-D, and Allure. She has appeared on the covers of French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Belgian, Danish, Swedish, Australian, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Slovenian, Croatian, and Turkish Elle, French, Spanish, and Russian Marie Claire, British, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Mexican GQ, American, British, Australian, and Serbian Maxim, and Esquire.
Refaeli has appeared in advertising campaigns for Chanel, Escada, Ralph Lauren, Desigual, Andrew Marc, Victoria's Secret, Marks and Spencer, Gap, Moët & Chandon, Hurley, Rampage, True Religion, Lucky Brand, Accessorize, Passionata, Fox, Reebok, Sears, Arrow, Besni, Marco Bicego, and Agua Bendita. She also has appeared in advertising campaigns for non-fashion brands such as Garnier Fructis, Samsung, and Subaru.
Refaeli became the second Israeli model to appear in Sports Illustrated magazine (after Michaela Bercu), in her 2007 debut in its Swimsuit Issue, where she posed with the rock band Aerosmith.[24][25] Refaeli was the cover model for the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[26] Southwest Airlines painted a bikini-clad Refaeli from that shoot on the side of its Boeing 737,[27][28] which led some passengers to criticize the airline for what they regarded as prurient, and hence "offensive to families."[29]
Refaeli has modeled for Subaru, Accessorize,[30] Brazilian clothing line Besni, Italian jewelry line Marco Bicego, and Rampage. In 2009, she modeled for Garnier International.[31]
On 5 March 2009, Refaeli received the World Style Award presented by the Women's World Awards for her "natural elegance, sense of style and compassion."[32] In October of the same year, Refaeli co-hosted Fashionable Istanbul's press conference, announced its October 2009 fashion event, and appeared in its advèrtisements.[33] FHM voted Refaeli No. 42 in 2008, No. 57 in 2010, and No. 97 in 2011, in its lists of the "100 Sexiest Women."[34]
Maxim placed Refaeli at the very top of its Hot 100 list in 2012.[35] In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked her fourth on its list of the "50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish women in the world."[36] Refaeli has been referred to as a supermodel by Maxim Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, the Daily Mail, The Algemeiner, The Jerusalem Post, The Independent, and others.
According to Forbes Israel, in 2013 she was the highest paid model in Israel, ahead of the combined modelling income of such other Israeli models as Esti Ginzburg, Gal Gadot, and Shlomit Malka.[17]
As of March 2017, Refaeli was the second most influential person on Israeli Instagram, according to the Israeli Internet Association, behind Anna Zak, but ahead of Neta Alchimister.[37]
Refaeli at the Marchesa Spring 2012 show in New York City
Refaeli co-starred in the Israeli TV drama series Pick Up in 2005. In October 2008, she co-hosted the Bravo special program Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America,[38] based on the book Ironic Iconic America written by George Lois. She returned as a program host in 2009, this time for MTV's brief revival of House of Style.[39]
In 2011, Refaeli starred in the American-Israeli film Session, directed by Haim Bouzaglo. The film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a manipulative psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with a new young patient.[40] She also served as a guest judge on cycle four of Germany's Next Topmodel hosted by Heidi Klum. In November 2012 she started her own model casting show Million Dollar Shootingstar on German TV Channel Sat.1.[41]
In January 2013, Refaeli appeared in Go Daddy's Super Bowl XLVII commercial, acting with Jesse Heiman (with whom she intimately kisses) and NASCAR driver and perennial Go Daddy pitchwoman Danica Patrick.[42][43] In 2013, Refaeli also hosted the first season of The X Factor Israel, which became the most popular music show in Israel,[44] leading to them bringing her back in 2015 for season two. In 2018 Refaeli appeared in a music video of X Factor judge, Ivri Lider.[45] In 2013, Refaeli played a starring role in the French-Israeli crime-caper film Kidon, a comedy in which she stars as a Mossad assassin involved in liquidating a terrorist.[46]
Assi Azar reportedly wrote the hit Israeli TV series, Beauty and the Baker with Refaeli in mind for the lead role. Rotem Sela eventually played the role that Refaeli reportedly turned down.[47]
Refaeli hosted the main event of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv alongside Erez Tal, whereas Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub hosted the Green Room (Artists' backstage).[48][49]
Business and investment[edit]
Video footage of Refaeli by the Israeli News Company
Refaeli invests in a variety of business ventures in Israel, and has also launched her own.
Refaeli has an ownership stake in a number of fashion companies, such as in the designer glasses manufacturer Carolina Lemke.[50] In September 2018 it was announced that Kim Kardashian will be the face of the brand alongside Refaeli and the two will appear in a promotional campaign together.[51]
On the sale of a 5% stake to fashion brand Castro in 2016, Refaeli made a NIS 2-4 million profit.[52]
In 2011, Refaeli and Dudi Balsar, an attorney and former male model, set up an E-commerce company called Under.me,[53] to sell designer underwear. As well as being its investor, Refaeli runs business development for the venture.[54] By November 2011, the company had raised $1 million in venture capital funds.[55]
In 2013, her startup 'Mika Look', which is an iPad app that allows users to purchase the items that models are wearing, raised $1.2 million in its first financing round.[56]
Refaeli is one of the main investors behind MyCheck, which processes payments behind smart phones, and which raised $1.7 million in its first financing round.[57] In its second financing round, it raised $4.2 million.[58]
In 2016, Refaeli lodged a police complaint for identity theft with the Israel Police after a news item in Calcalist[59] linked her to suspicious money transfers involving Amir Bramly, based on leaked banking correspondence.[60] Bramly sued the Calcalist reporter in relation to the media coverage.[61]
Activism and charity[edit]
She led a free campaign under the slogan "One Bag Less" to reduce the use of plastic bags in Israel.[62] In 2009, she led an unpaid campaign on behalf of the Israel Water Authority, to educate the public about water use and conservation.[63]
On 7 June 2013, Refaeli hosted a beach party in Tel Aviv for participants of Tel Aviv Pride, the city's gay pride parade.[64] In November 2013, Refaeli spoke out in support of legislation for civil marriages in Israel, as part of a campaign for the proposed Knesset bill.[65]
Refaeli hosted the closing ceremony for the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Latrun on 18 July 2017.[66][67]
Controversies[edit]
Tax evasion[edit]
In late 2015, Refaeli was accused of concealing millions of shekels of annual income, with Bar Refaeli having an estimated net worth of US $20 million in 2015.[16] It was revealed she had recently bought a NIS 15 million apartment in Tel Aviv, as well as a NIS 2.5 million apartment for her younger brother. On 16 December 2015, Israeli tax authorities in Tel Aviv detained Refaeli and her mother overnight for questioning related to potential tax evasion; she was accused of failing to pay income tax on two vehicles that she received as compensation for posing in pictures with the vehicles, and for evading taxes by disguising her Israeli residency by renting a luxury apartment in Tel Aviv through relatives.[68] On January 3, 2019 it was announced that Bar Refaeli is reportedly suspected of tax evasion and is facing a possible indictment along with her family.[69] On April 22, 2019, it was announced that Refaeli had lost her case and had to pay "tens of millions of shekels in unpaid income tax for the years 2009 and 2010".[70]
Avoidance of military service[edit]
As early as 2004 Refaeli received criticism in Israel for avoiding mandatory service in the army. At the time model Agam Rudberg said: "The way Bar Raphaeli [sic] evaded army service wasn't right. It's worth trying to serve in the army, and only if you don't feel good there to try and do something."[71]
In 2007, the Times of Israel reported that Refaeli had evaded the draft by marrying family acquaintance Arik Weinstein in 2003,[72] and divorcing him soon afterwards.[73] Military service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is mandatory in Israel for unmarried secular Jewish women over the age of 18.[74]
The Israeli Forum for the Promotion of Equal Share in the Burden threatened to boycott the fashion chain Fox if they hired Refaeli. The two sides reached a compromise in which Refaeli agreed to visit injured IDF soldiers whenever she is in Israel, and actively encourage enlistment in the army.[75] Refaeli later said, "I don't regret not enlisting, because it paid off big time. That's just the way it is: celebrities have other needs. I hope my case has influenced the army."[76] She also said: "Israel or Uganda, what difference does it make? It makes no difference to me. Why is it good to die for our country? What, isn't it better to live in New York? Why should 18-year-old kids have to die? It's dumb that people have to die so that I can live in Israel."[73]
In 2009, while speaking in support of enlisting, fellow Israeli model Esti Ginzburg criticized Refaeli for evading military service.[77][78] In 2011, Refaeli was featured on the cover of Italian GQ's war-themed May 2011 issue.[76] Refaeli's avoidance of military service was again raised in 2013, this time by IDF Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai, who criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for casting Refaeli in a 2013 advertisement. Mordechai maintained that the use of Refaeli as an "official representative of Israel" sent a "negative message" to Israeli society.[79]
In 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, Refaeli frequently expressed solidarity and appreciation of Israeli citizens serving in the Israeli Army with postings on her social network accounts, and by posting selfies of her together with smiling Israeli soldiers.[80][81]
Personal life[edit]
In November 2005 Refaeli began a relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio after meeting him at a party in Las Vegas thrown for members of U2.[82] In the course of their trip to Israel in March 2007, the couple met Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli's hometown of Hod HaSharon.[83] The relationship ended in June 2009.[84] In 2010, numerous reports indicated that their romance had been rekindled,[85][86][87] but in May 2011, it was reported that the couple had ended their romantic relationship, though they would remain friends.[88] Refaeli reportedly dated the actor-musician, Ran Danker.[89] Danker and Refaeli's mothers are close friends.[90]
Refaeli married Israeli businessman Adi Ezra on 24 September 2015 in Israel.[91] They have two daughters, Elle and Liv and a son.[92]
Israeli fashion
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Europe > Britain and Ireland > United Kingdom > England > East of England > Bedfordshire > Biggleswade
1.1 By train
1.2 By bus
1.4 By bike
2.2 By car
6.1 Restaurants
6.2 Cafés
6.3 Takeaways
6.4 Pub-restaurants
Biggleswade is a market town in Bedfordshire.
Biggleswade Station
By train[edit]
52.085-0.2611 Biggleswade station, Station Road (close to the town centre and linked to the Dells Lane area by a footbridge). On the East Coast Mainline, served by Great Northern services between London King's Cross (about 30 minutes on the peak-hour express trains, 40 on a fast train, 50 on a semi-fast) and Peterborough. Important stops include: Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Hitchin, Sandy, St Neots & Huntingdon.
There is a staffed ticket office with limited opening hours. There is also a 24-hour ticket machine next to the footbridge.
All platforms are accessed via the footbridge with steps only - there is no level access to any platform.
The journey to King's Cross takes approximately
Standard service pattern (Mon-Sat) is one fast and one semi-fast train per hour.
There is an ATM/cashpoint outside of the ticket office
A small café is available to the right of the main station building (limited opening hours)
Paid for car parking is available outside the station main building, and also in the former goods yard (adjacent to the concrete block distribution depot). Tickets are obtained from machines. There is also a smaller free car park further along the same access road in the former goods yard.
By bus[edit]
There is a small bus station on the Market Square.
Regular services operated by Stagecoach :
73 Biggleswade - Sandy - Moggerhanger - Bedford (half-hourly)
M4 Biggleswade - Ickwell - Cople - Cardington - Bedford (hourly)
Regular services operated by Centrebus:
171 Biggleswade - Henlow - Hitchin (hourly)
Regular services operated by Chiltern Travel:
E1 Biggleswade - Potton - Gamlingay (every 2 hours)
E2 Biggleswade - Potton - Everton - Sandy (every 2 hours)
E4 Biggleswade - Eyeworth - Wrestlingworth (hourly)
E6 Biggleswade - Upper Caldicote - Old Warden (loop, every 2 hours)
Regular services operated by Grant Palmer:
200 Biggleswade - Shefford - Clophill - Maulden or Ampthill (every 2 hours)
Biggleswade is on the A1, about 10 miles after the end of the Southern Section of the A1(M). It is therefore well connected to London, the M25, Hertfordshire, Peterborough and the North. The A14 passes North of Biggleswade, linking the A1 to East Anglia and the East Midlands.
Smaller roads link the town to Bedford and Cambridge.
By bike[edit]
The A1 is not a very cycle-friendly road; other, smaller roads in the area are far more so.
There are several bridle paths linking Biggleswade to surrounding towns, which are passable for mountain and hybrid bikes.
The National Cycle Network Route 51 is due to be extended from Biggleswade to Sandy and Hitchin, using some of these bridle paths and minor roads.
The old Sandy-Bedford railway line nearby is now a dedicated cycle route (National Cycle Network Route 51).
Map of Biggleswade
Biggleswade is a small town, and many places can be reached on foot. There are, however, some outlying trading estates and superstores.
There are two hourly, daytime, local services, operated by Herberts Travel [1]:
185 Town Centre to Holme Court Avenue.
187 Town Centre to Stratton Way.
By car[edit]
The town centre can get congested, but there are large car parks at Asda (in Church Street), and in Rose Lane. Smaller car parks are located in St Andrew's Street, opposite the Library/Fire Station in Chestnut Avenue, and for Aldi customers, in Bonds Lane. There is also time-restricted parking on the Market Square (except Saturdays when the Market is in town) and in the area around Station Road and Back Street.
There is a cycle route running North-South through the town, mostly off-road, and following the railway line.
The town centre has plenty of bike racks.
The River Ivel in Biggleswade
Biggleswade has an attractive market square in the centre of the town, which hosts a lively general market on Saturday,a monthly farmers market and occasional continental markets.
The River Ivel runs along the West side of the town, and has a mix of industrial, residential and rural views, some attractive, some less so. You can gain access by the Mill, and up by Sainsbury's, at the Northern A1 roundabout.
St Andrew's Church is an attractive building on Shortmead St, set in a pleasant churchyard.
The Local History Society has applied 'Green Plaques' to many buildings in the Town Centre with a short description of historical interest. Of particular note is the plaque in Shortmead Street denoting where Dan Albone, the inventor of the world's first practical motorised agricultural tractor ('The Ivel'), lived and had his workshop.
Saxon Leisure Centre, Saxon Drive, SG18 8SU, ☏ +44 1767 313190, ✉ lifestyles.saxon@midbeds.gov.uk. A good leisure centre on the Saxon Estate, with a gym and pool (and an active swimming club).
There are several shops (local and chains) in the town centre, as well as the Saturday and farmers' markets.
Asda, Church Street, SG18, ☏ +44 1767 605100. M-F 8AM-10PM, Sa 7:30AM-10PM, Su 10AM-4PM. Supermarket on the old brewery site, in the town centre.
Sainsbury's, Bells Brook, SG18 0NA, ☏ +44 1767 317587. Out near the A1 Northern roundabout, with a petrol station. M-F 8AM-10PM, Sa 7:30AM-10PM, Su 10AM-4PM.
There is a trading estate on London Road, with a number of national chain shops, including Matalan, Halfords, Homebase, Laura Ashley (Home), Bensons, Argos Extra, Brantano, and Carpets for Less.
Jordans Cereals, Holme Mills, SG18 9JY, ☏ +44 800 587 8901. Jordans are based in Biggleswade, and have a pleasant factory shop at Holme Mills, adjacent to the River Ivel between Biggleswade and Broom (the 200 bus service passes the door).
Restaurants[edit]
Raj Bengal, 61 Hitchin Street, ☏ +44 1767 318555. Does a great set dinner on Sunday
The Viceroy, 51 Sun Street, SG18 0BY, ☏ +44 1767 312110. Another Indian restaurant, slightly further out of town, on Sun Street.
Cafés[edit]
SurfinCafé, 3-4 Market House, SG18 8AQ, ☏ +44 870 760 5019, ✉ info@surfincafe.co.uk. M-F 7AM-7PM, Sa 8AM-5PM, Su 9AM-5PM. A very popular local meeting place, in the middle of the Market Square. Provides free WiFi with heaters and blankets outside in the winter. Great in the summer with over 100 people chilling in the sunshine. £2.40 for reg latte.
Takeaways[edit]
Beego's Sandwich Bar, 32 High Street, SG18 0JL, ☏ +44 1767 314749. For the best sandwiches and baked potatoes in town!
Pub-restaurants[edit]
The Hare and Hounds, Old Warden, SG18 9HQ, ☏ +44 1767 627225. Just outside of Biggleswade in Old Warden, a wonderful pub-restaurant, serving home-cooked food. Named best dining pub in Bedfordshire in 2006.
Dan Albone. (updated Oct 2015)
There are several pubs throughout the town, particularly around the High Street and Market Square. Biggleswade used to be a brewing town, with Greene King brewery based where the Asda supermarket now stands. This means that most of the pubs are Greene King with the exception of a few freehouses.
The bar at the Stratton House Hotel is nice but can get a bit busy at weekends and has an over+21 door policy. The Lounge in Church Street is more upmarket and has a large spirits, wine and champagne list. The New Inn on Market Square is frequented by those only just old enough to drink but has a great juke box and a nice landlady. Real ale aficionados head for The Rose or the Golden Pheasant. The Red Lion has live bands at the tail end of the week and is open until late.
Lounge, Church Street, SG18 0JS (Behind The Crown Hotel, Next door to Asda), ☏ +44 870 760 5019, +44 1767 221063 (Reservations), ✉ info@theoldmaltings.co.uk. 9AM-11PM. Sophisticated wine and tapas bar in a 300-year-old vaulted malting barn. Very strict door policy so you'll be in good company in the evening with a fine wine and champagne drinking crowd. Gets very busy for lunch and weekend evenings. Plays musicals every Monday evening.
There's only a couple of hotels in the town itself: there are, however, more motel-style places out by the A1, and some country B&Bs in the area.
Stratton House Hotel, London Road, SG18 8ED, ☏ +44 1767 312442, fax: +44 1767 600163, ✉ info@strattonhouse-hotel.com.
The Shuttleworth Collection, Shuttleworth (Old Warden) Aerodrome, Nr. Biggleswade, SG18 9EP, ☏ +44 1767 627927, fax: +44 1767 627949, ✉ collection@shuttleworth.org. Summer 10AM-5PM, Winter 10AM-4PM. An eccentric assortment of an airfield with antique aircraft (including some used in the film 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying machines) and vintage transport, a Swiss Garden, a bird of prey centre and a play area. Just outside Biggleswade, in the delightful village of Old Warden. £10 (£20 for all attractions).
RSPB Sandy, off Potton Road, Sandy, ☏ +44 1767 680551, ✉ thelodge@rspb.org.uk. 9AM to sunset or 9PM. This lodge is the HQ of the RSPB and has a wonderful reserve to visit, even if you're not especially into birds. Sandy is a few miles North of Biggleswade. You can walk, take the train or the bus. £3.
Moggerhanger House and Park, Park Road, Moggerhanger, Beds, MK44 3RW. A Grade 1 listed Georgian Country House by Sir John Soane with gardens originally laid out by Humphrey Repton, now a Christian Conference Centre. Cafe and Bistro open to the public - guided tours of the house (formerly home of the Governor of the Bank of England)available
Cambridge is 25 miles away.
Routes through Biggleswade
Peterborough ← St Neots ← N S → merges with → London
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Katy Perry on reaction to 'Witness': 'My heart was broken'
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Katy Perry said she experienced "situational depression" following lackluster response to her album "Witness." File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Katy Perry says public reaction to her album Witness left her heartbroken.
The 33-year-old singer said in the August issue of Vogue Australia that she experienced "situational depression" following lackluster response to the album.
[post_ads]"I have had bouts of situational depression and my heart was broken last year because, unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the public didn't react in the way I had expected to ... which broke my heart," she said.
Perry spent a week at the Hoffman Institute, a personal growth retreat in California, in January following Witness' release in June 2017. Her intent was "to let go of anything that was holding [her] back from being [her] ultimate self."
"Music is my first love and I think it was the universe saying: 'Okay, you speak all of this language about self-love and authenticity, but we are going to put you through another test and take away any kind of validating 'blankie.' Then we'll see how much you do truly love yourself,'" the star said of reaction to Witness.
"That brokenness, plus me opening up to a greater, higher power and reconnecting with divinity, gave me a wholeness I never had," she added. "It gave me a new foundation. It's not just a material foundation: it's a soul foundation."
Witness debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, but received mixed reviews from fans and critics. Perry celebrated the one-year anniversary of the album's release with a message to fans on Instagram in June.
"Witness is 1! This has been an eye-opening year! Thank you for witnessing me. I hope I've helped you feel safe, seen & celebrated while on tour!" she wrote.
Entertainment - U.S. Daily News: Katy Perry on reaction to 'Witness': 'My heart was broken'
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https://entertainment.dailynews.us.com/2018/07/katy-perry-on-reaction-to-witness-my.html
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Angelina Jolie Not Making Brad Pitt Look Like The 'Villain' After Split
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Angelina Jolie is not making her ex Brad Pitt look like the villain in their split. Pictured: Pitt and Jolie attend "The Tree Of Life" premiere during the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2011 in Cannes, France. Photo: Getty Images/Andreas Rentz
By Catherine Armecin, International Business Times
Angelina Jolie is not doing things to taint Brad Pitt's reputation.
According to a report from NW, the "Maleficent" star is purposely not eating in an effort to make her ex-husband look bad and convince the people that he's "the villain in their split." Gossip Cop debunked the report and stated that it was "thin on proof."
An unidentified source told NW that the "Salt" actress is "going to dangerous lengths to take down" Pitt. "She's starving herself to essentially say to the world, 'Look at what Brad's done to me,'" the alleged source said.
"Angie's grabbing handfuls of nuts and berries here and there, but generally it's gallons of coffee and lemon water that gets her through the day," the insider continued. "She seems to think it's her secret weapon [against Brad]."
The tabloid insisted that Jolie is willing to do anything to take the "Furious" actor down. It also asserted that Jolie is still "in love" with her ex. "There's a lot of emotion and history… There are very strong feelings," the source claimed.
Gossip Cop, however, noted that Jolie has always been thin. This matter has been covered by several outlets for years now. Just recently, one publication invited a nutrition expert to lend credibility to the rumors about Jolie's alleged eating disorder following the breakdown of her marriage to Pitt.
"Looks can be deceiving, but my concerns are raised when someone has little to zero body fat for extended periods of time, especially if they're not a serious athlete," Caroline Craven, a nutritionist at theGirlwithMS.com told Hollywood Life. "Bodies need calories to function best and if they don't receive them, then they are forced to feed off of reserves. Bodies need a reserve in the case something goes wrong such as an unexpected illness. Unfortunately, Hollywood tends to like skin and bones."
"As far as what would be a healthy weight for Angelina's height at 5'7, I'm not a fan of using numbers with weight,” the nutritionist added. "Everyone is built differently. It's how one feels. I would ask her if she has the energy to live the life she wants. And is she reducing modifiable risk factors that could cause illness and death?"
Jolie's relationship with Pitt is intact. At the time the exes are still sorting out the custody of their six children.
Entertainment - U.S. Daily News: Angelina Jolie Not Making Brad Pitt Look Like The 'Villain' After Split
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Dummy Run
(thing) by steev Sun Jun 10 2001 at 15:03:53
A UK-based music group consisiting of Andrew Sharpley (of Stock, Hausen, and Walkman) and Nic Birmingham. Dummy Run create music using sampling and are similiar in style to SH&W, though perhaps slightly more beat-based. They have released 2 CDs so far, "Pink Rocket" and "Ice Cream Headache", both on the Hot Air label.
Two of my favorite tracks by Dummy Run are "fd" and "Jolly Holiday"., both from the Pink Rocket disc. "fd" stands for "funky drummer", probably the most sampled bit of music on a song by the most sampled artist, James Brown. The Dummy Run piece features chopped up snatches of Funky Drummer, along with clips of a rather one-sided radio news report about the evils of sampling. The tracks concludes with the announcer explaining that "the musicians who made the new song, are making loads of money... while the musicians who played on the original track... are starving in New York."
"Jolly Holiday" is more whimsical, and silly musically, though still a dark work, featuring a stern male voice scolding "Mummy and Daddy have told you a vicious lie".
Loads of fun, Dummy Run. ;-)
Stock, Hausen, and Walkman February 22, 2004 Pabst Blue Ribbon August 14, 2001
Hot Air I am not a hippie! Appropriation sampling
¡MULTIPLE ORGANISMS!
Kendra Smith Presents the Guild of Temporal Adventurers
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the lake around which are a thousand tiny fires
Which, in retrospect, is a bit small of him.
What you call truth is a blur. What you call knowledge is a rusty memory. What you call trust is a hope, a loyalty which has gone untested.
E2reneta, E2reneta (Once Appeared on Baretta)
Love creates. Hatred only destroys.
Read. Write. Create.
I don't want the world, I just want your half
Don't stop. You can sleep when you're dead.
I don't understand vegetarians
Do not have sex with horses. Seriously, don't.
No, don't click that!
Words that don't mean the same as they used to
Why programmers don't comment their code
And that's why we don't have sex in the nose
Don't mope, act!
Don't push it
I know you don't read too good so I'll write slow
Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
I don't even have the energy to kill myself
Don't run over fire hose
I don't have a postmodern condition; I've always been like this
Don't shake it, bump it, or sniff it: The 2001 anthrax mail scare
I don't suppose we can wait for some alien race to come down and threaten us
Don't touch, check with other passengers, inform station staff or dial 999
I'm sorry, I don't believe we've been properly estranged.
Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it
Don't you 'Don't get roused sugar' me!
don't open the reactor
Reason #57 Why I Don't Have Children
finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
To June, from Eric
Don't talk shop in a club
Don't get up. The rain is warm and we are waterproof.
the flecks of smoke and sparks don't conjure you back from the ground or heaven
I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
GNU Image Manipulation Program
Image Magick
morphological image processing
a massive thing which loomed
Food which was intended as such by nature
In which the mountains are old and I am the ghost on the battlements
That which is
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him
Researchers Create Nonmagnetic Magnet
It is possible to know anyone you wish to create
love is not inherent in the world. we create it.
Don't shit where you eat
I will REMOVE the fucking toilet seat if you don't shut up
Don't look out the window in the morning
Don't make me get my shoe!
Parents don't understand the new economy
Don't hate the media, become the media
Don't you ever go to work?
Don't Stare
We don't write poetry because it's cute
I don't give a toss
Don't poop in the shower
"Ha ha," says the Israeli voter to the American voter, "don't talk to me about the lesser of two evils."
E2 killed my dog, and I don't think it's fair
What they don't know can't hurt them
Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Consumers: don't buy into the hype
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Don't work at a golf course
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
if one of us should flicker and vanish, mid-drag, don't bat an eye. claim a spot on the curb and never give an inch.
Dont come near me (user)
Preaching Christianity to hitch hikers when you don't believe in God on the day of the Devil
Badgers? We ain't got no badgers. We don't need no badgers. I don't have to show you any stinking badgers!
You don't leave anyone alone in a monkey knife fight
I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
I don't feel gay
the way you don't look at me
Don't patronize anyone who temporarily rents a store
Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
Robots don't write poetry. Anymore.
Don't you fucking die on me
I don't want to get over you
some things change, and some things don't
Don't allow an awareness of your own mortality or a sense of impending doom to spoil the moment.
roll-your-own nifty desktop background images
Google image search
Are images defined through their visual language?
Languages in which whitespace is significant
To which side does sir dress?
Interstates which are not really interstates
your eyes are a freight-liner which i am coated in a thick glaze of honey and amazement, darkness
On feeling haunted by words which were never said
Blood stains (How to create)
Creating iTunes-compatible MPEG-4 AAC files in Windows
Create Stylesheet (node_forward)
Please don't throw me in the briar patch!
I don't believe in people
If you Log in you could create a "I don't create. I execute the images which appear" node. If you don't already have an account, you can register here.
Meal, ready to eat
Viktor Belenko
Poplar Island fantasia
ten grave precepts
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'Saint Laurent': EW review
By Joe McGovern
May 07, 2015 at 08:47 PM EDT
Carole Bethuel
Biography,
There’s a moment in this voluptuously funky and filthy portrait of French fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent in which Yves (Gaspard Ulliel) is popping a pill, smoking a cigarette, swigging vodka, and making out with his lover—all simultaneously. You’ll understand more about his troubled soul and appetite for self-destruction from that one bit than from most of last year’s polite, state-authorized biopic Yves Saint Laurent. Director Bertrand Bonello (The Pornographer) prefers cracked-up fragments from the designer’s 1970s heyday to any noble attempts to demystify him. While some parts drag, such as a protracted meeting between Yves’ partner Pierre Bergé (Jérémie Renier) and American investors, the film’s overall energy and synth-scored kink is dizzying, especially in scenes of Yves waking up covered in snakes. And actor Ulliel, who’s been the face of both Chanel and Hannibal Lecter (in 2007’s Hannibal Rising), knows how to slither. His version of Yves is spoiled, insecure, cruel—and, in the movie’s ironic final shot, tickled to death that we still seem to care about him. A–
Gaspard Ulliel,
Jeremie Renier
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Real Housewives of Orange County recap: Baptism By Fire
During Tamra's baptism, the women finally confront Vicki about her shadiness.
By Sean Evans
October 12, 2015 at 09:33 PM EDT
Tamra Judge is checking out the venue of her impending baptism and finds it to be the perfect backdrop for “the first step in a journey of over a year to wash away all my sins.” Uh, right. While many plotlines on this show feel overproduced and shoehorned, this one in particular strikes me as quite disingenuous, mostly because it was but a few short weeks ago when Tamra couldn’t pronounce the word “pastor” correctly, and was acting pretty un-Christian when cursing out Bricki and others at Shannon’s Aires party. Maybe we’re not privy to enough of Tamra’s newfound respect for the Lord, but, given the edit we’ve seen this season, it seems like Tamra’s the same old tiger with the same old stripes and that this baptism is more of an excuse to get all gussied up and have a party.
Accordingly, everyone’s here. Tamra’s penniless louse of a son, Ryan, Lizzie From Last Season, Lynne from Many Seasons Ago, Vicki’s son Michael, some woman named Tammy Knickerbocker that I don’t remember from season 3, Pastor Mike and his choker necklace and, of course, all the ladies and their significant others (except Jim Edmonds). Vicki Gunvalson’s on high alert since she “doesn’t want to be around conflict tonight,” so she’s mostly sticking to her brother’s side. Shannon Beador, free of that pesky lingering piece of her home colonic kit, is bouncing around like normal, though she’s concerned Vicki will call her nasty and disgusting again. That will not stand with Ole Lemon Bowl.
Tamra walks out, is “overwhelmed and feels like her life is going to change and people are going to know a side of me I’ve never known!” A church choir comes out and sings about the path of Jesus at these people who are decidedly not “white as snow,” as the choir exalts, if this season’s footage is any indication. Shannon ballyhoos about Tamra “committing her life to the Lord,” while Heather Dubrow can’t find a Jewish equivalent of the baptism: “In fact, our whole slogan is ‘Never forget.’”
We get underway and Tamra speaks about all the good and hard times and “knows God has a plan for me and can’t freaking wait to see what it is.” Then she disses ex-husband Simon and publicly forgives him for the hellish custody battle he put her through. She closes by admitting she will continue “to mess up from time to time, but what was once my mess is now my message.” Uh huh. Into the pool Tamra and Pastor Mike go for the big dunk. Tamra says she sees her whole life as she hits the water, and since she’s spent a considerable part of it in front of a camera crew, Bravo treats us to a clip show of her best and worst moments. The choir sings “Amazing Grace,” and there’s a laughable cut to Vicki, who is holding her hand to the sky and singing along.
Everyone spills into the reception and I’m hoping that with the addition of alcohol we can move away from this saccharine opening and into some confrontations. Instead we have to watch Vicki stare at boats docked in the marina behind the venue and rue how she never bought a yacht. Then she tells us how she’d ordinarily be talking to all the Housewives, but this is a conscious choice to be on her own. Despite a desire not to interact, Meghan approaches, noticing Vicki is cold, and offers to help her find a shawl. Vicki walks away, telling us she just wants to give Tamra her present and get out of here.
Next Vicki stands behind Shannon, though they never speak. “The one that hurts the most is Shannon,” Vicki tells us. “I’ve been nothing but nice to her.” Untrue. You’ve gossiped heavily behind Shannon’s back, Fun Bus. I wonder what it’s like inside Vicki’s brain. Is there just some little version of Vicki in there, tasked with taking in everything Vicki sees and hears and figuring out a way to make the output all about Vicki and how she’s been wronged?
NEXT: Yet another lie
Heather, Meghan, and Shannon huddle together to share a newfound lie from Vicki. Apparently there’s a tall tale floating around about how Brooks felt ill from chemo, so he called Terry Dubrow who dispatched a colleague to administer an IV drip in the middle of the night. Shannon heard this directly from Vicki, while Heather heard it from a few other sources. Terry comes up and debunks it on the spot. “It’s so weird to lie about something so traceable,” Heather tells us.
Tamra arrives at the reception and they all crowd in for a selfie, sans Vicki. “I’m trying to be a pillar of strength,” Vicki yammers to us. “Satan is the author of confusion. He wants them to be confused. I know the truth. And I’m praying for all them.” Lady, the more you protest, the crazier and more guilty you look. Vicki’s brother Billy pulls Tamra aside and here’s where it starts to heat up, kids.
“I hope you believe that Brooks is sick,” Billy admonishes. Newly baptized Tamra is really damn diplomatic: “If he’s sick, I hope he gets better. If he’s not sick, I hope he gets better.” Billy mounts a defense for Brooks, citing the one wonky medical record that has been disclosed. Heather pops up, declaring “the situation is weird” and notes to us that she thinks Billy is strategically being used as a pawn. Shannon comes up, too, and wants “to make sense of it.” Billy’s in the middle of defending his/Bricki’s lackluster position, saying “I do know what I know,” when Vicki springs up and interrupts the convo to give Tamra what my girlfriend calls the ugliest picture frame. Then Vicki announces she’s leaving, which shocks Tamra, since she’s only been there for an hour. Billy says they’re headed to a party to meet Brooks, which Tamra rightfully calls “rude.” Shannon and Billy are now going back and forth, with anger mounting more so on Shannon’s side of things, when Billy’s girlfriend, Ronda, decides to jump in and question Shannon about her pulling away from Vicki.
Meanwhile, Heather’s pulled Vicki aside, letting her know the right thing to do is stay here for Tamra. “Where are you always going? Why are you always running away?” Heather for the win. Then Heather asks about the IV drip story and Vicki plays dumb. “I could’ve been traveling. I didn’t hear about it. I don’t know. Why is 99 percent of this stuff happening?” comes Vicki’s discombobulated reply, though the look on her face belies her words.
By the bar, Ronda’s trying to go for the kill with Shannon, but she’s doing it so poorly. She asks Shannon about medical records, and why Shannon hasn’t called or spoken to Vicki (because Vicki has treated Shannon like utter crap, Ronda). ShanShan holds her own: “How dare you? Who are you, Ronda? You don’t know if I’ve been a good friend or not.” This devolves into a petty high school argument about who should’ve called whom and said what but Ronda doesn’t really do herself any favors by stirring this pot, given that she’s defending a woman who behaves like a child.
Then Ronda drops the bomb: “Vicki didn’t ask to see the records when you thought your husband was cheating on you.” OHH SHIT. Ronda. went. there. “You have a hell of a lotta nerve, girl,” Shannon snaps, walking over to David and practically shouting, “That Ronda bitch!” She comes back, demands that Ronda and Billy leave, and mutters about the guts on Ronda. To us, Shannon says, “Ronda was told to do that. She’s following instructions from Vicki.” Shannon’s so mad, she can’t even get her purse open and hands the whole thing to LFLS, who offers a very helpful, “calm down.” Shannon doesn’t have time for LFLS’ advice; she needs to go confront Vicki and marches off to do so. “She’s gonna beat someone’s ass,” one of the Housewives says, watching Shannon stalk off.
NEXT: Vicki goes off the rails.
Shannon grabs Vicki’s arm and thanks her repeatedly for being such a great friend in the most sarcastic tone she can muster. I kind of wish Shannon was a bit more direct, but props for saying something. Meggers, hovering in the back, feeding on all of this, relays why Shannon’s so pissed. Vicki’s response? “It wasn’t like it was such a secret. I was just telling what happened.” Uh, nope. Shannon told you that in confidence, Fun Bus. “This evening is not going to end well unless we leave,” Vicki says. “Brooks has cancer. David had an affair. That’s it.” Vicki, Ronda, and Billy run away like the cowards that they are. Ronda apologizes to Vicki about her comments to Shannon, but Vicki says, “That’s okay. Shannon got what she deserved.” Pastor Mike and his choker necklace offer to talk to Vicki with Tamra, the latter of which thinks this is a marvelous idea. “You can’t argue with a pastor. It’s like illegal. You go to hell.” Close enough, Tamra.
Pastor Mike and Tamra approach Vicki, standing near the porte cochere of this hotel. “No, no, no. I have no respect for Shannon. That’s done. Shame on her for not returning my phone calls or emails and shaking my arm. My mother passed away,” Vicki says, voice cracking. “I want to go to heaven and be with my mom. I’m really, really sad and all this stuff is just disgusting. I know Jesus, and I know the truth, and I’m good with it. These women don’t deserve me. These women keep pushing me instead of hugging me. I’m being nailed to the cross like Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ did nothing wrong and he was nailed to the cross.” Somewhere during this — perhaps the craziest diatribe ever issued by a Real Housewife — Pastor Mike has slunk away. Wise move, Pastor Mike.
Inside, Heather and Shannon confer about the IV drip story and realize that Vicki is flat out lying to one of them. They fly outside, along with Meghan, and Shannon lays into Vicki again about breaking Shannon’s confidence concerning the affair. “Are you kidding? It’s not private,” Vicki retorts. “Don’t shake your hand at me. When nobody else liked you, I was there for you.” Probably not the best comeback, Vicki. I’ll spare you the full back and forth, as it gets inane rather quickly. It ends with Shannon shouting down Vicki, and Heather pleading with Vicki not to run away… as Vicki runs into her limo. Tamra follows her inside and outs all of Vicki’s lies to Vicki, who “just doesn’t care and doesn’t know.” When Tamra brings up Briana, Vicki straight up sells her own kid out, calling her a liar. Wow. Welcome to the depths of new lows, Gunvalson. Vicki’s going to walk away (well, be driven away in her silly limo) feeling like “I have been baptized tonight knowing what my new path is.” What is that? Lying to everyone’s faces and then running away when they start to call you out?
“When you’re aiming at someone else, you’re not looking at yourself in the mirror,” Vicki jabbers. “It’s always deflection, deflection, deflection.” But wait, Fun Bus. Haven’t we seen you take aim at others over and over again during the past decade? You’ve proudly built your reputation as the OG of the OC on this very principle. So now that people have had enough and are dishing it right back, you’re doing precisely what you’re claiming to hate: deflecting.
Up pops the chyron to tell us that “Brooks broke up with Vicki” and moved to Florida. Meghan’s chyron tells us that she and Jim Edmonds are spending more time together, though the next graphic reads that he spends only 50 percent of his time in the OC. Shannon and David “continue to go through marriage counseling,” probably with that quack we’ve met. A later graphic seemingly praises Shannon for getting over her affair in one year when it usually takes two (and notes she lost 15 pounds). The Dubrow’s mansion is over budget and behind schedule and will not be finished any time soon. And Terry’s filming two TV shows, meaning Heather probably sees him even less than she’d like. Lastly, Tamra’s found the Lord — obviously — and has strength as a result. And while Eddie doesn’t go to church, “he does pray… that Ryan repays the loan.” And with that, dear RHOC viewers, season 10 draws to a close.
Do you think Vicki was lying the whole time? Do you think Shannon and David’s marriage will last? Do you think the Dubrow’s mansion will ever be finished? Do you think Tamra’s a new person after having found Jesus? Do you think Meghan will become a full time private investigator? What did you think of this season as a whole?
Episode Recaps
S12 E21 Recap
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Reunion Part Two'
By Nolan Feeney
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Reunion Part One'
Real Housewives of Orange County finale recap: 'Candle Sticks and Lunatics'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'The Real Vikings of Orange County'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'A Case of the Vickis'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Mystic Mistake'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Armenian Rhapsody'
'Real Housewives of Orange County' recap: 'Don't Rock the Boat'
By Carla Sosenko
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Farm-to-Table Manners'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Breast Intentions'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Loose Lips Sink Friendships'
S12 E9 Recap
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Drag Bingo Bombshell'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Run for Your Wife'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Un-Noble Women'
By Amanda Bell
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'The Sip-N-See Stand Off'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'Moving In, Moving On, and Moving Fast'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'We Have a New Puppet Master'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'The Not So Quiet Woman'
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: 'It's Either My Way or the Feng Shui'
Real Housewives of Orange County premiere recap: 'The Great Divide'
Real Housewives of Orange County reunion recap: Season 11, Episode 21
By Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal
Real Housewives of Orange County recap: Season 11, Episode 20
Bravo turns its cameras on California’s ladies who lunch (and shop, and tan, and get plastic surgery, and bicker…)
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Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Length-dependent disassembly maintains four different flagellar lengths in Giardia
Shane G McInally,
Jane Kondev,
Scott C Dawson ,
University of California, Davis, United States;
Brandeis University, United States;
With eight flagella of four different lengths, the parasitic protist Giardia is an ideal model to evaluate flagellar assembly and length regulation. To determine how four different flagellar lengths are maintained, we used live-cell quantitative imaging and mathematical modeling of conserved components of intraflagellar transport (IFT)-mediated assembly and kinesin-13-mediated disassembly in different flagellar pairs. Each axoneme has a long cytoplasmic region extending from the basal body, and transitions to a canonical membrane-bound flagellum at the 'flagellar pore'. We determined that each flagellar pore is the site of IFT accumulation and injection, defining a diffusion barrier functionally analogous to the transition zone. IFT-mediated assembly is length-independent, as train size, speed, and injection frequencies are similar for all flagella. We demonstrate that kinesin-13 localization to the flagellar tips is inversely correlated to flagellar length. Therefore, we propose a model where a length-dependent disassembly mechanism controls multiple flagellar lengths within the same cell.
Shane G McInally
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States
Jane Kondev
Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
Scott C Dawson
scdawson@ucdavis.edu
National Institutes of Health (R01AI077571)
National Institutes of Health (GM0007377)
Gregory J Pazour, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
Received: May 23, 2019
© 2019, McInally et al.
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Video at: http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/owc_datadoubler/
OWC Data Doubler Adds Up to 3.0TB of Hard Drive and/or SSD-Flash Storage to Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro
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Posts Tagged ‘birth name’
July 20, 2019 chosenbygrace Leave a comment
These aren’t rumors, but facts backed up by pictures/screenshots and official documents. Wikipedia is falsely claiming it’s a conspiracy theory. There’s even some wacko know-it-all “ex-lawyer” (great credential!) “Charles” on quora making a faps3 and absurd lie that “the press corps” (what the hell is that?!) disproved this with DNA, wow, just lies!
Key smoking gun (besides the pictures and social media admissions by Ilhan’s brother: her first known husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, has the same birthdate as a man with the same name that his fellow students say had the same dad as Ilhan (as in the dad has the same name), the same as that of her brother (who in social media posts twice was pictured with Ilhan), a brother she has not publically disclosed as a sibling/brother (and she will not give out the last names of her family, why? Because their real last names is ‘not’ Omar, but ‘Elmi’). Ilhan and others of her family lied about their last names in order to claim relationship to the Omar (Somali) family for quick access to U.S. and U.K. citizenship. Ahmad was apparently intelligent enough stay outside of America, probably realizing that if he were found out would be the target of harassment and would have had a chance of being arrested by ICE (the immigration police).
New Evidence Supports Claims That Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
100% Proof Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
ilhan’s Brother Caught Lying About His Education
Why Is This Now New News?
https://www.conservapedia.com/Ilhan_Omarilhan Omar Charged With Fraud
INCEST OMAR: Loomer Launches New Merch to Raise Awareness About Ilhan Omar Marrying Brother
Star-Tribune wrote it, “could neither conclusively confirm nor rebut the allegation that he is Omar’s sibling.”
Snopes.com in February 2019, said “the evidence uncovered thus far isn’t definitive enough to come down on one side or the other.”
For those of you liberals who wonder why I care, it’s because 1. I’m Jewish, or consider myself so as my dad is Jewish (I do not care that in Judaism the mom only counts – it’s a racist doctrine, as Abraham was called the first “Jew” and yet is an Assyrian, and Moses’ wife was an Ethiopian, yet clearly God had considered Moses’ future family line as being sufficient as Jews when God pretended he was about to wipe out most of or half the Jews who were rebellious). 2. Laura Loomer is Jewish and racists within the liberal community are persecuting her and calling her a conspiracy theorist on Wikipedia. 3. On Quora I see a shady guy calling himself “Charles” and an “ex-lawyer” with an unbelievable “24,000+” answers on Quora.com (and a significant yet underwhelming following of 9,900 followers) gave a very suspicious answer about Ilhan, by outright lying and using the infantile and illogical claim that to consider a false accusation is “old hat” that is (possibly) 9 years old (what matters is if it’s true, and it’s coming to light in mass as she became a government official whose opposing the president, all Jews and who can sabotage America via its immigration laws). Something of an interesting side note is that the expression/term/phrase, “old hat” is sexist:
“slang. The vulva. Also: sexual intercourse; a woman regarded as a means of sexual gratification. Now arch. and rare.” – Oxford Dictionary. Ironically the very term “old hat” there is claimed to be a near extinct phrase, itself, old. It originally seems to have meant, “a woman who was only good for sex due to her uselessness and old age” or “a female only good for sex as her vagina has been repeatedly used for sex by more than one male, in otherwords, a “slut”. Shouldn’t Charles, playing know-it-all ex-lawyer (he’s a writer for Apple Inc., too, allegedly) have been careful not to use a sexist expression? It is evidence that Charles is carelessly posting answers. Further evidence is that the expression the way he implied it shows an illogical and criminal state of mind as it’s meaning morphed to, include, “colloq. In predicative use: something considered to be old-fashioned, out of date, unoriginal, or hackneyed.” Since when would wondering about a recently discovered accusation be, “unoriginal” or “old-fashioned”. “Out of date” is an expression itself that refers to style and as such is itself discriminatory/prejudiced then against clothing choice, makeup and hairstyle and by extension then, the treasured doctrine of “liberal diversity”. So, Charles isn’t even using the term correctly and ironically one that itself is considered “out of fashion” to even use and not original/no longer new. Charles meant however, “old news” (apparently trying to force a new meaning to sound clever, original and wise by using a rare term – talk about “weird” and nonsensical”!)
Does it’s older use matter? Of course it does, because in a very large population who seeks information on everything and regarding a very controversial topic in tbe major news people will end up digging into everything, and ironically this topic was something that required some deep digging!
Anne Curzan, an English professor at the University of Michigan claims that the obsolete (pardon this side-topic pun) use of words and phrases no longer counts as what the meaning was replaced with, which true or not, doesn’t excuse Charles’ dually wrong use 1. It’s more modern use applies to fashion 2. He meant it to mean “a topic so old everyone knew about it and that’s been disproven”. 1. It was never a widely known topic as Ilhan herself was obscure and rarely in the news. 2. Again, a thing’s age has nothing to do with it being true or false, it’s grossly childish thinking, like saying, “the Bible is old, so we should completely ignore it” or “climate change”, “rape”, “homosexuality”, “lying”, “evolution”, “evil”. It’s as childish as the expression “judgmental”, itself in it’s modern usage a nonsensical phrase.
The 3rd reason I care about Ilhan’s criminal acts and words, specifically her unlawful marraige is that I don’t think this news has gotten the attention it deserves, as it shows how gullible people, liberal or not, can be in accepting someone merely for the sake of “diversity” (which seems to me to be a word liberals are using out of their dislike for the traditional liberal pretentious ideal of total “unity”/agreement, which truly just meant, “agreement with liberal beliefs/philosophy” – but of course has a conotation of accepting even Christian fundamentalist beliefs which liberals despise, so, they switched to “diversity”, meaning in liberal context, “you don’t have to agree with everyone and any claim like that blacks are mentally inferior, but treat everyone equally under the law, like gays who wish to have the same marraige rights as hetros”, which itsef is hypocritical and impossible as liberals cannot even agree when human life becomes human, and so denies the rights of defenseless babies, and cannot agree when even a preteen child – if at all – should have the right to suicide or have an so called “sex-change”!).
Liberlism is very convoluted. I think too conservatism is too, and perhaps worse, as it seems to imply the Bible sanctions free speech, even lying of the kind liberals use to destroy conservatism. What conservatives fear is their “free speech” to question anything held sacred or “mainstream” or to blaspheme or make statements that merely over being disagreeable, being used to prosecute, censure and execute them over, a fear or concern due to the Catholic Church (a Christian-pagan cult, with an anti-Jewish streak) having used religious doctrines they held sacred (and the Puritans who misused evidence of witchcraft) to do such things. But the conservative and liberal method of dealing with the Catholic and Puritan misuse of religious doctrine is no better. It should never be legal to sanction what traditionally is considered blasphemy or malicious speech that is meant to incite violence or strife, especially random, like a verbal dirty bomb. Example, if I say, “Liberals and conservatives are both fags” or, “Christians are deluded liars”, it should be a criminal slander offense, but ones being broad like that with no direct blasphemy should have a death penalty, just some fine, community service, public rebuke, or a three days in jail. The worse the maliciousness the worse the punishment. Example, if I said, “kids should be tortured for fun”, I’d say that’s six months slaving in some farm, or a year in jail, second offense, double, third, triple, and so on or being committed to a maximum security mental institution until it can be determined by twelve psychologist that whoever said that is not a psychopath or narcissist (two types of mentally ill humans I believe should be in prisons for the insane and pathologically dangerous).
Ilhan’s crimes merit deportation back to Somalia. However, if she admitted the truth, recanted that Jews have magically put the world in a trance (much of the world is disgusted by Jews, so how would that even come close to being true?) and was willing to spend a year in a prison in her home state learning to tolerate Jewish diversity and hear the Bible read each day, I’d say let her stay. That is merciful, unlike Sharia-Muslim law, requiring upwards of 80-200+ lashings with a pronged whip, and even being stoned to death. The Bible only calls for forty lashes for FALSE WITNESS and stoning only by someone who is considered morally pure – part of God’s wise and merciful way of “checks and balances”, till Christ’s return.
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Will Captain Marvel Kill The Orthodox View Of “Superheroes” Being The Strongest?
It's time to show the power of a woman.
Article By- Toshina Singh
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Till now the only female superhero we used to discuss was DC's Wonder Woman. There was nobody to give any competition to her or even share the popular female superhero tag.
But now, from the biggest production house, MCU, we have a female superhero Captain Marvel. She is expected to break all bones of the villain and expectations of the viewers while coming with the movie, Captain Marvel, before the last Avengers movie release.
Almost a year has passed since the release of Avengers: Infinity War, which left viewers with no clue of what is going to happen next. However, this doesn’t mean that Marvel fans were not having any ‘Marvel movie expectations’.
What is Marvel up to in Avengers: End Game?
Before the release of its sequel, Avengers: End Game, MCU is ready to release its most awaited and powerful superhero character of Captain Marvel – the female superhero – all ready to steal the show.
As the trailer shows Nick Fury with both his eyes, it's a clear indication that the movie is about past incidents. The timeline showed in the movie is that of the 19’s. With this, there arise a number of questions which are expected to be answered in this film.
Let's have some serious discussions about the movie because, for an MCU fan, MCU is religion and Avengers is emotion “aur dharm se khilwad ni karte!”
Where was Captain Marvel all this time?
From Loki to Ultron to Thanos, our Avengers fought heroically but where was Captain Marvel all this while? Why didn’t we see her in any of the Marvel movies?
The trailer shows that the female superhero can fly and has inborn powers. Even her name was not mentioned in any of the MCU movies?
Fudge says she is to be the strongest Marvel character. Avengers: End Game will be her next movie, indicating that she will play a major role in the fight against Thanos, but the question is where was she in the past 10 years?
Avengers: End Game movie will tell how Fury lost his eye?
Nick Fury (isn't it similar to Mc Flurry?) is shown to be very young in the Captain Marvel movie trailer and most importantly, he has both his eyes. Possibilities are there that the tragic incident of Fury losing his eye might be shown in this movie.
Chances also arise that the Captain Marvel movie might show how and why S.H.I.E.L.D. was formed. This means they may take us back through all the Marvel movies released till date. In short, we can expect a flashback the film, Avengers: End Game!
Captain Marvel is a human, superhuman or an alien?
From the Avengers: End Game trailer we can see that she has no clue about her past life, but she has some memories to which she can connect and thinks she has lived all this before.
But in the same trailer, the very first scene is Captain Marvel falling from the sky unconsciously. Can it be considered that she was in a fight in the outer world and unconsciously fell on Earth?
She can also be called as a superhuman because she is blessed with powers that no other human Avenger was born with. Isn’t she the odd one out among all characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Will this movie make way for End Game or another phase of Avengers will start?
This question arises here because as we know that Captain Marvel is a movie that shows scenario way before Captain America and Iron Man came into existence.
So, it might be possible that it has nothing to do with Thanos or the present timeline and if it does the biggest question is where was she till now?
And as we saw by the grace of Thanos’ snap, half the beings of the universe turned to dust, isn't there a possibility that Captain Marvel was also one of them?
The mystery continues and has N number of solutions and theories. We all are excited to see Marvel's first female-led movie, Captain Marvel.
What's more interesting about this female marvel character is that she is said to be the strongest of the whole MCU.
Let us wait until 8th of March, the release date of Captain Marvel to get answers to all questions. The movie is also expected to do “marvelous job” at the box office.
If you are a sincere MCU fan then comment down your Captain Marvel movie expectations and theories. Let's see how many of these come true!
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'I Thought America Was Full': Eric Trump Trolled By People As He Shared News Of Upcoming Baby No. 2
President Trump's son Eric and his beautiful wife Lara Trump have recently shared exciting news. The couple is expecting their second child together. It also means Donald Trump will become a grandfather for the 10th time. But some people are taking it as an opportunity to get back at Eric for his own controversial remarks.
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The mom-to-be herself had announced it. She took to Twitter and shared a happy family photo with a message, revealing the news. Lara was sitting cozily with her husband, first son, and dogs. According to her, all the boys are ready to welcome another brother.
People roasted Eric
Americans readily called out hypocrisy. Some of Eric's followers made remarks about the country being 'full', alluding to the immigration policies of his father, President Donald Trump. They also directly referred to POTUS’s Apr 7 tweets that 'our country is full'. Their joint mocking-concern was how the nation can be less populated if they are having a child. Getting the taste of his own medicine?
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Others were delighted
His admirers didn't take part in this distasteful internet trolling. They sent their love and blessings to the couple.
Social media never forgets! However, we should also learn to celebrate someone's happiness regardless of what is said and done. Share this and congratulate them.
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Federal Designer Families: How Californians got their “CFCC,” CRS Year 2000 Report on Access Visitation
This post is about 10,000 words. Enjoy!
I have about six posts in the pipeline, all of them timely to some recent indicators (developments) in the “protective mothers” field. All of them, as usual continuing to emphasize a functional vocabulary in discussing the family courts, and pointing out a few significant historical developments affecting them that those IN them rarely point out to clients, which I find strange.
By contrast, the developments in the “responsible fatherhood” field seem to be moving ahead with the usual momentum, and under-reported among “the commoners,” i.e., the general public and most family-court reform groups, who, apparently, don’t consider worthy of notice that this network even exists, or is a priority to understand.
However, it does. In fact, if you check some of the post-PRWORA-propped up nonprofits, centers, institutes, programming and the “same old, same old” hotshots, there is apparently nothing more important to talk about than what they have done, are doing, and how much HHS is going to pay them this time (sometimes that refers to a five-year, multi-million-dollar grant) to further strengthen and extend their communications, technical support, outreach/ recruiting and funding pipelines already set up in the “Fatherhood” network. (Recent example) Using federal funding to a university. One of team members historically associated with AFCC, another thing family court advocacy groups are averse to talking about.
There are also certain chronic weaknesses and vulnerabilities within this “HMRF” field (but also present, to a degree, in the domestic violence prevention field also), which would be excellent leverage to address some of the problems protective mothers are having in the courts, and I have yet to hear any legitimate (if indeed any) explanation why no significant protective mothers organization, or their featured professionals, has seen fit to raise the topic seriously with a view to DOING something about it, for at least the past dozen years, even when after a certain point, the leadership surely became aware that “outside” information on the responsible fatherhood field, HHS grants and AFCC was somehow “leaking” into the field of vision of some of the “fix the courts” promoters. One whitepaper did come out over a year after I, literally, did several posts (on two blogs) naming names of the “Let’s JUST not talk about it!” groups and proving which personnel at least knew the whole time.
Nearly two days of technical (keystroke processing speed almost at a standstill) problems with my computer slowed getting them published. Meanwhile, working out that situation, and concerned about output at this time, I decided to re-publish a 12/5/2009 FamilyCourtMatters post which is STILL more relevant than the average conversation I see on the family court reform in 2016, original title “While You Were Sleeping,… How Congress got into the Family Law Business.”
I have not yet extended the “Table of Contents” back to 2009, so “While You Were Sleeping” was probably missed by most people who may read or follow this blog. It is not the kind of information one tends to stumble across in general search terms on the family courts or its handling of situations and allegations of criminal behavior such as domestic violence or child abuse. Last month, I felt this post was important enough to clean up (formatting) and link to it, now I am actually re-posting.
It references by name key elements in networks I am blogging consistently on — public/private partnerships, and HOW does the federal government got its hand in into the state-level cookie jar without quite getting caught at it, and vice versa, while the courts themselves contribute to an ever-expanding and increasingly dependent on social services population.
**Mostly, these posts-in-the-pipeline again review some basic vocabulary with which we can talk about things which both the protective mothers’ perspective, and definitely in the fathers’ rights perspective have for years resisted discussing on-line in anything approaching a coherent manner, using accurate and relevant terms to describe the infrastructure and how it networks to promote either their own perspective, or the perspective for which they want “systemic changes” or “a paradigm” change for [divorce law, family courts, child support] because it’s: unfair to fathers, unfair to mothers, dangerous to children, or gender-biased against men (or women), is destroying the American family, human rights,civil rights, etc.
We who are concerned, afflicted by, or discussing the problems in the family courts, should ALL know and talk what top-level state institutions (such as the California Judicial Council), federal deliberations courtesy of CRS (Congressional Research Service) (“Should the Federal Government get involved in Family Matters which are under State law jurisdiction?”) (unsaid: “HOW can we get our fingers into family and divorce courts without getting caught on it, or held responsible for any negative effects after we have?”) ….. (And “WHO will help us do this?” some of which this post shows who actually did) are actually involved, or, for example, just how one state ends up copying the court (privatization and outsourcing) practices in another.
For example, I had years of personal encounters through the courts before I became aware of the information in just this excerpt from that 2009 post below. The publication talking about it came out in the context of a state-level, state-wide evaluation of the ruling body of the courts published around May, 2012. Take a look at this excerpt, which will be repeated below, without the olive-green background:
THE REPORT on the AOC, with its section on the CFCC Division IS RECOMMENDED READING for understanding many things which may relate to complaints about the family courts nationwide. Information on the AOC’s/CFCC begins on page 81:
(from a 2012 “SEC” CALIFORNIA-SPECIFIC REVIEW Of the Administrative Office of the Courts)
Division Description
The Center for Families, Children and the Courts (CFCC) was established in February 2000 through the merger of the Statewide Office of Family Court Services and the Center for Children and the Courts.
A Statewide Office on Families was merged with a Center on Children and the Courts. Consolidation, Year 2000
The Statewide Office of Family Court Services was created by a 1984 legislative mandate to provide leadership, development, assistance, research, grants, education, and technical support to the state’s family court services programs through direct services and community partnerships.
(Report on the California AOC/CFCC Division, p. 81ff, cont’d. Link above…)
The Center for Children and the Courts was created by the AOC in 1997 in response to the results of a state-wide needs assessment of California juvenile dependency proceedings conducted by the National Center for State Courts.
Notice input from the National Center for State Courts [NCSC] in 1997, a “needs assessment” and that it was first aimed at JUVENILE DEPENDENCY — not the entire family law system. Notice the title in 1997 didn’t yet include the words “Family.” Anyone that is running (sponsoring, calling for) a “needs assessment” may very well already have an intended “solution/fix” in mind. These are rarely 100% neutral. [[The National Center for State Courts is a 501©3], technically speaking, in the private sector, despite its name. It files a Form 990]]
From its inception, the CFCC’s mission has been to improve the quality of justice and services to meet the diverse needs of children, youth, parents, families, and other users of the California courts. The division provides a wide range of services to family, juvenile, and collaborative justice courts.
Collaborative Divorce has been an ongoing theme promoted by AFCC members. This can be seen in some of the nonprofits formed, by looking at who formed them. Not the topic of this post….
Did you know that in apparently about Year 1983 (but not continuing, I think), the NCSC also served as the “Secretariat” for the organization AFCC? I believe it’s on my sidebar in one of the AFCC newsletters of that year.
The formation of a specialized center within AOC’s administrative structure institutionalized judicial branch commitment to improving outcomes for children and families. The CFCC is the only division of the AOC that is dedicated to a substantive area of the law. The multidisciplinary model has since been recommended to other states.
If you’ve gotten this far in this dense post –and are even reading my blog — do I need to spell this out further?…
SUMMARY: The Courts in the State of California have increasingly centralized control and operations over time, other parts of the report also show. The timing of some of the special divisions seems to correlate to increased federal funding for programming that these divisions seem to control — from the administrative sector…. Good to keep in mind…
But notice, they first set up two separate elements — a division within the AOC, and a Statewide Office. Then, they combined them. Then within the State-level office are links to the private, tax-exempt sector encouraging business with it. Any entity (which is to say anyone running an entity) which wants excellent, authoritative, advertising then is helped by connection to a state-level promoter within (here, as an example) the CFCC section of the Administrative Office of the Courts. “Coincidentally,” it appears that key members of the CFCC (such as Charlene Depner, and I believe, Shelly LaBotte as to the Access Visitation grants management) are also long-time, loyal members of AFCC. AFCC as an organization has certain interests that not all Californians, or Americans, may necessarily agree with, and in its own website claims responsibility for many so-called positive innovations in the family court field.
They are also pretty good at setting the stage for creating new professions at the expense of the courts (the public) and parents (also, the public), one of the earlier ones pushed was mediation, one of the later, “parent coordination.”
Another reason I would question any advocacy group who, knowing about this organization, didn’t talk — and keep talking — about it.
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While you were sleeping: How Congress got into the Family Law business…
2016 BLOGGER UPDATE on this December 5, 2009 post:
In an April 3, 2016 post, I searched for documentation on the history of the Access and Visitation grants back in the 1980s, as part of a time-line of the domestic violence industry. These grants are STILL discussed so infrequently, in general, that my own 12/5/2009 “While you were sleeping” post here (as quoted by “Fearless Fathers” 3 days later) was one of the search results.
That post title and the two short links on it posted as far back as December 2009 (within one year of when I began blogging) and found when I didn’t even have access to a normal laptop, almost “says it all.”
I briefly cleaned up formatting in this older (now over five years old) post, added borders and some background color plus lines around quotes (which I didn’t know how to do at the time), and below that will copy, in different background-color, the text on the same subject matter from 2016 post, “Can You Tell the “Tells” of the DV (so-called) Cartel? It’s Show-and-Tell Time.” That was my 15th post of 2016 — see the Table of Contents here.
It took me longer than a few months (a few years) to put together, from the timeline of major domestic violence prevention groups, that most of them probably knew all along about the influence of the HHS-sponsored (at the time, HEW-sponsored, as HHS only came into being 1990, but some key DV groups were formed in 1980 (“Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs” in Duluth, MN), 1989 (“Futures without Violence”), or earlier) strategically positioned ACCESS and VISITATION GRANTS of first $4M (1988 dollars) then $10M (1996 dollars)/year and MARRIAGE/FATHERHOOD, about 15 times larger annual appropriations than the A/V.
These domestic violence nonprofits at the leadership level did not inform their “clients,” typically battered and abused women with or without children, about the Access and Visitation grants those clients who were MOTHERS would be up against, by virtue of their not being fathers, and by virtue, as it applied, of their having custody of the children and there even being a (male) “Noncustodial” parent. It was social public welfare policy!
This old post stands as a simple testimony that IF certain information is available, other parts of major systems start to make sense, and if it is not, they simply do not. Therefore, in my opinion, one of the larger “crimes” in responding to domestic violence, and evidence itself of an abusive approach to the target population being helped, is to withhold timely information which, if NOT withheld, might lead to a different strategic decision on the part of that individual parent. For example, SOME individual parents may decide whether or not to go up against the largest grant-making federal agency around in seeking to protect their children and do it by way of the family courts.
I found this on-line yesterday [12/4/2009], it appears to date to JUNE 2000.
Report 97-590
CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AND VISITATION: SHOULD THERE BE A FEDERAL CONNECTION?
Carmen D. Solomon-Fears, Education and Public Welfare Division
Found at this link: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/wikileaks-crs/wikileaks-crs-reports/97-590.pdf
From time to time, the issue arises of whether the federal Child Support Enforcement (CSE)program should be actively involved in enforcing visitation rights. Both federal and state policymakers agree that denial of visitation rights should not be considered a reason for stopping child support payments.
AVAILABLE HERE — and I’m going to add it to my bloglinks. It’s ONLY 7 pages long, and provides a summary background of HOW the Federal Government got to be “in the family way.” The rationale was TANF/Welfare. That was the chink in the door.
The question arises, in my mind at least — what major institutions and practices in this nation are creating the welfare population to start with? The 2 largest areas of expenditure in the government are two agencies: 1. Health and Human Service, and 2. Education. The others, are smaller. Go to at least usaspending.gov and look at the pie chart, and take a look. Why are the courts and the child support agencies in the business of education, at which the educational system is already failing, clearly?
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/wikileaks-crs/wikileaks-crs-reports/97-590.pdf
Recommended reading for the uninitiated, for example:
Is the Federal Government Becoming Too Intrusive in Family Law Policy?
[[Ya-THINK? Just perhaps MAYBE? This shows the rationale…]]
Congress does not have general authority to pass laws dealing with family law issues, unless there is a connection or “nexus” between such legislation and one of the areas in which it is authorized to act. In the case of the CSE program, the federal nexus is the …
H.R. 3073, the Fathers Count Act of 1999, would provide $140 million in grants over four years to public and private entities to achieve three purposes: (1) promote marriage, (2) promote successful parenting, and (3) help noncustodial parent improve their economic status. H.R. 3073 was passed by the House on November 10, 1999, but has not been acted on by the Senate.
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This Absolutely Uncommon Analysis shouldn't be!
What I do here: I expose the Systems Design, and the Designers, so Y.O.U. can Show Others, and to notify those playing certain games, "you've been flagged."
Heard of "disruptive technologies?" Disruptive innovations?
Well, this is a disruptive blog. I give people who've already been strung out and stripped down BY the system another place to stand and look at it, and a clear, fairly diagnostic language (vs. pretty logos and moving pictures) to describe it to others. AND, which many don't do, I tell how I found the information; links databases and all.
Despite the blog's appearance, I know what I'm doing! You're looking at long-term leverage, in the hands of the "non-experts," in the public interest, not public funded propaganda to drive business to private pockets. Hence, I'm not afraid to ask:
The formula for this public/private business model isn't really that complex, but the concept itself was just so devious, insidious, parasitic, grandiose, and by now, so baked into the economic, institutional infrastructure, people either don't notice, or, in a common, cowardly, but all too human response they see, and just start denying, or looking for nicer explanations of an ugly truth -- where it's heading. For lack of nicer, but still honest terms, it's heading towards yet more slavery (and tolerating it) and genocide (and tolerating it). [[2019 comments: and the ability to drive the U.S., in particular, into even more, bigger, and more costly/dangerous wars, discrediting us (further) internationally. But I wrote this sidebar many years ago..]]
As a woman, mother, a family court and domestic violence survivor [yes, he was a hitter, and more], who has already 'faced the music' in more ways than I can count, to the best of my ability, I do not do "denial." I also ask the public, what's left of it, to just not go down that Denial Road, and with it lose more of their innate humanity, perception, and ethics. There is another way out, one with a conscience:
Really want system change? Make up your mind to understand government financing -- change yourself first. Find and read your local "CAFR" (government's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports), a wonderful source of information, with flow chart, descriptions of component or blended government units it's reporting on, and reporting the balances in each fund -- ever heard of a "Balance Sheet"? Looking for this also reveals just how many governmental business entities ARE there? Find them. Read. Think about what you see. What does it mean?
Governments tend to pool their investments, for example, "CALPERS" (essentially created ca. 1931) is the largest "public pension" investing platform around, or at least in the country. Getting started earlier sure helped, then adding players (subscribers) over time ALSO did. In 1985, add "CII" Council on Institutional Investors (members: in 31states and D.C.) (LA Times 1985 article on Calif. Politician (state treasurer, assembly speaker) Unruh whose idea it was for the Council so institutional funds could "flex their muscle"; and push for corporate governance reform. CII members now control $3 trillion of assets)-- my point being, government holdings are invested and when pooled like this, are major clout, but the average person never reads even a single government entity's annual financial reports to take a look. (I wasn't aware of them til 2012!)
Governments not only invest their funds in business, they also by legislation, patenting, and protections, set them up to win, or lose. So, "know thy government" is a great place to start. (See blog/see links in the blog).
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Guitarist in Austin, Texas
Leon Rodriguez - Guitar
The Blues and the 70's
I've been either playing or trying to play for about 60-some years. (I played "Rancho Grande" for about 6 years) LOL. My Uncle Ricardo gave me a little Mexican guitar when I was three and was my first guitar teacher. He gave me 1st position. I've never stopped trying to learn.
I must have been too young to remember but it would have been Ranchero music in the early 50's. It was Mexican Conjunto music in a Gazebo in the plaza in Cotulla, Texas. My eyes never left the guitar and the hands that played them. They were wrinkled vaquero hands. Somehow the accordian never caught my ear, just the guitars.
I have all kinds of guitars. My main axe is a 1966 Gibson ES-340 through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe II that Jim Webb tweaked out for me at Austin Vintage Guitars. Assorted pedals as needed. I've been playing my Strat lately. It's one of the Fender prototypes of the American Special. Jumbo Frets and a Humbucker in the bridge position. I use a Les Paul and a '65 blackface Super Reverb for a crunchier sound when I need that.
I'm a Chicano in Texas. No expectations. LOL
That's easy. B.B. King, Wes Montgomery, Michael Bloomfield, and of course the entire hierarchy of Texas Blues guitarist a player HAS to know to hang out in Austin. The hierarchy goes kinda like this. Blind Lemon Jefferson and Texas Alexander begat, Mance Libsomb and Lightnin' Hopkins who begat, Johnny Winter and Freddie King and Albert Collins, who begat Stevie and Jimmie Vaughan, Bugs Henderson, Van Wilks, Alan Haynes, Derek O'Brian, Matthew Robinson and Denny Freeman who begat Doyle Bramhall II, Charlie Sextant, David Grissom, David Holt and a few others. On the country side, Red Vogart is as good as they get. That's enough to keep any Texan busy for a lifetime. I never have to leave Austin, let alone Texas for guitar heroes. And that's what I like.
Yeah, I'm always in some kind of band; kinda/sorta. I'm trying to put a more structured thing together now. A "Texas Guitar" duo. It's coming along pretty good. My Band with is called "The Bleu Rapteurs". I hope to record with both these bands because there are so many great musicians in Austin, nobody seems to makes any money playing live. LOL Club owners are spoiled by the overwhelming abundance. Bands seem to come together for the the sheer love of genre'. Artistically, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Wow! That leaves it wide open: I'd put a rythm section together. Terry Bozzio on drums, Roscoe Beck on bass, Gregg Allman on B3, Lyle Mayes on Keys, Alex Acuna on Latin percussion, Ed Mann on vibes, And my badass Duo partner and pal, Leland Isley on rhythm guitar. For Horns...Doc Adams on baritone Sax, Wayne Shorter and my pals Henry Rivas, Joe Sublett on tenors, David Sanborn on alto, Wynton Marcellis, and local pals Ephraim Owens and Al Gomez on Trumpet. And of course my pal, Dave Mcnair to produce and engineer it. Might as well record it if you get a band like that together! I think we could make some music with those guys LOL
College Auditoriums I guess would be the largest, what is that? ... about 2-3 thousand. The smallest would be like a coffee house with 4 or 5 tables not including sitting on my deck with a flatop with my dog Hillary. That's a bit smaller.
Michael Bloomfield and Al Kooper; the first Super Session at the Fillmore. I heard it when it first came out in late 60's I've never been without a copy. Albert's Shuffle is the best blues jam ever waxed IMHO. Michael's tone and facility on that '58 Gibson Les Paul through that '65 blackface Fender Super- Reverb is now and has always been a benchmark tone for me in my heart of hearts. It is that unachievable goal an artist follows through life that pushes him beyond his own ability to perceive the tangible. It's the light at the end of the tunnel of life. Gotta follow the tone.
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Also, I’m just curious why you (I mean you in general) would want to know that. Is it in order to decide whether you can take a photo of the two...
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I have this wonderful student who is absolutely delightful to work with, but he sometimes rattles me. He is the epitome of stoic, dry, and also has a...
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In the discussion they say: Where do you get the figure of millions of years?
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THE INNOCENCE
Title: THE INNOCENCE
Genre: Dramatic Comedy, Coming of Age
Language(s): Catalan
Director(s): Lucia Alemany
Screenplay: Lucia Alemany, Laia Soler
Producer(s): Lina Badenes, Belen Sanchez, Juan Gordon
Cast: Carmen Arrufat, Laia Marull, Sergi Lopez, Joel Bosqued
Lis is a teenage girl whose dream is to become a circus artist and leave the small village she calls her hometown, although she knows that doing so will imply a bitter confrontation with her parents.
It's summertime and Lis spends her days hanging out on the village streets with her friends and flirting with her boyfriend, Nestor, who is a few years older than her. The lack of privacy and endless gossiping among the neighbors compel Lis to keep her relationship with Nestor a secret to ensure that her parents don’t find out. When the idyllic summer comes to an end, Lis will have to fight to secure her independence and overcome the challenges that adulthood brings.
Critics reviews
“The film surprises with its freshness, realism, brightness and the outstanding work of its cast.” LA VANGUARDIA
“A fresh and honest film.” ELDIARIO.ES
“The events that take place are not extraordinary and yet the film so perfectly captures that rural, festive mood, that it sends a series of shockwaves down the audience's spine as they become fully immersed in the small, grand drama that's playing out in front of them. It sounds simple, but what “The Innocence” achieves is the mark of truly great cinema.” ABC
“This is a model coming-of-age movie […] that portrays one decisive summer in the life of teenage Lis. Its realism and truth are second to none.” LA RAZÓN
“The director transmits a wonderful sense of freshness in this film that is neither too much, nor too little. With her portrayal of the twists and turns of teenage life, at a time where the decisions we make will form us as adults, she has hit the nail on the head.” EL CONFIDENCIAL
“Everything has been done honestly, thoughtfully and in good taste.” FOTOGRAMAS
4th Sep 2019 - By John Hopewell - Variety
Toronto: Filmax Acquires Lucia Alemany’s ‘The Innocence’ (Exclusive)... (Read more)
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Archival Collections Portal > Avery Drawings & Archives Collections > Henry Youngling architectural drawings, 1855-1873
Henry Youngling architectural drawings, 1855-1873
Series I: Architectural Drawings
Youngling, Henry
48 drawings
This collection consists of one series: Series I: Architectural Drawings
Youngling's drawings of architectural decorations and ornaments for ceilings and walls in largely unidentified buildings, presumably in New York City.
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Scott LaFlamme
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Scott LaFlamme has a diverse style and stage persona which is obvious to everyone who watches a live performance. He is a gifted individual, with a natural born talent for his craft. Being a veteran of the stage and studio has brought Scott to realize his ultimate goal of leading his musical career to new heights, as well as offering his creative combination of technical guitar playing to audiences across the world. He has an extensive variety of artists as influences, ranging from The Beatles to bands of today, such as Ozzy Osbourne, Shinedown and Breaking Benjamin.
Scott LaFlamme's love of music surfaced during early childhood and has transcended through years of devotion as both a performer and teacher. Now having opened his own recording and teaching studio, LMI Studio, he is training new musicians and full bands to develop their talent. Scott’s playing ability is comprised of intricate musical theory and skill.
Scott LaFlamme is a dynamic performer who gives listeners a phenomenal live show. His tremendous talent shines through to all audiences who witness it. Scott is the former guitarist for “Bang Tango” which had given him the opportunity needed to create new songs on a national level, adding his talent and skill to the masses. Scott’s most recent projects include Super Troup, which includes members Chas West - Lead Vocals [formerly of Bonham, Lynch Mob, Foreigner], Derrick Pontier - Drums [formerly of Great White, Oz Fox, CC Deville], and Jason Cornwell – Bass [currently of Mr. Big’s Eric Martin]. Scott is also working in the studio with the band from England “Tiger Tailz” recording new material.
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Amy Mitchell
Since launch, Amy's business has seen 265 orders amounting to about $18,000 in sales.
Before Start & Scale, Amy was an entrepreneur at heart, but had no ideas and had just quit her job. She knew she wanted to create a product of her own but didn’t know where to begin.
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By avidly focusing on the modules on growing a following and user-generated content, Amy fostered a community that was as enthusiastic about her environmentally-friendly product as she was, attracting the eyes of future customers and influencers alike.
Within three months, Amy grew a 2,000-strong following, including 30 micro-influencers in her niche who now work with her to spread the word about her product. She also completely sold out of her product, bringing in $18,000 in sales.
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“Before taking this course, my life was quite bleak.”
Amy Mitchell had just quit her job, and despite having always had an entrepreneurial spirit, she didn’t have any big ideas.
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She says that her main takeaways were around the benefits of Instagram and user-generated content.
Using the techniques she learned in Start & Scale, Amy was able to organically grow a highly engaged community of just under 2,000 people in three months. She also met 30 micro-influencers within her niche that are now helping her to spread the word about her product.
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She was also greatly impacted by the information shared on user-generated content. So, when she did a presale to validate her idea, she made her branded packaging something that would attract eyes. And it paid off. She sold out the 20 units and validated her idea before she even launched, and the content generated from that presale rocketed her forward.
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An interview with the founder of FlightScope
An interview with FlightScope founder Henri Johnson
By Zak Kozuchowski
GolfWRX Staff
For even the best golfers, it’s often difficult to understand what makes one round of golf better than another.
That might be one of the reason golfers are relying so heavily on numbers to analyze their games. Statistics like “greens in regulation,” “fairways hit,” and “up and downs” are tools golfers can use to monitor their progress. But they’re not perfect measurements. How many times have you hit a good drive that made its way into the second cut of the fairway, or struck a great iron shot that just rolled into the fringe? Often, a great putt bails out a poor chip, and vice versa. How do you measure that?
FlightScope founder Henri Johnson didn’t know much about golf when he began designing golf radar systems more than a decade ago, but he did know one thing – speculation is inferior to information.
He and his team sought to create a tool that could give golfers immediate feedback on their ball flight and golf swing – objective numbers they could use to improve their games. They came up with FlightScope, a system that uses thee-dimensional Doppler radar to measure the entire flight of a golf ball, as well as important aspects of the golf swing.
Most launch monitors are able to measure things like clubhead speed, ball speed and spin rate, but they have limitations, Johnson said.
“With a launch monitor, you’re measuring the ball flight over literally 6 inches of data,” Johnson said. “The rest is speculation. Our approach at FlightScope is that if you can measure something, why should you have to speculate about it?”
Because FlightScope measures a golf ball’s trajectory from launch to finish, it more accurately measures launch angle, spin rate, apex height, angle of descent, carry distance and roll. It also can identify a club’s angle of attack, ball spin axis, face angle, dynamic loft and club path – very important tools for club fitting. FlightScope’s latest product, the X2, has the ability to measure the golf club’s path from the top of the shoulder on the downswing until the club disappears behind a golfer’s back on the follow through. It also creates a “speed profile,” which calculates a golfer’s clubhead speed at different parts of the swing, as well as the amount of force a golfer is applying to the club at those points. By showing graphically what the club is doing through impact, fitters are better able to decide not only what shaft is best for a golfer, but also what kind of tip stiffness a golfer should have in their shaft.
Click here to see LPGA Tour player Ryan O’Toole’s FlightScope numbers
But where FlightScope really shines is in its ability for PGA professionals to use it as a teaching tool. Johnson himself has used FlightScope products to diagnose issues with his golf swing. He took up the game 11 years ago, and credits the products for helping him play to a six handicap. The X2 measures both the horizontal and vertical swing planes. Johnson said that he closely monitors his vertical swing plane, a part of his swing that has caused him problems in the past.
“It lets me know what causes what in my golf swing,” Johnson said. “It tells me know what I shouldn’t be doing, and reinforces good behavior.”
Click here for more discussion in the forum
One of the X2’s most important new features is that it requires no PC connection to function. It is wirelessly compatible with Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod, as well as with Android devices through applications available for purchase in the iTunes Store and Android Market.
“When we were designing the X2, we knew it had to be wireless,” Johnson said. “I personally don’t like wires because they’re messy. Mobility today is very important. Everything is going wireless.”
The app costs $49 dollars for instructors, and student’s can view their sessions with their teachers with an app that costs $10.
One thing that separates FlightScope from other golf radars available is its price point. It costs around $11,000, about half the amount of its nearest competitor, Trackman. According to Johnson, the X2 is also more accurate than the more expensive model offered by its competitor.
“If you put X2 against Trackman, and you measure – I would put money on it that we are more accurate,” Johnson said.
Johnson’s primary market for FlightScope has been PGA professionals, a market he said the company has been doing very well in. He said his company works hard to show PGA professionals that proper technologies like FlightScope can help differentiate them from their competition. But Johnson has also received a lot of positive feedback about FlightScope products from non-professionals. Through the X2’s wireless technology, FlightScope was able to show spectators data from professional golfers at the ranges at this year’s British Open and Women’s British Open.
“We want to inform the general public of what professional golfers are doing with their swings,” Johnson said. “We’ve found that people are craving information. When we took iPads into the crowd at the British Open and Women’s British Open, people were amazed at how consistent the players were. It’s an insider view people want to see.”
Johnson was hesitant to talk much about future FlightScope releases, but he did say that in the coming year, his company would release a consumer product at an affordable price.
“It’s not a toy,” Johnson said. “It’s as accurate as we can make it at a tolerable price point.”
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Making windows “attractive”
Windows and the struggle against the low-interest image / Roto Trade Press Day with captivating panel discussion / Renowned experts from four countries (not always) in agreement / Image improvement campaign: not “whether” but “how” / Collective industry responsibility / Differences prevent generally applicable concept / Added value arguments and a problem with conveying them / Technology does not generate enthusiasm / Show enthusiasm – and train / Appropriate communication / Women making purchasing decisions / Industry needs basic consensus for joint campaign / “Bathrooms” as an example
Leinfelden-Echterdingen - (rp) Is the struggle against the low-interest image of windows futile? This question, which is intended to be somewhat “provocative” according to the organiser of the event, was the subject of a panel discussion as part of the 14th International Roto Trade Press Day. The panel made up of renowned experts from four countries didn’t want to hear this question answered with a “yes” at end of the discussion in mid-November in the German town of Bad Mergentheim. The experts were ultimately able to agree on this response: “Although the struggle is difficult, it must be waged intensively to make windows as ‘attractive’ as possible for people.” This does not mean that the industry should simply accept that people will only invest in new windows once or twice in their lifetime.
Representing manufacturers in the discussion were Marc Bonjour, Director of International Activities of the French Liebot Group, and Dr Heinz Scharl, Member of Strategic Management at Internorm International GmbH and Head of Markets and Products at IFN-Holding AG from Austria. Andreas Hartleif, Chairman of Veka AG, and Dr Eckhard Keill, Sole Director of Roto Frank Holding AG, put forward the positions of the industry based in Germany. Hanspeter Gasser, Owner of Swiss company HP Gasser AG, shed light on the central topic from the point of view of a roof window specialist. The panel was chaired by Agency Owner Frank Linnig.
As was stated in a summary, it quickly became apparent that long-term image improvement is not a question of “whether” but rather one of “how” to make this feasible. There is no dispute that this is a “shared responsibility” of the individual market levels. On the other hand, these individual market levels each have their own entirely different interests and realities which render generally applicable concepts impossible. For instance, the profiling of room-specific windows, while is useful due to expertise-related aspects, often lacks impact because it would lead to smaller batch sizes and would therefore have no place in production systems, which are usually driven by quantity. The same applies in principle to the acceptance of innovations, which, in Bonjour’s opinion, must not demand too much of end customers, including when it comes to pricing. Hartleif summarised this as follows: “What use are the best arguments for added value if the resources for implementation are lacking on site? The key concept here is a shortage of skilled labour.”
Scharl also referenced the market awareness of end consumers, which differs in each country. While in Austria, for example, there are window brands with high double-digit awareness levels without the need for additional measures, the situation in Germany, for instance, is completely different, particularly because of the variety of different providers. The principle of an “improved window image through a good brand image” therefore has to take a country-specific form.
Boost thanks to joint campaign?
The event organiser reports that the panel was in complete agreement on defining important factors. One cornerstone is that the industry will not succeed in making private customers more enthusiastic about windows through a love of technology. This is only possible with positive emotions, appropriate communication, truly conveying the added values and, as Hartleif stated, “a lot of our own enthusiasm.” To achieve this, it is essential to systematically train the advisors, salespeople and fitters in the companies for the new requirements and therefore to make them ready. Gasser added a specific recommendation from his practical experience with regard to the “target group”: “At our company, we find that it is usually women who make the decision to purchase a roof window. They are particularly interested in advantages such as extra space, appearance, light source and an unimpeded view. This counts for more than any technical attribute.”
The panel was not able to agree on the chair’s question regarding whether a potential joint campaign by all market levels could improve the image as required. The spectrum ranged from scepticism, due to extremely homogenous company structures for example, through to a possible alternative with certain conditions. “There will be no basis for this kind of project as long as the industry fails to agree on a basic consensus,” warned Keill. With a view to his earlier activity in the sanitation industry, the Director of Roto recalls the recipe for success of the joint campaign from his time: “Industry, retail and trade wanted to transform the image of bathrooms from a purely functional unit into a personal wellness oasis. They managed to achieve this, at least in Germany.” If the window industry could also agree on a cross-sector objective, that in itself would be a tangible step on the way to an image improvement campaign. With the panel discussion to round off the 14th International Trade Press Day, “we wanted to play our part in encouraging people to consider this possibility more closely.”
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Why Stressed-Out Women Are Finding Solace In ‘Whisper Videos’
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is an auditory phenomenon that has become big business on YouTube. But how did ‘whisper videos’ become a mindfulness phenomenon?
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I’ve been trying to write this article for half an hour, but I’m struggling to wake myself from a sleepy, trance-like stupor after watching a woman open a box very, very slowly while whispering into the camera and tapping her fingernails on the table. If that sounds odd, it’s even odder to experience: my neck and ears are tingling and I could easily climb into bed for an impromptu nap. Luckily, there appears to be a simple reason for my brain’s reaction: like approximately 20 percent of the population I’m predispositioned to Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response or ASMR.
ASMR was coined by US developer Jennifer Allen in 2010 to describe a pleasurable physiological sensation induced by listening to certain sounds. This sensation has been branded a “brain orgasm” by some, but those who experience the phenomenon say the feeling is more relaxing than it is arousing. They compare it to the calming effect of meditation or massage.
“I first remember experiencing ASMR and noting that it was a strange occurrence in my early 20s,” Jennifer told the ASMR University website in 2016. “I searched the internet a number of times for any indication of what the experience was or who else might share it, but found nothing for over a decade.” Jennifer said she would “periodically check” Google, but found nothing until she “stumbled on” a forum thread. It was titled ‘Weird sensation feels good’. “Once I read the accounts of others, I realised what I was experiencing was similar and decided to pursue answers,” she says.
Since then, ASMR has exploded. YouTube videos showing mainly female presenters tapping, whispering, flipping through the pages of a book and making soothing hand movements to stimulate what’s been called “brain tingles” started to clock up millions of views online. Insomnia and anxiety sufferers began tuning in, claiming they’d found a practical way to reduce their symptoms by watching the calming clips; while W Magazine created a successful series of ASMR-based celebrity interviews and rapper Cardi B released her own video after revealing she couldn’t sleep without tuning in. Then advertising agencies jumped on the bandwagon, producing slick commercials that tapped into the auditory phenomenon. Zoe Kravitz fronted the most famous; a Michelob Ultra beer Super Bowl advert that’s been viewed 16 million times online, taking ASMR into the mainstream.
For those whose senses are not heightened by ASMR, the sensation can understandably be difficult to understand. It doesn’t help that there’s also little in the way of substantiated research to back up what some have branded ‘weak science’.
Dr Craig Richard, founder of the ASMR University and professor of physiology at Shenandoah University in Virginia, uses this explanation for those who don’t experience brain tingles: “ASMR can feel as wonderful, mind-numbing, and relaxing as a great massage – except you can get it from watching ASMR videos, having a friend play with your hair, or having a teacher kneel down next to you and help you solve a math problem… There is a spectrum of brain tingles. Some experience them strongly, some mildly, and some not at all. Many individuals report finding ASMR videos relaxing, but never feel the brain tingles.”
“Some brains react to ASMR videos as if a caring person is right there with them.”
He believes more research is needed, which is why he’s spearheading a new study of 250,000 people into the effects of ASMR. “There are ten peer-reviewed, published research studies on ASMR,” he tells Future Women. “Many of those studies report survey data that consistently demonstrates that people find ASMR helpful for reducing their stress and falling asleep more easily. One particular study showed that heart rates are reduced during ASMR, confirming a physiological response. Our brain scan study looked at brain regions activated while watching ASMR videos. We showed that the areas of the brain activated while feeling tingles are similar to brain regions activated during bonding and caring behaviours. In other words, some brains react to ASMR videos as if a caring person is right there with them.”
Dr Richard adds that a clinical study is needed to determine the effect ASMR can have on mental health. “Our preliminary data shows that about 50 percent of individuals diagnosed with anxiety or insomnia, and about 30 percent diagnosed with depression, report that ASMR is helpful for their condition,” he explains. “Other studies have also reported supportive data for the health benefits of ASMR for various conditions. Unfortunately, no one has done a clinical study with ASMR triggers to truly know how ASMR compares with current evidence-based treatments. It is best for individuals to discuss the use of ASMR with their clinician before attempting to self-treat.”
For London-based vlogger Emma, there’s no doubting ASMR is real. She has built up a 716,000-strong fanbase through her YouTube channel, WhispersRed ASMR. Her videos range from brushing her hair with a microphone attached to the hairbrush, to tapping her nails on the contents of her handbag, and role playing a visit to the doctor’s surgery complete with soothing sound effects.
“I have experienced the ASMR sensations all of my life,” she tells Future Women. “It has always been part of my sensory experience. I discovered ASMR videos on YouTube after a car accident and subsequent Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It was amazing to find there was a name for the feeling I had always known, and I decided to join the community by opening a Facebook page for people in the UK to connect. After hearing of a meet up happening for ASMR content creators I decided to make a YouTube channel so I could be there.”
Emma says her videos are watched by people of all ages and genders, and she even has a channel dedicated to ASMR for children.
“Usually I just look out for sounds everywhere I am,” she explains. “Most items and situations can inspire an ASMR video, so there is an abundance of material in just day to day life.”
What’s clear is that Emma has found her own solace in ASMR.
“I do not feel set apart from other creators,” she says. “We have our differences of course as we are all different people from countries everywhere, and have a variety of tastes and styles, but we all have a love of the same thing.”
Whether you experience brain tingles or not, there’s certainly something soothing about finding a sense of community in something you love.
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Toward a Preemptive Social Enterprise
Verynice is a social enterprise design firm based in Los Angeles, with the groundbreaking business model of giving away half their work for free. To date they have gifted over USD 5 million in design services to worthy causes.
Having worked at the cutting edge of social enterprise for almost a decade, the Founder and Managing Director of verynice, Matthew Manos, is releasing a book about what he believes the next generation of this work calls for from entrepreneurs.
I'm honoured to provide the Foreword for Toward a Preemptive Social Enterprise, which features a cast of contributors including futurist Jake Dunagan, designer Nathan Shedroff, and science fiction author Bruce Sterling.
The book's worldwide digital release is tomorrow, 1 August 02016, with hard copies available in mid-September.
FOREWORD to Toward a Preemptive Social Enterprise.
Business as a category of human activity has traditionally aimed to maximise certain outcomes at the expense of others. Other communities, other species, other places, and future generations.
Take the oil industry for example. Like the endlessly ingenious tools of the extractive trade themselves, profit-first business morphs to fit the contours of the lucrative niche. I locate a rich deposit, I work out access to it by hook or by crook, and voilà: I drink your milkshake. Other impacts are someone else’s problem.
Traditional business is a badly broken finite game.
Yet it is possible to flip the premise. Here is the quietly revolutionary but increasingly obvious alternative: morph the enterprise to generate desired impacts, and reverse engineer a business model to make it economically viable.
This change-making path is often called social enterprise, and the figure animating that change and beating that path is the social entrepreneur.
Social entrepreneurship comes from the overdue recognition that business is an engine of change –– nay, a powerhouse. More and more of us see that to harness its institutional potential to worthwhile ends could be hugely influential, generating outcomes as deliberate and positive as the outcomes generated by legacy means have been accidental and destructive.
As Matt Manos explains in these pages, "A social entrepreneur is a designer of business whose intentions are not in capital gain, but instead in the advancement of the greater good of society." The central formula is, then, approximately: business + design + ethics (greater good) = social enterprise.
When one surveys today's fast-changing "ecology of commerce", in Paul Hawken's resonant phrase, we find a wide range of creatures from different evolutionary eras living side by side. There seem to be many recent, small initiatives nobly attuned to the full spectrum of their impacts. Generally these are nimble little Darwinian upstarts, yet to prove their fitness over generations. Such hopeful mutants co-exist alongside others, bigger and older, but catching on to the emerging rules of the infinite game, and if nothing else keen to be thought of as doing the right thing. Alongside these in turn can be found still others – some of the biggest, most formidable, and lumbering beasts in the landscape –– that show zero indication of giving any shits at all about the greater good.
Thus we find ourselves in a strange transitional era for business.
Consider entrepreneur Tony Hsieh's recent memoir Delivering Happiness, which documents the heroic efforts at his company Zappos to establish a viable niche as a service-oriented online shoe retailer. This story elicits a paradoxical kind of wonder. On the one hand, we can admire the way the organisation has promoted passion, purpose, and positive experiences for those in its immediate orbit. On the other hand, we may be simultaneously baffled by a lack of attention to the happiness of the invisible yet essential legions of workers further up the supply chain; those who actually stitch and glue together the shoes at the heart of each all-smiling transaction.
This integration of ethics into business, then, the "sociality" of social enterprise, is patchy, with even some of the good guys having serious blindspots, To misquote William Gibson, social enterprise may already be here, but it's by no means evenly distributed.
Still, there is no mistaking the direction in which the global connectivity, transparency, and systemic awareness are pushing. Some people, reporting right from the cutting edge, are perfectly positioned to help the rest of us understand where social enterprise, and ultimately business in general, need to go. Matthew Manos is such a person.
"The entire premise of social enterprise relies on reaction," he writes. The default setup is "post-traumatic innovation", but waiting until something has gone wrong––treating disaster as the trigger for action––is irresponsible.
It turns out that thoughtfully engaged and ethically motivated business can still be stuck in the past, solving one set of problems while leaving others untouched, or even making them worse.
It is therefore the aim of the book you are reading to show that a crucial ingredient is missing from the social enterprise formula: foresight.
The next generation of social entrepreneur must be "preemptive", less problem-ameliorating and more visionary, attending not only to traumas in need of remedy, but also to opportunities of shaping positive change, based in coherent, plural perspectives on how the whole system could evolve.
Social entrepreneurs should also be futurists.
Now, this is a big idea, and dealing with big ideas is hazardous, especially when it comes to value shifts. The more basic, load-bearing, and "self-evident" the assumptions at issue, the more readily attempts to address them risk being dismissed as irrelevant (incompatible with current settings) or redundant (since, once absorbed, previously unfamiliar settings become normal again).
However, someone has to take on the big ideas, and in business, “normal” needs major renovations. So regardless of whether you already share its view, or disagree vehemently, you should read this book.
To be slightly pre-emptive myself for a moment, it may be that some readers find this argument for foresight to make a poor accompaniment to a fond belief that the market already and automatically incorporates whatever information about the future it needs to.
You are invited to consider that the invisible hand mediating market participants works only with information in the system, and since there are no future facts, the hand can contribute no more foresight than the parties themselves bring to the situation. If we want markets to take the future into account, the people in them need to do it.
Then again, there may be some entrepreneurs sceptical about the value of designated “foresight” tools, since they already are creating the future, thank you very much. This resembles claims I have heard from some designers I’ve met over the last ten years.
They are partly right, of course. But it is a truism to claim that business, or design, is creating the future. As Kenneth Boulding has pointed out, all decisions are about the future. Merely existing helps to create the future, and inactions can have an effect just as surely as actions do. Neither the claim nor the fact that one is already "shaping the future" puts that activity beyond the possibility of improvement.
The good news is that designers and entrepreneurs alike are perfectly positioned to use strategic foresight approaches, such as horizon scanning, scenario generation, and experiential futures; the inherent future-shaping properties of design and business make these valuable places to integrate such a futures literacy.
Part of what Manos and his collaborators seek to do in this book, very successfully I think, is show that entrepreneurs and designers must take it upon themselves to be more systematic, deliberate and detailed in articulating which futures are at issue; which scenarios their efforts mean to help avoid and, more importantly, which ones they intend to help realise.
Preemptive social enterprise, therefore, ties our initial recognition of institutional capacity ("business is a powerful category of actor") to the capacity for individual action ("what can I do?"), and turns a personal ethical problem ("how can I as an individual exert meaningful influence?") into a collective design invitation ("what can I start, or help to grow, that may have the outcomes I wish to see?").
But let’s be clear about the depth and reach of what is being suggested here. We are not talking about a one-time goal shift, but about the development and integration of a permanent and self-renewing orientation. Not merely a new direction, but a new way to navigate.
One way to appreciate the significance of the argument is to call to mind the generic taxonomy of "places to intervene in a system" offered by Limits to Growth lead author and pioneering systems thinker Donella Meadows. What Manos is inviting social entrepreneurs to do, in effect, is move some of their effort and attention upstream where greater influence can be had. He would not merely have us put business in service of different, even if more worthwhile, "goals of the system" (number two on Meadows's list). The case for preemptive social enterprise is directly affects "the mindset or paradigm" out of which the goals themselves arise. This is leverage point number one, which implicitly impacts goals, and everything else.
Why does this matter? The cultivation of a capacity for strategic foresight entails a rigorous, informed, creative, generative, and always updating view of the world's and of one's own possibilities. Integrating it represents a change with ongoing and ever-evolving implications for organisational and individual activity.
In earlier work, echoed and amplified here, Manos has set about addressing how entrepreneurship is done, carefully documenting all existing business models in order to work out where underexplored potential lies. So the perspective of this book is –– bear with me now –– meta-entrepreneurial. It is being entrepreneurial with regard to entrepreneurship itself; not only using existing tools to put the changemaking powerhouse of enterprise in service of "better goals", but seeking to make it self-improving. Retooling the toolkit.
As Stewart Brand, another important social innovator, and a futurist too, has pointed out: “Nobody can save the world, but any of us can help set in motion a self-saving world." Foresightful, anticipatory, or to use Manos's chosen word, preemptive social enterprise may well be a critical, organic ingredient of a self-saving world; more flexible and resilient, more apt to adjust and to learn.
Preemptive social enterprise is a bid for business to embrace an iterative, anticipatory learning function, and for this to face outwardly and inwardly at the same time: "The design of scenarios, and, most importantly, the design of ourselves within those scenarios allows for a deep understanding of our potential, preferred, probable, or plausible futures."
“The design of ourselves” seems an important phrase. What might this entail?
I suspect that the answer may rest in a central, and highly valuable idea explored in this book. If you wish to realise a changed world, it is important to invest in imagination.
Now, one reason why I think Matt Manos is so effective as a designer, as an entrepreneur, and as a person is that he doesn't take conventional dichotomies at face value. He does not, for example, seem to see invention as being somehow elevated over or opposed to the legwork of researching that which already exists. This attitude lets him do the due diligence of assembling a near-exhaustive catalogue of business models, as well as adding his own––not only in theory but in ever-iterating, ever-improving practice. Nor does he snap-to-grid with an assumption that many others seem to live by, that imagining and implementing are somehow opposites. Instead, he treats the two, rightly I think, as equal, necessary and complementary facets of the same changemaking work. This lets him try out more ideas in a single project than a lot of people could be proud to have initiated over a span of years.
Even the seemingly foundational opposites of fact and fiction, when it comes to navigating change towards preferred futures, are unhelpful signposts. For what is a dream that one means to manifest if not both fiction and fact at once? Or rather, fiction that aspires to fact, and thereby creates it?
So one of the conventional dichotomies that this work refuses, critically, is the putative "realism" of business vs the "indulgence" of imagination.
Again: Imagination is an investment.
Over the past decade, designers have turned to futures practice, and futurists to design, out of a mutual need to integrate speculative and material registers. A flowering of hybrid practices – experiential futures, design fiction, speculative design – has been the result. All sorts of tangible artifacts and immersive experiences that make futures more easily shareable, thinkable and feelable. A few years ago, fellow traveller Bruce Sterling proposed this definition of design fiction, “the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change”. However, as digital media professor Janet Murray has observed, "When we enter a fictional world, we do not merely 'suspend' a critical faculty; we also exercise a creative faculty. We do not suspend disbelief so much as we actively create belief." Similarly, interactive performance specialist Jeff Wirth points out that his artform "does not rely on the 'suspension of disbelief'", but rather "calls for an 'investment of belief.'"
After a decade of working at this intersection of design and futures, I think it may be time to retire our long-term loan of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s wonderful but too-limited notion of "suspension of disbelief", in favour of this idea that we really invest belief in our imaginings, in order to see where they may take us. Suspension implies an interim state, with nothing much changing once the thing suspended is reinstated. But one invests with a view to a return.
Peter Lunenfeld's "return on vision" cited by Manos is right on point: we should invest in imagination, and seek our return in the new options and pathways that thereby become available.
Why so? People are extraordinarily plastic, and versatile, as testified by the massive (if lately endangered) diversity of human cultures built atop a more or less identical biological substrate. I've suggested this before, mashing up media ecologist Marshall McLuhan and sociologist-futurist Fred Polak: we shape our images of the future, and meanwhile they shape us.
Therefore, if design has given to business some tools with which to be more creative and intentional, and futures has offered business a vocabulary of long-range outcomes, then perhaps here we have a hint as to how business can return the favour to both. The framing and language of investment, unshackled from its bloodless, numerical bottom-line connotations, but retaining the impulse to clear-eyed evaluation of what one really values, and how much difference one’s actions are really making, could prove an important loan for designers and futurists alike.
This book calls for bringing futures and foresight work into the repertoire of the social innovator or entrepreneur. We have touched on why, and also also, broadly, how, by investing time and effort in experimental belief structures, the imagination of alternative worlds. If you're as pragmatic and results oriented as I hope you might be, then at this point you'll be itching for more concrete details. But WHAT does this mean, specifically, on Monday morning?
Good, good. Read on!
The ultimate test of these ideas does not consist in what they do for you on the page, but in your search for ways to take them on in your life. The truest and fullest response is one for you –– for all of us, a community –– to find in the doing, and share.
I know, and suspect you know too, that business is changing, and that it needs to change, dramatically so, in order at last to fit the contours of the infinite game that makes all of this possible.
I believe that if you follow along a little ways in the direction this book is pointing, towards the preemptive social enterprise, your practice may become more imaginative, your convictions more grounded, your perceptions more trenchant, your action more effective, and the world incrementally more just.
And I hope you will agree that it is well worth a try.
Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro, July 02016
Toward a Preemptive Social Enterprise is available in full on a Pay-What-You-Want basis via futureimpact.co.
The Foreword above can be found in pdf here.
> The act of imagination
> LEAP Dialogues: Impacting the Social
> Foresight is a right
> Strategic Foresight and the Design MBA
Labels: Bruce Sterling, business, Jake Dunagan, Matthew Manos, Nathan Shedroff, publications, social innovation, writing
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Amazing post. Thanks for sharing.
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Who The Heck Is Donna Troy?
Look! It’s a messy origin story!
Many longtime DC Comics fans probably know Donna Troy as the original Wonder Girl, teenage sidekick to Wonder Woman, longtime member of the Teen Titans. They also probably know Donna’s backstory is a convoluted mess.
There’s a really good reason for that. Donna was added to the Titans by mistake and creators have been trying to fix that screw-up ever since.
The original Teen Titans story was a simple team-up between three of the Justice League’s sidekicks, Robin, Aqualad, and Kid Flash. The team-up was successful, so, after a few follow-ups, a regular series occurred, and the Titans would go off on adventures together. Feeling the need to add another, female character, the creators added Wonder Girl, and sometimes Green Arrow’s sidekick Speedy would show up to help out.
Those early Titans stories are something else. The Titans reportedly go to help teenagers in danger, often in the DC way of conforming to any and all authority figures. The foursome would show up at wherever they were invited walking arm-in-arm with these creepy Children of the Corn grins, and they spoke in what the middle-aged writers of these series thought was current teenage slang (for example, Wonder Girl was often addressed as “Wonder Chick” and she didn’t have any problem with that).
But, see, there was a problem with adding Wonder Girl. Wonder Girl was not actually Wonder Woman’s teenage sidekick. She was Wonder Woman’s teenage self. Any adventures the two shared were due to weird magical or time travel shenanigans that allowed the adult Wonder Woman to team up with her younger self, occasionally also including a pre-teen version known as “Wonder Tot”. Her mother Hippolyta also often joined in. The idea was to create a family, not a sidekick-mentor relationship. Sticking Wonder Girl on the Teen Titans would have been the same as putting Superboy there, and no one made the mistake of thinking Superboy was Superman’s sidekick.
So, what to do with this Wonder Girl? That has become the obsession of various Teen Titan and Wonder Woman writers ever since. The character was given a name, Donna Troy. At various points, she’s even gone by her real name, or some weird superhero version of it (“Troia”). But her origins…
At different points in time, Donna Troy has been:
An orphaned girl rescued from a fire by Wonder Woman who took her to be raised on the island home of the Amazons and eventually granted powers similar to Wonder Woman by the Titans of Myth.
A magical duplicate of Diana created to give the young Wonder Woman a playmate while she was growing up.
The only individual in the multiverse who had the memories and knowledge of all versions of herself after the original Crisis compressed all Earths into one world.
The mother of a future demigod/despot named Lord Chaos.
During a powerless period she was a member of the intergalactic peacekeeping force, the Darkstars.
A cursed soul forced into endless reincarnations that were guaranteed to force her to suffer great tragedies, with her life being erased and rebooted every time she was at her lowest.
Killed by a rogue Superman Robot, but not for long.
That last one is a bit interesting, actually. During the Blackest Night storyline, various heroes who’d been resurrected were infected by Black Lantern rings and turned into mindless servants to Nekron. Donna was among them, but not because she’d come back from the dead, but because her young son returned as a Black Lantern and bitten her.
Yes, Donna was even a wife and mother at one point, but the rest of her family were killed in a car accident. She and her husband Terry had already been estranged, but Terry was always a little creepy in his Teen Titans appearances, possibly because artist George Perez modeled him after writer Marv Wolfman, and seeing the clearly older guy just hanging around the Titans and flirting with Wonder Girl is kind of weird and creepy and sounds more like some awful fanfic than the best-selling book DC had at that time.
“So, you don’t want to read my Watson and Batgirl story?”
The New 52 did introduce a new Donna Troy at one point, one that would ideally have a clean slate and would make more sense than every other attempt to clean up a Silver Age error. But really, whatever her new story is, just toss it on the pile until someone else comes up with a bright idea to “fix” Donna Troy. Can’t be any worse than her dead husband…
Five seconds into meeting her teammate for the first time, he’s hitting on her. Seriously, this guy is creepy!
Posted on June 2, 2015 June 1, 2015 Author tomk74Categories DC, Superheroes & Comics, Wonder WomanTags Aqualand, Blackest Night, Darkstars, Donna Troy, George Perez, Hippolyta, Kid Flash, Marv Wolfman, Robin, Speedy, Superboy, Superman, Superman robot, teen titans, Wonder Girl, Wonder Woman
4 thoughts on “Who The Heck Is Donna Troy?”
jimmyimpossible says:
“In the New 52, Donna Troy has been created from clay, much like Wonder Woman’s original origin conceived by William Moulton Marston, and is essentially Wonder Woman without a heart, according to David Finch. Donna Troy is also being re-introduced into the mythos as a “potential” villain for Wonder Woman, so don’t expect a new team-up title from DC Comics like “Wonder Woman & Donna Troy” anytime soon.”
Just another reason I’m pretty much retiring from DC…if I ever get through the end of those Convergence tie-ins…
supergeekerella says:
I love reading these, I always learn so much!
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ABOUT MERKUR GAMING
Merkur Gaming is a long-established company whose initial focus was to create physical gaming machines for an array of venues, including casinos and amusement facilities. Over the years, the German company’s output became increasingly advanced: it would go on to launch some multi-game cabinets that use double screens to improve and enhance the player’s gaming experience. Its physical gaming machines were not only sold to German venues; they were made available to play across the world.
Nowadays, Merkur Gaming is part of the Gauselmann Group, which is the largest developer of casino and amusement games in Germany. Since becoming part of the group, Merkur Gaming has continued to create gaming machines for multiple types of physical venue; the developer has also recently begun launching online versions of some of its most popular land-based games. While the focus is mostly on slots, Merkur Gaming has launched a handful of table games, such as roulette.
A lot of online casino players won’t necessarily be as familiar with Merkur Gaming as they are with the likes of NetEnt or Microgaming. This is because the developer has only recently started making waves in the online gambling industry; for most of its history, it’s been concentrating on the land-based gaming market. German players may well be more familiar with Merkur Gaming as the head of its parent company, Paul Gauselmann, is reasonably well known for his contributions to business and is one of the top names in the German gambling industry.
One of the critical advantages of Merkur Gaming is the fact the themes of its slots are incredibly creative, diverse and imaginative. The number of online slots created by the developer stands at around 150, and there are plenty of titles to suit every player’s taste. Among the collection, you’ll find many standard five reel slots, along with some classic titles with three reels, and even a few with four or seven reels - there’s one particular slot, Beat the Devil, that has a single reel! Themes include Sherlock Holmes, wild west adventures, pirate expeditions, dragons, ancient Egypt, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the Illuminati, vampires, cobras, wizards amongst many more.
Merkur Gaming’s online slots tend to be more about entertainment and fun. As such, their betting limits and payouts are on the smaller side. The slots are designed to offer lower payouts more frequently, as opposed to higher payouts infrequently. Many players, therefore, find them more enjoyable to play since they’re typically rewarded relatively often without having to spend too much money. The slots are more leisurely in a way, in that the focus is more on enjoying the gaming aspect, rather than playing to land a big win.
Merkur Gaming is one of several online casino game developers that focuses on creating online versions of its pre-existing land-based casino games. As such, its online presence isn’t anywhere near as significant as that of other developers that create games for the online market from scratch. The number of casinos where you can find games by Merkur Gaming is on the small side, though hopefully in time more and more online casinos will offer its games for players. The developer’s collection does not necessarily have the most high-quality of graphics or design features when compared with slots by other developers. This is due to the fact that Merkur Gaming focuses on creating online versions of its land-based games and some of its physical games are several decades old. Some of its more recent physical games that have been adapted for the online market do have a better quality of graphics and visuals.
Merkur Gaming is based in Germany and has all of the appropriate licences required for it to operate legally in their markets of operation.
The developer doesn’t appear to have won many major industry awards. That doesn’t necessarily mean that its gaming content lacks quality.
Most developers that have launched online games have created mobile versions of their games. Merkur Gaming is no different, however, so far it’s only released a small number of mobile-friendly game titles.
What’s excellent about Merkur Gaming is their commitment to creating high-quality casino games. While the developer has earned itself a reputation for its land-based casino games and gaming cabinets, it’s starting to receive praise for its online adaptations of these games.
The company focuses on innovation, passion, and tradition - these are the cornerstones of the company’s work ethic and have helped it get to where it is today. Many other developers focus on pushing boundaries, chasing trends and releasing a constant stream of games - that’s not the case with Merkur Gaming. This developer is instead concentrating on replicating the success as a creator of physical games for the online market. Their titles, therefore, have a more classic and somewhat vintage look to them, especially those based on the developer’s earliest releases. Not the most modern or feature heavy it has to be said, but they’re still very much worth trying out, especially if you’re fond of more traditional classic games.
You may have to do a bit of searching to find a Merkur Gaming casino, though once you do you should discover plenty of the developer’s titles there waiting to be played. There’s a great variety on offer, so no matter what your preferences are, you’re sure to find a Merkur Gaming slot that’s right for you!
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Aztez - PC Review
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berroni, 7 february 2019 17:34
Aztez is a strategy indie action game developed & published by Team Colorblind on the 1 Aug 2017.
Aztez is a game which made me wonder whether I should buy it or not, would it be interesting my time, for quite a long. A thing that made my choice are actually reviews of this game on it's Steam Store Page. I've checked these "Very Positive" reviews and finally decided to try it. Believe me, that's one of the best choices I've ever made when it comes to gaming. Aztez is definitely a game everyone should try. It's a fabulous killer or should say "blast 'em all" game that has given me a lot of fun and enjoyment. Before I say anything else, I would love to suggest you(if you decide to try this game) to practice at the arena mode before you start your campaign since this game is pretty much challenging, you won't catch up to the basics quickly as you usually do.
The story of Aztez is set in the post-colonial era, 15th-century Mexico, which was actually a great idea. You'll have to manage an empire and its resources and you'll have to defend your land against the Spanish invasion. Don't worry, Spanish invasion won't happen until later in the game. Throughout each battle, your goal is actually not only the winning - you'll need to absorb the blood of enemies you've defeated in order to fill a blood meter so you can please the gods. One example of these gods is the god Rain and his ability is healing. When I say absorb the blood of the enemies you've defeated, I don't mean absorb the blood of the enemies you've killed. Doing fatal damage to an enemy brings them to a dizzy state, and that's the point where you go into action - that's the point when you absorb their blood. It's not easy as you probably think right now, since there is, logically, more enemies in front of you besides the one you're currently absorbing. Other enemies can easily knock you out of the animation.
Aztez is a turn-based game which doesn't require you to complete missions, you will do that willingly. Missions are going to be your main resource generator, and you need resources for a bunch of things. You'll need resources to upgrade your empire, make assassinations, marry princesses and a bunch of other things. Yeah, you can say it's the most important thing in the game. Besides basic missions, there is also a special mission that unlocks your weapon type. There are eight weapon types, and each one is pretty unique and interesting. You'll want to try them all, believe me, and when you try them all - You won't be able to decide which weapon you are going to use.
The only major con of the Aztez is actually it's empire building system because it's too easy to run through it. Besides building system being too easy, as I've already said - Aztez is a challenging game. Its difficulty belongs to the combat. You sometimes won't even be able to know where are you going to battle next as the randomness of the missions is quite a lot putting you into some tough situations which you probably won't be able to handle. You'll have to do your best if you want to complete it.
I suggest this game to everyone with a strong 10/10 rating.
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I've never seen this game before but the artstyle looks amazing! I love turn based games and I think Aztez might be really fun to play.
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Senran Kagura Peach Ball review for Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch, Reviews
Publisher: XSEED Games
Developer: HONEY∞PARADE GAMES, Inc.
Medium: Digital
ESRB: M
So here’s Senran Kagura Peach Ball for the Nintendo Switch and in case you don’t know then this is a pinball game that is for adults and not for kids! So with that out of the way if you’re familiar with the Senran Kagura series then you’re probably aware that spinoff games like Peach Ball are about having a sexy time with busty girls more than they are about the genre of the spinoff and that is no different this time.
The story here is that each of the girls has forgotten they are human when coming in contact with a mysterious ball that causes them to think they are a cute animal. But you are in luck since Haruka has opened an arcade which hosts many machines including pinball! And in order to help the girls remember you must play pinball while they sit on the table and experience being hit by the magical Peach Ball! And believe it or not that’s the story which really is just here to get you to the table and some pinball action so how does the game actually play?
Well for the most part this is a half-decent pinball game and no pun intended! You only get a few tables so if you were hoping for variety then just forget it. Another complaint I have especially in the first few stages is that everything is very overwhelming with constant dialog and stage hazards and worst of all tutorial prompts stopping the game to tell you about events that will mean nothing to you just seconds later when the game resumes play and you lose your ball because you weren’t ready for the game yet! Even hours later the game manages to still interrupt you at the worst times with a dialog box explaining something just as you were about to hit the ball. So yes this eventually becomes less of an issue but how this was never addressed just boggles my mind!
But I’m sad to say that the ball physics feel slightly off and most of the time you won’t feel like you have total control over your shots. Several times I would do my best to hit the ball at an angle hoping to go through a highlighted path only to find it repeating the same one and wearing down on those rails just as much as it does on my patience. I also noticed a few times that the ball would slip from the end of a flipper where I would then get a ball out or watch it fly in an unexpected direction than I wanted. This is even more so in the special areas where the flippers almost are made to eventually lose the ball after a few hits!
So either way you’re boned if you wanted a pinball game with precision and this will lead to many frustrating moments while playing a girl’s story stages. But not all is lost since you can still have a good time if you play the tables fast and loose like the rest of the game treats the video pinball genre. So if you spend your time here just button mashing on the flippers and enjoy the mayhem then you can still have a good time. You can also change camera angles to show more of the table from above and I liked mode F for this but the closer views will show more of the girls so just use the angle you want!
I did say that the game is overwhelming and that does hold it back in the beginning. You progress by completing missions which show up on the right side of the screen. This will earn you points and open up the Sexy and later a Super Sexy Challenge which will then complete the stage. But just try to not pay much attention to specific missions or else you will find yourself losing balls while trying to read the text onscreen. Your best option is just to keep your ball on the table and just wait for the Sexy Challege to appear in time because by now you’ll remember that precise play is somewhat out of your hands and you’ll have more fun if you just chill out and knock a few balls around while the game does it’s thing.
So there is some casual fun to be had in the video pinball side of things but it would be much more fun if the game gave you better control over the ball. You can tilt the table to move the ball up or down but this is hit or miss and it seems like the game wants you to make use of this function more than you expect. But if you’re interested in a solid pinball game then you might want to look elsewhere and if you’re here for the Senran Kagura side of things then the overall game will have more on offer with cutscenes featuring interactions between the girls as they bring each other back to human form and other activities.
And yes there are side modes that let you dress the girls or spend more intimate time with them and these have been in previous games so returning fans will know what to expect. One side thing that does bug me is not being able to preview anything in the shop. So that being said it does look okay for graphics and the sound is also good. I do like a lot of the music and the whole game is very upbeat and colorful.
But this is a mixed bag and for the limited tables and sometimes frustrating pinball experience you might want to wait for a deal on Senran Kagura Peach Ball. Yes there is pinball fun to be had along with side activities but for what you get it feels like the game is ripping off a limited audience who does deserve more effort in these spinoffs.
Note: XSEED provided us with a Senran Kagura Peach Ball Nintendo Switch code for review purposes
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13 Great North American Movie Lines
1. "Keep you friends close -- and your enemies closer" - The Godfather Part 2
I was married for two ******* years! Hell would be like Club Med! - Sam Kinison
2. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore - Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
2. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore - Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
3. "Don't sell yourself short, judge. You're a tremendous slouch." - Ty Webb in Caddyshack
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A Baker's Dozen of Great North American Movie Lines
4. "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" - Alfonso Bedoya as the Federale in 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley: Ends and Means (1937)
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"Take your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape." - TAYLOR (Charlton Heston) Planet of the Apes
"There is no justice among men."- Tsar Nicholas II
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” - Otto Von Bismarck
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
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5. "Take your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape." - TAYLOR (Charlton Heston) Planet of the Apes
6. Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation - Oddball - Kelly's Heroes
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1. "Keep you friends close -- and your enemies closer" - The Godfather Part
7. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” - Rhett Butler -Clark Gable - Gone With the Wind
8. "Fill your hands you son of a bitch" - Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) - True Grit
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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
— Groucho Marx
9. "Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president." Jack Burton
6. "Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation" - Oddball - Kelly's Heroes
10. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" - Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) - White Heat
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11. "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) The Wizard of Oz
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11."Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) The Wizard of Oz
12.I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia. I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them."- PRIVATE JOKER (Matthew Modine) in Full Metal Jacket
13. "Rosebud" from "Citizen Kane".
A Bakers Dozen of North American sayings and their origins.
1. "A Can of Corn" from baseball about a an easy fly ball to catch.
A grocer would have to get cans of corn off the top shelf with a stick or hook and would catch it in their apron.
2. "Someone let the cat out of the bag". - They used to sell baby pigs in burlap sacks. Unscrupulous characters would occasionally slip a sack with a cat in it in the mix.
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Frank Castle, The Punisher: Six Hours to Kill — The Reykjavik Grapevine
Frank Castle, The Punisher: Six Hours to Kill
Hugleikur Dagsson
Like so many readers and writers of this beloved mag, you’re probably a bleeding heart liberal. You’re against whale hunting and capital punishment. That’s okay, this reviewer is too. Kinda. On a good day. Well, killing is wrong. Even killing killers (even killing killer whales!). But since we’re all a single chromosome away from being chest-pounding apes, it can be frustrating to remain that civilized in this twisted world of molesters and meanies. Thank Christ then, for Frank Castle, the Punisher. The comic book that actually quenches your natural bloodthirst.
The Punisher originally appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (didn’t even have to Google that!) and quickly rose in popularity. Most likely because he didn’t capture criminals, he slaughtered them. A Batman without the bullshit.* Through the years, he’s had a fruitful career within the Marvel universe.
Later on, editors realised that the mainstream Marvel universe was too spandexy for all of the Castle’s bloodletting. There are kids reading these things for Kirby’s sake! Thus, the MAX imprint was born. A department within Marvel headquarters, where writers have the freedom to remove classic heroes from their natural surroundings and write edgy stories about them. “Edgy” meaning you can swear and show tits. And thankfully, way more gore.
The first ten volumes (simply called The Punisher MAX) were written by Garth Ennis and remain one of his best works to date. So filling his shoes would be a challenge. It doesn’t seem like it, though, for former true-crime novelist Duane Swierczynski. He manages to actually make you giggle with glee as Castle crushes a rapist’s skull. In his second volume: Six hours to kill, we follow our anti-hero as he is poisoned and has six hours to live. Which means of course six hours to massacre every square metre of earth-scum he manages to find. Fun!
Oh, and he accidentally kills a whale in this book, too. Accidentally!
* That’s not a Batman diss. The sentence just sounded cool.
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Please join us in welcoming author Marly Youmans on October 5, 2019 from 2pm till 5pm. Meet the author and purchase signed copies of her book!
From Marly Youmans, author of the epic poem Thaliad (Phoenicia, 2012) comes the story of the mysterious Red King, the metamorphosing Fool, and the ethereal Precious Wentletrap, told in a series of connected poems of rare beauty. Whether read as fantasy, symbolic story, or simply poetry, the world Marly has created is a spellbinding place where we can glimpse truths about our own lives, and the world. The Book of the Red King is illustrated with drawings by the acclaimed Welsh artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
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The Book of the Red King reflects my love of stories as well as poems; the series of poems focuses on tales of the Fool and his bond to the mysterious Red King and the pearly Precious Wentletrap. The alchemy of his inner transformation from desperate youth to a state more joyful and golden in nature is the soul of the book. Like my novels or my long epic adventure in blank verse, Thaliad, this account of the Fool is bent on propulsion and change. Like my collections of poems, the book is also made up of innumerable smaller pieces, though they (like the shards in a stained glass window) fit together to make something that strives after a wholeness that is rich, fantastical, and vivid with truth and beauty.
Marly Youmans is the author of seven novels: LITTLE JORDAN (David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995); CATHERWOOD (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996); THE WOLF PIT (FSG, 2001, The Michael Shaara Award); and VAL/ORSON (UK: P. S. Publishing, 2009); A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE (Mercer University Press, 2012, The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction); GLIMMERGLASS (Mercer, 2014); and MAZE OF BLOOD (Mercer, 2015.) In addition, she has published two Appalachian fantasies for young adults, THE CURSE OF THE RAVEN MOCKER (FSG, 2003) and INGLEDOVE (FSG, 2005). Her poetry collections are: THALIAD, an epic adventure in verse from Phoenicia Publishing of Montreal, 2012; THE FOLIATE HEAD, from Stanza Press (UK, 2012); THE THRONE OF PSYCHE (Mercer University Press, 2011); and CLAIRE( Louisiana State University, 2003). She is a native of the Carolinas currently living in a snowbank in Cooperstown, New York.
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