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Why does everybody hate us?
Why does everybody hate us? Don’t hide from the media or bury your head in the sand - it’s time to fight back, says Steve Donoughue.
You could be excused, when listening or reading a news story about gambling recently, or even in your most wonkishness, listening to a Parliamentary debate, for wondering why what we do would seem to be akin to farting in the face of Her Majesty (Happy 90th BTW). That is to say, why is it that the industry we work in is so hated by the press and those who they go to for comment?
How can something that has been around since the pyramids of Cheops (they found loaded dice inside them), has been indulged in by literally billions of people throughout all time and all civilisations, and has been legal in much of the world for nearly a half century be regarded so unfavourably by those people that newspapers deem intelligent and informed enough to quote on their front pages? In short, why does the MSM (mainstream media to you guys not wearing tinfoil hats) hate gambling so much?
The press has recently gone big on horrific stories linking suicides directly to gambling addictions without a mention of other underlying problems. There is a constant drip drip of stories where problem gamblers lose their houses, families and livelihoods, and it’s all our fault. Then there is money laundering, not just the scandals of the customers being busted by the police and then tipping off the Gambling Commission about errant operators, but the idea that street level drug dealers are laundering their money via gambling as if they were running massive crime empires.
Then we have that old chestnut of betting integrity, where somehow any rigged sporting event is the fault of the legal gambling industry not bent sporting officials, team members or illegal bookies. It would appear that if anything goes wrong, it’s our fault, us who operate legally, abide by the regulations and do everything we can to prevent the social externalities that can happen. If we were doctors or teachers we would be complaining about our profession being denigrated in the press, but for most of us, it’s just an occupational hazard and we do our best to ignore it.
To my mind there are three potential theories of why gambling isn’t loved in the way it should be and they may be interlinked. First is the over-exposure theory, which argues that if we look back through history, whenever a form of gambling becomes overly public and prominent, the forces of reaction kick in and through the use of a susceptible media launch a moralising campaign to have said form of gambling restricted or banned. Almost as if self-appointed guardians of the public morals have decided to put us back in our place.
This was the case in the UK in the 1930s with greyhound racing, the 60s with bingo, the 80s with gaming arcades, and now in the teens is the case with FOBTs. I predict it will be online next. Key to any reactionary campaign is the belief that vulnerable people are victims on a massive scale to these pernicious activities. In the 30s it was the poor, the 60s women, the 80s children and with FOBTs, if you listen to some of their loudest critics, anyone can become an addict just by being in the same room as them. In each example emotion beats evidence by a country mile every time, even though dodgy academics do their best to wade in with spurious data or studies to the contrary. This theory is sometimes called the “Think of the children” theory, and yes do make sure you screech it in a high pitched voice.
My second theory is that of a post-economic crisis moralisation, or for short, “Now we say no to greed”. Equally true historically is the cultural impact of regular economic catastrophes inherent in our capitalist system which sees, in a post-financial crash environment, an over emphasis on trying to put morals back in to markets. The markets being that young person was only turned bad by their evil influencers (bankers usually) focused solely on greed. If only they could become good again and believe in being nice to everybody we could all get along and still see healthy growth in our pensions or house prices. Gambling has got absolutely nothing to do with financial institutions going bad, but once they’ve said casino capitalism enough times, we’re just part of the malaise that caused the crash. Similar things were said after the 1920s, if there hadn’t been so much fun gambling and other excesses and more people saved and went to church instead we wouldn’t have gotten into this mess. To some, gambling epitom ises a disregard for hard work and clean living and so has to be worthy of some blame. Coincidentally it was exactly this louche stereotype that appealed to me in choosing it as a career.
My final theory I call the “Only thing Owen Jones is right about” from his 2011 book Chavs. Hidden in between a lot of torrid socialist dogma that could just about inspire a patchouli-oil scented student to undertake a sit-in, is a strong argument that the British media, cheered on by the establishment, demonises the working classes in the U.K. As post-industrialisation has reduced those who once had respectable factory jobs for life into zero hours contract distribution centre workers and a growing underclass weaned solely on welfare and moped wheelies, their traditional leisure amusements also get demonised. No-one watches My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding to see love conquering any obstacles that restrained circumstances can throw at you. We’re encouraged to laugh at poor people and criticise them for all their bad habits; smoking, eating fast food and gambling. How dare they have a flat screen TV or visit the bookies, surely they should be doing star jumps and volunteering for things to earn their food?
This may seem fanciful but in my time in Parliament I have seen a big change in the way Parliamentarians consider gambling. Much of the blame, it has to be said, is due to the years where the big three bookmakers were absolutely diabolical in their incompetent dealings about FOBTs, which turned the subject toxic. Those in other sectors, who keep banging on about FOBTs, only spread this toxicity and ruined it for the rest of us. Please do keep it down.
Having said that, it should also be recognised that there have been massive structural changes in who the MPs are. Post 2010 we have lost a large number of working class MPs who would defend their constituents’ right to gamble as it was what they did. Ed Balls was the last one I heard making this defence. Now our Parliamentarians are far too middle class to even know what gambling is, or if they do they look at it solely through the filter of it being an attack on anyone vulnerable (regardless of if they really are) – be they poor, women, or just so un-educated they can’t realise that a falafel, a world music CD and a discussion on unilateral disarmament is what leisure time should be all about. Without wishing to sound like my dad, we unfortunately live in a world of North London modern parents, where unless a venue where that little Jack and Poppy can partake in a pre-teens intermediate French poetry slam then it shouldn’t be on the high street and definitely not promoted online.
So what do we do? I know that some industry trade associations have taken the approach of keeping their heads down and saying nothing, but the ostrich strategy is always the worst. It gives the battleground fully over to the opposition. We need to educate. We need to show the commentariat that we provide fun in a safe and responsible environment. We need to mobilise our supporters, our staff and our customers and show our detractors that what we do is a part of our culture, our heritage and our future. Gamblers are happier people than non-gamblers. We need to speak up for ourselves. Someone find me a milk crate.
Steve Donoughue, MBA
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Titanfall 2 coming October 28th, plus a new trailer
by Dustin Chadwell
The official Titanfall YouTube account just posted up a new single-player campaign trailer for the upcoming release of EA and Respawn’s Titanfall 2, along with the release date of October 28th. Check out the new gameplay (which looks pretty sharp!) in the trailer embedded below!.
Titanfall 2 – Single Player Trailer:
Titanfall 2 – Multiplayer Trailer:
Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that Titanfall 2 will drop worldwide on Friday, October 28, 2016 for Xbox One, Origin for PC, and for the first time ever for the franchise, PlayStation 4. The highly-anticipated first person shooter is set to build on the foundation Respawn established with the first Titanfall – fast, fluid, and fun gameplay between Pilots and Titans, to once again innovate and elevate the shooter genre.
To watch the Titanfall 2 official announcement trailer, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbutTQ8Yow
To watch the Titanfall 2 multiplayer gameplay trailer, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ISYN1AshZY
“With the original Titanfall, we focused on nailing the gameplay and reinventing the way you move and fight in a first person shooter,” said Vince Zampella, CEO of Respawn Entertainment and a Co-Creator of the Call of Duty franchise. “With Titanfall 2, we’re building on that foundation by introducing a bespoke single player campaign backed by a deeper multiplayer experience that together will once again push the shooter genre forward.”
In single player, Titanfall 2 will deliver a crafted experience that explores the unique bond between man and machine. Playable offline, the single player campaign in Titanfall 2 will let fans step out onto The Frontier as a Militia rifleman with aspirations of becoming an elite Pilot. Stranded behind enemy lines and facing overwhelming odds, players must team up with a veteran Titan to uphold a mission they were never meant to carry out. In multiplayer, Respawn is continuing to evolve their best-in-class gameplay to provide a more robust experience that delivers expanded depth and variety that includes six new Titans, deeper Pilot abilities, more customization options, and a robust progression system that is sure to satisfy fans.
Fans wanting to hit The Frontier first on October 28 can pre-order Titanfall 2 now at Titanfall.com. For those looking to have the ability to customize every Titan day one, the Titanfall 2 Deluxe Edition offers instant access to exclusive Warpaints and Nose Arts, two camouflages, and more.
Prior to release, Titanfall 2 will have an open technical test designed to help Respawn ensure a successful launch on October 28. Fans interested in getting technical test news first can sign up here for Dispatches from The Frontier – the Titanfall 2 Newsletter that provides news, exclusive offers, and much more.
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The Ribos OperationThe Pirate PlanetThe Stones of BloodThe Androids of TaraThe Power of KrollThe Armageddon Factor
Wednesday, 31st December 2003 - reviewed by Paul Clarke
After the outrageous lunacy of 'The Pirate Planet', 'The Stones of Blood' is something of a comedown. Initially, it almost harkens back to the Hinchcliffe era in terms of style, with a distinct gothic horror feel, but as it progresses it totally shifts its emphasis and becomes more comical, with a fairly unremarkable ending. Sadly, this results in the story feeling oddly disjointed, which is a shame since it boasts a great supporting character, unusual monsters, and one of Doctor Who's rare female villains.
'The Stones of Blood' starts promisingly, featuring in its first two episodes human sacrifice, sinister ravens, a Celtic goddess, Hammer-esque druids, and a gothic mansion. This dark approach, a distinct change from that of the previous story is rather effective, and the script exploits these trappings by creating an air of mystery, as the Doctor and Romana investigate the stone circle and learn of the Cailleach, a mysterious woman who has owned the area for centuries. The entire production contributes to the sinister feel created, with night filming, stark location work, and of course an old mansion owned by a villain, a recurrent phenomenon in Doctor Who. The monsters of the piece, the Ogri, fit perfectly into this story, and work rather well considering that they are artificial glowing boulders on trolleys. Whilst there are far more memorable Doctor Who monsters in the series' history, the Ogri are conceptually striking, since they are in effect vampiric rocks that can neither speak nor show any kind of physical expression; all they can do is rumble remorselessly after people. This sounds daft on paper, but it is made to work on screen thanks to some nice camera work and one noteworthy scene in which two Ogri kill a couple who are camping, sucking them dry until mere skeletons remain. With an ancient goddess controlling these creatures, all of the ingredients necessary for classic Doctor Who are present; then, during Episode Three, everything changes.
As soon as the action switches to hyperspace in Episode Three, the whole tone of 'The Stones of Blood' changes irrevocably. The introduction of the Megara amidst a brightly lit spaceship set heralds the beginning of the explanations as to why the Ogri and their mistress are on Earth, but sees all of the sinister atmosphere of the first half of the story evaporate. There is no reason why the approach adopted by the latter two episodes shouldn't work and indeed it does have a certain appeal, but it clashes horribly with what precedes it. Suddenly, the story becomes more comedic, as the script pokes fun at the rigidity of the law via the Megara and the Doctor finds himself on trial. Baker handles this material well, and the Doctor's increasingly desperate attempts to outwit the Megara are rather entertaining, but they completely lack suspense, with the previously ominous Ogri suddenly seeming very vulnerable (the Megara reduce one to a pile of sand with consummate ease) and the Cailleach, now identified as Cessair of Diplos, standing on the sidelines and becoming increasingly shrill as she tries to convince the Megara to execute the Doctor before he can prove to them who she really is. It doesn't help that Cessair appears to lack any sort of motivation whatsoever, since having stolen the Great Seal of Diplos and escaped from the Megara's ship, she has spent five millennia hanging around the area doing very little except enjoying the scenery. Given the implied power of the Great Seal (secretly the third segment of the Key to Time), it seems rather strange that she doesn't seem to exploit its power to any great extent. There are very subtle hints that she is an agent of the Black Guardian, but even so he must have promised great rewards indeed if she is prepared to hang around in one place for so long. In fact, Cessair of Diplos is a rather disappointing villain overall; her lack of motivation is doubly disappointing given the rarity of female Doctor Who villains, and the decision to paint Susan Engel silver is unfortunate, since it just makes her look like an actress painted silver rather than an alien criminal (see also 'The Power of Kroll'). Engel's performance also gets increasingly over the top as the story progresses, with the worst example being her melodramatic cackling at the end of Episode Three.
The draining away of suspense in Episode Three (slightly halted by the deaths of the campers) is compensated for to an extent by the witty script, although unfortunately for David Fisher his story follows both 'The Ribos Operation' and 'The Pirate Planet' and so the humour inherent in 'The Stones of Blood' seems rather diluted in comparison. Nevertheless, there are some great lines, most notably from the Doctor who gets to utter the sentence "They say hyperspace is a theoretical absurdity and I've always wanted to be trapped in one of those" and generally takes the piss out of both druids and physicists in the same script. Probably the silliest the story gets is when the Doctor produces a barristers wig from his pocket during his trial, which seems to enrage some critics, but as far as I'm concerned is entirely in keeping with the increasingly humorous nature of the era. Most of the humour in 'The Stones of Blood' is less blatant, and revolves around Amelia Rumford, a marvellous character played magnificently by Beatrix Lehmann. As an eccentric academic scientist Professor Rumford is not exactly an original character, but she is so well scripted that she comes alive and makes an excellent foil for the Doctor, since she is possibly even more eccentric than he is. I particularly like her snide asides about fellow academics, especially when she alternately praises and dismisses various papers as she tries to remember who wrote them. Refreshingly for Doctor Who, she is also a scientist who is open minded from the start and is constantly fascinated by what she learns from her encounter with the Doctor, an attitude best summarized by her suggestion to an incredulous Doctor that they attempt to capture an Ogri in the name of science.
The only other supporting characters of note are the Megara, since both Nicholas McArdle's De Vries and Elaine Ives-Cameron's Martha are adequate but forgettable. The Megara are silly but entertaining, and the special effect used to create them works rather well, looking a lot more convincing than actual models would have done. Their stuffy, prim voices are well suited to their characterisation as the personification of legal proceedings and I like the fact that the Doctor neither convinces them of his innocence nor is forgiven, forcing him to use the third segment to get rid of them at the end.
The regulars are on their usual form, with K9 in particular getting plenty to do, as he battles Ogri, instructs Professor Rumford on how to rebuild the Doctor's machine, and also gets trashed for the first time (something that K9 Mark II is increasingly prone to from this point on). This unfortunately results in a cringe worthy scene as the Doctor and Romana fret over him, and spout pseudo-scientific twaddle about circuit regeneration; it is obviously intended to demonstrate how fond of him they are, but it comes across as being far sillier than the Doctor's wig could ever be. Romana also does well out of the story, Fisher's script reminding the viewer of her relative lack of experience, as she ventures out into the English countryside in high heeled shoes, sparking off a chain of events that result in her being pushed off a cliff. Her conviction that the Doctor was responsibly given Cessair's use of illusion nicely demonstrates that she hasn't been travelling with him long enough to develop the faith in him displayed by Sarah or Leela (both of whom would have assumed that if the Doctor had tried to kill them, he would either have been under someone else's control or an imposter). This is balanced out by the fact that in general, their initially antagonistic relationship has clearly settled down by now, and that the Doctor trusts her enough to tell her about the Guardians.
The production of 'The Stones of Blood' looks great, with the detailed sets of De Vries' house and Vivian Fay's cottage meshing perfectly with the superb location footage. Even more impressive is the fact that the stone circle, which looks highly authentic, is actually made largely out of fake boulders, since the real stones where deemed too small. The model work of the Megara's ship also looks good and nicely matches up with the sets used for the interior. These production values are valuable in a story which I feel doesn't quite work in story terms; 'The Stones of Blood' ultimately feels rather disjointed and is saddled with a mediocre villain, but nevertheless boasts many features that on the whole make it worth watching. As a debut for David Fisher it shows promise, and fortunately he gets to deliver on this promise very, very quickly
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Major Policy Intervention Needed for Solar Growth
December 19, 2018 December 19, 2018 / gyaneshchaudhary / Leave a comment
Recent time witnessed Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) rising the upper tariff ceiling for its 10 GW of interstate transmission system (ISTS) connected solar photovoltaic power projects. This can be considered as a move towards the right path, factoring in lack of developer interest in recent solar projects. Although, Indian solar initiatives have earned commendation for making incredible growth trajectories (5 GW solar capacity in 2015, 10 GW in 2016 and ~24 GW in 2018), policy interventions are needed to protect and prioritize the solar industry for continued success.
Resource Efficiency Policies and Initiatives Can Ensure Sustainability for India
April 13, 2018 / gyaneshchaudhary / Leave a comment
Continuously depleting natural resources pose a great threat to the world as its population continues to rise. Starvation, lack of energy, and important requirements to sustain life throughout the world has made it obvious that current consumption and production patterns are unsustainable. Focus on manufacturing and management of resources is extremely important to maintain life on Earth; otherwise the threat surrounding us would lead to further inequities. Management of lifecycle of resources, from their extraction to consumption and eventually disposal of waste has to be efficient to create and maintain sustainability of life as we know it.
Although, worldwide changes are being seen that surface necessities and align with the requirements of sustainability, not always they lead to expected results. And since managing resources is a global commitment- countries failing to create, establish and follow the process result in limiting global environment improvement. The only way to remedy the situation is cross country collaboration and development of understanding between policy and businesses within a country.
How Can Resource Efficiency Help?
Developing policies and business practices to have minimal impact on environment can also lead to adoption of resource efficient practices that can help in integrating circular economy methods. Reuse of waste would gain efficiency and responsible management system would allow countries to save millions and billions by reducing expenses and import requirement.
Government of India’s step towards solarizing the country is indeed an inspiring and decisive step to revolutionize energy generation and usage. The country has also announced plans of embedding resource efficiency and circular economy in initiatives and polices such as- Smart Cities, Swach Bharat, Zero Effect-Zero Defect Scheme, Ganga Rejuvenation Mission, Make in India etc, which will save resources and expenses.
How Is India Working Towards Resource Management?
NITI Aayog has joined hands with European Union delegation and released strategy on resource efficiency, which is supposed to help develop circular economy that will translate into sustainable development of the country. The strategy showcases action plans involving-
Manufacturing capacity development
Sharing of best practices
Development of an indicator monitoring framework
R&D and Technology Development
Waste-exchange platform
These processes will support sustainable public procurement, development of industrial clusters, and information sharing & awareness generation, saving money and leading to a better developed country.
However, to operationalize strategies for resource efficiency, India needs to create and follow sectoral policies in investment, education, innovation, trade, and skills development that can support resource efficiency development.
Why Policies Are Needed?
Policies are needed to facilitate the resource efficiency processes within the management supply chain of businesses. Strategies cannot deliver result unless businesses develop resource management processes within their existing framework. In order to do that, businesses often need financial support to accept and adopt large scale efforts towards waste management and efficient resource handling. Lack of technological infrastructure also hinders businesses in following the strategies prescribed the Government. In such cases, policies facilitating support can help. It is also important to improve the economic analysis of efficient resource management.
Evolving consumerism has urged rapid changes in product and service generation. India has done a marvellous job in energy generation and management by selecting solar. However, rethinking the resource management processes and effectively incorporating processes that will focus on resource usage, increasing exports, and reducing forex outflow is needed.
http://wsds.teriin.org/imperatives-operationalizing-resource-efficiency.php
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Joining Hands to Protect Water: A Move That Can Result In Climate Restoration
April 6, 2018 / gyaneshchaudhary / Leave a comment
In development of a country, using and protecting the natural resources plays a major part. To change the climate from going through drastic negative changes the world has readily accepted solar. However, it is also important for a country to focus towards protecting its water resources to support its economic growth while ensuring sustainability. Within Asia, India and its south Asian neighbours are blessed with huge reserves of natural water. However, due to lack of an infrastructure to distribute the water carefully and equally, the countries still suffer from scarcity of water from time to time. Statistics show that availability of water per capita in India has reduced by almost 70% since 1950. And while move towards industrialisation and economic development has gained importance, population growth and inefficiency in water use has resulted into water scarcity in regions.
Global Scenario
Research statistics show that increasing stress and degradation of climate mainly due to fossil fuel combustion, is affecting economic growth of South Asia, and seems to be leading to prolonged water scarcity in the near future.
The United Nation has recognized protection and efficient use of water as an important goal to establish and maintain sustainable development. The World leaders are starting to understand that setting a dedicated global goal for water is a necessity now, because water is a global resource and even if one country is left out of the development process, it will have negative impacts on the sustainability of the climate, which the whole world shares.
The developed and developing countries are banding together to create an international cooperation for saving the water resources for the global good. Information, methods are being shared and investments are being made to support better water harvesting, wastewater treatment, recycling, and sanitation-related activities and programmes. Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations have set a timeline of 2030 to incorporate changes that can assure climate sustainability and allow developing and developed countries alike to initiate economic development initiatives without hindrance.
Joining Hands and Resolving Disputes
There are 12 major river systems and a number of small rivers that go through India. And as the country is agrarian in nature, the demand of water is very high. Lack of technical competence to efficiently use the water doesn’t seem to satisfy the requirements thus creating an unnecessary demand for more of it. The similar scenario is seen in the neighbourhood countries of India, which leads to disputes for claim on the water.
India is moving towards the right way by choosing solar. Renewable energy shift can revolutionize India’s energy scenario and bring in socio-economic growth. However, to complete the transition, India also needs to focus on its use of natural resources as well. Developing an efficient water management is very important to ensure water security and also to share the natural resource to other countries.
Inter-sectoral water cooperation is also necessary as it can help the country understand the best way to divide the water into different sectors such as- Agriculture, Construction, Mining, Energy and Industry. Efficient usage and water protection rights will stop it from being misused or wasted.
Solar Has Made It Easier
Conventional energy generation process uses a lot of water (1.90 liters/kWh for Coal, and 1.60 liters/kWh for oil, and 2.30 liters/kWh for generating energy from Nuclear). And besides using up water, the kilotons of toxic waste produced by the conventional power plants annually contaminate rest of the water sources.
In this scenario, choosing solar as the mainstream energy source can win the battle for climate improvement, as it is a water free energy generation system. Additionally, solar can make it easier to send water to the cities, states or even countries which are in need of it by reducing cost of pumping water through solar water pumping solutions.
So, it seems that India is standing upon the perfect opportunity to not just better its socio-economic progress, impacting climate a positive way, the country can inspire other developing and developed countries to establish sustainability through protecting and efficient use of natural resources.
http://wsds.teriin.org/water-cooperation.php
Investment in Fossil Fuels Is Investment in a World of Fumes
March 30, 2018 / gyaneshchaudhary / Leave a comment
Renewable energy investment ($ 286 bn) surpassed investment in coal and gas ($ 130 bn) in 2015-16 and estimated to amount to $333 bn in 2018-19. Not just the developed countries, but developing countries like Brazil, Philippines, Mexico, Turkey, Chile, Africa, and India are focusing on renewable energy to phase out fossil fuels. Solar has obviously become the world favourite in a short span of time, showcasing its feasibility, low maintenance, prolonged lifespan and easy to install attributes.
The Looming Threat
It is important to note that oil and gas investment in 2016 was close to $ 522 bn, although it was down from 2015’s investment ($ 595 bn), it was still higher than renewables. Therefore, it is apparent that to push out fossil fuels, which is not just an option but a necessity now, the world would require more effort and aggressive investment initiatives.
Anti-Dumping Duty on Imported Solar Glass: Another Hurdle for India Solar Sector
India reaching ~20 GW in solar capacity in 2018 from less than 3 GW in 2014 highlights a trend that has received ample support from Government of India and private players both. Precise and well-timed decisions to build a policy environment, increasing finance choices, and encouragement to entrepreneurs have helped this happen. However, recent investigation on imported textured, tempered glass (used to manufacture solar modules) imported from Malaysia by India’s Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) does not appear as an act favourable towards Indian solar growth.
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Vote early, vote often, vote Labour
Warning: this is a political post. I don’t do these very often but sometimes the importance of a situation cannot be ignored. This is one of those situations.
Spoiler: I want a Labour Government and I want Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister. If you are a Tory then this probably isn’t the post for you.
This time tomorrow we’ll be counting down until the polls close on General Election Day. After that, we’ll have up to five years of the elected Government ahead of us. A lot can happen in five years and plenty of it could be irreversible, which is why voting is so important tomorrow.
In many ways this has been an incredible campaign. Jeremy Corbyn has defied the media and become a cult hero. He’s on the cover of music magazines, grime artists are putting on benefits for him and people are queuing for hours to see him speak. None of that will win you an election, of course, but what cannot be disputed is that Corbyn has won a lot of people over, including some of his critics. Day after day the press, primarily owned by billionaires whose finances would be under far greater scrutiny under a Labour Government, has smeared Corbyn in the hope that people will believe their lies. Day after day, more and more people have supported him. That’s a victory in itself, but it’s not the one that Corbyn wants, nor indeed the one that I want.
The real victory would be stopping the hapless Theresa May and her Tory cronies tomorrow. I know this still seems a huge stretch – hell, it IS a huge stretch – but the only way of doing it is all of us working damn hard to achieve it. There are different ways to do that: if you have time and can help get the vote out then contact Labour and get out there – and if you can get to a marginal seat all the better. If you have to work or go to college then just do everything you can to get your friends and family to vote. Most of all get yourself out there and cast your vote: it really does make a difference; the higher the turn out, especially amongst young voters, the more seats Labour will win. If you are registered to vote and haven’t yet had a polling card then you can still vote and you can find out where your polling station is here.
I know there are still people out there, including Labour voters, who don’t like Jeremy Corbyn, and I know there are people who will never change their minds on that, but if you’re one of them then just ask yourself one simple question: “Do I dislike Jeremy Corbyn more than I would dislike another five years of a Tory Government?” If the answer is “no” then there is only one thing for you to do, and that’s to grit your teeth and vote Labour. Not doing so will have an impact, of that there is no doubt.
And to those people who have yet to make their minds up I ask this:
Do you value the NHS and want it to continue with the funding that it desperately needs?
Do you want schools to have the resources to buy supplies, to have the teachers they need and class sizes that mean children can all learn?
Do you want the most vulnerable in society – pensioners and those who are disabled, mentally ill, homeless – to have the help that they need and deserve?
Do you want to see an increase in social housing and rent security for private renters?
Do you want more police on the streets?
Do you want students to be able to go through university without fear of leaving with an enormous debt?
Do you want a fair taxation system and a genuine commitment to eradicating tax avoidance?
Do you want a deal for exiting the EU that benefits the whole country as much as possible, negotiated by people who respect European politicians and will earn respect in return?
Do you want national infrastructure investment?
I could go on, but if you have answered yet to some or all of these questions then aLabour government will deliver what you want to see. Want to know more? The manifesto is here.
The importance of tomorrow cannot be emphasised enough. It will dictate our way of life for a long time to come. Get out there, cast your vote wisely and encourage as many people as you can to do the same.
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An on-duty San Joaquin Count deputy crashed his patrol car into another car on I-5, tragically killing an infant on December 14, 2019, at 10:30 pm. The child’s mother, Kalesha Johnson, was hospitalized in critical condition. At this point, we do not know why this deputy rear-ended another car. Was…
PRESS RELEASE: Haddad & Sherwin File Civil Rights Lawsuit for Stanislav Petrov, Victim of Brutal, Videotaped Beating by Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputies
By Haddad & Sherwin LLP August 5, 2016
OAKLAND, CA (August 1, 2016) — Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin LLP announced today that they have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit for Stanislav Petrov stemming from his widely-reported beating by Alameda County deputies on November 12, 2015. The incident started with a vehicle pursuit across the…
Race Is Not the Answer
The front page of this past Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle (December 28, 2014) bore the headline, “Civil Rights Leaders Seek More Black Prosecutors.” The premise of the article is that if more prosecutors were Black, more police officers who illegally kill people would be prosecuted. While increasing the racial diversity of our nation’s…
PRESS RELEASE: Haddad & Sherwin File Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Vacaville Police Department Over Death of Kendall Walker
By Haddad & Sherwin LLP March 26, 2014
SACRAMENTO, CA (March 26, 2014) — Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin announced today that it has filed a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Kendall Walker’s parents and young son. On July 18, 2013, officers from the Vacaville Police Department fired multiple shots killing…
Another ‘Friendly Fire’ Tragedy
“Nobody can dispute the fact that the law is established that you can’t go blowing [away] a police officer making an arrest.” That’s what our federal court judge said when she denied the defense of qualified immunity to the rookie officers who shot and killed our client, Oakland Police Officer…
Police Misconduct Statistics vs. Officer Safety
Police officers undoubtedly have a dangerous job. We have represented several officers who were injured or killed in the course of their job. How dangerous is it? Based on the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Forbes lists the top ten most dangerous jobs in America: 1. Logging workers 2. Fishers and related…
Coming to Understand the Constitution
By Haddad & Sherwin LLP December 8, 2013
As the only non-lawyer working in our office every day, I’ve sometimes felt like I’ve awoken in another country, one where everyone else fluently speaks a language I only speak well enough to order a coffee or to ask someone for directions to the nearest museum. Thankfully, this language gap…
Victory for Falsely Arrested Off-Duty Cop
After over six weeks of trial, we got a jury verdict today in favor of our client, Bret Cornell, a rookie off-duty San Francisco cop who was falsely arrested for jogging in Golden Gate Park. The case was very hard fought, because San Francisco refused to acknowledge that their officers had absolutely…
In Trial Again
We are in trial in San Francisco right now for our client, an off-duty rookie San Francisco police officer who was wrongfully detained, arrested, and held at gunpoint by other San Francico police officers while he was going for a jog after work in Golden Gate Park. When the defendant…
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Russia wants to build a devastating lost to Belgium
Andry Kut
Artem Zabatta: Alexey Danichev/ RIA Novosti
Team Russia lost to team Belgium in the penultimate match of the qualifying stage of the European championship 2020. About it the correspondent “Tapes.ru”.
The meeting was held on Saturday, November 16, in Saint-Petersburg and ended with the score 1:4. In the first half, the hosts conceded three times scored Torhan Azar (19th minute) and twice Eden hazard (33rd and 40th). In the second half striker Romelu Lukaku scored the fourth goal (72nd). Consolation goal was scored by Georgi Djikia in the 79th minute.
Thus, the Belgian team has secured first place in group I. In nine games the red devils have won nine wins and scored 27 points. The Russians are second in their asset 21 points. Three days later, the team of Stanislav Cherchesov will play their final qualifying match with San Marino.
Both teams have already secured participation in the final stage of Euro 2020. In the first round of the qualifying round Belgium in his field defeated the Russian team with the score 3:1.
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Bloodlands
Historical True Crime
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
(Revised and Updated Edition)
Written with David Everitt
Amazon.com Review The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is a lighthearted but reasonably tasteful collection of information about serial killers, by a respected historian of crime (Harold Schechter) and the author of Human Monsters (David Everitt). It includes individual entries devoted to the most famous killers from all over the world, and amusing sections devoted to such topics as black widows, bluebeards, killer couples, Lustmord, Nazi buffs, power tools, pyromania, and trophies. There are also useful tips for further ventures into art, movies, books, zines, music, and tourist attractions devoted to serial killers. The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is cross-indexed, with numerous black-and-white illustrations. --Fiona Webster
Books by Harold Schechter
Bestial (2004)
Conversation Pieces (2007)
Depraved (2008)
Deranged (1998)
Deviant (1998)
Discoveries: Fifty Stories of the Quest (1992)
Fatal (2003)
Fiend (2000)
Film Tricks: Special Effects in the Movies (1980)
Hell's Princess (2018)
Killer Colt (2010)
Killer Verse (2011)
Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2018)
MAN-EATER (2015)
Masters of True Crime (2012)
Nevermore: A Novel (2000)
New Gods (1980)
Original Sin: The Visionary Art of Joe Coleman (1998)
Outcry (1997)
Panic (2018)
Panzram A Journal of Murder (2002)
Patterns in Popular Culture (1980)
Psycho USA (2012)
Rampage (2018)
Reel Verse (2019)
Savage Pastimes (2005)
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (2006)
The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art (1998)
The Brick Slayer (2018)
The Devil's Gentleman (2007)
The Hum Bug (2002)
The Mad Sculptor (2014)
The Manly Handbook (1982)
The Manly Movie Guide (1997)
The Mask of Red Death (2004)
The Pied Piper (2018)
The Pirate (2018)
The Ragged Stranger (2019)
The Serial Killer Files (2003)
The Tell-Tale Corpse (2006)
The Whole Death Catalog (2009)
True Crime (2008)
© Copyright 1997-2020 Harold Schechter. All rights reserved.
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Harvard 28, Yale 21
by Cleat
For a full report on the game and the season, see "Four in a Row," January-February 2011.
Scoring 21 points in the second half, the football team came from behind to defeat Yale, 28-21, at the Stadium on Saturday.
Yale dominated the first half, holding Harvard to 15 yards rushing, and led 14-7 at the break. But an 86-yard runback of the second-half kickoff by senior Marco Iannuzzi tied the score and changed the complexion of the game.
Iannuzzi had been out of action since breaking a clavicle in the season's third game.
Strong defensive play, led by linebacker Nick Hasselberg '11, tackle Josué Ortiz '12, and end Ryan Burkhead '11, held Yale to a single touchdown in the second half. Hasselberg was credited with 20 tackles, tying a Harvard single-game record. Eli quarterback Patrick Witt was sacked six times by Harvard defenders.
Ortiz blocked a Yale punt in the third period and recovered the ball at Yale's 23-yard line, setting up Harvard's go-ahead touchdown.
Yale's defense limited senior Gino Gordon, Harvard's top running back, to 36 yards rushing, but Gordon scored two Harvard touchdowns on short-yardage rushes.
Harvard's sole first-half touchdown came on a one-yard pitchout from quarterback Collier Winters '12 to Gordon. The score was set up by a trick play that had Winters lateraling to receiver Adam Chrissis '12, Chrissis tossing the ball back to Winters, and Winters throwing a 46-yard pass to Iannuzzi, who was forced out of bounds at Yale's five-yard line.
Gordon scored his second touchdown on a two-yard off-tackle run following Ortiz's blocked punt. The fourth and last Crimson score came on a 12-yard pass from Winters to receiver Alex Sarkisian '12 midway through the final period.
With just over three minutes left in the game, Yale capitalized on a Harvard fumble inside the Crimson 20-yard line to score its only touchdown of the half. Junior running back Alex Thomas carried on all three Yale touchdowns.
Winters completed 13 of 16 pass attempts for 124 yards and his fifth passing touchdown of the season. He missed the team's first five games because of a hip injury sustained in preseason practice.
Gordon left the game after a helmet-to-helmet collision with Yale linebacker Jesse Reising in the fourth period. Reising was taken off on a stretcher, but postgame reports on both players were positive.
Harvard (5-2 Ivy League, 7-3 overall) has won nine of the last ten meetings with Yale (5-2, 7-3 overall), and now has a four-game winning streak against the Eli. Since the start of round-robin Ivy League play in 1956, Harvard leads the series with Yale, 30-24-1.
This year's seniors are the first in Harvard annals to have gone undefeated against Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth over a four-year stretch.
Harvard finished in a three-way tie with Yale and Brown (5-2, 6-4) for second place in the Ivy standings.
In other games: Penn (7-0, 9-1) won its second consecutive outright Ivy title with a 31-7 victory over Cornell (1-6, 2-8). Brown defeated Columbia (2-5, 4-6), 38-16. Dartmouth (3-4, 6-4) shut out Princeton (0-7, 1-9), 31-0.
The score by quarters:
Yale 7 7 0 7 — 21
Harvard 7 0 14 7 — 28
The season's record:
Harvard 34, Holy Cross 6
Brown 29, Harvard 14
Harvard 35, Lafayette 10
Harvard 31, Cornell 17
Lehigh 21, Harvard 19
Harvard 45, Princeton 28
Harvard 30, Dartmouth 14
Harvard 23, Columbia 7
Penn 34, Harvard 14
Four score: With Yale’s Melvin Rouse II in vain pursuit, Harvard’s Aidan Borguet heads for the goal line. Against the Elis, the Crimson freshman back rushed for a series single-game record 269 yards and amassed four touchdowns on only 11 carries, a performance that helped earn him the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award.
Photographs by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
Harvard football season wrap-up
Brant Berkstresser
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Brant Berkstresser and sports medicine at Harvard
Four score: With Yale's Melvin Rouse II in vain pursuit, Harvard's Aidan Borguet heads for the goal line. The Crimson freshman back rushed for a series single-game record 269 yards and amassed four touchdowns on only 11 carries.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
Football 2019: Yale 50, Harvard 43
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Take action in solidarity with Ralston Maise!
December 10, 2018 December 10, 2018 / harvestingfreedom / Leave a comment
Photo: Rebecca Gerster. Solidarity delegation with Ralston Maise on 23 November, 2018.
On December 10th, please take a minute to tell Tom Teahen that Ralston Maise deserves fairness from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
Ralston injured his knee in June 2017 while picking berries. Even though the WSIB is supposed to protect injured workers, under Teahen’s leadership, they:
Refused to recognize Ralston’s accident
Conducted interviews with Ralston’s co-workers while the employer was in the room (i.e. a chilling effect)
When migrant workers become sick or injured on the job, they know they could be sent home before accessing the full medical care to which they’re entitled. Consequently, they often downplay workplace injuries. Similarly, co-workers who are called upon as witnesses often fear speaking out against their bosses.
Ralston Maise with allies at WSIB. Photo: Rebecca Gerster.
If the WSIB had accounted for these realities, Ralston’s life would be much better: he could have recovered and made a decent life for himself and his family. Instead, Ralston is now dependent on the generosity of others for housing, has trouble putting food on the table, and cannot get medical care for his injury.
On November 23rd, 2018, Ralston led a delegation with dozens of concerned community members to demand fairness and compensation for his injuries. WSIB refused our request to send a decision maker to address our concerns. Instead, our delegation was met with a public relations representative.
To date, no steps have been taken to address concerns raised by Ralston and the community.
On December 10th, please take a minute to tell Tom Teahen c/o Steve Jackson that Ralston Maise deserves fairness from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
Call him at (416) 344-4320 and/or email him at steve_jackson@wsib.on.ca.
If you don’t receive this call-to-action until a few days later, it’s still fine to call or phone. 🙂
Sample Call
To: (416) 344-4320
Hello Mr. Jackson. I have a message for Mr. Teahen.
My name is ____ . I’m calling from ____(city or organization) to
express my deep concern about how the WSIB is treating Ralston Maise,
a migrant worker who was injured at work last year. The WSIB denied
his claim and ignored the fact that migrant workers often downplay
injuries for fear of repatriation. I urge the WSIB to immediately
provide fair compensation to Ralston and change the system so that it
better protects injured migrant workers. Thank you.
Sample Email – please CC j4mw.on@gmail.com
To: steve_jackson@wsib.on.ca
Dear Mr. Teahen,
I would like to express my deep concern about how the WSIB is treating
Ralston Maise.
The WSIB refused to recognize Ralston’s accident and ignored the fact
that migrant workers often downplay their injuries for fear of
repatriation and permanent removal from the Seasonal Agricultural
Worker Program. It then interviewed Ralston’s co-workers while the
employer was in the room with no regard for the consequences they face
if they speak out against their employer.
The WSIB is well aware of these issues but has not taken sufficient
steps to address them. By failing to do so, the WSIB is denying
migrant workers equitable access to the workers’ compensation system.
I urge you to immediately:
1. Provide fair compensation for Ralston Maise;
2. Train WSIB's eligibility adjudicators to take into consideration
the unique vulnerabilities faced by migrant workers in their decision
making;
3. Strengthen protections for witnesses so that they are not put at
risk for telling the truth; and
4. Work with migrant workers and their advocates to take immediate
and concrete steps to address the WSIB’s institutionalized racism.
I look forward to seeing these changes in effect and to receiving
your response.
Financial Solidarity Needed for Injured Migrant Worker
January 25, 2018 / harvestingfreedom / Leave a comment
We are writing to ask for your solidarity and support for an injured migrant worker who desperately needs some assistance to stay in his home.
In 2014, this gentleman seriously injured his back and leg while working on a farm in Ontario. His employer repatriated him to Jamaica with no notice, waking him up at 1 am and giving him 10 minutes to pack his things before sending him on a flight back home. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) then cut off his compensation, as they do regularly to migrant workers, forcing him to fend for himself.
He has lost so much since his workplace injury. His financial situation prevents him from getting the health care treatment he needs, and he struggles to put food on the table. Now, his landlord is trying to evict him and he needs some financial support in order to fend off the eviction.
The hope is that the WSIB will step up and provide some support, but this will take time. For right now, he needs some help to stay in his home and get him through this tough period.
Justicia for Migrant Workers is making this urgent appeal:
If you can, please DONATE ONLINE at https://harvestingfreedom.org/donations/
Click “special instructions to seller“
Write in “support for JT”.
We will be checking the instructions until February 15, 2018. If you would like to make a donation for this worker after this, please email us at j4mw.on@gmail.com so we can watch for it.
UPDATE and call-to-action with Kevon Smith:
September 13, 2017 September 14, 2017 / harvestingfreedom / Leave a comment
Thanks to the 45 people who donated in solidarity with injured migrant worker Kevon Smith over the past three days, the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) felt intense pressure to re-examine Kevon’s case. They have now allowed full compensation while he waits for his surgery. Kevon is grateful for everyone’s show of solidarity and generosity. The fundraiser is now closed.
But helping injured workers should never be a matter of charity.
Kevon should never have been obligated to make a desperate and public appeal for funds. The WSIB should have done the right thing before this public pressure. Beyond Kevon’s case, the WSIB continues to deny hundreds of injured workers the support they critically need and deserve.
Please email the office of the President of WSIB. Tell him:
Workers are not disposable;
The WSIB should ensure they give injured migrant workers like Kevon the choice and the financial means to stay in Ontario for health care for their workplace injuries.
Please send emails to Tom Teahen, President and CEO, via Steve Jackson: Steve_jackson@wsib.on.ca. Please feel free to CC us: j4mw.on@gmail.com.
URGENT call for solidarity with injured apple worker Kevon Smith
September 10, 2017 / harvestingfreedom / Leave a comment
We are calling on supporters of Justice for Migrant Workers to please show solidarity through your material resources through the following Go Fund Me campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/helpforkevon
Kevon Smith, a migrant worker and father of five, suffered serious injuries while working on a apple farm near Simcoe, Ontario.
After his workplace injury, Kevon’s employer attempted to send him back to Trinidad and Tobago. Kevon knew this was not right, resisted and remained in Canada to access health care for his injuries and fight for workers’ compensation from the WSIB.
Kevon’s doctors told him he will likely need surgery, but WSIB still refuses to provide him the financial support that would enable him to get it.
IAVGO Community Legal Clinic is helping Kevon challenge this unfair decision, but his status as a migrant worker excludes him from accessing other forms of income support programs. This means that at the moment he is far from home, severely injured and virtually penniless.
We are asking if you can provide some financial support as soon as possible to help Kevon with living costs through this crisis. He needs the funds now and will be able to access it within days of your donation.
Kevon is the sole breadwinner for himself and his young family. This crisis has made them destitute. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Human rights delegation for injured migrant worker Robert Sulph
March 21, 2016 September 6, 2016 / harvestingfreedom
On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a community delegation launched a human rights complaint against the Workplace Safety Insurance Board. The delegation included members from the Injured Workers Action for Justice (IWA4J), Justice for Migrant Workers, J4MW and the Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario (IAVGO).
After submitting the application, we went to express our support for the Toronto Black Lives Matter Toronto Tent City in front of the Toronto Police Department.
The complaint involves Robert Sulph, a former migrant farm worker from Jamaica who was seriously injured on a tobacco farm in Delhi, Ontario in 2013. After returning home to Jamaica, his health condition has deteriorated as a result of WSIB policies that racially discriminate against migrant workers and their access to health care under WSIB. You can read more about Mr. Sulph’s story here.
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Help Craft The World’s Largest Gin And Tonic In Las Vegas
Haute Cuisine, News
by Aleza Freeman
Apex Social Club at Palms Casino Resort.
Photo Credit: Clint Jenkins
Have you ever wanted to break a world record? Well, you’re about to get your chance.
The Las Vegas chapter of the United States Bartenders’ Guild (USBG) is inviting the public to help break the Guinness World Record for the largest alcoholic mixed drink. The benefit for Keep Memory Alive takes place at Apex Social Club atop Palms Casino Resort from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, November 5.
All attendees will have the opportunity to help mix (and later drink) the supersized gin and tonic by pouring a bottle of Empress 1908 Gin into a 300-gallon vessel 55 floors above the Las Vegas Strip.
Three hundred gallons? Talk about a stiff drink!
Considering the current Guinness world record-holding largest alcoholic mixed drink is a mere 181 gallons, Las Vegas is really taking this intoxicating challenge to a whole other level. The reigning drink was made at the Urban Food Fest in Shoreditch, London in June 2018 with 200 bottles of gin and more than 500 bottles of tonic.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Victoria Distillers
Along with the color-changing gin from Victoria Distillers, Las Vegas’ attempted record-breaking drink will include a massive amount of Fever-Tree Aromatic Tonic water and lime juice.
USBG anticipates breaking the world record around 7 p.m. Afterwards, the drink will be served to all the guests in attendance. Cheers to the taste of sweet victory!
Sin City is no stranger to breaking Guinness World Records. We’re currently home to the World’s Largest Observation Wheel (obtained by the High Roller at the Linq Promenade in April 2014), the Largest Fuzzy Dice (November 2011) and many more.
Monday’s event kicks off Keep Memory Alive’s “Month of Memories” for Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, which is dedicating to raising awareness and funds for the deadly and incurable disease.
Tickets for the event are $30 for USBG members and $50 for non-members. All proceeds will be donated to Keep Memory Alive, which supports the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
Additionally, throughout the month of November, a portion of the proceeds for all Empress 1908 Gin and tonic cocktails sold at Palms Casino Resort’s restaurants and bars will be donated to Keep Memory Alive.
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January 13, 2018 by NOW National
Donald Trump is a Mysoginist Racist; Women and Children are Three-Quarters of Immigrants in U.S.
Statement by President of NOW Toni Van Pelt:
Donald Trump’s repellent complaint about too many immigrants from “s-hole” countries is more than a window into his racist soul. His hate speech must be heard as a call to action to the public to defend the most fundamental pillars of our democracy.
Immigration is a feminist issue. Women and their children comprise approximately three-quarters of people migrating to the United States each year. Seventy percent of immigrant women attain legal status through a family-based visa, but the backlog is so severe that about four million people are currently waiting to be reunited with their families — some have already waited decades. Moreover, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender immigrants are not allowed to sponsor their partners or children for residency despite raising children and owning homes together.
We already know that Donald Trump disrespects women and treats them with contempt in his private life. Now we see that Trump’s misogynist, racist worldview props up his ruthless determination to defame, shame and discriminate against immigrant women as a matter of national policy.
Our nation has a shameful history of powerful politicians who encourage and enable bigotry. But we have also risen up to oppose racists and fascists, whether they wear white sheets or whether they spew hatred from the Oval Office.
We need an immigration process that treats women fairly and humanely, and recognizes the value of their contributions to the U.S. economy and society.
Donald Trump has spoken his truth and revealed his core failings not only as a leader, but as a human being. Now, it’s up to us to rise up and speak our truth. Silence is not an option.
Emily Imhoff, press@now.org, 951-547-1241
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Posts tagged ‘froze the U.S. assets of seven Russian officials’
Obama Imposes Sanctions on 11 Russians, Ukrainians Over Crimea Move.
In the most comprehensive sanctions against Russia since the end of the Cold War, President Barack Obama on Monday froze the U.S. assets of seven Russian officials, including top advisers to President Vladimir Putin, for their support of Crimea’s vote to secede from Ukraine.Obama said he was moving to “increase the cost” to Russia, and he warned that more people could face financial punishment.
“If Russia continues to interfere in Ukraine, we stand ready to impose further sanctions,” Obama said. He added in a brief statement from the White House that he still believes there could be a diplomatic resolution to the crisis and that the sanctions can be calibrated based on whether Russia escalates or pulls back in its involvement.
The Treasury Department also is imposing sanctions on four Ukrainians — including former President Viktor Yanukovych and others who have supported Crimea’s separation — under existing authority under a previous Obama order. Senior administration officials also said they are developing evidence against individuals in the arms industry and those they described as “Russian government cronies” to target their assets.
The administration officials said Putin wasn’t sanctioned despite his support of the Crimean referendum because the United States doesn’t usually begin with heads of state. But the officials, speaking to reporters on a conference call on the condition they not be quoted by name, say those sanctioned are very close to Putin and that the sanctions are “designed to hit close to home.”
The U.S. announcement came shortly after the European Union announced travel bans and asset freezes on 21 people they have linked to the unrest in Crimea. Obama administration officials say there is some overlap between the United States and European list, which wasn’t immediately made public.
The sanctions were expected after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly Sunday in favor of the split. Crimea’s parliament on Monday declared the region an independent state.
The administration officials say there is some concrete evidence that some ballots for the referendum arrived premarked in many cities and “there are massive anomalies in the vote.” The officials did not say what that evidence was.
The United States, European Union, and others say the action violates the Ukrainian constitution and international law and took place in the strategic peninsula under duress of Russian military intervention. Putin maintained that the vote was legal and consistent with the right of self-determination, according to the Kremlin.
The administration officials said they will be looking at additional sanctions if Russia moves to annex Crimea or takes other action. Those targeted will have all U.S. assets frozen and no one in the United States can do business with them under Obama’s order.
“Today’s actions send a strong message to the Russian government that there are consequences for their actions that violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, including their actions supporting the illegal referendum for Crimean separation,” the White House said in a statement.
“Today’s actions also serve as notice to Russia that unless it abides by its international obligations and returns its military forces to their original bases and respects Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the United States is prepared to take additional steps to impose further political and economic costs,” the statement said.
Administration officials say those Obama targeted also are key political players in Russia also responsible for the country’s tightening of human rights and civil liberties in the country. Obama’s order targets were:
Vladislav Surkov, a Putin aide;
Sergey Glazyev, a Putin adviser;
Leonid Slutsky, a state Duma deputy;
Andrei Klishas, member of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation;
Valentina Matviyenko, head of the Federation Council;
Dmitry Rogozin, deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation;
Yelena Mizulina, a state Duma deputy.
The four newly targeted by the Treasury Department are:
Yanukovych, who fled Ukraine for Russia and has supported the dispatch of Russian troops into Ukraine;
Viktor Medvedchuk, the leader of Crimea separatist group Ukrainian Choice and a close friend of Putin;
Sergey Aksyonov, prime minister of Crimea’s regional government;
Vladimir Konstantinov, speaker of the Crimean parliament.
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Expert Panel: SME fleet management challenges
To help SMEs challenged by fleet management, our expert panelists Sam Sterry, Duncan Chumley and Stuart Thomas share advice on duty of care, vehicle downtime, data utilisation, and adopting new mobility models
Employers have responsibility under Health and Safety legislation to ensure the safety of their employees, and this includes the activity of driving for work purposes, whether that is in a company vehicle or an employee’s own vehicle – the so-called ‘grey fleet’.
Duncan Chumley from Daimler Fleet Management explains: “A company vehicle is considered a place of work and UK companies have a legal and moral obligation to ensure that duty of care needs are met.
“When you consider official statistics point to over 25 per cent of all road accidents involving someone driving on company business, it shows how important getting duty of care right can be for both the safety of your employees but also the continuity of your business.
“All fleet operators, irrespective of size must have a structured fleet policy in place that covers duty of care to their drivers, their property and the safety of other road users.”
Giving reassurance to hard-pressed SMEs daunted by duty of care, Stuart Thomas from the AA says: “It is understandable that some SMEs might find themselves challenged to fit in the administration around people and vehicle management. Done correctly, however, employment law protects both employer and employee, helping to keep businesses operating at the top of their game.
“The good news is that keeping your people safe isn’t complicated or onerous. A solid understanding of the legal requirements, coupled with suppliers and partners who believe in keeping it simple yet compliant, is all a small business needs to maintain best practice behaviours.”
Ensuring drivers are properly trained is a vital step to ensuring their safety, as Duncan explains: “Drivers should pay attention to vehicles checks (tyres and oil), the correct seating position within their vehicle to reduce strains and injury, and fully understand the vehicle controls before setting off on any journey.”
Duncan adds: “Fleet management providers have the necessary experience and knowledge to ensure that your fleet policy is fit for purpose and covers all salient points of best practice. It is also key to ensure that all employees have easy access to the fleet policy and that mandated familiarisation with it is rolled out.”
Grey fleet
It is estimated that there are 14 million grey fleet cars on the UK’s roads, which drive around 12 billion business miles each year.
Looking at the reliance on grey fleet vehicles, recent research commissioned by Europcar Mobility Group UK found that over a quarter (28 per cent) of companies with 10-25 staff rely on grey fleet vehicles, rising to 40 per cent for firms with 26-50 employees. And nearly a third of companies with 10-25 employees said that up to a quarter of their staff chose cash-for-car.
Company-owned vehicles are more difficult to manage from a health and safety perspective. Europcar’s Sam Sterry explains why: “Unfortunately, when employees drive their own vehicles for business, there is no easy way to collect data about their driving behaviour, leaving employers unclear whether a vehicle has a valid MOT, tax, insurance or when it was last serviced.
“If a grey fleet driver is at fault for an accident while driving for work and they don’t have adequate insurance or a valid MOT, the employer could be held responsible. Where there is evidence of failings under the Duty of Care Act or the Corporate Manslaughter Act, employers (including senior employees) could find themselves facing prosecution which may result in hefty fines or even prison sentences.
“In addition, there is the burdensome administration and expenses associated with claiming fuel costs for business mileage.
“One answer to tackle the risks of grey fleet, without having to commit to the acquisition of company vehicles, is to use rental and car share. These are good solutions not only for the smallest SMEs, but also for public sector organisations with stretched budgets.”
It is important to understand duty of care requirements and understand what is needed to be compliant, including keeping up to date with industry news incase regulations change. Stuart advises: “Review the requirements, outline what’s needed to be compliant, put in place the processes and policies and then set aside some time regularly to review whether anything has changed. Keep an eye on industry news, as you will often hear about any policy updates and legislation overhauls through sector‑specific channels long before you must act.”
SMEs can get support on managing their duty of care from various places, if it becomes too burdensome, advises Stuart. He says: “Most industries will have representative bodies whose role it is to support their members, including providing guides to fleet management and duty of care, while suppliers will often provide cost-effective consultancy and templates to help SMEs meet their obligations.
“For SMEs that feel they want a helping hand in understanding their obligations and navigating the policy and process requirements, organisations like DriveTech offer comprehensive duty of care packages and training. Likewise, SMEs should also push their suppliers for guidance on ensuring vehicles are properly maintained, servicing schedules are adhered to, a preventative approach is taken to vehicle downtime and drivers are supported while on the road with appropriate breakdown and accident management solutions.”
Breakdowns and maintenance
Breakdowns mean less time businesses can spend on the road, getting the job done, which can be harmful from a cost and reputation point of view.
Sam Sterry explains: “Breakdowns can have a serious impact on employees’ productivity, as it means they are unable to reach vital appointments, as well as putting pressure on budgets with the cost of additional transport to get them to their next meeting.”
So how can SMEs ensure their vehicles are kept in a roadworthy condition?
“The old cliché ‘prevention is better than the cure’ stands true here,” says Duncan Chumley. “Regular checks on consumables should be included in weekly safety checks which are validated by a monthly declaration typically as part of the business mileage submission process will focus driver’s attention on the importance of regular maintenance.
“Consider a manufacturer who offers a robust roadside assistance programme. For example all new Mercedes-Benz Vans come with MobiloVan cover, reducing the aggravation of being off road for long periods. Does your cover offer like for like replacement vehicles? Can they repair roadside? And what will happen to your business if your vehicles are taken off the road?”
Duncan adds that the inclusion of service and maintenance within your funding arrangement with your fleet management provider will take away the burden of unplanned repair costs and help you budget effectively.
Stuart Thomas believes that managing downtime, or “optimising uptime”, is about having robust schedules in place which make the most of the natural breaks in vehicle usage to deliver the necessary services, repairs and upgrades.
He says: “Although famous for our breakdown service, we do so much more. Rather than providing a purely reactive service, we aim to stop the breakdown from happening in the first place via prediction and prevention. Our continued investment in technology and data services to support fleets, via connected solutions, means we can offer guidance on the best time to bring vehicles back to base, when to schedule essential maintenance and how to fit ongoing servicing checks into daily routines.
“In addition, our recent acquisition of Prestige Fleet Servicing (Prestige), a technology-led supplier of Service, Maintenance and Repair (SMR) services to fleet and leasing companies, is helping us to address a driver’s planned and unplanning needs.”
Staying productive
Stuart offers further advice to keep businesses productive when vehicles are off the road: “Having breakdown cover in place is recommended to deal with the unexpected, while some SMEs may also plan their fleets around spare capacity. We have worked with organisations who have invested in their own additional vehicles, as well as those which have taken advantage of pool vehicles via an ongoing subscription service to manage when their vehicles are unexpectedly off the road. We’re also helping SMEs to take advantage of overnight MOT and servicing solutions.”
Another potential solution to the burden of managing vehicle maintenance and downtime is to use rental vehicles, believes Sam Sterry.
She explains: “By using car hire from Europcar, staff can get on the road in a car that generally is going to be less than eight months old and fully maintained, thereby reducing the risk of breakdown in the first place. Plus, they feature the latest motoring technology, are fuel efficient, there’s a wide choice available, and they are accessible from a nationwide network. This means employee productivity can be maintained, as well as delivering real cost savings for the business which can ultimately make a real impact – all without any direct intervention needed from the employer.”
“For longer-term van rental, we also have a partnership with BT Fleet to provide service, maintenance and repair, ensuring that vehicles are kept in tip-top condition throughout a contract, giving firms even more certainty,” Sam adds.
Telematics, connectivity and fleet technology is a great way to give fleets insight into their fleet operations. But it is only effective if companies use the data to make changes. Some small companies however can feel burdened by data, so what advice would our panelists give?
Duncan Chumley said: “The availability of data within the industry is increasing. Seemingly all aspects of business can now be reported on in some way. But it is important to remember that having ‘sight of data’ is not the same as having ‘data insight’. Leasing companies can provide assistance by aligning the insight to the SME’s key objectives, applying appropriate filtration to the data in order to make recommendations.
“The insight can then be used to create an action plan with workable timescales to implement effective resolutions and improvements. Having the knowledge is important but unless you are using it to improve it serves little purpose other than to populate PowerPoint slides.”
Stuart Thomas believes that understanding and deploying data in a business should be kept simple. He says: “While they can be exceptionally useful for monitoring and planning, connected services are not a cure-all solution to business woes. Used effectively, however, as part of the right overall mix of technology, they can help to improve efficiency and contribute to business decision-making.
“Any supplier of tools and systems which embrace connectivity should be working with SMEs as more than a transactional data handler. SMEs should be receiving consultancy to help them understand and interpret the data, selecting the information which is most relevant and updating processes accordingly.”
It also pays to think about how the data can best support each individual business, not just relying on the ‘out of the box’ solutions. Giving an example, Stuart says: “We worked with one organisation that saw huge benefits from connected solutions when it came to paying congestion charges. Vans were constantly travelling in and out of central London, and the drivers were too busy to keep the fleet manager E
F informed of their movements. Often, the first the business knew of the congestion zone charges was the penalty fines which came through the post. Using connected services, the fleet manager was able to see which vehicles had been into the zone each day and pay the charges there and then, saving the business significant sums.”
The government has shown considerable interest in investigating new models of mobility, which it believes can address air pollution, ease congestion, and make the country more productive. Vehicle ownership is being questioned, and new sustainable ways of travelling such as car sharing and public transport is being looked into – including whether it is feasible to be billed for one journey even if multiple modes of transport are used.
Can this way of thinking help SMEs? Sam Sterry believes it can: “The big question is ‘what is fit for purpose’ for today’s businesses? And more often than not the answer is not outright acquisition or long-term lease.
“Similar to other industries, such as the housing and holiday sectors, the sharing economy has paved the way for a new wave of transport options. As decreased parking spaces, higher insurance costs and strict emission standards drive SMEs away from traditional vehicle sourcing, car clubs and pay-by-the-hour vehicle use have sparked a revolution which only looks to get bigger. This is good news for SMEs who can match flexible mobility services to their company needs.”
Sam adds: “Europcar Advantage provides access to brand new cars and vans – for three months or more – which means firms don’t need to make commitments for the long-term. It’s a flexible solution to business mobility. Without the pressure of upfront costs and a choice of contract lengths, ranging from a minimum of three to 12 months plus, firms get all the benefits they need to offer staff access to the latest models and stay in control of their costs.”
Duncan agrees that journeys should be investigated in more depth before deciding on the mode of transport. He says: “The first change I’d recommend is to start by considering the purpose of the journey first rather than starting with the medium – a car or van for example.
“By focusing on the ‘why’ first it becomes easier to decide on the most appropriate ‘how’. Are you moving people, or things? Is your journey short or long? Are there any alternative ways to remove or reduce the journey?
“The second thought is then a focus and understanding of costs vs obligation. For example, an SME might encourage employees to uses their own car for occasional company use, claiming back a mileage allowance. But the same duty of care requirements apply as they would to a company car driver but you have no control over the roadworthiness of that vehicle and therefore the drivers safety? A mobility alternative such as an on-demand car share scheme or a daily rental might not work out that much more expensive but would give you full control over your duty of care responsibilities.” L
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Sam Sterry, head of SME, Europcar Mobility Group UK
Since Sam joined the business in 2017, she has been working hard to give SMEs a wider choice of solutions to mobilise their business, capitalising on the growing portfolio of multi-modal mobility services available from the Group. Sam has a background in the SME finance sector – having previously worked for Lloyds Bank and Lex Leasing.
Duncan Chumley, chief commercial officer, Daimler Fleet Management (DFM)
Duncan Chumley is the chief commercial officer for Daimler Fleet Management (DFM). Before joining DFM, Chumley worked as managing director of Free2Move Lease UK and as sales director of Citroen Financial Services. DFM is a multi-marque vehicle leasing company that procures, funds and fleet-manages for public and private sectors businesses of all sizes.
Stuart Thomas, director fleet & SME services, the AA
With more than 20 years’ experience in the fleet sector, Stuart’s extensive knowledge of the industry comes from roles across contract hire, disposal and related fleet services. Stuart is responsible for managing all aspects of the AA’s fleet and SME clients, including some of the UK’s largest fleets and most diverse business users.
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A well-established tradition of our annual Last Gasp Cast Bash has become Assistant Stage Manager Malka Key’s contribution of a synopsis of our production sung to the tune of one of the songs from the show.
In 2015, following our production of H.M.S. Pinafore, Malka sang her song, to an appreciative audience, to the tune of “When I Was a Lad.” She did so entirely from memory.
In Pinafore, there is Josephine:
As captain’s daughter, she is caught between
From above wooed by the fleet’s first lord
From below it’s by a sailor, Ralph, who works onboard.
(And the captain’s thing for Buttercup can’t be ignored.)
From the sailor to the captain, there’s despondency,
But be assured the plot will end up happily.
When Ralph determines to plead his case,
Knowing Josephine is far above his place,
His proffered love she at once rejects,
Interspersed by brief asides in which she introspects.
(Simple eloquence Ralph perorates to great effects.)
Asides to us reveal her depth of agony,
Ralph turns to suicide to end his run.
Josephine rushes in as he’s begun.
And the gun he steals to commit this deed
Is the only gun that Pinafore appears to need.
(There’s a cat of nine tails later on, we do concede.)
Now a gun as a prop portends fatefully,
Dick Deadeye tells of their plan to fly
In the night to seal up their marriage tie.
The captain intercepts the pair’s farewell,
But he swears at them and ends up in a dungeon cell.
(For Sir Joseph disapproves of using language fell.)
So he breaks his vow not to use a “D,”
When Joseph learns Ralph’s plan, distress,
Pain, amazement, and surprise his eyes express.
But then Buttercup says what she’s concealed
Is she switched Ralph and the Captain, which must be repealed.
(And we overlook the aging gaps that she’s revealed.)
This swap lets everyone wed joyously
And that is how the plot will end up happily
Now patrons all, whatever shows you see,
If the characters seem all in misery
In a Gordian knot that they can’t unspool,
Be careful not to overlook this simple rule:
(Plots of comic operettas can at times seem cruel.)
If perhaps two were transposed in infancy,
Then be assured the plot will end up happily.
Lesley Hendrickson, the Director of our 2015 production of H.M.S. Pinafore, set the operetta in 1942. She felt that doing so, setting the story against the looming backdrop of World War II, aboard a ship that might not return from war, lent a poignancy to the operetta’s love stories.
This change of time period, of course, resulted in a number of changes that had to be made to the show itself. Sailors in the “Kings Navy” in 1942, for example, had to be clean shaven. While all the men dutifully complied, doing so was something of a painful challenge for at least two of the perpetually bearded men of the company.
This song, written by Jim Brooks, and sung to the tune of “Kind Captain, I’ve Important Information,” was performed at the 2015 Last Gasp Cast Bash, by Jim Brooks and Wally Benbenek.
Jim:
Hey, Wally, Pinafore’s our show this season
And let me tell you something quite bizarre
It’s set in 1940’s for some reason
You’ll have to shave your beard to be a star
Wally:
I’ll have to shave my beard off, I’ll have to shave my beard off
I’ll have to shave my beard just to be a star!
You’ll have to shave your beard off, you’ll have to shave,
You’ll have to shave your beard just to be a star!
Say, Jim, you play a sailor not a soldier
You’re not a Tommie, you’re a tar, what’s more
Your white beard made you look a little older
Although I know you’ll soon be 64.
Oh yes, a little older, oh yes, a little older
Sing homage to the Beatles when you’re 64.
Oh yes a little older. A little old,
Sing homage to the Beatles when I’m 64.
You’ve shaved, you say you look just like your father
His Polish chin you just may not adore
Each day you have to shave it’s such a bother
I wonder if you’ll grow your beard once more.
I wonder if I’ll grow it. I wonder if I’ll grow it.
Now that the show is over, will it grow once more?
I wonder if you’ll grow it. I wonder if?
Next year is Iolanthe and the setting
With Peer below and Peri up above
Could be the 1960’s, I am betting
With fairies singing “All You Need Is Love”!
With fairies softly singing, with fairies softly singing
Together with the Beatles, “All You Need is Love”!
With fairies softly singing, with fairies sing.
With any theater production, there are dozens of people who work “behind the scenes” to do all that is necessary to bring a show to the stage. These unsung heroes include those who build sets, sew costumes, gather props and, of course, those who sell the tickets.
This song, written and sung by Eric Pasternack, to the tune of “I’m Called Little Buttercup,” was performed at the 2015 Last Gasp Cast Bash.
Hail, audience folk, buyer of a ticket,
We’re here two hours a day to help you pick it.
You finally know what day you want to go
To see us in our Pinafore-ish show.
You called up the box office
There with your socks off, it
Seemed like you wanted to buy.
When I’m doing Box office,
There with my socks off, you
Make me feel I want to cry.
You ask me for Sunday, the previous Monday,
But Sunday’s been sold out for weeks.
You can’t find your tickets, your child has rickets,
Exchanging your tickets you seek.
You’ve dialed our number
Awoke me from slumber,
And waited on hold for a while,
I’ve answered inquiries and checked online diaries
And given you help with a smile.
So call up the box office, buy of your box office,
Patrons should never be shy.
Come, of your box office buy.
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Lead Research Organisation: Imperial College London
Department Name: Dept of Medicine
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful research tool, allowing both the anatomy and function of the human brain to be studied without risk to the subject. We are using this technique to study three common diseases: left cerebral hemisphere stroke; mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease; and a form of chronic epilepsy, know as temporal lobe epilepsy.
We are investigating patients who have impaired communication (aphasia) after a left cerebral hemisphere stroke. About 25,000 patients each year are left with persistent aphasia after stroke. Treatment for this condition is far from perfect, and in many instances largely of unproven benefit. It mostly takes the form of behavioural retraining, under the supervision of speech and language therapists. A particular difficulty is the problem of predicting the degree of natural recovery that will occur. This is usually maximal by three months, but the amount of recovery can be very variable. The size of the stroke does influence outcome. However, other factors seem to be involved, and what these are are not knowm. Many people believe that recovery is because language 'switches' from the left to the right cerebral hemisphere, but the evidence that this happens is slender. There is much better evidence that recovery is due to wide reorganisation of undamaged parts of the left hemisphere, and our prediction is that if critical pathways remain intact then recovery is much better. Therefore, we are recruiting 50 patients after aphasic stroke, and in the first phase we are assessing their language abilities within the first week of stroke. We are particularly interested in speech production, as patients find an impaired ability to express themselves the most frustrating aspect of their condition. We then reassess them at three months, and so we have a measure of their 'trajectory' of recovery: good, bad or indifferent. We also do detailed MRI, early and late, to assess the boundaries of the stroke, the function of the whole brain as the patients try to speak, and the integrity of pathways (white matter tracts) throughout the brain. We predict that this will give considerable insight into the factors necessary for good natural recovery, and this knowledge will be essential in informing improved future therapeutic strategies.
The cardinal feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is forgetfulness, particularly for verbal information. There are three stages for remembering what one has just been told: registering the information (that is paying attention to the speaker to understand what is being said); encoding the information as a longer lasting memory; and then retrieving that memory when required. These different stages rely on very different networks in the the brain. Most research has concentrated on the encoding and retrieval stages. We are researching the first stage, and specifically the role of attention. In the early stages of AD, language functions are intact, so undertanding speech is not the problem. Rather, we argue, the patients are inattentive. Attention depends on a right cerebral hemisphere system. We are investigating this system during communication, using functional and anatomical MRI sequences. We are also observing whether the drugs used to alleviate some of the symptoms of AD have a particularly strong action on this right hemisphere system.
Epislepsy
Some patients with epilepsy have surgery to prevent their attacks. One common operation is to remove the front pary of one lobe of the brain, the temporal lobe. Surprisingly, this has a relatively minor effect on the patient's higher mental functions. We are invetigating the hypothesis that frequent seizure activity throughot the lifetime of the patient has resulted in reorganisation of the temporal lobe networks, thus protecting the patient from a major deficity after the surgery has been completed. This will inform us more about the protective 'plasticity' of the brain.
The future programme is investigating three disease groups with MRI techniques; left hemisphere stroke patients with aphasia; patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease; and patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy. All patient groups will undergo anatomical volumetric scanning, diffusion tensor imaging to investigate white matter tract integrity, and functional MRI (fMRI). The scanning data will be analysed using FSL software (FMRIB, Oxford, UK). The functional data will be analysed using both univariate statistics, to observe regional effect size, and multivariate statistics (principally independent component analyses), to assess functional connectivity across the brain.
The stroke project is designed to observe the natural change in language impairment over the three months after stroke, at which time recovery is usually maximal. Early and late scanning sessions will assess lesion size and distribution, the integrity of intrahemispheric language tracts within the left hemisphere, and changes in the distributed connectivity across the brain that relate to better natural recovery. The hypothesis is that these measures will give a reliable set of imaging biomarkers that predict outcome after aphasic stroke.
The project on Alzheimer's disease is specifically investigating the integrity of the right fronto-parietal network for sustained attention. Our hypothesis is that the forgetfulness of AD patients is partly due to a failure to register information, in addition to problems with memory encoding and retrieval. We have piloted a behavioural verbal task that robustly activated the right fronto-parietal system, and this will be applied to AD patients before and after treatment with a disease-modifying agent.
The TLE project is using DTI and fMRI to investigate the reorganisation of semantic memory temporal lobe networks in response to repeated clinical and sub-clinical seizure activity. This addresses issues about anterior temporal lobectomy.
Planned Impact
This is addressed in the section on 'Pathways to Impact'.
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2.1 Biological and endogenous factors (50%)
4.1 Discovery and preclinical testing of markers and technologies (50%)
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Finding Correlated Securities with the Correlation Screener
The Correlation Screener tool can be used to find both positively and negatively correlated holdings. As an example, it is a fairly safe assumption that the tanker shipping industry is going to be affected by the price of oil, so let’s look at how we could find a tanker shipping holding in HiddenLevers and how tightly it is correlated to the oil lever.
First, log in to your HiddenLevers account. From the Dashboard, click on the word “Analytics” in the black bar at the top of the screen, this will open a drop-down menu with “Correlation Screener” as the first option, please click on “Correlation Screener” (circled in red in the picture below):
This will open the “Correlation Screener” tool. The tool uses three stages to develop the screen and the output from each stage can change the displayed options for the subsequent stage. As we are looking for the correlation between tanker shipping and the price of oil, a lever in HiddenLevers, we need to select “Levers” as the initial parameter for the screen. To do so, click on the “Screen By” drop-down menu and select “Levers” (circled in red in the picture below):
Choosing that primary parameter type in the first stage of the screener now produces the initial options for stages two and three. Our next action is to select the lever “Oil” by clicking on the “Choose A HiddenLever” drop-down menu and selecting “Oil” (see picture below):
Having selected our lever, we then choose the settings for finding a positively correlated stock, looking for such a correlation over the period of the last two years, limiting the scope of the search to just stocks, and then narrowing the search most specifically by selecting the “Shipping, Tanker” option in the drop-down menu for “Industry” (see picture below):
As we have specified a stock the tool offers further criteria in stage three specifically for stocks rather than funds. In this example I have chosen not to move any of the sliders so as I do not have any limiting criteria, but it is possible to move the sliders to limit the range of age, market cap, volatility, etc., as desired by the user. Once I have made my choices I then click the blue “Run Screen” button to generate a list of matching stocks in HiddenLevers (see picture below):
The tool now displays the results at the bottom of the page. In the returned listing the chart symbol (circled in red in the picture below) can be clicked to generate a chart of the lever and correlated stock which can then be directly shared or used in reports:
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Posted on May 22, 2018 by TBM
Here are the latest book and audio releases, giveaways, and news.
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Renee Mackenzie’s favorites collection showcases 3 of her novels, Nesting, 23 Miles and Anywhere, Everywhere.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US
by Kiera Marks
Also available in Kindle Unlimited
Stuck in the friend zone, Madison’s used to Lacey keeping her at arm’s length, but as the summer draws to a close, Madison struggles with the kiss her best friend’s determined to forget. Of course, Lacey dragging her into a lingerie shop and holding her hand doesn’t help. If anything, Lacey’s unusual behavior ever since that night at the lake house confuses things even more.
Madison promised to keep their kiss to herself. She promised to never bring it up again.
But the funny thing about trying to hold back the truth is that it always has a way of coming out.
Of course, having a romantic outburst for your best friend right before she goes off to college probably isn’t the best idea.
Especially not when that friend’s moving halfway across the state to pursue their dream.
The Distance Between Us is a new adult lesbian romance with a HEA and no cliffhangers.
by Becky Harmon
Attorney Jemini Rivers never planned to return to her childhood home in Riverview, the town that bears her family name. Being called back to deal with the house and property left to her after the death of her grandmother brings all the feelings of hurt and betrayal she had spent years pushing aside. She stopped caring about the people and the town long before she even became an adult.
Deputy Steph Williams grew up in Riverview and has given her heart and soul to the people and the town. She wouldn’t choose to live anywhere else. She also gave up on the hope that Jemini would return many, many years ago…or did she?
by Jessica Pots
After travelling across state, Temperance finds herself in a new town and with a little girl to feed by her side, she needs a job. When she wanders into a small, locally-owned bakery to inquire about an opening advertised in the window, she meets Gwen.
Gwen is a thirty-something divorcee who decided to give up her lucrative career and start her own business. But little do people know, her business is failing and she has no clue how to revive it, until Temperance comes along.
Temperance tries her best to hide the real reason she’s put down roots in a place far different than where she’d ever choose to live and far away from home, where she left everything she loves behind for the little girl who holds her heart. Sooner rather than later, Temperance knows that with decisions come consequences, ones she may not be willing or ready to accept.
Two women. One tiny bakery. One precocious little girl. Will cupcakes keep them together?
WARNING: This novel contains strong language and strong sexual content. Intended for 18+ years and above.
by R.D. DeLisle
In this sequel to Miranda, we follow Colette to Paris, France, leaving behind the comforts of her closest friends and the secluded world she created for herself. She and her estranged sister, Claire, have inherited an apartment that Colette promises to help refurbish. She has the option to buy it herself and stay in Paris, or sell it and split the money with her sister.
A series of unforeseen events help Colette make that decision as she is confronted by ghosts of the past (including a history of abuse at the hands of her sister’s husband), distractions of the present (embodied in the very alluring Lissa), and possibilities for the future. Follow her as she determines which direction to take, what she’s really made of in her quest to find her authentic self, and where she belongs in the world.
The Gulfport Mystery Series:
by Alison R. Solomon
A hit-and-run. A terrified suspect. A woman caught between her friend and her lover.
Wynn Larimer (who readers met in Along Came the Rain) is putting out the trash late one night when a car smashes into her, injuring her so badly that her entire livelihood is put in jeopardy. Gabriella Luna (Gordy) is about to achieve permanent resident status in the USA when she’s accused of a felony crime. The timing couldn’t be worse—she’s terrified of being deported. The woman caught in the middle is Kat Ayalon (who readers met in Devoted.) Wynn is Kat’s best friend and Gordy is Kat’s new love interest. But when the worlds of Wynn and Gordy collide, Kat doesn’t know how she can support both women, if helping one means selling out the other.
by Kim Pritekel
Mystery / Romance
Family. A group of people you are related to by blood or love.
Nora Schaeffer has come home to her family after twenty years working around the world as a photographer for National Geographic. She’s welcomed into the open arms of her father and siblings.
Family. A group of people who support you, lift you up when you fall.
Shannon, the youngest of the four Schaeffer siblings, has vanished, leaving her five-year-old daughter, Bella, terrified and alone. To help find Shannon, Nora has no choice but to turn to the dark-haired specter who has haunted her for twenty years. Along the way, she finds her own long-dead heart and uncovers chilling family secrets beyond imagination.
Family. A group of people who will stick together to hide the rotten soul at its core at any cost.
Who will live? Who will die? Who will be the most damaged? And who will learn to love again?
DEATH MAGIC
The Veil Chronicles: Book 2
by May Dawney
Urban Paranormal Fantasy
It only takes one to upset the balance of magic.
The magical barrier known as the Veil is all that stands between our reality and the Otherworld. Those with the gift of magic can pull energy through it to perform miraculous feats of power. The Inquisitio opposes these mages, who have organized themselves within the Society for Psychical Defense. The world of magic is shaken by the awakening of a wild mage, a woman capable of manipulating the Veil itself. She has the power to either eradicate the Inquisitio or rob the mages of their abilities. Only one side can win and it will be the side that gets to the wild mage first.
What do you do when a mage tells you to jump? When you’re a painfully shy teenager, you ask how high. That’s how Claire Mitchell ends up a pawn in a war that is far beyond her understanding. She’s stuck in London while she shares her body with the spirit of the long-deceased medium Madame Petrovna Stravinsky. The only support she has in her new life is Alena Senna, her attendant, whose job it is to keep Claire’s body and mind in one piece during the course of her servitude.
RUYANA AND THE WOLF
by A.E. Holloway
Fairy tale / Short Story
Today there is to be a grand celebration of the Wolf Hunters. Men come from far and wide to prove their bravery by hunting down the wolves that terrorize the forest in wintertime, but there is one wolf that only a fool would try to capture.
RAVEN, FIRE AND ICE
Touch of Truth Series: Book 1
by Nita Round
Lucinda Ravensburgh sees the truth in everything she touches. When Captain Magda Stoner of the airship Verity, asks for her help in a very strange and messy crime, Lucinda cannot refuse. From that moment on, Lucinda’s life is changed forever. She discovers, no matter what the obstacle, nor the troubles they encounter, finding the truth is paramount.
by Carsen Taite
narrated by L. W. Salinas
DEA agent Dale Nelson paid the ultimate price for her service when her wife was killed by drug dealers. Now she’s assigned to a task force investigating the suspects, and she doesn’t need the distraction of the beautiful but infuriating reporter, Lindsey Ryan.
Despite her initial resistance, Dale discovers Lindsey is as talented and capable as she is attractive. Will she get a second shot at love, or will the peril of her job rob her of the chance at happiness again?
Investigative reporter Lindsey Ryan will do whatever it takes to get the truth. As a favor, she agrees to anchor what is supposed to be a puff piece on the DEA. However, despite the reluctance of the striking Agent Nelson to share any information, Lindsey learns power and politics are at play, and exposing the truth could not only be dangerous, but could also jeopardize her chance at love.
A Lone Star romance.
Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK
FORE PLAY
by Julie Cannon
narrated by Charley Ongel
What would you do if being with the woman of your dreams meant sabotaging your career?
That’s the exact situation high-profile executive Leigh Marshall finds herself in when she falls hard for her golf pro, who also happens to be an ex-con. Her board of directors haven’t gotten the memo regarding workplace equality and who she sleeps with is still more important than her stellar qualifications.
Peyton Broader has no interest in anything other than keeping her head down, reporting to her parole officer, and getting her life back. Oh yeah, and making up for nine years of celibacy. The last thing she needs is to lose her job or get sucked into other people’s drama, no matter how hot and tempting the woman is. So why can’t she stay away from Leigh?
AUDIOBOOK GIVEAWAY
Do you love audiobooks?
Do you love free?
If you answered yes to both, keep reading.
TB Markinson just released the audio version of her best-selling romance The Chosen One.
To celebrate she’s giving away a limited number of copies to US and UK Audible listeners. Email TB at tbm@tbmarkinson.com to enter the contest. In the subject line, please write The Chosen One Audiobook Giveaway. And tell TB if you’re a US or UK listener.
That’s all you have to do to.
Best of luck to everyone who enters the giveaway.
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Film Review: Discover the 2017 Oscar Short Film Nominees
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 14, 2017 - 11:02am
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CHICAGO – One of the more overlooked set of nominees at Academy Awards time is two categories for Best Short Film – Live Action and Animated. The 2017 nominees are packaged as two presentations that are currently screening in Chicago at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema.
Preview: Second-Week Films at 52nd Chicago International Film Festival
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CHICAGO – It’s Week Two of the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival, and with Closing Night coming next Thursday, what film gems still are yet to see? The film reviewers of HollywoodChicago.com has been previewing several second week screenings, and offers the following capsule summaries.
Film Review: Fulfilling Emotion & Sumptuous Animation Awaits in ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 19, 2016 - 4:38pm
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CHICAGO – In our short lives, what do we most need? It’s a hard question to answer sometimes, but the new animated film “Kubo and the Two Strings” does a memorable job of answering the query. The journey of Kubo, like Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” leads to a place where he needs to go.
Interview: Director Travis Knight Strums ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’
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CHICAGO – One of the great benefits of the new Golden Age of Animation has been the emergence of other studios…like Laika Entertainment, which has released “Coraline,” “ParaNorman” and “The Boxtrolls,” all nominated for Oscars. Travis Knight directs their latest stop-motion style animated film, “Kubo and the Two Strings.”
Film Review: 2016 Animated Feature Oscar Nominee ‘Boy & the World’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 9, 2016 - 5:49pm
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CHICAGO – If the 2016 Oscar nominations are examined a bit more closely, some real gems can be found. In the Best Animated Feature Category, beyond the familiar nomination of “Inside Out,” there is an offering from Brazil entitled “Boy & the World.”
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CHICAGO – What was once an “event” – even the the most medium level animated film was a rare movie occasion – has now become commonplace in the film market. Once that tipping point was reached, suddenly the event became just another weekend, with just another film like “Home.”
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CHICAGO – Character actor Djimon Hounsou (Jee-mahn Hahn-soo) is memorable in any role he takes on – whether it’s working with Steven Spielberg in “Amistad,” or being so indelibly subtle for “In America.” Hounsou has also forged a true character in his voiceover work as Drago Bludvist in “How to Train Your Dragon 2.”
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CHICAGO – With shows like “Archer” and a still-creative “South Park” leading the way in TV animation along with all of the fascinating risks being taken by Adult Swim, what are we to make of a Sunday night lineup on FOX that feels more creatively stagnant than ever?
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CHICAGO – “Bambi” maintains its impact nearly 70 years after debuting in 1942. Walt Disney Studios releases the Blu-ray Diamond Edition DVD of the film on March 1st, and the voice of Young Bambi, Donnie Dunagan, was in Chicago with animator Andreas Deja to talk about it.
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CHICAGO – Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are two of the funniest men alive. Their work on “The Office” and “Extras” stills stands up as brilliant, clever, and consistently hysterical. Their quick wit made them a perfect fit for the world of the podcast and it’s simply spectacular that they hold the Guinness title for the most-downloaded audio recordings. The smash hit podcasts have been turned into an animated HBO series, returning to the network on Friday, January 14th, 2011, shortly after the DVD release of the first season.
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Former Child Stars of “Stand By Me” Celebrate Films’ 25th Anniversary
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Alexis Hill creates new career highs, leads Huskies to 4th straight win
Alexis Hill pulls down a rebound during a game last season.
Muhammed Elarbi
Niyati Parikh, news correspondent
Sophomore forward Alexis Hill set career highs in points (25) and steals (6) as the Northeastern women’s basketball team won their fourth consecutive matchup against Maine on the road 66-58.
With 15 lead changes and 11 ties throughout the contest, this game could have fallen to either squad.
The first quarter set the tone for the game as both teams went on their respective runs. The Huskies (4-6) went on a 6-0 run while Maine (4-9) countered with their own 5-0 run to cut the early Husky lead to 10-9. Freshman guard Mossi Staples exhibited why she earned Rookie of the Week as she contained the Black Bear offense in the last possession of the opening quarter to keep the game tied at 15.
Heading into this contest, Northeastern averaged about 19 turnovers per game. The week-long break between games proved to be influential as Northeastern had only 14 turnovers compared to Maine’s 24.
Although Maine was ahead at the half, 33-29, NU was poised out of the intermission and took back the lead by going on a 13-3 run in the third quarter. Following an off-balance jumper by sophomore guard Kendall Currence, the Huskies grabbed and maintained the lead for the remaining minutes of the game.
The Huskies capitalized in the paint as they scored a majority of their points (44) while they struggled with triples going 0-7 from beyond the arch. NU also had 18 steals for the night, led by Hill, and they converted 21 points off turnovers.
To start the final quarter, NU went on a 5-0 run making seemingly impossible layups possible as they were triple covered by the Maine defense. Northeastern pulled away with their largest lead of the game and finished off the win with a score of 66-58.
NU shot 47.3 percent compared to Maine’s low 39.6 percent while Hill marked eight straight games of scoring double digits. Other double digit scorers for the Huskies included junior guard Stella Clark (13) and senior forward Ayanna Dublin (12), both nabbing 4 steals a piece.
The Huskies head home to play in-town rival, Boston University at Case Gym on Dec 29 at 2 p.m.
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Women’s basketball opens conference play with 74-51 win over Hofstra
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Code Adoption: The Fiscal Impact Statement
FeaturesSeptember/October 2011Thomas A. Domitrovich
Economic pressures come and go and can have devastating impacts to many across the United States; when these pressures cause a state or local jurisdiction to not adopt the latest safety code or amend important provisions out of the latest code, although economic times change, these code changes have a much longer impact. Some states and local areas are hit harder than others. Local jurisdiction code adoption varies from area to area and some have placed more stringent requirements around financial impact analysis for not only new building codes but for any new law or changes to existing laws. This is typically called a fiscal impact analysis or statement and through the code adoption process over the years we have experienced this analysis requirement in various states including Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and others. Preparing a fiscal impact statement could be a difficult task as it is much more than what is added that you have to account for, it should also include what has been removed and possibly design techniques as well. There are a few documents that have been released in Ohio from the Ohio Board of Building Standards (OBBS) and the local Ohio IAEI organizations that can be utilized in your state as you review NEC-2011 and other building codes.
Impacts to Code Adoption
Some states and jurisdictions have made decisions based on the economy. The state of Washington is an example — where Governor Christine Gregoire signed an executive order that would suspend all rule development and adoption for six months. Washington was scheduled to begin the review of the 2011 National Electrical Code in November 2010 and had planned to adopt some form of that code in July 2011. This executive order would suspend this activity until January 1, 2012. This decision was based on the issues with the economy.
The energy code too must go through state adoption, and what happened in North Carolina may be shocking to some. In this state, several members of the 17-member building code council expressed worry that what was being proposed could mean sacrificing safety for the sake of energy efficiency. You read that correctly. A news report coming out of Raleigh revealed that “after months of debate, the N.C. Building Code Council voted Tuesday to adopt new energy-efficient building rules for commercial and residential construction. But the vote came with a highly unusual requirement — orchestrated by homebuilders and Gov. Bev Perdue’s office — that the council make amendments to the residential code that will offset the cost of achieving the higher standards for homes.”1 Safety tradeoffs for the sake of energy efficiency should be very concerning for all. The light at the end of the tunnel in North Carolina was Governor Perdue’s position that fire safety is a priority for her.
The fact is that safety does not have to be sacrificed, and documents like that which the OBBS and Ohio IAEI put out on the new construction codes offer a good lesson on all that should be considered when looking at the fiscal impact of a building code.
Ohio Board of Building Standards
In 2010, Ohio assembled a team of constituent code experts with a goal of performing an evaluation of the proposed changes to the Building, Mechanical, and Plumbing Codes for their state. Their efforts resulted in a scoring system that illustrates the overall impact of the proposed changes. They were able to show an appropriate balance between savings and cost with an attention to the need for Ohio’s citizens to live in a safe and sanitary built environment ensuring their continued health, safety, and security while also satisfying the requirements of their defined administrative rule-making process.
Previously, it was the position of the board that variances in permitted designs made it nearly impossible to conduct a fiscal analysis. Determining whether there would be an increase or decrease in the design cost of a building as a result of any rule change in light of the ability to change how the structure is designed is like trying to hit a moving target. Trying to affix a dollar amount to these impacts is also a challenge in light of the fact that the costs and benefits of compliance depend upon how the designer approaches his design; things like construction materials and their costs as well as selected location, occupancy, size, and labor costs all have an impact. The bottom line was that the OBBS had to find a solution methodology that would work.
The OBBS leveraged Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) processes to build this methodology. FEMA’s risk assessment process proved to be a huge asset to the team as it gave them a way to evaluate mitigation measures aimed at reducing the impacts of hazards when they occur. The team embarked on a journey that involved three steps.
Identification of the number of changes to the codes that would need to be evaluated
Development of a profile of the factors by which each rule would be evaluated
Creation of a method for systematically recording, normalizing, and summarizing the evaluation results
The end result of their work can be reviewed in detail athttp://www.com.ohio.gov/dico/docs/CodeScoreReport.pdf. This team concluded that the proposed Ohio Building Code rules have a neutral impact. Savings and costs as well as the intangible factors showed to be in balance. The result for the residents of Ohio was adoption of those codes (for which the methodology was employed) with an effective date of November 1, 2011.
Ohio IAEI
The November 2010 issue ofIAEI Newsincluded the article “What Price for Life? Code Adoption: Ohio’s Fight for Electrical Safety” which presented a cost analysis ofNEC-2008 versusNEC-2005. The Ohio Chapter of the IAEI put together a report entitled “Understanding the Cost Impact of the 2011NEC” in anticipation of a similar battle for the 2011NECadoption. The goal here is to take as many “questions/concerns” off the table before someone else puts them there. This time, the work had an interesting revelation that many may overlook as we discuss the cost impact of the latest code.
The slight detail that the Ohio IAEI pointed out in their report pertains to the fact that the requirements of theNECapply to the structure that is designed and built to a building code or to one that is designed and built beyond the minimum building code. For example, a wet bar in a recreation room, we know, requires GFCI as perNEC-2011 but the question is whether or not a wet bar is required. If it is an example of going above and beyond building codes, then the cost of the GFCI for that added feature should not be included in a fiscal analysis of the impact ofNECchanges. This is a very important detail as the changes in NEC-2011 primarily impacted those areas of the electrical system in a home that are characterized as optional upgrades. The examples they presented were where GFCI is now required for receptacles located in close proximity to optional sinks, electric radiant in-floor heating cables and requirements for ceiling fan supports. The NEC presents requirements to ensure a minimum level of safety for occupants when these upgrades are made to the structure.
This correlation between the building code and the electrical code adds another dimension to the analysis but is a very valid link that needed to be addressed. Rather than remove that impact all together from the study, the Ohio IAEI decided to break those out and still report the cost impact. They reported a minimum code cost impact and an optional upgrades cost impact. The report was based on a 2,348 square foot dwelling unit and included the floor plans and electrical quotes to back up the results.
Minimum Code Cost Impact
Deletion of 20 sq ft exception for
balcony, porches & decks $ 00.00
Large foyer receptacle requirement $ 22.92
Ground rod requirements $ 23.05
Grounded conductor at switch
locations unfinished basement $ 00.00
Slab on grade/no attic $ 22.40
Tamper-resistant receptacle
(new exception) credit $ – 1.44
Total Cost Impact w/unfinished
basement $ 44.53
Total Cost Impact w/slab/no attic $ 66.93
Optional Upgrades Cost Impact
GFCIs for sinks $ 9.98
Ceiling fan boxes $ 25.20
Heating cables for kitchen
masonry floor $ 140.32
Total Optional Upgrades $ 175.50
Parting Notes
The documents and work of the Ohio Board of Building Standards and the Ohio IAEI may help you in your state or local jurisdiction during the adoption process of the NEC and other building codes. The sharing of information can help get the facts on the table and wade through the misinformation that can sometimes lead to erroneous decisions. You can get the OBBS report at http://www.com.ohio.gov/dico/docs/CodeScoreReport.pdf.
As always, keep safety at the top of your list and ensure you and those around you live to see another day. If you have any tips or ideas you would like to share, please feel free to send them to me at thomasadomitrovich@eaton.com. I look forward to your input to these articles and guidance for future articles.
1 Newsobserver.com, “Energy saved, safety lost?”, David Bracken – Staff Writer, Dec. 15, 2010, (http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/15/862874/energy-saved-safety-lost.html)
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Most cartoons used in political science textbooks now have been borrowed from R K Laxman and Shankar’s work in newspapers.
The Thorat committee that reviewed NCERT textbooks has not only recommended the deletion of 21 cartoons but also laid out criteria for what kind of cartoons the textbooks should have. It has suggested among various things that the cartoons should largely stick to conveying a positive message to students, focus on themes rather than personalities, and be first “tested” on students for their reactions to ensure they are not insensitive.
The committee has said that instead of borrowing cartoons from newspapers and other secondary sources, original ones must be created strictly for educational purposes. Most cartoons used in political science textbooks now have been borrowed from R K Laxman and Shankar’s work in newspapers.
Anubhuti Vishnoi writes in a special story in The Indian Express:
Stressing the need for a positive message, the panel has recommended that if a cartoon with a negative implication has to be necessarily used, it must be balanced with a positive-message cartoon on the same subject.
The recommendation against focus on personalities follows the offence taken by MPs at cartoons on Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and a range of other political leaders from A B Vajpayee to Lal Bahadur Shastri and B R Ambedkar. The committee has recommended that the cartoons instead look at broad themes and issues.
Sources in the NCERT said the report suggests cartoons in textbooks must first be “tested” on students and their reactions assessed to ensure that there are no “unintended consequences”. Sensitivities must especially be kept in mind as responses to cartoons may differ depending on a student’s profile, his background, religion, class, caste and habitation, it has said. The committee has also advised against “overuse” of cartoons.
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Zecher Linda Kay
C/O TENABLE HOLDINGS, INC.
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appoints each of Eric Jensen, Brian F. Leaf, Madison Jones, Asheley Walker and
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.UA Domain names: Registration peculiarities or what make them so special
It will come as no surprise that .UA zone domains are the most popular in Ukraine. As to statistic data, provided by the administrator of .UA zone ‘Hostmaster,’ to the November, 2015, there were 555,188 domain names in .UA zone, among which the number of the 2nd level domain names is 18,364. (Second-level domain name is the name consisting of the label to the left of the dot, and the top-level domain (ua, com, uk). For example, ipstyle.net – is the 2nd level domain name). However, there are many peculiarities, which make domain names registration in Ukraine distinct from such registrations in other countries.
According to the Policy on particulars of registration of second-level private domain names in the UA. domain (the Policy), developed by Hostmaster, private domain name in the .UA domain can be registered only in case of its coincidence with the trademark, which is also must be registered in Ukraine by the relevant holder.
For example, for the ipstyle.ua domain name registration, “ipstyle” TM registered in Ukraine is required. At the first glance, such requirement restricts the list of possible domain name owners only to appropriate TM holders. But the truth is that the Registrar should verify only the availability of trademark registration, without checking what goods and services this domain name is namely registering for. That is why trademark trolls in Ukraine freely operate. They usually choose the trademarks for goods or/and services, which are popular on the market, and register their own trademarks with the similar names, but in other classes of the NCL (International Classification of Goods and Services). After trademark registration, trademark troll receives the opportunity to register the domain name, which coincides not only with the name of its own trademark, but also with the name of trademark for some popular product. In such a way, the troll gets on the Internet the attention of ‘foreign’ consumers, while proper trademark owner loses its chance for domain name registration.
Therefore, if you have a trademark registered in Ukraine, the registration of the appropriate domain name is highly recommended. First come, first served – is an acting rule in Ukraine.
What do you need for .UA domain name registration?
Copy of Ukrainian Trademark Certificate providing the legal protection under the national procedure;
or Statement from Ukrainian Intellectual Property Office (‘Ukrpatent’) for the international registration of trademark, which covers Ukraine, according to the Madrid Agreement. Obtaining of such statement is a common formal procedure, which usually takes about 7 working days.
Who can register .UA domain name?
– Trademark owner;
– persons received the right for trademark use under the license agreement.
The license agreement must have a provision, which exactly specifies the right of the licensee for particular domain name registration in .UA zone, simultaneously with the use of the trademark in domain names; or the right transferring for delegation (or use) of the .UA domain name under this license agreement.
The other important moment – is transliteration. The .UA domain name can be registered if it consists only of Latin symbols, Arabic numerals, and ‘-‘ character. Thus, the trademark containing symbols of the Cyrillic alphabet must be transliterated to Latin symbols in accordance with one of the transliteration standards mentioned in the Policy. If the trademark contains the symbols of other alphabets, numerals of other calculus systems, and/or other symbols, they should be transliterated according to the appropriate transliteration rules. That is why, if you apply for trademark registration in Ukraine and desire to register UA. domain name in future, it is recommended to think about transliteration in advance.
One of the complexities you can meet while .UA domain name registering, is the requirement of the exact conjunction of the domain name with the name of the trademark. For example, if you registered the trademark named ‘IPStyle Patent Law Company,’ you could receive only the domain name ‘ipstylepatentlawcompany.ua’.
The other interesting issue of .UA domain name registration is a disclaimer of some word designations in trademarks. The official position of the Registrar on this issue is that the designation can be excluded from the domain name only in case such designation is included in trademark as the element without protection and pointed in bibliography information. Then, the registrant will receive the domain name similar to those part of the trademark, which is under protection (Expertise concerning use of the trademark elements in domain names).
If you still have questions, please contact IPStyle experts via e-mail or by telephone. They can advise you on issues concerning .UA domain name registration, and other IP matters.
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Archive for the ‘ Wrestling ’ Category
New Over 18’s Wrestling Promotion To Launch Next Month
Prepare to lose control as the promoters behind Main Stage Wrestling launch a brand new product and unleash Over The Top Wrestling. Ireland’s first and only exclusively over 18’s American wrestling company. Over The Top Wrestling is a completely new brand of wrestling promotion. The theme of these events are set inside of a theatrical, twisted circus sideshow setting, combining the latest special effects, with inspiration from classic horror films, classic lucha libre, and American hardcore wrestling. Featuring over the top characters and the very best performers wrestling has to offer. There will also be special drinks promotions at every event, and OTTW can guarantee you an action packed night of entertainment.
Management are excited to announce that they have just signed a residency deal with the Tivoli theatre venue, situated on Francis Street in the heart of Dublin’s south city centre. This means Over The Top Wrestling will be a permanently exclusive addition to the venue and you can catch them live on one Saturday of every month. With such a high class venue we can guarantee you the best production values possible. Continue reading →
American Wrestling
Irish Wrestling
Main Stage Wrestling
OTTW
Over The Top Wrestling
The Coronas
Wrestling Mania
Former WWE Star Set To Debut For Irish Wrestling Promotion
The Superstars of Main Stage Wrestling make their return to Dublin for a night of action packed entertainment on Sunday September 28th at 7pm live from Good Counsel GAA club, Davitt Road, Drimnagh.
The show will feature a special appearance by none other than former WWE Superstar Carlito.
Carlito,along with his brother Primo became the only tag team to unify the WWE Tag Team Championship and World Tag Team Championship. He is also a former WWE United States Champion and WWE Intercontinental Champion. Now, he has his eyes set on Main Stage Wrestling’s roster and possibly capturing the prestigious MSW Championship. Continue reading →
Drimnagh
Scotty Too Hotty
Wrestling school Ireland
Wrestling training Ireland
The Ballance Sheet #9: Mid Term Report
Hope 2014’s been good to you, folks. My own is going pretty well, all told. Here’s a few bits and pieces on the last six months.
Well, technically we were invited, and it was actually at the very end of 2013, but I’ll include it here, anyway. My blog, after all… I wrestled at a wedding reception just after Christmas last year in the Radisson in Galway, working a singles match with Bam Katraz, and a tag match against him and Omen, where I teamed with Tucker. An interesting experience, and certainly the best-dressed audience I’ve ever worked for! The crowd- mostly non-wrestling fans (muggles)- were appreciative, though probably a little perplexed at the same time. It was after dinner, though, so I’d say a bit of the ol’ gargle helped matters. No hiptoss into the wedding cake or superkicking the father of the bride mid-speech, unfortunately, but it was a grand evening nonetheless. Continue reading →
Baldoyle
Bam Katraz
Bingo Ballance
British Wrestling
Damien Corvin
Dave Patterson
Drumshanbo
Dunottar Castle
Funderland
Funtasia
Gary Ballance
Joe Cabray
Johnny Lions
Jordan Devlin
Kazza G
Niall Fox
Paddy Morrow
Paul Tracey
Ratoath
Scottish Wrestling
Scotty Swift
Sumerian Book of the Dead
Vic Viper
Wrestling.ie
WWE Announces The Death Of The Ultimate Warrior
WWE has expressed it’s sincere shock and deep sadness at the passing of one of the most iconic WWE Superstars ever, The Ultimate Warrior.
Warrior began his WWE career in 1987 and quickly went on to become one of the biggest stars in WWE history. Warrior became WWE Champion at WrestleMania VI, defeating Hulk Hogan in an epic encounter.
Last Saturday night, The Ultimate Warrior accepted his rightful place in the WWE Hall Of Fame before appearing at Wrestlemania 30 on Sunday and Monday Night Raw. Continue reading →
Brian James Hellwig
WWE Hall Of Fame 2014
Wrestlemania 30: End Of One Era, Beginning Of Another
Wrestlemania 30 turned out to be quite an extravaganza, with spectacular colours and personalities right from the off, along with a number of entertaining cameos from old faces, as well as a number of genuine shocks in matches throughout the night, which was sure to have been a big success for the WWE.
The night kicked off with a few words from the event’s host, Hulk Hogan. Hogan made his way down to the ring with his classic entrance music, and the place went wild. As he got talking about the history of the event, he was interrupted by some striking entrance music; that of Stone Cold Steve Austin. Stone Cold made his way down to the ring to stir up the crowd a bit, and he whipped them into a frenzy at the prospect of him kicking Hogan’s ass. That didn’t materialise, however, as he said he had too much respect for what Hogan had done for the business. Shortly after this, he was interrupted himself, as The Rock made his way down to the ring. The crowd roared, as three of the all-time fan favourites occupied the ring at the same time and, although there was some notable mic rustiness from the three, they got great cheers as they rattled through their catchphrases and downed some beers.
The first match of the night saw Triple H taking on Daniel Bryan, with the winner going on to take part in the World Heavyweight Title triple threat main event match. Triple H came down to the ring on a huge throne, with a tremendous golden crown, as well as armour, adorned upon him. Bryan had come down with his shoulder heavily strapped, having re-injured it during his attack on Triple H on Raw, but he brought the fight to his opponent early. He landed a barrage of kicks on The Game, before the Cerebral Assassin’s size and power advantage took over. Triple H landed a number of heavy blows on the leader of the yes movement, working hard on the injured shoulder. He put Bryan in a number of crossface-style submission holds, to inflict maximum damage. But Bryan would not go down or tap out, and he kept fighting back hard. Triple H landed a couple of Pedigrees, but couldn’t keep Bryan down for a three count. Bryan had to land a couple of running knees himself before actually pulling off the victory, but it did not end there. Stephanie McMahon, who had been at ringside throughout, slapped Bryan several times after the match, before Triple H attacked him from behind, and hit his injured shoulder with a steel chair, raising doubts about his ability to compete in the main event.
#BeastVSStreak
#ThankYouTaker
Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Brad Maddox
Erick Rowan
Kofi Kingaton
Los Matadores
New Age Outlaws
RybAxel
Summer Rae
Tamina Snuka
Vickie Guerrero
Yes Movement
Zeb Colter
Wrestlemania 30 Preview: Yes Movement To Prevail At Last
Wrestlemania 30 takes place this Sunday, April 6. It is the annual showpiece event for the WWE, where a year’s worth of feuding and storylines culminate in a glitzy wrestling extravaganza. This year’s event will feature all of the biggest names in the business, with the likes of the Undertaker, Triple H, Daniel Bryan, Batista and Brock Lesnar all set to take part in matches, while Hulk Hogan is the special guest host. There is also likely to be a number of surprise cameo appearances by old familiar faces. Here, we give an extensive preview of the event:
Daniel Bryan vs Triple H:
Bryan has been pushing for this match for a long time, having seen his championship hopes blocked time and time again by Triple H, in his role as Chief Operating Officer. Daniel Bryan wasn’t even granted a place in the Royal Rumble, his best chance of making the Wrestlemania main event. Bryan has gone after The Game in the build up to the event, filling the ring with followers of his “Yes Movement” on Raw a couple of weeks ago. Triple H responded by beating a handcuffed Daniel Bryan senseless the following week, before getting attacked by Bryan at ringside a week later, while commentating on the match between Batista and Randy Orton. This will likely be an early match on the card, given that the winner earns a place in the main event, the world title triple threat match that also features Batista and Orton. Continue reading →
Elimination Chamber
Jerry The King Lawler
The Bella Twins
Vickie Guerrero Divas Championship Invitational
WWE World Title
Undertaker’s Top Five Wrestlemania Matches
With Wrestlemania 30 now just a few weeks away, it seems only right to delve back through the history of its most prestigious aspect- the streak. The Undertaker will return to Wrestlemania to fight Brock Lesnar, where he is undefeated in twenty-one bouts. His list of previous opponents show few pushovers, having beaten Jimmy Snuka, Jake The Snake Roberts, Kane (x2), Shawn Michaels (x2) and Triple H (x3), among others. The Undertaker has been responsible for some of Wrestlemania’s finest moments, and here we will look back at his five top encounters. Continue reading →
Giant Gonzales
Undertaker Wrestlemania Streak
Undertaker's Legacy
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Sucessful Projects
Implementation near Khatodra Flyover, Surat
Problem: Condemned roads and broken gutter incites the accidents and road safety issue near Khatodara flyover
Solution: Roads reconstructed & repaired and gutter are covered with metal stripes.
Implementation in Ranchi
Problem : People not taking the standard roundabout route as the roundabout is actually not shifted from the central location thus leading to the collision between two vehicles. It is complemented by the fact that the turn is at 90 degree and so vehicles can not see the other vehicle coming on its way.
Solution : View Detailed Solution.
Indian Road Safety Campaign, Solve was given the responsibility by Delhi Traffic Police to train, aware and sensitize police personnel and their families across 15 colonies in Delhi on various topics related to road safety and road rage! The week ended with a performance on India Gate and hosting a drawing competition for more than 2,000 school students!
Implementation at Habsiguda, Hyderabad
Problem : Accumulation of rainwater or running drainage during monsoon, Traffic road accidents, Lack of understanding the term “Traffic Awareness”.
Solution : View Detailed Solution .
Implementation at Munshipulia Chouraha Indira Nagar, Lucknow
Problem : Road Signs and Markings, Lack of traffic equipments, Unregistered and makeshift encroachments on the shoulder and Obstruction caused by the illegal auto stands and UPSRTC buses.
Solution : View Detailed Solution
UN Road Safety Week
Indian Road Safety Campaign, Solve was the sole organization responsible for conduction of the 4th UN Global Road Safety Week organized by World Health Organization. A total of 51 events were organized across 21 locations and the week ended by conduction of a Run4Cause, Half Marathon, where thousands of people joined us from all across India to promote running! A total of 5,00,000+ people were sensitized across a week on various aspects of road safety.
Implementation in Samaypur Badli, Delhi
Problem : Vehicle driving in wrong lane as the u turn is very far from Samaypur Badli Metro Station DTC buses stop at Samaypur Badli Station rather than at alloted bus stand which is few meters away from Samaypur Badli Station. Thus creates a rush at the exit of metro station which is already filled up with lots of autos.
Delhi Police Week
Indian Road Safety Campaign, Solve was given the responsibility by Delhi Traffic Police to train, aware and sensitize police personnel and their families across 15 colonies in Delhi on various topics related to road safety and road rage! We got an opportunity to interact with more than 15,00,000+ people across these 15 colonies and communities were sensitized using range of methods, events, interactive discussions! The week ended with a performance on India Gate and hosting a drawing competition for more than 2,000 school students!
Implementation near Udhna Darwaja, Surat
Problem : Traffic congestion due to unplanned and unsupervised pathways under the Ring road flyover bridge at “Udhna darwaja”, Mixed traffic flow causes mishaps and heavy traffic jam at “Udhna teen rasta” and Condemned roads and unmaintained gutter in cites the accidents and road safety issues near Khatodara flyover
Solution: View Detailed Solution.
Implementation in Ahmedabad
Problem : A lot of accidents are happening at the median as the speed of road users are high coming down from the overbridge vision is obstructed due to the plantations and their fencing and coming near the median the vehicles see the other vehicles coming from the other side but by the time it is too late for the user to stop the vehicle and avoid collision.
Implementation at Azadpur Metro Station, Delhi
Problem : Merging of traffic for two directions. Because of the illegal auto stands, the high-speed traffic is brought to a sudden standstill causing traffic congestions and sometimes accidents (mainly at night).
Implementation at Devnagar Patiya
Problem: Vision obstruction due to plantations
Solution: Plantations removed to increase visibility
Implementation at Sargam marg
Problem: Poor quality road surface added with congestion and water logging problems added to the woes for people travelling from sargam marg
Solution: Roads were resurfaced.
Implementation near Kharwar nagar junction
Problem: BRTS was introduced to ease the transportation for locals but eventually it proved to be more burdensome as it invited many traffic problems and keeping this in mind, we come up with few solutions to overcome these barriers.
Solution: Swinging gates were build up to cope up with this problem.
Implementation at Kharwar nagar junction
Problem: Traffic police at the kharwar nagar junction perform their duty only on one side (at Ambaji mandir). There are no traffic police on the other side at canal road.
Solution: Construction of traffic booth at the middle of the junction for efficient management of the flow of traffic
Road Safety High-Level Conference
Indian Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways hosted the “Road Safety High-Level Conference” on 29th August in Gurugram, India. At the Conference, senior government authorities, private sector executives, academics, international organization representatives, road safety experts, and civil society leaders, discussed the best practices to improve road safety, leading to collaboration and implementation of targeted interventions in the city of Gurugram. The conference was a big success and also a key moment for IRSC as they got a partnership with the UNITAR.
Expressia - The creative competition
Indian road Safety Campaign in collaboration with Safe Kids and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways organized an event across different colleges in Mumbai where the participants got a chance to express themselves through their creative skills. Through Slogans, paintings and drawings, poems, blogs, essays and articles the participants had to express themselves on the given topics. The event successfully put an effort on why road safety is so important in the current time with awareness sessions. The shortlisted winners were awarded the cash prize to encourage them to keep up the good work in future.
Toyota Hackathon: Code for Safer India
Indian Road Safety Campaign and NSS IIT Delhi in association with Toyota India and IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd. (IETS) organized a two-day long event; Toyota Hackathon: Code for Safer India from 17th Dec to 18th Dec 2018. The event focused on developing implementable digital solutions of the major causes of road accidents which can bring a decent reduction in the frequency of road accidents happening all over India every single day. With students of premier schools of India as participants, this event focuses on launching implementable solutions of certain aspects of road safety issues. About 600 schools were reached out and approx 300 schools participated for the first phase which was an online test. 50 shortlisted participants got the chance to join the event in IIT Delhi making it a great success.
Traffic Infra Tech Expo
Indian Road Safety Campaign was the partner and supporting organization of Asia's largest Traffic Expo: Traffic Infra Tech Expo which was held in Mumbai in October 2018! Indian Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India , NITI Aayog and Maharashtra Govt took various training sessions for the local police, organized competitions for thousands of students on road-safety awareness among different colleges across Mumbai. It was a three-day expo where IRSC conveyed the messages on everyone responsibility to be safe on the road.
Unity4Safety
Indian Road Safety Campaign, in collaboration with World Health Organisation- Country office for India organized a social media campaign - Unity4Safety to promote the necessity of the Motor vehicle Amendment Act 2017 in the current situation of India on different social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter to spread awareness among masses and make policymakers realize the need for road safety. We did few competitions under this campaign such as #MeriSadak, #ShareaSmile, Fastest Finger First and #SurakshitBharat to ignite the minds of people on the importance of road safety. With effective and informative posts on social media platforms, this campaign was quite successful as more and more youth, as well as policymakers, came forward in support of the bill along with different ministries across India.
MoveHack'18
Indian Road Safety Campaign collaborated with NITI Aayog for MoveHack'18 - a global mobility hackathon to crowdsource solutions aimed at the future of mobility in India with one of the important pillars being promoting Road Safety through technical innovations! MoveHack focused on 10 themes and was structured over three legs: online, followed by Singapore leg, and the finals in New Delhi. The top 10 winners were awarded with a total prize of more than Rs. 2 crores.
Half Marathon | JLN Stadium
Indian Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with Delhi Traffic Police and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India organized the Annual "Safe Road Half Marathon 2018" to stimulate the passion of safe road usage among the vibrant youth, the enthusiastic kids and the experienced elderly all at the same time, with the vision to ensemble them all together and make them realize the importance of road-safety. The marathon saw the participation of more than 3000 people.
International Conference on Safer Mobility
Indian Road Safety Campaign (IRSC), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), DTP and TRIPP, IIT Delhi organised a conference on safer mobility titled 'A Road to Safer Mobility' today in IIT Delhi with a view to promote collaboration among multiple stakeholders working across the domain, to promote road-safety across India. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) through a video message emphasized on changes made by the government in the direction of road safety. He focussed on following traffic rules and appreciated the IRSC team for its initiatives. Other key speakers included V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, Abhay Damle, the Joint Secretary of MoRTH and Amar Srivastava, Founder, IRSC.
Collaborative Research with MIT IIT Tech Camp
Indian Road Safety Campaign associated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and IIT Delhi for the MIT-IIT Tech Boot Camp which was held in India for students from all across the world for fostering social innovation to solve ground level problems. We visited the area of Chandni Chowk in our attempt to solve the problem of traffic congestion in one of the busiest locations of Old Delhi. The implementable solutions were designed to solve the issue.
WHO Run4Safety
About 300 students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and other locals ran on Sunday for an Indian Road Safety Campaign to make people aware of accidental deaths as India accounts for the highest number of road accident deaths in the world . The marathon was organised by IIT-D students in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Delhi Traffic Police as part of the Fourth UN Global Road Safety Week. The purpose of the run was to promote the spirit of road safety among the people with the focus on speed. School students, college students, professional runners, IIT-D faculty and others also participated in the marathon.
Indian Road Safety Campaign lend a hand to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India in creating Road Safety Awareness Videos ft. Akshay Kumar. The ceremony was graced by Union Minister Shri. Nitin Gadkari, Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya, Member of Rajya Sabha and Mr. Akshay Kumar, Brand Ambassador of Road Safety Awareness Campaign. The ceremony aimed to highlight the high need for Road Safety Awareness in India, and more responsible for traveling on the roads. The videos were unveiled with the aim to reach out to the masses and convey the message of "सडक़ सुरक्षा, जीवन रक्षा".
Ford: Road to Cartesy
On National Road Safety Week'18, IRSC with the support of Ford India evaluated the Family Safety Habits across 4 cities. The objective of the study was to evaluate the current trends and traffic practices of the parents and community in general by using students as a touch point and use dominoes effect to make parents realize the importance of being safe on roads. The study was done in around 18 schools. Apart from drawing and quiz competition, one of the key engagements during the campaign was Parent Safety Report Card. With the Report Card, each student was asked to rate their parents based on their major safety habits like the use of seat belts, stopping before zebra crossing. Once rated, the students were encouraged to share the scores with their parents. The reports were evaluated and shocking results came. The activity aimed to highlight how good or bad driving behaviour as observed by children impacts their understanding of traffic rules and being courteous.
Expressia
Indian Road Safety Campaign organised “Expressia - a precursor road awareness event & contest” in collaboration with Hindustan Times and Hero MotoCorp across different colleges in Delhi-NCR region such as Kamla Nehru College, Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Hindu, Keshav Mahavidyalaya and Symbiosis. The event included an awareness session where the importance of Road Safety, safety gears, safe braking, Road Signs & Road Markings was taught to the students along with 7 golden rules of road safety and tips on how to avoid accidents. Students took pledge to keep Indian Roads Safer for their loved ones and with an enthusiasm to bring a change they expressed their thoughts through poetry, story telling, slogans and poster making on road safety.
Safe Scholars
Apollo Tyres pioneered a new initiative Safe Scholars to provide safety training knowledge to students from class 3rd to 8th in collaboration with Indian Road Safety Campaign, IIT Delhi in the observance of 30th National Road Safety Week. The session focused on making students learn about the safety techniques they should follow while they travel from their home to the bus stop, in the school bus and during the journey. The children were extremely inquisitive & enthusiastic during the Q&A session. The students were encouraged to become a responsible citizen by abiding by the traffic rules.
1 Crore Hath Saath
This year, the Government of India called for a public awareness program to bring awareness among the people on road safety and reduce the accidents during the month of National Road Safety Week. Under this, for the purpose of reducing the deaths due to road accidents, a road safety human chain program was organized in which Indian Road Safety Campaign actively participated. In the program, our NGO partners, College chapters and schools conducted road safety sessions/quizzes/competitions and formed a human chain across different parts of the country to make people cognizant on the alarming issue of road safety.
Message to Masses
Indian Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with Hindustan Times and Hero MotoCorp organized "Message to Masses" to invoke the sense of responsibility and carefulness while driving among the commuters at different intersections across Delhi from 5th to 9th March 2019. Importance of Road Safety was conveyed via written messages with the help of Delhi Traffic Police and officials from Hero and Hindustan Times. As a citizen, it is the duty of everyone to respect and follow the traffic rules put forward by the Government for their own safety and welfare. How everyone can work their way toward reducing the number of lives lost on Indian roads and save thousands of lives as a result was the main part of this initiative.
Hackathon: Solve for Safer India
In order to curb the issues pertaining to road safety by using the intellect of young minds, Indian Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, United Nations Institute of Training and Research, IIT-Guwahati and BOSCH India conducted a two days “Hackathon: Solve for Safer India” from 30th to 31st March 2019 which aimed at developing implementable solutions in form of a digital solution to promote road safety and reduce the frequency and impact of road crashes. To promote and practise road safety measures, a Panel Discussion was organised on 31st March. The views and insights by the panelists enlightened the young people to a great extent and they pledged to do their bit to make roads safer for all. The event proved to be another milestone in the mission of road safety. The Chief Guest of the event, Mr. Virendra Mittal, appreciated the students for taking up the societal challenge, investing their time and striving hard in developing a solution on the same. The event turned out to be an excellent opportunity for the students to merge technical skills with their social concern and delivering an exceptional project which will yield the desired solution for safer roads.
Signing of Memorandum of Understanding
A MoU was signed between BOSCH - IRSC - KIIT University on 26th April 2019 at KIIT University. The organisations will be working together to suppress the issue and spreading the awareness around the same. Following the signing ceremony of the MoU, there happened an elaborate discussion on how to make Indian Roads Safer and better, with the presence of Mr. Deepanshu Gupta, Mr. Anil Prakash, Mr. Pasoria Anand, Dr. P. K. Patnaik and other interested stakeholders was held.
5th United Nations Global Road Safety Week
Indian Road Safety Campaign, Solve was the sole organization responsible for conduction of the 5th UN Global Road Safety Week organized by World Health Organization. To meet SDG target (3.6) which aims to reduce road traffic fatalities, Indian Road Safety Campaign ran Save Lives - #SpeakUp campaign too across different social media channels to generate demands and inspire leaders to take action by showcasing strong leadership for road safety among different stakeholders and take a lead to combat the issue. To raise awareness and avoid tragedy, many of our NGO and school partners conducted Save Lives - #SpeakUp activities throughout the week encouraging everyone to Speak Up and take a stand against Road Crashes. As part of the culmination of the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week, Indian Road Safety Campaign organized a "Leadership for Change" Workshop to promote the spirit of leadership among people from all age groups, students, leaders on behalf of the WHO Country Office for India on 18th May 2019 at IIT Delhi. The Workshop was taken by the stalwarts in the field of the road-safety, global experts from WHO and UN and instructors from IIT, AIIMS and Supreme Court.
Munsipulia (Lucknow)
Problem: Traffic jam: The crossing stays very crowded most of time in a day and the are faces heavy traffic jam because of bad road design. Accidents: Red light jumping and rush driving often causes road accidents at that certain crossing.
Solution: Solution- Roundabout: A roundabout has been created at that certain crossing. It has been improvised in such a way that helps in creating driving/riding safer. Painting: Authorities taking serious note of this issue had completed the painting of median, dividers and roundabout. Reflectors: Reflectors have been stuck on the dividers, pillars and in kerbs so that riders/drivers can see them easily at night. Parkings: At both sides of road towards Picnic spot from Munsipulia, parkings have built and remaining part of it is under construction. Police: City police ensure its presence 24*7 in the Munsipulia crossing to quickly handle issues relating to accident or mishap and traffic issues. Footpaths: New footpaths were built for the pedestrians.
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Thousands of motorcycle taxi drivers plan to hold demonstrations during the opening of the Asian Games on Saturday (18/08) to demand higher fare tariffs. (Antara Photo/Muhammad Adimaja)
Go-Jek, Grab Drivers Plan Mass Protest During Asian Games Opening
BY :ADINDA NORMALA
Jakarta. Thousands of motorcycle taxi drivers plan to hold demonstrations during the opening of the Asian Games on Saturday (18/08) to demand higher fare tariffs.
An estimated 50,000 drivers will protest outside Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex in Central Jakarta, while 10,000 are expected at Jakabaring Sport City in Palembang, South Sumatra.
The drivers, who are all members of the Two-Wheeled Action Movement (Garda), have been demanding since last year for the tariff to be increased to Rp 3,000 (20 US cents) per kilometer from Rp 1,200-Rp 1,600 per kilometer currently.
Garda represents nearly a million motorcycle taxi drivers working for both Go-Jek and Grab – the largest online-based ride-hailing firms in Indonesia.
"The tariff is based on their own calculation without taking ours into consideration. The motorcycles are provided by us, fuel is provided by us, maintenance is also provided by us. Moreover, if we are involved in an accident, we have to carry the responsibility," Igun Wicaksono, a member of Garda, told the Jakarta Globe on Monday.
He said between 2012 and 2015, when rates still ranged from Rp 3,000 to Rp 4,000 per kilometer, drivers only had to work between eight and 10 hours per day to make a decent living, while the current tariff is forcing them to work more than eight hours a day to earn the Jakarta minimum wage of Rp 3,8 million a month.
"These companies are valued in the trillions of rupiah and they make huge profits at the expense of the drivers, who work almost 24 hours per day on the streets," Igun said.
The two sides have sat down for talks, mediated by the Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and the police, multiple times since last year to try to resolve the issue but all efforts have so far ended in deadlock. The last negotiations on Aug. 3 were mediated by the Jakarta Police in an attempt to convince Garda to cancel its planned protest.
Motorcycle taxi drivers held demonstrations on three different occasions since last year, not only to demand a return to the standard tariff, but also for the government to immediately create a legal framework for online-based ride-hailing services.
"This has been an unfulfilled demand since last year, because those companies do not appreciate what their driver partners do [for them]," Igun said.
However, Grab Indonesia managing director Ridzki Kramadibrata said last week that the company just raised the minimum fee to Rp 2,300 from Rp 1,600 recently and that it has no intention to do so again as this will ultimately have a negative effect on drivers' incomes.
"Drastic and too high tariff increases risk jeopardizing driver partners' incomes, as passengers will compare these rates to other modes of transportation," Ridzki said.
Go-Jek has yet to respond to the Jakarta Globe's request for comment.
Jhoni Allen Marbun, a member of House of Representatives Commission V, which oversees infrastructure and transportation, said the protest is unnecessary, especially during the Asian Games, as the tariffs are already quite favorable for drivers.
"Protest is a right, but use it for the right thing. Moreover, we will be visited by athletes from various countries, so we should show that we are a country that welcomes our guests properly," he said.
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Surpassing Certainty
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My Journey (So Far) with #GirlsLikeUs: Hoping for Sisterhood, Solidarity & Empowerment
A few months ago, I participated in a focus group at the Hetrick-Martin Institute with eight other trans women. We gathered to offer insight into resources available for young trans women, and more importantly what we would have wanted (in resources, support, spaces) growing up to make our adolescence a bit easier.
An amazing discussion was sparked among the women, the kind of intimate conversation that can only happen with people who have shared such a unique experience. We may have grown up in different times, with different resources, and different challenges, but we were all trans women who ultimately chose to live visibly and were looking for ways to make it better for girls who were coming of age behind us.
The key takeaway didn’t happen in our adult group. It happened in a separate focus group, where younger trans women offered their perspectives on what they wanted, what was available for them and more importantly how they saw themselves.
When I asked the facilitator how younger trans women identified, she said, “They don’t call themselves trans, transsexual or transgender.”
Then how do they define themselves?
“When I asked them who they were,” the facilitator said, “One girl simply stated: ‘We’re just girls…with something extra.'”
And did they all agree to that?
“Yes, some said they were ‘just girls’ – point blank,” she said, “And others agreed that the ‘something extra’ was necessary.”
I found it exhilarating that these young women were naming themselves, that they were identifying how they wanted and that they exerted themselves in a world that rarely, if ever made room for them. I found myself uplifted by the “girls…with something extra” because it wasn’t coming from a place of want or lack. It didn’t fall prey to the tired, simplistic, limiting media sound bite of “girl trapped in boy’s body.” Instead it celebrated who we were as trans women: We have something extra. You can take that literally or figuratively, which is how I choose to read it: We are extra, we are more, we are special, we are everything.
I grew up just like these girls: ballsy, sassy, so sure of where I was going and how I was getting there. No one could tell me otherwise. I was a girl, with something extra: extra going beyond my genitals; extra as in sass, extra as in a killer volleyball approach, extra as in the bounce of my curls, extra as in my refusal to be a victim just because people chose not to get me, extra in the sense that I had a dream and sacrificed a lot to ensure I made those dreams my reality.
When I think of the girl I was growing up, I also think of my blind spots as well, and how I learned nearly everything I knew regarding hormones, dating, doctors, presentation, self-esteem, document changes, etc. from older women who grew up as a girl like myself. I grew up with women who knew the way—to a certain point. They could help me navigate the physical transition process, but they weren’t as keen on where to go from there. No one talked to me about life after my teenage transition because education usually wasn’t an integral part of the trans woman way where I grew up. Though they weren’t able to help me get to college, most did wish me well when I moved to New York. And these same women supported me when I told my story nearly a decade later.
But when I came out, I was suddenly urged to identify myself: Are you transgender or transsexual? And frankly, I thought this to be one of the silliest things to be confronted with upon my sharing such a personal story with the world.
As a young woman, I only used those terms a few times, mostly because I didn’t attach my sense of self to those political and medical terms. They didn’t sing to my inner sense of being, they were mere labels meant to organize me and put me in my place. So how did I identify? I was a girl automatically reared as a boy who rebelled against my family’s expectations to be the woman I knew myself to be.
But I’m a writer and I know the power of words, so I’m not going to feign naivety to get out of this often contentious matter in our community. As soon as I came out I was labeled as transgender. Marie Claire proclaimed, “I was born a boy.” Transsexual activists argued that the LGBT establishment was misgendering me by calling me transgender.
In the end, I embraced it all because none of them could easily define who I inherently am. But it wasn’t until I began speaking to other girls who grew up like I did in my post-coming out life during speaking engagements and fundraisers, on Twitter and Facebook, over coffees and dinner and on subways, that I began using phrases like, “You know how girls like us do.” “You know girls like us are doing big things.” “Girls like us know how to make it work, honey.”
Girls like us rolled off my tongue. The root of girls like us started in private conversations with young women looking for role models, becoming role models, wanting to be heard and hoping to make a difference.
And then in March, Jenna Talackova was told because she was not a “real woman” that she could not go after her dream. And as I was writing about her, I realized that despite the fact that we look different, had different backgrounds and experiences, I knew her. I knew her on a level that only a girl who walked a similar path that we did could know.
And because of this, I cried over a beauty pageant, and I don’t even watch beauty pageants. But sashaying across a stage in a gorgeous gown was Jenna’s dream; it’s the equivalent of me seeing my name on the glossy hardcover book boasting words I wrote to convey my truth. We all have different dreams, and this was Jenna’s and in a sense it was mine. So I shared Jenna’s petition on Twitter, and said:
Please sign & share this women’s rights petition in support of transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova & #girlslikeus: ow.ly/9TYc6
— Janet Mock (@janetmock) March 27, 2012
And that was the online birth of #girlslikeus. I didn’t think it over, it wasn’t a major push, but #girlslikeus felt right. Remarkably a few more women—some well-known, others not—shared the petition and began sharing their stories of being deemed un-real, being called out, working it, fighting for what’s right, wanting to transition, dreaming to do this, accomplishing that…. #girlslikeus soon grew beyond me, and I continued to feed it: I shared quotes that touched me, articles that celebrated trans women, essays written by trans women, #FF women who inspired me, and took pictures with #girlslikeus who I call my friends and dear sisters. Then, I gave a speech at the University of Southern California which was a way for me to express the anger and frustration and hope that fueled my efforts over the past year of my living visibly. I got the chance to tell bits of the injustice CeCe McDonald faced. I got to talk about how Paige Clay’s end could’ve easily been—and can still be—mine. I rallied the strength to hold back tears as I read over words that were written just the night before. I shared that speech on YouTube and spoke out against the New York Times‘ sexist and transphobic depiction of Lorena Escalera, and then, remarkably a few outlets used their platform to amplify the collective voices of #girlslikeus (Bitch Media, Feministing, Fuck Yeah Feminists, GLAAD, TransGriot, WildGender), and my dream came true: #girlslikeus was used on its own without my @janetmock handle in it. It had a life of its own. Intimate, frivolous, deep and vain conversations were being had, women were connecting to one another, finding sisterhood and friendship, yet I also noticed something brewing as well. A piece by QWOC Media (Queer Women of Color) touted #girlslikeus as an online campaign meant to empower trans women of color. Yes, this was true, but it was not the whole truth, as #girlslikeus began as a means to connect all willing trans women across colors, generations, sexual identities and class. That sound bite from the QWOC piece unknowingly created a rift in the community of sisters I aimed to build, and made some white trans women feel as if they were “intruding” on #girlslikeus because it was touted as an empowerment tool for trans women of color, not just trans women. So I made it clear in a series of Tweets that #girlslikeus is for ALL trans women, and ultimately that just because a brown woman establishes a mini-movement does not mean that white women can’t contribute.
#GirlsLikeUs is for ALL trans women, regardless of color, but all who lend their voice to amplify ours knows that intersectionality matters. — Janet Mock (@janetmock) May 15, 2012
That tweet was RTed by more than 40 followers, and served as my answer to any confusion about who I created this space for. Still, I knew I needed to create a definition, so, on the advice of @Arizona_Abby, I created the following to define #girlslikeus:
A space created by and for trans* women with the purpose of connecting, upLIFTing one another, and sharing resources and stories. It reaches across generations and color, location and socioeconomic standing, established by @janetmock in March 2012 to empower trans women to live visibly and connect in sisterhood and solidarity.
I also created a growing list of trans women on Twitter who’ve contributed Tweets to #girlslikeus (please Tweet #girlslikeus or “I stand with #girlslikeus” if you’d like to be added to this list). And I also noticed that trans women were including #girlslikeus in their profiles, as if it were a badge of honor. And to me, it is.
@BaliCheetah
@BiBi_Monroe
@ErinB68
@iheartava31
@LadyJaya
@missrosslive
@Teeloaf
@tonacity
@WendiMiyake
I want #girlslikeus to be an encouraging space, for debate, for love, for hope, for struggles. I want younger girls to have the space to be frivolous, to talk about transition, to talk about genitals if they want, to ask after the types of procedures people had, etc. It’s your choice to answer or not. I also want it to be a space where women can discuss hot topics, debate about issues, point out privilege blind spots, and share new articles, policies and essays regarding issues facing trans women and women in general. But it will not be a space where we smack one another down, where we judge each other. We’re judged enough in the world.
I want us to be fully ourselves, and hopefully in the process of sharing our most authentic selves, we’ll find like-minded sisters whom we can embrace and love and connect with because it’s only in our connecting that we will be more powerful and ensure that our voices and our lives and our struggles and joys matter.
Lastly, #girlslikeus is not a mandate for all trans women, and does not aim to speak for all trans women. One hashtag, label, group or person cannot be everything for everyone. But it can be something for some. And we must learn to support one another and let people live and tweet without judgment or a need to criticize. The mere existence of a new hashtag where some trans women find solace and sisterhood should not threaten anyone to the point that they are attacking it. It’s frankly not that deep.
When I created #girlslikeus, people wanted me to define exactly what it meant – and I was still discovering that. All I had was a phrase that resonated with me, and luckily it resonated with a few other women. And despite the passing hostility, I pulled the conversation toward a direction of love. It sounds sappy, but I must say that what I’ve come to realize with oppressed, misunderstood communities like ours is that hurt people tend to hurt people. We live in a world where we are so fearful of being excluded and told we don’t belong that when something is created – even in good intent – we receive it with skepticism, hostility and anger.
And I don’t react to hostility with hostility. It’s not my style. Instead, I shut my ego up and aimed to see each Tweet for what it truly is: Another woman wanting to be heard and yearning to know that she matters. That’s why I created #girlslikeus in the first place: To let trans women know that their lives matter, and no one will be dismissed. So in that spirit, I present:
5 FAQs I’ve Been Asked About #girlslikeus:
1. Why call yourself #girlslikeus when it seems you’re distinguishing yourself from the general population of women?
There’s not one way to be a woman. Trans women share issues with non-trans women yet also face unique issues that only other trans women will understand on an intimate level. Yet #girlslikeus is not a monolith, and we don’t all equally face the same kind of discrimination and struggles. While I wholeheartedly welcome all allies to contribute links and Tweet their support, it was important to me that there was a space for us, created by us, especially in a world where our mere presence causes such hostility.
2. Why is it #girlslikeus and not #womenlikeus? I’m not a girl.
I wanted this space to be intergenerational and wanted to encourage young women online to connect with women who’ve been where they’ve been, and to reach across age and nationality and ethnicity and truly connect. If you’re a woman and feel “girls” is just too immature for you, know that it was created to support younger women who need to know that women like you exist, and hopefully the depth of that potential connection will outweigh the semantics regarding women vs. girls. Your wisdom as a woman is needed to uplift, inspire and encourage girls growing up to be women.
3. #girlslikeus seems like it’s only for well-known, attractive trans women. It should be #girlslikethem.
The roots of #girlslikeus began with conversations with young women and launched in support of a beauty queen. So I understand the miscommunication, but #girlslikeus has always been about all trans women, regardless of looks, celebrity or gender expression. I know that there is not one way to be trans as there is not one way to be a woman or a human being. I welcome all women, from those who are thinking of transitioning to those who are way past transitioning and don’t even feel the need to bring it up. I welcome women who don’t and do identify as advocates, activists, academics, political or feminists. I want this to be a space where so-called everyday trans women just living their lives in their towns can dip in and connect without feeling as if they need to fight or educate or be activists. I welcome women who identify as lesbian, pansexual, bisexual, asexual, heterosexual, trans-attracted, the whole gamut. I’m also grateful to the well-known trans women who used their platform to spread the word about #girlslikeus when I established it, but it’s lesser known, so-called everyday trans women who have fed #girlslikeus and kept the conversation lively. I am in love with all of these women, regardless of their color, location, level of so-called attractiveness, and how they fall on the gender spectrum.
4. What about #guyslikeus?
I encourage my trans brothers to create such a space for themselves, but will not be arrogant enough to believe that not such a space doesn’t already exist for them or that they’re not already organized via other platforms. I will leave the creation of space for trans men to trans men, and will continue to support the idea that we all occupy more spaces on Twitter as seen in #girlslikeus, #transfeminism, #transchat, #wehappytrans, #fourthwave.
5. What’s your plans with #girlslikeus?
It’s still very new, but I do hope to expand it to its own website, outside of Twitter and my own site. I want it to be a space where trans women can tell their own stories, offer wisdom and guidance to younger women, share articles and links and most importantly uplift one another. It’ll also be great to create physical spaces where we can get together in person and connect as well.
I am the New York Times bestselling author of "Redefining Realness" and the upcoming memoir "Surpassing Certainty." I write about culture with an emphasis on gender, race and representation.
Callie P.
February 19, 2014 at 11:52 am · Reply
Janet, first I would like to say that even as a cis, queer girl, you are an inspiration and a role model for me. I know that you try to be (and are) inclusive and awesome to the entire GSM community, regardless of cis/trans status; but whilst reading your article, I noticed a slight miswording in reference to asexual girls.
Under #3 of the FAQs, you say, “I welcome women who identify as lesbian, pansexual, bisexual, celibate…” I would like to make note that “celibate” usually refers to sexual behavior; for example, a heterosexual priest (or anyone of any orientation) might be celibate, but still experience sexual attraction. “Asexual” is the general term for people who are not sexually attracted to anyone (or experience sexual attraction to people they might find “sexy” only under certain terms — gray-asexual). Using the word “celibate” may reinforce the idea that asexuality is a choice, or that all asexuals are celibate, which isn’t true.
Thank you, Janet, for your contributions to the trans community (although I am not a part of this community, from this article alone your described contributions are amazing), the queer/GSM community as a whole, and the world. I hope that if you do read this, you will use my correction to be even more inclusive and great to everyone, and call me out on anything offensive to trans people that I may have said.
-Asexual Teenager
February 19, 2014 at 8:13 pm · Reply
Thanks for this beautiful clarification. I’ve edited it and appreciate you correcting with such kindness.
September 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm · Reply
I know i’m late to the party here, but a couple of comments.
First of all, you’re one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. Not ‘transwoman’; ‘woman’, period. And not just outwardly, either. You are so obviously beautiful inside and out that it’s wonderful.
You are correct in saying there’s more than one way of being a woman. Over the years i’ve known more than a few transwomen. Quite frankly, most of the were severely f’ed up in the head. They wanted to be a stereotype of a woman, not seeming to realize that no two ‘born’ women are alike. Some of us are beautiful. Some of us are ugly. Some of us are girly. Some of us run screaming from Barbies and the color pink. Some of us like trucks AND makeup. So trying to ‘act’ like a ‘born’ woman by slathering on makeup or acting like a drag queen or prancing around is missing the point. Women who are born with vaginas learn the difference between being female and performing the female gender at an early age, even if they don’t call it that. Most of us are at least somewhat conscious of doing a performance. So watching a trans woman do a performance of a performance without realizing that it’s not the reality for vaginally-born women is kind of sad. The essence of being female is, well, just being, regardless of what that means for the individual.
On the other hand I’ve met transwomen who have grown into their ‘new’ bodies, whose femalehood arises from a comfort with themselves. And like you they are beautiful. I wish there was some way that the world could make transitioning easier for tradespeople, maybe even making it unnecessary for some people to re-craft their bodies because they would be accepted and loved as they are. Our society has such rigid ideas of male and female, and it creates a tough world for anyone who is even slightly gender dysphoric.
Having been a part of a women’s organization where years ago there was a big argument over allowing trans female members (we decided to do so as long as they had transitioned, and we kept allowing trans men to stay in the group until their transition was over), I’ve seen some of the fear, disgust and bigoted hatred against transwomen, and I didn’t like it. I like it even less now. However, I don’t see this as a trans problem. Just as gay marriage is really a straight issue in the sense that it’s mostly straight people who are in the position to decide whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to exercise their given constitutional right to marry, I see many of the issues transwomen face as a non-transwoman problem. How can women like myself who were born with vaginas help to make life easier for transwomen? How can we make it clear that we welcome you and that we see you as no better or worse than ourselves, but simply as women with a different set of experiences? How can we find ways of coming together and learning from each other?
If those of us who are feminists really want to put our money where our moths are, we need to ensure that transwomen are welcome in our lives and accepted as people. Despite the fact that there are some trans people who think that their difference makes them better (just as some of my fellow bisexuals look down on monosexuals, and some gays and lesbians think they are superior to ‘breeders’) most transpeople are not like that and they deserve to be shown love and acceptance as well as having their experiences validated.
Alize Harris
July 13, 2012 at 9:40 pm · Reply
HI Janet!!! I feel so blessed to have stumbled across a link to your youtube video, It gets better. I felt instantly drawn to you, and continued to follow the links to your other youtube videos, to facebook and now here.. I feel that you are what the trans community has been needing for a long time, someone that would show the true essence of a trans woman to the masses.. beauty,sass, sensitivity,intelligence and strength! I feel so connected to the phrase “girls like us”. When asked why do you want to be a woman? I kinda tilt my head and think, well its not so much that I want to be a woman, its that I want to be me..I feel the #girlslikeus is a GREAT phrase to suit so many differenent aspects of the transgender community. When I say girls like us it feels right, like a sence of belonging to a vast number of strong and beautiful individuals!! I am so happy to have found you, and have someone that I truly feel a connection with that will allow me to keep in touch with the reality that I am not alone, as well as a guiding light in my transition that eminates such beauty and power.
Much Love and Thanks
Cheryl Courtney-Evans
May 30, 2012 at 1:38 pm · Reply
WOW! I totally LOVED this! With your permission, I’d like to repost this on “abitchforjustice”.
Hi Cheryl – Thank you for reading. Please feel free to post an excerpt of the piece. I don’t allow cross-posts due to SEO policies, but an excerpt linking back to the original post would definitely work. Thanks for elevating this.
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By Jef Kearns | April 22, 2019
Coast to Coast AM is the one radio show that has been a constant in my life since I was in public school. Syndicated on over 600 stations with over 2.75 million listeners a week I know I’m not alone.
It deals primarily with paranormal activity, conspiracy theories and guests who fall out of the box of what you’d hear from mainstream media.
I have always been a late night person and often put it on just to listen in the dark for hours until I manage to fall asleep.
It was a great moment to hear my name and my song being announced by a person whose voice has been such a part of my life. Listen to the featured song Groove Ballet here.
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By Jef Kearns | March 21, 2019
Click here now for “Breathe” on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube Music.
Jef Kearns’ latest release sees his flute “Breathe” new life into the song of the same namesake as well as his song “Don’t Make Me Wait” by adding a Chinese flute part performed by Lipeng Wu (written by Harlin Sun.) Both compositions were a part of his Amazon bestseller album, Soulfisticated.
“These songs were originally written and recorded at a time when I lost one of the loves of my life. Don’t Make Me Wait could well have been truncated from ‘Don’t make me wait for you to come back.’ I wrote the melody to this song. Breathe is more of a near resignation to the loss with a slight lingering of longing for past romance. The vocalist on the original recording (Lisa Michelle) wrote the melody and lyric. I recorded this alternate instrumental version because that is how I perform the song at shows. I also wanted to showcase on record the emotion I attach to it from the situation I was in.”
Breathe releases on all digital platforms on March 22nd. 2019.
Breathe (Flute Mix)
Written by Lisa Michelle, John Campbell, Jef Kearns
Produced by John Campbell
Mixed and Engineered by Douglas Romanow at Noble Street Studios
Mastered by Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound, NYC
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Written by Jef Kearns, Troy Patterson, Harlin Sun
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Axel F Refreshed – Summer Single
By Jef Kearns | July 5, 2018
Jef Kearns gives Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop) a breath of reggaeton and dancehall. Listen on your preferred platform by clicking here.
Flautist Jef Kearns is a rare talent. Featured in XXL Magazine for his cover of Warren G’s “Regulate.” An Amazon Japan best seller (alongside Janelle Monae) with his album of originals, Soulfisticated. Top 10 on the UK Soul Chart for a month with his recent EP, The Flute, and tweeted by the renowned Jamal Ahmed (WCLK, Atlanta “S.O.U.L. Of Jazz”) as “Probably the dopest flautist in the game right now!”
It only serves right that his first full production cover is of equally rare magnitude: the Beverly Hills Cop Theme “Axel F.” An instrumental that bested the usual “vocally dominated” charts for 19 weeks, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
With production by Douglas Romanow (producer for Kinnie Star, and engineer for Justin Bieber and Tyga) and mastering by Sterling Sound’s Chris Gehringer (Rihanna, Drake, Wu-Tang, Madonna) Jef Kearns gives Axel F new breath by embracing elements of Reggaeton and Dance Hall.
Axel F – Jef Kearns Reggaeton/Dancehall Mix
Jef Kearns gives Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop) a breath of reggaeton and dancehall. Pre-save on Spotify or pre-order by pressing "Learn More" or clicking http://smarturl.it/d8o64bPRESS RELEASEFlautist Jef Kearns is a rare talent. Featured in XXL Magazine for his cover of Warren G's “Regulate.” An Amazon Japan best seller (beside Janelle Monae) with his album of originals, Soulfisticated. Top 10 on the UK Soul Chart for a month with his recent EP, The Flute, and tweeted by the renowned Jamal Ahmed (WCLK, Atlanta “S.O.U.L. Of Jazz”) as “Probably the dopest flautist in the game right now!” It only serves right that his first full production cover is of equally rare magnitude: the Beverly Hills Cop Theme “Axel F." An instrumental that bested the usual “vocally dominated” charts for 19 weeks, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. With production by Douglas Romanow (producer for Kinnie Star, and engineer for Justin Bieber and Tyga) and mastering by Sterling Sound's Chris Gehringer (Rihanna, Drake, Wu-Tang, Madonna) Jef Kearns gives Axel F new breath by embracing elements of Reggaeton and Dance Hall. Jef Kearns' “Axel F” will be available on all download and streaming music sites on Friday August 3rd, 2018.
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Creative Space – Artist Loft
By Jef Kearns | November 13, 2017
I have been in my downtown Toronto Artscape artist loft for nearly 6 years.
This past weekend I added some finishing touches. I have finally reached a point where I cannot think of anything I would change or that “needs” doing.
The space reflects me completely; knowing I am the only one to ever live in it adds to the “mine” of it all.
New Single Release November 17 – Soulscape
By Jef Kearns | November 8, 2017
Jef Kearns’ new single “Soulscape” comes off the heels of the R&B flautist being featured in XXL (Hip Hop at a Higher Level) Magazine’s top 20 Hip Hop Covers on Instruments, and inclusion of original composition “Jazz Addiction” on Spotify’s official Smooth Jazz Ride playlist.
Recorded and composed live in the studio, Soulscape is a jazz-meets-hip-hop instrumental which could be likened to the darker, more sensual brother of George Benson’s “Breezin’.”
Soulscape is set to hit all major streaming and retail platforms on November 17, 2017.
Written by J. Kearns/D. Cowans/A. Lewis
Keys: Daniel Cowans
Bass: Anthony Lewis
Drum programming: Timian
Mixed by Douglas Romanow
Mastered by Chris Gehringer (Sterling Sound)
Jazz Addiction on Smooth Ride Spotify Playlist
By Jef Kearns | October 15, 2017
Honoured to be included on the “Smooth Ride” Spotify Playlist along with so many talented artists!
My single “Jazz Addiction” released in 2015, has proven to be enjoyed by a wide audience, crossing a number of genres and one of my favourite tracks to play live.
Currently followed by almost 19,000 listeners, with over 71 songs, The Smooth Ride playlist is sure to become your very own Spotify “Jazz Addiction”!
Click here to listen, follow and share this Spotify playlist! Thank you for listening — I value and appreciate your support, jazz fans!
“It is my mission to show people that flute can be just as soulful and down-and-dirty as sax.
My music sheds a whole new light on RnB music and the flute’s place in it.”
— Jef Kearns
Cover: Regulate
Jef Kearns' take on Warren G's "Regulate" combining a melodic interpretation of Warren G's rap, Nate Dogg's vocals, with Michael McDonald's chorus on the original "I Keep Forgettin'."
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Watch Now: Channel 2 News at 7 p.m. FOX31 & Channel 2 TV Schedule
Family says town threatened to fine them $50,000 over Christmas light display
Posted 6:09 pm, November 28, 2018, by Tribune Media Wire
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. – A Christmas light show in Old Bridge, New Jersey has been bringing families joy for more than 15 years, but now the family that puts it on says the town is trying to shut them down, according to WPIX.
"We had a meeting with the Mayor and the Chief of Police the other night and they blatantly told us that this is what you will pay in order to put this Christmas light display on this year" said Kris Apruzzi.
The price tag: $50,000.
The Apruzzis say the town wants them to foot the bill for police security at the show. Police have directed traffic down Central Avenue in Old Bridge in years past. The Apruzzis also say the town wants them to pay to bus people in to reduce traffic.
"It's a little crowded, but it's fine. It's festive, it's the holidays," said one neighbor, Erika Cavano. "This is what it's all about."
Cavano isn't the only neighbor who enjoys the display.
"We actually love it, my kids love it," said another neighbor, Marie Mooney.
It takes the Apruzzis two months to put up over 300,000 lights every year. The show is completely free to the thousands who come, and they do collect donations to support Homes for Our Troops, a charity that builds custom homes to accommodate disabled veterans.
"You know it's just heartbreaking," said Tom Apruzzi. "You grew up in this town, we’d love to stay in this town, but it’s almost getting to the point where its like Old Bridge is forcing us out."
Regardless, the Apruzzis say the show will go on this year. It runs four days a week, Thursday through Sunday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
"This is something that is a positive in the town. We should be embracing it," said Old Bridge Councilman Mark Razzoli.
Vowing to fight this, the Apruzzis say they’re going to fire up this light show Dec. 1.
"I'm not taking it down," said Mr. Apruzzi. "It’s my religious right and my first amendment right. I do this for the veterans and everything else like that. If people have a problem with that, I can’t say anything about it. There are people that are going to be happy, and there are always people that are going to be unhappy."
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Jason Aldean Bought a New Mercedes, But He Wants to Take It Back
Jason Aldean splurged on a new Mercedes, but he says he's taking it back to the dealer. The "We Back" singer says he'd never owned a car before — until now, it's been nothing but trucks.
Talking to Broadway on Detroit's Nash-FM 93.1, Aldean reveals that he bought a Mercedes AMG GT. It was an impulse buy (the internet says they start at $100,000 new) after he visited a nearby dealer.
"It's flat gray, it's pretty bad," Aldean says with some excitement.
But ...
"I may actually return it next week. I've been feeling guilty ever since I bought it," he admits.
Meet Jason Aldean's 2020 Tourmate!
Nobody is giving him a hard time about the pricetag but Aldean seems to be having buyer's remorse. Of course, it's not the only big-ticket item he's put down on lately, as he and wife Brittany Aldean are currently building a house that includes a swimming pool that would make a Las Vegas hotelier jealous. Pop Culture also shares that the new pad will have a concrete safe room, spiral staircase and large outdoor porch. Mrs. Aldean's Instagram is the place to see occasional photos of their new mansion.
Musically, Aldean just announced the 2020 We Back Tour with Morgan Wallen and Riley Green. "We Back" is from his upcoming ninth studio album, titled 9 and due to hit retailers on Nov. 22. The 2019 Ride All Night Tour rides through Oct. 11, and then he'll play a few shows in Las Vegas in December.
Jason Aldean's Best Album Makes This List of the Century's Best
Source: Jason Aldean Bought a New Mercedes, But He Wants to Take It Back
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Tag Archive | el grand
Sukkot Games Day 5775
A great games day with our fun games day gang. Happy birthday to Bill, he left early to work before his roleplaying group meeting, Shirley came after work; they’re both still jetlagged from a week in China. Bon voyage to Mace who left early to catch a plane back to Australia. Emily and Eitan were sans Uli because Emily’s parents are handily visiting. The dinner order was complicated as usual with a lot of people, leading to Emily resigning from the next one – with honors for the excellent job she’s done. Thanks to everyone who helped with score reporting, organizing, and carrying chairs and moving furniture.
Jerusalem area
Nadine, Gili, Lotem, Eszter, Binyamin, Bill, Shirley, David, Avi, Eitan, Emily, Shalom, Shachar, first timers Jordan and Chaim
Modi’in
First timer Avraham
Jon, Sa’arya
Rehovot
Old timer Elisheva
Ofer and Oran
Jon 9, Avi 6, Ofer 6, Bill 1
First play for all except Jon.
Eszter 53, Binyamin 37, Elisheva
New to them; they liked it.
David/Jon, Nadine/Avi
Played at the end of the night. Jon had pretty bad cards overall. We played a fun, relaxed game without scoring and with discussion of bids, good practice. I was playing a hand, I was already set, and Jon asked ‘why are we still playing this?”, which I took to mean he was generally bored as usual. But he meant, ‘can’t you claim yet?”; I realized after that play that I could but hadn’t thought about it. Avi plays very well, he overbid once, I overbid also. Jon and David at first were either playing or bidding well, but not both on the same hand.
Eszter 52, Avraham 40, Saarya 39, Elisheva 34
New to all except Eszter. A crowded board set up with most of the mountains very close to the town.
Emily 32, Eitan 25, Gili 22
Played on the couch and floor at the end of the evening.
Emily 34, 87, 127 Eitan 31, 83, 116 Gili 35, 89, 112
Very close scores, a fun favorite. I don’t think I’ve ever played with 3.
Another space game in the sukka. Jordan and Gili tied for 15, both in pts and resources and fighter, Elishiva 13, Shalom 12
Jon, David, Avi, Avraham, Shirley
They all enjoyed playing tremendously, despite, or because of, the challenge of having to remember information about cards that you can’t see, and did very well.
Gili 116, Eszter 99, Binyamin 98, Elisheva 85, Lotem 65
First play for Elisheva, Binyamin and Lotem.
High Frontier
M0, c8, s8, v4, Jordan 7 (1 v), Eitan 12 (1 v, 1 d, 1 s), Emily (1c + 4 turns), Shalom 8 (2 v)
This was the entertainment for people who went to have lunch in the sukka. They all really sounded like rocket scientists, the game emulates thrust, oxygen etc in detail.
Jon, David, Shirley
Jon: Shirley won. David was a few points behind her and I was a few points behind him. I was ahead often in the game with 25 point quests, but the others were close behind with smaller quests and plot quests. And I only fed my lord 4 times for 16 points where they each ended with 32 points.
Nadine+, David, Avi
I did better than usual. This game is fun with people who get it and enjoy the uncontrollable situations. I lost when I had the countess and David the princess, next hand it was reversed. They think it’s funny how much information I don’t remember, and helped me eliminate available cards for guessing to speed things up.
Jordan 4/7, Shalom 6/7, Elisheva 7/7 (win), Eszter 6/7
Shalom’s game with similarities to Settlers according to him.
Apparently a very close win. I knew they drafted, but didn’t realize they then make up decks with half the cards.
Gili 43, Binyamin 32, Elisheva 32, Eszter 30, Lotem
David+, Jon, Bill, Avi, Nadine
New to David and Avi. We had positive special cards – including extra money if you haven’t built yet. I didn’t do well at selecting cards. Bill would have reached 20 points right after David did. Jon played cards with negative effects on other players such as losing minions and cards, but Avi countered with one giving everyone a card.
Avi+, Chaim, Ofer
Oran 17/17, Nadine 18/12+, David 18/12-
Easier with 3. New to Oran. He didn’t listen to the good advice David and I gave him, such as not buying so many intermediate power plants, and when to build. So he was right, very good play to beat both of us first time, and with his own strategy. We played regular, no card previews which changes the calculations. I was doing better than usual, I was in a good position throughout, and David was doing worse than usual, we don’t know why, but it was still fun to play, I haven’t played in at least a year.
Jon, Ofer
Jon: I taught him and he creamed me.
Avraham, Nadine
New to Oran, who had a hard time finding them.
Jon/Avi 1065, David/Avraham
David gamely partnered with Avraham, completely new to the game. He understood how to play, but experience makes a different. David and Avraham were ahead by a few hundred for a while, but Jon and Avi caught up, and won when they called Tichu and went out first and second; David made a mistake and forgot that Avi had only played one ace so there was still one out, Jon had it. David had 3 bombs in a row, wrecking one of Jon’s Tichus.
Avraham 9, Avi 7, Nadine 5
I taught this to them, new to both. They did an excellent job catching on and built monuments, Avraham 2 and Avi 3. There wasn’t much conflict. I thought I was doing worse than I was. I think Avraham beat Avi because Avraham attacked more, he attacked me, but I didn’t play well. There is less conflict with 3 players.
Oran 92, Eszter 49, Nadine 38, Ofer 25
Ofer taught it to all of us, thought he hadn’t played before and needed to look up setup info, he didn’t have the rules in English, but he had read them online earlier. We punched out the game and Ofer managed to set up the main mechanism which releases disks with which to buy building stones. Near the end of the game, when one type of stone ran out, he discovered a new rule that you can get a coin instead of a stone – people who had tossed due to lack of storage took money for earlier moves, unbalancing the timing. It’s a cute, light game, though Pushing and losing feels like luck; it is partly, but also related to when you select that action. Eszter did really well with it, Ofer who was before her didn’t, he put them in position for her, as did I. I didn’t like that aspect, and often I couldn’t take full advantage of my actions, for example, only having one stone available to build instead of the two allowed. I focused on money for movement, but that’s not enough. I also built, but Oran had a more successful strategy, he built mainly small stones, and got bonuses for it.
Shachar 30, Nadine 28, Mace 25, Avraham 19
New to Shachar and Avraham, and Mace has played around once. Everyone did well, and sold a lot and bought bonuses. Mace and I had similar strategies, storage and coins. He wanted to get both coin bonus tiles but I got one. On the last turn, I changed from buying a farmer for two points to selling for 3 coins with space for 2, because of my coin bonus, even though it meant paying a coin for food. A mistake, I got all zeros, and paying for food reduced the coin bonus to one extra, for a gain of one instead of two. If I had drawn better coins I would have tied or won, but it’s less likely to draw those at the end of the game. The keep two tile year came up first, when it’s less helpful, though it does increase production quickly. It’s an easy game to learn. Eszter wanted to play it later, but too many people who had already played it were available. Shachar had 3 bonuses and almost got another one. Mace and I would have had one more point if we had drawn tiles which close fences on the last round.
Chag Sameach!
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Reducing the burden of diarrhea among children under five years old: lessons learned from oral rehydration therapy corner program implementation in Northern Nigeria
Zulfiya Charyeva1,
Molly Cannon1,
Olugbenga Oguntunde2,
Aminu Magashi Garba3,
William Sambisa4,
Amos Paul Bassi2,
Mohammed Auwal Ibrahim2,
Saba’atu Elizabeth Danladi2 &
Nurudeen Lawal2
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition volume 34, Article number: 4 (2015) Cite this article
In Nigeria, diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of death among children under five years old. Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) corners were introduced to health facilities in Bauchi and Sokoto states to serve as points of treatment for sick children and equip caregivers with necessary skills in case management of diarrhea and diarrhea prevention.
The operations research study examined the effect of facility-based ORT corners on caregivers’ knowledge and skills in management of simple and moderate diarrhea at home, as well as caregivers’ and service providers’ perceived facilitators and barriers to utilization and delivering of ORT corner services. It also examined whether ORT activities were conducted according to the established protocols.
This quantitative study relied on multiple sources of information to provide a complete picture of the current status of ORT corner services, namely surveys with ORT corner providers (N = 21), health facility providers (N = 23) and caregivers (N = 229), as well as a review of service statistics and health facility observations. Frequency distribution and binary analysis were conducted.
The study revealed that ORT corner users were more knowledgeable in diarrhea prevention and management and demonstrated better skills for managing diarrhea at home than ORT corner non-users. However, the percentage of knowledgeable ORT users is not optimal, and providers need to continue to work toward improving such knowledge. ORT corner providers identified a lack of supplies as the major barrier for providing services. Furthermore, the study revealed a lack of information, education and communication materials, supportive supervision, and protocols and guidelines for delivering ORT corner services, as well as inadequate documentation of services provided at ORT corners.
Recommendations for ORT corners program planners and implementers include ensuring all ORT corners have oral rehydration salt (ORS) packages and salt, sugar, and zinc tablets in stock, a secured commodity supply chain to avoid stockouts, and adequate policies and procedures in place.
Recent mortality estimates among children under five years old show that just five countries account for 50 percent of global mortalities. Of those five, Nigeria accounts for 11 percent of all deaths [1]. Diarrheal disease is the third leading cause of infant and child mortality in developing countries; it is responsible for 11 percent of all under-five deaths worldwide [2] and claims the lives of 1.8 million children per year worldwide [3]. Despite a decrease in childhood diarrheal diseases from 4.6 million to 0.8 million over the last three decades, the number of diarrheal deaths remains unacceptably high [2,4,5]. In Nigeria, the prevalence of childhood diarrhea is 10 percent, with 26 percent of cases treated with oral rehydration salts (ORS) solution [6,7]. Diarrhea also accounts for more than 16 percent of deaths, estimated at 150,000 annually, among children under five years old [8,9].
For Nigeria to meet the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4), the country must attain a two-thirds reduction in the under-five mortality rate from 230 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 76 in 2015. The 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey [8] reported an under-five mortality rate of 128 deaths per 1000 live births which means an additional annual 20 percent reduction is needed by 2015 to meet the target. Healthy home practices and community-based care could save over 90,000 children a year in Nigeria [10].
The impact of diarrheal morbidity on disability-adjusted life years is likely to remain substantial even as diarrheal mortality diminishes following current trends [11-13]. Nutritional deficits caused by diarrhea can affect a child’s growth, fitness, cognition, and performance at school [11,13]. It is estimated that each diarrheal episode a child experiences in the months preceding the child’s second birthday increases the risk of being stunted by 5 percent [14]. Moreover, diarrheal illness in early childhood is associated with long-term adverse cognitive effects and decreased work productivity later in life [11].
Key measures to treat diarrhea in children include rehydration with intravenous fluids in case of severe dehydration, oral rehydration salt (ORS) solution for moderate or no dehydration, and zinc supplements to reduce the duration of a diarrhea episode and stool volume [15]. Reduction in diarrheal mortality in the past decades has been attributed largely to scaling up oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which consists of the oral administration of ORS and/or recommended home fluids including salt-sugar solution (SSS). ORT is judged to be the “most important medical advance of the 20th century” [16]. Research demonstrated that the therapy cures dehydration and prevents deaths [17-21]. ORT is a simple, highly effective, inexpensive, and technologically appropriate methodology [22]. However, currently only 39 percent of children with diarrhea in developing countries receive the recommended treatment [23].
Numerous studies and diarrheal prevention programs have identified health facility-based ORT corners as a cost-effective strategy to promote case management of diarrheal diseases in many developing countries [21,22]. Further, evidence shows that ORT corners reduce the number of diarrheal referrals and admissions in a hospital [24]. Research has also demonstrated that most children treated in ORT corners recover quickly after initial treatment with ORS solution and can be discharged and sent home thereafter [21].
We conducted an operations research study to examine the effect of facility-based ORT corners on caregivers’ knowledge and skills in management of simple and moderate diarrhea at home, as well as caregivers’ and service providers’ perceived facilitators and barriers to utilization and delivering of ORT corner services in Northern Nigeria. The study was part of an ongoing strategy for setting up ORT corners in Bauchi and Sokoto states in northern Nigeria.
Study context, population and sites
In view of the high burden of diarrhea among children under five years old in Nigeria, the Targeted States High Impact Project introduced 225 ORT corners between March 2010 and August 2011 in Bauchi (n = 105) and Sokoto (n = 120) states. An ORT corner is a designated area within a health facility where caregivers can receive practical demonstrations on how to prepare ORS solutions and access lifesaving rehydration for sick children under the supervision of a healthcare provider. The ORT corners also build the capacity of caregivers with preventive and curative skills for home management of diarrhea. The ORT corners were located in health facilities to serve as direct or referred points of service for the treatment of diarrhea among children under the age of five. The study was conducted in 21 randomly selected communities with ORT corners (10 in Bauchi, 11 in Sokoto) between February and April 2012. The research questions of the study included: What are caregivers’ knowledge and skills in management of simple and moderate diarrhea at home? To what extent are ORT corners able to maintain ORT-related supplies? What type of counseling is provided at ORT corners and in the health facilities? What are the policies, support, and supervision at the ORT corners? What are perceived facilitators and barriers to utilization of ORT corners?
This was an operations research study that involved quantitative data collection from multiple sources, including: ORT corner users (N = 110 caregivers with children under five years old accessing ORT corners services in the last three months); ORT corner non-users (N = 119 caregivers with children under five years old who had diarrhea in the last three months but did not visit a service provider and did not visit an ORT corner for treatment); ORT corner providers (N = 21); and health facility providers (N = 23). Additional data were gathered through a review of service statistics at ORT corners (N = 21) and health facilities (N = 23), and from observations at ORT corners (N = 21). The study team applied systematic random sampling to select two Local Government Areas (LGAs) in each of the three senatorial zones in Sokoto and Bauchi states (12 total), and then randomly selected ORT corners in each of the selected LGAs (24 total). ORT corner users (N = 110) were randomly selected from the list of users in the selected 24 ORT corners. Convenience sampling was applied to select ORT corner providers, health facility providers, and ORT corner non-users. Based on providers’ availability, we surveyed one provider from each of the selected ORT corners and one provider from each of the health facilities where ORT corners were located. The ORT corner users and non-users came from the same communities. Community leaders helped data collectors identify ORT corner non-users in their communities. Before commencement of the surveys, written informed consent was obtained from each participant who was able to write and sign their name. Data collectors read the consent form and documented verbal consent for those participants who could not write.
Ethical clearance
The study protocol and all instruments were submitted to and approved by the Bauchi and Sokoto State Health Research Ethics Committees and the Health Media Lab Corporation in Washington, DC.
The study team triangulated data from the different data sources to provide a full picture of the functionality of the ORT corners in diarrhea management and prevention in the selected ORT corners and health facilities. We compared the responses of ORT corner users and non-users to examine the effect of ORT corners on caregivers’ knowledge and skills in managing simple and moderate diarrhea at home. Frequency distribution and binary analysis were conducted. With regard to desk review of service statistics, repeated monthly quantitative data analysis was conducted for detecting trends in selected indicators through generating relevant frequency tables and charts.
All ORT corner user caregivers were mothers of their children. On average, respondents had four children. The majority of respondents were in the 20–39 age range. More than ninety percent respondents were married and Muslim. Respondents came from different education and work backgrounds, and more than half lacked a formal education and worked as petty traders.
Demographic characteristics of the ORT corner non-users were similar to those of the ORT corner users, with the exception of occupation and number of children. There were more full-time housewives and fewer government employees in this group compared to the group of ORT corner users. On average, ORT corner non-users had fewer children than ORT corner users (Table 1).
Table 1 Demographic characteristics of ORT corner users (N = 110) and non-users (N = 119)
The type of ORT corner providers and health facility providers were similar. Of the 21 ORT corner providers and 23 health facility providers, almost half (48 percent and 52 percent, respectively) were community health extension workers (CHEWs), and 29 percent and 35 percent, respectively were nurses. The remaining 24 percent of ORT corner providers were environmental health assistants and technicians. Two doctors and one environmental health technician also served as health facility providers. Of the 21 ORT corners, 7 (33 percent) were located in primary health centers (PHCs), 6 (29 percent) were located in hospitals, 5 (24 percent) in maternal and child health centers (MCHs), and 3 (14 percent) in dispensaries (14 percent).
Knowledge and practices of ORT corner users and non-users on diarrheal disease prevention and treatment
ORT corner users indicated they would offer more liquids to their child during diarrhea than ORT corner non-users would (p < 0.0001), demonstrating better knowledge in preventing dehydration than ORT corner non-users. Almost 20 percent of non-users could not explain how much liquid they would offer if their child had diarrhea (Table 2).
Table 2 Amount of liquid and food given to children under 5 years old during a diarrheal episode as reported by ORT corner users (N = 110) and non-users (N = 116)
ORT corner users demonstrated better knowledge in preventing malnutrition than ORT corner non-users (p < 0.0001). More ORT corner users than non-ORT corner users indicated they would give the same amount of food to their child during diarrhea or offer more food to their sick children. Despite their demonstrating better knowledge than non-users, almost 40 percent of the ORT corner users still indicated that they would give their children less, much less than usual, or no food at all during diarrhea. Sixty-five percent of the ORT corner non-users indicated such feeding practices (Table 2).
ORT corner users’ reported use of an ORS package to manage diarrhea was double that of non-users (78 percent, n = 86 and 39 percent, n = 47, respectively, p < 0.0001). Similarly, users’ ability to correctly describe how to prepare ORS at home was more than three times that of non-users (62 percent, n = 68 and 19 percent, n = 22 respectively, p < 0.0001).
ORT corner users’ reported knowledge of how to prepare salt-sugar solution (SSS) at home was more than double that of ORT corner non-users (74 percent, n = 81 and 30 percent, n = 35, respectively, p < 0.0001). Of the individuals who reported knowing how to prepare SSS, 67 percent of ORT corner users (n = 54) described it correctly, compared to 40 percent of non-users (n = 14), (p = 0.007).).
Both ORT corner users and non-users indicated use of ORS packages as their first choice for treating their children, followed by SSS. However, the percentages of caregivers using ORS and SSS were much higher among ORT corner users (60 percent using ORS and 37 percent using SSS) than non-users (40 percent, p = 0.003 and 15 percent, p = 0.0001, respectively).
When asked to select ways to prevent diarrhea from a list of options, ORT corner users demonstrated a much better knowledge on prevention than non-users (p < 0.05) (Table 3). However, just 49 percent of ORT corner users indicated hand-washing at key moments and 29 percent indicated safe excreta disposal as ways to prevent diarrhea.
Table 3 Knowledge of diarrhea preventing measures and danger signs of diarrheal sickness, ORT corner users (N = 110) and non-users (N = 119)
The knowledge of danger signs for when to visit a service provider immediately was higher among ORT corner users than among non-users in three categories (not able to drink or drinking poorly, vomits everything, and blood in stool, p < 0.05). Despite this, and the fact that response options to the questions on danger signs were provided for respondents, very few knew that blood in stool and convulsions were danger signs. Overall, the percentage of ORT corner users indicating associated symptoms as danger signs were in a low range, from 7 percent to 46 percent (Table 3).
Thirty percent of ORT corner users (n = 33) reported their child having had diarrhea since their last visit for diarrhea to the ORT corner. Among these, almost half (49 percent) gave ORS solution to their children, more than a third gave them SSS (36 percent), and 15 percent took their child to a health facility.
Factors related to caregivers accessing ORT corners and health facilities
More than 90 percent of all respondents reported the need to get permission from their husband to attend the health clinic when their child has diarrhea and needs to see a service provider. Other influential people included mothers-in-law (10 percent), fathers-in-law (8.3 percent), and mothers (5 percent) of the caregivers.
The 119 ORT corner non-users listed various reasons for not seeing a service provider when their child has diarrhea. These include their perception of diarrhea as being related to teething (38 percent), that every newborn experiences diarrhea and that the child will recover even without treatment, it is just a matter of time (16 percent), diarrhea as inevitable in infants and young children (11 percent), and diarrhea being a sign of survival among newborns (8 percent). Other factors preventing non-users from visiting a service provider include perceived high cost of treatment (13 percent) and transportation challenges (15 percent).
ORT corner non-users reported the following advantages to seeing a service provider when their child has a diarrheal bout: to get treatment (68 percent), to make a child feel better (29 percent), for child to recover faster (19 percent), and to get prescriptions for medicine (24 percent).
Status of ORT corner facilities and support for ORT corner service providers
Data from ORT corner provider interviews and observations indicate that registers were available in 14 of 21 ORT corners. All of these registers included information on the patient’s date, name, age, serial number, sex, treatment given, and address information. However, registers did not always have complete information: 5 did not have dehydration status, 12 did not include information on consultation topic, and 13 were missing information on the duration of stay. According to service statistics, the average monthly number of users per ORT corner was 15. Of the 21 ORT corners, 9 (43 percent) recorded information on the number of ORT corner users who were sent home with necessary advice, children treated at the corner, or children admitted to a hospital for the last eight months. Four of these nine corners (19 percent) had such information for some, but not all, of the eight month period. The remaining 11 corners did not record these service statistics.
In terms of availability of information, education, and communication (IEC) materials, 17 of the 21 ORT corners had posters on the walls. Brochures and leaflets were much less common, with two of the twenty-one (10 percent) ORT corners possessing them.
On the day of the survey, of the 23 health care facilities, 22 percent used piped water, 52 percent used water from a protected well, and 17 percent used water from an unprotected well. In almost three-quarters of the health facilities, the water source was located within the health facility compound (70 percent, n = 16).
According to surveys with ORT corner providers and observations conducted in the corners, the most recent version of written guidelines/protocols for delivering ORT corner services was not available in nine ORT corners (43 percent). Eight corners (38 percent) had them available and the protocols were seen by interviewers. One corner reported having the recent protocols but the interviewers did not see them.
Approximately half of ORT corner providers reported receiving a refresher course in diarrhea management (52 percent, n = 11). On average, providers received this training 12 months prior to the survey (range is 3–23 months). However, all but 10 percent indicated needing additional refresher training on diarrhea management. Providers also expressed the need for additional training on diarrhea prevention and control (52 percent, n = 11), communication and counseling (33 percent, n = 7), and diarrhea treatment (33 percent, n = 7).
The majority of the providers (67 percent, n = 14) reported receiving monitoring visits from a supervisor and that these visits took place either monthly (n = 3), quarterly (n = 4), or bi-annually (n = 7). Most of the visits included on-the-job training (n = 7), re-supply of materials (n = 6), assistance with completing registers (n = 6), and providing general support (n = 4). Three of the fourteen who were visited reported receiving a supervision visit report or recommendation. Recommendations included improve reporting of stockouts, keep ORT corners clean, and submit requests for IEC materials.
Status of health facilities and training received by health facility providers
Because ORT corners are located in health facilities and rely on referrals from health facility providers, it is important to understand how the health facilities work with regard to diarrheal disease treatment.
According to interviews with health facility providers and based on the research team’s observations, registers were available in 12 of the 23 health facilities. However, of the 12 registers available, only three provided information on child’s dehydration status, two recorded information on the type of treatment provided and none included information on referrals to the ORT corner. Despite the missing documentation on ORT corner referrals, health facility providers estimated that they refer about 60 percent of children with diarrhea to ORT corners (mean is 57 percent, SD is 41.8, range is 0–100). This statistic could not be verified in this study.
Fewer than half of health facility providers (39 percent, n = 9) reported ever receiving any training in diarrhea management. On average, their training took place 21 months prior to the survey (range is 3–50 months).
Services provided at ORT corners
All ORT corner providers reported providing counseling services to a caregiver of a child with diarrhea in the last month. Group counseling was provided in most cases (62 percent, n = 13), followed by individual counseling (38 percent, n = 8). Between 57 percent to 86 percent of respondents reported always demonstrating ORS preparation; giving ORS packages to caregivers; and explaining how to prepare ORS/SSS, how often to give it to a child, and when to throw it away. However, only four of the respondents reported providing zinc tablets to a child with diarrhea, and fewer than half of the providers (44 percent, n = 7) always explained the dosage and duration of treatment to clients (Table 4). ORT corner providers reported providing the three key messages about home treatment of diarrhea (give more fluid, continue feeding, and danger signs for when to see a service provider immediately) to 70 percent of the caregivers bringing children to the ORT corners.
Table 4 Activities implemented by ORT corner providers (N = 21) as reported by providers
Of the 110 ORT corner users, 81 percent reported that ORT corner providers discussed diarrhea-related issues during their last visit to the ORT corner. Slightly more than one-third of ORT corner users had questions about the management of diarrhea that they wanted to ask service providers during their last visit. In nearly all of those cases (98 percent), users were allowed to ask those questions, and 95 percent received satisfactory responses from the ORT corner provider. The total time ORT corner users spent at the ORT corner varied, but on average was 41 minutes, with half of that time spent waiting to see a provider (mean 20 minutes, range 2–60 minutes, SD = 15.45), and the other half receiving services (mean 21 minutes, range 2–180 minutes, SD = 25). On average, 12 of the 21 minutes were spent talking to a service provider (range 2–60 minutes, SD = 9).
Availability of commodities at ORT corners
Regarding the availability of commodities, 12 of the 21 ORT corner providers reported that ORS packages were available on the day of the survey; and one-third or fewer had salt, sugar and zinc tablets available (Table 5). Providers reported stockouts of all supplies in the last three months, most frequently for zinc tablets, salt and sugar. ORT corner providers also described delays in replacing sugar or salt in the case of stockouts, with some saying it takes up to a week (29 percent, n = 6), a month (24 percent, n = 5), or up to six months (14 percent, n = 3).
Table 5 Availability of commodities at ORT corners as reported by service providers (N = 21)
Findings from ORT corner users reinforce ORT provider findings. Of the 110 ORT corner users, 66 percent reported receiving ORS packages during their last visit to the ORT corner. Half of ORT corner users indicated absence of one or more ORT-related supplies during their last visit at the ORT corners, specifically, no zinc tablets (86 percent), ORS packages (46 percent), salt (25 percent), and sugar (27 percent) at the ORT corners.
Our study suggests that ORT corners play an important role in diarrhea management. The study demonstrates that ORT corner users are more knowledgeable about the amount of liquids and food to give to a sick child, ORS and SSS preparation, danger signs for when to visit a service provider immediately, and ways to prevent diarrhea than ORT corner non-users. Sixty-five percent of ORT corner users in our sample reported offering more liquids to a child with diarrhea compared to only ten percent of caregivers nationally, reported by 2013 DHS [8]. Furthermore, ORT corner users demonstrated having skills for managing diarrhea at home. For example, among ORT corner users who reported their child having diarrhea since their last visit to an ORT corner, the majority gave ORS and SSS (49 percent and 36 percent respectively), and only 15 percent took their children to a health facility. However, despite ORT corner users having better knowledge of key diarrheal prevention messages and danger signs for when to visit a service provider immediately than non-users, the percentage of knowledgeable ORT users is still relatively low. ORT corner and health facility providers in both states need to do more to improve such knowledge. This also stresses the need for more community based health education regarding diarrheal disease.
The study also identified barriers for seeking medical treatment that could be addressed through education and awareness-raising. For example, our sample of ORT corners’ non-users beliefs regarding inevitability of diarrhea, its relation to teething, and not considering it as a life threatening disease deterred them from seeking medical attention. Health communication messages need be developed to correct these misconceptions and encourage their use of health care and ORT corner services.
Our study confirms previous studies’ findings that husbands have a strong influence in health care-seeking behavior of female caregivers [25,26]. Consequently, there is a need to sensitize and train this group regarding the advantages of health services for their children.
This study collected data about policies and procedures at health facilities. Client satisfaction with ORT corner services was high, indicating that staff were friendly and able to answer clients’ questions, and that waiting times were not too long. However, several areas for improvement regarding policies and procedures at ORT corners need to be addressed. These include improving availability of IEC materials, providing supportive supervision, improving registers, keeping and recording more information on services provided by ORT corners, and ensuring availability and adherence to protocols and guidelines for delivering ORT corner services.
The study also looked at issues of availability of materials at ORT corners and stockouts and found that supply of salt, sugar, ORS packages and zinc tablets in both states was insufficient, a situation that needs to be addressed urgently. Overall, ORT corner providers identified a lack of supplies as the major barrier for providing services to the users. Furthermore, with more than half of ORT corner users indicating absence of the ORT-related supplies during their last visit to ORT corners, there is a threat of a decrease in demand for ORT services in the future unless measures are taken immediately to ensure continuous availability of supplies [27].
This study has several limitations. First, though the results of the study may be used to inform interventions in Bauchi and Sokoto states, we need to exercise caution generalizing findings and recommendations to the other states of Nigeria. Also, we were not able to answer some of the research questions because service statistics data in most of ORT corners and health facilities were not available or were incomplete. In the surveys with the ORT corners and health facilities providers as well as with the caregivers, we rely on self-reported data, which may be subject to social desirability bias. We tried to minimize biases by training data collectors on proper survey techniques and ensuring respondents of data confidentiality. Finally, while we examined the issue of access to safe water at ORT corners, we did not focus on environmental issues such as safe water and sanitation in the communities overall. In addition to ensuring effective work of ORT corners, these broader environmental issues would need to be a focus of diarrhea prevention programs [28].
Among study strengths is that the study findings are based on use of surveys with multiple groups of providers and service users as well as review of service statistics. This is the first operations research study to inform future interventions at ORT corners in Bauchi and Sokoto states, Nigeria, and the study findings can inform the design and implementation of ORT corner programs in other settings. Based on this study’s findings, we recommend that ORT corners program planners and implementers train both ORT corner and health facility providers to counsel all caregivers on diarrhea management at home and danger signs for when to visit a service provider immediately; taking steps to ensure all ORT corners have ORS packages, salt, sugar, and zinc tablets in stock and a secured commodity chain to avoid stockout; and ensuring ORT corners and health facilities have adequate policies and procedures in place.
ORT corners play an important role in diarrhea management. ORT corners program planners and implementers need to ensure all ORT corners have a secured commodity supply chain to avoid stockouts, and adequate policies and procedures in place.
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States Look Beyond Incarceration to Rearrest Rates
By Sarah Barr | November 17, 2015
When juvenile justice leaders gathered in Texas earlier this month, policymakers from the Council of State Governments greeted them with some good news and some troubling news.
First, the good news: Between 1997 and 2013, the juvenile justice incarceration rate declined steeply in nearly every state and by 55 percent nationwide, according to federal data.
Not so good: Rearrest rates are high, sometimes reaching 80 percent in certain states, according to the council.
The discrepancy is a signal that as states work to reduce juvenile incarceration rates, officials also should look for ways to improve the lives of youth after they return to their communities, say researchers and policymakers.
States should know whether youth flounder or flourish and use the best policies available to help them succeed, said Josh Weber, the juvenile justice program director at the center.
“At the end of the day, the goal of the juvenile justice system should be to prevent further contact with the system,” he said.
[Related: Most States Still House Some Youth in Adult Prisons, Report Says]
The teams from each state included legislators, judges, juvenile justice agency representatives and other stakeholders interested in the next wave of reforms.
Some states already have plans in place to track and improve youth outcomes. Others are just getting started. But Weber sees interest across the country as states celebrate the drop in incarceration and confront stubborn rearrest rates.
“I think this is a wake-up call for the states,” Weber said.
At the forum, the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention made clear its own interest in youth outcomes.
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Administrator Robert L. Listenbee announced the agency expects to provide funding for states to implement plans to improve youth outcomes. A grant solicitation will be released soon, he said.
“These kinds of plans, this kind of progress, are going to take time. It’s not going to happen in one year. We need to have that baseline so we know whether we’re going forward,” he said.
Listenbee said plans should establish baseline recidivism rates and targets for improvement, align research and practice, and demonstrate support from various levels and branches of government.
Susan Burke, director of juvenile justice services in Utah, said a key lesson for her from the forum was to think comprehensively about youth outcomes.
Recidivism is a critical measure of what happens to youth, but factors such as graduation rates, substance use, peer relationships and job training also matter, she said.
No matter what the states do, Burke said adolescent brain science research should help guide reforms.
“We have to take a development approach to our practices, to our services, to what our idea of what youth delinquency is all about,” she said.
The Council on State Governments will provide technical assistance to states that still are designing plans to improve youth outcomes.
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Dave C on November 21, 2015 at 8:12 am said:
I’m disappointed that the English grammar of my smart phone, which is not so smart, made a mess of my comments above
Yes! Adolescent brain science should inform our public policy and our corrections system search that rehabilitation and restoration are the focus rather than American penchant for punishment.
Yet, our love of retributive justice and tough on crime policies always seem to get in the way of scientific evidence
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My 8th Great-Grandmother – The Witch of Hartford, Connecticut
Posted on July 19, 2012 by lsstuhler
Since my book is based in genealogy, I couldn’t help but tie my English ancestors into the web of insanity and intolerance that occurred during the witch hunts of seventeenth century New England. This is the story of Rebecca Elson-Mudge-Greensmith, my eighth great-grandmother, who was hanged as a witch in 1662 on Gallows Hill in Hartford, Connecticut; and Edward Griswold, my ninth great-grandfather, who was on the jury that convicted and sentenced her to death. What follows are my own personal opinions, a little background information, and the disturbing story of how insanity took over the lives of villagers in one isolated community.
Witch Hanging
Background Information On My English Roots:
Many people are intrigued and fascinated with the Salem Witch Trials that occurred in America between February 1692 and May 1693 but most are not aware of the Connecticut Witch Trials that resulted in the hangings of ten innocent villagers between the years 1647 and 1663. I had no idea about any of this until I started doing genealogy thirteen years ago on the Griswold and Putman families. Jarvis Mudge Putnam (Putman) and Bessie May Griswold were my grandparents, the parents of my mother. With the family name of “Mudge” as Jarvis’s middle name, I knew that my grandfather was connected to this old English family. I was surprised to learn that the progenitor of my Mudge family in America was actually named Jarvis Mudge.
Jarvis Mudge was my eighth great-grandfather who was born in England about the year 1608. He came to America in 1638, landing in Boston, Massachusetts. Jarvis married Rebecca née Unknown at Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1649 and moved to Pequot (New London), Connecticut. Rebecca was married at least three times that we know of: first to Abraham Elsing (Elson, Elsen); second to Jarvis Mudge; and third to Nathaniel Greensmith. Rebecca was the widow of Abraham Elsing and the mother of his three daughters: Sarah, Hannah, and Mariah. Jarvis and Rebecca had two sons: Micah and Moses. Jarvis died in New London, Connecticut, in March of 1653. Rebecca then married Nathaniel Greensmith around 1654. They had no children together. No one is sure of Rebecca’s maiden name but the surname “Steele” has been floated about. She was born in England but the place and date of her birth is unknown. I have estimated that she was in her mid-fifties when she was executed but I certainly could be wrong, she may have been much older. According to Alfred Mudge in his book Memorials, Being A Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account of the Name of Mudge in America from 1638 to 1868, Rebecca was the mother of Micah Mudge (3), son of Jarvis (my line).
It appears that women who were loud, outspoken, or strong willed, without prominent connections in the community were target victims. Abraham and Jarvis, by all accounts, appeared to have been good, upstanding men, while Nathaniel’s reputation is called into question. Perhaps he was abusive to Rebecca? Perhaps he drove her to insanity? Rebecca may have been suffering from depression, dementia or a number of illnesses. She had lost one child in infancy, maybe more, and she lived through the deaths of two husbands. For whatever reason, she was unjustly accused without counsel, and hanged for a crime that she did not commit.
My grandmother, Bessie, was a direct descendant of Edward Griswold. Edward, my ninth great-grandfather, was born in England about the year 1607. He came to America landing at Boston, Massachusetts, about the year 1639 and moved, just as Jarvis did, to Connecticut. He was a prominent man in the community.
The interesting irony of the following story, recounted by John Metcalf Taylor in his book: The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut 1647 – 1697, is that 250 years after the death of Rebecca on April 10, 1912, these two families would forever be connected through the marriage of my grandparents, Jarvis and Bessie.
The line for my grandfather Jarvis is: Jarvis Mudge (married Rebecca unknown)> Micah Mudge> Ebenezer Mudge> Jarvis Mudge> Abigail Mudge (married Pieter Van Buren)> Catalina Van Buren (married James Putnam) > Jarvis Mudge Putman> Richard T. Putman> Jarvis Mudge Putman (Putnam).
The line for my grandmother Bessie is: Edward Griswold> Joseph Griswold> Francis Griswold> Francis Griswold> Francis Griswold> Jehiel Griswold> Aaron Griswold> Aaron H. Griswold> Sylvester Thomas Griswold> Bessie May Griswold (married Jarvis Mudge Putman (Putnam). (SOURCE: The Greswold Family 12 Generations in England by Robert L. and Esther G. French, Compiled by Coralee Griswold, 1999)
Jarvis & Bessie Putnam 4.10.1912
“NATHANIEL AND REBECCA GREENSMITH
Nathaniel Greensmith lived in Hartford, south of the little river, in 1661-62, on a lot of about twenty acres, with a house and barn. He also had other holdings ‘neer Podunk,’ and ‘on ye highway leading to Farmington.’ He was thrifty by divergent and economical methods, since he is credited in the records of the time with stealing a bushel and a half of wheat, of stealing a hoe, and of lying to the court, and of battery.
In one way or another he accumulated quite a property for those days, since the inventory of it filed in the Hartford Probate Office, January 25, 1662, after his execution, carried an appraisal of L137. 14s. 1d. – including ‘2 bibles, a sword, a resthead, and a drachm cup’ – all indicating that Nathaniel judiciously mingled his theology and patriotism, his recreation and refreshment, with his everyday practical affairs and opportunities.
But he made one adventure that was most unprofitable. In an evil hour he took to wife Rebecca, relict of Abraham Elson, and also relict of Jarvis Mudge, and of whom so good a man as the Rev. John Whiting, minister of the First Church in Hartford – afterward first pastor of the Second Church – said that she was ‘a lewd, ignorant and considerably aged woman.’
This triple combination of personal qualities soon elicited the criticism and animosity of the community, and Nathaniel and Rebecca fell under the most fatal of all suspicions of that day, that of being possessed by the evil one. Gossip and rumor about these unpopular neighbors culminated in a formal complaint, and December 30, 1662, at a court held in Hartford, both the Greensmiths were separately indicted in the same formal charge.
‘Nathaniel Greensmith thou art here indicted by the name of Nathaniel Greensmith for not having the fear of God before thine eyes, thou hast entertained familiarity with Satan, the grand enemy of God and mankind – and by his help hast acted things in a preternatural way beyond human abilities in a natural course for which according to the law of God and the established law of this commonwealth thou deservest to die.’
While Rebecca was in prison under suspicion, she was interviewed by two ministers, Revs. Haynes and Whiting, as to the charges of Ann Cole – a next door neighbor – which were written down by them, all of which, and more, she confessed to be true before the court. (Note. Increase Mather regarded this confession as convictive a proof of real witchcraft as most single cases he had known.)
THE MINISTERS’ ACCOUNT –
She forthwith and freely confessed those things to be true, that she (and other persons named in the discourse) had familiarity with the devil. Being asked whether she had made an express covenant with him, she answered she had not, only as she promised to go with him when he called (which she had accordingly done several times). But that the devil told her that at Christmas they would have a merry meeting, and then the covenant should be drawn and subscribed. Thereupon the fore-mentioned Mr. Stone (being then in court) with much weight and earnestness laid forth the exceeding heinousness and hazard of that dreadful sin; and therewith solemnly took notice (upon the occasion given) of the devil’s loving Christmas.
‘A person at the same time present being desired the next day more particularly to enquire of her about her guilt, it was accordingly done, to whom she acknowledged that though when Mr. Haynes began to read she could have torn him in pieces, and was so much resolved as might be to deny her guilt (as she had done before) yet after he had read awhile, she was as if her flesh had been pulled from her bones, (such was her expression,) and so could not deny any longer. She also declared that the devil first appeared to her in the form of a deer or fawn, skipping about her, wherewith she was not much affrighted but by degrees he contrived talk with her; and that their meetings were frequently at such a place, (near her own house;) that some of the company came in one shape and some in another, and one in particular in the shape of a crow came flying to them. Amongst other things she owned that the devil had frequent use of her body.’
Had Rebecca been content with purging her own conscience, she alone would have met the fate she had invoked, and probably deserved; but out of ‘love to her husband’s soul’ she made an accusation against him, which of itself secured his conviction of the same offense, with the same dire penalty.
THE ACCUSATION –
Rebecca Greensmith testifieth in Court Janry 8. 62.
1. ‘That my husband on Friday night last when I came to prison told me that now thou hast confest against thyself let me alone and say nothing of me and I wil be good unto thy children.
2. I doe now testifie that formerly when my husband hathe told me of his great travaile and labour I wondered as it how he did it this he did before I was married and when I was married I asked him how he did it and he answered me he had help yt I knew not of.
3. About three years agoe as I think it; my husband and I were in ye wood several miles from home and were looking for a sow yt we lost and I saw a creature a red creature following my husband and when I came to him I asked him what it was that was with him and he told me it was a fox.
4. Another time when he and I drove or hogs into ye woods beyond ye pound yt was to keep yong cattle severall miles of I went before ye hogs to call them and looking back I saw two creatures like dogs one a little blacker than ye other, they came after my husband pretty close to him and one did seem to me to touch him I asked him wt they were he told me he thought foxes I was stil afraid when I saw anything because I heard soe much of him before I married him.
5. I have seen logs that my husband hath brought home in his cart that I wondered at it that he could get them into ye cart being a man of little body and weake to my apprhension and ye logs were such that I thought two men such as he could not have done it. I speak all this out of love to my husbands soule and it is much against my will that I am now necessitate to speake agaynst my husband, I desire that ye Lord would open his heart to owne and speak ye trueth.
I also testify that I being in ye wood at a meeting there was with me Goody Seager, Goodwife Sanford and Goodwife Ayres; and at another time there was a meeting under a tree in ye green by or house and there was there James Walkely, Peter Grants wife, Goodwife Aires, and Henry Palmers wife of Wethersfield, and Goody Seager, and there we danced, and had a bottle of sack: it was in ye night and something like a catt cald me out to ye meeting, and I was in Mr. Varlett’s orcherd with Mrs. Judith Varlett and shee tould me that shee was much troubled wth ye Marshall Jonath: Gilbert and cried, and shee sayd if it lay in her power shee would doe him a mischief, or what hurt shee could.’
The Greensmiths were convicted and sentenced to suffer death. In January, 1662, they were hung on ‘Gallows Hill,’ on the bluff a little north of where Trinity College now stands – ‘a logical location’ one most learned in the traditions and history of Hartford calls it – ‘as it afforded an excellent view of the execution to a large crowd on the meadows to the west, a hanging being then a popular spectacle and entertainment.” (8:96-100)
“Connecticut can lose nothing in name or fame or honor, if, more than two centuries after the last witch was executed within her borders, the facts as to her share in the strange superstition be certified from the current records of the events.
How may this story best be told? Clearly, so far as may be, in the very words of the actors in those tragic scenes, in the words of the minister and magistrate, the justice and the juryman, the accuser and the accused, and the searcher. Into this court of inquiry come all these personalities to witness the sorrowful march of the victims to the scaffold or to exile, or to acquittal and deliverance with the after life of suspicion and social ostracism.
The spectres of terror did not sit alone at the firesides of the poor and lowly: they stalked in high places, and were known of men and women of the first rank in education and the social virtues, and of greatest influence in church and state. Of this fact there is complete demonstration in a glance at the dignitaries who presided at one of the earliest witchcraft trials–men of notable ancestry, of learning, of achievements, leaders in colonial affairs, whose memories are honored to this day.
These were the magistrates at a session entitled ‘A particular courte in Hartford upon the tryall of John Carrington and his wife 20th Feb., 1662.’ (See Rec. P. C., 2:17): Edw. Hopkins Esqr., Gournor John Haynes Esqr. Deputy, Mr. Wells, Mr. Woolcott, Mr. Webster, Mr. Cullick, Mr. Clarke.
This court had jurisdiction over misdemeanors, and was ‘aided by a jury,’ as a close student of colonial history, the late Sherman W. Adams, quaintly says in one of his historical papers. These were the jurymen:
Mr. Phelps John White John More
Mr. Tailecoat Will Leawis Edw. Griswold
Mr. Hollister Sam Smith Steph Harte
Daniel Milton John Pratt Theo Judd
Before this tribunal – representative of the others doing like service later – made up of the foremost citizens, and of men in the ordinary walks of life, endowed with hard common sense and presumably inspired with a spirit of justice and fair play, came John Carrington and his wife Joan of Wethersfield, against whom the jury brought in a verdict of guilty.
It must be clearly borne in mind that all these men, in this as in all the other witchcraft trials in Connecticut, illustrious or commonplace – as are many of their descendants whose names are written on the rolls of the patriotic societies in these days of ancestral discovery and exploitation – were absolute believers in the powers of Satan and his machinations through witchcraft and the evidence then adduced to prove them, and trained to such credulity by their education and experience, by their theological doctrines, and by the law of the land in Old England, but still clothed upon with that righteousness which as it proved in the end made them skeptical as to certain alleged evidences of guilt, and swift to respond to the calls of reason and of mercy when the appeals were made to their calm judgment and second thought as to the sins of their fellow men.
In no way can the truth be so clearly set forth, the real character of the evidence be so justly appreciated upon which the convictions were had, as from the depositions and the oral testimony of the witnesses themselves. They are lasting memorials to the credulity and superstition, and the religious insanity which clouded the senses of the wisest men for a time, and to the malevolence and satanic ingenuity of the people who, possessed of the devil accused their friends and neighbors of a crime punishable by death.” (5:37-39)
“A Record of the Men and Women Who Came Under Suspicion or Accusation of Witchcraft in Connecticut, and What Befell Them.
Herein are written the names of all persons in anywise involved in the witchcraft delusion in Connecticut, with the consequences to them in indictments, trials, convictions, execution, or in banishment, exile, warnings, reprieves, or acquittals, so far as made known in any tradition, document, public or private record, to this time.” (11:143)
“1662-63 was a notable year in the history of witchcraft in Connecticut. It marked the last execution for the crime within the commonwealth and thirty years before the outbreak at Salem.” (11:150)
“ROLL OF NAMES (Names in Bold Print are those who were hanged).
Alse Young 1647
Mary Johnson 1648
John Carrington 1650-51
Joan Carrington 1650-51
Goody Bassett 1651
Goodwife Knapp 1653
Lydia Gilbert 1654
Elizabeth Godman 1655
Nicholas Bayly 1655
Goodwife Bayly 1655
William Meaker 1657
Elizabeth Garlick 1658
Nicholas Jennings 1661
Margaret Jennings 1661
Nathaniel Greensmith 1662
Rebecca Greensmith 1662
Mary Sanford 1662
Andrew Sanford 1662
Goody Ayres 1662
Katherine Palmer 1662
Judith Varlett 1662
James Walkley 1662
Mary Barnes 1662-63
Elizabeth Seager 1666
Katherine Harrison 1669
Nicholas Disborough 1683
Mary Staplies 1692
Mercy Disborough 1692
Elizabeth Clawson 1692
Mary Harvey 1692
Hannah Harvey 1692
Goody Miller 1692
Hugh Crotia 1693
Winifred Benham Senr. 1697
Winifred Benham Junh. 1697
Sarah Spencer 1724
Unknown Norton 1768
What of those men and women to whom justice in their time was meted out, in this age of reason, of religious enlightenment, liberty, and catholicity, when witchcraft has lost its mystery and power, when intelligence reigns, and the Devil works his will in other devious ways and in a more attractive guise?
They were the victims of delusion, not of dishonor, of a perverted theology fed by moral aberrations, of a fanaticism which never stopped to reason, and halted at no sacrifice to do God’s service; and they were all done to death, or harried into exile, disgrace, or social ostracism, through a mistaken sense of religious duty: but they stand innocent of deep offense and only guilty in the eye of the law written in the Word of God, as interpreted and enforced by the forefathers who wrought their condemnation, and whose religion made witchcraft a heinous sin, and whose law made it a heinous crime.” (2) (11:156-158)
(1) Salem Village Witchcraft Victims’ Memorial At Danvers
(2) Reprinted from The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut 1647 – 1697, John Metcalf Taylor, The Grafton Press Publishers, New York, 1908. (Records Particular Court (2:182); Memorial History Hartford County 1:274); Connecticut Magazine (November 1899, pp. 557-561).
(3) Mudge, Alfred, Memorials: Being A Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Account Of The Name Of MUDGE In America, From 1638 to 1868, Boston, Printed By Alfred Mudge & Son, For The Family, 1868, Pages 27-33.
Connecticut Witch Trials and Posthumous Pardons.
Witches and Witchcraft, The First Person Executed in the Colonies.
On May 9, 1992, the Town of Danvers, Massachusetts, acknowledged and took responsibility for the mistakes of their ancestors by presenting a beautiful granite memorial to the people of the state and the country in honor of the twenty villagers unjustly executed at The Salem Witch Trials which took place between February 1692 and May 1693. “The Memorial serves as a reminder that each generation must confront intolerance and ‘witch hunts’ with integrity, clear vision and courage.” (1) Forty-five years earlier between 1647 and 1663, the settlement at Hartford, Connecticut, also held witch trials that resulted in the hangings of at least ten innocent villagers, one of whom was my eighth great-grandmother, Rebecca Greensmith née Unknown. The Connecticut Witch Trials are dreadful examples of our country’s dark past that shows us how a secluded community made up of a particular group of people, persecuted, labeled, and punished other members of society simply because they didn’t like or understand them. Rev. John Whiting, minister of the First Church in Hartford stated that Rebecca was “a lewd, ignorant and considerably aged woman.” In another place, in another time, would Rebecca, who was unjustly accused without counsel, have been labeled insane? Would she have been a candidate for an insane asylum in 1880 or a nursing home in 2012? Were she and her friends simply dancing and enjoying a bottle of sack? Was it the isolation and strict rules of conformity that drove this community to insanity? I don’t think I would be out of line in suggesting that all the players in this tragic story of indifference were suffering from religious excitement which was listed as a cause of insanity at the Willard State Hospital as late as 1900.
I have read that the state of Connecticut will not grant posthumous pardons or exonerate the people unjustly accused of witchcraft, nor will they officially acknowledge the mistakes of their ancestors. Will New York State lead by example and end the disgrace of anonymous, unmarked graves by releasing the names and burial locations of our ancestors in a unified, digital database available to the public on the internet? Will they allow descendents to obtain the medical records and photographs of their loved one? Will New York remain as blind and indifferent as the state of Connecticut? The Salem and Hartford executions are grim reminders of the fear, ignorance, and intolerance that permeated America’s past, not dissimilar from what happened at long-closed insane asylums. Innocent people were unjustly singled out in shame because they were feared and misunderstood for being different. In both cases, these people were ultimately removed from society and erased from history.
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69 thoughts on “My 8th Great-Grandmother – The Witch of Hartford, Connecticut”
Alice Plouchard Stelzer on July 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM said:
Hi, I found this story about your ancesters very interesting. I am writing a book about the women who helped settle CT. I feel they have never received the credit they deserve for their contributions to the founding of CT. It is a challenge ferretting out their almost nonexistent records. I am focusing on Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield because they were the first towns. The points you make about mental illnesses are well taken. In the Puritan society, anyone who did not conform was suspect. Women were always under scrutiny because it was thought they were so weak it was easy for the devil to take them over.
L.S. Stuhler on July 23, 2012 at 8:16 AM said:
Thanks, Alice. I’m looking forward to reading your book. Keep in touch!
Alice Plouchard stelzer on February 22, 2015 at 11:04 AM said:
Have you ever had a chance to read Female Adventurers: the women who helped colonize Massachusettsand Connecticut?
Sally on April 25, 2017 at 12:46 AM said:
It is wonderful that all of you have done so much research. I have an Aunt during the trials…Name Elizabeth Seager…her cousin and she were convicted twice but released. Her cousins Uncle was Peter Syvastine (spell) New York then was the Govenor of New Holland which we now know is New York…Have you come across her in your research. This is as far as I have gotten so far. Thanks
lsstuhler on April 25, 2017 at 4:48 PM said:
Peter Stuyvesant. I believe the woman you are referring to was Judith Varlett. Not positive though. -Lin
Carrie on September 24, 2012 at 2:48 PM said:
I was thrilled to find this information…. and I wish you luck with your project. I am close friends with the people working on the Pardon/ Proclamation… if you are interested I will give you the leaders email address. I have just about finished a book I’ve been working on for 5yrs as I am related to Mary Barnes (executed) and Mary Andrus Barnes the second wife of Thomas…. Out of respect for your work I will not be putting any lengthy genealogy info on Rebecca Greensmith in my work… however I am doing some genealogy tracking in some of the other families….I would love to chat with you.
L.S. Stuhler on September 24, 2012 at 4:40 PM said:
Dear Carrie, Please add my 8th great-grandmother, Rebecca (Mudge, my line) Greensmith. I mentioned her briefly in the preface of my book, The Inmates Of Willard 1870 to 1900, to make a point and to draw attention to this issue. Please feel free to post any updates! I’m all for it, be my guest! Let me know when your book comes out. Thanks!! Sincerely, Linda Stuhler
Carrie on September 25, 2012 at 12:32 AM said:
I will certainly do so…. it is so sad how so many went to their deaths so misunderstood and so very very obviously being wronged. In the case of Rebecca and Nathaniel though their property was seized and they lost their lives…. the record of the property value was ordered to be tallied but NOT RECORDED… later the young woman accusing Rebecca married the man who bought the Greensmith property… she had known early on that her father coveted Nathaniel’s choice and lush farmland…. the orders to not record were entered by John Cullick and Matthew Allyn (Matthews son Thomas killed by accident Henry Stiles during a trainband exercise and he admitted and was charged in the death… when it was discovered he could not become a freeman or move ahead in the militia… a “story” was concocted about Henry’s housemate Lydia Gilbert (a fore bearer of Noah Webster) and she was hanged for “causing” Stiles death by “witchcraft.” A year after the hanging…. Thomas Allyn was quickly moving up in the militia ranks.
I have made purple and black bows with a silver insignia of the charter oak to bring to mind Rebecca, Nathaniel and the other nine “Murdered” based on the supernatural. In 2003 I was brought before the CT courts and charged with negligent parenting because I could “cast spells” we sued… never got and $$$$ but to date 17 new laws have been passed protecting non main stream religious sects and more so “Wiccans” in raising their families in the earth based culture centuries old…. unfortunately this was the last blow my marriage took as we lost our second child to SIDS… and my own blood relations while “Locked UP” in MH Facilities made the formal complaint that Avonlea was killed by her father…. yes the subject of my next book…
shermangerherd on September 28, 2012 at 7:27 PM said:
I clicked ‘like’ simply because there is no ‘dislike’ button. What sorrow for all involved. Most of the people did not belong there, and probably many from Germany, Ireland, and other countries were down and out, and may not have been able to function is the free’ country.
You don’t like my blog, insane asylums of the 19th century, or the hanging of “witches” during the 17th century?
I like the site. Not the idea of people being treated like that, insane or not.
Sorry, I worded it wrong.
You HAVE DONE A GREAT SERVICE!
Thanks! I’m glad you like it.
M. on March 3, 2013 at 4:08 PM said:
Reblogged this on Ghost Kingdom and commented:
From a particularly well-researched blog comes this fascinating article on how the 17th c. witchcraze struck in Connecticut by a descendant of one of the 10 victims. Time and time again, the accusations were directed at those who threatened the social order. These ‘witches’ tended to be the outspoken, slightly different, maybe more attractive, women in villages everywhere from the New World to the Old World.
lsstuhler on March 3, 2013 at 4:49 PM said:
Jim Fraser on April 28, 2013 at 10:51 PM said:
I found out that I am also a descendant of Rebecca Greensmith, 8 generations back as well. My grandmothers name was Clara Richards and her descendants were Mudge’s. I will have to compare notes with you. We don’t have anything prior to Rebecca – not sure where she came from.
Jim Fraser
lsstuhler on April 29, 2013 at 8:28 AM said:
Her maiden name MAY be Steele. We probably will never know. Thanks, Jim!
Keith on July 5, 2013 at 4:34 AM said:
Wow. I have been researching my grandfather James Ensign and decided to look into Sarah Elson and found information regarding her mother (Rebecca) being a hanged for witchcraft. Thank you for putting all this information together in a concise way. I was wading through what I could find from Increase Mather’s account and other sources and found your site.
What is somewhat ironic, James Ensign’s father Thomas was a noted puritan reformist and James and Sarah are cited as founding members of Hartford’s Second Church of Christ. When William and Goody Ayres fled in 1662, James took their son on as an apprentice cooper.
lsstuhler on July 5, 2013 at 8:46 AM said:
Thanks Keith. So the family name went from Elson/Elsen to Ensign?
Keith on July 5, 2013 at 11:15 AM said:
For Sarah, yes. Sarah Elson was Abraham Elson and Rebecca’s daughter; she married James Ensign. There are records of Sarah being married as Sarah Hills, but I am not sure where this is from. Rebecca’s family is very interesting, her father George was also a founding member of Hartford along with James Ensign. I am so intrigued as to how this is all connected and what really happened.
lsstuhler on July 5, 2013 at 3:26 PM said:
I got it. Was Rebecca’s maiden name “Steele”?
Keith on July 5, 2013 at 5:47 PM said:
Here is here profile on ancestry.com
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/24747257/person/12573308236
Here is a profile of her that is free
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steele-1811
Thanks, Keith. Is this your research?
keithensign on August 30, 2014 at 3:01 PM said:
sorry for the very late reply! yes this is what I was able to dig up.
jared on June 15, 2015 at 1:35 AM said:
@Keith @Isstuhler, there were actually 2 Sarah Elsons. One, probably the aunt of the other, was not he daughter of rebecca but about the same age, born in 1611 and married James Ensign who was born in 1607. She died 1676 and he in 1670. they had children from 1630 to 1649. The other who was the daughter of Abraham and Rebecca was born in 1644 and did not marry James Ensign. For details, see a history of James Ensign and Sarah Elson: http://thompsonbrothersgeneology.com/FamilyHistories/EnsignFamily/Ensign-E3325.pdf
keithensign on June 15, 2015 at 1:01 PM said:
Hi Jared,
Do you have an proof that there are two Sarah Elsons? There are no other ancestors of Sarah’s named Sarah. Please see:
https://inmatesofwillard.com/2012/07/19/my-8th-great-grandmother-the-witch-of-hartford-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-8936
follow the thread from there for more information.
Kris Carr on December 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM said:
We visited the New London Historical Society in 2009. The librarian said I was the first visitor descended from the “the first white man” buried in New London! I later read that the Mudge homestead was adjacent the this cemetery, The Antientist Cemetary. It later occurred to me that during that era, because there were no public cemeteries, people were buried on their property. So my logic tells me that the New London Antientist Cemetery was actually Jarvis’ and Rebecca’s farm. When she married Nathaniel, and they were later executed, Jarvis Mudge’s farm was lost. To whom I do not know. This leads me to believe that there was definitely an economic basis to some of these witch trials. Do you follow? We are descended from Marvis to Hoskins to Child’s …
lsstuhler on December 21, 2013 at 5:00 PM said:
Thanks Kris! Very interesting! Yes, after they were hanged, they definitely took their land but I think that they would have taken the Greensmith property, not Jarvis’s. Do you think that they took Jarvis’s land because he had two sons that would have inheireted it when he died. I really don’t know. Please feel free comment! Did you take any photos? I would love to see them! Thanks so much! -Lin
Alice Plouchard Stelzer on December 22, 2013 at 8:25 AM said:
They did not take Jarvis’s land. In my research writing “Female Adventurers: the women who helped colonize Massachusetts and Connecticut” I found where the sons came back later to claim the land.
Seth Benham on May 3, 2014 at 3:40 AM said:
I am a direct descendant of Joseph and Winifred Benham of Conn.Winifred and her daughter were accused of being witches.Do you have any information on Winifred? Wow,very interesting but very sad also. Thank you…Seth Benham,Iowa
Maria on October 26, 2014 at 1:14 AM said:
Seth I am also, please get back in touch with me so we can look at our family lines on ancestry.
Whitney on February 20, 2015 at 10:31 PM said:
Really very interesting! She was my ninth great grandmother through Sarah Elson’s line.
I do think a lot of people forgot about this, since it’s a story I’ve never heard about. Interestingly, I think some of the jurors and other players ended up having descendants that mixed with the accused’s descendants. I’m tracing numerous New England lines and I keep seeing the same names come up again. The world was a really small place for pre-Revolutionary New England.
keithensign on February 22, 2015 at 2:35 PM said:
what’s really cool is we are all related 🙂
depressedmary on March 11, 2015 at 9:19 PM said:
My 10th ggrandfather, unfortunately, was a member of jury for the trial of Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith and others at that time, John Cowles (Cole) The farmer. Its interesting and sad. He was also the man responsible for taking inventory of their estate… Maybe this is the reason for so much depression and heartache for the Cowles family in general. Maybe we are still paying for those mistakes. I’m sorry we are connected in this way.
David Van Kleeck on June 11, 2015 at 6:44 PM said:
Great blog, and fascinating reading. My own genealogy research suggests there might be at least two other connections between the jury and the convicted witches. In my family line it appears that Edward Griswold had daughter Mary who married William Phelps. William married Abigail Mudge daughter of Micah Mudge in 1706. I appear to be descended from both sides of the decision.
lsstuhler on June 13, 2015 at 12:15 PM said:
Thanks, David! Abigail was the sister of my 6th great-father: Ebenezer Mudge ( wife-Abigail Skinner). How interesting! I never connected those dots!
linda on January 25, 2018 at 6:43 PM said:
There have been several William Phelps. Births 1560,1599 (the Dorchester and Windsor co-founder), his son, the next William was born prior to their immigration on the John and Mary in 1630. This William had a brother Nathaniel who also gave birth to a son named William in 1657. It is also possible that William had a son whom he named William. My line is through Nathaniel Phelps which makes me the 12th g granddaughter of the William Phelps who was on the jury of the Greenfield trial. Also the Alys Young trial. He was the foreman of the first grand jury in the colonies, a magistrate and as horrible as we now know this situation to be, these religious/magical beliefs were ingrained in the Puritans. I am not proud of the “Connecticut witchcraft delusion”, but I am very proud of William’s contributions to the founding of this country.
Patsy Douglas on September 23, 2015 at 10:08 AM said:
Hello, my name is Patsy J. Douglas, I am related to the Griswold’s and the Mudge’s via my Grandfather side of the family. I have been working on the family tree for a while but all this information is just so interesting to me, thought is was great that my Grandmother’s side of the family was full of historic information but this is even better, I love it all, I’m a very big history buff if any one can give me more information I would greatly appreciate it. Please feel free to contact me at patsydouglas8@gmail.com or on Facebook Patsy Douglas
lsstuhler on September 24, 2015 at 8:40 AM said:
What is your grandfather’s name and where is the Griswold/Mudge connection?
Shannon on November 8, 2015 at 12:08 PM said:
Hello. I have come across your site while tracing back my family history. I learned this morning that I am a direct decendent of Rebecca Greensmith. Her daughter, Sarah Elson from her first marriage is my ancestor. What an amazing and tragic story. Thank you for your work in recording this information for those of us seeking to know our history.
lsstuhler on November 15, 2015 at 8:34 PM said:
Thank You, Shannon! No one ever talks about the Hartford Witch Trials. My line is through Jarvis Mudge. Thanks for writing! -Lin
Shannon Timmons on November 8, 2015 at 12:13 PM said:
Hello. Thank you for compiling this fascinating and tragic story.
In researching my own geneiology, I discovered this morning that I am a direct descendent of Rebecca Greensmith. Her daughter Sarah Elson married Ensign, and I am in that line (my maiden name is Ellis).
keithensign on November 12, 2015 at 8:34 PM said:
Hi Shannon, I am direct descendent of James Ensign and Sarah. The whole episode with Rebecca was horrible and the family seemed to try and keep ties to her out of the public record. I have a post on their page that lists quite a bit of history regarding what happened. Hopefully that is of some use to you.
Lonnie Chu on August 28, 2016 at 7:04 PM said:
My maiden name is Mudge and I am a direct descendant of Micah Mudge, son of Jarvis Mudge and Rebecca Mudge Greensmith. My son went to the Culinary Institute of America. His best friend was a young man by the name of Webster who is a direct descendant of the “Mr. Webster” who was one of the magistrates at the trial.
Thank you so much for this excellent article about Rebecca, the best I have ever seen. I’ll be sending it to my family.
lsstuhler on August 29, 2016 at 10:01 AM said:
Thank you, Lonnie! Great story! I am from the same line as you. -Lin
Esther Newman on October 10, 2016 at 7:24 PM said:
Hello, Katherine Harrison was my 9th ggm. No clue what her maiden name was, she was married to John Harrison – some thought she was the daughter of Lydia Gilbert. Her daughter, Sarah who m. Matthias Harvey was my line.
genealogyfun on November 13, 2016 at 6:38 PM said:
Rebecca is my 9th great grandmother (Rebecca/Micah Mudge, Ebenezer, Micah, Elijah, Evert/Edward, Stephen, Sarah, Harry, Jack, Mom, me!). Thanks for sharing this.
Stormy Peterson on December 14, 2016 at 11:06 AM said:
Hello Cousin(s)! This is wild … I have a Rebecca (7th great-grandmother) / Edward (10th great-grandfather) connection in my line as well but on slightly different offshoots. My lines are:
Rebecca -even though unproven I go with- Steele (married Jarvis Mudge) > Micah Mudge (married Mary Alexander) > Martha Mudge (married Jesse J. Braman) > Jesse D. Braman (married Nancy Ward) > Jonathan W. Braman.
Edward Griswold (married Margaret Diamond) > Deborah Griswold (married Samuel Buell) > John Buell (married Mary Loomis) > Lois Buell (married Supply Strong) > Rachel Strong (married Samuel Beach) > Nancy Beach (married Jonathan Ward) > Nancy Ward (married Jesse D. Braman) > Jonathan W. Braman.
Nancy Ward & Reverend Jesse David Braman married 1802 in Coeymans, New York, 139 years after Rebecca’s execution.
lsstuhler on December 14, 2016 at 11:27 AM said:
Danielle on December 28, 2016 at 8:31 PM said:
Hi! I ran across you post while doing research on my family history. Rebecca Greensmith is my 11th great aunt, and her maiden name is Steele. Her brother, John Steele, is my 10th great-grandpa. Awesome research!
Thanks, Danielle! I always thought it was Steele just never had positive proof. Thanks so much!! -Lin
Stormy Peterson on January 14, 2017 at 10:42 PM said:
Wow, that’s awesome! Do you happen to know who their parents were?
This is all so fascinating! I am a descendant of Rebecca as well. Rebecca, Micah, Ebenezer, Joseph, Aaron, Sarah “Sallie”, CHauncy Akin, Carlton Akin, William Akin, Ina Akin Christy, Albert Christy and me. I have just been dabbbling in genealogy and found your article. Thanks!
Lori Lovelady on March 16, 2017 at 2:32 AM said:
Mary barnes who I believe was in trial the same time as the greensmith is my 10th grandmother. Just now starting to research. Enjoyed your writing
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Lisa Blackwell on July 29, 2017 at 1:44 PM said:
Rebecca Steele was my 13th great grandmother. Was so surprised to find she was hung as a witch
Renee on September 8, 2017 at 5:36 PM said:
John and Joan Carrington are my 10x great grandparents. Of the research I have done nothing lists the reasons for trial or conviction, yet they were hanged. I was wondering if you had any further information in that regard.
Anonymous on September 18, 2017 at 12:19 PM said:
Abigail Mudge, the daughter of Micah and granddaughter of Rebecca, married William Phelps on 7 December 1699. William was the son of Timothy Phelps and Mary Griswold. Timothy was the son William Phelps who is always referred to as “Mr Phelps” in the records. Mary Griswold was the daughter Edward Griswold. Thus, only 32 years after the hanging, there was a connection to both Edward Griswold and Mr. Phelps. Abigail Mudge died in 1705 just a few days after the birth of her son Ebenezer. William married Ruth Barber one year later. She was a descendant of Deacon John More, another juryman.
I am descended from Timothy Phelps’ second wife, Ruth Barber. Thus, I am a direct descendant of three of the Jurymen named in the article, but not a descendant of Rebecca. She is the paternal grandmother of the wife of my 6th great-grandfather.
Hi Cousin! In my records, Timothy was the brother of my direct forebear, Nathaniel. One of these days, I will have this all sorted. Somewhere, the Griswolds married in. “Mr.” was not used commonly. It was used in conjunction with the surname when addressing gentry or prosperous middle-class persons. Please excuse my mistake earlier when I wrote of Rebecca as “Greenfield” and not Greensmith.
Dan Phelps on October 10, 2017 at 9:06 AM said:
Edward Griswold was a G G/F of mine in the 1600’s. Edward’s daughter was Mary Griswold (1644-1715) who married my Paternal G G/F Timothy Phelps (1639-1719). Timothy’s Father was William Phelps (1593-1672) who was a Magistrate for the General Courts. Having just uncovered Connecticuts involvement in the Witch Trails, I wonder if William played any part. As mentioned above Mathew Grant was on one of the trails. I believe Ulysses S. Grant to be a descendent of this same Mathew Grant. I know that William Phelps & Mathew Grant arrived in America together in May of 1630 on the Ship Mary & John, (meaning the odds are, William & Mathew must have known each other given there were only 144 on board the ship) I’d be very interested in learning more about and trails and the Courts connection. I wonder if William sentenced people to death for witchcraft or if he had anything to do with the making of Laws concerning witchcraft.
Thank You;
Dan Phelps Madrp88@aol.com
Deanna Edmondson on January 15, 2018 at 11:01 AM said:
I just found that Katherine Palmer was my 9th great grandmother on my grandfathers side Bernice Jones through the DeWolf and the Huntley’s, Gulledge family line. It added to our family stories that I found during my searches.
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Dave K on June 16, 2018 at 3:35 PM said:
It’s been a few years since I became aware of the terrible story of Rebecca Greensmith, and I came across it because of her connection with Jarvis Mudge, who appears to be an ancestor of mine. I call Rebecca a step-ancestor, because I believe the materials I reviewed at the time I worked on my Mudge ancestry suggested our Mudge line came from an earlier marriage of Jarvis Mudge, before Rebecca. I would like to revisit some day. Still, Jarvis, as I remember, was executed along with Rebecca. Their sons, I believe, went to live with a Mudge aunt and uncle. … Dave K
Becky Chabot on July 4, 2018 at 7:08 AM said:
Being a descendant of John and Joan Carrington (my 8th great grandparents) it makes my heart sing that there are others out there that want to understand what happened & share what they find out. Eternally grateful to you for bringing this information to light.
Kayla on July 16, 2018 at 10:46 AM said:
Hi I might be related to you , Rebecca was my 11th times great grandmother. I am also related to the mudges as well
Alli on September 12, 2018 at 6:21 PM said:
My great great grandmother is Abigail Mudge and when I traced her back on Ancestry.com, I had found out I too am related to Rebecca.
Lisa Barnes on November 8, 2018 at 3:09 PM said:
I just finished research and found out I’m related to Mary Barnes the last witch hung in Connecticut
Suzie on November 26, 2018 at 5:34 PM said:
I am descended from Andrew and Mary Sanford (9x gr-grandparents). They were both tried for witchcraft but only Mary was convicted and presumably hung. There are conflicting stories about her execution though. Some say she disappeared and was never found again. Speculation was that when Andrew relocated to Milford, he reunited with Mary (the unknown 2nd wife) and they resumed their marriage. Others confirm the hanging in 1662. I’d love to learn what really happened. There is no record of Mary’s maiden name either.
Anonymous on July 27, 2019 at 9:43 PM said:
My 10th great-grandmother was Katherine Harrison.
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InsideUSC with Scott Wolf
Inside USC
If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
Fitzgerald could have said the same thing about USC. There is an elitist strain that plagues the university and surfaced (again) this week.
You have Pat Haden drawing the interest of federal prosecutors in the College Admissions scandal, which reminds all of us how much damage he did to USC athletics.
Board of Trustee member Mark Stevens shoved Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, which reminds how often the board has embarrassed the university.
Lurking in the background this week is Lynn Swann, who won’t sign autographs unless he gets paid and never misses a chance to visit a golf course while supervising the first season in USC history where football, basketball and baseball had losing records.
These people have something in common besides being USC graduates: They think they can follow their own rules.
Why not? Haden made almost $3 million a year at USC. Swann is believed to make $3-4 million. Stevens is worth $2.3 billion and probably had Max Nikias whispering in his ear that he was a genius every time he set foot on campus.
You know why USC has more trustees than other universities? Because it is how they reward billionaires for donating to the university.
Long gone is the example of Rod Dedeaux, who coached for $1 a year because he owned DART enterprises in Commerce and didn’t need USC to pay him.
Haden also didn’t need the money when he was appointed athletic director but turned the athletic dept. into an elitist institution that increased his wealth.
One time I asked J.K. McKay why Haden always dressed like someone who was at a country club with his gaudy green or red pants and green shoes?
“I tell him, `Pat, what are you doing? You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Covina,’ ” McKay said.
Those days are long gone.
“I’ve had a lot of fortunate things happen to me in my life,” Haden said in a 1979 New York Times story. “I’ve thought about them a lot. Everything always seems to fall in place for me.”
I doubt Haden feels the same way now after his carefully cultivated, Oxford-educated reputation was permanently tarnished by bad coaching hires and controversy involving his foundation. Imagine the damage he did to football by keeping Lane Kiffin too long, hiring Steve Sarkisian and promoting Clay Helton.
Recovery remains a long way off.
USC is supposed to interview Andrew Checketts (UC Santa Barbara) and Eric Valenzuela (St. Mary’s) today in its seach for a baseball coach. USC assistant coaches Gabe Alvarez and Matt Curtis received courtesy interviews, I am told. Jason Gill (Loyola Marymount) and Rich Hill (San Diego) are also candidates.
However, at this point, Andy Stankiewicz of Grand Canyon, who interviewed Thursday, appears to be the frontrunner. You might notice nearly every coach is from a private school. USC would like someone who has experience with the unique issues scholarship limitations provide a private school in baseball.
If I had to rank the candidates in terms of how USC views them, here are the top 3: 1. Stankiewicz; 2. Checketts; 3. Valenzuela.
And now let’s return to Julie’s restaurant for another story from the John McKay era.
This week a regular visitor who knew McKay told me that in the 1960’s, there was a night when a sports writer came in with poppers.
What are poppers? They are also referred to as amyl nitrate and are a liquid drug that provides an instant high when inhaled.
“You had McKay at his booth with (USC president Norman Topping) and then at the other surrounding tables everyone was doing poppers,” the regular visitor told me. “They had no idea what we were doing.”
Remember, it was the 1960’s.
Chris Steele might have set a record by committing to UCLA, USC, Florida, Oregon and then USC again. But he gets competition from wide receiver Jordan Payton, who committed to USC, Cal, Washington and signed with UCLA in 2012.
USC and Arkansas will go head-to-head for the NCAA women’s track title this weekend in Austin, Texas. The weather could play a factor as it will be in the high 90’s Friday and Saturday.
Next week I will finally reveal an inside story behind the infamous Lynn Swann-George Atkinson hit in 1976.
And finally . . . here is the headline at the top of the June 7, 1944 Daily Trojan
scott wolf June 7, 2019 June 7, 2019 featured
39 thoughts on “If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column”
Omarstringer says:
Good stuff. And you managed to not pick on an 18 year old QB. Nicely done.
rusoviet says:
Not sure about how that ‘tri-school’ race ended ‘but’ that same headline per the ‘allies’ and Caen was still the same until the 6th August – Montgomery.
Tebow_Obama says:
What, now you clowns are holding back birthdays for J.T. “5 Wins 6 Losses” Daniels?
Go women’s track and field!!!!!
steve B. says:
The hitting Coach from TCU should be the 1st choice for baseball.
UCSB eliminated early in playoffs, and a public university. Morgan
Ensberg would be ideal if really interested. Played on the good teams
during the good years who stole home in CWS in 1998 title run.
stretchdogg says:
Too appropriate not to send.
Linkster says:
Haden’s coaching hire mistakes are dwarfed by his involvement in the charity scam that he pulled off for himself and family. No ethics, no integrity, should be in the slammer for that move. Yep, Dedeaux coached for one dollar a year! He had more integrity and honesty in his little toe than Haden had in his whole body. They don’t make em like Dedeaux anymore, not to mention 12 NCAA titles.
trojan1967 says:
Two thumbs up!
Steve Busby (look him up if unfamiliar) said it was huge step down to play in the minor leagues after playing for Dedeaux…
Michael Link says:
I played with Steve Busby. He was great! Two no hitters in the bigs and was the color TV guy in Kansas City for years. Dedeaux could have coached the Dodgers after Walter Alston retired in about 1968 I think. He was the best situational baseball strategist I ever saw. Never made a mistake about what to do in any circumstance. Only thing I could fault was his talent assessment, after all, I did not play near enough. LMAO.
**** previous typing deleted! Ok, will try again – That’s an awesome account…as a young, aspiring, not good enough (for beyond JC-ball) pitcher, “Buzz” was my first idol…got to see him in 1975 just before his arm injuries derailed what looked like a HOF career in the making…he beat Jim Palmer and the Orioles and Vida Blue and the A’s…don’t have your insight obviously into how those 12 titles were earned, but pretty clear that, other than his not evaluating you correctly! he knew his business…also brought to mind this week by the faux media-manufactured “controversy” over Brady’s supposed claim to the “Tom Terrific” moniker…
James – Busby was a freshman when I was a Junior I believe. He had a great fastball and great over hand curve ball. At that time, he was just wild enough to make you not want to dig in as a batter. Also, at the same time, Dave Kingman came to USC as a pitcher. He threw BB’s but could not get ball anywhere near the plate. Dedeaux turned him into a hitter and the rest is history. I think Kingman hit over 300 home runs in the bigs. Don’t follow Tom Brady so I can’t comment on his remarks this week.
Quick question if permissible: Did he throw with what was later termed “corkscrew” (3/4 arm slot delivered slightly across body – common with lefties at one time) mechanics when you were teammates? I had a coach who asserted that was maybe what contributed to his arm miseries…
Yes, “Kong” hit a ton of homers (up to his final years in Oakland just prior to the Mac/Can/Stew mini-dynasty) – and they usually were sky high bombs as I recall…
Your description of Busby accords with what I remember and have read – in 1973, his first full MLB season, he was on the verge of being sent back down to the minors due to wildness (he walked like 125 batters in 260 innings, a high ratio in any era) when he threw the first no-hitter against Detroit (defending AL West champs managed by Billy Martin) and got on track…he was a hard thrower and supposedly had the best slider in MLB (along with Steve Carlton from the Southpaw side)…after losing the A’s just prior to the Catfish/Reggie teams reaching fruition in Oakland, Buzz was what KC had to live on until Whitey Herzog and the rest reached the post-season…many of the now “old timers” in KC still imagine how many World Series banners might have been waving over Royals Stadium if Busby would have stayed healthy…
James – if my memory serves me correctly, Busby did not throw with a “corkscrew” delivery in @ 1968. As I mentioned, he was a freshman and continued through to his senior year I believe at USC. He had a straight overhand 3/4 delivery and his breaking ball (curve in those days) broke straight down. That curve may have evolved in to a slider by the time he got to the big leagues. There are so many stories of pitchers going down with bad arms. There was a pitcher at USC at this same time by the name of Mike Adamson. He had the best stuff of anyone I saw at USC including Tom Seaver, Jim Barr, Brent Strom, Tom House and Busby. He threw so hard his arm blew up at the elbow after one year in the majors. What a talent he was!
Yes, so many great pitchers of that era had careers ended, or altered, by arm injuries that are now all but routinely corrected with surgery, rehab, coaching (mechanics adjustments), and better practices (rest, training, stretching, long tossing)…Busby, Gary Nolan of the Reds, Frank Tanana of the Halos, Steve Rogers of Expos, Mike Norris of the A’s, et al…that’s interesting and appreciated insight on not only Busby but Mike Adamson (was unaware of him, but have heard similar stories about others)…that’s an amazing assortment of talent you got to be around or see up close! I was up close to a couple of big leaguers at my JC, and it always makes for good story-telling to relate recollections about them to those who are interested…none were on par with Seaver, but we did have Joe Carter (not a team member, but already an up and coming star by then with Cleveland I believe) show up to a practice during the winter one day…
Yes incredible talent on USC baseball at that time. I also forgot Bill Lee who pitched at that time and went on to a great career with the Boston Red Sox in the 70’s. Actually, it was really the “golden” years for USC athletics as well. Great football and baseball teams winning national championships, but also, great track, tennis, and golf teams as well. Even basketball was good but was dwarfed by the Wooden/Gilbert teams of ucla. Before Title IX but don’t get me started on that.
Bill Lee! Just read a story (actually a reprint of an interview conducted in ’78 – the year of the Sox collapse to the Yanks and his exile and subsequent sale north of the border) about him – apparently, to put it mildly, quite the character! Great point about a glorious period (as opposed to now, alas) – for instance, to think that Stan Smith, Jimbo, and Mac, were at USC, UCLA, and Stanford within a decade…
gotroy22 says:
Do you have any Dave Kingman stories? I heard he was quite a character.
I’d enjoy that as well…a lot of what was circulated was one-sided (reminiscent of what some contemporaries say of Dick Allen…or, in boxing MG, about Sonny Liston)…would love to hear from someone without the biases…
At USC, he was a freshman and I was a junior if I remember correctly so he played on the freshman team then. We had intrasquad games and he came up to bat and hit a home run off me to left center that is still going. He had a big uppercut swing which either resulted in a swing and miss or a homerun. The ball he hit off of me had to be at least 475 feet long and a hundred feet in the air. Massive hit. No real stories at USC but I ran in to him later in the 70’s in a bar at a Houston hotel. I was working for Black & Decker at the time and he was a tool enthusiast, liked to do DIY projects. I arranged for about every tool B&D made to be sent to him. Lived at that time in the Lake Tahoe area. Nice man.
Michael-excellent story…love the fact that he was a DIYer type…and above I mentioned that I recall that what you experienced was the memory many MLB pitchers have…I seem to recall his “This Week in Baseball” highlights depicted “moonshot” HRs…
Michael Guarino says:
James –Astute remark about Sonny Liston —who was portrayed in the press as a bully. I will always remember a handwritten note (reprinted in Ring Magazine a long time ago) that Sonny wrote to a kid who expressed his sorrow over Sonny’s knockout loss to Leotis Martin: “I fought the best I could —stuff happens in fights. But don’t worry, I’m fine. Lots of guys better than me got knocked out in their careers. I’ll try to win the next one for you.” You could tell 2 things about Sonny from that note —(1) he wasn’t used to writing notes (every sentence was in a different size script—which made the note that much more touching) and (2) Sonny sincerely wanted to assure this kid not to worry, he would keep on trying.
MG-superb story and exactly what I was getting at – I had read a similar story about Sonny around 1980 (in SI’s heyday and a time when shall we say journalism was exiting a better age) where the author was, and nowadays character rehabilitation is so pervasive in the faux media that it’s difficult not to be jaundiced, attempting to humanize Liston to a public that only saw him as a thug (by among other things talking about how his resting place proximate to McCarron International is tragically appropriate given how he was the classic case of a boxer who was hooked through indebtedness into becoming the tool of criminal forces)…
James —I think a lot of us were so happy when Ali defied the odds and beat him that we forgot that Liston was a person…..
Same thing happened to Foreman for a while…
#….ButHeStuckAroundLongEnoughToWinEverybodyOver….
MG – yes…modern George came out of a process that as I recall was initiated by (was it CBS and 60 Minutes?) the media in the mid to late ’80s picking up on the fact that he was going to attempt a comeback after a period of having been a preacher for a time (I believe he said that resulted from his having had visions during his brutal fight with Jimmy Ellis) – that was were the world learned he named all of his children George! – and that he was eating nothing but chicken to lose weight (hence “Chicken George” and later the idea for the grill) since he had crested over 300 lbs at one point…but it did ultimately aid in humanizing him as well, as you adroitly noted…
James — I remember the fight that caused the “visions.” Jimmy Young I think —a very tough & smart (horrible combination to face) Philadelphia fighter. Much later, it was a gentle & protective George Foreman who came between an angry Joe Frazier and a ill Muhammad Ali at a reunion dinner. At the dinner itself, Joe asked the waiter if they had any of that “green stuff” to go on his lamb. The waiter, in the most condescending tones possible, asked “Sir, could possibly be referring to mint jelly?” George cut him off and said “If you know what he’s talking about, go get it!”
I saw Ali a couple of times—the last time he was coming out of Mayor Tom Bradley’s office with Veronica Porsche. Everyone was trying to get close and shake his hand —except for me who loved him most.
04Trojan says:
Yeah, that’s great and all, but has Flow deleted any comments yet this morning?
Special K says:
“`Pat, what are you doing? You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Covina,’ ” McKay said”
People who come from poverty tend to go to gaudy extremes if they obtain wealth. It’s called being a Parvenu, an Arriviste, or a Vulgarian.
marvienna says:
I honestly don’t mind USC being elitist or arrogant.
I just don’t want them fu***** up and embarrassing the university.
#EdOrgeronWasTooDownAndDirtyToBePatHaden’sElitistFootballCoachAndItWasOneofHaden’sBiggestMistakes
buddhakarma says:
SC will hire the cheapest baseball coach they can find and when did UCSB become a private institution ?
Charlie Bucket says:
virtuoso performance wolfman, you are in playoff form, and is isn’t even pre-season!!!
can’t WAIT for the long awaited back story on the Stealers taking turns putting Swannie on queeer street!!!!
#KnockOut
Allo tapette
Pretty Patrick says:
Pat Haden, the ultimate hypocrite! Pretty Pat has always been a champion of political correctness. He feigns being for the little guy in front of the crowd. But behind the crowd, he champions the unethically sucks money away from people and organizations! Typical leftist hypocrite, saying one thing while doing the exact opposite.
Remember when he led the USC Boycott of Indiana? What a grandstanding hypocrite.
Remember when Pat Haden’s affaire d’amour with roommate J.K. McKay was swept under the rug when they played for the Trojans?
For those if you that say no…well, it was.
For those “of you”…my bad.
You were always hoping to be the peckerwood’s punk huh?
Smacky says:
Y’all all old as all get out and you’ve figured out how to post on this moderately intuitive web site. I’m kind of impressed in all truth.
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why idea 11.3 mac is different from windows Follow
zhong lun
File->Settings disappeard, and the whole setting (becomes project stucutre, etc.) is different?
It is such excellent tool, please do not do stupid thing.
Michael Parmeley
What version had you been using? The splitting of Project Structure from Settings happened about 4 version ago. (IntelliJ 8 maybe?).
I have never been a fan of the change and keep hoping they will change it back:-)
Mark Vedder
For a Mac, settings are under IntelliJ IDEA | Preferences. From my understanding, it is a standard UI convention on the Mac for an application's settings to be in the menu under ApplicationName | Preferences (although I am not a Mac person). I believe that is why the settings dialog was moved there; to conform to Apple standards.
As Michael mentioned, some settings were broken out to the project structure dialog a while back. I believe it was even sooner than he mentions. I think it was in version 5 or 6 that that was done. But its menu location is consistent on the Mac and Windows (AFAIK).
Charles Wise
"From my understanding, it is a standard UI convention on the Mac for an application's settings to be in the menu under ApplicationName | Preferences (although I am not a Mac person)."
You are correct. It's a standard location and also a standard key chord (command-comma). Fire up 20 random Mac apps and you'll find preferences in the same location using the same key chord in virtually all of them. The exceptions are apps that aren't native and apps with a pedigree that predates OS/X.
It's not clear if the original posters complaint is the menu location or the functional split. If it's the menu location, then you have no leg to stand on. JetBrains is conforming to the standards of the platform. If you don't like what JetBrains has done, you are a party of one - the rest of us are quite happy to have IntelliJ follow the standards of the platform. Just like it uses command-C to copy and not control-C.
If you're unhappy with the removal of project structure from the settings (as noted this happened a very long time ago) then it's a much more grey area. It's grey specifically because IntelliJ settings are an unholy mix of application settings, plugin settings and project settings. Some settings are independent of project, some are defaults for projects, some are overriding settings and some are project-specific. Then, of course, they pulled project structure out into it's own dialog.
Honestly I wish the Preferences would be application-wide/non-project specific only. Then they could have a separate dialog for project defaults and project-specific settings. Personally, I think project structure should remain a separate dialog. The goal should be simplification and clarity, not to shove everything back into one over-arching dialog.
I would actually be ok with the change if it was consistent. The IDE Settings dialog has project settings in it and I don't understand why. IMHO, they should be in Project Structure with the rest of project settings.
Right, that's what I was saying about project settings. There seem to be three different "classes" of items in that dialog: 1. Application settings, e.g., Notifications, 2. Project default settings, and 3. Project specific settings. An example of 2 and 3 is code style/coloring. And yes, I agree with you that the top section of the dialog (Project Settings) should be moved elsewhere. The long and the short of it is that the application settings are mostly set when you first start using the tool but the project settings are used much more often.
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Inner Ear Proteins as Potential Biomarkers
01-02-2020 – Mulry, Erin; Parham, Kourosh
Objective: The purpose of this manuscript is to identify proteins exclusive to the inner ear based on published research to identify potential candidate biomarkers and guide future inner ear research.
Data Sources: Literature on inner ear proteins published on Pubmed, Google Scholar, and Scopus was reviewed using key words such as “inner ear molecule,” “inner ear exclusive protein,” and several specific protein searches such as “prestin” based on findings from the initial searches.
Study Selections: Studies were selected for abstract review based on title relevance, and full text was chosen for review based on abstract relevance. Several related studies cited in initially reviewed literature were also chosen to compile more detailed information on specific molecules with the goal of at least two to three published articles for each protein.
Data Extraction & Synthesis: Proteins that were cited to have only been found within the inner ear were included in this review, including some proteins that were later identified outside the inner ear. Information regarding their size, location, function, and clinical significance was recorded.
Conclusions: Based on this literature search, eight proteins exclusive to the inner ear were identified including otolin-1, otoconin 90/95, prestin, otoancorin, otogelin, α-tectorin, β-tectorin, and cochlin. Proteins initially found to be exclusive to the inner ear though later identified outside of the inner ear included oncomodulin, otospiralin, and otoraplin. This literature review may serve as a focused guide for future research on proteins exclusive to the inner ear as potential biomarkers for diseases of the inner ear.
Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Cognitive and/or Behavioral Therapies (CBT) for Tinnitus
01-02-2020 – Landry, Evie C.; Sandoval, Xochitl Citlalli Romo; Simeone, Calla N.; Tidball, Glynnis; Lea, Jane; Westerberg, Brian D.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive and/or behavioral therapies in improving health-related quality of life (HRQOL), depression, and anxiety associated with tinnitus.
Data Sources: EMBASE, MEDLINE, PubMed, Psyc
INFO, and the Cochrane Registry were used to identify English studies from database inception until February 2018.
Study Selection: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing cognitive and/or behavioral therapies to one another or to waitlist controls for the treatment of tinnitus were included.
Data Extraction: Quality and risk were assessed using GRADE and Cochranes Risk of Bias tool respectively.
Data Synthesis: Pairwise meta-analysis (12 RCTs: 1,144 patients) compared psychological interventions to waitlist controls. Outcomes were measured using standardized mean differences (SMDs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). I2 and subgroup analyses were used to assess heterogeneity. Network meta-analysis (NMA) (19 RCTS: 1,543 patients) compared psychological therapies head-to-head. Treatment effects were presented by network diagrams, interval plots, and ranking diagrams indicating SMDs with 95% CI. Direct and indirect results were further assessed by inconsistency plots.
Conclusions: Results are consistent with previously published guidelines indicating that CBT is an effective therapy for tinnitus. While guided self-administered forms of CBT had larger effect sizes (SMD: 3.44; 95% CI: −0.022, 7.09; I2: 99%) on tinnitus HRQOL, only face-to-face CBT was shown to make statistically significant improvements (SMD: 0.75; 95% CI: 0.53, 0.97; I2: 0%). Guided self-administered CBT had the highest likelihood of being ranked first in improving tinnitus HRQOL (75%), depression (83%), and anxiety (87%), though statistically insignificant. This NMA is the first of its kind in this therapeutic area and provides new insights on the effects of different forms of cognitive and/or behavioral therapies for tinnitus.
Genetic Epidemiology of Hearing Loss in the 22 Arab Countries: A Systematic Review
01-02-2020 – Sidenna, Mariem; Fadl, Tasnim; Zayed, Hatem
Background: Hearing loss (HL) is a heterogeneous condition that causes partial or complete hearing impairment. Hundreds of variants in more than 60 genes have been reported to be associated with Hereditary HL (HHL). The HHL prevalence is thought to be high in the Arab population; however, the genetic epidemiology of HHL among Arab populations is understudied. This study aimed to systematically analyze the genetic epidemiology of HHL in Arab countries.
Methods: We searched four literature databases (PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, and Web of Science) from the time of inception until January 2019 using broad search terms to capture all the reported epidemiological and genetic data related to Arab patients with HHL.
Findings: A total of 2,600 citations were obtained; 96 studies met our inclusion criteria. Our search strategy yielded 121,276 individuals who were tested for HL over 52 years (1966–2018), of whom 8,099 were clinically diagnosed with HL and belonged to 16 Arab countries. A total of 5,394 patients and 61 families with HHL were genotyped, of whom 336 patients and 6 families carried 104 variants in 44 genes and were from 17/22 Arab countries. Of these variants, 72 (in 41 genes) were distinctive to Arab patients. Arab patients manifested distinctive clinical phenotypes. The incidence of HHL in the captured studies ranged from 1.20 to 18 per 1,000 births per year, and the prevalence was the highest in Iraq (76.3%) and the lowest in Jordan (1.5%).
Interpretation: This is the first systematic review to capture the prevalence and spectrum of variants associated with HHL in an Arab population. There appears to be a distinctive clinical picture for Arab patients with HHL, and the range and distribution of variants among Arab patients differ from those noted in other affected ethnic groups.
Spatial Hearing as a Function of Presentation Level in Moderate-to-Severe Unilateral Conductive Hearing Loss
01-02-2020 – Thompson, Nicholas J.; Kane, Stacey L. G.; Corbin, Nicole E.; Canfarotta, Michael W.; Buss, Emily
Hypothesis: Patients with moderate-to-severe unilateral conductive hearing loss (UCHL) can make use of binaural difference cues when stimuli are presented at a high enough intensity to provide audibility in the affected ear.
Background: Spatial hearing is essential for listening in complex environments and sound source localization. Patients with UCHL have decreased access to binaural difference cues, resulting in poorer spatial hearing abilities compared with listeners with normal hearing.
Methods: Twelve patients with moderate-to-severe UCHL, most due to atresia (83.3%), and 12 age-matched controls with normal hearing bilaterally participated in this study. Outcome measures included: 1) spatial release from masking, and 2) sound source localization. Speech reception thresholds were measured with target speech (Pediatric Az
Bio sentences) presented at 0 degree and a two-talker masker that was either colocated with the target (0 degree) or spatially separated from the target (symmetrical, ±90 degrees). Spatial release from masking was quantified as the difference between speech reception thresholds in these two conditions. Localization ability in the horizontal plane was assessed in a 180 degree arc of 11 evenly-spaced loudspeakers. These two tasks were completed at 50 and 75 d
B SPL.
Results: Both children and adults with UCHL performed more poorly than controls when recognizing speech in a spatially separated masker or localizing sound; however, this group difference was larger at 50 than 75 d
Conclusion: Patients with UCHL experience improved spatial hearing with the higher presentation level, suggesting that the auditory deprivation associated with a moderate-to-severe UCHL does not preclude exposure to—or use of—binaural difference cues.
Hemodynamic Changes in the Sigmoid Sinus of Patients With Pulsatile Tinnitus Induced by Sigmoid Sinus Wall Anomalies
01-02-2020 – Liu, Zhaohui; He, Xueying; Du, Runshuang; Wang, Guopeng; Gong, Shusheng; Wang, Zhenchang
Objective: This study is to investigate the hemodynamic changes of pulsatile tinnitus (PT) patients induced by sigmoid sinus wall anomalies (SSWA).
Study Design: Prospective study.
Setting: Tertiary referral university hospital.
Patients: Fifteen unilateral PT patients with SSWA identified on computed tomography images and surgery and 15 age-, sex-, and body mass index-matched healthy volunteers underwent velocity-encoded, cine magnetic resonance imaging.
Intervention: Hemodynamic data in sigmoid sinus were obtained from velocity-encoded, cine magnetic resonance imaging, and compared between PT patients and controls.
Main Outcome Measures: Heart rate was recorded. Cross-sectional area (CSA), peak positive velocity (PPV), average positive flow volume per beat (APFV/beat), average flow volume per beat (AFV/beat), peak negative velocity (PNV), and average negative flow volume per beat (ANFV/beat) were measured. Average flow volume per minute (AFV/min), average positive flow volume per minute (APFV/min), average negative flow volume per minute (ANFV/min), average positive velocity (APV), average negative velocity (ANV), and regurgitation fraction (RF) were calculated.
Results: APV at PT side of patients was 13.4 ± 3.3 cm/s, which was significantly slower than that at corresponding side of controls (15.8 ± 2.6 cm/s). PNV and RF at PT side of patients were 21.0 ± 15.4 cm/s and 2.4% respectively, which were significantly higher than those values at corresponding side of controls (both of them were 0). HR, CSA, PPV, APFV/beat, APFV/min, AFV/beat, AFV/min, ANV, ANFV/beat, and ANFV/min were 69.8 ± 9.4 beat/min, 48.4 ± 17 mm2, 31.4 ± 5.9 cm/s, 5.4 ± 1.8 ml/beat, 373.9 ± 117.7 ml/min, 5.1 ± 2.0 ml/beat, 352.0 ± 134.6 ml/min, 2 (0–4.9) cm/s, 1 (0–2.7) ml/beat, and 4.1 (0–141.3) ml/min at PT side of patients, and 67.4 ± 7.8 beat/min, 38.2 ± 18 mm2, 29.9 ± 3.9 cm/s, 5.3 ± 2.0 ml/beat, 350.3 ± 125.3 ml/min, 5.1 ± 1.9 ml/beat, 340.5 ± 117.9 ml/min, 0 (0–2.1) cm/s, 0 (0–0.8) ml/beat, and 0 (0–55.4) ml/min at corresponding side of controls. These hemodynamics were not significantly different between groups.
Conclusion: APV, PNV, and RF changes take place in SSWA patients, which may be associated with the occurrence of PT and have the potential value to improve accurate etiological diagnosis and predict treatment success.
Intraoperative Recording of Auditory Brainstem Responses for Monitoring of Floating Mass Transducer Coupling Efficacy During Revision Surgery—Proof of Concept
01-02-2020 – Fröhlich, Laura; Rahne, Torsten; Plontke, Stefan K.; Oberhoffner, Tobias; Dziemba, Oliver; Gadyuchko, Maria; Hoth, Sebastian; Mir-Salim, Parwis; Müller, Alexander
Objective: The objective of the study was to measure auditory brainstem responses elicited by stimulation via a semi-implantable active middle ear implant with an electromagnetically driven floating mass transducer to quantify the coupling efficacy (=vibroplasty in situ thresholds – bone conduction thresholds) in a patient during a revision surgery.
Patients: One patient, reimplanted with an active middle ear implant in a revision surgery.
Intervention(s): Diagnostic.
Main Outcome Measure(s): Intraoperative auditory brainstem responses evoked by stimulation via an active middle ear implant in a calibrated set-up directly indicating the coupling efficacy magnitude (auditory brainstem response threshold = coupling efficacy), as well as pre- and postoperative bone conduction and vibroplasty in situ thresholds.
Results: The intraoperative auditory brainstem response threshold was detected at 0 d
B n
HL, i.e., the magnitude of coupling efficacy was determined intraoperatively to be 0 d
B. The actual postoperative coupling efficacy (=postoperative vibroplasty in situ – postoperative bone conduction thresholds) was –2.5 d
Conclusions: The coupling efficacy determined intraoperatively was consistent with the postoperative coupling efficacy. The described method seems to be a promising tool to objectively quantify the magnitude of coupling efficacy in active middle ear implant surgeries.
A Case Series of Patients With Concurrent Otosclerosis and Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence
01-02-2020 – Dewyer, Nicholas A.; Quesnel, Alicia M.; Santos, Felipe
Objective: To describe the presentations and treatment results for patients with concurrent otosclerosis and superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SCD).
Study Design: Retrospective case series and literature review.
Setting: Tertiary academic medical center.
Patients: Patients with concurrent diagnoses of otosclerosis (radiographically and/or surgically confirmed) and SCD (radiographically confirmed) in the same ear.
Intervention(s): Review of medical records.
Main Outcome Measure(s): Clinical presentations, outcomes following stapedotomy.
Results: Eight patients with 10 affected ears were identified. All patients presented with slowly progressive conductive hearing loss, normal otoscopy, absent acoustic reflexes, and without other symptoms of SCD syndrome. Seven patients were treated with stapedotomy and 1 with hearing aids. Of those treated with stapedotomy, a persistent conductive hearing loss was the most common hearing result. One patient had near-complete closure of their air bone gap. None had a profound sensorineural hearing loss. Four patients had unmasking of SCD symptoms.
Conclusions: The clinical and audiometric presentations of patients with concurrent otosclerosis and SCD are often indistinguishable from those of patients with only otosclerosis. Computed tomography of the temporal bone is the only way to identify concurrent SCD. Stapedotomy in these patients typically results in a persistent conductive hearing loss, though 14 to 33% of patients experience near-complete closure of their air bone gap. SCD symptoms are unmasked in 57 to 63% of patients who undergo stapedotomy. Further work is needed to delineate the utility of routine preoperative computed tomography scan in otosclerosis patients, and to identify prognostic factors for patients with concurrent otosclerosis and SCD who wish to undergo stapedotomy.
Systematic Review of Pathogenic GJB2 Variants in the Latino Population
01-02-2020 – Bouzaher, Malek H.; Worden, Cameron P.; Jeyakumar, Anita
Objectives: Define the extent to which GJB2-related hearing loss is responsible for non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) in the Latino population.
Methods: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines were followed. PubMed and MEDLINE were accessed from 1966 to 2019 using permutations of the Me
SH terms: “Hearing Loss,” “Hearing Impairment,” “Deafness,” “Latin American,” “Latino,” “GJB2,” and “Genetic.” Additionally, countries designated as Latino by the US Office of Management and Bureau were cross-referenced as key terms against the aforementioned search criteria. Exclusion criteria included non-English publications, a non-Latino study population, and literature not investigating GJB2. An allele frequency analysis of pathogenic GJB2 variants in the Latino population was performed and stratified by country of origin and reported ethnicity.
Results: One hundred twenty two unique studies were identified of which 64 met our inclusion criteria. Forty three studies were included in the GJB2 systematic review. A total of 38 pathogenic GJB2 variants were identified across 20 countries in the Latino population. The prevalence of pathogenic GJB2 variants varied by country; however, were generally uncommon with the exception of c.35del
G (p.
Gly12Valfs*) which displayed an allele frequency of 3.1% in the combined Latino population; ranging from 21% in Colombia to 0% in Guatemala.
Conclusion: Variation in the prevalence of pathogenic GJB2 variants by country likely reflect the heterogeneous nature of ethnic ancestral contributions to the Latino population. Additional research utilizing next generation sequencing might aid in the development of assays for high throughput diagnosis of inherited hearing loss in the multitude of ethnic sub-groups that comprise this and other traditionally marginalized populations.
Factors Influencing Time to Cochlear Implantation
01-02-2020 – Dornhoffer, James R.; Holcomb, Meredith A.; Meyer, Ted A.; Dubno, Judy R.; McRackan, Theodore R.
Objective: To determine demographic and audiologic factors associated with time to treatment with cochlear implantation.
Methods: Retrospective review of a prospectively maintained adult cochlear implant database. A total of 492 patients were implanted from 2012 to 2017. Time to implantation, preimplantation audiologic outcomes, and demographic data were collected. Multivariate analysis was undertaken to establish demographic/audiologic factors that predict time to cochlear implantation.
Results: Using multivariate analysis, nonwhite race (hazard ratio 0.157, p = 0.038) and increased age (hazard ratio 0.970, p = 0.038) were associated with increased time to cochlear implantation. Nonwhite patients had significantly higher pure-tone averages and lower speech recognition scores (consonant–nucleus–consonant words and Az
Bio sentences in quiet) and were less likely to use hearing aids as compared with white patients (all p < 0.001). Sex (p = 0.188), health insurance type (p = 0.255), preoperative hearing aid use (p = 0.174), and audiologic outcomes were not significant predictors of time to implantation.
Conclusion: Nonwhite patients have poorer preoperative hearing and speech recognition and lower hearing aid use and are at risk for delay in referral and treatment for severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. Other demographic factors, notably health insurance status, did not significantly predict time to cochlear implantation. Given the observed hearing healthcare disparities, special outreach programs may be needed to ensure timely cochlear implantation and effective hearing screening and rehabilitation.
Relations Between Scalar Shift and Insertion Depth in Human Cochlear Implantation
01-02-2020 – Zelener, Freddi; Majdani, Omid; Roemer, Ariane; Lexow, G. Jakob; Giesemann, Anja; Lenarz, Thomas; Warnecke, Athanasia
Objective: The intracochlear position of an electrode array may influence the outcome after cochlear implantation. The design of the electrode array can increase the risk of trauma causing penetration of the basilar membrane or shift of the electrode array into the scala vestibuli. The aim of the present study was to identify a scalar shift after implantation of two different electrode arrays developed by one manufacturer.
Study Design: Retrospective analysis.
Setting: Tertiary referral center.
Patients and Intervention: Cochlear implant recipients implanted between 2010 and 2014 and receiving either a mid-scala (n = 30) or a perimodiolar (n = 30) electrode array.
Main Outcome Measure: Occurrence of scalar shift in association with the electrode type.
Results: Scalar shift occurred in 26.7% (8 of 30) of the patients implanted with a perimodiolar electrode array and in 6.7% (2 of 30) of the patients implanted with the mid-scala electrode array. The mean insertion depth in the patients experiencing scalar shift after implantation of the mid-scala electrode was much deeper (21.59 ± 0.34 mm) when compared with the mean insertion depth of the patients with scalar shift after implantation with a perimodiolar electrode array (17.85 ± 2.19 mm). There tends to be a correlation between the cochlear length and the occurrence of a scalar shift. However, the number of patients with scalar shift in the mid-scala group is rather small.
Conclusion: Based on the presented data, more patients implanted with a perimodiolar electrode array have a scalar shift when compared with the midscalar electrode array.
Electrode Array Type and Its Impact on Impedance Fluctuations and Loss of Residual Hearing in Cochlear Implantation
01-02-2020 – Thompson, Nicholas J.; Dillon, Margaret T.; Buss, Emily; Park, Lisa R.; Pillsbury, Harold C. III; O’Connell, Brendan P.; Brown, Kevin D.
Hypothesis/Objective: Determine variables associated with electrode impedance fluctuations and loss of residual hearing in cochlear implant (CI) recipients.
Background: CI recipients with postoperative hearing preservation demonstrate superior speech perception with an electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS) device as compared with a CI-alone device. Maintaining superior speech perception over time relies on long-term hearing preservation; therefore, understanding variables that may contribute to loss of residual hearing is needed. Recent reports suggest a relationship between changes in electrode impedance and loss of residual hearing. The variables influencing this relationship have yet to be determined.
Methods: Review of pediatric and adult CI cases from 2013 to 2016 who presented with preoperative residual hearing. Regression analysis was performed to evaluate effects of array type (lateral wall vs. perimodiolar), manufacturer, age at implantation, and preoperative hearing on impedance. The correlation between peak impedance change and change in low-frequency hearing was determined.
Results: One hundred forty-six CI recipients presented with preoperative residual hearing. A multivariate regression analysis demonstrated a statistically significant association between preoperative hearing thresholds (p = 0.017), device manufacturer (p = 0.011), and array type (p = 0.038) on postoperative impedance changes. Hearing preservation rates and change in impedance differed by electrode array type. The association between peak impedance changes and loss of residual hearing differed between manufacturers (R2 = 0.208, p = 0.029 vs. R2 = 0.016, p = 0.609).
Conclusion: Impedance fluctuation appears to be a marker for loss of residual hearing for specific electrode array types and manufacturers. Specific arrays may affect the cochlear microenvironment differently, with different effects on postoperative hearing preservation.
Radial Forearm Free Flap for Cochlear Implant Coverage in a Post-Irradiated Field
01-02-2020 – Dewyer, Nicholas A.; Sethi, Rosh K.; Yamasaki, Alisa; Lee, Daniel J.
Objective: To describe a novel use of a radial forearm free flap (RFFF) for soft tissue coverage over a cochlear implant (CI) in a post-irradiated field.
Patients: Single patient case report of a woman with a history of radiation therapy for brainstem astrocytoma who suffered from repeated CI extrusion despite tympanomastoid obliteration and locoregional pedicled flap soft tissue coverage.
Intervention(s): Sequential bilateral, single-staged revision cochlear implantation with RFFF soft tissue coverage.
Main Outcome Measure(s): Postoperative wound healing complications including infection or device extrusion.
Results: There have been no further issues with wound healing, infection, or device extrusion with a follow up period of 3 years on one side and 8 months on the second side. Both CIs are functioning well with the flaps being sufficiently thin to allow for the use of typical external processor magnets.
Conclusions: A RFFF can be used to provide robust soft tissue coverage over a CI in a post-irradiated field. The RFFF and CI may safely be performed in a single operation.
Predicting Reduced Tinnitus Burden After Cochlear Implantation in Adults
01-02-2020 – Dixon, Peter R.; Crowson, Matthew; Shipp, David; Smilsky, Kari; Lin, Vincent Y.; Le, Trung; Chen, Joseph M.
Objective: Explore patient characteristics associated with tinnitus improvement after cochlear implantation.
Study Design: Retrospective cohort.
Setting: Tertiary referral.
Patients: Adults with bilateral severe-to-profound hearing loss and tinnitus.
Interventions: Unilateral cochlear implantation.
Results: From 1996 to 2018, 358 patients endorsed pre-implant tinnitus and had ascertainable tinnitus status at 1-year. Clinically significant improvement in Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) (reduction by at least 7-points) was observed in 262 (73.2%) patients, of whom 155 (59.2%) reported complete resolution. Of the 24 characteristics explored, four were identified as independent predictors of improved tinnitus in logistic regression models. In a multivariable model including identified independent predictors, each 10-percentage point increase in baseline hearing in noise test was associated with an 14% reduction in odds of tinnitus resolution or clinically significant improvement (odds ratio OR 0.86, 95% confidence limits CL 0.77, 0.96) and preoperative use of a hearing aid in the contralateral ear was associated with a 72% reduction (OR 0.28; 95% CL 0.11, 0.73). Each 10-point increase in baseline Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults (HHI) score was associated with a 28% increase in odds of tinnitus improvement (OR 1.28; 95% CL 1.07, 1.54). Higher baseline burden of tinnitus was associated with higher odds of tinnitus improvement (OR 1.21 per 10-point THI increase, 95% CL 1.04, 1.40).
Conclusions: Worse residual hearing and higher baseline hearing and tinnitus handicap are associated with higher odds of tinnitus improvement. Expectations of patients seeking reduced tinnitus burden following cochlear implantation should be managed by counselling regarding odds of tinnitus improvement compared to those with similar residual hearing and tinnitus burden.
Cochlear Enhancement May Precede Cochlear Obliteration After Vestibular Schwannoma Excision
01-02-2020 – Erbele, Isaac D.; Miller, Laura S.; Mankekar, Gauri; Morel, Christian E.; Anderson, Dwayne T.; Son, Leslie S.; Arriaga, Moises A.
Objective: Cochlear obliteration after vestibular schwannoma excision has been noted, with implications on cochlear implantation. Early postoperative cochlear enhancement with gadolinium on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has also been observed. Timing of enhancement and association with obliteration is described here.
Study Design: Retrospective case review.
Setting: Tertiary referral center, ambulatory.
Patients: Patients receiving vestibular schwannoma excision surgery by the senior author performed at one institution between January 2015 and July 2017 with postoperative MRIs
Intervention: Diagnostic.
Main Outcome Measure(s): The imaging characteristics on postoperative MRIs examined were loss of fluid signal on postoperative T2 images and cochlear enhancement on gadolinium enhanced T1 images. In the patients receiving labyrinthine sparing procedures, presence of postoperative hearing was evaluated.
Results: Of the 42 patients evaluated, 24 received the translabyrinthine approach and 18 received a labyrinth sparing surgery. Twenty-nine had evidence of cochlear enhancement on T1 with gadolinium contrast, and 27 had evidence of cochlear obliteration on T2 images. The odds ratio of patients with cochlear enhancement having obliteration was 30.0:1 (p < 0.0001). Intense cochlear enhancement (n = 21) appeared a median of 163 days after surgery, and complete or near complete obliteration (n = 18) appeared a median of 480 days after surgery, a statistically significant difference (p < 0.001). Within the labyrinth sparing group, there was no statistically significant association between hearing loss and cochlear obliteration or enhancement.
Conclusions: Cochlear enhancement is correlated with cochlear obliteration and may precede it.
Postoperative Healthcare Utilization of Elderly Adults After Cochlear Implantation
01-02-2020 – Raymond, Mallory J.; Dong, Andy; Naissir, Samir Ballestas; Vivas, Esther X.
Objective: To determine the association between geriatric age and postoperative healthcare utilization after cochlear implantation.
Study Design: Retrospective chart review.
Patients: Older adults (>59 yr) who underwent unilateral cochlear implantation from 2009 until 2016.
Intervention(s): Standard electrode length cochlear implantation.
Main Outcome Measure(s): Postoperative surgical and audiological visit rate after cochlear implantation for those aged 60 to 69, 70 to 79, and 80+ years.
Results: Fifty-nine older adult patients were included in the study with a mean age of 71.5 ± 6.9 years (range, 60–88 yr), mean duration of hearing loss of 25.4 ± 19.6 years (range, 0.25–67 yr), and mean length of follow up of 37 ± 24.6 months (range, 6–107 mo). There was no significant difference in the mean number of surgical and audiological visits over both the first and second postoperative years between those aged 60 to 69, 70 to 79, and 80+ years. Additionally, on one-way multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA), there was no significant difference in cumulative postoperative healthcare utilization measures between each age group, when controlling for postoperative Az
Bio scores, estimated household income, and driving distance to the hospital.
Conclusions: Older geriatric adults do not have higher rates of postoperative healthcare utilization after cochlear implantation than their younger, geriatric hearing impaired counterparts, despite presumed higher rates of frailty and comorbidity.
Feasibility of Pediatric Robotic Cochlear Implantation in Phantoms
01-02-2020 – Bom Braga, Gabriela O’Toole; Schneider, Daniel; Muller, Fabian; Hermann, Jan; Weber, Stefan; Caversaccio, Marco
Objective: To demonstrate the feasibility of robotic cochlear implant surgery in subject specific pediatric phantoms.
Study Design: Pilot study.
Materials and Methods: Computed tomographic preoperative encrypted data of 10 pediatric subjects (total of 20 sides) between 8 months and 48 months old, who underwent cochlear implant surgery were studied. Four datasets (n = 8 sides) were selected for investigation of the complete robotic procedure including middle and inner ear access and electrode insertion.
Results: The planning of the safe trajectory for the robotic approach was possible in 17 of the cases. In three sides, planning the trajectory was not possible due to the small size of the facial recess. Bone thickness study demonstrated average sufficient bone thickness at the site of screw implantation in general. The complete robotic procure including the drilling and insertion was successfully carried out on all the created phantoms.
Conclusion: With this work we have demonstrated the feasibility of planning and performing a robotic middle and inner ear access and cochlear implantation (CI) in phantom models of pediatric subjects. To develop and validate the proposed procedure for use in children, next stage optimization of the current surgical workflow and adaptation of the surgical material to pediatric population is necessary.
Monitoring Cochlear Nerve Integrity During Vestibular Schwannoma Microsurgery in Real-Time Using Cochlear Implant Evoked Auditory Brainstem Response and Streaming Neural Response Imaging
01-02-2020 – Patel, Neil S.; Saoji, Aniket A.; Olund, Amy P.; Carlson, Matthew L.
Objective: Intraoperative far-field auditory brainstem response (ABR) and direct cochlear nerve action potential monitoring using neural response imaging (NRI) are techniques for monitoring the cochlear nerve during vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery. A new paradigm has developed where the cochlear nerve is anatomically preserved during tumor removal to facilitate cochlear implantation in select circumstances. This report describes the use of an unmodified commercial cochlear implant (CI) to elicit electrically-evoked direct cochlear nerve and far-field ABR monitoring to evaluate the status of the cochlear nerve during tumor resection in real time.
Patients: Adult female with unilateral, sporadic VS.
Intervention(s): Cochlear implantation followed by translabyrinthine resection of VS in single operation.
Main Outcome Measures: During tumor resection intra-cochlear electrodes were used to deliver electrical stimulation and measure NRI or the cochlear nerve action potential. Electrically-evoked ABR (e
ABR) was measured using surface electrodes and wave V was monitored (far-field ABR) during surgery.
Results: A 61-year-old female was evaluated for a unilateral, enlarging intracanalicular VS with asymmetric SNHL. The patient opted for microsurgery and due to her bilateral hearing loss was a candidate for CI. Cochlear implantation with an unmodified, commercially available lateral wall electrode was performed. The remainder of the approach and tumor resection was performed under continuous e
ABR and NRI monitoring. Gross total resection was achieved with intact e
ABR and NRI at the conclusion of the case. Changes in ABR and NRI consistently recovered after modifying dissection strategy. The patient reported auditory percepts with her cochlear implant postoperatively.
Conclusions: This report demonstrates the feasibility of using real-time NRI and e
ABR with a CI to facilitate preservation of the cochlear nerve during VS microsurgery. Using this method to mitigate cochlear nerve trauma during microsurgery may preserve the option of CI for hearing rehabilitation.
Speech Perception, Dichotic Listening, and Ear Advantage in Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implanted Children
01-02-2020 – Koopmann, Moritz; Lesinski-Schiedat, Anke; Illg, Angelika
Objective: To study the development of dichotic listening, ear advantage, and speech perception in cochlear implant (CI) recipients using five audiometric tests.
Study Design: Prospective cohort analysis.
Setting: University Hospital.
Patients: One hundred twenty one participants who received simultaneous bilateral CIs and had at least 12 months of regular bilateral CI use. Age at time of testing ranged from 4 to 18 years with a mean age of 9 years (standard deviation SD: 3.0). Mean duration of CI use was 7.073 years (SD: 2.86).
Intervention: Bilateral simultaneous cochlear implantation.
Main Outcome Measure: Goettinger and Freiburger monosyllabic word test, Hochmair, Schulz and Desoyer sentence (HSM) test in noise and in quiet conditions and the dichotic listening test by Uttenweiler were applied according to the childrens’ age. The results were evaluated using a two-sided t test for dependent samples.
Results: In all tests applied, we could not show significant differences in performance between left and right CI and therefore could not demonstrate an ear advantage. Dichotic listening was challenging, only one subject produced results required for normal hearing subjects to pass the test. The older the CI recipients get and duration of CI use increases, the more results in all speech perception tests improve.
Conclusions: Our results cannot lend further support to the existence of ear advantage in CI recipients. We do not recommend the Uttenweiler dichotic listening test to determine lateralization. Further research to gather more information on dichotic listening and ear advantage in CI recipients is necessary and should use consonant-vowel stimuli as more comparable stimuli.
The Image Fusion Technique for Cochlear Implant Imaging: A Study of its Application for Different Electrode Arrays
01-02-2020 – Sipari, Sini; Iso-Mustajärvi, Matti; Könönen, Mervi; Löppönen, Heikki; Dietz, Aarno
Objectives: To investigate the benefits of the image fusion technique for precise postoperative assessment of intracochlear placement with six different electrode arrays.
Study Design: Consecutive retrospective case study.
Settings: Tertiary referral center.
Patients: Analyses of imaging data of 30 patients implanted with six different electrode arrays.
Interventions: Electrode reconstructions obtained from postoperative cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) were overlaid onto preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) registrations to create artefact-free images.
Main Outcome Measures: Each electrodes intracochlear position was analyzed with the image fusion reconstructions and compared with the results obtained by CBCT alone. The electrode location was classified according to its position in relation to the basal membrane at four different insertion angles.
Results: In 40 out of 151 measurements (26.5%), the location grading obtained by CBCT alone changed after the assessment with the image fusion reconstructions. A significant association was found between deep insertions (over 360 degrees) and the effectiveness of image fusion (p = 0.019). The difference between the impact of the fusion technique for the basal turn versus the apical part was highly significant (p = 0.001). There was no significant difference between the effectiveness of the image fusion and the different electrodes.
Conclusions: By utilizing an image fusion technique, a more accurate assessment of electrode placement could be achieved for all types of electrodes. Image fusion was especially beneficial for insertions beyond 360 degrees.
Same-Day Patient Consultation and Cochlear Implantation: Innovations in Patient-Centered Health Care Delivery
01-02-2020 – Nassiri, Ashley M.; Yawn, Robert J.; Gifford, René H.; Holder, Jourdan T.; Stimson, C. J.; Eavey, Roland D.; Haynes, David S.
Objective: To develop and implement a streamlined, patient-centered service delivery model for patients referred for cochlear implantation (CI) at a high-volume academic center.
Patients: CI candidate adults.
Interventions: CI, implementation of new CI delivery model.
Main Outcome Measures: Referral-to-surgery time, patient travel burden.
Results: Data from 206 adults that underwent CI were used to develop a process map of the initial operational state from referral date to day of surgery (referral-to-surgery time). The initial referral-to-surgery time was 136 days on average, yet the average total work time by all involved providers was 17.6 hours. Prolonged wait times were associated with the following preoperative tasks: appointment scheduling, insurance approval, device ordering and shipment, and surgical scheduling. Patients traveled to the institution on at least two occasions for appointments. A new bundled, patient-centered CI delivery model was developed to address prolonged wait times, travel burden, and process inefficiencies. The new model implemented an interactive electronic medical record, coordinated appointments with same-day surgery, and stocked device inventory to reduce the referral-to-surgery time to 24 days—an improvement of 112 days. In the new model, new patient consultation and surgery were completed in one day, reducing the patient travel burden to the institution.
Conclusions: The new CI program demonstrates that delivery innovations can have a substantial impact on measures of patient convenience and experience, and that these results are achievable without new technologies or changes in medical management. With a focus on patient-centered design, health care delivery models can be augmented to increase value for patients.
Duration of Processor Use Per Day Is Significantly Correlated With Speech Recognition Abilities in Adults With Cochlear Implants
01-02-2020 – Holder, Jourdan T.; Dwyer, Nichole C.; Gifford, René H.
Objective: Quantify the relationship between average hours of processor use per day and measures of speech recognition in post-lingually deafened adults with cochlear implants.
Setting: Cochlear implant (CI) program at a tertiary medical center.
Patients: Three hundred adult (mean age = 64, 130 women) CI users were included.
Main Outcome Measures: Correlation analyses were completed for CI-aided speech recognition (Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant CNC monosyllables and Az
Bio sentences) at approximately 12 months post-implantation and average hours of processor use per day, which was extracted from the CI programming software.
Results: Average processor use was 10.2 hours per day (range, 0.1–22.7), and average speech recognition scores were 49.9 and 61.7% for CNC and Az
Bio sentence recognition, respectively. We found a strong, significant correlation between hours of processor use per day and consonant-nucleus-consonant (CNC) word recognition (rs = 0.61, p < 0.0001) and Az
Bio sentence recognition (rs = 0.56, p < 0.0001).
Conclusions: Results suggest that highest speech recognition outcomes are correlated with greater than 10 hours of CI use per day. Further research is needed to assess the causal link between daily CI use and speech recognition abilities.
The Management of Tympanic Membrane Perforation With Endoscopic Type I Tympanoplasty
01-02-2020 – Marchioni, Daniele; Gazzini, Luca; De Rossi, Stefano; Di Maro, Flavia; Sacchetto, Luca; Carner, Marco; Bianconi, Luca
Objective: The objective of this study is to describe what we consider to be the state-of-the-art procedure for the treatment of tympanic membrane perforations, and to present the results attained in our institution.
Study Design: A retrospective cohort study, using data of Verona University Hospital, Italy. This medical record includes the data of 98 patients who underwent 100 transcanal endoscopic type I tympanoplasties from November 2014 to October 2017.
Setting: Tertiary referral center University Hospital of Verona, Italy.
Patients: Were enrolled 109 patients, that underwent endoscopic type I tympanoplasty in the period considered. Out of the selected patients, 11 (10.1%) were lost to long-term follow-up, and were therefore excluded from our study. Other exclusion criteria were surgical approaches that included other procedures. Patients whose follow-up was shorter than 6 months were excluded from this study.
Intervention: The technique is based on an endoscopic placement of underlay graft of temporal fascia or tragal cartilage. We consider the data of four surgeons from Verona University ENT department.
Main Outcome Measure: In the study we considered the reduction of the Air Bone Gap as functional outcome and the integrity of the reconstruction as anatomical outcome of success.
Results: No major intraoperative complications were observed. The closure rate was 86%. The mean surgery time was 48.6 minutes. The air bone gap was improved within 20 DB HL in 89% of patient. Only 8% of patients needed revision surgery, and none needed a third surgical evaluation.
Conclusion: Endoscopic ear surgery is by now a reality that has replaced in many cases exclusive microscopic ear surgery. Transcanal endoscopic type I tympanoplasty can be considered nowadays as an alternative technique for tympanic membrane perforations.
Reducing Postoperative Call Volume Through Verbal Preoperative Education
01-02-2020 – Chern, Alexander; Haynes, David S.; Bennett, Marc L.
Objective: To improve patient satisfaction and understanding of what to expect after chronic ear surgery and reduce call volume to an otology clinic at an academic tertiary referral center.
Study Design: Quality improvement initiative.
Setting: A single-academic tertiary referral center.
Patients: One hundred and ten patients who underwent chronic ear surgery in March to May 2018.
Intervention: Preoperative counseling over the phone 1 week before surgery.
Main Outcome Measures: Patient call volume to the clinic within a 2-week postoperative window, patient understanding, and satisfaction of perioperative course.
Results: There was a significant increase in patient satisfaction (10.1% increase, 9.8 intervention vs. 8.9 no intervention, p = 0.0032) and in patient understanding of what to expect after surgery (6.7% increase, 9.5 intervention vs. 8.9 no intervention, p = 0.0275). There was a significant decrease in mean number of calls per patient to the clinic (57.6% decrease, 0.31 intervention vs. 0.72 no intervention, p = 0.0105) and in percentage of patients who made any number of calls to the clinic (20% intervention vs. 46%, no intervention, p = 0.00438).
Conclusions: Verbal preoperative counseling over the phone was effective in significantly reducing unnecessary call volume to the clinic and in improving patient satisfaction and overall understanding of what to expect after surgery.
Comparison of Opioid Prescription Patterns and Consumption Following Otologic Surgery
01-02-2020 – Ngombu, Stephany; Hooks, Andrea; Rock, Alexander N.; Nogan, Stephen; Adunka, Oliver F.; Dodson, Edward E.; Moberly, Aaron C.; Mattingly, Jameson K.
Objective: To examine opioid prescribing patterns and consumption among patients undergoing common otologic surgeries.
Study Design: Retrospective cohort study with chart review and telephone survey.
Methods: Retrospective chart review and telephone survey of those undergoing tympanoplasty, tympanomastoidectomy, stapedectomy, and cochlear implantation in 2018. The survey consisted of questions regarding the details of the number of pills taken, duration of opioid use, subjective pain control, the use of over-the-counter pain medications, opioid disposal, and their history of substance abuse.
Results: Sixty-one patients were able to be contacted and agreed to participate in the study. Fifty-nine (96.7%) stated that their pain was controlled, and 10 (16.4%) did not take any opioids postoperatively despite their prescription. The mean morphine milligram equivalent (MME) prescribed was 99.9 (44.3) and MME taken was 45.2 (SD 46.3) (p 0.05). Analysis of the MME and pills prescribed and taken among the different surgeries (tympanoplasty, stapes surgery, tympanomastoidectomy, and cochlear implantation) revealed no statistically significant interactions (p > 0.05). Pain control was achieved for 50% of patients with 5 pills (MME = 25 mg), for 75% with 12 pills (MME = 60 mg), and for 90% with 24 pills (MME = 135 mg).
Conclusion: The opioid epidemic continues to be an ongoing issue in the United States, and prescription opioid abuse is a large contributor. There is increasing literature to suggest a practice of overprescribing in multiple surgical specialties. This same finding appears to be present in common otologic surgeries, where on average patients took less than half of the prescribed MME/pills, and 75% of patients had their pain controlled with 12 pills or fewer. Otolaryngologists performing otologic surgery should strongly consider adjusting their postoperative regimens to reflect these findings.
Level of Evidence: 2b
Comparison of Spontaneous Temporal Bone Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks From the Middle and Posterior Fossa
01-02-2020 – Cooper, Timothy; Choy, Matthew H.; Gardner, Paul A.; Hirsch, Barry E.; McCall, Andrew A.
Objectives: To compare patients surgically managed for spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks of the temporal bone arising from the middle cranial fossa (MCF) and posterior cranial fossa (PCF) and to describe the surgical management of posterior fossa CSF leaks.
Setting: Academic tertiary center.
Patients: Adult patients presenting with spontaneous temporal bone CSF leaks undergoing operative repair between January 2010 and August 2018. Patients with a history of trauma, previous mastoid surgery, and iatrogenic CSF leaks were excluded.
Intervention: Transmastoid or MCF CSF leak repair.
Main Outcome Measures: Patient demographics, body mass index (BMI), comorbidities, presenting features, and lumbar puncture opening pressures were compared between groups and the management of the PCF CSF leaks described.
Results: Forty-six patients (26 women, 20 men) were included. The mean age at the time of repair was 58.0 ± 12.9 years (±SD). The origin of the CSF leak was from the PCF in three patients and MCF in 43 patients. All three patients with PCF leaks presented with an acute history of meningitis compared with only seven (16%) in the MCF group. This difference was statistically significant (p = 0.01, Fishers exact test). There were no statistically significant differences in age, sex, BMI, or lumbar puncture opening pressures. The PCF leaks were repaired using a transmastoid approach with multilayer closure of the bony defect and fat graft obliteration of the mastoid.
Conclusions: Spontaneous CSF leaks arising from the PCF are rare and may present more commonly with meningitis. Identification requires careful review of imaging.
Use of IL-5 Inhibitor Benralizumab as a Novel Therapy for Eosinophilic Otitis Media: Clinical Capsule and Review of Literature
01-02-2020 – Chow, Kevin; Cosetti, Maura K.
Objective: We report a case of recurrent eosinophilic otitis media (EOM) successfully treated with the novel monoclonal IL-5 inhibitor benralizumab. We also review literature relevant to EOM diagnosis and potential for biologic treatment.
Patient: A 24-year-old woman with bilateral otitis media with effusion unresponsive to standard treatment.
Intervention(s): Multidisciplinary treatment using subcutaneous benralizumab after diagnosis of EOM.
Main Outcome Measure(s): Behavioral audiometry, peripheral serology, otomicroscopy, and eosinophilic otitis media symptom severity.
Results: Recalcitrant otitis media with effusion (OME) in the setting of nasal polyposis and asthma prompted clinical suspicion for EOM, which was confirmed by pathologic examination of middle ear effusion and soft tissue biopsy. Treatment with benralizumab was initiated by pulmonology and well-tolerated. Within 2 months of treatment onset there was a cessation of EOM symptoms, a reduction of peripheral eosinophil levels, and an improvement in conductive hearing loss.
Conclusions: Monoclonal antibodies such as benralizumab may be an effective treatment option for EOM. A high level of clinical suspicion in patients with bronchial asthma, nasal polyposis, and recalcitrant OME may allow early diagnosis of EOM. Awareness of emerging biologic treatment options is important in the management of this challenging entity and may prevent long-term sequelae.
“The Importance of the Temporal Bone 3T MR Imaging in the Diagnosis of Menières Disease”
01-02-2020 – Paškoniene, Aiste; Baltagalviene, Renata; Lengvenis, Givi; Beleškiene, Vilma; Ivaška, Justinas; Markeviciute, Vetra; Mickeviciene, Vaiva; Lesinskas, Eugenijus
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate endolymphatic hydrops using the 3T temporal bone magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), performed according to the chosen protocol, and determine whether it could be applied as an objective diagnostic tool for Menières disease.
Methods: 105 participants diagnosed with probable (n = 50) and definite (n = 55) Menières disease were included in this prospective study at Vilnius University Hospital, Santaros Clinics. Audiometry, vestibular function tests, videonystagmography, and computer posturography were performed before MRI. The 3T MRI with gadolinium contrast was performed to evaluate the endolymphatic hydrops. Imaging protocol consisted of 3D-FLAIR and 3D T2DRIVE sequences. Vestibular endolymphatic sac was interpreted as enlarged if occupied more than 50% of the vestibular area.
Results: 78.1% of subjects had abnormal MRI findings other than hydrops, and it was more than 90% (50/55) of patients in the definite MD group (p < 0.001). Changes in caloric test were observed in 63.8% of subjects in general, and in 76.4% of patients with a definite Menières disease. The side of the endolymphatic hydrops observed on MR imaging corresponded to the clinical diagnosis of the Menières disease based on the results of audiometry (p < 0.001) and unilateral weakness (p < 0.001). Endolymphatic hydrops on MRI and directional preponderance in caloric test were two independent predictors of the definite Menières disease.
Conclusions: Temporal bone 3T MRI with gadolinium contrast is clinically superior to confirm the diagnosis of Menières disease. Grade II endolymphatic hydrops on MRI, directional preponderance, and unilateral weakness on caloric test were independent predictors for the definite Menières disease.
“On the Relationship Between Menières Disease and Endolymphatic Hydrops”
01-02-2020 – Gluth, Michael B.
The relationship between Menières disease and endolymphatic hydrops is ambiguous. On the one hand, the existence of cases of endolymphatic hydrops lacking the classic symptoms of Menières disease has prompted the assertion that endolymphatic hydrops alone is insufficient to cause symptoms and drives the hypothesis that endolymphatic hydrops is a mere epiphenomenon. Yet, on the other hand, there is considerable evidence suggesting a relationship between the mechanical pressure effects of endolymphatic hydrops and resultant disordered auditory physiology and symptomatology. A critical appraisal of this topic is undertaken, including a review of key histopathologic data chiefly responsible for the epiphenomenon hypothesis. Overall, a case is made that A) the preponderance of available evidence suggests endolymphatic hydrops is likely responsible for some of the auditory symptoms of Menières disease, particularly those that can be modulated by mechanical manipulation of the basilar membrane and cochlear microphonic; B) Menières disease can be reasonably considered part of a larger spectrum of hydropic inner ear disease that also includes some cases that lack vertigo. C) The relationship with endolymphatic hydrops sufficiently robust to consider its presence a hallmark defining feature of Menières disease and a sensible target for diagnostic detection.
Associations of Vestibular Tests With Penn Acoustic Neuroma Quality of Life Scores After Resection of Vestibular Schwannoma
01-02-2020 – Brown, Clifford Scott; Cooper, Matthew W.; Peskoe, Sarah B.; Risoli, Thomas Jr.; Kaylie, David M.
Objective: Determine associations between preoperative caloric testing and video head impulse testing (v
HIT) with baseline and postoperative Penn Acoustic Neuroma Quality of Life (PANQOL) scores following resection of vestibular schwannoma (VS).
Study Design: Retrospective case series.
Setting: Two tertiary referral hospitals.
Patients: Adult patients with unilateral VS, preoperative calorics, v
HIT, and dizziness handicap inventory (DHI) score.
Interventions: Surgical resection of VS and postoperative surveys.
Main Outcome Measures: PANQOL scores.
Results: Forty-three patients were included (58.1% women) with a median age of 54 years (range, 28–82). Mean tumor size was 14.8 mm (σ=8.6), and 28 (65.1%) were right-sided. Average preoperative v
HIT gain was 0.7 (σ = 0.3). Covert and overt saccades were present in 8 (25%) and 14 (42.4%) patients, respectively. Average preoperative unilateral weakness was 47% (σ = 33.2). Translabyrinthine approach was performed in 26 (60.5%) patients. No significant difference of PANQOL scores was noted at baseline or over time between patients with normal (>0.8) or abnormal (50%) had significantly higher baseline PANQOL scores compared with those with < 25% or 25 to 50% (p = 0.02), but had significant improvement in scores over time (p = 0.01). Higher preoperative DHI preoperatively was significantly associated with worse PANQOL scores at all timepoints (β=0.57, p = 0.0064). No differences in PANQOL scores amongst surgical approaches were observed.
Conclusion: Preoperative vestibular testing with v
HIT, calorics, DHI, and baseline PANQOL surveys may allow for patient counseling regarding postoperative quality of life over time.
Lesion Patterns and Possible Implications for Recovery in Acute Unilateral Vestibulopathy
01-02-2020 – Navari, Elena; Casani, Augusto Pietro
Objective: To assess patterns of end-organ involvement in acute unilateral vestibulopathy (AUV) and to define the recovery.
Setting: Tertiary academic referral hospital.
Patients and Interventions: Fifty-nine patients fulfilling clinical criteria for AUV and evaluated using the caloric vestibular test, video head impulse test, and both cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials, up to 10 days from symptoms onset were included.
Main Outcome Measures: Vestibular tests and requirements for vestibular rehabilitation were analyzed.
Results: The most affected end-organ was the horizontal canal (97%), followed by the anterior canal (83%), utricle (73%), posterior canal (46%), and saccule (44%). Nineteen (32%) patients exhibited complete receptors lesion, while 13 (22%) exhibited damage to receptors connected with the superior division of the vestibular nerve (VN). The proportion of patients who underwent vestibular rehabilitation was higher in the latter two groups (58% for both). Partial involvement of the receptors innervated by both the division of the VN, rather than by its superior division, was detected in 22 and 24% of patients, respectively. Total or partial damage to receptors innervated by the inferior VN was not found.
Conclusion: Deeper understanding of AUV may be achieved through identification of its patterns. Slightly more than one-half of AUV cases seemed to be associated with a nerve lesion, with a worse clinical outcome. The remaining patients exhibited selective involvement of vestibular receptors, more probably consistent with an intralabyrinthine lesion pattern and experienced better spontaneous recovery.
The Conditional Probability of Vestibular Schwannoma Growth at Different Time Points After Initial Stability on an Observational Protocol
01-02-2020 – Sethi, Mantegh; Borsetto, Daniele; Cho, Yeajoon; Gair, Juliette; Gamazo, Nicola; Jefferies, Sarah; Joannides, Alexis; Mannion, Richard; Helmy, Adel; Axon, Patrick; Donnelly, Neil; Tysome, James R.; Bance, Manohar
Objective: The natural history of vestibular schwannomas (VS) is well documented in the literature, with tumour growth being paramount to decision making for both surveillance and treatment of these patients. Most previous studies refer to the risk of VS growth over a given period of time; however, this is not useful for counselling patients at different stages of their follow-up, as the risk of tumour growth is likely to be less following each subsequent year that a tumour does not grow. Accordingly, we investigated the conditional probability of VS growth at particular time-points, given a patient has not grown thus far. This Bayesian method of risk stratification allows for more tailored and accurate approximations of the risk of growth versus nongrowth of VS.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database in a tertiary referral skull base unit, containing all patients diagnosed between 2005 and 2014 with sporadic unilateral VS and a minimum of 5-year surveillance.
Results: A total of 341 patients met the inclusion criteria. The mean age at diagnosis was 67 years, the sizes of the VS at diagnosis were intracanalicular in 49%, small in 39%, medium in 11%, and large in 1%. Over the entire 5-year surveillance period, a total of 139 tumours were seen to grow (41%) and 202 did not grow (59%). At 1 year, the probability of growth given that the tumour had not grown to date was seen to be 21%, at 2 years 12%, at 3 years 9%, at 4 years 3%, and at 5 years 2%. The conditional probability of growth of extracanalicular VS was significantly higher in the first year when compared with intracanalicular VS (29% versus 13%, p = 0.01), but there was no such difference in years 2, 3, 4 or 5 (p = 0.60, 0.69, 0.36, 0.39, respectively).
Conclusion: This is the first study in the literature concerned specifically with the conditional probability of VS growth. The data presented here can be used to better inform VS patients of their risk of growth at particular time points in their disease—the longer VS have been observed to be stable, the lower the risk of subsequent growth in a given year. Further, an extracanalicular vestibular schwannoma is more likely to grow in the first year compared with an intracanalicular vestibular schwannoma. Our data also adds support to surveillance protocols with increasingly infrequent MRI scans, as after 4 years of not growing, the risk of growth in year 5 falls to <2%.
Quantifying Tertiary Referral Center Bias in Vestibular Schwannoma Research
01-02-2020 – Saba, Elias S.; Marinelli, John P.; Lohse, Christine M.; Link, Michael J.; Carlson, Matthew L.
Objective: The majority of research influencing our understanding of vestibular schwannoma (VS) comes from large tertiary referral centers, and as a consequence, is inherently prone to referral bias. The objective of the current study was to characterize tertiary referral center bias in VS research.
Study design: Single-institution retrospective clinical, audiometric, and radiologic review.
Setting: One tertiary referral center.
Patients: One hundred twenty-three patients with sporadic VS treated at our institution, consisting of a local cohort of all 41 VS patients residing in the same US county as our medical center and a referral cohort of 82 patients from outside counties matched 2:1 based on age, sex, and year of diagnosis.
Intervention: Surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), observation.
Main outcome measures: Clinical manifestations, audiometric and radiologic findings, elected treatment modality.
Results: Local patients had significantly longer follow-up after initial presentation compared to referral patients (median 4.0 vs 2.2 yr; p = 0.007). Referral patients were significantly less likely to have an incidental VS diagnosis (1% vs. 29%; p < 0.001) and presented with worse symptomatology such as hearing loss (80% vs. 54%; p = 0.002), dizziness (72% vs. 44%; p = 0.002), headache (29% vs. 15%; p = 0.075), and other cranial nerve dysfunction (11% vs. 0%; p = 0.029). Audiometrically, referral patients had significantly poorer word recognition scores at presentation (median 70% vs. 90%; p = 0.043). Local patients were more likely to have tumors confined to the IAC compared with referral patients, and had significantly smaller tumors when restricted to this region (median 4.0 vs 6.5 mm; p = 0.005). Referral patients were significantly more likely to undergo definitive management with either radiosurgery or microsurgery following primary evaluation compared to local patients (48% vs. 24%; p = 0.013).
Conclusion: These data suggest that the majority of existing literature surrounding VS likely suffers from referral bias, whereby disease characteristics and management decisions are distinct from that of the general VS patient population.
Postoperative MRI Surveillance of Vestibular Schwannomas: Is There a Standard of Care?
01-02-2020 – Bukoski, Ronald S.; Appelbaum, Eric N.; Coelho, Daniel H.
Objective: To examine current practices for postoperative imaging surveillance following vestibular schwannoma resection.
Study Design: Cross-sectional survey of practicing neurotologists.
Setting: Tertiary referral centers.
Patients: Not applicable.
Intervention: Two hundred seventy-six members of the American Neurotology Society were invited to participate. Using a web-based format, respondents self-reported demographic and practice details. Case scenarios were presented. For each scenario, both quantitative and qualitative data were recorded.
Main Outcome Measures: Timing, frequency, duration, and modality of postoperative imaging.
Results: For all scenarios, responses were widely disparate with respect to timing, frequency, number, and duration of follow-up imaging. Following gross total resection, respondents most commonly (46.5%) obtain the first magnetic resonance imaging 1 year after surgery, with the most common endpoint to discontinue surveillance imaging at 10 years (34.9%). Tumor beds with postoperative enhancement were generally followed longer than those without enhancement, but with wide variability in practice patterns. The majority of neurotologists do not change surveillance patterns regarding tumor size or completeness of initial resection. Lower volume surgeons appear to be more aggressive with initial surveillance postoperatively than higher volume surgeons.
Conclusion: Wide variability exists amongst neurotologists concerning postsurgical tumor surveillance imaging. Despite recent data to suggest more standardized protocols, disparate practice patterns persist. Additional research is needed to this end, as the subsequent establishment of such evidence-based protocols could obviate substantial medical, medico-legal, and economic burdens concerning this patient population.
Quality of Life in Vestibular Schwannoma Patients: A Longitudinal Study
01-02-2020 – Miller, Lauren E.; Brant, Jason A.; Naples, James G.; Bigelow, Douglas C.; Lee, John Y. K.; Ruckenstein, Michael J.
Objective: To examine differences in quality of life in patients with vestibular schwannoma following a single treatment modality: observation, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), or microsurgery.
Study design: Retrospective review.
Patients: Patients diagnosed with sporadic vestibular schwannoma who had completed at least 2 Penn Acoustic Neuroma Quality of Life (PANQOL) surveys.
Interventions: Treatment via SRS, microsurgery, or observation.
Main Outcome Measures: PANQOL total survey and subdomain scores.
Results: One hundred and thirty-four patients (94 observations, 24 SRS, 16 microsurgeries) were included. The mean number of PANQOL surveys completed was 2.8 (range 2–5). The total PANQOL scores were significantly lower in the SRS group, but not the microsurgery group, compared with observation at the time of diagnosis (observation 550.4 ± 58.4; SRS 471.4 ± 37.4; microsurgery 492.6 ± 40.7; p = 0.03). Over time, there were no significant differences in the change of PANQOL scores across the 3 groups (SRS PANQOL score worsened 6.8/year compared with observation, p = 0.3; microsurgery PANQOL score worsened 7.8/year compared with observation, p = 0.5). Anxiety was the only subdomain that significantly worsened over time in the microsurgery group (microsurgery PANQOL score worsened 3.8/year compared with observation; p = 0.009).
Conclusion: Despite differences in PANQOL scores at baseline, changes in total PANQOL score over time were not found to be statistically significant, regardless of the treatment group chosen. Overall, these results hold implications for patient counseling when considering treatment choice and quality of life predictions.
Current Volumetric Models Overestimate Vestibular Schwannoma Size Following Stereotactic Radiosurgery
01-02-2020 – Sherry, Alexander D.; Khattab, Mohamed H.; Totten, Douglas J.; Wharton, David M.; Luo, Guozhen; Manzoor, Nauman F.; Rivas, Alejandro; Chambless, Lola B.; Davis, Larry T.; Attia, Albert; Cmelak, Anthony J.
Objective: Accurate volume assessment is essential for the management of vestibular schwannoma after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). A cuboidal approximation for volume is the standard surveillance method; however, this may overestimate tumor volume. We sought to evaluate several volumetric models and their suitability for post-SRS surveillance.
Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Patients: We evaluated 54 patients with vestibular schwannoma before and after SRS.
Intervention(s): Gold-standard volumes were obtained by a radiation oncologist using contouring software. Volume was also calculated by cuboidal, ellipsoidal, and spherical formulae using tumor diameters obtained by a neuroradiologist.
Main Outcome Measure(s): Percent error (PE) and absolute percent error (APE) were calculated. Paired t test evaluated bias, and the Bland–Altman method evaluated reproducibility. Linear regression evaluated predictors of model error.
Results: All models overestimated volume compared with the gold standard. The cuboidal model was not reproducible before SRS (p < 0.001), and no model was reproducible after SRS (cuboidal p < 0.001; ellipsoidal p = 0.02; spherical p = 0.02). Significant bias was present before SRS for the cuboidal model (p < 0.001), and post-SRS for all models cuboidal (p < 0.001), ellipsoidal (p < 0.02), and spherical (p = 0.005). Model error was negatively associated with pretreatment volume for the cuboidal (PE p = 0.03; APE p = 0.03), ellipsoidal (PE p = 0.03; APE p = 0.04), and spherical (PE p = 0.02; APE p = 0.03) methods and lost linearity post-SRS.
Conclusions: The standard cuboidal practice for following vestibular schwannoma tumor volume after SRS overestimates size. Ellipsoidal and spherical estimations have improved performance but also overestimate volume and lack reliability post-SRS. The development of other volumetric models or application of contouring software should be investigated.
Is Longer Surgery More Dangerous? Operative Duration Not Associated With Complications After Vestibular Schwannoma Resection
01-02-2020 – Raghavan, Arun M.; Lipschitz, Noga; Kohlberg, Gavriel D.; Samy, Ravi N.; Zuccarello, Mario; Pensak, Myles L.; Breen, Joseph T.
Objective: To examine the association between operative duration and complications after vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery.
Patients: One hundred forty-eight patients undergoing vestibular schwannoma resection in a single institution.
Intervention: Vestibular schwannoma resection.
Main Outcome Measures: Operative duration, surgical approach, tumor size, and postoperative complications.
Results: Forty-one patients underwent middle cranial fossa (MCF) approach, 46 underwent translabyrinthine (TL) approach, and 61 underwent retrosigmoid (RS) approach. The mean operative duration overall was 407 minutes (MCF—339 min, TL—450 min, RS 420 min). When controlling for tumor size, there was no difference in procedure duration by approach (OR 0.92, CI 0.82–1.02, p=0.11).
When controlling for approach, there was a significant increase in procedure duration by tumor size (OR 1.36, CI 1.23–1.50, p < 0.0001). Increased procedure duration was not associated with 30-day readmission (p = 0.82), cerebrospinal fluid leak (CSF) (p = 0.84), return to the operating room (p = 0.75), postoperative deep vein thrombosis (p = 1.0), postoperative stroke (p = 0.23), or postoperative wound complications (p = 0.70). Longer operative time was associated with increased hospital length of stay (p = 0.04). However, when controlling for tumor size and surgical approach, hospital length of stay was no longer associated with increased procedure duration (OR 1.15, CI 0.98–1.33, p = 0.3).
Conclusion: Increased operative duration was associated with larger tumor size; however contrary to previous reports, increased operative duration was not associated with postoperative complications.
Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis After Translabyrinthine Vestibular Schwannoma—A Prospective Study and Suggested Management Paradigm
01-02-2020 – Guazzo, Emily; Panizza, Benedict; Lomas, Andrew; Wood, Martin; Amato, Damien; Alalade, Andrew; Gandhi, Mitesh; Bowman, James
Objective: To prospectively evaluate the incidence, risk factors and natural history of postoperative cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (p
CVST) in translabyrinthine vestibular schwannoma microsurgical resection and propose a potential management paradigm.
Study Design: Prospective, single cohort, multicenter study.
Setting: State-wide academic tertiary referral centers.
Patients: Fifty-four consecutive patients who underwent translabyrinthine vestibular schwannoma resection.
Main Outcome Measures: Incidence of p
CVST on postoperative imaging on Day 7, Day 28, and 12 months postoperatively. Patients and tumor characteristics, risk factors, length of stay, intraoperative parameters, complications, and follow-up were analyzed.
Results: p
CVST was demonstrated in 21 patients (38.9%) on postoperative imaging. All patients with p
CVST were treated conservatively and remained asymptomatic in the immediate postoperative period and long-term follow-up. There were no instances of venous infarction, intracranial hemorrhage, or neurological deficits. A majority (61.1%) of p
CVST recannalised on long-term follow up with conservative management. There was a statistical association with p
CVST and surgery on the side of the non-dominant cerebral venous drainage (n = 17, 80.1%, p = 0.034). Patients with p
CVST were significantly more likely to have a postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak (n = 5, 23.8%, p = 0.017).
Conclusion: The incidence of p
CVST following translabyrinthine vestibular schwannoma resection is much higher than previously recognized. p
CVST is more likely to occur when surgery is performed on tumors situated on the side of non-dominant cerebral venous drainage. Despite the high prevalence of this iatrogenic phenomenon, all patients were asymptomatic and a majority resolved, thereby suggesting that conservative management is safe. Correlation between p
CVST and increased incidence of CSF leak requires further investigation.
“The Physiologic Role of Corticosteroids in Menières Disease: An Update on Glucocorticoid-mediated Pathophysiology and Corticosteroid Inner Ear Distribution”
01-02-2020 – Froehlich, Michael H.; Lambert, Paul R.
There are multiple treatment options for Ménières disease (MD), including dietary modifications, aminoglycoside therapy, and surgery. All have limitations, ranging from limited effectiveness to permanent hearing loss. Corticosteroids have long been used to manage MD due to their relative efficacy and tolerability, but the exact mechanism for disease alleviation is uncertain. Until recently, the precise distribution and role that glucocorticoid receptors play in inner ear diseases have remained largely uninvestigated. Several studies propose they influence mechanisms of fluid regulation through ion and water homeostasis. This review will provide an update on the basic science literature describing the activity of endogenous glucocorticoids and exogenous corticosteroids in the inner ear and the relevance to MD, as well as early clinical trial data pertaining to the application of novel technologies for more effective administration of corticosteroids for the treatment of MD.
3D-Printed Microneedles Create Precise Perforations in Human Round Window Membrane in Situ
01-02-2020 – Chiang, Harry; Yu, Michelle; Aksit, Aykut; Wang, Wenbin; Stern-Shavit, Sagit; Kysar, Jeffrey W.; Lalwani, Anil K.
Hypothesis: Three-dimensional (3D)-printed microneedles can create precise holes on the scale of micrometers in the human round window membrane (HRWM).
Background: An intact round window membrane is a barrier to delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents into the inner ear. Microperforation of the guinea pig round window membrane has been shown to overcome this barrier by enhancing diffusion 35-fold. In humans, the challenge is to design a microneedle that can precisely perforate the thicker HRWM without damage.
Methods: Based on the thickness and mechanical properties of the HRWM, two microneedle designs were 3D-printed to perforate the HRWM from fresh frozen temporal bones in situ (n = 18 total perforations), simultaneously measuring force and displacement. Perforations were analyzed using confocal microscopy; microneedles were examined for deformity using scanning electron microscopy.
Results: HRWM thickness was determined to be 60.1 ± 14.6 (SD) μm. Microneedles separated the collagen fibers and created slit-shaped perforations with the major axis equal to the microneedle shaft diameter. Microneedles needed to be displaced only minimally after making initial contact with the RWM to create a complete perforation, thus avoiding damage to intracochlear structures. The microneedles were durable and intact after use.
Conclusion: 3D-printed microneedles can create precise perforations in the HRWM without damaging intracochlear structures. As such, they have many potential applications ranging from aspiration of cochlear fluids using a lumenized needle for diagnosis and creating portals for therapeutic delivery into the inner ear.
Anatomical and Functional Consequences of Microneedle Perforation of Round Window Membrane
01-02-2020 – Yu, Michelle; Arteaga, Daniel N.; Aksit, Aykut; Chiang, Harry; Olson, Elizabeth S.; Kysar, Jeffrey W.; Lalwani, Anil K.
Hypothesis: Microneedles can create microperforations in the round window membrane (RWM) without causing anatomic or physiologic damage.
Background: Reliable delivery of agents into the inner ear for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes remains a challenge. Our novel approach employs microneedles to facilitate intracochlear access via the RWM. This study investigates the anatomical and functional consequences of microneedle perforations in guinea pig RWMs in vivo.
Methods: Single three-dimensional-printed, 100 μm diameter microneedles were used to perforate the guinea pig RWM via the postauricular sulcus. Hearing was assessed both before and after microneedle perforation using compound action potential and distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Confocal microscopy was used ex vivo to examine harvested RWMs, measuring the size, shape, and location of perforations and documenting healing at 0 hours (n = 7), 24 hours (n = 6), 48 hours (n = 6), and 1 week (n = 6).
Results: Microneedles create precise and accurate perforations measuring 93.1 ± 29.0 μm by 34.5 ± 16.8 μm and produce a high-frequency threshold shift that disappears after 24 hours. Examination of perforations over time demonstrates healing progression over 24 to 48 hours and complete perforation closure by 1 week.
Conclusion: Microneedles can create a temporary microperforation in the RWM without causing significant anatomic or physiologic dysfunction. Microneedles have the potential to mediate safe and effective intracochlear access for diagnosis and treatment of inner ear disease.
International Collaborative Assessment of the Validity of the EAONO-JOS Cholesteatoma Staging System: Methodological Issues on Validity and Reliability
01-02-2020 – Sabour, Siamak
International Collaborative Assessment of the Validity of the EAONO-JOS Cholesteatoma Staging System: Confirmation of Validity and Reliability
01-02-2020 – James, Adrian L.; Siu, Jennifer; Borkhoff, Cornelia M.; Yung, Matthew; Stephens, Derek
Bilateral Persistent Stapedial Arteries Associated With Abnormal Lower Extremity Bone Growth
01-02-2020 – Espahbodi, Mana; Michel, Michelle A.; Harris, Michael S.
Carotid Artery-Cochlear Dehiscence
01-02-2020 – Oliver, Jamie R.; Chen, David S.; Pearl, Monica S.; Carey, John P.; Sun, Daniel Q.
Cochlear–Facial Dehiscence Detected After Cochlear Implant
01-02-2020 – Camerin, Gabriela R.; Passos, Ula Lindoso; da Costa, Sady Selaimen; Gebrim, Eloisa Maria Mello Santiago; Cruz, Oswaldo Laércio Mendonça
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ECP rejects Imran Khan’s allegations of siding with PML-N
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Imran Khan condemns Mardan suicide blast
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Mardan, in which at least 13 people including two policemen and four lawyers were martyred. In a statement here Friday, Imran...
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Interview with E’fect, a Gangsta Rapper in Seattle
E’fect is in his own words “a gangster rapper with a unique raw underground feel”. He records out of Seattle, Washington with his own label, IceBoxXx Entertainment. Being a white man, rapping is a tougher feat than usual but E’fect handles the task well. He is definitely and up-and-comer in the rapping world. Expect good things from him in the future.
I first met him on, off all places, an online poker website. We got to talking about my now defunct horror website, Wheels of Terror, and he recorded a rap song that I wrote for my site. You can hear it, HERE.
E’fect has agreed to be interviewed and has allowed me to use his answers and image in this article.
Thanks to E’fect for his time.
Why did you begin rapping?
E’fect: Back in 2002 – 2003 I was friends with some gangster rappers that were on another label here in Seattle so just from being around them everyday for 2 years I just kind of picked up on it. But during that time I never recorded any music I just wrote rhymes; until I had a falling out with one of the rappers and I recorded my first song “Punk Mutha F****” as a diss track towards him. Thus was born E’fect.
Why did you choose the name E’fect?
E’fect: One of my good friends goes by Cauze aka C-Run and we were to be Cauze & E’fect but after I released my first song he was afraid to be affiliated musically with IceBoxXx Entertainment.
How would you describe your style of rap?
E’fect: It is gangster rap with a unique raw underground feel. I say that because I speak on things that happened in my life or others around me.
Who has most influenced your work?
E’fect: I don’t know if I can really say one person or group has influenced me more than another. I know growing up I listened to a lot of West Coast rap such as Eazy – E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, A-Wax, E-40, 2Pac, and some others would be Bone Thugs -N- Harmony, The Wu-Tang Clan, and The Geto Boys.
What is the most memorable moment in your rapping career?
E’fect: Just recently when I was able to work with some one who I had listened to before I started rapping and who was and is my favorite rapper A-Wax.
What is it like being in the minority, as a white rapper?
E’fect: It is some what more difficult as a white rapper because I think you do have to be that much better (musically) than the next man if you want to stand out and not be discriminated against.
Where can fans listen to and buy your music?
E’fect: They can listen to it at www.myspace.com/efecticeboxxx and at www.soundclick.com/efect if they are interested in getting my album “From Da Streetz 2 Organized Krime Vol.2” contact me on myspace and let me know you read this here and I’ll e-mail it to you free.
What is the IceBoxXx Entertainment (besides your Indie label) and how did it begin?
E’fect: It is my family; not my relatives literally but my family non-the less. It my artists, my producer, my homies, it’s my house, my studio, besides that I’d just say it’s my label. The IceBoxXx was born about a year after I started rapping. At first I call it SoundE’fect Studios then when I linked up with Push A P, Wet Money, and DJ KieFBoXXX and formed IceBoxXx Entertainment. The name was chosen by a homie randomly because of the reflective material we had on the walls and the little glass blocks that happen to be in studio at the time. It was a good name so it stuck.
If you could offer new rappers, who are serious about the business, advice, what would it be?
E’fect: Keep making music, like every thing else in life it takes time… practice and repetition… and HUSTLE get your music out there and make it heard…
What does the future hold for E’fect?
E’fect: By the end of 2008 a new album feature 2 top names from the Bay, a new music video, and more… all you got to do is stay posted to my myspace page for updates.
Website: http://www.myspace.com/efecticeboxxx
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Anomalous inferior vena cava with azygous drainage: So-called absence of the inferior vena cava
ANOMALOUS INFERIOR VENA DRAINAGE: SO-CALLED INFERIOR VENA RAY C. ROSALIND ANDERSON, NOVICK, MINNEAPOLIS PH.D., CAVA WITH AZYGOUS ABSENCE OF THE C...
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Agenesis of the Suprarenal Inferior Vena Cava With Azygous Continuation
Inferior vena cava injury
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Inferior Vena Cava Filters
Preureteric inferior vena cava with possible rudiment of the proper inferior vena cava
Inferior vena cava epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
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Inferior Vena Cava Filter Migration
Leiomyosarcoma of inferior vena cava
ANOMALOUS INFERIOR VENA DRAINAGE: SO-CALLED INFERIOR VENA RAY
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A NGIOCARDIOGRAPHY complicated congenital
has become an indispensable tool in the diagnosis of defects of the heart. Its use has also made possible the demonstration of anomalous patterns of systemic venous return. Perhaps the most striking of such patterns is that of so-called absence of the inferior vena cava. .A recent study of such a case at University Hospital has led us to review other published cases for possible similarities in the related heart defects. CASE
G. S. was a white male infant who was noted to be questionably cyanotic at birth. Roentgenography showed the heart to be located in the right chest. No heart murmur was heard until the infant was one month of age. His color remained good, except for occasional spells of cyanosis associated with crying. Physical examination onadmission to University Hospital in June, 1953, at the age of two months showed a well-appearing two-month-old infant who was cyanotic only, on crying. The heart tones were very forceful and there was a Grade l-2 systol,ic murmur which was about equally well heard along the right sternal margin, the pulmonic area, and over the upper left chest posteriorly. Blood pressures were normal. Roentgenographic studies showed moderate enlargement of the heart with dextrocardia; the lung markings. were considered 10~3 normal or slightly decreased. The electrocardiogram showed right-axis deviation but no mirror image pattern of dextrocardia. After several days’ hospitalization he was discharged with a clinical diagnosis of single ventricle with pulmonary stenosis. He was again admitted to the hospital at the age of three months because his cyanotic episodes were becoming more severe. There had been no essential change in physical findings. Angiocardiography was carri,ed out through the left saphenous vein. The dye was noted to pass from the iliac vein into the “azygous” vein which in turn empfied into the superior vena cava (Fig. 1); the entire heart appeared to fill almost immediately, and the pulmonary arteries and aorta showed simultaneous filling. The case seemed to have much in common with that described by Campbell and associates,’ and for this reason it was considered probable that the same multiple cardiac defects were present: bilocular heart, pulmonary stenosis, patent ductus, and absence of the inferior vena cava. The patient was considered inoperable, and he returned home. He was again hospitalized at Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the age of four and one-half months, and died four days later. Autopsy was performed by Drs. Kano Ikeda and Charles Jarvis, pathologists, who kindly furnished the following report: ment &Id.
From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Minn.. and the Departof Pathology, Children’s and C. T. Miller Hospitals, St. Paul. Minn. Received for publication June 22, 1954. *Trainee in Cardiology, National Heart Institute, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, 31s
“The heart is roughly triangular in shape with the apex ot the triangle pointing superiorly , Approximately 60 per cent. of the base of the triangle paralleling the domes of the diaphragm. the heart is to the right of the midline. The heart weighs 65.2 grams and consists of two chamber*, There are two auricular appendages arising front a common atrium and a common ventricle. the common atrium which give a false impression of normality before the heart. is opened. i‘\\Jvc) hepatic veins enter the most inferior portion of the right side of the atrium independently. ‘l’hc pulmonary veins enter the left side of the atrium. The atrium itself is markedly dilatetl 1vir.h rather heavy trabeculations. There is a single atrioventricular valve with two leaflets. OIII?, the posterior one of which appears fully developed. The papillary muscles are large and appear hypertrophied. The common ventricle is large. The wall of the ventricle is thirkclre*l ;IIKI
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The inferior vena cava has a complex embryologic history, being derived from portions of the postcardinal, supracardinal, and subcardinal venous systems of the developing fetus. Anomalies of the inferior vena cava are consequently very common, and the subject is dealt with in greater or lesser detail by the authors of the current texts on human embryology, such as Patten. McClure and Huntington3 published a monograph on the subject twenty-five years ago, and more recently Edwards4 has reviewed the subject and has proposed a tentative classification of the many anatomic variations of this major systemic vein. The latter lists azygous continuation (absence of inferior vena cava) as the only common major anomaly of the suprarenal segment of the inferior vena cava. Effler and associates5have recently described a patient who had a pneumonectomy for pulmonary malignancy, and in the course of whose surgery a large “azygous” TABLE I. ASSOCIATED HEARTFINDINGSIN ___ --__---.-__ I I POSITION OF AUTHOR AGE SEX VISCERA ____ __-__-Taussig," 1947
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Biloculate heart, pulmonarv atresia and patent duc”tus arteriosus* Kane diagnosed
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Evidence of atria1 septal defect Complete transposition of pulmonary Veins
Absent right superior vena eava; persistent left, superior vena cava entering left atrium
Tetralogy of Fallot and anomaly of tricuspid valve*
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vein was ligated; this vein proved at autopsy to be a “persistent left infer-ior vena c2va” c (same as absence of inferior vena cava). Except for EHer’s case, the majority of recent reports of this ;mornaly 1x1~~ represented angiocardiographic findings encountered in the diagnostic worku~l These cases, with the associate:1 htbart of patients with congenital heart defects. findings, are summarized in Table I. .1s can be seen from Table I, the cases of ‘l’aussig, (‘amphell and assoc‘iatcs, one of Downing’s, and the present authors’, all involve either partial or comlrlctti situs inversus and have the more severe associated intracardiac defects. 111 At least five of the eight cases illthree of these there was a biloculate heart. valved anomalies of other systemic veins, usually a persistent left superior \‘en;\ C2lV’L ‘ . Thus, “absence of the inferior vena cava” does not necessaril\. inrlic;ltc an>. particular cardiac anomaly-, although if the patient is cyanotic and thrre is partial or complete situs inversus one cm suspect the presence of ~1biloc~ll;~te heart with pulmonary stenosis or atresia. Stackelberg and co-workers7 speculated on the relative incidence oi ;~twnt inferior vena cava as compared to a persistent left superior vena cave. ‘I‘hcir two cases were encountered in a total of 100 cases of ~~ngiocardiograph~, periormetl hk- malleolar vein injection, which would certainly suggest that the nnom;~l~~ is not rare, though uncommon. Persistence of the left superior vena rava is t r-equently encountered in cardiac studies, and its presence in one-half of the cases reported in Table I might well be interpreted as indicating it as the more common anomaly. Our experience certainly suggests this to be true. With the increasing use of angiocardiography, especially if leg veins are used for injection, an incrcasing number of reports of this anomaly of the inferior vena cava can b: expcbcted. DowningY has suggested a diagnostic roentgen sign for the detection 01’ this anomaly in plain films: “ a rounded density in the superior mediast inum which projects to the right at the position of the normal junction of the superior vena cava mtl right atrium. This shadow represents the dilated, anteriorcoursing azygous vein as it enters the right atrium or superior vilna c ava.” Although the anomaly in question has been popularly terme:l “absent oi the inferior vena c‘ava, ” it has also been described as “persistence of the sui)r+ cardinal system,” ” persistent posterior cardinal vein, ” “persistent left inferior vena cava,” and “‘azygous continuation.” AAll of these terms arc sonlewhat misleading or vague, and one might justifiably suggest the us? of a diRerent term. It would be much more informative to sa!- “,4nomalous inferior ~PII;L (‘iIV;i with azygous drainage.” SUMM.\K\ A case of “absent inferior \-ena cavil” is described, associated ivith ;I tlextroposed biloculate heart with pulmonary atresia and patent ductus artrriosus. Seven additional cases, with heart findings, from the literature are summarized, and attention is drawn to the diagnostic implications of this anomal!.. This anomaly of the inferior vena ca\:a is best desrrihed as anomalous inferior \‘en;\ (‘i\v;\ with :\zygous drainage.
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Campbell, M., Gardner, F., and Reynolds, G.: Cor Biloculare, Brit. Heart J. 14:317, 1952. Patten, B. M.: Human Embryology, ed. 2, New York, 1953, Blakiston Company. The Mammalian Vena Cava Posterior, The McClure, C. F. W., and Huntington, G. S.: American Anatomical Memoirs No. 15, Philadelphia, 1929, Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. Edwards, E. A.: Clinical Anatomy of Lesser Variations of the Inferior Vena Cava; and a Proposal for Classifying the Anomalies of This Vessel, hngiology 2:85,. 1951. Effler, D. B., Greer, A. E., and Sifers, E. C.: Anomaly of the Vena Cava Inferior, J.A.M.A. 146:1321.
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Helen’ B.: Congenital Malformations of the Heart, New York, 1947, The Commonwealth Fund. Stackelberg, Brita, Lind, J., and Wegelius, C.: Absence of Inferior Vena Cava Diagnosed by Angiocardiography, Cardiologia 21583, 1952. Levinson. D. C., Griffith, G. C., Cosby, R. S., Zinn, W. J., Jacobson, G., Dimitroff, S. P.. and Oblath, R. W.: Transposed Pulmonary Veins, Am. J. Med. 15:143, 1953. Downing, D. F.: .Absence of the Inferior Vena Cava, Pediatrics 12:675, 1953.
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How do we make sure we get the most out of school day? How do we intentionally create a school climate where our core values drive programming? How do we maintain clear conduct standards that are transparent, community supported, and positive? PBiS! PBiS stands for Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports and is a school wide network for conduct and culture that is “…designed to help school teams form a proactive, school-wide, systems approach to improving social and academic competence for all students” (pbisvermont.org). PBiS is a nationally recognized and well-researched framework proven to promote positive conduct, school spirit, social learning, and bullying prevention.
Kurn Hattin is now in its early years of full PBiS school implementation, joining nearly 200 independent and public schools in Vermont and thousands more nation-wide. As our work on PBiS began, it became quickly clear that Kurn Hattin was already doing nearly 85% of what implementing schools do – and - actually has been doing much of this for many years! To bring ourselves up to 100% implementation, we proceeded with three initiatives:
added a faculty and houseparent PBiS team to create and steer school culture/conduct initiatives,
defined clear expectation for all areas of the school, and
installed a database tracking program (SWIS) to identify individual students and community needs. The data piece has been perhaps the most significant addition, allowing us to fine- tune programming and support ensuring that we are reducing conflict and conduct concerns to allow for all children to make the most of their academic programs. We are thrilled with the progress thus far and look forward to continued work with PBiS to move us forward as a community.
As an update – with a significant start already in place here at the Homes, PBiS has gotten off to an exceptionally strong beginning. Many pieces of PBiS such as the Core Values, Caught Being Good Store, and Tokens have been in place for many years. Additions to these structures - a robust framework, celebrations, and the SWIS (School-Wide Information System) database - have brought us to official recognition as a Universal-Level PBiS School! Most importantly, however, is that using the database to track conduct throughout the year, we can clearly see that unhelpful conduct has been strongly trending downward. This means that students are more able to access instruction and the progress they all deserve!
Moving forward, Kurn Hattin is committed to incorporating Restorative Practices into daily life here. Restorative Practices begin with the concept that behavior always affects more than just the individual, it also impacts those around the individual within the community. Thus if unhelpful behavior occurs, it negatively impacts the community as well as the individual. If things are to be set right, both the individual and his or her relationships in the community also need to be addressed. Restorative Practices teach children how to be aware of their relationships and how to repair or restore damaged community relations. These are learned behaviors that make a huge difference in the balance of respect and responsibility in civil society.
Select Choir performing for MLK Observance
11:00 AM 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Windham County’s Got Talent Kurn Hattin’s Monarch Dance Ensemble
6:30 PM 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Select Choir to RiverWoods
Select Choir to sing National Anthem at Maine Red Claws
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S.E. Ready, W.S. Wong, A.C. Arias, A. Salleo, R.B. Apte, M.L. Chabinyc, and R.A. Street. "Toolset for printed electronics." In Digital Fabrication 2006, Final Program and Proceedings, 17-20. 7003 KILWORTH LANE, SPRINGFIELD, VA 22151 USA: Soc Imaging Sci & Technol; Imaging Soc Japan, 2006.
M.L. Chabinyc, JP Lu, R.A. Street, Y.L. Wu, P. Liu, and B.S. Ong. "Short channel effects in regioregular poly(thiophene) thin film transistors." JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 96 (2004): 2063-2070.
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A.C. Arias, S.E. Ready, R.A. Lujan, W.S. Wong, K.E. Paul, M.L. Chabinyc, A. Salleo, R.B. Apte, and R.A. Street. "Polymer transistor display backplanes: High performance inkjet printed devices." ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 229 (2005): U1128.
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Brave day
The long haul
The Evening Ride
Note: This is a slight detour into a fiction experiment. Yes, fiction. Sometimes I write fiction. Sometimes.
A lot of the times I write non-fiction, but I try new things and fail every once and a while, just to remember I’m human and still have enough padding (literal and figurative) to fall upon.
Sometimes this results in a mini-fail that leads to a revelation; sometimes it’s a spectacular one that leads to the thought “I’m never doing that again. Ever.”
Hoping it’s not the latter on this one, but some sort of sweet spot of learning but being also able to fall off the balance beam without any major injuries sort of learning experiment.
We’ll see. I guess it will all come out in the wash, right?
Meanwhile–putting my money where my mouth is (and yes, on the internet!) as I frequently tell others to just try, be bold–well, here are I am too. For better or worse.
Enjoy-
Mrs. Bryant, never referred to by her first name in some fifty-odd years, flies over the speed bumps like her hair’s on fire. She succumbs to nothing like always. Her butter, unlike the ordinary rest of us, does not contain toast crumbs and she is always early to church.
Angie clocks Mrs. Bryant this evening going eighty-five on 98, the divided two-lane highway that leads out of town. The speed limit has been sixty-five for over twenty years.
Della, who has four children, a husband, a mortgage and a van, smokes non-filters slowly in the early evening on her drive to Babe’s Ice Cream Shack in Little Spring. By day, she’s a tour de force that makes all her children eat ALL the vegetables on their plates despite of (or because of, it’s rumored) their groans. She has the laundry crisply folded and put away by the time she pushes her ’55 red convertible down the driveway, careful not to wake her littlest – a three-year-old – before she hits the road. Beautiful Cole is either none the wiser that Della always has to “visit a friend” in the hospital every Thursday night, or like most men, he is but prudent enough not to say a thing as to his wife’s whereabouts.
Bob idles along as he always does, four miles under the speed limit in a truck with bad shocks and rust.
Sam spends his evenings taking Pecan on long walks under the weeping willows and cypress trees near the park. When Sam’s wife is in that no talking sort of inhospitable mad mood, Angie notices him much later passed out on the porch swing, gently swaying. One mocha hand rests on his chest and the other dangles grazing Pecan’s fur, who rests under the swing. Evidently, both locked out for the remainder of the evening.
Tina, Gerdie’s granddaughter, drives in consecutive right turns all night and smacks gum.
Jack, whose wife believes he might have early Alzheimers, gets out on full moons and tries for the city limits to worlds and delights beyond Haven. Most of the others believe he’s part wolf; just sort of odd and restless. Even though his wife has yet to accept as much about him after fifty years.
Stacy from Thousand Oaks Drive and the principal at the local high school speeds all the time and makes no bones about it.
Dana, the skinniest, oldest white lady in town, scuttles off to Hal’s Chicken Drive-Thru at dusk. She eats a whole bucket of fried chicken while looking out to the sunset over 98, right about the time the old gaslight lamp sputters on, highlighting her activities for the whole town to see.
Janey waits for Rick to come home from Blue’s again tonight. Angie sighs as she bites into a melty Twix that she pulled out from the console. I can only control disorder, she thinks to herself, and even then, not so much. If only I could put the world in the order in which it rightly belongs.
Angie remembers Janey at 17, showing off her corsage to Angie, begging for her to take a sniff of the small pale pink roses she received from Rick. She recalls the same sheer delight on Janey’s face when her first child was born.
From the opposite corner of the street, she watches the porch in her rear-view mirror for the tell-tale glow as Janey pulls out a cigarette and the embers highlight her worried face and chipped red nail polish. Angie makes a right turn as she turns off Arching Oak with a sigh, wishing for a better life for her friend.
But Angie knows. Angie has always known.
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Applebee's HASTINGS
2000 Vermillion
What to Expect at Our Applebee's Restaurant in Hastings
Restaurants in Hastings
Make Applebee's at 2000 Vermillion in Hastings your neighborhood bar and grill. Whether you're looking for affordable lunch specials with co-workers, or in the mood for a delicious dinner with family and friends, Applebee's offers dining options you'll love. Ask about happy hour and our wide selection of beverages, beers and cocktails to quench your thirst, call ahead at (651) 438-8604 to find out what's on tap today.
Since 1980, we've been bringing great food and big smiles to neighborhoods all over the world, and today, to this Applebee's in Hastings. Among the many reasons customers return, our food is by far the most popular excuse to visit. Below is a list of popular menu items you'll find at our Hastings restaurant:
Have a big event coming up, such as a wedding, birthday party, school event or baby shower? Applebee’s offer catering in Hastings for any gathering over 6, 10, 20, 30, or even 100 people, with party platters that include sandwiches, salads, pasta, and party wings (boneless or traditional wings). If you’re looking for restaurants that cater, look no further than your Hastings Applebee’s on 2000 Vermillion. Call (651) 438-8604 to learn more.
Applebee's COTTAGE GROVE
8380 E Point Douglas Rd S
Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Applebee's INVER GROVE
5855 Blaine Avenue
Applebee's WOODBURY
7250 Valley Creek Plaza
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Achievements unlocked
#BloggerTalk
Side-quests
Later Levels
XP comes with age
Posted 24 May 2019 by Kim18 Comments on Kickstarting to feel old Blog
Kickstarting to feel old
After logging into Kickstarter one morning this month to see whether there were any new campaigns worth checking out, I received a notification letting me know that the platform was ten years old. That’s a decade of crowdfunding since 28 April 2009, bringing communities together to help bring creators’ dreams to life and hopefully giving them the chance to get their hands on some amazing products.
I’ve now backed 36 projects since February 2013 so that’s an average of one every other month. Although the quantity and quality of video game campaigns has declined recently, I still visit the website occasionally to see what’s happening; and I enjoy being able to show my support for unique titles which are a little different from the norm, although there’s obvious no guarantee there’ll ever be made. In celebration of all things Kickstarter, here are ten campaigns I’ve pledged to over the past six years.
First project backed
Shortly after starting to blog in February 2013, I made my first pledge on the platform and backed Lucky Pause’s campaign for Homesick. It was the mention of some of my favourite classic titles in the promotional video that drew my attention and I had a feeling I was going to enjoy this ‘puzzle exploration mystery game’. And for the part we played, my other-half and I did; but unfortunately we got stuck after three hours or so and ended up putting the title to one side. I really should get back to it one day and finish it off.
Best game backed
I’ve been a fan of The Longest Journey for a very long time and jumped at the chance to support Red Thread Games’ campaign for Dreamfall Chapters shortly after the project above. But I still haven’t finished the title despite playing for 23 hours! The reason for this is slightly strange: I just can’t bring myself to complete the final instalment of the series because once I do so, it will all be over. Ragnar Tørnquist said in a forum post that he didn’t think a further sequel would happen for ‘many, many reasons’ so this may sadly be the last we see of Zoë Castillo.
Most controversial game backed
Elementary, My Dear Holmes! was a release being made by Victory Square Games in August 2013. The developer had signed up to Ouya’s Free the Games Fund so if their Kickstarter campaign reached a minimum of $50,000, the company would match the funds. Unfortunately a number of dodgy high-value donations were received from backers who were new to the platform and these resulted in accusations that head Sam Chandola or family members had made these pledges themselves. The project was then suspended admit the controversy.
Worst game backed
I backed the campaign for Pandora: Purge of Pride in May 2013 because I kind of felt a little sorry for developer High Class Kitsch. They were young, inexperienced and looked like they needed all the help they could get. But this game was one of the worst I’ve ever played: it was full of bugs, the story was incredibly flimsy with very little character development, and it just looked awful. The only thing the title had going for it really was the fact it had been made by a studio whose logo was a cat wearing a top-hat and monocle.
The campaign that meant the most
The Tomb Raider Suite by Nathan McCree was a celebration of the music of Tomb Raider and I backed the campaign because it brought back a special memory. My brother played the original game extensively and The Tomb Raider Theme could continuously be heard throughout our house – so it’s therefore no wonder I decided to use it to accompany my GCSE Dance examination piece. After receiving the backers rewards, Pete and I decided to use the recording as the music to which we signed our wedding vows in January.
The campaign with the best physical reward
Who wouldn’t want to get their hands on a physical Linking Book? This was the opportunity offered by Cyan Worlds with their campaign for the Myst 25th Anniversary Collection in April 2018. The book is awesome, and it was great to get my hands on the whole collection of games too as this inspired a complete playthrough on Twitch. Well, I say ‘complete’, but a rogue Bahro unfortunately caused Myst V: End of Ages to crash at almost six hours in and we just couldn’t bring ourselves to restart the game from the beginning.
A project backed that’s unrelated to video games
As if often the case with YouTube, one day I was idly passing the time by flicking through videos and came across a performance of Sensitive Badass by The Doubleclicks. This was an excellent song about being strong, fierce and honest: “Don’t tell me to calm down, don’t tell me it will pass, I’m not just sensitive, I am a badass.” It was with some pleasure that I then discovered the Kickstarter campaign for a related pin and made my pledge in June 2018. I’m still wearing it on my denim jacket today.
The unsuccessful campaign I’m most disappointed about
The Black Glove sounded as though it would be amazing: an eerie, surrealistic first-person game by a team of developers who helped make BioShock and BioShock Infinite. Unfortunately however, Day For Night Games’ campaign totally felt short of its target in October 2014. Some people say that it’s because readers couldn’t understand what the title was about from the information provided on the page but for me, it just made it all the more intriguing. The developer has since said their idea is shelved so it might not be a game we ever get to play.
Game most likely never to be made
LAST LIFE by Sam Farmer was a Kickstarter campaign which caught my eye immediately, as it was a sci-fi noir adventure was inspired by modern point-and-clicks such as Kentucky Route Zero. I made my pledge in April 2014, received updates that decreased in frequency until August 2017… and then nothing until Farmer announced his new game in September 2018. Take a look at this post for the full story, but to sum it up: the developer seems to have disappeared along with $103,058 of funds received from thousands of backers.
Latest game backed
I decided to back Twinspell Studio’s campaign for Descend recently because the idea of exploring a giant ruined structure, with different floors that have their own seasons, flora and fauna, is immensely intriguing. Nobody has seen the bottom floor but many of the characters in the game believe that whatever is down there could be the key to several mysteries that bewilder the inhabitants of Hemonnet. Unfortunately the project wasn’t successful and only achieved around 50% of its target, but hopefully this doesn’t mean the end.
As mentioned at the start of this post, the quality of campaigns on Kickstarter has been gradually declining and Jessica Saunders of Salix Games even said recently that it was ‘dead for video games’. I therefore have my doubts about whether I’ll be writing a similar post for the platforms 20th birthday. But hey: the past decade has been fun and I’m glad I’ve been able to support indie developers through crowdfunding, so that’s worth celebrating.
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map195 says:
Kickstarter is great, but it saddens me a bit that there are still people who believe it’s a glorified preorder system rather than… well, a crowdfunding platform. The most recent update for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (a project I immediately backed and am very excited about!) had tons of whiners in the comments who don’t seem to understand that project focuses and priorities change over time, particularly on a project that unfolds over as long a period as that one has.
Oh well. I’m still looking forward to the game and am glad I backed it!
I know exactly what you mean! I back projects on Kickstarter because I like the concept and want to show my support for the developers in achieving their vision, regardless of whether the campaign looks as though it’s going to be successful or not. I’m surprised that even after a decade, some people still see it almost like a ‘shop’.
iplayedthegame says:
I do like Kickstarter, but it’s frustrating when a project doesn’t get completed and the developer vanishes. At least have the courtesy to explain what went wrong and apologise!
There was one project I backed a long time ago which, throughout the course of development, the makers decided to change direction and create it only for VR on PC. This meant I could no longer play it and of course I was disappointed, but I understood the business decision because they’d taken the time to regularly update backers.
Projects like LAST LIFE however – where the developers just disappear – totally suck. It shows how little respect some have for their supporters.
I just started doing Kickstarter stuff this year and I actually love it. I wish I’d gotten into it before. I love watching dev progress and helping test things. There are ones I would have been thrilled to back if I’d known about them at the time, like Hyper Light Drifter and Night in the Woods.
There have been a few like that for me too, where I’ve found out about the campaign after its end and been disappointed I wasn’t able to support it! You kind of need to keep an eye on Kickstarter regularly to pick up on the good projects, but it can be quite difficult because there are just so many ‘lower-quality’ campaigns to wade through.
Not to mention their search bar doesn’t seems to work properly (on mobile).
Urgh, tell me about it. I can never seem to filter down properly to the projects I’d actually be interested in.
Never actually backed anything on Kickstarter. A friend of mine was really hyped about Praey for the Gods, and almost got me to back it, but I just never got around to it. The game itself looks pretty cool though, Shadow of the Colossus type huge bosses.
Funnily enough, I’m a backer for it too ha ha! I haven’t actually played it yet though because I want to wait for it to come out of early access.
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OverpoweredAF says:
I am really disappointed about The Black Glove. The Black Glove sounded really interesting just because of the BioShock aspect. It could’ve been a great BioShock-like title now that BioShock is missing in action.
Hey, someone else who wanted to see The Black Glove! 🙂
I was so disappointed this one didn’t reach its target, even more so when the developer said it might not ever get made now. I think they really could have done a great job of it considering their BioShock experience.
Yeah and it could’ve been a great BioShock title, considering that BioShock is nowhere to be seen for the past six years. I really liked the concept of the Black Glove, could’ve been great. We need a good, weird Single-Player title again.
The last ‘big’ one I played was Horizon Zero Dawn, as no releases since then have really grabbed my attention. Keeping my fingers crossed something comes along soon!
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Preface Contributors the art in traditional tibet Alessandro Boesi, Preliminary report on the Art of representing Tibetan Materia Medica Erberto F. Lo Bue, Newar artistic influence in Tibet and China between the 7th and 15th century Filippo Lunardo, The dGe lugs pa tshogs zhing: the difficulty in understanding the transmission lineage of the Bla ma mchod pa instructions Donatella Rossi, A preliminary note on the mandalas of the Bonpo tradition the tibetan art in himalayan plateau Chiara Bellini, Examples of beauty at the court of Seng ge rNam rgyal: the style of painting in Ladakh in the 17th and 18th centuries Elena De Rossi Filibeck, From text to image: an example from Lamayuru (Ladakh) Luigi Fieni, The art of Mustang and its conservation the tibetan art 0f today Filippo Salviati, Tibetan art between past and present. Dialogue with the past: an overview of contemporary Tibetan artists Livia Liverani, From master to student: continuity through a brush stroke 157 169 95 117 135 15 25 63 83 9 11
THE DGE LUGS PA TSH O G S Z HIN G : THE DIFF ICULT Y IN UN D E RS TA ND ING T HE TRANSMISSION L INE AG E O F THE BLA MA MCHOD PA INS T RU C T IO NS Filippo Lunardo
Tshogs zhing is a compound word indicating both the visualization of a spiritual field of masters and divinities gathered together, as well as specific images which codify such visualizations. In the dGe lugs pa tradition, the visualization and the images of the tshogs zhing are connected to the liturgies and to the literatures of the Lam Rim and the Bla mchod pa (the latter is a tantric practices linked to the figure of the guru). The aim of this article is to present an analysis and reading of the lineages shown in the different representations of the tshogs zhing linked to the liturgy of the Bla mchod pa. In particular, this paper focuses on reading the lineage of the transmission of instructions of the Bla mchod pa ritual as represented in the oldest images, dating back to the end of the eighteenth or early nineteenth century. For this lineage, the reading of the spatial location of the various masters does not adhere to the general rule proposed by David Jackson in his article Lineages and Structure in Tibetan Buddhist Painting: Principles and Practice of an Ancient Sacred Choreography (2005, JIATS, 1, pp. 1-40) wherein he states (with some exceptions) that for the images after the sixteenth century, the main figure is located in the middle of the series of masters, followed by the rest of the lineage holders who are placed alternately to the right and left of the central figure. However, it is not possible to use this method to determine the lineage of older tshogs zhings. The alternating pattern of the figures does not follow the standard tradition and the placement of the various masters in their specific spaces seems to be random, if not chaotic. This article presents a hypothesis for establishing a structured reading based on the degree of spiritual relationship between the different figures that are represented.
he compound word tshogs zhing consists of the terms tshogs (nouns meaning assembly, mass, group, or verbs such as to gather, to collect etc.) and zhing (field, in the sense of a farmers field).1 In the dGe lugs pa Tibetan Buddhist tradition, this compound identifies both the visualization of a complex spiritual field hosting gurus, masters of lineages and deities2 and the images (and the subsequent iconographic varia-
1 Yablonsky 2000. 2 The tshogs zhing is also known as the Merit field for the presence of gurus and deities at the beginning of meditations and practice who reassured the adept about issues such as blessings, transformation of bad attitude and influences on the spiritual path and getting inspiration.
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tions of them that developed over the centuries) that have been used to codify that visualization. In particular, there are two liturgical traditions in which tshogs zhing is implied as an expression of the meditative practice: exoteric liturgy, linked to the Lam rim literature (the gradual path to enlightenment) and esoteric liturgy, linked to the traditional literature of the Bla ma mchod pa (tantric practices having devotion for the guru as the central element) the first of these texts appears to have been written by the First Pan chen Bla ma Blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan (1567-1662).3 To gain access to the Bla ma mchod pa literature and to be able to follow the instructions and perform the meditative praxis of visualizing the tshogs zhing, one needed to get the four principal empowerments as requested bythe tantric cycles of the anuttarayogatantra classes: officially an image of the Bla ma mchod pas tshogs zhing could not be seen by someone without empowerments. During our studies and research on the Bla ma mchod pas tshogs zhing, we were able to identify at least three iconographic developments, owing to the different formal developments of reference literature throughout the centuries. The oldest images can be traced back to the end of the 18th century or the beginning of the 19th (Fig. 1), while later phases found a typical expression in the period from the beginning of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th (Fig. 2).4 The last phase is inspired by the late Pha bong kha bDe chen snying po (1878-1941) (Fig. 3). It is important to remember that the different typologies of tshogs zhing were also realized several centuries later than the texts the images related to.5 Moreover, very often the images tended to represent elements and details that the linked literature didnt include or express. This could testify to the possible existence of influences or oral traditions that ran parallel to the referential literature. In his writings, Pha bong kha himself6 stated that different readings of the same instructions were due to different teachers holders of the lineage of the Bla ma mchod pa. He collected the instructions of three different gurus through the teachings and the instructions of his root teacher, and starting with the first years of the xx century, unified the transmissions of the instructions concerning the Bla ma mchod pa literature, specifying the criterion for the iconographic representation of the tshogs zhing.
3 First Panchen Lama 2003. 4 We want here to thanks the antiquarian Renzo Freschi for his advices and for showing us his tshogs zhing thang ka for our research. 5 For example, tradition states that the written literature of the Bla ma mchod pa started with the root text of the First Pan chen Blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan, 1567-1662, and that the first images of the tshogs zhing are directly linked to this text. The oldest images of a tshogs zhing in the dGe lugs pa tradition date back to the period from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. 6 Pabongka 1997, pp. 194-195.
the dge lugs pa tshogs zhing
The iconography of the tshogs zhing is of course the most complex among the figures and images of gurus and deities worshipped in the dGe lugs pa tradition. In that iconography we notice a sort of chronicle of the most beloved cults and gurus of the Dalai Lama tradition; for example, the three typologies
we identified show that over the centuries there was a development regarding the number of protector deities, dharmapalas, and gurus related to the different lineages of transmissions of different instructions. In fact, while the number of figures representing Yamaraja and Mahakala (two of the three main protector deities related to the three spiritual aims of a practitioner) increased, the number of gurus of the Indian philosophical and tantric lineages and the number of Tibetan teachers of the Bla ma mchod pa lineage also increased, undergoing an important development in which symbolic value came close to fulfilling particular historical and social needs. Although the root text relates to the Bla ma mchod pa, the Pan chen Bla ma text doesnt identify each single teacher of the linage: for example, it only gives indications of the gurus of direct lineage of the main figure of Tsong
kha pa in their respective order. From the very first images it is evident that there was the need to separate the different philosophical and tantric lineages in their representations, while later developments distinctly manifest the different teachers attended by other gurus related to the same lineage. The dGe lugs pa tradition adopts the Madhyamaka Prasangika as a main philosophical view and model of interpretation of the Prajaparamita literature, also utilizing it as the code of behavior and path of the bodhisattva, the Yogacara tradition. Though this is not indicated in the root text, it can be seen in the oldest tshogs zhing through the figures of the bodhisattva Majuri and Maitreya surrounded by three Indian Madhyamaka gurus, beginning with Nagarjuna (Fig. 4), and by three other Indian Yogacara gurus, beginning with Asanga (Fig. 5).
In the images of the second typology, the number of teachers related to the Indian lineages increased and the typology underwent an important development manifested by the presence of Indian masters depicted with
Tibetan monks of the bKagdams pa and dGe lugs pa traditions. We used a text on Bla ma mchod pa of the yongs dzin Ye shes rgyal mtshan (1716-1793)7 as a reference for this phase, but once again, it doesnt give any details for this development, it only repeats the instructions previously given by the First Pan chen Bla ma. We can observe the need to represent the two lineages through the most important figures in the first images and in those of later tshogs zhings: the bKa gdams pa tradition unified the instructions of the two Indian lineages through the work of Atia, and the dGe lugs pa order inherited this Tibetan lineage. This topic has been underlined in the tshogs zhing of the third typology (Fig. 6), where, below the representations of the teachers of the Indian lineages we found three bKa gdams pa sublineages and one of dGe lugs pa masters. Both of the Tibetan lineages are symmetrically represented through the same figures below the Madhyamaka and the Yogacara teachers. This would also testify to the dGe lugs pa concept of fidelity to the pure preservation of the transmissions coming from India and the concept of maintenance of a real spiritual authority from a long, uninterrupted transmission linked to a line of demonstrated spiritual authority masters, a line accepted by all Tibetan Buddhist orders and schools. An analogous situation can be observed in the representation of the tantric praxis transmission lineage. Texts do not specify which gurus to visualize, but the oldest images clearly define the reference figures, in addition to Buddha Vajradhara with consort or alone, as the siddhas Tilopa, Naropa, ombhi Heruka and Atia (Fig. 7). These figures are always represented above the head of the main subject of the tshogs zhing, the root guru Tsong kha pa. In tshogs zhing of the second typology in the xix century, this representation became more complicated with the addition of a large number of other siddhas, including Mar pa and Mi la ras pa, but without the presence of Atia (Fig. 8). Gene Smith8 tells us that since the 18th century the mahasiddha cult has increased and improved in the dGe lugs pa tradition: he quoted the klong rdol bla ma Ngag dbang blo bzang (1719-1794), who also lived in Lho brag on the site of the tradition in the famous nine storey tower of Mi la ras pa. The klong rdol bla ma wrote a list with the names of seventy-two siddhass and to those he added another thirty names of siddhas all coming from the dGe lugs pa tradition, using the title of smyon pa (mad) for one of them. Probably, the inclusion of a greater number of siddhas in such a context as the tshogs zhing tells us that, in a particular historical phase, the dGe lugs pa practitioners felt that it was important (or necessary) to consider (or relate to) a larger number of teachers (especially Indians who were considered as real vajra holders, ful7 Bla ma lhai rnal byor gyi khrid dmigs kyi bsdus don rsnyan rguyd gter mdzod byed pai lde mig ces bya ba bzhugs pa. See De Rossi Filibeck 1994, p. 189 (n. 188/2). 8 See Linrothe 2006, pp. 67-69.
ly enlightened and essential for blessings, inspirations and spiritual realizations) in order to remove the interferences to the spiritual path and achieve the final goal.
It is also important not to forget that beginning in the 19th century, a new spiritual and cultural movement (the ris med non-sectarian movement)9 affirmed itself (particularly on the eastern side of Tibet) which included all the most important spiritual Tibetan traditions (excluding the dGe lugs pa tradition). The importance of a siddhas cult in the dGe lugs pa tradition, a cult that from the beginning was more renowned in other traditions such as the bKargyud pa, could lead one to think of it as a further attempt to legitimate and reaffirm both the political and the spiritual authority by the tradition of the Dalai Lamas through a sort of legacy linked to an uninterrupted lineage of Indian and Tibetan masters, this time exclusively affiliated to the tantric path; a sort of a new affirmation of religious orthodoxy which was superior to that of the other traditions through elements as the siddhas cult, which was also quite important for the other traditions. Starting in the 20th century, through the instructions of Pha bong kha,10 the members of the tantric lineage as represented in the tshogs zhing were then represented through their affiliation to the different annuttarayogatantra cycles as the Guhyasamaja, Vajrabhairava, the bKa gdams pas sixteen drops and the Cakrasamvara (Fig. 9). These representations depict all of the gurus of a single lineage, piled up one above the other and structured in four verti9 Samuel 1993. 10 Pabongka, op. cit.
cal columns surrounding a central column directly above the head of the main tshogs zhing figure, the Tsong kha pa one. Pha bong kha justified such an image, defining it as the result of unifying three different tshogs zhing vi-
Fig. 10.
sualization traditions: Blo bzang sgom chung (1672-1749), Ngag dbang byams pa (1682-1762) and bla ma, known by the title of yongs dzin rin po che which is probably the same as Ye shes rgyal mtshan. The direct transmission lineage of the Bla ma mchod pa The transmission lineage of the Bla ma mchod pa is known in the dGe lugs pa tradition as the dGa ldan snyan rgyud, lineage11 of tantric adepts who, starting with Tsong kha pa himself, orally transmitted instructions related to the Mahamudra, gCod and the Bla ma mchod pa. In the tshogs zhings, all of these gurus are always depicted in the sky in the second most important area of the image, the first being the area where the main central figure of Tsong kha pa is depicted (Fig. 10). In the images of the first typology, all of these figures are represented surrounding the Vajradhara figure; those in the second typology are represented around the siddhas group, as well as in a column in the centre of this group; and the images of the third typology are depicted as the central column in the middle of the four lineages of the annutarayogatantra cycle each guru is depicted with the bodhisattva Majuri features. Here well analyze the images related to the first typology. In general, as delineated by David Jackson12 in the article Lineages and Structure in Tibetan Buddhist Painting: Principles and Practice of an Ancient Sacred Choreography, the representation of a lineage by Tibetan art denotes a certain historical concreteness, both in practice and in the religious literature, and although there are some roots in the Indian experience, here the particular cultural aspects of Tibet are manifested. The depiction of a lineage and the names of the single gurus allow for chronological identification that is often more trustworthy than purely sty11 Willis 1995, pp. xiv-xv. 12 Jackson 2005, pp. 14, 38.
listic references from an artistic point of view. Identifying a single guru leads to identifying a correct temporal sequence, where the last depicted master of the lineage indicates the chronological terms with which we can date the image. In fact, without any other contrary inscriptions, we may hypothesize that the image was realized during the lifetime of the last teacher represented, or shortly after his death. The literature pertaining to the realization of the image and any inscriptions found on the image itself also contribute to further identification and knowledge of each individual guru and his specific position within the structure of the lineage. The order of the disposition of each figure can be established by the spiritual seniority status (and this has nothing to do with the concept of chronological seniority), doctrinal superiority and by the status of spiritual equality between two guru. In Tibetan art, the depiction of lineages, in particular those related to tantric experiences, need to undermine a fundamental concept typical of the Vajrayana, the important topic of the guru-disciple relationship. As one can notice by the depiction presented in the tshogs zhing, this relationship has its root in a context that transcends historical reality: the first guru is Vajradhara, hypostasis of akyamuni in the act of teaching tantras, a symbolic experience of the Sambhogakaya condition and adhibuddha for the gsar ma traditions. He is the holder of the vajra and therefore, a real symbol of the undifferentiated state that unifies the condition of meditative equipoise on the extension of suchness and the nature of that extension, to quote Tsong kha pa. Vajradhara is the union of the truth, body and the nature of a Buddha. From such an experience the following expression is Majuri, expression of enlightened wisdom, and from such a matrix come all the gurus of the lineage. The relation between a practitioner and the transmission lineage transcends simple reference to historical data: the power of its roots is intrinsic to the lineage only because it comes from a transcendental reality not a historical reality. In the tshogs zhings of the first typology, identification of the dGa ldan snyan rgyud masters as the gurus of the transmission of the Bla ma mchod pa was facilitated by finding a number of contracted names (in a form of word contraction called sdus yig) in a block print we studied in the library of the Is.I.A.O. in Rome. Note: until now, the occasional descriptions of tshogs zhings that we found in the catalogues of Tibetan art dealt with the topic in a very mediocre and banal way: for example, figures gathered together were mistakenly described as being the Dalai and Pan chen Lama, and in another case, the bodhisattva Majuri was identified as the bodhisattva Maitreya, evidence of very poor knowledge of the tradition, history and literature of the Bla ma mchod pa-Gurupujavidi. The main difficulty in identifying the lineage is in understanding the spatial disposition of the individual figures, necessary for comprehending the structure of the complex grouping of all the figures together.
The spatial disposition of the figures analyzed here show two deities and a series of gurus divided into three groups: the central group with three figures and the other two groups placed on the sides, on three different levels. Theoretically, the reading scheme for this particular way of representing a lineage should follow the rules suggested by Jackson for images after the sixteenth century: a main figure, usually Vajradhara for the gsar ma traditions, placed centrally above, and all the other figures, both gurus and deities, placed in alternating order to the right and left of the main figure. This pattern of alternation follows for the other levels or rows if present in the image. However, an exception to this way of reading can be observed in the sKu bum of rGyan rtse, in the lam bras lha khang realized in the year 1425,13 where theres a plastic representation of the Lam bras lineage waiting for the placement of its gurus, similar to the reading we are discussing here. The reading of the dGa ldan snyan rgyud figures in their temporal sequence delineates a basically different placement structure in respect to the one presented by Jackson14 for images from the same period of our tshogs zhings (Fig. 11). In fact, while Jacksons order is respected for the first three figures (Vajradhara Majuri and the master dbu ma pa dPa bo rdo rje, 14th century), the fourth figure, Tsong kha pa, is placed on the row below these figures, in particular below the figure of Majuri, and the fifth, representing the Master Jam dpal rgya mtsho, is on the first row directly to the right of the bodhisattva. As we can note from the numbering of the single figures as showed in fig. n. 11, this anomaly also relates to the depictions of other lineage holders. Even if the reading suggested by Jackson resumes from guru n. 5 to n. 8, in the lower row, n. 9 and 10 are placed exactly at the opposite sides of the image; n. 12 is placed below n. 11, and n. 14 and 15 below n. 13 and 10. This is an
13 Lo Bue & Ricca 1990, pp. 433-442.
14 Jackson, op.cit.
attractive hypothesis with foundations on historical reality, but the grade of spiritual relationship linking all the teachers appears to be better. For example, guru n. 12 represents dKon mchog rgyal mtshan (1612-1687), indicated by tradition as the main disciple of the First Pan chen and he himself the guru of the Second Paa chen. In the tshogs zhing this master is placed directly below the depiction of the First Pan chen, figure n. 11 in the image. This line of succession has been confirmed by the names of the masters of the transmission lineage of the Lam rim, and it is not surprising that we find the depiction of the Second Pan chen in the tshogs zhing as teacher n. 13. Masters n. 14 and 15 depict Ngag dbang jams pa (1682-1762) and Blo bzang bsod nam pa (xviii century). These figures seem to be placed on an oblique line, directly below n. 13, the Second Pan chen. Both Ngag dbang jams pa and Blo bzang bsod nam pa were disciples of Pan chen and then gurus of the Third Pan chen, Blo zang dpal ldan ye shes (1738-1780), n. 16, direct guru of the Eighth Dalai Lama Blo bzang jams dpal rgya mtsho (1758-1804), the last figure of the lineage as depicted in the tshogs zhings of this typology and n. 17 of the series. This unique depiction of a Dalai Lama give us the chronological term for dating the images of this typology or at least for formulating this iconography, placing it between the late 18th century and early19th century. Through the elements analyzed here we can thus delineate a particular convention for reading a lineage that would otherwise be somewhat indefinite and chaotic. In this context, the historical data prove to be a necessary tool for comprehending what must be observed in a lineage: a historical experience articulated through criterion underlining religious needs and the need of the person who commissioned the work to be able to immediately and easily recognize the lineage. The historical concreteness quoted by Jackson is manifested, but for scientific investigation to be carried out, the context of the analysis of an image like that of the first typology, the continuous reference to the texts which generated the image, consideration of the time that passed between the writing of the reference texts and the genesis of the related images, and knowledge of the moment in history when a particular iconography was created, all appear to be necessary tools for analysis and study. To identify a single figure is no longer enough; both the religious and historical reasons for these kinds of depictions have to be understood. An example can be observed in the siddhas group iconography as seen in the 19th century images: an ever-changing iconography, implying social-political elements (as seen above) which at the same time faithfully reproduces developments correlating to reference literature or shows concepts and external elements which are probably related to oral reality running parallel to the traditional literature. In addition, the historical data itself and the dates of the Eighth Dalai Lama lead us to quite certain dating of the image, surely more than the sman bris
gsar ma style, a style primarily used for identifying these images which was particularly adopted in central Tibet at the beginning of the 18th century. Therefore, when approaching the study of Tibetan art, it is important to remember that at the genesis of religious images such as the tshogs zhings, very often we encounter social and historical aspects that affect the developments of an iconography; aspects that may be suggested in the image through elements and details but that may not really be present in the reference texts. In Tibet, although art is almost always considered as a purely direct religious experience, it is also a symbolic and intuitive manifestation of events that extend beyond mere religious context. Bibliography
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Harvard Law Prof Sues NYT Over Epstein-Related Statements, But Will the Lawsuit Succeed?
by Colin Kalmbacher | 1:55 pm, January 14th, 2020
Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig filed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times on Monday over the liberal media outlet’s coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein affair. Will the lawsuit succeed?
At issue are several statements in which Lessig appeared to express sympathy for an MIT employee who had a financial relationship with the now-deceased pedophile and alleged sex trafficker. Lessig’s concern did not extend to Epstein himself but was, rather, focused on Joichi Ito, the onetime director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Media Lab. Ito eventually resigned after a $750,000 donation from Epstein for the lab received attention far and wide.
The Sept. 2019 Times article ran with the screaming headline: “A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret,” and was released roughly one month after Epstein’s suspicious death—officially deemed a suicide by hanging—inside his unwatched cell at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Here’s how that article begins:
It is hard to defend soliciting donations from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, has been trying.
Lessig claims the coverage of his statements by the Times was sensational and “false.”
“This title and lede are false,” Lessig argued in a separate Medium post. “Yet I’ve found — in the months since this was published, facing the endless attacks I get in person and online—that the challenge is to focus anyone’s attention enough long to see just why they are plainly false. Offering a tweet-length proof that a perfectly tweetable headline is flatly false is not, it turns out, simple.”
According to the lawsuit [emphasis in original]:
[The Times’] story was based upon an essay that Lessig had published on Medium and two interviews conducted with Lessig. [The Times] published their headline and lede despite their both being the exact opposite of what Lessig had written and despite being expressly told by Lessig pre-publication that they were contrary to what he had written. When Lessig brought the matter to [the Times] attention post-publication, they refused to remove or edit their headline or lede to reflect the truth.
“[The Times’] behavior here are part of a growing journalistic culture of clickbaiting: the use of a shocking headline and/or lede to entice readers to click on a particular article, irrespective of the truth of the headline,” the lawsuit continues a bit later on. “Defendants are fully aware that many, if not most, readers never read past the clickbait and that their takeaway concerning the target of the headline is limited to what they read in the headline.”
The rapid reaction to Lessig’s lawsuit among other legal professionals has been largely negative.
Notably, "a compelling case he was wronged by the Times" is a wholly different standard than "a defamation lawsuit capable of surviving under the light of the last more-than-half-century of precedent"
Larry Lessig is going to lose this lawsuit https://t.co/Twhuz7Rh1n
— T. Greg "#SilentSham" Doucette (@greg_doucette) January 14, 2020
Lessig's lawsuit – I've got some thoughts.
tl:dr – It's a SLAPP. Lessig is a powerful person. He should know that the suit is meritless. He is targeting not just the NY Times, but several individuals involved in the article.
It's a despicable suit.
It will backfire. https://t.co/41MaILijbC
— Mike "Already Over 2020" Dunford (@questauthority) January 14, 2020
“The lawsuit is really a stretch under current law,” Dave Heller, the deputy director of the Media Law Resource Center, told Law&Crime’s sister publication Mediaite in an earlier story. “A court will typically look at headline and article together—not in isolation—so even if you have a misleading or one-sided headline if that impression is corrected in the body of the article there can be no defamation claim.”
George Washington University Law Prof. Jonathan Turley wrote that “[w]hile there may be more offered in litigation, the lawsuit on its face seems dubious in establishing that the New York Times ran ‘false and defamatory’ information for him as ‘clickbait’ for readers.”
Other critics contrasted Lessig’s longstanding views on intellectual property with the defamation lawsuit:
This is kind of funny..Lessig, sounder of Creative Commons, who thinks the copyright law is anti free speech, sues the NYT for defamation…did anyone not tell him, he's a public figure? https://t.co/aTEdVmYbrl
— Yunghi Kim (@Yunghi) January 14, 2020
Incredibly frustrated and disappointed that I need to write this about @lessig, who is someone I admire and have learned so much from over the years. But his new lawsuit is bad and dangerous. https://t.co/Ht0RVce2wo
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) January 14, 2020
The major issue in most any defamation lawsuit noteworthy enough to be written about is the fact that the plaintiff in this case is a public figure. Due to Lessig’s almost legendary status as an internet personality, legal scholar, philosopher and activist, the standard he’ll have to meet is known as “actual malice.” That standard is a legal term of art which means Lessig would have to show the Times actually knew—or was alerted to—the inaccuracy of what they published before doing so.
Lessig says he has evidence of exactly that. In that Monday interview with Mediaite, Lessig said: “The evidence will show that I had alerted [the Times] to the potential problem in their lede before it was published, and certainly immediately after it was published. The ongoing publication creates an ongoing obligation to track the truth.”
Law&Crime reached out to Lessig as well. In response to a general inquiry, the Harvard professor linked to a website called clickbaitdefamation.org—which briefly lays out his case—as well as Twitter thread compiled here which he said is meant to complement the website. There’s also a lengthier explanation of the lawsuit here.
The New York Times, for its part, said it intends to fight back “vigorously.”
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Challenging Power and Inequality: Gender and Social Justice in the Middle East (En-Fr-Ar) (this CfP is closed)
Civil Society Review Social Science for Change Lebanon Support is seeking submissions for the issue: Challenging Power and Inequality: Gender and Social Justice in the Middle East Issue edited by: Gabriella Nassif Civil society in the Middle East has...
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Mart on Krall, Proving Up: Domesticating Land in U.S. History
Proving Up: Domesticating Land in U.S. History (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), by Lisi Krall (SUNY Cortland), is the subject of a recent review on H-Net. Although reviewer Michelle Mart (Penn State University, Berks) places particular emphasis on the book's contribution to environmental history (H-Environment commissioned the review), she alludes to the potential value for legal historians, especially those interested in property, political economy, and federal land policy:
The mythic power of western land has long dominated narratives of American history. Lisi Krall seeks to challenge this myth, untangling the narratives into their component parts of philosophy, economic systems, political decision making, and spiritual awe. Her slim volume, Proving Up: Domesticating Land in U.S. History, successfully argues that the frontier myth was constructed foremost from a capitalist imperative superimposed on material circumstances.
The book has two starting points, one anecdotal, one philosophical. The anecdote concerns the author’s paternal grandfather, a homesteader in southwestern Wyoming, who was shot by his neighbor in 1920 in a dispute over water rights. Krall’s grandfather, according to the federal government’s homesteading regulations, was required to dig canals to irrigate his dry land in an impossibly short period of time. In the short term, he did what he needed to do for survival, and thus impinged on the water rights of his neighbor. The grandfather’s downfall illustrates what the author explains to be the mismatch of nineteenth-century agricultural homesteading expectations with an arid landscape more suitable for ranching.
Krall presents this episode with her grandfather as a consequence of what happened when the “agrarian ethos” shaped federal land policy. Thus, she introduces the main focus of Proving Up: to trace the origins and tenacity of the “agrarian ethos,” how it evolved in tandem with market capitalism, how it came to shape federal land policies, and, more broadly, the relationship of Americans to land over more than two hundred years.
The philosophical roots of this ethos lies, Krall argues, in John Locke’s understanding of property and Thomas Jefferson’s view of the human relationship with land. Locke’s view that property status devolved on those who made use of the land supported Jefferson’s agrarian ideal and an understanding of property rights in the new republic.
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Conor McGregor walks out of the arena after his loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov last October. Picture: John Locher
Shocking McGregor footage emerges
by Shane O’Mahony
11th Apr 2019 10:59 AM
SHOCK video footage has emerged showing Conor McGregor allegedly swatting and smashing a fan's phone outside a Miami Beach hotel.
McGregor has pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges against him of robbery by sudden snatching, and criminal mischief.
The Irish UFC star was arrested and charged on March 11 after allegedly smashing the phone of 22-year-old Ahmed Abdirzak last month in Miami.
His case will come before the court again on April 30 with a trial date set for May 13.
If found guilty, "The Notorious" faces up to six years in prison.
Video footage released by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office shows the fighter smashing a fan's phone outside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.
McGregor is seen reaching out to Ahmed Abdirzak as if to shake hands, but pulls back and appears to smack the phone to the ground before seemingly stamping on it and then walking off.
A civil lawsuit against McGregor was taken out by Abdirzak for at least $15,000 in damages but was dismissed with prejudice in Miami-Dade County court on Monday.
The former double champ was accused of slapping a phone, thought to be worth $1000, out of Abdirzak's hand and stamping repeatedly on it.
Conor McGregor was caught allegedly smashing a fan's phone.
Although the lawsuit against 30-year-old McGregor has been dropped, the famed MMA fighter still faces criminal charges over the alleged incident.
The Crumlin-born fighter learned last week that his charges were to be reduced, with his second-degree felony charge of strong-armed robbery lowered to a third-degree felony of sudden snatching.
The move by Florida prosecutors to reduce the charges decreases the Dubliner's potential prison sentence from 20 years to six.
McGregor was not present at today's court hearing, where his lawyers entered the not guilty plea on his behalf.
The 30-year-old's lawyer Sam Rabin told RTE News: "We look forward to resolving this matter as quickly as possible".
McGregor has also been accused of punching a man in a bar brawl after being taunted over his crushing UFC loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Cops are investigating claims the UFC star lashed out at the boozer following a row at the Marble Arch pub in Drimnagh.
McGregor was pictured attending an amateur fight at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin on Friday night, the day before the alleged attack.
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Pauline Hanson. Picture: Liam Kidston
by Sam Clench
7th Apr 2019 1:30 PM | Updated: 8th Apr 2019 8:21 AM
One of the more nauseating ironies in politics is that those who most frequently use freedom of speech as a shield have no idea what it actually means.
I mention this because of Fraser Anning, the poster boy for having no idea.
This week Anning was censured by his colleagues in the Senate. It was a powerful, bipartisan condemnation of his loathsome comments in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack.
Fifty people died in the massacre, gunned down by an anti-Muslim fanatic while they were at prayer.
Anning had no words for them on Wednesday. He was too busy playing the victim himself.
"This censure motion against me is a blatant attack on free speech," he said.
"If, as a senator, I am not allowed to express my views, what chance do everyday Australians have to say what they think?"
Anning, like so many other self-serving politicians around the world, is labouring under the impression that freedom of speech gives him the right to say whatever he wants without any consequences.
He thinks he can spew his tripe, and the rest of us have to shut up and take it.
Anning is half right. Freedom of speech does give him the right to make dumb, bigoted comments. But it also gives others the right to criticise those comments.
And that is all the Senate's censure of Anning was - a chance for the Australian mainstream to officially register its disapproval. It was the political equivalent of the Queen's "one does not approve" face.
Australia’s reaction to Fraser Anning.
Anning suffered no real consequences. He wasn't suspended from parliament, didn't lose any of his exorbitant salary, and certainly wasn't gagged. He got to speak on the motion just like everyone else.
As absurd as it sounds, we should not be surprised that a man who won just 19 votes at the last election, but nevertheless scored a $200,000 job in the Australian Senate and a national platform from which to spout his garbage, somehow considers himself a victim.
It is a trait he shares with too many others.
Last month, when an undercover investigation exposed One Nation trying to solicit millions in foreign donations through the American gun lobby in exchange for weakening Australia's firearm laws, Pauline Hanson reacted not with contrition, but with outrage.
"Media across Australia have been blinded by hate and bias towards One Nation and myself, and rushed to report on heavily edited footage," she said.
"You have come here baying for my blood, and I will not give it to you."
Ms Hanson labelled Rodger Muller, an Australian journalist who conducted the three-year investigation for Al Jazeera, a "foreign agent". She called Al Jazeera an "Islamist" organisation. And she claimed the Qatari government was involved.
She claimed the documentary had taken her chief of staff, James Ashby, and One Nation's Queensland leader, Steve Dickson, "out of context".
And in a familiar move for anyone who keeps track of Australian politicians who have been caught doing embarrassing things, she referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police.
There was no apology. Just like Anning, Ms Hanson preferred to play the victim.
She was the victim of a tick bite. I’ll grant you that. Picture: Liam Kidston
A lot of Australians like her, and it's obvious why. She says what she thinks. In a world where politicians are practically never upfront, many find her refreshing.
It's a strength that makes her practically indestructible.
But as much as we all want our leaders to cut the crap and speak their minds, that should not give Ms Hanson - or anyone else like her - a free pass to fib and flirt with insane conspiracy theories.
The Al Jazeera footage was heavily edited. Of course it was. You can't condense weeks' worth of video into a two-hour documentary without editing.
It doesn't matter. We have seen enough of the footage to disprove One Nation's excuses.
Mr Ashby and Mr Dickson claimed they were not being serious when they discussed getting money from Koch Industries, a company which donates to conservative causes in the United States. They claimed they had been drinking at the time.
There is indeed some footage of them at a bar, perhaps a little intoxicated.
There is also footage of them asking gun lobbyists for advice. They're shown planning how to weaken Australia's gun laws. They are on camera in a Koch Industries meeting room, telling a company representative how much money they would need.
I'm struggling to imagine the sort of context that could justify such behaviour.
And that is without even mentioning Ms Hanson's own appearance in the documentary, during which she appears to buy into conspiracy theories about the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre.
"An MP said it would actually take a massacre in Tasmania to change the gun laws in Australia," she told Muller.
"Haven't you heard that? Have a look at it. It was said on the floor of parliament.
"Those shots. They were precision shots.
"I've read a lot and I have read the book on it, Port Arthur. A lot of questions there."
Again, Ms Hanson told us the footage was "heavily edited". What could possibly have been edited out to make those comments any less despicable?
Pauline Hanson, with James Ashby by her side. Picture: Liam Kidston
Of course, this is 2019. When it comes to outrageous political behaviour, all roads eventually lead back to Mar-a-Lago. And no politician plays the victim like supposed tough guy Donald Trump.
The recent revelation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not find Mr Trump's campaign had colluded with Russia, and did not reach a conclusion one way or the other on obstruction of justice, sparked a public convulsion of self-pity from the president.
"It's a shame that our country had to go through this. To be honest, it's a shame that your president has had to go through this," Mr Trump said.
"This was an illegal takedown that failed."
That is, in a word, bullshit.
The Mueller investigation was sparked by Mr Trump's decision to fire FBI director James Comey under false pretences.
Mr Trump spent a day pretending he'd sacked Mr Comey for mishandling the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server. Then he went on TV and said he'd done it because of "this Russia thing" - the FBI's Russia investigation.
It emerged that Mr Trump had pressured Mr Comey to stop investigating his White House national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, who later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein, a Republican, then appointed Mr Mueller, another Republican, to continue the investigation.
It led to dozens of indictments and multiple convictions.
General Flynn, Mr Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort, deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, personal lawyer Michael Cohen, political adviser Roger Stone and foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos were all ensnared.
The investigation did not "fail", it did its job. Mr Mueller was not appointed to conduct a "witch hunt", to borrow Mr Trump's favourite term, but to figure out how Russia interfered in the 2016 election. He appears to have done that.
Mr Trump likes to whine about the media as well, saying he cops more hostile coverage than any other president in history.
That is actually true. But the vast majority of the coverage is justified. Any other politician who acted the way Mr Trump does would deserve the same treatment.
He lies compulsively. Some of the lies are small and meaningless; others are large and consequential, but almost all are easily disproven.
What is the media supposed to do? Accept that the most powerful man on the planet is either delusional or extraordinarily deceitful? Say nothing?
Mr Trump lashes out savagely and publicly, often at his own employees, whenever he feels he has been personally slighted. Are we supposed to consider that normal behaviour for a 72-year-old man?
The question we all need to ask ourselves when we watch Donald Trump is how we would react to a politician from the other side behaving the same way.
Say Hillary Clinton had won. Say she had pressured her FBI director to shut down an investigation into one of her advisers, and fired him when he refused. Say she had spent two years labelling the subsequent investigation a witch hunt.
Would you support Ms Clinton? Consider her a victim? Or would you think the investigation was justified?
Say a Democrat president - let's call him, oh I don't know, Bill Clinton - was accused of sexual misconduct. Say there were multiple women accusing him.
Would you defend Mr Clinton? Label his accusers liars? Or would you call for him to be removed from office?
Say Barack Obama's personal lawyer had paid off an adult film star before the 2012 election to stop her from revealing she'd had an affair with the president. Say Mr Obama repeatedly told the American people he knew nothing about any payment, and was proven to have lied. Say his signature was on a cheque paying his lawyer back.
Would you shrug your shoulders? Consider it irrelevant? Or be outraged by the deceit?
All this conduct is troubling. You have to suspect Mr Trump's supporters would agree, if Mr Obama or one of the Clintons were involved.
Here, however, they believe the villain is not the lying politician, but the reporters calling him out.
“NO COLLUSION.” Picture: AP
There are some people who hold Mr Trump to a standard far higher than the one they use for their own side.
Others have lowered the bar to a point where anything Mr Trump does is forgivable.
And I have to admit, it's the lowering of the bar that frustrates me more, because we are starting to see it in Australia as well.
One Nation supporters would have been livid if Bill Shorten's chief of staff had sought foreign cash in return for changing Australian laws. When Ms Hanson's staffers are the ones caught on tape? They're outraged on her behalf.
How would Fraser Anning react if one of his Senate colleagues blamed a terror attack in the Middle East on Christian immigration? He wouldn't be quite so worried about freedom of speech then.
These people are all in positions of immense power, and they need to be held to account. That means intense public scrutiny. People like Fraser Anning, Pauline Hanson and Donald Trump knew that when they signed up for the job.
Next time one of them pretends to be a victim, don't fall for it.
- Sam Clench is news.com.au's political reporter. Continue the conversation @SamClench
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“I can’t remember how I first stumbled on the writings of Nema (founder of Horus-Maat Lodge), but once I started reading I was instantly hooked. Liber Pennae Praenumbra was the initial writing Nema channeled in 1974 and became the basis of her work in self-initiation. Aleister Crowley’s book Magick Without Tears was written to make Magick accessible to housewives, but Nema’s work is that theory in action. Her prose is majestic, powerful and life affirming. ‘Underground Werewolf Scribe Agape’ is my tribute to Nema and her beautiful work.” — J.S.
The Doleful Lions is the brainchild of Jonathan Scott who started the one man project in 1996 in Chicago. Scott signed to Urbana IL’s Parasol Records, formed a full band and moved to Chapel Hill to record their debut album called Motel Swim, produced by Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Pavement, Wilco). Scott’s own lyrical progression mirrors his own involvement with Magick and the occult. The early albums were chock full of monsters, sasquatches, UFO’s and other Fortean phenomena, but the lyrical content became much more focused with the 2005 album Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum, with songs about the Knights Templar (Satanic Blood), The Emerald Tablets Of Thoth (O Martyr Atlantis), and life after death (Slip Inside This Gateway). Jonathan’s brother Robert joined him again in 2007 to start working on the follow up to Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum. 2008’s 7 was nearly a concept album based on the writings of H.P. Blavatsky and other Theosophic writers, Scott became a card carrying member of the Theosophical Society in 2005 but has since left the group. The Doleful Lions upcoming album is called Let’s Break Bobby Beausoleil Out Of Prison! and will be out this summer on Wild Kindness Records.
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The full track list for this Spring 2012 anthology album consists of 10 tracks and 47 minutes of fantastic music:
Modchik – In Sight of my God
Doleful Lions – Underground Werewolf Scribe Agape
Ego and the Ids – Knight in the Abyss
Khan Kurra – Sumeria
Josh Howell – Infinite Mind
Hyle – In and Out of Consensus Reality
LVX1313 & Ikipr – Ω ש
Kim Cascone – Metals, Nebulae & Stars
Jersey Petroleum – As The Vessel Burns
Dark Mother Dub – Loa Crisis
The Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com has an overall vision of Archiving, Engaging and Encouraging the living Western Esoteric Tradition. I started the benefit anthology project to help promote newer works in the Western Esoteric Tradition to the audience of the Hermetic Library and beyond. The anthology project also further raises awareness about the corpus and culture of magick and ritual.
This Spring 2012 issue from the Hermetic Library Anthology Project is being released in mid-June. There’s 10 tracks on this anthology album from a number of new and returning artists. This is a playlist that makes me want to dance, makes me want to laugh, makes me want more. It’s got an itch that wants to be scratched, and that’s what Spring is all about. This release starts out with a strong rock beat with a glitchy guitar riff then moves to a moody melody with attitude. From there, an impromptu rap collaboration that leads to a strong electronica beat. A distorted electronica beat accelerates into an extended set of different raw glitched audio energy from several artists. The penultimate track is a fantastically awkward, lyrical and poetic piece that pretty much is exactly everything about how Spring feels to me, and then ultimately full circle to a final catchy and glitchy guitar riff that I think strongly and authoritatively announces an abrupt crossing of the sun into the coming Summer.
There’s a lot of itchy glitchy sounds to this playlist that seem to me just perfect for the feeling of the warm spring sun. You also know this feeling of everything stretching Winter-sore muscles and just aching to start running or climbing through the sudden sunshine. The cover image for this anthology builds on the sequential narrative, the progression from the previous anthology visuals and is meant to evoke the same Spring-like tension developing, an explosive potential just barely managing to hold itself in.
I encourage you to check out the Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com, if you aren’t already familiar with it, as that’s the reason this project exists and may also offer inspiration to you. The site was started in 1996 and has ever since consistently been an extremely popular resource for students and researchers interested in the Western Esoteric Tradition. You may also wish to check out other posts at the Hermetic Library blog and the Twitter and Facebook reflections to see how the library engages people in a living Western Esoteric Tradition.
Please join the Hermetic Library in promoting these artists who have contributed their work to this benefit anthology album project. All proceeds from album sales will support the library to help cover hosting costs and other expenses like materials acquisitions.
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Andrew Meyer Posted On December 3, 2019
After protesting a panel supporting economic warfare on Israel was held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Louis Shenker was arrested during Shabbat prayer services on November 23.
Beth Peller, a professor at Amherst called the police and obtained a harassment prevention order against Shenker. The order demands that Shenker stay away from the Amherst campus, where he is a student.
Shenker told Loomered that Peller is a member of the domestic terrorist group Antifa. Peller attended the anti-Israel panel that Shenker protested where Linda Sarsour was glorified as a guest speaker.
The panel was the second event at Amherst promoting the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement against Israel in the last six months.
Many students and members of the UMass community feel deeply upset by the scale, tenor and dogmatic messages of the anti-Israel events,” said Rabbi Aaron Fine, executive director of Hillel at UMass Amherst.
Read more here: https://loomered.com/2019/11/13/exclusive-jewish-student-harassed-at-linda-sarsour-event-at-amherst-for-protesting-anti-semitism/
“Louis was arrested during Shabbat prayer,” said Omer Milstein, who lives next to the Chabad synagogue at Amherst. “The officers arresting him did not tell him what he was being arrested for. He was kept in solitary confinement with only a small packet of Cheerios and a small carton of milk for Saturday and Sunday during his time in jail.”
Shenker is scheduled for a court hearing today on the harassment prevention order obtained by Peller.
“If it is not outright dismissed, it will be extended to the next hearing which is already scheduled for 12/11,” said Shenker’s mother Beatrice Fabian. “If Louis loses that, he faces 6-12 months in jail.”
Shenker was first served the harassment prevention order at the Chabad House where he lives. After Shenker posted a copy of the order online, “Peller went to the Northampton police at about 9:30 at night claiming to be in fear of her life,” said Fabian.
Peller was Shenker’s sophomore English teacher, and gave out assignments requiring Shenker to write about his ‘male white privilege’ and watch left-wing activist films.
While Shenker was in jail for two nights, a poster was created proclaiming Shenker to be a “white supremacist, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, groyper, American-nationalist, Trump supporter.”
Over 100 “alert” posters calling Shenker a white supremacist went up around the Amherst campus, and various groups have threatened Louis because of this defamation.
After becoming a target of anti-Israel and radical left-wing groups due to these flyers, Shenker has had to withdraw from his classes in fear for his personal safety.
Shenker’s mother Beatrice Fabian said Shenker has been “persecuted for his beliefs…It’s just not right.” She added, “I feel the harassment order was issued without the required standard of issuing the harassment order.”
Fabian told Loomered that Louis is under a gag order from speaking about the case until after the hearing, and as a result has been forced to suspend his Minuteman Broadcast podcast.
Meanwhile, a town hall is being held today on the Amherst campus to drum up opposition to Shenker, hosted by United Auto Workers Local 2322, a union which claims to represent graduate employees at UMass Amherst.
The town hall claims to “discuss and share viewpoints and experiences related to the white supremacist undergraduate student targeting, harassing and threatening graduate student workers and faculty.”
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“All GEO members are welcome and encouraged to join a town-hall meeting in Campus Center 917 to discuss and share viewpoints and experiences related to the white supremacist undergraduate student targeting, harassing and threatening graduate student workers and faculty, and to make a plan for safety and security in response to this particular threat and future threats like this, as well as discuss what the union has been doing and can do together. We did try to figure out a place off campus to have this meeting (given how many people feel unsafe at UMass right now), but had difficulty procuring a private space to accommodate a large group of people on a short timeline. “
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Ashes To Alabaster-Like Stones: LANL Ceramic Engineer Chris Chen Helps Start-Up Business
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People usually turn to ceramic engineer Chris Chen of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s fabrication manufacturing science group when they want advanced materials for scientific research or as high-tech components. He develops concepts, then processes and fabricates finished products to meet their needs.
But the request he received from Santa Fe artist and entrepreneur Justin Crowe was different: could he help refine a method that turns cremated ashes into alabaster-looking stones, using a kiln?
Crowe had reached out to the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program and was paired with Chen for a collaboration. NMSBA connects small businesses with expertise and capabilities from Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories, at no cost to the businesses (the program is made possible by the state of New Mexico, which pays for the researchers’ time through a tax credit). Since 2000, the two national laboratories have provided $57.9 million in technical assistance to 2,797 businesses, enabling 7,853 jobs to be created and retained.
“I was surprised by the project when NMSBA first contacted me,” says Chen. “I am a scientist/engineer and I do advanced ceramic work for high-tech applications such as satellites, airplanes and submarines. However, during the program, I realized there is a lot that I don’t know and need to learn.”
Since the solidification process for human ashes is similar to making ceramics, Chen’s expertise was valuable. Chen and his team recommended improvements to Crowe’s approach, enabling Crowe’s company, Parting Stone, to develop a process to superheat cremated remains, chemically altering ashes into beautiful stones.
This process is now the basis for Parting Stone’s product line, which was publicly launched in September.
Santa Fe artist and entrepreneur Justin Crowe/Photo Courtesy LANL
Collaborations spur economic development
Support through the NMSBA program was instrumental in Crowe winning Santa Fe’s 2018 bizMIX competition and enabling his startup to raise a $500,000 seed round to open a processing lab and hire employees. The company expects to create as many as 100 new jobs.
While the benefit to Crowe’s company might be clear, Chen stresses the benefits were mutual. “Justin educated me about a whole different world,” he says. “As scientists, we are limited to the scientific and engineering worlds, which are bound by rules and theories. However, by working with an artist like Justin, I learned a lot about the artistic world during the program.”
Parting Stone recently launched a project with several other Santa Fe companies to assess the environmental impact of their products. Again, through the NMSBA, they are collaborating with Chris Chen and other Laboratory researchers.
“The results from NMSBA and Los Alamos were spectacular, and we would love to work with them forever,” says Crowe.
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Richard Vallance Janke now has 500 followers on academia.edu
Filed under: academia.edu, Ancient Greek, Blog Guide, Decipherment, Linear A, LINEAR B by vallance22
Richard Vallance Janke now has 500 followers on academia.edu:
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THE MYCENAEAN LINEAR B “ROSETTA STONE” TO MINOAN LINEAR Tablet HT 31 (Haghia Triada) Vessels and Pottery
Filed under: * PARTNERS *, academia.edu, Ancient Greek, Decipherment, Grammar & Vocabulary, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Koryvantes, Association of Historical Studies (Athens), Linear A, LINEAR B by vallance22 — 2 Comments
has just been uploaded to my academia.edu account, here:
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In partnership with The Association of Historical Studies, Koryvantes (Athens), we address past and current prospects for the decipherment of the Minoan language, which has never met with any credible success in the 117 years since the ?rst discovery of Minoan Linear A tablets by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in 1900. A considerable number of philologists and historical linguists, some of them amateurs, claim to have deciphered the Minoan language, yet no one has ever formulated a convincing decipherment. We advance a unique and entirely untested approach to unravelling the text of Minoan Linear A tablet HT 31 (Haghia Triada), based on the principle of cross-correlative retrogressive extrapolation (CCRE) from Mycenaean Linear B to Linear A. HT 31 so closely parallels Mycenaean Linear B tablet, Pylos Py TA 641-1952 (Ventris) that the latter effectively serves as a kind of “Rosetta Stone” for the former. There is also credible evidence that a Mycenaean derived superstratum imposed itself on Linear A as the result of the Mycenaean conquest of Knossos and Crete ca. 1500 – 1450 BCE or, failing that, their all but absolute suzerainty over Knossos and its dependencies. Approximately 300 or 26 % of 1166 intact words in Linear A are very likely of Mycenaean origin.
Tags: Ancient Greek, archaeological, archaeology, Archaeology and Science, archaic Greek, Belgrade, comparative linguistics, decipherment of Linear A, decipherment of Minoan Linear A, diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics, HT 31 Haghia Triada, language, languages, Linear A, Linear A decipherment, Linear A syllabary, Linear A Tablets, LINEAR B, Linear B Pylos Tablet 641-1952, Linear B Tablets, linguistic, Linguistics, Minoan Linear A, Mycenaean Greek, pottery, Pylos
Article, Linear B Lexicon for the Construction of Mycenaean Chariots just published on academia.edu
Filed under: academia.edu, Ancient Greek, Decipherment, Grammar & Vocabulary, Knossos, LEXICONS & GLOSSARIES, LINEAR B, Military, Mycenae, SCRIPTA MINOA, SUPERSYLLABOGRAMS, Tablets, Vocabulary by vallance22 — 3 Comments
Article, Linear B Lexicon for the Construction of Mycenaean Chariots just published on academia.edu:
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just uploaded to my academia.edu account at the link above. To download it, click the green DOWNLOAD button on the right side of the document.
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This Lexicon is the only one of its kind in the entire world. To date, no one has ever published a Linear B Lexicon on a subject as focused as the Construction of Mycenaean Chariots.
This article has just been published in the prestigious European journal, Epohi (Epochs), Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2017), published bi-annually by the Department of History of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, University of Veliko, Tarnovo, Bulgaria. I have been invited by the Editor-in-Chief, Stefan Iordanov, to publish new papers in the near future (sometime in 2018) and again in 2019. Considering that the Editor-in-Chief, Stefan Iordanov, solicited me to submit this article sight unseen, you can be sure I shall submit more papers to the journal.
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How can so-called Cretan hieroglyphs be hieroglyphs when there are only 45 of them?
Filed under: Decipherment, LEXICONS & GLOSSARIES, Linear A, LINEAR B by vallance22 — 1 Comment
Until now most researchers have simply assumed that the 45 Cretan symbols (by my count), exclusive of numerics, must be hieroglyphs. But the evidence appears to gainsay this hypothesis. As the table below makes quite clear, there are only 45 Cretan symbols, to which
only 27 may possibly/probably/definitely be assigned meanings.
The significance of the remaining 18 are currently beyond the bounds of decipherment:
So this lands us with a total of only 45 Cretan symbols. If and when we compare this number with the approximately 1,000 Egyptian hieroglyphs, the whole notion that the Cretan symbols are hieroglyphs comes apart at the seams and is shattered.
And that is not the end of it. There are anywhere between 600 and 1,000 symbols in Cuneiform.
So once again, the massive proliferation of symbols, i.e. hieroglyphs, in Egyptian, and of symbols in Cuneiform make a mockery of the notion that the Cretan symbols are hieroglyphs. But if they are not hieroglyphs, what are they? It would appear that they are ideograms or logograms on seals and nodules which serve to tag the contents of the (papyrus) documents they seal. This hypothesis makes a lot of sense, since almost all Cretans and Minoans, administrators, merchants and consumer, were illiterate. These people were probably able to master the minimal number of 45 ideograms and logograms which we find on 100s of surviving seals. But while the illiterate hoy polloi could not read the script on the sealed papyrus (or leaf tablets sometimes), the scribes most definitely could. This leaves us open to yet another hypothetical question? What is the script of the texts? How many symbols or syllabograms (if the latter yet existed) would have been required to write the papyrus or inscribe the leaf tablets? Was this script, if script it was, an early form of Linear A, such as Festive Linear A? Or was it actually Linear A? This question or hypothesis demands further investigation.
Tags: Akkadian, comparative linguistics, Cretan, Cretan hieroglyphics, Cretan hieroglyphs, cuneiform, decipherment of Linear A, decipherment of Minoan Linear A, diachronic linguistics, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Festive Linear A, hieroglyphics, historical linguistics, leaf tablets, Linear A, Linear A decipherment, Linear A syllabary, Linear A Tablets, linguistic, Linguistics, Minoan Linear A, nodules, noduli, Persian, seals, Sumerian, tablets
How circular language in the movie, Arrival, determines the aspacial/atemporal nature of logograms throughout the ages
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How circular language in the movie, Arrival, determines the aspacial/atemporal nature of logograms throughout the ages:
In the movie, Arrival (2016), which chronicles the arrival on earth of 12 mysterious ships, apparently from outer space, the following statements leap out at us:
1. Unlike all written languages, the writing is semiseriographic. It conveys meaning. It doesn't represent sound. Perhaps they view our form of writing as a wasted opportunity.
2. How heptapods write: ... because unlike speech, a logogram is free of time. Like their ship, their written language has forward or backward direction. Linguists call this non-linear orthography, which raises the question, is this how they think? Imagine you wanted to write a sentence using 2 hands, starting from either side. You would have to know each word you wanted to use as well as much space it would occupy. A heptapod can write a complex sentence in 2 seconds effortlessly.
The key to all of this is the phrase a logogram is free of time. Allow me to illustrate. Logograms are also often called ideograms, and that is what I prefer to call them. Another word to describe them is icon. When we examine ancient Linear A and B ideograms and compare them with modern ones, the results are astonishing, to wit:
All of the aforementioned examples make it quite clear that ideograms, whether they be as ancient as those in Linear A and Linear B (i.e. about 3,400 years old) or modern ... or for that matter, neolithic or even earlier, all bear a striking resemblance to one another. Take for instance the Linear A ideogram for “scales” and compare it with just one modern one (among so many others), and we see immediately that they are extremely similar. Now take the Linear B ideograms for
“man” and “woman” and compare these with the washroom symbols for the same and once again the similarity is almost too good to be true. Then there is the Linear B ideogram for a four-spoke wheel compared with a modern one for an eight-spoke wheel. The number of spokes is not relevant to this discussion, only the fact that the ancient Linear B ideogram for “wheel” is practically identical to the modern one.
The implications for the decipherment of ideograms in any language, ancient or modern (let alone Linear A and Linear B) versus those in any modern language are staggering. We can be sure that the ancient ideograms varied little from one language to another, let alone between Minoan and Mycenaean. In fact, the syllabogram TE, which sometimes represents wheat, in Linear A and Linear B is almost identical to the same ideograms in cuneiform!
It is patently obvious that since the distinction between the ancient ideograms and their modern equivalents enumerated above is so thin, all of these ideograms (or logograms or icons) are not only time independent (atemporal) and spatially independent (aspatial), they are also language independent. This is a stunning phenomenon.
The implications for the further decipherment of Linear A are simply overwhelming.
And this is why in the movie, Arrival, the heptapods assert, “There is no time.”
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Is the Minoan language proto-Altaic or proto-Japanese? The vast bulk of current diachronic linguistic research stacks up squarely against this hypothesis
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Is the Minoan language proto-Altaic or proto-Japanese? The vast bulk of current diachronic linguistic research stacks up squarely against this hypothesis:
According to Ms.Gretchen Leonhardt of:
While there has been much debate about the underlying language of Linear A, I disagree that LinA does not resemble a known language. Despite its similarities to Japanese, historical linguists dismiss a correlation for at least two reasons: (1) the apparent lack of genetic evidence and (2) the universally held belief that LinA is an Indo-European language. Regarding the first justification, if linguists are looking to mainland Japan for genetic evidence, they are looking too far north. By whatever means, it appears that, around 1000 BCE, the Minoans entered Japan from the southern islands, and gradually moved north. Regarding the second justification, Minoan scholarship generally agrees that the Minoans migrated from the Anatolian region**, which suggests an Altaic origin or influence. Likewise, Japanese scholarship suggests that the Japanese language belongs to the Japonic-language family, which is believed to have an Altaic origin or influence.
General consensus dates the demise of the high Minoan civilization as late as 3,500 years ago, with the widespread destruction of the palace centers, while Neil Gordon Munro dates the commencement of the Yamato culture, which is the presumed progenitor of modern Japanese civilization, as early as 3,000 years ago. According to Munro, the origin of the Yamato culture is unknown but had arrived in a highly advanced state. The culture is notable for its grave goods–bronze arrowheads, bells, and halberds. The culture is also notable for its wheel-thrown pottery, which employed “restrained” decoration with “subdued color” [1908:4].
Munro was writing in 1908, when linguistic assumptions about Altaic languages were in their infancy! Modern scholarship has all but refuted the assumptions about Altaic languages in vogue at the beginning of the twentieth century, i.e. 100 years ago!
She continues:
The Okinawan (Uchina’a) Japanese remain culturally, genetically, and linguistically distinct from the mainland (Yamato) Japanese, although the two cultures are believed to share a common proto language. This forum will provide support–through disciplines such as archaeology, architecture, art, genetics, and language–for my dual theories that LinA is proto Japanese and that the Minoan civilization provides a rich backdrop for Japanese history, which, for millennia, has been shrouded in mystery.
I hasten to add that in the preceding passage, Ms. Leonhardt has made egregious errors with respect to Minoan Linear A. These are:
1. On the one hand, she claims to disagree that “LinA does not resemble a known language.”
2. and then goes straight ahead to flatly contradict herself by decrying “the universally held belief that LinA is an Indo-European language.” Universally held? Very far from it. The controversy over the origin and language class Linear A purportedly belongs to still rages on, as attested by innumerable studies on academia.edu alone which contradict one another with respect to the language family or class to which Linear A purportedly belongs. All this after she has just lament the fact that Linear A does not resemble any known language (1.)
3. She goes on... “it appears that, around 1000 BCE, the Minoans entered Japan from the southern islands, and gradually moved north. Regarding the second justification, Minoan scholarship generally agrees that the Minoans migrated from the Anatolian region** (Does it? Perhaps in 1908, but I sincerely doubt this is the case today), which suggests an Altaic origin or influence.” But what she obviously overlooks in this statement is the distinct probability, and indeed strong likelihood that the Minoan language almost certainly had already existed for some 1,200 years before the Minoans migrated to the southern Japanese islands, if they ever did so in the first place... which is a highly contentious claim. Moreover, while a few researchers still claim that the proto-Japanese dialect she is referencing belongs to the Altaic class of languages, the majority of current researchers number are convinced that this cannot be so.
And I quote (all italics mine):
Micro-Altaic includes about 66 living languages,[9] to which Macro-Altaic would add Korean, Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages for a total of about 74. (These are estimates, depending on what is considered a language and what is considered a dialect. They do not include earlier states of languages, such as Middle Mongol, Old Korean or Old Japanese.)
Opponents maintain that the similarities are due to areal interaction between the language groups concerned. The inclusion of Korean and Japanese has also been criticized and disputed by other linguists.
The original Altaic family thus came to be known as the Ural–Altaic.[13] In the "Ural–Altaic" nomenclature, Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic are regarded as "Uralic", whereas Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic are regarded as "Altaic"—whereas Korean is sometimes considered Altaic, as is, less often, Japanese.
In other words, proto-Japanese, including the dialect with which Ms. Leonhardt is concerned, may not be (proto-) Altaic at all.
4. Moroever, the following timetable seems to be the most realistic for the appearance of written Japanese (italics mine):
(3) Timetable:
To illustrate the prehistory of Japan, I'd put two lines on the timetable. The first line comes around 400 to 300 BC. This is the time when wet rice culture and iron processing came to the Japanese Islands, and the way of life there changed. Yet an older form of the Japanese language started to be spoken from that time. I'd call this phase of the language "proto-Japanese", which later evolved to our Old Japanese.
Now it is clear from this diachronic timeline that proto-Japanese appeared at least 1,800 years after the first attestation of the Minoan language ca. 2200 BCE.
And again (italics mine):
Along with the foreign faith, Japan establishes and maintains for 400 years close connections with the Chinese and Korean courts and adopts a more sophisticated culture. This new culture is essentially Chinese and includes literature, philosophy, art, architecture, science, medicine, and statecraft. Most important is the introduction of the Chinese writing system, revolutionizing Japan, which heretofore had no writing system of its own, and ushering in the country’s historical period. (Comment: in other words, writing appeared in Japan only after 500 AD, some 2,700 years after the advent of the Minoan civlization.
5. Leonhardt continues, “Minoan scholarship generally agrees that the Minoans migrated from the Anatolian region**, which suggests an Altaic origin or influence.” after asserting in 1. above that “LinA does not resemble a known language.” and in 2. above, touting “the universally held belief that LinA is an Indo-European language.” Good God, can she make up her mind? Is it 1. 2. or 5.?
6. Leonhardt then cites research a century old! (again, italics mine) She states, “According to Munro, the origin of the Yamato culture is unknown but had arrived in a highly advanced state. The culture is notable for its grave goods–bronze arrowheads, bells, and halberds. The culture is also notable for its wheel-thrown pottery, which employed “restrained” decoration with “subdued color” [1908:4].
For confirmation of the general span of dates of his publications, see:
Munro was writing in 1908, when linguistic assumptions about Altaic languages were in their primitive infancy! Modern scholarship has all but refuted the assumptions about Altaic languages in vogue at the beginning of the twentieth century, i.e. 100 years ago! And he wrote in this very journal.
7. But the most damning evidence against her thesis comes from (italics mine):
Paleoglot: How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage
Paleoglot: ... So let's go through my cheeky list of important strategies that we can follow (using examples from the Tower of Babel project) if we want to isolate ourselves and be rejected by all universities around the world.
1. Use "phonemic wildcards" obsessively! Cast the net wider and you might catch something!
The abuse of mathematical symbols like C, V, [a-z], (a/é/ö), etc. are an excellent way to make your idle conjecture look like a valid theory. It might be called "reconstruction by parentheses" since parentheses are either explicitly shown or hidden by a single variable. An example of this is *k`egVnV (claimed to be the Proto-Altaic word for "nine" in the Tower of Babel database). Obviously, if V represents all possible vowels in this proto-language and there are, say, ten of them possible in either position, then the fact that there are two wildcards in the same word means that the word represents a humungous, two-dimensional matrix of ONE HUNDRED possible permutations (10*10=100):
*k`egana, *k`egena, *k`egina, *k`egüna, *k`egïna, etc.
*k`egane, *k`egene, *k`egine, *k`egüne, *k`egïne, etc.
*k`egani, *k`egeni, *k`egini, *k`egüni, *k`egïni, etc.
*k`eganü, *k`egenü, *k`eginü, *k`egünü, *k`egïnü, etc.
etc. language
Since no single form is actually being posited when wildcards are present, any claim of regular correspondence by such a theorist can be easily identified as fraud. If such linguists can't take themselves seriously enough to hypothesize a structured and testable theory, why then should we take them seriously in turn?
It is this very method, if you can call it that by any yardstick of scientific methodology that Ms. Leonhardt indulges in:
as we can see all too clearly from this chart of her derivations of Minoan words from so-called Altaic roots:
To summarize, Ms. Leonhardt has seized herself in a web of self-contractions, severely outdated research and claims with respect to the authenticity of southern proto-Japanese as a so-called proto-Altaic language which cannot possibly stand the test of valid scientific methodology. I short, her pretensions that southern proto-Japanese is at the root of the Minoan language are just that, presentions, and egregious to boot.
So what are the alternatives? What language family or class might the Minoan language fall into? We shall address that question head on in the next post.
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Gretchen Leonhardt is up against some stiff competition from Urii Mosenkis concerning her so-called proto-Japanese origins of Minoan Linear A
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Gretchen Leonhardt is up against some stiff competition from Urii Mosenkis concerning her so-called proto-Japanese origins of Minoan Linear A:
Urii Mosenkis makes a very strong case for Minoan Linear A being proto-Greek, and he does it over and over, like clockwork. This includes his own completely different interpretation of Ms. Leonhardt’s highly contentious decipherment of kuro as so called proto-Japanese. I strongly suggest that Ms. Leonhardt read his articles. He is much more qualified than I am in Linear A (and, I contend, than Ms. Leonhardt as well), and I admit it without a shadow of hesitation. I am forced to revise my predictions about the partial decipherment of Minoan Linear A as I outlined them in my first article on Linear A, and I admit openly that Mosenkis is probably right, by and large. Ms. Leonhardt would do well to read all of his articles, as they flat-out contradict everything she claims about the so-called proto-Japanese origins of the Minoan language. I at least have the humility to lay down my cards when I am confronted with convincing evidence to the effect that my own partial decipherment of Minoan Linear A is defective, even though I have already reached many of the same conclusions as Mosenkis.
Not that he would ever convince Ms. Leonhardt of the infallibility of her own dubious decipherments of Linear A tablets. I have a very great deal more to say about Ms. Leonhardt’s contentious claims to eventual fame with respect to her clearly flawed interpretations of Linear A tablets, and to drive my points home, I shall have occasion to cite Mosenkis whenever and wherever he contradicts her, and that is always.
To view all of Mosenkis’ superbly conceived research papers, please visit his academia.edu account here:
Here is a selective electronic bibliography of the highly qualified decipherments Mosenkis has made of several Minoan Linear A inscriptions:
Electronic:
Mosenkis, Urii. Flourishing of the Minoan Greek State in the Linear A Script
1700 – 14560 BCE.
https://www.academia.edu/28708342/FLOURISHING_OF_THE_MINOAN_GREEK_STATE_IN_THE_LINEAR_A_SCRIPT_1700_1450_BCE
Mosenkis, Urii. Graeco-Macedonian goddess as Minoan city queen.
https://www.academia.edu/26194521/Graeco-Macedonian_goddess_as_Minoan_city_queen
Mosenkis,Urii. Linear A-Homeric quasi-bilingual
https://www.academia.edu/16242940/Linear_A-Homeric_quasi-bilingual
Mosenkis, Urii. ‘Minoan-Greek’ Dialect: Morphology
https://www.academia.edu/28433292/MINOAN_GREEK_DIALECT_MORPHOLOGY
Mosenkis, Urii. Minoan Greek Farming in Linear A. https://www.academia.edu/27669709/MINOAN_GREEK_FARMING_IN_LINEAR_A_Iurii_Mosenkis
Mosenkis, Urii. Minoan Greek hypothesis: A short historiography https://www.academia.edu/27772316/Minoan_Greek_hypothesis_A_short_historiography
Mosenkis, Urii. Minoan Greek phonetics and orthography in Linear A
https://www.academia.edu/27866235/Minoan_Greek_phonetics_and_orthography_in_Linear_A
Mosenkis, Urii. Minoan-Greek Society in Linear A.
https://www.academia.edu/27687555/MINOAN_GREEK_SOCIETY_IN_LINEAR_A
Mosenkis, Urii. Researchers of Greek Linear A.
https://www.academia.edu/31443689/Researchers_of_Greek_Linear_A
Mosenkis, Urii. Rhea the Mother of Health in the Arkalokhori Script
https://www.academia.edu/31471809/Rhea_the_Mother_of_Health_in_the_Arkalokhori_Script
PS I came to almost exactly the same conclusions as Mosenkis re. this
inscription, although my Greek translation is different.
I wonder what Ms. Leonhardt has to say for herself in light of so many astonishingly insightful decipherments by Urii Mosenkis of a large number of Linear A tablets. I look forward to cogent and rational counter arguments on her part, which stand up to rigorous scientific criteria.
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Can quantum computers assist us in the potentially swift decipherment of ancient languages, including Minoan Linear A?
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No-one knows as yet, but the potential practical application of the decryption or decipherment of ancient languages, including Minoan Linear A, may at last be in reach. Quantum computers can assist us with such decipherments much much swifter than standard digital supercomputers.
Here are just a few examples of the potential application of quantum computers to the decipherment of apparently related words in Minoan Linear A:
dide
dusi
dusima
idamete
japadi
japaku
jaria
kireta2 (kiretai) *
kiretana *
kuro *
kuruku
maru (cf. Mycenaean mari/mare = “wool” ... may actually be proto-Greek
maruku = made of wool?
namikua
namikudua
pajai (probably a diminutive, as I have already tentatively deciphered a few Minoan Linear A words terminating in “ai”, all of which are diminutives.
qapaja
qapajanai
rakii
rakisi
siisi
takui
All of these examples, with the exception of * kireta2 (kiretai), kiretana & kuro *, each of which I have (tentatively) deciphered, are drawn from Prof. John G. Younger’s Linear A Reverse Lexicon:
It is to be noted that I myself have been unable to decipher manually on my own any of the related terms above, with the exception of the 3 words I have just mentioned. The decipherment of kuro = “total” is 100 % accurate. I would like to add in passing that I have managed to (at least tentatively) decipher 107 Minoan Linear A words, about 21 % of the entire known lexicon. But everyone anywhere in the world will have to wait until 2018 to see the results of my thorough-going and strictly scientific research until the publication of my article on the partial decipherment of Minoan Linear A in Vol. 12 (2016) of Archaeology and Science (Belgrade), actually to be released in early 2018. But if you would like to get at least a very limited idea of what my eventual decipherment is all about, you can in the meantime consult this preview on my academia.edu account here:
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The British Museum on Twitter only follows back about 5 % of those who follow them, but they do follow us!
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While The British Museum has 1.01 million followers, they only follow back 50.9 K Twitter accounts, and KONOSO is one of those with whom they reciprocate. In other words, we are among the 5 % of Twitter accounts they follow back. This goes to demonstrate the enormous impact our Twitter account, KONOSO:
Moreover, in the past 3 months alone, the number of our twitter followers has risen from 1,600 to over 1,900 (1902). This, in combination with the 625 followers of our co-researcher colleague's twitter account (Rita Roberts):
brings the total number of followers of our 2 accounts combined to 2,527, up from less than 2,000 only 3 months ago.
Among other prestigious international Twitter accounts following us we find:
Henry George Liddell:
the latest in a long line of generations of great historical Greek linguists who over the centuries have compiled the world’s greatest classical Greek dictionary, the Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon.
Phaistos Project:
Greek History Podcast:
@antiquitas @eterna:
Dr Kalliopi Nikita:
Expert in Greek Archaeology-Ancient Glass Specialist-Dedicated to Greek Culture, Language & Heritage Awareness Art lover-Theatrophile-Painter- Olympiacos-Sphinx
The Nicholson Museum, antiquities and archaeology museum, Sydney University Museums, Sydney, Australia, also follows us:
Eonomastica:
Bacher Archäology (Institute, Vienna):
Canadian Archaeology:
University of Alberta = UofAHistory&Classics (Alberta, Canada):
All of our followers confirm that Minoan Linear A, Linear B, Knossos & Mycenae:
is having a profound impact on the vast field of diachronic historical linguistics, especially the decipherment of ancient languages, most notably Mycenaean Linear B, Arcado-Cypriot Linear C and even Minoan Linear A. MLALBK&M has in effect become the premier diachronic historical linguistics site of its kind in the world in the space of less than 4 years.
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International Historical Linguistics journals I will contact to review my articles in Archaeology and Science, 2016 & 2017
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International Historical Linguistics journals I will contact to review my articles in Archaeology and Science, 2016 & 2017:
Following is a list in 2 PARTS of international Historical Linguistics journals I will contact to review my articles in Archaeology and Science:
[1] Janke, Richard Vallance. The Decipherment of Supersyllabograms in Linear B, Archaeology and Science. Vol. 11 (2015), pp. 73-108.
As soon as this ground-breaking article is published in early 2017, I shall submit it for review in every one of the international journals below.
[2] Janke, Richard Vallance. Pylos tablet Py TA 641-1952 (Ventris), the “Rosetta Stone” to Minoan Linear A tablet HT 31 (Haghia Triada) vessels and pottery, Archaeology and Science. Vol. 12 (2016)
Since this article is not going to be published before mid-2017, and as yet has no pagination, I shall have to wait until then before I submit it for review to all of the periodicals below.
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I have just finished the first draft of the article, “Pylos Tablet Py TA 641-1952 (Ventris), the ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Linear A tablet HT 31, vessels and pottery, which is to appear in Vol. 12 (2016) of the prestigious international annual, Archaeology and Science (Belgrade) ISSN 1452-7448
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I have just finished the first draft of the article, “Pylos Tablet Py TA 641-1952 (Ventris), the ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Linear A tablet HT 31, vessels and pottery, which is to appear in Vol. 12 (2016) of the prestigious international annual, Archaeology and Science (Belgrade) ISSN 1452-7448,
and I fully expect that I shall completed the draft Master by no later than Oct. 15 2016, by which time I shall submit it to at least 5 proof-readers for final corrections, so that I can hopefully submit it to the journal by no later than Nov. 1 2016. This article is to prove to be a ground-breaker in the decipherment of at least 21.5 % = 116 terms of the extant vocabulary = 510 terms by my count, of Minoan Linear A, although I cannot possibly claim to have deciphered the language itself. Nor would I, since such a claim is unrealistic at best, and preposterous at worst. Nevertheless, this article should prove to be the most significant breakthrough in any partially successful decipherment in Minoan Linear A since the first discovery of a meagre store of Linear A tablets by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos 116 years ago.
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The proportion of eponyms & toponyms in percentage to all terms in Minoan Linear A and in Mycenaean Linear B. Does it all add up?
Filed under: Decipherment, LEXICONS & GLOSSARIES, LINEAR B by vallance22
There are 45 eponyms and toponyms in our Glossary of 134 words in Minoan Linear A, comprising 33 % of the total.
Calculating the total number of terms in Chris Tselentis’ Linear B Lexicon as 1,500 give or take, and the number of eponyms and toponyms as 380 give or take, the percentage of the latter is 25 % of the total.
It should come as no surprise at all anyone at all familiar with Mycenaean Linear B that there are so many eponyms and toponyms (e&ts) in the Lexicon. This being the case, it is reasonable to expect that the same phenomenon should repeat itself in Minoan Linear A. And so it does. Yet, while it is clear that eponyms and toponyms account for a significant percentage of the total number of terms in each syllabary, why the 8 % discrepancy between the percentage of eponyms and toponyms (e&t) in Minoan Linear A = 33 % and in Mycenaean Linear B = 25 %?
There are several cogent reasons for the divergence:
1. Whereas philologists have squarely deciphered the vast majority of words in Mycenaean Linear B, the same cannot conceivably be said of Minoan Linear A. Hence, the over-weighted preponderance of e&ts in Minoan Linear A. We simply have not been able to decipher enough Minoan Linear A words, however accurately or not, to be able to state with confidence that we have even approached a comprehensive lexicon of Minoan Linear A. This fact alone would account for the relatively higher percentage of e&ts in Minoan Linear A (33 %) than in the wide-ranging Linear B Lexicon by Chris Tselentis (25 %).
2. However, even Tselentis, in spite of his admirable thoroughness, has not by any means accounted for all of the terms deciphered in Linear B, as these amount to at least 2,500. So unless we count all of the eponyms and toponyms on every last extant Mycenaean Linear B tablet, the percentage of the e&ts cannot be accurately accounted for.
3. The same goes for our Minoan Linear A Glossary of 134 terms. Since the number of terms deciphered, exclusive of eponyms and toponyms, amounts to 89, these account for only 17.5 % of all intact words in Prof. John G. Younger’s Linear B Lexicon (ca. 510). So in the case of Minoan Linear A, the total percentage of eponyms and toponyms (33 %) is decidedly lop-sided to the up side. There is no way of telling how positively biased the percentage of e&ts in our Minoan Linear A Glossary of 134 terms is, but it is certain that it is out of whack, just as the percentage of e&ts in Mycenaean Linear B is (but for entirely different reasons).
4. Thus, we cannot definitively conclude that the frequency of e&ts in Minoan Linear A is as closely aligned with the frequency of the same in Mycenaean Linear B as we might imagine or wish it to be. Such an expectation is entirely misguided.
5. On the other hand, it is quite clear the eponyms and toponyms account for a considerable segment of the total vocabulary in both Minoan Linear A and Mycenaean Linear B. This set of circumstances must never be overlooked in any sober attempt at the decipherment of Minoan Linear A, however partial.
There still remains one ineluctable sticking point with eponyms and toponyms in Minoan Linear A. Whereas in Mycenaean Linear B, which has been deciphered for the most part with considerable accuracy, we can virtually always distinguish between a word which is an eponym and one which is a toponym (with only a handful of exceptions at best), the same cannot be said of Minoan Linear A. There is just no guarantee that the 27 words I have identified as eponyms in our Glossary of 134 Minoan Linear A words are in fact all eponyms, or vice versa, that the 18 toponyms are indeed all toponyms. The most glaring example of this crossover transposition is the name Kaudeta (?), which may be either an eponym or a toponym (which is why I have listed it in both categories), or which may be neither. That is made clear enough by my marked hesitancy in defining it either way, while at the same time I find myself hedging my bets by including it also in the list of terms I have tentatively deciphered, more or less accurately, where I define it as possibly meaning “ to be distributed (fut. part. pass.) approx. = Linear B, epididato = having been distributed (aorist part. pass.) ”. But you cannot have it three ways. All this goes to show how precarious the partial decipherment of even a relatively small subset of Minoan Linear B (26 %) is bound to be.
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Just uploaded to academia.edu, An Introductory Glossary of General Linguistics Terminology (PDF)
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This glossary serves as a baseline introduction to linguistics terminology. As such, at first glance, it may not appear to be of much value to those of us who are linguists. However, if you are a professor or teacher of linguistics, you may find this little glossary of benefit to your students, especially undergraduates. As for those of you who are archaeologists and whose field of specialization is not linguistics, you will more than likely find this little lexicon of some real practical value if ever you have need to have recourse to linguistics terminology. There are as well plenty of other people whose specialization is not linguistics, but who would like to familiarize themselves with at least some of the most generalized terminology of linguistics. Moreover, there are those among you who are not professional linguists at all, but who may have contributed something of real merit to the field, or are about to to do so.
Recall the astonishing contribution of Michael Ventris,
an architect and not a professional linguist at all, who single-handedly deciphered the Linear B syllabary as the script of the earliest East Greek dialect, Mycenaean Greek, not to mention many other geniuses outside the orbit of linguistics who have also made revelatory if not revolutionary discoveries that no linguist ever realized. We should keep firmly in mind that Michael Ventris alone managed to decipher Linear B, after a half-century of utterly fruitless attempts by professional linguists to accomplish this astounding feat of the intellect. This is not to say that a great many academic linguists have not accomplished similar remarkable breakthroughs in the field, because they most certainly have. Still, linguistics, like any other field of study in the humanities or sciences, is not the exclusive purview of the so-called ivory tower league. Whether or not we are ourselves matriculated linguists, we should always bear this in mind.
Finally, lest we forget, there are many among us may simply be curious about general Linguistics Terminology, in order to familiarize yourself with it, just in case a glossary such as this one, however limited, may whet your appetite for more. You never know. Nothing venture, nothing gained.
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If nothing else, I have come to the definitive conclusion that academia.edu is a far better venue than any other on the entire Internet for students and researchers in any academic field whatsoever. If you wish to see your research papers downloaded more often than anywhere else on the Internet, this is the place to be. It is far more efficient in attracting the attention of the international open research community than any other place on the Internet, bar none. So if you are an academic or even a student in any discipline whatsoever, you really should sign up for academia.edu, and it is free! Go here to sign up:
I am truly grateful for the attention that researchers, academics and students on this prestigious site are giving to my research, yet surely not mine alone, but also that of my distinguished colleague and fellow researcher, Rita Roberts of Crete.
Keep your eyes on Rita's own academia.edu page, where she will soon be uploading her seminal article on her translation of Pylos Tablet Py 641-1952, the very first that Michael Ventris himself translated in 1952.
Rita's translation is bound to arouse a lot of attention on academia.edu, since she is an archaeologist with a unique perspective on the import of this famous tablet, thus in a position to produce a translation which those of us as linguists may have overlooked. I for one would never have been able to accomplished a translation in the manner Rita Roberts has finessed hers. Please remember to follow Rita on academia.edu, as that the place where she will eventually be publishing all of her research articles and documents on Mycenaean Linear B. Until such time as it appears on academia.edu, to review her excellent translation, please click here:
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Table 2: Comparison of Spelling Conventions in Linear B and Alphabetical Greek
Filed under: Lessons Linear B, LEXICONS & GLOSSARIES, Linear A, LINEAR B, LINEAR C Arcado-Cypriot, Orthography, PROGRESSIVE LINEAR B, Vocabulary by vallance22
Table 2: Comparison of Spelling Conventions in Linear B and Alphabetical Greek – Click to ENLARGE:
As you will quickly enough appreciate from studying Table 2, Comparison of Spelling Conventions in Linear B and Alphabetical Greek, the Linear B syllabary sometimes has a tough time representing exactly the Greek vowels and consonants they are supposed to be (exactly but not always!) equivalent to. This is particularly true for:
(a) the vowels E & O, which are both short and long (epsilon in the Table) and long (aytay in the Table in alphabetical Greek & o micron (short) & o mega (long) (See the 2 variants on each of these vowels in Greek in Table 2 above) can only be represented by 1 single vowel syllabogram for the same vowels, i.e. E & O, in Linear B. (See also the same Table).
(b) the situation seems considerably more complicated with the alphabetical Greek consonants, but the appearance of complexity is just that, merely apparent.
By studying the Table above (Table 2), it should dawn on you soon enough that the Linear B syllabograms in the KA, PA, RA, QE & TA series are forced to represent both alphabetical Greek variants on the vowels each of them contains, since once again, Linear B is unable to distinguish between a short vowel and a long vowel following the initial consonant in each one of these series.
(c) In the next post, we will provide ample illustrations of these principles of spelling conventions in Linear cross-correlated with their equivalent spelling conventions in (early) alphabetical Greek.
NOTE: When we eventually come around to analyzing the Syllabary of Arcado-Cypriot (the Greek dialect resembling the Mycenaean Greek dialect to a striking degree), we will discover that in fact the Syllabary for Arcado-Cypriot, known as Linear C, suffers from precisely the same deficiencies as Linear B, which in turn establishes and confirms the principle that no syllabary can substitute fully adequately for the Greek alphabet, although I must stress that both Linear B & Linear C are able to account for a great many (though certainly not all) of the peculiarities of the Greek alphabet. What is truly important to keep in mind is that a syllabary, in which all 5 vowels have already been accounted for, and in which the consonants (so to speak) are all immediately followed by any one of the vowels, is the very last step in evolution from hieroglyphic through to ideographic and logographic systems before the actual appearance of the (earliest form of) the ancient Greek alphabet. In other words, the evolution from hieroglyphic systems such as ancient Egyptian all the way right on through to the Greek alphabet, the culmination of 1,000s of years of evolution, looks something like this:
hieroglyphics -› ideograms -› logograms -› syllabary -› alphabet
in which only the last two systems, the syllabaries, represented by Linear A, Linear B & Linear C, and the Greek alphabet, contain all of the vowels. This is of the greatest significance in the understanding of the geometric economy of both syllabaries and alphabets, explaining why syllabaries consist of far fewer characters (generally no more than about 80-90 syllabograms, not counting logogams and ideograms, which are merely remnants of the previous systems) than any previous stage(s)in the evolution of ancient writing systems, and why alphabets consist of even fewer characters (only 24 in the classical Attic Ancient alphabet, and never more than 30 in the earliest Greek alphabets).
Tags: alphabet, Ancient Greek, Arcado-Cypriot, comparative linguistics, consonants, ideograms, Linear A, LINEAR B, Linear C, Linguistics, logograms, Mycenaean Greek, syllabary, vowels, writing systems
Linear Cypriot Script (ca. 11-4 BCE) compared with Linear B (ca. 15-12 BCE)
Filed under: Decipherment, LINEAR B, LINEAR C Arcado-Cypriot by vallance22
I am reblogging the comparison between Cypriot (Linear C) and Linear B preparative to my thorough analysis of Sir Arthur Evan’s meticulous observations on the parallels between these 2 syllabaries, which lead him to correctly decipher 6 Linear B syllabograms. Stay POSTED.
Linear Cypriot Script (ca. 1100-400 BCE) compared with Linear B (ca. 1500-1200 BCE) Click to enlarge:
While both Linear b and Cypriot are linear syllabaries, we would be jumping to conclusions to assume that Cypriot was derived from Linear B. However, the striking similarity between some of the syllabograms, even when they convey entirely different vowel or consonant + vowel meanings, is fascinating, especially considering that the Cypriot script did not come into its own until AFTER Linear B had lapsed into disuse. I would like to make a further observation. Many linguists frequently claim that there was a lapse of at least 3 centuries between the disappearance of Linear B (ca. 1200 BCE) and the advent of the Greek alphabet (ca 900 BCE or later) when written Greek completely disappeared, but clearly this is not the case. Greek was continuously written in Linear Cypriot from around 1100 BCE (immediately after the demise of Linear…
Tags: Arcado-Cypriot, comparative linguistics, Cypriot, Decipherment, LINEAR B, Linear C
Linear Cypriot Script (ca. 1100-400 BCE) compared with Linear B (ca. 1500-1200 BCE)
Filed under: Decipherment, LINEAR B, LINEAR C Arcado-Cypriot, PROGRESSIVE LINEAR B by vallance22
While both Linear b and Cypriot are linear syllabaries, we would be jumping to conclusions to assume that Cypriot was derived from Linear B. However, the striking similarity between some of the syllabograms, even when they convey entirely different vowel or consonant + vowel meanings, is fascinating, especially considering that the Cypriot script did not come into its own until AFTER Linear B had lapsed into disuse. I would like to make a further observation. Many linguists frequently claim that there was a lapse of at least 3 centuries between the disappearance of Linear B (ca. 1200 BCE) and the advent of the Greek alphabet (ca 900 BCE or later) when written Greek completely disappeared, but clearly this is not the case. Greek was continuously written in Linear Cypriot from around 1100 BCE (immediately after the demise of Linear B), all the way through to the 4th. century BCE (!), when it was at last replaced by the Greek alphabet. In other words, the Cypriots hung onto Linear Cypriot EVEN when the Attic alphabet had reached its perfection. It would appear that the conquests of Alexander the Great finally sounded the death knell of Linear Cypriot.
Tags: comparative linguistics, Cypriot, Knossos, LINEAR B, Linear B Tablets, Mycenae, Sir Arthur Evans
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Living in Space
Integral Understanding of life-regulation mechanism from "SPACE"
Grant-in-Aid for scientific Research on Innovative Area(2015-2019), MEXT, Japan
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The research team of Professor Atsushi Higashitani (A01), Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, collaborated with Nottingham University and Exeter University in England, showed mitochondrial dysfunction causes calcium to build up in cells, which in turn activates enzymes that degrade collagen. Collagen is vital for giving structure to the outside of cells, so degradation of collagen destabilises muscle.
The article, "Mitochondrial dysfunction causes Ca2+ overload and ECM degradation-mediated muscle damage in C. elegans" was published online in The FASEB Journal.
The 2nd International Symposium on LIVING IN SPACE 2019 was held on March 15th, 2019 at Inamori-Hall, Shiran-Kaikan in Kyoto.
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A research team of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS) in Japan’s University of Tsukuba led by Prof. Liu and lead author Zhiqiang Wang that includes members of Living in space (A02), Prof. Yanagisawa and Visiting Prof. Funato, identified 80 proteins that are hyper-phosphorylated in both sleep-deprived and Sleepy mutant mouse brains, by analyzing the quantity of change in phosphorylation. The article, "Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis of the molecular substrates of sleep need" was published online in Nature at DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0218-8.
Asako Sakaue-Sawano, a research member of Living in Space (B01) has successfully developed novel genetically encoded cell cycle optical sensor, Fucci(CA) in a collaborative project. As reported in Molecular Cell, November Issue, Fucci(CA) monitors cell-cycle interphase with boundaries between G1, S, and G2 phases in real-time. Fucci(CA)2 also identifies a window for UV irradiation damage in S phase on HeLa cells. This technology is expected to contribute to understand cell cycle behavior in "Living in Space".
A team led by Prof. Higashitani(A01), Tohoku University, revealed the mechanism of heat stress induced muscle breakdown in body-wall muscles of Caenorhabditis elegans exposed to elevated temperature. The findings are published in a prestigious academic journal, Genetics. The findings are expected to lead to prevention of heat stroke aggravation.
PATHWAY to convert visual information into the feeding motivation was identified in zebrafish; a team led by Prof. Kawakami and Dr. Muto, National Institute of Genetics, published an online article in Nature Communications dated Apr.20 reporting that the pretecto-hypothalamic pathway plays a crucial role in conveying visual information to the feeding centre. It is expected to control appetite in space in the future. →Link to article
Regenerated fibers lack hypertrophying function in skeletal muscle: A team led by Dr. Kawano of Matsumoto University published a research article titled" Prenatal myonuclei play a crucial role in skeletal muscle hypertrophy in rodents." in American ournal of Physiology Cell Physiology published in March 2017. →Link to article
An International Symposium on LIVING IN SPACE 2017 was held on March 9th, 2017 in Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo.
A team led by Dr. Lazarus, University of Tsukuba, has discovered a direct link between REM sleep loss, the medial prefrontal cortex and the desire for sugary and fatty foods according to Asahi Shimbun →Link to Asahi Shimbun
A team led by Profs. Masashi Yanagisawa and Hiromasa Funato of WPI-IIIS, University of Tsukuba (Programmed Research Nagase Group) identified mutations that affect sleep/wakefulness in mice; amount of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep shown to be regulated by NALCN and SIK3 proteins, respectively. This landmark paper was published in Nature.→Link to article
Prof. Akira Kudo at Tokyo Tech, in collaboration with Dr. Chaya at Showa University, reported in Scientific Reports,nature-com published on December 22 that live-imaging and transcriptome analysis of medaka fish transgenic lines identified the immediate alteration of cells responsible for bone structure formation. These findings are important for assessing the effects microgravity on long term human space missions. →Tokyo Tech News
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Natural enemies could tame invasive Himalayan ginger
Posted on June 5, 2018 by MISC
Though not invasive in India where it is native, Himalayan ginger can completely transform a Hawaiian rainforest like it has in this section at 4,000-foot elevation above Haiku. Inset: Ginger fruits are spread long distance by birds and rats. FOREST and KIM STARR photo
The subtropical rainforests in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains are amazingly diverse. In sections of India and Nepal, the forests are similar to Hawaiian rainforests in both temperature and rainfall-but the flora and fauna are radically different: this is the land of elephants and red pandas; 600 species of butterflies live here and over 400 species of orchids. But amongst the exotic plants there is one
The fruit of Himalayan ginger is a tasty treat for non-native birds, but this means the seeds are spread throughout the forest. Photo courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr.
that might be familiar to residents of Hawai’i-a yellow-flowered ginger that covers vast sections of Hawaiian rainforests.
Himalayan ginger, Hedychium gardnerianum, is native to the Himalayan foothills. There, it evolved over millennia supporting a diversity of species: the sweet nectar is a food for the long-tongued butterflies of the region and the plant lives in harmony with the species that surround it. Yellow flower stalks dot the landscape amongst hundreds of other orchids, gingers, ferns, and trees.
But in Hawai’i, Himalayan ginger dominates the landscape-growing fast and paving its way into the forest in an unrelenting march.
“Himalayan ginger displaces critical native vegetation layers, limits canopy tree recruitment, and hogs water resources in their massive rhizomes (roots). As it takes over and forms monotypic stands, it negatively impacts native flora and fauna, including Hawai’i’s unique arthropod complex and the Hawaiian honeycreepers,” says Alison Cohan, director of the Maui Nui Forest Program with The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
Introduced as an ornamental, Himalayan ginger escaped backyards and began invading rainforests of East Maui in the mid 1950’s. With seeds dispersed far and wide by birds and rats, the weedy plant spreads by leaps and bounds into the forest. Today, much of the mid-elevation rainforest of East Maui is a patchwork of native forest and alien ginger. But there is a lot left to protect: many ginger-free areas remain, including most of West Maui.
Ginger is a formidable foe and removing the plant is no simple task. Roots pave the forest floor like asphalt and every part of the rhizome must be removed. Bagged rhizomes take years to decay and if there is the slightest hole in the bag, hardy shoots emerge. If using herbicide, every portion of the root has to be treated. Plants on steep slopes and cliffs are inaccessible and impossible to remove until the weight of the water-logged roots causes entire sections to collapse in a landslide.
Why would ginger be a pest in one place but not another?
Djami Djeddour, weed biocontrol scientist with the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International, inspects a lone Himalayan ginger plant in India while searching for insects and fungi that live on the plant where it is native. These insects may be responsible for keeping the plant in check. DJAMI DJEDDOUR photo
The answer to that question is on the minds of resource managers in Hawai’i as well as New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa where the plant is invasive. With funding from organizations like TNC and the Hawai’i Invasive Species Council, research scientists traveled to India and collected insects and fungi that live on Himalayan ginger hoping to discover what keeps the fast-growing herb in balance there. An effective natural enemy could be a game changer for Hawai’i.
An effective natural enemy wouldn’t eliminate the plant, just bring it into harmony with the surrounding environment, much like it is in India and Nepal.
One of the most promising insects is a Cloropid fly that lives only on Himalayan ginger. The larvae live inside the stem stunting the growth and reducing flower production. Ginger natural enemies may be ready for release in New Zealand soon, promising progress for Hawai’i.
“The Nature Conservancy had been doing ginger work in Waikamoi for over 30 years, systematically conducting ginger control—containing the core population at the western edge of Waikamoi and eradicating outliers in native forest,” explains Cohan. Crews with Haleakala National Park work on the flowering pest in Kīpahulu Valley but the plant is widespread and thrives unchecked in wet places throughout the state.
There are ways you can help. Consider what you call the plant: though known for years as kāhili ginger, a pest destroying the rainforest does not deserve a moniker reminiscent of Hawaiian royalty much less one that might suggest that it belongs here. Perhaps call it toilet-brush ginger, as suggested by Pat Bily of TNC after years of removing it. Do not plant Himalayan ginger in your yard and remove it from your property before it spreads. Finally, participate in The Nature Conservancy’s quarterly volunteer trips removing ginger from Waikamoi Preserve. Contact hike_waikamoi@tnc.org if interested.
Lissa Strohecker is the public relations and education specialist for the Maui Invasive Species Committee. She holds a biological sciences degree from Montana State University. Kia’i Moku, “Guarding the Island,” is prepared by the Maui Invasive Species Committee to provide information on protecting the island from invasive plants and animals that can threaten the island’s environment, economy and quality of life.
This article was originally published in the Maui News on April 8th, 2018 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column from the Maui Invasive Species Committee.
Filed Under: Home Slider, Kia'i Moku Column, Solutions, Watershed impacts Tagged With: 2018, biocontrol, Himalayan ginger, kahili ginger
From the Forest to the Faucet – Every Drop Counts
Posted on October 6, 2015 by MISC
Big Bog, high above Hāna on the windward slopes of East Maui, and Puʻu Kukui, on West Maui are some of the wettest places on the earth with 360-400 inches of rainfall a year, so it’s hard to imagine water could ever run short. When overrun with water, it’s easy not to think about times of scarcity, much like the flow of money. Knowing now how much, when, where the dollars are coming from helps, as does prioritizing needs versus luxuries. If needs exceed income, we can earn more, spend less, or combine the two approaches.
Near the summit of Puʻu Kukui on West Maui clouds are the norm. The rain that falls here and on the slopes of Haleakalā supplies Maui residents and visitors throughout the year.
The same is true for managing our limited water resources. Studies in Hawaiʻi are looking to see how what happens in our forests affects what comes out of our faucets.
Stream runoff is captured from East Maui to meet the needs of upcountry residents and agriculture.
Hydrologists develop water “budgets” to quantify how water moves through our environment and how much is captured for our use. They look at all the drops that go into and out of the watershed, whether in by rainfall and fog drip or out by runoff and evaporation. Sometimes water goes into the savings account – absorbed by the soil, then into the water table or aquifer through infiltration and recharge. On Maui, the water we use is either captured from surface runoff or pumped from the aquifer.
The Maui County Department of Water Supply tracks overall water use while striving to meet the needs of the community. Understanding hydrological cycles and water budgets, helps the Department plan for the future by looking at how to capture more water from the sky or spend less through runoff and evaporation to meet the needs of tomorrow. But how? Many factors influence water budgets. Research done on the mainland might not be relevant for Hawaiʻi, a comparatively tiny sprinkling of islands in the middle of a massive ocean. So the Department is working with the U.S. Geological Survey to study water systems on Maui to help prepare for the future.
The plants in a native Hawaiian forest effectively capture more water than many of the invasive plants that make up the lower elevation forests.
Differences in land cover and use affect hydrological processes, including whether native or non-native plants rule our forests. The drip-drip of water, condensing and falling from plants, is a critical source of moisture; it can easily make up 20% of the total water collected. On Lānaʻihale (the forested top of Lānaʻi), fog drip accounts for a whopping 60-80% of water input. Cook pines were planted on the island because of their impressive ability to capture fog drip, but native plants may do better. One study in forests on Hawaiʻi Island showed that 27% of the total precipitation was collected as fog drip in an ʻōhiʻa-dominated forest, but that number decreased to 16% where a forest had been invaded by strawberry guava.
Not all water that falls from the heavens makes it into the aquifer. Soil in a forest absorbs more water, and does so more quickly, than soil in nearby fields, pastures, or grassland. Forests transformed into monotypic stands of miconia plants typically have bare soil which likely captures less moisture. Water also evaporates into the atmosphere from the ground and off leaf surfaces, but the rate varies for different species. Research has shown that non-native plants release more water into the atmosphere than our native ʻōhiʻa.
One study on Hawaiʻi Island found that restoring a forest dominated by invasive trees to a native forest increased aquifer recharge. But results aren’t always consistent. A restoration project on Molokaʻi actually yielded a slight decrease in recharge. Given the complexities of our forest systems and the number of changes humans have caused over the years, it’s clear there are many mysteries yet to unravel about water systems in Hawaiʻi.
We do know that overall demand for water will only increase. Over time, so too will our understanding of how to preserve or restore healthy forests to help ensure we will have the amount of water we need, now and for future generations.
Find more information about how water cycles through forests in Hawaiʻi and on Maui including a water-budget model. You can also find tips on stretching your water budget at home on the County of Maui – Department of Water Supply’s website.
Originally published in the Maui News, July 14th, 2015 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column from the Maui Invasive Species Committee.
Filed Under: Kia'i Moku Column, Watershed impacts Tagged With: 2015, invasive species water impacts, water budget maui, water cycle in Hawaii, watershed threats
Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death – a new threat to our watersheds
This ohia tree shows one of the characteristic symptoms of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death – the tree looks frozen or burnt, leaves still in place. Photo by J.B. Friday
This ʻōhiʻa tree shows one of the characteristic symptoms of Rapid Ohia Death – the tree looks frozen or burnt, leaves still in place. Photo by J.B. Friday
Five years ago, people living in the Puna district on Hawaiʻi Island started seeing native ʻōhiʻatrees in their yards dying. First, the leaves on a single limb or the whole tree would start to yellow and brown. Within days or weeks, the tree would be dead. “Trees look burnt or frozen,” explains Dr. Flint Hughes, a research ecologist with the USDA-Forest Service. He’s one of several scientists investigating the cause of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, an apt description for a disease causing ʻōhiʻa to die so fast they don’t have time to drop their leaves.
Symptoms can appear in a single branch or the entire canopy of a tree. Pruning the affected brance will not save the tree since the Ceratocytis fungus is already established in throughout the tree. Photo by J. B. Friday
The disease spreads across landscapes nearly as fast. In 2012, it had killed ʻōhiʻa across about 1000 hectares (nearly 2500 acres). By last summer, it covered 6000 hectares. Healthy trees, young trees, old trees–it doesn’t matter—once symptoms appear, the tree will be dead within weeks.
A disease this virulent is potentially catastrophic for native species and watersheds. ʻōhiʻa are a keystone species for a Hawaiian rainforest. Like the uppermost stone in an arch, ʻōhiʻa is critical to the structure and function of the forest, both as refuge for native birds and other species, and as an effective way to transform what falls as rain into what comes out of the tap.
Last year, Hughes and his colleagues began to research what was happening. They knew it was a new phenomenon and not related to any previously known problems in ʻōhiʻa, such as ʻōhiʻa dieback or ʻōhiʻa rust. Within six months they had isolated the pathogen causing Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death. The disease is caused by a fungus, Ceratocytis fimbriata. It gets into the sapwood of ʻōhiʻa, stopping the tree’s ability to transport water and sugars. “The fungus essentially strangles the tree,” says Hughes.
The ceratocytis fungus responsible for killing ohia accross 15,000 acres on Hawaii Island can be seen as a dark staining in the sapwood. Photo by J.B. Friday
Isolating the cause of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, also called Ceratocytis wilt of ʻōhiʻa, is the first step. Ceratocytis has been present in Hawaiʻi for decades. In the Islands, it’s known only as a pathogen on sweet potato and taro, never before attacking ʻōhiʻa. In other parts of the world, Ceratocytis infects sycamore, eucalyptus, mango, coffee, cacao, citrus, poplar, fig, and rubber trees.
Researchers have yet to determine the origin of this recent outbreak—more than likely a new, more virulent strain of Ceratocytis was introduced but it is possible the existing strain jumped to ʻōhiʻa.
One of the researchers’ top priorities is determining how the disease is spreading. Other places
The Ceratocytis fungus spreads throughout the sapwood or vascular system of the ohia, eventually strangling the tree. The dark staining in this cross-section of an ohia is a symptom of infection by the Ceratocytis fungus. Photo by J.B. Friday
in the world, insects and contaminated equipment are vectors for spreading Ceratocytis, and that could be the case in Hawaiʻi. Until that’s determined, Hughes urges people not to move ʻōhiʻa—logs or seedlings. The fungus can survive in dead logs for a year or more. He suggests that it’s even possible that Ceratocytis spores may land on plants growing near ʻōhiʻa and movement of those plants may spread the disease
On Hawaiʻi Island some of the nicest stands of low-elevation ʻōhiʻa are gone, but researchers are not giving up. “One of the hopes is that we’ll see some genetic resistance in ʻōhiʻa, or there may be environmental constraints,” says Hughes. On Hawaiʻi Island, Ceratocytis has been found as high as about 1,400’ elevation in Mountain View, but that may reflect the relatively recent introduction rather than the full extent of its potential range.
Fungal spores of Ceratocytis on a dead log. The fungus can survive in dead logs for a year or more, and the disease can infect the plants for 2-3 months before symptoms appear. Help stop the spread by not moving ohia-logs or seedlings. Photo by J.B.Friday
They do know that the fungus can be present for months before any symptoms appear. During pathogenicity testing, ʻōhiʻa trees showed symptoms two or three months after inoculation. Pruning a symptomatic branch will not necessarily protect the tree as the fungus may have already spread throughout the tree and possibly to nearby trees.
Researchers have much to learn about Ceratocytis wilt on ʻōhiʻa. For now, they encourage people to clean boots and equipment after working on infested trees and caution against interisland movement of ʻōhiʻa logs and seedlings. Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death is only known to occur on Hawaiʻi Island. If you are on Maui or elsewhere in the Islands and see symptoms: leaves quickly turning yellow or brown, dead trees looking burnt or frozen with leaves still in place, or tell-tale brown streaking on the dead wood, contact Hughes by phone, 808-854-2617, or e-mail fhughes@fs.fed.us Learn more online at http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/disease/ohia_wilt.html
Originally published in the Maui News, May 10th, 2015 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column from the Maui Invasive Species Committee.
Filed Under: Featured Pest, Home-Featured, Kia'i Moku Column, Watershed impacts Tagged With: 2015, cause of ohia death, ceratocytis fimbriata, ohia fungal disease, ohia wilt, rapid ohia death
Invasive plants=Less water
Posted on June 27, 2014 by MISC
This rainforest, in Puu Kukui on West Maui, is an example of an open canopy rainforest typical of native rainforest in Hawaii. This forest acts like a ‘sponge,’ absorbing water from rain and gently releasing to recharge streams and aquifers. MISC file photo
When rain falls from the sky by the bucket-load it can be tempting to take water for granted, but the trip from raincloud to tap relies on effective, functioning natural systems. In Hawai‘i, alien plants disrupt the forest’s ability to capture water.
Water follows a cycle through the environment. Water over the ocean evaporates becoming atmospheric moister, as it travels over land it condenses into clouds, falling to Earth as rain or fog drip. Once on the ground, water has three paths: 1) it’s taken up by plants that use it to move nutrients through their cells, then return it to the atmosphere via transpiration; 2) it fills streams, lakes and rivers, eventually returning to the ocean–minus what was used for irrigation or lost through evaporation; or 3) it seeps through the soil into underground pools called aquifers. These aquifers supply most of the water we use to drink, bathe, and grow our food.
Forests have evolved differently to take advantage of prevailing water cycles in their regions. In South America and Africa the greatest diversity of plants is found up in the canopy. In Hawai‘i most plant species are found in the lower third of the forest, closer to the forest floor. Hawaiian understory plants need sunlight filtering through an open canopy. Koa and ‘ōh‘ia, the dominant Hawaiian canopy trees, grow in such a way that light reaches the shrubs and groundcover below.
Koa and ‘ōh‘ia pull water from passing clouds as fog drip; the curved leaves of koa provide surface area to collect moisture from clouds and channel it down leaf tips to the forest floor. Spongy plants on ‘ōh‘ia branches and trunks absorb moisture from passing clouds. Alien species disrupt the system.
Strawberry guava, Psidium cattleanium, has invaded Hawaiian rainforests, growing so dense and so
The invasive tree strawberry guava chokes out native plants. As it sheds bark, strawberry guava provides no habitat for the plants growing on the trunks of native species. Photo courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr.
fast that it chokes out other plants. A strawberry-guava-invaded forest captures water differently than our native forests. In Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park researchers found that a forest dominated by strawberry guava delivered less water to the forest floor than an intact native rainforest. Researchers noticed several differences between the two forest types: more rain ran down the stems of strawberry guava than ‘ōh‘ia but less water was pulled from the passing clouds. This could result from structural differences. ‘Ōh‘ia have aerial roots and furrowed bark carpeted with mosses and small plants called epiphytes. The epiphytes and aerial roots soak up water from passing clouds. Strawberry guava bark is smooth and regularly shed; few plants grow on its trunk and branches.
Other invasive species disrupt the water cycle by sheer size—leaf size. Miconia trees with three-foot long leaves sweep into the forest, stealing light from the understory and transforming it into darkened forest, the soil bare but for miconia seedlings. As another researcher on Hawai‘i Island discovered, the huge leaves are more than just light-hogs. They collect water as if they were huge tarps, and, as anyone who has stood near the edge of a tarp in a rainstorm knows, it’s only a matter of time until the water
The forest floor under a miconia invasion is bare, often with exposed roots. Not a good sign for water collection. MISC file photo
dumps down. The drops running off of miconia turn out to be the largest drops ever measured. Larger drops hit the ground harder, and where miconia has smothered the understory, those drops fall on bare soil. Huge drops compact soil particles, preventing water from seeping down to aquifers, instead causing it to run off, carrying topsoil into streams and eventually the ocean where it can smother coral reefs.
These are only some of the ways invasive plants alter the forest’s ability to capture water. Water-hungry plants like Himalayan ginger pave the forest floor in tough roots. Huge trees like eucalyptus require more water to carry nutrients to their crowns than smaller trees. Unfortunately, the list goes on. Healthy forests mean reliable sources of water. Keeping invasive plants out of native forests is one way to help keep the water flowing from raincloud to tap
By Lissa Fox Strohecker. Originally published in the Maui News, March 11th, 2012 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column from the Maui Invasive Species Committee
Filed Under: Invasive Plants, Kia'i Moku Column, Watershed impacts Tagged With: 2012, Miconia, Strawberry guava
And then the pollinator wasp arrived…
Posted on October 17, 2013 by MISC Leave a Comment
Bo tree, Ficus religiosa, is an attractive ornamental that was once safe to plant in Hawaii. Now the pollinator wasp for the bo tree is in Hawaii and this prolific seeder threatens watersheds. Photo by Forest and Kim Starr
Lori Buchanan, manager of Moloka‘i/Maui Invasive Species Committee (MoMISC), was in downtown Kaunakakai recently when she saw something strange sprouting out of the storm drain. It was a 3-foot tall seedling of a ficus—the very same tree she and her crew are working to remove from Moloka‘i.
Called the bo, peepul, or bodhi tree, Ficus religiosa is planted throughout Asia, Africa, and North America. According to legend, the Buddha sat beneath this species of tree when he meditated and attained enlightenment, hence it’s name. The Hindu deity Vishnu is reputed to have been born under a bo tree. These trees are often planted at Buddhist and Hindu temples. There is a bo tree at the Foster Botanical Garden on Oahu that is said to be a descendant of the tree under which Buddha sat.
Not that long ago, the bo tree couldn’t reproduce on its own in Hawai‘i; it only grew via cuttings. As a member of the Ficus family, it needs a specific wasp to pollinate its flowers in order to produce seeds. That wasp, Blastophaga quadraticeps, was not in Hawai‘i. The wasp crawls inside the minute flower to fertilize it. In 2007, when seedlings sprang up under the bo tree at Foster Garden, Hawai‘i entomologists knew the pollinator wasp had arrived.
Bo tree seedlings, like this one springing up out of a sidewalk crack on Molokai, indicate the pollinator wasp has arrived. Birds can easily spread seeds into the watershed. Photo by Forest and Kim Starr
The arrival of Blastophaga quadraticeps means that Hawai‘i has joined a relatively small list of places where Ficus religiosa can produce viable seed: India (where it’s native), Israel, and Florida. In Israel, the pollinator wasp fully invaded and Ficus religiosa now ranks alongside other Ficus as invasive and messy. Now that they produce fruit in Israel, purple figs stain the sidewalks, stick to shoes, and splatter cars left in the shade of a tree. Motorcyclists dodge slippery piles of fruit and beachgoers clean gummy residue off their gear.
On Moloka‘i, Buchanan isn’t worried about sidewalk saplings—she’s worried about the forests. “Birds spread the seeds and they [Ficus trees] can get into the forest and threaten the watershed,” she says. “They are prolific seeders and seedlings pop up wherever.” Bo tree could start to take over the native forest on Moloka‘i.
Ficus religiosa, like most Ficus, can grow almost epiphytically: a seedling doesn’t need soil initially but roots reach down until the find earth. Bo tree is technically more of a “splitter” than a strangler fig. Rather than smothering its host in roots, the seeds that sprout in the fork of a tree will send roots through the stem of the support tree, splitting it from the inside. It can find a home in sidewalks and drain sprouts, splitting those apart as well.
MoMISC is actively controlling this species on Moloka‘i, where less than a dozen trees
Bo tree can be recognized by the “tail” or drip-tip on the distinctive heart-shaped leaves. Photo by Forest & Kim Starr
were planted. Only one site with mature trees remains, and Buchanan and her crew are busy hunting down seedlings until the landowner agrees to have the plant removed. On other islands bo tree is planted widely enough that resources are too limited to remove it. But choosing to not plant this tree will slow its spread.
You can help MoMISC by keeping an eye out for bo tree seedlings in Central Moloka‘i, specifically in Kala‘e and Kaunakakai. The bo tree has distinctive heart shaped leaves that extend at the tip. According to Buchanan, the plant most closely resembles the Polynesian “canoe plant” milo, which also grows in the same areas on Moloka‘i. Bo tree has more dark green to grey glossy leaves. Any sightings of bo tree on Moloka‘i should be reported to MoMISC, 954-6585.
By Lissa Fox Strohecker. Originally published in the Maui News, October 13th, 2013 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column from the Maui Invasive Species Committee.
Filed Under: Home-Featured, Invasive Plants, Kia'i Moku Column, Watershed impacts Tagged With: 2013, Blastophaga quadraticeps, bo tree, ficus religiosa, hawaii bo tree, pollinator wasp
Conservation: Helping the Economy and the Environment
Posted on March 26, 2013 by MISC Leave a Comment
Darryl “Kanamu” Tau‘a was an East Maui tour bus driver who lost his job during the decline in tourism post September 11, 2001. Imi Nelson, a recent Hāna High graduate, was looking for work that would keep him close to his family. That fall, in response to the economic downturn, the Hawai‘i state legislature appropriated $1.5 million to create an emergency environmental workforce that put 450 people back to work. Kanamu got a temporary job controlling miconia, a South American tree invading the East Maui watershed. Imi joined the dengue fever response crew, helping to eliminate the environmental conditions that foster disease-spreading mosquitoes. Later, when the Maui Invasive Species Committee (MISC) had openings on its Hāna miconia control crew, both Kanamu and Imi had the necessary field experience. They landed permanent jobs—hard to come by in rural Hāna.
Conservation means jobs and those jobs mean new skills. Kona Ball and Darrell Aquino of MISC prepare to rappel down a cliff while Robert Vincent of East Maui Watershed Partnership looks on.
Conservation means boots on the ground and fingers on the keyboard. In Hawai‘i, it means jobs for thousands of people throughout the state, from Hāna to Honolulu, Hilo to Hanalei. Local suppliers and contractors provide goods and services for conservation projects, further multiplying the benefits of dollars spent. Natural resource work in Hawai‘i brings an estimated $456.6 million to the economy as wages, goods, and services, according to a report on the Green Industry from the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization. Funding comes from a variety of federal, state, county, and private sources, with the bulk spent employing an estimated 3,275 people working in the field or office. In addition to wages, these jobs as technicians, researchers, hunters, construction workers, data managers, grant writers and accountants, educators, and managers often provide extensive training and skill-set development opportunities.
University research highlights other economic benefits of conservation work, which protects our water supply, food, beaches and reefs, and makes Hawai‘i a great place to live and visit. Natural resource management safeguards more than just native birds, plants, and insects. Almost all of the water Maui County uses is captured from rainfall, and a healthy watershed is key to maintaining adequate and safe water supplies. Economists estimate that if the Ko‘olau watershed on O‘ahu was rendered unusable and no longer contributing to the aquifer, the loss would be between $4.57 and $8.52 million.
A conservation worker learning to attach an external load to a helicopter.
Conservation jobs have been somewhat insulated from the turmoil of employment in the tourism sector. Despite a decline in state job growth of 1 percent over the last five years, jobs in natural resources have increased 1.5 percent. People working in natural resources think that jobs will increase modestly, an opinion likely shaped by concerns about the current state of the economy. In Hawai‘i, where we rely on the environment for so many things, there is plenty of work to be done. Approximately 800,000 acres across the main Hawaiian Islands are in some kind of active conservation management, though there are an estimated 1,900,000 acres of healthy native ecosystem needing protection.
Nelson and Tau‘a continue to live in a rural community, in part because they have jobs in conservation and have learned skills during their employment. Investments spent protecting our environment translate into jobs today and healthy resources for future generations. To find out more about green industry in Hawai‘i check out the Green Growth Report by the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization online at www.uhero.hawaii.edu .
By Lissa Fox Strohecker. Originally published in the Maui News, Feburary 10th, 2013 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column from the Maui Invasive Species Committee.
Filed Under: In the field, Kia'i Moku Column, Watershed impacts Tagged With: 2013, conservation as economic driver, conservation jobs, economy, hana jobs, hawaii watershed protection
Help Hawai‘i–harvest a Christmas tree
Posted on December 13, 2011 by MISC Leave a Comment
‘Tis the season, and tradition calls for pine trees to decorate Maui residents’ homes, although there are many palms decorated in Christmas lights as well. Most Christmas trees are shipped in, but there’s a history of growing pines in Hawai‘i. Ralph Hosmer, Hawai‘i’s first forester, came on the job in 1904. At the time, forests throughout Hawai‘i were in a sorry state. Since Polynesian times, people have greatly altered lowland forests, initially for settlement and taro cultivation, then for sugar cane and pastureland. Feral pigs, goats and cattle escaped into intact forests, trampling shallow-rooted plants and browsing slow-growing plants. Honolulu, prospering from the sugar boom, was exceeding existing water supplies by the 1870s. Recognizing the need to protect and restore vital watersheds, everyone from sugar cane barons to King Kalākaua began fencing out animals and planting trees, some of which were pines.
Mexican weeping pine (Pinus patula) creeps into the native forest of the Waikamoi preserve. Forrest and Kim Starr photo
Hosmer helped turn sentiments about forest protection into cohesive action. He established the first forest reserves in Hawai‘i, beginning in 1906 when Alexander & Baldwin ceded management of acreage on Maui to the territorial government. With newly acquired land, Hosmer accelerated efforts to fence out cattle and goats and planted fast-growing hardy trees. The goals were three-fold: to stop erosion, restore the watershed and provide for Hawai‘i’s timber needs. Hosmer’s experimental plantation high on the slopes of Haleakalā now bears his name, “Hosmer’s Grove.” He planted species familiar from his Mainland forestry background: redwood, ash and pines. For years to come, foresters continued planting non-native species. These trees did prevent erosion on overgrazed lands, but some escaped cultivation to invade nearby ecosystems and crowd out native species.
Three species – Monterey pine (Pinus radiata), Mexican weeping pine (Pinus patula) and maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) – are particularly invasive. They persistently threaten Haleakalā National Park and The Nature Conservancy’s Waikamoi Preserve, transforming native stands into pine forests. Pines grow fast, up to one foot per year and reach maturity quickly, producing seeds within six to eight years. A massive amount of tiny seeds spread easily on the wind, help these pines colonize new areas. Removing pines has proven essential to maintaining the shrub-land and alpine habitat of Haleakalā.
Over the years, crews at Haleakalā National Park have stopped a veritable woodland of pines. Bill Haus and the crew he works with have removed 87,920 pines from the park and surrounding areas since 1982. According to Natural Resource Program Manager Steve Anderson, “Without control, the slopes of the subalpine shrub land would be a pine forest.” Subalpine shrub land is critical habitat for a native plants and animals; conversion to a pine forest would turn this rare Hawaiian ecosystem into a biological desert – no native plants like māmane, pūkiawe, ‘ōhelo or ‘a‘ali‘i; no native birds like the ‘i‘iwi and ‘amakihi.
Monteray pine (Pinus radiata) growing inside Haleakalā crater alongside silverswords. There have been a flush of pine seedlings inside the crater in the last few years. Forrest and Kim Starr photo.
Pines threaten the crater as well. Haus and his crew have removed more than 1,500 pines from inside the crater, with a peak of 778 in 2010.
Anderson said: “I wouldn’t have thought it was possible (for the crater to become a pine forest) several years ago, but it’s clear that potential exists now.”
The recent flush of pine could be the result of the 2007 Polipoli fire. Pines, including those invading Haleakalā Crater, are serotinous, meaning certain pine cones are coated with a waxy substance. These cones stay closed until the heat of a fire melts the coating to release seeds. As an ecological adaptation, it helps pines take advantage of the ash-fertile conditions following a fire. But in Hawai‘i, this adaptation may offer a unique seed-scattering advantage. The Polipoli fire possibly spurred a huge seed release and associated winds carried the seeds into the crater. Pine seedlings are even growing alongside silverswords.
You can help protect the crater from pines, and take home a pine tree! Several organizations will be working with volunteers to remove pines in time for the holidays. Friends of Haleakalā National Park leads efforts to remove pine trees from the crater. Check out their website at fhnp.org for more information.
The Nature Conservancy will be working below Hosmer’s Grove on Dec. 17. Call or email Pat Bily at 856-7665 or pbily@tnc.org for details and to confirm attendance. Both trips are free and open to the public. Dress for wintery weather and bring rain gear, water, tools and rope to bring home your tree or wreath making supplies. Participants also may bring food. Eggnog is optional.
By Lissa Fox Strohecker
Originally published in the Maui News, December 11, 2011 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column. Check out all of the MISC articles in the Kia`i Moku series at: www.hear.org/misc/mauinews/
Filed Under: Get Involved!, Invasive Plants, Watershed impacts Tagged With: haleakala national park, harvest pines, invasive pine trees, invasive species, Mexican weeping pine in hawaii, Monteray pine in Hawaii, the nature conservancy, volunteer opportunity, watershed threats
Plans in the Pipeline to Protect ‘Ōhi‘a From ‘Rust’
Posted on December 1, 2011 by MISC Leave a Comment
Puccinia psidii or “ohia rust” is found on the leaves of an ohia tree. Rob Anderson photo
It starts with a spot, a tiny dot of orange on a leaf bound for Hawai‘i. It could be on cut foliage destined for a florist or on a tree fated for a Hawai‘i yard. The miniscule speck of orange grows, produces spores, and covers the plant. Hawai‘i’s moist climate creates the perfect habitat for the little orange organism, a type of fungus known as a rust that attacks plants—often fatally. The trade winds spread the rust spores to more hosts and within months trees across Hawai‘i have turned brown, lost their leaves, and begun to die.
If a new strain of this fungus rust arrives in Hawaii it could devastate ohia forests. Orange rust fungus covers the leaves of a rose apple tree. FOREST & KIM STARR photo
In 2005 the rust attacked an invasive tree in the myrtle family–rose apple, but the rust grows on many myrtaceae species, including ‘ōhi‘a. The Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture identified the rust as Puccinia psidii and named it “‘ōhi‘a rust” in recognition of its impact on ‘ōhi‘a. If a new strain of the rust arrives there is a very real chance that it will attack ‘ōhi‘a and cause the same level of damage as it did to rose apple. This could be devastating: ‘ōhi‘a makes up 80% of our native rainforest and is the keystone species in the watershed. In an effort to protect ‘ōhi‘a and our rainforest–the source of our water–the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture is proposing a ban on the import of plants that could carry a new variety of the rust.
In 2008 HDOA implemented an interim rule, a temporary ban on the import of ‘ōhi‘a, but it was only active for one year. This new rule will protect ‘ōhi‘a as well as other, commercially important myrtle species, such as eucalyptus and ornamental trees.
‘Ōhi‘a covers nearly 1,000,000 acres in Hawai‘i, provides food for ‘i‘iwi, ‘apapane, ‘ākohekohe, and other rare birds; shelter for their nests; and habitat for native insects, snails, and other species.
Like a flu or a cold, there are different strains of rust. The strain of ‘ōhi‘a rust currently in Hawai‘i does kill ‘ōhi‘a seedlings, but very few. However, the impact could be much higher. To evaluate the rust’s threat, Hawaiian ‘ōhi‘a seedlings were grown in Brazil, the home range of the fungus. Researchers exposed the seedlings to various strains of the rust, some which proved deadly. These tests showed that a new rust strain is a potent threat to the Hawaiian forests and watersheds.
The ban will stop the import of plants and foliage of myrtle family that hitchhike into Hawai‘i from out-of-state or international sources. This material is commonly used in flower arrangements, but after the interim ban, many florists quit using eucalyptus as cut greens in flower arrangements. Local sources of eucalyptus can still be used, and in doing so, local jobs are protected along with ‘ōhi‘a. If growers want to import a myrtle species into Hawai‘i, they can do so after obtaining a permit and agreeing to quarantine the plant for one year.
Before the ban goes into effect HDOA will hold public hearings throughout the state. Buy local–support florists who use locally grown flowers and foliage, or use locally grown flowers and foliage yourself. By making this choice you are helping to protect ‘ōhi‘a and our forests. Visit www.hear.org/species/puccinia_psidii/ to learn more.
Article by Lissa Fox Strohecker
Originally published in the Maui News, October 9th, 2011 as part of the Kia‘i Moku Column.
You can find all the articles in the Kia‘i Moku series http://www.hear.org/misc/mauinews/
Filed Under: Invasive Plants, Kia'i Moku Column, Watershed impacts Tagged With: 2011, ban on import of myrtaceae, ohia rust, protect ohia, Puccinia psidii
Pampas Gone Wild-Haipua‘ena Part 2
Posted on November 21, 2011 by MISC Leave a Comment
Here’s a young, but mature, pampas grass in a mostly native rainforest…pulling this guy up will leave a big hole in the groundcover, a hole means a foothold for another invasive species, in many ways doing more harm than good.
But if we leave the plant alone we’ll continue to loose our watershed and native species to this high-threat invasive plant. How can we remove it? Keep reading…
1. Remove the seed-heads.
2. Tie the pampas in a knot. this is what we refer to as the “ponytail” method; bringing all the pampas leaves together makes it easier to treat and marks the plant as one we’ve treated.
3. Bury the seed-heads deep within the plant. This keeps the seeds from dispersing on the wind, likely how this plant arrived here in the first place.
4. With the seed-heads tucked away and the plant tied together crews can apply a low-concentration herbicide directly to the plant (another benefit of the ponytail method-no over-spray). Within a month the plant will be dead and beginning to decompose and native vegetation will be intact and poised to reclaim this patch of invaded rainforest. The location of each plant we control is recorded with a GPS so it can be monitored in the future to ensure no seedlings have germinated.
There you have it-how to control invasive pampas grass a native rainforest on Maui.
Stay posted to learn how to spot a pampas grass.
The sun sets on another day of field work in the remote rainforest of East Maui
Filed Under: In the field, Invasive Plants, MISC Target Species, Watershed impacts Tagged With: Cortaderia jubata, invasive species, maui, pampas grass, rainforest, watershed
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Monday Morning Marth: Jan. 21
Edwin Budding
In an otherwise modest week for Melee news, PPMD, a longtime “god” who left the scene in 2016 to focus on his personal health, announced that he’d begin streaming between March and May as part of his greater return to competing in Melee. He said this would involve both his own practice, analysis of other players and more.
PPMD’s hiatus happened after a relatively poor 10th place showing at Battle of the Five Gods, an event that happened in early 2016. Since then, he’s mostly disappeared from the spotlight, save for the occasional interview and a brief fourth place doubles performance at Bad Moon Rising 2 in 2017, where he and his longtime doubles partner L0ZR notably defeated Hungrybox and Crunch.
Read: https://t.co/b5qwo1Nzru
— Kevin Nanney (@EG_PPMD) January 18, 2019
As far as events go, it was another quiet weekend. Moky defended Ontario from the visiting La Luna, winning Revenge of 6ix. Over in Michigan, KJH won UNITE. At the fifth edition of The NorCal Spartan, Kalamazhu took first.
1. Melee Stats Podcast Update
After Genesis 6, the Melee Stats Podcast is entering an indefinite hiatus. Heading into the new year, I and SaveAsUntitled, who produces the show, discussed its future and what we thought was the best course of action.
Both of us are at different points in our lives and have different goals within Smash. Save wants to continue making videos for both Ultimate and Melee; and after his upcoming graduation, he will have more time than ever to focus on YouTube content creation full-time, as well as pursue music. Meanwhile, I want to publish my book in the next few months, dedicate myself to my full-time job and return to competing in my local Melee scene.
Our differences in perspectives aren’t necessarily new, but they frankly create a lot of creative tension and uncertainty surrounding the show’s future. That’s not even taking into account other members of Melee Stats, each of who have their own personal circumstances that make committing to a weekly show difficult.
Moreover, our schedules don’t match up. Save and I heavily valued the routine and weekly structure that came with the show. If we can’t do that, we both agreed the quality of the show would drop, which neither of us want.
However, we’re still around. You can still join the Melee Stats Discord here to talk to the team. Both I and Dingus are continuing our weekly series on the website. Wheat is now spearheading Melee Stats Deep Dives, which was initially supposed to be our Patron-only podcast but is now essentially succeeding the original show. You can see his latest episode below.
That said, we still have TBH8 compendium goals to fulfill, so I’d like to offer transparency for everyone who paid for them.
For the two people waiting on your scouting reports – they are coming up! We’re also still waiting to have all three of our special guests on at some point, so if I’m unable to have you guys on in the next two weeks, I will try to coordinate an appearance on Deep Dives. Worst case scenario, you may contact me in the future for reimbursement with proof of your purchase.
Thanks to everyone, as always, for your support. Working on the Melee Stats Podcast was a (mostly) fun time for all of us, and we’re happy to move on, at least for now.
2. Giga HoG Preview
So in the most random transition of all time, I’m going to talk about Connecticut because why not? This Saturday, keep your eyes out for GIGA HOG: Era, the systems first big monthly of 2019.
If you’re a smasher living in New England or Tristate and you aren’t attending this tournament, you’re fucking up. It’s among the most stacked events in Connecticut Melee history, and it goes beyond the 128 entrant-cap. Outside of the yearly CT GamerCon series, I can’t recall a single event within Connecticut having so much diverse Northeastern talent.
Massachusetts is coming down to play, with Tiramisu, Yasu and Ses, among others. From New Hampshire are Kalvar, bonfire10, Rasen, GWM420 and Golden, five of the state’s best players, along with its current No. 10 DarkGenex (who I still associate primarily with New Jersey). New York has Hax, Ryobeat, vortex, 42nd and 47 confirmed. Even New Jersey boasts killers: TheSWOOPER, Fable, bambi, FMB5k, Clutch, JJM and Greasy. Oh – and Connecticut will be defending its turf, with ranked players like lintgod, Swiftbass, Warmmer, Palika, Timtheguy, Speez and more confirmed.
The names above are only the people who have registered. Though he’s currently taking a break from Melee, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Slox make a big return. Moreover, from talking with the tournament organizer, Stoc, I also know that other people rumored to attend or confirmed are Massachusetts’ BigJoig, New York’s BIGKID, Captain Smuckers and a lot of older Connecticut players like DOOM, Hoodcash, Rold Gold, Ricky, Icy, Sweetheart, Shminkledorf and Melee Stats’ own Ambisinister. And I guess, uh, me, although I’ll be there late and am not a notable player.
From the different eras of Connecticut being together to the massive amount of Northeastern talent and the beginning of a new year for Connecticut Melee, GIGA: HOG going to be a hell of an event. Check it out if you get a chance – and hey, if we’re lucky, maybe it could see an appearance from someone like Swedish Delight or pique the interest of a certain retired Massachusetts Fox player.
3. Monday Morning Mailbag
Best smash tags?- Epicallytossed
Thanks for reminding me to come up with this! I’ll dedicate a segment on one of our upcoming shows to this, as you also purchased a topic on our compendium asking us to explore this topic.
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Are London Bridge, Borough and Bank stations open today after terror attack?
Phil HaighSunday 4 Jun 2017 10:28 am
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Seven people were killed and 48 hospitalised after a terror attack in London on Saturday night.
A van was driven into a crowd of people on London Bridge then the three terrorists attacked people in bars around Borough Market with large knives before they were shot by police.
London Bridge, Borough and Bank tube stations were all closed on Saturday night as a result, although police had dealt with the attackers in just eight minutes.
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Both London Bridge and Borough tube stations remain closed on Sunday morning with the TfL website stating they are ‘closed due to a police investigation.’
Bank, however, has been reopened and is operating as normal today.
London Bridge is on the Jubilee and Northern lines whilst Borough is just on the Northern line so plan your journeys accordingly today.
Everything we know about the London Bridge terror attack so far
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A van ploughed into pedestrians enjoying a night out in London Bridge, before attackers went from bar to bar stabbing people around Borough Market.
The horrific, brutal attack was been officially declared a terrorist incident.
Eight people were killed and 48 seriously injured in the attack. Out of those, 21 are in a critical condition.
Here is everything we know so far.
The emergency services were first called to reports of a white van driving into several people on London Bridge at 10.08pm on Saturday.
The entire area and nearby railway stations were closed, including London Bridge.
Witnesses reported seeing the van driving at around 50mph, mounting the pavement and swerving into a number of people.
Holly Jones, a BBC reporter who was on the bridge at the time, said: 'A white van driver came speeding - probably about 50mph - veered off into the crowds of people who were walking along the pavement.
'He swerved right round me and then hit about five or six people.'
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The van, which had been driving from north of the river, then drove towards Borough Market - which was especially busy because it was Saturday night.
When it arrived, the suspects stabbed several people in a crowded area. They then went from bar to bar, attacking people with 12-inch hunting knives.
Shots were then heard in the area, which was later confirmed to have been police officers shooting the suspects dead.
Met Police later confirmed that seven people had died and at least 48 were hospitalised. In addition, the three suspected attackers were shot dead - within eight minutes of first responders arriving on the scene.
Two police officers were seriously injured in the attack - one Met officer, and another from the British Transport Police. One of the officers, who was first on the scene of the attack, took on the three armed terrorists with nothing but his baton.
A third police unit was sent to the Vauxhall area after reports of a stabbing, but this was later confirmed to not be connected to the attacks in London Bridge and Borough Market.
Eight people died in the attack.
London Ambulance Service said it had taken at least 48 injured people to five different London hospitals, while those described as 'walking wounded' were treated at the Andaz Hotel near Liverpool Street, where there were paramedics and more armed officers. Later, it was confirmed that 21 people were in a critical condition.
A British Transport Police officer who was left 'seriously injured' was reportedly stabbed in the face, head, and leg.
Police boats searched the River Thames for anyone who may have fallen from the bridge during the attack.
Canadian national Chrissy Archibald was the first victim confirmed as having tragically passed away in the attack.
Businessman James McMullan was also confirmed dead, after his bank card was found by police on one of the bodies.
Xavier Thomas, 45, was thrown into the Thames by the rented van.
Australian nanny Sara Zelenak was confirmed dead after she was missing for several days.
Ignacio Echeverria, 39, was killed trying to fight the terrorists using his skateboard.
French national Alexandre Pigeard, 27, was stabbed while working as a waiter at Boro Bistro.
Kirsty Boden, a 28-year-old nurse from Australia, was killed 'as she ran towards danger' trying to help.
Sebastien Belanger, a French chef, is also thought to have died in the attack.
Who can you call if you're concerned about loved ones
Anyone concerned about friends or relatives can call the Met Police's Casualty Bureau, which remains open.
Call 0800 096 1233 and 020 7158 0197.
The attackers
The three attackers, Khuram Butt, Yousef Zaghba and Rachid Redouane, were shot dead by police.
Police said the men were shot within eight minutes of officers receiving the first reports of the attack.
Witnesses described seeing them getting out of the van after it crashed just south of London Bridge.
A photographer at the scene, outside the Wheatsheaf pub, took a photo of one of the suspects wearing a vest with canisters strapped to themselves. The vests later turned out to be fake.
The person who took the photo said he then saw the attackers being shot by police.
On Sunday afternoon, police raided a property in Barking. They made 12 arrests in connection to Saturday night's attack - six men and six women.
However, all were released without charge.
The ongoing investigation is being led by the Counter Terrorism Command.
Police say they believe they've caught all of the attackers, which is why the country's terrorism threat level was not raised to 'critical', as it was in the wake of the Manchester atrocity.
What the Met Police said
In a statement released on Sunday night at 10pm, the Met Police's Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said: 'We would like to thank the media for their continued support, restraint and understanding in not speculating as to who the suspects are in this fast moving investigation.
'I would like to assure them and the public that this is directly assisting the progression of the investigation and confirm we will release the identities of the three men directly responsible for the attacks yesterday, Saturday, 3 June, as soon as operationally possible.
'Officers have been working tirelessly to process the crime scenes and release the cordons. We are hopeful that some of the cordons around London Bridge station will be released during the course of tomorrow morning but consult TFL website before you set out on your journey’s into and around London tomorrow.
'The public can expect to see additional police – both armed and unarmed officers - across the Capital as you would expect in these circumstances. And our security and policing plans for events are being reviewed, the public will also see increased physical measures on London’s bridges to keep the public safe.'
After the attack London Bridge, Borough, Waterloo East, Charing Cross and Cannon Street stations were all completely closed.
However, Borough station reopened on Sunday evening, and all other stations reopened on Monday morning.
The Thames was briefly closed, but reopened to boats on Sunday morning.
Guy's Hospital, which is in the London Bridge area, was placed on lockdown as a precaution to keep staff and patients safe. St Thomas' and the Evelina Children's Hospital a mile away were also put on lockdown. This has however now been lifted.
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Yameen implicated in STO blackmarket oil trade with Burmese junta, alleges The Week
Singaporean police are reportedly investigating former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s half brother Abdulla Yameen for alleged involvement in an international money laundering racket thought to be worth up to US$800 million – if accurate, a staggering 80 percent of the Maldives’ annual GDP.
Yameen is an MP and leader of the People’s Alliance (PA) party, which in coalition with the opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP), of which Gayoom is the ‘honorary leader’, together maintain a parliamentary majority in the Maldives.
The allegation is central to an explosive piece in India’s The Week magazine by Sumon K Chakrabarti, Chief National Correspondent of CNN-IBN, who describes Yameen as “the kingpin” of a scheme to buy subsidised oil through the State Trading Organisation’s branch in Singapore and sell it on through an entity called ‘Mocom Trading’ to the Burmese military junta, at a black market premium.
“The Maldives receives subsidised oil from OPEC nations, thanks to its 100 percent Sunni Muslim population. The Gayooms bought oil, saying it was for the Maldives, and sold it to Myanmar on the international black market. As Myanmar is facing international sanctions, the junta secretly sold the Burmese and ‘Maldivian’ oil to certain Asian countries, including a wannabe superpower,” alleged Chakrabarti, who is writing a book on Gayoom’s administration and the democracy movement that led to its fall.
“Sources in the Singapore Police said their investigation has confirmed ‘shipping fraud through the diversion of chartered vessels where oil cargo intended for the Maldives was sold on the black market creating a super profit for many years,’” the report added.
Referencing an unnamed Maldivian cabinet Minister, The Week states that: “what is becoming clear is that oil tankers regularly left Singapore for the Maldives, but never arrived here.”
The article draws heavily on an investigation report by international accountancy firm Grant Thorton, commissioned by the Maldives government in March 2010, which obtained three hard drives containing financial information detailing transactions from 2002 to 2008. No digital data was available before 2002, and the paper trail “was hazy”.
According to The Week, Grant Thorton’s report identifies Myanmar businessman and head of the Kanbawza Bank and Kanbawza Football Club, Aung Ko Win, as the middleman acting between the Maldivian connection and Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, the second highest-ranking member of the Burmese junta – one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, perhaps exceeded only by North Korea.
Also allegedly implicated in the Grant Thorton report are Brigader-General Lun Thi, the junta’s Minister of Energy, Aung Thaung, the Burmese Minister of industry, “and his son, Major Pye Aung, who is married to Aye’s daughter, Nander Aye.”
“Another Burmese business couple, Tun Myint Naing (aka ‘Steven Law’) and his wife, were linked to the Gayooms,” alleged The Week.
According to a 2000 report on the Golden Triangle Opium trade by Hong Kong-based regional security analysis firm, Asia Pacific Media Services, “in 1996 Steven Law was refused a visa to the USA on suspicion of involvement in narcotics trafficking”, and several companies linked to him were blacklisted because of his suspected involvement in his father’s drug empire.
His father, Lo Hsing Han, also known as Law Sit Han, is named in the report as a notorious ‘Golden Triangle’ heroin baron turned businessman, with financial ties to Singapore. He was also responsible responsible for arranging a lavish wedding in 2006 for the daughter of Burmese dictator Than Shwe.
“Lo Hsing-han and his family set up the Asia World Company… involved in import-export business, bus transport, housing and hotel construction, a supermarket chain, and Rangoon’s port development,” APMS wrote.
According to The Week report, “Yameen was allegedly aided by Ahmed Muneez, former Managing Director of STO Singapore, and by Mohamed Hussain Maniku, former MD, STO. Maniku was MD from 1993 to 2008, and currently serves as the Maldives’ Ambassador to Washington.
The operation
According to The Week article, the engine of the operation was the Singaporean branch of the government-owned State Trading Organisation (STO), of which Yameen was the board chairman until 2005.
Fuel was purchased by STO Singapore from companies including Shell Eastern Petroleum Pvt Ltd, Singapore Petroleum company and Petronas, and sold mostly to the STO (for Maldivian consumption) and Myanmar, “except in 2002, when the bulk of the revenue came from Malaysia.”
The “first red flag” appeared in an audit report on the STO by KPMG, one of the four major international auditing firms which took over the STO’s audits in 2004 from Price WaterhouseCoopers.
The firm noted: “A company incorporated in Singapore by the name of Mocom Trading Pte Ltd in 2004 has not been discluded under Note No. 30 to the Financial Statements. There was no evidence available with regard to approval of the incorporation. Further, we are unable to establish the volume and the nature of the company with the group.”
In a subsequent report, KMPG noted: “The name of the company has been struck off on 20th April 2006.”
Investigators learned that Mocom Trading was set up in February 2004 as a joint venture between STO Singapore and a Malaysian company called ‘Mocom Corporation Sdn Bhd’, with the purpose of selling oil to Myanmar and an authorised capital of US$1 million.
According to The Week, the company had four shareholders: Kamal Bin Rashid, a Burmese national, two Maldivians: Fathimath Ashan and Sana Mansoor, and a Malaysian man named Raja Abdul Rashid Bin Raja Badiozaman. Badiozaman was the Chief of Intelligence for the Malaysian armed forces for seven years and a 34 year veteran of the military, prior to his retirement in 1995 at the rank of Lieutenant General.
As well as the four shareholders, former Managing Director of STO Singapore Ahmed Muneez served as director. The Week reported that Muneez informed investigators that Mocom Corportation was one of four companies with a tender to sell oil to the Burmese junta, alongside Daewoo, Petrocom Energy and Hyandai.
Under the contract, wrote The Week, “STO Singapore was to supply Mocom Trading with diesel. But since Mocom Corporation held the original contact, the company was entitled to commission of nearly 40 percent of the profits.”
That commission was to be deposited in an United Overseas Bank account in Singapore, “a US dollar account held solely by Rashid. So, the books would show that the commission was being paid to Mocom, but Rashid would pocket it.”
In a second example cited by The Week, investigators discovered that “STO Singapore and Mocom Trading duplicated sales invoices to Myanmar. The invoices showed the number of barrels delivered and the unit price. Both sets of invoices were identical, except for the price per barrel. The unit price on the STO Singapore invoices was US$5 more than the unit price of the Mocom Trading invoice. This was done to confuse auditors.”
As a result, “the sum total of all Mocom Trading invoices to Myanmar Petrochemical Enterprises was US$45,751,423, while the sum total of the invoices raised by STO Singapore was US$51,423,523 – a difference of US$5,672,100.”
Furthermore, “investigators found instances where bills of lading (indicating receipt of consignment) were unsigned by the ship’s master.”
Gayoom's half-brother and PA leader Abdulla Yameen
Money from the Maldives
Despite his officially stepping down from the STO in 2005, The Week referenced the report as saying that debit notes in Singapore “show payments made on account of Yameen in 2007 and 2008.”
Citing the report directly, The Week wrote: “The debit notes were created as a result of receiving funds from Mr Yameen deposited at the STO head office, which were then transferred to STO Singapore’s bank accounts. This corresponded with a document received from STO head office confirming the payments were deposited by Yameen into STO’s bank accounts via cheque.
The Week claimed that Yameen was aided by Muneez on the STO Singapore side, and by Mohamed Hussain Maniku, former STO managing director, on the Maldivian end until 2008.
“In conversation with Mr Muneez, this was to provide monies for the living expenses of his [Yameen’s] son and daughter, both studying in Singapore. Their living expenses were distributed by Mr Muneez,” the Grant Thorton report stated, according to The Week.
In an interview with Minivan News, Yameen confirmed that he had used the STO’s accounts to send money to his children in Singapore, “and I have all the receipts.”
He described the then STO head in Singapore as “a personal friend”, and said “I always paid the STO in advance. It was a legitimate way of avoiding foreign exchange [fees]. The STO was not lending me money.”
He denied sending money following his departure from the organisation: “After I left, I did not do it. In fact I did not do it 3 to4 years before leaving the STO. I used telegraphic transfer.”
Yameen described the wider allegations contained in The Week article as “absolute rubbish”, and denied being under investigation by the Singaporean police saying that he had friends in Singapore who would have informed him if that were the case.
The article, he said, was part of a smear campaign orchestrated by current President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed, a freelance writer and the dismissed Auditor General “now in London”, who he claimed had hired the audit team – “they spent two weeks in the STO in Singapore conducting an investigation.”
Yameen said he did not have a hand in any of the STO’s operations in Singapore, and that if Muneez was managing director at the time of any alleged wrong-doing, “any allegations should carry his name.”
He denied any knowledge or affiliation with Steven Law or Lo Hsing Han, and said that as for Mocom Trading, “if that company is registered, Maniku would know about it.”
Asked to confirm whether the STO Singapore had been supplying fuel to Myanmar during his time as chair of the board, “it could have been – Myanmar, Vietnam, the STO is an entrepreneurial trade organisation. It trades [commodities like] oil, cement, sugar, rice to places in need. It’s perfectly legitimate. “
Asked whether it was appropriate to trade goods to a country ostracised by the international community, Yameen observed that the trading had “nothing to do with the moral high-ground, at least at that time. Even even now the STO buys from one country and sells to those in need.”
Asked why the President would hire a freelance writer to smear his reputation after the local council elections, “that’s because Nasheed would like to hold me in captivity.”
The only way Nasheed could exert political control, Yameen claimed, “was to resort to this kind of political blackmail”.
“Unfortunately he has not been able to do that with me. I was a perfectly clean minister while in Gayoom’s cabinet. They have nothing on me.”
Last time around
No love is lost between Yameen and the present Maldivian administration, which detained him and Jumhoree Party (JP) leader Gasim Ibrahim in early July 2010 on accusations of bribery and, according to the police charge sheet, “attempting to topple the government illegally.”
President Nasheed’s cabinet had resigned en masse the week prior, in protest against what they claimed were the “scorched earth politics” of the opposition-majority parliament, leaving only President Mohamed Nasheed and Vice President Mohamed Waheed Hassan in charge of the country. The move circumvented regulations blocking the arrest of MPs while no-confidence motions were pending against sitting ministers.
Several days later, audio recordings of conversations between several MPs, including Yameen and Gasim, were leaked to the media. The recordings carried implications of vote-buying within parliament, suggestions of collaboration with the officials in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), and details of a plan to derail the progress of a taxation bill.
Yameen defended the conversation at the time as “not to borrow money to bribe MPs… [rather] As friends, we might help each other.”
The issue quickly became one of invasion of privacy, and the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM) issued a statement to that effect.
Unable to get an arrest warrant extension for the pair through the Maldivian courts, the government quickly found itself facing international criticism and diplomatic urging to “stick to the rule of law”, after Yameen was detained by the military on the Presidential Retreat of Aarah purportedly “for his own protection.”
While in custody, Yameen told local media he did not wish to be detained in ‘protective’ custody. The military refused to present him before the court on a court order, raising more international eyebrows.
Later in July, the President’s Press Secretary Mohamed Zuhair told Minivan News that the government had felt obliged to take action after six MDP MPs came forward with statements alleging Yameen and Gasim had attempted to bribe them to vote against the government.
The opposition PA-DRP coalition already has a small voting majority, with the addition of supportive independent MPs. However, certain votes require a two-thirds majority of the 77 member chamber – such as a no-confidence motion to impeach the president.
Zuhair told Minivan News at the time that given the severity of the allegations against them, neither could be considered prisoners of conscience.
“I cannot describe these people as political leaders – they are accused of high crimes and plots against the state,” Zuhair said.
“These MPs are two individuals of high net worth – tycoons with vested interests,” he explained. “In pursuing their business interests they became enormously rich during the previous regime, and now they are trying to use their ill-gotten gains to bribe members in the Majlis [parliament] and judiciary to keep themselves in power and above the fray.”
“They were up to all sorts of dark and evil schemes,” Zuhair alleged. “There were plans afoot to topple the government illegally before the interim period was over.”
Yameen was also one of many former and serving Ministers on an audit hit-list issued by Auditor General Ibrahim Naeem, prior to his dismissal on March 29, 2010.
Naeem, who was appointed by former President Gayoom, had produced a damning report detailing the previous government’s spending habits. These, according to an article on the report published in the New York Times, included an estimated “US$9.5 million spent buying and delivering a luxury yacht from Germany for the president, $17 million on renovations of the presidential palace and family houses,a saltwater swimming pool, badminton court, gymnasium, 11 speed boats and 55 cars, including the country’s only Mercedes-Benz.”
“And the list goes on, from Loro Piana suits and trousers to watches and hefty bills for medical services in Singapore for ‘important people and their families. There was a US$70,000 trip to Dubai by the first lady in 2007, a US$20,000 bill for a member of the family of the former president to stay a week at the Grand Hyatt in Singapore. On one occasion, diapers were sent to the islands by airfreight from Britain for Mr Gayoom’s grandson,” wrote the NYT, citing Naeem’s report.
The Maldives government had “begun the paper chase”, the NYT report claimed, “but it lacks the resources to unravel a complex trail that it assumes runs through the British Channel Islands, Singapore and Malaysia.”
On March 24, Naeem sent a list of current and former government ministers to the Prosecutor General, requesting they be prosecuted for failure to declare their assets, citing Article 138 of the Constitution requiring every member of the Cabinet to “annually submit to the Auditor General a statement of all property and monies owned by him, business interests and all assets and liabilities.”
He then held a press conference: “A lot of the government’s money was taken through corrupt [means] and saved in the banks of England, Switzerland, Singapore and Malaysia,” Naeem said, during his first press appearance in eight months.
Five days later he was dismissed by the opposition-majority parliament on allegations of corruption by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), for purportedly using the government’s money to buy a tie and visit Thulhaidhu in Baa Atoll. The motion to dismiss Naeem was put forward by the parliamentary finance committee, chaired by Deputy Speaker and member of Yameen’s PA party Ahmed Nazim, who the previous week had pleaded not guilty to ACC charges of conspiracy to defraud the former ministry of atolls development while he was Managing Director of Namira Engineering and Trading Pvt Ltd.
The parliament has yet to approve a replacement auditor general.
Representatives of the former government have steadfastly denied the existence of stolen funds. Gayoom’s assistant and former chief government spokesperson Mohamed Hussain ‘Mundhu’ Shareef told Minivan News in December 2009 that ”there is no evidence to link Gayoom to corruption”, and urged accusers “to show us the evidence.”
“If you have the details make them public, instead of repeating allegations,” he said at the time. “[Gayoom] has said, ‘go ahead and take a look, and if you find anything make it public.’”
Shareef had not responded to Minivan News at the time of going to press.
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128 thoughts on “Yameen implicated in STO blackmarket oil trade with Burmese junta, alleges The Week”
Nizam Ibrahim says:
Many of the anti-Maumoon will find joy and happiness from this but i will be relieved if this can be proved true in Maldivian or International Court. Tired of Hearing these type of Allegation to the regime of Maumoon but non proven to be true.
@battey
it seems suman chakraborthy is a well known journalist in india
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumon_K_Chakrabarti
ibra says:
Anni and his officials are not capable of bringing Yameen to justice as they are as corrupt as Yameen.
MARIYAM says:
HMMM WITHOUT KNOWING THE TRUTH , ITS NOT WRITE TO BLAME, IF MAUMOOON AND YAMIN IS ALIVE , ANNI IS UNABLE TO BREATH.
HE CANNOT FULLFILL HIS 5 WAUD, PEOPLE NOW BELEIVE THAT HE CANNOT DO ANYTHING FOR THE COUNTRY. THATS WHY HE IS TRYING FOR THE NEXT ELECTION THAT PEOPLE TO BELIVE THAT HES RIGHT AND TO GET FOCUSSED SOME OTHER STORIES AND FORGET ANNI GE 5 WAUD.
ITS REALLY SAD THAT WITHOUT KNOWING THE TRUTH BLAMING,ITS NOT IN OUR RELIGION.PEOPLE WHO DOESNT BELIEVE IN RELIGION SHOULD BE JAILED FIRST AND THOSE WHO LOAD DRUGS AND RAAA IN THILA FUSHI, HOW ABOUT THE JUSTICE AND TALK ABOUT AND MAKE THINGS BETTER WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT MAUMOON OR YAAMIN FOR ONE MOMENT AND 30 YEARS OF PRESIDENCY
c-bag says:
my question is, why did the investigator release that report to the press? the integrity of the investigation is questionable now...
Adviser says:
Bakattaaa!!! (goats). Don't think this is little bit of too much? hmmmm,, I think I got very good reason why you wanted to be the next president of Maldives. Hell, with US$800 millions, go to hell..
ibrahim Mohamed says:
The root cause of all these evil is a certain "KOLI" who lives in Singapore. Please give us justice and let these evil and corrupted people pay for their evil acts.
ibrahim shareef says:
I would like to give advice to the Mr. President Anni, this is now very old method.
Now everybody knows that how much your government is corrupted. Start preparing to live this country you have only two years left. Goodbye Mr. Anni
faaru says:
YAMEEN IS A THIEF?! who knew?
egon says:
come on on guys. Maumoon and yamin would never do such a thing. Such innocent brothers. Wouldnt even kill a fly. They are angels sent from above. Wouldnt have stolen a cent or 1 laari from the maldivians money.
The Joker says:
What the what?? 800 Mil??? this is interesting.. I bet Maumoon and Yameen will be busy shitting their pants by now.
@Mariyam, this ain't about Anni or current administration; this is about justice. Justice for the sake of our own people, after all it's our money.
@ibrahim shreef, do you mean leave?
@ truth. Even if you don't know we know that the reporter who wrote this frequently visits Maldives and is close to Ibrahim Hussain Zaki. For your information there is a list of Maldivians who have assets in other countries. This list was developed and the assets were identified with the help of World bank asset recovery programme. Some senior politicians who are in the government and the opposition were notified of it. So they sold their assets. The list includes names of these guys who sold their assets also. Guess who is at the top of the list. As predicted the koli clan holds most number of assets outside maldives and surprisingly the speaker of Parliament Shahid is among individuals who sold their assets. This document is with the president. So why doesn't he reveal all the names to public and go after them. Whats the use in cooking up a fake report? The sole reason is that Yameen is the smartest politician and a potential winner of next presidential election. So all Koli and his gang including Anni wants to kill him or imprison him. Indeed he is smart.
Couple of points to note:
1. Why did STO make Sana Mansoor and Aashaan as directors of Mocom, when there are more capable and experienced people in STO to be in those positions? I feel that Yaamin wanted to make them scapegoats like what he did to that Haadhy guy who was sacked from STO after being implicated in the STO forex scandal. Yaamin had felt, obiously for the right reasons, that these two ladies would not question about the operations of Mocom and would actually feel good about being made directors of an international company where STO was a partner. These two young ladies would yield into the demands of the mastermind of this racket, and Yaamin could do things in their cover, since these are just innocent, timid people who did not know obviously where they had been lured into. I mean these are issues one should try and find an answer to.
2. I mean Yaamin cannot use STO as a conduit to transfer money to his children in Singapore to avoid paying bank charges. Not only that, there are lot of STO staff had who says that Yaamin had used STO to import all the material, furniture and other things for his house, or perhaps his wife's house...That is illegal and he should be charged for it. In fact, he was the guy instrumental in kicking the former Auditor General out of office for using the official credit card to buy a personal tie, which was fully reimbursed. Where is the anti corruption commission on this...well this guy who is in charge of the anti corruption commission is a Yaamin's man... so what do you expect. He has put his stooges and puppets in the courts and in important independent institutions like MMA.
3. He had said that he had gone to Burma to sort out "Barumaa handoo" issues...hehhehe. this is joke man. I mean why would STO Chairman had to fly to Burma to sort out those issues, I cannot understand, may be there were no competent people in STO to negotiate that "Barumaa Handoo" deal....
4. He mentioned about a site called "Dhivehi Post" in an apparent slip of the tongue...this implies that he is connected to this hate provoking website, which the authorities need to investigate.
5. Yaamin said that Singapore authorities intervened and stopped the Mocom activities while being carried out in the sitting room of the Malivian Government's Trading Company's office in Singapore. Why would STO has to carry out the activities of an STO joint venture company in a such lousy manner, unless the masterminds were up to something fishy??? At least STO should maintain its dignity and reputation. What I gather is, these fellas had tried to do some illicit activities on the sly by using this JV company.
6. To sell oil to Burma is wrong when there are sanctions on Burma!! What moral high ground is he talking from his posterior orifice???
7. This Yaamin man spoils all the innocent simpletons who work with him. Now look at this STO Maniku guy, he is supposed to be nice guy free from all this corrupt activities..see what had happened to him. He had spoilt, Shaheer, Zubair, Zameer, Shareef, Haadhy and so many others in STO and other associated companies. He is a real crook. He can associate himself with the likes of cartune Shujau and them.
dheyo says:
Um the authorized share capital of Mocom Corporation Sdn Bhd was US$ 10,000,000 not US$1,000,000. With only four shares. ie the share price was US$2.5 per share :O
Btw I not a fan of public criticism either, but JJ you could have just given us the link or pasted the article itself instead of copying the whole thing and praising yourself for it. shame
oh noes says:
yameen is a thief? well, we certainly didn't see this one coming.
See Extra XXX Yumna says:
Bithu fangi negeema adhives fennaane mikahala kanthah. These are professional crooks and are extremely difficult to break down. It takes both time and money. But a thief has 1000 days and a leader has just one day to catch the thief. We need to be patience as these gang leaders are fighting for the last breath.
safari says:
YAMEEN AND HIS COWBOYS WERE THE CROOKS..AND A NEW BREED OF CROOKS ARE ALSO BORN OUT OF REEKO AND THE LIKES TOO! AMAZINGLY HISTORY REPEATS WITH NEW FACES..AND SAME OLD STORY! WE HUMANS NEVER LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES ..MORE STUPIDITY IS DISPLAYED BY THE PROUDNESS AND ARROGANCE OF YAMEEN, REEKO, MARIYA, SHAHID, ZAKI, DR.MUNAAWAR, DR.HASSAN SAEED AND HIS NURSE JAMEEL AND MANY MORE OF THE RECENT AND PAST! LIFE GOES ON ..AND ORDINARY MALDIVIANS BELIEVE IN A DREAM...I HOPE ANNI CAN GET OUT OF THESE WEBS, SPIDERS..SAVELY AND SINCERELY FOR THE NATION! MY PRAYERS ARE WITH HIM..AS I CAN SEE HIM STRUGGLE DAILY FOR A CHANGE..THE REST ARE OPPORTUNITIST FOR BUSINESS AND MONEY MONEY..LET ME WAIT AND SEE THE END OF THIS CHAPTER AND START OF NEXT...
ALi Rasheed says:
Article looks like a paid job done by dhivehi mihaaruge vagu , aniyaaveri, sarukarru and so called "minivan news" to defame president maumoon and his relatives. You can never be successfull to eliminate islam, unity, values, culture of Maldivians. But we will eliminate you! You all are paid by christian missionary groups!Go to hell!!
Ahmed Aliased says:
Your oil dealer's busted.
You scared, Burmese junta?. You scared, you little worthless pieces of trash? Who the hell do you think you are?
We're not scared of you! Your tanks cannot run without oil. Your guns need grease for maintenance. Your technicals need diesel to run over civilians.
I relish your fear!. Threaten all you want - the age of tyranny is at an end.
moosa says:
800 million dollars is a LOT of money. Enough to buy out every MP and all the political parties. Infact if you throw it in the right direction, enough to buy himself the presidency of Maldives. I call upon the ruling MDP to take immediate action to recover this money for the people. If the Goverment do not take immediate action, it would be fair to assume that the goverment and the ruling party has been baught over with this dirty money. Take action now. Recover it for us. Put the money in our ailing economy.
zeen says:
On the case of 800 million dollar corruption case by former regime the quick denial shows the desperation of them in holding foot on the Maldivian political spectrum. These reports are not based on an investigation by a Maldivian authority rather on a reputable international accounting firm’s investigation. DRP must seriously find a way to let the excess baggage off loaded and promote internal democracy to make them credible if they want to come back and win next election.
Trying to be clear says:
I don't know anyone from Maldives who does not know Yamin is an evil ruthless tyrant, don't stop pushing to bring justice to him.
The Government won't or can't do it. The reason for that is unclear, I wonder what back room deals have gone on and or who MDP is trying to protect, some sort of mutual blackmail is at work I suspect such as, if MDP, you charge us for such and such we PA DRP will charge you for such and such.
It Seems a little bit of we'll allow you to have free and fair elections so long as you don't witch hunt us going on as well. It is up to the ppl of Maldives to cause such a headache for the Government through protest that they have to get rid of Yameen as the consequences for not doing so have to be proven to be worse than the consequences for doing so.
You can come out with photos of Yameen murdering someone for example and Government still won't act UNTIL the masses push Gov. to act. I hope I have made myself clear.
Please investigate whos money was spent to build yanteys wife house at G. Roasary. Yaamin please answer who gave material to build swimimg pool at the roof top in this house. Is that not called corruption? Chalange to goverment and saw the receipts and payments.
The thing is if this yamin has to be investigated, Fpid should be in the list and reeko heavy load. So, pls keep quite everybody.
This is nothing new and don't have to be suprised our selves with more of these shots.its time to Jail them all and to take back what has been taken from us. This is not a small scandal when all pieces come together, the earth will slip away of many feets. I think its a perfect time to launch a anti corrouption campaign locally. As it is the cause of many socail cancers. The task is far greater than we think, its within us.
Ahmed Asif says:
This article is designed with full of lies.If its true at all why doesn't the present administration prosecute Yameen when they are in power of evrything? Still looking for more evidence?
dhooni raajje says:
people,let us all unite in this scandel.let us all call on to the govenment to set up a special commitee to investigte all this allegations.I swear to god,if Anni havent done his part on this,we will not choose him for the next term and we the people will bring him to justice by failling to do justice.Insha Alla
After all these allegations, the bloodly bastard refuses to acknowledge any of this. Even at the security council meeting today, he kept talking that he had NO HAND in this Singaporean shell corporation.
He rufuses to have done it, and note, "AS THE CHAIRMAN OF STO".
Ask him this, "Does he or does he not own the said corporation in Singapore?"
and ask him this,
"Did he or did he not USE STO's collective wealth and used this SAID CORPORATION as the middle-man to fix deals, diverting direct route back to Burma through Malaysia, then back to MALDIVES?!"
I simply do not believe this~ >.>
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Tanya Gold is a jerk; Richard Armitage nonetheless stays on message
Dear London Sunday Times interviewer, Tanya Gold,
It really kills me to write this letter to you, because you know my real name. I have loved at least two editorials you have written, and I loved one of them so much that I made the effort to track you down and write you a letter on my real university account — something you wrote about the royals in The Guardian — to which you responded kindly. I admired your language and your way of thinking. My friends and I discussed that editorial on our Facebook page and I sent you a screenshot of our conversation because I thought you might be interested in it. I thought you dared a lot with language, that you saw through things other people didn’t.
I take it all back. You see nothing.
Don’t get me wrong.
I really loved this interview because of things that Richard Armitage said in it. Some of it repeats old material, like the comment about the red carpet (he’s always hated them, he’s always thought they are weird, there are multiple comments to this effect in his early press), and some of it lets us learn new things. I knew that Gillian Lynne had praised his work, for instance, but to hear the full story? Priceless. Rock on, Mr. Armitage.
But you, Tanya Gold, you suck shit. I tell students not to curse in their writing, but you deserve this. It’s been a long time since I’ve been so irked at an interviewer, probably since I read the press interviews from 2009. Or maybe since the summer of 2011 when the Hobbit fanboyz were annoying me.
You tell the reader not to sneer, because you, yourself are sneering.
Let’s start with the way that you hate women. You hate that we can love things without having to sneer at them.
Innocent? Why don’t you just say naive? Or willfully ignorant. Because that’s what you meant.
Want to engage in a little innuendo, do you, Ms. Gold? To which I say this, a word to the wise:
What’s your problem? That we choose to enjoy something without asking for every single detail about it? That we have learned to do something you obviously can’t — what Armitage suggests in the interview you wrote should be the task of the audience — TO SEE MORE CLEARLY SOMETHING OF OURSELVES AS A CONSEQUENCE OF LOOKING AT THE WORK HE DOES — without having to have every detail of the fantasy we engage in correspond to reality? What poverty of imagination you have.
And believe me, I’m asking this as someone who has looked at every single detail about a thousand times. If there’s a detail about Richard Armitage, I’m likely to be aware of it.
Let’s move on to the fat hate.
I don’t like Vicar of Dibley. As long-time readers of this blog know, Harry Kennedy is my least favorite Armitage character. But actually, that wasn’t the point of the Vicar of Dibley conclusion. I have mixed feelings about the actual point — that a cheerful, hardworking, caring person is worthy of love and will attract a cheerful, hardworking, caring person — but you totally missed it. But I’m not a condescending jerk, either. I don’t pretend that other people’s fantasies, whether I share them or not, make them smaller. And you? If you don’t get that, that fantasy ennobles us, you’re nowhere near as smart as I thought you were.
Maybe you, you might be embarrassed to fall in love with a fat person. Frightened that people might think you were a little smaller, a little less important, a little less cool? Then you imply he cringed all the way through the role:
But you know, Richard Armitage? The guy who’s almost a star, too serious for all of this beefcake?
I know, because I spent two weeks in February 2010 watching Armitage’s scenes in Vicar of Dibley frame by lousy frame. Three times. I was interested in microexpressions. And I was interested in exactly that question. Was Richard Armitage embarrassed to be playing a character who was falling in love with or kissing Dawn French?
I can’t answer that, because I don’t know what is in Richard Armitage’s mind. But what I do know, from watching frame by frame for all that time, is that Richard Armitage never once cringes against character through any of his scenes romancing, talking to, or kissing Dawn French. That’s not true of all of his roles. He definitely cringes involuntarily when Lucas North is being lapdanced by a Russian spy. And there’s one other example of a cringe that might be characterization, and might be a lapse. But however he felt about Harry Kennedy’s role personally, Richard Armitage took the time and energy to give a perfectly convincing performance.
No, he never cringes once in Vicar of Dibley. I know, because I took the time to look. Because I am a fan, I do care. Because Richard Armitage convinced me to look at my own tendency to judge and suggested to me that it is possible to see things innocently. And enjoy them simply for what they are.
When I read your earlier writing, I thought you got something about women’s experiences, and people. I see I was mistaken.
Expletive deleted. I’ll be sending you a copy of this from my real university account — just so you know that those fans you’re slamming in this article? We are real people, with real intellects.
Your former fan,
Servetus
~ by Servetus on July 6, 2014.
Tags: Harry Kennedy, John Proctor, Richard Armitage, Tanya Gold, The Crucible, Vicar of Dibley
200 Responses to “Tanya Gold is a jerk; Richard Armitage nonetheless stays on message”
Thank you a lot for this.
antigone said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:14 am | Reply
Awesome, Thank you! I thought that was just the strangest article I have ever read. Not only the content of it, but it was so unbelievably poorly written. The Sunday Times?! Where do I apply? Obviously skill in writing not a job requirement. And you were bang on with her content. What was her problem with Mr. A? Really weird article. I can’t imagine what kind of person people not familiar with him would think. She makes him sound like an idiotic jerk. She has issues. Just weird.
Heather said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:16 am | Reply
I wonder if she would reply to your letter.
Thank you. As a woman of ‘womanly size’, that comment that obviously we don’t deserve a nice person in our lives just because we’re not skinny, to be so insulting, I didn’t want to finish the article.
Quite frankly, I’ve graded 5th grade papers that were more informative and better put together. She’s a pathetic excuse for a journalist.
I’m so mad, i’m going to go write some naughty smut.
zeesmuse said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:20 am | Reply
I heard that message loud and clear. If you’re fat you deserve the table scraps from that great feast called dating.
Fatima said this on July 6, 2014 at 5:22 am | Reply
Yes, it was obvious when she described Geraldine as “the fat vicar” and nothing else. Why not the funny vicar? The compassionate vicar? The miraculously capable of tolerating and herding that village of mental inmates vicar? Some people see fat women as fat and nothing else, as if it overwhelms and invalidates everything else about us. Thankfully, not everyone thinks the same way.
antigone said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:40 pm | Reply
One of the most egregious examples of interviewer intrusiveness I’ve ever seen.
judiang said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:22 am | Reply
I meant worst. Irked myself.
I just read it. It says a lot about the interviewer and very little about the subject…
Suse said this on July 6, 2014 at 6:38 am | Reply
Joanna said this on July 6, 2014 at 5:59 pm | Reply
You got it, Suse.
SH said this on July 7, 2014 at 12:28 am | Reply
You know exactly what I think. OMG, and the “he doesn’t know why he’s still single” thing…I’d love to know how she phrased that question because I can’t think of a single way to ask that that isn’t unbearably rude.
jazzbaby1 said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:24 am | Reply
The whole “i’ll hint at telling you something that fans refuse to hear” tone here — there’s another instance of it — is just ridiculous. Does she think we’re idiots?
Servetus said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:26 am | Reply
No no, she thinks we’re “innocent” like Mannilow fans. Mannilow fans aren’t nearly as “innocent” as the press likes to imagine they are.
Yeah, innocent like Manilow fans is definitely code. I’ve tweeted and emailed her this article, so she can read this comments if she likes. Barry Manilow’s fans are pretty smart.
LOL really she didn’t think this all through very well . . . bless her heart (said with a very arch smile and a hint of poisoned sweetness by a southern girl who knows HOW).
fedoralady said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:39 am | Reply
When southern girls say “Bless your/her/his heart” I get very nervous and start backing slowly to the exit… 😉
MaryJaneZigZag said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:33 am | Reply
yeah, it’s the polite way of saying f*** you. Poisonous.
*grins wickedly* You got that right, dahlinâ . . . remembah, under these soft feminine exteriors we ah all steel magnolias.
Have to say the Barry Manilow comparison irked me the worst. I’m surprised she didn’t go one step further and use Liberace. Just a terribly intrusive, condescending interview all around.
Meghan said this on July 6, 2014 at 5:17 am | Reply
Uh.Mah.Gah. My thought exactly. EXACTLY.
All in all, she’s managed to alienate quite a few factions, from Barry Manilow fans to those of who are carrying around excess adipose tissue. Well, this “fat old” Armitage admirer thinks she is going to find some time between working on video production stuff for PRP and the Chamber of Commerce, and giving the worrisome wrist a periodic rest, to work on a new Sloth Fiction entry. I think the ChaRActers will have something to say about all this . . . they really don’t like being (or having the CReAtor) insulted. No, they do not.
I’m amazed to discover that bawdy old me IS an innocent. I didn’t realize “Manilow” was a reference to you-know-what until I read everyone’s comments here. When I read that in the story I thought, “Where’s her copy editor? What the hell is Barry Manilow doing in here?” Ha ha ha!!!
armitagebesotted said this on July 6, 2014 at 9:16 am | Reply
LOL! You never know when or where the man who writes the songs will appear! 😉 When people speak in code it can be confusing, armitagebesotted. wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know whot I mean??
Manilow is another example of someone subjected to crazy condescension and I confess that I used to be part of it. Then one summer while I was trapped in a hospital room with mom I heard an interview with him on (I think) Larry King. (Maybe it was Piers Morgan by then.) And such love and professional care for what he was doing and appreciation for his fans came out of that man and I thought, anyone who would ridicule something that makes these people so happy is him or herself ridiculous. It was kind of a key recognition for me.
Innocent? Us? She hasn’t read my fan fiction, has she . . . she obviously doesn’t really know nearly as much as she thinks she does about the fandom or our perceptions of this man. What a snarky cow she appears to be. And I thought I couldn’t stand that Vicki who blogged about Spooks. Hey, truth be told, I haven’t read that article yet because I’ve been pulling screencaps for PRP project. But I couldn’t resist peeking in here. Brava, my friend, brava! Frankly, now that RA’s star continues to be on the rise, I suppose we can expect more of this tasteless type of “journalism.” A price paid for fame . . .
Suddenly Houda and Kathie Lee (Today Show interview) don’t seem so bad now don’t they? 😉
LOL yeah I can cut them some slack. Plus I was able to watch that interview live on my TV, which was AWESOME!
Whoa! “snarky cow” and “bless her heart” all in one! I’m proud of you, fedoralady!
Kitty said this on July 7, 2014 at 2:03 am | Reply
LOL What can I say, Kitty, she got this southern girl (with a fondness for Brit slang) all riled up!
It’s like a 21st century version of that tawdry “Confidential” magazine or something–lots of coy inferences . . . shoddy. Very disappointing. I would have hoped for and expected better.
being married and or having children is not proof of anything one way or another. Her nose was obviously out of joint about something. She probably was perturbed that he wouldn’t answer personal questions and stuck to the work, which is what it is all about for him and for us, so she retaliated with this really poorly written article. She should be ashamed at her lack of professionalism and display of really poor writing skill.
what’s odd about this is that really, she’s a good writer. One of things she wrote about Kate Middleton I’d have put in the top ten best things I’ve ever read in a newspaper.
I will have to take your word on it that she is a good writer. LOL. She certainly didn’t display that here. But, on a cheerier note, I am just going to have to get into the mindset when I read articles like this is the fact that Mr. A. has now arrived on the radar … that his career has definitely hit the higher stratosphere now and these types of articles will become all too familiar. He just seems like such a decent person and crap like that shouldn’t happen to decent people. I will just tune it out I guess.
Personally, I would much rather see someone stay unattached rather than have a long trail of broken relationships behind them . . . just my opinion. And it’s true–being married to someone of the opposite sex, even having children is no sure-fire indicator the person is 100 percent hetero. And not being married by a certain age, or never marrying, does not mean that person must be gay or lesbian.
I think Heather may be right – she’s a freelance writer, maybe just did it for the money, wasn’t really interested in RA, went along with a bit of a ‘chippy’ attitude and RA, maybe already in Proctor mode, maybe not really wanting to do an interview, let alone one with someone who he senses has a bit of attitude towards him, gave a guarded interview back.
She, like a lot of journos probably, just googled him before she went and not getting very much in the personal department out of him, just gave her own judgements. (His interviews are always better when he’s obviously happy he can just stick to answering about his work and not any personal stuff.)
And yes, really interesting questions to ask him would have been-Who suggested you for the job? Did you audition? Are you going to do more theatre?
And a pat on the back is required to whoever suggested him, Yael Farber and The Old Vic!
Mrs Thornton said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:46 pm | Reply
Is it me, or does it seem like she was determined to vent her spleen at him from the word go? I can’t imagine what their interview was like.
I suspect, Judi, that she came to the table with an agenda in place and her angle for the interview already plotted out, hoping to provoke him along the way . . . thank goodness Richard is patient and disciplined, the compleat professional–or she just might have seen that “filthy temper” he has referred to in the past in action. I am betting he was VERY happy when the ordeal was over and done with.
I wonder what she hoped to provoke, a savvy media type talking to a savvy actor. He wasn’t born yesterday (like she thinks his fans were.)
she’s two years younger than he is, and an Oxford grad. She’s made a lot of points attacking Oxford privilege but boy she sounds snotty here. Maybe she thought she could outsmart him, but I bet he could eat her for breakfast.
The bunch of us here can eat her for breakfast and elevensies with our combined intellects. I have read some smart fans online, and she definitely has not.
yeah, that was really puzzling. If she’d bothered to look for ten minutes she’d have discovered this is not a naive, innocent fandom. Cough. Nor a simple one.
I am guessing she didn’t spend any time researching RA by hanging out at tumblr . . .
I think it’s safe to say she made some poor judgment calls in the way she handled the whole thing, and that’s a shame. Here’s a paper with a large readership and an actor who is an interesting, intelligent guy who is thoughtful in his responses, who has great insight into the acting profession and a marvelous sense of humor, to boot—interviewee gold! Yet, she’s too busy trying to slide in her little innuendos to do a proper job of letting us get to better know the subject, Richard Armitage and how he approached and prepared for this key role of Proctor. To slightly paraphrase Miss Austen: Badly done, Tanya. Badly done.
Almost like she didn’t trust him to say anything intelligent about his own work. Tja.
Does she subscribe to the philosophy that all actors are actually quite thick, do you suppose? Or does the fact he hasn’t got an upper middle-class background and a university degree as some of his peers do mean she thinks it is OK to “talk down” to him . . . I wonder. *shakes head*
That’s the sense I got too, and commented about before I saw your comment. Glad to see I wasn’t the only one sensing it.
BOOM. Serv drops the mic & walks off stage to thunderous applause Seriously. That was wicked!
Thank you, Servetus, for this letter to the author of that Sunday Times article.
I, too, was offended by her sneering tone and her belittling attitude towards Richard’s fans, as well as part of his work.
Perhaps she doesn’t realize that all she’s done is to reveal her own insecurity and unkindness — she thinks she can make herself appear intellectual and cultured by insulting other people. How pitiably wrong she is!
Nevertheless, I’m glad that Richard came through as the thoughtful and hard-working person that we’ve come to know.
saraleee said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:52 am | Reply
it’s an interesting choice given the educational level / SES of his initial group of fans coming from North & South. But I think she wasn’t very well informed about him.
I don’t think her attitude has anything to do with actual facts about her fans — it’s about the writer positioning herself as “better” than the fans, because she’s dismissive of their enthusiasm. She’s saying, “I am more dignified than to let people see my feelings.”
It appears to be a very middle-class British attitude, that you have to display highly refined taste in art and entertainment, and you must control your emotions at all costs.
saraleee said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:16 pm | Reply
maybe though I know many middle-class Brits who are not snobs.
Yeah, you’re right. That wasn’t fair of me. I was just annoyed.
Thanks, Serv, I feel much better now. I can now retreat into the land of rainbows and unicorns where I reside. I only visit the real world occasionally, so I can maintain my blissful innocence.
Kathy Jones said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:55 am | Reply
LOL. Yeah. I, too, ignore everything in the world that doesn’t suit my worldview in favor of fairy princess dreams.
Hee hee! Rainbows and unicorns….I live there too! Howdy neighbour!
Oh, I forgot to ask, where do I get all the advice on how to get signed autographs? I must have missed the memo. 🙂
I know, I thought that was really strange. There is a website that discusses in general how to get celeb autographs and fans log in when they get one and usually leave a pic. Maybe that was what she was talking about. Every now and then a post from there pops in Google alerts but I wouldn’t call it central to the fandom.
What’s odd about this interview (in comparison to the Daily Mail shit) is that the Daily Mail wanted essentially to say something mean about the play and about Armitage and the remarks about gawping women were a tool to accomplish that.
In this case, she seems to think he’s doing him a favor by insulting both his fans and his past body of work. Puzzling.
I got the sense she was trying to curry (his) male favor by displaying her internalized misogyny.
alyssabethancourt said this on July 6, 2014 at 9:59 am | Reply
wow, fascinating insight. I will have to think about that some more. If that was what was happening that was another huge mistake. This guy is hardly a misogynist. This is the guy who asked if Sarah Wayne Callies should drive the truck in some scenes in Into the Storm because he didn’t want to make it look like only men drove trucks.
Absolutely, the effort was terribly misplaced if so. You see this a lot, though, from women in heavily male-dominated careers. They learn that one way of earning the respect of their male colleagues is by distancing themselves from other women by putting them down. It’s gross.
alyssabethancourt said this on July 6, 2014 at 10:16 pm | Reply
That is really interesting…. she probably assumed he has contempt for his fans like she has (and perhaps like some other stars do, unfortunately). It would have been REALLY easy right now for her to find out how wonderful he has been to his fans every single night after an exhausting 3.5 hr. play….. but she apparently didn’t. (I bet the “lazy” comment he made was meant to include her too!)
First time poster, long time lurker here. Love Mr. Armitage’s work. Will be seeing the Crucible on the 1st of September. I don’t give a flying fuck if he is gay, straight, bi, etc. Found this interview to be horribly intrusive. However, obviously, Richard has been anticipating these interviewers asking about his personal life and is sticking to not talking about it. This is the second Crucible interview I’ve read that seemed to be more about him than the play.
Thanks for the message, and welcome. I, too, would welcome a really in depth interview that treated his view of John Proctor as a character.
When I first read the article I was angry and I confess felt hurt. But after reading everyone’s comments here I just have to laugh. What a ridiculous article. It’s good to read everyone’s venting and all the funny comments. I don’t feel angry anymore.
yes, fun to laugh w/friends. How simple of us. But how wonderful!
wonderful indeed!
Also, what was the bit about the naked dream? It didn’t seem to have much of a point and seemed taken out of context. Would loved to have heard the actual taped version of this conversation. May have made much more sense. I think she definitely had an agenda. She wanted to get the Richard Armitage “coming out” interview. Ugh….
I agree: v. disjointed. But newspaper copy has to be written without transitions — essentially so that the editor can strike any paragraph at will to save column inches So she might have made a connection there that an editor struck. Or not. Hard to say.
I think the naked dreams, what they perhaps symbolize, may be RA alluding to feelings of anxiety about performing the play well and having his performance well recieved. But now that the reviews are in, I think he will be having no more naked dreams.
Christine said this on July 6, 2014 at 11:57 pm | Reply
Servetus said this on July 7, 2014 at 12:07 am | Reply
Yup, that’s the impression I got too.
Bravo, Servetus! A well worded letter! I thought at first that I was the only one that found her interview strange.
Carolyn said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:15 am | Reply
I loved a lot of the stuff Armitage said — including the point about how actors cause us to see ourselves differently — something I’ve been circling around here for the longest time — but she could have done a much better interview without the insulting bits.
Well said. Very well said. I thought it was just me. :{ I felt very fat-shamed. And the nakedness thing was obviously just clickbait, and not very well-done clickbait… so much editorial viewpoint in this, but once you waded through that, I was interested in his comments. But ugh, her crap was just… no, cutting down your probable readership doesn’t make you cool.
Christine said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:46 am | Reply
she seemed to be saying, well, soon he’ll be able to get rid of all his sad old fat fans because now he’s doing somethin serious and will have real fans. Whatevs, as my nieces would say.
Whatevs, INDEED. I think her nudge-winkery may not turn out the way she intended.
Christine said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:32 pm | Reply
Loved your letter to the editor. hmmm…do you think she will get an interview when they release the final Hobbit film, I’m betting, not! I also hate when interviewers use the words from other interviews and make them their own. And for him not being married at 42…My husband and I got married 15 years ago when he was 41, after a long-term relationship. It’s not her business why he is not married.
Carolyn Westfall Masini said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:49 am | Reply
and 50 is the new 40. My ex fathered a child at the age of almost 50 with a woman who was 42 at the time. Technology makes it possible …
I agree this is the strangest most uncomfortable interview I’ve read about Richard. Ms. Gold left me longing for something smarter, say the Dandalf interview. cough Stupid cow – they ARE motorcycle jeans. The Crucible is NOT Public Domain! If she wants an innocent Barry Manilow fan she can talk to hubby; I’m too busy reading erotic Armitage fanfiction. I bet she found the manip photo of Richard in Cats online. I never knew that Richard turned down a lead part in Hair at School; I thought they did Showboat. She saw nothing of humorous Armitage. (Is not wanting to do musicals but wants kids code for something?) Yes I’m rambling. So did she.
saraobsessed said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:57 am | Reply
and didn’t Barry Manilow come out years ago? And did anybody care? I didn’t hear about any fans going beserk. So what is the parallel she is trying to make anyways? She is an idiot. Lots of people devoted to their professional lives don’t marry. Or marry late. I don’t think RA has found anyone he loves more than he loves his work at this point. Or maybe he has. What does it matter. What century does this interviewer live in? Not knowing about his longtime or short time or anytime partner makes his characters all the more believable to the audience because you are seeing the character, not musing over the latest article in the tabloids. Mr A is a very intelligent man who seems to be very very serious about his craft. Good for him for not caving in to this idiot ‘journalist’ and staying true to himself and not playing the game of selling your soul for an article.
I confess I’m still worked up over this entire article. Let it go, let it go I keep telling myself. I just think she was insulting to him, to his admirers, to those he has worked with and for on past projects…and future projects, to women in general. She is just clueless.
I actually liked his character in Cold Feet. When he said ‘it’s probably me Mum” and grabbed for the phone with Ramona…that was hilarious. And kind of touching and sad. He played the ‘cad’ very well. And the final scene he was in in Moving On…when he was in prison and is visited by the now ex girlfriend, I thought he was masterful with that scene. The look in his eyes at the end…..expressed so much. All those past jobs in their own way prepared him for the ultimate role in The Crucible. That journalist is not too bright in my opinion. RA has nothing at all to be ashamed of regarding past projects (speedos and all).
he got a lot of fan mail for Cold Feet. Important exposure for him as he was beginning his career.
I didn’t know he got a lot of fan mail for Cold Feet. Makes sense though because he looked seriously hot in that. And as a youngish actor starting out, exposure is crucial. And Mr. A, being a very intelligent person, I’m sure knew exactly that a part like that would get him noticed. Everything he has done has been a stepping stone to something better. One of the big things I find attractive about him is his intelligence.
first role — that’s what his comment “the Speedos were popular” in his early N&S press refers to.
It was one of the most popular series in England at the time it was aired.
“important exposure” lol…just linked that with the speedos. That’s funny.
lol., we do our best!
Wow…just…wow…
When she had the nerve to ask why he wasn’t married, I blew my gasket. I heard that same patronizing tone some ‘smug married/coupled’ people use with single people. Plus she had the f**cking nerve to ask that for what? To out him? Paint him as a workholic actor? Ms Gold wanted to paint him as something to ask that question.
There were so many other things to ask:
How did Yeal Farber know about him?
What’s it like to work with actors making their stage debut? Has he passed along advice he wished he had starting out?
Any desire to tread the boards on Broadway?
Any of artistic goals you want to pursuit?
Oh, and everyone gets the naked dreams. points to self Nothing earth shattering there. My comment looks as disjointed as that stupid interview.
Loved your questions. Maybe the next interviewer could use them. I think he could answer all of them without impinging on our collective innocence.
Fatima, my husband and I have been married almost 30 years and have no children, other than the furry kind. People can be quite patronizing about childless couples, too, along with single people âof a certain age.â Let people live their own lives, make their own choices, and donât make presumptions about what isnât your business to begin with, I say.
I like your questions, BTW. Would have preferred answers to those questions than the space devoted to trying to ferret outâwhatever she thought she was going to get.
Couldn’t agree more! The only difference is that we’ve only been married six years, but the rest applies completely to us too!
Traxy said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:37 pm | Reply
maybe she wanted a date.
Thatâs it!! Sheâs sussing him out as a possible date . . . :
She’s married. She wrote an article about how her groom to be is a bridezilla!
http://www.stylist.co.uk/people/tanya-gold/he-is-the-groom-but-he-is-poor-soul-a-bridezilla
interesting — see that’s what I mean — that article is actually funny and sympathetic. She can write really well when she wants. Guess she didn’t want to this time.
I had a look at another article she wrote about celebrities and politicians. Ms. Gold has this belief all actors, or anyone in entertainment really, are complete airheads. They are not fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, sons, daughters, partners, etc caring about issues that effect all of us.
She treated him like an airhead.
The way she makes fun of him for looking her in the eyes. Sweetheart, he tried to offer you something meaningful, and you were too busy looking down your nose to notice.
Ah, that confirms what I suspected, then. Of course there *are* shallow, vapid, empty-headed people in the world of celebs—ladies and gentlemen, exhibit one. The Kardashians!!—but you can’t paint an entire industry with the same brush. To see the world as so black and white is rather naïve and narrow-minded on her part.
married? – it’s not a physical defect…as my hubby used to say 😉
Joanna said this on July 6, 2014 at 9:12 am | Reply
And now that I’ve had a moment to think about it + read other comments, it strikes me that he’s never acted ashamed of doing Dibley, or mocked himself for it the way he does Cold Feet. I read a fan encounter on C19 during the filming where he seemed very exicted & happy to be doing it, and he’s certainly mentioned it in other interviews. He seems to get asked about it every time he’s on Lorraine (which would be annoying if she weren’t so adorable, imo), so when this author says something like “best not to mention Dibley” or whatever – I’m not going to look it up – it sounds like either she already had her own take & didn’t want his input to throw off her story OR she asked in a snarky way and he didn’t take the bait, so she left his comments out. It’s an unfortunate article.
Yes — asked repeatedly, and repeatedly, and repeatedly, about how he feels about past work, Richard Armitage has said exactly once that he was embarrassed of something he’d done, a “student film” which we think might have been “Staged.” He was asked the last time by Strombo if he was ashamed of taking his kit off and he denied it.
Lorraine is a nice mature woman who thinks Dibley is sweet, and he kindly agrees with her, no matter how he feels. And no matter what Ms Gold thinks that character is widely loved all over the world. Maybe it makes her feel superior not to feel that way.
Strombo, ya, he’s my hometown boy! He is a very good interviewer, very intelligent, and does his homework and is very savvy re pop culture. Too bad he is doing hockey commentating now, budget cuts at the CBC unfortunately.
That’s too bad because his interview with Kermit the Frog is one of the best I’ve ever seen.
Little Red said this on July 6, 2014 at 7:03 am | Reply
and Kermit is a tough interview. 🙂
Tanya Gold interviewing Kermit the Frog . . .
“So—why aren’t you married yet? What about that pig? Or—-or pigs not really *quite* your type . . .”
LOL love it! I’m also pleased with “bless her heart” from your sweet Southern lips (I am Southern by heritage if not by birth, and understand well the “versatility” of that phrase 🙂
I’m puzzled by this rubbish story. Isn’t London Sunday Times supposed to be one of the better British newspapers — or is it different from “London Times?”
GREAT questions, Fatima! I want to hear the answers to 1 and 2, especially!
Thank you for writing this, Servetus. You give wonderful voice to nonsense like this which just makes me sputter in inarticulate anger.
I must say, I have read this post and the comments thereafter first. Now off to find this “interview”…. As a middle aged fluffy southern girl, I’m thinking…well, bless her heart…
micinlia said this on July 6, 2014 at 4:51 pm | Reply
roflol.
Just to clarify the newspapers – there is no ‘London Times’, it’s ‘The Times’ from Monday to Saturday and on Sunday it’s ‘The Sunday Times’.
For Americans it’s the London Times to distinguish it from the New York Times, which is also the Times to us.
Wow. What a pretentious bitch.
Dreams of being naked can be interpreted in different ways. To successfully interpret the meaning you need to ask intelligent questions and this writer failed. She tried to steer the interpretation (and article) to shame (paralleling her disdain for RA fandom as well) presumably due to the ridiculous rumors about his personal life (something he has in common with other handsome actors – they all have them!). Without the benefit of interviewing Mr. Armitage I interpret his naked dream as feeling unprepared because of his comments about laziness and being a “worker” as well as previous comments about how extensively he prepares for role.
Also I think they need to stop letting people interview him in his dressing room. He’s in Proctor-mode, leave him be!
Sherry said this on July 6, 2014 at 5:48 am | Reply
I wished he had stretched his leg out of that too-small chair and kicked that lazy-ass reporter out of his dressing room.
And with that comment I will laugh my way to bed.
me too….right after I re-read Theatre Cat’s review…then I will feel better and sleep better
It’s also ironic the tone of the article seems to match the witch-hunt tone of The Crucible. Well, Ms. Gold, write what you want, but leave him his name.
http://armitageagonistes.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/why-arent-you-married/
Perry wrote a classic one here!!
SH said this on July 7, 2014 at 5:33 pm | Reply
Thank you Servetus. I read the article after reading your letter. It is hard to know where to start with this writer. Obviously she has little respect for fans in general but she pretty much put all of Richard’s in the “old” column and I’m surprised she just didn’t say it but probably thought she was being clever using Barry Manilow as an example. We all know that the majority of Richard’s fans are intelligent women, some older and some younger but what does that matter. We are not the average “fan” and this article isn’t about One Direction.
She managed to slam the new movie but I’d bet she didn’t use the word schlock when she talked with Richard. Yes, it is a disaster film but really who made her chief critic for a film that hasn’t come out yet? Now I liked the Vicar of Dibley but I agree with Servetus about that and I don’t believe Richard had one moment of ill ease playing that role and what a slam at Dawn French really or every overweight person. See she resorted to seeing the actual actors not the roles and apparently it isn’t possible for her to believe that a rather lovely woman who is overweight could ever find love with a man who is handsome.
Sure Richard is handsome and don’t we all know that but we do care what is beneath that and I had to laugh when I read that “he didn’t know” why he wasn’t married. Really did she ask him straight out why he wasn’t? He is so polite really. I’d have just told her that I chose not to be at this time. Was she fishing for something else? Probably but Richard has become the master of eluding reporters like her. He isn’t that shy young actor any longer. He stands up for himself and he tells you what “he” wants to tell you and you could tell that she wasn’t getting what she wanted from him.
There were some interesting things in the article but not a lot that was surprising except how poorly she handled him. Servetus says she is really a good writer normally so what happened here? Was it that he was too good looking and didn’t fit into the mold she wanted?
I wonder what Richard thought when he saw the finished article, and I’m sure he has seen it. She certainly didn’t praise any of his past work. It was like everything prior to The Crucible was junk really. Sure he has worked in some things that weren’t really what he was looking for but what actor hasn’t. It is part of the dues really.
I thought the Sunday Times was better than that too but maybe Ms Gold had an axe to grind as we say.
Peggy Kincaid said this on July 6, 2014 at 6:12 am | Reply
Großartige Brandrede Serv! Ich denke, sie hatte vielleicht einen schlechten Tag, war auf Krawall gebürstet oder litt schlicht und ergreifend just zu diesem Zeitpunkt unter dem PMS-Syndrom. 😀
cRAmerry said this on July 6, 2014 at 6:27 am | Reply
I’m guessing cRAmerry is writing in German? I think we all understand the meaning though, lol! (PMS-Syndrom).
translation: “great fiery speech, Serv. I think maybe she had a bad day, spoiling for a fight, or was simply suffering from PMS just at that particular point in time.”
Thanks for the translation…it was a ‘great fiery speech’….it certainly got quite a few discussions going.
Bei dir klingt das gleich doppelt so gut wie bei mir 🙂
Sorry, it’s far to early for my bad english: i think, serv said it well and I think, the lady probably had a bad day or only wants to makes trouble or maybe the PMS-thing 🙂
Oh, no need for sorry. I so admire those who speak more than one language. We take some French here in school as we are supposed to be a bilingual country but I am afraid I was not very good at mastering it. Serv certainly did say it well and we certainly have been feeling quite fiery all night!
Yes, Serv is sometimes my personal translation button 🙂
Co-signed. I was really taken aback by the viciousness of those remarks.
Well done, Servetus for calling her out. I agree with everything said here and will only add that I have found The Sunday Times to be a very sensationalist publication for years – they love to be controversial. It’s allied to The Times but has a different approach and management.
Helen said this on July 6, 2014 at 8:09 am | Reply
Applauds thank you Serv and all those who have commented. I was irked from start to finish by this writer so was very relieved to find I’m not the only one, that I wasn’t just being touchy and quite possibly going into APM. Not that Richard needed me there of course, he handled the interview very well, and there are some nuggets to be found. For what it’s worth, on reading the article again, my belief is that she didn’t get what she wanted from him (“maybe he just doesn’t want to tell me“, “Or not to tell them things“) so the snark took over.
PS love your word to the wise – very true for me. 🙂
Mezz said this on July 6, 2014 at 8:17 am | Reply
yeah, note that I’m not defending Armitage here — I’m defending fans, of whom I am one. Armitage will be fine without my defense.
Well, she certainly found her mark with me – a mature, cuddly Dibley and Harry Kennedy devotee! 😉
I’m going to go be brave and swim against the tide a little.
I read this after seeing the reaction of fans in the greater fandom and while there are a couple of things that are a little crass towards VOD and his fans I wasn’t nearly as offended as some. Richard is now a much bigger player than he was and so this type of interview is to be expected even from the quality papers like the times so speculation about his private life is going to happen. As for us his fans we have always been ridiculed we always will be – goes with the territory. Its the same with VOD, which I love when I’m down and need cheering up. In non fans there has always been an opinion wrongly as far as I’m concerned that fat girls shouldn’t expect to fall in love at all let along with a lovely bloke.
And lets face it a lot of fans, who have been around since Thornton are not impressed with his choices in films like In To The Storm for the very reason she is stating.
If you can get beyond that it is actually an interesting piece and one where the writer herself confirms something Richard says about himself all the time, about being immersed in a character.
[i]I don’t know how happy he is, since previews are four days away and he is at least half Proctor [/i]
I also like her thoughts about handsomeness being a disability for a serious actor. How many times have we said that in this fandom? His thoughts on the red carpet where he is just acting another role are interesting as well – he remains confused about how popular he is.
I was also was interested in what she said about him leaving musical theatre and Gillian Lynne’s comments.
Her closing comment is excellent
[i]A serious man. A sensitive man. Of course he couldn’t stay in Cats.
kateakakhandy said this on July 6, 2014 at 8:29 am | Reply
That his fans are ridiculed is nothing new, I agree, but I don’t recall reading anything quite as churlish as this. She did redeem herself a little in my eyes with those last two sentences, but they’re not enough for me to overcome my dislike of the general tone of this piece.
I don’t think we have to put up with being ridiculed. I particularly don’t think we have to put up with being ridiculed when the picture drawn of us and others is totally inaccurate. I am not the Sunday Times but one reason I have this blog is I can say what I damn well think.
The last line is the ultimate kicker for me, actually, khandy. I was not a fan of Cats (I was in my late teens when it was a big hit — and I’m about five years older than she is, so she was in her early teens). Lots of fun to condescend to something popular, that lots of people loved at the time — because if lots of people loved it, then it must be schlock. Maybe that makes her feel good. But there are lots of profound moments in Cats and they’re not unserious just because they appeal to people.
and note — when Armitage was invited to make fun of Cats, in the Anglophile interview he refused to do so. He said (a) it was very much of the 80s and (b) he still goes back to the Eliot poems at its base.
oh — and — note that early in the piece I do say — Armitage says some interesting things here. I’m not knocking the actual quotations from Armitage. I wish she’d done a litle more of that and a little less self-profiling at our expense.
I have to admit that I learned some things that were new to me from this article – I hadn’t heard about the naked dream, for example…. also re: turning down lead in Hair, and new context about Gillian Lynne. I just still hate the preconceptions with which she seems to have approached the interview and article…. but I’m looking forward to newer / nicer things for today!
those were all new things to my knowledge. A broken clock is correct at least twice a day.
lol, we are nothing here if not positive (whenever we can be 🙂
Can’t let the turkeys keep US down!
For me whole article sound like a clumsy ( by ridiculing fans and previous achievements) worded compliment.
“You look great in this new hairdo..the old one was ridiculous”- I heard something like that not so long ago 😉 😀
” A serious man.A sensitive man. Of course he couldn’t stay in Cats”-
Of course we love exactly This man !
For me it´s the most interesting post of the last days… I have to confess I`m that kind of a middleaged, fat, blondest cow, who still believes after watching VoD she could get a man like Mr. A 🙂 After raising up two daughters and being a grandmother for a year now, my naivity, innocence and willful ignorance is still the same like it was more than thirty years ago, and I stick to it :))
Thanks, Servetus, for that letter and all the ambitious comments.
Wenn dieser Kommentar mal wieder sehr armselig ausfällt, liegt das nur an meinem mangelnden englischen Sprachvermögen und nicht der Blondheit, Bildung, Mr. Armitage-Admiration oder was auch immer, hahaha…
utepirat said this on July 6, 2014 at 11:36 am | Reply
Fat people find love with thin people all the time. It’s not like it’s some ridiculously crazy notion. The main thing is that (assuming you want to find love) you find it. Looking down on how other people find it is junior high school.
Hm. Sieht so aus, als sollte ich deinen Blog von oben nach unten lesen, statt beim ältesten ungelesenen anzufangen und mich zu den neusten hochzuarbeiten …
Hedgehogess said this on July 6, 2014 at 12:39 pm | Reply
Ab über 100 comments erleichtert es das Verständnis immens, von oben nach unten vorzugehen. grins Ganz schön was los hier heute!
cRAmerry said this on July 6, 2014 at 2:19 pm | Reply
Ups, Storno, war zu schnell! Du meintest ja die Blogbeiträge. 🙂
Ich habe heute morgen auch von oben nach unten geschaut (da waren es schon über 80 Kommentare), aber dann erstmal hektisch den zugehörigen Artikel gesucht, um die Aufregung einordnen zu könnnen.
Nachdem ich jetzt die Diskussion gelesen habe, möchte ich hinzufügen:
Ich bin inzwischen überzeugt, dass RA seit mindestens fünf Jahren verheiratet ist. Außerdem hat seine Frau nach der Geburt des Sohns (heute 4) und der Zwillingsmädchen (18 Monate) Probleme, zu einer Size-Zero-Figur zurückzukommen, und deshalb möchte sie nicht, dass die Ehe bekannt wird, weil sie die Lästerei fürchtet. Es reicht, wenn einer der Partner sich mit solchen Ärgernissen herumschlage muss.
Disclaimer: Ich bin nicht nur “unschuldig”, übergewichtig, in RAs Alter und ein Fan, sondern manchmal auch sarkastisch und außerdem phantasiebegabt.
In anderen Worten: Es gibt keinerlei Hinweise darauf, dass irgendetwas davon wahr ist.
Hedgehogess said this on July 6, 2014 at 2:32 pm | Reply
Ganz schön durchgeknallt, hat aber durchaus Charme. Du hast vergessen zu erwähnen, dass sie zusammen bei seinen Schwiegereltern unterm Dach wohnen! So, dann translate mal schön…… 😀
Ein Körnchen Wahrheit ist drin: Jeder scheint immer davon auszugehen, dass RA eventuelle Beziehungen geheim hält. Aber zu einer Beziehung gehören zwei Personen.
Ich möchte das gar nicht übersetzen. Englisch lesen mehr Leute, und ich will eigentlich keine Gerüchte streuen – am Ende glaubt’s jemand. Es gibt genug Leute (überall, nicht nur unter Fans), die mehr an ihr Bauchgefühl glauben als an beweisbare Tatsachen.
PS: Das wäre mal eine Idee für Fanfiction: Richard und das Schwiegermonster 😛
Klingt nach einer netten Beziehungskomödie. Wäre nach all den Drama-, Tod- und Verzweiflungsrollen mal eine ECHTE Alternative. Die unbekümmerte Variante gehört dringend ins Repertoire. Man /Frau braucht doch auch mal was zum Entspannen!
oh, I just saw this. Well I thought it was funny and obviously facetious 🙂
Das wäre tatsächlich der Gipfel der Bodenständigkeit 😀
cRAmerry — “you forgot to mention that they are living under one roof with his inlaws”
translating this into English b/c it’s too good to hide:
Hedgehogess:
Over time I’ve become convinced that RA’s been married for at least five years. Besides that, since the birth of their children (a son, 4, and twin girls, 18 months), his wife has been having problems getting back to her size zero figure and because of that she doesn’t want the marriage to become known because she fears the criticism. It’s enough when the partner has to deal with such annoyances.
Disclamer: I am not only “innocent,” overweight, in RA’s age range, and a fan, but sometimes sarcastic and besides that I have a gift for making things up. In other words: there is no evidence that any of this is true.
So funny! It may be truer than we know, actually! I have always suspected that RA and Annabel Capper are in a very serious relationship for a long time now and she and him are just the type of people that want their professional and personal relationships separate. For both personal and professional reasons. I’m sure she doesn’t want to be dragged around and put on display and wants to work and be judged on her own merit. Regardless, RA likes to use his imagination, in his own words, and is quite content for us to use ours as well. It so doesn’t matter, I just love all his characters…John Stranding “don’t feel like you can’t tell me anything”, strong stoic John Proctor….all of them. When I fantasize about RA I am really fantasizing about the characters he has created. And RA is fully aware of that, and feels that is what his job is. And he does it well. And part of that is keeping the real RA a mystery so the RA characters are all the more believable.
Heather said this on July 6, 2014 at 6:32 pm | Reply
I’ve sometimes privately speculated that he is in fact married. I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
Cindy said this on July 6, 2014 at 7:32 pm | Reply
I’ve been puzzling about what to do about this as well. I’ve posted a crazy number of posts the last week or so, so there are sometimes like a dozen new posts over night. I need to cut that down. It bothers me, too.
You have to look for some more boring items. Then the comments will decrease! Maybe today we reach the 200er Marke 🙂
Thank you Servetus,
You spoke once again from my heart.
Fat people are not always fat just because they have eating disorders. I am a little overweight, yes – but I do not have eating disorders. I eat at normal dimensions, do regular exercise and still have a dress size, which is in the lower Oversize range. And I have by the way a friend who is like Richard so tall and lean and still loves me fat dwarf as I am. 😉
But that one sentence makes me sad. This one sentence to write without explanation is the same as to write that one has asthma just because you have smoked. I have, up to a single cigarette with 15, never smoked and still have asthma (and I had already before because a bronchitis is not treated properly). There are also thick, which have gained by a disease such as my former colleague, who had kidney disease, had to go to dialysis and had doubled by the cortisone her weight within one year.
Nicole said this on July 6, 2014 at 1:12 pm | Reply
Welcome Nicole and thanks for the comment.
It is an amazing fact of human existence that if we sit anywhere in a public place where couples roam, we will see all kinds of them with all body shapes and levels of fitness and attractiveness. all the time, sitting in a cafe to write in the afternoons, I see fat people paired with thin ones, tall ones with short ones, I see gorgeous people holding hands with ordinary ones, so-called “odd couples” of all kinds. When we look at people we don’t see what draws them together (or might repel them) just by looking. In that sense, Vicar of Dibley is just as realistic as anything we see in reality.
Also re: Dawn French — she experienced a rather drastic weight loss about three years ago, iirc. It was in all the British papers. The papers said it was because her husband had cheated on her because she was fat. (No, sorry, her husband cheated on her because he was a cheater.) Then she found love again and (I think) remarried, an Australian. She was interviewed again and said that she had had no problem with her previous weight, and left it at that.
This spring it came out that she’d lost the weight because of a uterine cancer scare. Something she’s talking about in her current standup show.
I had heard that Dawn remarried, but hadn’t heard about the cancer scare. She’s great. “No, sorry, her husband cheated on her because he was a cheater.” – love this 🙂
SH said this on July 7, 2014 at 1:44 am | Reply
Tbh, I found the article interesting in terms what we haven’t known before. And that is actually not much. I wondered how much time Armitage gave her when you compare his quotes (“…”) to what she obviously added to fill up her article. Was it about 5 minutes maybe plus that picture? Did she only come to get the juicy answers but failed? Was is boring for her what he had actually to tell?
The comment about VoD was a pure insult for everyone involed incl. the viewers, not only his fans. Regardless if you like the show or not.
She also looked like she had done some ‘homework’ (to fill her article), probably in surfing the internet and visiting blogs/pages. I assume, she read only the titles or skimmed quickly through the threads but never cared enough to read the comments. Understanding his fandom is not done in 2 minutes. The same goes with the suggestions about his sexuality (Manilow) – there are enough pages for that. Maybe she wanted to be the new rising star who found out his big secret. If that is true, she, again, didn’t do her job properly.
I wonder if she really asked him why he isn’t married because she never quoted him in that question – and who knows what “not know” really means (a different answer to her question? A suggestion? Why only the words and not “I don’t not know why I’m married”?) I read the same answer from him in an article from some years ago (where he was more open) and it reminded me instantly on it. Maybe she got it from then and it sounded juicy enough to build the bridge to Manilow?
If she has the spine to answer you, Serv?
Miss Emms said this on July 6, 2014 at 2:44 pm | Reply
we’ll see. If so I’ll print it.
Very disjointed article. It read more like a cheap Daily Mail piece. If she can be thoughtful, substantive, and well-informed, she surely didn’t do it here.
What seems ironic is how much time she spends condescending upon the sexual appeal aspect of his fame while at the same time writing an article that seeks out and focuses exactly on the completely irrelevant and personal instead of anything regarding his work as creative artist in the exploration of the human condition.
And wow does she not know his fans – at all! Holy cow, I don’t have a masters or a PhD, and I’m never more surrounded by academic and intellectuals than I am when I engage in discussions on RA fan blogs and forums. Sorry, Tanya, for not being the fanbase you’re imagining.
Could it be that most of his fans are followers precisely for what she quoted Richard saying about his work – that we saw something in ourselves in a character he played? That he is handsome is icing on the cake, not the main meal. And I suppose we will always be characterized as hormonal biddies because it makes better press, but we’re the ones who’ve latched on long ago to the talent of this particular rising star.
It would probably be better not to assign this type of article to a person who dismisses drama/theater acting as art (or those who actually pursue a career in acting). Does Ms Gold think all artists are airheads – musicians, dancers, painters, writers – or is it just actors?
Poor Richard. He puts a lot of thought into his work and would have surely had some interesting things to say to the right interviewer. But Ms. Gold and the Times were only interested in the totty bit. So sad.
trudystattle said this on July 6, 2014 at 3:39 pm | Reply
Great thoughts, and sad indeed.
RA’s ‘well-wisher’ base must certainly cut across all age-groups and both sexes, now. He was 32 when North and South was broadcast and his fanbase then was probably about aged 25 to 45 years old. Now, he’s ten years older, as are his original fans, plus he has many now who are young enough to be his daughters and sons. I’ve always thought his fans have mostly stayed on the side of civilised and many are theatre goers, not that there was actually much reference to Proctor/The Crucible in the article. It is lazy journalism to suggest we’re all basically stupid being an RA fan after all this time.
And as far as ITS is concerned, he has been quoted as saying he basically did it for a Green Card – and we don’t know how much he’s tied in to WB.
As far as VoD is concerned, it is actually quite insulting to see it solely as – ‘if fat Geraldine can get a handsome bloke we all can’. Geraldine’s size was irrelevant – she was a bit of an everywoman (something the journalist should have realized). Anyone who had watched all the series and the ups and downs of Geraldines’ love-life, would have just been pleased that Geraldine got to marry the tall, dark, handsome and talented Harry, (played by the tall, dark, handsome and talented RA.)
as someone pointed out to me last night, we saw the behind the scenes footage of him laughing his a** off while making it; his statements that he loved being in it after Robin Hood; his statement that Dawn French was a secret celebrity crush; and his statement on the extras saying that she deserved someone good to love.
I expected more from a paper like the Times, tbh. Daily Mail publish all manner of excrement, but this? shakes head Standing on the sidelines of the fandom, I’m not up in arms about the content of the article, more than reacting with a “wtf?” at reading it. Perhaps the writer was burned by a fandom before or something, or why the hate on fandoms?
The poo-pooing of VoD I fail to understand. It was a very well done British sitcom, genuinely funny and never vicious or mean. The size of Dawn French was never an issue, even if it was an occasional comedy plot point (hiding an emergency chocolate bar in a Bible, for instance – which doesn’t even relate to a person’s size anyway). There was that 60 seconds interview with Martin Freeman (I THINK it was there) where he expressed a dislike for or fear of getting fat which made me frown at the time, but hey, it could just have been a personal preference with his own body rather than a general critique of everyone else, like “I personally wouldn’t want to get fat, but each to their own and I’m not judging”. I have always been “the fat kid” in school, so … touchy subject, which is why the fat hate/shaming was my biggest (err, no pun intended) issue with the article.
Then again, I guess the article worked as linkbait – fans getting angry and going to read the article. Thank you for writing this response, Servetus. I very much agree with it.
amusingly, she’s behind a pay wall and I am not, lol.
When my daughters were teenagers I gave them a piece of advice – never put anything in writing. (This was the age when girls still passed handwritten notes, before texting). It’s too easy for nasty words to come back to you later and cause problems
That said, I truly wonder if Tanya gold will ever come to regret this article. I don’t know her motivation, but why would she intentionally write something so mean-spirited? And, should the occasion ever arise, would she be able to look RA in the eye and not be embarrassed by her words?
Maybe I am naive and innocent ( I admit to being a Barry manilow fan many years ago) but I don’t understand why a person would deliberately be so rude? Whatever her reasons for writing this, I hope that she can live with them. I don’t believe that I could ever write something like this and not feel guilt and remorse for treating another person with such disrespect
I agree. Ms. Gold’s tone was mean spirited toward Richard Armitage and his career and to his fans. Sadly, I doubt she will feel any regret–based on her comments.
I wonder how any self respecting editor at the Times would let the article be published? Was everyone “asleep at the switch” as the phrase goes–and her article slipped by the editors, let alone the Times legal team?
Gratiana Lovelace said this on July 6, 2014 at 11:12 pm | Reply
I couldn’t read the full article because of the whole ‘subscription’ thing. But from what I’ve read, it was terrible of her to write such things. Thank you for this letter. I feel like it somehow expresses everything I wanted to say regarding this matter
moodypadfoot said this on July 6, 2014 at 5:43 pm | Reply
I’ve never heard of Tanya Gold so I gogled her and read some of her other articles. From what I read, it seems this story is not much different from her other stories, i.e. taking elements of what she considers absurd, inappropriate lifestyle choices and writing sarcastic articles about them. In this particular piece that seems to be fandoms, VOD, shlock disaster movies, or any other thing having to do with RA’s career prior to The Crucible. I usually enjoy reading these types of articles, but she seemed to go a bit over board to the point of mean-spirtedness in this article. You can’t really figure out the the sequence of the interview from how the article is written, but RA’s quote re getting f’ing angry about people interrupting his work could’ve been for Ms. Gold’s benefit. If so, wonder if she caught the sarcasm.
sloan said this on July 6, 2014 at 5:53 pm | Reply
I dunno, like I said I have enjoyed much of her previous writing. sometimes she misses the mark but it’s usually not meanspirited and it’s often thought provoking.
Then again, someone pointed out to me off blog another article she wrote that is clearly fat-hating. So maybe that’s it. She’s just a garden variety fat-hater.
Thought provoking is why I ususally enjoy reading folks with this writing style. But, I think she just wanted to provoke this time around.
If it’s fat-hatting, then she must hate herself. I do not say that to be ugly — it’s just a conclusion because I was little surprised when I saw her picture, considering what she wrote in the article. Usually people who disparage over-weight people are not over weight…or at least that’s my presumption. Maybe she was putting up a wall to keep her inner fan girl from coming out — after she came face-to-face with RA 🙂
I think she was mainly trying to be “edgy.”
Thanks for taking a stand for the fans! I admire your courage!
I don’t want to discuss her weight because if we do that we do precisely the thing she does and I won’t descend to that level. Either fat hate as an idea is okay or it’s not, doesn’t matter if the hater is fat or thin.
mainstream print journalism is in crisis — partially because of the new media but partially because for so many years the barriers to reader response were so high that few people objected to the nasty things print journalists wrote. I’m ambivalent about new media but I think we have to use the tools in our hands to tell people that the way they write about us is not okay.
but who cares about us?…we are not national (or sexual) minority. We are very easy target…women in general are funny witches, right?;)
It isn’t my intent to stoop to her level — that would be cruel, unkind and just plain bad manners. However it is odd that she took the slant she took in the article considering your statement. I think her biase against fandoms & fear of her own inner-fan-girl had something to with how the article was written.
I loved your essay! I give it five stars! And I’m sharing your post link in a comment on my post about the article. I also took Ms. Gold to task for her fat people hate speech.
WOW! 180 responses so far. Wow.
Marie Astra said this on July 7, 2014 at 5:16 am | Reply
I wouldn’t get your knickers too much in a twist about Gold. Yes her Armitage interview is lazy, ignorant vitriol, but then that’s what she specializes in. I read through many of her other articles in various papers – she peaked around 2009 it seems. I can see why you like her writing Serv, yes it can be engaging, witty and seemingly relevant. (Although I didn’t find the piece about Middleton very interesting). However it remains largely characterised by self-indulgent bile! Even the better ones.
The comments about Vicar of Dibley – well she is overweight and riddled with body image issues herself- perhaps that’s why she felt she could say those things. She does a disservice not only to Richard’s previous work but also to that series in itself – fails to remember it was extremely popular not only with the viewing public but also with broadsheet critics alike. Her piece about her time at Merton is particularly telling. Basically she cocked up and blamed the system for her own mistakes. As a graduate of the same college I can tell you she is talking nonsense. Young, ignorant and confused I’m afraid.
I doubt she gives a monkey’s bum about your blog or email from a university account though… Sorry Serv, I would have just ignored her.
Tiggy said this on July 7, 2014 at 6:40 am | Reply
I appreciate your sympathy, but my “knickers” aren’t “in a twist.”
? Sorry – there wasn’t any sympathy there – why would you need sympathy? Re: knickers and twisting. Nevermind ..
Forgive me for trying to attribute something kind to you in a post that I frankly thought was mostly mean and made at my expense, but doesn’t violate the comments policy. I’ll know better next time.
??? It is about Gold not you….
Nice to meet you too btw
Am not affiliated to any fandom/ anti-shipping/ anyone who has attacked you or anything !
Was just comment about the article that’s all..
Anyway, I won’t linger.
Good luck with everything.
Jazzbaby takes a slightly different view: http://funkybluedandelion.blogspot.com/2014/07/keep-it-off-my-wave-what-really-matters.html
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She’s an idiot. Writes for the popular vote and ill-informed on facts:reality. The MM article was ludicrous. Trying to curry favour? So. Not. Funny. Or Clever.
Pepper said this on May 8, 2019 at 2:01 am | Reply
I’m not sure what you mean by MM. That said, I wouldn’t have been this angry had I thought she was either ill informed or writing to be popular. Most of what she writes is actually so against the grain that it’s enraging. I’ve seen a few of her pieces recently that were written in a similar vein (one about parenting in Cornwall comes to mind). I think she’s mostly writing from a standpoint of alienation.
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Imposing Freedoms: The role of copyright, privacy and censorship governance in the re/definition of rights in digital media
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This event was co-organised by the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab of the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna with the:
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Plato College of Higher Education has campuses in Balat and in Taksim. Both campuses are located in areas of Istanbul which stand out in terms of their cultural and social richness.
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In the era of digital, global, around-the-clock communications, changes in the practices and principles in the production, distribution and consumption of the media raise pressing questions for media governance. Established values in communication regulation – from individual liberties to the public interest, and from state security to the free market – continue to coexist, but often stand in conflict with each other, undergoing new interpretations, often in the company of emerging principles. Tactics of control are used by governments, corporations, communities, and citizens. These deal with different subjects and have varying aims and degrees of success, but all influence the ways in which the governance of communicative action develops.
To a great extent, media governance values derive from the Enlightenment project, regulating (or regularising) actions by citizens, states, communities, and/or corporations. Liberty and freedom of expression, self-governance and legitimacy, the rule of law, equality, and universality of rights are understood to provide the underpinnings of national regulatory and legal frameworks. Experience with the effects of legal efforts to operationalise such concepts in the digital environment, however, changed the way in which these values are understood. Individual freedom appears fragile in the context of contemporary control and surveillance methods used by both public and private sector entities. Existing freedoms as provided by, for example, the right to access information appear to be viewed as imposing inconveniences that must be dealt with through new tactics of control. In many contexts, freedom is increasingly being treated as a ‘transitive’ condition that is ‘imposed’ on societies without reference to actual needs or concomitant attention to justice as understood by those upon whom control practices are being imposed and with selective attention to international standards. Digital media governance models are called to deal with the contemporary conflict between powerful intentions and fragile conditions, individual freedoms and transnational influences, the political enmeshment of the public and the private, and the effects of networks on the structures of power. Drawing upon contemporary theories, governance is understood as the formal and informal practices of institutions and private and public sector actors. In the realm of digital media, this kind of governance explicitly and/or implicitly frames social relations and vice versa. This means that emerging forms of governance have implications for our understanding of agency, democracy and citizenship.
This symposium invites theoretical, methodological and empirical papers with a specific focus on actual or possible new values, doctrinal principles, and/or implementation practices of media governance as they redefine, reinterpret, operationalise, or abandon freedom as traditionally understood, from the perspective of governments, corporations, communities, and also citizens. Some suggested directions for enquiry include:
What kinds of new or revived values are informing media governance? Which models of governance are being promoted, and which are being sidelined?
What experiences with alleged freedom, or alternative modes of conceptualising freedom, test the validity, appropriateness, and efficacy of current media governance practices worldwide?
To what extent are governments applying new tactics and reconfiguring regulatory values to maintain control over digital and physical spaces?
How is globalization of the law affecting media governance at the national level?
-Will the anti-terrorism and crisis ‘state of exception’ used by most governments to justify significant changes in the treatment of free speech and access to information endure? If so, what are the implications of this development for media governance in the future?
In which ways are global corporations involved in the shaping of media governance and what are the implications of these developments in policymaking for the reconceptualisation of certain freedoms and rights (e.g., in the areas of privacy, expression, and copyright)?
To what extent and in which ways are the practices by citizens and communities following, opposing and/or negotiating media (technology) governance, and what are the consequences for agency, empowerment and freedom of media users (e.g. in design/domestication of media, tactics/strategies by public, democratic rationalisation)?
Which models of media governance may be particularly fruitful for those seeking guarantees of the legal, material and symbolic aspects of individual and communal freedoms and identities? What new tactics of control and resistance are enabled by such models?
In what ways can media regulation be responsible for the encroachment of certain individual freedoms and rights despite appearing to try to preserve those same freedoms and rights?
We are interested in dynamic panel debates and dialogue, and the development of research agendas as an outcome of the event. For this reason there will be a limited number of participants.
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Adilson Cabral (Fluminence Federal University, Brazil)
Aline Carvalho (Paris 8 University, France)
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Arne Hintz (McGill University, Canada)
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Dalal Al-Budaiwi (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US)
Dimitris Tsapogas (University of Vienna, Austria)
Elif Kuzeci (Bahcesehir University, Turkey)
Eva Lievens (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou (ELIAMEP, Greece)
Giota Alevizou (The Open University, UK)
Hannu Nieminen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Ilkin Mehrabov (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Isik Baris Fidaner (Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey)
Jo Pierson (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
Joan Barata (Blanquerna / Ramon Llull University, Spain)
Jonas Andersson (Södertörn University, Sweden)
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How brains of doers differ from those of procrastinators
by Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum
Two areas of the brain apparently determine if an individual tends to put tasks off or to tackle them straightaway. Credit: RUB, Marquard
Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have analysed why certain people tend to put tasks off rather than tackling them directly. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), they identified two brain areas whose volume and functional connectivity are linked to an individual's ability to control their actions. The research team headed by Caroline Schlüter, Dr. Marlies Pinnow, Professor Onur Güntürkün, and Dr. Erhan Genç from the Department of Biopsychology published the results in the journal Psychological Science on 17 August 2018.
Two areas of the brain linked to action control
The biopsychologists examined 264 women and men in an MRI scanner. They assessed the volume of individual brain regions and the functional connectivity between them. In addition, all participants completed a survey measuring their own ability to execute action control.
Individuals with poor action control had a larger amygdala. Moreover, the functional connection between the amygdala and the so-called dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dorsal ACC) was less pronounced. "These two areas of the brain had already been linked with action control in former studies," says Erhan Genç.
Assessing and selecting actions
The primary function of the amygdala is to assess different situations with regard to their respective outcomes and to warn us about potential negative consequences of particular actions. The dorsal ACC uses these information in order to select actions that are to be put into practice. Moreover, by suppressing competing actions and emotions, it ensures that the selected action can be successfully completed.
If the interplay between amygdala and dorsal ACC is impaired, action control can no longer be successfully executed, according to the theory put forward by the researchers. "Individuals with a higher amygdala volume may be more anxious about the negative consequences of an action – they tend to hesitate and put off things," speculates Erhan Genç. "Due to a low functional connection between amygdala and dorsal ACC, this effect may be augmented, as interfering negative emotions and alternative actions might not be sufficiently regulated."
Learnable or not?
Future studies will have to show if the degree of action control can be modified through specific training or brain stimulation. "Even though the differences regarding our ability to control our actions affect our private and professional success as well as our mental and physical health to a considerable degree, their neural foundations haven't as yet been sufficiently studied," says Caroline Schlüter, who addresses this issue in her Ph.D. thesis.
Connections between two brain regions linked with financial risk tolerance
More information: Caroline Schlüter et al. The Structural and Functional Signature of Action Control, Psychological Science (2018). DOI: 10.1177/0956797618779380
Journal information: Psychological Science
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By 'By Angela Charlton, The Associated Press on January 14, 2020.
FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019 file photo, Spike Lee arrives at the world premiere of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" in Los Angeles. Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and festival organizers hope the provocative American director will "shake things up" at the gathering of the world's cinema elite.(Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File )
PARIS – American director Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the first black person to hold the post in the event’s 73-year history.
Festival organizers hope Lee will “shake things up†among the world’s cinema elite at the festival which runs May 12-23. And anti-racism campaigners hope Lee’s appointment wakes up the French cultural world to persistent discrimination and the damaging stereotypes it perpetuates.
Lee said he was “honoured to be the first person of the African diaspora” chosen for the prestigious position.
Festival organizer Thierry Fremaux said Lee is the first black president of any major film festival, calling the decision a “message of universality.†Speaking on France’s RTL radio, Fremaux said it wasn’t a political decision, but noted that black artists are underrepresented in the cinema world.
Many of Lee’s films have been shown at Cannes, and his “BlacKkKlansman†won a major prize at Cannes two years ago. This year’s festival runs May 12-23, and the rest of the jury members will be announced in April.
“When I got the call … I was shocked, happy, surprised and proud all at the same time,†Lee said in a letter. He said Cannes “changed the trajectory of who I became in world cinema.â€
Several of Lee’s films first screened at Cannes, including “Do the Right Thing” in 1989.
Without explicitly mentioning Lee’s career-long fight against racism or other political views, the festival said Lee’s “perspective is more valuable than ever†and that “Cannes is a natural homeland and a global sounding board for those who (re)awaken minds and question our stances and fixed ideas.”
Ladj Ly, whose film “Les Miserables†echoes some of Lee’s work and tackles tensions between police and minorities in a poor Paris suburb, hailed the move by festival organizers. “Les Miserables†screened at Cannes last year and won an Oscar nomination Monday for best international film.
The honorary president of French black rights group CRAN also welcomed the appointment of a filmmaker who confronts viewers and powers-that-be with strong opinions about discrimination and police violence.
“The arts world considers itself above questions of discrimination,†Louis-Georges Tin told The Associated Press. “But the #MeToo campaign showed that sexism is all too present in the arts world. And racism is too.”
Tin expressed hope that Lee’s role in Cannes could prompt the French cinema world to take a hard look at how it treats minorities and France’s own colonial history. In French cinema, he said, “it’s always the blacks who make you laugh and Arabs who scare you.”
Last year’s Cannes jury president was Mexican director Alejandro Iñárritu, and the festival’s top prize went to Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,†who was nominated this week for best international film at the Oscars.
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Models of Explanation
11th MuST Conference in Philosophy of Science, 11-13 June 2018, Turin
Registration and Contact
11th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg/Turin (MuST) conference
Turin, 11-13 June 2018
Science is there to explain the world, to render it intelligible. But what counts as a scientific explanation of an observed phenomenon? How should one quantify explanatory power? What is the role of explanation in reasoning? Philosophers and scientists have given various answers: subsumption under general laws (the D-N model), unificatory value, identifying causally productive processes, statistical relevance, cognitive salience, and so on. The 11th MuST (Munich-Sydney-Tilburg/Turin) conference investigates the scope of different models of explanation, fosters a dialogue between them and evaluates their role in scientific reasoning in general. Philosophers and scientists alike are invited to contribute to this event (click here for the Call for Papers instructions)!
Questions we are interested in include, but are not limited to:
What is a scientific explanation?
How should we formalize explanatory power, and what is the relation between categorical and gradual accounts of explanation?
How can one justify Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE)?
What is the relation between philosophical and scientific (psychology, cognitive science, …) models of explanation?
Are specific models of explanation only suited for specific sciences?
Are there fundamental differences between explanations in the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities?
How is explanation related to concepts such as causality, confirmation, and unification?
Mark Colyvan, Sydney
Vincenzo Crupi, Turin
Paul Griffiths, Sydney
Stephan Hartmann, Munich
Jan Sprenger, Turin
The conference is a joint venture of three major research centers in philosophy of science:
Center for Logic, Language and Cognition (LLC), University of Turin
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU Munich
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney
We invite submissions on the conference topic suitable for a 45′ presentation, including 15′ discussion time. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to (formal) models of explanation and explanatory power; explanation in the special sciences (e.g., physics, mathematics, biology, social and economic sciences, humanities); explanation, IBE and scientific realism; explanation and scientific understanding;… Continue reading Call for Papers
Registration Registrations should be submitted as soon as possible, but in any case before 1 June 2018. BA/MA students and members of the University of Turin are invited to attend the conference. Link to Registration Form Participants interested in student accommodation (approx. 30-40 €/night) should fill in this form. Priority will be given to graduate… Continue reading Registration and Contact
Program Conference “Models of Explanation”, 11-13 June 2018 The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Turin, in the Palazzo del Rettorato (Via Verdi, 8—also accessible from Via Po) and the nearby Cavallerizza Reale (Via Verdi, 9). At the bottom of the page you find the program with all talks and… Continue reading Program
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Tag: summer fun
On February 22, 2016 February 21, 2016 By kjw616In Miscellaneous Mom AnticsLeave a comment
Growing up, Labor Day signified several things: the end of summer, the town firemen’s parade and fair, and a telethon hosted by a comedian named Jerry Lewis, which raised money for muscular dystrophy. For a twenty-one hour period, you could turn on the television to watch a plethora of comedians, singers, and dancers entertaining the audience while the show’s viewers called in their donations. Celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Carrie Underwood appeared on the show, which ended its run in 2010.
I am sure that by now you are wondering what has caused me to write about this particular event. What could possibly be the relevance to my life? It probably sounds like I have really meandered way off the path of our family story. Am I losing it or grabbing at straws because I am running out of material?
Not so fast. I am not desperate for material yet. I am going to tell you a story I am positive is new to all of you. In addition to raising money via this annual telethon, Jerry Lewis also called on kids throughout America to raise money for this disease via backyard carnivals. We had one at our house.
While I cannot remember all the details due to my advanced age, I can recall enough so that I can paint you a picture of the event. Hopefully, with some help from my siblings or my friend, Karen, I will be able to fill in the blanks later.
I know I sent away to Jerry for a carnival packet, which included suggestions for games, tickets, and signs to display around the neighborhood. We had a fortune telling booth, which we created by putting up a sheet over the slide of the swing set. One of us was the gypsy, who dressed up in some sort of costume which was comprised of a cloth head covering and an old dress belonging to Grandma. We invented stories to predict the future of our young customers.
In the sandbox we placed dishes, which was similar to the nickel toss at the firemen’s fair. The idea was to stand at the edge of the sandbox and try to gently, but with great accuracy, throw a coin so that it would stay on one of the plates. We also had a milk bottle toss, which involved dropping a clothes pin into a milk bottle.
Of course we had refreshments, which may have been nothing more than some lemonade. So we put up our signs, and the kids from the block beyond Wootton Street came. They spent their pennies and nickels on our games and drinks, and at the end of the carnival, Grandma sent our measly profit back to Jerry Lewis’ Muscular Dystrophy fund. It was not a waste of our time at all because we had fun planning it, a great time that day, and when it was over, we felt we had helped the cause just a bit.
The Summer of Awesome-2000
On January 13, 2016 January 12, 2016 By kjw616In Children2 Comments
The summer of Y2K was extremely fun-filled, according to Casey’s “Summer Fun” assignment for her sixth grade English class. I am not going to go into the panic that the world was feeling because of the wacko fears that something horrific would happen or that the world would end. We all know that, unless you don’t because you are reading this many years in the future and were not born yet.
In June we went to Houston for Aunt Linda’s wedding. Poor Jamie! She had to spend her thirteenth birthday on an airplane, and we all know about Jamie’s paranoia about air travel. But I tried to ease her anxieties by bringing along mommy’s cupcakes and some decorations so we could all celebrate at thirty thousand feet. This turned out to be good for me as well because I shared our goodies with the flight attendants, who in turn, gave me a free drink.
Aunt Linda announced Jamie’s birthday to all her guests, so she could bask in the glory of her temporary family fame. We swooped in for the wedding, and since she and Phil were leaving on a cruise, we did not stay in Houston.
We did quite the tour of Florida after Texas, first stopping at the home of our old friends from Yorktown Heights, New York, who had relocated to Naples. Next, we visited Dad’s friend, Jerry in Tampa, where we went to a place called Adventure Island. You all (including Daddy) enjoyed the go carts, video games, and mini-golf.
How could we go to the Sunshine State without a stop at Disney World? We drove there from Tampa and stayed at Port Orleans. It all sounded so good during the planning stages, but Disney World Independence Day 2000 was a madhouse. The lines were ridiculous, and even the fast track tickets resulted in long waits.
The 4th of July Fireworks from Epcot were memorable, and so was the very long journey back to our hotel. The crowds were so unpleasant that none of you wanted to return for one more day at one of the most fun places on the planet.
In July, I took Jamie, Casey and Carly to Madison Square Garden to see NSYNC. What an amazing mom I am! I really do not enjoy going to concerts with young teenage girls. That is when I developed my concert earplugs, which made me friends with all the other moms surrounding me. Concert earplugs are constructed with wadded-up tissues, which are carefully inserted in one’s ear. They are quite effective. I used them for NSYNC, O-TOWN, an American Idol Concert in Charlotte, and a recent football game here in Columbia where I had a shrieker from Florida sitting behind us.
The following week, I also took the three of you to Hurricane Harbor at Six Flags with Aunt El and the kids. You enjoyed the water rides. Was there a lazy river for wimpy me?
Before that summer came to a close, Dad and I took you to Liberty Science Center. Apparently there was a roller coaster exhibit. As the family chicken, that is about as close to a roller coaster that I would go.
Holy Cow! Was I awesome! I also took you all into New York City to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We had a very New York lunch—hotdogs on the steps of the museum.
Sadly, the summer had to end. That meant purchasing your school supplies and clothes. That was the infamous trip to Willowbrook Mall. You know the trip. That was probably the birth of Jamie’s insanity with celebrities. We were in the dressing room trying on clothes. It was a coed room as you all know. Suddenly, from the dressing room next to us came some music. It was the new boy band O-Town, doing their preconcert shopping. I searched in my purse and found a scrap of paper—the infamous autograph paper which still stands framed today.
Can you girls ever compete with me??
Girls at Liberty Park- Summer 2000
O-Town Autograph 2000 Willowbrook Mall
On December 9, 2015 December 8, 2015 By kjw616In Miscellaneous Mom Antics2 Comments
I liked to climb trees. There was this great big maple tree located in the yard of our neighbor Mr. Shelton. Its branches were situated high enough to be impossible for my younger siblings to climb but low enough for me. My friend Karen and I spent many hours after school hanging out in our hideaway, chatting and telling each other our fourth grade secrets. The worst revelation was that we liked the same boy, and then to make matters even more devasting, he liked Karen and would walk her home from school. This was particularly distressful because she and I walked to school together, so I had to watch the romance unfold before my eyes every day.
But back to the tree. I cannot imagine our tree-climbing antics ever occurring in today’s world because of the fear of lawsuits. Mr. Shelton had no children and I do not ever recall having a single conversation with him. I just remember sneaking into his yard to pick his oh so delicious blackberries and climbing his tree when he was not at home. If we fell, our parents would never have considered suing him despite the fact that Grandpa loved to pick up the phone to complain about something. Back then, you never saw commercials on television encouraging you to call your neighborhood lawyer like you do today. My favorite here in Columbia has the catchy slogan, “Don’t scream. Call Akim!” (pronounced Ah-Keem)
Several years later Grandpa built a treehouse. It was not really a house. A better description would be a “tree platform.” One year I spent the summer up in the treehouse trying to build up my frequent reader points at the local library starting with authors whose names began with the letter “A” and trying to see how many books I could read before Labor Day. That was the year I read “Wuthering Heights” and “Jane Eyre,” (by two of the Bronte sisters), but got slowed down in reaching the end of the alphabet by the discovery of the Agatha Christie mysteries. (She wrote eighty-two!)
I survived the summer of the tree platform, but I think Uncle Mart may have visited the hospital for a stitch or two after taking a dive from it. It’s what he did.
The following summer we got a pool. It was only eighteen feet in diameter, but to us, it was so big and luxurious. It was like having our own private swimming hole in the backyard. We were the luckiest family in town.
Sea Legs
On September 7, 2015 September 6, 2015 By kjw616In BeginningsLeave a comment
I was surprised to learn that my first sea excursion was not the cruise around the Hawaiian Islands with Dad shortly after we were married. Instead, it was on a ferry to a small island off the coast of Rhode Island one month after my second birthday. I got seasick both coming and going to Block Island. Fortunately, only Kelly has been plagued with that curse.
From what Grandma has told me, the accommodations were anything but luxurious, but at the incredibly cute age of two, I didn’t care and sadly, I have no memory of the trip. We went with friends of Grandpa, and the biggest excitement during the entire week was created when a man who did the NBC 11:00 nightly news appeared on our side of the island. One of the friends traveling with us was so excited that she had him autograph her cigarette. His name was John K.M. McCaffrey.
It was not a good time to vacation on the island, since we were all awoken several times by Coast Guard lights looking for survivors of three plane crashes and one drowning.
It was a summer of much rain in New England. Grandma and Grandpa dodged a bullet by traveling then, because just three weeks earlier, the island was hit by the first hurricane of the season. Still, there was enough rain to cause one problem for us as we were leaving the island. According to my autobiography, written when I was twelve, “It had rained the night before and the small boat kept filling up. My mother had to bail with a tin can while holding me. We just reached the ship on time. They lifted us up on the gangplank and we sailed into the sunset.”
Grandma was twenty-eight on that vacation; Grandpa thirty-eight. They were so young. Can you just imagine that scene?
Me, with Grandpa- July 1957 on ferry to Block Island, RI
The Good Old Summertime
On September 4, 2015 August 8, 2017 By kjw616In Cornelia Street Memories3 Comments
I grew up in a small town where everyone was either related to you or knew your mother or your grandmother. It was like the television show Cheers, but on a much grander scale. This gave all the parents a sense of security.
We could walk everywhere or easily ride our bikes from one end of town to the other with relative safety because sidewalks were on nearly every street. I don’t remember hearing about crime and I knew no one who owned a gun. It was a happy, carefree place to grow-up. Boonton, USA.
During the summer, you didn’t whine about having nothing to do. We played with our friends all day until we were called home for supper. We didn’t eat dinner growing up; it was always supper. There was hopscotch, jump rope, hide-and-seek, SPUD, bikes, the park, and our pool. There were no computers, video games, or infinite television on demand. We had to create our own fun.
Our town had a summer school program. It was located in “The Flats” at John Hill School, which was my school for seventh and eighth grade. I remember playing Chinese checkers, making plastic lanyard key chains, and creating a craft in wood shop, which was for boys and girls alike.
The most popular project was the duck. Everyone had one. We’d spend days sanding the little devil until she was silky smooth around the edges and then we would decorate it, bring it home, and hammer it into the yard. It looked like this:
Wooden Duck- Courtesy of my cousin Patrick Cooney.
We looked forward to Fridays when we would participate in themed competitions such as “hat day.” Everyone would wear a hat and be judged for the silliest hat, or prettiest hat, or smallest hat.
When we wanted to go on an adventure, we would hop on our bikes and head to the Dairy Queen in Denville. I would order either a vanilla cone with sprinkles or a pineapple blizzard, which was a very thick pineapple-flavored milk shake. There was something very special about a Dairy Queen treat, which tasted even more delicious after working so hard to get there.
The distance to the Dairy Queen was very long. I know that sometimes childhood memories distort reality, but when I mapped the route today, I was shocked to learn that my imagination was accurate. It was a round trip of over ten miles. There is no way I would have allowed any of you to take such a long ride at what I know was a fairly young age. But the times were different, the roads were less traveled, and nothing ever happened to anyone in my town back then.
Those summers were so long, or that’s how it seemed to all of us. As the days grew shorter and the nights cooler, we sadly realized the end of our carefree days were coming to a close. Grandma took us shopping for our school clothes, and we anxiously awaited the Labor Day Parade, Firemen’s Fair, and fireworks. We’d check out the rides, have some cotton candy, and meet the friends we hadn’t seen since June.
Those days are long gone for me, but as Labor Day approaches each year, I know the tradition of the annual Labor Day celebration continues in my hometown. Maybe someday I will go again.
Summer Hunting
On August 17, 2015 August 16, 2015 By kjw616In Cornelia Street MemoriesLeave a comment
When I planted the lantana under the palm trees in our yard, I never realized that those bright yellow flowering plants, which grow like weeds but look like sunshine on my lawn, would also prove to be so entertaining. It turns out they are butterfly magnets—a discovery which Bryce just made this past week. We spent over an hour in the hot Carolina sunshine chasing two butterflies around and around the tree, then pausing to watch it disappear into the back yard. Naturally, we had to follow it. Bryce did not grow tired nor did he notice the sweat dripping from his brow. He was having too much fun.
It reminded me of my childhood chasing lightning bugs on a warm summer evening, attempting to trap them in a jar so we could see what they looked like during the day. (They were usually dead by morning!) We never learned that lesson because we would continue the chase the next night and never consider not coaxing them into our jars.
Those were not the only creatures we would hunt, but those intriguing little fireflies were the only ones we could successfully trap. Birds were another source of entertainment for us. We had two methods to ambush our feathered friends, both courtesy of Grandpa (although my cousin Tricia also recalls being taught this by our grandfather. Maybe Grandpa learned it from Papa.)
The first approach was quite simple and required no props except a shaker of salt. It was so easy, was never successful, and was therefore sheer genius on Grandpa’s part, because it kept us happily entertained for hours.
As we grew older and wiser and finally realized how much time we had invested in a project with no rewards, we sought Grandpa’s advice on a plan to increase our odds at succeeding. The second scheme to a possible victorious hunt required constructing a trap consisting of a shoebox and some long string attached to a stick. What we did was prop the box up with the stick, insert some bread inside with a trail of crumbs leading up to it, and then wait very quietly for a bird to take the bait. We truly believed that a bird would follow the trail into the box, then curiously hop inside to investigate and voila, we would tug on the string to catch our prey.
Similar to hunting with the salt shaker, we spent many hours in the backyard, this time lying on our bellies trying method #2, which of course, never succeeded. But we were patient and we were believers. Looking back, it seemed like we were really naïve kids, but you know, it was just part of our lazy days of summer and kept us busy and out of Grandma’s hair!
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by Mark Thompson @MarkThompsonCNN July 18, 2014: 6:21 AM ET
Click on chart for more premarket data.
It could be a nervy session for markets Friday as geopolitical tensions shake investor sentiment.
Here are the 5 things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York:
1. World markets extend slide: World markets fell further on Friday on fear of escalating tensions in Ukraine after a Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in the east of the country.
The U.S. believes Flight MH17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile over a region that has seen heavy fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces.
Analysts say the tragedy could damage business confidence, particularly in Europe, but may also bring the crisis in Ukraine to a head by increasing the pressure on Moscow to resolve the conflict.
Related: Fear & Greed Index
2. U.S. futures flat: U.S. stock futures were holding steady after Thursday's sharp sell-off, which gathered pace on news that Israel had sent ground troops into Gaza.
The flurry of geopolitical concerns sent the VIX (VIX), a key measure of market volatility to its highest level in three months Thursday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 161 points, while the S&P 500 was off about 1.2%, and the Nasdaq finished down 1.4%. It was the biggest drop for the Dow in two months, and the S&P's fall is the biggest for the index in three months.
3. Earnings season continues: General Electric (GE) and Honeywell (HON) will report earnings before the opening bell.
Google (GOOGL) shares gained 1.7% premarket after the company reported another quarter of surging sales growth. News that Japan's Softbank has hired away Google's global sales chief Nikesh Arora may pique investor interest.
Related: CNNMoney's Tech30
4. Economic data diary: The University of Michigan will post its consumer sentiment measurement at 9:55 a.m. ET.
5. Tax inversion deal: Drugmaker AbbVie (ABBV) could unveil a deal to buy Shire (SHPG) as early as Friday, according to reports. The $54 billion acquisition would be the latest by a U.S. firm looking to move its tax base overseas to save money.
CNNMoney (London) First published July 18, 2014: 6:21 AM ET
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Healthcare: Woman in doctor's office for annual check up.
Our birthing revolution that’s leading the nation
by Jackie Sinnerton
14th Aug 2019 5:07 AM
QUEENSLAND Health has taken the unprecedented step of trialling new guidelines for maternity clinicians to work closer and listen more to women who say "no" to their birthing recommendations.
Rising numbers of women are taking control of their own labours and refusing to be bullied into procedures and interventions they do not want, while experts admit doctors may not always know best.
Queensland is leading the nation by moving towards change and accommodating respectful conversation when a woman disagrees with doctors, rather than shutting down her wishes.
The trial is running at the Royal Brisbane and Women's, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Emerald, Thursday Island and Mount Isa hospitals until September, and if successful will be rolled out across the state.
No other state has made the move to partner with women in this way to try to work towards shared decision-making.
Consumer lead in the trial Dr Bec Jenkinson told The Courier-Mail that the idea that "doctor always knows best" is outdated and not always best for the woman.
"My research shows that there is a fairly predictable pattern of trying to get women to comply with sometimes inflexible hospital policies. Some report feeling pressured and tell of abusive encounters when they speak of wanting a certain kind of birth. But Queensland Health is leading the way for change," Dr Jenkinson said.
Mums want more say in their birthing plan Picture: iStock
The birthing expert says that when a woman feels that she is being listened when the stakes are low she is more likely to trust the care giver if things don't go according to plan and turn high risk.
"No woman wants to put their baby's life at risk, they just want to have their say on the way they would like to have their baby," Dr Jenkinson said.
The trial puts in place processes that will allow clinicians to document the patient's care and feedback.
The latest available research from the Queensland Centre for Mothers and Babies: Having a baby in 2010 shows that of 3500 Queensland women, only 48 per cent of those who had a C-section had consented, 70 per cent were informed and consented to epidurals, the rest did not and 26 per cent had not been informed of their episiotomies.
Australia has one of the highest rates of C-sections, still births and serious birthing tears in all the OECD countries.
Families in the maternity care system can experience high levels of peri-natal anxiety and even PTSD as a result of birth trauma.
"For consent to be valid it must be freely given, without coercion or inducement and can't be trumped by hospital policy," Dr Jenkinson said.
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Inspiring Your Next Vacation (Part 1)
It's hard not to think about getting away now that the holidays are behind us and temperatures have dipped into the single digits. While we love a new fashion collection few things are more thrilling than visiting a brand new luxury hotel.
The fresh linens, plush towels, eager staff and bragging rights are just a few aspects that make visiting a new hotel extra special. Good thing that the luxury boom has lead to a great crop of properties that just opened or are slated to open in 2016.
In a multi-part series we will highlight some of the most exciting new destinations in the world. For more information about these properties or any other travel related assistance email info@steeletravel.com
Hotel Le Toiny (St. Barths, FWI)
Small and private is what you'll find at the newly renovated Hotel Le Toiny, in St. Barths. The resort, which reopened in November, has just 14 one-bedroom suites and one three-bedroom villa. All have wide-open water views, kitchens, and 10-by-20-foot private pools.
The renovations were overseen by London-based interior designer, Lady Bee Osborn. Le Toiny’s original French-inspired décor has been transformed into a clean ocean front aesthetic, which includes a muted palette of neutral tones, petrified wood, mother-of-pearl and sun-bleached teak. The design is accented with pops of Caribbean blue.
Also new is the Toiny Beach Club, which is surrounded by groves and orchards and is noted for its barfoot-chic atmosphere. New softer sand was added to to the beach but doesn't interrupt Toiny Bay’s natural rocky shoreline. The club is opened to hotel guests and to the public by reservation. Rates at the hotel are about $2000 a night (plus tax) in February.
Faena Hotel Miami Beach (Miami Beach, USA)
The highly anticipated Faena Hotel Miami Beach didn't open in time for Art Basel but we have a good excuse to go back to Miami. The Faena officially opened in December after gutting the historic Saxony Hotel, which was originally built in 1947. The hotel opening marks the public debut of the Faena Arts District, a $1 billion neighborhood rooted in art and culture.
The Faena Miami Beach has 169 rooms and suites and 13 penthouse residences that span the top two floors. Guest rooms combine classic Miami Beach touches with Art Deco motifs. The result is a plethora of contemporary art and plush red details, like the fringed red couches that look as if they are straight out of a hacienda.
The Faena values personalized service. Each floor is assigned a Faena Butler, which offers guests personalized service throughout their stay. The hotel also offers 'Experience Managers', who can assist in designing the overall experience from pre-arrival planning to departure arrangements.
Upon entrance, guests are greeted by a 30-foot-long red carpet that leads into a Cathedral-like lobby that's lined with massive gold-leafed columns and edged with elaborate floor-to-ceiling murals depicting lush tropical scenes. The Terre Sante spa is 22,000 square feet and includes a hammam, ice chamber and couples treatment suite with ocean views. Rates start at about $900 a night (plus tax) in February.
The Beekman (New York, USA)
Coming soon to Lower Downtown is The Beekman, which is slated to open early this year. (We are hoping for February but no final date has been announced.) This highly anticipated historic renovation showcases a soaring nine-story Victorian atrium and a majestic skylight.
Operated by Thompson Hotels, The Beekman will have 287 rooms, including 45 suites and two signature penthouses with private rooftop terraces overlooking One World Trade Center, the Woolworth Building and City Hall Park. Keith McNally and Tom Colicchio will both have restaurants in the hotel. Keith McNally — of famed Balthazar and Minetta Tavern — will open a 94-seat eatery called Augustine, serving French bistro fare. Colicchio will run the lounge, to be called the Living Room, which will provide room service to guests and catering venues.
This is the first new luxury hotel to strategically land in the middle of Fulton Center, Brookfield Place and Westfield World Trade Center. Between the new restaurants, the shopping and the financial center, The Beekman is destined to become one of Downtown's hottest destinations for tourists and New Yorkers alike. Rates in June start at $530 a night (plus tax).
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John Sprakes – Winner Of The MAFA Travel Bursary 2015
News From MAFA Member John Sprakes – Winner of the MAFA Travel Bursary 2015
MAFA Member John Sprakes.
” Hadrians Wall stretches approx. 35 miles from Wallsend in Newcastle to Bowness on the west. It snakes its way over some of the most dramatic landscape in England. It is the result of geological volcanic land movement causing substantial windsill. The views from each side of the Roman wall offer some exceptional visual vistas.This are has been a constant source of inspiration and the Bursary has enabled me to continue working in this area. I have been visually fascinated by the colours, textures, structures and rythms and the constantly changing moods and atmospheres.
This ancient landscape has inspired many of my recent paintings which are composed by looking down into the valley escarpments and ravines. It’s almost like viewing the scene from the air.
The movement of the shapes as they recede towards the horizon, folding upwards towards the sky, feature compositionally in many of my drawings, studies and paintings.
I have already exhibited some of the completed work in a one-man show at the Patchings Arts Centre, Nottingham. I was able to promote the work of MAFA both during the show and at two workshops/studio demonstrations.
During my stay in Northumberland I have used a converted Signal Box and Railway Carriage as a work base.
I intend to make two more visits to the location in September and March/ April next year.
This will allow me to watch the changing seasons.
The whole area is full of light and movement, the changing scale and the intense texture of the area are emotionally moving and inspiring and I hope my paintings will offer to the spectator a personal view of this remarkable landscape.
The ‘Artist Magazine’ are intending to feature a substantial article in the February edition  relating to the work produced in Northumberland.
In January 2016, some of the paintings will also be exhibited in Doncaster City Art Gallery from January to March and I will inform Members as to the date and time of the Private View. Anyone wishing to attend will be most welcome.
I will continue to keep the Academy informed as to my future progres”
“My second trip to the landscape around Hadrian’s Wall has enabled me to revisit areas and discover visually familiar elements seen during the season of autumn.
The landscape had changed, the colours, textures, patterns, light and atmosphere had deepened in mood, particularly the effect of the passages of light caused by the movement of clouds across the hills and valleys, changing the surface of the landscape.
It was a challenge trying to capture and record through drawing this visual experience.
I hope that I can translate these experiences on to canvas.
I plan to return in the spring to continue my investigation.”
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Home » NEWS » Dombrowski: Coast cities, not state, own harbors
Dombrowski: Coast cities, not state, own harbors
Posted by: Megan Wright in NEWS, Real Estate & Construction 07/19/2011
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — A challenger in the race for Mississippi secretary of state says he is unhappy with the way first-term incumbent Delbert Hosemann is handling leases of public lands.
Gulfport City Council member Ricky Dombrowski, 51, faces Hosemann, 64, in the Aug. 2 Republican primary. No Democrat is running for secretary of state. A Reform Party candidate is expected to be on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.
Dombrowski says he is running because he disagrees with Hosemann’s assertion that the state owns coastal harbors. The councilman claims that cities own the harbors.
Hosemann, who’s an attorney, cites a 1989 state law to back up his position, while Dombrowski, a businessman, cites a law from 1935.
Dombrowski tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that Hosemann also has exerted too much control over 16th Section lands, which are publicly owned and generate revenue for schools in much of the state.
Hosemann, elected in 2007, says his office renegotiated leases to bring in more money for education.
“I started rejecting 8 to 10 percent of them because they weren’t fair,” Hosemann said of the leases. “Now it’s a 5 percent rejection rate. It has resulted in a 60-70 percent jump in revenue.”
Several cities already have signed harbor leases with Hosemann’s office, but Gulfport balked. The case now is going to court.
“There are two critical components,” Hosemann said. “The harbors must be public, and all gaming revenues go to the tideland funds. When I went to Gulfport, they had condos projected to sell on the harbor. I told the mayor that was public land, and that was a non-public purpose.”
Hosemann said the state doesn’t charge for the leases. They’re simply a matter of protocol and give the secretary of state oversight to protect against violations of the law, such as privatizing public lands.
“It’s our harbor in Tupelo as much as it is in Pass Christian,” Hosemann said. “You need the ability to have access to it. To restrict it by the decision of the City Council of Gulfport and exclude everyone else” isn’t right.
Dombrowski said he supports light development of harbor condos because anyone could choose to rent or own a unit, thereby making it public. He also disputed Hosemann’s claim that leases would cost the cities nothing. Dombrowski said the secretary initially wanted money for the transaction and even proposed a 30 percent tax on all revenues collected by cities from harbor business leases. That proposal since has faded.
“He wants complete authority over what we have in our harbors,” said Dombrowski, who entered the secretary of state’s race on the March 1 qualifying deadline.
Dombrowski also criticized Hosemann’s campaign ads that show the secretary of state sitting on a park bench with older women who mess up his first name by calling him Philbert, Herbert and Englebert.
“He thinks he’s holier than thou because he’s sitting on a park bench with a couple of old ladies,” Dombrowski. But what “you come to find is a trail of abuse; the abuse of his position to circumvent the power whenever he can.”
Source: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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The Summer Oscars: The Best in Movies of Summer 2017
Posted on September 4, 2017 by MovieMinis Staff Leave a comment
No one is going to fight for last summer. It was a horrific time for movies, blockbuster after blockbuster failing both financially and critically, and the few indie gems that did come out being ignored. While its best film, Hell or High Water, is undeniably magnificent, the list falls off steeply after that. So when it came to this summer, many were hesitant. Would the studio continue to crank out garbage? Unfortunately, it did, with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Transformers: The Last Knight both continuing a disgusting trend. But unlike last summer, for every stink pile this summer, there was a brilliantly entertaining crowdpleaser. For every horribly messy embarrassment, there were two or three films that showcased some of the most masterfully artful filmmaking of recent memory. Despite it being one of the worst periods for the box office, this summer’s movies themselves, as many have said, represent one of the best seasons we’ve had in a long time. In May, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and The Lovers hit on both ends of the cinematic spectrum in lovely fashion. As June rolled around, It Comes At Night, The Big Sick, Baby Driver and The Beguiled showcased why relatively smaller films are where we should invest our interest. But let’s also not forget about the wondrously historic event that was Wonder Woman. In July, blockbusters found life again, as Spider-Man: Homecoming reinvigorated the web-slinger, War for the Planet of the Apes capped off one of the best trilogies of all time and Dunkirk stunned as an overwhelming cinematic achievement that perhaps only Christopher Nolan could’ve made. Indies didn’t stop either, with A Ghost Story haunting us to this day, Girls Trip stomping on everyone’s pre-conceived notions and Atomic Blonde kicking everyone’s ass as women have this summer. A dip may have expectedly come in August — it’s almost unavoidable — but within the bad were gems like Ingrid Goes West, Logan Lucky, Wind River and the arresting, John Cho-starring (more please!) Columbus.
It’s been shocking to watch this summer unfold, great movies releasing almost weekly. Top 10 lists of this season rival those of the entirety of last year. So, to combat this strange idea that films not from the fall should be left on the cutting board when it comes time for awards season, we at MovieMinis thought to award the best of summer 2017 so that they may have their fair share of the spotlight:
Best Original Screenplay: Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani — The Big Sick
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Comedies had fallen flat. Great romcoms were almost non-existent. Then, The Big Sick showed up and not only gave us more from the genre than we’ve had in a long while, but genuinely brought out the best that it could offer. And it all starts with its absolutely pitch perfect script. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon based The Big Sick in the true story of their romance, and it’s easy to immediately feel the truth at the core of the film, which features such emotionally resonant scenes that hinder on what a character says and what another doesn’t — the film being, on a whole, about communication and perspective. Gordon and Nanjiani give thorough perspective to each character in the film, something that most films in general don’t do. Kumail, Emily, Emily’s parents, Kumail’s parents and Kumail’s friends are all written with a care for independent motivation and given actual arcs that are fulfilled. And all of this is outside of the comedy, which is perhaps its best feature. While, these days, most jokes in films feel forced, The Big Sick is all about natural humor, humor that feels informed and plays off of the film’s themes of perspective and culture. Truly, The Big Sick‘s script is wholesome. But if we were being honest, it deserves this award if only for that 9/11 joke.
— Kyle Kizu
Runner-up: David Lowery for A Ghost Story
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A Ghost Story‘s screenplay reportedly hovers around 30 pages. Many know that the “one page, one minute” concept is a mostly incorrect generalization, but to have 30 pages turn into 90+ heart-wrenching minutes is a feat, a feat because writer-director David Lowery somehow finds a harrowing, haunting truth with very few words. It’s not surprising, considering that the film is essentially a showcase of minimalism on all levels, but each line of dialogue, each crafted scene, in setting and progression, hold the weight of the human condition — our fight against time. The characters are defined with a tragic tenderness. The supernatural concept is executed so organically. While most of the film becomes about the visual, it’s the written word that conceives such a thing, and it’s hard not to be wholly moved by the simple and profound written word of A Ghost Story.
Nominees:
3. Trey Edward Shults — It Comes At Night
4. Bong Joon-ho, Jon Ronson — Okja
5. Christopher Nolan — Dunkirk
Honorable Mention: Kogonada — Columbus
Best Adapted Screenplay: Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves — War for the Planet of the Apes
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The most recent Planet of the Apes trilogy is led by one of the best film characters of all time, Caesar (Andy Serkis), and that is a huge credit to the screenplays behind the films. In the best of them all, War for the Planet of the Apes, the script plunges Caesar to his lowest point, and it is nothing less than riveting. Despite the regality that emanates from him, he is brought to a crushing point of desperation — exacerbated by the menacing, if sympathetic Colonel (Woody Harrelson). Ultimately though — and this is perhaps the most defining trait of this Apes franchise — Caesar’s downfall makes him yet more human in the eyes of the viewer, and more importantly, his arc by the end of the film feels rewarding and earned. Over the course of three films, Caesar has transformed from a mere pet into an epic hero of biblical proportions — a legendary Mosaic figure that thenceforth enriches and informs the history of the apes. Then of course, War’s script maneuvers tone expertly — showing us the harrowing depths of Caesar’s fall, but also taking moments to inject much-needed levity through Bad Ape (Steve Zahn) and franchise mainstay Maurice (Karin Konoval). Such a script makes War the capper to one of the great film trilogies of all time, a sentiment echoed by 20th Century Fox’s plans for a major awards campaign.
— Harrison Tunggal
Runner-up: Sofia Coppola — The Beguiled
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There are two wars in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. One is obvious— the film follows a school of women and young girls in the Confederate south as they nurse a Union soldier back to health. The other is far more subtle; it wages beneath the surface, simmering behind genteel manners, flirtatious glances and courteous dinners. Coppola’s script rises to the challenge of the particular setting, imbuing those infamous Southern manners with surprising malicious underpinnings. Even Colin Farrell’s charming Union soldier comes across as harmless on paper, but it’s the nonverbal threats accompanying his every word that leave the audience on the edge of their seats. News that Coppola was adapting the original 1971 film came with both criticism and anticipation, but in the end, the script is one of her all-time best. Talk about nailing an ending.
— Kate Halliwell
3. Erik Sommers, Chris McKenna, Christopher Ford, Jon Watts, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein — Spider-Man: Homecoming
4. Alice Birch — Lady Macbeth
5. Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, Jason Fuchs — Wonder Woman
Honorable Mention: Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham — The Glass Castle
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Holly Hunter — The Big Sick
Holly Hunter has always been a reliable character actor, winning an Oscar in 1993 for Jane Campion’s The Piano. However, it has been awhile since she gave a performance that dominated the critics circle and awards season talk. Well, thanks to her touching, humorous and scene-stealing turn in The Big Sick, it appears that she is about to enter those conversations again, and maybe even dominate them.
In the film, Hunter plays Beth, the mother to Zoe Kazan’s character Emily Gardner whose sudden medical condition puts her into a coma. From here, Emily’s ex-boyfriend, Kumail Nanjiani (playing himself) feels like he has to stay bedside to Emily throughout this ordeal, despite Beth’s wishes for him to keep his distance. At first, Beth’s character seems like the stereotypical, stuck-up mom who doesn’t believe anyone will know her daughter better than her. Yet thanks to both Hunter’s acting and Nanjiani’s writing, the film slowly reveals the depths of character that have made Beth such the stern mother she is. While she may live an upper-middle class life, saying her life has been easy is a miscalculation of her tics. Being the performance behind some of the most tear-jerking scenes in the movie (and since the movie might be the biggest tear-jerker of the year so far), Hunter won us over. Look for major awards talk to come her way this year.
— Levi Hill
Runner-up: Rooney Mara — A Ghost Story
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No one does repressed grief quite like Rooney Mara. From her turn as a restrained, lovestruck shopgirl in Carol, to Lisbeth Salander’s trademark subdued fury, Mara has built a career on her ability to speak volumes with a single look. A Ghost Story marks a return to form for Mara, who is genuinely devastating as a grieving wife haunted by her recently deceased husband. Mara is as understated as always, and again she’s enormously effective. Pain flickers across her face, then it’s quickly replaced with a sort of emptiness, a numb realization that things will never return to the way they were before. Mara has reached a point in her career where perfection is expected, and as such, her performance in A Ghost Story will most likely miss out on any awards season recognition. Even so, it’s comforting to know that performances like these are just another film for Mara. We can look forward to many more understated, brilliant turns to come.
Just perhaps not ones that involve eating an entire pie.
3. Tiffany Haddish — Girls Trip
4. Tilda Swinton — Okja
5. Kirsten Dunst — The Beguiled
Honorable Mention: Zoe Kazan — The Big Sick
Achievement in Costume Design: Jeffrey Kurland — Dunkirk
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Dunkirk may not jump out as a film with amazing costume design. And that’s exactly why it’s such an achievement. Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland didn’t have the uniforms in hand to simply recreate. Each garb had to be handcrafted with the character’s definition ingrained in each thread. Upon close inspection, what may have initially looked like an endless see of brown becomes an indicator of what kind of soldier each one is. For Tommy (Fionn Whitehead), his uniform is overwhelming and big, a sign of his youth and inexperience. Alex (Harry Styles) wears, as some may not have noticed, a slightly different uniform (people have connected his character and his regiment to Scotland), one that fits tighter and is more controlled, indicative of his higher status. But the singularity of uniforms wouldn’t have been enough to sell the look of this film. Dunkirk is about being there. It’s about feeling as though you’re on the beaches, as though you’re being bombed by German planes. It’s about the feeling of being stuck. And the costumes had to be designed with this gritty, dirty, sweaty sense of desperation, of being washed over by ocean water, of being stranded for a week and beaten down into the streets and sand.
But the costumes are also about the civilians who came across on boats. The sweaters have already been raved about humorously on social media. But the 40s English attire truly does inform the story. These are ordinary men thrust into an operation far greater than anyone may handle, and the humble simplicity in a hand-knitted red sweater truly does impact the film and call to the “Dunkirk spirit” as much as the soldiers’ wear and tear does.
Runner-up: Stacey Battat — The Beguiled
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Period dramas tend to seem like a boring choice when it comes to costume design recognition, but the pastel evening gowns and crinkled crinolines of The Beguiled are too fabulous to ignore. In one particularly memorable scene, Kirsten Dunst’s sexually repressed Southern belle comes to dinner in a ruffled, revealing gown that ostentatiously shows off her best assets. Her attempt at wooing Colin Farrell’s charismatic Union soldier is just as unsubtle as the gown itself. Instead, he’s more interested in Elle Fanning’s far younger seductress, who is all blushing cheeks and fluttering eyelashes in a series of flowy white gowns. Nicole Kidman presides over the chaos as a stern, commanding governess. She’s nearly always clothed in imposing high-necked gowns, excepting the already infamous “Bring me the anatomy book!” scene, where she’s literally up to her elbows in blood. What a waste of a gorgeous nightgown.
3. Holly Waddington — Lady Macbeth
4. Cindy Evans — Atomic Blonde
5. Lindy Hemming — Wonder Woman
Honorable Mention: Annell Brodeur — A Ghost Story
Achievement in Production Design: Nathan Crowley — Dunkirk
Similar to its costumes, Dunkirk doesn’t jump out as a film with stunning production design. In actuality, it’s not meant to be one. The production design, much like every other craft aspect of the film, acts in service of immersion, in service of the visceral, tangible, largely physical experience. Shooting on the real beaches of Dunkirk came with a big problem: part of the central setting, the mole, had been destroyed. And thus, production designer Nathan Crowley was tasked with recreating it, with building a pier that’s been, alongside the soldiers, the blunt victim of unforgiving waves and, more terrifyingly, dive-bombers. As Tommy (Fionn Whitehead) and Gibson (Aneurin Barnard) run down the breakwater, squeezing between soldiers and traversing blown off portions over only planks, the mole feels and, most importantly, looks alive, like a character bracing alongside the soldiers.
The sets of ship interiors and exteriors during attacks, of a stronghold in the city and of the equipment and vehicles on the beaches are designed with that same gritty, worn down aura and historical accuracy. These sets are complex and extensive, built to invoke claustrophobia. Crowley also makes use of portion sets and cardboard cutouts for backgrounds, extending the view of soldiers endlessly, capturing the scope of 400,000 men.
But where the film engulfs us next is in its design of its planes, recreating Spitfires through redesigns of other planes. The dogfight sequences are some of the most stunning of Dunkirk, and the fact that real planes are used, interiors and exteriors designed with pinpoint precision, does wonders for the main goal of the film: transporting us there.
Runner-up: Aline Bonetto — Wonder Woman
In the first act of Wonder Woman, we feel a sense of awe not yet felt within the DC Extended Universe, as we explore the island of Themyscira, where Wonder Woman was brought up by the Amazons. The architecture and culture of Themyscira is reminiscent of the ancient Greeks, but unique enough to fascinate and intrigue viewers, and that’s a credit to production designer Aline Bonetto. Of course, her work in designing the drabness of London and the battlefields of World War I are admirable, but her work in designing Themyscira is truly praiseworthy. She carves out a space within the DCEU that’s bright and majestic, and it leaves us nothing less than wonderstruck.
3. David Scheunemann — Atomic Blonde
4. James Chinlund — War for the Planet of the Apes
5. Scott Chambliss — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Honorable Mention: Hugues Tissandier — Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling: John Blake, Jay Wejebe — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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The makeup in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is nothing short of pristine. The stunning makeup on the colorful aliens Yondu (Michael Rooker), Drax (Dave Bautista) and Gamora (Zoe Saldana) were carryovers from the first Guardians film, but this time, John Blake, Jay Wejebe and their team created an entire race of aliens covered in a gold sheen — the Sovereign. These aliens look like walking Oscars, which could be somewhat prophetic given the team’s excellent work in this film. If that weren’t enough, the film also puts a spotlight on the Ravagers, a motley crew of scarred, deformed space pirates, which put the onus on the makeup team to create a variety of hardened alien thieves. In particular, the film’s joke about Taserface (Chris Sullivan) wouldn’t have worked had it not been for an appropriately tasered face. Even though Star Wars: The Last Jedi might throw this makeup team’s chances at Oscar glory for a loop, they deserve every bit of praise for this list of summer awards.
Runner-up: Shandra Page, Tony Ward, Mia Goff, Natalie Christine Johnson — The Beguiled
Rarely does hairstyling get as much recognition as makeup, but the work of the hair team of The Beguiled is as integral to the film as every other craft department. With the film’s themes and concepts, of sexual attraction, of a deconstruction of the male gaze, of a community of women separated from the warring country, and with the historical setting, the hairstyling had to be pitch perfect. And it is. The younger children all hold a sense of curiosity and innocence within the larger scale of events. Nicole Kidman emanates a regal authority, fitting her position as head of the house. Elle Fanning’s hairstyling evokes the explorative sexuality that is centric to the film’s story, as is the quiet and repressed core of Kirsten Dunst’s character, whose hair reflects her journey of attempting to break free from a community she doesn’t feel as though she truly belongs to. On an aesthetic sense, the hairstyling is beautiful. But because of the fact that it serves the story so thoroughly, it deserves endless recognition.
3. Jessie Eden, Sasha Grossman — It Comes At Night
4. Laura Morse, Christine Blundell — Wonder Woman
5. Sian Wilson — Lady Macbeth
Honorable Mention: Lesley Vanderwalt — Alien: Covenant
Achievement in Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema — Dunkirk
It was hard to imagine Christopher Nolan without his longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister. But after Interstellar, it became hard to imagine Nolan not working with Dutch-Swedish lenser Hoyte van Hoytema for the foreseeable future. And their collaboration on Dunkirk shows just why Hoytema may be Nolan’s greatest partner. From the breathtaking first image to the mesmerizing penultimate shot, Hoytema’s work represents the pinnacle of cinema, especially in its IMAX 70mm form. As what’s been said time and time again with Dunkirk‘s craft categories, the main goal of the cinematography is for immersion. And it does that unlike any film truly has. Utilizing the IMAX camera like a go-pro, Hoytema places us as a soldier on the beach, ducking for cover, racing to the departing boats, shaking at the shockwaves of bombs. Through the cinematography, we inhabit a space on the small civilian boats, thrown around by waves. We inhabit a space below deck on navy destroyers, nearly drowning after being downed by a U-boat. We inhabit a space in the air, peering through the scope, veering left and right, laboring as we try to shoot down the German ME 109s. These are camera angles that haven’t been fully realized until this film, with Hoytema and the team inventing rigs to place cameras where they’ve never been before.
On a technical level, the work is astounding. At first, it might not seem as artistic as his cinematography on Interstellar. But Hoytema is perhaps more subtly artful in his rendering of Dunkirk. Like the shot above, there’s this breathtaking sense of scope, this arresting design of the mise-en-scene that tones the look of Dunkirk with a trapped claustrophobia amid one of the largest and most important events of the 20th century. And at the end, the wandering camera almost finds a tranquility unexpected with a film like Dunkirk. Farrier’s (Tom Hardy) Spitfire, gliding with the soldiers below and the city in the background, is truly a shot for the ages, a quiet one that allows us to breathe after all of the overwhelming movement. It’s cinematography that represents the best that cinema can offer, that fights for the medium, both of the film format and of film in general, with something purely visual.
Runner-up: Andrew Droz Palermo — A Ghost Story
If Dunkirk showcases the best that cinematography can offer on the large scale, then A Ghost Story offers the best of cinematography on a small scale. Andrew Droz Palermo’s work truly shows an artist in tune with every thematic level of the art. With A Ghost Story, we’re meant to project our emotions onto the titular ghost, and Palermo rightfully lingers, hangs and frames shots in ways that overwhelm — especially in the framing of uninterrupted still shots — to a point where it’s impossible not to find a profound emotion, or ten, within the eyes of the ghost. But Palermo also excels in movement, his tracking in particularly. There’s this haunting, majestic, almost mythic poetry as we slowly follow the ghost, wholly crafting the film’s spirituality and invoking just what the film needed to become truly great: making us, the viewer, a ghost ourselves.
3. Philippe Le Sourd — The Beguiled
4. Bill Pope — Baby Driver
5. Michael Seresin — War for the Planet of the Apes
Honorable Mention: Elisha Christian — Columbus
Achievement in Film Editing: Lee Smith — Dunkirk
Dunkirk performs an illusion: the Shepard tone. You may think I’m talking about the score. I’m not. The score performs the illusion too, but Dunkirk, the film itself, is structured in a way that replicates the effects of the typically musical anomaly — something Christopher Nolan intended while writing the screenplay. It’s a massive, difficult task to weave together three storylines that not only are all constantly rising in tension, but also play out on different timeframes. Before jumping in, outside of those complex aspects, Lee Smith is incredibly calculated when crafting action scenes. The Spitfire sequences have been raved about for their realism, and credit must be given to Smith for how fluid and steady the progression of each dogfight is. And right before the soldiers are dive-bombed by German planes, Smith lingers on reaction shots, of eyes wandering up to the sky at the source of noise, masterfully building suspense. But Smith has done these and similar things before, his work on the grander scale of Dunkirk being what truly solidifies this as his and Nolan’s greatest collaboration yet — a monumental feat when considering their work on Inception. Despite jumping backward and forward in time, there’s never a sense of imbalance in the film’s momentum. Each thread feels as though it’s still progressing, even when it’s treading water we’ve been through before — often thanks to careful revelations of dramatic irony. And as the film builds, the structure does too. As expected, the three timelines meet at a singular moment. But instead of simply crashing them together, Nolan and Smith play the climax out of order as the threads seem to try to find each other. There’s a great sense of disorientation, a purposeful one to tone the chaotic, senseless and harrowing event happening before their (and our) eyes, but the scene never loses focus or coherency — a quality that all the best edited films have. The climax plays out of order, but it plays so masterfully that out of order feels somehow more organic, an intangible sense of filmic cohesion, just as the entirety of Dunkirk is, due to how the film is put together.
Runner-up: Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss — Baby Driver
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While Dunkirk is a monumental feat in film editing, Baby Driver isn’t as far off as one would assume. Blending the tap and dance sound mixing of a classical musical, with more ferocity of any heist scene featured in Fate of the Furious, Baby Driver would not be as successful of a film as it is without the incredible, crisp editing that Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss pull off. Edgar Wright’s films always feature bravado filmmaking, with wipe pans, dual screens, long tracking shots and practically anything else the cinematic genius can think of, and only editors with the most amount of precision could bring all of the visual and aural synchronization together. So while this might be our runner-up for Best Editing, don’t be surprised if the film manages an ACE nomination later this year.
3. David Lowery — A Ghost Story
4. Sarah Flack — The Beguiled
5. Matthew Hannam, Trey Edward Shults — It Comes At Night
Honorable Mention: Meeyeon Han, Yang Jinmo — Okja
Achievement in Sound Editing: Richard King, Michael W. Mitchell, Randy Torres — Dunkirk
If we had to pick the most important technical aspect of Dunkirk, which would be an entirely unfair and borderline impossible task, the one that would be the most understandable to point to is sound, both editing and mixing.
Editing is the crafting of sounds and, in Dunkirk, it’s often specific sounds that add the most to the suspense. The incoming wane of the German planes’ horns is truly horrifying, as is the bombs’ explosions, which find a terrifyingly earthy, subsurface sound as they lift sand and soldier into the air. When we’re in the interior of planes, the rumble of metal adds to a sense of immersion, to a sense of fear and anxiety in the smallest of spaces. And with the approach of Nolan, to remove the face of the enemy, bullets are louder, more jarring and more affecting. They pierce, whether it be through skin or sand or wood or metal, with a jolting, invasive, bodily ping. Dunkirk is meant to be a suspense film, and the specific sounds of war, sounds that real Dunkirk veterans have said are louder than the actual event, are crafted here with their fullest effect.
Runner-up: Will Files — War for the Planet of the Apes
In the rebooted Planet of the Apes trilogy, we see some of the most realistic special effects of all time, but the CGI wizardry wouldn’t hold up if not for excellent sound editing. The sound editing of War for the Planet of the Apes completes the film’s masterful CGI illusions, connecting our expectations of ape sounds with the visuals onscreen. We are convinced that the apes onscreen are grunting, shuffling about in the snow and fighting in a realistic way. Additionally, the sounds of war — the opening and closing battle scenes in particular come to mind — are immersive, putting us on the ground alongside Caesar and his apes. War films are often recognized for their sound editing, and in these awards, War for the Planet of the Apes is no different.
3. Choi Tae-young — Okja
4. James Mather, David Mackie, Nina Norek — Wonder Woman
5. Shannon Mills, Guillaume Bouchateau — Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Honorable Mention: David Acord, Addison Teague, Lee Gilmore — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Achievement in Sound Mixing: Mark Weingarten, Unsun Song — Dunkirk
Sound mixing is how all of the sounds are brought together to create an atmosphere. And, quite evidently, Dunkirk has an auditory atmosphere fit for a horror film. No, truly. Dunkirk‘s sound mixing is in the vein of horror films. Think to the bombing of the hospital boat. As the giant ship’s metal moans as the boat tips into the wood of the mole, a voice can be heard screaming repeatedly, its body being crushed. Body’s jump off into the water, each splash toning the already terrifying scene that’s featured gunshots riddling the pier and bombs exploding on the boat.
The mix overwhelms us into a transfixed terror, hosting obviously physical elements within those attacks. But it also is subtly physical, working on every layer, literally, to render the beach, boats and air tangible. The wind and splashing waves almost feel like they hit us, constantly sitting behind the dialogue, reminding us of the setting. The wisp of the air, rattle of the Spitfire’s cockpit and masks of the pilots render dialogue as muffled and communication as difficult, as it would be in its reality. Dunkirk‘s sound mixing can transition from desperate voices drowning within the interior of a ship to massive explosions on its exterior with such fluidity while also maintaining the chaos of the situation. And that’s the true purpose of sound mixing, to become physical and to inform the story. With Dunkirk, there’s almost no movie at all without the horror that the mix provokes.
Runner-up: Kasper Pedersen, Al Green, Mary H. Ellis, James Peterson — Baby Driver
Sound will always be one of the most underrated aspects of film, especially sound mixing. Where sound editing can tend to favor bombast, as sound editing represents the actual sounds we are hearing, mixing has to favor subtlety. Mixing is how the sound designers bring together all of the disparate sounds to create one perfect aural mix.
And honestly, it doesn’t get much better than what can be heard in Edgar Wright’s summer masterpiece Baby Driver. Featuring a booming soundtrack, with tight editing of car chases and heist scenes in sync with the sound, the Baby Driver mixing team had their work cut out for them. Imagine having to combine a rollicking Bellbottoms song, with the faint singing and air drumming of Ansel Elgort (in-tune with the music), with a souped-up muscle car’s engine running, all the while in the distance a heist with sirens and shooting is taking place. Sound like a doozy? Well, that’s just the first scene in a film filled to the brim with impeccable craft in the audial categories.
3. Chris Duesterdiek, Erin Michael Rettig, Shawn Holden — War for the Planet of the Apes
4. Michael L. Barnett — A Ghost Story
5. Chris Duesterdiek, Danny Michale, Park Jong-kun — Okja
Honorable Mention: Ronnie Mukwaya — Wonder Woman
Achievement in Visual Effects: Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri — War for the Planet of the Apes
If one were to travel back in time to 1968 and show Charlton Heston War for the Planet of the Apes, one could undeniably convince him that the film was made using real ape actors (Hell, you could convince me that the film was made using actual apes). Of course, one would cause irreparable harm to the space-time continuum, possibly precipitating an actual simian hegemony, but that’s beside the point. The fact is, the visual effects in War (and the trilogy it belongs to) are utterly groundbreaking. Great CGI is nothing new, but the way the rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise is predicated on photo-real apes is nothing short of extraordinary. These films need their apes to look believable, or else there’s no way an audience could invest in its characters, and it works — in the faces of these apes, we see genuine human emotion. The words “movie magic” get thrown around too casually to wholly represent the peak craftsmanship involved in creating this franchise’s apes, but one does feel a sense of wonderment at seeing something as totally unique and powerful as the CGI in War.
Runner-up: Scott Stokdyk, Joe Letteri — Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets initially looked like a visual risk, seemingly bordering on muted overuse of CGI that could fall flat and become forgettable. Thankfully, the film evades that pitfall, so much so that it almost makes up for the unengaging story and one dimensional characters. And that’s because, in a way, the visual effects do impact the story. The beings and objects that the CGI in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets creates are distinct. Worlds are rendered with attention to detail, not just aesthetically, but societally, as civilizations are visually crafted with systems, practices and purpose. That’s what takes the visual effects to the next level. They’re stunning and beautiful to look at, generating imagery that only a visual master like Luc Besson and an expert visual effects team could’ve concocted — aliens are neither replicants of humans nor are they so wildly complex — and making use of color in distinct and attractive ways. But the visual effects also serve to world-build, or in this case, universe-build, and they’re taken to the next level for it.
3. Matthew Crnich, Ray McMaster, Doug Spilatro, Christopher Townsend — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
4. Jeon Hyoung Lee, Jun Hyoung Kim, Mike F. Hedayati, Erik De Boer — Okja
5. Viktor Muller, Bill Westenhofer, Loeng Wong-Savun — Wonder Woman
Honorable Mention: Theodore Bialek, Lou Pecora, Dominik Zimmerle — Spider-Man: Homecoming
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Mark Rylance — Dunkirk
Similar to his Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies turn, Rylance’s performance in Dunkirk is incredibly understated, with perhaps even less screen time. In the film’s aftermath, one quickly realizes that it’s the work of an actor who informs every bit of himself, physically and vocally, with why his character is the way he is. Truly, the aftermath, both at the end of the film and after audiences have left the theaters, is where Rylance’s performance holds the most weight.
Within Dunkirk, Rylance plays a civilian committed to crossing the channel, even in dire circumstances, and a man with a fascination for the RAF’s planes. But pay close attention to the dialogue after his boat, the Moonstone, full of rescued soldiers, dodges one final attack before making its way back to England, and Jack Lowden’s Collins asks Rylance’s Mr. Dawson how he knew the maneuvers to evade the German plane. Mr. Dawson says that his son was in the RAF before Peter, the son that we’ve known, reveals that he had a brother who died three weeks into the war. Mr. Dawson says, “I knew he’d see us through,” before tending to a shaking, terrified soldier (Cillian Murphy). In that moment, and after that specific line and that specific image, we pause, our breaths almost taken away.
The exposition, about the engines of Spitfires, delivered with a comforting admiration, becomes highly personal. The recurring fatherly moments — both in image (his heartbreaking nod to Peter after a tragic reveal) and in dialogue (his collected yet commanding presence when organizing a hectic rescue) — portray a character so defined and so thoroughly realized that, in repeat viewings, it’s difficult not to be in awe of Rylance as a performer.
But finally, one moment stands out. As Collins’ plane crashes into the water, Peter tells his Dad that he didn’t see a parachute and that the engine was out. Mr. Dawson doesn’t respond. Peter repeats. Mr. Dawson steers his boat firmly ahead. Peter repeats again, adding that the pilot is probably dead. Finally Mr. Dawson flings around, yelling, “Damnit Peter, I hear you!” He glances back. “Maybe he’s alive.” His volume lowers to a heartbreaking reserve. “Maybe we can help him.” It’s a moment that comes before the revelation, and is powerful when first seen. But in learning of his dead son, one who flew with the RAF, this moment transforms. His yells and his desperation are in an image of his son. In that moment, Mr. Dawson is trying to save the son that he couldn’t, and Rylance uses every ounce of his physical emotion to find that truth.
Dunkirk is an overwhelming spectacle, a film more about the event and the mass of people than purely individuals. Many have said that the near nameless, near faceless characters are simply there, without much emotion. But imagine Dunkirk without Rylance’s Mr. Dawson. It’s really difficult. Imagine Mr. Dawson as played by someone other than Rylance. It’s almost impossible. Rylance plays the most pivotal role in the film. Mr. Dawson is the core, the heart, the father — a character with actual inspiration from Christopher Nolan’s late father — that guides this picture’s emotions along a harrowing journey. It’s Rylance who sees us through.
Runner-up: Ray Romano — The Big Sick
In The Big Sick, Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) meets Beth (Holly Hunter) and Terry (Ray Romano), the parents of his ex-girlfriend, Emily (Zoe Kazan), who falls into a coma. Despite Beth and Terry’s initial dismissiveness toward Kumail, he still decides to have lunch with them in the hospital cafeteria. As if things couldn’t get any more uncomfortable, Terry almost immediately dials the awkward levels to precipitous heights: “So, uh. 9/11. . .” Nevertheless, Terry develops a close bond with Kumail over the course of the film, and Ray Romano gets the chance to showcase his iconic comedy chops, while diving into his best dramatic role. Romano’s delivery relishes the awkwardness of Terry’s situation, but underneath it, there’s a tenderness and sincerity that The Big Sick depends on, and makes it all the more endearing and emotional.
3. Michael Fassbender — Alien: Covenant
4. Chris Pine — Wonder Woman
5. O’Shea Jackson Jr. — Ingrid Goest West
Honorable Mention: Steven Yeun — Okja
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score): Hans Zimmer — Dunkirk
Many weren’t sure what to expect with Dunkirk‘s score, unsure of how legendary composer Hans Zimmer could expand his already endlessly experimental career after voiding percussion and crafting his most emotional score with Interstellar. But somehow, with Dunkirk, Zimmer goes further, composing music that serves the film in an entirely different way. Here, Zimmer seemingly avoids musicality entirely, instead enhancing the soundscape of the film infinitely by adding to it. The center of the score is the tick of a watch, representing the urgency and immediateness of time. The tick is overbearing at times, ramping up tenfold, invading our bodies and digging its way into our heads. Much of the score’s lower sections are made up of sounds that feel as though they’re remnants of the battle itself, as though they’re the creaks of boats, the wanes of the ocean against a ship’s metal or the explosions of bombs. There are certain horror inspirations, with the biting strings of violins, the moan of the bass, the constantly and quickly fluctuating volume of a high pitched, auric screech. The beginning of Home sounds as though it’s been plucked straight out of a horror film.
As mentioned before, Zimmer makes use of the Shepard tone, a musical illusion that sounds like it’s constantly rising in tension. For a film based in suspense, tension and terror, such an illusion has immense effect, the pieces often becoming so filled with energy that’s then released in climactic fashion during the attack sequences.
But even despite the fact that Zimmer strays from typical musicality, he still manages to compose some career best work. In particular, The Oil represents everything utterly magnificent about Zimmer. Like pieces from Interstellar and The Dark Knight, The Oil starts incredibly low in volume and thin in layers. Playing at the climax of the film itself, The Oil builds in layers and volume consistently for six straight minutes, adding literal rise to the illusion of rising, before exploding into its own climax just as the film does. With this, the piece then becomes a serious, overbearing manipulation of the mind and the body, which initially sounds unpleasant, but, when watching the film’s climax, grabs hold of the eyes in ways that the climax couldn’t without the piece and in ways that cinema strives for.
And all of this comes without discussion of the film’s most emotional and most musical element: the influence of Edward Elgar’s Nimrod. Portions of it can be heard in Home, beautifully encapsulating the “Dunkirk spirit” as the civilian boats arrive. But none is more moving than Variation 15, a variation on Nimrod composed by Benjamin Wallfisch and produced by Zimmer, which plays at the end of the film. There’s something “unbearably moving” about it, as Christopher Nolan himself says in regard to Nimrod. And the piece does just that. The events at Dunkirk were a “military disaster” as Winston Churchill put it. But there’s “a victory inside this deliverance,” and it is exactly Variation 15 that renders not only the journey of the characters as triumphant, but Zimmer’s score and Dunkirk itself as well.
Runner-up: Daniel Hart — A Ghost Story
Whether it’s the grating strings that herald Whatever Hour You Woke, or the warm, embracing melody of a single violin on Post Pie, Daniel Hart’s score for A Ghost Story never relents in its uncanny power to haunt the listener. The sense of introspective melancholy found in any of the score’s tracks lingers with the listener, until — especially through the defining track, I Get Overwhelmed — a swell of emotion becomes inescapable, maybe even cathartic in a powerfully ethereal way. A Ghost Story asks its viewer to project emotions onto the titular lonely specter, but Hart’s score amplifies those emotions, making them profoundly affecting in myriad ways. Resultantly, listening to Hart’s score is its own singular experience, one that exists beyond the confines of the film itself. Just put it on at night, maybe even fall asleep to it, and see what it tells you.
3. Michael Giacchino — War for the Planet of the Apes
4. Brian McOmber — It Comes At Night
5. Oneohtrix Point Never — Good Time
Honorable Mention: Michael Giacchino — Spider-Man: Homecoming
Performance by an Ensemble Cast: The Big Sick
Where the potential for brilliant ensemble work in The Big Sick started was with the script, as Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani wrote each character with a genuine emotional arc. But that would’ve been for only so much had the roles not been cast to utter perfection. Kumail plays himself, which could’ve turned out poorly for the film. But he allows for a vulnerability that speaks to the reality of the story while other playing-themselves-stunts might’ve avoided such an aspect. Zoe Kazan, playing Emily, gives herself over to the role, also finding a vulnerability, except with the perspective of her character, which makes for a performance that feels singular and truthful. Romano and Hunter, playing Emily’s parents, play off of each other impeccably well, nailing the key traits of character that allow for a back and forth rhythm that elevates the importance of their relationship and role within the story as well as the comedy that they provide. The same goes for Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff, playing Kumail’s parents, who bring an opposite perspective, but an equally dynamic chemistry. Throw in Bo Burnham basically playing himself (which is a good thing!) and supporting characters that each feel like their own person, and The Big Sick is the type of ensemble that doesn’t come around that often.
Runner-up: Okja
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Every member of Okja’s ensemble cast is essential, bringing new dimensions and nuances to the film. Of course, there’s Ahn Seo-hyun, who gives the film its beating heart, and the obvious standouts like Tilda Swinton, bringing her unique brand of weird humor, and Jake Gyllenhaal, who adds to the zaniness by giving a performance that is essentially a Joker audition. Though he doesn’t have much screen time, Giancarlo Esposito also lends the film his trademark cool. The cast comprising the Animal Liberation Front brings their A-game too, as Paul Dano and Lily Collins play determined, uncompromising activists. Steven Yeun arguably gives one of the best performances in the film, since he is playing a distinctly Korean-American character, one that is essential in developing the theme of linguistic boundaries, and how systems of power play into them. Every character in Okja is rich and specific in detail, and only through a stellar ensemble cast can the film’s characters be truly realized.
3. Dunkirk
4. Baby Driver
5. The Beguiled
Honorable Mention: Spider-Man: Homecoming
Achievement in Directing: Christopher Nolan — Dunkirk
Melina Sue Gordon
While many may still hold that The Dark Knight or Inception are better films, few will argue that Christopher Nolan’s direction of Dunkirk isn’t the best of his career, which is seriously saying something. The film has been awarded so many categories above precisely because of how every aspect of this film is working at full power and with full force, something that comes together under the guidance of one of the true auteurs of our time. Dunkirk is Nolan’s most cinematically ambitious film, utilizing the IMAX film format like it never has before and turning to visual elements of film, and away from dialogue and conventional story, to craft a piece of art that is wholly and purely cinematic, that can only exist as a piece of cinema. Nolan’s guiding hand paces the film to craft unmatched tension and structures the film to capitalize on and make the most of the historical event as well as to continue his investigation into time. It is at once Nolan’s most experimental film, the film that deviates the most from his typical style and expands his purview, while also being perhaps the most “Nolan” film we’ve gotten so far. His composition of action sequences, grounded in the physical, tangible reality of practical sets and practical effects, represents a technical genius on par with Alfonso Cuarón and George Miller, directors of similarly gigantic cinematic achievements. But his handling of theme, that of time, invoked by the film’s structure, elevates him above being purely a masterful technician. Nolan, showcased perhaps most efficiently and thouguhyl by his direction of Dunkirk, is a masterful storyteller.
Runner-up: David Lowery — A Ghost Story
A Ghost Story is obviously a very personal story to David Lowery, and sometimes, because something’s personal, it fails to be translated and executed in a way that resonates with audiences. And yet, there’s so much care offered to each frame, to each performance, to how each aspect of production, from technical to emotional, coalesces into the singularity that is A Ghost Story — a tale about grief that is as human as any film you might think of. Lowery’s direction, how he holds on to scenes, how he paces and progresses the narrative and how he forces the viewer to confront the film, is sublime. But his job as a director perhaps becomes elevated by how he works with his team and how he opens up to suggestion. The film initially was structured much more linearly until Shane Carruth came in to help edit. The film also lacked the song I Get Overwhelmed and how that song is intimately connected to the characters until Daniel Hart, who created the song, suggested it. Lowery’s personal vision doesn’t fail because he allows others in on it. A Ghost Story is not the sign of a typical “auteur,” but of someone who knows that in order to craft his deeply personal message, it has to become about the collaboration between everyone. And in that way, under that type of direction, A Ghost Story is a fully realized story about the weight of time.
3. Edgar Wright — Baby Driver
4. Bong Joon-ho — Okja
Honorable Mention: Matt Reeves — War for the Planet of the Apes
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Florence Pugh — Lady Macbeth
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It was a summer of nasty women. In an attempt at viral marketing, the team behind The Beguiled rolled out a summer campaign that dubbed its leading ladies “vengeful bitches.” While the term certainly fit, an unassuming summer indie ended up making Sofia Coppola’s scheming Southern belles look positively docile. Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh, was the feminist, “burn the patriarchy” movie of the summer. In the beginning, it’s a tired tale; Katherine (Pugh) is married off to an older man in what is quickly revealed to be a loveless marriage. Unlike similar period dramas, however, Katherine is no damsel in distress. She makes the jump from blushing bride to cunning psychopath in the blink of an eye, manipulating everyone in the household as her plan comes to fruition. It’s a star-making performance for Pugh, who shot the film at 19 and currently sits on the precipice of becoming Hollywood’s newest ingenue.
Runner-up: Ahn Seo-hyun — Okja
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None of Okja’s jabs at the meat industry, animal rights activism and the violence condoned by capitalism would hit hard without the audience’s investment in the relationship at the film’s core — the friendship between Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) and Okja. Since Okja is a CG creation, Ahn deserves praise for being able to act alongside a stuffed animal (later replaced with a CG super pig). She wrings heaps of emotion from us, as she frolics with Okja in the woods of her home, and as she descends into a hellish meat packing plant to save her friend. Ahn is one of the best child actors working today, and she has an undeniably bright future ahead of her.
3. Aubrey Plaza — Ingrid Goest West
4. Charlize Theron — Atomic Blonde
5. Gal Gadot — Wonder Woman
Honorable Mention: Nicole Kidman — The Beguiled
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Andy Serkis — War for the Planet of the Apes
War for the Planet of the Apes, despite the grandeur and bombast implied by the title, is an intimate character study. As a result, the film relies heavily on closeups of character’s faces, more so than its two predecessors, and Andy Serkis (Caesar) rises, like he’s never done before, to that challenge. Serkis should have been nominated for awards for his pioneering motion capture work long ago, but detractors claim that CGI gives him an unfair advantage. No matter where you stand on this issue, it’s undeniable that War is predicated on Serkis’ performance. The computer wizardry behind Caesar needs to start somewhere, and Serkis provides expressions that could stand on their own. If the film isn’t evidence of the man’s talent (It is!) just look at this. We knew Serkis could deliver an extraordinary breadth of emotion from the previous films in the Apes franchise, but War considerably widens that breadth. Through the film’s close-ups, the camera lingers on the pain, weariness and sometimes joy that Caesar feels, and those emotions are extremely palpable. In particular, when Caesar is reunited with his loved ones, we see a character defined by his composure break down completely, and Serkis’ performance is powerful enough to move us to tears. Serkis truly deserves every amount of praise that comes his way, and hopefully, come fall, Academy voters won’t tune out such praise.
Runner-up: Joel Edgerton — It Comes At Night
It Comes at Night is a film that revels in ambiguity, and that extends to Joel Edgerton’s performance as Paul, a man trying to protect his family amid a viral apocalypse. In many ways, the ambiguity in the film shows how difficult it can be to trust other people, and Edgerton’s performance is nuanced enough to suggest varying degrees of morality and maybe something sinister too. He claims to have been a teacher, but how does he know how to efficiently dispose of a body, let alone shoot with tip top accuracy? Edgerton’s facial expressions don’t give us any answers, intentionally keeping us in the dark. There’s a certain weight to the character that Edgerton brings too, a grounded sense of power that gives every yell and deep stare a harsh resonance, and that’s the brilliance of his performance.
3. Robert Pattinson — Good Time
4. Kumail Nanjiani — The Big Sick
5. Woody Harrelson — The Glass Castle
Honorable Mention: John Cho — Columbus
Best Motion Picture of the Summer: Dunkirk
From the very beginning of Dunkirk, especially if viewed in IMAX 70mm, we are immersed, moved and affected on every sensory level in ways that virtual reality could only dream of. As showcased by its various technical awards, Dunkirk is a film that begs to be seen theatrically, that fights for the art form of cinema as it’s truly and only a cinematic experience. It’s host to action sequences that we almost never get, realistic and bracingly physical scenes that truly transport us to the beaches of Dunkirk, to the boats on the channel and to the air above, realized by artists, on every level, working toward their full potential. Its structure is experimental and, through perfect execution, almost groundbreaking, opening up a new space in how one experiences a film and how a filmmaking crafts a tense and utterly transformative story. But then there’s the sense of theme within the film that elevates it, a theme that Christopher Nolan’s been obsessed with investigating since the start of his career: time. Time works in the film to add to suspense. But it also works in building perspective, to capture scope and to evoke humanity. Dunkirk is wrapped in terror, horror, fear and more, but there’s a through-line of humanity, how all of those intense and overwhelming emotions come directly from our humanity, something Nolan approaches with empathy. In its final minutes, toned triumphantly, Dunkirk solidifies itself as more than just a technical achievement. It’s a film that represents everything that film stands for, in the theatrical, cinematic experience, both on a sensory level, but also on a deeply emotional, resonant and empathetic level as well.
Runner-up: It Comes At Night
In It Comes at Night, indie-cinema-savior A24 and budding horror visionary Trey Edward Shults team up to deliver a sparse, Lynchian slow-burn of a horror-thriller, one where nightmares bleed into reality to create an inescapable sense of fear and dread. Such fear is merciless and it easily devours even the most moral of people, so when the film postulates this sentiment, a lurch in the gut becomes inevitable. Never mind the ambiguity surrounding the identity of the titular “it.” Ignore the divided opinions between critics and audiences. This film warns us that untethered, insidious fear will be our doom, and it’s a warning that needs heeding now more than ever.
3. A Ghost Story
4. The Big Sick
5. War for the Planet of the Apes
7. Wonder Woman
8. Okja
9. Good Time
10. The Beguiled
Honorable Mention: Columbus
A Note: We at MovieMinis feel a need to take into account sexual harassment and assault when relevant to films. ‘A Ghost Story’ is one of those films where a conversation must be had in order to be responsible writers, journalists and human beings. Casey Affleck was accused of sexual harassment while making the film ‘I’m Still Here.’ The cases were settled out of court. We will not, nor will we ever, act as the court, but we will and must believe the women that took cases up with him because it is necessary — as so few victims of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape are believed in the first place. This past of Casey Affleck has influenced many viewers of ‘A Ghost Story’ in deeply negative and painful ways, so we must make clear that our recognition of the film is not in support or endorsement of him. We denounce those actions and we must confront the reality that ‘A Ghost Story’ will always be affected by his presence. In our decision to recognize the film, we aimed to fully avoid Affleck and hoped to look at the achievements of the other people who made undeniably excellent contributions to the film. While ‘A Ghost Story’ should never be looked at as wholly separate from Affleck, we feel as though there’s a way to both celebrate the work of certain artists while also not ignoring the problems that arise with his involvement. We hope we’ve been responsible and we stand with survivors and victims.
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Naomi Martin
The Times-Picayune
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On his grind
How this student entrepreneur went from food stamps to CEO
Jude Collins sees every moment as an opportunity.
It is a calm, sunny Saturday afternoon in New Orleans when Jude Collins, 21, picks me up in his black Mercedes-Benz SUV. All around us on Broadway Street, the Tulane student community is slowly waking up, hungover and lazy. But Jude is on a mission.
Jude is so productive that it’s as though time passes differently for him. Judging from the $100,000-company he runs, full Tulane business school courseload work he excels in, and family he takes care of, you would think Jude Collins had more than just 24 hours in each day.
“The early bird gets the worm,” he says in his gravelly Southern drawl. Like the leather interior of his car, Jude is looking immaculate—today he’s wearing a crisp Polo T-shirt, dark designer jeans, and squeaky-white Jordan sneakers. “I had to get on up out of the library ‘cause shit needs to be done right now. Man, you don’t even understand how platinum we about to go.”
Jude drives quickly, safely, with purpose. He tells me he has been up since 7a.m., writing event proposals for his business, Fresh In Entertainment LLC, which he founded in October 2009. Now, we are on our way downtown to get his contracts signed so that when the rapper Lil Wayne comes to New Orleans, Jude will own four event contracts at the hottest clubs in the city, where he’ll be able to charge $20 covers and profit off drink sales, and in the end, hopefully, make upwards of $20,000 in one night.
“This” —he says, eyes all lit up, waving the stack of contracts in the air—“this is how I’m able to go to Tulane.”
Through his company, Jude has worked with such high-profile artists as Lupe Fiasco, Lil Wayne, Swagga, The Roots, Nick Thomas, Tyga, Trombone Shorty, and Kermit Ruffins.
“Man, I ain’t got time to chill and fuck around. I’m a’keep on my grind and make so much money that my grandkids’ grandkids’ grandkids’ grandkids still be spending it. After me, there’s gonna be no more working for anybody in my family, so they can all finally do what they want to do.”
Jude is so driven because he came from nothing. Growing up in the Iberville public housing development, Jude had a childhood filled with “gunshots, food stamps, drugs, police, welfare, basketball games, DJs, and cockroaches.” His only role models were “the drug dealers because they had all the money.” He remembers the constant gnawing hunger and having to wait “til the end of the month for the $500 check from the government to come.”
At 12 years old, Jude started making money by paying the janitor who lived in the boiler room at his school to let him throw parties for all the kids. He’d charge each kid a $5 cover, pay the janitor $100, then keep the rest.
Since then, Jude has been on his grind.
Out of the 600 in his John F. Kennedy High School class, about 110 graduated—and of those, only about 10 made it to college. Jude eventually earned the grades to transfer from Delgado Community College to Tulane.
“Man, I love Tulane. It’s the best school—hell, one of the best places—I’ve ever been to. When I got here, I was like ‘damn,’ it was a breath of fresh air. People here are motivated, are going places, are doing big things.”
Now that he has felt what it’s like to have money, Jude refuses to settle.
“Look, the average black man lives to be 64 years old. That’s some bullshit, man. If I did it their way—the legitimate, non-hustling way—I’d go to college, take out a bunch of loans, graduate with a pile of debt, get a mediocre job, keep paying off my loans with interest adding up, save up to get an average car, get a loan, get an alright-house, and then by the time I’m done paying off all these loans I’m 55—and got nine years left to live? Fuck that, man. Nah, I want the best for me and my people.”
On the way to the nightclub, we stop at the carwash, because Jude’s “got to roll up fresh.” As the rotating bristles bombard the windshield, Jude turns up the volume on the smooth hip-hop beats and, for the first time since I’ve been with him, puts down his cell phone, leans back, closes his eyes, and relaxes. When the wash is over, an old man approaches the car, holding up a rag. Jude tells him he can dry off the car for five bucks, then hands him a ten.
He is annoyed by any unproductivity, anything that could be wasting his time—a car driving slowly in front of us, someone who didn’t pick up their phone after they had just called him, the guys just chilling outside the gas station.
“See? They not serious,” he says nodding to them men drinking out of paper bags. “Man, you are so lucky to be from a place like Boston where time matters, where people move to get things done. I hate New Orleans. It’s the worst place in the world. People in New Orleans are functional illiterates. They’re able to talk, but they don’t know nothing. If they knew, they’d be like me—trying to get it. But they have no idea. Their eyes be closed, they be high. It’s like, say that Ford over there has $100,000 in its back seat, unlocked, ready for the taking. If you don’t know it’s there, you’re not gonna go take it. It’s basic lack of knowledge, lack of understanding. People just don’t know what’s going on in this town, and that’s the only reason they fail.”
So while most Tulane students are out drinking and having fun, Jude stays sober and focuses on his business.
“Alcohol and weed pollute the human body and mind. Bad enough I went to a shitty high school where the teachers hadn’t even graduated themselves, and they had more metal detectors than books—man, I sure as hell ain’t gonna waste my time at Tulane making myself any dumber.”
His attitude toward fun is evident by his ‘friends:’ all of them, in some way or another, are part of his strategic business collaborations. One is a clothing designer, another is a record producer; the other is a rapper. When they spend time together, it is always for a purpose.
“If it ain’t about business, Jude ain’t doing it,” Brian Palmer, 20, a Loyola student who works as a promoter for Jude’s events and whom Jude refers to as his ‘number one partner,’ says. “I’ll be like, hey Jude, let’s chill and watch a movie or something,’ and he’s all, ‘man, I ain’t got time to watch no movies.’”
Jude pulls over beside a mailbox on a street corner and asks me to hand him a large envelope by my feet. Inside are about a hundred photos—of smiling children, high school cheerleaders, teenagers playing basketball, party scenes. Jude is mailing them to his older brother who has been in jail since November on marijuana distribution charges.
One day, far in the future, Jude plans to become a criminal lawyer to try to help out people, who, like his brother, he believes are wrongly behind bars.
But until then, he’ll be the one hustling and chilling with Lil Wayne—and declining his blunts.
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I'm Naomi Martin, a journalist based in Dallas. I am a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News covering local politics as well as other interesting things. This site is a collection of my work. You can holler at me at naomi.ar.martin [at] gmail.com
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Miyagi: Middle school teacher accused of possessing marijuana
tokyoreporter.com -- Jul 09
Miyagi Prefectural Police have arrested a 30-year-old male middle school teacher over the alleged possession of marijuana in Sendai City, reports the Sankei Shimbun (July 7).
At around 5:10 a.m. on Sunday, police found Tomoaki Akino, an English teacher at a public school, to be in possession of a small quantity of marijuana inside a vehicle parked in a lot in Aoba Ward.
Akino admits to the allegations, according to the Sendai-Chuo Police Station. “I smoke it myself,” the suspect was quoted by police
Tomoaki Akino
Tomoaki Akino (Twitter)
Prior the discovery, an officer on patrol found Akino and three other persons sleeping inside the vehicle. During voluntary questioning, the contraband was found.
“We are very sorry for betraying the trust of the students and their parents,” a representative of the Sendai City Board of Education was quoted by TV Asahi (July 8).
News source: tokyoreporter.com
New coronavirus could hurt Chinese GDP at a bad time -- and Japan's if it spreads
Fears are mounting that a new coronavirus identified in China may spread, not only infecting humans but also hurting the world’s second-biggest economy, which already is beset by a trade war with the United States. (Japan Times)
Japan TV networks to rotate Olympics broadcasting on daily basis
Five major Tokyo-based private television networks will take turns airing daily coverage of the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer, sources close to the matter said Saturday. (Kyodo)
Netflix's taboo-busting 'Naked Director' upends Japan TV industry
Netflix, the streaming service that has shaken up Hollywood, has unleashed its brand of big-budget disruption in Japan's TV industry. (Nikkei)
3 employees slashed in Tokyo bar
Three employees were slashed by four men in a bar in Shinjuku, Tokyo, early Saturday morning. (Japan Today)
Fans remember victims 6 months after attack on Kyoto anime studio
Fans of Kyoto Animation Co artworks on Saturday visited the site of its studio where an arson attack killed 36 people and injured 33 others exactly six months ago to commemorate the victims. (Japan Today)
Fictitious transactions at Toshiba subsidiary
Toshiba Corporation says it has confirmed that there were irregularities involving fictitious transactions at a subsidiary. The manufacturer is in the process of reconstructing its business. (NHK)
25th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake observed
Events were held on Friday morning to mark the 25th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Hyogo Prefecture. (Japan Today)
Dump truck rams yakuza office in Adachi
Tokyo Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after a dump truck rammed an office of a criminal syndicate in Adachi Ward early Friday, reports Jiji Press (Jan. 17). (tokyoreporter.com)
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Stream Wyldephyre’s Remix of Saxophonist Mike Casey’s “Miles Mode” (Premiere)
June 14, 2019 By Sébastien Hélary
In 2016, saxophonist Mike Casey performed a two-hour concert with his longtime trio of bassist Matt Dwonszyk and drummer Corey Garcia at The Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Emerging from the performance were 14 first takes with no edits which were then rearranged into two live albums: Casey’s 2017 debut The Sound of Surprise and his 2018 follow-up Stay Surprising. … [Read more...]
Stream Saxophonist Mike Casey’s New Cover of “Nature Boy”
May 8, 2018 By Sébastien Hélary
Rising saxophonist Mike Casey is all about his online presence. His press releases are chalked up with social media metrics. “West End”, the first single off his upcoming album Stay Surprising, has already passed 50,000 streams across all platforms in less than a month since its release. His debut album, The Sound of Surprise: Live at The Side Door , crowdfunded 124% using Ple … [Read more...]
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Taylor Anderson Recruitment
Currikulo is an online platform designed to improve the recruitment process. Currikulo allows the employer to easily create a microsite which explains what the company does and also lists job description and the skills needed. All the employee has to do is fill out their skills and previous projects they have worked on and Currikulo will show a list of jobs they are qualified to do globally.
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rais is a virtual customer data analyst designed to stop socially unintelligent marketing and save the customers heaps of time in the process. The clever software platform of rais imports customer data from first-party sources to automatically deduplicate records. The monthly recurring revenue of rais is above £20K, and it has worked with more than 50 brands. Its software is trusted by many businesses like Original Cottages, Heartier, and Warner Edwards. Analyses engines kick in enriched customer meta-data that syncs with marketing channels to stop, start, or adjust marketing messages automatically based on individual customer circumstances. rais' vision is to build a virtual data-analyst for SMEs who do not have the time and ability to really leverage their customer data assets.
Investment: £150,000 Investors: 1 Status: Active Days to go: 7
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Muse is a smart, data-driven financial management application which aims to make financial empowerment a reality for all business owners. The app generates clear snapshots of a company’s finances showing all bank balances, and gives quick access to innovative invoice financing and other smart tools. Muse is live on the App Store and Google Play. Moreover, it has partnered with Prime 5 Finance Limited for invoice finance facility. The funds raised will be used to expand the business, sales channels and give an e-money account card in three currencies.
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Igloo Crowd is an online property marketplace that allows everyone to invest in real estate. The company makes property investment accessible for all by offering a diverse selection of property investment opportunities through its online crowdfunding platform. It also provides a total hands-off solution to investors. The company has a developing network of more than 300 listed investors with an £11,700 average property investment. Its equity crowdfunding grew by 22% in 2017. Currently, the company's platform is white-labelled and is partnering with a market-leading tech company to develop its scalable tech.
Investment: £55,790 Investors: 170 Status: Active Days to go: 10
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2018 Magnetic Health Science Foundation Grants
Published on May 4, 2018 April 30, 2018 by Nikken
Nikken International Chairman Emeritus Mr. Toshizo (Tom) Watanabe is a Founding Member and Managing Director of the Magnetic Health Science Foundation (left). He is pictured with Dr. Makoto Kotani, President of the Magnetic Health Science Foundation (middle), and Mr. Yoji Takeuchi, President of Nikken Japan.
The Magnetic Health Science Foundation held its 24th Research Grant Presentation Ceremony and Academic Lecture in Tokyo in March of this year. Among 22 applicants, 12 studies were selected for research grants totaling approximately 10 million yen.
Guest Lecturer Takenori Uozumia, Director of the Dementia Center at the University of Occupational Environmental Health presented on “The Usefulness of Magnetic Stimulation for Dementia.” His talk focused on the combination of drug therapy and noninvasive repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy as a possible means of improving cognitive function in the early stage of dementia.
Examples of studies selected for grants include the effects of light and magnetic exposure on enzyme activities, the effects of magnetic stimulation on motor function after stroke, magnetic biosensing through skin, and repetitive magnetic stimulation for the prevention and therapy of essential hypertension. Grants fell into the categories of “Basic Research,” “Application Research” and “Specific Research.”
Basic Research grant recipients are Associate Professor Yoko Akiyama of the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University and Associate Professor Yoshihisa Fujiwara of the Graduate School of Science at Hiroshima University.
Application Research grant recipients are Research Associate Kenta Fujimura of the School of Health Sciences at Fujita Health University, Professor Naoki Ohmiya of the Department of Gastroenterology at Fujita Health University, Assistant Professor Yuichiro Shirota of the Department of Neurology at the University of Tokyo Hospital, Professor Katsuo Usuda of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Kanazawa Medical University, Doctoral candidate Masataka Tanaka of the Department of Neurosurgery at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Visiting Research Fellow Kazuyori Yagyu of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Senior Lecturer Junya Fujino of the Medical Institute of Developmental Disabilities Research at Showa University and Professor Yoshitaka Kitamoto of the Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Specific Research grant recipients are Professor Hikari Kirimoto of the Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences at Hiroshima University and Associate Professor Katsuhiko Hata of the Department of Sports and Medical Science at Kokushikan University.
Congratulations are due to all 2018 grant recipients and we look forward to their new findings in Magnetic Health Science.
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Nirvana Legacy
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Swans: “I Crawled” – Beneath the Lyrics of the Song
Posted: July 23, 2018 in In Utero 1992-1993
Michael Gira: “Jarboe’s version of ‘Your Property’ on Swans Are Dead and Soundtracks For The Blind is awesome: there’s no effects on her voice, she goes down however many tens of octaves and sings those low notes by reaching into her belly and emitting these notes — she was fantastic in that way.”
During the interviews that led to the creation of the book “SWANS: Sacrifice And Transcendence – The Oral History”, there was one conversation, focused on his song-writing at the time of Cop/Young God (1983-1985 era) that truly enthralled me. I had to cut the tale down for the book but the original transcript reads:
“I remember reading Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology Of Fascism in ’83-’84 and it had a particular influence on the song ‘I Crawled’ from the Young God EP. In that book, if I can summarise it in a very plebeian manner, he draws the parallel between the typical model of the family with a strong father as a microcosm of the state. He talks about how that shapes behaviour and identity and helps to inculcate a kind of obeisance to authority very early on. It was written pre-World War Two, and he talks about the parallels between Hitler and Stalin, which was pretty prescient of him: he notes how both men reached back to this mythic atavistic past when everything was great in the country and their goal was to bring it back — they were like avuncular, paternal figures for the nation.
At that time, Ronald Reagan was being re-elected and I thought the parallels — though less overtly deadly and destructive — were very apposite. I wrote that song — “you’re my father, my father, I obey you,” and took it a step further. I had read this essay by J.G. Ballard Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan and thought the image of Reagan fucking and choking me was an apt image for the times.
I had been obsessed with the media’s — not that the media is one entity or one conspiracy — colonisation of our consciousness, particularly in the west and capitalist corporate countries, its shaping of our identities and its formulation of the anxieties that compel one to consume: a recent phenomenon that didn’t begin until the end of the Second World War when advertising and production amped up and corporations had to create need. It had a lot to do with having all these factories after the war that needed to do something, so they began manufacturing anxiety in people so they would consume products. Nowadays that equation is rampantly out of control, culminating in the probable destruction of the planet and the species — all the horrible social effects from mass media on our consciousness and our sense of who we are on the planet.
I felt this whole process, along with working as a low-level wage slave for most of my life, was akin to being raped: being invaded against your will by stimuli over which you have no control and where you’re helpless as it impinges on your consciousness. That’s another reason I used the word ‘rape’, I felt it was what modern existence was. I carried that sort of imagery on for some time and then grew weary of it because it became a cliché in its own right to harp on such things. That was the kind of thing that I was obsessed with in those early days. The song ‘Your Property’ from Cop was probably another way in which I dealt with it, and Time is Money (Bastard), of course… that way of thinking about media, mind control, work as slavery, and consumerism was very much on my mind in those days.”
I’ve interviewed around 600 people in my spare time after/around work since 2012 and I’d not encountered an artist or musician who was able to articulate the imaginative process behind their writing in this way. Sure, I’d heard people ‘tell me the story’ of a song or what it’s lyrics related to – this was something else. This wasn’t just an emotional response. This was hundreds of pages of reading, clearly much independent thinking, intellectual and conceptual influences being woven together into a succinct, concise and tangible result.
The nearest comparison I had was a conversation with the painter Chris Gollon describing the painting he contributed to Thurston Moore’s ROOT remix/art project. He had received a 52 second composition from Thurston and it called to mind Native American burial grounds; a film called Jeremiah Johnson starring Robert Redford where the lead rides his horse through a burial ground; Chris’ studio on an island in the Thames formerly used for WW1 aircraft hangars and where the spice girls would rehearse; the studio next door which created prosthetic limbs which would hang from a washing line; Toledo Cathedral where cardinals’ hats are hung from the ceiling and left to decay; an art exchange between Mexico and the Glasgow Print Studio so he included a death mask; the title coming from Morpheus, the god of dreams, and the House of Sleep/Kingdom of Sleep…
To me, Gira possessed that same artistic intensity: the drawing together of disparate ideas into a composition as sharp, honed and visceral as ‘I Crawled’. I was stunned to really understand that behind the stark lyrics there was this depth: factories, fascism, Reich, Reagan, parents, working, media, the mind, consumerism…
…And Gira was able to grind that down to
You’re my father/I obey you/I want you to be my father/Eliminate my freedom/I know what I am/You know what I am/I’m weak/Take what’s mine/Come into my room/Put your hands on my throat/Now choke me, choke me/Make me feel good/Be my father/Make it right/Think for me/Choke me
You can see all the associations and wider connections flowing from fewer than a hundred words. My feeling is that it’s what makes Gira an excellent writer: that each word is precisely what is needed, but each word opens up an entire universe of ideas.
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Hem / Klassiskt / Klassiskt / Prokofiev, Sergey - Symphonies Vol. 1 - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Prokofiev, Sergey - Symphonies Vol. 1 - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
This is the first release in a survey of all seven Prokofiev Symphonies from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Karabits has had access to the Prokofiev family archive and throughout this project there will be quite a few surprises, such as music from the early Symphony in G of 1902 and works such as 'Dreams' Op. 6, 'Autumnal Sketch' Op. 8 and 'Two Poems for orchestra and Women's Chorus' Op. 7, as well as the 'Sinfonia Concertante' for cello & orchestra. Each CD booklet contains an interview with Karabits in conversation with Prokofiev expert Daniel Jaffé.
The 3rd Symphony makes extensive use of music from the opera 'The Fiery Angel'. It was premiered in 1929 under Pierre Monteux and is vividly colourful, sensual and exciting. The 7th dates from 1952, the year before the composer's death. Intended as a work for young people, it is beautiful, yet enigmatic and reflective, harking back to the great ballet scores. Prokofiev provided an alternative 'upbeat' conventional ending to the symphony at the request of colleagues so as not to provoke criticism from the Soviet authorities. This alternative finale can be heard after the 7th symphony on this CD. Today the work is always performed with the peaceful 'leave taking' ending that the composer preferred.
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1 Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44
2 Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
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Prokofiev, Sergey - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ONYX4139 2014-10-22 159 kr
Mussorgsky / Tchaikovsky - Pictures at an Exhibition/Symphony 2 - Karabits, Kirill ONYX4074 2011-09-14 149 kr
Shchedrin, Rodion - Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 4 & 5 - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 8572405 2010-04-26 79 kr
Maric, Dave - Borrowed Time - Currie, Colin (percussion) ONYX4024 2007-09-17 149 kr
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Stravinsky, Igor - Apollo - Bashmet, Yuri (viola) ONYX4017 2007-02-10 159 kr
Nielsen, Carl - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 - Gilbert, Alan
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by Cindy Wang
Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit to Close After Second Hack in a Year
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit has revealed plans to file for bankruptcy. The decision to close operations follows announcements that the exchange was hacked for the second time this year.
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Second Accident in a Year
Youbit announced on its website on Tuesday that it had been hacked at 4:35am local time on Tuesday, causing a loss worth 17 percent of its total assets. It did not elaborate on the amount, but said all customers’ cryptocurrency assets will be marked down to 75 percent of their value, adding that the other coins were kept in cold wallets and there were no additional losses. Accordingly, all coins trading and cash withdrawals were suspended to minimize customer losses.
Youbit is a smaller player in South Korea’s cryptocurrency market. It had been hacked once before in April when nearly 4,000 BTC were stolen in a cyberattack that the country’s spy agency linked to North Korea, according to a recent South Korean newspaper report.
An official at Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), the state agency that responds to cyberattacks, said the police and KISA officials were starting an investigation into the hacking.
Rising Concerns About Security
Bitcoin exchanges have a history of being targeted, especially in a bullish crypto market where bitcoin and altcoins are gaining more traction.
Bitcoin traded at around $18,615 on Coinbase at press time. And on Sunday evening it made its long-awaited debut on CME Group with the sale price for its Jan. 18 contracts initially opening above $20,000 and later dropping back to $19,500. CME data reveals that over 200 January 2018 contracts were bought during the first hour.
With no signs of a downtrend in cryptocurrency prices, security experts warn that bitcoin exchanges and wallet services are likely to become more vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Do you think more security breaches like Youbit are inevitable? leave your comments below!
Do you like to research and read about Bitcoin technology? Check out Bitcoin.com’s Wiki page for an in-depth look at Bitcoin’s innovative technology and interesting history.
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Cindy is a cryptocurrency journalist who has been focusing on the Chinese community. She finds it fascinating to be part of the industry and hopes to see the world change for the better.
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Judge Sanctions Carnival Cruise Lines and Determines Notice of a Dangerous Condition Established Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37
November 11, 2014 | by Gerson & Schwartz, P.A.
Earlier last week our Cruise Ship Lawyers sought and received a court order under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 (b) in the form of issue based sanctions against Defendant Carnival Cruise Lines in a lawsuit brought by Mrs. Esperanza Viletta in the case of Viletta v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Case No. 11-20930. The sanctions were ordered by United States Magistrate Judge John O’Sullivan and were upheld by United States District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga in a six (6) page written order. Click this link to read the Order. The sanctions were issued based on a myriad of discovery violations including express denials by Defendant Carnival concerning the failure to disclose and otherwise hide the existence of certain documents, reports, and based on record testimony by Carnival’s Corporate Representative in deposition. In her order, Judge Altonaga held that the sanctions entered were warranted and over Carnivals objections, were not contrary to the law despite their severity and should “deter” Carnival and p0tentially others from similar conduct in the future.
In the October 30, 2014 order, the court determined the appropriate sanctions were a determination that as a matter of law that 1.)Notice of a dangerous condition and the existence of a dangerous condition was established prior to trial and 2.) Defendant’s affirmative defense as to lack of notice was stricken. Junior Partner, Nicholas I. Gerson, of the Miami personal injury law offices of Gerson & Schwartz, PA served as lead counsel and argued the matter in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. At an October 28, 2014 hearing, Gerson argued that the type of sanctions were necessary in order to cure the prejudice against his client and that absent such relief would only benefit Carnival and would ultimately reward Carnival for hiding important evidence. The Court agreed.
At issue was Carnival’s express denial that it had not made any changes to the yellow tile floor surfaces in the Lido market place restaurant on the Carnival Breeze. Despite their denials, Carnival had in fact applied a slip resistant coating to the market place floor surfaces on the vessel and had even conducted tests to check the floors for slip resistance before the application. The existence of reports and Carnivals’ findings of test results were also repeatedly denied by Carnival throughout the lawsuit. Yet as it turned out the floor surfaces were changed and documented proof of the testing performed confirmed the floors fell below the standard of care for slip resistance and were dangerous as alleged by the Plaintiff. The reference to reports were buried in several emails that were produced and after numerous hearings where Carnival took the position that no documents existed. The reports were eventually ordered to be produced by the Court and when they were disclosed the reports showed Carnival was aware about the dangers of the floor surfaces prior to Ms. Viletta’s incident and were even specific to the area where Ms. Viletta had fallen. The Miami personal injury lawyers of Gerson & Schwartz represent injury victims on land and sea. If you or a loved one are in need of aggressive legal representation contact the Miami Florida personal injury attorneys at Gerson & Schwartz, PA at 1-877-475-2905 , or visit www.injuryattorneyfla.com. All cases are handled on a contingent fee.
Posted in: Cruise Ship Accidents/Incidents and Negligence
Tagged: cruise ship accidents, Miami cruise ship accident attorneys and persoanl injury attorney Miami
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TCNJ signs articulation agreement with Brookdale Community College
Photo courtesy of Brookdale Community College.
TCNJ and Brookdale Community College signed an articulation agreement on November 14 that will enable Brookdale honors students who complete their degree and meet the necessary requirements to be guaranteed admission to TCNJ.
“We are absolutely honored and delighted to be signing this articulation agreement with Brookdale,” said TCNJ President Kathryn Foster. “We look at this as the beginning of a long, fruitful, and exciting partnership between what we consider to be two fine institutions.”
“We are incredibly proud of this opportunity for us to be in this partnership with TCNJ,” said David Stout, president of Brookdale. “The caliber of the education provided by TCNJ is very high, and that is one of the reasons why we love so much this partnership with our honors program.”
To be eligible, Brookdale students must complete at least two semesters in the honors program and earn an associate’s degree with a minimum GPA of 3.5. All TCNJ majors are applicable to the agreement with the exception of nursing and special education.
The agreement was signed by TCNJ President Kathryn Foster at a ceremony on Brookdale’s campus located in Lincroft, NJ.
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Now Reading: WEATHER ADVISORY | Thousands flee powerful Typhoon Tisoy as weather bureau raises public storm alerts
WEATHER ADVISORY | Thousands flee powerful Typhoon Tisoy as weather bureau raises public storm alerts
December 2, 2019 , 08:41 AM
By Manny Mogato
DECEMBER 2, 2019 – Disaster and local authorities have started evacuating thousands of residents in coastal and flood and landslide-prone areas in the Bicol region as a powerful typhoon approaches and expected to slam into the main Luzon island on Monday night or early Tuesday morning, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said.
Schools and offices in the Bicol region and domestic flights to and from the coconut-producing region had been cancelled.
Sea travel was also suspended as more than 2,000 commuters were stranded in Sorsogon.
Ricardo Jalad, NDRRMC executive director, said preemptive evacuation have started on Catanduanes island and in the provinces of Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Albay and Sorsogon as the weather bureau raised public storm alerts.
Catanduanes is now under signal number 3. Eighteen areas are under public storm signal 2 and 30 others are on signal number 1.
Typhoon Tisoy, which is known internationally as Kammuri, packing sustained center winds of 150 kph and gustiness of up to 185 kph, is moving west at 20 kph is about 355 kms east of Virac, Catanduanes as of 4 a.m on Monday, the weather bureau said.
On Tuesday morning, Tisoy is expected to be within Camarines Sur and after 48 hours it is to around Subic in Zambales
“Preemptive evacuation was one of the preparedness measures to be undertaken by local chief executives,” Jalad said, adding local authorities were supposed to force residents to flee their homes days before Tisoy’s landfall.
About 1,500 families in Catanduanes have moved in land to safer temporary shelter areas and another 5,000 families in the Camarines areas. There were no known number of evacuees in Albay and Sorsogon provinces.
Jalad said they are expecting strong winds and moderate to heavy rains due to Tisoy.
“Destruction of houses made of light materials due to strong winds, flashfloods in the flood prone areas and low lying areas and landslides in upland areas and of course storm surge in the coastal areas (up to four meters), those are worst case scenarios we’re preparing for,” said Jalad.
Jalad said the NDRRMC and its field units are prepared for Tisoy, saying they have prepositioned personnel and assets for search and rescue operations as well as relief goods and medicines. Emergency teams were on standby to clear roads of debris, restore power and communications in the affected areas.
At least 1,964 barangays in mountainous areas are highly susceptible to landslide while 5,345 barangays are highly susceptible to flooding in Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Cordillera Administrative Region, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol regoon, Western Visayas and Central Visayas, based on records from the NDRRMC.
AFP chief Gen. Noel Clement has also activated the Battle Staff in Camp Aguinaldo “to monitor how the typhoon will impact on the ground and to render immediate assistance as needed.”
AFP spokesman Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo said military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HADR) units are already on alert for Typhoon Tisoy.
“While we’re all hopeful and prayerful that there will be zero casualty, a lot depends upon the cooperation of everyone,” Arevaldo said.
“Evacuate when advised to do so before the onslaught of the typhoon– not at the time when the demands for assistance are high and the responders can only accommodate so many. Let us all cooperate to prevent casualties and minimize the damage of typhoon Tisoy.”
Classes in all levels in some parts in Metro Manila have been suspended due to typhoon Tisor and the ongoing 30th Southeast Asian Games. Water sports events in Subic were also cancelled due to the typhoon.
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Home Business About 40 per cent labour intensive jobs to disappear in two decades
About 40 per cent labour intensive jobs to disappear in two decades
Emeritus Professor Brian H. Roberts, the Director of Urban Frontiers, Australia, an urban systems management consultancy firm, has said 40 per cent of the routine labour intensive jobs performed currently will disappear within two decades.
It would be as a result of factors such as the reshoring of industries by developed countries to reduce risks to corruption, supply chains and logistic costs, closeness to consumer markets and knowledge skills.
The world’s economies were increasingly driven by the growth of services and total employment in manufacturing was falling and moving to technology rather than labour-based production, he said.
Prof Roberts said this at the “2020 Ghana Urban Forum” held in Accra by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development with stakeholders on the theme: “Unlocking the Systems of Planning, Connecting and Financing for Secondary and Intermediate Cities to Propel Growth Towards the ‘Ghana beyond Aid’ agenda.”
He said the rate of growth in world trade has fallen from 12.5 per cent in 2004 to 2.5 per cent in 2019 and would likely continue to fall as reshoring or industries and localized technology based manufacturing was rising.
This would, thus, make it challenging for people to acquire jobs in companies, as technology would be employed to instead to do those works.
“Future economic growth will focus on endogenous (jobs focused around more localized value added services and manufacturing) rather than exogenous growth focused on export.”
By this, Prof Roberts explained that, low labour costs would be an advantage; hence the need for the focus to be on personal services, para-technical and personal technology skills and literacy, quality, transparency and accountability.
Speaking on why development of systems of secondary cities was important, he said, 60 per cent of the world’s population lived in rural areas and urban settlements of less than 50,000 people and 20 per cent of the world’s population live in cities of 0.05 per cent to one million, many of which are secondary cities.
“If the efficiency of systems of secondary cities’ enabling environments, production and logistics systems were to improve, this could more than double the GDP of many poor cities and rural regions,” Prof Roberts said.
However, he said, there are challenges with developing secondary cities such as the widening of per capita gaps in income, GDP, wealth, employment and poverty between metropolitan regions and secondary cities.
Others were the growing population in secondary cities in developing economies as compared to metropolitan regions; little or no benefit of secondary cities in globalization and free trade and the high and rising costs of transaction in secondary cities.
Prof Roberts recommended that Ghana created networks regional clusters or corridors of secondary cities and linked local industry within systems of secondary and large cities to add value to national production systems and regional/global exports.
Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, said urbanization if not managed properly could pose a threat to the nation, especially in the midst of climate change.
He said it was necessary for the state to ensure equity in the distribution of resources at regional and local levels to foster growth and development.
Mr Sowah said Accra’s population was growing rapidly and needed immediate pragmatic steps by government and the private sector to promote development.
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Clifford F. Maier papers
Collection — Box: 25-03-05
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Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
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Scope and Contents note
This collection is composed of handwritten research notes compiled by and personal papers collected by Dr. Clifford "Cliff" F. Maier between 1960 and 1992. Dr. Maier's research involved the immigration history of French-Canadians to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The collection also includes a paper titled "The Canadian Immigrants of Michigan's Marquette County in the Nineteenth Century," delivered at the 1980 Great Lakes History Conference. Dr. Maier's personal papers document his involvement with various committees and issues at Northern Michigan University such as strategic planning, unionization, the American Association for University Professors, Longyear and Pierce Hall preservation, the building of the Superior Dome, and the Department of History.
Maier, Clifford F. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
No restrictions. Open for research.
Conditions Governing Use note
Permission to publish material from the Clifford F Maier papers, MSS-175, must be obtained from the University Archivist. The University Archivist may be reached by phone at 906-227-1225, or e-mail, archives@nmu.edu. The University Archivist may also be reached in Room 126 of the Learning Resource Center, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI.
Clifford "Cliff" F. Maier was born in Edam, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1932. In 1968, he joined the Department of History at Northern Michigan University and completed his PhD in history at the University of Washington in 1971. From 1983 to 1992, Maier worked as the University Archivist and is credited with the establishment of the archival program at Northern Michigan University. Dr. Maier retired from NMU in 1993.
Arrangement note
Series: I. Personal papers II. Research records. Folders arranged alphabetically by subject.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift received from Dr. Clifford F. Maier in three accessions: 1989, 1992, and 1993.
College teachers. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
College teaching. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Emigration and immigration. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Franco-Americans. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
French-Canadians. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
History. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Northern Michigan University period (1963-) Subject Source: Local sources
Northern Michigan University. Department of History
Northern Michigan faculty and staff. Subject Source: Local sources
Publications (document genre). Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Research notes. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Upper Peninsula (Mich.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
CDP1. Northern Michigan University
CDP1/1-1. Faculty, Staff, and Administrator Papers
CDP9. Immigration and Immigrant Communities
CDP9/9-2. The French-Canadian-Americans
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
Marcus C. Robyns Processed 7/1994 by G. Martinson.
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Physical Storage Information
Box: 25-03-05 (location)
Part of the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives Repository
http://webb.nmu.edu/Archives/
Harden Learning Resources Center 126
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette 49855 United States
archives@nmu.edu
[Identification of item], in the Clifford F. Maier research records, MSS-175, Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives, Northern Michigan University. https://nmu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/3/resources/145 Accessed January 18, 2020.
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Marquette (Mich.).
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
4Reels Club records
Collection — Box 09-05-03
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two folders. One is photographs of the club members and their activities. The other is a manual containing a history of the club and summaries of their activities. It documents the activities of Digital Cinema majors and those interested in film at Northern Michigan University in the 2010s.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / 4Reels Club records
Michigan AFSCME-AFL/CIO Councils 7, 11, and 25 records
Scope and Contents note This collection documents eight years, between 1971 and 1978, of Michigan AFSCME-AFL/CIO Councils #7, 11, and 25 records. The collection includes: correspondence to and from Joseph Healy, union president at the time; grievances; promotion demands; union member demands and management proposals; amendments and resolutions; Michigan university agreement books; local and council minutes and bylaws; council constitution; convention proceedings; authorization for union dues; seniority lists; booklets...
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Michigan AFSCME-AFL/CIO Councils 7, 11, and 25 records
Arvid Maki Interview Transcript
Identifier: https://archives.nmu.edu/CUPS%20Transcripts/Maki_Arvid.pdf
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
Judith Bailey papers
Scope and Content This collection is composed of the papers of Judith Bailey, who was the president of Northern Michigan University from 1998 to 2003. Her papers are primarily centered around her hiring and include related articles, press releases, and correspondence, dating from 1997 to 2003. Other materials include statistics about NMU enrollment, costs and productivity during her time as president.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Judith Bailey papers
Becky Beauchamp Interview (Part of the Women's Center Oral History Collection)
Identifier: MSS-302_26
Bernice M. Bal scrapbook
Content Description This scrapbook created by Bernice M. Bal was donated to the Archives by NMU Professor Russell Magnaghi. It documents her time spent at Northern State Teachers College. The scrapbook includes class schedules, news articles on events on campus and in the community, programs, miscellaneous articles, letters/invitations, and graduating class roster listings.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Bernice M. Bal scrapbook
Beta Omega Tau records
Scope and Contents Note This collection documents the activities of Beta Omega Tau, a sorority on the Northern Michigan University campus in Marquette, Michigan. Records include correspondence, financial materials, photographs, and meeting minutes. Photographs are of a class reunion in the late 1980s and of a dinner in Lee Hall in the 1950s. The minutes of meetings are the most important component of the collection and include the constitution, pledge riturals, some lists of members, and regular lists of officers. ...
Dates: 1929-1989; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1948
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Beta Omega Tau records
Bookbinders Cafe photographs
Scope and Contents Note This collection is composed of ten photo albums filled with photographs of students and staff of Bookbinders Cafe, located in the basement of the Harden Learning Resources Center. The photographs were taken between 1980 and 1993. The collection also includes news clippings, awards, letters, cards, and a biography of Maggie Britton, the cafe manager.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Bookbinders Cafe photographs
Robert M. Bordeau papers
Scope and Contents Note This collection contains Northern Michigan University memorabilia collected by Robert M. Bordeau while a student at the school and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the NMU Development Fund. The collection contains contains mostly correspondence, including Bordeau's criticism of the Northern Michigan University administration's decision to close the Department of Music's string program. Responses from Robert Glenn, President Jamrich, and Elda Tate are also included. The collection also...
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Robert M. Bordeau papers
Leslie Bourgeois family films
Scope and Contents Note This collection contains extensive home movies documenting the activities of the Bourgeois family in and around Marquette, Michigan and the Upper Peninsula from 1920 to 1969. Footage includes scenes on the Northern Michigan University campus in Marquette. The collection includes VHS production originals and user duplicate copies.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Leslie Bourgeois family films
Jeannette S. Bowden papers
Scope and Contents note This collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs that document Jeannette Bowden's receipt of the Northern Michigan University (NMU) Distinguished Alumni Award (1971) and her retirement in 1980. Most of the correspondence is laudatory and congratulatory in content and tone. The collection contains very little substantive material documenting her career at NMU. The collection also contains a transcript of a speech given by Bowden in 1965 that summarizes her work...
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Jeannette S. Bowden papers
Bruno and Tony Andriacchi Interview (Part of the Italian American Oral History Project)
Identifier: archives.nmu.edu/Oral_History_Audio/Italian_American_Oral_Histories/Italian_American_Oral_Histories_Andriacchi_Bruno_and_Tony.mp3
Cambium Club records
Scope and Contents note Collection documents the activities of the Cambium Club, a student organization for those majoring, minoring, or interested in the field of biology, or students engaged in social activities and educational programs in biology. The collection includes financial records, constitution, by-laws, brochures and flyers, membership lists, correspondence, newspaper clippings, club meeting minutes (1948-1955). Also includes club newsletters and the Junior Academy News, a publication of the Junior Academy...
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Cambium Club records
Gildo Canale sports memorabilia
Scope and Contents note This collection consists mainly of Northern Michigan University basketball and football game programs; photographs of teams, athletic activities, and coaches; and news articles related to NMU sports from 1928 to 1992. The collection also includes a football program from 1992.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Gildo Canale sports memorabilia
Carolyn McDonald Interview (Part of the Women's Center Oral History Collection)
Carolyn McDonald Interview Transcript (Part of the Women's Center Oral History Collection)
Identifier: https://archives.nmu.edu/CUPS%20Transcripts/McDonald_Carolyn.pdf
Catherine Witting scrapbook
Scope and Contents This collection, MSS-359, Catherine Witting scrapbook, consists of one green cloth-bound volume with the words “The School Girl’s Memory Book” embossed on the front cover. Catherine Witting was a student at Northern State Normal School and graduated in June 1920 with a degree in home economics. The scrapbook documents various activities and people Ms. Witting was involved with from 1917 to 1921. There is a photograph of the Northern State Normal School 1919-1920 faculty and a copy of the 1920...
Dates: 1917 to 1921
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Catherine Witting scrapbook
Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives Postcard collection
Content Description This is an artificial collection of postcards relating to Northern Michigan University and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that have been received at the NMU Archives from various sources.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives Postcard collection
Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Phonographic Record collection
Scope and Contents This is an artificial collection that is comprised of an assortment of vinyl phonographic recordings that are at the Archives and are not parts of other collections.
This collection contains various recordings relevant to the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University. These include musical recordings by Mark Mitchell, Mary Kay Lalla and the Fantastics, NMU Wildcat Bands, and eight recordings by the Marquette Choral Society.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Phonographic Record collection
Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University video collection
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University video collection
Frederick Charlton photographs
Collection — Box 26-05-02: Series MSS-021
Scope and Contents note This collection contains photographs of buildings designed by architect Frederick Charlton throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The photographs are undated but appear to be from the 1920s.
Dates: 192?-192?
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Frederick Charlton photographs
Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline records
Scope and Contents note This collection contains correspondence, newsletters, new releases and articles, reports, membership lists, meeting minutes, and environmental reference materials of Reference files. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, reports, and newsletters. Also included are newsletters, correspondence, occasional meeting minutes, bylaws, and miscellaneous materials of the group which was involved in general Lake Superior Basin issues. There is also scattered correspondence (1969-1989) of...
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline records
City of Marquette annual reports
Scope and Contents Note This collection contains end of fiscal year reports and audit reports by the different units and departments for the City of Marquette, Michigan. Of interest to the researcher is information provided on early businesses, individuals, and organizations with which the City did business and/or contributed to/supported, such as schools, the public library, and Departmental Reports. The collection's materials range in date from 1899 to 1962.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / City of Marquette annual reports
City of Marquette, City Commission minutes
Summary/Abstract The City of Marquette, City Commission minutes contain thirteen bound volumes and eleven boxes of minutes, 1868-1993. The minutes contain information on the topics of city elections, city ordinances, street repair, construction and building permits, gaming, liquor bonds, public utilities, bills paid to the city, and public health. Reports are recorded from the Commission on Finance and Taxation; Commission on Police, Claims, and Grievances; Commission on Streets, Bridges, Sewer and Public...
Dates: 1868 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1868 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1993
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / City of Marquette, City Commission minutes
Martha Clark letter
Scope and Contents note This collection consists of a letter written by Martha Clark in 1911 that describes the J.D. Pierce Training School's kindergarten room and the children's activities. The letter also describes the teaching of drawing by the teacher, Miss Edwards. The J.D. Pierce Training School was located on the campus of Northern State Normal School (now Northern Michigan University) in Marquette, Michigan and functioned as a training laboratory for student teachers.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Martha Clark letter
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company (Gwinn) records
Scope and Contents This collection contains business records for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mining Company from 1905 to 1918 and consists four series:Series I - Gwinn Area Design and Development records. 33 folders. This series consists of information and correspondence relating to the design, development, and operation of CCI properties in the Gwinn/Swanzy area. Gwinn was a model company town created by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mining Company. The volume contains estimate and authorization records...
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company (Gwinn) records
Cliffs Dow Company records
Scope and Contents note This collection contains the scattered records of R. Wesley Jenner, long-time employee and president (1960-1968) of the Cliffs Dow Chemical Company of Marquette, Michigan. The records primarily relate to the company which manufactured charcoal and was the largest and sophisticated wood distillation plant in the world from 1940-1968. The records include company technical reports for 1935-1950, news clippings and press releases, addresses and articles written and presented by Jenner on the...
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Cliffs Dow Company records
Consolidated Fuel and Lumber Company records
Scope and Contents note The collection is comprised mainly of stock certificates and one Joint Stock Ledger for the Consolidated Fuel and Lumber Company. The minutes of the board of directors represents the most important component of the collection and is comprehensive for the period, 1914-1950.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Consolidated Fuel and Lumber Company records
Ruth Craig papers
Scope and Contents Note This collection consists of items formerly part of a retirement scrapbook given to Ruth Craig on her retirement from Northern Michigan University in 1963. The collection consists of photographs of campus scenes, student activities, former students, faculty and staff, and images from the retirement dinner. The collection also consists of numerous letters of tribute written to Craig from staff and former students. All materials are dated 1963.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Ruth Craig papers
Culinary Students of Northern Michigan University records
Scope and Contents note This collection documents the activities of the Culinary Students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. Records include correspondence, financial records, and photographs. Materials date from 2000 to 2003.
Found in: Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives / Culinary Students of Northern Michigan University records
More about 'Marquette (Mich.).'
Digital Record 61
Archival Record 5
Northern Michigan University 62
Ryan, Jane 41
Women's Center (Marquette, Mich.) 41
Northern Michigan College of Education. 17
Northern Michigan College. 16
Northern State Normal School (Mich.). 13
Northern State Teachers College (Mich.). 12
Magnaghi, Russell M. 6
Northern Michigan University. President 6
Northern Michigan University. John D. Pierce Training School 5
Jamrich, John X. 4
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company 3
Dalt, Jacqueline 3
Diddams, Rosa 3
Easton, June 3
Greer, Holly 3
Griffith, Gail 3
Kensington, Sue 3
McDonald, Carolyn 3
Micklow, Patricia L. 3
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