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How sustainable is Eucerin ?
Eucerin & sustainability
First milestones, should be better Click here for score rapport: 7 out of 26
Eucerin has achieved the D-label. Eucerin has started to take sustainability into account. Still, a lot more can be done.
Brand owner: Beiersdorf AG
Head office: Hamburg, Germany
Sector: Cosmetics
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Eucerin sustainability score report
Last edited: 14 July 2016 by Bianca F.
Last reviewed: 14 July 2016 by Mario
1. Is there a policy for the brand to minimize, reduce or compensate carbon emissions? Beiersdorf (brand owner of Eucerin) implements several measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as energy efficiency measures and using renewable energy (see link, page 32-37). Source
2. Has the brand (company) disclosed the annual absolute carbon footprint of its 'own operations' (Scope 1 & 2) and has the brand already reduced or compensated 10% of these emissions in the last 5 years? Beiersdorf increased its climate footprint (Scope 1 &2) from 100,440 tons of CO2e in 2014 (see link, “Climate Change 2015 response”) to 100,790 tons of CO2e in 2015, which represents an increase of around 0,3% (see link, previous question, page 33-34). Source
3. Has the brand (company) set a target to reduce its absolute ‘own operations’ carbon emissions by at least 20% within the next 5 years? Beiersdorf aims to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30% per product sold by 2020, compared to 2005. However, total target reductions for its greenhouse gas emissions of own operations are not specified (see link, page 32). Source
4. Is at least 25% of the electricity used by the brand (company) generated from renewable resources, such as wind or solar energy? From 2016, Beiersdorf plans to convert the power supply at all locations in Germany to green electricity. The company reports to have established in-house generation of renewable energy to cover some electricity needs at a number of its sites, but does not disclose how much or what percentage of total electricity use this represents (see link, page 27-28). Source
1. Does the brand have a policy to phase out all possible harmful substances? Beiersdorf does not communicate a policy to phase out all possible harmful substances. Instead it performs its own assessment of these substances. If a substance is found to be unsafe the consequences range from product recall to substance phase out (see link, page 21-23). Source
2. Does the brand refrain from using the high hazard (red coded) chemicals as listed in the Skin Deep database of the Environmental Working Group, and if still used, does the brand give scientific account for the safe use of it? Eucerin is listed in the SkinDeep database using ‘red’ coded ingredients (like parabens), but publicly clarifies and accounts for the use of each red listed substance (see also link, environmental question 6). Source
3. Does the brand strictly apply the precautionary principle (=banning) for all possible harmful substances such as parabens, also when the scientific evidence for possible harm is limited, unclear or debated? See remark for environmental policy question 1. Source
4. Does the brand refrain from using any microplastics for all of its products? Beiersdorf claims its has committed to no longer using polyethylene particles in its care products and is working on more natural, biodegradable replacements (see also link at labour conditions question 1). But, the use of microplastics (including polyethylene) was still identified in Eucerin products (effective by March 2016). Source
5. Does the cosmetics brand completely refrain from animal testing including tests in the supply chain? Beiersdorf completely refrains from animal testing, but tolerates exceptions if a national supervisory authority demand it for safety or regulatory purposes. Source
6. Does the cosmetics brand refrain from using animal derived ingredients? Beiersdorf does not specify to refrain using animal derived ingredients for its brand Eucerin. Source
7. Does the brand have a policy to replace petroleum-based ingredients with renewable, biodegradable ingredients? Beiersdorf does not specify to replace petroleum-based ingredients with renewable, biodegradable ingredients. Source
8. Has the brand already achieved an overall ratio of 50% renewable, biodegradable ingredients? For its brand Eucerin, Beiersdorf does not specify the overall ratio of renewable, biodegradable ingredients. Source
9. Are all the cosmetics of the brand free of organic-synthetic dyes, synthetic fragrances, ethoxylated raw materials, synthetic UV filters, synthetic preservatives, silicones, paraffin and other petroleum derived products? Eucerin uses several of petroleum derived ingredients. Source
10. Are all cosmetics free of genetically modified materials, nanomaterials and radiated materials? Beiersdorf does not specify whether all Eucerin brand products are free of genetically modified materials, nanomaterials and radiated materials. Source
11. Are at least 50% of the brand products certified ‘natural’? Beiersdorf does not specify which share of its Eucerin brand products is certified ‘natural’. Source
12. Does the brand use organic or otherwise environmentally certified renewable ingredients for at least 50% of its total use of ingredients? Neither Beiersdorf nor Eucerin specify the current, overall ratio of environmentally certified ingredients used for Nivea products. Source
13. Are at least 90% of the brand products certified ‘organic’? Beiersdorf does not specify which share of its Eucerin brand products is certified ‘organic’. Source
14. Does the brand inform users through all products about environmentally responsible use, such as dosage, water use and packaging disposal? Beiersdorf does not specify whether environmentally responsible use information are provided for its customers through all Eucerin brand products. Source
15. Does the brand (company) publish a water footprint and is there a concrete policy to minimize, reduce or compensate this footprint? Beiersdorf implements several measures to reduce its water usage. In 2015, Beiersdorf used 1,988,101 m3 of water (see link, page 30 & 31). Source
16. Does the brand (company) publish its annual material use footprint, or alternatively material footprints for each sold product, and does the brand have an effective policy in place to reduce the overall environmental impact of material use? Beiersdorf implements several measures to improve its annual material footprint. In 2015, Beiersdorf purchased about 496,057 tonnes of materials (see link, page 25-26). Source
17. Does the brand (company) have clear objectives to minimize waste, by reducing, re-using and recycling, and does the brand annually report the results? Beiersdorf implements several measures to improve its annual waste material footprint. In 2015, Beiersdorf's total waste material footprint was at 38,452 tonnes (see link, page 37-39). Source
18. Does the brand have clear objectives to minimize the environmental impact of packaging, by reducing, re-using and recycling, and does the brand annually report on these results? Beiersdorf implements several measures to minimize the impact of its packaging. In 2015, Beiersdorf purchased 123,820 tonnes of packaging (see link, page 23-26). Source
1. Does the brand (company) purchase tropical ingredients such as palm oil, cocoa butter, coconut oil, carnauba wax from sources (e.g. plantations) that are certified to e.g. have no child labor and no forced labour, and provide a better living standard for the farmers and workers who produce these tropical materials? Beiersdorf participates in the Forum for Sustainable Palm Oil (FONAP) and the RSPO (Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil). But, neither Beiersdorf nor Eucerin specify which share of Eucerin's tropical ingredients purchased is socially certified. Source
2. Does the brand (company) purchase at least 50% of its tropical ingredients such as palm oil, cocoa butter, coconut oil, carnauba wax from sources (e.g. plantations) that are certified to e.g. have no child labor and no forced labour, and provide a better living standard for the farmers and workers who produce the tropical ingredients? See remark for labor conditions policy question 1. Source
3. Does the brand (company) purchase mined raw materials such as mica and gold from sources (e.g. mines) that are certified to e.g. have no child labor and no forced labour, and provide a better living standard for the farmers and workers who produce the raw materials, and/or is the brand equally involved in significant initiatives to achieve this? Neither Beiersdorf nor Eucerin mention the topic of social risk or certification for its mined ingredients from low wage countries. Source
4. Does the brand (company) purchase at least 50% of its mined raw materials such as mica and gold from sources (e.g. mines) that are certified to e.g. have no child labor and no forced labour, and provide a better living standard for the workers who produce the raw materials, and/or is the brand equally involved in significant initiatives to achieve this? See remark for labor conditions policy question 3. Source
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The Role of Freshwater Outflow in Coastal Marine Ecosystems
The Role of Freshwater Outflow in Coastal Marine Ecosystems pp 283-293 | Cite as
Water Retention over Flemish Cap
S. A. Akenhead
Part of the NATO ASI Series book series (volume 7)
Current meters, T-S analysis, and surface drifters indicate fresh water is retained in a slow gyre over Flemish Cap. Fitted annual cycles of salinity in the top 100 m are used in a simple compartment model to provide a salt flux estimate. About 50% of Cap surface waters are replaced each month. North Atlantic Current water does not influence Cap water composition. Computing heat fluxes from the salt flux predicts the correct phase and appropriate amplitude and mean for the solar heating cycle.
Surface Heat Flux Heat Budget Anticyclonic Gyre Horizontal Flux Labrador Current
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Akenhead S.A. (1986) Water Retention over Flemish Cap. In: Skreslet S. (eds) The Role of Freshwater Outflow in Coastal Marine Ecosystems. NATO ASI Series (Series G: Ecological Sciences), vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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Real in L.A.
July 16, 2015 § Leave a comment
It must be five years since the Coffee Table, a beloved Silverlake eatery and gathering place on Rowena, was closed and boarded up, victim of a developer’s scheme to install condos in its place. Eventually it was razed along with a ratty board and care facility and several storefronts; the 1.44 acre parcel then sat empty.
I’ve never thought of myself as one to nurse a grudge, yet every time I walked to Trader Joe’s past the lot devoid of all but opportunistic castor plants, I grumbled at how neighborhoods are forever at the mercy of someone with enough cash to rip the heart out of them.
Two years ago, a sign appeared behind the property’s chain-link fence: “Coming soon! 29 Twenty, Exciting 2 & 3 Bedrooms, Contemporary Design.” A privately-held investment firm based in Miami, Fifteen Group, had acquired the land and stuck a deal with SoCal developer Van Daele Homes to build 33 townhouses (“townhomes” in real estate-speak).
“Soon” was a relative term; nothing happened at the site until March, 2014, when the city affixed notices to three mature shade trees–a Chinese flame and two jacarandas–announcing its intent to remove them for sidewalk widening. That got the attention of neighborhood residents, who countered with their own signs. More than a year later, the trees remain, though still under threat. The city has yet to set a hearing regarding their removal.
Earlier this year, construction finally began: workers graded the parcel, poured concrete slabs, and began work on a concrete retaining wall.
I’ve searched for the source of my annoyance with 29 Twenty: it starts with feeling that despite neighborhood councils and talk of civic engagement, in L.A., new developments happen to us, not because we decide what our neighborhood needs.
Silverlake is a desirable place to live. More families want in and those families need a place to live. I get that.
But why should Silverlake be an enclave for only the well-monied? Floor plans for these units show three-level, attached units from 1,356 to 2,275 square feet, two to three bedrooms, 2.5 or 3.5 bathrooms, and roof top decks. No prices have been listed for the Rowena project, but at Van Daele’s Morton Street development in Echo Park, comparable units start in “the low 800s.”
Both developments feature the glitz du jour: quartz counter tops, stainless-steel appliances, master suites, walk-in closets, multiple bathrooms–though no yards, community gathering spaces, or even green spots.
Los Angeles needs less glitz, more affordable housing, and more ways to build community. The Coffee Table at least gave us the latter; 29 Twenty strikes out on all counts.
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July 6, 2015 § 1 Comment
Got grass?
The L.A. Department of Water & Power and the Metropolitan Water District will pay you to get rid of it: $3.75 per square foot for the first 1,500 sq. ft, then $2 up to the maximum 3,000 sq. ft. A good deal for home owners and landlords who are tired of paying $4.83 for every hundred cubic feet of water (~750 gallons) to keep lawns green.
The one condition attached to the California Friendly® Landscape Incentive Program (yes, they’ve trademarked the term): Turf should be replaced with “water wise landscaping features.” Examples given are California-friendly plants, mulch, and permeable pathways. I’ve previously featured two exemplary Silverlake sites (here and here), completed when the rebate was a mere $1.50 per sq. ft.
Now comes Silverlake’s latest low-water entry: this multi-family dwelling on Armstrong Avenue. Its owner will get the rebate, I suppose, because the new landscaping technically meets the program’s requirements. It’s permeable and a rock lawn doesn’t need to be watered.
But a rock pile hardly adheres to the spirit of “California Friendly.” Water wise plants not only use little water, they convert the sun’s rays into self-nourishment and exchange CO2 –the dominant greenhouse gas–for oxygen.
Instead of lowering temperatures as plants would, these rocks will absorb summer’s heat and radiate it long into the night, keeping ambient temperatures high. And unless these are very special rocks, they’re not going to supply us with oxygen.
Gentle Reader, let design-impaired neighbors know that if they want to conserve water, they can simply turn off their sprinklers. Tell them you’re okay with a brown lawn, which will, after all, revive during the next rainy season.
Even Ezekiel, however, could not revive this pile of dry rocks.
N.B. For a dry landscape alternative to Ye Olde Rock Pile, read this piece about Japanese kare-sansui by my friend Meher McArthur, Asian art historian/curator and blogger.
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Entries tagged with 'ingrid isgren'
Sweden has some fake reputation of social welfare, something like “socialist-capitalism”, many people even make mistake and think they are a communist country, but if the education is on the bill of the state/society, it doesn’t mean that the country is communist one. Beside it, in reality, there are crowd of Swedish homeless on the streets, the same as in any other country. Maybe before 30 years they helped to the poor Swedes, but today, how much you make a profit for riches, that’s how much you are worth.
The present government are social-democrats, whatever is their program to attract voters, in reality, they realize fascist liberal politics: they sell the state to the rich people and they make propaganda and repression against immigrants.
Shortly, Sweden, as many other countries, has rich people who in the past supported Hitler and such people finance political parties in Sweden. Beside domestic rich people, American billionaires and the CIA have influence on Swedish politicians (defense contractors like Lockheed Martin corrupt politicians to sell arms and the same politicians are used for anything Americans need). Swedish behavior about Julian Assange is the best example of changes Sweden went through from 1980 until today.
Julian Assange 2015
The case of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikilelaks, is an example of the influence/corruption of the CIA on Swedish politicians. Julian felt in the trap of the CIA and the trap was prepared by the Swedish secret service (SAPO). SAPO would not do anything directly for the CIA then the CIA used Swedish politicians to activate SAPO against Julian. I suppose they used Carl Bildt, considering he was connected very much with the American politics already in the time of separation of Yugoslavia 1991-1994. Bildt could use the Minister of Justice or SAPO directly. The director of SAPO in that time (2007-2012) was Sven Anders Herman Danielsson (born 27 December 1953), until 2012 when he became the Director-General of the Swedish Migration Board, succeeding Dan Eliasson. Dec. 1st, 2016, he became the general secretary of the Red Cross. So, his working address is public, the headquarter of Swedish Red Cross: Svenska Röda Korset, Hornsgatan 54, Box 17563, 11891 Stockholm. Anders Danielsson lives in Stockholm and has the property also in Skåne (Hököpinge, 1,105 inhabitants, south from Malmö), he is married and has two children. He is an example of infiltration of spies in humanitarian organizations and an example of spying immigrants, making them a security threat because of different nationality and color of skin, that’s racism. Infiltration of humanitarian organizations by the secret service also lead to the death of Red Cross workers in Somalia and similar.
Ann Ardin 2010-2017
Eva Finne, Sofia Wilen, Anna Ardin
The SAPO used its spy Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen to do the job against Julian, their job was to discredit (destroy credibility) of Julian/Wikileaks that published information about American war crimes, to turn the public against him. People usually condemn raping and with a media campaign, discrediting could be successful, therefore, they made a rape accusations. Beside it, they wanted to keep Julian in the custody to get him beaten, people charged for the rape get beaten by the other prisoners. The job of Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen and all others (the cops, prosecutors, lawyers) was to help to the SAPO, to the corrupted politicians and to the CIA to achieve these 2 things against Assange: discrediting and beating in the custody.
Elisabeth Massi Fritz
In 2016, the lawyer of Anna Ardin is Elisabeth Massi Fritz. She said to the Swedish media “The only thing I can say is that Assange has low credibility, which we will prove when we prosecute.” Fritz working address: Advokabyrån Elisabeth Fritz AB, Birger Jarlsg. 73 -75, 114 20 Stockholm.
Claes Gustaf Borgstrom
Thomas Lennart Bodstrom
In the past, since 2010, the lawyer office Borgström & Bodström (Västmannag. 4, 111 24 Stockholm) were the representative of Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén. Claes Gustaf Borgström, born July 21, 1944 in Stockholm, is a Swedish lawyer and politician, his private address is Högbergsgatan 93, 11854 Stockholm. He created the law firm with the former Justice Minister Thomas Lennart Bodström (1962), his home address: Norr Mälarstrand 56 (lgh 1703), 112 20 Stockholm. His wife is living there, Eva Helén Bodström, and daughter Maria Vanja Alexandra Bodström.
The Minister of Justice in 2010 was: Eva Carin Beatrice Ask, Kungsgatan 75 (lgh 1201), 112 27 Stockholm.
But back to the beginning:
Anna invited Julian to Sweden, she invited him into her flat to sleep there, she met him with Sofia Wilen and she was together with Sofia to the police, possibly the SAPO and the CIA thought it is better if 2 women make charges against the target. The police woman they visited, Irmeli Krans, was the friend of Anna.
Anna Ardin (Svea Anna Karolina Ardin), born in 1979 in Visby, worked as a press secretary and political secretary for Sweden’s christian social democrats – the brotherhood movement. She was involved in organizing a seminar that was to take place on 14 August where Julian Assange had been invited in as a lecturer. Her home address in that time was Tjurbergsgatan 36, 118 56 Stockholm. In 2015, it was Alströmergatan 32, 112 47 Stockholm. Possibly in 2017, she is living with Bengt Henrik Karlsson (43) at the next address: Kalmgatan 41 (lgh 1103, it is the number of the flat), 121 45 Johanneshov.
In 2017, Anna is working at the Forum, she is there a project leader and moderator, this Forum is the place for the SAPO spies. They bring there Swedish NGOs to discuss international activities, they are spies that gather information about foreign countries or make a sabotage and propaganda in foreign countries against subjects that are not good for the Western/US corporations. For the espionage in other countries, the secret service use churches and their international departments, Red Cross, UNICEF and similar, of course, the CIA can use Swedish spies, to hide who really spy in Palestine or Somalia. The working address of Anna Ardin in 2017: Forum, Hantverkargatan 3F, 112 21 Stockholm
Sofia Linnea Wilén is the second girl working for the secret service, her address in 2010 was: Torggatan 45, 745 30 ENKÖPING. She is not there anymore, SAPO deleted information about her at google and so on. Possibly she got a status of protected eyewitness, only the tax office knows her address, but she could also relocate anywhere in Scandinavia, for example to Norway. Scandinavians can use their personal number (ID) to live in the other Scandinavian country without to ask for a living permission or new ID. Swedish person can relocate to Norway and continue to use the ID from Sweden.
Irmeli Krans + Bodstrom
Eva Finne 2016
Irmeli Krans is the police investigator, a close friend of Anna Ardin, she called the prosecutor Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand who decided to arrest Julian Assange in his absence. The head prosecutor, the chief for Maria, was Eva Finné, first she abolished Maria request to arrest Julian, she didn’t think it was raping but later obviously she was called from a higher instance and started the case against Julian. Then the head of Göteborg prosecutor office, Marianne Ny, became the main prosecutor. It is also interesting that Kjellstrand, who issued an arrest warrant on the basis of a phone call and then told all to the media (to start a campaign against Julian), is married into the office of the justice minister Beatrice Ask. Kjellstrand is married to Per Kjellstrand who worked for Sweden’s minister of justice Beatrice Ask who is suspected of being in contact with the US regarding WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Charges have been filed against Swedish prosecutor Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand for violating secrecy laws in revealing details of the Assange case to the media.
Irmeli Krans possible address: Drakenbergsgatan 41 1301, 11741 Stockholm
Ingrid Isgren, Sweden’s deputy chief prosecutor, visited Julian in London, 2016, to question him in the embassy. Assange’s Swedish lawyer, Per Samuelson, was not allowed to be present. An investigation into separate sexual assault allegations a second Swedish woman made against Assange had to be dropped last year after the deadline to bring charges expired.
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Home Arts & Literature Stolen Picasso unearthed by ‘Indiana Jones of art’
Stolen Picasso unearthed by ‘Indiana Jones of art’
AFP, The Hague :
A Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” has struck again, finding a Picasso painting worth 25 million euros stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999.
Arthur Brand said he had handed back the 1938 masterpiece entitled “Portrait of Dora Maar”, also known as “Buste de Femme (Dora Maar)” to an insurance company earlier this month.
The discovery of the rare portrait of Maar, one of Pablo Picasso’s most influential mistresses, is the culmination of a four-year investigation into the burglary on the luxury yacht Coral Island, as she lay anchored in Antibes.
Two decades after its theft and with no clues to its whereabouts, the French police were stumped — and the portrait, which once hung in the Spanish master’s home until his death in 1973, was feared lost forever.
But after a four-year trail which led through the Dutch criminal underworld, two intermediaries turned up on Brand’s Amsterdam doorstep 10 days ago with the missing picture.
“They had the Picasso, now valued at 25 million euros wrapped in a sheet and black rubbish bags with them,” Brand told AFP.
It was yet another success for Brand, who hit the headlines last year for returning a stolen 1,600-year-old mosaic to Cyprus.
He won world fame in 2015 after finding “Hitler’s Horses”, two bronze statues made by Nazi sculptor Joseph Thorak — a discovery about which he had a book out earlier this month.
Drugs and arms deals
The theft of the Picasso, valued at around seven million dollars at the time, baffled French police, sent the super-rich scurrying to update boat security and prompted the offer of a big reward.
In 2015, Brand first got wind that a “Picasso stolen from a ship” was doing the rounds in the Netherlands, although “at that stage I didn’t know which one exactly.”
It turned out that the painting had entered the criminal circuit, where it circled for many years “often being used as collateral, popping up in a drug deal here, four years later in an arms deal there,” said.
It took several years and a few dead ends before pinning down that it was actually the Picasso stolen from Saudi Arabian billionaire Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh’s yacht as the mega-cruiser was being refurbished, Brand said.
Brand put out word on the street that he was looking for “Buste de Femme (Dora Maar)” and in early March he struck gold.
“Two representatives of a Dutch businessman contacted me, saying their client had the painting. He was at his wits’ end,” said Brand.
“He thought the Picasso was part of a legitimate deal. It turns out the deal was legitimate — the method of payment was not,” Brand laughed.
Brand called the Dutch and French police — who had since closed the case — and who said they would not prosecute the current owner.
“Since the original theft, the painting must have changed hands at least 10 times,” said Brand.
Brand said he had to act quickly, otherwise the painting may have disappeared back into the underworld.
“I told the intermediaries, it’s now or never, because the painting is probably in a very bad state… We have to act as soon as we can.”
‘Hung it on my wall’
Then, just over a week ago, Brand’s doorbell rang at his modest apartment in Amsterdam, and the intermediaries were there with the painting.
After unwrapping it, “I hung the Picasso on my wall for a night, thereby making my apartment one of the most expensive in Amsterdam for a day,” Brand laughed.
The following day, a Picasso expert from New York’s Pace Gallery flew in to verify its authenticity at a high-security warehouse in Amsterdam.
Also present was retired British detective Dick Ellis, founder of Scotland Yard’s art and antiquities squad, representing an unnamed insurance company.
“There is no doubt that this is the stolen Picasso,” Ellis, who now runs a London-based art risk consultancy business, told AFP.
Ellis is famous for recovering many stolen artworks including Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, lifted from the National Gallery of Norway in 1994.
“It’s not only the public interest to recover stolen works of art,” he said. “You are also reducing the amount of collateral that is circling the black market and funds criminality.”
“Buste de Femme” is back in possession of the insurance company, which now had to decide the next steps, Brand and Ellis said.
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Tag Archives: big boobs
Black Lagoon: Viewers, Meet Your Maker
Oh, the wonderful women of Black Lagoon.
In a bust out and mind expanding experience, this show kicked my ass and said, “We won’t apologize for that.” Black Lagoon, in its entirety and breadth, covers Western cowboy shootouts, Piracy and the high seas, and in-your-face American splendour violence with guns and swords. There’s nowhere this show won’t go, and all of the women have big boobs, just how male viewers want it. I don’t care that the show jumps from arc to arc like a pogo-ing hoodlum. This show delivers heaps of entertainment and doesn’t give a single damn for it. With anime like this that can take a modern action movie
Sexy Lara Croft anyone? Thank God for you, Two Hands.
and slap it with their Desert Eagles, I get behind that anime 100%.
With this dazzling introduction, I had better “WOW” my readers, right? Well strap into your El Camino there, Wild Bill. This show will clash cars in the air, and unleash more shells than the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans combined. More carnage, more elite killings than anything I’ve seen since Christian Bale unlocked the gates of Hell in Equilibrium. And its done more graphically. As I’ve always said, what a cartoon can depict, when done maturely, can be more gruesome than any movie can depict. And you don’t need stunt actors or movie make-up special effects. This show depicts mass carnage on a monumental scale, and the main character has the mouth to back up the high content rating.
The crew of Black Lagoon (minus Benny).
Who is the main character, you may ask this post? Well, Revy (Maryke Hendrikse) provides the tomboyish, action star who looks quite similar to Lara Croft in this rollercoaster ride. Hendrikse provides an unlikeable, demeaning voice to Revy that let’s you know she wasn’t brought up by any Chinese American tycoons. She was backstreet, cat alley, chopshop material from day one. And she has the backstory and sailor’s mouth to prove it. She has a soft spot like any action star needs for the audience to connect with her, but it’s a small one at that. For her character in particular though, you may wanna check out the subbed version, her dubbed is a little bit harsh.
But be sure to check out the dub in general for everyone else! This Canadian dubbing team has worked on Gundams, Death Note, and various other anime worth checking in on. Hell, Ocean even did
The wonderfully frightening and sexy Roberta.
the original Dragonball dubbing! For a lot of the lines and attitudes to come across as cool, I was happy to see that the dub shows that. Even a lot of the lines in the original and in the manga were written in Japanese/English, showing that it was always meant to be transferred into an English context. And with all its praise for spaghetti Westerns and American action films with its references, it was only a matter of time.
As gritty as it gets for Rock.
So, yes! The dubbed version. You have Brad Swaile as Rock, the male lead of the show. Used in contrast to the rest of the characters in the novel, Rock is dropped in to a world he would never survive in. As chronicler of this tale, Rock acts as a moral compass in this show that has no meaning or need for direction. His white collar lifestyle and good guy attitude should’ve gotten him killed at this point, but the port town of Roanapur is amused with what he has to offer. He’s determined to change things, and this is an interesting role for a main character whom you’d expect to be pissing himself 90% of the show (the other 10%, would involve the other end).
There’s Dutch (Dean Redman) and Benny (Brian Drummond), respectively, the leader and muscle of the squad with his big black attitude, and the brains behind the operations with his American ideals and his Jewishness (which I didn’t get at all in this show). Dutch is a fantastic leader and motivator for the team, staying neutral at all times so as not to jeopardize his crew and endeavors. Benny lays low like Rock does, leaving the crew to 50/50 on manpower and gun control. With the rest of the cast of Roanapur’s finest, there’s bound to be bloodshed, booze, and boobs galore.
The tag says “She’s back.” Perfect.
What this show follows is an erratic plot of gigs and tradings that the Lagoon Company gets themselves into. At first, it was just Dutch, Revy, and Benny. But after a botched job that lands Rock in their laps, the Japanese get involved and that’s where the show turns into a Japanese man’s perspective on the seedy underbelly of the Southeastern area of Asia. There are heists, Nazis, shipments of drugs and guns, and fights between the clans. I don’t want to give too much away, but every clan becomes involved at some point in the show, with one of Black Lagoon’s dealings or another. There’s a great secondary cast of mercenaries who always populate Roanopur, but there’s one character you have to look out for.
That character is Roberta, the maid. This Columbian maid has come to find her charge in one of the arcs. After that, she becomes one of the most badass characters in the show. She’s calm, cool, and collected, and never leaves anything to chance. She won’t die, and there’s so much more I could be telling you that I’m leaving out. Let’s just say she’s so amazing that they made an OVA storyline about her. Get some of that Columbian underground.
One of the great secondary characters!
I can’t talk highly enough of this show. It has everything an adrenaline junky is looking for, and then some. Action fans of the world unite and check out this anime, especially if you have no idea what an anime is. The plot and dialogue is insightful enough for a gun toting anime, and there are some unbelievable things that will surprise you. Entertaining to the end, Black Lagoon is one of those few shows that I watched everything related to it. Even those cute and funny little omake episodes they made that’re on Youtube. Everything about this show screams badass. And it should make you scream too. So check out this pumped up gun ride on the high seas. It was never more f#$%ing cool to be a pirate. A 9.5 out of 10.
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Every time I watch this movie, I’m surprised at how simplistic it is. It follows a very simple storyline between four characters and never veers from that path. Focusing on human emotions and the tribulations we all face (although the cases may be extreme in this case) it’s a movie where the acting and humanistic side aren’t far off. Add elements that make it a worthwhile plot, and you have the makings of a film debut by Jieho Lee in his first film.
The entire film is based on an ancient Chinese proverb. Life itself is made up of four emotions. Happiness (Forest Whitaker), Pleasure (Brendan Frasier), Sorrow (Sarah
A well known cast with a bit of heart.
Michelle Gellar), and Love (Kevin Bacon). Each of these characters are represented on a hand, all connected by fingers (Andy Garcia). Through four separate “mini-stories” played out in an intertwining fashion, we gain insight into what the Chinese proverb means.
Hey may look friendly here, but he seems always frightening in his films.
Here’s something I don’t get though. Most critics gave this a bad review. They said that the all-star cast didn’t give enough of a boost to the film. I don’t think the cast or any of that hullabaloo had anything to do with this movie and how it did. This movie focuses on the plot. Seeing as its a character driven plot, the characters fuel and progress the story by their emotions and actions (finally discovering the emotion they represent by their part’s end). People say Brendan Frasier is a terrible actor (excluding The Mummy Series, of course. If you think those are bad, you have no idea what a good action movie is.) but I think this movie proves that theory wrong. Brendan Frasier plays an atypical character to what he normally plays. He’s not a muscled buffoon or frozen caveman come to life. He plays a thug, sure. But he plays an introspective thug who thinks before he acts. He has emotions and feelings you don’t normally see in a Brendan Frasier vehicle,
Give her the nod for this one.
something I’m proud to say he did very well.
There are other reasons this movie is good. Andy Garcia, how can you ever go wrong with that? He’s a frightening mobster man in whatever he does, and I’d personally never want to cross him. Forest Whitaker plays outside of what I think his normal roles are with his timid and almost asthmatic accountant position. Sarah Michelle Gellar was at least applauded for this movie, which I think was justly deserved. Kevin Bacon, well, he’s just Kevin Bacon. Combine interesting roles with an uncanny cadre of actors and you have yourself an interrelated plot about the human extremes of emotion.
Kevin Bacon. He’s footloose in this one.
This movie isn’t flashy. It’s not presumptuous or too intellectual. It shows you that it is what it is and that’s it. An emotional rollercoaster with a happy ending. Not everything that leads up to the ending is happy, but we must all go through trials and tribulations before we see the silver lining (or get to reach it). I think this is an understated film. It’s one of those films you should own in your collection as a little bit of a “life check” for when things are bad, or even good. So I would recommend at least giving The Air I Breathe a try. It’s thought provoking. 8.2 out of 10.
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Raging Phoenix: Passion in Drunkeness
In one of the more visually stunning and passion filled Muay Thai martial arts films I’ve seen, Yanin Vismistananda performs far better than I could have expected. As the leading heroine in Raging Phoenix (AKA, Jeeja Due Suai Du), Yanin shows more heart and courage (with some more brutal and flashy moves) than she did in Chocolate (although I love that movie). Panna Rittikrai does it again with some amazing stunt coordination in this one.
Deu (Yanin: also spelled Dew for some reason…) is a down and out on her luck drummer in a punk band. She has scummy boyfriends and is constantly being fooled. (She’ll say this at length in the movie.) With trust issues and an appetite for the drink, Deu gets herself in some trouble. After being chased down in a parking structure, Deu
She is both pretty and deadly.
gets away by chance with the help of a devilishly good looking and bearded Thai man (He’s also in Bangkok Knockout. I didn’t know he was one of Panna’s main boys, but Pod is in this one too… Review coming much later). He turns out to be called Sanim (Kazu Patrick Tang) and he’s good at taking down thugs with bladed kangaroo legs.
Look at that handsome man. Who wouldn’t fall for that?
With bringing her back to their hideout, Sanim encounters some unexpected collateral. Deu meets Pig Shit (Nui Saendaeng) and Dog Shit (Sompong Lertwimonkaisom), two fellow fighters with an agenda. What Deu becomes so fascinated with is a drunken style of fighting (made up for the film) known as Meyraiyuth. With montage scenes and lots of drinking, Deu and the gang take on the Jaguar Gang, a bunch of thugs looking to kidnap women just like Deu for nefarious purposes.
What I liked most about this movie was the interesting new style of fighting. Called Meyraiyuth, this badass feet of fury technique is actually an infusion. Mix classically ballin’ brutal Muay Thai finishing moves with a Capoeira dancing style that allows you to outwit your enemy and you can easily evade attacks with a lot of trauma. There are some great fight locations and a lot of newly
Pretty dope, right?
invented kicks and finishing moves that always surprise me in these Muay Thai action films. When you see one of these you expect the same old stuff, but Panna Rittikrai always has something new up his sleeve.
This was news to me too.
The acting was fine in this one, with the exception of a few actors. But that’s not what these movies are about, right? It’s about the artful technique of martial arts. It’s got the word “arts” right in there. Who cares about the plot and talking if the fans aren’t there for that? There were some cheesy CG effects and one or two strange other things, but the movie held its own as a story of love, loss, and the channeling of pain into what you do with your life. Yanin “Jeeja” sold it and it all worked out in the end.
And the end is what I wanna talk about. I’m used to these Muay Thai films with the main hero busting down hundreds of guys with lethal finishing moves, one right after the other. But this movie focused on a handful of major fighters taking on their counterparts in some long, well developed fight scenes. And that’s what makes the end so brutal. In her pain and despair, Yanin channels death into her palms and DESTROYS the main villain. She absolutely does some of the best, most lethal moves I’ve ever seen that are actually doable in the realm of physics. I was welling up with tears with the impassioned music and the fists ripping across the screen. That doesn’t happen often, but I know when I’ve found a new favorite fight scene. So, with that in mind, I give Raging Phoenix a lethal 7.6 out of 10.
That’s a beauty. Right to your face.
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The Great Happiness Space
In this documentary by Jake Clennell (a UK documentarian), the world of Ouran High School Host Club comes to life. In Osaka, Japan, the Cafe Rakkyo is a place for tired and worn down women to come and feel healed, emotionally and probably physically, by the male hosts. With lots of drinking and fake flirting, Clennell dives into the secrets and tips of being a Japanese male host.
For Jake Clennell’s first time doing a documentary, he does a great job. In a mere hour and fifteen minutes, he captures the host life through a
Not your average Ouran boys…
handful of interviews and first hand events. Centered around the owner of Cafe Rakkyo, Issei, who every girl loves and wants to be with. His animal magnetism comes from the way in which he tailors himself to what a girl wants. And what’s the endgame? Money.
This entire interview/documentary is about a human’s instability. Growing up into such a business mogul the way in which Issei did has sacrificed something. Even those who have come in fresh to the game (as one host did) notice something different about themselves. The hosts can’t escape the attraction to the girls (some say love, others say connection) but in the end there is a lot of focus on materialism. Fashion designer clothes, accessories, hairstyles, it’s all about selling themselves to entice women to come to their host club. They lose the excitement of falling in love with someone and lose senses of trust, commitment, and honesty.
Some cute Asian cuddling?
From someone who doesn’t know a thing about host clubs or anything other than from anime, it comes as a culture shock. To see men in a power and control of sexuality and a socialite position in quite in contrast to America. Here, women hold all the power when it comes to sex. We pay for their drinks, we are the ones that instinctively flock towards them in clubs and bars. Men actively seek women in this country. It is up to the women to say yes or no.
But, in the world of Japan, men are the ones in these types of clubs that dictate the tempo. Women pay for privacy and one on one time with them. Women buy the men drinks in order to loosen them up and make them more friendly towards them. These women spend
Just your average host selection bar…
thousands of dollars a visit in order to woo these men. A male host starting off can make $10,000 American dollars a month. How insane!
And then comes the issue of who comes to these host clubs. More often than not, they’re call girls/prostitutes who have just gotten off work. They come to relax and enjoy time away where they’re the ones being catered to. The Osaka district in Japan is drenched in sex. Male businessmen, young impressionable females, host club employees, it’s everywhere. And to see a place that encourages social interaction other than sex is something interesting and new.
The real message to take away.
In the end, as these boys emerge from their cavernous man-den, the come out drunkenly into the sunlight, falling over, hair a bit askew, wanting a good night’s rest. And they’ll be back in a few hours to do it all over again. Issei heads back to his apartment, speculating about his future life and if he’ll ever marry. But what this documentary has delved into is that this may not be the case for this host culture. A bunch of boys jaded by love and what it means to be faithful, who knows if they’ll ever find love. All I know is that this documentary was entertaining and complex, insightful and opened a whole new culture aspect to me (being interested in Japanese culture and all). If you like pretty Asian boys or just something that will make you more aware and intelligent on Japan, you need to check this out. It’s pretty deep. 7.2 out of 10.
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In a crossover genre that reminded me a bit of the only other big exposure I’ve had to operetta style plays/shows (i.e. Cats), Repo! The Genetic Opera was a twist and melding of something I’m not used to seeing at all. And, big plus, in the form of a movie. And what more could seal this musical deal? Darren Lynn Bousman, director of Saws 2-4, was the director. That’s a pretty sweet marmalade right there. And I was surprisingly not bored during this horror/rock opera/film extravaganza.
In a strange dystopian intro scene that may remind those of us who have seen Mystery Men of a similar grimy town flyby, there is a new way of living in the city. And that is prologued by the GraveRobber (Terrance Zdunich). In this new dark and sinister world, people are living longer. How, you may ask? Through the use of artificial organs. You
GraveRobber, the teller of our tale. (Is that a cat from Cats right next to him?)
can pay for these organs with a monthly fee, but it must be paid on time to GeneCo. If not, “Rotti” Largo (Paul Sorvino) will send his RepoMen after you and remove it from you.
The story focuses around a doctor Nathan Wallace (Anthony Head) and his sick daughter, Shilo (Alexa Vega). In a story of sick and twisted nip/tuck pleasure, betrayal and love, and discovered identities, Repo! The Genetic Opera combines the operatic style of singing with the gruesomeness of shock rock. What I found surprising, coming from a director who has done such a violent and intestine filled series, gave a bit of humor and poise to the blood and guts. I was never grossed out (as if this film or any other could do that) by the events unfolding before me, it was more with the type of music and subject matter. It was a winning combo, to be sure.
Paris Hilton, can you tell?
I liked the subject matter (dystopian world of the morbid) and found it to be a simple enough plot to get across with how many underlying motives were at play. What I was semi-impressed with was the singing. Anthony Head, star of Buffy and featured on my favorite British comedy, Little Britain, was a phenomenal singer. Alexa Vega, a bit weak, which surprised me. Terrence Zdunich was a phenomenally good stage presence in front of the camera. I enjoyed his pop out of a trash can every once in a while. He had the Cats vibe down. His morbid look was appealing and flashy, almost like a Rum Tum Tugger (although this guy didn’t do any theater before this, so far as I can tell…).
Some surprising cast though in this film. Paul Sorvino, star of musicals and dramas and a couple of Italian Mafioso films, was a good presence, but weak as a counter character/villain to Nathan (Anthony Head) the age difference was a bit of a problem for the plot device they had to deal with, and so it just came off as odd. His singing was a bit weak too, but I think that’s something that happens when you have to speak/sing lines in a rock opera. Sarah Brightman, English singing extraordinaire was delightfully pleasant for as small of a role as she was given. Her
A little bit of blood never hurt Buffy…
singing sent a few chills down the old spine.
And there’s even more! Throw in Bill Moseley, actor from a shit-ton of horror films, including a few Rob Zombie vehicles. And Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy (industrial metal band for those of you who don’t know)? Who knew? I could barely put the names and the faces together with this nip/tuck of a performance. Oh, and Paris Hilton for sex appeal. No big surprise there.
Enjoy that open wound, guy.
In an hour and a half of rockin’ and a rollin’, you’re exposed to the world of blood and guts, drums and guitar. I’ve never seen a movie like this before, and this sets the bar sort of high on expectations (and no, I won’t be watching Rent anytime soon). So move aside The Wiz, because there’s a new favorite musical film in town. And it’s got more of an edge to it. So strap in and hide your organs for Repo! A 6.4 out of 10.
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Clannad: The Wonderful Beginnings of an Anime
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed an anime, and this is the perfect one to come back to. Clannad is the wonderfully touching story of a group of high schoolers and their lives as they grow with one another. Focusing primarily on the central relationship between Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa, these two lead tragic lives that have become better because they found each other. It all started one day at the bottom of the hill to the high school with “anpan”, and blooms into a wonderfully dynamic and free flowing friend group. The main plot behind this first series is that Nagisa wishes to create a drama club at her school. It is used indirectly to raise her self esteem and confidence.
Where should I start when talking about this anime? This has the elements of a slice of life anime, thrown in with a bit of humor and comedy from Fuko Ibuki, the starfish obsessed wonder. The anime flows over a few arcs focusing on secondary characters that attend the high school, ranging from freshmen to seniors. All of the main characters are mostly seniors, and this transitions into their graduation and life around the town. It is good to see that, although this anime has the beginnings of a harem with only one true central male character, but it is happily thwarted by Youhei Sunohara, the blond haired foil
The starfish and the Dangos!
character to Tomoya’s passive aggressive antics. Their dialogue and chemistry onscreen is infectiously hilarious and comes across as amazingly absurd and out there. It’s perfect to offset the harrowing topics of the anime.
Not to ruin anything about the plot, but the characters focused on are all tragically tainted. Tomoya is an out there delinquent bad boy who was maliciously beaten by his drunken dad in a fight one day. He lost his mother and the two had been drifting apart for years. His dad coped with drinking, and Tomoya did with bad behavior. This doesn’t really seem to ruin his reputation at school, but it ruined his arm and his chances at playing basketball. Damn. For Nagisa, her debilitating health has kept her back a year in school, losing friends, yet allowing her to meet Tomoya. And, for the others, it’s about watching the show to discover what’s so sad with each character. If you don’t cry at least once, where’s your soul?
The dynamic duo, Tomoya and Youhei!
It wasn’t really a decision at the beginning on whether to watch subbed or dubbed. As a rule of thumb, if it’s a show with a lot of crying or sadness, it’s better portrayed in Japanese. Tears=subbed, comedy=dubbed. Remember that. I was surprised to find this show was based on an interactive text video game (one of those simulated dating things, but a manga followed the game soon after, giving a structure and not choices to the anime in the direction the plot would take. The voice acting is really well done and will make you laugh and cry (tears of some sort) and it’s worth watching the first half in order to reach the even better Clannad: After Story. In order to love and care about the characters, you watch Clannad, but once you’re established in that love, then comes the After Story tears. They will flow.
Other than that, I don’t have many complaints with a show that has come out in the last ten years. Animation was crisp and clean, the plot moved along at a reasonable pace, and there’s a character for everyone to connect to. It’s the story of growing up, of high school, of conquering your fears and finding love. It’s a true humanistic story of discovery. I think it’s good for people of all interests and (being the secure man I am) found it rather heartwarming. So leave yourself a few weeks to savor the flavor of the Dangos, and enjoy this 7.7 out of 10 anime.
A possible couple? You’ll see…
And this is the song that’ll make you cry.
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Nana: Two Girls Named 7
Going into this I expected slice of life, girl power anime. Coming out, I cursed the Demon Lord himself for not allowing Ai Yazawa to continue the manga that has for so long been on hiatus. Without the manga continuing, there can be no anime of epic downfall and emotional turmoil. And no happy ending for Nobu and Hachiko either… Oh well, they worked with what they had.
And boy, did they have a lot. Nana is the story of, well, two girls with the same name, Nana. Normally when I see the word Nana, I think old lady. But, in the realm of Japanese anime, Nana means 7 (please stop me if I’m being redundant). And these two girls come from separate worlds. Nana Komatsu (Hachiko, her pet name meaning 8), comes from a well to do, middle class family with nothing but dreams of a happy family life with her boyfriend, Shoji. Nana Osaki is a punk rocker with no family past to speak of and a whole lot of rage and cigarettes to sing about. One day they meet on a train and their lives are changed… forever?
People do some great artwork for this show.
A lot of stuff happens in the span of this 47 episode anime. Relationships are founded and lost, friends are made and lost, basically, a lot of stuff is found and subsequently lost. There’s pain and anguish, scenes of sexy times, and a lot of cigarette smoke. But hidden behind that cigarette smoke is one thing. The love of ambition and love itself. Nana Osaki won’t let anything get her down and plans on beating the rivalry that is created between her band Blast! and her boyfriend’s band, Trapnest. This dynamic in itself creates problems between the bands as both sides become intertwined in a web of secrecy, seduction, and snarky conversations.
What I found great about this show was the even distribution given between the two Nana’s. Hachiko is given equal time at the beginning with her relationships and problems of fidelity and then Nana Osaki is given her time to shine as her
Ren and Nana, two loves from opposing bands.
band becomes popular in Tokyo. The chance happening of meeting each other on the train and the separate lives that come together under one apartment roof is an interesting premise that is buffered with good turns and emotional climaxes. The characters are diverse and strong in their certain flaws which gives an element of a darker relationship based “slice of life” anime that is where it really hits hardest.
But there are flaws. And it’s not that flaws are bad. But all of these characters are passive. They allow everything to happen to them by key characters. Not to divulge too much, but Takumi Ichinose of Trapnest controls the last 20
The most smoking ever. This show is adverts for smoking.
episodes of this anime. And the decisions you’d like to see happen for that happy ending don’t happen, but you are sort of okay with it at the end (other than the hiatus placed on this manga…). But the ineptitude and inability of certain main characters to function is just staggering. It makes you hate them and wish for them to move at the same time. Heartbreaking.
Just a taste of the manga that needs to be brougt back.
Other than that, work on your shipping skills and hope for the best for the Nana’s. The voice acting is fantastic and there’s a character for everyone to love in this show. It’s simple charm about people attempting to achieve their biggest dreams, however big or small makes for a great anime. ‘Cause, come on, who wouldn’t want to follow a band around as they become famous, being their friends and just having the ride of your life! Enjoy the amazing music by Olivia and the quirky animation and raw human emotions and talent portrayed by the voice actors (subbed for this one). I give Nana more than just a 7, I give it an 8.1 out of 10. Recommended for anyone interested in life and love.
And here’s a little taste of the music of Nana in this first opener.
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30 Minutes or Less: Aziz Ansari Hour!
Now, I’m not gonna lie, I’m not a big Parks & Recreation fan. But I am a huge Aziz Ansari fan, especially after this movie. 30 Minutes or Less is hilarious and a lot of things came together to make this movie near perfect as a comedy. A lot of things I think came together to make Aziz Ansari a tour de force of hilarity in this film as well. Starting off with a small acting career (or comedy first?), Aziz started with School for Scoundrels and moved on from there after a few shorts as well. (I’m using IMDB, not exactly sure on the details…) But, after a funny episode as a racist fruit seller in Flight of the Conchords, Aziz took off in the MTV show Human Giant. With some Scrubs work and a few more small comedy films, he made his way into Parks and Recreation, and this opened the door to a starring role in 30 Seconds or Less. And by God, was it phenomenal.
Let’s get to the story. Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) is a down in the dumps pizza
Hilarity ensues! Yay!
delivery guy who prides himself on his driving ability and speed in getting there, “30 minutes or less,” the slogan of his employer’s pizza business. He has a best friend, Chet (Aziz Ansari), now a school teacher and not lowlife like Nick. Nick and Chet are pretty good friends, other than the fact that Nick slept with Chet’s sister, Kate (Dilshad Vadsaria). This has created a rift between them and this pervades as comic throughout the film.
McBride and Swardson are fiends in this film! (Big Nick Swardson fan!)
Meanwhile, two friends, Dwayne (Danny McBride) and Travis (Nick Swardson) are two scummy friends who live off of Dwayne’s dad the Major (Fred Ward) and his winnings from the lottery. But he spends it like a bastard. So Dwayne and Travis make a plan to off the Major through an outside hitman, suggested by a hooker/stripper/prostitute. But it’s gonna cost 100,000 bones.
And that’s where Nick comes in. With their expertise in pyrotechnics and bomb making (more Travis’s forte…), they strap a bomb to Nick’s chest and demand that he rob a bank for their nefarious purposes. Nick enlists the help of Chet and these two groups are off on a wild ride of wild driving, destruction, and a string of hilarious jokes (one in particular about Facebook that Jesse Eisenberg delivers expertly.).
This Ansari face explains all.
From occaisional film director Ruben Fleischer (director of Rob & Big and Zombieland. Guess he really likes Jesse Eisenberg…) and first time writer Michael Diliberti, comes a fantastic film about love, betrayal, and all things ridonkulously funny. Aziz Ansari kills it in this film and I was literallly howling in the theater with laughter (my mom looking at me strangely). I gotta admit though that Danny McBride, although sometimes funny, ruined this movie with tons of sex jokes and random unfunny swear words. All-in-all, I give this film a definite top 5 best of the summer and a definite watch with a group of friends. 8.8 out of 10.
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Es / Sami Sänpäkkilä: Early Filmworks 1996-2006 (DVD)
Posted in Films, MusicPosted on September 6, 2006 March 4, 2019 Tagged 16mm Film, Fonal, Super 8
SHORT FILMS:
Surrealistin kaksi vasenta kättä
91: 11-12
Unissani Aavehuminaa
Kubistisia Vittu Saatana
Kubistisia Kukkia Liikkeessä
Plantage Midden Laan
Tarbotstraat
Hämeenkatu
Tv-resistori: J.o.v.h.m.l.n.s.o.a.m.o. (love)
Islaja: Rohkaisulaulu
Office Building: Never Leave The Ground
Office Builging: Tomorrow Again
Es: She Puts Out The Fire In Her Heart With Her Tears
Circle: Glanu
In her novel Sculptor’s Daughter, Tove Jansson reveals her father, sculptor Viktor Jansson’s definition of art: art is what we do not yet understand. It is easy to see how art which allows ample room for the spectator’s interpretation might also open up many opportunities for viewing things in novel ways.
The kind of art that adheres to Jansson’s definition is not often made, however. Even if contemporary art swears by the right of every interpretation to exist, anyone who has followed art for a longer period cannot help but encounter the same deep structure under the surface layers of art time and time again. This is due to the simple fact that all artists who approach their work with seriousness will, in a way, imbue their works with the beliefs most fundamental to them, and these beliefs are part of the cultural heritage shared by the community of artists at large.
When choosing the artist to be invited by the Paulo Foundation in 2006, I had to immerse myself in a wide variety of Finnish contemporary art. After having visited art school graduation exhibitions, private exhibitions and artists’ web sites, I was left with three artists who spoke to me in a special way. What they all had in common was that I could not explain what it was about their art that piqued my interest. Among these three, the one that most puzzled my imagination was a graduate of Tampere Polytechnic, Sami Sänpäkkilä.
As an artist, Sänpäkkilä is someone who transcends conventional boundaries: film, music and visual art each vie for his attention. In fact, these separate areas are integrated in his work to such an extent that he could with equal justification be considered a visual artist, a filmmaker or a musician.
His experimental short films are most notably characterised by a certain suspension. For instance, Sänpäkkilä portrays repetitive jumps, trudging through snow or waking up repeatedly. This suspension is also present in the soundtracks to his works. The resulting entity is hypnotic, trance-inducing.
It has been said that every trance is an attempt to solve a problem. This should be understood broadly: a “problem” could be anything, positive or negative, that calls for a decision or a solution. For the artist, it could be a problem or a challenge related to his work, and whilst dealing with it he falls into a state of waking dream. The spectators, however, do not have to concern themselves with the artist’s problems. Each of them has a trance of their own, a train of thought that produces the ideas, solutions or answers for which they are prepared and which are useful to them.
A trance does have an intrinsic value, though. It is a creative state in the twilight zone between sleep and a waking state. Trance can also be described as movement, like the jumps in 91: 11-12 or the running in Surrealistin kaksi vasenta kättä. This movement can lead to the recuperation, as well as the regeneration, of the mind and the sense.
While it may initially be less obvious, another prominent quality of Sänpäkkilä’s art is spirituality.
In his early short films, spirituality manifests itself in the form of universal beauty, for instance. These are pictures of a world in which a positive force is present. In the film 91: 11-12, spirituality is linked with Christianity in the form of psalm excerpts depicting a guardian angel. In Kubistisia kukkia liikkeessä it seems as though the old Finnish public service announcement logo has been engulfed by the baroque blaze of spirituality.
There is a recurring element to his films that proves interesting. The clothes seen in them are contemporary, for the most part, and rather modest at that, yet the ways in which they are worn also convey religious connotations: the hoods and scarves wrapped around the characters’ faces speak of a fervent search for the fundamental questions in life. The context – a barren desert landscape – only heightens the impression.
The more extensive work Aurinkokellari (2006) (not included on the DVD) features a prophetic sequence of events. In the film, an eccentric character in control of human life “removes” three people. The impression, akin to death, is frightening in its severity. And yet there is a warm belief in human beings to be found in this work, much like everywhere in Sänpäkkilä’s art – not to mention a dollop of unexpected humour. Even the aggressive Kubistisia vittu saatana is ultimately a therapeutic guidance directed at “the sad, the depressed, the sleepless” etc., ending in a short glimpse of a moment when worries will be swept away – worries of any kind.
– Jonni Roos
Format: DVD, Region Free
System: PAL & NTSC*
Total lenght: 80 minutes
Catalogue Number: FR-45
Release: 6.9.2006
*To view the PAL version please insert DVD into your player label side down. To view the NTSC side insert the DVD label up (the “normal” way).
BUY: CD / LP
Aurinkokellari – The Suncellar
Risto: Rakkauden Rock
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An Exquisite Meal
The Deadline
After Hours (1985)
(film)
I watched this last night on a recommendation from a screenwriting teacher. It’s an insane film. And very funny. Probably my favorite Scorsese film now, which I know, sacrilege or something. Goodfellas never did it for me though.
It’s really funny. Deadpan jokes and strange circumstances everywhere. As a whole it seems completely implausible but the individual events are believable, if that makes sense.
“You have a great body.”
“Yes. Not at lot of scars.”
A woman falling asleep during a seductive massage. And good physical stuff, like Griffin Dunne being wrapped in papier-mache and then stolen by thieves (Cheech and Chong!) because they think it’s valuable art. Hysterical women trying to sleep with him then forming an angry mob when he refuses. So many weird things going on and then interlinking later.
I wish they made more comedies like this, but it didn’t do very well at the box office, which doesn’t really surprise me. It’s dark, deadpan, absurd, and compelling. There are genuine laugh out loud moments.
And a scene with a bouncer outside a club that was pulled from Kafka’s The Trial, which is a scene in the book that was life-altering when I read it at 16.
At the beginning you think “what a bleak future at that boring job he has” and by the end you’re desperate to get back to that job where the world is boring but comfortingly stable.
It’s grounded in the sense that he doesn’t call out the insanity of it. He deals with it in a grounded, logical way. But no matter what he does, the labyrinth goes deeper. So you go crazy with him, which is a fun ride.
All that and no men had to cry or shit explosively to make it funny. Imagine that.
Also, it turns out that the first 30 minutes or so were ripped from an episode of Joe Frank’s Radio Playhouse.
I’m writing something similar in tone to this, but not as dark. After Hours is a very dark film. But hilarious.
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Watch The First 6 Minutes Of A&E’s ‘Bates Motel’
Posted March 12th, 2013 by Janice Kay
In about a week, television viewers will soon learn of the true nature as to why Norman Bates went psycho in A&E’s new scripted series ‘Bates Motel.’ In anticipation of the series’ premiere, the network has released the first six minutes of the show’ pilot episode for all to see.
‘Bates Motel’ is a contemporary prequel/origin story of how the relationship between a teenage Norman Bates and his mother, Vera Bates, produced the most infamous serial killer in cinematic history. The video below sets up the entire series explaining how Norman and Vera came to buy the Bates Motes after the mysterious and bloody death of his father. The footage is innocent enough with no foretelling of the horrors and creepiness that is to come… that is until you see Normal starring through his mother’s bedroom window as she passes by it in her undergarments. We knew they were close, but how close could the two really be?
Check out the first 6 minutes below and let us know what you think of the series.
More mysteries unfold when ‘Bates Motel’ premieres on Sunday, March 18 at 10PM on A&E.
Created by ‘Lost’s’ Carlton Cuse, ‘Bates Motel’ stars Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates, Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates, Max Thierot, Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell and Mike Vogel.
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Scott D. Bembenek | Did You Know | Bose’s Derivation of Planck’s Radiation Law
Bose’s Derivation of Planck’s Radiation Law
Bose, Einstein, Planck, Quantum
With his work in 1916-7, Einstein was able to arrive at a “much more” quantum derivation of Planck’s Radiation Law. However, in the end he fell short, having to rely on assumptions. In 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose provided the first “fully” quantum derivation of Planck’s radiation law, which revealed the deeper nature of light that had eluded everyone else, including Einstein. With this work, he created the new area of physics known as quantum statistics.
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14 June 2016 / SF News / Eve Batey
LA Couple Might Have Murdered Construction Worker Over SoMa Porta-Potty
So apparently a construction worker was stabbed on 5th and Folsom. 2 suspects taken down right in front of my work. pic.twitter.com/7fthxZeYxV
— Ophylia Wispling (@wispling) June 10, 2016
According to one broadcast TV station's unnamed sources, the SoMa construction worker who was stabbed to death last week might have been murdered by an LA couple because she refused to allow them to use the job site's porta-potty, the second such alleged attack by the duo.
You likely caught a bit of the story last week: At around 9:30 a.m. Friday, 58-year-old construction worker Mitzi Campbell was directing traffic at the South of Market intersection of Fifth and Shipley Streets, when witnesses say they saw her arguing with a couple near the job site.
As Campbell escorted the couple, since identified by the San Francisco Police Department as 23-year-old Lizette Cauich and 42-year-old Oscar Mendez, away from the construction site, witnesses say that Cauich pulled out a weapon and stabbed Campbell multiple times.
Though the couple allegedly led, they were pursued by Campbell's co-workers, and were arrested near Fifth and Folsom Streets.
Campbell was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries and died.
But while Gatpandan could not offer any additional information on the motive behind Campbell's slaying, Chron investigative scribe turned NBC Bay Area reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken has unnamed sources who claim that a job site porta-potty was the source of the dispute.
According to NBC's report, "Cauich became angry when Campbell refused to allow her use of the construction site toilet" and that authorities have since linked Cauich and Mendez to a similar attack in the Tenderloin on May 29.
As reported by Bay City News on May 31, that attack occurred at 1:30 p.m. near Eddy and Taylor streets, when "a 23-year-old woman and a man of unspecified age, asked the victim to use a portable toilet located in a lot in the area."
When the man turned them down, they allegedly "stabbed him in the upper torso with a knife," leaving him with life-threatening injuries.
According to Bay City News, both are scheduled to be arraigned in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon, and will face charges in both crimes. Mendez faces charges of attempted murder, mayhem, assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, battery with serious injury, carrying a dirk and dagger, possession of a controlled substance, receiving or buying stolen property and giving false information to a police officer. Mendez, who like Cauich is a resident of Los Angeles, is also the subject of LA County arrest warrants for assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence, Gatpandan says.
Cauich's charges include murder, attempted murder, mayhem, assault with force likely to commit great bodily injury, and battery with serious bodily injury. Both are, according to a San Francisco County Jail spokesperson, presently being held without bail.
Previously: Female Construction Worker Fatally Stabbed In SoMa
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Juror In Brock Turner Case Pens Letter To Judge, Says 'Shame On You'
None of the names of the predominantly male jury in the sexual assault trial of Brock Turner have been revealed, however we are now hearing from the first of those jurors to speak
Lineup Released For Last Ever Treasure Island Music Festival (On Treasure Island Anyway)
Treasure Island Music Festival's tenth anniversary performance, taking place on October 15th and 16th you know where, has just released its overall lineup. That's below for your careful consideration. Headliners are Ice Cube
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Recent Skoda news
Skoda has been making the news a lot this week, with the Skoda Yeti being launched in the UK and the company adding new Monte Carlo and L&K models to it's line up. Here's a brief overview of the recent news from Skoda.
The Skoda Yeti is launched in the UK
In an effort to advertise the new Yeti model, Skoda's UK dealership's creative director has found an interesting way to celebrate it's launch. They took the Skoda Yeti Outdoor and froze the vehicle inside a giant block of ice in Covent Garden, London. In order for people to be able to see inside, the company had to use crystal clear ice.
According to the Communications Manager at Skoda UK, Sarah Chapman, this was the company's way of portraying the idea of “breaking free from everyday life, seizing the day and having those adventures with your family.”
Alongside this, there was also a contest and a Yeti mascot. The contest consisted of guessing the weight of the car combined with the block of ice, the prize being a Skoda Yeti vehicle. The idea worked well with lots of people showing interest in the new Yeti model. Prices for the Skoda Yeti Outdoor model start at £19,605 to £20,260 with extras fitted.
The Skoda Monte Carlo
The company's Monte Carlo models have sold well in Fabia form, so the firm have decided to expand the sporty trim level to the Citigo, Yeti and Rapid Spaceback ranges. The cars are marked out by black alloys in sizes from 15 to 17 inches and dark-tinted rear windows. The Yeti and Rapid Spaceback Monte Carlos also have a black roof. Inside, the Monte Carlo models gain a special red stitched steering wheel, black interior trim and sports seats.
The Monte Carlo models add a more distinctive look and are intended to represent Skoda's successes in motorsport. Last year, Skoda achieved one of the most successful years in it's motorsport history, with Czech driver Jan Kopecky winning the European Rally Championship, Indian star Guarav Gill taking the Asia-Pacific Rally series and Paraguayan driver Gustavo Saba winning the South American Rally Championship.
The Skoda L&K
The Octavia L&K takes it's name from Laurin & Klement, the founders of Skoda. The trim level will become available on both the Octavia hatch and Estate.
The new Octavia L&K will be available with three engines; the 1.8 litre TSI petrol and two versions of the 2.0 litre TDI diesel. The petrol model comes with a choice of six speed manual or DSG gearboxes, and the latter will be available with four wheel drive. The 1.8 litre TSI with six speed DSG is also available with all wheel drive.
The lower powered diesel will be available with a manual transmission and four wheel drive, while the high power diesel with DSG and four wheel drive will top the range when it arrives later in 2014.
Standard equipment will include 18 inch alloy wheels, bi-x3enon headlamps with LED daytime running lights and LED tail lights. Inside, the model gets a multifunctional steering wheel, leather/Alcantara seats, an upgraded stereo and extra decorative trim.
Skoda will be featuring their new VisionC concept, the new Octavia Scout, Monte Carlo and L&K models at the Geneva Motor Show next month alongside other manufacturer's models.
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Rob Mensching
FireGiant
About Rob Mensching
I am the CEO and Co-Founder of FireGiant. I founded FireGiant with Kirk Fertitta to tap three decades of setup and deployment experience on Windows to bring commercial grade support to the WiX toolset.
See the full list of FireGiant services.
I am also the benevolent dictator for the WiX toolset. WiX contains the most powerful tools available to create Windows Installer packages with integration into Visual Studio and an extensive library of standard custom actions.
The WiX toolset was released in April 2004 as the first Open Source project from Microsoft. A vibrant developer community supports its users around the world. Join us!
Finally, from 1999 - 2013, I was a Principal Software Design Engineer at Microsoft where I worked on products including: Microsoft Office XP and 2003, Windows Server, Windows Vista, Windows Marketplace/Microsoft Store, Live Mesh and Visual Studio 2012.
You can reach me directly at "rob at robmensching.com" or via Twitter
at @robmen
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News and Headlines. 7/12/2019
By Robert on July 12, 2019
Covered today: Headlines in the News also sections on Immigration, Politics, World News, Commentary/Opinion. Side sections, Market Watch news feed, Fox news feed, Movie reviews.
Maui residents are allowed to go home, but wildfire persists
Firefighters will continue to monitor the blaze that has consumed an estimated 10,000 acres of fallow former sugar cane and dry brush, according the county.
The County of Maui activated its Emergency Operations Center in the morning. By afternoon, the flames were burning out of control and emergency officials sent a mobile alert warning nearby residents to evacuate.
More than 600 people fled as the blaze scorched 3,000 acres, the mayor’s office said. The Maui Humane Society moved its animals in crates and kennels to a nearby high school.
Labor Secretary Acosta announces he will step down, amid criticism over Epstein plea deal
“I called the president today … I submitted my resignation,” Acosta said. “It would be selfish for me to stay in this position and continue talking about a case that is 12 years old rather than the incredible economy we have today.”
The president, though, underscored that it was Acosta’s decision to resign from his post, and touted his work in the administration.
“Alexander is a great labor secretary — not a good labor secretary,” he said. “There is no need at all, as far as I’m concerned…
This is a person that I’ve gotten to know. There hasn’t been an ounce of controversy at the Department of Labor.”
INCYMI: President Trump Hosts A Social Media Summit
Donald Trump Thanks James O’Keefe at White House Social Media Summit
Video Of Confrontation At White House Edited To Cut Out Reporter’s Initial Taunting Of Crowd
Yes, we have come to this. Yesterday the White House was the setting for a scene that seems to capture the total loss of decorum in our politics and press.
What is equally troubling is that videos posted by outlets like the Washington Post and reported on cable cut out Karem unprofessional taunting and only showed Gorka’s boorish response:
Here is the full clip:
Device resembling pipe bomb found at Philadelphia airport, prompts shutdown of baggage room
The checked bag triggered an alarm, causing a Transportation Security Administration officer to open the luggage and discover the device, which had the makings of a pipe bomb.
TSA evacuated the checked baggage room and called the police. A bomb squad arrived at the scene, a press release shared.
Officials were able to track down the passenger, who explained the bomb-like apparatus was actually a prototype laser for a robot.
South Carolina deputy saves choking 12-day-old infant after stopping speeding vehicle
The infant can be seen making small movements and crying every so often but there is one point in the video where she appears to stop moving all together.
(Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office)
In the footage released Thursday, the deputy was captured on his own body cam feeling for a pulse before beginning to massage 12-day-old Riley’s chest. He attempts to open the child’s airway by lifting her neck and inserting his finger in her mouth.
Deputy W. Kimbro with the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office pulled a vehicle over on June 11 in the Summerville area for speeding.
After the car stopped, one of the passengers exited and explained to Kimbro that they were rushing a small infant to hospital after she was found choking and had stopped breathing.
Kimbro immediately jumped into action, “Let me have the baby.”
Chick-Fil-A manager changes 96-year-old WWII veteran’s tire in ‘beautiful’ act of kindness
Chick-Fil-A manager Daryl Howard is seen coming to the aid of a 96-year-old man with a flat tire outside of a restaurant in Severn, Maryland. (Photo credit: Rudy Somoza)
Chick-Fil-A manager Daryl Howard was working the front line of the restaurant on Thursday in Severn, Maryland.
The veteran, known to employees as 96-year-old “Mr. Lee,” entered the store “shaking” and “almost in tears,” according to fellow manager Rudy Somoza.
Standing in line, Mr. Lee told employees he was driving on three tires and barely made it to the entrance of the restaurant due to a flat tire and didn’t have any help to change it.
Man Beaten to Death After Stealing Car With Kids Inside, Police Say
The violent ordeal began around 9 p.m. when a 25-year-old woman parked her Hyundai sedan outside a pizza shop on 29th and Dauphin streets in North Philadelphia.
The woman left her three young children inside the running car as she went inside to visit her boyfriend, who was an employee at the restaurant and the father of two of the kids, police said.
The woman’s boyfriend ran after the thief, police said. The man drove about half a block before getting stuck in traffic at 29th and York streets, officials said.
Oklahoma man arrested in stolen car with snake, uranium, gun, whiskey: Cops
In this booking provided by the Guthrie, Oklahoma Police Department, Stephen Jennings is pictured. (Guthrie, Oklahoma Police Department via AP)
Stephen Jennings was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, transporting an open container of liquor and driving with a suspended license after police initially pulled him over on June 26 for having expired tags.
After making the arrests, police began the process of impounding the SUV — when they noticed a terrarium in the backseat.
Further inspection revealed that Jennings was in possession of a Timber rattlesnake — that was directly next to powdered uranium.
Police: Utah man deceived teen girl on Snapchat before raping her
20-year-old Tristan Todd Larson charged with rape of a child
According to a probable cause statement, 20-year-old Tristan Todd Larson posed as a middle school student on Snapchat to talk to the girl.
Investigators said he sent messages to the teenage victim who believed Larson was a female classmate.
The probable cause statement alleges, on June 22, when the victim went to visit the person she was chatting with, Larson opened the door of his North Logan apartment, pulled the girl inside and tied a bandanna around her mouth before he raped her.
Prominent liberal church ousts pastor after alleged sex toy shopping spree
The Rev. Amy Butler, an anti-Trump rising star at Riverside Church known as “Pastor Amy,” had a formal harassment claim filed against her in May in a shocking fall from grace for a congregation known for its inter-denominational liberalism and progressive beliefs on LGBTQ, immigration, and environmental issues, according to the New York Post.
The 49-year-old minister, who was hired in 2014, allegedly led one member of her flock and two fellow preachers into a Minneapolis sex shop called the Smitten Kitten, while they were there for a religious conference.
U.S. Women’s Soccer Star Snubbed For Being Openly Christian?
“Many have wondered if the snub had anything to do with the player’s refusal to promote the LGBT lifestyle, reportedly on Christian moral grounds,” reports Sputnik.
Coach Jill Ellis claimed that the decision to leave out Hinkle was ‘solely based on soccer’, but this explanation was greeted with “widespread scepticism,” according to the Washington Times.
Many believe that Hinkle was frozen out because she spoke out against the US Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized same-sex marriage and in 2017 refused to play in a match where the US team wore special rainbow-themed team jerseys for two international friendlies celebrating Gay Pride Month.
L.A. business owners fed up with homeless crisis: Mayor keeps promising action, but ‘there is no improvement’
According to the L.A. Times, there are about 59,000 homeless people in the county, with the population in the city of Los Angeles growing 16 percent this year to more than 36,000 and the majority living on city streets.
Peter Mozgo and his wife, attorney Maria Janossy, told Fox & Friends on Friday that they’re losing potential customers because more and more people are sleeping on the sidewalks around their business, the Hungarian Cultural Alliance.
Mozgo said the city must take “immediate” action and characterized Garcetti’s statements as all talk with little action.
Kanye West building Star Wars inspired low-income housing prototypes
During an interview with Forbes, the rap mogul revealed he has been working on “prefabricated structures” that were inspired by Star Wars – specifically Luke Skywalker’s childhood home.
West reportedly has a meeting with potential investors in San Francisco, which is battling a massive homelessness problem.
He is reportedly hoping to use them as a low-income housing option.
Pentagon acknowledges burn pits exposes veterans to health risks but refuses to close them, report shows
The burn pits were used to dispose of all manner of waste – including highly toxic chemicals and compounds. (Courtesy of Dan Brewer)
Since veterans returned home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been a long and contentious debate over the data surrounding the effects of burn pit exposure.
Thousands of veterans have linked their chronic medical issues, including cancer and respiratory illnesses, to burn pits that release dangerous toxins.
A feasibility study conducted by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, which was provided to Congress last month, was supposed to figure out how to end burn pits for waste disposal on overseas military bases.
Instead, critics said, the report seemingly defended the use of burn pits because there are no other options.
Over 400,000 Facebook users pledge Area 51 raid: ‘lets see them aliens’
DigitalGlobe satellite image Area 51. The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range. (Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty Images)
As of Friday, 416,000 people were listed as “going” to the planned raid, which event organizers say will take place on September 20 at 3 a.m. An additional 428,000 people were listed as “interested.”
Attendees will supposedly meet at a nearby “tourist attraction” where they will “coordinate our entry.”
“If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets,” the event description said referencing a Japanese comic character known for his speed.
The Coast Guard seized $569 million worth of drugs
The Coast Guard stands watch as vessels seized for smuggling drugs are scuttled and sunk into the Pacific Ocean in May. (U.S. Coast Guard/Released)
A significant portion of those seizures — roughly 85 percent of the cocaine — will be used as evidence in cases that will be tried in the U.S. Middle District of Florida in Tampa, said Homeland Security Investigations Tampa Special Agent in Charge James Spero.
The Coast Guard, Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Administration all took part in the investigations.
A majority of the cocaine comes from Central and South America and was on its way to Mexico or other Central American countries via the high seas, Spero said.
Then smugglers would likely have tried to smuggle them across the U.S.’s southern border.
‘Helping People Avoid Justice’: Border Patrol Union President Reacts To Clinton’s Advice To Illegal Aliens
“I’m amazed that somebody that somebody that ran for president of the United States — that was willing to promise to uphold the laws of the United States, the Constitution of the United States — is now actively helping people avoid justice,” Judd, who leads the Border Patrol’s union of nearly 20,000 members, said Friday on Fox News.
Judd’s comments follow a tweet Clinton sent Thursday.
The former first lady and Democratic presidential candidate published an image that contained a list, written in Spanish, of recommendations for illegal aliens to follow in order to avoid apprehension and deportation from ICE agents.
Pastor who volunteers at Florida migrant shelter blasted by Dems says care at facility is ‘phenomenal’
Russell Black, pastor and president of Latin Impact Ministries,
“It’s actually been overwhelmingly surprising how good the care is at the shelter,” Black told “Fox & Friends” Friday morning.
He pointed out that, unlike the candidates, has actually been inside the facility and interacts with the children, not shouting at them from a distance.
The pastor explained that thousands of migrants have attended services church held every Saturday morning and “lives have been changed.”
He also refutes allegations made from “staged visits where tours are conducted,” adding he visits multiple times during the week and has made spontaneous visits but has found the care “consistent” each time.
Donald Trump Confirms Sunday ICE Raids: ‘We’re Focused on Criminals’
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on July 12, 2019. – Trump is traveling to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Cleveland, Ohio. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
“It starts on Sunday, and they’re going to take people out and they’re going to bring them back to their countries,” the president said of the planned raids as he left the White House for a trip to Wisconsin and Ohio.
“We’re focused on criminals as much as we can, before we do anything else.”
Asked by the media if the administration had given warning of the raid, President Trump said there was no need to do so.
“There’s nothing to be secret about,” he said. “ICE is law enforcement, they are great patriots, they have a tough job. Nothing to be secret about. If the word gets out, it gets out.”
CBP Completes 50 Miles of New Border, 50 More Underway
View of the Mexico-US wall in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico on June 18, 2019. (AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP/Getty Images)
“Fifty miles of new border wall on the Southwest border and construction continues every day,” Morgan announced in a July 10 Twitter post.
“Construction is underway for more than 50 additional miles and more contract awards are anticipated by the end of the year.”
Accompanying Morgan’s Twitter post were a few photos, some showing the construction process—others depicting the finished product. It didn’t say exactly where the new wall was being built.
Last month, President Donald Trump praised a decision reached by the federal court denying a request by House Democrats to block funds being appropriated from other accounts for the construction of the border wall.
Ex-ICE chief Homan delivers fiery defense of border agents at hearing, rips lawmakers: ‘Do your job’
“If you don’t like this, do your job. Fix it,” Homan testified before the House Oversight Committee, recalling in graphic detail his own experiences on the job seeing dead bodies in tractor-trailers as he underscored the severity of the border crisis.
He said agents, amid this crisis, have been subject to “unprecedented attack and vilification” and “those men and women who chose a life of service to this nation deserve better, not only from the media but those in this committee and other members of Congress.”
“As a 34-year veteran of law enforcement, it is shocking, shocking to see constant attacks against those that leave the safety and security of their homes every day, put on a Kevlar vest and put a gun on their hip and risk their own safety to defend this nation,” he said, at times appearing to get choked up as he defended his former colleagues.
Princeton Policy Study: 300,000 Illegal Immigrant Kids Will Enroll in School in a Few Weeks
“We anticipate more than 700,000 migrants will successfully enter the country, increasing the unauthorized Hispanic population by nearly 10 percent,” the organization reportedly wrote in a memo.
Under the Obama administration, if an illegal family group couldn’t prove it lived in the district — or if a parent or guardian showed up with children to the school and didn’t have valid identification — school officials had to treat the children as homeless students.
“By year end, nearly 300,000 migrant children are expected to enter the U.S. Over time, these will show up in the U.S. public school system,” the Princeton Policy Advisors memo said, as The Washington Examiner reported.
This projected increase places a huge burden on local school districts and states — many of which are already struggling to provide a good education for the children who live there legally.
White House says the American people have a right to know who is in this country illegally
Fox New Video: White House says the American people have a right to know who is in this country illegally.
AOC tears into Trump for ‘manufactured’ border crisis at emotional hearing on migrant detention
At the hearing, Ocasio-Cortez maintained: “This is a manufactured crisis because the cruelty is manufactured.”
The lawmaker — who demanded to be sworn in before her testimony despite Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., noting this was not normally done — said that blame was not to be placed on border agents, but on the Trump administration. She took aim at senior adviser Stephen Miller.
Testifying next, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, broke into tears as she recalled what she saw at the border, and also scolded President Trump and others for using the phrase illegal immigrants.
Republicans on the panel slammed Democrats for allegedly downplaying the crisis at the border for years, and noted the sizeable Democratic opposition to a bill granting funding for humanitarian aid at the border.
That bill passed last month, but Ocasio-Cortez and her allies opposed it.
Mueller testimony could be delayed amid ‘breakdown in negotiations’
Internal talks over the structure of the hearings originally scheduled for July 17 have been heating up for days, with some members complaining they might not have enough time carved out to ask questions.
Sources said Friday morning the hearings will be pushed back to July 24. A senior source said there was a “breakdown in negotiations” to have Mueller appear.
Yet the Democratic majority on the House Judiciary Committee maintained: “At this moment we still plan to have our hearing on the 17th and we will let you know if that changes.”
Conservative Aims to Hold Trump Antagonist Schiff Accountable
Eric Early. Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP
Trump has called Schiff “a disgrace” and “Little pencil neck Adam Schiff.”
Early shared his contempt for Schiff in an interview with The Epoch Times.
“I’ve watched Adam Schiff lie to every one of us for two years about Russian collusion,” he said. “I’m done watching the ever-evolving disaster that is Adam Schiff.
“He’s been in elected office for 23 years and has nothing to show for it other than vanity clips on national television and tens of millions of wasted taxpayer dollars. …
Homelessness has skyrocketed on his watch. Every day Californians’ cost of living is out of control.
Crime is on the rise and Schiff, by his actions and inaction, shows that he couldn’t care less,” Early said.
Early said he’s in the race “to hold him accountable, for the people.”
Despite US Warnings, Russian S-400 Systems Land in Turkey
Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems ride through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2017. (Kirill Kurdyavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)
A Defense Ministry statement said “the first group of equipment” of the S-400 air defense systems has reached the Murted Air Base near the capital, Ankara. Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said three planes carrying the equipment landed at the airfield on Friday, adding that the delivery would continue in the coming days.
Although President Donald Trump expressed sympathy toward Turkey’s decision to purchase the Russian system during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a G-20 meeting in Japan, Washington has repeatedly said that the Russian system is incompatible with NATO systems and is a threat to the F-35.
The deal with Russia—the first such deal between Russia and a NATO member—has also raised concerns that Turkey is drifting closer to Moscow’s sphere of influence.
South African army descends on Cape Town to combat spiraling gang warfare
Soldiers parade at the inauguration of Cyril Ramaphosa as South African president at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa May 25, 2019. (Reuters)
“It can’t continue, people are dying,” South Africa’s Police Minister Bheki Cele announced Thursday evening. “We’ll have to do something extra”.
With that, the minister announced the army will be sent into the city’s Cape Flats suburbs to help stop the latest spate of murders.
Armored military vehicles and troops in full combat gear will be on these city streets for up to three months in an attempt to combat what has become a gangster’s battleground.
Somalia extremist attack in port city of Kismayo kills 10
Abdi Ahmed, a local district official, told The Associated Press Friday night that the death toll may rise as fighting is continuing inside the Asasey Hotel between the extremist gunmen and security forces.
He said gunfire is continuing inside the hotel.
He said most of the victims were patrons of the hotel, which is often frequented by lawmakers and local officials. He said the victims include two journalists.
Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic extremist rebels have claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Dozens of birds ‘bleeding from their mouths’ fall from the sky in Australia
The majority of birds found by rescuers on Tuesday and Wednesday were long-billed corellas, a protected species, and on the brink of death when they landed near a local primary school, according to reports by ABC Adelaide.
“Only two or three were actually deceased.
The rest were just screaming on the ground. They couldn’t fly anymore, they were bleeding out of their mouths,” Sarah King, the founder of Casper’s Bird Rescue, told The Guardian.
King, whose staff member discovered the birds, said the corellas were “literally falling out of the trees” and likely died “a horrible, miserable and very stressful death.”
New Finnish Study Finds No Evidence For Man-Made Climate Change
The study found that, “During the last hundred years the temperature is increased about 0.1°C because of carbon dioxide. The human contribution was about 0.01°C.”
Kauppinen and Malmi conclude that global temperatures are controlled primarily by cloud cover and that “only a small part” of the increased carbon dioxide concentration is anthropogenic.
The study also calls into question the claims of the UN IPCC, which concluded that global temperatures are largely driven by human activity.
While the methods and results of the study can be debated, this once again illustrates how there is no overwhelming consensus on man-made global warming as the media often claims.
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With ‘Diversity’ And ‘Multiculturalism’ The Weapons Being Used To Destroy Freedom And America, We Must Rise Up To Face The Challenge Or Western Civilization Comes Crashing Down
While many Democrats are still screaming out in insanity when Americans say that we need to restrict immigrants coming into America, claiming we are ‘hateful’ because we’d like to see some kind of ‘law and order’ surrounding who can come into this country and who cannot, none other than the Dalai Llama recently warned BBC in an interview that “Europe is for Europeans” while warning that if too many migrants are allowed to stay, the continent could become “Muslim” or “African”.
With the Dalai Llama’s warning coming during the same time period that we have seen Western Civilization under complete attack, with Tommy Robinson a prime example of what happens when Islamo-fascist tyranny comes into an area with him now facing at least 9 months in prison (and possibly a death sentence for carrying out ‘the crime of journalism’) for simply reporting upon truthful stories such as Islamic child grooming gangs, the UK and much of Europe have become dead nations walking and a huge warning to America should Democrats have their way. Breitbart also recently reported on the Dalai Llama’s comments.:
So we’ll be taking a look within this ANP story at some of the latest signs of freedom and Western Civilization under attack with a huge focus on what we as awakened Americans can do to peacefully fight back against emerging tyranny via us taking a look at a new book written by Jamie Walden titled “Omega Dynamics”, with Walden recently doing an outstanding interview in a video recently posted to Steve Quayle’s youtube channel that we’ve embedded as the only video at the bottom of this story to talk about preparing for the battle that we are now facing.
Here’s Why the George Washington Mural in San Francisco Must Not Be Destroyed
The reasoning and faulty logic sounds familiar to most conservatives: The picture includes slaves and Indians laboring for colonists and George Washington, and celebrates colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy and thus should be erased.
But the counter-arguments are particularly persuasive in this case.
This is not Confederate statues that are used as symbols of white supremacy but George Washington, the founder of our country.
The “Life of Washington” was painted by Victor Arnautoff 83 years ago, so it is from a famous and respected artist.
His work was controversial at the time because his inclusion of slaves and Native-Americans was a subtle critique of American history.
It praised George Washington and America’s founding but reminded anybody who looked at it that it was based in part on conquest and slavery.
Much like the streets at West Point that were named after Confederates in the name of reconciliation, the San Francisco officials ignore the intent of this critical piece of art.
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PHOTOS: Fingerpickin' good at the Joe Val Bluegrass Fest
FRAMINGHAM - The 33rd Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, which continues Saturday and Sunday at the Framingham Sheraton, has a full slate of performances on two stages, more than 60 workshops and education programs and a hotel full of rockin' bluegrass, country, rock and genre-bending music.
Highlights included performances from Hot Rize, dropping in as part of their 40th anniversary tour. This is a rare area appearance from the band that served as a gateway to bluegrass for many music fans from other genres. Their alter egos, Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers were rumored to also be on hand. Their performance closes out the Festival on Sunday.
On Friday, the festival welcomed back an old friend in David Davis and the Warrior River Boys from Alabama. He’s a great singer, expressive mandolin player, and his band has a classic, hard-driving bluegrass sound.
The sound of the Portland, Oregon’s Foghorn Stringband could have come barreling through the grille-cloth of those big console radios in the living rooms of the 1950s, when the traditional sounds of rural America were still on the minds of young musicians transferring the old-time music to a distinctively modern age. Their tight instrumental work is reminiscent of early bluegrass, but their powerful approach is whole-heartedly authentic old-time.
The festival is presented by the Boston Bluegrass Union, which takes its education mission to heart as the festival hosts more than 70 workshops and education programs throughout the weekend. These range from intimate performances or hands on sessions with main stage artists. Highlights included Early Days of the Country Gentlemen with Bluegrass Hall of Fame members Eddie Adcock and Tom Gray, and Brother Duets with the Gibson Brothers.
Single day and weekend tickets can be purchased at the door. For ticket prices and schedule, visit http://www.bbu.org/events/joe-val-festival/
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New On-Ramp Will Smooth Sea Isle Traffic
A new on-ramp is under construction to link Sea Isle Boulevard with the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway at Exit 17.
By Donald Wittkowski
It’s not the easiest of turns, especially at night.
Motorists leaving Sea Isle City on Sea Isle Boulevard have to make a hard right and then squeeze into a narrow lane next to a concrete construction barrier to head north on the Garden State Parkway.
For the past three years, this mini-obstacle course has challenged everyone’s driving skills at the Exit 17 on-ramp to the parkway. It is even more difficult in limited visibility at night.
But as part of the next phase of Sea Isle Boulevard’s reconstruction, the entrance ramp is being reconfigured to offer a much wider and easier way to hop on the parkway at Exit 17.
Work crews have started construction on a new ramp that will allow motorists to merge onto the parkway’s northbound lanes without having to go through the trouble of making a sharp right-hand turn.
“I have confidence in them that it will be a lot better. It already looks a lot better,” Jack Gibson, president of Sea Isle’s City Council, said of the new ramp as it begins to take shape.
Gibson, who is a civil engineer, hopes the project will include a deceleration lane allowing cars to slow down and then merge onto the on-ramp without backing up traffic behind them.
Motorists currently must squeeze into a narrow, temporary on-ramp to gain access to the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway.
It is not clear when the ramp will be completed, but previously Cape May County said the final work on Sea Isle Boulevard would be finished in time for the summer tourism season beginning Memorial Day weekend. The county oversees the boulevard.
Robert Church, the Cape May County engineer, could not be reached for comment Tuesday about the new ramp. A spokesman for the New Jersey Highway Authority, the parkway’s operating agency, also was unavailable for comment.
During the past four years, Sea Isle Boulevard has undergone a $12.7 million reconstruction. The road has been raised by 4.5 feet to create an elevated evacuation route that will protect motorists from flooding on the low-lying barrier island.
Altogether, a 1.7-mile stretch of the boulevard has been rebuilt from the Garden State Parkway’s Exit 17 to the bridge entering Sea Isle. In the final stages of the project, the new ramp linking the boulevard with the northbound lanes of the parkway is under construction.
The boulevard serves as the main entryway into Sea Isle. The rebuilt road is wider than the cramped old boulevard and includes new shoulders as another safety feature.
Construction crews work near an embankment on Sea Isle Boulevard.
Meanwhile, Exit 17 remains only a two-way interchange. In its current configuration, the interchange is split into two parts.
Exit 17’s off-ramp on the southbound side of the Garden State Parkway merges with Sea Isle Boulevard. For motorists wanting to access the parkway’s northbound lanes, they must follow Sea Isle Boulevard out of town and then hop on the on-ramp.
However, there is no southbound access to the parkway at Exit 17 off Sea Isle Boulevard. In addition, there is no exit to Sea Isle off the parkway’s northbound side.
Frustrated with the limited amount of access at Exit 17, Sea Isle officials want to see the two-way interchange turned into a full-fledged, four-way interchange.
City Council unanimously approved a resolution in July 2017 calling on the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to build a four-way interchange.
Gibson, who has championed the project, said a four-way interchange is needed to improve both safety and traffic flow, particularly on summer weekends, when Sea Isle is flooded with tourists.
Exit 17’s limited access causes bottlenecks that spill off the parkway onto Sea Isle Boulevard and cascade to Route 9, he explained.
Exit 17 on the southbound side of the Garden State Parkway takes traffic to Sea Isle City.
Nearly two years after City Council approved the resolution, Gibson is still waiting for a response from the highway authority on Sea Isle’s request for a four-way interchange.
In an interview Tuesday, Gibson called the city’s request “a longshot.” He noted that he doesn’t feel insulted that the highway authority has not yet responded to Council’s resolution.
“The last thing I want to do is get into a fight unnecessarily with the people we need to work with from time to time,” he said of the authority.
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How an Arts-and-Crafts architect fought to preserve the beauty of Chipping Campden
Clive Aslet September 23, 2018
The war memorial, designed by Griggs, a Catholic convert, was the subject of bitter controversy when it was built. Picture published in the 19/09/2018 issue of CLF. Credit: Justin Paget/Country Life Picture Library
Clive Aslet tells the remarkable story of Frederick Landseer Griggs, his struggle, his triumphs and his legacy. Photographs by Justin Paget.
For at least the past 100 years, Chipping Campden, in heart of the Cotswolds, has been widely regarded as a paradise. This was certainly the view of the etcher Frederick Landseer Griggs, who came to live there in 1904 and was its doughtiest defender. He sympathetically restored houses on the High Street, battled against a tide of ugliness that engulfed other towns and villages and used money he could ill afford to safeguard its surroundings.
He also strove to demonstrate the continuing viability of the domestic architecture that he admired from the past by building his own house, out of the scant income he received from his artistic projects. It was a heroic struggle against the world – perhaps an unequal one as regards his own domestic aspirations, but triumphant in respect of the continuing loveliness of Chipping Campden.
Griggs grew up in Hitchin, in Hertford-shire, the son of a Baptist baker and confectioner. At the age of 16, he became an architectural draughtsman to Walter Millard, but, three years later, he moved on to the office of C. E. Mallows, one of that golden gene-ration of domestic architects who benefited from the prosperity of the Edwardian era.
The Eatery on the High Street, restored by Griggs and Jewson.
Accomplished more than successful, Mallows loved gardens and drawing and Griggs bloomed there as a perspectivist. Later, the pair worked together on a series of architectural caprices for Studio magazine.
In 1897, Griggs set up his own studio in Hitchin. Artistically, his gods were Samuel Palmer (he later commented, apropos his etching Stoke Poges, that SP were sacred initials to him) and Turner, whose engravings he collected: he would leaf through them with friends on cosy evenings at Chipping Campden.
In 1900, the publisher Macmillan commissioned Griggs to illustrate the Hertfordshire volume of its ‘Highways and Byways’ series. This was the beginning of an association that lasted 40 years and produced a dozen books, with drawings by Griggs converted to wood engravings by other hands.
It was when researching subjects for the Oxford and the Cotswolds volume that, in November 1903, Griggs first roared into Campden – locals drop the Chipping – on his Rex motor tricycle: an unlikely advent for a man who forever deplored the influence of the internal-combustion engine.
In 1918, he refused to vote Labour, as he had intended, after hearing the candidate speak of ‘improved transport facilities for the country’ (he went for a walk on Westington Hill, outside Campden, instead).
Campden was not a sleepy backwater. The year before, C. R. Ashbee had arrived at the head of 50 or so craftsmen belonging to the Guild of Handicraft, previously located in Whitechapel. In Campden, they occupied some of the cottages that the collapse of agriculture had left empty and took enthusiastically to the joys of rural life, surprising the inhabitants of Campden with Swedish exercises and swimming expeditions, amateur dramatics and marching bands.
Griggs had friends among the Guildsmen. Soon, he was making a pilgrimage to Sussex to meet William Morris’s friend, the architect Philip Webb: if Morris, by then dead, was the fountainhead of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement, Webb was the conduit through which his spirit flowed. Griggs moved to Campden, lodging first at the Guild’s Hall of Residence for single men at Braithwaite House. In 1906, he became tenant of what, for a bachelor, was a large Georgian residence on the High Street: Dover’s House.
As yet wifeless, Griggs had found love of a different kind – in the architecture and surroundings of his new home. As he wrote to Millard in 1908, ‘after the garishness of Hitchin, Cambridge and Bedford, Campden is a great relief to one’s eyesight – and one’s hearing too. It’s so fine to hear the birds singing in the streets in the middle of the day’.
Initially, Dover’s House was furnished, sparsely, with 18th-century pieces and Sheffield plate. After a while, Griggs underwent a conversion to the Arts-and-Crafts aesthetic of the Sapperton community of architects and craftsmen that included Ernest Gimson.
In 1924, the young would-be poet Chris-topher Whitfield, who, although 25 years Griggs’s junior, became a close friend, recorded his first impression of Dover’s House in his diary. It was ‘full of beautiful things and is damp and the distemper is peeling off the walls. There are marvellous Gimson pieces of furniture and perfect pictures and prints, always in the right place, and his books are amazing, such fine editions and so finely bound’. A piano was hired.
In 1926, Whitfield, who did not quite buy into the ‘old England’ vision, was exasperated to find Griggs, the architect Norman Jewson and various neighbours singing to the strains of a ‘creaking harpsichord’.
Miles House, to which Griggs added Lutyensesque bays.
Griggs experienced another conversion at Campden, this time spiritual. Unusually for an English country town, Campden has a handsome – if idiosyncratic – Roman Catholic church, designed by the Malvern architect W. Lunn. Its presence can be explained by the conversion of the future 2nd Earl – then Viscount Campden – in 1850; the family descended from Baptist Hicks, the Jacobean merchant who built the market hall.
Griggs’s Catholicism became a cornerstone of his life. He dreamt of a pre-Reformation England and the glory of this past – gone, but not beyond hope of revival – was a recurrent theme of his etchings (these, unlike his topographical drawings, showed imaginary compositions). ‘Oh, my poor England,’ sighed Griggs, in a letter to journalist-poet Russell Alexander (now in the Ashmolean Museum). ‘Could Eden have been lovelier than we know England once was? Well, there are fragments.’
The joys of that morning in April 1923 included the bursting of leaf buds, plus carpets of bluebells, anemones and primroses in the woods, celandine and cowslips in the meadows. Griggs usually cheered up in the end.
He was not, however, a man of compromise. How else could he have prevailed in his assault on officialdom and public utilities between the World Wars? Remembering Griggs’s achievement at an evening of talks to mark the opening of an exhibition in 1985, the Campden historian Geoffrey Powell cited the absence of telephone and electricity cables: Griggs insisted they were all run underground. No Art Deco cinema was built.
The local council was persuaded to keep Campden’s prominent grass verges and to rebuild a group of new council houses in roughcast with stone quoins rather than brick. Further, Griggs also designed lanterns to light the streets and wrought-iron signs for the shops (although the originals have disappeared, the tradition continues).
On January 3, 1927, Griggs wrote to Alexander: ‘You’ll be glad to hear that I began the New Year well by saving the Old Row of Trees which borders the Coneygree (the meadow where we went ghost-hunting) – on my way home from Mass on Saturday.’
Part of Coneygree (which means rabbit warren) which Frederick Griggs personally raised the £1,500 to buy for the National Trust to prevent development on it.
In 1934, Griggs would organise the campaign to raise the money necessary to buy Coneygree for the National Trust to prevent development; eight years before, he had performed an even more valiant rescue, by personally buying Dover’s Hill– the glorious natural amphitheatre that, in the 17th century, had been the site of the ‘Olimpicks’, organised by the lawyer Robert Dover – when it came up for auction. This was a matter of acute financial anxiety until the transplanted American and local bene-factor Benjamin Chandler saved the day.
Following Ashbee’s example, Griggs res-tored some of the buildings on Campden’s High Street. His work rejoices in an occasional quirkiness; Miles House, for example, received Lutyensesque bays and a wilfully lopsided hood over the door. These efforts were consolidated by the found-ation, in 1929, of the Campden Trust, as a rolling fund to put derelict buildings to rights, sell them and move on to new challenges.
‘An ugly man – with deeply lined face but warm smile and hearty laugh’
Lucky Campden – but Griggs’s neighbours may not have thought so. A squall of controversy was caused by the war memorial, conceived by Griggs as a cross in an architectural setting, next to the famous market hall. Griggs had not fought in the war, having been declared unfit, and a cross, designed by a Catholic, was considered Papistical. On this occasion, Griggs got his own way, but this was not always so.
Before a meeting of the newly formed Campden Society in 1927, the architect looked, in Whitfield’s expression, ‘like a white lobster sitting on the edge of the pot into which he might have to jump to be boiled’. Soon afterwards, he resigned from the organisation ‘in a white, livery huff’.
At the height of the war-memorial furore, Griggs became engaged. His intended, Nina Muir, daughter of a High Court judge in India and sister of an artist, was 21, described in Jerrold Northrop Moore’s biography of Griggs as being of ‘delicate grey-eyed prettiness and diffident charm’.
She later remembered (in conversation with her daughter Barbara) the impression that Griggs, then in his mid forties, made on her: ‘An ugly man – with deeply lined face but warm smile and hearty laugh… Moody and melancholy… Terrible smoker’s cough.’ However, she was captivated by his energy and distinctiveness.
For his part, Griggs had always wanted a wife and family – not least, one suspects, as a reason to build a house. Certainly, as children came, Dover’s House began to feel small.
New Dover’s House, which Griggs began on Arts and Crafts principles in the 1920s but failed to finish before his death.
For a man reliant on the sale of his art, New Dover’s House was planned on a princely scale. The site was a burgage plot behind one of the houses in the main part of town, big enough to have an orchard and a tennis court. Two wings formed a suntrap on the garden side; one of them, in a more informal style, served as Griggs’s workroom and press. Money had never come easily, but Griggs did not intend to restrain himself in the creation of his domestic dream for want of it.
He infuriated his more cautious friends by lavishing care, craftsmanship and materials on details that would never normally be seen; beginning as he meant to continue, Griggs started the house with the cellar.
It is as beautifully constructed as a crypt.
However, 1927 was a bad year to begin an ambitious project. With the Depression, the bottom fell out of the market for prints. By the time of Griggs’s death in 1938, he was hopelessly mired in debt. To Barbara, then six, this did not spoil the fun. Her memories, recorded by the Chipping Campden History Society, are of tennis parties, Twelfth Night revels and the painful sewing of tough laurel leaves to make Christmas wreaths.
‘We can only live on and create the utmost beauty in our power, then die.’
The house was always full of people, with hearty luncheons, prepared using vegetables from the garden and fruit from the orchard, during which everyone – including children and the governess – was expected to contribute to the conversational buzz amid clouds of tobacco smoke, laughter, pencil-and-paper games, singing and walks.
In 1926, in one of his despairing moods, Griggs launched a tirade against the despoliation of England, the pace of which had increased in the previous 15 years. ‘What are we to do?’ asked Whitfield. Griggs’s answer was: ‘We can only live on and create the utmost beauty in our power, then die.’ Griggs did, inevitably, go the way of all mortal beings, but, in and around Chipping Campden, thanks to him, the beauty survives.
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Pentagon inquiry clears top general
A top general caught up in the scandal that forced former CIA Director David Petraeus to resign has been cleared of allegations that he wrote potentially inappropriate e-mails to Jill Kelley, the woman who claimed she was being threatened by Paula Broadwell, a U.S. defense official tells CNN.
The Department of Defense Inspector General has cleared Gen. John Allen, who currently is completing his post leading U.S. troops in Afghanistan and is in the running to be the next Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the military head of NATO.
"The IG has found the allegations against General Allen to be unsubstantiated. There have been no decisions made on General Allen's nomination to NATO," the official told CNN.
General Allen's nomination to be the military head of NATO was put on hold by the administration pending the outcome of the IG review. The secretary of defense now must decide whether to recommend to the White House whether the nomination, which has been put on hold, should go forward. But it was not known if Sec. Leon Panetta would make that decision or leave it for the next secretary of defense to decide.
The Pentagon released as statement late Tuesday that said Panetta was "pleased" with the conclusion of the inspector general's investigation.
"The Secretary has complete confidence in the continued leadership of General Allen, who is serving with distinction in Afghanistan," the statement read.
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This is too Gen. Hohn Allen is there anyways that a troop member can leave there early. Just want to know and if they cant when can they and how long do they have to wait to leave there to go to there family or new former girlfriend.
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Cleared by an Internal Investigation. Reminds me of police officer internal investigations after they shoot and kill an innocent civilian, "based on the findings" of the police departments internal investigation police officer John Q. Law was justified in shooting John Doe for police officer John Q. Law "thought his life was in danger" upon killing innocent civilian John Doe. The District County Attorney who is an elected official and (receives campaign donations) from the involved Police Union "clears" officer John Q. Law of any wrongdoing, and declines to press charges, Case closed, move on with your lives and get over it.
To Gen. John Allen
General Allen, since now you have been cleared of allegations, it is time you need to focus on Pakistani terrorist harboring tyrants. It is also time for the poor Pakistanis to unit against these blood sucking tyrants, corrupt government officials, and Saudi Mullahs, and ship them to their safe heavens in London and Middle East.
rtrauben
Complete whitewash. Confidence in this general is misplaced. Virtual booty calls on the job are
conduct unbecoming of a anyone in responsibility, particularly a general in the armed services.
Never rely on military brass to police military brass. If it walks like a duck and smells like a duck
its a duck regardless of what you call it. He put himself in a compromising situation and doesnt
have the good sense required to do the job.
You're a moron. Plain and simple.
Pinewalker
why do you trolls always revert to bully tactics when you don't like something you hear??? You apparently can't argue facts, so in childish shcoolyard bully fashion, all you can do is call soneone one of two categories....stupid or crazy. Grow up and start debatring with your big boy/big girl pants on.
January 23, 2013 at 9:49 am |
2bnfl
Here is the deal – I have been a DoD IG. There is no way having 10,000 emails received or sent (total) can be unsubstantiated. No General Officer should be communicating that many emails to a person that has nothing to do with his/her job – period. Now factor in the rest of the story and something is wrong. DoD is embarrassed and don't want to add to the issue.
I agree. Let's not forget that the DOD didn't do anything about Gen P. Nothing happened till old girl got threats and took the issue to her FBI friend who pushed the issue.
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Look it the chick a boom boom . Is a gold digger and thinks the gash gets her anywhere . So let my people go and send her to north korea
Well said, rtrauben. Just ignore these war loving morons here. A cover up it is! These clowns always stick together!
Hsbn Vic
Hope General Petraeus gets cleared as well. It high time some of this big boys realise that power is an aphrodisiac amongst some girls, and they don't hesitate to devour those who avail themselves.
Frozen Florida
You are not a vampire Frost...you are not PURE BLOOD!!
mcalleyboy
Untouchable General and they don't want to anger any more military high mighty a holes.
He is guilty, there was no value in poursuing this
The United States Marine Corps is the only service where the leadership has genuine integrity. They have always been that way and will continue the tradition for as long as the Corps exists.
You must be brand new, didn't do anything important, or else you were the mushroom in the office that people kept in the dark and fed Sh&%. I was a command adviser in the Marines for my career, and the Marines are no better than anybody else. Marines who drink the kool-aid like you not only sound like a fool, you get young Marines killed.
SgtMaj
David you are a moron, I am still serving in the Marine Corps, have been for 27 years and there is no such thing as a command advisor.
Every job is important or it wouldn't exist, you stuck-up, ignorant, little grand-standing poser.
SgtMaj, there is such a thing as a Command Adviser. We retire after 20 and get con jobs (contractor) advising commands on how to do their jobs, and get paid a lot more than we did while we were active-duty while still getting retirement. I don't know if this is what David was referring to, but the job does exists and I am surprised you don't know about it, and even more surprised at 27 years you haven't joined the game. In all honesty though, I know it is easier for us to get out at 20 then for the E side. My own Sergeants Major were my enlisted advisers, mostly because the 1stSgt did all the real work, so maybe that is what David was talking about. Who knows, who cares.
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee: Obama Asks Military Leaders If They Will “Fire On US
2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow shockingly claims he was told by a top
military veteran that the Obama administration’s “litmus test” for new military
leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.
Garrow was nominated three years ago for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize and is the
founder of The Pink Pagoda Girls, an organization dedicated to rescuing baby girls
from “gendercide” in China. Garrow has been personally involved in “helping rescue
more than 36,000 Chinese baby girls from death.” He is a public figure, not an
anonymous voice on the Internet, which makes his claim all the more disturbing.
“I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a
new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military
leaders. Get ready to explode folks. “The new litmus test of leadership in the
military is if they will fire on US citizens or not”. Those who will not are being
removed,” Garrow wrote on his Facebook page, later following up the post by adding the
man who told him is, “one of America’s foremost military heroes,” whose goal in
divulging the information was to “sound the alarm.”
ooooookay
Time to loosen the tin foil hat...
Britney Biebier Lohan
What about Manning? he has done nothing wrong, just exposing all the wrong doings about those current wars going on and he is in jail still. Has he been formally charged?
In a few years, this General S.O.B is going to pull a 'lance armstrong'.... "Yep, what I did was wrong, I know it was wrong, and it should not have happened."
Thank you, Britney. I couldn't agree more!
What about the Mossad Agent that took down,after going down on, the little general? Why has she not been charged with Spying for Israel?
Dr. Jack
You mean the dolphins who spied on Jordan or the vulture caught by the Sudanese secret service??
Please be more precise.
I cannot stand ambiguity!!
empresstrudy
Obama doesn't need generals. He can do it alone.
Pete/Ark
George – this is about a guy who was wrongly accused of impropriety and has been found not to have done anything wrong. You need to take your meds. We live in a country where we are supposed to use evidence to determine guilt, not just political idealogy. You clearly have something against conservatives. This is fine – I personally find them fundamentally repugnant and morally bankrupt and intellectually inferior. But your rant actually makes you sound more like a Teabagger than a progressive or liberal. Direct your ire where it belongs – to those who are trying to take away women's reproductive rights, those who are trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class, and those who are trying to promote the financial interests of gun manufacturers because they don't give a rat's about dead children. I personally thought the investigation against this guy was a bit of a witch hunt and am glad he has been cleared.
Alan S
Charlotte: Your comments about conservatives do not reflect well on you.
Evskie
I thought Charlotte was spont on!! Vast majority of republicans are more like a hate group than anything else. All you have to do is read the comments on any board.
That figures! All these right-wing thugs stick together. Most of them need to be indicted and taken to the I.C.C. to be prosecuted for their crimes against humanity such as using those cursed drones and Apache helicopters to slaughter people like pigs in a pen!!!
George – what a funny comment you just made with regards to this article. Do you know who autorizes those drone strikes?
Sorry jacob, I forgot. Obama is authorizing the C.I.A. to commit the obscene butchery with those ungodly drones. He needs to be indicted, too!!!
God bless Apache helicopters. They have saved many American soldiers' lives.
And God bless the drones, who work tirelessly to protect us all.
Gee Alan, you and Zwei Stein are two complete morons. And keep God out of this. I don't think that he'll ever bless anything that's bent on pure evil, including those cursed above mentioned machines!
Hey buddy!
Your tin foil hat is a little tight. You should loosen it some to let the blood circulate more freely to your brain.
What's wrong with drone strikes? Would you prefer we marched troops into another nation's sovereign territory?
Killing violent extremists with drones is no worse than doing so with bullets.
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How Nigeria’s Air Peace lost N1.2bn trying to operate across Africa
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Nigerian carrier, Air Peace, said it lost over N1.2 billion over the past year in the course of its flight operations into other West African countries.
The chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, stated yesterday that the loss came as a result of the hostilities the carrier faced in countries such as Togo, Cote D’ Ivoire, and South Africa.
Onyema disclosed this while speaking during the inauguration ceremony of some of the company’s board members in Lagos. He appealed to the Federal Government to approve policies that will protect indigenous carriers from some of the challenges other African countries pose, some of which includes the denial of approval to operate, prohibitive landing, and high airport charges.
On possible NSE Listing: Onyema stated that the airline has no immediate plans to prepare for listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). This is because the sustainability of the carrier is more important than following the bandwagon by hurrying to the stock exchange; even when the financial health of the airline is not on a sound footing.
According to him, the stability of the airline; its growth and safety record were critical factors to look into before rushing to sell shares to interested parties.
Commenting on the airline’s fleet size, Mr Onyema said the company will not reverse its order of the Boeing 737–800 Max aircraft despite the controversies surrounding Boeing. He said the aircraft manufacturer invited Air Peace pilot for training on the problems of the aircraft type, which has since been addressed. Onyema said the order of the 10 Boeing 737-800 Max will be achieved in four years.
On New Routes: The chairman has also announced that the carrier will begin flight operations to Johannesburg, South Africa, and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates next month.
He said Dubai, Johannesburg, London, Houston, Guangzhou and Mumbai would soon join the airline’s international route network while plans were also on to connect more cities within Nigeria.
Onyema also spoke on expanding flights along its local routes as well. He said: “We are planning flights to connect many cities both internationally, regionally and domestically. Very soon you will see Air Peace aircraft littering the South African and European skies.“We are looking at Miami – Lagos – Abuja; Lagos – Kano – Miami and other routes.
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Hyprop bails out of its R4bn stake in the rest of Africa
Blue-chip mall owner to rather fix its SA and European portfolios by upgrading certain assets and selling others
Alistair Anderson
Hyprop Investments, the owner of shopping centres including Mall of Rosebank, Hyde Park Corner and Canal Walk, will exit its R4bn operations in the rest of Africa because of trading difficulties.
The company, which has been operating for 30 years, is trying to recover from a slump that has seen its share price drop to a three-year low and its dividend payouts weaken. Hyprop wants to spend the next year repositioning its local and European portfolios by upgrading certain assets and selling others.
Chief investment officer Wilhelm Nauta said the group and its partners on the African continent, Attacq and Atterbury, will sell their interests together in the next few months.
“This will decrease our loan-to-value and let us focus on investments which offer long-term returns to the fund,” he said.
Hyprop’s sub-Saharan African portfolio includes interests in Accra Mall, West Hills Mall and Achimota Retail Centre, all in Accra, Ghana; Kumasi City Mall in Kumasi, Ghana; Manda Hill Centre in Lusaka, Zambia; and Ikeja City Mall in Lagos, Nigeria. Its African exposure was valued at about R3.8bn at the end of December 2018.
“Getting African commercial real estate to work in a SA-listed fund is very difficult. There are cash flow issues which don’t work when you have to meet shareholders’ demands and pay out income on a regular basis,” Nauta said.
The retail-focused real estate investment trust had tried to decrease its debt while trying to make profits in SA, where disposable income growth is subdued, said CEO Morne Wilken, who took over at the beginning of 2019.
Hyprop’s share price closed at R69.50 on Friday, down about 15% in 2019. Over three years it has fallen 43.6% from R119.80 reached on May 23 2016.
Hyprop’s FD Brett Till said once Hyprop exited the rest of the continent, it would bring immediate relief to the company’s loan-to-value. “Then we can use our capital to improve our local assets. Better offerings from these malls will attract more customers even if the health of the SA consumer is under severe pressure and there is less disposable income being used for shopping,” he said.
Wilken said Hyprop would upgrade certain SA centres and would consider selling underperforming ones.
“We aren’t forced to sell anything but if we get good prices we would consider it. Our notable capital expenditure project for now is bringing Ratanga Junior to Canal Walk. So there will rides and entertainment added to the mall, which needs a rejig to perform as we want it to,” Wilken said.
He said he and his team needed about a year to get Hyprop on to a better track and momentum back in its share price.
Keillen Ndlovu, head of listed property funds at Stanlib, said Hyprop could pull off a recovery fairly quickly given that it owned high-quality assets.
“Despite Hyprop owning some of the best retail assets in SA, it is trading at over 30% below its net asset value. This makes it look very cheap relative to the sector, which is trading at about 10% below net asset value,” said Ndlovu.
“For Hyprop to come back, it simply needs to restructure or simplify its rest of Africa and central and eastern European debt,” he said.
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Somaliland President Reshuffles his Cabinet
The President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi has reshuffled his administration today for the fourth time since taking office two years ago.
The Ministers of Education, Planning and Justice were relieved of their duties in addition, the President sacked the Deputy Ministers of Planning and Finance.
With the exception of the Deputy Minister of Planning Eng. Hussein I Buni, all others were relatively new appointees where some have been in their current positions for less than a year.
Mr. Mohamed Muse Diriye Wacays
Mr. Saleban Yusuf Ali Koore
In addition to the sacking of these ministers, President Bihi has also swapped the Minister of Water Development Mr. Saleban Yusuf Ali Koore and the Minister of Information Mr. Mohamed Muse Diriye Wacays. Minister Wacays has been heading the Ministry of Information for less than 6 months.
The Minister of Livestock and Fisheries Development Mr. Hassan Mohamed Ali Gafadhi to head the Ministry of Planning and National Development.
Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Diriye Egeh
Mr. Saeed Sulub Mohamed Hussein
Mr. Mustafe Mohamoud Ali Bile
President Bihi has added three new Ministers to his cabinet, Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Diriye Egeh as the Minister of Education and Science and Mr. Saeed Sulub Mohamed Hussein as the minister of Livestock and Fisheries Development and Mr. Mustafe Mohamoud Ali Bile as the minister of Justice. Mr. Bile has previously served as the Director General of the Ministry of Commerce and Tourism.
Mr. Saeed Sulub has served as a minister in President Kahin’s administration and is a heavyweight politician from the Waddani opposition party.
Questions to the Presidency to understand why some ministers were sacked or moved while in office for less than 9 months were unanswered.
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Kandodo3 - K3 - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Kandodo3 - K3
by Sean Hewson Rating:8 Release Date:2019-06-21 Label: Rooster
on 26 June 2019
Kandodo3 are Wayne Maskell, Hugo Morgan and Simon Price from The Heads. K3 was recorded over the last three years on Price’s 4-track. I last reviewed them when they did an album with John McBain (Lost Chants/Last Chance - 10/10) and McBain appears on the 40 minute epic that takes up the whole second record of this splendid double-vinyl release.
A cute little synth line introduces King Vulture. Morgan joins in on bass followed by some Spacemen 3 keyboards and Robert Fripp-like guitar from Price before Maskell lays down a steady beat. The track has a lovely feel and there are acres of space for little synth and guitar lines to come in and out. Price steps on the Wah-wah, but the track remains very sedate and spacey, like Spacemen 3 in a vast desert. Lapwinger is a little noisier but is just a palate-cleanser, full of tremolo and phase, before the next great voyage. Everything Green’s Gone again starts quietly with tinkling keyboards, an exploratory bass-line and Price’s sparse chords. Huge swirling clouds of sound roll in whilst a child-like tune is played on a xylophone, bringing to mind early Current 93 and that combination of childhood and danger. After four minutes of this, they start to get moving, with Price’s guitar sounding like a machine. They still play like they have all the time in the world but the sound becomes fuller and fuller and the playing more intense, and always underpinned by the xylophone sound. It feels like a mixture of a jam and some subtle fleshing out. It also makes me realise how much of the Lost Chants/Last Chance album was down to the sound of these three guys just playing in a room. Sometimes they remind me of the pre-Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd – space with both a large and small S. The xylophone continues on Holy Debut, as do the sustained Fripp lines. The rhythm is kept very clean and simple here and the sound is more like the Berlin School end of Kosmische music. The sustained guitar lines continue over on to The Gaping Maw (great title), but the sound is a bit fuller this time with a few layers of guitar lying on top of Morgan’s bass. And it grows and grows until they slowly drop out after six minutes. The last track on record one is Lounge Core. It’s a relatively short track with the xylophone coming out again and some Sonic Boom keyboards shimmering in the distance. This leaves the record-long odyssey that is High On Planes/Drifter, where John McBain joins the lads in creating something vast out of the same sounds and textures that appear on the first album. It is an exercise in contrasts – it’s spacey, but also dense; simple, but layered. Storm clouds gather over the top of programmed hi-hats before Maskell starts rolling around his toms. It’s like the early albums by Tangerine Dream, that combination of noise and ambience. Slowly the harsher sounds fade away leaving a long period of stillness, out of which the apparently-tireless Maskell builds the drums up again. The intensity ebbs and flows, but is particularly strong towards the end when it’s all hands on deck before the three minutes of calm recovery at the end.
There are shades of Tangerine Dream, Harmonia, Pink Floyd and the Spacemen 3 on this huge album. But it is also two records of Price, Morgan and Maskell sounding like Kandodo3. Three chaps that know themselves and their instruments inside out and also know the territory that they inhabit. As always, it’s a flipping pleasure. A lovely walk across a desert that stretches between Bristol and Rugby, in the company of Carlos Castaneda.
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National Museum of American History. Office of the Director (9)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications (9)
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969 (9)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (8)
Smithsonian Institution (8)
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum (8)
Rauschenberg, Robert (7)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Planning, Management and Budget (7)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary (7)
Castelli, Leo (6)
Christo, 1935- (6)
Frankenthaler, Helen (6)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Department of Education (6)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (6)
Hofmann, Hans (6)
Smithsonian Institution. Division of Performing Arts (6)
Armstrong, Louis (5)
Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI (5)
Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David) (5)
African Americans (58)
Hispanic Americans (12)
Latino Americans (12)
Cheyenne Indians (6)
Creek Indians (5)
Fula (African people) (5)
Yoruba (African people) (5)
Dogon (African people) (4)
Igbo (African people) (4)
Indians of South America (3)
Iroquois Indians (3)
Latin Americans (3)
Mexican Americans (3)
Mexicans (3)
Navajo Indians (3)
Ojibwa Indians (3)
Potawatomi Indians (3)
Seminole Indians (3)
Bambara (African people) (2)
Caribbean Area (24)
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) (4)
Archives Center, National Museum of American History (196)
National Museum of the American Indian (8)
Archives of American Gardens (5)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives (3)
Human Studies Film Archives (1)
Query: Performance art
1051 records — Page 65 of 106
Smithsonian Institution, Office of Exhibits Central
10.49 linear meters and oversize.
Record Unit 503
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Carol Kramer Papers
Kramer, Carol, 1943-2002
1943-2002,
bulk 1961-2002
31 Linear feet (64 boxes, 2 cassette tapes, 1 oversize box, 1 map drawer)
NAA.2006-14
National Anthropological Archives
The bulk of these papers document the professional life of Carol Kramer, a leading figure in ethnoarchaeology, specializing in the Middle East and South Asia. She was also a major advocate for the professional development of women in anthropology and archaeology. Dating 1943-2002, the collection includes field notes, writings, correspondence, daily planners, teaching files, photographs, sound recordings, maps, computer disks, and botanical specimens. Her ethnoarchaeological research in "Shahabad" (a.k.a. "Aliabad") in Iran and in Rajasthan, India is well-represented in the collection.
David Hadley Rockwell New York Disco Ephemera Collection,
Rockwell, David Hadley
3.2 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
An extensive collection of advertisements, club cards, ephemera, and invitations publicizing venues and events at entertainment clubs and venues in New York City, New York, New Jersey, and Florida. The materials make use of a variety of graphic arts styles.
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
1866-1906, with related records to 1927
65.91 cu. ft. (98 document boxes) (6 12x17 boxes) (1 16x20 box) (88 3x5 boxes) (1 tube box) (oversize material)
Record Unit 31
These records document the history of the Smithsonian from 1872-1927. Most of the records concern the tenure of Samuel P. Langley, the third Secretary, who served from 1887-1906. There is also some material dating from as early as 1866 to as late as 1927 in the collection. This record unit is the last to be based on a distinction between ...
Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program Collection
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Dept. of Public Programs
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
39 Cubic feet
Audiotapes, CDs and digital files: an ongoing project to interview and preserve the memories of people important in the jazz world, including jazz musicians, singers, dancers, producers, arrangers, and others. A list of interviewees and interviewers follows. The following is a list of the individuals who conducted the interviews. 1. Brown, Anthon...
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels]
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
10.22 Cubic feet (consisting of 20 boxes, 2 folders, 9 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, 3 flat boxes (2 full, 1 partial.))
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Steamboats
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Motion Pictures
2.96 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversize folders, 8 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Motion
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Motion Pictures forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Emile Gorlia photographs
Harris, Nancy H.
Gorlia, Emile E.O.
258 negatives (photographic) (black & white, 8 x 10.5 cm.)
308 lantern slides (black & white, 8.5 x 10 cm.)
1,446 Photographic prints ((contact prints) (5 vols.), black & white, 6 x 13 cm. or smaller )
46 Photographic prints (black & white, 48 x 58 cm. or smaller.)
556 negatives (photographic) (glass plate stereographic negatives , black & white, 6 x 13 cm.)
EEPA.1977-001
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Photographs taken by Judge Emile E.O. Gorlia during five journeys through the Belgian Congo and two vacation leaves, one in Belgium and one in the Canaries Islands, 1909-1928 and at the World Exposition in Brussels (1958). The collection dates from 1909-1958. His first mission was from January 1910 to January 1912; the second, from February 1915 to March 1917; the third, from December 1917 to April 1920; the fourth, from November 1920 to February 1923 and, the fifth, from March 1926 to December 1928. For his first four missions at Lusambo in the Kasai province, district of Sankuru, Emile Gorlia was acting as an alternate to the public officer at one of the seven tribunals of first instance. During his fifth and final mission, he was promoted as president of the Court at Albertville in the ditrict of Katanga. Judge E.O. Gorlia was a keen amateur photographer with the advantage of not only traveling extensively around the state but also with the privilege of being able to afford the time and money to produce a prolific number of images. His images illustrate with great detail the full experience of a government official in mission in the Belgian Congo, starting in Antwerp at the pier of this Belgian harbor and taking up his duties at Lusambo, an administrative town in the hearth of th Belgian congo. The majority of images are of the following Belgian Congo districts, Lower Congo, Kassai, Sankuru, and Katanga. They include the cities of Banana, Boma, Matadi, Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), Lusambo, Luebo, Dilolo, Albertville (now Kalemie) in the Belgian Congo, Brazzaville in the French Equatorial africa, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Tabora and Kigoma in tanganyika, Dakar in Senegal, Conakry in Guinea, Freetown in Sierra Leone, Port Said in Egypt and finally Casablanca in Morocco. There are also images of villages scenes and portraits of the Tetela, Songye, Luba, Kanioka, Lunda, Chokwe, Pende, Bangala and Kuba. Also included are images of the natural environment as the Congo river, the Kasai and Sankuru rivers, the banks of Lake Tanganyika and the savanna-woodland of the western part of the Katanga district as well as as the south part of the Sankuru region.
Smithsonian Productions
3.9 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box) (4 oversize folders)
Accession 02-208
This accession includes records documenting the film, video, and radio production activities of John P. Meehan, Audio-Visual Production Specialist; Jacquie Gales Webb, Producer; and Paul B. Johnson, Director. Material consists of correspondence, memoranda, and notes; performer's licenses; production logs; contracts and releases; music cue ...
Donald B. Cordry photographs from Mexico
Cordry, Donald Bush
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
93 Photographic prints
9 negatives (photographic)
24 copy negatives
NMAI.AC.001.008
Images consist mostly of portraits of the indigenous people in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Guerrero, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz. The collection primarily contains images of Wikarika (Huichol) people, but includes images of the Purepecha (Tarasco), Guerrero Nahua, Chinantec [Chinantla], Zoque, Otomí (Otomi), Tzotzil Maya, Yoreme (Mayo) and Zapotec peoples.
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Catherine Santino· December 6, 2019
Ashley Graham has kept it real with fans since announcing she’s expecting her first child, but the model is taking her candidness to a whole new level by opening up pregnancy sex. This morning, Graham unveiled her first Vogue cover where her baby bump on full display, and in the interview, she speaks openly about navigating pregnancy and preparing for motherhood.
“Thank you @voguemagazine and #AnnaWintour for embracing a conversation around pregnancy and motherhood, which can be both incredibly exciting and also isolating,” 32-year-old wrote on Instagram along with the cover of the January 2020 issue, which features Graham in a billowing, gold gown as she cradles her growing bump. “The community and support I have discovered along the way has been incredible, and to share this monumental moment with my son and husband in the pages of Vogue could not feel more special.”
A VOGUE COVER!!! — celebrating inclusivity, mothers, pregnancy and love — is so surreal. I have dreamed of this moment my entire career since I was a catalogue model living in Nebraska two decades ago. Thank you @voguemagazine and #AnnaWintour for embracing a conversation around pregnancy and motherhood, which can be both incredibly exciting and also isolating. The community and support I have discovered along the way has been incredible, and to share this monumental moment with my son and husband in the pages of Vogue could not feel more special. @annieleibovitz, you made me feel like a true pregnant goddess ? Photographer: @annieleibovitz Fashion Editor: @tonnegood Makeup: @hannah_murray1 Hair: @sallyhershberger Bookings Director: @felicitybwebb Writer: @jonathanvanmeter
A post shared by A S H L E Y G R A H A M (@ashleygraham) on Dec 6, 2019 at 5:51am PST
One of the things Graham admitted is that sex inevitably changes overtime. “I feel like every relationship goes in waves of sex,” she said. “So they’ve been through a lot of ups and downs together. “You’re like, ‘Hey, do we need to plan this?’ And now, with pregnancy, things have been really different,” she said.
Graham continued: “Because there’s this huge bulge that can be sensitive if you lay on it or go into a new position. I’ve been literally asking every single one of my friends who have had babies or who’re pregnant, like, ‘What positions do you guys do?’ This has to be a normal conversation among mothers.”
When I look at this picture, I get so emotional because this moment feels bigger than me. It’s indicative of our entire relationship – my husband @mrjustinervin supporting me ALWAYS from day one. I’m overwhelmed with so much joy and filled with such gratitude that we are doing this together ? Thank You Thank You Thank You @voguemagazine
·Catherine Santino
Keira Knightley Casually Confirms She Gave Birth Six Weeks Ago
And in fact, it is. Lots of fellow celebrity moms have been open about pregnancy sex — the good, the bad, and everything in between. For some, pregnancy boosts libido and makes sex more fun and exciting. In 2012, Jessica Simpson told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show that her sex drive while pregnant was “unstoppable.” Kristen Bell has also admitted that her sex life with husband Dax Sheppard was only enhanced by pregnancy.
However, reality star Kristin Cavallari told Fit Pregnancy that even though her and her husband Jay Cutler weren’t getting it on as much, they still found ways to be intimate. “Lighting a candle and taking a bath together is great,” she said. “It doesn’t even have to be in a sexual way, just getting in the bath and talking.”
You might also like: 6 Things No One Tells You About Your Sex Life After Having A Baby
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Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers
Randall H. Goldsmith, Louise E. Sinks, Richard F. Kelley, Laura J. Betzen, Wenhao Liu, Emily A Weiss, Mark A Ratner, Michael R Wasielewski
The study of photoinitiated electron transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor molecules has helped elucidate the distance dependence of electron transfer rates and behavior of various electron transfer mechanisms. In all reported cases, the energies of the bridge electronic states involved in the electron transfer change dramatically as the length of the bridge is varied. We report here, in contrast, an instance in which the length of the bridge, and therefore the distance over which the electron is transferred, can be varied without significantly changing the energies of the relevant bridge states. A series of donor-bridge-acceptor molecules having phenothiazine (PTZ) donors, 2,7-oligofluorene (FLn) bridges, and perylene-3,4:9,10- bis(dicarboximide) (PDI) acceptors was studied. Photoexcitation of PDI to its lowest excited singlet state results in oxidation of PTZ via the FLn bridge. In toluene, the rate constants for both charge separation and recombination as well as the energy levels of the relevant FLn +asterisk inside a circle sign bridge states for n = 1-4 are only weakly distance dependent. After the initial photogeneration of 1(PTZ+asterisk inside a circle sign-FLn- PDI-asterisk inside a circle sign), radical pair intersystem crossing results in formation of 3(PTZ+asterisk inside a circle sign-FLn-PDI-asterisk inside a circle sign) that recombines to give 3* PDI. The dependence of the 3*PDI yield on an applied magnetic field shows a resonance, which gives the singlet-triplet splitting, 2J, of the radical ion pair. The magnitude of 2J directly monitors the contribution of coherent charge transfer (superexchange) to the overall electron transfer rate. These data show that charge recombination through FLn is dominated by incoherent hopping at long distances.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408940102
Genetic Recombination
Perylene
fluorene
phenothiazine
Superexchange
Goldsmith, R. H., Sinks, L. E., Kelley, R. F., Betzen, L. J., Liu, W., Weiss, E. A., ... Wasielewski, M. R. (2005). Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(10), 3540-3545. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408940102
Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers. / Goldsmith, Randall H.; Sinks, Louise E.; Kelley, Richard F.; Betzen, Laura J.; Liu, Wenhao; Weiss, Emily A; Ratner, Mark A; Wasielewski, Michael R.
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 10, 08.03.2005, p. 3540-3545.
Goldsmith, RH, Sinks, LE, Kelley, RF, Betzen, LJ, Liu, W, Weiss, EA, Ratner, MA & Wasielewski, MR 2005, 'Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 3540-3545. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408940102
Goldsmith RH, Sinks LE, Kelley RF, Betzen LJ, Liu W, Weiss EA et al. Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005 Mar 8;102(10):3540-3545. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0408940102
Goldsmith, Randall H. ; Sinks, Louise E. ; Kelley, Richard F. ; Betzen, Laura J. ; Liu, Wenhao ; Weiss, Emily A ; Ratner, Mark A ; Wasielewski, Michael R. / Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005 ; Vol. 102, No. 10. pp. 3540-3545.
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Villages in Jalore taluk, Jalore district
List of villages in Jalore taluka or tehesil is listed below. Please click on a village link to view every detail of the village. Jalore is under the Jalore district in the state of Rajasthan in India.
Aakoli
Aakoli Aakoli is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 0 KM towards west from District head quarters Jalore 425 KM from State capital Jaipur ...
Badanwari
Badanwari Badanwari is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 10 KM towards East from District head quarters Jalore 10 KM from Jalore ...
Bagra Bagra is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 19 KM towards South from District head quarters Jalore 19 KM from Jalore 437 KM ...
Bakara Road
Bakara Road Bakara Road is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 0 KM towards west from District head quarters Jalore 425 KM from State capit...
Bhagli Sindhlan
Bhagli Sindhlan Bhagli Sindhlan is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 10 KM towards South from District head quarters Jalore 9 KM from Jal...
Bibalsar
Bibalsar Bibalsar is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 0 KM towards west from District head quarters Jalore 425 KM from State capital Jai...
Chandana By Rail Marwar Bagra Rail Way Station are the very nearby railway stations to Chandana How ever Abu Road Rail Way Station is major railway station 86 KM near to Chandana Colleges near Chandana Government P G Coll...
Chura
Chura Chura is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 0 KM towards west from District head quarters Jalore 425 KM from State capital Jaipur Ch...
Debawas
Debawas Debawas is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 16 KM towards North from District head quarters Jalore 16 KM from Jalore 416...
Dechhoo
Dechhoo Dechhoo is a Village in Jalore Tehsil in Jalore District of Rajasthan State, India It belongs to Jodhpur Division It is located 10 KM towards North from District head quarters Jalore 10 KM from Jalore 416...
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The English used in this article may not be easy for everybody to understand. You can help Wikipedia by reading Wikipedia:How to write Simple English pages, then simplifying the article. (October 2011)
Kingdom:
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Vicieae
L. culinaris
Lens culinaris
Medikus
The lentil or daal or pulse (Lens culinaris) is a bushy annual plant of the legume family. It is a kind of vegetable, grown for its lens-shaped seeds. It is about 15 inches tall and the seeds grow in pods, usually with two seeds in each.
3 Preparation
4 Nutritional value and health benefits
4.1 Iron content
5.1 Lentils in Culture
Background[change | change source]
The plant originated in the Middle East and was one of the first crops domesticated in the world. Humans started eating lentils before they invented ceramics.
Consisting of 26% protein, lentils have the highest level of protein of any plant after soybeans and hemp. Because of this fact, and due to their high iron content, lentils are a very important part of the diet in many parts of the world, especially in India, which has a large vegetarian population.
Different kinds of lentils exist, including a variety of large and small lentils. Lentils come in colors that range from yellow to red-orange to green, brown and black.
Lentils are sold in many forms, with or without the skins, whole or split. Red, white and yellow lentils are decorticated, i.e., they have their skins removed.
One variety of yellow "lentils", Chana, is in fact not a lentil, but are actually made from the kernels of chickpeas. Split Pigeon peas (either green or yellow) - that are actually considered pulses, which include peas and beans - are also sometimes erroneously referred to and sold as lentils. The urad bean is also referred to as a "black lentil".
Types[change | change source]
Illustration of the lentil plant, 1885
Brown/Spanish Pardina
French Green/Puy (Dark speckled blue-green)
Green (Most common variety)
Black/Beluga
Yellow/Tan Lentils (Red inside)
Red Chief (Decorticated yellow lentils)
Eston Green (Small green)
Richlea (Medium green)
Laird (Large green)
Petite Golden (Decorticated lentils)
Masoor (Brown-skinned lentils which are red inside)
Channa Dal
Mung Lentils
Petite Crimson/Red (Decorticated masoor lentils)
Chana (Kernel of chickpeas)
Urad (A type of bean)
White/Ivory (Peeled Urad beans)
Macachiados (Big Mexican yellow lentils)
Preparation[change | change source]
The seeds only need very little cooking. This time is especially short for kinds of lentils with their husk removed, such as the common red lentil). Lentils have a distinctive earthy flavor. They can be used to prepare an inexpensive and nutritious soup all over Europe and North and South America. Sometimes they are combined with some form of chicken or pork. They are frequently combined with rice, which has a similar cooking time. In the Middle East such a dish of lentils and rice is called mujaddara or mejadra. Rice and lentils are also cooked together in khichdi, a popular Indian dish. Lentils are used throughout India, the Mediterranean regions and the Middle East. In rare cases the lentils are mixed with dairy cheese.
Many people in India are vegetarian and lentils have long been part of the indigenous diet as a common source of protein. Usually, lentils are boiled to a stew-like consistency with vegetables and then seasoned with a mixture of spices to make many side dishes such as sambar, rasam and dal, which are usually served over rice and roti.
When lentils are prepared, they are first inspected for damaged lentils, stones and other foreign matter. Then they are rinsed until the water runs through and comes out clear. Some prefer to soak the lentils for a longer time and discard the water. This removes substances that may cause indigestion. The lentils are then boiled in water or broth. They may be cooked on the stovetop, or in a slow cooker. Pressure cookers are not recommended, since the small lentils may clog the pressure relief valve, and their quick cooking time means there is little benefit from pressure cooking. Cooked lentils often require thinning: adding more hot water or broth to the cooked legumes until the desired final consistency is reached.
Lentils can be sprouted as can some beans and some other edible seeds (seeds people can eat). Seeds being sprouted are watered and rinsed repeatedly till they start to germinate (grow small roots and shoots). Sprouted lentils can be eaten raw on their own or in salads, they can also be cooked.[1]
Nutritional value and health benefits[change | change source]
Apart from a high level of proteins, lentils also contain dietary fiber, vitamin B1, and minerals. Red (or pink) lentils contain a lower concentration of fiber than green lentils (11% rather than 31%).[2] Health magazine has selected lentils as one of the five healthiest foods.[3] Lentils are often mixed with grains, such as rice, which results in a complete protein dish.
Iron content[change | change source]
In addition to providing slow-burning complex carbohydrates, lentils are one of the best vegetable sources of iron. This makes them an important part of a vegetarian diet, and useful for preventing iron deficiency. Iron is particularly important for adolescents, and menstruating or pregnant women, whose requirements for it are increased.[4]
Production[change | change source]
Lentils are relatively tolerant to drought and are grown throughout the world. About half of the worldwide production of lentils is from India, most of which is consumed in the domestic market. Canada is the largest export producer of lentils in the world and Saskatchewan is the most important producing region in Canada. The Palouse Region of Eastern Washington and the Idaho Panhandle, with its commercial center at Moscow, Idaho, constitutes the most important producing region in the United States.[5] The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that world production of lentils totalled 3.2 million metric tons (MT) in 2003. Canada produced 520,000 MT and, according to the market analysis company STAT Communications, will likely export 400,000 MT during the 2003-04 marketing year, which runs from August to July. The FAO estimates world trade in lentils totalled 1.2 million MT in 2002, with Canada exporting 382,000 MT during the calendar year.
Lentils in Culture[change | change source]
Lentils are mentioned many times in the Old Testament. In Jewish tradition they are considered as food for mourners, together with boiled eggs. The reason is that their round shape symbolizes the life cycle from birth to death.
↑ How To Sprout Lentils How to Sprout Nuts, Seeds, Grains, and Beans
↑ USDA nutrient database
↑ Raymond, Joan (March 2006). "World's Healthiest Foods: Lentils (India)". Health Magazine.
↑ Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI), Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academies, 2004
↑ Crop Profile for Lentils in Idaho, Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Science, University of Idaho (web site), 2000
Further reading[change | change source]
S S Yadav et al. Lentil: An Ancient Crop for Modern Times. (2007). Springer Verlag. ISBN 9781402063121.
Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food. ISBN 0-19-211579-0
Extrusion method developed for tasty lentil snacks
All types of lentils & uses
Information on Cooking Lentils
Lentils - Country Production, Consumption, Exports, and Imports Statistics
Alternative Field Crops Manual: Lentil
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lens culinaris.
Wikibooks Cookbook has a recipe/article on:
Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lentil&oldid=6417143"
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Abide with Me! – Henry F. Lyte
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Henry F. Lyte
Abide with Me!
First line: Abide with me! / Abide with me! fast falls the eventide; The darkness / Abide with me! fast falls the eventide / Abide with me! Fast falls / Abide with me—fast falls the eventide
Words: Henry F. Lyte
Music: William H. Monk
Eventide (by William H. Monk)
Tune: Eventide (by William H. Monk) (Return to top) Tune 166
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Hymns: Simplified Accompaniments (1986), 106
Arr.: Darwin Wolford
Selected Hymns (1990), 23
Hymns Made Easy (1990, 2012 ed.), 35
Abide with Me
Submitted Music (1980–Present), Jan 2011
Arr.: Nathan Howe
Contributor: Nathan Howe
Arr.: Erica Glenn
Contributor: Erica Glenn
Arr.: Diane Tuiofu
Contributor: Diane Tuiofu
Hymns for Temple Worship (1994), 29
Arr.: Michael F. Moody
Easy Hymn Preludes for Organ (1981), 8
Arr.: Roy M. Darley
Hymn Preludes for Piano (1976), 14
Hymns: Simplified Accompaniments (1972, 1976 ed.), 5
Favorite Seminary Songs (1961, 1965 ed.), 22d
Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
The Hymnal (RLDS) (1956, 1966 ed.), 67
The Hymnal (RLDS) (1956), 67
The Children Sing (1951), 11
Abide With Me (Women’s Voices)
Hymns (1948, 1979 ed.), 347
Abide with me! Fast Falls the Eventide
Hymns (1948), 1
Hymns (1948), 347
Principles of the Gospel (1943) (1943, 1964 ed.), 349
Relief Society Songs (1940), 103
Arr.: Wade N. Stephens
Latter-day Saint Hymns (1927, 1940 ed.), 180
Latter-day Saint Hymns (1927), 180
Latter-day Saint Hymns (1927, unknown ed.), 180
Relief Society Song Book (1919, 1930 ed.), 57
Arr.: B. Cecil Gates
Relief Society Song Book (1919), 57
Deseret Sunday School Songs (1909, 1937 ed.), 103
Deseret Sunday School Songs (1909), 103
Latter-day Saints’ Psalmody (1889, 1920 ed.), 360
Selected L.D.S. Hymns (, 1944 ed.), 17
Videos from General Conference
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October 1999 General Conference
William H. Monk
Zion’s Hymnal (Church of Christ, Temple Lot) (1975, 2013 ed.), 277
Lift Up Your Hearts (2013, unknown ed.), 466
Baptist Hymnal 2008 (2008), 88
The New Century Hymnal (1995), 99
Abide with me: fast falls the eventide
The Hymnal 1982 (1982, 1985 ed.), 662
Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), 272
Favorite Hymns of Praise (1967, 1991 ed.), 462
Lutheran Service Book and Hymnal (1958), 576
Hymns of the Restoration (Restoration Hymn Society) (1984, 1998 ed.), 47
Hymns of the Restoration (Restoration Hymn Society) (1984), 47
Zion’s Hymnal (Church of Christ, Temple Lot) (1975), 277
The Hymnal for Youth (Herald Edition, RLDS) (1951, 1955 ed.), 293
Sacred Choruses for Male Singers (1937), 25b
Arr.: J. Spencer Cornwall
The Saints’ Hymnal (RLDS, Replica) (1933, 1998 ed.), 49
The Saints’ Hymnal (RLDS) (1933, 1951 ed.), 49
Text only (Return to top)
Songs and Hymns for Latter-day Saints (1980), 1a
Unofficial or Local Publications
Favorite Seminary Songs (O. C. Tanner) (1950), 1
Sacred Hymns (Manchester Hymnal) (1840, 1912 ed.), 376
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When the Wind Blows: Looking at the Origins of the Windsurfer
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(-) Great Depression (2)
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Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression" ; Chapter 7
Presenting "Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression" High Life, Sixteen Ton: Chapter 7. Sally Rand talks about the creation of her signature fan dance and predictions for future depressions. Doc Graham discusses his upbringing, Chicago mobs, and Count Victor Lustig. Tony Soma talks about prohibition before and after the 1929 crash. Jerome Zerbe talks about inventing paparazzi photography, spending 2 weeks working in a coal mine, and the New Deal. Buddy Blankenship recalls working 16 hour days in West Virginia coal mines. Mary Owsley remembers life as a coal miner's wife.
Presenting "Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression" High Life, Sixteen Ton: Chapter 7. Sally Rand talks about the creation of her signature fan dance and predictions for future depressions. Doc Graham discusses his upbringing, Chicago mobs, and Count Victor Lustig. Tony Soma talks about prohibition before and after the 1929 crash. Jerome Zerbe talks about inventing paparazzi photography, spending two weeks working in a coal mine, and the New Deal. Buddy Blankenship recalls working 16 hour days in West Virginia coal mines. Mary Owsley remembers life as a coal miner's wife.
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by Serenade
© Copyright - Serenade / Hillside Records (884502975437)
Easy listening (not elevator) music at its best, offering a complementary mix of varying musical styles, ear pleasing vocals, catchy hooks and satisfying arrangements all wrapped up in a theme that celebrates healthy escapism.
Genre: Easy Listening: Soft Rock
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1. Great Escape (feat. Tom Granata)
2. In My Room (feat. Jason & Elaine Arvanites)
3. Brazilian Waves (feat. Alycia Wright)
4. Flying Without Wings (feat. Jason Arvanites)
5. Coffee Cup Diaries (feat. Elaine Arvanites)
6. Dreaming (feat. Jason Arvanites)
7. A New Revelation (feat. Lyndsay Alt)
8. Stars in the Sky (feat. Eric P. Moore)
9. Swimming in the Night (feat. Kyuok Kim-Santana)
10. Favorite Kind of Blue (feat. Tom Granata)
11. Clouds (feat. Gerry Musap)
12. Great Escape (Dance) [feat. Jason Arvanites]
Story behind the music:
It all started with a melody bouncing around in the cranium of Jason Arvanites way back in 1994. At that time Jason was asked to be front man for a band called Meridian and to perform a one time show of original songs with a few covers thrown in. In the process of preparing the event, Jason was handed a sheet of lyrics without any music. Thus was born the melody that would eventually become Great Escape. This was ultimately was replaced by another melody by the song’s lyricist. But that’s a whole other story. In any event, it went back into Jason’s mental file cabinet to be revisited at a later date.
In the early 2000’s, using a bunch of wav loops, Jason created a dance mix that would be a suitable vehicle for this haunting melody. The goal was to evoke a mental image of a flowing, ever moving stream of sound. (Side note): At one point American Idol held a song writing contest that would hopefully lead to a hit for the winner of the show. Jason got the bright idea to send in “Great Escape (Dance)” as an entry. There couldn’t have been worse lyrics for the show. Seeing as the song has to do with getting out from under the pressures put upon us by the world and escaping them. Something the producers of the program most likely would not find suitable content. It was suggested that the contest was rigged anyway just to get people to watch and send in their hard-earned money to submit their songs. Ultimately, some professional songwriters “won”. But, with the title track back in full control of its originator (unless something was missed in the contest contract) it became apparent that it was better suited for this project.
Track list details:
“Great Escape”- Sung by the bluesy boca of Tom Granata. This version came about purely through experimentation on an acoustic guitar one day. It ended up in more of a Jack Johnson style. Tom’s music can be heard on CD Baby as well. Type in: “Left foot Lightfoot” for some great Gordon Lightfoot covers.
“In My Room”- Sung by the harmonic fusion of Jason & Elaine Arvanites. This well known Beach Boys song has always been a favorite for Jason and Elaine to practice harmonies to in the car. Given a 21st century treatment, with synth embellishments, African rhythms and today’s popular vocal effects, the theme of escaping to one’s room was too hard to pass up.
“Brazilian Waves”- Sung by the silky styling of Alycia Wright. The working title was “Latin Song”, but after hearing it, Alycia & her husband Jamie felt it had a strong Brazilian style. With the opening and closing ocean sounds, it seemed the most obvious title was this one. The lyrics and melody were written by Elaine and pertain to a person viewing the vast sea and being moved to commune with the creator in wonder.
“Flying Without Wings”- This song, written and sung by the chameleonic chops of Jason, was inspired by a conversation he had with his friend, collaborator and former member of Serenade’s acoustic act, Gary Alt. ( www.garyalt.com) His friend Cliff took him to see a movie where the characters were flying on their own. Cliff felt that this was something man might be able to achieve someday. The thought of flying unaided by machinery or even wings has always been a fascinating subject of many a dream. A high escapism factor made this inclusion a no-brainer. This is also the first recording Jason has ever made of himself playing slide guitar.
“Coffee Cup Diaries”- Sung by the cream soda-like, Bossa Nova voice of Elaine. This little ditty, using a borrowed electric-nylon string guitar, could easily find itself in a coffee commercial. Only true coffee lovers can fully understand the comfort that comes from that afternoon sip and the happy little world into which they are cast.
“Dreaming”- A little Eastern culture finds its way into this project with Jason on heavily effected lead vox. This piece was highly inspired by the auspices of George Harrison’s songwriting and the cool styles of today’s ambient artists. Lyrics and melody were co- written by Elaine & Jason. The escapist theme cannot get any more obvious or germane. Eerie guitar using a volume pedal and other effects was provided by Robert Waddington the bass player for Serenade’s full band.
“A New Revelation”- Sung by the vigorously vibrant vibrato of Lyndsay Alt. Written by Jason, this song has a style not unlike Lenny Kravitz doing his Beatlesque thing. The theme comes from the Bible book of Revelation. Chapter 20:12 of that book indicate that scrolls would be opened and that resurrected mankind would get a second chance at life based on their education and observance of what was contained therein. For them it would be quite the “revelation”. For those who had a head start through their current understanding and compliance, it would be more of a continuation of what they’ve already come to learn. In any case, this song stays thematically consistent as it tells the story of the ultimate escape from a world of defunct rulership to a much better one.
“Stars in the Sky”- Sung by the mild-tempered tongue of Eric P. Moore. At this point in the project, Jason felt there needed to be a piano based song. Probably the most reflective sounding song in the bunch as it portrays a fellow lying on the hood of his car staring up a star filled night sky. Turn the clock back about 3,000 years and picture another man doing the same thing on the back of his camel. His song was recorded in Psalms 8:3, 4. Both carry the idea of a state of awe and forming a bond with the Designer and Maker of those magnificent bodies of light. It’s easy to get lost in that state of mind.
“Swimming in the Night”- Sung by the sultry-smooth tones of Kyuok Kim-Santana who just happens to be Jason’s niece. Kyuok can also be heard on Jason & Elaine’s children’s CD “Brain Jam” singing “Love Your Neighbor”. This song was evoked by memories of cool summer nights, diving in a friend’s pool and watching the steam rise from the water. The senses are on high alert and euphoria ensues. Escapism at its best.
“Favorite Kind of Blue” – Sung by the hickory smoked larynx of Tom Granata. This song explores the interesting nature of mixed emotions. It’s a fantasy about a guy who wakes up on a desert island and is hit with a sense of relief and contentment, only to find that the love of his life is not there with him. As he looks around and sees nothing but blue sky and water he vacillates between the love of the literal blue that surrounds him and the melancholy blue he feels from the absence of his wife. Upon waking up to reality, he is overtaken by an even greater happiness as he realizes that this loss, however imaginary, confirms his true love for her. A romantic escape indeed.
“Clouds” - Sung by the powerful, Croatian lungs of Gerry Musap. In fact, inspired by Gerry’s fascination with what she calls “Jehovah’s clouds”, Jason wrote this song with her voice in mind. Who isn’t moved, now and then, by the grand, cumulus, white formations that majestically drape the sky? A nebulous wonderland awaits as we imagine ourselves floating among these gentle giants. Escape to the heavens with this musical tribute to the vaunted vaults of vapor and the one who ingeniously produced them to keep us well watered.
“Great Escape (Dance) - This is the one that started and ends it all. Sung by the morphing maw of Jason, this composition employed vocoder effects to give it that modern, dance style so popular today and to finish this venture with a bang. Move your feet and escape to another world as this musical ride comes to a close.
Snow Pea
I have been suffering from anxiety and panic attacks lately. This album actually helps me calm down when I play it in the car and elsewhere. Thank you.
kprecious
Your best cd yet
This is your best cd in my opinion. Love the compilation, writing and variety of unique voices and music.
tommy tunes
Kinda blue, kinda mellow, kinda good!
Just kick back, close your eyes and enjoy this with maybe some red wine or hot chocolate. Careful not to spill.
There now, isn't that good?
Jason has done it again. This time he wraps his, Elaine's, and the voices of some stellar guest singers around his usual
tasty tunes and it's all good!
Cool Ear Candy
Good headphone music, good driving music. Great work.
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Week 2: From transition to transformation
In our second session, Andy Stirling (STEPS Centre/SPRU, University of Sussex) came to talk to us about transformation.
The System Change Hive is exploring how big, radical changes might happen in technology, economies, environments and culture. But the word ‘system’ sometimes makes us tempted to think of the world as something that can be controlled, with the powerful people in the cockpit flying the plane.
What if there’s no cockpit, and powerful actors are just taking advantage of events, boosted by their privilege? What if we think of the world (and each other) as things to care for rather than control? Examples from radical movements of the past and the pioneers of sustainability show more emergent, bottom-up forms of transformation.
Slides: From controlled transition to caring transformations
From controlled transition to caring transformations – Stirling from STEPS Centre
Virtual Reality, creativity and transformative art
We also discussed how Virtual Reality could be used to communicate complex ideas, inspired by patterns in nature.
(Animation: Mia Underwood)
And Felix gave us some guidance on how to film each other using a mobile phone to create short reflective videos on the creative process.
We also discussed what kind of artworks we had experienced that felt transformative in some way. A lot of people named pieces of art that involved interaction between people and the artworks, or art that invited people to interact with each other in some way. Sometimes this kind of art feels disturbing, but it can also be very moving.
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Taiwan Wire Service
News From Taiwan
Taiwan shares dive Tuesday morning session
October 2, 2018 taiwanwireservice.com Government, Human Rights
Taipei, Taiwan shares took a beating Tuesday morning as selling focused on large cap stocks, in particular in the bellwether electronics and financial sectors, dealers said.
Ahead of stiff technical resistance at around 11,100 points, investors preferred to cut their holdings, ignoring a rally on Wall Street overnight, they said.
As of 10:45 a.m., the weighted index on the exchange, the Taiex, had fallen 112.13 points, or 1.01 percent, to 10,939.67 on turnover of NT$55.79 billion (US$1.82 billion).
The Taiex opened slightly lower and moved in a narrow range initially but selling intensified after 9:30 a.m. to push down the index by more than 100 points.
"I'm surprised the market came under heavy downward pressure, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared almost 200 points overnight," MasterLink Securities analyst Tom Tang said.
"Tech heavyweights such as contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), an Apple supplier, suffered a plunge to lead the downturn in the broader market," Tang said.
TSMC, the most heavily weighted stock in the local market, had shed 1.71 percent to NT$258.50 as of 10:45 a.m., with 20.18 million shares changing hands. The losses incurred by TSMC took 45 points off the Taiex alone, Tang said.
Led by TSMC, the electronics sector had lost 1.14 percent as of 10:45 a.m.
"Other Taiwanese firms in the Apple supply chain also faced downturns this morning," Tang said. "Behind the selling are worries that sales of the relatively affordable iPhone XR will squeeze Apple's profitability."
Apple unveiled three new iPhones and the more expensive iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max went on sale globally on Sept. 21. The mid-range iPhone XR is scheduled to hit the market later this month.
The 6.5-inch OLED iPhone XS Max is being sold at a starting price of NT$39,900 and the 5.8-inch OLED iPhone XS at NT$35,900 in Taiwan, while the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone will carry a starting price of NT$26,900 here.
Among the falling "Apple concept stocks," iPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. had lost 1.50 percent to NT$78.70, and metal casing maker Catcher Technology Co. had shed 2.19 percent to NT$334.50 as of 10:45 a.m.
Smartphone camera lens supplier Largan Precision Co. bucked the downturn, up 0.27 percent at NT$3,750.00.
Tang said the financial sector, which had served as an anchor stabilizing the local market in recent sessions, also moved lower to add downward pressure on the Taiex.
Mega Financial Holding Co. had lost 1.45 percent to NT$27.10 and CTBC Financial Holding Co. had fallen 1.74 percent to NT$22.55 as of 10:45 a.m.
"Rising trade friction between the United States and China remained a concern to the local financial market, and investors tended to seize on the issue as an excuse to lock in their gains built recently," Tang said.
"If Washington goes ahead to impose a tariff on additional US$267 billion worth of China goods as planned, Taiwanese investors on the market won't be able to avoid the impact."
Tang said the nearest technical support for the market is expected at around 10,900 points.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel
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Research at MAE includes research into space systems engineering and spaceflight mechanics. This spans a wide variety of topics such as nano-satellites, self-assembling spacecraft, orbital dynamics, trajectory design and optimization, autonomous navigation and planning, all under the auspices of the Aerospace Centre of Excellence - and with almost all research outputs openly available through Strathprints.
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De Roche, J. and Gordon, C.M. and Ingram, M.D. and Imrie, C.T. and Kennedy, A.R. and Triolo, A. (2004) Application of Complementary Experimental Techniques to Characterization of the Phase Behavior of [C16mim][PF6] and [C14mim][PF6]. Chemistry of Materials, 15 (16). pp. 3089-3097. ISSN 0897-4756
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TV Show 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' 10 Seasons
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The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
a.k.a. Law & Order: CI
Criminal Intent – Verbrechen im Visier
Das Major Case Squad besteht aus den intelligentesten und fähigsten Ermittlern New Yorks. Der scharfsinnigste von allen ist Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio), der mit brillanter Kombinationsgabe und unbeirrbarem Instinkt die cleversten Verbrecher der Stadt zur Strecke bringt. Unterstützt wird er von seiner abgeklärten Partnerin Detective Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe). Das Besondere an der Serie ist, dass sie eine zusätzliche Ebene einführt, in der die Geschehnisse auch aus der Sicht der Kriminellen erzählt werden. Dadurch wird den Zuschauern ein tiefer Blick in die Psyche der Täter gewährt, sie erfahren die Beweggründe, die zu den Verbrechen führen und können diese besser nachvollziehen.
New York Section Criminelle
Une équipe de la police criminelle tentent d'élucider les crimes en essayant de cerner la psychologie des meurtriers.
La serie tratta di un'unità speciale del New York Police Department che risolve i crimini grazie all'approccio psicologico. La parte processuale è assente. I protagonisti sono i detective con le loro intuizioni ed i loro studi. I crimini che vengono trattati sono strettamente connessi con persone famose, i cui casi vanno risolti il più in fretta possibile.
Aired
from 30 Sept 2001
to 26 Jun 2011
Episode Runtimes
murder investigation
Origin Countries
Wolf Films
Universal Television
Content Ratings / Classifications
TMDb 76% · 138 (more information on website)
IMDb 73% · 21,476 (more information on website)
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Season one of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, an American police procedural television series developed by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, began airing on September 30, 2001 on NBC, a national broadcast television network in the United States. Law & Order: Criminal Intent is the second spin-off of the long-running crime drama Law & Order, and follows the New York City Police Department's fictional Major Case Squad, which investigates high-profile murder cases. The first season comprises twenty-two episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 10, 2002. Four actors received star billing in the first season; Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, and Courtney B. Vance. Episodes depict Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames as the squad's lead investigators. Captain James Deakins is the detectives' direct supervisor and head of the Major Case Squad. Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver often attempts to obtain confessions from the suspects, rather than taking them to trial. Law & Order: Criminal Intent focusses on the actions and motives of the criminals, and divides screen time equally between the suspects and victims, and the police's investigation. The season was filmed on location in New York City, although scenes set inside the Major Case Squad department were filmed in a studio at Chelsea Piers, Manhattan. 22 30 Sept 2001
Experience life on the wrong side of the law as perpetrators plan and execute the crimes that lead them into the fascinating, frustrating and sometimes frightening justice system. 23 29 Sept 2002
Follow Major Case Squad Detectives Robert Goren and Alex Eames as they tackle the most challenging criminal cases in New York City. Under the supervision of Captain James Deakins and with the assistance of Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver, Goren and Eames pursue the city's most devious offenders in a cat-and-mouse game filled with treachery and surprising twists. 21 28 Sept 2003
Analyze crimes from the unique perspective of the lawbreakers themselves as they strategize and execute the plans that end up on the New York Police Department's Major Case Squad roster. 23 9 Sept 2004
New York's war on crime enters an unprecedented phase of tension and conflict. The Major Case Squad takes on some of its most difficult scenarios to date – from brainwashing and foul play to bondage and bizarre ritualistic killings. 22 25 Sept 2005
They have matched wits with the smartest of criminals and the darkest of minds, but nothing will prepare Bobby Goren and Alex Eames for their most challenging season yet. 22 19 Sept 2006
Year Seven
Squad Detectives Robert Goren, Alex Eames, Mike Logan and Megan Wheeler are back for another season of looking through the window of the criminal mind. The Seventh Year includes 22 powerful episodes featuring high-profile criminal cases ripped from contemporary headlines. Investigations range from the murder of a modern-day pirate to the execution of three college freshmen and Goren going 22 4 Oct 2007
Year Eight
With the departure of Detective Logan after the conclusion of year seven comes the emergence of Detective Zach Nichols to effectively take Logan's place as Wheeler's partner. The Eighth Year features a suspense-packed caseload when Goren and Eames investigate the death of a drug dealer who was involved with a politician's stepdaughter, race against the clock to track down a missing child, are tasked with hunting down a killer's killer and more. Meanwhile, Nichols and Wheeler become submerged in the dark dealings of the celebrity restaurant world, investigate the stabbing of a young hipster and explore the murder of a high-profile CFO. 16 19 Apr 2009
Year Nine
Year Nine marks a turning point for The Major Case Squad as one of their own is murdered while undercover in the world of illegal arms dealing. In a two-part season premiere, Detectives Goren, Eames and Nichols set out to find the elusive killer and risk compromising an ongoing FBI investigation which threatens to push Goren out of the picture for good. Year Nine packs a punch with a line-up of cases that include matching wits with an Irish crime boss, examining a mysterious "vampire" murder, hunting down a schizophrenic serial killer and investigating a widespread scandal involving a New York senator. 16 30 Mar 2010
Year Ten
After a lengthy departure from duty, Goren returns to the Major Case Squad attached to a sentence of mandated therapy by the department. Nevertheless, Goren and Eames are as effective as ever in exposing some of New York's most high-profile and diabolical criminals. When the stakes are highest, the Major Case Squad gets the call. These are their stories. 8 1 May 2011
Robert Goren Vincent D'Onofrio
Alexandra Eames Kathryn Erbe
Paula Gyson Julia Ormond
Joseph Hannah Jay O. Sanders
Production Producer Chris Brancato
Peter Jankowski
Warren Leight
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Not Even Half the Story
By Write(H)ers participant Nathan Nye, T'13
âIâm sure I could think of other ways for a pretty girl like you to make a living.â
Did you just read that? Did you shudder just a little? I think we can all agree that there is a large creep quotient contained in the above sentence. This is one of the many submissions on the tumblr Said to Lady Journos. Somehow this person managed to demean women, journalists, and the boundaries of decency in 18 words. The site makes it clear that this kind of occurrence is not uncommon. My personal favorite was said to a woman covering a murder trial, and when the testimony was getting gruesome, a man looked at her and said, âYou might want to cover your ears, young lady.â
Culture, Identity, & Religion, Career Planning
Undergraduates, New Students, First-Year Students, Faculty & Staff
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Leaning in or leaning out
By Anna Koelsch, Write(H)ers participant
Does Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg have the answer for how women can finally break the glass ceiling? Probably not.
Sandberg has attracted a lot of attention in the past few years. She’s delivered TED Talks and a Barnard College commencement speech, and those speeches brim with facts describing the dire situation of female leadership. As she said at Barnard, “Of 190 heads of 2 state, nine are women. Of all the parliaments around the world, 13% of those seats are held by women. Corporate America top jobs, 15% are women; numbers which have not moved at all in the past nine years. Nine years. Of full professors around the United States, only 24% are women.”
Undergraduates, First-Year Students, Faculty & Staff
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Being Conscious About Language
By Write(H(ers participant Erin Sweeney, T'13
Lately, I’ve been paying more attention to how people (myself included) use pronouns. I’ve noticed that more of my peers are using gender-inclusive language like using him or her, as well as gender-neutral language, such as using the third-person plural pronoun “they” as a singular pronoun, to my AP English teacher’s chagrin.
Read more Being Conscious About Language
Is the glass ceiling becoming thinner?
By Write(H)ers participant Flora Muglia, T'14
When I imagine the glass ceiling, I envision a tall building with many stories. It is difficult to climb but has a view that is worth it in the end, and on the final floor the ceiling is a sunroof that tauntingly allows in beautiful rays of sunlight. People attempt to find a latter or set of stairs in order to get on the roof and actually see the sky from high up, some go as far as to push on it or try and find a weak spot, but alas there is no entry. All you can do is stare up and wish for a breath of fresh air.
Read more Is the glass ceiling becoming thinner?
Women, Politics and Power - Ellen Moran and Michèle Flournoy Visit Duke
The dreams of many a female politics/policy wonk were fulfilled this past week when Ellen Moran, former White House Communications Director and Michèle Flournoy, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, visited Duke.
Moran’s talk on September 20th, cosponsored by the Baldwin Scholars Program and the Women’s Studies Department, focused on how the upcoming election is significant for women candidates and voters.
Flournoy’s lecture tonight will be on how American Grand Strategy is affected by fiscal constraints; however, I was fortunate to sit in on her ladies’ breakfast this morning in which she also discussed work-life balance, being a woman in the national security field and career trajectories.
Culture, Identity, & Religion, Career Planning, Student Engagement
Undergraduates, First-Year Students, Graduate & Professional Students, International Students, Faculty & Staff, Parents & Families, Division Staff
Read more Women, Politics and Power - Ellen Moran and Michèle Flournoy Visit Duke
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SNAPTAG
a social networking app, devoted only to fashion!
SnapTag shares new looks and credible opinions, a personal stylist for the public.
Instagram for Fashion. In the simplest of terms this is the guidebook we were given. The challenge was taking the best bits, combining them together and adding a unique layer to allow people to be able to upvote (like) and downvote (dislike).
There needed to be a place that people can go for advice on fashion, FAST. We’ve created it alongside our clients perfect vision, it’s called Snaptag. From users uploading a photo we needed to give them a way to gain approval or dissatisfaction with an outfit or an item of clothing. Think of trying to cater for the person in the dressing room, nervous about their first date trying on outfits but can’t decide and no one to ask, we have to cater for their needs with this app.
Match all this functionality with a desperate need to ‘not be too similar to Instagram’ and you have the brief.
Urgent feed with specific notifications
Public and private content feeds
Up and Down content voting
We needed to provide a point of differentiation with our features, we needed to allow a way to mass spread the message of ‘someone needs advice’ instantly. We needed a brand that stands out and a name that represents quality, trend, and sophistication.
The back end and architecture of the product needed to be carefully thought out, as this product has to be built to scale. The api needs to be fast and light allowing data to be distributed on mass very efficiently. Push notifications would be key to accessing the rich features we planned on integrating.
The product launch strategy is the right one, launch slow, beta test, analyse and listen to focus groups, then implement fixes and feature enhancements to match the user behavior. All this before going to market. The BIG launch is planned for July 2017. Up to that point, the app is live on iOS and Android and we welcome users to beta test.
The solution is a blend of personal and ‘global’, simple to navigate, feeds – which offer a constant flow of users to follow and engage with, as well as the ability to create private groups for a more discrete and immersive interaction.
We wanted to cater for exhibisionist people that have a strong interest in fashion, as well as a more timid user whom may just need a little reassurance for a date; we think we found a fluent blend of both. The private groups act very much like a group chat messenger while the main feeds offer the social interaction and the two combine, intuitively to complement the app.
With the main focus of the app being related to trends and fashions, we needed to provide a system which allows users to follow other users and ‘favourite’ any looks which might inspire them. Ultimately this was achieved with the ‘Wardrobe’ feature which users can save their own images to or those of others they follow; and users can also choose to make their ‘Wardrobe’ public or private.
One of the biggest challenges was each users feed needing to be duplicated to each follower, which of course increases the storage but the UX and responsiveness with it.
Duplicating feeds means the removal of any content becomes very difficult to manage also, particularly where a ‘favourited’ image is concerned. We overcame this by allowing a user to ‘Wardrobe’ an image – which basically means ‘saving’ it to their own account – this duplicates the image only but ‘links’ to the original post, so if the original post gets deleted, the user still has a copy of the image, but does not have the comments and votes which were attached to it.
Another main feature was the “Urgent” posts, because they need to alert the user’s followers with notifications we needed to find a way to limit this so it doesn’t become a frustration when it is one of the USP’s of the app. By doing so we increase it’s value too, encouraging people to choose their urgent situations carefully.
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Logo of the Hanfparade
The Hanfparade (English: Hemp Parade) is a hemp legalization demonstration in Berlin. It has taken place each year in August since 1997.
The traditional course of the parade floats make a prelude through the German capital. In a demonstration, thousands give hemp and cannabis their attention. At the end of the demonstration a closing speech takes place.
The parade offers a variety of hemp-related entertainment. The main stage offers mixes of speeches and live-music. National and international musicians entertain the visitors, which often includes high-ranking personalities from politics, culture, medicine and the legalization movement. In the speakers corner an open microphone waits for contributions.
The demonstrations so far have always been peaceful, which may be because the police rarely pursue offenses against cannabis possession laws.[1]
2016[edit]
The 20th anniversary of the Hanfparade took place on August 13, 2016. The motto was "Legalization is in the air".
The next Hanfparade took place on Saturday August 7, 2010. It started at 1:00 p.m. with a speech between TV tower and railway station Alexanderplatz in Berlin under the slogan "Cannabis is (World) Culture". The Hanfparade requests that the entire hemp culture, both the art of using hemp as raw material, as food, as stimulant and as medicine, is allocated to the intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO and removed from the present authorities, which are focused solely on criminal prosecution.
Hanfparade took place August 1, 2009 in Berlin. The motto was "For free choice". The demonstration started at Alexanderplatz and went to Brandenburger Tor.
The 12th Hanfparade took place on August 2, 2008 from TV Tower at Alexanderplatz to Leipziger Platz, next to Potsdamer Platz. The motto was "Youth protection, Consumer protection, Legalize".
The 11th Hanfparade took place on August 25, 2007 in Berlin.[2]
The 10th Hanfparade took place on August 5, 2006 in Berlin. It took place under the motto, "Legalization now! Reorient your opinion instead of giving billions away!" and led a march down Unter den Linden to the Brandenburger Tor from the Alexanderplatz across the Oranienburger. Intermediate demonstrations took place in front of Kunsthaus Tacheles and the British embassy. Approximately 1500 participants took part in the parade. At the Brandenburger Gate there was a hemp market with several hemp panels and hemp plants. The police managed to cut several thousand hemp plants down at the Brandenburger Gate, although the organizers had permission for it. At the conclusion of the demonstration there was a six-hour closing speech at the Platz des 18. März.
Banner of the Hanfparade 2005
The Hanfparade took place on August 13, 2005 in Berlin. It took place under the motto, "We are the hemp!"—a play on the slogan "Wir sind das Volk!" used by the East Germans before the opening of the inner German border. The demonstration started at 12:00 at the city hall Rotes Rathaus accompanied by five parade floats and by the citizens of Berlin city center. The parade was again smaller than in the previous years with 1000 to 1200 participants. This was because (among other things) the closing speech was forbidden at short notice by the office responsible for green area.
The police enacted substantial controls and wrote 24 announcements because of offenses against the BtMG (German narcotic law).
The Hanfparade took place on August 14, 2004 at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin at 12:00. About 3,500 people attended the demonstration, and at the meeting area about 8000 were present.
The Hanfparade began at 12:00 on August 23, 2003 with a 60-minute demonstration before the Federal Ministry of Finance at the William route (between Leipziger road and Niederkirchnerstrasse) in Berlin. The parade of 13 floats ran peacefully. There were announcements however due to offenses against the Betäubungsmittelgesetz.
About 5,000 demonstrators, including Hans-Christian Ströbele (a Green Party member of the German Bundestag), representatives of the Green Party Youths, The Left Party and the Grey Panthers Party, participated in the demonstration.
Hanfparade 2002
The 2002 Hanfparade included a march to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with about 10,000 people. The participants motto was "For hemp use! Against hemp abuse! Education instead of prohibition!"
An excerpt from a speech of Hans Christian Ströbele was used in the song Gebt das Hanf frei! from Stefan Raab.[3]
"No war against plants" was the slogan of the 5th Hanfparade. The visitors celebrated with a party before marching on the Berlin City Hall. "I'm a stoner and it is good to be it!", people were saying.
Hanfparade 2000 at the Brandenburg Gate
For the millennium Hanfparade participants from all over the world demanded, "Legalize it globally." Only a storm could impair the good tendency of 10,000 of the participants somewhat.
Hopes of a new and better millennium drove several tens of thousands of people to the hemp parade. Their motto was, "Into the future with hemp." For the first time, representatives of all parties except the Christian Democratic Union spoke.
In the election year, nearly 50,000 people flew into Berlin under the slogan, "The fight continues," they demanded the legalization of hemp from the new Federal Government.
Ten thousand followed the call "of the Herumschweifenden Haschrebellen" and H.A.N.F., a registered association for the first country wide demonstration for hemp. With their route to the Brandenburger Gate they demanded "Legalization now!"
^ "Bußgeld für Kiffer" (in German). Der Spiegel. August 19, 2002.
^ Hanfparade website.
^ David Heimburger (December 12, 2002). "Raab rappt Ströbele zu neuer Popularität" (in German). Der Spiegel.
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ADPF 187 (2011)
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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanfparade
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A #midcentury book on #advertising that still needs to be read. We review #RosserReeves #RealityinAdvertising. wp.me/P23AlC-vl 2 minutes ago
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Dr. Samuel Johnson once said “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” Some of us know this because Hunter S. Thompson used it as a sort of touchstone in his classic “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.
And it is well to reference Dr. Thompson at the beginning of this review, not simply because Mr. Beigbeder uses another line from the good doctor to kick off the fifth section of his novel-cum-memoir-cum-roman-a-clef.
Nor simply because Mr. Beigbeder namechecks from the opening pages with the rapid-fire desperation of a coked-up rapper in a hostile room. Aldous Huxley, Charles Bukowski, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Marcel Proust, Tom Ford and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski all drop in at some point.
No, the most important reason for launching this review of Frédéric Beigbeder’s (in)famous book with Dr. Johnson’s thoughts about the unreasonable behaviour of men is because it sums up in about sixteen words what it would appear Mr. Beigbeder is trying to get at in nearly 85,000 and yet which he never quite seems to arrive at.
“£9.99”, which was originally published in Mr. Beigbeder’s native France under the title “99 Francs”, ostensibly tells the story of how the narrator, Octave Parengo, a creative allegedly based on Mr. Beigbeder who works at an agency allegedly based on Y&R Paris, rises through the ranks over the course of a few weeks even as he is hell bent on getting himself fired. How is he going to get himself fired? By writing a book exposing all the stupid things he does – and is forced to do – as a creative at an agency. Like what? Like deal with unreasonable clients. Like dodge the slings and arrows of petty office politics. Like endure the soul-crushing misery of being ridiculously overpaid to sell meaningless products in a world where there is misery and pain and duplicity and mendacity. Why, it’s enough to make a guy fly private…
For example, here’s Frédéric – er, Octave – cataloguing all the things he has in his absurdly large apartment, on page 92. And 93. And 94. And 95. From Berluti shoes to an Eames chair to a fridge filled with Petrossian caviar to pictures of himself with Jude Law and Naomi Campbell and Posh & Becks.
And here is Mr. Beigbeder – oops, Mr. Parengo – describing the sex he has had, or will have, or wants to have with any number of starlets, super models, co-workers, prostitutes, and/or teenagers, either consecutively or concurrently. And here’s poor Frédéric – sorry again, Octave – complaining that “This whole civilization rests on the false longings that you dream up. It’s going to die. Our way of life is a big suicide.” And then here he is (which one? I’ve forgotten…) showing us his deeper side, comparing his life to a nightmare and asking the reader “How exactly do you wake yourself up when you’re not sleeping?”
Bitch, please.
What the hell is wrong with the people in our industry that they feel compelled to produce these superficial, poorly plotted, and abysmally written exercises which paint us as spoiled, superficial, asinine prats who piss away ridiculous amounts of money doing nothing of any value and who then have the audacity to whine about it from the comfort of their first class airplane seats and glass tower office blocks? Don’t get me wrong – a lot of us are. Maybe even most of us. But I would be willing to bet that most people in every industry are. I am willing to believe that advertising is not the only industry in which every person is not a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s the law of averages, mate – or, to paraphrase William S. Burroughs, it’s because 99% of everything is crap and that includes human beings.
The difference, it would seem is that people in other industries don’t feel compelled to publish the feces of the most annoying of their ilk.
And yet here we are, with another nominally talented embarrassment embarrassing us with his self-pitying ruminations on why he’s so self-pitying. Why he can’t fall in love. Why he does so much coke. Why he isn’t fulfilled. Is this business difficult? Of course it is. Are we often misunderstood? Of course we are. Is it exhausting, heartbreaking, and disappointing? Do we often find ourselves ranting about things that in the grand scheme of things don’t matter at all?
You mean like this book? Sigh. Yes, I’m afraid we do.
£9.99 by Frédéric Beigbeder was published by Macmillan UK on 07/05/02 – order it from Amazon here or from Barnes & Noble here – or pick it up at your local bookseller (find one here).
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ARE UFOs JUST A CIA CON-TRICK?
February 12, 2013 Filed under:
MIRAGE MEN BY MARK PILKINGTON
By HARRY RITCHIE
The way of things to come?: Or are UFOs just a CIA conspiracy?
Ufology is a faith that includes many beliefs, from the oddly popular one about Nazi aliens who live under the ground to David Icke’s contention that the Duke of Edinburgh is in fact a shape-changing, blood-sucking alien lizard.
But here’s the core of the faith – that some UFO sightings and encounters are real, the U.S. government knows all about these extraterrestrial visitations, and they’ve mounted a huge conspiracy to keep the aliens secret and us in the dark.
This book threatens to demolish that faith. Because here Mark Pilkington sets out to prove that the U.S. government really has been conducting a top-secret UFO conspiracy – only one designed not to hide UFOs but publicise them, fuelling and even creating the major UFO myths. Flying saucers, alien abductions, crash-landed spacecraft, secret underground bases in New Mexico – they were all created by the U.S. government.
As Mark Pilkington immediately acknowledges, that might sound only marginally less ridiculous and emptily melodramatic than claiming that the Royal Family are actually alien reptiles. But he begins to build a pretty convincing case that U.S. agencies really have been conducting just such a long-running disinformation campaign to promote UFOs. And it does make sense.
UFOs make the perfect cover story to hide experimental aircraft from prying Russian eyes as well as those of their own citizens. Ufologists are a particular pest to U.S. Air Force security, for ever trying to root around their secret projects and hack into their systems – they need to be led up various extraterrestrial garden paths and far away from finding out about actual highly-classified experiments in weaponry or aircraft.
The Roswell Incident: were alien bodies really found?
Pilkington’s theory would certainly explain why so many of the key UFO sightings and events happen near U.S. Air Force bases – such as Roswell, home of the famous ‘incident’ when an alien craft was supposed to have crash-landed, with a couple of aliens aboard.
And why so many extraterrestrial spaceships seem to behave like the pilotless drones and stealth aircraft developed by the U.S. Air Force. And why flying saucers should first turn up at the start of the Cold War, just when the U.S. Air Force was beginning to experiment with exotic new types of flight.
According to Pilkington, the campaign to promote the idea of UFOs was masterminded in the Fifties by the head of the CIA, Allen Welsh Dulles. More recently, many of the leaked fake documents and bogus stories seem to have come from the U.S. Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).
One victim of fake UFO documents evidently supplied by the American government was Timothy Good, whose international bestseller about supposed contact with aliens, Above Top Secret, included completely bogus papers planted in the American National Archives.
Another is George Adamski, an early fan of flying saucers whose bestselling books in the Fifties described his meetings with a chap called Orthon from Venus and his own trips in flying saucers.
I came across one of Adamski’s mad books in my local public library when I was a boy, and I remember being disturbed and perplexed – this was a book, a proper printed book, so all this stuff about going to Venus and meeting Venusians … it had to be real, didn’t it? Now, it seems Adamski was an innocent, eager dupe and that Orthon and the spaceships weren’t figments of his silly or venal imagination but real people and vehicles supplied by the CIA.
Fake spaceships, fake aliens, fake documents and even a fake underground alien base – it might all seem unduly elaborate and indeed expensive.
But the Americans certainly had the money for it, budgeting billions of dollars for the CIA’s black arts.
The Pentagon already had a good bash at that themselves, sponsoring a recruitment film of the Seventies, which claimed that UFOs were real and which included footage of a flying saucer landing at a U.S. Air Force base and a couple of aliens disembarking.
And that, you might think, is the Pentagon bang to rights. But at this point in the book, things begin to get even more complicated.
An AFOSI agent takes Pilkington aside and confides the real ‘truth’ – yes, there is a huge government conspiracy to produce a smokescreen of nonsense about UFOS, of course; however, it’s designed to hide not supersonic test-flights but … real UFOs.
Because, you see, by offering up a series of scary stories about UFO invasions and alien abductions, this will gradually desensitise the public to the eventual truth that the U.S. government really has been in contact with aliens.
Argh! Clearly, obviously, surely, this is more hokum, an attempt to exploit Pilkington with a slightly refined version of the same old stories – but he has previous as a Ufology believer and he can’t quite shake off the thrill of thinking that maybe, just maybe, an alien spaceship did crash-land at Roswell. That’s typical of a book that isn’t quite the rigorous hard-hitting investigation it could and should have been. Pilkington just about manages to hold on to his scepticism but ends with a spiel about nobody knowing for sure what the truth can be and Ufology being a murky, grey area.
No, no, no. There’s nothing grey about it. Either we have been visited by aliens and the American government is covering this up or we haven’t and it isn’t.
Either that debris at Roswell was part of a crashed flying saucer or it came from a test-flight that went wrong or a knackered high-altitude weather balloon. Either the Duke of Edinburgh is a blood-sucking alien reptile seeded from a distant star system or he is a human from Greece. So. What do you reckon? Great credit to Pilkington, though, for revealing who Orthon really was/ those aliens really are.
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In praise of the One O’Clock Fox
By Brian Doyle | May 6, 2016
From the 2015 Simon and Schuster edition
The first book that nailed me, that so absorbed me that I forgot what time it was and where I was and that I was reading a book and not actually inside the book? Easy: Cinnabar, the One O’Clock Fox, by Marguerite Henry, with artwork by Wesley Dennis, which was published the year I was born. I read it about nine years later, at the small wooden library in our small town, and I can still remember the silvery light of a gray afternoon outside the window, and the dignified ancient musty sturdy formal scent of the building, and the loud shimmering silence of the library, and the dawning deliciousness of the feeling that this was the greatest book I had ever read, a greater book than I had known was possible to read, and that I had enough time, while waiting for my older sister to reclaim me from the library, to read the book at least twice, which I did, with increasing awe and wonder and delight. Not only was the text informative about the life and nature and habits and pursuits of red foxes, which are totally cool and wry animals you could spend your whole life studying and never know everything there is to know, but this fox also liked to tease and goof none other than George Washington. Just for fun, Cinnabar shows up every day at one o’clock in the afternoon to lead George and his fellow fox hunters on one fruitless chase after another, inventing new wrinkles and wiles as he goes along, and deriving much merriment from outwitting the hunters; as, of course, does the young reader, who also secretly and inchoately yearns to outwit the admirable authorities in his own life.
The young reader does not know this, quite; he revels first in the fun of the story and the dash of the tale and the sprint of the narrative and the glory of the art; but other things soak into him unawares, things that he only becomes aware of much later. For example, the respect and attentiveness and even reverence of the writer to and for the subject, and the way that text and art brilliantly hold hands and fit each other to create a third mysterious subtle thing, and the way that the second it takes to turn a page adds an extra instant of suspense to the story, and the way that a story, bound and published, acquires a certain grace and gravitas. Perhaps all of these things, soaking into a boy of nine in a corner of an old library in a small town, act as sparks in his later life, for that boy will also someday write books, and happily see them bound and published and stored in libraries, from the shelves of which he hopes, with all his heart, that even now, right this minute, as we sit here talking about books, a child is curling up in a chair with one of my books, and that child is increasingly delighted, and feels as if he or she has been waiting for exactly this book all his or her life, and here it is at last!—and if he hurries, he can gobble chapter after chapter with real and genuine glee, before his sister shows up to reclaim him from the library; but now, after this book, we know with absolute certainty that books and libraries and reading are countries we are going to live in daily for the rest of our lives. For that certainty I ought to have thanked Marguerite Henry many years ago; but I do so now, with the most sincere and heartfelt gratitude.
Brian Doyle, an essayist and novelist, died on May 27, 2017. To read Epiphanies, his longtime blog for the Scholar, please go here.
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Employee groups seek BSNL nomination for state-funded connectivity programs
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employee unions have asked the Centre to allow more state-funded telecom connectivity initiatives to the company on nomination basis, else the ongoing ambitious revival plan would be at risk.Muntazir Abbas | ETTelecom | Updated: January 16, 2020, 15:26 IST
NEW DELHI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employee unions have asked the Centre to allow more state-funded telecom connectivity initiatives to the company on nomination basis, else the ongoing ambitious revival plan would be at risk.
“We want BSNL to go everywhere and more projects on nomination basis should be allowed since its relief package is at stake,” Sanchar Nigam Executives Association (SNEA) president Aftab Ahmad Khan told ETTelecom.
Delhi-based All India Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Executives Association (AIBSNLEA) secretary S Sivakumar who sent a letter to telecom secretary Anshu Prakash on January 2, 2019 seconded Khan’s views and said that such programs would make telco self-sustainable and boost revival program.
“We demand that the work should be awarded to BSNL on nomination basis ensuring BSNL is not incurring any losses, and make decent profits in projects,” K Sebastian, secretary general, SNEA said.
The comments from groups have come on the backdrop of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that has recently tweaked bidding terms and conditions to encourage private players to participate in government-funded projects.
“On a larger context, the government should take national security concerns into consideration, and any move to disallow BSNL from the USO-funded strategic programs would be disastrous,” Khan added.
USOF or Universal Service Obligation Fund is a Rs 50,000 crore strong reserve meant to offer rural telephony services in India’s rural and remote regions.
BSNL pays November wages, clears up to Rs 1,700 crore to vendors, contractors
The department has though extended the deadline for the provision of 2G+4G based mobile services for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) identified tower locations in Left Wing Extremism (LWE-II) affected areas to January 20, and has put February 2 as a last date for the submission of applications for 4G services in uncovered villages and seamless mobile coverage along NH-223 in Andaman & Nicobar Islands (ANI).
Sebastian claimed that the 4G connectivity condition was only to keep BSNL out from the tenders’ eligibility criteria.
Meanwhile, BSNL is yet to get much-sought airwaves to commercially launch 4G services.
In his letter, Sivakumar added that in the USOF-notified open tender for the MHA-led telecom connectivity program, the presence of BSNL infrastructure would be crucial and that would also maintain homogeneity in network for seamless mobile connectivity.
In October last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-headed Cabinet had approved the rescue plan worth Rs 70,000 crore for the two stressed state-controlled operators— BSNL and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) that included allocation of 4G spectrum in addition to Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) and asset monetisation.
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Hip Hop On Trial debates at the Barbican – old school nostalgia opposed by commercial rap’s image
8 years ago Dave
Hip Hop On Trial? Who dragged hip hop into the courtroom under false pretence when it should have been commercial rap, that should be cross examined?
Hip Hop On Trial? Who dragged hip hop into the courtroom under false pretences when it should have been its rebellious cousin, commercial rap, that should have been cross examined?
Watch the entire Hip Hop On Trial debate below – panel line up is listed at the bottom of this article
Hip Hop On Trial at Barbican Centre was one of, if not the only time that so many esteemed (that’s debatable) faces from hip hop culture would have been in one room together to discuss a topic intelligently. But it was hyped up and misleading, narrow minded, focusing only rap, not hip hop lifestyle. Damn, and it was supposed to be all in the name.
Does rap music degrade society? No, it’s the other way round. Think about the setting for this debate: An elitist fortress in the City of London in a moderated situation that could be likened to a dinner party debate (Google yourself other debates Intelligence Squared hold and you may agree with this observation). Organisers that are intelligent but are unsure about what rap is. And £25 tickets to something you discuss with your mates and draw better conclusions. Would that be paying for a one sided debate? This trial needed a public gallery seating the people that got ticket hook ups!
With an activist reverend on the panel many people were coming for answers. Instead this was preaching to the ignorant, and the ignorants weren’t the hip hoppers, because they came to listen.
There were two sides at Hip Hop On Trial: Eamon Courtenay is a lawyer to argue that hip hop is degrading: His job is to convice you that you’re wrong, even when you’re right, and Michael Eric Dyson, a hip hop intellect, representing the hip hopper’s point of view.
Once upon a time there was a genesis called hip hop that spoke about self awareness, how difficult it was to get a job and questioned whether there was any justice or equality in the world. But it grew older and became the victim of misguided choices and went down the route of self destruction. That was then, this is now, many ‘true hip hoppers’ are stuck in nostalgia. And the same happened with this debate.
Hip Hop On Trial debates
Rap is just bad poetry? It’s one thing to make an assumption, but another to try and spit a rhyme off the top of your head! Self righteous points of view? Don’t forget to hear others out. You live in the Hip Hoposphere, apparently. From politically motivated poets printing their own pamphlets in the nineteenth century to rappers selling mixtapes from their car boots, what is the difference in this old school hustle?
There is a much wider debate that could be had here, such as the role hip hop has to play in African American or British black people’s identity and how the Caucasian community has adopted it, and maybe someday that debate will be held. So instead here are the top points raised at the Hip Hop On Trial debates. There’s opinions and then there’s facts, and it’s up to you to decide which you agree or disagree with.
Society is degraded, hip hop is the response
In the opening argument for hip hop, Touré argues that hip hop has reflected society and come about as the war on drugs. The same way social (society) media responds almost immediately with a trending topic, the same trending topic appears in hip hop. But this is commercial rap we’re talking about… Everyone has their own opinions and experiences of it.
But, hip hop’s seductive nature is abused as a marketing tool
It’s plain to see if you do your research that a lot of rap culture comes from prison culture, from handshakes to how you wear your jeans and that plaster thing Nelly used to wear. Ironically the argument came from a FOX Sports columnist, and we all know Fox is never partisan in it’s views… yet he reinforced the point that the African American man’s image has been shaped by rap music and the imagery that goes with it, how many have imitated it because they weren’t given direction or alternative role models. As for those that did come up from being drug dealers rapping about what they do, how many do you think are proud of ruining other people’s lives by slanging them drugs?
Hip hop is exactly the same as the pop stars little girls sing along to and hang posters on their wall with semi-naked imagery and thrusting hips. Take them to trial too!
Jason Whitlock’s debate
Go back to the dictionary!
Hip hop has its own language – or to put it more precisely, its own dialect. Call someone a ‘bitch’ it can mean a female dog (or wolf, or fox, or otter), a difficult situation or can also be an acronym for “Because I Take Charge Here,” “Because I Totally Challenge Him” and not disrespect to a lady. The same way people might not get classical or opera because it has it’s own dialect, other audiences aren’t meant to get hip hop. It was too bad that Joe Budden and the rest of Slaughterhouse had to walk out against their debate…
Tony Sewel raised the point: Do you have to speak ‘hip hop’ to be accepted? Then again, where is the appreciation for Ebonics?
The racism and misogyny is within us
It happens that offending people is within us, from discrimination about race to being sexist: Racism goes down the route of slave trade and colonialising countries to patriarchal societies through to the media’s image of ethnic minorities and the objectivication of women. Hip hop didn’t start it off, just drew your attention to it!
And the “N word” debate will always rage on no matter how many times it is debated. Regardless of the history and etymology of it, whether it derives from the word ‘negus’ meaning ‘king,’ or the claim that it’s empowering by reclaiming it, it’s a whole other debate.
It’s the politician’s point of view… and the political points of view were ignored
It seems that all the arguments against hip hop in the past have come about due to politicians pandering for votes: Think 2Pac being singled out for cops being murdered after finding his record in the shooter’s car, think Ice T singing about being a cop killer and the call for it to be banned.
Deeb, the political rapper that came about from the Arab Spring movement spoke all but once (maybe twice) and Benjamin Zephaniah, acclaimed poet, published author and outspoken against the system (he turned down an MBE from the queen – publicly) spoke once. Oh, and if the government advisor for youth is as closed minded as Shaun Bailey, will the youth ever get a voice? The lyrics he quoted about “bitches ain’t shit” was a diss track between the Death Row and Ruthless Records band camp, and wasn’t gender specific.
Hip hop moderates itself
And few other cultures do this so freely. It has the power to degrade society, but also to uplift it. Perhaps looking for the positive and not only wanting to see the negative in something might help people?
Of course hip hop doesn’t degrade society!
The commercial stuff, sure. Guns, materialism, bling, whatever the debate was supposed to get at. But think of every sample used in a record that inspired you to research the original version of a song, every documentary watched created by passionate, pro-active hip hoppers, every popular culture reference, metaphor and in-joke in lyrics that has been rapped about? That came out of hip hop.
It’s time to give up some heartbeat props and start appraising what hip hop has, or had to say about society. Let’s take it back…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPZX6LvsZk
The Hip Hop On Trial panel
Shaun Bailey – Special adviser to the Prime Minister’s office on youth, crime and welfare issues
Deeb – Egyptian “Arab Spring” rapper
Estelle (via Google+ Hangout) – Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter
dream hampton – American hip-hop journalist, cultural critic and film-maker
Jesse Jackson – Civil rights activist, Baptist minister and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
KRS-One – Hip-hop pioneer, record producer and activist
Jaron Lanier – American computer scientist, virtual reality pioneer and musician
James Peterson – Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University and founder of Hip Hop Scholars LLC
P. J. O’Rourke (via Google+ Hangout) – American political satirist and author
Q-Tip (via Google+ Hangout) – American rapper, producer and frontman of iconic hip-hop act A Tribe Called Quest
?uestlove (via Google+ Hangout) – Co-founder of Grammy Award winning band The Roots, DJ, music journalist and producer
Tricia Rose – Brown University Professor and author of the groundbreaking books on hip-hop: Black Noise and The Hip Hop Wars
Tony Sewell – CEO of the charity Generating Genius
Slaughterhouse (via Google+ Hangout) – Rap supergroup made up of Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joel Ortiz, and Royce Da 5’9
John Sutherland – Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London
Isiah Thomas (via Google+ Hangout) – Former top 50 NBA basketball player and Chairman and CEO of Isiah International
Touré (via Google+ Hangout) – American TV presenter, novelist, journalist and cultural critic
Jason Whitlock – Columnist for FoxSports.com
Benjamin Zephaniah – Dub poet and musician
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For some artists, if you have the freedom to make every creative choice — you won't make any choice at all. So you set limits on yourself as a challenge, and as a corrective to make sure your initial vision remains unobstructed. The success of The White Stripes is a prime example. Then other times, a force completely outside your control shuts off options and limits your choices for you, requiring you to operate within those new boundaries. The success of The White Stripes is a prime example.
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The Heart of What Was Lost by Tad Williams
The Storm King has been defeated, his army of Norns driven off and peace returned to the lands of Osten Ard. King Seoman and Queen Miriamele have taken the throne in the Hayholt and a new age of peace beckons. But for Duke Isgrimnur of Rimmersgard the war is not entirely over. Along with the famed warrior Sludig, Isgrimnur has been given command of an army with orders to pursue the fleeing Norns back to Stormspike and ensure they are destroyed forever.
The Heart of What Was Lost acts as a bridge between the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams and its upcoming sequel series, The Last King of Osten Ard. The first novel in that trilogy, The Witchwood Crown, will be released in June 2017. This book is useful for laying some groundwork for that trilogy and wrapping up some loose ends from the earlier series that Williams was unable to address at the time.
The Heart of What Was Lost is short, focused, lean and mean. Just 200 pages long in hardcover, making it barely a short story by the author's normal standards, it moves with pace and energy. As a war story it has quite a bit of action, but also with some strong moments of character-building as characters reflect on what is going on.
The book is related from three different points of view. Porto is an ordinary soldier in Isgrimnur's army who yearns for an end to the war so he can go home, but is distracted when he befriends a terrified younger fellow soldier and tries to keep him alive. Isgrimnur, a returning character from Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, is the gruff general and old warrior, still charismatic and skilled at warfare but hurting from the death of his son in To Green Angel Tower. Viyeki is a Builder, one of the main orders of Norn society, tasked with maintaining walls and fortifications, and the first Norn POV character in the series.
This POV rotation is effective, although Porto's contribution to the story is limited. I suspect Porto, or maybe his offspring, will play a role in the upcoming trilogy otherwise I can't see much reason for him being in this book. Still, he provides an interesting ground's eye view on the battles. Isgrimnur is the same world-weary warrior we met in Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, but fleshed out as he grapples with the fall-out of his son's death. Williams is successful in making Isgrimnur's grief raw and convincing, given he last wrote for the character some twenty-three years earlier. The most successful character is Viyeki, who gives us a much-needed "bad guy" perspective on events. Although the first trilogy successfully established why the undead Ineluki wanted to destroy the world, it was less clear on why the Norns would support him. This book goes much deeper into their motivations, backstory and histories, fleshing out an under-explored area of the original trilogy's worldbuilding.
The story is short, mostly concerned with moral concerns as Isgrimnur ponders the wisdom of trying to make the Norns extinct and the Norns' battle for survival and hope to leave something for future generations to build upon. But it is powerfully and effectively told. Williams slips back into Osten Ard like he's never been away, and the novel feels weightier than it could have been, as the author slips extra moments of worldbuilding and foreshadowing for the future books into the narrative. There's also some nice misdirection. At one point the Norns outline a plan which feels almost like it could be the plot synopsis for the next trilogy, but this is then abruptly undercut when a major character dies and the plot takes an unexpected 90 degree turn onto a different path. Ultimately, this makes the book more self-contained than I was expecting. Certainly there is pipe-laying for The Last King of Osten Ard trilogy, but it's done very subtly.
The Heart of What Was Lost (****) is not just an effective scene-setter and palate-cleanser for the new trilogy, but a strong self-contained story in its own right, with more twists and turns than you might expect for its short length. The novel is available now in the UK and USA.
Labels: memory sorrow and thorn, tad williams, the heart of what was lost, the last king of osten ard
Joseph E said...
Hey Adam, how important is it that we actually remember the finer points of the Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy to get the most of this book? It's been 20 years* since I read those books and at this point it's mostly a blur. And unfortunately, as excited as I am for this return to Osten Ard, I can't foresee myself finding the time to reread the original books anytime soon. Am I going to miss a lot?
*Holy crap! 20 years?! Where did the time go? Seriously, in my head it's like 2005 at most!
13 January 2017 at 02:54:00 GMT
I feel the same wayear last time I read the series was in 2003 or so. What I started to do was read the prologue of books 2 and 3 to get a recap of books 1 and 2. Now if someone can just give me a recap of 3 :)
Phil said...
I'm with you on not having read Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn in a long time. There were a couple things you might pick up on if you have read the trilogy recently, but other than that it was very easy to enjoy the story.
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Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Michael Prihoda
February 24, 2019 / The Wombwell Rainbow
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I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me. I gave the writers two options: an emailed list of questions or a more fluid interview via messenger.
The usual ground is covered about motivation, daily routines and work ethic, but some surprises too. Some of these poets you may know, others may be new to you. I hope you enjoy the experience as much as I do.
Michael Prihoda
is a poet and editor, born and living in the Midwest. He has published two chapbooks and eight full-length collections of poetry, with another forthcoming in 2019. He has a blog to share his typewriter poetry. A full list of his creative publications appears here publications
He is the founding/managing editor of After the Pause (an online literary journal of experimental poetry, fiction, and artwork) as well as its small press imprint a…p press. In addition, he runs the After the Pause Review of Books.
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1. When and why did you start writing poetry?
I started writing poetry in college but I began writing fiction well before that while I was in high school. I think I began as a means of self-discovery, of gripping and coming-to-terms with who I was and who I wanted to be and how I saw the world. It was therapy and self-discovery. Now, I see poetry as a vehicle of philosophy, an avenue through which to draw back a curtain to show an audience only things language can display and explore. For all that the world sways digital, there’s magic in paper pages, in what remains possible through the agglutination of words and phrases in both physical and metaphysical ways.
2. Who introduced you to poetry?
Literature was baked into my childhood. My earliest memories are of learning to read, specifically the first book I ever read solo: See the Yak Yak. I loved books of all kinds through school, was more of a book locust than just a book worm, and I believe what truly cemented the power of books in me at a young age was being read to by both my parents, not just as a toddler, but probably up until middle school. I would sit on the floor and play with Lego or do a puzzle and my parents would read classics like Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, The Gammage Cup, The Chronicles of Narnia. While my tastes have danced through different genres as I’ve grown up and been exposed to more and had a variety of adult experiences, I’ve remained obsessed with literature and read anything I can get my hands on that sparks that special something inside the literary chunk of my brain.
3. How aware are and were you of the dominating presence of older poets traditional and contemporary?
Aware, but not willing to let that detract from my passion to pursue poetry. I also think that is starting to change. Poetry is being fully embraced by younger generations and I’ve seen poets achieve remarkable levels of success and exposure in their 20s and 30s. Poetry in America isn’t stuffy, archaic, and dying with some last cohort of old white American men who were renowned for their 20th century contributions. Poetry feels incredibly diverse and exciting and I think youth are driving the movement.
4. What is your daily writing routine?
I have honestly never kept a regular routine for the actual writing I do. Writing has always been contained to my spare time as I have a full-time job that is separate from my creative pursuits. I write sporadically, often in bursts, and will sometimes go weeks without writing a thing that is creatively productive. However, I have oriented myself toward the world in such a way as to always be a consumer and processer of information and literature. I see the potentiality for poems and stories everywhere and I make an effort to jot down ideas or phrases that I believe might grow into something more. My writing brain is always on, whether or not I do any actual creative writing in a day.
5. What motivates you to write?
I’m motivated by my experiences. I feel the constant urge to create based on what I see in the world around me and my emotional response to it. Sometimes that’s in the form of very short poetry, sometimes it becomes longer stories but I feel that the connective thread tying all my work together is a disorientation that I feel and see in the world around me between what this life is supposed to be or could be and what this wreckage ends up being for so many of us. There’s a line in one of Jeff Vandermeer’s books that runs through my head almost daily that (apologies to Jeff if this isn’t exact), “We are vessels filled with light. Broken vessels, broken light. But vessels nonetheless.” I’m another broken vessel filled with my own kind of broken light, hoping that I might share that light with people out there for the moments their light feels weak.
6. How do the writers you read when you were young influence you today?
What always catches my attention most, and what always has since I was very young, is when an author is able to craft a compelling world, one that could only come from that person’s brain. Or if in poetry or realist fiction, I look for a compelling voice, something that sounds and feels unique, lives and breathes on its own terms and is unapologetic about doing things differently or taking risks in the approach and execution. Of course I am influenced by myriad writers who have come before me, as are all authors, but the great ones take their influences and produce some new tonic. I would hardly call myself a great writer, but that is what I try to do with my poetry and my fiction, having attempted to distill and absorb as much as I can from the writers I most admire: bloom something into existence that could not have come from anyone but myself.
6.1. Which older writers “spark that special something inside the literary chunk of (your) brain.”?
Non-exhaustive yet comprehensive of who I think of as particularly special: Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Jeff Vandermeer, Lydia Davis, Kelly Link, Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine.
6.2. Why are they special?
Each brings something unique to the literary landscape and is wholly an individual stylist. DeLillo is perhaps the most concise writer I’ve ever encountered, not necessarily in brevity of writing, but in the meaningful usage of sentences. Each feels weighty and philosophical. Vonnegut is the original fabulist, speculative before that became a genre. Foster Wallace practically invented a new dictionary to write Infinite Jest and it is some of the most compelling prose I’ve ever seen. Vandermeer is inventive and able to morph his style into myriad genres while never losing his flair for the strange and unfamiliar. Davis is perhaps the best writer of realist short fiction, pared back and brimming with constrained emotion. Link is an incredible modern fabulist, marrying wild concepts with deeply human ambitions and themes. Armantrout’s poetry is so sparse yet packed to exploding with meaning and societal references. And Rankine is a standard-bearer in creating literature that strives to impact the racial conversation our country needs to have.
7. Why do you write, as opposed to doing anything else?
Writing feels like an activity that is necessary for my mind to feel as if I’m living a valuable life and contributing in the ways that I have been equipped to contribute to the world. Similar to spending time with my favorite people or going to work at the education nonprofit where I spend my days, it is a life-giving thing. I’ve done plenty of things in life that ended up not feeling useful or valuable. But I’ve never sat down to write and gotten up again without thinking I had just done something deeply meaningful and valuable, whether or not what I wrote in that instance ever sees the light of day.
8. What would you say to someone who asked you “How do you become a writer?”
I believe becoming a writer begins with becoming a serious, avid reader. You learn so much about the writing craft through reading, and here I don’t just mean serious, classical literature. Anything applies. But I don’t think anyone can call themselves a writer unless they’ve put in the legwork being a reader. Secondly, you have to be okay with failing and here I don’t even mean rejection. Of course that will come. But rejection isn’t even close to the first obstacle writers will face. You have to be okay with writing things that are pure trash, that just aren’t good, that are so deeply flawed it would be embarrassing to show them to anyone else. The quickest way to become a good writer is to practice the art of writing and to become good will require writing a lot of bad along the way. I have an untold number of stories, poems, and novels that are bad and will never be published and will never to be shown to another soul but I had to write them in order to hone my craft, my voice, my style, to understand the intricacies of writing and the process that I would have to use to create something meaningful and valuable and, ultimately, publishable.
9. Tell me about the writing projects you have on at the moment.
The major project I’m working on is a manuscript of poems that has been a result of reading Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was unfairly detained for over a decade and never charged with a crime. His diary is gripping and became the inspiration for a series of poems that also owe a debt of gratitude to the books The New Jim Crow and The History of White People. The poems grapple with how white supremacy has infiltrated everything about the United States and the experience of living and working in this country and how our country has abused and continues to abuse its power, especially against minorities. In the case of Mohamedou, the long arm of the United States stretched into Africa to take him from his homeland, away from his family, with no actual basis. As if the way my country persecutes some of its own citizens wasn’t enough. I often find injustice a trigger for my poems and this project has been an experience in attempting to find a foothold on the side of human dignity as I desire and work toward a world of actual equity.
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Public Health England has just revealed in their 2019 Child Health report that a concerning 1,155 children were admitted to hospitals across Yorkshire and the Humber because of alcohol abuse PLUS an additional 1,859 being admitted for substance misuse; over 3,000 in total.
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The children admitted to hospital because of alcohol abuse were all under the age of 18, whilst those admitted for substance misuse were aged 15-24.
The report has pooled together hospital admissions data from the last three years.
It also reveals a link between alcohol-attributable hospital admissions in both males and females with teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections as well as a link between young people who use recreational drugs with suicide, depression and disruptive behavior disorders.
The worst offending area across Yorkshire and the Humber for drug misuse hospital admissions was Leeds; with 320 young people being admitted in the last three years.
As for alcohol, the worst area was again Leeds with 189 kids admitted, closely followed by Bradford with 175 under 18 year olds admitted into hospital.
The news comes at a time when leading private addiction treatment firm UKAT has announced a staggering 185% rise in the number of young addicts checking into rehab in the last 3 years.
In 2015, UKAT treated 93 patients aged 21 or under for substance based addictions, jumping dramatically to 266 in 2018.
Eytan Alexander, CEO of UKAT, believes that more pressure should be put on parents across Yorkshire to have open and honest conversations with their children;
“Prevention should be the priority in tackling the rise of drink and drug misuse amongst children in order to avoid the beast which is addiction developing in later life. It is imperative that parents living across Yorkshire address the topic of drugs and alcohol early on with their children. Be informed and be clear. Discuss the harmful effects of alcohol and drugs on the body as well as the legal consequences associated with them. Do this for them whilst they’re young and we could start to see these numbers lowering.”
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More Details on Lin Huei-Sheng
Published on January 16, 2019 January 19, 2019 by Dennis Schlossman
(Photo Credit: CPBL Stats)
Although it still hasn’t officially been reported by the team, several stories broke at the beginning of the week stating that the Dodgers have signed righty pitcher Lin Huei-Sheng. Apparently, the contract involves a signing bonus in the vicinity of $300K. It has also been stated that the deal is pending a physical, which may be the reason for the holdup in the club making an official announcement.
There’s not much information available on the 20-year-old native from Taiwan, but CPBL Stats provides a few useful tidbits along with some interesting background information. Recently, he has touched as high as 95 MPH on the radar gun. According to his scouting report, he features a forkball, a slider and a curve in addition to his fastball.
According to CPBL Stats, Lin initially intended on pursuing a career in the MLB right after high school in 2017; however, an injury (to his “waist”) kept him grounded in Taiwan, as he enrolled at the Linko Campus of the National Sports University. With plenty of time to recover, the University held a showcase for Lin last November, attracting scouts from more than 10 clubs across the MLB.
I did a little digging of my own and stumbled across his profile page on pointstreak.com. As shown by his recent stats there, there could be some control issues, as he walked 20 batters over 32-2/3 innings for the Taiwan T-Bolts in summer ball last year. During that time, he made seven starts and put together a 3-2 record with a 3.30 ERA and 25 punchouts.
The highlight of the season came against the Gaithersburg Giants on July 20, when he threw seven full innings of shutout ball, allowing just one hit while striking out six and walking two.
Here’s a video provided by CPBL Stats highlighting his mechanics and delivery:
Once he arrives stateside, it would probably be safe to assume that Lin starts his career with the AZL Dodgers, and if he settles in soon enough, he may be able to throw for Low-A Ogden when the short season begins later in the summer.
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Dennis Schlossman says:
Taking a second look at the video, you can see the curve coming from a mile away. Holy schmokes.
Scoop says:
I was looking for that too, but it wasn’t that obvious to me. You must have a keener eye. What did you see?
Hideo Nomo instructed him. Maybe we got a tip.
And for future reference Dennis it sounds more impressive if you say his fastball clocks in at 153 kph.
In that case, Yadi Alvarez topped out at 160.9 kph at Tulsa last year. 😉
Wow. Impressive. Send that information to Cleveland.
Jeff D. says:
I’d be happy to see as successful a Dodger career for him as Hong-Chih Kuo. Really a shame his career was derailed a few times by injury. He was a good one.
Kuo was one of my all time favorite Dodgers. I loved watching Nomo, Chan Ho Park and Kuo came along a bit after.
bearone48 says:
Dodgers sign 32 year old catcher Josh Thole to a minor league deal. He was in the Tigers system last year.
Jim Thole?
Actually I’ve never heard of him. But….. leave me to be reminding you of this……
Defensive importance by position:
So if we sign Harper for $300 million he should play shortstop as we already have Martin and Thole.
Is it February yet?
Thole’s career WAR is -1.3 another outstanding under the radar signing by Ol Andy Cheapo.
New York Yankees have signed Adam Ottovino to a 3 year deal for 27 million. It is pretty obvious which team is winning the off-season. The Yankees have improved their bullpen and starting staff and added some really good pieces to what already is a powerful team. And the National League champion Dodgers who rolled over and played dead against the Red Sox have actually removed most of their production from last year and added bupkis. I do not see how anyone who is a Dodger fan can look at this front office and ownership and say they are doing a good job. If there is a plan, it is kind of like the South’s plan at Gettysburg, and we all know how that turned out for Gen Lee. I have said from the beginning that I do not like the way Friedman assembles a team. He dumpster dives and occasionally finds a nickel. His act is getting extremely old. Yesterday it was announced that the Dodgers are seeking to make the fan experience to be like show business. In other words, go to Circus Circus in Vegas for a show. Try winning games, That is all the entertainment we need. Your utility team has fallen short twice. The big guns did not get the job done. That’s on them. This roster looks amazing like the Tampa team that lost to the Phillies in the series. You are 0-3 there Andy. Even your contemporary’s who use the same kind of tactics and analytics and graphs and what ever the hell else you use to evaluate players have won the big one. I remember right after the World Series was over. They was a story on MLB.com where Friedman said the Dodgers were going to be targeting IMPACT players in the off-season. The guy was obviously not trained as a Marine marksman because anything he has aimed at he has not hit. He still has time to make the fans forget this abysmal display of ineptitude. He could still pull off a big deal. But according to the rumor mill, there is nothing immanent. The only thing Friedman is wearing is blinders. He is obviously blind to the needs of the fan base, and at this point I believe neither he nor ownership give a rats ass what we think. They are charging fans 200.00 for autograph cards for fan fest. Just another way to make money from the lemmings that Dodger fans have become. Not this guy. Even when I go to California this year I am not going to Dodger Stadium and line their pockets when they do nothing.
The Yankees have to beat Boston. We have to beat …… let me check…… yeah, only the Rockies. The site I’m looking at now, fangraphs, says we beat the Rockies by 10 games. And 94 wins, not 95. Nats, Cubs, Cards at 92, 87 and 86. They don’t think much of the Brewers, 79 wins. Why? Who knows.
The American League is better.
As for Friedman… he does what he knows how to do. You play music Bear, and I’m sure you’re good, but do you play like Stevie Ray? Friedman is now under orders to keep payroll under $195M. Only management knows why, but right now 4 guys take up 50% of payroll and as long as that is the case there isn’t a lot of room to become better than the top AL teams. It is exactly what it is and that is a Kasten “make the playoffs” model using a Tampa budget trained GM. I don’t like it much either but maybe, just like Braves did in their 15 year run, we win one somewhere along the line.
Since when has fan graphs got anything right? This team win 90 plus games? That’s a joke, they will be lucky to win 85 unless they make some significant additions. Maybe they will do so in July, but my confidence in Fraudman is at an all time low. I have no confidence in him at all. And considering the story today about how Dave Roberts removing Hill in the series was not his choice makes me question his abilities even more. I am not spending one more dime that goes into Guggenheims pocket,
Stevie Ray was a lead picker and a blues man. Country is my thing and I am more of a vocalist than a picker. That I am good at what I do is because I worked at the craft and I learned from people who were more talented than I am. When you are working with some of the best in the business, it is easy to get better. Fraudman is not even the best in his own league. I know he is under mandate to keep the payroll down, and that’s on ownership. And therein lies the problem. They have a fan base that has remained loyal and has spent a ton of their hard earned money to see them fall short. Great, they are the Braves and the Bills in a major market. Do they realize how much money they are leaving on the table by not winning? LA loves a champ. The Lakers and the Rams have stars. Hell even the Angels have a premier name player on the team. What do the Dodgers have? They have a fading star in Kershaw and some very good players combined with the biggest batch of utility players on the planet. They also have more holes than Swiss cheese and so many question marks that it is easy to fail the test. The filled one hole, and they brought back an old favorite. But they have not addressed the major issues. I for one have spent my last dime that will go into Guggenheims pocket. They care less about me, I am not making them richer. The promises they made when they bought the team mean nothing. The way they are working now is not brining a title to LA., The Blue Lemming society will continue it’s trek to the sea that is Dodger Stadium and drown in Dodger dogs and beer and not smell a Championship until they make major changes in philosophy. I am done. I have had my fill. I still love the team, and will always cheer for them, but not one penny more will I spend on them. Did you see how much they are charging at Fan Fest? Unreal. I remember when they had autograph Sundays at Dodger Stadium. There were players on every tier and in the pavilion signing for free. Now they want 200 bucks for the up close and personal experience. With all the money they are making from the blue lemmings, they could have signed any free agent they wanted because they are doing this every year. The whole thing is getting old. The game has changed and the loyal fans are footing the bill.
They started the off season well by signing Kelly, and I thought more was coming, maybe it still is but I doubt it. One thing though bear, Andrew usually keeps what he is doing pretty quiet, you never hear about the deals he makes until he is done. So I’m hoping?
Hope in one hand crap in the other and you can guess which one gets full first. There are no rumors about the Dodgers being in on any player right now. Even the Kluber stuff has gone away. They have 39 on the roster, of course they can trade, release or DFA guys to open spots. But you would think this late in the off season there would be a ripple somewhere. I have said it before the trade and after, that them keeping Machado, or going after Harper was wishful thinking. I believe that trading for Martin was a stop gap desperation move designed to keep fans from discussing the real issue which is that a 92 win team has done nothing to improve. And that is the real issue here. 94 wins? That’s what Fan Graphs says. I say they are off their collective rockers because over 60 homers and 200 RBI’s have disappeared and not been replaced. Verdugo? Please, he will be lucky to hit 10 homers. Toles might be good for the same. 20 plus from Joc, I expect Kike to regress and Muncy will do the same. Bellinger will improve. 15-20 from Seager, 20 from Turner, 10-15 from Martin and maybe 8 out of Barnes. Taylor should come close to the same number and will probably get more IF he cuts down on the K’s But there are far more questions than answers coming from this bunch
Well buddy you and I have had this conversation before. I don’t think it’s as bad as all that but I do agree this isn’t a championship club and that Friedman is a bargain basement shopper. He lost me at “hello McCarthy”. But we have continued to win and really don’t need to do anything risky to get to the playoffs. I still think something is fishy with the ownership financials and I think it’s quite possible the 7th level eminents in this organization don’t think Harper or Machado are worth it. There has still been no explanation for sending 10 WAR out the door and doing nothing to replace it, but somehow the move made little difference in what the people who are actually paid to prognosticate think about our chances. What do we know about this science? It may look like a Yugo but it apparently it drives like a Mercedes. Unfortunately there are Lamborghini’s in the AL.
It’s still the off season. Don’t give up hope yet. Marwin and Keuchel are still available. So is Darwin Barney.
Well Scoop, I always respect your opinion my friend. You are an ocean of optimism. I look at the big picture and I see a team that is much worse than what they had last year even with the addition of Seager. We have no clue what they are going to get from a guy who has not played a game since last May, or was it April, I forget. I think expecting Muncy to repeat last years numbers is a pipe dream. They are a bunch of utility players, no real offensive monsters, and the pitching is based on a bunch of 5 inning guys. I understand this is the way they do business now. But that does not mean I buy the BS they are peddling.
You may be right about doing nothing, the point I was trying to make is, AF since he started running the dodgers has always kept his deals secret until they are done. Rumors about the dodgers are usually media supposition,
Hey bear, what kind of music do you play?
Country mostly, but I can also do oldies rock and some classic rock. Prefer the Haggard, Straight, Alabama, Waylon, Willie type stuff, but I do Jim Reeves and Johnny Horton and a pretty mean Elvis when I want to. It is what keeps me sane in an insane world.
When I was a kid, My dad played bass, my great uncle played acoustic, and sang, they had a buddy that could play a pretty good electric guitar. They would get a case of beer on a Saturday night and play music all night, so I grew up on haggard, Jones, buck Owens, cash, Charlie pride, and hank sr. Some pretty fond memories.
My mom had a pretty good voice and my uncle played guitar. There was a place down on Artesia and Hawthorne Blvd called the Red Barn. And it really was an old barn converted to a honky tonk. It was one of the most popular places in LA during the late 40’s and early 50’s. It was the home of Spade Cooley and his band. My mom and my uncle used to sit in with him now and then. He was very popular. His career went in the crapper when he murdered his wife. The Red Barn was gone by the mid 60’s. I did not really start doing music until after I was out of the army. Oh, I sat in with bands in the NCO club a couple of times, but nothing serious. After my first wife and I separated I started going to clubs. Met this one band who had 2 brothers and their wives. Picked with them and when they moved to the Chat Room in Carson, I became a regular and was hired by the owner to be a guest artist all the time. The manager started booking shows into the club. Lots of the older guys like Charlie Louvin, and Eddie Dean, the former cowboy western movie star. As time went by we got acts that were more popular, TG Sheppard, Joe Stampley, Johnny Rodriguez, but also guys like Earnest Tubb, Red Sovine, Red Simpson, and Justin Tubb. We also had Margo Smith and So Cal favorite Molly Bee who wrote and sang the old Stanley Chevrolet jingle. I also did shows later on with Dwight Yoakam and Tanya Tucker. Worked some venues with the Boy Howdy Band who did some albums for WB back then. Met some pretty famous people, James Burton, he was Elvis’s lead guitar player, Jock Mahoney, the actor who played Yancy Derringer on TV and Lee Akers who was Rusty on Rin Tin Tin. I met Wes Parker at a baseball card show and he came and watched my play. He was also the main reason I got to sing the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium, still my all time greatest high light. Dodgers lost the game and Cey got his arm broke when a pitch hit him. But they won the pennant and the World Series, so I can always say I sang the anthem in front of Champions. Got to visit the players in the Dodger dugout. That was 1981. I still have the pic they took of me and Jay Johnstone in front of the Dodger dugout. It was awesome.
My family moved to Redondo Beach in around 1965 but I was a little young to remember the red barn. My dad, uncle, and their buddy did play on artesia Blvd a few times, do you remember the cotillion, John’s, or the VFW, which later turned into the nite life? I think there were 13 bars on artesia, from Inglewood ave west to aviation Blvd it’s probably only a mile between those two streets. It’s a small world bear.
I remember all of those, Artesia runs east to west. Aviation curves around and meets it at what used to be Pier avenue. My high School is on Artesia just east of PCH. There were a ton of bars around there back then. Not all had music. The biggest one on Artesia was the Blue Fox. It was a real dive. Lots of fights in there. It closed down in the 70’s. Hawthorne Blvd. had a ton of bars too. Mostly small ones, but Cal’s Corral was on Hawthorne in Lawndale. Cal Worthington did a Sunday C&W show from there for years. I played there many a night. Carson had 4 bars that had country music all by itself. The oldest was the Lariat, it is a church now, and there was the Bedroom which was over on Carson street. What I remember a lot was a place I used to go to buy my 45 RPM records. They sold for 50 cents back then. Best record store in the area and it was there for years about 2 blocks from Doors Market. Bill Anderson’s Recordville. Loved going in there to get the latest tunes.
That record store is where me and my brother bought our first record, credences “Proud Mary” My family shopped at old luckys, corner of slauson, and artesia, across the street from the record store, I still remember Red, the butcher. Mom used to send me their with a note and some money to buy her cigarettes, I was probably only seven years old, she’d have social services on her door step for something like that now.
I went to your cross town rival in high school, us falcons hated you mustangs. Now that you mention it I remember the blue fox, it was across the street from the public library. My folks rarely ever went there, mostly those other places I mentioned.
First record I ever bought there was Sorry. A R&B tune and I cannot even remember the group that did it. I was always wondering why Aviation was in a different league than Mira Costa since they were so close together. But they were. Redondo was our arch rival. We could not stand those Sea Hawks. I did more than one combined concert with Aviation. They usually would do them in Mira Costa’s Auditorium which had awesome acoustics. Aviation is closed now. Has been for quite a few years. They split the student body’s between Mira Costa and Lawndale.
My younger brother was the last graduating class from aviation in “82”. When I was in school it was more friction between costa, and aviation, and I think it was more of a manhattaner vs redondoer thing, than a school thing. I still work construction in the area, how long since you’ve been in the area?
I come out to Cali about once a year. Last time was back in July and August. Costa is in Manhattan Beach,, so yeah, that could have been it. I lived in Redondo. If I had lived on the other side of the street, I would have gone to Redondo. I was right on the line. But even though I was pretty far away, I had to walk about 2 miles, there was no bus service to where I lived. We absolutely hated RUHS. There was a huge rivalry between the schools Costa opened in 1952 and was a 2 year school until 1954, then it became a 4 year school. My sis lives in Carson,
We lived on Harriman lane til I was 11, during high school we lived on Robinson, and Felton. My best friend had 2 older sisters, Lori, and Kathy Waterman, did you happen to know either one of them?
My aunt lived on Carnegie Lane almost directly behind the old Doors Market. I lived on Stanford Ave. right off of Pier ave. If I knew them I do not remember them. But my memory is not what is used to be as to names…events? Those I am pretty good at.
I put the foundations in for the condos right behind Doors market about 30 years ago, probably where your aunt lived. My childhood home is still standing, but I know someday it will be turned into 2 townhomes, there aren’t many lots left that haven’t been redeveloped into a 2 or 3 townhomes.Can you believe a buildable lot here in Redondo goes for around 1.2 million now? Times have changed since you grew up here.
I went by where my aunt lived a few years ago. It was as you said, a condo. It kind of makes me sick in a way because my uncle Don was a stone mason. The brick wall and a really beautiful BBQ were built by him on that property were no doubt torn down to build that condo. To see the kind of effort put in to build something like that just destroyed really irks me. They call it progress. I call it destroying your history. Yeah, I can believe that property is that high. Manhattan is pretty much the same way. There just is not that much open space anymore.
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any verbal account of a person
title. any verbal account of a person
pairing. J2
rating. PG
notes. 1850wc. For belovedsnail. Huge thanks to walkawayslowly. Wherein Gisela attempts to put classical film theory class to practical use. Title from A Dialectic Approach to Film Form.
summary. Jensen is shy and always has been.
music. Sia; Breathe Me (Ulrich Schnauss Remix). [download] (k, i hope this one is new. :))
This story is a collection of made-up facts.
Audition room, Century City, soundstage. Jensen is looking past a camera. He is holding a sheaf of papers and on those papers are phrases like "Dad's on a hunting trip, and he hasn't been home in a while."
His voice is loud and it echoes. The executives on the other side of the table nod slowly before signing the release that sends him to Vancouver.
Two AM, bar in Vancouver's west end. Jensen's knuckles are bleeding and bruises are starting to form. He exhales, his breath hanging in the cold air. Jared shouts something and Jensen turns, goes back. He fights with his back to a wall, and when he's done three guys are being sent to the ER and Jared is leaning on him heavily.
Filming a promo on a soundstage in LA. Jensen looks into the camera. His voice wavers and he says "Catch us Thursdays at 9, 8 o'clock central."
"Cut," the director says. "Next take with Jared too, okay?"
Jensen sighs, nods. He turns around. Jared is standing off to the side with a smile on his face. Behind them, the Impala is gleaming. The director asks them to lean against it, then he cracks a joke. Jared laughs, his head ducking down, and then Jensen laughs too.
On set, between takes on a night shoot. Jensen strums a couple of chords on his guitar. Outside, the sun is already very low on the horizon. He slides a finger up the fretboard, makes the guitar squeal. He twists the knob and the sound goes a little higher, then a little lower.
There's a knock on the door. Jensen turns and Jared is standing there holding the door open.
"Want to come?" Jared asks, and Jensen shakes his head.
"No, don't think so. Maybe next time, okay?"
Jared nods, steps down the door to Jensen's trailer and the door swings closed behind him. Inside, Jensen sets the guitar down, walks over to the trailer's small bedroom and opens the window. He can hear Jared laughing outside. He turns, walks back into the bigger room and picks the guitar up again. He strums a couple of chords, and then drags some paper and a pencil over, writes a few notes.
Filming, next day. Jared is dressed in Sam's clothes and he is sliding around in the makeup chair, throwing gummy bears at Jensen. Jensen smiles, catches as many as he can and throws back the ones that aren't red. Jared starts lobbing jawbreakers over and Jensen catches those too. He throws one at Jared, and misses; it hits the mirror and the jawbreaker shatters. Jared hitches a breath, a gasp, and starts laughing. Jensen smiles and pops one into his mouth.
Later. One of the guest stars is talking to Jared, laughing, and Jensen can see them. He turns, walks to his trailer and closes the door. A few minutes later Jared is on the top step, knocking. Jensen opens the door and Jared asks "Want to come with?"
Jensen shakes his head and says "No, don't think so. Maybe next time, okay?"
Morning, Jensen's apartment. Jensen is lying in his bed and the sheets are down around his ankles. Outside, the day is overcast. He gets up, pulls a sweater on, then pads over the the kitchen. He opens the fridge, pulls out some milk into a glass and then takes a sip - pours the rest down the sink. He opens his fridge again and there is a box of chinese takeout and some apple slices. He closes the fridge again and dials a preprogrammed number in his cell phone. Fifteen minutes later, a delivery person asks him to sign a receipt for one order of mongolian beef, one order of chicken fried rice, and one order of Molson. Jensen takes the food into his living room, where he sets it out on the coffee table in order of course. He gets up, walks to the cabinet and gets one fork, one knife and one glass - he puts the glass back.
Jensen only uses one half of the king-sized bed in his bedroom. The black sheets are labeled 1200-cotton, and even the pillowcases are stamped Egyptian. There is a gas fireplace in the wall at the end of the bed and the stickers on it are still new. There is a fine layer of dust on the mantle and two photos: one of his family, one of Jared and him at the pilot's wrap.
Wrapping, after the seventeenth visit to Kraft Services. When Jared knocks on the door, Jensen calls out, "Come in."
Jared ducks his head as he steps in. He looks around, then finally decides to settle on the couch. Jensen fiddles with the coffeemaker. He pours two mugs, adds milk and sugar to both.
Jared clears his throat, says, "So. How's it going?"
He laughs awkwardly. Jensen smiles and says, "Not bad."
Filming, midday. The set breaks for lunch. Jensen walks towards his trailer but Jared steps in, blocks him. Jensen nods and Jared asks, "Hey, want to come over later? Stay in with some beer and movies?"
Jensen doesn't say anything for a second. Then he grins and says, "Sure thing."
Eleven PM, Jared's apartment. Jensen stands outside the door and he's holding a sixpack and a DVD of the funniest youtube videos he could find. "Hold on," Jared says, "just a second."
He lets Jensen in and Jensen sets the drinks down on the kitchen counter. He can hear on half of Jared's conversation:
"I've got to go - yeah, he's here and I have to go- I'll call back! Fine. I'll talk to you later. Bye."
Jared shrugs and Jensen shrugs back. "I can leave, if you want," Jensen says, but Jared shakes his head.
"No, I want you here," he says. "I invited you, and no way am I going- you know. Yeah. And besides, it's no problem. I want you here."
Jensen nods, and after a minute he smiles.
Wrap party before hiatus, around 2AM. Jensen is on his fifth Labatt Blue. Jared wraps an arm over Jensen's shoulder and says, "Let's get out of here, okay?"
Jensen nods. He walks in almost a straight line to the curb, where there is a taxi waiting. When Jensen wakes up, he is in Jared's rented house. He is fully dressed and on top of the covers. Jared is beside him, snoring. There are dogs panting in his face, leashes in their mouths. Jensen yawns, stretches, and the tips of his fingers touch Jared's arm.
He gets up, rolls his shoulders. There is a bottle of orange juice in the fridge and he drinks from it straight. He walks to the back door and lets the dogs out, watches them running around the yard.
Hiatus, third week. Jensen is visiting his parents' house. The pool in the back warm. When everyone leaves he strips down and jumps in, long strokes cutting across the slight waves of the pool water.
Night after hiatus. Jared kisses him. They are both sober and neither of them are particularly tired. Jensen pulls back after a minute, and realises that his hand is on Jared's thigh, the denim is warm from his skin. Jared half-grins and Jensen kisses him back.
Sandy calls and as she rants into the answering machine, Jensen slides out from under Jared's hands and leaves.
Morning after. Jensen sits on his couch, guitar across his lap. He hears Jared knock on the door and he doesn't answer.
That evening. After Jensen sits on his couch, the television is on and the antenna barely picks up CBC news. He hears Jared knock, then he hears muffled words. He gets up and opens the door. Jared is standing on the bottom stair and he says, "This was a mistake."
Jensen moves to close the door but Jared starts rambling, he says, "Me and Sandy, we're, shit, I'm not gonna say just friends because friends mean a lot and I don't wanna diminish that but me and Sandy, we're really, really, really good friends and I trust her and she was ranting at me because I forgot to pick her up at the airport, and really, who doesn't get pissed off when they're supposed to be picked up and aren't, and anyway, we're really, really good friends and I love her but I'm not in love with her, you know? And she likes having someone on her arm at events, it doesn't look good for girls to show up alone, double standard and all that, and I really love her, but-"
He pauses, takes a breath. "Not mentioning all that before was the mistake, Jensen. Not the, you know, other thing." He looks at his shoes.
Jensen nods. Then he closes the door.
Two days later, after makeup but before principal shooting. Jared stands on the top step in front of Jensen's trailer door. He knocks. Jensen opens the door. Jared doesn't say anything, and Jensen moves to close the door.
"Wait! Shit-" Jared looks at the ground, then catches Jensen's eyes. "I'm going over to do some grocery shopping, thinking about making some chicken, or, I don't know, it's not fancy but maybe you want to come with?"
"Uh," Jensen's brow furrows and Jared cuts in, saying "Or maybe I can just hang out with you?"
"Okay," Jensen steps back and lets Jared in.
Jensen's apartment, midnight. The bedroom is dark. Jensen leaves the light in the kitchen on and slivers make their way past the half-closed door, make shadows on the floor.
Jared is sleeping. Jensen stands at the doorway for a moment, then walks in. He's dressed in drawstring pajama pants and no shirt and his movements appear to be measured and practiced. He slides under the covers, rolls, throws his arm over onto Jared's side of the bed.
The next day. Jared knocks on the door and when Jensen opens it, he sees Jared's smile. He leaves the door open and as Jared follows him inside Jensen says, "You know, you don't have to knock anymore."
He walks over to his television and the image flickers. "Help me out with this?" Jensen motions at the television and Jared plays with the rabbit ears on top, stopping when Jensen tells him too.
Jared waves at the antenna, as if telling it to 'stay.' He joins Jensen on the couch, shoves at him with a shoulder. "So, a bunch of the crew are going out, some bar in the middle of Surrey. Want to come with?"
Jensen is suddenly aware of the rough texture of the couch's fabric under his hands, the clash of colours on the ugly fabric. The television hisses and crackles, showing its age, and the antenna glints, catching the light. The kettle on the burner steams and he can feel humidity gathering in the small space; already taste the sugar on his tongue, the salt of Jared's skin. His hands itch like he wants to touch.
Finally he says, "Yeah, I think I will."
Tags: fandom: supernatural rps, genre: drama, genre: schmoop, length: 1000-2000, pairing: jared/jensen, rating: pg, style: experimental
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June 2010 Potential Show Run Down
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010:
(Free) Dred Scott Trio w/Clay Ross @ Rockwood Music Hall
($10 w/ 2 Drink min) Jason Lindner Trio w/Mark Guiliana @ Zinc Bar
($45-$85) Reggie Watts w/ Conan O’Brien @ Radio City Music Hall
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010:
($10 w/ 2 Drink min) Jason Lindner Trio @ Zinc Bar
($25-$45) Lisa Loeb @ City Winery
($29.50) Toots & the Maytals @ B.B. Kings
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010:
($15) Galactic Feat. Corey Henry w/ Sp. Guest Corey Glover of Living Colour@ Brooklyn Bowl (Funk Live) –> Some Cat From Japan (A Will Bernad Project) opening for Galactic (Jam Cruise Reunion Party)
($15) Eli “Paperboy” Reed & True Loves @ Mercury Lounge
($32-$35) Dark Star Orchestra @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
($30-$35) Anders Osborne / Tab Benoit @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Temptress
($35) Michael Franti & Spearheads & Trombone Shorty @ Govenor’s Island
($40-$30) Dee Dee Bridgewater: Tribute to Billie Holiday @ The Blue Note
($150) Patti LaBelle @ B.B. King Blues Club
($??) Eldar @ Iridium Jazz Club
Friday, June 4th, 2010:
Mountain Jam IV Music Festival, NY ~ Day I
(Free) Von Ghost @ Rockwood Music Hall
($15) Galactic Feat. Corey Henry w/ Sp. Guest Corey Glover of Living Colour@ Brooklyn Bowl (Funk Live) –>
Some Cat From Japan (A Will Bernard Project) opening for Galactic
($25) The Return of George Porter Jr. & Runnin Pardners/ Papa Grows Funk @ Sullivan Hall (Funk Live)
($35-$60) Drive By Truckers & Jamie McLean @ Tarrytown Music Hall
($36/SOLD OUT) RJD2, Pretty Lights, Chiddy Bang @ Terminal 5
Saturday, June 5th, 2010:
Mountain Jam Music Festival, NY ~ Day II
12th Annual Star Scape Music Festival, MD
(Free) Underground Horns @ The Shrine
($15) Galactic Feat. Corey Henry w/ Sp. Guest Corey Glover of Living Colour@ Brooklyn Bowl (Funk Live) –> Some Cat From Japan (A Will Bernard Project) opening for Galactic
($30) Martin Sexton, Ryan Montbleau Band @ Nokia Theater Times Square
($36.50 – $40) Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes @ B.B. Kings
Sunday, June 6th, 2010:
Mountain Jam Music Festival, NY ~ Day III
($18-$25) Holmes Brothers @ City Winery
Monday, June 7th, 2010:
(Free) Fela! On Broadway Original Cast Recording Release Party @ Brooklyn Bowl
($30) Brand New Heavies feat. N’Dea Davenport @ Highline Ballroom
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010:
($??) Kenny Neal @ Terra Blues
($16-$20) Dirty Dozen Brass Band @ B.B. Kings (Funk Live)
($25/SOLD OUT) Les Claypool @ Brooklyn Bowl
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010:
($3 suggested) Norah Jones @ Prospect Park Bandshell
(Free) Phish on Late Night with Jimmy Falon
(Entered a contest but found no price) Jeff Beck – A Tribute To Les Paul @ Iridium Jazz Club
($16-$18) Easy Star All-Stars @ Highline Ballroom
($20-$25) An Evening With Eric Lindell (Album Release Party) @ Sullivan Hall (Funk Live)
Thursday, June 10th, 2010:
(Free) Sarah Mclachlan on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
($15-$20) Orchard Lounge @ Higher Nubela @ Club Love
($20-$25) Evening with Eric Krasno & Chapter 2 @ Sullivan Hall
($20) Jamie Lidell w/ Alex B. @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
($20-$30) Duncan Sheik & Holly Brook @ City Winery
($35 for each set) Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna @ Iridium Jazz Club
Friday, June 11th, 2010:
Bonnaroo Music Festival (Manchester, TN)
Reggae On The Road (Lighting Ridge Park, NY)
(Free) Allison Moorer on Late Show with David Letterman
($5) Rotary Downs, The Pimps Of Joytime, Big Light @ Brooklyn Bowl (Funk Live)
($25) David Allan Coe @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
($25) The Budos Band @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise (The Temptress) (7pm-11pm)
($25-$30) Rubblebucket @ Rocks Off Cruises (The Temptress) (11pm-4am)
($25-$80) Jethro Tull w/ Procol Harum @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Saturday, June 12th, 2010:
($20-$25) NYC Undead Jazzfest (2 Nights, 3 Venues, 30 Bands)
(Free) West African Band @ St. Nicks, Harlem @12:30 (late night show)
(Girls free/$5) Higher Nebulae @ The Delancy (11pm-1145pm)
($3) Allen Toussaint and Davell Crawford @ The Prospect Park Bandhshell
($10) Will Bernard @ The Blue Note @ 12:30pm (late night show)
($25) Grace Potter & The Nocturnals @ Webster Hall
Sunday, June 13th, 2010:
($??) Undead Jazzfest w/ Mark Guiliana @ Sullivan Hall
(Free) Baaba Maal, Playing For Change @ Summerstage
($8-$15 + 1 drink min.) Jim Campilongo Electric Trio (w/ Stephan Crump and Tony Mason) @ The Living Room
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010:
($30) John Butler Trio, State Radio, Angus and Julia Stone & State Radio @ Summerstage
($40-$155) Carole King / James Taylor – Troubadour Reunion @ Radio City Music Hall
($15) The Roots @ Highline Ballroom (this is weird online)
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010:
($5) Chico Mann @ Santos House Party
($25) Mary Gauthier @ Joe’s Pub (NolaFolk)
($50) Larry Graham + Central Station (S&TFS) @ B.B. Kings
CareFusion Jazz Festival New York
($??) Mark Guiliana @ 55 Bar
(??) Gent Treadly @ Flannery’s Irish Pub (called everywhere looking for price)
($10-$12) Apollo Run @ The Studio @ Webster Hall
($5) The Lee Boys @ Brooklyn Bowl
($13) The London Souls @ Bowery Ballroom
($20-$25) Tony Allen at Le Poisson Rouge (Funk Live)
($25-$30) Railroad Earth @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Temptress
($40 – $90) Keith Jarrett Trio, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Peacock @ Carnegie Hall (Part of CareFusion Jazz Festival New York)
($59.90-$99.50) New Kids on the Block @ Radio City Music Hall
MY FIRST PHISH CONCERT EVER @ Hartford, CT!!!
($5) The Lee Boys @ The Brooklyn Bowl (Funk Live)
($15) Alphabet Soup with Zack & Adam O’Farrill @ Puppets Jazz Bar (Part of CareFusion Jazz Festival New York)
($15) Lee Fields,w/ Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra @ Southpaw
PHISH @ SPAC!!!
(Free) West African Band @ St. Nicks, Harlem (12:pm – late night show)
(Free) Apollo Run @ Central Park’s Bandshell
(Free) Mike Stern Trio – Bitches Brew Revisited @ Prospect Park Bandshell
($10) The McLovin’s @ Sullivan Hall (@9:30pm)
($10) Sullivan Hall Shakedown @ Sullivan Hall (@12:30am)
Featuring Monchan, Chris Hall and DJ Nutritious w/ percussion by Steven Chopeck w/ visuals by Mamiko Kuchida plus special guest ElaNEF
($12) Eli “Paperboy” Reed @ The Bellhouse
Justin Townes Earle (opening for Eli Reed) @ The Bell House
($12-$15) Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey @ 92Y Tribeca
($20) Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra @ Southpaw
($5) Talib Kweli and Friends feat. Jean Grae @ Brooklyn Bowl
Make Music New York ALL DAY FUNK FEST! (Funk Live)
($15) The Roots @ Highline Ballroom (this is odd online)
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010:
(Free) Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue @ Late Show with David Letterman
($25) Marcus Miller feat. Christian Scott: The Music of Miles Davis @ Highline Ballroom
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010:
(Free) Stanley Clarke @ Central Park SummerStage (Part of CareFusion Jazz Festival New York)
(Free – I think) Jason Linder Trio @ Rockwood Music Hall
($10 ) Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds @ Sullivan Hall (10:30pm)
Pickup (Trevor Exter and John Kimock) @ Sullivan Hall
($30) Victor Wooten @ Highline Ballroom
($35) Johnny Winter @ B.B. Kings
($42.50) GoldFrapp @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Funk Fest 6 at Sullivan Hall (Funk Live)
($10-$85) Blues Summit: James Cotton & Friends feat. Taj Mahal, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Shemekia Copeland, Darrell Nulisch, David Maxwell @ Jazz at Lincoln Center
($15) The New Deal @ Brooklyn Bowl
($15) The Late Night Jam Sessions @ City Winery (Part of CareFusion Jazz Festival New York)
(Unknown) Chico Man @ El Museo del Barrio
($20 ) Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad @ Rocks Off Cruise (The Half Moon)
(Unknown) Victor Wooten @ BAM Rhythm and Blues Festival
($32.50-$38) En Vogue @ B.B. Kings
($35-$105) Herbie Hancock @ Carnegie Hall (Part of CareFusion Jazz Festival New York)
Special guests Terence Blanchard, Ron Carter, Bill Cosby, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter, plus other artists to be announced
Phish @ Susquahana Bank Center, Camen, NJ
(Free) Soul Cycle @ Brooklyn Academy of Music
($10 – $15) Jason Lindner Trio @ The Jazz Gallery (Part of CareFusion Jazz Festival New York)
($15) Harlem Stride: Henry Butler (NolaJazz), Osmany Paredes @ Harlem Stage Gatehouse
($15) The Sam Kininger Band @ The Blue Note
($35) Al Di Meola @ Highline Ballroom (YES!! YES!! YES!!)
($98) Chuck Berry @ B.B. King Blues Club
($41.50 – $156.50) Maxwell & Jill Scott @ MSG
(Free) Common & Soulive @ Fort Greene Music Fest 2010
(Free) Tinariwen & Toubab Krewe @ Central Park Summerstage
($10) Reckoning @ Sullivan Hall (A post Furthur show playing music of the Dead, Phish and more…)
($39.50) Furthur @ MCU Park
Featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Jeff Chimenti, John Kadlecik, Jay Lane & Joe Russo
($30- $385) Yes! & Peter Frampton @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
NASFT Fancy Food Shows @ Javit Center
($15) Elvis Perkins in Dearland @ Newtown Barge Park (1pm show)
($25) Robert Randolph @ Bowery Ballroom
($35-$65) Alejandro Escovedo @ City Winery
(Sold Out) Passion Pit @ Prospect Park Bandshell
($25) New Mastersounds @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Temptress
($35) Passion Pit @ Govenor’s Island, NY
($39.50 – $154.50) James Taylor & Carole King @ Madison Square Garden
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Indonesia's emergence as the world's third largest democracy is one of the most positive developments
over the last decade. President Yudhoyono demonstrated his leadership qualities when he mobilized
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Apart from confirming his obvious talents as a sagacious political leader and international statesman,
this book of speeches of President Yudhoyono also establishes him as a great communicator, And this
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Turner Center Presents New Gallery Collections
By Rebecca GallagherJanuary 14, 2020 No Comments
The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts’ Gallery Opening Reception on Monday, Jan. 13 featured the 13th annual DrawProject fundraiser and VSU President Dr. Richard Carvajal as the guest auctioneer. Artworks donated by area artists were auctioned at this annual event to raise scholarship funds for VSU art students that are awarded in the fall semester.
The gallery event also features the fine art works of local artists Mary VanLandingham and Christine Cabral in the Price-Campbell and Josette’s Galleries respectively. Both are VSU alumni and are enjoying their first solo gallery shows at the Turner Center.
VanLandingham’s exhibit consists of oil paintings of landscapes found in the South East United States, primarily Georgia and Florida, capturing the familiarity and beauty of the southern coast and countryside. VanLandingham’s artwork will showcase a variety of entrancing scenes of water, land and sky.
Cabral’s inspired art work features acrylic paint on canvas, while occasionally incorporating mixed media fabrics and vinyl into her paintings. Upon losing her mother in 1997, the natural evolution of grief and emotion transformed Cabral’s expression. Driven by the notion that the desire to connect and revisit one’s childhood is universal, Cabral transforms her canvas with childlike and innocent imagery touched also by the heartache of grief and separation.
“The Turner Center for the Arts is proud to participate in the annual DrawProject exhibit and in our longstanding relationship with VSU’s Department of Art and Design,” said Executive Director Sementha Mathews. “This exciting art event adds a distinctive dimension to our winter gallery reception with silent and live auctions, providing all of us with an opportunity to obtain excellent, original art at affordable prices, while also celebrating our exceptional local artists.”
The Turner Center’s East African Art and Fine European Porcelain permanent collections are also on display in the Tillman and Howard Galleries.
All exhibits will remain open for the public’s enjoyment through Wednesday, Feb. 26. For more information, call 229-247-2787 or visit www.turnercenter.org.
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Excessive napping could be a sign of Alzheimer's disease
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Yahoo Style UK 13 August 2019
Excessive napping could be a warning sign for Alzheimer's disease. [Photo: Getty]
Napping during the day could be a sign of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research.
Many of us take occasional naps during the day, especially following a night of interrupted sleep.
But doing so excessively is a warning sign, because Alzheimer’s disease affects the brain cells which keep us aware during the day. The degenerative brain condition causes a buildup of a toxic form of protein called tau in the brain, which destroys these cells.
This is according to new research conducted by scientists at the University of California and San Francisco University.
READ MORE: What are the dementia risk factors?
For the study, published yesterday, scientists compared the brains of 13 deceased Alzheimer’s patients with seven healthy control subjects.
They measured Alzheimer's pathology, tau protein levels and neuron numbers in three separate areas of the brain known for promoting wakefuless.
The Alzheimer’s patients had tau build-up in all three of these brain regions – and some of them had lost up to 75% of their neurons.
The research could inform and possibly improve the way Alzheimer’s is treated in future, because it highlights the impact the build-up of tau protein could have on the brain.
Previously, researchers had focussed on another toxic protein associated with Alzheimer’s which is known as beta-amyloid.
"Our new evidence for tau-linked degeneration of the brain's wakefulness centres provides a compelling neurobiological explanation for those findings," said study senior author Lea T. Grinberg, MD, PhD.
"It suggests we need to be much more focused on understanding the early stages of tau accumulation in these brain areas in our ongoing search for Alzheimer's treatments."
READ MORE: Confusion over money could be an early sign of dementia
Dementia, an umbrella term for Alzheimer’s and associated neurodegenerative conditions, is the most feared health condition in the UK, according to Alzheimer’s Society.
For those who fear developing the condition, there are a number of things you can do to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s, including exercising regularly and consuming spinach.
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Song Review: Taemin – Press Your Number
Posted on February 23, 2016 by Nick 5 Comments
I’ve been waiting almost two years for this. As I mentioned before, I’m a huge fan of Taemin’s solo music. I got a little nervous when I heard that he was working with Bruno Mars on this single. Nothing against Bruno, but I don’t really like my kpop artists intermingling with American music (there’s a reason why I prefer kpop). And, the last thing I wanted from an artist as interesting as Taemin was a tired Uptown Funk retread. Luckily, Press Your Number is only an interpretation of an unreleased track from Bruno, and it’s been augmented to showcase all the things I love about Taemin and kpop in general.
The song kicks off with a slow, tension-filled build before the sleek, unrelenting beat drops for the first chorus. And what a chorus! It’s relaxed when it needs to be, but nimble and surprising where it counts. The slick little bit of vocal syncopation at the end gets me every time. The funk beat is crisp and propulsive, feeling at once modern and timeless.
As a pop song, it’s much more straightforward than Drip Drop was, and all the stronger for it. There isn’t much experimentation here, but sometimes all the production needs to do is stress the melody, with minimal distractions. That said, the producers have done a masterful job layering Taemin’s vocals in all the right moments, which adds to the offbeat charm of the chorus’s opening bars in particular. Interestingly, the album version of Press Your Number is actually different from the music video’s, and this is a very good thing. In the music video version, the beat drops out again after the first chorus, but in the actual song it’s present all the way through. This keeps the momentum and energy high throughout, which fixes the only real quibble I had when I first watched the video.
Hooks 10
Bias 10
Listen to the album version
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Nats Primed for Hot Start in April
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by The Game Haus Staff April 6, 2016 0
Washington is entering 2016 blazing hot. They went 18-4 in the spring, with a +81 run differential, they have one of the strongest one-two punches in the National League in the rotation, and reigning NL MVP, Bryce Harper, is picking up right where he left off in 2015.
The Nats started off 2016 on Monday with a 4-3 win in Atlanta in ten innings of play. That one game displayed a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of the team entering 2016. The offense looked good, Bryce Harper hit his fourth career Opening Day home run (in five Opening Days played) and Daniel Murphy dropped his first bomb in a Nats uniform along with the eventual game-winning RBI in the top of the 10th. Max Scherzer delivered a quality start, allowing just 2 runs over 7 innings of work, but the bullpen once again left Washington exposed heading into the late innings.
One of Washington’s biggest concerns in 2015 was injuries, especially heading into the late parts of the season. Third baseman Anthony Rendon, first baseman Ryan Zimmerman, and left fielder Jayson Werth, all played in less than 100 games in 2015, which contributed in part to their collapse in the late months of the season. This year, the Nats made it through the offseason and the preseason with little damage. Aaron Barrett is the only player on the DL coming into the season, with elbow issues.
Ben Revere is the first injury of the Nats 2016 regular season. Injuries played a huge part in their 2015 collapse. Photo courtesy of Washington Post.
Despite being so healthy coming into the 2016 season, Ben Revere was pulled from the game in the fourth inning. Revere was seen grabbing his side during his at-bat in the third inning. The bright side of that news, is that the backup center fielder, Michael Taylor, has already proven himself to be an asset at the plate in the field. Taylor’s sacrifice fly into center scored Jayson Werth, to tie the game at 3 in the top of the 9th. Revere was not one of the players who was looked at to be a potential injury liability coming into 2016, he is not one of the well-aged veterans of the team, like Zimmerman or Werth, nor does he have an injury-laden past. Revere was placed on the DL Wednesday, with an oblique strain. Matt den Dekker has been called up from Triple-A Syracuse to fill the roster vacancy, and Michael Taylor will presumably be starting in center until his return. Revere claims he felt something after he took his first swing of the game.
Even with the loss of Revere, another thing worth looking at is Washington’s April schedule. Washington only plays two games against projected playoff teams in their opening month, those two games being in St. Louis on the 29th and 30th. The rest of April is full of the should-be bottom three NL East teams, and the Minnesota Twins, who are still getting younger guys acclimated to the MLB. This gives Washington a great advantage to get their foot on the gas early, as they have in years past.
The caveat here is that in recent years the Nationals have been prone to late-season breakdowns. While it is still too early to tell if the team will be healthy, or if the chemistry will remain in the dugout (both catalysts in their 2015 collapse), the Nats should be sitting in a comfortable position atop the NL East by the end of April.
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Daily #F1 News and Comment: Monday 16th September 2013
September 16, 2013 · by thejudge13 · in Daily F1 News and Comment. ·
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India gone forever? (10:20)
Rush: How good is it really? (11:15)
Todt fights back – with a wet fish (11:39)
Andretti would run a ‘customer car’ team (12:03)
Massa to McLaren? (14:44)
India gone forever?
Amusingly, Ecclestone denied anything to do with the draft calendar which was circulating during the last race weekend in Monza. When asked by Sky’s Martin Brundle aboiut the 2014 races her replied, “What calendar?”. Ecclestone went on to claim the schedule had not come from him and that in fact there were 22 races scheduled for 2014, not 21 as on the draft schedule.
This of course would mean that New Jersey will make it’s debut next year, though with nothing other than a conditional $100m credit facility from USB, the promoters as yet have no credible funding solution to stage the F1 event.
We were already aware prior to last weekend that India was taking a Sabbatical. They claimed they could not host a race in Autumn 2013 and again in spring 2014 due to scheduling matters, yet this is something it appears Korea is managing.
As always, these issues are about cash. The first Indian GP was in 2011, yet the agreement with FOM would have been finalised back in 2010. This includes how many tens of million US dollars the organisers will pay to FOM to host the race.
Sportsbusiness International reported this weekend Ecclestone stating, “The trouble in India is a simple one. The rupee has devalued an enormous amount so it is all very political. We won’t be there next year”.
So it’s not about scheduling, it’s about money. The Indian rupee exchanged at about 45 to the US dollar when Jaypee Sports signed the final deal with FOM in 2010. Today the rupee has fallen to around 62 to the dollar – around a 30% drop.
Ecclestone’s comments may suggest he will not enforce the terms of the Indian race contract and allow the organisers to default. The Organisers of the European GP in Valencia were allowed a similar exit with 2 years left to run on the street circuit’s contract until 2014.
There was indeed a proposal to save the GP in Valencia made by the regional president, Alberto Fabra to the mayor of the city of Valencia – Rita Barbera. She told El Pais, “He spoke of the possibility of involvement, but he spoke to me about Cheste, and I have an urban circuit,” She then insisted, “The budget of Valencia is for Valencians”
Cheste is where the Ricardo Tormo circuit is located – some 26 kilometres outside the Valencia city limits. It currently hosts a MotoGP event and has in past times been a winter test track used by the F1 teams. Clearly Mayor Barbera was not going to be persuaded to put Valencian tax payers cash into the Cheste administrative regional coffers.
Ecclestone in his Sky interview admitted that he only had agreement with the teams for 20 races in 2014, but a cunning smile crept across his lips when asked by Brundle how he would persuade the teams to change their minds.
Rush: How good is it really?
Given the paucity of Hollywood F1 films over the years, to receive popular accolades as ‘the best ever F1 film’ was hardly a hurdle of Olympian difficulty for the film Rush to clear. The reviews are generally pretty good, yet in some way expected.
I have been discussing ‘Rush’ with a number of colleagues who who lived through and even worked in F1 around the period when Lauda and Hunt raced. The best they’ll give me is qualified praise for the movie.
Yet younger F1 fans who were not born in that era appear to be ebullient and gushing over the film and receive support from Sir Jock, who comments “I think it [Rush] will do very well for Formula One … particularly in the United States, where Formula 1 isn’t really recognised.” (Tel;egraph).
Whilst at the Gooward Revivial this past weekend, the Scottish F1 champion praised the film and actor Daniel Brühl who plays Niki Lauda. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the actor who plays Niki Lauda actually gets nominated. Because he was more Niki Lauda than Niki Lauda.”
I would however be surprised were Daniel Brühl to win a prestigious award for his portrayal of Lauda – simply because Lauda wasn’t that interesting a person. So Bruhl delivers to us a Lauda… who is more like a version of Lauda created by somebody else… in other words, not actually Lauda…. but a Lauda who would have been more interesting than the Lauda who actually was….
Yet Bruhl’s portrayal along with some excellent action was what made the film bearable to watch.
Intrigue and dastardly deviousness is a primary tool in the hands of the Hollywood script writer as they craft a tale of suspense and surprise. Yet there was nigh on a complete absence of the plots and the politics surrounding the 1976 season – which were even in that era, particularly extra-ordinary. This is a missed opportunity for the movie.
Kevin Eason of the Times sums it up best for me, “If you are an anorak-wearing, stopwatch-carrying F1 fan, then look away now because, inevitably, liberties have been taken with the facts and there is little of the black politics and chicanery that also marred that fateful 1976 season.”
Sir Jock may indeed be correct in that Rush will raise awareness in the USA for F1. I would suggest that of a much wider audience. Movie go-ers around the globe who are not F1 fans will in some way be attracted to the sport we love. For this, the movie should be applauded.
My personal sense is one of disappointment – predictable disappointment – for all the reasons which make incredible story lines from sport impossible to then be recreated in a script.
The truth is – reality is often infinitely greater than fiction; and it is certainly preferable in this example to the average re-telling and re-enaction of such a fabulous reality.
Todt fights back – with a wet fish
Even prior to David Ward’s announcement that he will challenge Jean Todt in the imminent elections for the top job at the FIA, there had been a lot of politicking under way. Max Mosley and Gerhard Berger had been week on week quoted by a plethora of European publications calling for F1 budgetary controls.
Sit this against the backdrop of an unsigned Concorde agreement where both Ecclestone and Todt agree on the creation of a new F1 strategy group. This would be an 18-member think-tank made up of six votes from the FIA, six from the sport’s commercial rights holders and six from the teams, which will meet to discuss and vote on the future direction of the sport.
Having been accused of corruption and reported to the FIA ethics committee by his opponent Ward, Todt began a fight back this weekend. He was adamant that developing a strategy to cut costs would be one of the first topics on the agenda when the new Strategy Group meets.
He also made it clear that the FIA would not be afraid to use its six votes and together with support from F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone, they would push forward with tougher restrictions and ensure teams, like Red Bull, which have resisted such restrictions in the past, will be unable to block the changes.
“I have been reading a lot of things about cost-cutting and it is something that you cannot address with the teams. There have been a lot of discussions with the teams to talk about the RRA and all that, and the teams said we have never had a strong and clear approach about the proposal of cost cutting.
So where are we now? We have been implementing, when the Concorde is settled, a new governance, where there will be a strategy group. It will be on the agenda, at the first meeting when we are involved, to bring in cost cutting.
I can guarantee you the FIA will vote in favour of cost cutting. Then we will see.”
This may be music to many ears in F1, however, it’s a bit on the never – never. Nearly one year on from when the last Concorde agreement expired, we have no new contract in place. In fact during the past months, each of the tri-partitie camps at times finds no agreement beneficial to their own cause,
Then in fact, currently, there is no indication that the teams will agree and concede a 2/3rds majority power to the FIA combines with FOM/Ecclestone on matters such as this.
Hollow promises from a so far anonymous FIA President.
Andretti would run a ‘customer car’ team
For a slow Monday, we’re stoking the fires of controversy and debate here. I await castigation for the views expressed on ‘Rush’ and now to introduce the thorny debate over customer cars…. This is more grandee politics and something the teams should consider when acceding 12 votes to the FIA/Ecclestone and only 6 for themselves on the new Strategy Group think tank.
Mario Andretti claims his son and failed F1 driver, Michael, would be interested in running an F1 team if he could purchase a chassis already complete. The 73 year old ex-world champion tells Zeitung newspaper, “I have already spoken with Bernie Ecclestone about it.
It would also be a way for new teams to be a part of formula one, even if they don’t have their own racing car factories. My son would be one of the first who would come in, if he could buy a car from one of the top manufacturers.”
Andretti Snr rather simplistically dismisses the viewpoint that customer cars would devalue the sport. “I find the idea of a blue Ferrari overtaking a red Ferrari very interesting. It would give Formula One a whole new appeal.”
Michael Andretti, whose F1 career was most brief, owns and Indycar team and Andretti Autosport will be on the grid for the FIA’s Formula E series – for electric single seaters – which begins in the Autumn of 2014.
There is a monumental gulf of difference between forcing teams teams to apply some form of resource restriction to the gazillions they spend on aerodynamic engineering and on the other hand allowing any Tom, Dick or Harry to be able to own and run a team in F1.
Blue F1 Ferrari’s? Is the man insane?????????????????? (Time for a Lapsang Souching).
Massa to McLaren?
Okay, so we’ve previously discussed the possibility of Massa to Lotus, Sauber, Williams and Torro Rosso. Who is left?
Over the weekend, Felipe has spiced things up a little telling Brazilian media ‘Golobo’ that, “We’re negotiating with Lotus and it’s going well. They have a competitive car, which is what I want”. Massa adds, “We are also in contact with McLaren, but this is more difficult to judge,”
So let’s unpick that coded message. McLaren have not said no to Massa, but they are not as forward or advanced as are Lotus. Surely Jenson should not have cause for concern and surely McLaren wouldn’t be discussing 2015 with Massa without doing a deal for 2014 – hence the discussions must be serious and for 2014.
Massa also tells Globo that we may be able to look forward to some action between him and Alonso for the final 7 races of this season. No longer will we see Felipe as a submissive number 2. “No, I won’t be doing that. I’m going to attack,” Massa promised.
That’s all very well and good Felipe ‘baby’, so long as the team don’t accidentally break the seal on an engine or gearbox – as happened in Austin. Then there could be a Webber-esque missing wheel pity stop…. not enough fuel to race flat out…. a tweak on the rev limiter… so many possibilities…
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43 responses to “Daily #F1 News and Comment: Monday 16th September 2013”
Danilo Schoeneberg September 16, 2013 at 11:56 · · Reply →
The paragraph about “Rush” – was that written in Swahili and then translated through Babelfish?? What language is it supposed to be in?
thejudge13 September 16, 2013 at 12:30 · · Reply →
It represents ‘Rush’ pretty well then. A re-hashing of history … which is not historically translated accurately and with woeful artistic license at times..
Then we fascinating character portrayals of someone else’s translation/interpretation of the original individual – who is still alive and widely known.
It’s not onomatopoeia….. but…. the style of the review appears to fit the conclusions of the reviewer.
Don_Quixote September 16, 2013 at 17:25 · · Reply →
I saw Rush this weekend and was disappointed. Loads of action but for me it missed something… Even Fast & Furious was better IMHO
carlo carluccio (aka herowassenna) September 17, 2013 at 00:21 · · Reply →
I went to see Rush on Friday with my wife. She loved it, the 70’s fashion and music and the story of the rivals.
As a F1 fan, it left me cold and somewhat angered at the revision to history.
It was great to hear these cars in surround sound, to see them looking larger than life, but there were so many obvious faults wiht the filming of the actual action that I found myself looking for faults.
Since when has Monza had significant hills and descents on the circuit. Or a corner like the left hander after the Dingle Dell chicane?
When has the Nurburgring been christened “The Graveyard” rather than Green Hell?
There were so many other anomalies.
Lauda being called the German by an ignorant Hesketh F3 team and the underlying theme throughout the film was Hunt and Lauda’s animosity towards each other. Yet, if I remember correctly, Lauda and Hunt shared a flat in London for about 18 months.
Lauda turns up at BRM and is such a technical genius, he could tell them by looking at the car how to improve it by 2 seconds?
Enzo Ferrari sitting beside the race track reading a paper as the cars passed by at his feet was frankly comical.
Or his losing places in the Monza race after his qualifying near the front of the grid? He in fact out-qualified his team-mates Reutemann and Regazzoni at Monza and finished 4th.
Probably the most grating part of the whole film was his stop for tyres at the Nurburgring. It shows Lauda getting angrier as he is delayed by mechanics and a Lotus that stopped blocking his path, then we have a wheel-spinning Ferrari exiting the pits in a rage and to compound it all, the cinematic failure of a suspension bolt.
The cause of the accident has never been fully uncovered, just suppositions but perhaps more tellingly, we have spent over an hour being shown how cold and calculating Lauda truly was/ is.
Yet the screen writer expects us, for just this one occasion, to believe that he had lost his temper and was driving the car faster than it would circulate normally?
It’s a great cinematic experience for someone that doesn’t follow F1 or know of it’s history, and I fully understand why the story was developed in the way it was, rivalry is more believable if the 2 protagonists do not like each other.
It’s just a shame that at no stage was there the legend;
At least that way, we could allow for artistic license.
Excellent analysis Carlo!
Glad it was not just me who were left a bit disappointed then .)
enzomaiorca September 16, 2013 at 12:33 · · Reply →
A blue Ferrari? Hmm..i will forgive him because of his 82′ guest appearance in a Ferrari at Monza, pole position and 3rd place at 42 years old.
But don’t ever say that again Mario, it hurts just thinking about it.
Tim Burgess September 16, 2013 at 12:44 · · Reply →
And yet Enzo had already agreed to let Moss run exactly that in the upcoming F1 season before Stirling’s career-ending crash at Goodwood…
If Enzo was ok with the idea, why should any of us think different?
Now, whether customer cars are a good idea is a whole other thing.
Fair enough 😉
But i believe the idea was that Enzo would supply Rob Walker with blue Ferrari’s, and not paint the Scuderia’s own.
Or am i mistaking?
Iestyn Davies September 16, 2013 at 16:45 · · Reply →
Yeah, Rob Walker used to also run a blue Lotus, I remember Siffert won at Brands with one, using the Scottish racing colour?
Enzo, non dimenticarti delle verdi Ferrari.
Tony Vanderwell also entered Ferrari 375 Thinwall Specials between 1952 and 1954.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=q7eL49ziE-nuXM&tbnid=jzTjDivMW_AdBM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportscardigest.com%2Fhistoric-ferrari-f1-cars-in-bahrain%2F&ei=opQ3UtadH8LMtQbkloDwCQ&bvm=bv.52164340,d.Yms&psig=AFQjCNGJIbQxCUIf7PHU6rRWhijGEMgOUg&ust=1379460630209297
Blue Ferrari’s aren’t a new idea – US and Mexico GPs 1964 saw Ferraris run in white-blue livery, because they were run by North American racing as opposed to the Scuderia.
Auq September 16, 2013 at 13:37 · · Reply →
It may have been on this website that I recently saw a picture of a blue Ferrari F1 car – in 1964 if I recall correctly. Surely that season was an exception, but it’s been done before :).
Yep, see here: http://f1-grandprix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ferrari_mexico64.png
Used for the last two races of the 1964 season, because it was entered by a US team (NART) due to a dispute with the Italian racing association.
I am annoyed by myself… digging up the link to that image (taking me some ten minutes), only to be beaten to it by DS… 🙁
The debate is really about customer teams… I used the highly unusual idea of a blue F1 Ferrari to suggest the insanity of the customer team idea….
But good spots on the blue cars everyone…
Auq September 16, 2013 at 15:24 · ·
I understand – I was just replying to Enzo, who thought it was blasphemy ;).
Now for the customer cars, that’s a hairy one. I’d be massively in favour if (and only if) the grid can then be increased to 28 cars or so.
Nigel September 16, 2013 at 15:47 · · Reply →
They can be rather fetching…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/1961_Ferrari_400_Superamerica_SWB_-_blue_-_fvl.jpg/800px-1961_Ferrari_400_Superamerica_SWB_-_blue_-_fvl.jpg
Colin September 16, 2013 at 13:17 · · Reply →
We already have quazi customer cars. The Italian bulls. And to a lesser degree VJ’s low flying planes (sometimes his only flying planes!).
Personally i would have no problem with customer cars. Its a red herring to think that its a bad idea due to possible on track messing between teams. We already have that.
Between team orders, and engine contracts and the bulls we already have plenty of cuteness going on under our eyes.
I’d prefer to see decent drivers in customer cars than some very average drivers in Spanish f2 tat being mobile roadblocks. Or Russian or Malaysian tat for that matter.
A good, and relatively cost effective, way to be in the mix would be to buy a decent car, put decent drivers into it and go racing. It would be much easier to gather sponsorship if you were peddling a customer red bull, Ferrari, lotus or Mclaren than building your own machine. Be it would be good for the bigger teams from a budget perspective.
The only downside for me would be on the people front. There’d be less opportunity for engineers / aero guys to make a name for themselves in smaller teams. But the cream always finds a way to rise to the top.
What are the downsides?
Ps i do appreciate I’m using logic, and not emotion with this argument!
We would probably not have a team like Williams pioneering engineering solutions.
Their design of a KERS flywheel system built for their F1 car is now revolutionising bus power trains.
It is currently being adapted as a solution for national power grids.
With ‘customer cars’ they wouldn’t bother engineering their own solutions.
Plus, it has been suggested to me that you’d have many more Mallya’s and Fernandes’ who – ‘own’ F1 teams and are full of s#&% filling our TV screens.
It’s one point of view I am told….
Mattpt55 September 16, 2013 at 14:50 · · Reply →
Serious (at least for me) question here. Do you happen to know what the largest fixed expense is for F1 teams? Todt seems to be implying it’s chassis development and manufacture. Although I would hate to see exact duplicates lining up on the grid like Indy Car, maybe it might make sense to let smaller teams pay the bigger teams to manufacture chassis for them and parts for them so they can devote resources to engineering etc.
If it would cost the small teams less (a big IF, to be fair) and could be done in a functional way, it might be a interesting solution. After all, as bad as they were, HRT did outsource their chassis build to Dallara, so why not keep it more in the F1 house as it were. Although I could see protecting data as being a fairly large hurdle, we already have McLaren manufacturing ECU’s for all the teams and Pirelli doing tires so it’s not completely impossible.
Ok, flame away. 🙂
Don’t disagree with this Judge, but on the other hand does it NEED to be Williams developing technology that has no basis in F1.
It was a kers solution that didn’t work. But had other applications.
If Williams are not focussed on F1 as their primary business then that solution is worthwhile to the company from a revenue perspective.
But i always thought their primary objective was F1.
Its no coincidence that as Frank has diversified their business, and started all of his jaunts to the middle east his team have rapidly gone backwards.
There have been plenty of failed F1 solutions where later iterations become successful for F1 and even appear on road cars.
The danger is a Grand Turismo driving game like shop, where you as team owner pop in and get all the bits to build an F1 car from someone else and merely need to bolt them together.
This has never really been the point of F1.
Danilo Schoeneberg September 16, 2013 at 17:00 · ·
That was standard MO until the 70s, where you could buy a March chassis and an engine, bent a few bits to make it look different and went racing in F1.
Iestyn Davies September 16, 2013 at 17:08 · ·
Indeed, the teams relied on this to keep them afloat (Lotus, Brabham, March etc.) with extra income. Lotus would flog their old cars, then turn up with new cars and flog all the old cars they just sold 😀
Colin September 16, 2013 at 22:48 · ·
At the risk of seeming to be debating for the sake of, I’d politely disagree with your assessment.
The primary objective of F1 is to win. Period. That’s why we have had numerous IP related ‘thefts’ over the years. Its also why new designs get passed, then vetoed if deemed successful – usually under the guise of cost reductions.
Winning sells more product or service. For the manufacturer, the sponsor, the driver, the engineers, Bernard etc.
It also gets you more money by the way of placement winnings.
A by-product of this is the engineering.
Being fans we generally think of the sporting side of things, the romance of engineering, the human battles. That’s what we bond with. Its what helps to extract money from our pockets.
I do believe in times part people got involved in the sport for fun, frolics and winning. Some got involved for the engineering challenge and winning.
I would say that no team in the last 15 years got in for any reason other than making money either directly, or indirectly, from F1. Its part of the business plan.
So team owners just care about the winning element, with a view to maximizing the money take, be they individuals or corporations. Mounting manufacturers need to build either engines, chassis or both for authenticity. But non manufacturers don’t have to. Logic would dictate buying a factory car would be bear more simple solution, and should be am option available to them – especially during the start up phase of the team. They could build slowly, if they wish, towards in house development as they progress up the grid.
Surely this would be far better than the facial solution we current face where new teams have no hope of doing well initially.
For such a progressive technological sport i sometimes think that the main decision makers are too close to things to take into account fresh possibilities.
From the outside looking in it feels very much a world of ‘no because’ instead of ‘we can if’, due to be shackled to the sports past. And that’s a missed opportunity.
The sport is far too conservative.
thejudge13 September 16, 2013 at 22:57 · ·
I agree with your general thinking, however HRT, Virgin and Caterham ( as they are now) did not enter F1 expecting to win… Maybe to make money by selling the team at some point was a more likely objective.
So team owners paragraph has two errors:
* mounting should read motoring
* bear should read a far
previous apologies around my phone and its interactions with the site refer…
Facial also to read ‘farcical’? 🙂
I think they all thought it was possible, just not immediately. Recall reading on JA’s site they all thought they’d be doing great in a pretty short space of time.
None predicted winning early days – i think all new teams learned from BAR.
And i need a proof reader….
This was of course suggested before the financial crash, as Prodrive wanted to run a customer McLaren (year old one I suppose) and field Gary Paffett. But if this car then beat Sauber, Williams etc. it could put them out of business, with the resulting loss of 300 jobs each. Today, Caterham and Marussia are just about hanging on while scrapping over 10th place and some prize money.
A solution could be to exclude customer teams from the constructor’s championship (as they aren’t manufacturing their car after all), only leaving them with competing for half of the available prize money (Concorde agreement negotiations with Bernie, and not CWC prize money). This is in line with not having all the team needed to design the car and reduced cost of buying it in. Force India and Marussia do this to some extent with McLaren, Caterham buy in Renault/Red Bull parts and so on. Toro Rosso would probably become a Red Bull satellite and fire half the team needed to design the cars (which seemed in danger of happening before 2009). People usually mention the customer cars having the junior drivers of the teams concerned driving them (e.g. Bianchi, Bird, Frijns, Alguersuari, Rossi, Magnussen and so on), but this is currently GP2’s space, so only Bernie would be losing out here (unlikely to happen!).
But I think cost cutting is a more likely solution, so that everybody concerned makes profit (with no loss to the spectacle) and we have a sustainable 20-22 car grid. Those only running on Concorde money (atm Marussia) would make less losses under more cost cutting than they do at present. With profitable teams lower down the grid, there would be less need to run pay drivers as well, which would improve the spectacle.
Customer cars have been run in the past (Rob Walker, successfully as above), but nowadays I think if you want to run customer cars, there is GP2 and GP3 for that very reason – a total driver’s championship on the ladder to the big time (F1) in every sense of the word. There are also a myriad of other series doing the same, Indycars, F3, Formula Renault….. F1 is the only place left where the teams make their own cars, really, and all the expertise involved that comes with that. Dallara are the last car manufacturer standing, after Reynard, Ralt, Lola etc. have all been busted trying to compete for series.
I also think the teams should man up and accept some form of GE (even if it’s a mandated structure by the FIA), which will improve the wake behind the cars and allow closer racing. This would give less need for DRS and tyre deg to make it exciting. I read somewhere that they could have DRS open all the time and it would shut if the car lost the pressure of the GE!
F1 seems to be heading back towards the 80s.. Fuel limits, V6 turbos, drive for efficiency, surely GE is next on the agenda. Surely a better investment than aero and more could be done with less. Would the drivers complain if we moved back towards wing cars?
I almost got happy there… Massa to race Alonso 🙂 Now Smedley and Domenicali and LdM and… everyone just needs to show him some love and then we have a race on our hands…
So the question is, when (if) Felipe is leading Alonso after the last pit stops (unlikely) and Vettel is about to win the race… will he comply to “Alonso is faster than you” or will he keep his foot on the floor? I know what I’d have done…
Does this mean Alonso has even less of a chance for the WDC? Can we crown Vettel now and send him on holiday then the rest can race 🙂
CTP September 16, 2013 at 17:24 · · Reply →
Stefano already called Adrian to get a copy of the CD with webber’s start programming on it.
LOL! Love it 🙂
Clear View September 16, 2013 at 18:43 · · Reply →
RE- Customer Cars
Surely the point of F1 is that the cars are working prototypes, if you were to “buy” a car would you also be buying the difetent aero configurations required fir the different types of tracks or would you get a sold as seen and the rest is down to you.
All I can see is more mobile chicanes if more slower cars were on track. I’d be happy with no Cateram or Mrussia as I don’t see what they contribute to the racing.
So its a no to cutomer cars, you may as well run 2 chamiponshops in the same race which is just F1 to me.
Just NOT F1, dam predictive!
With you re customer cars… Unless I get to drive one 🙂
In all seriousness, why not have a Formula 2 for F1 vets who still want to race and have too much money… or just people who can afford racing on their own money. Buy last years cars off teams 🙂
I bet if someone ran last years McLaren, they’d beat the stuffing out of this year’s edition.
Agree. And they’d make a tidy profit!
Yura K September 16, 2013 at 20:08 · · Reply →
Love your Webber-luck rant in the end ^_^. Thanks for the updated, The Judge!
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Coldharbour Recordings Night
Sat Nov 11 10:00 PM • Avalon Hollywood • 21+
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On Saturday November 11th, Avalon is excited to welcome back Coldharbour Recordings for a label showcase featuring Nifra, Dave Neven, Mike EFEX, and Special Guest 4 Strings.
Coldharbour Recordings, founded by Markus Schulz in 2005, is a record label focused on the more progressive shades of dance music. Originally launched as a sub-label of Armada Music, Coldharbour Recordings gets their namesake from a South London road where Schulz’s first studio was located.
Born in Slovakia, Nifra, AKA Nikoleta Frajkorova, has been engulfed in music since an early age. She started gaining interest in electronic music in her late teens, and went on to create amazing dance music which gained the attention of Coldharbour label head Markus Schulz. The producer/DJ went on to release fresh music with Coldharbour Recordings and tour the world with Schulz, while continuing to create her own tasteful brand of progressive house fused with melodic synth work and kicking percussion.
Supporting Nifra will be Dave Neven, the Los Angeles-based producer and DJ known for his unique blend of dark techno and hard bass lines, as well as Mike EFEX, a trance DJ and producer whose work has gained support from the likes of Paul Oakenfold and Tiesto.
Join us on Saturday night for this special night at Avalon as we welcome Coldharbour Recordings back to the stage for an evening of uplifting and progressive music from Nifra, Dave Neven, Mike EFEX, and Special Guest 4 Strings.
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Ronda Rousey’s Roddy Piper Look Is More Than Just Adopting A Nickname And Font
Jason NawaraEntertainment Editor
Ronda Rousey officially made her debut as a full-time WWE employee at the Royal Rumble, coming out to confront both the Smackdown and Raw women’s champions and all the while, looking like the female version of Roddy Piper. But, this wasn’t just a fan of Piper showing her love for the great. Her dedication to the legend goes beyond adopting the “Rowdy” nickname and font.
Ronda Rousey and Roddy Piper were both trained by the mythical Judo Gene Lebell. When Ronda’s friends gave her the “Rowdy” nickname years ago, Ronda felt guilty about “stealing” a Hall of Famer’s name. So, Gene set up a meeting between the two where Piper gave her his blessing on using his nickname, and they remained in touch until his death.
It’s important to know that Lebell is at the head of the world’s most fascinating combat lineages. He’s trained everyone from Piper to Chuck Norris to Ronda (and he made Steven Seagal pee himself after he choked him unconscious), and has of course lent his name to Daniel Bryan’s finisher in the past.
It’s via Lebell’s hard-nosed and sometimes hilarious style of training that so many greats were able to learn judo and become champions in multiple sports. And when Lebell gives someone his mark of approval, you’re indoctrinated into an elite club of athletes. That’s how Piper and Rousey connected. Two judo black belts, coming together, knowing that they’ve both been put through the ringer by Lebell. There’s was a friendship forged in mat burns and uki goshis.
Here’s Piper, a week before his death, explaining how he gave her the name.
Now we’ve learned that the ill-fitting jacket Ronda was sporting on her walk out to the WWE ring was actually Roddy’s, given to her by his son:
The jacket Ronda Rousey is wearing at the @WWE Royal Rumble was Rowdy Roddy Piper's jacket. His son gave it to her beforehand.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) January 29, 2018
This isn’t the first time Ronda has paid tribute to Piper. She learned of his death before her knockout win of Bethe Correira at UFC 190 back in 2015.
After she made quick work of her foe, she dedicated the fight to him she told Fox Sports:
“I even told him, I promised him I’m going to do the name proud, I’m going to beat this chick. I told him that and I hope him and my dad had a good time watching it together.”
Now we know that Ronda isn’t taking the “Hot Rod” name, she’s going by Hot Ronda, and it’s in the old Piper font and classic t-shirt. But we know that this isn’t just a co-opting of his style and look, it’s a dedication and a continuation of the training that got her to this point as a former UFC champion and now a WWE Superstar.
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It’s the ‘second inning’ of mobile monetization & these startups are making bank
Christina Farr March 22, 2013 8:30 AM
The market is flooded with addictive mobile apps that generate millions of downloads but not millions (or even thousands) of dollars.
Where does this leave mobile-focused investors?
Skeptical, to say the least. “Millions of users does not translate into millions of dollars in revenue,” said Jenn Wei, an investor at Silicon Valley-based Blumberg Capital. In New York, FirstMark Capital’s Matt Turck shares similar concerns. He refers to mobile apps and games as a “trickier group” to fund because they have traditionally been so focused on user acquisition.
According to Sidecar cofounder Jahan Khanna, that tech entrepreneurs build apps that people think are cool — but not worth paying for — compounds the problem. “While these seem aligned, they often are not,” he said, and as a result, mobile startups often hemorrhage cash.
He continued, “The original Harlem Shake video has over 40 million views on YouTube. What does that make that dance worth?”
However, the language is starting to change. In Silicon Valley, we are starting to see a shift from observing user acquisition metrics to a more comprehensive view on engagement and retention.
One million people signing up for a service might not make it valuable, but investors are more confident to hear that 250,000 people use an app three times a week for six months.
Likewise MoPub’s CEO Jim Payne is confident that today’s mobile startups are currently investing in “resources in building and generating revenue from those users” will see success in the next two or three years.
“Many times, experts from desktop are taking their playbooks and tailoring them to the smaller screen with a lot of success,” said Payne, whose company specializes in mobile monetization.
‘We’re still early in the second inning’
According to Accel Partners’ resident mobile expert, Richard Wong, we’re still “early in this second inning” when it comes to this mobile monetization game. Indeed, his current portfolio (Angry Birds, MoPub, MobileSpaces) is poised to generate solid returns for his firm.
For mobile entrepreneurs, experimenting with new business models is part of the fun.
Mobile developers can make money by charging users and/or through third-parties who will pay to access a subset of those users. For instance, Angry Birds takes advantage of its hooked players by charging them $0.99 per download. Later, its parent company Rovio Entertainment turned the brand, which had become a household name, into lucrative licensing and merchandizing deals.
“Hard to believe it was possible to build a true global brand from a smartphone game in under three years,” said Wong, an investor in Rovio. In March, players had reportedly downloaded the Angry Birds games 1.7 billion times.
“Freemium” models have generated revenues for companies like the digital notebook app Evernote, which offers a free version for free but also offers customers a paid option to unlock special features. Meanwhile, social games publishing giant Zynga has experienced mixed success in its attempt to entice users to fork over real cash in exchange for virtual goods.
A model that works: Selling physical services
Above: Stripe cofounder John Collinson
A cadre of mobile startups are making money by facilitating a physical service, and then taking a commission. It’s a business model that is lucrative enough — startups like Lyft and Sidecar haven’t needed to jeopardize user experience with in-app advertising.
“When you’re providing a real-world service [rather than a virtual good] that’s a more straightforward value for users,” Lyft CEO Logan Green told me.
Stripe cofounder John Collison said these opportunities have been unlocked by the evolution of mobile payment technology. Stripe is a service that makes it easy for developers to accept payments on the web and on mobile.
“With frictionless payments it becomes easier and easier to build an ongoing purchasing relationship with a customer on a mobile phone,” Collison said.
Lyft, Postmates [the founders are pictured, top], and Sidecar have made the payment experience as pain-free as possible.
With both Lyft and Sidecar, you can order a nearby car with a few taps. Riders only need to enter credit card details once, which makes them more likely to make future requests for rides.
The services also make money in a similar manner (taking a commission from each ride, which users pay for with a “suggestion donation”). Khanna said it’s working, but the company won’t rest on its laurels. “It’s early in this industry’s life cycle, so much is left to be flushed out.”
“We expect more and more businesses to build delightful experiences like this in the future,” Collinson explained.
However you choose to make money, most investors agree that the key is to consider revenue models from the outset. The trap that many entrepreneurs fall into is to assume they’ll make money after they reaching some arbitrary milestone.
To inspire your business strategy, we spoke to a group of entrepreneurs from startups like Lyft, Poshmark, Postmates, and Stripe. Here’s what they had to say.
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Above: User acquisition is one thing. But how do these mobile startups make money?
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My TV Life
Have you ever thought about this:
If your life were a television show, what would be the genre?
A sitcom
Drama—I see you, ladies… I kid.
Mine would lean more towards Sitcom, mostly because I try not to take things too seriously, and I can find the humor in most situations, to a fault admittedly.
Most of us like TV for the escape it provides. We like to spend an hour or so in a world that doesn’t exist, because a fictional land, no matter how terrifying, is safer than reality.
We love it when the writers place the hero in impossibly difficult scenarios and force him or her to dig a way out. We laugh at ironic moments that would never be funny in our own lives, and follow characters into darkness we would otherwise never have the nerve to face.
It’s all about getting lost in the narrative. For me, growing up it was Power Rangers and Saved By The Bell.
If I had it my way, I would have taken over as the White Ranger, swooped into Bayside High, and swept Kelly Kapowski off her feet. Zach Morris would have probably challenged me to a talk-into-the-camera-off, which I would have obviously won. Not willing to watch “Preppy” take such a beating, A.C. Slater would have then lunged at me, forcing me to put his curly-mulleted skull into an unshakable headlock. Mr. Belding would shout “That’s enough, you knuckle-heads.” We would all laugh. I’d buy Kelly a milkshake, ask her to go steady and take her to the dance, all this within the confines one half hour.
Maybe I spent too much time thinking about that.
The point is, no matter what happened on my favorite shows, it was all wrapped in a neat bow before the credits rolled. We love this about television. Unfortunately, real life never works out that way.
Things get messy and sometimes never go back to normal. Friends part ways and never reconnect. We don’t always see a clear plot structure, and there are no set genres. Comedies become dramas that become mysteries, and so on.
And there are no episodes, only seasons with unknown finale dates. This is life.
The Bible contains a poem about the seasons we encounter. (Read it here.) The writer explains there is a season for everything, a time for birth, death, laughter, and tears. The rub, the part we don’t like is that we never know how long each season will last.
God is the divine writer and He holds the script close to his chest, no spoilers.
But isn’t that what a captivating story is all about? I don’t know about you, but I hate spoilers. I avoid the internet on big movie release days. The excitement is not knowing what’s around the corner. Stories without conflict are boring.
The Lord directs our steps,
so why try to understand everything along the way? (Proverbs 20:24 NLT)
Knowing that God has laid out my steps is empowering. To the believer, He promises that every event, fantastic or tragic, is being pieced together to form a good life. Christ’s suffering on the cross makes anything I endure subplot at most. I’m not the main character. He is. That guarantees a phenomenal story.
What is your favorite show on TV right now? What season of life are you in? Join in on the comments below.
Photo Credit: Kristina Schuster (CC)
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World premiere of Lines: The Lived Experience of Race
Lindsay McHolme
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The cast reenacts an Institute for Healing Racism simulation that illustrates dividing lines between races. /Lindsay McHolme
Dates: Sept 30- Oct 2 & Oct 7-9
Place: Spectrum Theatre, 160 Fountain St. NE
Tickets: $24 general admission ($20 for students and seniors). Purchase tickets at the box office or on the Actors' Theatre website.
Michael Travis and Edye Evans Hyde /Lindsay McHolme
Julianne Howe-Bowens /Lindsay McHolme
“The American Dream is not for everyone,” chanted cast members at the Wednesday night dry run of Lines: The Lived Experience of Race.
“This is not a country that people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” the cast continued.
Over the past two years, Stephanie Sandberg and Company conducted 162 interviews focused on racism with Grand Rapids community members like Mayor George Heartwell, activist Jeff Smith known for his work with the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy, entrepreneur Tami VandenBerg who co-owns The Meanwhile, and Dr. Randal Jelks, a former history professor at Calvin College. Their goal was to come up with a model for the type of community they wanted to create and to get to the root of the lines of racism drawn in Grand Rapids.
“It was a personal challenge for me too,” Sandberg admitted. “I realized I had a lot of bias and privilege, and I needed to confront that.”
Cast member, Michael Travis, whose family has suffered racism in silence, felt that the entire process of interviewing and acting out others’ words has been cathartic.
The multi-racial cast consists of director & devising team leader, Stephanie Sandberg; ensemble members, Rena Dam, David Ellens, Edye Evans Hyde, Julianne Howe-Bowens, Jean Reed-Bahle, Lewis Richards, Calin Skidmore, Lorna Torres, Michael Travis; and original percussion composer, Hugo Claudin.
As the lights dimmed, the slanted stage glowed with projections of criss-crossed lines, city boundaries, and quotations. The backdrop flashed astounding statistics like: "Grand Rapids ranks 44 out of 331 metro areas for racial segregation."
Lines asks audience members to consider their personal roles in Grand Rapids’ race struggles, from the gentrification of Wealthy Street, to systemic racism apparent in schools, churches, and workplaces. However, the performance is more than just numbers, it's passion. One woman interviewee couldn’t help but feel frustrated that white people never wanted to come down to Wealthy Street until all of the businesses recently started popping up:
“When I drive down Wealthy Street, I get so angry.”
She noticed that residents of the neighborhoods surrounding Wealthy Street rarely patronize the new businesses, much less work at or own them.
“People want diversity, but they’re not willing to do the work,” said a frustrated interviewee about the lack of cultural competency in the Grand Rapids Public Schools.
Audience members leave feeling personally convicted, but are given the tools to participate in the reconciliation and reparation of racism in Grand Rapids.
“You gotta keep movin’ on,” chanted the cast members at the end of the performance.
The most important thing, they said, was to let anti-racism become a passion. Audience members left the theatre inspired to be intentional about forming relationships, working on cultural sensitivity, listening to others, and acting against racism.
Lines: the lived experience of Race makes its world premiere at Spectrum Theatre (160 Fountain St. NE) on Thursday, Sept. 30 and will run until Oct. 9. Tickets are on sale at the box office or online.
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By: George Wietor (George) on September 30th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
A few months ago I went to a "table reading" of Lines at the GRAM, as it was in-progress. It was incredibly moving, even in its rawest form. I highly recommend going to see it if you have the opportunity.
By: Matthew Russell (mattsimoto) on September 30th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
I'm definitely going to see this.
By: Steven Davison (stevendavison) on September 30th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
i am very much looking forward to seeing this.
"She noticed that residents of the neighborhoods surrounding Wealthy Street rarely patronize the new businesses, much less work at or own them".
By: Nick Manes (nickmanes) on October 7th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
The gentrification of Wealthy and Cherry Streets is something that has been on my mind for a while. As a resident of that neighborhood (Cherry/Eastern FTW) and an employee of the Meanwhile Bar, I like that there are now things to do in the area, and walking down the street does make me feel like I'm in a northside Chicago neighborhood. However the issues of race and class division are more evident than ever. I deeply regret that I won't be able to attend the remaining dates for Lines due to prior obligations each of the days. However I hope it creates further dialogue and that residents can have something to say other than "Its good that Wealthy Street is nice again". The issue is so much more complex than that.
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Proposed DTLA tower gets haircut, but not off the top
Mitsui Fudosan’s 8th & Fig will rise 41 stories and have 438 units
Oct.October 12, 2018 03:00 PM
John Westerfield is CEO of MFA and a rendering Fig & 8th (Credit: DLANC)
Plans for a 41-story mixed-used tower in Downtown are being scaled back courtesy of the city’s environmental review. But the change isn’t so dramatic.
Mitsui Fudosan America’s Eighth & Figueroa — also known as 8th & Fig — will be 12 percent smaller, and will include 438 residential units and 7,493 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, according to Urbanize.
The project, which will replace a parking lot at 732 South Figueroa Street, will now encompass 425,000 square feet, down from the previous design of 482,000 square feet. The change satisfies environmental requirements.
The actual height of the proposed project will increase from 501 feet to 530 feet to account for mechanical space at the roof level.
It is unclear exactly how the space was reduced, but a 2016 version of the plans called for 11,000 square feet of retail.
The current mixed-use tower will have 80 studios, 264 one-bedroom apartments and 94 two-bedroom units. It will also include parking for 517 vehicles on seven levels, four of them underground.
The boxy glass-and-steel look of the project, being designed by Johnson Fain, will remain mostly the same as the project presented in March of 2018, Urbanize reported.
The project is expected to be completed in 2022.
Mitsui has owned the project site for more than 30 years, and also owns a parking garage one block away, where another high-rise project is underway.
Brookfield Properties is building an even more massive 64-story mixed-use tower about a block away, at 945 W. Eighth Street, that will have 781 condos and 6,700 square feet of retail space. [Urbanize] — Alexei Barrionuevo
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Mobile phone manufacturing
A person's phone shows HKmap.live apps as they join others at a rally to mark Taiwan's National Day, in the Tsim Sha Tsui district in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. A Hong Kong government official said on Thursday that Apple was responsible for removing a smartphone application which allowed activists to report police movements. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Apple has a lot to lose if it crosses China's party bosses
HONG KONG (AP) — Under pressure from China, Apple has removed a smartphone app that enabled Hong Kong protesters to track police. It has cut off access in mainland China to a news app that extensively covered the anti-government demonstrations. And it has made it harder to find an emoji...
Visitors tour near the logo of Samsung Electronics at semiconductor exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Samsung Electronics has predicted its operating profit for the last quarter will fall by more than 56% from a year earlier amid sluggish global demand for computer chips. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Tough times for chipmakers as Samsung warns of profit drop
Samsung provided the latest sign of the tough times afflicting computer chipmakers as it braced investors for a sharp drop in profit. The sobering forecast Tuesday wasn't entirely unexpected, given an industrywide glut that has forced chipmakers to slash prices to clear out inventory. Although...
FILE - This Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, shows the logo of Samsung Electronics Co. at its shop in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung said in an emailed statement Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, that it "has arrived at the difficult decision to cease operations of Samsung Electronics Huizhou" in China in late September. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Samsung ends smartphone phone production in China
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics said Friday it has ended the production of smartphones in its last factory in China. Production at the factory in southern China’s Huizhou ended last month, the company said in an email Friday. It said it made “the difficult decision to cease operations...
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Microsoft previews dual-screen Surface devices out in a year
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft’s new lineup of Surface computers includes two dual-screen devices that won’t be out for another year. The smaller one, an Android phone called Surface Duo, will mark Microsoft’s re-entry into smartphones, a market the company abandoned after flops with its own operating...
Apple CEO Tim Cook announces new products at an event Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
Apple takes on Netflix with a $5-a-month streaming service
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple is finally taking on Netflix with its own streaming television service and, uncharacteristically for the company, offering it at a bargain price — $5 a month beginning on Nov. 1. Walt Disney Co. is launching its own assault on Netflix the same month, for just $7. It...
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about the latest iPhone during an event to announce new products Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
Apple rolls out new streaming TV service for $5 a month
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CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on Apple product event (all times local): 10:20 a.m. Apple will charge $5 per month for a highly anticipated video streaming service, the latest challenge to Netflix. The company will roll it out in Nov. 1. Like Netflix and similar services from Amazon and Hulu,...
FILE - This Sept. 12, 2018, file photo shows an Apple iPhone XR on display at the Steve Jobs Theater after an event to announce new products, in Cupertino, Calif. Security experts are calling a newly announced security vulnerability the worst yet affecting Apple’s iPhone. Google researchers say the mere act of visiting a small group of malware-infected websites was enough to allow attackers to steal sensitive information from iPhones, including text messages, photos and real-time location data. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei, looks on during an interview at the Huawei campus in Shenzhen in Southern China's Guangdong province on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. Ren said he expects no relief from U.S. export curbs due to the political climate in Washington but expresses confidence the company will thrive with its own technology. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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SHENZHEN, China (AP) — The founder of Chinese tech giant Huawei said Tuesday he expects no relief from U.S. export curbs because of the political climate in Washington but expressed confidence the company will thrive because it is developing its own technology. Ren Zhengfei also said he doesn't...
In this image from video released by Huawei, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, speaks during a news conference in Dongguan, China, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. Huawei unveiled a smartphone operating system that it said can replace Google's Android, adding to the Chinese tech giant's efforts to insulate itself against U.S. sanctions. The announcement of HarmonyOS highlights the growing ability of Huawei, the No. 2 global smartphone brand and biggest maker of network gear for phone carriers, to create technology and reduce its reliance on American vendors. (Huawei via AP)
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BEIJING (AP) — Huawei on Friday unveiled a smartphone operating system that it said can replace Google's Android, adding to the Chinese tech giant's efforts to insulate itself against U.S. sanctions. The announcement of HarmonyOS highlights the growing ability of Huawei, the No. 2 global smartphone...
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I Know Brett Kavanaugh, But I Wouldn't Confirm Him
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If I were a senator, I would not vote for Brett Kavanaugh.
These are words I write with no pleasure. It brings me no pleasure to hear my long, bloodied witch nails scrape against my keyboard as I type sentences like, “I spent a lot of time this weekend thinking about Oliver Cromwell’s famous letter to the Church of Scotland.” Still, I am compelled to write them.
I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him
This is an article I never imagined myself writing, that I never wanted to write, that I wish I…
I know that some people—the sort of people who lack my discernment and general remove from the material consequences of our politics—will read these words with glee, a validation of their immature political bias. Unlike them, I have no hostility to or particular fear of conservative jurisprudence. When the Supreme Court recently deprived public sector unions of the ability to collect agency fees, landing an immediate and substantial blow against the political bearing of organized labor, I thought: “How interesting.” When it was recently revealed that my friend Brett Kavanaugh, contrary to what he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, may not in fact view Roe v. Wade as settled precedent, I thought: “I am curious, though uninvested and untroubled, about how this will all turn out.”
If we believe one woman as a credible narrator of her own experience, we may have to do it again.
I am also keenly aware that rejecting Kavanaugh on the record currently before the Senate will set a dangerous precedent. If we believe one woman as a credible narrator of her own experience, we may have to do it again. We are on a dangerous road, and the judicial confirmation wars are going to get a lot worse for our traveling down it. (A dangerous road not unlike like the path that children travel to reach my cottage, blindly enchanted by its candied exterior, only to be eaten by me.)
Despite all of this, if I were a senator, I would vote against Kavanaugh’s confirmation. I find Christine Blasey Ford’s account more believable than his. But perhaps more importantly, Kavanaugh revealed in his testimony a kind of partisanship and conspiracy-mindedness that, because of my preference for politeness and institutional norms that sustain unequal systems, I believe he should have concealed from the public and only later revealed through deeply partisan judicial rulings that favor the powerful over the marginalized over the course of a lifetime appointment.
Consider the judicial function as described by Kavanaugh himself at his first hearing. During his confirmation hearing, Brett Kavanaugh described a “good judge [as] an umpire—a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy.” This squared entirely with the man I have known very well for 20 years, through his role in the Starr investigation, his time as counsel under the George W. Bush administration, his membership with the Federalist Society, and more than a decade of conservative rulings issued from the federal bench. Never once in those 20 years did Kavanaugh reveal any kind of partisan inclination to me whatsoever. His politics were, in fact, so inscrutable—so neutral on their face—that I had long assumed he voted for Jill Stein in both 2012 and 2016. (For his birthday in 2015, I gave him a “No Chill Jill” mug.)
All of which is to say that you can imagine my surprise when, before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nation, Kavanaugh seemed very partisan. Can anyone seriously entertain the notion that a reasonable pro-choice woman would feel like her position could get a fair shake before a Justice Kavanaugh? There is no doubt in my mind that before his testimony during the Ford hearing they could feel confident in Kavanaugh’s impartiality. Now, it brings me no pleasure to say, they should feel no such confidence. The world has turned topsy-turvy, indeed.
Over the weekend, I listened to a number of podcasts in which liberals mocked Kavanaugh as an entitled white male refusing to face accountability for what he had done. I find the tone of these discussions nauseating. (Also, why are they not listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s delightfully irreverent history podcast instead?) I also spent a lot of time this weekend, when not listening to liberal podcasts that disappoint me, thinking about Oliver Cromwell’s famous letter to the Church of Scotland in which he implored, “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
We are in a political environment in which norms no longer matter, and the shallow appearances that once held together the fiction of judicial impartiality have now fallen away. This is a terrible loss.
Still, as much as I admire Kavanaugh, and he is indeed on a Twitter list I have titled “Men I very much admire,” my conscience, nor my bowels, would not permit me to vote for him.
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When Ex Hex exploded onto the scene with their unfettered brand of rock and riffage, the power trio for our generation had finally arrived. Made up of Mary Timony, Betsy Wright, and Laura Harris, the group’s debut Rips was a gleaming collection of tightly wound gems that scored Best New Music honors from Pitchfork, the top spot on Magnet Magazine’s Best of 2014 list, and No. 11 in that year’s Pazz & Jop critics poll. Touring throughout 2015 and 2016 established the band as a force to be reckoned with: an audacious three-piece distilling rock music to its essence with formidable skills and a reputation for frenzied and unabashedly fun live shows.
On It’s Real, the forthcoming second album, Ex Hex’s commitment to larger than life riffs and unforgettable hooks remains intact, but the garage-y, postpunk approach that defined Rips has grown in scale and ambition. What started as a reaction to the blown-out aesthetic of Rips would test the sonic limits of the power trio and lead the band on a quest for a more immersive and threedimensional sound. Vocal harmonies are layered ten tracks deep, solos shimmer and modulate atop heaving power chords, and the codas linger and stretch toward new frontiers of sound.
Produced by Jonah Takagi, It’s Real was a more collaborative effort than its predecessor. Mary and Betsy could be found writing late into the night, leaning on Takagi to tighten up arrangements. Egos were surrendered in service to the music: Nothing was sacred or precious, and there was a relentless devotion to both songcraft and exploration. Dozens of guitar amps sat mic-ed in the next room, and the group experimented at a frenzied pace parsing countless combinations of instruments, pedals, and amps. They even dusted off Mary’s old Rockman, a small headphone amp designed by Boston guitarist Tom Scholz in 1982. Mary recounts, “It’s only about the size of a Walkman and takes eight AA batteries, but it sounds massive. We read that parts of [Def Leppard’s] Hysteria were tracked through it, and when we finally plugged it in, it blew our minds!”
The opening track “Tough Enough” is punky and defiant, with stacked backing vocals posing the question “Are you tough enough (to let it go)?” that’s resoundingly answered in the affirmative by a searing, triumphant guitar solo. “Cosmic Cave” is a bittersweet rave-up with shimmering phased guitars, a gooeycandied chorus, and beamed-in “whoa-oh-ohs” that add a touch of melancholia to the frenzied speed-of-sound pace. The ferocious and anthemic “Rainbow Shiner” is what Wright describes as “a victory song.” Her mordacious central riff is coupled with dueling guitar-god solos that explode from the stereo spectrum. The starlit “Another Dimension” has it all: pounding drums, palm-muted humbucking chugs, soaring harmonized vocals, and a stark, ethereal bridge that sends listeners deep into the lush sonic landscape that the band set out to create.
Ex Hex were already one of America’s best guitar bands—but on It’s Real, their musical savvy has thrillingly combined with anything-goes curiosity, studio experimentation, and a dedication to refinement, resulting in an album that’s ready to be played at maximum volume.
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Date 19th June 2017
Hull-headquartered Spencer Group has hailed a “landmark year” after it reported record profitability and built up a £275m pipeline of work.
Spencer Group is one of the UK’s largest privately owned multidisciplinary engineering businesses. Based at One Humber Quays, it employs a workforce of about 315.
For the year to 31 March 2017, the company reported turnover of £113m and pre-tax profit of £5.41m. This is after a six-month period to 31 March 2016, during which Spencer Group reported figures of £44.7m and £2.61m respectively.
Executive chairman Charlie Spencer OBE said the company had recorded record profits as a result of completing projects of “very significant scale, challenge and complexity”.
“By understanding our clients’ needs we have been able to deliver business critical projects and this year’s results are testament to this focus,” he added. “In the current year we are continuing to demonstrate the pace, energy and imagination we bring to solving our clients’ engineering challenges.
“Looking ahead we are well placed to continue to capitalise on the industry-leading capability we have in the fields of rail, energy, materials handling, specialist engineering and design.”
In a strategic report for the year, the engineering giant said such results were in line with expectations. Looking ahead, it added that it had entered the current financial year with secured work in hand of £63.4m and a pipeline of £275, from which to draw its opportunities.
On Brexit, Spencer Group alluded to the fact that the impact on the UK economy is currently unknown but did detail preparations being made ahead of the official departure from the European Union with the company having “identified a number of European-based business sectors that have an interest in taking advantage of skills that UK-based engineering specialists can offer”.
“The company is actively seeking to take advantage of any opportunities to which its engineering skills can be applied,” it added.
Concluding, commercial director Graham Beal said: “These results are highly encouraging and reflect a landmark year for the business, during which we have made strong progress towards the successful delivery of two of the largest projects the company has ever undertaken, demonstrating once again the extent of our capability and expertise.
“Having steered the £200m Energy Works power plant in Hull from concept to development, we are now delivering the £35m package of civil engineering works for the project, working with principal contractor M+W Group and on behalf of a consortium of international investors.
“At the same time, we are delivering a £65m scheme to design and build facilities for the handling, storage and rail-loading of wood pellets at the Port of Tyne, to support the conversion of Lynemouth Power Station to biomass burning.
“We expect to complete this project towards the end of the year.”
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24 Best Romantic Restaurants in Hollywood, CA
By VI Staff on September 13, 2019
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Forming the beating of Los Angeles, the center of the nation’s film and television industry, Hollywood offers a wealth of romantic restaurants with picturesque backdrops and sultry ambiances that will light the flames of desire. The city is packed with something for every occasion from oceanside establishments to woodland hideaways that are perfect for celebrating special love. After dinner, head out and about to enjoy some of the city’s top attractions such as Hollywood Boulevard, the TCL Chinese Theatre, and Mount Lee high up in the Hollywood Hills which is home to the iconic Hollywood sign.
1.Fig & Olive
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Fig & Olive is an upscale restaurant and bar with a prime location that serves seasonal Mediterranean fare prepared with flavored olive oils in a bright, modern atmosphere. The West Hollywood eatery boasts 8,000 square foot of airy space flooded with natural light with a two-story dining area, tasting bar, and cocktail lounge. The sprawling space is ideal for both intimate dinners for two and fun celebrations with friends, as well as private functions and events and serves a fresh and flavorful menu of creative, Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. The bar serves a hand-curated selection of fine wines, champagnes, craft beers and signature cocktails made with imported spirits and the restaurant and bar can be rented out for special occasions such as weddings. Fig & Olive is open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week.
8490 Melrose Pl, West Hollywood, CA 90069, Phone: 310-360-9100
2.Lucques
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Set in a beautifully restored carriage house on Melrose Avenue in the heart of West Hollywood, Lucques is a highly acclaimed restaurant that serves seasonal made-to-order and market-driven Californian cuisine and exceptional wines. Owned by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne, the award-winning restaurant features a chic and sophisticated dining room with a cozy fireplace, a full-service bar, and an intimate, romantic ambiance. The modern dining establishment is open for dinner daily and for lunch, five days each week and a unique price fix themed menu is served on Sundays with a cult-like following.
8474 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069, Phone: 323-655-6277
3.Musso & Frank Grill
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Musso & Frank Grill is a legendary Hollywood restaurant where waiters serve classic American fare and handcrafted spine-tingling, stirred-not-shaken martinis to diners in luxurious mahogany red leather banquets booths. Hollywood's oldest eatery is now 100 years old and still going strong, specializing in comfort food from an earlier generation such as sweetbreads or sauerbraten of tongue, calf liver, lamb kidneys, chicken pot pie, and Welsh rarebit. The menu also offers lighter fare and a wide variety of drinks including classic old school cocktails, casual and rare wines, craft beers and imported spirits. Musso & Frank Grill is open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Saturday and dinner only on Sundays.
6667 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 323-467-7788
4.Yamashiro
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Yamashiro Restaurant is a classic Japanese restaurant in the heart of the Hollywood Hills that has been serving traditional Japanese cuisine in an exquisite setting for over 100 years. Located high above Hollywood Boulevard, the restaurant’s name means “Mountain Palace” in Japanese and was built to replicate a palace located in the “Yamashiro” province mountains near Kyoto, Japan. Design elements and highlights of the restaurant include the magnificent entrance and driveway, the beautiful waiting area and sushi bar, the garden courtyard, a 100-year old bicycle, and a 600-year ancient pagoda. The restaurant hosts a family-friendly Hollywood Night Market in the Hollywood Hills every Thursday night that boasts over 30 vendors selling gourmet street food, live music, and an outdoor bar.
1999 N Sycamore Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068, Phone: 323-466-5125
5.Cleo
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Marrying old Hollywood glamour with relaxed Mediterranean charm, Cleo is a hip eatery inside Sam Nazarian's The Redbury hotel that serves Mediterranean tapas and creative cocktails and fine wines. The menu features delicious shareable plates, mezzes, flatbreads, and homemade dips, all of which are serves in a warm, intimate atmosphere by attentive staff. The full-service bar boasts an extensive wine list of fun cocktails, classic spirits, globally-inspired wines, and craft beers from around the world. The eatery exudes a “see-and-be-seen scene” vibe, making it an excellent spot for a bite to eat and some people watching. Cleo is open for dinner, seven nights a week.
1717 Vine St, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 323-962-1711
6.El Floridita Restaurant
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Following the footsteps of the famous restaurant of the same name in Havana, Cuba, El Floridita Restaurant in Hollywood is a festive supper club that offers delectable Cuban fare and live Latin music. Located in an unassuming strip mall off of Fountain and Vine in the heart of Hollywood, the restaurant, which was once known as Prince’s club of choice for getting down to Latin music, promises a memorable night out with outstanding Cuban and Caribbean food, sublime cocktails, and live dance performances by some of the best regional and national salsa combos in the country. Tuck into Cuban delectables like ropa vieja and masitas de Puerco fritas while sipping mojitos and grooving to Johnny Polanco y Su Conjunto Amistad. Watch out for celebs like Mick Jagger, Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez who regularly frequent the spot for some salsa.
7.Fabiolus Cucina Italiana Verona
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Owned by Verona-born Fabio and Chiara Conti, Fabiolus Cucina Italiana Verona is a family-friendly restaurant that serves authentic Italian fare, including favorites such as house-made pasta, wood-fired pizza, and traditional Northern Italian dishes. Located within walking distance of some of Hollywood’s top attractions like Avalon, the Palladium, the Montalban theatre, and Arclight Cinemas, the restaurant is ideally situated for a pre-theater show dinner or post-show drinks. Dishes are prepared with fresh, locally sourced ingredients and produce, using age-old recipes that have been passed down through generations. Fabiolus Cucina is open for lunch, Tuesday through Friday, and dinner only on the weekends.
6270 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, Phone: 323-467-2882
8.Gwen
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Gwen is a European-style, chef-driven butcher shop and a restaurant that serves meat-centric tasting and a la carte menus in an industrial-style setting. Diners can choose from a three-, five, or 10-course tasting menu, which are served in the main dining room, or an a la carte menu that is served at the bar. The refined full-service restaurant focuses on fire-based cooking techniques with house-made charcuterie, and prime and rare breed meats being at the center of each plate. A lovely patio is perfect for lite bites or pre-dinner cocktails and being just a stone’s throw from The Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, the restaurant’s pre-theatre menu is a popular choice. Gwen is open for lunch Monday through Friday and dinner, seven nights a week.
6600 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 323-946-7500
9.La Boheme (LB66)
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Hailed as one of West Hollywood’s most beautiful restaurants, La Bohème, now known as LB66, is an upscale steakhouse with reclaimed wood floors, tall ceilings, large glass windows and doors and elegant French chandeliers with low tungsten light. The super-stylish steakhouse serves classic fare such as succulent prime steaks, large-format chops, and meat platters along with hearty sides and freshly prepared salads, along with an extensive selection of fine wines to pair with plates. La Bohème features a charming garden patio with a crackling fireplace framed by beautiful roses and scented jasmine. La Bohème is open for dinner Tuesday through Sunday.
8400 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069, Phone: 323-848-2360
10.Madera Kitchen & Bar
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Set on Cahuenga Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood, Madara Kitchen is a casual eatery with retro décor that serves Mediterranean-inspired cuisine in a laid-back ambiance. Located along the edge of the Hollywood Hills, Madera Kitchen features a charming outdoor patio with beautiful views over the surrounding hills where guests can savor delicious cuisine such as homemade pasta, fresh salads, flatbreads and dips, and entrées such as hanger steak with baked ricotta, turkey club BLTs on challah with burrata, and steak frites with arugula salad. Madara Kitchen is open for brunch, lunch, and dinner Friday through Sunday and dinner only Tuesdays through Thursdays.
1835 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 213-261-3687
11.Mama Shelter LA
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Perching six-stories over Hollywood Boulevard with a chic rooftop bar, Mama Shelter LA is a boutique hotel with stylish accommodations and an elegant restaurant serving New American cuisine. Designed by Thierry Gaugain, Mama Shelter LA’s rooftop bar serves lunch and dinner, seven days a week against a backdrop of spectacular views over Hollywood.
6500 Selma Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 323-785-6600
12.Marino Ristorante
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Dating back to the 1950s and the heyday of Hollywood, Marino Ristorante is a family-owned and operated old school dining establishment that promises an unforgettable dining experience. The restaurant features classic old school décor, original oil paintings, and eclectic memorabilia collected over 60 years in the hospitality business. The menu features traditional Italian cuisine prepared with high quality, locally sourced and organic ingredients, along with imported specialties such as cured meats and cheeses, antipasto, olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and Tuscan herbs. The cuisine is accompanied by a list of fine wines from Italy and around the world, craft beers, and signature cocktails, and is open for lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday and dinner only on Sundays.
6001 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: 323-466-8812
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13.Miceli’s Italian Restaurant
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If it’s an intimate and romantic evening out to celebrate love you are looking for, then Miceli’s Italian Restaurant is the place to go. Located on Las Palmas Avenue, the restaurant serves a menu of authentic Italian fare in an elegant setting against a backdrop of serenading Italian arias from singing waiters and waitresses. The menu features an array of appetizers and platters of antipasto, fresh salads, hearty entrées of veal, beef, chicken, and fresh seafood, homemade pasta and sauces, wood-fired pizzas, and decadent desserts. Casual wines and craft beers are on offer to enjoy with the food, along with classic cocktails, and specialty coffees. Miceli’s Italian Restaurant is open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week.
1646 N Las Palmas Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 323-466-3438
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14.Moun of Tunis Restaurant
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Moun of Tunis Restaurant is a vibrant restaurant with Moroccan-style décor that serves traditional Tunisian and Moroccan cuisine and hosts evening entertainment in the form of belly-dancing. The restaurant’s Tunisian-born chef produces a fixed-price menu of innovative fare that takes diners on a journey to East Africa with dishes such as the Moroccan Feast which consists of Brik or Harira, Salads with Mechoui or Brochette, B'Stilla, Lemon Chicken or Lamb with Artichokes or Fish of the Day, Couscous with Vegetables and Boulettes, Tea and Dessert. Moun of Tunis is open for dinner only, seven nights a week.
7445 1/2 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046, Phone: 323-874-3333
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15.Norah
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Norah is a sleek and stylish neighborhood spot in the heart of West Hollywood that boasts lofty ceilings, a white marble bar, stark graphic art on the walls, and moody lighting that serves New American cuisine. Owned by international restaurateur Rohan Talwar and chef Mike Williams, the Thomas Schoos-designed space is airy and warm with wood accents, a raftered ceiling, and a black and white marble bar. Diners share long, communal tables with mismatched tops and cushy couches and chairs invite guests to linger. The menu features a blend of rustic New American flavors with innovative dishes such as daily market crudo, a selection of freshly shucked oysters, heritage pork glazed with cider, and a lobster bolognese gnocchi. The cuisine is accompanied by a hand-curated selection of fine wines and rare labels, along with signature cocktails. Norah is open for dinner only, seven nights a week with live jazz Sundays.
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16.Off Vine
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Located in a charming turn-of-the-century craftsman bungalow a block off Sunset and Vine, Off Vine Restaurant is a favorite neighborhood eatery in the Sunset & Vine District that serves brunch, lunch, and dinner. Boasting a relaxed, rustic ambiance, the restaurant offers delicious options for breakfast and bottomless brunch such as omelets, scrambles and griddle specials, and fresh salads, sandwiches, and entrées for lunch. The dinner menu features Braised-Boneless Short Ribs slow-cooked in red wine and fresh herbs, Filet Mignon with a Roquefort cabernet sauce, Stuffed Red Bell Peppers with quinoa, served on a bed of wild field greens and Pistachio Encrusted Vegan Chicken with a mango sauce. Off Vine Restaurant also offers catering services for private functions and events.
6263 Leland Way, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 323-962-1900
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17.Pace
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Pace is a cozy, romantic Italian eatery renowned for its melt-in-your-mouth wood-fired pizzas and handmade pasta with hearty sauces. Once the unofficial landmark of the old Laurel Canyon, the legendary restaurant is based in an old, rustic building akin to those found in Tuscany and surrounded by dense woodlands and forests. The charming eatery boasts a menu to boot with classic dishes such as cedarwood grilled salmon, soul-curing tortellini and rigatoni, and their famous brown rye chips and seasoned pretzels. Don’t miss the Zeus’ pizza, which is topped with enough home-cured prosciutto to leave a lasting mark. Pace is open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week.
2100 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046, Phone: 323-654-8583
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18.Providence
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Providence is a softly-lit, romantic restaurant that offers an exclusive fine-dining experience in a tranquil setting. Helmed by Chef Michael Cimarusti, Providence prides itself on being LA’s statement piece when it comes to world-class dining with dark interiors, elegant chandeliers, and a warm and unpretentious ambiance. Set on Melrose Avenue, the absurdly expensive pre-fixe seafood restaurant serves a choice of three set menus, including a Chef’s Menu that features 11 main courses ranging from wagyu beef with a truffle-injected potato to pepper-wrapped squid and spicy Thai-inspired prawns. Treat yourself with selections from the roaming dessert and cheese cart and sip rare vintages suggested by the professional sommelier with each dish. Providence is open for dinner seven nights a week, and lunch on Fridays only.
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19.Rao's
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Rao’s in Hollywood is a classic Italian restaurant and replica of the venerable New York eatery that serves hearty, home-style Italian fare and casual wines in an intimate, romantic setting. The Rat Pack outpost features cozy red leather booths, dark wood accents, and twinkling year-round Christmas lights, and it has built its reputation on being impossible to get into with velvet-rope exclusivity. The menu reflects the tastes of New York with old-fashioned southern Italian fare with dishes of handmade pasta, paper-thin pizzas, fresh salads, platters antipasto, and ocean-fresh seafood. The exceptional wine list boasts both Italian and global wines with well-known and rare vintages, as well as signature cocktails and imported liqueurs. Rao’s is open for dinner only, seven nights a week.
1006 Seward St, Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: 323-962-7267
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20.Tao
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Located next to the Dream Hotel, Tao is an elegant restaurant that follows in the footsteps of the Las Vegas version and draws a fashionable crowd to its enormous space for dinner and cocktails every evening. Boasting dark, faux-Asian motifs and a 20-foot tall Quan Yin statue floating above a koi pond, the restaurant displays subtle animations that bring the sculpture to life during dinner service. The menu is created by Chef Ralph Scamardella and features Asian-style fare, with classic bites like barbecue pork buns, Peking duck, Chilean seabass satay skewers, lobster fried rice, and an array of fresh, handmade sushi. Tao is open for dinner Monday through Sunday.
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21.The Edmon
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Tucked inside the iconic Hollywood Historic Hotel on the stretch between Wilton and Western, the Edmon is a swanky, art deco–inspired spot on Melrose that serves contemporary cuisine and classic cocktails in a quiet, romantic setting. Harking back to the gilded age of Hollywood, the drinking and music-listening den is the perfect spot for a quiet dinner for two with elegant chandeliers, dark wood accents, and a tall back bar. The restaurant serves a menu of contemporary cuisine with classic dishes such as fresh Caesar salads, succulent prime cut steaks, sticky braised short ribs, and an extensive list of colorful cocktails, fine wines, and craft beers. The Edmon is open for dinner only, seven nights a week.
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22.The Sit-Down
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The Sit-Down is a traditional family-owned and operated Italian restaurant that focuses on serving authentic Sicilian cuisine prepared with fresh, locally sourced ingredients using age-old recipes that have been passed down through the family generations. The menu features favorites like homemade pasta and sauces, wood-fired pizza with various toppings, hearty veal and chicken dishes, fresh seafood plates and salads, and sharing platters of antipasto. The wine list offers a range of casual drinking wines, craft beers, and signature cocktails, as well as soft drinks and specialty coffees to enjoy with decadent desserts. The Sit-Down is open for brunch and dinner, seven days a week.
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23.Trastevere Ristorante Italiano
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Located in the heart of the new shopping center Hollywood and Highland, Trastevere Ristorante Italiano is a bustling spot with a beautiful 1,000 square foot patio overlooking the Hollywood hills. The vast restaurant seats up to 120 people and serves a menu of authentic Italian cuisine with sharing platters of antipasto and fresh salads and hearty dishes of homemade pasta and sauces, wood-fired pizza with various toppings, veal and chicken dishes, and fresh seafood plates. The restaurant has a cozy, indoor dining room and a beautiful outdoor patio for alfresco dining in the summer months against a backdrop of spectacular views. The cuisine is accompanied by a hand-curated selection of fine, craft beers and signature cocktails. Trastevere Ristorante Italiano is open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week.
6801 Hollywood Blvd #423, Los Angeles, CA 90028, Phone: 323-962-3700
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24.Beauty & Essex
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Beauty & Essex is a sophisticated, jewel-toned eatery in the heart of Hollywood with vintage décor and a sophisticated ambiance. Part of the TAO group, the glorious new dining hall is set within a 10,000 square foot complex that features a real-live collector’s shop with exquisite jewelry and musical instruments that creates an almost trompe l’oeil-like entrance for the several dining rooms and lounges that make up the restaurant. The eatery serves a menu of New American plates, including snackable bites like tomato tartare, tuna poke wonton tacos, grilled cheese, and tomato soup dumplings, and oven-braised meatballs, accompanied by a variety of signature cocktails and vintage wines. Beauty & Essex is open for dinner only, Tuesday through Saturday.
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Lazarus Syndrome – Flatline
Posted in CD, Metal with tags Cannibal Corpse, Download Festival on 29th June 2012 by vmteam
Lazarus Syndrome
Released March 2011
Self-Released
Lazarus Syndrome are a five piece melo-metal outfit from Liverpool, whose influences include Queen, Slipknot and Metallica. The band recently played Download Festival.
Forsaken initially starts off sounding very much like it could evolve into a death metal track with heavy, down tuned guitars and bass, growly vocals and good solid drumming with some handy double bass footwork from Matt Gregson. Instead, after the first verse and into the chorus, we are greeted with very melodic guitars and some great ‘clean’ vocals by Peter Ford. My initial listen to this did take me by surprise but, in a good way, really quite original I thought. Then after the chorus it’s back to the deathly style vocals for another verse, closely followed by a slightly extended chorus and afterwards, moves into a cool lead guitar section that’s executed very well. After this, it then moves into a rather delightful section which has some great guitar licks, shortly followed by the chorus. Overall, I thought of this track to be a very memorable one and really quite catchy.
The next track, Devoured By Conflict, is introduced by some clever guitar work and cymbal stabs – kinda reminding me of early At The Gates – then, with the vocals, progresses into an anthem of total and utter rage, with Peter screaming ‘need to get this poison outa my head’; this guy sounds angry. We are then introduced by some clever guitar work by Jamie and Mike along with some great vocal work by Peter, switching from ‘clean’ vocals to growls. At this point the track reverts back to the intro at the beginning, tearing down and destroying anything that may happen to unfortunately cross its path. With another heartfelt repetition of the chorus we may get the impression that these guys are upset about something, very upset, and they are not scared to shout about it… And so ends track number two.
A Path Less Travelled without a doubt is certainly the most melodic track on this EP, guitar wise and vocal wise too. Peter Ford is a great vocalist and this track contains some excellent vocal melodies and harmonies. Also some very good tom work by Matt Gregson in unison with Tom Parkers bass work, really quite impressive. After a repetition of verse and chorus we are then pinned up against a wall with more of Peter’s ferocious, deathly style vocals; the only time to make an appearance in this track but, don’t despair, this is a great song and in my opinion, stands well above the previous two tracks.
Last but not least, Blameless Creator a song that is much faster than any other on the EP, and after a short guitar intro, the ensemble come blazing in with guitars on fire, snare on double-time and vocals that Cannibal Corpse would certainly be proud of. The guitar riffs on this partially remind me somewhat of early Kreator, and I like that very much. There’s great vocal and guitar harmonies again during the chorus along with some great drum work by Matt. After another verse, chorus and bridge, we have the privilege of an alternative chorus which signifies the end of track 4. This track is another favourite of mine.
Overall, I find this a great EP. I can see a promising future for these guys.
Shaun “Winter” Taylor-Steels (My Dying Bride/Ex-Anathema)
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Karybdis – From The Depths
Posted in CD, Metal with tags Death Metal, Groove metal, Hour Glass, Melodic death metal on 29th June 2012 by Nico Solheim-Davidson
Karybdis
From The Depths
Due For Release: 2nd July 2012
Groove-laden death metal quintet Karybdis are one of the many rising stars in the UK’s metal underground. Hailing from Britain’s capital of London, the band’s album From The Depths (not to be confused with the two compilations we released) is described as embarking upon an epic, dark journey that creates a colliding sound of metals past, present and future.
The opening track, Minotaur, certainly caught my attention like the beginning of any good story, marrying a subtle classical sound with a titanic assault of riffs that – pardon the pun – feel like the wrath of the minotaur in musical form. The riffs balance perfectly between a furious storm of melodic death metal brutality and groove metal genius. The vocals finalise the mix of fresh sounds, enforcing the dark, almost Hadean grasp of the song. A sight Running Wild feel runs through some of the riffs of the title track From The Depths. The vocals embody the demonic, underworldly sound of the song, capable enough of keeping any listener hooked until the end. An essence of hardcore influences can be heard echoing throughout the guitars and drums in various parts of the track.
Without Wings merges speed metal, death metal and hardcore into a very sagaic and enchanting piece of work, whilst darker, more sinister influences make a stand through other parts of the song, keeping a certain excitement pumping throughout the veins of the music. The classical soundings that make an appearance seem to lure the listener into a trance, much like the sirens of mythology, before allowing the listener crash into the rocks that are Arson Aesthetics, a track that’s beginning is just the tip of a metallic iceberg that is slowly unleashed as the track sails further on into a masterfully blended use of hardcore riffs and metal sounds, with a dash of thunderous vocals.
Worth It has a very crisp, aggressive sound that seems to take on a “no more fun and games” approach, increasing the hostile feel of the album. I Say takes on the same approach as the previous track but with a few slight differences. The main one of which is a Latin-styled medley that comes as a surprise but it creates a new, fresh sound that very few bands could possibly pull off but Karydbis has successfully managed it. Medusa wasn’t what I expected it to be. I was expecting a cold, nihilistic song with more of a doom metal feel but the track is vicious, bloodthirsty and overall brutally perfect.
The next track, Maelstrom, is an interesting one to listen, creating a Children of Bodom-like sound and mixing it with furious riffs and thunderous drum patterns while the vocals bring about enough power to topple a mountain. Marching on towards the end is The Hour Glass, which I consider to be the most fierce and aggressive song on the entire album. Everything during in it, from the masterfully played riffs to the demonic vocal work and even the callous, barbaric use of drums, scream with a bloody voice of pure anger and violence.
DeathToll begins with an interesting percussion section before morphing into a blasphemous beast of pure death metallic goodness that will cause even the most laidback of metal fans to head bang along. The riffs belt out a very psychotic fury that just empowers every aspect of the track, while the vocals scream and growl like Cerberus’ three heads howling for blood. DeathToll is definitely the best way to end any death metal release.
From The Depths is an album filled to the brim with the best parts of death metal and hardcore music, with juicy portions of Greek mythos mixed in. Karybdis have done wonders with every track on the album, making it a release louder than Zeus’ thunder and more dangerous than the titans. Karybdis are certainly ushering in a new take on metal and hopefully they’ll be bringing back some greatness to the British metal scene.
Nico Davidson
Coredust – Decent Death (valkyrianmusic.com)
Interview with Joe Block from Scarlet Anger
Posted in Interview, Metal on 27th June 2012 by izaforestspirit
The Luxembourg-based Scarlet Anger are the latest edition to the world of thrash metal. Iza caught up with the singer Joe Block to discuss their new album Dark Reign, influences, aspirations for the future and the Luxembourgish metal scene.
Iza: Hi Joe!
Joe Block: Hi!
I:Could you tell me a little about what influenced your decision to start playing thrash metal as opposed to another
J.B.: Fred and Joe, who formed the band were always into thrash metal bands, so it was no question that they wanted to play that genre!
I: Which bands do you see as your biggest inspiration and why?
J.B.: We all have different influences such as KREATOR, ANNIHILATOR, older METALLICA, MACHINE HEAD or even IRON MAIDEN and many more, we are all very open minded musicians. We listen to a lot of Metal bands. We don’t try to sound like one band, We just write the music we like. We don’t try to concentrate on one style while writing songs. If it sounds good we keep it, if not we don’t.
I:So what’s the metal scene like in Luxembourg? Could you tell me a bit more about it?
J.B.:The metal scene in Luxembourg is quite big compared to the size of the country, we have a lot of metal bands! There are some great bands like Desdemonia, Abstract Rapture,… At the moment there exists also a lot of Metalcore bands. So there are bands for every type of metal!
I:Your debut album ‘Dark Reign’ was mastered by Jeff Waters from Annihilator. Is he someone with whom you would like to work with in the future?
J.B.:Well for the moment it’s hard to say, we were very satisfied with his work! We all know that Jeff is a perfectionist and pro! He got a lot of experience in mastering while mastering albums of his band Annihilator and other bands! So it was really nice to work with him! He helped us a lot to get the sound we were looking for! So it’s not impossible that we’ll work together again. Let’s say if he still is interested in working with us!
I:Based on the lyrics, ‘Dark Reign’ seems to tell a story about the overthrowing of a king. Was this intended to be a concept album and, if so how did you come up with this theme?
J.B.: No, it’s definitely no real concept album. The album should include the songs from the EP Kill The King, that was the request of the label. So the challenge was to incorporate these songs without giving up the concept of Kill The King. That’s how we came up with the idea to name the album Dark reign which is a more extensive idea than the EP’s name. Although the song titles could fit the theme “king and war”, there are no existing connections between the lyrics and the cover/title concept as one might think.
I: What’s been the highlight of your career so far?
J.B.:To determine one highlight in our young career is very difficult. There are a few ones. One of the biggest highlight in our career was the moment where we signed our deal with our label! It was a big step forward for us! Another highlight was to share the stage with bands like CHANNEL ZERO and PRIMAL FEAR.
The next big highlights are, our previous shows with OVERKILL, RAGE, DESASTER,DIAMOND HEAD and many more.
I: Who has been your favorite band to tour with so far?
J.B. : Until now it was great to play with Primal Fear! They were very nice people to meet! As for now, we are really looking forward to play with Overkill, Rage and more!
I: If you could pick any band to tour with in the future who would it be?
J.B.:Ohhhhhhhh, that’s a real difficult question. There are so many amazing bands, but definitely Slayer, Kreator or Metallica. Any big thrash metal band would be great!
I: Which musician (living or dead) do you respect the most and why?
J.B.:James Hetfield (Metallica) and Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) because they are great musicians, always moved on and never made any compromises!
I: Ok thanks for your time!
J.B.: Thanks!
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Ensiferum reveal album art for Unsung Heroes
Posted in News with tags Ensiferum, From Afar, Spinefarm Records on 27th June 2012 by Nico Solheim-Davidson
Ensiferum, the highly visual troupe who’ve long been a market leader when it comes to stirring, armour-plated anthems, will have their fifth studio album released through the Spinefarm label on August 27th 2012.
Titled ‘Unsung Heroes’ and produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, Apocalyptica, etc.), will be the hour-plus follow-up to 2009’s ‘From Afar’, and sees the Finnish five-piece – founded in 1995 – pushing their signature sound to bold new heights of drama and excess.
A cinematic experience from first note to last , ‘Unsung Heroes’ takes the listener on a journey of genuine light & shade, with the 16 minute-plus ‘Passion Proof Power’ showing that when it comes to the epic statement, Ensiferum are very much in the front-line, swords at the ready.
“We’ve tried to push the different aspects of what we do as far as we can,” reflects the band, “the sonic scope is wider than ever. The folk elements go further down that path and the metallic parts will absolutely rip your face off!”
Once again, album art has been supplied by Kristian Wahlin, with featured special guests including members of Apokalyptischen Reiter plus legendary Finnish singer & actor, Vesa-Matti Loiri.
A video is also currently being planned for lead track, ‘In My Sword I Trust’.
SEPTEMBER: UK / Irish dates (part of the extensive European ‘Bearers Of The Sword’ tour):-
18 O2 Academy, Islington, London
19 Moho, Manchester
20 Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland
21 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Special guests on the tour are fellow Finns and fellow Spinefarm artists, Profane Omen.
Ensiferum set to release new album + UK Tour Dates (valkyrianmusic.com)
Dying Fetus – Reign Supreme
Posted in CD, Grindcore, Metal with tags Cannibal Corpse, Death Metal, Dying Fetus, reign supreme, six feet under, usa on 26th June 2012 by tobiasgray
Released: 19th June 2012
“It’s not my fault I’m pregnant and I love drugs. Who cares? Fuck the baby, let it die”
Controversial and talented in equal measures, the Maryland trio Dying Fetus have returned with their seventh album. Reign Supreme – a bold statement, but an honest one.
Perennial underdogs since their inception 22 years ago, Dying Fetus have grown a dedicated fan base through extensive touring, hard work, and blistering live performances. Followers both new and old will relish this latest album, with 9 tracks (plus the obligatory ‘novelty’ bonus track – ‘Dead Whores Love To Fuck’,) of brutal, high intensity death metal.
If it looks like the Fetus, and sounds like the Fetus…it’s gotta be the Fetus! Their signature songwriting style is present from the start – John Gallagher and Sean Beasley’s fret melting runs and sweeps, abruptly collapsing into heavy grooves and brutal slam breakdowns. The musicianship is as uncompromising and technical as ever, complimented by the crisp production; making Reign Supreme the most professional sounding album in the band’s catalogue.
This is the second album with Trey Williams on drums, and his incredible ability shines throughout. It is hard to define the impact his warp speed grinding battery has, but after so many lineup changes, the current three-piece is quite possibly the best (in terms of sheer musicianship,) to date.
The shorter songs such as opener “Invert the Idols” and highlight “Dissidence” standout, their tight structures providing unrelenting aggression and technicality. The midpoint provides a mild respite with two ‘old school’, groove oriented songs. It is certain that every track on Reign Supreme has been designed for live performance first of all. Breakdowns (not of the -core variety!) feature regularly, and even on first play through you can actually see the pits forming for these future classics.
Dying Fetus walk the tightrope of new school tech and old school groove ethics perfectly, they craft brutal, sexy music, and with this album have firmly cemented their position at the highest echelon of modern death metal.
Tobias Gray
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Fadeout – To Protect our Way of Living
Posted in CD, Rock with tags Armour for Sleep, experimental rock, Fadeout, Grunge, Nickelback, The Cure, To Protect our Way of Living on 25th June 2012 by mariadodarmata
To Protect our Way of Living
Grunge / Experimental Rock
Released: 22nd of February 2012-06-25
Via: Secret Entertainment
From the northern lands of Seinäjoki (Finland), comes Fadeout, and oh! Actual surprise! It is not a melodic Death Metal band!
The album starts with Solar Lights. A pretty good song if you don’t take into account the cheesy ballroom dancing music reference, that in my opinion is a hundred percent unnecessary. The “grunge” part of this album is hidden in track number three and by this point all I can think while listening to these guys is those late 90’s teenage movies mixed with Nickelback (Eww!!) and a subtle touch of The Cure. By the end of the album comes a song that I liked a lot, Palestine. But the slow acoustic songs seems a bit out of place, like if it came a bit too late in the album, yet it makes a lot of contrast with the next and last song, which brings the speed that this whole album is craving. I am not asking for them to pull out the double bass and rape the blast beats, but the drummer’s job on this album is borderline unnoticeable.
Overall the album is sort of good, even though half of the songs sound like the others (something I like to call “The Late Iron Maiden Syndrome”). To Protect our Way of Living sounds like good mainstream material, even if I have the feeling the band would slap me if they could for saying that. They say their sound is *Actual Quote* Indescribable, but funny enough I find a huge resemblance with the band Armour For Sleep…
KATL announce album launch show
Posted in News with tags Five Finger Death Punch, Hammersmith Apollo, Judas Priest, Kevin Churko, Lotus Kobra, Ozzy Osbourne, Spinefarm Records on 25th June 2012 by Nico Solheim-Davidson
Kobra And The Lotus – the five-piece group fronted by powerful vocalist Kobra Paige – are set to play Bloodstock Open Air Festival on Sunday August 12th. The band will open the Ronnie James Dio stage, the main stage at the event.
KATL – who recently guested with Judas Priest and legendary Yorkshire rockers Saxon at the Hammersmith Apollo in London – will release their self-titled album on August 6th 2012 via Spinefarm Records.
To celebrate this release, the five-piece will play a one-off, headline show at The Borderline in London on August 13th, tickets available here.
Produced by Kevin Churko (whose previous credits include both Five Finger Death Punch and Ozzy Osbourne), the 10-track album has an intentionally grand-scale dynamic, revelling in the glories of the genre and making its mark as arena rather than garage rock; precisely delivered music, still heavy with emotion.
“Some of the songs do have specific meanings,” states Kobra. “For example, ‘Heaven’s Veins’ is about addiction, and ‘50 Shades Of Evil’ is about greed, about the constant desire for more… but, by and large, the theme is one of hope, of finding a way through dark situations…
“I do have broad musical tastes, but by choice I’m a heavy metal fan, and I’m truly excited with the album we’ve just finished. It’s rooted in the great history of the music, the escapism and the larger than life imagery, which is something I’m very comfortable with, but it’s for a new generation too, and it’s delivered 100 per cent from the heart!”
Signed to Simmons Records and released internationally via Spinefarm, Canadians KATL already have lead single/video ‘Forever One’ on release, and will have a second single out shortly; titled ‘50 Shades Of Evil’, the song will be accompanied by a brand new video, and follows in the wake of an intense run of European shows that has seen the band making festival appearances in the UK, Spain, Germany, Austria, Sweden, France, Belgium & Italy, as well as guesting with Black Label Society.
UK dates are as follows:-
12th – Ronnie James Dio Stage, Bloodstock Open Air Festival, Derbyshire
13th – Album launch show, The Borderline, London
Kobra and the Lotus – Kobra and the Lotus (valkyrianmusic.com)
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Preview: Episode 3 | 28s
The former protegee of a business tycoon has come forward claiming that he pressured young women into sleeping with him, and Amina gives Holly the nod to investigate. Duncan proposes a deal that could make waves in the political world. Amina and Duncan make bold moves that could risk their careers.
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Deputy news editor for The Herald, Holly Evans pursues a story of a hit-and-run accident.
Ep1 | 58m 42s
Holly helps Leona investigate a lead. Ed struggles with his conscience.
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Amina gives Holly the nod to investigate the nefarious exploits of a business tycoon.
Amina feels defeated in the immediate wake of the Joshua West scandal.
Ep4 | 59m
Crisis looms for Duncan. Holly's loyalties are divided.
Holly and Duncan go head to head; but who will come out on top?
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Contextual Targeting Has Evolved, but Advertisers Haven’t Caught Up
The much debated ‘death’ of third party cookie targeting is predicted by some to give a new lease of life to contextual targeting, which doesn’t require third-party cookies to be effective. But Christian Dankl, co-founder and chairman of contextual advertising business Precise TV, says that since most of the industry has been so focussed on audience targeting for the past decade, many have misconceptions around what contextual targeting is actually capable of nowadays. In this Q&A, Dankl discusses what’s actually possible with contextual advertising, and explains his company’s ‘contextual DMP’.
Dankl will be on-stage at New Video Frontiers 2019 on October 16th discussing the topic: Context & Consent: Can Digital Advertising Cope Without the Cookie?
Do you think we’re going to see the death of the third-party cookie?
Yes, absolutely, although it has been slowly dying – we’ve seen Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) and Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) to block third party cookies by default and it is expected that Google Chrome is moving in that direction too. In addition to technical blocks, we have seen regulatory changes, such as GDPR and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) affecting the way we will target users going forward.
I think the reason the third-party cookie hasn’t disappeared yet is because the industry as a whole is so heavily reliant on it for getting targeting right, and the limited alternatives to third party cookies such as advanced contextual targeting.
How has contextual targeting evolved since the early days of digital advertising?
The problem I see is that because the industry was so reliant for the last fifteen years on audience-based targeting matching all sorts of third-party data with you first-party data and doing a lot of modelling – all of the innovation has been focussed on audience buying. There are some exceptions of course, such as the acquisition of contextual pioneer Grapeshot by Oracle for up to $400M last year.
If you think back to what contextual was like fifteen years ago, you were essentially buying broad categories, things like ‘sports’, and that was pretty much it. So you’d be buying everything from cricket to golf, to swimming, to NASCAR racing all together, and as you know that doesn’t represent a coherent audience group at all.
We really have to innovate and think differently, and our way of thinking differently is not just breaking it down into content taxonomy, but going deeper than that. It starts by essentially understanding the moment and the signals that are coming in. So as an example, think about coffee. If you’re just targeting ‘hot beverages’ as a category within ‘food and beverage’, that doesn’t really help you. If you want to target a barista type audience for example, that’s interested in artisan coffee and might buy a £2000 coffee machine, you’re not going to find that audience using the content taxonomy of coffee & hot beverages that’s out there. So you have to go deeper on page level or video level, and then create a predictive model that ranks the probability of that specific contextual content to the interests and affinities of your target audience.
For brands this means a lot of work and data in terms of getting the model right. You won’t see an impact if you start tomorrow doing contextual targeting based around the old taxonomy, there’s endless wastage there. That’s really the challenge, firstly to get the model right and secondly to keep optimising the deep learning algorithm. That’s where we come in and help our clients.
Precise has released a ‘Contextual DMP’ – what does that mean, and how similar is it to a standard DMP?
The first difference is that our contextual DMP is a non-PII DMP (it doesn’t contain any personally identifiable information such as cookies). That’s very important because we do a lot of work with toy and pharmaceutical brands, and take privacy extremely seriously, as a result we took the decision to open up to scrutiny by being third party audited for both COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ) compliance. Under COPPA for example, you’re legally not allowed to store any personally identifiable information, or use it for modelling or targeting, on children’s content.
So what is in there? Essentially, you’re breaking down content into the most granular data you can get hold of. So with the coffee example, it’s not just food and beverage, you’re identifying content that resonates with coffee connoisseurs, and people who are into artisan coffee. You need to understand which correlations of content resonates with the audience. Maybe there are other interests, are they into a specific sport, or do they read specific blogs. So there is, for example, a correlation between people who are amateur high performance cyclists, show above average disposable income and have an interest in artisan coffee making, particularly around what beans and coffee machines can extract the right dose of caffeine, which based on scientific studies can boost your race performance by five percent on average.
What is predictive contextual targeting, and how is it different from traditional contextual targeting?
Traditional contextual marketing essentially used what you’ve learned about the past to help you make decisions about the presence. Predictive contextual targeting instead looks at the current moment and uses AI to predict the who is behind the screen. In the absence of behavioural data from a third party cookie, we have to use all the data we can get in that moment like context and live signals on who is likely to be behind the screen and what their thinking might be like – it’s all probabilistic, but with a very high confidence that it will resonate.
To train your model you need a feedback channel. Skippable ads or click-to-play video ads are perfect because if people don’t like it, they skip it, so you instantly know if you’ve got contextual targeting right or wrong. With skippable ads, if say forty percent choose to skip the ad, it means sixty percent of the audience is giving you valuable feedback. That makes a huge difference in our AI modelling.
YouTube was recently fined by the FTC for the handling of children’s data on its platform – is contextual targeting a solution to this problem?
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December 31, 2014 December 31, 2014 by Alex Sorondo
Interviews at the Bar: Speakea5y, Arsi Ahmed
Profiles, Prose
Alee Gleiberman, Arsi Ahmed, art, bars, miami, music, music production, rap, songwriting, Speakea5y, Wynwood
Photo by Alee Gleiberman
It’s our first interview at an Ale House in Miami and Arsi tells me that his life is slowing down somewhat (though it often feels like time’s evaporating, too; that the days, for all their tedium, are gone too quickly), given that he’s got a new job teaching a SAT prep class, a job which he enjoys but that calls for an hour-long commute in both directions and, consequently, a proper sleep regimen that sort of interferes with his creative routines, such as they are, and but that his life seems slowed, as well, on account of having separated recently from his girlfriend of three years while she pursues her master’s degree in Chicago. There’s a bit more structure than there’s been in the past. Solitude; things are quieter. And so when I ask him about the contrast between one persona and the next, namely the Sedate Arsi v. Boisterous Speakea5y situation, he tells me that while he does go out now and then to take part in the sort of lifestyle he writes and raps about, what matters to him more than anything right now is his work, fine-tuning these songs he’s about to release and, more so, working on a debut album called Circles, which he’s been laboring over for about a year now, and of which he speaks with the sort of eager reverence of a new father, saying that the album has given him a feeling of purpose at a time when he needs it, that it feels bigger (the album does) than he is, and that honestly the whole thing has made him just a way-more-careful person for fear of fucking his life up or dying before he can finish it.
The latter concern being way more poignant than he lets on outside of the music.
And while he’s very sincere and persuasive in all of his talk about taking things slowly, and leading this life of like monastic introspection and egregious caution, it turns out, when he picks me up one morning to attend the aforementioned photo shoot he’s doing in Wynwood, that Arsi’s confidence as a driver is evidently so through-the-roof as to vanquish all mortal concerns. We rarely move below 50 mph. I don’t wanna ask him to slow down because I’m afraid it’ll make me sound like I’m afraid but when we hit the Palmetto Expressway going north and the speedometer begins its unflinching ascent I start vying for control of my sphincter because it’s raining, and the surrounding cars’ tires are casting up this road-obscuring mist as they cut through puddles, and so I just ask him, instead, to play some music, please, his own music perhaps, which I haven’t heard yet.
So he plays it. We listen to pretty much the entire set of songs he’s got slated for release. He chimes in occasionally with commentary about one thing or another, clears up some of the references, enumerates upon the sorts of technical feats that sound simple and obvious but turn out to be enormously complex. There’s a lot of this.
Domingo Castillo lives with his girlfriend in an efficiency by Florida International University and while he isn’t exactly a manager, per se, he’s got a bevy of professional experience, a degree in criminal justice, and what seems like a pretty thorough feel for the music industry. Fast-talking, opinionated, assertive and versed in an impossible array of subjects, relentlessly vulgar, confident, and carrying into conversation a perspective on life that’s been thoroughly tempered by 28 years of oscillation between mountainous highs (financial, professional, philosophical) and cavernous lows. Tall and broad-shouldered in his t-shirt and shorts, he greets me with a handshake, mistakes me for somebody else, apologizes for the mistake, and then goes graciously into the backseat, allowing me the front.
It’s quiet in the car at first, none of us really accustomed to such an encounter, until Domingo mentions his past as a bar tender and I make a remark about how often I heckle bar tenders for stories. “Bar tenders and paramedics all seem to have the greatest stories.”
Domingo then breaks into a story not about his experience as a bar tender but about a friend of his who’s an EMT and who, on one of his first calls, arrived at an accident scene where he approached one of the cars involved. He asked the young woman in the driver’s seat, who gave him some dazed look through the shattered window’s frame, if she was OK, if she could move or not, whereupon the young woman parted her lips as though to respond but only spilled from her mouth and into her cleavage a torrent of blood, lips moving wordlessly around the stream, before her head dipped down and she died. “Internal bleeding,” Domingo says. “I guess. Ahdunno. But no,” he says, pace unchanged, “you wanna know which bar I worked at first?”
Tracking the correlations that carry Domingo from one topic to the next quickly proves futile.
When Arsi stops to pick up a t-shirt at Mall of the Americas I go with Domingo for a beer at the mall’s farther end. He tells me, along the way, about how he used to frequent this mall when he was growing up. “Little Dominican kid didn’t speak a licka English,” and how, while he was here at the mall, he would go and hang out at this arcade here – right up here, by the exit – and he’d watch these tournaments wherein like the best players from miles and miles would meet up and compete against each other in Street Fighter or Pac-Man or Donkey Kong and there was this one kid, he remembers, had blisters all over his hands, fuckin second degree burns and shit, on account of he was standing at the machine in one of these Street Fighter tournaments for like hours hours hours and he was sweeping his hands over the button panel so fast and so long he had to go to the hospital and but tells me also that he himself, Domingo himself, he used to play Counterstrike professionally – “remember Counterstrike? I used to fuck people up in Counterstrike” – and he’d go to tournaments and shit, play for money, it was great. He was great. Tells me then about a friend of his who bought one of those old-fashioned arcade games for $1,000 and had to do some repairs on it. Had to take the whole thing apart.
“You know how those old arcade machines work?”
He tells me how they work.
Domingo will stop now and then, self-conscious, and ask how long he’s been talking, or what we were originally discussing. Tells me, at one point, that “the brakes on this thing are broken,” pointing at his jaw, acknowledging that he talks a lot and is perfectly amenable to being hushed. It prompts us, on more than one occasion that day, to talk about talking. About how rappers speak of themselves and each other.
Arsi mentions at Ale House one night that “rappers are more competitive than probably anyone else in music. Constantly taking shots at the people above and deflecting shots from people below.” He suggests that, for example, while nay two country music celebrities might be openly competitive in that they’re constant rivals in the arena of sales, or awards, they generally don’t call each other out in their songs or talk shit about each other in public. Hence, he says, the importance of safeguarding a persona. It’s part of the craft. The persona is sculpted as much by the people you call out, the people you associate with or emulate, as it is by the content of your actual work. Your talent. So Arsi, as Speakea5y, does this. Calls people out, offers praise. Sometimes blatantly, sometimes now. There isn’t very much of it, since his motives aren’t to perpetuate this sort of thing but rather to demonstrate some of the sincerity he’d like to see more of in rap, but there’s a good deal of boasting and shit-talking that, while not entirely insincere, is in there in the music because it’s what he feels the genre demands. Whole songs, in fact, written and produced from a sense that they need to be there.
Domingo touches upon this at one point. Addresses the issue of artists who are unwilling to compromise on anything and who want to just pursue their craft how they want to pursue it, to never make a concession on anything, without giving serious thought to the fact that, as the artist, you’re gonna want people to buy this stuff, to like it and find it fun, which means you have to make it familiar. Or parts of it, at least. That people don’t take easily to new things.
Those songs that he felt needed to be there, one about Miami and one about picking up a woman at a club, are products more of the persona, Speakea5y, than of the artist, and might in that sense be called more commercial than the other stuff. The tracks that’re maybe more artful or considered, “Poof” in particular, are basically all about uncertainty, doubt, introspection, the evasiveness of meaning; full of questions and conflicting points, philosophical quandaries, epiphanies and pledges. Puns, too. Jokes, word games. The aforementioned insults and praises. A layering of meanings that unveil themselves over several plays.
When asked if rap is the best medium for his talent he says with conviction that it is. Skilled as he is with words, devoted as he is to shaping verse, he’s quick to say that rap is all about the beat and that the words serve only as a supplement to that beat, are forever a secondary concern, but clarifies that this is not to demean the significance of what’s spoken, or to undermine the capacity of those lyrics to move or inspire their audience.
There’s this stigma around rap, he says, whereby people think that its artistic potential begins and ends with the sort of stuff they hear in clubs, or on the radio, and that when listeners go around being exposed only to the sort of rap whose lyrics are simple, or repetitive, or that are so consumed by the beat that they seem to actually discourage attentive listening, well, the audience isn’t gonna listen. Or they’ll listen with half an ear while bobing their head. Says that you can write the most brilliant, revelatory, insightful lyrics, stuff that might qualify as poetry anywhere else, but that if you then set those lyrics to a beat they’re likely to be ignored. Dismissed as something less than art. That the public doesn’t esteem rap in the way that it esteems jazz or other genres.
And that this is bullshit, basically.
But so getting back to the mall: Arsi buys his shirt, joins us for a beer, and on our way to Wynwood they talk in the car, he and Domingo, about his persona, Speakea5y. Agreeing that all success in rap is a matter of smoke and mirrors with the audience, about blurring the lines between your persona and self, convincing them that what you’re doing is new even if it isn’t.
“It’s about having good-ass smoke,” says Domingo, “and good-ass mirrors.”
Domingo’s never had experience managing talent before but he’s studying up on it, reading about marketing strategies and negotiations, the delicate diplomacy of trying to marry the musician’s interests with the demands of the market to which they belong.
And for all that he’s said so far, for all the trivia he’s espoused about music and business and nutrition and bar tending and video gaming and human anatomy and electrical engineering and women (“I’m fulla facts”), Domingo doesn’t really start talking until we meet with the photographer in front of the Gregg Sheinbaum Fine Art museum in Wynwood and from there go across the street into an empty corner lot where the grass is thin, and patched with yellow, and the wall of one building is latticed with runny red paint, fashioned like a chain-link fence, the other building painted black. There’s one squat single tree offering a glimpse of shade against that black wall. It’s in this lot that Arsi wants to quickly take the first few photos (he’s got the photographer for a half hour today and a half hour next week).
Soon as the photographer joins us, Domingo goes quiet. He stands there holding Arsi’s shirt on its hanger, the hanger held up casually at his side in a way that would probably look servile were it not for the shifty-eyed, brow-pinched, shoulder-tensed posture that affords Domingo, in equal measure and all at once, the look of butler and bouncer alike.
He walks beside me, the two of us a few paces behind Arsi and Alee Gleiberman, the photographer, another friend from high school. When the shoot begins, with Arsi posing against the red wall, Domingo and I go to sit against the adjacent black one, beside the little tree. Domingo hangs Arsi’s other t-shirt on one of the tree’s branches. He claps his hands on his hips with a sort of Fred Sanford satisfaction and watches for a moment as it hangs there. “This is nature’s closet.”
Domingo graduated in 2009 with a bachelor’s in criminal justice (“Nobody goes for a master’s in criminal justice. It’s like, ‘What’re you tryna be? Supercop?’”) and worked thereafter at a legals processing firm. Then another one, a rival of the first. Then he got laid off from the second one when he had to spend eight months recovering from a basketball injury (torn ACL, MCL, LCL, PCL, and meniscus). Then he moved to California for a while, where he worked selling solar panels, made some money and came back to Miami to help a friend open a pizza parlor. Didn’t work out. He met Arsi just a few months ago, the two of them working as servers in the same restaurant.
“I guess I’m trying to find myself. Professionally. All I know is I wanna do something where I’m happy. And at this point I basically have to find something I’m happy with because I know now that, if I’m not happy where I’m working, I’ll sabotage myself in order to get out. I’m thinking at this point that I’ll never stay with a regular job. Ever. Sit at a desk, same challenges every day, over and over again…” he shakes his head. “This all stopped being about money a while ago.”
With the first round of photos finished, Domingo and Arsi walk off together to find the next location, the next work of graffiti to use as a backdrop, while I look over Alee’s shoulder as she scrolls through the 100+ pictures she’s taken in these ten or fifteen minutes. We walk on together at Arsi’s heel, she and I, talking. Her camera looks forbiddingly expensive but she’s holding it casually, a tight grip at the end of a precariously limp-looking wrist. Isn’t even wearing the strap around her neck. Her eyes on the pavement as she walks and talks and she wields her camera as more an appendage than a tool. I ask if she has a preference as to the sorts of events she shoots, if photographers in general maybe tend to have a universal preference, and she says that no, everybody’s different, but that for her it’s weddings and engagements. By far. I ask about bar mitzvahs, sweet sixteens, things of the like and she says that she hasn’t shot those events yet and that while she isn’t averse to them, per se, she does feel, frankly, that she’s pretty much found her niche. That she doesn’t see herself straying. The thing that makes photographing weddings and engagements so enjoyable, she says, is how much the client appreciates not only the photographer and her craft but also the product of that craft. That the photos she’s taking at these weddings, or directly before these weddings, are things that the buyers keep and cherish for the rest of their lives and she says that the atmosphere at these shoots is celebratory, convivial, gracious. Contagiously so. That the hosts are solicitous, offering champagne and food, are sociable, friendly. Whereas with a teenager, or a kid’s party, she suspects there might be some element of drudgery on the kid’s behalf. That the kid’ll probably wanna enjoy their party or whatever and that if they’re distracted all through the shoot, eager to get it over with, they might be less than cooperative.
Which, for all his youth, isn’t the case with Arsi. He complies with her few directives, hears and considers suggestions, asks for opinions. Seems actually to bear something of that newlyweds’ aforementioned respect for the photographer and for her craft and skill and but also, it would seem, an honest respect for the fact that Alee, like Arsi and myself and even Domingo, are all of us amateurs with varying degrees of confidence in our respective talents and who are probably constantly aware – dauntingly and at times miserably aware – of how competitive are the fields in which we aspire to establish ourselves. I can’t attest to whether Alee feels the sense of solidarity and of shared humility and eagerness and troubled dedication as I suspect the three of us are experiencing, nor do I feel comfortable asking, but the feeling is here, I think, rampant among this migratory quartet, scouting under stormclouds the most artful walls of Wynwood, and looking, undoubtedly, very much like children.
But so the photo shoot continues and I’m again standing to the side of things with Domingo, idling beside an auto shop, and he tells me that his financial situation has always been up and down and that he got through college with a lot of help from Bright Futures, among other things, and he speaks then with conviction about the politics of Bright Futures, and of similar scholarships, and of how he believes that such bundles of money should be granted only to students who not only want to go to college but also want to learn, who like to learn, and that he knew dudes in college who got Bright Futures and didn’t really need it, or deserve it, while at the same time he knew kids who were smart, driven, but who couldn’t go to school or couldn’t take all the classes they needed because they didn’t get the scholarship, or because the scholarship wasn’t enough. Says there’s something infuriating about seeing people get great things who don’t deserve great things, and vice-versa. Says that it’s like George Bush, y’know, Bush Jr. He says with a cringe, “I voted for Bush back in ’04, honestly, because I was used to the name,” and but tells me that if you’re gonna talk about people getting short-changed you have to mention John McCain, “John Motherfucking McCain,” on whom he elaborates for a bit, talking in particular about McCain’s bravery as a young man and contrasting that bravery to characteristics of Domingo’s own younger self, whom he insists was an asshole. Domingo speculates that if he had a time machine and if the scientist who gave him that time machine was like, “You can only use this shit once,” that he might use it for the sole purpose of going back and slapping his eighteen-year-old self in the face and saying, “Look at what you did to me.”
We start talking then about time travel, a subject on which we’re mutually oblivious but discuss with no less fervor, eventually changing the subject once we’ve confused each other.
Alee and Arsi take their final photos in front of another museum. We’re starting to feel rain.
The photo shoot ends. Arsi and Domingo study the last ream of photos. Arsi has a curious favorite. “I don’t know if this is lame,” he says to Domingo, “or fucking awesome.” Domingo looks, makes a face like it’s something in between.
Arsi pays Alee half of her rate, holding the other half until she can come to his house on some subsequent Wednesday and do candids of him in the studio.
In the car, Arsi’s thrilled. Says that the shoot turned out well. Feels that he got his money’s worth, which is a particularly good thing because Arsi’s basically funding this whole project out of his own pocket.
“My attitude,” he tells me while discussing the upcoming cost of a twelve-hour recording session, “is to spare no expense. To do everything right, not cut any corners.” This, he says, is because he knows that now is the only time to do this. He’s young and he’s got the energy for it, the freedom, and if he doesn’t go all into it now that he’ll get comfortable, will end up securing for himself a lifestyle that he doesn’t really want, and that the years will trickle past until it’s too late. And there’s the urgency, too, of trying to accomplish something substantial before he dies.
Already, six years after graduation, one of our high school classmates has died in a boating accident, another of an overdose, a third of a jet ski accident and a fourth from cancer. A student one year younger, an athlete known schoolwide, was killed in a car accident as soon as he got to college and another, older than us by a year, in that same aforementioned boating accident.
The subject of these deaths arises routinely when we run into classmates we haven’t seen in a while. At supermarkets, malls, bars. We’ll run into somebody from that same graduating class and no matter how tenuous the relationship was, however peripherally you knew each other, what happens is you talk first about yourselves, about the things you’ve been up to, and then you talk about those who have died. It seems at times as though this acute and constant awareness of mortality is our class’s unifying characteristic.
Just a matter of temperament, I guess, whether it motivates or depresses you.
Both Arsi and Domingo are excitable when the shoot is over, espousing ideas and telling jokes all through our drive to a bar on 8th street, on through lunch and drinks. Arsi’s talking with an enthusiasm I haven’t seen before and lapsing occasionally into some buoyant-seeming introspection while Domingo, for about fifteen minutes in the car, tells a story about a night he spent tending the needs of a weeping prostitute who’s pimp had beaten her up for tardiness. Domingo talks, actually, more or less without cease.
Domingo Castillo, c. 1990
Domingo on turning 30: “I can’t use my age as an excuse anymore. I’m gonna have responsibilities and shit. I can’t be 30-years-old and slapping $2,000 into some stripper’s lap. I’m not Joe Pesci.”
Domingo on Native American women: “Native American women have asses, though. It’s like their ancestors did their squats for em.”
Domingo upon the three of us meeting a 50-year-old bodybuilder: “Bro, I think we just met the Stairmaster.”
Domingo on helicopters: “They’re the cornflakes of the vehicle world. They fucking made that shit by accident.”
On cocktails: “I got this friend, we were at a bar, he wanted to try some weird-ass drink and I’m like, ‘Why’re you gonna try that?’ He says, ‘Oh, I wanna experiment.’ I said, ‘Y’know who does experiments? Scientists. Are you a fucking scientist? No.’”
Domingo goes seamlessly between rising from his stool to demonstrate, in the middle of the bar, the torsional intricacies of Bruce Lee’s one-inch punch (“The power comes from your feet, from how you twist”) to discussing Arsi’s future and his own with a straight face, with conviction and solemnity. He takes their whole enterprise way more seriously than he might appear to in casual conversation. Same with Arsi. An hour of chatting can easily be passed without a single mention of music or of marketing or anything else having to do with the project, with their goal, and when the subject does get broached (as it often does that day) it’s explored with humor and with confidence and with optimism and casual tones. They never voice doubt. They’ll address with candor their doubts concerning everything else: family stuff, work stuff, romantic stuff. Not that they aren’t confident in these other arenas. They are. How they come across is as two people so aware of the odds against them that it doesn’t need to be discussed; who have thought so much about failure as to be able now to ignore it, or to at least give a convincing impression of people who can look away from it, focus on other things, because in enterprises such as these, wherein commercial success is predicated on the million-to-one alignment of so many factors, the the concept of failure – commercial or artistic – is probably never actually removed from a person’s mind so much as made quiet after a while, or banal, or just less interesting or worthwhile than thoughts of, if not success, the road toward success. Because how, after all, are thoughts of success all that different from thoughts of failure? Nightmares about failure can be just as motivating or paralyzing or distorting as daydreams of success, with their respective spells of dread and reverie.
How Arsi appears to see this project is as a pursuit whose purpose and virtue and value are the pursuit itself. The outcome, commercially, is up in the air. But when it comes to reward and the sort of spiritual satiety that comes from knowing you pursued what you wanted and pursued it aggressively, exhaustively – that sort of reward seems to be here already. IT comes in the shape of a belief in the work, a loyalty to the work, that is honest and personal and little to do with the opinions of others. It isn’t something to be celebrated, this fulfillment, only sustained. Working for the love of the work. It sounds cliché, I know, and the sorts of sacrifices entailed in such a pursuit probably make it seems like something that can only be sustained in one’s twenties, odds being what they are. That the feasibility of success passes with time and takes with it (along with God knows how much money and how many opportunities) the most formative, energetic, and able-bodied years of your life. But whatever Arsi’s chances are for success, whatever the extent of his talent, he’s given purpose by his pursuit. And in that sense we could maybe argue that the goal’s been reached. In a way.
Alexander Sorondo is the founding editor of View from the Bar. His fiction has appeared in Jai-Alai and First Inkling Magazine.
Alee Gleiberman is a Miami-based photographer. See her work and get in touch with her on her website.
Special thanks to Arsi Ahmed and Domingo Castillo for their participation and candor.
December 5, 2014 May 17, 2019 by Alex Sorondo
Noel Kassewitz: Interviews at the Bar
Photography, Profiles, Prose
art basel, artists, bars, noel Kassewitz, oils, painters
Photo by Zara Castany
She’ll say later that she didn’t realize it was the third tallboy she’d ordered in the course of our conversation but it’s just as she pulls the tab and snaps it open that Noel tells me, laughing, that she thinks “being an artist is an acceptable form of hoarding,” which prompts me to laugh and bring up a pen from my pocket and jot the quote down on a cocktail napkin, which gets her laughing too and some more words are exchanged on the subject before she goes off to the bathroom. While she’s gone I go ahead and write underneath that first quote of hers another one, something about like “fuck you I will not immortalize you,” paraphrasing something she said earlier in the evening when we were talking about her work, the paintings in particular, and about her process, her aesthetic, any guiding principles or ethics she may have about the whole thing, and she mentioned, on that subject, that she really doesn’t like paintings that are too abstruse and personal for the viewer to get anything out of it, where it’s like two dildos rendered in oil with the name of the artist’s landlord scrawled in blood across the canvas, but tells me that, while such work is often crafted by the hands of talented, smart, creative people, the trouble is that such works are usually forged out of emotion; just all emotion; which is sort of — because it’s not that she has anything against showing one’s emotions in art. Emotion is fine and good. Just that a work should also be comprised of thoughts, is what she’s saying, not just feelings. That an artist needs ideas. And so one of the ways that she keeps herself from falling into this trap of having her work (which dabbles in themes like animal rights and quantum physics) saturated with — and made impenetrable by — too much emotional weight is she just keeps her personal life completely out of it.
Tries to.
Over the past couple years, for example, there’ve been two serious relationships and two breakups that each took their toll, as well as other triumphs and losses that together have probably changed her to some degree, certainly given her a lot to think about, but about which she’s neither painted a drop nor drawn a line. Sometimes she writes about it but the writing is private.
And so the germ of this second quote, the thing about immortalizing someone, comes from her acknowledging that of course certain elements of her personal life will creep into the work whether she likes it or not, and that she probably won’t even realize when it’s happening until somebody points it out to her, but that she nonetheless, despite its inevitable appearance, does her best to keep her personal life out of her work because of (1) the aforementioned issue of making the work too abstruse and personal for the viewer but also (2) because, as concerns an issue of heartbreak or insult or anything of the like, there’s an element of — and she suggests this laughingly — I’m not gonna aggrandize or give merit to your bullshit by consecrating its influence in my work.
Which, as we’ll come to show, is maybe timeless.
This is sort of a joke at first but it expands, upon her return from the bathroom, into something more serious: which is that, yeah, when something’s upsetting you and you choose to use those feelings as both the subject and fuel for a big art piece, or for a series, then you are sort of affirming its credibility as something that warrants your attention. Or something that has power over you. Which isn’t healthy, she suggests. Even making art of something that most people would agree is a legitimate hangup or concern. Like take for example the two recent deaths in her family: an aunt (52) and grandmother (85). The grief is the grief, and the grief is severe, but it isn’t art; though it’s easy to fall for thinking that it is. She’s adamant about this. When asked if her response to grief, her way of dealing, is to seek distraction or to ruminate and reflect she says that it’s 50/50 because while she appreciates the need for reflection, its value, she knows at the same time that if she does too much thinking — as she’s maybe wont to do — that she’ll get depressed and then suddenly her view of everything is darkened, distorted, and that this, too, is probably no real benefit to the work.
She presses her lips into a small tight line that curves against her will into a bashful third-beer smile and she confesses to spitting into her paintings. Somewhere in the process. Wherever. Nothing globular or gross but just like a little th’p.
So that there’ll be traces of her DNA in every painting. Collectors will be able to run a test against forgeries.
This, incidentally, is what we talk about in our first interview. This one’s at an Ale House in Miami. We meet here at 9 pm for what’s supposed to be a quick drink but ends up lasting nearly four hours. We talk first about work and about our respective romances, past and present, and then about a contribution she was going to make to the blog and then suddenly our plans change and we’ve embarked on what becomes the first of several informal interviews. Sipping and sipping all night. She’s wearing a black dress and blackrimmed glasses that she refers to as her “nightdrive glasses”. Hair brushed and posture perfect with hands folded mannerly in her lap as she goes on to talk about the prospective longevity of her work, the idea of immortality in art — a topic that sounds, as I’m recounting it, more pretentious than it does when she talks about it.
There’s a divide in Noel whereby she somehow seems to take her work way more seriously than she takes herself. She’s jovial, self-deprecating, laughs at and commends herself where either seems fit; and but when she speaks of her relationship to any particular art piece that she’s working on it sounds like she’s recounting the marital problems of hardheaded soulmates. Like suddenly the only thing more stubborn than Noel the Artist is the actual art that comes from her hand. There are frustrations and doubts and disappointments abounding, but never a moment’s thought to leave.
She invites me, the following week, to the house of her aforementioned grandmother, the heavydrinking octogenarian of recent departure, which is empty, the house is, void of its furniture and stripped of its carpet, its decor; its everything; though the light fixtures remain intact, functional, and buzz as they burn in rooms that echo every footstep, syllable, cough. She and some relatives have been clearing the place out for days, cleaning it, purging it slowly of its wall-seeped perfume (Marlboro was the brand, she thinks).
Noel has stocked the bathrooms with toilet paper.
What she’s doing here now, alone in the garage, is she’s working on a dense wooden workbench built by her grandfather fifty years earlier and used in the house ever since, stationed under the garage’s corner window. She had to replace some of the boards because of termites. She thinks she got them all but still might use a bug bomb. Hasn’t decided.
She’s done with the bench’s woodwork and she’s painting it white now. The garage door is open, leading into the driveway, and she steps out to greet me as I pull up. She’s spattered with paint but it’s camouflaged on a white longsleeve shirt. Her hair isn’t up in a bun, exactly, but folded into a tower. Curiously skyward.
This is the first time I’ve seen Noel in her working clothes. Specked with paint, faded by wash, figure-concealing. She’s sweaty and her hair is piled in a skybound bundle and although she smiles when she greets me, is effusively grateful for the coffee I’ve brought (“Black,” she requests over the phone while I’m in line at the coffee shop, “like my sooouuul”), and even though she invited me over and speaks twice as cordially as ever — playing host — she’s preoccupied. There’s no forward lean in the conversation. My being here is, I suspect, a digression from the task at hand. She’s the same as ever. Friendly, candid. A bit less bubbly, maybe; distracted. Focused.
She’s on the floor as we talk, painting the legs of her grandfather’s workbench.
But if we can just come back to this “immortality” thing for a moment: it seems in part to be this interest in longevity and the notion of legacy that motivates Noel to labor now over her grandfather’s bench, this familial artifact, a sort of artpiece — however utilitarian its intent — crafted by a man with whom she’s barred from conversation save for what they might communicate, artisans alike, through a shared project.
One creates, the other sustains. Call and response. Conversation in the void.
And yet of the four long planks that comprise the bench’s table, Noel has had to replace the outer two. (Termites.) She speaks with a modest sort of aw-shucks smile about her hope that the bench might run through the family for generations to come. I ask her whether it’ll still be a family artifact if each successive generation has to replace another few pieces of wood so that, after a few decades, none of the original parts remain and her grandfather’s personal project has evolved into the collagework of a dozen different craftsmen.
She thinks about this in the way that she thinks about any serious question somebody asks. Patient, invested, thoughtful. She stops what she’s doing, puts her wrists on her knees (mindful of the paint on her hands), looks at the floor. Thinks. Smiles again. “I think it will.” She resumes her work.
I have to go to the bathroom and she tells me I can go ahead into the house and that I’m free to look around while I’m at it, that she’ll be done out here shortly, and when, a few minutes later, she follows me inside, it’s very discreet. She sorta hangs back, slinking patiently along just a few paces behind me, coffee uncapped and held in both hands at her chest. Small sips. She leans against doorframes looking comfortable and a bit more present than she did in the garage, while she was working. Makes no bones about my snooping through rooms.
We go through the empty master bedroom. The empty master bathroom. A corner-flaked orange sticker, roughly the size of a movie ticket stub and torn from some unknown product, is pasted to the medicine cabinet and warns of a November 1967 expiration date. We start talking, a bit whimsically, about the lingering presence of the past. About standing in a room that feels as though it belongs to that past, or the past to it, and feeling a bit like a voyeur in doing so. Even just standing in the driveway. How weight and time feel suspended and the silence in the rooms feels watchful and tense like the sound of walls in thought. How it’s both enchanting and terrifying — this notion of the past as some vast and ever-expanding place housing every great and awful thing before us and to which we too will someday belong; to which parts of us already do.
Noel, for the first time in her life, is in a fallow period. No big ideas. No big projects. There was the art academy she belonged to in high school wherein the work was unending, same as in college (perhaps more so), and whether she was inspired or not by those projects, satisfied or interested or not, there was always a task at hand, an outlet, a job over which to exhaust herself each day and to feel thereafter productive, sated, pleased by her dedication if not always its product. But now school is over and there are no assignments to be doled out, no strict deadlines to spark her mind into anxious action, and there’s only so much satiety to be reaped from a daily doodle or sketch. There are freelance jobs, if she needs them, but what she’s looking and hoping for is the next big idea that will bring to life a series of paintings, of anything, and what she’s enduring now, viscerally, is the silence between those ideas. A silence wherein, without the distraction of a project or even some slowly percolating idea, she has to confront the daily grind, all of its disgrace and misfortune and tedium, with an abrupt and near-abject attentiveness that probably feels like when you come up from under the water and instead of that milky murmur of above-level noise it’s now this clear cantankerous blast. And what a time this is to be mercilessly attentive. In the past 18 months she’s seen varieties of loss and begun acclimating herself to the new life situation of post-collegiate semi-adulthood wherein structure is all but gone, worry is constant, the future uncertain.
If there’s a consolation to be had, one could argue, it’s that the drudgery to which the artist is exposed with such hypersensitivity between her big ideas is invariably the stuff from which those ideas are born. The clash of boredom and curiosity. Dread. When dread blossoms into fear and your schedule’s freedom allows for — condemns you to — hours and hours of awful aimless thought. Good stuff can come from that.
Noel is inconspicuous. Always a smile, chatting with ease about any odd thing, addressing her work only in passing and speaking of every project, however innovative or strenuous or ambitious it is, as though bringing it to life were no nobler a task than stocking shelves, or tending a bar, or waiting tables or studying for an exam. Which maybe it isn’t. Probably it isn’t. But she believes this. It’s not the sort of false modesty you might expect of somebody who’s accomplished as much as she has by this age. A number of gallery shows, four-figure sales. A resume to envy. A prodigiously talented and infernally bright artist with a relentless work ethic who indulges no posturing, no boisterous pride. Who creates her art for herself, loses herself in it the way that adamant runners, after two hours in motion, feel their stomach sink as they come to a stumbling stop and realize they don’t know where they are.
The devotion is such that you’d be compelled to believe that if she were maybe wholly without talent she would work at her craft nonetheless and would produce at each turn a piece at once poignant and peculiar, each thing earnest and bright, the bottling of a self and of so many hopes and concerns. An obsessive attentiveness to the project’s every facet and scathing self-assessment to belie whatever laxity she sports over a beer. Or three.
Photo by Noel Kassewitz
There’s this yarn store in the warehouse area across from The Falls. It has some backroom space that a person can rent out, use as a studio, and this is where she takes me one night at about 12:30 after another last-minute meeting at the Ale House. It’s about four blocks away. We walk. A homeless man stands shirtless in front of T.J. Maxx and caresses his stomach while staring at the moon and crooning what sounds like a children’s song about the days of the week.
She has a key to the yarn store — which makes me feel like no less a vandal to be standing at its doorstep after midnight — and lets us in. Lights are off. Ghostly outlines of shelves and their contents. The lights come on. The store’s aglow and looks like it’s open for business but it’s not. We’re unsupervised. There’s a weird feeling of responsibility. The trust that the storeowners have given to Noel now weighs on me and even though its only real request is Don’t steal our shit I feel nervous, like something’s expected of me. But Noel is calm and cool and her attitude, as ever, is contagious. I loosen up. She leads us through the store, the back half of which remains unlit, to a door that opens into her new studio.
The first thing I notice is her grandfather’s workbench. Full white. Painted, restored.
Paintings large and small from the past few years lean vulnerable against various walls
(“Being an artist is an acceptable form of hoarding”)
and seeing these paintings like this in the back room of a yarn store as opposed to her storage room at home, where she can look over and protect them constantly, reminds me of a particular piece she made a few years ago called “An Erosive Discourse”. It’s a painting, a self-portrait of sorts, and the painting is placed into a wall-mounted drawer, enclosed in a wooden box, with a handle on its right-hand side. Viewers are to approach the box on the wall, grab the handle, and pull it open to reveal the painting. Thing is, there’s a sheet of sandpaper inside the drawer as well, touching the canvas. Each time the painting is pulled out for a look, the sandpaper rubs away a little more of it. The more it’s looked at, the more it’s exposed and appreciated, the closer it gets to extinction. The artist has engineered her piece’s creation and destruction side by side.
She talks, too, about immortality.
Little by little, the painting erodes; just as, little by little, the workbench disappears: to the bugs, the elements; the successors who trade its parts. The lovers leave. The elders die. The homes in which we’re raised are emptied and stripped and occupied thereafter by ghosts, spectral or other, whose inhabitancy affords its survivors no warmth. No meaning. And she goes ahead and she paints. Noel at 23. Noel out of college and working. Waiting for an idea. She builds her wall and she colors it blue and in the back half of a yarn store, entering through the alley, she takes off her shoes and she puts up her hair.
A few weeks pass before I visit her studio again. The alleyway behind the yarn store in which she’s taken up residence isn’t terribly dark, the lighting’s actually pretty decent, but you’d almost wish it was darker because the lighting afforded by streetlights and buzzing fluorescent tubes creates a distinctive sort of clutch-your-purse atmosphere and even folks of stony-looking dispositions are walking quickly, few that there are. The vast and strangely silent parking lot that precedes the alleyway — the latter of which is itself about as broad as three men standing shoulder-to-shoulder — is creepy; the tunnel that precedes that parking lot is creepy. This is all so phenomenally unsettling that it feels almost dreamlike, fake, and the darkness beyond streetlight’s reach is so flat and opaque as to almost make you feel trapped in open space.
Her studio, fittingly called Back Alley Studio, is carpeted and lamplit and, tonight, made doubly ambient with a recorded thunderstorm playing on a portable stereo. She has wine. The work of two artists, Noel and a friend, are lying out and standing and hanging and propped up along the floor, on her grandfather’s table, against and upon the walls. Noel is barefoot, dressed for disaster in paintsmeared everything, hair down and spirits high and keeping herein the company of a tall, bearded, curly-haired 20-something, a student of civil engineering, before whom, in order to make eye contact, my head is inclined as though toward God, shoulders slouched accordingly, such is his height and the command that’s born of it. But he’s friendly. Smile broad and cartoonishly happy. He’s holding a glass of whiskey, sips it subtly and without ice or pucker, and quickly establishes himself as a man of no few charms.
Before showing me what she wants to show me, Noel gives me a look like I’m about to be appalled and says, with a something went wrong-flavored groan, “OK. So…”
The painting in question has crimson backing and depicts, stacked, several different renderings of whales, each whale painted in the spirit of a different time period’s artwork. It’s amazing. The canvas has been sanded down in places to provide texture and murk-up the shading and each whale is terrifically evocative of the period it’s supposed to represent. Each one different. The details minute and scrutinously attended.
“I fucked this up so bad,” she says.
A few weeks after that and the painting she’s working on now is enormous. 4×6. As large and complicated and surreal as a bunch of the pieces she’s done prior to this one but, standing before it now as it takes its shape, the canvas almost seems larger for being incomplete. In it, a man lays supine in a grassy field amid so many animals and a pell-mell blossoming of lush-lipped mouths all over, obscuring things, consuming things. She talks about the process by which, in a quick stretch of time, she realized not only what she wanted to communicate with this particular painting, as well as the tricky issue of how to communicate it, but elucidates for me some of the ways in which her private life has worked its way into the series at hand without her realizing it; things that were pointed out to her by others. This painting in particular. Tells me about the personal significance of certain animals, their sentimental associations, and suggests no coincidence about the the positions in which she has rendered those animals, their colorings and tones.
And it’s a good painting. A work in progress, of course, made enormous and more powerful by merit of its incompleteness, by its potential, by the likelihood that all of the talent and labor and feeling and thought that went into shaping it as such might yet be obscured by subsequent edits, changes of mind and heart. The notion that it might be abandoned entirely and deemed garbage by a creator whose expectations forever meet, if not surpass, the considerable talent by which it renders its work.
If it isn’t saying too much, I’ll suggest that this is one of the points at which a viewer might get a vibe of something religious. It’s a feeling that comes from the confrontation of a great piece of art, or a really good piece of art, or even maybe just something forged of real strain and dedication. And it prompts this idea that maybe, in the creation of beautiful things whose truths come from our hands without our even knowing it, we are channeling something constant, universal, lovely, awful, fearful, revelatory and phenomenally solitary. That the artist, getting in touch with her unconscious and exploring her most personal and intimate passions, is — by that very route of self-exploration — encountering something infinitely more vast and relatable and universal than one could ever hope to reap by looking outward. That we the viewers can experience this with no less significance and, indeed, perhaps more significance when we confront it and search for those meanings, whether they exist there or not. And when we find those truths, whether they exist there or not.
This’ll start sounding over-the-top now, I know, attributing grand powers to the skillset of an artist in her mid-twenties who, though irrefutably talented (prodigiously so, I think most would agree), is almost not even out the door yet in terms of her craft’s evolution. She’s young and not a full two years out of college and so there’s no telling what the change of environment will do to influence her ideas, her aesthetic. But what comes through in this, her first series out of the college milieu, is that her ideas and hangups and concerns are all pretty much the same. She tells me, in going over this new piece, that she tried, at first, to keep animals out of it, or to at least not focus on animals too much, but that ultimately the temptation became too much and so she talks to me now about having to just surrender to herself on such things and say, This is what I care about, this is what I love, let me not fight it. So there are animals now. Animals whose presence in this particular painting elucidate its ideas and imbue it with pathos and make it ever more distinctly a work from her hand. So goes the process by which a developing artist comes to terms with herself, communicates with and confronts herself, all by accident, mostly against her will, but inevitably, and wonderfully, and endlessly.
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“ I'm just a ... Shadow ... of my former self. „
~ Mr. Morden.
Mr. Morden, also known as Morden, is mostly a secondary antagonist of the TV series Babylon 5 that works for the Shadow|Shadows.
He was portrayed by Ed Wasser.
Originally from Earth, Morden was born on Monday, May 25, 2223 in Summit, New Jersey. While studying for his Ph.D. in archaeology at Michigan State University, Morden took his first job as a teenager in the University bookstore. After graduating with a speciality in archaeolinguistics Morden found employment working for Earthforce's New Technologies Division, during which time he visited several worlds and dig sites including Anfran. In June 2248 he married his wife and almost two years later in May 2250 she gave birth to their daughter Sarah Morden. In February of that year Morden gave a speech before the Interplanetary Archaeological Society on the misconceptions surrounding Anfran love stones; one of his earliest research projects as an archaeolinguist.
In May 2256, tragedy struck when his wife and daughter were killed when the ship they were traveling on was caught in the terrorist bombing of the Io jumpgate that claimed over five hundred other passengers. Images of a distressed an grief stricken Morden being harassed by insensitive reporters were broadcast on ISN. Morden later moved to Station Prime.
The Icarus Mission
Morden was still working for Earthforce New Technologies when he was put assigned 'on loan' to IPX for Dr. Chang's archaeological team aboard the Icarus in December of 2256. The Icarus was an Interplanetary Expeditions exploratory ship that set down on Z'ha'dum in 2257, in which the crew came into contact with the newly awakened Shadows. During the flight, he was befriended by Dr. Anna Sheridan who during the ship's new years party, gave him an Anfran love stone, an artifact from one of his previous expeditions which she had taken from his quarters the day before and had put on a necklace. Shocked that he failed to notice it was missing from his quarters, Morden puts it around his neck and decides to keep it with him, always.
Morden returned to civilization in 2258 on Babylon 5 with the purpose of asking each of the main races a single question, "What do you want?" Secretly working for the Shadows, they used this question to see whether or not the ambassadors and races fit their needs. Although at first Ambassador G'Kar showed promise, he had no great ambition beyond revenge, however he discovers that Londo Mollari is the perfect candidate for their needs and seizes an opportunity to put Londo in his debt and on the path his "associates" need him to be. With his help he convinces Londo to allow the Shadows to lend their support in the fight against the Narn, allowing them to sweep through to victory without the Centauri losing a single fighter.
What Happened To The Icarus?
When it is discovered who Morden is and where he came from John Sheridan tries to find out detailed information on why he's the lone survivor of the Icarus. Delenn and Kosh explain to Captain Sheridan the truth about what happened, and that the Icarus was not actually destroyed but that when they arrived on Z'ha'dum they had awakened the Shadows who forced the humans to either serve them or be killed.
Agent of Chaos
Evidence is later discovered that Morden had a hand in helping President Clark to assasinate President Santiago.
In 2260 he secretly caused the death of Adira Tyree to convince Londo Mollari to continue to work with the Shadows by causing him to become emotional and vulnerable and placing the blame solely on Lord Refa - his closest ally. He was also present when the Shadows killed Ambassador Kosh. Morden was present when John Sheridan destroyed the Shadow's main capital city. He was nearly killed, and suffered a great amount of damage to his skin, but quickly recovered.
A Shadow of His Former Self
In early 2261 he was assigned to Centauri Prime to serve as the intermediary for the Shadows and Emperor Cartagia as the small island of Selini was being used as a base of operations for Shadow forces. Soon after Cartagia is killed, Londo orders Morden killed to save Centauri Prime from being destroyed by the Vorlons. Morden's head is placed on a pike which Vir Cotto gratefully acknowledges with a small wave. But before his death, he vowed that the Shadows or their allies will make sure that the Centauri will pay the price for Londo's betrayal.
From Beyond the Veil
In 2262, Morden would return during the Day of the Dead ceremony to tell Lennier that Delenn would never love him the way he loves her and that it would make him betray the Rangers and die shortly thereafter. Morden also told Lennier that his head was still stuck on a pike outside the Imperial Palace, that maggots had eaten his flesh and the birds had taken all his hair for their nests.
Wishes Made to Him were Granted
All the characters who answered the Shadow Question got exactly what they asked for, although Vir was the only one who was satisfied with the results.
Londo Mollari did become a respected man of incredible importance (an Emperor in fact) and his people did have a "renaissance of power", but it faded and he was left as ruler of a scorched wasteland.
Londo's first request of "Wishing to be left alone" is also granted. He becomes alone in his position as emperor, with no peers or close friends to help him.
G'Kar did see the Centauri humbled and his homeworld made safe, but by that time he had outgrown his anger and was disgusted by the resulting slaughter, and though Narn was safe and free, his people were left confused and directionless when the object of their hate was reduced to a state worthy only of pity.
Much like Londo, G'Kar also made an unintentional wish "to be left in peace". This is granted when G'Kar becomes a religious figure on his homeworld, and places himself into self-appointed exile deep into space to be "at peace" from his people.
Vir Cotto, in contrast, simply wished that he would live long enough to see Morden beheaded as an example to future generations that some favors come at too high of a price and that he would smile and wave at it. In addition to this, he wanted his associates go away and never come back—which is, of course, exactly what happened. Seeing Morden's head on a pike in the royal courtyard, he even waved at it with a smile, as he said he would.
Unlike G'Kar or Londo, he was happy with the results of his wish.
His Final Threats Were Made Good by Shadow Allies
When Londo had him killed for the safety of his homeworld and avenging the death of his lover, Adira Tyree, he promised that he and Centauri Prime would pay the price for his betrayal. Almost a year later after the Shadows and the rest of First Ones left the galaxy, the servants of The Shadows, the Drakh would secretly take over Centauri Prime and even have them cut-off from the rest of the Interstellar Alliance when they framed the Centauri of attacking Alliance members. The retaliation from the Alliance as well as the Centauri Republic forced to pay restitutions to the worlds that were attacked by Centauri warships that were controlled by the Drakh reduced them to a third rate galactic power who stood alone due to the fact that they left the alliance after. Mr. Morden would indeed posthumously get his revenge.
His Prophecy Fulfilled
On the Day of the Dead alien holiday which the dead would for one night visit the living and give answers to life's questions, Mr. Morden would appear to Lennier. He told Lennier that he would betray the Rangers out of jealousy he felt towards John Sheridan for he had something he wanted and could never get, Delenn's love. Lennier dismissed this as lies since this was coming from Morden himself who was a known liar when he was alive.
Months later just after Sheridan and Delenn left for Mimbar to set up the new capitol city for the Alliance, there was an accident and Sheridan was helping an injured worker on the ship. He was trapped with the worker as poisonous gas filled the room. Lennier was there and he was about to help Sheridan, but he was overcome with jealousy that he tried to abandoned him, but his good nature told him he could not do it so he went back, but then he saw Sheridan was saved. Delenn asked him what happened, but he just left the ship in a fighter and left the Rangers and imposed a self-exile from his homeworld. Even though he redeemed himself when he died in the Telepath War, Mr. Morden's prophecy was still fulfilled.
Mr. Morden sipping tea while in a meeting with John Sheridan and a few others on Z'ha'dum.
Dr. Morden on Babylon 5 space station.
Mr. Morden lurking in the dark.
According to Jeanne Cavelos, J. Michael Straczynski had originally conceived Morden as "a low-level technician on the Icarus, who was jealous of Anna's education and success", though when she handed in her synopsis for "The Shadow Within", Straczynski "...never asked me to change Morden from the way I'd envisioned him.".
Creator, J. Michael Straczynski has stated that he picked Ed Wasser for the role because he reminded JMS of Rod Serling from The Twilight Zone.
Before he would land the role of Morden, he was in Babylon 5's pilot episode, The Gathering, as a more heroic character named Guerra, a tech working on the then-just built Babylon 5.
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Human Obedience
Obedience is a kind of social influence. This influence makes an individual to yield to orders given by another person. The person giving an order is usually in authority and the authority makes the person given an order to obey.
Zimbardo and Milgram conducted experiments that revealed interesting aspects of human individuals. People obey regardless of possible injuries to others or deviating from their own value systems and cultural and individual characteristics affect relationships to authority.
Milgram’s did an experiment involving forty participants. The teachers had to punish learners who made mistakes. The learners were tied to an electric chair in which they would receive electric shocks and the volt level would be increased with every mistake made.
The highest level of volts was 450 and 65 percent of the participants gave punishment to this level (Borge 1). The possible explanation for the participants obeying to carry out the punishment regardless of the danger it posed to the learners could have been that they felt they had an obligation to complete the task.
This is because they had volunteered and thus felt that all the participants were ready to handle all the consequences of the experiment. Similarly, people will obey because they feel it is their obligation. People also obey those in authority just as the teachers obeyed the experimenters.
The teachers hurt the learners despite the screams and thus put their individual values aside to obey authority. This means that people will disregard their individual moral values and become destructive or involve in harmful behaviour just because they are unable to defy authority (Milgram 1).
This is because obedience in the society is a requirement for authority and it is ingrained in people such that they disregard characteristics such as sympathy or their moral and ethical systems. This obedience to authority may be the explanation for torturing of prisoners or suspects to confess.
Zimbardo did an experiment of a mock prison some people had the role of prison guards and others acted as prisoners. The prison guards took their role seriously and mistreated the prisoners for example sexual humiliation, stripped them naked, forced them to wash toilets without protective gear on their hands and denied then mattresses and so forth (O’Toole 1).
This experiment shows that some people will obey authority blindly because of the situation. Thus, the culture can influence how an individual responds to the authority. In some cultures, obedience is the norm of the society. This means that those in authority are obeyed and any form of disobedience is unacceptable.
People in such circumstances will obey any orders given by those in authority even if the orders are evil. People who are generally good will do evil in the name of obedience. For example, the perpetrator of cruelty in the Nazis camp Adolf Eichmann said during trial that he did what he did because he was following orders (Human Obedience to Authority 1).
Finally, people have done evils in the name of obedience. They suspend their moral values, follow orders from those in authority, and at times do unthinkable acts.
Obedience is good but when people use it to do evil things there is something wrong in the society because people turn against their fellow human beings just because someone gave an order. Some acts are so evil that one would be tempted to think those who commit them are crazy but in the light of the two experiments that is not always the case.
Borge, Caroline. Basic Instincts; the Science of Evil. abcnews.go.com. 3 Jan. 2007.
Human Obedience to Authority. simplypsychology.pwp. n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2010.
Milgram, Stanley. The perils of obedience. home.swbell.ne. 1974. Web. 14 Oct. 2010.
O’Toole, Kathleen. The Stanford Prison Expereiment; Still powerful after all these years.
news.stanford.edu. 1 Aug. 1997. Web. 14 Oct. 2010.
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PHIVOLCS reported that seismicity at Taal began to increase on 28 March 2019 and fluctuated between moderate and high levels throughout the year and into 2020. A seismic swarm beneath Taal began at 1100 on 12 January and a phreatic eruption commenced at 1300. The initial eruptive activity was characterized by increased steaming from at least five vents in Main Crater and phreatic explosions that generated 100-m-high plumes. PHIVOLCS raised the Alert Level to 2 (on a scale of 0-5) and reminded the public that the entire Volcano Island (the main cone of Taal) is in a Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ).
Booming was heard at 1400 in Talisay, Batangas (4 km NNE, all distances are measured from the center of Main Crater lake). Activity escalated at 1404; volcanic tremor and earthquakes felt locally were accompanied by an eruption plume that rose 1 km. Ash fell in the SSW part of Taal. The Alert Level was raised to 3 and the evacuation of high-risk barangays was recommended. Activity again intensified around 1730, prompting PHIVOLCS to raise the Alert Level to 4 and recommend a total evacuation of the island and high-risk areas within a 14-km radius. The eruption plume of steam, gas, and tephra significantly intensified and rose 10-15 km (32,800-49,200 ft) a.s.l., producing frequent lightning. Wet ash fell in areas downwind, including as far N as Quezon City (75 km). According to news articles schools and government offices were ordered to close and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (56 km N) in Manila suspended flights. About 6,000 people had been evacuated but the number was expected to rise. Residents described heavy ashfall, low visibility, and fallen trees.
Ashfall was reported in a wide area; in a statement issued at 0320 on 13 January PHIVOLCS noted that ashfall was reported in Tanauan (18 km NE), Batangas; Escala (11 km NW), Tagaytay; Sta. Rosa (32 km NNW), Laguna; Dasmariñas (32 km N), Bacoor (44 km N), and Silang (22 km N), Cavite; Malolos (93 km N), San Jose Del Monte (87 km N), and Meycauayan (80 km N), Bulacan; Antipolo (68 km NNE), Rizal; Muntinlupa (43 km N), Las Piñas (47 km N), Marikina (70 km NNE), Parañaque (51 km N), Pasig (62 km NNE), Quezon City, Mandaluyong (62 km N), San Juan (64 km N), Manila; Makati City (59 km N) and Taguig City (55 km N). Lapilli (2-64 mm in diameter) fell in Tanauan and Talisay; Tagaytay City (12 km N); Nuvali (25 km NNE) and Sta. Rosa, Laguna. Felt earthquakes (Intensities II-V) continued to be recorded in local areas.
The eruption progressed to a magmatic eruption during 0249-0428 on 13 January, characterized by weak lava fountaining accompanied by thunder and flashes of lightning. Activity briefly waned then resumed with sporadic weak fountaining and explosions that generated 2-km-high, dark gray, steam-laden plumes. New lateral vents opened on the N flank, producing 500-m-tall lava fountains. Heavy ashfall impacted areas SW including in Cuenca (15 km SSW), Lemery (16 km SW), Talisay, and Taal (15 km SSW), Batangas. News articles noted that more than 300 domestic and 230 international flights were cancelled as the Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport was closed during 12-13 January; some flights could depart in the early afternoon of 13 January. Some roads from Talisay to Lemery and Agoncillo were impassible and electricity and water services were intermittent. Ashfall in several provinces caused power outages. Authorities continued to evacuate high-risk areas within a 14-km radius of Taal; by 13 January more than 24,500 people had moved to 75 shelters out of a total number of 460,000 people within 14 km.
In a bulletin posted at 0800 on 14 January PHIVOLCS noted that lava fountaining continued and steam plumes rose form Main Crater. Fissures on the N flank produced 500-m-tall lava fountains. Sulfur dioxide emissions averaged 5,299 tonnes/day on 13 January. By 1300 lava fountaining generated 800-m-tall, dark gray, steam-laden plumes that drifted SW. New ground cracks were observed in Sinisian (18 km SW), Mahabang Dahilig (14 km SW), Dayapan (15 km SW), Palanas (17 km SW), Sangalang (17 km SW), and Poblacion (19 km SW) Lemery; Pansipit (11 km SW), Agoncillo; Poblacion 1, Poblacion 2, Poblacion 3, Poblacion 5 (all around 17 km SW), Talisay, and Poblacion (11 km SW), San Nicolas. A fissure opened across the road connecting Agoncillo to Laurel, Batangas.
At 0800 on 15 January PHIVOLCS stated that activity was generally weaker; dark gray, steam-laden plumes rose about 1 km and drifted SW. Since 1300 on 12 January the seismic network had recorded a total of 446 volcanic earthquakes, with 156 of those felt with Intensities of I-V. New ground cracking was reported in Sambal Ibaba (17 km SW), and portions of the Pansipit River (SW) had dried up. Satellite images showed that the Main Crater lake was gone and new craters had formed inside Main Crater and on the N flank. According to the Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC) there were a total of 53,832 people dispersed to 244 evacuation centers by 1800 on 15 January.
Sources: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), ReliefWeb, Bloomeberg, The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC)
Most Recent Bulletin Report: February 2011 (BGVN 36:01) Cite this Report
Intermittent non-eruptive unrest during 2008-2010
As previously reported (BGVN 32:01), during the last four months of 2006 Taal displayed restlessness. This report discusses Taal seismicity, deformation, and hydrothermal behavior (steaming, and temperature changes in lake water at Main Crater) that occurred intermittently during 2008, 2010, and 2011.
Taal (also known as Talisay) is a lake-filled, 15 x 20 km caldera located on SW Luzon Island 65 km S of Manila (figure 9). The lake engulfs a large island with several thousand residents, Volcano Island, the place where all historical eruptions have vented (figures 10 and 11). Restlessness described herein was not confined to the area beneath the island.
Figure 9. Index map of the Philippines showing Manila (the Capital) and several major volcanoes including Taal. Courtesy of Lyn Topinka (US Geological Survey).
Figure 10. A map showing Taal caldera and surroundings. Notice that the caldera lies at the intersection of major faults and the topographic margin extends well beyond the caldera lake's margin. Courtesy of NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Volcanology and their slide set compiled by Peter Mouginis-Mark (University of Hawaii).
Figure 11. Photo of the Taal caldera lake and Volcano Island taken from the N in November 1999. Courtesy of NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Volcanology and their slide set compiled by Peter Mouginis-Mark (University of Hawaii).
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) announced in August 2008 that seismic unrest continued. On 28 August 2008, ten volcanic earthquakes occurred, two of which were felt and heard as rumbling sounds by residents in the Pira-Piraso village on Volcano Island. The earthquakes were located NE of the island near the Daang Kastila area (below Taal caldera's N rim) at estimated depths of 0.6-0.8 km. Surface observations indicated no change in the main crater lake area. The Alert Level remained at 1 (scale is 0-5, with 0 referring to No Alert).
On 8 June 2010, PHIVOLCS raised the Alert Level for Taal to 2 because of changes in several monitored parameters that began in late April. Since 26 April, the number and magnitude of volcanic earthquakes had increased. Most signals were high-frequency earthquakes, but at least one, on 2 June, was low-frequency. Steam emissions from the N and NE sides of Main Crater occasionally intensified. Deformation data showed slight inflation since 2004; measurements taken at the SE side of Taal on 7 June showed further inflation by 3 mm.
In addition to increased seismicity, the temperature of the Main Crater Lake increased from 32°C on 11 May to 34°C on 24 May. According to PHIVOLCS, the ratios of Mg:Cl and SO4:Cl, as well as total dissolved solids in the lake, all increased. Temperature measurements of the main crater lake did not increase further, remaining between 33-34°C.
PHIVOLCS proposed that the high frequency earthquakes could be the result of active rock fracturing associated with magma intrusion beneath the volcano, and that the fractures could serve as passageways through which hot gases from the intruding magma could escape into the lake.
According to news reports (Xinhua, Philippine Daily Inquirer), the more than 5,000 residents living near Taal were advised to evacuate their homes voluntarily. On 10 June, the Philippine Coast Guard sent five teams of divers and rescue swimmers with rubber boats and medical teams to its forward command post to help evacuate, if necessary, these residents. A news report (Philippine Daily Inquirer), however, indicated that most residents refused to leave without an official order.
The number of earthquakes recorded daily gradually declined to background levels beginning the second week of July 2010. Hydrothermal activity in the N and NE sides of the main crater and Daang Kastila also decreased. Precise leveling measurements conducted during 13-21 July along the NE, SE, and SW flanks detected minimal inflation. On 2 August, PHIVOLCS lowered the Alert Level to 1.
According to PHIVOLCS, seismic activity increased during the first week of September 2010. From 1-27 September 2010, a total of 274 volcanic earthquakes, or an average of 10 events/day, was recorded. However, given that field surveys conducted at the Main Crater and at the 1965-1977 "New Eruption" site (SW edge of Main Crater) indicated no anomalous thermal or surface activity.
PHIVOLCS reported that a December 2010 deformation survey showed slight inflation compared to a September 2010 survey. Field observations on 10 and 18 January revealed no significant changes. Weak steaming from a thermal area inside the main crater was noted and the lake temperature, acidity, and color were normal. During 15-16 January 2011, ten volcanic earthquakes were detected, two of which were felt by residents of Pira-Piraso, on the N side of the island. On 17 January three volcanic earthquakes were detected and on 18 January only one was reported. Between 18-30 January, up to seven daily volcanic earthquakes were detected by the seismic network.
Field observations during 23-25 January 2011 revealed an increase in the number of steaming vents inside the main crater and a drop in the lake level there. The lake water temperature and pH values remained normal. Visual observations on 27 January showed weak steaming at a thermal area in the crater.
Information Contacts: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), University of the Philippines Campus, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines (URL: http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph).Pete Mouginis-Mark, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) Thermal Alerts System, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Univ. of Hawai'i, 2525 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (URL: http://eos.higp.hawaii.edu/ppages/pinatubo/8.taal/?); Xinhua (URL: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english2010); Philippine Daily Inquirer (URL: http://www.inquirer.net/).
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8 January-14 January 2020 Cite this Report
Sources: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS); ReliefWeb; Bloomeberg; The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC); Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC)
29 June-5 July 2011 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS reported that during the previous 11 weeks, since the Alert Level for Taal was raised to 2 (on a scale of 0-5) on 9 April, the number of earthquakes recorded daily gradually declined, hydrothermal activity abated, carbon dioxide gas emissions decreased, ground temperature and total magnetic field measurements in the main crater showed no significant changes, and deformation data showed no signs of increasing pressure. On 5 July the Alert Level was lowered from 2 to 1.
Source: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS)
25 May-31 May 2011 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS reported that field measurements conducted on 24 May at the E sector inside Taal's Main Crater Lake showed that the water temperature slightly increased from 32.5 to 32.8 degrees Celsius, the pH value became more slightly acidic decreasing from 2.83 to 2.67, and the water level increased by 4 cm. During 25-29 May, between 6 and 10 daily volcanic earthquakes were detected by the seismic network. Some of the earthquakes were felt by nearby residents on the SE part of the island. During 29-30 May, 115 earthquakes were recorded. Twelve of these events were felt at Intensity I-IV by residents of Pira-piraso, Alas-as, and Calauit located in the NE, SW, and SE sectors of Volcano Island, respectively. During 30-31 May there were 31 earthquakes noted. The Alert Level remained at 2 (on a scale of 0-5).
20 April-26 April 2011 Cite this Report
During 12-19 April, PHIVOLCS reported that between 6 and 19 daily volcanic earthquakes at Taal were detected by the seismic network. Some of the earthquakes were felt by nearby residents on the SE part of the island. The Alert Level remained at 2 (on a scale of 0-5).
During 12-19 April, PHIVOLCS reported that between 6 and 21 daily volcanic earthquakes at Taal were detected by the seismic network. Some of the earthquakes were felt by nearby residents. Results of a ground deformation survey conducted around Volcano Island during 5-11 April showed that the edifice was slightly inflated compared to a survey from early February. The Alert Level remained at 2 (on a scale of 0-5). According to news articles, the number of people that had evacuated from around Taal rose to 1,375.
Sources: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS); Agence France-Presse (AFP)
6 April-12 April 2011 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS reported that field observations of Taal conducted at the E sector inside the main crater lake on 5 April 2011 showed that steaming at the thermal area was weak. The water level had receded 3 mm and the water temperature slightly increased from 30 to 30.5 degrees Celsius. Since the previous measurement on 29 March, the pH value increased indicating that the water had become slightly less acidic. Gas measurements conducted last January, February, and March yielded carbon dioxide emission values (in tonnes per day) of 2,250, 1,875, and 4,670, respectively.
On 9 April PHIVOLCS noted that after 31 March the number of earthquakes gradually rose and the depths become more shallow (1-4 km). Steaming at the N and NE sides of the main crater occasionally intensified and was occasionally accompanied by hissing sounds. The Alert Level was raised to 2 (on a scale of 0-5) because of increased seismicity and carbon dioxide emissions. PHIVOLCS warned tourists and residents to avoid Volcano Island. According to news articles, about 100 families had volunteered to evacuate; about 7,000 people remained.
Sources: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS); Philippine Daily Inquirer
26 January-1 February 2011 Cite this Report
During 25-27 and 29-30 January, PHIVOLCS reported that up to six volcanic earthquakes at Taal were detected daily by the seismic network. Field observations during 23-25 January revealed an increase in the number of steaming vents inside Main Crater and a drop in the lake level. The lake water temperature and pH values were normal. Visual observations on 27 January showed that steaming at a thermal area in the crater was weak. The Alert Level remained at 1 (on a scale of 0-5).
19 January-25 January 2011 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS reported that field observations of Taal on 18 January revealed steam rising from the thermal area inside the Main Crater. Temperature and acidity of the lake were at normal levels, and the color had not changed. During 18-25 January, up to seven daily volcanic earthquakes were detected by the seismic network. The Alert Level remained at 1 (on a scale of 0-5).
PHIVOLCS reported that a deformation survey of Taal conducted in December 2010 showed slight inflation as compared to a survey conducted in September 2010. Field observations on 10 January revealed no significant changes. Weak steaming from a thermal area inside the main crater was noted and the lake temperature and color were normal. During 15-16 January 10 volcanic earthquakes were detected; two earthquakes were felt by residents in barangay (neighborhood) Pira-piraso, on the N side of the island. On 17 January three volcanic earthquakes were detected and on 18 January only one was reported. The Alert Level remained at 1 (on a scale of 0-5).
28 July-3 August 2010 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS reported observations during the previous eight weeks after the Alert Level for Taal was raised to 2 (scale is 0-5, with 0 referring to No Alert status) on 8 June. Temperature measurements of the main crater lake did not increase further since 8 June, remaining between 330 and 340 degrees Celsius. The number of earthquakes recorded daily gradually declined to background levels beginning the second week of July. Hydrothermal activity in the N and NE sides of the main crater and Daang Kastila also decreased. Precise leveling measurements conducted during 13-21 July along the NE, SE, and SW flanks detected minimal inflation. On 2 August, PHIVOLCS lowered the Alert Level to 1.
2 June-8 June 2010 Cite this Report
On 8 June, PHIVOLCS raised the Alert Level for Taal to 2 (scale is 0-5, 0 referring to No Alert status) due to changes in several monitored parameters, starting in late April. Since 26 April the number of earthquakes per day continued to increase, as well as the magnitude. Low-frequency volcanic earthquakes were detected on 2 June, and during the previous day high-frequency earthquakes were noted. In addition to increased seismicity, the temperature of the Main Crater Lake increased from 32 degrees Celsius on 11 May to 34 degrees Celsius on 24 May. Steaming from the N and NE sides of Main Crater occasionally intensified. Deformation data had shown slight inflation since 2004; measurements taken at the SE side of Taal on 7 June showed further inflation by 3 mm.
27 August-2 September 2008 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS reported ongoing seismic unrest at Taal on 28 August. Ten earthquakes occurred; two at Intensity II were felt by residents in the Pira-Piraso village and were accompanied by rumbling sounds. The earthquakes were located NE of the island near the Daang Kastila area at estimated depths of 0.6-0.8 km. Surface observations indicated no change in the main crater lake area. PHIVOLCS warned that the main crater was off-limits to the general public. The Alert Level remained at 1 (scale is 0-5, 0 referring to No Alert status).
22 November-28 November 2006 Cite this Report
According to news articles, geysers of muddy water 3-5 m high occurred in the NNE portion of Taal's main crater during 17-21 November. On 24 November, a new episode of 50-cm-high geyser activity and increased seismicity prompted PHIVOLCS to raise the Alert Level from 1 to 2.
Sources: People's Daily Online (China); Associated Press
4 October-10 October 2006 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS reported ongoing seismic unrest at Taal on 26 September. During 25-26 September, 29 volcanic earthquakes occurred with five felt Modified Mercalli intensities of II to III. Epicenters were dispersed NE, N, and NW. Approximately five seismic events in a 24-hour period is typical during quiet periods.
27 October-2 November 2004 Cite this Report
PHIVOLCS raised the Alert Level at Taal from 0 to 1 (on a scale of 0-5) on 29 October due to an increase in seismicity at the volcano. The seismic network at Taal began to record significant volcanic earthquakes on 23 September. In general, through 29 October the number of earthquakes increased, with a maximum of 13 earthquakes recorded on 15 October. Initial epicenter locations were in the vicinity of Main Crater and to the NNW near Binintiang Malaki and to the SSE near Calauit. No significant changes in thermal and steam emissions were observed. PHIVOLCS recommended appropriate vigilance by the public when visiting the island and noted that Main Crater was off-limits to visitors because of the potential for sudden steam explosions and high concentrations of noxious gases.
Bulletin Reports - Index
Reports are organized chronologically and indexed below by Month/Year (Publication Volume:Number), and include a one-line summary. Click on the index link or scroll down to read the reports.
09/1968 (CSLP 21-68) Increased steaming from cone area
10/1968 (CSLP 47-68) Increasing seismicity and surface thermal activity
12/1968 (CSLP 47-68) Continued seismicity through mid-December
10/1969 (CSLP 133-69) Eruption of ash and incandescent fragments on 29 October
11/1969 (CSLP 133-69) Continued production of lava flows and ejecta; new cone on SE flank
12/1969 (CSLP 133-69) Lava flows continue; new vent forms as activity shifts towards the west
12/1970 (CSLP 113-70) Profuse steaming; fresh landslide noted; active rift
09/1976 (NSEB 01:12) Precursors trigger evacuation before explosive eruptions in early September
11/1976 (NSEB 01:14) Strong, frequent eruptions with ashfall through mid-October
12/1976 (NSEB 01:15) Weak steaming; larger steam plume on 30 October
10/1977 (NSEB 02:10) Weak phreatic eruption with harmonic tremor
11/1977 (NSEB 02:11) Ejection of voluminous ash-laden steam clouds on 9 November
02/1978 (SEAN 03:02) Harmonic tremor continues, but no eruption
10/1987 (SEAN 12:10) Increase in recorded earthquakes; minor deformation
12/1987 (SEAN 12:12) Seismicity abates; thermal activity normal
08/1988 (SEAN 13:08) Seismicity and slight inflation
10/1989 (SEAN 14:10) Increased seismicity; main crater inflation
03/1991 (BGVN 16:03) Increased shallow seismicity and felt earthquakes; more than 1,000 evacuated
04/1991 (BGVN 16:04) Continued seismicity and changes to crater lake
07/1991 (BGVN 16:07) Abnormal seismicity continues
01/1992 (BGVN 17:01) Earthquake swarm, deformation, and new fissures document apparent intrusion; evacuations
02/1992 (BGVN 17:02) Crater lake temperature and seismicity decline
02/1994 (BGVN 19:02) Rise in seismicity, deformation, and temperature
12/2004 (BGVN 29:12) New episode of seismic unrest began in September 2004
08/2006 (BGVN 31:08) Ongoing seismic unrest
01/2007 (BGVN 32:01) Elevated seismicity, deformation, and hydrothermal activity during 2006
02/2011 (BGVN 36:01) Intermittent non-eruptive unrest during 2008-2010
Information is preliminary and subject to change. All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
September 1968 (CSLP 21-68)
Increased steaming from cone area
Card 0041 (09 September 1968) Increased steaming from cone area
The following information was reported in the "Daily Mirror" on 31 August 1968. " . . . the Commission on Volcanology revealed today that Taal volcano's abnormal condition still persists. Arturo Alcaraz, chief volcanologist, said steaming activity has increased considerably on the base and slopes of the cone formed in the last eruption. He also said that the steaming is very noticeable today from several areas of the 1968 lava flow in Kaygabok."
Information Contacts: Boots Rous, Daily Mirror News, Quezon City, Manila.
October 1968 (CSLP 47-68)
Increasing seismicity and surface thermal activity
Card 0107-0108 (08 October 1968) Volcanic earthquakes and intensified surface thermal activity
The following report was received on 7 October 1968. The volcanology commission reported last night that Taal volcano had entered another active period that could culminate in another eruption. Seven volcanic quakes and tremors were recorded in a 24-hour period. COMVOL observers on Volcano Island also reported that there was intensified surface thermal activity, confirming that the volcano's condition was abnormal. COMVOL headquarters in Quezon City recommended that precautionary measure be taken particularly the complete evacuation of Volcano Island. Volcanologist Nazario Vasquez reported that instruments have picked up seven volcanic quakes and tremors from Taal's depths, clearly indicating its restlessness. Vasquez said surface steaming, rise of temperature readings in all ground probe holes, and other intensified activity in the main crater lake may all culminate in another eruption.
Card 0113 (09 October 1968) Field and instrumental data indicate renewed activity
The following report was received from the American Embassy in Manila on 8 October 1968. Signs Taal volcano resurgence plainly inferred by existing field and instrumental data. Surface activity at 1968 cone has gained momentum. Despite absence rains for last two or three days which might have brought about condensation steaming and emission sulfuric vapors very strong this morning. In addition, fresh slide scars attest volcano's restlessness as seismicity of island continued. Three more volcanic quakes picked up commissions seismograph; one 1758 on 7 October; another 1915 on 7 October, and third at 1106 on 8 October.
Card 0121 (11 October 1968) Increased seismicity; fresh rockslide at 1968 eruption cone
The following report was received from the American Embassy in Manila on 11 October 1968. Seismic activity again picked up rapidly. For the 24-hour period beginning 1530 on 9 October through 1530 on 10 October. A total of five volcanic quakes were recorded by the COMVOL seismograph on Volcano Island, at 1853 and 2454 on 9 October; and at 0233, 0235, and 1008 on 10 October. Field observations conducted early this morning (10 October) at the 1968 eruption cone disclosed fresh evidence of rock slide, indicating recent movement within the volcano. Chloride and sulfuric sublimate have spread almost throughout NW outer slope of cone.
Card 0122 (11 October 1968) High level of seismic activity returns
The following report was received from the Commission on Volcanology on 6 October 1968. Taal volcano shook more strongly the past 24 hours. The volcano is back to its high-level seismic activity, convulsing five times through Sunday morning. A quake recorded at 0933 on 6 October was big enough to have an amplitude of 17 mm. The usual amplitude of earthquakes at Taal volcano since it became restless again was 4-5 mm.
Card 0130 (14 October 1968) Significant volcanic seismicity; steam emission intensifying
The following report was received from the American Embassy in Manila on 14 October 1968. As of 13 October the surface activity and seismicity were both weak for the last 48 hours. As of 14 October at 1530 the four-day seismic lull was broken by eight volcanic microseisms of appreciable magnitude. Crater lake temperature was decreasing, but steam emission was intensifying, especially at the SW shoreline of the lake.
Card 0138 (15 October 1968) High seismicity and surface thermal activity
The following report was received from the American Embassy in Manila on 15 October 1968. Taal status as of 15 October 1530 hours. High level of seismic disturbance. Intensification of surface thermal activity.
Card 0145-0146 (17 October 1968) Crater lake temperature increases 2.5° in two days
The following news report was received on 17 October 1968. "The temperature of Taal volcano's main crater lake suddenly went up today (9 October) from 36.5 to 39°C, a sharp rise of 2.5°C in two days. The next heat reading, according to volcanologists here, exceeds that recorded in the same lake when Taal volcano erupted in 1966 (36.5°C) and early this year (34.2°C). This is, however, slightly lower than the heat reading of 39.6°C registered before Taal erupted in 1966.
"Assistant chief volcanologist Gregorio Andal expressed fears that pressure and heat buildup from below may increase some more before the volcano erupts for the second time this year. He said, however, that a bigger blast can be reasonably expected to occur because more volcanic energy will be needed this time to throw out tons of earth and lava blocking the exit. 'Conditions similar to the 1965 eruption now exist in Kaigabok' Andal said, pointing out that smaller crater lakes in the same area in 1966 and 1967 have all been covered by earth and lava.
"Volcanologist Pedro Almoradie Jr. and junior volcanologist Conrado Andal Jr. reported the new heat increase in the 1911 main crater lake this morning after making an on-the-spot observation. Almoradie said aside from the heat rise, emission of steam in the southwestern shores of the main crater lake was observed to be intermittent occurring every five to ten minutes. He also said all the steam vents facing Binintian Malaki started emitting more steam and vapor this morning.
"Meanwhile, volcanic tremors from below quieted down for the past 24 hours despite the rising temperature in the main crater lake. The COMVOL said the seismic lull may only be temporary because all other conditions on the island are abnormal. Strict enforcement of precautionary measures under phase on of Operations Taal is now being observed."
Information Contacts:
Card 0107-0108 (08 October 1968) Nazario Vasquez, Commission on Volcanology.
Card 0113 (09 October 1968) Philippine Volcanology Commission, via the American Embassy, Manila.
Card 0122 (11 October 1968) Alfredo Trongcales, Commission on Volcanology.
Card 0145-0146 (17 October 1968) Boots Rous, Daily Mirror News, Quezon City, Manila.
December 1968 (CSLP 47-68)
Continued seismicity through mid-December
Card 0288 (13 December 1968) Minor seismicity; eruptive activity anticipated
"COMVOL Bulletin 2300 hours 12 December. Anticipated second activity Taal about to commence. Small but continuing local vibrations recorded by Volcano Island seismograph. If persistent could bring expected eruptive activity."
Card 0316 (15 December 1968) Continuous tremor replaced by spasmodic earthquakes on 15 December
"Taal's surging volcanic pressure, which last Thursday night was manifested as continuous ground vibrations, seems to have been blocked. The continuous tremors have been replaced by spasmodic volcanic earthquakes often associated with crustal deformation. In the last 24-hour period, eleven (11) more shocks of this type were recorded in the COMVOL's seismographs. These developments suggest that the volcano's pent-up energy is trying to punch through and initiate an eruptive activity. As present indications point to a persistent pressure from below, the condition of Taal remains critical and a surface out-break of this pressure is perhaps just a matter of time."
Card 0288 (13 December 1968) Philippine Volcanology Commission, via the American Embassy, Manila.
October 1969 (CSLP 133-69)
Eruption of ash and incandescent fragments on 29 October
Card 0810 (29 October 1969) Eruption of ash and incandescent fragments on 29 October
The following is from the Commission on Volcanology via the American Embassy in Manila. Taal eruptive activity commenced at 0615 on 29 October. Point of activity on upper outer southern slope of 1968 cone characterized by weak ejection ash and small fragmental materials at approximately 90-minute intervals. COMVOL visual observation during afternoon showed appreciable increase in amount ash and fragmental red hot volcanic materials and considerable enlargement in diameter of active vent. Increase in trace amplitude of harmonic tremors and explosion earthquake also noted. Night and early morning observations 30 October showed ejection of ash and fragments to heights of 600-700 feet at about 90-minute intervals. Continuing recording of harmonic tremors and observable pulsating vent flows seems to indicate vibration of lava to surface. Eruption is now violent though protracted.
The following is from the Commission on Volcanology via Father Hennessey. Taal Volcano erupted at 0615 on 29 October. Ashes and fragments were ejected up to 900 feet at 90-minute intervals shooting up from a roaring vent about 5 m in diameter. During early hours of 30 October observations show sections of ash and incandescent fragments to 600-700 feet at varying but closer intervals compared to previous observations. Proportion of incandescent material noted increased since yesterday. Continuous recording of harmonic tremors and observable pulsating dense flow seems to indicate that lava vibrating to the surface.
Information Contacts: American Embassy, Manila; Father Hennessey, Manila Observatory; Philippine Volcanology Commission, Manila.
November 1969 (CSLP 133-69)
Continued production of lava flows and ejecta; new cone on SE flank
Card 0816 (05 November 1969) Erupting vent has enlarged; ejecta falling on upper slopes
"Lava clots began appearing on 30 October 1969, with incandescent materials being thrown out by the erupting Taal volcano. The bits of molten rock from the surging column of lava are falling on the upper southeastern slope of the 1968 cone.
"The chief volcanologist, Mr. Alcaraz, said that the coming eruption of Taal will not be of steam and ash but will be magmatic or cool lava. The volcano's pulsating magma has been surging with mounting intensity and frequency. The erupting vent has been enlarged and now measures almost 100 m in diameter. Taal's ejecta is being blown upward to a height of 1,500 feet. The lava column may surface in a few days, overflow, and fill the southeastern base of the 1968 cone. A protracted magma eruption might cover the thick lava deposits of the 1968 eruption in Kaygabok."
Card 0820 (10 November 1969) New cone rapidly growing on the SE slope of the 1968 crater
"Taal volcano is rapidly building a new cone southwest of Volcano Island on the southeastern slope of the 600-foot-high crater created by last year's eruption in Kaygabok. The conelet is now about 200 feet high. The cone's lava front advanced further into the 1966 collapsed lake on the Northeast. The lava front is more than 1 km long and is moving at the rate of 1 m per minute. The stream may eventually flow into Lake Taal. The lava, measured by a optical barometer, was found to be 1,160°C. Volcanologists said that harmonic tremors are getting stronger every day. The chief volcanologist, Mr. Alcaraz, said that this eruption is the second in recorded history where the volcano emitted more lava than ashes. The ejecta reached a height of 1,000 feet above the crater, which was widened to 20 m in diameter."
Card 0824 (19 November 1969) Sustained and copius ejection of ash and incandescent fragments; lava flows
The following is from the American Embassy in Manila. "Taal's current uninterrupted eruption entered 4th week this morning with activity still characterized by sustained and copious ejection of ash and incandescent fragmental materials at active vent of imposing terminal cone of 1968 eruption (former adventive cone but now too large for such designation). Ejecta has been primarily vertical but occasionally radial. Yesterday's ejections accompanied by large detonation sounds and blue-tinted gas. Subterminal flows at base in terminal cone continue molten rock discharge at intensified rate to adjacent area. Front advanced into lake southwest of island."
The following is from J.J. Hennessey. "COMVOL reports at 0800 local time on 18 November. Evenings activity was more intense than that observed this morning. Ejecta was primarily incandescent bombs and blocks shot up vertically but at time ejected with a radial trajectory. Near 1730 a black column of ash started to burst out from a smaller vent on the inner western slope of the 1969 crater. This lasted for about one half hour. Lava extrusion continued without let up, the subterminal flow breaking out into four or five cascades over a rift formed by crushed lava near the northern base of the old 1968 cone. Discharge to Lake Taal is likewise continuous."
Card 0816 (05 November 1969) Alberto Rous, Daily Mirror News, Quezon City, Manila; J.J. Hennessey, S.J., Manila Observatory, Manila.
Card 0820 (10 November 1969) Philippine Commission on Volcanology; J. J. Hennessey, S.J., Manila Observatory, Manila.
Card 0824 (19 November 1969) American Embassy, Manila; J.J. Hennessey, S.J., Manila Observatory, Manila.
December 1969 (CSLP 133-69)
Lava flows continue; new vent forms as activity shifts towards the west
Card 0830 (02 December 1969) Intense steam emission continues; lava flows advance; new vent
"The old eastern vent of the terminal cone belches noxious blue fumes continuously. From both the eastern and western vents a faint glow and a profuse steaming are observed. The Kaygabok and Alas-as lava fronts, fed by molten rocks flowing through tunnels underneath the crusted lava surface, continue to fan out very slowly lakewards. The easternmost lobe at Kaygabok has moved no less than 2 m in two days.
"Voluminous emission of steam characterized the eruption surface manifestation as Taal's eruption entered its 27th day. Intense steam emissions were concentrated in the western vent of the terminal cone and the former crater of the 1968 cone, now covered by new pyroclastic materials deposited by the current eruption.
"A new vent of the northwestern upper slope of the 1969 cone has been formed. Sustained ejection of steam, ash, and small amounts of larger incandescent volcanic materials from the new active vent have enlarged the crater and reduced the height of the terminal cone to a few meters. The spiraling brownish-grey ash clouds soar 4,000 feet, then accumulate at a higher altitude before drifting southwest. Comparatively stronger ejections are punctuated by weak and muffled roaring sounds."
Card 0834 (09 December 1969) Signs that activity may shift to a new submarine vent in Lake Taal
The possibility of a new eruption occurring beneath Lake Taal or near Mt. Binintiang Munti, southwest of volcano island, has increased. The shifting of the site of the volcano's activity and signs of an approaching eruption forced COMVOL to enlarge the danger area to include villages on the lake's western shore. The COMVOL said that there were indications that the volcano was nearing a "critical phase" of its activity. Observed were: 1) A noticeable upliftment of the ground in the vicinity of Binintiang Munti on volcano island; the ground rose by one foot. 2) Bubbling of lake waters on the side parallel to the southwest ridge. 3) Maximum trace of the amplitude of the harmonic tremors emanating from the volcano showed a continuing upward trend, although no surface outflow of lava has been observed. 4) Collapse of the lava front in the area of what was once Kay-gabok village, which was leveled at the height of the Taal eruption. 5) Strong mustard odor from the bubbling point discerned by volcanologists and people living near the island. At the moment, the volcano's activity was reportedly limited to the ejection of incandescent materials and ash to about 1,500 feet.
Card 0830 (02 December 1969) Philippine Commission on Volcanology; J.J. Hennessey, S.J., Manila Observatory, Manila.
Profuse steaming; fresh landslide noted; active rift
Card 1077 (30 December 1970) Profuse steaming; fresh landslide noted; active rift
"The Philippine Volcanology Commission issued the following bulletin on 29 December at 2300 GMT. COMVOL progressive evaluation of the condition of volcano Taal indicates that it has remained critically serious as visual and instrumental observations continue. COMVOL will issue the next bulletin after today's visual observation of the volcano's geologically active southwestern rift. Manila time 30 December gives COMVOL report for 29 December. An intensity 2 quake rocked Taal volcano at 0829 today and steam came out in the Kaygabok eruption site along a NE-SW rift leading to the main crater. The team issued the following bulletin. 1) Profuse steaming was noted on the NE upper slopes of the 1969 eruption cone and from a point a little to the NE. 2) A fresh landslide was noted. 3) The temperature of the main crater lake dropped by 1.5°C from yesterday's temperature. 4) The NE-SW rift passing through the main crater is active."
Information Contacts: Philippine Commission on Volcanology; Director, Manila Observatory, Manila.
September 1976 (NSEB 01:12) Cite this Report
Precursors trigger evacuation before explosive eruptions in early September
COMVOL scientists monitoring Taal during late August noted the following signs of increased activity: profuse steaming from the junction of the SW portion of the 1966-70 eruption cone and the western rim of the pre-1965 lagoon (figure 1); visible ground heating at some points above the pre-1965 lagoon; and a rise in the temperature of some ground probes in the area to 95°C. As a result of these observations, the evacuation of several thousand persons from Taal Island ("Volcano Island" on figures 1 and 2) and some lakeshore towns was recommended on 31 August.
Figure 1. Index map showing the area around Taal, after Moxham (1967). Land area is shaded.
Figure 2. Map of Taal Island and vicinity, October 1965, after Moxham (1967). The 1965 explosion crater extends SW from I; the 1966 explosion crater formed immediately to the NW.
2 September: Steaming increased at the 1966-70 eruption site and at the main crater. The area of steaming had expanded considerably, particularly to the SW. A fissure widened from 5 to 20 cm and lengthened from 50 to 100 m. Seismic activity was low.
3 September: An eruption of steam and ash began at about 0430 from Mt. Tabaro vent, a few meters SW of the site of 1966-70 activity. Eruptions occurred at about 4-minute intervals, producing clouds 1,500-3,000 m high. Harmonic tremor accompanied the activity. Evacuation had been completed at 0400.
4 September: Eruptive activity ceased at 0500. Renewed steam and ash emission occurred between 0900 and 0920 and again at 1300; the latter included some large fragments and produced a cloud 300-400 m high. Harmonic tremor was recorded during eruptions. Brownish ash blanketed the S half of the island to an unknown depth.
5 September: Individual eruptive bursts contained a greater proportion of ash and large fragments than those of previous days. No incandescent material or rumbling was observed. During the morning, eruption periods were longer than the repose periods separating them; by late afternoon, eruptions lasted about 3 minutes, followed by about 5 minutes of repose. Eruptions were nearly vertical with a slight southward component; the resulting clouds reached more than 2,000 m in the morning, but were limited to 300 m by strong SW winds in the afternoon. Late-afternoon rain caused steaming to intensify. Continuous harmonic tremor of 4 mm amplitude was recorded. The new vent was enlarged by coalescence with the adjacent cone.
6 September: Harmonic tremor amplitudes began to increase at 0330 to 3-10 mm. Emission of black, grayish-black, or reddish-brown ash-laden eruption clouds was continuous, accompanied by faint rumbling and occasional brief lightning flashes just above the vent. The eruption clouds, which contained some large rock fragments, averaged 200-300 m, reaching a maximum of 2,200 m in the early morning. Activity had slackened by afternoon, when maximum eruption cloud height was slightly more than 500 m, and the diameter was about 50 m. Lower ejection velocity and light wind caused much of the erupted material to collapse and form base surges at the foot of the 1966 cone. Rock fragments up to 30 cm in diameter produced dust clouds on the 1966 cone by impact and downslope rolling. By 1700, activity was still continuous, but the eruption cloud had diminished to 30 m across and less than 500 m high. Maximum harmonic tremor amplitude had declined.
7 September: Steam and ash eruptions continued, generating a 3,000-m cloud and base surges over the SW flank. Harmonic tremor was continuous and had a maximum amplitude of 5 mm. A new fissure opened, measuring 100 m x 20 cm.
8 September: After a midmorning period of quiescence, a new vent opened a few meters SW of the active vent of the past several days. Ash and larger fragments were ejected to 250 m height. Maximum harmonic tremor amplitude increased to 8 mm.
9 September: The strongest explosion of the eruption produced base surges that moved over the 1965 and 1966 craters. Harmonic tremor amplitudes rose from 5 to 9 mm shortly before the explosion, and reached a maximum of 12 mm during the explosion. By late afternoon, eruptive force had declined, but ash emission was still continuous and voluminous. Strong west winds carried the ash across Lake Taal to its E shore.
10 September: At 2331, incandescent gases and some incandescent fragments were noted for the first time, accompanied by a continuous hollow sound. Steam and ash emission continued.
11 September: Minor fountaining and incandescent ash clouds were observed. Steam and ash emission continued.
Reference. Moxham, R.M., 1967, Changes in surface temperature at Taal volcano, Philippines 1965-1966: BV, v. 31, p. 215-234.
Information Contacts: G. Andal, COMVOL, Quezon City; W. Ward, HQ 13th Air Force (PACAF); D. Shackelford, Villa Park, CA.
November 1976 (NSEB 01:14) Cite this Report
Strong, frequent eruptions with ashfall through mid-October
Activity continued through September and early October.
13 September: Voluminous quantities of steam and ash were emitted, causing ashfalls at towns up to 10 km E of the vent. Harmonic tremor was continuous. Intermittent incandescence was reported during the previous week.
14 September: Strong steam and ash eruptions continued until evening, when activity slackened.
15 September: Activity increased around 0700. Just before noon, a strong explosion ejected rock fragments 150 m above the vent and produced an 1,800-m ash. Ash fell on towns surrounding Lake Taal, up to 16 km E and N of the vent. One mm of ash fell in a 20-minute period and a strong stench of sulfur was noted at the volcano station, 4 km from the vent.
17 September: Ash fell continuously on towns east and north of Lake Taal, frequently mixing with rain to fall as mud. Heavy ashfall and sulfur fumes forced the evacuation of Taal Island, except for a skeleton staff remaining at the volcano station. Many work animals had died and many others were ill, probably because of sulfur-contaminated food and water. Harmonic tremor gradually increased in amplitude.
18 September: Ash and sulfur emission decreased slightly in the evening.
19 September: Diminished activity allowed an inspection on the vent area. The new crater formed on the first day of the eruption was steaming weakly. Most activity was from a 100-m-diameter vent within the 1965-70 cone, on which scattered impact craters a few centimeters to 0.7 m across were present up to 500 m from the vent. Harmonic tremor amplitude had declined. Ash emission weakened further in the evening, with occasional brief pauses. Ash clouds took 2-3 minutes to rise 700 m.
20 September: Continuous eruption resumed in the morning. No incandescence was observed. Harmonic tremor amplitude was unchanged. About 100 people had eruption-related diseases: asthmatic bronchitis, gastroenteritis, respiratory tract infection, sore eyes, and allergy.
21-22 September: The eruption weakened considerably.
23 September: Steam and ash emission increased in intensity, but no incandescence was observed. Harmonic tremor amplitude increased.
4 October: The eruption resumed after a "short lull." Ash clouds rose more than 2,100 m, accompanied by lightning, thunderstorms, and harmonic tremor.
5 October: Ash emission, in black to brownish clouds, increased. By afternoon, heavy ashfall, which forced cars to use their headlights, had deposited 2.5 cm of ash in one town near Lake Taal.
7 October: Continuous heavy ashfall forced the evacuation of five towns up to 16 km E and N of the vent. The eruption was accompanied by hollow sounds from within the crater and by harmonic tremor. Profuse emission of white steam was occurring from the source of the 1968 lava flow. A new step fault was noted near the summit of the vent.
8 October: Ash-laden steam clouds were ejected continuously to a height of 500-600 m, depositing ash around Lake Taal. Activity had migrated back to the elongate main vent. Harmonic tremor amplitude began to increase at 0330.
10 October: A reconnaissance at 1200 noted ejection of coarser fragments, accompanied by hollow reverberations, lightning, and thunder. Ash fell SW of the vent (most ash had previously fallen to the N and E). Ash eruption ended at 1650.
11 October: Activity resumed at 0100 with the ejection of brownish ash clouds, accompanied by harmonic tremor.
Information Contacts: Manila Times-Journal.
December 1976 (NSEB 01:15) Cite this Report
Weak steaming; larger steam plume on 30 October
By 30 October, Taal's eruption had declined to weak steaming, and harmonic tremor had ended. Harmonic tremor resumed at 1925 on 30 October and steam eruptions began at about 2130. During the early morning of 31 October, cauliflower-shaped steam clouds reaching 100 m height were observed, containing only minimal amounts of ash. This activity continued through the day, the clouds gradually decreasing in height and volume. No further activity had been reported by 16 November.
Further References. Alcaraz, A., and Datuin, R., 1977, Notes on Taal volcano prognostics: Journal of the Geological Society of the Philippines, v. 31, no. 2, p. 18-20.
Andal, G.A., and Aguila, L.G., 1977, Prognostic criteria of the 1976 eruption of Taal volcano: COMVOL Letter, v. 9, no. 1-2, p. 1-6.
October 1977 (NSEB 02:10) Cite this Report
Weak phreatic eruption with harmonic tremor
A weak phreatic eruption from the NE portion of the 1976 crater began at 1515 on 3 October, and had ended by 1400 the next day. Brownish to grayish basaltic ash clouds initially rose 300 m, and reached a maximum height of 500 m after a few hours. Activity then gradually declined to strong steaming. The eruption was accompanied by harmonic tremor. Residents of Taal Island were evacuated, and had not returned by late October because of the possibility of renewed activity.
Information Contacts: G. Andal, COMVOL, Quezon City.
Ejection of voluminous ash-laden steam clouds on 9 November
Taal ejected voluminous ash-laden steam clouds at 1200 on 9 November. The clouds, similar to those of 3 October, rose about 250 m before being blown toward the mainland by a moderately strong NE wind. Ground probe temperatures have increased, and harmonic tremor continued at about the same amplitude. Initial evacuation procedures remained in effect.
February 1978 (SEAN 03:02) Cite this Report
Harmonic tremor continues, but no eruption
"The renewed activity of Taal on 9 November resulted in the formation of a circular conelet protruding a few meters from the floor of the elongated 1976 crater. Voluminous ash-laden clouds rose to a height of 500 m with a roaring sound audible on the lakeshore. Bluish fumes were emitted from the NE inner wall of the 1976 crater. Eruptive activity ended by the early morning of 12 November, but volcanic tremor of varying amplitude continued. Tremor with a maximum double amplitude was recorded at 2210 on 24 November and at 0504 on 25 November. The initial evacuation procedure remained in effect in late January."
Further References. Ruelo, H.B., 1983, Morphology and crater development of the Mt. Tabaro eruption site, Taal volcano, Philippines: Philippine Journal of Volcanology, v. 1, no. 2, p. 19-68.
Wolfe, J.A., 1980, Eruptions of Taal volcano 1976-1977: EOS, v. 61, p. 57-58.
October 1987 (SEAN 12:10) Cite this Report
Increase in recorded earthquakes; minor deformation
"Recorded earthquakes began increasing 30 October. A maximum of 19 events/day was recorded on 31 October; 5 of the events were felt by residents of Agoncillo, 10.7 km SW of the crater on the W shore of Taal Lake (figure 3). The events were recorded but not felt on the volcano island, the site of historic eruptions in the Taal Caldera. Some residents of Agoncillo also reported rumbling sounds accompanying the earthquakes. Isolated reports of sulfurous stench were unconfirmed. Many residents of Agoncillo and nearby villages described the quakes as having prominent vertical movements, similar to those prior to the 1965 eruption, prompting a few families to immediately evacuate to adjacent villages. These areas were among those devastated during the 1965 phreatic explosion.
Figure 3. Map of crater lake and vicinity, after Land Use of Taal Volcano and Environs, PHIVOLCS, 1:50,000.
"Events on 6 November had epicenters on Manalao Point on the W shore of Taal Lake and across the lake from the 1965-77 eruption site (Mt. Tabaro; figure 3). The earthquakes had depths of 6.4 km and suggested ground fracturing beneath the caldera.
"Thermal conditions and steam emissions of the main crater lake and the 1965-77 eruption site remained within normal levels. However, the water-tube tiltmeter on the island indicated a slight inflation-deflation episode of the main crater 20 April-28 October, with the pre-inflation position now being occupied. Likewise, thermal areas near the epicenter have remained unchanged. Lake-level monitoring stations around Taal Lake, some installed only last July, indicate some warping along the lakeshore, a condition that cannot yet be related to volcanic activity.
"PHIVOLCS had installed additional seismic and ground deformation stations to monitor the events. Local authorities were informed and were prepared for any contingencies."
Information Contacts: PHIVOLCS.
December 1987 (SEAN 12:12) Cite this Report
Seismicity abates; thermal activity normal
Seismic activity ... has abated and few local events have been recorded since 14 November. Thermal and steaming conditions remained unchanged from normal levels. Lake level monitoring showed some subsidence (about 10 cm) of the SW shores of Taal Lake, which face the 1965-77 eruption site on the volcano island. Residents who fled during the crisis have returned to their homes. PHIVOLCS established 3 EDM lines, 1 dry tilt network, and one precise leveling line on the island's SW sector near the 1965-77 eruption site. Volcanologists had also re-occupied old seismic stations on the SE part of the volcano island.
August 1988 (SEAN 13:08) Cite this Report
Seismicity and slight inflation
During a two-week period in mid-August, several small, high-frequency events with average maximum double amplitudes of 2 mm were detected at the Pira-Piraso seismograph station. From 16-22 August, 11 high-frequency events were recorded. Slight inflation was detected by the water tube tiltmeter at the station. Weak steaming continued at the 1965 eruption site. Ground-probe hole temperatures were within normal limits and the lake level remained unchanged.
Increased seismicity; main crater inflation
Since July, seismicity at Taal has increased from background level to a maximum of 126 volcanic earthquakes/week, with at least three events recorded daily. Epicenters clustered around the main crater and about 2 km NE (near Pinagulbuan), migrating from 9 to 5 km depth, 18 August-2 October. Precise leveling and dry tilt surveys suggest inflation of the main crater and the 1965 eruption site, while a water tube tiltmeter has measured inflation of the main crater area since May.
March 1991 (BGVN 16:03) Cite this Report
Increased shallow seismicity and felt earthquakes; more than 1,000 evacuated
Seismologists and area residents noticed a significant increase in seismicity beginning on 12 March (figure 4). High-frequency earthquakes were recorded each day (to 64 on 25 March), of which several/day were felt (intensities to IV). Seismicity was centered under the E side of Volcano Island, at depths of 2-5 km.
Figure 4. Daily number of recorded earthquakes at Taal, 10 March-13 May 1991. Courtesy of PHIVOLCS.
Monitoring of the volcano's main crater lake (1.0 x 1.4 km) revealed that the acidity of the lake water has fluctuated considerably, between pH 2.3 and 3.8. Possible slight increases in water temperature (stable at 30°C in mid-April), a change in water color (from light yellowish-green to dark green), and more vigorous bubbling were also noted.
On 1 April, President Aquino ordered the evacuation of the roughly 4,000 people who live on Volcano Island, and more than 1,000 residents (mostly women and children) had left by the following day. Seismicity remained at elevated levels, and the island was partially evacuated as of mid-April.
Information Contacts: R. Punongbayan, PHIVOLCS; Chris Newhall, USGS Reston; Manila Bulletin, Manila, Philippines.
April 1991 (BGVN 16:04) Cite this Report
Continued seismicity and changes to crater lake
High seismicity continued as of early May, with the daily number of earthquakes varying from 15 to 30 (figure 4). Felt earthquakes reached intensity IV. Acidity and chloride content of the volcano's crater lake continued to fluctuate, ranging from 2.4-2.8 and 9,630-11,720 ppm, respectively. Lake temperature increased slightly from 30° to 31°C, and lake level rose by 4 cm.
On 26 April, strong bubbling and increased steaming were observed in the N sector of the crater and at the base of the wall. Geysering, to 1.2 m height, was also noted near the NNE shore of the lake, where water temperatures of 99°C were measured.
Deformation measurements on Taal Volcano Island have found no inflation or swelling of the volcanic edifice.
Volcano Island has been partly evacuated since 23 March, but a small number of residents have remained, particularly near the PHIVOLCS station at the N end of the island.
Information Contacts: R. Punongbayan, PHIVOLCS.
July 1991 (BGVN 16:07) Cite this Report
Abnormal seismicity continues
Abnormally high levels of seismicity continued as of mid-August. Up to 5 small high-frequency earthquakes were recorded daily 9-12 August. No earthquakes were felt during this time. The main crater lake temperature remained at 31°C. Close monitoring of the volcano continued.
January 1992 (BGVN 17:01) Cite this Report
Earthquake swarm, deformation, and new fissures document apparent intrusion; evacuations
A sudden increase in local seismicity began early 14 February, reaching a peak of 385 high-frequency earthquakes recorded between 1200 on 14 February and 0600 on 15 February. Many were felt in 6 towns near the shores of Lake Taal, which fills the 15 x 22 km caldera. The active cone forms an island near the center of Lake Taal. According to press reports, volcanologists observed that water temperature in the island's crater lake (1.0 x 1.4 km) increased by several degrees, and that a bulge and several fissures (up to 400 m long) had formed on the volcano's N flank. A Notice to Airmen was issued at 1445 on 14 February, advising all aircraft to exercise caution and avoid flying over the area. PHIVOLCS elevated the volcano's status to Alert Level 3 on 15 February and authorities began to evacuate island residents. By the following day, >2,600 of the island's 6,000 residents had reportedly been evacuated. Seismicity quickly decreased on 15 February, and only 14 earthquakes were recorded during a 13-hour period on 16 February. Geologists suggested that the activity represented a magma intrusion episode that appeared to have stopped.
A similar episode of increased seismicity occurred in March-April 1991, with as many as 64 earthquakes (25 March) recorded under the E side of the volcano (16:3). Several thousand people were evacuated from the island. Seismicity decreased in May 1991, and no more than five earthquakes were recorded daily in early August . No inflation was observed.
Information Contacts: PHIVOLCS; T. Fox, ICAO; AP; UPI; Reuters.
February 1992 (BGVN 17:02) Cite this Report
Crater lake temperature and seismicity decline
After a brief episode of increased seismicity, deformation, and increased crater lake temperatures on 14-15 February, activity returned to more normal levels. Fieldwork by Univ of Savoie personnel indicated that temperatures of the main crater lake were gradually declining, and that seismicity was near background levels. All measurable deformation seemed to have occurred on 14 February. The Alert Level 3 status, announced on 15 February, was lowered to Level 2, and then to Level 1 in early March. Most residents of Taal island have returned home.
Information Contacts: C. Newhall, USGS.
Rise in seismicity, deformation, and temperature
Beginning in late February 1994, Taal stratovolcano underwent increases in seismicity, deformation, temperature, and other signs of growing instability. The stratovolcano sits in the center of a 15 x 22 km caldera occupied by Taal lake. Taal stratovolcano, which is sometimes also referred to as either Volcano Island or Taal Island, has a central, 6-km-diameter crater lake termed the main crater lake (figures 5 and 6).
Figure 5. Map showing the key geologic and geographic features near Pinatubo and Taal.
Figure 6. Map of Taal caldera and vicinity with land areas shaded, water areas blank (after Ruelo, 1983).
Starting on 21 February seismic activity increased from the previous background level of 0-2 events/week to an average of 2-3 events/day. After 22 February, the seismic station located on the N shore of the main crater lake (station MRCZ) detected swarms of small high-frequency events, swarms that went undetected elsewhere, presumably because they had shallow epicenters located close to the station. Seismicity continued to grow; during the 24-hour intervals beginning at 0600 on 13 and 14 March there were 396 and 406 events, respectively. Many events took place at shallow depths (typically shallower than 3 km), beneath the central-to-SW portion of the caldera. Harmonic tremor was also reported, interpreted as due to magma intruding below the stratovolcano's central crater.
Deformation and precise leveling surveys conducted 10-22 February indicated slight inflation of the SW portion of Volcano Island. In mid-March an uplift of 14 cm was measured on the E side of the island; on 13 March both the N and SE sides inflated on the order of 10-20 cm. Around the same time researchers found two newly formed open cracks or fissures. They were approximately 70 m apart on the SE corner of Volcano Island, trending N55°W and N88°W, and were traced as discontinuous segments approaching the basal slopes of the main crater. The fissures had opened 8-10 mm, consistent with inflation of the edifice. Newhall and Dzurisin (1988) referred to extensive NE-trending ground cracks outside the caldera associated with the 1911 eruption.
Temperature measured near the bottom of the main crater lake rose abruptly on 13 February, from 30°C to 50°C, and remained high for about 12 hours before dropping back to 30°C. Eight days later a smaller 4°C rise in bottom-water temperature took place. Sometime during this interval the temperature of surface waters of the main crater lake also rose by 3°C. Temperature increases of 1-3°C began on 14 February at most of the ground probe holes in the Mount Tabaro area, on the SW side of Volcano Island (Ruelo, 1983).
On 12 March, data from acoustic sensors located about 25 m above the bottom of the main crater lake showed a significant increase in bubbling activity, which declined slightly the next day. The increased bubbling suggests significantly higher pressure beneath the stratovolcano, consistent with the postulated shallow magma chamber.
In response to growing instability PHIVOLCS elevated their alert status to Alert Level 3 on 11 March, suggesting that eruptive activity could occur within a period of weeks. In concert with the newly elevated alert level, the Manila Flight Information office issued a volcanic ash advisory in a NOTAM (Notice To Airmen, a notice to the aviation and meteorological communities) to avoid flying over the volcano. PHIVOLCS maintained Alert Level 3 as of the last available report on 15 March. They also mentioned "...partial evacuation of Volcano Island as per the recommendation of the Batangas Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council." The evacuations were a common theme in a series of reports by Reuters News Service on the situation at Taal. The reports were unclear, however, on both the number of people evacuated from Volcano Island, and the circumstances of their departure; one report told of hundreds who fled, the other told of thousands who were ordered to flee.
Several of these news reports also stated that some villagers from the island were unwilling to leave their homes. One report said "Farmers staying on the island have rented out horses to tourists from Manila so they can ride to the crater lake to photograph steam rising from rocks around the rim." The same report also said "Many sightseers have flocked to Tagaytay [on the N topographic Margin of the caldera, ~9 km N of Volcano Island], which offers a dramatic view overlooking the volcano." The Philippine president, Fidel Ramos, reportedly visited the volcano and said villagers who had refused to leave their homes would have time to flee if it erupted. These reports highlight the difficulty of establishing firm estimates on both the movement and behavior of people in a volcanic crisis.
Taal's most recent unrest took place in 1991-92 and involved elevated seismicity, deformation, and crater lake temperatures that lasted from several days to months. These conditions did not lead to eruptions. In many other cases, 34 since 1572, Taal did discharge, and in six cases these eruptions led to fatalities. In 1965 Taal ejected an estimated 9 x 107 m3 of material. The eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 4 and produced a base surge that sandblasted objects up to 8 km away. The volcano monitoring system at Taal has been improved since the 1992 crisis. Improvements include telemetry-linked sensors for seismic, temperature, radon gas, and lake geochemistry. A Japanese refraction seismic experiment recently attempted to delineate a shallow (1-2 km deep) magma chamber beneath Volcano Island that was detected in a similar experiment in 1993.
References. Newhall, C.G., and Dzurisin, D., 1988, Historical unrest at large calderas of the world: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1855, v. 1, 598 p.
Ruelo, Hernulfo B., 1983, Morphological and crater development of Mt. Tabaro eruption site, Taal volcano: Philippines, Philippine Journal of Volcanology, v. 1, no. 2, p. 19-68.
Information Contacts: PHIVOLCS; Bureau of Meteorology, Australia; Chris Newhall, Univ. of Washington.
December 2004 (BGVN 29:12) Cite this Report
New episode of seismic unrest began in September 2004
The Taal seismic monitoring network began to record significant volcanic earthquakes on 23 September 2004. In general, the numbers of these events occurring through 29 October increased, with a maximum 13 earthquakes on 15 October. Some of these earthquakes were instrumentally recorded with relatively large amplitudes although none were felt by residents on Volcano Island. Initial earthquake locations showed epicenters dispersed in the vicinity of Main Crater, to the NNW near Binintiang Malaki, and to the SSE near Calauit. Surface observations, however, did not indicate any significant change in the thermal and steam emission characteristics of the Main Crater lake area. The increased seismicity is an indication of a low-level episode of unrest, although at this time there is no clear indication of an impending eruption. A series of volcanic earthquakes was recorded on 9 January 2005. Two of these earthquakes, only one minute apart, were felt in Pira-piraso.
PHIVOLCS raised the hazard status on 29 October from Alert Level 0 to Alert Level 1, meaning that there was a slight increase in seismic activity but no eruption is imminent. PHIVOLCS recommend as off-limits the Main Crater area because sudden steam explosions may occur or high concentrations of noxious gases may accumulate. Several fissures traversing the Daang Kastila Trail are also potentially hazardous as possible sites of future steam emission. PHIVOLCS is conducting several enhancements of the monitoring system at Taal with deployment of more seismometers and ground-deformation surveillance equipment. The entire Volcano Island is a Permanent Danger Zone and permanent settlement is strictly prohibited.
Information Contacts: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), Department of Science and Technology, PHIVOLCS Building, C.P. Garcia Avenue, Univ. of the Philippines Campus, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines (URL: http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/).
August 2006 (BGVN 31:08) Cite this Report
Ongoing seismic unrest
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) notified the public on 26 September 2006 of ongoing seismic unrest at Taal. The Main Crater Seismic Station recorded 29 volcanic earthquakes during the 24-hour period from 0600 hours on 25 September. Five of these earthquakes, at 0233, 0234, 0242, 0247, and 0249 hours on 26 September, were felt at Modified Mercalli Intensities II to III by residents on Volcano Island. The earthquakes were accompanied by rumbling sounds. Initial locations showed epicenters generally dispersed in the vicinity of Daang Kastila (NE), Tibag (N), Tablas (NE), Mataas na Gulod (NE), and Panikihan (NW). This seismic activity was notably higher than the usual levels, generally only five or less events detected in 24 hours.
Surface thermal observations, however, did not indicate significant change in the thermal and steam emission manifestations of the Main Crater lake area. The increase in seismicity at Taal reflects a low-level episode of unrest. However, there is still no indication of an impending eruption. Possible precursors, such as increased steam emission, increased temperatures of steam vents at the Main Crater lake waters and adjacent areas are being monitored continuously. The ongoing seismic unrest could intensify in the coming days or weeks so that PHIVOLCS recommends appropriate vigilance by the public when visiting the island.
Information Contacts: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), University of the Philippines Campus, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines (URL: http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/).
Elevated seismicity, deformation, and hydrothermal activity during 2006
On 26 September 2006, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHILVOLCS) announced ongoing seismic unrest at Taal (a low lying caldera ~ 45 km S of Manila). The Main Crater Seismic Station recorded 29 volcanic earthquakes during the 24 hours after 0600 on 25 September 2006. Five (5) of these occurred at 0233, 0234, 0242, 0247, and 0249 and were felt at Intensities II to III by residents on Volcano Island (figure 7 and 8). These earthquakes were accompanied by rumbling sounds. Initial computations showed epicenters generally dispersed toward northerly locations in the vicinity of Daang Kastila (NE), Tibag (N), Tablas (NE), Mataas na Gulod (NE), and Panikihan (NW).
Figure 7. A map of Taal volcano indicating the location of components of the monitoring network (seismic stations, telemetry repeater stations, reflector, and various kinds of survey and measuring points). Volcano island (the large island in the N-central part of the caldera lake) is the site of all historical eruptions. Contour interval is 100 m. Courtesy of PHIVOLCS.
Figure 8. Photograph taken from the top of the N topographic margin of Taal, looking S across Lake Taal and Volcano Island, 28 May 2001. The topographic high on the far side of the lake is Mt. Macolod. Copyrighted photograph by Franck Landais (provided by Panoramio.com).
This seismic activity was notably higher than usual, which during quiet periods is generally only five or less events detected in 24 hours. Surface thermal observations, however, did not indicate significant change in the thermal and steam emission manifestations in the Main Crater Lake area. The increase in seismicity reflected a low-level episode of unrest. However, there is still no indication of an impending eruption.
Taal manifested a sustained moderate level of seismic activity since 18 November 2006, characterized by occasional large amplitude volcanic earthquakes. During one 24-hour period, 10 volcanic earthquakes were detected. Ground deformation surveys conducted during 28 November-6 December 2006 revealed the edifice inflated 14.0 mm, suggesting possible magma intrusion. The Main Crater lake water became more acidic since 12 September 2006, and the newly formed mud geyser, which is now merged with the Crater Lake due to increase in water level, continues to be very active. The increasing acidity and hydrothermal activity are probably caused by the injection of hot gases and fluids coming from below the crater floor.
According to PHIVOLCS in its Taal Volcano Advisory of 14 December 2006, the above observations indicated a significant increase in activity although no eruption is imminent. Alert Level 1 continued, making the Main Crater off-limits to the public because of the chance of sudden steam explosions and high toxic gas concentrations.
Information Contacts: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), University of the Philippines Campus, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines (URL: http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph); Panoramio.com, Calle Rosa Zaragoza 8, 03360 Callosa de Segura (Alicante), Spain (URL: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/40914).
This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.
Pulo | Volcano Island | Bombon, Lake
Feature Name Feature Type Elevation Latitude Longitude
Balantok Cone
Batulao, Mount Stratovolcano 693 m 14° 3' 0" N 120° 48' 0" E
Binintiang Malaki
Binintiang Malaqui Cone 263 m
Binintiang Munti Cone 60 m
Macolod
Makulot Stratovolcano 957 m 13° 55' 0" N 121° 3' 0" E
Makiling, Mount Stratovolcano 1090 m 14° 8' 0" N 121° 12' 0" E
Piro-Piraso Cone
Sungay, Mount Stratovolcano 620 m 14° 8' 0" N 121° 2' 0" E
Tabaro, Mount Vent
Talisay Caldera
Volcano Number
Longitude 273070
311 m / 1020 ft
Volcano Types
Pyroclastic cone(s)
Tuff ring(s)
Rock Types
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Tectonic Setting
Subduction zone
Continental crust (> 25 km)
Within 5 km
Within 100 km 717,090
Geological Summary
Taal is one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines and has produced some of its most powerful historical eruptions. Though not topographically prominent, its prehistorical eruptions have greatly changed the landscape of SW Luzon. The 15 x 20 km Talisay (Taal) caldera is largely filled by Lake Taal, whose 267 km2 surface lies only 3 m above sea level. The maximum depth of the lake is 160 m, and several eruptive centers lie submerged beneath the lake. The 5-km-wide Volcano Island in north-central Lake Taal is the location of all historical eruptions. The island is composed of coalescing small stratovolcanoes, tuff rings, and scoria cones that have grown about 25% in area during historical time. Powerful pyroclastic flows and surges from historical eruptions have caused many fatalities.
The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography.
Castillo P R, Newhall C G, 2004. Geochemical constraints on possible subduction components in lavas of Mayon and Taal volcanoes, southern Luzon, Philippines. J Petr, 45: 1089-1108.
Catane S G, Taniguchi H, Goto A, Givero A P, Mandanas A A, 2005. Explosive volcanism in the Philippines. CNEAS Monograph Ser, Tohoku Univ, 18: 1-146.
COMVOL, 1981. Catalogue of Philippine volcanoes and solfataric areas. Philippine Comm Volc, 87 p.
Green J, Short N M, 1971. Volcanic Landforms and Surface Features: a Photographic Atlas and Glossary. New York: Springer-Verlag, 519 p.
IAVCEI, 1973-80. Post-Miocene Volcanoes of the World. IAVCEI Data Sheets, Rome: Internatl Assoc Volc Chemistry Earth's Interior.
Katsui Y (ed), 1971. List of the World Active Volcanoes. Volc Soc Japan draft ms, (limited circulation), 160 p.
Miklius A, Flower M F J, Huijsmans J P P, Mukasa S B, Castillo P, 1991. Geochemistry of lavas from Taal Volcano, southwest Luzon, Philippines. J Petr, 32: 593-627.
Moore J G, Nakamura K, Alcaraz A, 1966. The 1965 eruption of Taal volcano. Science, 151: 955-960.
Neumann van Padang M, 1953. Philippine Islands and Cochin China. Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields, Rome: IAVCEI, 2: 1-49.
Newhall C G, Dzurisin D, 1988. Historical unrest at large calderas of the world. U S Geol Surv Bull, 1855: 1108 p, 2 vol.
PHIVOLCS, 2018-. Volcanoes of the Philippines. https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/volcano-hazard/volcanoes-of-the-philippines.
Santos G G, Wainerdi R E, 1969. Notes on the 1965 Taal volcanic eruptions. Bull Volcanol, 33: 503-529.
There is data available for 35 Holocene eruptive periods.
Eruption Certainty
VEI
Activity Area or Unit
1977 Oct 3 1977 Nov 12 (?) Confirmed 2 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1976 Sep 3 1976 Oct 17 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1970 Nov 9 1970 Nov 13 Confirmed 1 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1969 Oct 29 1969 Dec 10 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1968 Jan 31 1968 Apr 2 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1967 Aug 16 1967 Aug 19 Confirmed 1 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1966 Jul 5 1966 Aug 4 Confirmed 3 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1965 Sep 28 1965 Sep 30 Confirmed 4 Historical Observations SW flank (near Mt. Tabaro)
1911 Jan 27 1911 Feb 8 Confirmed 3 Historical Observations
1904 Apr 1904 Jul 15 ± 5 days Confirmed 1 Historical Observations Base of south wall of main crater
1903 Apr Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
[ 1885 ] [ Unknown ] Uncertain
1878 Nov 12 1878 Nov 15 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1874 Jul 19 Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1873 Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1808 Feb 1808 Apr Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1754 May 15 1754 Dec 4 Confirmed 4 Historical Observations Summit crater and SE flank
1749 Aug 11 (?) 1749 Sep Confirmed 4 Historical Observations
1731 Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations Pira-piraso (NE flank)
1729 Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations Binintiang Munti
1716 Sep 24 1716 Sep 27 Confirmed 4 Historical Observations Calauit (sublacustral SE flank)
1715 Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations Binintiang Malaki
1608 ± 3 years Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
3580 BCE ± 200 years Unknown Confirmed 6 Radiocarbon (uncorrected) Taal Scoria Flow
There is data available for 6 deformation periods. Expand each entry for additional details.
Deformation during 2005 Mar - 2005 Jul [Subsidence; Observed by GPS]
Start Date: 2005 Mar Stop Date: 2005 Jul Direction: Subsidence Method: GPS
Magnitude: Unknown Spatial Extent: Unknown Latitude: Unknown Longitude: Unknown
Time series of dual-frequency GPS stations (coordinates in mm with respect to KAYT) from June 1998 to July 2005. Alternating periods of inflation and deflation are reflected by the time series data, by plots that show East, North, and vertical coordinate component change for stations (A) TVST (1998?2005), (B) PINT (1998?2000)/TGYT (2001?2005), and (C) MMA8 (crosses, June to November 1998)/PIMO (1998 to 2005). Red circles and crosses represent positions, while vertical bars (cyan) depict are 95% errors scaled to repeatability. PIMO and MMA8 are dual-frequency stations situated in Manila, ~30 km north of the Caldera, while PINT was formerly the GPS station situated at the present location of TV07. Boxes indicate the deflationary (box with thin solid line) and inflationary periods (boxes with dashed lines) under study.
From: Galgana et al. 2014.
Reference List: Galgana et al. 2014.
Full References:
Galgana, G. A., Newman, A. V., Hamburger, M. W., & Solidum, R. U., 2014. Geodetic observations and modeling of time-varying deformation at Taal Volcano, Philippines. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 271: 11-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2013.11.005
Deformation during 2004 Jun - 2005 Mar [Uplift; Observed by GPS]
Start Date: 2004 Jun Stop Date: 2005 Mar Direction: Uplift Method: GPS
Remarks: Deformation at Taal Volcano can be modeled by spherical Mogi source beneath Volcano Island''s central crater and is likely magmatic in origin
Deformation during 2000 Feb - 2000 Nov [Uplift; Observed by GPS]
Start Date: 2000 Feb Stop Date: 2000 Nov Direction: Uplift Method: GPS
Reference List: Bartel et al. 2003; Galgana et al. 2014.
Bartel, B. A., M. W. Hamburger, C. M. Meertens, A. R. Lowry, and E. Corpuz, 2003. Dynamics of active magmatic and hydrothermal systems at Taal Volcano, Philippines, from continuous GPS measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 108(B10), 2475. https://doi.org/10.1029/2002JB002194
Deformation during 1999 Apr - 2000 Jan [Subsidence; Observed by GPS]
Start Date: 1999 Apr Stop Date: 2000 Jan Direction: Subsidence Method: GPS
Deformation during 1999 Jan - 1999 Mar [Uplift; Observed by GPS]
Start Date: 1999 Jan Stop Date: 1999 Mar Direction: Uplift Method: GPS
Deformation during 1998 Jun - 1998 Dec [Subsidence; Observed by GPS]
Start Date: 1998 Jun Stop Date: 1998 Dec Direction: Subsidence Method: GPS
There is no Emissions History data available for Taal.
Binintiang Malaki, a pyroclastic cone at the NW tip of Volcano Island, was formed during an eruption in 1707. The 263-m-high cone, seen here from the SW, is the largest of the flank cones on Volcano Island, to which it is connected by a broad isthmus.
Photo by Kurt Frederickson, 1968 (Smithsonian Institution).
An eruption that began on January 31, 1968, produced a cinder cone, whose steaming crater is seen at the lower right. The dark lava flow that extends from the cinder cone to produce a lava delta in Lake Taal was emplaced during the 1968 eruption, which lasted until April 2. This December 1968 aerial view from the NE shows the black 1968 cinder cone, which was constructed within a 1966 tuff cone whose rim is at the lower right. The lava flow traveled to the lake within an elongated crater produced during the major 1965 eruption.
An eruption column rises above a vent on the SW side of Volcano Island on September 30, 1965. The white cloud at the base is a horizontally moving base surge. The white scale bar at the upper right is about 500-m long. Devastating pyroclastic surges were produced during the two-day eruption, which began on September 28 and caused 150 fatalties.
Photo by L.E. Andrews, 1965 (courtesy of Jim Moore, U.S. Geological Survey).
A 3-km-wide caldera is located at the center of Volcano Island, in the Philippines' southern Luzon Island. The 5-km-wide Volcano Island lies within the much larger 15 x 20 km Taal caldera, of which the western wall is seen across Lake Taal in the distance. The small island in the center of the photo is a remnant of historical eruptions on Volcano Island and is an island in a lake, on an island in a lake, on an island.
Photo by Chris Newhall, 1989 (U.S. Geological Survey).
Taal caldera, seen here from its NW rim, is a 15 x 20 km caldera of Pleistocene and Holocene age. Volcano Island, in the north-central part of Lake Taal, has been the site of all historical eruptions at Taal volcano. The island is constructed of coalescing small stratovolcanoes, tuff rings, and scoria cones. Powerful phreatomagmatic explosive eruptions have occurred from several locations on the 5-km-wide Volcano Island and have produced pyroclastic surges that have made Taal the most deadly volcano of the Philippines.
The small, steaming tuff ring in the center of the photo was produced towards the end of a powerful 1965 explosive eruption of Taal volcano in the Philippines. The brief, 2-day eruption from September 28 to 30, which originated from a fissure on the SE flank of Volcano Island, produced devastating pyroclastic surges when lake water gained access to the vent. The elongated vent is filled by an inlet of Lake Taal in this 1965 post-eruption photo from the south. Eruptions the following year almost completely filled this new inlet.
Photo by Jim Moore, 1965 (U.S. Geological Survey).
This 400-m-wide crater was formed during an eruption in 1976. The NE-SW-trending explosion crater greatly modified a series of cones and craters that had been constructed during yearly eruptions from 1966 to 1970 within a large elongated crater which was formed during the 1965 eruption. This 1984 photo from the SW also shows a very small crater that was created in 1977 crater along the wall at the margin of the flat bench at the upper right side of the 1976 crater.
This view of Main Crater Lake, filling a small 3-km-wide caldera on Volcano Island, looks across distant Lake Taal to the NE rim of the 15 x 20 km Taal caldera. The surface of 267 sq km Lake Taal is only 3 m above sea level. Volcano Island has been the source of all historical eruptions of Taal volcano. Powerful explosive eruptions have produced pyroclastic surges that swept across Lake Taal and devastated lake shore areas. Powerful Pleistocene eruptions that formed Taal caldera greatly modified the topography of southern Luzon Island.
Mount Tabaro, seen here from the west in 1992, is the highest point on Volcano Island. The diagonal ridge extending across the photo from the lower right shoreline is the rim of the elongated 1965 vent system. The dark lava flow at the coastline was erupted in 1968 from a cinder cone at the head of the 1965 vent. This and other overlapping cinder cones and craters at the right center were formed during eruptions from 1966 to 1977.
Photo by Chris Newhall (U.S. Geological Survey).
GVP Map Holdings
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Title: Philippines
Publisher: Apa Maps - Nelles Verlag, W Germany
Map Type: Geographic
Scale: 1:1,500
Title: Phillipines
Publisher: DMA Aerospace Center
Series: ONC
Map Type: Topographic
Scale: 1:1,000,000
Title: Philippine Islands
Series: TPC
Scale: 1:500,000
Title: Batangas
Publisher: US Army Map Service
Country: Philippine Islands
Series: AMS
Title: Manila
Title: South Luzon
Title: Philippines North: Special Strategic Map
Smithsonian Sample Collections Database
The following 9 samples associated with this volcano can be found in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences collections, and may be availble for research (contact the Rock and Ore Collections Manager). Catalog number links will open a window with more information.
Lava Source
NMNH 101587 Unidentified -- --
NMNH 116546-1 Basalt -- --
NMNH 116546-3 Olivine Basalt -- --
NMNH 116546-4 Volcanic Ash -- --
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MODVOLC Thermal Alerts Using infrared satellite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i, developed an automated system called MODVOLC to map thermal hot-spots in near real time. For each MODIS image, the algorithm automatically scans each 1 km pixel within it to check for high-temperature hot-spots. When one is found the date, time, location, and intensity are recorded. MODIS looks at every square km of the Earth every 48 hours, once during the day and once during the night, and the presence of two MODIS sensors in space allows at least four hot-spot observations every two days. Each day updated global maps are compiled to display the locations of all hot spots detected in the previous 24 hours. There is a drop-down list with volcano names which allow users to 'zoom-in' and examine the distribution of hot-spots at a variety of spatial scales.
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IRIS seismic stations/networks Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Services map showing the location of seismic stations from all available networks (permanent or temporary) within a radius of 0.18° (about 20 km at mid-latitudes) from the given location of Taal. Users can customize a variety of filters and options in the left panel. Note that if there are no stations are known the map will default to show the entire world with a "No data matched request" error notice.
UNAVCO GPS/GNSS stations Geodetic Data Services map from UNAVCO showing the location of GPS/GNSS stations from all available networks (permanent or temporary) within a radius of 20 km from the given location of Taal. Users can customize the data search based on station or network names, location, and time window. Requires Adobe Flash Player.
DECADE Data The DECADE portal, still in the developmental stage, serves as an example of the proposed interoperability between The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program, the Mapping Gas Emissions (MaGa) Database, and the EarthChem Geochemical Portal. The Deep Earth Carbon Degassing (DECADE) initiative seeks to use new and established technologies to determine accurate global fluxes of volcanic CO2 to the atmosphere, but installing CO2 monitoring networks on 20 of the world's 150 most actively degassing volcanoes. The group uses related laboratory-based studies (direct gas sampling and analysis, melt inclusions) to provide new data for direct degassing of deep earth carbon to the atmosphere.
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Large Eruptions of Taal Information about large Quaternary eruptions (VEI >= 4) is cataloged in the Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (LaMEVE) database of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA).
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The accolades continue to come in for Head Men’s Water Polo coach David Kasa as he was announced as the Associated Collegiate Water Polo (ACWPC) Coach of the Year for Division III.
Dominick Nevarez named ACWPC Player of the Year
The accolades continue to come in for senior attacker Dominick Nevarez (Norwalk, Calif.) as he was announced as the Associated Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) Player of the Year for Division III.
Whittier, Oh! Whittier Say Have You Seen Whittier?
That the first-ever DIII men’s national was an unqualified success was abundantly clear to this observer. No, the match-ups at the DIII Collegiate Men’s Water Polo National Championship weren’t as compelling as the action at the 2019 NCAA men’s tournament; not many games can top the scintillating Stanford vs. USC semifinal that was truly the national championship match.
David Kasa Featured in Swimming World Magazine
Following the most epic run in program history, Head Men’s Water Polo coach David Kasa was featured by Swimming World Magazine. Kasa in just his second season led the Purple & Gold to a 2019 Regular Season Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Title, the 2019 SCIAC Tournament Title, and of course a USA Water Polo Division III Collegiate National Championship.
Men's Water Polo (Div. III National Championship Highlight Video)
The Whittier College Men's Water Polo team was crowned the Division III USA Water Polo National Champions Sunday as they beat Claremont-M-S 5-3. Check out all the highlights brought to you by the Whittier College Sports Network.
Whittier wins Div. III National Collegiate Water Polo Championships
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team made history Sunday winning the school’s first ever Division III team National Championship as they held off Claremont-M-S 5-3 at the Slade Aquatic Center to clinch the inaugural Div. III National Collegiate Water Polo Championships.
Men’s Water Polo Advances to Div. III National Championship Game
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team continues to roll as they advanced to the Division III National Collegiate Water Polo Championship Game following a 12-8 victory over MIT Saturday.
No. 1 Whittier vs. No. 4 MIT (By the Numbers)
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team is set to host the inaugural Division III National Collegiate Water Polo Championships this weekend, Saturday-Sunday, December 7-8.
Whittier vs. Claremont-M-S (SCIAC Tournament Final) - Highlight Video
The Whittier College Men's Water Polo team clinched the 2019 SCIAC Tournament Title and earned the No. 1 seed in the Division III National Championships set to take place this weekend, Saturday-Sunday, December 7-8. Follow the highlights from the SCIAC Tournament Final.
Nevarez, Ersoz, Zdolsek, and Borunda named All-SCIAC
The 2019 All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) men's water polo teams were announced following a vote conducted by the league's member head coaches.
David Kasa named SCIAC Coach of the Year
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) released their All-SCIAC teams for men’s water polo and Whittier College Head Coach David Kasa highlighted the award recipients being named the SCIAC Coach of the Year.
Dominick Nevarez named SCIAC Athlete of the Year
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) released their All-SCIAC teams for men’s water polo and senior Dominick Nevarez (Norwalk, Calif.) was announced as the SCIAC Athlete of the Year as an attacker.
Whittier crowned SCIAC Tournament Champions
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team has been crowned the 2019 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic conference (SCIAC) Tournament Champions following a 13-12 victory over No. 2 Claremont-M-S.
SCIAC Semi-Final Highlights (No. 1 Whittier vs. No. 4 Redlands)
Catch the highlights from the No. 1 Whittier vs. No. 4 Redlands Semi-Final game. The Poets came out on top 12-7 and have earned a spot in the inaugural Division III National Championships. Today they host No. 2 Claremont-M-S for the SCIAC Tournament Title. Game time set for 11:00am.
Poets earn trip to SCIAC Finals; Beat Redlands 12-7
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team earned a trip to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Tournament Finals Friday following a 12-7 victory over No. 4 Uni. of Redlands.
No. 1 Whittier vs. No. 4 Redlands (SCIAC Semi-Finals)
The 2019 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Men's Water Polo Postseason Tournament is set to begin this Friday, November 22 with semifinal action. The SCIAC Tournament championship contest will then take place on Sunday, November 24.
Dominick Nevarez named SCIAC Athlete of the Week
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Athletes of the Week were announced for Men’s Water Polo Monday by the conference office.
Men’s Water Polo beats Occidental 13-8 on Senior Day
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team ended their 2019 regular season Saturday with a solid 13-8 victory over Occidental College.
Men’s Water Polo wins SCIAC Regular Season Title
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team needed a win Wednesday night and a Claremont-M-S loss in order to hold the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Regular Season Championship Title by themselves.
Whittier keeps Pomona-Pitzer in check 7-5
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team completed the regular season sweep over Pomona-Pitzer Saturday edging the Sagehens 7-5.
Whittier suffers 10-9 loss on the road to Claremont-M-S
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team suffered their first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) loss Wednesday night 10-9 to Claremont-M-S.
Dylan Woodhouse named SCIAC Defensive Athlete of the Week for the second straight week
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Athletes of the Week were announced Monday for Men’s Water Polo and junior transfer Dylan Woodhouse (Harare, Zimbabwe) was recognized as the Defensive Athlete of the Week in the ninth week of voting.
Men’s Water Polo sweeps Caltech and Occidental
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team had a solid sweep Saturday taking out Caltech (21-9) and Occidental (19-7).
Dylan Woodhouse name SCIAC Defensive Athlete of the Week
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Athletes of the Week were announced Monday and junior transfer Dylan Woodhouse (Harare, Zimbabwe) was recognized as the Men’s Water Polo Defensive Athlete of the Week in the ninth week of voting.
Poets pick up 11-8 road win over Kingsmen
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team pulled off a huge road win Saturday beating Cal Lutheran 11-8 to complete the sweep over the Kingsmen on the year.
Whittier cruises past La Verne 18-8
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team was untested Wednesday afternoon on the road as they cruised past the University of La Verne 18-8.
Men’s Water Polo splits with Caltech and No. 2 UCLA
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team had a busy Saturday rolling past Caltech 16-8 before almost pulling off the program’s biggest upset in a 10-8 loss to No. 2 UCLA.
Whittier edges Redlands 11-9
The Whittier College Men’s Water Polo team escaped the Lillian Slade Aquatic Center Wednesday night with an 11-9 win over the Uni. of Redlands.
Meet your 2019 Men's Water Polo Team
Join the Whittier College Sports Network as they introduce the 2019 Men's Water Polo team.
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David Guetta discusses new music with Anna Lunoe on Apple Music’s Beats 1
By Hemant Khatri
David Guetta recently made an appearance on DanceXL with Anna Lunoe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 to discuss his latest track ‘Make It To Heaven’. The French maestro opened up about his struggles with the selection of music for his sets and difficulties he faces in order to ensure that he keeps delivering a new style of music and at the same time pleases the audience. David feels that the underground scene with Tech House, Techno & similar genres are doing pretty well but he cannot play these records at big festivals like Tomorrowland as these tracks lack the energy required for around 50,000 people. At the same time, if he keeps on playing the traditional EDM, people starting pointing questions at the ability to evolve his style. Looking for answers to this one of a kind puzzle David Guetta in collaboration with another talented producer MORTEN develops a new sound that packs the classic rave feel from an underground record and combining it with traditional sounds that are trending and digestible by the masses.
Speaking about the influence of pop in dance music, he feels that the industry is cluttered with Pop at the moment and also agrees that he does have a role in it to some extent. However, he aims to keep the foundation of what got him into music intact and also encourages other DJs to refocus and shape the future. David has influenced millions of people worldwide with his music and also holds a strong ideology and approach to various different things related to the industry.
Listen to the David Guetta interview with MORTEN on Beats 1 down below.
David Guetta: I’m probably the one to blame but DJ’s are being going so pop to a point I felt I was losing myself
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Two months down the line from its initial release, the emphatic "Make It To Heaven" with Raye is to receive an exceptional rework from its original producers David Guetta and MORTEN. After unleashing the track upon a fiery AMF crowd back in October, it
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Out with 2019, in with an entirely new decade. This new decade is a chance to start fresh, but it is also a chance to look back upon the 2010's and reminisce over what it has given us particularly in
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Wesley Derby ER Celebrates Grand Opening with Community Open House
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WICHITA –Wesley Healthcare, regional medical professionals and city dignitaries held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and community open house this afternoon to celebrate the grand opening of Wesley’s $10 million freestanding emergency department – Wesley Derby ER.
“We’re excited to start providing expert emergency care right here where our Derby patients and families live,” said Bill Voloch, Wesley Healthcare’s president and CEO. “Illness and injury happen at any hour of the day or night and it’s important to have a facility available to the Derby community 24/7.”
The 11,000-square-foot facility is located at the corner of 63rd Street South and Rock Road and includes 11 emergency room beds, imaging capabilities and an on-site laboratory. The facility will be open for patients early December.
“Derby is very blessed to have such a well-known and trusted ER provider in our community,” said Randy White, city mayor of Derby. “This facility will not only be a valued asset to our local citizens, but will also be able to provide medical service to the surrounding communities.”
The new emergency room will offer online ER check-in and starting in March will also provide average wait times for consumers to review prior to their visit. Wait times for all of Wesley ER locations are available on Wesley’s ER check-in mobile phone app, which also allows patients to start their check-in process prior to arrival at any of Wesley’s ER locations. Patients also can check-in and access wait times by visiting wesleyonlinercheckin.com. Wesley continues to be the only hospital in south central Kansas to provide up-to-the minute average wait times for its emergency rooms.
“No one wants to visit an ER, so making the experience faster and easier is important,” said Francie Ekengren, MD, Wesley Healthcare chief medical officer and emergency medicine physician. “We know that medical outcomes improve and healthcare costs are lower when crowding is reduced in emergency departments. Providing wait times information and the ability to check-in before arriving are ways to do just that.”
The Wesley EmergencyCare Network commits to achieving an average wait time of less than 30 minutes for adults and less than 20 minutes for children. The “average ER wait time” represents the approximate time it takes for a patient to see an ER provider (physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner) after arrival to begin treatment. Last year, Wesley cared for nearly 120,000 patients in its emergency rooms.
The new facility staffed by board-certified emergency medicine physicians marks Wesley’s fifth emergency room location which includes Wesley Medical Center’s main ER, Wesley Woodlawn Hospital & ER, Wesley West ER and the region’s only dedicated pediatric ER.
For more information about the Wesley EmergencyCare Network and its services, please visit www.wesleymc.com.
Wesley Healthcare is the region’s leading acute care hospital network providing a full range of diagnostic and treatment services for patients throughout Kansas and northern Oklahoma since 1912. As a leader in Overall Recommended Care in national surveys, Wesley Medical Center treats more than 24,000 patients annually and delivers more than 6,000 babies – more than any hospital in a 13-state region. Wesley provides the most extensive emergency network in Wichita, with Wesley ER, Wesley West ER, Wesley Woodlawn ER, the region’s only pediatric ER and, soon, Wesley Derby ER. Wesley owns and operates Wesley Woodlawn Hospital & ER, multiple WesleyCare clinics and recently opened the region’s only dedicated children’s hospital – Wesley Children’s Hospital. To learn more about Wesley Healthcare, please visit www.wesleymc.com.
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A low cost approach for paginated report subscriptions in Power BI
Paginated reports in Power BI offer a rich set of capabilities for printing, and the generation of report documents. Paginated reports can be exported to multiple document formats, and those exports can be scheduled and delivered via email. Unfortunately, for the moment at least, paginated reports require the use of a dedicated capacity, which can be cost prohibitive for some. This article describes a pattern that will help minimize the cost of using paginated reports for subscriptions.
Dedicated capacities
The term “Premium” is often used to describe the resource (as opposed to user) based licensing option in Power BI. More accurately, this option is called “dedicated capacity”, and there are a number of different ways to use dedicated capacity. Premium is certainly one of those ways, but the Azure (A) SKU and the EMbedding (EM) SKU are two others.
The different SKUs have different features and capabilities, but for the purposes of this article, they are functionally equivalent. For a detailed discussion of the different dedicated capacity SKUs, see my older post Understanding the Power BI capacity based SKUs.
The “A” SKU is of particular interest, because unlike the other two SKU types, it is billed in hourly increments as opposed to monthly. If the capacity can be started, perform a task, and then stopped, then you will only be billed for the time used to perform the task in question. Matt Allington has a post that outlines this concept in great detail: Affordable Power BI Premium for Small Business .
In our scenario, we have a paginated report that uses a published Power BI dataset as a data source. as of this writing, there is no API call available to render a paginated report on demand, so we will rely on the scheduled subscription capability. in order to minimize the cost of the solution, we want the dedicated capacity to run as little as possible.
The solution will consist of an Azure logic app, and Power BI paginated report scheduling. An Azure logic app uses the same set of actions that a Flow in Power automate does, but is a little more flexible in its permissions model.
The overall process flow is as follows:
The Logic App runs on a schedule, and starts the dedicated capacity by calling the Power BI API from an HTTP action
The Logic app uses the “Refresh a dataset” Power BI action to initiate a dataset refresh. Note that this is only necessary if the report’s data souce is a Power BI dataset.
On a schedule that allows for the dataset above to be refreshed, the report schedule runs and delivers the report to the destination addresses.
Another Logic App runs on a schedule that allows for both the refresh of the data in step 2, and the report to be rendered in step 3, that pauses the capacity. Ideally this should be less than a hour after the capacity was started in step 1, given the hourly billing increments.
Optionally, further automation can run on the destination inbox to deliver the report to alternate locations, such as a SharePoint library, etc.
Create the capacity
Prior to doing any of this, you will need to create a Power BI dedicated capacity in Azure. In Azure, the service is called “Power BI Embedded” and detailed instructions for creating it can be found in this document.
Although there are 6 possible sizes to choose from, paginated reports in the Power BI service require an A4 capacity at a minimum. It is therefore important to select the “Change size” link and choose a size that is A4 or greater.
Once created, any relevant workspaces can be assigned to this capacity. It should be noted that the capacity must be created in the same tenant as the Power BI service itself.
Starting and Refreshing
Creating an Azure Logic app is relatively straightforward. The steps involved in doing so can be found in this introductory document. Once created, we will add a schedule trigger, an HTTP action, and a “Refresh a dataset” action. The complete Logic app is below.
Logic app to start the capacity and refresh a dataset
The recurrence step will kick off the run on a scheduled basis. You can set the recurrence to a number of time periods, and the run time will be based on that start date/time. In the example above, the process runs every day at 2:50 AM
The HTTP step calls into Azure to start the capacity. The request is a POST request, and all that it requires is a single URL.You must provide 3 configuration values for it to work. The URL itself is:
https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{SubscriptionGUID}/resourceGroups/{ResourceGroup}/providers/Microsoft.PowerBIDedicated/capacities/{CapacityName}/resume?api-version=2017-10-01
{SubscriptionGUID} is the GUID of the Azure subscription for the capacity
{ResourceGroup} is the name of the Resource Group for the capacity
{CapacityName} is the name of the capacity
The other important item here is the Authentication setting. There are a number of options here, and your choice will match your requirements. For this example, we are using the relatively new “Managed Identity” in Azure. Managed identity allows one service (the Power BI capacity) to grant direct access to another (our Logic app). In this way, the Logic app is granted permission to start and stop the capacity.
More information on managed identities can be found in this Microsoft document.
The final action in this app is the “Refresh a dataset” action. Once added, you provide your credentials, select a workspace, and the the dataset to be refreshed. The logic app waits for the HTTP action to finish before it tries to refresh the dataset, so you do not need to worry about adding pauses.
The subscription for the paginated report needs to be set to run some time after the dataset above has refreshed if using a dataset as a data source, or after the capacity has started if not. There is nothing unique about subsctriptions for this process, but you need to be aware of the timing. The subscription must run and complete in the time between the starting and refresh of any datasets, and when the companion logic apps fires to pause the capacity.
As of this writing, subscriptions can only be delivered to mailboxes within the same tenant as the Power BI service itself.
To create a subscription, select the “Subscribe” button in the upper right of the report toolbar.
Next, complete the subscription options. Note that in this example, the subscription is set to run at 3:15 AM, which is 25 minutes after the start capacity Logic app fires, allowing for plenty of time to start the capacity, and to refresh the dataset that this report connects to.
Pausing the capacity
A second Logic app is required to pause the capacity. It needs to be scheduled to allow for the subscription to be sent, ideally within an hour of the capacity starting so that only one hour of usage is billed.
The Logic app to pause the capacity is very similar to the one to start it, with a different URL being called.
In our example, the Recurrence trigger is set to run daily at 3:45 AM, which is 55 minutes after the start app.
The HTTP action settings are identical to those in the startup logic app, with the exception that the suspend method is called instead of the resume method. The full URL is below.
While paginated reports are currently a “Premium” offering, it is possible to use automation techniques, along with the Power BI Embedded Azure service to only run the service for an hour a day, turning a cost of hundreds per day into several dollars per day.
By taking advantage of the report rendering capabilities that paginated reports affords, and by building the reports on top of pre-existing Power BI dataset, paginated reports can become a print engine for the analytical reports.
Keep your Power BI SharePoint reports current with Microsoft Flow
Power BI is without question the best way to report on data in SharePoint lists. The query tools available in Power Query make working with SharePoint data relatively painless, an the cached dataset means that reports are run against an optimized copy of the list data, not the data itself.
This latter distinction, while removing the performance issues of systems that query lists directly, also introduces problems with data latency. The report will never be fully “up to date”, as it needs to be refreshed on a periodic basis.
Consider the following scenario. A Power BI report has been built that uses data from a SharePoint list. That report has been embedded on a SharePoint page in the same site. A user adds an item to the list, and then navigates to the page to see the updated report. Unfortunately, that report won’t get updated until the next scheduled refresh.
This has been a significant problem, until the recent release of the new “Refresh a dataset” action in Microsoft Flow.
It is a relatively simple procedure to add a simple 1 step flow to any SharePoint list that is triggered when an item is created, updated, or deleted. This flow simply needs to add the “Refresh a dataset” action, that is configured for the relevant dataset, and these embedded reports will be updated very shortly after the data is modified.
Alternatively, the flow can be triggered by a timer, allowing you to create your own schedule (every 5 minutes, etc) that is not hardwired to run at the top or bottom of any given hour.
A few caveats should be kept in mind when using this action however.
While this action gives us much finer grained control over when refreshes happen, all of the current license restrictions remain in place. For datasets located in the shared capacity, only 8 refreshes per day are allowed.
For datasets in dedicated capacities (Premium), there are no limits to the number of refreshes. The limit of 48 per day is a UI restriction, not a licensing restriction. However, refresh can utilize significant resources, particularly memory, so you’ll want to ensure that you have significant resources to support the update frequency.
Finally, the load on the source data system should be considered. Refresh will pull a significant amount of data every time it is run.
Caveats aside, this new flow action is a welcome relief to those that need greater control of how their reports are updated.
Fixing Power BI Report Builder Connection Errors
Power BI Report Builder is Microsoft’s design tool for building Paginated reports in Power BI. It is based on Microsoft Report Builder (formerly SQL Server Reporting Services Report Builder), but has been optimized for the Power BI service.
One of the most important capabilities of Power BI Report Builder is the ability to connect to datasets that have been published to the service. If you have done this, and spent any significant amount of time building reports, you may have come across some puzzling connection errors that are caused by the same thing.
After initially creating a connection and building a “Paginated dataset” (not to be confused with a Power BI service dataset), and then spending some time designing your report, when you select the “Run” option from the ribbon, you may be presented with the “Failed to preview report” error shown at the top of this article. Selecting the details button reveals more information:
A similar error can be found under the same conditions when editing a Paginated dataset’s query with the Query designer tool. Selecting this tool can result in the error “Unable to connect to data source xxxxxxxx”, and the details button reveals another “Unauthorized” error.
What’s worse in this case is that when you select OK, a dialog box appears prompting you to enter a set of credentials.
There are no combination of credentials that you can enter that will fix the connection to the data source. This dialog box was designed for classic paginated connections, not for connections to published data sets. You should select cancel if you see this dialog box.
What is happening in both of these cases is that the token acquired from the Power BI service has expired, and Report Builder does not automatically fetch a new one. There are a couple of ways to deal with this problem.
If you have saved the RDL file to a local file system, you can close Report Builder and reopen it. That will re-establish the data connection. You could also choose to save the RDL directly into the Power BI workspace. This will also re-establish the connection. You can do this by selecting File – Save as and selecting Power BI Service.
You can then choose which workspace to save the file in. This also removes the need to upload the file into the service when you want to publish it – saving and publishing are the same thing in this scenario.
If you are editing a file directly in the service, these errors will still appear after periods of no data retrieval activity, but the connection can re-established simply by saving the report. You can look at the errors as a way of prompting you to save your work .
Connecting Power BI workspaces and SharePoint sites
Power BI V2 workspaces recently (May 2019) entered into general availability. The biggest difference between a V1 and V2 Power BI workspace is the fact that a V2 workspace is not backed by an Office 365 group, and a V1 workspace is. One area that this change affects a great deal is the “Get data” experience in the Power BI service (browser). This post outlines the differences, and describes the configuration options.
Data connections to files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive have certain unique characteristics when they are created in the browser. For example, these connections are automatically refreshed hourly unless that option is disabled.
V1 workspaces automatically offer the connection to the Documents library in the underlying SharePoint site. V2 workspaces do not automatically offer this option, as there is no underpinning SharePoint site. However, any V2 workspace can be connected to any Modern SharePoint site, and in this way, the option is more flexible. For the sake of clarity, a Modern SharePoint site is one that is backed by an Office 365 Group, and has an email address.
Let’s explore the 4 possible experiences when using “Get Data” and then choosing “Files” in the Power BI service. There are 4 possible experiences, depending on the type and configuration of the workspace;
Personal workspace
V1 workspace
V2 workspace not connected to a site
V2 workspace connected to a site
In each example below, the options are reached by selecting “Get Data” and then choosing “Files”. The type of files that can be imported are CSV, Excel, PBIX (Power BI Desktop files) and RDL (paginated reports).
The personal workspace is the only workspace available using the free Power BI license. It is not connected to any SharePoint sites, and provides 4 options for importing.
“Local File” can be used for importing files from a local file store. Files imported in this manner are not automatically refreshed, and without the use of a gateway, cannot be. This option is available for every workspace type and will not be discussed further. “Learn about importing files” is a simple help link, likewise available to all workspace types.
OneDrive – Business connects to the currently logged in user’s OneDrive for Business storage. This is the OneDrive that is associated with “School or Organization” account which is stored in Azure Active Directory.
OneDrive – Personal connects to a user’s personal, or consumer OneDrive account. This is the type of OneDrive that is accessed using a “personal” account (otherwise known as a Microsoft account, or MSA). The personal workspace is the only type of workspace that allows a connection to personal OneDrive content.
SharePoint – Team Sites allows files stored in any SharePoint Online library to be loaded. Files stored in SharePoint on-premises can be loaded into Power BI, but only through Power BI Desktop. This method is online only.
Data imported in this fashion will be updated hourly with the exception of “Local File”. This will also be true of any OneDrive or SharePoint source referenced below.
A Power BI V1 workspace is connected to an Office 365 Group, and therefore backed by a SharePoint site. This is reflected in the Files experience in the service.
Here we see 3 import options. Local File, SharePoint – Team Sites, and “Learn about..” are exactly the same as with personal workspaces. However, both OneDrive options from there are unavailable. The “OneDrive – XXXX” option is different, and bears some explanation.
In the image above, “Demos” is the name of the V1 workspace. Selecting this option will open the SharePoint library named “Documents” in the SharePoint site that is associated with this workspace and Office 365 group.
In my opinion, this option is poorly named, which leads to confusion. This container truly has nothing to do with OneDrive – it is a SharePoint library. We already have enough different “OneDrives” to keep track of, but I digress.
V2 workspace (not connected to a site)
The V2 workspace is not associated with a SharePoint site, and therefore, there is no Documents library to connect to. The option is instead replaced with the ability to connect to the user’s OneDrive for Business (OneDrive – Business) storage, as in the personal workspace. In essence, this experience is identical to the personal workspace experience minus the ability to connect to personal OneDrives.
V2 workspace (connected to a site)
Although a V2 workspace is not inherently connected to a SharePoint site, it can be manually connected to one. This restores the capability missing from V1 workspaces, while being more flexible. The workspace is no longer bound to a specific site, but can be configured to work with any Modern SharePoint site. In addition, the same site can be bound to multiple workspaces.
The “Modern” distinction above is important. The SharePoint site itself must be backed by an Office 365 group, as that is how it is identified in Power BI.
Associating a workspace with a SharePoint site
With V2 workspaces, site connection is now a property of the workspace. To edit workspace properties, select either the workspace settings button in the ribbon, or the ellipsis beside the workspace in the workspace list.
The connection setting is in the advanced section, and is identified as the “Workspace OneDrive”.
The important thing to note here is that you do NOT enter the URL of the SharePoint site in this field. This field is expecting the address of it in email format (ie demos@xxxx.com). All Modern Sharepoint sites are bound to an Office 365 group, and the email address is the address of that group.
Get Data – File options for a V2 connected site
Once connected, the “Get Data” – “File” options will be much the same as with an unconnected workspace, but with the “OneDrive – SiteName” option added.
I still take exception with the name presented above, in my opinion it should be “Site – SiteName” or “SharePoint – SiteName site” and use a SharePoint option. However, once connected files in the connected site can be imported easily into the Power BI service.
It is important to understand what the connected site is used for in Power BI. Connecting a site allows for files stored in a SharePoint library to be either imported into the service (all supported file types), or connected to (Excel files). This feature does NOT allow Power BI content to be stored in a SharePoint library
Connect to Power BI dataflows and datasets using Power BI Desktop with multiple accounts
Power BI datasets and dataflows are the two native data sources for Power BI reports. Connecting to a datasets allows a report to be built against an existing Power BI dataset in place, and dataflows represent a source of data that has had transformations applied to it. When connecting to Power BI dataflows, data is imported, into a data model but the connection to a Power BI dataset is a direct connection.
The two sources handle identity in drastically different ways, and this can lead to confusion when dealing with multiple accounts and tenants. This post is an attempt to help clarify this confusion
Connecting to a dataset
To connect to a Power BI dataset, select the “Get Data” button from the ribbon, select the “Power BI” tab, select Power BI dataset, and finally the “Connect” button.
Next, if a user is signed into Power BI Desktop a list of workspaces and their datasets are presented. If not, the user is prompted to sign in. The dataset can then be connected.
The important thing to notice here is the list of workspaces itself. The list presented is a list of the workspaces available in the tenant belonging to the currently signed in user. It is the same list of workspaces that can be chosen as a publishing target. It should also be noted that the identity of the user is displayed in the upper right corner of the dialog box, and the identity can be changed directly from there.
Connecting to a dataset in a different tenant
The signed in user can be changed by selecting “Sign in” at the upper right of the Power BI Desktop client, or within the connection dialog itself. If the user signs into a different account (in a different tenant), a different list of workspaces and datasets will then be offered. The dataset source is hard linked to the currently signed in user. In this way, the Power BI dataset source behaves differently than all other data sources, which maintain connection credentials separately.
Connecting to a Dataflow
Connecting to a dataflow follows the same steps as a dataset, with the exception that the “Power BI dataflows” option is chosen.
At this point, a Power BI data connection dialog will be shown.
There is only one authentication option because Power BI dataflows only support one authentication option.
Unlike datasets, dataflows are NOT linked to the currently signed in user. The connection is authenticated, not the current user. The “Sign In” button must be selected, and authentication completed to connect to a Power BI dataflow.
Once signed in, selecting the “Connect” button will display a list of workspaces that contain dataflows. Expanding the workspace and then the dataflow will expose a list of entities that can be imported into the Power BI data model.
The connection information for the dataflow is cached with Power BI Desktop, and subsequent connections to dataflows will not require the user to sign in. The same authentication credentials will be used.
it should be noted that unlike the dataset connection dialog, this one does not show the current credentials and does not allow those credentials to be changed. This makes the process of changing credentials to use dataflows in multiple tenant somewhat less than intuitive.
Connecting to a dataflow in a different tenant
With datasets, changing the currently signed in user will result in a different set of datasets being presented when the dataset option is chosen. This is different with dataflows. No matter what user is currently logged in, the cached credentials will be used.
This behaviour can be confusing when multiple tenants need to be accessed. With most other data sources, the cached credentials are linked with the specific data source. For example, when two different SQL databases are connected, Power BI caches two different sets of credentials.
To connect to dataflows in a different tenant, the current connection information needs to be cleared. This can be done with any data source, but it is particularly important to dataflows as it is the only way to switch connection credentials.
To clear the credentials for the dataset, select “File”, “Options and Settings” and the “Data Source Settings”. The Data source settings dialog will then be presented.
Unlike most other data sources which can have multiple entries in the list, one for each unique data source, there will only be one source for dataflows. It is named “Power BI dataflows. For example, if the current instance of Power BI Desktop has authenticated to 3 different SQL servers, there will be three SQL Server connections in this list, but there will only be one for dataflows, no matter how many tenants that have been connected.
To switch tenants, the current credentials must be either cleared, or edited. The cached credentials can be fully removed by selecting “Clear Permissions” or they can be changed by selecting “Edit Permissions”. If cleared, the user will be prompted for credentials the next time the dataflow option is selected. If edited, the new credentials will be stored.
Conclusions, and recommendations
It is possible to work with multiple tenants for both connected datasets and dataflows. However, the methods for doing so are completely different for either option. This can obviously lead to some confusion.
It is my opinion that this behaviour should be changed, and that the behaviour or connected datasets is the more intuitive. If the credentials for the currently logged in user were user for both types of connection, it would be much more intuitive, and also easier to user for report designers.
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Langley Vale Wood – September update
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Each month there are stories and new developments to report at Langley Vale Wood, the largest of our four First World War Centenary Woods in Surrey, and September was no exception. Planning consent was obtained for the visitor car park, walking trails and memorial sculpture and staff are busy working through the conditions to enable work to commence next year. In the meantime, volunteers at the site continue to give help with site management, their time and knowledge to monitor arable plants, birds and butterflies, and engage with local residents through the series of guided walks which are being held this year.
Simon Bateman-Brown, who is the Site Manager at Langley Vale Wood, talks us through much of last months activity in his September update below.
We’re working through a large number of conditions associated with the planning conditions for the car park, paths and memorial sculpture. We intend to submit a large number of these to the councils in early November, with more to follow later that month. The current conditions we’re focusing on need to be discharged (agreed by the councils) prior to work beginning.
The planning application for the sculptures in the Regiment of Trees area and in Jutland Wood is still being considered by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, but we hope to have a decision later this month. The intention, all being well, is to have the Regiment of Trees sculptures installed for November and the Jutland Wood sculptures in the spring.
The invitation to tender for the pedestrian hard surface paths and the multi-user paths has now been sent out to six potential suppliers. Site meetings will be held this month with interested suppliers to show them the site and answer any questions they may have and we hope to have the returned tenders back with us by the end of November.
It’s been a brilliant year for butterflies and huge thanks go to our amazing volunteers who carry out weekly monitoring at the site during the spring and summer. This year we had a total number of 4,220 sightings (2,982 in 2018), 29 species (28 in 2018), which averaged as 183 sightings per survey (157 in 2018). When we think of how little appropriate habitat there was just a few years ago, this is really quite astonishing and goes to show how quickly a former intensively managed farm can be turned into an incredibly valuable nature reserve.
Black Redstart at Langley Vale Wood.
Photo credit: Rob Carr
Arable plants
The arable plant survey report, carried out by a qualified ecologist over the spring and summer, has just been received. Although I haven’t had a chance to fully digest the report as of yet, the essence of the report shows that arable plants at the site have significantly increased yet again, not only in number, but also in spread and diversity of species. This is a huge boost to all associated with the project and shows that our management is on the right track. There are still areas for improvement and potential for trial areas to tackle the thistles that are becoming an issue, but overall the arable areas have proven to be a great success again. Our volunteer group have also been tirelessly monitoring for arable plants over the last few months and their results, along with the ecologist, are proving invaluable to feed into the management of the site.
Volunteer guided walks
There were two guided walks held in September, both of which were very well attended and received excellent feedback. Some of comments received about what the attendees enjoyed most included;
“Volunteers knowledge and explanations.”
“Seeing the trees we helped plant growing strongly.”
“Everything! Excellent guides, really interesting walk in a lovely wood/area.”
Langley Vale Wood volunteers preparing a chalk scrape and seeding with Kidney Vetch. Photo credit: David Hatcher
Chalk scrapes
Earlier in the year we created two chalk scrapes and sowed these with kidney vetch seed; the larval food plant for the rare ‘small blue butterfly’. The kidney vetch has done very well, but we agreed that an additional scrape, close to the first, would be of great benefit. This has now been done and we’ve also fenced off all three scrapes to protect the kidney vetch from sheep grazing. Hopefully we’ll start to find small blue butterfly in our survey data from next year.
Grove sponsorship
It’s been a busy month for people interested in sponsoring a grove at the site. Even though all of the groves have been planted, people are still finding the idea of sponsoring a grove at England’s First World War Centenary site a very appealing idea. Several discussions are also still going on, so hopefully we’ll be able to secure further sponsorship before the end of the year. If you know of anyone who may be interested in sponsoring a grove then please contact Jim Rice jamesrice@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Sainsbury’s Community Orchard
Following the vandalism in the orchard last month, where all of the fruit was taken and several trees were damaged, we have now put up signs throughout the orchard which will hopefully deter any further damage being caused. Whilst it’s too late to save this season’s fruit, it may be enough to get the message across to those responsible. We are also discussing further measures that we can take to help protect the orchard.
Langley Vale Wood takeover
During the week beginning 16th September, we launched an internal takeover to raise the profile of the site. This included a slide show in reception at head office, a desktop takeover of all Citrix computers with a photo of the site, several articles posted on Jostle and a staff talk given by myself and Carol Honeybun-Kelly. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and hard work – it’s important that this special site is not forgotten
Assistant Site Manager
This position has now been advertised, with a closing date of 20th October. Interviews will be held on the 5th November, so hopefully we’ll have someone in post by December.
Volunteer meeting
Also in September, we held our first meeting with volunteer leaders and myself to discuss the project and any issues that have come up. The meeting was very productive and included issues around chemical use on the site, access to the site, habitat management and forthcoming corporate events. These meetings will become a regular feature.
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2017 KBS Drama Awards: Series’ Shorts Award (The Last Week of Madam Jung)
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FHIR Collaborative Review Implementation Guide
Revision as of 20:09, 27 March 2016 by David hay (talk | contribs) (→Overview)
3 FHIR Resources
5.1 1. a user (the 'editor') initiates a review cycle on a 'target resource'
5.2 2. other users ('reviewers') are invited to participate in the review
5.3 3. reviewers are presented with a form that allows them to comment on the contents of the resource
5.4 4. the editor is notified of reviewer's progress in the review
5.5 5. the reviewers and the editor is able to see a summary of user comments on the review, and respond with a comment of their own
5.6 6. reviewers are notified of the editor's comments, and all users are able to see the final outcome
5.7 7. the editor updates the target resource
This Implementation Guide describes a how a FHIR Server can provide a set of services that allows for a team to review a resource instance, comment on it's contents, and then provide a response by a collator, following which, the original resource will be updated.
This Implementation Guide is intended to be suitable for supporting the collaborative review process on conformance resources (profiles, extensions, value sets, translations, conformance statements etc).
Note: The process that this IG supports may also be useful and applicable to other kinds of FHIR resources (e.g. clinical review of a medications list), or some variant of the process may be needed, but this is out of scope of the first round of this implementation guide.
Fundamentally, the review process follows this general pattern:
a user (the 'editor') initiates a review cycle on a 'target resource'
other users ('reviewers') are invited to participate in the review
reviewers are presented with a form that allows them to comment on the contents of the resource
the editor is notified of reviewer's progress in the review
the reviewers and the editor are able to see a summary of user comments on the review, and respond with a comment of their own question: do we anticipate a 'threaded' discussion?
reviewers are notified of the editor's comments, and all users are able to see the final outcome
the editor updates the target resource
I think we also need to support a more informal process, whereby -for some longer period- anyone (users, developers, ...) can submit comments about the resource.
FHIR Resources
The following FHIR resources are used in the review process:
Practitioner- all the registered users (see below) involved in the process are exposed as Practitioner resources that represent their possible roles to the system
Group - the Group resource allows users to identify their review interests
Encounter - each review cycle is represented by an encounter dh: would this be better represented as a task?
Questionnaire - generated to collect comments from the reviewer or editor
QuestionnaireResponse - records the input made be reviewer or editor
StructureDefinition & ValueSet - used by the server when generating questionnaires for steps 3 and 5
Communication/CommunicationResponse - used to track invitations and notifications through the process
AuditEvent - used to record all the steps in the process
The heart of a good Collaborative Review Process is the ability to generate good questionnaires from the underlying resource definitions and the target resource.
The following services are described that act in concert to provide a Collaborative review. Note that any single server may provide more than one of these. It is assumed, for the purposes of this service, that all the services share the same set of authorised users (and user SMART on FHIR to authorize them).
Orchestration Server - this provides the workflow support, tracking the overall process. Resources: Communication/CommunicationResponse/AuditEvent/Practitioner/Group
Target Server - this hosts the resource that is being reviewed
Presentation Server - this takes a reference to the target profie, and generates a nicely formatted questionnaire asking the user about it's content
analysis server - this takes user submissions as QuestionnaireResponses, and stores them, and is capable of collating the output to a single.... something
Conformance Server - this provides a FHIR Tooling Eco-system conformance service that supports the Presentation and Analysis servers
Display server - takes a profile and generates a display of that profile. The profile could be similar to that used in the spec,or something more custom
User server - the server hosting the Practitioner resources representing the users
Example server - generates samples of resources conformant to the profile being tested. Either automatically generated or via a UI. Needs to work with a sample user with other referenceable resources
1. a user (the 'editor') initiates a review cycle on a 'target resource'
Editor logs into the Target server to select one or more conformance resources that will be reviewed. This creates a new Encounter resource on the Orchestration server. (How to make an Encounter point to the resources under review - I think it's a bit far fetched to use Encounter for this - ek). The editor may associate a specific Questionnaire with this round of comments and thus this Encounter, so the Questionnaire can be tailored to fit the review process for these conformance resources (actually, you may want a different Questionnaire per type of conformance resource - ek)
2. other users ('reviewers') are invited to participate in the review
The Editor invites the users by selecting one or more from the list of Practitioners (representing the users involved in the review process) from the Orchestration server. These are added to the Encounter as participants. The users are notified by the creation of a Communication resource. Subsystems watching the creation of such Communication resources are involved to signal the reviewers, e.g. by e-mail.
3. reviewers are presented with a form that allows them to comment on the contents of the resource
Reviewers either have a direct url to get to the presentation server (e.g. from the email), or find a list of reviews they are currently participating in on the Orchestration server, from which they may select one of the resources to review. The presentation server fetches the Questionnaire that is relevant for this review and conformance resource, and sees whether there is already a QuestionnaireAnswers present (e.g. when the reviewer has already partly answered the Questionnaire, or wants to change his/her answers) and renders the Questionnaire + pre-fills any answers already given. When the review is ready, the reviewer saves his/her answers using the Presentation server to the Orchestration server.
4. the editor is notified of reviewer's progress in the review
When QuestionnaireAnswers get created or changed, the Orchestration server looks up the review session (=Encounter) to which this submitted review belongs and finds the editor. The Orchestration server creates a new notification as a Communication resource, which -using a subsystem that is subscribed to new communication resources - will forward this to the editor.
5. the reviewers and the editor is able to see a summary of user comments on the review, and respond with a comment of their own
Reviewers and editors can query/poll the Orchestation server for submissions of QuestionnaireAnswers and view the other user's comments. They can select other user's QuestionnaireAnswers, and add one or more comments to them.
I'd like to introduce a system where users can make comments on both conformance resources and QuestionnaireAnswers where they can refer to parts of the resource or Questionnaire by using FluentPath, so creating a Communication which has both a resource id (from the conformance resource or QuestionnaireAnswers) + a path into the resource. This way the Target or Presentation server can show the comments inline with the rendering of the resource itself.
6. reviewers are notified of the editor's comments, and all users are able to see the final outcome
The editor marks the Encounter as closed for review, updates the conformance resource(s). Finally, a Communication is sent to all interested parties. This may be a broader group than the reviewers, e.g. the Target site may have an RSS feed that reflects the Communication resources created as a result to updates to a conformance resource.
7. the editor updates the target resource
Don't see how 6 and 7 are different.
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US Military Officials Worried: Are Young Americans Too Fat?
By Susan Shand
On July 4, America's Independence Day, U.S. President Donald Trump asked more Americans to join the military.
"To young Americans across our country, now is your chance to join our military and make a truly great statement in life, and you should do it," Trump said in his speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
FILE - Matt Elam, center, competes in a US Marine pull-up contest while Marine recruiters Sgt. Marco Hartanto, left, and Gysgt. Brian Lancioni watch during BayFest 2006 held at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Tuesday, July 4, 2006, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
The next day, Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House. He said he believed his statement would increase the number of young people joining the military.
"Based on that, we're going to have a lot of people joining our military," he said.
However, a 2016 Department of Defense report found that nearly 75 percent of young Americans are unable to serve in the military, mostly because they weigh too much. Military recruitment is decreasing.
The Department of Defense says the Navy, Marines and Air Force met their recruiting goals in 2018; but the Army did not. The Army fell more than 6,500 recruits short of its target of 76,500.
In 2018, the group Mission: Readiness said in a report that 71 percent of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 cannot meet all the basic requirements for military service. Mission: Readiness is a group of 750 retired military members that makes policy recommendations to the government.
The biggest problem is obesity. About 31 percent of young American would be rejected because they are overweight. Other problems are lack of education, criminal history and drug use.
Retired Army Major General Allen Youngman from Mission: Readiness said almost 25 percent of high school graduates are unable to pass the basic military entrance tests.
Not only is the number of eligible recruits decreasing, but the number of young Americans interested in military careers is decreasing, the report found. This is partly the result of a strong national economy. There are many job opportunities for young people and that makes military careers seem less desirable, Youngman said.
As the number of people serving in the military decreases, the problem is likely to get worse.
That's because there are fewer members of the military "to encourage a young person to consider military service," said Youngman. The U.S. Army Recruiting Command reports that 79 percent of recruits have a relative who also served in the military.
Youngman said, lowering education or criminal history rules in order to enlarge the recruiting numbers is not a good choice. Rules are rules, he added.
"We've just got to work harder to find young people who can meet them."
However, the numbers are not encouraging.
By age two, 14 percent of American children are already obese. That percentage increases as children get older, the Mission:Readiness report said. In the 16-19 age group, 42 percent of Americans are overweight. Nearly 70 percent of overweight teens become overweight or obese adults.
The problem is very serious in southern states, like Georgia and Alabama. These states provide a large number of military recruits, but also have some of the highest levels of obesity in the country.
I'm Susan Shand.
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Voith introduces online platform MyVoith for digital applications and services
MyVoith is a global platform that brings together the company?s digital services and business related information in one location. The platform offers users personalized access to their applications, services, and data from the Voith world. These include industry-specific webshops, asset management solutions and further self-service applications, as well as the Voith IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) applications and services. Applications from different industries will be available for the global launch, further applications will be added over time. Voith implements the platform my.voith.com for customers, partners, and suppliers of the Voith Group.
MyVoith as a global platform for digital applications and services
MyVoith is consolidating Voith?s digital applications and services on one single platform ? globally and across all of its industries based on latest security and data privacy standards. After logging in, registered users can configure and personalize the dashboard according to their individual needs. In the App Zone, users will have access to industry-specific apps such as the Voith webshop and service applications or IIoT solutions. The Voith IIoT platform OnCumulus is also integrated into MyVoith. This gives users the ability to control IIoT applications directly from the platform. Furthermore, the online platform MyVoith serves as a digital central point of contact for all communication with Voith ? from order history to exclusive, personalized information.
Single sign-on for all features for a consistent user experience
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The radical fresh push to decriminalise cannabis
6:43am Apr 17, 2018
The Australian Greens are proposing to decriminalise cannabis, declaring the war on drugs has failed.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale said the country's approach to illicit drugs was an "unmitigated disaster" and it was time for real reform.
"Governments around the world are realising that prohibition of cannabis causes more harm than it prevents," Senator Di Natale said.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale said the country's approach to illicit drugs was an "unmitigated disaster" and it was time for real reform. (AAP) (Supplied)
"It's time Australia joined them and legalised cannabis for adult use."
The minor party wants to redefine cannabis as a legal substance, with licences issued for its production and sale.
A national agency would be established to issue licences, monitor and enforce conditions and oversee regulations.
Up to six plants could be grown for personal use and strict penalties would be imposed on selling cannabis to minors or without a licence.
Senator Di Natale pointed to a recent poll showing 55 percent of Australians believed cannabis should be regulated and taxed like alcohol or tobacco. (AAP) (Nine)
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Senator Di Natale said almost seven million Australians had tried or used cannabis, with consumption and drug possession-related arrests both on the rise.
The Greens leader, a former drug and alcohol doctor, said Australia's tough approach to drugs had caused enormous harm.
"It drives people away from getting help when they need it and exposes them to a dangerous black market," Senator Di Natale said.
"The Greens see drug use as a health issue, not a criminal issue."
Senator Di Natale pointed to a recent poll showing 55 percent of Australians believed cannabis should be regulated and taxed like alcohol or tobacco.
A national agency would be established to issue licences, monitor and enforce conditions and oversee regulations. (AAP) (Nine)
He expects the plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, helping fund treatment, education and other harm reduction programs.
"I call on political parties of all stripes to join the Greens in committing to just legalise it," he said.
Alex Wodak, president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, welcomed the announcement.
"Banning cannabis hasn't reduced its use or availability yet it has distracted police from following up more serious crimes, harmed a lot of young people and helped make some criminals rich," Dr Wodak said.
"Regulating cannabis will give government more control and increase government revenue, which can be used to fund drug prevention and treatment."
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From Doorknob Phenomenon to Anticipated Event: Discharge Vital Signs in the Emergency Department
John Morrison, MD, PhD, Pediatric Hospitalist, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
How often do you obtain and review a fresh set of vital signs before discharging a child from your emergency department (ED)? Or from your clinic or the hospital for that matter? Given that discharge tachycardia alone can place a patient at higher risk for return to the ED or admission to the hospital, you may want to consider checking those vitals one last time.1,2 But how? In this month’s Pediatrics (10.1542/peds.2019-0436), Vukovic and colleagues share their efforts to ensure patients have vital sign measurements prior to discharge from the ED in an effort to safely transition children home.
The quality improvement team set out to increase the percentage of pediatric patients discharged with a complete set of vital signs from 22% to 95% at a university-affiliated, tertiary-care pediatric ED. Children with an Emergency Severity Index (ESI) of 1, 2, or 3 (indicating higher-risk for severe illness) or children with abnormal presenting vital signs regardless of ESI were the focus of the QI efforts. An interprofessional team of nurses, paramedics, and attending physicians identified three key drivers that would lead to successful achievement of their goal: standardization of age-based abnormal vital signs, standardizing the process for when to obtain discharge vital signs, and providing guidance to reduce the risk of readmission or representation to the ED after discharge. Vukovic et. al. incorporated multiple interventions targeting these key drivers including instituting departmental policy requiring discharge vital signs for eligible patients, provider education, informational cards highlighting age-based abnormal vital signs, and best practice alerts (BPAs) for both providers and nurses. The QI team utilized continuous improvement cycles with interval assessments of the primary outcome. Secondary measures included the frequency of return to the ED within 72-hours and hospital admissions. Success of the intervention was balanced with mean length of stay (LOS) in the ED, where a longer LOS may indicate unanticipated burden to the ED workflow or providers delaying discharge for ongoing vital sign abnormalities.
Over 7,000 ED patients were assessed during the interventional period from September 2017 – January 2019. The QI team successfully increased the percentage of eligible patients with discharge vital signs from a baseline of 21.5% to nearly 85%, an improvement that was sustained for a period of at least seven months once the initiative concluded. As with many QI efforts, the successes were incremental, with each cycle of improvement addressing a different barrier to success. An initial increase from baseline to just over 40% of patients receiving discharge vital signs was obtained with implementation of a paper-based discharge vital signs form, highlighting that even low-tech interventions can be impactful. Through careful study of initial interventional cycles, Vukovic and colleagues learned that it was difficult for nurses and providers to routinely identify which patients necessitated discharge vital signs among the hustle and bustle of a busy pediatric ED. The vital sign policy was accordingly updated to include all “core” rooms in the ED, which routinely housed patients already meeting inclusion criteria for receiving discharge vital signs. This seemingly simple but important change improved the success rate from approximately 50% to nearly 80%. Only a modest improvement to the final rate of ~85% came with initiation of the EMR-based BPAs.
Although the QI team ultimately did not meet their goal of 95% of eligible patients receiving discharge vital signs, an overall improvement by over 60% from baseline is far from failure. And, the team was able to reach this level of success without prolonging a patient’s LOS while in the ED. It should be noted that, although the intervention was predicated on the premise that reviewing discharge vital signs could ultimately reduce 72-hour ED re-visits, the QI team did not show any significant change in this metric during the study period. This is likely multifactorial, and our ability to learn from this observation is further limited by no mention on what proportion of patients re-presenting for care were originally discharged with abnormal vital signs (which could suggest a potential targetable intervention). Finally, as with all QI initiatives, the generalizability of this single center’s success to a community setting with or without pediatric-trained providers is unknown. However, the significant improvements seen with low-tech paper-based intervention and the cohorting of at-risk patient groups suggest such settings could feasibly implement these changes if desired. See the results for yourself and see which interventions by Vukovic et. al. could work for your institution in this month’s Pediatrics!
Wilson PM, Florin TA, Huang G, Fenchel M, Mittiga MR. Is Tachycardia at Discharge From the Pediatric Emergency Department a Cause for Concern? A Nonconcurrent Cohort Study. Ann Emerg Med. 2017;70(3):268-276 e262.
Scott HF, Deakyne Sj, Woods JM, Bajaj L. The prevalence and diagnostic utility of systemic inflammatory respons syndrome vital signs in a pediatric emergency department. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22(4):381-389.
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A fascinating four-part series that goes behind the closed doors of the Australian Art Auction world to meet the key players who buy and sell art in the ferociously competitive art scene.
Australian Story - The Avenger (Neil Jenman)
Neil Jenman made a fortune in real estate before deciding to switch sides and act for consumers who'd fallen foul of the property market.
Australian Story - Live and Let Fly (Steve Wilson and Gary Dean)
This story is about a group of mates who may just be the unlikeliest ever contributors to the proud history of aviation in Australia.
Australian Story - Million to One (Breast Cancer)
Australian Story looks inside a health and workplace crisis that's been described as a first in Australia and possibly the world. Arguably it's a situation that could have happened anywhere.
Australian Story - Unfinished Business (Ian Conway)
Ian Conway is a man determined to make a difference. Twenty years ago he made a promise to an Aboriginal elder.
Big Dreamers
Once upon a time there was a tiny sugar-producing township called Tully in Far North Queensland, Australia. Tully is renowned for its endless sugar fields and...rain.
When the hired guns of British American Tobacco came to Australia to appeal a decision in favour of a terminally ill wife and mother, they didn't stop once they had the award overturned.
The Business of English
This 15-part series for intermediate to advanced English language learners looks at the language used in everyday business situations such as meetings, presentations and negotiations.
Cars That Ate China, The
China is in the midst of an automotive revolution that has not been witnessed since the halcyon days of Henry Ford.
Catalyst - Beverly Uranium Mine
Australia's uranium reserves are the largest in the world. Some of our most common uranium deposits are crusted around sandstone, often beneath the water table.
Catalyst - Corporate Psychopaths
Is your boss manipulative? Intimidating? Totally lacking in remorse? Yet superficially charming? Then you could be working with a workplace psychopath.
Compass - Corporate Collapse
Following the recent collapse of several large Australian corporations, Compass explore the human effect of sudden job loss in the lives of ordinary workers.
Respected journalist Jeff McMullen returns to ABC TV to host a series of fascinating discussions about Australia's future.
Family Fortunes - The Manifolds
The Manifolds is the classic tale of a family that had the good fortune of being in the right place at the right time.... and what's befallen them since.
Four Corners - Banks Behaving Badly
Since deregulation, we're borrowing money like never before....$211 billion in 1996. And the banks are reaping the rewards.
Four Corners - Beautiful One Day
Across the world, coral reefs are turning into marine deserts. It's estimated that more than a quarter have been lost and that 40 per cent could be gone by 2010.
Four Corners - Beyond The Boiler Room
Early in 2001 an international police squad burst into a bustling Bangkok office and arrested 80 mostly young western expatriates, including a group of Australians.
Four Corners - Business of Change
It's part of a service industries revolution that's sweeping workplaces, based on the old notion that time is money.
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Greedy, gullible, or victims of the taxman's tardiness? Tens of thousands of Australians who jumped aboard the 1990s tax minimisation bandwagon are being called to account.
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In an industrial landscape where many unions are diminished in numbers and influence, the Police Association of Victoria keeps on growing its membership, shirtfronting critics and crunching deals.
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» Audit » FRC extends Thomas Cook audit probe
FRC extends Thomas Cook audit probe
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has widened its investigation into EY’s auditing of collapsed travel firm Thomas Cook Group to bring in 2017 financial statements
The regulator initially said it was looking at EY’s audit of Thomas Cook’s financial for the year ended 30 September 2018. Now it has announced the probe include an investigation into EY’s audit of Thomas Cook’s financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2017.
For once, the audit regulator acted quickly to launch an investigation following pressure from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) after the collapse of the travel company.
The FRC took action after a direct appeal from business secretary Andrea Leadsom in the immediate aftermath of the travel company’s collapse.
Leadsom wrote to the regulator asking it to ‘consider the investigation as a matter of priority’ and saying this should ’examine not only the conduct of those directors, past and present, in the preparation of the accounts, but also the conduct and practice of the auditors of those accounts’.
Within a week, the FRC had opened its first investigation. The FRC investigation is being conducted by the FRC’s enforcement division under the audit enforcement procedure.
EY was auditor of Thomas Cook for two years since 2017. It was appointed in 2017, taking over from fellow Big Four firm PwC, which had audited the business since 2008.
EY earned £3m in audit fees and a further £1m in non-audit services (NAS) for year end 2018, although there are no details in the annual report about the type of NAS provided.
The accounts show EY flagged a number of significant concerns about Thomas Cook over the last 18 months, most recently when Thomas Cook issued its half year results in May.
At the time EY highlighted material uncertainty related to going concern. The auditor warned that 'the outcome of the strategic review and the associated conditions in the new financing arrangement was uncertain. These events or conditions indicate that a material uncertainty exists.
This may cast significant doubt on the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Our conclusion is not modified in respect of this matter’.
In the annual report for year end April 2018, the auditor also warned Thomas Cook about issues around journal reporting and debt repayment terms.
The 178-year-old firm went into compulsory liquidation in September, triggering the biggest ever peacetime repatriation, aimed at bringing more than 150,000 British holidaymakers home.
The events surrounding its collapse were the subject of a BEIS select committee inquiry, which was cut short when parliament dissolved for the election, but which published highly critical observations about the role of auditors, levels of senior executive pay and the government’s inaction.
Then BEIS chair Rachel Reeves said: ‘The failure at Thomas Cook has been notable for the extraordinary lack of interest shown by the business department and its secretary of state in the days and weeks leading up to the collapse.
‘It is also a matter of fact that many of the necessary measures on audit, on executive pay, and on corporate governance have been sitting in the government’s in-tray for months.
‘The CMA and BEIS Committee published proposals in April on reforming the audit market, on tackling conflicts of interest, and on improving audit quality but the government failed to bring forward the legislation necessary to drive this forward.
'A new government needs to put this right and ensure the Queen’s Speech in a new Parliament includes the laws needed to make this a reality.’
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Contributors Fundamental Analysis Weekly Economic and Financial Commentary: A Great Deal to Like about this...
Weekly Economic and Financial Commentary: A Great Deal to Like about this Outlook
Wells Fargo Securities
Dec 01, 07:07 GMT
U.S. Review
“There is a great deal to like about this outlook”
A speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell this week introduced some uncertainty into analysts’ estimates of just how many rate hikes could be left in the current expansion. But, with the PCE deflator unchanged at 2.0% in October, the Fed looks set to raise rates again at its December meeting.
Economic data out the gate this week point to a positive outlook. The second estimate of Q3 GDP kept growth at an annualized rate of 3.5%, underpinning strong growth in corporate profits. Fresh consumer confidence and personal income data point to strong consumer spending to end the year.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell addressed the Economic Club of New York this week. While the main topic of discussion was financial stability, financial markets and analysts alike found particular interest in Powell’s comment regarding the neutral rate: “Interest rates are still low by historical standards, and they remain just below the broad range of estimates of the level that would be neutral for the economy.” This language introduced some uncertainty into analysts’ estimates of just how many rate hikes could be left in the current expansion.
While the probability of a December rate hike has come down recently, it remains quite elevated at 78.6%. Similarly, the PCE deflator remained unchanged at 2.0% in October, giving the Fed cover to raise rates at its December meeting. We still look for the Fed to raise rates four more times in this cycle–at its upcoming December meeting and three more times next year. Powell’s broader comments about the economic outlook leaned slightly upbeat. He said, “There is a great deal to like about this outlook,” and the economic data out the gate this week would agree.
The second estimate of Q3 GDP left headline growth unrevised at an annualized pace of 3.5%. Personal consumption was revised lower, but declines here were balanced by modest upward revisions to investment spending. The volatile trade environment also caused a larger than initially reported build in inventories, although this was offset by a greater drag from net exports.
Solid GDP growth underpinned strength in Q3 corporate profits, with before tax profits rising 10.3% on a year-ago basis, which is the fastest pace since 2012. But, while domestic profits continue to exhibit the strength of the U.S. economy, slow global growth and recent dollar strength caused foreign profits to slip $7.7B in Q3.
Consumers remained confident in November. After reaching an 18-year high in October, consumer confidence fell this month, but remained at a still elevated reading of 135.7. The three-month average remained at a cycle high, and suggests current optimism will sustain strong consumer spending to end the year. Consumers’ expectations regarding rate-sensitive purchases (autos, homes & major appliances) six-months ahead have remained elevated– suggesting little evidence of higher rates weighing on consumers. But, as we expect the Fed to continue to raise rates into next year, increased borrowing costs may begin to weigh on purchases.
While confidence suggests strong spending to end the year, the October personal income and spending data also affirm our forecast for consumer spending to grow nearly 3.0% in Q4. Personal income shot up 0.5% in October, with every category of income improving over the month. Personal spending rose a strong 0.6%, but the prior month’s increase was revised slightly lower. The gradual normalization of monetary policy through rate hikes has been a headwind to the housing market and raised some concern about the sustainability of consumer outlays on durable goods. Just as we didn’t see consumers shy away from such purchases in November’s confidence figures, there was little evidence of it in October’s durables spending, which rose 0.4%.
U.S. Outlook
ISM Manufacturing • Monday
The ISM manufacturing index has been flying high this year, although the series fell more than two points in October. The headline ISM still looks strong against “hard” data on production and new orders. Therefore, we don’t expect much of a rebound for November and anticipate the index to be remain near its current level. Respondents indicate ongoing challenges related to trade, input costs and labor availability. The dollar’s strength and slowdown in global trade are also beginning to weigh on export orders.
A steeper decline than what we forecast may weigh on markets, but would be unlikely to stop the FOMC hiking in December given that the ISM has looked somewhat out of line with other manufacturing data recently. An upside surprise, on the other hand, would signal the factory sector is weathering a tougher trade environment and increase the likelihood of further tightening in early 2019.
Previous: 57.7 Wells Fargo: 57.8 Consensus: 57.6
ISM Non-Manufacturing • Wednesday
Economic activity outside the factory sector has been on a tear according to the ISM non-manufacturing sector. The index eased a touch in October from a 21-year high the previous month, but at 60.3 remains near the highest levels of the past two decades.
We expect the non-manufacturing index to ease a bit more in November, as the mining sector has come under pressure and construction and real estate have faced headwinds from higher interest rates. Nevertheless, the index should remain at a level consistent with solid growth across the broad economy. Another lofty reading would point to GDP growth holding up well in the fourth quarter and ease concerns that the trade environment is hitting the domestic-facing service sector. A significantly weakerthan- expected print, however, would signal the economy is beginning to slow from the break-neck pace of the past two quarters.
Employment • Friday
Employment growth has remained robust this year, with employers adding an average of 212,000 jobs per month year to date. After rising 250K in October, we expect hiring to have slowed in November as jobless claims have ticked up. Unemployment is expected to stay at 3.7%. Wages should rise 0.3%, supported by a tight labor market generally and Amazon increasing its minimum wage specifically.
It is worth a reminder that one month of data does not make a trend, and that is particularly true when it comes to the jumpy and heavily revised payroll numbers. That makes it unlikely in our view that even a large downside miss would lead the Fed to hold off on a rate hike in December. If, however, the next couple of months’ jobs numbers show the trend in hiring is slowing, that could put the FOMC on a more gradual upward path in 2019. An upside surprise to payrolls or wages in November would point to the FOMC being likely to raise rates more than markets currently have priced in for 2019.
Previous: 250,000 Wells Fargo: 215,000 Consensus: 200,000
Several GDP Releases Point to Mixed Q3 Growth
India’s economy moderated in Q3, with real GDP growth slowing more than expected to 7.1% year over year. Inflation has also pulled back in recent months, likely supporting only a gradual pace of rate hikes on the part of the central bank.
Q3 real GDP growth in Canada also slowed from its Q2 pace, however the recent trade deal has removed much of the uncertainty surrounding its economy in recent months, and we still look for the central bank to raise rates three times in 2019.
In Europe, both Switzerland and Sweden’s economies unexpectedly contracted in Q3, while Eurozone inflation data confirm that price pressures are still only slowly rising.
Amid several GDP releases this week, the Indian economy grew 7.1% year-over-year in Q3, a larger-than-expected slowdown from the standout 8.2% gain in Q2 (see chart on first page). Although GDP growth decelerated in Q3, India still has one of the most rapidly expanding economies in the developing world of late. However, price pressures have eased in recent months (top chart), and are likely a roadblock to a more rapid pace of rate hikes on the part of the central bank, along with more moderate growth.
While we still look for sustained expansion in India going forward, continued trade tensions weighing on China, its top trading partner, could eventually affect growth prospects in India as well. U.S.-China trade policy remained in focus this week ahead of a highly anticipated meeting between U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi this weekend as part of the G-20 Summit. With previously imposed tariffs on China set to increase to 25% from 10% in January and an additional $267 billion in tariffs threatened, market participants will be closely watching the outcome of the meeting and its implications for trade policy.
Continuing the theme of national accounts data released this week, real GDP in Canada slowed to a 2.0% annualized rate in Q3, (middle chart). However, as we have previously written, the trade deal reached last month with the U.S. and Mexico removes much of the uncertainty surrounding the Canadian economy in earlier months and should support growth in investment spending and exports. But these changes will likely take time, as business fixed investment contracted at a 6.5% annualized pace in Q3 after only a tepid 0.3% gain in Q2, while exports only rose 0.9%. Although these sectors look to be a near-term drag on growth, the overall economy is still expanding at a moderate pace, and along with a solid labor market and inflation that is largely anchored, we look for the BoC to hike rates three times in 2019.
Turning to Europe, real GDP in Sweden and Switzerland unexpectedly contracted 0.2% (not annualized) in both countries. In Sweden, it looks as if some of the weakness was due to temporary factors such as new emission tests that weighed on auto sales, a phenomenon that also affected Germany’s Q3 output. In Switzerland, however, international trade slowed sharply, and the broader contraction is telling of the slower pace of growth occurring across much of Europe.
So what does slower growth in the Eurozone mean for the European Central Bank (ECB)? The ECB has previously stated that it intends to wrap up its asset purchase program by the end of this year, but keep interest rates unchanged “at least through the summer of 2019.” However, these plans rely on its medium-term inflation and growth outlook coming into focus. Preliminary inflation data for November released today show that underlying price pressures are still only slowly rising. Growth in the core index dipped slightly to 1.0% year-over-year, while the headline index also moderated (bottom chart). While we still look for inflation to pick up as GDP growth should also recover, these two indicators will likely need to show sustained upward momentum before the ECB moves to raise rates.
Global Outlook
U.K. Manufacturing PMI • Monday
The U.K. manufacturing PMI dropped sharply in October, falling 2.5 points to 51.1 and continuing its downward trend. The hard data largely confirm the sentiment data; industrial production growth has been flat over the past two months, while investment spending again declined in Q3, contracting 1.2% on a sequential basis. Ongoing Brexit concerns look to be largely to blame for the slowing trend in the manufacturing sector, as businesses postpone investment decisions until further clarity is reached on the outcome of negotiations. While an initial deal was reached with the European Union earlier this month, several U.K. ministers resigned in the wake of the agreement, leading market participants to question the feasibility of the U.K. parliament signing off on the deal before the March 2019 deadline. While our base case is still for an orderly outcome to be reached before the deadline, uncertainty will likely continue to weigh on U.K. growth prospects in the meantime.
Previous: 51.1 Consensus: 51.7
Reserve Bank of India • Wednesday
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has only slowly begun to tighten monetary policy, remaining on hold at its October meeting after raising rates 50 bps earlier this year. At the same time, economic growth slowed in Q3, with real GDP rising 7.1% year over year, lower than the 8.2% gain in Q2 that was the fastest rate since early 2016.
Price pressures have also receded in recent months. Consumer price inflation recently dipped below the 4% upper bound of the RBI’s target range, and registered a slower 3.3% year-over-year increase in October. The recent slide in global oil prices could also restrain price appreciation in coming months, and likely gives mixed signals to the central bank in terms of the appropriate path of monetary tightening. Given the recent moderation in economic growth along with an already cautious central bank, most market participants look for the RBI to remain on hold next week and continue to only gradually raise rates in coming quarters.
Previous: 6.50% (Repo Rate) Consensus: 6.50% (Repo Rate)
Bank of Canada Decision • Wednesday
Rounding out a week of central bank decisions, we look for the Bank of Canada (BoC) to remain on hold next week after raising rates 25 bps at its October meeting. Although we look for rates to remain unchanged at its upcoming meeting, we also look for the BoC to continue to tighten policy roughly in line with the Federal Reserve’s rate hike trajectory.
The Canadian economy appears to be performing solidly at present, and we learned this week that real GDP rose at a 2.0% annualized rate in Q3, albeit slower than the standout 2.9% pace registered in Q2. At the same time, the labor market remains tight, with the unemployment rate remaining below 6% in October and updated data for November are also due next week. Although the recent dip in global oil prices could weigh on Canada’s large energy sector going forward, the economy is still growing above potential, and we look for the BoC to raise rates three times in 2019.
Previous: 1.75% Wells Fargo: 1.75% Consensus: 1.75%
Interest Rate Watch
When the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) makes its policy decisions, it sets a target range of 25bps in which the effective fed funds rate is permitted to float. The effective fed funds rate has recently drifted toward the upper bound of the target range, repeating a phenomenon that occurred earlier this year and eventually led to a “technical adjustment” in the way the Fed operationally influences short-term interest rates (top chart). This adjustment entailed increasing the interest on excess reserves (IOER) rate by a bit less than the target range for the fed funds rate is increased.
Minutes from the FOMC’s November meeting released yesterday showed that the committee is again contemplating another technical tweak due to a similar issue. For most market participants, this would mean nothing more than an effective fed funds rate that, for now, is pushed back closer to the middle of the Fed’s target range. As seen in the middle chart, the current monetary policy system has been generally quite successful at pulling up short-term interest rates in the economy across a range of different financial instruments.
However, with two technical tweaks possible in the span of six months, the stars appear to be aligning for a broader and deeper look at the Fed’s monetary policy tools and outlook. The minutes revealed that the Federal Reserve may be thinking along similar lines and is starting to undertake a broader rethink of its long-run monetary policy framework. This could entail ending balance sheet normalization earlier than policymakers had earlier anticipated, and could even go as far as eventually adopting a new policy rate.
Our baseline scenario remains that the Fed will end its balance sheet unwind by late 2019/early 2020. With the balance sheet still being fairly large at that point, this would mean some additional and permanent suppression of long-term interest rates relative to the pre-crisis era, all else equal (bottom chart).
For more on this topic, see our recent special report “Getting Technical: Managing the Fed Funds Rate” available on our website and upon request.
Credit Market Insights
Staying Stable
Shocks to the economy are inherently hard to predict, but what about gradually forming imbalances? Cognizant of the role that excesses played in the last crisis, the Federal Reserve this week released its inaugural Financial Stability Report, with the goal of assessing the resilience of the U.S. financial system. Were any shocks to occur, how well could the financial system weather the storm, and are any sectors particularly vulnerable?
The Fed notes, as have we, that household borrowing has grown roughly in line with the overall economy, and is largely concentrated among low risk households. Banks are well capitalized and hold more liquid assets compared to a decade ago. The report suggests some caution, however, regarding business debt and asset valuations. Corporate debt is at record levels and increasingly in the form of high yield bonds and leveraged loans. Lowered credit standards and historically low spreads suggest high levels of risk taking. Additionally, commercial real estate (CRE) prices have outpaced rents and have raised fears of a bubble.
We have likewise identified corporate debt and CRE as potential imbalances forming in the economy. However, in our view neither is overly concerning at present. We do not see CRE or excessive corporate leverage as a near-term catalyst for the next downturn, but we are certainly monitoring them as attention rightfully focuses on potential vulnerabilities in the economy.
What the Cycle Indicators Are Telling Us
With the current expansion just seven months shy of the longest on record, the top question we get is: “When will the next recession start?” The quick answer is probably not too soon. The longer answer will be addressed with the publication of our annual outlook and conference call next week.
A common follow-up to the recession question is: “what one or two indicators should I follow to track where we are in the cycle?” One possible solution for that is to look at the business cycle indicators. The Chicago Fed publishes its National Activity Index monthly. It is essentially a weighted average of 85 indicators. Like a well-diversified investment portfolio, this approach smooths some of the volatility and helps provide a bird’s eye view of where we are in the cycle. A number greater than zero implies the economy is growing faster than its long term average and a negative print signals below trend growth. Below -0.7 implies outright contraction.
The October number this week came in at 0.24, a number that is generally associated with a healthy expansion, even though it has come off the boil over the past six months or so.
Conference Board Measures
If you are more interested in honing in on peaks and troughs in the business cycle, the Conference Board maintains three separate composite indexes. These too, are designed to smooth some of the volatility of individual measures, but as the names imply, each offers a different sort of economic signal: where we have been, where we are now and where we are headed.
All three of these indicator cocktails are feeling some cheer as they move steadily higher, though here too, the pace of ascent has slowed. Look at the bottom chart and you’ll note that in this cycle for the first time in at least the past 30 years, the lagging index is higher than the coincident measure. When the lagging-to-coincident measure goes lower (or negative as it is now) that can be a warning sign. By any reckoning, it is getting late in the cycle.
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John Purvis: Corda Technologies chief provides straight talk on the cultural realities of BI
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The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Libraries and the largest individual library in the university.
Opened in 1973 and named for John Robarts, the 17th Premier of Ontario, the library contains more than 4.5 million bookform items, 4.1 million microform items and 740,000 other items.
The library building is one of the most significant examples of brutalist architecture in North America. Its towering main structure rests on an equilateral triangular footprint and features extensive use of triangular geometric patterns throughout.
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Comprising fourteen storeys, plus two underground floors, the brutalist and futurist structure features raised podia and a suspended fourth floor. A mezzanine level physically connects Robarts Library to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library building at its southeastern side, and to the Claude Bissel Building, housing the Faculty of Information, at its northeastern side.
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Nobility -- Great Britain
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record society for the publication of original documents relating to lancashire and cheshire
lingard, john, 1771-1851
jesse, john heneage, 1815-1874
banks, thomas christopher, 1765-1854
doubleday, herbert arthur, 1867-1941
walpole, spencer, sir, 1839-1907
Vol 1: [Publications]
by Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire
Topics: Lancashire (England) -- History Sources, Cheshire (England) -- History Sources, genealogy
Vol 28: [Publications] - Somerset Record Society
by Somerset Record Society
Includes Annual report and list of subscribers
Topics: Somerset (England) -- History, Somerset (England) -- History Sources, genealogy
Vol 6: A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads: intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, not to be found in any other bio-graphical work
by Granger, James, 1723-1776
Topic: genealogy
A chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483; written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from MSS. in the British museum: to which are added numerous contemporary illustrations, consisting of royal letters, poems, and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis
by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799-1848; Tyrrell, Edward, 1792-1881
Topics: London (England) -- History To 1600, London (England) -- Social life and customs, genealogy
A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princesses of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal, from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of Henry the Seventh
by Nichols, John, 1745-1826; Gough, Richard, 1735-1809
Topics: Wills -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- Kings and rulers, genealogy
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A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 : with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712
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Topics: Palatines -- United States, Huguenots -- New York (State), Salzburgers -- Georgia, Names, Personal...
A concise bibliography of the printed & ms. material on the history, topography & institutions of the burgh, parish and shire of Inverness
by Anderson, Peter John, 1852-1926
Topics: Inverness (Scotland) -- Bibliography, Inverness-shire (Scotland) -- Bibliography, genealogy
A financial, monetary, and statistical history of England : from the Revolution of 1688 to the present time ; derived principally from official documents, in seventeen letters addressed to the young men of Great Britain
by Doubleday, Thomas, 1790-1870
Topics: Finance, Public -- England, Money -- Great Britain History, Great Britain -- Economic conditions,...
Vol 3: A history of England and the British Empire
by Innes, Arthur D. (Arthur Donald), 1863-1938
Topics: Great Britain -- History, genealogy
Vol 6: A history of England from the conclusion of the great war in 1815
by Walpole, Spencer, Sir, 1839-1907
Vol 4: A history of England, from the conclusion of the Great War in 1815
Topics: Great Britain -- History 19th century, genealogy
A history of France, in question and answer, from Pharamond to Napoleon, arranged in centuries, lines, and houses, with consorts and children, contemporaries in England, Germany, Spain, and the papacy: historical events, discoveries and improvements, with the character of each soverign
by Ranson, Sarah
Topics: France -- History, genealogy
A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
by Doubleday, Herbert Arthur, 1867-1941
Topics: Natural history -- England Hampshire, Isle of Wight (England), Hampshire (England) -- History,...
Vol 1: A history of Scotland from the Roman occupation
by Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Topics: Scotland -- History, genealogy
Vol 2: A history of Scotland, civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the death of David I, 1153
by Keith, Duncan
Topics: Scotland -- History To 1603, Scotland -- Church history, genealogy
A history of Southampton; partly from the MS. of Dr. Speed, in the Southampton Archives
by Davies, J. Silvester; Speed, John, 1703-1781
Topics: Southampton (England) -- History, genealogy
Vol 66: A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond
Vol 23: A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond, and now Preserved in the Court of Probate at Lancaster
A manual for the genealogist, topographer, antiquary, and legal professor : consisting of descriptions of public records, parochial and other registers, wills, county and family histories; heraldic collections in public libraries, etc. etc
by Sims, Richard, 1816-1898
Topics: Archives -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- Genealogy Bibliography, Great Britain -- History Sources
Vol 3: A popular history of England : from the earliest times to the reign of Queen Victoria
by Guizot, M. (François), 1787-1874
v. 1. [without special title]. -- v. 2. From the accession of Henry V, to the death of Queen Elizabeth, 1413-1603. -- v. 3. From the accession of James I, to the expulsion of James II, 1603-1688. -- v. 4. From the accession of William and Mary to the reign of Queen Victoria, 1688-1837
A popular history of the ancient Britons or the Welsh people from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century
by Evans, John, Rev
Topics: Wales -- History, genealogy
Vol 6: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York
by Surtees Society, Durham, Eng
Topics: Yorkshire (England) -- History Societies, etc, Durham (England : County) -- History Societies, etc,...
A short history of Hampton court
by Law, Ernest Philip Alphonse, 1854-1930
Topics: Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England), genealogy
An index of the names of the Royalists whose estates were confiscated during the commonwealth : With a reprint of three confiscation acts of 1651 and 1652, from Scobell's "Collection of acts and ordinances of general use, from 3rd of November, 1640, to 17th of September, 1656."
by Peacock, Mabel Geraldine Woodruffe, 1855?-1920; Scobell, Henry, d. 1660
Topics: Royalists, 1642-1660, Great Britain -- Genealogy
An index rerum to Norfolk antiquities. Published for subscribers
by Rye, Walter, 1843-1929
Topics: Norfolk (England) -- Antiquities Bibliography, Norwich (England) -- Antiquities Bibliography,...
Vol 1: Baronia anglica concentrata: or, A concentrated account of all the baronies commonly called baronies in fee; deriving their origin from writ of summons, and not from any specific limited creation, whereto is added The proofs of parliamentary sitting, from the reign of Edw. I to that of Queen Anne; also A glossary of dormants English, Scotch, and Irish peerage titles
by Banks, Thomas Christopher, 1765-1854
Topics: Baronetage, Nobility -- Great Britain, Nova Scotia -- Baronetage
Vol 1: Contemporary index to printed parish and non-parochial registers, 1908 ed., with a Supplementary list of manuscript transcripts to be found in the public libraries of England and Wales
by Matthews, George Frederick
Topics: Great Britain -- Genealogy Bibliography, Registers of births, etc. -- Bibliography, Privately...
Vol 1: Cumberland parish registers. Marriages. Edited by W.P.W. Phillimore and C.W. Ruston-Harrison
by Phillimore, William Phillimore Watts, 1853-1913; Ruston-Harrison, C. W
Topics: Registers of births, etc. -- England Cumberland, genealogy
Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage
Some vols. called "Royal edition" (varies)
Topics: Heraldry -- Great Britain, Knights and knighthood -- Great Britain, Nobility -- Great Britain...
Vol 21: Essex Institute historical collections
by Essex Institute; Peabody Essex Museum
Vols. 9-10, 1869-70, called also ser. 2, v. 1-2
Topics: Genealogy -- Massachusetts Essex County, Essex County (Mass.) -- History Periodicals, Massachusetts...
Vol 3: Gloucestershire notes and queries; an illustrated quarterly magazine devoted to the history and antiquities of Gloucestershire
Suspended July-Dec. 1903, July 1905-Mar. 1913
Topics: Gloucestershire (England) -- History Periodicals, Gloucestershire (England) -- Antiquities...
Key to the ancient parish registers of England & Wales
by Burke, Arthur Meredyth
Topic: Great Britain -- Genealogy Bibliography
Vol 71: Lancashire and Cheshire Cases in the Court of Star Chamber. Part I.
Vol 17: Lancashire Inquisitions Returned into the Chancery of the Duchy of Lancaster
List of parish registers and other genealogical works
by Crisp, Frederick Arthur, 1851-1922
Topics: Registers of births, etc. -- Great Britain Bibliography, Privately printed books -- Bibliography,...
Vol 1: London, historic and social
by Francis, Claude de La Roche
Topics: London (England) -- History, London (England) -- Social life and customs, genealogy
Vol 2: London: its celebrated characters and remarkable places
by Jesse, John Heneage, 1815-1874
Topics: London (England) -- History, London (England) -- Antiquities, genealogy
Love romances of the aristocracy
by Greenwood, William de Redman, 1858-
Topic: Nobility -- Great Britain
Vol 57: Marriage Licences Granted Within the Archdeaconry of Chester
Vol 53: Marriage Licences Granted Within the Archdeaconry of Chester. Vol. I.
Vol 5: Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of the Stuarts, including the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell
Topics: Great Britain -- Court and courtiers, Great Britain -- History Stuarts, 1603-1714, genealogy
Memorials of old Middlesex
by Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915
Topics: Middlesex (England) -- Antiquities, Middlesex (England) -- History, genealogy
Vol 2: Our old nobility : By Noblesse Oblige, Howard Evans
by Evans, Howard, 1839-1915
Vol 58: Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613
Vol 1: Peerage and pedigree, studies in peerage law and family history
by Round, John Horace, 1854-1928
I. The Willoughby d'Eresby case and the rise of the Berties. The barony of Delawarr. Peerage cases in the Court of chivalry. The muddle of the law. Tales of the conquest. The House of lords.--II. Some 'Saxon' houses. The great Carrington imposture. The geste of John de Courcy. Heraldry and the gent
Topics: Bertrand family, Nobility -- Great Britain, Inheritance and succession -- Great Britain,...
Vol 35: Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster
Vol 32: Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster. Time of Henry VII. and Henry VIII.
Records and record searching, a guide to the genealogist and topographer
Topics: Archives, England -- Genealogy
Vol 2: Studies in peerage and family history
Topics: Nobility -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- Genealogy
Vol 11: Survey of London
by London County Council; London Survey Committee; Joint Publishing Committee Representing the London County Council and the London Survey Committee
Topics: Architecture -- England London, London (England) -- Description and travel Periodicals, London...
Vol 7: Survey of London
Tales of our great families
by Walford, Edward, 1823-1897
Topics: Nobility -- Great Britain, Nobility -- Great Britain
Vol 1: Thatcham, Berks, and its manors. Edited and arranged for publication by James Parker
by Barfield, Samuel, 1829-1899; Parker, James, 1834-
Topics: Thatcham, Eng. (Parish), Great Britain -- Genealogy
Vol 2 Appendices: Thatcham, Berks, and its manors. Edited and arranged for publication by James Parker
Vol 9: The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities
Topics: Great Britain -- Genealogy Periodicals, Great Britain -- History Periodicals, Great Britain --...
Vol 11: The Ancestor; a quarterly review of county and family history, heraldry and antiquities
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Treatment of landfill leachate through struvite precipitation and nitrogen removal bacteria and poly-phosphate bacteria (in-pots experiment)
Abstract— Landfill leacheate is a type of wastewater which contains large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus, therefore it needed to be treated before releasing to directly to the environment. The combination between struvite precipitation and nitrogen removal and poly-P bacteria into wastewater for landfill leachate treatment has been found to be a cost-effective practive, a viable technology in terms of environmental protection and sustainability, especially in the developing-countries. For optimum struvite crystallization from landfill leachate, the Mg:PO4 molar ratio as (1.2:1) was used, the pH of reaction was adjusted to 9 and the sample was stirred continously during 40 minutes. The supernatant sample was then added 1% nitrogen removal bacteria (Pseudomonas stutzeri D3b strain) and 1% poly-P bacteria (Kurthia sp. TGT1013L strain), 5 g glucose/L and aeration 12/24h during 3 days, ammonium concentration reduced significantly from 1076 mg/L to 1.5 mg/L and orthophosphate concentration decreased noticeably from 24.91 mg/L to 7.6 mg/L.
Effects of Preservation using Response Surface Methodology on Fresh-cut Taro
Abstract— In order to evaluate the effect of preservation on fresh-cut taro, the edible coatings preservatives were connected with Konjac glucan-mannan (KGM), potassium sorbate, chitosan, by determining changes of weight loss rate, browning degree (BD), polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD), the preservative effect on fresh-cut taro were studied. The optimal composite of Konjac glucan-mannan (KGM), potassium sorbate, chitosan was analyzed by single factor test and Box-Behnken response surface method. The results showed the optimal concentration were KGM 6g/L, potassium sorbate 4g/L and chitosan 8g/L. Verified test showed that composite coating could reduce the weight loss rate, browning, PPO and POD activity of fresh-cut taro.
Phosphotriesterase-Like Lactonase Immobilized on Zeolites for Pesticides Degradation
Abstract— In this study, a non commercial PTE was covalently immobilized on the NaX zeolite crystals and its ability to biodegrade the paraoxon to a less harmful compound was investigated. The immobilization method did not change the enzyme catalytic performance. In fact, the specific activity was the same of the free one. Besides, the process improved the stability of the enzyme.
The obtained results are interesting because of usually the immobilization process increases the enzyme stability but causes a reduction of its catalytic activity. Therefore, this pioneer study of the immobilization of the PTE on zeolite particles seems to be an environmental-friendly solution to the problem of pesticides pollution.
Sustainable Strategy of Charcoal (Panglong Arang) Management in the Bengkalis Regency
Background and Purpose: Charcoal is a residue that occurs from the results of decomposition of wood due to heat when most of the chemical components are carbon. One method of making wood charcoal is to use a stove. Charcoal is an important factor in determining the sustainability of the lives of surrounding communities that have long been running. Therefore the purpose of this study is to create a strategy based on the SWOT analysis to see if the charcoal business using mangrove forests can proceed or not.
Materials and Methods: Analysis of sustainable development strategies using SWOT Analysis which is one of the analyses used to formulate a strategy in an area of development. This analysis consists of 4 basic elements, namely strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. These four elements come from two main factors: internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats). While the stages in the SWOT analysis.
Results: Analysis of public perception of the existence of charcoal trading business in the Bengkalis District gave a “Good response” with a score of 2.66. These results illustrate that the existence of a charcoal trading business does not provide a bad impact as long as it is in a location around a mangrove forest. The results obtained in the SWOT matrix diagram are in the fourth quadrant; show that the priority of the strategy is the Strength (S) and Threats (T) strategies. The components in these two strategies need to get more emphasis and attention so that the existence of a charcoal trading business can be sustainable.
Conclusion: The public perception of the charcoal long-standing regulation in the” Bengkalis Regency” is in the “Good category” which is a prerequisite in the development of continuous charcoal. The strategy for sustainable charcoal development is in quadrant IV, namely the S-T strategy.
In-Vitro Management of Erwinia carotovora the Causal Organism of Potato Soft Rot Disease
Abstract—In vitro efficacy six chemical substance were evaluated against Erwinia carotovora the causal organism of potato soft rot disease. E. carotovora was isolated from diseased potato tubers by dilution plate technique and different biochemical and pathogenicity test were performed to confirm the bacterial species. Six chemicals viz. Copper Oxychloride @ 0.2%, Mancozeb @ 0.2%, Boric acid @ 0.1%, Kasugamycin @ 0.02%, Carbendazim @ 0.3% and Sodium Hypochlorite @ 0.2% were tested against E. carotovora subsp. carotovora by well diffusion method. For each treatment there were four replications and tested chemical volume was 100 µl. Data were recorded up to five days of incubation. Maximum zone of inhibition (mm) was obtained after 48 hours of incubation with Copper Oxychloride (30.35 mm), followed by Mancozeb (20.15 mm), Boric acid (19.15 mm) and Kasugamycin (16.28mm). Copper Oxychloride produced the maximum growth inhibition (33.72%) of the pathogen, on the other hand Sodium Hypochlorite (2.68%) did not efficiently inhibit the growth of E. carotovora. Copper Oxychloride proved to be the best chemical followed by Mancozeb under in-vitro management against E. carotovora subsp. carotovora.
Constraints, mitigations, and opportunities for sustainable development of rice-based system in Laos
Abstract— Rice production in Xieng Ngeun District (XND), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) faces several challenges that have resulted in a decline in rice production and a, therefore, food insecurity in the country. Smallholder farmers in XND, Luang Prabang in the Northern part of Lao are the most affected resulting in poor households and economies. Therefore, this study aims first to identify the key constraints affecting rice production systems; secondly to review the opportunities that exist in the rice production systems and lastly, to discuss opportunities that exist if the constraints are mitigated that can boost sustainable development of rice-based systems (SDRBS). A structured questionnaire was administered to village headmen, community members, and farmers in the nine selected villages with a total sample size of 374 farmers. Farmers’ strength for rice is that they have agricultural land, on average 3 hectares per family. Apart from rice production, the majority of farmers have diversified into maize, Job’s tears, vegetable cultivation and livestock keeping. The key strength of the respondent was the availability of land as most of them had more than 3ha of agricultural land. The diversification into the production of other crops is an important constraint to rice production. Labour was also an important constraint to rice production as most families have more than six children; thus, one member has to stay behind to take care of the children. The opportunities to improve rice production is mainly in the adoption of modern farming approaches using improved rice varieties, fertilizer application, use of herbicides for weed control and pesticides for insects and disease control. The farmers do not use pesticides to control insect pest and disease, and thus perennially faced challenges in rice production due to pest and diseases outbreaks. Moreover, there was a low rice productivity since majority of the the farmers did not use fertilizers in their fields, with a paltry 0.8% of the farmers recording positive response to fertilizer use. Despite this, most of the farmers (78.3%) indicated that they do not use herbicides for weed control. Market accessibility was a major concern to the farmers due to poor road infrastructure, hence resulting in delayed farm operations and produce spoilage. The farmers should be encouraged to adopt modern farming practices such use of pesticides to insect and disease management, weed control using herbicides for weed control, and fertilizer applications for improved soil fertility and yield. Moreover, there exist additional opportunities to improve rice productivity through adoption of improved rice cultivars, farm mechanizations, provision of extension services and improved market accessibility.
Survivability of P. oxalicum T3.3 bioformulation on carrier materials and storage temperature
Abstract—Good bioformulation play crucial roles in the successfully of commercialize biological control products. The development of bioformulation is necessary to improve product stability, delivery and bioactivity. The aim of this study is to assess the shelf life of P. oxalicum T3.3 conidia in the different ratio(1:1,1:2,2:1) of Biochar:Biocompost (BcBp) and Peat:Vermiculite (PtVm) and temperature (4ºC and room temperature) for 6 months. The results showed that P. oxalicum T3.3 was able to sustain highest viable cell (CFU) at 4ºC storage temperature. BcBp and PtVm have the highest cell viability at ratio 2:1 and 1:1, respectively. Both BcBp and PtVm showed potential carriers for the development of biofungicide for agriculture purposes.
Aflatoxin B1 Exposure Induced Obesity/Breast Cancer Based in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status
Background: Obesity (Ob) linked to Breast Cancer (BC) has reached epidemic proportions worldwide (WW) including Indonesia, Brazil, Bangladesh and also developed countries. To assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of central Ob and BC WW, are commonly linked with geography (wet and warm climate), race, immigrant, but not SES.
Problem: Low and middle-SES are associated with lower outcome affect late diagnosis, late hospitalization and treatment, but not with p53 mutation caused by AFB1 exposure.
Objectives: Low and middle-SES and neighborhood are linked to AFB1 exposure as the cause of Ob/BC prevalence.
Method: PRISMA design of Systematic Review using Science Direct and EBSCO data based with keywords Ob/BC AND SES. A Bayesian network of Ob (BMI, WC, WHR) and SES (neighborhood) are used. Mainly high AFB1 high guideline AFB1 exposures are recorded.
Result: One flowchart detected 152 references and one table or 30 references which included 153,099 subjects at least supported SES/AFB1-associated Ob/BC prevalence or almost related.
Conclusion: Low and middle-SES represent AFB1 exposure as the cause of Ob/BC beyond geography, race and ethnic.
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