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State amends charges against former UWO officials
State lawyers assert the UW Oshkosh Foundation did not pursue a public purpose in a hotel investment.
By Miles Maguire
The Department of Justice has amended its criminal complaint against two former UW Oshkosh officials, zeroing in on the question of whether they knew that loan guarantees the school issued were against the law.
“The amended complaint recites statements made by the defendants which establish probable cause to believe that both defendants knew that the loan guarantees were illegal when they were made,” states the new filing, dated Nov. 1.
The defendants in the case are former Chancellor Richard Wells H. Wells and former Vice Chancellor Thomas G. Sonnleitner. They face five felony counts of misconduct in office for allegedly exceeding their legal authority.
Each count relates to a different real estate project for which the university issued loan guarantees to back up borrowings made by the UW Oshkosh Foundation.
On at least one occasion the Oshkosh officials were notified in writing about the impermissibility of the university issuing a memomorandum of understanding (MOU) to the foundation promising to make good on financial arrangements, according to the amended complaint.
This MOU was related to the house Wells was using as his residence and that he sold to the foundation. This is not one of the real estate transactions included in the charges against Wells and Sonnleitner.
In the case of the chancellor’s residence Tomas Stafford, a former general counsel for the UW System, wrote to Sonnleitner in January 2013 to tell him that the MOU was illegal.
“The language in the MOU in which the university agrees to pay the house’s monthly debt service for the foundation is not legal,” Stafford wrote in an email. “At this point and for that reason my advice is that we should consider the MOU rescinded and not provide copies to any other parties or cause anyone to rely upon the MOU in any fashion.”
According to the amended complaint, Wells and Sonnleitner ignored this legal advice and “did not warn the foundation and lenders not to rely on them.”
The new version of the complaint also focuses on a conversation that Wells had with retired Judge Patrick J. Fiedler, who was hired by the UW System to investigate the relationship between the university and its foundation. In that exchange Wells reportedly said that he knew that he did not have the authority to enter into legally binding arrangements that would obligate the state to make good on loans taken out by the foundation.
"I couldn't bind the state of Wisconsin to debt," Wells told Fiedler, according to the complaint.
It’s not clear how this statement would necessarily implicate Wells, since this is the same position that the UW System initially took--that the loan guarantees issued to the foundation were not worth the paper they were written on and could not be enforced in court. Two judges subsequently rejected that interpretation and said that the loan guarantees were valid.
The attorneys for Wells and Sonnleitner have arged that they are being charged under laws that should be considered “void for vagueness” because there was confusion about the extent of their authority to act on behalf of the university.
But the state is not buying that argument. “With their education and available legal resources, it is simply not credible for the defendants to argue that they were unable to discern” the extent of their authority.
The defense attorneys declined to comment.
In another filing, the state also takes aim at the argument that the university’s support of the outside real estate investments was justified because the projects were undertaken for a public purpose even if the foundation was a private entity.
The filing cites one project, to purchase and renovate a waterfront hotel in Oshkosh, which benefited private investors as well as the foundation.
“Using state money to finance the construction of a privately owned hotel is a violation of the [Wisconsin] Constitution,” the filing states. “The state asserts that there is no portion of the hotel that is designated as state operated or controlled.”
At the time of the sale, the university issued a press release touting the public purpose of the project. “The new hotel owners said they also remain dedicated to using the revitalized hotel as an additional source of public good,” the press announcement said. “They propose spinning off some revenue annually as UW Oshkosh Foundation scholarships for Oshkosh high school graduates.”
If you have questions or comments about anything on this site, please write to Miles Maguire using this email address: oshkoshexaminer at gmail.com.
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The Oshkosh Examiner covers the news that will keep you in the know. With an emphasis on local government, it brings timely reports on emerging issues and explanatory analysis of trends and topics that affect the local community. The site is edited by Miles Maguire.
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‘I Thought It Was The End’: Deliveryman Describes Frightening Encounter With Armed Man In Brooklyn
Filed Under:Ali Bauman, Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Local TV
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man with a handgun terrorized people along several blocks in Brooklyn, even hitting a deliveryman in the back of his head.
The deliveryman lives in the Crown Heights neighborhood where he was attacked and told CBS2’s Ali Bauman he typically felt pretty safe biking around the area — until a complete stranger hit him in the head with a gun.
Surveillance video shows a man in a reflective track suit meandering around the area on Friday evening. He kicks trash, puts a gun to his own head and hits the gun against buildings, even shattering a window at Bais Rikvah Elementary School.
“When it happened, I thought it was the end. Like, I thought I was gonna get shot right there,” said the 23-year-old deliveryman, who did not want to be identified.
He was delivering food on his bicycle around 8 p.m. and had stopped at a red light on New York Avenue when the suspect walked over.
“Once he saw me, he started walking fast. It’s not like I could turn around and pedal fast. I didn’t know what he had in his hand,” the deliveryman said.
A man terrorized people with a handgun along several blocks in Brooklyn, even hitting a deliveryman in the back of his head. (Credit: NYPD Crime Stoppers)
The deliveryman says the suspect held out his gun.
“And he’s like, ‘Teach me how to use the gun. Teach me how to use the gun.’ Me with my hands up, I’m like, ‘I don’t know how to use the gun at all,'” he said.
In a moment of panic, the deliveryman tried to knock the gun out of the man’s hand.
“When I moved his hand away, he just pistol-whipped me and walked off,” the deliveryman said.
Police say from there, the suspect walked over to a car parked on Lefferts Avenue, yelled through the window at a 55-year-old woman sitting inside, hit the sideview mirror then hit his gun against another car parked in front.
“I saw a crazy man walking up to me, so I knew he was capable of doing more than what he did to me,” the deliveryman said.
The school’s window is still shattered.
The deliveryman has some slight swelling on the back of his head but says overall he considers himself lucky.
“Things like this happen. It could always go left, but I walked away with my life, so I’m grateful for that,” the deliveryman said.
The victim is back to work making deliveries but says now he has to be more cautious.
Police ask anyone who may recognize him to call authorities.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo also directed the state police hate crimes task force to assist in the investigation due to the vandalism of the Bais Rikvah School.
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Never ask a question unless you’re sure you want the truth.
I’ve been listening to my father sing for my whole life. I carry him in my pocket on my mp3 player. It’s just that we’ve never met face to face.
My mother would never tell me how I came to be, or why my rock star father and I have never met. I thought it was her only secret. I was wrong.
When she dies, he finally appears. Suddenly I have a first class ticket into my father’s exclusive world. A world I don’t want any part of – not at this cost.
Only three things keep me going: my a cappella singing group, a swoony blue-eyed boy named Jake, and the burning questions in my soul.
There’s a secret shame that comes from being an unwanted child. It drags me down, and puts distance between me and the boy I love.
My father is the only one alive who knows my history. I need the truth, even if it scares me.
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Our relationship is like an experiment gone awry. Maybe my father and I will never be able to hear each other properly, because so much of our beginning was spliced off and thrown away.
Regardless of the genre she chooses to tackle, Sarina Bowen’s superb storytelling prowess never fails to enthral, so it’s no surprise that her Young Adult debut would be something truly special. A perceptive coming-of-age tale that explores the complex entanglements of family, love, and identity on the verge of adulthood, this story felt like a breath of fresh air to me, capturing so vividly the highs and lows of a young woman’s search for truth and affection in the aftermath of a great loss. Some books are love at first read, and this was one of them for me.
My life in Florida is coming abruptly to an end, like a familiar song shut off right in the middle of the chorus.
After the sudden loss of her beloved mother, taken by illness well before her time, seventeen-year-old Rachel Kress finds herself alone in the world, her only lifeline being a father she’s only known through his Wikipedia page. A world-famous singer and songwriter known as Freddy Ricks, Frederick Richards’s only contact with his daughter for the entirety of her young life has ever been through a monthly cheque in the mail, but when he suddenly finds himself as her only living parent, he does not hesitate to finally embrace his long overdue responsibilities as a father. Seventeen years of never claiming her as his own, however, has left a deep mark on Rachel’s sense of self, part of her always wondering what made he so unworthy of his love for so long.
When you don’t meet your dad for seventeen years, a part of you believes that you’re the reason why. I used to wonder what was so wrong with me that he didn’t want to meet me. I still wonder it.
As Rachel prepares to embark on a new chapter in her life at a new boarding school, we watch father and daughter tiptoe around each other’s emotions, desperate for one another’s love, but too afraid to open up and address any lingering fears or doubts between them. Rachel’s inner turmoil is a sticky stew of anger, love, resentment, and hope. She is desperate to fill the empty space that the loss of her mother has left inside her, hiding her pain and anger from Frederick, and only showing him the ‘good girl’ that everyone expects her to be. But deep inside, she is scared, confused, eager to please just so that she would never feel abandoned again.
A little piece of me will always be sitting here on the bench outside school, wondering if today is the day he decides I’m not worth the trouble.
Romance does not take centre stage in this story, but Rachel’s openness and confidence in her love life create somewhat of a necessary juxtaposition to the uncertainty she feels in her relationship with her dad. While she continues to withhold so much of herself from Frederick, she gives her heart freely to the boy she is falling for, letting both her flaws and traits shine through. But as more and more details about her mother’s past slowly come to light, unexpectedly rewriting history and reshaping her perceptions, Rachel begins to understand better not only her parents, but herself, too.
My whole life I’d been trying to understand my missing father. And the whole time I hadn’t had the first clue about my mom.
This moving yet tender story encapsulates so perfectly the uncertainty of young adulthood and the complexities of love, loss, and family relationships at any age. Sarina Bowen delivers another beautifully written, richly textured novel that is unputdownable from the start, and one I can recommend with all my heart.
Music has always been my only connection to him. And in a weird way, he’s never let me down.
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Billie Eilish is Billboard’s 2019 Woman of the Year
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The ‘bad guy’ hitmaker will be honoured at the Billboard’s Women in Music event on December 12, adding another accolade to receive before she turns 18.
Hannah Karp, Billboard’s Editorial Director, said: ‘’Billie has disrupted the entertainment industry through her music and social media platforms, leaving an indelible impact on the global cultural zeitgeist. Her ability to speak to the Gen-Z population, making teens and young adults feel accepted in today’s society has quickly allowed Eilish to grow to the top of the charts, breaking the mold for this generation with her electric hair-colour and sharp attitude.’’
Billie is the youngest person to ever receive this honour is not shy of breaking records, with her debut album ‘We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ topping the Billboard 200 earlier this year, meaning she was the first artist born in this century to have a number one album.
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Charges: Rejected man urinated in co-worker's water bottle
VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. — A Minnesota restaurant worker is accused of urinating in a co-worker’s water bottle after the woman rejected his advances.
Prosecutors charged 47-year-old Conrrado Cruz Perez of Minneapolis with adulterating a substance with bodily fluids.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports deputies were called to the restaurant in Vadnais Heights in October after an employee reported a baker was harassing her.
According to the complaint, the woman noticed several times that the water bottle she keeps at work tasted like urine.
The complaint said Cruz Perez denied tampering with the woman’s water bottle, but later admitted to once urinating in the bottle because the restaurant was too busy for him to use the bathroom after investigators suggested they might conduct DNA testing on the container.
His attorney declined comment.
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Hechos 29 - Nazarene Church in Colombia
Giving Code: 133636
Area: South America
COST (USD$): 50,000
Chia is a city with some of the most rapid population growth in Colombia. The population has doubled in the last decade due to its proximity to Bogota, high number of private schools and universities, and migration from rural areas. We believe this growth creates a great opportunity to proclaim the presence of God to the community of Chia. Hechos 29 - Church of the Nazarene is located in Vereda Bojaca, a zone north of downtown that holds one of the largest concentrations of the population.
Since November of 2017, a group of seven Nazarene families opened Hechos 29 as a Mission Point. Today, Hechos consists of more than 90 members. That's a growth of more than 100%! Currently, Hechos 29 church holds a Sunday service in a rental facility, supported by tithes and offerings.
We believe that the Lord will continue to strengthen our congregation and trust in the continued growth of the church. God has now given us the dream of building our own facility to develop our evangelism ministry in Chia and the surrounding municipalities like Cajica, Tocancipa, and Gachancipa. We will do this through evangelism cells, named “Alpha Groups.”
Your gift will help enable our congregation to build our own facility to support continued efforts toward evangelism and compassion focused on youth and children. Thank you for your support!
Donate by Check:
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Differential Geometry, Harmonic Maps and Minimal Immersions;
Convex Geometry; Measures of symmetry
Middle Egyptian Grammar
Measures of Symmetry for Convex Sets and Stability, Springer, New York, 2015
Introduction to Middle Egyptian Grammar through Ancient Writings, Linus Learning, New York, 2013 (ISBN-10: 1-60797-353-7, ISBN-13: 978-1-60797-353-9)
Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry, Second Edition, Springer, New York, 2002 (First Edition, 1997; Japanese translation by Y. Kanie, Springer, Tokyo, 2000);
Finite Moebius Groups, Spherical Minimal Immersions of Spheres, and Moduli, Springer, New York, 2002;
Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry, Springer, New York, 1998. Japanese translation of the first edition by Y. Kanie, Springer, Tokyo, 2000.
Harmonic maps and minimal immersions through Representation Theory, Academic Press, Boston, 1990;
Harmonic and Minimal Maps with Applications in Geometry and Physics, Wiley, New York, 1984
(with Q. Guo) Dual mean Minkowski measures and the Grünbaum conjecture for affine diameters, Pacific Math. J. (2017) (to appear).
(with K. Miura) On the moduli of isotropic and helical minimal immersions between spheres, Michigan Math. Journal (2017), DOI 10.1307/mmj/1496822425 (to appear)
(with Q. Guo) Dual mean Minkowski measures of asymmetry for convex bodies, Sci China Math 59 (2016) 1383-1394, DOI 10.1007/s11425-016-5121-x
(with K. Miura) On the moduli of isotropic and helical minimal immersions between spheres.
(with Q. Guo) Dual mean Minkowski measures and the Grunbaum conjecture for affine diameters.
(with Q. Guo) Dual mean Minkowski measures of asymmetry for convex bodies, Sci China Math 59 (2016), DOI 10.1007/s11425-016-5121-x.
On the space of orthogonal multiplications in three and four dimensions and Cayley’s nodal cubic, Contributions to Algebra and Geometry 57 (2016) 407-439, DOI 10.1007/s1336-015-0269-z.
Minimal simplices inscribed in a convex body, Geometriae Dedicata, Vol. 170, 1(2014) 303-318.
Notes on Schneider’s stability estimates for convex sets, J. of Geom. Vol. 104, 3 (2013) 585-598.
Simplicial slices of the space of minimal SU(2)-orbits in spheres, Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, 54(2013) 683-699.
(with M. McClain) The Stela of Qema-Mar and His Household, Journal of Archaeology of the Zagreb Museum, VAMZ, 3. S., XLV (2012) 553-563.
A measure of symmetry for the moduli of spherical minimal immersions, Gemoetriae Dedicata 160, 1(2012) 1-14.
Fine structure of convex sets from asymmetric viewpoint, Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, Col. 52, 1(2011) 171-189.
On the structure of convex sets with symmetries, Geometriae Dedicata, 143 (2009) 69-80
Convex sets with large distortion, J. of Geom. Col 92 (2009) 174-192.
Asymmetry of convex sets with isolated extreme points, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol 137, No. 1 (2009) 287-295.
On the structure of convex sets with applications to the moduli of spherical minimal immersions, Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2008) 491-515.
On the shape of the moduli of spherical minimal immersions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 358, No.6 (2006) 2425-2446.
Spherical minimal immersions with prescribed codimension, Geometric Dedicata, 113 (2005) 145-163.
Critical points of the distance function on the moduli space for spherical eigenmaps and minimal immersions, Contributions to Algebra and Geometry, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2004) 305-328.
Simplicial intersections of a convex set and moduli for spherical minimal immersions, Michigan Math. Journal, Col. 52 (2004) 341-359.
Moduli for spherical maps and minimal immersions of homogeneous spaces, Journal of Lie Theory, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2002) 551-570.
Operators on moduli for spherical maps of homogeneous spaces, International Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 13, No. 8 (2002) 821-843.
Minimal Immersions of Spheres and Moduli, Period. Math. Hung. 40 (2) (2000) 211-227.
Infinitesimal rotations of isometric minimal immersions between spheres, Amer. J. Math., 122 (2000) 117-152.
(with W. Ziller) Spherical minimal immersions of the 3-sphere, Comment. Math. Helv. 74 (1999) 1-34.
Universal constraints on the range of eigenmaps and spherical minimal immersions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 351, No. 4 (1999) 1423-1443.
Eigenmaps and the space of minimal immersions between spheres, Indiana Univ. Math. J. Vol. 46, No. 2 (1997) 637-658.
New construction for spherical minimal immersions, Geometric Dedicata, 67 (1997) 187-196.
(with H. Gauchman) Fine structure of the space of spherical minimal immersions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 348, No.6 (1996) 2441-2463.
(with F. Hiai and D. Petz) Curvature in the geometry of canonical correlations, Studia Sci. Math. Hungar. 32 (1996) 235-249.
(with H. Gauchman) Normed bilinear pairings for semi-Euclidean spaces near the Hurwitz-Radon range, Results in Mathematics, Vol. 30 (1996) 276-301.
On the structure of the moduli space of harmonic eigenmaps, J. Math. Soc. Japan, Vol. 47, No.3 (1995) 503-522.
Quadratic eigenmaps between spheres, Geometric Dedicata, 56 (1995) 35-52.
(with H. Gauchman) Real ortogonal multiplications of codimension two, Nova Journal of Algebra and Geometry, Vol. 3, No.1 (1994) 41-72.
(with H. Gauchman) Constructions of harmonic polynomial maps between spheres, Geometriae Dedicata, 50 (1994) 57-79.
Operators on eigenmaps between spheres, Compositio Mathematica, 88 (1993) 317-332.
Rigidity of minimal submanifolds in terms of higher fundamental forms, Michigan Math. J., Vol. 40, No.3 (1993) 493-505.
(with D. Petz) The Bogoliubov inner product in quantum statistics, Letters in Math. Physics, 27 (1993) 205-216.
Mappings of moduli spaces for harmonic eigenmaps and minimal immersions between spheres, J. Math. Soc. Japan, Vol. 44, No.2 (1992) 179-198.
On the number of rigid minimal immersions between spheres, in ‘The Problem of Plateau’ (Douglas-Rado Memorial Volume) ed. by Th. M. Rassias, World Scientific, Singapore (1992) 327-335.
Moduli spaces of polynomial minimal immersions between complex projective spaces, Michigan Math. J., Vol.37, No.3 (1990) 385-396.
(with D. Barbasch and J. Glazebrook) Harmonic maps between complex projective spaces, Geometriae Dedicata, 33 (1990) 37-50.
(with S.I. Goldberg) Addendum to: Torsion and deformation of contact metric structures on 3-manifolds, Tôhoku Math. J., Vol. 41, No.2 (1989) 259-262.
(with S.I. Goldberg and D. Perrone) Curvature and torsion of contact Riemannian three-manifolds, Proceedings of the Conference in honor of M. DoCarmo, Pitman Press, (1989) 199-210.
Harmonic polynomial maps between spheres and complex projective spaces, in ‘Geometry and Topology’, ed. by G.M. Rassias and G.M. Stratopoulos, World Scientific, Singapore (1989) 306-314.
(with S.I. Goldberg) On closed surfaces immersed in E3 with constant mean curvature, J. London Math. Soc., (2) 38 (1988) 333-340.
(with S.I. Goldberg and D. Perrone) Contact three-manifolds with positive generalized Tanaka-Webster scalar curvature, Comptes Rendus Mathematiques, Acad. Sci. Canada, Vol. X, No.6 (1988) 255-260.
On classification of quadratic harmonic maps of S³, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 102, No.1 (1988) 174-176.
(with S.I. Goldberg and D. Perrone) Curvature of contact Riemannian three-manifolds with critical metrics, III International Symposium on Differential Geometry, Peniscola, Springer Lecture Notes, 1988.
Classification of quadratic harmonic maps of S³ into spheres, Indiana U. Math. J., Col. 36, No.2 (1987) 231-239.
(with F. Kamber and Ph. Tondeur) Transversal Jacobi fields for harmonic foliations, Michigan Math. J., 34 (1987) 261-266.
(with S.I. Goldberg) Torsion and deformation of contact metric structures on 3-manifolds, Tôhoku Math. J., Vol.39, No.3 (1987) 365-372.
On classification of orthogonal multiplications a la DoCarmo-Wallach, Geometriae Dedicata, 22 (1987) 251-254.
(with Ph. Tondeur) On transversal infinitesimal automorphisms for harmonic foliations, Geometriae Dedicata, 24 (1987) 229-236.
(with S.I. Goldberg) Remarks on Wente’s example of an immersed torus in E³, Differential Geometry and its Applications, Proceedings of the Conference, Brno (1986) 71-78.
On nonrigidity of harmonic maps into spheres, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Col.94, No.4 (1985) 711-714.
On naturally reductive homogeneous spaces harmonically embedded into spheres, J. London Math. Soc., (2) 29 (1984) 175-180.
Flexible harmonic maps into spheres, in ‘Global Riemannian Geometry’, ed. by T.J. Willmore and N.J. Hitchin, E. Horwood Series, Halsted Press, John Wiley and Sons (1984) 156-167.
(with G. D’Ambra) Parameter space for harmonic maps of constant energy density into spheres, Geometriae Dedicata 17 (1984) 61-67.
(with G. D’Ambra) Extrinsic rigidity for equivariant harmonic maps into spheres, Boll. U.M.I (6) 3-A (1984) 249-255.
(with G. D’Ambra) On infinitesimal and local rigidity of harmonic maps between spheres defined by spherical harmonics, Annali di Mat. (IV) Vol. CXXVI (1984) 25-33
Toroidal Lie group actions on compact Riemannian manifolds and their relations to the fibering problem, Banach Center Publications, Vol. 12, PWN-Polish Sci. Publ. (1984) 233-240.
(with A. Lee) On variation spaces of harmonic maps into spheres, Acta Sci. Math. 46 (1983) 127-141.
Construction des applications harmoniques d’un tore dans la sphère, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, Vol. 1, No.2 (1983) 105-118.
Sur les espaces fibrès différentiables munis des groupes de transformations de Lie opérant transversalement aux fibres, Rendiconti di Mat. (1) Vol.2, Series VII (1982) 129-136.
On rigidity of harmonic mappings into spheres, J. London Math. Soc., (2) 26 (1982) 475-486.
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Minimal Wave is honored to present a reissue of Sympathy Nervous’ pioneering debut album originally released in 1980 on Vanity Records out of Japan. Sympathy Nervous was Yosihumi Niinuma’s lifelong project which he started in his Tokyo living room in 1979. Through Sympathy Nervous, Niinuma was able to channel his energy into what he loved – building his own synthesizers and speakers from scratch. Niinuma was inspired by German Krautrock and through his music created intense proto-techno soundscapes. Now finally available for the first time ever, remastered from the original tapes used for the 1980 release, is the timeless masterpiece in its entirety. This is a momentous occasion and we are happy that Niinuma and his family have entrusted us with this gem of an album. The Sympathy Nervous LP will be pressed on 180 gram vinyl featuring updated artwork themed from the original release, along with an insert sleeve with an unpublished photograph of Niinuma at work in his studio. The release is limited to 600 copies, the first 300 are pressed on clear and the remaining 300 on black.
About his set up, Niimuma says: “The reason it takes over five hours to set up is because all of our synthesizers’ modules are separate. I take and control each part with a UCG, ‘Universal Character Generator.’ I actually gave it that name myself. There are a lot of people using this technique elsewhere, but it hasn’t been systemized as a popular method here in Japan so I just call it that. In the end, I’m taking everything that used to be done by human hands – like giving it a vibrato or adding sounds – and automating it with a clock. Our system is going to continue growing like plants! I can take my computer and do some lengthy programming, and even clean my echoes. But with the system we have right now, we have to spend time connecting each line. Since it takes four or five wires for each module, it would take up to 70 to 100 wires to do all songs. That’s why the set up takes so long, although of course it’s mostly simply about getting used to it.”
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Welcome To The Nicki Leach Foundation
The Nicki Leach Foundation’s primary mission is to honor Nicki’s request “to find a way to help young adults who have cancer.” Nicki lost her life to cancer at 19.
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New Book: Breathing New Life
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Being the second chapter of THE NIGHT LAND
Since Mirdath, My Beautiful One, died and left me lonely in this world, I have suffered an anguish, and an utter and dreadful pain of longing, such as truly no words shall ever tell; for, in truth, I that had all the world through her sweet love and companionship, and knew all the joy and gladness of Life, have known such lonesome misery as doth stun me to think upon.
Yet am I to my pen again; for of late a wondrous hope has grown in me, in that I have, at night in my sleep, waked into the future of thisworld, and seen strange things and utter marvels, and known once more the gladness of life; for I have learned the promise of the future, and have visited in my dreams those places where in the womb of Time, she and I shall come together, and part, and again come together — breaking asunder most drearly in pain, and again reuniting after strange ages, in a glad and mighty wonder.
And this is the utter strange story of that which I have seen, and which, truly, I must set out, if the task be not too great; so that, in the setting out thereof, I may gain a little ease of the heart; and likewise, mayhap, give ease of hope to some other poor human, that doth suffer, even as I have suffered so dreadful with longing for Mine Own that is dead.
And some shall read and say that this thing was not, and some shall dispute with them; but to them all I say naught, save "Read!" And having read that which I set down, then shall one and all have looked towards Eternity with me — unto its very portals. And so to my telling:
To me, in this last time of my visions, of which I would tell, it was not as if I dreamed; but, as it were, that I waked there into the dark, in the future of this world. And the sun had died; and for me thus newly waked into that Future, to look back upon this, our Present Age, was to look back into dreams that my soul knew to be of reality; but whichto those newly-seeing eyes of mine, appeared but as a far vision, strangely hallowed with peacefulness and light.
Always, it seemed to me when I awaked into the Future, into the Everlasting Night that lapped this world, that I saw near to me, and girdling me all about, a blurred greyness. And presently this, the greyness, would clear and fade from about me, even as a dusky cloud, and I would look out upon a world of darkness, lit here and there with strange sights. And with my waking into that Future, I waked not to ignorance; but to a full knowledge of those things which lit the Night Land; even as a man wakes from sleep each morning, and knows immediately he wakes, the names and knowledge of the Time which has bred him, and in which he lives. And the samewhile, a knowledge I had, as it were sub-conscious, of this Present — this early life, which now I live so utterly alone.
In my earliest knowledge of that place, I was a youth, seventeen years grown, and my memory tells me that when first I waked, or came, as it might be said, to myself, in that Future, I stood in one of the embrasures of the Last Redoubt — that great Pyramid of grey metal which held the last millions of this world from the Powers of the Slayers.
And so full am I of the knowledge of that Place, that scarce can I believe that none here know; and because I have such difficulty, it may be that I speak over familiarly of those things of which I know; and heed not to explain much that it is needful that I should explain to those who must read here, in this ourpresent day. For there, as I stood and looked out, I was less the man of years of this age, than the youth of that, with the natural knowledge of that life which I had gathered by living all my seventeen years of life there; though, until that my first vision, I (of this Age) knew not of that other and Future Existence; yet woke to it so naturally as may a man wake here in his bed to the shining of the morning sun, and know it by name, and the meaning of aught else. And yet, as I stood there in the vast embrasure, I had also a knowledge, or memory, of this present life of ours, deep down within me; but touched with a halo of dreams, and yet with a conscious longing for One, known even there in a half memory as Mirdath.
As I have said, in my earliest memory, I mind that I stood in an embrasure, high up in the side of the Pyramid, and looked outwards through a queer spy-glass to the North-West. Aye, full of youth and with an adventurous and yet half-fearful heart.
And in my brain was, as I have told, the knowledge that had come to me in all the years of my life in the Redoubt; and yet until that moment, this Man of this Present Time had no knowledge of that future existence; and now I stood and had suddenly the knowledge of a life already spent in that strange land, and deeper within me the misty knowings of this our present Age, and, maybe, also of some others.
To the North-West I looked through the queer spy-glass, and saw a landscape that I had looked upon and pored upon through all the years of that life, so that I knew how to name this thing and that thing, and give the very distances of each and every one from the "Centre-Point" of the Pyramid, which was that which had neither length nor breadth, and was made of polished metal in the Room of Mathematics, where I went daily to my studies.
To the North-West I looked, and in the wide field of my glass, saw plain the bright glare of the fire from the Red Pit, shine upwards against the underside of the vast chin of the North-WestWatcher — The Watching Thing of the North-West. . . . "That which hath Watched from the Beginning, and until the opening of the Gateway of Eternity" came into my thoughts, as I looked through the glass . . . the words of Æsworpth, the Ancient Poet (though incredibly future to this our time). And suddenly they seemed at fault; for I looked deep down into mybeing, and saw, as dreams are seen, the sunlight and splendour of this our Present Age. And I was amazed.
And here I must make it clear to all that, even as I waked from this Age, suddenly into that life, so must I — that youth there in the embrasure — have awakened then to the knowledge of this far-back life of ours — seeming to him a vision of the very beginnings of eternity, in the dawn of the world. Oh! I do but dread I make it not sufficient clear that I and he were both I — the same soul. He of that far date seeing vaguely the life that was (that I do now live in this present Age); and I of this time beholding the life that I yet shall live. How utterly strange!
And yet, I do not know that I speak holy truth to say that I, in that future time, had no knowledge of this life and Age, before that awakening; for I woke to find that I was one who stood apart from the other youths, in that I had a dim knowledge — visionary, as it were, of the past, which confounded, whilst yet it angered, those who were the men of learning of that age; though of this matter, more anon. But this I do know, that from that time, onwards, my knowledge and assuredness of the Past was tenfold; for this my memory of that life told me.
And so to further my telling. Yet before I pass onwards, one other thing is there of which I shall speak — In the moment in which I waked out of that youthfulness, into the assured awaredness of this our Age, in that moment the hunger of this my love flew to me across the ages; so that what had been but a memory-dream, grew to the pain of Reality, and I knew suddenly that I lacked; and from that time onwards, I went, listening, as even now my life is spent.
And so it was that I (fresh-born in that future time) hungered strangely for My Beautiful One with all the strength of that new life, knowing that she had been mine, and might live again, even as I. And so, as I have said, I hungered, and found that I listened.
And now, to go back from my digression, it was, as I have said, I had amazement at perceiving, in memory, the unknowable sunshine and splendour of this age breaking so clear through my hitherto most vague and hazy visions; so that the ignorance of Æsworpth was shouted to me by the things which now I knew.
And from that time, onward, for a little space, I was stunned with all that I knew and guessed and felt; and all of a long while the hunger grew for that one I had lost in the early days — she who had sung to me in those faery days of light, that had been in verity. And the especial thoughts of that age looked back with a keen, regretful wonder into the gulf of forgetfulness.
But, presently, I turned from the haze and pain of my dream-memories, once more to the inconceivable mystery of the Night Land, which I viewed through the great embrasure. For on none did it ever come with weariness to look out upon all the hideous mysteries; so that old and young watched, from early years to death, the black monstrosity of the Night Land, which this our last refuge of humanity held at bay.
To the right of the Red Pit there lay a long, sinuous glare, which I knew as the Vale of Red Fire, and beyond that for many dreary miles the blackness of the Night Land; across which came the coldness of the light from the Plain of Blue Fire.
And then, on the very borders of the Unknown Lands, there lay a range of low volcanoes, which lit up, far away in the outer darkness, the Black Hills, where shone the Seven Lights, which neither twinkled nor moved nor faltered through Eternity; and of which even the great spy-glass could make no understanding; nor had any adventurer from the Pyramid ever come back to tell us aught of them. And here let me say, that down in the Great Library of the Redoubt, were the histories of all those, with their discoveries, who had ventured out into the monstrousness of the Night Land, risking not the life only, but the spirit of life.
And surely it is all so strange and wonderful to set out, that I could almost despair with the contemplation of that which I must achieve; for there is so much to tell, and so few words given to man by which he may make clear that which lies beyond the sight and the present and general knowings of Peoples.
How shall you ever know, as I know in verity, of the greatness and reality and terror of the thing that I would tell plain to all; for we, with our puny span of recorded life must have great histories to tell, but the few bare details we know concerning years that are but a few thousands in all; and I must set out to you in the short pages of this my life there, a sufficiency of the life that had been, and the life that was, both within and without that mighty Pyramid, to make clear to those who may read, the truth of that which I would tell; and the histories of that great Redoubt dealt not with odd thousands of years; but with very millions; aye, away back into what they of that Age conceived to be the early days of the earth, when the sun, maybe, still gloomed dully in the night sky of the world. But of all that went before, nothing, save as myths, and matters to be taken most cautiously, and believed not by men of sanity and proved wisdom.
And I, . . . how shall I make all this clear to you who may read? The thing cannot be; and yet I must tell my history; for to be silent before so much wonder would be to suffer of too full a heart; and I must even ease my spirit by this my struggle to tell to all how it was with me, and how it will be. Aye, even to the memories which were the possession of that far future youth, who was indeed I, of his childhood's days, when his nurse of that Age swung him, and crooned impossible lullabies of this mythical sun which, according to those future fairy-tales, had once passed across the blackness that now lay above the Pyramid.
Such is the monstrous futureness of this which I have seen through the body of that far-off youth.
And so back to my telling. To my right, which was to the North, there stood, very far away, the House of Silence, upon a low hill. And in that House were many lights, and no sound. And so had it been through an uncountable Eternity of Years. Always those steady lights, and no whisper ofsound — not even such as our distance-microphones could have discovered. And the danger of this House was accounted the greatest danger of all those Lands.
And round by the House of Silence, wound the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk. And concerning this Road, which passed out of the Unknown Lands, nigh by the Place of the Ab-humans, where was always the green, luminous mist, nothing was known; save that it was held that, of all the works about the Mighty Pyramid, it was, alone, the one that was bred, long ages past, of healthy human toil and labour. And on this point alone, had a thousand books, and more, been writ; and all contrary, and so to no end, as is ever the way in such matters.
And as it was with the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk, so it was with all those other monstrous things . . . whole libraries had there been made upon this and upon that; and many a thousand million mouldered into the forgotten dust of the earlier world.
I mind me now that presently I stepped upon the central travelling-roadway which spanned the one thousandth plateau of the Great Redoubt. And this lay six miles and thirty fathoms above the Plain of the Night Land, and was somewhat of a great mile or more across. And so, in a few minutes, I was at the South-Eastern wall, and looking out through The Great Embrasure towards the Three Silver-fire Holes, that shone before the Thing That Nods, away down, far in the South-East. Southward of this, but nearer, there rose the vast bulk of the South-East Watcher — The Watching Thing of the South-East. And to the right and to the left of the squat monster burned the Torches; maybe half-a-mile upon each side; yet sufficient light they threw to show the lumbered-forward head of the never-sleeping Brute.
To the East, as I stood there in the quietness of the Sleeping-Time on the One Thousandth Plateau, I heard a far, dreadful sound, down in the lightless East; and, presently, again — a strange, dreadful laughter, deep as a low thunder among the mountains. And because this sound came odd whiles from the Unknown Lands beyond the Valley of The Hounds, we had named that far and never-seen Place "The Country Whence Comes The Great Laughter." And though I had heard the sound, many and oft a time, yet did I never hear it without a most strange thrilling of my heart, and a sense of my littleness, and of the utter terror which had beset the last millions of the world.
Yet, because I had heard the Laughter oft, I paid not over-long attention to my thoughts upon it; and when, in a little it died away into that Eastern Darkness, I turned my spy-glass upon the Giants' Pit, which lay to the South of the Giants' Kilns. And these same Kilns were tended by the giants, and the light of the Kilns was red and fitful, and threw wavering shadows and lights across the mouth of the pit; so that I saw giants crawling up out of the pit; but not properly seen, by reason of the dance of the shadows. And so, because ever there was so much to behold, I looked away, presently, to that which was plainer to be examined.
To the back of the Giants' Pit was a great, black Headland, that stood vast, between the Valley of The Hounds (where lived the monstrous Night Hounds) and the Giants. And the light of the Kilns struck the brow of this black Headland; so that, constantly, I saw things peer over the edge, coming forward a little into the light of the Kilns, and drawing back swiftly into the shadows.
And thus it had been ever, through the uncounted ages; so that the Headland was known as The Headland From Which Strange Things Peer; and thus was it marked in our maps and charts of that grim world.
And so I could go on ever; but that I fear to weary; and yet, whether I do weary, or not, I must tell of this countrythat I see, even now as I set my thoughts down, so plainly that my memory wanders in a hushed and secret fashion along its starkness, and amid its strange and dread habitants, sothat it is but by an effort I realise me that my body is not there in this very moment that I write. And so to further tellings:
Before me ran the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk; and I searched it, as many a time in my earlier youth had I, with the spy-glass; for my heart was always stirred mightily by the sight of those Silent Ones.
And, presently, alone in all the miles of that night-grey road, I saw one in the field of my glass — a quiet, cloaked figure, moving along, shrouded, and looking neither to right nor left. And thus was it with these beings ever. It was told about in the Redoubt that they would harm no human, if but the human did keep a fair distance from them; but that it were wise never to comeclose upon one. And this I can well believe.
And so, searching the road with my gaze, I passed beyond this Silent One, and past the place where the road, sweeping vastly to the South-East, was lit a space, strangely, by the light from the Silver-fire Holes. And thus at last to where it swayed to the South of the Dark Palace, and thence Southward still, until it passed round to the Westward, beyond the mountain bulk of the Watching Thing in the South — the hugest monster in all the visible Night Lands. My spy-glass showed it to me with clearness — a living hill of watchfulness, known to us as The Watcher Of The South. It brooded there, squat and tremendous, hunched over the pale radiance of the Glowing Dome.
Much, I know, had been writ concerning this Odd, Vast Watcher; for it had grown out of the blackness of the South Unknown Lands a million years gone; and the steady growing nearness of it had been noted and set out at length by the men they called Monstruwacans; so that it was possible to search in our libraries, and learn of the very coming of this Beast in the olden-time.
And, while I mind me, there were even then, and always, men named Monstruwacans, whose duty it was to take heed of the great Forces, and to watch the Monsters and the Beasts that beset the great Pyramid, and measure and record, and have so full a knowledge of these same that, did one but sway an head in the darkness, the same matter was set down with particularness in the Records.
And, so to tell more about the South Watcher. A million years gone, as I have told, came it out from the blackness of the South, and grew steadily nearer through twenty thousand years; but so slow that in no one year could a man perceive that it had moved.
Yet it had movement, and had come thus far upon its road to the Redoubt, when the Glowing Dome rose out of theground before it — growing slowly. And this had stayed the way of the Monster; so that through an eternity it had looked towards the Pyramid across the pale glare of the Dome, and seeming to have no power to advance nearer.
And because of this, much had been writ to prove that there were other forces than evil at work in the Night Lands, about the Last Redoubt. And this I have always thought to be wisely said; and, indeed, there to be no doubt to the matter, for there were many things in the time of which I have knowledge, which seemed to make clear that, even as the Forces of Darkness were loose upon the End of Man; so were there other Forces out to do battle with the Terror; though in ways most strange and unthought of by the human mind. And of this I shall have more to tell anon.
And here, before I go further with my telling, let me set out some of that knowledge which yet remains so clear within my mind and heart. Of the coming of these monstrosities and evil Forces, no man could say much with verity; for the evil of it began before the Histories of the Great Redoubt were shaped; aye, even before the sun had lost all power to light; though, it must not be a thing of certainty, that even at this far time the invisible, black heavens held no warmth for this world; but of this I have no room to tell; and must pass on to that of which I have a more certain knowledge.
The evil must surely have begun in the Days of the Darkening (which I might liken to a story which was believed doubtfully, much as we of this day believe the story of the Creation). A dim record there was of olden sciences (that are yet far off in our future) which, disturbing the unmeasurable Outward Powers, had allowed to pass the Barrier of Life some of those Monsters and Ab-human creatures, which are so wondrously cushioned from us at this normal present. And thus there had materialized, and in other cases developed, grotesque and horrible Creatures, which now beset the humans of this world. And where there was no power to take on material form, there had been allowed to certain dreadful Forces to have power to affect the life of the human spirit. And this growing very dreadful, and the world full of lawlessness and degeneracy, there had banded together the sound millions, and built the Last Redoubt; there in the twilight of the world — so it seems to us, and yet to them (bred at last to the peace of usage) as it were the Beginning; and this I can make no clearer; and none hath right to expect it; for my task is very great, and beyond the power of human skill.
And when the humans had built the great Pyramid, it had one thousand three hundred and twenty floors; and the thickness of each floor was according to the strength of its need.And the whole height of this pyramid exceeded seven miles, by near a mile, and above it was a tower from which the Watchmen looked (these being called the Monstruwacans). But where the Redoubt was built, I know not; save that I believe in a mighty valley, of which I may tell more in due time.
And when the Pyramid was built, the last millions, who were the Builders thereof, went within, and made themselves a great house and city of this Last Redoubt. And thus began the Second History of this world. And how shall I set it all down in these little pages! For my task, even as I see it, is too great for the power of a single life and a single pen. Yet, to it!
And, later, through hundreds and thousands of years, there grew up in the Outer Lands, beyond those which lay under the guard of the Redoubt, mighty and lost races of terrible creatures, half men and half beast, and evil and dreadful; and these made war upon the Redoubt; but were beaten off from that grim, metal mountain, with a vast slaughter. Yet, must there have been many such attacks, until the electric circle was put about the Pyramid, and lit from the Earth-Current. And the lowest half-mile of the Pyramid was sealed; and so at last there was a peace, and the beginnings of that Eternity of quiet watching for the day when the Earth-Current shall become exhausted.
And, at whiles, through the forgotten centuries, had the Creatures been glutted time and again upon such odd bands of daring ones as had adventured forth to explore through the mystery of the Night Lands; for of those who went, scarce any did ever return; for there were eyes in all that dark; and Powers and Forces abroad which had all knowledge; or so we must fain believe.
And then, so it would seem, as that Eternal Night lengthened itself upon the world, the power of terror grew and strengthened. And fresh and greater monsters developed and bred out of all space and Outward Dimensions, attracted, even as it might be Infernal sharks, by that lonely and mighty hill of humanity, facing its end — so near to the Eternal, and yet so far deferred in the minds and to the senses of those humans. And thus hath it been ever.
And all this but by the way, and vague and ill told, and set out in despair to make a little clear the beginnings of that State which is so strange to our conceptions, and yet which had become a Condition of Naturalness to Humanity in that stupendous future.
Thus had the giants come, fathered of bestial humans and mothered of monsters. And many and diverse were the creatures which had some human semblance; and intelligence, mechanical and cunning; so that certain of these lesser Brutes had machinery and underground ways, having need to secure to themselves warmth and air, even as healthy humans; only that they were incredibly inured to hardship, as they might be wolves set in comparison with tender children. And surely, do I make this thing clear?
And now to continue my telling concerning the Night Land. The Watcher of the South was, as I have set to make known, a monster differing from those other Watching Things, of which I have spoken, and of which there were in all four. One to the North-West, and one to the South-East, and of these I have told; and the other twain lay brooding, oneto the South-West, and the other to the North-East; and thus the four watchers kept ward through the darkness, upon the Pyramid, and moved not, neither gave they out any sound. Yet did we know them to be mountains of living watchfulness and hideous and steadfast intelligence.
And so, in a while, having listened to the sorrowful sound which came ever to us over the Grey Dunes, from the Country of Wailing, which lay to the South, midway between the Redoubt and the Watcher of the South, I passed upon one of the moving roadways over to the South-Western side of the Pyramid, and looked from a narrow embrasure thence far down into the Deep Valley, which was four miles deep, and in which was the Pit of the Red Smoke.
And the mouth of this Pit was one full mile across, and the smoke of the Pit filled the Valley at times, so that it seemed but as a glowing red circle amid dull thunderous clouds of redness. Yet the red smoke rose never much above the Valley; so that there was clear sight across to the country beyond. And there, along the further edge of that great depth, were the Towers, each, maybe, a mile high, grey and quiet; but with a shimmer upon them.
Beyond these, South and West of them, was the enormous bulk of the South-West Watcher, and from the ground rose what we named the Eye Beam — a single ray of grey light, which came up out of the ground, and lit the right eye of the monster. And because of this light, that eye had been mightily examined through unknown thousands of years; and some held that the eye looked through the light steadfastly at the Pyramid; but others set out that the light blinded it, and was the work of those Other Powers which were abroad to do combat with the Evil Forces. But however this may be, as I stood there in the embrasure, and looked at the thing through the spy-glass, it seemed to my soul that the Brute looked straightly at me, unwinking and steadfast, and fully of a knowledge that I spied upon it. And this is how I felt.
To the North of this, in the direction of the West, I saw The Place Where The Silent Ones Kill; and this was so named, because there, maybe ten thousand years gone, certain humans adventuring from the Pyramid, came off the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk, and into that place, and were immediately destroyed. And this was told by one who escaped; though he died also very quickly; for his heart was frozen. And this I cannot explain; but so it was set out in the Records.
Far away beyond The Place Where The Silent Ones Kill, in the very mouth of the Western Night was the Place of the Ab-humans, where was lost the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk, in a dullgreen, luminous mist. And of this place nothing was known; though much it held the thoughts and attentions of our thinkers and imaginers; for some said that there was a Place Of Safety, differing from the Redoubt (as we of this day suppose Heaven to differ from the Earth), and that the Road led thence; but was barred by the Ab-humans. And this I can only set down here; but with no thought to justify or uphold it.
Later, I travelled over to the North-Eastern wall of the Redoubt, and looked thence with my spy-glass at the Watcher of the North-East — the Crowned Watcher it was called, in that within the air above its vast head there hung always a blue, luminous ring, which shed a strange light downwards over the monster — showing a vast, wrinkled brow (upon which an whole library had been writ); but putting to the shadow all the lower face; all save the ear, which came out from the back of the head, and belled towards the Redoubt, and had been said by some observers in the past to have been seen to quiver; but how that might be, I knew not; for no man of our days had seen such a thing.
And beyond the Watching Thing was The Place Where The Silent Ones Are Never, close by the great road; which was bounded upon the far side by The Giant's Sea; and upon the far side of that, was a Road which was always named The Road By The Quiet City; for it passed along that place where burned forever the constant and never-moving lights of a strange city; but no glass had ever shown life there; neither had any light ever ceased to burn.
And beyond that again was the Black Mist. And here, let me say, that the Valley of The Hounds ended towards the Lights of the Quiet City.
And so have I set out something of that land, and of those creatures and circumstances which beset us about, waiting until the Day of Doom, when our Earth-Current should cease, and leave us helpless to the Watchers and the Abundant Terror.
And there I stood, and looked forth composedly, as may one who has been born to know of such matters, and reared in the knowledge of them. And, anon, I would look upward, and see the grey, metalled mountain going up measureless into the gloom of the everlasting night; and from my feet the sheer downward sweep of the grim, metal walls, six full miles, and more, to the plain below.
And one thing (aye! and I fear me, many) have I missed to set out with particularness:
There was, as you do know, all around the base of the Pyramid, which was five and one-quarter miles every way, a great circle of light, which was set up by the Earth-Current, and burned within a transparent tube; or had that appearance. And it bounded the Pyramid for a clear mile upon every side, and burned for ever; and none of the monsters had power ever to pass across, because of what we did call The Air Clog that it did make, as an invisible Wall of Safety. And it did give out also a more subtile vibration, that did affect the weak Brain-Elements of the monsters and the Lower Men-Brutes. And some did hold that there went from it a further vibration of a greater subtileness that gave a protecting against the Evil Forces. And some quality it had truly thiswise; for the Evil Powers had no ability to cause harm to any within. Yet were there some dangers against which it might not avail; but these had no cunning to bring harm to any within the Great Redoubt who had wisdom to meddle with no dreadfulness. And so were those last millions guarded until the Earth-Current should be used to its end. And this circle is that which I have called the Electric Circle; though with failure to explain. But there it was called only, The Circle.
And thus have I, with great effort, made a little clear that grim land of night, where, presently, my listening heard one calling across the dark. And how that this grew upon me, I will set out forthwith.
By William Hope Hodgson, 1912.
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The Inward Seer
Mark Valentine
A great cone turned slightly awry, twisted out of true, is the form used for the roofs of most oast-houses in the orchard-lands of England, in Herefordshire, the Vale of Evesham and especially Kent. I never found out why these hop-kiln buildings were shaped that way — a broad, round stone body and a tall, tapering timber head — something to do with the secrets of the preparation of that most important ingredient of the island's ale, I suppose. But they always drew my gaze whenever they came into view in some quiet village or cluster of farm buildings, just as windmills and lighthouses and watchtowers did — because they are high and aspire to the sky, because they open up our breadth of vision. So I always wanted to live in one of these and when I got the chance to rent The Old Oast House, Blackmoor End, in West Kent, for a long sabbatical, I knew it was precisely right for me.
My old colleague Biddulph affected to mis-hear me and made the obvious pun: "You're going to stay in a ghost-house, you say? Rather you than me, old man. I prefer a different kind of spirit. If you keep a dram of Laphroiag in, I might pop and see you though. Have another?" For a literary man, and one who delighted in studying the most elaborate and intertwining of prose works, he could be offputtingly bluff: but I knew his badinage to be his outer defence against the world, to prevent too easy access to what was, indeed, a poetic soul.
Two tall slanting windows had been put into the roof of the Old Oast House, and this top floor housed a bedroom which therefore had fine views across the weald, across acres of meadowland, gentle hills, thickets of dark woodland, gates and a scattering of white-walled farms and cottages. I put my desk in this room too, so that whenever I looked up from my commentary on the eschatology of Ezekiel, I could shift quickly from flame and darkness and abominations to the placid green champaign stretching far, far away, soothing to the gaze.
The oast-house had once stood upon the far corner of a country estate which had belonged to a long lineage of squires and parsons, but which had died out when the last of the line fell in the Great War. A succession of tenants of varying duration had lived in the hall and the lodge-house and the outbuildings like mine, but now it was all broken-up in its ownership and the memory of the family long gone. Only a very old gardener I chanced upon as he sat in the churchyard, attentively breathing in the sunlight, could say very much about them, and these were the dim yet glorified memories of the ancient: they had been a great race, he said, who numbered soldiers and scholars and explorers amongst their proud line, but he could not call to mind any very precise examples, despite my urging. "Strong and brave and very wise in their ways," he said of the men; "beautiful and always kind and laughing" were the ladies — he nodding the while as if to confirm his own story.
I had been in The Old Oast House perhaps a week when the dreams came. I had been for a walk in the lane that lead from my refuge in the direction of another fallen, forlorn old estate, whose manor was now in craggy ruins, and I thought I should like a closer look at it. But it was dusk, later than I had supposed, and I saw I would not make my destination before darkness unless I could find a short cut across the fields. After a while, I espied a gap in the hedgerow and a faded footpath leading from this into woodland and, as I thought I could see, out from this towards the ruin. Yet I never got so far. For, when I passed through the gap in the hedge, I suddenly felt a chill pass over me, and a dizzying blackness seize hold of my brow and momentarily blot my eyes. I wavered on my feet. I have had attacks like these when I have been poring over lower bookshelves and risen too quickly: yet never in open country on a gentle summer's evening. I clutched at the prickly hedge for support and stepped back onto the road; and it passed. But I thought it better not to go on. Even as I made my way back to the Oast House, I perceived that this wave of fever had not quite left me, for I kept on thinking I heard a pattering behind me, as of some large, loping animal; yet when I looked around me, there was nothing to see.
And it was it after this that the first dreams began. Dreams I must call them, but they were more like waking visions. For I would find myself at my desk staring out into the darkness over the land, both to the east and the west, with only the rarest light shining here and there: and there would encroach upon me the conviction that all the fair greenery and quiet paths of the day had been usurped; with the descent of night had come titanic Forms and Shapes in the blackness, great colossi of weighted gloom, beings as dark and hard as basalt but capable of a remorseless, silent movement. I could not see these things; and yet I knew they were there. And I knew, too, that my tall, conical house was a sanctuary and a refuge against them, which must not fall or fail; yet it was frail and could not hold for long. Stare as I might through the long slanted windows, craning to catch some glimpse, some echo of the tranquil country of the daylight, I could never make out any sign that was clear enough in its outline to offer me this reassurance; instead I would only intensify the inner impression of the Shapes. And so this dream, or vision, would tread pitilessly on through long, long hours: I in my tower, staring out, with that keen dread sense telling me of the vast presences outside, and of their slow, deliberate ranging toward my house. Then, at some weary cusp, with the weakest inkling of light, an arid fitful sleep would come, and morning would find me either slumped over my desk or awkwardly-limbed on my bed, where I had falteringly found my way.
It may be imagined what toll this took upon me, and it was only the occasional respite from this sequence, when by some benediction I would avoid the visions of the night, and sleep more usually, which kept me in a sustainable haleness. It was after two such nights of freedom that I recovered my wits sufficiently and made my resolve: if it were some turmoil of the mind that was the cause of these dreams, perhaps caused by too great an absorption in the grim old passages of the prophets, then I could perhaps clear it by refraining from my studies.
So I went out by day and walked in the country thereabouts and felt drawn to explore the wild, neglected parklands of the two lost estates, the one upon which my oast house sat like some curious round bastion at the gate, and the other with its melancholy crumbling hall, and though I enjoyed the freshness of the day and the pleasing greenery, I also felt, often overpoweringly, a certain wistfulness pass over me, an inner lament for these places that had gone: and I felt oddly drawn to them.
Yet at night the dreams did not abate, but rather began to shift themselves somewhat, in that I began to feel I could make out differences and characteristics in the Shapes that loomed. So I made a more deliberate attempt to understand what the dreams might mean. I remembered a certain technique that Biddulph had told me about, which he had picked up from his reading of old, forgotten phantasies, and I composed myself each night to stare upon a chosen white space on the wall, intently and with calmed breathing, holding my thoughts only upon this, until it was as if that part of the wall quivered and dissolved and let in, as it were, a seeping of a vision: and as this vision began to thread like filaments of a strange incense into my consciousness, so I would release my control and allow myself to succumb gradually to sleep. It was under these conditions that my dreams began to take more shape and sequence, and I could piece together some hints of a vast history.
In one of the first of these dreams, I found myself still in a high room like the one I slept in, with windows that looked out upon darkness, and an awareness of Shapes that waited in that darkness. But here I could also see at intervals spasms of red-hot glowing, which came and went like the blinking of vast fiery eyes, or as if some great furnace doors had been heaved open and slammed shut again. Less frequently, too, I thought I could make out giant dark figures limned against these glowing cells. I knew that it was my task to take note of these red openings, to record their pattern and whatever particular I might think I saw. And so for several nights it went on.
Then there came a night when my dream lurched into drama, into that detailed activity, as real as our own lives, which sometimes lingers in extraordinary detail in our minds when we awake, so that we feel as if we have lived another life in the space of the sleep we have had.
I was again in my high room, watching for the red glowing, when I became aware of footsteps on the stair that led to my observation chamber, but I paid no attention to these, as if I was expecting them. The arched door opened and a young man glided in, greeted me silently and came to sit beside me, staring at me from languid-lidded eyes, his high cheekbones, petulant lips and delicate, fair eyebrows all conveying to me an impression of great and ancient breeding.
He looked at me curiously. "You are not quite here again," he said, and passed his opened fingers close to my gaze, making a sign.
It was if this simple act released within me a stream of knowledge, of understanding, and I sighed and shook myself slightly. I attribute all that I can now remember to that gesture, though I do not know why.
He that had joined me then paused, gathering his thoughts.
"The Redoubt is in great peril," he said, softly, without any hint of urgency.
"Yes. It has always been so," I replied.
"You speak of what is without. I speak of what is within."
"Within?"
"You know what they think of me. A flaneur and a fool, tolerated in the Tower of Observation only because of my occasional glimmerings of insight. This is how I would wish it, for it allows me to pass amongst them idly and, as it would seem, without purpose. Thus do I watch, as you — and a few others in the Unknown Outposts — understand. For I have known, and always known, that we must watch within as hard and as keenly as we watch without."
I was silent. Zalyeski, I said to myself, sees and understand far more than is common among men. He has his secret counsels, and I am proud to be a part of them. He alone has knowledge of all the remaining, tunnel-webbed, Outposts, which are concealed from the vision of those in the Redoubt and, as we hoped, from the vast enemies beyond, because they are carved into the very rock. He alone selects those who serve in the Outposts, according to his own whim or inner understanding. While those in the Redoubt supposed him to spend many hours supine upon a couch, lost in reverie, and conceded him this ennui only for the sudden insights with which he would emerge, yet in fact he was often upon a tour of the hidden Outposts, gleaning that very intelligence that they thought came to him in visions.
"I must ask you to undertake a terrible task for me," he said, in his gentle undertone, as if he had merely asked me to do some commonplace thing. I nodded, and waited.
"Do you remember when the youths, unheeding of the peril, went out into the lands beyond the Redoubt, into the fastnesses of the East, and only one returned, and he close to death? All that bright brigade had been taken and slaughtered, he said, and he tried hard to utter the hideousness of what he had seen, and we could not understand; but one thing we did hear, and this that they had all perished, terribly."
I stared at my companion while my heart bounded like a hound on the scent.
"Yet," he continued, "I have seen one of those that went."
"Seen them? Where? Can we rescue him?"
"No, we cannot. He was in the Redoubt. His features were twisted awry so that to all but the most piercing eye I doubt if he would be discerned. Yet it was he, I am certain: or something of him. I know because I see, and see inward while all others look only out."
I felt a tingling unease sweep over me. All our defences for the Redoubt, that last fortress home of humanity, faced outward: the shining globe, the circling forcefield of light, the vast grey pyramid itself, all were constructed to hold back the Forces and the Creatures that beseiged us. Yet if something ab-human had also found its way within, masquerading in our form, what chance could we stand?
"And so, I must ask you to do this thing for me."
"I understand."
"Go toward the gaping rednesses, stealthily as you can, watching all the while for anything more than you have seen so far from this Outpost: and go on, ever closer, until you find out what the giants make in their fiery kilns. Then return and tell me — and only me."
When the youths went towards the East, they went with bright display, stalking bravely, like so many before. They were tired of the life inside the Redoubt, felt pent by its secureness, and resolved that they would explore beyond and find new things, even though they knew how few had ever returned from such exploits.
But when I went, I went alone and unarmed, and concealed myself first in the dark garb that all who served in the Outposts had, which covered every limb and veiled the head. Cumbering it might be, but it meant I could dissolve into the constant dimness, a mere shard of the dark, that I could at will become like unto an outcrop of rock or a star-shadow. My dream or vision is not complete. I cannot remember exactly how I slipped forth, though I believe that it was by a tunnel that opened in a concealed pit far from my Outpost. But I know that it was in this secret fashion I made my way quietly and haltingly toward the place where the awful redness bursts out, glows, and closes again.
I crept from bush to bush, from shadow to shade. After two days I came to the arid lands, all greyness and dust and ash. Once, straining my sight in the constant dimness, I took a wrong step and found myself on the lip of a gulping crater which gave forth a coarse fiery breath from its depths, and I flung myself back desperately from that rim, before I was scorched by its heat. And as I edged carefully away, it came to me that here must be the hidden source of the furnaces I saw, and so that I must be within the same region as where they wrought. So I went on more cautiously still and saw signs of more and more flame-springs, with their crackling tongues of sombre blue and livid green; and belch-holes exuding black fumes, and pits of hissing cinders where swirling tendrils of smoke curled constantly like ethereal serpents; and near all of these I held my breath as long as I could and breathed shallowly when I had to, for fear of the miasma that emanated from them. Yet these I knew something of, for they were recorded in uncertain terms in the books of the libraries in the Redoubt, from the observations made in the Tower and from the very rare descriptions brought back from those who had been before and had returned.
There was nothing, however, that prepared me for the thing that sprang upon me on a time when I felt I was drawing very near to the place of the furnaces, so bright and huge were they when they flickered open their great orange mouths, so palpable the heat that pulsed from them. It came from a den of darkness, a cavern of even greater gloom than the rest of the wasteland in which I roamed. I had seen it from afar off, a dense open maw of a kind of active blackness that I would have avoided if I could: but the only other way meant a tortuous route up a sheer cliff, and I was keen to get on with my mission. As I hesitantly approached, my heart drumming as if it would announce me, I could not help but peer towards the gaping void. And I watched it very narrowly as I sidled slowly upon the ledge at its lip, and it seemed to me as if inside was not simply a greater absence of light but a moving darkness. And then a single white orb of light, liquid and glistening, flickered out of the gloom and within moments after, a huge lunging scaly limb flailed toward me. I flung myself to the ground as a vast whistling gale caused by the flicking of the limb rushed above me; then I crawled on all fours as fast as I could toward the cliff-face that would take me, hazardously enough, above the cave's great lintel. Again a writhing arm lunged out as I clung closely and piteously to the precipice, the very rush of air itself nearly dislodging me.
Then my ears were assailed by a dull roar and I turned my fearful eyes back from the curtain of black rock where I scrabbled, and saw at once why I had not been scooped into the cave: for on the opposite defile there was a giant blackened thing, upright and limbed as we are but grosser in the form and two to three times our size, which was trying to elude the reach of the limbs. And as I watched, it made some movement of a device it held and a great tongue of flame burst toward the cavern, and I felt its outer heat hit me: and then I understood that I was a mere insect upon a far vaster battleground, and that if I could maintain my insignificance I might find means of escape while these giants raged against each other. And in this way, inching my desperate way up the cliff, flattening myself whenever the force from a torrent of fire or the thresh of a monstrous limb threatened to peel me from my precarious perch, I at length found a way beyond and stumbled away as quickly as I might. A high and hideous screeching, a shrill and shrieking clamour that reverberated all around me soon after suggested that the Cave-Octopus, for so I named it, had seized hold at last of its prey, and I ran stumblingly on with even greater terror.
Some days more I spent in ever-intensifying heat which seemed as if it would wither my very skin and sear my eye-sockets, all the while watching for the spurts of sickly flame or billows of black gas that would leap up on all sides. The meagre supplies I had brought with me were more than half gone and I knew I would have a hard time of the return journey, if I survived to make it: but the very blinding brilliance of the red openings told me now how close I was. Several times I saw the giant things far off and made myself small in a crevice or hollow, glad that my veiled form would be one with the blackness around.
At last, at long last, I crept to the edge of a vast crater, and looked down from a fold in the vitreous rock, and knew I had found the lair of those giant things that would at times be seen against the glare of their kilns.
Then, when I saw what lay before me, I grew sick unto the very marrow of my soul. Laid out in long lines were the cadavers of some of those youths that had gone forth so bravely from the Redoubt. But I had seen death before: and it alone would give me no plunging revulsion such as I now knew. For these were no proper human corpses. Around each of the youths a group of the giants was engaged in some task: manipulating intricate things made of shining metal, and coil, and seemingly reshaping the flesh of their subjects. The skin and bone of the corpses seemed to move and grow: and a terrible heat radiated from them, so that they might have been made of a white maggot-flesh that was at the same time molten and flowing. Yet they were alive: I saw the nearest move its half-shaped hand, and a thin wail emerged from it. The nearest giant moved to restrain it, and in its controlled, sober, movement I read a terrible intelligence, a calm purpose that frightened me more than the horrors of my journey.
And I knew with a fevered lurch of understanding that what Zalyeski had divined was the very truth; that here were things being made, in all the semblance of men, but subtly changed from their original shape, all ready to be put amongst us. And I doubted not that the artifice of the giant things was greater still, and must in some way enable them to make these quasi-humans do what they wanted even from a great distance. It was no skill that we possessed: but might not they be greater than us in things other than stature?
So intent was I and so held by the horrid fascination of what I saw, that all my alertness was not with me and it was only when I felt in my prostrate body a rhythm of movement that I was awakened to the onset of a group of the giant things, clambering up the crater on my blind side. Whether they had seen me or were after some other hideous task, I did not stop to find out, but fled away all heedless.
This again led to my own peril. For my hasty pace and constant looking-around to see if I were pursued led me to stumble all unawares into a great streak of slime, which made me retch and retch, and in which I could not find my feet, but slithered helplessly: and as I cast about for some purchase to take hold of, I saw in the distance the cause of this trail: a thing sinuous and glistening like a slug, but far vaster, as great as a hill, and though still caught in its vile path, I was glad that it was going away from me. At length I saw that my struggles were useless and my only course, fetid and dangerous though it was, was to slink myself along the slime it had left, heaving with my toes and elbows, little by little, gaining a few feet for every time I slipped back, until the dank and unctuous route passed close to a protruding pillar and I was able to claw out at it and pull myself away.
All the while I was mortally afraid unless the slug should turn upon itself and, noticing my trapped form, make its unhurried way to examine me and make me the victim of its vileness. For days afterwards I knew the stench of its exudings upon my robes and the clamminess never left my flesh.
Tiresome it would be to retell all the turmoils and hardship of my return, except that as I warily neared the lair of the cave-octopus, I saw outstretched a charred arm that suggested the giant thing had caused it mortal or grievous harm before it was caught by a maimed limb and thrust toward its dreadful fate: and so I was able to make my way untroubled, except in the remembering of the whistling flailings and of the screams that I had heard throughout my entire body.
And so, after many days, and after I had rested awhile in my Outpost, and made my way through the hidden tunnels that led to the Redoubt, I met again my clandestine mentor and gave him my report.
Zalyeski closed his eyes and a shudder coursed through his delicate body. "Then truly we are vanquished," he said.
I tried to protest. "But what of the Word?" I asked. This was a watchword that some among us were able to pass by thought, and which only humans knew .
He gave a bitter smile. "Who started the Word? How do we know it did not first come as part of their craft? Some artificial manipulation of our minds?" He sighed. "I shall use all my guile, all my stealth, all my ruthlessness, to oppose them," he said, with a haughty determination. "Yet I will tell you this: the Redoubt will fall from within, in civil strife and fratricide, long, long before it would have succumbed to the outer things." He gazed bitterly, as if garnering to himself a far-flung vision. "I see their every move. I follow its patient logic. They will place their mannequins just so. The highest officials, our closest comrades — which of these shall we be able to trust? Why, even our very lovers — how shall we know whether they, too, might not be one of theirs? Fond, ardent, laughing, loyal, yet all the while a living treason. And some, too, they will keep to the very end, when we think perhaps that we have gained some foothold, some secret niche for a new start, and even then, they will still strike."
I had never heard him speak so before. And as I went away, numb with the weariness of his words, chilled by the ultimate fatalism he had uttered, a dreadful thought crept upon me, which I knew I should never be able to dismiss again.
What if he, too, were one of theirs, in the great elaboration of their game, the first sower of the seeds of discord and defeat?
And how had I escaped unassailed from the place of the furnaces? At his behest, as part of their plan?
How could I ever know, now?
All these things I told to Biddulph, when (as he had said) he came to stay with me: and after he had tried with jokes to coax me out of my tale, and saw at length that this would not avail, he listened ever more thoughtfully and said I must put them all down on paper. And I saw him reading in a great thick book, and comparing it with what I had written, and looking more thoughtful still. Then he tried to persuade me to come away, back to the college, to call off my sabbatical early. But I said that I thought that the old Oast House was a sentinel of some kind and I must not desert it until I had seen the ending of all the things I had dreamt, and he grew solemn and said he would stay with me too.
And so by day we roam the forgotten estates in their sweet peacefulness, and I feel again that strange yearning for something lost; and by night I resume my duties in the Outpost, while my friend ponders over what I have told, and frowningly consults over and over that book, which is called The Night Land.
© 2002 by Mark Valentine.
The image is by Otway M. Cantarell. It was published in 1921 and is in the public domain.
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Kevin De Bruyne: Manchester City may not need another big Premier League points haul | Football News
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Kevin De Bruyne has been in impressive form during Manchester City’s pre-season preparations
Kevin De Bruyne believes Manchester City may not need another big points haul this season to win the Premier League for a third successive time.
Pep Guardiola’s side have accrued an incredible 198 points over the past two campaigns with expectations once again high this time around.
However, the Belgium midfielder believes that a total of 85 could see the title won in 2020 – with a high level of performance and consistency more important.
0:43 Pep Guardiola says Manchester City remain hungry for trophies despite winning the domestic treble last season
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City remain hungry for trophies despite winning the domestic treble last season
De Bruyne said: “We don’t need to beat the last two seasons – maybe we can win this season with 85 points.
“It is not about improving, it is about staying consistent, trying to be there every game, trying to win every game.
“It is not always about doing better, because how can you do better sometimes?
“To win every year what we won the last two years is going to be pretty difficult but it is good to be there.”
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But it now seems those problems could be behind the 28-year-old after his standout performances on City’s pre-season tour of Asia over the past fortnight.
Prior to the trip De Bruyne enjoyed a couple of holidays with his family, time away he felt was much needed after his previous two seasons ran into each other because of the 2018 World Cup.
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De Bruyne said: “I did nothing for three weeks. I just wanted to be away from football.
“I had been playing for two years straight. I just wanted to enjoy myself a little bit.
“Physically you can be OK but I think it is more mentally. It is tough to go two years straight for everybody and not have a proper break. That is what happened the last two years.
“Now I felt for myself that is was necessary to just slow it down a little bit and go again in pre-season. I knew I would have enough time now to prepare myself for the season, so that’s what I decided to do.”
City have returned home having concluded their tour with victory over sister club Yokohama F Marinos on Saturday, a game in which De Bruyne scored and set up another.
They begin their season against Liverpool in the Community Shield next Sunday before starting their title defence away to West Ham on August 10.
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Exploring the Fakahatchee Strand Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk! (Southwest Florida)
Welcome! After a long hiatus, NJUrbanForest.com is proud to be back with a new hike to virtually explore! Today’s hike will take us deep into southwest Florida’s Fakahatchee Strand Preserve via the Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk. I hope you got your binoculars with you because this boardwalk is chock full of flora and fauna goodness!
Before we begin you may be wondering what in the world is a strand? A strand is generally shallow and has formed where the underlying limestone dissolved. The most common trees found are Bald Cypress, Royal Palm and Red Maple. Within the strand are numerous sloughs which are deeper channels of water. The Fakahatchee Strand is one of the most ecologically rich areas found in the greater Everglades ecosystem.
The Fakahatchee Strand is the world’s largest subtropical strand stretching around 20 miles long and about five miles wide and is the only one with a mixed Royal Palm and Cypress canopy. The park is the largest state park in Florida and contains more native orchids than any other area found in North America. This is why the nickname of the Fakahatchee Strand is the Orchid Swamp.
There are four sections in the park:
Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk
The East River
The Jones Grade Lakes
Janes Memorial Drive
The Fakatchee Strand was harvested for its cypress for ten years stretching from 1944-1954 with the exception of the portion we will explore today. The former logging site was then turned into a state park.
Birds, mammals and reptiles common to the Fakahatchee Stand include:
Florida Black Bears
Everglades Mink
Florida Banded Water Snake
Barred Owl
Common plants include:
Pop Ash
Pond Apple
Pickerel Weed
Alligator Flag
Ready? Let’s go! As we walk along there are interpretive signs indicating the flora and fauna found in the Fakahatchee Strand. The trail from the parking lot to the boardwalk is about 856 feet long. The actual boardwalk is 2,300 feet or about .6 of a mile. The boardwalk ends at an observation deck at an alligator pond.
Here we have come across a Laurel Oak. The Laurel Oak’s native habitat includes swamps and wet hammocks. The tree can reach heights of 100 feet. In Florida, many homeowners use this tree for their yards.
Next we have a Live Oak. The Live Oak grows to about a maximum of fifty feet in height. The Live Oak’s acorns are popular with wildlife.
A blur of white appears to the side as we walk the boardwalk. Check out the beak on this bird! It’s a Great Egret. In the early 1900’s the Great Egret was pushed to the edge of extinction due to the high demand for its feathers for women’s hats. This of course was before the Migratory Bird Act of 1918.
As we walk along a huge old-growth Bald Cypress is being attacked by something. That something is a Strangler Fig. The Strangler Fig reminds me of sculptures found in the movie Beetlejuice. The tree starts life as an air plant (aka epiphyte). Once the roots of the Strangler Fig touch the ground the plant is no longer an epiphyte but is now considered a terrestrial plant. Strangler Figs can reach heights of 50-60 feet.
Royal Palm is found here. The tree is native to southern Florida and is commonly planted. But here it is wild and not planted.
A Limpkin is around the corner but appears a tad blurry. I thought I just got my eyes checked? You won’t find Limpkins up north. In fact, Florida is the only state in the United States with a Limpkin population.
As we walk along there are beautiful Iris in full bloom.
As we walk looking at the Iris flowers and other vegetation we spot something that at first looks like rope. This snake means us no harm and we keep walking.
We see many dead trees as we walk. Dead trees (aka snags) serve a valuable purpose. Insects consume the tree which provide food for a variety of birds. Woodpeckers make holes which serve their young and later provide shelter for animals such as the raccoon.
Splash! A River Otter makes a surprise appearance. What an honor to meet its acquaintance before it slips beneath the water.
Next we come across a hungry River Cooter who is eating non-stop. River Cooters eat anything it finds. It’s not picky! Let’s keep going!
Check out this guy. It is a Cormorant aka fish hawk. There must be a lot of fish in these waters to keep seeing birds like the Great Egret and this guy.
Nice! We have come across Wild Coffee. Wild Coffee is evergreen and grows to a maximum of eight feet in height. The seeds resemble coffee (hence its name) but is not actually used for coffee.
And here is the star of today’s walk: an American Alligator. I think we will keep on moving and leave this guy to his day.
There are many types of ferns as we walk on the boardwalk. Among them include:
Giant Leather Fern
Swamp Fern
We have now arrived at the end of the boardwalk. Straight ahead of us is an alligator pond teeming with wildlife (including guess who? American Alligators!)
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Directions taken from FloridaHikes.com:
From Naples, drive 17.1 miles east from the intersection of CR 951 (Collier Blvd) along US 41 (Tamiami Trail), passing Collier-Seminole State Park and Port of the Isles. There is a very large sign on the right, but parking is in a small space to the left. Do not block the gate to the Miccosukee Village. From the east, the boardwalk is 6.9 miles west of the blinker at the intersection of US 41 and SR 27 near Everglades City, which is 17 miles south of the I-75 Everglades City / Immokalee exit.
Check out the books below for more information on Florida’s swamps!
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Exploring Everglades National Park and the Surrounding Area: A Guide to Hiking, Biking, Paddling, and Viewing Wildlife in the Region (Exploring Series)
Everglades: America’s Wetland
Florida’s Wetlands (Florida’s Natural Ecosystems and Native Species)
Check out the latest flora and fauna sightings here!
Be sure to check out the Friends of Fakahatchee Strand for all the latest happenings!
Feel free to comment below with any bird sightings, interesting plants, memories or suggestions! Thank you and have fun exploring!
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Hiking Wawayanda State Park’s Cedar Swamp Natural Area!
Wawayanda State Park
Welcome to Wawayanda State Park! Located in the NJ Highlands, Wawayanda State Park was one of the first major acquisitions by the New Jersey Green Acres program. Wawayanda State Park was purchased in 1963 from the New Jersey Zinc Company which had proposed development for the property. The name “Wawayanda” is of Lenape origin and is said to mean water on the mountain. Many prefer to call it “way way yonder” since the park is located in a remote area of northwestern Passaic and southeastern Sussex counties.
Wawayanda State Park is home to a multitude of wildlife including state threatened Red-Shouldered Hawk, Barred Owl and Bobcat. The park is also a strong hold for Black Bears in NJ.
Today we are going to explore a portion of the 2,167 acre Wawayanda Swamp Natural Area-home to a globally rare inland Atlantic White Cedar Swamp and the largest natural area present in the park.
Wawayanda’s Atlantic White Cedar Swamp formed around 15,000 years ago and sections of the swamp have remained unchanged since the last ice age.
Wawayanda Lake
Using the below trail map (taken from the NJ DEP Parks webpage), let’s start our journey by heading to the trail-head of the 1.6 mile yellow blazed Double Pond Trail near the camping areas of Wawayanda State Park.
Double Pond Trail is named after the original name of nearby Wawayanda Lake which was once two bodies of water separated by a thin strip of land.
Wawayanda Furnace
On our way to the Double Pond Trail we pass the ruins of the Wawayanda Furnace, a 37 foot tall charcoal blast furnace where pig iron, a crude form of iron, was produced for railroad car wheels. The charcoal blast-furnace is a remnant of a once-thriving village and was last used in 1857.
Double Pond Trail Trailhead
Leaving the furnace behind, let’s head east to the start of the Double Pond Trail.
Entering the forest we find Indian Cucumber growing alongside American Beech. Indian Cucumber is an indicator of rich moist woods. The plant can grow up to 30 inches high.
Indian Cucumber
As we walk there are several rock outcrops comprised of ancient granite whose age is likely around 1 billion years old.
Mayapple with Rock Outcrop
Here we see Mayapple sprouting near the base of one outcrop. As we continue closer to the Cedar Swamp we find an interesting small tree known as Striped Maple with bark striped green and white.
Striped Maple
Striped Maple is a common understory tree of cool mesic forests.
Striped Maple Leaves
After walking about .4 of a mile on the Double Pond Trail we have reached a bridge crossing a creek.
Double Pond Trail Bridge
After checking out the views, let’s take the trail back into the forest passing the trailhead for the Red Dot Trail to our right.
Red Dot Trail Trailhead
Double Pond Trail
Continuing on the Double Pond Trail dense Rhododendrons are appearing to the side and branching overhead forming a tunnel in places mixed with Eastern Hemlocks making this part of the park appear to be a jungle.
Cedar Swamp Trail Trailhead
After traveling about .9 of a mile on the Double Pond Trail we find ourselves at the Trail-head of the 1.5 mile Blue Blazed Cedar Swamp Trail appearing to the right. This trail will take us right into the center of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp! Today we will hike only about half a mile of the Cedar Swamp trail since there has been much rain causing the water levels in the swamp to rise and flood most of the trail.
Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Boardwalk
After walking a short distance through more Rhododendron tunnels we find planks of wood have been placed over permanent flooded sections of the trail.
Frog Tannin Stained Water
We have arrived in the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. The water is shallow and tannin stained and filled with frogs.
Atlantic White Cedar occurs on hydric soils in low nutrient water usually on or near the coastal plain. This is what makes finding this pocket of thriving Atlantic White Cedar located so far away from the coastal plain so special.
Other common tree species found in Atlantic White Cedar Swamps include:
Abandoned Car
About .05 of a mile into the trail we find the remains of an old car that has been here for many years. Nature is reclaiming the car for its own. As we proceed slightly further we find the boardwalks have ended and the trails are flooded due to the recent heavy rains.
Turning around on the Cedar Swamp Trail we head back to the boardwalks and see numerous frogs in the tannin stained water of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp.
Heading back to the Double Pond Trail we hear a low grunt of a Black Bear nearby alerting us of his presence.
Possible Bear Print
Judging by the above wet paw print on this rock we just missed him!
Wood Ducks and Mallar
Heading back on the Wooden Bridge catch we glimpses of Wood Ducks and a solitary Mallard out on the water.
As we leave the swamp and head into mesic (moist) woods, we pass a Yellow Birch tree with its roots exposed. This tree likely began life growing on an old log that has since long ago decayed and returned to the earth.
Red Eft
As we walk we see a bright orange movement on the ground. It’s a Red Eft! Red Efts are juvenile terrestrial Eastern Newts. When fully mature the newt will spend the rest of its life (12-15 years) in the waters of the swamp.
We’ve now made it back to the old iron furnace! I hope you enjoyed this virtual hike of Wawayanda’s Cedar Swamp and that it inspires you to visit it for yourself!
Directions: (As taken from NJ DEP Website)
Take Route 23 north to Union Valley Road. Follow Union Valley Road about 6 miles to stop sign. From Stop sign, go to second traffic light. Turn left, travel to fork in road (about 2 miles) go left about 1/2 mile to Warwick Turnpike. Turn left. The park entrance is four miles on the left.
Check out the latest Wawayanda State Park bird sightings here!
Great Ecology/Hiking Books!
1. Check out Plant Communities of New Jersey.
2. Don’t miss The Highlands: Critical Resources, Treasured Landscapes! The Highlands exemplifies why protection of New Jersey’s Highlands is so important for the future of the state. It is an essential read on the multiple resources of the region.
3. Eastern Deciduous Forest Ecology and Wildlife Conservation – This book is a useful tool for anyone who wants know or hopes to help one of North America’s great natural resources!
4.60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: New York City: Including northern New Jersey, southwestern Connecticut, and western Long Island – Packed with valuable tips and humorous observations, the guide prepares both novices and veterans for the outdoors. From secluded woods and sun-struck seashores, to lowland swamps and rock-strewn mountain tops, this practical guidebook contains all the information needed to have many great hikes in and around New York City.
5. Take a Hike New York City: 80 Hikes within Two Hours of Manhattan – In Moon Take a Hike New York City, award-winning writer Skip Card shows you the best hikes in and around The Big Apple—all within two hours of the city.
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Best Evidence of 9/11 Complicity
a short guide to some of the best evidence
"Data always beats theories. 'Look at data three times and then come to a conclusion,' versus 'coming to a conclusion and searching for some data.' The former will win every time."
-- Matthew Simmons, ASPO-USA conference, Boston, MA, October 26, 2006
the archeology of 9/11 evidence
Best explanation of why it was allowed (and assisted) - to provide pretext for grabbing the Middle East oil fields as we reach Peak Oil, and to enable a global surveillance society
Best documented evidence - suppressed warnings (from FBI investigation of flight schools and from US allies warning 9/11 was imminent), failure to follow standard operating procedure during the attacks, Air Force and intelligence wargames on 9/11
Best theory of how 9/11 happened - the hijackers were themselves hijacked via remote control
Best historical precedent - the Reichstag Fire (February 27, 1933)
Best evidence of remote control to steer the four planes - Flight 77 was steered into the nearly empty part of the Pentagon
Best "physical evidence" - Flight 77
Best areas for further investigation (an unlikely scenario) - Black Boxes from all four planes would confirm or reject remote control theory, Able Danger intelligence program
Best politician who dares to ask inconvenient questions - Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Best questions from 9/11 family members - 911independentcommission.org
Best books about 9/11 (Crossing the Rubicon, The Terror Timeline, The War on Truth)
Best movies about 9/11 (Truth and Lies of 9/11, Denial Stops Here, 9/11 Citizens Commission)
Best 9/11 truth websites
(historycommons.org, fromthewilderness.com, oilempire.us, ratical.org)
Best 9/11 "blog" (web-log) - Rigorous Intuition rigint.blogspot.com
Best research guides - Complete 9/11 Timeline, From the Wilderness
Best analysis of al-Qaeda's role in 9/11
Best documentation of Pakistan's involvement in 9/11
Best evidence that Flight 93 was shot down in Pennsylvania - news articles and eyewitness accounts archived at flight93crash.com
Best 9/11 whistleblowers (most credible): FBI agents blocked from investigating the flight schools before 9/11, Able Danger military intel agents tracking the hijackers before 9/11, FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, among others
Best 9/11 truth propaganda - Deception Dollars
Best analyses of "left gatekeepers" who pretend 9/11 was a surprise attack
Best smears in the media against 9/11 truth (focus on "no plane" and similar untrue claims while ignoring wargames and other credible claims)
Best smear against this website (anonymous slur that it's funded by Carlyle Group - in response for pointing out that not all claims of complicity are true)
Best hoax (most effective): Rumsfeld's "Pentagon missile" hoax is the most important disinformation masquerading as 9/11 truth
Best examples of creative writing generating hoaxes (Hollywood helping the government?): "nukes blew up the towers," "the passengers all landed in Cleveland and were killed by government agents," "the plane that hit the South Tower was firing missiles at the building before impact"
The Archeology of 9/11: unearthing the evidence
Sifting through the volumes of 9/11 evidence is analogous to archeology. Only some of the evidence for the distant ancestors of all living beings has been unearthed and catalogued. However, the fact that the currently known fossil record is incomplete does not prevent science from attempting to determine patterns and draw tentative conclusions about the history of life on Earth, knowing that additional evidence is likely to alter the story as we gain further knowledge. The early days of archeology saw spectacular forgeries "revealed" by unscrupulous advocates of particular theories, which parallels current efforts to distract and discredit 9/11 skeptics with disinformation. It is unlikely that any story of 9/11 is completely true, and hopefully enough of the documentation will be made public in the years to come - and enough whistleblowers step forward - so that historians will be able to more fully explain what happened to the United States of America.
Whatever details future archeologists of truth will unearth are unlikely to discredit the Reichstag Fire paradigm for understanding 9/11 - they merely will add to our understanding of the details of how the "Reichstag" was burned. The real issue is to explain why the attacks were perpetrated.
www.unknownnews.net/cdd061002.html
SMOKING GUN feedback:
Where Was G.W. Bush on the Morning of Sept. 11?
by Cheryl Seal, Monday, June 10, 2002
I don't like to build my case on ruminations and speculations, but on the available best evidence, from which I draw the most likely conclusion, applying the rather unglamorous but time-honored technique called the "scientific method." Formulate a hypothesis based on the evidence, then test that hypothesis (in this case using questions).
To get caught up into the "he said she said" (what Dan Rather said Myers said Bush said etc.) is to get involved in chasing your tail — and everyone else's! History tells us that in a crisis like this, the scramble to cover butts, even when there HASN'T been a conspiracy involved, ususally results in contradictory, every-changing stories. This is true from sorting out who broke the cookie jar in the kitchen to who was caught with their hand in the till at Enron...everyone will scramble to hit on a story that plays well. So, to avoid this quagmire, the best approach is to go with the most concrete evidence and know facts.. Known fact: NORAD called by the FAA because it is the established protocol in such a case (and, as one of my readers suggested, NORAD would probably have known of the planes even before then, based on their radar data). In keeping with protocol, NORAD would have required a response from Bush. Now just applying common sense (another unglamorous habit of mine), here's what you get:
1. If this was indeed a conspiracy involving those in high places, then the details of NORAD's response, which would become a matter of public record, now or in the future, would have been accounted for in advance by the conspirators.
2. When the stakes are as high as the ones involved on 9/11, a conspirator would take NO CHANCES on doing anything that might seem to implicate themselves. By NOT CALLING ANY PLANES, Bush et al would be implicating themselves big time. However, by delaying the call for a scramble and not calling for evacuations, they would easily be able to plead later their decisions were based on not having any idea the danger was of the scope it proved to be. This is, in fact, what the Bush folks have tried to do. If NO PLANES had been called in at all, there are too many "peripheral" people in the chain of communications, from the FAA to NORAD to Bush that would have been outraged and spoken out. A delayed call on the other hand would have been initially seen as "tragic bad luck" and later as too ambiguous to base an accusation on. ....
I feel that people cannot have an entire barrel of facts and red herrings dumped in their laps and expect to sort it all out...the tendency is to throw up their hands in despair, confusion and frustration. Which is just what Bush and Co. would like everyone to do. What I tried to do was to sort through and identify the most tangible facts, then present these, along with all the factual connections between people, places and things, then allow people to ponder it for themselves. I did not set out to "sell" a "conspiracy theory," but if the facts presented happen scream conspiracy, that message will be heard loud and clear. One thing I have learned is that people 1. are generally quicker on the uptake than the media gives them credit for, and 2. generally recognize the truth when they see it plainly presented. That is why the corporate powers that be and their pals in the mainstream media work very hard to avoid presenting important facts plainly and work even harder to disguise the truth.
www.truthmove.org/forum/topic/1270/page/2
from Nicholas Levis:
Griffin = 1000 truth movement activists?
Competent research and valid argument > all of us.
Need for justice > all of us.
We must get past leaders and arguments over the plausibility of their various "how" hypotheses, and back to the original, political fight for disclosure around the key questions of what happened and why, official accountability, and just treatment of the the perpetrators and victims of crime.
AWOL command-chain reaction suggesting coordinated facilitation or desire for self protection. Everyone should know the names: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers, Winfield, Mies, Eberhardt.
Air defense response anomaly, false timelines, cover-up and wargames disclosure. Epic "failures" -- followed by promotions and budget increases!
Foreknowledge - who knew what, and more importantly: where did it come from? Foreign agencies, financial trail, variety of possible insider deals.
Surveillance and obstruction prior - who suppressed information and shut down investigations into the alleged hijackers (patsies or otherwise, it barely matters: another distraction!) and why? Hamburg cell surveillance, Malaysia surveillance, Able Danger, agency recruitment attempts and connections, FBI informants linked to alleged hijackers, Wilshire, Frasca-Bowman-Maltbie, etc. etc.
Obstruction after (evidence withholding and destruction, FAA tapes, black boxes, much more), commission cover-ups and omissions. Fraudulence of reports -- as now allowed by the former Commissioners themselves. Use of "confessions" under torture from possible imposters to construct the entire main plot of the 9/11 Com Report.
Shanksville crash anomalies (meaning: time of crash change, evidence of shootdown).
History of US and other allied-agency links to "al-Qaeda." Use of "al Qaeda" in effecting policy. All that Ali Mohamed / Emad Saleem / Saeed Sheikh stuff.
The above all implicate known names including many officials in differing capacities from negligence through obstruction and facilitation to perpetration. Put some who were not the direct planners under sufficient pressure, the facade cracks and the rest of the story will be exposed.
The bodies of evidence for the above are likeliest to meet probable cause standard for legal action against specific persons, in turn opening up the rest. (Demolitions argument does not do that!)
The following two lead to context and creating plausibility:
History of precedents and other criminality by government.
Rumsfeld, Cheney, old Bush mob coming back to power, PNAC and perception of imperial decline, CoG planning, intent and preparation to invade Afghanistan and Iraq prior to 9/11.
These will be the focuses when you guys wake up in the real America of today (where "9/11 conspiracy" has become a part of the subcultural mosaic, just another spectacle) and decide being right doesn't matter: Winning justice does. Play to win.
Too late? Maybe. 2009 should be an interesting year.
there is not much "new" 9/11 evidence
2004 was a year with a lot of new revelations about how 9/11 was perpetrated.
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/12/
ten-things-we-learned-in-2004-about.html is a great summary of this information.
Now that Michael Ruppert's book "Crossing the Rubicon" and Paul Thompson's book "The Terror Timeline" are in print, along with some other excellent reports, it is unlikely there will be any new authentic claims of complicity. Virtually all of the claims of "new 9/11 evidence" since the 2004 "election" have either been fake, or real claims that were exposed long ago sandwiched in between nonsense. Simple summaries that are easy to digest and that avoid the BS claims are needed more -- and woven into understanding the broader perspective of the Peak Oil wars. The "research" time for 9/11 truth is over - and the only way forward for the 9/11 truth movement likely to accomplish more than we already have is to separate the real material from the bogus stuff. There has been some authentic new information collected about additional war games on 9/11 (in addition to those identified in "Rubicon") but they do not alter the basic political understanding of "means, motive and opportunity" identified by Ruppert. (There has also been a variety of fake claims about war games posted on the web, easily found through google.com and other search engines, which makes it harder for people to differentiate real evidence from distracting chaff.)
There were two "new" pieces of evidence in summer 2005 - Paul Thompson's new, expanded list of 9/11 war game exercises, and the information about the "Able Danger" military program that was tracking Mohammed Atta before 9/11. The Cooperative Research website is the best compilation of this excellent evidence. Neither of these revelations change the paradigm for understanding 9/11, since the precise number of 9/11 war games does not alter this paradigm, and mainstream sources have already disclosed that several of the hijackers supposedly received training on US military bases.
the difference between Bush lies on Iraq and 9/11
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/070103_beyond_bush_1.html
BEYOND BUSH by Michael Ruppert July 1, 2003
There is only one difference between the evidence showing the Bush administration's criminal culpability in and foreknowledge of the attacks of 9/11, and the evidence showing that the administration deceived the American public about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Both sets of evidence are thoroughly documented. They are irrefutable and based upon government records and official statements and actions shown to be false, misleading or dishonest. And both sets of evidence are unimpeachable. The difference is that the evidence showing the Iraqi deception is being seriously and widely investigated by the mainstream press, and actively by an ever-increasing number of elected representatives. That's it.
Considerations for the "Court of Public Opinion"
http://holocaust-history.org/irvings-war/can-of-worms.shtml
At West Point the cadets are told that amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics. The same is true in litigation, especially civil litigation. Amateurs natter on about "burden of proof," professionals focus on the "theory of the case."
In the terms of modern civil litigation "burden of proof" has been reduced to a technical question which has little practical importance to the outcome of the trial. The main practical importance of issues relating to the burden of proof is in criminal litigation where the defense is often that the state has failed to meet its burden of proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil litigation, this is not a winning strategy. Civil litigation is won or lost on who can persuade the trier of fact - a jury or a judge - that his case is the stronger. Indeed having the burden of proof is often an advantage as it gives a plaintiff the first shot at the minds of the jury. This can be a distinct advantage in practice. The experts agree that the best way to meet the "burden of persuasion" necessary to win a case is to formulate a theory of the case and to plan trial strategy around it. [emphasis added]
Best 9/11 evidence
Best explanation of why 9/11 was allowed (and assisted)
9/11 was allowed to happen (and given technical assistance to make sure it happened) as part of a covert plan to prepare the US empire for Peak Oil. 9/11 provided the excuse for the war to seize the Iraqi oil fields (part of a larger scheme to dominate the remaining oil supplies). 9/11 also enabled passage of the USA Patriot Act and other repressive policies that are part of the long-planned Homeland Security surveillance society. 9/11 was the pretext for the "War on Terror," which its supporters claim is a "war that will not end in our lifetime." The neo-conservatives call this conflict World War IV.
Best documented evidence
The failure to follow standard operating procedures (suppressed warnings, blocked investigations, Bush reading "the Pet Goat" instead of being Commander-in-Chief, the Air Force failure to intercept hijacked jets)
Wargames simulating the actual events at the same time as actual events that seem to have confused the air defenses.
WHERE Flight 77 hit - the nearly empty, recently reconstructed and strengthened sector
WHAT hit the Pentagon - Flight 77, probably electronically hijacked
HOW the air defenses did not protect the Pentagon, even after the towers had been hit
WHO scheduled multiple war game exercises on 9/11, including a "plane into building" scenario
WHY 9/11 was allowed to happen (and given technical assistance): Peak Oil and Homeland Security
Put Options that bet on the stock values of American and United airlines in the days before the attacks (betting the prices would drop).
Efforts by FBI management to interfere with FBI investigations into the flight schools.
Best theory of how 9/11 happened
The most likely scenario, which fits the known evidence, is "hijack the hijackers with remote control."i
In this view, the hijackers were allowed to finish their preparations, board the planes, hijack the controls but then remote control technology was used to ensure that the planes not only completed their missions but also did not strike targets that would have caused even more damage. Flight 11, the first hijacked plane, flew over Indian Point nuclear power station, just north of New York City (an attack there would have been much, much worse than 9/11). And if Flight 77 had hit any other part of the Pentagon, thousands of people could have been killed. This hybrid scenario is speculative, but remote control flight technology is commercially available. One of the manufacturers of this equipment is System Planning corporation, whose former director, Dov Zakheim, was a signer of the "PNAC" report stating a New Pearl Harbor would enable their global domination goals. Mr Zakheim was Comptroller of the Pentagon from 2001 through early 2004 (in charge of the money).ng the Hijackers
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/10/skinny-on-osama.html
I've long thought that if we assume a decision had been taken to let it happen, then we should expect that measures were be taken to ensure it happened precisely as desired, and spectacularly so. With so much at stake, nothing would be left to the skill and luck of the 19 hijackers. Flight 77's 270 degree turn to hit the ground floor of the virtually unoccupied side of the Pentagon, while supposedly piloted by the grossly incompetent Hani Hanjour, is the most striking example. The recent report that the WTC black boxes were recovered after all, is suggestive of the same: that the data conflicted somehow with the received fiction. Perhaps the hijackers were themselves hijacked.
from Nicholas Levis, summeroftruth.org:
"Staging 9/11 as an inside job is going to work best (in fact, is likely to work only) if there actually exists an active network of anti-American terrorists who are deeply committed to killing Americans in response to U.S. policy. In other words, those who would blame Qaeda need a (relatively) real Qaeda. A partly-real enemy is much better than an entirely fabricated one.
"The most robust way for insider masterminds to stage 9/11 and get away with it is to arrange for their agents to infiltrate among "real foreign terrorists." Let them come up with their own plots (or plant plots among them), choose a plot that will produce the results desired by the masterminds, and see that through to fruition. At some point, the masterminds and their agents will hijack the plot from the would-be hijackers, to make sure it happens. You won't risk the whole game on the ability of amateurs to get away with it, you will help them along or even replace them (with a remote control hijacking, for example). But it's best to have "real terrorists" in play. They leave a more solid trail of evidence internationally. Cops and agents and academics of two dozen countries can honestly confirm the existence of an al-Qaeda network. That way there is less need to initiate outside observers into the plot and you don't have to hope they are all stupid, as they would have to be to fall for a complete fabrication of "Qaeda." (Qaeda at this point is just a term of convenience for the Islamist extremist networks.)
"The best result would be for a whole bunch of Islamist extremists running around believing that their crew pulled off 9/11 all by themselves (how inspiring for them!). The patsies should believe they actually did it. This was the case with the Reichstag Fire and Marinus van der Lubbe: the patsy believed he had done it."
Best evidence for remote control planes
Some coincidence theorists claim that it was a one-in-five chance that the nearly empty part of the Pentagon was hit, even though the flight maneuvers were world class precision flying and it is impossible to believe that a terrorist intent on causing as much damage as possible would have flown around the Pentagon to ensure that the one area with the fewest victims would be hit.
It is likely, but unprovable, that some form of remote control technology was used to steer Flight 77 into the nearly empty, recently reconstructed part of the Pentagon. Even an expert pilot substituted for flight school dropout and alleged terrorist Hani Hanjour would not have made the amazing flight pattern to minimize casualties on the ground by hitting the nearly empty part of the Pentagon.
The data on the black boxes (supposedly found from all four planes) would refute or confirm the remote control hypothesis, but this information has not been made public. Few 9/11 "truth" activists have focused their attention on this secret data, preferring instead to desire the videos of Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon (which would not tell us anything we don't already know).
Best historical precedent
The 1933 Reichstag Fire, which was allowed to happen (the lone arsonist had been overheard boasting that he wanted to burn the building) and given technical assistance (SS goons were in the basement with barrels of fuel while the patsy was upstairs trying to set fires) to make sure it happened.
The 1941 Pearl Harbor attack was allowed to happen to galvanize public opinion to support war, but President Roosevelt did not need to provide technical assistance to the Japanese (they could find Hawaii without any assistance). Pearl Harbor did not involve a "stand down" -- merely a refusal to share critical intelligence with Army and Navy commanders in Hawaii who would have taken defensive measures if they knew the attacks were imminent.
Other historical precedents (similar but not exactly the same) are described at www.oilempire.us/parallels.html
Best "physical evidence" (for remote control)
Flight 77 was steered into the mostly empty, recently reconstructed and strengthened sector of the Pentagon. This fact is accepted by the mainstream media - but it is rarely focused upon. It is strong evidence (but not proof) that some form of remote control was used to ensure that the planes caused enough havoc and destruction for the "shock and awe" but not uncontrollable damage (if Flight 77 had hit any other part of the Pentagon, the recovery would have been far more difficult).
Best areas for further investigation (an unlikely scenario)
Able Danger - military intelligence program that was tracking the hijackers before 9/11. The Center for Cooperative Research has the best public database about this scandal.
The data on the "black boxes" (which were supposedly recovered from all four planes) would refute or confirm the remote control theory.
Best politician who dared to ask inconvenient questions
Many politicians privately know the truths about 9/11, but only one in Congress who dared to raise these concerns was Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia).
In July 2006, McKinney won slightly less than a majority in the Democratic Party primary, and in August was defeated by her Democratic opponent in the runoff primary. These elections were conducted with touchscreen voting machines that can easily be hacked. The election outcome was also influenced by a nasty media barrage smearing McKinney while ignoring the substance of the evidence on the issues she exposed. Both political parties joined forces to ensure she was removed from Congress. One of her final acts was to introduce an impeachment resolution against Bush and Cheney, no other members of the House of Representative chose to support it, although Dennis Kucinich introduced his own impeachment resolution (which no other member supported).
Best questions from 9/11 family members
911independentcommission.org
Best books about 9/11
Crossing the Rubicon: the Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, by Michael Ruppert
The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute, by Paul Thompson
The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism, by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, by Peter Dale Scott
Disconnecting the Dots: How CIA and FBI officials helped enable 9/11 and evaded government investigations, by Kevin Fenton
Best movies about 9/11
911: Press for Truth
2006 documentary about Paul Thompson (author of the Complete 9/11 Timeline) and the "Jersey Girls" (widows who demanded a real investigation, which they did not get). An excellent introduction to how 9/11 was allowed to happen for those not familiar with the evidence.
The Truth and Lies of 9/11
Michael Ruppert's first speech after 9/11, still accurate after all these years.
Denial Stops Here: From 9/11 to Peak Oil and Beyond
Updated presentation from Michael Ruppert (2005), good summary of 9/11 wargames and the context of Peak Oil (a bit choppy in the production, but excellent information that is mandatory viewing for everyone interested in 9/11 truth).
9/11 Citizens Commission (New York City, September 9, 2004)
best single video presentation on 9/11 complicity, from a forum with Cynthia McKinney, John Judge, Michael Ruppert, Indira Singh, Barrie Zwicker, Nicholas Levis, Jenna Orkin and others. Probably the least promoted 9/11 truth video, perhaps because it avoids the "no plane" hoaxes and it is extremely compelling and credible. A similar, much more flawed event called "Confronting the Evidence" was held in New York City on September 11, 2004 which did focus on the hoaxes (a mix of good information and nonsense) and has received much more publicity.
First video to raise issues of 9/11 complicity - published by Barrie Zwicker in January and February 2002.
The Great Conspiracy: the 9/11 News Special You Never Saw
Barrie Zwicker's 2004 sequel to The Great Deception. It is a full length documentary that updates the earlier work. A very good production (for the most part), but the finale includes Thierry Meyssan's "no plane hit Pentagon" hoax.
a BBC documentary on the rise of the American neo-conservatives and the rise of the radical Islamists, accepts the official story of 9/11 (supposedly a surprise attack) but otherwise is the best history of the circumstances that led to 9/11.
fromthewilderness.com
historycommons.org (formerly cooperativeresearch.org)
Best 9/11 "blog" (web-log)
Rigorous Intuition - http://rigint.blogspot.com
written by Jeff Wells (in Toronto, Canada)
Best research guides
The Complete 9/11 Timeline from the Center for Cooperative Research
From the Wilderness (no longer updated, but the archives are still on-line and required reading for any serious scholar of 9/11)
"Peeling the Onion," written by an intelligence insider on the evening of 9/11/2001 - archived at www.oilempire.us/qaeda.html
The Complete 9/11 Timeline from the Center for Cooperative Research has a good section about Pakistan's roles.
www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration?
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal
Posted at globalresearch.ca 2 November 2001
note: "Global Research" promotes the idea that Peak Oil is not real and highlights some of the false claims about 9/11, but this article is excellent
Crossing the Rubicon, chapter 8, Setting up the War: Pakistan’s ISI, America’s Agent for Protecting the Taliban and al Qaeda
Daniel Pearl and the Paymaster of 9/11, by Chaim Kupferberg.
Best 9/11 whistleblowers (most credible)
FBI agents investigating the flight schools and al-Qaeda connected money laundering before 9/11:
Coleen Rowley - coleenrowley.com - her Congressional campaign website (running as a Democrat in Minnesota), would be interesting to see the hearings that would happen if she is elected and the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in November 2006.
Kenneth Williams
Sibel Edmonds (FBI translator muzzled for trying to expose foreknowledge)
www.justacitizen.org
Published on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
The 9/11 Commission: A Play on Nothing in Three Acts
by Sibel Edmonds & Bill Weaver
(a good article profiling some of the whistleblowers)
www.commondreams.org/views06/0905-25.htm
Indira Singh (Ptech)
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012005_ptech_pt1.shtml
www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?
timeline=complete_911_timeline&financing_of_al-qaeda:_a_more_detailed_look=bmiPtech
[now at historycommons.org]
http://911citizenswatch.org/September-Hearings.pdf - scroll down for Indira Singh's testimony
Indira Singh's testimony to the 9/11 Citizens Commission, New York City, September 9, 2004
Lieutenant Colonel Steve Butler, vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California -- a US military facility that one or more of the hijackers reportedly attended during the 1990s.
"Of course President Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed in the Oval Office by a conservative supreme court. The economy was sliding into the usual Republican pits and he needed something on which to hang his presidency.... This guy is a joke. What is sleazy and contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain."
Able Danger officers
more about whistleblowers:
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, by Michael Ruppert www.fromthewilderness.com (especially the chapter on the FBI whistleblower)
The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistleblowers, and the Cover-up, by Sander Hicks (profiling Randy Glass and Delmart Vreeland)
Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida, by Daniel Hopsicker www.madcowprod.com (only investigation of the Florida flight schools used by some of the 9/11 plotters)
Best 9/11 truth propaganda
Deception Dollars - a satirical spoof of the American dollar bill that promotes websites that discuss 9/11 complicity. Over six million deception dollars were distributed at peace rallies and other events from late 2002 through 2005, and were extremely popular with crowds (many who passed them out in public found it hard to pass them out fast enough). The existence of the Deception Dollar campaign was censored from the media - both mainstream and "alternative" - despite the very public aspect of this effort. Unfortunately, every edition of the Deception Dollar included a couple websites that base their claims on hoaxes (some seem deliberate, others are merely incompetent), so the Deception Dollar list is not an automatic list of a guide to the best evidence. This website (oilempire.us) was removed from the Deception Dollar list after pointing out that some of the claims for 9/11 truth are false. In the summer of 2007 the Dollars include links to the Loose Change no-plane movie and the so-called Scholars for 9/11 Truth -- so the "peak" of effectiveness of this campaign is past.
left gatekeepers: the stand down of the liberal, alternative media about 9/11
denial is not a river in Egypt, psychological reluctance to confront the full truth
The Nation supports the official stories of JFK (Warren Commission) and 9/11
Norman Solomon FAIR and the Institute for Public Accuracy, helped lead defense of 9/11 official story in 2002
Chip Berlet Right Woos Left: Chip Berlet defends Bush regime against claims of complicity
Democracy Now 90% of their work is good, but they avoid the most important issues
Noam Chomsky Where Noam will not roam: Chomsky manufactures consent by supporting the official stories of 9/11 and JFK
Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore and setting up the invasion of Saudi Arabia
Mother Jones defends 9/11 cover-up Commission and denies vote fraud in Ohio
Ward Churchill supports "Blowback" paradigm, misses real story of 9/11 complicity
Counterpunch Alexander Cockburn ridicules investigations into 9/11 complicity and vote fraud
Alternative Radio also avoids deeper understanding
Greg Palast great work on vote fraud but not on Peak Oil or 9/11
Institute for Policy Studies "progressive" party line
Inter Press Service liberal news service that dismissed 9/11 International Inquiry in Toronto (May 2004)
MoveOn Democratic Trojan Horse to control dissent
Larry Bensky Pacifica Radio correspondent
Best smears in the media against 9/11 skepticism
Two of the best (most subtle) smears about 9/11 "truth" were an April 29, 2006 USA Today front page review of Loose Change and Mark Morford's promotion of Loose Change in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 29, 2006. Several USA Today reporters saw Flight 77 hit the Pentagon while they were driving to work (their offices are not far from the Pentagon). Therefore, the fact this publication chose to highlight a film claiming Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon is not a compliment - presumably USA Today (like other media publications) understands that this is one of the fake claims about complicity. While one of the 9/11 war games is known due (in part) to a USA Today story in 2004, this newspaper does not dare list all of the 9/11 war games that are publicly known nor the implication of the simultaneous exercises that day, especially those that resembled real world events. Morford's articles on 9/11 complicity issues are more subtle still - they seem to support the grassroots efforts to investigate yet steer the reader toward the "no plane" claims, away from the real evidence.
Best smear against this website
The most amusing - and bizarre - smear against oilempire.us was an anonymous posting on the Portland Indymedia bulletin board claiming that the Carlyle Group supposedly funds this website. It is a classic COINTELPRO tactic called "snitch jacketing" - an accusation that a genuine activist is a stooge of the government.
Best hoax: Rumsfeld's "Pentagon missile" hoax was the most important disinformation masquerading as 9/11 truth
purpose: alienate those in DC and discredit the skeptics
State Department "Identifying Misinformation" website: a Rosetta Stone to understand 9/11 disinformation
politics and psychology of disinformation
history of "no planes on 9/11" - hoaxes about all four crashes
Pentagon Truth: 9/11 activists debunk the missile hoax
media focus on the hoaxes, ignore best evidence
fake debate: no plane or no complicity? neither is true
similar sabotage against the JFK Truth Movement
TV Minds Propagandized by Photos - electronic hypnosis
Karl Rove uses fake evidence to discredit real scandals
reverse psychology: "new" Pentagon video released May 16, 2006, hiding images fuels hoaxes - it is bait
the 757-sized hole and photos of Boeing parts
suppressed evidence: Flight 77 black boxes found
Eyewitnesses: hundreds of people saw Flight 77, no one saw a missile or small plane hit the building
photos of Pentagon area for those unfamiliar with Washington, D.C.
jokes hidden in plain sight: Pentagate, In Plane Site, Popular Mechanics
In Plane Site, Pentagon Strike, Loose Change ("no plane" hoax films)
no-plane hoax promoters (some are sincere, some are not)
the "pod" plane (a hoax about the WTC plane crashes, 9/11 "pod people")
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Artist Series: NIL ULTRA
Articles | Tue, Feb 28 2017
We sat down with Nil Ultra, the artist behind our latest OBEY Artist Series collection for Spring 17, to talk about his career and the work he created for the series. Read more below.
Visit nilultra.com for more info on the artist and shop Nil Ultra’s Artist Series here.
Name and where are you from?
Working under the name Nil Ultra. Living in Los Angeles.
Tell us how you got interested in art and design.
I’ve been drawing since I as a kid and always had an interest in design even before it was defined to me in my later teens when I discovered it was something I was passionate enough about to pursue as a trade.
When did you know you wanted it to be more than something you just did for fun?
Commercial art class in high school.
Tell us a bit about your journey through the professional design world.
It’s been wild. From magazines to agency work to freelance to apparel, I’ve been very lucky and had the pleasure of working for some heavy hitters and learned so much. Mac James, who was my mentor early on, had the most effect on me. He worked under Bob Cato at Columbia records and shared so many things that Bob taught him. It was while living in New York and seeing how Mac and Bob were so prolific that inspired me to have little to no limitation on creative pursuits.
For a good portion of your career you were a freelance designer. Does that have an effect on the way you approach your design?
Yes. You can make it good or you can make it yours. Through freelance I learned to not be attached to anything in particular and create quality work and enough of it that I’d be proud with anything the client ends up choosing.
A lot of the work I’ve seen from you revolves around collage. What drew you to that medium?
Collage combines design, illustration, exploration, and patience. It’s a medium that I find the most pleasure in due to the endless directions one can go and interests one can have. There’s a design sensibility and illustrative skill in good collage and asemblage that drew me to the medium. Rauschenberg, Ray Johnson, the Dadaists, and the work of Gee Vaucher and Winston Smith on the punk albums of my youth were all early influences.
With collage, your source material is so crucial. Do you have a process to compile the fragments with which you work?
Some elements end up on the studio wall or a metal document box I carry awaiting their counterparts, although most compiling is in my head.
You did three designs for your artist series. Can you tell us about those pieces?
As with all my work, they are pieces built from vintage magazines and ephemera. All three are works I saw in my head and hunted down the appropriate images to use. They’re all simple ideas: god smoking weed, a hand struggling to break through a wall, and America actin’ a fool. Sure there’s metaphors and messages in there but really I just wanted to make the images. The purpose materializes as the pieces do.
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Arctic Mysteries Run Deep: “Under the Snow” by Kerstin Ekman
Posted on October 7, 2014 by Lucy Pollard-Gott
Under the Snow by Kerstin Ekman, trans. Joan Tate, Picador, 1999. (First published in Swedish in 1961)
Kerstin Ekman’s Under the Snow stretches the police procedural genre–or rather, freezes it–to fit its setting: a tiny Sami village on the Arctic circle in Norbotten County, the northernmost county of Sweden. Constable Bengt Torsson is called to investigate the death of art teacher Matti Olsson, at the small Rakisjokk Nomad School, situated at the far west end of a long, narrow lake. The school exists only for the Sami children, and the few Swedish people in the village are those doing weather measurements, teaching at the school, or managing the occasional tourist trade. This setting couldn’t be more different from that in another Swedish detective novel, The Laughing Policeman by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, which took place in the crowded urban setting of Stockholm. The crimes in that novel took place on a double decker bus, whereas the only ready transportation to reach the Rakisjokk school is a set of skis! Torsson must ski across the frozen lake in March, with his guide Henrik Vuori, to begin his investigation. Ekman’s descriptions are as stark as the setting and she has a talent for making striking observations.
The glow from the ceiling light in its upper hall was the first gleam of life Constable Torsson saw as he and Vuori approached the village in the dead, dark gray dawn over the lake. (p. 8)
The shed [where the victim had been laid] seemed mostly filled with the kind of things that couldn’t be seen. The shifting patches of light were insufficient. The wind was nosing through the cracks and whistling greedily. (p. 10)
He [Matti] didn’t look as if he’d received a blow. What had he died of? Torsson wondered. There were no rules here. He could have died of anything. Of the darkness. (p. 11)
Ekman describes every sound, the crunching of snow underfoot, lungs puffing in the cold–even the sound as one man rubbed the stubble on his face with a calloused hand. It was that quiet in the schoolroom where the teachers and villagers assembled to tell him their version of what had happened. There was Sjögren, the climatologist, who fought with Matti after a birthday party given for him; too much alcohol was involved. There was Anna Ryd, a beautiful auburn-haired Swedish woman who had been Matti’s girlfriend. In her grief, she maintained a “paralyzing silence” while the story was told. There were Pers-Anders Jerf and his sister Kristina Maria–Sami people whose taciturn father Edvin lived in a tent by himself away from the village. There were Vuori and his wife Marta, an imposing, unreadable woman. Torsson listened to them all, but somehow could not take them in; he felt numbed and strange, as if they were waiting, expressionless, and watching him:
As they stood there beneath the naked bulb, in woolen shawls and caps with earflaps, they seemed to him nothing but eyes. He couldn’t keep them apart, almost confusing the dark, chubby Kristina Maria Jerf, Per-Anders’s sister, with the tall Marta Vuori. They took their time scanning his face. (p. 14)
According to them, an intoxicated Matti had simply wandered out into the snow and died before they discovered him the next morning. Torsson stayed on several days and found some evidence that didn’t seem to fit this simple picture–a mah jongg tile stained with blood, for example–and he painstakingly interviewed all those connected with Matti, but in the end, he couldn’t bring it into clear focus and went away unsatisfied.
A few months later, in July, one of Matti’s friends, David Malm, decided to visit his friend unexpectedly. On his way to Rakisjokk he encountered Anna Ryd who seemed to be in a hurry to leave–all she had in her car was a bark knapsack. Her car had hit a reindeer, and he tried to help her. She flatly told him Matti was dead, with a warning to turn around and forget about inquiring any further: “He wasn’t what you thought he was” was her only explanation.
David sought out Torsson and persuaded him to return to Rakisjokk to confront the evidence that didn’t add up and discover the truth. David is an eccentric character himself–like Hamlet, he feigns a bit of madness to shake people up and shake out their secrets. The pace of this already taut story really picks up from here on. It may seem as if I’ve told a lot of spoilers, but what I’ve described so far is all over in the first third of the book–much more will happen and be revealed.
Despite this book’s title and my expectations, the descriptions of extreme cold were not its most prominent feature for me. Rather, the wound-up emotional tension and fear of discovery were even more palpable. Imagine an English country house murder being transported to a wilderness schoolroom with few comforts, except for ever-present hot coffee and layers of thick clothing, but the people inhabiting it were just as tight-lipped. Torsson is not a Poirot laying out the single-handed solution with a dramatic flourish, but rather a persistent facilitator of the truth, which emerges when some of the participants become ready to face it.
Ekman has such a sure hand with her prose that one genre is not enough! She has given a fascinating video interview where she describes her philosophy of writing and her experiments with several genres. I look forward to exploring some of her other novels, which include fantasy (The Forest of Hours), historical fiction (God’s Mercy), and more mystery (Blackwater).
This book counts toward this year’s #FrightFall readathon at Seasons of Reading, hosted by Michelle of The True Book Addict, and toward the ongoing Travel the World in Books Challenge, hosted by Tanya at Mom’s Small Victories.
Review: “The Laughing Policeman” by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Interview with Kerstin Ekman for the Louisiana Literature Festival, 2012
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2 Responses to Arctic Mysteries Run Deep: “Under the Snow” by Kerstin Ekman
I enjoyed your comparison of this to a typical English village (ala Christie mystery), and the oppressive quiet of the setting. Your review really reflects that tightly wound tension, and it sounds like the author has a very deft hand.
I also liked your comparison of the two Swedish mysteries.
I’ll have to take a look at the author’s video–sounds very interesting.
thetruebookaddict says:
I can’t wait to read this now! I’ve been wanting to for years, ever since I read Black Water by Ekman, which I loved. I think sooner, rather than later, is in order. 😉
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Categories MANUSCRIPTS ART, ARCHITECTURE & MUSIC WILKIE, Sir David (1785–1841), painter. 3 ALS invitation responses to Marshall family 1834-39
WILKIE, Sir David (1785–1841), painter. 3 ALS invitation responses to Marshall family 1834-39
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WILKIE, Sir David (1785–1841), painter of genre, historical subjects, and portraits. Three autograph letters signed in the third person, each 1 side of an 8vo bifolium to the Marshall family as follows:
to Mrs Marshall, regrettably unable to accept an evening invitation in view of a previous engagement at the Royal Academy, dated Kensington April 23rd 1834.
to Mr & Mrs Marshall, accepting a dinner invitation for Tuesday next the 23rd, dated Kensington February 20th 1836.
to Mrs Marshall, regrettably unable to accept Mr & Mrs Marshall’s invitation to meet with Mrs Wordsworth on the 16th ‘owing to an engagement of a fortnight ago’, dated Vicarage Place, Kensington, May 14th 1839, with its original envelope.
Wilkie’s invitations came from the wealthy linen manufacturer John Marshall (1765–1845) and his wife Jane née Pollard (1765–1849). John Marshall of Leeds pioneered the mechanisation of flax spinning, transforming linen manufacture into a factory based industry. He married Jane Pollard (circa 1795), daughter of a William Pollard, a Halifax wool-stapler and linen-merchant, who had attended the same school as Dorothy Wordsworth in Halifax, from which a lasting close friendship developed between Dorothy, William and Mary Wordsworth and the Marshalls.
One of John Marshall’s enthusiasms was as a patron of the arts which brought him into contact with several major living artists of his day including David Wilkie. By the 1830s Wilkie’s style had changed from genre painting to larger scale dramatic history painting, and in 1836 John Marshall purchased Wilkie’s Napoleon and the Pope in Conference at Fontainebleau.
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How to download projects from here?
1-Jan-2020 5:52 PM — Edited 2-Jan-2020 12:06 PM
In answer to your question, Shredder73 - you DON’T download projects on here.
What CatBus said is spot on.
We are NOT pirates - and this is not a torrent or download site.
‘We ❤️ Star Wars and give it all the moneys. Please don’t sue us.’ - this applies for every Fan Edit on here (not just for Star Wars releases) - we pay for the official film/tv/media release beforehand; via purchasing the blu ray or digital download etc.
Patience is also key… take the time to look around the site and read up on how the site works - and doesn’t…
Threads such as these links below will provide you with quite a bit of information, help and assistance:-
Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com; Introduce yourself in here + useful info within…
‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com - some info & answers to members’ queries
About : Help : OT.com Forum Rules and Guidelines : Fan Edit / Preservation Forum Rules and FAQ
As well as reading up on some of the more popular project threads on here…
It is indeed a fair bit of info to take in - though reading through these threads will also hopefully give you a clear understanding of what the site is about - and what it isn’t…
Good luck with it 😃
Cassian Andor Live-Action Series
a little snippet on the future Cassian Andor series…
https://twitter.com/moredisneyplus/status/1212278737326227461:-
'Cassian Andor Series • 2021?
The series will follow the adventures of Cassian during the formative years of the rebellion prior to the events of Rogue One. We’ll meet the people who influenced Cassian as a teen and as an adult, including his sister.’
Dealing with People Selling Fan Projects
mykyta-R4 said:
That ebay seller is making a profit of a LOT from his $75 a set. A set like that only cost $10-15? to make + and a little more for delivery?
It is shame we cannot do this - make and sell the Despecialized for NO PROFIT. Give links in description to people who want and can do for free, and give the choice to ONLY cover cost of making set for others. Give a price list of materials: ink, photopaper, discs, case, package box, ebay fee, to show no profit being made.
‘Eliminate the scammers!’
It is a decent idea and also a noble sentiment mate - but would likely bring more issues and problems, as well as putting the community here (and similar elsewhere) at risk.
The community had the same issues with people selling various OUT preservations back in the DVD days. Complaining to ebay did nothing that I can remember, and I’d prefer not to raise our profile any higher than it already is. We have a nice thing going where people are being allowed to work around the lack of an official OUT Blu-ray release without the copyright owners bringing the hammer down. Let’s keep it that way.
This is just part of being a content producer in the fan edit/preservation community. Somebody is going to put your work on a disc and sell it. No way around it.
As Jay said above… it is unfortunate that these scammers profit from the work of Harmy and others on here - nobody likes it, it is frustrating, and unfair that these leeches profit from the work of others who provide all this content for free… yet there is only so much we can do.
By all means carry on reporting these scammers to ebay or whatever site they’re selling them on…
Report them - to both GoDaddy and ebay.
It is apparent from the guy’s selling history he has been around for a long, long time - and profited handsomely from selling the Depsecialized Editions.
30-Dec-2019 8:11 PM — Edited 1-Jan-2020 7:15 AM
‘Star Wars Co-Writer Chris Terrio Sets Record Straight on Perceived ‘Last Jedi’ Jabs’:-
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-writer-sets-record-straight-perceived-last-jedi-jabs-1265168
^ The title of the article doesn’t really reflect the many topics that the TROS co-writer covers from in and about the film.
Well worth a read - regardless of whether you enjoyed the film - or not.
(apologies if already posted)
Edit to add more articles on the subject…
‘Star Wars Star Kelly Marie Tran on the Challenge of Shooting Leia’s Scenes’:-
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-kelly-marie-tran-challenge-shooting-leias-scenes-1265421
^ Kelly Marie Tran also covers a few other topics in the article too.
‘Star Wars writer says he didn’t ‘sideline’ Kelly Marie Tran in Rise of Skywalker’:-
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-12-31/star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-kelly-marie-tran
1997 Special Edition Blu Ray's
JediKnight8484 said:
Thanks. Any idea where I’d be able to purchase these HAL 9000 copies?
Fan Edits are available for free - with certain conditions. Please read the OT.com Forum Rules and Guidelines & Fan Edit / Preservation Forum Rules and FAQ for further information.
The Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com thread is also useful for further info and help too.
Harmy put together this video highlighting why Fan Edits should never be bought or sold, here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrwKZHv4OS0
^ I’d recommend giving it a watch mate.
Design failures (and successes) of the PT
TavorX said:
I absolutely adored the Jedi Starfighters of ROTS. As a kid, besides the Falcon, I wanted a personal Starfighter in real life.
Same here mate; loved the design of them - and really enjoyed piloting them in the Rogue Squadron games that had them - and am hoping the forthcoming Lego Star Wars Saga game will have them too 😃
Which version of the Original Trilogy to watch?
There are also a few ‘Which is best?’ type conversation threads in the Index Threads for both Star Wars Preservations - and also for Star Wars Fan Edits, respectively.
Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
Biggs Audio Dynamite said:
Bar calling out the toxic fans - the racists, sexists, homophobes, trolls, death threat makers and announcers, and bullies who chase people involved in films they don’t like off the internet etc… I haven’t seen quotes from Rian Johnson chastising genuine criticism of The Last Jedi - I’ve only seen quotes from him stating he was perfectly fine with fans expressing genuine criticism of the film.
Perhaps someone can provide quotes from him to the contrary? (I am somewhat surprised nobody has done so previously.)
I don’t think anyone has posted them because such quotes don’t exist. To me it is a myth, spread by people looking to continue the hate on the TLJ film or the man who made it.
Personally I find such claims to be actually toxic, as they are without foundation or fact. Both a lie and smear. Rinsed and repeated.
I like TLJ overall, yet the film still has several big issues for me, but I’m not going to lie and make up shit about it or about the people who worked on it, and I don’t understand people who do.
If Rian Johnson called out a bunch of people fitting the descriptions you posted then good on him. I wish more would.
Im not a fan of TLJ, and i can find tons of videos and articles discussing it in a unbiased, unprejudiced way. In fact i would say TLJ fans are the ones who just use racism and sexism as a card against people who have genuine criticism of the movie. Its quite toxic really, and sad that Rian Johnson fans dont have any issues in thrashing people and the franchise to protect the vision of one dude.
People didnt like Rose because she was a waste, not because she was a female. People want Rey to show weakness because thats what a hero should do, not because shes a female. People hated on Finns arc because it was a waste and pointless, not cause he’s black. People hated on Holdo because she was an incompetent leader, not because she was a female. People dont like Poes arc because the movie makes him look incompetent just to prove a point and serve Holdos motivations, not because he is a man. People hated Lukes arc because he already had his evolution as a character in the OT, now his job was to pass on the torch, not to go back to the drawing board.
Unfortunately, even on this site it was an issue for some that Rose was ‘Asian’, or ‘fat’, or a woman - or other derogatory comments on her appearance or gender, that Finn was black (or a black stormtrooper), that Rey was indeed a female, that Holdo had purple hair - or was ‘Leia’s lesbian friend’, etc, etc.
As a mod here - we deleted some before many saw it - sometimes we were a little late on, some if it can still found be here. Speaking to other mods on other sites (and not just Star Wars sites)… they encountered the same - or similar.
It’s probably worth reading through a few of the relevant threads on here to see for yourself. Many people had genuine criticism of the film too - and didn’t look to critique the film in such as some people did mentioned below. And also many liked it - or had mixed opinions on it… and many have debated or just simply chatted away about it in a civil manner. (and yes, sometimes it can get a little heated.)
Rian Johnson wasn’t calling out people who had genuine issues or opinions on the film - he was calling out the sexists, racists, homophobes etc - as well as the more toxic people who chased people who had worked on the film from internet.
I don’t think he simply has his own fans defending him or TLJ fans on this issue - it seems to be more a case of just decent people who won’t tolerate sexists, racists, homophobes etc - and those toxic people mentioned above.
I believe Biggs was referring more to the fact Rian Johnson has not actually attacked fans for having a genuine opinion - ‘I don’t think anyone has posted them because such quotes don’t exist.’.
If you know different - and can post Rian Johnson’s quotes here where he does attack the fans for having genuine criticisms of the film - I am sure many will be interested to see them…
luckydube56 said:
act on instinct said:
Force-Abel said:
That you think people were referring to you on this matter confirms much.
To be fair I feel like the messaging has been so vague I’ve questioned whether or not I was being considered one of the bad eggs…
Tensions are high but I haven’t seen a lot of people disrespected, not going to argue much further than that (as I don’t know all the history and may be speaking out of turn), I already feel like several threads are ironically now being derailed by response to what appeared to me to be just other’s opinions. I expect and hope the dust will settle within the coming weeks of release, until then I hope everyone can still have a good time talking about the movies good or bad through the remainder of their holiday.
Of course the messaging is vague. There’s no more convenient way to wield power than to do it arbitrarily.
Just kidding. The rule is…if someone who liked the film is offended then your opinion is ‘toxic’.
The very use of the term suggests a certain political leaning is required in order to be on the righteous side of this debate.
Strange, because some members who didn’t like the film, or are mixed overall on it, - and not just IX; but TLJ, TFA, and other modern SW content too… have also asked for the repeated negative posting across various threads on here to be stopped or curtailed.
So your statement of ‘The rule is…if someone who liked the film is offended then your opinion is ‘toxic’’ is indeed incorrect.
And that highlights a problem within - ‘the side(s) of the debate’…
There are no sides - just opinions and taking about the films. Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion here - in a civil manner, of course.
Of course, there are those who wish to create sides, bring politics into it, put words into the mouths of others, and willfully take what others have said and twist the context / meaning / application of…
Yet the fact remains people are free to post their genuine opinion and reviews of the films on here - in a civil manner - as has been stated in many threads on the subject before. For some reason you wish overlook, or exclude, this fact.
Maybe just, I don’t know, don’t be a dick?
Dicks show up when there is an over abundance of pussies.
That’s simply just baiting - maybe to the point of trolling. Either way it isn’t civil.
You were told your previous posts of ‘Dicks show up when there is an over abundance of pussies’ and something about ‘offending delicate wallflowers’ and more were deleted - and why; yet here you are posting it again…
It is obvious you are not interested in conversing with fellow members in the threads about the films (which you have not seen) - and would rather insult them or put words into the mouths of others.
Hopefully the New Year will see you return posting in a more civil fashion.
Ranking the Star Wars films
^ most importantly…
Where is The Holiday Special? and those two Ewok movies too!
J0E said:
liamnotneeson said:
Morgan the Boost said:
Like jazz.
A bunch of musicians soloing at the same time?
Jazz: A Star Wars Story
It’s like poetry. It’s so that they rhyme.
What rhymes with creatively bankrupt?
People who repeatedly bash on the new films without having seen them - across many discussion threads about them?
People who don’t seem to care that other members have left already the site (temporarily or permanently), are leaving the site, and others likely are considering the same - over this agenda of repeated negativity - and yet carry on regardless?
If you have genuine opinions or valid criticisms of the film… then great - post away. Not a problem - and various viewpoints and discourse are always welcome here (in a civil manner and on-topic, of course).
If not… then find or create a more relevant thread to post in. Maybe an ‘I haven’t seen the film but come in here for my negative opinion on how awful it is’ thread.
26-Dec-2019 10:02 PM — Edited 26-Dec-2019 10:03 PM
EDIT: the second most disappointing aspect is all the OT.com members who have said they aren’t sure if they like TROS or not and are going to see it again! Many of them are probably paying for Disney+. How about you don’t give the huge corporation any more of your money and just wait until it comes on Disney+ to decide if you liked it or not?
Well, the most disappointing aspect is people like you who think they get to judge fellow members here for wanting to go watch a film at the cinema for a second viewing.
For a film you claim to have not seen (nor TLJ either).
How about they can do whatever they want in regards to going to see a movie on the big screen?
If people want to go have a second, third, fourth or fifth viewing of a film that they are not sure on, so what?
Ewok Adventures DVD quality?
Maaga said:
ray_afraid said:
So, you’re really just gonna show up & say you’ve illegally downloaded commercially available material?
Wow ok.
It’s OOP and on Myspleen. They are expensive second hand.
£12.99 brand new in the UK (both films).
$30 in the US - brand new (both films). Or $12.99 for each Ewok film - brand new.
On Amazon Prime (in SD format)…
$7.99 each film - https://outerrimnews.com/watching/movies/ewok-movies-available-digitally (though apparently not currently available?)
Caravan of Courage - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NRP534W
Battle For Endor - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LFKMKL2
This thread is about the 2004 DVD release…
Star Wars Ewok Adventures
The Star Wars <strong>Fan Films</strong> / Shorts thread
‘KENOBI - A Star Wars Fan Film’:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uDwjIBR9s4 - at the Jamie Costa youtube channel, 19 mins long.
Over 1 million views in the 2 days since the release - impressive stuff…
26-Dec-2019 7:03 PM — Edited 30-Dec-2019 12:02 PM
All the threads from the old ‘General Star Wars Discussion’ section have now been moved into their new sections…
30th December Edit: The Index Threads for the three ‘new’ categories have been updated too 😃
Please let us know if you think we have made any mistakes - that some threads are in the wrong section etc - or if you’d like certain threads added to the Index Threads etc thank you 😃
STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI "REVISITED EDITION"<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>NOW IN PRODUCTION</strong>
ladyferry said:
benduwan said:
Yep. It’s an easy fix & a must in my book.
Dunno that Ady agrees, but I obviously hope so.
Han: “Who are you?”
Leia:“Someone who loves you.”
Han: “…WHO ARE YOU?!”
😃 😃
I think this is better:
Han: “Qi’ra?!”
Leia: “What?!”
Han: “What?!”
Chewy: (laughs in Wookiee to Han) “you’re in a LOT more trouble now”…
How I read it… 😉
Edit: Great minds Matt.F, great minds…
AAOC said:
Was wondering what the quality of the DVD is like. I found raw files online, but it looks like it has some motion blurring. Not sure if I just forgot what DVD 480p was like or I got a bad rip.
A bad rip?
The ‘Ewok Adventures’ DVD (featuring both ‘Caravan Of Courage’ and ‘Battle For Endor’) is available to buy on DVD - and also available on ebay and other similar sites.
A few people here - and in reviews on amazon or bluray.com could likely tell about the quality of the retail DVD release.
A DVD rip of it from the internet - less so…
Complete Comparison of Special Edition Visual Changes
doubleofive’s ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - A Visual Guide To Changes, Fixes, And Tweaks In The Disney+ 4K Version’ article at The Digital Bits website is now up and available:-
https://thedigitalbits.com/featured/articles/sw-empire-disneyplus-4k-2019
doubleofive’s previous article - ‘Star Wars: A New Hope - A Visual Guide To Changes, Fixes, And Tweaks In The Disney+ 4K Version’ on The Digital Bits website can be found here:-
http://thedigitalbits.com/featured/articles/sw-new-hope-disneyplus-4k-2019
Merry Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas, Seasons Greeting, Happy Holidays etc, etc from everyone behind the scenes at OriginalTrilogy•com 😃
General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread
^ brilliant mate - though now I’m hungry again and have only just eaten 😃
adywan said:
Strange that no one is factoring in the fact that a bootleg dropped 2 hours after the midnight screening in the UK has finished. BEFORE most other places even started showing it. Now there have been 3 different bootlegs appear in 3 days. This didn’t happen for TFA or TLJ. It was a week before a bootleg dropped for TLJ. On social media there are posts filled with people saying that they no longer have to pay to go and see it.
And then there is the fact that this one has been released the weekend before Christmas. People are avoiding going out during the day to the cinema because of the Christmas rush. I’ve seen many people saying they can’t go until after Christmas.
Outside of this site the reaction towards TROS has been overwhelmingly positive.
But what i can’t believe is just what this site has now become. Fans openly wishing for these films to fail? Seriously? This place has now become everything it had always been accused of. It was bad enough when TLJ came out , but now it’s become a place i no longer enjoy visiting.
The sequel trilogy is objectively a piece of crap. The OT still reign supreme and nothing since has approached it.
Whoever founded this site understood that consciously or subconsciously. There would not likely ever be anything to match or even rival it within the same universe.
Whether you had different expectations or not, the name of this site says it all.
No, the name of the site does not say it all…
There is a massive difference between appreciating or cherishing the Original Trilogy (plus wanting the theatrical versions to be made available) - and being civil about other Star Wars content you may not like…
From the ‘About’ section…
We’re a diverse and welcoming community - this site is afterall based on a love & geeky reverence for all things Star Wars 😃
This is especially so for the Original Trilogy (obviously) - yet also a respect for everything else Star Wars too. Yes, even The Holiday Special, maybe…
If anyone thinks this site, given its name, is a place to bash on other Star Wars content with vitriol and constant negativity - to the point of toxicity - then they are very much mistaken.
Valid criticism and opinion are always welcome - wide-ranging views and interpretations are welcome too.
Some members are over-stepping the mark with their repeated criticisms - to the point of continuous negativity. Some have not seen the film, nor plan to, and stating why is perfectly acceptable. However, some are going far beyond this - seemingly going into related threads and making continued negative posts about content they have not seen, informing others here how awful the thing they hasn’t seen is… Some have seen it - and are doing similar…
Members here have left, are leaving, and considering leaving… whether temporarily or permanently… because of such repeated negativity from a few others on here - that is not going to continue.
If people can’t post in a civil manner here, nor have a modicum of respect for fellow members, and wish to spread their habitual agenda of negativity… they won’t be posting here at all - that goes for anyone.
This site is a vast one - and covers many aspects of Star Wars over a long, long time. There are many topics or issues to discuss - I suggest people find something they do actually enjoy posting about - rather than spending their considerable time and effort in repeatedly bashing or hating on films or the people who made them - and for some here who claim to not care about, or have not seen.
Some people will like the film, some will not, others mixed etc - it is not the end of the world because someone has a different opinion. Don’t be ‘that guy’.
It’s Christmas - peace and goodwill to all, Season Greetings and all that.
Somebody Announces Something New about Star Wars!
Doubtless I’m one of those “toxic and negative people looking to spread thier agandas of hate everywhere”.
I don’t think he is - because you seem to hate near-on everything - not just modern Star Wars content 😉
Keeping things consistent!
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Health/Fitness » Health
Are Tweets About Cannabis' Health Benefits Full of Mistruths?
(Source:Getty Images)
Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California
There has been a lot of talk in the U.S. about legalizing recreational cannabis, and about cannabis' potential to help with health issues.
Scientists working in medicine may have a lot to discover about cannabis' ability to improve health. However, the medical community does know that short-term health consequences of cannabis use include impaired short-term memory, impaired attention, impaired coordination and sleep problems.
I study ways to inform public health and policy using data from social media. As part of my research, I monitor Twitter conversation topics pertaining to health-related attitudes and behaviors, including what social bots — automated accounts that use AI to steer discussions and promote specific ideas or products on social media — post on the platform.
In our recent study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, my colleagues and I wanted to describe topics of conversations pertaining to cannabis use. We also wanted to determine whether social bots were taking part in this conversation.
Cannabis and health
While proponents of legalizing cannabis say that the drug is safer than alcohol, repeated cannabis use is associated with the potential for cannabis dependence, other substance use disorders and increased risk of schizophrenia, among individuals with a specific genetic makeup.
Heavy cannabis use during adolescence may lead to lower cognitive functioning in adulthood.
Right now, cannabis is only approved for medical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a small number of instances. These include easing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, providing appetite stimulation in conditions like AIDS or HIV that cause weight loss, and managing two forms of pediatric epilepsy.
Where social media comes in
In our study, my collaborators and I collected cannabis-related tweets posted each week between May and December 2018. Then, we sorted tweets posted by social bots versus those from nonbot accounts using a research tool called Botometer. Botometer analyzes tons of characteristics of a Twitter account and gives each account a score based on how likely it is to be a bot.
We coded the tweets into 12 categories, including mentions of first-time use, health and legalization. Other categories included underage use, processed products such as edibles and using cannabis along with alcohol, painkillers and psychedelics.
When we compared posts from nonbots with posts from social bots, we found that some topics received more promotion from bots than others. For example, posts indicating that cannabis could help with health concerns represented a larger proportion of posts by social bots compared with nonbots.
Posts from social bots suggested that cannabis could help with cancer, foot pain and Crohn's disease, among other conditions. These findings are cause for concern.
Health-related information — including information about the health benefits and risks of nicotine, cannabis, and electronic cigarette use — is regularly sought out on Twitter.
The majority of U.S. adults look up, or discuss, a health-related concern over the internet. Previous research has demonstrated that health-related information posted online, including posts to social media platforms, can influence attitudes and behaviors.
Bots have a history of mistruths
Our study is not the first to demonstrate that social bots post health-related tweets full of mistruths. In 2018, researchers reported that bots disseminated anti-vaccine messages on Twitter. Before that, researchers found that bots touted the benefits of electronic cigarette use in smoking cessation.
Misleading messages are now pervasive online, and it is important for the public to understand the difference between a demonstrated, scientifically-backed piece of health information and claims that are simply made up.
Our study only looked at Twitter, and results may not reflect what's happening on Facebook or other social media platforms. The posts in our study were collected from an eight-month period and may not extend to other periods. Findings may not generalize to all Twitter users or to the U.S. population.
Nonetheless, findings like ours underscore the need for health education campaigns designed to correct misconceptions about the health benefits of cannabis use. Policies may also need to be implemented to identify and tag false health claims on social media platforms.
Jon-Patrick Allem, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California
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NCA - National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime
in data agosto 02, 2017
Organised Acquisitive Crime
•The theft of motor vehicles (TOMV), an organised vehicle crime threat as well as an enabler for broad OAC and other criminal activity, is on an upward trend. This is reflected across all regions (England and Wales) and vehicle types. Some vehicles, including those of high value, are stolen for export.
•An assessment of the national nature and scale of vehicle theft indicated that 1 in 4 cars and vans are highly likely to be stolen by electronic compromise, where theft occurs by various technical means without the use of the original key (also known as keyless theft). •There have been increases across the majority of ATM attack methodologies. Removal from premises and gas attacks present particular risks to the public.
•A slight decrease in cash and valuables in transit (CViT) incidents continues the downward trend in offending of recent years, however the enabling use of weapons featured in just over half of all incidents in 2016, with some regions seeing particularly high rates.
•A reduction in the rate of ‘smash and grab’ and armed robbery offences targeting high value gold, jewellery and watches has been identified. •The illegal International Wildlife Trade is a global problem impacting on source, transit and market countries. UK criminal activity continues to service the illicit trade as identified through online trade and border seizures of products covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), including ivory.
126. OAC covers the broad threats of organised vehicle crime, commercial robbery, commodity crime and wildlife crime. Heritage and cultural property crime (H&CPC) remains an emerging threat. FNOs and traveller crime groups have strong footprints across the OAC threat area.
127. Although the rise in theft of motor vehicles is reflected across all regions and vehicle types, the most significant increase was in theft of motorcycles and scooters, which in some cases are used to enable various acquisitive crimes.
128. An assessment of the national nature and scale of theft of motor vehicles indicated that 1 in 4 cars and vans nationally are stolen without the keeper’s keys, highllikely via electronic compromise. London was identified as being most impacted by this theft methodology. The threat posed by electronic compromise is not confined to high value prestige vehicles, with a broad range of vehicle types targeted. 129. Some vehicles, including those of high value, are stolen for export to international markets. An increasingly identified theft methodology is via abuse of vehicle finance processes.
130. Whilst there were slight increases in plant theft, improved machinery security has made it harder to steal.
131. The upward trend in ATM attacks since 2014 continues. This is reflected in the majority of methodologies, with 2016 seeing the highest number of gas attacks since they were first identified in the UK in 2013.
132. A slight decrease in CViT attacks reflects a continued downward trend of recent years. The enabling use of weapons is common, featuring in just over half of all incidents in 2016. Some regions experienced particularly high levels. Reported firearms use remained relatively low and stable.
133. The reduction in ‘smash and grab’ and armed robbery offences is attributable to a number of factors, including law enforcement response and enhanced industry security measures. Co-ordinated law enforcement activity also resulted in disruption of a FNO crime group employing a violent and dangerous distraction methodology to target jewellery stores across the UK.
134. Available data indicates that metal theft continues to decline. However increases in lead prices and potential increases in copper may impact on theft levels. In 2016 particular vulnerabilities were noted in relation to ecclesiastical premises, including lead frequently stripped from church roofs. 135. The illegal International Wildlife Trade is serviced by UK criminal activity, with online traders commonly facilitating the illicit CITES trade in/via the UK. The UK is committed to a variety of international initiatives on wildlife trafficking, including funding and training provisions under the Hanoi Statement. The UK government has also announced a proposed ban on the sale of modern day ivory (i.e. worked ivory produced after 1947).
136. H&CPC is an emerging threat. Whilst the scale of organised crime involvement in H&CPC requires greater understanding, convictions of crime group nominals engaged in theft of rhino horn and jade from museums in the UK (valued between GBP 18 and 57 million) indicate that it is a lucrative enterprise. Forward Look 137. UK law enforcement has responses in train to manage the broad OAC threat area and are continuing to work with domestic and international partners, including industry, to mitigate these threats.
138. It is likely that the upward trend in theft of motor vehicles will continue in 2017 and that vehicles will continue to be stolen for use as enablers of other criminal activity. It is also likely that electronic compromise methods will continue to be exploited, fuelled by the availability of related technology.
139. In line with the upward trend in ATM attacks, it is a realistic possibility that there will be increased levels in 2017, with gas attacks and ‘removal from premises’ methodologies continuing to pose risk to the public. Whilst levels of CViT offending are expected to further decline in line with current trends, it is likely that the enabling use of weapons will remain common. 140. Although metal theft continues to decline, it is a realistic possibility that price rises in lead and copper will lead to increased targeting of these metals in 2017.
141. Co-ordinated law enforcement and crossgovernment efforts will be required to meet commitments made by the UK in 2016, including through the Hanoi Statement and other initiatives.
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in Alphabetical Movie Project
Alphabetical Movie – Lethal Weapon I, II & III
Some sequels are merely terrible. Other sequels are so awful, their name should not be spoken because their mere existence makes the rest of the franchise look bad.
When is the last time, for instance, that you had a meaningful conversation about Beverly Hills Cop III? What’s that? You didn’t even know there was a Beverly Hills Cop III? That’s because nobody ever talks about it.
It is easy to note that I watched three Lethal Weapon films when there are, in fact, four. The first three films are an exercise in increasing laziness that manages to be entertaining anway. Every one of them involves Murtaugh and Riggs stumbling across a major drug ring and bringing it down while Murtaugh continues to insist he is too old for this shit.
They add a new character in each film and if the character is successful, they add more in the next one. Joe Pesci is around just enough to be interesting in Lethal Weapon II, they give him a bigger role in Lethal Weapon III. Then they mix Renee Russo into the story in Lethal Weapon III.
And then comes the moment when they make the fatal decision to make Lethal Weapon IV and the whole thing goes to hell.
I could spend this entire blog entry discussing the criminal waste of Jet Li in the film but that would be to suggest that the movie could have been improved by including more Jet Li. If it was that simple, any bad film could be improved by inserting Stanley Tucci and we know that doesn’t work because Space Chimps exists.
Movies like Lethal Weapon IV and Beverly Hills Cop III exist as cautionary tales. You want to believe that Hollywood can go back and re-create whatever was awesome about a film that you love. You look at Eddie Murphy re-visiting Axel Foley and you think “what can go wrong?”
The same thing that can go wrong if you keep having Bruce Willis play John McClane. Or Christopher Reeve play Superman. Or Sylvester Stallone play Rocky. Or Harrison Ford play Indiana Jones.
Eventually the beloved characters become caricature and the movies become parodies.
As fans, we want to believe that Ghostbusters III is a great idea. We ignore all of the evidence in Ghostbusters II and just figure that it would be awesome to have Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd strap on proton packs again.
I agree. It would indeed be awesome to see that. But they’ll have to do more than strap on a proton pack. They’ll have to be in an entire movie. That worries me.
For every Men in Black III that turns out OK, there are a whole lot more Superman IV’s waiting to be made.
And if that doesn’t scare the crap out of you, it should. They turn out enough shitty original films these days. Who needs a whole bunch of aging stars in wasted sequels to beloved franchises?
So I’ve stopped getting excited about rumored revivals of my favorite film series. Nobody is doing it because they have a great story to tell. They already told a great story. At best, they are just trying to tell that story again.
We’d all be better off if we just went back and watched the original.
Tags: Alphabetical Movie Project, Lethal Weapon, Shitty Sequels, Stanley Tucci
2 responses to “Alphabetical Movie – Lethal Weapon I, II & III”
John Maddening says : March 5, 2013 at 10:11 pm
But Rocky and Rambo are exceptions. After they keep getting worse, those final(?) films are second only to the originals in quality. Eh, maybe it’s just Stallone.
Petsnakereggie says : March 5, 2013 at 10:13 pm
We’ll know when we get to “The Expendables V.”
Geeks Without God
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Editorial: Ending affirmative action sets us back
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center reached an agreement with the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Division on Tuesday to end the school’s consideration of race in the admissions process.
Image via Elred | Wikimedia Commons
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center reached an agreement with the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Division on Tuesday to end the school’s consideration of race in the admissions process. The change is the first time President Donald Trump’s administration has pushed a school to end this practice since it began efforts last year to chip away at affirmative action policies.
Though the agreement is the first of its kind, it’s far from the first step the Trump administration has taken to erode affirmative action. The Trump administration has also tried targeting affirmative action policies by rescinding Obama-era policy on how schools can consider race to promote a diverse student body.
The elimination of Texas Tech’s affirmative action policy and the suggestion that similar tactics could be pursued against other schools mark a serious step back in addressing systemic inequalities within student admissions. Affirmative action policies are in compliance with Supreme Court rulings and play an important role in ensuring the systemic challenges faced by marginalized communities are diminished.
The move to end race consideration comes despite Texas Tech Systems Vice Chancellor and General Counsel Eric Bentley writing he believed Texas Tech was “in compliance” with a 2016 Supreme Court decision that established affirmative action standards. The school acquiesced to the Trump administration’s demands “in an effort to resolve this matter and focus on educating future health care professionals.”
Texas Tech’s use of affirmative action had beneficial effects on the makeup of its medical students. Hispanic enrollment went from 9% in the class that entered in 2004 to 16% in 2018 as part of a broader effort by the university to recruit more Hispanic students while sending more students to practice medicine in underserved communities. The elimination of these positive steps will only hinder progress for minority students while making medicine more difficult to access throughout diverse communities.
“In the larger context of this administration’s civil rights record, it’s clear that this is yet another attack on education equity,” Jin Hee Lee, senior deputy director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., said to The New York Times. “We will continue to take steps to protect efforts aimed at improving education equity throughout the country.”
Affirmative action is not a perfect policy. It is a Band-Aid on systemic inequalities that are pervasive throughout student admissions processes. But eliminating affirmative action will only set us back even further.
The Pitt News Editorial Board,
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Library of Nano Design and/or Hacking
Project : Collective Intelligence : Pixelache network: Vishnu Vardhani Rajan and Egle Oddo at BAM - Mediterranean Archipelago Biennial
Pixelache Network
Pixelache network: Vishnu Vardhani Rajan and Egle Oddo at BAM - Mediterranean Archipelago Biennial
26 October 2019, Egle Oddo
BAM - Mediterranean Archipelago Biennial is an international festival of theater, music and visual arts focused on the themes of reception and dialogue. The 2019 edition of BAM entitled ÜberMauer, takes place in the year in which three anniversaries of important political events occur: the thirty-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and of the Tienanmen Square revolt, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots. The program was written by the Merz Foundation and European Alternatives together with various actors of the cultural and artistic life of the city of Palermo.
Egle Oddo and Vishnu Vardhani Rajan have been invited to participate to BAM and their work will appear inscribed in a project called A Present Heritage, a live art and performance festival focusing on the experience of receiving and passing knowledge. It is a dialogue between different generations that have experienced major paradigm shifts in history. The experience of post-war, the introduction of telematics in day to day communication, environmental issues, the instability of markets, austerity politics, global migration, mass extinction: how the present entanglement between different generations is working on these issues? What kind of collaboration is desirable that would put in connection different know-how in problem solving? What role do we envisage today for historical memory?
These are the topics the invited artists will explore through a universal, often non-verbal language: performance.
Invited artists for A Present Heritage: Erika De Martino, Claudia Di Gangi, Nastia Eliseeva, Shinji Kanki, Liina Kuittinen, Dario Lo Cicero, Giuseppe Lomeo, Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo, Egle Oddo, Leonardo Ruvolo, Mohamed Sulaiman, Tomasz Szrama, Timo Tuhkanen, Roi Vaara, Vishnu Vardhani Rajan, Willem Wilhelmus, Oliver Whitehead.
The program A Present Heritage has been developed in collaboration with Collective Intelligence project.
Main dates: 22 - 23 - 24.11 from 17:30 to 20:30.
Venue: Palazzo Sambuca, via Francesco Riso 9, venue of Dimora OZ association. Entrance is from Piazza Magione.
Free entrance, the venue is accessible and does not have architectonic barriers.
More info: http://collectiveintelligence.fi/
Project: Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligenceis a series of deep dive sessionsup to one month long; encounters where artists, thinkers and activists work on parallel and shared projects, influencing each other in a convivial frame. Collective intelligence can be defined as shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, joint effort, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making. How to trigger and to manage collective intelligence at its best is an experimental process itself. In 2016, during our festival Interfaces for Empathywe have found several investigations...
Post: Pixelache enters new networks thanks to Collective Intelligence
22 December 2018 17:49, Egle Oddo
In October 2017 the Collective Intelligence group was invited to spend one month in Palermo and work together with Dimora Oz, an artists-run association focusing on relational art and place-making processes. This initial choice led to a chain of very fruitful events and activities. With this text I wish to share some reflections about the process lasting from October 2017 to November 2018. From the beginning of its activity, Collective Intelligence (CI) has been movingtangently to the Pixelache community. CI production team independently seeks the collaboration and patronage of institutions...
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Helicopter Parents Heading for a Crash
By Katherine Berry 2008-11-02T02:30:23
With the school year well under way, helicopter parents are spinning into overdrive, hovering over their children and micro-managing their lives. But where did it come from, this belief that good parenting is synonymous with doing everything for one's child? What makes so many otherwise sane and rational parents believe they need to confront a "mean" teacher to demand a better grade for their child? To rally against school bans on the cell phone they gave their kid so they could keep in touch throughout the day? To fill up a child's schedule with piano lessons, soccer, football, Scouts, and additional tutoring, then spend their evenings chauffeuring them to each?
Part of it no doubt stems from the constant awareness that other parents are watching -- and closely. Ever since Hillary Clinton bellowed "it takes a village to raise a child," well-meaning parents have bought into the notion that they aren't simply responsible for looking out for their own children's well-being, but for that of others' kids, too.
Did Johnny's friend show up for a sleepover hungry and wearing dirty clothes? Perhaps it would be best to grill him ask if his parents are having marital or substance abuse problems that stand in their way of providing for their child. (Because surely it couldn't be that the boy's mother served salad for dinner, which he refused to eat, and objected to washing a special load of clothes after her son forgot to bring his hamper to the laundry room.) Why does Lakeisha have a cast on her arm so soon after getting off crutches from her sprained ankle? Sure, Lakeisha swears both injuries are from her Saturday soccer games, but perhaps someone ought to ask Child Services to look in on the family "just to be safe."
Ever aware that someone else might be looking at one's own kids and jumping to the worst possible conclusion, many parents have grown accustomed to thinking of child-rearing as a public performance. A parent who shrugs her shoulders when her child comes home with an F on a math exam -- when he's clearly capable of doing so much better -- must not care , or so an outside observer might conclude. Even if Mom knows Joey was playing video games in his room when he should have been studying, and that living with an F is a good way for him to learn about the consequences of bad choices, she still worries what other people will think . Why deal with that kind of condemnation, or expose Joey to it, when it's so easy to demand a retest and assume Joey learned his lesson already.
Part of the blame also lies with the school system. For years we've been hearing about the importance of parental involvement in a child's education. Even the National Education Association urges parents to be involved not only in homework but within the classroom. After a decade of bombardment with statistics about kids falling through the cracks due to teacher shortages and crowded classrooms, good parenting has come to require ensuring one's own child doesn't get left behind. So is it truly that surprising when a parent, hearing that some involvement is good, assumes more involvement must be better?
https://pjmedia.com/blog/helicopter-parents-heading-for-a-crash/
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Civil Bound
By Myung Mi Kim, reviewed by Laura Eve Engel
A spare and energetic text, Kim’s latest collection reads like a radio set to seek, one made up of “boulders, mechanical parts, or persons // pledged to asunder.” Here, seeking is an action essential both to existence and to this book’s concerns: “if a species cannot find a sonic niche of its own, it will not survive.” With wide-ranging attention, this long poem probes, plunders, and destabilizes an array of colonialist texts and found materials that demonstrate degrading perspectives toward Indigenous populations. Bringing passages from Theodore Roosevelt, John Lankford, and others into dialogue with her own sharp, curious insistences and fragments, Kim enacts a productive defamiliarization, a kind of “debris architecture.” Finding English complicit in this country’s most oppressive systems but unwilling to give up the right to use it, this book interrogates the language it deploys, until language is “sounds produced by using air from the lungs // if the air is pushed out // if the air is sucked in.” As such, this is a work that is most meaningfully described using its own carefully chosen words. It is, at once, a “pronunciation key for suffering,” a “[worksong for ablation] // a whetstone // trying at pitch,” and a “rift immunology”—a monument to the crimes our language has committed, and to the acts of openness of which it may be capable.
This review originally appeared in the Books Noted section of American Poets, Fall-Winter 2019.
Author: Myung Mi Kim
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
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21st century, contemporary society, Creative Writing, short story
SHORT STORY – Valentina Cano
Posted by Porridge Magazine on May 26, 2019 May 18, 2019
Photo by Osman Rana on Unsplash
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He was a black hole in a suit. An abyss in a necktie. And he sat down next to her on the train.
Her eyes were on her phone, but it would do no good. She was too distracted to feel his attention like a pulse against her skin, ticking, ticking, the toothed stare testing her for soft spots. She had many.
“I’m sorry to bother you,” he said, barely restraining the mollusk of a hand from reaching out to touch her, “but could I borrow your phone for a moment?”
She blinked the blue light away and looked up, meeting his knife-flash eyes. He swallowed a smile.
“My phone?”
“I know, who doesn’t have their own phone these days?” Slowly, he reached into a chest pocket and pulled out a shipwreck of black plastic. “It fell as I ran to catch the train. All the king’s men and all that.”
Her lips twitched but he couldn’t yet tell from what.
“It’s an emergency, otherwise I really wouldn’t ask.” He ran the hand not cradling ruins through hair that rippled with sun. Like fur. “My sister just had a baby, see, and I mean just. I was speaking with her husband when this damn thing fell, slipped right from my grip.” He blew a gust of air into a chuckle, a glassmaker shaping his creation. “It’s no surprise. I could barely hold it steady.”
“Oh. I see,” she said.
Still, he saw her hesitate, and he massaged the tightening of his jaw into an open-lipped smile.
“But please,” he said and extended a hand, palm out, “don’t worry about it. Believe me, I understand. I don’t know if I’d let a stranger I met on the train handle my things, either.” He snorted. “Definitely not one who’s just murdered his own property.”
He sat back at once and started sliding the shards of phone back into his pocket. He turned his fingers, fingers which could dance over a keyboard and spin numbers into suits and shoes and rent and gin, into padless versions of themselves. Sucker-less.
Black plastic clattered to the floor.
“Jesus, my sister better not hand me her baby today,” he said and chuckled as he reached down.
As if his movement had loosened a spring, she shifted forward and bent. “Let me help.”
“I’d keep my distance, though. I’m clumsy enough that one of these could end up in your eye.”
She chuckled. “I think I’ll be fine.”
Her hands were pale enough to belong on a mannequin and just as smooth. If they’d ever done anything more strenuous than pet the dog she surely had, he’d have been shocked. Her nails clicked against the plastic.
“Thank you,” he said as he tucked the last piece into his coat.
“Of course. And here, use mine.”
“No, it’s all right. I can just—”
She offered him her phone. Its cover wasn’t overrun with colourful umbrellas or shabby chic chandeliers, not even with kittens, which he had to admit was a surprise. Instead, it was a scratched black, not too different from the one he’d slammed against a wall.
“See? I think we’re both clumsy,” she said. Her smile lit her face up even as her eyes shaded themselves away from him.
He thought of shifting just enough to touch her hand but undid the thought. She’d spook and he’d have to start again, and she was the only person he’d seen at the station wearing clothes with famous names stitched on their silk labels.
“Thank you,” he said, a murmur that worked as well with men as it did with women. Or at least with the right kind of men. “Not only beautiful, but also kind.”
The colour that flooded her cheeks was blotchy, like acne. If he leaned just a bit closer, he was certain he’d hear her heartbeat. Not that he had any intention of doing that. It wouldn’t be necessary with this one.
He made himself look up and around, forcing her eyes to do the same.
“Did you keep track of the station we’re approaching?” he said. “I’m always forgetting to look.”
“Oh…uh…let me see.”
He slid a small rectangle of black plastic from where he’d tucked it in his sleeve and plugged it into the bottom of her phone.
“Just so I can tell my brother-in-law how long it’ll take me to get there.”
“I think,” she said, craning her neck, “we’re coming up on Leicester Square.”
“Perfect, thank you.” He shifted his hand so that his cuff hid the black rectangle, trusting its electronic brain to do as it had always done, and cast his eyes over the small ocean of icons.
This was the moment when tripping and dragging the tablecloth and the cake with him was always a possibility. Because every phone was different, even those of the same model. People had the annoying habit of making things “theirs” and that meant sweeping icons and functions to the side to showcase an interchangeable child always looking like they were about to start drooling or a flower they had likely never seen not made up of pixels. In the time it took him to find what he needed, the catalyst that would create the unseen breach he depended on, her gaze could return and she could notice that he wasn’t typing a phone number but scrolling.
And scrolling.
“I’m just going to write him a quick text. Receiving a call is always dodgy in the hospital.”
“Of course. Take your time.”
Except time was in short supply, because the station was drawing closer and he needed to make a swift exit before he was stuck making chit chat for another stop to distract her from realizing he’d not sent a text.
The train began to tug its power back, electric reins pulling on metal mouths.
His finger twitched and wiped another page to the left. How many cooking apps did one woman need?
Oh, but there it was.
He pressed the pad of his thumb on the icon and started the count. Ten seconds. That was all he needed to drain the letters and numbers that kept her accounts as untouchable as she looked.
The screech of wheels began and his heart lurched into a race that threw off his count, blood pulsing in syncopation to the numbers.
“Is this your stop, then?” she said.
“Yes.” Was it enough?
It would have to be.
Sliding a fingernail in the thread of space between the phone and the black rectangle, he palmed the contraption and allowed it to drop into his sleeve. He cleared the screen and the concentration from his eyes.
“Thanks so much. You’ve been a life-saver today,” he said, standing.
He gave her a smile as bright as light hitting a mirror and extended his hand. It was taking a risk, but it would keep her eyes off the phone for a few seconds longer. Enough to let him leave without a fuss.
“You know, I just realised I asked for a favour and never even bothered with your name. My mother would be livid.” Or as livid as a corpse could be.
She blinked. Rather prettily.
“It’s…it’s Amy.” Her hand was as soft as the inside of a glove.
The train stopped with a hiss. Time.
“It was lovely to meet you, Amy.” He offered the phone, making her release his hand. “You made things very easy for me and for that I am grateful. I’d wish you a nice day, but…”
The sigh of metal doors gave him his cue and he turned, cutting her frown in half as he turned. A few long strides, and the abyss stepped lightly off the train. Eyes filling with glass laughter at the fortune he’d carried off in his sleeve.
Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time she has either reading or writing. Her works have appeared in numerous publications and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. Her debut novel, The Rose Master, was published in 2014 and was called a “strong and satisfying effort”by Publishers Weekly.
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There've been piano and drum apps for the iPhone for a while now, but iSyn caught my eye - it actually looks quite usable and flexible. Intriguingly, it's from VirSyn, known for their pro music plugins, such as Cube and Tera.
If you recall a certain bodypainted doberman from a while back, here's the guy again as an oryx.
Devanagari: the language and the script.
An interesting article on New Jersey's River LINE rail link, which got off to a very poor start, but has since vindicated its advocates.
There are occasionally, some gems on metaquotes.. and I think this to be one of them. =:D It begins simply enough, with a rather awkward typo in an email to a coworker; but it's the reply which must be savored.
A new bunny! AnthroXtacy's due to release theirs soon; and the Bunny Rabbit Alliance will be holding a promo prom on the day, 3pm on May 8th, with some to give away. ^_^
Madcow's Madhouse of Building - wherein you can enjoy mechanical faces, creatures that use smaller creatures as missiles propelled from betwixt their horns, and an array of symbiotic relationships. Cheerfully cracked work - genuinely inspired.
So, Red Dwarf finally reached its conclusion - as nonsensical as most of the original stories, and certainly as much fun. I'll admit, whatever the storyline, I'd have enjoyed simply seeing the crew back together - not that Cat's catsuit hurt at all. =:9
Some rather spiffy (and brief, at only fifteen seconds each) Canon camera TV spots, of a very furry nature: wolf, lion, and penguin. (c/o Audie over on FA)
Well, that was an interesting outcome.. the recent Linden Lab "resident choice awards" winners were announced, and "favorite place for intellectual conversation" was Luskwood, pretty much the original furry realm in SL. ^_^
A comic: The Man Who Used to Know Everything.
If you're in the UK, and stuck with relatively slow broadband, Eutelsat may have an answer - for (from?) around £30/mo, they'll be offering 10Mbit service, though usage limits remain vague; ISP Review notes that refers to the basic offering, with a fairly useless 1.2GB/mo cap, or, as they put it, Fair Access Policy, or FAP. =:) Equipment may be extra, at around £400, with a 68cm dish for the new Ka band service.
I finally managed to spend a vaguely significant amount of time in-world recently, getting the terraforming of my spot in Wolf Valley mostly complete. ^_^ It's not a huge space (for now - eventually, it'd be nice to expand into a full sim, but I couldn't really justify that kind of cost. Maybe split two ways, though..), but enough to give a little snowy platform, upon which I can either build something original, or maybe see if the old homestead can be brought back into the world. Even as is, it's nice having a wintry nook to myself. Now, though, comes the tricky part - actually designing and building. =:D
So, people have taste: the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue - the iconic glass cube - is apparently the fifth most photographed building in New York City. (The top slots belong to the Empire State Building, Times Square, the Rockefeller Center, and Grand Central Station; followed by Columbus Circle and Liberty Island)
Indeed, SL has something for just about everyone, including free rubber Mexican teddybears. ^_^ Available from Winter Ventura's main store, over in Healy.
I wonder what that was.. on my way back on Tuesday evening, having looked on adoringly at a few young rabbits happily feasting away by the side of the path, I saw what wasn't quite a cat - too lithe, but quite a similar tail, like a linear squirrel. Maybe around 2' in total, but I could be quite off, as the evening sun was nearby. Some sort of mustelid?
And then there was this suspicious looking character the other day, clearly of a nefarious nature - just look how accustomed he is to posing for custodial photographs, offering up perfect frontal and profile stances. (The camera's concept of the prevailing light, unfortunately, made for less than perfect resolution and rather washed out shots, but I felt them worth sharing all the same) I'm pleased to note that within minutes, life for the local rabbits was back to normal, no harm done. ^_^
Elsewhere, right by the trail, a sliver of unfenced land has recently seen much more lapine activity than before, presumably thanks to the Springtime growth of the wild foliage, affording some privacy, nosy camerahares notwithstanding. ^_^
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Crunchy fishcakes
Seeing them but a few feet away from me, knowing full well I'm right there, and still having the time to look upon them calmly.. howsoever trying a day may be, such moments make it all worthwhile.
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Victims of Socialism in Venezuela Warn U.S.: ‘Don’t Fall for It – People are Eating from Trash Bags’ (VIDEO)
By Prophecy in the News|February 8th, 2019|Tags: Bible Prophecy, Campus Reform, Christian News, Communist, D.C., Nazis, Prophecy News, Socialist, Venezuela Freedom Rally in Washington, Venezuelan Socialism|
Victims of Venezuelan socialism who have come to America recently attended a Venezuela Freedom Rally in Washington, D.C., where Campus Reform asked them for their message to Americans who support socialism. “Bernie Sanders is your enemy. Do not ever, ever get involved with this individual or any of the other socialists,” one man who escaped Venezuelan [...]
College Students to Learn About ‘Queering the Bible’ and ‘Transgender Christs’ This Fall
By Prophecy in the News|August 27th, 2018|Tags: America’s colleges, Bible Prophecy, Calif, Campus Reform, Christian News, Claremont, College Students, Lang College, LGBTQI, Pomona College, Prophecy News, Queer Religions, Queer Theologies, Queering the Bible, Transgender Christs, Universities|
The nation’s college students will have the option of taking classes discussing “queering childhood,” “queering the Bible” and “transgender Christs,” according to a report by CampusReform.com. Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., is offering the new class on Queering Childhood, which will discuss “the figure of the Child and how this figuration is used by politics, law, and medicine to [...]
Swarthmore College Offers a Course in ‘Queering God’
By Prophecy in the News|December 27th, 2017|Tags: Bible, Campus Reform, Christian News, Liberal Arts College, Pennsylvania, Prophecy News, Quakers, Queer Theology, Queering the Bible, Swarthmore College|
One of the nation’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges is advancing a “queer theology” agenda with hopes of destabilizing traditional beliefs about what the Bible says about gender and sexuality. Swarthmore College, founded by Quakers in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, is offering courses in “queering the Bible” and “queering God.” The courses were first reported by Campus Reform. “Queering the [...]
University of Minnesota Bans White, Straight Students From Its Safe Spaces
By Prophecy in the News|August 10th, 2017|Tags: Campus Reform, Christian News, Facebook, Gay, Gender, LGBTQIA, Prophecy News, Queer, Race, Sexuality, Trans Indigenous, University of Minnesota, White Privilege|
The University of Minnesota is banning white and straight students from a safe space on campus, according to a Thursday report. The school’s Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life hosts “Tongues Untied,” a space in which people can congregate to discuss the impact of sexuality, race and gender, according to Campus Reform. But not everyone is [...]
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WHAT KIND OF WAR DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT?
Published on February 6, 2012 by prospectjournalucsd
By Taylor Marvin
A version of this post was first published at PROSPECT Blog.
Over the next five years the Air Force will eliminate over a hundred A-10 aircraft. While the USAF will retain over roughly 240 of the dedicated air-to-ground attack aircraft the decision, outlined in the recent document “USAF Force Structure Changes“, remains controversial — the A-10 ‘Warthog’ is arguably the greatest close air support (CAS) platform in history, and the type has vocal defenders. At AOL Defense Colin Clark sheds light on the decision, quoting Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz: “The bottom line is, as remarkable as the A-10 is, it isn’t the only machine that does close air support.”
Kind of. While there certainly are other USAF platforms capable of the CAS mission, none do it as effectively as the venerable A-10. The B-1s and B-52 heavy bombers Gen. Schwartz suggests can fill the A-10’s role have proven themselves in the tactical attack mission, though it strains logic to suggest that these strategic platforms are a particularly cost effective way to do tactical air strikes in an uncontested battlespace. Similarly, multirole aircraft like F-16s and F-15Es are effective CAS platforms, but have struggled to match the A-10’s versatility in the role: in the late 1980s the USAF brass, enamored with multirole fighters able to perform to more than one mission, attempted to replace the A-10 with the more flexible F-16. However, the A-10’s dramatic success in the Gulf War reinforced the value of a dedicated, heavily armored CAS platform, and the Warthog stuck around. While the mission the A-10 was designed for — plinking Soviet tanks at close range over foggy European battlefields — never materialized, its unique status as a designed-from-the-ground-up mudfighter makes it difficult to imagine any other aircraft perfectly replacing the Warthog.
But there’s more to A-10 cuts than the Air Force’s historical indifference to the unglamorous close air support mission. In the context of the US armed forces’ realignment towards the Pacific, downsizing the A-10 fleet makes sense. Everyone in Washington’s insisting that the US is done fighting small wars, and that the military’s future priority is countering near-peer rivals in conventional conflicts (read: China). In a contested operating environment the A-10’s survivability isn’t assured: while its armor and partially obscured exhaust allow it to perform well against small arms fire and shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, non-stealthy aircraft are unlikely to survive long in a conflict against a technologically advanced foe like China. The upcoming F-35’s lack of armor and shorter loiter capabilities make it an inferior CAS platform, but widely proliferating advanced surface-to-air missile systems and the rapidly modernizing People’s Liberation Army Air Force make it and other stealth aircraft the only survivable option in a future near-peer conflict. Expensive, high performance ‘fast movers’ like the F-35 will never excel in the specialized CAS role. But if the Pentagon is serious about its realignment towards countering China and other high-tech potential adversaries, it needs to focus on strike aircraft able to penetrate advanced air-defense networks, even if it mean giving up the A-10’s excellent CAS track-record.
But the United States has a habit of stumbling into small wars — after all, less than three decades separate the twin COIN quagmires of Vietnam and Iraq. For all of the Pentagon’s insistence that counterinsurgency is dead, history makes it hard to believe that US policymakers will refrain from foreign interventions in the future. If the Pentagon downsizes rugged, low cost aircraft like the A-10 in favor of costly new weapons systems optimized towards major wars it could come to regret it. Many of the US’s greatest missteps in Iraq and Afghanistan grew out of the Pentagon and Bush administration’s pathological reluctance to acknowledge they were embroiled in exactly the type of counterinsurgency a Vietnam-fatigued US military leadership had sworn never to repeat. Preparing for the unlikely conventional wars the military would prefer to fight is a recipe for being unprepared to fight the dirty and unglamorous conflicts policymakers are in the habit of giving it.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Blake R. Borsic via Wikimedia.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 2 comments
I first watched this film with my daughter in 2001. She was four and I couldn’t watch THE WIZARD OF OZ one more time. My cousin, who’s a horror film fan and art school guy, had recommended the film to me years before, but I just never got to it. What a revelation! It’s such a joyous film. Everyone in the film is trying his hardest all the time. It’s honest and sweet and it even has a love story and a dog. Wonderful. I can remember watching my daughter’s face as she looked at the Halloween Town residents. “They scare for fun. They’re not mean.” Exactly.
“This won’t hurt a bit.”
No one creates a spookier Halloween than the Pumpkin King. All the goblins love him. Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon) is at the top of his game. After a particularly successful haunting one Halloween, Jack returns to his home in Halloween Town and mopes. The ghosts and vampires and creepy-crawlies have lost their charm. Jack is bored. Something’s missing.
“What’s missing? Is it an eye? Oh, I hope it’s an eye!”
On a long, doleful walk in the woods, Jack comes upon a circle of trees. On each tree is a door and a picture which represents a different major holiday. Intrigued, Jack opens the door marked with a Christmas tree and is sucked into Christmas Town. Clean, white snow, music, and smiling faces greet him as he ambles through the jolly village. Charmed, Jack decides Christmas sounds like a capital idea.
“You…light up my eyes.”
He sprints back to Halloween Town and regales his ghoulish friends with tales of the mysterious Sandy Claws, who rules over Christmas Town. This year, he promises, the denizens of Halloween Town will run Christmas and give Sandy a break.
“I have a headache.”
Jack assigns tasks to each spooky group. Dr. Finkelstein (William Hickey) will bring to life some skeletal reindeer to drive Jack’s sleigh. The creatures of Halloween Town will make ghastly toys. Sally (Catherine O’Hara), Jack’s friend and a talented seamstress, will make Jack’s Sandy Claws costume. Devilish juvenile delinquents, Lock, Shock, and Barrel will kidnap Mr. Claws so Jack can take over.
Lock, Barrel, and Shock have something to hide.
While the industrious townsfolk make hats out of dead turtles and stuff killer snakes into gift boxes, Sally tries to remind Jack he’s making a mistake. Halloween is his true calling. Ignoring Sally’s warnings, Jack takes off to deliver his weird toys to the unsuspecting boys and girls. It doesn’t go well.
“But I already have one!”
Danny Elfman, former Oingo Boingo front man and composer, wrote some killer tunes for this Halloween-y/Christmas-y story. They’re creative, sweet, dramatic, and thoroughly singable. They’re also complex as hell. Elfman threw himself into this soundtrack. Elfman also sings the part of Jack Skellington and Barrel. The multi-talented Catherine O’Hara sings and acts the Sally part along with that of Shock. Ken Page plays the infamous Oogie Boogie and Ed Ivory is Santa/Sandy. Glenn Shadix plays the typically wishy-washy mayor of Halloween Town. Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman) is Lock. Tim Burton, Michael McDowell, and Caroline Thompson wrote the story and screenplay and Henry Selick directed.
Tonight on 50 Shades of Christmas…
It’s hard to know where to begin with this film. I love it so much. The music, animation, story, and talents of a wonderfully talented cast gang up and whack you. It’s impressive. There’s no wasted space. In every scene, you see something fascinating. It looks so cool. The creatures of Halloween Town look so different from the goblins of other films. They’re spunky and fun and they clearly have relationships. I’m still waiting for a behind-the-scenes documentary showing the vampires smoking between scenes and Zero, Jack’s ghostly dog, in a robe, signing autographs. They have so much personality, you want to meet them. A combination of the sophisticated stop-motion animation, the original story, and the fantastic soundtrack sung by a great cast make THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS the awesome film it is. Happiness.
“Mom! You might want to come down here.”
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SNCA SUD-OUEST 1221S DJINN VH-INP
MSN 1005/FR.23
F-WHOL
Registered to Ouest Aviation. (Source: Air-Britain Archive Summer 2006)
Date of manufacture as shown on data plate.
Ordered by Australian National Airways.
An ANA Load Data Sheet shows an empty weight of 803 lbs. and a normal basic weight of 1017 lbs. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Application by Australian National Airways Pty. Ltd. for Certificate of Airworthiness and Certificate of Registration as VH-INP in aerial work category. Engine specified is a Palouste IV s/n 159. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
The following is extracted from the biography of Lindsay Wise: (Lindsay Wise passed away in Melbourne on 2 July 2010).
In 1956 I left Ansett to join Australian National Airways (ANA) as I wanted a break from shift work. During the period with ANA I was assigned as inspector covering the Helicopter Division. ANA operated the only civil registered Bristol Sycamore, apart from the Navy and Air Force versions, and also the French turbine powered Sud Aviation Djinn helicopter. The assembly of the Djinn was done in conjunction with a non-English speaking French Service Engineer from Sud. As can be imagined, there was a lot of talking with chalk on the hangar floor as none of us could speak any French, apart from a clerk from Aircraft Records (Mark Cugolar).
http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Lindsay%20Wise%20biog.htm
A report in The Age (Melbourne) of 15OCT57 states: "A.N.A.-Ansett's new French helicopter, Djinn, was given a ground testing yesterday by mechanic Lindsay White (sic) with the help of French interpreter Marcel Cugola. They expect to fly the helicopter today." (Note: The "mechanic's" correct name is Lindsay Wise)
Permit to Fly issued for test purposes. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Test flight, Essendon Airport. The flight was used to 1) check max rotor and turbine RPM available at hover, 2) check all controls for freedom of operation and within limits, 3) check all instruments for operation, 4) familiarise pilot before more extensive tests. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Test flight, Essendon Airport by Capt Max Holyman. This flight was used to check 1) Turbine and rotor RPM, temperatures and oil and air pressures, 2) auto rotation RPM min/max, 3) cruise and maximum air speed, 4) performance and handling. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
"Le Djinn" VH-INP certified as flight tested at Essendon with nil defects by D.M. Holyman*, Licence No. 3. (Source: NAA MT942/1) *Dare Maxwell Holyman
Internal DCA memo recommending issue of CofA and CofR. Several modifications were required under Australian Air Navigation Orders. They included:
Fitment of two fire extinguishers as none were provided by Sud Aviation.
Approved type safety belts were fitted in place of the French Aviarex belts which were hard to release under light loads.
Air Speed Indicator converted from kilometres/hour to knots.
Altimeter converted from metres to feet.
Fuel quantity indicator converted from kilograms to pounds.
The memo also notes: "For the purpose of ready identification the airframe has been painted yellow and a stainless steel plate bearing the registration letters is affixed to the structure in accordance with A.N.R. 22." (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Application from ANSETT-ANA (on ANA letterhead) to include Class 3 - Charter on registration. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
VH-INP
Certificate of Registration (No.2897) and Certificate of Airworthiness (No.2900) issued. This included a paragraph stating "the Class 3 Air Navigation Charge amounting to 9.15.0 has not been paid. You are reminded that operation of the aircraft, without first having paid this charge, would constitute an infringement of the Air Navigation (Charges) Action 1952." (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Operated by the Helicopter Division of ANSETT-ANA, mainly for surveying and prospecting in Tasmania.
An ANA Load Data Sheet shows an empty weight of 803 lbs. and a normal basic weight of 1061 lbs. after the addition of radio. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Charter flight out of Birch Inlet, Tasmania encountered a drop off in performance. On return, a rivet was found to be missing from one of the rotor blade tips which connected to the air passage allowing air to bleed. The blades were changed and the removed blade repaired by replacing the rivet with a countersunk screw. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
During a ground inspection at Birch Inlet, Tasmania "it was noticed that the air generator had become hard to turn by the use of the hand starter". The engine was replaced and the unserviceable engine (s/n 159, TSN 174 hours) sent to France for overhaul. Also at this time the rotor head bellows bearing cage was found to have disintegrated. A modified bearing was fitted and a new deflector was installed due to damage caused by the broken bearing cage. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Verbal application was made for a 50 hour over-run on the 300 hourly inspection. The aircraft was under charter for a mineral survey at this time and "Ansett-ANA would have left their client in an embarrassing position if VH-INP was grounded for any length of time at this stage of operations." Verbal approval was given and the application confirmed in writing on 04MAR58. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
3-13MAR58
Lyell E.Z. Explorations conducted an examination of magnetic anomalies in the Spero River area of Tasmania. The two-man expedition comprised P. Rodda and G. Seymour. Means of transport and supply are stated to have been: "by Djinn helicopter based at Birch and Queenstown." (Source: Lyell E.Z. Explorations Report 58-209 dated 26 March 1958 and signed by Peter Rodda).
It is likely that the magnetic anomalies under investigation were first discovered by Adastra Hunting Geophysics using Prince VH-AGF and Catalina VH-AGB.
The house magazine of the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd. published an article on this project in the period leading up to the involvement of the Djinn (which is mentioned in the second-last word of the article!). This article can be viewed here.
During a charter flight carrying freight from Queenstown, Tasmania the pilot, Capt W.P. Anderson, encountered excessive turbulence and a severe down draught and elected to make an emergency landing near Crotty Smelters. Damage was not excessive and the aircraft was latter able to be flown out to the operational base at Queenstown. Two of the top longerons of the tubular fuselage frame were twisted and required repair. The rotor blades jet outlet boots were damaged due to contact with the scrub and the blades had to be replaced. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Chartered by Brisbane agricultural chemical firm Barnes and McGrath Pty Ltd for spraying operations in the Brisbane Valley, Lockyer Valley and Darling Downs. Vegetable crops and lucerne were sprayed for the first time using a helicopter. Lantana eradication was also undertaken including 500 acres at Ingoldsby. (Source: Queensland Times)
Exhibition flight at the Ipswich Show. At 4.20pm "a large crowd braved the heavy shower of rain to watch it give a spectacular display of crop spraying". The weather conditions delayed its arrival from Jandowae, with head winds forcing an unscheduled refuelling at Helidon using power kerosene. The late arrival and the weather also forced the helicopter to be parked overnight in the main arena. (Source: Queensland Times)
Crashed near Laidley, Qld. while spraying a potato crop.
While hovering at a height of 6 - 8 feet, the aircraft suddenly crashed to the ground probably through pilot error. As a result of the ground impact, the pylon collapsed allowing one main blade ejector to strike the ground. (The Djinn main rotor was driven by tip ejectors expelling air bled from the engine compressor.) The ejector promptly separated to be flung 654 feet. Torque reaction failed the main rotor shaft and the rotor went 36 feet in the opposite direction striking and destroying the rudder in the process. The aircraft was written off as beyond economical repair.
F.G. Lewis and J. Solvey. "Investigation of the air accident to Djinn helicopter VH-INP on 21st May 1958". Aeronautical Research Laboratory Applied Technical Memorandum 9, September 1958.
The crash occurred at 1015 hours. (Source: NAA MT942/1)
A report in The Queensland Times (Ipswich) states:
Ansett-A.N.A.'s 14,000 Djinn jet helicopter, which was seen at the Ipswich Showground two weeks ago, was damaged yesterday when it was forced to land while crop spraying in the Glenore Grove area. It was the second helicopter mishap in the West Moreton district this year. The pilot, Captain Bill Anderson (34), of Melbourne, escaped without injury. The incident occurred about 10.30 a.m. while the craft was being used to spray potatoes on the farm of Mr. Roy Jacklin. A spokesman for the chartering firm of Barnes McGrath Pty. Ltd., Brisbane, said that the helicopter would probably be out of commission for about a fortnight. He said that the craft would have to be inspected by representatives of the Civil Aviation Department before it was transported to Brisbane for installation of replacement rotor blades. The spokesman said that the plane (sic) was involved in a forced landing due to mechanical trouble, and as it touched down its rotor blades struck the ground and were thrown off. It had been spraying potatoes under perfect weather conditions at the time of the accident, he said. A neighbour, Mr. G. Raymont, was watching the helicopter with Mr. and Mrs. Jacklin when it landed. Mr. Raymont said that the craft was 3 or 4 feet above the ground when the rotor blades "flew off" and the machine dropped into a potato patch. "It was doing a mighty job," he added. "Two or three acres had already been sprayed. The mishap happened for no apparent reason. There wasn't a breath of wind." Footnote - A Bell helicopter crashed at Tent Hill on March 14 during its inaugural crop dusting flight. This was the first attempt made locally to treat crops by this type of aircraft.
A report in The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) states that: "The helicopter crashed from four feet while turning for another spraying run over a potato field on a Glenmore Grove farm, 11 miles north-west of Laidley. The helicopter, a Djinn worth 12,000 was owned by Ansett-A.N.A. and had been working in the Laidley district for almost three weeks."
Letter from ANSETT-ANA to DCA Melbourne Airport returning CofA and CofR "after the sale of the aircraft". A hand-written notation on the letter by a DCA officer states: "Latest grapevine info is that a Mr Johnston, Lower Tarwin, Vic has the a/c. Previously it was thought that a person from Hawthorn had bought it." (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Struck off the Register.
Internal DCA minute sheet: "... rebuild of Djinn helicopter is dependent on cost of repairs which are at present being investigated by ANSETT-ANA. Present indications are that the aircraft will be scrapped .. " (Source: NAA MT942/1) "
Letter from Regional Director, DCA, Melbourne to ANSETT-ANA acknowledging receipt of CofA and CofR and advising that the aircraft has been deleted from the Register. "It is understood that the aircraft was sold in its crashed condition, and I would appreciate your advice as to the name and address of the new owner." A hand-written notation states: "No reply as at 20/10". (Source: NAA MT942/1)
Acquired by Cliff Douglas for display at his Chewing Gum Field Museum at Tallebudgera, Qld.
To the South Brisbane TAFE on loan. Some restoration was completed with the tail boom welded back together and the rudder rebuilt. It was used as a training aid for turbine engines for which purpose the engine was run but without rotor blades being fitted. The Djinn was still at South Brisbane TAFE in 1993. (Source: Nev Williams, Principle Teacher Aircraft Section, South Brisbane TAFE)
The QAM meeting held on this date received an offer from Cliff Douglas of Chewing Gum Field Museum to sell the Djinn for $8000.00. The offer was declined because QAM could not afford it at the time.
Noted on the flight line at Coolangatta Airport. The aircraft was owned by the Lanham family, operators of Lanhams Air Taxis.
Noted in the front yard of the Lanham residence in Pacific Parade, Bilinga decorated with Christmas lights.
Sold on eBay to Shane Keat.
Shane Keat of Forbes, NSW agreed to sell the aircraft to QAM.
Purchased by QAM.
Departed Forbes, NSW by road.
Arrived Caloundra.
Registration markings VH-INP added.
Restoration completed.
Compiled by Ron Cuskelly
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Added a recent image.
Added a recent image thanks to Angelo Calleja.
Added an image of the aircraft on display at the Chewing Gum Field Museum. Thanks to Shaun Ryan.
Added three images of the aircraft after restoration.
Added an image of the aircraft on display at the Chewing Gum Field Museum. Thanks to James Wing.
Noted the passing (on 02JUL10) of Lindsay Wise, an engineer who was involved in the assembly and operation of VH-INP.
Added two images of the aircraft engaged in survey operations in Tasmania in 1958. Thanks to Peter d'Plesse.
Added date of registration to Ouest Aviation.
Added significant detail from NAA MT942/1 accessed by David Beazley. Also added input from Nev Williams who was instructing at the South Brisbane TAFE when the Djinn was in use as a trainaid.
Added a reference to the aircraft having been offered for sale to QAM on 05NOV91.
Added references to press reports of test flying in October 1957 and the crash in May 1958 sourced from the State Library of Queensland by David Beazley.
Added a link to a detailed article describing the Tasmanian survey.
Added more detail of the crash on 21 May 1958.
Added details of a Tasmanian survey in March 1958.
Added details of delivery to QAM.
Original issue. Thanks to Ansett historian Fred Niven for this chronology.
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Offshore (hydrocarbons)
Pacific (album)
Pacific Marine Ecozone (CEC)
Pacific (video game)
Offshore may refer to:
Offshoring, active movement of companies to offshore centers
Offshore financial centre, jurisdictions which transact financial business with non-residents
Offshore investment, relates to the wider financial services industry in offshore centers
Offshore bank, relates to the banking industry in offshore centers
Offshore company
Offshore Stock Broker, relates to stock brokers in offshore centers
Offshore fund, collective investment in offshore centers
Offshore trust, trust arranged in offshore jurisdiction
Offshore drilling, discovery and development of oil and gas resources which lie underwater through drilling a well
Offshore construction, construction out at sea
Offshore powerboat racing, powerboat racing
Offshore hosting, server
Offshore wind power, wind power in a body of water
Offshore (novel), a 1979 British novel by Penelope Fitzgerald
"Offshore" (song), a 1996 song by British electronic dance music act Chicane
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Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats on the Thames in Battersea. The novel explores the liminality of people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but are somewhere in between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" ("whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues") comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno.
List of Characters and Their Boats (in order)
Richard Blake, husband, aged 39
Laura Blake, wife, also known as Lollie
Harry, Maurice's acquaintance, who uses the boat for his own purposes but does not live on board
Nenna James, mother
Martha James, Nenna's teenage daughter.
Tilda (Matilda) James, Nenna's younger daughter, who is six years old
Edward James, estranged father and husband, who visits the boat only once
Stripey (the cat)
Willis, painter, widower, 65 years old
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"Offshore", when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the sea, or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field. There are various types of platform used in the development of offshore oil and gas fields, and subsea facilities.
Offshore exploration is performed with floating drilling units.
Petroleum industry glossary from Saipem Spa.
Petroleum industry glossary from Anson Ltd
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Pacific (stylized as pacific) is the second studio album by Japanese musical group NEWS, released on November 7, 2007. The album reached the number one position on the Oricon Daily Album Chart and Oricon Weekly Album Chart. Four singles have been released from this album. The limited edition includes a 74-page photobook, while the regular edition comes with an 18-page booklet and 2 bonus tracks. It was released simultaneously with the single "Weeeek."
Tie-ups and theme songs
"Teppen" was used as the theme song to Fuji TV's coverage of the Women's Volleyball World Grand Prix 2005.
Charts and certifications
1 2 "NEWS、自身初のシングル、アルバム同時初登場1位!" (in Japanese). Oricon. 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
↑ ゴールド等認定作品一覧 2007年11月 (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
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The Pacific Marine Ecozone is a Canadian and American marine ecozone extending to the international waters of the Pacific Ocean from the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. The islands within the Canadian portion are part of the adjacent Pacific Maritime ecozone.
Famous for its tourism and an important shipping channel for Canada, the zone is subject to intense human activity which has damaged ecosystems. Primary effects include overfishing, pollution and even direct habitat destruction. The large and increasing population in nearby coastal areas, including the major centres of Vancouver and Seattle, exerts significant strain on the natural habitats within this ecozone.
The large rivers flowing from the Rocky Mountains are a source of nutrients for this ecologically diverse region. They enter the shallow waters over the continental shelf, which underlays the entire ecozone and represents the edge of the North American tectonic plate. This plate is constantly folding under the Pacific Plate, causing volcanic activity at their juncture and earthquakes along the coast.
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Pacific is a graphic adventure game created by Gamelearn to be training for leadership. Pacific uses the g-learning methodology, which incorporates game-based learning, gamification techniques, and simulation.
Together with Triskelion and Merchants, Pacific is one of the games developed by Gamelearn for soft skills training.
Pacific is primarily a complete course with techniques, tips and tools applicable to learning how to become a leader. The contribution of the secrets on leadership of over 200 leading executives and CEOs (whom we interviewed) as well as Gamelearn's 15 years of experience in corporate training guarantee Pacific's theoretical approach, which is based on six key notions:
Providing meaning to teamwork
Building a team to face synergies
The correct delegation of tasks
Feedback and coaching to boost teams
Gamelearn's developers decided to set the story in an environment of survival and cooperation: a group of people that are lost on an island in the Pacific. A favorable setting to explain the benefits of teamwork and staying motivated.
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Stephen King sequel sources Lynch over Kubrick
Richard Von Busack
The kid from ‘The Shining’ is all grown up and played by Ewen McGregor in ‘Doctor Sleep.’
The best parts in Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining (1980), do without Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King’s sense of gigantism. It’s not a haunted house movie trying to end all haunted house movies, even as it reprises shots of Danny pedaling his Big Wheel down endless hallways.
Director Mike Flanagan sources David Lynch, who scares me more than Kubrick ever did. The music is also familiar even beyond the quotes of Wendy Carlos’s Moog of Doom from The Shining, there’s that echoing violin screech they’ve been using since Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
We commence with a pack of non-humans. Like the other-world denizens in Twin Peaks, they live on “steam”—the distilled essence of pain and suffering. The best quality is hard to come by, complains Rose the Hat, the queen bee of this traveling coven. Something’s polluting the essences these days.
The lovely and malign Rose (Rebecca Ferguson) is kind of a witch, kind of a vampire. Though her age and exact backstory are vague, she might have become whatever she is now about the time Guns and Roses’ Appetite for Destruction came out. The undead are always a little unfashionable in their dress.
The boy casualty of the Overlook Hotel, Danny (Ewan McGregor, at his best) grew up to be a mean alcoholic like his late dad Jack. Danny floats into a small town in New Hampshire and is bailed out by a good-guy municipal worker (Cliff Curtis) who is in AA. Cut to eight years later; the chip is in Danny’s hand, not on his shoulder. He landed a job as an orderly at a hospice, where his empathy is put to good use.
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‘Doctor Sleep’ opens in wide release on Nov. 8.
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Marion Cotillard needs to see herself on screen
By Mara Siegler
December 13, 2015 | 10:04pm
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Marion Cotillard, who stars in the new movie “Macbeth” with Michael Fassbender, says unlike some actors who avoid watching themselves on the big screen — she “needs” to.
“[There’s] pressure from the day I finish the movie to the day I watch the movie, I freak out each time . . . it gets more and more terrifying,” she said at an AOL Build chat. “I need to see the result . . . because sometimes the result is really not good when you felt something, so I need to see where and why I went wrong.”
Cotillard admitted she’ll even enlist friends to help out.
“If they like [the performance] and if they think what I did is OK, then I can watch it.”
But she leaves her characters on the set.
“My son doesn’t need Lady Macbeth in his life,” she said, “I have to protect him. He has nothing to do with my s - -t.”
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Jens Ludwig
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
3600 N Street, NW Suite 200
IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Bonn, D-53072
Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment
University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 73, 2006
Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig
Columbia University and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
broken windows theory, broken windows policing, New York City, policing, zero-tolerance, MTO, Moving To Oppportunity, disorder and crime, disorderliness, aggressive police enforcement, community effects, neighborhood safety, fraffiti, pulic intoxication, public disorder, disorderly conduct
Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989-2000
Criminology and Public Policy, 2007, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 317, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 142
broken windows theory, broken windows policing, New York City, policing, zero-tolerance, MTO, Moving To Oppportunity, disorder and crime, drugs, marijuana, marijuana arrests, drug control policy, New York City drug arrests, racial discrimination, equal protection , Batson, discriminatory intent
Principles for Effective Gun Control
Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming
Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
Gun Control after Heller: Threats and Sideshows from a Social Welfare Perspective
U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 454, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 259
Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig and Adam M. Samaha
Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and New York University School of Law
gun control, second amendment, gun rights, Heller, social welfare
Why Concentrated Poverty Matters
Pathways Spring 2013, pg. 10-13
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 18 Sep 2013
Lisa Gennetian, Jens Ludwig, Thomas McDade and Lisa Sanbonmatsu
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Emory University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
housing, poverty, policy
Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Citation 154
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2111
Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
early childhood education, poverty, schooling, health, Head Start
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2010
Underground Gun Markets
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2010
Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and Anthony A. Braga
Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Columbia University - Department of Sociology and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Is Crime Contagious?
Jens Ludwig and Jeffrey R. Kling
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and Government of the United States of America - Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
endogenous effects, social multiplier, arrests, social experiment
The Benefits and Costs of Head Start
Jens Ludwig and Deborah Phillips
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and Georgetown University - Department of Psychology
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children
Brian Jacob and Jens Ludwig
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm
peer effects, assignment policy
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2010
The Social Costs of Gun Ownership
Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?
Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
Anti-Depressants and Suicide
Jens Ludwig, Dave E. Marcotte and Karen Norberg
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), University of Maryland Baltimore County and Boston University - Department of Psychiatry
Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Nov 2000 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2002
David N. Figlio and Jens Ludwig
Northwestern University and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2005
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jens Ludwig and Lawrence F. Katz
Government of the United States of America - Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Government of the United States of America - Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary: Deterrence vs Inducement
The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Aug 1999 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2010
Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy
Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Jacob L. Vigdor and Jens Ludwig
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 28 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2010
David A. Weiner, Byron F. Lutz and Jens Ludwig
University of Pennsylvania, Federal Reserve Board - Research Division and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment
Sara Heller, Harold A. Pollack, Roseanna Ander and Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago, University of Chicago - School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
Economical Crime Control
Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity
Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling and Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Northwestern University - Institute for Policy Research, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Medical School, Government of the United States of America - Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2009
Gun Control after Heller: Litigating Against Regulation
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2010
The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality
Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
The Economic Journal, Vol. 117, Issue 524, pp. F588-F618, November 2007
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Columbia University - Department of Sociology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
This is a Wiley-Blackwell Publishing paper. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing charges $42.00 .
File name: ecoj.pdf
Intercompany Energy Integration
Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 16, Issue 5, pp. 689-698, 2012
Michael Hiete, Jens Ludwig and Frank Schultmann
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
File name: j-9290.pdf
game theory, heat exchanger network, industrial ecology, industrial ecosystem, industrial symbiosis, process integration
Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults
School-to-Work Programs in the United States: A Multi-Firm Case Study of Training, Benefits, and Costs
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 2000
Jens Ludwig and Laurie J. Bassi
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and American Society for Training & Development (ASTD)
Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment
Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan and Paul Hirschfield
Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Northwestern University - Institute for Policy Research and Northwestern University - Institute for Policy Research
School Spending and Student Achievement: Using Specification Tests to Eliminate Inconsistent Estimators
Posted: 16 Jun 1998
Competition and Telephone Penetration: An International Statistical Comparison
Eric Kodjo Ralph and Jens Ludwig
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
Weighing the Oburden of Acting Whiteo: Are There Race Differences in Attitudes Towards Education?
JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. 16, No. 3, Summer 1997
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You are here: Parliament home page > Parliamentary business > Publications and Records > Committee Publications > All Select Committee Publications > Commons Select Committees > Work and Pensions > Work and Pensions
PIP and ESA assessments: claimant experiences Contents
1PIP and ESA functional assessments
Our inquiry and this report
1.The public response to our inquiry on Personal Independent Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) assessments has been unprecedented. Almost 3,500 individuals shared their experiences with us via written evidence and an online forum, an unprecedented public response to a departmental select committee inquiry.1 Many of their testimonies include very personal information that must have been difficult to share. We also do not doubt that corresponding with a select committee can be a daunting and time-consuming exercise. This report is a tribute to the efforts and bravery of those claimants who got in touch.2
2.Standard select committee reports set out some of the evidence they have received, analyse that evidence, and make policy recommendations to government. We will shortly produce a second report, which will further draw on evidence from claimants and organisations in setting out our policy proposals. This will include recommendations on:
building trust in and improving transparency of assessments;
improving the application process;
the role of medical evidence and addressing concerns about lack of assessor expertise;
improving assessment quality and feedback between the Department and contractors; and
contracting arrangements, in advance of PIP and ESA contracts expiring in 2019/20.3
In this report we have sought to draw attention and give voice to some of the real life experiences reported to us, illustrating the human consequences of shortcomings in the benefit assessment system. Alongside a small number of representative organisations, most of the evidence in this report comes directly from the individuals affected.4 We have used a small fraction of our evidence to illustrate widely-expressed concerns. They are:
errors in assessment reports, such as inclusion of incorrect information and omission of relevant information shared during the assessment;
the difficulty and distress that claimants can experience filling in PIP and ESA application forms;
inaccuracies in reports arising from lack of assessor knowledge about the functional implications of different conditions;
problems with Mandatory Reconsideration (MR), and the stress associated with challenging a decision at MR or Appeal.
Box 1: PIP and ESA
PIP and ESA support disabled people and those with long term health conditions. PIP provides help towards the extra costs of having a long-term health condition or disability. It is available both in and out of work. ESA is an out-of-work benefit for people whose capacity to work is limited by a health condition. Since 2013, 3.2 million people have applied for PIP, and 3.1 million have applied for ESA.5
Assessment processes for PIP and ESA are separate, but have similar structures. Assessments are carried out by contractors on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP/the Department).6 In most cases, a contractor carries out a face to face assessment of the claimant and compiles a report for DWP. A member of DWP staff, known as a Decision Maker, then reviews the report and decides whether the claimant is entitled to benefits.
If the claimant disagrees with the decision and wants to challenge it, they must first request a Mandatory Reconsideration (MR). This is an internal review carried out by a Decision Maker. If the claimant disagrees with the MR decision, they can appeal to a Tribunal.
A process that works for many
3.People tend only to make representations about their experiences to MPs or select committees when they are in difficulty or have had a poor experience with a public service. It is therefore unsurprising that the vast majority of submissions we received were critical of the assessment process. We did, however, receive a few positive responses:
I was very pleased with the service I received. The process was a lot quicker than I thought it would be, which pleasantly surprised me. I was more than happy with the assessor, she was to the point but did what she needed to do. I don’t have any complaints. Beckey
I thought my PIP assessment was carried out sensitively, with proper appreciation of my circumstances. I was happy with the result. Everyone I dealt with, both by telephone and at the assessment centre, was aware of how frightening the process could be and did all they could to counter that. I was very happy with the way I was treated and thought the process was properly fair and objective. Nick
I was rather nervous when I had to apply for PIP. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the assessment would take place at my house. My assessor had worked in neurological healthcare and understood my condition. He was very easy to talk to and spent four hours interviewing me. When I received the result, I was very pleased to see that I would be able to retain my Motability car. Until I saw the letter I hadn’t realised how worried I’d been - I felt an enormous weight lift from my shoulders, and burst into tears of relief. Name withheld7
4.The Department told us that claimant satisfaction with PIP and ESA is high. In 2015/16, 76% of PIP claimants and 83% of ESA claimants surveyed were satisfied with the service they received from the DWP.8 All three contracted providers “consistently exceed” their customer satisfaction targets of 90% for PIP and 91% for ESA.9 Contractors and the Department both also reported low numbers of complaints about either benefit.10 The Secretary of State cited the relatively low proportion of all PIP and ESA claims that are appealed at Tribunal as further evidence of satisfaction.11 The claim that assessment processes work well for most claimants is generally supported by recent PIP claimant research.12
Failing a substantial minority
5.This evidence does not, however, tell the whole story. Since 2013 more than 1 in 20 PIP and ESA claimants only received what they were entitled to after challenging the DWP’s initial decision. This amounts to huge numbers of claimants: 290,000, comprising 227,000 for PIP and 63,000 for ESA. For both benefits, half of those claimants had to go through both challenge processes of MR and appeal.13 These figures will underestimate the scale of the problems as some claimants feel unable to face challenging their initial or MR decision.14 Though thousands of individuals responded to our inquiry, they amount to only a small proportion of people who have encountered difficulties with the process.
Conclusion and recommendation
6.The PIP and ESA assessment processes function satisfactorily for the majority of claimants, but they are failing a substantial minority. The response to our inquiry from claimants was striking and unprecedented. This report—featuring just a fraction of the evidence we received—is a tribute to their efforts and bravery in submitting evidence and a reflection of the importance of recognising the human consequences of policy shortcomings.
7.We recommend the Department set out in response to our report, for each category of concern we have identified:
a)whether it recognises this concern;
b)any assessment it has made of its prevalence;
c)how it is monitored;
d)what measures are in place to prevent it, and at what stage in the process;
e)any related performance measures; and
f)what further steps, if any, it intends to take.
1 We hosted an online forum on the parliament.uk website which received around 3,000 comments. We also received 550 written evidence submissions, the vast majority of which were from individual claimants.
2 We have lightly edited some of the submissions for readability or to put them into context.
3 Q379 (Janice Smethurst)
4 Where the evidence is from individuals we have anonymised (if submitted as written evidence), or used first names only (if submitted via the forum).
5 Data correct to October 2017. See DWP, Personal Independence Payment: official statistics, December 2017; DWP, Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessments, Mandatory Reconsiderations and appeals, December 2017
6 Atos Independent Assessment Services provides PIP assessments in the North East and North West of England, London, the South East, East of England, South West England and Scotland. Capita provides assessments in Central England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ESA Work Capability Assessments are carried out nationally by Maximus Centre for Health and Disability Assessments.
7 Name withheld (PEA0033)
8 DWP, Claimant service and experience survey 2015/16, January 2017, p.4
9 DWP (PEA0441)
10 DWP (PEA0441), Maximus (PEA0532), Capita (PEA0547), Letter from Atos IAS to the Chair of the Committee, December 2017
11 The proportion of PIP/ESA claims that go Appeal is 8% for both benefits, when expressed as a proportion of all applicants. DWP (PEA0441)
12 DWP, Personal Independence Payment claimant research (wave 2): interim headline findings, December 2017. No comparable recent research is available for ESA.
13 DWP, Personal Independence Payment: official statistics and Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessments, Mandatory Reconsiderations and appeals; Ministry of Justice, Social security and child support tribunal data, table SSCS.3, December 2017. Appeal data correct to September 2017.
14 See, for example, Rethink Mental Illness (PEA0405), Cystic Fibrosis Trust (PEA0425), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (PEA0409)
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The importance of vitamin D in maternal and child health: a global perspective
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CF Munns1,2
Vitamin D and calcium are important nutrients for skeletal growth and bone health. Children and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to 25-hydroxy vitamin D deficiency (VDD). VDD, with or without dietary calcium deficiency, can lead to nutritional rickets (NR), osteomalacia, and disturbances in calcium homeostasis. Multiple studies have linked VDD to adverse health outcomes in both children and pregnant women that extend beyond bone health. VDD remains an important global public health concern, and an important differentiation must be made between the impact of VDD on children and adults. Reports of increased incidence of NR continue to emerge. NR is an entirely preventable condition, which could be eradicated in infants and children worldwide with adequate vitamin D and calcium supplementation. The desire and necessity to put in place systems for preventing this potentially devastating pediatric disease should not elicit dispute. VDD and NR are global public health issues that require a collaborative, multi-level approach for the implementation of feasible preventative strategies. This review highlights the history, risk factors, and controversies related to VDD during pregnancy and childhood with a particular focus on global NR prevention.
Vitamin D and calcium are essential for adequate health throughout the lifespan. Pregnant women and children however are particularly vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency. Nutritional rickets is a devastating neuromuscular disease due to vitamin D status and/or calcium deficiency and continues to be an important global health problem. Public health strategies such as food fortification and supplementation are not universal, and their implementation has proven difficult despite the increasing evidence of the role of vitamin D status on health and disease status.
Vitamin D status and calcium are important nutrients for skeletal growth and bone health. Children and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency (VDD). Multiple studies have linked VDD to adverse health outcomes in both children and pregnant women. Despite the abundance of scientific studies in the last decades regarding the possible extra-skeletal role of vitamin D status, the evidence remains mostly inconsistent. What is not controversial, however, is that VDD, with or without dietary calcium deficiency, can lead to nutritional rickets (NR), disturbances in calcium homeostasis, and osteomalacia.
NR is a pediatric condition where chondrocyte differentiation and bone mineralization at the growth plates are defective and can lead to short stature and skeletal deformities [1, 2]. Skeletal features of NR can be seen in Fig. 1. Osteomalacia is defective mineralization of the osteoid in cortical and trabecular bone [2]. Although this is a term often used to describe the demineralization caused by VDD in adults, it is important to note that this also describes histological changes that can be seen in children with NR [2]. For simplicity, NR will refer to both the histological changes and demineralization at all segments of the bone and will exclude heritable disorders of vitamin D metabolism and congenital or acquired hypophosphatemic rickets.
X-ray of the lower extremities of a child with nutritional rickets. Classic radiological signs of rickets are seen including cupping, fraying, and widening of the growth plates and bowing of the diaphyses
Consequences of NR extend beyond bone. Although uncommon, NR-related hypocalcemia can lead to seizures, tetany, generalized weakness, cardiomyopathy, and raised intracranial pressure, all of which can have devastating consequences. While the global prevalence/incidence of these non-skeletal manifestations remains unknown, there have been numerous published case reports describing cardiomyopathy associated with rickets [3,4,5,6,7,8] and rachitic hypocalcemic seizures [9, 10]. In a retrospective case series aimed at reviewing the prevalence of VDD associated with pediatric cardiomyopathy in South East England, 16 infants were identified in a 6-year chart review [3]. All infants were from a dark-skinned ethnic minority group, exclusively breastfed and presented with a median 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25OHD) status of < 20 nmol/L (VDD was defined as < 35 nmol/L) and radiological signs of rickets [3]. In another study capturing the incidence of VDD rickets in Canada, the majority of pediatric cases showed clinically important morbidity at diagnosis and almost 20% of cases presented with hypocalcemic seizures [11].
Multiple guidelines and consensus statements on NR [1, 12] and VDD [13,14,15,16,17] have been published in the last decade recommending supplementation and fortification. Unfortunately, implementation of public health policy changes and interventions have been limited [18], and NR eradication remains elusive. Long-standing debates about exact definitions of vitamin D status coupled with recent high-profile publications arguing against global VDD pandemic [19,20,21] have led some to question the importance of vitamin D supplementation. It is unfortunate that this debate, which has been led primarily by adult physicians, has failed to differentiate the consequences of VDD on children from adults. What should remain clear and uncontroversial are the devastating pediatric consequences associated with VDD that extend beyond bone such as cardiomyopathy and seizures.
This manuscript will review the history, risk factors, and controversies related to VDD during pregnancy and childhood. Additionally, this paper will focus on NR prevention and management as they pertain to global maternal and child health and examine issues such as fortification, supplementation, and individualized care for vulnerable groups.
Historical epidemiological fluctuations of VDD
With the start of the industrial revolution, urbanization, over-crowding, and unsanitary conditions contributed to an unprecedented rise in NR [2, 22, 23]. Chronic bony deformities resulted in long-term morbidity into adulthood and triggered an increase in the rates of cesarean sections in order to safely deliver children born to women with improper bone growth and rachitic pelvises [24]. Once pathophysiology and treatment of NR was described, government led public awareness and recommendations for vitamin D supplementation and fortification were implemented [25]. During the 1930s and 1940s, nutrient fortification of staple foods, including vitamin D fortification, in the USA, Canada, and UK were applied [26]. NR incidence decreased, only to rise again once those regulations waned in the post-war era [25, 26]. In Canada, it was not until the reintroduction of fortification, almost four decades later, that decline in NR resumed [23].
In developing countries, however, attempts to drop NR rates have proven difficult. Prevalence rates from Africa, Middle East, and Asia far exceed those in Western countries and are a major problem in infants [27, 28] and children [29]. Dietary sources of calcium are variable across different regions and are habitually low in developing countries where dairy products are scarce [1]. Calcium deficiency alone (i.e., with normal 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels) can still predispose a child to NR. This is evident from cases in developing countries where vitamin D sufficient children still present with NR [1, 30, 31].
Although NR remains a relatively rare disease, there are recent reports of increased incidence in the USA [32, 33], Canada [11], Denmark [34], Australia [35], and UK [36]. In the UK, rates for NR are at five-decade high [36] and clinically severe cases of VDD are still occurring [37]. Cases are not limited to countries situated at high latitudes with little sunlight. Even in developed, sub-tropic countries like Australia, increased cases of hypocalcemic seizures and musculoskeletal deformities from VDD have been reported [38]. Despite much progress over the last century, many risk factors for symptomatic VDD remain.
Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency
A recent cohort study of vitamin D status in pregnant white-skinned women and their infants in North West England revealed that 27% of mothers had insufficient (< 50 nmol/L) and 7% had deficient (< 25 nmol/L) 25OHD levels during pregnancy; their levels dropped in 48 and 11% of cases, respectively, 4 months after delivery [39]. In this same study, 24% of infants had 25OHD levels between 25 and 50 nmol/L and 13% had 25OHD levels < 25 nmol/L at 4 months of age [39]. Another prospective study from the UK looking at micronutrient status in pregnant teenagers found that 30% of the participants had 25OHD levels below 25 nmol/L [40].
Determinant of plasma 25OHD concentrations
The major circulating form of vitamin D (25OHD) is synthesized in the skin as cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) with very few food sources containing either ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) or cholecalciferol [41]. Endogenous skin synthesis requires the skin be exposed to ultraviolet B (UVB) light (290–315 nm wavelengths). Apart from fortified foods, dietary intake of vitamin D is limited. Table 1 summarizes the many factors that influence both environmental and dietary contributions of vitamin D in humans.
Table 1 Risk factors for low 25OHD concentrations
Vitamin D status is also influenced by non-modifiable genetic factors implicated in vitamin D metabolism. These can include inter-individual differences in vitamin D/calcium absorption and transport, or genetic polymorphisms of proteins and receptors involved with vitamin D. Certain polymorphisms of the vitamin D receptor, for example, have been found to lead to inter-individual differences in bone mineral density [42].
VDD during pregnancy
Multiple physiological adaptations occur during pregnancy to ensure rapid growth and mineralization of the fetal skeleton. The full review of maternal physiological mechanisms that occur during pregnancy to optimize fetal skeletal development is beyond the scope of this paper. A schematic summary is provided in Fig. 2. In order for the mother to provide the 30 g of calcium required for adequate fetal bone development, maternal intestinal calcium absorption and calcium resorption from bones are increased [43]. A small loss in bone mineral content may occur during pregnancy; however, retrospective studies have not shown that parity is a risk factor for osteoporosis in women with normal bone turnover [44]. In pregnant women, gravidity does not exacerbate pre-existing osteomalacia or VDD [45]. Maternal vitamin D status is, however, associated with infant vitamin D status [46, 47].
Schematic representation of some maternal factors and physiological changes during pregnancy that optimize bone health in offspring. Increased calcium transport to fetus and sufficient maternal vitamin D status result in adequate skeletal maturation, decreased risk of neonatal hypocalcemia, and decreased risk of congenital and infantile NR. Maternal 25OHD likely crosses the placenta resulting in fetal levels that approximate maternal levels. 1,25(OH)2D, on the contrary, is not thought to cross the placenta. 1,25(OH)2D 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, UVB ultraviolet B, NR nutritional rickets
Pre-pregnancy or peri-pregnancy VDD in the mother can have important ramifications for the fetus and infant. Reports of high prevalence of VDD below 25 nmol/L in pregnant women from ethnic minority groups living in temperate climates ranges 60–80% [45]. Maternal vitamin D status reflects fetal and neonatal status. Significant linear correlations have been shown between maternal and umbilical cord plasma levels of 25OHD with cord levels being lower than maternal ones and pointing to a placental diffusion barrier or differences in binding protein affinities [46,47,48]. Consequently, maternal VDD can be transmitted to the fetus and newborn and, depending on severity, can lead to both acute and delayed consequences.
VDD during pregnancy and maternal outcomes
Vitamin D status during pregnancy and its impact on maternal outcomes have been extensively studied. While observational studies have suggested that VDD during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of adverse maternal outcomes such as pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and cesarean section, interventional studies have reported conflicting results [49].
Pre-eclampsia, a condition defined by new-onset gestational hypertension and proteinuria, after the 20th week of gestation, is more likely to occur in women with VDD [50,51,52]. RCTs examining vitamin D supplementation and increased pre-eclampsia outcome have reported conflicting results in the past. Two recent systematic reviews, including a Cochrane review, critically appraising data from five RCTs involving almost 1300 women, have judged that women who receive daily vitamin D supplements with and without calcium supplements have higher 25OHD levels and lower risk of pre-eclampsia compared to women receiving no intervention or placebo [49, 53]. Low-quality evidence from two RCTs looking at vitamin D supplementation alone during pregnancy compared to placebo or no intervention found a pre-eclampsia risk ratio (RR) of 0.52 (95% CI 0.25–1.05) [53]. It is important to note that supplementation in these two RCTs was heterogeneous, specifically daily 400 IU of cholecalciferol in Asemi et al.’s trial [54] compared to a single dose of 60,000 IU, two doses of 120,000 IU, or four doses of 120,000 in the treatment arm of the Sablok et al.’s study [55]. The RR of pre-eclampsia was even lower when calcium was also supplemented. Moderate-quality evidence from data of three RCTs showed that women who received vitamin D and calcium supplementation also had an even lower risk of pre-eclampsia compared to those without intervention (RR 0.51; 95% CI 0.32–0.80) [53].
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
There are inconsistent data regarding maternal VDD and increased risk for GDM [50]. In two cross-sectional studies, severe VDD, as defined by levels < 12.5 nmol/L, was significantly higher in women with GDM [51, 56]. As is the case with all observational studies, causation cannot be implied, since multiple confounding factors both measured and unmeasured, such as ethnicity, genetics, physiological variability, and adiposity can confound the relationship. An RCT examining the effects of vitamin D supplementation on maternal glucose metabolism during pregnancy found that starting high-dose vitamin D (5000 IU daily) during the second trimester did not normalize glucose levels on oral glucose tolerance test but was highly effective at preventing neonatal VDD compared to low-dose (400 IU daily) vitamin D supplementation [57].
Other outcomes
Various other maternal outcomes and vitamin D status during pregnancy have been assessed. Reduced rates of cesarean section have been inconsistently associated with higher 25OHD levels in recent Spanish and Asian observational studies [58,59,60].
Other adverse maternal outcomes associated have been linked to VDD. One study found women seeking medical help for infertility had deficient 25OHD levels [61]. Other associations between low prenatal and perinatal maternal vitamin D concentrations and multiple sclerosis, cancer, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and schizophrenia have also been reported [62]. Recent investigations studying the link between 25OHD levels and recurrent pregnancy loss and post-partum depression have also been recently studied without any clear evidence to support a causal relationship [49].
VDD during pregnancy and infant/child outcomes
Pregnant women should receive 600 IU of daily supplemental vitamin D to ensure sufficient maternal 25OHD levels and to prevent complications in the infant [1, 63]. VDD during pregnancy and multiple infant-related outcomes have been recurrently studied.
Congenital rickets and hypocalcemic complications
Craniotabes and congenital rickets, defined as the presence of rickets in the first month of life [1], are linked to VDD during pregnancy [47]. Other non-osseous signs and symptoms in infants can be particularly severe and troubling and include neurological complications such as hypocalcemic seizures, increased intracranial pressure, muscle weakness, and tetany. Evidence from interventional and observational studies report an association between low maternal vitamin D status and abnormal infant outcomes such as elevated blood alkaline phosphatase [64], larger fontanelle size at birth [65], and neonatal hypocalcemia [65,66,67,68]. Moreover, some hypocalcemia complications can be life-threatening including dilated cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure, arrhythmia, and cardiac arrest.
There is insufficient and conflicting evidence that maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy can alter birth anthropometry [1]. Well-conducted RCTs have shown that vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy ranging from daily doses of 800 to 4000 IU or single dose regimens of 100,000 or 200,000 IU of cholecalciferol commencing in the second or third trimester did not lead to anthropometric changes [65, 69,70,71,72].
Conversely, moderate-quality evidence from three trials examining the role of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy in almost 500 women revealed decreased frequency of low birth weight (< 2500 g) in infants from supplemented mothers compared to those who had no intervention or placebo during pregnancy (RR 0.4, 95% CI 0.24–0.67) [53]. Furthermore, an RCT looking at vitamin D supplementation (35,000 IU/week) in mothers during their third trimester of pregnancy revealed enhanced early postnatal linear growth in Bangladeshi infants from supplemented mothers compared to infants from mothers who had received placebo [73]. Further data are needed to explore the true relationship between maternal vitamin D supplementation and infant anthropometry. These differing results in infant anthropometry may suggest that supplementation during pregnancy of vitamin D deficient women may be more important in underdeveloped nations.
Similarly, three recent RCTs of moderate quality have reported that vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy decreases the risk of preterm birth in supplemented women compared to those receiving placebo or no intervention [54, 55, 74] and this was confirmed in a meta-analysis with an average RR of 0.36 (95% CI 0.14–0.93) [53]. Conversely, combined results from three RCTs examining both vitamin D and calcium supplementation in pregnant women revealed increased rates of preterm birth in supplemented women (RR 1.57; 95% CI 1.02–2.43) [53]. The reasons for this remain unclear. Guarded interpretation of these results is emphasized due to the small number and limited quality of these trials.
Infant bone mass
Fetal and infant bone mass may be influenced by maternal VDD during pregnancy [75]. However, the evidence from multiple observational and interventional studies was recently reviewed by an international panel of bone experts and found to be inconclusive [1].
Other infant/child outcomes
Multiple studies examining the relationship between VDD during pregnancy and non-skeletal infant/child outcomes have been reported. Observational studies have suggested possible links with respiratory infections, immunity, and autism [49]; however, well-conducted, large interventional trials are lacking. One RCT studying the effect of maternal high-dose vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy on toddler wheezing or asthma diagnosis revealed a possible protective effect but failed to reach statistical significance [76].
High-risk groups for VDD and NR
Preventing VDD in pregnant women remains a global imperative to prevent neonatal VDD, which can have severe and sometimes irreversible consequences [1, 77]. This is particularly important in high-risk groups.
Prematurity increases the risk of VDD. Preterm birth amputates the time for adequate transplacental transfer of vitamin D and leads to deficient fetal vitamin D stores [78]. Globally, approximately 15 million children are born preterm each year [79], and survival rates for premature babies are at a historical high [80]. The majority of skeletal calcium and phosphorus deposition is accomplished in the third trimester of pregnancy; therefore, premature babies have low mineral stores. Additionally, they are born during a phase of rapid growth including rapid bone mineral accretion [43]. Difficulties in mineral accretion are compounded by poor early intake, frequent illness, prolonged immobility, and medications altering bone mineral homeostasis such as steroids and diuretics [43].
Term infants
Even term infants remain at risk for NR and VDD. Breast milk is the best choice for infants despite its low levels of vitamin D. One liter of breast milk contains a maximum of 25 IU vitamin D [81], well below the intake levels necessary to prevent NR. Mothers with additional risk factors, who exclusively breastfeed, are particularly at risk of having an infant with symptomatic VDD [28, 38, 82]. To prevent NR, breastfed infants should therefore be supplemented with 400 IU of vitamin D daily in their first year of life [1].
While infant formulas are often fortified with vitamin D, infants can still remain at risk for NR if they are born from 25OHD deficient mothers and/or consume less than 1 l of formula per day [11, 83]. Dark-skinned women living at higher latitudes are particularly at high risk for VDD [84, 85].
VDD during pregnancy occurs globally [86,87,88,89], particularly in migrant women from high-risk groups migrating to temperate climates [38, 90]. Globalization and recent social/political conflicts have caused a spike in migration across Europe and North America. Middle Eastern, African, and south-Asian migrants and their offspring that relocate to temperate climates are particularly at risk for VDD [91]. Increases in NR cases in sunny climates have mirrored immigration trends [38], where people with darker skin pigment and culture traditions that limit exposure to sunshine are at increased risk of VDD especially pregnant women and their children [92]. With the current refugee crisis, an elevated number of high-risk children will migrate to high-income countries with temperate climates and will be at even greater risk for vitamin D and/or calcium deficiency [1, 91, 92].
Geographical displacement can also trigger changes in diet, which could alter the course of developing NR. Knowing that there is an interaction between calcium intake and vitamin D status, changes in calcium intake may exacerbate or attenuate the NR. An asymptomatic child who previously had mildly insufficient vitamin D status and mildly insufficient calcium intake who then migrates to a country where his calcium intake is further reduced is likely to develop biochemical anomalies and/or NR.
Other groups at risk for VDD
Obesity and other chronic medical conditions can interfere with vitamin D absorption and metabolism. Sequestration of vitamin D in fat stores may explain an inverse association between obesity and 25OHD levels [93, 94]. With conditions that alter fat absorption are at risk for VDD and NR. This has been shown in children with Coeliac’s disease [95] but can apply to other malabsorption states (cystic fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.) [93].
Current controversies surrounding VDD
Debate over exact definition of VDD persists in the literature. Uniform distinctions between “deficient,” “insufficient,” and “sufficient” levels are important for accurate epidemiological and comparative data. However, published scientific debate over uniform definitions should not overshadow the importance of VDD in pregnant and pediatric populations. Studies whose only outcomes are 25OHD serum levels and their relationship to extra-skeletal benefits do not address the more pressing matters of bone complications in high-risk populations. What is not controversial is the importance of eradicating NR and other severe vitamin D deficient conditions in pediatric populations.
A recent high-profile publication argued that because of a misapplication of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) nutritional requirements, studies have inflated the prevalence of VDD [19]. The authors state that the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR), defined as the median of the distribution of population requirement (40 nmol/L), and not the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA), should be used as the target intake to achieve vitamin D sufficiency in the population. By using RDA as the target for population-based 25OHD levels, defined as the nutritional requirements that meet 97.5% of the population’s needs and correspond to 25OHD levels beyond 50 nmol/L, the authors argue that many manuscripts have misclassified subjects as deficient and have inflated the prevalence of VDD [19]. While the author’s arguments may be valid when encompassing a general, healthy, adult population from high-income countries, some important issues need to be considered. First, vitamin D requirements are unlikely to be stable throughout the lifespan. Second, seasonal fluctuations of 25OHD levels are not negligible. Third, there is inherent variability in vitamin D intake and metabolism. Finally, in certain populations, concomitant calcium intake may be decreased. Aiming for 25OHD levels as per the EAR in populations with multiple risk factors for VDD might be imprudent. In children, PTH was shown to increase when 25OHD levels drop below 34 nmol/L [96] and seasonal fluctuations have been shown to decrease 25OHD levels to a nadir between 13 and 24 nmol/L [92]. In a large adult American cohort, seasonal variations in intact PTH levels appear to follow a slightly delayed but inverted pattern relative to 25OHD levels and VDD with secondary hyperparathyroidism was found in a substantial proportion of the population [97]. High serum PTH levels will lead to phosphaturia, and low serum phosphate levels and if sustained will compromise bone mineralization and lead to osteomalacia and rickets. An explanation of the historical relationship between diagnosing 25OHD deficiency and PTH levels has been recently published [98]. After extensive review of the literature, the global consensus on NR strongly recommended that levels between 30 and 50 nmol/L were insufficient and that in order to prevent NR, it is important to maintain 25OHD levels beyond 50 nmol/L to counteract the plunge seen with seasonal variations [1]. Nevertheless, defining a clinically significant 25OHD level is challenging due to inter-individual variability in vitamin D metabolism.
The real controversies that need to be addressed are the benefits of 25OHD levels above 50 nmol/L during childhood for the benefits of skeletal health. With adequate calcium intake, NR is unlikely to occur if 25OHD levels are beyond 34 nmol/L [99]. It is not controversial to want to prevent NR and hypocalcemic complications. The recent global consensus guidelines on NR supported the IOM definitions and Pediatric Endocrine Society [16] of vitamin D thresholds, specifically < 30 nmol/L as deficient, 30–50 nmol/L insufficient, and > 50 nmol/L sufficient. These thresholds were selected based upon associations between 25OHD levels and clinical and biochemical evidence of rickets [1].
The global consensus on NR recommended that all pregnant women should receive 600 IU/day of supplemental vitamin D to prevent both neonate and infant biochemical and radiographic signs of NR [1]. This is in keeping with recommendations from American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists [100], National Institute for Health and Care Excellence [101], and Institute of Medicine [63] that also recommend supplementation in pregnancy.
There is international consensus regarding the vitamin D supplementation of breastfed infants. Owing to the low content of vitamin D in breast milk and the increased risk of NR among exclusively breastfed infants, multiple professional societies have recommended that breastfed infants require 400 IU/day of vitamin D supplementation [1, 16, 63, 102]. Formula-fed infants could still remain at risk of NR [11] despite government-mandated vitamin D fortification of infant formulas. Infant formulas provide 400 IU/l [93]. Infants who are born with low vitamin D status, have additional risk factors, or are not receiving 1 l of formula daily may still remain at risk for NR [11, 93]. The global consensus guidelines have strongly recommended that all infants, regardless of their mode of feeding, be supplemented with 400 IU/day from birth until 12 months of age based on high-quality evidence [1]. In prospective studies in Canada, China, and Turkey, there were no incident radiographically confirmed NR cases in children supplemented with 400 IU/day [11, 103, 104].
Beyond the first year of life, vitamin D requirements increase to 600 IU/day. Multiple professional societies strongly recommend that all healthy children beyond 12 months achieve this nutritional intake either through diet or supplementation [1, 63, 105, 106]. Children with malabsorption or other chronic conditions that may alter vitamin D absorption/metabolism, children from high-risk groups, and those living in high latitudes may have vitamin D requirements beyond 600 IU/day [93, 106]. For the maximization of bone health in children, adequate calcium intake, weight-bearing exercise, and maintenance of healthy body weight are essential through puberty. [15]
Policy and public health approaches are necessary, safe, and effective
In most western diets, few foods are an abundant source of vitamin D [23]. Accordingly, achieving recommended intake of vitamin D is unlikely to occur through diet alone, unless there is fortification of key food groups [23]. Vitamin D supplementation and fortification guidelines and their implementation vary widely around the world [107]. International recommendations for vitamin D intake during pregnancy and for infants and children are variable [108].
While many countries have public health policies regarding vitamin D supplementation, adherence to these programs is typically poor. A recent study assessing variations in infant and childhood vitamin D supplementation programs across Europe revealed that 96% of European countries had national policies for infant vitamin D supplementation; however, adherence was either moderate or low in almost half of the countries surveyed [109]. In the UK, awareness of and adherence to national recommendations for vitamin D supplementation remain problematic [95, 110, 111]. Similarities have been described in the USA [112, 113], where less than 15% of infants receiving both breast milk and infant formula were meeting their nutritional requirements of vitamin D. In Scandinavian countries, adherence is better but far from ideal, where 59 and 64% of breastfed infants receive supplements in Norway and Sweden respectively [114, 115]. A systematic review in adults examining the health effects and societal burden of vitamin D through epidemiological studies reveals that current fortification and supplementation policies are inadequate [18]. This lack of adherence is concerning, given the devastating bony outcomes for NR. Some authors have suggested supplementing lactating mothers with high doses of vitamin D such as 2000–6400 IU/day [116] or a single dose of 150,000 IU [117] to achieve desired 25OHD sufficiency in their infants. All regimens were effective in supplying vitamin D to infants, and daily doses up to 4000 IU were deemed likely safe by the authors [116, 117]. However, it was equally effective to supplement infants with 400 IU/d to achieve similar 25OHD levels as those whose mothers were supplemented with 2000 IU/day or higher vitamin D. Of note, no consensus guidelines or group has promoted using high doses of vitamin D supplementation in lactating women [1, 12, 53, 63].
Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy, with doses ranging from 400 to 4000 IU/day, have been reported as safe. A multicentre, double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial reported that 1000 IU/day of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy was effective in maintaining sufficient 25OHD levels safely [118]. Similar studies have corroborated the safety of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy using doses at or above the IOM recommendations [57, 119, 120]. While judicious supplementation is both safe and effective, its implementation remains problematic and inconsistent in multiple regions. Fortification of staple foods can provide additional vitamin D intake in the general population.
As changing socio-political factors create an environment for likely increases in reported NR cases, a global strategy is imperative to eradicate this preventable condition. The global consensus guidelines confirmed that 25OHD and calcium deficiencies are common worldwide, lead to NR in pediatric populations, and are completely preventable with proper supplementation of all pregnant and lactating mothers and infants [1]. Although one study provided evidence for vitamin D supplementation in high-risk groups in the UK [121], more data examining cost-effective strategies of supplementation and food fortification programs, especially in high-risk groups, is necessary [1].
Evidence in favor of safe staple food fortification is available. Since the 1980s, Canadian law mandates vitamin D fortification of liquid milk products and margarine; consequently, Canadian NR rates have decreased significantly [23]. Implementation of governmental vitamin D recommendations for fortification coincides with declines in incidence of NR among ethnic children including Denmark [34], Canada [23], and the USA [22]. Interventional studies comparing milk and vitamin D fortified milk consumption have shown that vitamin D fortified milk can improve both vitamin D status and bone density in adolescent girls [122]. Despite increasing the general population’s vitamin D intake, a caveat of food fortification is its inability to specifically target groups most at risk for VDD if they do not consume adequate amounts of the fortified food in question [123, 124]. Biofortification of a variety of foods has been suggested as a means to increase vitamin D intake among all subgroups of the population [125]. Government policy to increase food fortification must be coupled with nutritional education via primary care providers and public awareness campaigns.
Supplementation should be implemented into primary health care, and fortification of staple foods should be done based on dietary patterns. Finally, programs that are supported by government funding are more likely to be widespread and effective. A public health approach is needed, safe, inexpensive, and effective. A study evaluating the effectiveness of a universal vitamin D supplementation program for pregnant and lactating women and young children in the inner city of Birmingham, UK, resulted in a 59% decrease in symptomatic VDD children under 5 years of age and a substantial increase in public awareness of VDD [126].
Importantly, fortification of food groups will not help infants who exclusively breast or formula feed. For this group, vitamin D supplementation of breastfed or formula fed children is required to ensure vitamin D status sufficiency and prevent NR.
An interpretive study of the scientific literature pertaining to optimizing 25OHD levels and extra-skeletal benefits concluded that increasing serum 25OHD levels is the most cost-effective way to reduce global mortality rates [127]. There are important gaps in population-based studies examining vitamin D status worldwide, particularly in South America, Africa, and South-East Asia [128]. Government funding should reflect this striking lack of data especially in pediatric groups who continue to experience important burden from the consequences of VDD.
The last decade has seen vigorous scientific debates and controversies apropos VDD, its diagnosis, significance, and supplementation for non-skeletal disease in adults, pregnant women, and children. Consistent evidence from RCTs comparing different vitamin D supplementation to placebo or no intervention has failed to show statistically significant differences in maternal or fetal outcomes [119, 129]. This likely reflects the association between poor health and concurrent low vitamin D status rather than a causal relationship.
As the scientific community continues to search for clearer data on these important issues, we must not neglect to emphasize the importance of NR eradication. The most undisputed consequences of VDD are also the most severe, and they occur in children. VDD causes NR. NR is completely preventable. A collaborative, international, multi-level approach is not only ideal and essential but has been proven feasible in preventing this potentially devastating pediatric disease.
1,25(OH)2D:
1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol
25OHD:
25-Hydroxy vitamin D
EAR:
Estimated Average Requirement
Nutritional rickets
RDA:
Recommended Daily Allowance
Risk ratio
Ultraviolet B radiation
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The seventeen articles in this collection, present a true sense of the "Jerusalem School" of Biblical scholarship with its commitment to united the unique heritage of Jewish learning with the methodology and accomplishments of modern biblical research.
2 Biblical Criminal Law I confined my study to the theoretical postulates of the law systems under considerationsince I could not vouch for the practical effects of the laws of the Torah. Hence, too. I did not systematically consider passages in the extralegal parts of Scripture in which issues bearing on the laws are found. Where a passage outside the laws shed light on the terms of a law under discussion. I adduced it: that the ,, innocent goring ox was condemned to death and its corpse tabooed ( Exod 21: 28) is to be explained - so I suggested - by God s warning ( in Gen 9: 5- 6) that he would hold even animals to account for homicide. Similarly. I thought that the designation of adultery as a sin against God in extralegal texts ( Gen 39: 9) bore on the absence of pardon as a legal option in the case of adultery. I did not otherwise adduce evidence from non- legal literature because of doubts about ( 1) the binding status of all ancient Near Eastern law collections: ( 2) the dating of the laws and their relation to other biblical literature.^ Keeping in mind this dis-tinction between statements in the law collections ־ on which alone I base my argument ( as a source for inferring legislative philosophy) ־ and stories, proverbs or oracles touching on legal life which may be merely dramatic, or stem from times, sources or practices other than those reflected in the laws, we proceed to consider the strictures upon my Postulates. Noting that most cuneiform law collections allow the husband or the king to pardon the parties guilty of adultery, and give the king the right to pardon in capital cases, whereas no trace of a pardoning option occurs in any capital offense in biblical law. I sought the ground for the difference in the divine authorship of the law in Scripture: what God had declared a capital crime no man can mitigate. No such idea appears in the cuneiform law collections: on the contrary, it is explicitly said in some that the king is the author of the laws. I therefore connected the difference in conceptions of ״ 3 Postulates, 18, n. 25. 4M. Greenberg, Crimes and Punishments, IDS, vol. A- D, 735- 736; B. Jackson, From Dharma to Law, American Journal of Comparative Law 23 ( 1975) 490 512; R. Westbrook, Biblical and Cuneiform Law Codes, 92( 1985) 247- 264. Chapter Home | TOC | Index
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Front Matter Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents EDITOR'S FOREWORDContent MORE REFLECTIONS ON BIBLICAL CRIMINAL LAW: Moshe GreenbergMIDRASHIC AND LITERAL EXEGESISAND THE CRITICAL METHOD IN BIBLICAL RESEARCH: Menahem HaranVIIITHE TERM ????? ???? (EZEK 40:44) AND ITS PLACEIN THE CULTIC TERMINOLOGY OF THE TEMPLE: Avi HurvitzTHE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEGAL CORPORAIN THE PENTATEUCH IN LIGHT OF MANUMISSION LAWS: Sara JaphetVIIIRASHBAM'S CONCEPTION OF THE CREATIONIN LIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUAL CURRENTS OF HIS TIME: Sarah KaminON THE MEANING AND SYNTACTICAL STATUS OF . ??? IN BIBLICAL HEBREW: Simcha Kogut1. INTRODUCTION2. VARIOUS VIEWS3. ??? IN MODERN HEBREW 4. ??? IN BIBLICAL HEBREW 6. CONCLUSIONTHE HISTORY OF THE CITIES OF REFUGE IN BIBLICAL LAW: Alexander RofeA LITERARY STUDY OF THE SLAVE-GIRL PERICOPE -LEVITICUS 19:20-22: Baruch J. SchwartzMIDRASH ON SCRIPTURE AND MIDRASH WITHIN SCRIPTURE: Avigdor Shinan, Yair Zakovitch1. SOLVING CONTRADICTIONS2. JUXTAPOSITIONS (?????? ??????) 3. NAME DERIVATIONS4. AVOIDING ANONYMITYEMENDATION OF BIBLICAL TEXTSON THE BASIS OF UGARITIC PARALLELS: Shemaryahu TalmonLINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE EVALUATION OFTRANSLATION TECHNIQUE IN THE SEPTUAGINT: Zipora TalshirTHE GROWTH OF THE BOOK OF JOSHUAIN THE LIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE OF THE LXX TRANSLATION: Emanuel Tov1. ADDITIONS OF MT WHOSE SECONDARY NATURE IS EVIDENT FROM THE CONTEXT2. ADDITIONS IN MT WHOSE SECONDARINESS IS EVIDENT FROM THEIR FORMULATION3. SMALL ELUCIDATIONS4. HARMONIZING ADDITIONS5. CONTEXTUAL ADDITIONS6. EMPHASIS7. SUBSTANTIAL ADDITIONS8. THEOLOGICAL CORRECTIONS9. INFLUENCE OF DEUTERONOMYTHE DAY OF THE LORD: ASPIRATIONS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GODIN THE BIBLE AND JEWISH LITURGY: Moshe WeinfeldTHE TERM DAT OF THE LORD THE DAT OF THE LORD IN JEWISH LITURGYTHE DAY OF THE LORD AS A DAY OF WARTHE DAY OF THE LORD AS THE DAY OF DIVINE REVELATIONTHE SANCTIFICATION OF THE DIVINE NAME AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THEDIVINE KINGDOMCOMING OF THE DAY OF THE LORD - SOON AND SPEEDILYCompare the following liturgical passagesCompare also the following verses from the Gospel of LukeTHE HOPE FOR SALVATIONTHE CONTRIBUTION OF LITERARY THEORYTO BIBLICAL RESEARCH ILLUSTRATED BY THE PROBLEM OF SHE'AR -YASHUB: Meir WeissTHE PROHIBITION ON RESTORATION OF MARRIAGEIN DEUTERONOMY 24:1-4: Raymond WestbrookBack Matter LIST OF ABBREVIATIONSQumran LiteratureRabbinic LiteratureBooks and PeriodicalsINDEX OF REFERENCESBIBLETitle Page
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Fluoridation debate: Against Fluoridation Thread. Part 6.
This is Paul Connett’s response to Ken Perrott’s last article Fluoridation debate: Why I support fluoridation – 2nd reply to Connett.
For Ken Perrott’s original article see – Fluoride debate: Why I support fluoridation.
When is Ken going to present his case for fluoridation?
In his thread Ken has had three opportunities to present the Case for Fluoridation, but he seems to be content to nibble around the edges. His stating over and over again that the fluoride ion is a natural constituent of apatites doesn’t get us very far. I was expecting by now that Ken would have tackled three basic questions head on:
1) Is it Ethical?
2) Is it Effective?
3) Is it Safe?
The ethics
I was expecting the ethical case to be tackled with rigor, but Ken quickly dismissed the central question of whether fluoridation was medical treatment as simply a matter of semantics. Clearly, if fluoridation is medical treatment or even simply human treatment, it violates the individual’s right to informed consent for such treatment. So simply declaring this to be a matter of semantics dodges a very important issue – and for many opponents of fluoridation the central issue.
So let me ask Ken if he will accept this two-part definition of a medicinal product from the European Union Directive 2004/27/EC:
Medicinal product:
(a) Any substance or combination of substances presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease in human beings; or
(b) Any substance or combination of substances which may be used in or administered to human beings either with a view to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions by exerting a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action, or to making a medical diagnosis.
No RCTs after 68 years
As for the second and third questions I was expecting Ken to layout the scientific studies that had convinced him that fluoridation was both safe and effective. Ideally, one would have wanted him to give a link to a randomized controlled trial (RCT) establishing the effectiveness and assessing the safety of this practice. This after all is the gold standard for such matters. However, after 68 years of this practice this has not been attempted.
Failing an RCT one would have wanted to see Ken identify the best quality studies that have convinced him that the practice he advocates and defends actually works to a meaningful extent against a background of other sources of fluoride, and does not present any dangers – especially to those he particularly wants to help, children from low-income families.
Moreover, since this is a practice being forced on millions of people – and in thousands of cases against their expressed opposition –one has the right to anticipate that proponents would be able produce the highest quality studies that overwhelmingly demonstrate their case. With a forced measure like this, one would have anticipated little room for any doubt about whether it worked or not, and by which mechanism it worked. Moreover, should harm be demonstrated at some higher dose level, one would have anticipated that proponents would be able show that the margin of safety would be so high that the even the most vulnerable individuals in society would be protected no matter how much water they drank and no matter how much fluoride they got from other sources.
So where is this overwhelming evidence of effectiveness and safety Ken?
Ken has ducked key discussions and questions
So far Ken has provided little evidence to demonstrate any of the above reasonable expectations for such a practice. He has even ducked key discussions on the difference between concentration (mg/liter), dose (mg/day) and dosage (mg/kg/day). Comparisons based only on concentrations – and not on dose or dosage – such as used by Siegal and Sparrow in their respective diagrams, are seriously limited if not meaningless. Nor has he addressed even the need for a margin of safety analysis when harm has been found at high doses. Ken does not deny that harm (e.g. hip fractures and lowered IQ) has been found only that the concentration (ignoring the issue of dose) was too high to be of significance
This refusal to lay out his case in comprehensive scientific terms was most clearly revealed in his response to two things I asked for in my last posting:
a) Where is the body of scientific evidence that indicates that fluoride is not a neurotoxicant?
b) Provide a list of primary studies that have most convinced him that fluoridation is safe for the bottle-fed infant and lifelong exposure for the adult.
As far as a) is concerned, I offered a large body of evidence that fluoride was a neurotoxicant:
Over 40 animal studies show that prolonged exposure to fluoride can damage the brain.
19 animal studies report that mice or rats ingesting fluoride have an impaired capacity to learn and remember.
12 studies (7 human, 5 animal) link fluoride with neurobehavioral deficits
3 human studies link fluoride exposure with impaired fetal brain development
37 out of 43 published studies show that fluoride lowers IQ, of which 27 were part of a meta-analysis conducted by a team from Harvard (Choi et al.) (www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain)
Contrary to arguments by proponents the vast majority of these IQ studies were carried out at concentrations which offered little or no margin of safety to protect all children in a large population drinking uncontrolled amounts of fluoridated water and getting fluoride from several other sources, including sources unlikely to be available to many of the children in these studies (e.g. fluoridated toothpaste and bottle-feeding with formula made up with fluoridated tap water). Up to 10 of the studies in the Choi analysis had levels in the high fluoride village of 3 ppm or less.
So that was the weight of evidence on my side of the pan scale, it is only after seeing what Ken can put in the pan on his side of the scale that independent observers can make a scientific judgment on the true weight of evidence (see more below). Only then can we know if it is wise to ignore the many red flags being waved on this issue.
But Ken ignored this reasonable request preferring instead to rehash his criticisms of just Xiang’s work.
The need for a weight of evidence approach
What we need here – not only on neurological effects but for all the health concerns – is a weight of evidence approach. In this approach the quality, quantity, and relevance of all available evidence should be weighed and balanced (synthesized) to arrive at a conclusion. For the question of fluoridation, some of that evidence comes from animal experiments, some from epidemiological studies, some should come from RCTs on effectiveness (which amazingly -as indicated above – don’t exist for fluoride), some from medical case reports, some from basic biological/chemical/physical knowledge, and some from ethical considerations. This is what the National Research Council did in its 2006 report (except the NRC didn’t examine the ethical issues), and what we tried to do in our book and what I had hoped Ken would have attempted in presenting his Case For Fluoridation.
As far as b) is concerned, this was Ken’s reply:
Paul wants me “to list the primary studies that you have read which most convinced you that fluoridation is both safe for the bottle-fed baby and for the adult over lifelong exposure.” In thinking about this I have concluded it is a strange request because I don’t think creative scientists think that mechanically.
My concepts and ideas derive from multiple sources – I never put my eggs all in one basket as it were. I can find I am impressed by something in a paper which also has something which doesn’t impress me. Consequently I take what I can from wherever I can and try to critically understand what I read.
It’s a bit like that with people. You have to accept them warts and all and avoid the immaturity of placing anyone on a pedestal – a sure way to later find they have feet of clay.
So unfortunately I cannot satisfy Paul’s request. He will have to deal with the actual arguments I put forward.
I am sorry Ken, I don’t mean to be rude but I find this response a total waffle. If you have the science to support the safety of fluoridation – and can discount many of the health concerns that I and others have raised – then you should be able to present that case using primary health studies, and preferably primary health studies carried out in NZ. You should then be able to buttress that with all the other scientific information available and then apply a weight of evidence analysis as discussed above. After all it is a practice you want to see imposed on others; as such it is your case to win. If you can’t do that then your support of water fluoridation is highly suspect and amounts to little more than posturing. So I would like to tighten up this discussion and ask you some very specific questions.
A few very specific questions pertaining to health concerns
At the outset, before I lay out these questions, I have to acknowledge the fact that in some respects this is not a level playing field for opponents and proponents of fluoridation. It may appear that I am demanding too much from Ken. I admit that the matter is intrinsically unfair. For a critic of fluoridation it is only necessary to produce one ugly fact – one health concern that has not been resolved – to put the practice into question. I can produce several.
On the other hand a proponent of a measure that is being forced on millions of people should be on top of every health concern. A proponent should be able to demonstrate (or at least feel satisfied) that every health concern has been addressed in such a way (i.e. via careful study) so as to leave no residual concerns. It is tough burden but is the nature of the beast when proposing or supporting a health measure that is forced on millions of people.
The shocking fact is that many health questions were unresolved when fluoridation was launched in 1945 and endorsed by the US Public Health Service in 1950 (see chapters 9 and 10 in The Case Against Fluoride…).
There are many health concerns that have not been carefully studied
I am afraid that the sad truth is that there are many serious health concerns with respect to swallowing fluoride and lifelong exposure to fluoridated water and other sources in our daily lives that have simply not been carefully studied in fluoridated countries and thus still unresolved. The York Review (McDonagh et al., 2000) reached this conclusion in 2000, as did the chairman, John Doull, of the NRC (2006) review. In an interview in Scientific American (Jan, 2008), the NRC chairman was quoted as saying:
“What the committee found is that we’ve gone with the status quo regarding fluoride for many years—for too long really—and now we need to take a fresh look . . .In the scientific community people tend to think this is settled. I mean, when the U.S. surgeon general comes out and says this is one of the top 10 greatest achievements of the 20th century, that’s a hard hurdle to get over. But when we looked at the studies that have been done, we found that many of these questions are unsettled and we have much less information than we should, considering how long this [fluoridation] has been going on.” (Fagin, 2008).
Doubtless Ken will point out that Doull has since made a statement supporting water fluoridation, which has been circulated by proponents. However, his own personal opinion of water fluoridation does not diminish in any way his comments on the poor quality of the research on this matter. What is even more distressing is that since the NRC (2006) report was published practically none of the research recommended by the committee has been carried out.
Ken will find out for himself how poorly fluoridated countries – especially New Zealand – have investigated the health concerns pertaining to fluoridation, if he opens his parachute and seeks answers to the very specific questions I have listed below.
My specific questions for Ken pertaining to health concerns
1) Can you find studies that have convinced you that lifelong exposure to fluoridated water and other daily sources of fluoride (i.e. total daily dose of fluoride) is not increasing the risk of arthritis or arthritic-like symptoms, which have been identified as being the first symptoms of fluoride toxicity in research on skeletal fluorosis (see, e.g., Boillat 1980; Czerwinski 1988; Hileman 1988). These symptoms occur long before we reach bone levels that cause crippling skeletal fluorosis, the only end point considered by the US EPA when they determined the safe drinking water standard for fluoride in 1986 (i.e. 4 ppm).
2) Repeating two earlier requests, can you produce the studies that have convinced you that long term exposure to fluoridated water and other common sources of fluoride causes no damage to individuals with impaired kidney function?
3) Can you find studies that have convinced you that exposure to fluoridated water and other daily sources of fluoride (i.e. total daily dose of fluoride) is not increasing the risk of lowered thyroid function, including among those with suboptimal iodine intake (Galleti and Joyet, 1958; Lin 1991). This is an especially relevant question in light of the increase in iodine deficiency seen in the U.S. and other western nations over the past 30 years, as well as the large increases in the incidence of hypothyroidism. Lowered thyroid function would be one explanation for lowered IQ and would also explain the delayed eruption of the teeth for which there is some evidence.
4) Can you find any study that has refuted the key finding by Bassin et al., 2006, that there appears to be an age-specific nature to the risk of boys developing osteosarcoma when exposed to fluoride? In a matched case-control study Bassin found that boys exposed to fluoridated water in their 6th to 8th years had a 5-7 fold increased risk of succumbing to osteosarcoma by the age of 20. Note: The much-anticipated study by Bassin’s thesis advisor Chester Douglass (Kim et al, 2011) failed to address Bassin’s central thesis concerning the age-specific nature of the risk despite prior claims that it would (Joshipura and Douglass, 2006)
5) Can you find any attempt by any health agency in any fluoridated country to investigate in a scientific manner a) the many anecdotal reports, b) case studies by Waldbott, 1955; Shea et al., 1967; Grimbergen, 1974; Petraborg, 1974, 1977; and c) a clinical trial by Feltman, 1956 and Feltman and Kosel, 1961, that suggest that some individuals (may be 1% of the population) are very sensitive to low levels of fluoride exposure (e.g. 1 mg per day)? These individuals report experiencing a variety of symptoms that are reversed when the source of fluoride is removed and reappear when the fluoride is introduced. Please note: The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council recommended such scientific studies be carried out in 1991 (NHMRC, 1991), but not one has been carried out in the 22 years since this recommendation was made. See more discussion on this topic in chapter 13 of our book and in Spittle (2008).
6) Can you find any attempt by any health agency in any fluoridated country to follow up the finding by Schlesinger et al, 1956 in the Newburg-Kingston, NY fluoridation trial, that the young girls in the fluoridated community were menstruating on average 5 months earlier than the young girls in the non-fluoridated community?
7) Repeating an earlier request discussed above, can you provide a list of animal and human studies that nullify the weight of evidence I have listed above that indicate that fluoride is a neurotoxicant with an inadequate margin of safety to protect all children (including those with nutrient deficiencies) drinking uncontrolled amounts of fluoridated water in addition to fluoride ingested from other sources?
8) Can you point to any studies conducted in fluoridated countries that have convinced you that exposing babies to fluoridated water causes no other damage to their developing tissues other than the damage to their growing tooth cells leading to dental fluorosis? Or is this just wishful thinking on the part of proponents? Is it likely that the fluoride ion would confine its biochemical interference only to the growing tooth cells? What about bone cells? Brain cells? Thyroid gland cells?
9) Can you find any study carried out in NZ or any other fluoridated country that has set out to assess total exposure to fluoride by monitoring fluoride levels in bones at either biopsy during operations or at autopsy? Note: this was another suggestion made by the Australian NHMRC in 1991 but was never pursued by any Australian health agency.
10) What studies carried out in NZ have investigated any health concerns in fluoridated communities? I couldn’t find many can you? Would you agree that the absence of study is not the same as absence of harm?
The evidence of fluoridation’s effectiveness is weak
Similarly, we need to tighten up the discussion of fluoridation’s effectiveness. A scientific proponent like Ken should be able to present the primary scientific studies and weight of evidence analysis that has convinced him that drinking fluoridated water leads to a significant reduction in tooth decay. Being able to offer a theoretical mechanism of action (and I discuss some of Ken’s ideas on this below) is only part of the requirement.
In chapters 6-8 of our book we present the case that the evidence that swallowing fluoride or drinking fluoridated water reduces tooth decay by a significant amount – is very weak – especially in the permanent teeth. This is especially apparent in the larger studies like the US National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) study reported by Brunelle and Carlos in 1990 (this incidentally was the largest survey of tooth decay ever carried out in the US). The authors looked at 39,000 children in 84 communities and reported an average saving in tooth decay for 5 to 17-year-olds of just 0.6 of one permanent tooth surface (see Table 6). This meager saving of 0.6 of one tooth surface out of over 100 permanent tooth surfaces in a child’s mouth was not even shown by the authors to be statistically significant. I think for most people such a benefit – even if it was real – would be of an insufficient magnitude to justify forcing the practice on people or taking the many health risks involved, especially the possibility that we may be lowering the IQ of some of our children.
So where are the comparable studies that Ken has read that offset the Brunelle and Carlos study and the other studies and reviews that we cite in chapters 6-8 (Ziegelbecker, 1981, 1993; Leverett, 1982; Colquhoun, 1984, 1986,1987, 1990, 1992, 1995 and 1997; Diesendorf, 1986; Colquhoun and Mann, 1986; Gray, 1987; Yiamouyiannis, 1990; Steelink, 1992; Teotia and Teotia, 1994; Spencer et al., 1996; de Liefde, 1998; Kumar et al., 1998; Colquhoun and Wilson, 1999; Locker, 1999; McDonagh et al, 2000; Kumar et al., 2005; Komárek et al, 2005; Cheng et al., 2007; Pizzo et al., 2007; Osmunson, 2007 and Warren et al., 2009).
To these studies we must add in a weight of evidence approach two other facts: 1) several modern studies have not found tooth decay to increase when fluoridation has been stopped in various communities in Finland, former East Germany, Cuba and British Columbia, Canada and 2) the many press reports from major cities in the US of a dental crisis in low-income areas even though they have been fluoridated for over 20 years (for citations see Chapter 8 in The Case Against Fluoride…).
Again what we are looking for here is a presentation of the evidence by Ken that would persuade an independent observer that the weight of evidence for effectiveness is very strong and outweighs the evidence of little benefit presented in the studies cited above.
Ken’s topical mechanism via saliva and plaque
As with other proponents of fluoridation, Ken asserts that fluoridated water works topically, by increasing the level of fluoride in saliva and plaque. There is scarce data, however, to support this claim. Ken cites four papers (only one of which is a primary study), but as I discuss below, these papers do little to answer the key questions: namely: (1) are the saliva and plaque F levels produced by fluoridation high enough and of sufficient duration to prevent caries, and, if so, (2) are the differences in saliva and plaque F levels between children in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities of sufficient magnitude to produce a meaningful difference in caries?
There is scarce data in the four papers Ken cites (Cury & Tenuta 2008, Martínez-Mier 2012; Featherstone 1999, Bruun & Thylstrup 1984). Of the papers, only Bruun & Thylstrup 1984 is an actual study, and it deals with a high-fluoride community (2.31 ppm), and thus, were it a study on adverse health effects, I suspect Ken might claim it irrelevant to fluoridation. But, assuming it is relevant, it’s worth noting that – although the authors found a lower caries rate in the high-F community (vs a community with 0.36 ppm) — the authors note that their “analyses relating the individual fluoride concentrations in whole saliva to the clinical caries scores within each of the two areas indicated that no causal relationships seem to exist between these two parameters.” So, while the authors conclude that “frequently increased availability of fluoride in the oral fluids due to [waterborne fluoride] has an important relationship to the reduced caries experience observed in the high F area,” their conclusion can be questioned, particularly as it relates to the 0.7 ppm water F level used in fluoridated communities.
So, what is the evidence that the saliva and plaque levels produced by fluoridated water exerts a significant topical benefit? According to the reviews that Ken cites (and the notably few studies that these reviews reference), the average saliva F level among children in a community with 1.2 ppm fluoride is 16.5 ppb with daily fluctuations that range as high as 144 ppb (Oliveby 1990, cited by Cury). To put these saliva levels in context, Featherstone states that 30 ppb is the lowest level at which fluoride has been observed to have an effect on tooth mineralization, with >80 ppb being the “optimum” (Featherstone 1999). Featherstone supports this statement by citing a single study – Brown (1977). Assuming that Brown’s study can be replicated, it is evident that the average saliva F level in a 1.2 ppm community — let alone a 0.7 ppm community — is not sufficient to affect tooth mineralization. Any topical effect of fluoridated water, therefore, must either come from the transient spikes in saliva F or the residual F in plaque. Judging by the papers Ken cites, the evidence supporting either of these scenarios is meager at best.
I’ll start first with the transient spikes in saliva F. While spikes in saliva F in fluoridated areas can exceed the levels (30 to 80 ppb) that Featherstone claims can affect teeth, this does not tell us a great deal. To be relevant, it must be shown that the transient spikes are not only high enough, but long enough, to have an effect. Neither Featherstone, nor any of the other papers cited by Ken provides data to answer this question. Further, even if the transient spikes are of sufficient duration to have an effect, it must be asked whether this effect is of any practical import in the current era when the vast majority of children in non-fluoridated areas brush their teeth with fluoride toothpaste? The importance of this latter question is obvious in light of Featherstone’s observation that “fluoride can be retained at concentrations in the saliva between 0.03 and 0.1 ppm for 2-6 hours” after the use of fluoridated dental products.
I’ll now turn to the question of plaque fluoride. Only one of the papers cited by Ken appears to provide any data on the difference in plaque F levels between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities (Cury & Tenuta 2008). The plaque F data that Cury & Tenuta cite is not only unpublished, but is at rather stark odds with previously published data (See Whitford 2005). Cury & Tenuta claim “an almost 20-fold difference” in plaque F levels (3.2 ppm vs. 0.2 ppm). Whitford, however, found far higher F levels in the plaque (~50 to 450 ppm) and a far smaller difference (2-to-5 fold) between the fluoridated and non-fluoridated community. But Whitford’s study was itself quite peculiar as the unfluoridated community was in Brazil, but the fluoridated community was in the U.S. If children in the U.S. community had greater exposure to fluoride from other sources (which is not only possible, but likely), then the difference in plaque F levels is even smaller than Whitford’s study suggests.
In any event, whatever the difference in plaque F levels is, we should have ample data showing that this differential is sufficiently large to produce a significant and practical effect. I am unaware of any such study, so I will be quite curious to see how many Ken can cite. This shouldn’t, of course, be a difficult task: if plaque F is considered the main vehicle by which fluoridated water exerts a topical benefit, there should be no shortage of primary studies that Ken can cite demonstrating that the plaque F seen in fluoridated areas [x plaque F level] is far superior to the plaque F level seen in non-fluoridated areas [y plaque F level]. I look forward, therefore, to seeing the studies that Ken cites — particularly when considering that Buzalaf found that toothpastes containing 500 ppm fluoride are not effective at controlling caries (Buzalaf 2013). By way of reference 500 ppm is more than twice the background plaque F levels seen in fluoridated areas according to Whitford, 2005.
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53 responses to “Fluoridation debate: Against Fluoridation Thread. Part 6.”
Paul’s personal opinion that fluoride is a “drug” has been duly noted, and is getting tiresome. Courts have repeatedly ruled contrary to this opinion and he needs to get past it. It’s going nowhere, no matter how many times he attempts it.
Steve what type of additive is NaF???? (adding to water makes it an additive ie its not there naturally in the form added)
If it’s not a drug (though I’m not sure what the court said as the link provided previously (BY OTHERS) didnot work and the claim, was pages long, & I would have thrown the claim out for lack of clarity, but I’m not a Judge/Lawyer, remember lawyers only get it right 50% of the time, I do think Judges get it right a little more often)
it’s not a toxin
So please explain what you would call such a substance.
My definitions have been distorted after reading the pro & con I would like you to define what sort of additive it is
Courts have repeatedly ruled contrary
There has only been one link to a court which ruled against F (no workable link for the decision) Can you give links of such decisions and what the original claim was so can see exactly what the court decided & why
Zammbi | December 2, 2013 at 1:27 pm |
Personally I call it a beneficial trace element. I wouldn’t call my milk with extra added calcium a drug. I’m not going to call my water with extra added fluoride a drug.
Steve Slott | December 2, 2013 at 1:30 pm |
I’m not the one who brought up NaF. You’ll need to get whatever they meant, from whomever brought it up in the first place. I simply stated that fluoride ions released by it are identical to those from CaF and HFA. HFA, however, is nothing more than a substance that delivers fluoride ions to water for the purpose of raising the existing level of fluoride up to the optimal level. Fluoride ions and trace contaminants in concentrations too miniscule to have any effect, are the only products of the hydrolysis of HFA. HFA no longer exists once hydrolyzed.
When Connett and other antifluoridationists persist in attempts to term fluoride at 0.7 ppm a “drug” they are actually claiming that a miniscule amount of fluoride ions identical to those fluoride ions which already exist in water, is a drug. That is ridiculous.
Here is one such ruling:
http://fluidlaw.org/caselaw/city-watsonville-v-state-department-health-services
Chemistry F ions are identical once released are identical but not before… availability of F from Na monovalent cation is much higher than that from Ca a divalent cation. If its not why not add “natural Flouride”
Thats not the point the point is that in the form added Sodium HFA what do call it?, how you call the additive alters who is responsible
Please provide links to your court cases affidavits from claimants and Judges ruling so we can see exactly what the courts said and what was claimed
thanks Steve
A decision based on relevant legislation state versus city at law ..if one wanted such a change the original legislation would need to be attacked which would very difficult until the ultimate studies are done where harm with be proved or disproved ie where additive is tested appropriately in a completely controlled environment we all know the cost in this
It was interesting that the California Dental Association Foundation was funding the fluoridation process
Once you read all the quotes from our friend J Colquhoun all credibility goes out the window
I have no idea as to what Na HFA may be. If you mean hydrofluorosilic acid (HFA), again, that is nothing more than a vehicle to deliver additional fluoride ions to water systems with a fluoride content less than 0.7 ppm. Once hydrolyzed, HFA no longer exists in that water.
I also have no idea as to what problem you have in understanding definitions, but fluoride is nothing more than the anion of the element fluorine. It exists “naturally” in water as released by CaF.
“Courts through the United States have uniformly held that fluoridation of water is a reasonable and proper exercise of the police power in the interest of public health. (43 Ops.Cal.Atty.Gen. 243; deAryan v. Butler, 119 Cal.App.2d 674 [260 P.2d 98]; Kraus v. Cleveland, 76 Ohio L.Abs. 214 [55 Ohio Ops. 36, 121 N.E.2d 311]; Kaul v. Chehalis, 45 Wn.2d 616 [277 P.2d 353]; Froncek v. City of Milwaukee, supra; Dowell v. Tulsa (Okla.) 273 P.2d 859 [43 A.L.R.2d 445].) The matter is no longer an open question.”
BECK v. CITY COUNCIL OF BEVERLY HILLS
DOCKET NO. 40140.
http://www.leagle.com/decision/197314230CalApp3d112_1131
I have re-posted this comment (altered slightly for clarity) on this thread as it is more relevant to Connet’s reply to Ken Perrott’s last article Fluoridation debate: Why I support fluoridation – 2nd reply to Connett.
Hi Bill, and (ANY other anti- fluoridationist)
I would appreciate your take on this and ANY other anti- fluoridationist
“Can you find any study that has refuted the key finding by Bassin et al., 2006, that there appears to be an age-specific nature to the risk of boys developing osteosarcoma when exposed to fluoride?…”
I found this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22189446/ which provides a link to the full study which is protected by a pay wall. (I do have a copy myself though)
Kurt Ferre DDS, Portland, OR USA | December 3, 2013 at 11:18 am |
Paul Connett really gave a “Gish gallop” performance on this post. A look at his references at the end are very telling:
His reference for an article by jj Shea , “allergy to fluoride in the Annals of Allergy 1967 doesn’t exist on PubMed. He, once again, gave 3 glowing references to his book (sales must be lagging), 9 references to the rag journal, Fluoride, which, also, you won’t find indexed on PubMed. One of articles was by the late John Yiamouyiannis, a well-known anti-fluoronista who wrote a book that HIV did not cause aids. He also refused conventional treatment for colon cancer and ran off to Mexico to treat his cancer with laetrile and vitamin C, Guess what? He died at age 58. There were also 10 references to the late John Colquhoun, who our Kiwi audience here knows is a joke, and one reference to Bill Osmunson from my home state of Oregon in the U.S. who has had articles of his “home made” graphs in his attempts to prove that fluoridation: 1)doesn’t reduce cavities; and 2) causes mental retardation. Bill can get his bogus graphs written up in Fluoride, but so far, my suggestion to him that he get his rubbish published in a legitimate scientific journal that is indexed on PubMed has fallen on either deaf ears or he knows that it truly is rubbish.
Maybe when Paul writes another bible, uh book, on fluoride, he can include Bill’s graphs.
Paul also cherry-picked the Brunelle and Carlos study:
When Brunelle and Carlos’ study came out in 1990, they used the more sensitive DMFTS, NOT DMFT like Dr. Yiamiouyiannis, who manipulated the data, to confuse the general public.
The FAN interpretation also ignores the most important part of the study, that being the Halo Effect of fluoridation. In the Pacific Region VII, where at the time, only 20% of the public water systems were fluoridated, the DMFTS was 61%, a significant statistical difference.
Lastly, Paul’s apparent ignorance of the eruption patterns ignores that Brunelle and Carlos were only measuring tooth surfaces in adult/permanent teeth, beginning at age 5. Guess what? There are virtually no permanent tooth surfaces to measure at age 5. When teeth erupt, beginning primarily at age 6, they don’t typically decay overnight, but it takes 2,3, maybe 4 years to see cavities. Even at age 9, there will likely be between 52 and 60 permanent tooth surfaces, not over 100 surfaces as Paul states.
You should read the Letter that Howard Pollick wrote to. Paul Connett, on the Brunelle and Carlos study and take a good look at figure 1 which shows that the number of saved surfaces in a fluoridated community increases from age 5 to 17:
INT J Occup Environ Health
Vol. 11/No. 2, Apr/Jun 2005, pgs 322-325
Ken | December 3, 2013 at 11:47 am |
Kurt, great minds and all that. I was making notes for my reply to Paul Connett and had written down Gish Gallop!
Although I guess the tactic is an obvious one.
Blossom | December 3, 2013 at 1:14 pm |
Kurt Ferre, The overall 18% difference in decayed, missing and filled teeth (in 5 to 17 year old) reported by Brunelle & Carlos amounted to an overall average difference of 0.6 of one tooth surface in the average mouth. A full set of permanent teeth has 128 tooth surfaces. Why are you too eager to inflict a medical treatment on others without their informed consent?
Hi Blossom,
Good to see you back –
Just wondering if you could answer my question I asked nearly a month ago?
Just commenting on your “evidence” that you furnish in support of your claim that skeletal fluorosis can occur at levels between 0.7 and 1.7 ppm of fluoride.
You provided this link:
http://www.nofluoride.com/guardian_india.cfm
Not a scientific study, a journal article, or even an op-ed written by a scientist…
Are you serious? A 15yr old newspaper article written by a journalist!!
A journalist who has written articles questioning climate change no less!!”
So, again were you serious?
And how low does the bar need to be before YOU accept information as “fact”
The logical corollary of all this is…Why can’t mainstream scientist’s vault over this so incredibly low bar with the ease of a horny gazelle?
Am I missing something here blossom 18% of 128 is not .6 I know it sounds more impressive to quote tooth surface but how do you know how many teeth the subjects had to start with. It sounds a bit alice in wonderland to me
I hope I am not opening up a can of worms but…
Here’s an open question to FANNZ (I’m pretty sure they’re watching) or perhaps Ken,
Ken’s blog has been running for some time now. I have learnt a great deal from Ken and the many contributors. For that, I thank Ken wholeheartedly.
We get Paul Connet’s views, but there is no second tier to tidy up/clarify his or the FAN/FANNZ position.
I assume FANNZ is a paid up card carrying fan boy of FAN?
There have been many individuals voicing their concerns about fluoride but I would be interested as to why there been no representative from FANNZ giving their “official” perspective or availing himself/herself for comment?
Christopher, we have had a few comments (I think 2) from Mary Byrne who is the national coordinator (or something) of FANNZ. But I am not aware of any others.
I have been trying to encourage them to come here on their Facebook pages but all I get from them is cheek. So I have wondered.
Is there a national (or international) directive for them to hold back (some of them can be pretty offensive)?
Are they intimidated by the presence of their idol, not wanting to disgrace themselves in his presence?
Are the intimidated by the high level of discussion (it is much higher than what they are used to, I am sure)?
Have they been told to leave things to the big guns – most of fluoride Alert’s head office seems to be participating?
I can only assume that you get your filtered information from either FAN or FANNZ websites.
I suggest that you go to the American Dental Association or the New Zealand Dental Association and search for “Halo Effect”.
Second, at the age of 9 or 10 years of age, a child does NOT have a full complement of teeth. Thus, the 128 surfaces that you reference are not present. There are still many deciduous or baby teeth in the mouth, and the tooth surfaces on these teeth do NOT count. It is only the surfaces of permanent teeth that are counted. I stand by my 52 to 60 tooth surfaces in permanent teeth at age 9.
BTW: Did your parents name you Blossom?
A Gish Gallop. What were the odds of that happening?
(snigger)
Mary | December 3, 2013 at 9:14 pm |
I have replied to Ken on facebook that there is no directive, nor can I imagine anyone feels intimidated by anyone here. For myself I haven’t commented much because I don’t have enough time and I can’t really see much point. I think that is probably the same for others.
The argument just goes on and on and we don’t understand why you people are so intent on forcing this on others. Regardless or whether it is actually a drug or whether it is safe or effective we believe the water supply is a shared commodity and everyone, poor or not, educated or not, has a right to chose what substances they take. I find the proclamation that this is being done for poor children whose parents do not make them brush their teeth, to be offensive. However, obviously you guys don’t see it that way – but this is so fundamental that I can’t see how we can ever agree. It wouldn’t matter if you had me believe that fluoride was some kind of amazing substance that had a huge amount of health benefits and no harm I would still be opposed if there were other people did not want it.
I will make one comment about the osteosarcoma study cited above. What Paul asked for was a study that showed age-related exposure. That 2011 study doesn’t show that., The only one that does is Bassin. That is the missing link in the fluoirde-osteosarcoma puzzle.
However, obviously you guys don’t see it that way – but this is so fundamental that I can’t see how we can ever agree.
Speaking for myself, I respect the your argument over choice. That is a political and social policy debate.
However I suspect most regular readers here, certainly myself, take far greater interest in the dishonest presentation of science and logically fallacious, even absurd, arguments often presented by the anti fluoridation lobbyists. Remove that and perhaps we have room to talk.
As to your being offended, well, shrug. There is altogether too much offence going around these days. Giving in to offence opens the door to the curtailment of free speech.
Regardless or whether it is actually a drug or whether it is safe or effective we believe the water supply is a shared commodity and everyone, poor or not, educated or not, has a right to chose what substances they take.
(groan)
Chlorine. Hello?
I find the proclamation that this is being done for poor children whose parents do not make them brush their teeth, to be offensive.
Why would you be offended at helping poor children? It’s a public health measure. Fluoridating water helps the community (you, me, everybody). It’s incredibly cost-effective. Less cavities are good for everyone, not just for those that don’t have to go to the dentist as often.
The scientific community is not lying to you.
There is no spooky-wooky global conspiracy.
There’s a reason why when you go shopping for support for your ideas, you are restricted to no-name blogs.
The rest of us can just go straight to the top. We don’t need the blogs or the vanity-press books of the conspiracy peddlers.
It wouldn’t matter if you had me believe that fluoride was some kind of amazing substance that had a huge amount of health benefits and no harm I would still be opposed if there were other people did not want it.
Smallpox. Not just a pretty work.
Let’s test this mentality of yours, shall we?
“It wouldn’t matter if you had me believe that the smallpox vaccine was some kind of amazing substance that had a huge amount of health benefits and no harm I would still be opposed if there were other people did not want it.”
Yep. That would do it.
I think I’ll move to NZ. You guys definitely know how to fight this war….and keep us boring US types entertained in the process.
Kurt Ferre DDS, Portland, OR USA | December 4, 2013 at 4:25 am |
Mary states, “I find the proclamation that this is being done for poor children whose parents do not make them brush their teeth, to be offensive.”
As a dentist for nearly 38 years, I would like to share a different perspective to Mary’s above quote. I can be judgmental as the next person, and I see every day in my daily tasks adults who have made “bad choices”.
My very first day doing volunteer work several years ago, a 9 year old boy presented to me with a painful, swollen, abscessed upper 6-year permanent molar tooth. He didn’t have dental insurance as children in New Zealand have. My first question to him was, “How long has this tooth been hurting you?”. His response, “I can’t remember”. This tooth was non-restorable, and I had to pull it. This young boy was extremely brave and stoic.
On my drive home that afternoon, I reflected that this wasn’t: 1) the typical patient that I saw in my practice; 2) this young boy didn’t choose who his parents are; and 3) my own two daughters, whose mother in a pediatrician and father a dentist, would NEVER, EVER have to experience this kind of dental pain.
This began my transformation in understanding that public health is about treating a population, not an individual. Ken has mentioned in his earlier blog about “freedom of choice”. I agree that it is important. But I’ll end it with a quote that has given me a perspective that differs from yours:
“We should ask not are we entitled to impose fluoridation on unwilling people, but are the unwilling people entitled to impose the risks, damage & costs of the failure to fluoridate on the community at large? When we compare the freedoms at stake, the most crucial is surely the one which involves liberation from pain and disease.”
Dr. John Harris, Dept. of Social Ethics and Policy
University of Manchester, UK
Steve. the big difference here is we probably have less people in the whole country than you do in one suburb.In saying that we are more aware of what is going on in our “suburb”, and anything out of the ordinary gets noticed. The recent debacle in Hamilton, and the one going sideshow in South Tananaki is in the press, so people ask questions and talk about it. We have not got a big population base with heaps going on and your state level stuff would be equal to our total news, things dont get buried in the flood of press statements
Chris, you guys are very well informed and well on top of this, along with being very entertaining! Keep up the awesome work!
Myles26 | December 6, 2013 at 6:58 am |
Yes Chris, you are missing something. Here’s a link to Brunelle and Carlos Paper and a primer on absolute and relative difference to help assist you with understanding the results of the paper.
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEcQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.umich.edu%2F~chemstu%2Fassignments%2FScholarship%2FJournal%2520of%2520Dental%2520Research.doc&ei=H8qgUtGaA87_qAHY0IDoAg&usg=AFQjCNG74eGN6CjWtyGFGfK6A2_FLyUsWw&bvm=bv.57155469,d.aWM
http://www.acponline.org/clinical_information/journals_publications/ecp/janfeb00/primer.htm
When you scroll down to table 6 on page 5 in Brunelle and Carlos paper and calculate for all ages the absolute difference between lifelong water fluoridation exposure and no water fluoridation exposure (3.39 – 2.79), you get .6 (mean DMFS). This .6 is out of 128 DMFS and can further be calculated to represent a percent. In its percent form it’s .5 percent that is half a percent! This is how most people understand and look at differences. John has 10 apples and Alex has 5 apples, what’s the difference? Ten minus five equals five apples. It’s that simple. Now Brunelle and Carlos calculated the data using a different method called relative difference. They took the first number, subtracted the second number, then divided the answer by the second number and rounded to the nearest hundredth to get a dramatically more impressive number. (2.79 – 3.39) / (3.39) = -.1769 or when rounded, dropping the negative sign and reflected as a percent, they came up with 18 percent. Therein lays the deception. It’s funny how Brunelle and Carlos make no mention in their table of using relative difference to calculate the data. Relative difference has been misused to misrepresent and exaggerate the numbers. Regarding their claim of a further reduction of 25% when removing participants who were exposed to fluoride by other means than water fluoridation; what about the halo effect? Beverage and food are made with fluoridated water. Where do you find children that have never been exposed to fluorides other than from water fluoridation? None of these kids brushed their teeth ever, with fluoridated toothpaste? “In an attempt to assess more clearly the effect of water fluoridation, children with a reported history of exposure to supplemental or topical fluorides were removed from the analysis.” Operative words here are “in an attempt.” Their own language here tells me that they could not conclusively rule out children who were fluoridated by other means. What are the numbers they use to support their conclusion of a 25% reduction? Where is the table for this data? I don’t doubt that they probably used the same method of relative difference to calculate this number as well. Dr. Yiamouyiannis paper is definitely worth a look as he comes up with completely different conclusions and points out serious errors made by Brunelle and Carlos. Health policies like the mouth rinse programs in the United States were supported by this grossly exaggerated and misleading white paper which has to make you wonder what other policies either here in Canada or elsewhere have been influenced as well.
Myles26 Thanks for that.
It makes sense if you want to enhance the data. I looked at the B+C paper before and though ok I cant see how this works, but did no know of the “relative diffrence” model. I would have thought Connetts crew would have jumped on this like flys on a turd, to make their numbers look better
Sorry Blossom you were right
Dr. Yiamouyiannis paper is definitely worth a look as he comes up with completely different conclusions and points out serious errors made by Brunelle and Carlos.
Is this the same Dr Yiamouyiannis?
“John Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D. (1945-2000) was the most prominent opponent of water fluoridation in the United States until his death in 2000. He is the author of the book Fluoride, the Aging Factor, the pamphlet A Lifesaver’s Guide to Fluoridation, as well as the co-author (with Peter Duesberg) of AIDS: The Good News Is HIV Doesn’t Cause It.
He was best known for being the “go-to” person for those trying to stop fluoridation in their communities. Originally he had been the biochemical editor at Chemical Abstracts Service, where he became convinced fluoridation was dangerous. He was the “science director” of the National Health Federation (an anti-fluoride, pro-quackery advocacy group) from 1974 to 1980, who hired him to “break the back of promoters’ efforts to fluoridate more American cities.” His pamphlet “A Lifesaver’s Guide to Fluoridation” was usually distributed by opponents anywhere where fluoride was being considered, and Yiamouyiannis was often called to testify before local city councils and county boards in opposition. In 1980 he left the National Health Federation to start his own anti-fluoridation advocacy group, the National Health Action Committee. His claims – fluoride causes cancer, speeds up the aging process, causes bone deterioration, etc. have been disproven (at least in the low levels in municipal water supplies) by many scientific studies yet he persisted in them. In the early 1990s he found another angle to use, an environmentalist one: fluoridation was a plot by industries such as ALCOA to dispose of their toxic waste by putting it in our drinking water.
He also ran for President in 1992 as an independent but was only on the ballot in a few states. He died of colorectal cancer in 2000, which he chose to have treated in several Mexican clinics with laetrile and vitamins instead of seeking conventional treatment. Colorectal cancer has a 95% chance of survival beyond 5 years if caught early and properly treated using scientifically proven methods.
Since his death the anti-fluoridation movement has passed on to others and his work and name have become much less prominent – to the point that Wikipedia does not (yet) even have an article about him.”
Yes, that would be the emminent Dr. Y…..
Myles26 | December 6, 2013 at 2:07 pm |
Cedric, play the ball not the man. Dr Yiamouyiannis gained access to Brunelle and Carlos hard data through a Freedom of Information Act request and Yiamouyiannis’ critique of the paper can be found here for anybody who is actually interested in getting underneath the hood: http://www.slweb.org/nidr-dmfts
In this case the man has been serially wrong over scientific issues.
So sorry Myles, his baggage comes attached.
Does the fact that Yiamouyiannis was a certifiable crank that denied the science of HIV and AIDS slow you down a little in using him as a source of information?
How much scraping of barrels are you prepared to do to find somebody (anybody!) to help prop up your preconceptions?
Minimum standards: Not just a pretty phrase.
I don’t care about him as a person. Wouldn’t bother me at all if he was all sorts of nasty things. He could have been a Nazi, a kitten molester and one of those people that clip their toe nails in expensive restaurants for all I care.
However, his grasp of scientific reality was abysmal.
It killed him in the end.
He aided and abetted a monster like Duesburg who helped kill thousands of Africans who would otherwise have received help and real medical support from their government.
Yet this is your standard. How did you sink so low?
There’s a reason why I always compare and contrast one science denier group with another. It’s the same path. You don’t have to do anything different. The same methodology that will allow you to deny the scientific consensus on flouride will allow you to deny the link between HIV and AIDS.
Science denialism is dangerous.
Consequences of AIDS denialism
In 2000, Duesberg was the most prominent AIDS denialist to sit on a 44-member Presidential Advisory Panel on HIV and AIDS convened by then-President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. The panel was scheduled to meet concurrently with the 2000 International AIDS Conference in Durban and to convey the impression that Mbeki’s doubts about HIV/AIDS science were valid and actively discussed in the scientific community. The views of the denialists on the panel, aired during the AIDS conference, received renewed attention. Mbeki later suffered substantial political fallout for his support for AIDS denialism and for opposing the treatment of pregnant HIV-positive South African women with antiretroviral medication. Mbeki partly attenuated his ties with denialists in 2002, asking them to stop associating their names with his. In response to the inclusion of AIDS denialists on Mbeki’s panel, the Durban Declaration was drafted and signed by over 5,000 scientists and physicians, describing the evidence that HIV causes AIDS as “clear-cut, exhaustive and unambiguous.”
Two independent studies have concluded that the public health policies of Thabo Mbeki’s government, shaped in part by Duesberg’s writings and advice, were responsible for over 330,000 excess AIDS deaths and many preventable infections, including those of infants.
A 2008 Discover Magazine feature on Duesberg addresses Duesberg’s role in anti-HIV drug-preventable deaths in South Africa. Jeanne Linzer interviews prominent HIV/AIDS expert Max Essex, who suggests that,
…history will judge Duesberg as either “a nut who is just a tease to the scientific community” or an “enabler to mass murder” for the deaths of many AIDS patients in Africa.
Cedric, you never cease to amaze. This is probably the most to-the-point expose of Yiamouyiannis and his absurdities, that I have come across yet.
Cedric, you never cease to amaze.
I go with that too. I stumbled into Ken’s blog three years ago in pursuit of a AGW denier, read one of Cedric’s demolitions and thought that this is the place for me.
When witnessing the unsuspecting visitor engage with the maestro I’m always reminded of a couple of passages from TH White’s The Once and Future King, in it Lancelot demonstrates why he enjoys the reputation he has. It’s almost comic knowing what is coming. I might even post a passage some time if Ken doesn’t mind the diversion.
jj | December 6, 2013 at 9:33 pm |
I find it interesting that Dr John Colloqhoun is written off as an anti-fluoridationist, with no credibility etc. I assume you have the same opinion of Hardy Limeback, Andrew Harms etc. Fact of the matter is these people were totally for fluoride, in fact they promoted it. In each country that fluoridates its water one of the main promotors at some stage in their life turns around and speaks ill of it. They only became anti-fluoridation after they had been subject to political “treatment’ . These folk were not antifluoridationists waiting for their break as you might fantasise about, what about the massive numbers of american scientists who signed the epa Union petition, they were not originally anti-f. They only chose to take a side in the matter after politics played a greater role than science. why have so many scientists who had something to do with a fluoridation study, become nutters.? Should you not be more curious as to why this occurred ? Or are you just so married to an irresolvable argument that you discredit people, even after their death.
ff – do you object to certain people (your own heroes perhaps) being criticised r their claims critiqued?
Surely that is what discussion is about?
Why don’t you participate – instead of trying to close down discussion why not engage with those who are critical. Defend the ideas if your heroes by discussing them.
Fact of the matter is these people were totally for fluoride, in fact they promoted it.
So? What has that to do with anything?
Take Kaysing, for example.
Fact of the matter is, Kaysing was totally for the Moon Landings, in fact he worked for NASA. etc. etc.
They only became anti-fluoridation after they had been subject to political “treatment’.
So how does the conspiracy work?
Is it anything like the vaccine conspiracy?
Or the evolution conspiracy?
Or the climate change conspiracy?
Political “treatment”.
Hmm. I wonder what that could possibly mean? It’s a pity you only give tantalizing hints.
why have so many scientists who had something to do with a fluoridation study, become nutters.? Should you not be more curious as to why this occurred ?
Does that work for Wakefield too? How about Deusberg? Shall we apply that to Behe as well? You don’t have to restrict this kind of thinking to just fluoride, you know. Oh no. There’s lots and lots of topics out there where the scientific trooth is being bravely championed by maveriks blah, blah, blah, who have decided to challenge the scientific dogma blah, blah, blah.
Or are you just so married to an irresolvable argument that you discredit people, even after their death.
How curious.
Somebody joins forces with the likes of Deusberg and this doesn’t discredit them?
That same person dies a premature death because they embraced medical quackery but..that doesn’t discredit them.
What would someone have to do in order to discredit themselves?
what about the massive numbers of american scientists who signed the epa Union petition…
How many of them were named Steve?
Project Steve – May 8, 2012
Or are you just so married to an irresolvable argument that you discredit people, even after their death
I don’t understand. Nothing they did after they died discredits them, it’s what they did while they were still breathing.
Wait. I’ve got it!
JJ means that once a person dies, their scientific opinion becomes more valid and worthy of respect…because they’re dead…and it wouldn’t be nice to poke holes in a dead person’s “science”. They become sort of holy or something. Take Einstien, for example. He’s dead and and so nobody would dare criticise the Theory of Relativity.
(….awkward silence…)
I don’t think JJ has a firm grip on this science thingy and how it works.
It’s almost as if they’re mixing it up with religion or something.
Cedric is definitely my daily entertainment, but all you guys are knowledgeable, well informed, and well on top of this issue. In The U.S., antifluoridationists seek to get the question out to a public vote because they know they can easily sway them with an onslaught of fear-mongering misinformation, ala Portland. NZ seems to be the opposite. It’s much smaller, but even so, your general public seems far more informed, probably because of guys like Ken, you, Cedric, Stuart, Chris, and others who understand the issue, know how to effectively communicate, and can quickly cut through the BS right down to the the core..
You are assuming that all of those who say they were originally for fluoridation were actually for it. This is doubtful. Some may have changed their thinking, but, in all likelihood, the vast majority who claim to have been for fluoridation at one time before switching, are either deluding themselves into believing this, were completely neutral, never having given it much thought, or are simply being dishonest with this claim. The vast majority of fluoridation opponents do not object to it on the basis of science. They object on the basis of personal ideology against what they view as “government intervention” and/or a violation of their “personal rights”. They cloak this in pseudoscience because they understand that their personal ideologies will not carry the day without some semblance of science to supposedly support their position. This is clearly evidenced by the fact that no matter how much valid science is presented to them, as long as it disagrees with their personal ideology, which it always does, they will reject it. It is also evidenced by the fact that with all the horrifying “disorders” they claim caused by fluoridated water, they still drink it. No one in their right mind who actually believed those claims would get within a mile of such water, much less drink it on a regular basis. Personal ideologies do not change overnight., thus it is highly likely that the majority of those who claim to have once supported fluoridation, in actuality did not.
As far as the “massive” numbers of American scientists who “signed a petition”, you are assuming that most, or all, of the EPA scientists were members of the union led by staunch antifluoridationist William Hirzy, and that they were all on board with his petition. In actuality, this union was a very small one representing only a couple thousand workers in an agency composed of tens of thousands. It only took a small handful of these members, probably an Executive Committee, to commit the entire union into supporting Hirzy’s antifluoridationist activities. Shortly after this action was accomplished, this union went defunct and was absorbed by a much larger one which, to my knowledge, has not expressed an official opinion on fluoridation. As a point of information, William Hirzy is now the paid lobbyist for Connett’s antifluoridationist group, FAN.
Myles26 | December 7, 2013 at 10:07 am |
Cedric, you never addressed the main point of my post being that Brunelle and Carlos’ paper is misleading and erroneous and supported dental policy in the states and most likely elsewhere. When the hard data from the 1986-1987 National Survey of US School Children (39,000 participants) was scrutinized it was shown/proven that water fluoridation’s benefits are statistically insignificant. Now this data that was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and is available for anybody to scrutinize and see for themselves how water fluoridations benefits are grossly exagerated. If you want to try and distract from the issue by discrediting Dr Yiamouyiannis in the hopes of descrediting what I’m posting, it’s not going to work. I will bring everybodys attention back to the data that is freely available thanks to Dr. Yiamouyiannis. You don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, Cedric. I could care less what Yiamouyiannis thought about HIV, abortion, religion, gay rights or who he associated. Just a cheap misdirection attempt by you. The fact that Brunelle and Carlos used relative difference to inflate the percentage of difference of dmfs between fluoridated and non-fluoridated participants screams red flag!!! Brunelle and Carlos deception and the hard data from the survey are what we should be concerned with. Nice try, Cedric.
Myles26
Brunelle and Carlos can be quoted as averages to minimize the effect because the 0.6 surface is the effect averaged over both age and geography. 5 year olds have only 1 or two permanent teeth and there is essentially no difference between cavity rates at that early age yet they are counted in calculating the “average”.
By age 17 the difference between fluoridated and non-fluoridated is about 1.6 surfaces and the benefit curve is sharply accelerating with a benefit just under 3 times higher than the 0.6 so commonly quoted.
That data graphed may be viewed at:
http://photos.oregonlive.com/photogallery/2013/05/fluoridation_prevents_more_cav.html
The original graph was published in:
Int J Occup Environ Health. 2005 Jul-Sep;11(3):322-6. Scientific evidence continues to support fluoridation of public water supplies. Pollick HF.
Also, in areas where fluoridation is common the Halo effect minimizes the differences between the two types of water systems. Thus the average results actually hide both the Halo Effect and the remarkable differences between communities where fluoridation is uncommon. In the Pacific Region then fluoridated at 19% about the same as Oregon today the difference was a whopping 61%.
Just a cheap misdirection attempt by you.
Sheesh, you just don’t get it do you?
Going to the class dunce for your information.
It’s not just his appalling track record.
Ever asked yourself why the paper that age hasn’t shifted the scientific community’s consensus on fluoridation?
(..checks the date…)
1990? Holy-krazy-monkey-on-a-stik! And you are still waving it about?
What is it with science deniers and their passion for yesteryear?
Myles, have you noticed that the year is 2013?
At what point do you acknowledge that a paper has failed to get anywhere and has decidedly withered on the vine?
The man is dead. His “work” is even deader. It’s is demised. It has ceased to be. It’s pushing up the daisies.
Move on with your life.
Putting Y’s HIV denial aside for a moment, the second thing that struck me about his biography was the movement from one angle of objection to fluoridation to another (new) as each is refuted.
It’s redolent of a priori bias, in fact it’s almost conclusive evidence.
Anything will do.
You see it with AGW deniers and other areas too. The list of PRATTS just keeps growing longer as there is always another fool coming along and being taken in by even the most ancient ones.
Yep, Richard, exactly the “Precautionary Principle” gambit. Throw out one unsubstantiated claim after another then claim the Precautionary Principle should apply until “further research” is done. If allowed, it would be a permanent cessation, as the call for “further research” will never end.
Billy Budd | December 8, 2013 at 4:44 pm |
Re Myles26 – #48441
Dr. Slott has well described the real take aways from the Brunelle and Carlos paper.
Dr. Yiamouyiannis’s slight of hand ruse was to use the DMFT statistic rather than the tooth surface (DMFS) data. DMFT averaged over age and geography is not significantly different between fluoridated and not cities. Slott has well explained these issue.
Iida and Kumar’s recent analysis of the same Brunelle and Carlos data set showed fluorosis to prevent cavities. It was no surprise that in commenting on this new analysis all Professor Connett talked about was the DMFT data when he tried to poo-poo Kumar’s finding with the byline “Study Shows Fluoridation is Money Down the Drain.”
The pretense that DMFT data is THE important measurement of fluoridation’s benefit is behind much of the fluoridation opposition propaganda claiming ineffectiveness.
And of course the effect on adult teeth in school children is not fluoridation’s only benefit.
Fluoridation prevents about 2/3rds of the operations under general anesthesia preschool kids require for mouth fulls of rotten baby teeth. That effect saves about half of the dental bills for Medicaid children. This is found money to buy more health care for poor kids. If this were the only benefit the return on the fluoridation investment is 150%.
The overall return on investment from decreased dental bills is $38 or every dollar invested. That economic analysis assumed only that amalgam fillings or extractions were used and was based only on adult teeth cavities. It did not include the savings from avoiding baby teeth operations nor the effect on the cavities on the exposed root surfaces of older people. We are all looking forward to an updated study using more realistic reconstructive and prosthedontics costs.
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Publications by: Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero
Also publishes as (J.G. Álvarez-Romero, J.G. Alvarez-Romero, Jorge Álvarez Romero, Jorge Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G. Álvarez Romero, Jorge G. Alvarez Romero, Jorge G. Alvarez-Romero, Jorge C. Alvarez-Romero, Jorge Alvarez Romero, Jorge Alvarez-Romero)
Bellwood, David R., Pratchett, Morgan S., Morrison, Tiffany H., Gurney, Georgina G., Hughes, Terry P., Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Day, Jon C., Grantham, Ruby, Grech, Alana, Hoey, Andrew S., Jones, Geoffrey P., Pandolfi, John M., Tebbett, Sterling B., Techera, Erika, Weeks, Rebecca, and Cumming, Graeme S. (2019) Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions. Biological Conservation, 236. pp. 604-615.
Adams, Vanessa M., Mills, Morena, Weeks, Rebecca, Segan, Daniel B., Pressey, Robert L., Gurney, Georgina G., Groves, Craig, Davis, Frank W., and Alvarez-Romero, Jorge G. (2019) Implementation strategies for systematic conservation planning. Ambio, 47. pp. 139-152.
Alvarez-Romero, Jorge C., Mills, Morena, Adams, Vanessa M., Gurney, Georgina G., Pressey, Robert L., Weeks, Rebecca, Ban, Natalie C., Cheok, Jessica, Davis, Tammy E., Day, Jon C., Hamel, Melanie A., Leslie, Heather M., Magris, Rafael A., and Storlie, Collin J. (2018) Research advances and gaps in marine planning: towards a global database in systematic conservation planning. Biological Conservation, 227. pp. 369-382.
Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Munguía-Vega, Adrián, Beger, Maria, Mancha-Cisneros, Maria del Mar, Suárez-Castillo, Alvin N., Gurney, Georgina G., Pressey, Robert L., Gerber, Leah R., Morzaria-Luna, Hem Nalini, Reyes-Bonilla, Héctor, Adams, Vanessa M., Kolb, Melanie, Graham, Erin M., VanDerWal, Jeremy, Castillo-López, Alejandro, Hinojosa-Arango, Gustavo, Petatán-Ramírez, David, Moreno-Baez, Marcia, Godínez-Reyes, Carlos R., and Torre, Jorge (2018) Designing connected marine reserves in the face of global warming. Global Change Biology, 24 (2). e671-e691.
Adams, Vanessa M., Moon, Katie, Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Bodin, Örjan, Spencer, Michaela, and Blackman, Deborah (2018) Using multiple methods to understand the nature of relationships in social networks. Society & Natural Resources, 31 (7). pp. 755-772.
Wenger, Amelia, Ahmadia, Gabby, Alvarez-Romero, Jorge, Barnes, Megan, Blythe, Jessica, Brodie, Jon, Day, Jonathan, Fox, Helen, Gill, David, Gomez, Nicole Auil, Gurney, Georgina, Holmes, Katherine, Jupiter, Stacy, Lamb, Joleah, Mangubhai, Sangeeta, Matthews, Elizabeth, Matthews, Kathryn, Pressey, Bob, Teneva, Leda, Tewfik, Alexander, Wells, Sue, and Darling, Emily (2017) Coral Reef Conservation Solution-Scape White Paper. Report. Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY.
Adams, V.M., Álvarez-Romero, J.G., Capon, S.J., Crowley, G.M., Dale, A.P., Kennard, M.J., Douglas, M.M., and Pressey, R.L. (2017) Making time for space: the critical role of spatial planning in adapting natural resource management to climate change. Environmental Science & Policy, 74. pp. 57-67.
Hughes, Terry P., Kerry, James T., Álvarez-Noriega, Mariana, Alvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Anderson, Kristen D., Baird, Andrew, Babcock, Russell C., Beger, Maria, Bellwood, David, Berkelmans, Ray, Bridge, Tom C., Butler, Ian R., Byrne, Maria, Cantin, Neal E., Comeau, Steeve, Connolly, Sean, Cumming, Graeme S., Dalton, Steven J., Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo, Eakin, C. Mark, Figueira, Will F., Gilmour, James P., Harrison, Hugo B., Heron, Scott F., Hoey, Andrew S., Hobbs, Jean-Paul A., Hoogenboom, Mia O., Kennedy, Emma V., Kuo, Chao-Yang, Lough, Janice M., Lowe, Ryan J., Liu, Gang, McCulloch, Malcolm T., Malcolm, Hamish A., McWilliam, Michael J., Pandolfi, John M., Pears, Rachel J., Pratchett, Morgan S., Schoepf, Verena, Simpson, Tristan, Skirving, William J., Sommer, Brigitte, Torda, Gergely, Wachenfeld, David R., Willis, Bette L., and Wilson, Shaun (2017) Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals. Nature, 543 (7645). pp. 373-377.
Stoeckl, Natalie, Grainger, Daniel, Esparon, Michelle, Farr, Marina, Larson, Silva, Kennard, Mark, Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Cattarino, Lorenzo, Adams, Vanessa, Douglas, Michael, Pressey, Bob, and Pannell, David (2016) Integrated models, frameworks and decision support tools to guide management and planning in Northern Australia. Final report. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Arias, Adrian, Pressey, Robert L., Jones, Rhondda E., Alvarez-Romero, Jorge G., and Cinner, Joshua E. (2016) Optimizing enforcement and compliance in offshore marine protected areas: a case study from Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Oryx, 50 (1). pp. 18-26.
Suárez-Castillo, Alvin Noé, Torre, Jorge, Mancha-Cisneros, María del Mar, Álvarez-Romero, Jorge, and Espinosa-Romero, María José (2016) Ruta de sociabilización para integrar al sector productivo en el diseño de una red de zonas de recuperación pesquera en la Región de las Grandes Islas, Golfo de California. Ciencia Pesquera, 24 (2). pp. 65-79.
Adams, Vanessa M., Pressey, Robert L., and Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G. (2016) Using optimal land-use scenarios to assess trade-offs between conservation, development, and social values. PLoS ONE, 11 (6). e0158350.
Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Pressey, Robert L., Ban, Natalie C., and Brodie, Jon (2015) Advancing land-sea conservation planning: integrating modelling of catchments, land-use change, and river plumes to prioritise catchment management and protection. PLoS ONE, 10 (12). e0145574. pp. 1-26.
Stoeckl, N., Chaiechi, T., Farr, M., Jarvis, D., Álvarez-Romero, J.G., Kennard, M.J., Hermoso, V., and Pressey, R.L. (2015) Co-benefits and trade-offs between agriculture and conservation: a case study in Northern Australia. Biological Conservation, 191. pp. 478-494.
Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Adams, Vanessa M., Pressey, Robert L., Douglas, Michael, Dale, Allan P., Augé, Amélie A., Ball, Derek, Childs, John, Digby, Michael, Dobbs, Rebecca, Gobius, Niilo, Hinchley, David, Lancaster, Ian, Maughan, Mirjam, and Perdrisat, Ian (2015) Integrated cross-realm planning: a decision-makers' perspective. Biological Conservation, 191. pp. 799-808.
Gurney, Georgina G., Pressey, Robert L., Ban, Natalie C., Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Jupiter, Stacy, and Adams, Vanessa M. (2015) Efficient and equitable design of marine protected areas in Fiji through inclusion of stakeholder-specific objectives in conservation planning. Conservation Biology, 29 (5). pp. 1378-1389.
Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G. (2015) Catchment to Coast Planning: summary of key environmental management issues and activities undertaken by land managers in the Gilbert River catchment, Queensland, Australia. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Adams, Vanessa, Álvarez-Romero, Jorge, Crowley, Gabriel, Kennard, Mark, Capon, Samatha, and Pressey, Bob (2015) Planning for climate change northern monsoon cluster: decision making and planning for natural resource management. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Wilkinson, Scott N., Pressey, Robert L., Ban, Natalie C., Kool, Johnathan, and Brodie, Jon (2014) Modeling catchment nutrients and sediment loads to inform regional management of water quality in coastal-marine ecosystems: a comparison of two approaches. Journal of Environmental Management, 146. pp. 164-178.
Adams, Vanessa M., Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G. , Carwardine, Josie, Cattarino, Lorenzo , Hermoso, Virgilio, Kennard, Mark J. , Linke, Simon , Pressey, Robert L., and Stoeckl, Natalie (2014) Planning across freshwater and terrestrial realms: co-benefits and tradeoffs between conservation actions. Conservation Letters, 7 (5). pp. 425-440.
Petus, Caroline, da Silva, Eduardo Teixeira, Devlin, Michelle, Wenger, Amelia S., and Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G. (2014) Using MODIS data for mapping of water types within river plumes in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: towards the production of river plume risk maps for reef and seagrass ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management, 137. pp. 163-177.
Arias, Adrian, Pressey, Robert L., Jones, Rhondda E., Álvarez-Romero, Jorge, and Cinner, Joshua E. (2014) Optimizando la Coacción y el Cumplimiento en Áreas Marinas Protegidas Oceánicas: el caso del Parque Nacional Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Mills, Morena, Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Vance-Borland, Ken, Cohen, Philippa, Pressey, Robert L., Guerrero, Angela M., and Ernstson, Henrik (2014) Linking regional planning and local action: towards using social network analysis in systematic conservation planning. Biological Conservation, 169. pp. 6-13.
Dale, Allan P., Pressey, Bob, Adams, Vanessa M., Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Digby, Mike, Dobbs, Rebecca, Douglas, Michael, Augé, Amélie A., Maughan, Mirjam, Childs, John, Hinchley, David, Landcaster, Ian, Perdrisat, Ian, and Gobius, Niilo (2014) Catchment-scale governance in Northern Australia: a preliminary evaluation. Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 16 (1). 2. pp. 1-27.
Suárez Castillo, Alvin N., Torre, Jorge, and Álvarez Romero, Jorge (2014) Diseño de una red de reservas marinas para los arrecifes costeros en la Región de las Grandes Islas, Golfo de California. In: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, (CONABIO), (ed.) Quinto Informe Nacional de México ante el Convenio Sobre la Diversidad Biológica. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 247-249.
Devlin, Michelle J., da Silva, Eduardo Teixeira, Petus, Caroline, Wenger, Amelia, Zeh, Daniel, Tracey, Dieter, Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., and Brodie, Jon (2013) Combining in-situ water quality and remotely sensed data across spatial and temporal scales to measure variability in wet season chlorophyll-a: Great Barrier Reef lagoon (Queensland, Australia). Ecological Processes, 2. 31. pp. 1-22.
Visconti, P., Di Marco, M., Álvarez-Romero, J.G., Januchowski-Hartley, S.R., Pressey, R.L., Weeks, R., and Rondinini, C. (2013) Effects of errors and gaps in spatial data sets on assessment of conservation progress. Conservation Biology, 27 (5). pp. 1000-1010.
Alvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Devlin, Michelle, da Silva, Eduardo Teixeira, Petus, Caroline, Ban, Natalie C., Pressey, Robert L., Kool, Johnathan, Roberts, Jason J., Cerdeira-Estrada, Sergio, Wenger, Amelia S., and Brodie, Jon (2013) A novel approach to model exposure of coastal-marine ecosystems to riverine flood plumes based on remote sensing techniques. Journal of Environmental Management, 119. pp. 194-207.
Brodie, Jon, Waterhouse, Jane, Maynard, Jeffrey, Bennett, John, Furnas, Miles, Devlin, Michelle, Lewis, Stephen, Collier, Catherine, Schaffelke, Britta, Fabricius, Katharina, Petus, Caroline, da Silva, Eduardo, Zeh, Daniel, Randall, Lucy, Brando, Vittorio, McKenzie, Len, O'Brien, Dominique, Smith, Rachael, Warne, Michael, Brinkman, Richard, Tonin, Hemerson, Bainbridge, Zoe, Bartley, Rebecca, Negri, Andrew, Turner, Ryan, Davis, Aaron, Bentley, Christie, Mueller, Jochen, Alvarez-Romero, Jorge, Henry, Nyssa, Waters, David, Yorkston, Hugh, and Tracey, Dieter (2013) Assessment of the relative risk of water quality to ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef. A report to the Department of the Environment and Heritage Protection, Queensland Government, Brisbane - Report 13/28. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Devlin, Michelle, Petus, Caroline, da Silva, Eduardo Teixera, Alvarez-Romero, Jorge, Zeh, Daniel, Waterhouse, Jane, and Brodie, Jon (2013) Mapping of exposure to flood plumes, water types and exposure to pollutants (DIN, TSS) in the Great Barrier Reef: toward the production of operational risk maps for the world's most iconic marine ecosystem. Report Section. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD.
Ban, Natalie C., Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie, Alvarez-Romero, Jorge, Mills, Morena, Pressey, Robert L., Linke, Simon, and de Freitas, Debora (2013) Marine and freshwater conservation planning: from representation to persistence. In: Craighead, F. Lance, and Convis, Charles L., (eds.) Conservation Planning: shaping the future. Esri Press, Redlands, CA, USA, pp. 175-217.
Alvarez-Romero, Jorge, Pressey, Robert L., Ban, Natalie C., Torre-Cosio, Jorge, and Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio (2013) Marine conservation planning in practice: lessons learned from the Gulf of California. Aquatic Conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems , 23 (4). pp. 483-505.
Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Anadón, José, Beger, Maria, Castillo, Alejandro, Figueroa-Carranza, Ana Luisa, Gerber, Leah R., Godínez, Carlos Ramón, Gurney, Georgina, Arango, Gustavo Hinojosa, Kolb, Melanie, Mancha-Cisneros, Maria del Mar, Moreno, Marcia, Munguía-Vega, Adrián, Morzaira-Luna, Hem Nalini, Petatán, David, Pfister, Tad, Bonilla, Héctor Reyes, Suárez-castillo, Alvni N., and Torre-Cosio, Jorge (2013) Red de reservas marinas para la Región de las Grandes Islas, Golfo de California: protocolo del proyecto de planeación y reporte de los talleres del equipo de planeación [Marine reserves network for the Midriff Islands Region, Gulf of California, Mexico: planning protocol and progress report to the WWF Mexico & Carlos Slim Foundation Alliance]. Report. James Cook University (JCU) and Comunidad y Biodiversidad A.C. (COBI), Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Álvarez Romero, Jorge G. (2012) Advancing land-sea conservation planning: cross-system threats and competing values. PhD thesis, James Cook University.
Devlin, Michelle, Wenger, Amelia, Da Silva, Eduardo, Alvarez Romero, Jorge G., Waterhouse, Jane, and McKenzie, Len (2012) Extreme weather conditions in the Great Barrier Reef: drivers of change? In: Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium. 21A_1. pp. 1-5. From: 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, 9-13 July 2012, Cairns, QLD, Australia.
Bainbridge, Zoe T., Wolanski, Eric, Alvarez Romero, Jorge, Lewis, Stephen E., and Brodie, Jon E. (2012) Fine sediment and nutrient dynamics related to particle size and floc formation in a Burdekin River flood plume, Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 65 (4-9). pp. 236-248.
Devlin, M.J., McKinna, L.W., Alvarez-Romero, J.G., Petus, C., Abott, B., Harkness, P., and Brodie, J. (2012) Mapping the pollutants in surface riverine flood plume waters in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 65 (4-9). pp. 224-235.
Devlin, Michelle, Wenger, Amelia, Waterhouse, Jane, Alvarez-Romero, Jorge, Abbott, Brett, and da Silva, Eduardo Teixeira (2012) Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program: flood plume monitoring annual report 2010-11: incorporating results from the Extreme Weather Response Program flood plume monitoring. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Devlin, Michelle, Wenger, Amelia, Petus, Caroline, da Silva, Eduardo Teixeira, Debose, Jennifer, and Álvarez-Romero, Jorge (2012) Reef Rescue Monitoring Program: final report of JCU activities 2011/12: flood plumes and extreme weather monitoring for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Álvarez Romero, Jorge, Pressey, Robert L., Ban, Natalie C., Vance-Borland, Ken, Willer, Chuck, Klein, Carissa Joy, and Gaines, Steven D. (2011) Integrated land-sea conservation planning: the missing links. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 42. pp. 381-409.
Alvarez-Romero, Jorge, and Pressey, Bob (2009) Integrated land-sea planning: an operational framework. In: [Presented at the 2nd International Marine Protected Areas Congress]. pp. 1-17. From: International Marine Conservation Congress and 2nd International Marine Protected Areas Congress, 19-24 May 2009, Washington, DC, USA.
Boyle, M.J., Alvarez-Romero, J.G., and Hughes, T.P. (2008) Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Nomination: a comparative analysis with similar properties. Report. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Álvarez Romero, Jorge, Medellín, Rodrigo A., Oliveras de Ita, Adán, Gómez de Silva, Héctor, and Sánchez, Óscar (2008) Animales Exóticos en México: una amenaza para la biodiversidad. Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Ciudad de México, México.
Sánchez Herrera, Oscar, and Álvarez-Romero, Jorge G. (2006) Conservation status of the Morelet's crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) in Mexico: a proposal for its reclassification in the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). In: Crocodiles: proceedings of the 18th working meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN the World Conservation Union. pp. 255-265. From: 18th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN the World Conservation Union, 19-23 June 2006, Montélimar, France.
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Variational approximation and the use of collective coordinates
J. H. P. Dawes, H. Susanto
We consider propagating, spatially localized waves in a class of equations that contain variational and nonvariational terms. The dynamics of the waves is analyzed through a collective coordinate approach. Motivated by the variational approximation, we show that there is a natural choice of projection onto collective variables for reducing the governing (nonlinear) partial differential equation (PDE) to coupled ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This projection produces ODEs whose solutions are exactly the stationary states of the effective Lagrangian that would be considered in applying the variational approximation method. We illustrate our approach by applying it to a modified Fisher equation for a traveling front, containing a non-constant-coefficient nonlinear term. We present numerical results that show that our proposed projection captures both the equilibria and the dynamics of the PDE much more closely than previously proposed projections.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.063202
Variational Approximation
Travelling Fronts
Fisher Equation
Modified Equations
Stationary States
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Variational Methods
Partial differential equation
Numerical Results
Dawes, J. H. P., & Susanto, H. (2013). Variational approximation and the use of collective coordinates. Physical Review E, 87(6), [063202]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.063202
Variational approximation and the use of collective coordinates. / Dawes, J. H. P.; Susanto, H.
In: Physical Review E, Vol. 87, No. 6, 063202, 04.06.2013.
Dawes, JHP & Susanto, H 2013, 'Variational approximation and the use of collective coordinates', Physical Review E, vol. 87, no. 6, 063202. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.063202
Dawes JHP, Susanto H. Variational approximation and the use of collective coordinates. Physical Review E. 2013 Jun 4;87(6). 063202. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.063202
Dawes, J. H. P. ; Susanto, H. / Variational approximation and the use of collective coordinates. In: Physical Review E. 2013 ; Vol. 87, No. 6.
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Students riot after ‘whites-only porn’ broadcast by UC Berkeley newspaper
Huey P. Newsom / May 16, 2017
The Daily Californian student newspaper at UC Berkeley recently broadcasted sounds of white heterosexual people having sex, prompting charges that the newspaper is led by privileged heteronormative white supremacists.
The banner image of the Daily Californian‘s podcast page. The color of the person on the left is #f6d0cf, on the right #fccbad.
Audio experts contacted by The Brie said the individuals heard in the recording are definitely white, although they could not confirm sexual orientation by sounds alone.
“Today’s technology is pretty good,” said the technician at A.J.’s Sound Shack, “so we know all the participants are white. We just can’t tell if they’re gay or not.”
But even before the audio analysis was confirmed, students at Berkeley were gearing up for a riot.
“Resist white porn!” shouted one student, carrying a sign saying “#FCCBAD #653D03 GOOD!”
When asked what the hashtags meant, the brown student pointed to his face. “What are you, a f***ing idiot? Those are hexadecimal color codes, not hashtags. And why isn’t my orgasm good enough to be published on the Internet?”
A white student with blue hair standing nearby explained. “Haven’t you seen the insulting image of the Hard & Soft podcast? Both of the cartoon people are different shades of white. Where are the brown people? F*** white porn! And f*** the Daily Californian. I’m a straight white woman, but where do they get off having a whitebread girl named Ashley do the intro?”
We listened to the podcast, and a woman named Ashley does, indeed, provide both an introduction and a postscript to the sounds of white orgasms. For people too upset to listen to white people having sex, The Brie has transcribed a portion of the podcast.
Ahhh ah aaahhhhh. Mmmm. Uh. Uhhhh. Heh heh heh. Right. You do, though. You do! Hhhhhhh. Uh. Ugh. (Sounds of cars.) Ah ah ah ah ah ah. Hhhhhh. Oooohhhhh. Oh. Oh. Stay right there. (Sounds of bedsheets and music.) Oh oh oh oh. Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm. (Sounds get increasingly louder.) Ohhhh ohhhhhhhhh!!!
When the orgasms are finished, Ashley says, “This is been a Daily Californian podcast. See you soon. Love you. Bye.”
We reached out to the Daily Cal‘s editor in chief, Karim Doumar.
“We’re under attack by a mob of anti-white porn anti-fascists!” he shouted into the phone.
When we explained the purpose of our call, he pleaded with us to call the cops. And then the line went dead.
Editor’s note: Our higher ed columnist, Krystl Meph, was busy making non-binary non-white multi-partner gay transgender sex podcasts and was unavailable for comment.
May 16, 2017 in Berkeley. Tags: education, resistance, science, sex
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The Bizarre Story of Kristallnacht - The Great Anti-German Spectacle (1991) by Ingrid Weckert
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UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon (1974) by Ernst Zundel
Ernst Zundel
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Conspiracy Journal presents the new expanded edition of a book that has caused considerable controversary since it was originally published in 1970.
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Steven Salaita and University of Illinois reach a settlement
Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.13.2015 12:48 PM
The University of Illinois has approved a six-figure settlement for Steven Salaita to end two lawsuits he filed against the university for rescinding a tenured job offer due to his intemperate and offensive (some would even say anti-Semitic) tweets. According to the Chicago Tribune, Salaita is due to receive $600,000, and his attorneys will receive $275,000. In addition, the university has apparently spent well over $1 million on legal fees of its own. According to the Tribune report, the university's Board of Trustees voted 9 to 1 to approve the settlement, which does not require the university to admit any wrongdoing and ends Salaita's pursuit of a position at the university.
Salaita's lawyers have released a statement, posted at the the Academe Blog. The University of Illinois statement is here. The Daily Illini has more here.
University of Illinois/Urbana Philosophy Department Chair Kirk Sanders also has a statement posted at Leiter Reports. Salaita himself also has an essay in the Nation.
For commentary on the settlement, here's Corey Robin at Crooked Timber and William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection (left and right, respectively).
For those who'd like background on this controversy, here are my prior posts on the Salaita controversy:
Tweeting without tenure
More on tweeting without tenure
Steven Salaita's legal claim—a dissenting view
Did the University of Illinois rescind Steven Salaita's appointment to appease donors?
University of Illinois trustees vote against Salaita appointment
Salaita lawsuit against the University of Illinois will proceed
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A.M. Links: Clinton Leads Trump in New Poll, Vice Presidential Debate Tonight, Physics Nobel Prize Awarded
Damon Root | 10.4.2016 9:00 AM
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New poll: Hillary Clinton 47 percent, Donald Trump 42 percent, Gary Johnson 7 percent, Jill Stein 2 percent.
Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence will face off tonight in a vice presidential debate.
Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm, is bearing down on Haiti.
Joe Biden: Donald Trump is "not a bad man," but "his ignorance is profound."
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz.
"Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama to 'go to hell' and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers."
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October.4.2016 at 9:00 am
Hillary Clinton 47 percent, Donald Trump 42 percent
FORTY-SEVEN!
juris imprudent
But, but she’s a 1%er!!1!
Truly 1% of the population is in prison, but she’s dodged that….so far.
Good morning, hoser.
ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZ huh what?
I predict the VP debate will be MUCH dirtier and low-down than the POTUS debates.
Yep. *So* looking forward to it.
I predict that Tim Kaine’s eyebrow will rise higher and higher over the course of the debate, until it detaches from his head and levitates all the way to the ceiling of the auditorium.
He really is a cartoon character.
But not before it gives him the ‘middle finger salute’ as it inches away.
Holger da Dane
October.4.2016 at 12:03 pm
In this debate I want Pence to float the blatant conspiracy theory that Kaine was promised the future VP nom for stepping down as DNC chair in favor of Herself’s old 2008 Presidential campaign co-chair. Make it look like the deck was stacked against Sanders far in advance.
Not that it’s necessarily a credible theory, but I’m predominantly looking for entertainment at this point in the race. A bunch of loudly whining Sanders supporters is just the ticket for that.
Like a shotgun full of wind!
Like Fist into the morning links, more like. Jesus, dude. Have you considered decaf?
Coffee is for closers. I’m an opener. I don’t drink coffee.
commodious pega y corre
Belt of scotch instead?
Chipper Morning Wood
Well, you are a conversation starter, Fist.
And finisher!
Pope Jimbo
Will Hillary suspend her campaign to work the fundraising phones for the Clinton Foundation?
Seems like too good an opportunity to waste. It also isn’t as if any of her supporters would change their minds about voting for either.
She’d just send out her talking points about how this demonstrates her compassion and within an hour, that would be gospel.
Plus she wouldn’t have to stand up for a while.
Agent Cooper
More like Hate-y, amirite?
Lee Genes
6 ‘Anti-Racist’ Buzzwords That Don’t Actually Change White Supremacy
2. Equality/Equity
Often, within our conversations about feminism and about justice, the term “equality” is thrown around as the end all, be all solution to oppression. White people champion for equality from the HRC to shallow Affirmative Action conversations, but do not actually realize that equality is not a potential reality.
Equality as a concept does not work under white supremacist capitalism, as our current oppressive power systems are inexplicably linked to oppressing someone. Under capitalism, there is always a winner, meaning there is also always a loser.
5. Charity
When charity is used to describe the act of “giving back” or helping the “less fortunate,” it’s important to recognize the power dynamics being upheld. White people name charity and charitable acts based upon who they acknowledge as “underprivileged.”
The underprivileged and less fortunate are usually poor Black, Indigenous, and Brown people living in lower socioeconomic areas with limited access. Charity speaks to a larger issue of how white supremacist capitalism works through the violence of anti-Blackness, anti-Indigenous, racism, capitalism, and patriarchy.
Maintaining the idea that white people are “giving back” upholds white supremacist enablement that allows for reparations to be disguised as philanthropy.
We don’t need donations when we’ve been historically stolen from. We need what’s ours.
That’s enough, Everday Feminism.
Did somebody steal something from you? Then report them to the police. Because if you didn’t earn it, it’s not yours, assnugget.
Not giving is taking. So not giving them their fair share is the same as stealing from them.
I actually got into an argument with an idiot on derpbook last night who insisted that Trump avoiding taxes was the same thing as stealing from the taxpayers. Of course the goalposts kept moving and premises kept changing until I finally just left off with a snarky comment and called it quits.
Not taking is giving. When Trump avoids taxes that means money is not being taken from him, which is the same as the government giving him money. That money has to come from other taxpayers. So by avoiding taxes, Trump is stealing from the taxpayers.
The person I was arguing with kept changing premises, and eventually got around to complaining that as a business owner she had to pay taxes totalling x percent for her and her employees. When I responded that “So then you agree that it makes sense to minimize what the government steals so you can keep more of your own earnings.” Her reply was, “Trump cheated on his taxes and stole from the taxpayers”.
“Trump cheated on his taxes and stole from the taxpayers”.
Evidence needed.
JWatts
I’m sure the FBI will get right on that.
Not really. In leftist circles, switching the burden of proof is not a fallacy. It is a convincing argument. So if you can’t immediately refute their assertions with evidence, you lose the argument. And even if you do, they will just move the goalposts until you can’t. No matter what, it’s always fallacies for the win!
Mickey Rat
Where did she get that from?
The whole story was about what Trump was likely legally entitled to do to lower his taxes, they do not know what he actually did. There is no proof or even claim of cheating.
Since Donald Dickhead is a real-estate mogul, how much do you suppose his organization pays in property taxes?
And to WTF’s post “she had to pay taxes totalling x percent for her and her employees”; by that metric, I bet DD has paid out a significant sum as well.
straffinrun
It’s the same old, tired argument they make when talking about Ayn Rand taking SS.
BYODB
People who make this argument are morons. Social Security is money the government took from you by force, which they then spend. Eventually, they give you less than what they took in the first place. So ultimately it’s literally your money. It’s one of the few examples of an actual ‘entitlement’ unlike, say, Medicaid.
I wonder what it is that is theirs exactly. I suspect they’re talking about my money.
Chinny Chin Chin
I’ve been certain for a while that they’re eyeing my sweet spirograph collection.
I don’t know what that is, but I’m absolutely overcome with envy.
thrakkorzog
Did you know that the increase in gang violence directly correlates to the decline in spirograph sales?
Greg Loves His Woodchipper
It’s “Everyday Feminism”, I assumed they were talking about my testicles.
But what about charity to under privileged whites, eh? Hm?
deepspeed
No such thing,
Bill Dalasio
Ashleigh Shackelford is a queer, nonbinary Black fat femme writer, artist, and cultural producer. Ashleigh is a contributing writer at Wear Your Voice Magazine and For Harriet.
What I can’t figure out for the life of me is what the hell is it that these sorts think it is that they bring to the table? I think they have a little bit of a problem figuring out that, in the grand scheme of things, they’re utterly, totally, and completely expendable. The productive classes, on the other hand, that she thinks “owe her what’s hers” are the reason she’s able to sit on her fat (her term, not mine) ass and lecture the world about her sense of entitlement.
Crusty Juggler
Ashleigh Shackelford
I wonder if she is related to Reason’s own Shackelford.
Our nonbinary [insert laundry list of meaningless terms here] writer is Shackford.
That’s what Crusty said. Scott Shacklelford.
A frilly pink thing
“with limited access”
Limited access to what?
I know this is one of those SJW catch phrases, but that’s not a complete sentence.
Juvenile Bluster
You’ll never convince me that Everyday Feminism isn’t a parody site.
Everyday? A few days a month would suffice.
The biggest problem is, even for those few days a month, when they “get in Synch” …
Feminism is anything but quotidian.
I think it’s a test site where aspiring PhD candidates in the ethnic grievance studies can float ideas for dissertations.
Calling them ‘ideas’ is a stretch.
This coffee is kicking in. I am gonna go float some ideas.
Fruit Sushi 2 Go
Still waiting for the day that EF divides by zero and implodes on itself.
Didn’t they do that recently and have to print a breathless apology? Can’t remember the context, and there’s no way I’m going to that sewer to search for it.
KDN
I’m pretty sure it was about the stupid Seth Rogen cartoon Sausage party, and that Reason reported on it.
Princess Trigger
I’m pretty sure they don’t do cis-math.
OBJ FRANKELSON
Yeah, think that Kristy Winters’ PhD dissertation was along the lines of ‘math’s lack of subjectivity makes it a tool of the patriarchy’ or some such drivel.
Brett L
I mean, if they didn’t think math was the dirtiest tool of the patriarchy since the popular boy in high school who wouldn’t pay attention to them.
Under capitalism, there is always a winner, meaning there is also always a loser.
Until people understand why this is completely wrong, it’s pointless to even bother. What I find really frustrating is explaining how capitalism isn’t a zero-sum game, creates wealth and all that. I will often have people agree and appear to understand what I am saying. But then they go right back to bashing capitalism at every opportunity. It really is like an article of faith with some people.
It’s a Marxist article of faith.
Hamster of Doom
One fellow sagely informed me that it was unpossible that I was a capitalist, because I did not have enough capital to qualify. Ergo I was not a capitalist and he thought I should stop calling myself one.
Marks for creativity, that guy, since usually proglodytes just inform me that I’m too ignorant to know what capitalism is.
Did you tell him that sometimes the same word can be used in different ways?
No. I told him an educated older white male had no right to define my female existence. This pissed him off.
Nice nutpunch.
ant1sthenes
Capitalism is a cooperative/competitive game played against poverty where the house always loses in the long run.
LynchPin1477
If they truly believe that the existence of a winner necessitates the existence of a loser, then the only other option is a system where everyone loses. Which, in fact, is a pretty good working description of socialism.
You and your imperialist, capitalist logic.
Socialism is a highly effective system at sharing poverty.
All are equally miserable. Except of course the party elite.
Krabappel
Well, not *everyone* loses under socialism.
This. Socialism is closer to a lottery than anything else. Winners win big. Everybody else loses. Implemented “properly”, the losses are so spread out that it’s more of a nuisance than anything else.
butt-head
Not really a lottery, since it’s not completely by chance. You have to be a murderous, conniving asshole to win (a necessary but not sufficient condition).
Yeh a teacher in our book keeping class in high school would always say, ‘for every guy making a buck, someone is losing his shirt.’
Amazing how progs claim the world isn’t black and white and all nuanced, sure love to go full blown zero-sum when it suits them.
Anyway. I learned quickly after that it simply isn’t the case because wealth creation pretty much prevents that scenario from existing.
Now, when government involves itself in the market place, there we see winners and losers.
PurityDiluting
But all the money is going to the 1%! Soon, the 99% will have 0% of the money.
After that, the 0.1% will have 100% of the money and the 99.9% will have 0%
Don’t you see what is happening????
Yes, that’s /sarc, but I’m running out of ammo to fight their version of logic
While it is dangerous that people who fall for the zero-sum economy fallacy don’t believe wealth can be created and so want to distribute it, it is even more dangerous when they believe the opposite, that wealth cannot be destroyed, as they will be attracted to policies that do just that. While in the long run free market capitalism is a wealth generator and it often produces win-win situations, I don’t think it should be over-sold. All market systems will also produce win-lose and even occasionally lose-lose situations as well, and if that is not accounted for or at least acknowledged people are less likely to believe the speaker when they are trying to sell the system. Free market capitalism is the best economic system ever devised, but it is not perfect (nothing can be) and there will be losers in the system.
This article is a good example of why regular, sane women shouldn’t be afraid to say they’re not feminists. The movement is socialist to the core. Why would you want to effectively support a group of crazies just so you can be thought of as modern. Doesn’t seem like a fair deal to me.
Why would you want to effectively support a group of crazies just so you can be thought of as modern.
It’s all about virtue signalling. Religions are at least partly responsible for this. They promote charity, and then go on to say that the government should be providing charity. But if the money is forcibly taken from one person to be given to another, it ain’t charity. That’s the part they miss.
Well, there is individualist feminism. I think there is like two members: Wendy McElroy and I don’t remember the other one.
Honestly, I think once you get the “individualist” part down, the “feminist” part is, at best, superfluous.
DOOMco
The femenist part at that point is what you focus on.
Speaking of feminism, the schadenfreude of this spectacle is almost too sweet to savor.
An atheism+ feminist by the name of Dick Carrier, a strident proponent of speech codes and sexual harassment policies, has been accused of abuse by female student. Richard was among those calling for Michael Shermer’s head after a woman accused Shermer of rape. The woman in question, an ASU student, published Carrier’s humiliating email entreaties in which she respectfully demurred and finally shot him down explosively. Carrier is now suing various atheism+ outfits and individuals.
Always fun to see the intersectionality snowflakes eat one of their own.
That was poorly written. The woman in question != Shermer’s alleged victim.
Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos
ASU’s become a cesspit of academically-enabled SJW gobbledy-gook the past few years. It’s embarrassing to point out that I have a graduate degree from that place.
Considered either a branch of or a cancer on the “New Atheism” pioneered by atheist heavyweights including evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, Atheism+ or “intersectional atheism” put a social-justice spin on the rejection of theism.
Dick Carrier? Really? Was a more perfect feminist villain ever named?
FreeToFear
inexplicably linked
The article is dead on, there is no rational explanation linking those two things…
You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)
My mind wandered off about three words into that. I’m not exaggerating.
This stuff is so borrrrrrrrring.
Enough About Palin
Equality as a concept does not work under white supremacist capitalism
Worked okay for Oprah.
Joe Biden: Donald Trump is “not a bad man,” but “his ignorance is profound.”
Sounds like an endorsement!
Wait just a goddam minute! What the hell happened to Trump = Hitler??????
Raven Nation
Yeah, Biden is really alienating himself from the progressive left.
If Joe Biden said it, then it’s true. If ever there was an expert on “good, but profoundly ignorant men”, it’s Joe Biden
Chip Woodier
It was countered with “Clinton = Stalin”. I added “Gary Johnson = if Roosevelt and Churchill had a baby”.
Ignorance is Strength!
Glass houses and stones, Joe.
Scott Adams: The Week I Became a Target
This weekend I got “shadowbanned” on Twitter. It lasted until my followers noticed and protested. Shadowbanning prevents my followers from seeing my tweets and replies, but in a way that is not obvious until you do some digging.
Why did I get shadowbanned?
But it was probably because I asked people to tweet me examples of Clinton supporters being violent against peaceful Trump supporters in public. I got a lot of them. It was chilling.
Late last week my Twitter feed was invaded by an army of Clinton trolls (it’s a real thing) leaving sarcastic insults and not much else on my feed. There was an obvious similarity to them, meaning it was organized.
Mr Lizard
I look forward to the day your species decides to resolve these issues in violent entertaining fashion. Just don’t shoot at the refrigeration trucks driving around afterwards…waste not want not.
Damn. How come we’re never trolled? We’re probably the most hostile group towards Cankle-cunt.
Don’t give SugarFree visual ideas.
“How come we’re never trolled?”
Correct the Record sends their JV team here. Surely you’ve noticed them
Who the fuck are the JV team?
UnCivilServant
We’re low profile.
No one comes here.
These people are organized enough to troll a past-his-prime comic strip writer, but can’t be bothered to participate in online polls enough to skew the results in Hillary’s favor.
So there aren’t that many of them, but they are organized. They also must not be the most tech savvy, or they could still skew unscientific online polls despite their numbers.
P.S. The one and only speaking gig I had on my calendar for the coming year cancelled yesterday because they decided to “go in a different direction.” I estimate my opportunity cost from speaking events alone to be around $1 million. That’s based on how the rate of offers went from several per month (for decades) to zero this year. Blogging about Trump is expensive.
Yeah, well, what did you expect?
“Hey, I’ve got a great idea! Let’s drive all the popular people who have fans who buy stuff from our advertisers off our platform!”
/Twitter executive
Massachusetts man founds political Pizza Party
The 42-year-old Raynham man is the founder of the Pizza Party, a political designation officially recognized by state election officials.
Freeman tells the Enterprise of Brockton he doesn’t recruit members and no Pizza Party candidate has ever run for office or raised any money.
Still, the Pizza Party has enrolled 184 registered voters.
That’s enough to have the party listed as a “political designation” on the state secretary’s website, but 42,000 or so voters short of being listed as an official party.
DenverJ
You know who else started a party?
The Beastie Boys?
Black Flag?
The Donners?
Haybob
Too easy!
Kid n Play?
Lesley Gore?
C + C Music Factory
Rasilio
Pink?
Pat (PM)
A fella whose last name ends in a consonant and hails from Massachusetts thinks himself qualified to lead a pizza party? Next thing you know you’ll be telling me he likes deep dish.
There’s no deep dish in Mass.
No, in Mass you have Beach Pizza and cape cod bar pizza
Do they put some kind of vile sea creature on the pizza in cape cod?
Yeah, lobstahhh.
Will deep dish supporters be allowed in?
No wop pizza either.
WOP’s up? How’s your dago?
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!
“Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama to ‘go to hell’ and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers.”
I picture him saying all of this in a single, run-on sentence.
It doesn’t sound so bad in Tagalog.
Everything sounds bad in Tagalog.
Except for the English cognates which sound like they are thrown in for the lulz.
prolefeed
Not if it is being said by a hot Filipina.
This is when you want it to be bad.
Joe Biden: Donald Trump is “not a bad man”
Commence proggy pants shitting.
OT: Long time reader, occasional contributor… Who the fuck is Steve Smith?
STEVE SMITH WANT HIKE WITH NOOB.
STEVE SMITH ALREADY KNOW WHO YOU ARE, MEAT.
STEVE SMITH SHOW YOU WHO STEVE SMITH IS. GIVE TOUR OF HOME. PROMISE NO RAPE.
STEVE SMITH IS THE WARTY BASEMENT OF GREAT OUTDOORS
A friend of Matt Welch who occassionally leaves dumb comments here. Some commenters saw his picture on his website and noticed he looked like sasquatch. That’s where the legend began.
Sounds like an absolute riot heh heh
Thanks for the clarification
A shaved sasquatch, specifically.
My old roommate and I played one of the PS2 NHL hockey games for so long that we eventually created our own team. We had two enforcers on our team who were given very little skating/puck handling ability, but huge fighting skills, max speed, and max height/weight. Their names were Hairless Yeti and Shaved Sasquatch. They generally broke the glass checking someone into the boards every game. And the championships at the end of the season were too easy because all of the opposing teams had their stars out with injuries.
The picture that started it all
Warty’s immediate response to that picture was “SASQUATCH RAPE.” That’s his response to pretty much everything – i’m not sure why it stuck in this case, but it has proven to be one of Hit’n’Run’s more durable memes.
Monroe Feather, Jr.
You know who else is a durable meme?
Pepe the Frog?
11H1P, Professional Beach Bum
Yep…. That’s the one.
Joe Biden: If there’s one thing I know, its ignorance, and look how far its taken me. This Trump fella could be dangerous.
Alt: I knew ignorance, and you’re no ignorance.
Best countries for expats
1. Taiwan
3. Ecuador
12. Canada
26. USA
31. Switzerland
I’m surprised Mexico is so high on the list. Since a) the violent crime rate was at one time at least, as bad as Iraq during the troop surge and b) unless something has changed very recently, expats are not allowed to own property in Mexico, only lease, because colonialism or some such nonsense.
I’d kinda like to live in Switzerland.
Because, Barry Switzer.
SOONER BOOMER!!!!
*narrows gaze*
Suell
Violent crime in Mexico is pretty concentrated in certain areas. For the most part, these are not areas where expats are dying to buy a retirement home. You can own property as a foreigner in Mexico. If it is next to the coast then it has to be placed in a renewable hundred year trust with you as the beneficiary.
Too many other expats.
Not Thailand?
My brother is finding it very, very welcoming.
Thailand is listed as #18. I haven’t dug into their methodology to see if it’s possible to recast the results into more libertarian friendly metrics
It’s a very magnanimous culture, but sometimes a Thai person’s pathological generosity and niceness can become utterly obnoxious over time. I work with a Thai guy and I’m constantly saying “Thank you, but no” or “That’s kind of you, but no, thank you.” It gets old.
NebulousFocus
As an expat in India, I can say 49 is way too high.
Meanwhile in Australia:
Woman SHOOS AWAY giant croc with her SLIPPERS just as the beast moves in for the KILL
The courageous woman forced the prowling crocodile to retreat as she is seen shaking her flip-flops and shouting at the reptile.
She stood with her dog by the murky river bank, which is a well-known feeding ground for more than a hundred crocodiles.
The Aussie dramatically shooed away the salt water beast using nothing more than her slippers, as the beast aggressively stalked her and her dog.
My people have devolved far. You stoooopid mammals will pay for this.
Cladistics says you arent really related.
Yeah. Crocodiles are much closer to birds than to lizards.
What a blown chance for an endorsement from the Crocs brand flip-flops.
If you are going to risk your wife – and dog – to a dangerous crocodile, spring for a pair of Crocs so that you can sell the footage to them later.
They ever make a pair of Crocs from actual crocodile skin? “This is what I did with the last bugger that attacked me!”
R C Dean
Who takes a croc snack to the croc cafe?
Why would anyone go outside in Australia?
The U.S. military is great on STEM. It should also be great on liberal arts.
But even in an age of highly sophisticated warfare, our military leaders should not be too narrowly focused on STEM. If we want leaders who communicate clearly, solve problems creatively and appreciate cultural differences in theaters where they operate, studying the humanities is just as important as science, technology, engineering and math.
When I attended Ranger and Airborne schools, a mandatory catchphrase was “move, shoot and communicate.” Communication was always a critical component of military tactics, and the more complicated combat has become, the more important it is to ensure clarity of thought and expression that relies upon a grounding in softer disciplines.
If we want leaders who communicate clearly, solve problems creatively and appreciate cultural differences in theaters where they operate…
I want military leaders who are adept at formulating and executing plans for blowing shit to smithereens and killing mass quantities of people when the need arises.
“Appreciate cultural differences in theaters where they operate”. That doesn’t sound like an actual requirement for the job.
It shouldn’t be, but we’re so intent on fixing the areas we bomb to smithereens that it becomes necessary.
Liberal arts: not required for war but essential for occupation.
For the people planning the operations a certain appreciation of cultural differences is a useful tool. You have to know who it is most important to kill and who it would be a mistake to kill (such as the Japanese emperor in WW2). You also have to know what kind of resistance you are likely to face from the local population if you are sending in a ground force, and what would be the most effective way of countering it (do they take breaks from fighting on certain days? are there certain actions the populous would find so offensive that it would drive them to offer significant resistance?). Most cultural appreciation would not be useful, of course.
MikeT1986
Ever work in an engineering firm with engineering style communication?
You need a few people who can write a sentence in plain English. Or who don’t shit themselves in terror when a woman looks at them.
Perhaps my meaning wasn’t completely clear. Blowing shit to smithereens and killing mass quantities of people is more down to a set of organizational skills and temperament than anything, and I don’t give a fuck if the people I employ to blow shit to smithereens and kill mass quantities of people can recite Longfellow at length or perform differential calculus in their head. I would assume that the type of people who are adept at the blowing shit to smithereens and killing mass quantities of people bit are probably more inclined to fields outside the humanities, but I wouldn’t judge them harshly if they weren’t. A lot of history’s better military strategists wouldn’t fit neatly into the mousy humanities stereotype or the aspie STEM stereotype. An appreciation and understanding of history and management principles would probably be the most common attributes.
Separately, I think the mousy humanities and aspie STEM stereotypes are pretty much a crock of shit. There’s an awful lot of STEM people in B-school who aren’t too petrified to leave their lab to ever have sex, and there’s an awful lot of humanities people in B-school who aren’t too retarded to do math in their heads.
kbolino
Or who don’t shit themselves in terror when a woman looks at them.
That would be a bit odd, since over half the engineers I work with are married, and of those, half have daughters.
Must make home life interesting, though.
I would think being married and/or having daughters would train any man to shit himself, etc.
Then you want an army which is easily defeated.
I havn’t read the article but an army which only focuses on killing people and blowing shit up might win a lot of battles but they won’t win many wars. The point of a military operation is NOT just to blow shit up and kill people, it is to achieve some political end and as a general rule the fewer people you kill and the less shit you blow up in achieving that political goal the more successful your military is.
Well achieving that political goal might not require a thorough grounding in the works of Shakeaspeare but it WILL require a thorough grounding in history, languages, anthropology and similar “liberal arts” fields.
Hell one of the biggest problems with have in the GWOT is that out government and to a lesser extent military has pretty consistantly refused to understand the people in the countries we invade.
as a general rule the fewer people you kill and the less shit you blow up in achieving that political goal the more successful your military is.
Not sure about this. Back in the good old “unconditional surrender” days, we understood that winning a war requires breaking the enemy’s will to fight, and we won wars and achieved our political goals.
Nowadays, we go poncing around with ROE that makes a beat cop laugh out loud, we don’t go for unconditional surrender/breaking our enemies, and we don’t achieve any political goals worth a crap.
we don’t achieve any political goals worth a crap
Hey, we made sure the Bosnians/Bosniaks/Serbs/Croats/etc. stopped killing each other (for now) and all it cost us was a budding friendship with Russia.
That, uh, that was a good thing, right?
yeah the thing is you can get the unconditional surrender stage a lot quicker if you understand the psychology, goals, and motivations of your enemies because you can target your attacks in such a way to directly degrade their will to fight.
Enacting the Carthiginain solution on their ass is undeniably effective but wasteful and likely untenable in the modern world.
I won’t argue with your first point, but I think it can lead to the fallacy that pinpoint attacks can lead to unconditional surrender. Historically, you don’t get to the “we don’t ever want to fuck with these people again” stage without inflicting significant damage.
The “modern” world is a thin overlay on the world as it has ever been. Thinking that stern memos on fancy letterhead from a global institution are a substitute for a smashed and demoralized military and a delegitimized government is, IMO, a mistake.
Oh I am not necessarily talking pinpoint attacks, I mean attacking the things that really matter to the enemy.
For example, as poorly as our government understands Islamist terrorists and their motivations we are lucky in that those same terrorists understand us even worse. Their terrorist attacks against us could never be effective because they don’t actually make Mr and Mrs John Q Public scared. Had they really wanted to bring the US to it’s knees they’d have attacked midwestern shopping malls in suburbs of mid sized cities on black friday. They could then have followed those attacks up with attacks targeting High School Football games, movie theaters and the like
All soft squishy targets impossible to defend, all would give really high death tolls, and all would terrify ordinary Americans because they would know that it could have been them or even worse their kids.
Using terrorism to take down America would be a trivially easy task requiring no more than a few hundred committed terrorists acting independently in small cells but the Jihadis just don’t understand us well enough to realize that. Instead they carry out attacks that are splashy and capture a lot of global headlines but don’t really even cause the majority of Americans to even change their daily routines.
Killing people and blowing shit up are tactics, not strategies. If they don’t advance the end goals, then they’re just wastes of time, money, and personnel. That having been said, they are necessary to wage war. An army that can’t kill people or blow shit up is not an army at all.
The problem is that the incentive structure does not favor winning wars at all cost. Until that is addressed, every effort made is going to be half-assed and counterproductive.
The point of a military operation is to blow shit up and kill people, politics has failed and as a general rule the quicker you kill and blow up your foe to the point where they can no longer fight back at all means you are more likely to achieve the political goal that started all this in the first place
I don’t liberal arts “studies” majors are adept at clear and concise communication.
I believe the argument is that a diverse education, as opposed to a focused one, enables the person to talk intelligently about a wide variety of subjects. This in turn means that they can communicate with people from all different backgrounds, which makes the person ideal for management, sales, or some other occupation that requires communicating with lots of people.
Though in my experience people tend to choose liberal arts because they lack the intelligence to be a STEM major.
Somehow non-major History makes engineers more conversant in history than “Physics for Poets” makes history majors conversant in physics.
I don’t think that’s quite fair. Plenty of people are plenty intelligent, but not in the ways that make a STEM career readily accessible. Intelligence isn’t just one thing. There are plenty of people who are quite competent in their STEM field, but idiots in other ways too.
I think that the problem (to the extent that there is one) with liberal arts majors is that a lot of them go to college without a clear idea of what they want to do. So many just dick around and take what seems easy or interesting.
A good traditional liberal arts major would include a very large dose of math and science.
Im thinking Newton, Leibnitz, Descartes type liberal arts.
Yeah, but they only had to learn geometry.
Although, as my college physics professor pointed out, two of those guys were so good at geometry, they proved huge chunks of the calculus with it. Which we do a bit of as an exercise, but Isaac Newton may have been the best geometer before the 20th century. After that it is hard to judge because the field became so radically different.
spqr2008
To the point that with critical thinking, they could solve simple Engineering problems based on their mathematical skills.
You must be one of them liberal studies majors, then.
Liberal arts is history, literature, philosophy, math, science, etc. Please don’t conflate it with the stupid grievance studies departments. I would certainly say that it is desirable for military leaders to be familiar with the things I listed.
It’s called a typo, douchenozzle. And notice I specified “studies” in quotes, to distinguish it from a traditional liberal arts education, to avoid people like you mistakenly (deliberately?) conflating them.
It’s called a joke, fartknocker.
I thought that might have been your meaning. But a lot of people do seem to conflate “liberal arts” and “stupid bullshit”, so I figured it was worth commenting anyway.
I thought it was a joke about English and philosophy majors being longwinded.
It was a proud addition to H & R’s storied history of typos. Chill.
Please. Let someone teach the Literature of Ancient Veterans: Homer to Cervantes class. That would be awesome.
That would be a really cool class.
Rhywun
clarity of thought and expression
…can be learned outside a 4-year institution or hell, without any schooling at all.
John DeWitt
Yeah, 38 page papers on the long term viability of the agrarian economy in the antebellum south is not the “communicate” in “move, shoot, and communicate.”
I’m up, I ponder the existential threat behind yonder cover. I believe he may have identified my presence, and this is indeed a precarious situation – a situation in which I must now locate and acquire proper cover and descend to the sweet earth from whence I came.
Once again, work with engineers, the counter would be this:
“Why didn’t you tell us you were being over run?”
Foot shuffling, shame.
“Speak up son.”
“Afraid of Phone.”
I’ve had the opposite problem.
“Why isn’t this working?”
“Because X is a fucking idiot and you decided to put him in charge of it”
“What, the 4 emails and a phone call didn’t get the point across?”
If we want leaders who communicate clearly, solve problems creatively and appreciate cultural differences in theaters where they operate, studying the humanities is just as important as science, technology, engineering and math.
This is how it was in the old days when officers tended to come from the upper classes and mostly went through West Point or the Naval Academy rather than ROTC programs. The democratization of the university has watered the intellectual quality of its student bodies down to the point that military officers from ROTC programs are mostly specialists now.
If you want an organization that displays the qualities of a social and cultural elite, the breeding ground for these organizations can’t be devoted to shoving as many subliterate proles through as possible.
That is what technical writing classes are for.
There’s nothing, per se, wrong with what this guy is saying. Humanities should be of value in thinking through problems creatively that can supplement the STEM fields. The only thing I’d caution is that the sorry state of humanities today means that little of the suggested advantage would be realized and, if anything, the background would be of negative value.
Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?
One of the most remarkable things about Abstract Expressionism was the speed with which it rose to international prominence? By the ’50s, it was generally accepted that the most exciting advances in painting and sculpture were taking place in New York rather than Paris.[?]
Before long, though, the backlash had begun. First came Pop Art, which wrested attention away from Abstract Expressionism at the start of the ’60s. Then came the rumour-mongers, whispering that the swiftness of Abstract Expressionism’s success was somehow fishy.
In 1973, in an article in Artforum magazine, the art critic Max Kozloff examined post-war American painting in the context of the Cold War… Kozloff went on to argue that Abstract Expressionism was “a form of benevolent propaganda”, in sync with the post-war political ideology of the American government.
[…]A few years before they were published, in 1967, the New York Times had revealed that the liberal anti-Communist magazine Encounter had been indirectly funded by the CIA. As a result, people started to become suspicious. Could it be that the CIA also had a hand in promoting Abstract Expressionism on the world stage? Was Pollock, wittingly or not, a propagandist for the US government?
the movement was a useful foil to Russia’s official Soviet Realist style, which championed representative painting. “America was the land of the free, whereas Russia was locked up, culturally speaking”
Since the Abstract Expressionists, um, tended to drink a lot, one might be surprised that they did not arise in the Soviet Union.
Zeb hardest hit.
No, see, it just proves that 20th century realism is a communist plot.
You know too much, comrade.
You know who else was against somebody else’s degenerate art?
The art teacher in middle school who kept giving me detention?
Dr. Fronkensteen
The guy at the local gas station who cleans the stalls?
Ex-detainees say CIA used makeshift electric chair in secret Afghan prison: rights group
Two Tunisian men who spent 12 years in U.S. custody in Afghanistan said CIA interrogators tortured them using previously unreported techniques that included threatening them with a makeshift electric chair and beating them with batons so brutally that they suffered broken bones, Human Rights Watch reported on Monday.
The accounts, which could not be independently confirmed, raised new questions about how prisoners were treated in a former CIA prison in Afghanistan that remains shrouded in secrecy.
Ryan Trapani, a CIA spokesman, said the “CIA reviewed its records and found nothing to support these new claims.”
But Daniel Jones, who led a Senate investigation into the CIA detention program, said the accounts given by the two men, Ridha al-Najjar, 51, and Lotfi al-Arabi El Gherissi, 52, were important because so little is known about the “Cobalt” black site, where an Afghan detainee froze to death in 2002.
“CIA reviewed its records and found nothing to support these new claims.”
Case closed.
Yeah, this is one of those “who to believe” problems.
Any forensic evidence to back up their claims?
An independent medical expert hired by Human Rights Watch said that X-rays of Najjar showed his ankle had been broken and had not healed properly. Gherissi was missing two teeth.
Inconclusive, at best. The claim is multiple broken bones, and they can confirm a broken ankle, which its hard to say when or how it was broken.
OTOH, CIA.
Why Do French Fries Taste So Bad When They’re Cold?
One of the main reasons that French fries lose their appeal when cold is that their texture changes, said Matt Hartings, an assistant professor of chemistry at American University in Washington, D.C. [Does Salt Make Water Boil Faster?]
That change in texture can be explained by the chemistry of potatoes, Hartings told Live Science. Potatoes are filled with starch, Hartings said. Starches taste good when they are “hydrated,” he said.
Think of the starches in potatoes as tiny crystal spheres, Hartings said. At really high temperatures (like in fryers), water will go into those spheres and fill them up like balloons, he said. Instead of a small, hard sphere, you end up with something more “poofy,” he said.
And this “poofy” texture is something people really like, Hartings said.
But as fries cool down, the water starts to move out of the crystals, and you lose the fluffy texture, Hartings said. The spheres become more crystalline and gritty, he said.
Certified Public Asshat
There are people who enjoy cold McDonald’s french fries. These people are most likely serial killers.
Or UnCivilServant.
Just kidding. Cold McDonald’s fries are nowhere near bland enough for UCS to enjoy.
+1 Bowl of Porridge
I don’t recall the last year I even had McDonalds product of any kind. I can’t remember what it tastes like. I’m not going to go find out, I’ve been successfully losing weight.
Maybe my next book should be self-help “Crumudgeon your way to weight loss”
+3 meals a day of watery gruel
What else tastes good when they are “hydrated”?
‘I could write an entire essay about why I love this photo of Hillary’
This photo of a woman whose country has often been unfathomably cruel to her, doing her homework so that she can be prepared to be its leader, because she loves this country even when it doesn’t love her back, while its flag pokes into the frame from the corner, a symbol of the history, culture, industry, future of a great and struggling nation, stoically petitioning her from its perch above a dirty carpet in a small room.
At least he’s not one of those idiotic simpletons who puts his hand over his heart when the national anthem plays and goes babbling on about “muh patriotism”. No, this is sophisticated, high-brow, essay-writing sycophantry.
O.M.F.G.
Who are those people?
The True Believers
(with respect to Hoffer)
Barf. That’s more gag inducing than anything SugarFree has said about her.
You really don’t want SugarFree to accept that challenge.
5. Hillary is OK with a folding chair because the work is important.
Donald J tRump doesn’t work and wouldn’t sit in such an ordinary chair, a chair used by the common people.
What the actual fuck? How do these people remember to breathe?
She’s likely sitting because she was about to pass out.
DrZaius
Come on now, you know the thoughts at Free Republic are equally as fucking retarded.
So, congratulations, you also went to a high school that made you write essays about inane things.
The derp is pure.
Bernardo de La Paz (13,886 posts)
Is the tRump deliberate?
Yes. Mike M. has followers all over the internets.
Someone using the handle of Betnardo de la Paz wrote that?
That is sickening.
They read want they want to, and by that I mean they read something (everything) and decide that it conforms to their preconceived notions.
Wait, there is someone who is a Heinlein fan and also a Hillary fan?
How the fuck has his head not exploded from cognitive dissonance at this point?
Cognitive dissonance is a superpower of the left.
Well, if their either a Heinlein fan or a Hillary fan, their cognitive capacity is essentially mush, so the ability to notice contradictions would be nil.
To be fair you can be a fan of his stories without thinking his personal philosophy (even exposed in those stories) is sound.
The biggest RAH fan I ever knew is also a hard leftist (and otherwise a very smart guy). And if I’m not mistaken, his favorite novel is “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” no less. He is more into the sciency and libertine aspects of RAH’s writings, than the political underpinnings.
Liberty is difficult to understand, or even identify, for most. Sex and spaceships aren’t.
This photo of a woman whose country has often been unfathomably cruel to her,
Yeah, “being given a pass on her entire criminal career” is so cruel.
What I want to know is, where does that wire from the laptop go?
DiCaprio: Climate change deniers shouldn’t hold public office
“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” DiCaprio said at the White House’s South By South Lawn event.
“If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts, or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office.”
DiCaprio screened his film “Before the Flood,” a documentary about climate change. Ahead of the screening, he spoke on a panel with President Obama.
Obama called for the development of new technologies to address climate change, but stressed changes in policy and attitudes wouldn’t happen overnight.
“Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you,” Obama said.
That POS takes money from a thief who stole a billion from Malaysian government funds.
The 1MDB saga has been Hollywood-tinged from the start. Tim Leissner, the Goldman Sachs banker who brokered the deal that set everything in motion, is Kimora Lee Simmons’ husband. (He since has left the firm.) Low was given a “special thanks” in the film’s credits and hailed as a “collaborator” in DiCaprio’s 2014 Golden Globes acceptance speech. The Malaysian returned the favor in grand fashion with splashy bromantic gifts ? in one instance, according to the DOJ, he and the Red Granite execs brought DiCaprio along on an $11 million gambling bender in Las Vegas; in another, they reportedly laid out $600,000 to gift him Marlon Brando’s best actor Oscar statuette for On the Waterfront. (DiCaprio ? who has a notable habit of buddying up with smooth dudes who end up in federal prison for money crimes, from late investment adviser Dana Giacchetto to art dealer Helly Nahmad ? still was several prestige roles away from finally claiming his own.)
They also made donations to DiCaprio’s foundation. At the actor’s birthday party in 2013, Low and McFarland were among those who reportedly helped raise more than $3 million for the charity by buying marked-up bottles of champagne. Earlier that year, diverted 1MDB funds were alleged by the DOJ complaint to have been used by Low to purchase a pair of artworks (for a total of $1.1 million) by Ed Ruscha and Mark Ryden at a Christie’s auction benefiting the LDF (one of many buys during a spending spree that shook the art world). And at the glittering St. Tropez auction held in 2015, with the likes of David Geffen, Paul Allen, Tom Barrack and Harvey Weinstein in attendance, Low offered the LDF a sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein, 1982’s Brushstroke, valued at roughly $700,000. But Low wasn’t there to see it go under the hammer; instead, he is believed to have fled to Taiwan ? which has no extradition treaty with the U.S. ? as the net of international investigators began closing in.
Everybody in America: Entertainers shouldn’t talk about politics. Or current events. Or religion. Or the weather. We pay you for one thing, and that isn’t it.
A vote for Trump means WAY less of this shit. Just sayin’.
Do you think he’ll ever realize that the lifestyle he and people like him live while espousing conservation ultimately contributes to driving more people to skepticism?
Nobody denies that the climate changes, dipshit; it always has and always will. The argument is over what effect, if any, man has on it and if so, what should be done about it, if anything.
Some even say, fairly convincingly, that unlocking the carbon from the ground may have staved off another mass extinction, staved off another ice age and prolonged the habitability of earth on the order of millions of years. Even in this theory, it’s not the argument that the change is a pure unmitigated success, but looking at the big picture it argues that it’s the best thing that could have happened for earth’s biosphere.
Again it’s not so simple as believing in global warming and every damn policiy proposal that comes down the pike, or not believing in global warming and claiming that the climate is in stasis, which is the dichotomy that most alarmists promote as the state of reality.
“the argument is now over”
Said no honest scientist ever.
Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically.
Interesting word choice there, Barack…
Bill Clinton Trashes Obamacare At Event, Calls It ‘Crazy System’
Former President Bill Clinton attacked President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation Monday, calling it a “crazy system” that “doesn’t make any sense” during a Michigan campaign event for Hillary.
“It doesn’t many any sense. The insurance model doesn’t work here,” Clinton said about the government-run marketplaces Obamacare set up. Clinton said that Obamacare “works fine” for people with “modest” incomes or who are eligible for government subsidies, or Medicare. But he added that, “the people that are getting killed in this deal are small business people and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies.”
“You’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,” Clinton said. “It’s the craziest thing in the world.”
Will the quack-progs turn on him?
Domestic Dissident
“Also, big shout out to my illegitimate son!”
Its almost like Billy Jeff doesn’t really want to live in the White House again.
I think he’s going senile. Forgets Hillary isn’t running against Obama this time.
Triangulation, bitches!
Trump’s 1995 Return Shows Good Tax Policy at Work
Take a simple example, offered to me by Joe Kristan, a CPA who writes one of my favorite tax blogs. A meatpacking business loses a million dollars in one year, and then the next year it makes a million and a half. Without the ability to carry forward the losses from year one, then over the two years, it would pay perhaps $600,000 worth of state and federal income taxes, on $500,000 worth of actual money that it could spend to pay those taxes.
And did this scenario correspond to real-world clients of his firm? Absolutely, he said; it’s common in commodity businesses, where prices can fluctuate wildly from year to year.
“If someone has a $20 million gain in one year and a $10 million loss in the second year, that person should be treated the same as someone who had $5 million in each of the two years,” says Alan Viard, a tax specialist at the American Enterprise Institute, who like all the other experts, seemed somewhat surprised that this was not obvious.
You don’t understand. Carrying losses forward is greedy and un-American.
I used to carry losses forward for hundreds of dollars.
It’s available to all people and has nothing to do with being rich.
But progs are financial illiterates so they will always believe in ghosts and goblins.
Alternative Minimum Tax is clearly working as intended
” seemed somewhat surprised that this was not obvious.”
You know who else surprised by an adverse response to a reasonable solution?…
Every guy who has suggested anal in response to “you don’t pay enough attention to me”?
We would need to see the 1996 return, but it is likely the year he received all of the associated debt forgiveness, which would have wiped out a lot of the NOL.
Carry loss forwards IS A LOOPHOLE WE MUST CLOSE!
/swings pitch fork.
I lose ten million dollars one year and over the next six years make it back. If you don’t let losses carry over, I get taxes like I made ten million dollars when in fact I just broke even. Carrying over losses makes perfect sense and not doing so would be grossly unfair.
Sure, and when Leo DiCaprio does it backing some shit movie that makes Nothing But Trouble look like The Godfather, they’re all for it. They have principals, and Trump ain’t one of ’em.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww: Women Shun the Maternity Smock, and Stores Race to Catch Up
“The millennials really like to show off the belly,” Mr. Romano said. “The funny phrase that people use around here all the time is, is it gummy? Is it soft enough, is it stretch enough?”
“I didn’t like what stores were basically telling me to do, which was to just go buy bigger, baggier things,” she said. “I’m not going to go into Forever 21 and buy an extra large dress and cinch it.”
Marie George, 71, remembers when bigger and baggier felt like the only acceptable options.
“My generation was the first generation that didn’t have to stay in the house when they were pregnant,” said Ms. George, whose two children are now around 40.
“I remember I had this wonderful red jumper that I actually bought in the junior department, and I think I lived in that,” she said. “Most of the time, the things that I was wearing were really ill fitting.”
The thing about pregnant women is you KNOW they put out.
Florida Hipster
But you also know they aren’t pro-abortion, so…
You can only get so pregnant.
*rubs chin*
It’s kind of interesting how “maternity clothes” have changed over the years.
Over the weekend, I saw a very pregnant woman wearing a form-fitting stretch dress. It was actually pretty hot.
You draw the line at pregnant?
Meh, I’m with Rich on this one.
*slowly backs away from Rich*
“Ugly …. So *ugly*.” — Bill Cosby
It has certainly gotten better since the days of tents with big bows.
The big bow was held out as a promise to detract from the size of one’s enormous belly. The big bow was a lie.
The only pregnancy gear you need is a T-shirt that says “one in the oven”.
“I’m with stupid”
Tell me they make that with the arrow pointing down.
And two in the… nevermind.
“My generation was the first generation that didn’t have to stay in the house when they were pregnant,”
Honestly, I’m jealous. I’m so sick of strangers informing me what I look like and how pregnant I am.
You pregnant.
Girl, you so pregnant.
Gosh, I seem to remember seeing pregnant women in public my whole life, which goes back to before “my generation”.
These people are idiots.
She must be a Muslim, because I’ve never heard of such a taboo.
U.S. anti-pipeline groups interfering and influencing in Alberta:
http://business.financialpost……-pipelines
Rasmussen: White House Watch: Clinton, Trump Tied Again
Yes but were chronologically acceptable mammals hatched after 1980 properly questioned about there loyalties?
WikiLeaks’ ‘October Surprise’ fails; Assange promises more to come Promises, promises.
Yes I too awoke early to that rick roll
Watched it. He could’ve cleared up the “quotes taken out of context” thing right off the bat. Dickhead waited until he pumped his books and site. Funny, but still a dickhead.
Assange is a twit. His organization seems to do good work, but he is a classic case of overpromising, underdelivering.
Although perhaps if he did have something of substance it would be good judgment to hold its release until after the MONSTER HURRICANE OMFG SHTF TEOTWAWKI SIIHPAPP!
A friend of mine (progressive but despises Hillary) is convinced that the media purposefully builds up WikiLeaks releases to be more than they actually are so they can discredit them.
Even if he had something that would ruin Hillarys campaign. I’d bet money that Kaine takes over and still beats Trump.
In all seriousness, what at this point could possibly be released about Clinton that would affect the outcome of the election? America knows everything there is to know about the Clintons. Every one of their misdeeds, lies, crimes, and a literal stack of bodies to show for their policies. What’s going to stack up against the things that are already known? That she farts at the dinner table?
The FBI failure to indict her and the other leaks caused Trump to go from well behind to either ahead or a dead heat depending on what poll you want to believe. So these things clearly have hurt Hillary and they very well may hurt her some more.
The other thing is that they will make a big splash and force the media to talk about her problems. What seems to happen with her is something bad comes out and the country remembers how horrible she is. Then the media lie and create all kinds of distractions to take the heat off of her and her poll numbers creep up. A new batch of leaks, assuming they are actually significant, starts that process over again and likely hurts her by reminding the soft middle of the electorate that yes, Hillary really is that awful.
That was disappointing. It also sounds like the future leaks are not as focused on Hillary. I wonder if he woke up with a horse cankle in his bed.
A CNN poll huh? Maybe next time, you could post a poll taken from the MotherJones readership.
Is it just me, or do all the CNN anchors have giant heads? Their moms should’ve sought out Zika. Even shit out.
Lester Holt is certainly the most goofy looking news anchor I’ve even seen. His forehead accounts for 90% of his mass.
Gun sales hit 17th straight monthly record
“Ready for Hillary!”
Eliminationist rhetoric!
I know we’re in the Libertarian Moment and could never possibly go back to the bad old days of 2003 when we had an “assault weapon” ban. And maybe I’m just a pessimistic yokeltarian. But I 100% believe the United States will have gun control laws mirroring the UK within my lifetime.
The massive amount of guns sales says otherwise. Or at least it will be ignored.
I’m a hair under 30, so with any luck I’m talking about a pretty long time horizon. I’d be happy to be proven wrong. I honestly don’t think the current number of guns or gun owners would be a huge impediment the way it is often assumed. I bet if you asked a young banker in 1910 “Do you think it will be illegal to own gold bullion or gold certificates within your lifetime?” he probably would have laughed in your face, and yet private ownership of gold was illegal by the mid ’30s with little fanfare.
People laugh in my face when I tell them that FDR made owning gold illegal, because it sounds so damn absurd and tyrannical that it couldn’t possibly have happened.
There was a case a few years ago where someone found a very rare US gold coin in their grandparents stuff. The treasury confiscated it because the people had kept it in violation of the law back in the 1930s.
Were it not for FDR stacking the Supreme Court, I can’t imagine how this law executive order would have been ruled constitutional. We have a right to property, which is one way that it would unconstitutional, much less the ex post facto prohibition.
People who own gold are far less likely to shoot back
These days, I expect virtually nobody owns physical gold that doesn’t also own guns, and this overlap could well be the demographic most likely to shoot back.
Duterte tells Obama ‘you can go to hell’ in new tirade
n a speech before a local convention attended by officials and business executives, Duterte outlined his disappointments with the U.S., which has asked his government to stop the widespread killings under his anti-drug campaign and has questioned whether human rights are being violated. He also described Washington as an unreliable ally, saying Filipino forces have not benefited from joint combat exercises with U.S. troops.
“Instead of helping us, the first to criticize is this State Department, so you can go to hell, Mr. Obama, you can go to hell,” Duterte said. Then addressing the EU, he said: “Better choose purgatory, hell is filled up.”
Angered by U.S. criticism, Duterte has made a series of public pronouncements that he could scale back the activities and presence of visiting U.S. troops in the country. He said he wanted them out of the volatile south, saying their presence has inflamed restiveness among minority Muslims, which could complicate efforts to forge a peace accord with Muslim insurgents.
I don’t profess to know much about the Pi-lippines but this guy seems a tad off. However, is his reason of sparking this war to rid of Muslim insurgents a valid one? If so, it makes him one of the few leaders around who actually is doing something about it. Though the methods seem really bad if in fact he’s killing non-Muslim insurgents.
Ya but hopefully his solution isn’t a bit to ‘final’
He proudly espouses his final solution to the war on drugs in his country.
There’s been an ongoing Muslim insurgency on Mindanao pretty much since the Spanish colonization.
I’m guessing that the joint exercises with US forces always end up with US troops invading the bar district of whatever town they are near and not being seen for the rest of the exercise.
Local LBFM’s on the other hand profit handsomely from the “joint” exercises.
Obama: “Why go to hell? I’m creating it right here on earth!”
I’m all for telling Obama to go to hell, but Duterte is a megalomaniacal genocidal rapist, and I say that without a hint of hyperbole. If he literally thinks the Philipines haven’t benefited from US largesse, he can defend the Philippine territorial waters from China all by himself and fight his country’s unending insurgencies all alone as well.
So, have you guys seen the new Hillary ad campaign based around “fat shaming”?
I was travelling this weekend and probably saw it 30 times. It features Trump sound bites saying “She’s a big fat pig” and “I’d tell her to her big, fat face” as innocent-looking and slightly sad pre-teen girls look at themselves in the mirror and look into the camera.
It is possibly the most dishonest advertisement I have ever seen in my life. It pretends that when in an argument with Rosie O’Donnell, Trump is really yelling at a sweet little 12 year old girl. The ad comes right out and says that this is how he talks to all of your children.
The clear implication of the ad is that every grown woman is really a Jr. high school girl who must be protected and nurtured and cannot be insulted. All women are really children and fragile little flowers who cannot be exposed to adult disagreements.
If there was a single real feminist out there in the world, they’d be taking Hillary to the carpet over this one. But there isn’t. They are all a bunch of little snowflakes who are outraged that Trump called them fat.
It offends me that women fall for this shit. I want my own gender.
Pick anything you want, there are more than 31 flavors!
It’s 2016. You can have any gender you want!
I have talked to several women about this, including a couple of top-level executives who make 7 figure incomes. They all fell for it, 100%. Not one woman I talked to had the reaction of “Hey, I’m not a little kid, I’m an adult”.
Women whom I have personally witness calling men cocksuckers and worse right to their face, not to mention what they say behind their backs. Women whom I have personally heard calling other women much worse names than “Miss Piggy”. They all are shocked and appalled that any man would dare speak this way about a woman.
In fact, I was only able to get one woman to understand the implicit “all women are little children who must be protected from insults and course language” message of the ad. It doesn’t matter how much of a pig Trump is, this ad campaign is one of the most profoundly anti-feminist things to surface in modern politics. And nobody even seems to be able to see it.
I believe that. And the reason why they don’t see it is because they refuse to. They refuse to see it because doing so would require those women you mention to face how awful they are to other women and the ugly truth that women harm other women far more often than men harm women. The ad gives them a chance to project all of their own awfulness onto Trump and thus avoid facing it.
And the reason why they don’t see it is because they refuse to fear being called fat themselves.
That and they want to retain the power of degrading other women for being fat where men can’t.
Did you point out their hypocrisy, or decided you preferred to remain on good terms with them?
My girlfriend has essentially said that it cost him her vote. Of course I don’t know how you can be undecided about him at this point and than it’s finally this that pushes you away.
It bothers her not at all that Hillary was an enabler for Bill’s serial sexual assaults and rape, and that she ran a war room to smear and attack Bill’s victims, and that she has taken tens of millions of dollars from people and countries who believe women shouldn’t vote, shouldn’t drive, shouldn’t be seen in public without a man, should be stoned to death for adultery, etc. etc.? That all gets a pass?
I she isn’t voting for either at this point.
Well that’s good.
My wife had the exact same response.
She completely refuses to acknowledge the existence of even the suggestion that Clinton may have assaulted any women. The only issue as far as her reality goes is that he was unfaithful in his marriage, and that is a private matter.
The rest of it doesn’t even exist. Even when confronted with an interview with Juanita Broaddrick, she is unmoved – willfully so. She refused to even look at the headline, let alone listen to her story.
People are very funny about how they manage their reality.
But Trump is a pig. He’s disgusting.
(now, I happen to agree on the last bit, but for entirely different reasons. )
genderfaerie
Hold on to something. Only takes a second.
*Poof*
Appeal to Hamsterabi, The Lawgiver.
It features Trump sound bites saying “She’s a big fat pig” and “I’d tell her to her big, fat face”
I think he’s a jerk but it’s incredibly rich for Hillary to think she can take the moral high ground over anyone. Also, the comments are not something to base your vote on unless you’re just ignorant about the rest of the issues and their significance. Yeah, I’ll vote for the most corrupt candidate in history but at least she didn’t call someone fat! Really?
it’s incredibly rich for Hillary to think she can take the moral high ground over anyone
Informed people understand this. Not most voters, unfortunately.
I’ve been shocked at how presumably intelligent, informed women fall for this shit.
It hits them right in their insecurities, their frontal lobe switches off, and its all feelz and pre-teen emoting.
If there’s any group that is prone to cruelty towards fat and ugly women, it’s women.
Clich? Bandit
If there was a single real feminist out there in the world, they’d be taking Hillary to the carpet over this one.
What has been done here has been witnessed.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
Nephilium
Hell, here in the Cleveland suburbs there was a mailing by the Democrat party that didn’t even mention Hillary by name. It was just some Trump quotes, with a little written story over a picture of a woman that basically said that these terrible things are being said by Trump to all women, so you should vote for the Democrat.
“Clinton’s boost in the race stems largely from gains on Trump among men (from a 22-point deficit with that group in early September to just a 5-point one now) and sharply increased support from independents, who broke heavily in Trump’s favor in the early September poll but now tilt Clinton, 44% to 37%.”
I believe the one about independents. Seven points among independents still isn’t much of a margin–especially with Governor Aleppo still making waves.
But if you’re telling me that Clinton’s ahead now on the backs of men changing their minds and going for Clinton, you can color me skeptical. That isn’t where they want to be.
Trump’s dead cat bounce in the polls is over.
You don’t know what that term means. A dead cat bounce suggests that he’s fallen from a great height. He’s been trailing all this time.
The question remains how well he’s doing in battleground states like Ohio and North Carolina, too–didn’t see those results in the poll.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton hasn’t had a favorable rating over 50% since July of 2014 (Two-Thousand Fourteen). Her favorable rating has hovered around 39% for the past nine months, and her unfavorable rating has been clocking in around 56% for the past nine months, too.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161…..-news.aspx
Even if Trump had the benefit of a dead cat bounce, we’d only be comparing him to Hillary’s dead cat bounce. Even if she wins, she’ll only walk into office less hated than Richard Nixon when he resigned–and then her honeymoon will end.
Hillary’s dead cat bounce.
Is that a dead pussy cat?
dead cat bounce is a temporary recovery from a prolonged decline that is followed by the continuation of the downtrend. It does not require starting from a great height.
dead cat bounce is a temporary recovery from a prolonged decline
So, not a (temporary?) reversal of an uptrend?
Me too. That strikes me as the result of an oversample of black, hispanic, and/or urban white men. Rasmussen has them tied, which I also doubt, but Hillary -5 among men is just way, way off from where the polls have sat this election.
22 point deficit to a five point deficit?
That’s a huge swing among a group of people who don’t have much of a reason to change sides.
Why did they all change?
They’e upset about Trump saying bad things about Miss Piggy?
What was it that Hillary said in the debate that made men, specifically, change their minds?
I’m skeptical of big changes without big reasons for them.
The ball doesn’t get knocked out of the park by itself.
There is nothing Hillary said that would have changed men’s minds in that debate. She was all big government nanny state and that does not generally appeal to men. If this poll showed a swing in women voters, I might believe it. But, as you point out, Hillary has done nothing that would cause men who don’t already support her to change their minds. This poll is either a bad sample or a push poll. I don’t buy it for a moment.
UPI/CVoter poll: Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 2.5 points
online poll so ?\_(?)_/?
UPI has it Trump +2
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/1…..475504225/
LA Times has it Trump +5 and Rasmussan as you point out has it tied. CNN and a couple of others have it Clinton +5 or +6.
I think it is a question of who they are sampling. If you over sample Democrats, Clinton gets a big lead. If you over sample Republicans, Trump gets the lead. It really comes down to turnout. If Democrats show up in the kind of numbers they did in 08, Clinton wins. If they turn out like they did in 12, it is probably too close to call. If they turn out anything less than how they did in 12, Trump wins easily.
You’ve got intensity favoring Trump and demographic trends favoring Clinton – Hillary might end up with an electorate similar to Obama in 2012 despite her doing everything she can to persuade them to stay home. I also think we’re going to see a sizable Bradley effect this election, in keeping with recent high profile elections and HRC’s own history.
Intensity can be very deceiving. If one guy loves Trump and will do anything to vote for him and another person loathes Hillary but shows up to vote anyway out of party loyalty, their votes count the same. For intensity to matter it has to translate into more people actually voting for one side. Sometimes, like in the BREXIT vote it does. Other times it doesn’t. I think it is a good bet that Trump isn’t going to underperform his poll numbers. Anyone telling a pollster that they support Trump is pretty likely to vote. Hillary, on the other hand, might underperform her poll numbers. Lots of people say they support Hillary but don’t really like her or want to vote for her. It is impossible to predict how many of Hillary’s supporters will actually show up to vote.
And I agree with you that there is probably an actual Bradley effect going on for the first time ever. I think there are a good number of especially college educated whites who say they don’t support Trump but will actually vote for him.
There’s an EC vote gaming app out there that lets you “bend” poll results. If memory serves, a switch of 2% from Hillary to Trump results in a Trump EC victory.
Still too close to call, too early to tell. It comes down to Trump’s lack of impulse control v. bad news for Hillary breaking the media blockade.
And you can blame the way the media, and Clinton, have been talking about Trump supporters for that. If you social signal hard enough, people will lie to your face to signal their virtuosity, while resenting the pressure and having to lie.
This brown on brown violence has got to stop!
Also, someone should mention that the big story of the day is likely to be about Wikileaks.
Julian Assange is holding a press conference today and releasing a new batch of Hillary’s emails.
You’d think he’d save some juicy bits for October.
For me, the really serious stuff became public knowledge in May of 2015.
Did you guys know that Hillary Clinton accepted money from foreign governments while she was the Secretary of State?
Either my sarcmeter is broke or you should check the innertubz.
Does anybody understand what this is supposed to mean?
I believe he is implying that you’re taking the piss as this was already discussed upthread.
I think it’s more likely that genderfaerie hasn’t been reading outside of Salon.
Good thing we’re here to inform:
“In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records.
“Hillary Clinton Oversaw US Arms Deals to Clinton Foundation Donors”
http://www.motherjones.com/pol…..arms-deals
My sarc meter isn’t even on, and I’ve checked the interwebs. Theu say Hillary Clinton took money from foreign governments while she was the Secretary of State.
P.S. Hillary Clinton took money from foreign governments while she was the Secretary of State.
I hadn’t heard that before. Payments to the ClintonCrimeSyndicate are baked into current polls, but the direct payments to the Clintons I hadn’t heard before. This sounds like a good topic for an ad and Donald’s debate.
The direct payments are “speaking fees”, would be my guess.
All part of their world-class money-laundering operation. Which they have already told us will continue if Hillary wins the election.
The Late P Brooks
Great. My day is shot, and I haven’t even had breakfast yet.
Gary Johnson skeptical about all politicians
“I’m a real skeptic, so I point out an elected leader, foreign leader that I admire and all of a sudden I have to defend them against things that I’m not even aware of”
“I would love to see a poll head-to-head, Johnson versus Clinton, Johnson versus Trump,” he said. “I think that would really be revealing. I think I would be the President of the United States in that poll.”
Not sure about playing up the “things that I’m not aware of” aspect of his candidacy, but I am also curious to see GJ vs HRC and GJ vs DT polls. Maybe his campaign could kick in some cash to run those polls rather than whining that nobody else is doing it for him at no cost.
If he’d said that on the show we wouldn’t even be talking about it.
Of course, the depths of your skepticism are somewhat undermined when you heap praise on the opposing party’s nominee. But it would have worked for the foreign leader bit and neatly dodged the question instead of making you look like a total cock.
Gary keeps saying really good things several days too late. If he was quick-witted enough to pop off lines like this when questioned, we’d be in a whole different scenario right now.
L’esprit d’escalier
Sorry Gary, the jerk store and called and they say you only get one chance to give the right answer to a question.. Thinking of a good answer later after giving a dumb one doesn’t count.
-1 esprit l’escalier
He should ask for all questions two days in advance. The hosts shouldnt have a peoblem wirh that.
Or maybe wear an ear piece so his staff can feed him answers. I am sure the media will go for that. It is not like they give Hillary special treatment or anything. Right?
I mean they arent playing gotcha games, right? They want intelligent, well thought out answers?
I finally heard the Chris Mathews question. Holy crap, what an asshole. Johnson flubbed it, but Mathews made it pretty clear that he was just paying gotcha with his moronic “come on just name anyone” shit.
If only Johnson had said “well Chris none of them really send a thrill up my leg”, it would have been the most epic burn in TV history. God what a missed opportunity. Can you imagine the look on that assholes’ face if Johnson had said that? It would have been priceless.
And BTW a couple of years ago Michelle Bachman of all people got off a pretty similar burn. I forget exactly what she said but it was something to the effect of “that candidate just might send a thrill up people’s legs”. It was the last thing she said and as they went to commercial Mathews practically screamed “I never said that. Idiot!”. It was great but not as great as the opportunity Johnson had.
keyug15
My Uncle Hudson recently got Audi A6 only from working off a pc at home
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Scanned and didn’t see anything about this:
“WikiLeaks’ Assange promises leaks on US election, Google”
“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised “significant” disclosures on subjects including the U.S. election and Google in the coming weeks as the secret-spilling group marked its 10th anniversary on Tuesday.
Assange said WikiLeaks plans to start publishing new material starting this week, but wouldn’t specify the timing and subject.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/…..smsnnews11
Hell of a tease…
Trump should ask Hillary to just release everything she think Assange might have. If Hillary and the Democrats think that Assange is an agent of Russia trying to interfere with the election, fine. Release everything he might have and then he has nothing new to leak and thus can’t have any effect on the election. Hillary knows what he has or could have. Just release it.
It would be brilliant and hilarious watching the media and Hillary trying to explain why she can’t do that.
The Fusionist
I don’t know if Assange is a Russian agent (isn’t he still in the Equador embassy in London?), but I imagine he’s trying to influence the election!
He probably is. But he can’t influence anything if he doesn’t have anything new to leak. Right? Come on Hillary, don’t let Assange interfere in US elections. Just tell America what he has. It is not like you have something to hide or anything. Right?
Presumably Julian is leaving Trump alone because he doesn’t want to get into anything too rapey, for obvious reasons.
I don’t know. If Hillary didn’t have so much to hide, it wouldn’t really matter now would it?
Practically her entire adult’s life worth of papers has been published during one Republican witch hunt or another over the years. Meanwhile nobody’s asking your guy to talk about the time he gang raped children, they just want a routine release of his tax documents. Not that he’s hiding anything.
Meanwhile nobody’s asking your guy to talk about the time he gang raped children
Presuming “your guy” here refers to Trump, was he Bill Clinton’s mystery guest to Jeffrey Epstein’s underage bacchanal? Lol. Of all the things a Clinton apologist doesn’t want to start throwing around it’s rape accusations. Not everybody loves those cum stained garments as much as you do.
trying to influence the election
This has nothing to do with Assange but it amazes me that this has become a bad thing. As though elections have some sort of “pristine” state where nobody’s “influenced”. The whole purpose of an election is to represent the voters’ will, no? Then what difference does it make if someone “influences” that will, unless you believe voters don’t have agency (in which case, why even have elections?).
Yeah, you’d think influencing the election be releasing truthful info would be an unmitigated good.
The central fallacy is that they pretend all “influence” is the same and nefarious. If Assange were putting out lies or trying to bribe the candidates, that would be bad. He is of course not doing that. All he is doing is releasing information that should have been released to the public but hasn’t been. Is that “influencing the election”? In some sense sure. It is not however nefarious or anything that Hillary has any standing to complain about.
I bet he spells out the shocking revelation that Google toyed with it’s algorithm to downplay negative news about Hilary and positive news about Trump.
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Reaper's Reviews: 'Violet Evergarden'
Updated on October 15, 2018
Raziel Reaper
Ilan is a huge fan of anime and video games since he can remember himself. He is also an aspiring author who wishes to write fantasy novels.
Production: Kyoto Animation
Format: 13 episodes + OVA
Release: January 11, 2018 - April 5, 2018
Source: Light novel
In all honesty, I wasn’t expecting to watch this series, at least not as early as I thought.
While it did have an interesting concept, I’ve been put off by works from Kyoto Animation (sans A Silent Voice which is a fantastic movie) thanks to series like K-On!, Beyond the Boundary and Phantom World. And while they surely had some damn good projects like Sound! Euphonium and Nichijou, it just didn’t really feel worthwhile to follow the studio again.
And then, over the span of a few days, I got hit by no less than three different reviews about Violet Evergarden from writers and critics that I follow, including the legend himself, Glass Reflection’s Arkada. At their best, they hailed it as a remarkable piece of storytelling among the best of 2018, while at the worst said that it’s still a damn good series to watch.
With that, I decided to give Violet a chance, and boy am I glad for watching it.
Story & Setting
The world of Violet Evergarden takes balant inspirations from early 20th century Europe, which shows in different ways from its culture, to social structure, usage of Germanic languages and, of course, a post-”Great War” atmosphere where partly broken nations attempt to rebuild themselves after years of ruthless, families-tearing struggle.
But really it’s not about the setting itself but rather its effects on certain individual stories. That’s not to say that Violet shies away from showing first-hand the horrors of war, but the bulk of its narrative focuses on the now, or rather, the now as how it was shaped by the past, if that makes any bloody sense.
As would be understandable for an early 20th century society, the majority of the population are illiterate; thus, they require the assistance of Auto-Memory Dolls, female ghostwriters who help their clients with expressing their feelings on paper. One such doll is the titular Violet.
But Violet is not your typical Doll, no; aside from effectively acting like an actual doll, the teenage Violet is a veteran of the Great War, where she was a ruthless killing machine feared and respected by allies and enemies alike. But the war cost her dearly, and she lost both of her arms as well as connection with her commanding officer, Major Gilbert. With expansive prosthetic arms as replacement, Violet is taken to work as a Doll into a former Colonel’s letter penning and mail delivery company.
This is where the plot is fractured into three major plot threads, all intertwined together: the first being Violet searching for the Major, the second being her slow acceptance of her own humanity and emotions, and the final one is the individual emotional story of the week. I guess you can also add the tension caused by the war's end but, really, it’s more of a background aspect for the majority of the series rather than an actual story arc until the final two episodes.
It should be noted that what is perhaps Violet’s greatest fault occurs early on, namely it’s the very slow-paced beginning, spreading over its first four episodes. By no means are those episodes bad, because they’re definitely not, nor do they drag, but their deliberate snail-speed pacing will make it somewhat difficult to enter into Violet Evergarden.
From what I gathered, the first few episodes are anime-original, with no counterpart in the light novel, and their purpose is to both introduce aspects of the setting, as well as cover Violet’s first days as an Auto-Memory Doll. And while they are well-written, their rather subdued nature may test one’s patience before Violet truly opens up to showcase its brilliance.
Violet Evergarden then shifts gears to explore both the repressed humanity of its main heroine and how her job as a Doll aids her rediscovering her lost emotions. The vast majority of episodes tell their own, fairly standalone stories while simultaneously showing how exposure to said stories develops Violet into a more competent ghostwriter, as well as a more emotionally sensitive human being.
The series begins with (relatively) lighthearted affairs like one of Violet’s co-workers having a fallout with her own mother due to her refusal to marry, but as the series continues Violet gets involved in tragic and heartbreaking scenarios like a little girl fearing for her mother’s death from illness or a bitter scriptwriter who lost his daughter.
The episodes follow a definite formula and obviously vary in quality (though none of them is even remotely bad or uninteresting), but in only 20 minutes, they manage to tell a satisfying - often bittersweet - story that has a beginning, middle and end, and to build such emotional connection with the narrative and characters in such a short amount of time is nothing less than masterful.
Despite some of the harsher points of the stories, as well as Violet’s own arc, the series remains an optimistic and idealistic show that deals not only with loss, pain, depression and self-loathing, but also rewards the viewers (and the characters) with acceptance, love, bliss and self-discovery.
Violet shows the vicious reality of both post-war life and personal struggle, but more often than not also decides to end things on a more idealistic note that despite all the sorrow, there is still good to be found in one’s life or legacy, somewhere. And while the cynical in me scratched his head in slight annoyance, the young idealistic me embraced Violet’s themes wholeheartedly.
The final few episodes then decide to continue Violet’s grander plot to find the fate of her superior, and while I was initially taken aback by the change of direction, I think it was a good way to end the story; it builds upon the ideas and plot elements introduced early and leads to a payoff that fell surprisingly well earned and hopeful in line of Violet’s themes and tone.
There is definitely more to the story, but the way Violet Evergarden concludes its first installment is delightfully rewarding and a good finish line to a strong script.
I will talk about the titular Violet a bit later as she is a big reason of the series’ appeal, but I just have to start that what I love about the supporting cast is how memorable every character is, even the most minor ones. If the character has any role in the episode, be sure that they are given enough screentime and characterization to make them endearing one way or another.
Of course the supporting cast members that get the most of the series’ script are Violet’s acquaintances in the company she works at, and the focus characters in each of Violet’s jobs. What seems at first as a cookie-cutter selection of one-note characters quickly evolves into something far more genuine.
As I mentioned earlier, Violet Evergarden manages to tell, quite effortlessly for the most part, compelling character-driven stories in just under 20 minutes, and in those 20 minutes, each episodes, the different folks Violet encounters are given varied backstories, different reasons behind their actions and motives, rich characterization and, with the exception of one, utterly tragic example, an heartfelt conclusion that finishes their story on a very satisfying note as their encounter with Violet allows them to reflect upon their lives and move on from past tragedies and old wounds.
The measure of their personal problems may be different, but it doesn’t matter if it is a princess worrying about her marriage to a much older prince of a rival nation or a young man trying to find his way after the abandonment he suffered by his mother; what matters is that they felt human to me. I pitied them when their were at their lowest, and I cheered for them when they rose up thanks to Violet, and by the end of the episode, they felt like good friends I didn’t want to part ways with.
As for the series’ more permanent cast members, Violet’s fellow Auto-Memory Dolls Iris and Erica get their own episodes that see them bonding with their stern and distant partner, as well as delving a bit more into their emotional state and motives behind becoming Dolls, and while they didn’t feel as compelling as other characters, I still found them immensely likable. (Plus, Iris is one hell of a cutie.)
Meanwhile, while none of them is given an episode for themselves, Violet’s superiors Claudia Hodgins (who is a guy), Benedict and Cattleya ended up becoming my favorite supporting characters; Claudia’s affectionate attempt to be a father figure for Violet is both heartwarming and heartwrenching due to him also being a veteran from the Great War, while Benedict and Cattleya’s hilarious banters and sexual tension are balanced by their respective care for a girl they gradually learn to understand.
And finally, we have Violet herself, a war child turned letter writer.
Let me get the one big negative about her character out the way first; it takes a while for Violet’s development to actually kick in. It suffers from the same issue the main plot has: the first three or so episodes are just so slow. That wouldn’t have been such a problem if Violet’s initial personality wasn’t so cold and distant; her robotic, monotone voice and emotionless demeanor make it hard for the viewer to relate and warm up to Violet. With her being the always-featured (and most focused-on) character, this may result in people giving up on the series as a whole.
That said, however, I personally believe that Violet Evergarden had one of the best character arcs in anime in recent years, and those who will stick with the series will be rewarded with a jaw-dropping transformation that may be slow, but is so beautifully and gently constructed that 80 minutes of slow burn are more than a worthy trade.
Violet’s progression from a distant killer to an empathic and sensitive girl who regains her lost innocence is so well done that it may be the one biggest achievement of the series. There is so much care and effort poured into Violet’s development, but it’s never really done in an over-the top, obvious manner, instead utilizing subtle speech changes and body/facial motions that summarize her graduation into a living human rather than… well, a doll. By the end of the series Violet became so endearing and real, and, without getting into spoilers, her arc receives a solid ending.
Animation & Art
As a Kyoto Animation production, Violet Evergarden is a gorgeously animated series. I won’t mince words but it’s not a stretch to say that the series as a whole is on par with many theatrical movies that came out over the last three years, even in comparison to other KyoAni works like 2016’s A Silent Voice (which is a movie, mind you).
The art is clean, detailed, crisp and uses lighting and shadows brilliantly. There is very little dip in the art consistency and even when it occurs (which is extremely rare), the backgrounds more than make up for it with vibrant environments and classic European architecture.
The quality in the animation is simply mind-blowing, and Violet also takes it to the next step with multiple subtle motions and gestures, facial animations and subdued movements to further explore its characters without the use of dialogue. I mention those scenes in particular mainly because animated works, especially anime, tend to skimp over such additions, but KyoAni’s high talent and deep pockets overcome this issue to present a more immersive series.
Oh and the character designs, man. It’s already good that every main and supporting character has their own design, features and attires that separate them from each other while keeping one particular style, but when one episode featured dozens upon dozens of uniquely designed background characters, you gotta admit it’s something special.
Violet Evergarden is one of these rare anime that were composed by a non-Japanese composer. The American-born Evan Call may not have the longest career out there (his other big work is on Big Order), but his work on Violet only adds to the sheer beauty of this series.
I love how peaceful and elegant the soundtrack can be; from Violet’s soothing and hopeful theme that grows more intense to the quiet “Unspoken Words”. There is a very Disney-esque vibe to the overall feel of it, and almost every piece can be heard whenever you want some calm afternoon.
Of course with these kind of anime, there will always be that piece that stands above all due to its relevance in emotional scenes, and here it is “Never Coming Back”. Its melancholic music box-like style plays on your heart strings, before moving to a somber violin and piano mixture that culminates with lovely vocals.
The opening theme “Sincerely” by TRUE is a cute if forgettable song, but the ending theme “Michishirube” by Minori Chihara got stuck in my mind due to Chihara’s high-pitched voice and the manner in which the song plays, that being over actual scenes rather than a cinematic drawn specifically for the ending.
Now the dub is pretty good; Erika Harlacher is a wonderful choice for the title character, and conveys Violet’s character development organically as her monotone and flat voice slowly becomes enormed with emotion and depth. While the rest of the cast is good too, the only one I assume people will be familiar with (at least more than others) is Kyle McCarley, who voices Claudia, and both he and his peers are solid performances.
It’s hard for me to express in words just how much I adore Violet Evergarden; it’s a masterclass in animated storytelling and boasts one of the best character arcs I’ve watched in years. And that doesn’t include the slew of intriguing and immensely relatable characters, many of whom appear for only one episode. It’s not easy to tell a multi-episode story, but it becomes all the more jaw-dropping when you know a writer can bring to life so many emotions with a satisfying conclusion in just twenty or so minutes.
Its idealistic point of view will ask you to turn off your cynical side, and it takes a bit while to get going, but once it gets going, Violet Evergarden just doesn’t stop for a moment; it keeps building upon its premise and main character further and further, culminating in powerful scenes filled with emotions and a finale that, while left somewhat open-ended, delivers just enough to satisfy you. Couple this with Kyoto Animation’s sharpest visuals to date and a gorgeously peaceful soundtrack, and Violet Evergarden is simply a must-watch.
Powerful stories with human characters
Violet's character development is amazing
Top-notch animation and soundtrack
Slow-paced beginning
Violet takes time to warm up to
Not for the cynical minded
& the Ugly:
My hatred to write reviews that bear the main character's name
As for alternate recommendations, I shall point you towards Letter Bee, which also centers around letter deliveries alongside personal stories. Its main plot does get a bit in the way, however, but overall it's a decent series.
The second recommendation is Mushi-Shi, for its episodic and calm form of story-telling. It boasts impressive animation, art and soundtrack, and a slew of interesting characters.
Between both you may found something you like.
© 2018 Raziel Reaper
Reaper's Reviews: 'Attack on Titan S3'
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Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville
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Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville offers 102-degree programs and 6 via distance education. Student-to-faculty ratio is 20:1. 74.2% are women, and 25.8% are men. The average annual total cost of attendance at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville is 7251$, that is at the level of national average. 78% of full-time Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville students completed their education program in 150 percent of time: graduation rate is above national average. Average salary after attending is $31,200, so if you studied 2 years, you’ll get your funds back in less than 2 years.
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The estimated cost of the Computer and Information Sciences, General (the 2d largest program, lasting 20 months) is $12,883 per year and $154,600 in total. Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training is the third largest program at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville, and it takes a full-time student 12 months to complete. This one will cost $6,402 per year and $76,824 for the full completion. The 4th largest with 20 months length Machine Tool Technology/Machinist will cost you $11,655 per year, $139,860 for the complete course.
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464 of Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville undergraduates were awarded with some type of financial aid, it’s 65 percents of all undergraduate students. This makes Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville number 87 in the amount of financial aid awarded to students among all educational institutions in Tennessee.
Students at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville awarded 4 types of loans or aids, the biggest percent of students received a any financial aid.
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Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville graduation rate is above the national average.
78% of full-time students enrolled for the first time to Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville completed the education program and got a degree in 150 percent of the expected time of completion.
The graduation rate value includes only programs that were completed less than six years for four-year degrees or less than three years for two-year degrees.
Graduation rate is the percentage of institution’s new-entering, first-time, first-year undergraduate students who complete their program within 150% of the published time for the program. Graduation rate excludes a huge number of students. This indicator doesn’t take into account students of nontraditional enrollments - part-time students, students who enroll mid-year, and who transfer from one institution to another. So graduation rate alone can create a misleading picture. Completion rate in the form of total number of students receiving any types of awards/degrees creates a complete picture. Combining this data with graduation rate is a better way to compare schools.
The student-to-faculty ratio at Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville is 20:1, that means that for every 20 students the institution has one professor, lecturer or specialist with a degree in education. Lower student-to-faculty ratio is better - it means that professors can dedicate more time and attention to each student.
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Students enrollment in distance education
In Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville the biggest percent of students are enrolled in on-campus courses.
Distance education location breakdown
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Number of degree programs offered
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville offers 102 programs in total: 38 are for less than 1-year certificate programs, 35 - for 1-year, but less than-2-year certificate programs, and 29 are 2-year, but less than 4-year certificate programs.
This is one of the lowest number of programs in comparison with other 187 universities in Tennessee state, with one of the highest number of 1-year, but less than-2-year certificate and 2-year, but less than 4-year certificate programs offered.
Number of degree programs offered via distance education
There are 6 distance education programs that are provided in the Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville: 3 are for less than 1-year certificate programs and 3 are 1-year, but less than-2-year certificate programs.
Note, that programs offered via distance education might be fully online as well as partially online and require on-campus meetings. So explore each program to make sure you can commit.
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Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville provides coursework for undergraduate students оnly.
In 2014-2015 academic year estimated full-time equivalent undergraduate enrollment was 476 students with 428041 сontact hours for 12-month instructional activity period.
TOP 5 Popular Majors
The most popular majors counted as percentage breakdown of degrees awarded in every single discipline in Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville
11% — Mechanic and Repair Technologies/Technicians
6% — Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants
6% — Health Professions and Related Programs
5% — Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
5% — Business Operations Support and Assistant Services
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Scholar Commons > College of Marine Science > Faculty Publications > 66
A Numerical Analysis of Shipboard and Coastal Zone Color Scanner Time Series of New Production Within Gulf Stream Cyclonic Eddies in the South Atlantic Bight
J. Raymond Pribble, University of South Florida
John J. Walsh, University of South FloridaFollow
Dwight A. Dieterle, University of South Florida
Frank E. Muller-Karger, University of South FloridaFollow
https://doi.org/10.1029/93JC02907
Eddy-induced upwelling occurs along the western edge of the Gulf Stream between Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in the South Atlantic Bight (SAB). Coastal zone color scanner images of 1-km resolution spanning the period April 13-21, 1979, were processed to examine these eddy features in relation to concurrent shipboard and current/temperature measurements at moored arrays. A quasi-one-dimensional (z), time-dependent biological model, using only nitrate as a nutrient source, has been combined with a three-dimensional physical model in an attempt to replicate the observed phytoplankton field at the northward edge of an eddy. The model is applicable only to the SAB south of the Charleston Bump, at approximately 31.5-degrees-N, since no feature analogous to the bump exists in the model bathymetry. The modeled chlorophyll, nitrate, and primary production fields of the euphotic zone are very similar to those obtained from the satellite and shipboard data at the leading edges of the observed eddies south of the Charleston Bump. The horizontal and vertical simulated fluxes of nitrate and chlorophyll show that only approximately 10% of the upwelled nitrate is utilized by the phytoplankton of the modeled grid box on the northern edge of the cyclone, while approximately 75% is lost horizontally, with the remainder still in the euphotic zone after the 10-day period of the model. Loss of chlorophyll due-to sinking is very small in this strong upwelling region of the cyclone. The model is relatively insensitive to variations in the sinking parameterization and the external nitrate and chlorophyll fields but is very sensitive to a reduction of the maximum potential growth rate to half that measured. Given the success of this model in simulating the new production of the selected upwelling region, other upwelling regions for which measurements or successful models of physical and biological quantities and rates exist could be modeled similarly.
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Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, issue C4, p. 7513-7538
Copyright 1994 by the American Geophysical Union.
Pribble, J. Raymond; Walsh, John J.; Dieterle, Dwight A.; and Muller-Karger, Frank E., "A Numerical Analysis of Shipboard and Coastal Zone Color Scanner Time Series of New Production Within Gulf Stream Cyclonic Eddies in the South Atlantic Bight" (1994). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 66.
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/66
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The Dalek In The ‘Doctor Who’ New Year Special Had An Interesting Codename
Posted February 11th, 2019 by Emily Schaab
The return of the Daleks for the ‘Doctor Who’ New Year special episode, ‘Resolution,’ took the Doctor and her friends on a terrifying journey. However, it seems like the monster was given a less intimidating name during filming: Kevin.
To keep fans from guessing Skaro’s return, showrunner Chris Chibnall referred to the Dalek as Kevin in the script. Actor Nikesh Patel, who played Mitch in the episode, had a little trouble understanding the significance of Kevin while he was reading the pages. In an interview with ‘Doctor Who’ magazine, Patel said:
“I got a call from my agent saying they’d love you to be in the ‘Doctor Who’ Special. I asked them to send me through a script and it was a cracking read, but also a confusing read.”
He continued, saying:
“It was a really tense horror thriller, but this buried, ancient tentacled evil was only referred to by a codename! As someone who’s not a die-hard ‘Who’ fan, I thought, ‘That’s a step too far, surely?’”
Patel revealed that the show’s star was in on the fun, saying:
“In the read-through, Jodie [Whittaker] stuck with the codename. Although with hindsight she did it with a wry smile.”
Charlotte Ritchie, who played Lin in ‘Resolution,’ confirmed that Kevin was the Dalek’s codename on Twitter, and explained that the name took the fright out of the monster.
Exclusive: it was Kevin. Which took away a lot of the drama. No disrespect to the name. https://t.co/xZXA9BPRvb
— Charlotte Ritchie (@Charitchie) February 7, 2019
‘Doctor Who’ is on hiatus, and will return to the BBC in 2020!
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Reconstruction of regulatory and metabolic pathways in metal-reducing δ-proteobacteria View Full Text
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Dmitry A Rodionov, Inna Dubchak, Adam Arkin, Eric Alm, Mikhail S Gelfand
BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about the genetic basis for the unique physiology of metal-reducing genera in the delta subgroup of the proteobacteria. The recent availability of complete finished or draft-quality genome sequences for seven representatives allowed us to investigate the genetic and regulatory factors in a number of key pathways involved in the biosynthesis of building blocks and cofactors, metal-ion homeostasis, stress response, and energy metabolism using a combination of regulatory sequence detection and analysis of genomic context. RESULTS: In the genomes of delta-proteobacteria, we identified candidate binding sites for four regulators of known specificity (BirA, CooA, HrcA, sigma-32), four types of metabolite-binding riboswitches (RFN-, THI-, B12-elements and S-box), and new binding sites for the FUR, ModE, NikR, PerR, and ZUR transcription factors, as well as for the previously uncharacterized factors HcpR and LysX. After reconstruction of the corresponding metabolic pathways and regulatory interactions, we identified possible functions for a large number of previously uncharacterized genes covering a wide range of cellular functions. CONCLUSIONS: Phylogenetically diverse delta-proteobacteria appear to have homologous regulatory components. This study for the first time demonstrates the adaptability of the comparative genomic approach to de novo reconstruction of a regulatory network in a poorly studied taxonomic group of bacteria. Recent efforts in large-scale functional genomic characterization of Desulfovibrio species will provide a unique opportunity to test and expand our predictions. More... »
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Rasha Khatib
Birzeit University
49Publications
19H-index
1,773Citations
Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study
Sep 1, 2019·The Lancet59.10
#1Salim Yusuf Mb Bs DPhil Frcpc (Population Health Research Institute)H-Index: 214
#2Philip Joseph (Population Health Research Institute)H-Index: 17
Last.Gilles Dagenais (Laval University)H-Index: 31
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Summary Background Global estimates of the effect of common modifiable risk factors on cardiovascular disease and mortality are largely based on data from separate studies, using different methodologies. The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study overcomes these limitations by using similar methods to prospectively measure the effect of modifiable risk factors on cardiovascular disease and mortality across 21 countries (spanning five continents) grouped by different economic levels. M... more
4 CitationsSource
Variations in common diseases, hospital admissions, and deaths in middle-aged adults in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study
#1Gilles Dagenais (Laval University)H-Index: 31
#2Darryl P. Leong (Population Health Research Institute)H-Index: 33
Last.Salim Yusuf Mb Bs DPhil Frcpc (Population Health Research Institute)H-Index: 214
Summary Background To our knowledge, no previous study has prospectively documented the incidence of common diseases and related mortality in high-income countries (HICs), middle-income countries (MICs), and low-income countries (LICs) with standardised approaches. Such information is key to developing global and context-specific health strategies. In our analysis of the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, we aimed to evaluate differences in the incidence of common diseases, relat... more
Socioeconomic status and risk of cardiovascular disease in 20 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study
Jun 1, 2019·The Lancet Global Health
#1Anders H. Rosengren (Sahlgrenska University Hospital)H-Index: 86
#2Andrew Smyth (National University of Ireland, Galway)H-Index: 18
BACKGROUND:Socioeconomic status is associated with differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and outcomes, including mortality. However, it is unclear whether the associations between cardiovascular disease and common measures of socioeconomic status-wealth and education-differ among high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries, and, if so, why these differences exist. We explored the association between education and household wealth and cardiovascular disease and... more
Association of estimated sleep duration and naps with mortality and cardiovascular events: a study of 116 632 people from 21 countries
May 21, 2019·European Heart Journal23.24
#1Chuangshi Wang (Peking Union Medical College)H-Index: 2
#2Shrikant I. Bangdiwala (Population Health Research Institute)H-Index: 61
Joint association of urinary sodium and potassium excretion with cardiovascular events and mortality: prospective cohort study
Mar 13, 2019·BMJ27.60
#1Martin O'Donnell (National University of Ireland, Galway)H-Index: 54
#2Andrew Mente (Population Health Research Institute)H-Index: 32
Abstract Objective To evaluate the joint association of sodium and potassium urinary excretion (as surrogate measures of intake) with cardiovascular events and mortality, in the context of current World Health Organization recommendations for daily intake ( 3.5 g potassium) in adults. Design International prospective cohort study. Setting 18 high, middle, and low income countries, sampled from urban and rural communities. Participants 103 570 people who provided morning fasting urine samples. Ma... more
Vitamin K for reversal of excessive vitamin K antagonist anticoagulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mar 12, 2019·Blood Advances
#1Rasha Khatib (NU: Northwestern University)H-Index: 19
#2Maja Ludwikowska
Last.Robby Nieuwlaat (McMaster University)H-Index: 35
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Patients receiving vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) with an international normalized ratio (INR) between 4.5 and 10 are at increased risk of bleeding. We systematically reviewed the literature to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of administering vitamin K in patients receiving VKA therapy with INR between 4.5 and 10 and without bleeding. Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases were searched for relevant randomized controlled trials in April 2018. Search strategy included terms vitamin K adminis... more
Management of direct factor Xa inhibitor–related major bleeding with prothrombin complex concentrate: a meta-analysis
Jan 22, 2019·Blood Advances
#1Siavash Piran (McMaster University)H-Index: 8
A targeted antidote for reversal of direct factor Xa (FXa) inhibitors is now available for clinical use in the United States, but it is costly and has limited availability. In a systematic review, we evaluated the safety and effectiveness of 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F-PCC) as an alternative for managing direct FXa inhibitor–related major bleeding. A systematic literature search was conducted using Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials up to September 2... more
American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: optimal management of anticoagulation therapy.
Nov 27, 2018·Blood Advances
#1Daniel M. Witt (UofU: University of Utah)H-Index: 27
#2Robby Nieuwlaat (McMaster University)H-Index: 35
Last.Gordon H. Guyatt (McMaster University)H-Index: 201
Background: Clinicians confront numerous practical issues in optimizing the use of anticoagulants to treat venous thromboembolism (VTE). Objective: These evidence-based guidelines of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) are intended to support patients, clinicians and other health care professionals in their decisions about the use of anticoagulants in the management of VTE. These guidelines assume the choice of anticoagulant has already been made. Methods: ASH formed a multidisciplinary gui... more
21 CitationsSource
Presentation, management, and outcomes of acute stroke in Palestine
Nov 20, 2018·Journal of the American Heart Association4.66
#1Rasha Khatib (BZU: Birzeit University)H-Index: 19
#2Assef M. Jawaadah (BZU: Birzeit University)
Last.Shyam Prabhakaran (NU: Northwestern University)H-Index: 32
Background Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the Middle East. Data on the uptake of evidence‐based practices are limited in the region. We aimed to examine patterns of stroke pre...
Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study
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Summary Background Dietary guidelines recommend minimising consumption of whole-fat dairy products, as they are a source of saturated fats and presumed to adversely affect blood lipids and increase cardiovascular disease and mortality. Evidence for this contention is sparse and few data for the effects of dairy consumption on health are available from low-income and middle-income countries. Therefore, we aimed to assess the associations between total dairy and specific types of dairy products wi... more
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Canva Uncovered: How A Young Australian Kitesurfer Built A $3.2 Billion (Profitable!) Startup Phenom
On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire Richard Branson’s private Necker and Moskito islands. Her 30-foot sail floating deflated and useless beside her in the strong eastern Caribbean current, the 26-year-old entrepreneur waited for hours to be rescued. As she treaded water, her left leg scarred by a past collision with a coral reef, she reminded herself that her dangerous new hobby was worth it. After all, it was key to the fundraising strategy for the design-software startup she’d cofounded with her boyfriend six years before. Canva was based in Australia, thousands of miles from tech’s Silicon Valley power corridor. Getting a meeting—much less funding—was proving tough. Perkins heard “no” from more than 100 investors. So when she met the organizer of a group of kitesurfing venture capitalists at a pitch competition in her native Perth, Perkins got to training. The next time the group met to hear startup pitches and potentially write crucial early-stage funding checks, she’d have a seat at the table—even if it meant having to brave treacherous waters. “It was like, risk: serious damage; reward: start company,” Perkins says. “If you get your foot in the door just a tiny bit, you have to kind of wedge it all the way in.” Such perseverance has long been a necessity at Canva, which began as a modest yearbook-design business in the state capital of Perth on Australia’s west coast. From those remote origins, Canva has grown into a global juggernaut. Twenty-million-plus users from 190 countries use the company’s “freemium” Web-based app to design everything from splashy Pinterest graphics to elegant restaurant menus. Besides an impossible-to-beat price (millions of users pay nothing at all), Canva’s key advantage over rival products from tech giants like Adobe has been its ease of use. Before Canva, amateurs had to stitch together designs in Microsoft Word or pay through the nose for confusing professional tools. Today, anyone, anywhere, can download Canva and be creating within ten minutes. The company’s revenue comes from upselling to a $10-a-month premium version with snazzier features or, more recently, from sales of a streamlined corporate account option. High-quality stock photos—of which Canva has millions—cost another $1. It adds up. This year the company expects to more than double its revenue to $200 million; its most recent $85 million funding round valued it at $3.2 billion. Perkins, now 32 and an alum of the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, has an estimated 15% stake, valued at $430 million. Throw in her 34-year-old cofounder—and now fiancé—Cliff Obrecht’s similar stake, and the Aussie power couple are likely worth more than $800 million. In an era of billion-dollar checks from SoftBank and high-profile profligacy at WeWork, Perkins and Obrecht do things differently. They are couch surfers who prefer budget trips to private jets. (This summer, with Canva already valued at more than $2 billion, Obrecht proposed to Perkins in Turkey’s backpacker-friendly Cappadocia region with a $30 engagement ring.) Rarest of all: Canva says it’s been profitable—at least using the favored startup metric of adjusted EBITDA, which strips out stock-option expenses, financing and tax costs—since 2017. “We have been really conscientious about not taking on too much capital because we’ve been profitable for the last two years,” Perkins says. It all starts with Perkins, who onboards every new employee (now 700 in total) with a thorough rundown of Canva’s most sensitive financial numbers and past investor pitch decks. Other unicorn founders boast. Perkins keeps receipts. And as Canva grows she’s trying to prove you can build a global tech giant from anywhere. “Melanie is a rare breed of entrepreneur, the likes of which you don’t find often anywhere,” says Mary Meeker, a seasoned internet investor whose new firm, Bond Capital, made Canva its first official investment in May. Perkins’ family jokes that she has a 100-point plan for changing the world. First, Canva has a much more straightforward challenge: win over big business. Like Atlassian, Slack and Zoom before it, Canva faces a classic dilemma: a freemium model can make you viral, but most users will never pay a dime. And though Canva says it has users inside almost every large corporation today, they’re typically rogue individuals or small teams, not official corporate accounts. Moving upmarket means increasingly brushing up against Adobe, the $149 billion (market cap) graphics giant that took in $1.65 billion in revenue last quarter from its design-focused unit alone. Then there are a host of high-flying startups like Figma and Sketch that cater to pros but could easily move into the consumer space. And that’s not even considering Canva’s ambitions in new mediums like video and presentations, which could pit it against everything from small Instagram video-making apps to Microsoft, maker of the blockbuster PowerPoint. It’s daunting, to say the least, but for Perkins, who has already turned doubting Silicon Valley players into eager supporters and mastered the Chinese market—and has built a $200 million-plus bank account—it’s all according to plan. “I feel like we’ve done an incredible job, but we’ve done very little compared to what we want to do. We’ve done 1% of what I think is possible,” Perkins says. “Our company mission is to empower the world to design. And we really mean the whole world.” Perkins started working on what became Canva in 2007 from her mom’s living room in Perth. The daughter of an Australian-born teacher and a Malaysian engineer of Filipino and Sri Lankan heritage, Perkins had wanted to be a professional figure skater, enduring an adolescence of 4:30 a.m. wake-up calls before enrolling at the University of Western Australia. There, while teaching fellow students basic computer design as part of her communications and commerce studies, she had an idea. The process of designing and printing a poster or a flyer—composing it in Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Word, converting it to the right size and saving it as a PDF, and taking it to a store like Staples to print—seemed cumbersome in the age of the internet. Wouldn’t it be much better to do it all in one place with one online tool? “The idea of making design really simple was the first idea,” she says. The problem felt so obvious that Perkins feared someone else would build a solution first if she delayed. So she hired freelancers to build a Flash website to target one niche she identified as steady and underserved: school yearbooks, typically the responsibility of student volunteers. Obrecht and Perkins’ startup, Fusion Books, found a market immediately. And with one semester of college left, Perkins put her studies on pause. In peak season, Perkins’ mom fed the printers ink overnight. Obrecht worked the phones cold-calling prospects. When schools asked to speak to a manager, Obrecht simply lowered his voice. The business eventually reached 400 schools, with licensees as far off as France. It was a start. But Perkins couldn’t go much farther without venture funding, then virtually impossible to find in Perth, a city built on mining and petrochemicals. Perkins spotted—and seized—the narrowest of opportunities in 2011 when a longtime Silicon Valley venture capitalist named Bill Tai came to Perth to judge a startup competition. A skilled kitesurfer who had backed TweetDeck and Zoom, Tai was in town mainly to play in Perth’s killer waves. Perkins and Obrecht sniffed out a dinner Tai was hosting and ambushed attendees with a pitch for something called Canvas Chef: a metaphorical pizza, with design elements as the toppings and document types—flyer, business card, restaurant menu—as the dough. “It wasn’t the most stylish analogy,” says Rick Baker, an investor who saw the pitch that night. The founders left without any capital—but with a newfound enthusiasm for extreme water sports. They became fixtures at Tai’s subsequent kitesurfing gatherings, which featured prominent tech executives looking to invest in new startups. In Maui, after a friend of Peter Thiel’s told them they needed a single leader, Perkins became sole CEO. Perkins and Obrecht were having worse luck in their visits to Silicon Valley’s venture capital gatekeepers on Sand Hill Road. Dozens of firms passed on the little-known, romantically linked cofounders from a startup dead zone. “I’m honestly, and unfortunately, not comfortable doing a deal in Australia,” wrote one. “I am not sure it’s going to make sense just yet,” another said. In the end, the wave-chasing connections paid off. Through the group they met Cameron Adams, 40, an ex-Googler who had founded a startup based in Sydney. Expecting to meet with them as an advisor in March 2012, Adams would sign on as third cofounder the following June. Now that they had a technical leader, the founders broke through: Canva raised $3 million in seed funding in two tranches in 2012 and early 2013, including a crucial matching grant from the Australian government. The company launched in August 2013 to a couple of reviews on tech blogs and few users. Adams and Canva’s engineers, who stayed up late in Sydney (the company relocated there in February 2012) to handle the expected influx of sign-ups, went to sleep dejected. What no one knew yet was that Canva’s timing was perfect. The rise of Instagram and Twitter were changing how businesses reached customers. From schools to sheriff’s offices, skating rinks to self-published authors, everyone suddenly cared a lot about their online presence. Canva was an affordable way to look good. The trickle of sign-ups grew to 50,000 users in the first month; by 2014, when Canva raised another $3 million from Thiel’s Founders Fund and Shasta Ventures, 600,000 users had made 3.5 million designs. In China, historically a fool’s-errand market for Western software makers, Canva is a rare success. Obrecht—a tall, amiable presence who, as COO, often rallies the troops (or delivers bad news)—opened Canva’s first office outside of Sydney, in Manila, in 2014, then hired the former head of LinkedIn’s China unit to build an office in mainland China. Today, a local engineering team handles a China-first version of Canva built from the ground up with features like deep integrations with Chinese messaging apps and easy-to-create QR codes, which are popular there. McDonald’s China is a customer, as is a nationwide real-estate brokerage that offers the software to its 1,000 agents. When it comes to serving big businesses, Canva is still a rookie. Its October launch of Canva for Enterprise came at a private event in New York. Perkins addressed staffers from about 100 companies, including Equinox, JPMorgan and HubSpot. A slow start for Canva’s enterprise business won’t sink the company. This December, the company matched more of Adobe’s own features by announcing a video-editing tool and an apps suite; it’s still working on improvements to its free alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint, which has already been used to make 80 million presentations. But Canva’s long-term growth prospects depend on whether corporations will progress from small pockets of fans to accounts reaching thousands of employees. After years of adding more features to Canva’s suite, Perkins is betting on the opposite approach for corporate America. By offering limited sets of templates and options, Canva hopes execs will trust more employees to create their own content. At Realty Austin, a midsize Texas residential and commercial real-estate firm, a marketing team of six used to create all printed handouts and digital assets for its agents to promote events like open houses. Now, with Canva, the company’s 550-plus agents create material for their own listings, faster and on their own time. Adobe isn’t sleeping while all this goes down. It has offered its own freemium, templates-driven app, called Adobe Spark, since 2016. While Canva claims that its tools are used at 50,000 universities and 25,000 nonprofits, Adobe says it’s given out 23 million free Spark accounts to students and teachers. In December 2017, Adobe reunited with Scott Belsky, the entrepreneur whose social media business Behance it acquired in 2012, to instill a scrappier ethos in its product teams. “They feel like they’re the underdog because they’re like, ‘We’re not the coolest startup,’ ” says Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe’s Creative Cloud unit. Then there are the typical startup growing pains. Until two years ago, Canva’s tool for editing its core code was so clunky that only five engineers could work on it at a time. Much of the company’s focus last year was on a complete rewrite of the front-end interface of its app. “We’re growing so fast that things are breaking constantly,” Obrecht admits. And in May, Canva suffered its biggest test of customer trust to date. Days after Canva announced that Meeker’s investment had valued the company at $2.5 billion, a hacker in Europe breached its systems, downloading 139 million user names and email addresses before Canva could stop the attack. Stuck in California, Perkins and Obrecht called and texted with Atlassian’s co-CEOs and cofounders (and Canva investors), Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, reaching Farquhar as the billionaire was on a runway in Peru en route to Machu Picchu. At their urging, Canva called the FBI and launched a formal review; two weeks later, Canva announced two-factor authentication for all users. Though Perkins says Canva’s users responded by rallying behind the company, it was a warning: With better recognition comes a bigger target on your back. Those close to Perkins are confident that she can handle the pressure. Guy Kawasaki started his career as a hype-man for Steve Jobs, traveling the world to tout all things Apple in the 1980s. The former Forbes columnist says he’s happy to end his career doing the same for Perkins, investing in Canva and joining the company as “chief evangelist” back in 2014. “More people can use the democratization of design than can use a Macintosh,” he says. “You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley—you don’t even need to be in America—to be successful. Holy cow.” About Writer Alex Konrad this sample is no follow, but on order we make do follow About Article Source Forbes this sample is no follow, but on order we make do follow
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Stevie Nicks Announces The Summer’s Dreamiest Tour: The ‘In Your Dreams’ Tour
Watch: Stevie Talks about IYD Tour and Adding Seven New Songs to Setlist
The ‘In Your Dreams’ 2011 tour dates:
8/9 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
8/12 Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, TX
8/13 Woodlands Pavilion, Woodlands, TX
8/15 Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA
8/17 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Indianapolis, IN
8/19 Huntington Center, Toledo, OH
8/20 PNC Riverbend Pavilion, Cincinnati, OH
8/23 Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, IL
8/24 Mystic Lake Casino, Prior, MN
8/27 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, NY
8/29 Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA
8/30 The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), Saratoga, NY
9/1 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
9/3 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
9/4 Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY
AUSTRALIA~~~~
Nov 19: Melbourne (Sidney Myer Music Bowl)
Nov 20: Melbourne (Mornington RaceCourse)
Nov 23: Adelaide (Entertainment Centre)
Nov 26: Perth (Nib Stadium)
Nov 29: Sydney (Entertainment Centre)
Nov 30: Newcastle (Entertainment Centre)
Dec 03: Brisbane (Riverstage)
Dec 05: Wollongong (WIN Entertainment Centre)
Dec 07: Canberra (AIS Arena)
PLUS Miss Nicks will be signed copies of IYD at HMV Oxford Circus in London on 6/27/11 (she performed at HardRock Calling in Hyde Park on 6/26/11)…. HardRock Calling Official Site
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Camilla George
Friday 28 February 2020, 8pm
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CANTERBURY Gulbenkian
University of Kent Canterbury Kent
CT2 7NB
A graduate from Trinity College of Music, Camilla George has studied with many jazz greats such as Jean Toussaint, Tony Kofi, Christian Brewer, Julian Siegel and Martin Speake. She has worked with Tomorrow’s Warriors, the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, Jazz Jamaica and Courtney Pine’s Venus Warriors. She formed her quartet in 2014. Their EP, Lunacity, was well received by fans and musicians alike.
Camilla’s love of fusing African and Western Music to make her own unique style is a key reason why she is a firm fixture on the new London Jazz scene alongside peers such as Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings and Zara McFarlane. Her music is a hypnotizing blend of Afrofuturism, hip hop and jazz. Camilla’s music is politically minded and heavily linked with African history and slavery in particular. Her latest album looks at tales that slaves passed onto their children through generations and, whilst full of sorrow, is essentially a story of hope for black people and mankind that we can one day live together in harmony.
The band has gigged solidly being fortunate to support Courtney Pine’s album launch featuring Omar at The Barbican as well as performing at Love Supreme (where Camilla took part in a panel discussion with Kamasi Washington) and the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. They also supported Dee Dee Bridgewater at The Cadogan Hall for the 2017 London Jazz festival who was so impressed she remarked, 'The world is safe because we have Camilla!' As part of the EFG London Jazz festival Camilla performed at the Purcell room which was described by Jazz Journal as 'A truly memorable concert…Jazz superstars in the making' with the London Jazz Review speaking of “the mature and imaginative compositions combined with some sublime saxophone solos” .
Also as part of the EFG London Jazz festival Camilla performed at Kings Place to a very appreciative audience, a show that was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
In addition, Camilla has been nominated for an Urban Music Award for Best Jazz artist in 2017 and 2018 as well as being nominated for a Jazz FM award for Best Instrumentalist 2019
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10 years later: Washington’s ups and downs since the recession
From The Washington Business Journal (subscription required): For years, the economic forecasts have been painfully dim. Greater Washington isn’t growing as fast as its peers. It’s lagging in the high-paying jobs that count. It’s losing more millennials than it can hang onto. Ten years after the Great Recession caused the national economy to buckle to its…
D.C. area job market churns along despite federal drawdown
From The Washington Post: The D.C. area economy generated 64,900 new jobs in the one-year period ended in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, capping off a strong summer for the local job market. The number of federal jobs across the region dropped, however, while the category that includes federal contractors saw the largest…
Household incomes in the District rise dramatically in 2017
From The Washington Post: Just a year after sluggish household income reports in the District of Columbia prompted speculation that the city’s boom years were ending, new numbers from the Census Bureau released Thursday suggest District household income has swung dramatically back up. Median household income for the city in 2017 was $82,372, 9.1 percent higher than in…
Micron and Amazon: Would Virginia lawmakers support both?
From The Washington Business Journal (subscription required): The senator who chairs the Virginia commission that oversees major economic development incentives predicts lawmakers will support both the $70 million incentive package announced recently for Micron and one for Amazon.com, should the Seattle company select the commonwealth for its second headquarters. State Sen. Frank Ruff, R-Mecklenberg, called both incentive…
$3 billion deal could turn Manassas into key supplier for self-driving car components
From The Washington Post: Micron, a publicly traded semiconductor manufacturer based in Boise, Idaho, announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $3 billion to expand production at its plant in Northern Virginia, kicking off what Manassas mayor Hal Parrish called “the largest investment by a corporation in the Commonwealth of Virginia — ever, to my knowledge.” The expansion…
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Shaler Area student attains Eagle Scout rank
Friday, November 22, 2019 | 12:01 AM
Shaler Area High School senior Nick Taylor recently earned Eagle Scout rank.
Shaler Area senior Nick Taylor may recall the approximately 150 hours he spent on his Eagle Scout project every time he attends his family’s Ross church.
He built outdoor seating at Berkeley Hills Lutheran Church across from a hall where Narcotics Anonymous, Meals on Wheels, Toastmasters, Scouts and other civic organizations meet. Taylor, 18, of Glenshaw, said he was inspired to construct two wooden, weather-resistant benches after seeing people sitting outside on milk crates because the area lacked other seating.
“I also cleaned up an overgrown area across from the hall by removing weeds, branches and rocks. I also put down two tons of gravel, and I put down two benches for people to sit on and enjoy,” he said.
Furthermore, his family and fellow Troop 2560 members assisted him in building a church exit sign featuring a changeable board.
“It is a good place for people to have one-on-one conversations, a break area for Meals on Wheels workers and volunteers and a rest stop for people who walk or run up and around the property. The sign is a friendly addition as people leave the property,” said Rev. Heather Lubold, pastor at Berkley Hills.
Taylor officially received his Eagle Scout rank in October.
“This project continues a lifetime of Nick and his family volunteering at church and maintaining the property,” Lubold said. “We are most grateful for his efforts and the Eagle Scout Award is well-deserved.”
Taylor started the assignment in May and devoted time around his work schedule at the Glenshaw McDonald’s to the project.
Taylor’s father, Stephen, is his scoutmaster. He, along with his wife, Mary, secured a $250 Thrivent Financial grant for the church improvements.
Lubold has known Taylor for almost 16 years and has seen him active in the church youth group, confirmation program, mission trips and national youth gatherings.
She said that a few years ago, during a West Virginia mission trip, he used his carpentry skills to build a floor for a family in need of home repairs.
“It was to the point that someone’s foot and leg actually went through the old floor, which just opened up to the ground below. Once they replaced the structure and subflooring, Nick got to work laying the new floor. He was very exacting and careful to make sure it was well done and completed before we left.”
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MoHAP unveils August schedule for visiting consultants program
Monday 29, July 2019 12:58 PM
Sharjah24: The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has unveiled Monday details of the August Schedule of its Visiting Consultants Program, which features an elite group of medical consultants including: Interventional Cardiology, Rheumatology, adult & pediatric Neurosurgery, as well as Pulmonology.
August Visiting Consultants will visit Al Qassimi Hospital Sharjah, Obaidullah Hospital Ras Al Khaimah, and Fujairah Hospital.
In this context, Dr. Sultan Al Sharif, Director of the MoHAP’s Visiting Consultants Office, said: “MoHAP is always keen on the diversification of consultants’ specialties and the selection of the best medical competencies to fulfill our patients’ needs at MoHAP’s hospitals. Through this program, we are striving to achieve the best outcomes, in line with MoHAP’s strategy in terms of providing comprehensive and integrated healthcare services as per the international standards.”
Al Sharif shed light on the importance of the Visiting Consultants Program in terms of attracting doctors from the world’s pioneer countries in the healthcare field. This includes, but not limited to, USA, Finland, Japan, Scotland, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.
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Home SharperIron Forums Church & Ministry Matters Church & Ministry in General Can Christians get political without hurting the Gospel message?
Can Christians get political without hurting the Gospel message?
By SI Filings
Politicized Churches
"Polarization, confirmation bias, and dehumanization present challenges for all Americans, and Christians should counter, rather than contribute to these problems" - Christian Post
G. N. Barkman - Wed, 04/03/2019 - 10:03am
Sorry, but I still don't get it. What do Christians supporting the political positions of President Trump have to do with Christians approving of his flaws? I, for one, cringe at many of Trump's insulting Tweets and other manifestations of arrogance and crudeness. But politics is a chess game. We don't support someone because we like their style, but because we like their principles and positions.
I'm getting more than a little weary of people telling Christians why they should not support Trump. Who would they approve our supporting? Clinton, in 2016? Any of the present list of Democratic contenders in 2020? Give me a break! Once Trump won the Republican Primary, the options for meaningful political support for religious freedom, restraint of big government, conservative judge appointments, etc., were narrowed down to one viable candidate, like it or not.
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Bert Perry - Wed, 04/03/2019 - 12:51pm
G.N., I agree with you as far as it goes, but read the article closer. What the author is decrying is the tendency of any group, ours included, to start becoming "inbred" through isolation to where we do not see our own faults in thought, presentation, and the like. The Babylon Bee spoofs this tendency admirably in posts like this.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
mmartin - Wed, 04/03/2019 - 7:05pm
I've yet to hear a good answer to the question of who else should've we voted for?
G. N. Barkman wrote:
Your Choice Is Trump Trump and Trump
Joeb - Wed, 04/03/2019 - 9:32pm
Whether you like Trump or not the other choices are insane unless Biden gets the Democrat nomination. Even Chris Mathews said today the Democrats have gone off the rails. No matter who goes up against Trump he will chew them up and spit them out. Trump could be in a video in bed in his birthday suit with an Orangutan and he would still get elected President.
What I don’t like is Christians giving Trump the status of a Prophet or a Spiritual being chosen by God. That is very very scary. So if you disagree with Trump or criticize Trump your sinning.
It’s interesting that the same groups of Christians doing this are the same ones who do this with their Pastors. If that’s not scary and I can’t think of anything more scary.
A lot of the same people who were involved with Bill Gothard ie Sarah Palin Mike Pence Mike Huckabee Mr Green owner of Hobby Lobby and a number of Freedom Cacus Members including Founders Daniel Webster and Jim Jordon. Daniel Webster has been a Gothardite for 30 years. If that doesn’t shiver your timbers I don’t know what will. These are some of the same people who have brought a disgrace to our Lord’s name and painted a bad picture for Fundy/Evangelical Christians. Did anyone order Jim Bakers end of times food stores yet.
Note: I’m not a Mike Huckabee fan since he released Violent Super Criminal Predator Maurice Clemens from a 112 year sentence against everyone’s warnings not to do it because Maurice got saved. After he was released he went on to rape a child and assassinate 4 Police Officers eating lunch at cafe. If I had that kind of blood on my hands I would not say anything about anyone but that has not stopped Mike Huckabee. Huckabee JUDGES EVERYONE WHO GOES AGAINST TRUMP.
Joeb wrote:
GregH - Wed, 04/03/2019 - 10:02pm
I am curious. Do you really know that these people were involved with Gothard? Daniel Webster--yes I know that to be true because I performed in his son's wedding. Green, yes. Jim Jordan is probably the politician I most despise in DC today but I see no connection between him and Gothard. If Huckabee put his daughter in Gothard's character-baed education, she apparently missed the section about honesty since her job now is to lie dozens of times a day. And the others?
For sure, these kinds of Christians are pragmatic hypocrites of the first order and do incalculable damage to any reputation Christianity is clinging to. But are you sure they are associated with Gothard?
"I don't get it" either.
Rolland McCune - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 11:36am
G N Barkman, mmartin, Joeb
Thanks for the fresh air of common sense and common grace in your analyses of the continuing saga of our duly-elected president. Will the "Nevers" and their well-wishers ever stop nitpicking Mr. Trump to death? Since the sometimes decades-old evidences of his being an incorrigible life-long moral leper have subsided due to a lack of fresh, recent juicy tidbits, the certified moralism "character counts" has used up all its mileage. Now we are down to the second-tier complaints of his incompetence--his unflattering remarks at the stupidity of his enemies. Are the egos of the "Nevers" that easily bruised in judging his abilities and efforts in domestic, national and international affairs?
Please re-read the three bloggers cited above and answer the simple questions broached. And please avoid the often-complicated logical, philosophical, pietistic and moralistic truisms. We really don't live in that kind of a world.
By the bye, I thought Gothardism was dead.
Rolland McCune
On Gothardism
Bert Perry - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 12:40pm
One trick, per Greg's comment, regarding Gothardism is that just as Gothard borrowed a lot of his ideas--like I'm told from None of these diseases--a lot of Gothard's ideas got borrowed by others. For example, Vision Forum and the Duggar family borrow(ed) a lot of his ideas, and you'll still see hints of that in the craziest places, stuff like Josh Harris and I Kissed Dating Goodbye all the way to small fundamental publishing houses that don't give you actual sources. So it's hard to draw a hard line at who did, and did not, get impacted by his work.
Rolland McCune wrote:
GregH - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 3:13pm
I try to understand your position Rolland and do to an extent. I am curious as to whether you understand the other side. For example, this is how I view Trump.
1) He is a bumbling fool in business who got an inheritance handed to him and then proceeded to grow his fortune through filing bankruptcies, stiffing his contractors, and getting government incentives. In spite of his cheating and working the system, he still would have done better putting his inheritance in a decent mutual fund.
2) He is a habitual liar. He has close to 10,000 lies on record since entering his current office. That is hardly "decades old" evidence of his morality.
3) He has no accomplishments in office really outside of perhaps appointing judges. Really, what has he done to further the US on the international stage? How has he helped anything in the US?
4) He has cheapened the national discourse though his petty insults and behavior. For that reason alone, the US will not be better off when we are finally rid of him.
Is he the worst president in history? Probably not. There were probably even more stupid, narcissistic presidents though thankfully, they were able to hide it because they did not have twitter. That is the silver lining to Donald J. Trump: we have probably survived worse and will probably survive him too.
Just wondering if you understand that viewpoint?
Greg I Stand To Be Corrected Re Jim Jordon
Joeb - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 7:33pm
Greg Jim Jordon from my reasearch was not involved with Gothard. I stand to be corrected. Pence is known to spout Gothard’s authority principles and attended a church in Indianapolis pastored by a man who was a follower of Gothard. So Pence was influenced but not a Gothardite persay
Palin and Huckabee were up to their eye balls with Gothard and you can now add Sony Purdue and Betsy Devos and Al Perkins and the FRC to that list
Rolland if you are a very public person as these people are and claim Christ as your Savior and are very much involved in an obvious Satanic Cult like don’t report sex predators in the church to the Police if they Repent and they get 4 chances to do so. One needs to make a VERY PUBLIC CONFESSION OF ONES SIN AND ASK FORGIVENESS OF THE PUBLIC AND STRONGLY VEHEMENTLY LOUDLY DENOUNCE GOTHARD AND HIS TEACHINGS. Hey Rolland none of the people I have named have done that EVER. So they are all walking in SIN and judging others who speak out against Trump and his policies. Kind of like Josh Duggar. . It’s called being a HYPOCRITE. So Gothard does matter and most of these people are still involved with ATI.
These people are dragging the name of Christ thru the mud and turning many unbelievers away from us because they associate us with them When a Penn State rips Joe Pareno’s statue out of the ground in two weeks and a Bible College which will remain unnamed takes a whole year to take a similar offender’s name out of their sacred place it speaks volumes to the nonchristian world. Believers in our Lord should not associate with Criminal Organizations or Criminals but yet they do whole heartedly ie Ethnos 360 and ABWE They expose separation but don’t separate from obvious CRIMINALS
I have no problem with Christians being politically active. Vote your conscience. My problem is the aforementioned Christian Right types calling me a sinner if I disagree with them. I’m my mind the only biblical issues are abortion and gay marriage the rest of the issues are how you govern within a certain spectrum. Wow did you know Isreal has a one payer health system. Those sinners. Commies
My problem is these types attacking me and saying I’m a leach for collecting my pension. My problem is these type of people telling me that the US Federal Government is responsible for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ instead of that responsibility belonging to the Church. My problem is these people saying Muslims can not hold an elected Office in violation of our constitution and then supposing that Muslims will violate their oaths to uphold constitutions. I don’t care if they worship Micky Mouse our constitution explicitly says their shall be no religious test to hold office. It also says the Federal Gov will not promote any one religion. It’s called religious freedom. As a US Citizen I can whorship the Stone in my back yard or the bird bath or the little boy statue peeing into the pool. So so if one wants to be constitutionally pure some of these Christian Righties violate the constitution in spades We the church change hearts and minds thru Christ not Uncle Sam
By the way as a Federal LEO I risked my life on occasion and worked hard for my pension but some of these Right Wing Christian are only pro Police if they are currently working then criticize retirees as leaches due to the good Pensions they collect and early retirement. I have had diehard Christian Rightees tell me that is not fair but they don’t have to carry a gun and ever decide to use deadly force as part of their jobs
I am now an Independent due to the aforementioned Hypocrite Christian Right Types overwhelming influence in the Republican Party I used to be a diehard Republican but no more until these frauds and phonies are exposed or they very publically lay down and confess their sin and ask the public for their forgiveness and denounce Gothard’s teachings and ATI. Short of that I’ll stay an Independent.
Additionally I won’t ever step in the Mueseum of the Bible financed by Mr Green. Due to the fact that he is an unrepentant Gothardite and he single handedly set up the market for ISIS to sell stolen antiquities to finance their operation and kill our brothers in Christ by the thousands Green did this by being the first and largest knowingly buyer of stolen antiquities out of Iraq and Syria. He was fined and the items were siezed by the Treasury Deparment but he was not prosecuted even though he engaged in criminal activity I guess Money talks and cow manure walks
Trying to "get it."
Rolland McCune - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 10:10pm
1. Thanks for the info on Gothardism. I didn't buy it in its heyday, and the updated info confirms that decision.
2. Joeb: I resonate quite well with your thinking regarding the country's choice of president and the attending reasons and circumstances. Your prognosis for 2020 is both reasonable and believable.
3. GregH: If your thinking represents "the other side," I read the words but confess I don't understand and thus tend not to believe your reasoning. The assumptions behind your conclusions seem impossible to document accurately. Who or what counted the 10000 lies? The president's alleged lack of accomplishments, except the appointment of judges, is woefully understated and inaccurate. It is also most difficult to understand Mr. Trump as a bumbling fool to account for his rise in the real estate business in Manhattan. Of course, he got his father's work ethic, money and business, and no doubt drove hard business deals, some of which were shady. But does that constitute the man a pathological liar and business crook, and further, disqualify him from being able to understand the basics of the nation's financial and necessary business decisions?
Joeb put the scenario tersely but plausibly: "Whether you like Trump or not the other choices (were) insane . . ."
Remember Trump Fortune Is Like The Kennedy Fortune
Joeb - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 11:19pm
The Trump Fortune is based on Grand Daddy’s Brothels. Very similar to the Kennedy Fortune built on Boot Legging. Both Criminal families who went legit.
Has anyone heard anything from the CEO of Starbucks. Now there is a good old fashion Democrat who is real rags to riches story. No silver spoon in his mouth to start. He was talking about running as an Independent. Sounds like it was all talk. The guy seems to be a dark horse and has disappeared.
Other than Mr Starbucks I don’t see anyone who could even come close to Trump unless Michele Obama threw her hat in the ring but I don’t see that happening.
I’m no Trump fan and will probably bow out of voting for President but you have to be realistic and it’s going to be Trump Trump Trump.
What the real joke is the Republicans are probably just as much as an enemy of Trump as the Democrats. You have to give the Democrats credit at least they backed Obama’s agenda 100 % like it or love it.
The Republicans had an Auto Signing Machine with Trump during Trump’s first 2 years in office and totally blew it. The Republicans controlled everything and could have made historic changes but let the opportunity go. Idiots. Total idiots. At least do something even it goes in the wrong direction Putting their own personal agendas ahead of the Country. No wonder the public voted for Trump.
I have said it before. Our Country is BROKE. We can’t even afford what Trump wants to do. The States are doing their own Infustructure projects. Look what happened to Corbett in Pa Corbett had the guts to raise the taxes on gas and other driving related fees to rebuild the roads and what did that get him. Out of Office. The ridiculous penny pinching State Republicans turned on him.
Same thing with that nut Gov Brown in Kansas. He cut the taxes so low the whole school system almost fell apart. His own Party rebelled on him.
What we need in Office is someone like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz. When the financial poop hits the fan this country is in for a rude awakening. I’ll be more broke because all the Federal Retirees will take a 25 % cut just like the SSA Retirees. Plus the Federal work force will take a 25% cut and private industry will follow with big pay cuts. We will be like Greece. It’s not if it’s when and how hard we are going to hit the wall. If these clowns don’t come up with a plan very soon we are going to go into a depression. Not trying to be negative but tab is going to demand to be paid.
The great thing about it is this maybe Part of God’s plan to bring us home. I remember a former Pastor of mine said if North Korea nukes us why worry we are going to glory.
My brother who was a Pastor said a lot of Christians are overly concerned with the here and now and lost touch with the true picture to be with Christ and bring as many people as we can with us. Again change hearts and minds through Christ not creating a Christian Utopia in the US. Do what you can but have we lost our perspective on what’s important. Changing hearts and minds through Christ will get us a lot further as a nation then Christian Right Militancy.
GregH - Fri, 04/05/2019 - 8:13am
We could debate Trump's business acumen I suppose and his "accomplishments" as well. But I am not going to spend time arguing with a guy who can't accept Trump is a habitual liar. There is just too wide a gulf between us. The Washington Post is keeping the tally which is up to around 10,000 now. You can go there and see for yourself. (And before you discount this as fake news, it is nothing of the sort. The Washington Post is capable of keeping track of factual black and white lies.)
Still don't "get it"?
Rolland McCune - Fri, 04/05/2019 - 12:10pm
GregH:
If your only clientele with whom you will debate current politics in the USA are those "guys" who agree with your sources and your pronouncement that President Trump is a "habitual liar," the chances of anyone listening to or reading your ideas are less than nil. The accolade to the Washington Post was most discouraging. The old adage of the revered NY Yankee manager, Casey Stengel ("you can look it up!"; i.e., in your words,"go there and see for yourself"), could never be applied to the WAPO. They are incapable of keeping track of anything.
Why don't you answer mmartin's question about whom we should have voted for in the general election?
On your terms, I suppose "there is just too wide a gulf between us."
On the Post
Bert Perry - Fri, 04/05/2019 - 12:48pm
One thing I've noticed about the Post's "fact-checking" is that fairly often, they "helpfully" change the question and then declare that since the public figure didn't answer the question they suggested correctly, that the public figure was lying. In other words, based on analysis of a position that the person clearly didn't hold, the Post (Glenn Kessler is a good example) declares that person to be "lying".
So no, Greg, the Post is not capable of figuring these things out, and they've proven it repeatedly. I don't contend that Trump has been uniformly honest--he has, like most politicians, told his share of whoppers--but "Fact Check" has a habit of moving the goalposts and therefore disqualifies itself as a source. One example is linked (and fisked) here.
Regarding Trump's achievements, while of course people of different political views will differ on the virtues or vices of his moves, those accomplishments include a reversal of Obama foreign policy, a big tax cut, a reversal of Obama military procurement policies which idled large parts of the Air Force and Navy for lack of spare parts, a semi-serious conversation about immigration and trade, a lot of good judges appointed, more U.S. citizen hostages released in 2 years than Obama got released in two terms, and a lot more.
But back to the topic, I think it's important for both sides of the aisle (all sides?) to be a bit honest about things. Trump backers need to admit that he's prone to whoppers--as do Obama supporters. ("If you like your doctor/insurance, you can keep your doctor/insurance", "no scandals", etc..) Get past the "I don't care how obvious the call is, it worked for my team" mindset, and a lot of good things can happen.
GregH - Fri, 04/05/2019 - 12:59pm
I will ignore your strawman arguments about who I will or won't discuss politics with.
It is just absurd how people have drunk the Trump Kool-Aid and decided that the WaPo is incapable of keeping track of simple facts. You need to read what kinds of lies they track. These are not WaPo opinions; they are simple situations where Trump claims things that are undeniably untrue. Trump is a prolific liar regardless of whether you want to admit it or not. But again, I am through arguing something so obvious.
As an aside, I am thankful for WaPo's heroic courage in standing up to the Nixon administration and thankful they stand up to Trump as well.
I voted for no one in the last election. I will not vote for Trump in the coming election either though I might abstain. I would most certainly vote for a moderate Democrat over Trump. I would not vote for a radical Democrat over Trump; I would just abstain.
Maximizing Conservatism
JBL - Fri, 04/05/2019 - 3:18pm
One of the more interesting topics that we covered in an international finance course in college was how OPEC can maximize the net present value of their assets.
The underlying idea here is that there were more factors to look for than just the short-term price of crude oil. Yes, OPEC does better in the short-term when prices are high. But high prices (or the long-term expectation of them) also encourage investment in alternative energy sources, more fuel efficient technologies, and more non-OPEC exploration. All of these tend to depress future revenue streams. Low short-term oil prices tend to have opposite long-term effects, but at the cost of immediate revenue pressure.
Recently, OPEC has issued guidance saying that they would like to target a global price of around $65 / barrel. It's not too high, not too low.
The same analysis can be made for politics.
Trump has made policy decisions and appointments that Clinton would not have made. And for many political conservatives, Trump was, at least in the short-term, a better pick.
My reason for not supporting Trump in 2016 is the belief that his short-term gains would not be enough to outweigh the long-term detriment his tenure will cause to conservatism as a political movement. I believe the credibility and quality of future conservative candidates will be negatively affected by his tenure. Furthermore, his public personae is so extreme that it motivates many middle of the road voters to consider more liberal political candidates. Trump's personality is certainly a causal factor for the Republicans' underwhelming performance in the 2018 midterms and governors elections. Unfortunately, Trump has done nothing since winning the nomination to change my opinion on this matter.
John B. Lee
Greg Re: Trump I’m With You All The Way
Joeb - Sat, 04/06/2019 - 11:09am
A good friend and brother in Christ of mine is a prolific Trump punch drinker. Even with the video on Air Force 1 of Trump making denials re the Bimbo Payments my friend still says Trump is not lying regarding his knowledge and involvement in the Bimbo payments. So the punch seems to have its affect. Then when you raise an argument my friend can’t overcome he retreats to FAKE NEWS. Interesting.
My problem with Trump is when the Christian Right raises him up to be the Chosen one and the Right Hand Of God. Very dangerous to do. We have seen the results of this before ie Jack Hyles Jack Schapp Wendell Kempton. This issue spooks me the most.
Now with the above being said I’m also a realist and right now there is no one I can see who could unseat Trump unless the economy goes into a nose dive or there is a dark horse out there.
Voting Standards Past and Future
Rolland McCune - Sat, 04/06/2019 - 4:44pm
GregH
Thank you for the interaction, as far as it went. Sorry it all landed in limbo..
The ending paragraph of your last post caught my eye immediately, and it troubled me. Disenfranchising yourself, for me least, cost you any credibility on this subject. How can you so dogmatically berate the president when you didn't even bother to vote? It makes calling him a pathological liar (on the authority of WaPo, no less) and refusing to interact with anyone who disputes that alleged factoid a completely vacuous notion. The proposed criteria for the next election are no less grim.
G. N. Barkman - Sat, 04/06/2019 - 5:22pm
I don't expect serious Christians to like Trump. He's a very obnoxious individual. But politics is not about who you like. (At least not for thinking Christians.) It's about weighing the alterntives. If enough Christtians who voted for Trump in 2016 had refused to support him, Hillary Clinton would now be our president. Thank God that didn't happen! That's all that needs to be said. (Case closed.)
Case Close
Agreed, Mr. B.
You preach it and I'll find someone to turn the pages.
When people ask me if I like
Dan Miller - Sat, 04/06/2019 - 6:13pm
When people ask me if I like Trump, I say, “Not really, but it would have taken a Darth Vader / Sauron Republican ticket for me to have voted for Hillary.”
The Topic: It’s Christian Inv. In Politics Hurting The Gospel
Joeb - Sun, 04/07/2019 - 6:08pm
I say Trumps connection to the question is part of the disgrace but the disgrace to our Lord happened way before Trump. It started with groups like the Family Research Counsel and AL PERKINS a diehard Gothardite. After Josh Duggar and Bill Gothard we’re exposed still no one ditched Al Perkins or other Gothatdites. Throw in AL Perkins heinous sin involving closet gay and rising Republican Christian Right Super Star Wes Goodman. It’s a joke.
I’m willing to bet Al Perkins and his other Christian Gothardite buddies never told Goodman’s wife that Godly Wes Goodman was hooking up with Men on Craigslist. Considering they were putting Godly Goodman through Gay Conversion Therapy Id say they knew it. The program was probably a Gothard based corrupt program to boot. I guess his wife getting an STD most likely did not bother them. The higher call was more important Just like those two Christian Right Michigan State Reps caught in adultery and using their official positions to cover it up They both had spouses and children and refused to resign because they wanted to vote on family friendly issues ie abortion and gay issues Sounds like a disgrace to our Lord’s name to me I’m betting these to Michigan State Reps were Gothardites to
Back to Godly Perkins. Perkins allegedly did not drop Wes Goodman until a Father accused Godly Goodman of sexually assaulting his son at a pro-life seminar. Ooops Godly Al Perkins never told anyone else. Then Godly Goodman got reelected as a Ohio State Rep on a prolife Christian Family Man Antigay Platforn. Now if Godly Goodman getting caught with his pants down with a naked man in his state office is not a disgrace to our Lord’s name I don’t kmow what is.
Throw in Christian Right Poster Boy Josh Dugger, Jerry Falwell Jr’s hiring of Baylor’s Former Athletic Director who was fired for looking the other way about allegations that Football Players were drugging and gang raping Baylor Female Students I’d say the Gospel has been sullied by overly politically active Christians. Throw in the fact that the Former Special Counsel that investigated a President was fired from Baylor for the same reason. I think it’s a lock and not a closed case ROLLAND. Add in Trump and his Bimbos and his comments about women. Case closed alright in my favor
Oh yeah I forgot the RNC’S Finance Man’s relationship with his Playboy Bimbo and paying for her to have an abortion. I’d say the Christian Right which runs the Republican Party now has done a great job. Oh yeah did you notice a lot of them are Gothardites or are hooked up with Hyles Anderson Graduates
Also throw in Tea Party Manager and Favorite Fundy/ Evangelical Fringe Pastor Phil Kidd and his Confederate Boxing Gloves and Tie I would say I have a lock on my argument.
Rolland I could go on all day. Oh yeah the State Rep in Arkansas who goes to the same SBC church the Duggars now attend. The State Christian Right Group gave him an award for supporting family friendly issues even though he misused his position to adopt two young children. A boy and girl who he could not handle. Even after he just gave the kids to some guy that worked for him without telling anybody and this guy ended up doing the same thing to the 6 year old girl that Josh Duggar did at 15 to his five year old sister. Same county as Josh Duggar and this guy got 60 years. Tells me Godly Josh would have probably been prosecuted as an adult and gotten a Nickle.
Oh that’s right the guy got the award at a banquet held at the church. Ted Cruz was scheduled to speak at this banquet but at the last minute canceled. I wonder why. Now the Arkansas State Reps actions were mot criminal but after the whole sordid affair the State Of Arkansas Legislators quickly made it illegal to transfer kids without notifying the State Adoption and Family Agency. Nah these type of actions by the Christian Right don’t bring disgrace to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Rolland your right case closed.
Note: The above being said Trump will still be our President through 2024 There is no horse in the stable that can beat him
Aaron Blumer - Sun, 04/07/2019 - 10:10pm
Toward some of Greg's (and others') observations above....
I think what causes some of the confusion is that Trump supporters and non-Trump supporters are coming to the situation with different assumptions. As an example, many Trump supporters assume that if we don't support Trump, we have to support someone else as alternative. For non-supporters like me, there is not really an either-or. What we should all be choosing--and I think we might actually agree on this point--is:
What is best for the country in the long run
What is not morally unacceptable in itself, regardless of outcomes
I know the second point tends to be controversial, but I think most who dispute it, don't really dispute it. That is, as an approach to ethics we probably all agree that some things are wrong even if we expect them to have good consequences.
So is there general agreement that the real choice in an election is (a) somebody who will be good (or at least better) for the country, and (b) not somebody who should be rejected even if he/she might be good for the country?
If there is agreement on that in principle, the real points of disagreement are, simplified, these:
Whether Trump is truly better for the country (in the long run)
Whether Trump is acceptable independently of outcomes.
For most of us who are not Trump supporters, point one looks pretty uncertain to us, I think. It is certainly not clear to me that, on balance, he will prove to have been good for the country (or even "better than..."). It maybe be a decade before we have a good idea of that. (I would say many harmful consequences are already in motion every day now, but are not being widely recognized. Time may change that.)
But probably most conservatives who do not support Trump are tripping on the second point. There are some things that are just wrong, regardless of outcomes. And though electing a US President has never been an approval of everything the man is and does it has always been an expression of believe in what sort of human being ought to be a President. I cannot personally say that Trump is the sort of man who ought to be a U.S. President, regardless of who else is on the ballot or what good he may accomplish.
I don't know if that helps, but it's putting it a different way than I have in the past, so maybe it makes my stance on this a bit more comprehensible to some who find it puzzling.
The Long Term
G. N. Barkman - Mon, 04/08/2019 - 9:58am
With Hillary Clinton as president, we would have two new left-wing Supreme Court justices already. plus scores more on other Federal Courts. That's long term damage that would probably last for decades. I doubt that the American Republic could ever recover from that. We would have several more years of government backed and funded moral decline to add to the enormous gains of the gay agenda during the Obama years. I doubt that we could ever see that reversed. We would see an increase in illegal immigration well beyond what we are seeing now. Once here, they are almost impossible to deport. That's significant long term damage. I fail to see how Trump's presidency, as problematic as he is individually, could possibly incur greater long term damage to the USA.
GregH - Mon, 04/08/2019 - 11:23am
Through their continued support for Trump, Christians have shown themselves to be pragmatic hypocrites. Do you think that might do great long term damage to the US? What moral authority will Christians have in the future to speak of moral issues after this?
I want to be clear. I am not talking about Christians who hold their nose and quietly accept Trump as the worse of two options. I am referring to Christians who unabashedly support him to this day and refuse to condemn his behavior no matter how egregious it gets (the Falwell and Jeffress sort of Christians). Trump does what he does because he knows he can get away with it with his base.
Pragmatic hypocrites
Bert Perry - Mon, 04/08/2019 - 12:14pm
I'm old enough to remember people saying that when they voted for a divorced man over a Baptist Sunday School teacher, they were being pragmatic hypocrites, too. Let's be honest here; a great portion of those who have served in the Oval Office are known adulterers; FDR, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Trump come to mind. Others--Cleveland, Reagan, Clinton, Kennedy--are alleged or known to have had "rather active social lives" prior to marriage. (e.g. "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?")
The reality here is that Christians have never really had the option of voting for super-virtuous candidates, and hence it is really an engineering problem of selecting the least obnoxious solution, not a science problem of choosing the perfect solution.
In 2016, I was confronted by one criminal candidate who had accepted tens of millions of dollars from Russian sources after signing off on the purchase of U.S. uranium assets by a Russian company, one who moreover had kept hundreds of classified documents on an unsecured private server, and who also supported unfettered immigration and prenatal infanticide. She had tolerated and enabled her husband's horrendous personal life, up to and including credible allegations of forcible rape, for the sake of political power.
She was running against another guy who had a horrendous personal life, but not of known rape, or taking of bribes from Russian sources, and not one who had left classified documents where the KGB could get them and "reveal them" discreetly whenever a key decision regarding Russian interests was to be made.
I opposed Trump until it was him vs. Sauron Hilliary, but when it was, it wasn't a hard decision to make. Part of it is that I've actually worked in environments where classified information was handled, specifically one portrayed in The Falcon and the Snowman, and the need to protect the same was drummed into us HARD. I had no doubt that if there was evidence I'd handled even one such document, or even if I'd managed to get into the classified office areas, I'd have been summarily fired and the FBI would have had all my electronic devices THAT DAY. There would have been no long negotiations, no time to scrub the hard drive, no such thing.
To draw a picture of how important this is, look at articles about the Cox Report--an investigation of how the Chinese got designs for all seven U.S. nuclear warhead designs--a theft completed during the....Clinton administration. That theft probably advanced Chinese missile technology by decades.
And I'm supposed to be all worried about Donald Trump sleeping with plastic filled bimbos in light of that? When Hilliary was aiding and abetting her husband when he did the same or worse? Really?
Bert, for a guy that spends a
GregH - Mon, 04/08/2019 - 12:28pm
Bert, for a guy that spends a lot of time pointing out supposed logical fallacies in others, you sure do like the strawman fallacy. It is really easy to argue that way isn't it? Prop up some easy position and shoot arrows at it. But exactly where have I brought Trump's adultery into this particular discussion?
Bert Perry - Mon, 04/08/2019 - 4:34pm
Greg, when Trump is being criticized, his sexual behavior is rarely off the table. No?
But if you want your other thoughts dealt with:
1. Not that good of a businessman? Your source, ultimately, is a 2015 Fortune article that took the stock market from a relative lull in 1987, right after the crash, to 2015. News flash: Trump entered business around 1968, 19 years earlier, and by 1987 had parlayed an initial stake of a few million dollars to about a billion.
So why was this time range chosen? Easy; right after the crash of 1987 was a relative low for the stock market that would make the gains since 1987 look very good, and "coincidentally" three of Trump's bankruptcies due to the recession 1991-1993 followed soon after. Plus, the tech boom of the 1980s and 1990s provided a list of tech execs who did far better.
Honest comparison? No, it's cherry picking.
2. Honesty. Um, do you remember Bill Clinton? We've been there before, even before what I mentioned about the WashPo shifting the goalposts. Plus, Hilliary.
3. No achievements? Um, see my comments above.
4. Cheapened the national discourse. We've been there before, too, specifically in 1998, when national news forced parents to shoo their kids away or else start explaining terms for a specific sex act. Plus, Obama had a habit of flipping people off, ostensibly by scratching his head.....with his middle finger.
But really, even if you were completely correct and fair in your assertions, the ugly reality is still that Trump would not have posed the threat to the Republic that Hilliary did. Again, it matters that she took a boatload of money for the family foundation right after approving a sale of uranium assets. It matters that classified documents--plus all kinds of other correspondence--were in the hands of Russian and Chinese intelligence agents. It matters that plans for all U.S. nuclear warheads were stolen by the Chinese (others?) back in the 1990s.
Bert Perry wrote:
GregH - Mon, 04/08/2019 - 9:18pm
I am not going to quibble about Trump's business acumen. What I stated is well documented; he is a relatively small player with a big mouth in the world of NY real estate. He is also a pariah to American banks, a guy who bilked taxpapers out of billions through bankruptcies (you could easily argue that his bankruptcies generated his entire net worth) and a guy who is a massive underachiever in business in spite of his inheritance and father role model. You are not going to agree with that but that is fine.
Your other points are just classic Trump-loving spin that I can read on Facebook any day--you can't defend him so you are reduced to trying to suggest that Hillary and Obama are worse. For the record, I don't buy into your uranium conspiracy theories nor your "Obama flips people off" conspiracy though I will give you an A for creativity on the latter.
Separating "individually" from policy
Aaron Blumer - Tue, 04/09/2019 - 7:22am
I fail to see how Trump's presidency, as problematic as he is individually, could possibly incur greater long term damage to the USA.
There are alot of problems with the idea that the kind of human being who occupies the oval office can be separated from his policies. ... particularly when the man tweets straight from his character to the global public on a regular basis and has years of speaking his mind in the business world as well before taking office.
The man is disrespectful of anyone who disagrees with him, publicly shames people who work for him, fires people from a distance without warning, has repeatedly openly bragged about exploiting women, routinely throws the word "treason" around in reference to people who oppose him -- on and on it goes. This is not in the same category as voting for a guy who is divorced! Not remotely.
So how does this harm the country, potentially in ways that equal the harm a liberal the likes of Hillary would have done in office?
This is a large subject and I've tried to explain it before (here and in lots of comment posts), but I've found that Trump supporters are generally not willing engage the arguments.
I'll hit a few points in question form...
What's the narrative now on the left (and increasingly, all of the country) toward what used to be called "social conservatism"? (It isn't even called that anymore, which ought to tell us something.)
What impact does Trump have on that narrative?
In the long run (many decades), where does change in a society come from: legislation and court cases or changes in what people believe and think?
How is Trump impacting what Americans believe and think? In particular, what impact is he having on the segment of society that is not committed conservative or committed left?
What impact has Trump had on Americans' understanding of what conservatism is and what impact is he likely to have for years to come?
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2015 Week 12 Big Ten Roundup
November 22, 2015 Matthew Dixon Leave a comment
Michael Geiger kicks the game winning field goal for Michigan State against Ohio State. (Jamie Sabau/Getty Images North America)
The Big Ten had six conference games and one non-conference game in week 12. Once again, a team from Michigan was in the spotlight with Michigan State at Ohio State. Each game is looked at below.
Purdue Boilermakers at #5 Iowa Hawkeyes
Result: Iowa Win 40-20
Iowa got out to a big early lead and then kept the pesky Purdue Boilermakers at bay to keep their perfect season intact. The Hawkeyes also formally clinched the Big Ten West Division to reserve their spot in the Big Ten Championship Game against a yet to be determined team from the East division.
Purdue’s Austin Appleby had a solid game going 23 of 40 for 259 yards and a touchdown in relief after an injury to David Blough. Markell Jones ran for 87 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries. DeAngelo Yancey led Purdue with 9 catches for 117 yards while Domonique Young had 4 grabs for 52 yards. Purdue did manage to put up 405 yards of offense thanks to playing from behind for the entire game. They went 4 of 18 on third down, but a solid 5 of 8 on fourth down.
C.J. Beathard was good again going 12 of 20 for 213 yards with 3 touchdowns and no picks. Jordan Canzeri had 95 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries. LeShun Daniels ran for 2 touchdowns and 31 yards on 8 carries. Henry Krieger Coble had 4 catches for 76 yards and a touchdown while Tevaun Smith had 4 receptions for 73 yards. Iowa had 387 yards on offense and went 5 of 10 on third down.
Purdue (2-9, 1-6) will finish their season at home against Indiana battling for the Old Oaken Bucket. Iowa (11-0, 7-0) faces Nebraska on the road on Black Friday.
#12 Michigan Wolverines at Penn State Nittany Lions
Result: Michigan Win 28-16
Michigan had a consistent effort on the road to defeat Penn State and keep their hopes of a Big Ten East title alive.
Jake Rudock went 25 of 38 for 256 yards with 2 touchdowns and an interception. The Wolverines rushing attack was ineffective against Penn State. De’Veon Smith was the top rusher with 39 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries while Michigan had just 87 yards on 30 carries as a team. Jehu Chesson led the team with 4 catches for 69 yards, but Amara Darboh (7 catches for 68 yards and a touchdown) and Jake Butt (5 catches for 66 yards and a touchdown) also had good games. Michigan finished with 343 yards on offense and went 7 of 14 on third down.
Penn State struggled on offense and also struggled putting the ball in the end zone. Christian Hackenberg went 13 of 31 for 137 yards and a touchdown, but struggled mightily with accuracy. Saquon Barkley ran for 68 yards on 15 carries while also having 2 grabs for 19 yards. Chris Godwin led Penn State with 3 catches for 51 yards while Saeed Blacknall had a 25 yard touchdown catch in his only reception of the game. Penn State settled for 3 field goals in the red zone and only had 207 yards of offense. They went 3 of 14 on third down and 1 of 2 on fourth down.
Michigan (9-2, 6-1) will take on Ohio State at home next week. Michigan is tied atop the Big Ten East at 6-1 with both Ohio State and Michigan State. Michigan will need a loss by Michigan State as well as to beat Ohio State to make the Big Ten Championship Game.
Penn State (7-4, 4-3) will be on the road against Michigan State with a chance to ruin the Spartans Big Ten title hopes with a win.
Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Army Black Knights
Result: Rutgers Win 31-21
Rutgers was playing in the only non-conference game of the week and took care of Army on the road.
Chris Laviano went 13 of 21 for 105 yards with no touchdowns or picks. The rushing attack was excellent for Rutgers with Paul James leading the way. He had 116 yards and 3 touchdowns on 18 carries while Robert Martin had 99 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries. Janarion Grant had only 2 carries, but managed to run for 40 yards. Grant also had 3 catches for 31 yards while Leonte Carroo had 4 catches for 37 yards. Rutgers had 395 yards of offense, but struggled on third down going 3 of 10. They did managed to convert both of their fourth down attempts.
Rutgers defense struggled to stop the run, but that is expected against Army who runs the triple option. They allowed 261 yards on 52 attempts, but were burned on the six passing attempts by Army. Army went 4 of 6 passing for 140 yards with a touchdown and a pick. Edgar Poe had 2 catches for 95 yards and a touchdown. Army also converted 9 of 13 on third down and 1 of 2 on fourth down. Rutgers gave up 401 yards of offense to Army.
Rutgers (4-7, 1-6) finishes their season next Saturday with Maryland coming to town.
Indiana Hoosiers at Maryland Terrapins
Result: Indiana Win 47-28
Indiana had big second and third quarters to propel them to a 47-28 win over Maryland and leave them one game from bowl eligibility going into the regular season finale. Indiana put up 37 points in the middle two quarters compared to just 7 for Maryland during the same time frame.
Nate Sudfeld had a big game going 23 of 35 for 385 yards and 4 touchdowns. He did not throw an interception and also ran for a touchdown. Devine Redding stepped up to rush for 130 yards on 24 carries after an injury knocked Jordan Howard out of the game early in the contest. Simmie Cobbs easily led the team and entire game with 9 catches for 192 yards. Andre Booker caught 2 passes for 79 yards and a touchdown while Mitchell Paige had 5 catches for 64 yards and 2 touchdowns. Indiana racked up 555 yards, but struggled on third down going just 4 of 14.
Maryland could not find any rhythm in the passing game between Caleb Rowe and Shane Cockerille. Rowe left the game in the second quarter after a concussion. Rowe finished 10 of 19 for 88 yards with a touchdown while also rushing for 27 yards on 4 carries. Cockerille went 10 of 21 for 87 yards while also rushing for 23 yards on 13 carries. Brandon Ross had a massive game rushing going for 250 yards and 3 touchdowns on the ground for the best game of 2015 and his career. Levern Jacobs led Maryland with 4 catches for 50 yards. The Terps went 3 of 16 on third down and also went 2 of 6 on fourth down.
Indiana (5-6, 1-6) faces Purdue next week on the road with their final chance at making a bowl in 2015. Maryland (2-9, 0-7) will face Rutgers on the road with neither team having a chance at making a bowl.
#20 Northwestern Wildcats at #25 Wisconsin Badgers
Result: Wisconsin Win 13-7
A defensive battle between Northwestern and Wisconsin saw a tight finish in a controversial game. The Badgers had a punt return touchdown called back due to an illegal fair catch and also had a touchdown overturned in the final minute.
Northwestern’s Clayton Thorson was largely ineffective going 9 of 20 for only 60 yards. Justin Jackson was the workhorse for the Wildcats with 35 carries for 139 yards and a touchdown. Garrett Dickerson had 2 catches for 24 yards as the Wildcats leading receiver. Northwestern finished with 209 yards of offense and went 7 of 20 on third down.
Wisconsin was led by Joel Stave going for 229 yards on 20 of 34 passing. He also threw 2 interceptions and also lost a fumble. He missed the final play of the game for Wisconsin as he took a sack with the Badgers on the 1 yard line of Northwestern and left due to concussion like symptoms. The Badgers were completely ineffective running the ball. Corey Clement went for 24 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries, but the Badgers finished with NEGATIVE 26 yards rushing due to Stave taking so many sacks.
Jazz Peavy had 5 catches for 88 yards, but his touchdown catch in the final minute was overturned because he did not complete the process of a catch. Tanner McEvoy had 5 catches for 57 yards, but lost a fumble on one of those catches. Wisconsin finished with only 203 yards of offense, had 5 turnovers, and went a poor 2 of 13 on third down.
Northwestern (9-2, 5-2) faces Illinois at home on Saturday with a chance to get their second 10 win season under Pat Fitzgerald (2012). Wisconsin (8-3, 5-2) faces Minnesota on the road next week with a chance of winning 10 games for fifth time in the last 7 seasons. A win over Minnesota and their bowl opponent will get them to the 10 win mark.
#9 Michigan State Spartans at #3 Ohio State Buckeyes
Result: Michigan State Win 17-14
The game of the day for the Big Ten belonged to Michigan State and Ohio State. The Spartans won by a field goal despite not having quarterback Connor Cook.
Tyler O’Connor got the start in place of Cook and went 7 of 12 for 89 yards and a touchdown. Gerald Holmes ran for 65 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries while LJ Scott had 13 carries for 58 yards. The Spartans relied heavily on their rushing attack to the tune of 203 yards on 51 carries. Aaron Burbridge led the team with 4 catches for 62 yards while four others recorded a reception. Trevon Pendleton had the lone touchdown reception for the Spartans as they finished with 294 yards on offense and went 7 of 15 on third down.
Ohio State could hardly get anything going on offense. JT Barrett went 9 of 16 passing for 46 yards and a touchdown. Barrett was also the leading rusher for Ohio State with 44 yards on 15 carries. Ezekiel Elliott inexplicably had only 12 carries and went for 33 yards and a touchdown. Jalin Marshall was the top receiver with 2 catches for 22 yards and a touchdown. Ohio State had only 132 yards of offense and went 4 of 14 on third down.
Michigan State (10-1, 6-1) controls their destiny in the Big Ten East. They face Penn State at home on Saturday and a win would put them in the Big Ten Championship Game against Iowa.
Ohio State (10-1, 6-1) will face Michigan on the road next week. They need a win over Michigan and a loss by Michigan State to play in the Big Ten Championship Game.
Illinois Fighting Illini at Minnesota Golden Gophers
Result: Minnesota Win 32-23
The battle for two bowl hopefuls ended with Minnesota coming out on top as both teams now sit at 5-6 on the season.
Wes Lunt went 34 of 47 for 279 yards with 2 touchdowns and an interception for Illinois. Josh Ferguson led the Illini in rushing with 105 yards on 20 carries while Kendrick Foster got his most significant playing time to post 56 yards rushing on 11 carries. Malik Turner led the team with 11 catches for 126 yards and a touchdown. Illinois finished with 433 yards of offense and went 8 of 17 on third down, but also committed 3 turnovers.
Mitch Leidner did not have anywhere near the same passing efficiency in his past four games, but that did not hurt the Gophers. He finished 15 of 25 for 88 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for 64 yards on 10 carries. Shannon Brooks ran wild all game with 174 yards and 3 touchdowns on 17 carries. KJ Maye had a quiet game going for 31 yards on 4 catches while Drew Wolitarsky had 2 catches for 26 yards and Brandon Lingen had 3 catches for 20 yards. Minnesota put up 343 yards of offense while going 7 of 13 on third down.
Illinois (5-6, 2-5) will need to beat Northwestern in Chicago to reach a bowl game in 2015. Minnesota (5-6, 2-5) is in the same position of needing a win against Wisconsin, but they will be at home.
Check back next Sunday for a roundup of the Big Ten’s final full week of the regular season.
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2015 College Football Preview: FBS Independents
July 28, 2015 Matthew Dixon Leave a comment
Malik Zaire is the future for Notre Dame at quarterback. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images North America)
We have reached the ninth and final single digit in this 2015 College Football Preview with the FBS Independents. Also part of this release is the Sun Belt Preview, which can be found here. Below is a schedule of all the previews from those already published to those in the future.
MAC East Division – July 1
MAC West Division – July 3
Mountain West, Mountain Division – July 7
Mountain West, West Division – July 10
C-USA East Division – July 14
C-USA West Division – July 17
The American East Division – July 21
The American West Division – July 24
Sun Belt – July 28
FBS Independents – July 28
Big 12 – July 31
ACC Coastal Division – August 4
ACC Atlantic Division – August 7
Big 10 West Division – August 11
Big 10 East Division – August 14
Pac-12 North Division – August 18
Pac-12 South Division – August 21
SEC East Division – August 25
SEC West Division – August 28
Let’s take a look at the three teams that comprise the FBS Independents.
1. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Brian Kelly led Notre Dame to through their fantastic 2012 season, which culminated in a crushing 42-14 loss in the National Championship. Outside of that 12-1 season, Kelly has not won more than nine games, nor lost less than four. The pressure may be on Kelly to get the Irish back into the national spotlight.
The offense returns seven starters, but one of them is not quarterback Everett Golson. Malik Zaire will be at the helm after a very nice starting performance in the Music City Bowl against LSU, finishing the season with 266 yards and a touchdown in only seven appearances. He will have both Tarean Folston (889 yards and 6 touchdowns) and Greg Bryant (289 yards and 3 touchdowns) in the backfield again this season. More importantly for Zaire is that he will have the top four receivers from 2014 back led by Will Fuller. Fuller had 76 catches for 1,094 yards and 15 touchdowns while easily becoming the most productive receiver last season. The Irish put up 32.8 points and 445 yards of offense per game in 2014 and if Zaire protects the ball better than Golson, they will do even better this year.
The defense had its worst season in 2014 under Kelly. With four starters back, the gave up 29.2 points and 404 yards per game. The defense in 2015 will have 10 starters back and the one replacement is KeiVarae Russell, who was a starter in 2012 and 2013. The defensive line starters all had at least 39 tackles and a sack in 2014. The linebackers are led by Jaylon Smith. Smith had 112 tackles, 3.5 sacks, and 5.5 tackles for loss on his way to 2nd Team All-American accolades. The secondary has three starters back as well as the aforementioned Russell. The defense will be much better in 2015 and makes the Irish a serious threat to reach the College Football Playoffs.
Notre Dame has several tough games in 2015. They open with a home game against Texas, but also face Georgia Tech (home) and Clemson (road) in the first five weeks. USC will travel to South Bend on October 17 as well, but the final five games of the Irish schedule look manageable. It looks very possible that Notre Dame will be back near the top of the national rankings again this year.
2. BYU Cougars
BYU went from the Mountain West in 2010 to independent status in 2011. It looked like the right move as they went 10-3 in 2011, but have subsequently had three straight 8-5 seasons. 2014 started off great for BYU until the injury to star quarterback Taysom Hill. What will 2015 have in store for the Cougars?
The offense has eight starters back including quarterback Taysom Hill. Hill was have an excellent year in 2014, but his injury forced Christian Stewart into action. Stewart did well in place of Hill by throwing for 2,621 yards with 25 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. The running game was not as strong with Jamaal Williams leading the team with 518 yards and 4 touchdowns while also having injury issues throughout the seasons. Mitch Mathews is also back after grabbing 73 passes for 922 yards and 9 touchdowns. Despite the injuries, BYU still managed to put up 37.1 points and 460 yards of offense in 2014. Now that Hill is back for 2015, the BYU offense could go even higher.
The defense has only five returning starters and three of those reside on the defensive line. The line allowed only 122 rushing yards per game and only 3.3 yards per carry. The lone returning linebacker is Manoa Pikula and he finished 2014 with 49 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and an interception. In the secondary, only Michael Davis is back after having 43 tackles and 6 pass breakups last season. The back eight have a lot of inexperience so the Cougars may be playing in quite a few shootouts this year.
BYU has a tough schedule in 2015 as they open with three road games in the first four weeks. They face Nebraska (road), Boise State (home), UCLA (road), and Michigan (road). The middle portion of their schedule is a bit easier with games versus Connecticut, East Carolina, Cincinnati, and Wagner with all of those at home. After a bye week, they will face San Jose State (road), Missouri (Kansas City), Fresno State (home), and Utah State (road). It will be tough for BYU to reach double digits in the win column for 2015 even with Taysom Hill back.
3. Army West Point Black Knights
Jeff Monken took over Army in the offseason prior to 2014 and managed a 4-8 record with 14 starters back. This offseason, Army rebranded itself as Army West Point, but we will still refer to them as just Army. Will the second year of Monken and a new name help Army back to a bowl game?
The offense returns only five starters. Quarterback will be a battle between the oft-injured AJ Schurr and Matthew Kaufmann. Schurr is likely to get the job if he is healthy considering he had 320 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns in addition to his 242 yards passing with a touchdown and interception. The running game has been hit hard by the loss of Larry Dixon (1,102 yards and 9 touchdowns) with Aaron Kemper (158 yards and a touchdown) and Matt Giachinta (152 yards and a touchdown) the top returning rushers behind Schurr. Edgar Poe had 10 catches for 199 yards and a touchdown in 2014, but the passing game is not the focal point of this offense. There are three starters back on the line as well as others who have seen time at multiple positions. The offense put up 24.9 points and 359 yards of offense in 2014 and could produce similar numbers this year as well.
The defense also has only five starters returning. The defensive line has been raided by losses with no starters returning after they surrendered 193 rushing yards per game last year. Linebacker is strong with two starters returning led by Jeremy Timpf. He had 117 tackles, 1 sack, 13.5 tackles for loss, and three interceptions. He will be joined by Andrew King (63 tackles, 5 sacks, 3 tackles for loss). The secondary has three starters back including former wide receiver Xavier Moss. Josh Jenkins will be one of the cornerback spots (64 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 8 pass breakups, and 4 interception) with Chris Carnegie at the other corner position (54 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 7 pass breakups, 3 interceptions).
Army will face Fordham (home), Connecticut (road), Wake Forest (home), and Eastern Michigan (road) to start the season. It gets tougher from there with Penn State (road), Duke (home), Bucknell (home), and Rice (road) in the next four games. Games against Air Force (road), Tulane (home), and Rutgers (home) all lead into the Army-Navy game on December 12 in Philadelphia. Army has lost 13 straight to Navy and even if that is the only game they win in 2015, they will a successful season. It does, however, look like it will be a 4 to 5 win season for Army.
The FBS Independents are easy to sort out for 2015. Notre Dame is clearly the best team while BYU will have another solid season. Army is probably still a year away from being a bowl contender. Below is the predicted order of finish.
1. Notre Dame
2. BYU
3. Army
Be sure to check out the Sun Belt preview and check back on Friday for the Big 12 preview.
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U-19 World Cup selection a dream come true for Hyderabad’s Tilak Varma
Thakur Tilak Varma, a gifted young batsman, hopes to make a mark for India in the marquee event in South Africa.
V. V. Subrahmanyam
Hyderabad 07 December, 2019 20:21 IST
Tilak Varma (right) with coach Salam Bayash. Photo: V. V. Subrahmanyam
The success story of Thakur Tilak Varma of Hyderabad might well be a gentle reminder that to make a mark in any sport one should have a combination of talent, commitment and patience.
Tilak, a gifted young batsman, is now in the Indian U-19 squad for the forthcoming World Cup in South Africa.
Tilak, who cracked a century against Pakistan in the quarterfinal of the recent Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, believed in his coach Salam Bayash at the Legala Cricket Academy since he was just 10, training there since it was close to his home in Lingampally. To his credit, Salam ensured that the young talent got everything he deserved in training sessions.
“Once he scored 460 runs with two centuries and two fifties in the South Zone U-14 grade, I was confident of Tilak going to places,” says Salam with pride in a chat with Sportstar.
‘Huge responsibility’
Tilak, who made his Ranji Trophy debut against Andhra last season at Vizianagaram, scoring 5 and 34, says his selection in the Indian team is a dream come true. “I thought I had an 80 percent chance of making in view of my scores. But, again, I feel it a huge responsibility at the same time to repose the faith in me,” he says.
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“Now, I have got a chance and will try my best to make most of it,” says the southpaw.
Scoring big was never an issue for this young talent having hit five centuries and three half-centuries before being picked for the last Asia Cup (U-19). “Fortunately, I don’t feel any pressure in any given situation, patience being my strength,” declares Tilak.
Tilak is a big admirer of Suresh Raina, whose advice to him was to focus on both academics and cricket and not to think too much and too far.
For Tilak, Rahul Sir (Dravid) is an amazing personality. He wishes to benefit the most with the interactions and advice from the latter at the NCA in Bengaluru where the Indian team prepares for the World Cup. “Yes, for sure, I want to make a mark in the World Cup to move closer to the dream of playing for India seniors,” he signs off.
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Payet starts for Marseille in Europa League final
Dimitri Payet will start for Marseille as they attempt to deny Atletico Madrid a third Europa League triumph.
Matt Dorman
17 May, 2018 00:01 IST
Marseille playmaker Dimitri Payet - Getty Images
Dimitri Payet has overcome a muscle problem to take his place in Marseille's starting XI for the Europa League final against Atletico Madrid in Lyon.
The playmaker's fitness is a big boost for Rudi Garcia, who was forced to leave his captain out of last Friday's 3-3 Ligue 1 draw with Guingamp.
Meanwhile, Diego Simeone has partnered Diego Costa in a two-man attack with Antoine Griezmann, while fellow France international Lucas Hernandez starts at left-back ahead of the fit-again Filipe Luis.
Griezmann could be playing in his final European match for Atleti, with reports suggesting he could leave for Barcelona at the end of the season.
Fernando Torres, who has already flagged his intention to depart Atleti at the end of the campaign, is named among the substitutes.
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Romelu Lukaku agent ashamed by Corriere dello Sport 'Black Friday' headline
Federico Pastorello, the agent of Inter's Romelu Lukaku, has urged Italian football to improve its efforts to combat racial discrimination.
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Romelu Lukaku's agent Federico Pastorello has condemned newspaper Corriere dello Sport and acknowledged Italian football has an issue with racism.
Lukaku and former Manchester United team-mate Chris Smalling featured on the front page of Thursday's issue of the popular newspaper, which printed the headline "Black Friday" ahead of Inter's meeting with Roma in Serie A.
The headline has been widely criticised, and it follows on from numerous examples of racist behaviour across Italian football this season – with Lukaku having already been a victim of such abuse earlier in the campaign.
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While Italy struggles with uncomfortable questions regarding cultural issues of discrimination, Pastorello believes the country has ingrained problems with racism.
"Being Italian I'm really ashamed to read a title like that, but I really don't want to talk about a single episode," Pastorello told Sky Sports.
"At the end of the day, the racist problem is a big problem. Unfortunately we are living in 1920. It's really a culture problem.
"Being an agent, we are trying to protect our clients from this huge problem, because it's not only a newspaper but it's a problem you can breathe in the stadium, in social media, on the street. I think it's a problem that is a culture problem.
"What I would like and wish for the future is institutions could take it more seriously. There were some episodes in Champions League recently, also in Serie A games and the institution did not take the problem so seriously.
"[Lukaku] is very sensitive on this problem. I like his attitude because he's facing it every time with strength and power. For sure he is not happy about that, but he's strong enough to face it."
Absolutely nobody:
Not a single soul:
Corriere dello Sport headline writer: pic.twitter.com/u2xpMLV5IH
— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) December 5, 2019
Corriere dello Sport's editor, however, has described the headline as "innocent".
The newspaper said its choice of words reflected "the pride of difference, the wonderful wealth of difference", adding: "If you don't get it, it is because you can't or you don't want to."
Serie A clubs recently signed an open letter vowing to address the issue of racism within the Italian game, with football authorities criticised for not doing enough to punish examples or racial discrimination at matches.
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A logarithmic model is a model that measures the magnitude of the thing it's measuring. It can also be seen as the inverse of an exponential model.
For example, exponential growth is very common in nature for things like radioactivity, bacterial growth, etc., being written as
#N(t) = N_0e^(kt)# or #N(t) = N_0a^t#
So if wanted to know how much time passed based on the amount there is, we'd have a logarithmic model.
#ln[(N(t))/N_0]/k = t# or #log_a[(N(t))/N_0] = t#
However, the bigger use of logarithmic models are when the thing you're measuring can go from things being very small to very big. For example, two common scales used are the Bell scale for sound intensity and the pH scale for acidity.
These values, before undergoing the logarithmic treatment usually range from #10^-12# to #10^8# and #10^-14# to #1# respectively. When we have such a big range we usually apply logarithms because then we have less powers, multiplications, etc. to work with.
With logs, the values range from #0 dbeta# to #200 dbeta# and from #1# to #14#, which are much more palatable.
Logarithmic models often have these formulas
#y = log(x/x_0)# or #y = log(x_0/x)#
Where #x_0# is a reference value. Whether it's on the numerator or the denominator depends on the range. If, like on the pH scale we're working with values much too small, it's easier to put it on top, since the biggest feasible number will be #1#.
But since we can work with values up to #10^8# in the Bell Scale it's easier for it to be on the bottom. For reference these are the values for these two examples:
#beta = log(I/10^(-12))# and
#pH = -log[H^+] = log(1/[[H^+]])#
And last but not least, anything that's p something, is usually a logarithmic scale.
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Home People Help Name 20 Newly Discovered Moons Of Saturn! (Video)
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Illustration is courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Saturn image is courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Starry background courtesy of Paolo Sartorio/Shutterstock.
Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard has recently announced the discovery of 20 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing its total to 82 and moving it ahead of Jupiter, which has 79. All hail the new king of moons!
Earlier this year we held a contest to name five Jovian moons discovered by Sheppard last July. We loved the enthusiasm everyone showed for this contest so much that we’re doing it again. Please help us name all 20 Saturnian moons!
Contest Launch Date:
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How to Submit:
Tweet your suggested moon name to @SaturnLunacy and tell us why you picked it. Photos, artwork, and videos are strongly encouraged. Don’t forget to include the hashtag #NameSaturnsMoons.
The General Rules:
We hope you know a lot about giants, because that’s the key to playing the name game for Saturnian moons.
Two of the newly discovered prograde moons fit into a group of outer moons with inclinations of about 46 degrees called the Inuit group. All name submissions for this group must be giants from Inuit mythology.
Seventeen of the newly discovered moons are retrograde moons in the Norse group. All name submissions for this group must be giants from Norse mythology.
One of the newly discovered moons orbits in the prograde direction and has an inclination near 36 degrees, which is similar to those in the Gallic group, although it is much farther away from Saturn than any other prograde moons. It must be named after a giant from Gallic mythology.
Further details about how the International Astronomical Union names astronomical objects can be found here.
Make Sure Your Proposed Name Is Not Already in Use:
Current names can be checked at the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center here or here.
Check out this video about the moon-naming process:
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Jedgar
This article is about the true Prophet of the Dark Side. You may be looking for his impostor.
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"You insignificant mynock! You are nothing to a master of the dark side!"
―Jedgar[src]
Jedgar was a Jedi youngling who joined Dark Jedi Kadann and became a Prophet of the Dark Side.
Jedgar started his life as a Jedi youngling in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. While there, he was troubled by his dark dreams which had a frightening habit of coming to pass. He had many nightmares of the Clone Wars and Great Jedi Purge long before they even happened. Though he was filled with a talent for foreseeing the future, Jedgar frightened all the other students and couldn't find a single Jedi Knight or Master who would even accept him as a Padawan and start training him. When his thirteenth birthday came in 23 BBY he was assigned to the Agricultural Corps, but he refused to accept such a menial occupation and fled the Jedi Order forever to follow his dreams to the dark side of the Force.
Some years later, Jedgar was still following his vision when they led him to Dark Jedi Kadann, a former Jedi Knight who had also left the Order for his own reasons. The conversation the two had was brief: "I foresaw this meeting," Kadann stated, "So did I," replied Jedgar. Ever since then, Kadann was the master and Jedgar the apprentice. While his primary use was helping Kadann understand the motion of the future with his dark musings, he also served as the dwarf's bodyguard. The later post was more for show than anything else, as Kadann was more than capable of protecting himself from any and all danger.
High Prophet Jedgar standing next to fellow High Prophet Merili.
When Darth Sidious appointed Kadann the title of Supreme Prophet of the Dark Side, Jedgar followed him and was given the title of High Prophet and effectively became the second in command of the prophets. When the Galactic Empire reached its height of power, Kadann and Jedgar led the Prophets of the Dark Side in advising the Emperor with their omens and predictions. Everything was fine until Kadann saw a future which agreed with Sidious's own vision: that Luke Skywalker would defeat him and the Empire would come to an end. Even so, Kadann was their leader and the most powerful among them and so they trusted his visions. Many of the Prophets, Jedgar included, agreed to follow him into hiding on the planet Bosthirda and from their secret temple they watched as the Emperor was defeated and the Empire destroyed, bringing back balance to the Force just as Kadann had predicted.
Following the Battle of Endor, Imperial Intelligence created a group of false Prophets, including a false Jedgar also laying claim to the title of High Prophet. The true Jedgar saw these lies and falsehoods in his dark visions, but Kadann refused to allow him to leave Bosthirda to do anything about it. "Let them pretend, their false prophecies will not come to pass, and the time is not yet right for the true Prophets to appear," was all he said in regards to them. This did not stop Jedgar entirely, however, as he would often pose as a roaming evil Jedi, training any Force-users he met and tempting them with the quick, easy path of the dark side. Anyone who refused this training would become his obstacles who had to be eliminated. This did not mean that he dealt with them immediately, however, often appearing at just the wrong moment to deal his vengeance.
At about the same time as the false Kadann laid claim to being the Emperor, Jedgar was in the middle of one of his schemes. He planned to infiltrate a New Republic base by having a group of Imperial agents who worked for him chase him into the arms of a Republic group. After this, he would gain their trust so that they would lead them into the Republic base. Once he learned the location of the base, and gathered a substantial amount of information, he would leave and return with enough forces to capture or destroy the base and all its occupants. This entire plan was designed purely so that he could gain Force-sensitive individuals to train. It is unknown whether or not this plan succeeded. Jedgar met his death either by the vengeance of Azrakel when he returned to destroy the prophets or by Carnor Jax and Lumiya when they returned moments later after Azrakel's death to finish what he started.
Jedgar was the most ambitious of all Prophets, and simply wanted power. Unlike the Supreme Prophet Kadann, however, he was not content to wait to receive this power, he wanted it immediately. He was a stereotypical Dark Jedi, and would use any method or plan that got him closer to his goal no matter what the consequences were. He hated the fact that Kadann was more powerful than him, but resigned to the fact that there was nothing he could do about it as he was not willing to openly oppose the Supreme Prophet.
Jedgar was arrogant, cruel, and impatient, often moving to quickly against his enemies when it would be best to hold back and study them. This has led to many mistakes which have cost him much over the years. Once his victory was in sight, he would leap to grab it before all of his plans had played out which would often cause him to suffer further defeat.
He relished his dark side abilities, and was not afraid to use them often. His favorite tactic was to create whole armies of Force Wraiths and send them against his enemies, though he was not opposed to also drawing his lightsaber and joining the fight personally when the chance arose.
Physical appearance Edit
Jedgar was an extremely tall and thin man, with a bald head, bearded chin, and hooded eyes. As with all other Prophets of the Dark Side, he wore the traditional star-covered robes which looked like they'd been spun from a piece of deep space. The only physical weapon he had was his lightsaber which he always carried with him and never hesitated to use. It was characterized by its sickly glowing green blade and an electronic hum which sounded like a swarm of angry rage-stingers. He was also known to keep hssiss nearby to mute his presence in the Force.
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Pence's Russia Remarks: 'We Shouldn't Wait for Improvement of Relations With US'
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https://sputniknews.com/politics/201706061054355757-pence-russia-us-nato/
Any serious improvement in relations between Russia and the United States is unlikely after US Vice President Mike Pence named Russia as one of the main security concerns for NATO, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee, told Sputnik on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — During his address at the Atlantic Council Distinguished Leadership Awards 2017 on Monday, Pence listed Russia and Iran, as well as the threat of global terrorism, as the primary security issues for the alliance, while also reiterating the commitment of the United States to its allies.
"Now we see we should not wait for a quality improvement of relations with the United States compared to the administration of [former US President Barack] Obama," Slutsky said.
© Sputnik / Sergei Pyatakov
Kremlin Regrets Pence's Anti-Russia Rhetoric, Yet Guided by Trump's Claims
There have been many anti-Russian statements made by the United States that endanger development of fruitful bilateral relations, but the latest remarks of the Vice President sums up the United States' position clearly, Slutsky added.
Deputy Chair of State Duma's International Affairs Committee Alexei Chepa told Sputnik in turn that such a statement was not unexpected, but added that it is too early to draw conclusions, as US President Donald Trump’s administration's policy was not yet fully formed, clear or consistent.
Chepa added that instead of the world focusing on the fight against terrorism and uniting its efforts to tackle this comment threat as was needed, "some short-sighted politicians make such statements."
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US-NATO 'Buildup on Russian Border Could Lead to Nuclear War' - Nobel Laureate
NATO has been building up its military presence in Eastern Europe, citing Russia's alleged meddling in the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 and the referendum in Crimea. Following the July 2016 summit, the alliance announced deployment of four multinational battalions to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland.
Russia has repeatedly refuted the claims of being involved in the Ukrainian crisis, stating that NATO’s military build-up near the Russian borders is provocative and could lead to regional and global destabilization.
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US Treasury Drops Currency Manipulator Designation for China
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https://sputniknews.com/us/202001141078028472-us-drops-chinas-currency-manipulator-designation/
The decision comes as both countries move towards improving trade relations and sealing the Phase One trade agreement on Wednesday. To that end, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, the head of the country's negotiating team in US-China trade talks, is slated to stay in Washington from Monday to Wednesday.
The US Department of the Treasury announced Monday that, as part of its semi-annual currency report, it will no longer designate China as a currency manipulator.
“The Treasury Department has helped secure a significant Phase One agreement with China that will lead to greater economic growth and opportunity for American workers and businesses,” US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in the Monday release from his department. “China has made enforceable commitments to refrain from competitive devaluation, while promoting transparency and accountability.”
This announcement followed the US Treasury's delivery of its semiannual "Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States," which reviewed the currency practices of 20 top US trading partners.
Mnuchin previously labeled China a "currency manipulator" in August 2019 after Beijing and the People's Bank of China allegedly violated "China's G20 commitments to refrain from competitive devaluation" and allowed the yuan to drop to a unprecedented level of seven yuan-per-dollar threshold.
China dropped the price of their currency to an almost a historic low. It’s called “currency manipulation.” Are you listening Federal Reserve? This is a major violation which will greatly weaken China over time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2019
The designation, which had not been placed on China since 1994, was the first step in the Treasury's move to have the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "eliminate the unfair competitive advantage created by China's latest actions."
However, the IMF did not appear to agree with the US' assessment and declared in its annual review of China's economic policies that the yuan and Beijing were "broadly in line" with the fundamentals and not significantly over- or undervalued.
While no nation is now currently labeled a "currency manipulator" by the US Treasury, the department has placed a total of 10 trading partners on its "Monitoring List": China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland and Vietnam.
During an interview Monday evening with the Fox Business TV network, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said his office is "about finished" translating the Phase One trade agreement with China, which includes commitments on currency manipulation. Beijing and Washington are expected to ink the deal on Wednesday. The agreement will reverse the trend of nearly two years of tariff wars between the two economic superpowers.
"We're going to make it public on Wednesday before the signing," Lighthizer said.
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US Treasury Secretary Says China Commitments to Trade Deal Not Changed in Translation - Reports
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16:39Never Too Old for Fun! Chipper Shina Inu Frolics in Snow
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Senate Republicans Opt for Guerrilla Warfare in Postnuclear Era
The GOP will use targeted attacks rather than all-out war in response to the Democrats' rule change on the filibuster
By Jay Newton-Small @JNSmallDec. 02, 2013
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Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, left, and Senate majority leader Harry Reid laugh during a ceremony to dedicate the statue of Frederick Douglass in the Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington on June 19, 2013
Fallout From the Filibuster Rule Change
Senate Democrats Go ‘Nuclear’ to Curb the Filibuster
Reid Blocks First G.O.P. Offer on Filibuster Reform, Leaves Nuclear Option on Table
For years, Republicans have warned that if majority leader Harry Reid were to use the so-called nuclear option by curtailing the use of filibusters in the Senate, all business in the upper chamber of Congress would come to a grinding halt. Reid went nuclear anyway last month, but as the Senate comes back into session next week, Republicans are not expected to immediately shut down Senate proceedings. Instead, they plan a more tactical path of retribution, or as one senior GOP Senate aide put it, “guerrilla warfare.”
The Senate’s rules are designed to force consensus on everything, from the agreement to say the morning prayer to consideration of every piece of legislation. If Republicans truly wanted to, they could object to every motion on the floor, effectively bringing the Senate to a standstill. But such a move might prove as unpopular as the government shutdown did earlier in the fall. The 113th Congress is already well on its way to being the least productive and most disliked of sessions in the record books.
Fortunately for the GOP, the byzantine Senate rules provide many alternatives to outright warfare, says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Of course there will be retaliation,” says Sabato. “The Senate rules encourage it, with so many ways provided for single Senators or small groups to slow down the process. The GOP base expects retaliation, and politicians usually play to their base.”
The coming guerrilla war was a long time in the making. On Nov. 21, just before a two-week Thanksgiving and Hanukkah recess, Reid forced through a vote to override the Senate rules and lower the threshold for approving some nominees from 60 votes to 51 votes. Such a move was first threatened in 2005, when Democrats were blocking President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees. Even former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, said changing the judicial filibuster rules would be incredibly dangerous as it would effectively blow up the Senate, coining the term “nuclear option.”
During the run-up to last month’s filibuster showdown, Senate Republicans warned that if Democrats changed the rules on nominations, it would be a short leap to change them on every piece of legislation. “Senator Reid is an able and experienced leader,” Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, said in June. “He knows that if Democrats figure out a way to do anything they want with 51 votes, Republicans can figure that out too. And if we’re in charge, we’ll do it.” Alexander vowed Republicans would repeal Obamacare and the estate tax and open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling by simple majority votes when they next take control of the Senate.
That may be a few years yet, which is perhaps why Reid took the gamble to change the rules. “If you look around the country, we’re doing pretty well,” Reid said before the nuclear vote, referring to the 2014 electoral map. “This won’t be much of a story in a week or two,” Reid said of the filibuster fight. Though Republicans should be poised to make gains given a spate of Democratic retirements in swing states, they have had trouble with Tea Party primaries, fundraising, as well as defending a couple of seats, including that of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican. Most experts do not predict the Senate will flip in 2014, and 2016 is a much improved landscape for Democrats with less vulnerable seats to defend.
Still, there is much Republicans in the minority can do to inflict pain in the more immediate future. The Senate has a heavy schedule between now and the end of the year: Budget Committee negotiators must find a deal to avoid another government shutdown in January, the Farm Bill is still pending, as is the annual National Defense Authorization Act. Not to mention a host of nominations. And while Democrats may have an easier time with floor approval given the new rules, they still have to contend with other obscure procedural provisions, like blue slipping, where home state senators can effectively veto a judicial nominee. All except one of Obama’s pending federal-court nominees hail from states that have at least one Republican Senator. Democrats will have to scramble to figure out where and when Republicans might strike.
So, the world’s greatest deliberative body looks likely to be reduced to a low-grade tactical war. “The end of the filibuster was inevitable — we just didn’t know exactly when it would happen. The filibuster was designed for a Senate that prized consensus,” Sabato says. “That era is long gone, and we’ve moved into an intensely polarized period that is unlikely to end anytime soon.”
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National Pro Fastpitch announces Rapsodo partnership
Nashville, Tenn (January 10, 2018) – National Pro Fastpitch is proud to announce a new partnership with Rapsodo Inc. Rapsodo will be an Official Partner of the League in the Ball Flight Data category. The partnership will launch during spring training for the 2018 NPF season. Rapsodo, a leading developer of sports analytics technology, will focus on providing pitching analysis data in their inaugural season with the league.
Rapsodo’s cutting edge camera and radar based system is the first portable solution for baseball/softball pitching analysis, delivering performance data such as total spin, true spin, spin efficiency, spin movement, break, and strike zone location, and is capable of allowing coaches to train players both indoor and outdoor.
“We are extremely proud to partner with NPF to bring our ball flight analytics to the best players in the world”, says Art Chou, Rapsodo GM – North America. “Data is king; our data will help these players maximize their performance while also spotlighting their unique athletic abilities.”
Through the partnership, Rapsodo will conduct player analysis sessions with each NPF team where players can monitor their pitching metrics. The technology will yield an opportunity for the top softball players in the world to be able to measure and track ball flight stats.
“We are always interested in technology and data that will help our elite athletes continue to improve their skills,” commented NPF Commissioner, Cheri Kempf. “Rapsodo is a product that will provide unique and important information to our players and I look forward to beginning this partnership.”
In addition to pitching data collection, Rapsodo’s new hitting monitor will give NPF players more opportunity to capitalize on all of their hitting related data, including exit velocity, launch angle, total distance, and exit direction.
Rapsodo monitors are currently used by many MLB and NCAA teams; in addition, they are used for player evaluation at Player Development Pipeline (PDP) events held by Major League Baseball (MLB), the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau (MLBSB), and USA Baseball. Rapsodo Hitting Monitors are also used by Mizuno USA for bat fitting.
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National Pro Fastpitch (NPF), an Official Development Partner of Major League Baseball since 2004, provides elite female athletes with an opportunity to pursue a professional career in fastpitch softball beyond their collegiate and amateur success. The NPF affiliate teams consist of the Akron Racers, Aussie Spirit, Beijing Shougang Eagles, Chicago Bandits, Scrap Yard Dawgs, and USSSA Florida Pride for the 2018 season. National Pro Fastpitch players hail from the United States, Australia, Canada and China among which are the most accomplished and talented athletes in the sport of women’s softball. www.profastpitch.com.
About Rapsodo Inc.
Rapsodo Inc. is a sports analytics company that uses computer vision and machine learning to help all athletes maximize their performance. Their proprietary technology applications range from helping PGA Tour golfers optimize their launch conditions to allowing MLB pitchers to increase the efficiency on their breaking balls. From the diamond to the court to the tee, Rapsodo gives athletes of all ages the tools to get to the next level. For more information about Rapsodo: www.rapsodo.com.
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Screw Poker! There’s A “Space Dandy” Collectible Card Game In The Works!
by Frank Inglese
Cards are great. End of article. No! Cards are incredibly awesome, especially when they’re part of a collectable series wherein which you build a deck and duke it out with some of your friends! i’d like to think I can bounce around the ring with the best of them but usually when I think something of myself it’s actually the opposite.
We all love “Yu-Gi-Oh!”, we all love “Cardfight Vanguard!!”, we all love “Weiss Schwarz”, but you can but your old decks in the bin for all I care because Seven Seas have just branched out into tabletop game creation with the CCG they’ve just announced through KickStarter; the “Space Dandy CCG”.
The company is well-known for publishing both Anime and Manga alike but now they’re tackling a new titan and it comes in the form of a collectible card game. A KickStarted campaign was set up not nine hours ago to raise a measly $12,000…I say “measly” because, already, they goal has been met with the total as of writing this article sitting at a comfortable $14,000.
This means that, like it or not, the “Space Dandy CCG” WILL be a thing and I cannot be more excited! Oh yeah, baby! Here’s the thing; you can sit here all day reading about what I have to say but a lot of what that will be is over-excited blabber. Instead, why don’t you head to the actual KickStarter page where you can not only read up on what this game is going to be about but also perhaps add to the campaign by giving the team a bit of that sweet cash. What do you think, baby? Check it out: Click Here.
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Oppo A37 with 7.6mm slim body and 4G LTE announced for global markets
By Zara Ali June 21st, 2016 AT 11:36 AM
After a series of teasers, the Oppo A37 had finally been made official worldwide. The smartphone was first introduced in China, in April. The device will be available in Gold, Rose Gold, and Grey color options, for a price of $199 (Rs. 13400 approx.), which will distinguish market-wise. We expect the device to go on sale in India soon.
The Oppo A37 runs Android 5.1 Lollipop with Oppo’s in-house ColorOS 3.0 on top. It sports an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, f/2.2 aperture, 1/3.2-inch BSI sensor,1.4?m pixel size, 1080p video recording, along with a 5-megapixel selfie camera with f/2.2 aperture, 1.4?m pixel size, 1/4-inch sensor, and OmniBSI+. Unlike the one launched in China, the global variant comes powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 410 chipset in lieu of MediaTek’s octa-core MT6750 chipset. The device support dual-SIM connectivity (nano), which is yet again different from its Chinese variant that comes with Hybrid dual-SIM support. The main highlight in terms of design is its 7.6mm slim body.
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Philip Glass: Satyagraha, ENO/ LSO, Alsop, Barbican
English National Opera production proves Philip Glass is a pile of trash
by Igor ToronyilalicThursday, 25 February 2010
Satyagraha at ENO: 'shovel, shovel, shovel'Donald Cooper
It has always been a cornerstone of my personal philosophy that beauty and insight can be found in the very lowest of common denominators. That Big Brother, Friends, Love It magazine or Paris Hilton provide revelations about life that are of as much consequence, of as much wonder, as any offered up by the classic pantheon. That that which the people respond to must and usually does have plenty of merit lurking within it. And so I have always held out hope that Philip Glass, the most popular of living classical composers, is actually quite good, somehow, somewhere. But, actually, he really isn't. Philip Glass is genuinely just a load of old bollocks.
His oratorio-cum-opera Satyagraha starts with some promise. It starts with four chords. That's three more than anyone versed in Glass's music is probably expecting. It sort of lulls you into a false sense of security. Well, four chords, eh? Might not be such a dull night after all! For the love of God, don't think this; it'll get you into trouble. You might, you know, actually get into him. Not as unlikely a thing as you might think.
Philip Glass is a dangerous composer. He has the same effect on the ears as a packet of Pringles does on the stomach. Once you pop, you can't stop - you can't stop shovelling his empty chords down your gob, even while your gob is trying to vomit up your arms, that is. Shovel, shovel, shovel. Over three hours of it. Like a good Chinese meal, you feel full and hungry and vomitous all at once.
After the ENO's revival production, you also feel terribly puzzled. Which was shittier, one wonders: the music or the staging? The music, you see, gets a little better. In Act Two, there's some variety. It sounds like it might break free into Borodin. In Act Three there are relatively exotic chord combinations and chromatic overhangs - though still nothing that would frighten any self-respecting boy band. A pretty basic rule becomes apparent: the more chords there are the better the music is. It's something Glass should perhaps mull over.
Yet the staging never gets past dreadful. There's a Notting Hill carnival-dreadful at the off - women on stilts, giant papier-mache monsters and body-sculpting - and a political video-type-dreadful at the end - Gandhi and Martin Luther King in a slow-mo vanquishing of darkness. It's twee and saccharine, like something my local Lib Dem council might cook up one evening for a bit of community bonding.
There's no libretto to speak off, just a few vapid offcut aphorisms from the Bhagavad Gita and Gandhi, which are repeated ad nauseam. What content there is is profoundly suspicious. Perfectly reasonable if truistic statements like "be friendly and compassionate" rub shoulders with pseudo-Buddhist bunk, "be same in pleasure as in pain", "be done with thoughts of 'I' and 'mine'." As Paris Hilton might say: yeah, whatever.
Symbolic of the profound lack in this opera was the silence from the pit before the start of each act. Rather than the usual cacophony of practice and play-back, there was total peace. No one has to practise before Satyagraha because there is nothing to practise. Indeed, there is nothing in Satyagraha at all: no music, no characters, no plot, no interest, no point. I would have learnt more if I had stared at a wall.
Yet despite all this cretinism, despite Satyagraha being one of the worst operas, and Phelim McDermott's one of the worst productions, history has ever thrown up, the London Symphony Orchestra's concert last Sunday might have pipped it to the post of worst classical event of the year so far.
LIFE: A Journey Through Time - for, lo, yes, that was the concert's fabulous name - was as execrable as the title suggests. A tangle of weak cuts from Glass's film scores spliced together crassly follows a series of dishonestly tarted-up National Geographic photos of nature, looking nothing like nature does, obeying some fatuous, first-base idea of aesthetics, over-saturated, over-abstracted, whorish and wrong. None of this, I hasten to add, was Marin Alsop or the LSO's fault, who played Glass's retarded scores with gusto.
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Permalink Submitted by David (not verified) on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 08:31
Tell it how it is, Igor. And I, for one, won't contradict you. Last time round Saryagraha's four chords in forty-five minutes had me fleeing. Yes, I felt unwell. That, I suppose, is at least a reaction. Now, let's for goodness' sake get back to Reich and Adams, the real stuff.
Permalink Submitted by anon (not verified) on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 12:51
"Philip Glass is genuinely just a load of old bollocks." Yeah right. This is a juvenile, attention-seeking review. Aren't you supposed to be the serious professional ones?
Permalink Submitted by Anon2 (not verified) on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 13:47
There's clearly nothing wrong with robust criticism. However, I only wish that there could be a bit more of a middle ground between this sort of absolute dismissal and the total adulation in your recent review of George Benjamin's Birthday concert. It does seem to suggest a rather black-and-white view of things.
Permalink Submitted by Damien Kennedy (not verified) on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 14:47
This is an extremely offensive, badly-written and ill-though-out review. Who are you? Have you had a proper musical education? Are you qualified to write "professional" music reviews? It certainly doesn't seem so. Sadly, you are taking up space where somebody else could be doing a good job. For example - just because some minimalist music is based on small cells and repitition, this does not make it easy to play, follow or conduct. Not liking something is one thing - varied opinions and responses are what make art interesting - but this is just a tirade of juvenile abuse, not a good critical appraisal.
Permalink Submitted by Igor Toronyi Lalic (not verified) on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 15:32
Anon2, the difference in quality between Glass's Satyagraha and the works in the Benjamin concert was very black and white I can assure you. Damien, happy to be acquainted. On the subject of poor writing, 'repitition' actually has a second 'e'. And funny you should mention all that stuff about the music because I've just been playing some Glass on the piano. I actually find it quite easy to play and follow and always have, though, you're probably right, it is no doubt tricky to keep track of all the repetitions, especially while trying to marshal singers, choir and orchestra. You'll see I did in fact praise Marin Alsop for conducting 'Glass's retarded scores with gusto'. The ENO conductor Stuart Stratford was a little less effective, losing the choir a couple of times in the Second Act.
Permalink Submitted by AH (not verified) on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 22:26
A totally self-serving, artless, unintelligent and amateurish review. What an idiot.
Permalink Submitted by Maria (not verified) on Sat, 27/02/2010 - 11:08
Is there any reason to be so disrespectful though in such a public way? Tell it as it is, but please not in such a common, debased way. I thoroughly enjoyed Satyagraha last Thursday, with colleagues who worked their socks off learning the stuff, and giving a very convincing performance. Each to their own, but there were many Indian people who perhaps had never been to an 'opera' or that theatre in their lives. Perhaps those of you who thought it was actual rubbish, just simply are too juvenile to understand both the music and its sentiment, and then lower yourselves to gutter language, particularly Igor T-L. By the way, so what if the chorus got out in Act 2 - it was a first night, live music, not a CD, and anyone who goes to a first night in straight threatre knows they are going to about a sixth night with all the previews. So don't be so hard on us singers and be such offensive and self-serving back seat drivers! Have respect for a composer who has worked very hard, been inspired and for performing artists who have to work very hard to earn a living. It wasn't rubbish, Philip Glass isn't rubbish, he and his music is just not your cup of tea but don't mock art that many of us see further than what you hear and see.
Permalink Submitted by David (not verified) on Sat, 27/02/2010 - 11:36
Maria, you're a performer and I don't think Igor would deny the work you all put in - though, believe me, I know players in the ENO Orchestra who have worked just as hard and come to the opposite conclusion to you. They could hardly be denounced as too 'juvenile' to understand music of such obvious simplicity. There's also the famous, if possibly apocryphal, story of the cellist for Akhnaten who left her stand and came back 45 minutes later to take up exactly where she'd left off. Not that simplicity is a bad thing, and of course we in the west are not so used to subtle evolution; I can well imagine an Indian audience which understands its ragas might take something away from this. But music that doesn't modulate perhaps sometimes needs a less than modulated response. I'd rather read someone who does know a lot of stuff speaking his mind than the over-respectful views of critics on new music who regurgitate the programme notes (and believe me, I was there when the London new music mafia applied their none too subtle pressure so that the writer wouldn't plainspeak). Purely from a personal view, few things have made me angrier than Satyagraha. This from someone who adores Nixon, Dr Atomic and Steve Reich's The Cave.
Permalink Submitted by Igor Toronyi Lalic (not verified) on Sat, 27/02/2010 - 12:54
gosh, this is getting fun! Maria: "there were many Indian people"? Are you having a laugh?! There were hardly any "Indian people" at all. Do you really think any self-respecting "Indian" person - by which I presume you mean British-Asian person; I doubt many residents of Delhi or Mumbai actually FLEW in to see this production to be honest - would waste their time watching some hippie Westerner's vacuous take on their ancient and highly sophisticated culture. On the choir issue, Maria, just have another read of the review. I didn't mention the choir at all. I mention it later, in passing, in comment, because Damien Kennedy brought up the fact that the opera was difficult to conduct. Alsop was notable in her flawlessness next to the slightly "less effective" Stratford, I wrote, who lost control of the choir "a couple of times". That's hardly disrespectful. Quite the contrary. So strong was my respect for the singers, so attentive was I to the diligence that they had so obviously put into the work, that I thought it best not to name them in case one traduced them by association with the cataclysmic failure that is Satyagraha.
Igor, I must correct you there at least from my perspective during the first run - there was indeed a very large Indian contingent in the audience. And I do think it may have an important follow-on effect, as it did at the Proms after the Indian music/Bollywood day - I met and talked to many fellow Prommers who'd come back for more of a very different sort because they liked that and they liked the ambience. Though, yes, I do think it's quarter-digested stuff and the meaning of the words goes for nothing, so whether they were impressed or not in this instance I have no idea.
Well, the fact that so few came back for the second run I think speaks volumes.
Permalink Submitted by Dracula (not verified) on Mon, 01/03/2010 - 15:02
Igor, go back to the laboratory and help your master with other experiments. This review is of no help to the world.
Permalink Submitted by Peter Culshaw on Tue, 02/03/2010 - 00:00
Not everyone at theartsdesk loathes all of Philip Glass. I say some sort of nice things about him in my Nitin Sawhney review: http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1095:nit...
Permalink Submitted by howard.male on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:32
As another arts desk critic who knows little about classical music but likes what Phillip Glass he’s heard, I would immediately distrust a music critic who starts to count chords. Some of the worst music I’ve heard is constipated and showy because of its surplus of chords, and some of the best is transcendent because it only has two or three chords. It’s like judging a painting for not including enough colours; how would Whistler have fared under such criteria? And so for this reason alone I confess I distrusted you verdict, Igor. Hey, I even know a couple of tunes that only utilize one chord, but they still rock my world!
Permalink Submitted by David (not verified) on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 18:53
I agree with your basic premise, Howard, but I think what Igor was saying - though I'm sure he can reply for himself - was that four chords actually promised much. I'll fill in the ensuing gap in the article (ie what happened next) from my perspective. Surely it's what goes on melodically above those chords that matters, and over 45 minutes I heard no interest in that. You could even argue that lack of modulation over such a length of time isn't a failure in different cultures; but here different sentiments, if hardly drama, are unfolded, and yet it stays the same. Try comparing the opening of Adams's Nixon in China, which starts with nothing but ascending minor scales but shifts, sometimes slowly, sometimes dramatically, to reflect the changing inner and outer landscapes. That's what I think of as music-drama. I have the same problem, by and large, with the 'democracy of tonal atoms' in strict twelve-tone music. Neither anything-goes complexity nor extreme simplicity says anything to me once it's been said once (as it was, way back in the birth of minimalism, by LaMonte Young). BTW, I'd be quite happy if any of the enthusiasts below could tell me what makes Glass tick for them, but I haven't seen any attempt so far.
Permalink Submitted by Igor Toronyi Lalic (not verified) on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 21:31
To an extent, Howard, a fair point. A high number of chords does not equal a high rate of success. Having said that, I know of no other piece that resides so stolidly - so clunkingly - within one key and within the framework of a few chords for so long - except other Glass. My point about the paucity of chords is merely to point out the general lack of variety in the work as a whole, not only in the basics - in the harmony, the melodies, the rhythms, most of which don't look beyond Brahms - but also in the so-called development of these. This is, I am told, where Glass's subtleties and interest are meant to lie. And, as David rightly says, this is the problem. The developmental ideas (of rhythm and melody and harmony and timbre and orchestration) are excruciatingly pat. They resemble the sort of thing your computer screensaver does. Or the kind of thing you chance upon on the piano when 14. It's seriously glib, unsubtle stuff. About as glib and unsubtle as my review in fact.
One last point and then I'll shut up. Rhythms that don't look beyond Brahms? Could Glass come anywhere near Brahms's complex sense of across-the-bar phrasing and rhythmic variety, at least in his songs and chamber music? I don't think so. Believe me, there's a lot that's much more 'modern' in Brahms than there is in Glass, for all the old Hamburger's surface conservatism.
Oh couldn't agree more with you, David. I realise I was flattering Glass a tad with that comment. Simply had in mind their common obsession with three-against-two rhythms and their real reluctance to throw caution to the wind with fluctuating time signatures.
Permalink Submitted by Peter Culshaw on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 12:10
Rising to that bait - I saw a documentary about the early satellites on TV that used Philip Glass's music which worked perfectly, the bright, forward propulsion, the modernity but with a sense of nostalgia provoked by a C minor to G sharp major shift with the melody mirroring the spinning satellite. There wasn't another composer whose music would have been more appropriate. Steve Reich goves a good argument for one-chord music in a recent lecture at the Red Bull Academy (google it, it's good) - from Charlie Parker to Terry Riley - often inspired by India and Africa, the idea is that repetition needs a differerent form of listening, where you end of focussing on the minutiae, which has trance like effects. And check the brilliant Venus in Furs by the Velvet Underground on the week's Birthdays on the Tube on the site, which came out of that period - John Cale having worked with La Monte Young - droning one-chord with a couple of others thrown in. None of the above means I think everything Glass does is good, far from it (I saw this opera and got bored, Einstein On the Beach works though) , but it's not all bad either and the argument that more chords is more interesting or better is, to coin a phrase, bollocks - I agree with Howard on that front.
Permalink Submitted by Lida Boribond (not verified) on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 20:46
If Igor said it was bollocks then it must be so since he is an authority on the subject. I have read so many of his reviews and he seemed very knowledgeable and if something or someone is worthy of the praise he would spare the words. It is important these days to have a good backer and anything goes. Thanks God for Igors and the likes.
Permalink Submitted by Thomas A (not verified) on Sun, 07/03/2010 - 09:57
Yesterday evening the audience was ecstatic (by British standards) but apart from a few beautiful parts I too felt short changed by the opera: too little music, too few words, schematic storyline, trivial symbolism. The "Notting Hill carnival" production brought some most welcome activity, and (mostly) kept me from drowsing off. Should have read Igor's review before I went: Glass is beautiful as a soundtrack, but too thin on its own to keep me going for three hours.
Permalink Submitted by George Butterworth (not verified) on Wed, 10/03/2010 - 06:39
I do hope that Igor Toronyi-Lalic isn't being paid to compose this nonsense. On the bright side, at least the responses to his work are intelligent and considered, unlike the article itself. Igor, if you don't like Glass, then don't go to listen to his work. Do you compose yourself? I hope not, because your music, judging by your prose, would be full of self-importance, too many chords, dense textures and a rather disappointing finale.
Permalink Submitted by anon (not verified) on Sat, 01/05/2010 - 11:54
What an immature review. You sound like an angry teenager! The staging for this piece was one the most beautiful I've ever seen, even if the music was a bit thin on the ground. You obviously have very poor taste in stage design.
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Tonight we took a 2600 year journey with Penny and Sheldon “from the ancient Greeks through Isaac Newton to Niels Bohr to Erwin Schrödinger to the Dutch researchers that Leonard is currently ripping off.”
From the Ancient Greeks: Ancient societies, including the Greeks, watched the skies carefully. Since they didn’t have Google Calendar, it was only by watching the positions of the stars each night could they mark the passing of the days and seasons and know the best time to plant crops. (It must have been a nice time to be an astronomer. If you didn’t treat your astrophysicist nicely, you might not have enough food next year.) Most of the points of light in the sky, the stars, appeared to stay in the same place with respect to each other, year after year for as long as anyone could remember. But a precious few, just five, moved relative to these fixed stars. We know them as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. As Sheldon explains, our Greeks forbears called them “wanderers”, or as we have derived from their language “planets”.
Your science consultant stands up to a UCLA astronomy professor who voted out Pluto.
When you look out the side window of your car, you can see objects fixed to the ground, bushes, trees, poles etc. Those near the side of the road zip by. Objects in the distance seem to barely move at all. Although you have the same speed relative to all the fixed objects outside your car, close objects have a high angular speed and you have to turn your head fast to watch them. The far objects have a low angular speed which don’t require much tracking of your eyes. This allows us to understand the motions in the sky of stars versus the planets. The change in position in the sky is determined by their angular speed. Even though stars are moving extremely fast relative to the solar system, most faster than even the outer planets, they are so far away that changes in their position on the sky (their angular position) can only be detected with careful observation, if at all. For example, compare the farthest planet, Neptune (thanks, Pluto-haters) to the closest known star Proxima-Centauri, a little red dwarf star. Neptune is about 4,500,000,000 kilometers from Earth and moving a modest 5 kilometers per second relative to the Sun. If you watch Neptune over the course of a lifetime it will move halfway around the sky relative to the stars since it completes an orbit around the Sun every 164 years. By comparison, Proxima Centauri moves even faster than Neptune relative to the Sun but its position relative to other stars barely moves; its angular speed is tiny. The key difference is that Proxima Centauri is 40,000,000,000,000 kilometers away. Only precise astronomical measurements can see its motions, only hundredths of a degree over a lifetime.
At the other extreme, one of the fastest lights you will see move across the night sky is likely an airplane. They are moving at only 0.2 kilometers per second. But since they are close, say 100 kilometers away, they move faster on the sky than planets or stars. Galileo and Newton realized this, except for the part about airplanes. They knew that if the Earth orbited the Sun, the lack of apparent motion of the “fixed” stars meant they were extremely distant. The Universe was much larger than imagined. That story of the learning the Universe is larger than we thought is repeated many times throughout the history of astronomy. First by realizing the nearby stars are really so far away. Then by measuring the extent of the galaxy. When other galaxies were discovered our idea of the size of the Universe grew larger still. Today we do not know how large the Universe is, we only know that the speed of light is not fast enough to let us see all of it.
Through Isaac Newton: Newton explained why the planets orbit the Sun much like how a child might swing a cat by its tail over his head. If the child lets go, the cat flies off in whatever direction it was heading. In the absence of the Sun, the planets would fly off in straight lines at constant speed in one direction. Instead, the Sun pulls on the planets using gravity. The inward pull causes the planets to move in orbits around the Sun rather than straight lines. The same force of gravity that pulls objects to the ground on the surface of the Earth is what causes the planets to orbit the Sun, the Moon to orbit the Earth and what causes the Earth and Moon together to orbit the Sun together, just like the planets.
But what Sheldon was trying to get Penny to say?
Notice that the Moon and Earth go around the Sun together, even though they have wildly different masses. Objects of different masses fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Their masses don’t matter. The Sun causes objects at the same distance to move the same way. So the Earth and the Moon move around the Sun at the same rate. The Moon’s extra motion around the Earth is just a small variation in its journey around the Sun. Even the tiny International Space Station orbiting the Earth, really has its path dominated by the Sun. Its motion around the Earth is just a tiny little wiggle in its path around the Sun.
To Niels Bohr: Theorists had tried many models to explain the architecture of the atom. But it was only once the experimentalist Ernest Rutherford scattered charged particles from gold foils that it became clear that a central positive charge, an atomic nucleus, was surrounded by distant electrons with negative charge. The motion of the planets around the massive central Sun served as a convenient model. First the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagoka (1904) proposed the electrons formed rings much like the dust surrounding Saturn. Rutherford himself proposed a planetary model (1911), just as planets orbit the Sun under the force of gravity, Rutherford proposed electrical forces kept the electrons in orbit around an atomic nucleus. Yet even at the time, physicists knew this could not work, since electrons moving in a circle mut radiate light, lose energy, and fall inward, crashing into the nucleus. The Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1913) took the planetary model, but proposed that only certain distances from the nucleus were allowed, i.e. that the energy levels were quantized. Such quantization had previously served Planck and Einstein to describe the behavior of light. Now, Bohr gave birth to a quantum mechanical view of matter, the branch of physics necessary to explain atomic and molecular structure and upon which much of modern technology is based.
The planetary model for the atom, with which Niels Bohr started quantum mechanics, is a view of the atom still held by much of the public.
To Erwin Schrödinger: Bohr’s model was inspirational, but still didn’t work so well. For example, all electrons in this planetary picture would carry angular momentum around the nucleus, but many do not. The predicted intensity of radiation from atoms did not match the data. In 1926, Erwin Schrödinger developed a more rigorous description of quantum mechanics and the atom. Rather than thinking of electrons like planets, it is because of Schrödinger we think of the electrons being distributed in regions around the atom. Electrons are more or less likely to be found in any one place given by a mathematical function resembling a wave. Schrödinger therefore called it the “wave-function” and in quantum mechanics every particle has one.
To the Dutch researchers that Leonard is currently ripping off: Wave-functions behave counter-intuitively. Perhaps because our intuition was developed more while running across the African Savannah than while orbiting an atomic nucleus. One particularly counter-intuitive behavior of the wave-function is the Aharohnov-Bohm effect featured so prominently in this episode. The effect describes what happens to the wave-function near a magnetic field. It isn’t surprising, perhaps, that if your particle, described by its wave-function, crosses a region with a magnetic field that something about it might change. What Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm predicted using Schrödinger’s wave-function description is that you could have an effect by just going around, but never sampling directly, a magnetic field. Specifically, if electrons follow two different paths around a region of magnetic field and come together, they will have changed in different ways: While one wave-function might be at the crest of its wave, another might be at its trough. Putting the electrons together after their separate journeys, makes the “interference pattern” that Bernadette so rightly admired because they can be beautiful. The effect was predicted and subsequently observed with magnetic fields decades ago.
The Dutch researchers Leonard was ripping off have seen the effect now with electric, not just magnetic fields. The Dutch researchers accomplished it using electrons naturally moving around their sample, through a process called diffusion. Leonard was trying it even more directly by passing a beam of electrons through a sample. You may have noticed they added a vacuum pipe carrying an electron beam into Leonard’s lab. (The end of the pipe is covered in aluminum foil, to keep the flange clean while being built.) The small nan0-fabricated rings would keep all their electric field inside and he would steer his electrons around either side and create an beautiful interference pattern.
An electron interference pattern. Electrons can behave like waves on the ocean, forming crests and troughs in their intensity.
I leared something new hearing Penny describe the whole thing to Leonard. Before she said it to the live audience, I never realized the Aharonov-Bohm effect was so funny. I bet we could have had them rolling in the aisles if we mentioned the Stern-Gerlach effect.
P.S. Easter Egg alert. You can see your science consultant in tonight’s episode sitting across from an actual UCLA graduate student in theoretical physics, our very own Sheldon. (He is even working on one of the same problems: N=8 Supergravity.) A gold star to the first person who identifies which scene it is. Scenes are rehearsed several times and then run through several times in front of the camera to get it right. Luckily the props department gave us an interesting little book on quadrupole moments of nuclei from the 1960s to read. Most of the books you see around the apartment and on the sets are real physics books, some very interesting, so there is always something good for us to read between takes.
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34 Responses to “S03E10: The Gorilla Experiment”
J Reilly Says:
The scene you refer to is the cafe scene where Howard is introducing his girlfriend Bernadette to anyone and everyone….
David Saltzberg Says:
**** GOLD STAR *****
(that text was in gold in my editor)
Paul Holt Says:
Amazingly, it was Ptolemy in the Almaghest who made the first accurate estimate of the distance to the stars.
“The Earth, in relation to the distance of the fixed stars, has no appreciable size and must be treated as a mathematical point.”
His proof was around the simple observation that as star A sets, another star B can be found which rises at the same time on the opposite horizon, and when star B sets, star A immediately rises.
From what I can see Ptolemy had a limit on the distance to the stars as greater than 20000 times the Earth’s diameter, or about 250 million kilometers. That is smaller than the size of the solar system, and far less than the distance to the closest star. (Since it was “greater than” he was not wrong.) At the time the lack of angular motion of the stars was an argument that could be taken for the geocentric model of the solar system if you could not fathom the stars being so far away. If you disagree, I would like to see a reference.
The name is Niels Bohr, btw.
Wonderful wonderful I like how you combined with pop culture helps me get friends and family interested in science. I’ve often sent the link and a parsed quote to tell friends “DUDE!”
One thing that irked me though that’s more a character thing than your field. I’d assume Sheldon would have said BCE rather than BC.
Qrystal Says:
Hah! Yay, I’m not the only one to be irked by this! 🙂
BigBongTheory Says:
If I remember my college physics correctly, Niels Bohr didn’t give birth to quantum mechanics. It was Einstein who first conceived of quantized energy as property of radiation itself, not as property of the process of emission and absorption, which was Planck’s understanding.
OK, I’ll buy that. I was thinking more along the lines that Bohr’s model was the necessary step that brought us to the wavefunction. I’ll fix it up somehow.
Ah, but it was Bohr that conceived of the idea that the electrons must be limited to orbits of certain energies (and no energies in between them), and the spectrum of the hydrogen atom was due to electron transitions between these orbits. He thereby quantizing the energies of atoms, although it was an ad hoc theory.
Einstein showed that the photoelectic effect could be explained if light came in quantized packets of energy and not as waves.
I assumed Sheldon used BC rather than BCE just from habit. He’s not that concerned with history, and he grew up in Texas. I’m sure he heard and read BC up until he went to college and it was an irrelevant distinction. It’s like Sheldon saying “Good Heavens” when it’s pretty apparent he doesn’t believe in heaven at all. It’s a phrase from his upbringing.
Patricio Says:
I just came here to ask you if you were the one in the cafe scene. Congrats for that.
By the way, nice post. I had basic physic in my career and I remembered only the Ancient Greek part.
Great ep!
Yes, that was me!
Uncle Al Says:
Split an electron beam, run it on either side of an isolated electric field, recombine, get a diffraction pattern for the spooky phase shift. Kewl! Split an electron beam, run it on either side of an isolated magnetic field, recombine, get a diffraction pattern for the spooky phase shift. Kewl!
Split an electron beam, run it on either side of an isolated relativistic uncharged mass current, recombine… and get a diffraction pattern for the spooky phase shift? Gravitoelectric Aharonov-Bohm effect? The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has a taut beam of 100 GeV/nucleon fully stripped gold, 3×10^26/cm^2-sec. Add 79 parallel fast electrons/nucleon and Leonard need not be derivative with his perpendicular probe.
http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/a07/PAPERS/TUZMA01.PDF
BTW, it’s “Aharonov” not “Aharanov” or “Aharahnov.”
paloma Says:
Hi!! It was great meeting you a while ago after the show! Just found this blog, it’s amazing!!!! I won’t spoil anything about next episodes 😉
Didn’t know (maybe just didn’t remember) about Nagoka’s model for the atom’s structure. Neither was I familiar with the Aharonov-Bohm effect, your explanation is a very good insight, thank you. I missed the vacuum pipe’s presence in the scene, I’ll pay more attention if I watch it again.
Will you have more episodes featuring robotics soon to come? I guess you can’t tell.
I’d be extremely grateful if you get me that autograph 🙂
BTW, can anyone tell me what the E in BCE stands for? I’m Spanish and I think I haven’t come across that acronym before. Why should Sheldon use it instead of BC?
David, thank you for your awesome work and for this blog. I’ll stay tuned, what a great discovery!
BCE stands for “Before Common Era”, which is more acceptable in most scientific circles than the original “Before Christ”.
BCE = “Before the Common Era” or similar variants which is a way of referring to the enumeration of years without a religious context. Similarly “AD” becomes “CE”.
Impres Says:
Neptune’s actually around 4.5 _billion_ km from Earth, not _million_.
Typo. Thanks.
Nomæd Says:
I noticed that Sheldon said “supernovas” in the episode. If I did hear that correctly, isn’t that something that couldn’t have ever happened? I mean, there’s no way Sheldon Cooper would say Supernovas instead of Supernovae…
Personally I say supernovas. I am so done with Latin.
I believe that both forms of the plural are acceptable in modern English, although I agree that Sheldon would say “supernovae” (the purist that he is).
Of course Supernovas is acceptable in English, but as PG above here said, Sheldon would probably use Supernovae 🙂
David Miller Says:
I didn’t notice you in the cafeteria scene on the first viewing, but after reading your post, I re-watched it, and there you are! That’s really great, a bit of time in front of the camera (OK, as an extra, but still, cool.) Except for that argyle sweater vest. That’s from Wardrobe, right? 🙂
About Leonard’s lab: good job. The set design people made it look like a real laboratory. I like the aluminum foil over the hole in the pipe – nice realistic touch!
That optical table with all the mounts and components – they looked real. Those things are not cheap, were they borrowed from a real laboratory or does the prop department have their own?
Thanks! Melles Griot and Newport lent real tables and optics hardware to the sets department. All real stuff. Sad to say, I don’t own a brown argyle vest. My light-gray shirt was to bright for the cameras. The cinematographer said I “popped” too much. Some quick chatter on their radios and a vest magically appeared from wardrobe 30 seconds later. Too bad there is no Emmy for extras.
“most faster than even the outer planets”? The solar system isn’t a record player, as you well know. Mercury’s the fastest!
That’s right. It would be a stonger statement if I had said “than the inner planets” but I don’t think that would be true.
You had me at “Dutch” 🙂
(I live in the province of Drenthe).
Wow! Congrats for that you was in the cafe scene. 🙂
I was almost crying like Penny when I was taking introductory of quantum mechanic class. sigh.
Mr. Jody Bowie Says:
I showed a clip of Sheldon and Penny’s conversation to my classes. I told them I hoped they didn’t ever feel the way Penny with Sheldon in my class. I did, however, tell them they look at me often the same way Penny looks at Sheldon in this scene. Its such a great insight into the teacher/learner relationship. Not to mention funny!
TJ WILLIams Says:
I’m 57 and I love the show. My daughter was a science geek (she LIVED on “robotics row” at JPL) I was so worried she would be socially ostracized.
She ended up writing science fiction. The show constantly reminds me of her awkward college years and my struggle to help her thru them.
It is one sitcom I do not miss. Thanks for all the effort by the staff to keep if funny, fresh and interesting. Sheldon and Penny send me to the floor rolling with laughter. Also…pure genius the southern fried football background Sheldon has taking up space in his brilliant brain.
cegger Says:
This is my favorite episode. I’d love to watch a one-man physics show with Jim Parsons as Sheldon.
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You are very good at explaining complex scientific ideas in a very simple manner. If you are not a professor/teacher you would be very good at it.
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The fundamental regularities of the evolution of elastic vortices generated in the surface layers of solids under tangential contact loading
Evgeny V. Shilko, Sergey V. Astafurov, Alexandr S. Grigoriev, Alexey Yu Smolin, Sergey G. Psakhie
Conventionally discussed dynamic mechanisms of elastic strain energy redistribution in near-contact surface regions include P and S elastic wave pulses radiating from the contact surface. At the same time, the elastic strain energy can be transferred by localized vortex-like elastic waves (Rayleigh, Love, Stoneley wave, and so on). In the paper, we numerically studied the main features of the formation and propagation of localized vortex-like waves in the surface layers under the contact zone. The study was done using the numerical method of movable cellular automata. We showed that the initial phase of dynamic contact interaction with a nonzero tangential component of contact velocity is accompanied by the formation of a so-called elastic vortex. The elastic vortex is a fully dynamic object, which is characterized by shear stress concentration and propagates at the shear wave speed. We first revealed the ability of the elastic vortex to propagate toward the bulk of the material and transfer elastic strain energy deep into the surface layer in a localized manner. We analyzed the dependence of the direction of vortex propagation on the tangential contact velocity, contact pressure and Young's modulus of the material. The results of the study are important for better understanding the dynamic mechanisms contributing to inelastic strain accumulation or gradual degradation of surface layers.
https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants6020051
Strain energy
Shear waves
Stress concentration
Shear stress
Contact interaction
Discrete element method
Elastic vortex
Elastic wave
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Shilko, E. V., Astafurov, S. V., Grigoriev, A. S., Smolin, A. Y., & Psakhie, S. G. (2018). The fundamental regularities of the evolution of elastic vortices generated in the surface layers of solids under tangential contact loading. Lubricants, 6(2), [51]. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants6020051
The fundamental regularities of the evolution of elastic vortices generated in the surface layers of solids under tangential contact loading. / Shilko, Evgeny V.; Astafurov, Sergey V.; Grigoriev, Alexandr S.; Smolin, Alexey Yu; Psakhie, Sergey G.
In: Lubricants, Vol. 6, No. 2, 51, 18.05.2018.
Shilko, EV, Astafurov, SV, Grigoriev, AS, Smolin, AY & Psakhie, SG 2018, 'The fundamental regularities of the evolution of elastic vortices generated in the surface layers of solids under tangential contact loading', Lubricants, vol. 6, no. 2, 51. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants6020051
Shilko EV, Astafurov SV, Grigoriev AS, Smolin AY, Psakhie SG. The fundamental regularities of the evolution of elastic vortices generated in the surface layers of solids under tangential contact loading. Lubricants. 2018 May 18;6(2). 51. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants6020051
Shilko, Evgeny V. ; Astafurov, Sergey V. ; Grigoriev, Alexandr S. ; Smolin, Alexey Yu ; Psakhie, Sergey G. / The fundamental regularities of the evolution of elastic vortices generated in the surface layers of solids under tangential contact loading. In: Lubricants. 2018 ; Vol. 6, No. 2.
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National March for Life’s New Web Site – On March for Life
https://marchforlife.org/national-march-for-life/ 2019: A Year of Pro-Life Victories! – March for Life https://marchforlife.org/2019-a-year-of-pro-life-victories/
Keeping God’s Law at the Center of the Fight for America -On The American TFP
https://www.tfp.org/keeping-gods-law-at-the-center-of-the-fight-for-america/
Italy: Birthrates at historic lows, migrants now almost nine percent of the population – On Robert Spencer’s Site
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/italy-birthrates-at-historic-lows-migrants-now-almost-nine-percent-of-the-population
Two Conflicting Views On Catholic Hungry
About Hungary – State Secretary: Hungary’s family policy “holds enormous potential”
http://abouthungary.hu/news-in-brief/state-secretary-hungarys-family-policy-holds-enormous-potential/
2. Bishops: Nearly Half Of Hungary’s Population Erased By Abortion – On gloria.tv
https://gloria.tv/language/S2mQ8XjTcSwL3q8noxk8XEbJo
Abortionist Claims Killing Babies in Abortions is “God’s Work” | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/30/abortionist-claims-killing-babies-in-abortions-is-gods-work-2/
Why does Planned Parenthood keep getting more taxpayer funding? Here’s the answer – On LIla Rose While national abortion numbers are on the continued decline, Planned Parenthood’s latest report revealing the corporation’s record high abortions and grossly increased tax dollars in 2018 has outraged many in the pro-life community. Unfortunately, there appears along with the outrage to be growing confusion over reasons for the substantial increase in taxpayer dollars going to the corporation.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/planned-parenthood-taxpayer-funding-answer/
Law to Protect Women Is Trojan Horse for Abortion – Measure would rely on Obama-era policies – On CMTV
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/legislation-to-protect-women-is-trojan-horse-for-abortion
Pro-life Canadians mobilize to influence Conservative Party leadership race | News | LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-canadians-mobilize-to-influence-conservative-party-leadership-race
Planned Parenthood Annual Report Shows It Killed 345,672 Babies in Abortions, More Than Ever Before | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/01/06/planned-parenthood-annual-report-shows-it-killed-345672-babies-in-abortions-more-than-ever-before/
Gov. Murphy Defies Trump, Spends $9.5M For Planned Parenthood | Patch
https://patch.com/new-jersey/brick/s/gyt60/gov-murphy-defies-trump-spends-9-5m-on-abortion-health-care?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=politics&utm_campaign=alert
Bleeding Abortion Patient Reveals Planned Parenthood’s Safety Hazards Jumped the Mississippi River – On Operation Rescue
https://www.operationrescue.org/archives/bleeding-abortion-patient-reveals-planned-parenthoods-safety-hazards-jumped-the-mississippi-river/
Abortionist with aborted babies in his home didn’t protect patient records. Planned Parenthood didn’t either – On Lila Rose
https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortionist-aborted-babies-patient-records-planned-parenthood/
36 Abortion Clinics Closed in 2019, 79% of All Abortion Clinics Open in 1991 Have Shut Down | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/01/06/36-abortion-clinics-closed-in-2019-79-of-all-abortion-clinics-open-in-1991-have-shut-down/
US youth population in ‘absolute decline,’ dropped over 1 million since 2010 | News | LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-youth-population-in-absolute-decline-dropped-over-1-million-since-2010
Britain’s Oldest Abortion Mill Shuts Down After 50 Years – Closure announced on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe – On CMTV
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/uks-oldest-abortion-mill-shuts-after-50-years
Indiana AG Pledges Dignified Burial for Aborted Babies Authorities Can’t Identify More Than 2,400 Fetal Remains Found At Dr. Ulrich Klopfer’s Properties – Via CBS News Chicago
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/12/31/dr-ulrich-klopfer-fetal-remains-investigation-report/
Abortion again tops worldwide causes of death in 2019 at more than 42 million | News | LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abortion-again-tops-worldwide-causes-of-death-in-2019-at-more-than-42-million
Pro-abort EU nations destroy US pro-life efforts at UN With A Bloc of 28 exerts influence over developing countries
International Violence Against Women Bill Seeks To Fund Overseas Abortion Groups With US Support – On C-Fam
https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/international-violence-against-women-bill-would-fund-overseas-abortion-groups/
207 Senators and Congressmen say Roe vs. Wade is ‘unworkable’ – On CNA
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/207-senators-and-congressmen-say-roe-vs-wade-is-unworkable-84520
Hundreds of Members of Congress Tell Supreme Court: Overturn Roe v. Wade | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/01/03/hundreds-of-members-of-congress-tell-supreme-court-overturn-roe-v-wade/
Anno Domini MMXX – Notes for the Year – January 3rd: Roe should be overruled – On Rorate Caeli
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2020/01/anno-domini-mmxx-notes-for-year-january_3.html?_sm_au_=iVV5Hs146BHwDFFqkRvMGK3JRp2ft
Just One Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Has Injured 76 Women in Botched Abortions | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/01/02/just-one-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-has-injured-76-women-in-botched-abortions/
Ruth Ginsburg Still Thinks Poor People Should Have Abortions, Not Children | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/17/ruth-ginsburg-still-thinks-poor-people-should-have-abortions-not-children/
Globalists accelerating depopulation eugenics programs – On Natural News
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-12-17-globalists-accelerating-depopulation-eugenics-programs-in-response-to-populist-uprisings.html
Over 100 Northern Irish health care workers threaten to quit over new abortion regime | News | LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/over-100-northern-irish-health-care-workers-threaten-to-quit-over-new-abortion-regime
US House cuts foreign abortion funding from new budget, still funds Planned Parenthood | News | LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/foreign-abortion-funding-kept-out-of-1.4t-spending-deal-planned-parenthood-funding-remains
Pro-lifers gear up for fight against legalization of euthanasia in Ireland – On Operation Rescue
https://www.liveaction.org/news/euthanasia-fight-legalization-pro-life-ireland/
“We’ll Need a Stretcher”: Planned Parenthood Caller Unsure Hemorrhaging Patient is Breathing During Botched Abortion Emergency – On Operation Rescue
https://www.operationrescue.org/archives/well-need-a-stretcher-planned-parenthood-caller-unsure-hemorrhaging-patient-is-breathing-during-botched-abortion-emergency/
Woman Who Killed Her 8-Month-Old Unborn Baby Just Gets 30 days in Jail | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/17/woman-who-killed-her-8-month-old-unborn-baby-just-gets-30-days-in-jail/
Pro-Life Group Life Decisions International Exposes Companies Supporting Planned Parenthood reveals abortion giant’s corporate funders – On LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/16/pro-life-group-lists-every-company-that-funds-planned-parenthood/
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz is Now Opening Clinics Inside Schools to Get Access to Kids | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/17/planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-is-now-opening-clinics-inside-schools-to-get-access-to-kids/
Watch – The real reason why Nancy Pelosi is a pro-abortion ‘Catholic’? Radical nuns By John Henry Westen On Lifesitenews
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-real-reason-why-nancy-pelosi-is-a-pro-abortion-catholic-radical-nuns
Irish Bishops’ Charity Backs Pro-LGBT, Pro-Abortion Rally As Trócaire joins far-left activists, enrages Catholics – On CMTV
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/irish-bishops-charity-leftist-rally
Mom heroically refuses to abort Down syndrome son despite UK doctors’ relentless pressure | News | LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mom-heroically-refuses-to-abort-down-syndrome-son-despite-uk-doctors-relentless-pressure
Bishops silent on Northern Ireland law forcing Catholic schools to refer for abortions | News | LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishops-silent-on-northern-ireland-law-forcing-catholic-schools-to-refer-for-abortions
Mississippi Gov Will Defend Abortion Ban in Court: We Will “Fight for America’s Unborn Children” | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/16/mississippi-gov-will-defend-abortion-ban-in-court-we-will-fight-for-americas-unborn-children/
Woman Sues Doctor Who Gave Her Drugs Without Her Consent, Killing Her Unborn Baby | LifeNews.com
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/16/woman-sues-doctor-who-gave-her-drugs-without-her-consent-killing-her-unborn-baby/
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http://www.nobility.org/2020/01/06/january-7-st-kentigerna-3/
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http://www.nobility.org/2020/01/06/january-7-st-aldric-3/
January 7 – Ordered bandits of royal blood to hang from the highest mast – -On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites
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Henry Dog
December 28, 2018 reneeinnd 34 Comments
Today’s post comes from Crystal Bay
My dad’s dream was to live on a lake so that he could go fishing every morning. He had a second dream: having his own factory to design and sell stuffed toys. Some of you may remember “Animal Fair”? Some will remember his factory in Chanhassen.
He was very gifted as an artist. The way he designed a new stuffed animal was amazing. He’d have a dream during sleeping of a new animal, and, in the morning over a cup of coffee, he’d sketch it out. He then knew how to lay it out one-dimensionally on fabric, cut it out, sew it, turn it inside out, and stuff it. It looked exactly like the one in his dream. Most every animal he ever made went through this extraordinary process. On Saturdays, he’d practically give the toys away and donate many to charity.
One day, he produced “Henry”, named by my son because he looked like a classmate. He made them from 6” high to 6’ tall.
Bringing this history up to Dad at 81 years old, one morning, while reading the Variety section, I spotted a big picture of Henry. Reading the article, I learned that there’s an international Henry fan club, a web site. and even an annual convention. They’re now worth a fortune. In this article, the founders of the club lamented that they’d never found his creator, the birth, of this beloved dog.
I immediately phoned them to tell them who brought Henry into life. They flew a delegation out from CA to meet with Dad that very week, and updated the Henry website with the story of Henry’s modest beginnings.
You can only imagine the old man’s astonishment!! At Dad’s memorial service just one year later, the company, Princess Toys who’d bought him out, sent a box full of little Henrys to give everyone in attendance. Sitting next to his urn is a Henry dog on my living room shelf. It seems that Henry will live on into perpetuity.
How do you get your creative ideas? What were your favorite stuffed animals?
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Chris Norbury says:
I don’t have any creative “aha!” moments or get ideas while dreaming. I just more or less grind them out (like story plots and characters). Nothing magical or romantic about it.
My favorite stuffed toy when I was a kid was Bruce the bear. Had him for probably 5 or 6 years until he disintegrated from excessive hugging and cuddling. 🙂
Chris in Owatonna
Hmm, I posted a comment but somehow it vaporized. Anyone else having problems posting today?
Oops. Never mind. My computer was just screwing with me, I guess. 😦
Port Huron Steve says:
It was fun, CrystalBay, to open TB this morning and see a familiar face (Henry). And it is always good to reflect on our dad.
Oddly enough, although my dad worked as a stuffed toy designer, stuffed toys were never big in my life. I was an outdoors kid always tearing around with my bow or a fishing rod. Stuffed toys didn’t fit with that. I once bought a springer spaniel that I named Brandy. Dad liked her (he was a dog person), and he designed a dog based on her. That toy, Brandydogger, became my favorite.
I don’t–in spite of my many published magazine articles and books–think of myself as a creative person. I only knew one way of writing. I’d start by writing something clumsy and banal. Then I’d do my best to improve it, editing ferociously and tenaciously. If I had anything worthwhile to say, it would gradually emerge from the edits. More accomplished writers surely have more elegant and efficient ways of doing it. I had to do it the hard way.
Nancy K Edwards says:
Writing is an art. Story telling is an art. There is no greater skill than writing stories in a way which resonates across subjects, time, and life experiences. I’m finding this out in just the last few days.
I was banned from the “Lake Mtka Fan Club”, an established FB page with thousands of members for the purpose of sharing pictures and memories of the lake. Someone posted the Strib story about my city prosecuting me for having one boat at my dock that I didn’t own. It caused a firestorm on their page. People were very upset and over one hundred joined in the fray.
The owner of this FB page reacted to this by suddenly, and without notice, deleting all comments. And me. Shortly after, a woman who’d witnessed this created a whole new page titled “Nancy and the Evolving Dock Story”. I quickly concluded that I really didn’t want it to be a negative narrative. I also realized that everything which could be said had already been said. This left me in an awkward position, so I decided that I’d write a couple of pieces about my life and post them so people could know the “woman behind the controversy” better.
There are now close to 500 members asking for more stories. I’ve been writing for years without many readers; suddenly there’s an explosion of people eagerly awaiting my next story. I’m both overwhelmed and I am humbled.
Barbara in Rivertown says:
Wow, something else to do!
yeah – and I love being active while I can still sit on my ass!
verily sherrilee says:
I think I’ve spoken before of my large animal fair stuffed toy. Very large polar bear who my call Kate. She sits on a chair in my room. All of my other stuffy toys, and there are many, are currently living on a shelf in the attic. And that’s because it’s too difficult to try to explain to YAs dog what she can chew and what she can’t in the way of stuffy toys.
You mention explaining to a dog what she can chew. My first English setter was interesting in that way. We typically had stuff, like socks, on the floor in our house. Spook would ignore them. But if I picked up an old sock and tie it in a knot, he understood the sock was a toy. He’d shake it, as if to kill it, or throw it around the room so he could chase it down. I never understood his thinking. In effect I was telling him what was a toy and what was not, and he understood me perfectly.
Steve..check out bing today!!
Thanks, vs. I fear the ESA is next in line to be overturned by 45
billinmpls says:
Over the last 40+ years I’ve had the opportunity to participate in many creative concept sessions known as “ideations” for companies like 3M and General Mills, restaurants and restaurant chains, food and candy companies and a host of other consumer product companies. Sometimes the creative group is charged simply with coming up with a name for something and sometimes we are fully conceptualizing new products. Generally the participants don’t all know each other and so there is an initial adjustment period where we are getting a feel for each other’s personal style.
The interesting thing is how frequently the best ideas come out after the proceedings start to get silly and a little outrageous. Experienced ideators welcome that because that’s when the participants relax, do their best free associating and break free of expectations. The connection between silliness and creativity is acknowledged and accepted and often the moderators—these sessions always have a moderator to move things along—will bring toys and amusing objects to scatter around the tables as triggers.
What I want to know is what kind of process is responsible for naming drugs. In particular, I want to meet the man who came up with the name “adalimumab.” I want to shake his hand and ask, “What in HELL were you thinking?”
Those are just alphabet soup; no wit or creativity necessary.
The brand name of adalimumab is Humira. That’s the name the ideation came up with.
This is from Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society:
C&EN Associate Editor Carmen Drahl explains that until 1961 there was no standard for assigning drugs generic names, which are different from brand names like Tamiflu (oseltamivir), Nexium (esomeprazole) and Herceptin (trastuzumab). That’s when three medical organizations created the U.S. Adopted Names (USAN) Council to assign simplified alternatives to the unwieldy proper names the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry gives to molecules. For instance, under USAN’s guidance, “cis-8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide” becomes “zucapsaicin.” The council recommends generic names to an international agency of the World Health Organization. The tongue-twisting words the USAN Council creates are products of “stems” that describe a drug’s characteristics, which Drahl likens to the Latin and Greek roots of many English words.
Drahl writes that these stems describe everything from a drugs’ function to its shape. For instance, the “-prazole” ending of Nexium’s generic name, esomeprazole, reveals that it is a type of antiulcer medication. Similar drugs will have the same stems in their names, allowing those familiar with the stems to crack the code. The USAN Council is careful to avoid words that are difficult to pronounce in foreign languages or that may have other meanings abroad. Sometimes, Drahl notes, a generic name will also include hints about its developer that a drug company has suggested to the council, as in carfilzomib, which recognizes molecular biologist Philip Whitcome and his wife Carla.
I think it’s summed up by this quote that I once saw in a classroom where I substituted: “Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”
And I sometimes wake up with an idea after mulling something over on my way to sleep.
Had a stuffed ____ as a kid – bright pink, two front feet but just a rounded back end… sort of like they didn’t bother to finish it. L Closest think I had to a security blanket.
reneeinnd says:
I had a brown bear and a pink rabbit. Son had a large plush dinosauer he named Emily.
A Dinosaur Named Emily sounds like a bestselling kids’ book.
littlejailbird says:
I wasn’t into stuffed animals when I was a kid. Didn’t do dolls, either. I preferred outdoor stuff. I did play with toys sometimes – there’s an old photo of me and I’m clutching the box of tinker toys as if I’m very fond of it.
Did you have a pet mouse (like CB almost did) or chipmunk or something?
No, I’m not a fan of pet rodents. We had a family dog and family cat(s), but it wasn’t until I was 16 or so that I had my own cat.
I have a couple of recently acquired stuffed animals – a pair of abandoned stuffed bears, who I picked up out of the street. The first was a light yellow bear who was lying on a median near my credit union. It was about to rain, so I didn’t want to just leave it lying there to get soaked. Oddly, it didn’t have any eyes, and I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be that way, or if the eyes had just come off. It had a slightly dirty nose, but was otherwise in pretty good shape.
The second one I drove over in the street, some months later, coincidentally within about twenty feet of the place I’d found the first bear. It was fortunately situated so that the wheels of the car didn’t go over it. I pulled into the parking lot of the credit union and watched a couple more cars go over it without squashing it. I don’t know why I have this compulsion to rescue things like discarded stuffed bears, but I do, so I went and picked it up when there was a break in traffic. It was in considerably worse shape than the first bear, but I tossed it into my car and went home. I put it through the washer and dryer and then took a look at it to see if it could be saved.
Bear number two had obviously been through some trauma. I don’t know how long it had been outdoors, but it appeared to have some grassy plants growing in it. I sat down with a tweezers and picked out all the grassy stuff. Amazingly. it didn’t seem to have any tears or missing pieces. The wash cycle cleaned it up pretty well, and it was surprisingly presentable.
The finding of the second bear jogged my memory of the first, so I dug it out of the closet where I’d stashed it and took another look. I cleaned up its nose and sewed a couple of buttons on to give it eyes.
The two bears are about the same size. They seem to go together somehow. I named them Lilybear and Lafayette.
And where do you keep them – where do they “live”?
They move around, but most often they are in a wooden crate underneath a chair in the living room. The crate is where I keep an assortment of toys and kids’ books in case I have young visitors. The crate used to get pulled out and explored now and then, but these days no one I know has young kids anymore, so the crate mostly stays under the chair now.
xdfben says:
Milking cows used to be really good creative time. Because milking is about 90% routine so 80% of my brain could wander freely.
i had a doll named dee dee and a blue cat named mr boo after a book my mom did when she was a teenager
my mom found the cat in a box when she downsized and it sits by my headboard just like 60 ryegrass agony monsmom gave stife stuffed animals who she proclaimed were the best
i didn’t like them because they werebristly instead of soft and cuddly .
Ryegrass agony has me stumped.
PlainJane says:
Using Bill’s saying it out loud method, I settled on 60 “years ago in my mom’s room.”
On second look, I think the “60 ryegrass agony monsmom gave stife ” means “60 years ago, mom’s mom gave stiff stuffed animals.”
i’m really getting passed at wordpress
i went back and corrected this whole thing and hit send
i have no idea what ryegrass morphed out of
60 years ago my moms mom gave stife animals and said they were the best
strife was a german company that made them look good but not feel good
they were expensive compared to others but their stiffness made it easy to comply with my grandmothers wishes that we not touch them with dirty fingers or get dirt or food or evidence of child associated wear involved
they were given away years ago with no affection lost
Oh, those stiff Stife stuffed animals.
you house are good at this
you guys are good at this
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, multi-platinum, four-time GRAMMY-nominated rock band Goo Goo Dolls have officially announced their highly anticipated 12th studio album, Miracle Pill, out September 13th, 2019 via Warner Records. In an exclusive feature with SPIN earlier today, lead singer & guitarist John Rzeznik and bassist & vocalist Robby Takac shared the band's cultural observations and experiences that shaped the momentous and timely record. Each pre-order purchase unlocks a brand new instant grat track entitled "Money, Fame and Fortune", the second offering from Miracle Pill.
"I wanted to do something bold and bright", said Rzeznick about the record. "I wanted to sing about the need for human connection and the constant change we go through as people. This piece of work embodies those themes and I think we can all relate."
Earlier this week, the band released their colorful new music video for the album's first single "Miracle Pill". Directed by Ed Gregory & Dan Cooper, the piece was hailed as a "vibrant pairing of lyrics and visual" by Billboard. "Miracle Pill" currently ranks as Hot AC Radio's most added song.
With over 30 years together as a band, over 12 million albums sold, and 14 number one and Top 10 hits at Hot AC, Miracle Pill finds Goo Goo Dolls at the top of their game. The entire collection of songs delivers musicianship that is as engaging as ever, emotion and intimate, relatable lyrics that reflect on the current landscape of instant gratification and relief that everyone seems to be seeking. See below for a full tracklisting.
MIRACLE PILL TRACKLISTING
1. Indestructible
3. Miracle Pill
4. Money, Fame and Fortune
5. Step in Line
6. Over You
7. Lights
9. Life's a Message
10. Autumn Leaves
11. Think it Over
Goo Goo Dolls are currently in the midst of a massive co-headlining amphitheater tour alongside GRAMMY-winning band Train. The nationwide run will make numerous stops at outdoor venues across NORTH AMERICA this summer before concluding on August 17, 2019 in Mansfield, MA at Xfinity Center. Goo Goo Dolls will then embark on several South American tour dates this fall, including a highly anticipated appearance at the iconic music festival Rock in Rio on September 29th, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro. For more information and a complete list of tour dates, please see below or visit GooGooDolls.com.
2019 Tour Dates:
July 20th - Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater*
July 21st - Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center*
July 23rd - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre*
July 24th - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center*
July 26th - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center*
July 27th - Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts*
July 28th - Gilford, NH @ Meadowbrook Music Pavilion*
July 30th - Bangor, ME @ Darling's Waterfront Park Pavilion*
August 1st - Scranton, PA @ Pavilion at Montage Mountain*
August 2nd - Canandaigua, NY @ Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center*
August 3rd - Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater*
August 5th - Lenox, MA @ Tanglewood Amphitheatre*
August 6th - Bethlehem, PA @ Musikfest*
August 7th - Burgettstown, PA @ KeyBank Pavilion*
August 9th - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion*
August 10th - Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion*
August 11th - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena*
August 14th - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center*
August 16th - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center*
August 17th - Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center*
September 22nd - Recife, Brazil @ Estádio do Arruda
September 25th - Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Allianz Parque
September 27th - Curitiba, Brazil @ Pedreira Paulo Leminski
September 29th - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil @ Rock in Rio 2019
October 2nd - Lima, Peru @ Estadio Monumental
*Co-headlining dates with Train
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Introducing: Intermix, another place to get upscale womenswear on Bloor Street
By Fraser Abe | September 8, 2011
By Fraser Abe | 09/08/2011
Intermix on Bloor (Image: Fraser Abe)
The place: Yet another in a series of Canadian firsts, Intermix, the upscale American womenswear retailer, has opened a Bloor Street boutique amongst the “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” shops of the Mink Mile. With merchandise coming in almost every day, the look of the store changes frequently, and the store boasts friendlier staff than the dagger-staring clerks at many Bloor shops. Check out our tour of the store after the jump.
The stuff: Rag and Bone items have been customer favourites, from the perfect-for-winter Newbury booties ($495) with a chunky heel (no slipping on ice in these kicks) to the almost-sold-out leather jeans ($1,195). Helmut Lang has created pieces exclusively for Intermix (like a sumptuous grey wool vest), and A.L.C. pieces by L.A.-based stylist and designer Andrea Lieberman (who has worked with the likes of Gwen Stefani and Jennifer Lopez)—like a paisley-inspired lemon-yellow blouse ($355) and silky dresses—have been hard to keep on the shelves.
The shoppers: The plastic and preened of Bloor Street, high school girls who fancy themselves socialites in the making, stylists looking to pick up items for a shoot and curious passersby drawn in by the ever-changing window displays.
Our favourite things: We loved a royal blue Rag and Bone coat ($615) that hits the body mid-waist, and a pair of ultra-skinny Rag and Bone skinny jeans ($218) in deep purple. Winter-ready raccoon vests ($925) from French furrier Yves Salomon are another Intermix exclusive (French raccoons are simply much more elegant than the Canadian variety; we presume they dine on a diet of baguettes and foie gras), and for the shoe enthusiast, cocktail party–ready shoes by Sergio Rossi, like leopard-print pony hair booties ($1,295) and red platform pumps ($745).
Intermix, 130 Bloor Street W., 416-925-0111, intermixonline.com.
(Image: Fraser Abe)
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The Pick Up
Harry James·
Creative Challenge winnersShort Fiction
It was heavier than he expected.
He put one foot under the Thing and gave it a nudge. He bent down and with one hand reached under it to give it an upward shove.
He stood up.
Seems that if you wanted something picked up, it would have helped to make sure that the person doing the pick-up knew that the Thing being picked up was going to be heavy.
He gave the Thing a cursory overview. Where was the handle? A handle would have helped. The Thing didn’t even have a handle. How’s a man supposed to pick up a Thing this heavy without a handle?
This was not going well.
Traffic was overpacked today, streets were filled with idiot drivers, cameras everywhere forcing him to take the long way, and now the Thing was heavier than he expected. This day was just not his day. Not even his week and let’s just say it, not even his year.
On top of that, if it got any hotter and wetter he was going to have to drop the coat. The coat was his “look”. You paid someone to pick up Things, you expected a “look”. The coat was his. The “look”.
Nobody said anything about heavy.
They could have just said, “Dude, look, this, ahhhh – Thing, it’s going to be heavy, just so you know, it’s gonna be somewhat on the heavy side. So plan accordingly.”
But nobody said that.
They just said, “Dude, pick this Thing up and take it to a warehouse on 53rd and Main and drop it off at the front door. They’ll pay when you drop.”
He’d drop it. Drop it right on the head of the idiot who sent him out on a pick-up without telling him the Thing was going to be this heavy. Well, at least heavier than he expected.
But isn’t that the way of the world? He does his job, he makes sure he’s ready, he knows what it is he’s got to do and he has the “look” like he could do it, and then he got here and what happened, it was heavier than he expected.
People never pay attention to what they say, what they do or how it brings down the hammer on those around them. Nobody thinks through the consequences of their poorly given instructions. He does, because he’s normally on the working end of those instructions. The ugly, dirty, working end. Stuck in the rain with a heavy Thing and no handle.
He wiped the rain out of his eyes and popped the trunk on the car.
He looked at the open trunk. He looked at the Thing. He didn’t think it was going to fit in the trunk. Along with the heavy problem and the handle problem now it looked like the Thing had an odd size and lumpy problem.
His trunk was a normal trunk. His trunk was not normally used for heavy, odd-sized lumpy Things. His trunk had worked fine before. Now it might not. He wasn’t sure. He could lift this heavy, odd-sized and lumpy Thing up to the trunk only to find out that it just didn’t fit and then have to put the Thing back down and come up with a Plan B.
He hated Plan B.
Plan B usually was more work than just picking up and dropping off – which by the way was what he called Plan A.
Plan A normally worked, except when the Thing was heavier, bulkier and lumpier than he expected.
He stared at the Thing and gave it one more test nudge. Yep, it was still heavier than he expected. He tried to remember if he had that tarp in the under-trunk compartment to keep the seats from getting wet. He didn’t remember. Plan B, more work, more mess.
The Thing moved.
His thoughts clicked to ‘pause’ and he slowly put his shoe up against one of the bigger lumps, sort of pushed and stepped back to wait.
The Thing moved again.
The rain beat down on the black surface of the Thing and he heard the distinct sound of a zipper being pulled. The Thing was unzipping.
This was not good.
Wild eyed, gag still in his mouth, a Guy emerged from the Thing and frantically pulled his hands free from a zip tie. The Guy squatted and untied a rope around his ankles, stood up, pushed his hair back, exposing a fairly bloody wound, and stumbled down the alley out of sight.
His thoughts clicked back to ‘play’ and he realized that it looked like Plan A was going to work. The rain even seemed to slack off a bit. His day was starting to look up.
He picked up the Thing. Zipped it up, put it in the trunk. Nice fit. No water on the seats. He liked it when Plan A worked. He got in the car and drove off.
He had to say though, even with recent events somewhat changing the variables concerning the Thing, it was still heavier than he expected.
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June 3, 2019 / 1:16 AM / 8 months ago
Nasdaq confirms correction, bond yields fall further
Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Nasdaq confirmed it was in a correction on Monday as stocks extended their recent sell-off, and the continued flight to safe-haven assets pushed 10-year U.S. Treasury yields to their lowest since September 2017.
The Nasdaq ended the session more than 10% lower than its May 3 closing record, falling 1.6% on the day after regulatory fears sent shares of internet giants Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc sharply lower.
But driving the recent fall in stocks and bond yields has been deepening trade conflicts between the United States and its partners.
The Nasdaq has been falling since its May 3 record high, hit just before U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet on trade that set off a month of turbulence. Global stock markets shed over $2 trillion in value in May.
“The slump has been concurrent with fears of slowing global growth,” said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.
Investors again sought protection from market volatility in low-risk assets such as Treasuries and gold.
A gloomy economic outlook is prompting traders to increase bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates sooner rather than later.
In late U.S. trading, federal funds futures implied traders saw about a 67% chance the U.S. central bank would reduce key short-term borrowing costs by a quarter point to 2.00%-2.25% at its July 30-31 policy meeting.
Yields on U.S. two-year notes had their biggest two-day fall since 2008, while U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury yields hit 2.062%, their lowest since September 2017. German government bond yields earlier fell to an all-time low.
“What the bond market is telling us is that all of these pressures put together create a likely economic slowdown which is pushing yields down,” said Eric Kuby, chief investment officer, North Star Investment Management Corp in Chicago.
Treasury yields extended their decline following remarks from St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard who said a U.S. rate cut may be “warranted soon” because of global trade tensions and weak U.S. inflation.
Gold prices jumped more than 1.5% to their highest level in more than three months on the trade concerns.
In addition to increasing tariffs on Chinese imports in recent weeks, the White House has hardened its stance toward other countries, including Mexico.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 4.74 points, or 0.02%, to 24,819.78, the S&P 500 lost 7.61 points, or 0.28%, to 2,744.45 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 120.13 points, or 1.61%, to 7,333.02.
An index of global stocks edged higher on Monday.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.39% and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.07%.
The dollar index fell 0.52%, while the Japanese yen strengthened 0.02% versus the greenback at 108.06 per dollar.
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
In the energy market, oil fell amid the escalating U.S. trade disputes. Brent crude futures settled at $61.28 a barrel, losing 71 cents, or 1.2%. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ended 25 cents, or 0.5%, lower at $53.25 a barrel.
With the bitter trade mood weighing, factory activity slowed in the United States, Europe and Asia last month, surveys showed.
The Institute for Supply Management said its gauge of U.S. manufacturing activity unexpectedly fell in May to the weakest level in more than 2-1/2 years.
Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Additional reporting by Marc Jones in London; Kate Duguid, Sinead Carew and Richard Leong in New York; and Medha Singh, Amy Caren Daniel and Shreyashi Sanyal in Bengaluru; Editing by Dan Grebler, Steve Orlofsky and Lisa Shumaker
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Abby's Story
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The story starts back in May of 2001, when we wanted a dog. We decided that a Labrador Retriever was the dog that we wanted. We knew how great these dogs were, they were loyal and loving and made a great family addition to any home.
We came across an ad in our local newspaper by a family that had chocolate lab puppies. We called and set up an appointment to meet the bundles of joy for the next day.
The next day we were introduced to 6 puppies. At 8 weeks old they were as cute as could be. I had my eye set on a female that seemed pretty laid back and had waddled over to me. Cathy had set her sights on a beautiful milk chocolate female that had a calm yet playful personality. Cathy said to me " there is no way we are leaving without her " so I set the puppy I was holding down and I met this little girl for the first time. We decided she was the one and we took her home.
On the way home we quickly bonded with this girl. Her in a small little crate on the floor of the front seat and us trying to decide on a name for this beautiful little girl, who was sure to bring us so much love. What we would name her, and the decision was Abby.
As the weeks went by her personality became more evident. She was very smart, easy to house train, very loving but with an independent streak.
I would take her to work with me everyday, which made it easier for us with her care. Her biggest problem was eating my truck! On the way home she would ride in the backseat and would be very quiet. Well when I came to a stop I found out why, she managed to chew the seat belts right in half! Oh well no one rides in the back of a pick up truck anyways, right?
We found that Abby loved water and to swim, like most labs. We couldn't keep her out of the lake when we went to the park. She would swim with the geese or a passing row boat or kayak. She was also a lover of the snow. Her favorite winter game was catching snowballs.
She loved going with us to our friends hunting cabin. She would stay with us while we enjoyed target practice with our shotguns. In true lab form, Abby would just lay there chewing a stick and not flinch at the sound.
We were preparing for a trip to the hunting cabin and decided to get Abby "cleaned up". This meant a bath and brushing her teeth. Bath was done and now to the tooth brush with her beef flavored paste (which she loved!). Upon opening her mouth we saw a swollen spot that looked like a strawberry.
That strawberry turned out to be cancer. The word no one ever wants to hear. The world stopped! A million thoughts rushing through our minds. How could this be? We brush her teeth once a week and never saw anything. She's only 7 and there is so much more we want to do with her.
Surgery! Yes surgery can remove this cancer known as Squamacous Cell Carcinoma. Off to the specialist who tells us it has been caught in the early stages and surgery should remove it. So they remove all of Abby's front teeth, her canine on the right and part of her palate. She can chew, eat and looks the same. Some dogs have a deformed muzzle after surgery, but Abby's is only slightly noticeable. She actually has a smile like Elvis now, just a little crooked.
Life is now good. More trips to the lake where she swims with her friends and to the hunting cabin and chewing on tree branches. Age is setting in as she is 8+ years and we see her moving a little
slower, but then again so are we.
(picture left is Abby and her best buddy Gunther at a dog beach in Summit County, Ohio)
We decide that Vegas is where we want to live. So we sell our house and pack up the car and the three of us drive 4 days across the country to start a new adventure. Abby is the best passenger in the car. Never a peep out of her, she either sleeps in the back of our Jeep or hangs her head out the window.
Abby hates the Vegas summers. Hot for a large English lab that wants to romp in the snow. But we have a pool that she enjoys. It's difficult for her as she is getting older at age 10. So lets keep her young and get her a sister! Yea that's it!! Abby hates the Vegas summers. Hot for a large English lab that wants to romp in the snow. But we have a pool that she enjoys. It's difficult for her as she is getting older at age 10. So lets keep her young and get her a sister! Yea that's it!!
Along came her sister, Bella that we rescued from a Vegas shelter. At four months old Bella, a Pit Bull mix fell in love with Abby. She depended on Abby to show her the ropes. We also noticed Abby enjoyed showing Bella the way.
Two years later along came Jet our third baby. Jet came to us from Las Vegas Labrador Rescue and she was full of energy and life at 18 months. Our pack is now complete.
Even though Abby had her sisters in Vegas, she still missed her doggy friends in Ohio. She would even send pictures to them when their health turned. Her favorite doggy friend in Ohio was Gunther or G-Boy. They were best buddies.
(pictue left was sent to Abby's best buddy in Ohio, Gunther who was losing his battle with cancer)
In November 2014, Abby's 13 and has developed a urinary tract infection (UTI) or what we had thought was a UTI. Tests showed no infection, but Abby was in some distress when trying to urinate or she just couldn't urinate. More tests, blood work, x-rays then more x-rays. Nothing.
By the end of December she was going to the vet every day for a catheter to empty her bladder. Some days she stayed all day others we would pick her up after a few hours. Blood in her urine now. This isn't good....
After 2 months of testing and catheters the radiologists finds IT.. bladder cancer. It is a cancer they can't remove. The world falls away again, can't hear anything. Why is this happening?!
We slow her catheter treatments to only a few a week to ensure her comfort. We can tell when she has to go back to have her treatment. For the most part she's a happy girl. She does sleep a lot but she's 13, right? She's eating and will still take off your finger for a treat, so that's good.
March 22, 2015, Abby's 14th birthday. What a party! Abby got a hunk of carrot cake and I mean a HUNK! She ate all of it and we didn't care. We just saw a smile in her eye and that's all we needed to see.
Just 2 weeks later we lost her. It was the most difficult day I can remember. It was hard letting her go over the rainbow bridge, but she was so tired. She spoke to us softly the night before and told us it was time. She had given us all of the love any dog could. She really wasn't a dog, she was so much more.
So we lost our beloved Abby and it left such a hole in our lives, our other dogs lives, our friends and even our vet's office. People still talk about Abby and how they loved her and what a great dog she was.
So in her memory we have started The Mutt Stop Dog Supplies. We have used her paw print still holding our heart. Rest in Peace Little Girl.......
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Brilliantly self-assured debut feature that serves as a reminder for just how visceral cinema can be. Early on, something happens in Coralie Fargeat’s thriller Revenge that’s so implausible, so difficult to let pass as a believable turn of events in…
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Monster Fest 2017: Interview with ‘The Viper’s Hex’ Co-directors
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Monster Fest 2017 Opening Night Film Review: ‘Boar’
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‘Dracula: Last Voyage of the Demeter’ based on a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which describes the ill-fated journey of the Demeter, the merchant ship which carried Dracula’s coffin from Bulgaria to England. In Bram Stoker’s book, this takes place…
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NBC’s Chuck Todd Eviscerates Ocasio-Cortez Over ‘Concentration Camp’ Comments
By Rusty Weiss | Featured Contributor | June 20, 2019 10:41AM
Some things are bigger than partisanship.
That’s the message from Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s ‘Meet The Press,’ who obliterated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her reprehensible comments about comparing illegal immigrant holding areas to Nazi-era concentration camps.
Todd is by no means a supporter of the President or his agenda, having once been named as one of The Political Insider’s top anti-Trump journalists. But some comments, even for him, are a bit too much.
“If you want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our southern border, fine. You’ll have plenty of company,” Todd said on Wednesday night. “But be careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps because they’re not at all comparable in the slightest.”
Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week made the startling claims during an Instagram video for her supporters.
“That is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps,” she stated, also making reference to the phrase “Never Again,” a term inextricably linked to the Holocaust.
Ocasio-Cortez’s comparison of ICE detentions to concentration camps did border detainees “a tremendous disservice” #MTPDaily
“She said she didn’t use those words lightly,” Chuck Todd said. “Well, neither did I.” pic.twitter.com/5CIOfWn7BQ
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) June 19, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez has since stood unequivocally behind her comments, repeating the term “concentration camps” ad nauseam.
Todd Lays Down the Hammer
“You can call our government’s detention of migrants many things, depending on how you see it. It’s a stain on our nation, maybe. A necessary evil to others to deal with an untenable situation, perhaps. But do you know what you can’t call it?” Todd asked his viewers.
He then played a clip of the Representative from New York …
Ocasio-Cortez falsely claims Trump is operating concentration camps, compares the situation to the Holocaust: “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are. … ‘Never Again’ means something … we need to do something about it” pic.twitter.com/F2MmZ8y2dT
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 18, 2019
“Congresswoman, tens of thousands were also brutalized, tortured, and ultimately starved in concentration camps. Camps like Dachau,” Todd continued.
While he does believe Ocasio-Cortez “cares deeply about what’s happening at the border” he notes that she “did the people there a tremendous disservice by distracting from their plight.”
“She said she didn’t use those words lightly,” he concluded. “Well, neither did I.”
Todd Blasts Democrats
The NBC anchor also took umbrage with Democrats for their pathetic defense of Ocasio-Cortez.
Congressman Jerry Nadler, a prominent Jewish lawmaker, defended the comments, adding that failure to call out the Trump administration’s “inhumanity” is akin to failing to learn the lessons of “never again.”
One of the lessons from the Holocaust is ‘Never Again’ – not only to mass murder, but also to the dehumanization of people, violations of basic rights, and assaults on our common morality. We fail to learn that lesson when we don’t callout such inhumanity right in front of us. https://t.co/EEBBkVL7FG
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) June 18, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pretended she hadn’t heard the ‘concentration camp’ remarks and then blamed Republicans for exploiting every word that her colleagues utter.
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to condemn AOC’s Holocaust comparison, suggests Republicans “will misrepresent anything” pic.twitter.com/fqgauK870q
“Why are we so sheepish calling out people we agree with politically these days?” Todd asked.
“Are we really so ensconced in our political bubbles, liberal versus conservative, that we cannot talk about right versus wrong anymore? Some things are bigger than partisanship, or at least they used to be.”
Supporters of the history-challenged socialist from New York claim she never specifically mentioned “death camps” or Nazi Germany. The context of her video and what she is saying, combined with an absolute infatuation with comparing everything to World War II, makes it clear that’s where she was going.
Ilhan Omar: President Trump ‘Must Step Down,’ Shares Story Calling Killing of Soleimani ‘Immoral’
We don’t say this very often, but well done Chuck Todd. At least somebody in the media had the guts to call out what are clearly deplorable, offensive, and shameful comments.
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October 2016 Rampart Casino Gaming, Dining and Hotel Promotions
$100,000 Cadillac and Cash Giveaway – Fridays & Saturdays, October 7 – 29
Once again, Rampart Casino hosts its Cadillac and Cash Drawings every Friday and Saturday, October 7 – 29 at 6:15 and 8:15 p.m. Every 100 points in slot play or one hour with a $10 average bet on table games earns one entry, and guests can earn ten times entries Monday through Thursday. 8 lucky winners at each drawing will pick a piece from the prize board for a chance to win up to $2500 in cash! Each winner qualifies for the Grand Prize Car Drawing on October 29. Start earning tickets October 1. Players must be present to win.
Grand Prize $100,000 Cadillac and Cash Drawing – October 29th at 9:15 p.m.
10 lucky winners will be drawn on October 29 at 9:15 p.m. for those who qualify during the drawings throughout the month of October. Patrons can only qualify once during the month. The Grand Prize giveaway will be held October 29 at 9:15 pm. Each winner receives a key and the key that starts the car wins! Grand Prize winners will have a choice of $25,000 cash or a 2017 Cadillac ATS or XT5.
$35,000 Rampart Oktoberfest Table Drawings – Every Friday & Saturday at 9 pm in October
Rampart Rewards players earn entries beginning September 29 by playing Table Games. One hour with a $10 average bet on table games earns one entry in the drawings. 9 winners will have a chance to win up to $8,000 in cash and chips guaranteed to be given away each weekend as well as a chance to double their prize amount with a 2X prize multiplier added to each drawing’s prize pool.
Monster Mash Scratch & Win – Every Sunday in October
Rampart Rewards players who earn 10 points on Sundays between 8am and midnight can swipe at the kiosk to scratch for a chance to win free slot play, points, food offers or up to $1,000 in cash!
$35,000 Red Zone to Riches Football Contest
Football season is here. Win your share of a $1,100 prize pool each week by playing Rampart Casino’s $35,000 Red Zone to Riches Football Contest. Rewards Club members receive one free entry each week and can receive one additional entry after earning 250 base points. The contest will feature a $1,000 Free Slot Play progressive for a perfect card each week. If there is no perfect card, the total is added to the next week’s progressive until it hits or until the end of the season, when the $17,000 Free Slot Play Progressive drawing will be held.
2X/4X Points – Every Monday
Every Monday in October, Rampart Rewards Players will earn 4X points on Reels and Video Reels and 2X points on Video Poker.
More 2X/4X Points – Wednesdays, October 5, 12 & 19
Rampart Rewards Players will have more chances to earn 4X points on Reels and Video Reels and 2X points on Video Poker on Wednesdays in October excluding October 26.
2X/5X Points – Halloween Bonus on Monday, October 31
No Tricks just a Treat! Rampart Rewards Players earn 5X points on Reels and Video Reels and 2X points on Video Poker October 31st.
$20,000 Hot Seat Plus Drawings – Every Thursday in October
Rampart Casino hosts $20,000 Free Slot Play Hot Seat Plus Drawings from 2 to 8 p.m. Casino guests playing with their rewards card can win up to $200 Free Slot Play. A random winner is chosen every 15 minutes from 2pm to 8pm for slot players and on the 45 of each hour for table game players. Winners will be called to the Rampart Rewards Club to receive their prize.
Halloween Candy Bar Giveaway – Monday, October 31
Earn 50 base points and receive a candy bar. 100 lucky candy bars will contain $50 Free Slot Play hidden inside.
Rampart Casino’s 17th Anniversary Party – October 28
Come celebrate Rampart Casino’s 17th Anniversary with free Cake and Champagne in the casino from 6pm to 9pm Friday, October 28.
Earn and Spa
Rampart Rewards players who earn 1,200 same day points or redeem 4,000 anytime points can receive a 25-minute spa treatment from Spa Aquae. Table games players are also eligible with a $20 average bet during 2 hours of play. Rampart Rewards players can schedule their 25-minute spa treatment at any time. Players may choose from a Neck, Back, and Shoulder Massage, Mini Pedicure, Mini Manicure or Skin Express 25 min Facial. One per customer maximum, every seven days.
Pirate’s Treasure Progressive Drawing –October 26
Rampart Rewards Club members who earn a base of 2,000 points in the previous calendar month are invited to participate in the following month’s Pirate’s Treasure Progressive Drawing. The next drawing will be held at 6:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26. Players must visit a designated kiosk in the casino after 3 p.m. on the drawing date to activate their entry. The progressive cash jackpot starts at $5,000 and increases $1,000 every month until a winner is drawn. Players can visit the Rampart Rewards Club to check the current progressive jackpot total.
Bring a Friend Mondays
Rampart Rewards members who bring a friend in Mondays to sign up for Rampart Rewards will receive $5 free slot play and also receive match points for all the Base points the friend earns on their sign up day.
CEO Mondays
Rampart Casino invites all casino and customer service employees to participate in the CEO Program. On Mondays, members will receive the CEO treatment, including the following benefits: 2-for-1 drinks in the Round Bar (not valid for Happy Hour Specials), JC’s Irish Sports Pub, and 221, $2 off All-You-Can-Eat Sushi at Shizen, 50% off dinner at the Rampart Buffet, $10 Match Bet on table games, and a chance to Spin & Win at the kiosk when earning 100 points. Participants can register at the Rampart Rewards Club for CEO status by showing proof of employment.
NEW & IMPROVED Fifty Plus Party – Every Tuesday in October
Rampart Rewards Club players 50 years of age or older earn 5 points to participate and Summerlin Premier & Elite members get one free round at the $5,000 slot tournament anytime between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., earn 250 points to receive one additional entry, $25 Free Slot play bonus for everyone who wins a round, plus all tournament participants are eligible for the bonus $2,500 free slot play drawing held at 7 p.m. In addition, all Fifty Plus Party members earn a $100 free slot play bonus on all video reel machine jackpots over $1,200; a complimentary kiosk swipe if they earn 50 points; a Bingo Room coupon for a free small rainbow pack in the electronic units for their next visit (minimum buy-in is required); enjoy $5 lunch at Rampart Buffet; half price point redemption on dining in JC’s Irish Sports Pub; a complimentary size upgrade at Starbucks; 30% discount at Spa Aquae plus a free foot scrub with any purchase of a massage treatment; and now 4X points on Reels from 8pm – Midnight
October Bingo Promotions
50 Plus Tuesdays
Show your Rampart Rewards card and receive a free small rainbow pack in the electronic unit with minimum buy-in. Coupon good for next visit.
Rainbow Pack Buy in Special – Wednesdays & Sundays in October
Receive a free large Rainbow pack in the electronic unit with a minimum buy-in at the 11am and 5pm sessions.
October Bonus Ball Galore
Rosh Hashana Ball – Monday, October 3
Bingo on B-3 and receive $500.
Yom Kippur Ball – Wednesday, October 12
Bingo on B-12 and receive $500.
United Nations Ball – Monday, October 24
Bingo on I-24 and receive $500.
(Validation is required.)
Bonus “R” Ball Jackpots – Every Thursday in October
Players who “bingo” on B-10, or any number ending in 10, receive $500 in addition to the regular payout. Validation is required; Offer is only valid on Thursdays in October during the 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. sessions.
Bonus Win Fridays
Earn 100 points in Bingo and play the kiosk game to win free bingo, free slot play, dining comps and up to $1,000 cash!
Half Off Bingo – Every Saturday in October
When playing with points on Saturdays in October, redeem your points at the Rampart Rewards Club and bring your voucher to the Bingo room for 50% off!
It Pays to Play Bingo at Rampart!
Don’t forget – Bingo players can earn entries into all casino-wide drawings plus earn towards tier status through Bingo play.
October Coveralls
3X $1000 coveralls every day at the 1pm and 7pm sessions and every Friday & Saturday at the 9pm session.
Plus Double Pay all the Way every Friday & Saturday in October at the 9pm session.
Bonus 3X $1000 coveralls Thursdays in October at the 7pm session.
October Giveaways – Monday, October 10 (Columbus Day)
All players, all sessions while supplies last:
Howling Good Halloween Weekend
4X $1000 Coveralls at the 5pm and 7pm sessions on Saturday, October 29 plus Double Play all the Way and 3X $1000 Coveralls at the 9pm session.
Halloween Chocolate Giveaway – October 31
Boo Ball – October 31
Bingo on N-31 and receive $500. Validation is required.
Come dressed in your Halloween costume on October 31 and receive $25 in Bingo play for your next visit
221 features small plates and libations; guests can sip on signature martinis or tickle their taste buds with wine and tapas. For more information, call 702-869-7750.
Hours: Now open daily at 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Promotions/Events:
Happy Hour – From 5 to 7 p.m. daily. Specials include $5 wines and appetizers.
Wednesday Ladies Night – Featuring $5 Kinky Brand Vodka Cocktails, wines and discounted appetizers.
The Carmel Room – Now Located in the Palms Tower
The Carmel Room’s fine dining menu features Mediterranean-influenced Continental cuisine. Fare includes specialty salads, fresh seafood, prime steaks seared to perfection, poultry, a superb wine list and decadent table-prepared desserts. For more information, call 702-507-5955.
Hours: Open from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; open from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
Earn and Eat – Earn 1,500 same-day points or redeem 4,000 anytime points at Rampart Casino and receive your choice of a Jumbo Lobster Tail Dinner, Summerlin Mixed Grill Dinner, 24oz Bone In Ribeye Dinner or King Cut Prime Rib Dinner.
$5 Strawberry Basil Caipirinha Martini Special – Served daily from open to close.
Happy Hour at the Carmel Lounge – 4 p.m. to close. $5 drink specials and $9 premium drink specials include wines, beers, martinis & manhattans. Appetizers starting at $6 include sharing bites, flatbreads and a signature burger.
$29 Three-Course Dinner Special – Served daily from 5 p.m. to close, dinner includes a glass of wine, house salad with choice of dressing, our signature 12 oz. cut of Prime Rib with whipped Yukon gold potatoes and a side of seasonal vegetables. For dessert, select from chocolate cake or a trio of sorbets to end the perfect meal. Must be 21; Dine in only.
Ceres – Now Located in the Palms Tower
Guests can start their day at Ceres, a gorgeous restaurant encircled by breathtaking gardens and waterfalls. It offers an American breakfast selection of pastries, omelets made-to-order, delicious eggs benedict, healthy dining options and more and is sure to leave diners’ palates satisfied. For more information, call 702-869-7381.
Hours: Open from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday-Friday, 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday, and 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Breakfast Al La Carte Menu – From 6 a.m. to 11 a.m., Monday – Friday, 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday, and 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Breakfast Buffet – From 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to noon on Saturday, and 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. Offer includes egg and omelet orders from the guests’ table.
Ceres Sunday Jazz Brunch – Diners at Ceres’ Sunday Jazz Brunch can enjoy live jazz music from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. along with a JW Marriott Signature Brunch Buffet for $24.99 per person plus tax & gratuity. Sunday, October 2 & 16 featured artists are jazz saxophonist Vince Priester with guitarist accompanist Calvin Brooks. Reservations are encouraged and can be made by calling 702-869-7381.
Sunday Brunch with Mark O’Toole – Diners at Ceres’ Sunday Brunch with Mark O’Toole can enjoy live lounge music from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, October 9 & 23 along with JW Marriott Signature Brunch Buffet for $24.99 per person plus tax & gratuity. Reservations are encouraged and can be made by calling 702-869-7381.
JC’s Irish Sports Pub
Voted a Top 10 Vegas Sports Bar by USA Today, JC’s Irish Sports Pub features a hearty new menu, Irish beers, whiskey and live music. Guests may choose between pub favorites such as delicious wings or nachos, or feast on Emerald Isle classics such as Beef and Guinness Pie or Fish-n-Chips. For more information, call 702-869-7725.
Join us every day at 4 pm (midnight in Ireland) for a free shot of Guinness along with our Irish Toast of the Day!
Hours: Open from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Monday-Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday-Saturday.
$6 Beer Flights – $6 beer flights (serves four 5-ounce beers) offered daily.
Free Guinness Toast – Every day at 4 p.m.
Happy Hour – Daily from 3pm to 7pm. Select draft beers $2.50 and $5 appetizers.
Football Season Specials
5 for $5 Special – Choose from Grilled Buffalo Wrap, Loaded Tots, Chicken Wings & Fries, Fried Pickles and Football Chili
Drink Specials – $2 Bud and Bud Light Drafts, $3 Shock Top Drafts, $4 Jack Daniels and Absolut Cocktails, $5 Bloody Mary’s and $6 Margaritas
Promenade Café
Overlooking the excitement of the casino, the newly renovated Promenade Café is open 24/7 and features a wide variety of tastes. For more information, call 702-507-5966.
Hours: Open 24/7.
$2.21 Graveyard Specials – Seven choices of graveyard specials served nightly from midnight to 6 a.m.
$5.99 Angus Burger Night Special – The build your own Angus burger is served every Wednesday from 3 to 11 p.m. with your choice of cheese & traditional toppings, including premium add-ons. Add a bottle of Budweiser or Bud Light for $1.99 more.
$7.99 Pasta Night Special – Three choices of pasta include shrimp linguini, chicken penne or sausage & pepper fettucine, all served with garlic toast, are available every Monday & Tuesday from 3 to 11 p.m. Add a glass of red or white wine for only $1.99.
$7.99 Fajita Special – Choose from Steak, Chicken or Shrimp, served with rice and beans every Friday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
$9.99 BBQ Brisket & Chicken Special – This special served daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. gives guests smoked brisket and pulled rotisserie chicken with a side of baked beans, coleslaw, french fries and house made BBQ sauce. Dine in only.
$3.99 Early Riser Special – Three daily breakfast specials are available from 6 to 9 a.m. for Rampart Rewards club card members.
$9.99 Three-Course Special – Starting at $9.99, the special is complete with an appetizer, entrée and dessert. In addition, seven entrée choices are also available upon request. Available daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Rampart Buffet
A Summerlin favorite, Rampart Buffet offers selections of fare from around the world including wood-fired pizza, rotisserie chicken, hand-carved meats and more. For more information, call 702-507-5944.
Hours: Open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, dinner from 4 to 9 p.m. daily and Champagne Brunch from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
Lunch Prices – $7.99 with Rampart Rewards club card, $10.99 without club card and $6.99 for seniors (50+ with a card). These prices are available Monday-Friday.
Prime Rib & Shrimp Dinner Prices (Sunday –Tuesday) – $13.99 with Rampart Rewards club card, $15.99 without club card and $12.99 for seniors (50+ with a card). Available Sunday-Tuesday.
Weekend Brunch Prices – $12.99 with Rampart Rewards club card, $16.99 without club card and $11.99 for seniors (50+ with a card). Available Saturday-Sunday.
Tuesday – Seniors with a Rampart Rewards club card can enjoy a $5 lunch during the 50+ Party on Tuesdays. Prices are $7.99 with a Rewards club card, $10.99 without a card and $6.99 Senior (50+ without a card).
Wednesday – $9.99 Wednesday Night Dinner Buffet from 4 to 9 p.m. For a limited time, prices are $9.99 with a Rampart Rewards club card, $15.99 without a card and $12.99 for seniors (50+ without a card).
Thursday – Deli Night Buffet from 4 to 9 p.m. Prices are $16.99 with a Rampart Rewards club card, $18.99 without a card and $15.99 for seniors (50+ with a card).
Friday & Saturday – Seafood & Crab Legs Buffet featuring Prime Rib from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Prices are $19.99 with a Rampart Rewards club card, $23.99 without a card and $18.99 for seniors (50+ with a card). For a limited time.
Earn and Eat Buffets – Monday through Sunday, earn 500 same day base points and redeem for a lunch buffet; earn 800 same day base points and redeem for a dinner buffet. Vouchers are valid for 7 days (maximum of 2 vouchers per day). Visit the Rampart Rewards Club to receive vouchers.
Featuring Las Vegas’ freshest sushi and sashimi, Shizen’s expert Teppanyaki chefs dazzle guests with their knife work and hot-table cuisine. Now introducing a new menu with delicious new hot entrees and other offerings including Signature sushi rolls, noodle bowls, and gluten and carbohydrate-free shirataki noodles. For more information, call 702-869-7900.
Hours: Open from 5 to 10 p.m., 7 days a week.
Delicious New Entrees – Featuring Teppanyaki Ribeye Steak, Tobanyaki Skillet served with a 6 oz. Ribeye Steak, mushrooms, noodles and vegetables, Macadamia Chicken Katsu and so much more!
Happy Hour – From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. Specials include $5 glasses of select wine, sake and sushi
All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Sundays and Mondays– Shizen presents All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Sundays and Mondays for $29 per person from 5 to 10 p.m.
Football Season is here!
Available whenever football is broadcast
All Casino Bars – $2 Bud and Bud Light bottle beers, served every day, all day; Plus $4 Jack Daniels and Absolut Cocktails, $5 Bloody Mary’s and $6 Margaritas
$1.25 Hot Dogs – Served Saturday & Sunday from 11am – 6pm at the Hot Dog Cart located at the Race & Sports Book. Enjoy the Hot Dog & Chips special for just $2.25!
Famed chef and restaurateur Gustav Mauler combines a classic Milanese menu, modest yet excellent wine selections and a chic setting at Spiedini. For more information, call 702-869-7790.
Hours: Open from 5 to 9 p.m. daily.
Guests can get their caffeine fix and satisfy their hunger at Starbucks®, located adjacent to Rampart Casino’s Buffet. The shop offers a selection of coffees, hot breakfast sandwiches, pastries, iced lattés, steaming espressos and more. For more information, call 702-869-7272.
Hours: Open from 6a.m. – 7p.m. Sunday thru Thursday, 6a.m. – 9p.m. Friday & Saturday.
Pool and Cabanas
Hours: Open daily from 9am to 6pm
Individual Pool Membership – Price is $150 per month or $495 for the entire season.
Family Pass – Price is $250 per month or $795 for the entire season for 2 adults and up to 3 children or 1 adult and up to 4 children. Two adults maximum per visit, pass is good 7 days a week.
Pool members will also receive discounted cabana rates (based on availability) and 10% off the Waterside Café Menu.
Daily Pool Access for Non-Hotel Guests – valid Monday through Friday only, excluding Holidays and Blackout dates. Daily prices for pool admittance is $15 for ages 16 and over and $8 for children ages 6 to 15. Children ages 5 and under are free. Children 15 years old or younger must be accompanied by an adult with a maximum of 3 children per adult. Children who are not potty-trained will be required to wear swim diapers which are available at the towel hut free of charge.
Cabana Rates
For Reservations call 702-869-7093. Cabanas will be sold at full day rates in advance. Half day rates will only be available the day of rental.
Regular Cabana Rates
Monday – Thursday: Priced at $195.00; Spend $300 on Food and Beverage and receive a Cabana rate of $100
Friday – Sunday & Holidays: Priced at $295; Spend $450 on Food and Beverage and receive a Cabana rate of $100
Grand Cabana Rates
Monday – Thursday: Priced at $350; Spend $400 on Food and Beverage and receive a Cabana rate of $100
Half day rates are 9am to 1pm and 2pm to close based on availability and will be 50% off the above rates.
CabanaCool Package
The CabanaCool Package includes a two night stay in one deluxe guestroom and one full day use of a Luxurious resort cabana at our beautiful pool. Offer is subject to availability with a limited number of promotional rooms. Package cannot be combined with any other offer and all components of the package must be used for the same stay. To check availability and book a stay, visit marriott.com or call 1-800-582-2996 and reference rate code NCL. Offer is valid 7 days a week through October 31, 2016.
Experience Spa Package
The Experience Spa Package includes one deluxe guestroom, two 50-minute spa treatments (Custom Facial or Swedish Massage) and breakfast for two at Ceres restaurant. Offer is subject to availability, cannot be combined with any other offer and all components of the package must be used for the same stay. To check availability and book a stay, visit marriott.com or call 1-800-582-2996 and reference rate code XIJA.
Experience Spa Package for One
The Experience Spa Package includes one deluxe guestroom, one 50-minute spa treatment (Custom Facial or Swedish massage) and use of Fitness Facilities. Offer is subject to availability, cannot be combined with any other offer and all components of the package must be used for the same stay. To check availability and book a stay, visit marriott.com or call 1-800-582-2996 and reference rate code XIJB.
Experience Couples Spa Package
The Experience Spa Package includes one deluxe guestroom, two 50-minute spa treatments (Custom Facial or Swedish Massage), champagne and strawberries upon arrival and breakfast for two at Ceres restaurant. Offer is subject to availability, cannot be combined with any other offer and all components of the package must be used for the same stay. To check availability and book a stay, visit marriott.com or call 1-800-582-2996 and reference rate code SIJJ.
Golf TPC Las Vegas Package
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Makeup Hype: Anastasia Beverly Hills Subculture Palette
August 1, 2017 May 24, 2018 tricksandtrucco8 Comments
The freshly-launched Subculture Palette by Anastasia Beverly Hills has been getting a lot of attention these past few days… perhaps for all the wrong reasons.
As an avid fan of makeup, I read and watch a lot of reviews on new launches, products in general, or just overall beauty community shenanigans. I’m no reporter or expert of any kind (we’ve been over this many a time), but I thought, “hey wait a second, what if I take all my hours spent on makeup research and condense them down into one short report of my own consumer opinion,” and thus the Makeup Hype “series” was born.
There is usually a lot of “hype” surrounding new launches, but the first post in this series will be on a launch that has been met with a lot of controversy – and that’s the Anastasia Beverly Hills “Subculture” Palette.
The Subculture palette, which retails for $42, boasts 14 shades in total comprised of 11 mattes, two duochromes, and one metallic. According to the product description, the shade breakdown is as follows:
Cube (duo chrome pink pearl)
Dawn (ultra-matte sand)
Destiny (ultra-matte sage green)
Adorn (metallic bronze)
All Star (ultra-matte vintage wine)
Mercury (ultra-matte slate grey)
Axis (ultra-matte blue-green)
Roxy (ultra-matte muted coral)
Electric (duo chrome lime-gold)
Fudge (ultra-matte warm brown)
New Wave (ultra-matte citron orange)
Untamed (ultra-matte tarnished green)
Edge (ultra-matte gold mustard)
Rowdy (ultra-matte blackened purple)
Although it is currently sold out on the ABH website, it’s in stock on the Sephora website, and it will be available on the ULTA website on August 15. It has also been reported that this palette is part of ABH’s permanent collecton and has been described as Modern Renaissance’s “sister.”
While I think the Modern Renaissance palette is beautiful, I unfortunately don’t own it, and with the amount of eyeshadow palettes I currently have, I wasn’t planning on picking it up. However, I was extremely curious about the Subculture palette because I thought the shades are pretty unique – I wasn’t sure if they were necessarily up my alley, but as I said before, I just like to look at product reviews in my down time.
THE REVIEWS:
1.) Alissa Ashley
Alissa Ashley // ABH SUBCULTURE PALETTE…WTF?
The first review I watched was Alissa Ashley’s review on YouTube and let me just say… I was shocked at how the palette performed. You can see above that at 6:42, she says they blend poorly, are extremely powdery, and blend into each other in a “slightly ashy way” and skip on her eye. In the just over 17 minutes the video lasts for, she tries three times, removing her eye makeup and starting all over again, using various primers and brushes to see if she can make it work, and at the end wonders if she got a faulty palette.
Her YouTube video also features a video she posted on her Twitter prior to releasing her full review, in which you can see her swirling around a fluffy brush in the “Roxy” shade and hitting pan on her first time using the shadow – at 13:33 she talks about how much powder is flying around upon dipping into the product, acknowledging, “…and you know, while a lot of palettes do that, I’ve never seen it do that that much.”
2.) RawBeautyKristi
RawBeautyKrisi // UM.. WTF!? | NO BULLSH*T HONEST REVIEW ABH SUBCULTURE PALETTE | Swatches & Tutorial
The next video I watched was by RawBeautyKristi, who – spoiler alert – shared the same sentiments. In her video, she has trouble blending the shadows, saying, “it’s almost as if I’ve never done makeup before.” She says she is “shocked” by this palette says she loves ABH as a brand, thinks the color selection on the palette is beautiful, but the amount of time she spent trying to blend (around 30 minutes) disappointed her. She does acknowledge the fact that she expected there to be some amount of kickback (“that’s something I know ABH shadows to have”), but that the formula seems different from their other shadows. She takes a look at the ingredients on the back of both the Subculture and Modern Renaissance palettes and notes how “minimal” the ingredients for the subculture palette looks – “it looks like they’ve simplified their formula in a way, but in the same token, that formula is more difficult to use.”
At 19:45 in her video, she begins to compare the “blendability” of the shades with the Sephora Pro palette. She takes New Wave from the ABH palette (left) and a similar shade from the Sephora palette (right) and points out that for the ABH shade, attempting to blend it out creates a “ring” and shows a clear line of demarcation from where she placed the color. After continuing to try to blend the shadow, it ultimately still creates a harsh edge.
She also compares the Fudge shade from the Subculture palette (left swatch) and the Fudge shade from an older palette (right swatch) called the Shadow Couture World Traveler palette (which I believe was a limited edition and has since been discontinued) because people have been saying they’re actually different – she says the older formula is deeper, while the newer formula is lighter. Taking the same amount of both shadows, she finds that there’s a tiny bit of fallout from the old shade, yet not nearly as much as the new formula, the colors are totally different, and the old one just blends so much better.
In terms of actual staying powder of the shadows themselves, she addresses this earlier on in the video at about 15:52, saying she wore the shadows all day, which held up “not great” by the end. I took screenshots from the very beginning of the video (left), which I’m assuming she filmed right after completing her eye look, and from the part where she’s talking about how she can see her skin peeking through after a full day of wear (right), and you can clearly see that the shadows have faded.
3.) Shopper Mandy
Shopper Mandy // WHAT THE F*CK! ABH SUBCULTURE PALETTE REVIEW, SWATCHES, COMPARISON, & DEMO (THE TRUTH)
Finally, the last and most recently-posted video I’ve watched is by Shopper Mandy. She starts off by saying she “can’t believe this is going on especially with Anastasia Beverly Hills.” She says the video is “painful to makeup” because ABH is one of her favorite makeup brands known for consistency, quality, innovation, and setting trends. She says even though the palette is a huge disappointment, she won’t stop supporting the company because sometimes companies are “allowed to have hiccups if they aren’t companies that try to intentionally deceive people and try to make money in greedy, disgusting ways – Anastasia Beverly Hills has never been a brand like that, so I will continue to support them.”
She says she loves the colors and that they are beautiful, innovative, and that there is definitely a “very strong thought process behind this.” She loves everything about the palette, but acknowledges there is one big issue – “There is a lot of fallout with this palette. It is insane.” At 3:19, she inserts some clips of her dipping her brush into the palette, going on to say “with the Mario palette [Master Palette by Mario], I did note in my review that there is a lot of fallout. Now, a lot of fallout is a relative term. If the shadows are soft and highly pigmented, there tends to be a lot of fallout.”
She points out that both the Mario palette and Modern Renaissance palette have fallout, so she expects fallout from ABH shadows because they are creamy, soft, and blendable and says, “I never ever faulted them for that because I understand there are tradeoffs. You can’t have the perfect shadow – it just doesn’t exist. There are tradeoffs in formulation,” but compared to other ABH shadows, there is almost an “infinite amount” of fallout in the Subculture palette and that they’re “just not comparable” with her other shadows, which makes her “believe that there is something that went completely wrong in production and ABH may not even be aware of it because maybe the ones they have that they have been using and testing out aren’t like this.” She further goes on to say, “This is not normal and I do not believe that this was intended – there is just absolutely no way.”
At 6:25, she says she tried to do her makeup using the Subculture palette four times, only to end up being so frustrated that she gave up and instead turned to the Modern Renaissance palette to do her eye look for the video. She says the Subculture palette “just wasn’t easily usable – maybe you can use it if you work hard at it, but I worked pretty hard and it was not there.”
Mandy says Edge and New Wave didn’t have a patchiness issue for her, but just had an insane amount of fallout. Fudge; however, was extremely patchy and unusable even with different brushes and primers. Roxy had so much fallout and wasn’t patchy – Rowdy and All Star were patchy and had a lot of fallout. She says for her, the lighter shades weren’t patchy, but the darker shades were and that she believes it has to do with her skintone – since she has a lighter skintone, the patchiness of the lighter shades isn’t really detectable, while the dark shades are obviously different from her skintone so the patchiness is more apparent. In terms of the shimmer shades, she says they’re “very strange” because they don’t really apply over matte shadow and that while there is always some difficulty applying shimmer over a matte, these are very difficult, which is not normal.
At 11:20 she compares the fallout from Roxy in the Subculture palette to a similar shade called Isabel from the Mario palette using the exact same brush, swirling motions, and pressure to show how this amount of fallout from ABH shadows isn’t normal.
At 13:33 she shows the patchiness and blendability issues, taking All Star from Subculture, which doesn’t blend out – “even though purples are harder to manufacture, they should be performing better than this, especially for Anastasia Beverly Hills shadows.” She says Edge and New Wave did blend out really well on her skintone, even though other YouTubers had a lot of problems with patchiness with them.
In comparing the shimmer shades, she shows how Adorn from Subculture (left) doesn’t want to apply over Roxy from Subculture, while Primavera from the Modern Renaissance palette (right) performs so much better in just one dip.
I haven’t really seen Anastasia Beverly Hills as a company responding to customer complaints other than to email customer services, but I have seen Norvina, Anastasia’s daughter, replying to a bunch of people. Above is Norvina’s response to Alissa Ashley’s “is this normal?” tweet, where she responds that no – that amount of fallout is not normal and that Alissa Ashley should get a replacement from customer service.
From Norvina’s Twitter, it seems like ABH is working on some kind of solution to the Subculture palette; HOWEVER, I’ve seen a lot of people in the comments talk about how “shady” she was being about the criticism due to the following tweet about 15 minutes after her response to Alissa Ashley’s tweet:
Many people on Twitter actually viewed this response as being “shady,” to which Norvina denies was her intention:
RawBeautyKristi also addresses Norvina’s tweet in her video (around 17:15), responding “I own a lot of palettes… I own maybe upwards of 20, 30 palettes. I own Modern Renaissance and that didn’t happen. These shadows are a different formula – they have to be. I think from the packaging we can see that they, in fact, are. You can swirl you brush around in it all day and hit pan. It doesn’t happen with my Makeup Geek shades. It doesn’t happen with my other Anastasia palette that I’ve been using for over a year, it doesn’t happen with Morphe… it happens with Subculture, and I don’t know why. You can’t deny that there’s something weird about this palette.”
MY OPINION:
While I have seen a few people who say they love the palette for it’s pigmentation and blendability, as seen in this tweet below:
That being said, I find that the majority of reviews are all on the negative side – most people have the same blending issue of the shadows creating a strange “ring” as shown by RawBeautyKristi and almost all of them have issues with the seemingly insane amount of fallout and overall patchiness of the shades. All the negative reviews have created enough concern that some Twitter users were even “worried” about the palette:
130 reviews on Sephora has it rated 2.7 out of 5 stars, with many users citing the blendablity and fallout being the issue, while acknowledging the great pigmentation and beautiful color selection:
With all this in mind, I think this palette is just gonna be a no from me, dawg. Although Norvina argues that “a little goes a long way,” I fail to see from all the video evidence how you could actually pick up “a little” of the product as the shadows seem to disintegrate upon the lightest touch, and wiping or tapping off that amount of product seems like such a waste of product to me.
At $42, I think you shouldn’t have to work to make this work – for professional makeup artists who might have the time, skill, and/or patience to blend all these shadows out properly, maybe it is worth it, but for your run-of-the-mill everyday consumer like me who is most likely sitting down and hoping to just slap some makeup on first thing in the morning, it doesn’t seem very practical. Personally, my makeup routine is something that calms me in the morning before I start my day – I’m not looking to be stressed with blending and getting fallout all over my desk!
In terms of Norvina’s response, while I’m not exactly sure if she really meant to be shady (although she did post this literally 15 minutes after supposedly reading Alissa Ashley’s tweet… hmm…), I don’t think what reads as a defensive “education lesson” was exactly the appropriate response here. I’m not a professional-anything, but as a consumer (and I know I don’t speak for ALL consumers), I tend to believe in impact, not intent – I don’t think ABH tended to “dupe” anyone into buying a faulty product, but now that the damage is done, I do believe a more sympathetic response other than “oh that sucks, please contact CS for a replacement” is warranted. Also… who wants to replace a faulty palette with another faulty palette in the first place?
At the end of the day, I think this is a good example of a reputable company releasing a dud. ABH hasn’t really had any other controversy like this, and as Shopper Mandy says, should be “allowed to have hiccups,” albeit maybe on a smaller scale. Hiccups usually come in the form of bad batches – not the entirety of the launch – but still, I don’t think this is anything to boycott the company over. I’d be curious to see if they’d change the formula back to their original as it’s pretty obvious something is different here.
What are your thoughts – have you tried the palette? Would you still buy it? I’m curious to hear other opinions!
TWITTER SOURCES:
Alissa Ashley // @alissa_ashleyy // “Is this normal?”
Norvina // @norvina1 // “That’s not normal” // “Subculture is super pigmented”
Talia Mar // @TaliaMarMusic // “I personally found…”
La Diabla // @spanishcvndy // “Not gunna lie I’m nervous about my subculture palette…”
Shelby // @shelbytriglia // “I’m scared to try out the new subculture palette…”
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beautyonabudget94 says:
I love this post so much!!! ❤ I saw Alissas review first, and I always find them to be honest. I never think her intention was to sound negative or hateful at all, but she was just speaking the truth. I did find Norvinas tweet to be somewhat shady. But I think she found out Alissa wasn't the only one having these issues, and then started to look into it. I think the shades are beautiful, and If I lived in the US I might give it a try (because of the return policy). But now they're gonna change the formula, so I I'm not getting people who are buying it immediately. Like maybe wait a little, if they're going to change.
tricksandtrucco says:
Thanks for reading! I totally agree about Alissa’s review – she started off so optimistic and really wanted to like it and tried so hard to make it work and just couldn’t! I think the timing & wording of Norvina’s tweet was also kind of shady – it sounded a tad condescending to me, as if she was trying to “educate” people who clearly knew how to do makeup how to do makeup! I did read after posting this that people on Twitter think there was an issue with batches – apparently P3 was a “bad batch,” but then they also realized people with the P7 batch were also having issues, so nobody can figure out if one is worse than the other right now. Hopefully they get the formula/pressing method figured out soon!
Vidhu Skulpt says:
Thank you so much for sharing this information about the palette. I have been on the fence on whether to get it or not. I am a stay at home mom and use makeup only on special occasions, so was not sure whether the price justified me buying it.
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Actually a useful review about the subculture palette. I just wish to try out the various colors of the palette. I suggested the product to some of my friends. The reviews are really outstanding. Thanks for the useful post.
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Callum 'Mundo' Smith was in impressive form on Saturday night, as he defeated Nikola Sjekloca with a unanimous points victory, on the undercard of the Nathan Cleverly-Tony Bellow grude fight in Liverpool.
Smith, who had won his previous 14 fights (11 by way of KO), was wearing TruSox for the first time in competitive action, and he took the fight to the Serb Sjekloca from the start.
The super-middleweight was taken 12 rounds for the first time in his professional career and the 24-year old did not look fazed or fatigued at any point, taking almost every round across all three judges' cards.
The Liverpudlian will now be looking forward to a potential World Title fight in the near future hopefully, and become the third man to win a World Title in TruSox.
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Earn your Degree in Biostatistics and Data Science
The Department of Data Science at the University of Mississippi Medical Center offers Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Biostatistics and Data Science. Unlike most data science schools, we are focused on population health, being housed in the third School of Population Health in the Country, together with the Departments of Preventive Medicine and Population Health Sciences. We have fused statistical theory, effective communications skills, and epidemiology, to the new Data Science fields, to successfully graduate not only MS and PhD's, but leaders in this field.
What is Biostatistics?
Biostatistics develops and applies methods for accurate interpretation of biomedical and population health data. Biostatistics is a broad discipline involved in the design, analysis and translation of study data as well as the development of methods to ensure and understand the quality of such data and analyses.
Data Science is an emerging field encompassing processes and systems for extracting knowledge and insights from data. With its interdisciplinary approach that combines aspects of statistics, computer science, data mining, applied mathematics, predictive analytics and visualization, data science aims to turn vast amounts of data into actionable evidence.
What is Bioinformatics & Genomics?
Bioinformatics & Genomics analyzes a broad range of biological data, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and epigenomics, to investigate the molecular and environmental basis of human health traits and diseases.
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