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All Saints', Barry
An Anglican Church in the Rectorial Benefice of Barry
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There is an old Rwandan proverb which says ‘God travels round the world during the day but returns to Rwanda at night’. However since the genocide in 1994 many Rwandans said that ‘God has forgotten his way home.’ It is now 20 years since the horrific genocide in Rwanda when almost a million people were slaughtered within a 100 days while the world stood by and watched. Bad news sells newspapers and makes headlines. But the good news is that Rwanda is beginning to prosper. The hand of God can clearly be seen in the significant changes within Rwanda. With divine help ordinary people are forgiving those who have caused them unbelievable harm. There is repentance and forgiveness which is leading to reconciliation amongst many people. More children than ever before are attending school, the infrastructure and roads are being built across the country. There is Hope as ’God has certainly not forgotten his way home’.Thanks to the efforts and generosity of many in All Saints’, Barry and St Baruc’s Barry Island over £15,000 has been raised to buy Rwandan cows through ‘The Kiyombe Cow Scheme’ by the following :- Talks; Lent Austerity Lunches; Coffee Mornings; Mothers’ Union; PCC donations; Ladies Guild; St Baruc’s coach trip and other kind donations. The Kiyombe Cow Scheme which has operated since 2004 provides cows and calves to poor widows and orphans who are working on a geranium growing co-operative called ‘Ikirezi’ meaning precious pearl in Kinyarwanda. The cows provide much needed milk and good quality manure for fertiliser on their small plots of land.
These cows have gone to family groups on the geranium growing co-operative which is managed by Nicholas Hitimana ( Rwandan co-ordinator of the Kiyombe Cow Scheme). The co-operative is linked to the Episcopal Church, Parish of Kiyombe with which All Saints’ is twinned. Widows and orphans are helping to grow geraniums which are distilled to provide essential oils. This oil has many uses including anti- mosquito properties which are vital in the battle against malaria which is the biggest killer in Rwanda. Many of those on the co-operative have now put their children in school, have health insurance and are building relatively better homes. The family groups which will receive a cow are selected from amongst the very needy within the co operative by the following criteria:- • They must have a suitable piece of land • They must grow fodder food for the cow • They must build a stable at their own cost (usually built with strong branches and banana leaves at minimal cost). • They have the approval of the group that they can look after the cow, are needy and are trustworthy. The cows are cross bred being 75% Friesian and 25% local breeds (Ankole). The idea being that they will provide a high milk yield but will also have a good degree of disease resistance. The Rwandan Government in their 2020 Vision Policy is also very keen to encourage cow schemes and cow ownership for all poor families across the country. They have inspectors who will be able to check on the health and welfare of cows within their districts.
The Kiyombe Cow Scheme grows as cows are artificially inseminated and new calves are handed onto other poor family groups when they are a year old. One such calf is being given to Bakute Javenti in the attached photograph. She is a widow whose husband was killed in 1994. But she knows how to look after a cow and has a shelter with fodder and is willing to share the milk with others. Over 20 cows have been either born or purchased via the scheme which is now been expanded to included a dry area in the East of the Country called Kibungo.The cows need plenty of water and eat ‘elephant grass’ as fodder. So monies have also been used to help pay for ‘rainwater harvesting’ collecting rainwater from a large corrugated iron roof over a stable which feeds into a tank.
The surprising thing about Rwanda is how beautiful it is. It is a small mountainous country in central Africa known as the ‘land of a thousand hills’. Subsistence farming, in family plots spread across the hills, is still the mainstay of life for most of the Rwandan population. Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa and is about the same size as Wales. Life is very hard for most Rwandans who work on the land for about 1$ (70p) a day. Many of their children are malnourished with stunted growth and run around in bare feet wearing discarded western clothing. Over 60% of the population in Rwanda live in poverty and 40% in extreme poverty. A decline in agricultural production, unfavourable world markets (notably that of coffee) and the consequences of the 1994 genocide provide the main reasons for the current situation.Rwanda is still coming to terms with that orgy of ethnic strife when almost one million people were massacred and two million fled the country. However despite their hardships there is a great deal of faith and hope for the future. Education may be their only escape from poverty. Rwanda is investing in education and its people as it possesses few natural resources.The principal causes of mortality and morbidity in Rwanda today are communicable diseases. These illnesses can mainly be prevented through better hygiene and behavioural change. AIDS and malaria are rife.There are other powerful words which were spoken by The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan which are also written on the walls of Genocide Memorial Site in Rwanda.’’The International Community failed Rwanda and that must leave us always with a sense of bitter regret”…..”The International Community is guilty of the sins of omission”.
Nelson Mandela said the following at the Make Poverty History rally ‘While poverty persists, there is no true freedom’. Rwanda has however enjoyed considerable debt relief and government to government help in the last few years. But grass roots help is required as well. Simple links such as this cow scheme supported by the Church and Unison together with many others can make such a difference to individual lives
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Thank you to all those that have attended and contributed to the highly successful Lent lunches at All Saints’. The money has been raised to help purchase further Rwandan cows and provide veterinary care through ‘The Kiyombe Cow Scheme’. We have all enjoyed a warm sense of friendship and community at our Lent lunches which mirrors the friendship and community that is being enjoyed by those benefitting from the cows. In a spiritual sense it is as if we have come together as a community in the joy of giving and receiving good food. We have recently been sent a report on the progress of the scheme in Rwanda. 15 cows have been provided under the scheme and 19 calves have been born. The impact on the families (mainly widows and orphans) who received the cows has been significant in many cases. Unlike the typical Rwandan cow which produces little milk the cows we have given are dairy cows. An average of 10 litres of milk is produced daily. This provides nourishment for the children. Moreover the excess milk is sold, with the proceeds used to purchase food, clothing and to help pay for school fees. The manure is used for fertilizer which enhances crop yield thereby further assisting the family. Once the first female calf has been born and given away the owners are able to keep additional calves which helps multiply the benefits listed above. However there have been a number of obstacles to overcome with cattle in Rwanda. The main one is getting proper treatment for cows when they become ill. Securing veterinary care in a timely and affordable fashion continues to be the biggest challenge in this project. It is difficult to obtain the services of the vet when they are needed most and the medications are expensive. Thus treating a sick cow is very challenging and not all the initial cows survived.
A second problem is the difficulty in raising enough food for the cow. Sufficient land is required to grow the grass and in the dry season irrigation is problematic.A third complication is that some of the widows have little or no support. As a result simply caring for the cow and providing adequate shelter for the animals is difficult.Never the less the Kiyombe Cow Scheme is developing according to plan. In most cases the quality of life for the beneficiaries is increasing and the families have garnered significant benefits. In time the positive effects will expand even further, providing assistance to the broader community as additional calves are given away.Cow / Calf Statistical Summary 2011:- · 15 cows have been provided · 6 cows have subsequently died · 1 cow was sold due to illness · 19 calves have been born · 3 calves have died · 7 calves have been given away · 2 calves will be given when they are mature enough · 3 calves were sold for income · 1 male calf was sold (proceeds used to buy a female) 5 cows are currently pregnant.Please continue to pray for Rwanda as they pray for us and our link with ‘The KiyombeWhen they said ‘Never Again’ after the Holocaust, was it meant for some people and not for others? Apollon KabahiziHe who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord (Proverbs 9:17)Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.’(Proverbs 31: 8-9)
How You Can HelpPray for the success of ‘The Kiyombe Cow Scheme’ and the geranium co-operative ‘Ikirezi’ and our twinning link with The Episcopal Church, Parish of Kiyombe’. See the display on Rwanda & ‘The Kiyombe Cow Scheme’ at the back of the church Help raise funds for more cows Pray for continued Peace; Justice; Repentance; Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Rwanda where there are many deep psychological wounds that remain after the genocide. Contact Rowan Hughes on:- rmh1958_2005@yahoo.co.uk for further details.
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Paul Simon [Remastered & Expanded]
by Paul SimonPaul Simon
CD(German Import)
If any musical justification were needed for the breakup of Simon & Garfunkel, it could be found on this striking collection, Paul Simon's post-split debut. From the opening cut, "Mother and Child Reunion" (a Top Ten hit), Simon, who had snuck several subtle musical explorations into the generally conservative S&G sound, broke free, heralding the rise of reggae with an exuberant track recorded in Jamaica for a song about death. From there, it was off to Paris for a track in South American style and a rambling story of a fisherman's son, "Duncan" (which made the singles chart). But most of the album had a low-key feel, with Simon on acoustic guitar backed by only a few trusted associates (among them Joe Osborn, Larry Knechtel, David Spinozza, Mike Manieri, Ron Carter, and Hal Blaine, along with such guests as Stefan Grossman, Airto Moreira, and Stephane Grappelli), singing a group of informal, intimate, funny, and closely observed songs (among them the lively Top 40 hit "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"). It was miles removed from the big, stately ballad style of Bridge Over Troubled Water and signaled that Simon was a versatile songwriter as well as an expressive singer with a much broader range of musical interests than he had previously demonstrated. You didn't miss Art Garfunkel on Paul Simon, not only because Simon didn't write Garfunkel-like showcases for himself, but because the songs he did write showed off his own, more varied musical strengths.
Mother and Child Reunion
Everything Put Together Falls Apart
Run That Body Down
Peace Like a River
Papa Hobo
Hobo's Blues
Paranoia Blues
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard [De
Paul Simon Primary Artist,Guitar,Percussion
Stefan Grossman Guitar
Ron Carter Bass
Stéphane Grappelli Violin
Fred Lipsius Horn
Jerry Hahn Electric Guitar
Incas Flute,Percussion,Charango
Airto Moreira Percussion
Hal Blaine Drums
Cissy Houston Vocals
Winston Grennan Drums
Neville Hinds Organ
Larry Knechtel Organ,Piano,Harmonium,Electric Piano
Victor Montanez Drums
John Schroer Horn
Von Eva Sims Vocals
David Spinozza Guitar
Deirdre Tuck Corley Vocals
Charlie McCoy Bass Harmonica
Renelie Stafford Vocals
Joe Osborn Bass
Wallace Wilson Rhythm Guitar
Huks Brown Guitar
Denzil Lang Percussion
Russel George Bass
Steven Turre Horn
Jackie Jackson Bass
Paul Simon Composer,Producer
Stéphane Grappelli Composer
Bernard Estardy Engineer
Ray Halee Engineer
Roy Halee Producer,Engineer,Remixing
Rudy Hill Engineer
Phil Ramone Engineer
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blue views remastered
carly simon by carly simon
music by wham!
soul shadows
Blue Views [Remastered]
After spending eight years working with Mike + the Mechanics, among other bands and side ...
After spending eight years working with Mike + the Mechanics, among other bands and side projects, Paul Carrack returned in 1996 with Blue Views. Because Carrack's side projects since the mid-'80s have all been variations on slick but soulful pop-rock, ...
That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, the leadoff track of Carly Simon's ...
That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, the leadoff track of Carly Simon's first album and a Top Ten hit, in which the singer expresses reservations about getting married, benefited from a sense of role reversal -- it's ...
Come Upstairs
After two albums playing jazz-pop in the style of Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All ...
After two albums playing jazz-pop in the style of Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years (and with the same musicians), Carly Simon acknowledged the new wave with Come Upstairs, turning out her version of a power pop album. ...
Produced by Simon and Roy Halee, who have worked together since the 1960s, the album ...
Produced by Simon and Roy Halee, who have worked together since the 1960s, the album features collaborations with a diverse array of artists who have joined Simon to lend fresh perspectives on 10 of the artist's favorite (though perhaps less-familiar) ...
Jewels in the Crown: All Star Duets with
...there are three newly recordeds, the prize featuring not Mary J. Blige or John Legend ...
...there are three newly recordeds, the prize featuring not Mary J. Blige or John Legend but Fantasia, whom the Queen indulges as the naive young thing she is... 1/2
Like many singer/songwriters of her lineage, Carly Simon has learned to stretch out her albums ...
Like many singer/songwriters of her lineage, Carly Simon has learned to stretch out her albums of new songs while still maintaining a steady release schedule. She put out eight such albums in the 1970s and another four in the '80s. ...
Flowers in the Dirt did earn good reviews but perhaps more important was its accompanying ...
Flowers in the Dirt did earn good reviews but perhaps more important was its accompanying tour, McCartney's first full-fledged world tour in years. Given the tour's enthusiastic reception, McCartney could wait until 1993 to deliver the album's proper sequel, Off ...
Over The Bridge Of Time: A Paul Simon
Released as a companion to Legacy's Complete Album Collection, Over the Bridge of Time: A ...
Released as a companion to Legacy's Complete Album Collection, Over the Bridge of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective (1964-2011) condenses a five-decade career into 20 tracks. That's hardly enough to contain all the hits, so the compilers have opted for ...
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Dolly Parton’s Stampede Returns for 33rd Season of Family Fun
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (Tuesday, January 14, 2020) – When Dolly Parton’s Stampede opens for its 33rd season on January 17, guests quickly will understand why a trip to this most-visited dinner attraction in the world is unlike any entertainment experience they’ve ever encountered. The Stampede features an exciting line-up of amazing equestrian acts, friendly competition and audience interaction, foot-stomping music, comedic fun, and unexpected, exciting twists and turns throughout the adventure.
“It has been such a privilege to bring families and friends together for more than three decades to create special memories through Dolly Parton’s Stampede and everything that it offers,” said David Swangel, Stampede’s General Manager. “Our talented cast and the dedicated staff treat every show as if each guest is experiencing Stampede for the first time. That’s why we look forward to every new season – we want guests to make memories they will hold onto for a lifetime.”
From the moment guests arrive, there are memories to be made around every corner. Guests can start by visiting the signature Horse Walk to snap a picture with a few of the show’s stars. Before the main attraction begins, the experience kicks off in the non-alcoholic Saloon with the Southern-style bluegrass and country music of Mountain Ruckus, Stampede’s house band. Guests will enjoy classics with a twist and hear the musical stylings of the only four-time national banjo champion, Gary “Biscuit” Davis.
As the main show begins, guests are introduced to the talented cast, who lead the show’s 32 magnificent horses through the performance. Thanks to a state-of-the-art LED set wall, guests are immersed into an experience set in America’s Great Plains of yesteryear, where live buffalo and thundering longhorns roam the 35,000 square-foot arena and settlers bring the Wild West to life. With singing, dancing, special effects and impressive displays of equestrian skill, guests truly feel like they are in the Wild West or nestled under the stars in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Dinner, the other star of the show, includes Stampede’s signature four-course feast consisting of creamy vegetable soup, a homemade buttery biscuit, a whole rotisserie chicken, hickory-smoked barbequed pork loin, buttery corn on the cob, herb-basted potato, Stampede’s own specialty dessert and unlimited beverages including Coca-Cola® products. Vegetarian and gluten-free meals are available upon request.
To end the Stampede experience, applause fills the arena as the talented riders and their horses come center-stage for a patriotic red, white and blue salute to America. And many guests will want to stick around after the show, to snap some pictures with the Stampede’s talented performers and their magnificent horses.
Show times and reservations are available by calling 865-453-4400 or visiting www.dpstampede.com.
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About World Choice Investments: Founded in 1988, World Choice Investments, LLC, doing business as Dolly Parton’s Stampede Dinner Attraction, Pirates Voyage Dinner & Show, Hatfield & McCoy Dinner Feud, Smoky Mountain Opry, The Comedy Barn Theater, and Frizzle Chicken Farmhouse Café, operates dinner show venues, theaters, and restaurants for family fun and adventure in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; Branson, Missouri; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Our dinner shows feature special effects, musical productions, live animals and a four-course family feast.
Ellen Liston: (865) 428-9629, (865) 919-7001 or ellenl@wciinvest.com
Leah Hicks: (865) 774-8139, (865) 898-6925 or leahh@wciinvest.com
By Trish McGee
dolly parton's stampede Pigeon Forge Stampede
Big New Show Called “Silver Bow”
Contact: Debbie Newsom, (865)-414-6887, pr consultant
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn., Nov. 5, 2019 – Silver bells, silver bells, it’s Christmas time in the city. “Silver Bow,” “Silver Bow,” there’s a big new show in the city! And ready, set. . . shoot! Archer, Tara Swift, has arrived in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., performing death-defying feats. She shoots her arrows and hits her targets in the all new “Silver Bow” variety show in Pigeon Forge. Incredibly, Swift can also proficiently launch her arrows and hit her targets while blindfolded, guided only by the sound of what? Ring-a-ling, hear them ring, (yes, you’ve guessed it), ringing little silver/ brass bells.
“This is a dangerous, thrilling show that will wow audiences of all ages,” said L. T. Britton, co-owner of the Silver Bow Theater. “We have the sharpest crossbow shooter in the Smoky Mountains. She is unbelievable! In addition, our show is filled with comedy, daring escapes, lively music, powerful singing and a five-piece band. We have a cast of some of the country’s top musicians and singers whose exceptional talents have captivated audiences on stages from Nashville to Branson, Missouri.
“From the music to the lighting to the costumes . . . This show is a must-see experience for the whole family,” Britton said. “We are so excited about this show. It’s amazing!” Music selections include titles from popular movies, power ballads, country, classic pop and Elvis songs.
Cross bow artist Swift comes to Pigeon Forge from Oregon. She has been shooting arrows since she was 5 years old, when she started practicing in her own backyard on hay bales. She previously performed in the “Illusionists” touring magic show in the United States, Australia and Canada.
Throughout the “Silver Bow” show, Swift consistently displays her skills with a bow. “It’s very rewarding when you go through all that practice and then it pays off and you actually get to perform,” said Swift. “This job is a dream come true. I practice every day honing my skills and I try to hit my targets perfectly every night.
“I went to college for science, but crossbows are a lot more fun than petri dishes,” she said. “I am loving every minute of it. It takes focus and concentration, especially shooting blindfolded. I like the adrenaline. I have to be very steady and confident. I have to have calm nerves. I can’t have caffeine before a show or I will shake.
“I love seeing the audience reaction, especially the little children,” Swift said. “The audience is just mesmerized; the kids are in awe and are gasping spectators. They can’t believe what they saw. It is so fun. I love it so much. It is a great adventure.”
During the act, Swift uses audience members and comedic actor, Guy Windsor, known by his stage name “Lucky,” as her assistants. Windsor is also used as a filler between acts. He previously worked at Universal Studios Hollywood, Walt Disney World and Dollywood. Swift shoots many different inanimate objects with the help of her participants.
The show also presents a tribute to Elvis by Elvis impersonator and lead male vocalist, Michael Chambliss, formerly of the Memories Theater cast. In addition to performing at Memories, Michael has headlined at Elvis events and festivals across the country, eventually winning the 2014 Images of the King Award World Champion award in the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest in Memphis, Tenn., during Elvis Week. He has performed at the Pierce Arrow Theater and at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo., at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and at Gaither Homecomings. He was also a lead singer with the Cumberland Boys gospel group.
Other cast members include lead female singer Kelsie Chandler, nominated as Georgia Country Artist of the Year; Regan Mae Farney, violinist from St. Louis, Mo., who astonishes audiences with a different kind of bow in the show; and Bailey Miles, singer. Miles literally grew up in the theater as her father was the drummer and the band leader in the previous show at the theater for the past 25 years. And rounding out the cast is veteran musical theater performer Jonathan Weathersby, who was recently featured in TLC and Investigation Discovery TV shows, but is locally known as the children’s pastor at New Hope Church and for his singing/acting roles in the former Miracle Theater show, “The Miracle.” The band of “Silver Bow” includes Matt Duffy, drummer; Connor Lafollette, pianist; Griffin Pruett, bass guitarist; and Kaleb Tussey-Wright, lead guitarist.
“Silver Bow” is produced by L. T. Britton and was conceived by owners L. T. Britton and Isaac and Elissa Larrison of Indiana. Marshall Whaley is the lighting director.
The “Silver Bow” show runs at 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The Silver Bow Christmas show will begin Friday, Nov. 29 and run through the end of the year. There will be occasional Sunday shows on holiday weekends at 8:00 pm. The theater is located at 2141 Parkway in Pigeon Forge. Tickets are on sale now for $34.95 each. Children 11 and under are free. Tickets can be purchased by calling (865) 366-1159, or online at http://silverbowshow.com, or from the theater’s box office. Group rates are available for groups of 15 or more. +++
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America’s Best Christmas Event Returns During Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (Monday, November 4, 2019) — Christmas comes early in the Smokies thanks to the festival voted the Best Theme Park Christmas Event in America for 12 consecutive years, Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas presented by Humana (Nov. 9, 2019-Jan. 4, 2020). During the festival, the park boasts an impressive count of more than five million brilliant lights, heartwarming Christmas entertainment, delicious holiday meals and the fun of Dollywood at Christmas.
Glacier Ridge presented by Goo Goo Cluster® opened last season, providing guests a completely new way to experience the Smokies at Christmas. Thanks to the opening of Wildwood Grove earlier this year, there is even more to explore in this dazzling area. Glacier Ridge offers a number of activities, displays and dining options to enjoy for guests while they wander through this immense winter wonderland, which includes the areas of the park known as Timber Canyon, Wildwood Grove, Wilderness Pass and the upper portion of Craftsman’s Valley.
“There’s nothing like Christmas in the Smokies,” Dolly Parton said. “I’ve been a lot of places and seen a lot of things, but the feeling of being home with the people I love at Christmas really is one of the most special things in the world to me. It’s my hope that the people who come experience my Dollywood at Christmas make those same sweet memories they’ll be able to share forever. I also hope we’re able to help them start some brand new Christmas traditions right here!”
Guests visiting Glacier Ridge may feel as if the Smokies have frozen over, and they’ve been transported to the arctic. The Plaza at Wilderness Pass transforms into a winter wonderland, complete with a 50 ft. tall animated tree which anchors the area. Every 30 minutes the Plaza sparkles to life, presenting a fully-synchronized, dazzling light show complete with holiday hits that leave guests singing along.
For those entering from Timber Canyon, the Arctic Passage, a 130-ft. long programmable light tunnel, transports them into Glacier Ridge in a stunning array of light and color. Once emerging from the tunnel, guests are greeted by polar bears who have made a home at Drop Line Bay. Those coming to Glacier Ridge through Craftsman’s Valley experience a one-of-a-kind light installation that mimics the natural phenomenon known as the aurora borealis. Guests can walk through Dollywood’s version of the Northern Lights, brought to life with music as only Dolly can do to help guests feel as if the aurora borealis has come south, even if for just a few weeks.
From the cheer and joy of Dollywood’s Parade of Many Colors, to traditional holiday shows like It’s a Wonderful Life and Christmas in the Smokies, Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas fosters family memory making for guests. For those who wander through the spectacular scenery, it is easy to understand why it has become a family tradition for so many. Guests can experience the fun enchantment of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and friends straight from the children’s holiday classic or sit down together for a fabulous Christmas feast at many of Dollywood’s award-winning dining locations. Most of Dollywood’s signature rides and attractions also operate in this merry environment, with rides racing along just above the millions of twinkling lights.
Amusement Today contributors and voters bestowed the Best Theme Park Christmas Event award on Dollywood in 2008 when the honor was first created. Dollywood is the 12-time—and only—winner of the award.
A season pass purchased during Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas provides unlimited admission to this year’s Christmas festival along with unlimited admission for Dollywood’s entire 2020 season. Guests should purchase their 2020 season pass online now or upgrade their paid one-day admission ticket on the day of their visit. Ticket purchasers receive credit for the value of a regular one-day ticket toward the purchase of a 2020 season pass. Dollywood celebrates its 35th anniversary season next year with the new Flower & Food Festival, the return of the Gazillion Bubbles Show, and a calendar full of fantastic festivals and entertainment.
For more information about Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas presented by Humana, please visitdollywood.com, call 1-800-DOLLYWOOD, or download the Dollywood App.
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About The Dollywood Company: A highly-awarded and widely-recognized leader in the amusement industry, The Dollywood Company consists of the 150-acre Dollywood theme park; the 35-acre Dollywood’s Splash Country; Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort and Spa; and Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Cabins. As unique as its namesake and owner Dolly Parton, Dollywood is the 2010 Applause Award winner, the theme park industry’s highest accolade; winner of more than 35 Golden Ticket Awards; and recipient of 26 Brass Ring Awards for Live Entertainment (more than any other theme park in the world). The park is located near Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and has been named a top three US theme park by USA Today on multiple occasions. Dollywood is open nine months a year (mid-March through early January) and offers rides and attractions, shows, and crafters authentic to the East Tennessee region. Dollywood’s Splash Country, recognized by the Travel Channel and TripAdvisor as one of the country’s most beautiful water parks and named 2009’s Must-See Waterpark by the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions, operates from mid-May to Labor Day. Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort and Spa, which received the 2017 Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, provides guests spectacular mountain views and family-friendly amenities next door to Dollywood theme park and Dollywood’s Splash Country. Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Cabins offers luxurious cabin accommodations overlooking Dollywood. For more information, call 1-800-Dollywood or visit dollywood.com. Operating days and hours vary.
Dollywood Media Contacts:
Pete Owens: Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations, (865) 428-9486, (865) 755-7972 or powens@dollywood.com
Wes Ramey: Senior Public Relations Manager, (865) 428-9484, (865) 640-3805 or wramey@dollywood.com
Ellen Liston: Senior Publicist, (865) 428-9629, (865) 919-7001 or eliston@dollywood.com
Amber Davis: New Media and Digital Publicist, (865) 428-9601, (865) 591-1002 or aldavis@dollywood.com
Jennifer Webb: Publicist, (865) 428-9660, (865) 323-7584 or jwebb@dollywood.com
For B-roll, photography and more information, visit the Dollywood Media Room at http://www.dollywood.com/Media/Media-Room
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Dollywood’s Flower & Food Festival Brings Vibrant Spring Fun to the Smokies in 2020
New five-week event highlights theme park’s 35th anniversary season
PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee (Monday, October 21, 2019)— Spring in the Great Smoky Mountains is about to get a little brighter thanks to Dollywood’s inaugural Flower & Food Festival, a vibrant new event that adds another touch of dazzling color to the natural beauty that already surrounds the award-winning theme park.
Coinciding with the park’s 35th anniversary, the first new festival experience at Dollywood since 2006 immerses park guests in the splendor of spring flowers through creative and aromatic displays as well as the freshest food flavors of the spring with delicious and mouth-watering Smoky Mountain cuisine selections. The five-week festival is slated for May 8-June 14.
Dollywood’s Dreamer-In-Chief Dolly Parton loved springtime in the Smoky Mountains as a child and continues to draw inspiration from the beauty of what she calls “God’s Coloring Book.” With nearly half-a-million plants and flowers throughout the park, it will be easy for guests to feel as if they are walking through those pages.
“When I was just a little girl, spring was a wondrous time,” Parton explained. “Everything came to life – flowers bloomed in the meadow near our house, and the Dogwood, red bud and fruit trees blossomed with the sweetest smells. I imagined having my own special field of flowers that were a fragrant home to my favorite animal friends in the woods. Now, my Dollywood becomes that special place with everything made of flowers – I can’t wait to share it with everyone just in time for our 35th season!”
Dollywood’s Flower & Food Festival brings Dolly’s dreams to life in an all-new way with floral displays that bloom in a kaleidoscope of colors. In partnership with internationally-acclaimed Mosaicultures flower sculpting team, a multitude of flowers come to life throughout Dollywood as Smoky Mountain turtles, raccoons, frogs, and black bears. Dolly’s rich influence through song comes alive in blooming topiary tributes to “I Will Always Love You” with a floral heart umbrella and to “Coat of Many Colors” with a brilliant butterfly and a marvelous scenic sculpture of her mother sewing the priceless garment. Just like Dolly, these topiaries are larger than life – measuring 10-15 feet tall – and each spring sculpture offers a variety of colors and flowers.
The festival takes its blooms and brilliance throughout Dollywood, starting with photo opportunities before guests step foot through the turnstiles. Once in the park, the Showstreet area of Dollywood becomes a colorful shower of flowers – literally! Guests quickly find themselves under an “Umbrella Sky” with hundreds of multi-colored umbrellas dancing above their heads. “This gives all new meaning to one of my favorite sayings – ‘If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain,’” Parton said. “With these umbrellas, it’s sure to be a sunshine kind of day no matter what!”
Flit and Flutter, the colorful characters from Wildwood Grove, venture throughout the park for special meet and greet experiences and photo opportunities during this new event. Special “Instagramable” photo locations and interactive activities allow families to capture special memories that will live on long after the festival flowers bloom.
The colorful splendor created by an artful array of flowers and plants is accented by the delicious dishes of spring’s freshest tastes for a mouth-watering festival of flavors. Dollywood’s team of culinary experts dug deep into the traditions of Southern and Smoky Mountain cuisine to plant tantalizing tastes sure to take root on the list of favorite foods for every festival visitor.
The fragrant smells of flowers and food are sure to become a guest favorite when this new festival is the main course for Dollywood visitors in spring 2020. Every member of the family should have their 2020 Dollywood season pass early, because it’s going to be an anniversary celebration no one will want to miss! For more information about Dollywood—the Golden Ticket winner for the Best Guest Experience of any theme park in the world—visit Dollywood.com, call 1-800-DOLLYWOOD or download the Dollywood App.
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Park Hosts National Bat Week Program for Junior Rangers
Contact: Florie Takaki, Florie_Takaki@nps.gov, 828-497-1905
Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host a Junior Ranger in honor of National Bat Week on Saturday, October 19, from 9:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center at the Oconaluftee Administration Building. Junior Ranger programs are designed for youth between the ages of 5 and 12, but all are welcome! This program is free and open to the public.
The park is home to 13 species of bats including the recently discovered gray bat, the federally endangered Indiana bat, and the federally threatened northern long-eared bat which was added to the list in February 2017 due to declines caused by White Nose Syndrome. Bats play a significant role in maintaining ecological balance as the primary predators of night-flying insects. Biologists estimate that an individual bat can eat between 3,000 to 6,000 insects each night including moths, beetles, and mosquitoes.
Youth between 8 and 12 years of age may sign up ahead of the program and participate in an additional activity, from 10:30 a.m. until noon, were they will have the opportunity to build their own bat box to take home. Supplies will be provided. The program is limited to 20 participants and spaces will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Directions for building a box at home will be provided.
National Bat Week runs from October 24 and October 31. For more information about bats please visit the park website at http://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/dff10-wns.htm.
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The Magic of the Holidays Comes Alive at “Christmas at the Smoky Mountain Opry”
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (Oct. 18, 2019) – Music and the magic of Christmas combine at the Smoky Mountain Opry this holiday season for a show that will provide hours of entertainment and create memories sure to last a lifetime. Debuting on November 1, Christmas at the Smoky Mountain Opry combines every special element of the holiday season that makes it the most wonderful time of the year.
Visitors to Christmas at the Smoky Mountain Opry experience holiday music from talented singers, dazzling dancing, seemingly magical special effects on lavish sets, comedy, and so much more through the talents of an incredible cast and band. The child in everyone will be caught up in wonder when life-size toys and sugarplum fairies come to life, and angels and aerialists soar high in the sky. Santa Claus brings his elves and enchanted reindeer together to create a world for the young and young at heart. Laughter and fun result from the holiday antics of Slim Chance, and the Christmas comedy includes reindeer games and juggling that “lights up” the stage and everyone’s heart. This multi-million dollar production features singers and dancers sharing music from traditional Christmas hymns to holiday favorites set in a winter wonderland complete with falling snow throughout the theater! A celebration of the true meaning of the season – the birth of Christ – is told through inspiring music and a live nativity.
“The holidays are everyone’s favorite time of the year,” said Michael Headla, Smoky Mountain Opry General Manager, “and we combine the traditions and special experiences that are only found at Christmastime with the excitement of high-energy singing and dancing, lighting and special visual effects, lavish costumes and a talented cast of musicians. We can’t wait for our visitors to the Opry to experience this special show and create memories they will cherish as favorite memories for years to come.”
With the variety of yuletide stories and songs, it is no surprise why Christmas at the Smoky Mountain Opry will create an experience that will keep the holidays alive in every heart all year long. Show times and reservations are available by calling 865-428-7469 or visiting www.smokymtnopry.com.
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Inaugural Holiday Show Premieres Nov. 1 at Pirates Voyage Dinner & Show in Pigeon Forge
Pigeon Forge, Tenn. (Oct. 16, 2019) – After a highly successful opening season, Pirates Voyage Dinner & Show in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. prepares to sail into the holidays with a new Christmas show that offers a spectacular swashbuckling spin on “A Christmas Carol” with Captain Scrooge and his cavalier crew.
The premiere of this holiday show promises to be a Christmas adventure unlike anything else experienced in the Smokies this yuletide season. Opening on Friday, Nov. 1 and continuing through January 4, 2020, Pirates Voyage combines a classic Christmas tale with a bountiful feast that will join together a pirate’s “Yo Ho” with the season’s “Ho Ho Ho.”
“We invite swashbucklers of all ages to start a new Christmas tradition for the holidays like no one else can offer,” said Jeff Thomas, General Manager of Pirates Voyage. “Where else can families come together and create memories that will last long after the holidays are gone—with pirates, acrobatics, a special delicious meal, a classic holiday story with its own special pirate twist and angels helping bring about the true meaning of Christmas in our Nativity. As we like to say, it’s a Holly Jolly Roger Christmas event!”
During Christmas at Pirates Voyage, high tide meets the yuletide in this new show that offers a variety of holiday fun and entertainment that will make for lasting holiday memories for everyone who attends. The Mystical Christmas Spirit takes the captain through time and space to find the true meaning of Christmas, including a “dream” where giant toys come to life and perform amazing acrobatics high above the indoor lagoon. Other adventures during this holiday experience at Pirates Voyage include a live Nativity, an angel with a special message and a comical Christmas castaway and her sea lion companion. Holiday guests also will be thrilled by an epic battle between the crimson and emerald pirates as they compete for the coveted Christmas treasure on land, on deck, in water and high above two pirate ships.
The adventure actually begins in the Pirates Village, where younger swashbucklers as well as parents and grandparents can “Join the Christmas Crew” and be transformed into mermaids and pirates before the main show begins. The four-course holiday feast straight from Captain Blackbeard’s yuletide galley makes Pirates Voyage the most unique place to eat in the Smokies. The meal begins with Voyager creamy vegetable soup and a homemade buccaneer biscuit. The feast fit for a pirate continues with cracklin’ pan-fried chicken, sugar cured ham, matey’s mac ‘n’ cheese, and Jolly Roger sweet potato souffle. Walk the plank peach turnover and unlimited Coca-Cola® products, tea or coffee complete the meal. Vegetarian and gluten-free meals are available by request.
Show times and reservations are available by calling (865) 505-2469 or by visiting www.piratesvoyage.com.
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WonderWorks Debuts Wonder of Magic Halloween Spooktacular Show
CONTACT: Cher Murphy
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PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee – (October 1, 2019) – WonderWorks is known for entertaining the whole family all year long, but they are setting out to give people a spooky treat this fall. Their ongoing family friendly magic show will be transformed for the season, becoming the “Wonders of Magic Halloween Spooktacular.” The show will run from September 30, 2019 through November 2, 2019, with tickets being $18.99, plus tax, for all ages. The show is unique to the Pigeon Forge area, making it a special experience for all.
“We are really excited that Terry and the cast will be presenting a Halloween themed show for the first time. The show will be a little spooky but, as always, completely family friendly and tons of fun,” explains Ed Shaffer, general manager for WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge. “With the addition of the Halloween show to our lineup, fans of the Wonders of Magic will now have a chance to see three different shows throughout the year!”
The Wonders of Magic Show features Terry Evanswood, who has been awarded for putting on the Best Magic Shows in Pigeon Forge, and is the longest running headline performer in town. His shows are consistently sold out, and leave audiences in awe at the amazing magic that he is able to perform. The Halloween Spooktacular will offer guests a spooky good time, as it includes special costumes and props that have not been used in other shows. There will also be an array of spooky elements, including fog, haunting sounds, flashing lights, and plenty of eye-bending fun.
Being the only show of its kind in the area, the show times are expected to sell out quickly. Those looking for a family friendly way to get into the Halloween spirit will want to get their seats reserved early. Crowds can expect to be dazzled, amazed, and left in wonder at how Terry is able to pull off the spooky magic. This show is family friendly, with all ages welcome.
“This is going to be the event you don’t want to miss this year,” added Shaffer. “You will laugh, you will get a little spooked, and you will leave having created a great family memory.”
The Wonders of Magic Halloween Spooktacular show times will be 5:30 pm on September 30, 2019, 5:30 pm on Monday’s and Wednesday’s through October 2019, 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm on Friday’s and Saturday’s in October 2019, and select other dates. To see the full schedule and reserve show tickets, visit the site: https://www.wonderworksonline.com/pigeon-forge/the-experience/the-wonders-of-magic/.
WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge offers 35,000 square feet of “edu-tainment” opportunities, billing itself as an amusement park for the mind. They offer over 100 hands-on exhibits covering natural disasters, space discovery, an imagination lab, a physical challenge zone, a far out art gallery, and a light and sound zone. WonderWorks is open daily from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. For more information, log onto their site: https://www.wonderworksonline.com/pigeon-forge/.
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WonderWorks, a science focused indoor amusement park, combines education and entertainment. With over 100 hands-on exhibits – there is something unique and challenging for all ages. Feel the power of 71mph hurricane–force winds in the Hurricane Shack. Make huge, life–sized bubbles in the Bubble Lab. Get the NASA treatment in our Astronaut Training Gyro and experience zero gravity. Nail it by lying on the death–defying Bed of Nails. Conquer your fear of heights on our indoor Glow-In-The-Dark Ropes Course. WonderWorks is also home to Wonders of Magic, starring Terry Evanswood, the award-winning and longest running performer in Pigeon Forge. WonderWorks hosts birthday parties and special events seasonally. Open daily from 9 a.m. until midnight. https://www.wonderworksonline.com/pigeon-forge.
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Park Volunteer Receives Regional Recognition
Contact: Jamie Sanders, Jamie_Sanders@nps.gov, 865-436-1203
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is pleased to announce that dedicated Park Volunteer, Jim Goddard, has won the National Park Service Southeast Regional Hartzog Award for Enduring Service. Mr. Goddard will be presented the Award in appreciation of his significant skills, talent, and time which he has shared with the park for well over two decades.
“We are so very pleased to announce Mr. Goddard as this year’s recipient of the prestigious regional Hartzog Award for Enduring Service,” said Superintendent Cassius Cash. “Jim has provided a tremendous service to the visitors of the Smokies. He has been instrumental in ensuring that visitors are able to safely navigate the park trail system and in the preservation of the park’s cultural history. His legacy will live on for generations to come and it is an honor to recognize him for his contributions.”
Jim has served continuously as a Volunteer-In-Park for more than 23 years. His creation of iconic wooden signage allows hikers of all skill levels to safely explore the 850 miles of backcountry trails in the Smokies. He has created signs, performed trail maintenance, and helped restore and preserve fragile cultural resources. Jim’s craftsmanship has been applied to one-of-a-kind replicas of church benches, school desks, and tub mills. He creates custom shelving, educational tools, mile-marker posts, wayside exhibit carts, and display cases which can be enjoyed at park visitor centers and overlooks. Jim also personalizes wooden arrowheads to present to National Park Service employees as they transfer to other parks or leave the service for retirement.
In addition to Jim’s hands-on contributions, he offers services to the park community and to visitors in helping to plan, coordinate, and facilitate popular special events. Due to his stewardship, Jim was selected to serve as one of the official Ambassadors for the 75th Anniversary of GRSM. He assumed that role again in 2016 as part of the National Park Service Centennial celebrations.
This year, the park is pleased to also recognize three additional Volunteers-In-Park for their outstanding service contributions. They are Campground Hosts Clyde and Deborah Whitaker and Herbarium Assistant Janie Bitner.
Each year, Volunteers-In-Park perform a variety of activities at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. These include: providing valuable visitor information, removing litter, eradicating invasive plant species, assisting with cultural demonstrations, participating in special events, providing practical support for visitors along roads and trails, assisting with data collection, maintaining backcountry campsites, helping biologists monitor wildlife populations and serving in the role of campground hosts. The park has well over 2,800 Volunteers who provide many hours of service to the national park every year. To learn more about Great Smoky Mountains National Park Volunteer-In-Park Program visit http://www.nps.gov/grsm/getinvolved/volunteer.htm.
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Dollywood’s Harvest Festival, Great Pumpkin Luminights Return for Fantastic Fall Family Fun
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (Tuesday, September 24, 2019) — Family-friendly fall fun is back at Dollywood’s Harvest Festival presented by Humana, thanks to the return of Great Pumpkin LumiNights. Now in its third season, Great Pumpkin LumiNights expands again this year by growing the glow to Wildwood Grove.
An overwhelming guest-favorite since it was introduced in 2017, Great Pumpkin LumiNights recently was named the country’s Best Theme Park Halloween Event in the 2019 USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice travel awards. This year, Great Pumpkin LumiNights includes an expanded footprint into Wildwood Grove, new harvest-themed experiences, food and merchandise; as well as activities that are enjoyable for even the youngest guests.
Dollywood’s Harvest Festival runs Sept. 27- Nov. 2 (closed Tuesday, Oct. 22 & Tuesday, Oct. 29) with park operating hours each day from 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., providing guests more time to enjoy harvest time in the Smokies. Popular pumpkin displays from past events return—like the pumpkin spider, pumpkin dance party and Dolly-inspired displays— while Wildwood Grove joins the fun for the first time with a harvest experience at The Wildwood Tree.
The Plaza at Wilderness Pass again serves as a centerpiece for the event with an area for character interaction, additional displays—and the focal point—a 40 ft. tall pumpkin tree featuring larger-than-life carved pumpkins. Families bask in the glow of thousands of intricately-carved pumpkins as they wander through displays in Dollywood’s Timber Canyon, Wilderness Pass, Wildwood Grove and upper Craftsman’s Valley areas. Beyond the impressive displays, guests can find a number of exciting activities to create thrilling memories together.
“I’m so glad to hear families are just lovin’ Great Pumpkin LumiNights,” Dolly Parton said. “When I was a kid, we’d love to get pumpkins, scoop out all those guts from the inside and carve these beautiful masterpieces—at least us kids thought they were masterpieces! But, it makes me just feel good to know families are able to spend time together exploring during what really is the most beautiful time of year in the Smokies.”
While Great Pumpkin LumiNights lights up Dollywood each evening, the biggest names in Southern gospel music lift their voices each day as part of the Southern Gospel Jubilee. Guests can experience more than 600 individual Southern gospel performances on stages throughout the park during the run of the festival. It’s the largest Southern gospel event in America, fitting for the music icon who got her start singing in churches around the Smokies.
“God truly does turn the Smokies into His own personal coloring book during the fall,” Parton added. “And nothing fits so well with those colorful fall mountains than the uplifting Southern gospel songs that fill the air with powerful praise for Him. I’m proud we’re able to have some of the best Southern gospel singers here during the Harvest Festival.”
Headlining acts include The Martins (Sept. 27-28), The McKameys (Oct. 4-5), Ernie Haase and Signature Sound (Oct. 12-13), The Isaacs (Oct. 18-19), Karen Peck and New River (Oct. 20-21), Gold City (Oct. 27-28) and many more. A complete schedule of artists, show times and stage locations is available at Dollywood.com.
Dollywood celebrates Smoky Mountain crafts all year with the park’s well-known master craftsmen. During the Harvest Festival, however, more than two dozen visiting artisans from across the country provide in-depth demonstrations including woodworking, chainsaw carvings, fiddle-making and more. Guests can find inspirational jewelry, historic handmade games, pottery, hand-painted Christmas ornaments, and even Windsor chairs available for purchase.
Autumn in the Smokies also provides a bountiful harvest of crops that allows Dollywood’s culinary team an opportunity to showcase their skills with a menu full of fall favorites. Guests can find traditional items like cabbage rolls, pierogies, sausage sandwiches, skillet potatoes, apple cider and fried apple pies. A number of new tasty treats also are on the menu, including chicken Applewood pasta, Reuben wontons, candy corn cider and chocolate chip cookie pizza.
For more information about Dollywood’s Harvest Festival featuring Southern Gospel Jubilee and Great Pumpkin LumiNights, please visit dollywood.com, call 1-800-DOLLYWOOD, or download the Dollywood App.
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Some thoughts concerning a general theory of business 6: the two conceptual approaches 5
Posted in blogs and marketing, reexamining the fundamentals by Timothy Platt on May 22, 2016
This is my sixth installment to a series on general theories of business, and on what general theory means as a matter of underlying principle and in this specific context (see Reexamining the Fundamentals directory, Section VI: Some Thoughts Concerning a General Theory of Business, for Parts 1-5.)
I have been systematically discussing general theories in this series, in terms of two basic organizational and conceptual approaches:
• Compendium models: models that seek to describe and causally explain as much as possible, even if an overall single unifying theory is not available to tie all of this together (at least yet), and
• Minimalist general rules models: models that seek to comprehensively predictively describe and causally explain such a universe of phenomena through application of a minimal set of general principles, rules or laws.
And I have at least briefly been discussing how a more loosely organized body of observation and special-case theory, as collectively organized according to a compendium model approach, can be brought together and unified into a single overarching minimalist general rules model.
I have also been discussing in that context, how certain basic constraints can mitigate against that type of knowledge organizing and unifying transition, beginning with discussion of:
1. Focus and usability (see Part 3) and
2. Acceptable levels of explanatory and empirically validatable accuracy, and for both what can be accurately measured, and for what degree of accuracy is in fact required (see Part 4.)
Both of those issues, as discussed here, can be seen as reflecting adherence to at least some form of Occam’s Razor, where a minimally complex theory or explanation that can account for all evidence available, is always considered as preferable for its greater simplicity and practicality where that is meaningfully possible. But not all attempts of this sort might meet the “meaningfully” significant and value creating side of that, and even if they are in principle, possible.
And as discussed there in Parts 3 and 4 and in Part 5, both of these sets of considerations also at least tacitly assume that empirical data and evidence that would be organized and explained in a body of theory, are consistent and replicable – that the basic underlying reality that would have to be accounted for does not fundamentally change, and either universally over time, or locally and by context or place. The basic building blocks remain constant.
I began challenging that assumption in Part 5 where I started an analysis and discussion of a third such basic constraint, limiting the evolution of compendium model theory into a minimalist general rules form, with consideration of:
3. Consistency and change in the basic empirically grounding foundations to a body of explanatory theory.
And I offered as a working example, the emergence of the internet and how that has compelled a reformulation of what constitutes distance, and particularly in a cyberspace context. I stated at the end of Part 5 that I would follow it here by picking up on a perhaps unexpected consequence of change as encompassed in this third possible constraint. I will do that here but before doing so I want to more explicitly explain how the working example of Part 5 actually does represent a fundamental change in the empirical reality that a theory of business would have to encompass.
I wrote earlier in this series of how Newtonian, or classical physics can be seen as an approximation model in a special theory of relativity context, and how that in turn can be seen as an approximation model simplification when considered in a general theory of relativity context (see Part 4.) Newtonian physics and its descriptive model of motion and position and special relativity theory, to focus here on two of these bodies of theory, define observable distance as concepts and as measurable qualities very differently. But I explicitly stated that my discussion of these bodies of theory-based description, prediction and explanation can and do all apply in a context in which underlying empirically observable reality remains constant and throughout space and time. I then, in Part 5 took what at first glance might seem to represent a closely parallel situation, where the concept of distance has to be changed when cyberspace has to be considered. But I argued there, that in this case underlying reality has changed – not just what can be and is observed of a more fixed reality.
• Why do I make this distinction when discussing these two sets of explanatory theory? And how can and would I justify that?
I would argue that the speed of light was constant independently of the observer’s frame of reference all along, and whether an observer could identify and observe phenomena where objects would appear to travel at speeds approaching it – where special theory of relativity and Newtonian distance and motion predictions begin to significantly diverge. So reality and its basic building blocks remain the same regardless of what theory is followed, and even regardless of what ranges of experience are even experientially observable and testable. But in my second example from Part 5, cyberspace did not exist in any meaningful sense until the necessary technology that made this possible was created and brought into use. So its introduction and development created new fundamental reality that anything like a general theory of business would have to account for.
Given that as if an axiomatically accepted assumption, it is easy to justify this change in what constitutes distance in an online information flow context, as specifically representing a theory of business example of the third numbered principle as listed above:
• Business processes might govern and determine the creation, processing, storage, distribution and so on of things: physical objects and sets and systems of them. And they might, alternatively determine activities that people carry out and that impact upon both people and the physical resources that they interact with. Ultimately essentially all business processes in fact manage these types of activities – and even if indirectly, acting entirely on information that in turn fits into and supports the functioning of other processes that act in the physical world.
• But ultimately, every business process per se is an information process, so the (here presumed) de novo emergence of cyberspace and its distance and other information processing and transmission parameters is, of necessity a business process-reshaping and even redefining event and one that arises from the creation of new in the underlying reality that has to be accounted for.
And with that, I turn to question this here-presumed axiomatic assumption. And I do so by raising a fundamental question:
• Is it meaningfully valid to state that anything can truly be invented, de novo and without having had any form of prior existence? Or do we merely discover what has up to then simply never been known?
Any answer to that question would determine whether my third numbered constraint as listed above, can even hold meaning.
There are a number of approaches that I could take in addressing this invention versus discover question, and I begin doing so by turning to the beginnings of Western philosophy and the writings of Plato. Modern scientific theory holds that basic underlying principles: the basic laws of nature remain inviolate and everywhere and throughout all time – at least where the principles of space and time can and do exist as we can understand them, and where we can at least in principle observe and measure them. Plato took that presumption of ongoing constancy of existence one big step further. He believed and argued a case for the fundamental eternal existence of all realized forms, as outcomes of the application of those inviolate principles. According to Plato, nothing could be truly fundamentally invented as having never existed before, and only discovery was possible.
He presented his main line of argument for this position in his analogy of the cave, arguing that the essence of reality took the form of ideal forms, and that when we observe and interact with objects in the real world, we are in fact interacting with and observing what amount to shadow replicas of those ideal forms. These forms: Platonic ideals are real and eternal and exist whether or not they are ever observed or known of or even just simply imagined.
• Plato would have argued, if he could have been made aware of it, that cyberspace and all of the supporting technology that enables it fits into his theory of forms too,
• And that all of that existed in his cave in his lifetime as an assortment of eternal ideal forms, even if no one in his lifetime could have possibly become aware of any of it.
And that is where this line of discussion connects into this series-long narrative.
• If everything preexists any human awareness or behavior in some inviolate and immutable form, including every possible relevant observable phenomena as would be encompassed in a general theory of business, then all of that could in principle be encapsulated in a single overarching minimalist general rules model, and
• Even if it might not be possible to actually discern let alone validate all here-relevant phenomena because there might always be essential unrealized “Platonic forms” out there that would have to be accounted for but that are not – even as they already exist.
• I am leading this discussion in the direction of arguing that ultimately, a true general theory of business might have essentially universally applicable, and even universally essential and fundamental features of a type that would fit cleanly into a minimalist general rules model, but it might never be possible to know of all of the (Platonic ideal) forms that would be necessary to fully arrive at them and functionally include them.
• So any such theory as a practical and usable tool, would also of necessity have compendium model domains in it too, and certainly as long as creativity and invention are allowed for and the genuinely new and the disruptively inventive (or at least the appearance of them) would have to be included and accommodated.
I am going to continue this discussion in a next series installment where I will consider the issues of completeness and consistency, and of functional relevance and necessity. In anticipation of that, and to cite one working example of what I will be discussing:
• Consider a disruptively innovative newly invented technical capability such as the internet, that holds potential to fundamentally change businesses and their marketplaces, and how they function.
• And let’s assume that introducing that novel new capability would demand a fundamental rethinking and reframing of some relevant area of business principle and practice, and a reframing of the underlying business theory that would be used to evaluate and understand it, and wherever it can effectively be brought to bear.
• If this new capability arises over a period of time, and only begins to enter into some business sectors and industries and some markets at first, how can you best discuss and analyze the transition where this New is emerging and taking hold?
• What would this mean in terms of an overall theory of business, where new underlying realities and new theory-based understandings of them and their consequences have to be phased in?
• And if this disruptive innovation never can effectively enter into some forms of business transaction and practice, leaving them best described by a now-prior business theory model, how should a genuinely overall theory of business be expanded to account for contexts where the newer theoretical approach would and would not hold greater meaning and value?
Meanwhile, you can find this and related material about what I am attempting to do here at About this Blog and at Blogs and Marketing. And I include this series in my Reexamining the Fundamentals directory, as topics section VI there where I offer related material regarding theory-based systems.
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PathfinderWiki featured articles, Articles in need of citations, Major deities,
Chaotic evil deities
Chaos domain deities
Madness domain deities
Strength domain deities
Titles The Demon Queen
Demon Mother
Alignment Chaotic evil
Portfolio Madness
Worshipers Gnolls, medusae, harpies, goblins, some minotaurs, hidden human cults
Domains Chaos, Evil, Madness, Strength, Trickery
Favored Weapon Falchion
Lamashtu (pronounced lah-MAHSH-too)[1] is the mother and patroness of many misshapen and malformed creatures that crawl, slither, or flap on, above, or below the surface of Golarion.[2][3]
Lamashtu was once a mighty demon lord. In ages past she was allied with Pazuzu, though the exact nature of their alliance is often disputed by scholars of demon lore. Some say they were lovers, others say siblings, or simply convenient allies. What is known for certain is that she lured the god Curchanus into her territory and beset him with swarms of demons and other monsters until he was weak enough for her to attack him. By defeating him, she ripped his godly domain over beasts from him, beginning an ancient vendetta with Curchanus's protege Desna. This imbued the demoness with a small amount of his divine power.[4]
Pazuzu was enraged by this shift in power and as she returned from that battle he betrayed and attacked her. He wounded her terribly, but her newfound divinity allowed her to survive. They have been mortal enemies since. Lamashtu's vendetta against him is only equaled by Desna's own vendetta against her.[4]
It is claimed by many monstrous humanoid races that she was their first progenitor and creator.[4]
Lamashtu, in a stance befitting her demonic origins, considers all other gods enemies. She is aware of Desna's hatred of her, but treats it as beneath her notice. Despite this widespread animosity, she focuses her attentions on growing her cults and expanding their reach, as well as the birthing of new and hideous monstrosities. She has an odd view of Shelyn, whom Lamashtu would love to capture and twist into her own monstrous vision of beauty. Needless to say, the faithful of Shelyn find this an abhorrent and terrifying concept.[5]
Lamashtu is not actively at war with other demon lords, with the sole exception of Pazuzu. She does have rivalries with some and is said to have others as her lovers (such as Baphomet).[5]
Appearance and Emmisaries Edit
Pictures of Lamashtu portray her as a jackal-headed woman with a third vertical eye in the center of her forehead, heavily pregnant, with feathered wings, a snake's tail, and taloned feet. She is often depicted carrying her two deadly blades, Redlust and Chillheart. Her head may vary depending on the nature of her worshipers, gnolls preferring the jackal head, medusae a snake's, harpies a hawk's, and so on.[citation needed]
Yaenit
Lamashtu and her deranged faithful hold creatures of deformity, monstrosity, and virility in high regard. Thaumaturges and clerics in her service often call shemhazian demons and other Abyssal creatures into their service.[6]
Bloodmaw
This hideous yet powerful and cunning yeth hound has one green eye and one red. He relishes the promise of carnage and a good hunt.[6]
These slavering, monstrous hyena-demons resemble corrupted hound archons with gangly limbs and deformed hyena's heads; they love maiming and killing in Lamashtu's name.[6]
The Yethazmari
Appearing as an enormous jackal, standing 14 foot tall at the shoulder, with smoking eye sockets, black leathery wings and a snake for a tail, the herald of Lamashtu brings terror and bloodshed. In its wake, spawn of horrific and brutal trysts rise up to cause madness anew.[6]
Church of Lamashtu Edit
Lamashtu's church is scattered and lacks an overall hierarchy, yet it is rare for two priests to come into direct conflict, as they recognize each other's shared devotion and the hostility visited by those outside the religion. Many thaumaturges pay obeisances to Lamashtu as she is a demon lord as well as a goddess.[7]
Her followers seek out deformity in themselves and in others. She is typically worshiped by races such as gnolls (who claim they were created when Lamashtu took a hyena as her consort), goblins, and medusae.[8]
The usual clothing of her human followers is that of a jackal mask (of leather or metal), a pair of swords or knives made to resemble Lamashtu's personal weapons, and a cloak of black feathers. Monstrous races wear much the same but typically forgo the mask.[8]
Lamashtu's favor manifests as violent dreams, the appearance of sudden deformities, or unexplained pregnancies that often result in the painful (and sometimes fatal) birth of a deformed child. Worshipers who displease her may give birth to a "perfect" child, such as a human or halfling. They may also find themselves infertile or unable to achieve sexual satisfaction.[8]
Lamashtu is not usually worshiped in a man-made building, but rather a ring of stones, pillars, trees, wooden blocks, a pit in the ground, or a flat rock. Entrances into underground places of worship represent the entrance to the goddess' underworld domain. They typically are found on the outskirts of civilization or in the true wilderness; many are stained with blood and littered with the remains of failed births and the victims of the successful ones.[9]
Lamashtu's cults rarely place much interest or emphasis on texts, preferring to rely on divine revelation and madness. Nonetheless, the more coherent of her followers have jotted down some horrendous writings over the eons.
The Skull of Mashaag
The yellowed skull of a yaenit who died in the service of Lamashtu, this object has the ability to speak the goddess' will in several languages. Every few years, her worshipers meet to hear its teachings, and heroes from each tribe undergo a series of contests to determine which group is to keep it next.[6]
The Four Hides of Lawm
This is a collection of three leather straps, each made from the skin of a humanoid. The fourth was lost long ago and is said to contain monstrous rites of power and fertility in Lamashtu's name.[6]
The cults of Lamashtu celebrate no known regular holidays, though births, deformities, and demonic visitations are often the cause of hedonistic and debauched celebrations among the them.[citation needed]
↑ Sean K Reynolds. (2008). Gods and Magic, p. 24. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-139-8
↑ Sean K Reynolds. (2008). Lamashtu. Sins of the Saviors, p. 66. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-040-7
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sean K Reynolds. (2008). Lamashtu. Sins of the Saviors, p. 69. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-040-7
↑ 5.0 5.1 Stephen S. Greer. (2008). Sins of the Saviors. Sins of the Saviors, p. 69-70. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-040-7
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Sean K Reynolds. (2008). Lamashtu. Sins of the Saviors, p. 73. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-040-7
↑ Stephen S. Greer. (2008). Sins of the Saviors. Sins of the Saviors, p. 67-69. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-040-7
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Erik Mona et al. (2008). Campaign Setting, p. 165. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-112-1
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The Truth About Reincarnation: How to Remember Past Lives
September 22, 2015 by Jackie Allen Leave a Comment
“We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.” — H. H. Dalai Lama, from ‘The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom”
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Over 3,000 years ago in the ancient cultures of the Orient, Greece, and India, the belief system was that the soul lives again and again in human (or even animal) form. Reincarnation or the idea of transmigration (from one physical body to another) of souls is deeply embedded in many religions and belief systems across cultures. These diverse beliefs may even teach how to remember past lives.
In a general understanding of reincarnation, it becomes closely linked to the Law of Karma, which means that rebirth is all about soul evolution. Many religions profess a variety of beliefs about the true purpose of reincarnation.
In most cases, reincarnation is viewed as a means by which the soul develops. In each incarnation, the soul struggles with negatives to obtain a higher state of being and ultimately become an "old soul". The theory is that the soul survives the body and is reborn in another body, which evolves and grows through the Spiritual Laws of Action and Reaction, or cause and effect.
Recent polls (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life) have shown that this is a growing belief system in the West. Over 75 million (around 25% of Americans), regardless of religion, believe in reincarnation. Other surveys have reported that one in ten Americans can either recall a past life or have a strong belief that they have lived before. Millions more embrace worldwide belief systems including Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, as well as Western adaptations or New Age religions that all describe reincarnation as a part of their spiritual beliefs.
Remembering Past Lives
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There have been some very compelling cases of children under the age of 6 who have vivid past life memories. Shanti Devi was an Indian girl born in 1926. Her claims to have lived before were investigated and supported by Mahatma Gandhi, Edgar Cayce and a variety of others through the years.
A more recent case is recounted in the book "Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot" written by Bruce and Andrea Leininger in 2010. Bruce and Andrea's son had verifiable memories of another life. His memories included his name and the names of his fellow pilots in a previous life.
Human memory can be tricky. That's why the cases of children are often discounted. Research is continuing to uncover some amazing cases.
There have also been some dramatic cases of adults recalling past lives. In the 1950's, Virginia Mae Morrow had hypnosis-induced recollections that she had lived in 1864 Ireland as a woman named Bridey Murphy.
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“The Body of B. Franklin Printer, Like the Cover of an Old Book, Its Contents Torn Out And Stripped of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies Here Food for Worms, But the Work shall not be Lost, For it Will as He Believed Appear Once More In a New and more Elegant Edition Revised and Corrected By the Author” — Benjamin Franklin epitaph written when he was 22 years old and not used on his tombstone.
Why Remember Past Lives?
Some people claim that the past is over and done. So does it matter if we know anything about our past lives? Why do some people remember consciously and others don't?
Going back to a previous life can be helpful to explain fears and trauma that seem to appear from nowhere.
Keep in mind that we each have many lifetimes that result in hundreds of years of experiences. It would be impossible and unnecessary to carry around all those memories from multiple life experiences.
Overall, when someone remembers a past life, there is a reason for the memories. For instance, famous healer Edgar Cayce was able to diagnose health conditions that were the result of unresolved issues carried over from previous incarnations.
If you believe in reincarnation, getting in touch with a past life may suggest a possible unraveling of the intricate and complex soul geometry. This "unraveling" has the possibility of helping you to resolve issues and understand problems in your current incarnation.
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once;
everything in nature is resurrection.” — Voltaire
There are currently techniques similar to Cayce's which can be used to take people back to re-experience or remember their past lives.
There are many methods for remembering or discovering one's past lives.
1. Nightmares, Dreams, and Déjà Vu
Almost everyone has experienced startling moments of the déjà vu phenomenon. Out of nowhere, we are surprised by the sudden feeling that we have been in a certain place or lived through an event that would be impossible for us to have been through. Déjà vu can happen when you visit someplace where you have never been before. These feelings can even trigger past life memories.
Dreams and nightmares that reoccur may offer clues to past lives. Several famous cases of past life memories were opened up in hypnotherapy. This points to the idea that some past life memories may be housed in the unconscious mind. Dreams and nightmares are the output of the subliminal or unconscious mind.
It may well be that nightmares are reflections of long-ago traumas from other lives, still unresolved, which continue to haunt us.
Those memories that come to us in our waking and sleeping dreams are the most common types of past life memories. However, they are often out of context and impossible to understand.
2. Hypnosis/PLR
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Hypnosis, rebirthing, and Past Life Regression (PLR) are ways to tap the unconscious mind to reveal a previous life. Hypnotherapy was involved in some early recorded cases of past life memories. Cases like Virginia Mae Morrow (Bridey Murphy) came to light when the subjects spontaneously begin to reveal past lives while under hypnosis.
More recently, guided regressions have resulted in the discovery of memories that don't match anything in the participants' current life. Past life regressions often uncover memories of another life. These memories may even reveal that you lived in a different century, culture, spoke a different language, had a different sexual identity and personality.
3. Self-Journey/Coming Home to Yourself/Intuitive Sessions
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There are also other ways to tap into your unconscious mind. One method (self journey) depends on meditation. Meditation can be guided by a facilitator or done as an individual.
An intuitive reading may also reveal details of previous incarnations. When a spiritual person or a psychic gives you past life information, it often helps you understand what is going on in the present. Psychic Elements has a number of readers that specialize in reincarnation or past life readings.
Past life meditations are often healing as well as revealing. Those memories that we seek out or that are gifted to us may help and guide us in unexpected ways.
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Fear and loathing about renewable grid in Coober Pedy
The town of Coober Pedy is in uproar. What should have been a positive plan to shift to a renewable-focused mini-grid based around wind and solar and storage is causing outrage in the community, and embarrassment to the developer, and the federal agency that backed it.
Giles Parkinson Posted on 24 March 2017 24 March 2017 214 Comments
There is uproar in Coober Pedy, the iconic mining town deep in the South Australian desert that is known as the Opal Capital of the world.
What should have been a positive story about a project to shift the town from diesel to a renewable-focused mini-grid based around wind and solar and storage is causing outrage among consumers and councillors, and embarrassment to the developer and the federal agency that backed it.
Last year, as we reported at the time, the final plan for the Coober Pedy Renewable Diesel Hybrid project was unveiled, featuring 4MW of wind, 1MW of solar and a 1MW/250kWh battery to provide up to 70 per cent of the power needs of Coober Pedy.
The idea was that it would dramatically reduce the amount of diesel consumed from the existing 3.9MW diesel power station, reduce costs, and provide a possible blueprint for the rest of Australia to follow.
But what should have been a flagship project for the country – as ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht touted it at the time – looks like turning into a disaster for the town and an embarrassment for the renewable energy industry; and a legal dispute between the council and the developers.
It has now emerged that the cost that will be charged to the council, which owns the local grid, and which will subsidised by the government, will be more than double other alternatives.
Graham Davies, from Adelaide-based Resonant Solutions, who completed an assessment on behalf of council last year, says that the average cost of generating electricity, not including distribution but including rebates, will be 48c/kWh.
The deal signed by council will translate to total cost of $192 million over 20 years, a saving of a dismal $5 million over the diesel only grid staying as is for 20 years – which would simply not happen.
The company’s own presentation on the project, made last May, appears to confirm that there is little difference between the ongoing cost of diesel and the solar, wind and storage grid. (see graph below). Renewable energy experts say that is absurd.
Davies says the PPA is more than twice the average price (23c/kWh) suggested by three rival quotes that he sought from other developers. In 20 years, the price to council will be more than $1/kWh. Solar and wind costs by that stage are expected to be just a few cents per kilowatt-hour.
And he wonders why a tender was not sought. “We agree with …. that hybrid renewable energy is the most affordable and reliable way to produce electricity in Coober Pedy over the long term, however the issue is that with a tender we believe prices could have been roughly half,” Davies said.
It has led to the extraordinary situation where some homes and some the big business in a population of 3,500 are threatening to go “off grid” – in a town that is already off the grid – because they reason, quite rightly, that they can use their own solar and storage to provide electricity at a fraction of the cost.
Indeed, the independent assessment from Resonant Solutions suggests that 40 to 80 per cent of the town’s customers would quit the local grid if the contract continues as is – leading to a death spiral because the council is lumbered with a fixed cost, no matter how much is used.
Resonant Solutions questions the technology choices made by EDL, the costings, and some of the contract details, such as a limit on rooftop solar in the town, effectively removing competition from the “centralised” generation.
There are certainly big questions to be asked about how EDL – in its first significant push into wind and solar technologies – got its numbers and its technology calculations so wrong. It has been the supplier of the diesel generators to the Coober Pedy grid since 2004.
And there are also questions about why the Australian Renewable Energy Agency agreed to fund it – to the tune of $18.4 million – and why the South Australian government agreed on the power purchase agreement with EDL.
But it also highlights what can go wrong when decisions are made on the basis of questionable modelling.
In many ways, it serves as a proxy of what is happening now in the broader National Energy Market, where most of the modelling provided to policy makers gets cost of technologies – particularly wind and solar and storage – hopelessly wrong. And bad decisions are made because of it – mostly propping up incumbent and increasingly expensive fossil fuel technologies.
Coober Pedy councillors describe the situation as a shame, even if there appears to be little they can do about it, seeing that the PPA has been signed, the two wind turbines have already been installed, and the solar farm is also in place, and only the “enabling” technologies – battery storage and smart controls – wait to be connected.
“If this was done properly, there is a good chance that we wouldn’t need the state subsidy,” says councillor Justin Freytag, who was elected to council last year, three months after the contract was signed.
“And that would have been fantastic. But now we are lumbered with this. We’re trying to get state government, and ARENA and EDL to the table, but it’s like herding cats.”
In its damming report, Resonant Solutions says the deal is significantly more expensive than other available commercial options, and – even with a government subsidy that guarantees locals don’t pay more than people in Adelaide – could lead to grid defection within 5-10 years and a doubling of the kWh rate.
“Resonant considers the proposal to be exceedingly expensive, highly risky to (the Coober Pedy Council) and damaging to the renewable energy reputation,” the consultant said in a report completed early last year for the council.
The report by Resonant suggests that poor decisions have been made about technologies, particularly the various “smarts” used to integrate wind, solar, storage and diesel. It also suggests EDL will be getting an “excessive” internal rate of return.
It also questions why the developers would put a limit (100kW) on the total amount of rooftop solar within the grid, when it would make better sense to encourage it.
It says up to 400kW would directly displace diesel, and the payback on that extra rooftop solar investment is estimated at 1.5 years.
So what happens now? Two major businesses, including the Desert Cave Hotel and the Opal Inn, and the operator of the local IGA supermarket, have told local news website InDaily that they are looking to manage their own electricity needs.
“I think they walked in there with their eyes shut and their arse exposed,” Desert Cave Hotel owner Robert Coro told the InDaily website, regarding the decision to sign the PPA.
“It’s going to hurt our town,” councillor Freytag told RenewEconomy. “It’s an opportunity missed to get cost competitive renewables.”
Note: ARENA said it had no comment on the Coober Pedy project. We also sought comment from EDL, but did not receive a reply before publication. EDL’s presentation last May to the local community is here. Interestingly, among the benefits cited by the company, lower electricity costs is not one of them.
On its website, it does say, however, that “this project is expected to provide a lower and more stable cost of electricity over the project life for the District Council of Coober Pedy and the South Australian Government.”
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john 3 years ago
There is something really wrong with the outcome.
It seems very hard to come to the understanding that PV during the day for most days and wind when available is not cheaper than diesel gen sets.
Just what was the cost of the PV, storage and the Wind Generators?
The 192 million over 20 years does not explain the capex of this project.
From the link it turns out this cost $192 million seems a lot of money for 1 MW solar
4 MW wind and 1 MW 250 kWh system.
I would have thought the Capex would be in the sub 10 million area correct me please if wrong.
Turns out it is something like $19 million Dollars.
solarguy 3 years ago
What a cock up by the council and ARENA. The contractor has a hell of a lot to answer for as well. Even though a PPA has been signed, they should be getting some legal advice in the hope of reducing the 48 cents/kwh figure. Shame EDL!
I totally agree get a lawyer does not have to be a good one I feel.
Connor James 3 years ago
Proper commercial and legal advice is what was needed in the first place.
– Connor J
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Weapon Sixtyfour 3 years ago
Unless you know the PPA terms and modeling figures used in Resonant Solutions report, it’s all just speculation on your behalf, show me how that 48 cents/kwh figure was reached.
The figure was from the article, not me. If you want to find out how it was reached, then ask the CP council.
Understood. note the figure/s didn’t come from the council, and any that have been mentioned in articles relating to this project all stem – as far as I can tell from an “”Independent report””, of which is not available to the general public, ragnor lothbrook who is active in this discussion apparently has seen this, so until that document is available it’s just speculation.
Do you have any reason to doubt Ragnor?
Well I suppose if Ragnor could post a copy of a current power bill and the independent report I wouldn’t,
Well why don’t you talk to him, don’t ask me for Christ sake. I get the strong feeling you can’t be told.
In my defence any posts that I have made suggest that I fully understand what i’m being told, and yet still, even on request have not seen any evidence such as the PPA or the “Independent Report” to properly assess the economics of a very important project for the renewables industry.
$19 million for the project.
What is the amount of power used?
Something is very wrong here.
juxx0r 3 years ago
I know right, Commenters on this site pointed that out years ago when it was first announced. Nobody in their right mind could justify $19M for solar which is cheaper than diesel and wind which is cheaper than diesel. To replace diesel and you throw in a 250kWh battery which cost maybe $250,000.
Someone was clearly on crack, not least of all ARENA, who should have known better. Maybe there was hookers and blow when they arranged all this.
One good thing to come out of this though is that some manager from EDL got a hell of a nice yacht out of it. Or a holiday home in the Bahamas or an island somewhere.
humanitarian solar 3 years ago
Why would anyone get a company with experience in supplying diesel power to design and implement a renewable energy microgrid? What this demonstrates is ARENA really do not appreciate technical qualifications and experience. I think it’s time to do an inventory of ARENA staff to determine if people with technical qualifications are included in their decision making. In my mind a team needs to be truly interdisciplinary, with people specialising in all the different fields required, including assessing tender processes, market analysis, costings, technical design – all combining into a comprehensive team making an assessment of each project.
Andrew Woodroffe 3 years ago
It really does not look good for ARENA. 4MW of wind and 1MW of solar? In the middle of SA? Not the other way round? 1MW of wind and 4MW of solar?
$8m for 3 x E53 800kW on 73m towers producing 5000MWh/year (the AEP is rough, would be nice to have the data from the poor old 150kW Nordex wind turbine – but am fairly confident about the capex, see our project in Mt Barker, WA, http://www.mtbarkerpower.com.au/)
$8m of single axis tracking 4MWac of solar, 9000MWh/year
$1m for 2MWh of lithium ion battery
Not even $20m.
Not even considering the STCs available for rooftop solar (they have rooftops in Coober Pedy?
And ARENA signs off on a $192million. Out by a factor of 10. This utterly undermines the credibility of the organisation.
The wind resource at CP, going by the info I have from this forum, is totally inadequate and should never have been considered for the project.
As max demand is 3.5MW and the solar resource is 3.5 PSH in winter, I would have designed the PV to be oversized to 5.6MW Array fixed, in order to reduce install cost and maintenance. It would also make it more reliable.This would also give a decent output in overcast conditions, assuming the PSH dipped down to 1. This would greatly reduce diesel use.
This is all rule of thumb stuff as I don’t know the load profile. By any account, EDL got this project wrong, very, very wrong!
Given that the sun does not shine overnight and that this is offgrid, some wind would be good, but I agree it should be mostly solar, and single axis tracking, as again, it is off grid.
That Mt Barker project is also low wind, got a grant, makes it’s investors happy but gets nothing, nothing like 48c/kWh.
Another major point, with LGCs running so high at the moment, where oh where is the justification of 48c/KWh?
Finally, with PV and battery prices set to keep getting cheaper, there ought to be plans to stage more pv and battery later.
I agree 48c/kwh is a rip off big time. The problem with single axis tracking is cost and reliability, there is a lot of dust out there that could cause problems with the mechanisms, which will increase maintenance costs.
You say Mt Barker is low wind what are the max, median and lowest wind speeds there?
Lowest wind speeds? You are solarguy. Zero m/s, a few percent of the time at less than startup. But the real question is the average, which at hub height is less than 6.5m/s as measured by the turbine anemometers (not quite the same accuracy as met mast anemometers free of the slowing down effect of passing blades or speedup effect of the nacelle).
Most of the new solarfarms going in are single tracking, it is not like the old days. Also, cost of piles is a big compared to sticking them on roofs. If you are going to have ground mount, might as well go tracking – cannot do that with rooftop.
Plus the extra solar MWh occurs earlier in the morning, later in the afternoon. Save on battery cost.
Seriously, what a fantastic project. EDL deserve to go bust for stuffing it up. I am hoping an Adelaide based PV installer chases up the Desert Cave Hotel, the Opal Inn, and the local IGA supermarket. Battery suppliers would also be keen to be involved.
Maybe also the local council? What? no, wait. . . .
Ok, averages are the median and by the lowest I didn’t mean zero, I should have asked the start up speed of the turbines. Maximums are interesting too, because if they occur even 20% of the year and say in winter and at night, that’s very useful to know and to have.
Tracking PV is desirable, I agree, but the cost can make it not worth it. I have been informed from the ASC that tracking arrays aren’t that common, but I will have to do some more research as whether they have increased in reliability and reduced in cost.
Depending on your class of turbine and the wind regime, expect to be at full output 5 to 15% of the time, with upto 5% you have nothing and at all other times, output fluctuates between the two. For the season and for the time of day, probabilities of exceedance can be calculated but your system will need to cope with full wind at lowest loads and no wind at peaks. (Excellent data ought to be available from the massive anemometer that is the Nordex machine – though the hub height will be much lower than the new machines).Unlike solar, which you know will never generate at night but will during peak times, though not usually at full rating. Roughly expect half your wind generation at night when you know your solar is not generating – the major reason for wind on an offgrid system. As you are competing with diesel rather than coal, and still getting LGCs, with wind class III machines, the average wind speed could be very low and you would still get very nice economics.
I am presuming the existing diesel still exists and the only cost there is running. A modest amount of battery will allow the diesels to only ever run at full load under low wind, low/no sun, high load and low charge level battery conditions.
In five or ten years time, when second EV batteries hit the market, it may be possible to get entirely off diesel.
Calamity_Jean 3 years ago
“I should have asked the start up speed of the turbines.”
It varies a little but is generally around four meters per second or 14.5 KMH.
This especially.
So in the Mt Barker at $8m for 2.7MW is $3.3m per MW, x 4MW = $13.2m, also $2m per MW for solar + power line = $2.3, turnkey at those prices is reasonable but then for Coober Pedy you have 2x 850kW DUPS, the 3MW of Dynamic Resistors, the 1MW Battery, and the other integrating infrastructure: HV/LV Cables, Switchboards, PLC, protection relays etc, all which need somebody to install the additional infrastructure, on site. So if you did try to work out a per MW rate i.e $39mil divided by the 10MW of equipment, its $3.9 a MW, which is 3 times the cost of a traditional power station (gas/diesel) and twice a renewable. So not to extreme for an emerging tech – zero diesel base load capable station, but note the aforementioned is not a very good method to determine economics because of the unknown technical aspects of the project
But Hydro Tasmania with plenty of experience in renewable technology and has provided the enabling technology and the design for the hybrid system. EDL is actually the owner and operator, so between them I’m pretty sure they have the right team executing the job on site, but if the project is delayed and over the planned budget obviously I would be happy to retract this statement.
tom laux 3 years ago
How can there be no enquiry into this seedy council that didn’t put this rather large but very important project to tender! The results stink to high heaven. why would the council make a deal for 20 years, when renewable tech is rapidly getting cheaper?
ARENA are 1000 times more responsible because they have prior experience is funding these projects. They’re meant to be experts in the whole process. ARENA should have mentored the local council through the process, like Australian Ethical Investment visit and help mentor some of the boards of companies they invest in.
Lol, arena have been subsidising $4/W solar for ages whilst those that just get on with it and build it for $1/W can’t even be bothered with the ARENA paperwork. Maybe the paperwork is what takes the price from $1/W to $4/W.
Ok look at pvwatts and see what a 1 mw solar should put out.
The same for wind.
My rough in my head figures if the system does 70% of the energy and storage is used for FCAS the figure i get is 4.9MWh power per year and the total usage is 7MWh per year.
Cost on Capex of 19 million cost of power per kWh is $3.89 kWh for the first year, now divide that by 10 years that is 38.9 cents per kWh.
Something is terribly wrong with the figures.
Why would a company design a renewable microgrid for 70% of the electricity, unless it were a vested interest by historically supplying that same towns diesel power since 2004?
I guess not having looked at the percentage of power output for solar and wind for the site they have figured it as a 30% coverage needed.
well with solar panels at least, they are so cheap, the rule of thumb is oversize for summer, so the battery still fills in most good days in winter. It’s not like off grid setups install panels for summer and just accept running diesel in winter.
use this site to check figures.
http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/
yes just put in cooper pedy South Australia it will find the nearest BOM site and do the calculations.
I used 1 kW for cooper pedy south australia here is the figures for a year
Annual 1,759 kWh
The book I work on has a map and Coober Pedy isn’t plotted on it though looks like it gets about 8 Peak Sun Hours in january and about 3.5 Peak Sun Hours in july. That means that every 1kW of PV = 8kWh into the battery in january and 3.5kWh in july. So they get less than half the sunshine in winter.
yes true less in winter.
The link i gave above is accurate IMO as it uses 30 years of figures from the nearest available weather site to compile its findings.
What I think is central is security of supply and diesel is expensive, so if it were me I would have looked at what is the most critical time of energy shortfall in the year, when the combined solar and wind is lowest, then plan for a system as close as possible to that.
Very true as I have advised however I have found that it is very difficult to explain in simple terms the amount of solar sunshine changes as does the amount of energy used per day.
However as you said match up the worse case where solar is low and usage is high, it depends on the latitude in Cooper Pedy they need heat in winter however they use a lot of power for mining which is a day time usage.
In my minuscule experience with a house, air con in summer is a low concern because when it’s needed most the sun is beating down. Ditto as you noted, mining is daytime. So without overlapping graphs of wind and sun harvest throughout the year, I guess winter is likely to be the time to plan around. Even though usage might be overall higher in summer, winter probably has overall less power to work with. Next I’d look at costings for what is cheapest for getting the wind and sun to add up to enough power in winter, then see if those same MW cover summer (or the easier seasons). Though I’m fairly conservative and plan around the worst. That would produce a system for the worst month of the year. That just leaves the diesel to fill gaps in extraordinary bad days in that month and a few elsewhere. That’s my guesstimating rationale!!! Be interesting to hear EDL’s! There must be people who specialise in these co-generation projects.
True in everything you said.
Edited my last post, looks like EDL may have installed enough power for the mid-season and decided to just use diesel in the worst season. That’s my guess.
I have just checked the wind information for CP it seems it varies from about 5.75 down to 4.6 Meters per Second which is not exactly good however it does not vary much during the year
When is it worst?
actually winter which is not a good outcome as solar also is down then
Calamity_Jean highlights if the panels are tilted to 65 degrees for winter harvest, about 3/4 of the harvest can be achieved for winter compared to summer. In the absence of alternative generators, perhaps thats what is needed.
That’s bad, turbines normally need about 4 meters per second to produce any power at all, so low averages like that tell me that there are many hours of no wind power output at all. Unless it’s quite windy at night and becalmed during the day, I can’t see why there were any wind turbines called for at all.
Correct Jean. It clear EDL are incompetent, same for ARENA.
EDL will be battling to get any work in this industry again.
Incompetence or subtle sabotage? If EDL is making good money running a diesel generator system they have motive to screw up a replacement renewable system. Now if any other town they run diesel generators in wants renewables they can say “See, it didn’t work in Coober Pedy!”
I also had thoughts along those lines. I’m going to read the submission and get back to you, as to what I think.
Ragnor pointed out they sold quickly. Maybe that’s why. Sooner or later, the community would have discovered the install is a suboptimal design with price gouging. They created a flawed asset for the community, though the project would have increased in value enormously because of the PPA the council had signed.
The wind resource isn’t to good there going by your information. They should have opted for more PV and storage and canned the wind turbine.
That’s how I would have designed it.
“They should have … canned the wind turbine.”
I agree, unless it’s seriously windier at night than during the day.
Thanks Jean, Bet ya socks it isn’t better at night and if so, not often enough. More PV and storage I believe would have been a better design. Best bang for the buck.
Output for a fixed array 1 kW Cooper Pedy South Australia
1759 kWh of power per year.
That is at 20 degrees north which it chooses.
See how that site calculator with averages works well for most of us with a grid on hand, though doesn’t reveal the disparities in seasons, and we really need to plan for the worst, because at least for PV/batteries, the PV is so much cheaper, so it works much better to go big on PV to make sure the battery is filled, than to start thinking of batteries supplying a number of days of power.
1759 kWh a year is 4.8 kWh a day, though based upon the book I have they only get 3.5 Peak Sun Hours in winter, so only have 3.5kWh a day from each 1kW of PV. And guess what!!! 3.5 is about 70% of 4.8kWh so bet that is what EDL did – used calculations based upon the mid-season!!!
It looks at 30 years of information to give an average.
You can then discount the figures to your own preference to allow for that one rotten week to oversize the system which would be prudent.
The monthly averages for each day are in kWh / m2 / day. Never seen it done that way. My panels are about 1M x 2M I think. The panels can be different sizes so as far as I know installers just calculate using kW and the Peak Sun Hour (PSH) diagram, although this website gives a more accurate method. Thanks.
Yes it definitely does and correlates very closely with the outcomes i have used for years
Now I’ve worked it out, look to the AC column and it calculates out similar to the old method I was using, although a little less. Thanks.
That would not surprise me
“See how that site calculator with averages works well for most of us with a grid on hand, though doesn’t reveal the disparities in seasons….”
What site calculator? PVWatts? It gives estimates for each month individually.
Yes I didn’t look at it long enough like ARENA with this project above.
Nobody’s perfect. Look at me, I’m living proof.
We have a category 4 (out of 5) cyclone in Queensland at present with up to 270km/h winds and 50k properties without power presently. Hit the coast at 2pm. The army is being called in. They’ve lost landline, mobile phone towers and they’re back to AM and FM radio. But we’ll rehash the same debates like we did with when South Australia had the state go down. Everybody will say, what should we do differently if anything…
From where I am, half the world away, all I can say is I hope not too much permanent damage is done.
Could the array be tilted to a steeper angle to optimize winter production?
Absolutely although with our houses at least, allot of them in Aus aren’t very steep, tilt frames are fairly expensive and a bit ungainly looking, so a general consensus in installers I’ve spoken to is not to worry about them and where possible just add more panels to compensate if the rooftop real estate is there. This makes the panels hug the roofline and looks much better for resale value. The other thing that happened historically that was a trend with grid-tie inverters and FIT’s, nobody really worried about getting little winter harvest and lots of summer harvest, because the grid has dramas with air con and peak demand in summer, so most people were okay to have a system tuned to summer. Of course it’s okay if there’s always a grid there connected when needed, though far from ideal for the off grid setup, because draining old generation batteries below 40%-50% tends to give them a heart attack, shortening their lifespan dramatically. So for off grid setups a steep roof helps them allot, reducing their generator run time, and of course people find out they are noisy, annoying, troublesome, dirty and smelly, including the neighbours.
I was under the impression that the main solar array in Coober Pedy was ground-mounted and that the company managing the system (more like mis-managing IMO) was discouraging people from installing rooftop solar. If the ground-mounted PV was re-oriented to improve winter energy production then the company wouldn’t need be able to use their existing diesel generators as much.
It seems to me from where I am (USA) that the company planned the system to waste as much money on equipment as possible and to maximize the use of diesel to the extent they thought they could get away with it. I feel like they designed the renewable system in bad faith. If I were a Coober Pedian (What do you call a resident of Coober Pedy?) I would be mad as hell.
I guess its ground mounted and I think I’ve read on this site that some large scale ground mounted PV systems use single axis tracking, which I’ve never seen though suppose is a tilt adjustment. Interestingly I’ve seen a tilt adjustment on a roof mounted solar hot water system. I didn’t know what to say about the limits imposed on residents with rooftop solar because I found this para didn’t go into enough depth:
From my limited experience, I agree the system looks extremely poorly designed from the information you raised on the cost effectiveness of wind turbines due to lowish wind speed and the percentage installed, and that the amount of PV installed may not be designed to be adequate for winter harvest and offset the majority of the diesel. PV is the cheapest part of the system and over the duration of the project, diesel is the most expensive cost of the system. In terms of if EDL acted in bad faith, if I were a resident or their representative, I would argued they acted in bad faith by evidently designing a system badly based upon their choice of system components. To support that, I would have a system designed and scaled by a microgrid and co-generation specialist – in terms of the % of wind and % of solar with costings for the year it was designed. I would ask who EDL had design the system and ask for their previous portfolio of projects, given this project is a sizeable $192 million project. If the system designer had not designed comparable sized systems with similar technology, I would argue EDL acted in bad faith based upon a haphazard or reckless design process, lumbering Coober Pedy citizens with excessive costs for energy. Additionally, even if EDL didn’t have experience in co-generation microgrid projects, they would have had experience in project design and therefore would have had the experience to know they were out of their depth. If there is a large discrepancy in EDL’s experience and qualifications to undertake such a renewable energy project, ARENA should also have picked that up along with the price gouging with the costings.
“…some large scale ground mounted PV systems use single axis tracking, which I’ve never seen though suppose is a tilt adjustment.”
Single axis tracking rotates the panels on a daily basis to follow the sun’s apparent east-to-west motion. I had assumed that the array at Coober Pedy didn’t move. The panels are mounted tilted north to catch the sun, but they can be tilted less steeply to optimize catching the higher summer sun, or tilted more steeply to optimize catching the winter sun, or at an compromise tilt that isn’t best for either season but is “good enough” for both.
“Additionally, even if EDL didn’t have experience in co-generation microgrid projects, they would have had experience in project design and therefore would have had the experience to know they were out of their depth.”
Yes, this. If they were willing to do an honest job, they should have told the town to get someone else.
Yes single axle or double axis tracking wold increase the output.
Use the link to PVWatts and put in single or double to see the difference.
Tracking increases the cost and complexity of the system. Assuming a fixed array, changing the tilt changes the proportion of energy produced in winter compared to summer.
For example, according to PVWatts, at my location a nominal 4 kW system with premium modules, a fixed open rack array at 15 degrees tilt gives 203 kWh in the lowest winter month and 635 kWh in the highest summer month. A 65 degree tilt for a system that is otherwise identical gives 308 kWh in the lowest winter month and 432 kWh in the highest summer month.
I think the issue comes down to having enough power to heat in winter, without homesteads turning to gas or wood or diesel generators on remote grids.
Yes, if they are short of power in the wintertime, the PV array should be set up to optimize winter collection.
Maybe that’s what needs to be done. For areas with little wind to help in winter, accept PV needs to pull more weight and tilt the panels to accomodate.
But don’t forget charging efficiency of the batteries and other losses HS.
Best to match PV for the max average load in winter, then summer performance should be more than adequate, as a rule of thumb. Diesel use, will then be minimized.
Rod 3 years ago
“I think they walked in there with their eyes shut and their arse exposed” LOL
Coober Pedy, a special place. That’s what you get from living in caves.
I’m wondering if the diesel and the transport of it is subsidised.
My thoughts are they did not get any help from anyone who actually understood Solar Wind or Storage which i think is used for FCAS
Eb 3 years ago
I like how the savings chart has no y-axis!
To assist any future comments, the annual diesel generation in 2012-13 was 13.35 GWh and in 13-14 it was 12.1GWh.
http://www.cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/pages/searchcenter.aspx?k=Coober%20pedy
The existing 150kW Nordex wind turbine would increase this by around 0.3GWh if it was operational.
Hydro Tas was involved in the design of the solution, and before July 2014, the Capex was estimated to be $39m, possibly to obtain ~50% funding from ARENA.
https://arena.gov.au/project/coober-pedy-renewable-diesel-hybrid/
The $192m PPA figure is over 20 years, so care needs to be taken on whether it is real or nominal and what load growth is assumed.
Cannot believe that Giles couldn’t see this coming as easily as the rest of us. $19M for 4MW of wind at $2/W, 1MW of solar at $1/W, which makes a 250kWh battery about $10M or $40,000 per watt. Sounds plausible.
All for only 70%. Comedy gold.
Miles Harding 3 years ago
After my initial thought “how did they stuff that up??”, almost immediately “Unconscionable conduct” popped up as the most likely answer. The developer really took the council to the cleaners on this one.
This probably has an analog in the suburbs; there are still plenty of dodgy solar+battery installers, only too willing to fleece any dumb bunny that hops in their shop door.
We’ve seen this with Tesla batteries – they’re very easy to direct order form Tesla, but there are solar installers out there selling rip-off solar packages at a 50% premium over the reasonable installed cost of the battery and solar individually.
Ian 3 years ago
Giles, well done for not hiding this cautionary tale. It’s the biggest gem to come out of Coober Pedi. The frontier character of the town is paralleled by the frontier nature of their renewables transformation. The hardy, hardworking stoic energy homesteaders are shafted by the big branded diesel energy ranch. The big city law representative (sheriff) ( played by Arena) is both in cohoots with the greedy energy landowner and ignorant of its evil intentions. Matters come to a head and a show-down is eminent . Which financial coffins will be filled? Those of the homesteaders or those of the energy ranch?
Jokes aside, their experience is a valuable one , pointing to the pitfalls, and worthy of study, like any train-smash, to ensure the same mistakes are not repeated on a more macroscopic scale.
James Ray 3 years ago
I’ve been skeptical about ARENA seeming to place undue bias on ground mounted, utility scale solutions rather than rooftop solar. I reckon that the cost to the consumer would be lower with rooftop solar, storage, local electricity trading and grid services, rather than utility scale solutions. RFQ/T/Ps are always a good idea vs only going with one contractor, that smacks of corruption.
Have a look at this petition:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_AEMC_Reconsider_the_change_request_for_local_electricity_trading
OnionMan77 3 years ago
In Coober Pedy, roof top IS ground mounted as everyone lives underground.
Would they have above-ground sheds for cars and other large things used outdoors? They could mount PV panels on those roofs.
Malcolm M 3 years ago
Surely the local Council has a procurement policy, which states that above a threshold multiple quotes must be sought unless a strong case is made for exemption. In the Victorian public sector, for example, anything over $100,000 has to go to an accredited purchasing panel. One possible reason for exemption could be that EDL were a co-applicant on the ARENA contract. ARENA would be a grant-funding organisation that would rely on the applicant to have internal good governance policies, with payments made upon completing certain milestones. In this case, ARENA should share responsibility for the stuff-up be accepting above-market costs. If it wasn’t a joint contract, responsibility would rest entirely with the Council.
ragnor lothbrook 3 years ago
Council does have a policy that they did not enforce for reasons only known by them. And yes this whole fiasco rests financially on the council and especially the ratepayer’s of Coober Pedy.
neroden 3 years ago
It should be possible to sue in court to void the contract because the Council violated the “multiple quotes” (open tender, bidding) policy. This is a standard procedure in the US. I don’t now about Australia. But I’d get a lawyer who knows about suing over government issuing no-bid contracts, and I’d sue. The Council might be willing to back the lawsuit at this point. EDL would come to the table to renegotiate, rather than losing a *corruption* suit.
Council was involved and have gone onto a coverup and are blaming everyone else now that they have been exposed. Funds for a legal challenge from council I find highly unlikely as it would bring them undone. Information recieved by me indicates it has been tried to implement what you have suggested and have hit a brick wall the whole way. I’ll refer you to one part of the above article where Councillor Freytag states that there is really nothing that can be done know the contracts have been signed. Why would he say that? Freytag is also on the council Audit commitee where there was evidence of council complicity in this fiasco and yet still makes statements in the media such as he has done. He is there to protect his buddies in council and all evidence points toward this. A person on a Resident’s group who tried to expose this had false POLICE reports made against them by FREYTAG and I believe that the writer of this article Giles Parkinson should try and get in touch with that group to hear their side of the story.
Two councillors that moved and seconded this lunacy also run a gem trade show in Coober Pedy that the Department of State Development (DSD) are also a gold sponsor of. The Mayor promised extensive community consultation on this issue. NONE of that happened. All of this went under a section 90 meeting.(SECRET) WHY? I disagree with the 3500 population as well.More likely half.The district council had plenty of time to walk away from this deal and chose not too. As soon as they were exposed they started crying foul. If this story is going to be out there get all the facts right council were totally involved in this deal. I know for fact Mayors were spoken too. Ministers (FEDERAL) were contacted over this issue and could not get a straight answer out of any of them. Some didn’t even reply. There are questions still being asked by a residents group in Coober Pedy and can’t get a reply from anybody. As I have previously stated on comments on the INDAILY website there is a digital recording verifying a lot of what has been posted here and yet no one wants it. I WONDER WHY? Its okay to attack companies and attack governments what about the councillors that agreed to this deal. The whole town ship of Coober Pedy could have been put on solar power for the price of this facility.There are around 1200 rateable residential properties in Coober Pedy and that would roughly equate to 30K a property. Could have been easily been done. In a Town of 330 day’s of sunshine the only beneficiary out of this is an energy company and the retailer THE COUNCIL. I am a Coober Pedy local so I would believe I know what I am talking about. I know that local’s in Coober Pedy spoke to Graeham Davies of resonant solutions who advised that council should not be put into administration over this issue as the “GOVERMENT” then would not answer for what they have done. If the Council want’s to play the victim here why was this put under a section 90 meeting.
If EDL or the system designer didn’t have experience with a portfolio of similar previous co-generation (wind and solar) microgrid systems, then I think there’s grounds to argue EDL acted in bad faith by being out of their depth to undertake such a project. If there is a large discrepancy in EDL’s previous experience and the project undertaken, ARENA should have picked that up along with the price gouging. To highlight this, I would have an experienced designer give a design and costs for the year the project was planned.
As soon as this contract was signed EDL was taken over by another Company DUET that is about to be taken over by another Company a HONG KONG based consortium. Is there anything now that can legally be done? If so who’s footing the bill? I don’t believe federal or state government will do that. Comes back to the Coober Pedy ratepayer. Still boils down to the fact that this project should never have been signed off.
I’m not aware of what happens if there is mismanagement of community money with local councils although there must be people who understand that. ARENA would also have policy processes it has to follow.
All of you in Coober Pedy must be hopping mad about this mess.
Legally, sue to void the contract on the grounds that it was procured corruptly with backroom “side deals” and without an real, open-market procurement process.
I don’t know exactly how this is done in Australia but it’s done in both the UK and the US so there’s got to be an Australian procedure for it.
I’m sure all of you in CP would be feeling rather ropeable over this. A secret meeting means some one was complicit in this rip off. The councillors?
ARENA’s funding processes should be investigated and their board held accountable. ARENA have taken taxpayer money and paid it to a private company, who in turn have exploited a local community for profit. That burden currently rests with that community for 20 years and could act as a great economic deadweight.
Are there any SA PV installers talking to Desert Cave Hotel, the Opal Inn, and the operator of the local IGA supermarket? The publicity from providing these guys with off grid systems (and you get STCs) and some storage could very well be worth the trips up there.
then everyone elses electricity goes up.
unless they also go off grid . . . 48c/kWh makes going off grid very attractive . . . this PPA is a monumental stuffup
The deal is at fixed rate of supply for 20 years more people that go off grid council has to get money from somewhere else.Coober pedy is made up mostly of the aged and lower socio economic that going off grid is realy not an option. Maybe some PV installers should be up ther talking to the residents to see what deals they can work out. They might get more advertising that way BUT If the council does not retail electricity debt will skyrocket in no time. Monumental stuff up only starts to describe this.
Most installers these days can usually provide finance.
The more expensive the tariff for those remaining, the ever more financially attractive it will be to go off grid.
This will be a real world example of the death spiral. Bring it on. Show the world, a warning to utilities everywhere to improve their behaviour.
How else will you be able to bring EDL to the table to renegotiate the PPA? Buried deep within the terms and conditions will be an out for EDL but not, probably, for the council. Declining customer numbers may be the only stick available.
As you know, there are people out there who would have been able to install sufficient wind and solar and batteries to the size of the ARENA grant alone, so in fact the generation price should really be running costs. Wait a second, LGCs will be available, say 8c/kWh next 3 years at least, so really, the cost of generation, given the grant from ARENA and the LGCs could be zero. At least for the first 3 years.
Not 48c/kWh.
Now you’re talking sense, if the price residents were actually paying was that high and they were planning to be in Coober Pedy for 8+ years then any system with LGCs for 3 years and some finance terms attached could be a good deal, but In my opinion we are only getting half the story.
What halfof the story is that
Well if you assume that you will be facing high power prices for the next 20 years, and were to buy an off grid system and spread that cost (+ finance) over 20 years, you would have paid off the system and be independent.
AS has already been stated the more people who go off grid the more the rest of the resident’s have to pay.
The town ship of Coober Pedy could have bought out EDL for around 800k and and got the Arena funding for a renewable project.Community consultation could have brought that to fruition but then there would be no take over bids from rival companies where I believe the real money is.
Didn’t EDL just supply the diesel generators? Why buy the diesel generators at all? Who owns Coober Pedy’s grid? It sounds from comments below, if the renewable energy had been done well, more centred around solar and less on wind, it could have supplied the vast majority of the towns power. Solar panels are cheap and they could have been planned more for winter.
Two years remain on the contract with EDL. 800k to pay them out and they were gone. Community then could have negotiated with funding bodies for a solar plant. I agree with you panels are the way to go. There is an existing wind turbine in Coober Pedy that hardly worked this was managed by EDL. The grid I’m told is owned by the town. There was a meeting held with the MAYOR and the then CEO with a community group on 2nd DEC. 2015 at that stage there was still three years left on the contract with EDL. That meeting was recorded. On that recording The MAYOR and CEO clearly state that council would not be ready for another two years to sign any deals. A copy of that recording has been supplied to me. It was then moved at a section 90 meeting (secret) on the 19th Jan.2016 to sign off on a deal with EDL.6 weeks later. The mover and seconder are both connected with a gem trade show that is sponsored by the Department of State Development.(DSD) a gold sponsor of that gem trade show. Council is now trying to blame (DSD) for pressuring them into signing the deal. A GOLD sponsorship is 5k and over. How much over is anyone’s guess. Part of the deal that was agreed to is that EDL would sponsor gem trade show and an opal festival with 10k per annum divided between them. The seconder for the motion was on the committee for the gem trade show and wrote a letter to EDL some 6 months before the 19th JAN.meeting thanking them for the monies. So the question is why was it so urgent to sign this deal. It does appear that the more questions that were asked the quicker council wanted to sign off. I am not against renewable energy but I am certainly questioning this deal. I don’t mean any offense to any commentators on this site but this is not just about a project but also the way it came about. The article printed is right about onre thing the community is in an uproar.
Oh I think I see. So Coober Pedy was stuck on some sort of Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with EDL to supply a diesel power station service for another two years, so wasn’t in a position to put out tenders or do a reverse auction involving other renewable energy installers. So instead what the Coober Pedy Councillors did (led by the two connected with the gem trade show) is somehow secure $10k+ pa of sponsorship from the Department of State Development and EDL to be gold sponsors of the local gem trade show and opal festival, and then in return EDL got the go ahead to develop its existing diesel power station into a potentially comprehensive renewable energy solution by augmenting it with wind, solar and battery. So the Council mixed up two different contexts by securing sponsorship for the opal industry ($10k+ pa), while having a secret meeting to sign off on EDL’s new project, which this article describes has a “total cost of $192 million over 20 years”. It’s become complex. The town is getting some annual opal event sponsorship, in return for an expensive power supply. I’m uncertain this process is ethical because it doesn’t seem to have been a fully open transparent public process, involving community consultation on what appears to be a relatively large “deal” or “deals”. By cutting corners and enabling EDL to move ahead to augment it’s diesel power station, the renewable energy contract wasn’t properly herded through the gateposts of a legit procurement process, and instead EDL got extremely special consideration in a process that only involved EDL and was subsequently signed off on very quickly. ARENA had to have been involved there at some point. I don’t know why ARENA didn’t identify there was no legit procurement process, in a project they part funded. I thought that was the idea of ARENA’s existence, to use taxpayer money to leverage low prices in the renewable energy sector, by using specialised procurement processes like reverse auctions.
heh ragnor, I imagine your not enjoying yourself, though this is a very interesting and entertaining case study for the rest of us. I’d say this is an extremely delicate issue to us because we all want renewable energy to go ahead and most of the people on this site have either done it on their properties (me), are installers or are market analysts etc. We know it can work well and the numbers can stack up better than a state grid, especially medium and larger systems. The problem is this implicates our renewable energy agency ARENA, and yet we don’t want anyone else to suffer, or any community to suffer, based upon such a bad process and outcome as Coober Pedy has experienced. I’m an electronics technician and a social worker, and I think the technology is sound though the process you’ve experienced has become bitter or twisted, or in this instance it appears to have become twisted first, then bitter later. I’m not sure what to do though whatever you decide to do, can you please frame it up that renewable energy is good, though it has to be done right. Sounds like Councils all over the country can be warned and benefit from this.
Please help us everyone. This should be a great project but it has turned into this. Write to who you can. The more pressure the better. We don’t want to see a BAD DEAL ruin the future. Like I have already stated 330 day’s of sunshine and we are forbidden to use it. Again this is not about renewables but a BAD buisiness deal that we don’t want to see happen again. This deal shuts down competition. Residents can’t afford power. Installers get no work this whole thing is just crazy. Renewables are the way of the future no doubt but big buisines must adapt as well. Councils and other bodies who ever that maybe will have to be dragged by the looks of it kicking and screaming to keep up their policies to match with the rapidly accelarating technologies of the future energy markets. For the sake of that future don’t let this situation be a precedent.
Mike Shackleton 3 years ago
At those sorts of prices the council is going to white elephant their own project. Why wouldn’t residents just put their own solar and battery arrays in? Given that little AC is needed because the houses are underground, it would be pretty easy to go off grid.
Deal is that the town has only an allocated 400kw of roof top solar 250 kw for buisiness 150 for residential. Go it alone systems for most of the community is not affordable. Residents are basically held to ransome on this issue. No offense to you but most people live above ground. there are a lot of underground dwellings but not everyone lives in one. Dugouts are also very expensive to build. More houses are being built now day’s.
Heh Ragnor I’ve come across this issue of grids limiting PV being fed into the grid. I think you’ll find the 200kW business and 150KW residential PV limit can really only to apply to what is connected to the Council’s grid. This means people could either go off-grid entirely or have a small system connected to the grid and another “off-grid” system not connected to the grid. It’s a bit of extra carefully choosing components, though no big deal. It would be as simple as having one roof connected to the grid and another going into a battery. With the bigger issue of redressing this, I think this could be “HUGE” and I don’t think the Coober Pedy people will have any trouble getting support from the larger community. Just post a new comment at the top, so Giles and others see it, appealing for help with a referral to reporters interested in working to run the ball up to the media. From there I think you’ll find all the doors will pop open.
Ragnor I think people will be reluctant to approach in the public eye, so I think you’ll need to contact the community action group, find out if they have a contact person or contact details, or the group nominate some, then post those details here in the article. Otherwise, I guess you would have to get representatives of the community action group to go knocking on doors, or phoning individual agencies. I personally think your community is best served by knowledgable people in this field, who know the technology, can detail why the install is not great, why the procurement process went wrong etc. It’s in people in this field’s interest to help you, or it could get ugly.
Ugly in what way?
Well there’s allot of heat around the renewable industry anyway, with allot of smear campaigns against the technology because big business generators and retailers often want renewable energy to look bad, because it makes their old clunker generators look better. Also the procurement process looks a bit bodgy and ARENA has been involved. So it’s likely to generate a huge conflict, of the country arguing about if renewable energy has a place and if so, how should it be done. The other big issue is allot of mainstream people think renewable energy can’t power an off-grid setup like Coober Pedy, so you’ll see from the article ARENA thought it was going to showcase the technology and show what its capable of. If a system worked in a remote setting, it proves it will work anywhere. We know it works because many of us have done it on our properties, but for some bizarre reason people usually think of a grid differently than a property or the microgrids that have gone into developing countries. So the national discussion is still fairly unformed and relatively uninformed, with allot of fear of if renewable energy can provide reliability and security.
I think we can see this is not working. There is still subsidised electricity. Just as expensive as ever. The subsidy under the RAES programme if the HONG KONG consortium takes over will NOW go of shore. Tax Payer will be realy impressed.
Again no one has a problem with the project it’s the buisiness side that needs looking at. If ARENA wanted something to showcase build it for free and why are we paying so much for power. WE have people in our community with 8 and 10k outstanding power bills now so realy can’t see anything that these idiots have done that helped that situation. Contact CEO of council to verify that as fact. As far as the rest of the country arguing about the validity of renewables unfortanately is a problem Coober Pedy can’t resolve All we know is we got a raw deal out of this and are trying to do something about it. I will make contact with the community group that took on this issue and see if they will post their details. Again Under this deal if the buisnesses go of grid which they can afford the residents will have to pay more for electricity. So more power that definitely can’t be paid for. ARENA could have put Solar on everyone’s home if they wanted a showcase. I’ve been told that Alice Springs had something of that description done. I don’t know exactly what but will find out. I do know it was paid for by federal government. Was that ARENA also? I know without question the people of Coober Pedy want green energy. The way it was obtained here is wrong. Maybe we should wait and see what other outback town ARENA want’s to showcase and see what the ramifications for that town are because I can assure you that we sure copped it in Coober Pedyfrom every tier of government.
My computer has crashed again. It’s a new mac. Bodgy stuff everywhere. Still under warranty. Just had it fixed last week. With EDL i think you’ll find they didn’t really apply themselves with doing the job properly, would have thought the town is isolated and didn’t bother being diligent. See how quickly they got out after it was done. ARENA would likely have been guilible and didn’t delve deeply enough, costing taxpayers and especially your community. ARENA would likely have been mainly concerned to clock up another project and get you off diesel ASAP.
Mark Roest 3 years ago
I get a pretty clear picture of this as a case of the owners of EDL doing the classic fossil-fuel-oriented, elitist manipulation to make sure that their profit flow keeps going as is — or if they are angry at being in a position to have to change their business model from complete control to sharing power — increases (as in, ‘that’ll show’em!’).
As you read this quote, just think of what the companies that have been creating gas spikes think of the rest of the population (hint: cows to be milked): “It has been the
supplier of the diesel generators to the Coober Pedy grid since 2004.” It has been in control of a cash cow, with no competitors.
I think there is another way to take this situation: as heightening the contradictions, between the community service ethic and the widespread pattern of exploitation and abuse by energy providers. You could turn this into an apocryphal story of elitists who want to leave nothing on the table in a negotiation, and who represent the status quo in fossil fuel, nuclear, and other centralized energy generation. It is, quite frankly, the old colonialist model, with the dominant society itself being colonized by those with the opportunity to do so.
Communities are, in common law, able to regulate in the interests of the health and well-being of their people. It’s time to get the public interest lawyers together and see what can be done, both in the legal system and in the court of public opinion, and to take control of the story in such a way that the coal-and-oil-supporting media can’t control it effectively.
See what the political balance of power is at the local, state and federal level, and chart a course of action, which could include organizing someone to come in with cheap batteries and smart microgrids to trigger that death spiral, if the deal cannot be overturned or overhauled so there is no longer central control and exploitation by EDL.
One other point — look for other situations where EDL has attempted to exploit the market — for instance, weren’t they the ones who provided an inflated bid to Hawaii? If not, what have they done that does show a pattern of selfish and greedy exploitation of markets?
Yes although see the comment by Andrew Woodroffe, as in the mean time the people will have to suffer the death spiral because the council signed an agreement for power for 20 years, lumbering rate payers with the project costs anyway, as well as the cost of maintaining the council owned grid.
Yes, individual properties have been on 100% or near 100% for years now. Why is a bigger system such a big deal (and you still have the old diesel gensets when the batteries are empty)? As you said, bizarre. And, given the township of Denham, north of Geraldton on the coast of Western Australia has been operating offgrid at high levels of wind penetration (100% at times) since 2007, also a tad ignorant.
My fundamental issue, just looking at the middle of SA, and without proper data, is the specification of 4MW of wind and 1MW of solar ,not the other way around. Wind at over $3m/MW (wind class III machines, tall towers) delivering, annually, very roughly, 2500MWh/MW and ground mounted solar at less than $2m/MW delivering, roughly 2000MWh/yr (should be single axis tracking). In other words, $6m will get you less than 5000MWh a year from wind but more than 6000MWh from solar. Surely, it ought to be 4MW of solar and 1 MW of wind?
As for running costs, as mentioned before, LGCs are running at over $80/MWh, well in excess of operational costs of wind or solar.
Maybe EDL should be paying the council . . . instead.
Weapon Sixtyfour was quoting specific wind speeds and I think their site assessment modeling.
Can the deal be voided based on failure to do a competitive tender? That’s a legal procedure in the US: sue in a court alleging bad faith “backroom deals” and you can kill a no-bid government contract.
Isn’t there is an allocation under the PPA of 250kW of Managed solar PV if so have you been denied a grid tied system by the Council or EDL??
400kw in total we were told at the last meeting with EDL Department of State Development (DSD) and District council of Coober Pedy 250kw for buisimess 150kw residential. When member’s of the community complained about that situation Nick Smith of DSD asked if we want our cake and eat it too. WE must be one of very few communities tthat have been denied the use of home owned rooftop solar. I think you are missing the point of what I am trying to point out. WE WANT THE RIGHT TO PUT ON OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEMS AND NOT BE HELD TO RANSOM FROM EDL TOWN COUNCIL OR ANYONE ELSE. As I have pointed out to you in answer above the deputy mayor has solar on his roof why can’t we?
So how could you show the public that you or someone else in Coober Pedy has been declined an application for grid tied solar?
it was clearly stated at a meeting with EDL and the DISTRICT COUNCIL that according to them there is a deficiency of some description in their system that would not allow home solar connection. seems to me you are here trying to pick holes in what people are trying to achieve here.
No way I’m just trying to get some real figures on the table. So the 350kW figure is ~10% of max demand, so if you add more than that to any system with low intertia capability (and cannot control it) it has the potential to cause instability i.e outages, which is why I asked if anybody had been declined a grid-tie system.
Does that Deputy Mayor have off-grid or grid tied?
tied grid
hydrophilia 3 years ago
One aspect of renewables this cluster&*^% casts a little light upon is the problem of the fast deflation in costs. In a financially deflationary environment, one puts off purchases, knowing that things will be cheaper tomorrow. In just this way, we know that renewables will be cheaper next year…. not to mention the fact that other folks will have made the bleeding edge errors.
Anyone who buys now, without incentives (like the nice FIT) or long-term contracts, is going to get stuck with an expensive asset competing against newer, cheaper assets. As an example, I have a friend who ordered a shipping container of solar panels, thinking to make a killing: his cost was about $2/watt… The folks who own or think of investing in generation are faced with the near certainty that waiting for a year or ten often makes financial sense.
While I’d love to rip out the FF generators and replace with renweables right now, it seems to me that new investment in renewables only makes financial sense when new/better generation/service is needed…. or if renewables become enough cheaper than alternatives to make it worthwhile to buy now and shut down a FF plant sooner.
This, of course, ignores externalities like pollution…
It’s worthwhile now because of the cost of the diesel. The problem is the technology selection, which was probably never highlighted because only one company with experience in diesel submitted a project design. Commenters have suggested the proportion of wind and solar is suboptimal, given the average wind speeds in Coober Pedy. Commenters have questioned if the solar and wind should have been sized the opposite way around, and yet two wind turbines have been installed in Coober Pedy. There are also questions if there should have been more focus on the configuration of the solar panels to achieve a greater winter harvest. The company who did the design, got a generous PPA then got out.
As far as tender processes go I couldn’t comment, but to my knowledge this is a hybrid system – which I’m assuming is capable of zero diesel operation, and this wouldn’t be possible without enablers: dynamic resistors, fast response diesels/flywheel, a battery system, and probably some very advanced control coding, so all these components- including wind and solar, need to be balanced to get the best return, and I’m assuming it’s why the Hydro Tas system doesn’t use batteries for storage i.e more cost / less return, so as the technology selection is all based on economics and performance, I would say from a competitive point of view the builder/owner/operator of the diesel station would have the best knowledge of the characteristics of the town’s demand profile and thus economics and the designer/engineer would have the best knowledge of a hybrid-zero diesel station thus any given equipments performance.
In my experience, most fields are like a bell curve of results in a university, with most people scoring a pass or a credit. Then there’s those needing remedial attention and the other end of the spectrum. This is why previous projects are so important, to see where we’re all up to with it. We don’t want to judge EDL by unrealistic standards and neither would we want anything significantly less than has been done in years past.
I agree, lets not judge but let’s look at the facts;
1. We can estimate a rough over the fence cost of power
2. We can see what the current actual (variable) tariff is to the end user
3. We can almost identify essentially what any subsidies might be
4. We have an idea of the modeling data used in equipment selection
5. We know the performance of the individual components
6. We have some evidence that the project (Schedule) is on track
7. We know the developers have the expertise in power generation
8. We don’t know the performance of the entire system
9. We don’t know if the project (budget) is on track
10. We don’t know the full contents of the independent report that tells us any of the above “facts” are incorrect or otherwise.
Sounds like a great summary of the facts although I’m not a project manager. I can only give an uninformed personal position, if the modelling was for my property or my town, I wouldn’t be happy with the amount of diesel. I’m not saying I have the answers to address this concern just saying I’d be looking for projects further towards reducing diesel and questioning if it can be done cheaper with less diesel.
At point 1 your rough estimate is way out of the ballpark and at point 3 almost being able to identify anything is a crock. Again the prices are through the proverbial roof and the subsidy paid will now go ofshore. It seems to me you want to promote this project at all costs and want to bend facts to suit your argument.
Firstly what prices are you talking about? the Capex cost of the hybrid station? or the tariffs the council is billing?, Secondly the subsidy is paid to the council who pays the power station owner, who pays off the asset which makes a profit, which only then could go offshore. Thirdly the ARENA funding is what promotes these projects to acquire the knowledge, so if you have any information that proves the project performance has been misrepresented I’ll gladly join your cause because it’s bad for the industry if people blame the technology.
And wouldn’t all or at least some of that money be the subsidy?
First paragragh exactly right. 20 year contract is ridiculous. Politicians and wannabe Poiliticians should have stayed out of this and the one expert involved Graeham Davies of Resonant Solutions gets sacked by the council because all of a sudden they know more. WHAT? The word around Coober Pedy is the councillor who moved the motion to sign that contract is a Bosnian electrician who is allegedly some relative of Nicola Tesla.
It’s going to be a great community interest story. The action group needs to keep chronicling the story so it gets increasing public support for the best possible resolutions to come out of this.
With home solar or going off-grid, it can often make sense to “bite the bullet” and pay today’s costs just to avoid the *transmission* costs of the grid, which are going up. But with utility-scale… tricky, very tricky!
In the part of the article that states a subsidy will keep power prices level with the capitol cities is not exactly correct. A letter of comfort has been given by the current state government to the Coober Pedy Council but with an election in 12 months who knows after that.State Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis has already stated that he can’t guarentee what future goverments will do. Council still went ahead and signed the 20 year contract anyway.
Ian Porter 3 years ago
There could be legal ramifications for EDL if their website statement can be proven to be misleading. This could be an interesting class-action suit once the council get into trouble and the off-grid brigade drive the spear in and create the proverbial death spiral.
Anybody who may be interested go to https://cooberpedyregionaltimes.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/coober-pedy-regional-times-23-03-2017.pdf.
This will explain some of the ridiculous buisiness aspect of this fiasco. First time the local paper has asked any questions and really is about time that it did. Maybe beause of articles by good men like Giles on this site and Washington of INDAILY we might get to expose what’s realy gone on here. If green energy is to be promoted we don’t the likes of this to happen again.
So have you personally seen the modelling / report from Resonant Solutions?
So where in the analysis I provided reaching ~$0.25kWhr am I going wrong?
Thanks for your input. If what you’re saying is correct the subsidy that is paid to the district council for the electricity supply would not be needed. So where is that money going. I will forward this on to the community group.
What I am saying is: until the report from the “Independent Consultant” is publicised- the numbers don’t stack up- also by the way –> there will always be some additional costs incurred by the network operator that are needed to pay for the upkeep of your distribution network, and ensure its safe operation; this can be funded by subsidy or fixed fees in your bill, I expect the age of the CP network, its remoteness, environmental conditions etc, this wouldn’t be insignificant.
Mate I can tell by now you don’t have a clue of what your’e talking about. Do you know anything of Coober Pedy and it’s resident’s.
Yea, so in the time I have spent commenting I have learned; as a resident can go off-grid but you’re worried about the “community” paying more, the council is getting subsidies but you’re not sure where they are going and you have an independent report that the general public hasn’t seen.
Why wouln’t I be worried about the community paying more?
There was also a flier distributed by the district council which I have tried to paste here will get to it later but it clearly states in the second paragraph of councils concerns and I’ll quote “forecast to commence at approx. 50cents kw/h and escalate to 115cents kw/h over the 20 year life of the contract” I will attempt to post that flier later. I can assure you that flier exists and was distributed by council. And as stated a lot of residents in Coober Pedy couldn’t afford to go off grid and there are member’s of the community with 8k and 10k power bills they can’t pay now. Contact CEO of council for verification of that fact. It is not up to me to know where council money is going it is up to council to do the right thing. As far as the report goes there was a redacted report released to the community and that can be verified by going to council minute’s of the 14th dec. 2016 motion no. sc20161209. So as you can now see the report IS in the public domain and that is what I was refering to when I said I had seen that report.
You asked me what I knew, but I certainly wasn’t ridiculing your personal position. note: I personally have not been able to find a public copy of the redacted report, so this action may not have been completed yet.
I can assure you that report has been in the community since December 2016 and the full report as well.You have made statements that the report was not out there and I believe you were having a real good go. Next time get your facts right.
Ok well where can I find it? If can you send me a link to the Resonant Solutions report, or even though I’m interested in the figures, how about a photo of the front cover? and I will gladly retract any statement that it’s not in the public domain, as I personally haven’t seen if or found it.
david_fta 3 years ago
Meanwhile, over at ‘The Conversation’ there’s an article about an algorithm that has been developed to design optimal renewable energy systems (https://theconversation.com/an-algorithm-to-improve-the-renewable-energy-production-75325).
Hopefully, use of such an algorithm would produce better outcomes than seems to have occurred in Coober Pdey.
Ronno 3 years ago
the person at fault here is the consultant for allowing it to happen, maybe going on holidays during a contractural negotiation was a bad idea!
Are you saying that the consultant went on holidays and if so where did you get that information from as I don’t remember it being mentioned in the above article.
The Coober Pedy Council was involved and have gone onto a coverup and are blaming everyone else now that they have been exposed. Funds for a legal challenge from council I find highly unlikely as it would bring them undone. Information recieved by me indicates it has been tried to implement what you have suggested and have hit a brick wall the whole way. I’ll refer you to one part of the above article where Councillor Freytag states that there is really nothing that can be done know the contracts have been signed. Why would he say that? It is quite clear and with evidence to support allegations of a meeting where two councillors who moved and seconded the motion to sign this deal should not have been in the room because of conflicts and contract should be void because of it. Freytag is also on the council Audit commitee where there was evidence of council complicity in this fiasco and yet still makes statements in the media such as he has done. He is there to protect his buddies in council and all evidence points toward this. A person on a Resident’s group who tried to expose this had false POLICE reports made against them by FREYTAG and I believe that the writer of this article Giles Parkinson should try and get in touch with that group to hear their side of the story. Like I’ve been commenting already on this site which I do respect is for people to promote green energy there is another side to this story that should also be told.
I agree if the actions of the councillors are under scrutiny, then ethically the councillors should stay out of the process and allow any “conflicts of interest” to be investigated. The extent councillors attempt to cover up or prevent such a process happening, tends to suggest fear and corruption on their part, otherwise they would welcome shining a light on the whole learning process instead of being dismissive “nothing can be done”. Making an assessment also gives the public a chance to see if those councillors have done the best for the community they can (or set the town up for poverty) and hence if the town wishes to elect those councillors again.
None of the contributors seem to have a grasp of the math. If you did you could determine that 48 cents/kwh figure doesn’t sound correct. In my observation basically divide the EDL/ARENA:Capex+roe ($39mil+$6.57mil) by the 20 year PPA and then by the kWhrs per annum (14,016,000 kWhrs=(max-demand:3,200kW*diversity-factor:0.5)*24*365days) = 16 cents per kWhr. add 5 cents for fuel (after 70% renewable input) and 4 cents for Opex. = $0.25 per kWhr so unless EDL and ARENA are forecasting returns of greater the 21% and 12% respectively, the Resonant Solutions data is suspect.
Note: 0.22L kWhr heat rate and an 80 cents per litre for diesel was used.
I can’t comment on the costings, though I read most of the comments and people have suggested the wind speed is too low to warrant the 2x wind turbines and proportions of the different generators should have been switched or wind eliminated altogether. Also the solar could have focused on winter harvest more because of the low wind in winter. The main thing is there was an absent procurement process, seemingly because EDL was still under contract for supplying power with their diesel generators… as I remember the discussion.
So the 20 year modeling data suggests 8-10hrs of wind speeds greater than 8m/s (mean), also this is between 6pm and 6am.
Sounds like your suggesting the proportions of wind and solar are correct or defensible. I think the community group needs to see the project rationale in order to evaluate if they are happy with what they’ve got, because presently they don’t seem happy. Unhappy communities often come from lack of open transparent processes where communities feel consulted with regards spending their money. In your view, why would the project have only aimed for 70% renewables when diesel is so expensive?
Well if you look at https://www.slideshare.net/informaoz/simon-gamble-hydro-tasmania-59848983; their system has >2,200 hours of zero diesel operation, so in my opinon it’s a fair target to aim for.
Thanks WS this is really helpful information adding contextual background to the install. Sharing this sort of information gets everyone on the same page, potentially creates mutual understanding and can ease tensions all around.
Is that 2200 hours or kw/h?
Its says hours. so ~25% of the year- the system ran Zero-Diesel, overall they achieved ~55% diesel savings. refer page 11.
Refer: africaaustraliaconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/EDL-Presentation.pdf
I live in Coober Pedy where people were denied the use of rooftop solar on their own homes in a town with 330 day’s per annum of sunshine. So how cheap would that have been so for me I realy couldn’t care less what you think I’ve got a grasp of. I will tell you one thing the deputy Mayor of Coober Pedy who moved the motion on this lunacy has rooftop solar on his own home and is not shy of telling people how low his electricity bill is.
Heh ragnor did you see this link WS posted. It appears to be some sort of project overview. The community group needs to chase up these kind of reports:
http://africaaustraliaconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/EDL-Presentation.pdf
Thanks for pointing that out they have that report and have someone going through it .As far as I know it’s a report from Keith Barker from EDL but will keep you informed, Again thanks.
WS also posted this comment below, highlighting EDL owns Hydro Tasmania who potentially supplied expertise for the Coober Pedy project and also a link to other background information for Hydro Tasmania projects as well. This all gives comparisons to assess the Coober Pedy project, as well as what other companies are doing.
https://www.slideshare.net/informaoz/simon-gamble-hydro-tasmania-59848983;
Note: EDL is owner / operator of the power station not the owner of Hydro Tasmania.
I’ll add that the domestic tariff advertised on the CP council website is 34.49 cents (for 201kWhr – 666kWhr), but a portion of this additional charge over my estimate should be going towards the upkeep of the network, but without knowing the maintenance cost it’s difficult to determine. So in my opinion until one can identify where revenue and subsidies are being spent, the PPA and project owner/s cannot be considered the root cause of this situation.
Is that with the (RAES) remote area electricity subsidy? I do believe that it is right correct me if i’m wrong. If it is with the subsidy it changes the equation. I agree the root cause is a lot more than the project owner’s. When I last checked that subsidy would be going overseas to a hong kong consortium. Can you confirm that? The district council would sell that electricity as the retailor at that price but would be after the subsidy kicked in. Again if I’m wrong correct me it as it would be good to know.
I’ll also add this is from councils website.
Power for Coober Pedy
Coober Pedy does not get its power from “The Grid”, as most people in Australia do.
Coober Pedy creates it own power through the use of both Diesel Generators and a Wind Turbine.
The generation of power is now performed by Energy Developments Ltd (based in Perth, WA).
The distribution and retailing of power is performed by Council.
If you require power to be connected to a property you need to contact the council office on (08) 8672 4600 or email [email protected].
Power prices for Coober Pedy are subsidised by the State Government, DTEI Energy Division.
The Tariff rates are as follows:
Domestic from 1 September 2015
Supply Charge $48.75
The First 200 kWh bi-monthly 32.84
The next 201 – 666 kWh bi- monthly 34.49
The next 667 – 1666 kWh bi- monthly 37.96
The next 1667 – 3333 kWh bi- monthly 38.74
The next 3334 – 99999 kWh bi- monthly 38.74
Domestic Accounts are sent out bi-monthly. These prices are after subsidy. What the power is being supplied at to the council is another question.It must be higher hence the “subsidy” It is starting look like weapon sixty four your numbers don’t add up. as you came up with .25cents without a subsidy
So now let’s allow for the subsidy that we do know exists and assume that is .10cents kw/h that would put the power price in the region that resonant solutions and council have stated not the .25 cents you have quoted. So it could be probable that EDL were here for a killing going by the rest of your figure’s
To weapon sixty four I posted the rest of the councils number’s from the site where you got the 34.49 cents from and for some reason it was deleted as a spam email. The bottom line is that you are quoting figure’s post subsidy with the highest tarriff being 38.74 cents. The site also states that Coober Pedy power prices are subsidised by the state government DTEI Energy Division as of 1st SEP 2015 So prices supplied to council by the owner’s of the facility are higher than council is selling as the retailer hence the “subsidy”. Now confirmation of a subsidy has been established for you. So let’s say the subsidy is .10cents kw/h that would put the supplier’s prices in the vicinity as quoted by resonant solutions and the district council not the .25 cents pre subsidy you quoted. If the rest of your figures you quoted are correct the 21% and 12% respectively it would appear that EDL was forcasting great returns on their investment. I will remind you that at last count this facility was about to have it’s third owner a hong kong consortium and I don’t believe one trickle of electricity has come from this facility yet. Now my question is why was it sold so many times and what happened to the original ARENA funding given to EDL?
To answer your question, I can’t imagine the new ARENA funding going toward the project as a lump sum, and note that the reason I used 21% and 12% was because it’s a rough figure of what a private and public organisation might consider as the lowest acceptable return, so you’re right it could be higher. I still haven’t seen this independent report and I still think it’s unlikely the cents per kWhr is 44 to 48, it could be if you added some fixed tariffs into the equation, but without the PPA or the report you can’t tell.
Also if you calculate back the “Independent reports” $192mil over 20 years, use the kWhr pa figure, and 38 cents per kWhr, it becomes a variable of ~$5.3mill and a remainder of ~$4.2 per annum which one could call a fixed component. Subtract the subsidies (5.3+4.2)-3.5= $6.0mil pa, divide 6.0 by 14.016 kWhrs pa, = ~$0.42 per kWhr, now include a renewable contribution of 50% reducing the variable, ((5.3 x 0.5)+4.2)-3.5 = $3.4mil, divide 3.4 by 14.016 = ~$0.25 cents per kWhr, so we could lower the subsidie because of network cost and apply the modeled 70% renewable target but whichever way you look at it, if the subsidies are used correctly and the system performs correctly, it indicates there is a savings.
Of 5.4 million over 20years. woohoo!!!
In the example above approx $2.65mil per year. or $53mil over 20 years.
It’s not supplied at 38cent’s “hence the subsidy” When are you going to get that. Again you are still bending facts to suit your argument
No the calculation shows that after “the subsidy” the over the fence power to be ~$0.42, if you increase the 38 cents to 40 or higher, you would need lower the fixed component to align with the “Independent Report” figure of $192mil..
What happened to 25 cents you first quoted? You are getting closer to doubling that and the figures closer to what every ons being trying to say.
It’s still there, you might not be getting it but I’ve simply shown a couple of methods that could be used to understand how this business deal is arranged, I have no need to remove it, because it shows you don’t need blind faith in unpublished reports and anecdotal evidence.
The reports as pointed out are in the public domain. Shadow Attorney generals of a government would surely had expert’s go through figure’s before they made a statement the only one blind here is you.It would also appear that your “couple of methods” don’t add up.
Nope you’re right, it doesn’t seem to be misquoted. Because if you take the additional ~2.4mil of subsidies the ~2.65mil in estimated savings you get ~250K.
They are not the figures the shadow attorney general came up with who has passed this on to the auditor general. They came up with the 5.4 million over the 20 years Maybe you should take your argument up with her office. Again I.ve been trying to expose the buisiness side of this fiasco and you seem caught up on something no one else is talking about. Refer to articles printed in INDAILY and it might fill you in a bit. It also appears that your trying to defend a technology that I’m not questioning.
Council has already clearly stated publicly that power will start at 50 cents kw/h with a subsidy. What else do you need. Just because you find it unlikely doesn’t mean it’s not happening and believe me we couldn’t fathom what was going on either. Maybe your starting see how outrageous this whole thing is. The prices quoted ARE the prices whatever you might believe. The project is nearly completed and funding has been paid. ” I think it’s unlikely the cents per kw/hr is 44 to 48 cents” is only a statement of an opinion ufortunately and not based on fact.Why would the council say it will start at 50cents and escalate to 115 cents if it was not in the PPA> I think your argument’s now are becoming a bit ridiculous. No one has ever said anything about the project only the buisiness deal so what your on about is anyone’s guess. I realy don’t care about the technologies in this particular instance as the buisness side of things is just crazy Go to an article in today’s INDAILY and you will see what’s going on with electricity prices.If it is so much cheaper to produce why are we paying so much more for it. I can see you are all for these type of projects as am I but the public will not wear this sort of thing and if Coober Pedy is a litmus test as what’s to come then things dont look good. That’s the message I’ve been trying to get out there. The argument also that someone has to pay for the technology so that science can advance is also bullshit as the town is mostly made up of economically deprived who can’t afford now to keep themselves cool in the heat and have their children have a good night’s sleep so they can go to school in the morning. there’s a lot more to this story than some f3333n technology that somehow you seem to be blinded by.
ARENA funding has been paid you have seen the district council website by the 34.49 cents you posted. You have read the highest tarrif of 38.74 cent’s and it clearly states that the prices are subsidised and yet you still insist on posting false facts for some reason. Again the supply charge is alot more than what you’re calculating at but you don’t want to believe any other figure’s are correct. The council has clearly stated that prices will start at 50 cents kwh and escalate 115 cents kwh and yet none of that seems to be taken on board by you. Are you saying that council is misleading the public and the media? The current subsidy being paid is nearly twice the yearly savings you have quoted.
To weapon sixty four Google justin freytag and go to the ABC story that he was interviewd in and the figure of 5.4 million comes up again. All you have done is wasted everyones time with your nonsense. It is also quoted in that story of 100 million dollars in subsidies that now will have to be paid that weren’t needed that wil now go over seas like I said.. That’s 5 million a year approx. what I have been saying. A department of state development(DSD) spokesman stated that a saving 5.4 million over the 20 year perod. Not the 53 million you are promoting. Like I said you don’t have clue of what you’re talking about. The worst part about this is me being a novice at this I was really hoping that you could be right. I don.t know if you realise how dissappointed I am.
You’re right. Apparently a DSD spokesperson (speaking to InDaily?) said the project was forecast to save the (SA?) Government $5.4 million against diesel generation costs over a 20-year-period, there is no more supporting statements on what the means, it could be that they are saving $270k against the RAES that the state would have to pay, or it could be misquoted. So like I explained below- at a 50% renewable contribution there could be a saving of ~$2.65, its only Resonant’s analysis that finds that the current subsidy under RAES of around $3.5 million per year would increase by $2.4 million. I’m not promoting anything, I’m showing you different methods you can use to understand where you problem lies.
Also some more aspects about this technology- apparently June 2013 to March 2016 was required for planning, design, approvals, modeling, consent, feasibility, contracts, etc, so 3 years!, and lets say there were 1 person from EDL, and 1 person from a Designer and 1 from Vendors/Consultants, all working full time, that’s ~6000 hrs: x 3 years x $160 hr = ~$2.8 million, so this plus site engineering and management, plus any additional costs required to connect it into an existing network needs to be considered, plus name another organisation selling a turnkey grid-baseload-capable zero-diesel-hybrid-wind-solar-battery power system.. thats utility scale.
do you work for EDL and I’m sure the Taxpayer would be very happy to spend 100 million somewhere else. and zero diesel is bullshit
Nope, but I’m quite happy for you to call me out for being defensive- if you can come up with points of your own. Simply my remarks suggest a link between a 3 year planning process, and costs that people don’t consider.
June 2013 to march 2016 who really cares. The way things are shaping up it would appear to be a waste of money
the RAES subsidy is in the millions per annum. 100 million sounds exactly right. The buisiness deal whih is what I have been pointing out is the problem. Ths project is a TOTAL failure and dismally at best. Not a good look for the renewables industry which for some reason is all people seem to care about.
No problem, i’m not considering remote communities negligible in anyway, but can you: for the benefit of anybody reading this saga, clarify what points I’m wrong on? Also the majority of all tangible reports go back to one source the DCCP and Resonant Solutions – with exception of a DSD statement and Deputy State Liberal leader; simply “saying” you’ve seen something doesn’t make it fact, for instance I’ve seen a wiki page that tells me Ragnar Lothbrok is a viking leader and hero of Old Norse poetry that doesn’t mean you’re him and he’s liberal with the letter “O” when he signs up to forums.
You’re wrong on the lot .Your equations start at 25cents a kwh and are then 42cents a kwh. An attorney general is wrong you are right. The ABC is wrong you are right INDAILEY is wrong you are right Resonant solutions is wrong you are right. Anybody that has got something to say about this project is wrong you are right. Starting to see a pattern here. And then as soon as it looks like you been shown to be wrong you get personal and nasty. Pointing out that you are wrong on something does not make that personal. I am not the only one who seems to believe that this project is a total failure it also would appear that alot of people agree with a lot of evidence to support it. The only one who doen’t agree is you becausr you are right.
Hey Rag, how come you get to delete posts? and I don’t..
I don’t know what you mean.
That’s ok, I await your rebuttal. May I suggest you start with telling me how wrong I am, but please also may I ask you to be more specific.
you want a copy of the consultants report go to the council or better still contact the guy that wrote it.as you know who it is. It seems to me you have taken a personal issue with me. Again I am protesting against the deal which I have made loud and clear. What you’re on about is anyones guess. I saw your post on the INDAILY website and if you think that anybody in their right mind is going to hand over documents to some idiot calling himself weapon sixty four on the internet you need to go get some help. So this is a polite way of telling you to FUCKOFF and let people do what they have to do.Like I said on the INDAILY post put up who you really are you gutless mutt.
Sounds like a lot more than one source you are an idiot
That statement is fairly self explanetary.
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Big. Fat. Research.
by Jacoba Poppleton
Making customers happy is big business. Positive consumer response drives all aspects of the food industry. Pinpointing exactly what characteristics in food make consumers the happiest is a job recently taken on by USU researcher Silvana Martini
Martini, an assistant professor in the department of nutrition, dietetics and food sciences, conducts research with an end goal of improving food quality and fighting obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Using state-of-the-art technology, Martini and her team work on a number of projects to improve the quality and nutrition of foods—and to do so in a way that will keep consumers happy and coming back for more.
Using high-tech ultrasound technology, Martini and her team are working to develop health(ier) fats that offer the same taste and texture of dreaded, and dangerous, trans fats.
FAT CRYSTALS
Have you ever eaten room-temperature butter that was a bit crunchy? Consumers find the experience jarring and unappetizing because of preconceived expectations about the way butter should taste and the way it should feel on your tongue; we expect butter to be hard when it comes out of the fridge and soft when it melts; we expect butter to be silky smooth.
“It’s the fat in the butter that gets crunchy—the lipids in the butter crystallize as they change temperature,” said Martini. “It’s the crystallized lipid that crunches, the presence of big lipid crystals—a sensation most consumers do not like.”
The size of the crystals don’t change the way food tastes; the size of the crystals changes the way the food feels. Consumers simply don’t like it.
Consumer acceptance is big business for food companies who have in recent years had to find alternatives to trans fats. “Trans fats are bad for us but good for food structure even though they tend to crystallize more,” according to Martini. “When trans fats are taken out of foods, something has to replace them.”
“This ultrasound technology has a wide range of applications. The filling in sandwich cookies, for example, can’t be too hard or too soft. Consumers expect the filling to be a certain way.”
Using high intensity ultrasound technology, Martini changes the structure of healthy fats to behave like a trans fat would, but without big lipid crystals.
“This ultrasound technology has a wide range of applications,” said Martini. “The filling in sandwich cookies, for example, can’t be too hard or too soft. Consumers expect the filling to be a certain way.” Meaning, of course, that consumers want cookie filling to be as it was when manufactured from trans fats—smooth and soft.
The same can be said with chocolate candy bars—the white film that is sometimes found on a discounted candy bar at a gas station isn’t mold; it’s crystallized fat from changes in temperature.
“All products that formerly contained trans fat are suffering from the same problem,” said Martini.
In 2009 Martini received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund her research, which includes applying high intensity ultrasound to a fat that is more heart-healthy than trans fat. She is currently in the initial phases of applying the high intensity ultrasound technology.
WHEY TOO HEAVY
The problem with protein-rich energy drinks is that they all taste just about the same: malty, heavy, thick and hard to swallow. Martini knows this and so does the food industry—consumers want something else in a protein energy drink. Consumers want a clear drink loaded with protein, not one weighed down and hard to drink after a strenuous workout.
Whey proteins suspended in water make these drinks malted in texture. The problem? Consumers don’t love the texture and taste of the whey protein—something that is of major concern to Dairy Management Incorporated, the entity funding Martini’s whey research. This research was performed in collaboration with Marie Walsh, an associate professor in nutrition, dietetics and food sciences at USU.
“One of the biggest problems with whey is its astringency,” said Martini. “People are put-off by the drying effect it has on their mouths—a serious problem if you market your product to consumers of energy protein drinks.”
Using the same ultrasound technology used to change the crystallization of lipids in fats, Martini and Walsh have developed a method to decrease the turbidity of the whey and increase clarity. Whey proteins could soon find their way into clear energy drinks and could fill a niche unsatisfied by current products.
A Steak by Any Other Name
A lexicon is a list of words often used by a specific group. Wine enthusiasts, for example, have developed a lexicon of terms to identify flavors in wine and give consumers an idea of what to expect before purchasing or opening a bottle.
Consumers want to know what to expect—they want to know what their dollar is purchasing, even in intangible terms. Knowing flavors ahead of time gives consumers an idea of what to expect.
Developing lexicons to give consumers an idea of flavors in other items—meat, for example—is another way Martini’s research helps to keep consumers happy.
With a grant from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Martini, along with USU researchers Robert Ward and Daren Cornforth, has developed a lexicon with eighteen terms that can be used to describe the flavor of meat. They have plans to develop more terms in the lexicon for flavor identification and correlate them with chemical compounds in the meat itself.
“Our lexicon is similar to the one used to distinguish and describe the flavors in wine,” said Martini.
What Martini has learned from her work with Ward and Cornforth is that grass fed cows, according to consumers, fit into categories labeled as gamey, grassy, barny, less fatty and less juicy. Martini’s study showed that consumers like grass-fed beef less than corn-fed beef—a preference that is distinct to the demographic surveyed.
In the future these flavor lexicons developed by Martini, Ward and Cornforth can help characterize meat in grocery stores across the country. Labels like “gamey” or “barny” can help consumers identify products they wish to purchase and instruction packets could provide guidance to consumers wishing to mask undesirable qualities found in the meat itself.
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Optimal Control of the Money Supply
Litterman, Robert B.
Using optimal control theory and a vector autoregressive representation of the relationship between money and interest rates one can derive a feedback control procedure which defines the best possible tradeoff between interest rate volatility and money supply fluctuations and which could be used to reduce both from their current levels.
Control theory, Inflation, Federal Reserve Bank, Optimal control theory, and Time series analysis
E51 - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers, E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General, and E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies
Money Is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money
Marimon, Ramon, 1953-, Nicolini, Juan Pablo, and Teles, Pedro
Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)
The interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancing mechanisms in the private provision of money is studied. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without commitment, competition plays no role. Trust does play a role but requires a bound on efficiency. Stationary inflation must be non-negative and, therefore, the Friedman rule cannot be achieved. The quality of money can be observed only after its purchasing capacity is realized. In this sense, money is an experience good.
Currency competition, Trust, and Inflation
E50 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General, E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies, E60 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General, and E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General
On the Optimal Choice of a Monetary Policy Instrument
Atkeson, Andrew, Chari, V. V., and Kehoe, Patrick J.
The optimal choice of a monetary policy instrument depends on how tight and transparent the available instruments are and on whether policymakers can commit to future policies. Tightness is always desirable; transparency is only if policymakers cannot commit. Interest rates, which can be made endogenously tight, have a natural advantage over money growth and exchange rates, which cannot. As prices, interest and exchange rates are more transparent than money growth. All else equal, the best instrument is interest rates and the next-best, exchange rates. These findings are consistent with the observed instrument choices of developed and less-developed economies.
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Demand Uncertainty and Decentralization: A Simple Pure Transaction Model of Money
Bryant, John B.
A simple model of backed money without a store of value function is presented, discussed, and defended. The function of money in the model is to replace complex contingent contracts traded on a centralized exchange with simple trades in decentralized markets.
Fiat money, Commodity money, and Contracts
C10 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General and E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General
A Price Discrimination Analysis of Monetary Policy
Bryant, John B. and Wallace, Neil
Prohibition, Government debt, Rate of return dominance, and Private currency
E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General and E52 - Monetary Policy
A Suggestion for Oversimplifying the Theory of Money
Wallace, Neil
The Harry G. Johnson Lecture, presented at the 1987 A.U.T.E. and the Royal Economic Society Conference, Aberyswyth, April 1-4.
Monetary theory, Inside money, Assets, Outside money, Equilibrium model, and Currency
E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General and G12 - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
On the Stability of Money Demand
Lucas, Jr., Robert E. and Nicolini, Juan Pablo
We show that regulatory changes that occurred in the banking sector in the early eighties, which considerably weakened Regulation Q, can explain the apparent instability of money demand during the same period. We evaluate the effects of the regulatory changes using a model that goes beyond aggregates as M1 and treats currency and different deposit types as alternative means of payments. We use the model to construct a new monetary aggregate that performs remarkably well for the entire period 1915-2012.
Money demand and Monetary base
E41 - Demand for Money and E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General
Search-Based Models of Money and Finance: An Integrated Approach
Trejos, Alberto and Wright, Randall D.
Many applications of search theory in monetary economics use the Shi-Trejos-Wright model, hereafter STW, while applications in finance use Duffie-Gârleanu-Pederson, hereafter DGP. These approaches have much in common, and both claim to be about liquidity, but the models also differ in a fundamental way: in STW agents use assets as payment instruments when trading goods; in DGP there are no gains from exchanging goods, but agents trade because they value assets differently with goods serving as payment instruments. We develop a framework nesting the two. This clarifies the connection between the literatures, and generates new insights and applications. Even in the special cases of the baseline STW and DGP models, we provide propositions generalizing and strengthening what is currently known, and rederiving some existing results using more tractable arguments.
Money, Search, Bargaining, and Finance
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy and E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General
Fiat Value in the Theory of Value
Prescott, Edward C. and Wessel, Ryan
We explore monetary policy in a world without currency. In our world, money is a form of government debt that bears interest, which can be negative as well as positive. Services of money are a factor of production. We show that the national accounts must be revised in this world. Using our baseline economy, we determine the balanced growth paths for a set of money interest rate target policy regimes. Besides this interest rate, the only policy variable that differs across regimes is either the labor income tax rate or the inflation rate. We find that Friedman monetary satiation without deflation is possible. We also examine a set of inflation rate targeting regimes. Here, the only other policy variable that differs across policy regimes is the tax rate. There is a sequence of markets with outcome in each market being a Debreu valuation equilibrium, which determines the vector of assets and liabilities households take into the subsequent period. Evaluating a policy regime is an advanced exercise in public finance. Monetary satiation is not optimal even though money is costless to produce. A preliminary version of this paper circulated under the title “Monetary Policy with 100 Percent Reserve Banking: An Exploration.”
Money in production function, 100 percent reserve banking, Friedman monetary satiation, Inflation rate targeting, and Interest rate targeting
E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General, E50 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General, E60 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General, and E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General
New Monetarist Economics: Models
Williamson, Stephen D. and Wright, Randall D.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the models used in New Monetarist Economics, which is our label for a body of recent work on money, banking, payments systems, asset markets, and related topics. A key principle in New Monetarism is that solid microfoundations are critical for understanding monetary issues. We survey recent papers on monetary theory, showing how they build on common foundations. We then lay out a tractable benchmark version of the model that allows us to address a variety of issues. We use it to analyze some classic economic topics, like the welfare effects of inflation, the relationship between money and capital accumulation, and the Phillips curve. We also extend the benchmark model in new ways, and show how it can be used to generate new insights in the study of payments, banking, and asset markets.
New Monetarism, Monetary Theory, and Monetary Policy
E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General, E50 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General, E10 - General Aggregative Models: General, and E40 - Money and Interest Rates: General
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Wright, Randall D.6
Nicolini, Juan Pablo4
Teles, Pedro4
Correia, Isabel3
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E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies5
E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General4
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January 14, 2020 in Books, Review - No Comments - 16 min read
Finally, we’re here at the end of the V.C. Andrews Cutler series. Let’s review Darkest Hour. We’ve endured the hardships of Dawn Cutler, forced ourselves to watch the curse continue with her daughter, Christie, and now we’re going back to the source of it all with Grandmother Cutler. Or rather, Lillian Booth. Yes, let’s revisit the horrible Grandmother Cutler in her V.C. Andrews protagonist days, shall we?
GROWING UP ON THE THRIVING PLANTATION CALLED THE MEADOWS, LILLIAN BOOTH CHERISHES THE BRIGHTEST, HAPPIEST DREAMS. . .
Lillian’s world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia. Non one, not even her cold, stern Papa and her Bible-spouting sister Emily, can crush her spirits — until the day Emily reveals the shattering secret of Lillian’s birth, a secret Mama sadly cannot deny. Still Lillian refuses to believe Emily’s hateful claim that she is evil, a curse . . . even when sweet, gentle Eugenia loses her fragile hold on life, and Mama retreats further into her fantasies.
But when tragedy befalls her best friend, the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own, Lillian comes to believe Emily’s grim words. Meekly, she endures her penance, finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. Lillian’s heart is torn anew when, in a drunken haze, Papa subjects her to the most brutal degradation.
Then Papa loses the Meadows in a card game, and Lillian is faced with a new and terrifying prospect. Arrogant, handsome playboy Bill Cutler will return the plantation — if Lillian will marry him! Now Lillian must leave her girlhood home behind, and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler’s Cove . . .
NOTE: The back cover blurb is literally ONE PARAGRAPH. Normally I don’t alter the text, but this was a great abhorrence that I refused to let stand.
About Darkest Hour
As with most 5th books in a V.C. Andrews series’, Darkest Hour is a prequel. These prequels are often pointless because they delve deep into revelations we’ve already experienced the shock of in previous books in the series. I guess they’re supposed to shed light on previous characters, but seeing that Grandmother Cutler was such a villain before, it’s odd to see her in this “innocent” light.
Lillian is NOT Grandmother Cutler and I fail to see how Lillian could become Grandmother Cutler, even with the events that take place.
Dawn and its subsequent books take place sometime in the 1980’s. We never learn of Grandmother Cutler’s actual age, but let’s just say she’s in her 70’s. Darkest Hour starts when Lillian is 4 years old. A little subtraction would lead this book to take place somewhere in the 1910’s – 1920’s.
The family uses horse-drawn carriages and the estate is beginning to suffer problems as a result of the Civil War. I’m a big sucker for anything turn of the century, so I was quite excited for this book.
My Copy
I purchased this copy from the same bookstore as the previous four books in the series. It’s in what I could consider “very good” condition. One crease runs along the spine. The top corners have sustained a bit of wear, but the bottom ones have managed to survive previous readings. Pages remain crisp and white.
I quite like the cover of this book. The keyhole is of the standard “protagonist’s face in the moon” variety. The tree stands ominous in the foreground. The colours of the moody sunset make this cover very eye-catching. Honestly, any V.C. Andrews book that features bare trees gets a thumbs-up from me. Gothic vibes created!
What I must take issues with, however, is the damn stepback picture:
This book takes place in the 1910s, so why in hell is Lillian wearing an 80s monstrosity of a floofy dress?! Look at those MASSIVE earrings on Georgia! Look at that ridiculous matching necklace! What’s with those massive princess skirts and giant balloon sleeves!
The only period appropriate pieces in this picture are Eugenia’s wheelchair and possibly Emily’s dress, though I’m not sure if the peter-pan collar is accurate o the period. I’m pretty sure that casual dress collars went right up the neck. One could argue that Jed’s outfit fits, but that bow and jacket look a bit too streamline for look like a turn of the century suit. The jacket collar appears too low. Oh yeah, and men (especially wealthy ones) went to the barber religiously.
Like, I’m not a fashion student of any sort, but I’ve watched enough shows from that time period to know historical inaccuracies when I see them. Those hairstyles are quite Back to the Future-inspired for the Edwardian era.
To be honest, by this point in the Cutler series, I was about ready to be done. The formula gets exhausting. Three books with the main protagonist? Then one poorly-written book with the protagonist’s spawn? Then we have to go back in time and live through revelations we’ve already experienced lackluster shock from? By this point I was about ready to go back to my daily life listening to how climate change is going to kill us all.
But on I suffered!
An Innocent & Pretty, Yet Completely Naive Female Protagonist
Now, we all remember Grandmother Cutler from Dawn. Horrible. Insistent. Fodder for the whole “OK, BOOMER” trend. In Darkest Hour, we meet Lillian Booth at the age of 4:
In Mamma’s mind, I would eventually go to a fine finishing school, just like she did, and when the time was right, I would be introduced to fine society, and some handsome, wealthy, young southern aristocrat would begin to court me and eventually come calling on Papa with a request for my hand. We’d have a big, elaborate wedding at The Meadows and I would go off, waving from the back of the carriage, to live happily ever after.
My daughter is four. She does not speak like this. You could argue that this is Lillian speaking as an adult about her 3-year old experience, but even I don’t speak of my 4 year-old self this way.
This is the problem I have with Andrews’ protagonists when the books start them off this young. This book could have started with Lillian as a teenager like other Andrews tales. Nevertheless, we have to endure a quarter of his novel featuring scenes of Lillian being tormented by her older sister, Emily.
Also, Lillian learns that her mother isn’t actually her mother, but Momma’s sister, Violet, who tries to marry for love and ended up pregnant and, obviously, dead form childbirth.
A Tragic Death
Much of Lillian’s more pleasant earlier memories take place with her younger sister, Eugenia, who is confined to a wheelchair due to her cystic fibrosis. Eugenia lives most of her life vicariously through Lillian’s days at school, and though her growing infatuation with her friend Niles.
As Lillian ages, she ventures out alone with Niles to his “magic pond”. Niles insists that the pond is magic because when you make a wish in front of it, the wish will come true. They end up sharing their first kiss at this magic pond. After enough stories about the pond’s magic, Eugenia begs to see it, so Lillian creates an elaborate plan to take her little sister there.
Unfortunately, Emily soon catches wind of their excursions plays a bunch of horrible pranks on Lillian to prevent her from taking Eugenia out committing sins. Still, Lillian can’t help herself. She and Niles take their budding sexuality a bit further. Lots of hardcore breast action takes place:
I saw his eyes drink in my bosom and when I closed my eyes, I envisioned his hands on my breasts. Right now, his right hand rested on my side. Slowly, I lowered my left hand to his wrist and then brought his hand up until his fingers grazed my breast. He resisted at first. I heard him take a deep breath, but I couldn’t stop. I pressed his palm to my breast and then brought my lips to his. His fingers moved until they settled over the nipple of my breast and I moaned.
Not as much breast as that scene from Honey, but it’s enough brast action to send Lillian into a spiral of moral paranoia. She runs home and find’s the doctor’s carriage in front of the estate house. Eugenia gets smallpox and you know what Lillian does to try to save her?
I’ve got to tell you all about what happened to me at school today and what Niles Thompson did to defend me. You want to hear that, don’t you? Don’t you, Eugenia? And guess what?” I whispered, leaning toward her. “He and I went to the magic pond again. Yes, we did. And we kissed and kissed. You want to hear all about it, don’t you, Eugenia? Don’t you?”
Eugenia’s response:
A Hostile Maternal Figure (+ Bonus Mean Girl!)
Lillian’s mother, Georgia isn’t so much a hostile figure as she is a hopeless romantic. Georgia switches from seeming like a caring mother to a self-obsessed and vain mother obsessed with hosting fancy parties. Then Eugenia dies and Georgia takes that classic Cutler tailspin into crazy-town.
Georgia stays in her room and rufuses to open the blinds. She gains weight (a classic V.C. Andrews trope to indicate one’s downfall) and loses her facial glow. Lillian grows concerned and attempts to get her father, Jed, and her sister Emily to help but both of them insist that Georgia should have prayed more.
Eventually Lillian attempts to confront her mother directly, only to find her sitting before her vanity, brushing her hair in a daze. Georgia then mistakes Lillian for her bio-mom, Violet:
“Don’t look at me like that. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. I hate my marriage; I’ve hated it from the beginning. Those wails you heard coming from my room the night before my wedding were wails of agony. “
Georgia confesses the tragic reality of her arranged marriage to Jed Booth, along with her yearning for what Violet had with Lillian’s real father, Aaron. Georgia slips spends the rest of her days locked away in hallucination.
I struggle a lot with Georgia because she’s a wonderful tragic character, but the book pretty much just utilizes her for a plot-convenient death, which we’ll get to in a moment.
In the meantime, let’s take a moment to address Emily, who we all loved to hate in Secrets of the Morning:
I mean, that’s pretty much it. She does do some pretty heinous stuff for the sake of proving to Lillian that she’s a horrible evil no good very bad sinner. Examples:
Drowning Lillian’s cat Cotton when Lillian and Eugenia get too obsessed with it.
Hides Eugenia’s wheelchair in a barn with a skunk, so that Lillian gets sprayed with the skunk and has to get all her hair chopped off.
Discovers Lillian walking out of the woods with Niles and goes and rats her out for being a total JEZEBEL to Papa.
Which leads us to…
A Beloved Doting Paternal Figure
There is no “Daddy” in this book. It’s far from that. Jed Booth is your standard asshole dad who insists on being called Captain even though he never joined the military. White male privilege at its best. He runs The Meadows in a domineering manner, losing his temper whenever he sees fit.
He also eats obnoxiously. And he always shouts “God’s teeth!” when he’s frustrated, which is a phrase I’ve never heard before. Is that a real thing? Like a real phrase people used to say?
So yeah, Emily tells Jed that Lillian’s been whoring it up. Papa finally steps in, but instead of being fatherly, he goes full perv-mode and feels a teenage Lillian up in her bedroom. It’s an uncomfortable scene that I refused to bookmark which is fine because there’s much more nastiness to come.
One night, Niles climbs into Lillian’s bedroom window and the two engage in some PG-13 loving.
Lillian and Niles manage to stop themselves from going all the way, and Niles leaves in the night by climbing down the house’s drainpipe. Then the next morning, (of course!) Niles is found dead with a broken neck. Jed becomes furious with Lillian and has a doctor come in to check her hymen to see if she actually boned Niles or not.
In light of this plot point, and in light of recent celebrity news, please allow me to make one quick public service announcement:
AN INTACT HYMEN DOES NOT MEAN A WOMAN IS A VIRGIN.
WOMEN CAN BREAK THEIR HYMENS BY DOING THINGS OTHER THAN HAVING SEX, SUCH AS RIDING A BIKE.
SOME WOMEN NEVER BREAK THEIR HYMENS.
AN INTACT HYMEN IS NOT A SIGN OF VIRGINITY.
Incest!
As The Meadows proceeds to lose money and staff is let go, Jed progresses quickly into alcoholism. One night he falls down the stairs and breaks his leg. Bound to his bed, he insists that Lillian assist him in his daily routines. Sure, she does a great job balancing the books, but he also makes her change him and give him sponge baths.
One night, Jed gets cold, so instead of asking for another blanket, he asks Lillian to get into the bed with him, and then we all know what happens next. Emily gets pregnant from this encounter, and of course, Jed refuses to take the blame:
“Why am I shouting? She’s pregnant with that dead boy’s baby. That’s why,” he said quickly.
“It’s not true, Emily. It wasn’t Niles,” I said.
“Shut up,” Emily said. “Of course it was Niles. You had him in your room and you did a sinful thing. Now you’re going to suffer for it.”
“There’s no reason to let anyone else know,” Papa said. “We’ll keep her hidden until afterward.”
“Then what will you do, Papa? What about the baby?”
“The baby . . . the baby . . . “
“It’ll be Mama’s baby,” Emily said quickly.
Lillian ends up confined to her room under threat of horsewhipping, even though every time she acts out she’s never reprimanded more than being forced to read a bunch of Bible verses. There’s little I remember of this portion of the book, up until the part when Lillian pretty much says “SCREW THIS”and escapes the house to visit the stupid magic pond again.
By this point, Lillian’s sporting a 7-month pregnancy belly and can’t make it all the way there, or all the way back. She flounders and collapses and drags herself as close as she can back to The Meadows. Then, just like Dawn, she gives birth to a preemie baby TWO MONTHS EARLY that somehow survives without any medical intervention.
A Rags to Riches Plot
Baby Charlotte is born to the world and passed around from woman to woman in the household. Lillian fails to have a decent bonding moment in the story, but she claims to love her daughter and blah blah blah. Once again, like Dawn, she fails to deal with any real postpartum issues at all. Then Georgia dies and Jed goes further into his drinking.
He begins having poker games and one night wages the entire estate to a man named Bill Cutler. Bill ultimately wins. Bill is also a gross perv who takes an eye to Lillian, and in a desperate attempt to save the only thing he has left, Jed trades the estate for Lillian’s hand in marriage.
Fantastic Psychological Horror
I quite like this plot development because it takes things full circle with Lillian having to live the exact same life that her adopted mother Georgia did. By this point in the book, Lillian’s pretty much down with the idea that she’s cursed for life. Her only worry is not being able to take Charlotte with her and she makes one last-ditch attempt to get Jed to do the right damn thing:
“I want Charlotte.” I want to be able to take her with me when I go,” I said.
“Charlotte? Take the baby?” He thought for a moment, his eyes fixing on the rain-washed windows. For a moment he was really considering it. My hopes began to soar. Papa had no real love for Charlotte. If he could get her of too . . . then he shook his head and turned back to me. “I can’t do that, Lillian. She’s my child. I can’t go giving up my child. What would people think?”
He promises that maybe Charlotte will get to spend more time with Lillian “in time”, and that’s pretty much the extent of Lillian’s protest for HER OWN CHILD. She’s totally fine with leaving HER OWN CHILD in that house of horrors.
So I suppose in a way, that’s some fantastic psychological horror, but I don’t think it’s the kind of psychological horror that Neiderman was going for.
In the end, Lillian marries and lives a loveless marriage with Bill Cutler at Cutler’s Cove. Bill Cutler ends up being quite the dud and so Lillian takes over the books and the management and pretty much everything else. She’s happy. She’s home. And there’s no sign of her turning into the horrible woman she’s manifested to by the time Dawn comes around.
A Vivid Gothic Setting
I dunno, we get to spend more time at The Meadows in the tail end of its glory days, which is cool, but the estate really isn’t much of a character in this book as it was in previous ones.
Some Good Olde School Misogyny
Lillian hits puberty at a young age (though it’s not explained what age, specifically). Of course, the first period scene is a grand moment of absolute horror, unlike the experience that most girls have with their first period. Cramps and blood and much sobbing occurs.
Then, of course, Georgia gives Lillian “the talk” and of course, it’s the wrong damn talk:
The changes in me that followed were a great deal more subtle. My bosom continued to sprout a little bit at a time until Mamma remarked one day that I had cleavage.
“That little dark space between our breasts,” she told me in a whisper, “fascinates menfolk.”
She went on to tell me about a female character in one of her books who deliberately sought out ways to reveal and make the most of it. She wore undergarments that would life and squeeze her breasts, “making them bulge and their cleavages deepen.” The very thought of such a thing made my heart pound.
“The men talked about her behind her back and called her a tease,” Mamma said. “You have to be careful from now on, Lillian, that you don’t do anything to lead men to believe you’re anything like that sort. Those are loose women who never win the respect of a decent man.”
None of this ultimately matters because Jed rapes Lillian and then Bill Cutler stalks her though the Meadows when she’s walking around with a baby of all things.
He stepped closer to me, so close I felt his breath on the back of my neck. “You do a lot around here, I bet, don’t you?”
“I do my chores,” I said, reaching down to give the baby one of her toys. I didn’t want to look at Bill Cutler. I was uncomfortable under such male scrutiny. When Bill Cutler gazed at me, he gazed at all of me, his eyes traveling up and down my body every time he spoke. I felt just like one of the slave girls must have felt on the auction block.
Gah! Ugh!
Some Really Bad Writing
I feel like I’m growing a little blind to the excessive paragraphs of melodrama. Lillian’s angst doesn’t resonate quite as effectively as Dawn’s did. Still, there a moments here and there when Lillian goes into a spiral of mind-pity.
We’re all being tested, I concluded. Deep in my heart, buried under mountains of pretend and illusion, was the realization that the biggest test of all was just ahead. It was always there, lingering over The Meadows like a dark cloud that was oblivious to the wind or to prayers. It hovered, waiting until its time came.
And then it released the rain of sadness over us, the drops so cold they were to chill my heart forever and ever.
Rain and cloud references frequent this novel. It’s a pretty standard reference in plenty V.C. Andrews books, but I particularly noticed them in this one. Here’s another cloud one:
I lowered my head and with a heart so heavy it made my steps ponderous, I headed toward the house. When I looked up, I saw that a long, heavy cloud had slipped over the sun and dropped a veil of gray over the great building, making all the windows look dark and empty, all except one window, the window of Emily’s room. In it she stood gazing down at me, her long white face casting a look of displeasure.
Another quirk that bugged me about this book was Niles’ stupid magic pond. At first it’s kind of cute. H takes Lillian there and tells her to make a wish and dip her fingers in. Simple. Easy. Then he gets all smarmy and manipulative, making up new rules about the pond every time they go there. IN this scene, he uses the magic pond to fix Lillian’s chopped-off skunk hair:
“Go on, close your eyes,” he urged. I did so and smile at the same time. I hadn’t smiled for days. I felt the drops sink through my shortened strands and touch my scalp and then, quite unexpectedly, I felt Niles’s lips touch mine. My eyes snapped open with surprise.
“That’s one of the rules,” he said quickly. “Whoever puts the water on you, has to seal the wish with a kiss.”
First, “Niles’s” is an actual typo in the book.
Second, Niles is a manipulative little turd and I’m glad he’s dead because if he had the chance to grow up, he’d be coaxing insecure girls to bone him in college.
To be honest, I failed to retain much of this book. It’s hard caring about characters you hated originally. It’s hard forcing one’s self to commit to a new novel that I know will be lackluster. It’s the main problem with prequels, is knowing everything already. Some awful rape occurs and it’s difficult to really feel it justified when Lillian simply shrugs it off instead of really working through it.
My main qualm was a bulk of the plot focusing solely on Lillian’s life at The Meadows. I’d have preferred to see more of Lillian’s life after marrying Bill Cutler and growing into the woman she becomes by Dawn. I wanted to see her become a villain, not a typical V.C. Andrews character who we have to somehow fill the gaps with by novel’s end.
DARKEST HOUR (Cutler Series #5)
V.C. Andrews Vibes
Hello, Edwardian era!
Lillian's IDAF attitude to her marriage with Bill Cutler is kind of awesome.
Niles, a future stalker and gaslighter, dies.
Georgia could have been a great character. Instead she was a plot device..
Period inaccuracy, and not just of the menstrual variety.
Jed never gets the what-for.
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Posted: May 9, 2018 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Adhesion Contract, Amicus Curiae, Assumption of risk, Certiorari, Definitions, Derivative Claim, Duty of care, Express Assumption of risk, Failure to Warn, Foreseeability, Forum non conveniens, Fraudulent Misrepresentation, Gross negligence, Implied Assumption of the Risk, Inherently Dangerous, Lex loci contractus, Negligence, Negligence per se, Negligent Misrepresentation, Open and Obvious, Phrases, Primary Assumption of Risk, Product liability, Public Policy, Punitive damages, recklessness, Release, Remittitur, Rescue Doctrine, Respondeat Superior, Secondary Assumption of Risk, Sudden Emergency Doctrine, Unconscionable, Wanton or Reckless, willful, Wrongful Death | Leave a comment
The articles next to the term or phrase and state identify an article where the court has defined the term in the legal decision and it is quoted in the article.
This does not cover every decision posted on Recreation-law.com. However, you might find it helpful to understand some terms.
Term or Phrase
Article that Defines the Term or Phrase
Adhesion Agreement Colorado Colorado Federal District Court judge references a ski area lift ticket in support of granting the ski area’s motion for summary judgment and dismissing the lawsuit.
Admiralty Law Nevada Admiralty law did not stop a release from barring a claim for negligence for a parasailing injury.
Agency New Jersey The use of the PGA name was not enough to tire the PGA to a golf camp where they had no relationship or control. As such, they were dismissed from the suit because they had no duty to the injured minor.
Amicus Curiae Colorado 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Colorado law concerning releases in a whitewater rafting fatality.
Ambiguity Minnesota Plaintiff argues under Minnesota law the language on the back of the season pass created an ambiguity which should void the season pass release for a ski area.
Apparent Authority New Jersey The use of the PGA name was not enough to tire the PGA to a golf camp where they had no relationship or control. As such, they were dismissed from the suit because they had no duty to the injured minor.
Pennsylvania Apparent Agency requires actual acts to hold a hotel liable for the injuries allegedly caused by a tour company
Assumption of Risk Assumption of the Risk http://rec-law.us/wMtiET
Assumption of Risk — Checklist
California Assumption of the Risk to be a bar to a claim the defendant must now owe a duty to the plaintiff that means the plaintiff must be involved in recreation or a sport.
Hawaii The risk of hiking over lava fields is an obvious risk; falling while hiking is also a possibility….so is suing when you do both…but you won’t win
Massachusetts Duty of care for a Massachusetts campground is to warn of dangerous conditions.
New York If you have a manual, you have to follow it, if you have rules you have to follow them, if you have procedures, you have to follow them or you lose in court.
Skier assumes the risk on a run he had never skied before because his prior experience.
Ohio Ohio Appellate decision defines assumption of the risk under Ohio law and looks at whether spectators assume the risk.
Pennsylvania The harder a court works to justify its decision the more suspect the reasoning.
Pennsylvania PA court upholds release in bicycle race.
Pennsylvania Scary and Instructional case on assumption of the risk in a climbing wall case in Pennsylvania
South Carolina Assumption of the risk is used to defeat a claim for injuries on a ropes course.
Express Assumption of risk California BSA (Cub Scout) volunteer was not liable for injuries to cub because cub assumed the risk of his injuries. The BSA & Council were not liable because volunteer was not an agent.
Delaware If you agree to the rules you have to follow the rules
Pennsylvania Neither a release nor the Pennsylvania Equine Liability Act protects a stable for injuries when the stirrup broke.
Implied Assumption of the risk Missouri Missouri decision about ski rental form and a release that does not conform to MO law spell a mess for the ski resort
Primary Assumption of Risk Delaware If you agree to the rules you have to follow the rules
Minnesota Assumption of Risk used to defend against claim for injury from snow tubing in Minnesota
Ohio In Ohio, Primary Assumption of the Risk is a complete bar to claims for injuries from hiking at night.
BSA (Cub Scout) volunteer not liable for injuries to cub because cub assumed the risk of his injuries. BSA & Council not liable because volunteer was not an agent.
Ohio Appellate decision defines assumption of the risk under Ohio law and looks at whether spectators assume the risk.
New York New York Decision explains the doctrine of Primary Assumption of the Risk for cycling.
South Carolina South Carolina Supreme Court writes a clear decision on Assumption of the Risk for sporting activities.
Assumption of Risk Arkansas Proof of negligence requires more than an accident and injuries. A Spectator at a rodeo needed proof of an improperly maintained gate.
California Most references in case law to assumption of the risk are to this California decision
Business Invitee Pennsylvania Release lacked language specifying the length of time it was valid. Since the court could not determine the time the case was sent to a jury for that determination.
Ohio Poorly written release on a sign in sheet barely passes protecting Ohio defendant swimming area from suit.
Causation Indiana An ugly case balancing the marketing program to make people feel safe, which is then used to prove the incident giving rise to the negligence claim, was foreseeable.
Certiorari Colorado Colorado Supreme Court rules that an inbounds Avalanche is an inherent risk assumed by skiers based upon the Colorado Skier Safety Act.
Common Carrier California Balloon ride in California is not a common carrier, and the release signed by the plaintiff bars the plaintiff’s claims even though she did not read or speak English
Meeting of the Minds North Carolina When is a case settled? When all parties (and maybe their attorneys) agree it is settled
Consideration What is a Release?
Concurring Opinion Utah The safety precautions undertaken by the defendant in this mountain bike race were sufficient to beat the plaintiff’s claims of gross negligence in this Utah mountain bike fatality
Contribution Massachusetts Industry standards are proof of gross negligence and keep defendant in lawsuit even with good release
Declaratory Judgment New Hampshire What happens if you fail to follow the requirements of your insurance policy and do not get a release signed? In New Hampshire you have no coverage.
Derivative Claim Sign in sheet language at Michigan health club was not sufficient to create a release.
Duty of Care California Balloon ride in California is not a common carrier, and the release signed by the plaintiff bars the plaintiff’s claims even though she did not read or speak English
New Jersey Is a negligent act to open a car door into a bike lane when a cyclists is in the lane in New Jersey
Washington Summer Camp, Zip line injury and confusing legal analysis in Washington
Good News ASI was dismissed from the lawsuit
Essential Public Services Colorado 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Colorado law concerning releases in a whitewater rafting fatality.
New Hampshire New Hampshire court upholds release and defines the steps under NH law to review a release.
Expert Witness Connecticut Summer camp being sued for injury from falling off horse wins lawsuit because the plaintiff failed to find an expert to prove their case.
Failure to Warn New York “Marketing makes promises Risk Management has to pay for” in this case the marketing eliminated the protection afforded by the warning labels
Foreseeability Colorado Be Afraid, be very afraid of pre-printed forms for your recreation business
Illinois When there is no proof that the problem created by the defendant caused the injury, there is no proximate causation, therefore no negligence
Ohio Liability of race organizer for State Park Employees?
Washington Dive Buddy (co-participant) not liable for death of the diver because the cause of death was too distant from the acts of the plaintiff.
Idaho Federal Court in Idaho holds camp not liable for assault on third party by runaway minors.
Forum non conveniens Kansas If you fall down in a foreign country, and you have paid money to be there, you probably have to sue there.
Fraud Colorado 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Colorado law concerning releases in a whitewater rafting fatality
Fraudulent Inducement New Hampshire Did a Federal District Court in New Hampshire allow a release to bar a minor’s claims?
Fraudulent Misrepresentation Georgia Lying in a release can get your release thrown out by the court.
California Defendant tells plaintiff the release has no value and still wins lawsuit, but only because the plaintiff was an attorney
Gross Negligence California Release saves riding school, even after defendant tried to show plaintiff how to win the case.
Idaho Statements made to keep a sold trip going come back to haunt defendant after whitewater rafting death.
Maryland Sky Diving Release defeats claim by Naval Academy studenthttp://rec-law.us/1tQhWNN
Massachusetts Colleges, Officials, and a Ski Area are all defendants in this case.
Massachusetts Industry standards are proof of gross negligence and keep defendant in lawsuit even with good release
Michigan Good Release stops lawsuit against Michigan bicycle renter based on marginal acts of bicycle renter
Allowing climber to climb with harness on backwards on health club climbing wall enough for court to accept gross negligence claim and invalidate release.
Nebraska In Nebraska a release can defeat claims for gross negligence for health club injury
New Hampshire In this mountain biking case, fighting each claim pays off.
New Jersey New Jersey upholds release for injury in faulty bike at fitness club
New York New York judge uses NY law to throw out claim for gross negligence because the facts did not support the claim
Pennsylvania wrongful death statute is written in a way that a split court determined the deceased release prevented the surviving family members from suing.
Tennessee 75 Ft waterfall, middle of the night, no lights and a BAC of .18% results in two fatalities and one lawsuit. However, facts that created fatalities were the defense
Texas Suit against a city for construction retaining wall in City Park identifies defenses to be employed to protect park patrons.
Utah Utah’s decision upholds a release for simple negligence but not gross negligence in a ski accident.
The safety precautions undertaken by the defendant in this mountain bike race were sufficient to beat the plaintiff’s claims of gross negligence in this Utah mountain bike fatality
Inherently Dangerous Missouri Here is another reason to write releases carefully. Release used the term inherent to describe the risks which the court concluded made the risk inherently dangerous and voids the release.
Inherent Risks California This California decision looks at assumption of the risk as it applies to non-competitive long distance bicycle rides and also determines that assumption of the risk also overcomes a violation of a statute (negligence per se).
Interlocutory Appeal Tennessee Tennessee still does not allow a parent to sign away a minor’s right to sue, but might enforce a jurisdiction and venue clause, maybe an arbitration clause
Utah Utah courts like giving money to injured kids
Invitee Missouri Missouri decision about ski rental form and a release that does not conform to MO law spell a mess for the ski resort
Mississippi Mississippi retailer not liable for injury to a child who rode a bicycle through aisles he found on the store floor.
Joint Venture Missouri Here is another reason to write releases carefully. Release used the term inherent to describe the risks which the court concluded made the risk inherently dangerous and voids the release.
Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict (JNOV or J.N.O.V.) Maryland Skiing collision in Utah were the collision was caused by one skier falling down in front of the other skier
Missouri Here is another reason to write releases carefully. Release used the term inherent to describe the risks which the court concluded made the risk inherently dangerous and voids the release.
Lex loci contractus Tennessee Tennessee still does not allow a parent to sign away a minor’s right to sue, but might enforce a jurisdiction and venue clause, maybe an arbitration clause
Long Arm Statute Requirements New York To sue a Vermont ski area there must be more than a web presence to sue in New York
Material Breach of a Contract Texas University climbing wall release along with Texas Recreational Use Act and Texas Tort Claims Act defeat injured climber’s lawsuit
Motion to Dismiss Colorado Colorado Premises Liability act eliminated common law claims of negligence as well as CO Ski Area Safety Act claims against a landowner.
Illinois When an organization makes rules and regulations that a subsidiary organization is supposed to obey, and then fails to follow, both organizations are liable to any plaintiff injured due to the failure to follow or enforce the organizational rules, policies, regulations or standards.
Negligence Georgia Georgia court finds no requirement for employee to interview when higher trained first aid providers are present
Idaho Idaho Supreme Court holds is no relationship between signs posted on the side of the trampoline park in a duty owed to the injured plaintiff
Indiana Indiana decision upholds release signed by mother for claims of an injured daughter for the inherent risks of softball.
An ugly case balancing the marketing program to make people feel safe, which is then used to prove the incident giving rise to the negligence claim, was foreseeable.
Louisiana Louisiana State University loses climbing wall case because or climbing wall manual and state law.
Maryland Plaintiff failed to prove that her injuries were due to the construction of the water park slide and she also assumed the risk.
Mississippi Mississippi decision requires advance planning and knowledge of traveling in a foreign country before taking minors there.
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision on duty to have and use an AED defines how statutes are to be interpreted and when liability can attach and cannot attach to a statute
South Dakota Great analysis of the “Rescue Doctrine” in a ballooning case from South Dakota
Texas University climbing wall release along with Texas Recreational Use Act and Texas Tort Claims Act defeat injured climber’s lawsuit
Negligence (Collateral) Missouri Here is another reason to write releases carefully. Release used the term inherent to describe the risks which the court concluded made the risk inherently dangerous and voids the release.
Negligence Per Se Colorado Instructional Colorado decision Negligence, Negligence Per Se and Premises Liability
Florida Motion for Summary Judgement failed because the plaintiff’s claim was based upon a failure to follow a statute or rule creating a negligence per se defense to the release in this Pennsylvania sailing case.
Illinois (does not exist) When an organization makes rules and regulations that a subsidiary organization is supposed to obey, and then fails to follow, both organizations are liable to any plaintiff injured due to the failure to follow or enforce the organizational rules, policies, regulations or standards.
Negligent Misrepresentation New York The basics of winning a negligence claim is having some facts that show negligence, not just the inability to canoe by the plaintiff
No Duty Rule Pennsylvania The harder a court works to justify its decision the more suspect the reasoning.
Open and Obvious Michigan The assumption of risk defense is still available when the claim is based on a condition of the land. This defense is called the open and obvious doctrine.
New York “Marketing makes promises Risk Management has to pay for” in this case the marketing eliminated the protection afforded by the warning labels
Pennsylvania Release lacked language specifying the length of time it was valid. Since the court could not determine the time the case was sent to a jury for that determination.
Passive-Retailer Doctrine Utah Retailers in a minority of states may have a defense to product liability claims when they have nothing to do with the manufacture of the product
Premises Liability Colorado Instructional Colorado decision Negligence, Negligence Per Se and Premises Liability
Prima facie New Jersey New Jersey does not support fee shifting provisions (indemnification clauses) in releases in a sky diving case.
Prior Material Breach Texas University climbing wall release along with Texas Recreational Use Act and Texas Tort Claims Act defeat injured climber’s lawsuit
Product Liability Georgia Federal Court finds that assumption of the risk is a valid defense in a head injury case against a bicycle helmet manufacturer.
Tennessee Pacific Cycle not liable for alleged defective skewer sold to plaintiff by Wal-Mart
Utah Retailers in a minority of states may have a defense to product liability claims when they have nothing to do with the manufacture of the product
Negligent Product Liability Illinois Plaintiff fails to prove a product liability claim because she can’t prove what tube was the result of her injury
Public Policy California Defendant tells plaintiff the release has no value and still wins lawsuit, but only because the plaintiff was an attorney
Delaware Delaware Supreme Court decision quickly determines a health club release is not void because of public policy issues and is clear and unequivocal
Oregon Oregon Supreme Court finds release signed at ski area is void as a violation of public policy.
Did a Federal District Court in New Hampshire allow a release to bar a minor’s claims?
Tennessee Tennessee still does not allow a parent to sign away a minor’s right to sue, but might enforce a jurisdiction and venue clause, maybe an arbitration clause
Punitive Damages New York “Marketing makes promises Risk Management has to pay for” in this case the marketing eliminated the protection afforded by the warning labels
Rescue Doctrine South Dakota Great analysis of the “Rescue Doctrine” in a ballooning case from South Dakota
Recklessness Missouri Here is another reason to write releases carefully. Release used the term inherent to describe the risks which the court concluded made the risk inherently dangerous and voids the release.
New Jersey New Jersey does not support fee shifting provisions (indemnification clauses) in releases in a sky diving case.
Ohio BSA (Cub Scout) volunteer was not liable for injuries to cub because cub assumed the risk of his injuries. The BSA & Council were not liable because volunteer was not an agent.
Release Connecticut Connecticut court rejects motion for summary judgment because plaintiff claimed he did not have enough time to read the release before he signed it
Colorado 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Colorado law concerning releases in a whitewater rafting fatality
Colorado Federal District Court judge references a ski area lift ticket in support of granting the ski area’s motion for summary judgment and dismissing the lawsuit.
Oklahoma Oklahoma Federal Court opinion: the OK Supreme Court would void a release signed by the parent for a minor.
New Hampshire Did a Federal District Court in New Hampshire allow a release to bar a minor’s claims?
Pennsylvania Tubing brings in a lot of money for a small space, and a well-written release keeps the money flowing
Release lacked language specifying the length of time it was valid. Since the court could not determine the time the case was sent to a jury for that determination.
Neither a release nor the Pennsylvania Equine Liability Act protects a stable for injuries when the stirrup broke.
Release Fair Notice Requirement under Texas law Texas Federal Court in Texas upholds clause in release requiring plaintiff to pay defendants costs of defending against plaintiff’s claims.
Remittitur Missouri Here is another reason to write releases carefully. Release used the term inherent to describe the risks which the court concluded made the risk inherently dangerous and voids the release.
res ipsa loquitur Illinois When an organization makes rules and regulations that a subsidiary organization is supposed to obey, and then fails to follow, both organizations are liable to any plaintiff injured due to the failure to follow or enforce the organizational rules, policies, regulations or standards.
Respondeat superior Missouri US Army and BSA not liable for injured kids on Army base. No control by the BSA and recreational use defense by US Army.
New Jersey The use of the PGA name was not enough to tire the PGA to a golf camp where they had no relationship or control. As such, they were dismissed from the suit because they had no duty to the injured minor.
Restatement (Second) of Torts Pennsylvania The harder a court works to justify its decision the more suspect the reasoning.
Standard Colorado
California Words: You cannot change a legal definition
New York New York Decision explains the doctrine of Primary Assumption of the Risk for cycling
Ohio In Ohio, Primary Assumption of the Risk is a complete bar to claims for injuries from hiking at night
Rhode Island Rhode Island, applying New Hampshire law states a skier assumes the risk of a collision.
Standard of Review Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision on duty to have and use an AED defines how statutes are to be interpreted and when liability can attach and cannot attach to a statute
Sudden Emergency Doctrine New York Eighteen year old girl knocks speeding cyclists over to protect children; Sudden Emergency Doctrine stops suit
Summary Judgment Connecticut Connecticut court rejects motion for summary judgment because plaintiff claimed he did not have enough time to read the release before he signed it
Superseding or Intervening Causation Indiana An ugly case balancing the marketing program to make people feel safe, which is then used to prove the incident giving rise to the negligence claim, was foreseeable.
Tort Louisiana Louisiana court holds a tubing operation is not liable for drowning or failure to properly perform CPR
Unconscionable Delaware Delaware Supreme Court decision quickly determines a health club release is not void because of public policy issues and is clear and unequivocal
United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Buy something online and you may not have any recourse if it breaks or you are hurt
Willful, Wanton or Reckless Illinois When an organization makes rules and regulations that a subsidiary organization is supposed to obey, and then fails to follow, both organizations are liable to any plaintiff injured due to the failure to follow or enforce the organizational rules, policies, regulations or standards.
Ohio Ohio Appellate decision upholds the use of a release for a minor for a commercial activity.
Minnesota Plaintiff argues under Minnesota law the language on the back of the season pass created an ambiguity which should void the season pass release for a ski area.
Missouri Missouri decision about ski rental form and a release that does not conform to MO law spell a mess for the ski resort
Nebraska Fees are charged, recreation is happening, but can the recreational use act still protect a claim, yes, if the fees are not for the recreation
Washington Dive Buddy (co-participant) not liable for death of the diver because the cause of death was too distant from the cause of the death.
Wyoming Rental agreement release was written well enough it barred claims for injuries on the mountain at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming
Wrongful Death Ohio Poorly written release on a sign in sheet barely passes protecting Ohio defendant swimming area from suit.
Georgia Recreational Use Statute
Posted: November 12, 2017 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Georgia | Tags: Failure to Guard, Failure to Warn, Georgia Recreational Use Statute, Landowner, Landowner Immunity, Landowner Liability, Limitation of Landowner's Liability, malicious, Open and Obvious, Recreational Use, Recreational Use Act, Recreational Use Statute, Wilful | Leave a comment
OFFICIAL CODE OF GEORGIA
TITLE 51. TORTS
CHAPTER 3. LIABILITY OF OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS OF LAND
ARTICLE 2. OWNERS OF PROPERTY USED FOR RECREATIONAL
§ 51-3-20. Purpose of article
§ 51-3-21. Definitions
§ 51-3-22. Duty of owner of land to those using same for recreation generally
§ 51-3-23. Effect of invitation or permission to use land for recreation
§ 51-3-24. Applicability of Code Sections 51-3-22 and 51-3-23 to owner of land leased to state or subdivision for recreation
§ 51-3-25. Certain liability not limited
§ 51-3-26. Construction of article
The purpose of this article is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to the public for recreational purposes by limiting the owners’ liability toward persons entering thereon for recreational purposes.
As used in this article, the term:
(1) “Charge” means the admission price or fee asked in return for invitation or permission to enter or go upon the land.
(2) “Land” means land, roads, water, watercourses, private ways and buildings, structures, and machinery or equipment when attached to the realty.
(3) “Owner” means the possessor of a fee interest, a tenant, a lessee, an occupant, or a person in control of the premises.
(4) “Recreational purpose” includes, but is not limited to, any of the following or any combination thereof: hunting, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, pleasure driving, aviation activities, nature study, water skiing, winter sports, and viewing or enjoying historical, archeological, scenic, or scientific sites.
Except as specifically recognized by or provided in Code Section 51-3-25, an owner of land owes no duty of care to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others for recreational purposes or to give any warning of a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity on the premises to persons entering for recreational purposes.
Except as specifically recognized by or provided in Code Section 51-3-25, an owner of land who either directly or indirectly invites or permits without charge any person to use the property for recreational purposes does not thereby:
(1) Extend any assurance that the premises are safe for any purpose;
(2) Confer upon such person the legal status of an invitee or licensee to whom a duty of care is owed; or
(3) Assume responsibility for or incur liability for any injury to person or property caused by an act of omission of such persons.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, Code Sections 51-3-22 and 51-3-23 shall be deemed applicable to the duties and liability of an owner of land leased to the state or any subdivision thereof for recreational purposes.
Nothing in this article limits in any way any liability which otherwise exists:
(1) For willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity; or
(2) For injury suffered in any case when the owner of land charges the person or persons who enter or go on the land for the recreational use thereof, except that, in the case of land leased to the state or a subdivision thereof, any consideration received by the owner for the lease shall not be deemed a charge within the meaning of this Code section.
Nothing in this article shall be construed to:
(1) Create a duty of care or ground of liability for injury to persons or property; or
(2) Relieve any person using the land of another for recreational purposes from any obligation which he may have in the absence of this article to exercise care in his use of the land and in his activities thereon or from the legal consequences of failure to employ such
“Marketing makes promises Risk Management has to pay for” in this case, the marketing eliminated the protection afforded by the warning labels
Posted: March 20, 2017 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Assumption of the Risk, Health Club, Jurisdiction and Venue (Forum Selection), New York, Pennsylvania | Tags: assumption of the risk, Causation, Cornell, Cornell University, Failure to Warn, Gym, Gymnastic, Open and Obvious, Punitive damages, Summary judgment, Tumbl Trak | Leave a comment
Cornell and a manufacturer of a piece of equipment used in a gym at Cornell were being sued by an injured student who used the equipment. The court definitely was leaning towards the student; however, the student had come to court prepared, (and backed by a lot of money I’m guessing.)
Duchesneau v. Cornell University, et al., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106412
State: Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Plaintiff: Randall Duchesneau
Defendant: Cornell University and Tumbltrak
Plaintiff Claims: Product Liability, Failure to Warn, requesting punitive damages
Defendant Defenses:
Holding: No duty, Failure to state a claim, Assumption of Risk & Release?
This case spent four years getting to this point, and it is obvious the court is a little tired of the litigation. Consequently, the facts are difficult to determine.
It seems the plaintiff was a beginning gymnast and injured himself on a piece of equipment at the Cornell University gym called the Tumbletrak. The extents of his injuries are never clear, but based on the number of experts the plaintiff hired and the lengthy fight; I guess his injuries were extensive.
This case was being heard in a Pennsylvania Federal Court with a Michigan and a New York Defendant. That fact alone is confusing.
The decision is based on motions for summary judgment filed by both Cornell and the manufacturer Tumbletrak.
The court first examines the manufacture’s motion for summary judgment. The first issue the manufacturer claimed the plaintiff failed to establish the minimum facts necessary to go to trial; the plaintiff is not entitled to punitive damages, and the plaintiff assumed the risk. The court first looked at what was required to establish a failure to warn case. Meaning a manufacturer has a duty to warn users of the product of the risks and failed to do so.
Under New York law, 2 to establish a prima facie case of failure to warn, a Plaintiff must show that (1) the defendant-manufacturer had a duty to warn; (2) the manufacturer breached such duty and so the product is rendered defective, i.e., reasonably certain to be dangerous; (3) the product’s defect was the proximate cause of the injury to plaintiff; and (4) the plaintiff suffered loss or damage.
The burden is on the plaintiff to prove the failure to warn of the risk by the manufacturer was the cause of the plaintiff’s injury.
This burden includes adducing proof that a user of the product at issue would have read and heeded a warning had one been given. Conversely, failure to warn claims can be decided as a matter of law against an injured party where the injured party was “fully aware of the hazard through general knowledge, observation, or common sense” or where the hazard is “patently dangerous.”
Failure to warn can be denied both by proving the plaintiff read and heeded the risk or knew of the risk prior to using the equipment. The manufacturer argued the risk was open and obvious, which does not require proof because the plaintiff should have seen the risk.
T-Trak contends that Plaintiff cannot establish a prima facie case of failure to warn where (1) the risk of injury was open and obvious and (2) Plaintiff did not actually read the warnings that were on the TTA. First T-Trak argues that “the risk of injury while performing a back flip was open and obvious and readily discernable to Plaintiff.” More specifically, T-Trak opines that general knowledge dictates that “an individual might land on his head if he attempts a back flip on a rebounding
In a footnote at this point, the court states the plaintiff signed a release stating he understood the risks; however, nothing else is mentioned about the release in the rest of the decision.
One way to defend against a motion for summary judgment is to argue there are enough facts or issues that make the facts relied upon by the defendant an issue. Meaning if enough facts are in dispute, the motion for summary judgement cannot be granted. This is what the plaintiff did through his experts.
Plaintiff has produced the report of warnings expert Dr. William J. Vigilante Jr., which, inter alia, cited numerous deficiencies in the warnings on the TTA: the warnings on the TTA were blurred and could not be read even at a close distance; the warnings were located on either end of the TTA, not in the middle where a user would mount it; and the warnings were located adjacent to a cartoon depicting teddy bears conducting unspotted, unsupervised backflips on the TTA. [Emphasize added]
Here the manufacturer shot his defense down before the product left the assembly plant by confusing risk management and marketing. Teddy bears doing the activities unspotted that the warning allegedly warns against eliminated the warning in the court’s eyes. (And rightfully so!) If the manufacturer shows cartoons doing the act without regard for safety, then the act must be safe, no matter what the warning says. If the warning can be located.
In a scary statement, the court held that failure to read the warnings on the product is not an issue in a failure to warn case.
However, failure to read the TTA’s warnings “does not necessarily sever the causal connection between the alleged inadequacy of those warnings, on the one hand, and the occurrence of the accident, on the other.”
The court based this analysis on the many different statements by witnesses who seemed to go in every direction, but all stated they never saw the warning.
Indeed, there is more than just that fact here. According to the summary judgment record none of the many fact witnesses in this case (including Plaintiff) testified that they ever saw any warning on the TTA. Furthermore, Plaintiff himself has submitted sworn testimony that if he had seen what Dr. Vigiliante characterized as a proper warning, Plaintiff would have heeded the proper warning and either never have attempted a backflip or done so only with the assistance of a qualified coach or spotter.
A warning does not exist unless the consumer can’t miss it. Meaning the warning must be in the consumer’s face every time they go to use a product. On top of that the warning must be in the manual, in some states on the packaging and maybe on a hangtag with the product.
The failure to warn claim was sustained and would be decided at trial.
The court then looked at the assumption of the risk defense brought by the defendant manufacturer. The court started this analysis looking at the requirements to prove a negligence claim in a product case.
To prove a prima facie case of negligence, a plaintiff must establish (1) existence of a duty of the defendant to the plaintiff; (2) breach of the duty; and (3) that the breach of the duty was a proximate cause of the injury to the plaintiff.
However, assumption of the risk in a product’s case is a little more stringent then in a recreation case. “Assumption of risk is frequently applied to claims arising out of participation in sporting events.” In sporting or recreation cases, the risk is clear and understood by all involved and to be effective the risk was not altered or enhanced by the defendant. In a product’s case the requirements are slightly different.
Assumption of risk operates to eliminate the duty of care to a plaintiff, and can therefore be a complete bar to recovery for negligence. To establish assumption of risk, a defendant bears the burden of establishing that the “plaintiff was aware of the defective or dangerous condition and the resultant risk.” This determination depends in part on the openness and obviousness of the risk.
Again, the case goes back to did the plaintiff know of the risks. Where the risks open and obvious or can you prove under the law the plaintiff knew of the risk. Because no one ever saw the warning, the warning had no value. That left it up to a jury to decide if the plaintiff knew the risk of the sport or activity.
The next argument was a motion to eliminate a punitive damages claim by the manufacturer arguing the case should be tried under Michigan’s law because the manufacturer was based in Michigan. Michigan does not allow punitive damages, unless they are expressly authorized by statute.
There has been a prior argument about the jurisdiction and venue of the case decided by a prior judge. (Which is alone confusing since none of the defendants are located in Pennsylvania where the court sits, however, the court is applying New York law?) Because of the prior decision, this court followed it and ruled that New York law would be applied to the facts of the case, and punitive damages were going to be at issue.
Cornell University was then giving a shot at its motions starting with the punitive damages issue. Cornell claimed the plaintiff had not presented any evidence that could support a punitive damages claim. The plaintiff responded arguing facts that could prove a punitive damages claim against the university.
(1) Cornell ran its own gymnasium without rules, standards, coaching, instruction, screening, supervision, and spotting; (2) multiple experts have opined that Cornell’s conduct in that regard was, inter alia, “highly dangerous,” “indefensible,” “outrageous,” “reckless,” and “an accident waiting to happen”; and (3) Cornell violated “every applicable mainstream gymnastics safety standard, [and] systematically allowed a wholly-incompetent individual to supervise the gymnasium.”
The court defined the requirements to prove a punitive damages claim.
As discussed supra, New York law allows a plaintiff to recover punitive damages, so as to punish gross misbehavior for the public good. An award of punitive damages would be proper “where the conduct of the party being held liable evidences a high degree of moral culpability, or where the conduct is so flagrant as to transcend mere carelessness, or where the conduct constitutes willful or wanton negligence or recklessness.”
The court found there was sufficient evidence to support a possible punitive damages claim.
There is substantial evidence of record concerning purported behavior of Cornell that could be found to rise to the level of egregious recklessness and moral culpability necessary to trigger punitive damages. There are major disputes of fact as to whether Cornell failed to exhibit care to such a degree as would amount to wanton behavior or recklessness. Cornell’s argument primarily rests on its self-serving conclusion that — despite evidence offered to the direct contrary — this case just does not involve one of those rare, egregious instances of recklessness that is punishable by punitive damages. That, however, is properly the jury’s decision. Summary judgment is inappropriate, and the claim for punitive damages shall remain.
Cornell next argued that the plaintiff assumed the risk and there was no evidence proving causation. Cornell was arguing a breach of a duty was not related to the injury. There was no causation between the two which is required to prove negligence.
The court found that Cornell’s case law did not apply correctly to the facts of this case. That means the case law facts were sufficiently different from the facts of this case, that the law could not be interpreted the same way. “Cornell’s caselaw presents numerous, distinct factual circumstances, none of which are analogous here.”
On the causation issues the judge found the plaintiff had presented enough evidence that there could be an issue leading to punitive damages against the college.
Nor can I conclude that Cornell is entitled to summary judgment based upon causation. There is extensive, often-conflicting evidence concerning causation. Plaintiff has adduced significant amounts of evidence concerning Cornell’s systemic negligent conduct leading up to the accident. In addition, Plaintiff has offered evidence from multiple experts that goes directly to duty of care and causation (e.g., that the lack of spotting equipment and spotters proximately caused Plaintiff’s injuries; that the lack of warnings failed to notify Plaintiff of the risks associated with the TTA; that Cornell’s “outrageous” conduct in organizing and supervising Plaintiff’s use of the gymnasium directly contributed to Plaintiff’s accident). Cornell may strongly disagree with these experts, but it is not entitled to have them ignored in favor of summary judgment.
Both defendants failed in their motion for summary judgment, and the decision was to allow the case to proceed to trial.
I have not been able to find the outcome of this case. Meaning it probably settled. The entire issue was the warning on the product; it was not clear; it was not visible, and it could not be seen in normal use.
If you manufacture products and your product poses a risk to the user, then you need to notify the consumer as often and as many were possible that you can. User manuals, hangtags, the container or bag the product is shipped in and on the product itself. It is also not enough that you can say the label or warning is there; the user must be able to see the warning……every time.
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Randall Duchesneau, Plaintiff, v. Cornell University, et al., Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO. 08-4856
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106412
July 31, 2012, Decided
July 31, 2012, Filed
PRIOR HISTORY: Duchesneau v. Cornell Univ., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 135211 (E.D. Pa., Nov. 22, 2011)
CORE TERMS: warning, summary judgment, trampoline’s, assumption of risk, punitive damages, unaware, gymnasium, warn, partial, failure to warn, novice, user, assumed risk, inappropriate, punitive, flip, matter of law, warning label, recklessness, supervision, performing, gymnastic, enhanced, hazard, adduce, facie, causation, choice of law, applicable law, case of failure
COUNSEL: [*1] For RANDALL DUCHESNEAU, Plaintiff: STEWART J. EISENBERG, LEAD ATTORNEY, DANIEL JECK, DANIEL JOSEPH SHERRY, JR., DINO PRIVITERA, KENNETH MICHAEL ROTHWEILER, EISENBERG, ROTHWEILER, WINKLER, EISENBERG & JECK, P.C., PHILADELPHIA, PA; MICHAEL CHOI, CHOI & ASSOCIATES, ELKINS PARK, PA.
For CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Defendant, Cross Claimant: RICHARD B. WICKERSHAM, JR., LEAD ATTORNEY, POST & SCHELL, P.C., PHILADELPHIA, PA; JOE H. TUCKER, JR., THE TUCKER LAW GROUP, ONE PENN CENTER AT SUBURBAN STATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
For TUMBLTRAK, Defendant, Cross Defendant: DANIEL J. MCCARTHY, SUSAN R. ENGLE, LEAD ATTORNEYS, MINTZER, SAROWITZ, ZERIS, LEDVA & MEYERS LLP, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
JUDGES: C. DARNELL JONES, II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
OPINION BY: C. DARNELL JONES, II
Jones, II, U.S.D.J.
Before the Court is Defendant Tumbl Trak’s (“T-Trak”) Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Docket No. 169); Cornell University’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Docket No. 171); Cornell University’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Punitive Damages (Docket No. 172); and extensive briefing related thereto. 1
1 This matter has been crawling along, with a stunning amount of motion practice and briefing, for years now. The parties and [*2] this Court are well aware of the tortured factual and procedural background of this case, and setting it forth at length again here would be a waste of judicial resources. Rather, I limit the discussion herein to specific facts as may be relevant to resolution of the Motion.
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(c), summary judgment is appropriate “if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c); Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322, 106 S. Ct. 2548, 91 L. Ed. 2d 265 (1986). To defeat a motion for summary judgment, disputes must be both (1) material, meaning concerning facts that will affect the outcome of the issue under substantive law, and (2) genuine, meaning the evidence must be “such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.” Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 248, 106 S. Ct. 2505, 91 L. Ed. 2d 202 (1986). Summary judgment is mandated “against a party who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party’s case, and on which [*3] that party will bear the burden of proof at trial.” Celotex, 477 U.S. at 322. An issue is genuine if the fact finder could reasonably return a verdict in favor of the nonmoving party with respect to that issue. Anderson, 477 U.S. at 249. In reviewing a motion for summary judgment, the court does not make credibility determinations and “must view facts and inferences in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.” Siegel Transfer, Inc. v. Carrier Express, Inc., 54 F.3d 1125, 1127 (3d Cir. 1995).
T-Trak’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment
T-Trak seeks partial summary judgment on three bases: (1) Plaintiff cannot establish a prima facie case of failure to warn; (2) Plaintiff is not entitled to punitive damages; and (3) Plaintiff assumed the risk of serious injury when using the Tumbl Trak apparatus (“TTA”). I address these seriatim.
Failure to Warn
Under New York law, 2 to establish a prima facie case of failure to warn, a Plaintiff must show that (1) the defendant-manufacturer had a duty to warn; (2) the manufacturer breached such duty and so the product is rendered defective, i.e., reasonably certain to be dangerous; (3) the product’s defect was the proximate cause [*4] of the injury to plaintiff; and (4) the plaintiff suffered loss or damage. Humphrey v. Diamant Boart, Inc., 556 F. Supp. 2d 167, 179 (E.D.N.Y. 2008); McCarthy v. Olin Corp., 119 F.3d 148, 156 (2d Cir. 1997). The duty to warn can be breached by either “the complete absence of warnings as to a particular hazard,” or “the inclusion of warnings which are insufficient.” Johnson v. Johnson Chem. Co., 183 A.D.2d 64, 588 N.Y.S.2d 607, 610 (N.Y. App. Div. 1992). The adequacy of a warning is normally a question of fact to be determined at trial. Nagel v. Bros. Int’l Foods, Inc., 34 A.D.3d 545, 825 N.Y.S.2d 93, 95 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006).
2 On November 23, 2011, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lynne A. Sitarski analyzed choice of law inquiries in this case and determined New York law applies throughout. Additionally, no party disputes the application of New York law to the failure to warn and assumption of risk claims here. Accordingly, I apply New York law to those claims.
Plaintiff has the burden of proving that T-Trak’s failure to warn was a proximate cause of his injury. See Mulhall v. Hannafin, 45 A.D.3d 55, 841 N.Y.S.2d 282, 285 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007). This burden includes adducing proof that a user of the product at issue would have read and heeded [*5] a warning had one been given. Sosna v. Am. Home Prods., 298 A.D.2d 158, 748 N.Y.S.2d 548, 549 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002). Conversely, failure to warn claims can be decided as a matter of law against an injured party where the injured party was “fully aware of the hazard through general knowledge, observation, or common sense” or where the hazard is “patently dangerous.” Humphrey, 556 F. Supp. 2d at 179-80 (citing Liriano v. Hobart Corp. (Liriano I), 92 N.Y.2d 232, 700 N.E.2d 303, 308, 677 N.Y.S.2d 764 (1998)).
T-Trak contends that Plaintiff cannot establish a prima facie case of failure to warn where (1) the risk of injury was open and obvious and (2) Plaintiff did not actually read the warnings that were on the TTA. First T-Trak argues that “the risk of injury while performing a back flip was open and obvious and readily discernable to Plaintiff.” Def.’s Mot. Part. Summ. J. (hereinafter “Def.’s Br.”) 21. More specifically, T-Trak opines that general knowledge dictates that “an individual might land on his head if he attempts a back flip on a rebounding [TTA].” Id. T-Trak relies on, inter alia, the following record evidence:
o “Plaintiff, educated in physics, knew that what goes up will come down.” Id. 22; see id. Ex. H, at 380-81.
o Plaintiff [*6] signed a waiver that stated he understood the risks and dangers associated with gymnastics. Id. Ex. F.
o There was a small warning label on the TTA which stated that any activity “creates the possibility of catastrophic injury, including paralysis or even death from falling on the head or neck. Id. Ex. G.
o Plaintiff “was aware of the safety concept of spotting and had done it in high school as a member of the cheerleading squad.” Id. 23; see id. Ex. H, at 432.
Based on these facts, T-Trak contends that “common sense” would have informed an individual that he or she was risking landing on their head by using the TTA, and, as such, T-Trak had no legal duty to warn Plaintiff. Id. 24.
However, there are significant disputes of material fact as to which, if any, hazards associated with the TTA were open and obvious (i.e., could be objectively ascertained) by a similarly-situated novice gymnast. Notably, Plaintiff has produced the report of warnings expert Dr. William J. Vigilante Jr., which, inter alia, cited numerous deficiencies in the warnings on the TTA: the warnings on the TTA were blurred and could not be read even at a close distance; the warnings were located on either end of the TTA, [*7] not in the middle where a user would mount it; and the warnings were located adjacent to a cartoon depicting teddy bears conducting unspotted, unsupervised backflips on the TTA. Pl.’s Resp. Def. T-Trak’s Mot. Part. Summ. J. (hereinafter “Pl.’s Resp. Br.”) Ex. D, at 8-9. Dr. Vigilante’s report clearly suggests there were conflicting messages as to (1) the dangers associated with particular uses of the TTA; (2) how novices should perform backflips off the TTA; and (3) what is the appropriate level of supervision for safety purposes while using the TTA. Dr. Vigilante’s view of the facts is obviously in conflict with that of T-Trak. Cf. Repka v. Arctic Cat, Inc., 20 A.D.3d 916, 798 N.Y.S.2d 629, 631 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005) (triable issue of fact concerning sufficiency of warnings raised through expert).
Apparently as a fallback position, T-Trak also asserts that because Plaintiff never sought to view the warnings prior to his accident, he cannot advance a failure to warn claim. However, failure to read the TTA’s warnings “does not necessarily sever the causal connection between the alleged inadequacy of those warnings, on the one hand, and the occurrence of the accident, on the other.” Johnson, 588 N.Y.S.2d at 611. [*8] This fact alone is insufficient to secure summary judgment. See Humphrey, 556 F. Supp. 2d at 180-81 (holding plaintiff’s admission that he did not read the warning label or operating instructions on equipment not dispositive under New York law in connection with failure to warn claim). Indeed, there is more than just that fact here. According to the summary judgment record none of the many fact witnesses in this case (including Plaintiff) testified that they ever saw any warning on the TTA. 3 Furthermore, Plaintiff himself has submitted sworn testimony that if he had seen what Dr. Vigiliante characterized as a proper warning, Plaintiff would have heeded the proper warning and either never have attempted a backflip or done so only with the assistance of a qualified coach or spotter. 4 See Pl.’s Resp. Br. Ex. T.
3 This evidence is buttressed by the fact that T-Trak’s own warnings expert testified at his deposition that the warnings on the TTA were deficient, illegible, and violative of relevant industry standards pertaining to size. Pl.’s Resp. Br. Ex. S.
4 I do not find T-Trak’s argument that Plaintiff submitted a “sham affidavit” to be convincing.
In sum, this evidence of record establishes [*9] sufficient material disputes of fact as to the level of awareness Plaintiff or any other objective, novice gymnast would have had concerning the danger of specific injuries while performing specific maneuvers on the TTA. Moreover, T-Trak has been unable to adduce undisputed evidence that Plaintiff would have disregarded a proper warning. Accordingly, summary judgment on the failure to warn claim is inappropriate.
Assumption of Risk
T-Trak contends it is entitled to summary judgment on Plaintiff’s negligence claim based on the principle of assumption of risk. 5 To prove a prima facie case of negligence, a plaintiff must establish (1) existence of a duty of the defendant to the plaintiff; (2) breach of the duty; and (3) that the breach of the duty was a proximate cause of the injury to the plaintiff. Martinez v Capital One, N.A., F. Supp. 2d , 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42214, No. 10 Civ. 8028(RJS), 2012 WL 1027571, at *10 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 27, 2012). Assumption of risk operates to eliminate the duty of care to a plaintiff, and can therefore be a complete bar to recovery for negligence. Anderson v. Hedstrom Corp., 76 F. Supp. 2d 422, 431 (S.D.N.Y. 1999); Turcotte v. Fell, 68 N.Y.2d 432, 502 N.E.2d 964, 967-68, 510 N.Y.S.2d 49 (1986). To establish [*10] assumption of risk, a defendant bears the burden of establishing that the “plaintiff was aware of the defective or dangerous condition and the resultant risk.” Hedstrom, 76 F. Supp. 2d at 432 (citing Lamey v. Foley, 188 A.D.2d 157, 594 N.Y.S.2d 490, 495 (N.Y. App. Div. 1993)). This determination depends in part on the openness and obviousness of the risk. Id.
5 This argument applies only to Plaintiff’s negligence claim, as New York law does not favor an assumption of risk defense to strict liability claims. Auto. Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Electrolux Home Prods., Inc., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12652, 2011 WL 1434672, at *2 (W.D.N.Y. 2011).
Assumption of risk is frequently applied to claims arising out of participation in sporting events. See, e.g., Goodlett v. Kalishek, 223 F.3d 32, 34 (2d Cir. 2000) (airplane racing); Rochford v. Woodloch Pines, Inc., 824 F. Supp. 2d 343, 349-51 (E.D.N.Y. 2011) (golf); Ducrepin v. United States, 964 F. Supp. 659, 664-65 (E.D.N.Y. 1997) (basketball); Mc Duffie v. Watkins Glen Int’l, Inc., 833 F. Supp. 197, 201-02 (W.D.N.Y. 1993) (auto racing); Morgan v. State, 90 N.Y.2d 471, 481-82, 685 N.E.2d 202, 662 N.Y.S.2d 421 (1997) (bobsledding and karate, but not tennis where facility’s negligence in failing to repair torn net unduly increased [*11] the risk); Benitez v. N.Y.C. Bd. of Educ., 73 N.Y.2d 650, 541 N.E.2d 29, 33-34, 543 N.Y.S.2d 29 (1989) (football); Joseph v. N.Y. Racing Ass’n, 28 A.D.3d 105, 809 N.Y.S.2d 526, 529 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006) (horseback riding); Hawley v. Binghamton Mets Baseball Club Inc., 262 A.D.2d 729, 691 N.Y.S.2d 626, 627-28 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999) (baseball). It has even been applied in some (but not all) cases involving jumping on a trampoline. 6 However these cases have a unifying theme — clear risks that were known yet disregarded by the plaintiff, with no negligence by the defendant that enhanced the risk. In cases where the plaintiff was unaware of the risk, or where the defendant’s negligence amplified the risk, summary judgment has not been granted. See, e.g., Clarke v. Peek ‘N Peak Recreation, Inc., 551 F. Supp. 2d 159, 163 (W.D.N.Y. 2008) (ski resort owner’s alleged negligence may have enhanced assumed risk); Hedstrom, 76 F. Supp. 2d at 435-36 (beginning trampoline user unaware and not sufficiently warned of risks); Repka, 798 N.Y.S.2d at 632-33 (assumed risk unduly increased by use of defective snowmobile without adequate warnings); Kroll, 764 N.Y.S.2d at 731 (plaintiff unaware of risk of trampoline’s defect). T-Trak argues vociferously that “Plaintiff [*12] should have been aware of the risk of injury.” Def.’s Br. 31 (emphasis added). While it is true that Plaintiff had some experience with cheerleading and gymnastics, there is evidence he was a novice nonetheless. Additionally, as discussed supra, there is direct testimony that Plaintiff did not view any warnings and thus was not made explicitly aware of the contents thereof. There is further, disputed testimony as to the reasons why Plaintiff was unaware of the warnings, including evidence that the warnings were patently insufficient and no participant saw or became aware of their contents that day. The survey of trampoline cases herein makes it clear that the use of a trampoline has not been deemed inherently risky as a matter of New York law. All of these relevant disputes — namely, as to Plaintiff’s expertise, knowledge, the sufficiency and quality of the warnings, and the obvious nature of the risk to a casual user of the TTA — preclude this Court from absolving T-Trak on the grounds of assumption of risk. T-Trak’s duty to Plaintiff, if any, is properly an issue for trial.
6 Application of assumption of risk is a fact-specific endeavor, including in trampoline cases, which tend to [*13] be decided depending on whether the plaintiff was aware of and appreciated the risk in using the trampoline. A plaintiff may prevail where he adduces evidence that he was unaware of the risk of using a trampoline and that he used the trampoline in an ordinary fashion. See, e.g., Hedstrom, 76 F. Supp. 2d at 427, 435 (finding no assumption of risk where plaintiff was a total beginner who did not see warning label and who used trampoline in a “fairly typical manner”); Kroll v. Watt, 309 A.D.2d 1265, 764 N.Y.S.2d 731, 731 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000) (affirming denial of summary judgment on assumption of risk where plaintiff’s awareness of risk of trampoline tipping over and thus causing plaintiff’s injury was a triable issue of fact). On the other hand, assumption of risk applies where the risk of the activity is inherent or where the injured party fully understands, appreciates, and voluntarily assumes the risk through participation. Goodlett, 223 F.3d at 36-37. New York courts have barred the recovery of plaintiffs injured while jumping on a trampoline where the plaintiff was aware of the risk or performed a particularly risky maneuver. See, e.g., Yedid v. Gymnastic Ctr., 33 A.D.3d 911, 824 N.Y.S.2d 299, 300 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006) [*14] (affirming application of assumption of risk where plaintiff failed to provide evidence that he was unaware of risk of performing front flip on trampoline); Koubek v. Denis, 21 A.D.3d 453, 799 N.Y.S.2d 746, 747 (2005) (finding assumption of risk where plaintiff was aware and appreciative of risk of using trampoline and used it nonetheless); Liccione v. Gearing, 252 A.D.2d 956, 675 N.Y.S.2d 728, 728 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998) (holding assumption of risk applicable where plaintiff ignored sign warning against use of trampoline by two or more participants at the same time and then engaged in such activity).
U.S. Magistrate Judge Lynne A. Sitarski thoroughly and cogently examined choice of law issues in this case in deciding Defendant Cornell University’s Motion to Establish Applicable Law. See Duchesneau v. Cornell Univ., No. 08-4856, 2011, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 135211, WL 5902155, at *1 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 23, 2011) (order granting applicable law). T-Trak did not participate in the Motion to Establish Applicable Law. Rather, T-Trak asserts in the instant Motion that, while New York law is almost universally applicable in this case, Michigan law operates to bar recovery of punitive damages. In short, T-Trak contends that because it is domiciled [*15] in Michigan and the alleged punitive conduct (design and labeling of the product) occurred in Michigan, Michigan law should apply to Plaintiff’s claim for punitive damages. Unsurprisingly, Michigan law bars punitive damage awards unless expressly authorized by statute, which is not the case here. See Gilbert v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 470 Mich. 749, 685 N.W.2d 391, 400 (2004). Plaintiff maintains that New York law properly governs all aspects of this matter, including his punitive damages claim. New York law allows a plaintiff to recover punitive damages, so as to punish gross misbehavior for the public good. Clinton v. Brown & Williamson Holdings, Inc., 498 F. Supp. 2d 639, 653 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).
Judge Sitarski aptly laid out the applicable conflicts of law framework and conducted a thorough analysis of asserted interests, and this Court need not repeat the legal discussion at length here. Judge Sitarski concluded that New York law applied to Plaintiff’s claims against Cornell, including with regard to punitive damages and contributory negligence. I reach the same conclusion as to T-Trak for substantially the same reasons. Here, T-Trak knew the TTA was to be delivered and used in New York, and, indeed, [*16] the TTA was used continuously in New York for many years prior to the accident. Generally speaking, courts applying the Pennsylvania choice of law contacts analysis to product liability matters have applied the law of the state where the product was used and where the accident occurred. Shields v. Consol. Rail Corp., 810 F.2d 397, 399-400 (3d Cir. 1987); U.S. Airways, Inc. v. Elliott Equip. Co., Inc., 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 76043, 2008 WL 4461847 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 29, 2008). Plaintiff’s accident was non-fortuitous, and therefore great deference is given to New York as to the law which should apply. LeJeune v. Bliss-Salem, Inc., 85 F.3d 1069 (3d Cir. 1996).
Under the contacts analysis, New York has many compelling interests here: (1) the TTA is located in New York; (2) the accident occurred in New York; (3) Cornell contracted to purchase the TTA in New York; (4) Plaintiff was a student in New York; (5) Plaintiff, although a Pennsylvania resident, received treatment for his injuries in New York; and (6) the key Waiver Agreement in this case governs activities in New York and has its validity determined by New York law. The contacts with Michigan are markedly less. T-Trak’s headquarters is in Michigan. Some design and [*17] testing of the TTA took place in Michigan. However, the TTA and its warnings were designed by a Washington resident, and the component parts of the TTA were manufactured in multiple states other than Michigan (including the pads which containing the warnings). The actual T-Trak dealer who negotiated the New York contract of sale for the TTA with Cornell was based in Georgia. Finally, the TTA was assembled in New York by Cornell from constituent pieces delivered from various locations. 7
7 These circumstances are readily distinguishable from those in Kelly v. Ford Motor Co., 933 F. Supp. 465 (E.D. Pa. 1996), upon which T-Trak heavily relies. In Kelly, much of the design, testing, assembly, and warning label placement occurred in various Michigan locales under the close coordination of Ford. As mentioned above, T-Trak did not even manufacture or assembly any parts of the TTA in Michigan. Kelly is not persuasive.
Accordingly, I conclude New York law applies to the question of punitive damages against T-Trak. Upon review of the record, I find Plaintiff has adduced sufficient evidence to allow the claim for punitive damages to proceed.
Cornell’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Punitive [*18] Damages
Cornell claims that Plaintiff has failed to adduce any evidence that could justify punitive damages under New York law. Plaintiff responds that “Cornell’s relevant conduct is textbook-appropriate” in terms of punitive damages for multiple reasons: (1) Cornell ran its own gymnasium without rules, standards, coaching, instruction, screening, supervision, and spotting; (2) multiple experts have opined that Cornell’s conduct in that regard was, inter alia, “highly dangerous,” “indefensible,” “outrageous,” “reckless,” and “an accident waiting to happen”; and (3) Cornell violated “every applicable mainstream gymnastics safety standard, [and] systematically allowed a wholly-incompetent individual to supervise the gymnasium.” See Pl.’s Resp. Opp’n Def. Cornell’s Mot. Summ. J. Punit. Damages 2-3.
As discussed supra, New York law allows a plaintiff to recover punitive damages, so as to punish gross misbehavior for the public good. Clinton, 498 F. Supp. 2d at 653. An award of punitive damages would be proper “where the conduct of the party being held liable evidences a high degree of moral culpability, or where the conduct is so flagrant as to transcend mere carelessness, or where the conduct [*19] constitutes willful or wanton negligence or recklessness.” Buckholz v. Maple Garden Apts., LLC, 38 A.D.3d 584, 832 N.Y.S.2d 255, 256 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007); see also Mahar v. U.S. Xpress Enters., 688 F. Supp. 2d 95, 110 (N.D.N.Y. 2010) (allowing punitive damages in rare cases of egregious and willful conduct that is morally culpable); Black v. George Weston Bakeries, Inc., No. 07-CV-853S, 2008, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92031, WL 4911791, at *7 (W.D.N.Y. Nov. 13, 2008) (permitting punitive damages where conduct constitutes conscious disregard of others); Bohannon (ex rel. Estate of Dolik) v. Action Carting Envtl. Servs., Inc., No. 06-CV-5689 (JG), 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40516, 2008 WL 2106143, at *3 (E.D.N.Y. May 20, 2008) (recognizing utter indifference to the safety of others warrants granting punitive damages).
Upon review of the record, I concur with Plaintiff that there is more than enough evidence to allow Plaintiff’s punitive damages claim to proceed. There is substantial evidence of record concerning purported behavior of Cornell that could be found to rise to the level of egregious recklessness and moral culpability necessary to trigger punitive damages. There are major disputes of fact as to whether Cornell failed to exhibit care to such a degree as would [*20] amount to wanton behavior or recklessness. Cornell’s argument primarily rests on its self-serving conclusion that — despite evidence offered to the direct contrary — this case just does not involve one of those rare, egregious instances of recklessness that is punishable by punitive damages. That, however, is properly the jury’s decision. Summary judgment is inappropriate, and the claim for punitive damages shall remain.
III. Cornell’s Motion for Summary Judgment
Cornell moves for summary judgment on two bases: (1) Plaintiff assumed the risk of using the TTA and Cornell had no duty to supervise the use of gymnastic equipment by novices, and (2) there is no evidence as to causation concerning Cornell. There are so many material disputes of fact between Plaintiff and Cornell that a lengthy explication of them would be a waste of resources. Suffice it to say that, despite occasional rhetoric to the contrary, Plaintiff and Cornell disagree about nearly every major fact or opinion of record that relates to the issues raised in the Motion. 8 Specific to assumption of risk (discussed supra), there are considerable disputes over whether Plaintiff knew or appreciated the risks of the TTA. Cornell’s [*21] assertions to the contrary appear to be mostly self-serving statements. Because Plaintiff has adduced plentiful evidence (testimony, admissions, experts) in support of the position that he was not aware of the relevant risk and could not be expected to be aware of that risk, summary judgment is obviously inappropriate. 9
8 These two parties have repeatedly filed briefs of excessive length (50-100 pages each), including unnecessary bolded or italicized text for emphasis, in which they highlight disputes of fact ad infinitum.
9 This conclusion is buttressed by the fact that, as discussed supra, there are even disputes of material fact as to whether (1) the risk of harm was obvious, open, or hidden, and (2) the risk of harm was enhanced by Cornell’s own actions.
Cornell’s caselaw presents numerous, distinct factual circumstances, none of which are analogous here. See, e.g., Yedid v. Gymnastic Ctr., 33 A.D.3d 911, 824 N.Y.S.2d 299, 300 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006) (finding experienced gymnast with six years of instruction assumed known risk of performing front flip on trampoline); Koubek v. Denis, 21 A.D.3d 453, 799 N.Y.S.2d 746, 747 (N.Y. App. Div. 2005) (holding plaintiff assumed risk of using trampoline where she failed to [*22] adduce evidence that she was unaware of the potential for injury); Palozzi v. Priest, 280 A.D.2d 986, 720 N.Y.S.2d 676, 676 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001) (affirming application of assumption of risk to teenager injured while “fake wrestling” on trampoline); Liccione v. Gearing, 252 A.D.2d 956, 675 N.Y.S.2d 728, 729 (N.Y. App. Div. 1998) (noting plaintiff assumed risk of “double jumping” despite warnings on trampoline that were deemed adequate as a matter of law); Williams v. Lombardini, 38 Misc. 2d 146, 238 N.Y.S.2d 63, 64-65 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1963) (determining plaintiff assumed risk where he admitted seeing rule that prohibited “difficult tricks” but attempted front flip on trampoline anyway). As discussed supra, summary judgment based on assumption of risk is inappropriate where there is a question as to appreciation or understanding of risk. 10 See Hedstrom, 76 F. Supp. 2d at 435-36 (recognizing no assumption of risk by beginning trampoline user who was unaware and not sufficiently warned of risks); Kroll, 764 N.Y.S.2d at 731 (deciding plaintiff did not assume risk because she was unaware of trampoline’s defect). Application of assumption of risk at summary judgment is especially inappropriate here because New York law disfavors using the [*23] doctrine in cases where there are allegations of reckless or intentional conduct, or concealed or unreasonably increased risks. 11 Morgan, 90 N.Y.2d at 485; see, e.g., Charles v. Uniondale Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 91 A.D.3d 805, 937 N.Y.S.2d 275, 276-77 (N.Y. App. Div. 2012) (denying summary judgment where issues of fact existed as to whether defendant unreasonably increased risk by failing to provide head and face protection to plaintiff lacrosse player); Miller v. Holiday Valley, Inc., 85 A.D.3d 1706, 925 N.Y.S.2d 785, 788 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011) (rejecting summary judgment because plaintiff submitted evidence that defendant’s negligent failure to stop ski lift caused plaintiff’s injuries); Repka, 798 N.Y.S.2d at 632-33 (dismissing summary judgment motion because lack of adequate warnings may have unduly enhanced snowmobile’s concealed defect). In short, I do not find that Cornell is entitled to judgment as a matter of law based on the assumption of risk doctrine.
10 Cornell argues that the warning notice on the TTA itself establishes total assumption of risk. However, a vast portion of the evidence in this case (almost all of it disputed) is about whether the TTA’s warnings were seen, sufficient, or effective. In [*24] other words, Cornell relies on a highly disputed factual conclusion concerning the adequacy of the warning to justify summary judgment on assumption of risk grounds. This Court cannot follow.
11 I am completely unpersuaded by Cornell’s argument concerning its total lack of a duty of care to a novice student using equipment in the Teagle Gymnasium. N.Y. Gen. Oblig. Law § 5-326 (McKinney 1976) (voiding gymnasium waivers); Eddy v. Syracuse Univ., 78 A.D.2d 989, 433 N.Y.S.2d 923 (App. Div. 1980) (concluding questions of negligence, foreseeability of injury, and duty to protect gym users are all proper issues for a jury); Lorenzo v. Monroe Comm. Coll., 72 A.D.2d 945, 422 N.Y.S.2d 230 (1979) (finding questions of fact existed as to whether defendant provided adequate supervision in gymnasium). Much of Cornell’s arguments are bootstrapped onto a conclusion of assumption of risk — i.e., because a student assumed the risk, the defendant college owes no duty with respect to the dangers inherent in the activity. As discussed, this Court cannot conclude at this stage that there was any assumption of risk. In addition, this Court will not revisit its previous rulings as to the issue of the prior academic year waiver despite Cornell’s [*25] apparent invitation.
Nor can I conclude that Cornell is entitled to summary judgment based upon causation. There is extensive, often-conflicting evidence concerning causation. Plaintiff has adduced significant amounts of evidence concerning Cornell’s systemic negligent conduct leading up to the accident. In addition, Plaintiff has offered evidence from multiple experts that goes directly to duty of care and causation (e.g., that the lack of spotting equipment and spotters proximately caused Plaintiff’s injuries; that the lack of warnings failed to notify Plaintiff of the risks associated with the TTA; that Cornell’s “outrageous” conduct in organizing and supervising Plaintiff’s use of the gymnasium directly contributed to Plaintiff’s accident). 12 Cornell may strongly disagree with these experts, but it is not entitled to have them ignored in favor of summary judgment.
12 Cornell spends considerable time “debunking” these experts in briefs, often by reference to the testimony of others. By doing so, Cornell highlights some of the very disputes that preclude summary judgment.
Tumbl Trak maintains that Plaintiff cannot prove it inadequately warned him against use of its product. [*26] Cornell suggests that this case involves nothing more than a “luckless accident” that resulted from Plaintiff’s voluntary participation in vigorous athletic activity. Plaintiff disagrees. He believes that he was harmed by (1) a device with grossly inadequate warnings, and (2) an institution which engaged in a course of conduct of gymnasium operation and supervision which was reprehensible and reckless. Based on the record before me, Plaintiff is entitled to put these questions to a jury.
An appropriate Order follows.
AND NOW, this 31st day of July, 2012, it is hereby ORDERED that:
Defendant Tumbl Trak’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Docket No. 169) is DENIED.
Cornell University’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Docket No. 171) is DENIED.
Cornell University’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Punitive Damages (Docket No. 172) is DENIED.
The Case Management Order dated April 20, 2012 remains in force.
In addition, this Court has briefly reviewed the initial pre-trial filings in this matter and noticed that they do not conform with the Chambers Policies and Procedures, available at http://www.paed.uscourts.gov. The rules contained therein are not optional, and are to be followed [*27] to the letter. No party has ever represented to this Court that they cannot work with their colleagues to fulfill their responsibilities under these procedures. Here, it appears the parties have, at least, failed to properly prepare their joint proposed jury instructions and joint proposed voir dire. Instead, three different versions of each document were separately filed by three different parties — a situation that the Chambers Policies obviously sought to preclude. The parties are specifically directed to review the Chambers Policies and Procedures, Civil Cases, Subsection E, which provide two pages of instructions as to the proper preparation and presentation of these and other pre-trial submissions. 13 It is ORDERED that the parties promptly withdraw any non-conforming filings and submit appropriately-prepared ones by August 31, 2012.
13 Parties are expected to be familiar with all Policies and Procedures by the time of the final pre-trial conference, especially the items concerning exhibits, courtroom operation, and attorney conduct during a trial.
BY THE COURT:
/s/ C. Darnell Jones, II
DARNELL JONES, II, U.S.D.J.
Mississippi retailer not liable for injury to a child who rode a bicycle through aisles he found on the store floor.
Posted: October 10, 2016 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Cycling, Mississippi | Tags: bicycle, Cycling, Dangerous Condition, Failure to Warn, Invitee, No Duty, Premises Liability, Premises Liability Act, Store Aisle, Wal-Mart | Leave a comment
Attempts by the plaintiff to re-characterize stands and racks did not get past the judge. However, in many cases, the way a plaintiff casts a product can later define how the jury sees the case.
Wilson v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 161 So. 3d 1128; 2015 Miss. App. LEXIS 216
State: Mississippi, Court of Appeals of Mississippi
Plaintiff: Seth Wilson, by and Through His Mother and Next Friend, Suzette Wilson Purser
Defendant: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Plaintiff Claims: Premises Liability
Holding: For the Defendant Retailer
This is a screwy little case, but worth the effort. A family, Step-Father, mother and two sons went into a Wal-Mart to buy a basketball. While there, the two sons walked over to the bicycle aisle and proceeded to ride two bicycles they found through the aisles.
One brother, in attempting to put a bicycle back in the rack, slowed down. The other brother was not used to hand breaks, maneuvered around the brother riding into a shelf where he suffered a cut on his leg.
They both got on bicycles that were on the bicycle rack, and started riding up and down the aisles nearby. The bicycle Seth rode was on the ground when he found it, with its front wheel pushed under the rack and its back wheel in the aisle. Seth was following Wyatt on his bicycle when Wyatt slowed down to put the bicycle he was riding away. Seth was forced to go around him because he was “going real fast” and “[could not] figure out how to stop.” He tried to brake using the pedals, but the bicycle only had handbrakes. Unable to stop, Seth ran into a wall and cut his leg on a shelf. The cut was deep and required stitches.
Of note was the statement that the employee assigned to the area was absent and there were no signs posted prohibiting the use of the bicycles.” (So bars now need to put up signs no drinking from the tap without paying for the product first?). The employee assigned to the department was outside at the time of the accident, and no signs were posted prohibiting the use of the bicycles or otherwise warning of any danger.”
The defendant was ten at the time of the injury so whether or not signs were posted probably would not have made a difference. And it seems that allowing children to ride bikes through the aisles at Wal-Mart in Mississippi is a common practice, which sort of blows my mind.
The injured child’s mother filed a lawsuit on his behalf, since he was a minor, and sued Wal-Mart based on a premise’s liability theory. Wal-Mart filed a motion for summary judgment stating there was no genuine issue of material fact showing that there was a dangerous condition that Wal-Mart should have warned about.
The motion was granted, and the plaintiff appealed the decision.
The court first looked at the premises’ liability law that the plaintiff claimed had been breached by Wal-Mart. To prove his case the plaintiff must show that he was an invitee, the duty owed to him based on his status and whether Wal-Mart breached that duty.
Seth’s premises-liability claim, this Court must (1) determine the status of the injured person as either an invitee, licensee, or trespasser, (2) assess, based on the injured party’s status, what duty the landowner or business operator owed to the injured party, and (3) determine whether the landowner or business operator breached the duty owed to the injured.
Because the plaintiff was there with his parents to purchase a basketball, he was defined as an invitee. As such, the duty of a land owner (or retailer) was to keep the premises reasonably safe and when not reasonably safe, to warn of the hidden dangers. If the peril were in plain and open view, there is no duty to warn of them.
To succeed in a premises-liability action, Seth must prove one of the following: “(1) a negligent act by [Wal-Mart] caused [his] injury; or, (2) that [Wal-Mart] had actual knowledge of a dangerous condition, but failed to warn [him] of the danger; or, (3) the dangerous condition remained long enough to impute constructive knowledge to [Wal-Mart].”
Is a bicycle on display at a retailer a dangerous condition? The plaintiff argued the bicycle should have been locked up so the plaintiff could not ride it. The bicycle was not in a rack at the time the plaintiff found the bike.
He argues that (1) Wal-Mart’s possession of a rack on which to clamp the bicycles, (2) the assignment of an employee to the toy department, and (3) evidence of other children on bicycles in the same aisle at the same Wal-Mart show that unlocked or readily accessible bicycles created a dangerous condition, and that Wal-Mart knew about it and failed to warn its patrons. He cites to no authority to support his position, and nothing in the record supports these allegations.
The plaintiff then characterized the rack that the bike should have been in as a “safety rack.” However, the court caught on to that maneuver and reviewed the operation of the rack and the manufacturer’s description and found the rack was designed only to hold bikes, not to prevent them from being moved.
Seth refers to the rack where the bicycles could be clamped as a safety rack, but there is nothing in the record to indicate that the purpose for the rack was to protect its patrons from the alleged danger posed by unlocked or readily accessible bicycles. The record contains installation instructions for the rack, which were prepared by VIDIR Machine Inc., a vertical storage company, and refers to the rack as a carrier or bike-merchandising system only. The rack does not contain a locking mechanism, and holds bicycles in place utilizing a tire clamp
The plaintiff argued that since the bikes would be difficult to remove from the rack, an employee would need to be there to make sure the bikes were removed properly and only when allowed.
However, the entire argument failed. No employee was stationed at the rack to guard against removing bikes. Other children rode bikes in the aisle without incidence, which indicated there was no real danger and no evidence of a standard was presented indicating a requirement to lock up bikes on the show floor.
Additionally, there is nothing in the record to indicate the assignment of an employee to the toy department was for the purpose of guarding against any known danger; and evidence that other children rode bicycles in the same aisle in the same Wal-Mart without incident does not, in and of itself, tend to show that unlocked or readily accessible bicycles pose a danger. Seth provided no evidence of the industry’s standards, no expert reports, and no evidence of Wal-Mart’s policy regarding who may remove the bicycles from the rack and whether its employees were required to.
The plaintiff then argued a higher duty was owed to the plaintiff because he was a minor. However, the duty owed under a premise’s liability act does not change due to the age of the invitee. The plaintiff also knew how to ride a bicycle and learned at the age of five. The plaintiff had also been involved in numerous bicycle accidents prior to the one that injured him at the retailers’ premises.
An unlocked bicycle was found not to present a dangerous condition such that a warning had to be posted by the retailer about the risk to the consumers.
The first issue which was handled quickly by the court was the attempt by the plaintiff to characterize something as different than it actually was. By calling the bike rack a safety rack the plaintiff could place in the juries mind a requirement that did not exist. It is important that these issues not be allowed to explode and create liability just because th e plaintiff miss-labels part of the case.
Another issue is the fact that parents allow their kids to ride bicycles through the aisles of stores, and the retailer does not put a stop to it. What if the plaintiff had hit another patron rather than a shelf?
As always, the issue of putting warning signs up so people who can’t read, can be protected always makes me wonder. Warning if you are unable to read this sign, please find someone to read it to you. Seriously the entire world is going to be nothing but signs if this continues.
Thankfully, the retailer was not liable for the actions of an inattentive parent for the injuries of their child riding a bike down a store aisle.
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Posted: October 9, 2016 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Cycling, Legal Case, Mississippi | Tags: bicycle, Cycling, Dangerous Condition, Failure to Warn, Invitee, No Duty, Premises Liability, Premises Liability Act, Store Aisle, Wal-Mart | Leave a comment
Seth Wilson, by and Through His Mother and Next Friend, Suzette Wilson Purser, appellant v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Appellee
NO. 2014-CA-00589-COA
Court of Appeals of Mississippi
161 So. 3d 1128; 2015 Miss. App. LEXIS 216
April 21, 2015, Decided
COUNSEL: FOR APPELLANT: D. BRIGGS SMITH JR.
FOR APPELLEE: THOMAS M. LOUIS, LEO JOSEPH CARMODY JR.
JUDGES: BEFORE LEE, C.J., BARNES AND MAXWELL, JJ. IRVING AND GRIFFIS, P.JJ., BARNES, ISHEE, ROBERTS, MAXWELL, FAIR AND JAMES, JJ., CONCUR. CARLTON, J., NOT PARTICIPATING.
OPINION BY: LEE
[*1129] NATURE OF THE CASE: CIVIL – PERSONAL INJURY
LEE, C.J., FOR THE COURT:
P1. In this premises-liability case, we must determine whether summary judgment was appropriately granted in favor of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. We find summary judgment was proper; thus, we affirm.
P2. On April 29, 2012, ten-year-old Seth Wilson, his brother, Wyatt Purser, and his stepfather, Jim Purser, went to a Wal-Mart [*1130] store in Batesville, Mississippi, to purchase a basketball. While Jim was paying for the basketball at a nearby register, Seth and his brother started looking at the bicycles. They both got on bicycles that were on the bicycle rack, and started riding up and down the aisles nearby. The bicycle Seth rode was on the ground when he found [**2] it, with its front wheel pushed under the rack and its back wheel in the aisle. Seth was following Wyatt on his bicycle when Wyatt slowed down to put the bicycle he was riding away. Seth was forced to go around him because he was “going real fast” and “[could not] figure out how to stop.” He tried to brake using the pedals, but the bicycle only had handbrakes. Unable to stop, Seth ran into a wall and cut his leg on a shelf. The cut was deep and required stitches. The employee assigned to the department was outside at the time of the accident, and no signs were posted prohibiting the use of the bicycles or otherwise warning of any danger.
P3. Suzette Purser, Seth’s mother, filed suit on his behalf on September 14, 2012, alleging negligence on the part of Wal-Mart in failing to keep the premises reasonably safe and warn of danger. After discovery was completed, Wal-Mart filed a motion for summary judgment. Seth filed a response, and Wal-Mart replied. After a hearing, the trial court granted Wal-Mart’s motion, finding that no genuine issue of material fact existed because Seth failed to show the existence of a dangerous condition. Seth filed a motion to reconsider, which was denied. Seth [**3] now appeals asserting the trial court erred in granting Wal-Mart’s motion for summary judgment.
P4. [HN1] In considering a trial court’s grant of a motion for summary judgment, this Court conducts a de novo review and “examines all the evidentiary matters before it — admissions in pleadings, answers to interrogatories, depositions, affidavits, etc.” City of Jackson v. Sutton, 797 So. 2d 977, 979 (¶7) (Miss. 2001) (citation omitted). [HN2] The Mississippi Supreme Court recently clarified the summary-judgment standard, explaining that “[t]he movant bears the burden of persuading the trial judge that: (1) no genuine issue of material fact exists, and (2) on the basis of the facts established, he is entitled to [a] judgment as a matter of law.” Karpinsky v. Am. Nat’l Ins. Co., 109 So. 3d 84, 88 (¶11) (Miss. 2013) (citation omitted). The supreme court further stated that “[t]he movant bears the burden of production if, at trial, he would bear the burden of proof on the issue raised. In other words, the movant only bears the burden of production where [he] would bear the burden of proof at trial.” Id. at 88-89 (¶11) (citations omitted). The supreme court again clarified that “while [d]efendants carry the initial burden of persuading the trial judge that no issue of material fact exists and that they are entitled to summary judgment based upon the established [**4] facts, [the plaintiff] carries the burden of producing sufficient evidence of the essential elements of [his] claim at the summary-judgment stage, as [he] would carry the burden of production at trial.” Id. at 89 (¶13).
P5. [HN3] To determine whether Wal-Mart is entitled to summary judgment on Seth’s premises-liability claim, this Court must (1) determine the status of the injured person as either an invitee, licensee, or trespasser, (2) assess, based on the injured party’s status, what duty the landowner or business operator owed to the injured party, and (3) determine whether the landowner or business operator breached the duty owed to the injured [*1131] party. Titus v. Williams, 844 So. 2d 459, 467 (¶28) (Miss. 2003).
P6. It is undisputed that Seth was a business invitee. [HN4] “A business owner/operator owes to invitees the duty to keep the premises reasonably safe, and when not reasonably safe, to warn only where there is hidden danger or peril that is not in plain and open view.” Rod v. Home Depot USA Inc., 931 So. 2d 692, 694 (¶10) (Miss. Ct. App. 2006) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). To succeed in a premises-liability action, Seth must prove one of the following: “(1) a negligent act by [Wal-Mart] caused [his] injury; or, (2) that [Wal-Mart] had actual knowledge of a dangerous condition, but failed to warn [him] [**5] of the danger; or, (3) the dangerous condition remained long enough to impute constructive knowledge to [Wal-Mart].” Byrne v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., 877 So. 2d 462, 465 (¶5) (Miss. Ct. App. 2003) (citation omitted). A business owner, however, is not an insurer of an invitee’s injuries. Id. at (¶6).
P7. Whether Wal-Mart breached its duty to keep the premises reasonably safe or otherwise warn of a hidden danger necessarily depends on whether a dangerous condition existed. Seth argues that whether an unlocked or readily available bicycle on the sales floor constituted a dangerous condition was a genuine issue of material fact that should have been submitted to a jury. To avoid summary judgment, however, Seth must produce sufficient evidence of the essential elements of a claim of negligence – duty, breach, causation, and damages.
P8. Seth contends that leaving unlocked or readily accessible bicycles on the sales floor created a dangerous condition. He argues that (1) Wal-Mart’s possession of a rack on which to clamp the bicycles, (2) the assignment of an employee to the toy department, and (3) evidence of other children on bicycles in the same aisle at the same Wal-Mart show that unlocked or readily accessible bicycles created a dangerous condition, and that Wal-Mart [**6] knew about it and failed to warn its patrons. He cites to no authority to support his position, and nothing in the record supports these allegations.
P9. Seth refers to the rack where the bicycles could be clamped as a safety rack, but there is nothing in the record to indicate that the purpose for the rack was to protect its patrons from the alleged danger posed by unlocked or readily accessible bicycles. The record contains installation instructions for the rack, which were prepared by VIDIR Machine Inc., a vertical storage company, and refers to the rack as a carrier or bike-merchandising system only. The rack does not contain a locking mechanism, and holds bicycles in place utilizing a tire clamp. While the bicycles are still accessible to patrons, Seth argues that the rack was designed to make it difficult for patrons to remove the bicycle from the rack, prompting a need for employee assistance, but fails to offer sufficient evidence of this assertion.
P10. Additionally, there is nothing in the record to indicate the assignment of an employee to the toy department was for the purpose of guarding against any known danger; and evidence that other children rode bicycles in the same [**7] aisle in the same Wal-Mart without incident does not, in and of itself, tend to show that unlocked or readily accessible bicycles pose a danger. Seth provided no evidence of the industry’s standards, no expert reports, and no evidence of Wal-Mart’s policy regarding who may remove the bicycles from the rack and whether its employees were required to return the bicycles to the rack immediately after each use. Because Wilson failed to produce sufficient evidence that unlocked or readily accessible [*1132] bicycles on the sales floor created a dangerous condition, this issue is without merit.
P11. Seth also argues that the trial court erred in finding that Seth’s age was immaterial. This appears to be an attack on the applicability of Orr v. Academy Louisiana Co., 157 So. 3d 44, 2013 WL 1809878 (La. Ct. App. 2013), an unpublished opinion the trial court cited in support of its conclusion that an unlocked or readily accessible bicycle does not constitute a dangerous condition. In Orr, a woman was injured when she was struck by an adult male riding a bicycle in Academy Sports and Outdoors. 157 So. 3d 44, Id. at *1.
P12. It is not disputed that Seth was an invitee at the time of his injury, and he acknowledges that the duty owed him was not in any way heightened due to his status as a minor. What Seth [**8] appears to be arguing is that the trial court incorrectly considered evidence of contributory negligence in determining whether a dangerous condition existed. Seth had learned how to ride a bicycle by the age of five and had been involved in other bicycle accidents prior to the one at Wal-Mart. Again, Seth’s argument necessarily depends on whether an unlocked or readily available bicycle constitutes a dangerous condition. If an unlocked or readily accessible bicycle does not constitute a dangerous condition, it does not matter whether a person of Seth’s age, experience, and intelligence could have perceived the danger because the danger did not exist. Because Seth failed to show how an unlocked or readily available bicycle constituted a dangerous condition, this issue is without merit.
P13. THE JUDGMENT OF THE PANOLA COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT IS AFFIRMED. ALL COSTS OF THIS APPEAL ARE ASSESSED TO THE APPELLANT.
IRVING AND GRIFFIS, P.JJ., BARNES, ISHEE, ROBERTS, MAXWELL, FAIR AND JAMES, JJ., CONCUR. CARLTON, J., NOT PARTICIPATING.
Sometimes you get screwed; here Petzl was shafted by the court.
Posted: December 30, 2013 | Author: Recreation Law | Filed under: Climbing Wall, New York | Tags: Climbing Wall, Defective Design, Failure to Warn, Gear Loop, Harness, Inc., Petzl, Petzl USA, Product liability, Sport Rock International, Town Sports International, Warning label | 1 Comment
In this product liability case, improper use of a climbing harness at a climbing wall led to a lawsuit. The injured climber was climbing at the gym and helped by an untrained employee. In this case, when a judge wants you to pay, you are going to suffer.
In this case, a manufacturer (Petzl) sold climbing harnesses to a climbing wall builder (Sport Rock International, Inc.) who sold a harness to a New York- climbing gym. A gym employee attached a beginner climber to the harness using a gear loop rather than the normal tie in points. The employee had little training and knew not to tie into the gear loop but accidentally did so. The beginning climber fell thirty feet when the gear loop ripped and was injured.
Anaya v Town Sports International, Inc., et al., 2007 NY Slip Op 7875; 2007 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10819
Plaintiff: Joseph Anaya
Defendant: Town Sports International, Inc., et al., Sport Rock International, Inc., et al. (et al in this case means and others, including Petzl America, Inc.)
Plaintiff Claims: negligence and strict products liability (defectively designed and insufficient warnings)
Holding: mostly for the plaintiff
The plaintiff sued under theories of negligence and strict product’s liability. The strict product’s liability claims were for defective design of the harness and insufficient warnings on the harness. The warning issue was specifically for failure to warn of where the correct tie in point on the harness was located.
The climbing wall was also sued for negligence and product liability. The climbing wall settled with the injured plaintiff and was not part of this lawsuit. In this case, the climbing wall was a retailer because the harness, although not technically sold to a consumer, was moved into the consumer market by the climbing gym. In a product liability lawsuit, all entities in the chain of sale from the manufacturer to the consumer are brought into court.
The climbing wall and manufacturer filed separate motions for summary judgment, and the trial court granted the motions. The plaintiff appealed, and the appellate court reversed the decision of the trial court and sent the case back down for trial.
Summary of the case
To prove a case for product liability based on defective design in New York the plaintiff must prove “the product was not reasonably safe and that the defective design was a substantial factor in causing plaintiff’s injury….” This argument is similar to the proximate causation argument for a simple negligence claim; however, it is reversed. The plaintiff must prove he was injured first and that the cause of his injury was substantially caused by the design flaws of the product.
With respect to the first element — whether the product was not reasonably safe — the proper inquiry is “whether it is a product which, if the design defect were known at the time of manufacture, a reasonable person would conclude that the utility of the product did not outweigh the risk inherent in marketing a product designed in that manner”
In balancing the product’s risks against its utility and cost, the following factors must be considered: “(1) the utility of the product to the public as a whole and to the individual user; (2) the nature of the product – that is, the likelihood that it will cause injury; (3) the availability of a safer design; (4) the potential for designing and manufacturing the product so that it is safer but remains functional and reasonably priced; (5) the ability of the plaintiff to have avoided injury by careful use of the product; (6) the degree of awareness of the potential danger of the product which reasonably can be attributed to the plaintiff; and (7) the manufacturer’s ability to spread any cost related to improving the safety of the design”
This test is a little more reversed than you first might think about it. The reasonable man test is not that of the manufacturer but of someone in the community with the average knowledge and experience of a person in the community. For those things, we all know and understand such as driving, eating at a restaurant or going to a movie, the test makes sense. We understand how everything works and what we believe is best because we have experienced it.
However, for those activities or actions only practiced or experienced by a few, that test creates an education problem. You must educate the judge and the jury and convince them that the standard you are arguing is reasonable. This is difficult when they may have no idea what you are talking about.
This is a no-win test for the harness manufacturer because attempting to argue that more warnings would either defeat the use of the harness, defeat the ability to use the harness, or cost too much to create and attach to the harness is simply impossible to do. That means the test is comparing the cost of adding additional labels that warn of the risk of tying into a gear loop versus the potential for injury. The potential for injury is almost absolute, thus the manufacturer is going to fail that test 99 times out of 100 if not all the time.
For rock climbing, it is impossible to meet the test in most situations because so few people understand rock climbing. They have no experience in tying into a harness and climbing a wall. To many the whole concept is alien and scary.
While a few people who are not climbers may understand how a harness works, it is likely that knowledge will be based on work harnesses, which have no gear loops and can only be used one way. This difference alone leads to confusion and misunderstanding. If the government, OSHA, does not allow or require gear loops why did the climbing wall manufacturer have them on its harness. The harness is only seen as safety item, not as a way to haul gear and a chalk bag….as well as catch a fall.
The court made this conclusion.
Since the harness was undoubtedly meant to bear the weight of a climber, it was reasonably foreseeable that a climber might attempt to attach a safety line to various parts thereof and expect those parts to bear his weight.
Simple statement for the court to make. The harness is meant to catch the wear in a fall; therefore, all parts of the harness should be able to catch the wearer in a fall.
The manufacturers of climbing harnesses make the gear loops appear flimsy so that a climber would know not to tie into a gear loop. Whether this is an effective way to warn people that a gear loop is not meant to catch a fall was determined by the court to be a question of law to be determined by the jury. Consequently, the court had issues and did not reverse the trial court and sending the case back for trial.
The failure to warn argument was then reviewed by the court. The test of failure to warn is “A manufacturer has a duty to warn against latent dangers resulting from foreseeable uses of its product of which it knew or should have known.”
Petzl warned about the gear loop in the manual. There was also a small label with a skull and crossbones on it, which directed the user to read the manual. The flaw in this situation is the harness had been sold to a climbing wall where it would be used by dozens of climbers, none the owner of the harness and none having access to the manual.
An expert witness for the plaintiff testified that the skull and crossbones label was insufficient to give rise to notice to the consumer of the risk of tying into the gear loop. Here again, the question of fact was one that had to be determined by a jury.
What makes this case so difficult to accept is, the gear loops and labels used by Petzl are standard in the industry. We, in the industry are used to the labels and understand them. Again, the test is not of someone in the industry but of a reasonable man walking down any street, in any town USA.
The defendants then argued that the employee of the climbing gym was an intervening person between the defendant’s acts (making and selling the harness) and the injury. However, the judge rejected this argument because the intervening act cannot be a defense if it is foreseeable that someone would tie into a gear loop.
The manufacturer admitted to knowing of other cases in which people tied into the gear loop of harnesses. This knowledge then eliminated the defense that the injury was unreasonably foreseeable. This test looks at whether or not the average person in the community could guess that a person would tie in incorrectly and whether this knowledge should have been known by the manufacture. Since the manufacturer knew of similar situations then it was foreseeable.
One of the issues that jumps out of this case in reading the decision, is the court wanted to use language that assisted the plaintiff or at least was incorrect. A perfect example was calling the belay rope the safety line.
If you are a manufacturer, you must make sure that your warnings are sufficient that people not associated with the industry can understand their meaning. Here the appellate court had probably never worn a harness and could not understand or see the risk the warning label was attempting to identify.
If believe your market is big enough, then selling a harness to beginners (climbing gyms) that is simple and requires no warning labels might work. With no opportunity to tie into anywhere but the one tie point you eliminate this need. However, you have also eliminated part of the market that wants to get a beginning harness that can grow as their experience does. I.e. a harness that has a gear loop.
Another way would be to eliminate the warnings found in the manual and permanently attach them to the harness. A laminated or plastic card could hang from the chalk bag loop and be obvious to any climber. Beginners are not going to worry about 10 grams of weight the warning card would add to the harness. Sell the harness only to climbing gyms or rope’s courses, etc. and supply a dozen cards with each harness. Require the purchaser to put a new card on the harness anytime a harness is found without one.
Another possibility is to create a more direct relationship between the manufacturer and the user. Not the consumer but climbing walls, zip lines, rope’s courses, and guide services, etc. This relationship, if contractual (and in writing) can say that for a discount, the parties will indemnify each other, follow the rules and consider the relationship a commercial transaction, not that of a consumer transaction.
Even though Petzl had the requisite warning label on its harness, and even though it is common knowledge among anyone with any experience as a climber tying into a gear loop is not safe (as the climbing gym employee did), Petzlbecame a party to the lawsuit once an appellate court decided that the warning labels on the harness, which have been used in several other industries, were not adequate to keep the harness manufacture out of court.
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Journal of Restorative Medicine – Current Issue » Reversing Hypometabolic Symptoms by Normalizing Low Body Temperatures with Sustained-release T3 in Patients with Euthyroid TSH Levels
Reversing Hypometabolic Symptoms by Normalizing Low Body Temperatures with Sustained-release T3 in Patients with Euthyroid TSH Levels
September 1, 2012 August 6, 2018
Source: Journal of Restorative Medicine , Volume 1, Number 1, 1 September 2012, pp. 64-74(11)
Author: Wilson, E. Denis
Currently, the position of the American Thyroid Association is that hypothyroidism causes symptoms of metabolic slowing due to inadequate production of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland; it is diagnosed by a lab result of a high thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level. While hypothyroidism is considered a chronic, incurable condition, the symptoms typically can be controlled by ingestion of thyroxine (T4) for life. Due to this conclusion, medical providers overall adhere to the assumption that people with normal TSH levels can not have thyroid-hormone-responsive symptoms; likewise, thyroid-hormone-responsive symptoms should not be treated with triiodothyronine T3 and are not reversible. Our objective was to examine if treatment with sustained-release (SR-T3), in patients with normal TSH values and low body temperatures, reduced symptoms consistent with low metabolic rate—and if improvement in symptoms remained even after discontinuation of the T3 treatment regimen.
We report the results of 11 euthyroid outpatients with low body temperatures who took oral SR-T3 every 12 hours according to a cyclic dosing schedule designed to titrate low body temperatures to normal. The SR-T3 they took was formulated with the aim of delivering the T3 gradually over 12 hours.
All of the patients in this study responded with an elevation in oral temperatures and improvement in five symptoms measured following the T3 treatment regimen.
Patients exhibiting hypometabolism with normal TSH levels may experience a reversal of symptoms with normalization of low body temperatures on administration of a sustained-release T3 regimen such that their symptoms remain improved after the regimen has been discontinued.
CLINICAL PEARL PAPER:
These are opinion articles written by clinicians who have had successful clinical experience. Although the protocols discussed are not derived from double-blind studies the articles offer clinicians valuable practical clinical skills that can be helpful in treating their patients effectively.
DW pioneered the use of sustained-release triiodothyronine, especially in the treatment of reversible hypometabolic symptoms. The current study utilizes a protocol (Wilson’s T3 protocol, or WT3 protocol) developed by DW, which involves the patient undertaking one or more cycles of gradually-increasing doses of SR-T3 (q 12 hours orally) according to patient response; in this study the dosing is followed by weaning off the SR-T3 treatment (as is typical). The objective of the WT3 protocol is to normalize low body temperature, thereby reversing hypometabolic symptoms in patients, and ideally for the increase in body temperature and improvement in symptoms to remain even after discontinuation of the SR-T3 regimen.
Hypothyroidism causes symptoms of hypometabolism due to a thyroid hormone deficiency as determined by a low TSH lab test result. However, in DW’s experience, some euthyroid patients have low body temperatures and hypometabolic symptoms that are reversible with SR-T3 treatment. If some euthyroid patients do have reversible low body temperature and hypometabolic symptoms the etiology of said low body temperature and hypometabolic symptoms is not known and may be multi-factorial.
Alleviating hypometabolic symptoms in euthyroid patients may be viewed as analogous to alleviating the symptoms of dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Dysfunctional uterine bleeding is often a diagnosis of exclusion by medical providers based largely on the patient’s report of irregular bleeding, and it may be reversible with a short-term, therapeutic trial of oral contraceptives (and with the patient weaned off the oral contraceptives on normalization of menstrual cycles and attendant elimination of dysfunctional bleeding symptoms). Likewise, with the exclusion of other causes of low body temperature and hypometabolic symptoms patients can be considered for a therapeutic trial of SR-T3. Such symptoms may be reversible upon normalization of body temperatures with a short-term, therapeutic trial of SR-T3 (and with the patient weaned off the SR-T3).
Thyroid system disorders of diverse iterations have been investigated for numerous years. Two examples are “euthyroid hypometabolism” and “hypometabolism without myxedema”. Since before the 1950s, thyroid disorders such as these have been associated with lack of clinical improvement in hypometabolic symptoms, even with the administration (to the point of toxicity) of large doses of thyroid-targeted pharmaceutical agents. Likewise, resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH)—a rare syndrome—is characterized by high T4 and T3 levels with normal (rather than suppressed) TSH levels, as would usually be anticipated. RTH is due to a genetic mutation of the thyroid hormone receptor.
Subclinical hypothyroidism is defined as a high TSH with normal T4 levels. Approximately 2-5% of all patients with subclinical hypothyroidism will progress to overt hypothyroidism per year. Euthyroid Sick Syndrome (ESS) is characterized by an adaptive, temporary change in lab test results (with increased reverse triiodothyronine (RT3), and decreased triiodothyronine (T3) (Fig 1), but usually normal (T4)) brought on by a non-thyroidal illness; lab values return to normal after the illness has resolved. Patients with ESS do not have hypometabolic symptoms, and thyroid-targeted treatment is therefore unnecessary.
Hypometabolism is not an illness but rather a condition, and is not necessarily problematic in a given patient. But, hypothyroidism can cause persistent and problematic hypometabolic symptoms that can require life-long thyroid hormone treatment. DW postulates that there is a reversible hypometabolic syndrome that can also cause persistent and problematic hypometabolic symptoms that can often be corrected with short-term (several months) treatment with T3. DW submits that the reversible hypometabolic syndrome appears to often be brought on by systemic stress due to illness, injury, or emotional trauma: the defining symptom is a reversible slowing of the metabolism; and that reversible hypo-metabolic symptoms often appear to worsen in stages as the level of systemic stress increases. Using the WT3 protocol, the reversible hypometabolic syndrome might be corrected by normalizing the body temperature using T3—even when thyroid values are in the normal range. It is also conceivable that a patient could have such a syndrome and hypothyroidism (or even hyperthyroidism) simultaneously.
WT3 protocol treatment is rejected by the American Thyroid Association (ATA) because no double-blind study has yet been published to support the existence of reversible hypometabolic symptoms. Consequently, the ATA has not approved the use of T3 (and considers the use of T3 to be inappropriate treatment) in the presence of normal thyroid blood tests. However, the diagnosis and treatment of reversible hypometabolic symptoms by normalizing low body temperature has been taught in naturopathic medical schools for years, and studies have been undertaken using T3 in patients with normal TSH levels for over 60 years. DW describes the reversible hypometabolic symptoms as essentially the same symptoms as those of hypothyroidism-induced hypometabolism.
T3 RESEARCH
As with the reversible hypometabolic symptoms, a systemic stressful event is thought to trigger chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Meanwhile, fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) also shares many symptoms in common with CFS. Precedence for T3 treatment of reversible hypometabolic symptoms can be found in recent FMS research; one study found that 75.3% of FMS patients experienced decreased tender-point sensitivity (as measured by algometry) after treatment with 75-150 mcg of T3 in conjunction with other lifestyle changes (i.e., increased aerobic activity, a change in diet, and ingestion of nutrition supplements). Additionally, in Dr. L. Sonkin’s study, 88 euthyroid patients experiencing fatigue, myofascial pain, and depression were placed on thyroid therapy. Dr. Sonkin evaluated the symptoms of each patient before and after the thyroid therapy. He reported that T3 improved the symptoms in many of these patients (Table 1)
EUTHYROID HYPOMETABOLISM SYMPTOMS SCORE
A study of Bunevicius et al. of hypothyroid patients showed that mood, neuropsychological function, and cognitive abilities were much improved in those who had taken T3 as opposed to T4 (levothyroxine). These hypothyroid patients with euthyroid TSH and T4 blood values were already taking exogenous T4, and had hypothyroid cognitive symptoms that resolved with T3 therapy. A conclusion was that the T3 impact on human physiology was greater than generally presumed.
The possibility that a subtle thyroid defect may occur secondary to systemic stress has not been fully explored. However, it is well-documented that— under periods of physical injury as well as chronic or acute illness—a decrease occurs in conversion of T4 to T3. Stress that stimulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis results in an increased level of cortisol.In turn, increased cortisol levels are well-known to inhibit the conversion of T4 to T3, resulting in increased RT3. The deiodinase enzymes can locally increase or decrease thyroid hormone signaling in tissue- and time-specific fashion, independent of changes in thyroid hormone serum concentrations and appear to play a much broader role in energy homeostasis than once thought. And, since RT3 has been shown to inhibit type II deiodinase which is the major activating enzyme of T4 to T3 it is conceivable that transient increases in RT3 due to cortisol could secondarily inhibit type II deiodinase, leading to more RT3, thereby contributing to a persistent dysregulation affecting energy homeostasis. This might be the case even though RT3 has a short half-life and is quickly broken down. Whatever the mechanism, it is the clinical experience of DW that the reversible hypometabolic symptoms tend to come on or worsen under conditions of systemic stress often persisting after the stress has passed. Similarly, recent reviews discuss stress as a possible trigger in other conditions such as autoimmune disease and fibromyalgia.
Most research conducted on the use of T3 in patients with normal TSH levels have been performed in patients undergoing treatment for depression. A well-documented relationship exists between disorders of the thyroid axis and depressive symptoms. Because of this relationship to depression, most T3 studies have involved therapeutic trials of thyroid hormones in patients diagnosed with depression along with normal TSH levels. The existence of a well-established causal relationship has also been demonstrated between the thyroid axis function and body temperature. For example, thyroid storm may cause fever, while myxedema may cause low body temperature. Thus, this causal relationship may justify therapeutic trials with T3 to normalize body temperatures in the same manner as therapeutic trials have been justified for T3 treatment of depression. Similar justifications could be made for the use of a therapeutic trial of T3 for other symptoms that might be related to hypo-metabolism in euthyroid patients.
Depressive disorders are diagnosed based on clinical criterion and are often treated with therapeutic trials of antidepressants. Antidepressants have recently become the most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United States. Studies have shown that up to 50% of patients with treatment-resistant depression (on tricyclics or SSRIs) will achieve remission if T3 (25-50 mcg each day) is added to their treatment regimen.
A justification for a trial of innate thyroid hormones may be similar, therefore, to the justification for trials of antidepressants to relieve symptoms. Similarly, bipolar patients have also been shown to respond well when T3 was added to their pharmacologic treatment regimen, even after a remission failure on an average of 14 different antidepressant trials. However, one-third of these bipolar patients achieved complete remission by the addition of T3
It may be beneficial in some cases to prescribe T3 upon clinical criterion as a therapeutic trial just as antidepressants and many other medications are. Using T3 to treat hypometabolic symptoms in euthyroid patients may be appropriate especially considering that numerous studies have also shown that high dose T3 therapy in the treatment of euthyroid depression is often well-tolerated and for long periods of time (e.g., a two-year period).Overall, T3 has been found to be a viable, safe, inexpensive and effective treatment in euthyroid patients with depression. Hypothyroidism can lead to hypometabolic symptoms such as depression. If T3 can often be effective in the treatment of depression, maybe it can sometimes be effective in the treatment of other symptoms that might be consistent with hypometabolism, as well. It is recognized that the HPT axis is responsible for the maintenance of homeostasis of body metabolism. Likewise, hormones and enzymes responsible for hormone synthesis and degradation, along with hormone transporters and receptors, may become dysfunctional necessitating corrective therapeutic intervention. Researchers have documented a sub-group of people diagnosed with depression who may benefit specifically from the use of T3 (as opposed to T4), and suggested T3—as opposed to T4—be administered to euthyroid patients with depression whereas endocrine patients are routinely prescribed T4.
Endocrine disorders have long been recognized to cause clinical psychiatric symptoms; these psychiatric symptoms often resolve when the endocrine disorder is corrected. This has led to increased research investigating a hormonal etiology for a variety of psychiatric disorders. However, much of this research has been unsuccessful in terms of outcome. Meanwhile, research has shown that treatment with T3 in addition to anti-depressants is more successful in some patients whose symptoms were not alleviated by anti-depressants alone. However, it cannot be ruled out that these patients may have responded well to initial T3 monotherapy. No studies have been undertaken yet on the treatment of depression by T3 alone as a medicinal intervention. Since T3 is not patentable, there is little incentive on the part of pharmaceutical companies to fund studies on the use of T3 for the treatment of depression.
One critical factor missing in most published research on T3 as a pharmacological intervention is its effect on body temperature. Research has shown that the administration of T3 increases body temperature in the rat. But in the clinical experience of DW, the dosage and administration of T3 necessary to normalize body temperatures varies exceedingly between individuals but the body temperatures that correlate with improvement in symptoms seem to be remarkably similar from person to person. It may be that body temperature may be a useful guide in the use of T3 to alleviate symptoms. The present study focused on the relationship between T3 dosing according to body temperature (according to the WT3 protocol) and the mitigation of symptoms. Therefore, studies in which research subjects receive the same dose and administration of T3 are not likely to achieve normalized body temperature, and may increase the chance of side effects in those research subjects.
While therapeutic administration of T3 to research subjects has occurred, the T3 administration has not been in accordance with the individual’s body temperature. DW feels that body temperature can be an essential factor in the use of T3 to correct symptoms. Though the use of T3 has been studied in euthyroid patients, our research focused on the relationship of T3 dosage to body temperature for the mitigation of symptoms according to the WT3 protocol.
Body temperature is controlled by a thermoregulatory system that modulates heat production and heat loss, such that core temperature is maintained within a narrow range. The thermoregulatory center of the brain is located in the pre-optic region of the anterior hypothalamus (POAH). Neurons in the POAH act as a thermostat, and modulate heat production and heat loss to control the body temperature. Heat is produced from both metabolic and physical activities.
In a neutral environment, human metabolic rate produces enough heat to maintain an oral temperature of 37°C (98.6°F); thermoregulatory mechanisms become active when heat content increases or decreases.
Due to daily circadian variations, normal body temperature ranges generally fluctuate from a low of 36.1° C (97° F) that usually occurs between 2:00 and 6:00 A.M. to a high of 37.8°C (100°F) that usually occurs between 5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Since many factors affect the thermoregulatory control, patients who have low average body temperatures do not necessarily suffer from hypometabolic symptoms.
Michaël Friedman, ND identified 11 patients in his office practice with fatigue and low body temperatures and gave them a physical exam and multi-chemistry panel to rule out other medically identifiable causes of fatigue. Their symptoms were consistent with hypometabolism and having ruled out other diagnoses he gave each patient a therapeutic trial of the WT3 protocol (described more fully in the Discussion section of this article) and he is here presenting the results of this study. Each patient was asked to evaluate the symptoms numerically before and after treatment. Each patient in this private clinic study underwent treatment that was considered complete when the patient was able to maintain—off of his/her T3 treatment described in the Discussion section—an average body temperature of 98.6°F.
Table 2 presents the results of the study described in the Methods section. (A value of ‘10’ represents greatest severity of symptoms, while ‘1’ represents least severity. A value of ‘0’ represents an absence of symptoms.) Each patient required a different amount of time to achieve normalization of his or her body temperature; recovery time varied between 3 weeks and 12 months.
Table 2CFS SYMPTOM SCORE WITH WTS PROTOCOL
Michael Aikin, PhD, conducted a medical statistical analysis of these results (Table 3). His statistical analysis showed statistically significant reductions in the mean symptom scores representing an improvement in the symptoms. After the WT3 treatment was discontinued (usually 3 to 6 months after initiation), the majority of reversible hypometabolic symptom patients reported significant and continued improvement in their symptoms. Notice that 3 of the patients reported almost complete resolution of fairly severe symptoms (Table 2) Additionally, 8 out of the 11 patients reported significant and continued improvement in their symptoms at 30 day follow-up.
Table 3 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SYMPTOMS SCORES WTS Protocol In CFS Patients
WT3 PROTOCOL:
The aim of the WT3 protocol is to normalize low body temperature in a manner such that normalized body temperature can be maintained even after treatment by T3 has been discontinued. This is analogous to use of oral contraceptives in the treatment of dysfunctional uterine bleeding to re-establish normal menstrual cycles—such that normal cycles will persist following oral contraceptive discontinuation. One of the co-authors of this article DW developed the WT3 treatment protocol over a two-year period based on his empirical observations in treating patients with intractable fatigue. Wilson was the first physician to utilize sustained-release T3 therapy in this area; he treated approximately 5,000 patients successfully over a period of four years. A significant number of medical physicians worldwide currently use this protocol in their clinical practices as a therapeutic method.
UNIQUE FEATURES OF WT3:
Four unique features of the WT3 protocol that distinguish it from conventional T3 therapy are that: a) it is often used only temporarily as a means to recalibrate body temperature patterns; b) it is often used even when TSH tests are completely normal; c) it uses a sustained-release form of T3, as opposed to non-sustained release liothyronine (Cytomel®, Jones Pharma) d) it is cyclic in its administration, with the dose and cycle-length adjusted according to patient response in symptoms and temperature.
In DW’s clinical experience, a dose escalation approach aimed at normalizing a patient’s temperature with T3 is often helpful in reversing symptoms. In utilizing his protocol, DW usually starts a patient on a low initial dose (i.e. 7.5 mcg of ST-T3 every 12 hours), but may increase the dose by 7.5 mcgper dose per day if average oral temperature remains less than 98.6° F— and the T3 dose can even be increased up to 90 mcg every 12 hours, if necessary. If the body temperature still remains low, the patient may need to be weaned off the T3 by 7.5 mcg decrements per dose approximately every 2 days (or slower, to keep the temperature from dropping) until discontinuation, and then commence another cycle entirely. The significance of cycling on and off escalating doses of T3 will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
Overall, long-term success in resetting metabolism and alleviating symptoms using the cyclic SR-T3 therapy proposed for this study appears to be related to holding body temperatures close to 98.6°F on the same dose for a time (up to 3 weeks) suggesting that negative feedback inhibition of the thyroid system has been overcome (DW refers to this as “capturing” the temperature). Patients whose body temperatures have been successfully raised to approximately 98.6°F tend to show a sustained positive response with alleviated symptoms well after the treatment has been discontinued. On the other hand, patients whose temperatures remain low appear to obtain less benefit from the WT3 treatment.
It is known that exogenous T3 suppresses T4 levels due to negative feedback inhibition of TSH, and it is speculated that T4 suppression is an important aspect of the WT3 protocol, essential to its effectiveness in raising body temperature. More than one cycle of SR-T3 therapy may be needed to increase body temperature to within normal range. In many cases, one or more cycles reaching a maximumdose of SR-T3 (90 mcg twice per day) fails to raise the patient’s body temperature to approximately 98.6°F. However, the body temperature may then normalize at a lower dose on a subsequent cycle. In such cases, we speculate that greater T4 suppression has been achieved with each successive cycle until the body temperature rises to within a normal range. The number of cycles implemented varies between patients but usually ranges between one to five. Serial measurements of serum free T4 may help to elucidate this proposed mechanism.
We also speculate that T4 suppression from repeated cycles of SR-T3 therapy results in lower serum levels of T4 and RT3, and therefore less competitive inhibition of T3. Also, with lowered RT3 levels, there may be less competitive inhibition against endogenous T4 by RT3 at the 5’-deiodinase enzyme that converts T4 to T3. This may partly explain why progress in symptom alleviation, body temperature increase, and increased T4 suppression may occur (perhaps at lower T3 dosage levels) from cycle to cycle (with increased T3 expression during each cycle). Increased expression of T3 may result in even further T4 suppression, until the body temperature is finally normalized and the metabolism is “re-calibrated.” Once the temperature is normalized (captured), decreased dosages of SR-T3 tend to be needed on subsequent cycles to maintain normal body temperature. Regardless of the mechanism, in our experience WT3 therapy seems to aid metabolism in the vast majority of euthyroid patients with hypometabolic symptoms. Our experience and data suggest that patients can gradually discontinue the SR-T3 therapy and often retain its benefits, once their body temperatures stabilize at approximately 98.6° F through one or more cycles of T3 therapy per the WT3 protocol.
The 11 subjects in this study were treated with liothyronine compounded in a hydrophilic matrix system, employing hydroxypropyl-methylcellulose (HPMC) designed to be taken every 12 hours. The liothyronine is synthetically made and does not differ from any standard pharmaceutical preparation of T3, except that it is compounded with the sustained release agent, methylcellulose. Interestingly, clinical observation using SR-T3 shows that by cycling on and off T3 the patient’s susceptibility to the pharmaceutical effects of the T3 can change from cycle to cycle. (For example, the first cycle of SR-T3 may require a dose of 90 mcg of T3 twice per day to obtain a normal temperature, while the second cycle may require only 45mcg of T3 twice per day to achieve the same body temperature.) Initially, the protocol used liothyronine sodium (Cytomel® Jones Pharma), but undesirable side effects (i.e.,irregular heartbeat and occasional atrial fibrillation) prompted a change to the use of SR-T3 exclusively. Arial fibrillation has been rare with the use of SR-T3. However, a significant number of patients still suffer from side effects related to vacillating T3 levels. These side effects have included heart palpitations, increased heart rate, irritability, shakiness, fatigue, and headaches. However, these side effects are usually successfully treated with a “test dose” of T4 of .0125-.025 mg of levothyroxine to dampen the effects of T3 therapy through inhibition of T3 by T4. T4 has 25% of the potency of T3; In DW’s experience administration of T4 usually decreases or eliminates the side effects of T3 therapy within 45 minutes.
DW’s experience suggests that T3 compounded in a hydrophilic matrix system (sustained-release system), taken every 12 hours in capsules, provides a predictable, well-tolerated method to normalize body temperature patterns and alleviate the hypometabolic symptoms in some euthyroid patients.
An additional important consideration related to proper thyroid hormone function in patients is iodine consumption, absorption and utilization. Iodine deficiency can result in thyroid function abnormalities and, when severe, can result in endemic goiter and cretinism, endemic mental retardation, decreased fertility rate, increased perinatal death, and infant mortality. Iodine can also be important in fibrocystic breast disease and breast cancer. Iodine deficiency should be evaluated to avoid secondary physiological deregulation and its associated risk factors. If deficient, iodine supplementation is indicated.
Currently, there is some controversy over the effects of thyroid hormone supplementation on osteopenia. Most studies indicated no effect.However, one study of long-term suppressive doses of T4 did show an increase in bone loss. Clinical studies using supraphysiological doses of T3 (ranging from 93.75 to 105 mcg daily) in euthyroid fibromyalgia over an 8-month period indicated no change in serum calcium and phosphorous—nor in bone densitometry versus placebo. On the other hand, there were higher levels of urinary N telopeptides. which might suggest increased bone resorption. Liver function tests revealed no difference versus placebo at 4-month follow-up; serum creatinine and calcium were also normal, indicating no change in muscle mass. Mean heart rate significantly increased from 68.5 bpm in placebo, and in T3 patients from 83.94 bpm. No patient developed tachycardia, and there was no significant difference in diastolic or systolic blood pressure in T3 or placebo group.
Adverse reactions to liothyronine sodium can be due to therapeutic over-dosage, and thus can mimic the typical symptoms of hyperthyroidism (e.g.,fever, tachycardia, irritability, nervousness, and increased bowel motility). However, similar side effects along with normal or low body temperatures can be due to unsteady T3 levels that can arise from the dosing or delivery of T3 which has a short half-life. In rare instances, allergic skin reactions have been observed in patients taking liothyronine sodium.
Based on our promising clinical results, the author of this article believes euthyroid patients may benefit from increased utilization of the WT3 protocol as a treatment modality.
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Editorial Buen Vivir
Ascensores Cóndor´s 50th Anniversary
By horacio k8 octubre, 2018Congress
The national leading company in the elevator industry celebrates half a century incorporating technology and launching new products, while at the same time it keeps growing in the Latin American market.
In an increasingly complex and competitive market, Ascensores Cóndor is consolidating its position as the leading national company in the field of elevators, while at the same time is getting ahead by conquering new customers throughout Latin America in a strongly way. Based in Ituzaingó, a town of the Buenos Aires party, it is celebrating half a century of activity during 2018, incorporating state-of-the-art technology and developing new products, after achieving ISO 9001 certification.
Historically, the firm performed in a range of elevators whose speed reached from 60 to 90 meters per minute. But for almost a decade, the professionals of the electronic engineering department completed the development of high-speed elevators, thanks to an improved control that allows to manage up to 150 meters per minute. “A differential of Ascensores Cóndor is that it has the engineering to build customized products for each client, something that the majority of manufacturers don’t do as they are devoted to standarized equipments. On the other hand, we also offer high-speed units, an almost exclusive segment which belonged to the transnational companies. Both, the customized design and the delivery time are another added value, “says Juan Luis Sánchez, managing partner of the family SME, the district’s largest employer.
The experience and training of the personnel – some of them working at Cóndor for more than 30 years – are the key to the technological challenges. “The internal know- how is constantly evolving, reaching safe and improved products, many of them born at Ascensores Cóndor. All of them certificated always by the corresponding national
entities “, completes Sanchez. Although the classic cabins are the most demanded, new models have been launched recently by the brand, designed for high-end buildings, units that offer an alternative option to the classic line of stainless steel. While the strength of the business passes through the elevators, Ascensores Cóndor
also manufactures and markets hydraulic vehicles, automated counterbalanced and remote controllable gates, ramps and escalators.
La planta industrial ocupa 15.000m². Allí se desempeñan más de 150 empleados y se fabrica el 80 por ciento de los componentes de los elevadores, lo que facilita encarar nuevas demandas con capacidad para ejecutarlas en tiempo y forma. Las innovaciones son constantes: desde microprocesadores de última generación, variadores de tensión y frecuencia, hasta visores digitales y tecnología accesible para personas con capacidades diferentes. En ese aspecto, la incorporación de un nuevo Centro de Mecanizado manejado por control numérico, una cortadora por chorro de agua y la renovación de punzonadoras por tecnología italiana, cortadoras digitales y otros equipos permiten sostener una entrega superior a los 45 ascensores mensuales.
The industrial plant occupies 15,000m². There work more than 150 employees which manufacture an 80 percent of the components of the complete elevator, which makes it easier to meet with new orders in a timely manner. The innovations are constant: from last generation microprocessors, voltage and frequency inverters to digital viewers and accessible technology for disabled people. In this aspect, the incorporation of a new machining center managed by numerical control, a water jet cutter and the replacement of punching machines by Italian technology, digital cutters and other equipment, allows a delivery of 45 elevators monthly.
“The Machining Center enables us to work on standardized parts that are used mainly in the security system mechanisms such as parachutes, pulleys and a variety of pieces that usually are turned manually, “specifies commercial manager, Pablo Gerez.
In order to comply with the increasingly demanding environmental requirements, the company facilities underwent overhauls in key sectors, such as the construction of new painting areas which could minimize waste.The waist that cannot be avoided is processed by specialists in that field. Likewise, in electric power consumption were
achieved in the internal productive sections and in the manufactured elevators, optimizing its operation by incorporating variable frequency drives. All these are outstanding achievements of Ascensores Cóndor engineers.
CONDOR IN BRAZIL
During the first days of September, a group of representatives of Ascensores Cóndor travel to attend Expo Elevador held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the most outstanding event in the field in Latin America. The delegation included the highest authority of the company, Juan Luis Sánchez, its administrative manager, Daniel Barnade and the responsible for the area of purchases and supplies, Luciano Durante. “The balance of our participation was truly very positive. During those days we were able to interact with customers and suppliers, both from America, Europe, China and Turkey, “says Barnade “We also took advantage of the possibility of meeting with international input
manufacturers, many of them already suppliers of Ascensores Cóndor, and also with new ones. In addition, we talked with several local installers, with whom we learned about certain market needs and demands that will be key to accord future business”.
For his part, Sánchez stressed the importance of participating in meetings of this magnitude, “which allow not only to appreciate new trends and technologies but to discover where the market of the sector in Latin America is going to”. From its point of view, the firm has “all the necessary potential to advance and expand in our target, in a huge country like Brazil. It is a broad market, with certain economic limitations today that, however, will be cleared in the medium term. We aspire to be direct suppliers, both by the proximity and by the specificities of our products in front of the multinational competition, affirmed the managing partner, who finally expressed his gratitude to the Argentine Chamber of Elevators (C.A.F.A.C.) present at San Pablo.
Juan Luis Sánchez (Senior)
Our tribute to the memory of the founder of Ascensores Cóndor, which is summarized in the wisdom of a dream come true.
For Graciela Sánchez
Along his path, built of bonanzas and challenges faced with strength, and a look towards a prosperous future full of possibilities, with his head held high, with his mind full of ideas of a visionary man, ideas of a sustain growth, this simple and fighter country man developed his life, devoted to create a company worthy of himself, and he do it with responsibility and wit.
Thus, Juan Luis Sánchez shaped his life project with the decision that characterized him.
He started learning about elevators at Ascensores Ingeniero Guillemí S.R.L Company. But, in a leap towards his own development, he produced his own project with enthusiasm, perseverance, tenacity and a lot of effort. He found a place to settle his company and chose the name Ascensores Cóndor, that according to his own words “it
is a bird that flies high”.
The love for his job, always with the support and care of his wife Olga, unconditional companion until his last breath, was the inheritance that he left to his children. He transmitted them his honesty, and the feeling of tranquilly that comes along with the task accomplished. That was his legacy.
In this way, an unforgettable imprint was recorded in the heart of his family and its usual employees, whose affection and regard he knew how to earn. He will live on the history of the elevator trade of Argentina, on his friends and suppliers that support him in difficult times, like Joan and Eduard Gomis and Eduard Amigo from
Fermator.
Good bye forever,
Dear dad!
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Obituary Notice – Ethel Florence McCracken
October 2nd, 1926 ~ December 25th, 2019
Ethel McCracken passed away peacefully at Mt Cartier Court the evening of December 25th, 2019 after a courageous battle with vascular dementia.
Ethel was born in Fredericton Junction New Brunswick and was the youngest surviving child in the family of eleven children (Arthur, Larry, Harvey, Helen, Vance, Charlie, Lloyd, James, Joey (Mrytle) and baby Margaret) born to Loretta (Brawn) and Arthur McCracken. She was affectionately nicknamed Essie by her siblings.
Ethel enjoyed adventure! When in High School during 1942, her sister Helen who was a nurse came home from a ski trip in the Laurentian Mountains with a broken leg and told Ethel about a new profession called an X-Ray Technician. Ethel immediately knew that this was going to be her future career. She mentioned this career choice to one of her uncles and he said she would never find work and to do something else. Ethel moved to St. John New Brunswick in 1944 to study X-Ray at St. Joseph’s Hospital. It was here that she answered her first telephone call and it was here that she learned that World War 2 was over and that her three brothers and sister who were serving would be coming home alive.
As the 79th person registered as a Radiological Technician in all of Canada, her future dreams of travel and adventure began. Ethel worked in St. John NB, Fairville NB, Perth Ontario and then her and her sister Joey (nurse) moved to Montreal to live with their sister Helen and family. From there Ethel and Joey moved to Calgary Alberta to experience some of the real excitement out west.
Her sister Joey often told of the high level of respect that the Doctors who worked with Ethel had for her skill, ability and precision in always getting the exact angle needed for the perfect X-Ray and never “wasting an X-Ray film”.
She met and married Cecil Gurley in Calgary and their son, Reg was born there in 1954. They moved on to Jaffray, Vernon and finally Revelstoke with Ethel always working in X-Ray. Once Ethel set foot in Revelstoke in 1960, she said she was never leaving this beautiful community and the spectacular Mt Begbie. Linda joined the family in 1962. Her love for Revelstoke continued with Reg and Linda raising their families in the community close to Nana.
Ethel believed in owning property and did very well with her choices. She re-started her personal life in Revelstoke twice with saving and purchasing homes for her family and eventually settling into her duplex on Maley Road.
From 1960 to 1968, Ethel worked part time and on call at the old Queen Victoria Hospital. When Linda went to Kindergarten, Ethel took a full time position. By 1970 she was Head X-Ray technician and opened the new and state of the art X-Ray Department at the new QVH in 1971. Ethel retired from QVH in 1991. She was always modest about her successful 30 + year career in Revelstoke. Many long time Revelstokians will remember Ethel for her excellent care in an emergency situation. “Take a deep breath and hold it.”
Ethel’s absolute pride and joy began with the arrival of her grandchildren. First with Ryan Buhler, Kyle Buhler, Leslie Ann Gurley, Eric Gurley and later Linda and Alan Chell’s blended family grandchildren Mary Chell and Richard Chell. She became affectionately called Nana for the next 36 years of her life.
Nana said she didn’t think it could get any better! But it did with the arrival of her Great Grandchildren: Mary and her husband Steve’s children David and Lauryn Kline; Richard and Michelle’s children Braeden and Leila Chell; Leslie Ann and Kazu’s children Maika and Amane Takinami and Kyle and Brianna’s children Briar and Ember Buhler. Her life was full of mutual love and affection.
Travel! Oh how Ethel loved to travel! She explored over 40 countries, 9 Canadian provinces and one territory and almost all of the USA states in her lifetime. She would return from one trip and start saving immediately for the next one. Ireland, tracing her McCracken roots was one of her favourite countries, visiting there multiple times. Also in the best trip category were Russia, China, Greece, Turkey and Egypt.
In her last decade of life, Ethel was content at her condo at Selkirk Gardens reading and tending her incredible patio garden. She had, and made, many close friends there and those years were truly enjoyable. Her travels continued but only within Canada to return to her beloved childhood home of New Brunswick multiple times to visit her siblings and 22 nieces and nephews. These trips were treasured memories, filled with laughter and love plus an adventure story or two.
When the time came that the disease of dementia required Ethel to have a higher level of care, her family felt very fortunate that Mt Cartier Court “Cottages” was “10 minutes” from her children’s homes and that the family knew most of the MCC staff. She moved into the Cottages in October 2017. Family were able to visit her nearly every single day of the 2 years and 2 months Ethel lived there. She also loved hearing of her granddaughter Leslie Ann’s life in Japan and loved seeing these family members every year. Nana was also introduced to FaceTime to stay in touch with her family in Japan. After her first Facetime experience at Christmas a few years ago, Ethel said “isn’t that remarkable! I wonder what my mother would think of that?”
Through her dementia journey, Dr Courtenay Rennie was always there with us and we are eternally grateful! Ethel’s end of life journey was supported by nursing and care professionals who took care of us with their knowledge, skills and love. Thank you.
Ethel’s family were able to have two full days of “a Christmas miracle” when she woke up lucid and fully cognitive just before her passing. Each family member had the time to talk and share memories with Nana, hold her hand, see her blow kisses to the great grandchildren and see the joy and love in her eyes when family were visiting.
We said goodbye to Nana after having our family Christmas dinner and being able to describe the joy of the evening to her. She slipped away peacefully at 9:10 pm on Christmas night.
Please, each Christmas night, join our family and raise your glass of white wine, slightly dry with lots of ice…. oh, maybe just half a glass…. and remember our Ethel, Mom, Nana.
The family are having a private Celebration of Life and Ethel will have one more trip Down East to Fredericton Junction in the summer of 2020 to be with her mother and father.
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Study Objective: To evaluate the effect of clonidine when added to local anesthetics on duration of postoperative analgesia during retrobulbar block. Design: Prospective, randomized controlled trial. Setting: Operating room and Postanesthesia Care Unit of a university-affiliated hospital. Subjects: 80 ASA physical status 1, 2, and 3 patients undergoing vitreoretinal surgery with or without scleral buckling. Interventions: Patients in the control group (n = 40) received a retrobulbar block with 4.5 mL of lidocaine-bupivacaine and 0.5 mL of saline. Clonidine group patients (n = 40) received 4.5 mL of lidocaine-bupivacaine and 0.5 μg-kg of clonidine in a 0.5 mL volume. Measurements: The time to first analgesic request, frequency of postoperative pain, and number of postoperative analgesic requests per patient were assessed. Main Results: 37 patients in the control group (92.5percent) versus 24 patients (60percent) in the clonidine group reported pain postoperatively (P = 0.001), with a shorter time to first analgesic request noted in the control group (4.9 ± 3 vs 11.9 ± 5.3 hrs; P 0.001). The median number of postoperative analgesic requests per patient during the first 24 hours was higher in the control group than the clonidine group [2 (0-3) vs. 1 (0-3); P 0.001]. Conclusions: The addition of clonidine 0.5 μg-kg to the local anesthetics of a retrobulbar block for vitreoretinal surgery decreases the frequency of postoperative pain and prolongs the time of analgesia. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when NO is overproduced in the body. Prof. Kim and his team have consistently studied on a new way to treat this inflammatory disease by scavenging NO and reducing its concentration in the disease site of body.
As a result, they successfully developed a NO-responsive macro-sized hydrogel by integrating NO-cleavable crosslinker (NOCCL) in 2017. And this time, they took one step further and upgraded it to the current model, NO-scavenging nano-sized hydrogel (NO-Scv gel) which consumes NO through reacting with NO.
This hydrogel is prepared by polymerization between acrylamide and NOCCL. It is different from the former drug, which suppresses NO by interaction between gene and enzyme, in that it is directly involved in scavenging NO and minimizes side effects. Also, it has more advantage that it can be applied not only to rheumatoid arthritis but also to other NO-mediated inflammatory disease widely.
The animal test with a mouse proved that this hydrogel is better than dexamethasone, a commercial drug, in suppressing the onset of rheumatoid arthritis effectively.
Prof. Kim who led the research commented, “The drugs that have been used for suppressing NO affect biomolecules in the body directly and this brings various side effects such as insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. But, this nano-sized hydrogel has demonstrated many meaningful results that it is more effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis by scavenging NO directly and has decreased the possibility of the side effects caused by the current drugs that we use today.
This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Education of Korea.
Hyeyong Choi
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Over 20 players from Liga I moved this summer to a better championship!
September 5, 2013 Radu Baicu 1 comment
It was a summer to remember for Romanian clubs (although the newspapers haven’t noticed it just yet…)! With Chiriches finally moved to Tottenham, we have a new record transfer fee paid for a Liga I player. We also have 5 players signed by Serie A clubs, 3 gone to Ligue 1 and 1 in La Liga, none other than last season’s top scorer. Teams from Belgium, Croatia and Switzerland – good European stepping stones – have made their picks, with Russia and Turkey paying good money to either clubs or players (or both) to sign no less than 7 established footballers. And Steaua decided to keep some in-demand players to make it into the Champions League’s group stage, otherwise the numbers would have been bigger and the figures even more impressive. Below, you can find my top ten transfers of the summer, which is of course debatable, but I’ve tried to filter the twenty-something important moves using as filter the quality and potential of the player in question, age, level of the buying club and level of the league he’s going to.
I, for one, don’t remember a more prolific transfer window in recent years, in terms of fees paid for Liga I’s top names and number of exports, especially to top leagues from Western Europe. Is it just a coincidence or the Romanian league has gained a better reputation? If this would be the case, then we’d have another premiere on our hands, with the clubs’ performances in the internal and European competitions drawing attention, not the exposure offered by Romania’s national team(s). Take Gheorghe Grozav’s case, who was heavily promoted by Victor Piturca and only got a late move to Terek Grozny. Or Ciprian Marica’s, who is struggling to find himself a new club, just like Gabriel Tamas, released by WBA, or Gabriel Torje, who had troubles convincing another club to loan him, a full transfer being out of the question…
Do we have stronger clubs? I can only think of exceptions. Is Liga I more competitive? It surely was two-three years ago – remember the days when Steaua, Dinamo, Rapid, CFR and Vaslui were fighting to get the title from Otelul Galati -, but that race got less and less tensed, with Dinamo’s and Rapid’s financial trouble, and CFR’s and Vaslui’s loss of investment/interest. Do we sign / promote better players? I’d say mainly by accident, considering the amateur take on player recruitment and lack of funds, knowledge and dedication allocated to the youth sector (of course, I will keep Hagi’s Academy out of this!).
Having the chance to see most of the European leagues in the past couple of years, given my assignments in scouting, I think the answer to the question of attractiveness gets a positive note only when related to the level of leagues from Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Poland, not to mention Slovenia, Hungary or Bulgaria. The gap is rather discrete, I must say, and a good player from Liga I is tested in an equally if not more competitive environment than in the mentioned countries, making him prepared enough for a step abroad, in the eyes of visiting scouts. Add some good runs in Europe, like CFR’s or Steaua’s and we’re only kept back by reputation. One that surely doesn’t speak in Romania’s favor, but can be changed by each and everyone who gets the chance to play abroad…
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Categories: Mercato Tags: Ciprian Marica, Gabriel Torje, Liga I transfers, mercato 2013, Romania's national team, Romanian football, top Romanian players, Vlad Chiriches
The only way is back?
February 3, 2012 Radu Baicu 1 comment
Torje, Stancu, Deac, Ionita. Four young players who have moved abroad in exchange of some hefty transfer fees, but have failed to deliver. Is it only their fault?
When Manchester City decided to sign Costel Pantilimon on a permanent deal, the current leaders of the Premier League have only confirmed that the best way to approach a transfer that involves a Romanian player is by a) doing some proper scouting and b) go for a loan with a buying option. I’ll explain with the case of the four names mentioned above:
Gabriel Torje (Udinese)
The hype around him was incredible and not even a month had gone by since his Serie A debut and the Romanian press was full of rumors speaking about interest from Arsenal and, why not?, Barcelona. We were talking after all about „Romania’s Messi”. Everyone overlooked the fact that Torje had to play regularly for 4 consecutive seasons in Liga I to convince a foreign club come up with the millions, everybody was talking about the leagues ability to still deliver top young players, although, at 21, over 90% of the Romanian players have less than a full season of games under their belt. And they’re both too old and lacking enough top flight experience to attract the sort of bids the unrealistic owners expect.
Indeed, Torje had a promising start in Italy, with three assists in his first three games, but the fact is: he never lasted for 90 minutes on the pitch; he didn’t score a single goal; he slowly lost contact with the first eleven and, lately, with the team, playing his last game on the 18th of December.
Still, although I expect Arsenal and Barcelona to have called back to base their scouts :-), it’s way too early to call him a flop. Apart from the struggle such a small sized player raised in Romania would face in order to adjust to the Italian style, Torje also pays the price for being part of a team that uses the worst possible tactical setup as far as he’s concerned. He’s a natural winger who cannot play on the right side of a midfield of five, with no fullback behind to provide cover. He’s also not at all comfortable upfront and it’s not really a surprise to see a wide player struggling in the middle, in front of compact and expert defensive lines. If Guidolin had gambled on Torje’s ability to adjust, it’s an expensive and losing bet. Which leads me to the second case.
Ciprian Deac (Schalke 04)
I wasn’t surprised to see Deac heading for the Bundesliga and was actually convinced that he would deliver. Until I’ve read Felix Magath’s statement: „Deac will be our number 10, our playmaker.” Another natural left winger, this time gifted with less technique and flair than Torje, but definitely very well prepared physically and counting on a very good left foot, was going to struggle. Although the training sessions had convinced him that even one of the fittest players in Liga I will need time to adjust to the extremely exciting German league, he also realized that the tactical challenge was too big. After 90 minutes of Bundesliga football and a lot more days of sharing the dressing room with the legendary Raul, Deac had to return to Romania to regain his match fitness and his confidence. With 5 goals and 4 assists in 17 matches for Rapid, playing as a wide forward in a 4-3-3, he looks again in good shape, but will probably never play for Schalke again. A case of poor scouting? Or bad judgement from Magath? Because Deac wasn’t like Ionita, my next example.
Alexandru Ionita (FC Koln)
After one season in Liga I and 10 goals in the top flight, Ionita was moving to 1.Bundesliga in exchange of more than 2 million Euros. The coach was Zvonimir Soldo and he was so keen on the striker that Ionita collected 105 minutes for FC Koln. In 1 and a half seasons. Okay, Soldo was sacked in the meantime, but now the striker had to hope that he’ll be allowed to take the same route that saw an impressive number of Romanian players return home with more money in their bank accounts, less memorable game. Actually, with the last official game difficult to be remembered. Poor scouting, terrible decision to pay such a fee upfront on a striker with no Liga 1 experience by the age of 21, who had a promising first season in the top flight. Unlike Deac, who minded his business and tried hard in training to earn chances to play, Ionita was clever enough to “win over” the fans by saying their girlfriends, sisters or wives aren’t that pretty. After that he probably failed to score at all while in Germany, not just in the eight Bundesliga appearances as a sub.
Bogdan Stancu (Galatasaray)
Bought by Galatasaray when Gheorghe Hagi embarked on another adventure as a coach, this was a deal that I never bought as real, based on footballing matters. When a player rated at not more than 3 million Euros goes in January for double that sum, it’s something that will eventually affect the guy everyone will be looking at on the pitch. After 13 goals for Steaua in Liga I (again, we’re talking about the first solid season of his career!), the 23 years old added just 2 in 14 matches in the Turkish first division, playing mostly as a left winger (totally out of position) in a troubled Galatasaray’s squad that was going to quickly offload their legendary former player and leave Stancu’s future in limbo. Impossible to get back in Liga I so quickly and with that wage – the player also stated his ambition to succeed abroad -, he nailed a good move with the loan to Orduspor. He’s playing mainly as the only striker (again, not his best role, but close enough) and the results are encouraging, although some Turkish followers of my Twitter account say he’s not good enough for Galatasaray, the 8 goals in 24 matches for a mediocre team prove that he’s quality. Not 6 million Euros quality, but as Romanians say, a fool isn’t the one who asks for the money, but the one who accepts to pay.
Categories: Romanian players abroad Tags: Alexandru Ionita, Bogdan Stancu, Ciprian Deac, football scout, Gabriel Torje, Liga I, Romanian football, Romanian players
Europa League’s group stage: who’s going to make it?
With five team knocking at the door this season and some average opposition in most of the cases, Romanian football hopes to grab this chance by the throat and try another good season in Europe, where it can still send directly into the group stage of the Champions League the champion club, even its name is Otelul Galati.
Steaua Bucharest – CSKA Sofia
The game will be played in Cluj, as Steaua has been forced to abandon their stadium in Bucharest and, in spite of playing tonight in front of a lot of fans, they will look once again as if they’re playing away from home. The two clubs fought all summer for the signature of Brazilian forward Ribeiro Moraes, who decided in the end to play for CSKA, while the Bulgarians’ main threat is considered Liga I’s top scorer from last season, Ianis Zicu.
Steaua will field a decent starting eleven, but Levy still has a lot of work to do to get this team going, as it badly misses creative players in midfield, but relies on two quick forwards, Tatu and Mihai Costea, to make the difference.
Slask Wroclaw – Rapid Bucharest
During the weekend, Rapid deployed a surprising 4-4-2 against newly promoted Petrolul, a match which they struggled to win (1-0, goals scored in the 87th minute), but this might have been part of a strategy to deceive the Polish club. Razvan Lucescu knows how to approach such games and he was there when Rapid managed the club’s best ever performance in an European competition. I expect a return to a 4-3-3 with Romeo Surdu and Ciprian Deac on the flanks, a midfield trio formed by Iulian Apostol, Dan Alexa and Ovidiu Herea, but the player that has impressed the most is Marcos Antonio, the rock solid Brazilian centre-back, who will certainly play a big part especially in this first leg.
Vorskla Poltava – Dinamo Bucharest
Dinamo hasn’t changed under Liviu Ciobotariu and, if this team stands a chance to get a result, than the attacking line must produce at least a couple of goals. It has worked so far, but the away game versus NK Varazdin could have gone wrong in a lot of delicate moments. Dinamo cannot use the promising Marius Alexe on the left wing – accused by fans that he’s not playing as good as he can since Chelsea added his name on what is probably a very long shortlist – and will move there the experienced Catalin Munteanu. It might be good for him, as Munteanu has an excellent service and the veteran Ionel Danciulesc plus Dinamo’s captain Marius Niculae could use some quality balls upfront. All eyes will be once again on the dynamic little right winger Gabriel Torje, who catches the eye, but could also “catch a black eye” if he keeps playing by himself every single time he gets a pass in a good position.
FC Vaslui – Sparta Prague
Vaslui’s in a mess. They have finally scored, after four consecutive matches in which they had failed, but the win against newly promoted Concordia Chiajna has a cost: the Brazilian Adailton, who provided 3 assists in the 3-0 away success, is now injured and his name is added on a very long list. Team captain Wesley is suspended for this game, but coach Viorel Hizo has a depleated team, with central defenders Papp, Canu, Milanov and Gladstone injured, plus midfielders Pavlovic and Milisavljevic transfer listed and recently excluded from the team.
Austria Vienna – Gaz Metan Medias
Gaz Metan managed to survive in the double against Mainz, going through on penalties, but they will also face Austria Vienna against several first team players. In fact, Cristi Pustai has been forced to give up the impressive trio of supporting players for the lone striker, as Parvulescu and Munteanu are out injured and Brazilian key attacking midfielder and prolific scorer Eric de Oliveira is on the verge of switching clubs before the transfer window closes. It will all come down to Gaz Metan’s ability to defend, which can look average at times, and their luck to score at least once in tonight’s encounter, when they should be more dangerous on set-plays than on counter-attacks.
Categories: Read the papers! Tags: Dinamo Bucharest, Europa League play-off, FC Vaslui, Gabriel Torje, Gaz Metan Medias, Ianis Zicu, Rapid Bucharest, Steaua Bucharest
Three players that could help Bucharest have its revenge
July 14, 2011 Radu Baicu 1 comment
After yet another poor year, the Capital clubs Dinamo, Steaua and Rapid have renewed their hopes of returning to greatness. Let’s take a look at three names that need to (finally) deliver, if the Bucharest big shots are to stand a chance against the always ambitious and recently better organized teams from the rest of country.
Name: Marius Niculae
Club: Dinamo Bucharest
Position: striker
The former Sporting Lisbon forward has failed to deliver since his return to Romania. He spent the second half of last season playing (and scoring) for Kavala – 4 goals in 12 appearances, in the Greek SuperLeague, but the club refused to make the deal permanent. Back in Bucharest, Niculae had to accept a wage cut and it will be interesting to see if he cares indeed for Dinamo or he’s just saying what the constantly decreasing number of fans love to hear.
With the best active scorer in Liga I by his side – Ionel Danciulescu, now 35 years old, scored a total of 193 goals in the Romanian top flight – and fueled by the most promising wingers in the country, Gabriel Torje and Marius Alexe, Niculae should deliver more goals than excuses in what promises to be another inconsistent season for the Red Dogs.
Name: Cristian Tanase
Club: Steaua Bucharest
Position: attacking midfielder
If Steaua wants to have a better season, a player like Tanase definitely needs to start looking like a genuine number 10. A right footed attacking midfielder who settled for a position on the left wing, the Romanian international has often drifted from inconsistent to simply useless, since his big, sorry, huge money move from FC Arges, three years ago. Numbers speak for themselves: one goal scored last season and a total of five in over 120 matches in Liga 1!
Predictable, lacking determination and the mentality (not the quality) to step up and act like the decisive player he was supposed to be, he fails to pose a threat with his shot, doesn’t get into scoring positions and simply cannot deliver quality balls in the last third.
With such a “discrete” no. 10, it’s no wonder Steaua struggled to fashion goalscoring chances and find the net even in the easiest of games. Now, under yet another coach, but involved in a playing style that should suit him even better, Tanase has the chance to prove a point. Otherwise this might just be his last season at the once great Bucharest club, although I get the feeling that the red and blue outfit has started to get used to the mediocrity of recent years…
Name: Ciprian Deac
Club: Rapid Bucharest
Position: left winger
One of Felix Magath’s flops, Deac comes after a poor season with Schalke 04, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if the chance to take showers alongside the likes of Raul and Huntelaar has convinced the Romanian international that he’s among the greatest players alive. Presented by Magath as a number 10 – still amazed by that statement! – Deac will certainly have enough chances to redeem himself in the one year long loan deal. Razvan Lucescu used to play him in the national team even when he was severely lacking match fitness, but the blonde winger certainly has a tough job ahead. Rapid parted ways with the likes of Cesinha and Juliano Spadacio, two of the best left footed players this league has seen in recent year, and will find it hard to accept another year without a serious title challenge.
Categories: My offside trap Tags: Ciprian Deac, Cristian Tanase, Dinamo Bucharest, Felix Magath, football scout, Gabriel Torje, Ionel Danciulescu, Marius Alexe, Marius Niculae, Romanian football, Schalke 04, Steaua Bucharest
The red and white exodus
January 28, 2011 Radu Baicu Leave a comment
The first half of season hasn’t been that bad for Dinamo, who lies just outside the places that guarantee a spot in Europa League, but the club was a mess. With less and less support from the fans, increasing financial problems, after the loss of three important shareholders, and a team that Ioan Andone was struggling to control, discipline and unite, the Red Dogs were barking, but not threatening to bite as hard as the other title challengers.
It was vital to act swiftly during the winter break and what the club did might sound suicidal, for the current season’s goals: 9 players were sent away, either on loan or for good, with the following considered regular starters and good enough, in theory, for any team in Liga I:
Juan Pablo Garat – 27, central defender, 10 games / 1 goal, released;
Ousmane N’Doye – 32, defensive midfielder, 13 games / 5 goals, sold to Astra Ploiesti;
Adrian Cristea – 27, playmaker, 17 games / 7 goals, sold to Universitatea Cluj;
Florin Bratu – 31, forward, 7 games / 2 goals (on loan to Levski), free transferred to Gaz Metan;
Andrei Cristea – 26, forward, 11 games / 4 goals, sold to Karlsruhe;
Marius Niculae – 29, striker, 16 games / 3 goals, loaned to Kavala (with buying option);
It only looks suicidal… First of all, because the title was an unrealistic target, given the distance that separates Dinamo from he current leaders, but mainly due to the high number and good quality of the other contenders, with Rapid, Poli Timisoara and FC Vaslui convinced that this is their season. Secondly, in spite of the names and the stats from above, the red and white outfit can still count on some of the finest attacking prospects in Romania, with the likes of Gabriel Torje, Marius Alexe and Liviu Ganea relishing the chance to feature on a regular basis and support the excellent player and professional that is Ionel Danciulescu. There will also be some relief among those responsible in delivering the wages, as the budget will suffer a serious cut and probably allow the entire team to start getting paid on time, on a regular basis.
The only thing Dinamo must do now is to use this month as a foundation for a strategy that has always delivered and keep on betting on young, ambitious players. But, with so much time left before the end of the winter mercato, the recent signing of a 31 years old from the bottom-placed team and the club’s willingness to test unknown foreign players, who are closer to their 30′ than their 20’s, we might be only witnessing Dinamo’s desperation to get rid of the high-earners and intention to buy some more time to prepare another one or two important sales…
Categories: Mercato Tags: Completed transfers, Dinamo Bucharest, footbal scout, Gabriel Torje, Liga I, Marius Alexe, mercato Romania, promising Romanian players, Romanian football
One year of scoutingromania.com!
January 4, 2011 Radu Baicu 2 comments
A year ago, I was on the sidelines, having stopped the excellent project that I had the privilege to be working on for Boutique Football, and decided to offer something that nobody around here thought of: the chance to find information, opinion and insight on Romanian football for those who don’t speak Romanian. One year later, I can look back and find motivation to continue, in spite of a limited time, as I’m back working in football as a scout, which has been always THE goal. But I feel I’ve made too many friends around the world who are interested in what’s (really) going on in the fascinating (not always for the right reasons) Liga I to abandon them now…
So, thanks to some stats offered as a birthday present by wordpress.com, I can tell you that:
this was the story that brought the most traffic in one day
twitter, transfermarkt.de and theoffside.com have been my top referrers
the most searched players have been Gabriel Torje and Lacina Traore
I wish all of you a great 2011 and invite you to return here in numbers!
Categories: Blog related Tags: Best players in Romania, football blog, football scout, Gabriel Torje, Lacina Traore, Liga I Romania, Radu Baicu, Romanian football
Round 16 – results, scorers, standings and highlights
November 23, 2010 Radu Baicu Leave a comment
Pandurii Targu Jiu – FC Brasov 2-1 (Pintilii 83 pen, Apostu 90 / Ilyes 68 pen)
Unbeaten in four games, Pandurii climb out of the relegation zone, thanks to the excellent work from new coach Petre Grigoras. This was a vital game for both clubs and there wasn’t much between two organized teams, until the first huge mistake from a poor ref. Unfortunately, things got worse, as he tried to make up for that error with another invented penalty, although there was a sense of justice in his action. Left with only 10 players on the pitch, after Pandurii equalized from the spot, Brasov failed to hold on to a point and are in the zone everyone had expected to see them, after they lost almost an entire team before the start of the season.
CFR Cluj – Gaz Metan Medias 1-1 (De Zerbi 1 / Edimar 12 og)
Excellent tactical battle – as always, when Cristi Pustai is involved -, as Gaz Metan managed to cancel quickly a nice goal created by Bjelanovic, who has so much to offer to this team, thanks to his quality and experience. The equalizer came after a deflected free kick from Eric de Oliveira, who is right to feel angry that this was considered an own-goal, as he could have reached Steaua’s Bogdan Stancu at the top of the scorers’ list, with 10 goals in 16 rounds. Impressive stuff! CFR continues to lose very important points and should sound more convinced that they’re out of the title race, as this lack of realism will only do more harm in the near future. Read more…
Categories: Liga I - Season 2010/2011 Tags: Dinamo Bucharest, Eric de Oliveira Pereira, football blog, football scout, Gabriel Torje, Liga I Romania, Ribeiro Moraes goals, Roberto De Zerbi goal, Romanian football, Stefan Nikolic goal, top players in Romania
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This Week in Gaming – 01.03.2019
This week I go over what games I’ve been playing in the last 7 days, discuss the Pokemon 8th generation announcement, take a quick look at the anthem release and the big story this week for me is Xbox Game Pass potentially showing us a glimpse of the future of Microsoft’s gaming platform.
This week started with Anthem. It’s a fun enough game, and as my review last monday mentioned, I think it is a good basis for what could become a good, possibly great game. I have to say though, it has not kept me on the hook and wanting more. The last few times I have logged in, I have played Anthem because it’s what i feel i should do, rather than what I necessarily want to play. For me personally, that is a very bad sign.
I did eventually find myself dusting off my PS4 controller, and jumping back onto Fifa 19 for the first time in months. Perhaps it’s my beloved Arsenal’s recent form, but I had a scratch only Pro Clubs could scratch. For those who don’t know, Pro Clubs is the game mode on fifa where you control one player on the pitch, and have to play your position. Ultimate Team is where the money lies, and the career mode is where a lot of hours are clocked up, but for me Pro Clubs is where the best football minds on fifa go to show their skills.
I am not an excellent gamer, I don’t claim to be the best at COD or Fortnite or Apex, I am decent, and can have a great game now and then, but I know my limits. When it comes to Pro Clubs on fifa, I am confident in being one of the best players I know of, and in my position (Box to Box Central midfielder) I am the best I know of. Humble brag. Anyway, that’s what I did this week, played five games with some of my old fifa team mates online, and we won all five. Now enough of my bragging, onto this weeks news.
Pokey Mans
Detective Pikachu’s trailers have made me excited for a Pokemon film, more than I would have ever imagined. The first games Pokemon games I have played a few times through, and I have some great memories with them. Since Gen 1, i have fallen out of the franchise completely, and I could not name more than 3 of the Pokemon from Gen 2 onwards.
This week, Nintendo called a Pokemon Direct, where they unveiled the newest additions to the Pokemon franchise, Pokemon Sword and Shield. In what is apparently a UK inspired setting, we see a more detailed, 3D world, and some new features that I am sure excited the hardcore Pokemon fans. For me though, Pokemon needed to do something drastically different. By now, everyone knows what Pokemon games are, every kid has their pokemon game. Mine was years ago, and when I look at this new game, it seems like things have not changed beyond the graphics. The idea is still seemingly to take one of your 3 starter pokemon, slowly gather more, and then eventually beat the evil corporation and become the best trainer in the region.
I sincerely hope that these games are exactly what their audience want, but to get someone like me to be interested, I needed something closer to Breath of the Wild. I didn’t get into that game because Zelda’s world doesn’t appeal to me, the Pokemon world does. A full RPG game, with the Pokemon creatures out in the wild to be engaged with in a new way would have made me severely regret departing with my Switch. As it is, I am comfortable that I made the right decision for me.
Anthem out of tune?
I have written a lot about Anthem in the last week, and by now I am sure you are sick of reading it, if you are one of the few who reads this regularly. Thanks for the support if so! Anthem’s launch has been rough, and apparently the sales figures haven’t exactly blown anyones minds either. The headlines read particularly gloomy, with a fraction of Mass Effect Andromeda’s sales figures being touted as the number. In reality I think the number is a bit higher, but there is no doubt it has not caught the imagination quite like EA wanted, and perhaps expected it to.
Apex Legends launched just a week before Anthem, and seems to have done exactly what Anthem was expected to do. Apex has become a phenomenon, with people I wouldn’t expect asking me about that new game they’ve seen people on twitter or Facebook talking about. Anthem by comparison, has been a barely visible ripple in the pop culture pool. As I’ve stated a few times, I quite like the game, but something is missing when it comes to that buzz you normally get from a big game launch. BioWare need to keep the support up, and deliver regular updates straight away to keep people coming back to the game. Something to keep an eye on in the coming weeks.
Game Pass, present and future?
My apologies for the terrible pun sub-title.
This week it was found that Microsoft has begun to push elements of its Xbox infrastructure onto the Windows platform PC users are familiar with. I won’t pretend to understand the details, but there is a tonne of detail in the story linked here in a story on Thurrott.com by Brad Sams. Long story short, Microsoft seem to be getting rid of the differences between how xbox and PC games are run, and bringing them together so that Xbox games could potentially be run on a PC. What does all this potentially mean?
Earlier this month, we saw an announcement about xbox live coming to Nintendo Switch. This led to stories that Microsoft could bring Game Pass, the best deal in the games industry, onto the Nintendo platform. This would mean that Nintendo players could play Xbox games, possibly including exclusive titles like Halo, on their Switch. Now of course we know the Switch doesn’t have the power under the hood to run games requiring the power that a Xbox One can provide, let alone a Xbox One X.
How would they get around this lack of processing power? Potentially with their own games streaming service. I speculated last week that Google may be dipping into the market and being the first games streaming available for the public. Microsoft have already announced they are working on a similar project, and that more will be unveiled in the coming months. Could the Project Scarlett we have been told about be a completely new type of console. Is it possible Xbox will become a service? So on top of being a console you can buy, there is also a dongle you can plug into anything, and an app on your TV or devices, and even an app on Microsoft’s rivals consoles.
PlayStation is so far out in front of Xbox that Microsoft are having to make calls that are risky, perhaps not cost efficient, and they seem to be approaching it with the consumers desires at the forefront of their minds. Is their plan is to make their games, their brand, available anywhere. Imagine if Microsoft announce that they are making the vast library of Xbox games available to everyone, regardless of the console they can afford. All you need is a subscription to Xbox Live, or whatever name they give the service, and you are free to browse the library of games and buy what you want.
It is no secret that the console making companies lose money on their Hardware sales. They make their profits through the cut of the money they take from the sales of every game on the platform. With this kind of service, they will still need to build the hardware, but can save a lot on packaging all the complex components in a nice, living room friendly shell, and shipping them around the world. Instead they can install the centres they mentioned in their last E3 conference around the world, allow anyone to connect to it via the internet with a relatively low-cost subscription, and voila, everyone is buying and playing games on their platform. Cloud processing has been a reality for a while, and google proved with their Assassins Creed test last year that it works. Microsoft have something Google doesn’t the Xbox brand. A well-known name in the world, one that immediately makes anyone think of video games.
Could Xbox be ready to change gaming, and bring it to the entire world? I could be completely wrong, but who knows, maybe Game Pass on switch is just the beginning.
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Tiger Balm Singapore Boccia Open
Micron Singapore World Para Bowling Tour Series
Tiger Balm Singapore Boccia Open 2018
Hosted by the SDSC, the event was held at Heartbeat@Bedok and ran from 30 May 2018 to 2 June 2018.
Four nations—Singapore, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia—took part in the Boccia Open.
Competition Schedule and Results
Participants List List of Athletes for Team and Pairs
Competition Schedule Competition Schedule
Results as of 30th May 2018 TBSBO Results 30 May 2018
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Individual Events Results Individual Medalists
Results as of 1st June 2018 Team and Pair Results
Results as of 2nd June 2018 Medalists for Pairs
Hosted by Singapore Disability Sports Council (SDSC), the World Para Bowling Tour Series, which will see the best para bowlers in Singapore vie for titles with top bowlers from other countries. The event is sponsored by Micron Foundation, the non-profit arm of Micron Technology – an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions.
In 2018, more than 50 para bowlers from eight countries – Australia, Brunei, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Korea and Singapore – battled it out for the top Singles, Doubles, Trios and Masters titles from 25 Feb to 2 Mar 2018 at Temasek Club. Amongst these bowlers was Team Singapore para bowler, Mohd Ismail Hussain, who was crowned TPB3 world champion at the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Tenpin Bowling World Championship 2017, and gold medalist at the 9th ASEAN Para Games.
The international tournament also marked a number of “firsts” – this was the first time that Singapore was playing host to a world-level tournament in para bowling, the first leg of the 2018 World Para Bowling Tour Series, which was also an inaugural tour series for para bowling. Three countries – Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia – hosted the tour series in 2018 to provide more competition opportunities for para bowlers. The Singapore leg was also a national qualifier for the 2018 Asian Para Games, which was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in October 2018.
Daily results will be made available on this page.
Combined Scores All Events
COMBINED SCORES ALL EVENTS TPB1 WOMEN RESULTS
COMBINED SCORES ALL EVENTS TPB1 MEN RESULTS
COMBINED SCORES ALL EVENTS TPB2 RESULTS
COMBINED SCORES ALL EVENTS TPB4 RESULTS (Non-medalled event)
COMBINED SCORES ALL EVENTS TPB10 RESULTS
Day 1. 27 Feb 2018. AM Session
SINGLES TPB1 WOMEN RESULTS
SINGLES TPB1 MEN RESULTS
SINGLES TPB4 RESULTS (Non-medalled event)
SINGLES TPB8 RESULTS
Day 1. 27 Feb 2018. PM Session
SINGLES TPB10 RESULTS
DOUBLES TPB1 & TPB3 RESULTS
DOUBLES TPB10 & TPB10 RESULTS (Non-medalled event)
DOUBLES TPB4 & TPB4 RESULTS (Non-medalled event)
Day 3. 1 Mar 2018. AM Session
TRIOS TPB1 + B1/2+B2/3 RESULTS
TRIOS TPB8 + B8/9+B9/10 RESULTS
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200 BM Daily Vocabulary #123 | seize
Receive free updates of this Daily Vocabulary Podcast on your email. Click here: http://bit.ly/subscribe-for-bm-podcast Today’s word is: seize. Seize means: take hold of something quickly and sometimes forcibly, to take advantage of an opportunity eagerly. In this English vocabulary lesson you will learn how to use the word seize. We are sure that this ESL lesson will help you to enhance your English vocabulary and speak English fluently and confidently. The word seize means to take hold of something quickly or to take advantage of an opportunity eagerly. For example, when the shopping mall opened its sale, the privileged members seized an opportunity to shop before other customers could get a chance to shop. Listen carefully how we can use the word seize in 8 different situations in 8 different sentences. Example number 1 of 8: There were reports that gold was being smuggled into the country through a sea port. The police laid a trap and seized the vehicle carrying gold. Example number 2 of 8: The top ranking badminton player suddenly fell ill and Dan was asked to play the match as replacement. Dan seized the opportunity and earned the honour of playing for his country. Example number 3 of 8: The stationary shop owner was unable to repay the loan despite several reminders. Finally, the bank got permission from the court and seized the property. Example number 4 of 8: The king had ordered huge celebrations inside the fort. Everyone was busy with the arrangements. The enemy army attacked at night and seized the fort. Example number 5 of 8: The government officials found some faults in the manufacturing process of TR chemicals. They ordered the company to stop the production till the issue is resolved. As a result, their competitor seized some market share from them. Example number 6 of 8: The motivational speaker spoke to the students at the graduation ceremony. He asked the students to be proactive and seize every opportunity to be successful in life. Example number 7 of 8: Lata came to know that a Chinese corporate working in India needed an interpreter. She seized the opportunity and applied for the post. They appreciated her zest and she was selected. Example number 8 of 8: The security officers raided a village near the forest and seized a big stock of weapons and fake currency. They also arrested the suspects who were involved in this activity. Today we learnt the word seize which means take hold of something quickly and sometimes forcibly, to take advantage of an opportunity eagerly.Can you frame 3 sentences with seize and type in the comments box? We are waiting. We are sure this lesson has helped to develop your English vocabulary and speak fluent English. You can download the script of this episode and all our episodes from www.bmenglishspeakingradio.in. Stay tuned for new English vocabulary lessons. We are on a mission to train 1 crore Indians in English fluency.This was episode number 123 of 200 BM Vocabulary episodes that we have planned. Kindly note that we will be sharing 1 vocabulary episode daily at 6 am Indian Standard Time. So meet you tomorrow at 6 ‘o’ clock with a new word! Receive free updates of this Daily Vocabulary Podcast on your email. Click here: http://bit.ly/subscribe-for-bm-podcast We, at BM English Speaking Institute train freshers and middle-level managers, to speak English Fluently and Confidently. To know more about BM Advanced English Speaking Course visit: https://www.bmconsultantsindia.com/advanced-English-speaking-course.html
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200 BM Daily Vocabulary #121| versatile
Receive free updates of this Daily Vocabulary Podcast on your email. Click here: http://bit.ly/subscribe-for-bm-podcast Today’s word is: versatile. Would you like to know what it means? It means: to be able to do multiple things efficiently; to be able to adjust to multiple conditions, something that can be used for different purposes, having multiple skills. In this English vocabulary lesson, you will learn how to use the word versatile. We are sure that this ESL lesson will help you to enhance your English vocabulary and speak English fluently and confidently. The word versatile means to be able to do multiple things efficiently or something that can be used for different purposes. For example, MS Dhoni is a versatile cricketer and can play as a batsman as well as a wicketkeeper.Listen carefully on how we can use the word versatile in 8 different situations in 8 different sentences. Example number 1 of 8: Kishore was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the music industry. He is considered to be a highly versatile musician who performed as a singer, lyricist, and composer. Example number 2 of 8: A team leader prefers to have team members with versatile talents or qualities. Such members can manage multiple tasks efficiently. This helps him to assign multiple responsibilities to one person. Example number 3 of 8: The potato is considered to be one of the most versatile vegetables. It is used in a wide range of dishes across the globe. Example number 4 of 8: Designer Shawn presented his latest creation, a designer jacket to the audience. It can be worn on various occasions in different weather conditions. People really loved its versatility. Example number 5 of 8: Danish joined the Navy training academy. There, he went through rigorous training for two years. This made him a versatile Navy officer who could handle multiple tasks flawlessly. Example number 6 of 8: The bamboo is considered to be a versatile material in the construction industry. It offers strength as well as the flexibility to the structure. Example number 7 of 8: The trunk is an elephant's most versatile organ. It is used for breathing, smelling, touching as well as for producing sound. Example number 8 of 8: The coaching class owner wanted to conduct music, Yoga as well as hobby classes in the same premises. Hence, he asked the interior designer to prepare a versatile design that is suitable for all requirements. Today we learned the word versatile which means to be able to do multiple things efficiently; to be able to adjust to multiple conditions, something that can be used for different purposes, having multiple skills. Can you frame 3 sentences with versatile and type in the comments box? We are waiting. We are sure this lesson has helped to boost your English vocabulary and speak fluent English. You can download the script of this episode and all our episodes from www.bmenglishspeakingradio.in. Stay tuned for new English vocabulary lessons. We are on a mission to train 1 crore Indians in English fluency.This was episode number 121 of 200 BM Vocabulary episodes that we have planned. Kindly note that we will be uploading 1 vocabulary episode daily at 6 am Indian Standard Time. So meet you tomorrow at 6 ‘o’ clock with a new word! Receive free updates of this Daily Vocabulary Podcast on your email. Click here: http://bit.ly/subscribe-for-bm-podcast We, at BM English Speaking Institute train freshers and middle-level managers, to speak English Fluently and Confidently. To know more about BM Advanced English Speaking Course visit: https://www.bmconsultantsindia.com/advanced-English-speaking-course.html
Four plants that give good color in the heat of summer.
The MMA Hour moving to new MMA Fighting podcasting feed
Starting April 28th, this feed is going to be called "MMA Fighting." And we’re going to cover all the angles by giving you a new, different MMA episode in your feed, four days a week: The MMA Hour on Mondays, Eurobash with Peter Carroll on Tuesdays, The A-Side Live Chat with Shaun Al-Shatti on Wednesdays, and The MMA Beat on Thursdays. If you currently subscribe to The MMA Hour, you don’t have to do anything — you’ll automatically get all four shows starting April 28th.
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Zaharoff the Armaments King (1938) by Robert Neumann
Robert Neumann
Zaharoff the Armaments King (1938)
"Zaharoff the Armaments King" was first published in England in 1935 and a new impression followed in 1936. Robert Neumann has, for Readers' Union edition (1938), brought his Zaharoff "legend" up to date and revised various parts of the text. To Readers' Union edition has been added a portrait...
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Citadels of Chaos (1949) by Cornelius Carl Veith
Cornelius Carl Veith
Citadels of Chaos (1949)
How would you like to be in the dry goods business when the length of a yard would be subject to constant change, containing thirty inches one day and forty inches the next day?
How would you like to be in the grocery business when the weight of a pound would vary from time to tim...
Who’s Who in Arms (1935) by W.H. Williams
W.H. Williams
Who’s Who in Arms (1935)
The allegations made against the British arms manufacturers at the United States Senate Arms Enquiry have resulted in a widespread feeling of uneasiness in this country. Nor have the replies to the charges been convincing enough to dispel this disquiet.
The appointment by the British Governm...
China Looted (1937) by National Labour Press
National Labour Press
China Looted (1937)
HER coal supply is twenty limes that of Great Britain. her iron resources cannot be measured she produces in abundance silk, cotton, bean oil, lumber, wool, jute, skins, furs, rice and eggs. Her industrial areas provide the world's cheapest labour supply and her 450 millions the greatest u...
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What the British Empire Really Stands For (1912) by Philip Henry Kerr, 1882-1940
Philip Henry Kerr, 1882-1940
What the British Empire Really Stands For (1912)
An Address Delivered by Mr. Philip Kerr at the Toronto Club to the Members of the Round Table on Tuesday, July 30th, 1912:
"I would like with your consent to explain to you what I believe the British Empire really stands for
I will confess frankly that when I c...
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San Mateo County News
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Mark Melville Candidate for SMC Sheriff 2022
Retired Deputy Mark Melville is running for Sheriff of San Mateo County in 2022.
By Michael G. Stogner
In the 2018 Election Mark Melville got 52,996 votes which was 40% of the 172,168 Ballots cast. 38,140 ballots or 22% of total ballots DID NOT vote for Sheriff according to the San Mateo County Elections Office website. Most of the residents of San Mateo County don’t realize that they are responsible for the behavior and conduct of their Sheriff. The Sheriff Office employees 800 people who are trusted to provide law enforcement services throughout the County. There is ZERO Oversight of this agency.
Melville stands a much better chance to win now that he has the time to get his message out to the voters. That includes the uphill battle to counter the False information provided to the public by the print media. Example SMDJ “Although an initial news report located Bolanos in the brothel with Munks, later reports indicated he was outside the entire time. I have asked Jon Mays to provide a copy of the Later Reports he has not.
Mark Melville was very direct and specific when talking about his boss Carlos G. Bolanos. “He’s a Liar,” That would have been good information for the SMDJ to pass on to their 84,000 readers/voters of San Mateo County. They choose not to and instead said “We Believe Him.”
KQED Interview
I don’t know if Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos has any plans to run for re-election in 2022. I do know he didn’t like to attend candidate forums with Mark Melville present.
As far a transparency goes, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos has refused to provide the Booking Photo of Sheriff Sergeant Lou Aquino for his September 14, 2019 DUI Arrest by the Redwood City Police Department. I asked Candidate Melville as Sheriff would he release that photo? His answer was Yes. That was refreshing, it’s pretty simple that Booking Photo is Public Information. Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos has issued several False News Releases regarding the October 3, 2018 In-Custody Homicide of Chinedu Okobi by six Sheriff Employees. He has refused to respond to several requests regarding the False Information.
Contact Information for Mark Melville: melvillemd@yahoo.com call / text at campaign cell number 650-730-3187
Filed under #Humantraffickedsexslaves, #SanMateoCountyNews, #SMCJUSTICE, Bill Silverfarb, Board of Supervisors, Carole Groom, Charles Stone, Chris Hunter, Citizen Journalist, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, David Burruto, David Silberman, Don Horsley, First Chance, Grand Jury, John Beiers, Kevin Mullins, Mark Church, Mark Melville, Marshall Wilson, Michael G. Stogner, Mike Callagy, Organized Crime, Rosanne Faust, SAMCEDA, San Mateo County Elections Office, San Mateo County News, San Mateo County Sheriff Office, Senator Jerry Hill, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, SMC, SMCSO Sergeant Lou Aquino, Those Who Matter, Victim's Advocate, Warren Slocum
The public expects criminal charges filed are Accurate and Honest, Juan P. Lopez case proves that is not true in San Mateo County.
Update November 6, 2019 Juan P. Lopez Declined the D.A.’s Offer & said “Lets go to Trial.” Next Court Date:November 12, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM 400 County Center Redwood City these Motions will be heard.
Motion to dismiss for Break of Chain of Custody
Motion to dismiss for Discovery Violations
Motion of Brady Violations
Motion of Outrageous Govt. Conduct
This Letter to the Editor was not published, That’s 84,000 San Mateo County Residents who won’t see this information. Jon Mays has decided this is not Newsworthy.
Michael Stogner <michaelgstogner@yahoo.com>
To: Editor San Mateo Daily Journal Nov 2 at 6:58 AM
The public expects criminal charges filed are accurate and honest, Juan P. Lopez case proves that is not true in San Mateo County
November 6, 2019 SSF Court 1:30 PM
X Deputy Juan P. Lopez will inform the court of his response to the District Attorneys Office Offer of No Prison Time if he accepts the deal.
Everyone in San Mateo County remembers Five years ago he was arrested at gun point in front of his son for Smuggling a Cellphone and Drugs to a Hells Angel Inmate at the Redwood City Jail. Big press conference by D. A. Wagstaffe at the time, It was also reported he embezzled up to $400,000 of campaign donations. One small problem with that was he only raised about $400.00. Those charges were all dismissed because of Prosecutorial Misconduct. He is now being offered a deal to plead guilty to charges that came from the BACKPACK that was stolen from his car which was parked at his condo in Redwood City. That theft happened shortly after he filed papers as a Write In Candidate for Sheriff. A search warrant was then created looking for what they already had “Documents that were stolen” Mortgage Fraud the owner occupied box had a check mark in it. The lender never filed a complaint.
Any concerned citizens/residents are invited to join us in court November 6, 2019
Michael G. Stogner
I first met Sheriff Deputy Juan P. Lopez right after he announced he was going to be a candidate for Sheriff in San Mateo County in 2014. I thanked him for giving the residents a choice for Sheriff. I was on the phone with him when he got arrested at gun point at one of his homes. I was with him when the Sheriff’s Office served him with legal papers at his home, I opened the door and greeted the 2 Sheriff Deputies. I was with him and another concerned citizen Lamont Phemister when the Sheriff’s Office ordered him to be at the Gun Range to receive more legal papers. The first time they gave him 90 minutes notice, the second time 4 day notice.
Sheriff Deputy Juan P. Lopez was charged with 14 Felony Counts 5 years ago. The District Attorney’s Office, The Sheriff’s Office and County Counsel’s Office have done everything possible to cause harm to him and those close to him. He has lost 5 years of Income, his last year he earned about $250,000. He has hired 2 Law Firms you can guess that cost is over $200,000.
Now Five Years later the District Attorneys Office Offers a Plea Bargain the day It’s lead Investigator Jordan Boyd was to take the Witness stand. Tomorrow he and his attorneys will inform the Court and all of San Mateo County his response.
I personally think that is Newsworthy I might be wrong.
Filed under #SanMateoCountyNews, #SMCJUSTICE, Associated Press, Attorney Generals Office, Bill Silverfarb, Board of Supervisors, California State Bar, Carole Groom, Charles Stone, Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti, Chris Hunter, Citizen Journalist, Citizens Oversight Committee, D.J. Wozniak, Dave Canepa, Dave Pine, David Burruto, David Silberman, DDA Al Serato, DDA Bryan Abanto, DOJ, Don Horsley, Evidence Tampering, Excessive & Unnecessary Use of Force, Factual Innocence Ruling., Grand Jury, Hon.Judge Donald Ayoob, Illegal Search of Cellphone, Jamie Draper, John Beiers, John Warren, Jon Mays, Jordan Boyd, Juan P. Lopez, Judicial Misconduct, Kevin Mullins, Maria Belyi, Mark Church, Marshall Wilson, Matthew Graves, Michael G. Stogner, Mike Callagy, Organized Crime, Prosecutorial Misconduct, R.E.A.C.T. Task Force, Rick Decker, RICO, San Mateo County District Attorney Office, San Mateo County Elections Office, San Mateo County Grand Jury, San Mateo County News, San Mateo County Sheriff Office, San Mateo County Superior Court, San Mateo Daily Journal, Secret/Hidden Search Warrants, Senator Jerry Hill, Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos, Sheriff Munks, Steve Wagstaffe, Those Who Matter, Tony Serra, Victim's Advocate, Whistleblowers
SMC Sheriff Sgt. Irfan Zaidi Qualifies as a Brady Officer. Is He on the List? Who controls the list? Is there even a List?
The law enforcement profession requires integrity and trust and an officer who lies violates that trust and tarnishes the integrity of the profession.
October 3, 2018 at 1:00 PM Millbrae, California, Chinedu Okoki a 36 year old man was walking down the sidewalk on El Camino Real. Within 10 minutes he was Tasered 7 times, sprayed in the face with O.C. spray as six San Mateo County Sheriff Employees were on top of him. He was completely limp, unconscious, and never made a sound again. He died there on the spot in the Custody of the Sheriff’s Office.
San Mateo County Sheriff Sergeant Zaidi was not one of the Six Sheriff Employees involved in the In-Custody Death of Chinedu Okobi. Nineteen days later, On October 22, 2018 he filed an Official Report with the District Attorney’s Office making knowingly false statements.
” I directed Deputy Lorenzatti to remove the metal handcuffs from the suspect which she did, and the suspect was placed on his back. The Fire Department and AMR promptly began CPR.”
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe on March 1, 2019 provided a video that he and his Team produced for the public it can be found on his website. The placing Chinedu Okobi on his back and CPR starts at the 18:50 mark. The video shows Deputy Lorenzatti did Not remove the handcuffs.
SMCSO Deputy Lorenzatti made an official statement on 10/04/2018 3:50 PM. to Inspector Eric Suzuki.
“They were like, well let’s get him on his back and start CPR, So then I, you know helped em, bring him to his back.
Question? “Okay and were his Handcuffs off at that point?”
Answer: No they were still on.
Eng. #37 Mazza Statement: “When decedent was lifted onto the gurney, a police officer cadet or trainee removed the Handcuffs from the decedents wrists.”
AMR #94 Retanubun Statement: “They put the decedent on to a “Mega Mover” when noticed the decedent still had handcuffs on.” “Saw police cadet nearby who assisted them with the removal of the Handcuffs.”
AMR #37 Uhland: “So they laid the decedent on his back with the Handcuffs still on his wrists.”
AMR #94 Pham: “Decedent was on his back with Handcuffs on when he arrived.”
AMR #37 Holman: “When they rolled the decedent over to remove the Handcuffs, she noticed several scrapes on his hands and a few small abrasion on his back.” “She was unsure if the injuries were there prior or if caused by the CPR application.”
According to Wagstaffe’ Video, Chinedu Okobi was placed on his back at 18:26 mark.
CPR starts at 18:50 mark with Handcuffs On and Hands behind his back.
Handcuffs Removed at 28:47 mark after almost 10 minutes of Chest Compressions.
What caused Sheriff Sgt. Zaidi to file this Bizarre False Official Statement?
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe’s Video and Data made public March 1, 2019
LATIMES Article June 6, 2019
Note: 300 Deputies on the list. Sheriff Alex Villanueva, has called the Brady list a “fake list” and says it was the result of corrupt investigations designed to retaliate against certain deputies.
Should deputies’ misconduct be disclosed to D.A.?
Justices seem split on ruling that bars sheriff from giving officers’ names to prosecutors.
By Maura Dolan and Maya Lau
The California Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over a ruling that barred the Los Angeles County sheriff from giving prosecutors the names of deputies who have committed misconduct.
During a hearing, the state high court weighed an appeal of a decision that prohibited the sheriff from giving the district attorney the names of deputies with a history of bad behavior, including lying, taking bribes, tampering with evidence, using unreasonable force or engaging in domestic violence.
By law, prosecutors are required to disclose to defendants exculpatory evidence, including information that could diminish the credibility of police officers who worked on a case.
Several justices suggested Wednesday that prosecutors need the information to fulfill their constitutional duty to disclose potentially exonerating information.
That position has been endorsed by defense lawyers, prosecutors and the California attorney general.
Justice Goodwin Liu noted that prosecutors ultimately bear liability for failing to disclose favorable evidence.
If the prosecution is unaware that such evidence exists, convictions — even valid convictions — may eventually be overturned because of a failure to disclose, he said.
“The prosecution can’t take an ostrich-like approach to this very important duty,” Liu said.
But Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye suggested that the Legislature, not the court, might want to take steps to ensure that exonerating information is disclosed to the defense.
She said one possible remedy was to give trial judges sealed lists of law enforcement officers who have a history of misconduct. The judges could review those lists privately in chambers to determine whether the officers’ records were relevant in the case and should be disclosed.
“Doesn’t delivering the list directly to the court under seal … meet the problem without intruding overtly on the officers’ privacy?” she asked.
Justice Ming W. Chin also repeatedly asked whether that path, if carved out by the Legislature or by the court in a future case, could resolve the problem.
The case before the court stems from a lawsuit filed by the L.A. deputies union to prevent former Sheriff Jim McDonnell from turning over to the district attorney about 300 names of deputies with a history of misconduct.
A divided, Los Angeles-based court of appeal ruled in 2017 that the list must be kept secret, even in pending criminal cases in which errant deputies were expected to testify.
The state high court’s decision, due in 90 days, would affect law enforcement agencies throughout the state.
The case pits the privacy rights of law enforcement officers against the constitutional duty of prosecutors to give the defense evidence that might cast doubt on a defendant’s guilt, reduce a potential sentence or diminish the credibility of prosecution witnesses.
That duty stems from a landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case, Brady vs. Maryland, which said suppression of evidence favorable to the defense violated due process.
At issue is only whether the names can be turned over to prosecutors, not whether they would become public.
But the presence of the names on a list means deputies could be one step closer to having their disciplinary files scrutinized by a judge and their police work called into question during a court proceeding.
Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar noted that the constitutional duty to disclose evidence favorable to the defense trumps state law intended to protect the privacy of law enforcement officers. He suggested the court could “harmonize” the laws.
He called the case “very challenging,” but also noted that “the Brady responsibility is on the state.”
Justice Joshua P. Groban expressed skepticism about the union’s legal arguments.
“You are saying as long as we can bar the door and keep the law enforcement agency from sharing that with the prosecution, then there is no Brady violation?” he asked the lawyer for the union.
Justice Carol A. Corrigan noted that officers whose names were on a list would have less privacy protection than others.
But she also said that a state law intended to protect officer privacy while allowing some disclosures may be hindering the release of information a criminal defendant is entitled to under the Constitution.
Under the system in place for four decades, defense attorneys and prosecutors may ask a trial judge to review an officer’s personnel file to determine whether there is evidence that must be disclosed.
But without knowing an officer’s history, a defense lawyer may not be able to persuade the judge to undertake a review.
“There are cases in which legitimate and material evidence is eluding their review,” Corrigan said.
Justice Leondra R. Kruger asked whether there were legal safeguards that could be imposed to protect officer privacy after the names were disclosed to prosecutors.
Aimee Feinberg, representing the state attorney general, said courts could issue protective orders to ensure the officers’ names were shielded from the public.
Geoffrey S. Sheldon, who argued for Los Angeles County, said he felt “good” about how the hearing went.
“I’m cautiously optimistic that we will prevail in the case,” he said.
Judith Posner, representing the union, said she couldn’t predict the outcome.
“There were a lot of interesting and probing questions on both sides,” she said.
Police departments in at least a dozen counties, including San Francisco, Sacramento and Ventura, have had a regular practice of sending prosecutors the names of so-called Brady list officers.
California’s strict laws protecting officer personnel files — which underpinned the appellate court’s ruling for the deputies union — were dramatically altered by a new transparency law that opened up records of confirmed cases of lying and sexual misconduct by officers, as well as shootings and serious uses of force.
SB 1421, which went into effect Jan. 1, allows the public to see many of the documents at issue in the L.A. County sheriff’s case.
But the new law does not apply to the broader range of misconduct that could put an officer on a Brady list, including domestic abuse, sexual harassment, racial discrimination and bribery.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who ousted McDonnell in a stunning upset last fall, has called the Brady list a “fake list” and says it was the result of corrupt investigations designed to retaliate against certain deputies.
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San Mateo County’s Measure W should be audited. It passed by about 500 votes in the last 2 days of counting. DMV
LATIMES today Jan. 6, 2019
DMV under scrutiny in voting glitch
State leaders will assess whether registration errors changed November election results.
By John Myers
SACRAMENTO — Faced with evidence that some voter registration forms weren’t properly filed by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, state officials will now investigate whether any votes were wrongly rejected and whether the final results in any state or local races should be reconsidered.
Secretary of State Alex Padilla and leaders of the agency that oversees the DMV agreed on Monday to settle a federal lawsuit brought by advocacy groups including the League of Women Voters of California and the American Civil Liberties Union. The settlement, in part, states that Padilla’s office will “take steps to ensure that every vote is counted” if ballots were rejected and will provide “guidance to elections officials in the relevant jurisdiction(s) on how to count the affected ballots and, if appropriate, recertify election results.”
On Dec. 14, DMV officials revealed that staff members had not transmitted voter registration files for 589 people whose applications or updated applications were filled out before the close of registration for the Nov. 6 statewide election. At the time, state officials could not confirm whether any of those voters had been turned away on election day, or if any had cast last-minute provisional ballots that were rejected in the final tally.
Monday’s settlement raises the possibility that a full investigation of the delayed voter registration documents could reveal races in which the outcome might have changed had those voters been allowed to participate.
State officials now have 60 days to complete an investigation into the identity of those voters and why DMV staff members failed to transmit the files in a timely fashion.
The error was the latest in a series of mishaps revealed in the first six months of operation for California’s new automated “motor voter” program, under which DMV customers are registered to vote unless they decline.
“I am committed to working with new leadership at DMV and the new administration to ensure integrity of the motor voter program and accuracy of the data,” Padilla said in a statement Monday night. “This settlement continues to move those efforts forward.”
Padilla’s office said on Tuesday that a preliminary investigation had not found any instances in which voter registration delays would have changed the outcome of a race.
The deadline to register for November’s election was Oct. 22. The records in question either came in before that deadline, or included documents signed and dated before that date. A Dec. 14 letter to Padilla from Jean Shiomoto, who was then DMV director, said the registration records weren’t submitted “due to a misunderstanding on the part of the department, for which we take responsibility.”
Shiomoto retired from state government at the end of 2018. Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet to appoint a new permanent director.
“We continue to actively work with our stakeholders to ensure full transparency for the California motor voter program,” Melissa Figueroa, deputy secretary for communications at the California State Transportation Agency, said in a statement Monday. “As an agency, we are committed to getting this right.”
The settlement, filed Monday in a San Francisco federal court, said that DMV staffers failed to transmit voter registration documents in a timely fashion beginning Oct. 12 and that all documents were held back for the three weeks following election day.
Several other problems were reported just days after state officials launched the DMV’s automated voter registration system in late April.
Those included multiple registration forms sent to counties for the same voter , flawed registrations for 23,000 DMV customers and a limited number of non-U.S. citizens — permanent green-card residents — mistakenly added to the voter rolls.
The agreement to investigate why DMV officials didn’t promptly submit hundreds of voter registration forms “establishes concrete steps that California will take to investigate and improve the DMV voter registration system,” said Melissa Breach, executive director of the League of Women Voters of California.
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Sheriff Deputy Mark Melville Retires
Tomorrow Saturday Jan 12, 2018 will be Deputy Mark Melville last day as a SMCSO Deputy. Now might be a great time to say Thank You to him if you see him on patrol.
Mark recently ran for Sheriff and told every single editor that Carlos Bolanos is a Liar. Had any of them published that statement he would be the Sheriff of San Mateo County today. Talk about influencing an election.
KQED Mark Melville calls boss Carlos G. Bolanos a Liar
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San Mateo County Snake Oil, Cures All That Ails You. Come Get Some!
For over a year there was a pattern of police use of force deaths, in San Mateo County. This pattern culminated, in the October 3, 2018 Millbrae death of 36 year old pedestrian Chinedu Okobi.
Despite what would appear to any reasonably objective observer, an escalating body count, Mr Wagstaffe, as District Attorney, did nothing to address / curb the situation. And now, his administration is seemingly poised to render a decision blaming Okobi’s death, on something other than the unnecessary & excessive use of force by officers. This is a familiar pattern with DA Steve Wagstaffe, with his having blamed previous deaths on the decedents -their respective acts & medical conditions.
Most recently, he went on television saying he was not going to speculate on the Okobi case, that he had to get all the facts, before rendering a decision on the matter. Yet, instead of keeping his word, he went on camera and questioned the product liability aspect of Tasers, a device repeatedly used by officers, in their confrontation of Okobi .
Mr. Wagstaffe ignored a year long prologue of police use of force deaths, in his very jurisdiction. And then he told us he was not going to release videos, in his possession, ones which depict exactly what had happened, in the most recent death, that of Mr. Okobi.
Chinedu Valentine Okobi
Just as his office had excluded two African American’s from serving on the jury in the Tracey Biletnikoff murder case, a matter in which he had been criticized by the appellate court. This was a Murder Conviction reversed because of Wagstaffe’s behavior. “During jury selection, the prosecutor, Stephen Wagstaffe, peremptorily struck the only two African-American members of the jury pool… We hold that a comparative juror analysis, in combination with other facts in the record, demonstrates that the prosecutor’s purported race-neutral reasons for striking at least one of the jurors were pretexts for racial discrimination.”
He now says he is not going to release the videos and audio recordings of Chinedu’s murder to the public, his employers, so that they can see them.
The People do not need an interpreter, to understand what they are seeing for themselves, Mr. Wagstaffe.
Okobi’s mother and sister were shown the videos and audio recordings, and here is what his sister, Ebele, said about them:
It’s readily apparent you are struggling to shoehorn your narrative of what occurred with the facts and, in so doing, you have passed the rubicon of truthfulness, leaving honesty & integrity behind, and entering a sea of deception -familiar territory for yourself, a directed or desired outcome.
The taint and stench you and your cadre have brought to the office of district attorney is palpable and, I submit, can not be removed, without your & their removal.
Felony fraud resulting in the diversion of over 2 million dollars of public monies being characterized by your office as sloppy accounting practices, at San Mateo County Transit, is but one / just one example of DA Wagstaffe’s aversion to the truth. False debits are not errors or sloppy accounting, Steve, they are intentional criminal acts.
Here is the letter from Albert Serrato falsely declaring that no crimes were committed in the SamTrans fraud brought by 3 whistleblowers, who were accountants and risked and lost their own jobs.
The bias you have demonstrated, when it comes to Sheriff Carlos Bolanos and former Sheriff Greg Munks, excusing their abhorrent behavior & giving them a pass, when they were detained by Las Vegas metropolitan police and the FBI, in a human trafficking investigation, one in which they had gone to a home being used as a whorehouse in a rundown residential neighborhood with Asian indentured sex-slaves, at least one of whom was a minor, and a cache (3,500 tablets) of illegal ecstasy drugs, is reprehensible and not in keeping with the public’s trust, Steve.
In that unguarded moment, in what you thought would be a confidential email to the duo, you expressed your support and consoled the two that the matter would soon pass and become yesterday’s news. This provides a rare glimpse into the flawed (real) character & thinking of who is District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Here are those emails, #ThoseWhoMatter:
The fact that Okobi’s killers are back at work, armed, with unfeathered contact with the public & custodies alike, is testament to the fact DA Wagstaffe has cleared them and communicated this information to Sheriff Bolanos. Yet he is still massaging his findings to the public, delaying what he has obviously determined -that the officers’ use of force resulting in Okobi’s death was justified (reasonable) and that he and his office are going to do nothing about it, giving them a pass.
You are a snake oil salesman, Steve, selling the public adultered versions of the truth and being a shill for morally corrupt county officials. Release the videos, so we can see just how much!
If you as the reader are asking, “How on Earth is Steve Wagstaffe still the District Attorney of San Mateo County.” You are on the right track. The short answer is that you are responsible for him being there. He can only be recalled or voted out. He has full immunity for anything he does.
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“Those Who Matter”against Quality of Life in San Mateo County.
Whenever I see these four people and a small group of their friends and supporters I can’t help but think of my father John Donald Stogner aka Tex. He was an average guy who worked 6 days a week 12 hours a day to support his wife and 4 children. He was in the grocery store business for 38 years. He had no time or interest in politics, he voted every election, my mother worked at the polls every year. Neither one of them suspected that elected officials would spend taxpayer money against them in order to promote or pass a tax measure that would harm them or the business my father earned his living from.
In this video you will see 4 people who were instrumental in the Yes on Measure W campaign, not shown is SamTrans CEO Jim Hartnett husband of Rosanne Faust who claims a victory in getting the message out and beating the opposition which there was none. The opposition would be people like my mother and father hard working people just trying to get by. Rosanne does not mention the $650,000 of taxpayer money her husband spent on Educational Outreach Programs involving 501-C organizations. When you add the $1,100,000 that she raised thats $1,750,000 vs. the $5,700 a few brave individuals put together for the No on W campaign. Note the Yes on W supporters are the people that receive the taxpayer money and the No on W are the people stuck with paying it.
San Mateo County Elected Officials have been misleading the residents for many years. The 2012 SMC Grad Jury warned the residents of it “Inconvenient Truth” They are spending taxpayer money hiring word-crafting consultants, and conspiring to place tax measures on the ballots again using taxpayer money to make sure it will pass if put on the ballots. You will notice the Yes on W Team can’t name one citizen that came before the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, and asked Please place another 1/2 cent sales tax on the ballot to make SMC even more expensive to live in.
It will be interesting to see the communications e-mails, memos, letters, between the power players of San Mateo County that caused Measure W to be created in the first place, funded and passed by less than 500 votes in the last 2 days of a long count.
San Mateo County has a new e-mail destruction policy I have written about starting February 1, 2019. I wonder why?
SMCN.com Article County deleting e-mails
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San Mateo County Sheriff Sergeant Michael E. Otte Committed Perjury, Why wasn’t he charged? Selective Prosecution.
Former San Mateo Police Officer Noah Winchester Sentenced to 81 years to life.
SMCDA Inspector Gregory Giguiere got it right. 6 Involved Parties Okobi Homicide.
Are SMCDA Inspectors William Massey and John Warren on Administrative Leave during this Alleged Internal Investigation?
San Mateo County’s former District Attorney James P. Fox has Died.
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Illegal guns seized as part of international weapons operation
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A cache of illegal guns has been seized by state, federal and US authorities as part of an investigation to tackle an international weapons operation.
Investigations began after an armed robbery at a western suburbs McDonald’s 15 months ago, where a Thureon AR-15 assault rifle was used.
That weapon was then “backtracked” by police, which helped prevent a large consignment of weapons being imported to Australia.
In June, US officials seized six fully automatic assault rifles and 96 semi-automatic handgun frames, which police allege were due to be imported to Australia.
Authorities say the operation began earlier this year when Victorian and Federal Police identified three similar assault rifles seized in three separate investigations.
On Wednesday, 12 search warrants were executed in Victoria and NSW, with more than 300 firearms and gun parts seized, including from a registered gun dealer.
Police say parts for one assault rifle, 19 semi-automatic handgun frames with identical serial numbers, six semi-automatic handgun parts, other assorted firearm parts and 10 kilograms of ammunition were seized.
Two men, one from Whittington in Geelong, and one from Koraleigh, a small town just over the Murray River in NSW, were charged with firearms offences.
Police say that a 63-year- old Koraleigh man was charged with two counts of attempting to traffic prohibited firearms or firearms parts into Australia and four counts of importing prohibited firearms and firearms parts.
A 44-year- old Whittington man was charged with one count of possess an unregistered Category E Longarm under state legislation.
Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana said police were still searching for seven high-powered weapons from an 11-gun consignment.
“These weapons are not used for duck hunting or pig shooting. These weapons are assault rifles for killing people, they’ve been used in armed robberies and drive-by shootings,” he said.
The work was the result of transnational investigation including the Federal Police’s anti-gang squad and Victoria Police, as well as the US bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and homeland security investigations.
The weapons that were stopped from entering Australia were set to be smuggled in the bottom of a legitimate container of goods from the US to Melbourne.
Police Minister Lisa Neville said Victoria had unfortunately seen an increase in shootings, and welcomed the action of police.
“This is about keeping our community safe,” Ms Neville said.
Article written by Richard Willingham 2/9/16. Article appeared on The Age Website:. Click here to view the full article: https://www.theage.com.au/victoria/illegal-guns-seized-as-part-of-international-weapons-operation-20160902-gr7ah4.html
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25 September 2006 / SF News / Jon
Blackout!
We don't know much of the details as there doesn't seem to be a lot of news on it out there right now. We just know we were halfway through reading Deadspin when the computer went black, the lights turned off, and the elevators came to a grinding halt. Half-an-hour later, we were told the entire county was out and we were sent home, thus meaning we are posting this from SFist HQ today. It also means that somewhere out there, a billionaire high-tech CEO is sitting out on his yacht in Malta or somewhere and getting a phone call telling him his entire company has a snow day. And how sad is it that we've watched War of the Worlds on HBO so many times this month that one of our first thoughts when it happened was here comes to the aliens?
Anyways, between this, the CalTrain crash, BART delays, and horrible traffic, we're wondering what the hell is going on today?
Update: If a blackout occurs somewhere not near San Francisco, does it occur at all? There's no reports of anything so maybe it wasn't the county and maybe just our little corner of the Hi-Tech world. What is it they say about not believing everything you read on the internet?
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some thoughts on cultural appropriation
Author Topic: some thoughts on cultural appropriation (Read 96510 times)
SkeptiQueer
Re: some thoughts on cultural appropriation
Quote from: jt512 on April 04, 2017, 07:44:33 PM
Quote from: SkeptiQueer on April 04, 2017, 07:37:29 PM
Quote from: Johnny Slick on April 04, 2017, 06:01:54 PM
Yeah, and as alluded to in my previous novel-length post, Ireland is particularly problematic because or the presence of the "nation" of Irish-Americans who started with Irish pride but morphed it into something that's their own a long, long time ago. I mean, that don't excuse St. Paddy's Day (and really, nothing will *ever* to me excuse the city of Chicago coloring the river green for a week) but we're not even really culturally appropriating *Ireland* so much as we are our own Irish-American subculture. Well, we're doing the latter as well I guess, unless leprechauns really are as numerous as I have been led to believe...
A decade ago we would have said "celebrating" the culture.
Good thing we as skeptics know better than to argue that the way we did things a decade ago is correct because it's the way we did things a decade ago, because that would be a facile argument.
Good thing skeptics don't just jump glom onto every bit of PC nonsense that comes along.
Setting aside the well-poisoning of "PC nonsense" you're still not arguing against he idea on any merit. You've declared it wrong, fished out an extreme example to damn the entire idea (guilt by association), made an argument from (I dunno, is ten years ago antiquity or status quo?), and attempted well-poisoning. What you haven't done is to actually engage at all beyond declaring it wrong and making facile, illogical arguments. Meanwhile, the people you're dismissing as bandwagon idiots have given real and representative examples, argued the harm, and yet you're still sticking to your ideology instead.
Instead of acting like an angry creationist, why not blow our collective minds through skeptical examination? Wow us all with reasoned arguments against the idea. You know, like a skeptic.
HIISSSSSSSS
Since you're such a good skeptic, let me know how to prove a negative, and I'll get right back to you.
Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof.
You won't have to, but you could make your case by disproving what has been laid out in favor, and the proceed to making your case for "PC nonsense" being an actual thing and not just a symptom of cranky old caterwampuss syndrome.
Redamare
I think there is legitimacy to the notion of Cultural Appropriation, and genuine harm in some examples.
But I also think there is genuine harm done to society by stoking the culture war, which we do when we make CA a high priority issue.
I think we need to pick our battles.
"redamare has kicked this thread's ass" -champagnej
Certainty is the enemy of wisdom.
--RED-uh-MAR-ay--
D4M10N
Seasoned Contributor
Quote from: Redamare on April 04, 2017, 09:19:38 PM
Are there any examples of CA which aren't already covered by DBAD?
Quote from: D4M10N on April 04, 2017, 09:30:41 PM
Not remotely, just as you can't cover all skepticism with "Use your head." Vague statements that rely on subjective personal values are utterly worthless as general metrics, and are best used to chastise people who are being a fuckknuckle.
For example: you're acting like a diploid.
Or put another way, no, because the dicks in question don't think they're being dicks.
Andrew Clunn
Aspiring Super Villain
To be fair, don't be a dick isn't an objective guideline with clear interpretations. If there were a situation where cultural appreciation alone made one a dick, that'd be something.
I'm just the victim of my cognitive privilege
I'm still not quite seeing how St Patrick's day celebrations hurt the Irish. I mean besides alcohol poisoning.
arthwollipot
Observer of Phenomena. Pronouns: he/him
Quote from: Andrew Clunn on April 04, 2017, 09:44:44 PM
You honestly can't see how stereotyping Irish people as violent drunks is harmful?
My mom told me she tries never to make fun of people for not knowing something.
- Randall Munroe
Oh come now. Just ordinary drunks.
If you want a violent Irish stereotype, look to the University of Notre Dame.
Quote from: arthwollipot on April 04, 2017, 10:29:31 PM
St. Patrick's Day stereotypes Irish people as violent drunks? That's news to me.
NEKSkeptic
News to me too. Australia must celebrate much differently.
Pretty much everything I see about St Patrick's Day in America is about people getting drunk and getting into fights. That's what Irish people do, isn't it? Get drunk and get into fights?
But okay, skip the "violent" part then.
You can't see how stereotyping Irish people as drunks is harmful?
DBAD is indeed subjective, but at least it has an implicit intent element. CA is whatever cultural borrowings happen to offend.
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Category Archives: Office / Retail / Industrial
Seletar to get a boost from new mall
Posted on 7 Nov 2014 | Comments Off on Seletar to get a boost from new mall
ON TOP of its rich history as the former site for the British naval and air bases, the Seletar district is also an up-and-coming neighbourhood.
The shopping prospects are about to get a much-needed jolt in the form of the upcoming Seletar Mall, while a range of housing options is also emerging in the wake of the new aerospace park.
The four-storey mall at the junction of Sengkang West Avenue and Fernvale Road opens soon. It has already secured tenants for more than 90 per cent of its space. These include FairPrice Finest supermarket, Shaw Theatres and Foodfare, as well as big brands Uniqlo, BHG and Amore Fitness.
Seletar Mall, which also has two basement levels of retail, comes with a gross floor area of 284,000 sq ft and net lettable area of 188,000 sq ft.
The project is a joint venture between Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and United Engineers Developments.
Mr Wong Xian Yang, manager of research and consultancy at OrangeTee, noted that the mall would be welcomed by residents as it is in a “still-sleepy” area with few retail offerings.
“The good tenant mix will also liven things up in the district, appealing especially to young families living there,” he added.
Other malls in the vicinity include Fernvale Point in Sengkang West, Greenwich V in Seletar Close and Ang Mo Kio Hub in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3.
Property consultants told The Straits Times that they expect buying interest in the area to be good as well, thanks to the Seletar Aerospace Park, which will serve the aviation industries when completed by 2018.
Mr Wong noted that the aerospace park is expected to “drive job creation and boost demand for nearby properties”.
PropNex chief executive Mohamed Ismail said: “There is also high potential for future capital appreciation… as the industrial park will serve as a key attraction to professionals and services to the area.”
Resale prices in the area rose 53 per cent from 2010 to the third quarter of this year, although new home launches dipped 4 per cent over the same period.
At the same time, a spate of new projects has enlivened the area, including The Greenwich, the 99-year leasehold residential component of a mixed development in Seletar Road.
The 319-apartment condominium has sold units at an average price of $1,210psf over the past six months, according to Squarefoot Research.
Units at the 99-leasehold Seletar Park Residence, which is just behind The Greenwich, have sold at an average price of $1,239 psf in the past six months. It is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Floravista and Floraview in Cactus Road was launched by developer Oxley YCK in January. The freehold units have been going for an average of $1,267 psf.
Mr Wong singled out Floraview as a “good deal” for investors, pointing to its lower selling price in comparison with the neighbouring Floraville condominium, which has average prices of $1,288 psf.
Mr Ismail noted that these projects are in a residential precinct “rich with Singaporean history”.
“The fact that these are near a wide array of amenities but still nestled in a serene and tranquil environment would be appealing for buyers who want a bit of quiet.”
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Tagged Fernvale Road, Seletar, Seletar Mall, Sengkang West Avenue, Singapore Press Holdings, United Engineers Developments
Guide to help local firms, landlords negotiate tenancies
Posted on 11 Oct 2014 | Comments Off on Guide to help local firms, landlords negotiate tenancies
ONE of the country’s leading business groups is drafting a framework to help local firms negotiate fairer tenancy agreements as a way to offset the crippling rent rises many face when they renew leases.
The framework being drawn up by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) will spell out the general elements of a fair agreement, including a clear basis for rent reviews and more transparency of tenancy terms.
It is intended to be a voluntary guide but both commercial landlords and government agencies have been engaged to be “pioneering adapters” of it, said SBF chief operating officer Victor Tay yesterday.
The framework will also help tenants negotiate fairer gross turnover schemes.
These allow landlords to collect a percentage of a tenant’s gross turnover on top of a base rent and are used by many mall owners.
The SBF will also publish a database of commercial rents by the end of the year with the help of government agencies as a move to increase transparency.
Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have long complained about the toll taken on their businesses by ever-rising rents.
Mr Low Cheong Kee, the founder of local hardware chain Home-Fix, is often confronted with double-digit rent increases when he renews shop leases every three years or so.
He is not alone: Rising rents are a huge drag for many SMEs in the retail and food sectors. Rents can comprise 30 per cent of total costs among many retailers, said the SBF.
Mr Low said he backs the SBF initiative because “tenants are in a way being held hostage” to rent increases when their lease is up and they have already “committed to renovation, or taken two to three years of tenancy to build up a relationship with customers”.
But Mr Jimmy Fong, chief executive of Apple reseller chain Epicentre, feels the framework lacks bite as it will not be mandatory.
“Landlords are big boys. You take it or leave it. And if most contracts are going to be the same, how can you work out a deal?” he added.
Mr Teo Ser Luck, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, commended the SBF’s initiative when he spoke to more than 300 participants at the annual SME Convention at Suntec convention centre yesterday.
“We want to make sure that… tenants aren’t always being cornered and landlords aren’t always having the upper hand,” he said.
Mr Teo later told the media that “the SBF is also not over-protective of the tenants, so it’s fair on both sides”.
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How are biomes formed?
Biology The Elements of an Ecosystem Types of Biomes
Matthew T.
Scientists divide up the places where life exists on Earth into several distinct zones, which they call biomes. Biologists distinguish biomes primarily by the amount of precipitation that they receive and the average temperature. For example, a really dry area may be called a desert. A really wet areas may be called a tropical rain forest. An area with seasonal changes in temperature and lots of grasses may be called a grassland. These biome names are a convenient way to talk about parts of the Earth that are similar in climate and in species diversity but may be far apart.
The boundaries between biomes are always shifting as the climate changes*, but few scientists would say that biomes are "forming" right now. Life exists almost everywhere on Earth, so almost every area is part of some biome.
However, in some cases a community can be completely eliminated. For example, a volcanic eruption may eliminate all existing life in an area. A process called primary succession follows. Life soon colonizes the bare rock, starting with species such as lichens. The lichens begin the process of breaking down the rock into soil. Other hardy species follow, like mosses, herbs, weeds, and then grasses. Centuries may pass before a mature forest forms.
Footnote: The consequences of shifting biomes are important areas of research. As biomes shift the species that inhabit them often must move as well. Right now, biome shifts are occurring faster than the pace of evolution in some species. If species do not adapt fast enough to the changing environment, then extinctions occur.
How do biomes change with altitude?
How can different biomes exist on a mountain?
What is a biome?
What are some examples of the types of biomes?
What are some examples of rain shadows?
What is a rain shadow?
Why is the taiga colder than the tundra?
How do predators in a boreal forest affect the ecosystem?
What are the abiotic factors of temperate grasslands?
What are some examples of temperate grasslands and where are they located?
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How do you find the asymptote(s) or hole(s) of #f(x) = (x(x^2-4))/((x^2-6)(x-2))#?
Algebra Exponents and Exponential Functions Exponential Properties Involving Quotients
Shwetank Mauria
Hole at #x=2#, vertical asymptotes at #x=-sqrt6# and #x=sqrt6# and a horizontal asymptote at #y=1#.
As #f(x)=(x(x^2-4))/((x^2-6)(x-2))#.
= #(x(x+2)(x-2))/((x+sqrt6)(x-sqrt6)(x-2))#
= #(x(x+2))/((x+sqrt6)(x-sqrt6))#
Observe that although #(x-2)# has cancelled, we cannot have #x-2=0# as then #f(x)# becomes undefined.
Hence, we have a hole at #x=2#.
As regards asymptotes, #f(x)=(x(x+2))/((x+sqrt6)(x-sqrt6))#
and as #x->+-sqrt6#, #f(x)->+-oo# and as such we have vertical asymptotes at #x=-sqrt6# and #x=sqrt6#.
Further, as #f(x)=(x(x^2-4))/((x^2-6)(x-2))#
= #(x(x+2))/(x^2-6)=(x^2+2x)/(x^2-6)#
= #(x^2-6+2x+6)/(x^2-6)=1+(2x+6)/(x^2-6)=1+(2/x+6/x^2)/(1-6/x^2)#
and as #x->oo#, #f(x)->1#
and hevce, we have a horizontal asymptote at #y=1#.
graph{(x(x+2))/((x+sqrt6)(x-sqrt6)) [-10, 10, -5, 5]}
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How do you simplify #\frac{(3ab)^2(4a^3b^4)^3}{(6a^2b)^4}#?
Which exponential property do you use first to simplify #\frac{(2a^2bc^2)(6abc^3)}{4ab^2c}#?
How do you simplify #(x^5y^8)/(x^4y^2)#?
How do you simplify #[(2^3 *-3^2) / (2^4 * 3^-2)]^2#?
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There are two main advantages: linearization and ease of computation / comparation, the former of which ties into the second.
The easier one to explain is the ease of computation / comparation.
The logarithmic system I think that's simple to explain is the pH model, which most people are at least vaguely aware, you see, the p in pH is actually a mathematical code for "minus log of", so pH is actually #-log[H]#
And this is useful because in water, the H, or concentration of free protons (the more around, the more acidic), usually varies between #1 M# and #10^-14 M#, where #M# is shorthand for mol/L, the appropriate unit of measurement, and yet, if we take the log the scale goes from #0# to #-14#, ( since we like to work with positive numbers we multiply by minus one, but that's besides the point)
Even though we lost the basic intuition we had with the original scale (where we know that, for example #1 M# is twice more acidic than #0.5 M#) we're now working with a range easier to work with, not to mention that at least this particular systems works because usually we don't need the intuition we lost while doing this.
And that also helps with the first part, because you see, sometimes stuff in nature works exponentially, like for example, one type of analysis you might find in a chemical laboratory would look like this with raw data:
graph{10^(-x+2)+2 [-0.21, 19.79, -0.12, 9.88]}
But as soon as you take the log of it, it comes out more like
graph{x-2 [-0.21, 19.79, -0.12, 9.88]}
And the thing is, we can and like working with lines much more than that other curve, the line can be more easily manipulated, you can interpolate data much more easily, it's just simpler for the poor researchers to take the log.
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Setting live levels without a proper monitor
For a show I've been running, I have to make sure the band (keyboard, electric bass, and unamplified drum-set) is balanced in the house.
Unfortunately, I'm in a control booth with the band right next to me, and the windows (which I kept open for the last show so I could hear the actors) are closed to reduce the noise level. I have a monitor that feeds me audio from two mics hanging over the stage, but no good way to hear what the mix sounds like in the house.
Setting the mix has been a lengthy process of trial and error, starting during tech rehearsals three weeks ago and continuing through this week (we close on Sunday). Nearly all of the changes have come from other members of the production staff or from audience feedback. I get way more keys and bass than the audience, but I can't tell that the loud bass in my right ear is inaudible down in the seats.
How does one go about setting levels in a situation like this, where one can't hear the live mix at all? It's fortunate that we have a set show, with no room for impromptu changes, so I don't have to be constantly adjusting the mix; but it would be interesting to learn techniques for that situation as well.
dgwdgw
Get a cable splitter and split the final output, so you can feed it back into headphones or a monitor or something. – Matthew Read Dec 17 '10 at 1:00
I had the idea of just bringing in headphones and connecting them to the dedicated jack on the mixing board, but that doesn't really tell me how the mix sounds in the space. – dgw Dec 17 '10 at 1:04
You say you have a pair of mics suspended over the stage for monitoring purposes - would it be possible to move them further out into the house to get a better idea of what it sounds like there? Or if not, to get a second pair of mics out in the house? That might give you a better sense of what the mix sounds like.
If you have a big enough stretch between cues, would it be possible to poke your head out of the booth for a minute, or unobtrusively step out? This could give a bit of a sanity check as to how your levels really do sound.
Running a mix of a live band from a booth is pretty frustrating - I'm guessing there's no way to get the board out to a better FOH position?
Rich BruchalRich Bruchal
The hanging mics have been there for several months, hung by the sound designer, and are also piped back to the dressing rooms; so moving them might be a bad idea. I wish I could add more mics in the house, but I'm just a newbie volunteer with little influence. Unfortunately, there's no spare space in the house, unless the board were to block one of the side exits (probably against fire code). I have to run the Express 48/96 anyway, which is too big (and DMX-dependent ;-) to put anywhere but the booth. Fortunately each show gives me one opportunity in the first scene to do a sanity check. – dgw Dec 17 '10 at 2:24
I would think the sound designer would be sympathetic to your dilemma - after all, you're essentially mixing a band here without being able to hear them. Would they ask the lighting people to run the lighting board in a windowless room where they couldn't see the stage? – Rich Bruchal Dec 17 '10 at 2:39
When I was first writing my answer, I included a mini-rant about what a poor design decision having an isolated sound booth in a theater was. I took it out before I posted, but it really is true. And every Broadway show I've seen in recent years has the board out in the house - you really do have to hear the mix from the audience perspective to do a decent job. It's usually possible to put the board out at FOH if you're willing to sacrifice a few seats in the back couple of rows, even as a temporary setup. Of course you're giving up some ticket money then (if you're selling out) – Rich Bruchal Dec 17 '10 at 2:48
I'll suggest it for our next show in February. We pretty much never sell out, and losing a few seats out of 207 to gain better mixing should be worth it. (For what it's worth, I was technically the lighting guy, so I completely understand your first comment; sound was something I took over because they didn't have a board op for it.) – dgw Dec 23 '10 at 22:28
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These ’70s and ‘80s Fad Diets Are Too Freaking Hard To Follow
By: Pauline Lacsamana
GIFY/ Real Housewives Of New York
Health and fitness have always gone hand-in-hand.
Over the years, people have been inundated by trends promising to increase energy and burn fat, despite the reality none of those remedies can be guaranteed from food alone.
While practicing self-care has soared in popularity, from indulging in a sheet mask and massage to something a tad pricy at Trader Joe’s, it’s safe to say the world has come along way since the insanely restrictive ‘70s and ‘80s.
Wellness as we know it today emerged in the ‘70s with nutritionists like Adelle Davis—dubbed the “first lady of nutritionist”—advocating for healthy eating, fresh foods, and the nutrients in them.
Since a more holistic approach to wellness was relatively new, there was still a demand for seemingly quick fitness fixes. Which is why, to no surprise, there was a mass craze over fad diets, at-home machines, and video workouts were rampant throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Ultimately, the key factors to success will revolve around diet and exercise, but it’s fun to reminisce or learn the extent people will always go to shed some extra pounds.
If we’re being honest, we wouldn’t have made it through half of these. But… we’d very much like to bring jazzercise and applaud Lean Cuisine for sticking around so long.
So, in honor of the era of short-shorts and spandex, here are 15 of the most popular self-care and wellness trends from the ‘70s and ‘80s.
1. The Grapefruit Diet
You can do anything for 12 days… is what this plan is banking on.
While we love grapefruits, this 12-day plan is all about consuming them and juice version at every meal.
The real kicker? The daily caloric intake of less than 1,000 calories for most of these diets, according to Healthline, and honestly I can hear my stomach grumbling.
For all the pain, you could lose up to 10 pounds in 12 days — due to fat-burning enzymes found in grapefruits.
2. Dexatrim
Diet pills were big in the ‘70s and ‘80s, with Dexatrim being one of the most popular brands.
Dexatrim was an appetite suppressant created by S. Daniel Abraham, who also invented Slim-Fast. The diet pill contained phenylpropanolamine, which was commonly prescribed for allergies, according to Livestrong.
Dexatrim, along with other diet pills containing phenylpropanolamine, was later pulled off shelves for being linked to the increased possibility of strokes.
3. The Sleeping Beauty Diet
You can’t eat if you’re sleeping, right?
The Sleeping Beauty diet is an extreme weight loss method that involves sleeping to avoid overeating. The danger in the diet is that many have taken sedatives to do so.
It was so popular in the ‘70s that even Elvis Presley tried it, The Independent reported. A doctor recommended that he undergo a medically-induced coma for a few days to prevent him from eating.
4. Optifast
In the ‘80s, Optifast got Oprah Winfrey’s stamp of approval.
It was the diet that helped her lose almost 70 pounds in a matter of months, the Chicago Tribune reported. Optifast was a liquid diet that involved drinking a “high-protein, vitamin-packed powder mixed with water” five times a day.
Overall, the diet provided only 420 calories per day. The program was offered in hospitals and helped people lose weight quickly, but the real challenge after the program was keeping the weight off.
5. The Cookie Diet
Eating cookies all day doesn’t sound too bad.
The cookie diet sounds like something the Cookie Monster would love, but it was a real trend in the ‘70s. The diet was created by Dr. Sanford Siegal who developed low-calorie cookies that helped control hunger.
According to his website, Dr. Siegal uses a top “secret amino acid protein blend” for the cookies.
6. Low-Fat Everything
After years of fad diets, nutritionists started singling out low-fat diets.
In the 1980s, reports came out that claimed fat in our diet was the most important change people could make to improve their health, according to PBS.
However, much of the time lowering the fat content in food meant an increase in sugar, NPR reported. So although the intention was to help people lose weight, the low-fat trend might have actually made people gain weight.
7. Lean Cuisines
The low-calorie frozen meals were a hit in the ‘80s.
Lean Cuisine started as a healthier alternative to Nestle’s acquired frozen meal company Stouffer’s, according to Mental Floss. There were initially ten different offerings that were advertised as containing only 300 calories or less.
With its convenience and promise for a healthy meal, Lean Cuisine was a hit in its first year.
8. Jane Fonda’s Workout
Jane Fonda’s Workout made aerobic exercise available to everyone at home.
In the ‘80s, Jane Fonda published Jane Fonda’s Workout Book, which would turn out to be a New York Times best-seller. She released a VHS called the Jane Fonda Workout that sold 17 million copies worldwide, according to Vogue.
Interested in trying the workout yourself? You can find Jane Fonda’s Workout online and exercise like they did back in the ‘80s.
9. Slim-Fast
Slim-Fast was introduced in 1977 by S. Daniel Abraham.
It was a powdered formula that was meant to be mixed with low-fat milk. The result was a milkshake-like beverage advertised as a 1,200-calorie meal replacement for breakfast and lunch.
After a tough first year for Slim-Fast, the brand was reintroduced into the market in the early ‘80s and hit $197 million in sales by 1984.
10. The Atkins Diet
Dr. Robert Atkins was well-known in the ‘70s for promoting low-carb diets for weight loss.
In 1972, Dr. Atkins published his first book Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution he emphasized that a diet that was high in protein and low in carbohydrates was the key to weight loss. It advertised a lifestyle that allowed people to eat foods like steak, eggs, butter, and bacon while keeping off the pounds. Does this sound like proto-Keto to anyone else?
11. Buns of Steel
At-home workout videos were a major trend in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Buns of Steel was high on the list of the most popular workout tapes along with Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons. Buns of Steel came out in 1987 and featured athlete and health-club owner Greg Smithey, the Chicago Tribune reported.
As the name of the workout suggests, Buns of Steel toned the glutes but with “less aerobics.”
12. Jazzercise
The dance fitness craze was big in the ‘70s and ‘80s and still is to this day.
Jazzercise was created by Judi Shepherd Missett in 1969. She started her cardio dance class with only 15 students and as the wave of Jazzercise caught on, her classes got bigger and bigger, The Washington Post reported.
Jazzercise is still alive and well and is taught decades after it was first introduced. Now, the classes include a mix of “high intensity dance party that fuses cardio, strength, Pilates, hip hop, yoga, and kickboxing.”
13. Step Aerobics
Step aerobics was an alternative to more intense dance fitness classes.
Gin Miller created the workout in the ’80s. Because it was designed to be a low-impact workout class, it was great for beginners and people with injuries, according to Livestrong.
It gained so much popularity that it expanded to gyms, fitness studios, and videotapes. They might not be as popular as they were back in the day, but you can still find step aerobics classes today.
14. Nautilus Workout Machines
The at-home workout machine completely transformed exercising at home.
If doing an aerobic workout class on VHS wasn’t for you, Nautilus’s fitness equipment was where it was at. According to the workout demonstration, the equipment provided resistance training to help its users get fit.
You can still find Nautilus equipment today, with Bowflex being one of the more recognizable names.
15. Electric Muscle Stimulators
The technology was used as a way to enhance muscles.
The idea behind electric muscle stimulators was to increase or decrease activity in the nervous system. By doing so, it was supposed to strengthen muscles, increase muscle size, improve endurance, and speed up muscle recovery. It was popular in the ‘70s after the technology was used to help out Olympic athletes.
According to Refinery29, EMS is making something of a comeback as trainers combine workouts with new EMS tech.
16. Richard Simmons Tapes
Since he started out, Richard Simmons has been an icon in the fitness industry.
Simmons struggled with his weight, which led him to build his empire of fitness classes and at-home workout tapes like Sweatin’ to the Oldies and Dance Your Pants Off that would sell millions of copies, according to The Washington Post. He was also the author of multiple books such as Never Say Diet and Never Give Up.
Did you try out any of these wellness trends? Were they successful?
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Removing Racial Bias From Credit Scores Isn’t Possible
As long as our economy is racially biased, our credit scores will be too.
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In September the Bernie Sanders campaign rolled out a plan that would revamp how credit scores, credit bureaus, and, in turn, lending would work in America. This plan would establish a “secure public credit registry” within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would eventually replace the existing system. Currently the three major credit bureaus and many smaller agencies collect data on Americans (with or without their permission). When people apply for loans, apartments, and jobs, the bureaus turn that data and scores computed from it over to banks, landlords, and employers. Unlike the current opaque system, Sanders’ public credit registry would “use a public, transparent algorithm to determine creditworthiness that eliminates racial biases in credit scores.” Sanders’ proposal would also remove medical debt from consumers’ credit reports and would end the use of credit report checks for housing and job applications.
Each of those suggestions, if implemented, would probably result in a fairer, better lending system. But the plan offers a false promise: that we can “eliminate[] racial biases in credit scores.” It’s a worthy goal, given that across the 60 biggest cities in the U.S., predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods have credit scores that are, on average, 76 points lower than those cities’ predominantly white neighborhoods. But just changing the formulas used to calculate credit scores will not close those gaps much, if at all. As long as our economy is racially biased, our credit scores will be too.
Even if the credit score is fair, the life experiences it crunches into a number are not.
To see why that’s true, we have to understand the many ways credit scores operate. As Josh Lauer, author of Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America, said when I spoke to him by phone, “We have this idea that credit scores are one single number.” But, Lauer said, “there are hundreds of scores.” Some are specialized scores built by credit bureaus for specific tasks, like predicting whether you’ll default on a particular type of loan. Others are built by the banks themselves, using a mixture of data from credit bureaus and the bank’s own data collection efforts to predict not just whether you’ll default on a loan but whether you’re the type of customer who will frequently use their products, keep your account open for many years, or carry a high balance on a credit card. Some credit scores are relatively well understood by the public—FICO, the familiar credit score that lenders can purchase from Equifax, Transunion, or Experian, is calculated from a generally known list of variables (by way of a confidential formula). By contrast, the credit scores built by the banks themselves for proprietary use are black boxes.
These specialized scores are entirely mysterious to the public and may often be unfair. (It’s not completely clear whether Sanders’ plan would prohibit banks from building their own credit scores.) As Cathy O’Neil reported in Weapons of Math Destruction, American Express has created internal risk scores based on where customers shop, and “it was up to the unhappy Amex customers to guess which establishment had poisoned their credit.” There’s every reason to believe that what Amex is doing is typical of the industry, and it is certainly emblematic of the dangers of this system. While these internal credit scores are monitored for racial bias by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the CFPB, an OCC spokesperson told me by email that the office takes a “risk-based approach to fair lending supervision.” Regulators are forced to prioritize their attention; even with more staff, it’d be impossible to deeply scrutinize every credit score made by every bank for racial bias.
An infinite amount of bank supervision still wouldn’t be enough to close the gap in credit scores between black and white Americans because, frequently, bias isn’t created by the credit score calculation—it’s described there. Imagine, for a second, the simplest, most transparent, arguably fairest credit score possible. It might be a statistical model that predicts your likelihood of defaulting on a loan, based only on (accurate) information about whether you’ve paid your past bills on time. That simple, “fair” approach would still produce scores that were systematically better for white people. Even if the credit score is fair, the life experiences it crunches into a number are not. People of color in the U.S. face rampant employment discrimination and wildly disparate treatment by the criminal justice system, which at times results in unfair prison time (or worse). It’s hard to pay your bills on time if you’re fired because your boss doesn’t like your natural hair, or if you’re thrown in jail for a crime you didn’t commit. And of course, these obstacles to timely bill payment are compounded by the massive wealth gap between black and white Americans. If you “haven’t accumulated assets you can fall back on during hard times,” Lauer pointed out, a job loss or an episode of bad health is more likely to cause a drop in your credit score—and a low credit score can cost more than your ability to borrow money.
The idea that credit scores are enumerations of our moral worth or “level of responsibility” is embedded in our cultural fabric. This is why employers see fit to use credit scores in hiring decisions, a practice that I, like Sanders, believe is unfair and should be outlawed. But even in their narrowest use—forecasting the likelihood someone will default on a loan—credit scores are still a reflection of some things that an individual can control and many other things that they can’t. I challenge you to name a single attribute that would influence or predict whether someone can repay a loan that is not in some way related to the circumstances of that person’s birth. Put simply, if we don’t change the underlying discriminatory forces that make Americans differentially able to weather financial shocks, black Americans will continue to have lower scores than white Americans.
It’s not even clear what it would mean to have credit scores free of racial bias. Would it mean historically advantaged and disadvantaged groups have the same average credit scores? Would it mean the models themselves just don’t contain any information related to a consumer’s race (something already prohibited by the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act)? Or something else altogether? For that matter, should we have credit scores at all, or should every consumer be treated identically by banks? (I would only recommend that final option if we wanted to freeze consumer lending entirely, since it would be hard to offer anyone credit at affordable rates if people could repeatedly default on loans without consequence. While some might advocate for such a freeze, it’s considerably more radical than anything Sanders has proposed). The Sanders team points to research by the Urban Institute that offers suggestions for policies that would help reduce the racial gap in credit scores—for example, changing how local governments levy fines and fees—but that report stops short of implying that the credit scoring algorithms themselves are structurally flawed.
Sanders recognizes that getting rid of private credit reporting agencies isn’t a panacea. In a speech in March, he said, “Do we still have a long way to go to end the institutional racism which permeates almost every aspect of our society? Absolutely.” A member of Sanders’ policy team told me by phone that Sanders’ credit reporting proposal is intended to work in concert with other policies to promote racial equity, like his suggested jobs guarantee and his criminal justice reform plan.
Maybe I’m being a curmudgeon to point out that the proposal, as written, could probably not reach its goal of eliminating racial bias in credit scores. It is good, perhaps even necessary, to aspire toward ambitiously idealistic futures; Sanders often reaches high, and perhaps does not always expect his grasp to exactly match that reach. But it’s important to reckon with what tweaking the algorithms behind credit scores can and cannot accomplish. Algorithms are pretty easy to change. But the society they model still comes up short.
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Random Makeb Love
Telwyn is finally playing through the Makeb story on Imperial side, only six years late... and here I thought I was slow when it took me two months to get to it! Funnily enough, I was reading his post on my second monitor while I was using my primary to play through Imperial Makeb myself... for the second time in recent weeks, in fact.
Looking back at some of my old blog posts, I've had a very on-and-off relationship with Makeb. At first I quite liked it, but then repeating it a couple of times quickly made me feel burnt out. Finding that every single one of my characters was getting funnelled into it as "chapter four" of their class stories felt disingenuous and annoying.
Then after Shadow of Revan came out my attitude towards it softened again, since it wasn't considered a requirement to progress the new storyline but rather just another piece of side content, like the various daily areas. Since then I've often skipped it since there's already enough strictly linear story content that I have to get through to get to the bits I like, but every now and then I like to take a character through it again - fortunately it doesn't matter where they are in terms of personal progression; you can do Makeb at any time.
The release of Ossus also made me oddly nostalgic for Makeb. As I discussed in this post, sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's gone. At the time of its release, Makeb had seemed a bit lacklustre compared to the class stories, but after more than three years of plodding through a one-size-fits-all storyline, I can't help but see it in a very different light. The depth of the world building conveyed through totally different story threads! All those different NPCs you get to interact with that have their own lives instead of everything being about your companions all the time! It suddenly tastes oh so sweet.
And it oddly makes me wish that we could meet some of those characters again one of these days. As it stands, the only story references to Makeb after its release were a brief mention about Isotope-5 powering Imperial ships in Lana's summary of what happened during your five years in carbonite, and of course Doctor Oggurobb joining your Alliance. On Imperial side though there are so many more characters that would be fun to meet again. I'd like to see how Captain Hanthor is doing for example. (And this time give us a flirt option while you're at it!)
I've even come to appreciate the relatively minor players such as Nadrin and Sergeant Bedareux. Actually, the latter made me realise that I don't recall another character anywhere in Star Wars canon that has a French-sounding name - based on the spelling anyway, even if it's then pronounced in a very English way in the English client. I wonder if the German and French voice actors actually pronounced his name closer to what you'd expect? Also, if you do know any other French-sounding characters from Star Wars canon, do let me know please because now I'm oddly curious.
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Pallais 17 July 2019 at 00:02
I'm one whose opinion of Makeb has changed over time. At first I really didn't like it. I wanted more of the eight class stories instead of the two different faction stories. It was hard to accept not ever seeing the individual stories after having had so much fun with them in the original game.
It also felt long and somewhat disjointed when I first played through it on both sides. Part of it was the fact that when it was current content you couldn't quite power through as you can now given we're likely overleveled for it, plus having the GSI buff. The disjointed bit was, in part, due to the taxi rides fading to black to transition us to a new mesa. I'm fond of seeing the terrain as I'm on a taxi because it makes the world feel bigger, more substantial. It didn't help that the Republic story just wasn't quite as good as the Empire side.
One other thing that really annoyed me was getting the Endurance datacron. I didn't mind the difficulty of some of the jumps, but oh I hated the fact if you failed you were forced to start over from the beginning. That alone makes me glad for legacy wide datacrons. Now, if they had implements checkpoints where you didn't have to start completely over I'd have been much happier.
Shintar 17 July 2019 at 08:13
I, too, remember Makeb being quite a slog in the early days, especially the Cartel Mining Mesa. And actually I have to say, the mob density still feels higher than on your average planet, despite of all the weeding out they've done over the years.
I agree the fade to black on the taxis has a weird affect. If you add up the square space of all the different mesas the planet is huge, but you don't really feel it because of that limited visibility.
And yeah, I hated that endurance datacron too. Only got it by being totally carried!
I find it funny I commented on that post, too. Time slips away faster than I realize sometimes. It doesn't seem like the game launched 7.5 years ago.
Yep, I saw that too! :D Thought to myself: Dang, Pallais has been reading and commenting for a long time...!
Telwyn 19 July 2019 at 08:18
Six odd years late is nothing for me and MMORPGs, I've started playing games that are older than that ;-)
(I tried Everquest 1 for the first time earlier this year!).
I remember Makeb as being a real slog, but then I was maining a Sage specced as healer so I was a serious glutton for punishment. Playing more Imps again last night we discussed the lack of transition animation between planetary-zones. A cost saving no doubt, but it really makes the planets seem smaller and disjointed in comparison to the launch-ones. I'm loving the zones I've never seen though (e.g. lava ones), it's like I've found a planet I've never been to (almost).
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Legs-it: 'Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon are probably delighted with the fuss', says Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe believes the leaders were seeking attention
Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon were trying to be noticed for their fashion and will have been delighted over the fuss about their legs, says Ann Widdecombe.
Yesterday (March 28) many were outraged at the front page of the Daily Mail, which carried the headline "Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-It!" alongside an image of the leaders' meeting.
The former MP told Jake Yapp that if the pair had dressed in less fashionable clothes, like Angela Merkel or Hillary Clinton are prone to do, "there wouldn’t be these sorts of comments."
Instead she believes the two leaders "were looking to look good" in their pose, as people who make "fashion statements are effectively saying I want you to notice this."
Thus, she says, they're "probably delighted that they’ve got all the fuss."
Widdecombe added that "there's no harm" in dressing to be noticed, but you "can’t complain when people notice."
Although many have suggested that male politicians face less scrutiny over their looks and image than their female counterparts, Widdecombe rubbished this theory.
She said that men receive plenty of attention in this regard, citing "Ken Clarke’s Hush Puppies," "William Hague’s baldness" and "Jeremy Corbyn’s scruffiness."
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Ever think about how the hobby has changed, yet how we still hang on to some old stuff?
Yeah, there are a bunch of low-tech wonders from the past that have transformed our hobby, while transcending time and defying more modern technology. Clever, crafty, defiant, and yet, useful things that are the literal “tools of the trade.” A chef has his knives, a carpenter his tools…We have these beauties. Here's my tribute to the simple, elegant stuff. Where would the modern hobby be without:
The nylon fish net- I mean, there was a time, many years ago, when all you could get were cotton fish nets. With rusted-out metal handles. Nasty, icky musty fish nets were somewhat common.Yes, the nylon fish net predates most of us, but it’s just one of those things we take for granted as having always been around. Ironically, the wooden-framed ones are considered better quality than the twisted, coated wire ones. Low tech rules! The newer ones that supposedly “blend in the water” so that fish don’t see them seem like a good idea to me…But I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a time when a fish “didn’t see” the net as it’s coming after them, nylon, plastic, or otherwise. Well, thank goodness for quality fish nets, regardless.
Plastic airline tubing- This stuff is the duct tape of aquarium keeping- I mean, yeah, lots of hobbyists use it for pumping air into aquariums, but its so much more versatile. We use it for things like creating drip acclimation lines (hardcore users start a little siphon and then i.e. a knot with it to start a slow drip). I’ve seen it used for tying stuff together, making extensions on plastic syringes to act as an ITFD (“improvised target feeding device”), and many other uses. A serious invention that’s stood the test of time!
The airstone- Wooden, ceramic, or plastic, this invention dates back to the 1940’s-50’s and has been a fixture in the aquarium hobby to this day. This humble pice of technology, simple though it may be, is a cornerstone of modern aquaristic practice. An easy, elegant way to deliver aeration to an aquarium, it’s been used for decades with reliable efficiency. Sure, some of the plastic and wooden airstones are prone to clogging from time to time, but the ceramic ones, which have changed very little in like half a century, are pretty darned reliable. Weather you’re using them to aerate a tank, hatch brine shrimp, power a protein skimmer, or provide aeration in a temporary holding container, the airstone is without peer in the world of aquarium supplies.
The plastic specimen container- Omigod, this is like the standard-issue piece of fish equipment. It’s transcended everything from Goldfish keeping to reef keeping. You’ll find specimen containers being used at every level. I’ve used them to acclimate corals, treat sick fishes, hold baby guppies, hatch brine shrimp, mix salt- I mean, there’s hardly a fish room task that the decidedly low tech specimen container is not up for. It’s totally future proof, too, right? How does a box to hold water go out of style? I don’t think the design has changed in like 50years. I vaguely recall an experiment where I directed water flow into one from my reef tank, grew Caulerpa inside, along with some sand and (I don’t recall why) snails-and let the water flow back into my reef. This was like 1987, and it was my crude attempt at an “algae scrubber”, or perhaps I invented the modern refugium..Yeah, that’s it! If Al Gore invented the internet, I invited the ‘fuge! OK, in my head, anyways…(the modern refugium concept predated my crude idea by years…but a guy can dream, right?). And of course, it’s the ultimate kill fry rearing tank, too!
The algae scraper- Woah…Freshwater, saltwater, brackish- whatever. Hobbyists of every age, experience, and generation have come to hate algae on the sides of our aquariums. It’s a nemesis like no other, defiling our tanks, frustrating us, and causing hobby havoc. I know people that left the fish hobby because of film algae. It’s hated stuff in our world. A constant battle we must fight. Along came the algae scraper..and the battle was joined. Originally, just a piece of sponge on a stick, the algae scraper has evolved from humble stone axe to high-tech, synthetic wonder. You have plastic scraping blades, razors, dense matrix synthetic plastics, and other types of scrapers of varying composition and effectiveness. We have ergonomic plastic handles, replaceable scraping surfaces…We even have the ultimate evolution- to the algae cleaning magnet, equipped with replaceable, high tech synthetic pads to both polish your outside surfaces while attacking this dreaded pestilence- all while keeping your hand dry. The stick may be gone, but the goal is the same: Cleaning viewing areas without getting our hands wet.
So there you have just a few of the most humble, yet useful tools of all time. Sure, we have electronic controllers, LED’s, high-tech pumps, dowers, and other gadgets, many of which I couldn’t even figure out how to use (like electronic leveling devices…scary). However, these simple throwbacks, derived from need and function, comprise part of the legacy of our hobby’s “greatest generation”- that time when if you needed something, you’d cobble it together, because there was no online vendors or Google, or even Twitter (oh, had to get my dig in.)…Can you imagine, having to DIY stuff? Oh war, we still do DIY…Thank goodness THAT hasn’t changed! Only difference is that these things end up in our Facebook news feed (“Look, I repurposed my toothbrush into a protein skimmer changer!” Like. Whatever.)
I submit to you that few aquarium writers of my generation have written columns on specimen containers and the joys of plastic airline tubing,- and none threw together a piece on said subjects at 4:30 AM PDT), so I open myself up to the scrutiny of my peers for my choices, and challenge you to add to my humble tribute list.
What humble, generation-spanning aquarium inventions do you find indispensable, and still relevant? Don’t be shy- it’s the chance to wax poetic about the relics from a gentler, kinder time, when frozen food still got freezer burn, and there was only one choice for water testing (a pool pH test kit)…We owe it to these devices to pay tribute. Heck, we owe it to our children, to pass this tribal knowledge on, so that future generations of hobbyists can appreciate the efforts of the nameless hobbyists who helped build our culture.
Ok, that was really prosaic. Just share what gadgets from the past you still use. Simple. Extra points for pics of old, repurposed gear, too.
As always, look back with pride, look forward with hope, and look at the present on your iPad.
Stay wet.
Scott Fellman
Tannin Aquatics
© 2020 Tannin Aquatics. "Leaves. Wood. Water. Life", and "Tannin Aquatics" are registered trademarks of Tannin Aquatics.
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John Joseph Mitchell
John Joseph Mitchell1,2,3,4
M, b. 22 September 1917, d. 19 January 2010
John Mitchell III
Photo provided by John Mitchell III
Father John Joseph Mitchell Jr.1,2,6 b. 7 Jun 1894, d. 29 Dec 1984
Mother Margaret O'Shea1,2,5 b. 1894, d. 14 Jul 1986
Relationship 2nd cousin 1 time removed of Taryn Lynn Phelan
Charts Dawson Descendancy Chart
John Joseph Mitchell was born on 22 September 1917 at Waterbury, Connecticut..7,8,9,10,11
John Joseph Mitchell appears as John J. Mitchell, age 2 years, 3 months, in the census of 17 January 1920 at Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut,in the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son; Catherine A. Herrold, age 21, was also enumerated with this family as a boarder.1 John Joseph Mitchell resided on 17 January 1920 at 36 Beacon Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, with his parents, John Joseph Mitchell Jr. and Margaret O'Shea, as well as with Patricia M. Mitchell, his sister; with their children: John and Patricia.1
John Joseph Mitchell appears as John Mitchell, age 12, in the census of 5 April 1930 at Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut,in the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son.2
John Joseph Mitchell appears as John Mitchell, age 12, in the censusin the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son. John Joseph Mitchell resided on 5 April 1930 at 267 Hill Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, with his parents, John Joseph Mitchell Jr. and Margaret O'Shea, as well as with his siblings, Patricia M. Mitchell and Shirley M. Mitchell; with their 3 children: John, Patricia, and Shirley.2
John Joseph Mitchell appears as John J. Mitchell, age 22, in the census of 22 May 1940 at 292 Morton Street, Milford, Connecticut,in the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son, along with Margaret O'Shea, Patricia M. Mitchell and Shirley M. Mitchell.3 John Joseph Mitchell was a molder for General Electric in May 1940 at Milford, Connecticut.12
John Joseph Mitchell resided in 1942 at 11 Morton (Myrtle Beach), Milford, Connecticut, with his parents and sister, Patricia.13 He was a machine operator in 1942 at Milford, Connecticut.13 He was employed by the railroad, hopping on and off the freight cars.10,14
John Joseph Mitchell resided in 1944 at 31 Ellis Street, Milford, Connecticut.10 He married third Lorraine Doris Silcock on 16 January 1945 at Milford, Connecticut.10,15 John Joseph Mitchell was a crane operator for CL&P for 36 years at Milford (Devon part), Connecticut.10,16
John Joseph Mitchell and Lorraine Doris Silcock resided at 18 Kenwood Road, Milford, Connecticut.17
Lorraine Doris died on 2 March 1993 at Milford, Connecticut, at age 72 leaving John Josepha widower.18,19 He was associated an Eagle Scout and volunteered as a Boy Scout Leader for his son's den. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoyed hunting and fishing, lobstering and camping.16 He was a member of the Milford Power Squadron and taught celestial navigation courses.16
John Joseph Mitchell died on 19 January 2010 at Connecticut Hospice, Branford, Connecticut, at age 92.20,16 John Joseph Mitchell's funeral was on 22 January 2010 at St. Agnes Church, Milford, Connecticut.16 He was buried on 22 January 2010 at Kings Highway Cemetery, Milford, Connecticut.16
Lorraine Doris Silcock b. 21 May 1920, d. 2 Mar 1993
1920 Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell appears as John J. Mitchell, age 2 years, 3 months, in the census of 17 January 1920 at Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut,in the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son; Catherine A. Herrold, age 21, was also enumerated with this family as a boarder.1
1930 Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell appears as John Mitchell, age 12, in the census of 5 April 1930 at Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut,in the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son.2
John Joseph Mitchell appears as John Mitchell, age 12, in the censusin the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son.
1940 292 Morton Street, Milford, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell appears as John J. Mitchell, age 22, in the census of 22 May 1940 at 292 Morton Street, Milford, Connecticut,in the household of John Joseph Mitchell Jr. as his son, along with Margaret O'Shea, Patricia M. Mitchell and Shirley M. Mitchell.3
17 January 1920 36 Beacon Street, Waterbury, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell resided on 17 January 1920 at 36 Beacon Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, with his parents, John Joseph Mitchell Jr. and Margaret O'Shea, as well as with Patricia M. Mitchell, his sister; with their children: John and Patricia.1
5 April 1930 267 Hill Street, Waterbury, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell resided on 5 April 1930 at 267 Hill Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, with his parents, John Joseph Mitchell Jr. and Margaret O'Shea, as well as with his siblings, Patricia M. Mitchell and Shirley M. Mitchell; with their 3 children: John, Patricia, and Shirley.2
1942 11 Morton (Myrtle Beach), Milford, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell resided in 1942 at 11 Morton (Myrtle Beach), Milford, Connecticut, with his parents and sister, Patricia.13
1944 31 Ellis Street, Milford, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell resided in 1944 at 31 Ellis Street, Milford, Connecticut.10
18 Kenwood Road, Milford, Connecticut John Joseph Mitchell and Lorraine Doris Silcock resided at 18 Kenwood Road, Milford, Connecticut.17
[S285] John J. Mitchell household, 1920 United States Federal Census, New Haven, Connecticut, population schedule, Waterbury, ED 443, sheet 22A, dwelling 171, family 434.
[S286] John Mitchell household, 1930 United States Federal Census, New Haven, Connecticut, population schedule, Waterbury, ED 225, sheet 8A, dwelling 145, family 165.
[S1294] John J. Mitchell household, 1940 United States Federal Census, New Haven County, Connecticut, population schedule, Milford, ED 5-122, sheet 64-B.
[S871] "John Mitchell's Notebook,."
[S1294] John J. Mitchell household, 1940 United States Federal Census, New Haven County, Connecticut, population schedule, Milford, ED 5-122, sheet 64-B,shows mother of John J. Mitchell as Margaret M. Mitchell.
[S1294] John J. Mitchell household, 1940 United States Federal Census, New Haven County, Connecticut, population schedule, Milford, ED 5-122, sheet 64-B,shows father of John J. Mitchell as John J. Mitchell.
[S285] John J. Mitchell household, 1920 United States Federal Census, New Haven, Connecticut, population schedule, Waterbury, ED 443, sheet 22A, dwelling 171, family 434, shows age 2 years 3 months old.
[S286] John Mitchell household, 1930 United States Federal Census, New Haven, Connecticut, population schedule, Waterbury, ED 225, sheet 8A, dwelling 145, family 165, shows age 12 and birthplace as Connecticut.
[S1294] John J. Mitchell household, 1940 United States Federal Census, New Haven County, Connecticut, population schedule, Milford, ED 5-122, sheet 64-B,shows age 22 and birthplace as Connecticut.
[S755] Phone conversation, John Mitchell, 3 July 2008.
[S871] "John Mitchell's Notebook,", shows "born 9-22-17."
[S1294] John J. Mitchell household, 1940 United States Federal Census, New Haven County, Connecticut, population schedule, Milford, ED 5-122, sheet 64-B,shows occupation.
[S745] Milford Connecticut City Directory, John J. Mitchell Jr, 1942 (Section M, Page 247).
[S1051] The New Haven Register, 20 January 2010, shows that he worked for the G.E. and New Haven Railroads.
[S871] "John Mitchell's Notebook,", shows John Joseph Mitchell married Lorraine Doris Silcock 1-16-45.
[S1051] The New Haven Register, 20 January 2010.
[S157] CT Death Index, 1949-2012, Lorraine D. Mitchell, State File Number 06902, 2 March 1993.
[S159] Lorraine D. Mitchell, 043-14-6911, Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014,.
[S157] CT Death Index, 1949-2012, Lorraine D. Mitchell, State File Nuumber 06902, 2 March 1993.
[S1046] Phone call, Paula Mitchell, 19 January 2010.
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS DISPUTE
EC recommends Kiev return to direct gas purchases from Russia
The European Commission wishes Kiev to buy Russian gas in the amount of around 15 bln cubic meters per year, according to a source
© AP Photo/Pavlo Palamarchuk
BRUSSELS, November 19. /TASS/. The European Commission (EC) has recommended direct purchases of the Russian gas totaling around 15 bln cubic meters per year to Ukraine to reduce expensive reverse supplies, a source in the EU’s institutions close to trilateral gas talks told TASS on Tuesday.
Ukrainian energy ministry rejects Gazprom’s new proposals
Ukraine’s Naftogaz to seek $11.8 bln in compensation if Russian gas transit halted
"The European Commission has recommended Kiev to return to direct purchases of the Russian gas totaling around 15 bln cubic meters starting 2020 to reduce costs on reverse purchases of the same gas," the source said. The interlocutor explained that the return to direct purchases would make it more interesting for Russia to use Ukraine’s gas transport system to pump gas to Europe, as well as ease gas tariffs tensions. The Ukrainian side is attempting to offset additional costs incurred by Kiev due to the refusal to purchase gas directly through raising tariffs on Russian gas supplies, the latter added.
The source refused to provide comments on Moscow’s request to withdraw all mutual claims of Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz, as well as to abandon the performance of already taken court decisions.
The European Commission suggested earlier that the second technical meeting of experts from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union be held on November 19 to prepare another round of ministerial trilateral gas consultations scheduled for late November. However, neither of the parties confirmed holding the technical meeting.
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Infinity Ventures Summit In Sapporo: 12 Japanese Startups Set Out Their Pitches (Part 1: The Five Winners)
Serkan Toto @serkantoto / 11 years
I am currently in Sapporo/Japan, attending the Infinity Ventures Summit (IVS) [this and many of the following links are in Japanese], a two-day event that takes place twice a year. Organizing VC company Infinity Venture Partners regularly not only attracts the cream of the crop of the domestic web industry but also a number of high-profile attendees from abroad. This time, these include RockYou CTO and founder Jia Shen (whose company is currently expanding to Japan), Admob CEO Omar Hamoui, (who today announced Admob’s foray into the Japanese market), Korean web entrepreneur Chang Kim (who recently sold his Seoul-based company to Google and writes a highly recommended English blog about Korea’s web scene) and Casee CEO Xin Ye (Casee is China’s answer to Admob).
The program also includes a launch pad, which just took place and gave a total of 12 Japanese start-ups the chance to present their wares onstage to a panel of judges and a crowd of about 300 people. But the word “Launch Pad” is a slight misnomer as IVS serves as a venue also for established start-ups to get their products in front of as many influential bloggers, VCs and entrepreneurs as possible. So unlike TechCrunch50, for example, the IVS concept doesn’t require companies to actually start businesses here.
In the end, a service called MotionPortrait won the title of best startup of the IVS Launch Pad.
You can read my thumbnail sketch of each of the five award-winning contenders below, along with my personal impressions. Please note some of the companies have yet to launch homepages in English.
MotionPortrait
Best of show went to Sony-backed MotionPortrait, whose technology makes it possible to generate a 3D face model based on a single 2D picture. The model can then be spiced up with various animations and graphical effects. You can make people dance, frown, laugh or even replace an actor’s face in a movie with your own.
MotionPortrait isn’t limited to human faces, as you can manipulate pictures of animals and objects in the same way (think dancing Easter Island statues or laughing leopards).
This may sound slightly goofy, but the technology is really impressive. MotionPortrait operates in a crowded market, but the technology is in my view more powerful than the one Israel-based Gizmoz offers, for example. Very cool stuff that can be used in games, virtual worlds, advertising campaigns or social networks.
Watch the video below for a demo.
Deqwas A recommendation engine called Deqwas came in second. Developed by Tokyo-based Scigineer, the engine is currently being used by over 30 e-commerce sites, blogs and social networking sites in the fixed and mobile web. The company also managed to license out its technology to US-based services, i.e. to this online bridal store. Deqwas is financially backed by cross-country (US and Japan) incubator Innovation Kitchen, a Mitsubishi subsidiary.
Vizoo I really liked the concept behind second-ranked Vizoo (there wasn’t a third prize this time), a YouTube for graphs. Developed by Tokyo- and Chicago-based Fillmore Advisory, the service will be available in English “in the near future”, as Vizoo representative Kosuke Mori told me.
Asked what the main difference between his service and American counterparts icharts or Swivel is, Mori said Vizoo offers users rich data bases they can immediately start working with. Graphs can be created using Vizoo or won data, tagged and commented on. The graphs can later be shared not only on Vizoo itself but also integrated into other sites and widgetized. Very useful for business analysts, journalists, scientists etc., but I see difficulties in monetizing the site. Still Mori is optimistic, saying by launching Vizoo, he wants to “destroy” established players like Bloomberg or Reuters.
Cerevo A new photo management service called Cerevo came in fourth at the show. The company intends to provide a double-sided solution for people wanting to send and share pictures online by not only developing a new photo management site but also manufacturing a digital camera completely from scratch.
The camera will automatically send pictures users took to Cerevo’s “online photo album” via Wifi. At the same time, users are notified through a message going to their inbox. You can then send pictures stored on Cerevo servers to friends or to various social networks using email. The big idea here is that the camera is only needed to take the pictures. Users don’t need direct access to the device or files in order to share pictures with others. Cerevo claims the concept is unique on a worldwide level.
CEO Takuma Iwasa said his company (that he established after leaving Panasonic – a rare move in big company-crazy Japan) plans to sell the camera worldwide starting this summer (the project is currently in prototype status). We will stay tuned.
Ameba Pigg The award for fifth place went to Ameba Pigg, a virtual world developed by Tokyo-based Internet giant Cyberagent. Ameba Pigg saw 350,000 registrations since its launch three months ago, with development taking just four months.
Ameba Pigg, which is available in Japanese only, is your typical teenager-focused virtual world with cute avatars, flashy settings and annoying sound effects. There are dozens of virtual worlds like this out there. Nothing special. Watch the video to get an impression of Ameba Pigg’s look and feel.
The seven other Japanese startups that presented at the launch pad are covered here.
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University Researchers: Tap Into Your Inner CEO
Format: MP3, CD, or PDF Transcript
Originally presented: May 20, 2010
“A GREAT opportunity for faculty outreach and education!“
You can strategize and plan all you want, but when it comes to commercialization of university research, without the science and the faculty innovators behind it, you have nothing.
Extracting that science from the labs and getting disclosures is hard enough, but to actually get your researchers to work cooperatively in licensing their technologies and starting up companies is an even tougher challenge – one that involves overcoming cultural barriers, as well as often-gaping knowledge gaps. In short, faculty outreach and education is critical to the success of your tech transfer efforts.
That’s why Technology Transfer Tactics’ Distance Learning Divisionhas recruited John Morris, Executive Director with the Center for Entrepreneurial Growth, to present this exciting 90-minute program. Mr. Morris will provide you and your faculty with the tools, strategies, insights, and know-how needed to overcome resistance, unfounded fears, cultural barriers, and gaps in business understanding. Enroll today – and invite your team of faculty innovators — to learn:
Character traits and self-assessment tools
Desire or passion for narrowing research to a product to go to the marketplace
Take this short quiz to gauge your CEO potential
Overcoming the business-academia culture clash
Willingness to work with a team (give some to get some)
Maintaining realistic expectations
Balancing research with business responsibilities
License or start-up venture? How to choose the right path for you
Hint: It’s the people not the product that drives the decision
Factors to consider in the start-up versus license equation
Talk to potential customers, large or small
Understand the market – find where innovation happens
Why start-ups surrounding great technology can still fail – and how to avoid it
Available resources and how to utilize them
University and regional coaching and mentoring programs
Local, regional and state investor groups
University-related investment firms
State small business development centers
Tech transfer office
How faculty can assist with licensing and start-up activity
Deep involvement
Moderate involvement
What your commercialization office can do for you
Making the best use of tech transfer services and support
Understanding the TTO’s role and responsibilities
When licensing
When creating a start-up company
Understanding the Bayh-Dole Act
Overview of legal issues that can-and will-arise
Define what you want to get out of the business venture
Equity/Dilution
Up-fronts
University or government lab equity role
John Morris – Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Growth
Mr. Morris is the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Growth, an entrepreneurial support organization of Technology 2020 (University of Tennessee) focused on the development of entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Tennessee Valley Corridor. He has worked with technology businesses for 25 years. Holding degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mr. Morris has been instrumental in forming five technology commercialization ventures, utilizing technology from five different disciplines. He began his career in engineering design with Tennessee Valley Authority at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. He then moved to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and worked in artificial intelligence and expert systems research. Mr. Morris’s first small business experience was with Consultec Scientific, Inc., a Knoxville-based startup focused on technology transfer and commercialization. Eventually becoming President and CEO, he led the effort to start three companies from Consultec. One of the companies, NetLearning, Inc., is an Internet-based e-Learning company focused on the healthcare market. Under his leadership as President and CEO, NetLearning grew from an idea to serving 500 hospitals nationwide in seven years. Thomson Corporation acquired it in 2004. Mr. Morris also served as President and CEO of Sunlight Direct, an alternative energy start-up with licensed technology from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Shayne Travis Grieve
2014, Review
“What have we done to each other? What will we do?”
These darkly haunting (and possibly violent) words from the pen of novelist turned screenwriter Gillian Flynn, are guaranteed to resonate uncomfortably with audiences long after the ominous chords of Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross’ affecting score begin to fade into nothingness.
Both the best and worst date movie of the year, Gone Girl presents a clever, yet familiar tale about a twisted and deceit-ridden marriage, that finally spirals out of control the morning Amy Elliott Dunne (Rosamund Pike) suddenly disappears from her Missouri home.
Her seemingly unaffectionate and unresponsive husband, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) unable to prove otherwise, quickly becomes suspect number one in the possible murder of his beautiful and ‘Amazing’ wife.
Despite the film’s (at times) pulpy narrative roots, director David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven, Zodiac) is once again able to inject his signature dread-filled tone to match his typical smoke-filled and shadowy aesthetic. His razor-sharp visualisation of Flynn’s script, ensures that the novel’s intriguing and sinister intricacies are emphasised and centred on, to great and shocking effect.
The modern marriage is the true victim in Flynn’s story. Her truncated treatment of her 460 page novel dissects the institution of matrimony with such great insight and precision that it could make you question your own nuptials. Though extreme at times, there is a litany of witty relational observations and truths that could hit some people closer to home than they think.
The film also comments largely on the media’s insatiable desire to sensationalise and blur fact with fiction in the endless pursuit of satisfying the demanding and ever watching viewer. It brings to light that the sociopath isn’t always the one being demonised on our screen.
In the hands of a less gifted writer and director, the material could easily be assigned to your conventional midday movie. Instead, the film is a perfectly constructed and gripping thriller that tightens its grip on you slowly, while it repeatedly sucker-punches you until its final unsettling end.
Both Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are outstanding in their duplicitous roles and demand far greater in-depth praise that cannot be truly assessed in this here forum. To do so would uncover too much of the twist that awaits the viewer.
Gone Girl will bring you to the edge of your seat and inspire many uncomfortable conversations about your relationships both past and present. It unearths and exposes the toxicity and uglier side of marriage and the destructive games that some partners play with each other.
Be warned. Be challenged. But be thoroughly entertained as well.
Ben Affleck, david fincher, Gillian Flynn, gone girl, Rosamund Pike, Thriller
Shayne spends his daylight hours indoctrinating teenagers about film, television and new media. The rest of his time he's trying to be the best father and husband he can. If there's any remaining time, he might catch a movie and record a podcast.
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
A Quiet Place (2018)
Batman v Superman – Dawn of Justice (2016)
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For The Umpteenth Time, The Safety Of Other People's Children Is Not My Concern!
After the inquest Mr and Mrs Winfield said: ‘We feel very privileged to have had our son, Arthur, for two years and nine months.
‘As the youngest, he was the centre of our family and our daughter’s best friend,’ they said in a statement.
‘We are completely lost following his sudden death.
‘Our daughter has saved us from the worst depths of despair.’
Yes, it's yet another toddler strangled by a blind cord. Very sad, but it must be one of the most common causes of accidental death, after falling in ponds and getting run over.
But no-one mourns and moves on, any more. Now, they join campaigns to raise awareness, because all the newspaper reports of the deaths aren't apparently warning enough:.
The couple have since backed a campaign by the British Blind and Shutter Association to raise awareness of the potential dangers of blinds.
They are joined by the parents of another recent victim, Emily Warner, also two, who died last year after she was strangled in a blind cord.
But hey, you say! Why such a misanthrope? If it makes them feel better, why not let them?
Well, because of the attitude that, even if you don't have any children and don't want any children, you must still do the heavy lifting for all the potential hard-of-thinking out there:
Mr and Mrs Winfield said: ‘Looped blinds and curtain pulls can kill and severely brain damage children. They are already in thousands of houses, communal halls, doctors’ surgeries and other public buildings. Please, please make these safe using cleats or replace them.
‘Even if you do not have children, children may visit or you may sell your house to a family with children.’
If I do, it's still their responsibility to look out for their offspring. Not mine.
Labels: arrogance, health and safety, parenting, personal responsibility
A tragic unnecessary death, for sure ..
" .. it's still their responsibility to look out for their offspring" ..
Particularly within the privacy of their own home ..
Can you imagine the outcry from the "Graun-reading" crowd, if the Council or Police were to instigate spot-checks in people's houses to ensure all blind-cords etc were tied up out of harm's way ?
So ummmm...how would other people who don't live in their house making sure their own blinds were safe and secured have prevented their child's death ?
I have an alternative solution to this problem...have the authorities follow these people around for the rest of their lives making sure they don't do anything even slighly dangerous to anyone else's children and ban them from breeding.
After all, it's them who have proven they can't be trusted to keep a child alive.
Simple solution:
1. When said child plays with blind cord for first time tell them not to play with the blind cord.
2. When said toddler plays with blind cord for the second time, smack his/her hand and say "I told you to leave it alone now leave it alone"
3. Repeat 2 until said toddler gets the message.
Macheath said...
Henry - logical and true; after all, you and I are presumably here today only because our cave-dwelling ancestors were in infancy repeatedly slapped back from fires/cliffs/poisonous plants etc.
However, the method presupposes an observant adult constantly in attendance - a rare thing in these days of working parents and a separate bedroom for every child.
Without wishing to comment on individual cases, I wonder whether the mother who described on Woman's Hour (in a piece on discrimination) how a working mother 'gives 100% of her attention to the job while she's at work' could swear that she is fully attentive to her child's behaviour when she gets home at the end of a long day.
The price of child safety, like that of Liberty, is eternal vigilance. Sadly, eternity is divine; even the most devoted parents are only human.
"Can you imagine the outcry from the "Graun-reading" crowd, if the Council or Police were to instigate spot-checks in people's houses to ensure all blind-cords etc were tied up out of harm's way ?"
Oh, I on't know. I think that would actually suit the Guardianistas right down to the ground!
"However, the method presupposes an observant adult constantly in attendance - a rare thing in these days of working parents and a separate bedroom for every child."
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Mr Gibbs said: "The complainant said they were arguing because the defendant was being objectionable about Asian people, which is odd because they're both Asian."
Are they? Are they really?
We aren't given the name of the victim, which is odd, because he was 20, but the attacker was Anwar Shah.
Doesn't sound very Mongolian or Korean to me...
In mitigation, Jacqui Callan said Shah was a promotions manager and events organiser, with contracts across the UK.
That's mitigation...?
Miss Callan added: "He was horrified when watching his actions on the screen and struggled to comprehend it as he's someone who trains others in city nightclub environments not to behave in this way."
I guess he got the 'Do' and 'Do Not' columns mixed up?
Labels: justice system, multiculti madness
"which is odd because they're both Asian
Not odd at all. Hierarchies exist within all cultures although to slag off your own kind these days is seen as being a "race-traitor".
Ahhhh the hypocrisy and idiosyncracy of "Diversity". Cases like this only go to show TPTB will NEVER be able to force us all to accept each other unconditionally.
" .. although to slag off your own kind these days is seen as being a "race-traitor".
Don't think many who subscribe to the caste system in India or Pakistan would agree & neither would those from the sub-continent who're less than tolerant of Africans, West Indians, Somalis etc ..
Diversity and multi-culti are very much akin to More's "Utopia" or Communism .. look good on paper but when confronted by the realities of life, it quickly becomes clear that they can't and don't work ..
Robert the Biker said...
It is very possible (from the names) That the first is a Hindu while t'other (Shah) is a muslim. This despite goin' out clubbin' is haram, innit. There is enough historic visceral hatred there to cover any assault.
Brontosaurus said...
He got sent to jail! Unbelievable! Who says no one gets sent to jail these days? Me...... Oh.
Will we ever see 'mitigation' that admits they deserve everything they get?
No, I thought not.
"Cases like this only go to show TPTB will NEVER be able to force us all to accept each other unconditionally."
Doesn't stop them trying!
"There is enough historic visceral hatred there to cover any assault."
It's a strong possibility.
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Automatically posted 4 days, 21 hours ago
Tags: spoiler, ask.survey, recurring.weekly
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
asep
Who's watched the latest episode of The Good Place? No clue how Schur does it but I swear every episode this season feels like it could've been a season of it's own, anyone have any theories on...
Who's watched the latest episode of The Good Place? No clue how Schur does it but I swear every episode this season feels like it could've been a season of it's own, anyone have any theories on how the next episode is going to go?
I finished The Mandalorian. Pretty damn good, though it did get a tad corny at points.
bilbodwyer
Yeah it had a few bum episodes here and there, but overall I loved the hell out of it. The last episode had me full on belly-laughing at the scene with the two stormtroopers shooting the tin can.
LOL yeah, that scene was great. It reminded me of the old Star Wars - Troopers (COPS parody) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoZBDIPDP8 WTB more incompetent Storm troopers just shooting...
LOL yeah, that scene was great. It reminded me of the old Star Wars - Troopers (COPS parody) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoZBDIPDP8
WTB more incompetent Storm troopers just shooting the shit. :)
IMO Mando was the most pointless character on the show. Lose him and just have the IG droid and baby Yoda kicking ass all over the galaxy.
nothis
It's IMO the best thing to come out of the Star Wars franchise since the original trilogy (but let's face it: that's only a bold statement because of quantity, not quality). I loved how it brought...
It's IMO the best thing to come out of the Star Wars franchise since the original trilogy (but let's face it: that's only a bold statement because of quantity, not quality). I loved how it brought Star Wars back to focusing on a single story, giving moments some time to sink in before moving on to the next big spectacle.
That being said, wow was it corny at times! It had to be a bit intentional, hadn't it? I mean, they did have the budget to do whatever (I heard GoT level $15 mil per episode, with only 8 episodes and 30 minute run times) yet some parts felt like 90s era bottle episodes. And that one where he's meeting a bunch of space-peasants (complete with an awkward love interest) felt like something out of Star Trek. It was so weird, compared to the others! Weird acting by all the supporting cast, too!
Overall, I'm impressed how it was all held together. I have big hopes for season 2.
The fact that they included the Dark Saber was really encouraging vis-a-vis tying into Mandalorian lore set up in the Clone Wars. I think the show has a lot of promise, although I hope they don't...
The fact that they included the Dark Saber was really encouraging vis-a-vis tying into Mandalorian lore set up in the Clone Wars. I think the show has a lot of promise, although I hope they don't actually go along with the
Spoilers "all the remaining Mandalorians were within that single enclave" angle. I think we've all had enough of the "last of their kind" trope.
moocow1452
I signed up for the New Year's Sling trial, where they were giving away free service until the 12th, and had every intention to stop after Doctor Who, but then I went to sleep so I got it for...
I signed up for the New Year's Sling trial, where they were giving away free service until the 12th, and had every intention to stop after Doctor Who, but then I went to sleep so I got it for another month. Play stupid games, I suppose.
Any recommendations? I fell off of Mr. Robot in season 2, should I jump to 4 or work my way through 3?
If you're wanting to pick Mr Robot back up, I'd definitely recommend watching all of 3 as well. You'd miss a solid amount of groundwork if you skip.
I'm working through Fosse/Verdon. I love Michelle Williams. I love Sam Rockwell. I wish I had started this sooner. It's no surprise that Williams is getting recognized for her performance. In an...
I'm working through Fosse/Verdon. I love Michelle Williams. I love Sam Rockwell. I wish I had started this sooner.
It's no surprise that Williams is getting recognized for her performance. In an already cinematic level series, she's giving an Oscar-worthy performance.
I'm also working through an essentials list for Psych. It's goofy, but enjoyable enough. A good portion of it was filmed around where I used to live, so it's nice to see some places that have since changed or shut down.
I'm going to start Wisting soon. Carrie-Anne Moss plays a CIA agent in this Norwegian police procedural. I haven't heard any talk about this series, but I also don't hear a lot about Norwegian shows to begin with. I'm hoping for something along the lines of Deutschland 83/86 and The Killing (either version.)
Nivlak
I was able to finish The Expanse season 4 this week. Really great show in my opinion. I’m not familiar with the books but now I feel like I have no choice because I enjoy the show so much. I...
I was able to finish The Expanse season 4 this week. Really great show in my opinion. I’m not familiar with the books but now I feel like I have no choice because I enjoy the show so much. I really enjoy the writing as well. They seem self aware enough and don’t try to feed the audience any bullshit. I also really enjoy the scientific explanations they use throughout the show. I genuinely feel for the actors during those scenes cause scientific terminology is hard.
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Deleted Facebook photos still accessible online: Report
7 Feb 2012 • 1 min read
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Facebook has been repeatedly criticized for not respecting the privacy rights of its users. Of late the social networking has taken a number of measures in this regard.
However, the privacy issues have continued to haunt the largest social networking site. According to a technology site Ars Technica, the photos that have been deleted by Facebook users months or years ago may still be present on the site. The “deleted” Facebook photos can still be accessed via direct link. This means, a photo (later deleted) that was circulated by e-mail could possibly be still there if anyone clicks the link.
Unfortunately, Facebook has also confirmed that its older systems for storing uploaded content “did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site.” The company, however, added that it is working on a newer system to speed up the process.
Technology site Ars Technica further said that Facebook has failed to fix the problems with its systems used for removing photos in spite of a number of users pointing out this problem. “We have been working hard to move our photo storage to newer systems which do ensure photos are fully deleted within 45 days of the removal request being received,” the paper quoted a Facebook spokesman, as saying.
The spokesperson also added that the process is almost complete and only a very small percentage of users may be affected. The revelation comes days after Facebook drew heat over making its controversial ‘Timeline’ profile format mandatory for its users. The social networking site gave seven days to ‘tidy up’ their timelines by deleting pictures and posts they didn’t like.
CEO Zuckerberg cannot build 'another' Facebook
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with his three top lieutenants, will get about $2 million in just salaries and bonuses, but cannot work on creating a rival to the social networking giant.
Pankaj 12 Feb 2012 • 2 min read Last updated on 7 Dec 2019 • 2 min read
Google & Facebook to Adopt IPv6, the Future of Internet
The entire web is shifting their base to IPv6, the new Internet Protocol, as Internet Society is organizing the World IPv6 launch on June 6, 2012
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Clockwise from upper left: Hanut Singh earrings, Gisele Bundchen in Sabba earrings, Emmanuel Tarpin earrings, Dua Lipa in Vram earrings, Prounis earrings, Zendaya in Paula Mendoza earrings Photo Moda Operandi, Getty and Courtesy
6 Jewelry Designers Who Will Be Huge in 2019
Get to know them and their amazing work now
For The Adventurine’s annual list of who will be huge in the forthcoming year in jewelry, we always try to find a diverse bunch that reflect several perspectives. Not all of the designers on this annual hot list are new names. Some have been making jewelry for over a decade, others have been in business for just a few years. A couple work at the very highest end of the business. There is one costume collection with pieces that only cost a few hundred dollars. What unites the group is that each has a strong unique vision that reflects what dynamic women want now. Get to know six jewelry designers we feel will be huge in 2019 and, as the saying goes, watch this space for all kinds of exciting stories on designers throughout the year.
Earrings by SABBA composed of natural pearls, diamonds and emeralds at left. SABBA earrings of lapis and turquoise at right. Photo FD Gallery and @fd_gallery via Instagram
SABBA—The Bold and The Beautiful
Alessandro Sabbatini, the designer behind the jaw dropping SABBA collection, is an anomaly. He doesn’t have an Instagram account. He prefers to focus on the quality of his work. Sounds like the description of jewelry veteran, someone who has been around for awhile, right? Wrong. Alessandro is a millennial. He launched his line in 2014 at the tender age of 26 after a stint designing High Jewelry for Cartier. His collection can be found exclusively in the United States at FD Gallery. The most sensational pieces are giant earrings set with stunning gemstones. When I asked Alessandro what inspires him, he replied simply “women.” He thinks of stylish collectors from the past and the clients he works with so closely today. I can’t name names, but if I told you who was looking at his jewelry while I was reviewing it you would know them. The designer’s most high-profile moment of 2018, occurred when supermodel Gisele Bundchen chose to wear a pair of his earrings to the MET Gala in May. She can be seen in the photo at top.
Bird of Paradise earrings by Emmanuel Tarpin composed of yellow and red gold, aluminum, spessartite garnets, sapphires and tsavorites. Sea Shell earrings by Emmanuel Tarpin composed of aluminum and diamonds. Photo courtesy
EMMANUEL TARPIN—Artistic Nature
Emmanuel Tarpin is another millennial with an old soul. The Frenchman began his career in jewelry at the very highest level, in the workshops of Van Cleef & Arpels. In 2017 when he was just 25, he launched a capsule collection. The extraordinary sculptural aluminum and gold earrings are inspired by nature, leaves, flowers and the swirls found in the art of Andy Goldsworthy. Each piece is punctuated in a painterly way with gems. When Emmanuel began to show his jewels to key industry people and collectors word about the work spread rapidly.
Cate Blanchett wearing Vram earrings at the 2018 British Academy Britannia Awards and Vram green sapphire gold and silver Chroma earrings. Photo Getty and Goop
VRAM—Sculpted in Gold
I happened to be in the right place (Los Angeles) at the right time (June 2016) when Vram launched his first gold jewelry collection and I scored the exclusive story. Since that moment, it has been amazing to watch the world embrace the artistic jewels inspired by the designer’s love of sculpture. Vram won the prestigious 2018 Best in Debuting Award at the Couture jewelry show in Las Vegas. On the red carpet, Cate Blanchett and Dua Lipa are just a couple of the stylish stars who wore his collection in 2018. It was an amazing year for Vram who I sense has only just begun.
Hanut Singh’s Emperor’s Cap earrings of Hydra, diamonds, gold and pearls and Circle of Life earrings. of pearl, onyx, rubies and diamonds Photo Moda Operandi
HANUT SINGH—East Meets West
In 2016, I wrote a story about the super talented designer Hanut Singh titled “The Best Jewelry Designer You’ve Never Heard Of.” His sensational work, that is a blend of dazzling deco-inspired elements and Indian design motifs, was virtually impossible to find at the time. Hanut chose to keep his business very small and only sold during trunk shows when he visited New York twice a year or at a by-appointment only boutique in Los Angeles. Well, now that his work is available at Fred Leighton in New York and upon occasion in Moda Operandi trunk shows online, treasure hunters have found it. Hanut racked up a number of celebrity credits in 2018 that included everyone from Oprah, Meryl Streep and Zadie Smith to Emma Roberts, Eva Chen and Lauren Santo Domingo. I know this success is only going to continue to mushroom in 2019.
Prounis jewelry on a model. Photo courtesy
PROUNIS – New Classic
Just one look at the Prounis collection and it was clear the designer Jean Prounis had it. I first spotted the jewels on the great Instagram of Will Kahn @willsnotebook. Once I finally had the chance to meet Jean in person and hear her story it was instantly clear she was the real deal. She knows how to make jewelry on the bench and execute ancient goldsmithing techniques. It’s a skill that shines through in the jewelry that pays homage to her Greek heritage as well as the elegant nightlife of New York in the 1940s when her great grandfather Otto Prounis had a club at the Waldorf Astoria. It was the hot spot where Edith Piaf debuted in America. In other words, style and art are in her genes.
Paula Mendoza earrings on Tracee Ellis Ross wearing and an unidentified woman. Photo @paulamendozanyc via Instagram
Paula Mendoza – Colombian Style
Paula Mendoza is a woman on a mission. From the moment she established her fashion jewelry label in 2007, she knew she was going to pay homage to her native Colombia. The shapes in her eye-catching gold-plated pieces are inspired by ancient forms and made by modern craftsmen in the nation. After years of carefully refining the collection, in 2018 it really took off and seemed to be everywhere on celebrities and influencers. Well, I was far from the only one who noticed. Paula began a collab collection and became the creative director with the 100-year-old Bogatá based jeweler Canon in 2018.
2018 Year in Review of Platinum Jewelry
The Best Jewelry Designer You’ve Never Heard Of
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The Nuclear Option
Dr Ulli Köster explains how rare radioisotopes, made in world famous physics labs such as CERN, could provide new treatments for cancer
The Biologist Vol 60(3) p20-23
Jaws, Oddjob, Dr No... in the James Bond films we have seen the famous British spy eliminate some notorious villains. In the medical world, the treatment of cancer is turning to its own group of special agents, displaying a keen sense to seek out danger and a deadly efficiency in bringing down a very different, but equally treacherous foe.
The source of interest is a new generation of radiopharmaceuticals based on a group of radioactive isotopes with properties that make them ideal for more targeted cancer treatment. The hope is that these powerful weapons could not only improve the success rates of treatment and diagnosis through personalised medicine, but also reduce some of the nasty side effects associated with existing procedures. This most critical of missions – developing these specialised agents to fight cancer – is being pioneered by an unlikely collaboration of research facilities...
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Robin Hardy
“Influential not just on subsequent horror cinema, but on the thriller genre in general ... One of the five best horror films of all time.”
Anne Billson, The Guardian
Robin Hardy’s heathen-horror masterpiece remains the bedrock of the folk horror subgenre. Written by Sleuth scribe Anthony Shaffer as an against-type vehicle for Hammer Horror icon Christopher Lee, this inexhaustibly eerie film revolves around a devoutly Christian cop (Edward Woodward) investigating the disappearance of a girl on a remote Scottish isle. The kicker: the locals are a pagan sex cult, who deny any knowledge of the missing child. Lee plays their affable leader, suspected of engineering a macabre cover-up; Bond girl Britt Ekland is a booty-slapping barmaid. The film’s eponymous effigy has roots in the recorded (albeit contested) sacrificial rites of the ancient Druids. Hacked down to a B-movie runtime for its original 1973 release (in a sublime bill with Roeg's Don't Look Now), this 40th anniversary "final cut" is the director's definitive version. "Come. It's time to keep your appointment!"
“The Citizen Kane of horror movies.”
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The TORCH Theatre and Performance Network provides a forum to bring Oxford academics working on drama and theatre together, and at the same time to connect them with theatre professionals both within Oxfordshire and beyond. The University of Oxford has no drama department, yet there are many scholars here whose research focuses on theatre. The Theatre and Performance Network provides a much-needed research base and also looks outwards to the region’s thriving theatre scene involving talented playwrights, directors and actors. The Network aims to foster collaborations between academics and theatres, providing fertile ground for knowledge exchange and impact projects. Members of this wide-ranging network come together for the first time across Faculties to share their expertise on Anglophone theatre, but also on theatre in French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Sumerian, Akkadian, Georgian and Chinese.
Events will range from lunchtime talks and reading groups to seminars to full day conferences often bringing external scholars and theatre makers to Oxford. Activities will focus on theory and practice: on texts, performances, theories of drama, translation issues, and staging. These events and activities are entirely led by current scholarly interests at Oxford on theatre and performance.
Conveners:
Julie Curtis, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Kitty Gurnos-Davies, Hannah Simpson, Hannah Greenstreet
KATHARINA HEROLD
Stipendiary Lecturer
IRIS JULIA BUEHRLE
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
ROBIN COLYER
Joint Artistic Director, Flintlock Theatre
JULIE CURTIS
Professor of Russian Literature and Fellow of Wolfson College
JESSICA GOODMAN
Associate Professor & Tutorial Fellow in French
HANNAH GREENSTREET
DPhil student
KITTY GURNOS-DAVIES
TOM KUHN
Professor of C20th German Literature
VIALA ALAIN
Professor in French
BRIAN MCMAHON
Cultural Engagement Fellow
GABRIELA MINDEN
DPhil candidate
BARRY MURNANE
Associate Professor in German, Fellow of St John's College
NICHOLAS PIERPAN
Creative Arts Fellow, Wolfson College
CÉDRIC PLOIX
KIRSTEN SHEPHERD-BARR
Professor of English and Theatre Studies
JEREMY SPAFFORD
Director of the Old Fire Station
HANNAH SIMPSON
Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk
Director, Maison française d’Oxford
DAVID WILES
Emeritus Professor
SELENA WISNOM
Exploring Theatre Archives and Collections
Lecture Theatre, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
'What's wrong with playwriting?' Lunchtime talk
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG;
Theatre & Performance Network social
King's Arms, 40 Holywell Street Oxford OX1 3SP
Ella Hickson in conversation
Amersi Lecture Theatre, Brasenose College, Radcliffe Sq, Oxford OX1 4AJ
Classical Theatre and the Middle East conference: 'Greek drama and the "classic(s)" in the Arab-speaking world and Iran'
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
The 19th annual APGRD/RHUL Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama: Communities and Contexts
Monday 24 June 2019 - Tuesday 25 June 2019
(M)uchenik (The Martyr)/The Student
Thursday 6 June 2019
Wolfson College Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Theatre & Performance reading group: Tragedy
Monday 27th May 2019, 7:15pm
Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, Merton Street, Oxford
The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford
Theatre & Performance reading group: Documentary theatre
Monday 13th May 2019, 7.15pm
Theatre & Performance reading group: Ecocritical approaches to performance
Monday 29th April 2019, 7:15pm
Kenneth Macmillan: Making Dance beyond the Boundaries
Saturday, March 16, 2019 - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College
BRECHT THE POET NOW
Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College, High St, Oxford OX1 4AW
Reading Group: Material Culture
Monday, March 4, 2019 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm
Andrew Glyn Room, Corpus Christi College
The Dancer and the Übermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance
Outreach Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
Translation Prefaces
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
Reading Group: Spouting Clubs and Other Forms of Historical Re-Enactment
Monday, February 18, 2019 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm
Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College
Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Gesture in the Theatre
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Memorial Room, Jesus College
Reading Group: Hope and Utopia in Performance
Dr Stefan Aquilina: Researching Early 20th-Century Russian Theatre
Monday, February 4, 2019 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
The Contagion Cabinet
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 7:30pm to 10:00pm
Museum of History of Science, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AZ
Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary Us Stage
Friday 7 December 2018 , 2:19pm
JEFF KOONS IN CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN KEMP
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ
Reading Group: Ancient Laughter
Past Oportunities
Call for Papers: Engaging with Dissonance in Performance Research
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True Conservative Talk
Conservative View
Our Anthem
Justice Arrives for Soleimani
True Conservative Talk January 5, 2020 0
Trump acted against a terrorist who killed hundreds of Americans.
For a generation, Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani dominated the Middle East traveling at will spreading terror and death. President Trump’s decision to order the general’s death via drone attack in Baghdad Thursday night is a great boon for the region. It is also belated justice for the hundreds of Americans whom Soleimani had a hand in killing.
One reason the U.S. could track and kill Soleimani near Baghdad International Airport was the impunity he had cultivated. The General often appeared in public, especially in Syria and Iraq, as he traveled at will without fear of being captured.
President Trump ordered a U.S. airstrike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, leader of the foreign wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in an attack that is expected to stoke heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran and inflame frictions in the volatile Middle East.
Top Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes was killed alongside Gen. Soleimani when the convoy they were traveling in together was struck on a road leading to Baghdad International Airport.
Thousands of people marched through Iraq’s capital as part of a funeral procession for Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, many chanting that “vengeance is coming” for the death of the powerful Iranian military leader killed in a U.S. airstrike on the country’s soil.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said “Americans do not realize what a big mistake they have made. They will see the consequences of their mistake not only today but in the years to come vowing harsh retaliation.
President Trump warned hours later that the U.S. is prepared to strike dozens of Iranian sites, saying on Twitter it would “HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD” if Tehran targets Americans or U.S. assets.
Iraq’s parliament voted in favor of expelling U.S. troops, after the killing of an Iranian general there in a U.S. airstrike put the country at the center of an escalating conflict between its two most important allies.
Lawmakers backed a resolution urging Prime Minister Adel-Abdul Mahdi to rescind Iraq’s invitation to U.S. forces, which returned to Iraq in 2014 after Islamic State overran around one third of the country.
Mr. Abdul-Mahdi resigned late last year as prime minister and has since presided over a caretaker government.
President Trump drew what may come to be seen as the most significant red line of his presidency in a three-part tweet, vowing specific military action against Iran if it “strikes any Americans, or American assets.”
“We have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture” and “if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, Iran WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD,” Trump wrote in a series of tweets.
President Trump was referring to the 52 Hostages taken during President Jimmy Carters Administration and then on January 20, 1981 they were formally released into United States custody after spending 444 days in captivity.
The release took place just minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president.
Trump reiterated his warning in a series of tweets early Sunday, saying the United States just spent $2 trillion on military equipment.
“We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way…and without hesitation!,” he tweeted. “They attacked us, & we hit back. If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before!”
The US military annual budget is bigger than the entire Iranian economy.
The U.S. challenge from a revolutionary Iran will continue. But Trump’s decisive action has struck a blow against terror in the cause of Justice and American interests.
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Truth, Learning, and Change
About BBDP
“Can We Talk?” Film
Reading Morgan V. Hennigan
Racism and Class Literacy Education in Boston
Unfinished Business Report
Is “2” the Best You Could Do, REALLY?
Truth, Learning and Change: An Update on the Boston Busing/Desegregation Project
Truth, Learning, and Education
A Brief(ish) History of Student Assignment in Boston, or, Unified Enrollment: Same S#!t, Different Day
VIDEO: Ise Lyfe- “My Best Friend”
History and Learning With MIRA
A Testimony to Boston City Council’s Committee on Education….
The Gender of Reflection
Can We Talk? Learning from Boston’s Busing/Desegregation Crisis was commissioned by Union of Minority Neighborhoods (UMN) to capture some of the voices that motivated UMN to begin the Boston Busing/Desegregation Project. Initially, the film was used to introduce BBDP, to greater Boston, to ask a wider population what they saw as the relevance of that era for public education and for Boston, and to invite people to be a part of BBDP.
After presenting the film to and learning from hundreds throughout the city, BBDP chose three themes that participants identified as being relevant during and leading up to the crisis then and in Boston and public education in general now: racial and class equity, democratic access to resources and decision making and demanding excellence of public institutions.
In the remaining phases of the project, BBDP will collect stories and build leadership to make meaning of these themes for today and to determine how to collectively address them. Clips from Can We Talk? continue to be used as a prompt for BBDP’s story circles and story collection. We now offer the film in its entirety for your personal viewing. While the film is offered free of charge, as a small organization we welcome and appreciate your financial donations. BBDP also appreciate invitations to present story circles and share our learning from this work.
We ask that UMN be credited when you show the film and that you share your learning from your use of the film with BBDP and UMN. Especially if you feel your experience is not reflected—don’t just complain, please tell us and share it!!
About Can We Talk?:
Photo: Filmmaker Scott Mercer
Can We Talk? was produced, written and directed by media producer Scott Mercer and filmed by Justin Shannahan. The film offers powerful stories of the 1970’s busing/desegregation crisis that changed Boston forever. Most of those in the film have never publicly shared their stories. It documents how this crisis is still felt today. It aspires to prompt a long-overdue honest conversation about public education and racism, classism, and social injustices that have plagued not only the Boston public schools, but the city of Boston as a community. Personal and intimate testimonials fill the screen. They include a bus driver who delivered children to neighborhoods and schools that didn’t want them. A resident of the projects whose admittedly racist family refused to let her be bused to a school with children of color talks about how she was shunned and stigmatized for being poor in the school she attended instead. We also learn from a parent who got involved in politics by accident because of the forces of systemic racism that denied quality of education and simple respect. These individuals express their feelings, thoughts, and opinions in a candid, honest and, at times, raw way. The film offers powerful stories of the 1970’s busing/desegregation crisis that changed Boston forever. Most of those in the film have never publicly shared their stories. It documents how this crisis is still felt today. It aspires to prompt a long-overdue honest conversation about public education and racism, classism, and social injustices that have plagued not only the Boston public schools, but the city of Boston as a community.
Personal and intimate testimonials fill the screen. They include a bus driver who delivered children to neighborhoods and schools that didn’t want them. A resident of the projects whose admittedly racist family refused to let her be bused to a school with children of color talks about how she was shunned and stigmatized for being poor in the school she attended instead+. We also learn from a parent who got involved in politics by accident because of the forces of systemic racism that denied quality of education and simple respect. These individuals express their feelings, thoughts, and opinions in a candid, honest and, at times, raw way.
While these stories are powerful, there are many, many more stories is to be told if this period is to be understood. The film is an invitation to a process of truth, learning and change and a much larger discussion of what everyone can learn from this iconic period in Boston. The film is a vehicle to help spark honest reflections, dialogues and conversations across the city that would help lead to truth telling about and learning from this era and ultimately to deepen engagement in and commitment to strengthening Boston’s public school system for all its residents.
For the AP story about the film’s premiere, please click here.
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CALLIOPE PUPPETS WILL BE FEATURED ON SEPTEMBER’S FIRST FRIDAY
(Tuscaloosa, Ala.) Calliope Puppets will be featured at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on September’s First Friday. “The Fisherman and His Wife Reduce, Re-Use, and Recycle” will be presented from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. Appropriate for ages 5-12, the event is free and open to the public.
This performance is made possible by a Gulf States Touring Grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Calliope Puppets re-imagine the Brothers Grimm tale with its classic theme on the consequences of asking for too much. Introduced by the sound of a live, solo fiddle, the audience is transported to a long ago, simpler time – until the all too agreeable fisherman is sent repeatedly to the magic fish by his never satisfied wife. As the fish grants wish after extravagant wish, their world is impacted by their thoughtless greed, until one final wish sends them back to their humble shack. Audience interaction includes singing with as well as advising the puppet characters. The contemporary message encourages thought and discussion on individual responsibility and action in care of the Earth. As the characters ask for too much, the audience, and finally even the characters themselves, learn how their actions have impact on the world around them. Expressive, hand-made hand puppets, lively music and thoughtful audience participation reveal real life issues woven into this humorous and memorable presentation.
Puppeteer Karen Konnerth is, above all, a visual storyteller who has shared both stories and storytelling opportunities worldwide with children and adults through puppet theater performances, puppet workshops, and arts integrated school residencies. Educator workshops include presentations at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and for the U.S. Embassy English Language Specialist Program in Central America, Asia and the Middle East. Karen was awarded the 2011 Puppeteers of America Marjorie Batcheldor McPharlin Award for contributions in the field of education. She also initiated and directed the puppetry component of the Teen Docent Program at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, awarded a 2015 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.
Visit calliopepuppets.com for more information.
In addition to Calliope Puppets, The Arts Council Gallery will host the opening reception for Mary Meares’ exhibit of photography, “Travels Near and Far”, and The University of Alabama Gallery will present the UA/UAB Studio Faculty Exhibit reception. The joint exhibit of 2 and 3-D art features the combined work of the UA and UAB art faculty.
Visit tuscarts.org/firstfriday_artnight to view a list of Tuscaloosa galleries open during First Friday.
The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center is located at 620 Greensboro Avenue in downtown Tuscaloosa. For more information about The Arts Council, Bama Theatre or CAC, patrons should LIKE the Facebook page “The Arts Council – Bama Theatre – Cultural Arts Center” and follow tuscarts on Twitter. Call 205-758-5195 or visit tuscarts.org for further information.
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ENTRIES ACCEPTED IN DECEMBER FOR 2020 STATEWIDE
JUNIOR DOUBLE EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
(Tuscaloosa, Ala.) The Arts Council of Tuscaloosa will present the Annual Junior Double Exposure Juried Photography Exhibit at the Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery in 2020. The competition will be open to any Alabama photographers in grades 6-12.
Entries will be accepted for the first round of judging Dec. 2-8, 2019 by email. A fee of $25 will be charged to enter three images. No entry fees will be refunded. The competition will be exhibited at the Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery Jan. 21-Feb. 9, 2020 with the awards presentation and closing reception on Feb. 9 from 2 -3 p.m.
Awards include a $250 cash award for Best in Show plus four $125 cash awards.
A complete list of requirements, specifications, submission/payment instructions and important dates are currently available on The Arts Council’s website at https://tuscarts.org/competition-doubleexposure.php.
Gallery hours are Mon.-Fri. from 9 a.m.-noon & 1 p.m.-4 p.m. The Bama Theatre is located at 600 Greensboro Avenue in downtown Tuscaloosa with gallery access through the PARA Building adjacent to the theatre.
For more information about The Arts Council or Bama Theatre, patrons should follow and like “The Arts Council – Bama Theatre – Cultural Arts Center” on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram @tuscaloosaartscouncil. Call 205-758-5195 or visit tuscarts.org for further information.
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Zainab Johnson
After her dreams of becoming a WNBA player are cut short by a tragic accident, Zainab Johnson finds her way to the stage, where her smart and edgy storytelling is informed by her experiences growing up in Harlem in an African-American Muslim family.
Scout Durwood
Scout Durwood knows what it's like to be the outsider and has created a place for herself onstage with an act unlike any other; she seamlessly blends original songs, absurd dance and provocative stand-up comedy into a hilarious performance.
After serving three tours of duty on the front lines of Afghanistan and Iraq for the U.S. Army, Raul Sanchez seeks the comfort of comedy to help with his post-traumatic stress disorder; his act highlights the lighter side of everyday life and war.
Rocky Dale Davis
There is more than meets the eye with Alabama native Rocky Dale Davis; people are quick to misjudge him as a typical Southern white boy, but Rocky has a progressive outlook in his comedy.
Parish Sashay
Comic Paris Sashay grows up in a large family in the Washington, D.C., area; Paris' takes on racism, feminism and family slay the crowd at her home club, the DC Improv.
Comic Daniel Webb gives his unique take on being an empowered gay man in the heart of Texas.
Jessa Reed
Jessa Reed is dealt a difficult hand in life that leads her down the path of drug addiction; she gets sober and spins all of her trauma into comedy gold.
Mohanad Elshieky
Mohanad is living the American dream; as an immigrant from the no-fly country of Libya, his observations about American life are razor sharp; while many comics perform for the love of the spotlight, Mohanad is performing for survival.
Rob Christensen
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rob Christensen joins a crew and sells drugs to fit in; to escape that lifestyle, he joins the Air Force, goes to college and finds stand-up, a discovery that changes his life.
Becky Braunstein
As an Alaskan Jew, comic Becky Braunstein hilariously tells stories of her life in the Last Frontier; after a life change prompts her to move from Alaska to Portland, Ore., she takes the mainland by storm.
Shane Mauss
Riddled with depression, Shane Mauss takes a deep, comedic look at taboo subjects like suicide and depression and uses his own personal story as a vehicle for expression.
Mia Jackson
Named Atlanta's best comedian in 2017, Mia Jackson is the country girl next door people want to be best friends with as she delivers hilariously snarky jokes about relatable subjects.
Working as muscle for a murderous Nevada crime ring, Miles Daly decides to change professions and become a Hollywood movie producer.
Just Another Immigrant
Romesh Ranganathan is one of the most popular stand-ups in the UK, and he takes on the task of uprooting his entire family and moving to Los Angeles. Ranganathan's family includes his wife, three kids, his Sri Lankan mother, and his eccentric uncle. Follow the family as it seeks to rebuild life from scratch, with all of the obstacles surrounding an overseas move. Ranganathan also books himself a daring gig in which he needs to sell out a 6,000 seat theater in just three months.
Veteran writer and comedian David Steinberg sits down with comics and other entertainers for one-on-one interviews in this series that delves into the stars' lives and careers. Steinberg's guests -- a list that includes such luminaries as Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Don Rickles and Jonathan Winters -- share career-defining moments, personal struggles and the idols who inspired them. These intimate interviews give viewers a glimpse into what makes legendary comedians who they are, both personally and professionally. The hard-working Steinberg not only hosts the show but also serves as an executive producer and directs each episode.
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It's 1989 and 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper has skipped four grades to start high school along with his less-intellectual older brother. As he struggles to be understood by his family, classmates and neighbors, his mother arms him with the best tool she can come up with: reminding bullies his dad is the football coach and his brother is on the team. His twin sister doesn't share his exceptional mind, but she has a much clearer vision of what life has in store for the young genius. Jim Parsons, who plays the adult version of Sheldon on "The Big Bang Theory," narrates.
Iain Armitage
Zoe Perry
Montana Jordan
Raegan Revord
Matt Hobby
A Live Chicken, a Fried Chicken and Holy Matrimony
George Sr. and Meemaw struggle to manage the Cooper household; Mary plans Pastor Jeff's wedding.
Quirky Eggheads and Texas Snow Globes
After Dr. Sturgis experiences a nervous breakdown, Mary worries Sheldon is headed down a similar path; Georgie discovers he has a knack for sales.
Mensa-fied best friends and roommates Leonard and Sheldon, physicists who work at the California Institute of Technology, may be able to tell everybody more than they want to know about quantum physics, but getting through most basic social situations, especially ones involving women, totally baffles them. How lucky, then, that babe-alicious waitress/aspiring actress Penny moves in next door. Frequently seen hanging out with Leonard and Sheldon are friends and fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. Will worlds collide? Does Einstein theorize in the woods?
Bob, a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit, unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse while recovering from a heart attack and sets his sights on winning her over. Undaunted by Abishola's lack of initial interest or the vast differences in their backgrounds -- she's originally from Nigeria -- Bob is determined to win Abishola's heart, in this comedic examination of immigrant life in America. From award-winning creator, executive producer and writer Chuck Lorre.
In the 1980s, geeky Adam uses a video camera to document his family's crazy life. His mother, Beverly, is overprotective and lacks boundaries, while his dad has a hot temper and finds it difficult to parent without screaming. Rounding out the clan are Adam's terrifying sister, Erica; his older brother, Barry, who has middle-child syndrome; and the family's beloved grandfather, Al "Pops" Solomon. Pops is responsible for wild antics, including offering drinks to Barry and teaching Adam about the ways of love -- which create more chaos in an already high-strung family.
Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the '80s and the constant dilemmas she and the family members had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves. Bow's parents, Paul and Alicia, decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family. As her parents struggle with the challenges of their new life, Bow and her siblings navigate a mainstream school in which they're perceived as neither black nor white. The family's experiences illuminate the challenges of finding one's own identity when the rest of the world can't decide where you belong.
The wealthy town of Westport, Conn., is full of cookie-cutter mommies and their seemingly perfect offspring, but the members of the Otto family can't be counted among them. Confident housewife Katie Otto shares a home with her husband, Jeff, and their three children Taylor, Harrison and Anna-Kat, and while she loves them all dearly, she recognizes they probably aren't going to land themselves in a magazine spread anytime soon. The matriarch knows her family is beautifully flawed, and she's far from sorry.
After a sudden turn of events, the Conner family is forced to face the daily struggles of life in a way they never have before. This iconic family, Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J., demonstrates that laughter, conversation and love can overcome anything. The family grapples with issues include parenting, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging, and in-laws. Through it all, the fights, the coupon cutting, the hand-me-downs, the breakdowns -- with love, humor and perseverance, the family prevails.
When Dave Johnson and his family arrive from Michigan, they're unfazed that their new dream home is located in a community quite different from their previous small town. However, their opinionated next-door neighbor Calvin Butler is wary of the newcomers, certain that they'll disrupt the culture on the block. Dave realizes that fitting in with the new community is more complex than he had expected, but if he can find a way to connect with Calvin, there's an excellent chance of making the new neighborhood a great place to live.
Even Stevens
A seventh-grade misfit, played by pre-"Transformers" Shia LaBeouf, struggles to find his niche both in school and in his seemingly perfect family. He does his utmost to infuriate his overachieving older sister, Ren, and is frequently involved in disastrous escapades, from which his best pal Alan usually rescues him.
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The Good Wife Season 4 Finale: Alicia’s Big Decision
The season 4 finale of The Good Wife aired last night and it’s safe to say that the landscape for next year is going to look very different. The big gamble that Alicia has taken with her career is going to have a huge impact and I for one am thrilled by this move. While it is clear where Alicia will be working when The Good Wife returns in the fall, it is more ambiguous when it comes to matters of the heart. The first half of the season was a bit of a let down with the story involving Kalinda’s ex-husband, more financial peril for Lockhart Gardner and underutilizing the wonderful Maura Tierney as Peter’s big rival. Thankfully the ship has been steered and the latter half has been a return to form as they have created conflict at work and with the love triangle that has never threatened to overshadow the rest of the story.
The case of the week in the finale was linked to the election and involved a lot of running around, switching sides and sleep deprivation and in the end the result of the case had no impact on the victor; the polling data had been incorrect and Peter won by a much bigger margin than expected. The outcome had no real bearing on the results but it did give an opportunity for Alicia and Will to discuss the kiss that has reignited past feelings. This discussion was unresolved and ended with more intense smouldering and making out, part of which was interrupted by Diane and I’m sure she has some thoughts about this hook-up. It’s this sexual desire that leads to Alicia’s decision and when she heads back to her apartment away from Peter’s victory party it’s easy to assume that she is meeting Will as she nervously double fills her glass of wine. We have already ended one season on Alicia and Will getting together and so I was pleasantly surprised to see who was knocking on the door.
It’s Cary! Alicia tells him that she wants to be part of the new firm and Florrick, Agos and Associates is a go. With Alicia on board it means that they get a discounted office space (but also have to provide Colin Sweeney with free legal service for two years and so they’re definitely making a deal with the devil) and I would imagine some of Alicia’s other clients will come with her. What they don’t have is Kalinda and I bet Cary will regret having that conversation with Robyn (though I really like Robyn so I hope she is back next year). Over at Lockhart Gardner they will be losing Diane too as with Peter’s victory this now makes her a State Supreme Court judge and so it will be looking a little bit empty on the employee front. Essentially it’s Will, Kalinda and David Lee; now that sounds like a fun trio.
What does sound like a lot of fun is the potential conflict that will come from this move and the thought of Alicia and Cary in court going up against Lockhart Gardner has me clapping my hands with glee (which makes typing this sentence harder). We have seen how in tune Alicia and Will are when they are working on a case together and I’m sure it will get just as explosive when they’re on opposing sides. We saw this in the mock trial and this episode featured the screaming argument that led to the passionate kiss.
Where does this leave them romantically? This decision to leave the firm and join Cary is partially motivated by this renewed sexual tension with Will as it has been distracting her and putting her in kind of a fever dream at times. By putting physical distance between her and Will it means that this temptation might be reduced. Alicia is pushing him away by doing something that will hurt him both professionally and personally and he will probably see this as a huge betrayal.
This move isn’t a random flight of fancy and Alicia’s dissatisfaction with how things are run over at Lockhart Gardner has been brewing since they were all offered equity partner and then had it taken away. Yes Alicia got made a partner, but since she has been sat in the management room she has seen how ugly things can be when it comes to the big decisions and this combined with her Will situation means leaving is the smartest option.
In one respect Alicia has made the choice to stay with Peter and they definitely are comfortable and relaxed in the conversation in the hotel room after Peter’s victory. When we return they could be living together as husband and wife after renewing their vows, but Will is still going to be there even if they’re sat at different tables in the courtroom. Will is also in possession of video evidence that shows that some of Peter’s people did in fact tamper with votes and another scandal would surely end Peter’s political career. This evidence would definitely hurt the two people who Will cares about the most; Diane and Alicia. It could end up being like the voicemail of love and dangle there as the elephant in the room that we know could bring everything crashing down. Will really doesn’t care about Peter, but I’m pretty sure he would do anything for Diane and Alicia even if Alicia has shown that she isn’t always loyal to Will.
The phrase game changer gets used too often when it comes to television plots, but on this occasion it feels appropriate as this decision by Alicia will change the whole dynamic of the show and I am really excited as to the new wealth of storylines that will come from this shake-up.
What did you think of The Good Wife season 4 finale? Are you looking forward to seeing Alicia against Will next year?
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Out of the Box: Look of the Week | TV Ate My Wardrobe - May 3, 2013
[…] points go to the bold lip color (which I now really want – no surprise there). This was an excellent way to end the season and I cannot wait to see what the costume department brings us with all the […]
Repeating the Cycle on The Good Wife | TV Ate My Wardrobe - April 13, 2015
[…] a fair and just manner has failed. The device placed in those machines almost circled back to the voting fraud from Peter’s election, fraud which Will knew about but an investigation that died along with him. Peter was placed in the […]
Serving Up Doubt on The Good Wife | TV Ate My Wardrobe - November 9, 2015
[…] classic self sabotaging Alicia; this is the woman who in part started her own firm as a way to cure her dizzying and mind clouding Will Gardner feelings. There is an obvious spark between Alicia and Jason and this could get […]
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Journal of Translational Medicine
Co-evolution of cancer microenvironment reveals distinctive patterns of gastric cancer invasion: laboratory evidence and clinical significance
Chun-Wei Peng1,
Xiu-Li Liu1,
Xiong Liu1 &
Yan Li1
Journal of Translational Medicine volume 8, Article number: 101 (2010) Cite this article
Cancer invasion results from constant interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment. Major components of the cancer microenvironment are stromal cells, infiltrating inflammatory cells, collagens, matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) and newly formed blood vessels. This study was to determine the roles of MMP-9, MMP-2, type IV collagen, infiltrating macrophages and tumor microvessels in gastric cancer (GC) invasion and their clinico-pathological significance.
Paraffin-embedded tissue sections from 37 GC patients were studied by Streptavidin-Peroxidase (SP) immunohistochemical technique to determine the levels of MMP-2, MMP-9, type IV collagen, macrophages infiltration and microvessel density (MVD). Different invasion patterns were delineated and their correlation with major clinico-pathological information was explored.
MMP2 expression was higher in malignant gland compared to normal gland, especially nearby the basement membrane (BM). High densities of macrophages at the interface of cancer nests and stroma were found where BM integrity was destroyed. MMP2 expression was significantly increased in cases with recurrence and distant metastasis (P = 0.047 and 0.048, respectively). Infiltrating macrophages were correlated with serosa invasion (P = 0.011) and TNM stage (P = 0.001). MVD was higher in type IV collagen negative group compared to type IV collagen positive group (P = 0.026). MVD was related to infiltrating macrophages density (P = 0.040). Patients with negative MMP9 expression had better overall survival (OS) compared to those with positive MMP9 expression (Median OS 44.0 vs 13.5 mo, P = 0.036). Median OS was significantly longer in type IV collagen positive group than negative group (Median OS 25.5 vs 10.0 mo, P = 0.044). The cumulative OS rate was higher in low macrophages density group than in high macrophages density group (median OS 40.5 vs 13.0 mo, P = 0.056). Median OS was significantly longer in low MVD group than high MVD group (median OS 39.0 vs 8.5 mo, P = 0.001). The difference of disease-free survival (DFS) between low MVD group and high MVD group was not statistically significant (P = 0.260). Four typical patterns of cancer invasion were identified based on histological study of the cancer tissue, including Washing pattern, Ameba-like pattern, Spindle pattern and Linear pattern.
Proteolytic enzymes MMP9, MMP2 and macrophages in stroma contribute to GC progression by facilitating the angiogenesis. Cancer invasion patterns may help predict GC metastasis.
Tumor progression represents the greatest threat to patients with gastric cancer (GC). The 5-year survival is significantly decreased from over 80% in early GC to below 28% in advanced GC [1]. Over the past 25 years, the majority of cancer studies have focused on functional consequences of activating and/or inactivating mutations in critical genes and signal pathways that regulate cell proliferation and/or cell death as cancer is often defined as a disease of cell proliferation [2]. However, such studies have largely ignored the fact that interactions between cancer cells and stroma are critical for growth and invasion of epithelial tumors [3]. It has been recognized that invasion is regulated not only by intrinsic genetic changes in cancer cells as 'initiators' of carcinogenesis, but also regulated by stroma cell as 'promoter' [4, 5]. A seminal event in cancer progression is the ability of cancer cells to mobilize the necessary machinery to break surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM) barriers while orchestrating a host stroma response that ultimately supports tissue-invasive and metastatic processes [6]. Proteolytic ECM remodeling is considered both prerequisite and consequence of invasive cell migration [7]. The cancer cell and stroma both modulate the process of invasion by remodeling the ECM with tumor-associated proteases such as matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs), which subsequently breakdown proteins of the ECM such as collagens and release the cryptic information [8, 9]. Many studies have focused on the role of extracellular proteases. It was supposed that cancer cells break through the ECM barriers and invade surrounding tissues in two fashions: a protease-independent and Rho kinase (ROCK)-dependent amoeboid migration mode and a protease-dependent and ROCK-independent mesenchymal migration mode [10]. Further more, the process of pericellular proteolysis leads to ECM degradation and realignment during cell movement and integrate it into established steps of cell migration [11].
It has long been recognized that the behavior of tumor systems is complex, which means that understanding the individual component like pericellular proteolysis in more detail does not necessarily explain the collective behavior of many individuals, and thus usually evokes Aristotle's quote in that 'The whole is more than the sum of its parts' [12]. Therefore, instead of investigating a single component of cancer matrix, this study focused on the whole tumor microenvironment related to GC invasion, by evaluating tissue destructive proteolytic enzymes MMP9 and MMP2, tissue barriers against invasion like type IV collagen, tumor infiltrating macrophages, and tumor angiogenesis, all of which are essential components of tumor stroma and involved in the process of invasion (Figure 1.). Furthermore, the interactions between cancer cells and tumor stroma termed as 'invasion pattern' corresponding to the dynamic stroma remodeling were also delineated so as to formulate new concepts on cancer invasion at the histological level.
Co-evolution of tumor cells and their microenvironment in cancer invasions. Both of tumor cells and their microenvironment are involved in cancer invasions. Invasion is the first observable step of cancer progression process that tumor cells cross the ECM barrier by proteolytic enzyme such as MMPs after acquiring invasive phenotypes (upper graph). In addition, tumor infiltrating macrophages and type IV collagen also play an important role in cancer invasion. In this process, cancer invasion networks capture "temporal evolution" and "spatial evolution" between tumor cells and microenvironment before mechanical macrotrack can be observed as stroma remodelling at the histological level (lower graph).
Patients and tissue samples
Tumor specimens were obtained from 37 GC patients at the Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University (Wuhan, China) from January 2004 to January 2008. Written informed consent was obtained from the patients and the study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. Major clinico-pathological features of these patients were listed in Table 1. The patients underwent curative gastrectomy with D2 lymph nodes dissection for stages I to III cases and palliative surgery for some stage IV cases. Tumor staging was based on TNM classification system of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging criteria (version 6). All patients beyond stage II received platinum and 5-flurouracil (5-FU) based adjuvant chemotherapy beginning 21 days after surgery. The last follow-up was on December 1, 2009.
Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics in relation to MMP9, MMP2, Type IV collagen and Macrophages immunoreactivity
Immunolocalization of MMP9, MMP2, type IV Collagen, macrophages and CD105 were performed using streptavidin-biotin peroxidase complex method (SP). Briefly, tissue slides were first deparaffinized in xylene, ethanol and water, then the slides were pretreated in 0.01 M citrate buffer (pH 6.0) for MMP9, MMP2, macrophages or 1 mM EDTA (pH 9.0) for CD105, and heated in a microwave oven (98°C) for 10 min. For staining, endogenous peroxidase activity was blocked by immersing in 3% H2O2 in methanol for 10 min to prevent any nonspecific binding. After blocked with 2% BSA, the slides were incubated with the primary antibodies for MMP9 (sc13595, Santa Cruz, USA, dilution 1/300), MMP2 (sc-6840, Santa Cruz, USA, dilution 1/300), type IV collagen (ab6586, Abcam, England, dilution 1/300), macrophages (MA1-38069, ABR, USA, dilution 1/300), and CD105 (sc-23838, Santa Cruz, USA, dilution 1/300) for 90 min at 37°C, then incubated with the corresponding secondary antibody for 15 min at 37°C, and finally incubated with peroxidase-labeled streptavidin (Maixin Biotechnology, China) for 15 min. The reaction products were visualized with diaminobenzidine (DAKO, Denmark). All slides were counterstained with haematoxylin. As a negative control, primary antibody was replaced with Tris-buffered saline on sections that were proven to be positive for MMP9, MMP2, type IV collagen, macrophages and CD105 in preliminary experiments.
Evaluation of Immunohistochemical Variables
Positive cells were stained brownish granules. The infiltrating macrophages were counted in five high power fields selected at the tumor invasion front, and the mean cells counts were documented. Because CD105 is a specific marker of newly formed and activated small blood vessels, the MVD was calculated as the average count from the three hotspot fields of view and used for analysis of angiogenesis. The percentage of immunoreactive positive cells and intensity for MMP9, MMP2, type IV collagen in GC were assessed. All slides were independently observed by two investigators. The staining score of each slide was calculated by staining intensity and percentage of positive cancer cells. The staining intensity was scored as 1 (very weak), 2 (weak), 3 (moderate), 4 (intense) and 5 (very intense). Positive rate score of cancer cells was: 0-10% was recorded as 0; 10-30% was recorded as 1; 30-50% was recorded as 2; 50-75% was recorded as 3; > 75% were recorded as 4. The expression of MMP9, MMP2 and type IV collagen, and macrophages infiltration in each slide were scored as the sum of intensity and positive rate scores. Negative was defined as the score ≤ 3 for MMP9, MMP2 and type IV collagen.
Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS software version 13.0 (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL). Cumulative survival was calculated by the Kaplan-Meier method and analyzed by the Log-rank test. A secondary analysis was performed to assess the relationship among immunohistochemical variables and clinicopathological characteristics. For the comparison of individual variables, Fisher's exact test, t test and Mann-Whitney Test were conducted as appropriate. Two-tailed P < 0.05 was judged to be significant.
Immunohistochemical characteristics
Immunohistochemical analysis showed the linearity of type IV collagen was disrupted indicating BM destruction (Figure 2A). The characteristic distribution pattern of MMP9 was diffused expression in tumor tissue, although small areas of scattered expression were also observed (Figure 2B). Furthermore, MMP2 expression was higher in malignant gland compared to normal gland, especially nearby the BM (Figure 2C). High density of macrophages was observed at the juncture of cancer cells and stroma where BM integrity of gastric gland had been broken (Figure 2D). CD105 was expressed in the endothelium of blood vessels, but not in GC cells. The number of CD105-positive vessels was increased at the tumor front (Figure 2E). And CD105 is highly expressed on proliferating endothelial cells of both the peri- and intratumoral blood vessels (Figure 2F).
Positive staining of type IV collagen, MMP9, MMP2, macrophages, and microvessels. A. BM was revealed by type IV Collagen staining. B. MMP9 was secreted by GC cells and mesenchymal. C. MMP2 expression is higher in malignant gland versus normal gland, especially nearby the BM. D. Macrophages are mainly located in the margin of the tumor nest, and phagocytosis of cancer cells by macrophage was observed (red arrow). E. New microvessels were increased at the tumor front. And CD105 is highly expressed on proliferating endothelial cells of both the peri- and intratumoral blood vessels (red arrow). Magnifications: A, B, C, D, E, F: 100×; Inserts in lower left corner show the sub-cellular localization of immunostaining at higher magnification (400×). All tissues were adenocarcinoma of GC.
Correlation of Immunohistochemical Variables with clinicopathologic features
Serosa invasion, lymph node status, TNM stages, recurrence status and distant metastasis were the variables investigated in this study, all of which were not related to the level of MMP9 and IV collagen, but IV collagen expression was significantly decreased in older patients (P = 0.042). MMP2 expressions were significantly increased in cases with recurrence and distant metastasis (P = 0.047 and 0.048, respectively). Moreover, the expression of MMP2 expression was highest in distant recurrence and lowest in local recurrence (P = 0.024). macrophages infiltrating level was significantly higher in cases with serosa-invasion (21.6 ± 8.0) than those without serosa-invasion (12.7 ± 9.2) (P = 0.011); and higher in advanced GC (22.6 ± 8.1) than early GC (12.8 ± 7.1) (P = 0.001). Moreover, MVD was higher in high density macrophages group than in low density group (P = 0.040). Lymph node metastasis and TNM stage were correlated with MVD (P values are 0.019 and 0.010, respectively). Especially, MVD was higher in type IV collagen negative group than in positive group (P = 0.026). Major information was summarized in table 1 and table 2.
Table 2 Analysis of tumor angiogenesis related factors
Analysis of factors related to overall survival (OS) and Disease-Free Survival (DFS)
At the time of last follow-up, 30 patients died, 1 survived with disease and 6 survived free of disease. The median OS and median DFS were 19.0 and 10.0 months, respectively.
With regard to traditional clinico-pathological features, OS was correlated with serosa invasion, distant metastasis and TNM stages (P = 0.024, 0.021 and 0.009, respectively); and DFS was related to serosa invasion and TNM stages (P = 0.038 and 0.006, respectively). With regard to key molecular features in this study, the OS was longer in MMP9 negative group (44.0 months) than in MMP9 positive group (13.5 months) (P = 0.036), in type IV collagen positive group (25.5 months) than negative group (10.0 months) (P = 0.044), and in MMP2 negative group (22.0 months) than in MMP2 positive group (14.0 months) (P = 0.867), although the differences in MMP2 expression did not reach statistical significance. The OS was shorter in patients with high density of infiltrating macrophages (13.0 months) than those with in low density (40.5 months), but the significance was only marginal (P = 0.056). The OS was significantly shorter with High MVD than those with low MVD (P = 0.001).
In terms of DFS, the study did not reveal any correlation between DFS with expression levels of MMP9, MMP2, type IV collagen, or MVD. In contrast, DFS was longer in low macrophages density group (37.0 months) than in high density group (9.5 months) (P = 0.013). Key results were summarized in Table 3 and Figure 3.
Table 3 The analyses of factors regarding OS and disease-free survival
Kaplan-Meier analysis of overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). The median OS and DFS for 37 patients overall and 29 patients without distant metastasis were 19.0 and 10.0 months, respectively (A, E). GC patients with negative MMP9 expression (-) displayed better OS (B, upper curve) compared to those with positive MMP9 expression (B, lower curve) (P = 0.036, Log-rank test). Type IV collagen is a protective factor for GC patients (C, P = 0.044, Log-rank test). High MVD may predict poor OS (D, P = 0.001, Log-rank test). Low density of infiltrating Macrophages showed a tendency towards favorable DFS. Patients in low density of infiltrating macrophages group expression displayed improve DFS (F, upper curve) compared to patients with high density group expression (F, lower curve) (P = 0.013, Log-rank test).
Patterns of invasion
Four typical invasion patterns were observed at the histological level. 1. Washing pattern. Cancer cells erase ECM everywhere without foci degraded matrix, like wave breaking the dike on the beach (Figure 4A &4B). 2. Ameba-like pattern. After breaking the collagen, cancer cells invade ECM along the interspace of collagen on both sides to form an Ameba-like ulcer (Figure 4C). 3. Spindle pattern. Cancer cells proliferate with polarity, and the collagen at the tumor-invasion front is hydrolyzed to overcome the ECM barrier, forming a potential invasive tunnel (Figure 4D). 4. Linear pattern. Cancer cells hydrolyze the ECM at one focal point and the invasion trace displays as a line (Figure 4E, F).
Patterns of GC invasion. (A, B) Washing pattern: cancer cells encroach extracllular matrix everywhere, like wave breaking the dike on the beach. (C) Ameba-like pattern: after breaking the collagen, cancer cells invade ECM along the interspace of collagen on both sides to form an Ameba-like ulcer. (D) Spindle pattern: cancer cells proliferate with polarity, and the collagen at the tumor-invasion front is hydrolyzed to overcome the ECM barrier, forming a potential invasive tunnel. (E, F) Linear pattern: cancer cells digest the ECM main along a line. (G, H) Type IV collagen was abruptly degraded at a point, several cells were migrating (G). Though type IV collagen was not broken, degradation was obvious. Magnifications: A: 200×, B-H: 400×. Red arrows present the trend of invasion. Black arrows indicate the breaking points of IV collagen by hydrolysis. All tissues were adenocarcinoma of GC.
Invasion analysis observed that type IV collagen was abruptly degraded at a point, through which only a few cancer cells were crossed (Figure 4G). Invasion maybe have already occurred even though type IV collagen was not broken because the degradation became obvious (Figure 4H).
Invasion is the first observable step of cancer progression. Cancer invasion occurs in a particular context of tissue microenvironment which is under constant evolution largely due to the interactions of cancer cells and the surrounding stromal cells [13, 14]. However, such co-evolution of cancer-microenvironment has long been under appreciated. Most studies focused on molecular level gene mutations and signal pathways in cancer cells during tumor progression, while other studies focused on TNM staging at the clinical level [15, 16]. The molecular level studies focused on the "temporal evolution" of cancer molecules, while the clinical studies focused on the "spatial evolution" of cancer tissues. The underlying theory behind these studies is to focus on cancer itself. A major drawback of such study, however, is the lack of appreciation of the "temporal and spatial co-evolution of cancer and its environment", which is the real context of tumor progression [17].
It is based on such understanding that this study focused on major ingredients of tumor microenvironment, particularly the cancer invasion front, as well as cancer cells. These components included in this study were MMPs and type IV collagen, two major factors for and against cancer invasion, and TAMs which are double-edge swords facilitating or deterring cancer invasion. Moreover, tumor angiogenesis was also evaluated because provides potential routes for tumor dissemination as a result of the co-evolution of cancer microencironment and cancer cells and promoted by those components.
MMPs are major proteolytic enzymes to breakdown ECM during cancer invasion. Traditionally, extracellular proteolysis and BM breaching are two absolute requirements for cancer invasion, while type IV collagen forms physical barrier against cancer invasion [18]. High levels of proteases facilitate ECM degrading, thereby creating a path for the migration of cancer cells. As a result of this path through the ECM, the invading cancer cells could gain access to vasculature and lymphatic systems [19]. This progress would rely on invadopodia which are membrane protrusions that localize enzymes required for ECM degradation, and MMP9 would be required in the initial steps of invadopodia formation [20]. In support to this theory, this study revealed high expression of MMP9 in advanced GC tumor tissue, especially nearby the BM. Although the difference of MMP2 expression is significant in terms of the recurrence and metastatic status, the MMP9 expression was not associated with tumor stage, lymph node status, metastasis status, recurrence or not. Similar unexpected result was showed in terms of the relationship of type IV collagen and tumor progression.
Tumor microenvironment plays dynamic and different roles in different stages of cancer progression, which could partly explain these unexpected results. It has been evident that although cancer cells and some traditionally proteins account for invasion and metastasis are no different, the microenvironments at the primary tumor site, the invasive front and the metastatic site are different [21]. Although no statistically significant result was showed regarding of the relationship of type IV collagen and tumor progression, OS was significantly improved in type IV collagen positive group compared to negative group (the median OS was 25.5 months and 10.0 months, respectively, P = 0.044). Further more, GC patients with negative MMP9 expression displayed improved overall survival compared to patients with positive MMP9 expression (Median OS was 44.0 and 13.5 months, respectively. P = 0.036). Nevertheless, the roles of proteases in cancer are now known to be much broader than simply degradation of ECM during tumor invasion and metastasis. The proteolysis of ECM by MMPs may reveal cryptic matrix binding sites, MMPs can act as tumor suppressor by revealing cryptic matrix binding sites, releasing matrix-bound growth factors and activating a variety of cell surface molecules [22]. For instance, angiostatin and tumstatin are angiogenesis inhibitors generated from the NC1 domain of the 3 chain of type IV collagen [23]. Thus, we supposed that MMPs-mediated degradation of BM and ECM can act as both positive and negative regulators of tumor progression which resulted in the unexpected results predicted in the traditional view because of the change of the tumor stroma during the cancer progression.
Macrophages are versatile, plastic inflammatory cells that respond to environmental signals with polarized genetic and functional programs. The presence and significance of macrophages infiltration in developing neoplasms is now well recognized, and infiltrating macrophages play an important role in tumor cell invasion into surrounding normal tissues [24, 25], including expression of growth factors, matrix proteases, promotion of angiogenesis and suppression of adaptive immunity, all of which influence the ECM and hypoxia, two non-cellular components that potently influence stromal-epithelial interactions [21, 26] (Figure 1). A protumoral role of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) is consistent with studies from humans, wherein a high density/number of TAMs is associated with poor prognosis in different cancers (cervix, prostate, breast, bladder) [27, 28]. In agreement with these results, our study also found that macrophages infiltration was correlated with serosa invasion, distant metastasis and TNM stage. The OS was longer in low macrophages density group than in high macrophages density group, although the level of significance was only marginal (P = 0.056). Additionally, the cumulative disease-free survival (DFS) rate was significantly higher in low macrophages density group than in high macrophages density group. We found that the interface of tumor nest and stroma is the main location of infiltrating macrophages in gastric cancer, and phagocytosis of cancer cells by macrophage, indicating the coexistence of M1 and M2 phenotypes in GC tissues.
In cancer, tumor cells require new blood vessels for sustenance, local growth and escape to distant sits through hematogenous spreading and metastasis [29]. No matter the mechanism of the invasion, angiogenesis maybe the common last step of invasion in primary tumor environment. In our study, tumor angiogenesis was studied by calculating the MVD, and the MVD was higher in patients with GC lymph node metastasis and advanced GC (P = 0.019 and 0.010, respectively). Interestingly, our results indicate that type IV collagen and macrophages were the negative and positive factors for tumor angiogenesis, respectively, in keeping with what we have mentioned above. In the early stage, MMPs destroy the ECM and established a potential pathway for cancer cell migration but the revealed molecule from type IV collagen inhibits the tumor angiogenesis [30]. Whereas in the advanced stage, type IV collagen was almost destroyed and no molecules that inhibit tumor angiogenesis were released, that's why MVD was higher in type IV collagen negative group than in positive group (P = 0.026). It has been well established that M2 type macrophages can promote the tumor angiogenesis [31], and we found that MVD was higher in high density macrophages group than in low density group (P = 0.040). Histomorphology analysis also indicates that the locations of infiltrating macrophages and MVD are accordant (Figure 2E and Figure 2F). One limitation of this study, however, is that it did not differentiate between M1 and M2 cells. Further work in this direction would be more informative.
The current study suggests that GC invasion is influenced by co-evolution of cancer cells and their microenvironment, and histological study on tumor tissue can directly show such interactions. Based one our observations, we analyzed invasion patterns in an attempt to characterize the invasive behaviours of GC beyond the simplistic gene mutation or overall TNM stage, whose values were limited for ignoring the interaction of cancer cells and stroma. Rather, this study focused on the micro-ecology system of cancer invasion front (Figure 1), and identified four invasive patterns, including Washing pattern, Ameba-like pattern, Spindle pattern, and Liner pattern, each representing distinctive interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment. In the Washing pattern, successive waves of cancer cells may induce progressive conditioning of the microenvironment to facilitate cancer cells spreading along a plane rather than deep penetration. In the Ameba-like pattern, extensive tissue destruction may have occurred in the adjacent tissue even though the local tumor border appears intact. Therefore, invasive tunnels may have already developed beneath the seemly intact tumor margin. In the Spindle pattern, simultaneous coordinated polarization of cancer cells at the leading edge of tumor front may cooperate in invasion by constantly changing the local microenvironment. In linear pattern, a few coordinated "pioneering cancer cells" form deep penetrating invasion tunnels along a line, paving the way for follower cancer cells. Among these four patterns, washing pattern may correlate with best prognosis as crossing ECM barriers occurs relatively late. In contrast, Linear pattern may relate to the worst prognosis because cancer cells may have already deeply penetrated the ECM in spite of the density of the surrounding type IV collagen, and such cancer may have already become a potentially systemic disease even it is diagnosed as early stage by conventional pathology. However, the significance of invasion patterns was not fully evaluated in this study because of the limited sample size, which is the major limitation of our study. Large scale studies are needed to further develop this concept.
In summary, proteolytic enzymes MMP9, MMP2 and macrophages in stroma contribute to GC progression by facilitating tumor angiogenesis. The co-evolution of tumor cells and their microenvironment results in four patterns of tumor invasion, which could be useful for new prognostic models and novel treatment strategies.
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This work is supported by New-Century Excellent Talents Supporting Program of the Ministry of Education of China (No. NCET-04-0669), Foundation for he Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China (FANEDD-200464) and The Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20621502, 20921062).
Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behaviors & Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center, Wuhan, 430071, China
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PCW selects the research topic, conducts the pathological examination, statistical analysis and writes manuscript. LXL and LX conduct the pathological examination. LY conceives the study project, organizes the whole study process, provides financial support, and finalizes the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
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April 19, 2018 April 19, 2018 Posted in California, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Trail RunningTagged California, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Northern California, Pacific Northwest, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Trail Running, Winter
Location: Northern California
Start: Prairie Creek Visitor Center; Stout Grove Trailhead
Distance: 11.5 miles (Prairie Creek); 5.6 miles (Jedediah Smith)
Duration: 2 hours 25 minutes at Prairie Creek (breaks not included); 1 hour 17 minutes at Jedediah Smith (breaks not included)
Type: Balloon route (Prairie Creek); out-and-back (Jedediah Smith)
References: Redwood Hikes
My eyelids flickered open slowly as I sat curled up in the front passenger seat, huddled beneath the fleece blanket that lives in my car. Peering out the window, I realized we were close. It’s not called the Redwood Highway for nothing. Our post-work, all night commute was finally coming to an end. Soon, I wouldn’t be gazing through a glass pane at the primeval giants lining the road. Soon, we’d be able to step out of the car and run amongst them.
Our weekend run-cation in Northern California was a relatively spontaneous one. I was originally supposed to host a snow camping event for PNW Outdoor Women and Mack was registered to run a race in the Chuckanuts. Unfortunately, an impending winter storm forced me to cancel my event and Mack’s race was canceled due to a fatal plane crash on the course. Weather was looking horrendous throughout Washington and Oregon, so it only seemed logical to head south.
Miners’ Ridge and James Irvine Loop
Our first adventure of the day was exploring Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, a place that holds a particularly special place in my heart. Back in 2012, when I packed up my Honda Civic and made the drive up from Yorba Linda to Portland to move in with Mack, this was where I stopped on my second day of driving. Having just graduated from college and uprooted myself from my family, I was filled with anxiety about the new chapter I was about to embark on. Those hours spent in Prairie Creek brought a sense of peace and stillness that I hadn’t experienced in months. I was excited to be back to share the wonder of this place with Mack.
We started the loop shortly after sunrise while the park was still quiet and were immediately greeted by some of the most magnificent redwoods right outside of the visitor center! The golden grasses of Elk Prairie across the way were soon out of sight as we delved deeper into an ancient forest of redwood and spruce via James Irvine Trail. The forecast for the day called for rain, but Prairie Creek remained steadfastly sunny. The light bursting through the tree canopy only added to its idyllic quality.
Can you see the profile of a bearded face?
Trees along James Irvine Trail
Ironically enough, the most magical part of Prairie Creek had nothing to do with the coastal redwoods! After a few miles on James Irvine, we descended into Fern Canyon, following Home Creek’s narrow path through towering walls densely coated in a lush layer of ferns and mosses. We had an absolute blast scrambling over downed trees and splashing through the creek (which served as the only trail surface at times). My 90’s nerd-child self delighted in the fact that I was getting to channel my inner Julianne Moore/Sarah Harding and explore a scene from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, too! The vertical walls became lower and lower until we were eventually spit out onto the grasslands of Gold Bluffs Beach.
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned in the past, I hate running on the beach. Sand is one of my least favorite surfaces in general. I tried to convince Mack that it would be more fun to just do an out-and-back and return the way we came (mostly because I wanted to see Fern Canyon again). Unlike me, Mack is more of a beach person and enjoys getting his ass kicked trying to run in the sand. He encouraged me to continue the short 1.5 miles to Miners’ Ridge Trail. We were only there for the morning afterall. Wouldn’t it be nice to see another part of the park?
Entering Fern Canyon
I think I recognize this section from The Lost World
Gold Bluffs Beach
These elk appeared to be in a heated battle just moments earlier
I’d naively expected Miners’ Ridge Trail to be similar to–if not a spitting image of–the James Irvine section, but it felt surprisingly different, possessing a greater air of mystery even. Everything seemed darker and more dense, from the trees themselves to the lush underbrush covering the forest floor. The trail does sit a bit higher in elevation than James Irvine and spends less time along a creek. I imagine this contributes to its pleasantly contrasting qualities. We were definitely happy to have experienced a different section of the park as opposed to completing a return along the same route. Back at the car, the crowds were starting to pick up. After a small snack/early lunch we were back on the road headed to our next running destination.
Trees along Miners’ Ridge Trail
A particularly gnarled old-growth tree on Miners’ Ridge Trail
Beautiful giants right outside the visitor center
Stout Grove and Mill Creek Trail
As per usual, we’d taken longer than expected to complete our first route. In addition, we also took a wrong turn on the way to the Stout Grove Trailhead and had to backtrack. We didn’t arrive until after 1 pm. We originally planned to do a longer route here along Mill Creek to reach Nickerson Ranch Trail and the Boy Scout Tree Trail. Although we ended up cutting the mileage by over half, the small amount of the park that we did explore was still enough to experience its beauty and quiet majesty.
We started out in the Stout Grove, a short stroll from the parking area. Its not known for having the tallest trees of the Redwood State Parks, but its certainly an impressive and unbelievably scenic stand, even more so than any section of Prairie Creek (in my personal opinion)! It was also surprisingly lacking in crowds and tourist groups, and there weren’t any trailhead kiosks and signage present. Their absence gave the entire grove a more wild, untrammeled feel (despite the existence of a trail). I could’ve wandered around this half mile loop for hours and still be in constant awe by the end. There was still the Grove of Titans to see though, so we moved on and planned to complete the short loop on the way back to the car.
Admiring trees in the Stout Grove
The famous Stout Tree (I think…)
After crossing the unexpectedly frigid waters of Mill Creek, we continued on Mill Creek Trail, passing through another, more hidden grove of redwoods. The subsequent miles were a little less interesting until the titans came into view. Unlike Stout Grove though, the Grove of Titans are more spaced out rather than densely packed together. The thick underbrush made them difficult to spot at times and the largest of the trees were off-trail. The photos below definitely don’t do justice to their grandiose stature, but staying on the trail was necessary to protect the fragile landscape from further erosion. We turned around just short of Howland Hill Road (where most people start the Grove of Titans hike) as the forecasted rain finally hit.
Entering the Grove of Titans
Re-entering the Stout Grove felt like returning home to a place of comfort and warmth (despite the fact that it was still cold and wet outside). Our “run” through the grove before returning to the car was more of a slow and stately jog in order to truly connect with the timelessness of these silent guardians that have stood watch for (potentially) hundreds of years. Of all the areas (of both parks) that we’d explored throughout the day, this was my favorite. It was a fitting place to end our mini-tour of the Northern California coastal redwoods.
Back in the Stout Grove
We meant to include a second day of adventure running on the Southern Oregon Coast, but, unfortunately, the winter storms up north made their way down to us. We woke up in a rest stop to torrential rain, several periods of hail, and even some snow when we started the drive! A tickle in my throat (which, by the next day, turned into a debilitating cold and fever) further convinced me that our run just wasn’t meant to be. Thankfully, as we drove back up the 101, the weather let up briefly and allowed us to explore a couple highlights of the Oregon Coast Trail that we’d hoped to run. To put it simply, they were nothing short of amazing, and I was more than a little sad that we’d bailed on our plans (until the weather moved back in and I remembered we had good reason). It wasn’t quite the Sunday we envisioned, but we still had Saturday’s magical redwood tour and now we have more reason to plan another coastal adventure down this way in the future.
Looking out at the next section we’re going to explore: Natural Bridges
Mack (the white speck in the middle) hiking/scrambling the spine of one of the bridges
I hiked and scrambled down too to experience this view
One thought on “Prairie Creek & Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parks”
mdvaden says:
In Prairie Creek, James Irvine trail is more “magical” for me than Fern Canyon. It’s a pretty canyon, but I’m accustomed to many years near the Columbia River Gorge, where places like Eagle Creek Canyon are on an entirely different size and level of epic. I prefer Fern Canyon early morning late spring or early winter. For the rest of the redwoods, we find ourselves out in the heart of the park in groves rarely seen. Only two weeks until the next “walkabout” … Cheers, MDV / http://www.mdvaden.com/redwood_grogans_fault.shtml
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Bryce Canyon Fairyland, Queens Garden, and Navajo Trails
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Kettle Chips Challenge: “make your own flavor” kit
If I know anything about Americans, it’s that we’re fat, lazy assholes who want everything as quickly as possible, and in quantities larger than we should reasonably consume. (Do you know you can now buy pre-sliced frozen pizza? It’s true.) Even when we’re after gourmet chips, we want to be offered an entire store aisle filled with bright colors and flavor combinations our feeble brains would never come up with on their own. Kettle Chips, the Oregon natural-chip company, not only wants your help, it’s offering you a glimpse behind the potato-chip curtain.
That’s right: It’s the Kettle Chip Challenge. From a press release: “There’s no denying that making (and munching) Kettle Brand® Potato Chip flavors all day is a dream job,” said Carolyn Richards, Kettle Foods chief flavor architect. “Now, we’re letting our fans in on the fun, giving chip artists everything they need to dig in and create their own customized flavor.”
That’s right, lardass, you’re an artist now. Your canvas? Plain, unsalted Kettle chips and seven flavor packets, all conveniently packaged in a box with some already available (and delicious) Kettle flavors, including the extra-tasty Buffalo Bleu variety. The box is available at kettlechipchallenge.com for a mere $15, including postage. You don’t even have to get up from the computer!
Anyway, on to the packets. The packaging was disconcertingly plain—just white envelopes with the various flavor names machine-stamped on the side. Your color palette includes lemon butter, caramelized onion, roasted tomato, cheddar, vinegar, sweet chili, and sour cream and chive. We put on our lab coats and dove in.
The taste: Our initial instinct, as the children that we are, was to make a “suicide” chip, mixing all of the flavors, but we held off on that until we tried some combinations that might actually work. There were only four bags of “blank” chips to start with, and we weren’t entirely sure how much of the powder to dump on them—in spite of the imaginary lab coats, we were entirely unprofessional. So unprofessional, in fact, that we completely missed the recipe suggestions proffered within the package. These included “spicy ketchup,” “grown-up mac n’ cheese,” “French onion dip,” and “nachos.” But that’s fine, because the “create-a-chip challenge” is all about originality and expressing yourself. It’s like Facebook in that way.
So we cooked up some decent ones, after opening and sniffing (no, not snorting) all the powders. They all smelled pretty decent, except vinegar, which knocked everyone who tried it on their asses. (Vinegar in powder form = very strong.) Our first concoction was tomato and lemon butter, a curious combination that wasn’t an outright success, but didn’t send anyone running, either. It turns out that you don’t need to know precisely how much powder to add to the chips, because only a certain amount will cling to the damn things anyway. We went pretty light on these, and they were okay. Will they win the “create-a-chip challenge,” where the prize is a year’s worth of Kettle Chips? Probably not.
Next up: Cheddar and caramelized onion. Again, a little meh. Like the Americans we are, we weren’t thinking outside the box, even though we like to think that all we do is think outside the box. (Really, there is no box.) For combination number three, we dug into the deepest recesses of our palates and came up with a flavor that will knock the balls off your ass—and it better win the contest that we’re too lazy to actually enter. That’s right: Kyle Ryan’s magically delicious vinegar and sweet chili. Though the vinegar was too much for many of our Tasters, this is clearly a flavor combination that needs to be explored further and given a snappy, clever name and tagline that combines British and Mexican sensibilities. (Try not to be too racist, okay, armchair marketers?)
Finally, we couldn’t resist the urge to dump some powder from each bag into the last bag of blank chips, creating a powdery mess of suicide chips. It wasn’t the worst thing ever. In fact, Doritos could probably shit out a worse flavor without even trying. Overall, though, this was far too much work for people who just wanted to eat some chips. That’s why we hired you, Kettle Chips! You do the work for us! Give us the illusion of choice, but don’t make things too stressful. We’re trying to get fat over here, okay?
Bonus round: Elliott Smith (his real name), a local sales guy, is jockeying hard to replace Internet Eating Sensation Dave Chang as the guy who’ll eat anything, so we mixed him up a drink containing water and some of each flavor packet. He dutifully drank it and proclaimed that it wasn’t too bad. He doesn’t dress as snappy as Chang, though.
Office reactions:
Tomato/lemon butter
• “First it’s barbecue, but it finishes like scampi.”
• “It’s not terrible, I kind of like it.”
• “It went from bad to good in a few seconds.”
Cheddar and caramelized onion
• “It just tastes like powder.”
• “Totally underwhelming.”
• “The cheddar powder looks exactly like mac-n-cheese powder from the box.”
Vinegar and sweet chili
• “The vinegar overpowers everything.”
• “Oh, it burns.”
• “Don’t be a wuss; these are good.”
• “This is like what they would eat in Logan’s Run.”
• “It tastes like the air in a seafood restaurant.”
Where to get them: Kettlechipchallenge.com now, and apparently Cost Plus and Fred Meyer later this summer. Whatever wacky combination wins this contest will be revealed in October. There are already hundreds of fan-created recipes on the site, too.
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Writer & Director: Richard Cheshire
While this Pantomime by Sunshine Productions is small, it sure is mighty. It contains all the elements of a great pantomime and more besides. With its lovable characters, funny jokes and enjoyable script, it’s a joy to watch.
Dick Whittington is one of the most popular pantomimes produced in Theatre up and down the country. The story of young Richard Whittington and his Cat and their journey to find fortune in the city of London. This new production, directed and written by Richard Cheshire has a twist part way through that ensures it remains gripping and entertaining. The addition of the PiRats keeps it engaging and also fresh. While this new script is engaging to watch, it certainly doesn’t lack in humor with plenty of jokes and slapstick to keep even the most avid panto fan amused.
Cheshire uses the intimate setting of the Rugeley Rose to his advantage when directing to ensure each one of the audience members fully immerse themselves in this world by giving them a key role in the concluding moments. This works well and it’s positive to see all audience members, no matter their age taking part.
The cast are what makes this production sparkle. While their abilities did vary, many of them could easily be picked up to reprise their roles on a much larger scale. Tom Sherman is a triumphant Sally the Cook. His quick whit works well when interacting with the audience both old and new and his natural comic timing and humor makes him a great pantomime dame. Marcus Dobson as Idle Jack throws himself fully into the role and his improvisation skills and ability to move a scene along, even when things aren’t going to plan should be applauded. Alex Neil makes a great addition to the cast as King Rat, his stage presence grips the audience from the opening moments and maintains it throughout. Lynne Baker also adds a loving and sense of warmth to the stage as Fairy Bow Bells
Little mishaps with lines were quickly forgot about and where things went wrong the cast managed to keep things moving and use them to their advantage. With an upbeat musical score, a script full of twists and turns and some great cast members this is a great example of what a medium scale panto should be.
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Alex Neil, Dick Whittington and the Pi-Rat of the Carribbean, Lynne Baker, Marcus Dobson, Panto, Pantomine, review, Richard Cheshire, Rugeley, Rugeley Rose Theatre, Sunshine Productions, theatre review, Tom Sherman
The Snow Queen at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme
Crimes Against Christmas at the Lichfield Garrick, Lichfield
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Summer in Wisconsin is Already Over for Some Teens
After the crash that took the life of Dionna Cook, who thought she was getting a ride home (Courtesy: David Tuyls)
Schools haven’t ended for the year here in Wisconsin, yet for some schoolchildren here and in nearby Milton WI, summer is already over.
Dionna Cook is one of them. This young sister went on a late night ride home with a carload of kids, all of whom were underage, only a couple of weeks before she was to graduate from junior high. Two boys were in the front seats, and four girls were in the rear, with one girl sitting on another’s lap. Well, long story short, Dionna Cook is dead at 14. Her ride home ended in a fatal crash on Milwaukee Street. The driver did not have had a learner’s permit, and his friend riding shotgun was the one who swiped the car keys from a neighbor. Both boys and another girl have subsequently been arrested and variously charged on their hospital beds with homicide by negligent operation of vehicle; second degree recklessly endangering safety; operating a motor vehicle without owner’s consent; and failure to render aid to injured.
Cook’s family wasn’t supposed to make the drive from Chicago to Madison for another week, but Friday night’s tragedy on Milwaukee Street is bringing them together sooner than expected.
“We were coming up for her graduation, but now we have to have a funeral,” said [Charlotte] Jackson [Dionna’s aunt].
Though obviously devastated, Dionna’s mother Portia said she is leaning on her faith and family to get her through this terrible loss.
“She was one of the most loving and caring little girls that I’ve ever seen,” said Jackson. “She liked lipstick, she loved being pretty.”
Family members said the 14-year-old loved to sing in her church choir, playing the violin, shopping and her family.
Just a regular young girl who made a wrong choice.
From three TV news stations in Madison, Channels 3, 15 and 27, I was able to piece together what happened. Dionna got into the Toyota Corolla on her way home from her friend’s party at a mall; she interrupted a bus ride to complete her journey with her friends. (Word to your kids.) A police captain confirmed that after the teens came across an officer in the area who shouted for them to slow down, the driver may have panicked. The two boys then fought over control of the steering wheel, which precipitated the vehicle sideswiping one car and careening into an SUV driven by…of all people…a drunk driver.
Only one passenger was wearing a seat belt in the Corolla.
Forty-year-old Anthony Cardona was booked into the Dane County Jail and is tentatively charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. But police are convinced that Cardona had little to do with the fatal collision. It just may be that the kids kept him from causing vehicular mayhem with another driver.
The two boys, already “known to police,” and badly injured, managed to run away from the scene along with one of the girls, but they were apprehended and brought to local hospitals. Another girl still hasn’t awoken from a coma. Neither police nor the Madison Metropolitan School District have released the names or schools of the other kids involved; it was Dionna’s family that stepped forward to identify her and describe what kind of girl she was.
The fatal victim’s mother, Portia Jallow, told 27 News she is not out for revenge against the boys involved in the fatal crash. Jallow said she knows the teen driver. But Jallow said her daughter deserved the boys’ help.
“They ran and left my baby.”
Remembering Dionna Cook on the street where she died (Courtesy: WKOW)
A shrine has been erected on Milwaukee Street at the site of the crash in Dionna’s memory. Additionally, a fund has been created by the Goodman Community Center on behalf of Dionna Cook’s family. If you would like to contribute, the address is:
Dionna Cook Benefit Account
c/o Goodman Community Center
Which can be delivered or mailed to any Amcore Bank
The closest one is at 3003 E. Washington Ave. Madison, WI 53704
Meanwhile, over in nearby Milton, south of Madison and just a little north of Janesville, Wisconsinites have graduated from hillbilly heroin to the real deal. Really trips one out to learn that places like Milton aren’t so bucolic, pastoral and clean living any more. Heroin is cheaper and easier to acquire than the chemical stuff. It’s coming from Southeast Asian and South American sources, distributed by black and Latino gangs, and it’s branching out beyond Milwaukee.
Unfortunately, in May, heroin trickled down to some kids who OD’ed on the stuff at a park. Yesterday’s Gazette Xtra story takes it from there:
The 15-year-old boy was at [Lori] Bone’s Milton home May 16 when he found heroin in her bedroom, [Milton Police Chief Jerry] Schuetz said.
The boy took the drugs and shared them with two friends, he said.
The park in Milton where three teens snorted heroin (Courtesy: Channel 3000)
The three teens snorted the heroin in the home and went to an area park, Schuetz said.
While at the park, the teens began to suffer from overdose symptoms, including vomiting, he said.
Another teen happened to be at the park and saw the kids vomiting, Schuetz said.
He suspected the teens were overdosing on heroin and called a man he knew was a heroin user, he said.
The heroin user arrived at the park with Narcan, a drug used to revive victims of a heroin overdose, Schuetz said.
The user gave the drug to one of the teens who had passed out, he said.
The teens later returned to the home where they got the heroin, Schuetz said, and an adult called police.
They thought it was coke? At least, do yourself the favor of finding out what exactly it is you are drinking, smoking or whatever, if it is only to find out whether you like it or not.
Thankfully, all the kids have since recovered from this episode, including the child who passed out, but the fifteen-year-old who introduced his friends to the stuff faces felony charges of distribution of controlled substances to minors. If anything, he’s looking at a stint in juvie, something his parent(s) or guardian isn’t going to like, especially since the adult user, Lori Bone, whose stash this was, took off for parts unknown. She also faces charges of felony failure to render aid and felony contributing to the delinquency of minors when the authorities catch up with her.
Like I said, summer’s hardly started in Wisconsin–it’s been unseasonably wet and cool for spring, too–but the children are falling like wheat before the scythe. Keep your eyes peeled on your own darlings.
~ by blksista on June 3, 2009.
Posted in Black People, Class, Crime
Tags: Anthony Cardona, Children, Constables on Patrol, Dane County, Dane County Jail, Dionna Cook, Drugs, Drunk Driving, Goodman Community Center, Graduation, Heroin, Joyriding, Junior High, Lori Bone, Mad City, Madison Metropolitan School District, Madison WI, Milton WI, Narcan, Narcotics, Overdose, Portia Cook Jallow, Snorting, Teenagers
3 Responses to “Summer in Wisconsin is Already Over for Some Teens”
dionna was one of my best friends… she knew just how to make me smile.. as with everyone else.. im going to miss that…
my response said this on July 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I am sorry for your loss. I am trying to find time to write more about what is happening in Madison. You take good care.
blksista said this on July 13, 2009 at 2:58 PM
i will always love dionna she is like a sister to me and to her family will give ass many blessings as i can all you have to do is asc
tyshai said this on June 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM
National Archives sorry for censoring 2017 Women's March signs January 19, 2020
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Photo News: Atiku Pays Courtesy Call to Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe
September 27, 2018 Local News 0
Presidential aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar receiving royal blessing from Agbogidi, His Royal Majesty, Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe at a courtesy visit to his palace in Onitsha, Anambra State on Wednesday.
U.S. leans on Zimbabwe over media, security laws – U.S. diplomat
Osun re-run election:REC assures adequate security, says ballot box snatching impossible
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Today in OpenGov: Navigating controversy
by Sunlight Foundation Nov 7, 2017 7:34 am
In today's edition, we dig for open data use cases in the Badger State, the Menendez jury starts to deliberate, Wilbur Ross tries to navigate through controversy, mySociety collects research on the state of civic tech, and much more.
Kicking off research for the first Tactical Data Engagement pilot in Madison, Wisconsin.
Looking for open data use cases in Madison, Wisconsin. Over the next two weeks, Sunlight's Open Cities team will be in Madison, Wisconsin home to the first-ever pilot of Tactical Data Engagement (TDE), our four-step approach to help cities actively facilitate the use of open data to improve communities. Our goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the experts and organizations who are working on comprehensive neighborhood issues, gather ideas for how open data might support their work, and share our findings with you. Read more on the Sunlight Blog.
Leveraging open data to improve neighborhood services in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Sunlight's Alex Dodds reports that "the City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, wants to make it easier for residents to see and understand what’s happening in their city. A new open data policy, a major component of that work, is now open for public comment." Read more about Sioux Falls' engagment with the What Works Cities program on the Sunlight Blog.
Atlanta airport vendors wield major influence over local politics. "With more than 104 million passengers last year, Hartsfield-Jackson is the most trafficked airport on the globe, followed by Beijing and Dubai. The city of Atlanta owns it, and controls the billions in contracts tied to it — for engineering, construction and design work, parking, shuttle service, advertising along its concourses and the concessionaires who run its shops and restaurants." As Margaret Newkirk and Michael Sasso report, companies vying to retain or win those concessions aren't afraid to pour money into Atlanta politics. The implications have been significant for this year's mayoral race. (Bloomberg)
Spending in this New Jersey State Senate race could top $20 million. "Steve Sweeney, the president of the New Jersey Senate, is seeking re-election on Tuesday. Sweeney, a Democrat, is being opposed by the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), the primary teachers union in the state. Given NJEA's deep pockets — and the amount of money Sweeney has raised from other unions and allies — spending in the race could top $20 million. The union is on track to spend upwards of $8 million in the race. Sweeney and his backers, including a super PAC and the carpenters union, are expected to spend more than $11 million." (Governing)
trumpland
Seven law professors back suit against President Trump for blocking Twitter critics, calling his tactics "authoritarian". "Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of seven professors Monday in support of the Columbia Knight First Amendment Institute’s lawsuit challenging Trump’s ability to block opponents from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter feed." (The Hill)
Commerce Secretary may drop stake in shipping company in wake of Paradise Papers revelations. "The commerce secretary, Wilbur L. Ross Jr., indicated on Monday that he would probably sell his stake in a shipping company with business ties to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle, amid fallout from publication of a vast leak of offshore files that documented the connection." (New York Times) Meanwhile, a top adviser to Ross maintained a seat on the board of that company while also serving in the Trump administration. (POLITICO)
Prominent Trump backer would benefit from DOE plan to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants. "A proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to alter the nation's electricity markets would provide a windfall for a small group of companies — most strikingly one owned by coal magnate Bob Murray, a prominent backer of President Donald Trump. Perry's plan would force consumers to subsidize ailing coal-fired and nuclear power plants with billions of dollars, in what he calls an effort to ensure that the nation’s power network can withstand threats like terrorist attacks or severe weather. But his narrowly written proposal would mostly affect plants in a stretch of the Midwest and Northeast where Murray's mining company, Murray Energy, is the predominant supplier, according to a POLITICO analysis of Energy Department data." (POLITICO)
washington watch
Image via the National Parks Service.
As the jury begins to consider the corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez one major question looms. Will he leave the Senate if convicted? "Menendez has refused to say whether he'd resign if convicted. If he is found guilty, Senate Republicans are expected to quickly try to expel him from the Senate, giving GOP Gov. Chris Christie a chance to name a Republican replacement for the Democratic lawmaker." However, according to this report by John Bresnahan, Democrats have significant incentive to delay any potential expulsion until after a new Governor takes office in January. (POLITICO)
Pentagon retroactively classifies Afghanistan reconstruction data. "The Department of Defense (DoD) is refusing to publicly release information measuring the strength and progress of Afghanistan’s security forces, even as it is asking for a big increase in troop levels and financial support for that war-torn country." The data, which was originally schedule for release, was retroactively classified following a request from the Afghan government. (Project on Government Oversight)
Sunlight joins 44 other organizations in opposition to misguided surveillance reform approach. The groups "wrote to the Senate to urge opposition to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 (S. 2010). Section 702 permits the government to collect the content of communications of targets who are foreigners located abroad, including communications they may have with Americans. The bill…would not enact any of the meaningful and reasonable reforms that Congress has been debating for years and that many organizations within the coalition have supported. Instead, it would reauthorize Section 702 for eight years without any reform, and would, in several respects, make the law worse." Read more via the Open Technology Institute and find the full letter here.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets President Donald Trump. Image via the White House.
Saudi Crown Prince removes political opposition amid "corruption" probe. "Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Saturday removed a prominent prince who headed the National Guard, replaced the economy minister and announced the creation of a new anti-corruption committee. The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel also reported late Saturday that 11 princes and dozens of former ministers were detained in a new anti-corruption probe headed by the kingdom’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was also named to oversee the new committee." (POLITICO) Kristian Coates Ulrichsen explains the moves in the context of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmen's ongoing efforts to centralize his "authority to a degree unprecedented in recent Saudi history…" (POLITICO Magazine)
British cabinet secretary apologizes for undeclared meetings in Israel, shares details. "International development secretary Priti Patel has apologised for meeting a string of Israeli politicians – including the prime minister – while on a family holiday. The cabinet minister broke Whitehall convention by attending 12 separate meetings and engagements without telling the Foreign Office in advance and with no government officials present. On Monday, she published a list of who she had met during her August holiday." (BuzzFeed) Our take? Secrecy regarding meetings on behalf of a public is undemocratic, but transparency is the right response to outrage.
Researching the impacts of civic technology? mySociety is gathering submissions ahead of April conference. The conference, TicTec 2018, is slated for April 18 and 19 in Lisbon Portugal. As for submissions, they write "We invite individuals and organisations to submit abstracts or workshop proposals of no more than 300 words by 2nd February 2018. We encourage submissions to focus on the specific impacts of technologies, rather than showcase new tools that are as yet untested. We will prioritise proposals that can demonstrate data or evidence of how civic technology has been impactful in some way. We encourage presentations that examine negative results as well as research evidencing positive outcomes!" Learn more and submit your work here.
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Tag Archive: Pat Toomey
2016 ads hitting the web, public left in the dark
by Peter Olsen-Phillips
Feb 12, 2015 3:35 pm
A new series of political ads by SEIU, a powerful liberal union, targets four Republican Senators up for re-election in 2016. Carefully crafted as "issue ads," the expenditures don't have to be disclosed like normal campaign advertisements.
Outsiders on both sides of immigration mobilizing supporters
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the TV: More political ads! Blame the immigration debate.
Philly Ad Sleuthing: Republicans are gamers; Democrats like gossip
by Stan Oklobdzija and Jacob Fenton
An analysis of political ad buys at one Philadelphia station shows just how much voters are bombarded by political messages -- and how much office seekers and interest groups spend to influence them.
The Week on Politwoops: Rangel scraps solicitation, a view from the dais and more
by Nicko Margolies Mar 14, 2014 4:12 pm
It's time again to wrap up the week with a review of the most notable deleted tweets from politicians caught and archived by our Politwoops project.
Barrage of political campaign spending follows shootings at Sandy Hook
by Nancy Watzman
Even in an "off" election year, groups on both sides of the gun debate spent millions to influence public opinion, and some have stockpiled big warchests for 2014.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns hits the airwaves in N.H and Pa.
by Kathy Kiely
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the pro-gun control group backed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is not giving up the fight.
Three weeks after the Senate rejected legislation offered in the wake of the December shooting massacre that left 26 people dead at a Connecticut elementary school, the group is launching what appears to be a high-priced ad campaign to keep the pressure on lawmakers.
The ad seen above attacks Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican who was the lone lawmaker from the Northeast to vote against the gun control measure; another advertisement praises Sen. Pat Toomey, a ...
Banking money fuels senators who want to slow down Volcker
The six senators who introduced legislation Thursday to slow down implementation of the "Volcker rule," designed to prohibit banks from profiting from trading on their own accounts, are the recipients of ample amounts of campaign cash from the financial industry.
Three Democrats and three Republicans are cosponsoring the effort to push back the effective date of a rule that has provoked bitter complaints from the banking industry. The Dodd-Frank law mandated that it go into effect July 21, the second anniversary of the financial regulatory overhaul. More than 17,000 comments have flooded into federal financial agencies. The proposed legislation ...
Wednesday: Sunlight Live to check in on super committee
When the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or super committee, emerges from the shadows on Wednesday morning to hold its first public hearing in a month, the Sunlight Live team will be there to shine a light on who’s influencing the panel.
As the 12 members inch closer to proposing at least $1.2 trillion in federal cuts or new revenue sources before the end of November, little has come out about their ideas even as reports have surfaced about daily or twice-daily “unofficial” meetings.
More than 200 groups or people — with health care lobbyists leading the way ...
Who’s watching the Super Committee?
A big audience turned out yesterday for the second meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or the "super committee," as its 12 members asked questions of the first witness, CBO director Doug Elmendorf. The meeting was open to the public and there was live video on the committee's new website.
While all the other cameras were focused on the committee members and witness, we turned ours 180 degrees to check out the crowd — and we want your help to identify the people keeping a close eye on this committee. Check out the photos below and the ...
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The Good Dinosaur - The Dinosaurs Need to Stay Extinct, Pixar
1 POSTED: 28 Nov 2015 12:00
The Good Dinosaur is Pixar's second movie in 2015. Maybe the studio should stick to one a year.
GrumbleGrump
So it's essentially like Land Before Time if it had been completely boring? Jesus.
Janichsan
May I point out that Apatosaurs went extinct almost 90 million years before Tyrannosaurs came to be? That plot doesn't make any sense!! :P
Zontar
I feel as though people are acting as though this is another great Pixar movie for the same reason they did when Inside Out was released: they've had so many consistently bad or mediocre movies in the post-Wall-E line-up that even a middle of the road film that is worst then we should expect from them seems good by comparison.
Zelderahn
I saw the trailer for this thing and nothing speaks to me. There doesn't seem to be any interesting ideas in it, the 'gorgeous views' is something that anyone worth their salt with a render farm and half-competent artists are required to master by now, and the characters look uninspired in that whole 'Cartoony' sort of way.
Not even going to look at it when it trundles into my Netflix a few months from now, seems like I'd fall asleep.
Scarim Coral
Regardless on what you say (other reviews did say it was an ok film) but I still intend to check it out!
Also I for once actually LOVED cars!
When I first heard of this movie being made, I thougth the Dinosaur would had evolved into human (ok kinda did on what I read) but I mean when it come to shape (humanoid dinosaur).
Samtemdo8
I found this year's Pixar's film rather week. Inside Out has become so overrated that it became Pixar's Frozen so much so that the internet dug up Osmosis Jones from the grave to bash the movie to show how to do a movie like it positively.
Now I am worried that The Increadibles 2 will lose its "Mature Themes" in favor of just making toys and being no different to the Marvel movies.
FPLOON
This sounds like it's not any better (or worse) than Walking With Dinosaurs 3D to me... and that movie took me a while to realize that it was a live-action background movie with CGI dinosaurs and an English dub-over... (At least that movie had more species of dinosaurs present, even if some were just cameos at best...) But seriously, some of those trailers seemed like it wasn't giving this movie any justice and now you're telling me that they're as "accurate" as basically saying "stuff happens, but you know where this is going to go anyway, so just watch it because it's Pixar"...
Other than that, both Cars movie were great in their own right, yet had moments of missed potential given the concept... with small exceptions to the sequel, which had me laughing at [almost] all of the little car references with my mother attesting to that...
Samtemdo8:
My biggest fear for The Incedibles 2 is the movie trying to throw in as many heroes as possible in an all-out brawl to save the world or some shit like that... Basically, just like in the third Spy Kids movie but somehow worse by extension...
To the Recommendation line: the only good Land Before Time movie was the first one. You know, the one that was actually a coming of age movie that dealt with some serious themes. All the rest are just pointless sing-alongs. :P
As for this movie: that's pretty much what I had heard about it. Apparently it's just a safe, by-the-numbers Pixar movie that doesn't really have anything special about it.
Casual Shinji
10 POSTED: 28 Nov 2015 18:53
FPLOON:
My biggest fear is that Brad Bird isn't going to put his heart into it. Which seems justified as apparently he's only doing it so that he's allowed to make some other movie by Disney. That's what I heard anyway.
And seeing as the enjoyment of the first film came from watching these characters slowly come out of their shell (again), and form a cohessive super hero unit, I doubt a sequel will be as engaging. They'd also have to deal with Jack-Jack, who's final revelation in the first film was a fun joke, but who's presence in the sequel would totally break any tension. That is assuming they're going to set it some 5 to 10 years later.
RJ 17:
Some would say it's actually the tale of 5 orphans living through the final days the age of dinosaurs, ending with them meeting their relatives again in the afterlife. Doesn't make too much sense considering Littlefoot's mom, but it does fit the rather bleak and sad tone of the entire movie quite nicely.
Casual Shinji:
The point remains that the first one is the only one that's any good/worth watching. :P
Just trying to reignite some of those good ol' sad Land Before Time feels. ;)
That's true... I mean, unless they somehow
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thus leading to a formation of a "bigger" cohesive superhero unit that extends far beyond those related by blood (or by virtue of even having powers in the first place), for example, then the movie wouldn't even feel like it's even trying to hide the fact that Brad Bird's heart isn't as present in the sequel than it was in the first movie...
Then again, it could just turn into another Car 2-like movie where all of the missed potential that could have been in the first movie is present in the sequel only regulated to background references and "unintended" world-building for the "unneeded spin-off" if it even comes to that in the first place...:P
Soviet Heavy
Just go back and watch the first Ice Age movie. Fantastic visual design, great voice cast, and a much better developed family dynamic (surrogate families, forgiveness and redemption being major themes of the film), and a catchy as all hell soundtrack.
There's a free streaming site that has every anime and western cartoon you can possibly think of - both series and movies - and I watched the first Land Before Time on there a month or two ago just for fun.
And yep, I was crying during a good portion of it. Part due to the story - I'm a big sentimental sap :P - and part due to the crushing wave of nostalgia that crashed into me at the first scene and lasted until the credits rolled.
09philj
Wasn't this film in production hell?
CeeBod
Dinosaur killer asteroid missing the planet, and the evolution of intelligent dinosaurs that come into contact with humans is the plot of the Harry Harrison West of Eden trilogy. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden ) THAT would make a potentially interesting movie. This is just a plotless filler movie. "Kids love dinosaurs, here's one that talks, movie done. OK next!"
Yeah, all the ads I've seen for this movie don't tell me what it's about, besides blatant feels-extraction. Not even Sam Elliot as a grizzled old T-Rex could convince me to go if the lead isn't compelling enough. Hell, I could just watch ICE AGE again.
If there is one show with a token human in it worth seeing, it's Stop The Planet of the Apes, I Want To Get Off!
Smilomaniac
I found Inside Out to be one of the worst movies I've seen. Sounds like this one would top it though... Trailer looks pretty bad as well - that's rare.
Yeah, I'll put this one in the avoid basket.
J.McMillen
What's really sad about this movie not being very good is that the cartoon short before the movie, 'Sanjay's Super Team', is amazing and now many people will probably not see it. I got to see it at SDCC and was hoping that the movie would be worth buying just to have a copy of it. I guess I'll have to wait till they do another Pixar shorts collection.
RealRT
So, I think it's safe to write Pixar off as "has-beens" when it comes to producing quality movies. Good thing I was sticking with Dreamworks all these years.
MonsterCrit
So what you're sayiong is this is poxar's version of 'A Troll in Central park'
That would be massively disappointing, given how much I love Brad Bird. Unless the other film is 2d, the trade off doesn't seem worth it. Not that it matters, Disney would make the movie anyway, and the only person I trust at Pixar anymore if Pete Doctor.
OT: I saw this coming when I saw the trailer. They're really pushing the nostalgia angle hard. Every trailer I've seen has talked about every Pixar film except The Good Dinosaur. "We swear, this movie just as subtle and awesome as all the movies you grew up with! We swear!" Then it turns out that the guy who made Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs made it, and I lost all faith. When Pixar is pilfering Dreamworks for talent, something has gone very, very wrong.
Amir Kondori
I enjoyed the movie. Kind of reminded me of Old Yeller. It is a coming of age movie and a bit of a tearjerker. Also, the family at the end is not related to the boy, they are adoptive.
WinterWyvern
26 POSTED: 1 Dec 2015 13:17
I think I already saw the decay of Pixar with their film Inside Out. Which, actually, wasn't very good. But at least Inside Out still had the creative ideas.
This is a Pixar movie - the second of 2015, after Inside Out, which was amazing - and, therefore, our expectations are automatically higher than with films from other studios.
Aside from disagreeing about Inside Out being amazing (which it wasn't - the only character I liked and felt was rounded was Bing Bong), I'd say the exact same for The Legend of Korra, which had its one-year anniversary recently. If it had come from overseas, from some studio and writers that I had always associated with hack or mass production works, it would have been very good or even amazing. As a follow up act to Avatar: The Last Airbender? Not so much.
Only difference here is that the last best Pixar movie that I've seen was Brave(haven't seen Monsters University just yet).
They face ... not much danger, really. And they learn ... almost nothing until the very end
That could just as easily describe Inside Out. Almost all the lessons are shunted towards the end. It's shown in the final part that the "islands" can regenerate(thus retroactively lessening the "danger" there was), that it was all a part of growing up, running away isn't a good idea and that sadness has a purpose and place in a healthy individual.
WinterWyvern:
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks Inside Out was a strike out for the most part. Bing Bong was as good as it got, considering I've heard rumors(just rumors) that Pixar got the basic idea for Inside Out from somewhere else and didn't credit them - just like with Finding Nemo. I know Inside Out is very similar to some already existing things.
Just for the studio's sake, I had hoped The Good Dinosaur was going to be good. Sounds like it's not - I just hope The Incredibles 2 doesn't get flubbed up.
Edit: On dinosaurs not changing. I doubt they would have made them evolve, as that may have made a lot of what's supposed to be what go over audience's heads. A lot simpler to have them static than evolve in crazy ways like in this hypothetical evolution book by Dougal Dixon(available from a Russian "online library" - not posting a link because I don't know the legality of such a thing).
the.chad
Just saw this on boxing day and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Admittingly I went in with low expectations after reading this review.
But the wife and I drew direct comparisons to
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Definitely had some big feels in the movie ;p
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The Voice is welcoming back a “Lover”: Taylor Swift will return to the NBC competition show as a mega mentor during Season 17.
In the below video announcement, judges Blake Shelton and John Legend contemplate who the mega mentor is — “I heard it’s supposed to be one of the most successful people in music,” Legend says — before Swift exits her trailer to the sounds of her hit song “Me!”
The Voice returns Monday, Sept. 23 at 8/7c; Swift’s episodes are slated to air in late October.
We promise that you’ll never find another Mega Mentor like her.
See you soon @taylorswift13. 🦋 pic.twitter.com/9Lta3qEYoV
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review: The Healing
Written by Samuel D. Hunter Directed by Stella Powell-Jones Featuring Mary Theresa Archbold, Shannon DeVido, Pamela Sabaugh Theater Breaking Through Barriers at the Clurman Theatre June 11, 2016 – July 16, […]
Directed by Stella Powell-Jones
Featuring Mary Theresa Archbold, Shannon DeVido, Pamela Sabaugh
Theater Breaking Through Barriers at the Clurman Theatre
June 11, 2016 – July 16, 2016
Shannon DeVido as Sharon. Image by Sara Krulwich.
“It almost looks like a sitcom set,” says an audience neighbor, some minutes before the lights go down on Samuel D. Hunter‘s new commissioned play for Theater Breaking Through Barriers at the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row. Yes, you get hits of the long-running working-class tough-love love story Roseanne and its well-worn living room from this set’s crocheted blanket-draped sofa sitting squarely center stage and the roughed up, oddly overstuffed, spare furnishings. Take a few minutes to examine set decorations that foreshadow and underscore character details: hoarder-ish piles of collectibles fill every nook and cranny of what appears to be the home of a person of modest means. Cardboard shipping boxes are stuffed into spaces around furniture and the collectibles themselves are piled on shelves and into plastic containers. We see a house awaiting life to begin or a death to be mourned. As we meet the assembled characters, we learn that the journey of The Healing is a bit of both.
We meet Sharon (Shannon DeVido), Donald (David Harrell), Bonnie (Jamie Petrone), Laura (Mary Theresa Archbold), and Zoe in flashback the dead householder (Pamela Sabaugh) as thirty-somethings, who all attended a Christian Scientist summer camp near Idaho Falls when they were children. What they all shared then, besides this childhood faith that all but Zoe relinquished as time passed, was the fact that they each had some sort of disability that Joan (Lynne Lipton), the head of the camp, was convinced that their shared faith could cure if only they prayed hard enough. Sharon and Bonnie are in wheelchairs, Donald has a foreshortened arm. Fellow camper Zoe, the owner of the home whose funeral and estate settling the old friends have convened to experience and sort through, had a visual impairment. Tempers flare, people are controlling as they always were (see Sharon) or hard-nosed in a way that is ultimately revealed in a theatrical manner (see Laura the Latvian adoptee recalling her childhood orphanage in an exchange with a deaf character who is cannot hear her). And they each allude to or organize their lives around their differing abilities in different ways.
What brings the characters of The Healing together is not their shared experiences of the camp and faith that didn’t want them (and as a kind of emotional afterthought we learn that the kids banded together in an unclear process and had the camp shut down after their summer there) but is rather a young adult rite of passage. What links a person to members of the general public at one age rarely continues to hold that power in later years. School day chums fall away when daily routines are far in the past and true personalities and class memberships and politics enter the story. We know this plot — Now and Then (1995) about a suburban girl gang and their older selves or Beautiful Girls (1996) with upstate New York 20-somethings returning for a reunion and holiday to name a few film examples.
An issue with this play in its current form is that it is trying to be more than this — a treatise on the interactions of faith and disability and especially a musing on the passive and yet judgmental stance of Christian Science in the hands of one camp director (the Joan we hear about through the play and encounter in one extended static scene at the play’s end) toward several campers who happen to have physical challenges. The dimensions of faith and abilities are reported and debated rather than dramatized, and the tenets of Christian Science in particular are insufficiently explored as an emotional or integrated textual component for us to feel it. Just how the campers experienced the judgment and damage and instruction to “pray away their disability” is reported to us rather than enacted with and for us. A flashback scene between Zoe, the dead friend, and her closest friend Sharon reveals part of the backstory of Zoe thinking Sharon is a “healer” in the sense of her religion, when in fact Sharon administered antibiotics to Zoe by stealth to cure a case of strep throat. The plot details hang around the edges of the characters like un-assembled parts of a puzzle.
This is an almost motionless piece that focuses on words, with several impediments to that dimension of the production. Movement in and through the set is minimal and stilted, with characters and wheelchairs and with other impediments making their way in among boxes and overstuffed furniture. The actors themselves all too often almost whisper their words in the unamplified space at a mumblecore deliberately undifferentiated pace that obfuscates understanding.
Despite these challenges, there are moments of iridescent theater involving characters and actresses already singled out. Shannon DeVido in almost any scene she’s in radiates wit and wisdom and lingering anger that I wished she had a more textually satisfying target for her emotions than Joan the old camp director. Mary Theresa Archbold as Laura in her monologue relating a return to her Latvian homeland and the orphanage where she spent her early pre-adoption years breaks your heart.
So in The Healing there is a death to be mourned and lives waiting to begin. And a few laughs in a subdued key to enjoy along the way. “I shouldn’t take Vicodin and interact with people,” Laura says at one point. Yes.
© Martha Wade Steketee (June 27, 2016)
Playwright | Samuel D. Hunter
Director | Stella Powell-Jones
Set Design | Jason Simms
Lighting | Alejandro Fajardo
Sound Design | Brandon Wolcott
Costume Design | Christopher Metzger
Dramaturgy | John M. Baker
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President Trump lashes out at Apple for refusing to help the FBI unlock a shooter’s iPhones: ‘They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW!’ (AAPL)
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President Trump lashed out at Apple in a tweet Tuesday for refusing to help the FBI unlock two iPhones used by a gunman in a deadly shooting last month.
The FBI and Apple are still at odds over the issue, which the company has framed as a matter of preserving users’ privacy.
Trump also said that his administration was “helping Apple all of the time,” an apparent reference to the iPhone maker’s negotiations with the White House over exemptions from planned tariffs on goods imported from China.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has forged close ties with Trump in an effort to keep him from imposing such tariffs, which would hurt Apple because its products are mostly manufactured in China.
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President Trump lashed out at Apple in a tweet Tuesday for its refusal to help the FBI unlock two iPhones used by a gunman in a deadly shooting at a Naval base in Pensacola, Florida, last month.
“We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements. They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” Trump tweeted.
Apple has framed the issue around protecting consumers’ privacy, saying that “encryption is vital to protecting our country and our users’ data.”
Trump’s mention of “helping Apple all of the time” is an apparent reference to the iPhone maker’s negotiations with the White House over exemptions from planned tariffs on goods imported from China.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has worked to develop a close relationship with Trump and his administration in an effort to convince him not to impose those tariffs, which would hurt Apple becaause its products are mainly manufactured in China.
Last month, Apple narrowly avoided a 15% tariff when Trump agreed to postpone tariffs, which could have lowered demand for iPhones by 6% to 8%, experts predicted.
We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements. They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
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Home Financial Investigations FTC Sacks Deceptive Marketers for Work-at-Home and Business Coaching Scheme
FTC Sacks Deceptive Marketers for Work-at-Home and Business Coaching Scheme
Peter Moreno
Deceptive Marketers and Expansive Fraud Scheme
Deceptive marketers for a work-at-home and business coaching scheme swindle consumers out of millions of dollars. One of the companies, a Utah company called Apply Knowledge, provides coaching services to people who want to learn to operate a web-based business. The fraud, at its core, falsely promises consumers they can earn considerable income through the purchase of business coaching services. Over the course of the scheme, consumers lose upwards of tens of thousands of dollars each.
The scheme’s key ringleaders are Phillip Edward Gannuscia II and Richard Scott Nemrow. Other defendants include Gannuscia’s wife, Jessica Bjarnson, Jeffrey Nicol, Thomas J. Riskas III, Dahm International LLC, Dominion of Virgo Investments Inc., Essent Media LLC, EVI LLC, Nemrow Consulting LLC, Novus North LLC, Purple Buffalo LLC, 365DailyFit LLC, and Vensure International LLC. Going forward, the aforementioned individuals and companies receive FTC bans from selling business coaching programs and investment opportunities, and from credit card laundering and telemarketing. In addition to the ban, the Federal Trade Commission settlement order prohibits the defendants from profiting from consumers’ personal information of the challenged practices.
FTC and U.S. District Judge Clash
The Federal Trade Commission order imposes a $19,214,950.40 judgment. The judgement, however, does not become due unless the defendants misrepresent their respective financial condition. In the meantime, Gannuscia and Bjarnson surrender $854,200, while Nemrow surrenders $160,800. Similarly, Riskas and Nicol surrender $12,000 and $2,000, respectively. As for the corporate entities, the FTC levies additional sums.
Despite the widespread fraud, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson states a contrarian position to arguments from the Federal Trade Commission. Meanwhile, the FTC asserts that all assets shall be frozen. Finally, the FTC insists a responsible party is appointed to take over the companies and seize all related funds.
“It might be fraud. It might not be,” said Benson, who added the issues “can be sorted out at trial” and indicated he didn’t accept the FTC argument the businesses operated as single enterprise in which all operations involved fraud.
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China state paper urges calm after blockchain stocks, bitcoin soar
FILE PHOTO: Small toy figurines are seen on representations of the Bitcoin virtual currency displayed in front of an image of China's flag in this illustration picture, April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese state media urged investors to remain rational and not take Beijing’s support for blockchain as a boost for virtual currencies, after comments by Chinese President Xi Jinping drove up shares in blockchain-related firms and the price of bitcoin.
Xi said last week that China should accelerate the development of blockchain technology, a digital ledger that forms the backbone of many cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. His remarks sparked a rush into the shares of firms engaged in, or believed to be engaged in blockchain or digital currency-related businesses.
“Blockchain’s future is here but we must remain rational,” the People’s Daily newspaper, which is published by China’s ruling Communist Party, said in a commentary late on Monday.
“The rise of blockchain technology was accompanied by that of cryptocurrencies, but innovation in blockchain technology does not mean we should speculate in virtual currencies,” it said.
Traders from three Chinese brokerages also told Reuters that they received a notice from the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Monday which said, “for any blockchain-related (topics), we ask listed companies to make statements based on facts and not make any exaggerated claims or create vicious hype”.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The government cracked down on the country’s cryptocurrency industry in 2017 with regulators banning the practice of creating and selling virtual currencies or tokens and shutting local cryptocurrency trading exchanges, saying they were facilitating illegal fundraising and pyramid schemes.
Chinese officials, however, said at the time that research into blockchain technology was still encouraged although Xi’s comments were the first time Beijing had publicly thrown such support behind the sector.
Beijing is also creating its own central bank-issued digital currency to cut the costs of circulating paper money and boost policymakers’ control of money supply.
Reporting by Brenda Goh in Shanghai and Cheng Leng in Beijing; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Giles Elgood
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Kamaludin Nurul Farahana, Dr.
Diagnostic & Applied Health Sciences
Emailnurulfarahana@ukm.edu.my
Websitehttp://www.ukm.my/fsk
(N,N-Diisopropyldithiocarbamato)triphenyltin(IV): Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and computational study
Haezam, F. N., Awang, N., Kamaludin, N. F., Jotani, M. M. & Tiekink, E. R. T., 1 Oct 2019, In : Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications. 75, p. 1479-1485 7 p.
Thiones
Cytotoxic activity of Tinospora crispa crude extracts (stem) against k562 human leukemia cells
Awang, N., Ruzali, H. I., Mohamad, R., Kok Meng, C. & Nurul Farahana, K., 1 Jan 2019, In : OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences. 19, 2, p. 117-123 7 p.
Tinospora
Complex Mixtures
Cytotoxicity evaluation and the mode of cell death of K562 cells induced by organotin (IV) (2-methoxyethyl) methyldithiocarbamate compounds
Nurul Farahana, K., Ismail, N., Awang, N., Mohamad, R. & Pim, N. U., 1 Jun 2019, In : Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science. 9, 6, p. 10-15 6 p.
Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute
Crystal structures and Hirshfeld surface analyses of (N -hexyl- N -methyldithiocarbamato-κ 2 S, S ′)triphenyltin(IV) and [ N -methyl- N -(2-phenylethyl)dithiocarbamato-κ 2 S, S ′]triphenyltin(IV)
Mohamad, R., Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K., Jotani, M. M. & Tiekink, E. R. T., 1 Jan 2018, In : Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications. 74, p. 630-637 8 p.
Crystal structures and Hirshfeld surface analyses of bis[N,N-bis(2-methoxyethyl)dithiocarbamato-κ2 S,S′]di-n-butyltin(IV) and [N-(2-methoxyethyl)-N-methyldithiocarbamato-κ2 S,S′]triphenyltin(IV)
Spectral characterization and X-Ray crystallographic studies of some triphenyltin(IV) dithiocarbamates compounds
Mohamad, R., Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K. & Pim, N. U., 1 Jan 2018, In : Asian Journal of Chemistry. 30, 12, p. 2743-2748 6 p.
X ray crystallography
Bond length
Synthesis and characterization of novel diorganotin(IV) complexes derived from N-methyl-phenethyl dithiocarbamate and bis(2-ethoxyethyl) dithiocarbamate
Pim, N. U., Awang, N., Mohamad, R., Abdul Aziz, Y. F. & Nurul Farahana, K., 1 Jan 2018, In : Asian Journal of Chemistry. 30, 6, p. 1364-1368 5 p.
Carbon Disulfide
Characterization of rainwater chemical composition after a Southeast Asia haze event: insight of transboundary pollutant transport during the northeast monsoon
Mohd Nadzir, M. S., Lin, C. Y., Khan, F., Latif, M. T., Dominick, D., Hamid, H. H. A., Mohamad, N., Abdul Maulud, K. N., A Wahab, M. I., Nurul Farahana, K. & Mat Lazim, M. A. S., 13 May 2017, (Accepted/In press) In : Environmental Science and Pollution Research. p. 1-13 13 p.
pollutant transport
Energy dispersive spectroscopy
Cytotoxicity assessment of organotin(IV) (2-metoxyethyl) methyldithiocarbamate compounds in human leukemia cell lines
Nurul Farahana, K., Zakaria, S. A., Awang, N., Mohamad, R. & Pim, N. U., 2017, In : Oriental Journal of Chemistry. 33, 4, p. 1756-1766 11 p.
Di-n-butylbis[N-(2-methoxyethyl)-N-methyldithiocarbamato-κ2 S,S′]tin(IV): Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis
Mohamad, R., Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K., Jotani, M. M. & Tiekink, E. R. T., 2017, In : Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications. 73, p. 260-265 6 p.
Novel Organotin(IV) Dithiocarbamate: Cytotoxicity Evaluation and the Toxicity Mechanism in Human Leukemia Cell Lines
Nurul Farahana, K., Awang, N., Ibrahim, B., Hamid, A. & Kok Meng, C., 2016, In : Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment. 20, 6, p. 5-19 15 p.
Synthesis, characterisation and antibacterial activity of new diorganotin(IV) Bis (2-Methoxyethyl) dithiocarbamate complexes
Mohamad, R., Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K. & Abu Bakar, N. F., 1 Sep 2016, In : Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences. 7, 5, p. 1269-1274 6 p.
Bioactivity
Synthesis, characterization and antitumor activity of new organotin(IV) methoxyethyldithiocarbamate complexes
Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K., Baba, I., Kok Meng, C., Rajaajab, N. F. & Hamid, A., 2016, In : Oriental Journal of Chemistry. 32, 1, p. 101-107 7 p.
HL-60 Cells
Triphenyltin(IV) and [bis(2-methoxyethyl)dithiocarbamato-κ2 S,S′]triphenyltin(IV): Crystal structures and Hirshfeld surface analysis
Mohamad, R., Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K., Jotani, M. M. & Tiekink, E. R. T., 2016, In : Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications. 72, p. 1480-1487 8 p.
Cytotoxicity and genotoxicity assessments of batik industrial wastewater on V79 cells
Awang, N., Ehlam, S. N. F., Kok Meng, C. & Nurul Farahana, K., 1 Sep 2015, In : Toxicology International. 22, 3, p. 76-82 7 p.
Evaluation of antimicrobial activities of organotin (IV) alkylphenyl dithiocarbamate compounds
Awang, N., Mohktar, S. M., Mohamad Zin, N. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2015, In : Asian Journal of Applied Sciences. 8, 2, p. 165-172 8 p.
Organotin Compounds
Acinetobacter baumannii
Vibrio cholerae
Staphylococcal Pneumonia
In vitro cytotoxic activity of new triphenyltin (IV) alkyl-isopropyldi-thiocarbamate compounds on human acute T-lymphoblastic cell line
Awang, N., Yousof, N. S. A. M., Rajab, N. F. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2015, In : Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science. 5, p. 7-11 5 p.
Thiocarbamates
Jurkat Cells
Synthesis and characterisation of phenanthroline adducts of Pb(II) complexes of BisN-alkyl-N-ethyldithiocarbamates
Awang, N., Nordin, N. A., Rashid, N. & Nurul Farahana, K., 1 Mar 2015, In : Oriental Journal of Chemistry. 31, 1, p. 333-339 7 p.
Phenanthrolines
Toxicity mechanism of triphenyltin (IV) butylphenyldithiocarbamate on acute lymphoblastic cells, Jurkat E6.1
Awang, N., Abd Kadir, N. S., Nurul Farahana, K. & Kok Meng, C., 2015, In : Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences. 6, 2, p. 1457-1465 9 p.
Caspase 3
Cytotoxicity and mode of cell death induced by triphenyltin (IV) compounds in vitro
Awang, N., Aziz, Z. A., Nurul Farahana, K. & Kok Meng, C., 2014, In : OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences. 14, 2, p. 84-93 10 p.
Evaluation of the Ex vivo antimalarial activity of organotin (IV) ethylphenyldithiocarbamate on erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium berghei Nk 65
Awang, N., Jumat, H., Shak, S. A. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2014, In : Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences. 17, 6, p. 836-842 7 p.
Plasmodium berghei
schizonts
Synthesis and characterisation of organotin(IV) nethyl- N-phenyldithiocarbamate compounds and the crystal structures of dibutyl- And triphenyltin(IV) nethyl- N-phenyldithiocarbamate
Nurul Farahana, K. & Awang, N., 1 Nov 2014, In : Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment. 18, 11, p. 90-98 9 p.
The effectiveness of dibutyltin (IV) and di-tert-butyltin (IV) alkyl-phenyl dithiocarbamate compounds as larvicide against Aedes aegypti linn. (Diptera: Culicidae) in laboratory
Awang, N., Azahar, A., Othman, H. F. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2014, In : Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology. 8, 15, p. 1748-1753 6 p.
Synthesis, characterization and crystal structure of organotin(IV) N-Butyl-N-phenyldithiocarbamate compounds and their cytotoxicity in human leukemia cell lines
Nurul Farahana, K., Awang, N., Baba, I., Hamid, A. & Kok Meng, C., 2013, In : Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences. 16, 1, p. 12-21 10 p.
(N-Ethyl-N-phenyldithiocarbamato-κS)-triphenyltin(IV)
Nurul Farahana, K., Baba, I., Awang, N., Mohamed Tahir, M. I. & Tiekink, E. R. T., Jan 2012, In : Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 68, 1
Cytotoxicity of triphenyltin(IV) methyl- and ethylisopropyldithiocarbamate compounds in chronic myelogenus leukemia cell line (K-562)
Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K., Abdul Hamid, A., Mokhtar, N. W. N. & Rajab, Z. F., 2012, In : Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences. 15, 17, p. 833-838 6 p.
antineoplastic agents
Di-n-butylbis (N-ethyl-N-phenyldithiocarbamato-κS)tin(IV)
Nurul Farahana, K., Baba, I., Awang, N., Tahir, M. I. M. & Tiekink, E. R. T., Jan 2012, In : Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 68, 1
Study of ambient and indoor air quality in the building built on the former landfill
Ithnin, A., Zakaria, N., Sulong, N. A., Rahman, S. A. A., Awang, N. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2012, In : American Journal of Applied Sciences. 9, 8, p. 1194-1198 5 p.
The effectiveness of organotin (IV) benzylisopropyldithiocarbamate compounds as insecticide Against Aedes aegypti linn (diptera: Culicidae) in laboratory
Awang, N., Kosnon, N. A., Othman, H. F. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2012, In : American Journal of Applied Sciences. 9, 8, p. 1214-1218 5 p.
(N-Butyl-N-phenyldithiocarbamato-κS)-triphenyltin(IV)
Nurul Farahana, K., Baba, I., Awang, N., Mohamed Tahir, M. I. & Tiekink, E. R. T., May 2011, In : Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 67, 5
Cytotoxic and genotoxic effect of triphenyltin(IV) Benzylisopropyldithiocarbamate in thymoma murine cell line (WEHI 7.2)
Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K., Ester, B., Hamid, A., Rajab, N. F. & Abdul Halim, A., Jun 2011, In : Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment. 15, 2, p. 544-549 6 p.
Cytotoxic effect of organotin(IV) benzylisopropyldithiocarbamate compounds on Chang liver cell and hepatocarcinoma HepG2 Cell
Awang, N., Nurul Farahana, K. & Ghazali, A. R., 2011, In : Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences. 14, 15, p. 768-774 7 p.
Synthesis, characterization and biological activities of organotin (IV) methylcyclohexyldithiocarbamate compounds
Awang, N., Baba, I., Mohd. Yamin, B., Othman, M. S. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2011, In : American Journal of Applied Sciences. 8, 4, p. 310-317 8 p.
Chemical shift
Synthesis and characterization of organotin(IV) N-benzyl-N-isopropyldithiocarbamate compounds: Cytotoxic assay on human hepatocarcinoma cells (HepG2)
Awang, N., Baba, I., Mohd Yousof, N. S. A. & Nurul Farahana, K., 2010, In : American Journal of Applied Sciences. 7, 8, p. 1047-1052 6 p.
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Top 21 innovative universities in the UK
Top of the list, according to a study by Market Inspector, is Imperial College London
Market Inspector has conducted a study to identify the most innovative British universities. Two metrics were taken into account: the number of successful (granted) patents calculated as a yearly average per 1000 students; and the seed funds raised by startups established by graduates of the particular universities, calculated as average funds raised per startup.
The top three innovators are calculated to be:
Imperial College London Ranks first for granted patents, with a yearly average of 1.23 per 1000 students. Average funds raised by startups are £11,873,278
University of Oxford Has a yearly average of 1.13 successful patents per 1000 students, with average funds raised by startups standing at £13,500,450
Queen Mary University of London A yearly average of 0.33 granted patents per 1000 students does not rank highly. However, it is the indisputable number one for successful startups, with average funds raised amounting to £28,352,835
Top 5 universities by patents and startup success rate
When solely taking into account the patents granted between 2011-2016, calculated as a yearly average per 1000 students, the highest scoring universities are: Imperial College London (1.23) , University of Oxford (1.13), University of St Andrews (0.92), University of Cambridge (0.89), and University College London (0.46).
When looking at the patent distribution between 2011-2016 within all 21 top innovative universities, the leading industry is pharma & biotech with 534 registered patents. It is followed by chemicals (249 patents), medical devices and healthcare (199 patents), and agriculture, forestry & food (172 patents).
Besides Queen Mary University of London, other notable institutions raising a significant amount of seed funding are: University of Edinburgh (£18,856,321), University of Warwick (£16,401,962), University of Manchester (£16,131,366), and University of Cambridge (£15,802,363).
2019 will be the ‘Year of Female Innovative Students’
By 2019, according to a study conducted by Reuters, 15 of the 21 top innovative British universities will be dominated by women. The proportions between female and male students will be as follows:
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Some of the Unreal experiences from ambitious people like you who have taken part in our 12-week accelerator.
"I worked with more clients and was able to charge more than I was comfortable with before."
JENNI KOWAL, FOUNDER OF ANYTIME CREATIVE
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"We've gone from zero to 100 in our preparations for launch."
ERIK BERG, COHOST OF THE ALMOST VESTED PODCAST
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"During my 12 weeks of Unreal I doubled my client base and I also launched a website...what used to be a hobby became a legitimate side gig."
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"I really needed Unreal as a support structure, because while I am really good at my craft, running a business is different. And I needed help."
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"It has led to valuable networking. In fact, I've partnered with Unreal members, past members, and hired some folks to help me at TribeVest."
Travis Smith, founder and CEO of TribeVest
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"If you need some guidance, support, or accountability for where you're going, Unreal is the perfect way to get that."
Jesse Lear, Creator of Intentionally Lucky
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"It's been absolutely worth the investment and was absolutely worth the investment at a very early point in the experience."
Matt Deptola, Creator of Young Americans Let's Get Going
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Tbh, I wasn’t sure I was going to love the Unreal Collective. I feel like I’m constantly surrounded by people and have way too much to consume on a daily basis...why would I choose to add more? But something told me to join this last round and I’m so glad I listened.
— Val Geisler 💌 (@lovevalgeisler) September 7, 2018
And it’s not just @jayclouse’s leadership that is incredible (though that’s true). The people who make up the collective are Top Notch Humans ™. They’re kind and generous, brave and challenging. Being part of Unreal is making me a better human AND a smarter business owner.
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Cayley Muir, Founder of Composing Excellence
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"To think that these folks that I've never met, who were halfway across the country, were in my corner...that mattered a lot."
Reagan Pugh, founder of Assemble
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"Jay was able to connect me with the right people even outside of my group to really handle some of the bigger problems that I had."
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Tanya Vora, founder of Cheers!
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“As Seen Through these Eyes”, by Hilary Helstein
Screened on 20 January 2010
Runtime: 66′
The film As Seen Through These Eyes conveys images and messages from a number of eyewitnesses of the Holocaust. Hilary Helstein, the film’s writer, director and producer, travelled the world over the past decade to compile interviews with artists who survived the Holocaust. Narrated by Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet Maya Angelou, the words and the images of the survivor artists are profoundly moving, communicating horror and hope. For them, art was and still is a means of survival, either directly by saving their lives during the Holocaust or by helping them to endure and move forward from the unbearable past.
The film was followed by a Q&A session with film maker Hilary Helstein.
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Ventana Surfboards & Supplies Home All Eco Surfboards All Eco Surfboards Double Helix Flyer Longboard 9'0" Double Helix Flyer Longboard 9'0"
The Double Helix Flyer is a sleek and stunning performance longboard. This gorgeous board was crafted by Amaya Dennis with lessons and guidance by Martijn Stiphout. Amaya built the board for her senior capstone graduation project at Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz, California.
The bottom deck's double helix representation of DNA reflects Amaya's love of science and her future bio-psychology major at UC Santa Barbara. The old growth redwood is from floorboards milled in the late 1800s that came out of the Schwan mansion in Santa Cruz when it was torn down a number of years ago. The double helix itself is inlayed of maple from a cabinet shop and offcuts of koa, cherry, Indian rosewood and cocobolo from Ventana upcycle partner, Santa Cruz Guitar Company. This legendary company has been making exceptional, acoustic guitars for the likes of Johnny Cash, Ben Harper, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffet and hundreds of others since 1976.
The top deck incorporates the same, floorboard redwood as the bottom and has a stringer inlay inspired by Mexican design elements and made of Indian rosewood and spruce offcuts from the Santa Cruz Guitar Company.
Nail holes in the redwood have been filed with brass using a secret Ventana process.
The tail block was crafted from Douglas fir from the hull of the Western Flyer, considered by many to be the most famous fishing boat in the world. John Steinbeck, Ed "Doc" Ricketts and crew sailed this 77-foot sardine boat into the Sea of Cortez in Baja California, Mexico in 1940. The following year, Steinbeck published his book, The Log from the Sea of Cortez about the adventure. Learn more about this amazing boat and Ventana's use of its wood.
The glassed-on single fin is made from a piece of cherry offcut from a local cabinet shop. It is laser engraved on both sides with the Pacific Collegiate School logo.
The rails are made of U.S grown cork, and it was glassed with Entropy Super Sap Bio Resin and 4oz. fiberglass cloth (two layers on top and one on bottom). As with all Ventana boards, the interior is glassed and sealed, as well.
Made in Santa Cruz, California by Amaya Dennis and master craftsman Martijn Stiphout. See the library of progress pictures and videos for this board.
Dimensions: 9' x 22.75" x 2.75"
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Each board comes with a special edition of our standard Save-a-Surf Wax Box. This version includes two vent plug screws for the Ventana board!
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Lilium raises $90 million to build flying taxis
Paul Sawers@psawers September 5, 2017 12:01 AM
Founding team with the Lilium jet
Image Credit: Lilium
German aviation startup Lilium has closed a $90 million series B round of funding from a handful of notable investors, including Chinese technology giant Tencent, existing investor Atomico (the VC firm created by Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström), Obvious Ventures (the VC firm founded by Twitter cofounder and former CEO Ev Williams), and global banking and asset management group LGT.
Founded out of Munich in 2014, Lilium — known as Lilium Aviation until a name change a few months back — is setting out to create a world “in which everyone can fly anywhere, anytime” by building compact all-electric jets that take off and land vertically. This would effectively bypass expensive, space-consuming runways and would position the company to fulfill its mission of bringing Uber-style air taxis to market within a decade.
Indeed, Lilium carried out is first test flight back in April, sending a prototype two-seater jet to the skies above Germany. During its maiden journey, the company performed what it called its “most complicated manoeuvre” when it transitioned between hover mode and horizontal movement.
The company revealed at the time that it was setting its sights on a bigger, five-seater aircraft — something that will be made much easier with another $90 million in the bank.
This latest round of funding comes less than a year after Lilium closed its Atomico-led $10.7 million series A round, and with its new cash injection the company confirmed it will now “accelerate” plans to bring “low-cost air travel to a mass audience” by transporting people up to 300 km in one hour “at a price comparable to ground transport,” according to a statement.
“This investment is a tremendously important step for Lilium, as it enables us to make the five-seat jet a reality,” noted Lilium cofounder and CEO Daniel Wiegand. “This is the next stage in our rapid evolution from an idea to the production of a commercially successful aircraft that will revolutionize the way we travel in and around the world’s cities.”
Lilium’s mission to make urban personal air transport a reality will no doubt face significant regulatory scrutiny in the coming years, but a number of aviation startups around the world are currently working toward similar goals, which makes Lilium’s path just that little bit easier.
Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads
Flying cars and other forms of personal air transport is something of a trend at the moment. Massachusetts-based Terrafugia has been working on prototypes of “roadable” aircraft for more than a decade, while Google cofounder Larry Page is backing two aviation startups. Kitty Hawk debuted its ultralight personal aircraft earlier this year, and Page founded Zee back in 2010 to build a “small, all-electric plane that could take off and land vertically,” according to a Bloomberg report.
Elsewhere, Slovakia-based AeroMobil recently raised fresh funds to bring its flying cars to Asia, and Washington-based Zunum Aero is striving to bring aviation into the future with small electric aircraft that use thousands of quieter regional airports.
Airbus also confirmed plans to test a self-piloted flying car by the end of 2017.
In addition to ramping up its development efforts for the five-seater jet, Lilium revealed that it plans to double down on recruitment efforts and expand its current team of 70. Just last month, the company announced some senior hires from Airbus, Tesla, and Gett — a trio of companies that pretty much embody Lilium’s plans for an all-electric aircraft, one built for the Uber generation.
“We are continuing to recruit the very brightest and best global talent in aeronautical engineering, physics, electric propulsion, and computer science to join us on this extraordinary aviation journey, where the only limits are the laws of physics,” added Wiegand.
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Posted on April 23, 2016 January 7, 2017 AuthorThe Manila PostLeave a comment
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IN a bid to provide quality services to its clientele and to make the state-run lottery more transparent and credible, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) now adheres to international standards.
The agency successfully passed all the necessary requirements to secure a certification from the International Standards Organization (ISO).
PCSO officials have formally received the ISO 9001:2008 certification from the third-party auditor TUV Rheinland Philippines at the PCSO Head Office, Conservatory Building in Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City.
During the ceremony, TUV Rheinland Managing Director Arwen Loveres commended the top management for its support and commitment to PCSO in obtaining the ISO certification.
Loveres said the challenge now for PCSO is to maintain the established Quality Management System (QMS).
The ISO certification, according to PCSO Chairman Erineo “Ayong” S. Maliksi, will not only benefit PCSO employees but also its clientele.
PCSO Vice President and General Manager Atty. Jose Ferdinand Rojas 2nd said the certification provides integrity and credibility to draw procedure and prize claims.
“It strengthens the assurance of the public that the game is very transparent and is very credible,” said Rojas adding that PCSO spent three years in obtaining the ISO certification.
The significance of PCSO’s ISO certification
Rojas explained the certification assures the public that PCSO Lotto games are conducted according to international standards.
“Bettors can be confident that whenever they play Lotto, it is a game that has undergone quality checks for its processes in line with the agency’s Quality Management System,” he said.
The ISO certification’s scope includes the conduct and management of online lottery procedures and processing of prize claims amounting to P5,000 and above as well as the support processes involved.
The departments that underwent the audit include gaming and technology, information-technology services, data security, accounting and budget, human resources, general services, assets and supply management, and corporate planning.
Aside from PCSO’s commitment to provide quality services for its clientele, Rojas said the move is also pursuant to Executive Order no. 605, series of 2007.
The law requires “all departments and agencies of the Executive branch, including all government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financial institutions (GFIs)” to adopt a QMS.
The law also enjoins state universities and colleges and the other branches of government—the legislative and the judiciary—as well as local government units to develop their “ISO Quality Management Systems and pursue certification.”
The law was enacted nine years ago but it was only until the Aquino administration that it was strictly implemented, especially in the case of GOCCs under the Governance Commission (GCG) for GOCCs.
According to Rojas, GCG set as one of the PCSO’s 2015 targets the requirement to obtain its ISO certification for gaming processes, giving it a heavy weight of 10 percent.
GCG has also set a 2016 target for PCSO to obtain certification for its charity assistance-related core and support processes.
Rojas said this is a challenging target because to be included in its scope are the processes and procedures for requests for assistance not only at the head office in Metro Manila and the satellite office at the Lung Center of the Philippines, but also at the 50-and-counting branches of PCSO nationwide.
“We would also like to look at the agency as a government institution which has a high trust rating and credibility with the Filipino people, he added.
Journey to ISO Certification
The activities toward certification had begun a couple of years ago, with certain personnel of the PCSO undergoing trainings and workshops to learn about ISO and how to develop a QMS specific to the agency.
“It was a long journey for the PCSO, but we met the target on time, even garnering praise from the certifying body’s auditors for some aspects of the PCSO QMS that were particularly noteworthy, such as the agency’s
ISO-related documentation,” said Rojas.
The agency was recommended for ISO certification on December 18, 2015, after it successfully hurdled the two-day second-stage audit conducted by TÜV last December 17 and 18, 2015.
On Dec. 3, 2015, PCSO hurdled the first-stage audit of independent auditors John Francis Faustorillo (lead auditor), Lei May Maza, Eleanor Tan and Hilario Capili.
“It received the green light to proceed to second-stage audit on Dec. 17 and 18,” said Rojas.
A two-day second-stage audit of gaming-related core and agency support processes was then conducted.
At the closing meeting on Dec. 18, Rojas said the auditors gave PCSO four positive findings and 17 opportunities for improvement, understandable considering that this is the first time that PCSO has implemented ISO standards.
“It was an interesting and eventful journey for the agency, whose personnel negotiated a steep learning curve to familiarize themselves with ISO standards and apply them to the core processes of conduct and management of Lotto draw and prize claim operations,” he said.
Gaming sector assistant general manager Conrado Zabella was named the agency’s deputy quality management representative, who guided the PCSO ISO Technical Working Group that facilitated and coordinated the process for the entire agency.
Rojas said PCSO has to maintain its QMS and further improve in the future.
“Our kababayan can be assured that the PCSO is continually improving its processes for frontline and support departments to provide the Filipino people with the highest standards of service according to the agency’s mandate,” he said.
He likewise expressed hope that the PCSO Branch Operations Sector and Charity Sector will also be able to receive their ISO certification this year.
“The move to obtain ISO certification is aligned with the administration’s priority direction toward the professionalization of the civil service and the improvement of operations and service delivery in the fulfillment of mandates, duties and responsibilities,” he said.
Increasing Medical Assistance Beneficiaries
One of the mandates of PCSO is to provide augmentation of the needed medicines to qualified beneficiaries most especially to the underprivileged members of the society.
During the six-year stay of Rojas at PCSO, the number of individuals granted medical assistance by the agency has been increasing continuously from 71,212 in 2010 to 249,761 in 2015. This gives a total of 894,889 individuals.
“We were able to increase the amount of medical assistance and the number of our kababayans who benefited from the increase of our sales from our gaming activities, he said.
He said they are also looking at more ways to make the agency’s charity assistance more efficient to make “our deliverables more closer to the Filipino people.”
Increasing PCSO Revenues
To beef up PCSO’s revenues, Rojas said they are exploring for more number games.
“We are always in the pipeline of researching and accepting gaming proposals in order to enhance our present gaming activities,” he said.
He also said that Lotto Games provided more revenue to PCSO and it is increasing every year.
From P2.63 Billion in 1995, Lotto sales jumped to P28.93 Billion in 2015.
Lotto Games include Lotto 6/42, Mega Lotto 6/45, Super Lotto 6/49, Power Lotto 55+10, Grand Lotto 6/55 and Grand Lotto 6/58.
Other PCSO’s game numbers include EZ2, Suertres, 4-Digit, and 6-Digit.
At the same time, Rojas said the number of winners and the amount of payouts also increased.
For the 10 number games, the number of winners in 2015 was pegged at 16.34 Million with a total prize of almost P11 Billion.
Rojas attributed these achievements to the joint and concerted efforts of PCSO employees, management and its various stakeholders and gaming partners.
As the agency’s revenues keep on pumping up, Rojas said the assistance being provided by PCSO is also increasing.
“Our plans will be really to expand and to enhance our gaming activities so that it can increase our gaming revenues and in order for our charity fund to also increase,” he said.
Because of this, Rojas appealed to the public to continue patronizing PCSO’s number games.
“Palagi sana nating tangkilikin ang produkto ng PCSO maski na anong gaming activity dahil sa bawat piso ng pagtangkilik nila awtomatikong 30 porsiyento niyan ay napupunta sa ating mga kababayan sa pamamagitan ng tulong medical,” he said.
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The F2007 is the fifty third single-seater built by Ferrari specifically to compete in the Formula 1 World Championship. The project, known internally as the 658, represents the Scuderia’s interpretation of the technical regulations that apply for 2007, with changes principally concerning safety, through the introduction of more stringent front and rear crash tests and the addition of a composite material structure to provide lateral protection to the sides of the driver. These modifications have led to a significant increase in the weight of the car, in the region of just under ten kilogrammes.
The F2007 chassis has been significantly modified when compared to the 248 F1. The design was revised to accommodate a new front suspension that represents a major conceptual innovation, mainly in terms of aerodynamics. The shape of the side-pods and their openings are also revised, based on modifications to the cooling system, which also implies exits for the radiators on the upper part of the bodywork, while the engine air intake is also substantially different. The car has a longer wheelbase than its predecessor. The rear of the car is much narrower, taking advantage of the more sculpted shape of the gearbox housing, which again this year is made from carbon fibre. The gearbox itself, which is still mounted longitudinally, is fitted with an innovative quick-shift system (seven plus reverse).
The rear suspension is similar to that on the 248 F1, but a significant development programme is planned in this area, in order to get the most out of the system, based on making progress in understanding the behaviour of the 2007 tyres. The position of the rear view mirrors seen on the 2006 car remains unchanged and the same goes for the exhaust system. Therefore, the 056 engine continues as a load bearing member and is again mounted longitudinally. Based on what is permitted in the regulations, the following modifications have been carried out to the engine signed off with the FIA in October 2006: the combustion chamber, the valves, the inlet and exhaust chambers, all aimed at optimising the torque curve, given the engine rev limit of 19,000 rpm; the piston, the piston pin and the piston cooling jets to aim for the best possible reliability when running at the limit of 19,000 rpm; the fluid systems (water and oil) and components to facilitate the integration of the 056 into the new car.
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THEATRICAL REVIEW: Spectre (2015)
November 20, 2015 CJ Stewart 1 comment
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Produced by: Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
Screenplay by: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Jez Butterworth
Story by: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Edited by: Lee Smith
Cinematography by: Hoyte van Hoytema
Music by: Thomas Newman, Sam Smith (theme)
Starring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes, Rory Kinnear, Jesper Christensen, Alessandro Cremona, Judi Dench
Based on characters created by Ian Fleming
It’s been three years since the release of the last James Bond film, Skyfall, but it seems as though a mere matter months have passed by the time Spectre begins, with Bond tracking down an assassin named Marco Sciarra, who is suspected of having ties to a larger organization that has been causing headaches for MI6 and, more generally, the world at large. Fans of the series, particularly those who have either read the books or seen the older films, will by no means have any trouble quickly knowing exactly what organization Sciarra is working for (hint: it’s in the title) as well as what this will likely mean for the Bond franchise going forward. Your enthusiasm for the film and the implications of this organization’s presence from here on out will largely depend upon one’s devotion to the series and whether you’re willing to accept that the more serious, grounded, and gritty Bond films that began with the Daniel Craig era of films were pretty much always going to build up to this from the very beginning. And even if you’re willing to accept this inevitable return to a refreshed but familiar form, what few surprises Spectre does have in store for audiences will actually be a far greater point of contention than the choice to continue moving these films “backward” in terms of tone and grandiosity. Read more…
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November 12, 2015 CJ Stewart Leave a comment
Directed by: Lee Tamahori
Written by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Edited by: Christian Wagner
Cinematography by: David Tattersall
Music by: David Arnold, Madonna (theme)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Will Yun Lee, Kenneth Tsang, Colin Salmon, Samantha Bond, Michael Madsen
Originally, my first post-break review was going to be of the most recent film in the Bond franchise, Spectre, however, a medical emergency (not mine) led to an unexpected disruption midway through. (Seriously, how dare my friend?) Everything’s good now, but I’ve now decided to instead go back to my original post-Halloween plans of reviewing one of Pierce Brosnan’s films as a sort of retrospective. Yeah, I originally also decided on not doing that, too, because I needed a bit of a review break, but now that I’m back, and the review for Spectre has been delayed, I figured, “Why not?” Read more…
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Riverside unites against hate
December 11, 2008 · by Viewpoints · in Uncategorized. ·
By Desiree Perez
With a community as diverse as Riverside, it’s expected that people won’t always see eye to eye. However, on the night of Nov. 20, community members set aside differences in race, creed and sexual orientation to rally against hate and discrimination.
Westboro Baptist Church, based out of Kansas, had planned to come to Riverside City College to protest the opening of “The Laramie Project.”
Westboro is known for protesting at military and police funerals, churches and political events. They lay blame for tragic events on America’s acceptance of homosexual lifestyles.
The play is a dramatic take on the beating and resulting murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student victimized because of his sexual orientation.
As word of the church’s intent spread throughout the community, many people organized to form a counter-protest.
Whitney Fournier, president of RCC’s Gay Straight Alliance club, was one of many students in attendance. “We came down here today to counter-protest because we don’t want this kind of hate going on in our backyard,” she said.
By approximately 6:30 p.m., hundreds of community members, students and RCC faculty and staff had gathered in front of the Martin Luther King building.
Chief of the Riverside Community College District Safety and Police, James Miyashiro, commented on the crowd.
“It looks like maybe 200 to 300 people,” Miyashiro said. “It’s (on an) individual basis.”
While counter-protesters all gathered in solidarity against the Westboro church, there were many different points of view represented in their ranks.
Community member Beth Musial took pride in the diversity of the community as well as the counter-protest.
“You’ve got to accept people for their differences, that’s what makes America what it is,” Musial said. “The bottom line is, the god I believe in loves everyone.”
Other counter-protesters, such as Patric Westmarc, member of the Inland Empire Atheists, preferred to leave gods by the wayside.
“(I’m here) speaking out against intolerance and hatred,” Westmarc said. “(Westboro church members’) ugliness and their point of view is coming from an old book written by old men that doesn’t apply today. So much ugliness comes from religion, and religion itself has become a problem”
Cal Baptist University alumnus, Vanessa Runner, also commented on the gathering, noting the unity in its message despite the diversity of its members.
“I’m a Christian, Republican and I’m straight, and I’m here to stand against hate,” Runner said.
RCC Safety and Police lined up in the street between the growing crowd and the Landis Auditorium. Each officer had a riot helmet and other protective gear.
Despite the size of the crowd present to protest against Westboro Baptist Church, Miyashiro was confident that he and his colleagues could contain the crowd.
“I imagine it going down very peaceful,” he said. “We have policies and procedures.”
At approximately 8 p.m., “The Laramie Project” performance began in Room 144 in the A. G. Paul Quadrangle.
Protesters from Westboro never made an appearance. “The rumor is that they got stuck in traffic,” Miyashiro said.
Soon after the performance had started, RCC Police were called off the scene and the official demonstration was over.
Despite the church’s absence, counter-protesters like Brandon Wagner, president of the UC Riverside Queer People of Color group, gleaned a sense of hope from the turnout.
“I did not imagine it would be this big,” Wagner said. “Look around. Clearly, we do care.”
Mama Joi, co-founder of “Equal Rights Equal Love” also commented on the sizeable turnout.
“This happened because one person talked to another person and started spreading word that, hey, we’re hurting and we need to share in unified love get out, get up, stand up, and here we are,” Joi said. “If there is any clear statement that lingers in people’s hearts and minds tonight may it be that truth and love will always win.”
Additional reporting by Erin Hudson.
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on: March 13, 2010 In: Schools & Sports
By Joshua Cole
Seven minutes. That’s how long it took for Heritage High School point guard Sullivan Ziegler to adjust to the lights and longer basketball court at the Denver Coliseum.
After that, Ziegler was in control, driving Heritage to the 5A classification girls’ basketball playoffs state semifinals.
Heritage defeated Chaparral High School, 58-48, in the quarterfinals, March 6, to advance to the semifinals at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Ziegler, a senior, had six turnovers in the first seven minutes of the game as Heritage fell behind 8-1 and then 12-7 to their league opponents. After that, though, she was nearly flawless directing play. On the possession following her sixth turnover, with only 25 seconds remaining in the first period, she rebounded a missed Chaparral shot and sprinted up the court. With three Chaparral defenders blocking her path to the basket, Ziegler stopped at the free-throw line, pivoted around and zipped a pass to teammate Lauren Huggins, who drained a three-pointer to get within two points.
“I was really nervous. I know I shouldn’t have been,” Ziegler said. “After I came out, I took some deep breaths and realized that I’m never going to have an opportunity like this. I calmed down, and we pulled it out. This was exciting. I loved it.”
Meanwhile, as Ziegler was keeping better control, in the second period Heritage’s defense forced five Chaparral turnovers after the Wolverines hadn’t given the ball away at all in the first period. Chaparral point guard
Katie Shepard threw the ball away three times in the second period.
Also, whereas Ziegler got stronger as the game progressed, Shepard tired out due to Heritage’s hounding defense. Heritage pressed a defender on Shepard for every inbounds, forcing Shepard to run to halfcourt instead of walking it up each play.
Shepard fouled out early in the fourth period on consecutive plays when Ziegler ran next to her with the ball, which forced the fatigued Shepard to reach in and slow down
Heritage’s point guard. With Shepard and Chaparral forward Melissa Ray on the bench indefinitely early in the fourth period after both of them had fouled out, Heritage’s offense was unstoppable and Chaparral’s offense was wounded, clueless and timid. Heritage extended a one-point lead late in the third period to 13 points in four minutes starting when Ray was whistled for her fourth foul late in the third.
Heritage center Kim Lockridge benefited the most from Chaparral’s loss of leadership and size – and she had contributed most to it as well by getting Ray in foul trouble and intimidating the rest of Chaparral’s defenders from playing tougher against her. In the second half, Lockridge scored 14 of her 19 points and pulled down 9 of her 15 rebounds. She made her final six shots of the game as Chaparral players backed off and didn’t foul her. She also sealed the game with an assist to forward Molly Rogan in the final minute.
“She always comes out for big games,” Ziegler said. “We needed her today more than we’ve ever needed her.” Huggins’ shooting helped Heritage stay close in the first half and early third quarter. She finished with 15 points, 10 in the first half. Rogan provided an extra threat on the other side of Lockridge. Rogan had 10 points total, with six points and a steal in the fourth quarter.
Heritage had defeated Grand Junction Central, 59-43, on the Western Slope, in the third round of the playoffs to get to the quarterfinals.
Heritage was scheduled to play Denver East High School in the state semifinals, March 10, after The Villager went to press. The winner is scheduled to play in the championship game against Legacy or Monarch high school, March 12, at the Coors Events Center, in Boulder.
On Jan. 14, Heritage lost to East, 67-63. Heritage didn’t play Legacy or Monarch. East defeated Highlands Ranch, 62-51, in the quarterfinals to get to the state semifinals.
Heritage won a girls’ basketball title in 1996. Heritage hasn’t won a girls’ state team title in any sport since 2000. East, Legacy and Monarch haven’t won a state title in girls’ basketball.
Heritage advanced to the state semifinals for the first time since 2002, when the team lost to ThunderRidge High School in the state championship game.
Regis Jesuit falls against Monarch
Monarch High School prevented Regis Jesuit High School’s girls’ basketball team from repeating as state champions with a 58-46 win in the state basketball quarterfinals, March 6. The No. 1 -seed Coyotes, of Louisville, erased a 10-point halftime lead in the first minute of the fourth period and took a lead that the team never relinquished shortly afterward.
Regis Jesuit, with seven players on its 12-girl roster listed as 6-foot or taller, stormed out to an early lead by pushing Monarch to the perimeter – Regis Jesuit players’ long arms intercepting passes or forcing bad passes and gobbling up rebounds while playing in a zone defense. In the first half, Regis Jesuit forced 16 turnovers as Monarch attempted only 16 shots, making five in scoring only 17 points. Meanwhile, Regis’s offense was more efficient, getting to the free throw line 10 times and making 9 of 20 field goals.
But in the second half, the smaller team attacked Regis Jesuit’s inside oak trees. In the third period, although Regis Jesuit disrupted Monarch’s field goal percentage – Monarch made only 4 of 15 shots in period and Regis got two blocks – Monarch went to the free throw line 10 times, forced seven turnovers and grabbed six offensive rebounds to get within striking distance before taking the lead. Regis took only eight shots and shot three free throws.
In the fourth period, Monarch – which has only three of 12 players listed taller than 5-foot-7 – continued to pound Regis Jesuit inside. Regis Jesuit’s starting 6-foot-3 center Megan O’Neil and starting 6-foot guard Janae Hall both fouled out in the first two and a half minutes, and Monarch went to the free throw line for 18 shots in the period – most of them before Regis Jesuit purposely fouled in the last two minutes.
Regis Jesuit finished its season with a 18-8 record. Regis Jesuit had made it to at least the state semifinals for five consecutive seasons, from 2005-2009.
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Online course offered for Virginia forest landowners
Leading researcher to head new Center for Substance Abuse at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
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Early investigations by Virginia Tech engineers show promise for detecting metastatic breast cancer cells
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Peter Macedo named director of Distance Learning and Summer Sessions at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech's CIA Officer-in-Residence arrives on campus
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Hassan Aref of Virginia Tech receives the G.I. Taylor Medal for research activities
Deadline is Feb. 8 for transportation equipment manufacturing companies to seek grant money
Virginia Tech diversity program wins national honors
Marc Edwards to head $450,000 study to identify lead risks in drinking water
Crime Alert: Virginia Tech Police investigating abduction and forcible fondling incidents
Barry Goodell named head of Virginia Tech Department of Wood Science and Forest Products
Crime Alert: Forcible fondling incident
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Tyler Walters named dean of University Libraries
The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets to honor graduating seniors during 68th annual Senior Banquet and Military Ball
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Center for the Arts interior designs revealed
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Assessing the seismic hazard of the central-Eastern United States
Virginia Tech's Gary Downey receives commonwealth's highest faculty honor
Gary Downey
Gary Downey, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech, will be honored with the Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, the Commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty.
Recognized internationally as founding leader of a unique interdisciplinary field called Engineering Studies, Downey will be honored for excellence in teaching, research, and public service by Governor Robert F. McDonnell in front of the General Assembly on Thursday, Feb. 17. Downey, also an affiliated professor in engineering education, women’s and gender studies, and sociology, emerged as the highest-rated nominee out of 106 faculty members nominated from a dozen higher education institutions across the state.
The Outstanding Faculty Award program, now in its 25th year, is administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and funded by a grant from the Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dominion.
Trained as a mechanical engineer and cultural anthropologist, Downey integrates research with pedagogy in what he calls “critical participation in broader discussions and debates about engineering education, research, practice, policy, and representation.”
"Downey is highly respected in science and technology studies and engineering education for his research examining relationships between the technical and the nontechnical dimensions of engineering education and practice and how these change over time and from place to place," said Sue Ott Rowlands, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
“Downey has bridged a daunting gap in higher education between engineering and the liberal arts,” said Ellsworth Fuhrman, chair of the Department of Science and Technology in Society. “His innovative approach to engineering education enables learners to better understand and analyze the broader value commitments in their technical work.”
In early research, Downey noted that “learning engineering challenges and shapes students as people.” His in-depth ethnography The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers won praise from reviewers for mapping the value tensions experienced by students and researchers who commit their careers to computer-aided design. Paul Rabinow, University of California at Berkeley, wrote, “Engaged in earnest and honest dialogue with the engineers he studies ... Downey shows us from the inside what working within a technology means to the lives of these engineers.”
This research led Downey to develop the award-winning course, Engineering Cultures. The course helps students become critical analysts of their own knowledge and values by learning that being an engineer has varied dramatically from country to country and over time. Since the 1990s, the course has helped more than 10,000 students and engineers prepare to work effectively with people who understand their work differently, especially in international settings.
Downey nurtured Engineering Studies by publishing synthetic reviews of research, founding the International Network for Engineering Studies, and then founding and editing the journal Engineering Studies and book series at both MIT Press and Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Through publications, workshops, and distinguished lectures, Downey is undertaking a transformative project to redefine engineering as both problem solving and problem definition. His current book manuscript shows that when educators teach the mathematical engineering sciences they are also teaching social values. Gary Gabriele, former National Science Foundation division director and current engineering dean at Villanova, writes, “[I]f we are truly able to transform engineering education for the 21st century, we will look back at [Downey’s] writing as the seminal work that defined what we should be doing.”
Downey, a member of the Virginia Tech faculty for 27 years, has been a key curricular architect of Virginia Tech’s program in Science and Technology Studies. He has designed 15 new courses, and led two complete revisions of the Ph.D. program.
Downey completed his master’s degree and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and earned a pair of bachelor degrees from Lehigh University. His 55 publications include four books, three special journal issues, 22 articles in refereed journals, and 12 book chapters. He has received 17 external grants totaling $1.3 million. He has served on 79 Ph.D. and master's committees, including 40 as chair.
Elected Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, he is also winner of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Sterling Omsted Award, recognizing “distinguished contributions to liberal education in engineering education.” At Virginia Tech, he won the William E. Wine Award for career excellence in teaching, the XCaliber Award for excellence in teaching with technology, the Graduate School award for best dissertation advisor, and the Edward S. Diggs Teaching Scholars Award for innovative scholarship in teaching.
Two professors receive the Commonwealth's highest faculty honor
Gary Downey, Marc Edwards to deliver keynote addresses at 2008 Fall Commencement ceremonies
Video: Alumni Distinguished Professor Gary Downey speaks at Fall 2008 Commencement
Jean Elliott
Blacksburg, Va.
Institute for Society, Culture and Environment
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (K-12 STEM education)
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Historical sketches of politics and public men, for the year 1812-[1813]
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ..., 1813-1814.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1800-1837.
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[v. 1.] General view of the state of parties. Ministerial and party changes during the year. The foreign policy of Great Britain. Buonaparte and the French empire. The campaign in the peninsula. Russian politics and campaign in the north. America and the Orders in Council. The Catholic question. The East India Company. Of peace
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US Supreme Court Lowers Bar To Larger Patent Damage Awards
The high court issued a ruling that substantially changes the game in terms of the amount of damages that could potentially be paid out in a patent infringement lawsuit.
9 Tech Giants Embracing The Open Source Revolution
The US Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday that makes it easier for patent holders to seek enhanced damages in infringement lawsuits, which could potentially triple the size of damages awarded.
Under the unanimous decision, federal district courts will have more freedom to decide when to award enhanced damages. These types of punitive damages allow plaintiffs to seek an award that is three times the amount of actual damages in a case.
Prior to the ruling, federal district courts faced "unduly rigid" tests in determining whether punitive enhanced damages could be awarded in patent infringement cases, according to the court's opinion posted on its website.
The district courts previously had to apply a two-part test to determine if enhanced damages could be paid out. The first test required a plaintiff to prove that a company infringed on its patent, despite "an objectively high likelihood that its actions constituted infringement of a valid patent." And the second test called for the plaintiff to prove that the risk of patent infringement was "either known or so obvious that it should have been known."
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This two-part test that the federal appeals court largely relied on was born out of a concern that the district courts would easily and frequently dole out enhanced damages in patent infringement cases, according to the higher court. And, so, this two-stage test was designed to avoid distorting the balance between protecting patent holders and technology innovation.
But the Supreme Court clearly had issues with this notion.
"The principal problem with (the) two-part test is that it requires a finding of objective recklessness in every case before district courts may award enhanced damages," the high court stated. "Such a threshold requirement excludes from discretionary punishment many of the most culpable offenders, such as the 'wanton and malicious pirate' who intentionally infringes another's patent -- with no doubts about its validity or any notion of a defense -- for no purpose other than to steal the patentee's business."
As a result, the Supreme Court called on giving district courts more discretion to determine when enhanced damages can be awarded. However, it also acknowledged the importance of facilitating "imitation and refinement through imitation that is necessary to invention itself."
[Read IBM Wields Cloud Patents For Defense, Profit.]
The Supreme Court ruling stemmed out of two patent cases -- Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics and Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer Biomet Holdings. The Supreme Court is returning the cases to the district courts for proceedings.
Following the court ruling, Jeffrey Heaton, vice president of Halo Electronics, said in a statement, "This win means that all patent owners -- no matter how big or small -- can better protect themselves from patent infringers and can be sure that infringers will be held accountable for their egregious conduct."
The Supreme Court case was of keen interest to the White House, which has been supportive of easier access to punitive damages, while technology titans Facebook and Google's Alphabet said tight limits on large damage awards would prevent frivolous lawsuits and have a chilling effect on innovation, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Dawn Kawamoto is an Associate Editor for Dark Reading, where she covers cybersecurity news and trends. She is an award-winning journalist who has written and edited technology, management, leadership, career, finance, and innovation stories for such publications as CNET's ... View Full Bio
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Carl A. Grant Lecture: Multi-modal Voicing & Scale in Documentary Media
April 28, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Eva Lam
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies, Northwestern University
Drawing from a study of video documentary making in a high school with students from immigrant families and interviews with media practitioners, I discuss how the representational or discursive practices of “scaling” in social-issue documentaries afford the potential for re-constructing our understanding of the relationship between different socially stratified spaces. Our study of social documentary explores how particular spatiotemporal scopes of experiences and practices are represented and made visible through the voices of particular characters and how the voices of different characters and institutional actors are juxtaposed or linked to each other to constitute particular relations between them. We are interested in how the boundaries among different socially stratified spaces and the language practices associated with these spaces are strategically exposed and rejigged or reordered in documentary storytelling. Our study considers how media production can offer opportunity for students to document and mobilize their own and their communities’ language and semiotic repertoires, and analyze and orchestrate them in relation to other community and institutional voices to extend important conversations in society.
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Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from June 13 to June 15, 2018.
Hop Along at Turf Club Poster
Hop Along
Next came Hop Along. Frances Quinlan has an effortlessly friendly rapport with her audience. Her vocal chops are impressive; simultaneously husky and lilting. Hop Along is a group of talented musicians destined for good things. …
+ Bat Fangs
Wed 06/13/2018 (7pm/$16/Sold Out)
Hop Along is currently on tour for their new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Saddle Creek). The record debut at #1 on the Alternative New Artist Albums, #2 on Top New Artist Albums and breaking into the top 50 of Billboard’s Top 200.
We last saw the band in Athens in September 2016 and wrote, “Next came Hop Along. Frances Quinlan has an effortlessly friendly rapport with her audience. Her vocal chops are impressive; simultaneously husky and lilting. Hop Along is a group of talented musicians destined for good things.”
Bat Fangs to open.
6/3: South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
6/5: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
6/6: Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit
6/8: Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
6/9: Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
6/10: Chicago, IL @ Metro
6/12: Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
6/13: St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
6/16: Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
6/18: Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
6/19: Austin, TX @ Barracuda
6/20: Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
6/22: St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
6/23: Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
7/28: Charlottesville, VA @ Southern Music Hall
7/29: Cincinnati, OH @ Ballroom at the Taft
7/31: Columbia, MO @ Rose Music Hall
8/1: Norman, OK @ Opolis
8/3: Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
8/4: Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
8/5: San Diego, CA @ Irenic
8/6: Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
8/8: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
8/9: Chico, CA @ The Big Room at Sierra Nevada
8/10: Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
8/12: Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
8/14: Boise, ID @ Neurolux
8/16: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
8/17: Denver, CO @ Velorama Festival
8/18: Omaha, NE @ Maha Festival
8/20: Des Moines, IA @ Wooly's
8/21: Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
9/9: New York, NY @ Pitchfork Octfest
11/4: Dublin, Ireland @ Vicar Street
11/5: Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy
11/7: London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
11/8: Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy 1
11/10: Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
11/11: Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
11/12: Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
11/14: Uthrecht, Netherlands @ Grote Zaal TivRe
11/15: Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
11/16: Berlin, Germany @ Asstra
Eric Nam at First Avenue Poster
Primus/Mastodon 2018 Poster
George Hadfield: Brenda
Skating Polly at Lee’s Liquor Lounge Poster
Quiet Slang 2018 Poster
Heavy metal band Mastodon will be playing an all-ages show at First Avenue on Wednesday. The Atlanta-based band are currently on tour in support of their latest album Once More Round the Sun which …
Skating Polly
Grrrl rockers Skating Polly will be in town next Wednesday, March 30th. The duo (Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse) was previously in town in in 2014 with White Fang. …
Beach Slang
Beach Slang is currently on tour in support of their upcoming debut album Find People Who Feel Like Us (out October 30 on Polyvinyl Records). Like most of the Midwest tour …
+ Loote
Wed 06/13/2018 (6:30pm/$25)
K-Pop sensation Eric Nam’s show at the Cedar Cultural Center has been upgraded to the bigger venue, First Avenue’s mainroom.
Show up early to check out New York-based pop duo Loote (Emma Lov and Jackson Foote).
Tour dates (all dates with Loote):
6/5 – Los Angeles, CA - Fonda Theatre
6/6 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall
6/9 – Vancouver, BC – Rio
6/10 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
6/13 – Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
6/14 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
6/16 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theater
6/18 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
6/19 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
6/22 – Philadelphia, PA – Foundry
6/23 – Washington, DC – U Street Music Hall
6/26 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theater
6/28 – Dallas, TX – Trees
6/29 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
MASTODON / PRIMUS
+ JJUUJJUU
Thu 06/14/2018 (6pm/$52.50)
mythlive.com
The co-headlining Mastodon and Primus will stop by the Myth in Minnesota on Thursday.
Psych rockers JJUUJJUU to open.
6/8 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE Outdoors
6/9 Sterling Hghts, MI Michigan Lottery Amph
6/10 Indianapolis, IN Farmer’s Bureau Insurance
6/14 St Paul, MN Myth Live Event Center
6/15 Bonner Springs, KS Providence Medical Center
6/16 Camdenton, MO Ozark Amphitheater
6/18 Lincoln, NE Pinewood Bowl
6/21 Bonner, MT Kettlehouse Amph
6/22 Redmond, WA Marymoor Park
6/23 Bend, OR Le Schwab Amphitheater
6/25 Troutdale, OR Edgefield
6/26 Jacksonville, OR Britt Pavilion
6/28 Avila Beach, CA Avila Beach Resort
6/29 Berkley, CA Greek Theatre
6/30 Lincoln, CA Thunder Valley Casino
7/2 Magna, UT The Great Salt Air
7/3 Las Vegas, NV Downtown Event Center
7/5 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
7/6 San Diego, CA Cal Coast Credit Union 7/7 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
GEORGE HADFIELD
+ DJ Stepmom
Thu 06/14/2018 (9:30pm/$7)
icehousempls.com
Minneapolis songwriter/keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist George Hadfield is having his Brenda album show at the Icehouse on June 14th. The Icehouse shows starts at 10pm.
DJ Stepmom to open.
+ Potty Mouth
Lee's Liquor Lounge
leesliquorlounge.com
Oklahoma’s Skating Polly is stopping by Lee's Liquor Lounge in Minneapolis on Friday, June 15th. Their new record The Make It All Show is out now on El Camino.
06/7 @ DC9 in Washington, DC
06/8 @ Mercury Lounge in New York, NY
06/9 @ Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia, PA
06/10 @ Once Lounge in Somerville, MA
06/12 @ Funhouse at Mr. Small’s in Pittsburgh, PA
06/13 @ Grog Shop in Cleveland, OH
06/15 @ Lee’s Liquor Lounge in Minneapolis, MN
06/16 @ Reverb in Omaha, NE
08/31 - 09/02 @ Bumbershoot in Seattle, WA
QUIET SLANG
+ Abi Reimold
Quiet Slang is the new project from James Alex (aka Beach Slang). Quiet Slang’s debut album Everything Matters But No One Is Listening is available now on Polyvinyl Record Co.
Quiet Slang Tour Dates
6/11: Toronto, ON @ Drake Hotel
6/12: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
6/14: Milwaukee, WI @ The Backroom
6/15: Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
6/16: Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
6/18: Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
6/21: Seattle, WA @ Barboza
6/22: Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
6/23: Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar
6/25: San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
6/26: Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge
6/27: Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
6/29: San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
6/30: Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
7/2: Austin, TX @ Barracuda
7/3: Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
7/5: Nashville, TN @ The High Watt
7/6: Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
7/7: Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
7/8: Richmond, VA @ Chilton House
7/9: Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
7/11: Boston, MA @ Great Scott
7/12: Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
7/14: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Posted by W♥M on Friday, 08 June 2018 at 12:19 AM in Abi Reimold, Bat Fangs, Beach Slang, DJ Stepmom, Eric Nam, George Hadfield, Hop Along, JJUUJJUU, Loote, Mastodon, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Potty Mouth, Primus, Quiet Slang, Skating Polly, Vu | Permalink | Comments (0)
Minneapolis: February 18 to February 22, 2017
Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from February 18 to February 22, 2017.
William Singe
Hotline Bling William Singe Original Release Date: October 2, 2015 Release Date: October 2, 2015 Label: Over Media Copyright: 2015 Over Media .…
Alex Aiono
Killer Alex Aiono Release Date: February 16, 2015 Label: Apt. 203 Records Copyright: 2015 Alex Aiono Music .…
at Skyway Theatre
Sunday, 02/19/17, 7pm ($25)
skywaytheatre.com
New-signed RCA recording artist William Singe will be headlining the Skyway Theatre this Sunday. Singe has a massive online fanbase, over 3 million Facebook followers and 250+ million YouTube views. Forbes called Singe as one of the “5 R&B Artists to Look Out For in 2017.”
Opening will be one of the fastest rising YouTube star, Alex Aiono. In addition to his massive Spotify and YouTube views, the Los Angeles-based Aiono artist also hosts two Radio Disney shows and will co-host the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards.
Feb 18 Chicago. IL The Riv
Feb 19 Minneapolis, MN Skyway
Feb 22 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
Feb 23 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Feb 24 Seattle, WA Showbox
Feb 26 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
Feb 27 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
Feb 28 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Mar 1 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Mar 3 Los Angeles, CA The Novo
Mar 5 Las Vegas, NV Brooklyn Bowl
Mar 8 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre
Mar 10 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Mar 12 Dallas, TX South Side Music Hall
Mar 13 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
Mar 15 Columbia, MO The Blue Note
Mar 16 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre
Mar 19 Louisville, KY Mercury Ballroom
Mar 20 Nashville, TN Marathon Music Works
Mar 21 New Orleans, LA Joy Theater
Mar 23 Tampa, FL Ritz Ybor
Mar 24 Ft. Lauderdale Revolution
Mar 26 Orlando, FL Plaza
Mar 27 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre
Mar 29 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Mar 30 Washington, DC The 9:30 Club
Apr 1 Toronto, ON The Phoenix
Apr 4 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory OC
Apr 5 San Diego, CA The Obsevatory SD
Apr 7 Honolulu, HI The Republik
Apr 9 Kahului, HI Castle Theater
Valerie June
Valerie June Skies grayed, thunder rumbled, and a light rain fell as Memphis-based singer-songwriter Valerie June took the stage to open Day Two, in support of her acclaimed ....
Australian duo Oh Pep! (Olivia Hally and Pepita Emerichs) will be headlining the Cedar Cultural Center next Tuesday, July 12th, in support of their debut album Stadium Cake (out now on Dualtone). ....
at Cedar Cultural Center
Wednesday, 02/22/17, 7pm ( $20 / Sold Out)
Valerie June is headlining the Cedar Cultural Center this Wednesday ... we previously saw her at Rock the Garden 2014 and described her as, “With Medusa-like hair and banjo-plucking skills, she declared, “We’re going to send the rain away” and did so, appropriately during ‘Rain Dance.’ Blues classic ‘Rollin and Tumblin’ was segued into her own ‘Workin’ Woman Blues’ and the gospel-flavored ‘This World’ ended the set, perfectly setting the table for the day ahead.”
Australian duo Oh Pep! (the “oh” stands for Olivia Hally and the “pep” is for Pepita Emmerichs) will open. The last time we saw Liv and Pep in July 2016, they were very talkative about how they met and how wonderful their friendship and musical partnership has evolved: “Part of the fun of their show is how much Liv and Pepi like to tell their stories. They had met in at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in 2009 as they had shared a passionate love for music (in the case of Liv: secretly country music fan). By the time they had talked on the phone, which, oddly, Liv took down notes, they had become BFF (best friends forever).”
02/17/17 Memphis, TN Hi-Tone Cafe
02/18/17 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill's
02/20/17 Chicago, IL Park West
02/24/17 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
02/25/17 Kansas City, MO Knuckleheads
02/27/17 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
02/28/17 Austin, TX Paramount Theatre
03/01/17 Houston, TX Heights Theater
03/02/17 New Orleans, LA Republic NOLA
03/03/17 Birmingham, AL Saturn
03/04/17 Atlanta, GA The Loft
03/05/17 Charleston, SC Charleston Music Hall
03/06/17 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
03/07/17 Durham, NC Carolina Theatre
03/09/17 Washington, DC Sixth & I Historic
03/10/17 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre
03/11/17 New York, NY Town Hall
06/01/17 Vancouver, BC Fox Cabaret
06/03/17 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
06/08/17 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
06/16/17 Ann Arbor, MI The Ark
Mykki Blanco
Mykki Blanco's debut mixtape, Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss is out now and you can grab it on their website. This "acid punk rapper" Mykki Blanco is also kicking …
02/18/17 Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile is finishing his “Live Broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion” tour on Saturday in St Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater. Aoife O'Donovan and Sarah Jarosz to join h im.
02/19/17 Liverpool’s Banners is playing the 7th Street Entry on Sunday. Tor Miller to open.
02/20/17 Mykki Blanco is headlining the 7th Street Entry. We haven’t written about Blanco since 2012, so it’s been a while.
02/21/17 Austin’s Whitney Rose will be at 7th Street Entry this Tuesday. She is touring in support of her new EP South Texas Suite.
02/22/17 Punk/pop Partybaby trio will be headlining the 7th Street Entry on Wednesday - on their way to SXSW, of course! Potty Mouth to open.
Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 12:09 AM in Alex Aiono, Aoife O'Donovan, Banners, Chris Thile, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Mykki Blanco, Oh Pep, Partybaby, Potty Mouth, Sarah Jarosz, Tor Miller, Valerie June, Vu, Whitney Rose, William Singe | Permalink | Comments (0)
Beach Slang at Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (25 April 2016)
04/29/16 Boise, ID Neurolux
04/30/16 Seattle, WA Vera Project
05/01/16 Portland, OR Analog Cafe & Theater
05/03/16 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
05/05/16 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour
05/07/16 Phoenix, AZ The Rebel Lounge
05/09/16 Dallas, TX Three Links
05/10/16 Austin, TX Sidewinder
05/11/16 New Orleans, LA Gasa Gasa
05/13/16 Shaky Knees Music Festival
05/15/16 St. Louis, MO Firebird
05/16/16 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
05/17/16 Detroit, MI Shelter
05/20/16 Washington, DC Rock And Roll Hotel
06/02/16 Primavera Sound
06/04/16 Kilbi Festival
All the critics agreed that Northampton-based quartet Potty Mouth are "band to watch" or "songs we can't stop playing". If you love Vivian Girls and saddened …
Dyke Drama
Dyke Drama (solo project of Sadie Switchblade) to open. Tour dates: 04/20/16 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall 04/21/16 Albany, NY The Hollow …
Two Cow Garage
Columbus' Two Cow Garage will hit the road on their U.S. tour. The band's front man Micah Schnabel talk about recording of the new album: "We've recorded there a few times and we ha …
Headlining at the Triple Rock Social Club on Monday night was Beach Slang. This Pennsylvania group is fairly new to the scene having just formed in 2013 but it was clear that they have already gained an extremely loyal fanbase.
Not originally listed on the venue’s website (or shown on the tour poster): Micah (of Two Cow Garage) kicked off the show.
Micah Schnabel is a singer/songwriter from Ohio. No, he’s not that at all actually, he’s a storyteller who happens to stand on stage with a guitar and make his voice sound pretty. Micah’s style is something that truly cannot be explained through words. It’s almost like the guitar is the background music to his beautifully written lyrics. Honestly, screw the guitar... he didn’t even need it. It just seemed to make him a bit more comfortable on stage. His voice isn’t polished sounding, it’s not auto-tuned, hell, some of the time it’s not even in tempo with what he's playing on the guitar but that’s what made it so perfect.
Micah’s lyrics are perfect. He even has a line in one of his songs about when you hear a song and you feel like it’s written just for you.... that’s how every single one of his songs hit me. Each time he sang a line, the hairs on my arms started to stand up. His lyrics are so personable that at times it kind of sounds like he is pulling the thoughts right out of the dark places in your head and saying them aloud. Like his lyric about wanting a face tattoo but it would break his mother’s heart. Who uses that line in a song? No one. Who has had that thought before? Pretty much everyone (okay, maybe it’s just Micah and I but I’m sure there’s more).
Dyke Drama was the second band to play last night. These guys were perfectly imperfect. There’s really no other way to explain it. Much like Beach Slang, these guys seemed to be having fun on stage and didn't take themselves too seriously. Unlike Beach Slang, these guys didn't seem to take the music too seriously either which sounds terrible but it really worked for them. This gender bending group is the brainchild of Sadie Switchblade of G.L.O.S.S. and, although it is technically a solo project, the touring members of this group had great chemistry and made it a fun set to watch.
Northampton-based quartet Potty Mouth was next. These guys (or rather girls) had a much more “California” vibe to them. Their music was slow but not boring and their demeanor was very calm and chill. They did not sound what I thought a band named “Potty Mouth” would sound like. Although at times their music leaned towards the grunge style, there were no obscene lyrics or anything. Like I said, think “California Calm”. It’s the kind of music you could listen to while on the beach with your girlfriends getting day drunk and hitting on the cute boys.
The members of Beach Slang seemed just as shocked as I was at the sheer amount of people that came out to see them on a Monday night. It wasn't a sold out show but it sure was packed for this new band. Once they started playing, it all made sense. I understood why so many people decided to venture out on a Monday night to see them.
The band members themselves just seemed like super fun guys. That sounds really lame but that’s definitely something that will make me instantly fall in love with a band. Although they took the music seriously, they didn’t take themselves seriously and that makes it easier for the crowd to loosen up and just have a good time.
These guys only have one full length album out and it felt like they played majority of that release along with a couple covers including a beautiful cover of The Replacements’ “Can't Hardly Wait” and “Bastards of Young”. Their covers didn’t just copy whatever band they were covering, they sounded completely like Beach Slang. That’s when a cover turns into something magical. I knew that they didn't write that song but because they didn’t just get up there and completely copy The Replacements, I will remember how their version sounded because it caught me. It was unfamiliarly familiar and it was perfect.
The tribute to the ‘Mats made sense, because they are huge fans of the Replacements and got Tommy Stinson produced their debut Find People Who Feel Like Us (as they previously mentioned last September), available now Polyvinyl Records.
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Posted by W♥M on Friday, 29 April 2016 at 09:04 AM in Sadie Switchblade, Beach Slang, Dyke Drama, Langen, Micah, Minneapolis, Potty Mouth, Triple Rock, Triple Rock Social Club, Two Cow Garage | Permalink | Comments (0)
Minneapolis: April 24 to April 25, 2016
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from April 24 to April 25, 2016.
The Melvins return to the road with the continuation of their Hold It In tour kicking off June 6 in Tucson at Club Congress. The tour announcement comes as Ipecac Recordings’ confirms ...
Japanese noise band Melt-Banana is coming to Minneapolis on Wednesday, October 23rd, at the Triple Rock Social Club. The duo (Yasuko Onuki and Ichirou Agata) is currently in the U.S. to do a "2 do what 2 fetch" tour …
SAVAGE IMPERIAL DEATH MARCH
feat. Napalm Death & Melvins
at First Avenue
Extreme British metal band Napalm Death is currently in the USA, on their so-called “Savage Imperial Death March Tour”.
Punk trio The Melvins (Buzz, Dale and Steve McDonald) is co-headlining.
Japanese noise artists Melt-Banana to open.
Melvins’ tour dates:
April 15 New York, NY Webster Hall
April 16 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
April 17 Montreal, QC Club Soda
April 19 Toronto, ON The Opera House
April 20 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre
April 21 Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom
April 22 Chicago, IL The Metro
April 23 Milwaukee, WI The Rave II
April 24 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
April 25 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
April 27 Denver, Co Ogden Theatre
April 29 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
May 1 Seattle, WA The Showbox
May 2 Vancouver, BC Venue
May 3 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
May 5 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
May 7 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour
June 3 -5 Bristol, UK Temples Festival
June 17 Clisson, France Hellfest
Monday, 04/25/16, 6pm ($13/$15)
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Philadelphia’s Beach Slang is back in town... this time headlining the Triple Rock Social Club, next Monday, April 25th. You might recall that we caught the band when they opened up for Tommy Stinson in September 2015 and noted that “you can tell right away that singer James Alex was really excited to tour with Tommy Stinson, even adding that "Every record I own is from here" (without naming bands, but we can imagine the Replacements, Prince and Hüsker Dü).”
Beach Slang’s music evokes the spirit of punk and juxtaposes it into something that's as brutally honest as it is infectiously catchy. Their live show is full of energy and after support other acts on the road, it's nice to see them have their own tour.
“Band to Watch” Potty Mouth and Dyke Drama (solo project of Sadie Switchblade) to open.
04/20/16 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall
04/21/16 Albany, NY The Hollow
04/23/16 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop
04/24/16 Madison, WI The Frequency
04/25/16 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club
04/27/16 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
Co-headlining will be Porches, the project of Aaron Maine. He’s currently touring in support of his Domino Records Pool, which came out February 5th. The record was called “Best New Music” from Pitchfork, as well as Harper's Bazaar …
Yowler
The Sidekicks and Yowler to open the show. Saintseneca Tour Dates 10/16: Blind Pig, Ann Arbor 10/17: Empty Bottle, Chicago 10/18: Cactus Club, Milwaukee 10/20: 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis …
at 7th Street Entry
Monday, 04/25/16, 7:30pm ($10/$12)
Frankie Cosmos (aka Greta Kline) got her name from her boyfriend Aaron Maine (aka Porches)... who also plays in Cosmos’ touring band. We’ve previously caught Porches and said that the band was popular with the young college students... expect returning fans to Frankie Cosmos’ show.
Cosmos is on tour in support of her new album Next Thing (Bayonet Records).
Eskimeaux and Yowler set to open the show.
North American Tour Dates
4.15.16 - Ché Café - San Diego, CA *
4.16.16 - Swedish American - San Francisco, CA *
4.18.16 - Analog Cafe & Theater - Portland, OR *
4.20.16 - The Vera Project - Seattle, WA *
4.21.16 - El Korah Shrine - Boise, ID *
4.22.16 - Post Theater - Salt Lake City, UT *
4.23.16 - Lost Lake - Denver, CO *
4.25.16 - 7th St. Entry - Minneapolis, MN *
4.26.16 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI *
4.27.16 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL *
4.28.16 - Mahall's - Lakewood, OH *
4.29.16 - Mr. Roboto Project - Pittsburgh, PA *
4.30.16 - First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA *
5.1.16 - Market Hotel - Brooklyn, NY *
* w/ Eskimeaux
Posted by W♥M on Monday, 18 April 2016 at 12:00 AM in Beach Slang, Dyke Drama, Eskimeaux, Frankie Cosmos, Melt-Banana, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Napalm Death, Porches, Potty Mouth, The Melvins, Vu, Yowler | Permalink | Comments (0)
This Week: Wye Oak, Potty Mouth, and Haim
Wye Oak will be returning in 2014 with a brand new yet-untitled album from Merge Records, the follow-up to their 2011's Civilian. Singer Jenn Wasner talked to Spin Magazine about the new album…
Sure, we've already written the weekly Minneapolis Music Guide: May 11 - May 17, 2014, but here is a bonus round.
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Do you remember when I said that Wye Oak had a new yet-untitled album coming out in 2014? Well, it happened. The album is called Shriek and it came out April 29, 2014, on Merge Records.
The duo (Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack) is currently out on tour in support of the new record. They stop by Minneapolis at the Fine Line Music Café on Thursday, May 15.
Remaining tour dates:
05/13 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
05/14 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
05/15 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe
05/16 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
05/17 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
05/18 – St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House
05/20 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
05/21 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
Vivian Girls
I got this sad announcement today. Vivian Girls have official split with the announcement of farewell shows in NY & LA. This actually didn't surprise me, as the girls in the band…
facebook.com/pottymouthgirls
All the critics agreed that Northampton-based quartet Potty Mouth are "band to watch" or "songs we can't stop playing". If you love Vivian Girls and saddened that they broke up last year... I think you'll be happy with Potty Mouth. The all-girls band (Victoria, Ali, Ally, and Abby) are currently on the road in support of their 2013 album Hell Bent.
Potty Mouth will be at Turf Club in St. Paul on May 17 with Fleabite.
05/12/14 Toronto, ON The Silver Dollar Room
05/13/14 Cleveland, OH The Happy Dog
05/14/14 Cincinnati, OH Motr Pub
05/15/14 Chicago, IL The Burlington
05/17/14 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
05/18/14 Kansas City, MO Czar Bar
05/21/14 Boise, ID The Crux
05/22/14 Seattle, WA The Black Lodge
05/27/14 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
05/30/14 La Jolla, CA Che Cafe Collective
05/31/14 Tucson, AZ 191 Toole
06/01/14 Phoenix, AZ The Rhythm Room
06/02/14 Las Cruces, NM Trainyard
06/04/14 Austin, TX Red 7
06/08/14 Gainesville, FL The Atlantic
06/09/14 Orlando, FL Will's Pub
06/10/14 Atlanta, GA WonderRoot
06/12/14 Baltimore, MD Ottobar
06/14/14 Brooklyn, NY Silent Barn
Haim Sold Out US Tour
The numbers are in, and as expected, the Haim sisters (Este, Danielle, and Alana) received the #1 spot in the U.K., and an impressive #6 on the Billboard album charts in the U.S., for their debut album Days Are Gone……
haimtheband.com
Say what you will, but it's hard to ignore all the buzz that is the sisters Haim. The American rock band is currently enjoying a sold out US tour for their album Days Are Gone (out now on Polydor/Columbia), stopping by Minneapolis' First Avenue on Monday, May 19th.
05/13/14 Boston, MA House Of Blues Boston
05/14/14 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre
05/15/14 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
05/17/14 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
05/19/14 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
05/21/14 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
05/22/14 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
05/24/14 Vancouver, BC Malkin Bowl
05/25/14 Sasquatch! Music Festival
06/03/14 Mallorca Rocks Festival
06/04/14 Ibiza Rocks Festival
06/05/14 Optimus Primavera Sound
06/07/14 Pinkpop Festival
06/08/14 Rock am Ring
06/09/14 Rock Im Park
06/26/14 Bravalla Festival
06/29/14 Rock-A-Field Festival
07/02/14 Open'er Festival
07/04/14 Roskilde Festival
07/05/14 Rock Werchter Festival
07/11/14 T In The Park
07/12/14 Musilac Festival
07/13/14 Ilosaarirock
07/17/14 Slottsfjell Festival
07/19/14 Longitude
08/09/14 Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
08/17/14 Musicfest NW
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Posted by W♥M on Monday, 12 May 2014 at 10:31 PM in Girls Girls Girls, Haim, Potty Mouth, Vu, Wye Oak | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Live indian tv apk 2017. 13 Best Live TV Apps For Android With Indian TV Shows Streaming And Catch Up
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Hotstar Premium Hotstar is the biggest media App when it comes to Streaming Star network channels and content which includes Star Plus, Star Sports and other Regional Channels. The Main Content Provided By Hotstar Is On Star Plus, Star Bharat, Star Utsav, Star Sports And Other Star Channels. App Performance Is Very Good As Comparison To All Apps In This List. In my test, I found most of the channels run smoothly without any buffer. Main Channels Provided By This App Is In Bangla Language. Watch your Favorite Indian Films, Movies, Drama Serials, Soap Operas, Reality Shows, Singing and Dance Shows, Morning Shows, Live Transmissions and all other Programs. The video quality settings can be downgraded or upgraded as required.
Top 7 Free Indian Live TV Apps for Android to Watch Live TV Channels Online (Streaming + Catch Up)
So, I recommend you to grant the permissions which you think is best suited for the functioning of the app. The app can be downloaded from their official website and it supports Android version 4. You Can Only Watch Few Zee Channels And Kid Channels. Vidmate Mostly Used As YouTube Video Downloader. The Apps above are free to use and offer high-quality links to stream the live channels on your Android mobile and tablet for free.
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15 Best Free Live TV Apps to Watch Indian Channels (2019)
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There are two versions of Hotstar one without any premium membership which has some delays ranging from a few minutes to 24 hours. Video Player Is Nice And Works Fine Even If You Have A Low-Performance Handset. The App interface is very good and fresh to use. We do not maintain the addons,repositories,m3u link,wizard but make it easy to download them from within Kodi without installing a 'third party addon store. Go back to apps and run kodi--Add-ons--Install from repository--Click on 2 dots.
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Hence, new users was also not faced any kind of difficulty while operating and watching Live television channels on this app. Also, there is a premium version for which you need to pay some amount. The App is not available on Google Play Store but you can download the latest Apk from their website. View Wi-Fi connections: Allows the app to view information about Wi-Fi networking, such as whether Wi-Fi is enabled and name of connected Wi-Fi devices. It is so simple and anyone should have been able to navigate their way through the app by themselves. Just tap one of your choices and you will get the content you want.
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China-based players at the World Cup – who’s going and who is not?
China may have yet again failed to qualify for the World Cup, but the Chinese Super League looks set to be represented with a record number of players this summer on football’s biggest stage.
With a little help from some overseas experts, looks at the China based players who have already booked their plane tickets to Brazil, those who narrowly missed out, and those still hopeful of going with final squads for every participating nation yet to be confirmed.
Leon Benko (Dalian Aerbin, Croatia)
Background: 30 years old, Striker, 4 caps since 2006, last cap v Switzerland March 2014
Season so far: Signed from HNK Rijeka, Benko has turned out for Dalian eight times in 2014. He featured for 90 minutes in the first four games and scored against Henan Jianye. Since then Benko has played a rotational role in four of his last seven games but not played a full match.
Expert opinion, Aleksandar Holiga (Twitter @alexholiga): There was pressure on Croatia managers (both Štimac and later Kovač) to call up Benko, as he was the leading goal scorer in the league – not only last season, but also this before he left Rijeka. However, Croatia have at least 5 or 6 forwards who are better than him and also better suited for the team’s needs. He’s no spring chicken and there wouldn’t be much point taking him to Brazil just to sit on the bench, but he was nevertheless called up and tested. I think he wouldn’t have made the final cut anyway, but by leaving for China he effectively eliminated himself from the list of candidates.
Chances: Left out of the squad
Mauricio Castillo (Qingdao Jonoon, Costa Rica)
Background: 26 years old, Midfielder and Forward, 8 caps and 1 goal since 2012, last cap v South Korea January 2014.
Season so far: After suffering painful relegation last term, Qingdao Jonoon were all change and signed Castillo to push for promotion but currently sit 9th, 11 points off the pace in the second tier. Castillo featured in Jonoon’s first three matches all of which were 1-1 draws, a 3-0 win over Wuhan Zall in which he scored but then three losses with no goals scored. Jonoon overturned their fortunes with a 5-0 victory that Castillo sat out and recently featured in a 0-0 draw.
Expert opinion, Andrés Rojas (Twitter @Macho_Rojas10): I think that the chances that Mauricio has are very high. Jorge Luis Pinto likes the way he played when he was at Saprissa in Costa Rica but there are other players that are showing good performances. I think that if the national coach keeps calling the habitual players, Mauricio is going to be at the World Cup.
Chances: None – he was left out of the squad announced May 13th
Osman Chavez (Qingdao Jonoon, Honduras)
Background: 29 years old, Defender, 52 caps since 2008, last cap v Venezuela March 2014
Season so far: A surprise capture for Qingdao and the only China League One player to confirm his place Chavez and Qingdao sit mid-table in 2014. Qingdao endured a tough relegation and have started life in the second tier with 3 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.
Expert opinion, Legion Catracha (Twitter @legioncatracha): People admire him and respect him, even when he was injured the people never questioned Chavez’s presence in the team. He is respected too for always speaking about God even in churches; don’t know how he is doing now in China with that but he did it in Poland!
Chances: Osman is already confirmed as part of the squad.
Ha Dae-Sung (Beijing Guoan, South Korea)
Background: 29 years old, Midfielder, 12 caps since 2008, last cap v Greece March 2014
Season so far: Arriving as part of the South Korean influx in Winter 2014, Ha replaced Egor Krimets as Guoan’s Asian player. With Guoan 2nd in the CSL table, Ha has played only a few full 90 minutes but his contributions have been impressive to Guoan’s 9 CSL victories.
Expert opinion, Kim Dae-Ryung (Twitter @KORFootballNews): Moving to China seems not to have been a good choice for Ha’s World Cup dream. He doesn’t have a lot of experience in the national team and his competitor is Ki Sung-Yueng who has played in England. I don’t expect he will have many chances in the WC but he is useful substitute for Ki.
Chances: Officially named in South Korea squad.
Alessandro Diamanti (Guangzhou Evergrande, Italy)
Background: 30 years old, Forward, 17 caps 1 goal since 2010, last cap v Nigeria November 2013
Season so far: Arguably the biggest CSL signing of 2014 so far, Italian international Diamanti has turned out in all games so far for his new employers. With Evergrande topping the table and going strong in the Asia Champions League, his influence has been impressive even with the comparison’s to the talismanic Dario Conca.
Expert opinion, David Amoyal (Twitter @davidamoyal): A lot depends on Rossi’s health. I definitely think Prandelli is considering him, before Diamanti left for Guangzhou he talked to Prandelli to ensure move to China wouldn’t take him out of running for Brazil. Prandelli promised Diamanti he would still follow his games in China.
Chances: None, left out of the preliminary 30-man squad
Joffre Guerrón (Beijing Guoan, Ecuador)
Background: 29 years old, Winger, 18 caps since 2007, last cap v Bolivia September 2013
Season so far: Guerron had a questionable first season for Guoan but sits second in the league with his side this season. He has played in 11 matches and scored 4 goals for Guoan in their 9 wins and 2 defeats in the CSL.
Expert opinion, Marco Maioli (Twitter @marcomaioli1 and @ecuafooty): It’s highly unlikely that we will see Guerron in Brazil this summer. Rueda has rarely called him up in the last two years for Ecuador. Rueda clearly does not like him and there is shortage of centre-backs and centre-forwards, not of players like Guerron.
Chances: None, left out of the squad
Jang Hyun-Soo (Guangzhou R&F, South Korea)
Background: 22, defender, South Korea, 4 caps since 2013, last cap v Russia November 2013
Season so far: With Guangzhou R&F impressing as they sit confidently near the top of the table, Hyun-Soo has turned out in 4 wins, 4 draws and the single loss to put the Fuli youngster on the South Korean radar.
Expert opinion, Kim Dae-Ryung (Twitter @KORFootballNews): Jang is competing with Hwang Seok-Ho (Hiroshima) but Hwang seems to has superiority over Jang. Sadly, Jang dropped out but he is expected to be selected for next Asian Games. If he and team get a Gold, he will be exempt from military duty.
Chances: None now, he was left out of the squad
Park Jongwoo (Guangzhou R&F, South Korea)
Season so far: Much like his South Korean team mate, Jongwoo has been impressive only featuring in one defeat to date for Fuli and has turned out in four victories in his eight games at the club.
Expert opinion, Kim Dae-Ryung (Twitter @KORFootballNews): Probably two of three players Park, Han Kook-Young (Kashiwa) and Lee Myung-Joo (Pohang) will go to Brazil. Park Jong-Woo’s situation is better than Ha. Ki Sung-Yueng and Koo Ja-Cheol are creative midfielders but have weakness in their defense ability, so Park Jong-Woo or Han Kook-Young will not have many opportunities in Brazil, Park’s direct competitor is Han Kook-Young.
Chances: Good but may not start games
Ryan McGowan (Shandong Luneng, Australia)
Background: 24 years old, Defender, 8 caps since 2012, last cap v Ecuador March 2014
Season so far: With some superb performances last season, McGowan was one of the CSL’s stand out players. With the arrival of Cuca in 2014, McGowan missed the start of the season with a niggling injury but found his way back into the squad featuring in 3 wins and 4 defeats with Shandong struggling to challenge Guangzhou Evergrande as predicted.
Expert opinion, Ahmed Yussuf (Twitter @ahmedyussuf10): McGowan is on the plane for sure. His chances are really good because one Holger didn’t try enough of the youngsters and two Austalia have a bit of a shortage of quality centre backs.
Chances: McGowan is in the preliminary squad
Zvjezdan Misimović (Guizhou Renhe, Bosnia)
Background: 31 years old, Attacking midfielder, 80 caps 26 goals since 2004, last cap v Argentina November 2013
Season so far: Misimovic’s surprise move to Guiyang in 2013 saw him perform confidently with five goals in 24 matches. In 2014 he has missed only one game and scored 3 despite Guizhou’s disappointing league position and poor showing in the ACL.
Expert opinion, Saša Ibrulj (Twitter @sasaibrulj): After Muslimović went to China Safet Sušić commented that this is a step back for him and that he can’t call a player that plays there. But when Misimović moved to China – to the same club -he continued to play him in the team. I can’t see how Misimović could miss the World cup. What more, there is a huge possibility that he will be in the starting XI if not in all three matches, than in one at least.
Chances: High, he is a certainty now and included in the provisional squad
Kim Young-Gwon (Guangzhou Evergrande, South Korea)
Background: 24 years old, Defender, 19 caps 1 goal since 2010, last cap v Greece March 2014
Season so far: Highly rated by Lippi himself, Kim has missed only one game in 2014. He has even scored for Evergrande who sit top of the CSL and easily dismissed Cerezo Osaka to progress in the ACL.
Expert opinion, Kim Dae-Ryung (Twitter @KORFootballNews): Kim Young-Gwon must be included in the squad for the World Cup, he is 100% going to Brazil. I’m sure Kim will be a regular starting centre back with Hong Jeong-Ho. Hwang Seok-Ho and Kwak Tae-Hwi are also good players but Kim has always been a first choice of Hong. Many Korean fans just expect to him to show a good performance in Brazil and move to Europe after the competition.
Chances: Kim has already been named in the squad officially.
Beijing-based Peter Davis has followed Chinese football since 2008 and is a regular contributor to Wild East Football. He can be found on Twitter and Weibo at @peteydavis
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Pete is from Sheffield, England and came to China in 2008 initially living in Shenyang where he witnessed his first CSL game, Liaoning Whowin v Chengdu Blades. Pete is a fanatic Sheffield Wednesday fan but has picked up football allegiances from various trips, Galatasary in Turkey, Piacenza in Italy and Muangthong United in Thailand. In early 2009 he moved to Beijing and after a brief time started attending Guoan games regularly. Pete graduated in Journalism in the UK and has written for several educational publications on Chinese education for his day job as well as Chinese football for WEF which he wishes was more developed but avidly follows the Imperial Guards on their quest for CSL supremacy regardless.
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