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Mitchum v. Santa Barbara School District
Santa Barbara High School Improves Access for Students with Mobility Disabilities Status: Settled
DRA reached a class action settlement with the Santa Barbara School District in improved access to the District’s High School.
DRA represented several students with mobility disabilities who had been subjected to discriminatory and dangerous conditions at this high school.
One of the students, Liana Mitchum was struck three times by cars on her way to class on the Santa Barbara High School campus. Because the high school lacked accessible routes through school buildings and around the campus, she was forced to navigate her way to class on a dangerous campus roadway. Despite repeated complaints to school officials, nothing was done to protect Liana’s safety until after this case was filed.
In addition, Liana was routinely disciplined for being late to class — tardiness that was caused by the pervasive access barriers at the school. She was also denied necessary rest room privileges, forced to leave her wheelchair outside classrooms, and prohibited from enrolling in classes of her choice on the basis that they were situated at inaccessible locations at the school.
This case sought to provide equal access to all school buildings and educational programs at the 23 public schools in Santa Barbara and to implement a disability awareness program for all staff and students.
Disability: Mobility Case Area: Education/Schools, Public Entities
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A Decade in Review: Ten of the best cars of 2010-2019 and ten of the worst
Kyle Ferlita posted in Today's Top News
The past decade was a weird one for the auto industry. With crossovers becoming the popular body style of choice among consumers, automakers had to play catch-up in order to cash in on these glorified lifted station wagons.
We saw several companies close their doors this decade as well. In 2010 we still had Pontiac, Saturn, Mercury, and Scion. The Grand Marquis and Crown Victoria were still in production. The Dodge Viper was ending production to gear up for its fourth generation. Tesla only had the Roadster, and its performance was no where near as impressive as the EV automaker's latest creations.
So let's do a wrap-up of the decade's best and worst vehicles, as chosen by me, in ten different categories, along with an honorable mention.
Best Mass-Market Sedan of the Decade: Dodge Charger/Chrysler 300
While there were plenty of legendary big sedans that bit the dust early this decade, the sedan market isn't dead yet. Dodge has managed to capture a significant portion of the market with this dynamic duo which offer muscle car performance in a slightly responsible sedan body. With the Charger becoming a proper police car alternative to the Crown Vic, and the Hellcat Charger becoming one of the cheapest ways to hit 200 miles per hour from the factory, I wholeheartedly endorse these ancient but awesome sedans.
Worst Mass-Market Sedan of the Decade: Mitsubishi Mirage G4
On the complete opposite end of the sedan market lies the Mirage G4, which might actually be less of a car and more of a soap box race car. The Mirage was never a revered model, but in a time when models like the Nissan Versa and Kia Rio are aiming to become equal parts practical and budget-friendly, the Mirage winds being a worse value than most used cars that could be had for the same amount of money.
The Chevrolet SS was such a difficult vehicle to love. It wasnt a civilian version of a Caprice, it looked too much like a Malibu, and its biggest claim to fame for car enthusiasts was that you could order it with Holden badges from the factory. It wasn't Chevy's answer to any competitors from FCA or Ford, because it was never really intended to be sold here, it was a Commodore through and through, and it just didnt catch on in the US, but it wasnt a bad car, it was just….a car.
Best Mass-Market Crossover/SUV: Ford Flex
I've said it once, I'll say it another hundred billion times, the Ford Flex was a brilliant SUV. It looked like nothing else on the road, it could outrun most of its competition, and it screamed retro, but wasnt lacking in features, by any means. With 365 horsepower and seating for 7, it was basically a Taurus SHO Wagon, and it came with four sunroofs, so there's that.
Worst Mass-Market Crossover/SUV: Mitsubishi Endeavor
It's ironic that Mitsubishi called their Montero Sport replacement the Endeavor, because although endeavor means "try hard to do or achieve something" the Endeavor left a lot to be desired. It's 3.8 liter V6 wasn't as efficient as other V6's in its class, it only sat five, and the interior was nowhere near as comfortable as other crossovers in its class. The only the Endeavor managed to achieve was a subpar performance.
Honorable Mention: Subaru Tribeca
The Subaru Tribeca receives an honorable mention in this category because the first design of the Tribeca was horrible, but the facelifted models actually looked pretty good, and would continue on until 2014 being a half decent alternative to mid-size SUVs like the Honda Pilot, and Toyota Highlander. The Tribeca crawled so the Ascent could run.
Best Mass-Market Coupe: Dodge Challenger
The Dodge Challenger is the joke that went on for so long that it's funny again, and now it's sold in souvenir shops on T-Shirts and magnets. I have a love-hate relationship with the Challenger, because on the one hand, I would love to see a "from the ground up" update of the Challenger to potentially save weight and improve fuel economy, but at the same time, I love that this decade old muscle car hasn't changed at all, and now benefits from FCA's latest UConnect infotainment and puts down nearly 800 horsepower in its most ludicrous trims, and in some cases, outselling its competition too.
Worst Mass-Market Coupe: Chevrolet Camaro
The Camaro was always my #1 or #2 muscle car choice out of the Big Three, but this latest iteration has pushed the Camaro to #3 where it will stay there, and here's why...its boring. The Z/28 was awesome, but they don't make it anymore, the ZL1 is now significantly further behind the pack than it should be, and the 1LE pack being available on even the 2.0-liter with the blacked out hood, gives the impression of someone who spent too much money on appearance and not enough under the hood where it matters.
Honorable Mention: Nissan 370Z
The 370Z earned this spot, because it, mich like the Nissan Frontier, it's been on the market for way too long, but unlike the Frontier, Nissan isn't moving a lot of 370Z's to justify it's long, relatively update-less stay. There was no reason that Nissan couldn't have done what Lotus did with the Evora, and slap some huge body kits on and beef up power to a clean 400, with the help of Infiniti and make a 400Z.
Best Luxury Sedan: Mercedes-Benz S-Class
The W221 and pre-facelift W222 are without a doubt my favorite luxury sedans on the market. While my overly American instinct is telling me that the Cadillac CT6 deserves this spot, the CT6 is also incredibly expensive, but falls significantly short in comparison to the sheer power and luxury of the S-Class, with enough powertrains to satisfy the pompous populous, the S-Class is the vehicle I think of when I see "The Best or Nothing" written in that Mercedes-Benz font in their commercials
Worst Luxury Sedan: Maserati Ghibli
One tube of Crest toothpaste should be all I have to mention about this unfortunate tarnish in Maserati's history. Now, am I using this as an excuse to ramble about FCA's mismanagement of Maserati? Yep. Am I using it because I personally don't like Maserati? Kind of. See, Maserati is trying too hard to appeal to the Mercedes-Benz and BMW market, when they should've been aiming for Porsche and Aston Martin, and what we are left with is a vehicle that is too expensive, underpowered, and poorly built. It doesn't deserve to wear the trident. It barely deserves to wear a Pentastar.
Honorable Mention: Kia K900
You're darn right I chose the K900 for this category, because this Korean limousine is incredibly affordable, and unlike the Ghibli, the K900 came with a 5.0-liter V8, but has depreciated so quickly that they can be had for $25,000 which means that you can get a vehicle that has an incredible amount of features and power and luxury, all for the price of a well-equipped Civic. Do the math.
Best Luxury Crossover/SUV: Jeep Grand Cherokee
I can't think of an SUV that has had a better run this year than the Jeep Grand Cherokee. With this current body style aging like a fine wine, the Grand Cherokee has seen significant sales growth, selling nearly a quarter of a million units in 2017. Theres a Grand Cherokee for just about everyone, and a price tag to match, considering the Trackhawk with its 707-horsepower V8 stickers for just under $90,000. Jeep as a brand has also carved out quite a niche, because in base form they can compete with Honda and Toyota, but fully-loaded, they make a good alternative to the luxury offerings from the Germans.
Worst Luxury Crossover/SUV: BMW X4
The BMW X4 represents everything that is wrong with BMW at the moment. Not everything needs to look like it's ready to tear your face off with power and performance. It's something that Audi and Mercedes have both gotten down to a science in the compact luxury crossover coupe market. The X4 is weird looking from most angles, and doesn't seem cohesive like the GLC Coupe does. It's easily the worst thing to happen to the luxury SUV market this decade.
Honorable Mention: Saab 9-4x
The Saab 9-4x was a brilliant car in terms of appearance and appeal. It looked more like a modern Saab than the 9-7x did, and instead of sharing parts with Chevrolets and GMC's, it shared parts with the Cadillac SRX, an equally brilliant vehicle, but the 9-4x carried itself in the way that only a Saab can, quirky but cool at the same time. With an equally quirky interior and powertrains, it's a shame the 9-4x didn't catch on, because maybe it could've kept Saab around just a little bit longer.
Best Luxury Coupe: Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe
There is nothing I love more than seeing an S-Class Coupe on the road. It looks incredible, and the powertrains on offer give this yacht the power of a cigarette boat. It also just screams "Move, I'm better than you." It's a shame that Mercedes is backing away from auto shows, because that's the only I'll be able to sit in one of these in my lifetime.
Worst Luxury Coupe: BMW 335i Coupe
I have a personal hatred for the E92 and E93 335i because they're driven by people who think that they're at Le Mans, but they don't have the wail of the S65B40 V8 to justify their overly aggressive driving habits. Instead, these are the people that give BMW a bad name, because of their terrible behavior, I give BMW drivers more than enough space on the highway, because I don't entirely trust them to do the right thing.
Honorable Mention: Mercedes-Benz CL
The CL was a brilliant car, but the biggest flaw was the name. CL. In terms of Mercedes nomenclature, I would be lead to believe that it was a C-Class sporty coupe, or perhaps a smaller SL, but not as small as the SLK. Luckily, this was fixed when the CL became the S-Class Coupe, but still if the CL didn't win the hearts of the big luxury coupe faithful, we might have gotten the S-Class Coupe.
Best Pickup Truck: Ford Raptor
Was there a doubt that the Raptor was going to win Best Pickup Truck of the Decade? No. The Raptor was a bet that was incredibly risky. At the height of the auto crisis, Ford was going to launch a truck that was already modified, but wasn't a diesel and the only real feature was that it could jump really well. Now in its second-generation, the Raptor competes in a category all it's own, take your Ram Runner and your Silverado ZRX and go home.
Worst Pickup Truck: Nissan Titan
The Nissan Titan never captured the market like it should've. To be fair, neither did the Tundra, but Nissan has tried multiple different recipes for the Titan, including the Titan XD with its Cummins V8 and even that didn't work. The Platinum Reserve models didn't appeal to the buyers of Ram Laramie Longhorns and Silverado High Countries. Nissan needs to put some serious thought into the Titan to keep it competitive.
Honorable Mention: RAM Heavy Duty
While the RAM is my favorite of the Big Three trucks, the Raptor was more than worthy of the win in this segment, but the RAM is still the best at being a big ole truck. With its 6.7-liter Cummins straight-6 putting out a hilarious 1000 ft-lbs of torque, it is more than worthy of the honorable mention, and if the Raptor wasn't wildly successful, the RAM would be on top.
Best Convertible: Fiat 124 Spider
The Fiata will take this segment, because I love it's take on the classic sports car. The Miata is a brilliant car, but the 124 captures a little bit more luxury, and is bolstered by Mazda's incredible work on the interior infotainment and overall dynamics. The 124 Abarth version also commands the attention of passersby, which only makes me love it more.
Worst Convertible: Buick Cascada
I feel sacrilegious putting the Cascada as the worst convertible of the decade, because that means I have to speak badly about a Buick, which is rare for me, but the truth of the matter is, the Cascada captured a lot of the Chrysler Sebring crowd, without doing anything to bring any sort of wow factor other than open air motoring. It also wasn't really a Buick as much as it was an Opel/Vauxhall, and the Cascada was on sale in Europe in 2013, and didn't go on sale here until 2016, when the Chrysler 200 bowed out in favor of the 200 sedan.
Honorable Mention: Chrysler 200S Convertible
The Chrysler 200S convertible deserves this spot because of its subtlety in its performance. It was a reasonably big convertible, much like the Sebring it replaced, but it also packed some serious horsepower under the hood, 283 horsepower to be exact, which is 83 more than the Cascada. In terms of pure open air driving, it was a decent alternative to the Mustang and Camaro convertibles, if you didn't mind the front-wheel-drive and the lack of a V8.
Best Supercar: Lamborghini Aventador
The Aventador continues to be my favorite supercar, because of how it has aged. The 6.5-liter V12 is truly marvelous and helps this state of the art supercar continue to impress and turn heads. Time has been kind to the Aventador, considering it's been around for nine years, and still looks modern and exciting. I imagine a new model will be on it's way soon, but the Aventador's legacy will not be forgotten.
Worst Supercar: Jaguar C-X75
This one is a bit bittersweet, because Jaguar didn't actually put the C-X75 into production, which makes it one of the most breathtaking and jaw-dropping supercars of the decade, but also the worst, because it should've been in production. Aston Martin managed to sell the One-Seven-Seven, so Jaguar could've realistically sold a handful of these without going bankrupt.
Honorable Mention: Lexus LFA
While the LFA was truly brilliant, the fact that Lexus only made 500 of them is the reason why the LFA does not top my list. It was too exclusive. The Yamaha V10 under the hood was an engine that could give Ferrari nightmares, and the LFA looked incredible too, but 500 units, some of which are still unsold, leads to a kind of peculiar feeling in the back of my head about it. I like the LFA, but I don't love it.
Best EV: Tesla Model S
The Model 3 is absolutely killing the game right now, undercutting luxury competitors but not skimping out on features and quality, but the Model 3 wouldn't be as successful if it wasn't for the Model S. The Model S has been around for nearly seven years now, which is incredible, because it still looks incredibly modern. The instant torque is still destroying luxury cars and some supercars on the dragstrip, while quietly and effortlessly winning the hard earned dollars of consumers. I have no doubt in my mind that Tesla will continue to win over buyers, despite competitors finally getting their EVs to market.
Worst EV: Mitsubishi i-MiEV
This egg-shaped nightmare is another failed project from Mitsubishi that suffered from the overall lackluster qualities that plague almost every other Mitsubishi on the planet that isn't an Evo or a 3000GT. The i-MiEV didn't win the hearts of the energy conscious drivers like the Prius, Volt and Leaf did, and the styling was too outlandish for the hybrid conscious drivers that opted for more sedate hybrids like the Altima and Accord hybrid. It had one job, and failed miserably at it.
Honorable Mention: Mercedes-Benz SLS Electric Drive
Everyone remembers seeing this highlighter blow the doors off an SLS Black on that one motoring show on the BBC a few years ago, but the interesting thing about the SLS Electric was that we never heard from it again, and that is the ultimate shame. This gullwing doored, 739-horsepower, brilliant piece of engineering cost nearly $500,000, and only had a range of about 50 miles, but what the SLS leaves me with, is a hunger for Mercedes to produce an electric AMG GT using all of the technology it has now, because maybe they'd be able to beat the Tesla Roadster to the punch.
They say that it's difficult enough to measure a year, but measuring a decade is just shy of impossible. There were plenty of cars that should've made this list upon looking it over a second time, but that's why we have a comments section. It will be interesting to revisit this list in 2029 when we are talking about the latest EV's from automakers that haven't even been created yet, going up against some of the biggest names in the industry. Here's to 2020, may it bring new and exciting vehicles for us to yell about on the Internet.
What did you think of this list? Did you favorite car not make the list? Comment Below!
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Holiday Lights in the US Southeast
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The images above were acquired on July 25, 2013, and December 26, 2013, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite. The images show subtle differences in the amount of nighttime light around urban areas in the Southeastern United States between mid-summer and the December holidays. Turn on the image comparison tool to spot the differences.
Examining daily data from Suomi NPP, scientists have identified how patterns in nighttime light intensity change during major holiday seasons. According to the data, nighttime lights around many U.S. cities shine 20 to 50 percent brighter during Christmas and New Year’s when compared to light output during the rest of the year. Read more about it in this Image of the Day.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using VIIRS day-night band data provided by Miguel Román (NASA/GSFC). Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
Satellite sensors detect increases in December holiday lighting in the United States, particularly in the suburbs and rural areas.
Suomi NPP — VIIRS
Unique Imagery Human Presence Remote Sensing
Holiday Lights from Space
A new analysis of satellite data reveals increases in holiday lighting in the United States and the Middle East.
Holiday Lights are Bright Deep in the Heart of Texas
Holiday Lights of the American Southwest
Bursting with Holiday Energy
The Lights of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
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How to Draw the Grim Reaper
Throughout history, humans have sought to explain death - and to allay their fears of unknown things to come. Many ancient cultures, for example, had mythologies involving guides to the afterlife. In ancient Greece, the handsome god Thanatos, brother of the god of sleep, led the deceased to Charon, ferryman of the River Styx. Charon then ferried the deceased to Hades, the underworld, where they might experience pleasure or punishment.
Among the Vikings, attractive female spirits called Valkyries selected soldiers from the battlefield and led them to the afterlife, where they would be able to fight all day and feast all night.
During the Middle Ages, a disease epidemic called the Black Plague influenced the cultural perception of death. Many people succumbed to the disease, and a morbid outlook on life became visible in art and literature. Rather than being depicted as beautiful and angelic, the personification of death was often represented as an enemy, a skeleton. Black was the color of mourning and of evil, so he wore a black cloak. He was often shown to carry a weapon - a sword, a crossbow, and eventually, a scythe. Thus, the grim reaper was born.
What is a scythe? This curved blade on the end of a wooden handle was used to harvest grass-like crops, such as wheat. This became symbolic of the grim reaper's harvest of human life. Today, grim reapers appear in the art, decorations, and costumes of celebrations of the dead, such as Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and similar celebrations throughout the world.
Would you like to draw a grim reaper? This easy, step-by-step drawing tutorial is here to help. All you will need is a pencil and a sheet of paper. You may also wish to use crayons, colored pencils, markers, or paints to shade your finished drawing.
If you liked this tutorial, see also the following drawing guides: Cartoon Ninja, Bat, and Skull.
Step by Step Instructions for Drawing the Grim Reaper
1. Begin by drawing a rhombus - a four sided shape, like a square, but upturned on its corner, like a diamond. The corners should be rounded, as this shape forms the opening of the grim reaper's hood.
2. Using a series of curved lines, outline the hood. The lines should surround the rhombus, and should double back to form the wrinkled peak of the hood on one side.
3. Extend two curved lines beneath the head to outline the body.
4. Enclose the body. Use a long, straight, horizontal line for the bottom of the figure. Connect it to the body using several short, curved lines, indicating rumpled folds of the garment.
5. Draw the grim reaper's hand. Begin by enclosing the fingers, using a small oval for each. Then, use a short, curved line to outline the palm.
6. Draw a rod in the grim reaper's hand. This will form the handle to his scythe. To draw the rod, extend long, straight, parallel lines above and below the hand. Enclose each end of the rod using a short, curved line.
7. Enclose the sleeves, using two curved lines for each.
8. Use a series of curved lines to outline the grim reaper's skull-like head. Notice the bulges near the eye sockets, cheekbones, and jaw.
9. Give the grim reaper a face. Draw two curved lines to indicate the brows. Beneath each brow, enclose a half circle to form the eye. Below the eyes, draw a small triangle with a rounded top point to indicate the nose. Draw the blade of the scythe by extending two long, curved lines from the rod, allowing them to meet in a sharp point.
10. Color your character.
The Complete Grim Reaper Drawing Tutorial in One Image
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5,5'-(4,4'-((5,5'-(ethane-1,2-diylbis(sulfanediyl))bis(1,3,4-thiadiazole-5,2-diyl))bis(diazene-2,1-diyl))bis(5-amino-3-(tert-butyl)-1H-pyrazole-4,1-diyl))diisophthalic acid
Currently viewing: 001 Key | Experimental result002 Supporting | Read-across (Structural analogue / surrogate)
The experimental study was run 9th to 16th November 2011. The final report was issued 12th Jan 2012.
other: Report on substance meets the criteria for classification as reliable without restriction according to Klimisch et al (1997).
OECD Guideline 221 (Lemna sp. Growth Inhibition test)
Sampling and analysis
Analytical monitoring:
Details on sampling:
The concentrations of test material in the test solutions was measured on exposure Day 0 and Day 7 using HPLC. Samples for analysis were taken on Day 0 from from excess test solutions and Day 7 from a single test replicate solution of each concentration. All samples on exposure Day 0 and Day 7 were analysed both pre and post centrifugation.
Details on test solutions:
PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF TEST SOLUTION
- Test solutions: Nominal concentrations of the test material of 0.36, 1.1, 3.7, 12, 38 and 120 mg/L and a control.
- Method: A primary stock of the test substance with a nominal concentration of 120 mg/L was prepared by the addition of 0.240g of test substance to 2000ml of dilution water. The stock solution was stirred for 20 minutes. The resultant solution was observed to be a yellow to orange coloured solution that was slightly cloudy. The remaining test solutions were prepared by dilution of appropriate volumes of the primary stock to final volumes of 1000mL with culture medium. All test solutions were stirred for 5 minutes. The resultant solutions were increasingly dark, yellow or yellow to orange coloured clear solutions.
Lemna minor
Details on test organisms:
TEST ORGANISM
- Common name: Duckweed
- Strain: ST strain
- Source (laboratory, culture collection): laboratory cultures maintained in house at test lab
- Age of inoculum (at test initiation): 9 days
Water media type:
Total exposure duration:
Test temperature:
24 +/- 2 degrees centigrade
pH of test concentrations ranged from 6.8 to 7.0 at the start of the test amd 8.1 to 8.6 at the end of the test. This exceeds the maximum expected increase of 1.5 units quoted in the OECD guideline. It is also stated however that a pH increase of more than 1.5 units in the control does not invalidate a test as long as the validity criteria are met.
The measured concentrations in the test solutions ranged from 24 to 70% of the nominal concentrations at the start of the test and 13 to 59% of the nominal concentrations at the end of the test. The percentage loss over the course of the study ranged from 0 to 68% (with the exception of the 1.1mg/L nominal test concentration where the measured concentration increased from 0.47 to 0.52 mg/L). The geometric mean of the measured concentration ranged from 20 to 61% of the nominal values. The geometric mean measured concentration of test substance was used for the calculation and reporting of results.
Details on test conditions:
TEST SYSTEM
- Test vessel: Glass dishes of 300mL nominal capacity fitted with loose fitting lids containing 160mL of test solution.
- No. of fronds per test vessel: 12 (from 3-5 plants)
- No. of vessels per concentration (replicates): 3
- No. of vessels per control (replicates): 3
GROWTH MEDIUM
- Standard medium used as recommended by OECD, Swedish Standard (SIS)
TEST MEDIUM / WATER PARAMETERS
- Source/preparation of dilution water: Culture medium
OTHER TEST CONDITIONS
- Photoperiod: Continuous illumination of 9600 lux.
EFFECT PARAMETERS MEASURED
- Determination of biomass: The increase in dry weight (yield) was calculated by subtraction of the estimated initial weight from the measured dry weight at day 7.
- Determination of frond number: The increase in number of fronds (yield) over the 7 day test peiod was calculated for each test vessel by subtracting 12 (the number of fronds inocluated on day 0) from the day 7 counts.
Reference substance (positive control):
Effect concentrationsopen allclose all
Effect concentrations 1
Key result
Effect conc.:
28 mg/L
Nominal / measured:
meas. (geom. mean)
Conc. based on:
Basis for effect:
(frond number)
> 28 mg/L
(dry weight)
Effect concentrations 10
It was noted during Day 5 and Day 7 observations that some small particulates were present on the bottom of the test vessels in the 120 mg/L nominal test concentrations. It was also noted on Day 7 that a green coloured tinge, thought to be algal growth, was observed on the test vessels edges in all replicates. Neither of these observations was considered to have had an effect on the integrity of the study.
Reported statistics and error estimates:
The data for increase in frond number, dry weight and their respective growth rates were examined by one-way analysis of variance and Dunnett's procedure was used to identify significant differences (p<0.05) from the control.
During this study, there were no significant differences in the increase in the number of fronds (yield) between the control and any of the test concentrations. Based on geometric mean measured values the NOEC was therefore determined to be 28 mg/L and the LOEC >28mg/L. As there was no observable reduction in the frond number increase the EC10, EC20 and EC50 were all calculated to be >28mg/L.
As was observed for frond number, there were no significant differences in the increase in the plant dry weight (yield) between the control and any of the test concentrations in this study. Based on geometric mean measured concentrations the NOEC was determined to be 28mg/L and the LOEC >28 mg/L. As there was no observable reduction in plant dry weight increase the EC10, EC20 and EC50 were all calculated to be >28mg/L.
As for the yield data, there were no significant differences in the average specific growth rates between the control and any of the test concentrations in this study. Based on geometric mean measured values the NOEC for growth rate based on both frond number or dry weight was therefore determined to be 28 mg/L and the LOEC >28mg/L. As there was no observable reduction in the frond number increase the EC10, EC20 and EC50 were all calculated to be >28mg/L.
A study was performed to assess the effect of the test material on the growth of the freshwater plant Lemna minor. The method followed that described in OECD Guidelines for Testing of Chemicals. Test Guideline 221, Lemna sp. Growth Inhibition Test. Adopted 23 March 2006.
A primary stock of test substance with a nominal concentration of 120 mg/L was prepared. Control and nominal concentrations of 0.36, 1.1, 3.7, 12, 38 and 120 mg/L. The measured concentration of the test substance was not maintained within ±20% of the nominal concentrations during the study. Therefore the calculation and reporting of results is based on geometric mean measured concentrations.
Results and Conclusion.
Based on frond number, the results for both yield and average specific growth rate were: NOEC = 28 mg/L and LOEC, EC10, EC20 & EC50 >28 mg/L.
Based on dry weight, the results for both yield and average specific growth rate were: NOEC = 28 mg/L and LOEC, EC10, EC20 & EC50 >28 mg/L.
The test substance is considered to be non-toxic to duckweed (Lemna minor) based on average specific growth rate.
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Dad’s Gone and the Lice Is Here to Stay
"Remedies" by Kali Fajardo-Anstine recommended by Mat Johnson
INTRODUCTION BY MAT JOHNSON
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Issue No 361
Written by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Recommended by Mat Johnson
I’ve re-read Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut collection Sabrina & Corina more times than I can even count. I read it in draft, in proofs, and finally in hardcover, the weight of the accomplishment in my hands. And every time I finish the last word with the same reaction: it’s just so damn good. Fajardo-Anstine’s stories have attitude and swagger and then, just when you get used to that rhythm, they sucker-punch you with an emotional weight that you just can’t be ready for. Her work never falls into sentimentalism. Instead, each story earns the right to be tender, sensitive, sometimes melancholic, and always heartfelt.
“Remedies” is one of my favorites in the book, and if you read it you’ll see why. It’s one of the rare stories where I still can’t tell you whose tale it is, and that’s its brilliance. Does it belong to the narrator, looking back on the lice-infested half-brother who reminds her of her deadbeat dad? The brother himself, neglected and abandoned yet somehow not bitter? Or the absentee father who leaves an emotional vacuum behind him? Or does it belong to the mother, struggling to atone for a loss outside of her control? It could be each of theirs, or all of theirs. The decision will be made by the reader, likely based on which version breaks their heart most.
With her idiosyncratic depictions of the lives of latinx and native women of the American West, Fajardo-Anstine obliterates the “one voice” idea about writers of color as the fallacy it is. Like the best debut short story collections, Sabrina & Corina reveals a literary voice that simply hasn’t been heard before. Listen to “Remedies.” See a world that’s never before been caught on the page. Watch how it dances with a straight razor. Realize you’ve been cut when it’s already too late.
–Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day and Pym
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
A dermatologist with a can of liquid nitrogen can remove a wart in four to five seconds. I can remove one overnight with a clove of garlic and a Band-Aid. Your fingers will stink for days, but the wart will never come back. You won’t have to bite or scratch at it until blood rushes over the spongy lining. You can hold someone’s hand without shame or embarrassment.
I learned how to do this from my great-grandmother Estrella. She taught me all the remedies she learned from her own grandma on their pueblo in northern New Mexico. If you have a stomachache, drink chamomile tea with honey at the hottest temperature possible without scalding your tongue. If you have a headache, put slices of potato at your temples and let them draw out the pain. If you have a cold or a broken heart, drink a warm cup of atole madeonly with blue corn.
Our lice came from Harrison, though Mama didn’t realize it was him the first time. She just tried washing my hair with mayonnaise. She heard about this trick from another hygienist at the dentist’s office and came home with a big jar of Kraft, the good stuff. She held my head over the kitchen sink, took a serving spoon, and plopped hunks of mayo across my scalp. With a Marlboro Light bumping up and down on her lip, she swirled the mess into my long brown hair until my entire head was soppy and warm. As she puffed smoke in and out of her lipstick mouth, I could see the missing tooth on her right side, the spot she always hid from everyone, including me. After she finished, she put a plastic bag over my hair, tying it at the middle of my neck with a rubber band.
“Here,” she said, pointing with her red nails to a chair at the kitchen table. “Sit for fifteen minutes, jita.”
She dashed out her cigarette on a saucer and parted her owndark hair, leaning over the countertop and examining her pale scalp with a teal Cover Girl compact mirror. Her gaze went up and down and back again. Mama then snapped shut the compact and looked at me.
“All right, baby girl. Put your head over the sink.”
With my face dropped into the sink’s chrome basin, Mama rinsed my hair as her large breasts pressed into my back. Hot water spilled over the front of my Tweety Bird T-shirt, soaking my neck and chest. I whined, fighting back nausea from the egg-smell of my own head.
“Mama,” I said. “Why can’t we just ask Grandma Estrella about lice?”
“Look at me.” She turned my body around and dried the water from my face with the bottom of her T-shirt. “You can never tell your grandma Estrella you have lice.”
I tried to ask her why, but Mama shoved my head back underthe faucet and kneaded my hair with her strong hands the way I had seen Grandma Estrella knead masa on Christmas Eve. As my brown hair wetly twisted, water rushed into my eyes, blurring my vision, but I swore I saw white lice eggs against the drain’s black pit.
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It was snowing the first time we picked up Harrison. Mama drove us to an apartment on Grant Street in downtown Denver and we huddled in our scarves and secondhand Sorels beneath the red-tarp awning at the front entrance.
Mama pushed a button on the intercom and a sleepy voice answered, “Who is it?”
“It’s us,” she said. “Millie and Clarisa.”
A quick buzz vibrated the brass speaker box and Mama pulled on the lobby’s door handle. Before we stepped inside, she hesitated, looking down at me.
“Now, this is your brother,” Mama said quietly. “I know you haven’t met him and I know that we never see Daddy anymore, but Harrison isn’t as fortunate as you are, so be kind to him.”
After I promised to be nice, we went inside, where the carpets were puke green and the ceiling was made of tin. We walked up a flight of creaking stairs while competing smells of garlic and mildew followed us. At the end of the second-floor hallway, Mama knocked hard on 13B.
Harrison’s mom answered the door. She wore an enormous pink sweatshirt with the neck cut away, showing a star tattoo on her upper left shoulder. Her thin blond hair was pulled high on her head in a sloppy bun, and when she smiled, her teeth were very crooked.
“Oh, hi,” she said. “Harrison, come here, Son.”
He appeared next to her, hunched over and skinny, looking downward at the floorboards.
“Have fun with your sister,” his mom said in her drowsy voice before handing him a backpack. She leaned over and kissed Harrison on the forehead. Behind her, I could see some of their apartment, a dusty living room with a sagging brown couch covered in laundry. There were pairs of crinkled and silky underpants beneath a grimy glass coffee table.
Harrison’s mom rubbed her eyes with both hands, smearing her makeup until a speck of mascara floated inside her left eye.“He never said you were such a nice lady.” She then blew a kiss to her son before closing the apartment door.
Mama flashed a warm smile. “Do you remember me? I met you when I came over to talk to your mom. You’re going to stay with us for a couple days.”
Harrison nodded and scratched his head. “You brought Tootsie Rolls.”
“Gross.That candy sucks,” I whispered.
Mama jabbed the back of my neck with her long red nails. “This is Clarisa. She’s your half-sister. You guys are almost the same age.”
“You’re ten?” Harrison asked.
“No,” I said. “I’m eleven. I’m short for my age.”
“I’m not,” he said. “My mom says I get that from my dad.” The three of us started down the hallway, and I was surprised when we walked past a bathroom built into the wall, like a lime-green coat closet. I peered inside at an old porcelain bathtub with claws at the bottom. Grandma Estrella had a tub like that in her upstairs bathroom. I asked Mama about it and she told me that in the old days people shared bathtubs. They shared everything, she explained. But later when I asked Grandma Estrella, she told me those hallway bathrooms were only in buildings where dirty people lived, people who did awful things for a living, people she prayed for each night before she rubbed cold cream on her face in slow upward strokes, because downward caused wrinkles.
Grandma Estrella lived in a red-brick Victorian house on the edge of a park named Benedict. She was a short, wide woman whowore long colorful skirts and carried on her skin the scent of rose oil and Airspun face powder. She lived alone, since my great-grandpa passed away before I was born and their only daughter died in a car crash when Mama was just four years old. Mama and I lived with Grandma Estrella after Daddy left, and even after we got our own townhouse in Northglenn, we visited her every weekend—except when Harrison came over. Mama said it was because we were busy, but I knew the truth. While Grandma Estrella hated all of Harrison, she only felt that way about half of me, my father’s half, the white half.
One weekend, while I was staying over Grandma Estrella’s, we baked cookies she called biscochitos. We were in her big kitchen with all the windows open, the yellow curtains rising and falling with a breeze. We watched Bewitchedon the countertop TV, and when the episode ended, Jerry Springer came on. “Ah, mija, I hate watching these hillbilly white people,” Grandma Estrella said. “Look at this man.” She was using a large wooden roller to point at the TV. “He was given every chance to make it in this world and what did he do? Threw it away on booze and drugs and can’t take care of his family. Just like your father.”
“I guess,” I said, licking my spoonful of raw cookie dough.
“Him leaving your life was the best thing that ever happened to you and your mother. If he wouldn’t have left on his own, I would have chased him off myself.”
I laughed. “You’d chase him, Grandma Estrella? With what?”
“A broom, or maybe a coat hanger. There are many tools. Now, my baby, switch the station. I want to watch my stories.” I wiped my flour-covered hands on the white-lace apron she had made especially for me and clicked the dial to channel seven. The picture was soft on purpose, part of the show. White people with diamonds and pretty eyelashes kissed or lied and cheated on each other. That’s how Grandma Estrella liked her people on TV—rich and scandalous.
Grandma Estrella said, “Doesn’t Tiffany look gorgeous this week? Why don’t you grow your hair like that, mija? A girl’s hair should always be long.”
I looked at the ends of my brown hair. “It quits growing after my shoulders.”
“Nonsense. I know some herbs you can make into a tea.”
Grandma Estrella closed her tiny eyes behind her large glasses and silently moved her lips as if she were reading different scraps of paper in her mind. After some time, she opened her mouth, the ridges in her face spreading wide and smoothing over, making her appear young again, if only for a second.
“I’ll tell you the recipe for long hair, mija, but you must be cautious with this tea.”
“Cautious?” I asked.
“Vanity is risky, my baby. Let me tell you, you had a great-great-aunt, Milagros, the same Milagros your mother is named after, and she used the herbs too often and her black hair grew so long and so beautiful that all the men in our pueblo and even from far away wanted to marry her, but she would not choose one because she believed the longer and more beautiful her hair grew, the better her choices of husbands would be until one night, when therest of the children were sleeping soundly in the same bedroom, her hair coiled around her neck like a snake, squeezing all the life from her throat.”
“That really happened?”
“Of course! You’re calling me a liar?”
I pushed my dough scraps into the wastebasket and wondered what my own hair was capable of.
Whenever Harrison stayed over, Mama pulled out the extra comforter, the one with holes and all the cotton bunched togetherin the corners. She’d spread it over the couch, making up a little bedroom for him, where they’d sit for hours, watching movies and laughing. Mama often asked Harrison questions, and they were usually about our dad.
“Does Daddy ever send you presents?”
“One time he did. A Hot Wheels set.”
“Oh, wow,” Mama said, reaching out and stroking his neck. “What about your mama? Does he send her money to help out?”
“I don’t know. Maybe.”
“I hope so. He can afford it. You know, Harrison,” she added with a sincere smile, “you look so much like Daddy. It’s like you’re him but as a little boy.”
Each time I walked into the living room, I looked at Harrison’s slumped-over body on the couch and felt something like hotblacktop tar in my guts. I hated to be around him. I didn’t care that Mama said I should feel sorry for him because our dad was long gone and his mom had problems with drinking and taking pills. Imagine if I slept all day, Mama told me. You’d never get a warm meal.
With Harrison in our living room, the whole townhouse smelled as bad as his apartment building. He had dark bags under his eyes, like someone hit him real hard and never let him heal. His T-shirts had holes in the sleeves and his jeans were worn thin, covered in a fine layer of dirt at the butt and knees. The worst part, he smelled like pee.
“Hey, Harrison, why don’t you use that bathtub in the hallway at your crappy apartment?”
“No one uses that, Clarisa. It’s busted and old.”
“You probably should. You smell like a litter box.”
“No, I don’t. I took a shower today!”
“Why does my mom have to take care of you, anyway? What’s wrong with your own mom?”
“Nothing. She’s just my mom.”
Harrison never had a comeback and he never told on me for being mean. Instead, he acted crazy. In the middle of the afternoon, he’d open my dresser drawers, stick his face against my T-shirts and jeans, turn on and off our microwave, and ask annoying questions that made me wonder what his life was like at home.
“Do you get recess even when it snows real bad?”
“No, we have an inside day.”
“How about your teacher—is she nice? What color is her hair?”
“For your information, my teacher is a guy.”
“A guy, really?”
“Leave me alone. Don’t you go to school, too?”
“What about our dad? Why doesn’t he want to see any of us?”
“Maybe he doesn’t want lice.”
He was only a year younger, but even then I knew we were worlds apart. What I hated most about Harrison—besides that each time he came over, the lice came back—was that my mother was right. He looked like my dad. Even as a little boy, he looked like Daddy.
I was nine years old the last time we spent Christmas with Daddy. He was up unusually early, no black bags under his eyes or sour breath reeking of beer and cigarettes. He was happy, smiling and kissing Mama on the mouth. We played airplane and he whirled me around his one-bedroom apartment, giggling and cheering, my arms open like little wings. Mama cooked all day—ham, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, cornbread. No Christmas tamales like at Grandma Estrella’s, though. He never liked that.
We were together, sitting at his fold-out card table in the corner of the living room, when Daddy started the prayer. I gazed at the creases around his dark eyes, wondering if I would get those someday. I loved being near him when I could—loved it when he cupped his hand on the back of my neck and I could feel his calluses coarse against my skin. He reminded me of work, of cars, that special orange soap he used to wash away grease.
“Millie,” he said. “You forgot the butter, honey.”
Mama glanced at me and asked if I would be nice enough to get Daddy some butter. I hopped out of my chair and headed for the tiny kitchen. I walked by the overflowing garbage, where a sparkling green Christmas card was shoved beneath empty green bean cans and cracked eggshells. I don’t know why I did it, but I stuck my hand inside the trash, pulling out the mushy card. When I opened it, a picture fell out of a little boy with dark eyes and light brown hair swinging a baseball bat. I stared into his face for a long time.
“Clarisa,” Mama yelled from the table. “Did you find it?”
I shoved the Christmas card as far as I could back into the garbage. I grabbed the butter for the table and told my parents that I would be right back—that I needed to wash my hands before dinner.
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May 26 – Dwyer Murphy
In Social Studies, I scratched and scratched until a louse slid down the back of my neck and onto Chantel Sanchez’s desk. She screamed so loud that the principal heard it from his office, or that’s what the other kids claimed. It was the fourth time in a year that I had gotten lice from Harrison. I was sent home from school, indefinitely, until the issue was resolved. “Expelled due to health hazards” is what the official pink slip read. Mama was more upset than usual about the lice. She tried mayonnaise, then olive oil, then rubbing alcohol, then over-the-counter shampoos. By the time she had finished, I thought I would never go back to school.
The next Saturday, Mama took Harrison and me to a hair salon in a part of town called Wash Park. The salon was painted blue and white with mirrors in every direction. Techno music came out of the ceiling speakers and the floor was lightly scented with ammonia. The hairdressers were vibrant with colorful hair and face piercings. They had names like Celeste, Luna, and Sky. I flipped through a booklet with different hairstyles, showing Mama cuts I thought she might like.
“Look at her bangs,” I said, folding the page over for Mamato see.
“Those are nice, jita. You guys are also getting haircuts.”
“Here?” Harrison looked up from his seat, a surprised expression on his face.
“Yup. Don’t need to worry about picking out anything new. I told the ladies what to do.”
My hair had recently grown extra-long with the help of Grandma Estrella’s tea. Mama normally took me to Cost Cutters for a trim, but last time, we were refused service. No one gave a reason why, but I knew it must have been lice.
When a woman called my name, I jumped out of my seat andI stuck out my tongue to Harrison. He ignored me, scratching his head. Then another lady called his name. They brought usto a row of black spinning chairs, seating us side by side. My hairdresser snapped peppermint gum in her mouth. She had glitter across her eyelids and her teeth were the whitest and biggest I had ever seen, like those white ladies in Grandma Estrella’s stories. After she parted my hair with a black comb, she pointed beside me to Harrison, draped in a purple cape.
“Are you guys twins?” she asked. “What do they call that, paternal?”
“No,” said the lady cutting Harrison’s hair. “It’s fraternal.”
“That’s it,” my hairdresser said. “You sure do look about the same age.”
Harrison giggled. “I wish we were twins. That’d be cool.”
“He’s just my half-brother,” I said.
The hairdressers shared a knowing look and I glanced away, toward the front windows.
Outside, seagulls dived between street lamps. The sun was going down and the whole neighborhood was a shadowy pink. A family carrying pizza boxes walked together through the parking lot. It was a mom, a dad, and three little boys. The mom was laughing, pointing at her husband, who had grabbed a shopping cart and was riding the back like a scooter. His sons tried copying him. They wobbled everywhere, and the mom seemed worried. For just a second, I felt jealous of that family, their happiness and togetherness. Maybe if I had always known Harrison, we could have been friends.But instead, he reminded me of Daddy, the only person who had ever left me. The family then walked out of sight and I looked back at the mirror.
That’s when I burst into tears.
My long hair was gone, gathered across the floor like piles of dust. The hairdresser kept asking what was wrong, but all I could do was clutch my short hair, wetter in the front from all my tears.
“Don’t cry, Clarisa,” I heard Harrison say. He was whimpering quietly. His head had been shaved completely bald.
I stood up then and looked for Mama. She was behind us at another station, her expression downturned and sorrowful. Her long black hair had been trimmed into a spiky undercut with short bangs. When her eyes met mine, she mouthed something, maybe sorry.
On our way out, Mama handed the receptionist a check and oneof the women tried selling her an antidandruff shampoo.
“You know, the kids both have it pretty bad,” the woman insisted. “This will help for sure.”
Mama shook her head, her short hair stationary against her scalp. “Thanks, but we’ll try some home remedies first.”
Mama was crying. Harrison and I heard her when we were fighting over whose turn it was for the only working Nintendo controller. At first it sounded like the neighbor’s dog yipping, but it grew louder and steadier. I threw down the controller and Harrison followed me. Sitting on the toilet with the lid closed, her head in her hands, Mama was itching and pulling at her short hair, red bumps all over her scalp and neck. Snot and tears dripped down her face, over her lips, and onto the front of her white shirt. I stood in the doorframe, afraid to go near her. I had only seen her like this one other time—when Daddy left for good.
“They won’t go away.” She sobbed into her hands, gargling a bit.
“What, Mama?”
“They just won’t go away.”
Harrison stood behind me, his dark eyes filling with tears that lingered above his bottom lashes. I could see the bathroomreflected in his eyes—Mama, alone, on the toilet with hair in her lap and across the floor. I wanted to scream at him to leave,to walk home, take a bus, find some way to get out of our lives, but instead I just told him to watch Mama while I ran to the kitchen and did what I was never supposed to do—I called Grandma Estrella.
I told her what happened, and had been happening for months. She screamed so loud that when she finished, I heard true silence in our townhouse kitchen. Dust sifted through shoots of sunlight. Water dripped from the chrome faucet. The phone’s cord slowly rolled. Everything was calm until Mama’s sobs bumped throughout the hallway, interrupting the dead air. She didn’t hit me or scream at me when I told her Grandma Estrella was expecting us. Mama got up from the toilet lid, silent and red-faced, and walked to the car, as if she had been expecting this day from the beginning.
When we arrived, Grandma Estrella stood on her porch, onehand over her eyes, scanning the yard with a watchful, hawk-like gaze. She wore a wavering purple skirt, the brick house like a castle behind her. Mama parked and got out of her car, flicking a cigarette into the road as she walked us to the porch.
“Look at your hair,” Grandma Estrella said. “Every one of you.”
“It’ll grow back,” Mama said, quickly wiping tears from her face.
Grandma Estrella grunted some. She stepped aside and motioned with both hands for us to follow her. Before she opened the front door, she reached out to Harrison’s small hand and introduced herself as Mrs. Lopez. Harrison’s dark eyes grew wide and seemed to fill with wonder. It was like he didn’t have grandparents of his own, and I realized he probably didn’t.
“All of you, upstairs.”
We climbed the cherry-oak staircase to the upstairs bathroom. The long white porcelain basin of the claw-foot tub rested in the otherwise dark room. It was cold, though the windows were cloaked in fog from a steaming metal pot on the floor, the pot Grandma Estrella normally used for menudo. She told all of us to get on our knees and drape our heads, facedown, over the bathtub. The porcelain was chilly against my neck and arms. Grandma Estrella used to bathe me there when I was younger, working my knees and elbows with a washcloth and Ivory soap. Once, I asked her why she needed to scrub so hard it hurt. “Because we are not dirty people,” she had said. Later, when I asked Mama about it, she told me when Grandma Estrella was a little girl, her own teachers called her a dirty Mexican and it never left her, the shame of dirt.
Slowly, from behind me, I felt Grandma Estrella pour bitter water over my head, a liquid made from something called neem that had a thick rootlike stench. Grandma then combed my short hair, harsh and fast, pressing into my scalp. When she finished, she told me to stand up.
“Mija, take this. Make sure to get the backside of their necks to the front side above their foreheads.”
She placed the heavy pot in my hands. “But I don’t think I can lift it.”
“Don’t be such a malcriada.”
I braced myself, steadied my knees, and lifted the pot. My arms trembled as I poured the liquid over Harrison’s small neck, seeing for the first time how incredibly scabbed and bitten he was.
“Does it hurt?” I asked.
“No, Clarisa,” he said, muffled and soft. “I’m sorry they don’t go away.”
“Don’t worry. This time it’ll work.”
As I finished pouring the water over Harrison’s head, Grandma Estrella got on her knees and began rubbing his scalp with a white towel.
“Don’t get it down my back,” Mama said. She was tense against the tub, gripping the rim with white-knuckled hands. She kept looking back at me, squinting. That’s when I noticed she was shaking, her legs and wrists trembling. Grandma Estrella had put down her white towel and was leaned over Mama. She reached out, letting her hands lightly rest on Mama’s head, as if she was protecting her from the cold.
Grandma Estrella whispered, “That man and his choices are behind you now.”
Mama said, “I just wanted him to know he has a sister.”
“And now he does, my baby, but none of this is your place.”
She then danced her fingers over Mama’s neck, motioning for me to begin pouring, wetting her skin along with Mama’s.
The next day, Mama put on a full face of makeup, ran mousse through her lice-free hair, and dropped Harrison off at his apartment on Grant Street. I waited outside in the car, looking up at the window I knew was his. I wanted to catch a glimpse of him, my only brother in the world. I watched until he finally appeared. With his skinny arms, he reached up, and closed the blinds. It was the last time we dropped him off anywhere.
Before Grandma Estrella died, she gave me a booklet of all her remedies. Inside, with an unsteady hand she had drawn pictures of plants and, beneath them, their Spanish names, their scientific names, and just for me, their English names. I can cure head lice, stomach cramps, and bad breath with the right herbs. For the most part, I stick to over-the-counter remedies. They are cleaner and work faster and come in packages with childproof lids. But every once in a while, when I get a real bad headache and the aspirin isn’t cutting it, I take slices of potatoes and hold them to my temples, hoping the bad will seep out of me.
I see Harrison every now and then in the city at parties or shows. He’s a bass player in a punk band called the Roaches. He’s tall now with a serious yet hopeful face. Sometimes I wonder if my dad looked like him as a young man when both our mothers fell for his shit. Other times, I wonder if he’s still giving everyone lice. But I doubt it.
A couple months back, I was outside Lancer Lounge and through the windows I saw Harrison inside on the platform stage, bent over a microphone, a black cord rolled around his arm. When he stood up, we shared a look for a long time before I smiled, pointing to his blue Mohawk.
“Nice hair,” I mouthed, and Harrison smiled back, as if he could hear me through the glass.
About the Recommender
Mat Johnson is the author of the novels Pym, Drop, and Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the comic books Incognegro and Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is from Denver, Colorado. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. Fajardo-Anstine has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook. She received her MFA from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida.
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Originally published in Bellevue Literary Review. From the Book: Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Copyright © 2019 by Kali Fajardo-Anstine Published by arrangement with One World, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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Is “beyond” an antonym of “behind”?
Should the word beyond in this text be taken as an antonym of behind?
From his lifetime and beyond through the fourth century AD, Asclepius was worshipped as a Greek God associated with healing.
(Source: Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice by Teresa Hopper)
Damkerng T.
Not really. If you want an "antonym" for beyond in this context, consider before (beyond is a space/distance term commonly used metaphorically in a time-based contexts; behind is rarely used this way, either in the sense of earlier or later). – FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica Jun 5 '15 at 20:11
I would put a comma after "beyond". – Brian Hitchcock Jul 6 '15 at 7:45
No, beyond is not an antonym of behind. In the context you provided, beyond means "outside the range of (something)."
"From his lifetime and beyond through the fourth century AD, Asclepius was worshipped as a Greek God associated with healing." means that Asclepius was worshipped as a Greek God during his lifetime (when he was alive) and after his death till the fourth century AD (400 CE).
SadiqSadiq
Beyond X means far past or ahead of X.
X and beyond expresses a range that begins with X and ends far past or ahead of X.
From his lifetime and beyond
This means starting from his lifetime and ending far past his lifetime.
LawrenceCLawrenceC
I don't know about the "far" part. "I watched the bird beyond my window" - the bird could be 10 or 100 feet away as long as it is past my window. It's also common to say "far beyond", which would be sort of redundant if beyond already meant far past. – ColleenV parted ways♦ Jul 6 '15 at 3:50
When you say "I watched the bird beyond my window" to me it seems that the bird is further away from than if you just said "I watched the bird outside my window." - i.e. you might be far away from the window and "double" far away from the bird as a result. – LawrenceC Jul 6 '15 at 12:03
I think it's more of an emotional distance than a physical one in most of the senses that it's used. A bird outside my window is just at a location, but a bird beyond my window is on the other side of a barrier. – ColleenV parted ways♦ Jul 6 '15 at 12:15
I think @ColleenV really nailed that distinction. – TBridges42 Aug 5 '15 at 17:27
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Jack Winfield - Environment Agency
Apprentice Name: Jack Winfield
Host employer Name: Environment Agency
Trade: Environmental Conservation
Qualification: Level 2 Environmental Conservation (Rivers, Coast, Waterways)
Location: Owston Ferry/Gainsborough
Date started: 30/03/2017
Date completed: Will complete by September 2018
Previous circumstances prior to starting apprenticeship:
Jack went to college as soon as he left school but he bounced around a lot. He did A-Levels for 3 weeks but decided it wasn’t for him. He then tried a media course for about 6 months but decided that wasn’t for him either. He went to join the Army and got to the pre-selection stage but changed his mind at the last minute as he wasn’t 100% sure about it and knew it was too big a decision not to feel sure of.
He took a month out to try and figure out what he wanted to do with himself and started looking for apprenticeships.
He was initially torn between a few but the one with EN:Able Futures and the Environment Agency stood out for him and so he applied.
Brief description of duties:
Jack has been really fortunate, and the Environment Agency has put him on a number of courses which he completed successfully.
Tree Felling (week long)
Strimmer and Hedge Cutting
Wood-Chipping and Winching
Spraying (Weeds)
On a more day-to-day basis Jack would do a lot of grass cutting, tree-work i.e. chainsawing and wood-chipping.
Chain sawing and strimming are parts of the job Jack has really enjoyed
What difference has doing the apprenticeship made to your life?
He feels that doing this Apprenticeship and working at the Environment Agency has helped him to mature. He worked at McDonalds for a while and though it was alright, the people were all so young, even the managers. Being surrounded by a more varied age range of people has helped him grow up and mature in his work and as a person.
He feels that all experience is good experience. Showing he has completed all these courses and gotten these tickets may not be relevant to his next venture but it shoes he can complete something and can put his mind to a task successfully.
What are your aims for your future career?
Jack is starting an Access to Higher Education course in September. He will be studying Business and Law at West Nottinghamshire College with the aim of applying to study Business at university afterwards.
His experience on this Apprenticeship has opened his eyes to more opportunities and he knows he can see something through to the end be successful
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Enloe Marching Band – A Glossary
Band parents (aka “band moms” and “band dads”): Not only are band parents the ones who supply the raw material for the band in the form of their children, they also manage the logistical activities that keep the band running. The kids generally appreciate how hard the parents work and frequently say “thank you”, things not often seen in the typical herd of teenagers. Also other band parents are rich sources of information on Enloe academics, the college application process, driver’s ed, and important things such as where to get the best deals on Gatorade. See also Gatorade, Fundraising Opportunities and Volunteer Opportunities. Actually, pretty much just see the rest of the Glossary.
Bagging uniforms: What students must do with their uniforms when they take them off after performances. Each student is assigned a specific bag and uniform with his/her name on them. Uniforms must be hung up correctly and promptly so they are ready for wearing in the next competition. Lessons in folding and hanging pants are given regularly.
Band lockers/Cubbies: Assigned spaces in the band room where students can keep their instruments if they are not taking them home. Also used for storage of books, homework, lunch containers and pretty much everything else. If your child is missing something, the first question to ask is: “Have you checked your band locker.” This is especially important if the thing they are missing is perishable.
Birthdays: The marching band sections quickly become a tight unit. They like to celebrate the birthdays of their members, which usually include sudden exposure to a water cooler filled with ice water at the end of a rehearsal. A few kids are usually lucky enough to have birthdays while we are at Away Band Camp, which means ice cream and cake for the entire band. While we are great instrumental musicians, you really don’t want to hear us try to sing anything, even Happy Birthday. If your child has a birthday while we are at camp or a competition, let us know.
Black socks: A key part of the uniform and one that is very likely to go missing at crucial times – i.e., before a competition. It’s essential that students do not have white socks showing between their black pants and black shoes. While there has been the occasional student effort to draw socks on with Sharpies, this has not been a particularly effective strategy. Your best bet is to buy lots of black socks and prepare for all of them to disappear during the course of the marching season (only to reappear, reeking, when band lockers are eventually cleaned out).
Band Camp: Camp is actually multiple events, the first is “Home Camp,” held at Enloe to learn/remember basics and organize the band, then we begin to learn the show music and drill, and finally “Night Camp” which immediately follows and is held at Enloe just prior to school starting. August is filled with Camp, although ours is shorter than many of the bands we compete against, some of which start in late June.
Chaperone: We don’t really like this word, but use it all the time. The role parents play in the band is not one of babysitting or discipline, our student leadership sets high expectations for behavior and manages the band. However, with a group this large, we always need to be prepared for things that require an adult to help make something happen or provide guidance. We ensure that a chaperone is present when traveling and available to ensure the kids always have an adult they can turn to. In the unlikely event that a problem occurs, we inform the student leadership and/or director and they will correct it. Any time we travel, whether to a local competition, parade or our big weekend at Western Carolina we need a few chaperones for each trip. Sometimes we have gotten requests from a kid to put their parent on the other bus, but your support is really appreciated by the kids.
Chickens: These are the fluffy decorative accessories that are stuck onto the band members’ hats before they perform. Between appearances they are carefully stored and guarded by vigilant band parents. The chickens are very soft, very white, and very susceptible to destruction by water and/or contact with teenagers. Thus they are applied at the last possible moment before performances and removed as quickly as possible after performances. Helping to apply and “pluck” the chickens is a volunteer opportunity like no other.
Colemans: The 1 gallon RED water jugs that students are required to have with them during practices. This is a big part of keeping the kids safe by ensuring they always have water and stay hydrated. They are Coleman model #3000000731 and usually available for under $15 locally or online.
Color Guard: The group of tireless athletes who provide visual interest to the show through the use of costumes, flags, dancing, and props.
Competitions: Saturday events involving a number of marching bands performing and competing in a particular high school’s stadium. Bands generally compete against other bands in their “class” – a distinction which is made based on the number of band members. Parents and family members can go and watch the performances. You’ll see bands ranging in size from a few dozen to more than 200. And performance themes that encompass everything imaginable – from the Muppets, to Star Wars, to Aaron Copeland.See Stadium Seats.
DCI: Stands for Drum Corps International. A group of various professional-level bands, including Color Guards, made up of college age students that perform and compete nationally each summer. They march in formations and positions that are amazing. Enloe alumni have participated in these groups. We have an optional trip to attend a DCI show during the summer, and also sometime watch tapes of performances and competitions while traveling. They find these performances amazingly engrossing.
Drill: Is the actual choreography of the show. It involves development of the patterns in which the band will march while playing the show music. The drill is written with each band member represented by a specific dot. If a band member is not available for a show, it creates a hole where the dot is and affects the visual aspect of the performance. Each dot is essential to each performance!
Drillmasters: Issued to first year marchers at the beginning of the season when uniforms are fitted. The black soft-soled marching shoes that your child will wear for performances. Designed to facilitate marching footwork.
Dot books: (See Drill for description of dots.) A book that your child will be carrying at all times during band camp and bring to rehearsals after that. Each child’s book is unique and is marked (by the child) with the positions he/she is supposed to be in at each relevant point in the show. An example of a dot description would be “Two steps to the right of the 50-yard line and three steps behind the flute player in front of me.”
Dr. Beat: The amplified metronome that is used during practices to ensure that students are keeping proper time in their marching and playing. Often operated by a band parent. Never sit in front of Dr. Beat – your ears will never be the same. Sitting behind Dr. Beat is usually your best option. Also plan on hearing Dr. Beat in your sleep for days.
Drumline: All percussion instruments. It has two components. The battery consists of the kids who actually march, with various types of drums strapped to them. The Front line is set up on the sidelines and its members do not march, but rather play non-marching instruments such as Marimbas, Chimes, and Vibes. While front line members do not get the physical exertion of marching, that is compensated for by the continual need to move/load/unload heavy pit equipment. (See Pit Crew)
Fair Share: The money each student is asked to raise or pay to offset band operating costs. For the classroom bands, this is includes music, repairs, and outside clinicians and for marching band includes camp logistics, transportation, uniforms, music, instrument repair etc. Each student has what is called a Fair Share Account. Students and their families may participate in fundraising activities in order to contribute to this account and offset the costs. Each student has his/her own Fair Share account. It is completely possible to earn enough through fundraising each year to offset the entire cost of marching band operations. Note that activities designated for “General Fundraising,” which is used to buy new instruments and other capital items, do not get credited to fare share (on-going operations) accounts. See Fundraising Opportunities.
First Aid Kits: These are stored in the snack room and we never leave the building without them. They must be on the bus when we travel and on the field when we are rehearsing. Most of our first aid is blisters and sprains early in the season and we work to keep it that way.
Football Fridays: Specific Fridays on which the Enloe team has a home football game that, from our perspective, is conveniently fit in around the band’s halftime performance. All or part of the show is performed either at halftime or sometimes after the game. During games students sit together and play “bleacher music” to give their parents, seated elsewhere, something to listen to while watching the football activities.
Fundraising Opportunities: Options for students (and parents) to earn money to contribute to fair share accounts or to the general band fund. Examples include selling Citrus Fruit, selling GoPlaySave books, using grocery cards (see Wake Soccer Park, Script/Gift Cards and Grocery Cards) and a variety of other activities that credit fair share, as well as Friday doughnut sales that provide money to the band’s General Fund (see General Fund). Some involve active selling, others can be earned simply by getting and using a grocery gift card for your grocery shopping – and asking other family member to do so. See Fundraising tab on Enloe Band webpage to learn more about specific opportunities. Check Yahoo group emails to learn about upcoming opportunities, details, and deadlines (See Yahoo Group).
Gator: The green John Deere 4WD vehicle that is used to tow the pit instruments on and off of the field for performances and also to perform endless food/water/missing sweatshirt runs during practices. Being deemed responsible enough to have keys to the Gator is a great accomplishment for a band parent.
Gatorade: Not to be confused with the Gator. A beverage that you will be buying and toting to school in large quantities. The 20 oz size is preferred. It is a sign of being a band parent if you have a stockpile of Gatorade somewhere in your house. Along with snack foods, it’s important in keeping the kids energized and in good shape physically. In past years, the band has filled an entire dorm room with Gatorade at the beginning of away camp. And consumed virtually all of it over the course of a week. For safety, we focus on keeping the kids hydrated, and the mix of water during practice and Gatorade at the breaks/meals helps a lot.
General Fund: An capital account used for the entire band program and funded by a variety of sources including General Fundraising Activities and donations. Money from this account is used for things such as instrument purchases and new uniforms.
Grocery Cards: Are available for Lowes, Food Lion and Kroger. They are purchased through a band parent and a certain amount of the face value of the card goes into the Fair Share account. If you purchase a $200 Kroger card and then use it to buy $200 worth of groceries over the course of a month, you have just added $10 to your Fair Share account. Do it year-round and you can make a big dent in future Fair Share payments.
High Brass: A band section consisting of the trumpets and the mellophones (marching French Horns).
Icy-Hot: A pain-relieving substance for sore muscles with a particularly pungent smell that permeates band camp. (A skunk let loose at band camp one year, but there was much debate before people decided it was something that smelled stronger than Icy Hot). Is frequently used in conjunction with Ibuprofen and parental sympathy. We use lots of Icy-Hot at band camps.
Leadership: The students responsible for all (Drum Major) or parts (Captains; Section Leaders) of the band. There may also be positions involving activities such as communications and logistics. The role of all the parent volunteers is to support the band leadership and make them successful by handling the logistics while they handle the music.
Line Crew: This is a group of dedicated parents (See Volunteer Opportunities) who load the front line equipment onto a large truck and later onto a trailer that is attached to the Gator and driven onto the field just before performances, set up for the musicians, then removed afterwards. These parents end up with skills that could allow them to mobilize an entire army on a moment’s notice. Our band usually requires about 7,000 lbs of “stuff” to be moved to each competition to support the show. Also, like Unloading the Truck, this is an activity that builds muscle – and camaraderie. Not to mention the fact that some competitions give out awards for Best Crew. Yes, you too can earn bragging rights for something during marching band season.
Long Ranger: This is the battery powered PA system to which Dr. Beat is connected that is loud enough to cover the field of practice, even while playing. It includes a headset that allows the instructors to communicate with the band during rehearsals.
Low Brass: The section of the band that contains the trombones, the euphomiums and the sousaphones.
March-offs: Competitions held at band camp and a couple of times during the year. Students form a marching block (similar to the formations in which a military platoon marches) and are given a series of increasingly difficult marching instructions. As they make mistakes, they drop out and finally one band member is declared the winner. Winning involves bragging rights, possibly an end-of-season award, and usually an ice-water bath.
Marching Band Season: An important part of the year that starts in early August and runs though mid-December. It peaks in October, which is when most competitions occur. Once competitions end around Halloween at Cary Band Day, show rehearsals end as well. The remaining activities for November and December involve parades, a few parade rehearsals, and a performance at the Christmas Concert. These final events are shorter and far less intense, and thus generally do not require large quantities of Gatorade.
Parades: The band marches in 2-3 parades per year. Options include the Raleigh Veteran’s Day Parade, the Raleigh Christmas parade on WRAL and another Christmas parade. Full uniform is worn and special music is learned for the performances.
Podium: This is the large folding platform that the drum major stand on to conduct the band. It is stored in the shed. Assemble carefully and make sure all latches are locked before use. The podium has a fabric “skirt” with the Enloe logo that we use at performances and hands on the uniform rack for storage.
Ring of Fire: A hallowed ritual that ends the day at band camp in which students stand in a circle, holding their instruments in marching positions for as long as possible, all while listening to endless repeats of Ring of Fire. Winners get band camp bragging rights and great appreciation or loathing for Johnny Cash.
Sections/Sectionals: The band is made up of sections by instrument. The day to day direction for most band activities will come from the section leaders and the kids will frequently warm-up or rehearse with their just section (Sectionals). When a kid is unsure about anything, the first call or text should always be to their section leadership.
Sense of Accomplishment: What students will feel after the marching band season when they realized how much they have learned and how hard they have worked. What parents will feel when watching the band improve from performance to performance and knowing that their hard work helped make that improvement possible. Also occurs when a given student remembers his/her black socks without being reminded or finally learns how to bag their uniform.
Set a movement of the show: If a movement is set, it means that the students have learned the marching moves (See Drill) and the music for that particular movement and are able to march it with few difficulties, other than the occasional missed turn that results in a collision. When the whole show is set, it means the students have learned everything they need to know to perform the entirety of that year’s show.
Shed: This is a green storage building located near the baseball field where we store the Gator and other outdoor equipment. Keys to the shed are on the same key ring with the Gator key and a key to the gates you need to open.
Show: This is the performance piece that the band starts learning at away camp and performs and refines throughout the marching season. Each year’s show has a specific name and a specific theme, with music and choreography chosen to reflect that theme.
Show shirt: Each student gets a T-shirt each year with the show name, the year, and related artwork on it. These are worn underneath uniforms to soak up the sweat, to show pride, and to help parents keep track of students after performances. Most parents elect to order extras, since they seem to never to be clean when the kid needs them.
Snacks: What parents will be providing for the snack bin throughout the year. The bin is divided to allow a choice between sweet or salty snacks, both of which are always needed. And they are needed in huge quantities. Just for the week of band camp, if you multiply three snacks per day by the number of band members, the snack requirements are staggering. Helpful notes: Things with lots of chocolate don’t work well early in the season when it’s hot. Also, Nutrigrain bars (Not Recommended) seem to turn into flattened piles of mush the instant they even come near the snack bin. We do have snacks that contain nuts, if your student has allergies we need to know so we can help them avoid exposure.
Snacking the band: An essential (and frequent) activity that allows the band to keep working throughout the afternoon/day. Students are given a choice of snack (See Snack Bin) and are allowed to sit and rest for a few moments while eating it. Often Gatorade is available as well. Snacking the band is only possible if parents provide the snacks on a regular basis. Snacks are stored in a room at the school until they are needed, so they don’t need to always be brought in at specific times.
Stadium Seats: Folding seats (with backs) that can be purchased at a sporting goods store and then brought to games or competitions and attached to the bleachers to allow middle-aged parents to sit for long periods of time without needing physical help to exit the stands at the end of the event. Highly recommended.
Sunscreen/Bug spray: Substances that students will try to avoid but which parent volunteers remind them to apply, as they make practices (and the days after practices) much less painful. We will ask parents to donate these during the season as needed.
Unloading the Truck: This must be done when the band returns from competitions and parades. All instruments, uniforms and other band gear must be taken off the truck that is driven to events. No student is to go home until the truck is unloaded and all equipment is returned to its proper place. They will be dismissed by their section leader or the drum major. This task can be expedited by having parents help. And at midnight on a Saturday, we all have an incentive to expedite. Also, lugging Bari Saxes and heavy pit equipment can make for wonderfully sculpted biceps if you do it enough.
Volunteer opportunities: This is your chance to say “I’m with the band.” Countless opportunities exist and come in all different shapes and sizes. Without parent volunteers the band wouldn’t be able to function. You can chaperone band camp or competition attendance. You can distribute water and snacks to the kids during afternoon rehearsals. You can help with the end of the season banquet and awards. You can contribute food to special events or for football games. All of these opportunities allow you to see how hard your child works, to get to know other parents, and to make your own friends while also offering an invaluable contribution. There are opportunities that fit all kinds of work schedules. And many companies offer leave time for volunteer work since the band is a non-profit entity. On top of all that, the value of being able to say to your child “I know Grant’s mother and no, she doesn’t let him do that so this discussion is over” can never be underestimated.
Yard Markers: These are stored in the shed and placed along the sideline of the practice field to help the kids find their dots.
Wake Soccer Park: One of the year’s first fundraising events (begins in the spring prior to marching band season) and one of the more lucrative events. Students and parents can sign up for slots working at a concession stand run by Enloe during events games. A fixed $20 contribution per person per event is automatically deposited in individual students’ Fair Share accounts. (See Fair Share and Fundraising Opportunities). It’s very easy to earn a lot of your Fair Share money this way.
Woodwinds: A band section comprised of clarinets, saxophones and flutes – plus the odd piccolo or two.
Yahoo Group: Your source of e-mail communication for all things marching band related. There are two groups – one for all band parents and one for the marching band parents. Be sure to sign up for both and we apologize in advance for some duplication of messages. You will get lots of emails with vital information in them. Also, you will be able to access daily pictures from band camp, so that you can see that you child is still alive and not near death as they are reporting to you in their text messages.
Weather: Safety is always first and many of the instruments can be damaged if they get too wet. Announcements about weather cancellations of rehearsals, competitions, football (we may not be able to play, even though they continue the game), parades and other events will be made by the Yahoo Group. We can usually throw a tarp over the pit and “case” our sensitive instruments to make it through a brief shower, practice time is valuable. We also move (or stay) indoors and work on music if the weather is not cooperating for long periods.
Web Site: (www.enloeband.org) This is the place to find forms, the all important calendar, lots of information on volunteer roles, fundraising and ability to see and hear shows past and present as the season progresses. If you can’t find something you need as a parent, hit the feedback button on the website so we can add it for you and all parents to come.
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Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancy
St Pourcain, B. and Cents, R.A.M. and Whitehouse, A.J.O. and Haworth, C.M.A. and Davis, O.S.P. and O’Reilly, P.F. and Roulstone, S. and Wren, Y. and Ang, Q.W. and Velders, F.P. and Evans, D.M. and Kemp, John P. and Warrington, N.M. and Miller, L. and Timpson, N.J. and Ring, S.M. and Verhulst, F.C. and Hofman, A. and Rivadeneira, F. and Meaburn, Emma L. and Price, T.S. and Dale, P.S. and Pillas, D. and Yliherva, A. and Rodriguez, A. and Golding, J. and Jaddoe, V.W.V. and Jarvelin, M.-R. and Plomin, R. and Pennell, C.E. and Tiemeier, H. and Davey Smith, G. (2014) Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancy. Nature Communications 5 , p. 4831. ISSN 2041-1723.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5831
Twin studies suggest that expressive vocabulary at ~24 months is modestly heritable. However, the genes influencing this early linguistic phenotype are unknown. Here we conduct a genome-wide screen and follow-up study of expressive vocabulary in toddlers of European descent from up to four studies of the EArly Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology consortium, analysing an early (15–18 months, ‘one-word stage’, NTotal=8,889) and a later (24–30 months, ‘two-word stage’, NTotal=10,819) phase of language acquisition. For the early phase, one single-nucleotide polymorphism (rs7642482) at 3p12.3 near ROBO2, encoding a conserved axon-binding receptor, reaches the genome-wide significance level (P=1.3 × 10−8) in the combined sample. This association links language-related common genetic variation in the general population to a potential autism susceptibility locus and a linkage region for dyslexia, speech-sound disorder and reading. The contribution of common genetic influences is, although modest, supported by genome-wide complex trait analysis (meta-GCTA h215–18-months=0.13, meta-GCTA h224–30-months=0.14) and in concordance with additional twin analysis (5,733 pairs of European descent, h224-months=0.20).
Biological sciences, Genetics, Neuroscience
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Presidential Election:11/3/20- On to Iowa 2/3 & New Hampshire 2/11
By Rdskns2000, August 25, 2017 in The Tailgate
BenningRoadSkin
16 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:
God forbid someone's views change with new data. Their takes change because voter's opinions are not static.
538 has a particular space in the political media ecosystem. I don't think anyone at 538 has minced words about what they do. Again, it reports on what is happening in the world, that's what journalism is supposed to do.
Also, a lot of the stuff you post comes from a pro-Bernie tilt, and I can't help but think that 538's obvious bias against Bernie (that's snark) may be at play here.
Silver’s thing is to make a declarative statement using numbers and then change and make a new declarative statement using numbers, pretending that he didn’t say what he mentioned prior.
The issue is we stop thinking about actual issues and only post about numbers. Look at the threadstarter in this thread, his only interest in politics seems to be the horse race. That’s how we have gotten to this point.
I actually support Warren but Bernie is my second. I am a leftist and most of this board isn’t.
I encourage you to listen to the podcast because while they are leftist, they talk about media coverage and how it impacts our politics.
10 minutes ago, No Excuses said:
Attacking someone who runs regressions for a living because they aren't a crusader in your political fight is the height of stupidity and is something straight out of the Trumpian playbook.
PleaseBlitz
The Pro Bowlers
4 minutes ago, BenningRoadSkin said:
Can you provides some examples? Also, numbers change, and therefore the interpretations of numbers should change.
People can do both. 538 is apologetically about polling and public sentiment. It's important because you can't enact change without winning elections.
I'm not a leftist, yet I also support Warren. My second is anyone but Bernie.
I tried. Way too much sanctimony and being full of ****.
bearrock
I am a leftist and most of this board isn’t.
See @twa? I told you this board isn't liberal enough
16 minutes ago, BenningRoadSkin said:
So your complaint is that he isn't a head-in-the-sand dogmatic nincompoop.
Thank you for enlightening us on the horrors of data analysis. May we all live in a static world, in which nothing ever changes.
Edited September 19, 2019 by No Excuses
Heteroscedasticity.
Just because I still remember the evils of sadistics from grad school. And because it makes me feel like a pompeous ass saying it.
Can you provides some examples? Also, numbers change, and therefore the interpretations of numbers should change.
Man told us for a year that Trump Had no chance. Then moved the sliders slightly right before Election Day and tried to do a victory lap by saying he was less wrong than most of media.
It’s not about public sentiment. It’s not about anything at this point, and he editorializes way more than you think.
And he isn’t interested in changing anything. Dude sees politics the same as he sees a poker table.
No, he actually does have his head in the sand. That’s my complaint. You on the other hand seem to like dude because he runs numbers and it appeals to your need to feel more intelligent than the average bear. Unfortunately you are missing out that he is closer to a data troll than anything else at this point.
what does this mean? Lol
It means Klobuchar's qualifications (according to him) don't match up with the people's opinions of her.
Contwarian
1 minute ago, The Evil Genius said:
Humans are imperfect creatures, keeps things interesting.
This is incorrect. He consistently said that Trump had a 30% chance, rubes rounded that down to 0%. Also, moving the sliders right before election day is probably warranted given the Comey testimony the week before.
Here is that actual item from 2 days before the election: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-the-campaign-is-almost-over-and-heres-where-we-stand/
Thus, while Clinton’s a 76 percent favorite to win the popular vote according to our polls-only forecast, her odds are more tenuous — 64 percent — to win the Electoral College. (Her chances in the polls-plus forecast are identical.) It would not necessarily require a major polling error for Trump to be elected, though he would have to do so with an extremely narrow majority in the Electoral College.
I'm aware that he editorializes, he's also pretty good at pointing out when he's doing it. Also, public sentiment = polling. Polling measures public sentiment. Sheesh.
Yea, that's his job. See @No Excuses posts.
Edited September 19, 2019 by PleaseBlitz
Personally, I think Warren blows everyone out of the water qualifications wise. But so did HRC.
But like twa said..humans are imperfect creatures.
skinsmarydu
The Role Player
3 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:
I think a Warren/Buttigieg ticket would be lovely.
13 minutes ago, skinsmarydu said:
Speaking of Amy K, she'd be an interesting choice for Warren's VP. Not sure if 'Murica would agree...
Need someone stronger on the foreign affairs front for veep...and a military background is a maximum plus for me.
She's got the plans, he can sell them best. Just my pennies.
Rdskns2000
2 hours ago, BenningRoadSkin said:
I have no stake in the 2020 Democratic primary race. I've already said, I will vote for the Dems candidate one more time in 2020 and then return to my 3rd party ways in 2022. Whoever gets the Democratic nomination, even Bernie; I will vote for them. For 2020 there is only one issue- removing Trump. I just don't see that candidate in 2020.
Joe is a senile old man. He may have the support of the older Dem voters but he won't be drawing the young voters. They will probably stay home or vote for some 3rd party candidate. Joe won't have the ability to counterpunch against the trump/GOP machine.
Bernie & Elizabeth will excite the young voters and they will come out to vote for them. Thing is, many of their policy positions will scare off the older voters. Those voters will probably stay home. I find it doubtful the youth vote can overcome those that will vote for Trump, to get him his 270.
I do view politics as a sport, especially when I don't really have horse to ride on. I voted 3rd party, where I could, since 2004 until 2016. I firmly believe we need a viable 3rd and maybe even 4th party. The GOP was already to far to the right and now it's a cult party of for one man: Trump. The energy and where the youth is in the democratic party is to the left. Eventually, the left will have full control of the Democratic party. I think most people lean more towards center but they are no longer really being served by the 2 party structure. So, I hope for the rise of more options. The Trump presidency, has derailed that temporarily.
Right now, voting Trump out is the only option. I don't think this country could take another 4 years of him; especially if he had a full GOP congress again. So, know I don't really care to much about policy this time, since the only issue is removing Trump. There's no denying the country will be moving leftward since the youth are more inclined that way politically and they will be getting into power and winning elections eventually. AOC will be a future Democratic presidential nominee.
I know the left wants free this, free that. Maybe you should work and if it takes you 10 years to get a college degree; then it takes you 10 years, Lizzie won't answer the question that in her medicare for all plan. middle classes taxes have to go up. People aren't going to look at, whether their overall costs might go down. They are only going to look at, how much less will be in their paycheck and will it be worth it to have "Medicare for All". Also, I've heard no mention on what happens to all these people that will lose jobs when all the private insurance goes bellyup.
If Lizzie or Bernie is the nominee, I will vote for them. Even though I will probably disagree with most of their policies. Senile Joe gets the nod. I will vote him. My personal wish is that someone other than those 3 get the nomination. I don't see it happening. One of those 3 will be the nominee. I don't have a real stake other than getting Trump out. Whoever the Dem primary voters choose, I hope a miracle happens and they win. Despite all the polls, I firmly believe that when push comes to shove; Trump will get his 270 to win reelection. So, for me anyway; yes, I view this election, more as a horserace. Maybe in 2024 there will be candidate I will get really excited for.
No, he actually does have his head in the sand. That’s my complaint. You on the other hand seem to like dude because he runs numbers and it appeals to your need to feel more intelligent than the average bear. Unfortunately you are missing out that he is closer to a data troll than anything else at this point.
Data troll... lol. This is so dumb. The guy builds probabilistic models for election outcomes and you are grumpy that he isn’t shilling enough for your side and “bringing change”.
2 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:
Breh what? He wrote an article saying he effed up on Trump?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pundit-and-screwed-up-on-donald-trump/
his site also had it was 99% certain Clinton would beat Bernie in Michigan
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-stunning-bernie-sanders-win-in-michigan-means/
he is a data troll
Edited September 19, 2019 by BenningRoadSkin
The Camp Fodder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/19/more-voters-are-registering-than-dying-but-differences-by-state-could-shape/
First, there’s Illinois. The L2 data suggests that most of the new additions are independent or third-party, so the state is up there at the top of our chart. But The Washington Post is predicting that Illinois will [checks notes] stay blue in 2020. With some states, we feel pretty comfortable in making assumptions about the voter pools.
Then there’s Texas. We noted before that there were more new Democrats there than Republicans in our data. We’ll note here that we’re still 14 months from the general election and these numbers will shift as more people register. That said, Texas is down in the lower left part of this graph, meaning more identifiably partisan registration and more of that registration made up of Democrats. More so than California!
Interesting — but not as interesting as Michigan, where the new registrations are heavily Democratic. That’s in keeping with the average for those three states that turned red in 2016. They may have been won by Trump narrowly in 2016, but, since then, they’re registering a lot more Democrats.
Since 2016, those three states have lost 621,000 voters to death, may they rest in peace. They’ve added 1.4 million voters. L2′s data tells us that 752,000 of those new voters are Democrats and 247,000 are Republican — a difference of 505,000. These are the states that elected Trump by a combined 78,000 votes.
Rufus T Firefly
The Run Stopper
It's perfectly legit to question mainstream media outlets focusing on the horserace aspect than giving voters info they need to make an informed decision on who to vote for. They are neglecting their duty and if you want to trash them for it, I'm with you.
If you want to complain about a website that was set up solely to examine poll data and complain that they are spending too much time "on the horserace", then that's just ridiculous. Might as well go to a makeup tutorial video and ask why they aren't covering the civil war in Yemen.
And Nate’s takes, and others like him, are super flimsy and change with every poll. It doesn’t contribute much to our discourse and probably harms it.
OMG, someone who analyzes data changes his outlooks when the data changes?
1 hour ago, BenningRoadSkin said:
You should read this article more carefully yourself. Specifically this part:
Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I’ve seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists — FiveThirtyEight included, twice over — about what they got wrong on Trump. This instinct to be accountable for one’s predictions is good since the conceit of “data journalism,” at least as I see it, is to apply the scientific method to the news. That means observing the world, formulating hypotheses about it, and making those hypotheses falsifiable. (Falsifiability is one of the big reasons we make predictions.1) When those hypotheses fail, you should re-evaluate the evidence before moving on to the next subject. The distinguishing feature of the scientific method is not that it always gets the answer right, but that it fails forward by learning from its mistakes.
The very thing you accuse him of doing, ("changing his views"), he articulates why that's necessary for data journalists.
I know in the world of ideologues, looking at data and re-evaluating your ideas is a big no-go so I get the need for chastising people who are open to self-criticism and re-evaluation. Trying to hold their self-critique against them says more about you than them.
His site is an aggregator of polls and builds their models around them. The polls were wrong and as an outcome so was their model. But they were otherwise accurate on 90% of the caucuses and primaries in 2016.
Really kind of dumb to go after people who work on probablistic modeling and then saying "OMG THEY GOT SOMETHING WRONG!!!". It's the nature of the god damn work that sometimes they will.
1 hour ago, Rufus T Firefly said:
My G, he tries to use data to spread his worldview. That’s the issue. And he says insane stuff like this:
Data guy!
1 hour ago, No Excuses said:
I know in the world of ideologues, looking at data and re-evaluating your ideas is a big no-go so I get the need for chastising people who are open to self-criticism and re-evaluation. Trying to hold their self-critique against them says more about you than them.
And then he continues to do the same thing he did before with Trump in the GOP primaries.
And lol at reducing this to it being about ideology. Get over yourself lol.
The point I am making is he, and others, use data to say stuff like “electability” instead of having a conversation on the actual issues at hand and how we solve them. None of these people actually have a clue about what people want or will support. 2008 was 11 years ago, and I feel a lot of people still want to believe in the nonsense we believed back then.
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The point I am making is he, and others, use data to say stuff like “electability” instead of having a conversation on the actual issues at hand and how we solve them
Proposing solutions for issues is not his job. Why that is so hard for you to understand is beyond me.
I see Beto has been hitting the pipe again.
mistertim
36 minutes ago, twa said:
Is there something wrong with DC residents actually having representation in the country they live in?
1 minute ago, mistertim said:
they have representation.....they are not and should not be considered a state though.
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Chinatown (1974 film)
1974 film directed by Roman Polański
(Redirected from Chinatown (film))
Chinatown is a 1974 film about a private investigator (Nicholson) hired to expose an adultery case, but his investigation turns into a mystery of elements: murder, betrayal, and water.
Directed by Roman Polanski. Written by Robert Towne.
1 J. J. "Jake" Gittes
J. J. "Jake" GittesEdit
Listen, pal. I make an honest living. People only come to me when they're in a desperate situation. I help 'em out. I don't kick families out of their houses like you bums down at the bank do.
So there's this guy Walsh, do you understand? He's tired of screwin' his wife... So his friend says to him, "Hey, why don't you do it like the Chinese do?" So he says, "How do the Chinese do it?" And the guy says, "Well, the Chinese, first they screw a little bit, then they stop, then they go and read a little Confucius, come back, screw a little bit more, then they stop again, and then they go out and they contemplate the moon or something like that. Makes it more exciting." So now, the guy goes home and he starts screwin' his own wife, see. So he screws her for a little bit and then he stops, and he goes out of the room and reads Life Magazine. Then he goes back in, he starts screwin' again. He says, "Excuse me for a minute, honey." He goes out and he smokes a cigarette. Now his wife is gettin' sore as hell. He comes back in the room, he starts screwin' again. He gets up to start to leave again to go look at the moon. She looks at him and says, "Hey, whats the matter with ya. You're screwin' just like a Chinaman!" [Laughs hysterically]
[To Lt. Lou Escobar] You're dumber than you think I think you are.
OthersEdit
Morty: In the middle of a drought and the water commissioner drowns! Only in L.A.
Man with Knife: You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses. [flicks knife, cutting open Jake's nostril] Next time you lose the whole thing. Cut it off and feed it to my goldfish. Understand? Understand!?
Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Note: ranked #74 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
DialogueEdit
Curly: She's just no good.
Gittes: What can I tell you, kid? You're right. When you're right, you're right, and you're right.
Mrs. Mulwray: I've never hired you to do anything, certainly not to spy on my husband. I see you like publicity, Mr. Gittes. Well, you're going to get it.
Gittes: Now wait a minute, Mrs. Mulwray. I think there's been some misunderstanding here. There's no point in getting tough with me. I'm just trying--
Mrs. Mulwray: I don't get tough with anyone, Mr. Gittes. My lawyer does.
Yelburton: After you've worked with a man a certain length of time, you come to know his habits, his values - you come to know him - and either he's the kind who chases after women or he isn't.
Gittes: Mulwray isn't?
Yelburton: He never even kids about it.
Gittes: Well, maybe he takes it very seriously.
Gittes: Mulvihill! What are you doing here?
Mulvihill: They shut my water off. What's it to you?
Gittes: How'd you find out about it? You don't drink it; you don't take a bath in it... They wrote you a letter. But then you have to be able to read.
Gittes: I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business. And believe me, Mrs. Mulwray, whoever set your husband up set me up. LA's a small town, people talk. I'm just trying to make a living. I don't want to become a local joke.
Mrs. Mulwray: Mr. Gittes. You talked me into it. I'll drop the lawsuit.
Gittes: What?
Mrs. Mulwray: I said I'll drop the lawsuit. So let's just drop the whole thing.
Gittes: I don't want to drop it. I'd better talk to your husband about this.
Mrs. Mulwray: Why? What on earth for? Hollis seems to think you're an innocent man.
Gittes: Well, I've been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs. Mulwray, but never that. Look. Somebody's gone to a lot of trouble here and lawsuit or no lawsuit, I intend to find out. I'm not supposed to be the one who's caught with his pants down. So unless it's a problem, I'd like to talk to your husband.
Mrs. Mulwray: Why should it be a problem?
Gittes: May I speak frankly, Mrs. Mulwray?
Mrs. Mulwray: Only if you can, Mr. Gittes.
Gittes: Well, that little girlfriend. She was pretty in a cheap sort of a way, of course. She's disappeared. Maybe they disappeared together.
Mrs. Mulwray: Suppose they did. How does that affect you?
Gittes: It's nothing personal, Mrs. Mulwray.
Mrs. Mulwray: It's very personal. It couldn't be more personal. Is this a business or an obsession with you?
Escobar: So, tell me Gittes, how'd you get past the guard?
Gittes: Well, to tell you the truth, I lied a little.
Escobar: You look like you've done well by yourself.
Gittes: I get by.
Escobar: Well, sometimes it takes a while for a man to find himself. Maybe you have.
Loach: Yeah, goin' through other people's dirty linen.
Gittes: Yeah. Tell me. You still puttin' Chinamen in jail for spittin' in the laundry?
Escobar: You're a little behind the times, Jake. They use steam irons now. And I'm out of Chinatown.
Gittes: Since when?
Escobar: Since I made Lieutenant.
Gittes: Congratulations.
Escobar: [pointing to graffiti on the wall] Isn't that your phone number?
Gittes: Is it? I forget. I don't call myself that often.
Gittes: [on the phone] Hello, Miss Sessions. I don't believe we've had the pleasure."
Ida Sessions: Oh, yes we have. Are you alone?
Gittes: Isn't everybody?
Mrs. Mulwray: Tell me, Mr. Gittes: Does this often happen to you?
Gittes: What's that?
Mrs. Mulwray: Well, I'm judging only on the basis of one afternoon and an evening, but, uh, if this is how you go about your work, I'd say you'd be lucky to, uh, get through a whole day.
Gittes: Actually, this hasn't happened to me for a long time.
Mrs. Mulwray: When was the last time?
Gittes: Why?
Mrs. Mulwray: It's an innocent question.
Gittes: In Chinatown.
Mrs. Mulwray: What were you doing there?
Gittes: Working for the District Attorney.
Mrs. Mulwray: Doing what?
Gittes: As little as possible.
Mrs. Mulwray: The District Attorney gives his men advice like that?
Gittes: They do in Chinatown.
Gittes: Something else besides the death of your husband was bothering you. You were upset, but not that upset.
Mrs. Mulwray: Mr. Gittes. Don't tell me how I feel.
Gittes: Sorry. Look. You sue me. Your husband dies. You drop the lawsuit like a hot potato all of it quicker than the wind from a duck's ass. Excuse me, uh. Then you ask me to lie to the police.
Mrs. Mulwray: It wasn't much of a lie.
Gittes: If your husband was killed, it was. This could look like you paid me off to withhold evidence.
Mrs. Mulwray: But he wasn't killed.
Gittes: Mrs. Mulwray. I think you're hiding something.
Mrs. Mulwray: Well, I suppose I am. Actually, I knew about the affair.
Gittes: How did you find out?
Mrs. Mulwray: My husband.
Gittes: He told you? [She nods yes] And you weren't the least bit upset?
Mrs. Mulwray: I was grateful.
Gittes: Mrs. Mulwray, you'll have to explain that.
Mrs. Mulwray: Why?
Gittes: Look. I do matrimonial work. It's my métier. When a wife tells me that she's happy that her husband is cheating on her, it runs contrary to my experience.
Mrs. Mulwray: Unless what?
Gittes: She was cheating on him. Were you?
Mrs. Mulwray: I dislike the word cheat.
Gittes: Did you have affairs?
Mrs. Mulwray: Mr. Gittes.
Gittes: Did he know about it?
Mrs. Mulwray: Well, I wouldn't run home and tell him every time I went to bed with someone, if that's what you mean. Is there anything else you want to know about me?
Gittes: Where were you when your husband died?
Mrs. Mulwray: I can't tell you.
Gittes: You mean you don't know where you were?
Mrs. Mulwray: I mean I can't tell you.
Gittes: You were seeing someone too. For very long?
Mrs. Mulwray: I don't see anyone for very long, Mr. Gittes. It's difficult for me. Now, I think you know all you need know about me. I didn't want publicity. I didn't want to go into any of this then or now. Is that all?
Gittes: [After nodding yes, he remembers to ask one final question, holding up the envelope with initials "E C" for a return address] Oh, by the way, uh, what does this C stand for?
Mrs. Mulwray: Cr...Cross.
Gittes: That's your maiden name?
Mrs. Mulwray: Yes. Why?
Gittes: No reason.
Mrs. Mulwray: You must have had a reason to ask me that.
Gittes: No. I'm just a snoop.
Gittes: OK, go home, but in case you're interested, your husband was murdered. Somebody's been dumping thousands of tons of water from the city's reservoirs and we're supposed to be in the middle of a drought. He found out about it and he was killed. There's a waterlogged drunk in the morgue, involuntary manslaughter if anybody wants to take the trouble - which they don't. It seems like half the city is trying to cover it all up, which is fine by me. But Mrs. Mulwray, I goddamned near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it. And I still think that you're hiding something.
Yelburton: My goodness, what happened to your nose?
Gittes: Cut myself shavin'.
Yelburton: Oh, you ought to be more careful. That must really smart.
Gittes: Only when I breathe.
Cross: You've got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gits. I like that.
Gittes: Thanks.
Cross: If you were a bank president, that would be one thing. But in your business it's admirable and it's good advertising.
Gittes: It doesn't hurt.
Cross: It's, um, why you attracted a client like my daughter.
Gittes: Probably.
Cross: But I'm surprised you're still working for her - unless she's suddenly come up with another husband.
Gittes: No. She happens to think the last one was murdered.
Cross: Umm, how'd she get that idea?
Gittes: I think I gave it to her.
Cross: [about the fish served for lunch] I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head.
Gittes: Fine. As long as you don't serve the chicken that way.
Cross: Gittes. You're dealing with a disturbed woman who's just lost her husband. I don't want her taken advantage of. Sit down.
Gittes: What for?
Cross: You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't. [Gittes smiles] Why is that funny?
Gittes: It's what the district attorney used to tell me in Chinatown.
Cross: Yeah? Was he right? Exactly what do you know about me? Sit down.
Gittes: Mainly that you're rich, and too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.
Cross: 'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Loach: What happened to your nose, Gittes? Somebody slam a bedroom window on it?
Gittes: Nope, your wife got excited. She crossed her legs a little too quick. You understand what I mean, pal?
Gittes: A memorial service was held at the Mar Vista Inn today for Jasper Lamar Crabb. He passed away two weeks ago.
Mrs. Mulwray: Why is that unusual?
Gittes: He passed away two weeks ago and one week ago he bought the land. That's unusual.
Gittes: There's no time to be shocked by the truth. The coroner's report proves that he had salt water in his lungs when he was killed. Just take my word for it, all right? Now, I want to know how it happened, and I want to know why, and I want to know before Escobar gets here because I don't want to lose my license...I want to make it easy for ya. You were jealous. You had a fight. He fell. He hit his head. It was an accident but his girl is a witness. So you had to shut her up. You don't have the guts to harm her, but you got the money to keep her mouth shut. Who is she? And don't give me that crap about your sister because you don't have a sister.
Mrs. Mulwray: I'll tell you. I'll tell you the truth.
Gittes: Good. What's her name?
Mrs. Mulwray: Katherine.
Gittes: Katherine who?
Mrs. Mulwray: She's my daughter.
[Gittes slaps Mulwray.]
Gittes: I said I want the truth.
Mrs. Mulwray: She's my sister.
[He slaps her again.]
[Another slap.]
Mrs. Mulwray: My sister, my daughter.
[Two more slaps.]
Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Mrs. Mulwray: She's my sister and my daughter!...My father and I - understand? Or is it too tough for you?
Gittes: He raped you?
Cross: What does it mean?
Gittes: That you killed Hollis Mulwray - right here - in that pond. You drowned him, and you left these [the bifocals]. Coroner's report shows Mulwray had saltwater in his lungs.
Cross: Hollis was always fascinated by tidepools. You know what he used to say?...That's where life begins. Sloughs, tidepools. When he first come out here, he figured if you dumped water into the desert sand and let it percolate down to the bedrock, it would stay there instead of evaporate the way it does in most reservoirs. You only lose 20% instead of 70 or 80. He made this city.
Gittes: That's what you were going to do in the valley.
Cross: That's what I am doing. If the bond issue passes Tuesday, there'll be eight million dollars to build an aqueduct and reservoir. I'm doing it.
Gittes: Gonna be a lot of irate citizens when they find out that they're paying for water that they're not gonna get.
Cross: Oh, that's all taken care of. You see, Mr. Gits. Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water.
Gittes: How you gonna do that?
Cross: By incorporating the valley into the city. Simple as that.
Gittes: How much are you worth?
Cross: I've no idea. How much do you want?
Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
Cross: Oh my, yes!
Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
Cross: The future, Mr. Gits - the future! Now where's the girl? I want the only daughter I've got left. As you found out, Evelyn was lost to me a long time ago.
Gittes: Who do you blame for that - her?
Cross: I don't blame myself. You see, Mr. Gits, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time, the right place, they're capable of anything.
Gittes: Evelyn, put that gun away. Let the police handle this.
Mrs. Mulwray: He owns the police!
Jack Nicholson - Jake 'J.J' Gittes
Faye Dunaway - Evelyn Cross Mulwray
John Huston - Noah Cross
Perry Lopez - Lieutenant Lou Escobar
John Hillerman - Russ Yelburton
Darrell Zwerling - Hollis I. Mulwray
Diane Ladd - Ida Sessions
Roy Jenson - Claude Mulvihill
Roman Polanski - Man with Knife
Richard Bakalyan - Detective Loach
Chinatown quotes at the Internet Movie Database
Chinatown at Rotten Tomatoes
Chinatown at Filmsite.org
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246472Fathers and Sons — Chapter 28Ivan TurgenevRichard Hare
SIX MONTHS PASSED. WHITE WINTER HAD SET IN WITH THE CRUEL stillness of cloudless frosts, with its thick crunching snow, rosy hoarfrost on the trees, pale emerald sky, wreaths of smoke curling above the chimneys, steam emerging from momentarily opened doors, with those fresh faces which look bitten by cold, and the hurried trot of shivering horses. A January day was drawing to its close; the evening cold pierced keenly through the motionless air, and a brilliant sunset was rapidly dying away. Lights were burning in the windows of the house at Maryino; Prokovich in a black tail coat and white gloves, with an air of unusual solemnity, was laying the table for seven. A week earlier in the small parish church, two weddings had taken place quietly, almost without witnesses--Arkady's marriage to Katya and that of Nikolai Petrovich to Fenichka; and on this day Nikolai Petrovich was giving a farewell dinner for his brother, who was going away to Moscow on some business. Anna Sergeyevna had also gone there directly the wedding was over, after making generous presents to the young couple.
Punctually at three o'clock the whole company assembled at the table. Mitya was brought along too and with him appeared a nurse in an embroidered peasant headdress. Pavel Petrovich sat between Katya and Fenichka; the husbands sat next to their wives. Our friends had somewhat changed lately; they all seemed to have grown better looking and stronger; only Pavel Petrovich had become thinner, which, incidentally, still further enhanced the elegant and "grand seigneur" quality of his expressive features . . . Fenichka, too, was different. In a fresh-colored silk dress with a wide velvet headdress on her hair, and a gold chain round her neck, she sat respectfully motionless, respectful towards herself and everyone around her, and smiled, as if she wanted to say: "Excuse me, I'm not to blame." And not only she--the others also all smiled and seemed to excuse themselves; they all felt a little awkward, a little sad, but fundamentally happy. They all helped each other with an amusing attentiveness, as if they had agreed in advance to act some good-natured comedy. Katya was quieter than any of the others; she looked confidently around her, and it was already noticeable that Nikolai Petrovich had managed to become quite devoted to her. Just before the dinner was over he stood up and, holding his glass in his hand, turned to Pavel Petrovich.
"You are leaving us . . . you are leaving us, dear brother," he began, "not for long, of course; but still I can't help telling you what I . . . what we . . . how much I . . . how much we . . . That's the worst of it, we don't know how to make speeches. Arkady, you speak."
"No, daddy, I'm not prepared for it."
"And I'm so well prepared! Well, brother, I simply say, allow us to embrace you, to wish you all the best, and come back to us soon!"
Pavel Petrovich exchanged kisses with everyone, not excluding Mitya, of course; moreover, he kissed Fenichka's hand, which she had not yet learned to offer properly, and drinking off his refilled glass, he said with a deep sigh: "Be happy, my friends! Farewell!" This English ending passed unnoticed; but everyone was deeply touched.
"To Bazarov's memory," whispered Katya in her husband's ear as she clinked glasses with him. Arkady pressed her hand warmly in response, but he did not venture to propose that toast aloud.
This would seem to be the end; but perhaps some of our readers would care to know what each of the characters we have introduced is doing now, at the present moment. We are ready to satisfy that interest.
Anna Sergeyevna has recently married again, not for love but out of reasonable conviction, a man who may be one of the future leaders of Russia, a very clever lawyer with vigorous practical sense, a strong will and a remarkable gift of eloquence--still young, good-natured, and cold as ice. They live very harmoniously together and may live to the point of attaining happiness . . . perhaps even love. Princess X. is dead, forgotten on the day of her death. The Kirsanovs, father and son, live at Maryino. Their fortunes are beginning to mend. Arkady has become assiduous in the management of the estate, and the "farm" now yields a fairly substantial income. Nikolai Petrovich has become one of the arbitrators in the land reforms and works with all his energy; he is constantly driving about the district, delivers long speeches (he belongs to those who believe that the peasants must be "made to understand," meaning that by frequent repetition of the same words they should be brought into a state of quiescence); and yet, to tell the truth, he does not fully satisfy either the cultured landowners, talking with a hiss or with a sigh about the emancipation (pronouncing it like a French word) or the uncultured ones who without ceremony curse the "damned emancipation." He is too softhearted for either set. Katerina Sergeyevna has a son, Kolya, and Mitya already runs about fearlessly, and talks a lot. Fenichka, Fedosya Nikolaevna, after her husband and Mitya, adores no one so much as her daughter-in-law, and when Katerina plays the piano, she would gladly spend the whole day at her side. A passing word about Pyotr. He has grown quite rigid with stupidity and self-importance, and pronounces all his o's like u's, but he too is married, and received a respectable dowry with his wife, the daughter of a market gardener in the town, who had refused two excellent suitors, only because they had no watches; while Pyotr not only had a watch--he even had a pair of patent leather shoes.
In Dresden on the Brühl terrace, between two and four o'clock--the most fashionable time for walking--you may meet a man of about fifty, already quite grey and looking as though he suffered from gout, but still handsome, elegantly dressed and with that special style which comes only to those who have long been accustomed to move in the higher ranks of society. This man is Pavel Petrovich. From Moscow he went abroad for his health, and has settled down in Dresden, where he associates chiefly with English people and with Russian visitors. With the English he behaves simply, almost modestly, but with dignity; they find him a trifle boring but respect him for being, as they say, "a perfect gentleman." With Russians he is more free and easy, gives vent to his spleen, makes fun of them and of himself, but he does all this very agreeably, with an air of ease and civility. He holds Slavophil views; this is known to be regarded in the best society as très distingué. He reads nothing in Russian, but on his writing-desk there stands a silver ash tray in the shape of a peasant's plaited shoe. He is much sought after by our Russian tourists. Matvei Ilyich Kolyazin, happening to be "in temporary opposition," paid him a ceremonious visit on his way to a Bohemian watering place; and the local population, with whom, incidentally, he has little to do, treat him with an almost awestruck veneration. No one can so readily and quickly secure tickets for the court choir and the theater as the Herr Baron von Kirsanov. He does as much good as he can; he still causes some stir in the world, not for nothing was he once such a great social lion; but his life is a burden to him . . . a heavier burden than he himself suspects. One should look at him in the Russian church: when leaning against the wall on one side, he stands absorbed in thought without stirring for a long time, bitterly compressing his lips, then suddenly recollects himself and begins almost imperceptibly to cross himself . . .
Madame Kukshina also settled abroad. She is now in Heidelberg, and is no longer studying natural history but has turned to architecture, in which, according to her own account, she has discovered new laws. As before, she associates with students, especially with young Russians studying physics and chemistry with whom Heidelberg is crowded, and who at first astonish the naïve German professors by their sober outlook on things, but later on astound the same professors by their complete incapability and absolute laziness. In company with two or three such young chemistry students, who cannot distinguish oxygen from nitrogen, but are brimming over with destructive criticism and conceit, Sitnikov, together with the great Elisyevich, also prepares to become a great man; he roams about in Petersburg, convinced that he is carrying on the "task" of Bazarov. There is a story that someone recently gave him a beating, but that he secured his revenge: in an obscure little article, hidden away in some obscure little periodical, he hinted that the man who had beaten him was--a coward. He calls this irony. His father bullies him as before, while his wife regards him as a fool . . . and a literary man.
There is a small village graveyard in one of the remote corners of Russia. Like almost all our graveyards, it has a melancholy look; the ditches surrounding it have long been overgrown; grey wooden crosses have fallen askew and rotted under their once painted gables; the gravestones are all out of position, just as if someone had pushed them from below; two or three bare trees hardly provide some meager shade; the sheep wander unchecked among the tombs . . . But among them is one grave untouched by human beings and not trampled on by any animal; only the birds perch on it and sing at daybreak. An iron railing surrounds it and two young fir trees have been planted there, one at each end; Evgeny Bazarov is buried in this tomb. Often from the near-by village two frail old people come to visit it--a husband and wife. Supporting one another, they walk with heavy steps; they go up to the iron railing, fall on their knees and weep long and bitterly, and gaze intently at the silent stone under which their son lies buried; they exchange a few words, wipe away the dust from the stone or tidy up some branches of a fir tree, then start to pray again and cannot tear themselves away from that place where they seem to be nearer to their son, to their memories of him . . . Can it be that their prayers and their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love, sacred devoted love, is not all powerful? Oh, no! However passionate, sinful or rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep at us serenely with their innocent eyes; they tell us not only of eternal peace, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature; they tell us also of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.
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Programmes bring warm Tet to less fortunate people
Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Truong Thi Ngoc Anh on February 2 presented 30 Tet gifts and 30 million VND (1,317 USD) in cash to impoverished households in Tam Nong district and Thanh Thuy district in the northern province of Phu Tho.
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Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Truong Thi Ngoc Anh (R) presents gifts to residents in Phu Tho province.
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Hanoi (VNA) – Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Truong Thi Ngoc Anh on February 2 presented 30 Tet gifts and 30 million VND (1,317 USD) in cash to impoverished households in Tam Nong district and Thanh Thuy district in the northern province of Phu Tho.
A line-up of benefactors like Vingroup and the Phu Tho chapter of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) supported the poor in Don Hung, Lam Thao, Phu Ninh and Ha Hoa districts with nearly 36 billion VND (1.58 million USD).
Charity programmes were held in the central province of Quang Tri by the provincial chapter of the VFF and many local organisations. Over 10,000 gifts, valued at 4.5 billion VND (197,550 USD), were given to the needy, Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims, disadvantaged people, orphans and families affected by natural calamities and those with special circumstances.
The “Spring in border area” programme was organised in Huong Viet commune, Huong Hoa district by the Quang Tri provincial Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. The union gave 110 Tet gifts to disadvantaged children, policy beneficiary families, the deprived and border guards in Sen But and Cu Bai stations. In addition, free medical check-ups and medicines were provided for 500 local residents.
Some 1,000 children in the Gio Linh, Cam Lo and Hai Lang districts also received gifts from the Dasnet Charity Fund on February 2-3.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak chapter of the VFF splashed out 320 million VND (14,048 USD) on 600 gifts for the impoverished influenced by natural disaster and ethnic people in Krong Bong, Lak and M’s Drak districts.
Under the programme “Tet for the poor and AO victims”, the local chapter of the Red Cross Society presented 24,000 Tet gifts to the needy.
In the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, nearly 100 Tet gifts were handed to local heroic mothers and families of those who rendered services to the country.
Also, a festival featuring various art performances were held for children with disabilities in Ho Chi Minh City on the threshold of Tet holiday.
Meanwhile, free bus tickets, Tet gifts and year-end bonuses were given to disadvantaged workers in the northern province of Ha Nam, the central province of Binh Dinh, the central province of Khanh Hoa, Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.-VNA
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Vietnamese communities all over the world held separate gatherings on January 18 to celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year), which falls on January 25.
The Canada-Vietnam Society (CVS), which gathers Vietnamese expats living in Canada, held a get-together in Toronto on January 18 to celebrate Tet, Vietnam’s traditional New Year, which is less than a week away.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 18 called on Vietnamese people, firms and agencies both at home and overseas to continue providing relief for disadvantaged people living in far-flung islands and areas as well as those affected by natural disasters and Agent Orange/dioxin.
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Brahmā (Buddhism)
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Brahmā
ब्रह्मा
Pāli
ဗြဟ္မာ
梵天
(Pinyin: Fàntiān)
梵天（ぼんてん）
(romaji: Bonten)
ព្រះព្រហ្ម
(Preah Prom)
범천
(RR: Beom Cheon)
බ්රහ්මයා
Brahmayā
พระพรหม
Phra Phrom
ཚངས་པ་
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Brahmā is a leading god (deva) and heavenly king in Buddhism.[1][2] He was adopted from other Indian religions such as Hinduism that considered him a protector of teachings (dharmapala),[3] and he is never depicted in early Buddhist texts as a creator god.[4] In Buddhist tradition, it was the deity Brahma Sahampati[5] who appeared before the Buddha and urged him to teach, once the Buddha attained enlightenment but was unsure if he should teach his insights to anyone.[3]
Brahma is a part of the Buddhist cosmology,[2] and lords over the heavenly realm of rebirth called the Brahmaloka[6] – the most sought after realm for afterlife and reincarnation in Buddhist traditions.[7][8][9] Brahma is generally represented in Buddhist culture as a god with four faces and four arms, and variants of him are found in both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist cultures.[3]
1 Origins and nomenclature
2 Classification
2.1 Baka Brahmā
2.2 Brahmā Sahampati
2.3 Brahmā Sanatkumāra
2.4 Mahābrahmā
2.5 Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa
2.6 Brahmavihara
3 Chronology and Non-Buddhist views
Origins and nomenclature[edit]
Brahmā (Phra Phrom) at Wat Yannawa in Bangkok, Thailand
The origins of Brahma in Buddhism and other Indian religions are uncertain, in part because several related words such as one for metaphysical Ultimate Reality (Brahman), and priest (Brahmin) are found in the Vedic literature. According to KN Jayatilleke, the Rigveda expresses skepticism about major deities such as Indra whether he even exists,[10] as well as whether the universe has any creator and can this ever be known, as evidenced in its eighth and tenth book, particularly in its Nasadiya Sukta.[11][12]
The late Vedic hymns had begun inquiring the nature of true and valid knowledge, empirical verification and absolute reality.[13] The early Upanishads built upon this theme, while in parallel there emerged Buddhism, Jainism and other skeptical traditions. Buddhism used the term Brahma to deny a creator as well as to delegate him (and other deities such as Indra) as less important than the Buddha.[14][15][16]
In Hindu literature, one of the earliest mention of deity Brahma with Vishnu and Shiva is in the fifth Prapathaka (lesson) of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, probably composed in late 1st millennium BCE, after the rise of Buddhism.[17][18][19] The spiritual concept of Brahman is far older, and some scholars suggest deity Brahma may have emerged as a personal conception and icon with attributes (saguna version) of the impersonal universal principle called Brahman.[20] The Buddhists attacked the concept of Brahma, states Gananath Obeyesekere, and thereby polemically attacked the Vedic and Upanishadic concept of gender neutral, abstract metaphysical Brahman.[21] This critique of Brahma in early Buddhist texts aim at ridiculing the Vedas, but the same texts simultaneously call metta (loving-kindness, compassion) as the state of union with Brahma. The early Buddhist approach to Brahma was to reject any creator aspect, while retaining the Brahmavihara aspects of Brahma, in the Buddhist value system.[21] Deity Brahma is also found in the samsara doctrine and cosmology of early Buddhism.[22][23]
Brahma is known as Fantian (梵天) in Chinese, Bonten (梵天) in Japanese, Hoān-thian (梵天) in Taiwanese, Pomch'on in Korean, Phạm Thiên in Vietnamese, Phra Phrom in Thai, and Tshangs pa in Tibetan.[3]
Classification[edit]
The term Brahmā in Buddhism refers to the leading god, but in some Suttas the term broadly refers to all deities who live in the realm of form. Ancient and medieval Buddhist texts define seventeen,[2][24] or more,[25][26] heavenly Brahmā realms (along with demi-gods, hungry ghost and hellish realms), in a stratified manner, which are reached in afterlife based on monastic achievement and karma accumulation. A brahma in these texts refers to any deva in the heavenly realms.[27] The Buddhist god Brahmā himself resides in the highest of the seventeen realms, called the Akanistha.[2] The multitude of Buddhist brahmas refer to:[2][24]
Any of the deities of the formless realm of existence called Ārūpyadhātu brahma, who enjoy the highest heavenly pleasures in afterlife;
Any of the deities of the anthropomorphic form realm of existence called Rūpadhātu brahma, who enjoy moderate heavenly pleasures;
Any of the deities of the lower heavenly realms of existence called Kamadhatu brahma; According to the ancient Buddhist scholar Nagarjuna, Kamadhatu brahmas experience inferior heavenly pleasures and may experience minor sufferings in their afterlife,[27] while Vasubandhu described six heavenly levels within the kamadhatu realm for afterlife;[24]
In the Niddesa, the Buddha is devatideva, the god beyond the gods including Brahma.[2]
Baka Brahmā[edit]
Baka Brahmā (literally "crane-Brahmā") appears in the Majjhima Nikaya, where he is a deity who believes that his world is permanent and without decay (and that therefore he is immortal), and that therefore there are no higher worlds than his.[28]
Brahmā Sahampati[edit]
Gold covered Phra Phrom statue at Sanggar Agung, Surabaya, Indonesia. He is known as Brahmā Sahāmpati in the Thai tradition.
Brahmā Sahāmpati, said to be the most senior of the Mahābrahmās, was the deity who visited the Buddha when he attained enlightenment, and encouraged him to teach the Dharma to humans.[3]
Brahmā Sanatkumāra[edit]
See also: Four Kumaras
Brahmā Sanatkumāra (Sanskrit) or Brahmā Sanaṅkumāra (Pāli), the "Ever-young", appears in the Janavasabha-sutta (DN.18), where he is recalled as having created an illusionary presence to make himself perceptible to the coarser senses of Śakra and the gods of Trāyastriṃśa.[29]
Mahābrahmā[edit]
The singular leading deity and the king of heavens Brahmā is sometimes referred in Buddhist texts as Mahābrahmā.[30][26] However, the Suttas are inconsistent in this regard and several early Buddhist texts depict Sakra (Pāli: Sakka) – who is same as the Hindu Vedic god Indra – as more important than Mahabrahma.[31]
The Mahābrahmā, or the Great Brahma, states Peter Harvey, is mentioned in Digha Nikaya as the being who dwells in the upper heaven; a Buddhist student can join him for one kalpa (eon, Brahma-year in Indian religions) after successfully entering the first jhana in the form realm of Buddhist practice.[32]
Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa[edit]
A pair of Brahmās who are usually seen together while engaging in conversation with the Buddha.[33]
Brahmavihara[edit]
Main article: Brahmavihara
In the sense of "a being of the Rūpadhātu", the term Brahmā may be related to Brahmavihāra, a term referring to the meditative states achieved through the four Rūpajhānas, which are shared by the inhabitants of the Rūpadhātu. Prior to the advent of the Buddha, according to Martin Wiltshire, the pre-Buddhist traditions of Brahma-loka, meditation and these four virtues are evidenced in both early Buddhist and non-Buddhist literature.[34] The early Buddhist texts assert that pre-Buddha ancient Indian sages who taught these virtues were earlier incarnations of the Buddha.[34] Post-Buddha, these same virtues are found in the Hindu texts such as verse 1.33 of the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali.[35] According to Peter Harvey, the Buddhist scriptures acknowledge that the four Brahmavihara meditation practices "did not originate within the Buddhist tradition".[36] The Buddha never claimed that the "four immeasurables" were his unique ideas, in a manner similar to "cessation, quieting, nirvana".[37] These meditation practices are named after Brahma, a god also found in Hinduism texts as well as Jainism text wherein he is equated with Rishabhanatha – the first Tirthankara in Jaina tradition.[2]
Chronology and Non-Buddhist views[edit]
The old Upanishads mention both Brahma in the masculine gender deity "Brahmā", as well as gender neutral "Brahman" as the impersonal world principle.[38]
According to David Kalupahana, the Upanishads do not strictly distinguish between the two.[39] In contrast, Damien Keown and Charles Prebish state the texts do distinctly present both the male deity Brahma and the abstract Brahman, however, in the Upanishads, deity Brahma is only referred to a few times.[40] The Brahman as the eternal, absolute metaphysical reality – along with Atman (self, soul) – is the predominant and frequent teaching in the Upanishads and other Vedic literature of the Upanishadic period,[41][42] so much so that early Hinduism is also referred to as Brahmanism.[43] The Pāli scriptures, which were written centuries after the death of the Buddha, mention Brahma, but there is no unambiguous mention of the gender neuter Brahman concept.[40]
Buddhism denies both Brahman and Atman concepts in ancient Hindu literature,[44] and posits Śūnyatā (emptiness, voidness) and Anatta (non-Self, no soul) concept instead.[45][46][47]
The word Brahma is normally used in Buddhist suttras to mean "best", or "supreme".[48][49] Brahman in the texts of Advaita Vedanta and many other Hindu schools, states Nakamura, is a concrete universal, manifesting itself as phenomenal reality which is not illusory and nondual.[50]
In the earliest Upanishad, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Absolute, which came to be referred to as Brahman, is referred to as "the imperishable".[51] The Pāli scriptures present a "pernicious view" that is set up as an absolute principle corresponding to Brahman: "O Bhikkhus! At that time Baka, the Brahmā, produced the following pernicious view: 'It is permanent. It is eternal. It is always existent. It is independent existence. It has the dharma of non-perishing. Truly it is not born, does not become old, does not die, does not disappear, and is not born again. Furthermore, no liberation superior to it exists elsewhere." The principle expounded here corresponds to the concept of Brahman laid out in the Upanishads. According to this text the Buddha criticized this notion: "Truly the Baka Brahmā is covered with unwisdom."[52]
The Buddha confined himself to both ordinary empirical sense experience and extrasensory perception enabled by high degrees of mental concentration.[53][54] The Upanishadic scholars, according to Francis X Clooney and other scholars, assert their insights as a combination of intuitive empiricism, experimentalism, and inspired creative perception.[55][56]
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China deal awakens Compumedics share price
Shares in Compumedics have jumped after the Australian sleep monitoring and diagnostics device company announced new distribution agreements in China.
Compumedics, which says its sleep and brain monitoring equipment has been installed in seven of China's top 10 hospitals, announced on Friday that it had secured new three-year distribution agreements with Chinese distributors and a new order worth $1.1 million.
Shares in the medical device business closed 5.75 cents, or 15.8 per cent, higher at 42.25 cents after trading as high as 45.5 cents during the session.
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PIXY: ShiftPixy Reassigns 60% of its Customer Revenues to Raise $19 Million and Focus On Restaurants
Zacks Small Cap Research January 8, 2020
By Lisa Thompson
NASDAQ:PIXY
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Last night, ShiftPixy (NASDAQ:PIXY) announced it has sold off its PEO business, which was 60% of its revenue base to Vensure Employer Services of Duluth, Georgia for approximately $19 million in cash. This not only raises desperately needed cash, it hits the reset button for the company to strategically focus on its higher margin, value added services for restaurants. The business reassigned is mostly comprised of lower margin customers and those not in the restaurant chain business. The business it kept has double the gross margin of that that it sold, and as a result the company will retain half its gross margin dollars going forward.
This move shows how ridiculously low ShiftPixy’s valuation was at a $7 million market cap, when it could raise $19 million just by reassigning contracts for 60% of its business while retaining all its assets and its technology platform. Even now at $21.20 per share, ShiftPixy is only valued at a $20 million market cap, or subtracting the cash infusion in January of $9.7 million and adding the convertible debt, an enterprise value of $13.7 million.
The transaction was dated January 1, 2020 and on closing ShiftPixy received $9.7 million in cash (adjusted for working capital) with the rest being paid out over time. The remainder will be paid in 48 monthly installments of $197,916.66 (with the exception of the final monthly installment payment, which shall be equal to the remaining adjusted balance), due no later than the 15th day of each month beginning in April 2020 and ending April 2024. Given adjustments this transaction could raise a total of between $18 million and $22 million.
The company has been on boarding a large number of new customers since the beginning of the new year and hopes to be back to past quarterly gross margin dollars as soon as six months from now. Its operating expenses should also go down somewhat. By strategically focusing on chain restaurants, the company should be able to continue to increase gross margins, and upsell its new metered car insurance for delivery drivers, while retaining a meaningful base of restaurant workers to be able to implement shift sharing among the restaurants.
The company will retain the worksite employees in its ecosystem but they will no longer be processing their payroll or providing benefits. That will be provided by the purchasing company. The company will now categorize them as unbilled workers. The worksite employees will still be eligible to sign up for a shift at all of ShiftPixy’s customers if they are qualified for the gig.
We have adjusted our model to reflect this transaction and expect the company to report its November quarter (pre-divestiture) by January 14th for a further update.
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The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin
Front has a story that any budding startup would envy.
Highlights from the past four years include scaling to 100 employees, acquiring more than 4,000 customers, raising almost $80 million in funding and closing the books on its first acquisition.
But as co-founder and CEO Mathilde Collin tells it, the workplace communication tool’s meteoric rise can’t be traced back to an incredible founding vision from their early Y Combinator days. In fact, Collin was unsure where the product was heading at the time and had serious doubts about whether the company would take off.
According to Collin, the startup’s success instead took root thanks to a single trait: discipline.
This is an answer we’ve heard before — after all, most leaders wax over the stories of their careers with a thick coat of grit and determination. And whether it takes the form of an inspirational quote splashed across a striking stock photo or an encouraging blog post about the startup grind, discipline is always cast as a recurring character when entrepreneurs talk about success.
But while the discussion around this quality is heavy on colorful mandates, it’s also often lacking in detail and depth. Very few go beyond platitudes about working hard to move into more nitty-gritty tactics for bringing an intense discipline to every facet of the company building process. Collin, however, is a rare exception.
Her quiet focus and obsession with efficiency has been the propellor beneath the surface, helping to power Front’s impressive trajectory. From her pristine email templates and clockwork communication habits to her insanely fast fundraise process and carefully crafted calendar, discipline is the current that runs through all aspects of this founder's life.
In this exclusive interview, Collin dives deeper to put tactical teeth on an entrepreneurial trope, sharing why a founder’s discipline matters more than vision. She describes her approach to communication, time management, fundraising and team building, unveiling impactful practices and sharing the actual emails she relies on to stay on track.
WHY DISCIPLINE — NOT VISION — GOES THE DISTANCE
Many early-stage teams pour hundreds of hours into ensuring that the product roadmap and company mission are as crisp as possible. Painting a picture of potential is a way to put a stake in the ground — and it’s often a helpful tactic for papering over initial shortcomings. But that’s not how Front went out into the world.
“At first, Front wasn’t that impressive or even that good. I remember at Y Combinator someone told me that we were the best company in the batch and I was convinced he misspoke, that he had confused us with another startup,” says Collin. “Four years ago, I didn’t have a clue of how big we’d be today or a plan for getting there — it’s been much more of an evolution.”
As a founder, I’d choose discipline over some grand vision any day of the week.
“I’m sure many will disagree with me on this. But the driving force behind Front’s success is that we’ve been incredibly disciplined at every point along our journey. And this isn’t to say that we were lacking in ambition,” says Collin. “It’s to point out that the pressure founders put on themselves to have a far-reaching plan isn’t always helpful or realistic — and it’s certainly not a predictor of future success. The vision I pitched in our Series B fundraise was totally different from what we presented back at Demo Day. What mattered more was that we were determined to turn this kernel of an idea into a real company through sheer will,” she says.
“You can have a very ambitious, tight plan of exactly where you want go, but chances are that you’ll drop some balls or focus on the wrong things,” says Collin. “Working on your company’s vision is necessary, but it’s something many early teams spend too much time on; there’s a sort of navel-gazing element to the exercise. The bottom line is more simple: are you disciplined enough to make it happen or not?”
To unpack this fundamental question, Collin dissects this essential attribute further: “At a high-level, discipline is focusing on just a handful of things, which is incredibly challenging because you’ve got so much to do and you’re pulled in so many directions — everything seems important. But discipline comes down to focusing on the right thing, which means you need to be crystal clear on what success looks like and how to measure it,” she says.
Collin breaks down the most important elements of a founder’s discipline by offering a set of questions to run through for a focused assessment:
Making progress: What metrics are you using in order to see if the company is succeeding? How are you orienting your entire team around them? How frequently — and consistently — are you communicating updates?
Managing time: Does your calendar actually reflect the priorities from above every single week? Is there an activity you aren’t spending enough time on? Do you have the discipline to disconnect and step away?
Fundraising: How are you managing your investors? Are you sending frequent updates on your progress, tightening your pitch and proactively building relationships?
Team building: What are you doing to consistently create a great work environment? How are you making sure that every hire meets your standards?
Each of these four buckets can be optimized and infused with extra rigor. But in Collin’s experience, few show up to do this additional mental labor. “Many founders get caught up in the day-to-day churn of running a startup,” she says. “Applying a disciplined mentality to everything you do, whether it’s an email you send to your team, a presentation for investors or a company offsite, is deceptively simple — but it’s so impactful.”
If you’re not disciplined with managing your time and religiously tracking your company’s progress, it’s going to be very tough to succeed.
DISCIPLINED COMMUNICATION: THE THREE EMAILS EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD SEND
As fledgling startups struggle to find their footing, tackling high visibility metrics becomes the main focus. But in Collin’s experience, simply pursuing progress isn’t enough — an extra dose of discipline around communication provides the accountability that makes those goals more likely to materialize.
For Collin, that discipline lies in the three carefully constructed emails she has sent with an almost frightening regularity since Front’s earliest days: a weekly update to the entire company, a note to her direct reports and a monthly update to her investors. Read on for a closer look at how she crafts them and why they’ve been critical to Front’s results.
TO: All users
SUBJECT: Revenue update
As with most startups, Front’s early days were marked by an obsession with revenue. “We had no excuse if those numbers weren’t trending upwards. So I started sending a daily email to the team to bring that metric front and center. It explained how much revenue we added yesterday, what we did well and what didn't go so well,” says Collin.
“I soon changed it to a weekly email as that was a better cadence, but ever since I’ve sent this email every single week to our entire company. It always has the same structure and is sent around the same time. And I haven’t missed a single one in the past four years,” she says.
“In the first few years, I wrote this completely on my own and it probably took me about an hour,” says Collin. “This may seem like a lot of time for an early-stage founder to spend on an internal note every single week, but it was vital. Amid all the growing pains, people knew exactly what success meant and evaluated everything they did through the lens of ‘How can we make that number go up?’”
SENT FOLDER: Below you'll find an early example of the weekly emails Collin sends to the Front team.
SENT FOLDER: Here’s a more recent, real-world (and lightly scrubbed) example of how Collin's weekly email template has evolved over time as Front has scaled.
For Collin, there’s power — and pressure — from this kind of transparency. “Sharing the good, the bad and the ugly provides accountability and a forcing function. If you see numbers that are less than great, you’ll be tempted to make an excuse, point to another bright spot, or hold off on sharing until things improve,” she says. “Or you might shift gears and work on another project as a distraction. But you can’t afford to do that.”
Concentrate on a single metric. If it’s not improving, resist the easy comfort of letting up and focusing on something else. Stay the course.
TO: Direct reports
SUBJECT: Goals for the week
As another exercise in accountability, a different email flies out of Collin’s inbox at 10am sharp every Monday morning: a note to her direct reports.
“I quickly run through all of my goals for the week. It’s not about telling your reports every single thing you’re going to do. Rather it's a chance to share what’s top-of-mind for you, which of course should be top-of-mind for them. More generally, it’s helpful to know how managers spend their time — often it’s a more of a black box instead. That’s also why I’ve made my calendar public and shared a deck that explains what I do all day as CEO of Front,” she says. This email habit also sets an example. “If I start to slip or if my weeks don’t ladder up to those big goals we’re focusing on, that sends the wrong message,” says Collin.
SENT FOLDER: Below is an example of Collin’s direct report email in action.
TO: Investors
SUBJECT: Monthly update
Another one of Collin’s favorite tricks for bringing discipline to her communication is the update email she sends to Front’s investors. “I sent the same note every month for years, and only changed to quarterly after our Series B,” she says.
SENT FOLDER: Below you'll find an example of what Collin’s note to investors looks like in practice.
Collin’s faith in the power of demonstrating your focus to investors has only increased now that she’s on the other side of the table.
“Since I’ve started angel investing, I feel even more strongly about this practice. After a founder sends me two or three update emails, I can immediately get a sense for whether or not that company will succeed,” she says. “Some send an email and then you don’t hear from them again for four months. Others use different formats or metrics every time. Or they say that revenue is the top priority in one meeting and then say they’re focusing on engagement and redesigning the app in the next. That’s not an update, that’s an excuse. If revenue isn’t where it needs to be, admit that you have an issue to your investors, your team, and above all yourself so you can start getting back on track,” she says.
Regular communication is unbelievably powerful. If you can’t send your investors focused and consistent updates, you’ll probably be one of those startups that doesn’t make it.
FINDING FOCUS IN THE CALENDAR: TIME MANAGEMENT TRICKS
Asking Collin about how she manages her time prompts a frank confession: “I am really crazy when it comes to my calendar. I’m hypervigilant about making sure that I spend time on the right things,” she says.
This assertion is backed up by a quick glance at her schedule — every slot is filled and every minute is accounted for. “If I don’t always know what I'm doing, then I get sucked into checking my emails or answering questions instead of focusing on what I said was most important at the beginning of the week,” says Collin. But that doesn’t mean her calendar is brimming with meetings. In the debate between a maker's and manager's schedule, Collin straddles the line down the middle.
“When I add things to my calendar, they aren’t always meetings. I create a lot of appointments with myself to work on specific projects. This could mean blocking off larger chunks such as a ‘time for culture’ session dedicated to thinking about everyone in the company and assessing whether anyone seems unhappy,” she says. “But I also book several 15-minute tasks, such as writing that email to my direct reports or reading over a recent insights survey.”
To give further insight into how she spends her time, Collin shares five tips for bringing discipline to a crowded calendar:
1) Block and tackle: create a window for email and opt out of notifications.
“I have two 30-minute dedicated slots in my calendar every day to go through my inbox and I try my hardest to not look at it outside of those times,” says Collin. To help stay on track, she’s quit notifications altogether, save for her calendar reminders.
“I’ve disabled them for email, chat and other tools on both my phone and my desktop. My calendar’s on so I don’t miss events, but opting out of everything else has magnified my efficiency and significantly reduced stress,” she says. “I found it so helpful that I challenged the entire Front team to quit their notifications for a week as well. And now during the weekends, I even log out of all of my apps so that temptation isn’t there.”
2) Step back and clear your head.
Out of all of Collin’s calendar optimization experiments, “stepping back time” has been the most valuable addition. “It’s half a day each week where I allow myself only a notebook — no computer — to really concentrate on a key issue,” she says. “I tinkered with this quite a bit, splitting it up into an hour a few times a week for example, but I found that made it harder to focus.”
Collin also makes time for reflection by reserving a 10-minute morning slot for meditation. “I meditate every day at home and we hold a weekly meditation for the Front team. It’s honestly changed my life. There’s no immediate benefit — it’s completely dependent on your discipline because it’s a muscle that you’re training. But when my co-founder got sick, it really changed my perspective,” she says. “Building a company is unbelievably stressful, but there are more important things and this daily habit reminds me of that.”
3) Set a date with yourself on Friday to organize the next week.
“I need to know exactly what I want to achieve, and that requires additional prep, which is often the first thing to go for many when things get hectic,” Collin says. Here’s a look at her process:
“I have a 15-minute ‘Review My Calendar’ slot every Friday afternoon. I revisit our quarterly goals and a few top-of-mind topics. I then look at my calendar for the upcoming week to make sure it matches up,” Collin says. “For example, hiring is a huge push for me right now so I need to spend about a third of my time interviewing executives. When I look at my calendar and it’s packed with product meetings or I only have one interview scheduled, then I know that I’m not doing enough to make progress, so I’ll add a sourcing session in.”
Collin finds this exercise serves as another fail-safe to make sure she’s allocating enough time to the right things. “This also dovetails with the weekly email I send to my direct reports. If I tell them that my goal for the week is to decide what the new sales organization will look like, then I better have a few personal working sessions and key meetings dedicated to that,” she says.
4) Analyze your time to match intention with reality.
Among her Twitter followers, Collin is known for occasionally sharing a graph of how she spends her time.
Below is a more recent example of the exact analysis she pours over every week:
“At the end of every single week I have my EA send me an analysis of my calendar,” says Collin. “It’s split by the type of activity, such as interviewing, selling, managing and so on. This is how I flagged that I need to step up my hiring efforts. I also look at it on a team level to see if I’m spending too much time with any one group and neglecting another.”
5) Take the time to write it down.
In addition to sharing a breakdown of how she spends her days, Collin also generously shares a window into her journey as a founder by writing articles with very tactical details to provide insights for founders. And it comes as no surprise that the writing time required to produce these pieces is meticulously scheduled.
Collin has two 30-minute blocks for writing on her calendar every week and aims to publish an article on her Medium page about every two months. “I will be honest that I keep these writing slots only about 75% of the time,” she says. “The discipline is more around achieving the result of publishing every other month, so I force myself to find a topic if necessary.”
Front CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin
FOCUSED FUNDRAISING: THE SECRETS TO LIGHTNING ROUNDS
While her email habits and time management tactics are impressive, Collin is perhaps best known in the tech world for her fundraising chops.
She netted three term sheets for her Series A round in a mere 10 days and timeboxed her Series B fundraising process to just one week, walking away with 10 term sheets. More impressive still is her generous commitment to sharing her best practices with others. Collin put both her Series A and Series B decks online for the world to see, highlighting strong slides as well as feedback she received.
To extend that spirit of sharing, Collin pulls back the curtain on how she built the muscle required to pull off these fundraising feats:
1) Develop relationships before you need them, but don’t be afraid to hold back.
While these fast fundraising cycles may seem to be the stuff of startup kismet, Collin is quick to point out that she was only able to raise so quickly because she put in the legwork upfront. In her eyes, these rounds weren’t the sum of five to ten days of pitching, but rather the culmination of four years of careful chess moves.
That’s because after nabbing Front’s initial seed round, Collin maintained a fundraising mindset. “I started proactively building relationships with partners at firms that I liked, meeting with each of them every three to six months. Once we were raising, I could lean on those relationships to get a partner meeting right away,” she says. “But what’s more is I knew that whoever invested in our Series A would land a board seat, so getting to know partners early on meant I’d be in a better position to decide who to work with.”
Early-stage founders looking to replicate this tactic should note that it’s about quality, not quantity. “I was focused on about five partners. Going really deep with just one investor puts all your eggs in one basket, but cultivating 20 relationships would be distracting,” says Collin.
These ongoing conversations with investors should move beyond shop talk. “Once you're in a fundraising process, it all happens in a flash. So for me, these meetings weren’t simply a report on how Front was doing, but rather a chance to get to know the partner. I asked them what they liked and didn’t like about investing or what they did outside of work,” she says.
If you’re focused on building relationships with investors well before you need them, the fundraising flywheel will spin much faster.
Collin cautions that founders need to be thoughtful when approaching these conversations. “Investors are always hunting for signals about your company, but remember that you get to control where the conversation goes and what they’re able to pick up on,” she says. “Anytime I was asked about our revenue or number of customers, I always shared something a bit lower than our actual figures. I wanted to have some flexibility in case things didn’t go as expected, but it also enabled me to save the good nuggets for when we were actually raising.”
2) Raise or don’t raise — don’t let it drag.
As with most things, when it comes to fundraising, timing is everything. But deciding when to pull the trigger requires navigating that tricky space between art and science.
In Collin’s eyes, founders falter when they let their fundraising efforts drag on. “I’ve always been impatient with the entire process. You have to be all in when you decide to raise; ‘kind of raising’ is a waste of your time,” she says. “For the entire 10 days I spent on our Series A, I wasn’t working on anything else at Front. We had less than 20 employees, so my stepping away to manage the fundraise had huge consequences for our productivity. I wanted to get back to work, so I put everything I had into it — and learned when to stop ‘shopping.’”
Collin also leaned on open lines of communications with investors to speed along her Series B round. “One of the partners I was talking to casually mentioned that he’d invest in our next round. I took him seriously — and I used that one term sheet as leverage to compress the timeline for everyone else. The discipline it took to sink time into that relationship and then full-on commit to raising is what put me in a position to set the terms and move quickly,” she says.
Putting speed aside, most founders grapple with the broader problem of figuring out when to raise. Collin identifies the three factors she considers: feeling good about the business, reaching a marker set in the previous round and requiring additional resources to attain a new ambitious goal.
“Feeling good about the business is very subjective. It's not as though you hit a certain metric and then it’s all roses. I’d always heard that reaching $1 million in annualized revenue was a benchmark for Series A, but when we hit that, I still wasn't feeling great so I didn't raise,” says Collin. “If you’re not feeling confident because one of your customers just churned, a deal fell through or an employee is causing problems, that’s going to seep into the entire process. As a founder, the smallest thing can take so much headspace. You have to be in the right state of mind to raise.”
To illustrate what “feeling good” looks like, Collin shares two examples:
Going after a new ambitious goal. “Just before we did our Series A, we had three great quarters in a row. Around that same time, I was speaking to a branding agency, but it was pretty expensive. That set off a lightbulb in my head that I could invest more in the long-term if I had more money,” she says.
Getting energized about the future. “Our Series B was totally different. We still had lots of runway. But I had dinner with a few employees and they told me that our mission statement wasn't that inspiring," says Collin. "So, as we worked on a new one and talked through what the future of Front could look like, I got more and more energized by how big the opportunity was — and I decided to raise our next round.”
Your metrics won’t suddenly snap into place ahead of your next round — and even if they do, that might not be enough. Your state of mind is incredibly important, so look for the moments that make you excited and capitalize on them.
3) Remember that it will be stressful no matter what — and prepare for the sting.
Even though Front had a legendary Series B round, Collin is quick to point out that it was far from painless.
“I’m always getting comments from people about how they are so envious of our quick rounds and how easy it must have been. But every would-be founder needs to know that it’s always going to be stressful. Even though we had one of the smoothest fundraises imaginable, it was still incredibly tough,” she says.
Collin attributes this stress to the sting of rejection — something that never gets easier. “When people tell you they don't want to invest in your company, that’s one of the hardest things that you can hear as a founder,” she says. “When a customer doesn’t want to buy your product or a great leader turns down an offer, there are always other things you can point to, such as price or salary. But when an investor passes, they’re telling you ‘I don't think that your company could be bigger than it is,’ and that always hurts.”
4) Bring discipline to your deck by focusing on the story.
As for the pitch decks that earned all of those terms sheets (and racked up millions of views on the internet afterwards), Collin shares how they came together — and why discipline was essential.
“There's a temptation to stuff every metric you can find in the deck. But you have to be really disciplined in the narrative you present to investors in order to boost your odds. Think of the pitch as a story waiting to be told, not a set of slides to be strung together. I’m not here to report what Front did in the past four years, I’m here to paint a picture,” she says.
To start painting, Collin always begins by typing an actual story out in a document. “I don’t even think about slides,” she says. “The story mostly follows the same formula: here’s why we started this company, here’s why it's working and here’s why it could be a hundred times bigger. Only then do I start looking at data and thinking about what metrics to include, so long as they fit one of those buckets. Metrics are important for answering investors’ questions, but they aren’t the pitch. They need to be supported by a narrative.”
Think of the story you want to tell in your pitch and write it out — without opening Keynote. Then choose the data that helps you fill in the brushstrokes of that bigger story arc.
5) Do diligence on your investors.
For founders looking to follow in her fundraising footsteps, Collin offers a final tip. “VCs dig into you and your company before investing, but remember that diligence is a two-way street. You can always get rid of employees, but your investors stick. That’s why when we were considering Sequoia’s Bryan Schreier for our Series B, I talked to the founder of almost every company he was on the board of,” she says.
“In those conversations, I was looking for two things: I wanted the person joining our board to be caring and challenging, which is a tough combination to find. You don’t want cheerleaders, but you don’t need tons of extra pressure either.” To go deep on potential investors’ backgrounds, Collin used these tailored questions:
Share some examples of when they've been caring.
What types of things did they typically challenge you on? Was it helpful?
Tell me about a time when they disappointed you. Did you feel like you could have an open discussion and give feedback?
Looking back on the early days of your working relationship, how would you manage or interact with them differently, knowing what you know now?
DISCIPLINED TEAM BUILDING: HIGHLIGHT IMPACT (AND STAGE AN OFFICE MUSICAL)
Collin brings the same regularity and intention to her internal team building efforts — and has the results to prove it. Front has a 5-star Glassdoor rating, an internal NPS of 87, while only a few people have voluntarily left the company in the past four years.
“This high employee engagement is a result of the transparency we’ve cultivated and the commitment we have to making people feel like they have an impact,” says Collin. Outside of the weekly email connecting everyone to the main metric they’re working towards, Front has smaller initiatives to highlight impact, such as using ‘Fronteer of the Week’ and ‘Stumble of the Week’ as opportunities to share wins and learnings (and award trophies crafted out of legos).
The Lego trophies awarded to a member of the Front team each week.
The startup also embraces fun (and regularly scheduled) events, such as board game nights every month or the musicals that the entire Front team puts on once a year. The most recent productions included stagings of ‘Les Mis’ (with Collin of course taking on the role of Cosette) and a Disney medley.
“It’s a programmatic way to give people a chance to be very vulnerable. Whether they're dancing, singing, narrating or playing an instrument, it brings the team together,” Collin says. “Overall, we're very disciplined, with the same programs at the same weekly, monthly or annual cadence. Bring regularity to your team touchpoints to make sure they aren’t a one-off initiative from HR or a tradition that dies out — create something employees can count on,” she says.
However, Collin doesn’t place too much weight on Front’s approach to cultural events. “Many startups focus so much of their team building efforts on events or offsites and start to lose sight of the core of their culture: hiring people that align with your values,” she says.
Collin has applied her signature discipline to expanding Front's team — so much so that after six months of searching, she’s still on the hunt for a head of finance. "We’re over 100 people, we’ve raised $80 million and I have zero experience in it, but I still haven't found the person who has the right skill set and matches our values — so if you know someone I should talk to, send them my way," she says. "But in all seriousness, you have to be very disciplined and show the restraint not to hire, even when you urgently need to fill a role,”
To further cement this principle in her mind, Collin revisits advice she got from Stripe’s Patrick Collison: “He told me that before hiring someone, consider whether you’d like to have 10 times as many people like them in your company. Because they will hire people in their mold, that’s the bar everyone needs to clear.”
Events aren't culture. They’re something you do to build it, but they aren’t an end themselves. Be disciplined in who you hire and how you live out your values — that’s the culture.
When it comes to getting a startup off the ground, time is the most precious resource and momentum is the objective. That’s why a founder’s discipline and willingness to dig in can be more determinative than the ability to project a sweeping vision for the company.
To bring more discipline to your daily life, apply these takeaways from Collin’s personal habits:
Reach goals by communicating more consistently: Concentrate on moving a single metric by regularly communicating with your team, direct reports and investors. To provide an additional layer of accountability, templatize your most important messages and never miss an update.
Manage your time to find focus: Develop the calendar hygiene to match work to stated priorities by reviewing your schedule for the upcoming week every Friday and analyzing how you actually spent your time. Create the space to step back and reflect by blocking off dedicated windows for checking email, writing and meditating.
Fundraise faster: Condense your fundraising timeline by proactively building relationships with and doing careful diligence on investors. Assess if it’s the “right” time to raise by considering your state of mind and looking ahead to milestones you want to hit. Make sure your pitch is a story, not a set of data points.
Build better teams: Boost retention and engagement by bringing regularity to cultural programs. But remember that events aren’t the culture, people are. Don’t hire someone if you don’t want to have 10 times as many people like them on the team.
Email and time analysis examples courtesy of Mathilde Collin. Photography by Brandon Smith.
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In January 2013, the President signed the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 (IPERIA) into law, codifying ongoing efforts to develop and enhance steps taken by the Federal Government to prevent, waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal spending.
In August 2013, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-13-20 to ensure that individual privacy is fully protected while reducing improper payments with the Do Not Pay (DNP) Initiative. Additionally, DNP complies with the Privacy Act of 1974 and other laws pertaining to the use, maintenance, and disclosure of records.
System of Records Notices (SORNs)
A system of records is defined by the Privacy Act of 1974 as “a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual.”
Rules exempting systems of records from certain Privacy Act requirements are in 28 CFR Part 16, Subpart E. Below is a listing of systems of records maintained by DNP and original source agencies that are subject to the Privacy Act of 1974.
Credit Alert System (CAIVRS)– CAIVRS is comprised of data from the following agencies:
Department of Education (Education)
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Department of Justice (DOJ) - Debt Collection Enforcement System, JUSTICE/DOJ-016
Small Business Administration (SBA) - SBA 21 -- Loan System and SBA 20-Disaster Loan Case File
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Veterans Affairs (VA) - VA's Privacy Act System of Records, Compensation, Pension, Education, and Rehabilitation Records--VA (58VA21/22/28)
Some agencies are currently in the process of confirming their applicable CAIVRS SORNs and routine uses that allow for disclosures to DNP. Links to those SORNs will be posted as they are identified.
Treasury Offset Program (TOP) Debt Check of the Department of the Treasury - FMS .014 – Debt Collection Operations System
SAM Entity Registration and Exclusion Records (referred to in IPERIA as Excluded Party List System) of the General Services Administration (GSA)
List of Excluded Individuals & Entities of the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Health Care Program Violations
Treasury/Bureau of the Fiscal Service .023 – Do Not Pay Payment Verification Records
Variations between data source record retention schedules or other restrictions (e.g. routine uses) and the Treasury/Bureau of the Fiscal Service .023 SORN will be listed below.
On October 7, 2012, the Secretary of the Treasury issued Treasury Order 136–01, establishing within the Department of the Treasury the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service). The new bureau consolidated the bureaus formerly known as the Financial Management Service (FMS) and the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD). On October 2, 2013, Fiscal Service published a final rule that changed references in 31 CFR Part 202-391 from “FMS” or “BPD” to "Fiscal Service."
Final Rule (October 2, 2013)
Computer Matching Agreements (CMAs)
A computer matching program is required by the Privacy Act for any computerized comparison of two or more automated systems of records, or a system of records with non-federal records, for the purpose of establishing or verifying eligibility or compliance as it relates to cash or in-kind assistance or payments under federal benefit programs.
Under to 5 U.S.C. § 552a(o), any record contained in a system of records may only be disclosed to a recipient agency or non-federal agency for use in a computer matching program pursuant to a CMA. DNP computer matching programs published in the Federal Register and other matching documentation are provided below:
DNP CMA with HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
DNP CMA with HUD
Data Correction Process
Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 (IPERIA) requires that DNP describe the data correction process on its website. Whenever an original source agency receives a request for correction of data, it may follow its existing process for handling such requests in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, or policies. The agency will promptly review the request and make a determination. If the agency determines that corrections are needed to data, the data will be corrected at both the original source agency and in the DNP portal to avoid discrepancies between two versions of the same dataset.
Please direct any requests to correct the original source agency's data to the corresponding original source agency. The data sources and corresponding agencies are listed below:
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Examples of Data Correction Request Triggers
American InfoSource (AIS)
www.americaninfosource.com/datainquiry
If a payee is listed as deceased and that is not the case.
Credit Alert System (CAIVRS) - DOJ
www.justice.gov/oip/submit-and-track-request-or-appeal
To submit a Privacy Act request to DOJ's Office of Information Policy (OIP), please submit your request by mail or fax to:
Office of Information Policy
1425 New York Avenue, N.W.
Phone: (202) 514-3642 (FOIA)
Fax: (202) 514-1009 If an individual is not a delinquent federal borrower.
Credit Alert System (CAIVRS) – HUD
If you are making a written request for data correction, letters should be addressed to:
Privacy Act Officer
Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th St. SW, CVB-4th Floor
Read More at HUD.gov
If an individual is not a delinquent federal borrower.
Credit Alert System (CAIVRS) – SBA
www.sba.gov/content/privacy-act-requests
Credit Alert System (CAIVRS) – USDA Rural Development (RD)
Email: rd.nfaoc.dcib@stl.usda.gov
Credit Alert System (CAIVRS) - USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)
Credit Alert System (CAIVRS) – VA
VA Privacy Service, 202-273-5070
www.oprm.va.gov/oprm/resources_oprm.aspx
GSA’s System for Award Management (SAM) – Entity Registration Records and Exclusion Records
The agency taking the exclusion action and that agency’s designated Exclusions Point of Contact.
SAM Customer Service: Federal Service Desk
www.fsd.gov
If an individual is listed as debarred and that is not the case.
HHS OIG List of Excluded Individuals & Entities (LEIE)
HHS OIG External Affairs Office,
sanction@oig.hhs.gov
If an entity should not be excluded from participating in federal health care programs.
SSA’s Death Master File (DMF)
The individual’s local social security office, which can be found at: secure.ssa.gov/ICON/main.jsp
Treasury Offset Program (TOP) Debt Check
Creditor agencies or Treasury Offset Division (TOD) resulting from direct debtor communication.
TOP Help Desk: 800-304-3107
If an individual does not owe delinquent non-tax debts to the federal government (and participating States).
Section 208 of the E-Government Act of 2002 requires agencies to conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) for information technology (IT) systems or projects that collect, maintain or disseminate personally identifiable information (PII) from or about members of the public. A PIA is required for new systems or projects, those systems undergoing modification or enhancement, and Paperwork Reduction Act electronic collections of information. OMB Memorandum M-03-22, (9/26/2003), contains guidance for conducting PIAs as well as procedures for processing and posting completed assessments. Below are links to individual PIAs relevant to DNP: Treasury’s Working System PIA
Destination Requests for New Data Sources
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Benefits of streamlining access to the data through the central DNP Initiative;
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Other policy and stakeholder considerations, as appropriate. Before designating additional data sources, OMB will publish a 30-day notice of the designation proposal in the Federal Register asking for public comment. At the conclusion of the 30-day comment period, if OMB decides to finalize the designation, OMB will publish a notice in the Federal Register to officially designate the data source for inclusion in the DNP Initiative.
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Thursday Movie Picks #53: Science Fiction Movies (No Space/Aliens)
On July 15, 2015 July 15, 2015 By ruthIn Blog Events, The Flix List
Happy Thursday everyone! This is another entry to the weekly Thursday Movie Picks that’s spearheaded by Wandering Through the Shelves Blog. Here’s the gist:
The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you’re up to it one of each. This Thursday’s theme is…
Science Fiction Movies (No Space/Aliens)
It’s interesting that the requirement for this sci-fi genre is no space/aliens as a lot of my favorites in this genre aren’t the ones with aliens in them. In fact, I love sci-fis that don’t look or feel science fiction-y, in fact, intriguing sci-fis are those with rich layers of human drama that remind us what it means to be humans.
I immediately thought of including Ex Machina here, but I decided not to include something from this year. Instead, I’m selecting three from the past few years that have a small/modest budget (under $25 mil) that have made a big impression on me:
Predestination (2014)
The life of a time-traveling Temporal Agent. On his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
As I mentioned in my review, the less you know about the plot the better the experience. Since I was just talking about directing duos, I have to mention the Spierig Brothers who also made this vampire sci-fi Daybreakers. The premise is rather bizarre and definitely not an easy one to grasp, but it’s well worth a watch. I like how the film started out with a bang but then the pace slows down considerably in the first act as we’re introduced to the characters played by Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook. The odd pacing seems deliberate and I actually think it’s pretty effective and engrossing in getting us to care about their journey. Snook is quite a revelation here and I kept hoping to see her getting prominent roles.
s I….
A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that’s designed to meet his every need.
Once in a while, a film you hadn’t heard much about suddenly sneaked in and took your breath away. In 2013, that film for me was HER. That’s what I wrote in my review over a year ago, and there’s still very few films that affected me emotionally the way this one did.
There are many robot/human *love* stories that’s been done time and again but what Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) experienced with Samantha (voiced brilliantly by Scarlett Johansson) is quite unlike any other. For one, there’s no physical presence of Samantha in the film but yet her presence is felt so viscerally. I’m going to borrow my from my own review… This is the kind of thought-provoking science fiction story that I wish Hollywood would make more of. Sci-fi is not always about aliens or cool-looking futuristic equipments or cars or what have you, but a good sci-fi should actually makes us ponder about our own humanity. I realize this film isn’t for everyone as there are a few people I recommended this to that aren’t wowed by it. That said, I think you owe it to yourself to at least give this one a shot.
Never Let Me Go (2010)
A love triangle develops between three friends who came of age at a mysterious, secluded boarding school and are destined to lead brief lives.
This is another film where the less you know about the plot the better. If you just look at still photos or even the poster (which you can see on my review post), you’d never thought this is a sci-fi. It looks more like a mystery drama, and I think that’s the vibe director Mark Romanek was going for. Working from Alex Garland’s script, who later made his directorial debut in Ex Machina, the pace is decidedly slow and graceful in the way things unfold. The romantic drama sensibilities offer a stark contrast to the cerebral sci-fi nature of the story. I really need to watch this again, but I remember being really absorbed by this film. Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield are excellent here, it’s still one of my favorite performance from both of them even after seeing more of their work. It’s also exquisitely-shot in muted hues that perfectly match the somber tone of the film.
What do you think of my sci-fi picks this week? Have you seen any of these films?
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37 thoughts on “Thursday Movie Picks #53: Science Fiction Movies (No Space/Aliens)”
Oh….. with the exception of Predestination which I had never seen. The other 2 films are pretty much… classics.
Glad to hear you like two of my picks. Predestination is a good one Steven, definitely worth a rent.
Jordan Dodd
GREAT picks! Predestination was a fantastic movie, and Aussie too ;D They made that on a tiny budget, but you can barely tell. I loved Her too, and thought Scarlett’s voice acting was amazing; it makes Bullock’s effort in Minions sound so bad!! I have never heard of that third one you chose, but it sounds pretty decent!
Hi Jordan! Yeah I like the two movies by the Spierig Brothers. Have you seen Daybreakers? I really dug that one too. Yes I was impressed by Scarlett’s voice work, it adds so much to the character. Never Let Me Go is written by Alex Garland who also wrote 28 Days Later, so do check it out!
I need to see Daybreakers, I’ve read a lot about it. Will definitely have to check that other one out, Alex Garland has written some great stuff
Big Screen Small Words
I have yet to see Predestination, and Her is such a lovely film.
Predestination is a bit bonkers but well worth the watch. Glad you love HER too!
Seen em all and really liked them. Thanks for this Ruth. How about a classic – Back to the Future?
Yay, glad to hear! Well if you’re talking about classics then you can’t go wrong with Back to the Future 😃
Ayush Chandra
Nice list of 3, and it is a bit creative topic too. Majority of Sci-Fi films are loaded with futuristic objects, a kid type villain :), and things you mentioned above. I agree with you, sci-fi films that looks real and have a normal atmosphere are more exciting. A great example of such films is “Frequency (2000)”. I think these kind of movies involves the audience more comparing to the aliens ones. I have not seen any of the films you mentioned above but after checking on IMDB, I will watch “Her” first.
Welcome to FC Ayush! Frequency is a great movie! Do watch HER, you might love that one
Love the inclusion of Never let me Go, such a fantastic and very underrated film
It’s too bad not many ppl have seen NLMG, it’s so beautiful n heartbreaking. Cinematography is top notch n it’s so atmospheric.
Great Job, Ruth! I thought seriously about picking Her but realized that I could only choose one between that and Eternal Sunshine. Her really is nearly perfect though. And you’re right about never Let Me go. I knew almost nothing about it when I watched it (was completely unprepared for the sci-fi element) and was completely captivated by it. Your picks are so spot on that I feel like I need to check out Predestination despite my Ethan hawke hate-on.
Thanks Matt! Believe it or not I still haven’t seen Eternal Sunshine yet but have heard great things. No love for Hawke? Y’know he’s not my fave actor but I like him in his scifi movies for some reason. Predestination is worth a look for Sarah Snook who’s simply amazing.
Myerla
Her is a wonderful film. I think I need to revisit Never Let me Go as wasn’t keen on it last time.
Sarah Snook is incredible, I watched her Jesebelle and had no idea she was an Aussie as her Southern US accent was that good.
Hi Myerla, glad you like my picks. So you’ve seen Predestination too then? I think the Aussies generally are great with accents, so not surprised miss Snook could pull off Southern accent beautifully.
Brittani
LOVE these picks! I also chose Never Let Me Go. Her is just brilliant and Predestination, while I’m not sure I 100% understood the ending was still a good watch.
Yay! Glad to hear we have one in common. Yeah I feel the same way about Predestination but there’s still a lot in it that I really like.
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The only one of the three I’ve seen is Never Let Me Go which I didn’t much care for, disappointing since I love the two lead actresses so, but I just couldn’t get into it. HER is on my list just haven’t gotten to it yet. Never heard of Predestination, I like the description-wish it had another actor in the lead, Hawke is one of my least favorite performers. It sounds intriguing enough to put up with him though. Actually is seems to share the central theme of my first pick of the week just presented in a different aspect.
Here’s the three I came up with for the week:
Source Code (2011)-As part of a secret military operation Colter Stevens is placed repeatedly in the body of a man during the last eight minutes of his life to find out the identity of the terrorist who blew up a commuter train and prevent them from striking again. As he goes through the calamity time and again he begins to see a way to prevent the original tragedy. A clever premise excitingly directed with a strong lead performance by Jake Gyllenhaal.
Back to the Future III (1990)-Marty McFly and Doc Brown head out to the Old West by way of the flux capacitor where Doc finds love but also runs afoul of gang of bandits. After the scattershot BTTFII the series finds its legs again recapturing its sense of wonder and winds up with this charming and fun comic sci-fi western.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)-François Truffaut’s only English language film is a terrifically chilly affair based on the Ray Bradbury classic. In the future Montag, a firemen whose job is to search for and burn books begins to question his existence. The masses, now called Cousins are under various degrees of mind control but there are still pockets of protesters who strive to keep knowledge alive. A perfectly cast film with amazing production design. Julie Christie is super in a dual role.
Hi Joel! Bummer that you didn’t care for Never Let Me Go. I thought it was quite an intriguing and emotional film, though I have to admit I’m not too crazy about Keira Knightley’s casting. Her is such a beautiful film, hope you get to see it too. Y’know I was telling a previous commenter that I’m not really into Hawke generally but I quite like the scifi movies he’s been in.
Oh, Source Code is a great pick! I really like that one and the twist took me by surprise. I like Gyllenhaal and Vera Farmiga in it. I have to admit I haven’t seen the other two you listed.
Nice picks! I didn’t get to Predestination last year, but I was so close to picking both Her and Never Let Me Go this week. Both great! I liked Never Let Me Go better as a novel. That is just a beautifully written novel. One of the best I’ve read in the last few years. Still a great film.
Thanks Kevin! I heard that Never Let Me Go’s novel is so superior, but I haven’t read it. I thought the film was beautifully atmospheric and emotional. Predestination is definitely worth a look!
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Gattaca fits most of your criteria, although it does focus on a space agency and technically goes to space at the end. Still, I tihnk it’s close enough that it’s worth a mention. Metropolis is definitely worth a mention here, too.
There are also plenty of time travel movies that would qualify under these criteria. The Time Machine (the one from 1960), Time After Time, Triangle, Timecrimes, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits… If you want something really unusual, look for Safety Not Guaranteed. Low budget and wildly entertaining, and focused on a time travel project.
There’s also tons of post-apocalyptic stuff. The Mad Max movies, A Boy and His Dog, On the Beach, The Quiet Earth, The Omega Man… Plenty of horror movies would fit into this genre as well.
I really like Gattaca, but I decided to select those from the past few years. There are a ton of time travel sci-fis. I have seen Safety Not Guaranteed, I like that one.
I’ve seen On The Beach, such a heartbreaking film.
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I have to see Predestination and HER, I want to see them both, I think they’re on Netflix now. I just need to watch them sometime on a weekend.
Somehow I couldn’t bring myself to watch Never Let Me Go, mostly because of how much I loved the book version and some reviewers said they totally botched what was great about the book. I’ll have to finally see it just to judge it for myself.
You should give Predestination and HER a shot Ted, esp if you’re into scifi indies. I hear ya about Never Let Me Go, I have a feeling the book is probably still superior. But give it a shot anyway, who knows you might like it.
Her is a wonderful film. Phoenix and ScarJo are both perfect. Never Let Me Go was enjoyable as well. Still haven’t seen Predestination, though. I hope to be fixing that soon.
Hi Dell! Glad you’re a fan of HER too. Interesting though that some people don’t care for it. In a way it’s similar to Never Let Me Go as it’s kind of a slo-burn drama. Predestination is pretty bonkers, but the performances are good, esp. Sarah Snook.
Very cool picks! Really want to see Predestination, wasn’t the biggest fan of HER but like seeing it here, and loved Never Let Me Go. Very underrated film and the three actors are phenomenal.
Her was my favourite film of 2013. Great pick!
Excellent picks! I was also thinking of Another Earth or Safety Not Guaranteed.
Terrific stuff Ruth, terrific. I really really want to see Never Let Me Go. And you’re right, I am totally surprised by it being classified as sci-fi. My impressions have always been that it’s a romantic drama. 🙂
Love your thoughts on the first two films, as well. Predestination blew me away with its complex, ever-shifting narrative and a star-marking performance from Sarah Snook. And Her, well. That is quite possibly my favorite film ever. Haha. Crazy high praise, I know but it hit me deep in the feels. 😉
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I like all of them. Her and Never Let me Go despite being set in some unknown future and has sci-fi elements, they have a very vintage retro feel to them with their colour scheme and their costuming don’t you think?
Yay! Her and Never Let Me Go are SO good. Ugh, I still need to see Predestination.
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I’ve never heard of Predestination but I will check it out. I had no idea that Alex Garland adapted Never Let Me Go.
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‘Reifying Desire 2 / Country Ball 1989 – 2012 intersection’ video and 3D animation installation threads three different digital spaces conceptually together.
Country Ball conceptualizes and appropriates camcorder footage of my family mothers day bbq in 1989. The camcorder footage documents cultural, animistic and gender/sexuality spaces simultaneously. The 3D animation is an appropriated response to the camcorder footage revisitng key aspects of that footage in a futurist aesthetic.
Reifying Desire 2 is a re-performed version of the camcorder footage in the northern woodlands of upstate New York. Queering and reclaiming a personal mythology as a auto-ritual
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Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against Tehran’s initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, online videos purported to show Monday, The Associated Press reported.
Videos sent to the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran and later verified by The Associated Press show a crowd of demonstrators near Azadi, or Freedom, Square fleeing as a tear gas canister landed among them. People cough and sputter while trying to escape the fumes, with one woman calling out in Farsi: “They fired tear gas at people! Azadi Square. Death to the dictator!”
Another video shows a woman being carried away in the aftermath as a blood trail can be seen on the ground. Those around her cry out that she has been shot by live ammunition in the leg. “Oh my God, she’s bleeding nonstop!” one person shouts. Another shouts: “Bandage it!”
Photos and video after the incident show pools of blood on the sidewalk. Tehran’s police chief, Gen. Hossein Rahimi, later denied his officers opened fire though the semiofficial Fars news agency said police “shot tear gas in some areas”, AP noted.
“Police treated people who had gathered with patience and tolerance,” Iranian media quoted Rahimi as saying. “Police did not shoot in the gatherings since broad-mindedness and restraint has been agenda of the police forces of the capital.”
However, uniformed police officers were just one arm of Iran’s security forces who were out in force for the demonstrations.
Riot police in black uniforms and helmets gathered earlier Sunday in Vali-e Asr Square, at Tehran University and other landmarks. Revolutionary Guard members patrolled the city on motorbikes, and plainclothes security men were also out in force. People looked down as they walked briskly past police, apparently trying not to draw attention to themselves.
The Guard previously has been accused of opening fire on demonstrators during protests over government-set gasoline prices rising in November, violence that reportedly saw over 300 people killed.
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August 31, 2012 by Linda Larsen
Hannaford Bros. Co. is recalling several products made with recalled Daniella mangoes. The fruit may be contaminated with Salmonella Braenderup and may be linked to a nationwide outbreak that has sickened 105 people in 16 states. Hannaford Mango Spears in 16 ounce packages with Sell by date of August 28, 2012 are recalled. In addition, Hannaford Fruit Burst in 10 ounce, 20 ounce, and 4-pound packages, with Sell by date of August 28, 2012 is recalled. And finally, Hannaford Tropical Medley in 16 ounce packages, with Sell by date of August 28, 2012 is recalled. The store has also removed Daniella brand mangoes with PLU #4051 from its stores as part of a larger recall by Splendid Products. Do not eat these products if you have purchased them. Return them to the place of purchase for a … [Read more...]
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Canadian Recall of Daniella Mangoes Expands
The recall of and public warning about Daniella mangoes imported from Mexico for possible Salmonella Braenderup contamination has expanded to include additional product codes and sales dates. The mangoes are Daniella brand, sold as individual fruit or part of a multi-pack. The PLU numbers are 3144, 4051, 4311, 4584 or 4959. The mangoes were sold at retail establishments between July 12 and August 29, 2012. The mangoes may have been distributed nationally. Consumers should always ask their retailers if the mangoes they bought or are going to buy are part of this recall. The recall is in response to the recall by Splendid Products, a produce distributor in California. There have been at least 21 illnesses associated with the consumption of this product. For questions and more … [Read more...]
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Spokane Produce Recalls Pineapple Mango Pico De Gallo
August 30, 2012 by Carla Gillespie
Spokane Produce, Inc., is voluntarily recalling Pineapple/Mango Pico de Gallo for potential contamination with Salmonella Braenderup. The product was made with Daniella mangoes from Mexico which have been associated with a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 103 people in 16 states. The recalled product was sold refrigerated under the brand labels Garden Patch or Yoke's. It was distributed to supermarkets in Washington, Idaho and Montana 16 oz. plastic containers with the UPC code "8869483987." Salmonella can cause serious, sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.Symptoms of a Salmonella include fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Infections that escape GI tract and enter … [Read more...]
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Giant, Kroger, Rainbow, BI-LO, Whole Foods, Stop & Shop May be Part of Salmonella Mango Recall
August 29, 2012 by News Desk
Splendid Products has recalled Daniella brand mangoes imported from Mexico that may be linked to a Salmonella Braenderup outbreak in the United States. In Canada, those mangoes have been recalled and are definitively linked to an outbreak that has sickened 21 people: 5 in Alberta and 16 in British Columbia. The mangoes have a PLU number on the sticker attached to the fruit. The PLU numbers for the recalled mangoes that have been reported today include 3114, 4959, 4051, 4321, 4311, 4961, and 4584. The stores in the United States that may be part of the recall include Aldi, BI-LO, Copps, Costco, El Super, Food 4 Less, Giant Food, Kroger, LLC, Mariano's, Martin's Food Market, Metro Market, Pick 'n Save, Rainbow, Ralph's, Savemart, Stop & Shop, TOP Food & Drug, Topco, Walmart, and … [Read more...]
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Splendid Products Recalls Mangoes for Possible Salmonella
Produce distributor Splendid Products is recalling some lots of Daniella mangoes because they may be contaminated with Salmonella Braenderup bacteria. The fruit was sold individually and can be identified by the Daniella brand sticker and one of these PLU numbers: 3114, 4051, 4311, 4584, or 4959. The mangoes were sold at retail stores throughout the United States from July 12, 2012 to August 29, 2012. Mangoes have been linked to 22 cases of salmonellosis in Canada and may be linked to a Salmonella Braenderup outbreak in the U.S. that was just announced by the CDC. Some of the retailers involved in this recall may include Aldi, BI-LO, Copps, Costco, El Super, Food 4 Less, Giant Foods, Kroger, Mariano's, Martin's Food Market, Metro Market, Pick 'n Save, Rainbow, Ralph's, Savemart, Stop … [Read more...]
Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Braenderup
The CDC has announced a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Braenderup that may be linked to Daniella mangoes imported from Mexico. According to the latest report, 103 people are ill in 16 states. Twenty-five people have been hospitalized out of the 69 who have been interviewed. The government has not released the state by state case count, but they do say that California has the majority of illnesses, at 78. Most people became ill during the month of July. For people who have been interviewed, illness dates range from July 3, 2012 to August 11, 2012. The age range of patients is from 1 to 86 years; the median age is 32. Fifty-five percent of the patients are female. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency released a recall and an outbreak announcement on August 24, 2012. Twenty-two people … [Read more...]
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Canadian, U.S. Recalls of Daniella Mangoes for Salmonella Expand; Outbreak Grows
The Canadian and U.S. recalls of Daniella mangoes imported from Mexico for possible Salmonella Braenderup have expanded. The mangoes were sold as individual fruit or as part of a multi-pack. The sticker on the fruit recalled in Canada has the PLU number 4959 or 4051. The mangoes were sold at various stores between July 12, 2012 and August 28, 2012. They may have been distributed nationally. The importer, Mex Y Can Trading Inc. is voluntarily recalling the mangoes from the marketplace. Consumers are advised to contact their retailers to find out if they have the affected mangoes. Stores are supposed to know where their produce came from and they should tell you when you ask. There have been 22 people in Canada sickened by Salmonella Braenderup, the outbreak strain found on the mangoes. … [Read more...]
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Salmonella Scare Prompts Retailers On Both Coasts To Pull Mangoes From Shelves
A Salmonella outbreak linked to Daniella mangoes from Mexico that has sickened 22 people in Canada and may have sickened as many as 80 people in California and Washington has retailers on both coasts removing mangoes from store shelves. Last week, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced that Daniella brand mangoes from Mexico were asscoiated with at least 22 confirmed cases of Salmonella infection. Giant Food Stores, which operates more than 180 Giant and Martin's stores throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, announced that is removing Daniella mangos from store shelves following a voluntary recall by Splendid Products, a tropical fruit distributor based in Burlingame, Calif.. The recalled mangoes were sold between July 12 and August 24, 2012 with "PLU … [Read more...]
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Daniella Mangoes May be Linked to Salmonella Outbreak
Daniella-brand mangoes may be linked to a Salmonella Braenderup outbreak that has sickened more than 73 people in California. Six people in Washington state are also ill with this bacteria, but the state is not prepared to link those illnesses to the fruit. The mangoes, imported from Mexico, have been recalled in Canada, where they are linked to 22 illnesses. Giant Food stores, Stop & Shop, and Martin's stores have recalled the mangoes. Update: The FDA has announced the Splendid Products LLC and Giant Food stores recall. Charlie's Produce has voluntarily recalled the Daniella mangoes with PLU number 4959. The California Department of Public Health is investigating the illness; 67% of patients in that state diagnosed with a Salmonella Braenderup infection reported eating mangoes in … [Read more...]
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Giant Foods Recalls Mangoes for Possible Salmonella
Giant Food stores is recalling Daniella Tropical Mangoes that were grown in Mexico for possible Salmonella contamination. The product may be returned to the place of purchase for a full refund. All recalled mangoes will be labeled with the "Daniella" label and have a number "4959". These are the same mangoes that were recalled in Canada over the weekend. In that country, there is an outbreak of Salmonella Braenderup that has sickened 17 people in British Columbia and 5 people in Alberta. In Canada, the mangoes were sold from July 12, 2012 to August 14, 2012. There is no word on any illnesses in the United States, and the FDA has not yet issued a recall. Salmonella can produce an infection that causes diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. The very young, senior citizens, and those … [Read more...]
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Posted on November 20, 2014 by mattbristow271993
So all the talk after Champions League and Europa League fixtures is how will the team cope playing Thursday and Sunday. Clubs will need a massive squad so that they can rotate, keeping the team fresh to pick the right results up. Interestingly out of the top four finishers in the Europa League 2013/2014 they only lost 7 games between them after a European matchday.
It is a well known point that there are too many fixtures in the competition, if you reach the final you will play a total of 15 games; nearly half a season in most domestic divisions. After match day one last season, Sevilla the current holders, lost 1 game in 14 after playing on a Thursday picking up 11 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. However a key point to add is in Portugal, Spain and Italy; domestic games can be all across the weekend depending on broadcasting and other commitments. In other European leagues, some teams will play the majority of their games on the Saturday but with the Europa League this changes.
There has been four match days in the competition so far, below is the record of all the Europa League teams combined in their domestic fixtures following a Thursday game. The top 7 leagues that were taken were: Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, Serie A, Bundesliga, Primeira Liga and Eredivisie.
As the results confirm, there is a 20% difference in the win percentage of the top leagues and the rest. Only one team remained unbeaten in all 4 matches after the Europa League in PSV who have won all four. Interestingly is how the different leagues in Europe compare when broken down.
The best performing teams after a midweek match day are in the Netherlands with PSV and Feyenoord winning 6 out of the 8 matches. The French trio have only picked up 2 wins out of 10 with Guingamp losing all four matches. Guingamp won the French Cup earning their place in the competition but with little resources and experience of Thursday/ Sunday football lie 18th in Ligue 1.
In England teams seem to always struggle with the demand on two games in four days with squad depth becoming an ever growing issue. Between them, Everton and Tottenham have only won two matches out of 8 and losing 4. Only Fiorentina (31) have made more changes from their starting 11 on a Thursday to a Sunday than Tottenham (29). The Premiership is deemed one of or if not the most competitive league in the world which means it is hard to compare to other European Leagues. But Feyenoord (6) and PSV(4) have made the least amount of changes, highlighting that players can play 2 days in four days. The age old question is can a team be successful on all fronts making so many changes?
All top clubs domestically in Europe will be striving to participate in the Champions League with the sponsorship, revenue and media influences. With a new broadcasting deal set to start from 2015/2016 season from BT Sport there appears to be a 108% increase on the revenue teams will receive for qualifying to the Champions League. Champions League includes the top teams from all of the European leagues and with these big teams comes TV deals. Typically these big teams will play in one of the televised slots throughout the weekend. After the last round of Champions League fixtures all of the English, Italian and French teams played in televised slots either on Saturday or Sunday. So not only do they play a day or two before the Europa League teams they are more likely to have a prolonged break before their domestic fixture.
Out of the 32 teams currently in the Champions League 20 play in the top 7 divisions in Europe but unlike the Europa League, there is only a 8% difference in the win percentage from the teams in other divisions. 14 teams remain unbeaten in their four domestic matches after a European match day with 9 playing in the top 7 divisions compared to only one from the Europa League. Juventus and Benfica joined the Europa League after the group stages last season and didn’t lose a game in 9: in fact both were unbeaten in after all 15 European matchdays. The breakdown of the top 7 leagues at their records are below:
There is a higher win percentage after a CL match day but then again the quality is higher than the Europa League teams. The English four have only one 6 out of then 16 matches compared to Italy with 6 out of 8 and Spain 9 out of 16. Surprisingly Germany has the lowest win percentage with runners up Borussia Dortmund only winning one game and Schalke winning none of their games after Europe. It appears that no matter what competition you play in, teams will always be unpredictable after Europe with long travel and squad rotation becoming factors.
La Liga is the top domestic league after European football but as you may think out of the 14 wins the big two in Real Madrid and Barcelona won 50% of them. European football brings in much needed revenue, sponsorship and attention to all the different leagues but it has been noted that teams look lethargic after a European match day. Many have reported on the effect a midweek European game has on a domestic team and their performance. A mix between consistency and squad rotation appears to knit European and domestic football together: too much change can have a harmful effect on domestic football.
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NordFork has awarded NOK 87 million to seven research projects, which will create collaborations between institutions of Nordic countries and the United Kingdom. The funding comes from the Joint Nordic-UK research programme for integration and migration, where Forte is one of the co-financiers.
The purpose of the programme and the call is to create collaborations between the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, and to be able to counter the challenges of increased migration.
Forte and six other research councils in the Nordic region and the UK are funding the announcement. Seven research projects have each been awarded up to NOK 13 million.
A total of 218 applications were received in the call. Maria Lähteenmäki, chair of the programme committee for Joint the Nordic-British Research Programme for Integration and Migration claims that it shows the relevance of the programme and the high value of collaborate cross institutions and countries.
The seven projects awarded funding are:
Relational Well-being in the Lives of Refugee Young People in Finland, Norway and the UK
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Making it Home: An Aesthetic Methodological Contribution to the Study of Migrant Home-Making and Politics of Integration – MaHoMe
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Teaching that Matters for Migrant Students: Understanding Levers of Integration in Scotland, Finland and Sweden
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Life at the Frontier: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility and Integration of Migrants
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Structural, Cultural and Social Integration among Youth: A Multidimensional Comparative Project
Project leader: Carina Mood, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Effects of Externalisation: EU Migration Management in Africa and the Middle East
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The Yellow Admiral
September 27, 2018 11:58 PM - by Patrick O'Brian - Subscribe
This is the eighteenth book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Jack Aubrey still has the seventy-four Bellona, but no cruise, merely a station blockading Brest; Jack's got a jobbing captain Jenkins, is opening his mouth in Parliament, and is resisting enclosure – that universal good! – to make an enemy of his superior, Admiral Lord Stanraer; Jack's Preventative prize money is entangled, and heartbroken Mrs. Williams has destroyed his marriage with proof of Jack's Haligonian dalliance from book six. Peace looms for the disgusting British Empire, and Jack faces a career endgame of empty rank without command or respect: neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring: an admiral of an imaginary yellow squadron, the kind of person Lord and Lady Keith would not acknowledge on the street. Meanwhile, Stephen fires the elegant fowling piece of the world; Bonden's ten-year tail is caught in the mill; quicksilver, hog's lard, and mutton suet make blue ointment; Mrs. Williams is buying chintz and swearing affidavits; the Chileans want to give it a go; Killick is called honest; Sir Joseph Blaine is a coca-gnawer too; a bear makes an arrest; and Diana conspires to get Sophie's groove back for the first time.
‘Perhaps I should have put on my apron,’ said Stephen, dabbing at the blood with his napkin. ‘But there is no possibility whatsoever of finding a new coat until my sea-chest is unpacked.’
In the natural course of events Killick heard all this, and before Stephen had fully answered Jack’s enquiries after Evan Lloyd, cook’s mate, whose foot had been crushed by the bear – a conversation very much at cross-purposes until at last it became apparent that Stephen had never yet gathered that a bear, at sea, was only a holystone writ large – Preserved Killick was standing there with a prim expression on his face and a respectable blue uniform coat (virtually unworn) over his arm. ‘Which it was almost on top,’ he said. ‘And you will have to get out of those there old breeches. The Bellona don’t want no more of them there London cries. Monmouth Street cries, for shame.’
Stephen hung his head, keeping himself in countenance to some slight degree by pouring coffee. Not long before this, when the Bellona’s yawl had been taking him ashore in Bantry Bay, dressed it must be admitted in a way that did neither himself nor the service much credit, one of the Royal Oak’s cutters, with a ribald crew commanded by a drunken midshipman, called out ‘What ho, Bellona! Any old clo’? Any old rags, bottles, bones, rabbit skins?’ in the manner of the London street traders; and to the infinite grief of the ship the cry had become popular in West Cork.
• Jo Walton's reread. She likes the ending and indeed it's great.
• Some mailing list chatter 1, 2. Release time has caught up to internet time, so now there are posts like "OMG WHEN IS THE YELLOW ADMIRAL COMING OUT". Mailing lists were/are bad. Previously there was talk of "impending rot" but this book is great? One listnerd says that O'Brian's notes included the idea that Art Grimble, Killick's mate, might secretly be a woman, however that person might be a lying asshole.
• Aubreyisms. There's a lot of them.
• Jack says "Not a fit night out for man or beast, as the Centaur observed". IDGI.
Half-baked notes:
- Unusual beginning with Sir Joseph Blaine's as main character.
- Stephen isn't sure Padeen really wants to retire to a farm and a wife in County Clare which could be true. Stephen knows two men who have committed suicide on their wedding day. He hopes Padeen isn't in love with Clarissa, though he thinks that's not too much different than him falling in love with Diana.
- It's supposed (oddly by an invisible narrator POV?!) that mathematical and musical abilities are often found in people who can't string words together for shit (i.e. Jack).
- Rut roh, there's another pretty ship's boy, Geoghegan, with "a smile that would have been enchanting if he had been a girl. ‘He is too pretty for his own good, too pretty by far,’ Jack reflected. ‘He would be an odious little beast was he aware of it. Fortunately he ain’t.’" He's got a sea-daddy, a perfectly normal thing that has existed all along btw. Geogehegan blows a mean oboe and there's a beautiful quartet, and oh he's fallen from the maintopmast onto a carronade, sorry, forget about him.
- The Bellona is confusingly spacious and Stephen worries he will never shit a seaman's turd.
- Jack has added some quarter-davits to the Bellona, which smacks of innovation.
- I like Jack reading Sophie's letters out of order.
- Mrs. Williams is SO eager to hang Mr. Briggs then live with Mrs. Morris happily ever after, which I assume is the next best thing to poisoning Jack and keeping Sophie trapped in a glass sphere for a thousand years.
- Stephen thinks Charlotte and Fanny look "stupid and awkward" compared to Brigid.
- Stephen's Eton experience is getting mugged by a gang of clownishly dressed students.
- Clarissa Oakes is everywhere doing everything; does she have any goals, desires, interests of her own that might take her away from family service? No.
- When Jack and Stephen get back they just hang out at Black's having fun in London no thought of going home or sending word home la la la. Playing some billiards, Stephen sucks, Jack delights in the winning hazard (whereas Diana delighted in the losing hazard in The Ionian Mission).
- Bess the hunting dog whom Jack beats??? :s
- Lalla the affectionate and intelligent horse of the world.
- Ahab the Woolcombe mule.
- The dead weevils who scorned the shriveled peas.
- Mythical snowy owl.
- Giant Patagonian sloth, unseen by literate man.
- There's birbs.
From the Imagine-Stephen's-Face-During-This-Whole-Conversation Files:
‘...The only thing to do, if you knew your lover or husband or whatever was being unfaithful, was to pay him back in his own coin, not out of wantonness or revenge but to avoid worse: to avoid self-righteousness. For having done that you could never be a martyr again or put on a martyr’s horrid face. She cried shame on us for saying such dreadful things: we were really quite immoral and she was ashamed for us. But she did not sound very convincing – she did not hurry away, either – and presently she said, yes, that was very well, but what about babies? People really could not keep having babies right and left. Of course not, we said: did she really think that babies were inevitable? Yes, said she: that was what she had always understood. So we told her, and I must say Clarissa was amazingly well-informed; though she did say that trusting to the moon – to the calendar – alone was not absolutely safe.’
‘Dear Clarissa. I believe I saw her riding this morning, a great way off.’
posted by fleacircus (15 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
I'm not exactly knocking them out once a week like I said, but the end approaches..
I liked this one, even if it's so much on shore and doesn't have a satisfying ship action. I was crying reading the ending and it really could have been the end of the whole series.
posted by fleacircus at 12:07 AM on September 28, 2018
The narrative completely glosses over how Geoghegan fell from the rigging right after dining with the Captain, where the young lad was plied with copious amounts of wine. Sure, Jack is sad that the pretty young boy is dead, but he doesn’t seem to feel any responsibility for it.
posted by cardboard at 3:11 PM on September 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I really appreciate this book for exploring the whole manor system as it existed at that point in English history. After watching/reading Austen and others over the years, there were gentry and there were commoners, but their exact relationship was never spelled out. O'Brien through Jack's explanation for Stephen really helped me get a grasp on the subject.
posted by Fukiyama at 5:08 PM on September 28, 2018
It seems like something Stephen might have commented on, because he hates all the drinking on the ship and the injuries they cause, though that's more about the ration of rum than gentlemanly dinner drinking. Though now that he has Brigid, all the other children in the world can die as far as he's concerned lol.
Looks like the temperance movement is just around the corner in the 1820s.
posted by fleacircus at 10:45 PM on September 28, 2018
i will forever cherish the vision of stephen being mocked with rag-picker's cries from neighboring ships.
posted by poffin boffin at 10:20 AM on September 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
‘He is too pretty for his own good, too pretty by far,’ Jack reflected.
I just got to this point and yeah, there is a lot of remarking on Geoghegan's prettiness. Too pretty to live, indeed.
I think we've maybe had sea-daddies mentioned occasionally in previous books? although I may be mixing them up with tie-mates.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:53 AM on October 9, 2018
Once so far, as far as I can tell: in The Far Side of the World William Blakeney has a sea-daddy; "the lady of the gun-room, a bearded hand."
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:00 PM on October 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Good catch. My juvenile mind was probably distracted by "lady of the gunroom" a couple lines previous.
posted by fleacircus at 1:21 PM on October 9, 2018
O'Brian's really fond of the we're-poor / we're-rich-again shuffle. Both Jack and Stephen go through lost-our-fortune / got-it-back in this book. And really, could the resolution of Stephen's financial problems be any less dramatic? "Yeah, turned out they didn't need the receipt anyway."
Diana seems particularly sparkling in this book; all expert coach-driving and come-into-my-bed sexing-up with Stephen. Maybe it's just that we get more of her than normal? but I think there's also a fair bit of POB getting us to like her again in preparation for what happens next book.
But anyway: we get this glorious line from her:
“And then again, I have it on the best authority that Jack is no artist in these matters. He can board and carry an enemy frigate with guns roaring and drums beating in a couple of minutes; but that is no way to give a girl much pleasure.”
Never mind maneuvers; always go straight at 'em.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:13 PM on October 15, 2018 [2 favorites]
It's easy to imagine Stephen going green in the gills there; best authority, yes.
posted by fleacircus at 10:21 PM on October 16, 2018
Sophie get only a brief respite from being written as an acquiescent doormat. She stands up to Jack -- "not with my good will"; he calls her a shrew and huffs off; she humbly begs forgiveness; there do not appear to be any lasting consequences for either of them. It's annoying and frustrating that her role throughout the series is to stand loyally by Jack no matter what; she has so little agency for herself.
I do like though that O'Brian leaves it ambiguously unspecified as to whether Sophie did get herself some side-piece action; at the end of the conversation above Diana is all "you don't suppose she actually did it, do you? but never mind he'll be deployed soon anyway."
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:28 PM on October 17, 2018
i like to think that she did, and her deep satisfaction from that enjoyable pastime is what led to her generous forgiveness of jack.
posted by poffin boffin at 11:40 AM on October 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I hope she did, though with Sophie maybe a sip of the idea of it was enough.
posted by fleacircus at 3:14 PM on October 23, 2018
a bear makes an arrest
That interlude felt like I'd stumbled into a Scooby-Doo episode. Stephen and Sir Joseph watching from behind the spying mirrors; Diego's false beard falling off; he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling coke-heads.
Sir Joseph's "my usual boiled fowl" streak remains unbroken; Stephen opts for the steak-and-kidney pie, which at Blacks comes with bonus genuine larks.
Also, in the opening scene: Stephen invites him to come and visit the girls; Sir Joseph evades it with the clumsiest possible "oh, I forgot I had an appointment for dinner" lie. Smooth.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:38 PM on October 29, 2018 [1 favorite]
Relevant tweet.
I am almost done with The 100 Days. I recognize that I am dragging my feet to delay the time when I will have finished and should read other books that I said I would read..
posted by fleacircus at 2:42 PM on November 4, 2018
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THE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 1986 & RULES, 1987
1. Short title, extent, commencement and application. 3
2. Definitions 3
3. Act not in derogation of any other law. 9
CONSUMER PROTECTION COUNCILS
4. The Central Consumer Protection Council 9
5. Procedure for meetings of the Central Council 10
6. Objects of the Central Council 10
7. The State Consumer Protection Councils 10
8. Objects of the State Council
9. 8A The District Consumer Protection Council
10. 8B Objects of the District Council
CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL AGENCIES
11. Establishment of Consumer Disputes Redressal Agencies . 11
12. Composition of the District Forum 11
13. Jurisdiction of the District Forum 12
14. Manner in which complaint shall be made 13
15. Procedure on receipt of complaint 13
16. Finding of the District Forum 15
15. Appeal 17
16. Composition of the State Commission 17
17. Jurisdiction of the State Commission 18
18. Procedure applicable to State Commissions, 18
18A Vacancy in the office of the President 18
19. Appeals 18
20. Composition of the National Commission 19
21. Jurisdiction of the National Commissio!1 19
22. Power of and procedure applicable to the National Commission 20
24 Finality of orders 20
24A. Limitation Period 20
24B. Administrative control 21
25. Enforcement of orders by the Forum, the State Commission or the National Commission 21
Sections . Page
26. Dismissal of frivolous or vexatious complaints 21
27. Penalties 22
28. Protection of action taken in good faith 22
29. Power to remove difficulties 22
29A. Vacancies or defects in appointment not to invalidate orders. 22
30. Power to make rules 22
31. Laying of rules 23
THE CONSUMER PROTECTION RULES, 1987
1. Short title, extent and commencement 24
2. Definitions 24
2A. State Governments to recognise a laboratory as an appropriate
3. The Constitution of the Central Consumer Protection Council and
the Working Groups 24
4. Procedure of the Central Council 25
5. Place of the National Commission 26
6. Working days and office hours of the National Commission 26
7. Seal and emblem 26
8. Sitting of the National Commission 26
9. Staff of the National Commission 26
10. Additional powers of the National Commission, State Commission
and District Forum 26
11. Salaries, honorarium and other allowances of the President and
Members.of the National Commission 27
12. Terms and conditions of service of the President and members of
the National Commission 27
13. Removal of President or members from office in certain circumstances. 28
14. Procedure to be followed by the National Commission 28
15. Procedure for hearing the appeal 29
15A. Sitting of the National Commission and signing of orders 30
THE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 1986
The industrial revolution and the development in the international trade and commerce
has led to the vast expansion of business and trade, as a result of which a variety of consumer
goods have appeared in the market to cater to the needs of the consumers and a host of services
have been made available to the consumers like insurance, transport, electricity, housing,
entertainment, finance and banking. A well organised sector of manufacturers and traders with
better knowledge of markets has come into existence, thereby affecting the relationship between
the traders and the consumers making the principle of consumer sovereignty almost inapplicable.
The advertisements of goods and services in television, newspapers and magazines influence the
demand for the same by the consumers though there may be manufacturing defects or
imperfections or short comings in the quality, quantity and the purity of the goods or there may
be deficiency in the services rendered. In addition, the production of the same item by many
firms has led the consumers, who have little time to make a selection, to think before they can
purchase the best. For the welfare of the public, the glut of adulterated and sub-standard articles
in the market have to be checked. Inspite of various provisions providing protection to the
consumer and providing for stringent action against adulterated and sub-standard articles in the
different enactments like Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, the Indian Contract Act, 1872, the Sale
of Goods Act, 1930, the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Standards of Weights and Measures Act,
1976 and the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, very little could be achieved in the field of Consumer
Protection. Though the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 arid the Prevention
of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 have provided relief to the consumers yet it became necessary to
protect the consumers from the exploitation and to save them from adulterated and sub-standard
goods and services and to safe guard the interests of the consumers. In order to provide for better
protection of the interests of the consumer the Consumer Protection Bill, .1986 was introduced in
the Lok Sabha on 5th December, 1986.
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
The Consumer Protection Bill, 1986 seeks to provide for better protection of the interests of
consumers and for the purpose, to make provision for the establishment of Consumer councils
and other authorities for the settlement of consumer disputes and for matter connected therewith.
2. It seeks, inter alia, to promote and protect the rights of consumers such as-
(a) the right to be protected against marketing of goods which are hazardous to life and
property;
(b) the right to be informed about the quality, quantity, potency, purity, standard and
price of goods to protect the consumer against unfair trade practices;
(c) the right to be assured, wherever possible, access to an authority of goods at
competitive prices;
(d) the right to be heard and to be assured that consumers interests will receive due
consideration at appropriate forums;
(e) the right to seek redressal against unfair trade practices or unscrupulous exploitation
of consumers; and
(f) right to consumer education.
3. These objects are sought to be promoted and protected by the Consumer Protection Council to
be established at the Central and State level.
4. To provide speedy and simple redressal to consumer disputes, a quasi-judicial machinery is
sought to be setup at the district, State and Central levels. These quasi-judicial bodies will
observe the principles of natural justice and have been empowered to give relief of a specific
nature and to award, wherever appropriate, compensation to consumers. Penalties for noncompliance
of the orders given by the quasi-judicial bodies have also been provided.
5. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objects.
ACT 68 OF 1986
The Consumer Protection Bill, 1986 was passed by both the Houses of Parliament and it
received the assent of the President on 24th December, 1986. It came on the Statutes Book as the
Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986).
LIST OF AMENDING ACTS
1. The Consumer Protection (Amendment) Act, 1991 (34 of 1991).
(68 of 1986)
[24th December, 198"6)
An Act to provide for better protection of the interests of consumers and for that purpose
to make provision for the establishment of consumer councils and other authorities for the
settlement of consumers' disputes and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as
follows:-
1. Short title, extent, commencement and application.--( I) This Act may be called the
Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall come into force on such date I as the Central Government may, by
notification, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different States and for different
provisions of this Act.
(4) Save as otherwise expressly provided by the Central Government by notification, this
Act shall apply to all goods and services.
2. Definitions.--(I) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
2[(a)"appropriate laboratory" means a laboratory or organisation-
(i) recognised by the Central Government;
(ii) recognised by a State Government, subject to such guidelines as may be
prescribed by the Central Government in this behalf; or
(iii) any such laboratory or organisation established by or under any law for the time
being in force, which is maintained, financed or aided by the Central Government
or a State Government for carrying out analysis or test of any goods with a view
to determining whether such goods suffer from any defect; ]
3[(aa) "branch office" means-
(i) any establishment described as a branch by the opposite party; or
(ii) any establishment carrying on either the same or substantially the same activity as
that carried on by the head office of the establishment;]
1. The provisions of Chapters I, II and IV of this Act have come into force in the whole of India except the State of Jammu and
Kashmir on 15-4-1987: vide Notification No. S.O. 390 (E), dated 15th April, 1987, published in the Gazette of India, 1987,
Extra., Pt. II, Sec. 3 (ii). The provisions of Chapter III of this Act have come into force in the whole of India except the State of
Jammu and Kashmir on 1-7-1987: vide Notification, No. S.O. 568(E), dated 10th June, 1987, published in the Gazette of India,
1987, Extra., Pt. II, Sec. 3(ii).
2. .Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
3. .Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
(b) "complainant" means-
(i) a consumer; or
(ii) any voluntary consumer association registered under the Companies Act,1956 (1
of 1956) or under any other law for the time being in force; or
(iii) the Central Government or any State Government; .
1[(iv) one or more consumers, where there are numerous consumers
having the same interest;]
(v) in case of death of a consumer, his legal heir or representative ;)
who or which makes a complaint;
(c) "complaint" means any allegation in writing made by a complainant that-
2[(i) an unfair trade practice or a restrictive trade practice has been adopted by (any trader
or service provider ;]
(ii) 2[the goods bought by him or agreed to be bought by him] suffer from one or more
defects;
(iii)2[the services hired or availed of or agreed to be hired or availed of by him] suffer
from deficiency in any respect;
(iv) a trader or the service provider, as the case may be, has charged for the goods or for
the services mentioned in the complaint, a price in excess of the price-
(a) Fixed by or under any law for the time being in force;
(b) displayed on the goods or any package containing such goods;
(c) displayed on the price list exhibited by him by or under any law for the time being in
force;
(d) agreed between the parties;)
3[(V) goods which will be hazardous to life and safety when used, are being-offered for
sale to the public-
(a) in contravention of any standard relating to safety of such goods as required to be
complied with, by or under any law for the time being in force;
(b) if the trader could have known with due diligence that the goods so offered are unsafe
to the public;)
(vi) services which are hazardous or likely to be hazardous to life and safety of the
public when used, are being offered by the service provider which such person could have
known with due diligence to be injurious to life and safety;)
with a view to obtaining any relief provided by or under this Act;
(d) "consumer" means any person who-
(i) buys any goods for a consideration which has been paid or promised or partly
paid and partly promised, or under any system of deferred payment and includes
any user of such goods other than the person who buys such goods for
consideration paid or promised or partly paid or partly promised, or under any
system of deferred payment when such use is made with the approval of such
person, but does not include a person who obtains such goods for resale or for any
commercial purpose; or
(ii) 4[hires or avails of] any services for a consideration which has been paid or
promised or partly paid and partly promised, or under any system of deferred
payment and includes any beneficiary of such services other than the person who
4[hires or avails of] the services for consideration paid or promised, or partly paid
and partly promised, or under any system of deferred payment,
1. Ins.byAct50ofI993,sec.2(w.e.f.18-6-1993).
2. Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
3. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993). ,,!
4. Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993). ~., S
when such services are availed of with the approval of the first mentioned person; (but
does not include a person who avails of such services of any commercial purpose;)
1[Explanation.-For the purposes of sub-clause (i), "commercial purpose" does not include
use by a consumer of goods bought and used by him exclusively for the purpose of earning his
livelihood, by means of self-employment;]
(e) "consumer dispute" means a dispute where the person against whom a complaint has
been made, denies or disputes the allegations contained in the complaint;
(f) "defect" means any fault, imperfection or shortcoming in the quality, quantity, potency,
purity or standard which is required to be maintained by or under any law for the time being
in force or 2[under any contract, express or implied or] as is claimed by the trader in any
manner whatsoever in relation to any goods;
(g) "deficiency" means any fault, imperfection, shortcoming or inadequacy in the quality, nature
and manner of performance which is required to be maintained by or under any law for the
time being in force or has been undertaken to be performed by a person in pursuance of a
contract or otherwise in relation to any service;
(h) "District Forum" means a Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum established under clause (a)
of section 9;
(i) "goods" means goods as defined in the Sale of Goods Act, 1930; (3 of 1930);
(j) "manufacturer" means a person who--
(i) makes or manufactures any goods or parts thereof; or
(iii) does not make or manufacture any goods but assembles parts thereof made or
manufactured by others; or
(iv) puts or causes to be put his own mark on any goods made or manufactured by any
other manufacturer ;)
3[(jj) "member" includes the President and a member of the National Commission or a State
Commission or a District Forum, as the case may be;}
(k) "National Commission" means the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
established under clause (c) of section 9;
(1) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(m) "person" includes,-
(i) a firm whether registered or not;
1. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
(ii) a Hindu undivided family;
(iii) a co-operative society;
(iv) every other association of persons whether registered under the Societies
Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) or not;
(n) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the State Government, or as the, case may
be, by the Central Government under this Act;
1[(nn) "regulation” means the regulations made by the National Commission under this Act;)
(nnn) “restrictive trade practice” means a trade practice which tends to bring about manipulation
of price or its conditions of delivery or to affect flow of supplies in the market relating to goods
or services in such a manner as to impose on the consumers unjustified costs or restrictions and
shall include;
(a) delay beyond the period agreed to by a trader in supply of such goods or in providing the
services which has led or is likely to lead to rise in the price;
(b) any trade practice which requires a consumer to buy, hire or avail of any goods or, as the
case may be, services as condition precedent to buying, hiring or availing of other goods or
services;)
(0) "service" means service of any description which is made available to potential (users and
includes the provision of facilities in connection with banking, financing insurance, transport,
processing, supply of electrical or other energy, board or lodging or both, 2[housing
construction] entertainment, amusement or the purveying of news or other information, but does
not include the rendering of any service free of charge or under a contract of personal service;
(oo) “spurious goods & services” mean such goods and services which are claimed to be
genuine but they are actually not so;)
(p) "State Commission" means a Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission established in a
State under clause (b) of section 9;
(q) "trader" in relation to any goods means a person who sells or distributes any goods for sale
and includes the manufacturer thereof, and where such goods are sold or distributed in package
form, includes the packer thereof;
3[( r) "unfair trade practice" means a trade practice which, for the purpose of promoting the sale,
use or supply of any goods or for the provision of any service, adopts any unfair method or
unfair or deceptive practice including any of the following practices, namely;-
(1) the practice of making any statement, whether orally or in writing or by visible
representation which,-
(i) falsely represents that the goods are of a particular standard, quality, quantity, grade,
composition, style or model;
(ii) falsely represents that the services are of a particular standard, quality or grade;
(jii) falsely represents any re-built, second-hand, renovated, reconditioned or old goods as
new goods;
(iv) represents that the goods or services have sponsorship, approval, performance,
characteristics, accessories, uses or benefits which such goods or services do not have;
(v) represents that the seller or the supplier has a sponsorship or approval or affiliation
which such seller or supplier does not have;
(vi)makes a false or misleading representation concerning the need for, or the usefulness
of, any goods or services;
1. Ins. byAct50ofI993,sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
2. Ins. .by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993). '..u .,
(vii) gives to the public any warranty or guarantee of the performance, efficacy
or length of life of a product or of any goods that is not based on an adequate or proper test
thereof:
Provided that where a defence is raised to the effect that such warranty or guarantee is
based on adequate or proper test, the burden of proof of such defence shall lie on the person
raising such defence;
(viii) makes to the public a representation in a form that purports to be-
(i) a warranty or guarantee of a product or of any goods or services; or
(ii) a promise to replace, maintain or repair an article or any part thereof or to repeat or
continue a service until it has achieved a specified
if such purported warranty or guarantee or promise is materially misleading or if there is no
reasonable prospect that such warranty, guarantee or promise will be carried out;
(ix) materially misleads the public concerning the price at which a product or like products or
goods or services, have been or 'are, ordinarily sold or provided, and, for this purpose, a
representation as to price shall be deemed to refer to the price at which the product or goods or
services has or have been sold by sellers or provided by suppliers generally. in the relevant
market unless it is clearly specified to be .the price at which the product has been sold or services
have been provided by the person by whom or on whose behalf the representation is made;
(x) gives false or misleading facts disparaging the goods, services or trade of another person.
Explanation.-For the purposes of clause (1), a statement that is-
(a) expressed on an article offered or displayed for sale, or on its wrapper or container; or
(b) expressed on anything attached to, inserted in, or accompanying, an
article offered or displayed for sale, or on anything on which the article is mounted for display or
sale; or
(c) contained in or on anything that is sold, sent, delivered, transmitted or in any other
manner whatsoever made available to a member of the public,
shall be deemed to be a statement made to the public by, and only by, the person who had
caused the statement to be so expressed, made or contained;
(2) permits the publication of any advertisement whether in any newspaper or otherwise, for the
sale or supply at a bargain price, of goods or services that are not intended to be offered for sale
or supply at the bargain price, or for a period that is, and in quantities that are, reasonable, having
regard to the nature of the market in which the business is carried on, the nature and size of
business, and the nature of the advertisement.
Explanation.-For the purpose of clause (2), "bargaining price" means-
(a) a price that is stated in any advertisement to be a bargain price, by reference
to an ordinary price or otherwise, or
(b) a price that a person who reads, hears or sees the advertisement, would reasonably
understand to be a bargain price having regard to the prices at which the product
advertised or like products are ordinarily sold;
(3) permits-
(a) the offering of gifts, prizes or other items with the intention of not providing them
as offered or creating impression that something is being given or offered free of
charge when it is fully or partly covered by the amount charged ,in the transaction
as a whole;
the conduct of any contest, lottery, game of chance or skill, for the purpose of promoting,
directly or indirectly, the sale, use or supply of any product or any business interest;
(3A) withholding from the participants of any scheme offering gifts, prices or other items free of
charge on its closure the information about final results of the scheme.
Explanation : for the purpose of this sub clause, the participants of a scheme shall be deemed to
have been informed of the final results of the scheme where such results are within a reasonable
time published, prominently in the same newspaper in which the scheme was originally
advertised;)
(4) permits the sale or supply of goods intended to be used, or are of a kind likely to be used, by
consumers, knowing or having reason to believe that the goods do not comply with the standards
prescribed by competent authority relating to performance, composition, contents, design,
constructions, finishing or packaging as are necessary to prevent or reduce the risk of injury to
the person using the goods;
(5) permits the hoarding or destruction of goods, or refuses to sell the goods or to make them
available for sale or to provide any service, if such hoarding or destruction or refusal raises or
tends to raise or is intended to raise, the cost of those or other similar goods or services.]
(6) Manufacture of spurious goods or offering such goods for sale or adopting deceptive
practices in the provision of services;)
(2) Any reference in this Act to any other Act or provision thereof which is not in force in any
area to which this Act applies shall be construed to have a reference to the corresponding Act or
provision thereof in force in such area.
(i) Persons buying goods either for re-sale or for use in large scale profit making activity will not be `consumers’
entitled to protection under the Act; Raj Kumar v. S.C. Verma, 2001 (1) CPR 437
(ii) The government servants and the staff of the Accountant General Office of the Comptroller and Auditor
General maintains the records of provident fund of government servants, issue slips of deposits of fund and on
retirement final payments are made to the subscribers. The government servants and the staff of the Accountant
General in discharging their duties does not render any service for consideration, nor hiring of any service is
involved hence, maintenance of General Provident Fund Accounts does not fall within the meaning of `service’;
Hari Vallabh Vijay v. Administration Officer, 2001 (1) CPR 529.
(iii) When the National Commission as a matter of fact, recorded the findings as to the discharge of the liability of
the carrier, the Supreme Court did not interfere on the issue; Saddler Shoes Pvt. Ltd. v. Air India, (2001) 8 SCC
(iv) The insurance company is not a consumer. Hence the consumer complaint by insurance company is not
maintainable; Savani Road Lines v. Sundaram Textiles Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2630
(v) The repudiation of the claim by the Insurance Company on the ground that the driver was not holding a valid
driving license at the time of the accident could not be termed as deficiency in service or negligence on the part of
the Insurance Company within the meaning of section 2 (g) of the Act; New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Smt.
Pushpa YashwantGhatge, I996NCJ 195.
(vi) Medical services are covered under the definition of "service". Service includes rendering of consultation,
diagnosis and treatment, both medical and surgical; Indian Medical Association v. VP. Shantha, 1995 SCALE 273.
(vii) "Contract of personal service" has to be distinguished from a "contract for personal service". In the absence of
relationship of master and servant between the patient and the medical practitioner, the service rendered by a
medical practitioner to the patient cannot be regarded as service rendered under a contract of personal service. It is
"contract for personal services". Wherever, there is relationship like that of master and servant it is a "contract of
personal service" and is excluded from the purview of the Act; Indian Medical Association v. VP. Shantha, 1995
SCALE 273.
(viii)A licensee to run a phone is not a consumer; TechnocombineAssociatesv. Union of India, I (1994) CPJ 481:
1994 (I) CPR 298.
(ix) A lottery ticket holder is not "consumer" within the ambit of the definition of "consumer" under the Act; Jagdish
Chand v. Director, Sikkim State Lottery, 1994 (I) CPR213.
(x) Applicant who merely applies for allotment of shares is not a consumer; HG Bhatia v. ABC Computers Pvt. Ltd.,
(xi) The beneficial consumer jurisdiction cannot be extended to lotteries and wagering transactions or consequential
rights flowing from void contracts; Jagdish Chandv. Director, Sikkim State Lotteries, 1994 (I) CPR 213. ,.
(xii) If somebody does not perform his part of the contract, it amount/! to deficiency in service; Smt. Ramala Roy v.
Rabindra Nath Sen, 1994 (I) CPR 66.
(xiii) The agreement for hypothecation does not create the ownership right, and as such no complaint can be
maintained for deficiency in service; Jayantial Keshavlal Chauhan v. The National Insurance Co. Ltd., 1994 (I) CPR
(xiv) Undue delay in declaration of examination result is obviously deficiency in service; Secretary,Board of School
Education, Haryana v. Mukesh Chand, 1994 (I) CPR 269.
(xv) The student is a consumer of service of educational institute; Sushant Yuvaraj Rode v; Shri Ramdeobaba
Engineering College, 1993 (III) CPR 624.
(xvi) A person who receives medical treatment in a Government hospital is not a consumer under the Act; Consumer
Unity & Trust Society v. State of Rajasthan, (1991) I CPR 241. However, the State Commission of Orissa held that
a patient is a Consumer being the beneficiary of services in as much as the State Government is paying the
consideration amount in the form of salary to the doctors aI)d hospital staff; Smt. Sukanti Behera v. Dr. Sashi
Bhusan Rath, II (1993) CPJ 633.
3. Act not in derogation of any other law.- The provisions of this Act shall be in addition
to and not in derogation of the provisions of any other law for the time being in force;
(i) The remedy provided under the Act is in addition to the provisions of any other law for the
time being in force. The provisions of this Act give the consumer an additional remedy besides those that
may be available under other existing laws; The Consumer & Citizens Forum v. Karnataka Power
Corporation, 1994 (I) CPR 130.
(ii) When a case is pending in a court in which full evidence is to be recorded the Forums
constituted under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 should not entertain the complaint with respect to
the same cause of action; Hanuman Prasad v. The New India Assurance Co. Ltd., I (1994) CPJ I (NC).
(iii) It is nowhere laid down that whenever the examination and cross-examination is involved,
the proper forum for adjudication of the dispute is only Civil Court; S.K. Lakhotia v. National Insurance
Co. Ltd., 1994 (I) CPR 43.
(iv)It is authoritatively settled that the arbitration clause is not a bar to the entertainment of the
complaint by the Redressal Agency constituted under the Act, even if the arbitration provision has been
laid down in a statute; Ram Nath v. Improvement Trust, Bathinda, 1994 (I) CPR 357.
4. The Central Consumer Protection Council. – (l) The Central Government shall, by
notification, establish with effect from such date as it may specify in such notification, a Council
to be known as the Central Consumer Protection Council (hereinafter referred to as the Central
Council).
(2) The Central Council shall consist of the following members, namely:-
(a) the Minister in charge of the 1[consumer affairs] in the Central Government, who shall
be its Chairman, and
(b) such number of other official or non-official members representing such interests as
may be prescribed.
5. Procedure for meetings of the Central Council.-( I) The Central Council shall meet as and
when necessary, but 2[at least one meeting] of the Council shall be held every year.
(2) The Central Council shall meet at such time and place as the Chairman may think fit
and shall observe such procedure in regard to the transaction of its business as may be
prescribed.
6. Objects of the Central Council.- The objects of the Central Council shall be to promote and
protect the rights of the consumers such as,-
(a) the right to be protected against the marketing of goods 3[and services] which are
hazardous to life and property;
price of goods3[ or services, as the case may be] so as to protect the consumer
against, unfair trade practices;
(c) the right to be 'assured, wherever possible, access to a variety of goods 3[and
services] at competitive prices;
(d) the right to be heard and to be assured that consumer's interests will receive due
consideration at appropriate Fora;
(e) the right to seek redressal against unfair trade practices 3[or restrictive trade
practices] or unscrupulous exploitation of consumers; and
(f) the right to consumer education.
7. The State Consumer Protection Councils.-(l) The State Government shall, by notification,
establish with effect from such date as it may specify in such notification, a Council to be known
as the Consumer Protection Council for………… (hereinafterreferred to as the State Council).
4[(2)The State Council shall consist of the following members, namely :
(a) the Minister incharge of consumer affairs in the State Government who shall be its
Chairman;
may 'be prescribed by the State Government.
(c) such number of other official or non-official members, not exceeding ten, as may be
nominated by the Central Government.)
(3) The State Council shall meet as and when necessary but not less than two meetings shall be
held every year.
(4) The State Council shall meet at such time and place as the Chairman think fit and shall
observe such procedure in regard to the transaction of its business as may be prescribed by the
State Government.]
8. Objects of the State Council.- The objects of every State Council shall be to promote and
protect within the State the rights of the consumers laid down in clauses (a) to (f) of section 6.
8A. The District Consumer Protection Council - (1) The State Government shall establish for
every district, by notification, a council to be known as the District Consumer Protection Council
with effect from such date as it may specify in such notification.
(2) The District Consumer Protection Council (hereinafter referred to as the District Council)
shall consist of the following members, namely –
(a) the Collector of the district (by whatever name called), who shall be its Chairman;
(b) such number of other official and non-official members representing such interests as
may be prescribed by the State Government.
(3) The District Council shall meet as and when necessary but not less than two meetings shall
be held every year.
(4) The District Council shall meet as such time and place within the district as the Chairman
may think fit and shall observe such procedure in regard to the transaction of its business as may
be prescribed by the State Government.)
8.B. Objects of the District Council - The objects of every District Council shall be to promote
and protect within the district the rights of the consumers laid down in clauses (a) t (f) of section
9. Establishment of Consumer Disputes Redressal Agencies.- There shall be
established for the purposes of this Act, the following agencies, namely:-
(a) a Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum to be known as the "District Forum"
established by the State Government 1[* * *] in each district of the State by
2[Provided that the State Government may, if it deems fit, establish more than one
District Forum in a district;]
(b) a Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission to be known as the "State Commission"
established by the State Government 3[* * *] in the State by notification; and
(c) a National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission established by the Central
Government by notification.
(i) One or more consumers can file complaint; Chief General Manager, Calcutta Telephones v. International Packers
& Movers, I (1994) CPJ 132: 1994 (I) CPR 252.
(ii) When no objection was taken to the territorial jurisdiction of District Forum by filling written version, the
objection cannot be entertained in appeal raised orally; Essen Computers Ltd. v. Tagore Gracias, 1992 (II) CPR 556.
(iii) If a redressal forum has no jurisdiction, it cannot entertain the complaint on merits; Solvochen Intermediates
Pvt. Ltd. v. Boilertech Engineers Pvt. Ltd., 1992 (II) CPR 322.
10. Composition of the District Forum.-4[(I) Each District Forum shall consist of,-
(a) a person who is, or has been, or is qualified to be a District Judge, who shall be its
President;
(b) two other members, one of whom shall be a woman, who shall have the following
qualifications, namely :-
(i) be not less than thirty-five years of age,
(ii) possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized university,
(iii) be persons of ability, integrity and standing, and have adequate problems relating
to economics, law, commerce, accountancy, industry public affairs or administration:
Provided that a person shall be disqualified for appointment as a member, if he-
(a) has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which, in the
opinion of the State Government, involves moral turpitude; or
(b) is an undischarged insolvent; or
(c) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; or
(d) has been removed or dismissed from the service of the Government or a body
corporate owned or controlled by the Government; or
(e) has, in the opinion of the state Government, such financial or other interest as is
likely to affect prejudicially the discharge by him of his functions as a member; or
(f) has such other disqualifications as may be prescribed by the State Government;)
1. Omitted by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 7 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
I[(IA) Every appointment under sub-section (I) shall be made by the State Government on
the recommendation of a selection committee consisting of the following, namely :-
(i) the President of the State Commission - Chairman.
(ii) Secretary, Law Department of the State - Member.
(iii) Secretary, incharge of the Department - Member.]
dealing with consumer affairs in the State
Provided that where the President of the state Commission is, by reason of absence or otherwise,
unable to act as Chairman of the Selection Committee, the State Government may refer the
matter to the Chief Justice of the High Court for nominating a sitting Judge of that High Court to
act as Chairman)
(2) Every member of the District Forum shall hold office for a term of five years or up to the age
of 65 years, whichever is earlier.
Provided that a member shall be eligible for re-appointment for another term of five years
or up to the age of sixty-five years, whichever is earlier, subject to the condition that he fulfils
the qualifications and other conditions for appointment mentioned in clause (b) of sub-section (1)
and such re-appointment is also made on the basis of the recommendation of the Selection
Provided further that a member may resign his office in writing under his hand addressed
to the State Government and on such resignation being accepted, his office shall become vacant
and may be filled by appointment of a person possessing any of the qualifications mentioned in
sub-section (1) in relation to the category of the member who is required t be appointed under the
provision of sub-section (1A) in place of the person who has resigned:
Provided also that a person appointed as the President or as a member, before the
commencement of the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Act, 2002, shall continue to hold such
office as President or member, as the case may be, till the completion of his term.
(3) The salary or honorarium and other allowances payable to, and the other terms and conditions
of service of the members of the District Forum shall be such as may be prescribed by the State
(Provided that the appointment of a member on whole-time basis shall be made by the state
Government on the recommendation of the President of the State Commission taking into
consideration such factors as may be prescribed including the work load of the District Forum).
The pension received by the presidents of the District Consumer Forum in respect of their
previous services as District Judges is subject to deduction from their salary as president of the
Forum fixed under provisions of the Act; M.S. C_ v. State of Punjab, AIR 2001 SC 1706.
11. Jurisdiction of the District Forum.--( I) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the
District Forum shall have jurisdiction to entertain complaints where the value of the goods or
services and the compensation, if any, claimed 2[ does not exceed rupees twenty lakhs].
(2) A complaint shall be instituted in a District Forum within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction,-
(a) the opposite party or each of the opposite parties, where there are more than one, at
the time of the institution of the complaint, actually and voluntarily resides or
2[carries on business or has a branch office or] personally works for gain, or
(b) any of the opposite parties, where there are more than one, at the time of the
institution of the complaint, actually and voluntarily resides, or 2[carries on business
or has a branch office], or personally works for gain, provided that in such case either
the permission of the District Forum is given, or the opposite parties who do not
reside, or 2[ carry on business or have a branch office], or personally work for gain,
as the case may be, acquiesce in such institution; or
(c) the cause of action, wholly or in part, arises.
(i) Objection & regarding territorial jurisdiction should be taken at the earliest opportunity or the
same deemed to have been waived; Kurukshetra University v. Vinay Prakash Verma, II (1993) CPJ647.
(ii) A petition of complaint can be filed against corporation carrying on business within the
territory of District Forum or Commission even though its sole or principal office is situated outside state
limits; Consumer Education and Research Society v. Canara Bank, (1991t I CPR 405.
1[12. Manner in which complaint shall be made.- (1) A complaint in relation to any goods sold
or delivered or agreed to be sold or delivered or any service provided or agreed to be provided
may be filed with a District Forum by-
(a) the consumer to whom such goods are sold or delivered or agreed to be sold or
delivered or such service provided or agreed to be provided;
(b) any recognised consumer association whether the consumer to whom the goods sold
or delivered or agreed to be sold or delivered or service provided or agreed to be
provided is a member of such association or not;
(c) one or more consumers, where there are numerous consumers having the same
interest, with the permission of the District Forum, on behalf of, or for the benefit of,
all consumers so interested; or
(d) the Central or the State Government, as the case may be, either in its individual
capacity or as a representative of interests of the consumers in general.
(2) Every complaint filed under sub-section (1) shall be accompanied with such amount of fee
and payable in such manner as may be prescribed.
(3) On receipt of a complaint made under sub-section (1), the District Forum may, by order,
allow the complaint to be proceeded with or rejected:
Provided that a complaint shall not be rejected under this sub-section unless an opportunity
of being heard has been given to the complainant:
Provided further that the admissibility of the complaint shall ordinarily be decided within
twenty-one days from the date on which the complaint was received.
(4) Where a complaint is allowed to be proceeded with under sub-section (3), the District
Forum may proceed with the complaint in the manner provided under this Act:
Provided that where a complaint has been admitted by the District Forum, it shall not be
transferred to any other court or tribunal or any authority set up by or under any other law
for the time being in force.
Explanation.-For the purpose of this section, "recognised consumer association" means any
voluntary consumer association registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or any
other law for the time being in force.]
13. Procedure on receipt of complaint.-(1) The District Forum shall, on admission of a
complaint, if it relates to any goods,-
(a) refer a copy of the complaint to the opposite party mentioned in the complaint directing him
to give his version of the case within a period of thirty days or such extended period not
exceeding fifteen days as may be granted by the District Forum;
(b) where the opposite party on receipt of a complaint referred to him under clause (a) denies or
disputes the allegations contained in the complaint, or omits or fails to take any action to
represent his case within the time given by the District Forum, the District Forum shall
proceed to settle the consumer dispute in the manner specified in clauses (c) to (g);
(c) where the complaint alleges a defect in the goods which cannot be determined without proper
analysis or test of the goods, the District Forum shall obtain a sample of the goods from the
complainant, seal it and authenticate it in the manner prescribed and refer the sample so
sealed to the appropriate laboratory along with a direction that such laboratory make an
analysis or test, whichever may be necessary, with a view to finding out whether such goods
suffer from any defect alleged in the complaint or from any other defect and to report its
findings thereon to the District Forum within a period of forty-five days of the receipt of the
reference or within such extended period as may be granted by the District Forum;
(d) before any sample of the goods is referred to any appropriate laboratory under clause (c), the
District Forum may require the complainant to deposit to the credit
1. Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 10 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993)..
of the Forum such fees as may be specified, for payment to the appropriate laboratory for
carrying out the necessary analysis or test in relation to the goods in question;
(e) the District Forum shall remit the amount deposited to its credit under clause (d) to the
appropriate laboratory to enable it to carry out the analysis or test mentioned in clause (c) and
on receipt of the report from the appropriate laboratory, the District Forum shall forward a
copy of the report along with such remarks as the District Forum may feel appropriate to the
opposite party;
(f) if any of the parties disputes the correctness of the findings of the appropriate laboratory, or
disputes the correctness of the methods of analysis or test adopted by the appropriate
laboratory, the District Forum shall require the opposite party or the complainant to submit in
writing his objections in regard to the report made by the appropriate laboratory;
(g) the District Forum shall thereafter give a reasonable opportunity to the complainant as well as
the opposite party of being heard as to the correctness or otherwise of the report made by the
appropriate laboratory and also as to the objection made in relation thereto under clause (f)
and issue an appropriate order under section 14.
(2) the District Forum shall, if the complaint received by it under section 12 relates to
goods in respect of which the procedure specified in sub~section (1) cannot be followed, or if the
complaint relates to any services,-
(a) refer a copy of such complaint to the opposite party directing him to give his version
of the case within a period of thirty days or such extended period not exceeding
fifteen days as may be granted by the District Forum;
(b) where the opposite party, on receipt of a copy of the complaint, referred to him under
clause (a) denies or disputes the allegations contained in the complaint, or omits or
fails to take any action to represent his case within the time given by the District
Forum, the District Forum shall proceed to settle the consumer dispute,-
(j) on the basis of evidence brought to its notice by the complainant and the
opposite party, where the opposite party denies or disputes the allegations
contained in the complaint, or
(ii) (ex-parte on the basis of evidence) brought to its notice by the
complainant where the opposite party omits or fails to take any action to
represent his case within the time given by the Forum.
(c) where the complainant fails to appear on the date of hearing before the District
Forum, the District Forum may either dismiss the complaint for default or decide it on
merits.)
(3) No proceedings complying with the procedure laid down in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be
called in question in any court on the ground that the principles of natural justice have not been
complied with.
(3A) Every complaint shall be heard as expeditiously as possible and endeavour shall be made
to decide the complaint within a period of three months from the date of receipt of notice by
opposite party where the complaint does not require analysis or testing of commodities and
within five months if it requires analysis or testing of commodities.
Provided that no adjournment shall be ordinarily granted by the District Forum unless
sufficient cause is shown and the reasons for grant of adjournment have been recorded in writing
by the Forum:
Provided further that the District Forum shall make such orders as to the costs occasioned
by the adjournment as may be provided in the regulations made under this Act.
Provided also that in the event of a complaint being disposed of after the period so
specified this District Forum shall record in writing, the reasons for the same at the time of
disposing of the said complaint.
(3B) Where during the pendency of any proceeding before the District Forum, it appears to it
necessary, it may pass such interim order as is just and proper in the facts and circumstances of
the case).
(4) For the purposes of this section, the District Forum shall have the same powers as are vested
in a civil court under Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 while trying a suit in respect of the
following matters, namely:-
(i) the summoning and enforcing the attendance of any defendant or witness and
examining the witness on oath,
(ii) the discovery and production of any document or other material object producible
as evidence,
(iii) the reception of evidence on affidavits,
(iv) the requisitioning of the report Qf the concerned analysis or test from the
appropriate laboratory or from any other relevant source.
(v) issuing of any commission for the examination of any witness, and
(vi) any other matter which may be prescribed.
(5) Every proceeding before the District Forum shall be deemed to be a judicial
proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860),
and the district Forum shall be deemed to be a civil court for the purposes of section'" 195, and
Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
1[(6) Where the complainant is a consumer referred to in sub-clause (iv) of clause (b) of
sub-section (1) of section 2, the provisions of rule 8 of order I of the First Schedule to the Code
of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of1908) shall apply subject to the modification that every reference
therein to a suit or decree shall be construed as a reference to a complaint or the order of the
District Forum thereon.]
(7) In the event of death of a complainant who is a consumer or of the opposite party against
whom the complaint has been filed, the provisions of Order XXII of the First Scheduled to the
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) shall apply subject to the modification that every
reference therein to the plaintiff and the defendant shall be construed as reference to a
complainant or the opposite party, as case may be.)
(i) When the case is not a simple case of deficiency in service and involves determination of
complex questions of facts and law, which cannot be satisfactorily determined by the redressal agency .in
the time frame provided under the Rules, it would be better for the complainant to seek redressal of his
grievances in a Civil Court, if so advised; Harbans & Co. v. State Bank of India; II (1994) CPJ 476: 1994
(1) CPR 381.
(ii) If "fraud" is alleged, it is desirable that the complainant should be directed to Civil Court as
investigation about such fraud is required to be done; Jayantilal Keshavlal Chauhan v. The National
Insurance Co. Ltd., 1994 (I) CPR 396.
(iii) A consumer knocking at the door of the redressal agencies under the Act for relief in a
consumer dispute must do so with clean hands; Sagli Ram v. General Manager, United India Insurance
Co. Ltd., II (1994) CPJ 444: 1994 (I) CPR 434.
14. Finding of the District Forum.-{l) If, after the proceeding conducted under section 13, the
District Forum is satisfied that the goods complained against suffer from any of the defects
specified in the complaint or that any of the allegations contained in the complaint about the
services are proved, it shall issue an order to the opposite party directing him to 2[do] one or
more of the following things, namely:- .
(a) to remove the defect pointed but by the appropriate laboratory from the goods in
question;
(b) to replace the goods with new goods of similar description which shall be free from
any defect;
(c) to return to the complainant the price, or, as the case may be, the charges paid by the
complainant;
(d) to pay such amount as may be awarded by it as compensation to the consumer for any
loss or injury suffered by the consumer due to the negligence of the opposite party;
(Provided that the District Forum shall have the power to grant punitive damages in
such circumstances as it deems fit: )
I. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 11 (w.e.f.18-6-1993).
2. Sub. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 12 (w.e.f: 18-6-1993). -
1[(e) to remove the defects in goods or deficiencies in the services in question;
(f) to discontinue the unfair trade practice or the restrictive trade practice or not to repeat
(g) not to offer the hazardous goods for sale;
(h) to withdraw the hazardous goods from being offered for sale;
(ha) to cease manufacture of hazardous goods and to desist from offering services
which are hazardous in nature;
(hb) to pay such sum as may be determined by it, if it is of the opinion that loss or injury
has been suffered by a large number of consumers who are not identifiable conveniently:
Provided that the minimum amount of sum so payable shall not be less than five
per cent of the value of such defective goods sold or services provided, as the case may be, to
such consumers:
Provided further that the amount so obtained shall be credited in favour of such
person and utilized in such manner as may be prescribed;
(hc) to issue corrective advertisement to neutralize the effect of misleading
advertisement at the cost of the opposite party responsible for issuing such misleading
advertisement;)
(i) to provide for adequate costs to parties.]
2[(2) Every proceeding referred to in sub-section (1) shall be conducted by the President of the
District Forum and at least one member thereof sitting together:
Provided that where a member, for any reason, is unable to conduct a proceeding, till it is
completed, the President and the other member shall continue the proceeding from the stage at
which it was last heard by the previous member.)
(2A) Every order made by the District Forum under sub-section (l)shall be signed by its
President and the member or members who conducted the proceeding:
Provided that where the proceeding is conducted by the President and one member and
they differ on any point or points, they shall state the point or points on which they differ and
refer the same to the other member for hearing on such point or points and the opinion of the
majority shall be the order of the District Forum.]
(3) Subject to the foregoing provisions, the procedure relating to the conduct of the
meetings of the District Forum, its sittings and other matters shall be such as may be prescribed
by the State Government.
(i) Compensation is to be given for loss or injury suffered by a consumer, due to negligence of the opposite party;
S.K. Lakhotia v. National Insurance Co. Ltd., 1994 (I) CPR 43.
(ii) The party to be awarded compensation has not only to show deficiency in service but also the negligence of the
other party and without the finding of negligence there cannot be any award; Director, Himachal Institute of
Engineering & Technology v --Ani1_KumarGupta, 1994 (I) CPR 182.
(iii) If a consumer sustained any loss or damage actually, he is entitled to compensation; Padmana Dash v.
Divisional Rly. Manager, S.E. Rly., 1994 (I) CPR 77.
(iv) The Fora have no jurisdiction to pass interim order. The complaint was filed to restrain a public issue. It was
also held that unsuccessful applicants, :who have not been allotted any shares can not prefer a complaint under the
Act; Morgan Stanley v. Kartlk Das, II (1994) CPJ 7 (SC).
(v) Delay in delivery after booking of a car is no deficiency; Mis. Maruti Udyog Ltd, v. Mrs. Bhuvana Viswaiiathan,
II (1993) CPJ 172 (NC).
(vi) Redressal forums have no jurisdiction in matters involving outright sale of immovable property at an auction;
Allied (Garments) Exports Industries Pvt, Ltd. v. D.D.A., II (1992) CPJ 505 (NC).
(vii) Consumer Forums have no jurisdiction to pass interim orders; District Manager, Telephones v. Mis. Munilal
Erij Mohan, 1(1993) CPJ 41 (NC).
1. Ins.byAct50of1993,sec.12(w.e.f.18-6-19~3).
15. Appeal.-Any person aggrieved by an order made by the District Forum may prefer an appeal
against such order to the State Commission within a period of thirty days from the date of the
order, in such form and manner as may be prescribed:
Provided that the State commission may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the said
period of thirty days If it is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for not filing it within that
(Provided further that no appeal by a person, who is required to pay any amount in terms
of an order of the District Forum, shall be entertained by the State Commission unless the
appellant has deposited in the prescribed manner fifty per cent of that amount of twenty-five
thousand rupees, whichever is less.)
(i) Providing cross objections at appellate stage cannot be made applicable to the
proceedings under the Act, hence cross objections are not maintainable as these were not filed
before the District Forum; Arvinder Singh C_ v. Kullbhushan, 2001 (1) CPR 387.
(ii) the words “sufficient cause”, though deserves to receive a liberal interpretation, yet, a
just and equitable balance has to be maintained between the right secured by the respondent as a
result of expiry of the prescribed period of limitation and the injustice of depriving the appellant
of a adjudication of his grievances on the merit of his appeal for causes beyond his reasonable
control, which means the cause in bona fide and beyond the control of the appellant. Though, no
hard and fast line can be drawn as to what affords `sufficient causes’ in a given case, yet, again
as per settled law, any cause which prevents a person from approaching the court within the time
is `sufficient cause’. In doing so, it is the test of a reasonable man in normal circumstances
which has to be applied; Pradeep Kumar v. Assistant Finance Officer, Delhi Vidhut Board, 2001
(1) CPR 9.
(iii) The appellate fora constituted under the Act should not dismiss the appeal merely on the
ground of default of appearance of the appellant but the merits of the case should be considered on the
basis of the material available before them and thereafter pass appropriate order in the appeal; General
Manager. Telecom v. Jyantilal Hemchand Gandhi, 1993 (III) CPR 155.
(iv) Ordinarily, the appellate Court does not interfere with the compensation awarded unless it is
too inadequate or too excessive; Namlada v. Suresh Chandra Mittal, 1993 (I) AIR 631.
16. Composition of the State Commission.-{ 1) Each State Commission shall consist of-
(a) a person who is or has been a Judge of a High Court, appointed by the State
Government, who shall be its President:
1[Provided that no appointment under this clause shall be made except after
consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court;]
(b) not less than two, and not more than such number of members, as may be prescribed,
and one of who shall be a woman, who shall have the following qualifications,
namely:-
(i) be not less than thirty-five years of age;
(ii) possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized university; and
(iii) be persons of ability, integrity and standing, and have adequate knowledge and
experience of at least ten years in dealing with problems relating to economics, law,
commerce, accountancy, industry, public affairs or administration:
Provided that not more than fifty per cent of the members shall be from amongst
persons having a judicial background.
Explanation : For the purposes of this clause, the expression “persons having a
judicial background” shall mean persons having knowledge and experience for at
least a period of ten years as a presiding officer at the district level court or any
tribunal at equivalent level:
Provided further that a person shall be disqualified for appointment as a member,
if he –
(a) has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which, in
the opinion of the State Government, involves moral turpitude; or
(d) has been removed or dismissed from the service of the Government or a
body corporate owned or controlled by the Government; or
(e) has, in the opinion of the State Government, such financial or other interest,
as is likely to affect prejudicially the discharge by him of his functions as a
member; or
(f) has such other disqualifications as may be prescribed by the State
Government.)
(1A) Every appointment under Sub-section (1) shall be made by the State Government
on the recommendation of a Selection Committee consisting of the following members,
(i) President of the State Commission -Chairman.
(ii) Secretary of the Law Department of the State -Member.
(iii) Secretary, incharge of Department
dealing with consumer affairs in the State -Member.]
Provided that where the President of the State Commission is, by reason of absence or
otherwise, unable to act as Chairman of the Selection Committee, the State Government may
refer the matter to the Chief Justice of the High Court for nominating a sitting Judge of that High
Court to act as Chairman.
(1B) (i) The jurisdiction, powers and authority of the State Commission may be
exercised by Benches thereof.
(ii) A Bench may be constituted by the President with one or more members as the
President may deem fit.
(iii) If the members of a Bench differ in opinion on any point, the points shall be decided
according to the opinion of the majority, if there is a majority, but if the members are equally
divided, they shall state the point or points on which they differ, and make a reference to the
President who shall either hear the point or points himself or refer the case for hearing on such
point or points by one or more or the other members and such point or points shall be decided
according to the opinion of the majority of the members who have heard the case, including
those who first heard it.)
(2) The salary or honorarium and other allowances payable to, and the other terms and
conditions of service 2[* * *] of, the members of the State Commission shall be such as may be
prescribed by the State Government.
(Provided that the appointment of a member on whole-time basis shall be made by the
State Government on the recommendation of the President of the State Commission taking into
consideration such factors as may be prescribed including the work load of the State
Commission.)
3[(3) Every member of the State Commission shall hold office for a term of five years or
up to the age of sixty-seven years, whichever is earlier:
or up to the age of sixty-seven years, whichever is earlier, subject to the condition that he fulfils
the qualifications and other conditions for appointment mentioned in Clause (b) of Sub-Section
(1) and such re-appointment is made on the basis of the recommendation of the Selection
Provided further that a person appointed as a President of the State Commission shall also
be eligible for re-appointment in the manner provided in Clause (a) of Sub-section (1) of this
Provided also that a member may resign his office in writing under his hand addressed to
the State Government and on such resignation being accepted, his office shall become vacant and
may be filled by appointment of a person possessing any of the qualifications mentioned in Subsection
(1) in relation to the category of the member who is required to be appointed under the
provisions of Sub-section (1A) in place of the person who has resigned.
1. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 13 (w.e f. 18-6-1993).
2. Omitted by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 13 (w.e f. 18-6-1993).
3. Ins.. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 13 (w.e f. 18-6-1993).
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), a person appointed as
President or as a member before the commencement of the Consumer Protection (Amendment)
Act, 1993, shall continue to hold such office as President or member, as the case may be, till the
completion of his term.]
17. Jurisdiction of the State Commission.-Subject to the other provisions of this Act,
the State Commission shall have jurisdiction-
(a) to entertain-
(i) complaints where the value of the goods or services and compensation, if any,
claimed exceeds rupees 1 [exceeds rupees twenty lakhs but does not exceed rupees one
crore ; ) and
(ii) appeals against the orders of any District Forum within the State; and
(b) to call for the records and pass appropriate orders in any consumer dispute which is
pending before or has been decided by any District Forum within the State, where it
appears to the State Commission that such District Forum has exercised a jurisdiction not
vested in it by law, or has failed to exercise a jurisdiction so vested or has acted in
exercise of its jurisdiction illegally or with material irregularity.
(2) A complaint shall be instituted in a State Commission within the limits of whose
jurisdiction –
(a) the opposite party or each of the opposite parties, where there are more than
one, at the time of the institution of the complaint, actually and voluntarily
resides or carries on business or has a branch office or personally works for
gain; or
institution of the complaint, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on
business or has a branch office or personally works for gain, provided that in
such case either the permission of the State Commission is given or the
opposite parties who do not reside or carry on business or have a branch
office or personally works for gain, as the case may be, acquiesce in such
institution; or
(c) the cause of action, wholly or in part, arises.)
(i) If, in respect of the same subject matter, proceedings before the Civil Forum had been
instituted prior to the institution of the proceedings before the fora constituted under the Act
definitely gets ousted of jurisdiction; M/s. Sh. Jagannath Constructions Ltd.v.M/s. Kotak
Mahindra Pvt. Ltd., 2001 (1) CRP 1.
(ii) The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has no jurisdiction to entertain
complaints regarding the transactions of shops/kiosks having been purchased in auction from the
Delhi Development Authority; Kashyap Constructions (Pvt.) Ltd.v. Delhi Development
Authority, 2001 (1) CPR. 128.
(iii) Even if the appeal is not maintainable, the State Commission can still treat and decide the
same as revision in exercise of its power under section 17(b) of the Act; C.R. Kataria, Telecom District
Manager v. The Consumer Disputes Redressal District Forum, 1991 (II) CPJ 682.
(17A. Transfer of cases - On the application of the complainant or of its own motion, the State
Commission may, at any stage of the proceeding, transfer any complaint pending before the
District Forum to another District Forum within the State if the interest of justice so requires.)
(17B. Circuit Benches - The State Commission shall ordinarily function in the State Capital but
may perform its functions at such other place as the State Government may, in consultation with
the State Commission, notify in the Official Gazette, from time to time.)
18. Procedure applicable to State Commissions.-2[The provisions of Sections 12, 13
and 14 and the rules made thereunder] for the disposal of complaints by the District Forum shall,
with such modifications as may be necessary, be applicable to the disposal of disputes by the
State Commission.
Section 11(2) (c) is not made applicable under section 18 of the Act. However, principle in
respect of territorial jurisdiction of a State Commission would be governed under the Code of Civil
Procedure; Arisetty Sanyasi Raju v. Hindustan Motors Ltd., 1992 (I) CPR 689.
19. Appeals.--Any person aggrieved by an order made by the State Commission in
exercise of its powers conferred by sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of section 17 may prefer an appeal
against such order to the National Commission within a period of thirty days from the date of the
order in such form and manner as may be prescribed:
1. Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 14 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
2. Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 15 (w.e.f. ]8-6-1993).
Provided that the National Commission may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the
said period of thirty days if it is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for not filing it within
that period.
of an order of the state Commission, shall be entertained by the National Commission unless the
appellant has deposited in the prescribed manner fifty per cent of the amount or rupees thirty-five
thousand, whichever is less.)
(19A Hearing of appeal - An appeal filed before the State Commission or the National
Commission shall be heard as expeditiously as possible and an endeavour shall be made to
finally dispose of the appeal within a period of ninety days from the date of its admission:
Provided that no adjournment shall be ordinarily granted by the State Commission or the
National Commission, as the case may be, unless sufficient cause is shown and the reasons for
grant of adjournment have been recorded in writing by such Commission:
Provided further that the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may
be, shall make such orders as to the costs occasioned by the adjournment as may be provided in
the regulations made under this Act:
Provided also that in the event of an appeal being disposed of after the period so
specified, the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be, shall record in
writing the reasons for the same at the time of disposing of the said appeal.)
20. Composition of the National Commission.-(I) The National Commission shall
consist of-
(a) a person who is or has been a Judge of the Supreme Court, to be appointed by the
Central Government, who shall be its President; -
consultation with the Chief Justice of India;]
(b) not less than four, and not more than such number of members, as may be prescribed,
and one of whom shall be a woman, who shall have the following qualifications, namely :-
(iii) be persons of ability, integrity and standing and have adequate knowledge and
experience of at least ten years in dealing with problems relating to economics, law, commerce,
accountancy, industry, public affairs or administration:
Provided that not more than fifty per cent of the members shall be from amongst the
Explanation: - For the purposes of this clause, the expression “persons having judicial
background” shall mean persons having knowledge and experience for at least a period of ten
years as a presiding officer at the district level court or any tribunal at equivalent level:
Provided further that a person shall be disqualified for appointment, if he –
opinion of the Central Government, involves moral turpitude; or
(e) has, in the opinion of the Central Government, such financial or other interest
(f) has such other disqualifications as may be prescribed by the Central
l[Provided that every appointment under this clause shall be made by the Central
Government on the recommendation of a Selection Committee consisting of the
following, namely ;-
(a) a person who is a Judge of the Supreme Court,
to be nominated by the Chief Justice of India -Chairman.
(b) the Secretary in the Department of Legal Affairs
in the Government of India -Member.
.(c) Secretary of the Department dealing with
consumer affairs in the Government of India -Member.]
(1A) (i) The jurisdiction, powers and authority of the National Commission may be
(ii) A Bench may be constituted by the President with one or more members as
the President may deem fit.
(iii) If the members of a Bench differ in opinion on any point, the points shall be
decided according to the opinion of the majority, if there is a majority, but if the members are
equally divided, they shall state the point or points on which they differ, and make a reference to
the President who shall either hear the point or points himself or refer the case for hearing on
such point or points by one or more or the other members and such point or points shall be
decided according to the opinion of the majority of the members who have heard the case,
including those who first heard it.)
(2) The salary or honorarium and other allowances payable to and the other terms and
conditions of service 2[* * *] of the members of the National Commission shall be such as may
be prescribed by the Central Government.
3[(3)Every member of the National Commission shall hold office for a term of five years
or up to the age of seventy years, whichever is earlier and shall not be eligible for reappointment.
or up to the age of seventy years, whichever is earlier, subject to the condition that he fulfils the
qualifications and other conditions for appointment mentioned in clause (b) of sub-section (1)
and such re-appointment is made on the basis of the recommendation of the Selection
Provided further that a person appointed as a President of the National Commission shall
also be eligible for re-appointment in the manner provided in clause (a) of sub-section (1):
the Central Government and on such resignation being accepted, his office shall become vacant
sub-section (1) in relation to the category of the member who is required to be appointed under
the provisions of sub-section (1A) in place of the person who has resigned.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), a person appointed as a
21. Jurisdiction of the National Commission.-Subject to the other provisions of this
Act, the National Commission shall have jurisdiction-
1. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 16 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
2. Omitted by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 16 (w.e.f.18-6-1993).
3. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 16 (w.e.f.18-6-1993).
claimed exceeds rupees l[twenty lakhs]; and
(ii) appeals against the orders of any State Commission; and
pending before or has been decided by any State Commission where it appears to the
National Commission that such State Commission has exercised a jurisdiction not vested
in it by law, or has failed to exercise a jurisdiction so vested, or has acted in the exercise
of its jurisdiction illegally or with material irregularity.
The powers of National Commission are very limited; Kangara Ananth Ram v. Telecom Distt.
Engineer, (1991) I CPR 391.
2[22. Power of and procedure applicable to the National Commission.- (1) The
provisions of sections 12, 13 and 14 and the rules made thereunder for the disposal of complaints
by the District Forum shall, with such modifications as may be considered necessary by the
Commission, be applicable to the disposal of disputes by the National Commission.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-section (1), the National
Commission shall have the power to review any order made by it, when there is an error apparent
on the face of record.)
(22A. Power to set aside ex parte orders – Where an order is passed by the National
Commission ex parte against the opposite party or a complainant, as the case may be, the
aggrieved party may apply to the Commission to set aside the said order in the interest of justice.
22B. Transfer of cases - On the application of the complainant or of its own motion, the
National Commission may, at any stage of the proceeding, in the interest of justice, transfer any
complaint pending before the District Forum of one State to a District Forum of another State or
before one State Commission to another State Commission.
22C. Circuit Benches - The National Commission shall ordinarily function at New
Delhi and, perform its functions at such other place as the Central Government may, in
consultation with the National Commission, notify in the official Gazette, from time to time.
22D. Vacancy in the office of the President - When the office of President of a District
Forum, State Commission, or of the National Commission, as the case may be, is vacant or a
person occupying such office is, by reason of absence or otherwise, unable to perform the duties
of his office, these shall be performed by the senior most member of the District Forum, the State
Commission or of the National Commission, as the case may be:
Provided that where a retired Judge of a High Court is a member of the National
Commission, such member or where the number of such members is more than one, the seniormost
person among such members, shall preside over the National Commission in the absence of
President of that Commission.)
23. Appeal.-Any person, aggrieved by an order made by the National Commission in
exercise of its powers conferred by sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of section 21, may prefer an
appeal against such order of the Supreme Court within a period of thirty days from the date of
the order:
Provided that the Supreme Court may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the said
(Provided further that no appeal by a person who is required to pay any amount in terms of an
order of the National Commission shall be entertained by the Supreme Court unless that person
has deposited in the prescribed manner fifty per cent of that amount or rupees fifty thousand,
whichever is less.)
24. Finality of orders.-Every order of a District Forum, the State Commission or the
National Commission shall, if no appeal has been preferred against such order under the
provisions of this Act, be final.
3[24A. Limitation period.-{l) The District Forum, the State Commission or the National
Commission shall not admit a complaint unless it is filed within two years from the date on
which the cause of action has arisen.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a complaint may be
entertained after the period specified in sub-section (1), if the complainant satisfies the District
Forum, the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be, that he had
sufficient cause for not filing the complaint within such period:
Provided that no such complaint shall be entertained unless the National Commission, the
State Commission or the District Forum, as the case may be, records its reasons for condoning
such delay.
2. Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 18 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993). ;
3. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 19 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993). ;;:
24B. Administrative control.-{ 1) The National Commission shall have administrative control
over all the State Commissions in the following matters, namely :-
(i) calling for periodical return regarding the institution, disposal, pendency of cases;
(iii) issuance of instructions regarding adoption of uniform procedure in the hearing of
matters, prior service of copies of documents produced by one party to the opposite
parties, furnishing of English translation of judgments written in any language, speedy
grant of copies of documents;
(iv) generally overseeing the functioning of the State Commissions or the District Fora to
ensure that the objects and purposes of the Act are best served without in any way
interfering with their quasi-judicial freedom.
(2) The State Commission shall have administrative control over all the District For a
within its jurisdiction in all matters referred to in sub-section (1)].
24. Enforcement of orders by the Forum, the State Commission or the National
Commission.- (1) Where an interim order made under this Act is not complied with, the
District Forum or the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be,
may order the property of the person, not complying with such order to be attached.
(2) No attachment made under sub-section (1) shall remain in force for more than three
months at the end of which, if the non-compliance continues, the property attached may be
sold and out of the proceeds thereof, the District Forum or the State Commission or the
National Commission may award such damages as it thinks fit to the complainant and shall
pay the balance, if any, to the party entitled thereto.
(3) Where any amount is due from any person under an order made by a District Forum,
State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be, the person entitled to the
amount may make an application to the Distt. Forum, the State Commission or the National
Commission, as the case may be, and such District Forum or the State Commission and the
National Commission may issue a certificate for the said amount to the Collector of the
district (by whatever name called) and the Collector shall proceed to recover the amount in
the same manner as arrears of land revenue.)
1[26. Dismissal of frivolous or vexatious complaints.-Where a complaint instituted
before the District Forum, the State Commission or, as the case may be, the National
Commission is found to be frivolous or vexatious, it shall, for reasons to be recorded in writing,
dismiss the complaint and make an order that the complainant shall pay to the opposite party
such cost, not exceeding ten thousand rupees, as may be specified in the order.]
(i) Where the complaint is mala fide, vexatious and frivolous and the opposite party has to incur expenses
for contesting the complaint, the Redressal Fora should saddle the complainant with costs; K.Jayaraman v. The
Poona Hospital & Research Centre, ~994 (1) CPR 23.
(ii) Merely because no court fee is payable for lodging a complaint before the consumer forums, parties
have a tendency to misuse the provisions of the Consumer Protection Actin respect of matters not falling within its
purview. This tendency must be discouraged; Orissa Vegetable Oil Complex Ltd. v. State of Orissa, 1994 (1) CPR
32. (i) Where the issue involved is a legal issue, the complain~ cannot said to be frivolous; Rasikalal Mohanjpl v.
Apollo Tyres Ltd., 1992 (II) CPR 327.
1. Subs. by Act 50 of 1993, sec, 20 (w.ei. 18-6-1993).
(iii) Cost can be saddled with only in case of fraudulent or vexatious complaints; Vihol Jaswant
Singh Shivaji v. The Asstt. Branch Manager, New India Insurance Co. Ltd., 1994 (I) CPR417.
(iv) Where the issue involved is a legal issue, the complaint cannot said to be frivolous;
Rasikalal Mahonlal v.Apollo Tyres Ltd., 1992 (II) CPR 327
27. Penalties.- Where a trader or a person against whom a complaint is made l[ or the
complainant] fails or omits to comply with any order made by the District Forum, the State
Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be, such trader or person ([or
complainant] shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one
month but which may extend to three years, or with fine which shall not be less than two
thousands rupees but which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both:
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974),
the District Forum or the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be,
shall have the power of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class for the trial of offences under this
Act, and on such conferment of powers, the District Forum or the State Commission or the
National Commission, as the case may be, on whom the powers are so conferred, shall be
deemed to be a Judicial Magistrate of the first class for the purpose of the Code of Criminal
Prodedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
(3) All offences under this Act may be tried summarily by the District Forum or the State
Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be.)
27A. Appeal against order passed under section 27 – (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in
the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 (2 of 1974), an appeal under section 27, both on facts and
on law, shall lie from –
(a) the order made by the District Forum to the State Commission;
(b) the order made by the State Commission to the National Commission; and
(c) the order made by the National Commission to the supreme Court.
(2) Except as aforesaid, no appeal shall lie to any court from any order of a District
Forum or a State Commission or the National Commission.
(3) Every appeal under this section shall be preferred within a period of thirty days from
the date of an order of a District Forum or a Sate Commission or, as the case may be, the
National Commission:
Provided that the State Commission or the National Commission or the Supreme Court,
as the case may be, may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the said period of thirty days, if, it
is satisfied that the appellant had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within the period
of thirty days.
28. Protection of action taken in good faith.-No suit, prosecution or other legal
proceedings shall lie against the members oft~ District Forum, the State Commission or the
National Commission or any officer or person acting under the direction of the District Forum,
the State Commission or the National Commission for executing any order made by it or in
respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done by such member, officer
or person under this Act or under any rule or order made thereunder.
28A. Service of Notice, etc. - (1) All notices, required by this Act to be served, shall be
served in the manner hereinafter mentioned in sub-section (2).
(2) The service of notices may be made by delivering or transmitting a copy thereof by
registered post acknowledgment due addressed to opposite party against whom complaint is
made or to the complainant by speed post or by such courier service as are approved by the
District Forum, the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be, or by any
other means of transmission of documents (including FAX message).
(3) When an acknowledgment or any other receipt purporting to be signed by the opposite party
or his agent or by the complainant is received by the District Forum, the State Commission or the
National Commission, as the case may be, or postal article containing the notice is received back
by such District Forum, State Commission or the National Commission, with an endorsement
purporting to have been made by a postal employee or by any person authorized by the courier
service to the effect that the opposite party or his agent or complainant had refused to take
delivery of the postal article containing the notice or had refused to accept the notice by any
other means specified in Sub-section (2) when tendered or transmitted to him, the District Forum
or the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be, shall declare that the
notice had been duly served on the opposite party or to the complainant.
Provided that where the notice was properly addressed, pre-paid and duly sent by
registered post acknowledgment due, a declaration referred to in this sub-section shall be made
notwithstanding the fact that the acknowledgment has been lost or mislaid , or for any other
reason, has not been received by the District Forum, the State Commission or the National
Commission, as the case may be, within thirty days from the date of issue of notice.
(4) All notices required to be served on an opposite party or to complainant shall be
deemed to be sufficiently served, if addressed in the case of the opposite party to the place where
business or profession is carried and in case of complainant, the place where such person actually
and voluntarily resides.)
29. Power to remove difficulties.-{l) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the
provisions of this Act, the Central Government may, by order in the Official Gazette, make such
provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to it to be necessary or
expedient for removing the difficulty:
Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of two years from
the commencement of this Act.
(2) Every order made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made be laid
before each House of Parliament.
(3) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of the Consumer Protection
(Amendment) Act, 2002 ,the Central Government may, by order, do anything not inconsistent
with such provisions for the purpose of removing the difficulty:
the commencement of the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Act, 2002.
(4) Every order made under sub-section (3) shall be laid before each House of
Parliament).
2[29A. Vacancies or defects in appointment not to invalidate orders.-No act or
proceeding of the District Forum, the State Commission or the National Commission shall be
invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy amongst its members or any defect in the
constitution thereof.]
30. Power to make rules.-{I) The Central Government may, by notification, make rules
for carrying out the provisions contained in 3[clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 2] clause
(b) of sub-section (2) of section 4, sub-section (2) of section 5, clause (vi) of sub-section (4) of
section 13, section 19, sub-section (2) of section 20 and section 22 of this Act.
I. Ins. by Act 50 of 1993, sec. 21 (w.e.f. 18-6-1993).
(2) The State Government may, by notification, make rules for carrying out the
provisions contained in clause (b) of sub-section (2) and sub-section (4) of section 7], clause (b)
of sub-section (2) and sub-section (4) of section 8A, clause (b) of sub-section (1) and sub-section
13, clause (hb) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (3) of section 14, section 15 and clause (b) of
sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of section 16 of this Act.).
30A. Power of the National Commission to make regulations - (1) The National
Commission may, with the previous approval of the Central Government, by notification, make
regulations not inconsistent with this Act to provide for all matters for which provision is
necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such
regulations may make provisions for the cost of adjournment of any proceeding before the
District Forum, the State Commission or the National Commission, as the case may be, which a
party may be ordered to pay.)
31. Rules and regulations to be laid before each House of Parliament.--{I) Every rule
and every regulation made under this Act shall laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before
each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be
comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the-expiry of the
session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses
agree in making any modification in the rule or regulation or both Houses agree that the rule or
regulation shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case
may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the
validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation.
(2) Every rule made by a State Government under this Act shall be laid as soon as may
be after it is made, before the State Legislature.
1.Ins.ByAct50of993,sec.22(w.e.f.8.6.1993)
THE CONSUMER PROTECTION RULES, 19871
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 30 of the Consumer Protection
Act, 1986 (68 of 1986), Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement.-{l) These rules may be called the Consumer
Protection Rules, 1987.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions.-In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) "Act" means the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986);
(b) "agent" means a person duly authorised by a party to present any complaint, appeal or reply
on its behalf before the National Commission;
(c) "appellant" means a party which makes an appeal against the order of the State Commission;
(d) "chairman" means a chairman of the Central Consumer Protection Council established under
sub-section (1) of the section 4 of the Act;
(e) "memorandum" means any memorandum of appeal filed by the appellant;
(f) "opposite party" means a person who answers complaint or claim;
(g) "president" means the President of the National Commission;
(h) "respondent" means the person who answers any memorandum of appeal;
(i) "section" means section of the Act;
(j) "state" includes Union territories also;
(k) words and expressions used in the rules and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the
meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.
2[2A. State Governments to recognise a laboratory as an appropriate laboratory.-{l) For the
purpose of obtaining recognition as an appropriate laboratory, the applicant shall send application, in
triplicate, in the proforma prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards with the relevant details to the
Department concerned with the consumer protection work in the State Government.
(2) The State Government on receiving the application from the applicant, shall forward its two
copies to the Bureau of Indian Standards to assess the suitability of the laboratory from the standards
prescribed by them (Bureau of Indian Standards). The fee charged by the Bureau of Indian Standards, for
this purpose, shall be paid by the applicant.
(3) The State Government on receiving the recommendations and approval of the Bureau of
Indian Standards, shall notify that laboratory as an "appropriate laboratory" for the purpose of Consumer
Protection Act, 1986 for a period of three years.]
3. The Constitution of the Central Consumer Protection Council and the Working Groups.-
{l) The Central Government shall, by notification in the official Gazette constitute the Central Consumer
Protection Council (herein after referred to as the Central
1. Published in the Gazette of India, Extra. Pt. II, Sec. 3(i), dated 15April,1987.
2. Ins. by G.S.R. 605 (E), dated 30th August, 1995 (w.e.f. 30-8-1995).
Council) which shall consist of 1[the following members, not exceeding 150, namely:-]
(a) 2[the Minister in-charge of Consumer Affairs in the Central Government] who shall
be the Chairman of the Central Council;
(b) the Minister of State (where he is not holding independent charge) or Deputy
Minister2[in charge of Consumer Affairs in the Central Government] who shall be
the Vice-Chairman of the Central Council;
(c) the 3[***] Minister in-charge of Consumer Affairs in States;
(d) eight Members of Parliament-five from the Lok Sabha and three from the Rajya
Sabha;
2[(e) the Secretary of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes];
(f)representatives of the Central Government Departments and autonomous organisations
concerned with consumer interests-not exceeding twenty;
(g)representatives of the Consumer Organisations or consumers-not less than thirty-five;
(h) representatives of women-not less than ten;
(i) representatives of farmers, trade and industries-not exceeding twenty;
(j) persons capable of representing consumer interest not specified above-not exceeding
fifteen;
(k) the4[Secretary in-charge of Consumer Affairs in the Central Government] shall be the
member-secretary of the Central Council.
(2) The term of the Council shall be three years.
(3) Any member may, by writing under his hand to the Chairman of the Central Council, resign
from the Council. The vacancies, so caused or otherwise, shall be filled from the same category by the
Central Government and such person shall hold office so long as the member whose place he fills would
have been entitled to hold office, if the vacancy had not occurred.
5[(4) For the purpose of monitoring the implementation of the recommendations of the Central
Council.and to suggest the working of the Council, the Central Government may constitute from amongst
the members of the Council, a Standing Working Group, under the chairmanship of the Member
Secretary of the Council. The Standing Working Group shall consist of not exceeding 30 members and
shall meet as and when considered necessary by the Central Government.]
4. Procedure of the Central Council.-Under sub-section (2) of section 5, the Central Council shall
observe the following procedure in regard to the transaction of its business,-
(1) The meeting of the Central Council shall be presided over by the Chairman. In the absence of
the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman shall preside over the meeting of the Central Council. In the absence of
the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman, the Central Council shall elect a member to preside over that
meeting of the Council.
(2) Each meeting of the Central Council shall be called by giving, not less than ten days from the
date of issue, notice in writing to every member.
(3) Every notice of a meeting of the Central Council shall specify the place and the day
1. Subs. by G.S.R. 95(E), dated 27th February, 1997 (w.e.f. 27-2-1997).
2. Subs. by G.S.R. 800 (E), dated 30th December, 1993 (w.ei. 30-12-1993).
3. Omitted by G.S.R. 95(E), dated 27th February, 1997 (w.ei. 27-2-1997).
4. Subs. by G.S.R. 95(E), dated 27th February, 1997 (w.ei. 27-2-1997).
5. Ins. by G.S.R. 95(E), dated 27th February, 1997 (w.e.f. 27-2-1997).
and hour of the meeting and shall contain statement of business to be transacted thereat.
(4) No proceedings of the Central Council shall be invalid merely by reasons of existence
of any vacancy in or any defect in the constitution of the Council.
(5) For the purpose of performing its functions under the Act, the Central Council may
constitute from amongst its members, such working groups as it may deem necessary and every
working group so constituted shall perform such functions as are assigned to it by the Central
Council. The findings of such working groups shall be placed before the Central Council for its
consideration.
I [(6) The non-official members shall be entitled to first class or second Air-Conditioned by all
trains (including Rajdhani Express) to and fro Railway fare or actual mode of travel whichever is less.
Outstation non-official members shall be entitled to a daily allowance of one hundred rupees per day for
attending the meetings of the Central Councilor any working group. Local non-official members shall be
paid actual conveyance, hire charges subject to a ceiling of Rs. 75.00 per day irrespective of the
classification of the city. Members of Parliament shall be entitled to travelling and daily allowances at
such rates as are admissible to such members.]
(7) The resolution passed by the Central Council shall be recommendatory in nature.
5. Place of the National Commission.- The office of the National Commission shall be
located in the Union Territory of Delhi.
6. Working days and office hours of the National Commission.- The working days and office
hours of the National Commission shall be the same as that of the Central Government.
7. Seal and emblem.- The official seal and emblem of the National Commission shall be such as
the Central Government may specify.
8. Sitting of the National Commission.-The sitting of the National Commission as and when
necessary, shall be convened by the President.
9. Staff of the National Commission.- The Central Government shall appoint such staff as may
be necessary to assist the National Commission in its day to day work and to perform such other
functions as are provided under the Act and these rules or assigned to it by the President. The
salary payable to such staff shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund of India.
10. Additional powers of the National Commission, State Commission and District Forum.-
( I) The National Commission, the State Commission and the District Forum shall have power to
require any person,-
(a) to produce before, and allow to be examined and kept by an officer of the National
Commission, the State Commission or the District Forum, as the case may be,
specified in this behalf, such books, accounts, documents or commodities in the
custody or under the control of the person so required as may be specified or
described in the requisition, if the examination of such books, accounts, documents or
commodities are required for the purpose of this Act;
(b) to furnish to an officer so specified, such information as may be required for the
purpose of this Act.
1. Subs. by G.S.R. 759(£), dated 21st November, 1995 (w.e.f. 21-11-1995).
(2)(a) Where during any proceedings under this Act, the National Commission, the State
Commission or the District Forum, as the case may be, has any ground to believe that any book,
paper, commodity or document which may be required to be produced in such proceedings, are
being or may be, destroyed, mutilated, altered, falsified or secreted, it may, by written order,
authorise any officer to exercise the power of entry and search of any premises. Such authorised
officer may also seize such books, papers, documents or commodities as are required for the
purpose of this Act:
Provided that such seizure shall be communicated to the National Commission, the State
Commission or the District Forum as the case may be, as soon as it is made or within a period
not exceeding 72 hours of making such seizure .after specifying the reasons in writing for
making such seizure.
(b) The National Commission, the State Commission or the District Forum, as the case
may be, on examination of such seized documents or commodities, as the case may be, may
order the retention thereof or may return it to the party concerned.
11. Salaries, honorarium and other allowances of the President and Members of the
National Commission.-I[(I) The President of the National Commission shall be entitled to
salary, allowances and other perquisites as woe available to a sitting Judge of the Supreme Court
and other members, if sitting on whole-time basis, shall receive a consolidated honorarium of
2[ten thousand rupees] per month or if sitting on part-time basis, a consolidated honorarium of
2[five hundred rupees] per day of sitting].
(2) The President and the members shall be entitled to travelling and daily allowances on
official tours at the same rates as are admissible to group' A "officers of the Central Government.
3[(2A) The president and tl1e members of the National Commission shall be entitled to
conveyance allowance of one hundred fifty rupees per day of its sitting or a sum of one thousand
and five hundred rupees per month, as may be opted by them.]
(3) The honorarium or the salary, as the case may be, and oilier allowances shall be
defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund of India.
12. Terms and conditions of service of the President and members of the National
Commission.-(1) Before appointment, the President and a member of the National Commission
shall have to take an undertaking that he does not and will not have any such financial or other
interest as is likely to affect prejudicially his functions as such member.
4[(2) Every member oftl1e National Commission shall hold office for a term of five years
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (2) the President or a member may,-
(a) by writing under his hand and addressed to the Central Government resign his office
at any time;
(b) be removed from his office in accordance with the provisions of rule 13.
(4) The terms and conditions of service of the President and tl1e members shall not be
varied to their disadvantage during tl1eir tenure of office.
(5) A casual vacancy caused by resignation or removal of the President or any other
1 Subs. by G.S.R. 658(E), dated 14th July, 1987 (w.e.t: 14-7-1987).
2. Subs. by G.S.R. 88(E), dated 24t11 February, 1998 (w.e.t: 24-2-1998).
3. Ins. by G.S.R. 88(E), dated 24th February, 1998 (w.e.t: 24-2-1998).
4. Subs. by G.S.R. 522(E), dated 22nd June, 1994 (w.e.t: 22-6-1994).
member of the National Commission under sub-rule (3) or otherwise shall be filled by fresh
1[(6) When the President of the National Commission is unable to discharge the functions
owing 10 absence, illness or any other cause, the senior most member of the National
Commission with judicial background, if authorised so to do by the President in writing, shall
discharge the functions of the President until the day on which the President resumes the charge
of his functions.]
2[(7) The President or any member ceasing to hold office as such shall not hold any
appointment in or be connected with the management or administrations of an organisation
which have been the subject of any proceeding under the Act during his tenure for a period of 5
years from the date on which he ceases to hold such office].
13. Removal of President or members from office in certain circumstances.-{l) The
Central Government may remove from office, the President or any member, who,-
(a) has been adjudged as an insolvent; or
(b) has been convicted of an offence which, in the opinion of the Central Government,
involves moral turpitude; or
(c) has become physically or mentally incapable of acting as the President or the
(d) has acquired such financial or other interest as is likely to affect prejudicially his
functions as the President or a member; or
(e) has so abused his position as to render his continuance in office prejudicial to the
public interest 3[;or]
4[ (f) remain absent in three consecutive sittings except for reasons beyond his control.]
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), the :President or any member
shall not be removed from his office on the grounds specified in S[clauses (d), (e) and (f)] of that
sub-rule except on an inquiry held by Central Government in accordance with such procedure as
it may specify in this behalf and finds the President or a member to be guilty of such ground.
14. Procedure to be followed by the National Commission.-{l) A complaint containing
the following particulars shall be presented by the complainant in person or by his agent to the
National Commission or be sent by registered post, addressed to the National Commission:-
(a) the name, description and the address of the complainant;
(b) the name, description and address of the opposite party or parties, as the case may be,
so far as they can be ascertained;
(c) the facts relating to the complaint and when and where it arose;
(d) documents in support of the allegations contained in the complaint;
(e) the relief which the complainant claims.
I. Subs. by G.S.R. 95(E), dated 27th February, 1997 (w.e.f. 27-2-1997).
2. Sub-rules (7), (8) and (9) of Rule 12, omitted and sub-rule (10) re-numbered as sub-rule (7) by G.S.R.
No. 533(E), dated 14th August, 1991(w.e.f. 14-8-1991).
3. Added by G.S.R. 95(E), dated 27th February, 1997 (w.e.f. 27-2-1997).
5. Subs. by G.S.R. 95(£), dated 27th February, 1997 (w.e.f. 27-2-1997).
(2) The National Commission shall, in disposal of any complaint before it, as far as
possible, follow the procedures laid down in sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 13 in relation to
the complaint received by the District Forum.
(3) On the date of hearing or any other date to which hearing could be adjourned, it shall
be obligatory on the parties or their agents to appear before the National Commission. Where the
complainant or his agent fails to appear before the National Commission on such days, the
National Commission may in its discretion either dismiss the complaint for default or decide it
on merits. Where the opposite party or its agent fails to appear on the date of hearing the
National Commission may decide the complaint ex-parte.
(4) The National Commission may, on such terms as it deems fit and at any stage of the
proceedings, adjourn the hearing of the complaint but the complaint shall be decided as far as
possible within a period of three months from the date of notice received by opposite party where
complaint does not require analysis or testing of commodities and within five months if it
requires analysis or testing of commodities.
(5) If after the proceedings conducted under sub-rule (3), the National Commission is
satisfied with the allegations contained in the complaint, it shall issue orders to the opposite party
or parties, as the case may be, directing him or them to take one or more of the things as
mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 14. The National Commission shall also have the power
to direct that any order passed by it, where no appeal has been preferred under section 23 or
where the order of the National Commission has been affirmed by the Supreme Court under that
section, be published in the Official Gazette or through any other media and no legal proceedings
shall lie against the National Commission or any media for such publication.
15. Procedure for hearing the appeal.-(I) Memorandum shall be presented by the
appellant or his agent to the National Commission in person or be sent by registered post
addressed to the Commission.
(2) Every memorandum filed under sub-rule (1) shall be in legible handwriting preferably
typed and shall set forth concisely under distinct heads, the grounds of appeal without any
argument or narrative and such grounds shall be numbered consecutively.
(3) Each memorandum shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the order of the State
Commission appealed against and such of the documents as may be required to support grounds
of objection mentioned in the memorandum.
(4) When the appeal is presented after the expiry of the period of limitation as specified
in the Act, the memorandum shall be accompanied by an application supported by an affidavit
setting forth the facts on which the appellant relies to satisfy the National Commission that he
has sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within the period of limitation.
(5) The appellant shall submit six copies of the memorandum to the Commission for
official purpose.
(6) On the date of hearing or on any other day to which hearing may be adjourned, it shall
be obligatory for the parties or their agents to appear before the National Commission. If
appellant or his agent fails to appear on such date, the National Commission may in its discretion
either dismiss the appeal or decide ex-parte on merits. If the respondent or his agent fails to
appear on such date, the National Commission shall proceedex-parte and shall decide the appeal
on merits of the case.
(7) The appellant shall not, except by leave of the National Commission, urge or be heard
in support of any ground of objection not set forth in the memorandum but the National
Commission. in deciding the appeal, may not confine to the grounds of objection set forth in the
Provided that the Commission shall not rest its decision on any other ground other than
those specified in the memorandum unless the party who may be affected thereby, has been
given, an opportunity of being heard by the National Commission.
(8) The National Commission, on such terms as it may think fit and at any stage, adjourn
the hearing of the appeal, but not more than one adjournment shall ordinarily be given and the
appeal should be decided as far as possible, within 90 days from the first date of hearing.
1[(9) The order of the National Commission shall be communicated to the parties
concerned free of cost].
2[l5A. Sitting of the National Commission and signing of orders.-(I) Every proceeding
of the National Commission shall be conducted by the President 3[or the senior most member
authorised under rule 12] and at least two members thereof sitting together:
Provided that where the member or members for any reason are unable to conduct the
proceeding till it is completed, the President 3[or the senior most member authorised under rule
12] shall conduct such proceeding de novo.
(2) Every order made by the National Commission shall be signed by the President 3[or
the senior most member authorised under rule 12] and at least two members who conducted the
proceeding and if there is any difference of opinion among themselves, the opinion of majority
Shall be the order of the National Commission:
Provided that where the proceeding is conducted by the President 3[ or the senior most
member authorised under rule 12] and three members thereof and they differ on any point or
points, they shall state the point or points on which they differ and refer the same to the other
member for hearing on such point or points and such point or points shall be decided accordingly
to the opinion of the majority of the National Commission.]
1. Subs. by G.S.R. 533(E), dated 14th August, 1991 (w,e.f, 14-8-1991).
2. Ins. by G.S.R 533(E) dated 14th August, 1991 (w.e.f. 14-8-1991).
3. Ins. by G.S.R. 95(E); dated 27th February, 1997 (w.e.f. 27-2-1997).
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Moments of Choice
Careers apps
Back in December 2018, the DfE announced two winners of a £300,000 funding pot open for digital IAG tools that would help young people make more informed choices about their University choice both in regard to provider and subject. Now, in April 2019, both of the tools have launched.
Offering IAG through digital platforms to young people has a mixed track record (we’ll always have the memory of Plotr) but practitioners know they can be a fundamental resource to use with your client base.
The two apps take different approaches to how they inform and advise their users with the Higher Education data now available. It’s worth saying that both platforms are (at the time of writing) still in beta testing so improvements in design, layout and usability will be ongoing and any judgments should be made with that in mind. The first app, ThinkUni is described as a “personalised digital assistant’ bringing together data on universities, courses and financial outcomes that are easy to explore and compare” and is from a team that has a good track record in offering social mobility enhancing schemes through the Brilliant Club. The current site looks fairly basic with text drop down boxes asking users on their preferences on University study (city or campus, course reputation or earnings outcomes etc).
On first impressions, I found there isn’t much to be impressed with here. The very first question assumes that the user knows what subject they want to study so relies on a baseline that simply isn’t there for a lot of young people and then site assumes that the user will be studying A Levels so widening participation also doesn’t seem to be a concern (I’m sure that other Level 3 qualifications will be incorporated into the site at some point but soft launching without them isn’t a good look). The “digital assistant” selling point is also over played with the course suggestion results being much the same as would result from a search using advanced filters on the UCAS search facility. If the user already knows their views on subject, location, course type etc. to input, then why not just go or be directed to the source site? Currently, the “assistant” part of ThinkUni seems extremely inactive.
The other competition winner comes from The Profs, a team who have previously built a Professional Tutor finding platform, and is a much more interactive looking experience. “The Way Up” games tasks users to pick an avatar and make choices on learning and earning routes at each step of their journey.
This approach develops a greater sense of ownership in the process and the results as the user is able to modify the route to reflect their own interests while still following the linear structure of the game. The interface isn’t the most aesthetically astounding you’ll see and I also thought that some of the presented LMI was easy to miss on-screen but, once you notice it, the format does incorporate a significant amount of LMI data into each stage. I also think that the biggest learning gain for young people using the platform might not be regarding their career choice or route but the realistic balance to be found when budgeting monthly in-comings and outgoings.
As a format for simulated learning, turn based, point and click games were also used back in the days of late 2000s Aimhigher University visits when one of the regular activities was a web-based game that allowed secondary school students to take control of a new University student avatar and make choices for their study, work and social life. The implications of those choices displayed in a character health chart which valued balance above partying too hard or studying too much. The user was able to see the realistic choices on offer and the consequences of those choices and reflect on how they would react in that possible environment. So the format isn’t new but the inclusion of the LMI and HE data is.
The “Way Up Game” is designed to have the widest possible capture point so that it includes career routes and choice options for lots of young people. At the more specific and detailed end of the simulation market, flight and even truck driving simulations are PC games that can require high level computers to run with the amount of detail their fan base demands while still offering career learning opportunities. More accessible versions of this format can be found in sector skills funded apps such as Construction Manager from the CiTB. Allowing users to take charge of a construction business, hire employees, pitch for contracts and then take on those jobs all presented within a SIMS type graphical interface make for an engaging career learning experience. Place these alongside digital diagnostic tools and digital communication tool there is a rich variety of online CEIAG resource.
Research evidence on the value of digital and online IAG experiences offers some guidance to both of the creative teams on what could help their products have the impact they are looking for with users.
Two excellent summaries of research in this area are the CEC What Works edition: “Careers Websites” and this recent webinar from Tristram Hooley “Approaches to online guidance”
Neither of the two apps offer any links to expanding social networks or sharing results so building users social capital does not seem to be on the agenda.
The CEC document references research from Dunwall et al (2014) which evaluated the MeTycoon careers game and found that
87% of participants said playing the game had given them new career ideas and 66% said they had shared or discussed the game with friends.
The format of “The Way Up Game” more closely matches MeTycoon so those developers will be hoping for that level of impact with their users. The ThinkUni platform perhaps gains research backing with its slight nod towards the user involving CEIAG professionals in the findings from using the site. The CEC summary states:
The use of careers websites should be integrated into schools’ careers education provision, and may be more effective for pupils when use, at least initially, is mediated and supported by careers and education professionals.
Once the user has contemplated their suggestions, the final screen ThinkUni suggests
This is only a very slight prompt though. The user is not asked, for example, if they wish to email their results to a named individual which could be a CEIAG professional or school tutor so perhaps both developers would benefit from designing accompanying session plans that could enable teachers/CEIAG practitioners to use the apps in group sessions and build upon the learning experiences of the young people in the room. A further step could even be to incorporate “nudge” techniques by communicating to both user and professional so conversations could occur to see if further research tasks have been undertaken by the user. Neither of the platforms require the involvement of CEIAG professionals in the learning journey of the user.
This failure to build in involvement of practitioners places both of the apps well behind more detailed digital offers such as Start Profile. This program combines both personalisation lead by the user lead and exploration of career routes with LMI drawn from LMI for all and the ability for practitioner oversight and involvement. As this ICEGS evaluation of Start concludes
Start builds on much of what the existing evidence base tells us about the efficacy of online products. It brings together information and advice for a young person and allows them to personalise their learning journey. It offers a blended learning technology in which the school can connect the online learning to classroom based career learning. It builds on longstanding career assessment practices by building a personal profile of work preferences, qualities, skills and interests and using this to match users to jobs and learning opportunities based on their suitability and how available those jobs are in the labour market.
Differences do remain though between Start Profile and these two new apps in their data sources. LMI for All utilises a range of sources (detailed on page 10 here) but they (and so Start Profile) do not seem to include data from the Office for Students on HE access, continuation, attainment and progression.
By side-stepping CEIAG professionals both apps purely user focussed offers but this could still offer positive impact. The CEC Moments of Choice research concluded that young people desire the presentation of careers data that:
and it would be fair to conclude that both apps achieve at least 7 of those requirements to varying degrees. Young people can access the data in a method that is convient to them, when they require it, be safe in the knowledge that it is using reliable sources, receive suggested future actions and be able to personalise it. Only the involvment of influencers is missing.
These formats for offering HE focused CEIAG learning are also available in other countries. For example, Australia has Campus Quest which offers users two games, Campus Quest based on a student attending a University campus and E-Study Quest based on a student studying from home.
The graphical interface is slightly more interesting than both of the new UK apps but in particular the 3D presentation is more eye-catching than “The Way Up” game.
For the DfE to offer funding, policy holders must hope that any resulting resources will add value to the marketplace of existing CEIAG digital products either through successfully filing a niche or building upon existing products. For me, currently the two apps (still at testing stage remember) do neither and they also choose to set aside a proportion of the research in this area. It may be more politically satisfying for the DfE to achieve a new CEIAG platform through this process but questions should be asked whether a more worthy platform could have been achieved through the adaption of existing products and how any resulting products are able to fit into, adapt and shape for the positive the current CEIAG landscape supporting young people.
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Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
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Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
Postby Singha » 29 Apr 2017 14:16
i think most of the railway bridges except maybe very newest ones were not built with sustained 150-200km passthrough in mind and have speed restrictions.....maybe 50/75 or xyz but it forces a cycle of slowing down and speeding up which has network effects. in places like north east india there is a bridge every 1km so you can imagine the impact.
Postby Karthik S » 29 Apr 2017 14:28
Singha wrote: i think most of the railway bridges except maybe very newest ones were not built with sustained 150-200km passthrough in mind and have speed restrictions.....maybe 50/75 or xyz but it forces a cycle of slowing down and speeding up which has network effects. in places like north east india there is a bridge every 1km so you can imagine the impact.
Singha ji, I looked up but didn't get much info about bridges having speed limit. I thought trains only slow down on bridges that don't have protective railings to prevent carriages falling down onto rivers etc in case of derailment. Also, when the train is faster, wouldn't it be lighter on the bridge?
higher the speed, higher the stress on the bridge and tracks.
searching for speed in this pdf has some clues http://wiki.iricen.gov.in/doku/lib/exe/ ... dgem_i.pdf
due to lack of funds, I would imagine the necessary repairs on older bridges has a backlog...
Looks like we can build bridges fast, am sure many others will be having similar tech, but got to give it to the chinese.
This could have been used for construction metro systems in our cities as well without having to put in place wide barricades leading to traffic jams for 2 3 years.
these are precast bridge sections...I dont know how we do bridges. but for regular metro or flyover constructions on land(incl blr metro) we are using similar looking machinery to carry forward or lift the "slices" into place and these are then bolted together.
what upsets me is this slice based technique which works so well in Elec city 10km flyover and the big BIAL airport elevated expway is not used in the smaller projects in blr
vsunder
Location: Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Postby vsunder » 30 Apr 2017 08:02
Bangalore-Mysore doubled. Inspection of Srirangapatna section is scheduled for today--- post moving Tipu's armoury. It has taken 14 years for this doubling project to reach fruition. The Tipu business held it up for 5 years if not more.
http://starofmysore.com/mysuru-bengalur ... on-apr-30/
Works moving quickly for third line between Itarsi and Bhopal, with earthworks going on between Hoshangabad and Itarsi. Pillars have come up so that girder launching is even taking place on third line bridge over Narmada which cognoscenti know is just outside Hoshangabad and between H'bad and Bhopal. One of the existing two bridges over the Narmada is British era. Some chappie took this video and you can catch all the action. Note this video, the train has to wait for 8 overtakes, shows you traffic density between
Delhi-Itarsi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97e7Cth_Ew
Chappies report that earthworks have started between Jhansi-Bina on third line, with Bina-Bhopal third lined,
this will be a major achievement to third line Delhi-Itarsi and beyond. Tripling is sanctioned all the way to Bezwada from Delhi.
Chappies have taken pics of earthworks coming along fast between South Hubbali and Savanur, and all along to Arsikere. The most congested section Arsikere-Tumkur not only earthworks are done in large parts but also track linking finished in many block sections. Work on minor bridges for the doubling is even going on at night. Rapido, rapido!!! It seems Bangalore-Hubbali doubling will meet its 2020 deadline.
Also pillars are coming up fine over the Yamuna at Kalpi for Kanpur-Jhansi doubling, that old Kalpi bridge is British era, I am amazed it is still standing, dates back from 1875. Deadline is March 2018.
putnanja
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Postby putnanja » 30 Apr 2017 09:00
Problem with Bangalore-Mysore line is mainly congestion at Bangalore city railway station. There simply isn't any more space to run more trains there. There has been moves to take over the Binny Mill area for railway station, don't know how long that will take.
I hope in the meanwhile there are more frequent trains between kengeri-mysore if SBC can't accomodate more. The current number of trains is simply not sufficient
The introduction of the Japanese bullet train technology in India will have wide-ranging economic and social benefits, a report in Nikkei Asian Review said. The bullet train line is proposed to be built between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, two cities 505 kilometres apart, with the help of Japanese ‘Shinkansen’ technology. A bullet train ride is estimated to take two hours and seven minutes between the two cities while the fastest train at the moment, Mumbai-Ahmedabad Shatabdi, takes a little more than six hours. The cost of the high-speed rail line project is estimated to be Rs 1.08 lakh crore.
“A high-speed railway that is safe, comfortable and punctual will give businesspeople just what they need, and it can trigger significant economic development,” Takema Sakamoto, the India representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, was quoted saying in the NAR report.
While many say that high-speed railway line is exorbitant for India and its citizens, Sakamoto said India’s current GDP per person is ‘on par’ with that of Japan when it launched the bullet line in 1964. He also said India’s initial investment can be recovered by learning Japan’s methods of raising operational inefficiency. He remarked that areas around the railway stations will also experience economic boom similar to what is being seen with regard to metro projects in the country.
Analysts have said the railway project may not generate revenues thanks to the prices offered by budget airlines on flights between the two cities. Also, the flight take less time compared to the train. Sakamoto said apart from the fare, revenue can be generated from the sale of goods inside the stations as well as from ads and the business activities around the area of the station.
Construction of the project is scheduled to begin in 2018 and completed by 2023. The railway line will begin underground in the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, then travelling 21 kilometres through a tunnel including a section under the sea and then rising above the land near Thane. Much of the section through Gujarat will also be elevated. There will be a total of 12 stations, eight of which will be in Gujarat.
That's a interesting statistic. This just shows how much Japanese developed in so little time. Mostly because of their culture no doubt.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/ ... ts-report/
putnanja wrote: Problem with Bangalore-Mysore line is mainly congestion at Bangalore city railway station. There simply isn't any more space to run more trains there. There has been moves to take over the Binny Mill area for railway station, don't know how long that will take.
Actually, SWR has claimed that even MYS station is too contested and lacks space for expansion, so they can't introduce more trains. Apparently the next station beyond MYS junction called Ashokapuram is to be developed as a second terminal, but I don't know if they have actually started on the work.
GM of SWR Agarwal now says that the Binny Mills land swap of 3.3 acres with BBMP is of no use to build pit lines. So why this drama for so many years? Now Agarwal is looking to Bypannahalli to construct pit lines/stabling lines, etc
in 2 years. SWR simply is infected with a disease of poor planning. If they knew Binny Mills was not an adequate solution, why did they waste time with tortuous negotiations with BBMP for the land swap, when they could have concentrated on Bypannahalli aeons ago?
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/600 ... inish.html
Maybe they should think of an underground terminus for "local" trains from Mysore and Chennai and build an office tower on top of this underground terminus.
Bypanahalli does have a goods yard with addl space
North of that in orr ramamurthy nagar there is a big loco shed which has space but finctionally unsuitable
Postby Kashi » 01 May 2017 10:57
vsunder wrote: SWR simply is infected with a disease of poor planning...
Speaking of planning, could you share a few updates on the progress and the status of the Dedicated Freight corridors? I have been scouring the web, not much news lately.
DFCCIL website is of little help. For instance, this is what they have to say about the progress report
Nothing about the Dankuni section.
Postby arshyam » 01 May 2017 11:35
vsunder wrote: SWR simply is infected with a disease of poor planning.
It's congenital, looks like. When YPR was being developed as an alternative, why did they not go the whole hog and build a 10 PF station? What's with the piddly 5 PF station? There is enough land on the Tumkur road side for at least two plaforms, maybe more if they stagger it a bit northwards like in Chennai Egmore. The station entrance could have been moved little more north from the existing location to where the parcel office is, and use the current parking area for more platforms. Likewise, there is still plenty of space on the other side of the station near the loco trip shed - some imaginative planning can alleviate SBC's problems. With metro connectivity, getting to and fro YPR is not as big an issue as before.
Because of this short sighted approach, BLR is having train starting points at every nook and cranny - Cantt is now an originating point, and maybe KJM (KR Puram) as well in the future. Might as well add BYPL on the list, and revive Banaswadi too. Whereas cities like Chennai and Kolkata managed for a long time due to large terminal stations.
For comparison, SBC has 10 platforms, of which only 3 can be used towards Tumkur, 6 toward MYS (10,9,8,7,6,5), rest are limited to serving the JTJ-MAS line only (1-7). In between is the passenger yard, which means the JTJ side lines are blocked for trains shunting from platforms to the yard and back - they cannot shunt from the MYS side. YPR has 5 of which 3 can be used to start trains, remaining two needed for through trains bound for the city station and beyond, but is marginally better for shunting duties, as all lines are accessible from both sides of the station. Cantt brings in 4, of which only 2 can be used for termination, not sure about the yard capacity here. BYPL has only 2 currently, and they are not full length. The goods terminal if developed will suffer from poor access, unless a skywalk with a walkalator is provided from the BYPL metro station. If the regional/suburban rail becomes a reality, it will have to depend on this infra.
In contrast, MAS central has 12 platforms, and suburban have their own dedicated platforms (13-16, maybe 1 more in the near future). Egmore has 8, +2 for suburban. 3 of them are staggered, i.e. they are to one side of the station not fully parallel to the remaining platforms. But efficient use of available space. Tambaram already has 5 platforms, with 3 more (I think) coming up for the terminal.
To solve SBC's woes, how feasible is it to lay a dedicated 3rd track till BYPL and make it a full fledged yard like Basin Bridge? Remove all in-place maintenance duties from SBC, and convert the yard lines between the current platforms 4 and 5 into 3-4 more platforms? Break up the island 7/8 platform and push it towards MYS, so these can serve both the Tumkur and MAS lines.
Alternatively, move the parcel office to BYPL and YPR, or near the PF7 entrance, and move the station a little bit south. There seems to be a lot of vacant land to the south of the station, between TCM Royan road and Cottonpete road. There is definitely scope for a lot of improvement in place instead of building another "medium-sized" BYPL terminal, however sexy it may appear to be.
Postby vsunder » 01 May 2017 20:56
^^^^ All interesting suggestions. The only comment I have is that to lay the 3rd line between Bypannahalli and SBC, there is the land problem, much of the current track runs close to boundary walls of military land and/or housing towers, this may not be easy to acquire. There is the proposal to quadruple lines from City station to Bypannahalli but there has been no progress for years. Railways I think never cared much when Bangalore started to mushroom. There is also encroachment issues on Railway land which is quite serious on the Northern spur, Banaswadi etc. Nobody cared and now huge housing towers are in place. It will not be easy to get an integrated rail/Metro network for Bangalore like other large cities have.
@ Kashi There are some videos in the last 6-7 months of track linking completed between Khurja and Bhaupur(Kanpur) in some sections. Generally some fellow taking videos of trains and catches DFC work by accident. There are no electric poles in the video and no systems work seen, signals etc. Also it appears tamping etc of ballast still needs to be done. Maybe this will go fast, but then who knows. Also there are videos of earthworks between Phulera(for Jaipur) and Ajmer on Western DFC (Rewari-Iqbalgarh section). I really doubt that the DFC's will come in on time 2019 December as announced. Certain contracts have not been awarded. Regarding Dankuni, only notifications have happened and they are still in land acquisition mode. If you look the % of civil construction in the chart you posted, in many places, it is just too little to warrant completion by Dec 2019. They have to build a bridge across the Yamuna at Allahabad(line goes South of the city, before Sangam) and for that a few pier foundations have been just sunk. Few reporters ask pertinent technical questions and even fewer go to construction sites. The Hindi news is better and there is a bit more info there. I can try digging a few of these Hindi reports and some of the videos. There are no new drone videos other than from a year ago. There is absolutely nothing videos or otherwise between Iqbalgarh and Vadodara, and Vadodara and JNPT/Mumbai. Also the Punjab part is a black hole. This is going to be a single line from Ludhiana to its junction at Khurja with the EDFC. LA issues forced this problem. Similarly nothing on the connecting line between Dadri and Rewari which involves tunneling through the Arravalli and that too tunneling for double stacked container freight.
In addition there are bridges to be built across the Narmada and Tapti between Vadodara and JNPT/Mumbai
and also smaller rivers. When bridges take 4-5 years to be built in India and tenders have just been issued for these bridges, how can DFFCIL even claim completion by Dec 2019 and latest by March 2020?
All this is massive work, and in 2.5 years it will be done is a tall order. Open faced lying is a hallmark of the bureaucracy. See what is happening with Namma Metro with its 957th deadline.
DFC Corporation has promised to hand over 190 kms (route kms) of Western DFC between Ateli(near Rewari) and Phulera on the Rewari-Iqbalgarh stretch by March next year, thereby being the first commissioned section of Western DFC. This is 380
track kms.
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Prasad wrote: Pardon me for a basic question. We always hear of british era bridges. How many of these have been, are, will be replaced by 2019? I don't remember hearing about them specifically anytime.
I suppose you are referring to the Setu Bharatam project. This project aims to refurbish 1500 British era bridges and build 208 ROB's at a cost of 30,000 crores, for the refurbishment of bridges component.
I easily anticipate a decade at the rate bridges are built and refurbished in India, to fix 1500 bridges.
Simple fixes could be jacketing the piers, to more complicated ones involving re-girdering the bridge entirely with attendant mega block on a line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setu_Bharatam
There are a large number of British era bridges carrying trunk traffic between major metros, leave alone branch lines. One can simply name 50 with no problem. After independence when doubling took place a new bridge was indeed constructed for the second line, but the old British era bridge usually a masonry construction still carries traffic. Here are some examples
1. Narmada bridge, Hoshangabad, opened in 1884.
Carries Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Chennai traffic.
2. Jhansi-Kanpur, Yamuna bridge at Kalpi, 1889. Second line project going
on, new bridge will be done hopefully March 2018, but old bridge will carry
3. Bally bridge/ Dakshineswar, Kolkata bridge to Sealdah, 1922.
4. Godavari river bridge, Mancherial, Delhi-Chennai, 1929, third line bridge
is almost complete, see Google Earth what happens when the third bridge
comes up, will they build a new bridge and replace the 1929 bridge?
The third bridge is part of the Delhi-Nagpur-Balharshah-Kazipet-Chennai third line project.
5. Kanpur-Ganga bridge towards Lucknow, 1880 circa. In my time carried
a Metre gauge line and a Broad gauge line, Metre gauge line was part of NER
from the erstwhile Oudh and Rohilkhand railway. These are all gauge converted
6. Netravathi River bridge, Mangalore 1908, doubling has been done, new bridge
in service since 2013, but old bridge carries down line traffic, Chennai-Mangalore and all
traffic entering or leaving Konkan railway to Trivandrum via Mangalore.
7. The most famous British era bridge of all is Pamban bridge to Rameswaram, 1914
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxRpej-gkWU
E. Sreedharan( Metro Man Sreedharan) first gained fame in 1964 when he very quickly restored this bridge in a near impossible time frame of 50 days after the devastating cyclone that wiped out parts of this bridge and the bridge beyond to Dhanuskodi. It was estimated the repair would take 6 months.
8. Prince Albert (consort of Queen Victoria) viaduct, Bagra-Tawa bridge on Howrah-Mumbai line via Jabalpur. This is a small single line section (7km) over the Tawa river. This is the only single line section on a fully double lined route and causes major traffic problems. This block section is finally being doubled and a bridge is being built over the Tawa river and due for completion in 2018. Board at Itarsi station, regarding Bagra-Tawa to Sonthalai patch doubling and bridge over Tawa river:
https://twitter.com/wc_railway/status/7 ... 56/photo/1
Existing bridge that carries traffic between Mumbai and Howrah is 145 years old.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/new ... 975349.ece
There are a large number of old masonry British bridges between Mangalore and Shoranur
over many rivers in Kerala. Once in a while these bridges fail with catastrophic loss of life
as in the Kadalundi bridge disaster when 57 people died when Mangalore-Chennai mail fell
into the Kadalundi river near Kozhikode in 2001. Also after gauge conversion the Perumon bridge between
Trivandrum and Kochi collapsed in 1988 when Island express was passing over with 105 fatalities.
The cause of that has never been pinned down but structural failure is a strong possibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadalundi ... derailment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruman_railway_accident
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Postby chetak » 02 May 2017 07:56
Railway catering scam: 100gm curd for ₹972, refined oil for ₹1,241 a litre
As per the reply, other commodities procured by the railways included 58 litres of refined oil for ₹72,034 in March 2016, or a litre of refined oil for ₹1,241. It also bought 150 packets of Tata Salt for ₹2,670, or ₹49 per packet instead of its then MRP of ₹15, water bottles and soft drinks were for ₹59 per bottle.
Postby Avik » 02 May 2017 08:26
vsunder, arshyam - could we have reaped the same benefit as the WDFC by tripling/quadrupling the Delhi-Mumbai via Kota and Ratlam rail line and by doubling the Delhi - Ahmedabad via Jaipur rail line? Given that IR already owns about land on either side of existing tracks, would it have been faster to triple/quadruple existing rail routés than trying to build a separate WDFC.
I understand the point about the WDFC being designed for heavier freight trains through heavier rails and taller catenary, but it seems the pace of construction of the DFCs is way slower compared to what the IR has been able to do for tripling on routes like Delhi-Itarsi and separately the old BNR section in Chattisgarh
The Eastern DFC runs parallel to the existing Delhi-Howrah route /via Grand Chord. But when you approach any large city, Aligarh, Hathras, Tundla, Kanpur etc, DFC will go off into the wilderness and again come back and meet the IR tracks after the city. Logistic parks are all outside the city as land is cheaper and it is easier for trucks to get to a logistic park outside a city and junctions with IR are 4-5 between Delhi and Kanpur say. The Western DFC track runs parallel to Delhi-Ahmedabad line. The area this runs through is sparsely populated and LA is not a major issue, not that I am saying LA is a minor issue, but less of an issue. Other than heavier density rails and double stack containers that you mention, DFC will have no level crossing at all. This means building RUB's and ROB's everywhere. See the drone videos, you will see they are systematically removing every single LC. This will be difficult to do with LA issues in built up areas like the Ratlam route. Probably DFC started with a culture of sloth, after all it was there in 2008 but did nothing for 6-7 years. Modi provided impetus, monitoring and so on and it is not easy for an organization to shake off sloth and get moving quickly. Look at their web site, full of Hindi Prachar diwas, this that and the other, construction pictures of staff canteens from 2014, no updates. IR or RVNL are also not paragons of efficiency in building track and infrastructure. The actual construction of DFC is being done by L&T and Sojitz, Tata and Mitsui etc on Western DFC for example, so obviously one hopes there are high standards of project management. I am not saying construction is inefficient, I am saying that these are massive projects whose scale has to be appreciated, but the time frames for completion being given out by DFC are overly ambitious for projects of this size. If they say they will finish by say 2022, I will not say construction was not efficient, but these are pragmatic schedules . To say it will be done by 2019 etc is simply lying. It maybe they have told the PMO and there is an internal schedule they are working with, and they release these ambitious dates as PR, just like Namma Metro does, but it certainly does not help them when they can be easily pulled up. I mean look at their own data on their website that Kashi posted above? If they are 8% done now do you expect them to be fully done in 2.5 years? Even their most advanced section Iqbalgarh-Rewari is about 50% done in civil construction, then systems etc etc. And that section Rewari-Iqbalgarh they do not say they will hand over next year, only a piece of it Phulera to Ateli of 170km in a 640km section will be handed over in March. So the most advanced section is not going to be done by next year and suddenly everything which is even 8% complete will be finished by 2019. This is total ullu banoing no?
This is the news of the first section to be commissioned on Western DFC
http://www.financialexpress.com/india-n ... 18/550010/
On Eastern DFC they commissioned a small section 56km in Bihar between Durgawati and Sasaram exactly a year ago.
Postby James » 02 May 2017 10:05
What about the rolling stock for the 2 DFCs? Have they been finalized and where will they be manufactured?
Did a cursory search on this and found this in Aug'16:
http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/lo ... hannel=000
Hope they get the manufacturing / procurement done in time, else we will have the corridors ready, but no / inadequate rolling stock to utilize the capacity fully.
Postby Lisa » 02 May 2017 15:55
I cannot find an international thread so have posted here. Kindly move if necessary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39776889
Japan's ultra-luxurious train hits the tracks for its maiden journey
Avik-ji, IR will need both. Passenger traffic already is over-burdening the existing tracks, so adding new tracks will help that. But freight traffic is still left for which capacity needs to be found. Hence, DFCs where possible.
Second thing is, as vsunder saar said, DFCs bypass major cities and junctions. This is really useful as the tracks through existing junctions are congested and require a lot of remodeling work to speed up ingress and egress. This has its own challenges as LA is difficult inside heavily built up areas - might as well bypass the cities for through goods traffic. DFC is only a next step now - why not bypass the existing tracks entirely? They anyway can't take load beyond a point - IIRC, @vsunder saar mentioned the load rating of current tracks sometime earlier - they can be improved for greater efficiency, but difficult to do since the tracks are heavily in use.
Finally it is an opportunity to make use of newer construction techniques to get around speed restrictions that are galore on the existing lines, ghat sections, etc. and pull up goods traffic's average speeds from the miserable ~25kmph of today.
Having said that, these 3rd tracks SP creditably has started on will be solving *today's* traffic congestion. We'll still need a fourth track on the trunk lines in the long run. Coupled with high-speed turnouts to switch traffic seamlessly between "fast" and "slow" lines to at least semi-HS trains can be run efficiently. I hope SP stays at the helm for another 5-10 years - I am certain he will push for that investment.
rahulm
Postby rahulm » 03 May 2017 12:32
Pulling in: The all-new AC 3-tier coach. At least 10 design innovations, coach ready to roll out this month
* USB charging ports and reading lights for all berths.
* Ladders with comfortable footrests, additional handles for easier access to the top berth.
* Separate urinals for men in the toilets; foldable nappy-changing tables for babies.
* A GPS-enabled screen in each coach to display the train’s location.
All welcome improvements. My pet improvement - auto closing and opening doors has been left out. It's an important feature to increase safety (people being thrown out of running trains, heroes and heroines trying to board and alight from moving trains, thieves enterinn at night ), punctuality (no exit for abusers of the chain to alight next to their village home) and finally compliance ( dis courage invalid ticket holders from boarding)
Will the coffee vending machine be attended ? If unattended, the lack of a Q and the jostling like cattle at a grain feed will be a pain to get through but free entertainment.
The nappy changing table is a waste when it's easier and more comfortable to change their soiled bubbly apple of their eye on a wide berth. I predict it will,be broken and un usable within a few months by some innovative person locking themselves In The toilet and trying to use it as a free seat or used by the staff to keep used meals .
JTull
Postby JTull » 03 May 2017 16:16
A rail bridge taller than the Eiffel Tower over the Chenab
In around two years from now, the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir will be spanned by the world's highest railway bridge that is expected to be 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower.
The massive arch-shaped structure, being constructed at a cost of around Rs 1,100 crore in hostile terrain, will use over 24,000 tonnes of steel and will rise 359 m above the river bed.
Designed to withstand wind speeds of upto 260 km per hour, the 1.315 km long "engineering marvel" will connect Bakkal (Katra) and Kauri (Srinagar).
The bridge forms a crucial link in the 111-km stretch between Katra and Banihal, which is part of the Udhampur- Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project.
"The construction of the bridge is the most challenging part of the Kashmir rail link project and once completed, it will be an engineering marvel," said a senior Railway Ministry official involved with the project.
Slated to be completed by 2019, it is expected to become a tourist attraction in the region. There will also be a ropeway in the bridge for inspection purposes.
Once completed, it will surpass the record of the Beipan river Shuibai railway bridge (275 m) in China.
Steel was the material of choice to construct the humongous structure as it is more economical and able to resist temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius and wind speeds of above 250 kmph.
The Railways will also install sensors on the bridge to check the wind velocity: as soon as the wind speed exceeds 90 kmph, the signal on the track will turn red, preventing train movement.
In order to enhance safety and security, the bridge will be made of 63mm thick special blast-proof steel as the Jammu and Kashmir region is prone to frequent terror attacks.
The concrete pillars of the bridge will be designed to withstand explosions and painted with a special corrosion- resistant paint, which lasts for 15 years.
According to the plan, a ring of aerial security will be provided to safeguard the bridge. An online monitoring and warning system will be installed on the bridge to protect the passengers and train in critical conditions. Footpaths and cycle trails will be built adjacent to it.
It is expected to contribute to the economic development of the state and help in improving accessibility.
hanumadu
Postby hanumadu » 03 May 2017 16:37
^^I think the design of the bridge will be exactly like this one in china
This is the video on the Chenab bridge
To Bank or Not
This is not about Demonetization but an exercise to show some of the peculiar engineering challenges the DFC faces. I shall use data that can be checked. First let us get some simple Physics out of the way. On IR the slope of a track is measured as 1:100, or like on the Bhor ghat towards Pune from Mumbai or Thull ghat out of Mumbai towards Delhi and Bhusawal 1:37 the steepest for Broad gauge in India. This means for every 37m you travel you climb 1m.
Simple trigonometry tells you that the Sine of the angle of the inclined plane is thus 1/37.
Now imagine a wagon of weight W standing on this inclined plane. A simple force diagram using vectors tells you that the component of the weight in the direction parallel to the inclined plane is W/37 if the wagon were on a 1:37 inclined plane like on the Thull Ghat. That is: W/37 is the force the wagon would exert on the coupling. DFC freights are supposed to be 13,000 ton rakes as opposed to 5000 ton rakes on IR currently. On a 1:37 slope this would mean that the force on the coupling with the engine would be 13,000/37. That is about 350 tons. This is double the force that a coupling can stand and so the coupling would break. IR couplings have breaking strength of around 130 tons. So either you provide bankers to mitigate the effects of gravity or provide re-alignment to have 1:100 slope to be within good safety tolerances with or without bankers or do away with 13,000 tonne rakes which plausibly defeats the purpose of the DFC. This problem will become more pronounced when the DFC is set up between Delhi and Chennai, where the slopes through the Chichonda ghat, or Dharakoh ghat in the Satpuras is 1:70. So the force on the leading coupling will be about 13,000/70, slightly less than 200 tons. So if the alignment is close to the current one over which travels GT Express, TN Express etc. bankers would be needed, as they are currently, over these Ghat sections or imminent disaster waits with a coupling that will shear. The point is not that one should not rely on bankers, which provide additional motive power, but you are over the safety regime which will become paramount if for some reason an engine fails. Even if the loading is below critical limits, poor handling of the loco will cause a coupling to break and one will have a runaway goods train, so bankers are usually used to prevent such eventualities in addition to providing motive power.
This is a webpage that gives breaking strength of couplers on IR, maximum strength is 130 tons.
http://railmaniac.blogspot.com/2015/08/ ... ed-by.html
Here is the IRFCA page with gross weights of passenger bogies and wagons. It can be used to calculate Gross Million ton (GMT) weights and decide after how many years 52kg/m and 60kg/m rails need to be replaced as per my previous post. But it also gives us an idea of the force on the leading coupling in a 52 wagon goods train. (52 kg/ m was 550 gross million tons, and 60 kg/m was 800 gross million tons for replacement)
http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-stock3.html
Let us say we have a 52 wagon fully loaded BOXN rake. Each wagon according to the table above weighs fully loaded 83.3 tons. That is 83x52, roughly 4320 tons. I am going by 52 and things may have changed with maybe 60 wagon rakes nowadays. So on the Thull ghat the force on the leading coupler is 4320/37 about 117 tons. Given the breaking strength in the link above, would you give permission for a freight to go up the Thull ghat without bankers? Now suppose the DFC has to pass through mountainous areas with 13000 ton rakes, say in Central India, over the Satpuras for example, what alignment would you choose, with slopes that put low force on couplers and cause least amount of wear?
Postby Singha » 03 May 2017 19:21
Why are bankers a problem? Do they not contribute thrust?
Usa and canada mineral trains seem to have locos not just in front and back but middle cluster also
https://youtu.be/u0Yj0xTUTcM
Commonly used in coal areas...they ply over rockies routinely using rear engines
Bankers do contribute thrust but their most important role is to prevent a train from sliding down an inclined plane if a coupling breaks, this is a very real problem and happens easily by slightly careless operation of the leading loco. A sharp pull and you can break a coupling. You must know the story of Indrayani Express, coupling broke at Lonavala and train slid down the Bhor ghat and reached Karjat in 10mins, of what takes a 1 hour journey, guys were screaming inside the train and people jumped off, got killed/ hurt. It happens.
http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/09/ ... way-train/
Also why would you want to exceed safe tolerances with heavy rakes even if there is a banker? The point of my post is that you cannot just put the DFC over existing alignments and then say we will haul 13,000 ton rakes and the breaking stength of the coupler is 150 tons, but ok there is a banker so we can take care of 200 ton forces on the coupler even though it breaks at 150 tons. You either re-design the couplers and replace them on wagons, or choose alignments which have safe tolerances built in. Most of our ghat sections have catch sidings for this eventuality. Subramanya ghat towards Mangalore on Hassan-Mangalore line at 1:50 incline has numerous catch sidings. The leading loco/s and the bankers have to move in a ballet that is choreographed so that either both pull or both stop. This was done in the old days by using steam whistles, nowadays I suppose the loco pilots are in radio contact except when one is in a tunnel and radio reception is poor. DFC will have Wilmas also known as EOTT, End of Train telemetry and do away with Guard vans/ cabooses. This will be a new feature in India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-train_device
Replacing couplings as needed sounds far cheaper and simpler than new alignments
In the Eastern DFC, between Son-Nagar and Gomoh or rather Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Gomoh Jn. to give its full moniker after Lalu changed its name(something to do with Bose boarded Kalka mail here on his way out of India towards the Khyber pass and Afghanistan, never to return to India) there lies the Gurpa-Gujjahandi ghat of the Grand Chord with slopes of 1:70. These are the Chota Nagpur Hills with a Jain shrine to one of their tirthankars' atop one of them. DFC will avoid running parallel to the existing alignment and chose an alignment north of the existing one to maintain uniform grades of 1:200. This is the target of all DFC lines never to exceed a uniform grade of 1:200. Wise decision in light of what I computed. Easy on couplings, rolling stock, engines and rail and up you go with a 13,000 tonne rake full of coal from Jharia and Dhanbad.
vsunder - could the North-South DFC be aligned along the Delhi-Agra- Jhansi-Guna- Indore-Manmad-Daund-Guntakal-Chennai route ?
The Guna section to Indore is now open to traffic, and IR is keen to build the Indore-Manmad track as well. This alignment would avoid the ghats fully, although it would have to bridge the peninsular rivers once it starts traversing south from Manmad. In addition, IR is finally moving to get doubling fully done on the existing Pune-Chennai via Guntakal route.
This alignment goes over relatively less populous, less fertile lands, and land acq should be easier than going through almost any other alignment
vsunder wrote: DFC will avoid running parallel to the existing alignment and chose an alignment north of the existing one to maintain uniform grades of 1:100.
You mean the planned detour via Koderma?
Kashi wrote:
No, I mean before Koderma, exactly between Gurpa and Gujhandi as I said. Koderma comes later towards Kolkata, after Gujhandi. There was some issue here of acquiring forest land and I am not sure this has been sorted out. If you look at DFC maps, you will see a bump northwards in this ghat section.
Avik wrote: vsunder - could the North-South DFC be aligned along the Delhi-Agra- Jhansi-Guna- Indore-Manmad-Daund-Guntakal-Chennai route ?
The Guna section to Indore is now open to traffic, and IR is keen to build the Indore-Manmad track as well. This alignment would avoid the ghats fully, although it would have to bridge the peninsular rivers once it starts traversing south from Manmad.
DFC has enough worries on its plate now. These are projects far out for the moment, with modern GIS and satellite based imaging, I am sure they will figure out an alignment. Right now there are no maps for this North-South project. With modern construction equipment they can construct viaducts to bridge deep chasms and build tunnels and maintain a 1:200 grade. It just needs determination. So everything at this point is speculation and not productive.
Avik wrote: In addition, IR is finally moving to get doubling fully done on the existing Pune-Chennai via Guntakal route.
This has hit a bottleneck in this never ending saga of doubling and electrifying Mumbai-Chennai. This also affects the new line Gulbarga-Bidar and the Margutti tunnel for which breakthrough has occured. Doubling between the last remaining sections, Akkalkot Road-Gulbarga, Kurduwadi-Bhigwan has hit the problem of non-availability of sand to make concrete and the availability of ballast, that cannot be secured from Govt. land and needs to be sourced from private entities.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/k ... 199101.ece
Take it for what it is worth, Kharge is a Congressman, The Hindu is what it is and Kharge is the Gulbarga MP.
Dipanker
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Postby Karthik S » 04 May 2017 20:22
Dipanker wrote: Railway catering scam: 100gm curd for ₹972, refined oil for ₹1,241 a litre
A recent application filed as a second appeal under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by an activist has revealed that the Central Railway's catering department purchased certain food items to stock their warehouses at several times the maximum retail price.
You are too late, that game is over already.
Postby Gagan » 04 May 2017 20:41
vsunder wrote: No, I mean before Koderma, exactly between Gurpa and Gujhandi as I said. Koderma comes later towards Kolkata, after Gujhandi. There was some issue here of acquiring forest land and I am not sure this has been sorted out. If you look at DFC maps, you will see a bump northwards in this ghat section.
One can see some work being done near Gujhandi, up the chotanagpur plateau, and the alignment runs separate from the existing railway tracks on google earth. They are trying to maintain a smoother alignment, but they have to climb those hills.
They could have taken the DFC from Gaya to Hisua or Nawada, up north, and then come down bypassing the ghats altogether and rejoined at Rajdhanwar then Giridih, Dhanbad, Bokaro etc.
Gagan wrote: They are trying to maintain a smoother alignment, but they have to climb those hills.
What about tunneling? Is it being actively considered?
No tunnels visible yet, they are going all the way up the hills !
Look here 24.520334, 85.451465
No contracts have been issued for Son Nagar to Dankuni which is to be developed in PPP mode. So how can you see construction? In fact PMO is quite worried about DFC esp. this section as Land acquisition is not yet complete on this section.
An interview where a deadline of Dec 2019 is given
http://www.business-standard.com/articl ... 525_1.html
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Obama screws over his friends, Warren’s numbers collapse, and the Washington Post sends a tweet it wishes it had back
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PROGRESSIVES NEED AN EDUCATION … "Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools," via NYT: This year, in a major shift, the leading Democratic candidates are backing away from charter schools, and siding with the teachers’ unions that oppose their expansion. And that has left some black and Latino families feeling betrayed …
"As a single mom with two jobs and five hustles, I’m just feeling kind of desperate," said Sonia Tyler, who plans to enroll her children in a charter school slated to open next fall in a suburb of Atlanta. "They’re brilliant; they’re curious. It’s not fair. Why shouldn’t I have a choice?"
OBAMA SHIVS CABINET MEMBERS … "Waiting for Obama," via POLITICO: "Occasionally, he can be cutting. With one candidate, [Barack Obama] pointed out that during his own 2008 campaign, he had an intimate bond with the electorate, especially in Iowa, that he no longer has. Then he added, "And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden." …
Last year, Obama let it be widely known that he would not make his preference known or, in the phrase that his close advisers frequently use, "put his thumb on the scale." It wasn’t just Biden who was disappointed. [Former attorney general Eric] Holder was particularly wounded that his close friend wasn’t more encouraging of his own ambitions.
HILLARY’S LIKABLE ENOUGH … "Obama Privately Warned He Would Speak Out Against Nominating Sanders," by WFB’s Cameron Cawthorne: Former president Barack Obama privately remarked earlier this year that he would speak up to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) if Sanders were to take a commanding lead in the Democratic primary.
Obama has publicly vowed that he would not interfere in the Democratic primary, but was concerned earlier this year about Sanders running away with the nomination, and would "speak up to stop him" if the Vermont senator proved threatening, Politico reported.
OKIE-SMOKIED … "Quinnipiac Poll: Half of Warren’s Supporters Have Abandoned Her in One Month," via NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest national poll of the Democratic primary conducted by Quinnipiac shows support for Elizabeth Warren plummeting since October from 28 percent to 14 percent, while support for Biden and Buttigieg is ticking upward …
Quinnipiac finds that Medicare for All has become more unpopular as more Americans understand what it means: "Medicare for All has grown increasingly unpopular among all American voters, as 36 percent say it is a good idea and 52 percent say it is a bad idea."
NO, NANCY HAS NOT KIDNAPPED MY FAMILY, WHY DO YOU ASK … "Dem Rep Issues ‘Clarification’ After Suggesting Trump Shouldn’t Be Removed," by WFB’s Alex Griswold: After the GOP trumpeted her comments as evidence of emerging cracks in the Democratic front, [Michigan congresswoman Brenda] Lawrence issued a clarification.
"I was an early supporter for impeachment in 2017 … I continue to support impeachment," she said in a statement on Tuesday. "However, I am very concerned about Senate Republicans and the fact that they would find this behavior by the President unacceptable [sic]."
DEMS BLUE OVER RED HATS AND PURPLE BALLOTS … "They Voted Democratic. Now They Support Trump," via NYT: Michael Townsend, 38, a high school-educated construction worker in Dunmore, Pa., was a lifelong Democrat—until he voted for Mr. Trump.
"In the last couple years, the Democrats had kind of been losing the work, and I thought Trump might get us that work," he said. "And to be honest, I’ve been in construction 21 years and the last two years were the best years I’ve ever had."
CARLOS DANGER FINALLY WINS SOMETHING … "The Most Important Politician of the 2010s," via BUZZFEED: Anthony Weiner changed the course of American history when he tweeted out a picture of his dick on May 27, 2011.
This is not an exaggeration. There is a direct line between Anthony Weiner’s penis and the rise of far-right media, the current state of the country’s biggest city, and the election of Donald Trump. Anthony Weiner is omnipresent over the last 10 years: It is inevitable that if there is a major political moment, Weiner is somewhere on its edges.
FRIEND OF HAMAS STAYS TRUE … "No apology from Jeremy Corbyn over Labour anti-Semitism claims," via BBC: In a BBC interview with Andrew Neil, the Labour leader was asked four times whether he would like to apologise.
Mr. Corbyn said his government will protect "every community against the abuse they receive."
THAT PARIS AGREEMENT WORKED SWIMMINGLY … "‘Sleepwalking toward climate catastrophe:' World must slash emissions immediately, UN report says," via USA TODAY: Man-made greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2018 to 55.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, the report says. Much of the increase came from emerging economies such as China and India.
The report says that even if all unconditional commitments under the Paris Agreement are enacted, global temperatures are expected to rise by 5.8 degrees by 2100, bringing even wider-ranging and more destructive climate impacts.
TRAGEDY … "U.S. Citizen Killed in Terror Attack in Afghanistan," by WFB’s Adam Kredo: The State Department said on Tuesday that a U.S. citizen was killed this week in a terror attack in Afghanistan on a United Nations convoy.
California resident Anil Raj, a U.S. citizen, was killed in the attack. Five other civilians were injured in the strike, including U.N. staff.
FIREFIGHTERS OVERWHELMED BY SOME HELICOPTER NOISE …"ChopperTalk: Where the White House Press Corps Goes to Get Ritually Abused by Donald Trump," via ESQUIRE: We would have to wait a bit longer for the chance to ask the President of the United States a question over the almighty din of the helicopter stationed 50 yards away. We would have to wait for ChopperTalk …
"You haven’t lived," said Brian Karem, the senior White House correspondent for Playboy known for getting in a few tiffs at the White House, "until you’ve been crammed with 175 people into a space meant for 25." He was exaggerating, but we really were packed in like sardines.
THIS IS WHO WE ARE … "MSNBC Host: Dem Flip on Impeachment Is Right-Wing Media Invention," by WFB's Graham Piro: "I know you know what folks on the right are saying right now: They say you flipped," [Chris] Jansing said to [Rep. Brenda] Lawrence. "I'm going to show you, there are headlines: One says ‘Swing state Dem flips on impeachment.' ‘House Democrat backs down from impeachment.' There we see them in the Daily Caller and Newsmax."
Earlier in the day on MSNBC, fellow host Craig Melvin portrayed Lawrence's suggestion that the impeachment process should end in censure as a change of heart.
DEMOCRACY DIES IN WHITEWASHING
REALLY? … "‘Victims Becoming the Perpetrators’: Remarks about Jews at Elite Private School Spark Outrage," by WFB Staff: Addressing high school students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School last Thursday, A. Kayum Ahmed, the director of access and accountability at the Open Society Foundations and a former CEO of the South African Human Rights Commission, said he had observed "the fluidity of those who are victims becoming the perpetrators."
"I use the same example in talking about the Holocaust, that Jews who suffered in the Holocaust and established the state of Israel today perpetuate violence against Palestinians that are unthinkable," Ahmed said.
BE BEST … "Melania Trump Met With Massive Boos At Youth Opioid Summit In Baltimore," via HUFFPOST: Videos of the B’More Youth Summit show a speaker introducing Trump before the crowd, largely made up of middle and high school students, immediately begins to loudly boo her. The first lady can be seen smiling and waving to the audience as the boos continue …
"I cannot recall another event where she was more negatively received," Bennett wrote. "I believe it is also the first loud booing by an audience at a solo event with Mrs. Trump."
GOBBLED CREDIBILITY … "Vegan Booker Evasive on Turkey Pardons, Asylum," by WFB’s Andrew Stiles: Prominent vegan [Cory Booker] on Tuesday refused to answer the Washington Free Beacon‘s questions about what the Thanksgiving holiday would look like under a Booker administration, including whether or not President Booker would take executive action to stop the wholesale slaughter of America's turkeys by pardoning every single one of the delicious birds under U.S. jurisdiction …
"Those are some tough questions, guess you'll just have to wait and see," Booker's national press secretary Sabrina Singh told the Free Beacon in an email.
DAYS SINCE JOE BIDEN DID A SUNDAY SHOW: 1,081. Come back, Joe!
"They have him in the candidate-protection program." —Fmr. Obama Chief Strategist David Axelrod
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Classic Match: Lazio vs. Bologna 1999/00
“Whassup?”
Thanks to a popular American beer commercial, this is how we tended to greet each other at the turn of the century. At the same time, Westlife topped the UK charts with ‘I have a Dream’ and Stuart Little was all the rage at the box office.
With the world having survived the Y2K scare, it was business as usual for the sporting world. France were preparing to host a memorable (if somewhat heart-breaking) European Championships, Sydney had been lined up as host for the 2000 Olympic Games and Tiger Woods was all set to continue his dominance of golf.
Meanwhile, in Serie A, there was a red-hot title race in progress.
Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Lazio were the early pace setters taking top spot in week five, remaining there until a shock week 15 defeat away to Venezia – a result that would see Juventus overtake their rivals thanks to Filippo Inzaghi’s single goal against Verona.
The night before their week 16 clash with Bologna, as hundreds of fans gathered in Piazza della Lierta for the club’s centenary celebrations, their title rivals, Juventus, gifted them an ideal birthday present by failing to beat Parma at the Tardini. The 1-1 scoreline meant Lazio, due to welcome Francesco Guidolin’s men to the party celebrations on Sunday afternoon, would reclaim top spot with a win.
The Stadio Olimpico was packed to the rafters and the crowd were full of expectation on what would be a memorable day in the club’s history. The fans were soon off their seats as Lazio started the brighter, Marcelo Salas setting the tone by almost catching Gianluca Pagliuca of his line with an audacious chip from the edge of the box.
Despite Lazio’s early dominance, it was the visitors who almost opened the scoring when a lovely weighted pass from Pierre Wome found Beppe Signori, whose effort crashed off the bar.
The home support were on the edge of their seats again when Sinisa Mihajlovic brought the best out of Pagliuca with an outrageous free kick. On the half hour mark, Mihajlovic had another opportunity to beat the keeper, this time from the penalty spot. However, the fiery Serb lost his footing, ballooning his spot kick, high and wide.
Fortunately for Lazio, Mihajlovic’s blushes would be spared. A lovely ball from Nestor Sensini found Pavel Nedved whose effort cannoned back of the cross bar only to land on the head of Marcelo Salas, who nodded home to give Lazio a 1-0 lead at the break.
Early in the second half, Singnori continued to menace Lazio as he looked to pull his side back into the game. After 51 minutes, his cross found Kennett Andersson who powered his header home to level the game, silencing the home crowd.
As Pagliuca continued to frustrate the Lazio attack, Erikkson reacted, bringing on Fabrizio Ravanelli for Juan Veron in an attempt to bolster the attack. With Lazio pouring forward going into the final quarter, Pavel Nedved found himself on the end of a Sergio Conceicao cross and thumped his header past Pagliuca, sparking wild celebrations.
However, Nedved would quickly go from hero to villain, picking up a second booking in the 83rd minute to leave Lazio a man short going into the final minutes. But as Bologna pressed for an equaliser, Lazio broke. Somehow, Ravanelli found himself stumbling though the Bologna defence and poked home a clumsy goal to seal all three points and put the home side back on top of Serie A.
The team from Rome would only lose two more games that season, finishing with seven wins and a draw (including a 0-1 win at Juventus) to snatch the title from the Bianconeri by a single point. The perfect finish to an incredible centenary year.
Words by: @giovd86
(Image source: @OfficialSSLazio via Twitter)
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Tuesday 2, at the launch of FAES' report on tax reform REPORT ON TAX REFORM | FAES Proposes Few , Low and Simple Taxes
_ "Any step taken toward smaller taxes and toward broader tax bases is a step in the right direction"
_ "It must be matched by the strict adherence to deficit commitments and, consequently, an ambitious program to cut spending"
_ The report is intended to "provide a deep, calm and effective reflection on the weaknesses and ways to improve the Spanish tax system"
_ He complains that "some decisions to keep the tax collection stable have focused the tax burden on the wage-earning middle class"
_ The Spanish tax structure "seems unable to provide the revenue needed to sustain public expenditure" and it is "unfair and inefficient"
_ "The path of reform must be based on solid parameters that enable a combination of collection sufficiency and economic efficiency"
_ "The demand for greater fairness in the tax system should now focus on an effective fight against fraud"
FAES Foundation has launched on Tuesday 2 its report Una reforma fiscal para el crecimiento y el empleo, which calls for a tax structure with few, low and simple taxes.The paper argues that "any step taken toward reduced taxes and toward broader tax bases is a step in the right direction." Furthermore, Aznar asked for a fair and efficient tax system to improve growth and competitiveness. |Download the report (in Spanish)|
The new report, led by the head of Economics and Public Policy at FAES Foundation, Miguel Marin, specifies the keys necessary to "address a complete overhaul of our tax system, in order to accelerate a return to a path of growth and employment development, while ensuring tax collection adequacy for a new balance level between public collection and expenditure. "Also, the text "offers alternatives to successfully address a modernizing reform to make it more equitable, efficient and less economic-activity-distortive".
The presentation has been made by the chairman of the Committee on Finance and Public Administration of Congress, Gabriel Elorriaga; and the Professor of Applied Economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Jose Felix Sanz; both of them coordinators of the document. The event, which took place during the Economics course of the 2013 FAES Campus, was also attended by the rest of the report's authors: the director of Political Economy and Public Finance at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Juan José Rubio; the lecturers of Applied Economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Desiderio Romero and Jorge Sainz; Professor of Public Finance at the University of Oviedo, Santiago Alvarez; and UDIMA finance lecturer, Salomon Aguado.
DEEP REFLECTION
This report is the result of the work carried out by first level experts for over a year and of numerous seminars. "Una reforma fiscal para el crecimiento y el empleo" seeks to "bring –in more than two hundred pages– a deep, calm and effective reflection on the weaknesses and ways to improve the Spanish tax system." All of this with the aim of detecting "elements to be reformed that allow, on the one hand, a more vigorous economic recovery and, on the other hand, to permanently contribute to the medium-term consolidation of a strong and stable economic growth, with a high potential to generate employment."
In any case, Miguel Marin said during the presentation, the introduction of reforms "must pace themselves to the process of controlling public expenditure and to the fullest compliance with deficit reduction commitments". "This is the only way to perceive the progression as a permanent reform and thus realise their full potential to stimulate growth" he explained. In this regard, he added, "tax is one of the main structural reforms pending that should not be delayed".
The text is divided into three distinct parts in which it addresses "the theoretical and technical fundamentals of the relationship between public spending and economic growth"; analyses the "different tax figures of the tax system from the perspective of the taxable events that justify them"; and concludes with a "reform policy proposal, consistent with the technical substrate that precedes it".
SYSTEM REVIEW
During the presentation of the document, Miguel Marin explained that "three powerful reasons require a complete overhaul of our tax system." First, he pointed out that the one we have today, "seems unable to provide the revenue needed to sustain public spending" and stated that "the public allocation of resources should be contained within limits that enable the free expression of social dynamism and full respect for individual development".
Second, Marin said that "the Spanish tax system is grossly unfair" because "some of the decisions taken to try to keep collection stable have concentrated the tax burden on the wage-earning middle class". Finally, he said that our tax system "is profoundly inefficient" due to the "serious disincentives to investment and the very heavy tax burden weighing down on job creation. "In this regard, he concluded that "the reform of the tax system should be designed to encourage the creation of tax bases, the only reasonable channel to achieve revenue enhancements in the medium term."
SOLID PARAMETERS
In Una reforma fiscal para el crecimiento y el empleo, FAES also specifies that "tax reform in Spain must be based on solid and proven parameters a combination of collection sufficiency and economic efficiency".
The Foundation explains in the report that it is "necessary to limit the scope of some formally redistributive structures that do not offer the expected collection results and severely hamper economic activity." In addition, it specifies that "the search for greater efficiency requires building a tax system that's as neutral as possible from the point of view of the allocation of economic resources performed by the market", and stresses that "it is necessary to reduce as far as possible the distortions that are inevitably generated by any tax".
The document also states that "the demand for grater justice in the tax system should now focus on the fight against fraud" and indicates that "a simplification of the system should be a guiding principle for reform." "A system is better the lower the resources required for the preparation and cumplimentation of procedural and substantive obligations of taxpayers" on this issue.
SAVING, INVESTMENT AND EMPLOYMENT
To do this, Una reforma fiscal para el crecimiento y el empleo proposes "to create a more attractive environment for savings and investment, and stimulating job creation by reducing the 'tax gap' between the gross cost to the employer and the net salary received without taxes and contributions. "Furthermore, FAES points out in the document that the reforms should pursue to "reduce individual tax burdens, in particular the one that's now weighing down on the wage-earning middle class; to support the family as a fundamental element of the social structure, and the strengthening of the Tax Administration".
In this sense, Miguel Marin stated that the "reform should focus on direct taxation on personal income and on societies' profits," and therefore considers that the system must "adapt the personal income tax to the real economic capability of the taxpayer; complete the dualisation in the taxation of capital income by eliminating the current escalation, and encourage various instruments for long-term saving." He also highlighted the need to "discount the nominal gains only taxing real returns, review tax benefits in income tax, and reduce the current number of sections of the tax rate as well as tax marginal rates."
FIGHTING AGAINST FRAUD
FAES report also proposes to "strengthen the means to fight against fraud, particularly in the field of VAT and international taxation, prudently review the catalogue of goods and services that are taxed at a different VAT rate than the general products, and reduce the scope to estimate systems of bases and quotas, both in the income tax and in VAT". Also he sees a need "to reduce or eliminate the significant incentives that have been received until now from foreign funding and move toward a global tax on business income."
Similarly, Una reforma fiscal para el crecimiento y el empleo makes a bid, among other things, for "a tax on financial activities against one on transactions", as well as the elimination of the "estate tax, as it generates considerable distortions, is inequitable, provides few resources and does not meet the redistributive objectives it seeks." With respect to corporate tax, it proposes to "move decisively toward the expanding of bases and the elimination of deductions". The text also states that, "for reasons of equity, the inheritance tax must be harmonised across the country, expanding the tax bases and increasing the minimums exempt from taxes."
With this new report, FAES asks, in short, for "an urgent and essential structural reform, perfectly aligned with the considerations and recommendations made by the European Union and capable of enhancing the growth rate of the Spanish economy." "Growing to create jobs should be the motto to lead us in the next stage and we can only make it happen with a tax system that reliable, fair and more efficient than the current one" Marín concluded.
Descargue aquí el informe: Una reforma fiscal para el crecimiento económico
INFORME REFORMA FISCAL | FAES propone pocos impuestos, bajos y sencillos
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Malwarebytes 4.x Beta
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Beta 4x GUI
By Suitiepie, October 17, 2019 in Malwarebytes 4.x Beta
Suitiepie
G'day from Australia.
Testing the new Beta 4x, had to install it twice for some reason the first time didn't seem to take but a second install fixed whatever it was (could be on my end).
I do understand that you probably won't be changing the GUI since you've done a bit of work, but my personal feedback is that is sucks (I'll still use and pay for the program subscribe etc even if I don't like the interface since most of the time it will be minimised).
The new GUI just feels cumbersome, un-intuitive, lots of wasted space, clicking more than once to get the locations you used to get to with just one click. Maybe I'm just used to the 3x GUI (which was simple, quick and easy to navigate).
Anyways, I predict the 5x GUI will take up the entire screen with how things are going with 4x (sarcasm, I know...)
Don't misunderstand, if the program works, does the job, and is stable then it really doesn't matter what the GUI is, I'll roll with it and keep supporting it. But I just had to at least have my say about how horrid I think the new GUI is.
Once again, love your work, support you guys fully. Do have a wonderful day!
nikhils
Hello @Suitiepie
Thank you for trying out the new Beta and for the feedback. Any kind of feedback is always welcome
Please let us know if you encounter any issues while running the program.
Doess88
Hi ! I totally agree, I'm using the paid version and I will continue to use it, but the new UI is really not nice. Usually I love when it changes but here, it's like a cheap Adaware software with these big buttons and this enormous Police (wich is really not modern). The scan/detection history/live protections icons look also really cheap and not modern at all. For me it's like a software from 2016, not 2020, I advice you to change it in a way more modern and professional, like the old UI. For me you should remove the background image, and all the shadows, and you should also reduce the size of the police, really.
Finally, the little blue buttons (on/off buttons) are blurry, hope you will fix it !
Thank God it isn't just me. I was thinking it looks pretty cheap and tacky and unprofessional too, like a pretend spamware app, but I didn't want to just say it without trying to be constructive in some way... and I was really scratching my head as to how to be nice about it other than say what I did.
AJNorth
Agree with the comments above.
I've been using MWB since version 1 (and have several lifetime premium licenses). To borrow a phrase to describe the GUI of version 4 (beta) compared to version 3, "It wasn't broke" (there was nothing to "fix").
Simply put, the current GUI is atrocious; the old adage of "KISS" (Keep It Simple, Stupid) absolutely applies here.
This GUI is cluttered with needless (and annoying) eye candy, is not intuitive and is frankly a pain to use -- whereas the version 3 GUI is straightforward and allows for easy deep-dives into the application to customize the configuration.
Indeed, I have uninstalled version 4, and at present have no intention to use it in the foreseeable future (irrespective of whatever additional protection it may provide).
Please seriously consider maintaining the current (version 3) GUI.
Thank you for trying out the Beta and also for the feedback. We will get this back to the product team.
Also @Doess88
Can you please attach a screenshot for the blurry buttons you are seeing.
Hello nikhils,
Not to beat this to death, but when MWB version 3 replaced version 2, I do recall some grumblings about the changes to the GUI, but they ultimately made sense (eye-candy aside...). It is intuitive (both to myself and all those I know who use MWB) and relatively "clean".
After all, this is a utility; we who have premium licenses do not frequently open it, and when we do, it is for specific purposes (configuration settings, logs, updating, etc.).
Again, thank you for your reply.
AJN
Sure @AJNorth
All feedback is welcome and the UI concerns have been voiced to the Product team .
27 minutes ago, nikhils said:
Thanks for your reply and thanks for get it back to the team ! I wasn't really clear, only the white button is blurry, I have a 4K screen, maybe it's because of it (see screenshot attached).
24 minutes ago, AJNorth said:
Totally agree with you. Personnaly I did say that more for helping the MWB team, because for me the version 4.0.X looks like a free version of Avast or like IObit SystemCare, what I mean is that with this UI I think that MWB lost his professional look, wich is not good for business. This UI looks like any other security software, wich is sad, because MWB is obviously better ! But obviously we will remain faithful to it, it's rather for new customers who do not yet know MWB that I said that.
Hello @Doess88
You are correct about the 4K screen. The icons do look a bit blurry especially with the blue background.
Thank you for bringing it to our notice.
Interesting... I'm on 4K and do not have any type of blurry issue on my system.
Off Topic: Updated to 4.0.3 - Is the 'Tray Icon' meant to be listed in the apps area when you open your task manager? Shouldn't that be a background process?
Max-H
Unfortunately I have to partially agree with the above reactions. 3 specific things.
First; the closing arrow on the right top of the windows. Change the top row of the pop-up windows to the same layout as e.g. the Settings window with a grey first row with the name from the window left and a closing plus sign on the right.
Second; rename 'Allow List' back to Exclusions
Third; the way to include a registry setting in the Allow List is difficult to find. Why not the same as the rest (File Folder, Website, Application etc.)
For the rest; keep up the good work.
unknownguy
I agree with the people in this thread. 3.0 is much better easier to find the logs, the settings. In this version everything is hidden inside the start screen.
I was totally lost the first time I tried Beta, I didn't find exclusions or anything like it is in MB 3.0. And the different update buttons, make me lost too.
The worst thing is the robot which is taking a lot of space. I don't really understand why it needs to be there.
The UI is simply not professionally looking - apart from the fact it's not intuitive. Sorry to the people who put this together but don't ask for feedback if you don't want it. You have a top product. Interface should be clean with a minimal number of clicks to get you what you need. As has been pointed out we very rarely get into the UI. We set it and expect it to stay set. And please remove the cartoon stuff. Too much anime watching guys.
Please find attached an example of better looking and flowing Malwarebytes 4x GUI.
It's not perfect with every icon and pixel, been up all night messing around with ideas and came up with this.
Hope this inspires the devs.
Even that above GUI remix is a bit too big for my tastes. I'd prefer something a bit smaller in size, or... ideally, the whole thing resizes to whatever size you prefer.
echoplant
I like the 3.8.3 GUI look and controls. Either stay with the old one or just "modernize" it as suggested by OP.
Carson70
@Suitiepie I like it. Great first start.
Under System Status: Last Update - consider adding system time of last update. Helpful for those users who reported false positive and have been advised it will be white listed in next update.
fredvries
Location: Harlingen - The Netherlands
@Suitiepie I really like your suggestion regarding the GUI. It's a great way forward, but I'm also sure that it will be thrown in the bin.
I find the Settings button kind of hidden, not easy to find. Yes, I understand that, once you've enabled/disabled the settings, there's no real need to have it displayed obtrusively, but still: it's somehow confusing and not intuitive.
I dislike the free space. The robot and skyview are not in any way helpful. They're just there to fill the emptyness. Remove the empty space and you'll end up with a sleeker GUI.
Edited October 27, 2019 by fredvries
Robertiy
I agree with everyone here! Get rid of that comic book robot in ALL screens. Dev's or product team, be more professional...are you people in high school. Make v4 more like v3.
Not going to happen people,
4 minutes ago, Robertiy said:
Even if you agree, there is no need to be rude mate.
18 hours ago, Suitiepie said:
I'm sure you worked a lot on it, but for me it's quit the same problem, too many colors, robot etc. It doesn't look really profesionnal in my opinion. But it's intuitive !
I suppose it all depends on your view of professional. To some, MS Paint GUI is professional. Potato Potatoe.
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Google Stadia Indian Launch Date Reveals Unexpected Surprise
Yetnesh Dubey
While the international release date of Stadia in the US, UK, Europe, and Canada was revealed to be sometime in 2019, the Google Stadia Indian launch remains a mystery.
However, news circulating over the internet points toward a rumored release date. The Google Stadia Indian launch date is expected to be 2021, which is two years from now.
Google Stadia Indian Launch Is Unlikely To Succeed
Google stadia utilizes an insane amount of data. The platform requires a minimum of 25 Mb/s of constant internet connection to play games @1080p resolution.
Google Stadia is a cloud-based gaming console and the only required hardware for the user is any supported controller. The always online nature of Google Stadia is a problem because not everyone in India has a super fast internet connection.
The amount of Internet data required will also be an issue. Almost a month of data, according to Indian standards, will be used up in an hour or two, while playing Google Stadia.
Even in first world countries like the US, several people complain about the lack of Internet speed. Besides the coastal areas in the United States, the mid-west still remains devoid of high-speed Internet.
Gamers living in these regions would still prefer an offline console over an online one.
Latency is another issue which remains a thing of worry for Google Stadia. We had reported earlier about the delay in gameplay performance in Google Stadia and it needs a lot of improvement.
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Another concern which gamers and developers share in common is with Google itself. The tech giant has a bad reputation for destroying its products if any of them fall short of a billion users.
Thus, there is always a fear of your favorite service getting terminated. Developers will have to take a double risk by working on games for Google Stadia.
First, they’d have to worry about the sale of the game itself and then they’d have to be scared about its adoption on Google Stadia.
It might not be an issue for established game companies like EA, Activision or Ubisoft, but several indie developers, most of whom dominated in 2018, won’t be ready until they see some stability.
Also Read: Top Confirmed Google Stadia Games And Rumored Ones
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Fossil Hunting & Digging
What to Expect When Visiting a Fossil Dig Site
Fossil Digging > What to Expect When Visiting a Fossil Dig Site
It’s probably safe to assume that most people have never been fossil hunting—or at least most have never uncovered a fossil themselves. If you’re about to go fossil hunting at a dig site for the first time, you may be wondering what to expect. If you’re not yet familiar with the local quarries near Kemmerer, check out a list here.
First, How Did So Many Fossils End Up Near Kemmerer?
There were three great lakes that existed in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado 52 million years ago that are now dried up, leaving fossils in lake sediments that turned into rocks known as the Green River Formation. The smallest lake of the three, Fossil Lake, was in southwest Wyoming. Since the bottom of the lake was salt water it acted as a natural preservant for the dead fish and animals that sank to the bottom. The National Park Service says, “The fossils are among the world’s most perfectly preserved remains of ancient plant and animal life.”
Where Do You Begin?
While you can only go fossil hunting with a private quarry, not the National Park Service, it’s still recommended that you go check out the Fossil Butte National Monument visitors center before going out with the private quarry you choose. They have a myriad of information, fossils on display, fossil preparation demonstrations and even allow the public to view professional paleontologists at work.
Once you decide on a quarry and arrive at the dig site, you’ll most likely have to sign a waiver since you’ll be using chisels and a rock hammer. The quarry might also provide hard hats, safety glasses, gloves and field guides to identify any fossils you find.
After you get the technicalities out of the way, your guide will give you a quick introduction into how you will use your tools and where to find the fossils. They’ll likely tell you that it’s best to split the rock down into its smallest size, creating the potential to find as many fossils as possible.
Go Split Crazy
Once you understand the basics you’ll be set free to roam the isles of rocks that the quarry has pulled from the sides of the Green River Formation. For the next hour, or for however long you booked your tour, you can choose small rocks or big rocks and break them down looking for fossils that no other eyes have seen before.
There are LOTS of fossils in the Green River Formation, so as long as you are patient there is a good chance you will find something. Fossil Safari in Kemmerer says, “Most people find enough fish to satisfy their appetite in the first two hours.”
Take it Home
The best part of fossil hunting is that the quarries will let you take home any common fish that you find, regardless of its size. It’s a good idea to bring an empty box or something to wrap a fossil with if you decide to take it home.
While rare species must stay at the quarry, it’s still a possibility that you could discover one out there. Rare species include crocodilians, stingrays, turtles, shrimp, bats and mammals. Some of these fossils you can find at the Fossil Butte National Monument visitors center, such as the 13-foot crocodilian.
The fossil dig sites tend to be a bit of a drive from town, so make sure you use the facilities before heading out. Some of them may have outhouses, but no guarantees. Definitely be sure to bring water, snacks, sunglasses, sunscreen and a hat. The dig sites are usually higher in elevation than town, so bring warm layers and gloves in case they don’t provide those.
There is an abundance of knowledge to take in about the different fossils and why they’re in that part of Wyoming. Whether you’re there to learn about the rich history of the area or you’re looking for an educational activity to entertain your kids, fossil hunting is a fun—and somewhat addicting—activity for all ages and abilities.
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Countdown to Avengers Endgame: Iron Man 3
April 12, 2019 Tristan Rendo One comment
We’re in the Endgame now. Just 14 days to go before Marvel Studios unleashes the biggest theatrical event in a generation (if not ever), capping off a story that is 11 years and 21 films in the making. There’s no denying that what Marvel has done here is unprecedented. As we approach the big day lets take a look back at the films that lead us here.
Let’s just get it out of the way. Iron Man 3 gets a lot of crap it doesn’t deserve. Being the first film to follow The Avengers it was always doomed to comparison. Comparison it never could win. It also took a couple of big risks. Iron Man doesn’t appear much in Iron Man 3 (so much so it could have been named “Tony Stark”). Marvel also decided to twist expectations on a major Marvel villain in a major way. People expecting an Avengers style film were disappointed by the former and fan boys were sent into a rage by the latter.
Iron Man 3 was exactly the movie that needed to follow Avengers though. Not only is it a more personal, grounded story (compared to Avengers) it helped to give The Avengers some added weight. This is the MCU, characters don’t just “shake off” an event like an alien invasion where they nearly died just because it’s a new movie. Telling a smaller story in which the focus is on Tony’s relationships (both with those around him and with being Iron Man) really was the best way to follow up the popcorn spectacle of The Avengers. Iron Man 3 is Tony’s personal journey to find himself after the events of The Avengers and about him coming to terms with the Iron Man later ego he had created for himself. All through the lens of some fun action scenes as Shane Black quips.
While most characters got some tweaks in their journey from comic to film the Mandarin represents arguably the biggest departure from the comic book version of a character in the MCU. What’s more, there is a misdirect on top of a departure from source material. Ben Kinsley’s turn as the classic Iron Man character is chilling, disturbing and also totally fake. Turns out the Mandarin is really just an actor name Trevor. Serving only as theatrics meant to cover up explosions being caused by experiments the “true” Mandarin, Aldrich Killian, is performing. This also introduced another classic Iron Man comic concept; Extremis (a biological “upgrade” that can repair damage to the human body but also sometimes results in violent explosion). In the list of comic book villains, Mandarin is admittedly a character I’m just not familiar with. So coming at this with my limit background I enjoyed the twist (I didn’t see it coming) and didn’t hate Killian being the Mandarin (though Marvel did make clear in the one shot “All Hail the King” that Killian probably just stole the name). For those really upset though that it seemed out of left field, Tony remarks very early on that everything about the Mandarin felt very theatrical. It was right there in front of us the whole time.
In the end Iron Man 3 also confused some folks because they thought it meant Tony was retiring from being Iron Man. In reality the “revelation” Tony has in the film is that Iron Man isn’t the suit or an alter ego. Even without the suit at his disposal he is able to build and engineer his way to success (which is a great scene, for the record). Tony isn’t the tech, the tech is an extension of Tony. Iron Man established that Tony Stark is Iron Man, Iron Man 3 establishes that Iron Man is Tony Stark.
Tomorrow I take on what is generally agreed to be the last popular MCU film, Thor: The Dark World.
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Pharmaka, Philtres, and Pheromones: Getting High and Getting Off
m a p s • v o l u m e X I I n u m b e r 1 • s p r i n g 2 0 0 2 By Jonathan Ott, Director of Applied Psychonautics, Natural Products Co., Xalapa, Veracruz, México We've been told that with regard to seduction, "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but in truth, rather, properly selected: "candy makes randy; liquor makes desire flicker;" or, as Shakespeare's porter said to Macduff: "[drink] provokes the desire but it takes away the performance." The wines and beers of antiquity, however, which were potent infusions of innumerable psychoactive plants often requiring dilution with water and in which alcohol served rather as preservative than inebriating active principle, had already in Shakespeare's day given way to straight alcoholic beverages, if anything augmented by the soporific and anerotic hops, Humulus lupulus. We know not the venereal verities of the archaic wines of mandrake, Mandragora officinarum (the famous aphrodisiac of the Biblical story of Leah and Rachel), nor of the genuine Pilsener beer, which gets its name, not from the place -- Pilsen -- but from Bilsenkraut, its original inebriating principle, Hyoscyamus niger or henbane, which contains visionary tropane alkaloids [Raetsch 1996; 1997]. It is still possible, albeit difficult, to obtain genuine absintheliqueur in Europe, a potent alcoholic libation fortified with extracts, or oil, of wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, which owes its psychoactivity to the volatile terpenoid thujone, which has left a lubricous legacy, at least in European art [Budavari et al. 1996; Conrad III 1988; Ott 1996]. An anonymous 16th-century Italian manuscript, Ricette magiche e afrodisiache [Pezzella 1978], gives special emphasis to philtres or love-potions, stimulants to venery, and points the way to a modern science of aphrobiology. One recipe, "for venereal pleasures," posits the preparation of a potent alcoholic extract of black truffles, Tuber melanosporum, which is concentrated and made into an electuary or comfit with sugar and amber. A second, "a venereal balsam for the impotent," confects in olive-oil large quantities of betel "nuts," Areca catechu, and oil of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), with animal ingredients: ants, Spanish flies, civet and "oriental" musk (pheromone-rich, sexual-attractant secretions from the civet cat and the Asian musk deer). The third, "for he who cannot make use of women," consists of boli or pills made from the powder of dried Cannabis, moistened with "a good white wine." Here we see echoes of the use of alcohol and wine rather as solvents than as active principles in the composition of philtres, not to mention of the proper way to make truffle-candies, and I have chosen these three recipes of the 27 in the manuscript to highlight the most promising directions for a modern pharmacology of philtres: 1) phero- Pharmaka, Philtres, and Pheromones Getting High and Getting Off by Jonathan Ott, Director of Applied Psychonautics, Natural Products Co., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico mones (as exemplified by the truffle, amber[gris], plus ants and musks); 2) stimulants (betel nuts); and 3) visionary inebriants (Cannabis). I will examine hereunder each of these three categories of 16th-century Italian philtre-formulations in some detail. Pheromones, The Quintessence Of Philtres Although the truffle might seem out of place here, in fact it was shown in 1981 to be a potent source of androstenol, known since 1944 to be a component of boar-testes, and patented in the early 1970s for use in artificial insemination of sows [Maugh II 1982]. In 1974, androstenol was discovered to be a component of human male axillary perspiration, and later to stimulate sexual interest in human beings. Truffles are one especially rich source, which accounts for their "musky" aroma, and here they are compounded with "amber," in reality ambergris, a pheromone-rich secretion of sperm whales, Physeter catodon, like sperm-whale spermaceti, used in perfumery and cosmetics. These pheromonal ingredients lend verisimilitude to the first of our Italian philtreformulae, the second of which features musk, both of the civet cat (various species, family Viverridae) and the musk deer (Moschus moschiferus). Musks, likewise from the North American musk ox (Ovibos moschatus), derive their name via Latin and Greek, from the Sanskrit muska, "testicle, scrotum," and consist of oleaginous secretions of special glands that produce sex-attractant pheromones (pheromones are hormone-like substances acting especially between members of the same species, here in mating, thus being allomones, of benefit to the emitting species; they can also serve as kairomones, or of benefit to another, or a receiving species, who might exploit them as attractants to predation). Musks have a long and storied use in perfumery, again as sexattractants, and the discovery that androstenol appears to be a human sex-attractant pheromone has now led to its use in male colognes and after-shaves, often touted in skinmagazines as infallible female lures. Similarly, the masculine pheromone androstadienone is said to attract women; the female pheromone estratetraene, to attract men [Holden 1999]. I have known women who occasionally rub a bit of their own vaginal secretions behind their ears, when they feel the need of such "passion-perfume" to "inphiltrate" some man or other. This points to the urgent need for concerted research into our human pheromones, which of course militates against the absurd superstition of the Judaeo-Christian world, that human beings are not, after all, animals. But we do indeed, like all mammals, possess non-olfactory vomeronasal neuroreceptors believed to respond to pheromones, and encoded by some 100 genes in rodents [Hines 1997; Holy et al. 2000]. Interestingly, neural signals from the binding of pheromones to these receptors bypass those ordinary olfactory pathways, and possibly the so-called "higher cognitive centers" [Dorries 1997], and go thence to the amygdala and the hypothalamus, in the so-called midbrain, which separates the brain-stem from the cerebral cortex (connecting to an accessory [posterior] olfactory bulb attached to the cerebral cortex) [Keverne 1999]. As might be expected, both the amygdala and hypothalamus are thought to control our emotional responses. Human menstrual blood and other vaginal secretions were used as ingredients in philtres or "love-potions," believed to incite both love and lust [Birchler 1975; Mueller- Ebeling & Rätsch 1986]. There has been limited research of female human pheromones, but one such study of 50 healthy young women who wore special tampons showed their vaginal secretions contained an extensive complement of simple compounds like acetic, propanoic, and butanoic acids, which are called "copulins" [Michael et al. 1974]. These are known sex-attractant pheromones from the vaginal secretions of rhesus monkeys, which stimulate male sexual activity, and they also occur in such secretions of many other primate species. Interestingly, the levels of these human pheromones varied according to the menstrual cycle, being at their highest concentrations in the phase corresponding to maximum fertility. Philtres were employed to induce someone to fall in love, and were supposed to provoke so-called "love-sickness." Here in México, people especially fear toloache (Datura species) as such an amatory "toxin." Until the mediæval period, men were allegedly primary victims of "love-sickness," although more recently it became rather a supposititious female condition--as in the "hysteria" of the Freudians. There was even posited a so-called virus amatorium in menstrual blood, and even modern textbooks of gynæcology (such as the sixth edition of Geburtshilfe-gynäkologische Propädeutik und Untersuchungslehre, Leipzig, 1967) there survived belief in the existence of an infectious "menotoxin" in human menstrual blood! But to return now to the truffle: as Valentina P. and R. Gordon Wasson showed in their seminal book Mushrooms Russia and History (which, together with a pair of popular articles in 1957 launched the socalled "Psychedelic Age" [Wasson & Wasson 1957; R.G. Wasson 1957; V.P. Wasson 1957]), truffles were long known in Europe as stimulants to venery; indeed, they are known as "testicles" in various languages, such as the old Castillian turmas de tierra or criadillas de tierra, "Earth's testicles," and when the potato first appeared in Europe, it acquired that reputation of the truffle, inasmuch as unscrupulous vendors would pass-off lowly potatoes as truffles. As Agustín de Zárate noted in 1555: "the Indians consume some roots known as potatoes, which are of the form, and almost even of the taste, of turmas de tierra [truffles]." This then gave rise to the phrase "to truffle" or swindle someone, which survives today corrupted as "to trifle" --- thus the cad who "trifled" with a damsel's affections was symbolically giving her a potato, instead of a pheromonal truffle of audacious amatorious repute! Stimulants To Sexuality Our second archaic recipe compounds betel nuts with pheromone-rich musks. Betel is one of the world's most widely-used stimulants, taken as a masticatory, the sliced or shredded fruits of the betel-palm being wrapped in aromatic leaves of the betle pepper, Piper betle, which has been smeared with a paste of a vegetable quicklime, and often the quid be seasoned with cloves and/or cardamoms and other spices, at times likewise with other drugs being added, such as opium and tobacco (and, at least during its glory days, also with cocaine). The major stimulating principle of betel is the alkaloid arecoline, which is one of the prototypical "smart drugs," shown to enhance learning [Sitaram et al. 1978]. In the Indian Ayurvedic system of medicine, betel is regarded to be an aphrodisiac [Raghavan & Baruah 1958]. Stimulants have singularly and collectively the reputation of potent aphrodisiacs; many act on the body's major stimulants system --- the adrenergic, responding to the hormone adrenaline and the neurotransmitter noradrenaline--also exerting dramatic effects on the neurotransmitter dopamine, key element of our so-called "pleasure-circuits" in the midbrain. The best-studied are the amphetamines, including the "psychedelic amphetamines" like Ecstasy or MDMA, and of course cocaine. Straight away one can dismiss MDMA as aphrodisiac--it belongs rather in the same class as alcohol, inasmuch as it "takes away the performance," as noted in a recent British book [Rudgley 1998]. The garden-variety amphetamines, on the other hand, richly deserve their concupiscent reputation, providing one does not exaggerate the dose. Not only do they dramatically heighten libido, but they have been used medically to reverse the depression of libido associated with the chronic use of some serotonineenhancing antidepressants--the "serotonergic" effect in general, while it may help to overcome depression, clearly depresses the sex-drive, which just might give the "patient" new cause for depression! Note, however, that the antidepressant drug nefazodone, Serzone® or Dutonin®, is known rather to enhance libido! Moreover, amphetamines can retard ejaculation in men and seem for many to enhance orgasmic pleasure; besides, they tend to raise blood-pressure, to which might accrue ancillary priapic benefits. The same can be said for cocaine; although again, excess doses may even depress male performance. Indeed, the plantsource of cocaine, the coca-leaf (Erythroxylum species) has a robust erotic reputation in its Andean home. As W.G. Mortimer noted in his 1901 classic History of Coca [Mortimer 1901], "The Peruvian Indians employ Coca to stimulate uterine contractions and regard it as a powerful aphrodisiac." He then went on to quote several contemporary authorities, who were adjudging its medical potentials before our modern era, blighted as it is with pharmacopathological nonsense: "Leopold Casper, of Berlin, considers Coca one of the best of genital tonics, and many modern observers concur in this opinion. Vecki says that cocaine internally to a man aged fifty-six invariably occasioned sexual excitement and cheerfulness." In fairness, it must also be said that he noted that homæopaths: "employ Coca in sexual excess, especially when dependent on onanism." I would say one "dependent on onanism" suffers rather from sexual dearth than excess, and this indeed serves as a valuable caveat regarding the dangers also of an insufficient dose of an aphrosidiac! As regards qat (Catha edulis), the stimulant-plant of Yemen and Ethiopia, the tender branches of which are chewed neat, and which contain the natural amphetamine cathinone and other stimulants: given that this was adopted as a drug in historical times, during the Moslem era, it is not surprising that there be little emphasis on aphrodisiacal effects in the scant literature. To be sure, like coffee after it (likewise adopted in comparatively recent times), and to avoid the general Islamic proscription of "intoxicants" (specifically alcohol, although this ban was extended to cover also traditional Arabian inebriants opium and hashish, but not the non-traditional tobacco), it became necessary to justify qat-use in the context of alertness for late-night Koranic study, for nocturnal prayers in the mosque, and the like. Although pharmacopuritans have disparaged qat-use as conducive to "sexual problems" (of course, for them, heightened libido is the primary such) and "spermatorrhea," or involuntary, non-orgasmic seminal emission, a recent careful study found that about a third of chronic male (but only about one in 20 of female) users reported aphrodisiacal properties, which were personally confirmed by the intrepid researcher, who found that qat-use both stimulated libido and enhanced sexual performance [Kennedy 1987]. Again, the dosage and ancillary health-factors may account for the 20% of male and 10% of female users who rather reported anaphrodisiacal effects. Of the caffeine-containing stimulants, it is the African cola-nut (Cola nitida), which has the strongest reputation as an aphrodisiac. Cola, of course, was ingeniously combined by a Georgia pharmacist with coca-leaves to yield the original Coca-Cola®, that brilliant, non-alcoholic "temperance" beverage which however, along with its host of imitators, was later to be denounced as being causative of the "Coca- Cola fiends" (largely African-American, of course), given to raping white women; to be used as a pretext to proscribe the free-sale of coca and cocaine in the United States in 1914. Coffee (roasted seeds of Coffea species), tea (fermented leaves of Camellia sinensis) and guaraná (seeds of Paullinia cupana) are alike caffeine-containing stimulants with some renown as aphrodisiacs [Rätsch 1997], whereas the caffeine-rich guayusa-leaves (Ilex guayusa) are used in Ecuador against female sterility, and in Argentina the related yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) is closely associated with romantic intrigue, judging by the number of mate-sayings used to intimate or reject coquetry. Another African aphrodisiac of wide repute is eboka or iboga, the root of Tabernanthe iboga, which contains the visionary stimulant ibogaine [Pope 1967; Shulgin & Shulgin 1997]. I would be remiss should I fail to mention here that other great African aphrodisiac, chemically related to eboka, yohimbe or the bark of Corynanthe johimbe, which contains yohimbine, an alkaloid that has been shown dramatically to enhance sexual motivation in male rats [Clark et al. 1984]; and has been used to treat "erectile dysfunction" [Pittler 1998]. My brief survey of stimulant aphrodisiacs would be incomplete were I to fail to include that most famous lovedrug of all time, chocolate or cacao, from the seeds of Theobroma cacao. As I detailed in my book on the subject [Ott 1985], when the Spanish conquistadores first reached the palace of Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, they were astonished to find the royal coffers filled, not with gold, but with cacaobeans, and that the emperor took no other beverage than his cacao-potion, cacáhautl, particularly when he would repair to his harem [Díaz del Castillo 1976]! Pharmacopuritans denounced chocolate early on as an "inflamer of passions," and indeed, its major alkaloid, theobromine (there are only minor amounts of the related xanthine, caffeine), proved to be a potent aphrodisiac in hornets, their drones even copulating with moribund queens [Ishay & Paniry 1979]! Although I should point out I have yet seen no evidence of such dramatic "inphiltration" in the human species, nonetheless chocolate is the love-drug, being packaged in heartshaped boxes for St. Valentine's Day gifts to a sweetheart, and theobromine, like love, is a potent cardiac stimulant, its effects akin to the quickening pulse of amorous excitement. Chocolate also contains minute levels of anandamide, which is our natural neurochemical whose receptor the THC from marijuana activates [di Tomasso et al. 1996], and Moctezuma's cacáhuatl was "spiked" with all manner of stimulant and visionary plants, which may help account for its reputation as an aphrodisiac [Ott 1985; 1996]. Compounded with the appropriate ingredients, not for nothing might they be known as "chocolate truffles!" Philtrum Psychopticum, Or Visionary Venery Our excursus among the erotic electuaries, philtry potions and pubic pomades now brings us to the truly heroic medicines, the "Psychoptica" or entheogens, in which direction points our third classic recipe, for the bhang-boli or pot-pills. Cannabis or marijuana, of course, has long been tarred with a licentious brush, but there are many who attest to its place on Aphrodite's altar. In my experience, unlike many of the pharmaka we have examined, where the emphasis in on male performance (for which alone I can personally vouch), Cannabis would seem to be a bisexual stimulant. In my case, I find its effects to be rather too debilitating in general to be of much use in this regard, more enervating than erotic, but many women I have known are effusively enthusiastic about its aphrodisiacal amatory attributes. In the pages of Playboy magazine [Leary 1966], Timothy Leary described LSD as being: "the most powerful aphrodisiac ever discovered," noting also that the LSD-state was to ordinary, waking consciousness as that state was to deep sleep. (I don't know about anybody else, but that had been enough for me--being a bored, 17-year-old high-schooler in the dreariest of suburbs, I began at once assiduously to seek LSD!) Leary, then well on his path from professor to proselyte, continued: "[S]ex under LSD becomes miraculously enhanced and intensified. I don't mean that it simply generates genital energy. It doesn't automatically produce a longer erection. Rather, it increases your sensitivity a thousand percent. [...] In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms." If that sounds too good to be true, it is--no woman I have ever spoken to has had the good fortune to experience any suchlike "carefully prepared LSD session!" Noting that by that time he had had 311 "psychedelic sessions" and had made love "every time I've taken" LSD, Leary twice evaded the interviewer's questions regarding the number of orgasms a man might expect under the lubricous influence of LSD! But Leary had clearly hit at least one nail squarely on the head, and by the following year there were pulp-novels aplenty, exposing The Sexual Paradise of LSD, LSD Lusters (both 1967) and the 1969 Acid Party, among others, all festooned with concupiscent cover-art. There had already appeared Thelma Moss' pseudonymous (as Constance Newland) account of her having been cured of her frigidity via LSD-psychotherapy [Newland 1962], one of many testimonials to the curative virtues of this uniquely-potent entheogen. The comments that follow apply likewise to the visionary familiars of LSD, such as psilocybine and the mushrooms that contain it (species of Psilocybe and other genera), mescaline (from peyotl, Lophophora williamsii, San Pedro, Trichocereus species, and others) and n,n-dimethyltryptamine or DMT (from some ayahuasca-brews and related South American entheogens). In my opinion, LSD has by far the best erotic possibilities of the class, since it is generally free of physical side-effects, apart from exerting an amphetamine- like stimulation, at 1% of the dose! Like the amphetamines, LSD can work aphrodisiacal wonders, and can certainly exert solid erectile effects on men, but as is the case with many other aspects of its pharmacology, this is captive to "set and setting" (expectation and milieu). As Grinspoon and Bakalar noted in their unbiased review Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered [Grinspoon & Bakalar 1979]: "The basic rule, for stronger psychedelic drugs as for marihuana, is that they heighten sexual interest and enjoyment only when the user is already inclined that way. They are anything but a stimulus to indiscriminate activity. Nevertheless, if temperaments, mood, and circumstances are right, they can produce an extraordinary intensification, prolongation, and elaboration of sexual experience, as they can for almost any experience. [...] But psychedelic drugs are not a reliable way to increase sexual pleasure any more than to achieve other emotional states. They not only enhance sexuality but transform it, often to the point where it becomes hardly recognizable; and they can be as powerfully anaphrodisiac as aphrodisiac. In the varying moods of the drug trip, intense sexual desire may suddenly turn into equally intense disgust or fear, or it may be transcended in a feeling of all-embracing cosmic love that makes mere sexual pleasure seem trivial or irrelevant." [emphasis mine] Although I have never experienced intense sexual desire transmogrifying into disgust or fear, for me the rule has been that the immoderately-prolonged nature of LSD-time in general causes that desire to be transcended before the particular sexual act is consummated or willfully brought to closure. I can recall episodes when some titillating tete a tete mysteriously transmogrified into something else; then abruptly, an eternity later, one or the other might remember: hey, what happened, weren't we making love? To my mind, the true erotic potential of LSD and allied Psychoptica is to ease a mutual attraction into the sexual realm, rapidly to enable people to become better acquainted, in an emotionally-opened way, which applies equally to MDMA. Having spoken to innumerable people about their entheogenic experiences, I would have to say that very rarely does the subject of eroticism ever come up, and it is rather in the scope of "pale religious letchery," to borrow Blake's phrase, in the paranoid, propagandistic fantasies of the pharmacopuritans, that the priapic potentials of LSD and its congeners loom large, so to speak. Moreover, in the traditional world, and with the exception of Cannabis, whose use can be seen clearly in Indian erotic paintings, as well as in association with the Tantric arts, it must be said that the emphasis is far more upon spiritual ecstasy (literally, separating the soul from the body--sex, eating, much light or noise, tend to anchor one's consciousness in the body, militating against ecstasy), whether this be used for self-actualization or more commonly for shamanic healing, than on any potential aphrodisiacal virtues. On the other hand, we are dealing today with the degenerated remnants of archaic traditions, often corrupted by Christianity, and we know but little of the potential breadth of use-modalities in antiquity. In Mesoamerica, there survives rather extensive documentation of "the Age of Entheogens" [Ott 1995] from the time of the conquest a half-millennium ago, which tells us that the entheogens enjoyed ludible, as well as medicinal, sacred and ceremonial roles. To my knowledge there is no specific mention of entheogens as aphrodisiacs, with the exception of the famous case of the cacahuatl-potion of Moctezuma, but the arrogant Spaniards, who evidently did not deign to sample them in any context, could hardly have been aware of such, had it existed, which I think quite likely. There is, however, one class of entheogen that merits special mention here: the Caribbean and South American visionary snuffs ñopo/cohoba and cebíl (prepared from seeds of Anadenanthera peregrina and A. colubrina var. Cebil), whose psychoptic principle is bufotenine, a positional isomer of psilocine, the true active principle of the psilocybian mushrooms [Ott 2001a; 2001b]. As the accompanying photograph of a classic Taíno cemí (zemí) indicates (these are wooden or stone anthropomorphic tables, the flat upper-surface of which was used to array "lines" of the cohoba-snuff), the erotic essence of this entheogen hardly took a back-seat in that long-lost culture. These cemí-artifacts have been found on all four large islands in the Greater Antilles, and their association with the snuff was documented at first-hand by Ramón Pané, left by Columbus on Hispaniola to study the Taíno [Pané 1974; Torres 1998]. Bufotenine provoked circulatory crises when unethically injected intravenously into convicts and mental "patients" (non-convict prisoners) in the United States, and turned their faces the color of an "eggplant" [Fabing & Hawkins 1956; Ott 1996; Turner & Merlis 1959]. Bufotenine is dimethyl-serotonine, and of the many visionary tryptamines (LSD, psilocybine, DMT, etc.) is the closest to serotonine--all are thought to act primarily via serotonine-receptors in the brain. But there are also serotonine-receptors in the vascular system, which accounts for its name: sero, "blood[pressure]," tonine "toning." That bufotenine injected into the bloodstream would cause facial lividity suggests the compound can also bring blood to the penis and indeed, after one particularly intense session of snuffing bufotenine-rich cebíl-seeds in Argentina, I experienced an impressive priapism when I repaired to my lodging. Regrettably, I was totally alone at that moment, and so had no other recourse than "onanism" (note to any homæopaths: I was already chewing coca to beat the band!). Cebíl may well prove to be that much sought-after "herbal Viagra®." While on the subject of bufotenine, a few words about toads (Bufo species, from which the compound gets its name) are in order. Toads being marathon-copulators, some species of which breed en masse in ponds, it is natural that they came to symbolize fertility and venery, and indeed toads figure prominently as ingredients in philtres [Morgan 1995; Wasson & Wasson 1957]. The toad parotoid-gland secretions (technically not venoms, 'though commonly called that) often contain bufotenine, which was first isolated from secretions of Bufo vulgaris in 1920 [Ott 1996]. On the other hand, these toad-secretions contain various toxic compounds, especially cardiotoxic steroids, which would seem to overwhelm bufotenine toxicologically, as this is generally present in relatively modest amounts. Nevertheless, dried Bufosecretion is used in traditional Chinese medicine, under the name Ch'an-su, and similar preparations were used to treat cardiac insufficiency before the introduction of Digitalis extracts. One use of Ch'an-su is as a so-called "love-stone"-- small cubes of the dried secretion are sold as aphrodisiacs, to be moistened and rubbed on the penis to prolong erections, which is thought to involve local anæsthesia, rather than any vascular actions of bufotenine, although this has been detected in the "love-stones." Recently, however, at least four toad-titillators in New York died after they had ingested this product, which likewise contained toxic amounts of cardioactive steroids! There also exist reports of people smoking these toad-preparations, as a supposititious psychoactive drug [Chamakura 1994]. In the famous potion-brewing scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth, his three "weird sisters" give the toad pride of place in their cauldron: "Toad, that under cold stone / Days and nights hast thirty-one / Swelter'd venom sleeping got / Boil thou first i' the charmed pot." There is some evidence for the use of toads in European witches' philtres, as well as in the so-called "flying ointments," as also their addition as fortificants to American chicha beers, but we have at present insufficient data to speculate on relevant pharmacology, either psychoptic or aphrodisiac. Several artistic representations point to an erotic dimension of the ointments, which did contain known visionary plants, such as belladonna (Atropa belladonna), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) and thornapple (Datura stramonium) [Hansen 1978; Müller-Ebeling et al. 1998], all of which contain psychoptic tropane alkaloids, such as scopolamine, hyoscyamine and atropine [Ott 1996]. Indeed, in a famous bioassay experiment, the Spanish physician Andrés de Laguna "managed to obtain a good cannister-full" of a "flying ointment" which he "used to anoint from head to toe the wife of the hangman" of Metz, who promptly fell into a profound sleep for 36 hours! When she came to her senses, she was distraught at having been awakened "from all the pleasures and delights of the world," and told her husband with a sly smile: "know that I have made you a cuckhold, and with a lover younger and better than you" [Gómez Fernández 1999]! Toad-secretions or oneirogenic aphrodisiacs anyone? --- I prefer conscious concupiscence! An Erotic Epilogue Laurence Sterne showed the keenest of poetic intuition in his riotous farce, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, that "Cock and a Bull" story, "and one of the best of its kind, I ever heard," when he included the learned Hafen Slawkenbergius' tale, in which Nosarians and prodigious Noses take the place of priapic Penises [Sterne 1935]. For in matters erotic, it is clear to me that the nose knows, and we would do well to remember that our sexual centers are not in the cerebral cortex but in that reptilian rhinencephalon or "smell brain." Indeed, the best sexual connections I have ever experienced have been with women that not only were not exemplary of my particular ideal of female allure, but with whom I had all manner of fundamental incompatibilities; cultural, (anti-) religious, socioeconomic and intellectual-- indeed, the only compatibility evident to me was a fabulous fit between pheromones and receptors which, not surprisingly, tends to be mutual. In one particularly memorable case, I could not be for too long within a meter or two of the woman--even fully clothed, in a crowded office--without getting a persistent erection, which I usually had to conceal with my backpack. In somewhat over a year, essentially all we did together was have animalistic sex, and if we had managed to sate our amatory appetites, which generally required some hours, we basically just got in each other's way! Conversely, alas, some of the best overall compatibilities I have known with women have tended to be sexually ordinary. It is clear to me that the pathway to a science of aphrochemistry leads via research on human sex-attractant pheromones, and that most potent philtre will likely be some erotic effluvium, a sort of "amorous aromatherapy," rather than a pill, puff or powder; mayhap a pheromonal pessary for women, philtry pomade for men. This direction was pointed to by Patrick Sueskind, in his interesting novel The Perfume, at the climax of which his antihero Grenouille ("frog," which should rather be Crapaud, "toad") is about to be executed for the murder of numerous women, when he uncorks the bottle of perfume he had made from the erotic essences of their bodies, for which purpose he had slain them, so unleashing a frenetic orgy in the crowd of morbid spectators! It is evident that pheromones, indeed olfaction itself, are not operative in all human beings. Many people are effectively anosmic, and 72% of the roughly 1000 human genes associated with olfactory receptors are non-functional (pseudogenes), as well as all of the human genes which have been correlated with putative pheromonal receptors. Moreover, anatomical studies of 564 adults found that 70% lacked the vomeronasal organ, which was present bilaterally in merely 8%, unilaterally in the remaining 22% [Keverne 1999]. Even stranger, it has been said that in those human beings possessing a vomeronasal organ, this invariably lacks effective neuronal connections! This I do not believe, at least in my own case, and there are surely those Grenouille among us, we who inhabit a mysterious, musky and mellifluous world. Through pharmacogenetic study of human idiosyncrasy [Ott 1997] with respect to genes for our pheromonereceptors, it is theoretically possible to develop individually customized "cocktails" of pheromones, personalized philtreprescriptions. 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Gateway Community & Technical College>News Archive>Gateway To Use $2.74 Million TAACCCT Grant to Add Logistics Training and Grow Manufacturing, Related Programs
Gateway To Use $2.74 Million TAACCCT Grant to Add Logistics Training and Grow Manufacturing, Related Programs
Gateway Community & Technical College said today a $2.7 million U.S. Department of Labor grant awarded last week will enable the college to expand capacity in programs that prepare workers for high-paying, high-skilled jobs in local industries.
We will use the grant to purchase new equipment for capacity expansion, create new career pathways and credentials, and enhance our efforts to reduce the gap between trained workers and jobs that are unfilled due to a lack of skilled applicants, said Gateway President/CEO Ed Hughes.
The grant project, known as Innovative Multi-industry Partnership and Career Training (IMPACT), aligns extremely well with ongoing efforts to strengthen the pipeline of skilled manufacturing workers and also with our VETS education and training program, Hughes added.
Project IMPACT is aimed at increasing the number of students who become industry certified in advanced manufacturing, utilities, transportation, logistics, and construction trades. The grant will enable Gateway to add new programs for commercial drivers license and logistics for the first time and expand existing programs in computerized manufacturing and machining, electrical technology, energy technologies, HVAC, industrial maintenance, manufacturing engineering technology, and welding technology.
The result will be a larger number of stackable and latticed credentials that build toward associate degrees and link to job ladders in specific industries.
The project is designed to increase the number of people obtaining associate degrees, short-term credentials and industry certification; better prepare veterans and others for high-demand, high-skill jobs in the targeted industries; and serve employer needs for a well-qualified workforce, Hughes said. We will collaborate with a wide range of industry, workforce and community partners to reach these goals.
Partners involved in the project include the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Mazak, MAG, Verst Group Logistics, Duke Energy, Cincinnati Bell, Workman HVAC, the Northern Kentucky Workforce Investment Board, Kentucky Energy Workforce Development Consortium, Kentucky Energy Sector Partnership, the Gateway VETS advisory board, Partners for a Competitive Workforce, Fiber Optic Association, and Northern Kentucky Industrial Park Association.
Partner cooperation and input was invaluable in preparing the grant application, which was written by a team led by Dr. Amber Decker, Gateway director of grants and contracts, Hughes said. We applaud the teams successful effort to bring this investment to the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati workforce.
The Gateway award and a grant of similar size to Cincinnati State Technical and Community College resulted in a combined federal investment of $5.5 million in our region from the DOLs Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program. That is a significant endorsement of collaborative efforts to improve the local economy, Hughes added.
Gateway was one of only two colleges in Kentucky to receive funding from the latest round of TAACCCT grants. West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah will receive $2.75 million as part of a nine-college, multi-state grant led by an Illinois institution.
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Emory & Henry Women’s Basketball Blows By Bridgewater, 80-58, On Senior Day Saturday
Bridgewater (14-11) 10 15 16 17 58
Emory & Henry (22-3) 21 18 21 20 80
-photo courtesy of Kylie Lang
Pts: Claire Mocarski - 11
Ast: Madison Baum - 4
Pts: Laken Blackburn - 16
Reb: Peyton Williams - 18
Ast: Myesha Logan - 6
EMORY, Va. – The Emory & Henry College Women's Basketball Team (22-3, 15-3 ODAC) concluded the regular season on Saturday afternoon with a convincing 80-58 senior day victory over Bridgewater College (14-11, 8-10 ODAC). The Wasps honored their seven seniors in a ceremony prior to the start of the game.
FINAL SCORE – Emory & Henry 80, Bridgewater 58
LOCATION – Emory, Virginia
VENUE – Bob Johnson Court at the John Rutledge King Center
RECORDS – Emory & Henry (22-3, 15-3 ODAC); Bridgewater (14-10, 8-10 ODAC)
- Emory & Henry built its lead across the opening eight minutes of the first period for a 19-7 advantage. The Wasps would go up 21-10 at the end of the frame.
- Early in the second, E&H kept the pressure on as it extended the lead to 18 (36-18) before BC finished the half on a 7-3 run for a 39-25 halftime score.
- Returning to action, the Eagles trimmed the margin down to 41-31 at the 7:09 mark of the third but the Wasps responded with six in a row to push the lead back to 16. Emory & Henry would extend the advantage to as much as 29 (78-49) with 4:45 to go in the game as it cruised to the 80-58 victory.
Emory & Henry Individual Leaders
- Senior forward Laken Blackburn (Wilkesboro, N.C.) led all players with 16 points and pulled down three rebounds while senior guard Tessa Johnston (High Point, N.C.) had 11 points and three boards.
- Senior forward Taylor Blevins (Abingdon, Va.) notched 10 points, eight rebounds and two steals while junior forward Kara Stafford (Bristol, Tenn.) had 10 points and three rebounds.
- Junior guard Peyton Williams (Saltville, Va.) added eight points, a career-high 18 rebounds, four blocks, three assists and two steals.
Bridgewater Individual Leaders
- Claire Mocarski paced the Eagles with 11 points and seven rebounds while Madison Baum had 10 points, four assists three rebounds and two steals.
- Rebecca Harvey contributed 10 points and two rebounds to the cause.
- Emory & Henry shot just 39 percent (23-for-59) for the game but was an efficient 31-for-40 (77.5%) at the free throw line.
- Bridgewater was a cold 21-of-66 (31.8%) from the field and made 65 percent (13-of-20) of its free throws.
- E&H posted a 52-38 rebounding advantage including 17 offensive boards. The Wasps led, 14-7, on second-chance points and 14-4 on fast-break buckets.
- The two squads equally made use of the space near the basket with Emory & Henry scoring 34 points and Bridgewater 32 points in the paint.
- As one of the top-six finishers in the league this year, Emory & Henry has received a bye to the ODAC Tournament Quarterfinals which will be played on Friday at the Salem Civic Center.
- The Wasps' opponent will be determined following the first round on Tuesday.
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The First Day I Got My MICHELIN Stars: Junghyun Park Of Atomix In NYC
People 3 minutes 04 November 2019
We get the world's most celebrated chefs to recall what it was like when they got their very first MICHELIN stars.
Korean cuisine New York City First Day I Got My Stars
Chef Junghyun Park wants to fly the South Korean flag high through almost every aspect of his contemporary Korean fine-dining restaurant, Atomix. From mumallaengi-seasoned rice and makgeolli ice cream to exquisite ceramics, menu cards and interiors crafted by Korean designers, Park hopes that Atomix can be a creative platform for Korean artists and artisans.
“Atomix’s beginnings were firmly rooted in our mission to deliver and translate Korean culture to our guests," he says. "We wanted to tell the stories of Korean traditional cuisine, history, ingredients, techniques; we also wanted to help tell the stories of contemporary Korean designers working and living in modern Korean society.”
In a similar vein, he adds that Atomix is about “paying respect to Korea's traditional cuisine and its history, being inspired by modern, ever-evolving global cuisines and defining what tomorrow's Korean cuisine culture could look like—all at once.”
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Chef Junghyun ('JP') and his wife, Ellia Park, run Atomix and Atoboy, both in New York City. (Photo by Diane Kang.)
The gastronomy world has always held a special place in Park’s heart. After graduating with a food science degree, the Seoul native took on a globetrotting tour, from Finland to London and finally Australia, where he took on a couple of restaurant apprenticeships to make up for his lack of classic culinary training. After he returned to Seoul, he worked in two-MICHELIN-starred restaurant Jungsik and helped open its New York outpost, which currently holds two MICHELIN stars.
In 2016, Park and his wife, Jeongeun “Ellia” Park, opened Atoboy, a casual progressive Korean restaurant in Manhattan that puts the spotlight on banchan (small Korean side dishes) and infusing French culinary techniques in Korean dishes. Spurred on by its success, the couple opened Atomix, an innovative Korean restaurant, which is a more refined version of their culinary vision, last year. Both restaurants’ names contain the word, "ato," which comes from the ancient Korean word for “gift.”
Atoboy made it into the New York City Bib Gourmand selection in 2017, while Atomix went on to receive its first MICHELIN star in the 2018 guide. In October, the MICHELIN Guide New York City & Westchester County 2020 Selection was released and Atomix was elevated from one to two MICHELIN stars in the 15th edition of the New York City guide.
The first floor bar and lounge at Atomix. (Photo by Evan Sung.)
The inspectors praised Atomix for its exquisite multi-course menu and dishes which were "delicate, yet satisfying and display extraordinary finesse and detail". Some signature dishes from Atomix include bim gugak (fried Korean seaweed chips) with mumallaengi rice and smoked trout roe, Hanwoo strip loin with fermented fruit sauce, dashima and wasabi leaf, and makgeolli ice cream with Chinese black tea syrup, Korean pear and sumac meringue.
So far for Park, 2019 has been a hectic year as “both Atoboy and Atomix are growing at a fast pace.” In May, he also did a four-hands collaboration with chef Vicky Lau of one-MICHELIN-starred Tate Dining Room & Bar in Hong Kong. "We hope that the coming months will be more of self-reflection, and maturing and strengthening as a team and family," he says.
He adds that Atoboy and Atomix will continue the Korean chef dining series, which introduces Korean chefs to the vibrant dining scene in the Big Apple.
What was your first encounter with the MICHELIN Guide?
My first memory of the MICHELIN Guide was when I was a student in middle school. As long as I can recall, I was interested in food, and I already had dreams of becoming a chef.
Through the guide, I learned about many European fine-dining destinations, and reading about the MICHELIN-starred restaurants felt like a faraway dream that was almost impossible for me to experience. I remember vowing to myself that one day I would eat at those places, work for these places and, eventually, lead and open a restaurant of such caliber.
What was it like when Atomix received its first MICHELIN star in 2018?
The distinction came at such a short time after Atomix opened, so I was managing my expectations and truly did not expect the restaurant to receive a star. I could not believe it when I received the call.
How did you celebrate?
We celebrated with our employees, who worked hard to achieve such an honor in the short amount of time, at the restaurant after our workday was over. It was a great time.
Atomix's seabream hwe dish. (Photo courtesy of Atomix.)
As a chef, what does having a MICHELIN star mean to you?
It was truly a dream come true for me. Throughout the years, I have retained a dream-like sense towards this honor even as I worked my way up the ranks, so it was truly a humbling experience for me. It has taught me that if you work hard, with earnestness and passion, your dreams can become reality. It also motivates me to dream bigger and work harder, and to inspire myself and others.
With Atomix having received a MICHELIN star, how has that impacted your career?
Of course, it impacts our recognition in New York City, which is a great and large market for restaurants and diners. I believe that this is a huge push towards being recognized on a more global scale for many diners and industry guests.
What advice do you have for young chefs?
I would advise young chefs to not work towards MICHELIN stars, even if it is their dream (as was mine). I believe that the focus should be on pushing yourself to your best abilities, to seriously consider what your unique vision and talents are, and to work hard every day. With dedication and honest, earnest work, I think opportunities and distinctions such as the MICHELIN star will come.
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Written by Kenneth Goh
Kenneth is a former newspaper journalist who relishes uncovering stories in eateries and kitchens as much as hunting for new chomping grounds. With more than five years of content production experiences on print, online and video platforms, he enjoys his min chiang kueh as much as moussaka. From chefs, restaurateurs to hawkers, he is intrigued by the blend of ingenuity and hard work behind their food.
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Two Texas Art Publications Celebrate Issue Releases
by Brandon Zech December 6, 2018
This Saturday in Houston and in Austin you can catch parties celebrating the release of two Texas publications.
On December 8 in Houston, from 6-9PM, Flak Magazine will host its Issue 0 launch party at Space HL’s (formerly galleryHOMELAND) new location. Established by three Houstonians, Michael McFadden, Paul Middendorf, and Elizabeth Rhodes, the publication aims to “give artists a platform for work that is not easily presented in galleries or institutions,” and to elevate the artwork being made by Houston artists. This inaugural issue was made possible through one of Houston’s Let Creativity Happen grants, and by an Indiegogo campaign initiated by Flak. The publication’s Issue 0 will include projects by Cody Ledvina, Bret Shirley, S Rodriguez, and Ryan Hawk, among others.
Fields’ autumn/winter 2018 issue featuring a Deborah Roberts’ 2017 work Still We Rise
On December 8 from 7-10PM in Austin, at 5305 Bolm Road (the former home of Big Medium and Not Gallery) is a five-year anniversary celebration and tenth issue release party for fields magazine. Dedicated to showcasing all kinds of creatives — writers, musicians, poets, painters, illustrators, and more — the print publication emphasizes the stories and works of those who are less recognized. The publication’s first issue came out in the winter of 2013, and it has been intermittently releasing winter, spring, and summer editions since.
The publication, though based in Austin, does have an international scope: Its most recent issue, which came out earlier this year, featured a profile of Berlin-based artist Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro. Still, many Austinites are highlighted in the magazine’s pages, like creative duo Elizabeth McDonald Schwaiger and Seth Orion Schwaiger, who also appeared in fields‘ ninth issue, along with Deborah Roberts, whose artwork will grace the cover of issue 10.
fields anniversary celebration and issue release party will also feature an exhibition of artworks curated by the publication’s former contributor, Andie Flores. The show includes pieces by Sarah Castillo, Daniel Ramirez, Natalia Rocafuerte, Megan Solis, and Jose Villalobos. Additionally, there will be performances by Ms. Flores and by artist Rosalind Hussell, along with works by Payasa, a collaboration between Ms. Flores and Cindy Popp.
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Here lies the remains of that person who tried to make this a soap opera.
The Troll who had to Scroll but was forced to Roll.
Lol. We have a welcome committee ready in hell for that person. Has anyone seen Fareed?
Last night I spread my mommy's legs and Modi fu cked her good.
My goodness. So ravishing. Lol
Obama f ukked Modi real good. Without vaseline.
I su ck Modi Indian di ck.
Then you must be Fareed Zakaria.
No. I am Joe...
Joe Mama.
My hero is @Blue Saffron who within months brought this to an end. Mission Accomplished. All done. Good bye.
I love to shove Blue Saffron's hand up my asss.
Hi folks. Blue Saffron is great. A great di ck su cker. Lol
I must go now. I love to master.bate between posting my lists.
Bob's view of the world is almost always a joke.
WUH?
Wow!!! So many freedom fighting outfits in India. WOW!!!
Hinddooos must be pulling their usual "suppress the minorities routine" on them. After all the protesting, they took matters in their own hands. So there we have it.
INDIA, A FREEDOM FIGHTING CENTRALE!!!
Gimme Kashmir!! Gimme Sikhland!! Gimme Tamil Land!!! Gimme Muslimland!!!
FOLKS, just look at all the Freedom Fighting Outfits in India. They ain't no soup kitchens. Right?
AND THEY ALL CAN'T BE WRONG !!!
Hmmmmmm..
A SAMPLING OF SOME 114 FREEDOM FIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA:
1. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
2. United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS)
3. Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO)
4. Bodo Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF)
5. Dima Halim Daogah (DHD)
6. Karbi National Volunteers (KNV)
7. Rabha National Security Force (RNSF)
8. Koch-Rajbongshi Liberation Organisation (KRLO)
9. Hmar People's Convention- Democracy (HPC-D)
10. Karbi People's Front (KPF)
11. Tiwa National Revolutionary Force (TNRF)
12. Bircha Commando Force (BCF)
13. Bengali Tiger Force (BTF)
14. Adivasi Security Force (ASF)
15. All Assam Adivasi Suraksha Samiti (AAASS)
16. Gorkha Tiger Force (GTF)
17. Barak Valley Youth Liberation Front (BVYLF)
18. United Liberation Front of Barak Valley
19. United National Liberation Front (UNLF)
20. People's Liberation Army (PLA)
21. People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)
22. The above mentioned three groups now operate from a unified platform,
23. the Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF)
24. Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP)
25. Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL)
26. Manipur Liberation Tiger Army (MLTA)
27. Iripak Kanba Lup (IKL)
28. People's Republican Army (PRA)
29. Kangleipak Kanba Kanglup (KKK)
30. Kangleipak Liberation Organisation (KLO)
31. Revolutionary Joint Committee (RJC)
32. National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)
33. People's United Liberation Front (PULF)
34. Kuki National Army (KNA)
35. Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA)
36. Kuki National Organisation (KNO)
37. Kuki Independent Army (KIA)
38. Kuki Defence Force (KDF)
39. Kuki International Force (KIF)
40. Kuki National Volunteers (KNV)
41. Kuki Liberation Front (KLF)
42. Kuki Security Force (KSF)
43. Kuki Liberation Army (KLA)
44. Kuki Revolutionary Front (KRF)
45. United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF)
46. Hmar People's Convention (HPC)
47. Hmar People's Convention- Democracy (HPC-D)
48. Hmar Revolutionary Front (HRF)
49. Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA)
50. Zomi Revolutionary Volunteers (ZRV)
51. Indigenous People's Revolutionary Alliance(IRPA)
52. Kom Rem People's Convention (KRPC)
53. Chin Kuki Revolutionary Front (CKRF)
54. Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC)
55. Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
56. People's Liberation Front of Meghalaya (PLF-M)
57. Hajong United Liberation Army (HULA)
58. National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) – NSCN(IM)
59. National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) – NSCN (K)
60. Naga National Council (Adino) – NNC (Adino)
61. Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)
62. Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF)
63. International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)
64. Khalistan Commando Force (KCF)
65. All-India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF)
66. Bhindala Tigers Force of Khalistan (BTFK)
67. Khalistan Liberation Army (KLA)
68. Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF)
69. Khalistan Armed Force (KAF)
70. Dashmesh Regiment
71. Khalistan Liberation Organisation (KLO)
72. Khalistan National Army (KNA)
73. National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)
74. All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF)
75. Tripura Liberation Organisation Front (TLOF)
76. United Bengali Liberation Front (UBLF)
77. Tripura Tribal Volunteer Force (TTVF)
78. Tripura Armed Tribal Commando Force (TATCF)
79. Tripura Tribal Democratic Force (TTDF)
80. Tripura Tribal Youth Force (TTYF)
81. Tripura Liberation Force (TLF)
82. Tripura Defence Force (TDF)
83. All Tripura Volunteer Force (ATVF)
84. Tribal Commando Force (TCF)
86. All Tripura Bharat Suraksha Force (ATBSF)
87. Tripura Tribal Action Committee Force (TTACF) Socialist Democratic
88. Front of Tripura (SDFT)
89. All Tripura National Force (ATNF)
90. Tripura Tribal Sengkrak Force (TTSF)
91. Tiger Commando Force (TCF)
92. Tripura Mukti Police (TMP)
93. Tripura Rajya Raksha Bahini (TRRB)
94. Tripura State Volunteers (TSV)
95. Tripura National Democratic Tribal Force (TNDTF)
96. National Militia of Tripura (NMT)
97. All Tripura Bengali Regiment (ATBR)
98. Bangla Mukti Sena (BMS)
99. All Tripura Liberation Organisation (ATLO)
100. Tripura National Army (TNA)
101. Tripura State Volunteers (TSV)
102. Borok National Council of Tripura (BNCT)
103. Mizoram
104. Bru National Liberation Front
105. Hmar People's Convention- Democracy (HPC-D)
106. Arunachal Pradesh
107. Arunachal Dragon Force (ADF)
108. Left-wing Extremist groups
109. People's Guerrilla Army
110. People's War Group
111. Maoist Communist Centre
112. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
113. Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Janashaktih
114. Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT)
SOME MORE FREEDOM FIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA
Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES)
Al Badr
All Tripura Tiger Force
Al-Umar-Mujahideen
Babbar Khalsa International
Communist Party of India (Maoist) all its formations and front organisations
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) - People’s War, All its formations and front organizations
Deendar Anjuman
Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DEM)
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen / Harkat-ul-Ansar / Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen / Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment
Indian Mujahideen and all its formations and front organisations
International Sikh Youth Federation
Jaish-e-Mohammad / Tahrik-e-Furqan
Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen
Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front
Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL)
Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP)
Khalistan Commando Force
Khalistan Zindabad Force
Lashkar-e-Taiba/ Pasban-e-Ahle Hadis
Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF)
Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), All its formations and Front Organisations
National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
National Liberation Front of Tripura
People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleippak (PREPAK)
Students Islamic Movement of India
Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA)
Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)
United National Liberation Front (UNLF)
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)[
United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS)
Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO)
Bodo Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF)
Dima Halim Daogah (DHD)
Karbi National Volunteers (KNV)
Rabha National Security Force (RNSF)
Koch-Rajbongshi Liberation Organisation (KRLO)
Hmar People's Convention- Democracy (HPC-D)
Karbi People's Front (KPF)
Tiwa National Revolutionary Force (TNRF)
Bircha Commando Force (BCF)
Bengali Tiger Force (BTF)
Adivasi Security Force (ASF)
All Assam Adivasi Suraksha Samiti (AAASS)
Gorkha Tiger Force (GTF)
Barak Valley Youth Liberation Front (BVYLF)
Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA)
United Liberation Front of Barak Valley
Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULFA)
Muslim Security Council of Assam (MSCA)
United Liberation Militia of Assam (ULMA)
Islamic Liberation Army of Assam (ILAA)
Muslim Volunteer Force (MVF)
Muslim Liberation Army (MLA)
Muslim Security Force (MSF)
Islamic Sevak Sangh (ISS)
Islamic United Reformation Protest of India (IURPI)
United Muslim Liberation Front of Assam (UMLFA)
Revolutionary Muslim Commandos (RMC)
Muslim Tiger Force (MTF)
People’s United Liberation Front (PULF)
Adam Sena (AS)
Harkat-ul-Jehad
WAIT WAIT.....SOME MORE FREEDOM FIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA
People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)
WAIT ... WAIT .......EVEN MORE FREEDOM FIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA::
Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC)
Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
People’s Liberation Front of Meghalaya (PLF-M)
Hajong United Liberation Army (HULA)
National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) – NSCN(IM)
National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) – NSCN (K)
Naga National Council (Adino) – NNC (Adino)
Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)
Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF)
International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)
Khalistan Commando Force (KCF)
All-India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF)
Bhindala Tigers Force of Khalistan (BTFK)
Khalistan Liberation Army (KLA)
Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF)
Khalistan Armed Force (KAF)
Dashmesh Regiment
Khalistan Liberation Organisation (KLO)
Khalistan National Army (KNA)
National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)
All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF)
Tripura Liberation Organisation Front (TLOF)
United Bengali Liberation Front (UBLF)
Tripura Tribal Volunteer Force (TTVF)
Tripura Armed Tribal Commando Force (TATCF)
Tripura Tribal Democratic Force (TTDF)
Tripura Tribal Youth Force (TTYF)
Tripura Liberation Force (TLF)
Tripura Defence Force (TDF)
All Tripura Volunteer Force (ATVF)
Tribal Commando Force (TCF)
All Tripura Bharat Suraksha Force (ATBSF)
Tripura Tribal Action Committee Force (TTACF)
Socialist Democratic Front of Tripura (SDFT)
All Tripura National Force (ATNF)
Tripura Tribal Sengkrak Force (TTSF)
Tiger Commando Force (TCF)
Tripura Mukti Police (TMP)
Tripura Rajya Raksha Bahini (TRRB)
Tripura State Volunteers (TSV)
Tripura National Democratic Tribal Force (TNDTF)
EVEN MORE FREEDOM FIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA::
National Militia of Tripura (NMT)
All Tripura Bengali Regiment (ATBR)
Bangla Mukti Sena (BMS)
All Tripura Liberation Organisation (ATLO)
Tripura National Army (TNA)
Borok National Council of Tripura (BNCT)
Bru National Liberation Front
Arunachal Dragon Force (ADF)
Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
People's War Group
Maoist Communist Centre
People's Guerrilla Army
Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist-Janashakti(CPI-ML-Janashakti)
Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC)
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)
Asif Reza Commando Force
Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO)
Ranvir Sena
Blue Saffron didn't do one single thing to this news blog other than re-word official versions of news stories trying to make himself appear to be wise. Not one single original thought has come out of you "news bloggers" here, save a few. You are all dumbed down idiots who blindly wave whatever national flag you happened to be born under.
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Goldilocks was walking along one sunny afternoon when she found a beautiful house in the woods. The door was open, so she walked right in. There she found a table set with three bowls of steaming porridge. "Hello?" she called out, but no one was home. She tried the first bowl, but it was too hot. She tried the second bowl, but it was too cold. Then she tried the third bowl, and it was just right.
"Wow," she said, once she had finished the meal. "Now I'm feeling very sleepy." So she wandered around looking for a bed. She couldn't find one anywhere on the bottom floor.
Finally, she found a staircase at one end of the house. She climbed up the steps and went into the first room. There was a great big bed in the middle of the room, so Goldilocks jumped right in. "Yikes!" she exclaimed. "This one's too hard!"
She wandered to the next room. There she found another bed, and hopped right in it. But it was too soft.
By this time, Goldilocks was very tired. She went into the third room, and yelled out in surprise. There were three pink pigs cowering in the corner of the room. "Wait a second," she said. "You guys are in the wrong fairy tale."
"No, we're not," answered one of the pigs. "Don't you know this is a two-story house?"
Garoooooooooooan.....
Once upon a time there were three bears. A Mommy bear, a Daddy bear and a Baby bear. One day they went for a walk. When they got back, Daddy bear asked, "Who's been eating my porridge?" Baby bear asked tearfully, "And who's been eating my porridge?" Mommy bear explains, "Oh Stop this nonsense, I haven't made porridge this morning yet."
How is the weather in Bombay, banasy. You Hindu raypist from India. Lol
I wouldn't know; I am not Indian, and I live in the US.
Once upon a time there was this old lady living in a giant shoe. She had so many abortions her uterus fell out. And a dog ate it. And died.
It is called Uterine Prolaspe. Caused by births. So it would be caused by the opposite of abortions.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/uterine-prolapse/basics/causes/con-20027708
Nice "joke", though.
A fine young Australian couple were eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child. When the baby was born it was the wrong color. And so "A dingo ate my baby."
That saying came from a 1980 case in Australia, and Lindy Chamberlain never said that; neither did Meryl Streep in the 1988 film adaptation of that case, A Cry In The Dark".
The coroner ruled that baby Azaria's death was, in fact, the result of a dingo attack.
They're known for being viscious, dingos are.
It is a very popular meme, though.
Thanks for the reminder that truth is stranger than fiction.
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Gee. So totally unexpected.
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Goose and Gander
When an old straight man is caught naked with a young female it is called "statutory raip".
When an old gay priest gets caught naked with a young male it is called "statutory raip" except by a couple of old church ladies.
DT w/ JH
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call
them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so
what, can't we all be brothers?
Politically Correct Little Red Riding Hood
There once was a young person named Little Red Riding Hood who lived on the edge of a large forest full of endangered owls and rare plants that would probably provide a cure for cancer if only someone took the time to study them.
Red Riding Hood lived with a nurture giver whom she sometimes referred to as "mother", although she didn't mean to imply by this term that she would have thought less of the person if a close biological link did not in fact exist.
Nor did she intend to denigrate the equal value of nontraditional households, although she was sorry if this was the impression conveyed.
One day her mother asked her to take a basket of organically grown fruit and mineral water to her grandmother's house.
"But mother, won't this be stealing work from the unionized people who have struggled for years to earn the right to carry all packages between various people in the woods?"
Red Riding Hood's mother as sured her that she had called the union boss and gotten a special compas sionate mission exemption form.
"But mother, aren't you oppressing me by ordering me to do this?"
Red Riding Hood's mother pointed out that it was impossible for women to oppress each other, since all women were equally oppressed until all women were free.
"But mother, then shouldn't you have my brother carry the basket, since he's an oppressor, and should learn what it's like to be oppressed?"
And Red Riding Hood's mother explained that her brother was attending a special rally for animal rights, and besides, this wasn't stereotypical women's work, but an empowering deed that would help engender a feeling of community.
"But won't I be oppressing Grandma, by implying that she's sick and hence unable to independently further her own selfhood?"
But Red Riding Hood's mother explained that her grandmother wasn't actually sick or incapacitated or mentally handicapped in any way, although that was not to imply that any of these conditions were inferior to what some people called "health".
Thus Red Riding Hood felt that she could get behind the idea of delivering the basket to her grandmother, and so she set off.
Many people believed that the forest was a foreboding and dangerous place, but Red Riding Hood knew that this was an irrational fear based on cultural paradigms instilled by a patriarchal society that regarded the natural world as an exploitable resource, and hence believed that natural predators were in fact intolerable compet itors.
Other people avoided the woods for fear of thieves and deviants, but Red Riding Hood felt that in a truly classless society all marginalized peoples would be able to "come out" of the woods and be accepted as valid lifestyle role models.
On her way to Grandma's house, Red Riding Hood passed a woodchopper, and wandered off the path, in order to examine some flowers.
She was startled to find herself standing before a Wolf, who asked her what was in her basket.
Red Riding Hood's teacher had warned her never to talk to strangers, but she was confident in taking control of her own budding se xuality, and chose to dialogue with the Wolf.
She replied, "I am taking my Grandmother some healthful snacks in a gesture of solidarity."
The Wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone."
Red Riding Hood said, "I find your se xist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop an alternative and yet entirely valid worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I would prefer to be on my way."
Red Riding Hood returned to the main path, and proceeded towards her Grandmother's house.
But because his status outside society had freed him from slavish adherence to linear, Western-style thought, the Wolf knew of a quicker route to Grandma's house.
He burst into the house and ate Grandma, a course of action affirmative of his nature as a predator.
Then, unhampered by rigid, traditionalist gender role notions, he put on Grandma's nightclothes, crawled under the bedclothes, and awaited developments.
Red Riding Hood entered the cottage and said,
"Grandma, I have brought you some cruelty free snacks to salute you in your role of wise and nurturing matriarch."
The Wolf said softly "Come closer, child, so that I might see you."
Red Riding Hood said, "Goodness! Grandma, what big eyes you have!"
"You forget that I am optically challenged."
"And Grandma, what an enormous, what a fine nose you have."
"Naturally, I could have had it fixed to help my acting career, but I didn't give in to such societal pressures, my child."
"And Grandma, what very big, sharp teeth you have!"
The Wolf could not take any more of these specist slurs, and, in a reaction appropriate for his ac customed milieu, he leaped out of bed, grabbed Little Red Riding Hood, and opened his jaws so wide that she could see her poor Grandmother cowering in his belly.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Red Riding Hood bravely shouted. "You must request my permission before proceeding to a new level of intimacy!"
The Wolf was so startled by this statement that he loosened his grasp on her.
At the same time, the woodchopper burst into the cottage, brandishing an ax.
"Hands off!" cried the woodchopper.
"And what do you think you're doing?" cried Little Red Riding Hood. "If I let you help me now, I would be expressing a lack of confidence in my own abilities, which would lead to poor self esteem and lower achievement scores on college entrance exams."
"Last chance, sister! Get your hands off that endangered species! This is an FBI sting!" screamed the woodchopper, and when Little Red Riding Hood nonetheless made a sudden motion, he sliced off her head.
"Thank goodness you got here in time," said the Wolf. "The brat and her grandmother lured me in here. I thought I was a goner."
"No, I think I'm the real victim, here," said the woodchopper. "I've been dealing with my anger ever since I saw her picking those protected flowers earlier. And now I'm going to have such a trauma. Do you have any aspirin?"
"Sure," said the Wolf.
"Thanks."
"I feel your pain," said the Wolf, and he patted the woodchopper on his firm, well padded back, gave a little belch, and said "Do you have any Maalox?"
Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,
even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is
you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.
Once upon a time, there were 3 little pigs. The straw pig, the stick pig, and the brick pig. One day this nasty old wolf came up to the straw pig's house and said, "I'm gonna huff and puff, and blow your house down." So he did! The straw pig went running over to the stick pig's house and said, "Let me in, please, the wolf just blew down my house!" The stick pig let the straw pig in. Then the wolf showed up and said, "I'm gonna huff and puff, and blow your house down!" And he did! So, the straw pig and the stick pig went running over to the brick pig's house and said, "Let us in! The wolf just blew down our houses and we're scared!" So the brick pig let them in. The wolf caught up with them and said, "I'm gonna huff and puff, and blow your house down." While he was huffing and puffing, the straw pig and the stick pig were so scared. But the brick pig picked up the phone and called a friend. A few minutes passed and all of a sudden this big, black stretch limousine drove up. Out came two massive pigs in pinstriped suits and fedoras. These huge pigs came over to the wolf and grabbed him by the neck and proceeded to beat the crap out of him. Then they got back into their limo and drove off. The straw pig and the stick pig were amazed. They asked the brick pig, "Who the heck were those guys?" And the brick pig said, "Oh, those are our cousins, the Guinea Pigs."
Fear the Pig Mafioso.
If there were a nation of pigs (obese overweight people) the USA would be it. Particularly Mississippi, the most overly obese state on planet earth for 6 years in a row.
Snow White received a camera as a gift. She happily took pictures of the Dwarfs and their surroundings. When she finished her first batch she took the film to be developed. After a week or so she went to get the finished photos. The clerk said the photos were not back from the processor.
Needless to say, she was disappointed and started to cry. The clerk, trying to console her, said,
"Don't worry. Someday your prints will come".
Good morning Philip. How is the weather in Bombay. Lol. You Hindu raypist from India.
You wouldn't be from Mississippi by any chance would you, Godoling or whatever your dad named you?
HINDOOS FROM INDIA ARE ALL RAYPISTS
Out far away in the himalayas there was a small village that was constantly terrified by this terrible monster named the medecrin.
The medicrin would come down to the village once a week and eat one of the villagers. Now, as you would guess, the population of the village decreased greatly after a few months of this, so, the chief of the village called forth the greatest hunter he could get and told him to hunt down and kill the medicrin.
So, after much talk, the hunter finally agreed to kill the medicrine. But the hunter, being smart, decided he would have to trap the monster to kill it, figuring he would get eaten if he faced it head on.
So he looked in his himalayan monster field book and found out that medicrins like sugar, so he ordered all the villagers to dig a deep hole and fill it with all the sugar in the village.
Later that week, the medicrine came down to the village. When it went after it`s usual meal, it saw the pit of sugar, looked at it a moment, and then went after another villager.
After the medicrin left, the chief called up the great hunter, and scolded the hunter for failing, but the hunter convinced the chief to give him another chance, and the chief agreed.
The next day, the hunter looked back to his himalayan monster field book and found that medicrins like loons even more than sugar.
So the great hunter went out, caught a loon, and placed it in the pit with the sugar. Now, it turns out that loons like sugar even more than medicrins, so the loon ate up all the sugar. So, a few days later the medicrine returned on time for it`s villager feast.
But, as it was heading for the village, the medicrin saw the pit with the loon. The medicrin imediatly became hungry for loon, so it climbed down into the pit and at the loon. But, as soon as it finished the loon off, it fell over, deader than a doornail.
The moral of the story? A loon full of sugar helps the medecrin go down.
There are white couples living in the USA who were surprised when the baby came out brown or creamy colored. And did not like it.
It is perfectly legal in the USA to abort your unborn baby if you suspect it is the wrong color.
It is perfectly legal to abort one's fetus for any reason.
Once upon a time there were two canaries in a cage. Naturally, one was male and the other female. After many months, the male decided to meet the female. So he scooted over to her side of the cage and said,
"Since we're in this together, why don't I move over to your side of the cage!"
The female canary replied, "No, thanks!!"
So he went back to his side but found he could stay there no longer. Once again, he moved to her side of the cage. This time he asked,
"I am sorry I was to forward the first time. Why don't we get to know each other first."
To which she replied again, "No, thanks!"
Resigning himself to return to his side of the cage, he languished about for a bit then made one final effort. He went halfway across the cage and stated,
"Well, could we at least talk?"
This time she replied, "Oh, I am so sorry I have been so mean. You see I just learned I have a canarial disease called, "Chirpies" and I hear it is untweetable."
That was punny, Rawr.
I see bobcat is here. Tell me bobcat, how is the weather in Bombay? Lol
HOW DO ???
Sir Edgbert, knight of the realm, was hurrying home on a cold, dark, wet night when, suddenly, his horse suffered a major coronary and died on the spot. All Sir Edgbert could do was collect up what belongings he could and tramp onwards.
After staggering for a spell, he decides that he must get alternative transport. Accordingly, he heads for the nearest building which, as luck would have it, is a small farm. He strides up to the door, bangs on it and shouts 'A horse! A horse!. I must have a horse!".
The door opens to reveal a young girl. She looks at Sir Edgbert and says, "Your pardon, good night but my father and brothers are returning from the village on the other side of the forest and will not be back before noon tomorrow. They are riding all our horses".
Sir Edgbert is saddened by this and says "But I must return home immediately. Have you any idea where I may accuire alternative transportation?".
The young girl says "I know of no other horses hereabouts, but sometimes my brothers ride our Great Dane dog when the need arises. Would use of that help?"
Sir Edgbert is desperate and says "If I must, I must. Show me the animal". The young girl leads the way around to the back of the farmhouse to a stable. She dissapears inside and returns leading and enormous dogs which is quite of a size for riding. Unfortunately, the dog has seen better days. It's coat is threadbare, it's legs are spindly and it seems to be breathing labouriously.
Sir Edgbert looks at the young girl and says, "Surely, you wouldn't send a knight out on a dog like this?"
I am not a believer in seances, but I went to one just to see what they are like. The psychic was doing his thing and grinning from ear to ear. I as sumed his merriment was due to the fact that he was fooling a gullible public and gave him a poke in the nose. You can probably guess the rest. I was arrested for striking a happy medium.
Two men were in the process of inventing a new brand of gum. They were arguing over the fact that their new gum was too hard and brittle and didn't have the right consistency. One of the inventors kept arguing that they simply had to add more liquid to their primary secret ingredient, code named "Yewin".
The other man argued adamantly. "No, No, No! It's not wetter Yewin that counts... it's how you ply the gum!"
Getting involved with spiritism is listed as a work of the flesh in God's word. Right along with becoming a drug addict, thief, or fornicator.
TRIPLE WOW !!!
In a kingdom far far away, and a long long time ago, a party was being given. To this party the king had invited everyone in the kingdom to his castle. And everyone was having a grand time. The wine was flowing, the tables were overflowing with food, and the dancing was beautiful.
Suddenly, out of thin air a gnarled old man appeared out of thin air. His hands clutched in tight fists by his body, smoke streaming from his shoulders, he walked up to the king and said, "How dare you have a party and not invite your own court wizard! For this insult I curse this castle with the dreaded Curse of the Fingers. Anyone who attempts to leave here will be rendered limb from limb by huge disembodied fingers!"
The wizard waved his bony arms about and shouted in a guttural foreign language. "There!", he said and vanished.
All at once, the people of the kingdom looked to their king. What would he do? How could he save them. The king pursed his lips and looked about him. Finally, he turned to his knights and asked for a volunteer to ride to the next kingdom and plead with their wizard to remove the curse. Of course all of the knights wished to go. The king selected the knight with the greatest seniority and sent him on his way.
The knight gathered up all his weapons, put on his best suit of armour and headed out. As soon as his foot stepped off of the drawbridge, gigantic yellow fingers appeared from nowhere and ripped him limb from limb.
One after another, each knight attempted to ride out of the castle, each one in turn was ripped to shreds. Finally, no knights were left.
The king looked about him. "Is there anyone else who would brave this curse and rescue us from this horrible curse?", he said.
"I will, sir!", said a small boy who had been serving one of the knights before he died.
The small boy packed up his belongings and provisions for the journey. Since he was a poor serving boy, and had no horse, he knew he would have to walk. But he was determined to succeed. As soon as he crossed the drawbridge, the yellow fingers appeared and tried to rip him apart. They couldn't! Each time the tried to grab him, the boy wriggled free and continued on his journey!
Several days later, the boy was back at the castle with the neighbouring kingdom's wizard. The king was overjoyed to have the curse lifted and he called the boy to him.
"How did you escape from those monstrous fingers? All my knights couldn't get past them and they were killed. How could you do it?"
The boy looked up at the king and replied, "Your majesty, it occurred to me as the last knight was being killed that the only way to escape this curse was to LET YOUR PAIGES DO THE WALKING THROUGH THE YELLOW FINGERS."
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The road to LNG demand growth: bunkering down to business
Nick Fulford
Ryan Pereira
One part of the LNG sector that has started to grow significantly – and offers another potential step change in the traditional LNG business model – is the use of LNG in new markets, particularly those which compete with diesel in high horsepower applications. LNG use in transportation has featured prominently in the last 2 weeks.
News announcements over the past few weeks have perhaps given new hope that the classic “chicken and egg” dilemma when it comes to major adoption of LNG as a road transport fuel - the tradeoff for the truck operators between the cost (compared to low sulphur products) and emissions (SOx and NOx) benefits coupled with the critical need for a reliable, convenient source of LNG – might once and for all have been “cracked”.
A number of the larger engine providers to the truck industry have been developing LNG fuelled engines over the last decade, and while early models focused on dual fuel engines capable of burning a blend of gas and diesel, the focus for the last few years has been on LNG only fuelled engines, which have been proven to have greater fuel efficiency and reliability.
LNG filling stations in the United States, are currently limited at around 100 operating today, but they could be added to at the rate of between, 10 and 20 filling stations per year, especially along highways that carry large volumes of heavy freight.
Perhaps more interesting is the recent huge growth and further potential in countries such as China.
By 2014, LNG powered heavy duty vehicles had secured 2.1% of the market from diesel, equating to some 120,000 LNG powered trucks, with over 60,000 other LNG powered vehicles also in use
Today, LNG trucks account for c.4% of around 6 million heavy vehicles in China
This year, Chinese government moves to curb diesel sales in order to try and fight pollution and city smog, has resulted in demand for LNG trucks reportedly soaring by over 500% in the first half of the year
The payback periods to recoup investment can sometimes be as low as 1 year, and probably 3 years at the most dependent on utilisation and fuel cost differentials (with diesel currently costing between 10-30% more than gas on average at Chinese filling stations)
China is looking far and wide for LNG sources, meaning they could surpass Japan as the world’s largest LNG importer by the early to mid-2020s. The potential LNG supplies continue to come quickly and from a variety of sources. Chevron recently announced the commencement of LNG production and cargoes to be available in the coming weeks from their Wheatstone LNG project in Australia, helping the country to surpass Malaysia to reach number 2 spot in terms of global LNG supply capacity.
Elsewhere looking at LNG use in transportation, the last month has seen several interesting announcements, including the following:
VW who are looking at shifting their product 100 LNG powered Scania trucks
Uniper, via their subsidiary Liqvis are also looking to supply LNG to Meyer Logistik to enable them to operate 20 LNG powered trucks to transport food around the greater Berlin area
The UK and Netherlands are looking for ways to follow suit
Russia's state-owned Sovcomflot announced plans to build and operate five liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fuelled and ice-class rated oil and product tankers
The outlook for the LNG industry over the next decade is now looking very different than at any point in the previous five decades of global trade. Now, more than ever before, we are going to see new customer segments, and especially innovative new uses for gas and LNG in the driving seat.
GCA’s Nick Fulford (Global Head of Gas & LNG) and Ryan Pereira (Principal Commercial Manager) were recently selected to contribute to 2 leading LNG publications:
The first publication, Liquefied Natural Gas, The Law and Business of LNG, Third Edition contains a more in depth discussion of new markets for LNG, including marine, road, rail and small scale uses.
The second publication, Shale Gas, A Practitioner's Guide to Shale Gas and & Unconventional Resources, Second Edition features an opening chapter on the impact of the US shale boom on worldwide natural gas price trends.
Please contact Nick or Ryan for further discussion on any of these topics.
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Neoui Moksoriga Deulryeo
The legal drama centers around Jang Hye Sung, a brazen, sharp-tongued female attorney who says everything that comes to her mind with no filter. When she gets to the point…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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Moshi Monsters: The Movie
Join Katsuma, Poppet, Mr. Snoodle, and the other Moshi Monters in an action-packed, song-filled race against time. Together they must stop evil Dr. Strangeglove and his incompetent Glump …
Country: Ireland, South Korea, UK
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend’s funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time…
Na-eui PS pa-teu-neo
Yoon-Jung accidentally calls a stranger, instead of her boyfriend, and has phone sex with the unknown man. When her relationship with boyfriend turns sour, she meets Hyun-Seung, and falls …
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Strange things begin happening to an expedition deep in the Antarctic.
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Soonam struggles to pay bills for her vegetative husband. Despite her hard work, there’s no hope and her husband never seems to wake up. A cruel fairy tale with LEE’s…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
On Your Wedding Day
The story of the man who receives a wedding invitation from his first love that he met in high school.
The drastic economic development in South Korea once surprised the rest of the world. However, behind of it was an oppression the marginalized female laborers had to endure. The film…
Country: Cambodia, South Korea
The Fake
A convict returns to his home town to torturing again his family and face his neighbors trying to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from…
Genre: Animation, Drama, Thriller
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Three old friends and rivals get set to face off on a TV program billed as The Greatest Fight Show on Earth.
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Tag: McDonagh Family Foundation
PAUL MANSHIP #GloucesterMA historic artist home and studio milestone! STARFIELD property purchased and in the news
Posted on September 25, 2017 September 25, 2017 by Catherine
Read Gail McCarthy article “Local group buys, plans art residency for sculptors’ estate” from the Gloucester Daily Times.
American artist Paul Manship (1885–1966) was internationally renowned since the 1920s. He maintained multiple homes and studios: two in the Unites States (New York and Gloucester, MA); Paris; London; and three in Italy. This very special purchase–the only one in the world of a Manship property– Starfield, in the Lanesville section of Gloucester, MA, was made possible by the incredible generosity of the Manship heirs, YOU- Gloucester and MA residents (City of Gloucester & the Commonwealth of MA monies were allocated to this initiative), foundations, businesses and private donations. Congratulations to Rebecca Reynolds and all involved. Early supporters included: the City of Gloucester; Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund (MassDevelopment in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council); the Boston Foundation; Essex County Community Foundation; McDonagh Family Foundation; Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; New England Biolabs Foundation; and Essex National Heritage.
Read more about the funding here
Now that the property is purchased, there will be ongoing fundraising to maintain the property and its mission.
If ever there was a forever endowment match sought, this prestigious Manship opportunity would be one to grab!
Follow this link to see rare, original art by Paul Manship, John Manship and Margaret Cassidy that was recently made available FOR SALE to help raise money for this endeavor. Join to support the cause by donating on line through the website, Manship Artists Residency and Studios (MARS). Eventually the historic property will be open to the public and community, and will support working artists.
There are more than 15,000 historic house museums across the county, and just a few that were artists’ home and studios. One of the most influential is the Pollock-Krasner house in East Hampton, Long Island, established in 1988. A welcome recent addition is the Winslow Homer property in Portland, ME. Here’s hoping the Manship estate is a member on this Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios (HAHS) map soon. Currently, the Massachusetts sites include Daniel Chester French’s Chesterwood in Stockbridge, and the Frelinghuysen Morris home in Lenox.
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Tag: Visual Art
Ctrl Alt Del: Why Contemporary Visual Artists Need To Reboot
I know I have been considering for my own work
the teaching of art in today’s art schools and its necessary adopting of the computer/Internet as communication as a means of creating not only relevant work, (commenting upon this technology and its impact on social change) but work which simultaneously commands an almost green existence by its primarily ? electronic existence. The immediacy of a social media post far outweighs in successful communication the making of an arcane art object to struggle on a wall or gallery floor – trying to say something. The material waste runoff and using of new resources to create objects for social commentary is also, part of the debate.
Also, at its heart, is the issue of relevance and with regard to real-life issues, that of economic diversity. I would like to think that the barriers between the real world out there and the artist’s “secret-language” studio have lessened, become weakened by mass accessibility and familiarity with the art world through the digital age conveyor belt of images, and, the artist’s very own participation in it, and, that art instruction at higher levels of academic learning are addressing this phenomenon. If our entire political debate structure has discovered the power of the Internet and its immediacy, the power of the ability to tap into the very-present and utilize the medium to its advantage and, by doing so, connect with people on a much broader level, why not have our teaching venues (galleries/undergraduate art classes) teach visual art (the making of images, objects) through the lens of media influence and its relevance?
The idea that the one area in a visual artist’s life which can be completely controlled, [that is, in one’s very own art-making] lies in contrast with that of the graphic designer, or, maker of images for commercial use. In order to succeed in the commercial field, one must follow conventions and, in order to succeed, compromise in order to remain a vital player.
Does the artist working quietly in his studio trump the designer who must exist within convention and forgo that sanctioned state of true freedom, complete control? If so, what is the result of this arrangement? How effective is the designer’s art in constituting societal enrichment (making us see something) and change as opposed to the studio artist?
It is here, ironically, in the design world (and, not in the artist’s studio) where the artist needs to be in control. The visual artist needs to take control somehow, here, where it matters. The world of design and fashion and style is where the cultural images [we] create affect how our society operates. Advertising imagery gives us our template of cultural prescription. The images created for mass media advertising are those which have brought us to where we are now; one of embracing corporate enterprise, making conspicuous consumption a virtue, and promoting wastefulness as a staple of our supposed spiritual-societal needs with the resulting influence leaving us a consumer-based spirit whose only lasting ritual is that of commodity-gathering to feed-the-family status. Community, truth, change are not marketable products for a successful capitalism.
We artists, those in our studios closed out and in complete control of things end up commenting upon this in our art…..maybe? We make these tangible works of art to show the very same society how out-of-control it truly is. But to what effect? Implement for change? Not really. The system’s too closed-looped. Economic and social diversity end at the high-priced art-showing door.
In order to really effect change, comment upon society, make our art objects matter, one must seemingly have to work from within. Break the paradigm. Push the studio clock to “present” and consider where the past decades have left us.
This is the one role we artists should assume, in attempting to work from within. And, the only way to do this with any success is to have the artist, [the thinker, the seer, the one who does not play by the rules of conformity and allegiance] apply them to the real world teaching available to us out there, maybe in the direct field of graphic design, advertising, the opening up of the contemporary gallery space for real-life discussion and debate, or, in newly-formed academic study.
[We] should be the ones sacrificing our freedom (in the quiet calm of our cozy well-lit studios) for the chance to upend the entire structure.
By laurszpakin art and culture, art criticism March 19, 2019 January 2, 2020 743 WordsLeave a comment
that venue for showing art
Regarding the static painted visual art piece on a wall, or, the static sculpted object on a pedestal, what are we to read beyond the object’s own “art-object-ness” in a recycled environment of reference and quotation? Can the object we now make be successful at translating our meaning given its expected reception in a now seemingly all-too familiar field? Is the gallery context itself somehow inhibiting as it moves from exclusive space visited by students of art and other artists to the David Byrne familiar with Eric Fischl painting art’s own art-going morphology?
Is it like the phenomenon of digital accessibility —- with too much equaling too ordinary and expected for us to even blink an eye no matter the possible strength of the work residing? Can the static art object give us the reading it means to in its current context of “being art in a gallery”? or, have we become too savvy an audience, too familiar with how the system works for the art object itself to move beyond the space it relies upon for its translation?
Is Visual Art stuck in its own necessary replication, unable to move beyond the “look” of what we know art on a wall to be, to move beyond the entrenched orthodoxy of this look, this paradigm? Does the gallery space by default, due to our familiarity with it – create for the artist a space impossible for understanding the actual work? Is our awareness of “looking at art” getting in the way? Has our method of looking overwhelmed the actual art (if there is any) to be found?
Not unlike a Kafka character caught in dilemma, the balance for both lies between the method used (gallery space = traveling circus ) and, the very awareness of the method by both the artist (when placing work in such a prescribed space) and the viewer (upon experiencing that space). Both require an isolation without self-awareness, and given our method of viewing art which includes taking along our image-conscious selves, neither of these seems possible.
By laurszpakin art and culture, contemporary art, writing on contemporary art October 5, 2018 December 28, 2019 343 WordsLeave a comment
today’s realism and bowls of fruit drawn, painted
Apples [w/ PLU Sticker] in Pewter Bowl : ( w/r/t the history of Still Life painting) 37” x 46” – Digital – inkjet collage – 2016
A realistically drawn apple may be read as the mastering of a skill in the field of representational drawing. There are endless ways in which the drawing can be done: varying materials, altering the approach in tackling formal qualities, playing with scale to name but a few.
The subject of an apple, or, bowl of fruit, allows for a connection with 2-dimensional art’s tradition, its history in both the academic “learning how to draw” and the prominent genre works found in painting. This connecting to the past empowers the apple, the fruit as subject matter, referencing a linear progression comprising any true discipline or study which, in turn, genially accounts for its validity and, yes, its relevance.
Depending upon how “good” the drawn fruit is (honoring the laws of realism) will determine the level of mastering. The drawing becomes somewhat of a biographical sketch of where the artist is at the time in the advancement of a learned technical skill. Like hitting the perfect note in music, the wows of the viewer are in response to the artist’s performance, the result of a practiced skill, the visual cue to an artist’s bettering this sought-after facility. We are struck by the artist’s ongoing mastery of drawing something convincingly “real” on a 2-D surface.
In looking at a drawing of an apple or fruit Still-life made today, we might be asked to look at it not in terms of success or failure of a bench-marked realism, (our go-to assessment as viewers) but rather in terms of the choice of subject matter itself. It is in the choosing to draw an apple, fruit bowl that is now our subject matter. Not unlike our original choosing of the apple, the enactment, the act of drawing or painting is now our content.
The weight fruit carries today is not the same in origin, when introduced as subject as it was for Bruegel, Chardin, Courbet. Our supermarket-stickered fruit reads far differently than the anonymous peasant apple-carting of a Bruegel, the bourgeoisie interior sitting-room of a Chardin, or the crumbling aristocracy of a Courbet. Our fruit drawings or paintings hold all of these weighted meanings in reference and tribute which is now our subject.
In today’s world of the ease of digital rendering, and, an omnipresence of PLU- stickered fruit, the romantic notion of a fruit bowl set in golden-hued light on an elegantly arranged table seems foreign, out-of-date, remote, exotic. The only connection to this is precedence, art’s own history’s role in continuity of subject for meaning. We paint and draw fruit because we know painted and drawn fruit register as art. Still-lifes are wonderful rendering workshops and tradition gives us the proverbial nod to go right ahead and draw the apple, so to speak. Weight of subject matter is found with a nod from history and the enactment of the actual making.
The art part, if there is any to be found, might arise, for instance, from the enacted, the activity or ‘scene from a play’, [maybe Chekhov in spirit?] where the fruit bowl is set upon an old yet elegant gate-legged table, and a drawing is worked on by an actor on stage, the actual result never seen by the audience.
The fruit bowl need not be drawn or painted well, poorly, or … at all, even, for the visual prompt to our much larger subject matter is there, found in the reference to an acceptable academic art-making approach and made real by our artist’s set-up of easel and oils; and, our artist, maybe long-since disillusioned —- yet still searching for meaning in a palette of colors fully within physical reach, but, irretrievably lost to one’s failing eyesight or quickly closing memory.
By laurszpakin art and culture, contemporary art, writing on contemporary art May 19, 2018 November 13, 2019 655 Words4 Comments
Language and its Evolution in the Advancing of a Digital Technology
“Electric circuitry profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information. Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.”1
1967 from”The Media is the Massage”
detail from “mapping art’s genome”
Speech units or phonemes are represented by sign and symbol which evolve through repetition and convention into a working tool of communication. Signs become letters, and letters, alphabets; ideas become pictures which, [in symbolic representation and combination], become words. Words, arbitrary in origin, [extended in translation through derivative root, added suffix and prefix] are then made conventional by use. Use, in response, becomes contingent upon convention.
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In origin, writing systems were generated by the need to tally and record food production. Counting grain and creating seasonal calendars of planting and harvesting demanded a uniformity of mark-making in order to retain utility. From the earliest tallying of crop production to the flow of dissemination of information to the masses in reaching our contemporary state of universal literacy, writing systems have continually evolved and produced for us both the necessary invention for ultimate mass communication, and, in their respective states of physical record and object preservation, provide for an extensive anthropological and cultural/literary study.
Other than a spontaneous human utterance of fear or joy, what else can be noted in its origin, its original context that has not gone through some sort of historical transcription? 2
J. G. Herder
detail from “a shifting of variables”
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Every academic discipline contains a language, a patterning of elements, be they composed of number, word, letter, shape, color, symbol, image, or any repeated system of mark-making. The repetition, structuring and replication make possible the language; the physical (legible) mark-making acting as both the means (to a communication) and an end (that which is [eventually] communicated). The written shapes and letters in their manufactured pattern create as they record (in real time) and, if remaining active in communicating, continue to offer meaning within an ongoing historical context. If no longer used in the act of communicating, the language [in its (now) purely formal state] resides in residual pattern.
Whether composed of letters, words, mathematical symbol, numerical notation, etc., all written language systems rely upon a conventionalized patterning (structure) for their survival. In order for the individual voice to be heard, it must conform to an existing convention. Here lies one of the many paradoxes of language regarding its utility and unique reception.
“The more alive a language is, the less one has thought of reducing it to letters, the more spontaneous it rises to the full unsorted sounds of nature, the less, too, is it writeable…” J. G. Herder
If the overall goal of language is communication, the formal language with which the artist ‘speaks’ is contingent upon the language of the society it intends to speak both to and about. The artist who breaks with the traditional language of its discipline in creating a new form of communication (i.e.: Courbet, Millet, Van Gogh) is initially rejected due to this change in form. Eventually, within the context of history, the society catches up with the new form, [the artist is then identified as being one “ahead of his time”] and the discipline itself is altered, and cannot return to its “time before”.
Language too, moves in this linear fashion, and is as mutable as the society which uses it. The paradox of language is shown here, with the unique voice of the artist “the less, too, is it writeable” having to submit to the conventional in order to be heard. The proverbial misunderstood artist with his “illegible handwriting” is often misread (or, unread?), only to be deciphered much later by the privileged spectators of history.
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The way in which we communicate is no doubt being altered by 21st century digital technology with its pace, immediacy, and accessibility. Information is transmitted and made available all of the time, and foremost, is generated in “real time”. This poses all sorts of changes made in how we write, read, gather and assess, streamline and interpret, and, ultimately, make changes to our existing language. The form is inseparable from the content, thus, our language can only reflect our existing medium.
If the medium for writing changes from handwritten correspondence to instant messaging, the language in turn, follows suit. The limited time and space of the text message and the tweet makes no room for the contemplative lengthy passage, the periodic sentence. The abbreviated word in the rising use of acronym is just one of the changes taking place in the field of digital communication. The phonetic translation of these acronyms could certainly find their way (back?) to the logogram. A three word expression taking the form of three letters in acronym could eventually turn into a furthered shorthand symbol. The new shape is no longer phonetic, but logographic. Our written language is changing.
The earlier theories of Johann Herder realign themselves with the current flow of our digital language. Noting Herder’s claim that words are rooted in verb form seems to make perfect sense today, with our activity demanding a new word to be formed to not only identify it, but (actively) participate in its identity. In order to understand the world around us, we naturally, by our given nature, give things names. ‘To blog”, ‘to Google’ and ‘to tweet’ are infinitive forms of verbs which have successfully risen out of the necessarily mutable nature of language and its newest placement in the medium of electronic communication. Conventional use mixes with historical change and gives to language its life. Without both components operating, (and, both seemingly contradictory) [a] language would cease to exist as a language, and would become instead, an historical record of a once-used (but now antiquated) pattern.
In the field of Linguistics, Benjamin Whorf claimed that the content of a language is directly related to the content of a culture and the structure of a language is directly related to the structure of a culture. If this is true, the culture of the tweet, text, and blog (the form) alongside the globalizing power of the Internet (the context of influence) will invariably alter our existing language, or, evolve into a completely new system of sign and symbol all of its own.
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Our earliest use of the computer gave to us the Word Processor, a tool further advancing our facility (of writing) while distancing ourselves from the uniqueness of a personal penmanship. The term “word processing” itself gives us a reading of [a] manufactured item being distributed large-scale and to the masses [in the same manner as did Warhol’s images, with the ‘making of’ image through the mechanism of factory-built process, and then, engaging both marketing strategy (the selling of image) and the mass assembling (in the gallery exhibition) of its parts. Image was the subject; mass production (and, mirrored manipulation), the content.
As for image, the computer software program Adobe Photoshop also gives us change in the way in which we take photographs. We no longer take photographs, we “make photographs”. Again, facility and ease of doing this run alongside the distancing of the personal; all images can be manufactured with this software tool, and, the tool, made available to anyone with a computer and the purchasing of the software. The “Photo-Shopping” of image denies any such vestigial concept of “original” or “authentic”.
The shattering of aura (of an art object) with the advent of mechanical reproduction [unveiled for us by Walter Benjamin in 1935] (and made real by Warhol) can now be compared to the advent of the blog, twitter, and text in terms of its own altering of established academically ruled fields. Journalism seems the most affected, along with that of publishing and the copyright. As for language itself, its rules of grammar, punctuation and spelling along with the formal nature of [its] written translation is transforming as rapidly as is the technology we use to communicate.
On another level, the digital transcription and then storage of texts in electronic form [without the need of any actual physical written record, any tangible piece of paper, or reel of microfilm, [or, furthered – any clay tablet, carved vessel or hidden scroll] is the current stage set for the recording of a culture’s history. Electronic blips of translated shapes of 1’s and 0’s house the “history” we now make. The tactile objects of the past will remain just that, (becoming even more of a museum treasure) while the scanning and processing of literature turns what used to be individual books and references into one large electronic ball of page-less citation. If we are lucky, the works existing in their secured digital form will not be lost to technical whimsy, or, political nightmare.
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After years of creating odes to writing’s formal cadence and aesthetic script, there is now the revolutionary text message, hypertext translation and abbreviated use of an existing alphabet. I am trying to concentrate my own work in this direction, with the idea of writing and its grammatical form and physical translation of history losing itself in this same stream of advancing technology; both out-running society’s own comprehension of its quickly changing form.
Marshall McLuhan/Quentin Fiore “The Medium is the Massage”. copyright 1967
J. G. Herder – from “On the Origin of Language” – copyright 1966
By laurszpakin art and culture, contemporary art, writing on contemporary art February 14, 2017 May 15, 2018 1,715 WordsLeave a comment
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FKRP gene
fukutin related protein
The FKRP gene provides instructions for making a protein called fukutin-related protein (FKRP). This protein is present in many of the body's tissues but is particularly abundant in the brain, heart (cardiac) muscle, and muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles). Within cells, FKRP is found in a specialized structure called the Golgi apparatus, where newly produced proteins are modified.
FKRP is involved in a process called glycosylation. Through this chemical process, sugar molecules are added to certain proteins. In particular, FKRP adds a molecule called ribitol 5-phosphate to the chain of sugars attached to a protein called alpha (α)-dystroglycan. Glycosylation is critical for the normal function of α-dystroglycan.
The α-dystroglycan protein helps anchor the structural framework inside each cell (cytoskeleton) to the lattice of proteins and other molecules outside the cell (extracellular matrix). In skeletal muscles, glycosylated α-dystroglycan helps stabilize and protect muscle fibers. In the brain, it helps direct the movement (migration) of nerve cells (neurons) during early development.
Walker-Warburg syndrome
At least five mutations in the FKRP gene have been found to cause Walker-Warburg syndrome. This condition is the most severe form of a group of disorders known as congenital muscular dystrophies. Walker-Warburg syndrome causes skeletal muscle weakness and abnormalities of the brain and eyes. Because of the severity of the problems caused by this condition, affected individuals usually do not survive past early childhood.
Many FKRP gene mutations involved in Walker-Warburg syndrome change single protein building blocks (amino acids) in FKRP. The altered protein cannot reach the Golgi apparatus and is instead broken down, reducing the amount of functional FKRP.
A shortage of FKRP prevents the normal glycosylation of α-dystroglycan. As a result, α-dystroglycan can no longer effectively anchor cells to the proteins and other molecules that surround them. Without functional α-dystroglycan to stabilize the muscle fibers, they become damaged as they repeatedly contract and relax with use. The damaged fibers weaken and die over time, which affects the development, structure, and function of skeletal muscles in people with Walker-Warburg syndrome.
Defective α-dystroglycan also affects the migration of neurons during the early development of the brain. Instead of stopping when they reach their intended destinations, some neurons migrate past the surface of the brain into the fluid-filled space that surrounds it. Researchers believe that this problem with neuronal migration causes a brain abnormality called cobblestone lissencephaly, in which the surface of the brain lacks the normal folds and grooves and instead appears bumpy and irregular. Less is known about the effects of FKRP gene mutations in other parts of the body.
More About This Health Condition
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
Genetics Home Reference provides information about limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
Mutations in the FKRP gene have been found in a small number of people with congenital muscular dystrophy type 1C (MDC1C), which causes muscle weakness, brain abnormalities, and intellectual disability but usually does not affect the eyes. Rarely, mutations in the FKRP gene are associated with muscle eye brain disease, which causes muscle weakness, eye problems, and intellectual disability. The signs and symptoms of muscle eye brain disease are less severe than those of Walker-Warburg syndrome (described above). It is unclear how mutations in the FKRP gene cause several different muscular dystrophies.
Cytogenetic Location: 19q13.32, which is the long (q) arm of chromosome 19 at position 13.32
Molecular Location: base pairs 46,746,015 to 46,758,575 on chromosome 19 (Homo sapiens Updated Annotation Release 109.20191205, GRCh38.p13) (NCBI)
FKRP_HUMAN
LGMD2I
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MDDGA5
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Educational Resources (1 link)
Molecular Cell Biology (fourth edition, 2000): Protein Glycosylation in the ER and Golgi Complex
Tests of FKRP
FUKUTIN-RELATED PROTEIN
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY-DYSTROGLYCANOPATHY (CONGENITAL WITH OR WITHOUT MENTAL RETARDATION), TYPE B, 5
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Boito CA, Melacini P, Vianello A, Prandini P, Gavassini BF, Bagattin A, Siciliano G, Angelini C, Pegoraro E. Clinical and molecular characterization of patients with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I. Arch Neurol. 2005 Dec;62(12):1894-9.
Esapa CT, Benson MA, Schröder JE, Martin-Rendon E, Brockington M, Brown SC, Muntoni F, Kröger S, Blake DJ. Functional requirements for fukutin-related protein in the Golgi apparatus. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 Dec 15;11(26):3319-31.
Esapa CT, McIlhinney RA, Blake DJ. Fukutin-related protein mutations that cause congenital muscular dystrophy result in ER-retention of the mutant protein in cultured cells. Hum Mol Genet. 2005 Jan 15;14(2):295-305. Epub 2004 Dec 1.
OMIM: FUKUTIN-RELATED PROTEIN
Gerin I, Ury B, Breloy I, Bouchet-Seraphin C, Bolsée J, Halbout M, Graff J, Vertommen D, Muccioli GG, Seta N, Cuisset JM, Dabaj I, Quijano-Roy S, Grahn A, Van Schaftingen E, Bommer GT. ISPD produces CDP-ribitol used by FKTN and FKRP to transfer ribitol phosphate onto α-dystroglycan. Nat Commun. 2016 May 19;7:11534. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11534.
Kanagawa M, Kobayashi K, Tajiri M, Manya H, Kuga A, Yamaguchi Y, Akasaka-Manya K, Furukawa J, Mizuno M, Kawakami H, Shinohara Y, Wada Y, Endo T, Toda T. Identification of a Post-translational Modification with Ribitol-Phosphate and Its Defect in Muscular Dystrophy. Cell Rep. 2016 Mar 8;14(9):2209-23. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.02.017.
Kava M, Chitayat D, Blaser S, Ray PN, Vajsar J. Eye and brain abnormalities in congenital muscular dystrophies caused by fukutin-related protein gene (FKRP) mutations. Pediatr Neurol. 2013 Nov;49(5):374-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2013.06.022.
Trovato R, Astrea G, Bartalena L, Ghirri P, Baldacci J, Giampietri M, Battini R, Santorelli FM, Fiorillo C. Elevated serum creatine kinase and small cerebellum prompt diagnosis of congenital muscular dystrophy due to FKRP mutations. J Child Neurol. 2014 Mar;29(3):394-8. doi: 10.1177/0883073812474951. Epub 2013 Feb 17.
Willer T, Inamori K, Venzke D, Harvey C, Morgensen G, Hara Y, Beltrán Valero de Bernabé D, Yu L, Wright KM, Campbell KP. The glucuronyltransferase B4GAT1 is required for initiation of LARGE-mediated α-dystroglycan functional glycosylation. Elife. 2014 Oct 3;3. doi: 10.7554/eLife.03941.
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Travel Transportation
A Review of the New United Airlines Business Class Seats
Simone Haruko Smith
Photos, Thoughts, and an Overview of Features
As a graduation present, Steve, my wonderful father, treated me to a Business Class flight to Germany on United Airlines. We were lucky enough to get the new seats that have been installed in 767s and 747s. Indeed, I spent 10 or so hours in the seat, as United puts it, "that becomes a bed, that becomes a dream."
As of now, United "is the only airline with 180 degree flat bed seats in international first and business class." So of course I was rather excited to give these a spin. Below is my review of this newfangled travel experience.
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Look at that SEAT!
Lots of space
The Seats
We were on the second floor of our aircraft, in a small, cozy cabin that had sleeping pods groups of two, some facing the front of the plane and some facing the back. The upper floor sat a total of… oh, I’m guessing 12 people, so it was wonderfully quiet and peaceful, and even more private than the first class seats downstairs.
The seats were AMAZING. They had special control panels that controlled the seats’ alignment- you could set it in one of three modes (landing/ takeoff, reclined, and fully flat for sleeping), plus there were individual controls for the seatback and footrest.
Between Steve's seat and mine was a console, which harbored the seat controls, we well as contractible remotes for the televisions on the dividers in front of us, and two fold out tables. At the top of the console was a tray for drinks and two additional fold out cup holders.
Facing each seat was a large screen, and in the center console between the seats could be found a pull-out remote with a litany of buttons to play with. We were also given nice headphones- over-the-head style, but with those big, cushy, noise-canceling ear pads (I don't know the technical term and don't much care). I used them instead of my own fancy pair just because I wanted to test them out, and they were quite nice, and really did block out external noise, even when no music / movie audio was playing.
I immediately took a look at the entertainment options once we sat down. We had movies, televisions, music, games, books on tape, and personal IPod playing and watching options.
The movie selection included both old and new movies, ranging from Sherlock Holmes to Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I settled on The Young Victoria, which I loved, and Steve watched Sherlock Holmes. We were able to pause the movies, as well as fast forward, rewind, or switch whenever we wanted to. It was brilliant.
As a side note, I should mention that there was a selection of magazines stowed between our seatbacks. I'd write about them, but I was too busy with all the other exciting stuff to pay them much heed.
The service, of course, was amazing. Steve got a lovely assortment of wines, and I was given nice water, in real glasses. We were also served warm nuts in small Japanese sake cups.
Meals were an entertaining affair- our fold-out tables were adorned with crisp, white table cloths, and we had real plates, utensils, and glasses.
Dinner was delicious. We were given menus, which turned out to be somewhat superfluous for me given that I had requested special vegetarian meals, but I did notice that at least one part of each course was vegetarian friendly.
We were given salads (Steve had some greens with prosciutto and I had salad (dressing on the side) with fruit, cheese, and a multi-grain role . For dinner, Steve had braised mashed potatoes with steak and creamed spinach, and I had a lovely Indian-style meal with chickpeas, some sort of eggplant dish, and aromatic couscous. For dessert, we both had tiramisu (I am not one for such sweet deserts, but I felt that such occasions call for an acceptation to normal behavior- it was sickly sweet (I prefer bitter desserts, for some reason) but I enjoyed the indulgence of eating tiramisu in Business class knowing that I really ought to be with the humans-turned-cattle in economy.
About that- this whole flight experience got me thinking about how inhumane travel is. Steve and I spoke for a bit about the lost romance of travel- how it used to be a glamorous thing on trains and on ocean liners, and now it is a stressful process in which humans are robbed of their dignity and space.
I wonder how we might improve travel for the everyman in the future . I suppose something so accommodating as Business Class is impossible for the airline industry, but could we perhaps someday have sedation flying- a la 5th Element? I wonder…
At any rate, we were extremely happy to be in a pleasant plane environment for once, and really enjoyed the help and company of our stewardess (or whatever the PC word for airline professionals is these days).
The Sleeping Experience
For our comfort, we were each given a zip-up-pouch containing things like lotion, socks, and an eye mask. We were also given nice blankets and pillows. Of course, the real luxury with these seats was the 180 degree reclining option.
Boy, was it nice to be able to lie on my SIDE on an airplane! I got a real rush from converting my seat into a cozy little bed, snuggling below my blanket, pulling on my sleeping mask, and actually feeling comfortable. That said, I was so excited I could barely sleep. Go figure. What I can say, though, is that these seats are all United says they are. They really are that good.
In Sum
United's new Business Class seats are, hands down, the coolest airplane seats I've ever encountered. In the past, I have had some really horrid flight experiences- 16 hour flights to China in the VERY center of the VERY back for example- which definitely made this privilege even more enjoyable.
That said, are these seats worth the price? Steve got them as a free upgrade due to his crazy miles, so we didn't exactly shove out the money one would usually shove out for this treat... is it worth it?
Personally, I'd take the cheapest seats and use my excess money on kitchen appliances. But if you've got a lot of $100 bills lying around and you're tired of using them to paper your walls, this might be a nice way to get them off your hands.
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Huddle Global platform update: supporting scalable AWS storage FAQ's
We are planning to extend our file storage capabilities to include the Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3). AWS host their own FAQ page for their S3 service.
Why is Huddle doing this?
The benefits of cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service have been steadily growing over the last decade. Amazon’s vastly scalable storage offerings are particularly beneficial to Huddle and our customers as utilising Amazon services allows us to continue to scale predictably whilst upholding industry leading security standards.
Where will my content be stored?
The existing Huddle global platform will continue to be hosted with Rackspace in the UK. This project will allow file content to additionally be stored in the AWS UK (London) Region to ensure continued UK data residency.
The new storage capability is currently scheduled to be operational from mid-October 2017, when we will begin migrating content stored in Huddle into the new file storage platform.
What are the Security considerations?
All file content migrated to the AWS S3 storage infrastructure will be encrypted in transit, and will by default be encrypted at rest with strict object permission and access control policies in place.
What are the Compliance the considerations?
Every AWS Region is designed and built to meet rigorous compliance standards including ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, PCI DSS Level 1, and many more. The AWS Cloud Compliance page includes information about these standards, along with those that are specific to the UK, including Cyber Essentials Plus. The SOC3 report can be downloaded here.
What are the High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) considerations?
The AWS UK, London Region is made up of multiple data centres termed Availability Zones (AZs). In a DR scenario where connectivity to a data centre is lost the service continues unaffected supported by other AZs. High availability is achieved as AWS redundantly stores files on multiple devices designed to sustain concurrent device failures by quickly detecting and repairing any lost redundancy.
Can customer security personnel carry out a site visit at AWS London?
No. As AWS’s data centers host multiple customers, AWS does not allow customer visits, as this exposes a wide range of customers to physical access of a third party. But they certainly understand the need, and in order to provide customers with peace of mind, independent assessment and validation is conducted on effectiveness of controls. AWS Compliance Reports from these assessments are made available to customers via AWS Artifact so customer can evaluate the security and compliance of the AWS managed environment. The AWS Compliance Reports identify the scope of AWS services and regions assessed, as well the assessor’s attestation of compliance. A vendor or supplier evaluation can be performed by leveraging these reports and certifications.
How will users be affected?
Whether a user's Huddle files are stored in Rackspace or in AWS S3, their experience should be comparable. There is no action that users need to take.
If you have any further questions or comments, please do get in touch with your Customer Success Manager directly, or e-mail help@huddle.com.
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September 28, 2015 Astrobiology, Mars Habitation & Settlement, Science, Space Exploration
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Salty streaks have been discovered on Mars, which could be a sign that salt water seeps to the surface in the summers. Scientists have previously observed dark streaks on the planet’s slopes which are thought to have resulted from seeps of water wetting surface dust. Evidence of salts left behind in these streaks as the water dried up are the best evidence for this yet. The discovery is important – not least as it raises the tantalizing prospect of a viable habitat for microbial life on Mars.
I have lost track of how many times water has been “discovered” on Mars. In this case, the researchers have detected hydrated salts rather than salty water itself. But the results, published in Nature Geoscience, are an important step to finding actual, liquid water. So how close are we? Let’s take a look at what we know so far and where the new findings fit in.
Ice versus liquid water
Back in the 18th century, William Herschel suggested that Mars’s polar caps, which even a small telescope can detect, were made of ice or snow – but he had no proof. It wasn’t until the 1950s that data from telescopes fitted with spectrometers, which analyse reflected sunlight, was interpreted as showing frozen water (water-ice). However, the first spacecraft to Mars found this difficult to confirm, as water-ice is in most places usually covered by ice made up of carbon dioxide.
Part of Nirgal Vallis, a valley on Mars first seen on this image by Mariner 9 in 1972. This image is 120km from side to side.
In the 1970s attention turned to the much juicier topic of liquid water on Mars, with the discovery by Mariner 9 of ancient river channels that must have been carved by flowing water. These channel systems were evidently very ancient (billions of years old), so although they showed an abundance of liquid water in the past they had no bearing on the occurrence of water at the present time.
‘Canals’ on Mars drawn by Percival Lowell in 1896.
Percival Lowell/wikipedia
Gullies & droplets
Things became more interesting in 2000, with the announcement that high-resolution images from the Mars Orbiter Camera on board Mars Global Surveyor showed gullies several metres deep and hundreds of metres long running down the internal slopes of craters.
It was suggested that they were carved by water that had escaped from underground storage. Such small and sharp features had to be young. They could still have been thousands of years old but annual changes were soon noticed in a few gullies which appeared to suggest that they were still active today.
Gullies inside a crater in Noachis Terra, 47 degrees south.
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Are gullies really evidence of flowing water? Some probably are, but there are other explanations such as dry rock avalanches or slabs of frozen carbon dioxide scooting downhill. Some gullies start near the tops of sand dunes where an underground reservoir of water is very improbable.
In 2008 the lander Phoenix actually saw water on Mars. When it scraped away at the dirt, it found water-ice a few centimetres down, but more excitingly droplets that could hardly be anything other than water were seen to form on the lander’s legs. It was suggested that the water had condensed around wind-blown grains of calcium perchlorate, a salt mineral whose properties enable it to scavenge water from the air and then dissolve it. Moreover, whereas pure water would freeze at the local temperature at the time (between -10°C and -80°C), water containing enough dissolved salts could stay liquid.
Water droplets on the leg of the Phoenix lander in 2008. Arrow points to the relevant leg.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Max Planck Institute
Water seeps?
In 2011 a new phenomenon was recognised on high resolution images from orbit by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. These are “recurrent slope lineae” or RSLs, dark downhill streaks that come and go with the seasons (which last about twice as long as seasons on Earth).
They are usually between 0.5m to 5m wide, and not much more than 100m long. These could mark avalanches of dry dust, but the favoured explanation has always been – and which the new NASA find also suggests – is that water is seeping from the ground and wetting the surface enough to darken it, though without flowing in sufficient volume to erode a gully.
Artificial perspective view of the streaks.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
What is most noteworthy about the new research is that it is the first determination of the composition of the streaks. They used an instrument called CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) on board the orbiter to analyse the light reflected off the surface of these streaks. In this way, they could show that they contain salts that are most likely to be magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. These kinds of salts have antifreeze properties that would keep water flowing in the cold temperature, and tallies with what Phoenix had suggested in 2008.
There are no signs that liquid water was present when the NASA measurements were made. Scientists will surely keep looking in the same spot in the hope of finding the features that would indicate liquid water instead of those indicative of salts left behind after the water has dried up. However, few can doubt that the salts were put there by flowing water.
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Rationalisation
Womanly Duplicity & Its Constituent Parts
“Dissimulation is innate in woman and almost as characteristic of the very stupid as of the clever.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
1.) The Paradox of Cunning Naivety
2.) The Double Edged Sword of Rationalisation
3.) Her Deficit of Loyalty
4.) On The Duplicity of Beauty
5.) In Closing / Relevant Reading
1.) The Paradox of Cunning Naivety:
Why are women so manipulative? Know that firstly in matters of people, manipulation is as natural to a woman as stinging is to a scorpion. Woman herself needs no education in wielding her sexual powers to exert undue influence on man, for nature has equipped man to covet her sexuality, and woman herself to abuse it. This intersexual blend of Machiavellianism is thus as automatic as it is instinctive, it is less so a product of conscious higher thinking, and more so an inevitability of the selection pressures that bred her.
From here we discover a curiously enigmatic piece of the feminine puzzle, one that leaves many a man dumbfounded in its seemingly paradoxical juxtaposition. If we are to presuppose that woman is intrinsically cunning, then how can we simultaneously assert her propensity for fantastical gullibility? If women are so manipulative, why is it that they are more susceptible to propaganda and given to believe more fervently in the supernatural, the religious, and other such unsubstantiable things? After all, the cunning are known not for their epitomisation of gullibility, but for their deficit of it. So if they are to be mutually exclusive, should one not the preclude the other? And if so, how can she be cunning if she is likewise gullible?
It is my contention that in neither man nor woman is gullibility mutually exclusive from cunning, and I shall endeavour to explain why this is hence forth.
As I alluded previously, a woman’s cunning is a byproduct of her instinct, not a premeditated affair. Her ability to seduce is more nature than it is nurture, her manipulations no more than mechanisms of her biological wiring than they are conscious exertions. Her spasmodic capriciousness, penchant for blame shifting and affinity to the plausibly deniable are evolutionarily adapted survival traits, as is her propensity for rationalisation and its subsequent supplantation of her reason.
And yet the very capacity for rationalisation that makes her manipulations so powerful is the very thing which confers her gullibility in matters of the esoteric and abstract. Effectively, her ability to rationalise makes her most effective in the manipulation of people, but the very deficit of reason such rationalisation causes is what leads to her gullibility in the abstract.
As an additional factor, one must note women’s unconditional loyalty to authority. She is obedient in much the way a child is, and it is this obedience which makes her prone to foolishness.
If a person of repute is to tell her something, she will evaluate the thing based on the importance of the person who told her it rather than dissect the elements of what she was told. It is in this way that lesbianic upper class women duped the common woman into working; by playing on the innate victim complex characteristic of woman’s infantile narcissism, they were able to convince her that labour was a freedom women were denied rather than a burden from which they were saved. Womankind subsequently rationalised away her position of relative comfort unencumbered by the harshnesses of labour, and bought into the idea she was born into an oppressed class. As such it becomes quite clear, interpersonally she is cunning, but ideologically she is the very fool she manipulates relationally.
Be she cunning mindfully or instinctually, she is innately predisposed to a degree of cunning one way or the other. This is not to suggest that women are incapable of consciously premeditating their manipulations for such a thing is possible if not commonplace, but rather it is testament to the baseline of duplicity present in women even when conscious effort is absent. Even then, I make this distinction only to emphasise the intrinsicality with which cunning exists in women, I by no means believe the typical woman lacks either the interest or inclination to more mindfully develop the instincts that nature bestowed her. Likewise it is in tangential relevance to this I find it important to note that women’s profound interest in, and domination of academic psychology is no more than an effect of her intrinsic Machiavellian propensity.
Women who are instinctively cunning rather than mindfully cunning will often succumb to gullibility in spite of themselves. For you see, their instincts equip them solely to seduce and petition man, not to engage in the strategisation of complex, abstract mental work. Women with a flair for the strategic are either learned or dark triad and are therefore by definition outliers, the base of the female population’s Machiavellian instinct scantly extends beyond the interpersonal and the intersexual.
And so when it comes to things outside of this arena, she is as naive as the dictation of her emotions and the deficit of her reason allows. Combine this deficit in logic with her evolutionary propensity to rationalise away the undesirable, and the strength of her need to believe is laid bare.
2.) The Double Edged Sword of Rationalisation:
The very thing that makes her manipulations so notoriously effective is the same thing that leads her to be so easily misled – her tendency to rationalise rather than reason. Whilst the average woman is more manipulating than the average man, she is likewise more manipulable than him. Where the typical woman is manipulating in relationships but manipulable in matters of reality, the average man is manipulable in relationships and more finely astute of the abstract.
The gift of reason that lends a man his astuteness in matters of reality is thus absent in his estimation of women, the deficit of reason experienced by women abstractly is equivalent to the deficit of cunning man experiences intersexually. In a relationship, man is behaviourally idealistic whilst she is behaviourally pragmatic, although one should note that such a thing does not prevent her from amassing unrealistic expectations of what being a man should consist of in relation to her self-interest.
Where beauty is the primary cornerstone of feminine power, the capacity for pronounced rationalisation is its secondary cornerstone. Where a man’s reason prohibits him from employing the mental gymnastics necessary to effectively execute a manipulation, a woman faces no such obstacle. Sanity as we think of it is an assessment of one’s ability to demonstrate cogency in their methods and consistency in their beliefs, women are hard pressed to demonstrate either, which is why we often think of them as crazy.
One should not also forget that womankind has been evolutionarily equipped to rationalise the undesirable through her maternal line’s history as a spoil of war. Before civilization legislated against, and effectively nullified the power of man’s physical strength, a woman’s ability to deceive man was her only defence against his encroachments.
3.) Her Deficit of Loyalty:
Where traditional masculinity is rigid, based on systems of honour and loyalty and reliant on force to punish transgressions of these, femininity has no such concerns and is therefore more fluid in the fickleness of its alliances. Where men want their team to win, women simply want to be on the winning team. The men who are similar to women in this way tend to be dark triad in their personality makeup.
Women’s inherent amorality leaves her capable of showing loyalty to whoever exerts the most dominance over her. A woman never completely rules out betrayal, for women are creatures of opportunity; instead she hedges her bets by playing both sides and betraying as is financially or emotionally necessary.
Betrayal is the spark that ignites the match when a woman moves on and adapts herself to a new man in the face of what she deemed to be insufficiency in the previous. Loyalty is symptomatic of honour, an inherently masculine behaviour. Don’t believe me? Look at the divorce rates. The majority of divorces are initiated by women, a true testament to their disloyalty. Likewise men report a light switch effect when breaking up with a woman, a 180 degree change in her personality as she effortlessly gets over him whilst he continues to pine for her.
When a rival tribe would kidnap a woman, her ability to rationalise was the only thing that allowed her to cope, adapt, and continue to lead a rewarding and prosperous life. I believe it is this evolutionary history that is the foundation of women’s intrinsic loyalty deficit. Women who were inferior rationalisers would have expressed loyalty to their birth tribe in the presence of their captors, consequently causing themselves inordinate grief.
Inevitably, such women would’ve been culled to the point where only women with a more fluid sense of loyalty would survive such a prevalence of kidnapping, henceforth selecting for women who were loyal to the powerful and disloyal to the weak, the losses and gains of power imitating the ebbs and flows in her retraction and pledging of loyalty.
Where men adopt their own principles, women adopt the principles of the most powerful people in their lives. Where men fight enemy tribes and die in war, women fall in love with their captors using their innate capacity for cunning to completely remould themselves and even thrive – a feat even the most objectively talented man would be hard pressed to perform.
4.) On The Duplicity of Beauty:
Nature has armed womankind with dissimulation and aesthetic appeal, in which the latter vastly complements and lends itself to the former. Beauty is the fulcrum on which many a successful deception is predicated, for its inviting allure baits with desire whilst falsely associating itself with virtue. To enhance one’s beauty is therefore to augment one’s influence, to appear more noble, more capable, and therefore more trustworthy. Women know this intuitively.
Beauty is not only disarming but enticing, its presence aiding in the signalling of women’s most favoured illusion – innocence. Man’s most foolish visceralism is his propensity to conflate the beautiful with the virtuous, for in doing so, he invariably sees woman for who he’d like her to be rather than for who she is. It is this flaw of instinct in which man perceives virtue as an attendant characteristic of beauty that he inflicts on himself the self-detriment of intersexual naivety.
The duplicity of beauty is predicated on a presumption of innocence that only women and children enjoy, for beauty connotes its virtue through an aesthetic of infantilism. As Leo Tolstoy rather famously said, “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” Beauty is as such feminine rather than masculine in its aesthetic, for handsomeness neither connotes nor confers onto its possessor the same illusion of virtue that beauty does.
Handsomeness lacks the visual childlike innocence signatory of beauty that leads the observer to infer virtue. Effectively the visual cues that lead us to believe in the innocence of children is the exact mechanism from which women’s beauty takes a degree of its power; that degree pertaining to the conflation of beauty with virtue and the presumption of innocence that results from it rather than woman’s sexual power per se. This phenomenon alone serves as further proof of women’s immaturity relative to man, if further proof were even necessary; greater neoteny is a biological marker of lesser maturity. In summary of this section’s thought, I leave you with this concluding statement: her first concern is her appearance, her second concern her cunning, but both serve the same ends.
5.) In Closing / Relevant Reading:
Woman’s desire to remain blameless forever and always plays a significant role in her desire to cultivate an innocent visage. Defensively, a woman’s primary method of manipulation is her presumption of innocence, offensively it is the seductiveness of her physicality; both rely on her beauty, the prior to a mere lesser degree than the latter.
The weaponisation of sex, the falsification of tears, the feigning of innocence and the allergy to blame, know the tools of womanly deception and recognise them for what they are when they rear their ugly heads. And remember, I do not convey such displeasurable truths in order to dissuade you from interacting with women, but rather, so that you may act with shrewdness when you do interact with them.
Lucifer’s Daughter
Machiavellian Thinking vs. Conventional Logic
The Anatomy of Female Power (this book is incredibly expensive in the US, the first reason being it is out of print, and the second reason being feminists got it banned in the US – google for a PDF if this is too rich for your blood)
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It usually takes a great deal of resources to partner, and most of the time it is not a very straightforward process. Any partnership needs to be worth the effort, and to generate more impact than the combined investment of everyone involved.
How can you partner as a network?
Networks are powerful and growing forms of organizing people and organizations around causes, but how do they partner with more traditional types of (centralized) organizations? And how can two or more networks partner up in ways that are relevant (and owned) locally and impactful globally?
What seems to be working
Balancing perspectives in the design phase
As with any other partnership, all parties need to take time to arrive at a shared understanding of the collaboration’s purpose and ambition. They also need to clarify complementary ways of achieving that ambition jointly (you may find the P-ACT tool of MIT D-Lab helpful for example).
When working with or between networks, the process needs to reflect each network’s strategic ambition and also include mapping of related activities, assets, relationships, and needs of its members.
But both of these perspectives (and also the realities of individual members/locations) are seldom 100% consistent. We have found it necessary to consult, or in an ideal case, pilot each partnership opportunity with several representative members/locations in this process before moving forward with a collaboration on a global level. This approach takes time, but usually results in more integrated, impactful and sustainable partnerships.
Providing clarity while encouraging local innovation
Networks can deliver programs or projects consistently across various locations/markets, but their real strength is in their inherent ability to address specific contexts of each location, community or market.
What we’ve seen work best, is providing a very clear partnership framework and leaving plenty of space for local interpretation and encouraging innovation. For example, in our partnership with WWF, we have a sufficiently clear joint ambition (“Accelerating transformative environmental innovations”), a simple toolkit that includes tangible activities that can be mutually beneficial, and a set of stories providing examples of previous collaborations between our networks.
Such a framework provides a clear starting point every time we connect local counterparts from our two networks, but it doesn’t restrict them in what they can do together. If they decide to try out a different approach, all we ask them to do is to share with others so that we can learn and the partnership can evolve.
Moving from a relationship of a few to a cross-cutting network of many
Partnerships between organizations or networks often start with a trusting relationship between a few individuals that see an opportunity in working together.
This initial group is essential in the early years of a partnership but over time, the relationship needs to become independent from its initiators. Actively finding relevant connections, and engaging many people on various levels of both/all organizations involved in a partnership, ensures that the collaboration becomes embedded in each organization’s operations, and becomes more resilient to changes of structures and strategies of any of the parties.
Such relationship building and coordination take resources and time — more than just a traditional account management. It takes a dedicated operational role and support of senior staff of all parties to facilitate relationships, listen to key stakeholders, connect the dots, gather data and stories, and in some cases also raise funding together.
The impact of an investment into such a coordinating role is leveraged by a much wider and diverse collaboration than it would be in a more centralized/top-down partnering model.
In short: investing in a decentralized partnership is worth it, because it generates a greater amount of activity, collaboration and (most importantly), impact.
Listen, measure and tell the story
Some of the challenges of truly global partnerships include:
Keeping a track of what is being done on the ground
Understanding what works well and what doesn’t
Measuring how much added value and impact are being generated
Capturing performance and impact data from joint local as well as international projects and sharing honest evaluations and lessons learned is key and it is, ideally, also done in a distributed fashion.
Promoting engaging stories, data-driven insights and lessons learned from joint activities via channels that are effective in each respective party is key for future growth and evolution of the partnership.
Questions Ahead
Global partnerships that have a strong footing on the local level are an ever-evolving experiment and so there are many questions that are yet to be answered in practice. For example, we are still in the early days of learning how to effectively measure impact outcomes on key issues/SDGs that our partnerships focus on – as an organization and as partners. Especially in those projects whose impact logic is indirect.
We are also learning how to govern partnerships effectively. Most organizations can usually coordinate operationally between each other but strategizing together, addressing differences in organizational cultures, and learning together seems to be something not so many organizations and networks have a lot of experience with.
Finally, financial sustainability of the coordinating role in partnerships also continues to be a question especially in cases of partnerships between networks, where value is usually generated on a local level but the costs of coordinating and supporting need to be covered on a global level. Joint fundraising may be one answer, but we still haven’t cracked the model and we are keen to learn more from others.
We continue to develop our own practice of managing global partnerships and measuring their value as a network. Having said this, we know there have been a countless number of projects, connections and impact enterprises supported which wouldn’t have happened were it not for two or more partners coming together.
Written by: Petr Skvaril
Petr is the Global Partnerships Director at Impact Hub. Together with his team, he develops and manages strategic partnerships around Impact Hub’s global and regional initiatives. Before joining Impact Hub, Petr led a number of innovation programs at Vodafone. Previously he worked at AIESEC International, where he managed the global business development team.
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Posted on January 21, 2016 by Developer Mark
Courtesy of one of our better testers, we have a trip down memory lane today. Back in 2011 we ran a short Alpha Test for some of our combat mechanics. The idea was to get a feel for what worked, and what didn’t, and what needed to be on the screen.
Our Alpha Testers worked diligently to uncover all kinds of interesting problems with the game, we detailed just a few below. Stay tuned all the way to the end though, we’re going to talk about a new feature to SSR.
Yes it’s true. This early version of our interface had no way for you to monitor how fast your ship was traveling. In the new version of SSR there is a slider to control your speed by percentage, and it’s part of the main HUD for controling the direction of your ships travel.
User Error
Our old server wasn’t very powerful, and instead of making one or two datacalls, the game was making 9 or 10 per page refresh. We knew that wasn’t going to cut it in the long run, but this was a mechanical test to see if the core ideas for the game were sound, not anything meant to be optimized. As it turns out, the mechanics were sound, and the new game has a much reduced load on a much more powerful server.
The Best For Last
The last screenshots (there are two here) on our list of Epic Video Game fails from SSR, was caused by entering the combat screen without engaging a fleet. Without any kind of qualifier on the call to load ships into the combat screen, EVERY ship was loaded into the combat screen…all at once. This is roughly 1600 ships engaged in combat with a single player at one time.
Fortunately, this is no longer possible on our new combat interface.
When reviewing the new engine we were building for the game, one of the topics that came up repeatedly was Player Choice. It’s easy to say that Player Choice should matter in a video game – it’s even easy to make Player Choice matter in a video game. But that’s not actually what we mean when we say Player Choice.
Sandbox style video games should be designed so that the player can play the core features of the game any way they want to. Most games do a very poor job of this – if you are primarily a damage dealer, they expect you (at some point) to offset those skills with some healing powers to help keep you alive.
We went the opposite direction.
You want to be stealthy? Put everything into Stealth! You want to be heavily armed, put everything into your weapons!
There are already more then 100 purchasable pieces of equipment with which to outfit your ship, and 15 different ship types to fight with in the game. So how can we add to this?
There is a new loadout option for “Crew Members” that will allow you to slot crew members into specific positions on your ship. Note that for Story Purposes, even though you can remove Sahara from the Radar Operator slot, she will still communicate with you about your ship and your story missions (because that is her job).
But the new Crew Members bring with them a whole new set of skills that can enhance your ship in combat, from improving your radar to improving your torpedoes.
Check it out! We hope to see you in game soon, and as always, SINK ENEMY SHIPPING!
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Credit Union CEO Ends Up with No Credit
Randell Martin
IRS, Tax Fraud, Taxes
Edward Rostohar, CEO of the CBS Employee Credit Union, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for embezzling 40 million dollars over a period of twenty years. Rostohar left the credit union insolvent, and it was absorbed by University Credit Union, taking over all 2,800 accounts.
Rostohar claimed that most of the money was either gambled away or put into failed business ventures. Prosecutors told a different story and said that Rostohar also spent a large sum on cars, watches and private jets to exotic locations, where the married Rostohar wined and dined women who were half his age.
The fraud was perpetrated in two ways, through online payments Rostohar set up, which directed money into his accounts, or by forging the signature of an employee at the credit union on checks payable to himself. An employee discovered the fraud when she saw a check made out to Rostohar for $35,000. The employee then went back a few months and discovered payments made to Rostohar for nearly four million dollars in that time frame.
Before joining the CBS Credit Union, Rostohar was an administrator for the National Credit Union Administraton, a position he says enabled him to avoid detection for a long time because he knew what examiners looked for when examining a credit union’s finances. The judge gave Rostohar a longer sentence than both the government and the defense had requested.
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Toadbollock, Dustiberd and Lytillskyll: historian on what names can tell us about everyday medieval life
British Library MS Harley 4379, fol. 182v
Catherine Clarke, University of Southampton
Let me take you for a stroll down the high street of 12th-century Winchester – one of the great cities of medieval England – and introduce you to a few of the locals. Here’s Alberic Coquus, the cook, and over there is Ainulf Parcheminus, the parchment-maker. They are chatting to Luuing Scalarius (he builds ladders). Godric Softebred, who has his shop just down the road, is a baker – but his neighbours giggle behind his back and give his wife pitying glances.
You can’t miss Robert Crassus (“big, fat”), but I would hesitate to introduce you to Alfred Taddebelloc (“Toadbollock”) and you probably won’t want to stand too close to Radulf Scitliure (“shit-liver”, evidently cursed with chronic diarrhoea or some other stomach complaint). And perhaps we should simply cross the street to avoid me having to mention Godwin Clawecuncte (use your imagination) at all.
We know these names – with the intriguing clues they give about the people who carried them – from the two 12th-century surveys of Winchester property collectively known as the Winton Domesday. So, what’s in a medieval name? What can they tell historians about long-forgotten lives and individuals in the past? And why won’t you find anyone with the surname Toadbollock today?
These names don’t work in quite the same way as modern surnames. These (usually non-hereditary) medieval bynames add further detail to personal names, noting where someone was from, what job they did and even what they looked like or how they behaved.
Chronicle of everyday life in the 12th century: Winton Domesday.
Society of Antiquaries of London
Bynames often reflect physical attributes, such as those of Winchester’s Alestan Hwit (“white”), who probably had a fair complexion, or Alimer Longus (“tall”). You wouldn’t want to see Winchester’s Peter Agnell (“little lamb”) get into a fight with Godwin Bar (“boar”).
Many medieval historians have their own favourite names they’ve discovered during their research: Professor Anthony Bale of Birkbeck, University of London, mentions Tom Dustiberd (“dusty beard”) and the likely somewhat dishevelled Adam Charrecrowe (“scarecrow”), as well as Walter Boltuprith (“bolt-upright”).
Other bynames indicate trades and occupations. Richard Farrier was keeper of the king’s horses at Chester in the summer of 1283. Records show that he purchased cut grass for 20 horses, including that of the queen, and also for ten “great” horses arriving from Caernafon. He bought horseshoes, bridles, long ropes of hemp to make reins, as well as plenty of horse salve.
Other occupational bynames hint at less happy vocations. John Pynchware and his son worked as shoemakers in 15th-century Chester. But with a byname like that, how well did their shoes fit? Professor Matthew Davies of Birkbeck points to an apprentice tailor in London, 1486, named Rowland Lytillskyll. He doesn’t seem to have made it in his chosen career.
Bynames can also tell us about ethnic identities. Several people in 12th-century Winchester were called “Iudeius” – members of what would become the city’s thriving medieval Jewish community. Godwin Francigena, with his English personal name and byname meaning “Frenchman”, reminds us what a cosmopolitan, multicultural European city this was.
But sometimes bynames point to political and social tensions. Dr Adam Chapman, at the Institute for Historical Research, shares the example of the 14th-century Welshman known as Madog Drwgwrthgymro: literally “bad to Welshmen”, but translated by the historian Robert Rees Davies more provocatively as “Saxon-lover” – a smear based on perceived disloyalty and ethnic betrayal.
Another Welshman, William Cragh, features in medieval records as an outlaw –- or freedom fighter, depending on your viewpoint – who rebelled against Norman rule and was hanged, but came back to life (that’s another story. He cuts less of a romantic, heroic figure when we translate his Welsh byname – perhaps “Scabby William” had suffered some kind of disfiguring disease as a child. Still, he was more likely known by his fellow Welshmen by the patronymic “ap Rhys” (“son of Rhys”).
Somewhere in my own ancestry, someone probably worked as a clerk. Adam Chapman’s forebears possibly worked in a shop (“ceap-man” meant merchant, from the Old English “ceapan” meaning to sell or buy). Some bynames just stick around: Delia Smith doesn’t work in a forge, and Mary Beard doesn’t have one. But others, unsurprisingly, don’t outlast their original owners.
We see similar revisions when it comes to less appealing place names: just as William Cragh probably preferred being called William ap Rhys, the place where he was hanged in Swansea was renamed, in the late 19th century, from Gibbet Hill Road to the more estate agent-friendly North Hill Road.
So, why are medieval bynames so useful and engaging? For a start, some of them are hilarious – and they give us a humorous way into a seemingly remote and distant historical past. But, more than that, they offer a sense of connection with a real individual and a characteristic which defined them within their own, contemporary local community.
These medieval names also give us glimpses into something the big chronicles, charters and official history books often don’t tell us much about: ordinary people and their ordinary, colourful lives.
Catherine Clarke, Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture, University of Southampton
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Vikings exhibit hangs up the sword, and gives us a welcome insight into domestic life
A reconstructed Viking ship.
Caitlin Mills
Tom Clark, Victoria University
The Vikings are in Melbourne. It is hard to see anything “Vikings” without thoughts of the seafaring thugs who invaded or raided much of coastal Europe and beyond. As Viking scholar Judith Jesch has reminded us, that is essential to what the word originally meant: Norse-speaking people who got into surprisingly small ships and went in search of adventure, very often violent.
However, this is not the full story. A new exhibition at the Melbourne Museum is at pains to demonstrate this other side.
What does the word ‘Viking’ really mean?
The television series Vikings goes out of its way to show how its characters did some pretty amazing things in their rovings – just surviving those sea voyages must rate high on the list – but mostly we know about them because they plundered far from home, to great effect. From 793 until 1066, or thereabouts, many people feared a visit from the Vikings more intensely than they feared their own rulers.
Jesch has also explained how the word broadened its meaning, even at the same time as Vikings became increasingly caricatured in poplar knowledge (think the Terry Jones movie Erik the Viking). “Vikings” can now mean all people from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and many other colonies across the North Atlantic who lived during “the Viking Age”.
The Melbourne Museum’s exhibition takes this broader sense of the word and uses it against that other, narrower one. Brought to Melbourne by the Swedish History Museum, which owns the collection, it explores the lives of the Vikings as much more holistic than just the adventures of those Norsemen who went a-viking.
The approach will disappoint some people. There are weapons on show, some of them remarkably elegant for all the ravages of time, but none are better preserved than the bent sword from a burial mound in Sweden. Archaeologists reckon it was bent precisely to render it useless for violence – to prevent its misuse in the afterlife.
Roman gladiators were war prisoners and criminals, not sporting heroes
There are boats, both original and reconstructed. Compared to the palpably seaworthy wonders of Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum, though, the standout here is a half-ship plotted in the abstract by its rivets — the planks have all perished in the boat’s burial site, but the rivets that once fastened them have been suspended in their true positions in mid-air. It offers a haunting impression of the boat that once was.
Rivets from a Viking ship create a ‘ghost ship’.
Swedish History Museum
Still, these are not displays to get the adrenalin pumping. The interactives will not push you to imagine yourself in armour, screaming from behind a wall of shields on some stricken hillside, mead in one hand and great axe in the other.
Instead, this exhibition focuses on domestic life, economy, religion and technology. Nobody should imagine that any visiting show at a museum can do comprehensive justice to even one of those four, but this one gives us plenty of concrete evidence if we wanted to imagine Swedish and similar communities in the Viking Age.
It shows us the basics of Scandinavian clothing, for example, which is so essential for imagining the people in those countries. Its displays of jewellery remind just how fine the silver and gold smithing traditions of Germanic Europe were — for example, a filigreed pendant depicting Mjölnir (“Mealgrinder”), Thor’s hammer.
Pendant, Thor’s hammer, in gold and silver. The pendant is richly decorated with filigree ornaments and is one of a kind. Erikstorp, Ödeshög, Östergötland.
The Mjölnir pendant is also an example of how this exhibition explores the religious and spiritual dispositions of the Vikings. The gradual progression of Christian conversion through Scandinavia and Iceland meant that some southern communities were converted long before the recognised Viking Age began. Others in the north held to their faith in the Aesir (one of two tribes of Norse gods) until well into the 12th century.
What we miss in that story of incremental northwards progression, though, is how varied and often contradictory the local beliefs were. There may have been as many different schools of Aesir worship as there were settlements across the Norse-speaking lands. Certainly, during the period of Christian conversion, many people practised a dual worship — keeping the old gods alive, even though the new God forbade it.
There is a wealth of riches in the exhibition, as you might expect, which could be chaos if it lacked a strong logic of curation. Importantly, then, elements of the curation speak with great depth. The collectors have clear points to make, and they use the exhibits to make them.
A case in point is the questioning, rather than definitive, discussion of hair combs. Archaeologists have curiously found such apparently mundane items in most of the Scandinavian burial sites. Were they for carrying into the next world, for a final grooming of the dead person before burial, or something else entirely? If we cannot understand those combs, how can we understand the worlds they joined?
This emphasis on the social and everyday is quite different from many other Viking exhibitions – in English-speaking countries at least – which have tended to focus on the martial vigour of those people who repeatedly invaded “us”. A recent example was the British Museum’s 2014 exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend, which cast them as fighting fanatics for their religion, a medieval precursor of Daesh or ISIS.
Here, the curators are trying first and foremost to redirect our attentions. War was only a part of the Viking life, and only for a segment of Viking society at that. Anyone who wears a horned helmet to see this exhibition may feel an urge to take it off.
Vikings: Beyond the Legend is showing at the Melbourne Museum until August 26 2018.
Tom Clark, Associate Professor, First Year College, Victoria University
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Article: Australian Cattle King Sydney Kidman
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the life of Sydney Kidman, the Australian cattle king.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/national/grandpa-kid-the-cattle-king/story-fnii5yv8-1226702043599
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Article: Violet McKenzie – Australia’s First Female Electrical Engineer
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the life of the first female electrical engineer in Australia – Violet McKenzie.
http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/australias-first-female-electrical-engineer/
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Infographic: Abraham Lincoln
The link below is to an interesting infographic on the life of Abraham Lincoln.
http://blog.genealogybank.com/abraham-lincoln-family-tree-genealogy-infographic.html
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Article: Albert Einstein
The link below is to an article that looks at various facts concerning Albert Einstein.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/20812/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-albert-einstein
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Article: Roy Chapman Andrews – a Real Life Indiana Jones
The link below is to an article that looks at the life of Roy Chapman Andrews.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49186/roy-chapman-andrews-real-life-indiana-jones
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Article: USA – Hetty the Hoarder
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the life of Hetty the Hoarder.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49379/life-and-times-hetty-hoarder-witch-wall-street
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Article: Australia – The Life of Henry Lawson
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the life of Henry Lawson.
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/the-life-of-henry-lawson.htm
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Home Data Canadian Premier League unites with Stats Perform for new data platform
Canadian Premier League unites with Stats Perform for new data platform
The Canadian Premier League (CPL) has united with its official data partner Stats Perform, for the launch of its new fan engagement platform.
Utilising AI and data, the platform will provide public access to advanced Canadian Premier League statistics. Centre Circle Data (CCD) is the first-of-its-kind program that will allow free access to detailed CPL club and player match data via an email subscription on CanPL.ca.
Oliver Gage, Head of On-Field Performance and Recruitment, Canadian Premier League commented: “The ability for Canadian fans, aspiring analysts, scouts and coaches to access this data on our League is an essential part of a wider strategy to promote this side of the game in Canada.
“Empowering a community with the ability to hone their analysis skills, will no doubt help our clubs, players and Canadian soccer as a whole overall. We look forward to seeing, questioning and promoting the articles and ideas which the release of this data will no-doubt encourage.”
CCD is powered by Stats Perform’s deep and detailed Opta data, providing Canadian soccer fans and aspiring performance and statistical analysts the opportunity to access a genuine data set for deeper evaluation on CPL clubs and players. The data set will include detailed statistics on a plethora of aspects of the game, including detailed information on passing, shots, and defensive and goalkeeping actions.
Stats Perform serves as official data provider for the CPL, which signed a four-year agreement earlier this year to collect and manage data, through Opta, from all CPL matches.
Alex Rice, Chief Rights Officer at Stats Perform added: “We are thrilled to support our partners at the Canadian Premier League to provide Centre Circle Data to all the fans and potential analysts out there. Stats Perform’s CPL data is collected at the same level of detail as some of the biggest football leagues in the world and this provides an exciting opportunity for fans who want to analyze deeper aspects of the game. We look forward to seeing how fans, scouts and aspiring analysts will use this data to further bring the game to life.”
Insider Insight: The use of data can elevate engagement in Canadian soccer can undoubtedly expand the reach of the league and turn casual fans into hardcore fans, as they form a greater understanding for the game and specifically the league in Canada.
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For Spencer Strasmore, the stakes have never been higher. In Season 5 of the hit comedy series, Spencer (Dwayne Johnson) has settled into retirement…until an irresistible offer comes his way and sends him back into the lion's den—this time as a team owner. Meanwhile, Joe (Rob Corddry), having split with Spencer, gambles aggressively to make Sports X greater than ever with the help of his new partner, Lance (Russell Brand); Ricky (John David Washington) has a startling setback that forces him to consider a new kind of future; Charles (Omar Miller) learns that he may need to get his hands dirty; Vernon (Donovan W. Carter) shifts his focus to his love of professional gaming despite Reggie's (London Brown) wariness; and Jason (Troy Garity) decides to take his career to the next level.
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How ATPCO Is Evolving To Meet Airlines’ Retailing Demands
by David Kaplan OCTOBER 17, 2019
The distribution of pricing content over the last 10 years has changed dramatically. So has ATPCO, says Beth Taylor.
ATPCO, the airline pricing, content, and data distributor, has come a long way since it was founded 54 years ago as the Airline Tariff Publishing Company. And so has the commercial airline business.
The last two years have brought considerable change for the Dulles, VA.-based company, especially considering its Feb. 2018 acquisition – so far, its only purchase – of Routehappy, which provides interactive, real-time images and data that promote airline merchandising.
The advances that ATPCO has made on its own and with the addition of Routehappy were on full display at last month’s two-day Elevate 2019 conference. The expansion of ATPCO’s Next Generation Storefront and its adoption of dynamic pricing were designed to address commercial aviation’s need for more up-to-date retailing strategies and the adoption of real-time pricing for bookings and passenger amenities.
We caught up with Beth Taylor, ATPCO’s head of marketing, to discuss the evolution of ATPCO and its products, including the NDC Exchange, which was created by ATPCO and SITA that enables API connectivity between airlines and sellers using New Distribution Capability (NDC), an XML-based data transmission standard set by global aviation industry trade group IATA.
Taylor joined ATPCO three years ago. She was previously Global Advisor & Senior Manager for Content Strategy and Cloud Marketing art IBM.
Kambr Media: Traditionally, it seems ATPCO was where airlines would file prices that were static and transparent. In an emerging/future world where airlines set prices dynamically, for both base fares and ancillary products as well, how does that change ATPCO's data exchanges, process for adding value, and ultimately the organization's role in the commercial transactional flow?
Beth Taylor: The core of ATPCO has traditionally been focused on the collection and distribution of pricing data. The business model is one of industry efficiency and value creation – so that any airline in the world can have a one-to-many relationship with any channel that wants to consume their content – mostly to sell tickets on flights, but sometimes to scale their content across academia, governments, technology providers etc.. We have served as a neutral platform where both airlines and channels know that they are going to capitalize on the network economics of our model, while getting unparalleled reliability in data distribution.
I’ve had a lot of conversations with our board members. I’ve asked them off the wall questions like, “Okay. What happens if we cease to exist tomorrow?” They all say things like, “I would retire. Tickets would stop being sold. It would be mass chaos.” We’ve greatly reduced the complexity required for all airlines to get to any channel.
It reminds me of a Swiss watch: we’ve been a tiny but critical cog that no one talks about but makes the system work as it exists today.
Can you explain that critical role that ATPCO plays today for airlines?
The distribution of pricing content over the last 10 years has changed dramatically. To keep pace, we started to expand that capability to include the growth in ancillary content. And now, it’s about the growth and expansion of full retailing content, which brings in much more than price. Simply put, as passenger volumes grow and consumer expectations change, we are changing too – to ensure everyone from revenue management executives to digital to marketing to distribution teams are able to work together to showcase their product effectively and deliver information that lets fliers make informed decisions.
We are evolving based on the neutral leadership that this industry is looking for. As part of the next generation of offers, it's not just about ticket pricing. It's not about the commoditization of the air travel ticket. How do you create and connect experiences, individual preferences, and seat attributes which people have different levels of value for? That's more than a price.
ATPCO still sits at the center of distribution as a critical and reliable infrastructure, but we have expanded our scope to things like retailing, dynamic pricing and offer management, NDC Exchange and retailing data standards like Next Generation Storefront -- as we see that is where the industry needs and wants us to go.
How has your own role evolved?
I joined ATPCO when Rolf [Purzer] was first promoted to CEO in 2017. I was his first hire among the now 50 percent or so of new senior leaders at the company. So, I was at the tip of the spear in terms of ATPCO’s transformational efforts. About a year prior to the acquisition of Routehappy. It’s been awesome to be a driving force behind our current momentum -- to see the speed at which this company's moving, but also the speed at which the entire industry is waking up, it is pretty inspiring.
Prior to being in air travel, I was at IBM, focused on positioning our cloud and infrastructure products across industry verticals – leaning into transformational market topics tied to big data, machine learning, blockchain, etc. Coming into the airline industry, I was looking at it from the technology side of things, vs an industry perspective. I knew IBM had a lot of entrenched relationships with airlines from the mainframe days, so it's just been very interesting to see the differences in how everyone in the industry is looking to apply next-gen tech to advance their positioning. I’ve noticed differences based on how big the airline is, how complex some of the relationships are, etc.
How has the acquisition of Routehappy 18 months ago factored into new or improved ways for travelers to shop?
ATPCO and Routehappy may have looked different from the outside but we had more in common than you might expect. We were both driven by an industry-serving and an industry-leading mission. We were both experts in the flight shopping content that makes fliers understand elements of value they get from the product – pricing and retailing data that makes them informed and happier shoppers.
In a way, Routehappy approached it from the other end of retail from pricing. For Routehappy, the premise is “How do we help you communicate the full product experience in an authentic and richer way so the end consumer knows what their buying, tied to the actual product?”
So, it's not crowdsourced. It goes back to reliability, depth and breadth. You know what you're getting – we have the primary data that represents the actual product.
This matters; for example, on the pricing side, there's no shortage of screen scrapers and companies that collect second-hand pricing data from multiple sources and then reposition it. I give a lot of credit to our board and to airlines in general for recognizing that we needed an industry source for rich content so that it didn't become owned by third parties, those who don’t fully know or aren’t invested in what the complete products are.
So the message is: “You will know that what you’re buying is true to form because we’re airline-owned, which means we're getting the primary data straight from the source.”
And if you’re going to innovate, wouldn’t you rather build your idea using primary data?
I'll never forget when went I first went up to New York to talk to [Routehappy CEO Robert Albert] and I said to him - I get it: “It's price meets picture, right?” We made sense together.
Like any good CEO, Robert responded, “It is way more intricate than that. We're not just pictures.” But from a layman's perspective, images are such a valued thing. There's a metaphor that he's used: “You can go on homedepot.com and see more about a 10 cent nail than you can a $10,000 business class seat.”
You can rotate that nail on Home Depot’s website. You can see exactly what the specs are. You just don't have that visibility when it comes to an airline product, but we're getting there.
That’s the basis of bringing these two companies together. The mission is not about filing fares. The mission is about being a neutral platform for airlines and channels to connect through, to be the foundation of flight shopping.
I think Bob’s Home Depot’s online product display is notable. In what specific ways does Routehappy provide that level of detail to airline products?
There are three core features to our rich content portfolio: Universal Product Attributes (UPAs), Universal Ticket Attribute (UTAs), and Amenities.
These features address the main components to any fare that is sold. UPAs bring unique airline products and services to life through photos, graphics, videos, captions and descriptions. UTAs clearly show the fare’s restrictions and benefits, such as boarding priority, how many bags can you check, what's the cancellation policy, seat selection and more. We can showcase this with a quick icon and a few words that describe what you're looking at. It’s an easy glance instead of having to look at 11 pages that you used to get when it came to knowing your key benefits and restrictions to the fare that you're buying. Lastly, Amenities highlight key features of your flight from aircraft type, layout, seat type, entertainment, Wi-Fi, power, fresh food, beverages, so shoppers can see what Amenities will be on the actual flight they are purchasing.
What’s ATPCO’s view of the emergence of dynamic pricing for airlines?
Two years ago, ATPCO did some pretty deep research discovery with the PODS Consortium run out of MIT. As mentioned, I used to lead marketing in the cloud computing space. This moment for dynamic pricing and dynamic offer creation reminds me of the very early days when people were asking, “What is the public cloud, what is the private cloud? What is a hybrid cloud?” Cloud was still forming as a set of definitions, which eventually required interoperable solutions, similar to what the flavors of dynamic pricing look like.
It’s everything from that first initial step out of static fare filing, all the way to fully personalized, continuous bundling. It's not a one or the other. It's not black or white, there are different stage gates that any airline can choose, based on what their unique strategy is.
Since publishing the PODS paper, we've been doing a lot of work to educate and to identify what the industry needs from us as pricing, ancillaries, and bundled offers become dynamic – what industry standards, expertise, or infrastructure is needed to support it?
The same way that we have built much of the underpinning to today's pricing logic, we’ve asked what needs to exist to allow dynamic offers to get to market in a way that ensures offer integrity. How can we support the collection, distribution, and settlement of offers in a neutral way that provides industry value? That might cover offer-to-order, so that you have transparency into what sells and what's booked. Those concepts are being worked on in our R&D team today. How do you back in from what would be the filing of 10,000 fares into a single offer?
It’s an exciting place to be at right now. At our Elevate conference earlier this month we unveiled a simplified model for dynamic pricing that reduces the barrier to entry for airlines, the model is made up of three different approaches beyond static fares. We will be moving fast on helping our customers get up and running with the approach that works for them.
How has ATPCO continued to develop its Next-Generation Storefront standards?
It’s been quite the sprint for us over the last 12 months, we only unveiled the intent to develop the standard at our Elevate 2018 conference and now in less than 12 months, we have a finalized U.S. Domestic Standard ready. I’ve never seen a standards initiative move at this pace in our industry. We’ve done so through a test and learn approach to industry collaboration. Some of it speaks to the appetite at which the industry is willing to move to advance flight shopping.
We are not creating this standard in a vacuum – many airlines, channels, and partners are deeply involved in developing it – so it can benefit all. We hosted numerous working groups with the industry this year as part of NGS development. We have input from over 62 organizations to date. And, we just announced NGS is expanding globally, forming new advisory boards for four international markets – Asia Pacific, Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Canada Domestic, with members of the new advisory boards including Ctrip.com, Air China, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Skyscanner, and CWT along with American Airlines and Delta Air Lines.
How does ATPCO work with IATA’S New Distribution Capability? Does it have a formal part in shaping ATPCO’s NDC Exchange?
Very early on, about 8 years ago, we donated the Open Axis schema to IATA. That’s what led to the creation of the standard model. We've been extremely supportive of IATA’s development of the NDC standard and have continued to look at ways to help airlines adopt it more quickly.
Our leading product in the space, NDC Exchange, was actually a product that we built as a result of an RFP from IATA. That's an example where we work very closely to support one another. We're on each other's standards boards, we both look to create industry value for the entire ecosystem, and we've got close relationships there that help benefit our industry stakeholders.
ATPCO's Beth Taylor on stage at the company's Elevate conference
What is NDC Exchange and how does it work?
As far as NDC Exchange goes, it's really about helping airlines get up and running quickly and get connected to their preferred channel partners with less investment in development.
Instead of having airlines to attempt to establish their NDC connections with each partner individually and maintain different schemas and versions, the Exchange does it for you. You don't have to upgrade your technology to keep up with every new NDC schema – we do that for you.
We've actually seen quite a big uptake. We launched it a couple years ago. We now have 85 airlines and channels that are in various stages of onboarding, with 25 of those who are major airlines and channels now connected and or live and nearly production-ready. I don't think IATA expected NDC to take as long as it has. But, I use my experience in tech when AWS was disrupting cloud to say, it takes many partners and advocates to help people move forward in totality – to support interoperability along the curve - from early to late adopters. Airlines and channels have to be convinced that if there's an investment needed to modernize to NDC, that there will be a material, long-term benefit that offsets the initial investment.
Working closely with the industry on adopting NDC, we identified fundamental technology gaps that prevent many airlines and channels from implementing NDC at their desired speed and cost. We are now working on developing NDC services that will help the industry to implement NDC faster. As part of this NDC Exchange is transforming from a product that offers connectivity and translations to a full platform that adds layers of additional capabilities that can be easily bundled with other offerings.
The word interoperability cannot be stressed enough. We are able to keep existing systems running while they dip their foot into new NDC technology. We support all airlines, whether they’re going to go full in, or even if they're just going to test it.
What’s the process like for airlines joining the NDC Exchange?
It’s really being a marketplace that connects airlines to their channel partners together, that takes the legwork out of these companies having to connect to multiple different versions, schemas that otherwise could take close to a year. As an example, AmTrav was able to connect to Southwest through NDC Exchange in under a month, which is extremely quick. It’s nearly unheard of and that speed to market is an important part of our value here.
As airlines get more and more revenue from ancillary customer services aside from fares, how does ATPCO factor those dollars into its system? If not, does ATPCO plan to incorporate more of the fees airlines charge fliers into its systems?
We've been involved in the merchandising of ancillaries both as revenue drivers, and also to meet consumer's evolving expectations for flight shopping. Most recently with the acquisition of Routehappy, we’ve been focused in how we bring the pricing and the visualization of products together.
The interesting thing is as you go into the mode of thinking about the total offer and total product, ancillaries simply become part of the experience. They are not seen as a separate thing. I think consumers are tired of that separation.
One of the hypotheses I have is that the attributes that are typically designated as an ancillary cost, like a bag check in or seat selection, will seamlessly be integrated into the total product. With programs like NGS that help with comparison shopping in the display, we are ultimately empowering the consumer the option to select what attributes they care about the most and then quickly visualize it. It allows them to learn a lot more about what ancillaries are as part of their total experience. In the end, by packaging ancillaries as integrated in the total product, we could motivate a consumer to book based on emotion vs rationalized add-ons.
People book a flight for different reasons. One of the things we have been learning very quickly through NGS is that it's not all about the seat. Yes, the seat is one of the more important attributes for many fliers. But there are a lot of emotional attributes like the type of a wine or food selection or there's craft beer on a particular flight. Having transparency into the cost of a flight can bring those ancillary products to life, even the ticket attributes themselves, knowing you can sit with your family on a flight and can choose your seats together, are important purchasing decisions we are empowering consumers to make.
That's evolved with Routehappy under our amenities data, which focuses on eight key features that consumers care about the most and our UTA product.
In addition to caring about the food being serviced, wi-fi is one of the most important amenities people want on a flight. Five years ago, consumers wanted to know if a flight has wi-fi or not. Now they want to know what kind of wi-fi is available. Is it streaming capable or is it 2G? Is it ground to air? All of that makes that wi-fi experience very different.
That is one thing that our position benefits us -- we're in a position to say, “How can we empower meaningful comparable experiences? How do we enable channels and ultimately the end consumer to be able to compare like for like,? And what are the actual product definitions – what does the full product experience look like.”
What’s your sense of the travel agency business and how ATPCO serves that segment of the industry’s needs at a time when booking tools like Expedia and Hopper are fairly well established for travelers?
Online travel agencies are one of the fastest growing areas of our major data subscriptions.
We have a number of very large brands that buy or engage with us for full data. Most of those brands are OTAs, like Expedia, which is one of our most valued customers.
We've talked to Hopper extensively as well, and they're doing experiments with NGS. They have a big seat at the table. We're not in it for one system tor one channel to be more successful than the other, like meta versus a travel agency versus system, etc. We are neutral by design and in it for all to benefit in the way that works best for their business.
One of the nice things that's been a really big differentiator for us now that ATPCO and Routehappy are fully integrated has been, there was this perception that ATPCO existed just for airlines. And that's not entirely true. I understand the perception, because ATPCO is an airline-owned company, and airlines make up our board. But ATPCO does a phenomenal amount of work with channels as well.
Routehappy, alternatively, served both airlines and channels, too – but maybe had more early demand from the channels than from airlines. And, we both know, it is sometimes difficult to connect airlines and channels together.
As ATPCO and Routehappy have become one, our entrenched relationships on both sides have become a multiplier for us. I've talked with board members and senior executives that are in travel agencies, they've said to us, “You guys are in a very unique position to help airlines and channels get connected.”
With the Routehappy value prop and its relationships with sales channels, we can actually bring all sides together more quickly, using ATPCO as a neutral platform for those conversations. Ultimately channels need this content in order to improve their flight shopping experience, and airlines want to make sure their tickets are available to be sold wherever their buyers shop.
How The NDC Exchange Is Closing Airline Retailing’s Tech Gap
by David Kaplan NOVEMBER 8, 2019
ATPCO Expands Next Gen Storefront Standards Globally, Embraces Dynamic Pricing
What’s Next For ATPCO’s NDC Exchange?
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2010 December Dallas Signature Fine Jewelry & Handbag AuctionAuction #5048
Diamond, Black Onyx, Platinum, Gold Rings. ... (Total: 6 Items)
Diamond, Black Onyx, Platinum, Gold Rings
The ring lot includes: ring featuring brilliant-cut diamonds measuring 6.90 x 6.90 x 3.50 and 5.70 x 5.70 x 3.30 mm and weighing a total of approximately 1.58 carats, enhanced by full-cut diamonds weighing a total of approximately 0.35 carat, set in 14k white gold (Size: 6-1/2); ring highlighting a brilliant-cut diamond measuring 6.00 x 6.00 x 3.30 mm and weighs approximately 0.72 carat, enhanced by full-cut diamonds weighing a total of approximately 1.08 carats, set in 14k white gold (cut shank Size: 7-1/2); ring centering a brilliant-cut diamond measuring 5.30 x 5.30 x 3.20 mm and weighs approximately 0.54 carat, enhanced by full-cut diamonds weighing a total of approximately 0.11 carat, set in 18k gold and platinum (Size: 6-1/2); ring features an old European-cut diamond measuring 6.00 x 6.00 x 4.25 mm and weighs approximately 1.14 carats, set in 14k yellow and white gold (Size: 5); crossover ring highlighting brilliant-cut diamonds measuring 6.00 x 6.00 x 3.60 and 5.60 x 5.60 x 4.00 mm and weighing a total of approximately 1.55 carats, set in 14k gold (Size: 4-3/4); Final ring features a rectangular-shaped black onyx measuring 18.00 x 9.00 mm, enhanced by brilliant-cut diamond weighing approximately 0.51 carat, enhance by single-cut diamonds, set in 10k gold (Size: 7-1/2). Total diamond weight for the lot is approximately 7.59 carats. Gross weight 31.15 grams.
*Note: all rings are sizeable
Condition Report*: Diamond Average Color: J-K-L
Diamond Average Clarity: I
Diamond Shapes: Brilliant-cut, Old-European-cut, Full-cut, Single-cut
Diamond Count: 26 - 50
Gem Type: Black Onyx
Gem Average Clarity: Good
Gem Shape: Rectangular-shaped
Gem Count: 1 - 25
Overall Condition: Fair
Notes: Lot of six rings. One shank is cut.
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The Facebook Privilege video
It’s a bold claim: “If anyone doesn’t understand privilege,” the gif reads, “show them this video.”
“This video” covers an exposure-to-privilege exercise. A bunch of high school-aged kids line up at one end of a field. A leader in the middle of the field tells the kids they are going to run a race to the other end of the field. The winner gets $100.
But before the race begins, the leader says:
If both of your parents are still married, take two steps forward.
If you grew up with a father figure in the house, take two steps forward.
If you had access to private education, take two steps forward.
If you had access to a free tutor, take two steps forward.
If you never had to worry about your cell phone being shut off, take two steps forward.
If you never had to help mom or dad pay the bills, take two steps forward.
If you didn’t have to pay for college for a reason other than your athletic ability, take two steps forward.
If you never had to wonder where your next meal was going to come from, take two steps forward.
As some kids happily step forward (taking as large steps as they can), the video cuts to reaction shots of the kids who are left behind.
Then the leader drops his truth bomb. “I want you guys in the front to look around at the people behind you. Every statement I’ve made has nothing to do with anything you have done, has nothing to do with decisions you have made. Everything I’ve said has nothing to do with what you’ve done. We all know these people up here in the front have a better opportunity to get the hundred dollars. Does that mean these people in the back can’t race? No. We would be foolish not to realize we’ve been given more opportunity. We don’t want to recognize that we’ve been given a head start. But the reality is we have.”
The thinking, I suppose, is that this video’s clear, concise, and compelling explanation of privilege will silence the folks who believe privilege doesn’t exist.
But the folks who really want to believe that privilege doesn’t exist, or that the privileged classes are somehow victimized, have an obvious retort. They’ll produce their own video which mirrors the same exercise, only the leader will say:
If you’ve ever received food stamps, take two steps forward.
If you’ve ever been on welfare, take two steps forward.
If you were given preferential treatment in college admissions because of your race, take two steps forward.
If a judge sided with you in a custody case and against the father because the judge thought she was naturally a better parent, take two steps forward.
If you were ever hired over a white man because you were a “diversity hire,” take two steps forward.
Then the leader will tell the runners to look around, and say something like, “These guys who are in front are in front not because of anything they did, but because the government and our society privileges them. It is easy to get ahead by doing nothing, while the rest of us have to work hard to subsidize their lazy behavior. That’s what real institutional privilege is, people.”
It’ll be an ugly, offensive, and disgusting video. But it’s going to be the response to a video that dares to claim to explain privilege in a supposedly inarguable way.
The solution is to include an addendum to the original video that addresses how the privileged can level the playing field. The leader can say, “You guys in the front didn’t do anything to earn your privilege, but if you think your privilege isn’t fair—and it isn’t fair—there are things you can do to level the playing field. The question is: are you willing to make the system fair?” Then he’ll say:
Are you willing to support civil rights programs that affect everyone if that means the folks in the back takes two steps closer to you?
Are you willing to support SNAP legislation that feeds the poor if that means the folks in the back takes two steps closer to you?
Are you willing to support equal opportunity initiatives that overcomes the institutional, systemic racism that has hurt Americans for no other reason than their race if that means the folks in the back takes two steps closer to you?
It would be a bold video. One worth sharing.
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A New Era of Banking in AI: How to Get Started Today
An exclusive event of revolutionising banking with artificial intelligence.
JurisTech hosted our very first exclusive event that brought out most of the major banks and financial institutions in Malaysia to learn the ways of becoming an AI-driven organisation.
It is not merely following the hype of AI but using AI as a tool to make quick and sound business decisions. Juris aims to revolutionise the way financial transactions are conducted.
So then, what is AI?
Based on Gartner, AI is categorised into three primary disciplines – Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.
Our legendary CEO, See Wai Hun stresses on the third discipline, which is Machine Learning, by talking on the topic of ‘What is Machine Learning and its Application in Banking’.
Machine learning optimises structured data which the banks have in abundance. She mentioned that most banks have been using regression technology for credit scoring. However, how many banks dared venture into other AI algorithms? What kind of results do banks want? What is the impact of each initiative the banks do?
‘We always think of physical business as having no data, but we are wrong,’ said Wai Hun.
The main difference of the digital natives (those born in the digital world) and the physical businesses is that the digital natives know how to use the data. They utilise every ounce of data to enhance customer experiences and scale the business.
How then can we do differently? We need a bold digital vision.
A bold digital vision is to utilise the data at hand to generate as many use cases for the company. Quoting Carly Fiorina, former executive, president, and chair of Hewlett-Packard Co – The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.’
Wai Hun then shared the strategic framework of AI, curated by Gartner. She led the audience through the process of determining AI use cases by selecting, prioritising, and stack-ranking them. The financial services professionals generated unique and innovative AI use cases that can be implemented in their organisation.
After an interesting-yet-eye-opening session by Wai Hun, our design thinking expert, Katherine took over the floor by engaging the audience on ‘Brain Writing’.
The financial services professionals generated creative and wild ideas by only spending 3 minutes on Ideation, 5 minutes on Data Analysis, and 3 minutes on Selecting the best idea to present to the floor.
The second half of the session was taken over by Hosein, our Head Data Scientist. He presented some practical tips on tools and technology. Hosein opened by saying that only 4% has successfully implemented AI (PWC 11th annual Digital IQ survey, 2018). Touching mostly on the technical aspect, he explained what machine learning is and the challenges organisations faced implementing AI.
One of the biggest challenges was breaking down the wall of confusion during the production phase between Data Scientists and Data Engineers, DataOps, and Data Architects.
‘Change is a constant,’ said Hosein.
To combat change, continuous learning and continuous deployment is a must!
Hosein gave the audience two options to choose. One – to implement AI themselves. Two – to invest in an AI technology that automates the AI deployment life cycle for them.
He then showcases our latest innovation – Mindcraft, a predictive and prescriptive analytics with AI, machine learning, and data mining.
By combining the power of business expertise and statistical measures, our AI-based solutions have been proven to be precise and accurate in scoring customer’s credit worthiness. The technology behind our solutions are mature and sophisticated – created to be transparent. In fact, it has been tried and tested in real-life scenarios, with authentic data.
To conclude the event, Wai Hun left the audience with a powerful statement, ‘If banks do not become data companies, data companies will become banks.’
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About the Author: Laura Tsen
Laura Tsen is the Marketing Executive of JurisTech. She is always intrigued by new ideas. She believes that success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. A newbie to the world of copywriting but she has a passion to learn and pick up a new skill.
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Clarity Isn't The Point In Confusing, Absorbing 'Dead Astronauts'
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Beth Novey, NPR
Arkady Martine
Jeff Vandermeer's latest novel, Dead Astronauts, is a kaleidoscopic and fractured mosaic: In a long-changed, post-climate-apocalypse world, a trio of saboteurs — or escapees — or simply survivors — attempt over and over again to dismantle the work of the Company, an entity which may have once been a biotech corporation but now churns out broken and altered-beyond-recognition monstrosities in an endless stream. The three — who are the closest the reader gets to protagonists in the first half of the book — are only nominally human, and only nominally astronauts. Like nearly everything else Vandermeer has created in Dead Astronauts, they are allegories, figments, fables for a dissolving world where narrative and language are as subject to corruption as modified flesh.
Their leader is Grayson, an astronaut returned to Earth who can see futures and truths out of her blinded eye. With her are Chen, who sees the world in equations and probabilities, constantly on the verge of ego-dissolution into mathematics and emotional trauma; a man who might once have been a salamander, or many salamanders, but who definitely once worked intimately for the Company — and Moss, whom Grayson loves. Moss is sometimes a woman, sometimes a person — when she wants to be, for Grayson — and always a sentient moss, splittable into many selves, charged with (or choosing) to use herself to reseed the broken world with viable life.
Grayson, Chen, and Moss traverse timestreams and world-versions, looking for an opportunity to damage the Company and the City it roosts within. They are haunted by other fabulist figures that have emerged from the shattered world's mythology: A timeskipping blue fox, sometimes an ally, never at all human; Charlie X, a scientist cursed with the face of a bat, who is both mad, an abused child, and the creator of most of the monstrosities of the book (including Chen and Moss); and most terribly of all, the dark bird, "a duck with one broken wing." This bird is a creature made for destruction, murder, and pain, born out of Charlie X's manipulation of his childhood pet, both his greatest weapon and greatest victim.
Dead Astronauts moves in shutterclicks, shifting points of view and moments in time. The experience of reading it is a compulsively absorbing confusion. Straightforward answers are not forthcoming. The reader assembles what remains of the history of Vandermeer's world by gestalt, layering snatches of imagery one on top of another. Yet the book is profoundly emotional. Each character voice is compelling, brutal, rooted in emotional experience. Dead Astronauts is capable of making a reader grieve a kaleidoscope — or a sentient moss. Or, for that matter, an enormous leviathan fish trapped in a mudflat, a tortured murderous duck, a messianic fox which refuses to countenance human wants or needs — and even Charlie X, broken and breaking.
Some clarity of story does emerge in the second half of the book, where a woman named Sarah, living somewhere in the broken world's past, discovers Charlie X's journal. It has been thrown to her — or someone like her — down the timestream by Chen, in his escape from the Company. Through the journal and Sarah's less-fractured narration — she does, after all, come from a less-fractured place in the timestream — some of how Charlie X happened, and how the dead astronauts became the dead astronauts, emerges from the mosaic of the book like a fossil being carved out of the earth.
But clarity is not the point of Dead Astronauts. Ecology is, and fragmentation; connection across species, times, mentalities. For Grayson, Moss, and Chen, what will survive of us is love; for the dark bird and Charlie X, enough understanding to obtain release; and for Sarah and the blue fox, a sort of future, a new narrative form, a world not remade but begun again.
Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer, a Byzantinist, and a city planner — the latter two as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller. She tweets @ArkadyMartine.
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Lone Echo Lets Me Experience A Beautiful Zero-Gravity Friendship
Mike Fahey
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With an interesting deep space setting, a clever zero-gravity movement system and plenty of hands-on interaction, Ready At Dawn’s Oculus exclusive Lone Echo ticks all the technical boxes required to be an excellent virtual reality game. But its greatest feat is making me believe a woman could ever love an unfeeling robot like me.
It’s a sad day aboard the Kronos II mining station orbiting Saturn. Captain Olivia “Liv” Rhodes, the station’s sole human occupant, is being transferred, leaving behind her faithful companion, a service android named Jack (AKA the player) to run things once she’s gone. Liv is obviously heartbroken over the news, and Jack doesn’t seem too thrilled either. Fortunately, a strange spatial disturbance suddenly appears, disrupting systems and kicking off one final ship maintenance-filled mission for the star-crossed couple.
Jack and Liv aren’t lovers, but it’s pretty clear the self-aware android and United Solar Navy captain have formed a strong connecting during their time aboard the Kronos II. As the pair clamber about the ship they trade playful banter. When the player as Jack makes a mistake, the computer-controlled Liv gently chides him. And when the android finds himself in dangerous situations—it’s what he was built for—the captain shows genuine concern. It’s sweet.
Jack caresses Olivia’s cheek before donning a thruster pack and heading out into the depths of space. My heart will go on.
I wasn’t expecting this sort of touching interaction from Lone Echo. Hell, I wasn’t expecting to play Lone Echo at all. It was released last summer as an Oculus Rift exclusive at a time when all I had hooked up was my HTC Vive. And it’s from the Ready at Dawn, the studio that made The Order: 1886, so I wasn’t in any rush. If not for Kirk Hamilton’s gushing recommendation and the fact that I’d hooked up the Rift for VRChat, I might never have played Lone Echo.
I downloaded the game yesterday, launched it around 10:30 PM, and when I finally took the headset off I was surprised to discover it was 12:30 AM. Two hours isn’t a long play session in terms of traditional games, but two hours in a VR headset is a marathon.
I guess I fell a little in love with Jack and Olivia. It helps that Jack is voiced by Troy Baker (he’s so dreamy). British actress Alice Coulthard does a fine job in the captain’s seat, and Ready at Dawn’s facial animation really drives her performance home.
Dialogue choices let the player steer the narrative somewhat.
When Liv looks at Jack, it really feels like she’s seeing him. Or me. Or the player. She reacts to hand motions like finger guns, thumbs up and peace signs. If she jostles me as we move about the ship, she’ll say something. If I grab her arm to stop myself from floating through the zero gravity environment and hold on too long, she’ll jerk it away from me.
This is a robbery. Stealing your heart. I am a robot.
Without the interaction between Liv and Jack, Lone Echo would still be a great virtual reality game. The locomotion system is brilliant, having the player maneuver by grabbing the environment and pushing off in the direction they wish to travel. It’s the perfect movement method for a device that gives players virtual hands but no virtual feet.
The engineering problems Jack must solve aren’t so much puzzles as they are tests of virtual reality manipulation and maneuvering. It’s always pretty clear what the player is supposed to do, but the tools they are given are incredibly cool. Hand-mounted propulsion jets, a laser cutter under one wrist and object scanner under the other—Jack’s got a whole toolbox in his hands.
But Jack’s biggest asset in Lone Echo is Liv. She is his rock, if ever an android needed such a thing. Stepping out of the airlock after spending an hour and a half by her side repairing damage done to the station by the spatial disturbance, I felt genuinely anxious leaving her behind. As the situation grows more dire and the sinister secrets of the anomaly begin to unravel, I’m worried about the pair losing each other. It’s that sort of emotional resonance that makes sitting in my office chair for two hours with my vision and hearing compromised totally worth it.
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Report: Traffic More Congested Now Than Just Five Years Ago
David Rancken
August 22, 2019 - 10:34 am
DALLAS (1080 KRLD) - Traffic isn't getting any better around here. In fact, it's more congested now than just five years ago.
This comes out of the new Urban Mobility Report from Texas A&M.
Overall, gridlock caused big city drivers to stay behind the wheel an extra 8.8 billion hours and pay for an extra 3 billion gallons of gas. That's up 14 percent in the last five years.
Big rig drivers make up twelve percent of the cost of congestion as well.
Drivers in Dallas Fort Worth spent 67 hours stuck in traffic, that's 10 hours longer since 2012. We each wasted about 20 gallons of fuel stuck in those traffic jams. That cost about $1,160 per person.
When you add it all up, DFW traffic jams are about 11th worst in the country.
Houston has it worse in 8th place overall.
The worst gridlock is still in California, with LA and San Francisco on top of the chart.
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Impunity: Questions Raised As To Why Jeff Koinange Rides Around Without A Number Plate On His Car
Kenya West
JEFF Koinange | Photo Courtesy.
A cousin to President Uhuru, Jeff is one of the most celebrated journalist in Kenya with a controversial past with CNN that nearly crippled his shining career. Currently the top leading talk show host with his bench political show on Citizen TV, he’s high riding.
With vast wealth, a concerned reader reached to Kenya Insights on a rather unusual topic. Also known for his flashy taste in life, Koinange’s Mercedes G-Class is pulling attention. Approximately worth Sh14M, Jeff is said to be operating his car without a number plate in what our source terms as ‘unacceptable’ he says, “have you noticed that Jeff has had this car for sometime without a number plate? If this was an average citizen he’d already have been arrested. It’s illegal, how does KRA, NTSA and even the police allow such? I’m appalled that JEFF has been getting away with this, kindly highlight.”
We also did our random searches which affirms that indeed Mr. Koinange’s car doesn’t hold any displayed number plate which raises eyebrows. Interestingly, President Uhuru who’s his cousin, owns and has been spotted driving a similar car and incidentally, without a number plate.
President Uhuru spotted driving around in his G-Wagon favorite car.
Many questions are now being raised as to why Mr. Koinange is allowed to move around with his unmarked car without any consequences, most Kenyans who’ve attempted this have been prosecuted. Is it a case of open impunity given his relationship with the President or just an open bias of justice? Our source is concerned. We’re eyes wide opened to see if the authorities are going to take action or watch the illegality take precedence.
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However, it’s not just his lack of the number plate that’s raising questions, Jeff’s car is left hand drive which according to the country’s regulations, shouldn’t be operational. Taking to Twitter, prominent lawyer Abdullahi Nasir wondered why the anchor was driving a left-hand drive car in Kenya explaining that the country’s laws were clear against the importation of similar cars since motorists drive on right-side lanes on Kenyan roads.
Below are some of the photos of his number plate less car
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Kenya West is a trained investigative independent journalist and a socio-political commentator on matters Kenya and Africa. Do you have a story, Scandal you want me to write on? Send me tips to [in.kenyawest@protonmail.com]
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REVIEW: GODZILLA (2014)
Posted on October 12, 2019 by proxyblue57 Standard Reply
Aaron Taylor-Johnston (Kick-Ass 1 & 2)
Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers: Age of Ultron)
Ken Watanabe (Batman Begins)
Bryan Cranston (Argo)
Carson Bolde (Mansfield Path)
Sally Hawkins (Layer Cake)
Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)
David Strathairn (Lincoln)
Richard T. Jones (Terminator: TSCC)
Patrick Sabongui (The Flash)
Garry Chalk (Beast Wars)
Kevan Ohtsji (Dreamcatcher)
Terry Chen (Jessica Jones)
Ty Olsson (War For The Planet of The Apes)
Peter Shinkoda (Daredevil)
Jill Teed (X-Men 2)
Eric Breker (Stargate SG.1)
Aaron Pearl (Man of Steel)
In 1954, Godzilla, an ancient alpha predator, is lured to an island in an attempt to kill it with a nuclear bomb. In 1999, Project Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham investigate a colossal skeleton unearthed in a collapsed mine in the Philippines. They find two giant spores; one dormant and one hatched with a trail that leads to the sea. In Japan, the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant experiences unusual seismic activity; Supervisor Joe Brody sends his wife Sandra with a team of other technicians into the reactor. A tremor breaches the reactor, leaving Sandra and her team unable to escape while the plant collapses. Fifteen years later in 2014, Joe’s son Ford, a U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer, returns from a tour of duty to his family in San Francisco but has to immediately depart for Japan after Joe is detained for trespassing in the Janjira quarantine zone. Joe is determined to find out the cause of the Janjira meltdown, and he persuades Ford to accompany him to their old home in the quarantine zone to retrieve vital data while discovering that the zone is not toxic. They successfully retrieve the data but are discovered by soldiers and taken to a secret facility in the power plant’s ruins. After several power failures, a giant winged creature emerges and escapes, destroying the facility. Joe is severely wounded and dies as he and Ford are taken by helicopter to the U.S.S. Saratoga. The incident is reported around the world as an earthquake.
Serizawa, Graham, and Ford join a U.S. Navy task force led by Admiral William Stenz to search for the creature, called a “MUTO” (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism). Serizawa and Graham reveal to Ford that a 1954 deep sea expedition triggered the appearance of Godzilla and nuclear tests in the 1950s were really attempts to kill him. Project Monarch was established to secretly study Godzilla and other similar creatures such as the MUTO, which traveled from the Philippine mine to Janjira and caused the meltdown, and how they are connected with each other. Ford reveals that Joe had monitored echolocation signals that indicated the MUTO was communicating with something.
The MUTO attacks a Russian submarine and drops it on land in Hawaii to eat the sub’s nuclear material. Godzilla arrives, causing a tsunami in Honolulu and briefly engages the MUTO in battle, until it flees. Meanwhile, a second, larger, wingless MUTO emerges from the other spore in Nevada and devastates Las Vegas. The scientists deduce the second MUTO is female, the female was the one the male was communicating with, and that the two MUTOs will meet to breed in San Francisco. Over the scientists’ objections, Stenz approves a plan to use nuclear warheads to lure and destroy the monsters. Ford returns to the U.S. and ends up joining the team delivering the warheads by train, but the female MUTO intercepts the train and devours most of the warheads. The single remaining warhead is airlifted with Ford to San Francisco and is activated after a confrontation between the military and Godzilla at the Golden Gate Bridge. The male MUTO steals the warhead and takes it to the female, who forms a nest around it in the Chinatown area.
While Godzilla and the MUTOs battle, a strike team, including Ford, enters the city via HALO jump to find and disarm the warhead. Unable to access the timer, the rest of the team sets the warhead on a boat for disposal at sea. The MUTOs are eventually able to get the upper hand, but Ford blows up the MUTO nest, ultimately distracting the MUTOs enough to allow Godzilla to emerge victorious in the end, killing the male MUTO by slamming him with his tail into the side of an office building and the female by firing his atomic breath down her throat, beheading her. Godzilla then collapses on the city shore. With the rest of the team wiped out, Ford uses the last of his energy to get the boat with the warhead out to sea. He is rescued before the warhead explodes and reunites with his family at the Oakland Coliseum emergency shelter the following morning. Godzilla awakens, rising from the destroyed San Francisco, and returns to sea while the media hails Godzilla as “King of the Monsters – savior of our city?”. It’s a good solid and well made big screen action disaster monster movie that deserves multiple viewings.
REVIEW: BONES – SEASON 5
Emily Deschanel (Boogeyman)
David Boreanaz (Angel)
Michaela Conlin (Yellowstone)
Tamara Taylor (Lost)
T. J. Thyne (Ghost World)
John Francis Daley (Game Night)
Recurring / Notable Guest Cast
Cyndi Lauper (Here and There)
Patricia Belcher (Jeepers Creepers)
Michael Grant Terry (Grimm)
Christopher B. Duncan (Veronica Mars)
Michael Arden (Bride Wars)
Riki Lindhome (The Muppets)
Eugene Byrd (Arrow)
Tiffany Hines (Nikita)
Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)
Kaitlin Doubleday (Empire)
Pej Vahdat (Shameless)
Leonardo Nam (Westworld)
Reggie Austin (Agent Carter)
Billy Gardell (Mike & Molly)
Cheryl White (Major Crimes)
Paula Newsome (Guess Who)
Josie Davis (The Hot Seat)
Amy Gumenick (Arrow)
Carla Gallo (Superbad)
Diedrich Bader (American Housewife)
Andy Umberger (Buffy: TVS)
Tracy Middendorf (Scream: The Series)
Joel David Moore (Avatar)
Stephen Fry (V For Vendetta)
Ryan Cartwright (Alphas)
Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons)
Debbie Lee Carrington (Total Recall)
Wynn Everett (Agent Carter)
Martin Klebba (Scrubs)
Sarah Rafferty (Suits)
Lindsay Hollister (Get Smart)
Ralph Waite (The Waltons)
Nakia Burrise (Power Rangers Zeo)
Mickey Jones (Total Recall)
Zooey Deschanel (New Girl)
Ryan O’Neal (Love Story)
Dorian Missick (The Cape)
Dale Dickey (Iron Man 3)
Penny Johnson Jerald (The Orville)
Brendan Fehr (Roswell)
Dilshad Vadsaria (The Oath)
Fay Masterson (Eyes Wide Shut)
Robert Gant (Supergirl)
Joshua Malina (The Big Bang Theory)
Henri Lubatti (Angel)
Amanda Schull (Pretty Little Liars)
Rusty Schwimmer (Highlander 2)
Clea DuVall (Better Call Saul)
Eric Millegan (Phobic)
Megan Hilty (Smash)
Jenica Bergere (Rat Race)
Victor Webster (Mutant X)
Ben Falcone (New Girl)
Suzy Nakamura (Dead To Me)
Robert Englund (A Nightmare On Elm Street)
Ravil Isyanov (Transformers: Dark of The Moon)
Rena Sofer (Heroes)
Michael Des Barres (Poison Ivy 3)
Kate Vernon (Battlestar Galactica)
William Stanford Davis (A Lot Like Love)
Deirdre Lovejoy (The Blacklist)
Billy Gibbons (Two and a Half Men)
At the beginning of the fifth season of the wildly popular forensic drama “Bones,” many viewers tuned in trepidatiously after the spectacularly strange fourth season finale. Thankfully, all fears were allayed and relieved when the fifth season kicked into high gear in the very first episode and maintained that pace throughout the season; “Bones”‘ fifth season is perhaps its greatest yet. The one thing that has always set “Bones” apart from the countless other procedurals on the airwaves right now is the focus on the characters solving the crimes rather than the crimes themselves, and the strength of this approach shines through brilliantly in every episode of this season. David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel return to the roles of Booth and Bones and deliver their strongest performances yet as each character is shaken to their core. As Booth struggles to regain his sense of self, he has to confront the knowledge of his feelings for his partner, while Bones herself goes through a whirlwind of emotion as the emotional barriers she has erected around her heart begin to crumble down, leaving her questioning not only herself but her relationship with Booth as well as her work at the Jeffersonian itself. The tension between the two has never been more delicious or more addictive, and both lead actors knock their roles absolutely out of the park. But while the relationship between Booth and Brennan becomes increasingly more complex, the wonderful supporting cast of engaging characters at the Jeffersonian keep the show moving along briskly and lightly. Cam (Tamara Taylor) must run the lab while dealing with the challenge of being a good mother, guiding the team effectively toward each conclusion; Sweets (John Francis Daley) continues to provide invaluable insight into the minds of the team; Angela (Michaela Conlin) remains the emotional heart and soul of the team as she opens her heart to love’s possibilities; and Hodgins (TJ Thyne) struggles with his feelings for Angela as he returns to his abrasive, loveable self. The cases themselves have regained a fascinating light as the mysteries the team confronts become more complex, and the special effects department has outdone themselves in the gore and goop department this year as Booth and Bones investigate some of the most gruesome crime scenes in history, all moved along by the brisk black humor the show excels at; the team investigates a possible secret agent locked in a truck for days, a would-be rocker torn to pieces by an industrial washer/dryer, a gamer literally melted in a vat of fast-food grease, and a dozen more cheerfully disgusting cases where the outcomes of the mysteries hold the power to shock and surprise the audience; the writers have once again caught the perfect balance between the whodunnit and the drama to craft a truly unique show. But it’s not merely the cases that hold the viewers’ attention this season; season five is full of true powerhouse episodes: heartbreaking cases like “The Plain in the Prodigy”; darkly comical shows like “The Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”; truly shocking mysteries like “The Proof in the Pudding,”; and even a historically fascinating case written by the author of the original Temperance Brennan novels Kathy Reichs herself (“The Witch in the Wardrobe”) — however, all of these merely lead up to the three knockout moments of the season: In the fifth season, “Bones” reaches its 100th episode, “The Parts in the Sum of the Whole.” Likely the most beloved and most contested episode in the show’s history, the 100th episode completely redefined Booth and Brennan’s relationship as it showed the viewers the pair’s first meeting, something never before revealed, and circles around to one of the most hearbreaking and yet most powerfully hopeful moments of the series. “Parts” was also directed by David Boreanaz, one of the series’ leads, and the sheer emotion wrung out of Boreanaz and Deschanel by the end speaks volumes to the talent of the show’s leads. As the series continues, however, the characters were shocked to their cores as they were forced to come face-to-face with their most terrifying adversary yet: the cunningly frightening sociopath dubbed The Gravedigger, in “The Boy with the Answer,” a nail-bitingly tense hour of television that had viewers’ hearts pounding as Heather Taffet, the Gravedigger, proved that her true arena was the courtroom, tearing apart her victims and throwing the entire future of Brennan’s life into question. This only segues into the season’s amazingly dramatic finale, “The Beginning in the End.” As the team investigates the home of a hoarder, Bones questions what she truly wants to do with her life, Booth’s past comes calling, and Angela’s father blows back into town, all leading to a truly shocking season ender, a masterful finale that not only redefined the very foundations of the show and the characters but also continued to set the show on a rising point, ensuring that every faithful viewer of “Bones” will be frantically waiting for the sixth season to premiere in the fall.
REVIEW: TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES – SEASON 2
Posted on February 12, 2019 by proxyblue57 Standard Reply
Thomas Dekker (The Secret Circle)
Summer Glau (Firefly)
Richard T. Jones (Santa Clarita Diet)
Brian Austin Green (Anger Management)
Garret Dillahunt (12 Years a Slave)
Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games)
Shirley Manson (Top Wing)
James Urbaniak (Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay)
Carlos Sanz (Runner Runner)
Max Perlich (Beautiful Girls)
Dean Winters (John Wick)
Dean Norris (Breaking Bad)
Zack Ward (Transformers)
Busy Philipps (White Chicks)
Sonya Walger (Lost)
Leah Pipes (The Originals)
Mackenzie Brooke Smith (A Winter Rose)
Jillian Armenante (Bad TEacher)
Jon Huertas (Castle)
Jonathan Jackson (Nashville)
Will Rothhaar (Battle Los Angeles)
Dorian Harewood (Full Metal Jacket)
Shane Edelman (Flightplan)
Stephany Jacobsen (Star-Crossed)
Derek Riddell (Gunpowder)
Emilio Rivera (Venom)
Richard Schiff (Man of Steel)
Adam Busch (Buffy: TVS)
Eddie Shin (Westworld)
Eric Steinberg (Stargate SG.1)
Todd Stashwick (The Originals)
Rebecca Creskoff (Bates Motel)
Samantha Krutzfeldt (A Mann’s World)
Carlos Jacott (Big Love)
Ned Bellamy (Twilight)
Barry Livingston (Argo)
Laura Regan (Dead Silence)
Connor Trinneer (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Jamison Jones (Hollywood Homicide)
Chad Lindberg (The Fast and The Furious)
Alanna Masterson (The Walking Dead)
Adam Wylie (Child’s Play 2)
Cyd Strittmatter (Gone Girl)
Michelle Arthur (Goldeneye)
Manny Montana (Conviction)
Julie Ann Emery (Better Call Saul)
Alex Carter (Out of Time)
Theo Rossi (Luke Cage)
Chad L. Coleman (The Orville)
Yuri Lowenthal (Young Justice)
Sabrina Perez (American Exit)
I enjoyed the first season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, despite its shortened season which fell victim to the writer’s strike, I was looking forward to what they had in store for Season Two. The first season had excellent performances and action sequences, appealing storylines, and show runner Josh Friedman was performing his job well. I expected things to fall in line for Season Two, however I had a small bit of apprehension: the addition of Shirley Manson, normally the lead singer of the band Garbage, to the cast. I thought this was a dicey proposition. Manson had not done any real acting work before, and Friedman might have been overreaching. Granted, his casting masterstroke in Season One was Brian Austin Green, formerly of Beverly Hills 90210, now appearing as Derek Reese, brother of Kyle. As a brief overview for those unfamiliar with the mythology, Kyle is father to John Connor (Thomas Dekker, A Nightmare on Elm Street), leader of the resistance against Skynet and the cyborg army of terminators. John’s mother Sarah is played by Lena Headley (300). And of course, it wouldn’t be a show about terminators without one as a cast regular; enter Summer Glau (Firefly) as Cameron. More on all of them in a minute. Back to the risky decision. Manson plays Catherine Weaver, CEO of a high-powered technology corporation called ZeiraCorp. Manson is a T-1000, similar to Robert Patrick in T2, and she assumes the life of the real Weaver, who died in a helicopter crash with her husband. Their daughter is still alive, which presents a unique challenge, as a terminator hasn’t been placed in a truly maternal role before. Oddly enough, Manson’s role as an emotionless being trying to figure out how to be a mother is one of the season’s better performances (in “The Tower Is Tall But The Fall Is Short”), and she proves to be a capable actress. This introspection from non-feeling machine against a motherly disposition is fascinating in how Manson can show her emotions and yet not reveal her hand, as it were. Fortunately, we see similar stories behind other characters. In the episode “Allison From Palmdale,” not only do we discover Cameron’s origins but also why her physical traits were used as a model for a terminator. The performance is not as deep as Manson’s, but Glau does admirably. The self-evaluation continues with John as he gets involved in a relationship with Riley (Leven Rambin), which is almost like the last part of teenaged life he’ll enjoy before his imminent future with the resistance, of which Sarah dutifully reminds him. Sarah continues to struggle with her mortality because of a possible illness, and Derek has a particular conflict with Jesse (Stephanie Jacobsen, Life on Mars), who also came back from the future with motives that appear to differ from Derek’s. The quality of guest stars improved as well: Dean Winters (Oz) and Garret Delahunt (No Country For Old Men) reprise their roles as Charley and Cromartie, respectively. As Agent Ellison, Richard T. Jones is a guy who questions his spirituality and later rationalizes it to believe that what he does is right, though we know otherwise. Some of the other faces in Season Two include former West Wing regulars Richard Schiff and Joshua Malina, and Dorian Harewood (Full Metal Jacket) plays a psychiatrist whose work affects several cast regulars, and has long-lasting impacts for future episodes. But it’s not like any Terminator project is known for its ensemble work. This has the requisite amount of action sequences and visual effects, and that action helps emphasize the points the story is trying to tell. For a good CG illustration, Manson kills the staff of a warehouse before blowing it up, but normally most of the stunts are done practically and look convincing as a result. Sadly though, I have to think that there weren’t enough people willing to take a leap of faith and give the show a chance because it wasn’t a big-budget action film. It told stories with each of its characters and did so well. I’m guessing that wasn’t appreciated. Additionally, the release of the fourth Terminator film in the summer of 2009 probably gave the show an over saturation point with the public which hampered any acceptance of it. So now the show’s gone from our televisions, and while we have a new crop of reality shows and sitcoms with retread stars to pore over, I’d encourage people to give The Sarah Connor Chronicles a second view. It’s funny, smart, suspenseful, intriguing and artistic. And yes, it’s a science fiction show. Further proof that the genre has some quality creative minds contributing to it.
Owain Yeoman (Supergirl)
Nick Wechsler (Roswell)
Charlayne Woodard (Glass)
Dean Winters (Rough Night)
Tony Amendola (Annabelle: Creation)
Sasha Roiz (Caprica)
Jonathan Sadowski (Cherbnoyble Diaries)
Sabrina Perez (Rebel)
Brendan Hines (Lie To Me)
Jesse Garcia (The Green Ghost)
Adam Godley (Breaking Bad)
Catherine Dent (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Alessandra Torresani (The Big Bang Theory)
Floriana Lima (Supergirl)
Brian Bloom (The A-Team)
Andy Umberger (Deja Vu)
Lee Thompson Young (Smallville)
Kristina Apgar (90210)
Neil Hopkins (The Net 2.0)
Peter Mensah (Spartacus)
Bruce Davison (X-Men)
Karina Logue (Scream: The Series)
Craig Fairbrass (Cliffhanger)
Skyler Gisondo (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Ryan Kelley (Teen Wolf)
When I heard that a TV series based on the Terminator franchise was in the works, I didn’t holding out much hope that it would be very good. Don’t get me wrong, I like the franchise. I was blown away by Terminator when I saw it during the original theatrical release and was astounded that the second film was as good, if not better, than the original. The third film was wretched however, and I just couldn’t see how they could work a TV series around the premise without it getting silly. After a bumpy first episode however, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles surprised me. It turned out to be an intelligent yet fun look at the Terminator universe that works quite well. Starting a while after the events that took place in Terminator 2, Sarah (Lena Headey) and her son John Connor (Thomas Dekker), the boy who will end up being mankind’s only hope in the future have still not settled down. After running for years and years Sarah doesn’t know how to stop. When her current boyfriend proposes she takes John and runs away, one more time. John ends up in yet another new school where he meets Cameron (Summer Glau) a cute girl who seems to genuinely like him. It turns out that she doesn’t have the hots for him so much as that she’s been programmed to protect him. Yes, she’s a Terminator sent from the future, and where there’s a good Terminator, there’s a bad version too, sent to kill John. With Cameron’s help John escapes from a substitute teacher/Terminator but he’s one the run once more. Cameron has a unique idea to get away from the Terminator that’s been assigned to John once and for all: They rob a bank. Inside a series of safety deposit boxes are the ingredients for a time machine. In Cameron’s time, a group of resistance scientists were sent in the past to fabricate a time travel device and hide it in the bank for just such an escape. The small group of Sarah, John, and Cameron lock themselves inside the vault while the robot from the future creates the device and a T-800 Terminator tries to break in. They manage to leap to the year 2007 just at the last moment, but unbeknownst to them the head of the Terminator travels with them. Neatly bypassing the events of T-3, the series jumps to the present time where Sarah is still alive and John isn’t a drug addict but the war with the robots still impending. Of course there are still dangers. The head that came into the present with them goes about trying to refashion a body for itself. There’s also a group of fighters sent into the past to aide John and Cameron, but when they are located, it’s too late; all but one of their number has been slaughtered by a Terminator. With several interesting subplots that carry through the season, included finding the maker of a chess computer that may have started the great war and staying one step ahead of an FBI agent who has been chasing the Connors for years, this show packs a lot of excitement into the nine episodes (the season was cut short by the writer’s strike.) It definitely gets better as it goes along too. The writers become more familiar with the characters and the writing gets tighter and the show more enjoyable. The acting is very good across the board. Lena Headey isn’t a Linda Hamilton look-alike but she manages to capture the strengths of the character as Hamilton did and still make it her own. Over the course of the series she manages to show Sarah’s vulnerable side, something that surely exists but rarely peaked out in the movies. Though Sarah’s name is in the title, the show would have crumbled without a good actor playing John, and Thomas Dekker manages to pull off the difficult role. He has to be strong and independent, but not fool-hardy. Dekker gives John those traits, while still making him act like a teenager with an over protective mother. Some of the best scenes are where John is trying to deal with his mother, something that every teenager has problems with. Summer Glau will be instantly recognized from Firefly. I loved her in that show, but was a bit disappointed that she basically plays the same role in this series. She has the same “not sure what’s going on” look as River did, and I was hoping to see her play a different role here. Even if it is the same character essentially, Summer pulls it off well. Though not at all Summer’s fault, the writers did put the “small waif-like girl kicks the big burly man’s ass” scene in the series a bit too often. Yeah, it’s funny, but after a while it becomes trite. I wasn’t expecting much from this show. After all, how could you make a weekly series that could compete with the first two movies? The creators managed to pull it off and made a show with some intelligent plots and interesting stories. There are a few surprises along the way that add a lot to the show, and make this a must-buy for fans of the Terminator franchise.
REVIEW: SANTA CLARITA DIET – SEASON 2
Posted on March 23, 2018 by proxyblue57 Standard Reply
Drew Barrymore (Charlies Angels)
Timothy Olyphant (Hitman)
Liv Hewson (Inhumans)
Jee Young Han (Why Him?)
Zachary Knighton (Flashforward)
Maggie Lawson (The Ranch)
Ramona Young (Z Nation)
Nathan Fillion (Firefly)
Joel McHale (Spider-Man 2)
Andy Richter (Elf)
Natalie Morales (The Grinder)
Adam Rose (Veronica Mars)
Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Masterminds)
Thomas Lennon (17 Again)
Sarah Baker (The Campaign)
Jonathan Slavin (My Name Is Earl)
Seconds are seldom as good as the initial meal. You’ve already eaten. Your stomach is beginning to fill. The mystery of the menu is gone. And because a food analogy isn’t strong enough to encompass a television show, the same thing about seconds can also be said with zombie films. There are rare occasions where the sequel is stronger than the original movie, but there’s usually a diminishing return the more you see zombies. These are areas where the “second course” is inevitably disappointing in comparison to the first, however Santa Clarita Diet season 2 rises above these expectations. If anything this new season will leave the audience hungry for more rather than feeling full from these undead antics. When the last season of Santa Clarita Diet ended, the series started to finally find a fitting groove and the tone. Santa Clarita Diet’s second season overpowers season one in practically every way possible. The biggest strengths from the first season of Santa Clarita Diet came from Victor Fresco’s (Better Off Ted, Andy Richter Controls the Universe) irreverent, fearless comedy that was allowed to inject itself into an outrageous premise. All of that is still present and some of the rougher patches from the series’ freshman year like Barrymore’s broad performance or the show’s inconsistent tone during its beginning are now smoothed out. The series also benefits from everyone going into “rescue mode” over Sheila and her condition rather than the whole “let’s hide the central story” aspect that dominates so much of the first season. The training wheels are now off and this show really starts to get creative and have fun with its premise. Much of Santa Clarita Diet season 2 focuses on the Hammond family’s attempts to normalize their situation. For instance, if Sheila is chained up in the basement, then why not dress up the basement and slap a fresh coat of paint on the ugly situation? Right from the jump of the season there may be people who are anxious that Sheila should just be murdered, but clearly the family is in for the long haul. Joel, Abby, and even Eric are all blissfully hopeful towards their unique situation. Curiously enough, in spite of all the high stakes life and death undead material, Joel and Sheila still worry about their real estate job and it occupies a reasonable part of the season. That might seem like a considerably less important aspect of the series, but it’s encouraging to see the show try to embrace this normalcy, for better or worse. Meanwhile, Joel and Sheila’s murder-happy misadventures still go down under the nose of Deputy Ann, who’s only a few doors away. The ways in which they both squirm out of conversations with Ann and proceed to make matters worse for themselves is always the best kind of awkward mess. Sheila and Joel also find themselves in the weird situation where murder seems to be the best way to handle their problems, but they don’t just want to resort to murder whenever they’re caught in a bind, regardless of how good they may have gotten at it. At the same time, these middle-aged parents also realize that without these adrenaline-pumping murders in their lives they’re pretty boring people who don’t have much game. At one point Joel laments, “We’re realtors, so killing people and stuffing them in our fridge doesn’t come naturally.” That’s basically this show in a nutshell. Sheila’s “condition” is an obvious problem, but this season is just as interested in the fact that that Joel and his wife haven’t been able to have a date night, build a bookshelf, or write a yelp review since all of this undead business started. Santa Clarita Diet season 2 also starts to expand the show’s world in bigger ways. There are more undead individuals that are out there in addition to organizations that are on the hunt for a cure or a means to exterminate this epidemic. These secret factions begin to come out of the woodwork this season and it’s a good creative move on the show’s part. Joel and Sheila’s secret life continues to intersect with their job and social lives in interesting ways, all of which make the two of them continue to ponder whether they’re good people or not. It’s great to see Joel and Sheila use death and horror as a prop for comedy. You really don’t see that perspective anywhere else in this context—it’s almost like a suburban Dexter or The Walking Dead. Sure there are programs like Ash Vs the Evil Dead or Stan Against Evil, but this is so deeply entrenched in its family dynamic and is a comedy first and horrorsecond.
This season also digs into the bigger questions, like how Sheila became infected in the first place. Joel and company assume that if they figure this out then they can reverse engineer the rest of this mystery. The show’s mythology explodes in a big way here and the story turns into something that’s so much more interesting than simply a comedic take on zombies, which the show could be guilty of during its first season. The show’s lore goes to some fascinating places that touch on territory like the Knights of the Templar and all sorts of things that you wouldn’t expect. One of the best things about Santa Clarita Diet is its phenomenal cast and in the show’s second season everyone’s only more comfortable in these roles. There’s seriously such chemistry between the reluctantly murderous Hammond family. Their dynamic really clicks this year and they all feel more natural in a way that was absent last season. Timothy Olyphant’s Joel continues to play unhinged and flustered in the best way possible. The wide-eyed, beleaguered way in which he does comedy is perfect for this universe. Drew Barrymore does an even better job as Sheila this season now that she’s acclimated to the role a little better. She plays the role with the glee of a puppy who’s just found a new toy. The show also really explores the beauty in how becoming undead can allow people to finally become the people that they wanted to be in life. It just happens to be something that comes with the awful side effect of needing to consume human flesh. Some of the best work from this season comes from the younger half of the show’s cast. Skyler Gisondo really gets to step up his game as the hapless Eric Bemis and he finds himself overwhelmed in a whole new way this year. His burgeoning relationship with Abby continues to make for believable tension between the two of them as well. On that note, this season is also a real showpiece for Abby’s Liv Hewson. The character goes through a metamorphosis that is a lot of fun to watch. Abby redefines who she is in both school and real life and it’s a fascinating arc for her character. Sometimes your mom turning into a zombie can be just as life changing as turning into the zombie yourself. Santa Clarita Diet’s second season features strong storytelling and performances, but it also doesn’t disappoint when it comes to the extreme visuals and gore. This season features gruesome sights like broken thumbs, the lesson of what microwave settings to apply to frozen body parts, spider balls, and explosions of blood that make it seem like humans are carbonated soda that are just waiting to burst. In this sense, the show’s humor is still particularly on point and many conversations should make audiences laugh out loud, such as the prospect of sprucing up a kill room so it doesn’t so obviously look like a kill room or the debate of whether it’s discriminatory to kill a Nazi who’s in a wheelchair and the moral relativism of such a murder. Santa Clarita Diet proves that it has a sustainable vision and that this show is more than just some one-season fad. If anything the show is only getting better and it doesn’t suffer from the usual problems that can afflict Netflix shows, such as the season’s pacing. Admittedly, some of the show’s fight scenes play out a little awkwardly and look low budget, but it’s hardly a big deal. This isn’t Daredevil. The show’s second season snowballs and culminates in an impressive way where the year ends on a huge note that once more questions the status quo of the series. The bottom line here is that it’s consistently compelling and enjoyable to see if Joel and Sheila can continue to keep all of their blood-soaked balls in the air.
Posted on February 5, 2017 by proxyblue57 Standard Reply
Liv Hewson (Before I Fall)
Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives)
Joy Osmanski (Samantha Who?)
Natalie Morales (Wall Street 2)
Thomas Lennon (Balls of Fury)
Grace Zabriskie (Drop Zone)
DeObia Oparei (Moulin Rouge!)
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Ryan Hansen (2 Broke Girls)
Derek Waters (Hall Pass)
Ravi Patel (Grandfathered)
Patricia Belcher (Bones)
Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix is an odd and yet oddly simple series. Its creator, Victor Fresco, made his name with Better Off Ted, which played fast and loose with the conventions of the office comedy. In Santa Clarita, he attacks the family sitcom with the same stylized absurdity and mock naïveté. And zombies. Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant star as Sheila and Joel, married real estate agents with a teenage daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson). That changes when Sheila dies after an epic fit of vomiting and comes back to life full of energy, sexually supercharged and very, very hungry for human flesh.
It’s a clever idea — zombification as the route to midlife rejuvenation. Rather than grow bitter and have affairs, Sheila sips human smoothies and gets happier. Her new joie de mourir even recharges her marriage with Joel, a former jock who has receded into a suburban ineffectualness symbolized by the flip-flops he wears around the cul-de-sac.
The first few episodes of “Santa Clarita Diet” do have a good amount of gore and the last third of the season fills out as the mystery and thriller. But there’s a stretch in the middle where Mr. Fresco and his writers have a lot of fun subverting the formulas of the suburban comedy. Family dinners require finesse (because Mom eats people). Abby is angry that her parents keep secrets (because Mom eats people). When told that a pedophile has moved in down the street, Sheila perks up, because she’s on the lookout for undesirable people she won’t feel guilty about eating. A funny premise and appealing performances take Santa Clarita Diet far. There are enough laughs to make this show bingeable.
REVIEW: TWISTED
Ashley Judd (Divergent)
Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers)
Andy Garcia (The Unsaid)
Russell Wong (The Mummy 3)
Camryn Manheim (Scary Movie 3)
Mark Pellegrino (Lost)
Titus Welliver (agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Leland Orser (Seven)
Veronica Cartwright (Alien)
Having solved a high-profile case involving a serial killer, Jessica Shepard (Ashley Judd) is a rising officer in the San Francisco Police Department. She is transferred to the homicide division and promoted to the rank of inspector. Her deceased father’s former partner, John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), serves as her proud mentor. Shepard finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners.
When one of her former one-night stands is murdered, Shepard and her new partner, Mike Delmarco (Andy García), are assigned to the case. Shepard, who has a drinking problem, soon falls under suspicion. Three more murders follow, each victim having had a relationship with her. Shepard begins to experience a mental breakdown, blacking out for increasingly long periods of time. Her father, a police patrolman, had gone on a killing spree back in the 1970s and then murdered her mother. She begins to fear that she has the same violent tendencies and that she has been committing murder in her disoriented state.
Shepard finds out that Mills is the killer. He killed all of her lovers, as well as her parents, because he considered it his mission to prevent her growing up to be a dissolute woman like her mother. As her father’s partner, Mills had felt the responsibility to inform him that his wife was a nymphomaniac, which drove him insane. As he had an illicit affair with Shepard’s mother, Mills felt the need to kill her lovers. Also ashamed that he destroyed his partner’s marriage and drove him insane, Mills decided to put him out of his misery by killing him. Shepard secretly transmits Mills’ confession on a mobile phone, allowing her old partner to track them down. When Mills tries to shoot her partner, Shepard shoots him in the chest and he falls off the dock. The film closes on him drifting on the ocean surface surrounded by sea lions as the cops look on.
This is a very good thriller with a twist towards the end so aptly named. Thoroughly enjoyable and totally recommended.
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‘Empire’ Canceled After Upcoming Sixth Season
Fox previously announced that Empire, the popular series saddled with a lot of unwanted headlines in the last couple months before of controversy swirling around one (technically former) star, was returning for a sixth season this coming year. What they didn’t say at the time was that Season Six would also be the final one for the musical drama. Empire is done after one more run.
That news was announced on Fox’s Upfront call by Fox Entertainment’s Charlie Collier (via Deadline):
‘We are turning the final season into a large TV event, we are trying to go out guns a blazing,’ Collier proclaimed on the call of Empire’s 20-episode last round ‘You allow fans to lean in and have the ending they deserve,’ the CEO added.
Empire premiered in 2015 and quickly became a pop culture sensation; that first season averaged 17 million viewers for Fox. By comparison, the most recent season, which concluded earlier this month, averaged only 4.4 million viewers. When the show has grabbed headlines lately, they’ve mostly been about Empire cast member Jussie Smollett, who first claimed he had been attacked by men screaming racial and homophobic slurs in Chicago, then was arrested and charged with filing a false police report, only to see those charges dropped a few weeks later. (Smollett and his attorneys have continued to maintain he was the victim of an attack.) Collier said that “there’s an option to have Jussie in the series” during the sixth season “but we have no plans for that.”
Now that this is the final season though, it wouldn’t be shocking if he did make at least one more appearance to wrap up his character. Either way, the end is coming on Empire. Get ready.
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Rerun Junkie– The A-Team
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In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
Are you humming the theme song yet? If not, that’s a shame.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I pity you, fool.
They pity you also.
The A-Team was one of several 80’s action shows I watched as a kid and it remains one of my all-time favorites. It’s the best cotton candy for my brain ever.
The set-up was just as simple as the intro suggested. The team was comprised of the plan-making, wise-cracking, disguise-loving Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith (George Peppard); the smooth, charming, sometimes unsure, always a ladies man Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck (Dirk Benedict); the tough on the outside, soft on the inside (well, sometimes) Sgt. B.A. Baracus (Mr. T); and the ever crazy, same outfit wearing (read the shirts!) pilot Captain H.M. “Howlin’ Mad” Murdock. In the first and second seasons they were joined by Amy Allen (Melinda Culea) and Tawnia Baker (Marla Heasley), respectively, and chased throughout most of the series run by first Colonel Lynch (William Lucking) and then Colonel Decker (Lance LeGault). In the fifth season they attempted to reinvent the show by changing the premise somewhat. They added Frankie Santana (Eddie Velez) to the team and forced them into working for the vexing General Hunt Stockwell (Robert Vaughn).
The show is probably best known for the iconic build scenes (montages of them building something out of nothing; my favorite was the cabbage cannon), the gunfights in which no one was killed, and the car chases in which at least one car would flip wildly, land on its top, and the dazed occupents crawl from the car hardly scratched. Oh, and the explosions. Sometimes the storylines were a little out there, particularly in season four, but it was all in good fun.
With all the action, it’s easy to miss the dialogue, which as far as I’m concered, is where it’s at. These guys had some great, funny lines. This show gets the credit for my all-time favorite insult: “Your mother works on street corners and you’re so ugly, flies won’t land on you.” The show as a whole is incredibly quotable.
Also, if you’re in the mood for a show to jolt you out of your safe, politically correct world, this will do you. The early to mid-80’s weren’t nearly as sensitive (and you might feel bad for laughing).
The guest cast on this show was fantastic. Great stunt casting during season four. Boy George and Hulk Hogan. You can’t get bigger and more 80’s than that. But even the more low key guests were fab. Richard Moll, Alan Fudge, Red West, James Hong, Keye Luke, John Saxon, Dana Elcar, Dennis Franz, Markie Post, Alan Autry, Wings Hauser, and Claudia Christian, just to name a few.
Most of the kids my age loved BA, as they loved Mr. T. I loved him, too, but my heart belonged to (and still belongs to) Murdock. He was funny. He was crazy. He wore Chuck Taylors. He flew helicopters. He was the coolest of the cool in my eyes. To this day there’s still a little part of me that wants to be him.
I’ll settle for owning the entire series on DVD.
Side note: When I first heard about them making an A-Team moving, I was not on board. It was going to be far too difficult in my mind to recreate those characters and that chemistry. I had no interest in seeing it.
However, after several favorable reviews from friends, I was persuaded to see the finished product in the theater. I was pleasantly surprised. I liked it. It was fun like the show. It kept a lot of the show’s canon. And the new actors made the characters their own without completely alienating them from the originals.
I just wish the original cast could have played bigger roles.
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Saola still a mystery 20 years after its spectacular debut
Hanoi, Vietnam – Two decades after the sensational discovery of a new ungulate species called the saola, this rare animal remains as mysterious and elusive as ever. WWF, the Saola Working Group (SWG) of the IUCN Species SurvivalCommission and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) warn the species is sliding towards extinction because of intensive hunting pressure and poor reserve management.
A cousin of cattle but recalling anantelope in appearance, the saola was discovered in 1992 by a joint team from Vietnam’s Ministry of Forestry and WWF surveying the forests of Vu Quang, near Vietnam's border with Laos. The team found a skull with unusual long, straight horns in a hunter's home and knew it was something extraordinary. The find proved to be the first large mammal new to science in more than 50 years and one of the most spectacular zoological discoveries of the 20th century.
Twenty years on, little is still known about the saola’s ecology or behaviour. In 2010, villagers in the central Laos province of Bolikhamxay captured a saola, but the animal died several days later. Prior to that, the last confirmed record of a saola in the wild was in 1999 from camera-trap photos in Bolikhamxay.
“Saola are extremely secretive and very seldom seen,” said Nick Cox, Manager of WWF-Greater Mekong’s Species Programme. “While they inhabit a very restricted range, there is still no reported sighting of a saola in the wild by a scientist, and the handful of saola that have been taken into captivity have not survived.”
The difficulty in detecting the animal has prevented scientists from making a precise population estimate. “If things are good, there may be a couple of hundred saola out there,” said William Robichaud,Coordinator of the Saola Working Group. “If things are bad, the population could now be down in the tens.”
While development is encroaching in the saola’s forest habitat, the greatest threat comes from illegal hunting. Saola are caught in wire snares set by hunters to catch other animals, such as sambar deer, muntjac deer and civets, which are largely destined for the lucrative wildlife trade, driven by traditional medicine demand in China and restaurant and food markets in Vietnam and Laos.
“Paradoxically, the saola seems to be one of the few vertebrates in the Annamites without a high price on its head,” added Robichaud. “Saola are caught largely as bycatch–-like the tuna and dolphin scenario.”
Since the discovery of the saola, Vietnam and Laos have established a network of protected areas in the animal’s core range and some reserves are pursuing innovative approaches to tackle rampant poaching. In the Saola Nature Reserve in Vietnam’s Thua Thien Hue Province, a new approach to forest guard co-management, supported by WWF, is delivering good results. Since February 2011, the newly established team of forest guards patrolling the reserve have removed more than 12,500 snares and close to 200 illegal hunting and logging camps.
“The establishment of critical reserves by the governments of Vietnam and Laos is to be commended,” said Dr. Barney Long, Asian species expert for WWF-US. “However, without increasing efforts to adopt new approaches to manage the protection of saola habitat through targeted snare removal, these protected areas will be little more than lines drawn on a map.”
“If hunting levels can be significantly reduced, we are optimistic about the species' prospects,” said Chris Hallam, WCS-Laos’ Conservation Planning Advisor. “This will require funds for more patrol boots on the ground in saola areas, developing positive incentives for its conservation, and ultimately reducing consumer demand for wildlife meat and products.”
Efforts to save the saola have reached a greater level of urgency since another of Vietnam's iconic species, the Vietnamese Javan rhino, was confirmed extinct in2011 after the battle to save the last individual was lost to poachers.
“The saola has made it to its twentieth anniversary, but it won’t have many more anniversaries unless urgent action is taken,” added Hallam.
The saola is an icon for biodiversity in the Annamite mountain range that runs along the border of Vietnam and Laos. This biodiversity hotspot boasts an incredible diversity of rare species, with many found nowhere else on the planet. In addition to the discovery of the saola, two new species of deer, the large-antlered muntjac and the Truong Son muntjac, were uncovered in the Annamite’s rugged, evergreen forests in 1994 and 1997 respectively.
“The lack of significant demand for saola in the wildlife trade gives great hope for its conservation,” said Robichaud. “But we still need to act. One of the rarest and most distinctive large animals in the world has been quietly slipping toward extinction through complacency.”
Sarah Bladen, Communications Director, WWF-Greater Mekong, t +84437193049, m +84 1224 223 760 sarah.bladen@wwfgreatermekong.org
Stephen Sautner, WCS Communications Director, t +1-718-220-3682; ssautner@wcs.org
Maggie Roth, IUCN Media Relations, t +4122 999 0115, m +41 79 104 2460, e maggie.roth@iucn.org
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· View the recent 5-minute WWF / SWG film about thesaola: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xv8MPOyMfU
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July 2014 NWITweetup Awards Two Nonprofits During Cornhole Competition
By: Mona Sehgal Last Updated: July 18, 2014
There’s nothing like a little friendly competition, right? The NWITweetup teamed up with Berman's Infiniti of Merrillville to give away some stellar prizes to deserving nonprofit organizations in the Northwest Indiana region during the July 2014 tweetup event. Representatives from nonprofits competed against each other in a cornhole (or bag toss) tournament. The winner of the tournament was awarded $250, and a last minute surprise included a $250 prize for the second place team as well.
“The first tweetup of the year was at Industrial Revolution, the second one was at TJ Maloney’s, the third at Zao Island, and we’re lucky to have the fourth one at our very own Ideas in Motion Media headquarter building. It’s amazing to see everyone come together for a common goal. I wish businesses gave more. These tweetups are not about the money; they’re about recognizing non-for-profit organizations around our community,” Jae Chang from Berman's Infiniti of Merrillville stated.
The non-profit organizations that faced off in the cornhole tournament included Meals on Wheels, Friends of Portage Township Foundation, Boys & Girls Club of Valparaiso, 500 Turkeys, Special Olympics, Housing Opportunities, Semper Fidelis Health & Wellness, Duneland Family YMCA, Worthy Recovery Inc., The Carnahan Foundation, Pyros of Camp Yogi, Valpo Schools Foundation, United Way of La Porte County, North Judson Fire Department, and Stepping Stone Women Shelter.
Food was provided by Valpo Viennas, Gelsosomos Pizzeria and Texas Roadhouse in Portage and drinks were provided by Figure Eight Brewing, Four Fathers Brewing LLC, and Ribordy Liquors.
Jason Jeka from Progressive Dining Group was enthused to be at the event. This was the first tweetup they participated in and Jeka said it was nothing but a positive experience.
Jeka smiled, “It’s absolutely wonderful to see everyone get so involved. We’re really excited to be here and this is really a meeting ground for businesses and non-for-profits. It’s a great way to communicate and interact with people who have similar goals.”
Lori Moreno, 4th grader from Jones Elementary School in Portage, was sitting on the sidelines, cheering her dad, who was competing for The Carnahan Foundation during the bag toss.
“This is amazing! I think that it is great that we are donating money to nonprofits because more people will be helped. Today, I am supporting The Carnahan Foundation, which helps families having medical issues pay for their bills,” she grinned widely, as she continued to yell chants in support of her dad during the cornhole tournament.
At the end of the day, the Duneland YMCA took first place in the tournament. Blair Ballestero, Emily Hoge, and Devin Hunt represented the organization in the cornhole challenge. Hunt was the participant who won it all, and Hoge (who is also his fiancé) couldn’t be any happier.
“I’m so proud of him for helping us win! This money means a lot to us. This money is going to fund scholarships for underprivileged kids. We can’t wait to see what good this money will do!” Hoge exclaimed.
Second place, and another $250 check from Berman’s Infiniti of Merrillville, was awarded to The Carnahan Foundation.
All in all, the event brought people of all different backgrounds, ages, and passions together for one main goal- to make Northwest Indiana an even better place.
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Stamford Street Food Company: Sainsbury’s nods to SE1 history
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Sainsbury's has launched a new own-brand range of frozen foods under the name Stamford Street Food Company, inspired by the company's long links with the SE1 area.
Following the lead of Tesco which has replaced its value range with an assortment of house brands, Sainsbury's has recently replaced its Basics frozen food range with new packaging bearing the name Stamford Street Food Co.
Stamford Street Food Co products include lasagne, spaghetti bolognaise, chicken hotpot and macaroni cheese.
The supermarket's links with this corner of Lambeth and Southwark go back a long way: founder John James Sainsbury was born 175 years ago in what is now Baylis Road, Waterloo, and had his first job with a grocer in The New Cut market.
For more than a century – until 2001 – the company had its headquarters in and around Stamford Street.
One of the company's many HQ buildings stood on the site now occupied by the One Blackfriars skyscraper.
As well as offices, many of the company's products were made in the locality. The 1930s-built sausage and pie factory just off Stamford Street was demolished in 2016.
The former Sainsbury's staff canteen is now the Colombo Centre, and the company's long-standing links with the area are recorded in the stained glass at Christ Church Southwark.
Sainsbury's closed after 16-year-old stabbed in New Kent Road 17 Nov 2019
Blackfriars Road hotel: planning inspector dismisses appeal 14 Oct 2019
Mousetraps laid as Tesco at Elephant & Castle shuts for a week 25 Mar 2019
Snap: Elephant & Castle to Birmingham by coach for £5 24 Sep 2018
New Post Office branch opening at Elephant & Castle 21 Jul 2018
Elephant developer sets timetable for shopping centre closure 2 Jul 2018
160 BFR: new hotel planned in Blackfriars Road car park 7 Mar 2018
Sainsbury's Local opens in Westminster Bridge Road 10 Aug 2017
18 Blackfriars: 53-storey tower OKed by Southwark councillors 19 Jul 2017
Elephant & Castle aluminium cladding: 'no room for complacency' 30 Jun 2017
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Palestinians Reach For Their Tech Startup Future
As Obama Visits The West Bank, Palestinians Reach For Their Tech Startup Future
MIKE BUTCHER – TECHCRUNCH
Sitting in Snobar, a cool bar shaded by fir trees in deepest Ramallah, George Khadder is practically thumping the table as he speaks. A Palestinian who has worked in Silicon Valley, he talks passionately about his desire for Palestinian entrepreneurs to control their own destiny. “I came back from Silicon Valley because I believed I could affect change,” he tells me. It’s a sentiment that has been echoed during President Obama’s visit to Israel and the West Bank. This week Obama specifically spoke about programs designed to stimulate the Palestinian technology ecosystem and build bridges with the large and well-developed Israeli tech community. “Over 100 high-tech companies have found a home on the West Bank, which speaks to the talent and entrepreneurial spirit of the Palestinian people,” he said.
Back in Snobar, you could easily mistake my conversation with a group of tech entrepreneurs to be happening in some hip part of Europe – perhaps a Berlin ‘beach’ bar by the river Spree. But this is no ordinary party of the world, and these are no run-of-the-mill entrepreneurs shooting the breeze about raising VC or launching a startup.
Even amidst the enormous political and cultural difficulties created by the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians – consider the huge ‘Peace Wall’ and tight security that make it very hard for anyone, let alone entrepreneurs, to move around – you can find technology companies plying their wares.
But I hadn’t had to simply catch a taxi from the airport to visit these entrepreneurs. Weeks earlier, I’d had to make contact with a local NGO that could get me into the West Bank, arrange to be driven through armed Israeli check-points, spend only a few hours meeting startups and then get back out. In such an environment, you could forgive a Palestinian tech entrepreneur for not being as boosterish as their Silicon Valley counterparts.
Ironically, the difficulties of the security situation make technology potentially the ideal industry for Palestinians. The ‘exports’ online, like web sites and apps, are not subject to the usual rules and regulations associated with Israeli security.
The frustration and impatience of Palestinian tech entrepreneurs is palpable. They are champing at the bit to energize their own tech ecosystem, despite the difficulties of day to day life. How do you develop smartphone apps when so few in the population have smartphones and there are no 3G networks available? Palestinians don’t have the unfettered broadband and 3G connectivity their Israeli neighbors only a short drive away have. How do you meet potential investors if you can’t get out of the Gaza Strip because of restriction on travel both for you and the investors? How do you organize a simple hackathons? With security being a major concern of the Israeli government mobile phone towers are limited by height to prevent them from being used as firing positions.
What’s at stake is an industry which could bring enormous economic benefit to the Palestinians, greater stability and perhaps even positively better relations with Israel.
In this part of the world, creating a tech startup doesn’t involve Valley-style cash out for the founders, an earn-out and then on the next startup. A thriving Palestinians tech industry could actually transform an entire, economically deprived, area. Tech could actually end up meaning peace.
But there is frustration amongst Palestinian entrepreneurs over the pace of growth amongst home-grown, product based startups.
Around a low table strewn with coffee and drinks, I discuss tech trends and the local movement to launch a tech revolution amongst Palestinians with a group that calls itself the Peeks. Standing for ‘Palestinian Geeks’, this 2,500-strong membership, was built largely on a Facebook group (and on Twitter: @peeks_ps) but has become a vehicle for a new generation hungry to emulate the culture of Silicon Valley.
Unlike many of the more established trade bodies, Peeks is all about something any TechCrunch reader will be aware of: entrepreneurs, startups and geeks.
Started in 2010, Khadder and his fellow Peeks founders set out to create a sustainable economy of entrepreneurs for Palestinians residing in the West Bank and the Gaza strip.
In the Peeks community, members will post events and news, debate and look for people to help. It’s a grass roots community of entrepreneurs to support each other, engage with students, industry, and the wealth of Palestinian expats working in tech around the world.
They realised there was a lack of entrepreneurial culture, no ‘trust culture’, and a fear of failure. There was also a lack of research, a lack of links between the private culture of startups and education and little private sector skills in the education system. So they plan to develop “sustainable knowledge based resources” and do offline events like meet-ups and hackathons.
As Khadder – who works with solar startup Yafa Enerrgy – says: “What we need is a vision to bring this together. There has not been such a vision in Palestine.”
Whether a vision exists of not, Peeks appears to be pushing at a gradually opening door. Already Gaza has seen its first incubator open up, the Business and Technology Incubator (BTI), and product-based startups in the West Bank are starting to appear.
Palestinian entrepreneur Mohammad Kilany co-founded Souktel a ‘LinkedIn over SMS’ which matches employees with employers and was designed. ArtTech is a studio producing apps like the X-Bugs game on Android.
George Halabi created SafqaOnline a classifieds site trying to be the CraigsList for Palestinians.FinJANi is an iGoogle-like start page startup. Steadypoint is a Ramallah-based company working to produce an RFQ platform. Idevator is a Zynga-like startup producing games for the Middle East. Yousef Ghandour is founder of Anabasalli, an Android application to assist Muslims during prayer.
It’s a varied list of startups, but the formation of the Peeks group reflects a growing desire amongst a number of Palestinans in the tech community to break away from what has traditionally been an IT outsourcing industry, and one which was frequently subsidised by donors and outside NGOs.
Indeed, even some Israeli tech companies have used engineers based in Ramallah. Sometimes they’ve gone further – the (now defunct) G.ho.st startup (which created a virtual desktop environment for PCs) was started by Zvi Schreiber British-born Israeli CEO who joined with Tareq Maayah, a Palestinian businessman, to start a Ramallah office for the startup in parallel to the Modiin office in Israel.
That said, pure IT outsourcing has been a successful industry for Palestinians.
According to a white paper commissioned by Cisco in July last year the Palestinian IT sector grew over five times from 2008 to 2010 and now accounts for more than 5% of Palestine’s gross domestic product. The paper also noted that the European Investment Bank has put $78 million into the Palestinian high tech sector in the past three years and that Cisco itself has put $15 million into the West Bank since 2008.
Other informal estimates put the size of the ICT industry in Palestine at $350 million, with about $150m spread across telecommunications, and another $20m software development. The majority of that is thought to be in outsourcing companies.
There has also been plenty of outside interest and investment from the likes of Cisco, Google and USAID. All have brought their resources to bare on the emerging Palestinian tech scene. The multinationals clearly trust Palestinians companies to do the work. That’s important to note.
But it’s product-based startups, not outsourcing, that the Peeks and other Palestinian entrepreneurs like them are so desperate to promote and nurture.
It’s estimated that only about 5-10% of the tech market is considered “exportable” – a code word for home-grown startups building product which can be used internationally. It is from these, according to Khadder, “where momentum will come.”
“For Palestine to develop it has to develop tech which is IP based not just outsourcing,” he says. The Peeks group is acutely aware that remaining reliant on outsourcing work is, as one Peeks member put it to me, ‘the bottom of the barrel.”
The irony of the situation is that Palestinian entrepreneurs realise – as Israel did many years ago – they will have to produce startups and their own Intellectual Property. For it doesn’t take a genius to work out that everyone in this region is in the same boat. There are few natural resources, there is political instability and ‘exporting’ product can be difficult.
Sustainability to the Peeks means not having to rely on handouts, and building long term, viable technology products which are created by their own people, not working for someone else in another part of the world.
Khadder (pictured below) believes entrepreneurship is the key: “The [Palestinian] Government, the private sector and academia have been incompetent in their approach to entrepreneurship. We need to see visionaries to promote entrepreneurship.”
You can tell he’s passionate about the subject by the language he uses: “We’re not bloody India either in terms of code or scale or cost. We need to create our own niche in terms of IP and innovation. I don’t care what it is – gaming, social media, anything – the issue is that’s the only way we can build a sustainable tech sector in Palestine,” he says.
Part of the issue is that business groups like the Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies (PITA) tend give voice to established IT companies not startups. And an aligned organisation, the Palestinian ICT Incubator (PICTI), has had less than sterling success, despite a seven track year record.
“The KPIs have been ‘let’s spend the aid money’ not ‘let’s create a value proposition’,” says Khadder. It’s the fault of both the Aid money plus Palestinians ourselves who have accepted those agendas and not challenged them. The focus has been outsourcing, outsourcing and more outsourcing – nothing to empower tech entrepreneurs. That’s what we’re trying to change with Peeks, at least from a grass-roots perspective.”
Mohammed Musleh, business development lead at PITA, says the situation is more complex: “Peeks is designed to come from the community but PITA is about the companies as they grow. We see ourselves as a second stage, as the companies emerge from organisations like the Peeks. We look at our relationship as symbiotic. We can’t work against each other, we need to work together to ensure that the community grows. When they need things like advocacy and legal advice and more hard core stuff, PITA can be there for them.”
But the lack of ‘smart’ investors, a highly regulated economy, an old fashioned banking system, creaky corporate laws (mostly inherited from Jordan) is not helping. For instance, there is no structure in Palestine for different classes of stock or convertible loans.
And Peeks members roll their eyes when you ask them about the activity of NGOs.
Privately, these tech entrepreneurs couldn’t hold back their deep disappointment that aid money and NGO efforts in the Palestinian tech sector has been spent – according to them – “very badly”. As one put it, the money has gone on “splashy events” that achieve little long term value. What money there was has been short lived, and “the KPIs did not stretch beyond a year.”
But not all NGOs come in for criticism. Mercy Corps is one singled out for praise by local Palestinian startups.
The NGO has been working with the Palestinian ICT sector in West Bank/Gaza since 2008, working with universities, TVET institutions and others to try and gear students to what’s called “market-driven subjects” and the softer skills like marketing which are harder to come by in this region. It’s sponsored four Startup Weekends in Nablus and Gaza over the last two years, bringing together Palestinian tech people in a more casual environment. They also helped support a SUW in Nazareth, which was organized by Arabs inside Israel. The NGO is backed by the European Union, Source of Hope Foundation, Google Foundation, and USAID among others.
Tova Scherr, program manager with Mercy Corps says: “I have been working with the tech community in Palestine for the last four and a half years, and it’s exciting to see the changes that have been happening. When I first started the environment was very company-focused. People from different companies did not meet each other much outside of work, and share what kinds of projects they are working on. Now, partly through our efforts at Mercy Corps, Peeks and others, young developers are seeing the value in sharing and helping each other.”
She says recent funding stories are inspiring Palestinian entrepreneurs and “Palestinians abroad are thinking of coming home.”
However, she counsels caution over the view that tech can cure all ills: “There has been a lot of hype about Palestinian technology and its potential to support the Palestinian economy. We are now having a major reality-check and need to be more realistic in our approach of what is and isn’t possible. While there is a lot of potential, computer science graduates in Palestine are not coming out of University with the skills needed to start their own companies or to be strong employees, just out of school. While startups create new jobs and opportunities, I believe startups are not for everyone, and people need to work in established companies as well.”
“It can often take 6-8 years to build a new entrepreneurship ecosystem in the best conditions. On the ground in Gaza and the West Bank, Palestinians face a different reality than Boulder or Silicon Valley. The political realities, movement and access restrictions faced by Palestinians cannot be completely ignored, even if the cloud makes it easier to export virtual goods …but the grassroots efforts coming out to the Palestinian Geek community, combining local efforts and connecting the Palestinian diaspora and interested supporters for help, is taking Palestine to the next level,” she says.
Indeed, despite all the obvious drawbacks and barriers, I don’t hear much griping from the Peeks. Their thoughts are more concerned with trying to support and promote a new culture of entrepreneurialism and acceptance of failure. Indeed, it’s exactly the same culture that helped Israel become a ‘startup nation’ which stands to help Palestine.
To achieve that, the Peeks have “set out to encourage collaboration, foster entrepreneurs, create links to universities. We’ve tried to rediscover volunteerism,” says Khadder.
In saying that he admits that some aspects of business amongst Palestinians has been too fostered by outside aid and what he calls “hand-outs” – and when he speaks you realise that he’s talking like many entrepreneurs talk: they don’t want special favours. In the main they want the restrictions on creating startups, be they legislative or political, to just get out of the damn way.
So far Peeks has managed to punch above their weight. Such as inviting Walid Abu-Hadba, a former VP of Microsoft, one of the highest-ranking sitting executives to ever visit Palestine, even though he visited in a personal, not official, capacity. Others who have visited include Ossama Hassanein, chairman of Rising Tide Capital; Paul Fullerton, Senior Manager, Cisco, among others.
Then there are other signs of a growing local ecosystem, and, crucially, investors.
Sadara Ventures, the newly established VC aimed at Palestinian tech startups was founded by Palestinian Saed Nashef and Israeli Yadin Kaufmann. Kaufmann founded helped start Veritas Venture Partners in 1990 and funded Accord Networks, a videoconferencing company that went public in 2000, and Ubique, an instant messaging pioneer that was bought by AOL in 1995. Sadara plans to invest exclusively in Palestinian technology start-ups and aims to take stakes in about 15 companies over 10 years.
It’s already put $1 million into Souktel (mentioned above) and hotel booking platform Yamsafer.
Sadara has raised around $29.5 million and is the only VC investing in Palestinian tech companies. There are signs of wider investment: Rasmala Investment Bank in Dubai is invest in the capital market, while the $60 million private equity-backed Siraj Palestine Fund and Abraaj Capital’s $36 million Palestine Growth Capital Fund are private equity funds focused on growth-stage investments in Palestinian SME’s.
Sadara has being being joined by other new initiatives. FastForward is a brand new accelerator in Ramallah modeled on the Startup Weekend “SWNext” five weeks program.
Sadara’s Nashef says he and Yadin “set out to raise our Fund because we both believed that there’s an opportunity to make profitable investments in Palestine, while at the same time creating social impact. The real big deal is founding the first venture capital fund to invest in early-stage tech companies in Palestine, and having it backed by such top-tier investors as EIB, Cisco, Soros (SEDF), and Skoll, among others.”
Although says the ecosystem is “still on the ground-floor, and “there’s a lot of work to be done before we can mature as a tech ecosystem” he expects to invest in two product-based startups per year in Palestine.
While he admits that many short-term opportunities will simply be locally adapted clones of startups that succeeded in the West, he hopes they will start seeing deep tech innovation, though “this is probably several years down the road. You have to understand that what Sadara is doing here is effectively jumpstarting an ecosystem. We’re in this for the longterm, and I’m optimistic on that.”
He says groups like Peeks are “a good start, but not enough. I’d like to see a critical mass of entrepreneurial activities on the ground, taking place regularly, and over a long period before I can comfortably say that entrepreneurs are taking charge of their own destiny in Palestine. We still need more leadership in the community by actual founders.”
He also thinks “outsourcing will be with us for a while, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It builds capacity, and creates a cluster that may support IP-based startups. I believe we will need to have our first successful exit story before the local industry landscape undergoes a significant change.”
It’s not possible at this early stage to discern quite what reaction this rise of grass roots Palestinian tech activism will have on the Israeli side. However, there may be hope that this entrepreneur-led approach could pay dividends in relations.
There are even some promising signs from one or two Israeli investors. High profile New York angel investor Jeff Pulver – who invests extensively in Israeli startups – recently told tech magazine Informilo that he would be “looking for Israeli/Arab led start-ups,” in 2013. He recently participated in the first hackathon in Nazareth with Arabs living in Israel and Palestinians, and meet entrepreneurs in Ramallah. Initiatives like the Middle Eastern Education Through Technology,an MIT programme, brings together young Israelis and Palestinians to learn technology and business skills.
Even at the highest echelons of the Israeli technology establishment, there are signs that a thaw might some day develop between the fast-moving world of Israeli technology and the Palestinian side. Even Yossi Vardi, who exited ICQ to AOL back in 1998 for $407m and now commands Godfather-like status in the Israeli scene, said on stage at Dublin Web Summit last last year that he hoped there would be greater cooperation and interaction in the future between technologists in Israel and Palestine.
But for his part Nashef does not see more Arab/Israeli cooperation tech: “It is rare and not very popular given the current tensions. A lot is riding on progress on the political front, and until that happens, this will continue to be a very sensitive issue.”
There’s the rub. One cannot escape the politics on the ground. There remain obvious practical hurdles to Palestinian entrepreneurialism on the ground. Across the West Bank and the Gaza strip unemployment is high and mobility restricted. The restriction on movement means the senior management talent you would normally source from abroad for a start is a very big challenge.
But, like entrepreneurs in any parts of the world outside of Silicon Valley, some of the biggest barriers remain in the mind. Talking to Palestinians and Arabs living inside Israel you’ll find they freely admit, that the age-old risk-averse business culture continues to be one of the biggest hurdles to the development of startups. Then again perhaps this is understandable when so much of daily life is risky and hard to predict enough as it is.
Of course, there is an enormous irony here.
The very technology industry that Israel relied on to pull it out of economic isolation in the 80s and 90s and 2000s is the very same industry that many Palestinian entrepreneurs are looking to to pull them out of a similar predicament.
It’s an irony of such proportions that it is not lost on the small gathering I met in the Snobar in Ramallah.
“Palestine is where Israel was 20 years ago in terms of tech,” admits Khadder. But however long it takes, he, the Peeks and others plan to start the journey towards a new era of Palestinian tech startups.
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Detroit Lions camp: Kenny Wiggins on O-line competition, facing Mike Daniels
ALLEN PARK — Guard Kenny Wiggins, for one, is happy to have Mike Daniels as a newcomer on the Detroit Lions roster.
The Lions announced on Saturday that they have signed the veteran Pro Bowl defensive end who was released by the Green Bay Packers before camp.
Wiggins, who is battling for a starting role at guard, vividly remembers the first time he faced Daniels.
“My third start ever at Green Bay when I was with the Chargers. He gave me a little fit, we ran 93 plays that game, which is a lot, and a lot of them were passes,’’ Wiggins said. “That was fun. No sacks though.’’
Daniels will add to a formidable defensive line that includes Damon “Snacks” Harrison, A’Shawn Robinson, Trey Flowers, Da’Shawn Hand and Romeo Okwara.
Wiggins said they should have some good battles at camp between the offensive and defensive lines.
“It’s going to make us better, it’s only going to make the whole team better too,’’ Wiggins said. “I would say the games are won up front. Iron sharpens iron. So whoever comes out on top one day, the next day we’re going to get better, we’re going to come out and get better and be better as a total unit.’’
Wiggins started 10 games at right guard for the Lions last season when T.J. Lang was injured. With Frank Ragnow moved to center from left guard and Lang retired both guard spots are up for grabs in camp. Graham Glasgow and and Joe Dahl are also in the mix along with veteran Oday Aboushi.
“We have a lot of guys who have played a lot of football and all of us have great depth and that’s a good thing to have,’’ Wiggins said. “Whoever gets the nod — it’s up in the air right now so who knows — we’re just out here competing trying to get better.’’
Saturday was the third day of camp, but the first day in pads
“Once the pads come on that’s when camp starts for me, just out in pajamas before then,’’ Wiggins said. “This is camp now.”
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Excerpt from The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria, published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam) Lisa Mason #SFWApro #historicalfantasy #womenartists #Surrealism
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria by Lisa Mason
6 May 1941. We’ve arrived at last after months in Casablanca, which I once remembered fondly & now loathe. Sold all my good white linen bed sheets for Moslem shrouds to raise money for our sea passage. The Faithful must meet their Maker wrapt in the colour of purity, but I would’ve slept on straw, on mud, on a bed of nails to leave Africa.
Every day we were in danger. Everyone knows B.B. supported the Loyalists in Spain & wrote editorials for La Revolution Surrealiste & corresponded with Trotsky, for godssake. Fascists in every bar & café. Nazis, too, now that Rommel has taken over the Occupation & his officers carouse their days away. The Soviets will make mincemeat of you within the year, B.B. told anyone who would listen. Didn’t care a fig who listened in. Every night I feared the knock on our door, which thankfully never came.
As for our sea passage, I have little to record. I was sick, B.B. was sick. Everyone sick & absolutely grey with fear. We sailed on a Union Oil tanker, The Montebello. A favorite sport of Nazi U-boats, torpedoing a merchant ship with refugees aboard. No more than a rifle or two to defend us, should we be attacked. Every day the radio told of another sinking–in the Atlantic, in the Caribbean, & all hands lost. Nazi U-boats take no prisoners, save no survivors bobbing amongst the waves. I began to wonder what it must be like to drown. Your hair streaming up into sunlit waters, your feet plunging into blackness below. The fearsome struggle to breathe–would it be swift or slow? Would you notice fish? When would they start nibbling at the lobes of your ears?
I had to set this journal aside. Force myself to stop conjuring up horrors.
When we hobbled ashore at Tampico, I fell on my knees & kissed the beach. I mean literally. B.B. laughing & lurching about on his sea legs. I can still taste the sand on my lips. Filthy, but marvelous. The marvelous taste of our deliverance.
Nothing but the shirts on our backs & two little bags between us. We haven’t got a penny.
It’s completely true what Breton says of our destination.
Mexico is the Surrealist place par excellence. The land blazes with a savage golden light. A tiger light. The jungle spreads its tendrils to the very edge of town & the leaves of certain palms possess a clarified green the like of which I’ve never seen in Britain nor in Europe, save perhaps Tuscany. Blossoms have their wanton way in every window box, on every street corner, through every crevice in the ancient stone walls. Brick & mortar are no match for the lusty thrust of Life. I love the lascivious pinks, the regal purples. I spied a scarlet that actually throbbed, as if the colour of blood was pulsing from a newly opened wound. The natives wear their modernity lightly. As if civilization is but a garment to be donned or disposed of at one’s will.
I should like to feel that unencumbered of my past.
Thanks to the small refugee stipend paid to us by the Mexican government, we have found an apartment on Gabino Barreda, near the Monument to the Revolution (B.B. likes that, a poetic touch). Three horrid little rooms in a decaying stucco tenement. Plaster crumbling off the walls, scorpions in the kitchen. Other vermin, too, I fear. Mother would faint dead away at the sight of the pit in the floor that passes for our indoor plumbing. There is an alcove off the bedroom, though, which has light nearly all day & a terrace overlooking the street, which is delightfully picturesque. B.B. says I may take it for my art studio. The landlady (upon whom B.B. has worked his usual masculine charms) came by with two white, blue-eyed kittens, brushstrokes of fawn on nose & paw. She says they are Sealpoint Siamese such as I have not seen since Mother’s house in London.
Enchanting & I wept, realising how much I’ve left behind. How much the war has taken from us. The simple pleasure of kittens.
How can I not be happy?
So there you have it, my friends.
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria was published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), which included stories by Michael Bishop, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, and Neal Stephenson. The anthology was edited by Jennifer Hershey, Tom Dupree, and Janna Silverstein.
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From the author of Summer Of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book). On BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, and Kobo. On Kindle in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, India, Mexico, and Netherlands.
The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book). On BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, and Smashwords. On Kindle in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, India, Mexico, and Netherlands.
Time Travels to San Francisco (boxed set of Summer of Love and The Gilded Age). On US Kindle, UK Kindle, Canada Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, Apple, and Kobo. On Kindle in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, India, and Japan.
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The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria, published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), is now available worldwide! Lisa Mason #SFWApro #historicalfantasy #womenartists #Surrealism
The year is 1941, and Hitler’s armies are sweeping across Europe.
Nora, a budding young Surrealist artist, has fled to Mexico with B.B., a much older and acclaimed Surrealist playwright down on his luck. Hundreds of European artists and writers have formed a colony in Mexico City, and Nora befriends Valencia, a fellow Surrealist artist and refugee.
Together the friends explore Jungian psychology and the power of symbols in their extraordinary, visionary Art.
But Nora is plagued by an abusive relationship with B.B. She embarks on a harrowing journey of the soul deep into her own troubled psyche.
Inspired by the lives and friendship of the brilliant Surrealist artists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.
A summary of the artists’ lives and a list of Sources follows the novelette.
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A summary of the artists’ lives and a list of Sources follows the novella.
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria was published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), which included stories by Michael Bishop, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, and Neal Stephenson.
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Are You An Artist? Try The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam) Lisa Mason #SFWApro
November 6, 2015 //
If you’re a millennial, you may not realize just how bad American society was for women before, say, the 1970s and 1980s. Women struggled long and hard to win the vote and didn’t win that struggle until 1920—fully 144 years after this great country was founded. For many of those years, women could not sign contracts or take legal action without the permission of their husbands or fathers, were routinely denied gainful employment and access to higher education and the professions, and were generally denigrated and disrespected in society except in their role as submissive wives and mothers.
This was especially true in the arts and literature. A woman like Edith Wharton—whose writing I revere—succeeded, but she was a very wealthy and socially prominent woman who was willing and able to fight. The same is true of Gertrude Atherton.
In the arts, women were denied publicity, access to top galleries, and critical review that male artists took for granted. That’s why many of us are unfamiliar with the great women artists of history. The 1940s was a period when numerous women artists emerged, especially in the Surrealist movement.
And that’s what The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria is about.
I was inspired by the lives and the friendship of the brilliant Surrealist artists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, who are my favorite Surrealists and, in my opinion, were much more talented and visionary than the famous male artists of that period.
So there you have it, my friends. The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria was published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), which included stories by Michael Bishop, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, and Neal Stephenson. This is a short story, mind you, not a full-blown book.
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria is also on Amazon.com in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
From the author of Summer Of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, and Kobo.
Summer of Love is also on Amazon.com in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, and Smashwords.
The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, is also on Amazon.com in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
Strange Ladies: 7 Stories on Nook, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, and Kobo.
Strange Ladies: 7 Stories is also on Amazon.com in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
Celestial Girl, The Omnibus Edition (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) is also on Amazon.com in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
My Charlotte: Patty’s Story on Barnes and Noble, US Kindle, UK Kindle, Canada Kindle, Australia Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, and Kobo;
My Charlotte: Patty’s Story is also on Amazon.com worldwide in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Netherlands, and Mexico.
Whew! Did I forget anything? I don’t think so, but I didn’t include every title in this list, either. For that—
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Are You An Artist? Try The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam) All Links, All Readers, Worldwide Lisa Mason #SFWApro
If you’re a millennial, you may not realize just how bad American society was for women before, say, the 1970s and 1980s. Women struggled long and hard to win the vote and didn’t win that struggle until 1920—fully 144 years after this great country was founded. For many of those years, women could not sign contracts or take legal action without the permission of their husbands or fathers, were routinely denied gainful employment and access to higher education and the professions, and were generally denigrated and disrespected in society. This was especially true in the arts and literature. A woman like Edith Wharton—whose writing I revere—succeeded, but she was a very wealthy and socially prominent woman. The same is true of Gertrude Atherton.
In the arts, women were denied the publicity, access to top galleries, and critical review that male artists took for granted. That’s why many of us are unfamiliar with the great women artists of history. The 1940s was a period when numerous women artists emerged, especially in the Surrealist movement.
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria was published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam), which included stories by Michael Bishop, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, and Neal Stephenson. This is a short story, mind you, not a full-blown book.
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria is also on Amazon.com in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
From the author of Summer Of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, and Sony. Summer of Love, A Time Travel is also on Amazon.com in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
The Gilded Age, A Time Travel on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords. The Gilded Age, A Time Travel is also on Amazon.com in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords. The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, is also on Amazon.com in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
Celestial Girl, The Omnibus Edition (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) includes all four books. On Nook, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, and Sony; Celestial Girl, The Omnibus Edition (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) is also on Amazon.com in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
Strange Ladies: 7 Stories on Nook, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, and Sony. Strange Ladies: 7 Stories is also on Amazon.com in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and India.
My Charlotte: Patty’s Story on Barnes and Noble, US Kindle, UK Kindle, Canada Kindle, Australia Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, and Kobo; My Charlotte: Patty’s Story is also on Amazon.com worldwide in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, and Mexico.
Visit me at Lisa Mason’s Official Website for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, reviews, interviews, and blogs, adorable pet pictures, forthcoming projects, fine art and bespoke jewelry, worldwide Amazon.com links for Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and Spain, and more!
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The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam) All Links, All Readers, Worldwide #SFWApro
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria is on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords.
From the author of Summer Of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, and Sony;
The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book) on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords;
The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords;
Celestial Girl The Omnibus Edition (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) on Nook, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, and Sony;
SHAKEN on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords;
Tomorrow’s Child on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords;
Every Mystery Unexplained on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords;
Daughter of the Tao on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords;
HUMMERS on BarnesandNoble, US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Apple, Kobo, Sony, and Smashwords; and
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Hi Everyone -
Please join us for the next in our regular monthly series of free
Department of the Library Park Ranger Speaker Series lectures, entitled "A
Regular Slave Hunt: The Army of Northern Virginia and Black Civilians in
the Gettysburg Campaign" on Tuesday, February 17th from 1:00 - 1:45 pm in
Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building's John Muir Room.
One of the overlooked stories of the Gettysburg Campaign is the abduction
of free blacks and fugitive slaves from their homes in south-central
Pennsylvania. African-Americans had first come to this region in the
mid-eighteenth century as slaves of local settlers. In 1780 the
Pennsylvania Assembly passed a law that allowed for their emancipation by
July 4, 1827. Thus, by the outbreak of the Civil War, free blacks had been
living in the area for some time. During the Gettysburg Campaign, soldiers
in the Army of Northern Virginia systematically rounded up free blacks and
escaped slaves as they marched north into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Men,
women and children were all swept up and brought along with the army as it
moved north, and carried back into Virginia during the army's retreat after
the battle. While specific numbers cannot be known, the total may have been
over a thousand African Americans. Once back in Confederate-held territory,
they were returned to their former owners, sold at auction or imprisoned.
Please join Ted Alexander, senior staff historian at Antietam National
Battlefield, for a look at this tragic and forgotten about chapter of the
Gettysburg Campaign.
All that are interested are invited. The John Muir Room is located in the
basement level of the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior
Building, towards the back of and adjacent to the Interior Department
cafeteria. The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building is
located at 1849 C Street, NW in Washington. Space for the program is
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We hope you can join us in person or virtually on February 17th!
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Expressive Art Therapy and Dreamwork with Liza Hyatt
Imagination's Homing Journey into Self and World
Past Presentations, Performances, Awards 2012-2018
Past Programs, Performances, Fellowships and Awards 2012-2018
Host for monthly Poets Laureate of Lawrence open mic/featured poet program at Lawrence Art Center, every 4th Tuesday, 2012 – Current
Past Programs, Presentations, etc. include but are not limited to the following:
Corning Irish Heritage Foundation, Montgomery IN
A Braided Story for My Irish Great Great Grandmothers
Resiliency Training Indiana Public Defenders, Muncie and Indianapolis
Let Your Yoga Dance, Nature and Art Self-Care Retreat, Story, IN
Compassion Fatigue and Resiliency Inservice, Eating Disorders Task Force of IN
Indiana Historical Society
Storytelling Arts Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship Performance
Hyatt performs with harp accompaniment an original family history story about how learning about her Irish great-great grandmothers transformed her life.
5:30 pm; 36 E. Market St., Wabash, IN; 260-563-9070.
Wabash County Historical Museum – A Poet’s Pilgrimage on the Wabash and Erie Canal
Liza will share poems and stories developed while following the path of the Wabash and Erie Canal, researching the lives of her canal building Irish ancestors who came to Indiana in the 1830’s. In the bardic tradition of Ireland, Hyatt will accompany her poetry with Celtic harp. Hyatt’s tracing of canal history will inspire others seeking to explore their own family history. A discussion period and dialogue about ways to creatively research our shared Hoosier heritage will follow Hyatt’s presentation.
Hyatt’s project is funded in part through a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission and is a Bicentennial Legacy Project.
7:00 pm, 1030 W. Washington Street, Delphi, IN
Wabash and Erie Canal Center –
A Poet’s Pilgrimage on the Wabash and Erie Canal
Bless This Mess, Theater at the Fort
Lawrence, IN
As part of the Spirt and Place Festival, particants in Hyatt and Krapf’s Writing About Difficult Relationships Workshop share creative non-fiction and poetry about complex relationships. The Indiana Art Therapy Association hosts an art show exploring the same them.
April 8, 2015, 7:00 – 8-30pm
Hancock County Public Library
As part of National Poetry Month, Liza Hyatt reads from her work “The Mother Poems,” followed by a free writing workshop.
April 12, 2015, 7:00pm
Evening With the Muse, Writer’s Center of Indiana
As part of National Poetry Month, Liza will perform poetry in bardic style accompanied by her Celtic Harp, sharing work from her three books and also one or two poems by her favorite poets.
Listen to Your Mother Show
Poetry on Brick Street
Sullivan Munce Cultural Center, 225 West Hawthorne Street, Zionsville, IN 46077.
http://www.brickstreetpoetry.org/?page_id=746
In honor of Mother’s Day, Liza will read from her book The Mother Poems and will also share new poetry.
June 20, 2015, 9:30 am-2:30pm
Oldenburg Franciscan Center
Mining the Dark for Healing Gold: Writing About Difficult Relationships with Norbert Krapf
Speaking openly about conflict-filled and wounding relationships is often such a frightening process that we avoid it at all costs. Yet by not articulating the conflict in these relationships, we deny ourselves access to the whole context of our lives and can’t live our present and future fully. Memoir writing and poetry offer us ways to speak truthfully, patiently, and compassionately about these relationships. When we use such forms of writing as a spiritual practice to acknowledge relationship wounds, we cultivate a profound healing. We cannot brave this mining of our lives, however, without guidance and support from others (therapists, pastors, spiritual directors, friends) aware of our writing journey, sensitive to the impact of trauma within personal relationships, and willing to walk alongside us, listening as we find words to speak what was unspeakable.
Indianapolis poets Norbert Krapf and Liza Hyatt have made such personal writing journeys. In Catholic Boy Blues: A Poet’s Journal of Healing, former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf, at the age of seventy, speaks about his abuse as a child at the hands of a priest and the lifelong effects it has had on him, his family, and his loved ones. He speaks in four voices, the boy, the man, the priest, and Mr. Blues. In The Mother Poems – A Memoir: The Warrior Queen Novelist and Her Poet Daughter, Liza Hyatt, as she enters her 50’s, untangles her relationship with her mother, a powerful and inspiring figure also emotionally distant, critical, and unwilling to participate in the details of her children’s adult lives. The Mother Poems begins with Hyatt’s earliest memory of her mother and culminates in poems that give voice to the author’s grief after her mother’s death.
As writers who know the difficult terrain that must be traversed while writing such challenging poetic memoirs, Krapf and Hyatt have joined together as presenters. In Mining the Dark for Healing Gold, they read from their work, share the story of how they came to write their own healing memoirs, identify the social supports and creative practices which sustained their work, and engage participants in a discussion of emotions and memories evoked by hearing the authors’ poetry and stories. Hyatt, a licensed mental-health counselor and art therapist, will provide information about ways in which creative self-expression is instrumental in the healing of trauma. Both authors will guide participants in experiential writing activities through which participants can begin to write about their own complex relationship wounds and also develop skills to assist others who attempt such a challenging writing journey. During the workshop, participants may begin to write about a difficult relationship in poetry or prose (a letter, description of a memory or episode, character portrait, memoir chapter, free or formal verse, journal reflections, etc.).
Drawing upon perspectives found in depth psychology and creation spirituality, Hyatt and Krapf unite, in a rare gender-balancing collaboration, to address the spiritual wounding that affects all men and women in our culture. While sharing their individual stories – about a boy being wounded by a man he called Father and a girl being wounded by a woman she called Mother – they also enter into dialogue about our shared need to heal, at an archetypal level, the injured Masculine and the rejected Feminine. In grappling with the cost of this imbalance in their own lives, they celebrate each other’s healing and help workshop participants enter more deeply into such important soul-work.
Art of the Matter, WFYI Public Radio, May 15 and 17, 2014
Indy Reads Books, book launch for The Mother Poems, Indianapolis, IN, May 21, 2014
Indy Reads Books, one of three featured Chatter House Press poets, June 14, 2014
Unbroken Bones Society, Robert Parks United Methodist Church, performance with singer-songwriter Sarah Grain, June 14, 2014
Riley Cheer Guild membership luncheon, harp music, June 26, 2014
Pensy Trail Art Fair, authors tent, June 28, 2014
Unbroken Bones Society, Robert Parks Methodist church, featured poet, August 9, 2014
Fourth Street Art Fair, Spoken Word Stage, Bloomington, IN, August 30, 2014
Heartland Unitarian Universalist Church, guest speaker, September 28, 2014
Unbroken Bones Society, Roberts Park Methodist church, featured poet, October 11, 2014
First Fridays Poetry, featured poet, Fort Wayne, IN, November 7, 2014
Indy Reads Books, Writing about Difficult Relationships reading with poet Norbert Krapf, November 19, 2014
Indy Reads Books, book release for Indy Writes Books, December 5, 2014
Indiana Authors Holiday Book Fair, Indiana History Center, Indianapolis, IN, December 6, 2014
Omni Severin Hotel, private party for Indy Writes Books authors, donors, and Indy Reads Books Board of Directors, December 11, 2014
Brick Street Poetry, Zionsville IN, March 7, 2013
“Under My Skin: Compassion Initiaton” Performance Art presentation, Art Therapy Symposium, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI, April 20, 2013,
Listen to Your Mother Show, part of a cast of women writers, Indiana History Center, Indianapolis, IN, May 2, 2013
“Under My Skin: Compassion Initiation” Performance Art presentation, St Mary of the Woods College, August 2, 2013
Elaine Voci’s “An Evening With…”, featured poet, Carmel, IN, September, 26, 2013
Unbroken Bones Society, Robert Parks Methodist church, featured poet, October 12, 2013
Eating Disorders Task Force of Indiana Conference, presentation on Expressive Art Therapy, October 18, 2013
Bookmamas Bookstore, poetry reading, November 9, 2013
Heartland Unitarian Universalist Church, guest speaker, November 10, 2013
Art of the Matter, WFYI Public Radio, March 16 and 18, 2012
Book Mamas Bookstore, Irvington, IN, March 17th 2012
Fort Wayne Friends of Jung, March 31, 2012
Zionsville Public Library, guest of Village Poets for Poetry Month, April 10, 2012
St. Mary of the Woods College Earth Literacy Gala, April 14, 2012
Artsgarden, Circle Center Mall, National Poetry Month featured poet, April 23, 2012
Art of the Soul, Indianapolis, IN, May 11, 2012
Tome on the Range Bookstore, Las Vegas, NM June 8, 2012
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Indianapolis, IN, July 6, 2012
Cultural Arts Gallery, IUPUI Student Center, Indianapolis, IN July 13, 2012
Evening with the Muse, featured poet, Writer’s Center of IN, Indianapolis, August 12, 2012
Heartland Unitarian Universalist Church, Indianapolis, IN August 19, 2012
Following Fridays, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, IN September 14, 2012
Play Therapy Association of Indiana Annual Retreat, September 21, 2012
Hancock County Public Library, Greenfield, IN September 27, 2012
Unbroken Bones Society, Robert Parks Church, Indianapolis, IN, October 13, 2012
Poets Laureate of Lawrence, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, IN, October 23, 2012
Fringe Festival of Indianapolis, Cracked Eggs Storytellers, August 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 2011
Evening with the Muse, featured poet, Writer’s Center of IN, Indianapolis, Sept. 12, 2010
Fellowships/awards/grants received:
2017 Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Indianapolis Arts Council
2017 Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship for work on ABraided Story for My Irish Great-Great Grandmothers
2015 Indiana Art Commission Individual Artist Project Grant for work on Once, There Was a Canal
2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee for “What We Write” in The Mother Poems, Chatter House
2010, First Place, Food for Thought Writing Competition, Indiana Humanities Council
2008, Cultural Scholarship, Indy Irish Festival for study of Irish harp, tin whistle, storytelling
2006 Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Project Grant for work on book-length poetry manuscript, Under My Skin
2003 Blair Sadler National Award for Arts in Health Care, Julian Center Mosaic Project
2003 Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship for developing a new storytelling performance, Through John Muir’s Eyes, 1867.
2002 Rose Voci Fellowship for Women Writers
2001 Partner’s For Peace/Turn Off The Violence Domestic Violence Project Award for the Julian Center’s D.V. Awareness Mosai
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Toogoolawah
Lowood
Loganlea
YWAM Medical Ships managing director Ken Mulligan is welcomed by PNG villagers. Supplied.
Duo's ship of hope makes a difference in Papua New Guinea
by ALLY MARTELL
2nd Dec 2018 6:00 PM
Friends Ken Mulligan and Daryl Holmes had a simple wish - they wanted to make a difference in the world.
When the former farmer who gets seasick and the dentist first joined forces eight years ago, neither imagined their collaboration would take them to Buckingham Palace to receive OBEs for services in Papua New Guinea.
Ken, a retired New South Wales wheat grower and sheep grazier, and Daryl, a young dentist, first met in Townsville in the 1990s. Along with their wives and families, they were determined to use their knowledge and skill to give back to others in need.
It wasn't until 2010 that the opportunity to acquire a 35-year-old fishing vessel with an onboard dentistry clinic and capacity to accommodate up to 50 volunteers presented itself. Both knew it was time to collaborate.
"It struck me, straight to the heart,” Daryl recalls. "With a coordinated program offering medical, dental and optical services - plus capacity building - we could make a big difference to PNG.”
Youth With A Mission Medical Ships was born. Its purpose is to provide healthcare and training to rural communities in Papua New Guinea.
"I worked with Ken and helped with planning and strategy,” says Daryl, who is now managing director of 1300SMILES. "Our first boat was an old Japanese fishing boat. It was a good start but it was hard work.”
A woman in PNG's Central Province with badly stained teeth from chewing betel nut. YWAM Medical Ships
After a successful five-month fundraising campaign in 2014, YWAM Medical Ships purchased the MV YWAM, a 15-year-old former cruise ship.
"Our second boat is a 60-metre catamaran, four times the size and much more stable. It's fitted with dental surgeries, day procedure unit, optometry clinic, laboratory and accommodation for 100 people.”
In the 2017 financial year YWAM Medical Ships treated 28,632 PNG nationals and gave 5545 health education sessions to 149,723 people.
While the ship's statistics for treatments and procedures are impressive, Ken believes education and training are the keys to empowering communities.
"We are helping to build healthy villages one by one,” he says. "In turn that will help build a healthy nation - it's a holistic approach.
"Our goal is not to set up parallel services or replace existing services but to build capacity. More than 25 per cent of volunteers on the ship are PNG nationals and each of the villages we visit has local health care workers.”
In October, Ken and Daryl were presented with the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne.
Ken received the award for his services to the community and rural healthcare through YWAM Medical Ships, and Daryl was recognised for services to health through support for YWAM Medical Ships.
Both agree that it's not just the people of PNG who benefit from YWAM Medical Ships. "Our volunteers gain a lot from their experiences,” Ken says. "We have people from all walks of life and 30 different countries whose volunteering spirit comes from the heart.”
YWAM Dr Daryl Holme treating patient on board YWAM Medical Ship. Supplied
Daryl encourages his own team of dentists and dental assistants to volunteer.
"It's life-changing work - what you put in you get back.
"I still hold the record with 132 extractions in one day,” he laughs.
"It's sad really to think how many people in PNG live with chronic toothache. However, each time we revisit a village we notice that the health of villagers is improving because of the education and equipment we provide.”
Volunteer: YWAM Medical Ships is always seeking volunteers to help across a variety of fields.
Fundraising: Any amount will help but $3000 will buy a solar powered, portable dental chair.
www.ywamships.org.au
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Macro Charts
25 years in markets. Combine technical charts, proprietary models and historical regime comparisons. Global Macro, Momentum, Quantitative, Fund Manager, Trader.
Tag: USDHKD
Emerging Markets in a Historic Panic
There’s no other way to describe what’s currently happening in Emerging Markets.
To get everyone up to speed, I will start this post with some charts I shared on Twitter over the last week, and then share some new charts (never seen before), tying everything together at the end and making the case for a major potential opportunity in EM.
On August 6, 61% of Stocks in the South Korea KOSPI Index hit oversold RSIs. Only two other times in history were more oversold: (1) The four trading days from October 24-29 2008 which included the KOSPI’s exact final bottom of the Bear market (October 27). (2) The only other day, October 29 2018, was the exact day the KOSPI bottomed last year. So far, August 6 was the exact day of the bottom in KOSPI for this year.
Also on August 6, 47.23% of Stocks in the South Korea KOSPI Index made new 52-Week Lows. I shared the below chart on Twitter with the following comments: in nearly 20 years, just ten days had more than 45% of Korean stocks at 52-Week Lows. August 6 was the 9th most oversold day in data history. The most recent spike (2018) led to an +18% rally. The other spikes (2003, 2008, 2011) led to career-making rallies.
On August 13 and 14, a historic 76% of Stocks in the Hong Kong HSI Index (H-Shares) hit oversold RSIs. This was one of the most negative extremes ever. Incredibly, H-Shares were nearly as oversold as their 2008 lows. Including last week, in the last 18 years just seven total days had more than 75% of H-Shares with Oversold RSIs. Last Tuesday and Wednesday were the #5 and #6 most oversold days in history. After those spikes, a common pattern was for the market to spend some weeks forming a base, eventually transitioning to a multi-month rally. So far, August 14 was the closing low in the H-Shares index.
Now let’s look at some NEW charts that I researched and saved specifically for this report today:
My Emerging Markets Intermediate Breadth Oscillator is extremely compressed. Similar to the prior charts, this indicator shows the net amount of EM Stocks declining has reached nearly historic oversold levels. In most prior cases, this created a “ball held underwater” situation where EM Stocks ultimately responded with an extremely sharp rally. In some cases, a historic rally.
EEM ETF. Here too, we are witnessing history being made. This is the most liquid, most popular EM ETF in the world. And its NAV discount has reached one of biggest extremes of all time, indicating EM traders want to “sell at any price”. This panic condition has produced some of the biggest bottoms in history, including the exact 2008 low, which was just barely more extreme than today.
My EM Core Trend Model is at major oversold Buy levels, already below the region where all EM bottoms formed since 2009. It’s important to mention that risk remains elevated while the model is still declining. Still, I’m looking for a turn up in the model to provide a clue that an important bottom has been made. The oversold conditions are so broad and historic, it’s possible that EM (particularly H-Shares and KOSPI) are bottoming before U.S. Markets. Hold that thought for now and I’ll talk more about this later.
As would be expected from a panic of this magnitude, the outflows have also been proportionally historic:
EEM Net Flows. Widespread selling should lay the groundwork for a bigger recovery later this year, as funds are forced to chase the recovery. Any residual price declines from here would likely make the capitulation even more extreme.
EWH Net Flows. Massive & historic outflows, second largest on record. Since this ETF’s inception 23+ years ago, the record outflow was back in 2013 during the Chinese bank liquidity crisis, when overnight SHIBOR spiked. Social mood and panic may be approaching similar proportions.
MCHI Net Flows. Biggest panic on record.
IEMG Net Flows. First outflows ever.
Next is a chart overlay of the H-Shares Index with USDHKD Risk Reversals. This shows that a wave of China Bear tourists are betting heavily against the Hong Kong Dollar in the currency options market, highlighted by the extreme and historic spike in Risk Reversal pricing. Historically, similar panics led to major bottoms in H-Shares and huge recovery rallies. I originally shared this chart on Twitter on August 14, with the following added comments: “Hong Kong’s leadership warned last week the city risked sliding into an “abyss”. With social mood and markets in mass capitulation, the bar for a recovery is very low.”
Finally, let’s take a look at two critical price charts I am watching.
HSI weekly chart held the nine-year horizontal shelf and the 200wma, closing last week with a potential Bullish hammer.
Last but not least, note how the EEM chart is potentially tracking for a bottoming scenario. I’ve been updating this scenario in real-time on Twitter over the last few weeks. Note the potential wedge structure in play – which could be missing a final mini-flush lower followed by Bullish reversal. It doesn’t have to play out exactly like this, but overall I think the message is that EM and particularly Asia Equities are close to a turn (and may have already bottomed for the most part).
IN SUMMARY,
Emerging Markets are in a historic panic — particularly Asian Equities which represent the bulk of Global EM market cap.
A major cluster of signals is coming together at this critical time, with the potential to form a historic bottom.
Additionally, since EM has been completely wiped out, it could be bottoming before U.S. Stocks. This happened many times throughout history. (*most famously, in 2001-2002 and 2008-2009). It also happened most recently in December 2018, when EEM made higher lows and continued to form a base while the S&P plunged another -16% in three weeks. I think any residual lows in U.S. markets over the next few weeks would help draw well-developed sideways/basing structures in EEM, EWH, EWY and FXI — setting up a Major Global Equity rally later this year. I believe this theme is so critical to monitor, I will dedicate the next several weeks to track and share everything I’m seeing here and on Twitter — so stay tuned.
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Magrath Sculpture
figurative sculpture and public art
Bio/Statement
Why figurative sculpture?
Vashon Island Studio
For me the figure represents something common, a ground with which we all share at least some relative experience. It is a concrete thing which we all recognize and know intimately, better than any other thing in the world.
Our hands, our feet, our bellies and stretch marks. It is a thing we look at ceaselessly, furtively and passionately; at train stations, in malls, theaters, from windows and escalators; our stuff, other people’s stuff. Café life, people watching, voyeurism, casual glances; we are always on watch, on display. We know to minutia the eyebrow tensing of a ticked-off mom, the flush of a lover’s cheek, the raise of gooseflesh on a child’s arm. As social animals, we make a life-long study of this stuff. We have to.
And there is beauty here as well. We are all the product of what a thousand, thousand generations of our forebear’s found compelling. Just as plants put out flowers which bees find irresistible, and trees have developed tasty fruits perfect for the transportation of seeds through the digestive tracts of wide ranging ruminants, so have the forms of our species conspired to produce a profound aesthetic.
This is not about presenting the ideal figure. This is where the argument has long gotten tripped up. Canons of beauty are imposed by society. Nature has far richer treats. Each individual is a universe and, studied, reveals unexpected harmonies, resonances, discords and counter rhythms in the disposition of limbs, features, flab and muscle that are endless and fascinating. And these carry associations and meanings and subtle implications readily accessible to virtually all of us.
There is an entire language of gesture and story here universally shared and yet barely tapped in the world of contemporary art. For any seeking a universal language of art, the human figure is the Rosetta stone!
For artists though, and any who seek more rigorously, a truth from which on which to base our work needs to be much more simple, much broader, and yet capable of great depth. I believe that direct observation from nature via the figure is such a truth. I suspect that this return to the figure is driven exactly by the desire to seek a reliable base on which to build new meanings.
It is exactly because of its commonality, its ubiquity in the media, its multi-valent potential, and because it has lain fallow in art so long that the figure is back. It is actually fresh!
And it is thus that I returned to school to advance my challenge and to prepare to teach. My reasoning is simple. If there is to be renewed interest in the figure in art then let it be of quality. Let it move forward on the terms of an advanced aesthetic and developed technique, and not the paltry work that has for so long passed muster. An audience starving for meaning in a gallery will take whatever it can recognize. This only encourages mediocrity. There is already enough wretched, sentimental, and just plain horrid figure sculptures clogging the markets today. I would prefer to point those interested in a more interesting direction.
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Research Articles: Therapeutics, Targets, and Development
Human papillomavirus type 16 L1E7 chimeric capsomeres have prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy against papillomavirus in mice
Tao Bian, Yue Wang, Zhenhua Lu, Zhenmei Ye, Li Zhao, Jiao Ren, Hui Zhang, Li Ruan and Houwen Tian
Tao Bian
Yue Wang
Zhenhua Lu
Zhenmei Ye
Li Zhao
Jiao Ren
Li Ruan
Houwen Tian
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-07-2015 Published May 2008
Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women. Although the HPV recombinant L1 protein was recently licensed as an available vaccine, it has numerous shortcomings. New vaccination strategies should be considered. To enable the design of a prophylactic and therapeutic low-cost vaccine candidate, chimeric HPV16 L1ΔC34E7N1-60 capsomeres were produced in Escherichia coli. The immune characteristics and potential prophylactic and therapeutic effects of these capsomeres were examined in C57BL/6 mice. Following protein purification and renaturation, the majority of the recombinant chimeric proteins (L1ΔC34E7N1-60) assembled into capsomeres. These capsomeres were able to induce conformational and neutralizing antibodies against HPV virus-like particles and trigger cell-mediated specific immune responses against the L1 and E7 peptides. In vivo tumor challenge assays showed that mice immunized with the capsomeres were protected against a challenge with both C3 and TC-1 tumor cells. Furthermore, in vivo tumor rejection assays showed that capsomeres have therapeutic efficacy in mice following inoculation with C3 and TC-1 tumor cells. Chimeric capsomeres are capable of preventing and eliminating HPV16 infection. Therefore, our study has provided an economical vaccine candidate. [Mol Cancer Ther 2008;7(5):1329–35]
prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the primary etiologic factor in anogenital tract carcinomas, including cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is the second most common malignant disease among women worldwide, and 493,000 new cases of cervical cancer are estimated to occur each year, resulting in 250,000 deaths (1). As many as 80% of these cases are women living in developing countries, and this percentage is expected to increase to 90% by 2020 (2). Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a human HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, many modifications are still needed to develop a universally effective anti-HPV strategy (1, 3).
The HPV is a small, double-stranded DNA virus with an 8-kb circular genome that partially encodes the early proteins E1, E2, E4, E5, E6, and E7 and the two late proteins L1 and L2 (4). More than 100 HPV types have been identified and categorized according to their epidemiologic association with cervical cancer (1). Infection with low-risk HPV types, such as types 6 and 11, can cause benign or low-grade cervical cell abnormalities, genital warts, and laryngeal papillomas (5). High-risk, or oncogenic, HPV types (types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 68, 69, 73, and 82) act as carcinogens in the development of cervical cancer and other anogenital cancers (6). High-risk HPV types are detected in 99% of cervical cancers, and type 16 is the cause of ∼50% of cervical cancers worldwide (7).
HPVs replicate exclusively in stratified squamous epithelia and use the differentiation of the epithelium to regulate their replication (8). Virions penetrate the epithelium through microabrasions and infect epithelial stem cells that are located in the basal epithelial cell layer. When virions are present in transit-amplifying cells, they replicate their DNA episomally, using E1, E2, and the cellular DNA replication machinery (9). The expression of viral E6 and E7 nonstructural proteins delays cell cycle arrest and differentiation, allowing further viral episome replication via the host DNA replication machinery in suprabasal epithelial cells (10). When the replicating epithelial cells eventually differentiate into nonreplicating mature keratinocytes, virus-encoded structural proteins, i.e., the late proteins L1 and L2, accumulate in the cell nucleus, and mature virions are then assembled and released from the superficial epithelial cells of the epithelium (9).
A recombinant L1 protein of type 16 HPV virus-like particle (VLP) synthesized in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells was licensed as a vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration in 2006 (11). Although this vaccine has high efficacy in the prevention of persistent infections of vaccine-related HPV types in women 16 to 26 years of age (12), it has many theoretical deficiencies. Specifically, the only antigen used in this vaccine is L1, which is expressed exclusively in the later stages of the viral life cycle and is not involved in viral replication. The antigens of advanced vaccines should include nonstructural proteins, which are involved in and may therefore block viral replication (13, 14). Furthermore, VLP manufacturing procedures are very complex, making the cost-effectiveness of production unsuitable for worldwide application (3, 15, 16).
In this study, we explored new vaccination strategies using the nonstructural E7 protein. The E7 protein is well characterized, is involved in viral replication, and is expressed before L1. We evaluated the humoral and cellular immune responses against an L1E7 chimeric protein in C57BL/6 mice. In addition, we studied its prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy in vivo. Finally, our chimeric protein was expressed in Escherichia coli as a simple, practical strategy for producing an advanced vaccine.
Experimental Animals and Cell Lines
C57BL/6 (H2-Db, 6–8 weeks old) female mice were kept under pathogen-free conditions at the Animal Care Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. All procedures involving animals and their care were conducted in conformity with institutional guidelines, which are in compliance with national and international laws and guidelines. TC-1 cells are C57BL/6 lung tumor epithelial cells cotransformed with HPV16 E6/E7 and c-Ha-ras (kindly provided by Dr. T.C. Wu, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; ref. 17); C3 cells were derived from embryonic mouse cells transformed with the full HPV16 genome (kindly provided by Professor Y. Zhang, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; ref. 18). Antibody against HPV16 L1 was purchased from Chemicon, and antibody against E7 was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology.
Plasmid Construction
A truncated HPV16 L1 gene, with 34 COOH-terminal amino acids deleted, was cloned from pUCL1-25-2 using the forward primer GGGAAGCTTTCTCTTTGGCTGCCTAGTGAGG and the reverse primer AAAGATATCTTGTAGTAAAAATTTGCGTCCTAAAGGAAAC. The NH2-terminal 60 amino acids of the E7 gene were cloned from pUCmE7-1 using the forward primer AAAAGATATCATGCATGGAGATACACCTACATTGC and the reverse primer TTTTAAGCTTTTACTTGCAACAAAAGGTTACAAT. Both primer sets included the EcoRV and HindIII restriction sites (highlighted in boldface). These two PCR fragments were digested with the restriction enzymes and ligated into pQE30 (Novagen, Germany) to form the chimeric expression vector pQE30-L1ΔC34E7N1-60 (Fig. 1A ).
Purification, capsomere assembly, and characterization of the chimeric protein HPV16 L1ΔC34E7N1-60. A, diagram of the cDNA construct used to express L1ΔC34E7N1-60 chimeric protein. HPV16 L1 cDNA, with a 34–amino acid COOH-terminal deletion, was fused with the NH2-terminal 60–amino acid E7 gene. B, Western blot analysis of L1ΔC34E7N1-60 protein. The bacterial cell lysate (lane 1), purified protein (lane 2), and negative control (cell lysate of M15 transformed with empty pQE30 vector; lane 3) were detected using antibodies against L1 or E7. C, purification and renaturation of HPV16 L1ΔC34E7N1-60 chimeric protein. SDS-PAGE and Coomassie blue staining of protein at different purification steps. (1) Fraction eluting with 100 mmol/L of NaCl buffer from CM Sepharose FastFlow column. (2) Fraction eluting with 100 mmol/L of imidazole from Ni-NTA column. (3) Final purified protein after renaturation by dialysis against decreasing concentrations of urea in PBS. D, morphology of purified and renatured L1ΔC34E7N1-60 chimeric protein. Purified and renatured proteins were stained with 2% phosphotungstic acid, applied to grids, and examined by electron microscopy. The protein formed capsomeric structures with a diameter of 11 to 12 nm (original magnification, ×50,000; bar, 100 nm).
Purification of Recombinant L1ΔC34E7N1-60 Protein
E. coli M15 (Novagen, Germany) was transformed with pQE30-L1ΔC34E7N1-60. Following amplification, cells were collected by centrifugation, and the expression levels in the soluble and insoluble fractions were analyzed by 12% SDS-PAGE.
For fusion protein purification, the collected cells were incubated in buffer containing 50 mmol/L of Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), and 8 mol/L of urea for 1 h at room temperature to assure complete cell lysis. The cell lysate was sonicated on ice with high-intensity pulses and then centrifuged at 10,000 × g for 30 min. The resulting supernatant was transferred to CM Sepharose FastFlow resin (Amersham Pharmacia), and the protein was eluted with elution buffer 1 (8 mol/L urea, 50 mmol/L Tris-HCl, and 100 mmol/L NaCl; pH 6.8). To improve purity, the eluted species were subjected to affinity chromatography (Ni-NTA, Amersham Pharmacia). The final protein was eluted with elution buffer 2 (8 mol/L urea, 50 mmol/L Tris-HCl, and 100 mmol/L imidazole; pH 8.3). The protein content of the purified sample was measured using the Bradford method, and the proteins were analyzed by 12% SDS-PAGE. The chimeric protein was confirmed by Western blot analysis.
In vitro Assembly and Electron Microscopy
To renature the chimeric protein, elution fractions containing the protein were pooled and slowly dialyzed against decreasing concentrations of urea as 8 mol/L of urea was diluted gradually during dialysis (50 mmol/L Tris-HCl, 1 mmol/L EDTA, and 1 mmol/L DTT; pH 8.3). The final dialysis was done overnight against PBS. All dialyses were done at 4°C. The protein solution was dialyzed against renaturation buffer, and endotoxins in the capsomere preparation were removed by polymyxin B (Sigma-Aldrich). The renatured protein was adsorbed to carbon-coated copper grids, negatively stained with 2% phosphotungstic acid, and examined by electron microscopy.
Immunization of Mice with the Chimeric Protein
For enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) and humoral response assays, the mice were separated into two groups of three mice each: one group was immunized i.m. at week 0 and boosted 2 weeks later with 10 μg of chimeric protein, and the other group received PBS buffer according to the same schedule. Two weeks after the booster immunization, the spleens and blood were sampled; spleen cells were isolated and used for ELISPOT assays, and blood samples were used to determine serum antibody titers against HPV.
ELISPOT Assay
The frequencies of IFNγ-secreting T lymphocytes specific for the L1 and E7 epitopes were determined by ELISPOT (U-CyTech; ref. 19). Briefly, mouse splenocytes were seeded on a 96-well plate at a density of 105 cells/well in 100 μL of medium; untreated wells served as negative controls. The cells were stimulated in triplicate with 2 μg of E749–57 (RAHYNIVTF, H-2Db–restricted) peptide (18), L1165–173 (AGVDNRECI, H-2Db–restricted) peptide (20), or L1E7 protein, and incubated for 30 h at 37°C. The cells were removed by washing the plate six times with PBS containing 0.05% Tween 20 (PBST) and once with PBS alone. Following the addition of 100 μL of biotinylated antimouse IFNγ antibody, the plates were incubated for 1 h at 37°C. The wells were then washed eight times with PBS, 50 μL of ã-aminobutyric acid solution were added to each well, and the plates were incubated for 1 h at 37°C. After five washes, IFNγ-secreting cells were visualized by adding 100 μL of the ready-to-use substrate activator I/II solution. The reaction was stopped after 15 min by rinsing the wells with ice-cold water. After drying, the IFNγ-reactive spots were quantified in an ELISPOT reader (Cellular Technology) and subsequently analyzed.
ELISA for Detecting Anti-VLP Antibodies
To determine the VLP-specific antibody titers in capsomere (chimeric protein)-immunized mice, 0.1 μg of purified VLP (kindly provided by Dr. X. Xu, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China) diluted in PBS was used to coat 96-well plates for 16 h at 4°C. After washing with PBST, serum samples (diluted from 1:200 to 1:12,800) were added in triplicate, and the plates were incubated at 37°C for 1 h. The plates were washed, goat anti-mouse IgG horseradish peroxidase–conjugated antibody (diluted 1:2,000; Invitrogen) was added, and the plates were incubated at 37°C for 1 h. After a final wash, enzyme substrate (TMB, Sigma) was added for color development, and immunoreactivity was detected by absorbance at 405 nm using an ELISA plate reader (Dynex).
Hemagglutination Inhibition Assay
To verify the specificity and neutralizing ability of the antibodies, hemagglutination inhibition assays were done (21). Mouse blood was collected in a heparinized tube, and the RBCs were separated by centrifugation at 1,000 rpm for 5 min at 4°C, washed twice with PBS, and suspended in dilution buffer at a concentration of 1% (vol/vol). Purified VLP (100 ng) was then incubated with various dilutions of experimental sera samples at room temperature for 2 h, after which the samples were mixed with an equal volume of the 1% RBC suspension. Aliquots (100 μL) of the mixtures were transferred to a round-bottomed, 96-well plate and incubated for 3 h at 4°C. Spots indicating VLP-neutralizing activity were documented by photography.
In vivo Tumor Challenge and Rejection Assays
To determine whether capsomeres protect immunized mice against a tumor challenge, mice (10 per group) were first immunized by i.m. injection of 10 μg of capsomeres without adjuvant and boosted with the same amount 2 weeks later. The control group received injections of the same volume of PBS. The mice were then challenged with either 1 × 105 TC-1 cells (E7-transformed) or 1 × 105 C3 cells (L1- and E7-transformed) 2 weeks after the booster injection. Tumor rejection assays were done to evaluate the therapeutic effect of the capsomeres.
Conversely, mice (10 per group) were inoculated with 1 × 105 TC-1 or C3 cells on day 0, and then therapeutic immunization with 10 μg of capsomeres or PBS was begun on day 1, with a booster 2 weeks later. The mice were evaluated for at least 2 months for the appearance and size of tumors.
Significant differences between the experimental and control groups were evaluated using a two-tailed Fisher's exact test (SPSS software, release 12.1). Differences were considered significant at P < 0.05.
Purification, Capsomere Assembly, and Characterization of the Chimeric Protein HPV16 L1ΔC34E7N1-60
The chimeric protein HPV16 L1ΔC34E7N1-60 with an added His tag was expressed using pQE30 vector. After cell lysis and centrifugation, the majority of the protein remained in the pellet. The solubilized protein was purified by ion-exchange chromatography, followed by affinity purification under denaturing conditions using urea. The purification steps were evaluated by SDS-PAGE. Using ion-exchange chromatography, the target protein was eluted in different fractions, with the 100 mmol/L NaCl buffer giving the fraction with the highest concentration. The eluant from the column contained different amounts of minor contaminating proteins, and further purification was achieved by Ni-NTA chromatography (Fig. 1C). The final protein preparation was >90% pure, as determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Approximately 5 mg of the target protein were purified from 1 L of E. coli.
After SDS-PAGE, the purified HPV16 L1ΔC34E7N1-60 protein was recognized by both L1- and E7-specific antibodies. Furthermore, the apparent molecular weight (61 kDa) was consistent with the estimated size (Fig. 1B).
To assess whether the chimeric protein was accurately assembled, the purified protein was renatured by dialysis against decreasing concentrations of urea. Using electron microscopy, we observed that HPV16 L1ΔC34E7N1-60 assembled into capsomere-like structures with a diameter of 11 to 12 nm (Fig. 1D).
Antibody Response and Neutralizing Ability
Conformational and neutralizing antibodies against HPV VLPs were detected by ELISA. ELISAs of diluted (1:200 to 1:12,800) sera from mice immunized with capsomeres gave absorbance values ranging from 1.26 ± 0.15 to 0.09 ± 0.03, which were significantly higher than the control values (Fig. 2A ). Although the absorbance had decreased by more than half at a 1:800 dilution (0.39 ± 0.06), antibodies were still detectable at a 1:6,400 dilution (0.13 ± 0.03; Fig. 2A).
VLP-specific antibody responses in C57BL/6 mice vaccinated with L1ΔC34E7N1-60 chimeric capsomeres. A, detection of antibodies against VLPs by ELISA. X-axis, different dilutions of the sera; Y-axis, absorbance at 405 nm. Points, mean; bars, SE (n = 3). B, hemagglutination inhibition assay. Lane 1, sera from the group vaccinated with L1ΔC34E7N1-60 chimeric capsomeres; lane 2, sera from the control group (a, b, and c, dilutions of 1:200, 1:400, and 1:800, respectively). Lane 3, a (100 ng of VLP and no RBCs) and b (50 ng of VLP and no RBCs) negative controls; c, positive control (RBCs incubated without VLP).
To investigate whether these antibodies inhibit the interaction between HPV VLPs and cellular receptors, we used a hemagglutination inhibition assay. At a 1:400 dilution, the sera of capsomere-immunized mice inhibited the VLP-induced hemagglutination of mouse erythrocytes, whereas control sera did not inhibit hemagglutination (Fig. 2B).
L1 and chimeric VLPs can inhibit hemagglutination, and this correlates with cell surface binding to nucleated cells. By contrast, denatured VLPs and virions do not exhibit hemagglutination activity. Combined with our results, this indicates that capsomeres act as conformationally dependent immunodominant epitopes.
Cell-mediated immune responses against L1- and E7-specific peptides were measured using an IFNγ ELISPOT assay. Primed T cells from capsomere-immunized mice were restimulated using E749–57 peptide (RAHYNIVTF, H-2Db–restricted), L1165–173 peptide (AGVDNRECI, H-2Db–restricted), or capsomeres, and the number of IFNγ-secreting T cells was determined. Mice immunized with capsomeres had significantly more IFNγ-secreting T cells than the control group immunized with PBS (P < 0.01; Fig. 3 ). On average, capsomeres stimulated the most IFNγ-secreting T cells (132 ± 21 cells), followed by L1165–173 peptide (51 ± 13 cells; Fig. 3). Although E749–57 peptide showed the weakest ability to stimulate IFNγ-secreting T cells (31 ± 7), this response was still higher than the control (Fig. 3). These results suggest that IFNγ secretion is specific to the epitopes located in the capsomeres. Furthermore, capsomere-immunized mice produced a cell-mediated response against both HPV16 L1 and E7 proteins.
Number of cells secreting IFNγ in mice immunized with L1ΔC34E7N1-60 chimeric capsomeres and in control mice. Columns, mean number of spot-forming cells per 105 splenocytes; bars, SE.
In vivo Tumor Challenge Assays
The C3 cells, which were derived from embryonic mouse cells and transformed with the full HPV16 genome, were used as a tumor cell model. To perform the in vivo tumor challenge assay, capsomere-immunized mice and control mice were challenged with C3 cells by s.c. injection at week 6 after immunization and were observed for tumor development. By day 13 post-C3 cell challenge, 50% of the control mice had palpable tumors; by day 19, all control mice had palpable tumors. This is in stark contrast to the capsomere-immunized mice, in which no palpable tumor formation was observed throughout the 2 months of the experiment (Table 1 ).
To assess whether capsomeres also protect against E7-related tumor formation, the E7-expressing TC-1 cell line was used in an additional tumor challenge assay. Tumor development was observed by day 9 in the control group; all control mice had developed tumors by the end of the study. In comparison, only three mice (30%) in the capsomere-immunized group developed tumors throughout the 2 months of the experiment, with the earliest tumor developing by day 15. The average tumor surface in the control group ranged from 12 ± 0 (day 9) to 220 ± 34 mm2 (day 60); these values were significantly higher than those in the capsomere-immunized group (range, 4 ± 2 to 38 ± 11 mm2; Table 1; Fig. 4 ).
Growth of TC-1 tumor cells in the tumor challenge assay. The mean tumor surface from mice immunized with capsomeres is compared with that of control mice injected with PBS on the days following tumor challenge. Tumor growth on the skin surface was monitored by caliper measurements. Points, averages for all mice in each group.
In vivo Tumor Rejection Assays
To examine the therapeutic efficacy of capsomeres, C57BL/6 mice were injected with C3 or TC-1 cells and were then injected with either capsomeres or PBS on day 2. Two weeks after immunization, the mice received a booster with the same dose of capsomeres or PBS, and tumor rejection was observed. In the group injected with C3 cells and immunized with capsomeres, all mice survived tumor invasion; in contrast, in the group of mice inoculated with C3 cells and immunized with PBS, no mice survived tumor invasion. In the group injected with TC-1 cells and immunized with capsomeres, only one mouse failed to survive tumor invasion. In the group of mice inoculated with TC-1 cells and immunized with PBS, no mice survived tumor invasion (Table 2 ). These data indicate that capsomeres have therapeutic efficacy against HPV.
The expression of HPV16 L1 major capsid protein in eukaryotic cells results in the formation of VLP, and immunization with the VLPs efficiently induces L1-specific neutralizing antibodies. In addition, VLPs are potent inducers of a CTL response, which may activate dendritic cells and trigger the presentation of CTL epitopes (22, 23). However, the high cost of preparing the VLP vaccine prohibits its worldwide application (3). Alternatively, L1 protein can be expressed in E. coli as a capsomeric form, which is a subunit of VLP (24). Capsomeres of HPV11 L1 react with conformation-specific antibodies and induce neutralizing antibodies (25, 26). Capsomeres share strong antigenic similarities with native HPV virion and intact VLP. Furthermore, capsomeres can induce L1-specific CTLs (20). Studies using canine models have shown that canine oral papillomavirus L1 expressed in a bacterial system exist predominantly as capsomeres and that the capsomeres sufficiently protect against the infection of mucosal surfaces (26). These studies show that capsomeres display activities similar to VLPs, making capsomeres an additional vaccine candidate. The expression of recombinant proteins as inclusion bodies in bacteria is one of the most efficient ways of producing cloned proteins (27), as long as the inclusion body protein can be refolded successfully. If capsomeres were to be used instead of traditional VLPs for vaccination, the cost issue associated with vaccine production may be resolved.
Early protein E7 is required for maintaining the proliferative state in HPV-infected cells. The E7 gene products are constitutively expressed in all layers of the infected epithelium. The E7-specific CTLs provided protection against the growth of a transformed tumor cell line. Furthermore, E7 is considered a tumor antigen in the development of strategies for immune therapy (28, 29). Studies have shown that the chimeric protein consisting of L1 with a COOH-terminal 34–amino acid deletion and E7 with an NH2-terminal 60–amino acid deletion can produce chimeric VLP that could induce a neutralizing antibody response (30, 31). In addition, E7 peptide (amino acids 37–54), with one or more human T-cell epitopes, induces a cell-mediated immune response that is significantly correlated with disease regression and the resolution of viral infection (32). To establish a viable prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine, we combined L1 and E7 to form capsomeres. Our results show that capsomeres display prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy. To abolish the transforming capacity of E7 protein, Cys24 and Glu26 in the E7 coding sequence were mutated to glycines in our study (33).
Previous studies have shown that various types of HPV L1 protein expressed in E. coli may self-assemble into capsid-like particles (25, 27, 34). The capsomere, which is 11 to 12 nm in size with a central stain-filled hollow under electron microscopy, is the subunit of the HPV capsid (25, 27, 34, 35). Although our electron microscopy data showed that the new protein lacks the typical pentameric structure, the majority of particles are 11 to 12 nm in size, and some of the capsomeres in our study had a central stained hollow region. This discrepancy may be explained by the 34–amino acid deletion in L1 and the fusion with E7.
In our study, the antibody titer to E7 or L1 was higher than the antibody titer induced by HPV VLP (data not shown). Conformational epitopes are very similar between VLP and native HPV virion, and our results show that antibody titers to VLP are very high in mice immunized with capsomeres. Earlier studies used hemagglutination inhibition assays to verify the specificity and neutralizing ability of antibodies to HPV VLP (21), but the hemagglutination ability of antibodies to capsomeres has rarely been investigated. In our study, sera from capsomere-immunized mice, at dilutions as great as 1:400, successfully inhibited the VLP-induced agglutination of RBCs. Although capsomeres contain only some of the HPV conformational epitopes and elicit lower titers of neutralizing antibodies, our study showed that capsomeres still have a strong prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy against HPV. Collectively, these data suggest that the epitopes on capsomeres are sufficient to protect against HPV infection in mice (36).
As stated previously, C3 cells express both L1 and E7, whereas TC-1 cells express E7 only. Mice challenged with C3 cells were completely protected by chimeric capsomeres, but mice challenged with TC-1 cells were only 70% protected. This result illustrates the strength of the L1E7 combination.
A complete immunogenic evaluation would include data for humoral responses, cellular responses, and tumor challenge responses. We have not yet studied T cell proliferation or the CTL response. Humoral responses are not always consistent with cellular immune responses and may affect the final functional efficacy. Nevertheless, our in vivo tumor challenge and rejection assays showed that E. coli–expressed chimeric capsomeres display prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy against papillomavirus in mice. Therefore, capsomeres may provide a low-cost vaccine strategy.
We thank Dr. T.C. Wu for kindly providing the TC-1 tumor cells, Professor Youhui Zhang for kindly providing the C3 tumor cells, Dr. Xuemei Xu for kindly providing the HPV VLPs, and Dr. Jazag Amarsanaa (Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) for editing the manuscript.
Grant support: 863 Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2002AA216041).
Accepted February 4, 2008.
Received August 29, 2007.
Revision received January 22, 2008.
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Cerebral Aneurysms | definition of Cerebral Aneurysms by Medical dictionary
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A cerebral aneurysm occurs at a weak point in the wall of a blood vessel (artery) that supplies blood to the brain. Because of the flaw, the artery wall bulges outward and fills with blood. This bulge is called an aneurysm. An aneurysm can rupture, spilling blood into the surrounding body tissue. A ruptured cerebral aneurysm can cause permanent brain damage, disability, or death.
A cerebral aneurysm can occur anywhere in the brain. Aneurysms can have several shapes. The saccular aneurysm, once called a berry aneurysm, resembles a piece of fruit dangling from a branch. Saccular aneurysms are usually found at a branch in the blood vessel where they balloon out by a thin neck. Saccular cerebral aneurysms most often occur at the branch points of large arteries at the base of the brain. Aneurysms may also take the form of a bulge in one wall of the artery—a lateral aneurysm—or a widening of the entire artery—a fusiform aneurysm.
The greatest danger of aneurysms is rupture. Approximately 50-75% of stricken people survive an aneurysmal rupture. A ruptured aneurysm spills blood into the brain or into the fluid-filled area that surrounds the brain tissue. Bleeding into this area, called the subarachnoid space, is referred to as subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). About 25,000 people suffer a SAH each year. It is estimated that people with unruptured aneurysm have an annual 1-2% risk of hemorrhage. Under age 40, more men experience SAH. After age 40, more women than men are affected.
Most people who have suffered a SAH from a ruptured aneurysm did not know that the aneurysm even existed. Based on autopsy studies, medical researchers estimate that 1-5% of the population has some type of cerebral aneurysm. Aneurysms rarely occur in the very young or the very old; about 60% of aneurysms are diagnosed in people between ages 40 and 65.
Some aneurysms may have a genetic link and run in families. The genetic link has not been completely proven and a pattern of inheritance has not been determined. Some studies seem to show that first-degree relatives of people who suffered aneurysmal SAH are more likely to have aneurysms themselves. These studies reported that such immediate family members were four times more likely to have aneurysms than the general population. Other studies do not confirm these findings. Better evidence links aneurysms to certain rare diseases of the connective tissue. These diseases include Marfan syndrome, pseudoxanthoma elasticum, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and fibromuscular dysplasia. Polycystic kidney disease is also associated with cerebral aneurysms.
These diseases are also associated with an increased risk of aneurysmal rupture. Certain other conditions raise the risk of rupture, too. Most aneurysms that rupture are a half-inch or larger in diameter. Size is not the only factor, however, because smaller aneurysms also rupture. Cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and recreational drug use (for example, use of cocaine) have been linked with an increased risk. The role, if any, of high blood pressure has not been determined. Some studies have implicated high blood pressure in aneurysm formation and rupture, but people with normal blood pressure also experience aneurysms and SAHs. High blood pressure may be a risk factor but not the most important one. Pregnancy, labor, and delivery also seem to increase the possibility that an aneurysm might rupture, but not all doctors agree. Physical exertion and use of oral contraceptives are not suspected causes for aneurysmal rupture.
Causes and symptoms
Cerebral aneurysms can be caused by brain trauma, infection, hardening of the arteries (athero-sclerosis), or abnormal rapid cell growth (neoplastic disease), but most seem to arise from a congenital, or developmental, defect. These congenital aneurysms occur more frequently in women. Whatever the cause may be, the inner wall of the blood vessel is abnormally thin and the pressure of the blood flow causes an aneurysm to form.
Most aneurysms go unnoticed until they rupture. However, 10-15% of unruptured cerebral aneurysms are found because of their size or their location. Common warning signs include symptoms that affect only one eye, such as an enlarged pupil, a drooping eyelid, or pain above or behind the eye. Other symptoms are a localized headache, unsteady gait, a temporary problem with sight, double vision, or numbness in the face.
Some aneurysms bleed occasionally without rupturing. Symptoms of such an aneurysm develop gradually. The symptoms include headache, nausea, vomiting, neck pain, black-outs, ringing in the ears, dizziness, or seeing spots.
Eighty to ninety percent of aneurysms are not diagnosed until after they have ruptured. Rupture is not always a sudden event. Nearly 50% of patients who have aneurysmal SAHs also experience "the warning leak phenomenon." Persons with warning leak symptoms have sudden, atypical headaches that occur days or weeks before the actual rupture. These headaches are referred to as sentinel headaches. Nausea, vomiting, and dizziness may accompany sentinel headaches. Unfortunately, these symptoms can be confused with tension headaches or migraines, and treatment can be delayed until rupture occurs.
When an aneurysm ruptures, most victims experience a sudden, extremely severe headache. This headache is typically described as the worst headache of the victim's life. Nausea and vomiting commonly accompany the headache. The person may experience a short loss of consciousness or prolonged coma. Other common signs of a SAH include a stiff neck, fever, and a sensitivity to light. About 25% of victims experience neurological problems linked to specific areas of the brain, swelling of the brain due to fluid accumulation (hydrocephalus), or seizure.
Based on the clinical symptoms, a doctor will run several tests to confirm an aneurysm or an SAH. A computed tomography scan (CT) of the head is the initial procedure. A magnetic resonance imaging test (MRI) may be done instead of a CT scan. MRI, however, is not as sensitive as CT for detecting subarachnoid blood. A CT scan can determine whether there has been a hemorrhage and can assist in pinpointing the location of the aneurysm. The scan is most useful when it is done within 72 hours of the rupture. Later scans may miss the signs of hemorrhage.
If the CT scan is negative for a hemorrhage or provides an unclear diagnosis, the doctor will order a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis, also called a lumbar puncture. In this procedure, a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid is removed from the lower back and examined for traces of blood and blood-breakdown products. If this test is positive, cerebral angiography is used to map the brain's blood vessels and the damaged area. The angiography is done to pinpoint the aneurysm's location. About 15% of people who experience SAH have more than one aneurysm. For this reason, angiography should include both the common carotid artery that feeds the front of the brain and the vertebral artery that feeds the base of the brain. Occasionally, the angiography fails to find the aneurysm and must be repeated. If seizures occur, electroencephalography (EEG) may be used to measure the electrical activity of the brain.
Unruptured aneurysm
If an aneurysm has not ruptured and is not causing any symptoms, it may be left untreated. Because there is a 1-2% chance of rupture per year, the cumulative risk over a number of years may justify surgical treatment. However, if the aneurysm is small or in a place that would be difficult to reach, or if the person who has the aneurysm is in poor health, the surgical treatment may be a greater risk than the aneurysm. Risk of rupture is higher for people who have more than one aneurysm. Unruptured aneurysm would probably be treated with a surgical procedure called the clip ligation, as described below.
Ruptured aneurysm
The primary treatment for a ruptured aneurysm involves stabilizing the victim's condition, treating the immediate symptoms, and promptly assessing further treatment options, especially surgical procedures. The patient may require mechanical ventilation, oxygen, and fluids. Medications may be given to prevent major secondary complications such as seizures, rebleeding, and vasospasm (narrowing of the affected blood vessel). Vasospasm decreases blood flow to the brain and causes the death of nerve cells. A drug such as nimodipine (Nimotop) may help prevent vasospasm by relaxing the smooth muscle tissue of the arteries. Even with treatment, however, vasospasm may cause stroke or death.
To prevent further hemorrhage from the aneurysm, it must be removed from circulation. In general, surgical procedures should be performed as soon as possible to prevent rebleeding. The chances that aneurysm will rebleed are greatest in the first 24 hours, and vasospasm usually does not occur until 72 hours or more after rupture. If the patient is in poor condition or if there is vasospasm or other complication, surgical procedures may be delayed. The preferred surgical method is a clip ligation in which a clip is placed around the base of the aneurysm to block it off from circulation. Surgical coating, wrapping, or trapping of the aneurysm may also be performed. These procedures do not completely remove the aneurysm from circulation, however, and there is some risk that it may rebleed in the future. Newer techniques that look promising include balloon embolization, a procedure that blocks the aneurysm with an inflatable membrane introduced by means of a catheter inserted through the artery.
An unruptured aneurysm may not cause any symptoms over an entire lifetime. Surgical clip ligation will ensure that it won't rupture, but it may be better to leave the aneurysm alone in some cases. Familial cerebral aneurysms may rupture earlier than those without a genetic link.
Congenital — Existing at birth.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome — A rare inheritable disease of the connective tissue marked by very elastic skin, very loose joints, and very fragile body tissue.
Embolization — A technique to stop or prevent hemorrhage by introducing a foreign mass, such as an air-filled membrane (balloon), into a blood vessel to block the flow of blood.
Fibromuscular dysplasia — A disorder that causes unexplained narrowing of arteries and high blood pressure.
Magnetic resonance angiography — A noninvasive diagnostic technique that uses radio waves to map the internal anatomy of the blood vessels.
Marfan syndrome — An inheritable disorder that affects the skeleton, joints, and blood vessels. Major indicators are excessively long arms and legs, lax joints, and vascular defects.
Nimodipine (Nimotop) — A calcium-channel blocker, that is, a drug that relaxes arterial smooth muscle by slowing the movement of calcium across cell walls.
Polycystic kidney disease — An abnormal condition in which the kidneys are enlarged and contain many cysts.
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum — A hereditary disorder of the connective, or elastic, tissue marked by premature aging and breakdown of the skin and degeneration of the arteries that leads to hemorrhages.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) — Loss of blood into the subarachnoid space, the fluid-filled area that surrounds the brain tissue.
Vasospasm — Narrowing of a blood vessel caused by a spasm of the smooth muscle of the vessel wall.
The outlook is not as good for a person who suffers a ruptured aneurysm. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of people who experience a ruptured aneurysm do not survive. An additional 25-50% die as a result of complications associated with the hemorrhage. Of the survivors, 15-50% suffer permanent brain damage and disability. These conditions are caused by the death of nerve cells. Nerve cells can be destroyed by the hemorrhage itself or by complications from the hemorrhage, such as vasospasm or hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus, a dilatation (expansion) of the fluid-filled cavity surrounding the brain, occurs in about 15% of cases. Immediate medical treatment is vital to prevent further complications and brain damage in those who survive the initial rupture. Patients who survive SAH and aneurysm clipping are unlikely to die from events related to SAH.
There are no known methods to prevent an aneurysm from forming. If an aneurysm is discovered before it ruptures, it may be surgically removed. CT or MRI angiography may be recommended for relatives of patients with familial cerebral aneurysms.
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a sac formed by the localized dilatation of the wall of an artery, a vein, or the heart.
Classification of aneurysms. All three tunica layers are involved in true aneurysms (fusiform and saccular). In false aneurysms, blood escapes between tunica layers and they separate. If the separation continues, a clot may form, resulting in a dissecting aneurysm. From Copstead and Banasik, 2000.
adj., adj aneurys´mal. The chief signs of an arterial aneurysm are the formation of a pulsating tumor, and often a bruit (aneurysmal bruit) heard over the swelling. Sometimes there are symptoms from pressure on contiguous parts.
The most common site for an arterial aneurysm is the abdominal aorta. A true aneurysm results from formation of a sac by the arterial wall with at least one unbroken layer. It is most often associated with atherosclerosis. A false aneurysm usually is caused by trauma. In this case, the wall of the blood vessel is ruptured and blood escapes into surrounding tissues and forms a clot. Because of pressure within the clot arising from the heart's contractions, the clot often pulsates against the examiner's hand as does a true aneurysm.
Although atherosclerosis is responsible for most arterial aneurysms, any injury to the middle or muscular layer of the arterial wall (tunica media) can predispose the vessel to stretching of the inner and outer layers of the artery and the formation of a sac. Other diseases that can lead to an aneurysm include syphilis, cystic medionecrosis, certain nonspecific inflammations, and congenital defects in the artery.
It is possible for a person to be unaware of a small aneurysm for years. About 80 per cent of all abdominal aneurysms are palpable and may be noticed on a routine physical examination. One should be particularly alert to the possibility of an aneurysm in persons with a history of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, or peripheral vascular disease.
Aneurysms tend to increase in size, presenting a problem of increasing pressure against adjacent tissues and organs and a danger of rupture. When an aneurysm ruptures, a critical situation ensues. The patient with a ruptured aortic aneurysm exhibits severe pain and blood loss, leading to shock. A ruptured cerebral aneurysm produces neurologic symptoms and can resemble the clinical picture of stroke syndrome.
Treatment of aneurysm depends on the vessel involved, size of the aneurysm, and general health status of the patient.
arteriosclerotic aneurysm an aneurysm arising in a large artery, most commonly the abdominal aorta, as a result of weakening of the wall in severe atherosclerosis; called also atherosclerotic aneurysm.
arteriovenous aneurysm an abnormal communication between an artery and a vein in which the blood flows directly into a neighboring vein or is carried into the vein by a connecting sac.
atherosclerotic aneurysm arteriosclerotic aneurysm.
bacterial aneurysm an infected aneurysm caused by bacteria.
berry aneurysm (brain aneurysm) a small saccular aneurysm of a cerebral artery, usually at the junction of vessels in the circle of Willis; such aneurysms frequently rupture, causing subarachnoid hemorrhage. Called also cerebral aneurysm.
cardiac aneurysm thinning and dilatation of a portion of the wall of the left ventricle, usually a consequence of myocardial infarction.
cerebral aneurysm berry aneurysm.
cirsoid aneurysm dilatation and tortuous lengthening of part of an artery; called also racemose aneurysm.
compound aneurysm one in which some of the layers of the wall of the vessel are ruptured and some merely dilated; called also mixed aneurysm.
dissecting aneurysm one resulting from hemorrhage that causes lengthwise splitting of the arterial wall, producing a tear in the inner wall (intima) and establishing communication with the lumen of the vessel. It usually affects the thoracic aorta (see aortic dissection) but can also occur in other large arteries. See illustration.
false aneurysm
one in which the entire wall is injured and the blood is contained by the surrounding tissues, with eventual formation of a sac communicating with the artery (or heart). See illustration.
pseudoaneurysm.
fusiform aneurysm a spindle-shaped aneurysm; see illustration.
infected aneurysm one produced by growth of microorganisms (bacteria or fungi) in the vessel wall, or infection arising within a preexisting arteriosclerotic aneurysm.
mixed aneurysm compound aneurysm.
mycotic aneurysm an infected aneurysm caused by fungi.
racemose aneurysm cirsoid aneurysm.
saccular aneurysm (sacculated aneurysm) a saclike aneurysm; see illustration.
spurious aneurysm
false aneurysm (def. 1).
varicose aneurysm one formed by rupture of an aneurysm into a vein.
A dilated and weak segment of a cerebral artery, often located in the circle of Willis at the base of the brain, which is susceptible to rupture; cerebral aneurysms may be birth defects or follow poorly controlled hypertension.
Clinical findings
“Thunderclap headache” often associated with nausea, vomiting and reduced consciousness.
Brain aneurysm Neurology A dilated and weakened, rupture-prone segment of a cerebral artery, which may be a birth defect or develop 2º to poorly controlled HTN; ±5% of general population has an aneurysm; rupture occurs in 4/105/yr Clinical-rupture Severe 'thunderclap' headache, weakness, numbness, N&V, neurologic defects, ↓ consciousness. See Aneurysm.
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(sĕr-ēbrăl anyūr-izm)
Local widening or bulging in an artery in the brain.
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Cerebral aneurysm is an outpouching of the wall of a cerebral artery that results from weakening of the wall of the vessel. It is difficult to determine the frequency of cerebral aneurysms because of differences in the definitions of the size of aneurysm and the ways that aneurysms are detected. The prevalence is estimated to range from 5% to 10%; unruptured aneurysms account for approximately 50% of all aneurysms.
Cerebral aneurysms have a variety of sizes, shapes, and causes (Table 1). Most cerebral aneurysms are sacular or berrylike with a stem and a neck. The incidence of cerebral aneurysm has been estimated at 12 cases per 100,000 individuals, with approximately 15% to 25% of patients having multiple aneurysms, often bilaterally in the same location on both sides of the head. Clinical concern arises if an aneurysm ruptures or becomes large enough to exert pressure on surrounding structures. When the vessel wall becomes so thin that it can no longer withstand the surrounding arterial pressure, the cerebral aneurysm ruptures, causing direct hemorrhaging of arterial blood into the subarachnoid space (subarachnoid hemorrhage).
Table 1. Classification of Cerebral Aneurysms
Classification of Cerebral Aneurysms
Size Small, < 15 mm
Large, 15–25 mm
Giant, 25–50 mm
Supergiant, 50 mm
Shape Berry: Most common (95%); berry-shaped aneurysm with a neck or stem
Sacular: Any aneurysm with a sacular outpouching
Fusiform: Outpouching of an arterial wall but with no stem
Etiology Traumatic: Aneurysm that results from traumatic head injury
Charcot-Bouchard: Microscopic aneurysmal formation associated with hypertension; involves the basal ganglia and brainstem
Dissecting: Related to atherosclerosis, inflammation, or trauma; aneurysm in which the intimal layer is pulled away from the medial layer and blood is forced between the layers
Complications of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm can be fatal if bleeding is excessive. Subarachnoid hemorrhage can lead to cerebral vasospasm, cerebral infarction, and death. Rebleeding often occurs in the first 48 hours after the initial bleed but can occur any time within the first 6 months. Other complications include meningeal irritation and hydrocephalus.
Possible causes are congenital structural defects in the inner muscular or elastic layer of the vessel wall; incomplete involution of embryonic vessels; and secondary factors such as arterial hypertension, atherosclerotic changes, hemodynamic disturbances, and polycystic disease. Cerebral aneurysms also may be caused by shearing forces during traumatic head injuries.
Genetic considerations
Several different genetic loci have been associated with an increased susceptibility to cerebral aneurysm, but specific genes have not yet been implicated. Some researchers have identified 19 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 9, chromosome 8, and chromosome 4. There are no phenotypic differences between familial and sporadic forms. In one study of familial inheritance patterns, the autosomal recessive pattern was seen in slightly more than half of the population and autosomal dominance was seen in just over one-third, with about 5% showing incomplete penetrance. The autosomal dominantly transmitted disorder polycystic kidney disease has been associated with an increased incidence of intracerebral aneurysm.
Gender, ethnic/racial, and life span considerations
The peak incidence of cerebral aneurysm occurs between ages 35 and 60. Women in their late 40s through mid-50s are affected slightly more than men. The prognosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage resulting from an aneurysm is worse for women than for men. Cerebral aneurysms rarely occur in children and adolescents, but when they occur, they are often larger than those found in adults; pediatric aneurysms account for approximately 2% of all cerebral aneurysms. The odds of African Americans having a cerebral aneurysm are approximately twice that of whites. The prognosis of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is worse for women than for men.
Global health considerations
The estimated frequency of cerebral aneurysm globally is approximately 10 (a range of 4 to 20) per 100,000 individuals, but it is dependent on location. The highest rates are reported in Japan, China, Sweden, and Finland.
Prior to rupture, cerebral aneurysms are usually asymptomatic. The patient is usually seen initially after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Ask about one or more incidences of sudden headache with vomiting in the weeks preceding a major SAH. Other relevant symptoms are a stiff neck, back or leg pain, or photophobia, as well as hearing noises or throbbing (bruits) in the head. “Warning leaks” of the aneurysm, in which small amounts of blood ooze from the aneurysm into the subarachnoid space, can cause such symptoms. These small warning leaks are rarely detected because the condition is not severe enough for the patient to seek medical attention.
Identify risk factors such as familial predisposition, hypertension, cigarette smoking, or use of over-the-counter medications (e.g., nasal sprays or antihistamines) that have vasoconstrictive properties. Ask about the patient’s occupation, because if the patient’s job involves strenuous activity, there may be a significant delay in going back to work or the need to change occupations entirely.
Common symptoms include headache, facial pain, alterations in consciousness, and seizures. In most patients, the neurological examination does not point to the exact site of the aneurysm, but in many instances, it can provide clues to the localization. Signs and symptoms can be divided into two phases: those presenting before rupture or bleeding and those presenting after rupture or bleeding. In the phase before rupture or bleeding, observe for oculomotor nerve (cranial nerve III) palsy—dilated pupils (loss of light reflex), possible drooping eyelids (ptosis), extraocular movement deficits with possible double vision—as well as pain above and behind the eye, localized headache, or extraocular movement deficits of the trochlear (IV) or abducens (VI) cranial nerves. Small, intermittent, aneurysmal leakage of blood may result in generalized headache, neck pain, upper back pain, nausea, and vomiting. Note if the patient appears confused or drowsy.
The patient has to cope not only with an unexpected, sudden illness but also with the fear that the aneurysm may rupture at any time. Assess the patient’s ability to cope with a sudden illness and the change in roles that a sudden illness demands. In addition, assess the patient’s degree of anxiety about the illness and potential complications.
Diagnostic highlights
Normal Result
Abnormality With Condition
Cerebral angiogram Symmetrical, intact pattern of cerebral vessels Pooling of contract medium, indicating bleeding or aneurysm Radiographic views of cerebral circulation show interruptions to circulation or changes in vessel wall appearance
Computed tomography Intact cerebral anatomy Identification of size and location of site of hemorrhage Shows anterior to posterior slices of the brain to highlight abnormalities
Other Tests: Noninvasive angiographic methods (computed tomographic angiography and magnetic resonance angiography) allow for detection of aneurysms; postprocessing techniques allow for three-dimensional evaluation of the aneurysm; lumbar puncture (for patients not at risk for increased intracranial pressure [ICP]), skull x-rays, electroencephalography, transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, single-photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography, xenon-CT, cervical spine imaging.
Primary nursing diagnosis
Alteration in tissue perfusion (cerebral) related to interruption in cerebral blood flow or increased ICP
Circulation status; Cognitive ability; Neurological status; Tissue perfusion: Peripheral; Communication: Expressive ability; Communication: Receptive ability
Cerebral perfusion promotion; Circulatory care; Intracranial pressure monitoring; Neurological monitoring; Peripheral sensation management; Circulatory precautions; Hypovolemia management; Vital signs monitoring; Emergency care; Medication management
The first priority is to evaluate and support airway, breathing, and circulation. For patients unable to maintain these functions independently, assist with endotracheal intubation, ventilation, and oxygenation, as prescribed. Monitor neurological status carefully every hour and immediately notify the physician of any changes in the patient’s condition.
Microsurgery is indicated to prevent rupture or rebleeding of the cerebral artery. The decision to operate depends on the clinical status of the patient, including the level of consciousness and severity of neurological dysfunction, the accessibility of the aneurysm to surgical intervention, and the presence of vasospasm. Surgical procedures used to treat cerebral aneurysms include direct clipping or ligation of the neck of the aneurysm to enable circulation to bypass the pathology. Endovascular coiling of cerebral aneurysms may also be used in some situations, particularly in aneurysms with a small neck size (< 4 mm), a luminal diameter < 25 mm, and those that are distinct from the parent vessel. An inoperable cerebral aneurysm may be reinforced by applying to the aneurysmal sac such materials as acrylic resins or other plastics. Postoperatively, monitor the patient closely for signs and symptoms of increasing ICP or bleeding, such as headache, unequal pupils or pupil enlargement, onset or worsening of sensory or motor deficits, or speech alterations.
Pharmacologic highlights
Medication or Drug Class
Calcium channel blockers Varies with drugs such as nimodipine, verapamil Inhibits calcium entry across cell membranes in vascular smooth muscles Prevent vasospasm and hypertension
Corticosteroids Varies with drugs such as methylprednisolone, hydrocortisone Inhibits inflammatory processes such as edema and capillary dilation Reduce swelling
Other Drugs: Antihypertensives may be prescribed for patients with high blood pressure. Antiepileptics are administered for treatment and prevention of seizures. Sedatives may be prescribed to promote rest and relaxation, and aminocaproic acid, a fibrinolytic inhibitor, may be given to minimize the risk of rebleeding by delaying blood clot lysis. The patient may receive colloids such as albumin or plasmanate to decrease blood viscosity and expand the intravascular volume.
The environment should be as quiet as possible, with minimal physiological and psychological stress. Maintain the patient on bedrest. Limit visitors to immediate family and significant others. Apply thigh-high elastic stockings and intermittent external compression boots. Discourage and control any measure that initiates Valsalva’s maneuver, such as coughing, straining at stool, pushing up in bed with the elbows, and turning with the mouth closed. Assist with hygienic care as necessary. If the patient has a facial weakness, assist her or him during meals.
Preoperatively, provide teaching and emotional support for the patient and family. Position the patient to maintain a patent airway by elevating the head of the bed 30 to 45 degrees to promote pulmonary drainage and limit upper airway obstruction. Suction the patient’s mouth and, if needed, the nasopharynx and trachea. Before suctioning, oxygenate the patient well, and to minimize ICP increases, limit suctioning to 20 to 30 seconds at a time. If the patient has facial nerve palsy, apply artificial tears to both eyes. Take appropriate measures to prevent skin breakdown from immobility. Postoperatively, promote venous drainage by elevating the head of the bed 20 to 30 degrees. Emotional support of the patient and family is also important. The patient may be dealing with a neurological deficit, such as paralysis on one side of the body or loss of speech. If the patient cannot speak, establish a simple means of communication such as using a slate to write messages or using cards. Encourage the patient to verbalize fears of dependency and of becoming a burden.
Evidence-Based Practice and Health Policy
Fargen, K.M., Rahman, M., Neal, D., & Hoh, B.L. (2013). Prevalence of patient safety indicators and hospital-acquired conditions in those treated for unruptured cerebral aneurysms: Establishing standard performance measures using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. Journal of Neurosurgery, 119(4), 966–973.
A national review was conducted among patients with cerebral aneurysm to determine their rates of patient safety indicators (PSIs), including postoperative respiratory failure, deep vein thrombosis, sepsis, and postoperative hemorrhage, as well as hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), including falls resulting in intracranial injury, fracture, or other trauma injury.
Among 54,589 separate admissions of patients diagnosed with an unruptured cerebral aneurysm, 66% of patients did not receive any treatment for their aneurysm during hospitalization, 18.2% underwent endovascular coiling, 15.2% underwent surgical clipping, and 0.6% underwent both coiling and clipping.
Investigators estimated a national rate of 170 PSIs (95% CI, 162 to 178) and a rate of 10.6 HACs (95% CI, 8.6 to 13.1) for every 1,000 patients with a clipped unruptured aneurysm. Among patients who received endovascular coiling, investigators estimated a national rate of 127 PSIs (95% CI, 120 to 133) and a rate of 10.7 HACs (95% CI, 8.8 to 12.3) for every 1,000 patients.
In patients who received treatment for their aneurysm, developing one or more PSIs during hospitalization increased the length of stay by more than 11 days (p < 0.0001) when compared to treated patients without any PSIs during hospitalization.
Documentation guidelines
Neurological findings: Level of consciousness; pupillary size, shape, and reaction to light; motor function of extremities; other cranial nerve deficits (blurred vision, extraocular movement deficits, ptosis, facial weakness); aphasia; headache and facial pain; and nuchal rigidity (stiff neck, pain in the neck or back, pain with flexion of the neck, photophobia); deterioration of neurological status
Response to pain medications and comfort measures
Discharge and home healthcare guidelines
Prepare the patient and family for the possible need for rehabilitation after the acute care phase of hospitalization. Instruct the patient to report any deterioration in neurological status to the physician. Stress the importance of follow-up visits with the physicians. Be sure the patient understands all medications, including dosage, route, action and adverse effects, and the need for routine laboratory monitoring if anticonvulsants have been prescribed.
<a href="https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Cerebral+Aneurysms">cerebral aneurysm</a>
aneurism
aneurysmal
arteriosclerotic aneurysm
arteriovenous aneurysm
atherosclerotic aneurysm
bacterial aneurysm
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cardiac aneurysm
cirsoid aneurysm
compound aneurysm
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Several diseases can be treated with the help of a single coil however; the unusual cerebral aneurysms require several expensive coils.
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Methods: Eighty-eight patients with cerebral aneurysm rupture who were admitted to the hospital between February 2015 and October 2016 were selected as the research subjects and were randomly divided into a control group (N=44) and an observation group (N=44) using random number table.
Early interventional embolization in the treatment of cerebral aneurysm rupture
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Cerebral aneurysms are characterized by disruption of the internal elastic lamina (IEL), phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle cells (SMCs), apoptosis of mural cells, and extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation, which are considered as the hallmarks of CA [24].
Macrophage Polarization in Cerebral Aneurysm: Perspectives and Potential Targets
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Combined treatment of ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysm followed by subarachnoid hemorrhage and acute subdural hematoma in multiple aneurysm disease of cerebral blood vessels: Case report
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Fluid-Structure Simulations of a Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysm: Constant versus Patient-Specific Wall Thickness
Blood flow dynamics and fluid- structure interaction in patient-specific bifurcating cerebral aneurysms. Int J Numer Methods Fluids.
Dinamica de flujo computacional en aneurismas cerebrales
Similarly, more than 150,000 cerebral aneurysm embolization procedures are performed worldwide each year using coils and flow-diverting vascular stents.
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Surgical management of middle cerebral artery aneurysms
Thus, Y-stent reconstruction enables the endovascular management of otherwise complex, wide-necked cerebral aneurysms by providing two critical functions: support for the coil mass and preservation of the daughter vessels.
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The 25 chapters cover the basic arterial and venous anatomy of the brain, microsurgical instruments, endovascular tools, and imaging advances, then open surgical and endovascular techniques for each disease chapter, along with chapters on complication avoidance, flow diversion, liquid embolic agents in the treatment of aneurysms, the biomechanics of cerebral aneurysms, and the use of cerebral blood flow measurements.
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Nun on the Bus: “We Are Better Than That”
September 6, 2012 Caitlin Conroy
Last night, when Sister Simone Campbell, the Executive Director of the Roman Catholic Social Justice Organization NETWORK and one of the “nuns on the bus,” addressed the delegates and the American people at the Democratic National Convention, she outlined the sharp contrast that exists between the proposals outlined by Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan and the policies enacted by President Obama’s administration. When one really examines Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s plan for America, people of faith are led to share in her sentiment: we are better than that. The Ryan budget, written by Congressman Ryan and endorsed by Governor Romney, does fail “a basic moral test, because it would harm families living in poverty,” a sentiment shared by Sister Campbell and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is supposed to balance our nation’s budget, but proposes to do so on the backs of society’s most vulnerable members. It rejects shared sacrifice and ultimately fails to do what it claims to do: balance the budget.
Sister Simone Campbell, SSS addressed the delegates of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, September 5, 2012.
The Affordable Care Act, signed by President Obama, has expanded healthcare coverage to millions of Americans who otherwise would not have access to affordable, life-saving treatments. It ends discrimination against those with preexisting conditions. It eliminates lifetime caps on coverage, an incredible relief for Americans like Stacy Lihn who have sick children. Romney and Ryan want to repeal the entire act.
In reviewing these two core elements of the Republican ticket’s policy plan, what becomes obvious is that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan fundamentally reject the moral truth that we have obligations to our fellow citizens, especially those members of society who are most vulnerable. The Republican vision dismisses the concept that “we are all in this together” by falsely suggesting that this notion of community threatens our country’s principle values of self-reliance and personal responsibility. But as Sister Campbell said, we are our brother’s keeper, our sister’s keeper. Responsibility extends beyond our own interests and those of our immediate families. We have responsibilities to one another and the common good.
Policy proposals that hurt the poor, ignore the sick, and are specifically designed to further the interests of the wealthy and well-connected cannot be justified and do not reflect our values as Americans, and they certainly do not reflect our values as Catholics. In her speech, Sister Campbell rightly noted that when it comes to the proposals offered by the Romney-Ryan ticket, “we are better than that.” As people of faith, we have little choice but to come to this same realization and we must make every effort to ensure that those charged with the business of leading our country share that same view.
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Canadian Special Operations Force Command (CANSOFCOM)
« on: December 16, 2005, 10:13:15 »
More from the CDS's SITREP No. 3:
On 1 Feb 06, CANSOFCOM HQ will stand-up and JTF 2 and the JNBCD Coy will be transferred from DCDS to CANSOFCOM. On the same date, 427 Sqn in Petawawa will be designated 427 Special Operations Aviation (SOA) Sqn, OPCOM to CANSOFCOM. In addition, the interim capability of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment will be established in Petawawa in early 06 and the screening and initial training of its first company group will be completed by Aug 06, when the unit strength will reach approximately 250 personnel at IOC. While CLS will give this unit a 'kick-start' by providing a formed company group for the training, this joint special operations unit will be recruited from across the regular and reserve components of the CF. I consider it essential that we quickly establish these new capabilities to learn the lessons and gain the insights that will shape the future expansion of these CF assets;
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Re: Canadian Special Operations Force Command (CANSOFCOM)
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2005, 11:25:05 »
Quote from: Haggis on December 16, 2005, 10:13:15
good info, does anyone know if there will be any specific comm unit attached to CANSOFCOM, or CSOR in particular?
Just wondering about something I saw (from a slideshow on the DIN I think or on the CDS website about CF Transformation) a while back from when this entire concept first came up. I remember reading about something called the "Special Operations Group" or SOG which will contain JTF2, JATF now CSOR, J NBCD Coy, Special Operations Aviation Squadron, a new SOF training unit, and new facilities. Pretty sure this was mentioned before (I forgot) but is CANSOFCOM the new name for SOG or is CANSOFCOM the overall command which will oversee SOG which in turn contains all these different units? Also anybody know anything about this new SOF training unit or about the new facilities (if it's safe to say with regards to OPSEC)?
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Most of it. Just that, like you said, it's 17 pages - kinda long - figured I could just get a simple answer. But I guess I'll just go back through the forum and see what I can find.
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Quote from: Kev T on December 16, 2005, 15:01:43
Most of it. Just that, like you said, it's 17 pages - kinda long - figured I could just get a simple answer.
You did, it was "Please read the thread."
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Quote from: short final on December 16, 2005, 17:27:52
For the guy who mentioned SOG - SOG is CANSOFCOM - the reason for the change was, and I'm being totally serious, the french translation for SOG - which is GOS - which is french for testicles.
This came straight from CO of CANSOFCOM during a brief on Wednesday.
Thanks a lot for the answer and the information; interesting - and good - as to why the name was changed.
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2006, 00:08:36 »
The official Canadian Special Operations Forces Command webpage is up - http://www.cansofcom.forces.gc.ca/en/index_e.asp
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« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2007, 06:04:51 »
Happy Birthday CANSOFCOM!
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I thought about starting a new thread, but upon finding this topic I thought I'd ask my question here:
I was hoping someone could tell me what it's like working for CANSOFCOM. More specifically as Support staff. What do they do in Garrison and can they go on deployment?
However, it would be cool to know more about the Assaulters, but I don't expect any answers about the Assaulter trade because of the secrecy, but it's worth a shot anyway.
I've been looking for testimonials about CANSOFCOM, but I can't seem to find anything. I noticed that the Army.ca staff are current/former Canadian soldiers: Did you guys have an opportunity to work there or did you know anyone who has?
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Quote from: jaysfan17 on April 20, 2015, 09:33:55
I've been looking for testimonials about CANSOFCOM, but I can't seem to find anything.
Some here,
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Quote from: mariomike on April 20, 2015, 09:54:01
Thanks mariomike, I'll check these out.
Quote from: George Wallace on April 20, 2015, 10:03:53
It was worth a shot though.
It's similar to that saying "First rule of fight club, don't talk about fight club" (I hope that's how it goes).
Thanks anyway for the reply George Wallace.
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Fact is, you're not even in yet, and no one who works there is going to go out of their way to put reveal what day-to-day life is in any of the CANSOFCOM units other than what is already available.
Focus on getting your foot in the door, and then worry about where to go from there. Once you're in, if you're still interested in CANSOFCOM, hit up the recruiting cell or go to one of the frequent recruiting drives.
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Quote from: Beadwindow 7 on April 20, 2015, 11:00:45
I'm not considering a career with CANSOFCOM, I'm just looking for info about it, that's all.
In that case, google search is about all you'll get.
Alright, I'll google as much as I can then.
Thanks, I appreciate your help.
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Questions About CANSOFCOM
« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2016, 00:06:14 »
I'm new to the Army.ca forum. I just had a few questions to ask and I thought this was the right place. I was hoping that someone could possibly tell me how the Canadian Special Forces go about recruiting. Do they come to your unit? And do you have to be recognized by an officer in order to get accepted or can you just apply/sign up somewhere? I understand you have to be in reg force for 2 years and reserves for 3 in order to apply.
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If you Googled it you would have found your answer in seconds.
http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/jobs-caf-unique/operations-special-forces-locate.page
Quote from: Teager on September 27, 2016, 19:44:36
I apologize if I came off as ignorant. I did Google it, I just needed a confirmation. Thank you!
And for today's necro post, here is a CP story reproduced under the Fair Dealing provisions of the Copyright Act in which the Deputy Commander claims that the members of CANSOFCOM face possible burn out.
Special forces operating on ‘borrowed time,’ need more troops: general
By The Canadian Press — Jul 4 2017
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/special-forces-operating-on-borrowed-time-need-more-troops-general-1.3488314
OTTAWA — The deputy commander of Canada's special forces says his troops risk being run ragged after three years in Iraq, as well as several other lesser-known missions in other parts of the world.
Brig.-Gen. Peter Dawe says that's why the Liberal government's plan to add more than 600 additional soldiers to the elite force is not only welcome, but necessary.
Canada currently has about 2,000 special forces soldiers, many of whom Dawe says have done multiple tours through Iraq since first being sent to help fight the Islamic State group in August 2014.
But Canadian special forces have also been called upon to help train local forces facing extremist threats in different parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and Central America.
The demand doesn't appear to be letting up, as the government announced last week that Canadian soldiers will stay in Iraq for at least another two years.
Dawe says his troops continue to get the job done, but have been operating "on borrowed time" and need the help to ensure they — and their families — don't suffer burnout.
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Optimizing Biological Age: C-Reactive Protein (hs-CRP)
Michael Lustgarten 3 months ago 2
High sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (CRP) is one of the 10 variables included in the biological age calculator, PhenoAge (https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biological-age/). The reference range for CRP is 0 – 3 mg/L, but within that range, what’s optimal? To answer that question, it’s important to know how CRP changes during aging, and what levels are associated with an increased risk of death for all causes.
First, CRP increases 3-5 fold during aging in women and men, respectively (Ferrucci et al. 2005):
Investigating further, CRP continues to increase from relatively low levels of 0.7 mg/L (equivalent to 0.07 mg/dL) in 85-99 year olds to 2.5 mg/L (equivalent to 0.25 mg/dL) in adults older than 110y (Arai et al. 2015):
In support of this finding, the average CRP level in 98 centenarians (average age, 101y) was 5.4 mg/L, when compared with 3.2 mg/L in 70 year olds (Montoliu et al. 2014).
Based on the data for how CRP changes during aging, lower values would be expected to better in terms of risk of death for all causes. How low is optimal for CRP?
Several studies have investigated this issue. Risk of death for all causes was significantly reduced when CRP was < 3 mg/L, when compared with > 3 mg/L in the 11,193 subjects (average age 63y) of Oluleye et al. (2013). In terms of CRP values less than 3 mg/L, CRP < 1.0 mg/L was associated with significantly reduced risk of death for all causes in the 5,248 subjects (average age, 54y) of Hamer et al. (2010), in the 3,620 subjects (average age, 58y) of Koenig et al. (2008), in the 2,240 older adults (average age, 69y) of Elkind et al. (2009), and in the 1,519 subjects (average age 72y) of Kuoppamäki et al. (2015).
Similarly, CRP levels close to 1 mg/dL have also been associated with a significantly reduced risk of death for all causes, including < 0.86 mg/L in the 11,409 adults (average age, 59y) of Shen et al. (2019), and < 0.83 mg/L in the 1,476 men (average age, 53y) of Laaksonen et al. (2014).
In terms of the association between CRP with risk of death for all causes, can we go lower than ~0.8 mg/L? CRP values < 0.5 mg/L were associated with reduced all-cause mortality risk, whereas values > 3 mg/L were associated with increased risk in the 16,850 non-smokers and non-users of hormone replacement therapy (average age, 58y) of Ahmadi-Abhari et al. (2013). Similarly, CRP between 0.5 – 1 mg/L, the area on the chart (see below) where the black line and the shaded 95% confidence interval have a hazard ratio < 1, was associated with a significantly reduced risk of death for all causes, whereas CRP > 5 mg/L was associated with an increased all-cause mortality risk in the 7,015 subjects of Zuo et al. (2016):
Going even lower, CRP < 0.33 mg/L (Tertile 1, white circle) was associated with a maximally reduced all-cause mortality risk when compared with values > 0.86 mg/L (Tertile 3, black circle) in the 1,034 older adults (average age, ~72y) of Shinkai et al. (2008):
Similarly, CRP values between 0.03 – 0.33 mg/L in men and between 0.03 – 0.25 mg/L in women (blue lines for both men and women, Tertile 1) was associated with a significantly reduced risk of death for all causes in the 11,080 subjects (average age, 62y) of Nisa et al. (2016). In contrast, CRP > 0.85 mg/L in men and > 0.62 mg/L in women (close to significance in women, p=0.06; green lines for both, Tertile 3) was associated with an increased all-cause mortality risk:
Lowest risk of death for all causes was also identified when CRP was between 0.1 – 0.3 mg/L (1st; Tertile 1), when compared with CRP > 0.8 mg/L (3rd; Tertile 3) in the 7,740 older adults (average age, 64y) of Makita et al. (2009):
Can we go lower than 0.3 mg/L for CRP and all-cause mortality risk? Yes! CRP < 0.21 mg/L was associated with a maximally reduced risk of death for all causes, and mortality risk significantly increased above 0.44 mg/L in the 2,589 subjects (average age, 59y) of Arima et al. (2008):
Collectively, based on these data, with the goal of optimal health and lifespan, I’d suggest that CRP levels should be as low as possible, and avoiding the age-related CRP increase. What are my CRP values? I’ve only measured it 6x, including once in 2009 (0.2 mg/L), once in 2018 (0.67 mg/L), and 4x in 2019 (0.41, 0.34, 0.47, 0.29 mg/L). My average value for 2019 is 0.38 mg/L, and I’d like to cut that in half. I have a blood test scheduled for next week, so stay tuned for that data!
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benjamin hougland says:
mine is .15 on a ketogenic diet. I would also track LP(a) and Homosystine. LP(a) can be reduced to almost zero after 14 months on the Linus Pauling Protocol, and Homosystine can be reduced to around 6 after using using the protocol in the “H” Factor book (especially if you are MTHFR).
Good for you on CRP. I also have a Lp(a) blog post. High dose C+ lysine, aka the Pauling protocol, didn’t work for me. Similarly, I have a homocysteine post, and I’ve cut that in half, too!
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Syria: The Road Behind, The Path Ahead (Interview)
Posted by Sandboxer December 12, 2013
I relocated to the Mideast two years ago because I thought there was a need to break through deafening western-constructed narratives on the region, and believed it was important to do this from inside the region, close to events. Blogging for Lebanese news outlet Al Akhbar English didn’t limit me to an Arab audience either – readers from around the world, eager to follow fast-moving events in the Mideast, came to the website for authentic coverage that they were not reading elsewhere.
Protests in Syria were only just starting to break out as I packed up my possessions for the move to Lebanon. Little did I know that later that year I would start to write about Syria – tentatively at first; more determinedly as the picture cleared for me – and that my Syria coverage would become meaningful in helping to break through false narratives propagated in most western media.
My experiences inside Syria changed my worldview forever. The nastiness of geopolitical games, the disregard for human sacrifice, the wretched suffering of innocents – these are life-changing experiences.
But Syria didn’t just impact lives in the Levant. This conflict has fundamentally shifted the global political landscape and ushered us into an era of multilateralism, altered alliances and new priorities.
The foreign media has fallen behind in its coverage, struggling to make sense of a Mideast that has moved beyond sophomoric soundbites and dumbed-down stereotypes. It is local media that is taking the lead, breaking stories and predicting outcomes today. And it is local media, ultimately, that needs to take the lead in defining the future of the Mideast – with home-grown, not foreign, narratives that “frame” developments and aspirations here.
In the next year I hope to do more work with regional media – either in English or for translation. I’ve been fortunate to have many articles translated into French, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German and other languages. But the greatest gratification has been when they appear in Arabic, Farsi and Turkish.
So to kick things off before the New Year, here is an interview on Syria I gave to Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari for publication on Iran’s Fars News website. The interview was conducted in November and appeared a few days ago on Fars’ English website. Am hoping we will see a version in Farsi too:
Q: The United States and its European and Arab allies have been calling for a military invasion of Syria for almost a long time. They view the military option the only solution to the Syrian crisis. However, they are apparently ignoring the massive support of the Syrian people for President Assad as echoed in the street demonstrations of the pro-Assad citizens and the opinion polls which show that a strong majority of the Syrian people want President Assad to remain in power. Aren’t these states disregarding the will of the Syrian people?
A: The conflict in Syria today has been a long time in the making. For years, the US and its western allies have sought to undermine Iran’s influence in the Mideast by targeting its staunchest allies, Syria and Hezbollah. Wikileaks Cables show this quite clearly – a 2006 cable after the Israeli war on Lebanon shows US officials worried about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s improved domestic and regional status, and urges the development of a plan of action to “exploit vulnerabilities” – sectarian, economic, political – that could chip away at his legitimacy.
The Arab Uprisings provided a unique opportunity for the US and its allies to exploit the narratives of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and impose them on Syria through blatant media propaganda and subversive activities on the ground. I have often wondered why, for instance, at the same time that Syrian government officials were offering conciliatory measures, dialogue and reforms to defuse tensions in early 2011, vulnerable Syrians in “hot” areas were being sniped at. From the start of events in Syria there has been a determined effort by its adversaries to use sabotage, assassinations, political violence and information warfare to whip up popular sentiment and sway large segments of the populations into supporting a rebellion.
I can’t speak for the veracity of polls taken during this conflict, but it isn’t hard to cobble together a picture of the population demographics that have supported Assad – or specifically, that have rejected the armed rebellion. You have the major cities (Aleppo and Damascus), minorities (Alawite, Druze, Christian, Kurds, Shiite), Baathists (3 million members, most Sunni), the armed forces, the business community, the government elite – most of whom have rejected the militarization of the opposition, if not outright supported Assad. This, in itself, constitutes millions and millions of Syrians whose voices have been entirely ignored until recently.
Karen Koning AbuZayd, a UN commissioner for the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria, said much the same thing earlier this year about persistent support for Assad inside Syria: “There’s quite a number of the population, maybe as many as half – if not more – that stand behind him.”
Q: What do you think about the activities of the foreign-backed rebels and mercenaries who have taken up arms against the Syrian government and are hell-bent on removing President Assad from power? Why are the foreign powers backing, financing and arming them? Isn’t it strange that even some of the Arab states in the region have joined them and are contributing to the destabilization of Syria?
A: The armed opposition has been opportunistic and bloody from the start, targeting security forces, on and off duty, and pro-government civilians since March 2011. While there were indeed Syrian army defectors who joined the “revolution” early on in the conflict in response to government clampdowns and/or their own genuine political sentiments, much of the armed rebellion has been funded, assisted and organized from outside Syria’s borders. We know, for instance, that non-Syrians were entering the country right from the beginning – we have video, photographic and anecdotal evidence of this happening over the Lebanese border, as example. These people were provided with wages, weapons, intelligence and training, with the expectation that a hard thrust against Assad’s government would unseat him in short shrift, much like what had already happened in other Arab states.
When this did not happen, foreign intervention increased substantially, always with the notion that “one more” big effort would cause Assad to fall. Whereas in the past, the enemy had been the US, some European states and Israel, we suddenly started to see the ferocious engagement of Arab regimes in the Syrian conflict – Qatar and Saudi Arabia, assisted by a smattering of other Persian Gulf states, Jordan, Turkey, and jihadists from all corners.
Each may have had their own reasons for participating, but at the core, the Arab states that threw weapons, funding and fighters at Syria were seeking to undermine the Resistance Axis in the region and to create a counter-revolution that would push back Arab popular uprisings against illegitimate regimes. For some though, the fight in Syria became existential. Saudi royals – who view the uprisings and Iran’s influence in the region as being a threat to their very survival – have said that a loss in Syria would mean the loss of their oil-rich, Shiite-dominated Eastern Province. It isn’t a very rational train of thought, but it has been the main impetus behind Saudi support for the armed rebellion.
Q: It sounds like the anti-Syrian opposition groups are not united and cannot follow a cohesive path. Some of them call for dialogue with the government to resolve the disputes, while some of them utterly reject any kind of negotiation, calling for the removal of President Assad and the dissolution of his government. What’s your viewpoint on this inconsistency and lack of harmony among the Syrian opposition?
A: I am assuming you are referring mainly to the externally-based Syrian opposition here. This opposition has been funded and assembled by foreign foes of Syria for geopolitical gain. Their goal was to unseat a “dictator” so that they could then come in and establish their own foreign-backed “dictatorship” at the heart of the Resistance Axis. The reason this opposition has never been able to articulate a cohesive, inclusive, political platform for the Syrian people is because they are all backed by different, sometimes competing, interests, and because their goal is not a politically reformed Syria, but instead the establishment of their own power and economic bases.
The lack of cohesion in this group and the embarrassing infighting that has plagued them from their inception, is a testament to the fact that you cannot just manufacture revolutions, assign leadership, cobble together “governments in exile.” Legitimacy comes from the people who are within the state. Leaders have to earn their positions, based on consensus of some kind that is accepted by the majority. Meanwhile, inside Syria, for nearly three years a peaceful domestic opposition has been ignored by foreign media and governments. These are activists who have credibility among their communities and have the potential to create grassroots movements that can exert pressure on the government to produce desired reforms. But these domestic opposition types were never empowered and encouraged. It goes to show that the foreign backers of the Syrian “revolution” were less interested in reform than they were in assuming power.
And no, I do not foresee the possibility of a last-minute delegation with common goals representing the “opposition” at Geneva talks. It is too late for some things. I believe the major issues that must be tackled to achieve a political solution will be resolved between the Syrian government and key regional and international players in advance of any Geneva talks. The “public” negotiations will just put a pretty face on things for mass consumption. Today, if you want a political solution, you first need the disarmament of the conflict – and this will not be an issue for Syrians to resolve, it is a concession that can only be wrenched from states that arm both the rebels and the Syrian armed forces.
As for whether Assad stays or goes, that is not something that should be decided by external parties at negotiations in Geneva. It is a choice for Syrians only. And I sincerely hope that the Syrian government is obliged to conduct transparent elections under the rigorous supervision of impartial, professional, international observers. It is the only way the next government can enjoy legitimacy.
Q: Why haven’t the international organizations, especially the UN Security Council, prevented the influx of illicit arms and weaponry into Syria which directly reach the rebels and insurgents who not only kill the Syrian army forces, but the innocent civilians, children and women? The Security Council surely knows that the smuggling of arms and ammunitions to the rebels and mercenaries is taking place furtively, but it doesn’t condemn or take action to stop it. Why?
A: At this juncture in our collective political evolution, it befits us to be honest about what we call the “international community.” In effect, this term really only ever refers to those countries that politically and economically dominate our global political system. For the past few decades, “international community” has come to mean the United States and a handful of its allies. Even UN Security Council permanent members Russia and China haven’t truly counted. Nor have the next generation of fast-growth economies and major population centers like India, Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa – until very recently. These second tier players have suddenly begun to insert themselves into critical political and economic developments – and Syria has been the theater in which some of these geopolitical battles have been fought.
The reason the UN and other western-dominated NGOs have not sought to impose punitive measures on parties that weaponized the Syrian conflict is simply because the UN and these NGOs are absolutely dominated by parties backing one side in this conflict. It was not in their interest to do so. Nobody understands the issue of weaponizing conflicts better than these groups – they have spent years churning out analyses and reports that document the dangers of “small arms” in conflict. They know better than anyone that weaponizing conflicts has a direct correlation with the breakdown of law and order, and that human rights violations spike dramatically. They know that even after “peace treaties” are signed, these weapons continue to exchange hands and keep conflict “humming.”
The fact is that the UN could not take action against the weaponization of the Syrian conflict because its dominant members were still seeking a military solution to oust Assad. Now that the US and key western allies are reassessing this route and are pursuing diplomatic solutions for a Syrian exit, we may see an altered NGO posture, where violators are named and punitive actions are taken. It is important to note that the only parties to have vocally advocated for the mutual de-weaponization of the conflict are those states outside the old international “power paradigm” like the BRICS and Iran.
Q: What’s your viewpoint on the state of Syrian refugees who have fled to the neighboring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey? They are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, foodstuff, medicine and above all, a permanent shelter; however, it seems that there’s no entity assuming responsibility for them. How does their future life look like? With the current destruction and instability imposed on Syria, can they foresee an early return to their homeland?
A: Nobody is assuming responsibility for them because refugee absorption requires money, which many states have preferred to throw at a military solution inside Syria. When I visited Syria in early 2012, an official with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told me very specifically, “if the fighting stops today people can return home tomorrow.” At that time, the biggest humanitarian problem they were facing was internal displacement, so he was mainly referring to the fact that continued violence from both sides inside towns and villages was the primary inhibitor of Syrians being able to return to their homes.
Today, that problem has grown exponentially with millions of refugees seeking safety outside Syria’s borders and even more millions being displaced internally. Again, for those interested in assisting refugees, I tell you that the moment the political violence and military operations cease, is the moment that these people can start returning to their communities. Obviously, this would have been easier a year ago – today, so many areas have been leveled by fighting with homes, schools, infrastructure destroyed, that there is sometimes nothing to go home to. But the best solution still remains one that involves rebuilding of communities – that’s where the international financial assistance should go, and not to resettling Syrians outside their countries or in unfamiliar areas within, which is why a solution to this conflict is urgent. We are approaching winter in the Levant, and it is unconscionable that international and regional parties cannot diplomatically agree to demilitarization of the Syrian conflict, so that more lives can be spared. Otherwise our attention will be turned from Syrians getting shot and bombed and beheaded, to Syrian starving and freezing to death.
Q: It was on the reports that US President Barack Obama has ordered a temporary lift on the arms ban to Syria so that certain weaponry and ammunitions could be delivered to the rebels and those whom Secretary of State John Kerry has called “moderate” terrorists. Isn’t this order somewhat hypocritical as the United States has always depicted itself an ardent opponent of terrorism and extremism? How is it possible to justify its overt support for the terrorists in Syria?
A: The US has acted very opportunistically inside Syria, prioritizing interests over values at every turn. It has tacitly and sometimes actively supported those individuals and groups which were Washington’s targets in a decade-long “war on terror.” Washington knows full well that weapons cannot be funneled specifically to “moderates” – rebels will sell them for good money at a moment’s notice, and many of these rebels change groups with great frequency. When Kerry first made that statement about arming the moderates, I got in touch with a US State Department spokesman and asked him repeatedly to name one “moderate” rebel group that “could” potentially be a recipient of American military largesse. He couldn’t.
As is the case with most US foreign policy in the Mideast, we now see an “unintended consequence” emerge – Salafi-Jihadist cells, gangs, militias and networks have grown like weeds, not just in Syria, but throughout the Levant, Persian Gulf and North Africa. This is the main reason the US is now reassessing its interests in Syria and the broader Mideast.
It is ironic that the US spent so many years allegedly fighting terror, when in fact its policies spawned an unprecedented growth in terror groups, networks and activities, both in and out of the Middle East. Today, this arm of American policy has been crippled by the challenges it faces against Salafi extremists. It is why Washington is rapidly altering its position vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic of Iran. The US actually needs Iran now to regionally lead the charge to eliminate these groups, secure borders and help stabilize a very chaotic region.
Q: And a final question; how does the future of Syria look like? From one hand, we have the United States and its regional allies that seem to be strangely intractable and unwilling to allow the Syrian people to decide their fate, and from the other hand, there are the foreign-backed terrorists, Al-Qaeda fighters and Al-Nusra Front warriors that are carrying out bloody operations every single day. Can we foresee a peaceful future for Syria one day?
A: I’m a rare optimist on Syria. I firmly believe we have the potential to see the reestablishment of a secure and unified Syria with a modified and reformed central government.
I don’t believe that this can be achieved only via a political solution, however. As I said earlier, a political outcome must first be reached between the regional and international parties that weaponize the conflict. This is stage one. The next stage will need global consensus because it entails a massive military push to purge Syria and its neighbors of jihadists and their local brethren. This will consist of several things: aiding and empowering the Syrian army to use full military force against these groups inside Syria; a worldwide effort to inhibit the financing of militants by individuals and states and slapping punitive measures against violators; heavily policed borders in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon.
This may not be easy, but it is not difficult either – if the political will is there. And I believe we are coming to that stage – where Syria’s western and Arab foes, with the exception of Saudi Arabia, Israel and wealthy financiers of jihad, have fully realized the dangers of allowing this conflict to continue and political violence to escalate to these levels. Jihadists from dozens of countries, from all continents, have found a haven in Syria, and are spreading with relative impunity into neighboring states. If this trend is not stemmed, they will come back home and wreak their carnage there.
The final stage is reconstruction – which will again require the material assistance of the international community – and elections.
How is all this possible? And if it were, why haven’t we seen these measures being implemented earlier? I do not believe the political will existed until recently. I think Washington’s threat to launch military strikes against Syria was a “last stand,” and it failed because the west knows it cannot fight any more wars in the Mideast or predict outcomes. It also knows that Syria’s rebels have become everyone’s worst nightmare. The US knows it is going to need regional help to unwind this conflict – and that its traditional allies are unable to deliver, hence the “unprecedented” negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva. Geopolitical realities have fundamentally shifted. Yesterday’s enmities do not compare to the horrors ahead for the international community if the jihadi genie is not put back into its bottle.
These new alliances will not only work to resolve the Syrian conflict and re-stabilize the state, but will also serve to push “stability” throughout the region.
Interview by Kourosh Ziabari for Fars News on December 8, 2013.
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Clear-sighted analysis as always. Thanks for posting, Sharmine!
A question if you don’t mind:
If we are to assume that this consensus against takfiri/jihadist outfits takes root and brings on board the US and its allies, do you think its repercussions will be felt in Iraq and Lebanon where similar outfits are active? (The Iraqi situation is of particular interest) Or will any future settlement restrict this purely to the Syrian context?
Sandboxer says:
AJ, the multinational effort to eradicate extremists in Syria will be extended beyond that country’s borders. While the west may be focused on the Syrian military theater as a matter of urgency, they all understand that the jihadi problem has no specific borders. This effort will necessarily entail cutting off sources of funding to Salafi militants the world around.
Would like to direct you to my upcoming article which should be published this week – it will state clearly the main operational theater for snuffing out Islamist militancy. But it will also explain why the players taking the lead on this will not be western. The west will follow an eastern lead for a change.
Thanks for the reply Sharmine. Looking forward to your upcoming article.
The west has largely used the jihadist-card as a convenient rallying call and exploited it in a very utilitarian sense. It’s definitely high time that those confronting the brunt of this menace take a lead.
Without sounding too pessimistic about its prospects though, two of the biggest allies of the US — KSA and Israel — will certainly NOT look upon such an effort favourably. The sectarian narrative which has been spearheaded by these Salafist militant groups, has served as the main bulwark against the so-called threat of ‘Iranian expansionism’.
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La Toya Jackson ‘Thinks Someone Wants to Kill Her’
Michael Jackson Death Hoax Investigators :: Recap threads :: The Jackson Family & Kids
by Human_nature on Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:43 pm
http://www.showbizspy.com/article/193532/la-toya-jackson-thinks-someone-wants-to-kill-her.html
La Toya Jackson is living in fear — she’s terrified someone is out to kill her, it has been claimed.
The singer apparently feels that her life is in danger because she knows too much about her brother Michael Jackson’s murder.
La Toya, sources say, believes she’s been marked for death by the
same people she says killed Michael because he was worth more dead than
“La Toya is convinced someone paid Michael’s personal physician, Conrad Murray, to kill him because they stood to gain up to $1 billion from his death,” a source told the National Enquirer.
“La Toya has been telling pals she can name the mysterious people
Michael’s doctor was working with when Michael died. She is convinced
they killed her brother and wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to kill her
“She says too many people have got too much to lose if the truth gets out. She fears for her life.”
La Toya is also worried the entire Jackson family is in danger.
“She says her information is explosive and that Dr Murray did not
act alone in Michael’s death,” said the insider. “She’s extra cautious
now of the people she talks to and the places she goes.
“She only goes to crowded restaurants and refuses to go the supermarket when it’s dark outside.”
In a September interview with Barbara Walters, the 53-year-old revealed her fears the pop superstar had been murdered.
“When I found out he had actually passed, I said, ‘No. I wasn’t an accident. Michael was murdered’,” she said.
“I don’t think we’ll find a person as talented, a person who thought
the way he thought… a person with the heart that Michael had,” she
added. “People aren’t that way anymore. He was special. He wasn’t God,
but he was certainly god-like. He was the closest thing to a god that I
knew.”
Re: La Toya Jackson ‘Thinks Someone Wants to Kill Her’
by ishealive on Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:46 pm
Ok!!!!
ishealive
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by Truth_or_Dare on Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:49 pm
If she knows why doesn't she goes to the police? And if she knew these guys were so dangerous why didn'y she take precautions before announcing it to the world?
I don't know, but there's something fishy about her story...
Truth_or_Dare
by juliet on Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:53 pm
I guess, La Toya really loves Michael and everything about Michael, and most probably one of these days she will come out with her own hoax
by annieisnotokey on Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:59 pm
Human_nature wrote:
La Toya is beginning to sound like some of the members that left the Forum because they found da troot and their lives were in danger for it.
by dancer1792 on Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:03 pm
Truth_or_Dare wrote: If she knows why doesn't she goes to the police? And if she knew these guys were so dangerous why didn'y she take precautions before announcing it to the world?
I'm thinking the same thing. You don't go out and say "I think that you killed my brother", because if that person really did, he/she would have no quams about killing you. You would be silenced so that the rest of the would not find out.
dancer1792
by MJFoReVeRandAlways on Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:12 pm
Drama queen anyone?
MJFoReVeRandAlways
by lou on Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:31 pm
I agree that her story doesn't make much sense because one is not supposed to claim in public that they know something that can put their whole family in danger. She'd better have told her story to the police and asked for protection. At least, that's what I think should be more logical.
Woonplaats : Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
by Harleyblonde on Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:38 pm
MJFoReVeRandAlways wrote: Drama queen anyone?
Exactly, If she genuinely thought anyone would try to kill her she would be in a remote hideaway. She talks utter BS. Will this women stoop at nothing to stay in the headlines? I was just biding my time for her to come out with another ridiculous statement. She gave two interviews on TV in the UK a couple of weeks ago, she didn't mention it then-at the time then it was what Paris allegedly said about them overworking her Daddy immediately on told of his death. What next I wonder???
Someone wants to kill her? I would stand in the queue to slap her!!!
Harleyblonde
Woonplaats : UK
Also if I knew who killed my Brother if I didn't hide away then I would be screaming it from the rooftops, I would be on as many TV shows as possible telling who it is. She is trying to make us all believe he is dead and she is doing a great big cock-up and making things worse. She should keep her gob firmly shut!!
by marsheliamorgan on Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:19 pm
i would have been hanging from chandeliers and shouting from church towers if I KNEW SOMEONE KILLED one of my family members and i would be STANDING there along side them (FBI,POLICE)and i WOULDNT SHUT UP until i saw justice done.
also,seems odd,NOW she is worried,she didnt mention michaels children being in danger,and i dont see them taking much precautions with the children in so far as the halloween party event they attended,cause IF THAT WASNT MICHAEL in the mask,then the body guards etc. SURE LET SOMEONE COME AWFUL CLOSE to those kids,just my opininon
marsheliamorgan
by Sweet1 on Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:22 pm
LaToya is full of crap. I am sorry if she is so fearful she wouldn't be going on shows saying she could name names. She would keep her mouth shut just like you said. She is trying to stay in the media/tabloids. She's an untalented ole' bag trying to get the fame she never had. Remember! she did a few cameos in some of MJ's videos? She's still riding off his coat tails. I am glad she knows Dr. Murray killed MJ, too bad the FEDS hasn't reached that conclusion. Speaking of money being made from MJ how much is the Jackson Family getting? No one else is barking like her. She's also a menace just like Joe. Keep the Faith!
Harleyblonde wrote: Also if I knew who killed my Brother if I didn't hide away then I would be screaming it from the rooftops, I would be on as many TV shows as possible telling who it is. She is trying to make us all believe he is dead and she is doing a great big cock-up and making things worse. She should keep her gob firmly shut!!
by neverlandprincess on Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:04 pm
Guys...remember ..."sources told the Enquirer"...think about it
by MJJ Love on Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:20 pm
Sorry Latoya, but I got to agree with Jay Z on this one "We don't believe you, You need MORE people"
MJJ Love
Woonplaats : Washington D.C.
by applesaucers on Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:22 pm
Oh, Toy-Toy. lol. I can hear her voice telling me this and I can't help but find it amusing.
applesaucers
by WanaBstartnSthn on Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:45 pm
Latoya needs to get introduced to some common sense. I know Michael said that Latoya is an idiot, but damn! She is not trying to prove that statement to be untrue.
WanaBstartnSthn
by miss j on Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:11 pm
and that's what you get when you said things without thinking.........or has she become paranoid?
by deedee75 on Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:34 pm
Latoya need to shut the hell up really if I knew who kill by brother I would have went to the police and if they didn't act in a timely manner I would have told someone who could help bring justice. She is really to old to be that stupid.
They all need to shut up-Janet is the only one with seemingly any dignity (well Katherine and Rebbie seem to be doing fine as well)
by Kazumi on Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:38 pm
btw 'why would someone want to kill her?', wouldn't Janetl know the same as she does? I mean, Janet was always closer to Michael than LaToya
by PYT on Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:40 pm
Im not saying i believe that she knows who did it. BUT what if they are abovethe police, almost like going to the police would be a hopeless attempt at protecting herself and her family.
If Michael really is dead, which i doubt, i believe he was most likely murdered as well. & that the people who did it are most likely above the law.
LaToya isnt making far-fetched claims, she may know who it is, maybe screaming it to the public was her way of warning the world that if something does happen to her or one of her family members it wasnt an accident.
On the other hand, i can see how you all may think shes milking Michaels death...lol
@pyt-well I don't know that she really said this..it is from the enquirer or something like it. I do think if he is dead then he was murdered -and that the law in LA is pretty much corrupt and/or whoever is controlling them is behind the murder. Thus there is a really bad attempt at a cover up.
Harleyblonde wrote:
even if he was murdered if they would talk and tell the truth people would listen and they would stand with them. and let's not forgot MJ had fans all around the world no matter how bad the police are they would not stand for it plus MJ had friends in high places to.
by mjgirl86 on Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:02 pm
This confuses me greatly, now... hmm...
And by the way... that airplane slap video, HAHAH, that was great
mjgirl86
by GirlSaturday on Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:33 pm
If she is fearful that she will be killed, why isn't she staying home, under heavy guard and away from tabloids?
Rebbie is the wisest Jackson. She lives quietly and privately.
by nadia on Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:46 pm
if she knows alot of michaels murder than why she wont tel what she knows?if shes afraid that they should kill her so she should say who killed her brother.[sorry for the spelling because im maltese]
you and me to find the truth
Woonplaats : gudja
by THE JACKSONOLOGIST on Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:50 pm
The Jacksonologist thinks Latoya is a head case
THE JACKSONOLOGIST
Woonplaats : USA
by See on Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:58 pm
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean you are not being followd LOL...
But seriously, if she knows who they are and name them on national television for the whole world to hear, I don't think she will get murderd because they would be the first suspects.... Don't understand what she is getting at...
And the way the family is acting is more strange if Michael was really murderd...
Ask yourself if YOU would rest if the murderer(s) of your brother were free as a bird and not being punished????
Latoya is full of it, IMO (unless she dies suddenly of murder, I would be wrong in that case )
Woonplaats : Wonderland
by ziffes on Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:23 pm
welllll
anything for attention i guess
ziffes
Woonplaats : Denmark
by ishealive on Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:25 pm
Oh ffs LaToya please be quiet!
by Kirsche on Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:39 pm
I totally agree!! And when she's so afraid now, why did she even say that in public?!! Why didn't she go to the police without tellin' the public? Very strange....
by EarthAngel90 on Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:49 pm
*Laughing* Yeah .... someone wants to kill her ..... seriously , why would they ?!?! .... does she know too much or what ?!?! .... I am sorry for laughing ...
EarthAngel90 wrote: *Laughing* Yeah .... someone wants to kill her ..... seriously , why would they ?!?! .... does she know too much or what ?!?! .... I am sorry for laughing ...
Ofcourse she knows too much, the talks to Michaels's gohst you know......And he hides behind a cutain!
by Sweet1 on Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:03 pm
See wrote:
LaToya actually speaks to Michael through his parrot. The woman is nuttier than a fruit cake. I find it hard to believe she's 54 yrs and so crazy. Clearly, she has no wisdom to say the least. Keep the Faith!
All jokes aside is LaToya a bit demented!!
I only got to know her 2 years ago when she was on BB in the UK, I never followed her so I don't know her that well. She seemed sane enough on BB but from what i've looked up on her it's like she's a few bottles short of a 6 pack. Sorry if this is rude it's just an observation.
by MJhunny on Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:15 pm
sometimes i would'nt mind "offing'" her myself
MJhunny
by nlb on Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:31 pm
Woonplaats : PA, USA
by White_Orchid on Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:34 pm
Latoya has her Deputy Dog badge, she can arrest the Killer.
White_Orchid
by mjssoulmate on Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:42 pm
Yes, she is one of LA's finest.
You are funny! Thanks for the laugh! Keep the Faith!
ishealive wrote: All jokes aside is LaToya a bit demented!!
by littleEARTHQUAKE on Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:57 pm
Oh, Latoya, not again!
littleEARTHQUAKE
by ziffes on Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:41 pm
all she wants is attention.. because she is craving fame.... just as jermaine.. those two really can make my eyes go really big and start them spinning (out of my control.. really unpleasent)
by dexember on Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:43 am
She really doesn't seem that insane to me, if he really is gone and these people did it, it's possible that things don't add up because they have something to do with it. So if something proves he really is (like murray's arrest for it or something) I might believe her.
Until then power to the man who outsmarted them all
dexember
by Christiana on Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:21 am
I like LaToya.
She amuses me.
But still, there is that chance that MJ is really gone. And just as dexember said, if the doc gets a ticket to the slammer, that'll pretty much convince me there is no hoax. And even though I'm not sure I'd buy into all the murder conspiracy theories, you just never know. If it turned out to be true though, LaToya wouldn't be looking quite so crazy then.
I think her biggest problem though is that she embellishes things..really...it doesn't matter what she's talking about, she's got to spin quite a tale when she's talking. Anyone else ever notice that? She just needs to put her own spin on anything she says. But that doesn't mean there isn't at least some truth in what she's saying lots of times (about anything really--not necessarily about MJ's "death.") Know what I mean? It's just her way.
by ziffes on Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:47 am
well i don't believe it until the Doc is put to trail for real, for what he did to MJ that is, and not for the missing child support...
nothing in this case is adding up at all...
by mjgirl86 on Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:56 am
ziffes wrote: well i don't believe it until the Doc is put to trail for real, for what he did to MJ that is, and not for the missing child support...
I know right... *sigh* We'll have to wait and see
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