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Somnova Studios
I Come Bearing Gifts
By alabaster December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas, everyone! It's that time -- all the little kiddies in Vienna are just waking up to the presents that Santa left overnight. Over here, it's a bit earlier, but that doesn't mean I don't have some presents for you just the same.
To set the Christmas mood, here's a little tune Kevin whipped up. He's dunked the theme song in egg nog and sprinkled it all over with tinsel to capture the wonders of the season!
If you're looking for a feel-good story filled with all the joy and love you'd expect of him, Gloom wrote a little something you'll probably enjoy. You can check it out right here!
Last but not least, here's a bit of art from our friend roz, who has a has a tumblr you should check out. (Also, try clicking on that present to unwrap something else you might like.)
And hey -- if I don't see you before again before then, have a great New Years! See you in 2014!
-alabaster
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By keviniskool October 06, 2013
There's been a lot of requests for some more concrete details on the progress of Missing Stars. If you're hoping to see fewer words and more numbers on here, today is your lucky day. Here's a list of "interesting" statistics compiled from our Dropbox and IRC chat logs:
Boxes in our Act 1 flowchart: 432Total word count (so far) for Act 1: 127,591Percentage of Act 1 word count that belongs to Gloom: 37.31% (Ed. note: We do not endorse this)Named characters in Act 1: 24Pieces of concept art: 350Current runtime of music: 1 hour, 37 minutes, 7 secondsAverage runtime for each piece: 2 minutes, 21 secondsTimes keviniskool's music has been compared to the Zelda series: 5"Reference photos" uploaded by kosherbacon from his porn collection: 1144"Reference photos" that were requested by the team: 0Chicks with dicks: 1(?)Release date for the Act 1 de Well, would you look at that, we are out of time. We hope these numbers will continue to grow (minus the…
Check out the New Guys
By keviniskool September 09, 2013
We recently recruited quite a few new people to the Somnova Studios gang, and we figured it was time you got to know them.
First off, a new writer. raithfyre is here to take over the writing for Isolda. I personally thought we didn't need another writer, but Hamadyne ran away screaming when we asked him if he would take over writing for both Jeanne and Isolda. Apparently, this writing thing is harder than it looks; good thing raithfyre makes it look so easy.
We also recruited three new artists: U-1224, raichuuuu, and Reaven. Normally, I'd tell you what character they are each working on, but we recently switched to the new and improved Somnova Studios Art Workflow 2.0™, so each artist is no longer working on a single character in their entirety. It makes for less exciting blog posts, but it does help everything look more consistent, so I'd say that's a long term win right there.
We're working hard as always, and we can't wait to share with you what we have in s…
Discover the Missing Stars Soundtrack Pt. 2
By keviniskool August 15, 2013
Had enough fun with the last piece yet? Here's another piece that is much slower and has more of a choral focus.
"That Which Shall Not Be Named" is a piece centered around Katja and her singing aspirations within St. Dymphna. I felt that a liturgical piece of this nature would fit well in the context of both singing in a choir and finding redemption for one's own actions. I hope you have as much fun playing this as I did writing it.
As always, this is a work in progress and is likely to be changed at any moment. In fact, it changed once already during the production of this blog post.
PDF: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/249 ... 0Named.pdf
MIDI: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/249 ... 0Named.mid
-keviniskool
We have forums for discussing things. If you have thoughts about this, you should head on down there.
Any other Visual Novel blog would just let you hear what we've been working on, but what if we spiced things up and let you come up with your own interpretation?
"The Past Comes to Light/Seelensplittersonate", or as I have been referring to it in shorthand, "The Past Comes to Seelensplittersonate", is a medley of two themes that play at the very beginning of Erik's journey. While they are separate at the beginning, they come together in a way that imparts momentum into both pieces, eventually converging into the same melody at the end. We hope you will enjoy the small taste we have provided here.
While this is only a piano arrangement, expect to see more fully fleshed out songs in the final product. This song (and those to follow) are all works in progress, and you can expect them to change before final release. In fact, the last piece we posted has already changed a fair bit from the last time we talked about it, in more ways than one.
PDF: https://dl.drop…
We Now Return to Your Regularly Scheduled Devnanigans
By alabaster July 25, 2013
And we're back.
This thing's on, right? Can everyone hear me? Okay, cool.
So I hear you folks have been demanding more blog posts. I can't really blame you. We've been silent going on two and a half months, and that's probably not very reassuring from the outside. Let me assuage any concerns you have: we're still alive, we're still kicking, and we're still making progress.
Cards on the table, though – we've lost some people along the way. That may sound like pretty bad news, but we're a tighter, stronger team for it. It's sad to see old faces head out the door, but as we move forward, it's reassuring to know we've pared the team down to our most dedicated, most passionate, most hard-working people. And each loss hardens the resolve of the rest of us.
On the flipside, we've also welcomed a lot of new talent on board. TJeffy (aka TonyTwoFingers on the forums), one of our resident fanfickers, has been hard at work putti…
By Hamadyne May 12, 2013
The title says it all. Whether your're a son or daughter of an awesome mom, be sure to thank her for being awesome.
Speaking of moms, here's one of our character's!
Take a guess as to who she is in the forums!
Shiny New Things
By Hamadyne April 13, 2013
Some of you more astute followers may have noticed a slight change on our forums. It took many a night chanting over forbidden text, maidens sacrificed, and making shady pacts with dark forces. But, we finally decided on a new design for our group's logo!
Many thanks to keviniskool for whipping this baby up and slathering it over our unworthy eyes.
Discuss this blog post on the forums.
F__k it! We'll do it live!
By eatkosherbacon April 01, 2013
Missing Stars is a visual novel. Since visual novels were pioneered in Japan, most VNs use manga-style artwork.
But Missing Stars isn't most visual novels.
Keen readers and frequenters to the forums might have noticed a decline in releases of concept art. That is because the artistic direction of the project has shifted.
Missing Stars will now be using digital photographs for character sprites.
The user interface and promotional materials will still feature drawn artwork, whenever necessary.
Given the game's setting and our aspirations for the broadest audience possible, this is a logical choice. After all, most if not all of our backgrounds were intended to be filtered photographs and photorealistic (w)renderings. However, this does present us with production related challenges. Our strive for visual realism has upped our demand for on-location photographs since rendered images will just have to be that much better(and time-consuming) to keep up. Fortunately, our staff advisor on…
Happy Easter 2013!
By Imperial.Standard March 29, 2013
Happy Easter folks! Hope you manage to grab more eggs than your basket can carry!
Just a little production update along with our Easter Greetings;
- Our writing had been restructured to fix storyline intertwining, continuity problems and character events - the greatest problem among these is to ensure the transition between one writer's scene to another to be merging in a smooth way
- Music materials are pouring in - our particular challenge is a proper execution of leitmotifs to fit their intended momentum
- Art organization and breakthrough had been achieved - we are aiming higher for the visual experience in this VN and there are new standardizations. Expect more art-related news in future!
That's all for now - I suspect that we will have subsequent update blogs from our respective departments soon enough. Stay tuned!
- Imperial
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How To Be Hated on the Internet in Five Easy Steps
By alabaster March 02, 2013
1. Announce you're creating an obviously derivative project that follows in the footsteps of a beloved earlier work to which you will never live up.
2. Tackle a delicate subject that most people are uncomfortable with.
3. Accept a couple people onto your team who occasionally post on reddit so you will forever be labeled a reddit project (which is a bad thing I guess?).
4. Release previews in which you mostly drop the names of more successful and popular works (to increase your nerd cred!) instead of saying anything of substance about your own.
5. Profit!
It's no secret that Missing Stars has a bit of a bad reputation in some circles. We would be the first to admit that we've made mistakes, of course, and that maybe some of that reputation was well-earned.
Recently, though, the hate aimed at us seems to be dying down somewhat or, at least, balancing out with the more positive impressions. We're probably loved and hated in about equal measure these days, wh…
So You Forgot About Valentine's Day...
By eatkosherbacon February 14, 2013
Ah, that special day is upon us... You know, the day where half the population voices their resentment of yet another commercialised holiday out of bitter loneliness, while the other half scrambles to get a gift basket from the convenience store on the way home from work.
You gotta admit, a squeaky teddy bear and stale chocolate is a lot cheaper than alimony.
Speaking of last minute gifts, Blackjack bailed us out and picked this image up from Tesco on her way home.
image by Blackjack
How would you guys spend Valentine's Day with your waifu? Discuss here in the forums.
(Seriously, we need romantic ideas for tonight or we're in the doghouse.)
-kosherbacon
Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
By Gloom February 10, 2013
The issue of what the optimal degree is of letting a fictional character be defined by a so-called "mental illness" is one that is obviously of great relevance to our work and that by extension has already been discussed at length several times already by several different persons on this very blog, some of which are probably smarter than me or more knowledgeable on the subject matter and all of them undoubtedly more capable of expressing their opinions in less than a thousand words.
I still haven't done so, though, or at least not to any degree that I would consider satisfactory and thus I have decided to take a short break from the job I've signed on to do and that is by all means expected of me to once again bother the lot of you with my pointless verbosity and meaningless rhetorical cyclicity. My desire to spew forth purple prose must, after all, be satisfied if I am to further postpone the inevitability of me one day snapping and going on a destruc…
Progress, Of a Sort
By alabaster January 30, 2013
Now that we've got all that feelsy stuff out of the way, let's get down to business. For 2013, I've resolved to post more regularly about our actual progress. I know, I know: Missing Stars making progress? Preposterous!
But we are. Besides, it's a lot easier to track and explain development when you know the general direction you're headed in. That first year was pretty chaotic -- lots of false starts and squandered time. But we're firmly in the saddle now and looking forward. It may be a little ways off, but for the first time, we're looking seriously at a demo release.
So what progress are we making toward that goal right now? Well, we're getting one scene completely polished and up to the level of quality we expect from the VN as whole. That means sprites, backgrounds, music, and however many passes over the script it takes to make it behave. Once that's in place and playable and -- most importantly -- up to snuff, we've got a mod…
What were you up to a year ago?
One year ago today, I was lurking the Katawa Shoujo forums. I happened to be there, in the right place and at the right time, to stumble on this little thread about a proposed visual novel. I happened to have some skills, maybe, that were needed, but more importantly, I happened to be in the right state of mind to want this thing – this thing we're now calling Missing Stars – to be made.
There's been a lot of happenings happening just right for a while now – a thousand little moments that string together into the story of Somnova Studios so far. Even after the project was on its feet, if one vote had gone another way, or if this character had been chosen instead of that one, the team might look a lot different today. The events that led to my being a staple of the team is probably the most convoluted roller-coaster of them all, but here I am. Sometimes I wonder about all the different ways things could have played out, but I thank my…
Con Amore!
Okay, here's something a little different. Instead of an update on Missing Stars this week, we wanted to give some love to another project. Our friends over at Rainy Day Studios have been working on their own VN, Con Amore, for the better part of 2012. To celebrate the new year, they've just posted their very first reveal, and I'm excited to see where they go from here. If you don't quite have a long enough list of VNs to look forward to yet, you should check it out. Or... even if you do.
About that -- the English language VN community looks like it's blowing up. In a good way. There are so many awesome projects coming down the pipeline, and it's a pretty interesting time to be a fan of the genre. At Somnova, we were fans before we were devs, so it's nice to take some time off now and then to be fans again.
We've got our eyes on Con Amore. What projects are you watching?
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Idles – Nottingham Bodega Social Club – March 29th
It’s time to rip up the notebook (or at least to stop trying to make notes on my phone). You see, that’s what i do at gigs. Those notes help to jog the memory when I come to write about what I’ve just witnessed. I’ve got pretty rubbish recall otherwise.
Such is the immediacy of Idles, seducing us with their every sinew, here in Nottingham at the Bodega, I’ve got to just live in this moment. For this short blast of punk, spit and throb, I’ve just got to be. Fuck my phone – I’d probably drop it in the mosh pit anyway.
(Click on page 2 for my review..of sorts)
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Gregory Alan Isakov – Nottingham Bodega Social – March 27th 2017
I’ve got a busy week of gigs coming up. I’ll be reviewing some for the Leicester Mercury and some directly for Sonic Breakfast. If they’re all as great as the one I went to last night, Gregory Alan Isakov, then it’s going to be a fine, fine time.
(Click on page 2 for the review)
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The Big Moon & Virgin Kids – Nottingham Bodega Social Club – 30th March 2016
In a couple of weeks, I plan to nip along to The Cookie,one of my favourite venues in Leicester, to see The Big Moon. I’ll pull together 350 words or so about the night that’ll hopefully be published within the Leicester Mercury. In terms of content, it’ll be more concise than this waffling piece.
On Wednesday night, I had opportunity for a dry run; on the first night of their first ever headline tour, the London based four piece are playing in Nottingham at the fab Bodega Social. By chance, I’m here with my day job so a sneak preview beckons. It’d be rude not to.
First impressions of a fuzzed-up Bangles fade slightly as the set progresses. It feels lame to draw comparisons with another all female band but I think the likeness just about holds. And at least I haven’t mentioned Throwing Muses, Belly or L7 as yet. As it is, this is a band not afraid to throw a Madonna cover into their mix (an exuberant Brilliant Stranger) so I’m sure they’re aware of their antecedents.
I’m a bit fed up of seeing up and coming touring bands who play so hard at being ‘cool’ that they seem unable to enjoy the experience. Such accusation cannot be levelled at The Big Moon. Indeed, bassist Celia Archer, who does much of the between song jabber, is positively skipping with happiness. This adds to the charm. Tight and blissful, summer-fuelled harmonies tingle and shimmer through your core. Here we have a thoroughly modern Motown girl troupe, bounced through a scuzzed-up indie blender.
There’s a smell of wet dog in the air amidst the crowd. Lads with pudding bowl haircuts stare on with such awkward, spectrum-rubbing focus that I wonder if deodorant has been forgotten from their routine. It’s either that or somebody has wet themselves. I move towards the front just in time to catch the opening strains of new single, Cupid.
It’s undeniably one of the set highlights. The quality of this and a song (potentially called Pull The Other One) so new that this Nottingham crowd are the first to hear it suggests that there’s some longevity in The Big Moon story. They’re clearly growing in stature and confidence with each song they write.
The same might also be true for the main support of the night, Virgin Kids, although so tall and gangly is their hair bun-wearing bass player that he definitely doesn’t need any more height on him. Unaware of his personal space, he auditions for a role in the ‘guild of incredibly tall men who make it their business to stand right in front of you thus blocking your view’.
Minor quibbles aside, they do the business on stage with workmanlike skill. They give us a dynamic and punkish London thing. At times, the three piece almost veer towards the pre-punk, sweaty bar-room blues rock of Dr Feelgood but then project us forward into a more Libertine-like swagger. I mark them as ones I’ll see again and, given that they’re supporting The Big Moon throughout this tour, that chance will come again soon.
Wishing both bands the best for the next couple of weeks and I’ll definitely look forward to hearing about the touring adventures when they arrive in Leicester on the 8th April. You should catch them on this tour if you can.
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Louis Berry and a scathing Saint Raymond gig review
“If someone tells me I have to go out there and impress some people because they’re important to my career, I’d rather go out there and really piss them off. Because this should be about the songs and a belief that everything else is bollocks. I walk around thinking ‘people in Liverpool, can’t you see what they are doing to you?’. There’s so much to say and no one is saying it. I’m going to be the lad who does.” – Louis Berry
In a couple of weeks time, I’m lining up a chat with Louis Berry. He’s playing at Nottingham’s Bodega on the 19th January as part of a short headline tour. It wasn’t long ago that I saw Louis play in Leicester when he supported Saint Raymond. I reviewed the show for the Leicester Mercury but I’m not sure if my words ever got published. In truth, I was quite scathing about the headliner and I can understand why an editor might have opted for an easy life.
Anyway, waste not want not (and all that) – I’ll publish my uncensored review here…
I look at my watch and despair. Saint Raymond have only been playing for forty minutes in the second room at Leicester’s O2 academy but it already feels like a lifetime. It’s not simply because he’s from Nottingham that I take such a dim view. One song, with bland,subtle variation, is played over and over again. Repeat until it’s really not funny.
He’s the master of monosyllable is Callum Burrows, the man behind the moniker, Saint Raymond. ‘I want you to know that, I want you, you know that’, he sings in yet another jaunty, catchy, raise your hands in the air, singalong pop by numbers blow-out.
Yet it would be churlish not to admit that this man with very little to say does seem to say a great deal to his fans. Young female students have graduated from Ed Sheeran, Olly Murs and One Direction. They now have a new poster boy for their university bedsit and Burrows is it. Surrounded by a faultless band, the crowd sing, clap, dance and wave their phones to the innocuous, choppy pop on offer. “Let’s carry on dancing, I want to tire you out”, smiles Burrows. I yawn.
Callum plays a cover. I only know it’s a cover because he tells us so. The crowd cheer wildly after every dull syllable he states. He tells a story about making a video in a taxi in Manchester with Thomas Turgoose, a potentially interesting tale in the hands of a somebody less boring. He plays two songs without a band that fail to resonate.
More impressive is Louis Berry, the scouse support act with jug ears, a cheeky grin and a charming swagger. Sometimes he veers a bit too close to Jake Bugg for comfort but when on form, you can see the Johnny Cash crossed with Arctic Monkey influence. Plagued throughout with sound problems, it seems to distract Berry from his full game. “We can’t hear what we’re playing”, moans Berry. It has rebel attitude, bite and enough skiffle based melody to suggest that, on a good day, Louis will be one to watch.
Ever one to consider the positives of a situation, as I leave the venue I think it could be worse. A poster of forthcoming gigs is thrust into my hand and I notice that it’s two days away from a Scouting For Girls gig. I thank God for small mercies.
I was a grumpy bastard towards the end of 2015 wasn’t I? I’m more than confident that Louis will continue to impress throughout 2016 and he’ll have a great deal more to say than Saint Raymond.
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Billy Lockett – Nottingham Bodega – Sunday November 2nd
Billy Lockett has a cheeky charm that it’s hard not to warm towards. He might be one step away from super-stardom or he might have already peaked, safe in the knowledge that his latest EP has touched the I-tunes top 40. Either way, the audience on this Sunday night at Nottingham’s Bodega are caught up in the infectious wide-eyed enthusiasm with which he goes about his craft. Interspersed throughout the set, he plays three new songs, all of which he has a good feeling about. “I think this is going to be the big one but then I say that about every song I’ve written”, he repeats until funny.
For much of this set, Billy is content to sit behind a white electric piano and allow us to relax into this. A roaming, orange spotlight threatens to give us all migraines in the initial parts but this is quickly faded to a more Sunday appropriate and less frantic blue. Support act, Karima Francis, has already observed in one of her chatty, smiley diversions in between songs that “Sunday gigs are for people coming down from drugs.” Billy briefly leaves the comfort of his piano to show off his impressive guitar skills but it’s the keyboard, backing tape and his soulful, clean voice that take most prominence.
He’s at his best when he’s dealing with raw and tender emotional stuff. Songs and stories about and for his Dad who passed away earlier this year loom large. ‘Your Love Hurts’ was Dad’s favourite Billy song and you can tell that it means a lot to Billy when he sings it. Plenty of reverb and echo on the voice add to the emotional effect. He saves the single from the top 40, Radio 1 backed EP to last but the quirky, jaunty tune about his relationship with his ‘Old Man’ is lapped up by the audience.
As popular as Coldplay might be (they’re not in these quarters), I wish that Billy’s one cover of the night (Magic by Codplay) was left out of the set for an extra one of his own. Billy tells us all a story of how he was involved in a marriage proposal set-up whilst busking in London and then ponders what it must be like to be married whilst falling in love with a serving soldier. Mostly, the sentiment within the set stays on the right side of a heartstring tug but there are moments that are a bit too much for this cynical, cold, hack.
“Nottingham, that’s the best it’s gone on this tour,” beams Billy as ‘Winning Team’, his audience participation, clapping and singing ode to his manager draws to a close. As a song, it charts the progress made and friendship built on his career to date. The audience seem to appreciate the honest focus that Billy brings to songs such as this and ‘Pathways’, comments on how tough and how persistent you have to be as an unsigned artist in these days of Instant yet fleeting fame from TV talent contests.
Billy tells us that he won’t be playing live for some time now that this tour is coming to an end. He’s clearly a very talented, hard-working performer and few in the audience would deny him the chance to grace stages larger than this in future years. Those who take a stance against the popular and the derivative might disagree. It remains to be seen if his 15 minutes of fame have already passed or if in 2015, one of his ‘new songs’ propels him further forward. I think, on balance, I’m hoping for the latter.
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Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo” is beautifully dissonant
Michael Slevin / February 18, 2016
Kanye at Madison Square Garden. Image by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The first track begins and I am hit by a soulful, emotionally charged song complete with a gospel choir. The song is “Ultralight Beam” and it takes me back to the old Kanye.
The Kanye of “The College Dropout” and “Late Registration.” The Kanye that feels thoughtful and emotional. I have always enjoyed Kanye’s music, but this feels like where he is at his best. Soulful, raw and substantial. This album is not a full reversion back to those days, nor should it be. It does, however, feel like Kanye invokes more emotion and soul here than in his last album, “Yeezus.”
After album name changes, a delay, the TIDAL streaming debacle and a Madison Square Garden fashion show, “The Life of Pablo” is finally out.
Kanye West’s new album feels like a metaphor for Kanye West himself; torn, fragmented and conflicted. The album contains moving masterpieces such as “Ultralight Beam,” “30 Hours” and “FML,” but switches tones from the emotional Kanye to the more childish and playful Kanye in “Famous” and “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1.”
Kanye’s sometimes childish reversion to jokes about Taylor Swift and bleached a**holes can feel misplaced, and even disappointing. The contrast between the immature and more somber Ye, however, is vivid and fascinating.
You can see Kanye struggling within this album, and it is a genuine conflict between the Kanye we perceive (jerk, arrogant, self-obsessed) and the Kanye we don’t see (father, husband, son). Kanye even gets self-referential when he make jokes about his self-obsession on the 44 second track titled “I Love Kanye,” where he raps “I love you like Kanye loves Kanye.”
My number one enemy has been my ego… there is only one throne and that’s God’s …
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 17, 2016
This is one of Kanye West’s best albums, and the strange thing is that Kanye does not feel like the best part of the album at times. “The Life of Pablo” is at its best when featured artists like The Weeknd, Kelly Price, Chance The Rapper and Kendrick Lamar shine, with Kanye taking a bit of a backseat. Kanye does, however, shine best when he goes back to the emotional appeals of “FML” and “30 Hours,” which are two of the best tracks on the album.
One thing that Kanye does that many artists don’t do is make a complete album that feels like it works together and sticks to its themes, although this album differs from West’s previous works in that it feels more scattered. In a world of artists trying to have huge singles it feels like the art an album is being lost, something that few artists still focus on.
“The Life of Pablo” is a sporadic and dissonant offering from West, who comes off as sporadic and dissonant in his personal life. Kanye’s new music is a reflection of himself, and provokes thoughts of how we present ourselves differently in different facets of our lives.
Put aside what you think of Kanye as a person, the TIDAL exclusivity and all the background noise. The music on this album is spectacular and well worth all of the drama surrounding its release.
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Welcome to the St Paul the Apostle Parish Winston Hills website! We hope this website provides parishioners and visitors alike with useful information about community. For further information please see the tabs below or contact us.
PARISH GROUPS Expand
Thank you to the many volunteers who help with the running of our Parish. Our Parish Groups are listed below with a brief description. If you'd like to be involved in or would like assistance from any of the Parish Groups, please contact the Presbytery.
Advisory Body of parishioners. Meets on the 1st Monday of each month, except January.
The Society is a lay Catholic organisation, the main work of the Society is to visit people in their homes to provide support, friendship and material assistance. We have a very active conference at St Paul's; they meet in the parish centre on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 7pm for about an hour. Members have wonderful support from parishioners to continue the work. New members to help with this great work are always welcome.
Catechist Group
Teaches Scripture in three local state primary schools in Winston Hills.
Liturgy Group
Meets as advised in bulletin.
Music/Choir
Co-ordinates music and singing for weekend Masses.
Leisure Group
Social Group for over 50’s. Meets alternative Wednesdays for outings and meetings.
Readers/Commentators
As per roster for Masses each weekend.
Acolytes/Ministers of Communion/Altar Servers
Children’s Liturgy Group
Children 4-6 years old meet during the Sunday 9:30am Mass during School Terms. The Childrens Liturgy is not run during school holidays.
Sacramental Programmes
Arranges preparation of children for 1st Reconciliation, First Eucharist and Confirmation as required.
Advisory Body of parents at St Paul's School.
Knights of the Southern Cross
Meets 1st Tuesday every month at 33 Aberdeen Rd, Winston Hills.
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL Expand
The Council exists to advise and assist the Parish Priest in matters relating to the Pastoral life of the parish. It provides a voice to the concerns and needs of the parish community. Parishioners are invited to raise their concerns, questions or ideas at any time by emailing the Council directly on council@stpaultheapostleparish.org.
The Parish Pastoral Council meets on the first Monday of each month, except January.
PRIESTS & DEACONS Expand
PARISH PRIESTS
Father David Scott ~ 3rd February 1970
Father David Hume (Administrator) ~ 1st October 2009
Father Ranillo Creta ~ 1st May 2010
ASSISTANT PRIESTS
Father Greg Hogan ~ 28th September 1979
Father Jim Fowler ~ 11th May 1982
Father George O'Mara ~ 21st November 1985
Father Alan Glendenning ~ 8th December 1988
Father W Brymora ~ 11th August 1989
Father Val O'Brien ~ 4th January 1991
Father Peter Quinn ~ 15th January 1993
Father Basil Ekot ~ 11th June 1996
Father Lancy D'Souza ~ 15th May 1999
Father Suresh Kumar ~ 5th February 2013
Father Tovia Lui ~ 12th December 2015
Deacon Greg Walsh Commenced work in the parish 3rd December 1971 at the request of the Carmelites
Deacon Jim Phelan commenced work here 11th July 1997 until 21st November 1998
Seminarian Larry Torentino commenced work here February 2011
Deacon Shinto Francis commenced work here 27th May 2017
Photos from the Parish
Take a look at our gallery of images that span all the way back to the very beginning of our Parish. Witness the landscape, fashion and faith of the 1970's to present day in our preserved archive of images.
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*Note: No 6.00pm Mass on Easter Sunday or Christmas Day
Followed by Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
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The Parish Pastoral Council meets on the first Monday of each month, except January.
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The Children's Liturgy Group is organised for children between the ages of 4-7 each Sunday at the 9.30a.m. Mass during school terms. Each Sunday there are lessons prepared for the children and these lessons relate to the Readings of the day but at the child's level. Father has purchased some new and lovely resources for the Leaders to use. The programmes for each term are prepared in advance. Children leave Mass at the beginning to attend the Children's Liturgy and return to Mass after the Homily and in time for the Offertory.
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The Sacramental Programme involves the organisation for the conference of the sacraments each year:
Further details are published in the monthly parish magazine The Note Book.
For further details, please contact our parish sacramental co-ordinator Sandra Sheehan at the Parish Office on (02) 9639 6516 (Mondays and Wednesdays)
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This groups meets quarterly and aids Father in making financial decisions for the Parish.
The St Paul's organists performs regularly at the Sunday 9:30am service, and at the Easter and Christmas services.
Piety Stall
There is a large assortment of religious books and artefacts available at the Stall, which is open for the Vigil Mass and all Masses on Sunday.
A large selection of books and DVDs of a religious nature are available to borrow.
Solo Parent Services (Division of CatholicCare Social Services)
Solo Parent Services particular focus is with those who are grieving the loss of their spouse or partner following separation, divorce or death. We recognise that these people who are grieving also face particular challenges associated with adapting to a new identity.
The role of Grief counselling is to accompany and assist people to come to a point of being able to reinvest their emotional and physical energy back into life and living.
Solo Parent Services offer individual counselling, support groups, psycho-educational programs and seminars which are conducted in a safe and supportive environment. These services are offered separately for those in the process of a separation and divorce or grieving the death of their spouse or partner. Our groups and services are currently offered from our offices at Parramatta and Blacktown, or Parish based in the Western Suburbs where required.
For more information contact Rita Chater on 8822 2222 or email: soloparentservices@ccss.org.au
ST PAUL THE APOSTLE PRIMARY SCHOOL Expand
St Paul the Apostle Primary School, Winston Hills is a welcoming Catholic community, valuing our unique partnership of family, school and parish; providing opportunities for individual growth and striving for excellence in teaching and learning. Our vision is to 'reach new heights through a community celebrating faith, life and learning'.
The motto of St Paul the Apostle Primary is: ‘Victory Through Faith.’
The commitment and contribution of the Holy Faith Sisters to the faith development of the school community has been, and still is, significant. The pastoral leadership provided by the sisters has ensured that our school motto is truly reflective of the school philosophy and spirit. The community spirit in the school is very evident and parents are welcomed and valued members of our school community. The quality of education provided is a high priority and the school leadership team and staff endeavour to do this in an environment which values the dignity and giftedness of every student and teacher.
The school’s academic record continues to improve as evidenced by our results in NAPLAN – National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy. In 2015 our Year 3 students were above the state average in Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation and numeracy. In 2015 our Year 5 students were above the state average in Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation.
The school is fortunate in having a very committed Parents and Friends Association (P&F) who work in partnership with the school staff. The P&F Association provides a positive link between the school and parent body and helps build the strong community spirit of Saint Paul the Apostle Primary School. These strong links complement the academic learning to help the children grow into well-rounded people. As the first teachers of their children, parents play a vital role in the children’s learning and are welcome visitors as they assist in literacy and numeracy activities, creative and practical arts and a variety of sporting activities.
Religious Education is an integral component of all curriculum areas and our sacramental program is parish based and family centered. We are fortunate in having the parish church located in close proximity to the school.
You are always welcome to come and visit our learning spaces to see what excellence in education looks like today. All enquiries regarding the school can be made by phoning the school office on 8841 3800 between the hours of 8.00am to 4.00pm.
Marian Bell
www.stpawinstonhills.catholic.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9639 6516 • Fax: (02) 9686 1727
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Finished my second playthrough of The Walking Dead yesterday.
Still not able to hold back those manly tears.
Kentucky Route Zero is wonderful story based game, one of my favorites last year.
franknarf
Well, roder himself is playing Aerena, a multiplayer only tactics game. You have to pay to get in the beta (though I got it in a pay-very-little bundle), but it will be F2P later. Fun stuff.
Hoplite for mobile is pretty great. And I've been playing Oasis, that really old Civ-lite; and FTL again, since it was just expanded recently.
Argail
Has anyone played 'King of the Dragon Pass' and would take a chance in comparing it with the Banner Saga? I am quite curious about how it plays.
@Argail:
KoDP is more replayable, since it has more writing, randomness and choices, in both dialogue and strategy. On the strategy layer, you interact with many citizens of your village, not just the warriors and make "research" and "resource management" decisions that are not found in TBS (except "rest or don't").
In exposition before and after choices, KoDP slowly describes a thoroughly thought-out fantasy world and Viking-like culture (that was designed before the game... look it up on wikipedia).
There's no tactical combat, but there are a few dialogue choices made for battles.
I haven't played it far enough to reach a win condition, so maybe others here know more.
Sounds really quite interesting. I also like the aesthetics, so I might give it a try. Thanks for sharing your experiences franknarf!
Rymdkejsaren
Kentucky Route Zero and The Wolf Among Us are great story games. I am currently playing newly released Age of Wonders III, which I cannot recommend enough for people who love the TBS Fantasy genre (Heroes of Might and Magic, King's Bounty, Master of Magic). Age of Wonders was always my favourite series and the third game is no disappointment (thank you Notch for helping out with funding development of the game!).
NEO Scavenger had me enthralled for a while and I just finished a playthrough of Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall which is good for the story, although the game mechanics could have been deeper and more enjoyable.
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I am not really playing much lately, but i can still suggest you guys a few good tittles that are "relatively new" that i currently have installed and still enjoy a lot from time to time!
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Haha yes I did bump into franknarf yesterday in AErena, under a different username xD We played a few battles before i added him and found out he was franknarf haha
I've been mostly playing AErena, but I am excited for the upcoming Shadowrun Online, which is created by the same company that made AErena. ATM it is in early access and from the looks of it it looks too very early alpha, so I am going to wait and see for a more polished version to come (cant be too sure with Early acess games)...but squad-based games are my favorite!
Skald
Originally Posted by roder
I've been mostly playing AErena...
Do you know when will the game leave the "Early Access" and go full-public? Has the playerbase increased any?
Originally Posted by Aleonymous
The playerbase increases every 2 months, because they are regularly resetting a new competitive season, so new and old come back. But tbh, not too many people are interested in buying into early access, let alone buying into a free-to-play game xD especially $10 for f2p game. but I gave you, AP and smom a free key worth that $10, so thats not an issue haha
Not sure when it will go public, possibly summer. If you're waiting for a finished good product, I would definitely wait for release, because by then they will have ironed out the bugs and there will be a much bigger population (usually f2p games have huge folllowings in the first few months). That is what I'll be doing for Shadowrun Online. I'm just in it right now for the community, and the devs are the most active, they do patches every few weeks and I play with them on a regular basis lol plus I need a turn-based game to play on my spare time xD
But tbh, not too many people are interested in buying into early access, let alone buying into a free-to-play game xD especially $10 for f2p game. but I gave you, AP and smom a free key worth that $10, so thats not an issue haha
I feel kinda bad about that, but Steam-Punk is not really my thing Comparisons to Factions were also inevitable, without a clear winner (apart from style/theme). The playerbase seems to have its up-and-downs but it is growing -- https://steamcharts.com/app/247830#All . I think that Factions beta would have been similar, right?
Haha no worries, a gift is a gift Yeah, I don't know what it is, but there is a huge boost in population for every F2P game that releases on steam xD I think people just like free things. But they are trying to adopt an Leagueoflegends-style model, where everything is free but they release champions regularly so thats how they make money regularly on long-term, on ppl who just like to buy with real currency. I feel like Stoic didn't really make Factions as a money-maker, and if they did, well..imagine the fan uproar xD
As for the Factions beta, I have no clue how the really early stages went, according to our forum join dates, we came around the same time (you being 1 month earlier :P)
In my recollection, the pattern was similar for Factions, going up and down with updates, but the numbers were a lot higher (a few dozen online at any given time and a few hundred early-accessers in the week or two after the final wipe and before the public launch, at which point it actually got on the charts briefly).
The Aerena community is small, but I guess it's big enough for the beta phase. It has at least one person becoming well-known for dominating the competition; writing a guide and discussing design and strategy; and recording videos (like Tirean, raven and everyone in Factions' early days).
Regarding the steampunk thing, I'm not really digging the floating metal platforms, but the varied character designs and idle animations are really cool. I think the real weakness is the name; "Aerena: Clash of Champions" is so generic.
Originally Posted by franknarf
Hehe, I am actually thinking it's a throwback to League of Legend's subtitle name, Clash of Fates (which no one ever knows, and they dont use it anymore, only beta players would recognize it). Since they are trying to follow LoL's f2p model, im guessing they borrowed something else too xD
The best thing about AErena are the devs. They're constantly active, especially their community manager, and constantly playing everyday. The winner of the first alpha season, was given the opportunity to make his very own unit idea in the game (he named it after his wife, and it's coming pretty soon). But it's been my experience, that indie devs are either really awesome, or never interact with their fans at all bc they are so swamped ^^
I think the real weakness is the name; "Aerena: Clash of Champions" is so generic.
Hehe, talking about names, imagine how "Banner Saga" would feel to someone who (1) was plagued by online-advertizing, (2) was familiar with games likes Candy Crush Saga! Luckily none of the above applied to me, so I never noticed anything weird about the title (I am not a native speaker either, so subconscious nomenclature issues rarely bother me)
(a)The winner of the first alpha season, was given the opportunity to make his very own unit idea in the game...
(b)...indie devs are either really awesome, or never interact with their fans at all bc they are so swamped ^^
(a) That is actually a pretty awesome idea! It would have also been cool as a KS reward. I think Stoic only game Godstone & Item designs to backers.
(b) True!
Not much time to play right now but there's always some time for a Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer match.
loveboof
There's a new paradox game that most of us will probably quite like (Viking themed), called Runemaster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_J0PlLw-vI
Maybe worth following
Originally Posted by loveboof
Thanks for the heads up, loveboof! I was following this game, but hadn't noticed this "update" from GAMESCON 2014 (yet). I definitely like it; the full-3D/CG is not a "must" for me (I much prefer hand-drawn graphics), but the world/theme feels right...
Divinity: Original Sin was good and now Wasteland 2 is around the corner which should be excellent. I tried the early access of Invisble Inc. which is promising to be a really interesting TBS tactics game I can recommend.
For less story and more hack'n'slash I play Strife. which is the first MOBA-type game I've managed to draw any type of enjoyment from. They have done away with a lot of the redundant (imo) mechanics and the game is better for it. It is free in open beta at the moment, if you want to try it out feel free to use my referral link: https://strife.com/create?raf=4ST3URTM which will give us both some goodies if you sign up and play.
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Can confirmed bluestocking and matchmaker Louisa Bradbury compose her own happily ever after with Thomas, the wallflower of the rich and powerful Wright family?
Stealing the Duchess by Marie Higgins, national bestselling author
When Julian Stratford seeks out to steal the duchess as an act of revenge, he mistakenly steals the wrong sister—a wallflower, no less. As they work together to try and solve the mystery, they soon discover that not only are their lives in danger, but so are their hearts.
First Impressions by Elizabeth Johns, national bestselling author
A widower earl, still in need of an heir, reluctantly sets off for London in search of a wife. He infinitely prefers the role of recluse to that of dashing beau.
The Season’s Incomparable prefers books to balls. She agrees to hide her bookish tendencies in exchange for her mother agreeing to limit her to one Season.
Their initial prejudices prevent their feeling they would suit, but an unlikely source may give them another chance…
Treasure Beyond Words by Heather King
Having trusted the wrong man, bluestocking Amelia Burcott is forced to seek employment as a governess in order to support herself. Little does she realize, when she joins the household of the Earl of Raftesbury, that he has a secret as great as her own and needs the right woman to help him conquer his past.
The Earl’s Beloved Match by Bess McBride, national bestselling author
Bluestocking Cora Prentice has no intention of marrying…ever. Tobias, the Early of Momford, has no intention of marrying…ever. But Aunt Mimi has other plans for them as she sets out to make a match between her goddaughter and her adopted nephew!
Save the Last Dance for Me by Cora Lee, award winning author
When Lady Honoria Maitland reunites with her old friend Benedict Grey, she proposes an arrangement: a faux courtship that will smooth wallflower Benedict’s re-entry into society and appease her dying father. But Honoria’s clever plan failed to account for Benedict’s heart…or her own.
The Third MacPherson Sister by Susana Ellis
Rebecca’s older sisters took the ton by storm while she herself has failed to attract a suitor in four Seasons. Miles is pondering his urgent need for a wife when Rebecca lands in his lap in the nave of Bath Abbey. A match between them seems ordained by the heavens… except for the little matter of his past history with her sisters.
Romance in Bath
Rebecca MacPherson and Miles Framingham, Duke of Aylesbury, meet in Bath Abbey while their respective mothers are taking the waters at the Roman Baths.
Miles is sitting in front of a stained glass window and pondering his need for a wife when Rebecca is pushed by a passing crowd into his lap. Is a marriage between them ordained by the heavens?
The next day, they meet again while shopping on the Pulteney Bridge, although this time it appears to be due to the scheming of their matchmaking mothers.
But Rebecca isn’t interested in an arranged marriage—even with a duke—and Miles, besides being reluctant to tie himself down, has a rather scandalous history with one of her “Golden Twin” sisters.
A match between them seems impossible… unless true love truly does conquer all.
Susana has always had stories in her head waiting to come out, especially when she learned to read and her imagination began to soar. Voracious reading led to a passion for writing, and her fascination with romance and people of the past landed her firmly in the field of historical romance.
A teacher in her former life, Susana lives in Toledo, Ohio in the summer and central Florida in the winter. She is a member of the Central Florida Romance Writers and the Beau Monde chapters of RWA and Maumee Valley Romance Inc.
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This entry was posted on June 26, 2015, in Aileen Fish, Anthology, Bess McBride, Boxed Set, Cora Lee, Elizabeth Johns, Erin Knightley, Heather King, Historical, Lily George, Marie Higgins, Novella, Susana Ellis, SUSANA'S RELEASES, Sweet, Sweet Summer Kisses, The Third MacPherson Sister and tagged Aileen Fish, Anthology, Bess McBride, boxed set, Cora Lee, Elizabeth Johns, Erin Knightley, Heather King, Lily George, Marie Higgins, Regency romance, Susana Ellis, Sweet Summer Kisses, The Third MacPherson Sister. 1 Comment
Beaux, Ballrooms, and Battles: A Celebration of Waterloo
June 18, 1815 was the day Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée was definitively routed by the ragtag band of soldiers from the Duke of Wellington’s Allied Army in a little Belgian town called Waterloo. The cost in men’s lives was high—22,000 dead or wounded for the Allied Army and 24,000 for the French. But the war with Napoleon that had dragged on for a dozen years was over for good, and the British people once more felt secure on their island shores.
The bicentenary of the famous battle seemed like an excellent opportunity to use that setting for a story, and before I knew it, I had eight other authors eager to join me, and to make a long story short, on April 1, 2015 our Waterloo-themed anthology was released to the world.
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Jillian Chantal: Jeremiah’s Charge
Emmaline Rothesay has her eye on Jeremiah Denby as a potential suitor. When Captain Denby experiences a life-altering incident during the course of events surrounding the Battle of Waterloo, it throws a damper on Emmaline’s plans.
Téa Cooper: The Caper Merchant
The moon in Gemini is a fertile field of dreams, ideas and adventure and Pandora Wellingham is more than ready to spread her wings. When Monsieur Cagneaux, caper merchant to the rich and famous, introduces her to the handsome dragoon she believes her stars have aligned.
Susana Ellis: Lost and Found Lady
Catalina and Rupert fell in love in Spain in the aftermath of a battle, only to be separated by circumstances. Years later, they find each other again, just as another battle is brewing, but is it too late?
Aileen Fish: Captain Lumley’s Angel
Charged with the duty of keeping his friend’s widow safe, Captain Sam Lumley watches over Ellen Staverton as she recovers from her loss, growing fonder of her as each month passes. When Ellen takes a position as a companion, Sam must confront his feelings before she’s completely gone from his life.
Victoria Hinshaw: Folie Bleue
On the night of the 30th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Aimée, Lady Prescott, reminisces about meeting her husband in Bruxelles on the eve of the fighting. She had avoided the dashing scarlet-clad British officers, but she could not resist the tempting smile and spellbinding charm of Captain Robert Prescott of the 16th Light Dragoons who— dangerously to Aimée— wore blue.
Heather King: Copenhagen’s Last Charge
When Meg Lacy finds herself riding through the streets of Brussels only hours after the Battle of Waterloo, romance is the last thing on her mind, especially with surly Lieutenant James Cooper. However, their bickering uncovers a strange empathy – until, that is, the lieutenant makes a grave error of judgment that jeopardizes their budding friendship…
Christa Paige: One Last Kiss
The moment Colin held Beatrice in his arms he wanted one last kiss to take with him into battle and an uncertain future. Despite the threat of a soldier’s death, he must survive, for he promises to return to her because one kiss from Beatrice would never be enough.
Sophia Strathmore: A Soldier Lay Dying
Amelia and Anne Evans find themselves orphaned when their father, General Evans, dies. With no other options available, Amelia accepts the deathbed proposal of Oliver Brighton, Earl of Montford, a long time family friend. When Lord Montford recovers from his battle wounds, can the two find lasting love?
David W. Wilkin: Not a Close Run Thing at All
Years, a decade. And now, Robert had come back into her life. Shortly before battle was to bring together more than three hundred thousand soldiers. They had but moments after all those years, and now, would they have any more after?
About Lost and Found Lady
On April 24, 1794, a girl child was born to an unknown Frenchwoman in a convent in Salamanca, Spain. Alas, her mother died in childbirth, and the little girl—Catalina—was given to a childless couple to raise.
Eighteen years later…the Peninsular War between the British and the French wages on, now perilously near Catalina’s home. After an afternoon yearning for adventure in her life, Catalina comes across a wounded British soldier in need of rescue. Voilà! An adventure! The sparks between them ignite, and before he returns to his post, Rupert promises to return for her.
But will he? Catalina’s grandmother warns her that some men make promises easily, but fail to carry them out. Catalina doesn’t believe Rupert is that sort, but what does she know? All she can do is wait…and pray.
But Fate has a few surprises in store for both Catalina and Rupert. When they meet again, it will be in another place where another battle is brewing, and their circumstances have been considerably altered. Will their love stand the test of time? And how will their lives be affected by the outcome of the conflict between the Iron Duke and the Emperor of the French?
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This entry was posted on March 27, 2015, in Aileen Fish, Anthology, Beaux Ballrooms and Battles, Christa Paige, David W. Wilkin, Heather King, Historical, Jillian Chantal, Lost and Found Lady, Sophia Strathmore, Susana Ellis, Sweet, Téa Cooper, Victoria HInshaw and tagged A Celebration of Waterloo, Aileen Fish, Anthology, Beaux Ballrooms and Battles, Christa Paige, David W. Wilkin, Heather King, Jillian Chantal, Lost and Found Lady, Regency romance, Sophia Strathmore, Susana Ellis, Téa Cooper, Victoria Hinshaw, Waterloo, Wellington. 1 Comment
The Tradition of Boxing Day
Happy Boxing Day!
Reblogged from Téa Cooper’s Blog
The origin of the term “Boxing Day” is uncertain, but the European tradition may have come from as far back as Roman times, when owners would present slaves and people of lesser status with gifts on Saturnalia. Or the term may have come later when it was the custom to place metal boxes outside churches to collect alms for the poor and needy on the Feast of St. Stephen, which falls on the same day.
In the English tradition, Boxing Day was a time to reward servants, tenants and tradesmen with gifts of money and/or food. Because servants were required to work on Christmas Day, it was tradition to give them the next day off to spend with their families.
Kissing Bough
Fox hunting was a popular sport on Boxing Day as well. The weather was usually not too much of a problem; contrary to popular thought, the winter weather in much of England tends to be quite mild. The winter of 1813, when A Twelfth Night Tale takes place, was a particularly cold one. But that didn’t stop Lucy and Andrew from braving the cold to collect greenery to embellish Livingston Hall with Christmas cheer on Christmas Day. Nor did it prevent them from taking the children and distributing boxes to the community on Boxing Day.
These activities had the effect of pulling Andrew out of his melancholy and opening his eyes to the desirability of the grown-up Lucy. Lucy dared to hope that Andrew’s attentiveness might be a sign that he was seeing her with new eyes. But he was still nursing a broken heart, and with an offer of marriage from a wealthy viscount expected at any moment, could she afford to gamble that Andrew would come up to scratch before it was too late?
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This entry was posted on December 26, 2014, in A Twelfth Night Tale, Historical, Novella, Susana Ellis, Sweet and tagged A Twelfth Night Tale, Boxing Day, Christmas, Christmas traditions, Regency romance, Susana Ellis. 1 Comment
It’s Party Time on Susana’s Morning Room!
Susana’s Morning Room was born a year ago, just before my first story, Treasuring Theresa, was released on January 3, 2013. I wanted my first blog, Susana’s Parlour, to remain primarily historical/Regency-related, but I also wanted to feature some of my writer friends’ non-historical releases. And also because I read other sub-genres of romance too that I wanted to discuss from time to time.
So, voilà! I created Susana’s Morning Room to feature all sub-genres and heat levels of romance. You’ll find an eclectic mix here; the only requirement is an HEA. After I began hosting for Goddess Fish Promotions, I discovered many great new authors myself! Now I just wish I had more time to read all the books on my Kindle!
The Best Romance Books of 2013
I really can’t limit myself to one, so here are the ones that come to mind:
Diana Gabaldon: An Echo in the Bone
Susanna Ives: Wicked Little Secrets
Téa Cooper: Matilda’s Freedom
Téa Cooper: Passionfruit & Poetry
Ashlyn Macnamara: A Most Devilish Rogue
Collette Cameron: The Viscount’s Vow
Ella Quinn: The Secret Life of Miss Anna Marsh
Joanna Wylde: Reaper’s Property
Selene Grace Silver: Brianna’s Bewitching
Susana’s Morning Room Anniversary Giveaway
All you have to do is comment on this post with the title of one or more of the best romance books you’ve read this year. Any sub-genre. Any heat level. A random commenter will win a print copy of Cotillion Christmas Celebrations. (Be sure to include your email address in your comment.)
This entry was posted on December 27, 2013, in A Twelfth Night Tale, Ashlyn Macnamara, Collette Cameron, Contemporary, Diana Gabaldon, Ella Quinn, Erotic, Historical, Joanna Wylde, Novel, Novella, Paranormal, Selene Grace Silver, Short Story, Steamy, Susana Ellis, Susanna Ives, Sweet, Téa Cooper, Time Travel, Treasuring Theresa and tagged A Most Devilish Rogue, A Twelfth Night Tale, An Echo in the Bone, Ashnlyn Macnamara, Best Books of 2013, Brianna's Bewitching, Collette Cameron, Cotillion Christmas Celebrations, Diana Gabaldon, Ella Quinn, Joanna Wylde, Matilda's Freedom, Passionfruit & Poetry, Reaper's Property, Selene Grace Silver, Susana Ellis, Susana's Morning Room, Susana's Parlour, Susanna Ives, Téa Cooper, The Secret Life of Miss Anna Marsh, The Viscount's Vow, Treasuring Theresa, Wicked Little Secrets. 5 Comments
My TBR List For Summer + GIVEAWAY!
Inundated With Books
Are you like me…overwhelmed with piles of hundreds of books I’m dying to read, but not enough time to read them? Since I reinvented myself as an author/blogger/promo queen, the days seem to go by way too quickly. I used to read about five books a week—once I read an Outlander book in a DAY, believe it or not—but now I’m lucky to get through two. Now if I could hire someone to do clean the house and do the yard work, well, maybe I could get in one more. (Uh, maybe not. I’m not the greatest housekeeper. But the house and yard would certainly look better!)
So I thought I’d post a list of books I definitely want to get through this summer—before August 31. Not necessarily in this order:
Honor’s Debt by Joan Vincent (halfway done)
Lily’s Leap by Téa Cooper
Matilda’s Freedom by Téa Cooper
Bedding the Wrong Brother by Virna De Paul
A Rose in the Storm by Brenda Joyce
A Lady in Name by Elizabeth Bailey
If You Dare by Kresley Cole
Her Gilded Prison by Beverley Oakley
Just For the Summer by Jenna Rutland
The Trouble With Sin by Victoria Vane
The Queen’s Favourites by Jean Plaidy*
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
Miss Goldsleigh’s Secret by Amylynn Bright
The Seduction of Lady Phoebe by Ella Quinn
The Lady and the Laird by Nicole Cornick
The Tudor Conspiracy by C.W. Gortner
A Most Devilish Rogue by Ashlyn MacNamara
An Ideal Duchess by Evangeline Howard
*The Queen’s Favourites is an older hard copy I happen to have in my collection of Jean Plaidy/Philippa Carr books. I chose this one because it’s about Sarah Churchill and Anne Stuart, and last year I heard about their relationship while touring Blenheim Palace, which was built for the Duke of Marlborough (Sarah’s husband).
Of course, I have a few hundred others on my Kindle and several shelves full of print books, so these won’t even make a dent. And after my trip to Scotland (June 20-July 6), I may be inspired to add a few more Scotland-set books. Or even write one of my own, who knows?
What books are you planning to read this summer? Post your own list in the comment section and be eligible to win a deck of cards featuring covers of Ellora’s Cave books OR a Merry Monarchs card game from England (your choice). Will mail anywhere in the world!
This entry was posted on June 21, 2013, in Jenna Rutland, Kresley Cole, Susana Ellis, Téa Cooper, Virna De Paul and tagged Ashlyn MacNamara, Beverley Oakley, Brenda Joyce, C.W. Gortner, Elizabeth Bailey, Ella Quinn, Evangeline Howard, Georgette Heyer's Regency World, Jean Plaidy, Jenna Rutland, Jennifer Kloester, Joan Vincent, Nicole Cornick, Susana Ellis, Victoria Vane. 4 Comments
A Discourse On Damian
As the only son of a viscount, Damian led a charmed life. Although raised primarily by servants—as was the norm among the nobility—his parents were distantly affectionate. Moreover, they were decent, upstanding people who took their responsibilities seriously. His father, the fifth Viscount Clinton, served the Tories in Parliament faithfully until his death less than three years past. He’d been in failing health since his wife’s death of a fever some five years before that. So at the age of twenty-six, Damian became the sixth Viscount Clinton and the owner of a prosperous estate and a tidy fortune besides.
What more could a young man wish for?
Other than a few distant relatives—one of them an earl to whom he stood as heir—he was alone in the world. In actuality, there were plenty of people eager to cultivate the friendship of a young viscount with substantial resources and the promise of more in the future. In London he made a life for himself full of amusing distractions, from evenings out on the town with his cronies to afternoons sparring at Gentleman Jackson’s or racing with his peers at the Four-in-Hand Club. There was no end of pleasures in London.
As one of the pre-eminent bachelors in London, he was in constant demand at all the premier ton events. The matchmaking mamas would descend on him en masse with their vacant-eyed daughters; he’d learned to keep them at arm’s length by perfecting the art of the disdainful stare through a quizzing glass. Perhaps it was rather callous of him, but more than one of his peers had been maneuvered into an unwanted marriage after being tricked into a compromising situation with one of those innocent-appearing vixens. But he wasn’t in the market for a wife. Not yet anyway. He was enjoying his freedom far too much to take on a leg-shackle.
Women, however, were another thing entirely. Bored wives, widows, Cyprians, servant wenches—they threw themselves at his feet. Generally, he limited himself to one mistress at a time; as much as he enjoyed bedsport, he had no desire to make a name for himself à la the fifth duke of Devonshire. His father would not have approved, and although he wasn’t quite ready to take up his obligations in the House of Lords or set up his nursery, he had no wish to taint the family name with scandal.
So he made his home in London, taking little interest in the family estate except to leave it in the care of a capable steward, and kept his indulgences to a minimum—a bit of gambling, drinking, and raucous nights on the town, but nothing excessive that he thought would earn his father’s disapproval. Well, perhaps there was one thing.
Damian took inordinate pride in his apparel. He was Weston’s best customer—no doubt because he was one of the few who paid his bills on time—and he liked to wear unusual colors that set him apart from the gentlemen who considered anything that wasn’t black, brown, or gray too feminine. Now Damian wasn’t one of those dandified peacocks who strutted around in clashing colors, but he did not eschew some of the lighter colors in his waistcoats and trousers. He had a slate blue jacket that brought out the color of his eyes that never failed to draw the admiration of others. The dark rose one raised a few eyebrows at first, but it wasn’t long before some of the other gentlemen began sporting the same shade of rose. Unfortunately, more than a few of them didn’t have the knack of knowing how far to go with it; the colors they chose to wear with it made him wince.
But Damian was an Original. People sought to emulate him, flatter him, earn his approval. And he learned to be discriminating in those he chose to be his companions. He himself could do nothing wrong. He had the power to make any heedless young girl an outcast, and had done so more than once. After awhile he didn’t think about it overmuch. That was life in the ton, and anyone who couldn’t handle it didn’t belong there.
But Damian’s life is about to take an unexpected turn. Will he have the courage to step forward and embrace the full measure of the gift that is about to fall into his lap? Or will he toss it aside and return to his fabulous—lonely?—life in London?
Treasuring Theresa, a sweet Regency short story, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, AllRomance eBooks, Ellora’s Cave, Sony, Kobo and Bookstrand.
To celebrate the release of Treasuring Theresa, I am offering contests each week of January. Winners will be chosen on January 9, 16, 23, and 31. You can’t win if you don’t enter, so enter now, by clicking below or the Treasuring Theresa cover at right.
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This entry was posted on January 25, 2013, in Historical, Short Story, Susana Ellis, SUSANA'S RELEASES, Sweet, Treasuring Theresa and tagged contest, Ellora's Cave, Susana Ellis, Sweet, Treasuring Theresa. 1 Comment
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Tanya Anne Crosby and “Speak No Evil” (No Evil #1)
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Lifting the veil of secrecy on a grand Southern family in decline, New York Times bestselling author Tanya Anne Crosby explores the lives of Caroline, Augusta, and Savannah Aldridge, three sisters who share a dark past and an uncertain future…Caroline Aldridge was surprised by the number of mourners at her mother’s funeral. Evidently the newspaper heiress who had caused her children so much pain was well-loved by everyone else in Charleston. Now she was gone, leaving behind countless secrets–and a few demands: Caroline and her sisters must live together for one year or lose their inheritance. And Caroline must take over The Tribune. But a killer is making headlines, and Caroline may have unwittingly stepped into the crosshairs…
A series of kidnappings and murders resurrect the sisters’ memories of their brother’s disappearance as a child–and Caroline fears she may be next. Yet in the midst of her turmoil, she may be rekindling a romance she’d extinguished long ago. With Jack back in her life and the tattered bonds of sisterhood slowly mending, Caroline hopes the family can restore its position in Charleston society–unless a sinister force beyond their control tears them apart forever. . .
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He took another swig of his Guinness and reached into his pocket to grab his cell phone. Three missed calls from Kelly. Zero from Caroline.
Then, again, he hadn’t expected Caroline to call. She was as prideful as her mother—damn her! Even ten years later, she wasn’t about to forget a stupid mistake. He set the phone down on the counter and drained his glass, eyeing the cell with some malice.
The bartender eyed him curiously. “Bad day?”
Jack shrugged. “Buried a friend,” he said.
And fought with the woman who somehow still managed to consume his thoughts even after all these years, but he didn’t offer up that part. It was nobody’s business.
Caroline was the sole reason he couldn’t settle down with Kelly, he realized. Every time he’d considered it, Caroline’s face popped into his head—like one of those annoying carnival games. He didn’t think that was the way it was supposed to be—married to one girl, obsessed with another.
There was nothing wrong with Kelly.
She just wasn’t Caroline.
“I’ll take another.”
Kyle nodded and complied.
Okay, so maybe as a description of the past several years, “obsessed” was a bit of an overstatement, because he had pretty much managed to put Caroline out of his head—except whenever lifechanging decisions were about to be made. This minute, however, it was a full-on obsession, complete with phantom touches that were hijacking his body. Just seeing her had done that to him. It left him with a sense of longing that was acutely disagreeable, and he couldn’t shake it.
Eyeing the phone again, he considered calling her—just so he could stop thinking about her—and it dawned on him that she was probably the reason he had never changed his number. That thought had never even entered his brain before this moment, but he was pretty sure it was true. He wasn’t over her. Worse, he was afraid he was never going to be over her, and the thought of living his life in limbo made him feel like chain-smoking half a dozen packs of cigarettes right in front of her.
His cell phone rang and his heart thumped hard. Then he saw the number and felt the letdown: Kelly.
He couldn’t avoid her forever.
Draining his glass once more, he took out his wallet, paid the tab, grabbed his cell, and almost as an afterthought, reached into his pocket, digging out his last pack of cigarettes, still half full, and tossed them on the bar, then walked out. The phone stopped ringing, but he would call her back. Now that it was all clear in his head, he realized holding on wasn’t fair.
It was time to let go.
Tanya has written seventeen novels, all of which have graced numerous bestseller lists including the New York Times and USA Today. Best known for stories charged with emotion and humor, and filled with flawed characters, her novels have garnered reader praise and glowing critical reviews. She lives with her husband, two dogs and two cats in northern Michigan.
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This entry was posted on August 27, 2013, in Contemporary, Novel, Romantic Suspense, Steamy, Tanya Anne Crosby and tagged CBLS Promotions, No Evil, Romantic Suspense, Speak No Evil, Susana Ellis, Tanya Anne Crosby. 3 Comments
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The Inherent, Pathological Fascism Of The Left. It Took Nazism Decades To Fester In Germany And American Liberals Are Ahead Of Schedule.
Back in 2008 I wrote a three part series of articles entitled, “How Postmodernism Leads To Fascism.” Guess what? It still does.
Its been nearly three years since I wrote a long article titled, “Why I Call Obama A Fascist.” And the man has EXPLODED in fascism since I wrote that with his targeting of nearly 300 conservative groups using his thug IRS as a major recent example. He is a firehose of pure fascist evil and you literally cannot keep up with it unless you stay up 24/7 trying to document it all.
But this article isn’t about Obama per se; it’s about the left that Obama is a creature of. It’s about the left that is quintessentially fascist. Which is all-too easy to prove and to document.
In a nutshell, “NAZI” stood for “National Socialist German Workers Party.” The only difference between fascist “national socialism” and “communism” was the fact that one favored “national” socialism while the other demanded “international socialism.” But socialism is socialism. Socialism is always and in every case big government run amok. Socialism is government dictating to the people what to do and how to live and what to think. If there was a National Socialist American Workers Party, is anyone actually fool enough to believe it would be the Republicans or the conservatives??? Because conservatism stands for the ANTITHESIS of socialism: we stand for LIMITED federal government, for individual liberty rather than governmental control, for laissez-faire free markets rather than government taxation and regulation.
Gene Edward Veith makes this point:
“Part of the problem in recognizing fascism is the assumption that it is conservative. [Zeev] Sternhell has observed how study of the ideology has been obscured by “the official Marxist interpretation of fascism.” Marxism defines fascism as its polar opposite. If Marxism is progressive, fascism is conservative. If Marxism is left wing, fascism is right wing. If Marxism champions the proletariat, fascism champions the bourgeoisie. If Marxism is socialist, fascism is capitalist.
The influence of Marxist scholarship has severely distorted our understanding of fascism. Communism and fascism were rival brands of socialism. Whereas Marxist socialism is predicated on an international class struggle, fascist national socialism promoted a socialism centered in national unity. Both communists and fascists opposed the bourgeoisie. Both attacked the conservatives. Both were mass movements, which had special appeal for the intelligentsia, students, and artists, as well as workers. Both favored strong centralized governments and rejected the free economy and the ideals of individual liberty. Fascists saw themselves as being neither of the right nor the left. They believed that they constituted a third force synthesizing the best of both extremes” [Gene Edward Veith, Jr., Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview, p. 26].
Which is to say that you are already a far-leftist socialist – a communist – merely to believe the lie that the communist propaganda put forward about fascism being “right-wing.”
The notion that fascism/and or Nazism is “right-wing” is utter nonsense beyond this: Nazism and fascism are the extreme right of the far, radical LEFT. Socialism is inherently LEFT-WING, not right-wing. The Nazis believed in a fiercely nation-based socialism whereas the communists believed in an international, “workers of the world unite!” brand of socialism. But they BOTH wanted a giant, all-powerful, totalitarian government that is the heart of not the right but the LEFT.
So “fascism” is NOT “right-wing.” The next surprise is that “liberalism” is not “liberal” in any classical understanding of the term.
One of the things the reader must understand is how liberals have perverted the term “liberal” and “liberalism.” Yes, fascism is ideologically the opposite of liberalism; but that is “liberalism” in the CLASSICAL sense of liberalism, rather than what today’s progressive liberals believe and are doing. What is “liberalism” in the classical sense?
Classical liberalism is a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism in which primary emphasis is placed on securing the freedom of the individual by limiting the power of the government. The philosophy emerged as a response to the Industrial Revolution and urbanization in the 19th century in Europe and the United States.[1] It advocates civil liberties with a limited government under the rule of law, private property, and belief in laissez-faire economic liberalism.[2][3][4]
In other words, a limited proponent of limited government, free markets, individual liberty. THAT’S a classical liberty. Which is to say that I as a modern conservative am a classical liberal, whereas modern progressive liberals are – you guessed it – fascists. Modern liberals, like the fascists, believe in the OPPOSITE of all these things that classical liberals held and hold the most dear.
As you think about fascism and Nazism (which was merely a particular form of fascist socialism, think about some of the tenants and try to understand how what I am going to document that which is coming from the American left today is genuinely fascist.
Only a couple of months ago there was this gem of rabid fascist intolerance from the left:
Harvard writer: Abolish free speech
Woman claims First Amendment threatens liberalism
Published: 1 day ago
A student writer at Harvard University is raising eyebrows after publishing her belief that free speech on campus should be abolished and professors with opposing views be fired.
Sandra Korn, a senior who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson newspaper, thinks radical leftism is the only permissible political philosophy, and the First Amendment only hinders colleges from brainwashing students with her viewpoint.
“Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice,” states the subtitle of her Feb. 18 column, in which she insists Harvard stop guaranteeing students and professors the right to hold controversial views and conduct research putting liberalism in a negative light.
“If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals?” Korn asks.
“It is tempting to decry frustrating restrictions on academic research as violations of academic freedom. Yet I would encourage student and worker organizers to instead use a framework of justice. After all, if we give up our obsessive reliance on the doctrine of academic freedom, we can consider more thoughtfully what is just.”
Korn’s view grabbed the attention of the nation’s top conservative voice, Rush Limbaugh.
“This is not unique. This is not satire. This is not parody,” Limbaugh said on his nationally broadcast radio program Tuesday. “This woman, Sandra Korn, is real, and she’s serious that free speech needs to be abridged because it is threatening liberalism. It means that liberalism cannot hold up to scrutiny. It cannot withstand a challenge. If liberalism were infallible, if liberalism were so powerful and automatic, they would welcome challenges to it – and they would welcome the attempt to persuade and to convert. But instead they’re threatened by it.”
When asked of he thought her belief was going to become a movement, Limbaugh indicated it already was one.
“This is what the left is,” he explained. “Why do you think they want to get rid of this program? Why do you think they want to get rid of Fox News? Why do they want to silence criticism? What is Obama’s modus operandi? Eliminate the opposition. This is already a movement!”
“This woman has just written a column about it at Harvard with what appears to be an extreme view of eliminating the First Amendment as a way of silencing opposition. But she’s very honest. The First Amendment, free speech, ‘threatens liberalism,’ meaning liberalism cannot thrive in an open society. Liberalism is totalitarianism. Liberalism is statism. It is authoritarianism. It is all of the horrible Isms, and it cannot thrive when there is open debate. It cannot survive challenges.”
“Ah, the ‘community organizer force’ is strong with this one,” I’m sure Darth Obama – who held a similar position writing for Harvard – must have mused when he heard this.
The question, “Is this already a movement?” – and not merely an intellectual bowel movement – has been powerfully answered in the few weeks since this article came out from Harvard (the brains of the cockroach that is the leftist organism).
This from yesterday at the leftist Mozilla:
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigns under fire for supporting Prop. 8
By Salvador Rodriguez
April 3, 2014, 2:32 p.m.
Just days after taking the job, Brendan Eich has resigned as chief executive of Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, after coming under fire for his 2008 support of Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment that disallowed the marriage of same-sex couples in the state.
Mozilla announced Eich’s resignation Thursday afternoon in a blog post, saying that his hiring did not reflect the organization’s beliefs.
“While painful, the events of the last week show exactly why we need the Web. So all of us can engage freely in the tough conversations we need to make the world better,” Mozilla Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said in a statement. “We need to put our focus back on protecting that Web. And doing so in a way that will make you proud to support Mozilla.”
The organization named Eich CEO last week after operating under an interim CEO for more than a year. Eich had worked at Mozilla for years and was known as the founder of JavaScript, a popular programming language.
But Eich came under sharp criticism for donating $1,000 to a campaign that supported Poropisition 8, Several Mozilla board members resigned to protest his appointment.
Numerous Mozilla staffers also took to Twitter to call for his resignation. One popular online dating site OKCupid displayed a message on its website asking Firefox users to access the Web using a different browser.
“We took the stand because it seemed like the right thing to do,” a spokesman for OKCupid said.
Mozilla said it is still discussing what comes next for its leadership.
This guy Eich was incredibly well qualified to run this company, which he’d helped found. But liberals hold religious purity tests having nothing to do with corporate performance – and Eich was found to be a heretic and blasphemer.
If you ask the question, “Is Sandra Korn running Mozilla?” the answer is, “She might as well be.” Because fascist leftist who are rabidly intolerant of ANY point of view that differs from their own and cannot emotionally or intellectually handle dissent are what they are whether they’re at Harvard or at Mozilla.
Imagine the fallout had a corporation purged a CEO for the death penalty-worthy crime of having exercised his or her freedom to donate to the No on 8 campaign. And said they were doing it out of a spirit of “inclusiveness” and “diversity” (which they would have as much to claim as the opposite side). But for the most part, the propaganda mill that constitutes “journalism” simply ignored this story.
What is rather fascinating is that one particular paragraph in the print article (on page B2 of the LA Times’ Business section) – was purged from the online article that you see here. It immediately follows the “did not reflect the organization’s beliefs” line of crap. Here it is:
“Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness,” Mozilla Chairwoman Michell Baker said in a statement. “Mozilla supports equality for all.”
You can see that statement from Mozilla in broader form here.
What is funny – and I mean laugh-till-you-pee-your-pants-funny – is how these Nazis actually view themselves as “inclusive.” You can understand why the uberleftist LA Times would purge that: it is so obviously self-refuting that it could not stand the light of day and had to be hidden the way ashamed parents would hide a child molesting freak in the basement.
Hell, I still remember when Barack Obama stated the following when he was lying his way to the presidency:
“I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. [big audience applause] For me as a Christian it’s also a sacred union, you know, God’s in the mix….I am not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage.” — Barack Obama, Saddleback Church debate moderated by Rick Warren, August 20, 2008
The ONLY reason the left didn’t go after Obama the way they have rabidly gone after everyone who said the same words is that they understood that – being one of them – Barack Obama was a pathological liar who said one think until it was time to say the opposite of the thing he said.
Pathological dishonesty goes hand in hand with pathological fascism.
When “inclusive” means, “If you don’t think exactly like I do, I will destroy you,” you have arrived at the spirit of Orwellianism. And the soul of the left skinny dips in Orwellian anti-thought.
If you are a Democrat, if you are a liberal, you DON’T think. You double-think. You unthink. You anti-think. Which is why you are such a complete moral idiot. And why you have no shame, no honor, no virtue, no integrity of any kind whatsoever.
Sandra Korn was also apparently running the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference – which was (laughably) all about “inclusiveness” too.
Stormfront – from where I found the Youtube video below – also found this beauty of self-contradicting liberalism:
Its “safe space policy” promised the event would be “structured around inclusivity … with a focus on representing various perspectives,” according to the event’s official website (feministcampus.org).
Watch how “inclusive” they are the moment they discover “the other” and tell me about that “safe space policy” again. Tell me how this is what “structured around inclusivity” looks like. Tell me that this is what it looks like to have “a focus on representing various perspectives”:
Here’s a write-up from Campus Reform, which sent the reporter to be treated like a leper by “the tolerant and inclusive” people:
Campus Reform’s Katherine Timpf attended the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference (NYFLC) — an event which promised to be about “inclusivity” and welcoming everyone — only to be told that “conservative” women were not welcome.
Timpf attempted to ask students’ their opinions on feminism, but conference organizers made an announcement advising participants not to talk to Campus Reform because it was a “conservative” outlet.
“You guys aren’t wanted here.”
The organizers also followed Timpf around the conference to interrupt her conversations with students to tell them the same thing.
“They’re a group that’s conservative, so what we are fighting for is not something…” one organizer told a student who was talking with Timpf, prompting the student to walk away.
“You’re just assuming that based on where I work,” Timpf told the organizer.
“Yeah, we are,” the organizer stated.
“You guys aren’t wanted here,” a participant told the reporter after the warning.
“I thought this was supposed to be an inclusive thing, why am I being excluded because of where I work?” Timpf asked another organizer after another interruption.
“Because the place that you work is not inclusive,” the organizer responded.
“You don’t know that,” Timpf said. “You don’t know anything about me or my personal beliefs, I’m just being labeled and excluded based on a label.”
Its “safe space policy” promised the event would be “structured around inclusivity … with a focus on representing various perspectives,” according to the event’s official website.
“We will not tolerate, allow, or encourage behavior which makes folks feel uncomfortable, threatened, or demoralized,” the policy continued.
The NYFLC conference was held March 29-31 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Crystal City, VA.
The Nazis couldn’t have done it any better. One female editorialist described it as “Mean Girls with ugly women.”
But hey, I’m not done yet detailing how the left self-refutes themselves and documents their OWN rabid hypocrisy and intolerance.
Try this bit of “Sandra Korn” at other liberal universities like UC Santa Barbara and Oberlin, which are beginning to impose “trigger warnings” that would allow students to opt out of anything that might harm a liberal mind (you know, like reality or the truth):
‘Trigger Warnings’ Are Antithetical to College Life
You can’t bubble wrap students against any and all possible moments of discomfiture.At the Los Angeles Times, a rare outstanding editorial, “Warning: College students, this editorial may upset you“:
The latest attack on academic freedom comes not from government authorities or corporate pressure but from students. At UC Santa Barbara, the student Senate recently passed a resolution that calls for mandatory “trigger warnings” — cautions from professors, to be added to their course syllabi, specifying which days’ lectures will include readings or films or discussions that might trigger feelings of emotional or physical distress.
The resolution calls for warnings if course materials will involve depictions and discussions of rape, sexual assault, suicide, pornography or graphic violence, among other things. The professors would excuse students from those classes, with no points deducted, if the students felt the material would distress them; it is left unclear how students would complete assignments or answer test questions based on the work covered in those classes.
The student resolution is only advisory, a recommendation that campus authorities can turn into policy or reject. They should not only choose the latter course but should explain firmly to students why such a policy would be antithetical to all that college is supposed to provide: a rich and diverse body of study that often requires students to confront difficult or uncomfortable material, and encourages them to discuss such topics openly. Trigger warnings are part of a campus culture that is increasingly overprotective and hypersensitive in its efforts to ensure that no student is ever offended or made to feel uncomfortable…
Keep in mind that this development is something that derives entirely from the radical feminist left.
For more on that, see Robert Stacy McCain, “‘Fat Justice’ Feminists Blame Reagan, Praise ‘Communism and Socialism’.”
May I please have my liberal reality inoculation please? Because reality really, really upsets me and I have to be protected from it at all cost. That’s why I went to college where I could swim in a protective ocean where only fascist liberalism is allowed.
Accompanying this at UC Santa Barbara is a leftist professor who came unglued because somebody thought they had the right to be opposed to abortion and grabbed the sign away as her inner Nazi erupted:
The police report regarding UC Santa Barbara Professor Mireille Miller-Young has been released. Miller-Young made news after tearing a sign away from an anti-abortion activist in the university’s Free Speech Zone. Here is the PDF, and here is a rather illuminating quote.
It’s worth a reminder that this professor’s areas of study include “Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art; Feminist & Queer Theory; African American & African Diaspora Studies,” all of which require confronting potentially upsetting material. So what exactly is the limit on what is permissible on university campuses?
Outside of Santa Barbara, this story is receiving the most attention from conservative outlets. I’m curious to know what mainstream left-of-center outlets think about this.
This post was provoked by Donald Douglas, who writes, “America’s college campuses: literally the most f-ked-up places in the nation.”
Read more at the Santa Barbara Independent.
Instapundit and Jim Treacher also have some choice words.
So if I’m upset by something, I have the right to employ violence? Only if I’m a liberal. If I’m a conservative, I’m going to get hauled away and prosecuted to the very fullest possible extent of the law just for SAYING that a liberal cockroach doesn’t have a right to be somewhere. That’s the kind of double-standard that also went on as “Germany” became “Nazi Germany.” Only the fascist thugs had the right to beat the hell out of somebody they didn’t like.
Understand: college and university faculties are THE most intolerant establishments in America, bar none. If you are a conservative, you won’t be hired. If you’ve already been hired and you’re a conservative, you’ll get the “Mozilla treatment” and lose promotions if not your position. Professors openly ADMIT they discriminate against conservatives. They take the amazing position that it is literally discriminatory for them to hire anyone who does not think exactly like they do. If you so much as try to speak as a conservative at a college or university, you will be shouted down by rabidly intolerant “tolerance” hypocrites.
And don’t tell me that university faculty and students are some “fringe” element within the Democrat Party or the liberal movement. Don’t tell me the violent and vicious Occupy movement fascists – and yes I truly do mean “violent and vicious” – that violated and just plain polluted the property rights of damn near everybody not long ago are some “fringe” element. Don’t tell me that the union thugs who either beat people up or shake people down aren’t at the heart of the liberal bowel movement. These people are all IT – whether you mean “Democrat,” “liberal” or “fascist.” They’re all part of the fascist army of liberal goose-steppers. Don’t tell me that the black people who make up the heart of the Democrat Party to the tune of voting 95% Democrat aren’t anything other than vicious. When they aren’t murdering their own babies or murdering one another, they are beating the fascist hell out of innocent white people in unprovoked racist attacks.
And if white kids had a game called “black bear hunting” in which they sucker punched little old black ladies, I have a damn feeling that the media and the courts would treat these racist young punks differently and call it for what it clearly is. But it’s black thugs, and Eric Holder says, “Never bring a lawsuit against a black” on my watch. So we’ve got this “knock out game” a.k.a. “polar bear hunting” going on all over America, and of course it can’t be “racist” for a black thug to sucker punch a white person.
The amazing thing is that THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CALL ME A NAZI. And they’re so pathologically dishonest and they’ve so completely deceived even themselves that they actually do it with a straight face.
You wonder how their skulls don’t explode from trying to hold so many massive contradictions, but they manage to pull it off. Because they anti-think when un-thinking or double-thinking fails them. And they are the most rabidly intolerant people that there are – and you literally have to be a full-fledged NAZI to be more rabidly intolerant than these liberals. And it is my observation that liberals are “progressives” who are progressing quite rapidly toward being full-fledged Nazis.
Do you want to know what is interesting? It is that when the Nazis came to Germany, it was these same university professor-types who were the FIRST to knuckle under and collaborate with their Nazi masters:
Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel:
“Within the system of the concentration camp, something very strange took place. The first to give in, the first to collaborate—to save their lives—were the intellectuals, the liberals, the humanists, the professors of sociology, and the like. Because suddenly their whole concept of the universe broke down. They had nothing to lean on.”
Albert Einstein (a Jew who fled before the Nazis could capture him):
“Having always been an ardent partisan of freedom I turned to the Universities, as soon as the revolution broke out in Germany, to find the Universities took refuge in silence. I then turned to the editors of powerful newspapers, who, but lately in flowing articles, had claimed to be the faithful champions of liberty. These men, as well as the Universities, were reduced to silence in a few weeks. I then addressed myself to the authors individually, to those who passed themselves off as the intellectual guides of Germany, and among whom many had frequently discussed the question of freedom and its place in modern life. They are in turn very dumb. Only the church opposed the fight which Hitler was waging against liberty. Till then I had no interest in the church, but now I feel great admiration and am truly attracted to the church which had the persistent courage to fight for spiritual truth and moral freedom. I feel obliged to confess that I now admire what I used to consider of little value.”
Modern liberalism and those who cling to it had no answers or courage against Nazism. And in fact their philosophies, the values they hold today ARE the same as that of the Nazis they bowed down to when their moment to stand heroically came.
Here’s what you need to know about the university liberals who endlessly lecture us:
Soon after the end of World War II, the Jewish scholar Max Weinreich published Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany’s Crimes against the Jewish People. This exhaustive study of the complicity of German intellectuals with the Nazi regime documents how the scholarship of the time provided the intellectual justification and the conceptual framework for the Holocaust. This is not to say that these intellectuals necessarily intended the Holocaust, but, argues Weinreich, it would not have been possible without them. “Did the administer the poison?” he asks, “By no means; they only wrote the prescription.” — Veith, Modern Fascism, p. 79-80
Ask yourself if “Professor” Mireille Miller-Young did far more than “write a prescription” justifying violence.
Weinreich establishes that these many academics who supported Hitler were sophisticated thinkers. Their problem was that the “value-free” assumptions with which they pursued their research resulted in a mendacity inherent in any scholarship that overlooks or openly repudiates all moral and spiritual values. Which is THE same cancerous flaw that modern progressive intellectual liberalism suffers from today.
Now that I have documented the fascism in the left’s behavior, allow me to proceed to develop a new point about the fascism central to the left’s philosophy. Jonah Goldberg, in his great work Liberal Fascism makes this point:
For more than sixty years, liberals have insisted that the bacillus of fascism lies semi-dormant in the bloodstream of the political right. And yet with the notable exception and complicated exceptions of Leo Strauss and Allan Bloom, no top-tier American conservative intellectual was a devotee if Nietzsche or a serious admirer of Heidegger. All major conservative schools of thought trace themselves back to the champions of the Enlightenment – John Locke, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Burke – and none of them have any direct intellectual link to Nazism or Nietzsche, to existentialism, nihilism, or even, for the most part, Pragmatism. Meanwhile, the ranks of left-wing intellectuals are infested with ideas and thinkers squarely in the fascist tradition. And yet all it takes is the abracadabra word “Marxist” to absolve most of them of any affinity with these currents. The rest get off the hook merely by attacking bourgeois morality and American values – even though such attacks are themselves little better than a reprise of fascist arguments. — pg. 175-176
The solidly left-leaning (as acknowledged even by the leftist BBC) Prospect Magazine published an article titled, “In Defense of Heidegger.” If you want more proof that it is leftist, consider that it considered the EXTREME leftist Noam Chomsky as its greatest of its 100 Greatest Intellectuals. Most of the other 99 were quite leftist too, by the way.
The left now acknowledges that it is “common knowledge” that Martin Heidegger was a Nazi. But it’s funny that they spent most of the last eighty years denying that “common knowledge.”
Even a socialist publication admits out the following:
The same methods—suppression of evidence, evasions and falsifications—were employed by the legions of Heidegger interpreters and apologists. They were, until the publication of Farias epochal book, largely successful in preventing any critical scrutiny of Heidegger’s ideas and their relation to his politics. An ironic chapter in this enterprise was played out by the deconstruction theorist, Paul De Man. De Man did much to publicize Heidegger among the American intelligentsia in the 1960s. Then there came the posthumous revelation in the late 1980s that De Man’s hands had not exactly been clean. He had been a Nazi collaborator in occupied Belgium during World War II and in that capacity had written some anti-Semitic articles for a Nazi-sponsored literary magazine. After De Man’s war-time essays were published there ensued a lively controversy about the relationship between De Man’s war-time activity and his subsequent ideas on deconstruction.[
And my exploration of the above distortion of Marxist scholarship of fascism and Nazism at the beginning of this article is merely part of that intellectual tradition of deceit. The left “suppressed evidence” and employed tactics of “evasions and falsifications” to conceal the “common knowledge” of their intellectual hero for most of the last century until one courageous scholar finally blew the doors off the lie. And of course then the left instantly proceeded to apologize and rationalize the man’s heart and mind of pure evil. And of course it is pointed out that the left did the exact same thing with ANOTHER hard-core Nazi intellectual hero of the left named Paul de Man. You can goose step down the list of numerous leftist intellectual heroes such as Herbert Marcuse, Frantz Fanon, Georges Sorel, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Carl Schmitt, and others to see the same damn thing. And frankly even documented PROOF of the hatefulness of these men and their ideas – and the CONSEQUENCES of their ideas – don’t matter.
The paragraph that follows the one cited above in Liberal Fascism therefore points out that:
In a seminar there may be important distinctions to be made between, say, Foucault’s “enterprise of Unreason,” Derrida’s tyrannical logocentrism, and Hitler’s “revolt against reason.” But such distinctions rarely translate beyond ivy-covered walls – and they are particularly meaningless to a movement that believes action is more important than ideas. Deconstruction, existentialism, postmodernism, Pragmatism, relativism: all of these ideas had the same purpose – to erode the iron chains of tradition, dissolve the concrete foundations of truth, and firebomb the bunkers where the defenders of the ancien regime still fought and persevered. These were ideologies of the “movement.” The late Richard Rorty admitted as much conflating Nietzsche and Heidegger with James and Dewey as part of the same grand project. — Goldberg, Modern Fascism, p. 176
And it is simply a FACT that all of those intellectual traditions and worldviews are at the very heart of the left and in radical rejection of the Classical Enlightenment foundationalism and Judeo-Christian religious worldview of the right. You can ignore it with your constant exploitation of crisis and demand for action all you want, liberal, but hateful ideas have hateful consequences. And it has been the hateful ideas that you CONTINUE to espouse to this very day that had those hateful consequences that resulted in the gas chambers and the Holocaust of Nazism AND the purges and massacres of MILLIONS of communism.
You OWN it. Even though you are too much of a hypocrite and a liar and frankly a coward to ADMIT that you own it.
One of the primary reasons that the left’s “enterprise of Unreason” (remember how I referred to the left’s “un-thinking” and “anti-thinking” and “double-thinking”?) consistently leads to moral horror boils down to this:
David Hirsch, in his study of Holocaust literature, concludes that one of the most striking characteristics of those who have carried out the exterminations was their inability to have empathy with an “other.” Hans Ebeling criticizes Heidegger in similar terms: “the power of acknowledging the other as the other, as essentially equal, is missing, and for that reason it only remains to oppress the other without any leniency.” Since existentialism focuses upon the individual consciousness, “the other” is necessarily minimized. — Veith, Modern Fascism, p. 103
At thus I reintroduce the demonization and purging of Brendan Eich for no other reason than that he gave a small financial contribution to a view of marriage that Barack Obama was HIMSELF hypocritically and dishonestly claiming at the time. Because it is the NATURE of the left – particularly the “intellectual” left – to lie without shame and cover up the truth and to suppress and to evade and to falsify the FACTS.
It ought to go without saying that if a more conservative-friendly corporation’s CEO had been found to have donated $1,000 to the “No on 8” campaign – as I’m frankly sure many have – he would still be there. Because unlike the left we value intellectual freedom.
So when Barack Hussein Obama routinely demonizes “the other” – that is absolutely everybody who doesn’t think exactly like he does – it’s what they call in golf “par for the course.” It’s who he is and what he does because the man is a fascist who has acted like a fascist his entire adult life as a “community agitator” and who very much THINKS like a fascist.
Just a few days ago, Obama said this incredibly demagogic and frankly hateful thing as his Republican straw man/bogey man:
A lot of times folks would prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t. But this law is doing what it’s supposed to do. It’s working. It’s helping people from coast to coast, all of which makes the lengths to which critics have gone to scare people or undermine the law, or try to repeal the law without offering any plausible alternative so hard to understand. I’ve got to admit, I don’t get it. Why are folks working so hard for people not to have health insurance? Why are they so mad about the idea of folks having health insurance?
Everything Obama says is a lie, so why should this be any different? Republicans DO have an alternative to ObamaCare. They’ve been talking about their alternatives for years now. Hell, I wrote a post in 2009 describing the Republicans’ alternative and pointed out that even at that early date they had already offered THREE alternative bills to ObamaCare. So Obama just lies like the devil and then demonizes his enemies.
He has repeated his lie about Republicans offering no alternative to his fascist health care hijack act even more times than he lied about people being able to keep their doctors and their health plans. And he lied about those things a LOT. But Obama believes in the Big Lie just like Hitler believed in it – which is why he fascistically and rabidly keeps sticking to his lies even when it is beyond obvious that they are lies.
The Big Lie is how Obama has governed. It is his ONLY “leadership technique.” And because he kept repeating the same lies his Big Lie governance literally got him elected and re-elected.
Find ONE Republican who would say he or she is opposed to ObamaCare because – and I quote Obama’s lie from hell here – “I don’t want people to have health insurance.” Just find ONE Republican who has said, “I’m mad about the idea of folks having health insurance.”
Obama has ALWAYS hated and demonized “the other” while maintaining the exact same hatred for the truth and willingness to engage in the “suppression of evidence, evasions and falsifications” that I cite as at the heart of the fascist intellectual tradition above.
Obama is the man who has so much rabid hate for “the other” in his heart that as far as he is concerned, Republicans are people who want dirtier air, dirtier water and children born with Autism and Down Syndrome.
Tell you what: I challenge any liberal to a “hate contest.” It’s Bush hate vs. Obama hate. If I can find more examples of Obama demonizing Republicans than you can find of Bush demonizing Democrats, I get to use you as proof – with your consent no less – that all Democrats are Nazi liars who participate in Obama’s campaign of hate against “the other.”
Obama does to Republicans what Hitler did to Jews on a nearly a daily basis.
And again, Obama is the worst kind of self-righteous liar without shame who says one thing and then proves that he’s a hater according to his own dishonest standard with the next thing that comes out of his mouth. And again – that is part and parcel of the leftist tradition.
I’ve been saying it and saying it. The beast is coming, the Antichrist from the Bible. He will be the ULTIMATE Democrat in that he will be the ultimate big government totalitarian who creates the State in place of God and demands worship in place of God. He will do what Democrats have tried to do and he will succeed in completely taking over the economy such that no man or woman may buy or sell without his stamp of approval (a.k.a. the mark of the beast).
Nazism didn’t just fly out of nowhere. It took DECADES for the evil in the German spirit to metastasize to the point where they were willing to murder six million Jews and five million other helpless human beings in their government extermination center.
It was from the minds of thinkers whom the American left still adores and follows today – thinkers such as Nietzsche and Heidegger and Derrida – from which the thought process that led to the death camps and the gas chambers and the ovens.
And Obama has taken that liberal descent into true fascism that will ultimately have the ugliest and darkest consequences a giant step forward.
Update, 4/7/14: Well, it doesn’t take very long for liberals to prove even further that they are true fascists, does it. Yes, we just had a liberal UC Santa Barbara professor described above inciting violence against someone for the crime of peacefully holding a viewpoint different from hers. We just had the same uberliberal UC Santa Barbara student body demonstrate that under the leadership of such “professors,” they are rabidly intolerant of any ideas that they don’t like and demand that they should never have to listen to anything that disagrees with their preconceived liberal fascism. And being liberals and being fascist, they just got through documenting that they are as violent as hell: 100 young liberal fascists were arrested for rioting.
And of course it’s nothing new when a mob of black liberals (blacks voting so overwhelmingly Democrat that to be black IS to vote Democrat) beat a white man into a coma. So it shouldn’t be any surprise whatsoever that blacks – who are fascist because they are liberals – would beat yet another white man into a coma for the crime of being white.
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Rider Men, Lehigh Women Split Saturday Dual
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Women: Lehigh 187-106
Courtesy: Rider Athletics
LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – The Rider University men’s swimming and diving team defeated visiting Lehigh, 180-118, in a dual meet on Satuday afternoon at the newly renovated Coppola Pool at the Canastra Health & Sports Center.
The Broncs (1-1) picked up their first dual-meet victory of the season.
Rider had a big day in the pool as the team racked up victories in 12 different events, including both the 1M and 3M diving.
Senior Justin Carey (Landenberg, PA/Avon Grove) had a big day in the pool for the Broncs, winning four events. Carey came in first-place in the 100 free (45.72), 100 fly (49.33) and the 100 back (51.00).
Carey was also part of the 200 medley relay quarter that won alongside Andrew Iannacone (Yardley, PA/Holy Ghost Prep), Daniel Bonge (Allentown, PA/Salisbury High School) and Matt Lequang (Plainsboro, NJ/Notre Dame). Leading off the race, Carey set a new pool record in the 50 back.
Lequang also won the 200 free with a time of 1:41.86, while Iannacone finished in first-place in the 100 breast at 58.96.
Freshman Lucas Racevicius (Watertown, CT/Holy Cross High School) continued the strong start to his collegiate career, winning two events. Racevicius came in first in both the 200 back (1:50.11) and the 200 IM (1:54.36).
The other two swimmers to win on Saturday for Rider were Joe Gewartowski (Fort Washington, PA/Upper Dublin) and David Cooper (Spring, TX/Klein Oak). Gewartowski touched first in the 50 free at 21.07 and Cooper came in first-place in 200 breast (2:10.66).
Junior Dillon Walles (The Woodlands, TX/The Woodlands High School) was dominant on the boards once again for Rider, winning both the 1M (303.74) and 3M (328.28) for the third meet in a row. Walles also qualified for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships on Saturday as well.
– The meet was the first-ever inside the newly renovated Coppola Pool.
– Cole May finished second in both the 100 fly (52.25) and the 200 fly (1:56.86).
– Patrik Rollefson was second in both the 1M (246.52) and the 3M (271.95).
– Matt Lequang added a second-place finish in the 500 free with a time of 4:43.30.
– David Cooper also came in second in the 100 breast thanks to touching at 59.28.
– David Rucci was second in the 200 IM (1:57.11), in the 200 back (1:53.16) and the 100 back (51.90).
– Kyle Iorizzo finished second in the 1,000 free with a time of 9:51.06.
The Rider University women’s swimming and diving team fell to visiting Lehigh, 187-106, in a dual meet on Saturday afternoon at the newly renovated Coppola Pool at the Canastra Health & Sports Center.
The Broncs (0-2) suffered their second dual-meet loss of the season.
On the day, Rider won six individual events.
Sophomore Kayla May (Columbia, MD/Oakland Mills) had a big day in the pool for the hosts, winning three events. May finished first overall in the 200 free with a time of 1:54.47. She also touched first in the 200 back (2:06.23) and the 100 back (58.36).
Sophomore Kylie McMahon (Annapolis, MD/St. Mary’s) won a pair of events for the Broncs on Saturday. McMahon came in first in both the 200 fly (2:08.11) and the 200 IM (2:11.47).
Senior Olivia Iswalt (Reading, PA/Berks Catholic) was the other Rider swimmer to win, thanks to her first-place finish in the 50 free with a time of 24.63.
– Senior Meg Tomayko finished second in both the 1M (269.78) and the 3M (258.52). Tomayko also qualified for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships.
– Meagan Fornero was third in both the 1M (214.58) and the 3M (212.40).
– Kylie McMahon also added a second-place finish in the 100 fly with a time of 57.92.
– Maire Wilson finished third in both the 1,000 free (11:15.84) and the 100 breast (1:10.91).
Rider returns to action in two weeks as Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) rival Marist comes to campus for a dual meet on November 2.
Courtesy: Lehigh Athletics
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. – The Lehigh women’s swimming and diving team continued its hot start on Saturday. 18 hours after defeating West Chester and Bloomsburg the Mountain Hawks swam right past Rider, 187-106. With the win, Lehigh is now 4-0.
“I’m so glad the women pull out the win today,” said head coach Rob Herb. “This was a tough weekend, but tough weekends make tough athletes. The women worked hard and it’s nice to see positive results.”
From top to bottom, Lehigh showed why they are to be taken serious in the Patriot League. Throughout the day, a plethora of swimmers shined bright for Lehigh. Hannah Lord won her first collegiate race in the 1000 free with a time of 10:58.91. Danielle Prekop also won her first collegiate race in the 500 free with a time of 5:16.09.
In the 100 breast, Sam Gallego (1:10.00) raced past her opponents and won easily, while Liz Olszewski topped the 200 breast with a time of 2:28.26.
Freshman Sarah Hardy continued her dominance in the butterfly. In the 100 fly, Hardy won another race with a time of 57.28. In the 100 free, Ann Foley showed power and won with a time of 51.76.
The relay teams of Lehigh were once again dominant in the water on Saturday. Both the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams picked up wins on the day. In the 200, Anna Thomas, Anna Francisco, Payton Miles and Olivia Giampietro won with a time of 1:47.68, while in the 400, Foley, Giampietro, Miles and Evie Gieseman recorded a time of 1:47.68.
In diving, Megan Fennell took first in the 1 and 3-meter dives. In the 1-meter dive, Fennell notched a score of 270.53, while scoring a 267.98 in the 3-meter dive.
Also adding solid contributions throughout the day were Sophia Poeta in the 100 back. Poeta was second with a time of 28.95. Tori Connolly finished second in the 500 free with a time of 5:21.34, followed with a second-place finish from Nicole Shek in the 200 IM at 2:13.35.
Up next, the Mountain Hawks will host Loyola Maryland next Saturday inside Jacobs Pool. The scheduled start time is 1:00 p.m.
The Rider Broncos topped the Lehigh men’s swimming and diving team on Saturday, 180-118. With the loss, the Mountain Hawks now have a 3-1 mark.
“I’m disappointed for the men,” stated head coach Rob Herb. “They put forth such a strong effort, but they just couldn’t come up with the touches today.”
The 400 freestyle relay team was fantastic for Lehigh on Saturday. The team of Walker Wilson, Caleb Eberly, Greg Giannella and Glenn Lasco compiled a fast time of 3:07.52.
The senior Wilson also won an individual event as well. In the 500 free, Wilson won with a time of 4:37.20.
Picking up his first collegiate win, freshman Andrew Sukach was the fastest in the 200 butterfly. Sukach recorded a time of 1:53.95, while Collin Hanlon won the 1000 free with a tme of 9:49.29.
The sophomore Lasco also picked up two close second-place finishes. In the 50 free, Lasco had a time of 21.35, followed by a time of 46.48 in the 100 free. In the 200 free, the captain Wilson finished second with a time of 1:42.11.
In diving, Addison Cochran placed third in the 3-meter dive with a score of 255.00. In the 1-meter dive, Tyler Keller finished third with a score of 209.32.
“We had a really tough weekend,” claimed Herb. “To have a workout Friday morning, then race at West Chester in a tri-meet, and then race a tough Rider team 18 hours later, it was a grueling weekend.”
Up next, the Mountain Hawks will take time to refresh their bodies and prepare for Loyola Maryland next Saturday inside Jacobs Pool.
“We are very excited to get rest and to take on Loyola in front of our great fans,” concluded Herb.
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– USA, CA – Fastback Networks today announced the election of Jim Hyde, former T-Mobile executive and private and public company CEO to the company’s Board of Directors, bringing decades of mobile carrier insights and visionary leadership skills to the Fastback board. With expertise in strategy development, building world class leadership teams, and driving execution and results, Mr. Hyde has held CEO positions with T-Mobile UK, Lumos Networks, and nTELOS. Jim began his career in wireless in 1997 at Western Wireless/VoiceStream Wireless where he, in various executive positions, helped to create the fastest growing wireless carrier in the US, which ultimately led to the sale of the company to Duetsche Telekom AG in 2001 and the creation of T-Mobile USA.
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“I am pleased to join the Fastback board at this pivotal juncture, as broad adoption of advanced backhaul solutions accelerates,” said Jim Hyde. “Fastback is well positioned to lead in the fastest growing segments of the mobile backhaul market, enabling mobile operators to deliver service to customers anywhere they need it.”
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The Lakers Don’t Have the Next Kobe, but the First Lonzo
Published on January 3, 2018 January 3, 2018 by talkingballyoutubeLeave a comment
By Alexander C. Lawrence
As painful as this might sound to Laker fans like myself, the Los Angeles Lakers do NOT have the next Kobe “Bean” Bryant on the roster. Kobe brought so much to the game of basketball that we may not see the next Kobe for years, if ever again. Kobe believed whole-heartedly that each practice should be as hard as a game, if not harder. If Kobe didn’t like something his teammates were doing he was never shy letting them know it. He was arguably the most important player in basketball from 1999 to 2009 and was the bridge that filled the void left by Michael Jordan.
With all these accolades that Kobe accomplished, its tough for anyone to come into the league and fill his shoes, much less a pass-first point guard with a braggadocios father. But that still doesn’t mean Lonzo Ball can’t be the rightful heir to Kobe Bryant. Fans were so excited to see what Ball could bring to the table since a lot of people viewed him as a can’t miss prospect with loads of potential. Kobe was special too when drafted, but he had a reliable and proven star center in Shaq who he shared the court with, something Ball must do without.
Emulating Kobe will be near impossible, but Lonzo doesn’t need to do that. I think right now the primary focus for him should be to work hard each day on getting better. Yeah it’s no surprise that the majority of Laker Nation and the organization are banking on him being the next great Laker, this has been a star-starved team in a star hungry market. I’m confident he can be that and of course being drafted so high to a franchise that has been known to be a competitive basketball team throughout its franchises storied history comes with high expectations. He is not alone with the likes of Brandon Ingram, Jordan Clarkson, Kyle Kuzma, Julius Randle, Josh Hart etc. who are all young players looking to thrive and help bring an NBA championship back to LA.
There is a clear target on Ball’s back, but his father LaVar Ball has always put his sons in the spotlight claiming they have the ability to be great, so this nothing new to him. The truth is it’s never going to stop until he reaches greatness. He has to hone his game and take it one game (or practice at a time). He isn’t the get in your face type of guy as Kobe was, that’s just not him. That’s okay though because he has passing and rebounding abilities that are out of this world and easily surpass Kobe’s at his peak. He has smooth passing skills and he’s always looking ahead to see how he can set his teammates up to score, before himself. Those players don’t come around often but his potential based on what we saw from him at UCLA is too intriguing not to assume he can adjust and be the guy the Lakers have so desperately needed since Kobe’s departure.
For all NBA prospects that are drafted, no matter how much of a “can’t-miss” prospect they are, there is always a wait and see approach because you don’t really know what a player has until a few years of developing them. L.A. has never had a prospect like Lonzo and the excitement that people have for him is unparalleled. Kobe walked into Shaq’s spotlight and didn’t need to be the savior from the get-go. If Lonzo plays his game, goes about his business and performs on the court, he will win over the media and fans of the NBA.
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The New-Look Lake Show
Published on December 26, 2017 December 26, 2017 by talkingballyoutubeLeave a comment
These new Los Angeles Lakers are fast, versatile and athletic. From Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram to Jordan Clarkson and Kyle Kuzma, the pieces this team has acquired are looking to fulfill the promise of getting over that playoff hump that has plagued them since the 2012-13 season. These Lakers are young and aggressive which is why I believe this team can do great things in the near future.
So far in the 2017-18 season we’ve seen glimpses of what this young team is capable of. Lonzo Ball has shown the ability to be pass-first in his mentality, not common among today’s scoring-centric Point Guards. He is a pass first, score last kind of player despite the potential to be a prolific scorer. He has solely been committed to finding ways for his teammates to score. His teammates aren’t complaining as they are still working to build good chemistry. Lonzo knows how to anticipate passes and for every successful NBA team there must be some kind of telepathy established among their players. He has to find guys that he can lean on and count on being in certain spots and positions. A lot of this is placed on Ball to be able to develop this telepathy among his teammates, but his teammates also have a responsibility to know where to be so Ball can get them the rock. There is a learning curve for both sides as they learn what each other likes and when and where they want to be when passes occur. If Ball intends to succeed he’ll need to help build up this team chemistry and a strong second half performance is not out of the question despite his inconsistent play in the first half of his rookie season.
Lonzo Ball is not the only rookie making noise in Staples Center as rookie Forward Kyle Kuzma has made an impact right away. Kuzma plays every game with a killer instinct and goes out each night locked in and ready to play. He keeps his composure in big moments such as in the Laker’s game against he Houston Rockets. These same Lakers ended James Harden and the Rockets’ 15-game win streak with Chris Paul in the line-up. They also ended the Rockets 55-game win streak when scoring at least 115 points. They won behind Kuzma’s career-high 38 points despite James Harden posting 51 points. As of right now he is looking like the steal of the draft. He is asserting himself as the best option at the 4 over Julius Randle and Larry Nance Jr.
Brandon Ingram has the opportunity to be one of the NBA’s next great defenders with his elite length and tireless work ethic. The hard work he’s put in is paying dividends in year two as he is averaging 16 ppg, which is up from his 9.4 ppg last season. Ingram seems to be on his way to being the star the team has needed to close out games, but still has work to do. He is not afraid of big-time moments and is establishing himself as a go-to target. He drives to the basket like few others and so far teams can’t figure him out. He knows how to finish around the rim and draw fouls most of the time when doing so. In two-years we’ve seen his mid-range shot become a core aspect of his game which, with his lengthy arms, makes it difficult for most to contest. The problem with Ingram, aside from improving his defense, is getting him to shoot the three ball. This season his 3 point shot accounts for less than 13% of his total shots. That number needs to go up, which could help make him the truly potent scoring threat that he was billed as at Duke. If he works on his defense and three point range he will wind up being the man in L.A. that most, including Kobe, predict him to be.
Larry Nance Jr. brings so much energy when he is on the court. He brings strength and speed when playing the 4 or 5 position, which creates a mismatch for opposing teams. He isn’t worried about mismatches or who he is playing he just plays, as evidenced by his most recent dunk when he hammered it down on Warriors F Kevin Durant. However, Nance must work on his offensive contribution to the team in terms of scoring and offensive rebounds. Luke Walton thus far has shown he likes pairing Nance and C Brook Lopez together when they are healthy, a clear sign of Nance’s rising stock. His rebounding and leaping ability is out of this world and if he continues to work hard he will have a future in L.A. His mature play has made him into a clear cut contributor to the team.
By now most people are well aware of the decision to start Julius Randle off the bench by the Lakers and how he was thrilled about the move. This has been partly due to inconsistent play when he was healthy. He has performed better since the move to the bench and some might say Randle, Clarkson and Kuzma are one of better big-three bench units in the NBA. This season he is averaging 12 ppg to go along with 6 rpg. He brings excellent strength when playing opposing big men which makes up for his height mismatch. As much as it pains me to say this, everything is pointing to Randle being done in L.A. at the conclusion of the season. There are big names such as LeBron James and Paul George on the free agent market which could complicate his future with the team.
Jordan Clarkson was drafted with the 46th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft and there’s no question he has helped make the Lakers a more cohesive and entertaining basketball team. He’s only in the second year of his four year deal, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t entertain ideas of a trade, as teams have already reached out to them. I believe Clarkson has hit his potential at age 25 and that’s not to say its all downhill from here. He has been great off the bench and showed he can start in the NBA, no question. He brings that Laker’s bench to life and energizes them night in and night out. Unfortunate for Clarkson is that he may be dealt in order for the team to obtain more money to pay free agents this upcoming summer.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was signed this past offseason on a one-year, $18-million dollar deal. This gave Caldwell-Pope the chance to test the market again at the conclusion of this season or if he exceeds expectations the team may opt to sign him to a multi-year deal. He brings a 3 point threat to the team and it’s only improving. He is a two-way guard and has shown he can be a reliable defender. Ideally you’d like to see him dishing the ball to his teammates more, but by no means is he a ball hog. He needs some polishing in terms of his offensive skill-set as well. This young guard still has plenty of potential and lots to prove, but aside from legal issues (violation of probation) that the Lakers knew about prior to signing him, he may very well wind up paying off for LA regardless of whether he stays or not.
Based off these assets the fans of the Lakers have reason to believe and “trust the process” for the first time in a long time. Yes there are a couple of trigger-happy young guns who have a ways to go before being ready to compete for an NBA Championship, but they are still learning as they are a very, very young team. Give them time and the dividends will pay off Laker Nation. For right now I’m just excited to see fun basketball with a dash of hope for the future this holiday season.
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The Birds Are Alright
With an impressive offensive output against the hapless Giants, the Nick Foles-led Eagles look poised to continue their impressive play this season.
No, Philly isn’t going to tank now that Carson Wentz is out for the season.
Foles stepped into the starting lineup for the first time since 2016 when he had a single start for Kansas City. Before that, Foles started seven games for the 2015 Rams after leaving Philly via trade following the 2014 season. The Arizona product has been mostly an afterthought following a spectacular and out-of-nowhere 2013 season that saw him throw for 27 TDs and just 2 INTs under Chip Kelly.
It was the veteran signal caller, who almost considered retirement following a forgettable stint with the Rams, that was the most reassuring part of Philadelphia’s win over the Giants. Nick Foles was consistent, efficient and most importantly, didn’t have any turnovers in a commanding performance. The Quarterback had complete control of an offense that didn’t show any signs of stepping back or fading away following the loss of Wentz. Foles finished the game completing 24 of his 38 passes, several drops and miscues by WRs could’ve led to more completions, for 237 yards and 4 huge TDs. Every touchdown pass came in the red zone, underscoring the brilliant performance Foles had when the Eagles needed touchdowns the most. With a Giants’ offense that suddenly found life, Foles ensured Philly was getting in the paint and not being forced to kick field goals.
And did I mention he didn’t turn the ball over?
With a running game that was good but not great, Foles was handed the keys to a shiny, big-play offense and made them look down-right methodical against New York, in the best way possible. Foles took what the defense gave him, carving up a depleted Giants’ secondary without forcing the ball to any one player at any given time. Foles is not on the same level of Carson Wentz, that much is clear, but his efficiency in the pocket, inability to be rattled and knack for not turning the ball over will make him a capable replacement to guide the Eagles into the playoffs.
With this win, Philadelphia clinched a first-round bye for the first time since 2004, where they met the Patriots in the Super Bowl only to lose, 24-21.
The biggest negative from this showdown in New York was Philly’s defense. The lackluster performance in terms of tackling and pass coverage nearly gave the game away despite Fole’s excellence. The Eagles’ defense kept a usually-dormant Giants’ offense in the game by failing to wrap up their playmakers, playing soft defense with a lot of cushion for the New York’s receivers and biting on double moves. Cornerbacks Ronald Darby and Jalen Mills were especially at fault, victims of several big plays by the Giants’ passing attack.
That being said, clean up some of the negatives on defense, and the Eagles should be able to make noise in the playoffs even with Nick Foles under center.
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Evaluating the Blue Devils at the Quarter-Pole Mark
Published on December 4, 2017 December 4, 2017 by talkingballyoutubeLeave a comment
Before I even discuss how the team has fared, what has gone right and wrong for them in the early going, I want to say how much fun it’s been to watch these guys play. Not since the 2015 title team, granted that was only three years ago, has a Duke team been this much fun to watch. Just like that team, they are never out of a game and always seem to save their best basketball for late. Now at 10-0, can the Blue Devils maintain this style of play and continue escaping with close victories after playing to the level of their competition? Well, if their play against South Dakota is any indication those days may be behind us sooner than we thought.
While we have spent a ton of time early-on this season marveling at Grayson Allen’s shooting prowess and Marvin Bagley III’s innate ability, the Blue Devil defense is still going to be the difference maker for this unit. Defense is a five-man responsibility unlike the offensive end of the court. The Blue Devils have struggled to defend consistently, particularly in the first half of games.
The difference between good and great teams, but also young and old ones is the ability to play with a consistent level no matter the opponent. For these Blue Devils thus far, it seems no matter who the Blue Devils play the first half is going to be close. Much of this is a result of a lack of communication at the defensive end of the court to start games. However, while they gave up a trio of early treys against South Dakota, the defense looked much better in the first half, limiting them to only 30 first-half points. A sign that the defense may be improving in these first half situations.
There is another factor that I would like for you to consider as to why they have struggled to guard in the first half, Coach K. You see, has been experimenting much more often with the man-to-man defense in the first half before switching over to the 2-3 when its needed in the second half. This is not to be misconstrued as a bad thing either. It is essential that the Blue Devils can play at least some man-to-man when they get to ACC play. They will need to play it in case a team gets hot shooting beyond the arc and they need to mix up the look for example. Anyways, Coach K hasn’t had much practice time recently with all of the travel and early games, so look for the man-to-man defense to improve after the first handful of ACC games.
In short, while it’s been fun star-gazing over the early offensive returns of this prolific group, don’t overlook the defense, it may just be the difference between them raising a banner in April or not.
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Nick Saban Wants It Both Ways
Published on November 28, 2017 November 28, 2017 by talkingballyoutubeLeave a comment
Alabama is a good football team. A damn good football team. But after their embarrassing 26-14 loss against Auburn in the Iron Bowl, it is clear that they are not the best team in the nation. That argument is certainly up for debate but is best left for another article. Simply put, Alabama doesn’t deserve to be in the playoff this year and Nick Saban’s whining shouldn’t change that.
To be fair to him, Saban is being a good coach when he said post-game that his guys deserved a shot at the playoff. There are a lot of talented players on his roster, guys who are Seniors and guys who will go to the NFL after their Junior season. This is their last chance to win a championship and Saban, like every other coach in America, wants to deliver that to them. But his words ring hollow, especially after his comments following the Crimson Tide’s 27-19 win over Texas A&M back on October 7.
“It’s like taking poison. Like rat poison.”
That was what Saban said in regards to the hype sports pundits had placed on Alabama. The head coach heaped blame on the media for inflating his team’s ego and affecting their performance against Texas A&M, a game that Saban thought shouldn’t have been as close as it turned out.
“I’m asking them (the players) are you going to listen to me or are you going to listen to these guys (the media) about how good you are?” Saban continued in his postgame press conference. The coach is telling his team to remain humble, as any coach would, but is reminding them they are not as great as the media has dubbed them.
Up until their near-loss against Mississippi State, two weeks before the Iron Bowl, the Tide seemed unstoppable in the regular season yet again. Even with a great Georgia team wrapping up the SEC East and an emerging Auburn team, Bama still seemed like the favorite to finish 13-0 and earn the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff. Things obviously did not turn out this way and Alabama will both finish the year 11-1 and without being able to play for the SEC Championship. If they hope to make the playoffs, they will have to do so as a team that is not a conference champion. This would be the first time that a team would make the playoff without at least a stake in its conference championship.
If Alabama had lost to a team like LSU or Mississippi State earlier in the season, it would’ve diminished their record and ranking but would not have had the same affect as losing to Auburn. Losing to LSU or Mississippi State and then beating Auburn would’ve guaranteed Alabama a spot in the playoff as long as they beat Georgia for the SEC Championship. But losing to Auburn on the last week of the regular season and missing out on a chance to play in the Championship has doomed Bama barring a series of upsets this coming weekend.
If Alabama does indeed miss out on the playoff, it would be the first time in the tourney’s history that the Tide won’t be in it. But when Nick Saban declares that his team is not as good as the media says and then argues that his team is good enough to be in the playoff despite failing to take care of business against Auburn, he cannot be able to have it both ways. This is an Alabama team that has big wins over bad squads like Tennessee, Arkansas and Mercer. They also have played average teams very close, like Texas A&M, LSU and Mississippi State. The best team they faced all year, Auburn, decidedly bested them by 12 points and dominated almost the entire game.
Alabama is not the same juggernaut they have been in past years, Saban is right about that much. And for that reason, they do not belong in the College Football Playoff this season.
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Duke’s Blue Collar Worker… Gary Trent Jr.
If the Duke Blue Devils were to succeed this year, it was to be on the backs of senior guard Grayson Allen, point guard Trevon Duval and/or the freshman frontcourt tandem of Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr. Gary Trent Jr., was expected to have a prominent role, however there were no guarantees that he would even start at the beginning of the season. While everyone has had the spotlight at times, Trent Jr. has been bringing his lunch pale to work and getting it done while no one is watching.
I’ll be the first to admit, I was worried about Gary. After a promising exhibition campaign and first two games of the season, Trent Jr. could not buy a bucket from the outside. However, despite his shooting struggles he remained active and engaged on the defensive end of the court. He seems to be okay doing his work out of the spotlight and is comfortable not receiving the credit. Not only does this help tremendously with this Duke team, but it also allows Gary to show NBA teams that he can do the same things for them too.
As a defender, Gary Trent Jr. moves his feet well and has active hands. It’s not as though Gary has had a tremendous number of steals or blocks either. He just is always in the right spots on the court, and that kind of accountability is what a coach is looking for. This is part of the reason why Trent Jr. is averaging over 31 minutes a game for Duke, Coach K can trust him.
On offense, Gary Trent Jr. has a diverse repertoire of moves and can score from all three levels of the court when he has it going. He has a great three-point stroke and will need to knock them down more consistently in ACC play. While not the most explosive athlete, his heady play allows him to find openings in the defense and get a step on defenders, like his game-tying and-one drive against Texas.
Look for Trent Jr. to be wearing his hard hat all season long, doing the dirty work while no one is watching.
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Wendell Carter Jr. | A 5 Game Synopsis
Published on November 23, 2017 by talkingballyoutubeLeave a comment
Let’s take a look at the freshman’s big start to most likely his only season in Durham. Outside of the opener against Elon, where he placed himself in early foul trouble, he has scored in double figures each game this season. With per-game averages of 13 points, nine rebounds, two assists and three blocks, Carter has been filling up the stat sheet early on in his freshman campaign. So what has made Carter Jr., so effective early on in his career? Two words size and relentlessness.
While Carter Jr. does possess a quality basketball IQ his early success has been based on his ability to establish himself in the paint. In a situation where plays are rarely run for him, Carter Jr. and his frontcourt counterpart Marvin Bagley III have managed to score their points in a variety of manners. Some via screen and roll, others via post but Carter Jr. has scored a bunch of his points just cleaning up the offensive glass. He has a great righty jump hook, that he uses once he establishes himself in the low block. In addition, if left open behind the three-point line he is able to connect from long range though it’s still an area that needs development.
On defense, Carter has been a shot-blocking machine. With almost three blocks per game and a six-block performance against Southern, it’s safe to say Carter has been comfortable on this end of the court. He displays great timing when it comes to his shot-blocking instincts and knows when to get off his man to for the weak-side opportunity. Playing the center position in the Duke defense provides ample opportunity to contest shots at the rim. One area to note, the teams have been much smaller on average than Duke to start the season, outside of Michigan St. Let’s see if this trend continues as we move into conference play.
While Carter Jr. has gotten off to an outstanding start, there are a couple of areas of concern to keep in mind as we move further into the season. Primarily, the aforementioned foul trouble is an area young bigs tend to struggle with in addition to ball security as he has turned it over two times a game. Finally, how he responds to size will be a question mark as he had some struggles to score in the paint against the size of Michigan St.
There is no question Wendell Carter Jr. is a good player, his play in conference and overall consistency will determine if he is a great player.
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Kansas City Forgot What Made Them Great
The Chiefs find themselves drifting further away from contender and closer to pretender following an embarrassing 12-9 loss in overtime against a 2-8 New York Giants team that had all but quit on its coach. Make no mistake, the Kansas City team that has dropped four of its last five is not the same team that started 2-0 against the Patriots and Eagles respectively, arguably the two best teams in the league right now. Kansas City has very much lost its way.
The Chiefs are not yet in danger of missing out on the playoffs thanks in large part to an AFC West full of underachievers. The Chargers look average, although have rebounded well from a 0-4 start, the Broncos can’t find any offensive momentum to break a six game losing streak and the Raiders looked especially listless in an embarrassing 33-8 loss against New England. This has allowed the Chiefs to remain on top, two games ahead of everyone else, at 6-4. But the most concerning thing is not their ability to take home an AFC West title, it is their place in the AFC hierarchy of power.
After racing out to a 5-0 start, Kansas City looked like the best team in the league, especially after trouncing the defending champion Patriots in Foxborough on opening night. They did it with a potent offense, a QB in Alex Smith that seemed reborn without the shackles of being a game manager and a running game led by rookie Kareem Hunt. They lost WR Jeremy Maclin but it seemed to be addition by subtraction with the way the passing game soared in his absence. Smith was more confident and took deeper, more aggressive shots against defenses with speedy and talented WRs like Tyreek Hill, Albert Wilson, Marcus Robinson and Chris Conley. Travis Kelce remained their number one target and thrived in the role, the big, athletic TE able to stretch the field and be equally effective both short and deep down the seam.
Alex Smith’s performance in the first five game compared to the last five are stark and telling of the struggle that the offense has had. Smith has had less chances to do what made the Chiefs so surprisingly dominant in their passing game; attack downfield. Smith’s yards per attempt went from 8.71 to 7.35, indicative of the more conservative approach that the air attack has been relegated to and has used in past seasons. His other passing stats have dropped as well. Passing yards are down from 278 per game to 257, TDs are down from 2 to 1 and completion percentage from 76.5% all the way down to 62.3%. And after throwing zero interceptions in the first five games, Smith has thrown three in the past five.
While the running game has also struggled in the Chiefs four losses, it’s been the passing game’s sudden impotency that has ultimately made Kansas City fall from the top of the league to the third or fourth best team in it’s own conference. The Chiefs will absolutely need to get back to a downfield, deep-shot, aggressive passing game if they expect to make a significant playoff run. Reverting back to the check down, conservative passing game and trying to win with a running game behind an average offensive line and a defense that has looked weaker than usual is not going to get it done for Kansas City.
Its not surprising that fans and media want to sound the alarm after that embarrassing loss to a Giants squad that looked lost. I don’t think its that time, at least not yet. The Chiefs still have a solid lead in the AFC West and can essentially make the playoffs just by taking care of business against their divisional opponents. However, they will need to recover their early season form in the passing game if they can expect to challenge the Patriots or Steelers and be considered true title contenders.
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I Was Wrong About Carson Wentz and Jared Goff: Here’s Why
If you’ve seen my draft profiles on Carson Wentz and Jared Goff, you’ll know that my opinions on them as the top two quarterbacks in the 2016 draft were very strong. Yes, I agreed they were probably the best of the bunch, but still, I thought that wasn’t saying much. To me draft media was hyping up these two because the narrative behind the NFL Draft is so much more interesting when franchise QBs are involved. In addition to the media, my thinking was that General Managers who felt the need for a young QB who can guide their team to success would artificially inflate the value of those who are the closest thing to that.
I thought Wentz and Goff were both second round picks, guys who would need significant time before a team got their return on investment. And there was nothing wrong with that; Derek Carr and Jimmy Garoppolo were second round picks and Teddy Bridgewater was picked 32nd overall. I believed that taking them early in the first, much less numbers one and two overall, was a huge mistake. And their rookie seasons proved me right more or less. Wentz started hot with a lot of easy reads and simple throws and cooled off quickly once defensive coordinators figured out how to stop him. Goff was terrible as soon as he got into the lineup, unable to get the ball downfield and lacking good pocket presence. In their sophomore seasons, a lot has changed, and while it is still early to say what their career path will be, Wentz is 24 and Goff is 23, we are getting a firm idea of they are capable of.
Starting with the number one overall pick, I felt Goff would be woefully unprepared to make a switch from a college spread system to a more conservative NFL attack, especially one under someone so notably unimaginative as head coach Jeff Fisher. More importantly, I had major concerns with his accuracy. On his throws more than 10 yards downfield, I did not see consistent touch and accuracy. Goff threw wide of his targets quite often at Cal, making his receivers work extra hard to grab his passes and sometimes getting them killed when throwing them into coverage, like throwing them directly into the path of a safety coming downhill. I also thought his footwork and pocket presence left something to be desired. All of these issues were prevalent in his rookie year, where Goff struggled to do anything positive and talk of Sean Mannion replacing him was no longer a whisper in the 2017 offseason.
Rookie Head Coach Sean McVay has a lot to do with Goff’s development into a competent Quarterback this year, as the Cal product has gotten significantly better in the all the areas that I had issues with previously. His accuracy in particular has take a huge step forward that is simply unusual for most QBs. Accuracy is a big thing to try and change and for Goff to be able to do so should earn him a lot of credit. The addition of weapons like Robert Woods, Sammy Watkins and Gerald Everett was also critical but no acquisition was more offense-changing than Left Tackle Andrew Whitworth. Look no further to the success of Goff as compared to Andy Dalton, Whitworth’s old QB. It goes to show what a real, effective coach and a retooled offense can do for a young QB who experiences turmoil in his first season.
Wentz on the other hand had a rookie season with a lot of promise. He looked pretty good despite a limited preseason and an offense that was largely devoid of weapons at WR and RB. I was largely skeptical of Wentz because of how defensive coordinators were able to shut him down in the second half of the season when they adjusted to the Eagles’ somewhat conservative offense. However, it is foolish to deny Wentz’ ability and play-making acumen any longer. He is clearly an excellent young QB and could be the next great star at the position. He is having an MVP caliber year so far, guiding the Eagles to 9-1 while putting up the most passing TDs in the league. Wentz has improved in every area from his rookie to sophomore year; decision making, pocket presence, accuracy at all levels of the field, timing and footwork. Coming out of North Dakota State, I feared that Wentz’ poor footwork, inconsistency in reading through his progressions and especially his uneven pocket presence (noting how badly his accuracy degraded under pressure and his penchant for holding the ball too long) could be his undoing at the next level.
All of these weakness cropped up in Wentz’ first season and while not a reason to call him a bust, I was not ready to consider him undeniably and eventually great. This season, however, he has been great, issues coming up here and there but more often than not Wentz has been simply spectacular. And just like Goff, an influx of weapons like Jay Ajayi, LeGarrette Blount and Alshon Jeffrey has also helped make Wentz a better and more consistent QB.
It’s important to remember that we can’t account for everything when scouting players, especially a complex position like QB. We don’t know what the player’s work ethic is like, their film study acumen, how well they respond to coaching, and how well the team they will go to coaches’ are. Scouting as an outsider can very much be a “best guess” based on what is seen on tape and scouting reports that end up erroneous are impossible to escape. As long as the reason why they were wrong is understood, we can learn from past scouting mistakes and make better judgments in the future.
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Business is Boomin’ for the Blue Devils
The Blue Devils led by Grayson Allen and Trevon Duval looked fantastic in the Champions Classic matchup against Michigan State on Tuesday night. Much of the talk prior to the game had been about the frontcourts of the two teams but the Duke backcourt stole the show. Between Grayson’s 37 points and Duval’s 10 assists, the Blue Devils backcourt was dominant.
Let’s talk about just how great Grayson Allen was in this game. He may have finished with 37, but he led all scorers with the quietest 14 points in the first half as well. He connected on SEVEN three-pointers, not even including the two times he was fouled beyond the line and connected on all six free throws. He hit huge shots, namely the big threes at the end of the first half and the pull-up from the top of the key. Most importantly like Duval, he remained composed throughout the game.
Speaking of Trevon Duval he was absolutely tremendous. The fact that he can’t shoot *yet* speaks volumes to how good he is right now. His ability to explode and get to the basket is reminiscent of Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook. But how many freshman point guards can put up 30 assists and 4 turnovers?!? He has exceeded expectations early on in the 2017-18 season and with his poise I fully expect it to continue.
Lastly, and this is mostly for myself, but I figure some of you will enjoy this..get you a teammate like Jordan Goldwire. Goldwire is somehow consistently more excited than the person who makes the given play.
The Blue Devil backcourt is going to be a ton of fun to watch this season.
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Posted on January 6, 2020 | 63 Comments
One of the things making wildfire/bushfire worse, contributing to the current conflagration in Australia, is the increase of daily high temperatures. It increases the Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD), the difference between how much water vapor the air can hold and how much it does hold. When VPD is high, it can suck the moisture right out of potential fuels big and small, which increases the frequency and severity of fire dramatically.
The data are clear, that for daily high temperature last year (2019) was the hottest on record for Australia:
It started with the summer of 2018/2019, hottest in Australia’s history (summer being December-January-February):
The new summer is off to a roaring start, December 2019 bringing another of the all-too-common record breakers, this time a giant:
Australia has been hot, hotter than ever before in history.
Jennifer Marohasy disagrees, saying that “It has been hotter, fires have burnt larger areas”. She blogged about it last March, claiming “Hottest Summer in Australia was 1938/1939”. Her evidence? This:
Retrieving data for Rutherglen (near the border between the states of Victoria and New South Wales) and computing its average high temperature each summer, I got this:
That’s definitely not the same as Jennifer Marohasy’s graph, and the hottest summer is definitely last summer (2018/2019).
The data I used are the ACORN-SAT data for Rutherglen from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The BoM has, in my opinion, assembled the best national temperature data in the world because they use the most advanced methods to correct for known problems, like moving a recording station to another location or installing a new instrument. The process is called “homogenization” because its goal is to create a temperature record which reveals what happened other than those things irrelevant to climate (like moving the station or changing the instrument). They also use advanced methods to detect such discontinuities; the BoM really does an impressive job. Australians should be proud.
Some people hate homogenized data. They loathe it, maybe even fear it, often slander it; you might even think they’re homophobic. Jennifer Marohasy despises the homogenized temperature data from Australia’s BoM, and often criticizes it. She also implies that the whole process is some underhanded scheme by the BoM. My opinion: the reason she so hates the homogenized data, is that it so clearly shows the heating overtaking Australia. Just my opinion.
Anyway, she insists on using the original raw data, even when we can prove that it’s tainted by non-climate factors and the homogenized data are better. So let’s use the unadorned, unimproved raw data instead and get this:
Well, that’s embarrassing for Jennifer Marohasy. Even using the raw, unhomogenized data, the hottest summer on record is still last summer, 2018/2019.
Now a most fascinating plot twist: to make the 1938/1939 summer Rutherglen’s hottest on record, Jennifer Marohasy killed everything after the 1997/1998 summer. If last summer was too hot — just get rid of it. Fugettaboutit.
She removed it on the pretense that after the 1997/1998 summer, they changed the instrument, no longer using a mercury thermometer. My opinion: that is one of the most lame excuses for deleting the data you don’t like, that I’ve ever heard. And I’ve heard a lot. Just my opinion.
Anyway, I can make a graph very similar to hers, but it’s revealing how many hoops I have to jump through.
First, I have to limit myself to only one location. The subject (according to Jennifer Marohasy) was the hottest summer in Australia. Obviously it’s better to use a composite based on a large number of stations which cover most of the continent, like the BoM has done. But if you want to say the hottest summer in Australia wasn’t last summer you might prefer to look for a single location.
Second, I can’t use the best data. The homogenized data, from ACORN-SAT, really is the best we have. It’s not perfect, nobody claims it is, but the raw data have some obvious problems that we can improve. If you want the wrong impression, use the wrong data.
Third, I can’t show the data up to the present, or even after 1998, because even the unimproved raw stuff shows how wrong Jennifer Marohasy is. It has to be 1998 because that’s timed with the excuse Marohasy uses to whack that data, and lame though it may be, it’s the best she could come up with.
Final result: a lot like her graph:
Rutherglen makes an interesting case for the homogenization of temperature data. Let’s look at the original, raw data and see how Rutherglen compares to its neighbors.
I retrieved daily high temperature (NOT homogenized) for Rutherglen and for 25 nearby locations, which I used to form a composite average for the region. Then I computed the difference between the value at Rutherglen, and the composite regional average. Here’s what I got:
Since it’s daily data, there’s a lot of it. I looked for sudden “jump discontinuities” using changepoint analysis (it’s what changepoint analysis was designed for). I was able to identify four “change points” with such strong statistical significance that they aren’t really in doubt. Furthermore, the data show a distinctly different average in each interval between changepoints. Here they are, with changepoint times shown as dashed vertical lines, averages shown as horizontal lines, and for the data I’ve plotted monthly averages rather than daily just so the graph won’t be so crowded:
The result is that right off the bat, by the most basic and reliable of methods (compare station data to that of its neighbors), I’ve identified four times at which we really should change the data baseline to remove non-climate factors. Assuming, of course, that we want the data to be better.
What did the BoM do with the Rutherglen data? Here are yearly averages of the difference between the original raw data, and the homogenized data for Rutherglen:
Notice the vertical dashed lines?
In cases like Rutherglen, the non-climate factors introduced a false cooling trend. It should be cancelled — assuming, of course, you want the data to be better.
Few people appreciate just how advanced are the methods that the BoM uses to homogenize data, or how many tests and critiques it has withstood. When I say that in my opinion theirs is the most advanced in the world, I base that on years of experience as a scientist and statistician, and on close examination of the methods used by many organizations. The insulting, accusatory rhetoric of far too many climate deniers might not be a crime, but it is a sin.
And I really meant it when I said that when it comes to their Bureau of Meteorology, Australians should be proud.
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63 responses to “Bushfire and Homophobia”
Jim Eager | January 6, 2020 at 6:26 pm |
Just another example of why Jennifer Marohasy should be called a climate criminal.
kinimod | January 6, 2020 at 8:15 pm |
Jesus, plain dumb. Like always.
BTW, off topic: a friend of mine is going to fly to east africa with his wife, 3. something metric tonnes of CO2 worth. I tried to persuade him to at least give some compensation to an emission-offsetting-organization (atmosfair.de in this case), hope it worked. I could never be successful to make him drop the flight. Offsetting means, that at least s o m e good will be done.
ecoquant | January 6, 2020 at 9:22 pm |
@kinimod,
Yes, offsetting can work. I try to minimize flights, but, then, when I can’t, I make generous estimates of emissions — including radiative forcing effects — and purchase offsetting WREC (wind energy credits) which take out 383 kg CO2 each, and they are obtained from a local wind farm network.
I like to know and control where the monies are spent.
bindidon | January 6, 2020 at 10:38 pm |
The third Viscount of Brenchley did it at least as good as did Dr Marohasy!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/05/bush-bull/
Steven Mosher and Nick Stokes are really courageous guys. But I really know how hopeless their job is…
I just finish reading an article in the French newspaper Le Monde about Aussie bush fires :
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2020/01/06/cette-image-des-feux-en-australie-n-est-pas-une-photo-prise-par-un-satellite_6024943_4355770.html
The article is about the pic made by Anthony Hearsey:
* Didn’t realise this would go viral 👀 PLEASE READ BELOW* Regarding False Information. This has occurred NOT because of this post, or my information being inaccurate. It has been Zucc'd because other people have shared this image with the caption "This is a NASA photograph". This image has been flagged as a result. Update – this is now being corrected, finally. Should be clear in a day or so… This is a 3D visualisation of the hotspots in Australia. NOT A PHOTO. Think of this as a graph. Also note this was created as an art piece This is made from data from NASA’s FIRMS (Satellite data regarding fires) between 05/12/19 – 05/01/20. These are all the areas which have been affected by bushfires. https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#z:5;c:137.4,-27.9;t:adv-points;d:2019-12-05..2020-01-05;l:dark_gray,firms_viirs,firms_modis_a,firms_modis_t Scale is a little exaggerated due to the render’s glow, but generally true to the info from the NASA website. Also note that NOT all the areas are still burning, and this is a compilation. This image is copyrighted by Anthony Hearsey. Please contact for usage. DONATE HERE – https://linktr.ee/lukebakhuizen?fbclid=IwAR1hxUc97BXMPIxjiJqcVW7uG8wlgkPLfyO2wVFLVRDSw5X6cXAGeBuikeM _ #bushfires #render #visualisation #data #3d #australia #climatechange #disaster #fire #infographic #cinema4d #graphic #nasa
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Below this main point I saw this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vCafQptuZ1IYYof1iCJ9eYycuCjAALKG/view
The article explains that this year, there were in NSW five times as many fire starts as on average for the period 2001-now.
Wild animal death for this fire period is estimated at about half a billion.
Lloyd Flack | January 7, 2020 at 3:53 am |
At the Australian Statistical Conference in 2016 we had a couple of people from the BOM asking statisticians for improvements in ways of handling this data.
A group, led by Noel Cressie, went away and came back witth some suggestions. One was to, rather than create a homogenized data set to but the adjustments into the models. A latent variable approach if I recall correctly.
MiguelR | January 7, 2020 at 5:26 am |
I discovered this blog recently. I cannot state enough how important the work you do is, along with others like skepticalscience.
It’s frustrating how the denialism arguments have become more and more elaborate, to the point that the layperson cannot really trust anything anymore – I have seen this even with good friends of mine who are smart but got completely muddled by all the denial pseudo-science. Sad but understandable, those folks really hit the jackpot with their strategies.
Anyhow, I have downloaded similar temperature data from NOAA webpage for the region where I live (Colorado) to go over a similar exercise. This may be off topic so I apologize before hand, but I would be very thankful if you could recommend 2-3 books/resources where I could deep dive in time series processing and analysis. I am an engineer with decent math background.
David B. Benson | January 9, 2020 at 6:21 am |
MiguelR — I encourage reading “Fundamentals of Planetary Climate” by Ray Pierrehumbert. More important than just more time series analysis.
@MiguelR, @David B Benson,
Ray also has a shorter treatment which appeared in Physics Today in January 2011. PoPC also offers an excellent assortment of Python code.
Other treatments are Jacobson’s Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling (2nd edition), and Petty’s A First Course in Atmospheric Radiation.
Victor Venema | January 9, 2020 at 6:14 pm |
The World Meteorological Organization gives guidance on the processing of climate data. You can find these reports here.
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/ccl/references.php
The one on homogenization is almost published, you can find our nearly finished draft on EarthArXiv:
https://eartharxiv.org/8qzrf/
[Response: Thank you!]
Simon Papps | January 7, 2020 at 8:04 pm |
Excellent analysis, well worth a small donation. That post by Marohasy annoyed me so much because it was so transparently wrong. The deniers are doubling-down when the evidence is undeniable.
A good article informing us about the limits of bushfire prevention, posted by commenter MikeR on Roy Spencer’s blog:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-20/hazard-reduction-burns-bushfires/11817336
John Brookes | January 7, 2020 at 11:20 pm |
Absolutely fantastic post!
Sou | January 9, 2020 at 12:58 pm |
Wonderful post, Tamino.
Some people may recall how Jennifer Marohasy has a bee in her bonnet about Rutherglen. Some years ago she falsely accused BOM of wrongly homogenising the data because she refused to accept the very clear evidence the station had moved. (I wonder if she’s ever been to Rutherglen. I have – grew up near there, still live not far from there, and for a while worked for the department that runs it.)
Hope you don’t mind my linking to my own blog. Graham Readfearn and I were the main ones writing about it at the time, AFAIK.
https://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/09/remember-weather-at-rutherglen-bom-was.html
BTW – it’s been very hot here recently and I’m sure at Rutherglen. Not far from there the thermometer registered 46.1C the other day. I don’t know if it beat the highest maximum reached in 1939 or not, but it would have come close.
[Response: Thanks for linking to your excellent blog.]
Nick Palmer | January 10, 2020 at 1:21 am |
While being fully supportive of climate science, I have to point out that Marohasy was correct to say that larger areas have burned before – up to 5 times as much…
Here’s a list of the largest recorded bush fires in acres, although there are many others lower than the 5 million acres I chose as the ‘lower limit’
NSW – New South Wales, NT – Northern Territories, QL – Queensland, SA – South Australia, WA – West Australia
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia
1951/2 9,900,000
1974 (NSW) 11,000,000
1974 (NT) 110,000,000
1975 (QL) 19,000,000
1974 (SA) 42,000,000
1974 (WA) 72,000,000
1984 (NSW) 8,600,000
2002 (NT) 37,000,000
25 people have died in these so far but 173 died in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, which were ‘only’ 1.1 million acres
[Response: You should read the articles I linked to in a comment response above. Marohasy’s statement about “larger fires” is another case of “literally true but irrelevant and misleading.”
That’s what she does. Don’t fool yourself into believing she has any other motive than FUD, and don’t fool yourself into thinking that your comment isn’t helping that misinformation campaign.]
Yippiy | January 12, 2020 at 6:59 am |
Wikipedia states”11,000,000″ acres burnt in NT – not 110,000,000!
‘110,000,000’ is correct. Later version of the Wikipedia page (…page was last edited on 12 January 2020, at 06:44 (UTC) shows that correction.
Nick Palmer | January 12, 2020 at 10:37 am |
Re Wikipedia entry. Fake new. Look again! You probably were looking at the NSW entry just above it, which is 11 million…
Nick Palmer -my correction refers to two different versions of the WIkipedia page; the correct data are in the UTC 06.44 version, but the version 3 hours earlier had those numbers divided by 10 for 1974/75 it might not be your custom to check data before putting items onto the web, but it is mine.
I’ve taken on Marohasy before, so I am under no illusions about her FUD’ing , but it cannot be irrelevant that fires that are being portrayed in the media as unprecedented have in fact burned considerably less acreage (so far) than much larger fires in the past.
When denialists use accurate information it is still informative unless they twist it to make the reader jump to false conclusions – and in this case that part of what she said was relevant. I did not see the rest of her piece but, based on past experience with her and Abbot, it is probably highly twisted and distorted rhetoric. I think our ‘side’ must also call out inaccurate media reports and speculation or we will lose credibility by giving the denialists potential ammunition for future attacks.
ecoquant | January 11, 2020 at 4:41 am |
@Nick Palmer,
It’s interesting to contrast these tragedies with gun tragedies in the United States which, for whatever reason, and the availability of public data, are just not addressed by public media. Similar arguments are raised there, claiming that raising issues with respect to gun violence and regulation in some window around an incident is disrespectful. Yet, they know, if they wait long enough, public numbness to information about a tragedy sets in, and any willingness to engage in policy proposals, debates, and analysis dissipates. The result is inaction.
I’m pretty sure this “obfuscation first” approach is being applied in Australia, as it is in the aftermath of hurricanes and typhoons about the world.
This is a real problem: Action on mitigation of climate disruption is a choice which has a payoff in the long future, and democratic attention spans really do not care about that. So I wonder if this kind of governance simply cannot manage this kind and scale of problem. I do not have a recommendation for an alternative governance structure. But it’s possible that all we really have to work with is minimizing impacts, and adapting to them when they happen.
Nathan | January 11, 2020 at 1:38 pm |
Fires in the northern Savanna of Australia are common. Every year an area larger than these bushfires burns. It is not an apples to apples comparison. See Nick Stokes Moyhu blog
Nick Palmer | January 12, 2020 at 6:06 pm |
I’ve now read Nick’s blog. I think his main reason for dismissing the vastly larger historical Northern Territories fires was that they are not comparable to the current fires because “temperate forest fires and the fires of the savanna” are ‘different’. I think that is a rather weak argument and is exactly the sort of detail that should be clarified and explained as to why it is ‘different’ when people come out with the current ‘unprecedented’ clams in the media. The confidence of the great mass of the undecided public is a very fragile thing and can easily be swayed the wrong way by a few unguarded and hyperbolic remarks by authorities that are later proved to be based on sand by sceptics. We, and those we advise/influence. must be extremely careful about ‘over-egging the pudding’.
Alan C | January 11, 2020 at 3:03 am |
Yep I am proud of the work our BOM does. An in general of the work Australian scientists do on climate and other things. And then mortified by the ilfounded baseless slurs a variety of people throw at them. Its flat out disgraceful and embarrassing.
I’m still not sure it’s wrong to criticise the claims of ‘unprecedented’ in the media. I’m sure Marohasy’s claims that it was hotter before would just dissolve into the usual pseudo-sceptic hand waving and self-deception when examined but any claims of larger areas in the past are much harder to debunk. I couldn’t do it…
I already pointed out that the Northern Territories burned 110million acres in 1974 – about five times more than the current total across 6 states of 26 million acres. ‘Nathan’ above pointed out that Nick Stokes’ excellent ‘Moyhu’ blog reckoned that comparing the NT with the current fires was ‘comparing apples and oranges’ but I don’t think this is a strong criticism.
Looking at this source – The table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia
The current fires are currently totalled at 26 million acres across New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia so, if we look at the table, it seems Victoria and Tasmania were OK back then, but if we look at the 1974 figures for the States currently burning we get:
WNSW 2.76m
NSW 3.7
NSW 0.84
NSW 11m
QL 19m
SA 42m
WA 72m
Which totals 151.3 million acres or about 5.8 times the current area in the same States. Maybe it is the fact that Victoria is Australia’s smallest mainland state yet its second-most populous state (after New South Wales), making it the most densely populated state that is influencing peoples’ perceptions?
[Response: Perhaps incomplete, questionable data and lack of proper perspective is influencing your perception?]
sod | January 12, 2020 at 7:47 pm |
This is a typical example of the “merchant of doubt” tactic being used in a perfect way (check out the book or film).
The tactic of the right wing anti-climate force is better than our s by at least a factor of 100 or 1000 (we influence one person, they 1000).
There are several reasons for this: They have more money, their message (doubt) is easier and they accept false messages more easily. Apart from wanting to be more extreme in their positions, they do not disagree with each other, while we constantly fact check our own side, criticizing even minor problems/differences with each others approach/texts.
They also use better and faster media (the typical right wing dominance on youtube, facebook and even parts of twitter). And their replies are also much faster than ours also most likely by a factor of 10 or 100.
So how does it work? Papers and other media report, that these fires are the biggest/worst. They do not simply invent this, but it is what they are being told by specialists/scientists. And it also is something, that the majority of specialists/scientists could agree with (some with some minor adjustments, like in forest, in that region, …). Everything is fine (at least on the level of accuracy of any normal reporting).
The right wing spin machinery starts immediately. It is reacting within seconds. It starts with anecdotal claims of personal experience (fires in my part where much bigger in the past) and by quoting random, invented or false numbers from the internet. None of these false claims is checked by their own side, none of these false claims and lies will have any negative consequence for the liar.
Then they hid a random piece of data on any random obscure source (lie a single data point in a single unadjusted dataset, when used over a strange time period) that really could be interpreted to sort of show their point. Then this gets multiplied million fold all over the internet.
Newspapers and other Media sources after a time (balanced information) feel compelled to also mention the denialists talking point in even “left wing”
Debunking from our side is slow. Tamino needs time, to look at the real data and to write a post that is accurate and based on good data. His post is a thousand times better, that the one that started the false information, but that does not help. The false information is everywhere.
The denialst have a simple message, based on the merchants of doubt principle: this is not the worst/biggest fire,. there was a bigger one in 74.
Our message is complicated (you can t compare those fires and there are problems with the data from 74) and will not even reach a fraction of the people that the denialist message influences.
If you look at the wiki links, you will find that those figures come from credible government sources. Your seem too eager to believe that “you can t compare those fires and there are problems with the data from 74” because that conflicts with the ‘unprecedented’ message some of the media have been flogging. How is that different from Marohas and a the others like her trying to cast doubt on government figures about past temperatures?
[Response: You seem WAY too eager to accept the one number that will make the bushfires unprecedented, while ignoring the testimony from so many experts (including firefighters and scientists who specifically study bushfire) and from people who lived through both times in Australia. You seem WAY too eager to accept one number making bushfires unprecedented, without the slightest bit of context (see some of the comments above if you want some). If you want to make the case, pony up some more evidence because you’re not going to do it by insulting us, which is exactly what your snide remark likening it to Marohasy’s hijinx comes to — or can’t you tell the difference between genuine skepticism and Marohasy’s fake variety?]
@SOD,
Well, the audience has some responsibility, too. They are impatient. And they are more willing to listen to messages which paint a future and set of actions which cause them less perceived discomfort and economic pain. People should be grown up enough to realize that is not always possible, and there are circumstances in which spending more to achieve a good future or outcome is necessary.
Nathan | January 14, 2020 at 12:51 pm |
It’s more that there was nothing particularly special about 1974. The amount of burning in Northern Australia is always high. It’s just that it is one year with a detailed breakdown that has been published. The lack of data for other years makes it look like that year was special.
These fires were largely in wet temperate forest that doesn’t historically burn very much. They are very unusual..
Philippe Chantreau | January 12, 2020 at 7:08 pm |
If the Northern fires are savannah and the current ones Mediterranean type brush (I’m no expert on Australian geography) then they really are quite different. Acreage becomes much less useful a metric than tonnage. I have seen savannah fires in Africa, I’ve seen them intentionally set and seen how they behave. They are usually self limiting. It is entirely possible to drive through the edge of a savannah fire with a car and experience no major adverse consequence except a little smoke. They are an integral part of the landscape and even necessary for many savannah plants to thrive. It is a very different thing than what happened in California 2 years ago or what is seen in Southern Australia now. The amount of material burned, the amount of smoke generated, the propensity to spread, the heat generated, size of flames, these fires have very little in common besides the fact that the affected can be estimated. I am not really familiar with the Northern Australia fires so I could be wrong, but nonetheless, landscape matters.
Philippe – you wrote “It is a very different thing than what happened in California 2 years ago or what is seen in Southern Australia now”
May I draw your attention to the figures given for the 1974 fires in South Australia? You can check the Wiki figures –
1974–1975 South Australia bushfires
South Australia 17,000,000 ha 42,000,000 acres 1974–1975 season – with the original source – https://ro.uow.edu.au.cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=scipapers
P377 D1 Appendix D
Paper details:
University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Science – Papers (Archive)Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health2004National Inquiry on Bushfire Mitigation and Management S.Ellis P.Kanowski Australian National University R. J. Whelan University of Wollongong, rob@uow.edu.au
Now it may be possible to nitpick ‘differences’ but that is irrelevant to my main point that some of the media and many activists are plugging the ‘Apocalypse now’ line without any significant clarification or mention of any scientific distinction between past (much larger) fires and the current ones and why ‘this time it’s different’. ..
In order to counter the denier-storm fed, or about to be fed, by such historical acreage figures, scientifically credible people need to shout out from the rooftops exactly why these current fires are so different. They need to explain why, although the areas burnt in States like QL, NSW and SA are considerably less in size than in several previous historical season that the new fires are burning areas which were (if they were), mostly immune before -or any such clear difference.
Frankly, I think the scientific voices are being a bit irresponsible by letting the worst of the hyperbolic shock horror nonsense we see in the media get a free pass without apparent criticism or setting the record straighter. This is not the way for the science to conduct itself in the spotlight and it really needs to brush up its public relations skills to counter any further potential damage to the reputation of climate science. It’s no good moaning about the Murdoch media, the denialosphere or the fossil fuel industry’s lobbyists while allowing the Tony Heller’s/ Steve Goddard’s and all the other ‘forensic nit pickers’ of the world such significant amounts of ammunition for their propaganda.
[Response: When the co-director of Australia’s institute for the study of bushfire and arson, and people who actually lived through the 1974 fire season and are living in Australia now, both tell me “unprecedented” — I believe them.
It’s not “nitpicking differences.” There are differences. You refuse to acknowledge that, apparently because you’re pissed off at people who exaggerate. This is not one of those cases. I haven’t heard anybody say “largest area burned in history continentwide.” I hear “unprecedented” — and by all the evidence I’ve see (including what you provide) IT IS.
The deniers are going to cry foul, whether what we say is true or not. So I’m not going to nit-pick (you are the one doing that, not us) justification for what really is true. That’s just you playing the deniers’ game when you think you’re undermining them. If you want to fight against exaggeration by advocates, pick a case where it’s really happening. This isn’t one, this is a case of deniers claiming so, and even though their evidence is flimsy as hell, you bought it.
If you want to convince me otherwise, and all you’ve got is the evidence you’ve given so far, you’re wasting your time. If you really think this is one of those “exaggerations” that has to be called out, you’re wasting everybody’s time.
Just my opinion. You must do what you think is right.]
Tamino wrote: “You seem WAY too eager to accept the one number that will make the bushfires unprecedented”
The point is that it isn’t just one number. There are multiple examples to see. See my reply to Philippe which includes the paper from which the data came: Appendix D P377 onwards
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=scipapers
There are 4 fires with around 40 million ha burnt, all 4 are in the northern territory, none of them caused deaths or losses of structures, none of them got a special “name”.
You must be horrible at data analysis, if you can not spot the difference and insist to compare the to the much smaller and much more destructive fires.
Look again. It’s not just the Northern Territories!. Perhaps I should have written p377- p344 but I assumed people would read all of the table!
Doc Snow | January 13, 2020 at 5:45 pm |
No, you *should* have written 339-344. But I found it anyway. :-)
Doc Snow. Re 377-344. I should have written 377-382! I was referring to the page numbers when one searches a pdf, not actual page numbers on the pdf image. Doing it that way saves people from a lot of scrolling
Looking at the numbers from the paper Nick Palmer linked, it’s true that the total area burnt has been higher in the past (and that’s ignoring the Northern Territories, which are a whole ‘nother topic, as well as Tasmania, whose fire season is really just starting). I made a table, which I’ll try pasting in here:
Largest burns (state with current ha burnt), years, hectares burnt, locations):
South Australia (274,000 ha)
16,000,000 (no other year saw more than 1,000,000);
North-west of state (arid and semi-arid zones).
Western Australia (1,700,000 ha)
1974–1975;
29,000,000 (in 2003, over 15,000,000);
East and north-east of Kalgoorlie.
Victoria (1,200,000 ha)
1851 (!);
5,000,000 (est’d, presumably), with 1,100,000 in 2003. “Quarter of Victoria”;
Wimmera, Portland, Gippsland, Plenty Ranges, Westernport, Dandenong district, Heidelberg.
New South Wales (4,900,000 ha)
4,500,000 (7 other years over 1,000,000 ha);
Bourke to Balranald, Cobar Shire, Moolah–Corinya—most of the Western Division.
Queensland (2,500,00 ha)
1974 October to 1975 February;
Thargomindah, Bulloo Shire, Boulia Urandangie, McKinlay Shire.
Good data seems to be hard to come by–doesn’t Australia have an equivalent to the US NIFC? The best source I’ve found so far is Wikipedia, which is now claiming 10.3 million ha, partly on the basis of this Reuters report quoted in the Japan Times:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/10/asia-pacific/240000-australians-urged-evacuate-deadly-fires-threaten-grow-scorch-area-size-south-korea/#.Xhy-gut7m3c
The ‘hectares burnt’ figures given in the headers above come from the Wikipedia article, but it’s not clear how they came by them. Maybe a deeper dive into the footnotes would let you figure it out. But it’s quite clear that while the national scene is a bit ambiguous, for reasons I’ll discuss below, it’s pretty unequivocal that this bushfire season is thoroughly unprecedented for NSW–which, since that state is home to about 32% of the Australian population, means that it’s probably also a bushfire season unprecedented in its human impact. And even in the other states, except South Australia, the season so far counts as “remarkable”, qualifying in the top five or better. (Victoria is already the second-highest acreage ever, highest in the modern era, and rapidly padding its lead over modern-second-place 2003.)
But the biggest snag in the simplistic comparison of acres burnt appears to me to be time frames. In all cases except Victoria (where the record appears to be surely a very mushy number from 1851!), the state records span something like the entire 1974-75 fire season. So we’re clearly *not* comparing apples to apples here. I’m told that the worst months of the season are typically January and February, but it really varies by state, as described here:
http://media.bom.gov.au/social/blog/50/australias-bushfire-seasons/
Basically, the farther south, the later the season starts and ends. For those who are like me a bit weak on Australian geography, here’s a map:
Anyway, we should expect to see the area burnt continue to expand for a couple of months yet–which means that several of the states still have a real shot to break into the “clearly unprecedented area” category.
However, I don’t accept the ‘area burnt’ metric as sole criterion for ‘unprecedented’–however ‘convenient’ that would be for denialati. I’d like to see better characterizations, preferably based on good data, as to just what is unprecedented about this season. Like Tamino, I must assume that the experienced folks who use that word have something in mind, and I’d like to hear more clearly just what that is. Concentrating too much on one metric–as I’ve done above!–doesn’t accomplish that.
Dang, wrote 10.3 million ha, when I meant 10.7.
But it’s more than that now anyway–plus, ‘the framing thing’…
Doc Snow | January 13, 2020 at 10:19 pm |
One last thought on this subthread: one clear dimension by which this crisis is “unprecedented” would seem to be exposure. What I mean by that is that in general, the states experiencing the worst fire extents relative to historical norms are also those that are most populous. Another table (or list rather) to illustrate:
Worst fire extent ever; 32% of the Australian national population.
Worst fire extent since 1851; 24% of national population.
Third-worst extent ever, and worst since 1974; 20% of national population.
To do the math, that’s 76% of the population experiencing ‘top 3’ worst wildfire extents in their home state, with an absolute majority experiencing the worst extents in living memory.
I don’t know if the system is rejecting my last post because of the link to skepsci.com so I apologise if there are multiple versions for moderation!
I’ll try again!
“Tamino wrote:”Just my opinion. You must do what you think is right”
Let me state here that I consider Grant’s opinion very highly, indeed I have used his statistical expertise in the past as part of my denialist fighting arsenal, so it upsets me to see “That’s just you playing the deniers’ game when you think you’re undermining them”.
I am a long-term (~30 years) denialist fighter in the sort of media that the public see, which is where I think the ‘battles’ to influence the great mass of the voting public are won or lost. Perhaps you might like to see this recent comment thread on Skepticalscience.com, which ends up with me expressing, hopefully better than here, my views…”
Search skepticalscience.com for the post
“The never-ending RCP8.5 debate
Posted on 27 December 2019 by ATTP”
Please scroll down to comment 61
Sorry, but that comment is utterly horrible. Any “both sides” approach on this subject is total garbage.
The denialist side is hyping a totally garbage graph:
on the other hand, the media reports were absolutely fine (on a normal media report scale) and so was everything that tamino wrote on this subject or nick stockes.
If you want to attack “both sides”, 99.9% of your attack should be against denialists. But that is not what you do.
You are helping the denialist side. They are free to spread lies, while you nitpick climate science. And you are totally falling into the “merchants of doubt” and the 1998 trap.
For nearly two decades the denialists would start every trend line in 1998 and would always point out, that this year was not extreme, because it was warmer in the past (1998). You are giving them easy victories.
Your idea is totally false: when one side is being 5% accurate and proudly spreading lies, it is a totally false approach for the other side to increase their accuracy from 150% to 190%. It would simply make the fewer errors worse and at the same time destroy messaging (the others have a simple lie, we have a horribly complicated explanation and constantly admit all inaccuracies and uncertainties in our views and positions).
sod wrote “If you want to attack “both sides”, 99.9% of your attack should be against denialists. But that is not what you do”
It’s not black and white as you seem to believe – everything said by the ‘climate side’ is not perfectly true, nor is everything said by the denialist side perfectly false. To believe that would be very silly.
I’m just advocating for the ‘climate’ side to be as truthful as possible. I am not disputing that the denialist side are waay more dishonest or untruthful and that is because the reality is that most are not stupid science deniers, as some characterise them, but are actually political types spreading propaganda because they are what Katherine Hayhoe calls ‘solutions averse’. They don’t like many of the solutions offered up, so they lobby to spread doubt about the solidity of the science in the minds of the voting public.
If you think I’m too hard on ‘our side’ you ought to see me when I’m attacking them!
BTW, you asserted in https://tamino.wordpress.com/2020/01/06/bushfire-and-homophobia/#comment-106294 that I was ‘horrible at data analysis’ because you only found “There are 4 fires with around 40 million ha burnt, all 4 are in the northern territory, none of them caused deaths or losses of structures, none of them got a special “name””
I then pointed out that if you looked at the whole table, which covers 5 pages, that “it’s not just the Northern Territories”. It wasn’t just the one year either, which is clearly visible to anyone who reads the whole table which includes all the figures for QL, NSW, WA and SA too.
If I was you and somebody identified what an incorrect remark I had made, as I did to you, I would admit it and apologise to the person I hadinsulted…How about it it, sod?
It’s a “garbage graph” in that it stems from a misleading framing, but the numbers are apparently correct. (See my comment above.)
IMO, the best response is to improve the communication around why it is misleading. Is it geographical–is what has burnt this year unusual, or more valuable, than in 1974-5? Or is it in part, as I argued above temporal–an artifact of comparing a season still (probably) not at its height to completed seasons of the past? Or is it just poor statistical practice–comparing an extreme outlier (by the chosen metric) with more ‘normal’ data points by looking only at amplitude, not frequency? (In other words, would it be better to note on that ‘garbage graph’ that since 1975 we’ve had 3 seasons with the amplitude of the current season–accepting their plot of ‘the current season’ which is already perceptibly too small–whereas there were none from 1920 to 1974? Should we be working more in the frequency domain?)
This report, from mid-November, articulates some of what folks in situ were seeing:
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/worst-bushfire-conditions-ever-seen-unprecedented-danger-is-a-firefighters-nightmare/news-story/04ebdcf6ae95c04923cd91dd2486aeed
Actually, let me take back what I said about the graph not being “garbage”.
If you look at the data from the 2004 report Nick P. cited and I discussed above, you find that the Northern Territories racked up large totals in several years, not just ’74-5. (And the only way to get to the graph’s claimed ~110 million ha is to include the NT!)
1968–1969: 40,000,000 ha
2002: 38,000,000 ha
(Haven’t found any data on NT fire in 2019, by the way, other than a note that 5 homes were confirmed destroyed. I’m assuming the NT season was pretty unremarkable.)
It’s clearly a bad mistake to conflate NT fire with that elsewhere in Australia–the sizes are huge, with little suppression effort most of the time, and the season is much earlier, ending just about the time more southerly areas are getting underway. So the graph shouldn’t have used NT data; if it hadn’t, the ’74-5 season value would have been reduced by ~40%.
Of course, that still would have made that season an annus horribilus. But perhaps more significantly for the denialati constructing the graph, it would have forced them to include comparably big spikes for 68-9, 69-70, and 2002, which might have begged the question of fire frequency.
Either that, or whoever concocted it was awfully careless.
Again. The denialists want people to have doubts. Your approach? Let us always point out the doubts in our positions (like with terrorists trying to spread fear and someone would advocate for being really afraid of terrorists).
Your terminology (alarmists, “comparable to (or possibly greater, these days) problem than out and out denialism”, about Greta, “a colossal mother of all global economic crashes.”) puts you pretty far into a sceptic camp.
https://skepticalscience.com/news.php?p=2&t=61&&n=4626
The strange data for the northern territory is putting the whole source in doubt. It is also pointing to a huge problem in any attempt to compare fire sizes. Denialist love such situations!
PS: Yeah, i can really see denialist stopping their propaganda, because we get more accurate. makes a lot of sense!
Yet more characterization–also from November last–of how the current season is “unprecedented”. It bears out several comments here.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/22/australia-bushfires-factcheck-are-this-years-fires-unprecedented
@Doc Snow, and all,
I’m sure someone and perhaps several will do a formal attribution assessment of these fires. I would hazard a guess that even the American Meteorological Association might have a special issue of BAMS about them.
One thing that could end this cycling of recriminations is to make a wager with the denialists/luck warmers on the outcome of the attribution study, and to wait for it. In the Bayesian world, priors are often evoked from experts by assessing how much they are willing to wager on one position versus alternatives, and these are often actual wagers.
Accordingly, one way to flush out whether the people giving y’all a hard time is to have them put money up for their opinion, and put theirs and yours into some kind of escrow account until the attribution study is done.
And if they are reluctant to do this, well, you then know how much they values their own opinion.
sod | January 14, 2020 at 6:13 am |
I fear that this discussion is a perfect example of what i wrote in the beginning: While the denialists are out, moving the opinion of many people, we are having a discussion inside a small group and each of us has a slightly different idea about how to proceed. This is a losing tactic.
The guardian article linked by Doc Snow is another perfect example of the “truth” tactic being bad for our cause. It is giving the typical “No fire can be linked…” line, which everyone feels to be necessary to be included in any discussion/article on this topic. Instead of the “truthfulness” helping our cause, what happens is, that a majority of people simply only read/understand/remember the “no” part of that answer. This phrase should absolutely NEVER be used at the beginning of a statement. NEVER EVER.
The guardian has a good data analysis up as well:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2020/jan/14/the-government-has-been-forced-to-talk-about-climate-change-so-its-taking-a-subtle-and-sinister-approach
But again, i think making our statements more complicated (trend of rain is down in the parts of Australia that really matter) will also not help our cause.
I am not advocating to assimilate the liar strategy of the right. But we should not attack each other over minor simplifications in our message, because nothing else will swing majorities.
Sod, I think for me the main outcome of discussion here is learning. Today I have a much better understanding of what is going on in Australia than I did at this time yesterday. I hope that sharing the process in dialog here helps others as well.
But it’s not, IMO, going to move the political needle much one way or another. True, it’s worth rebutting nonsense, as John Kerry found out in the infamous “Swiftboating” episode. But what we say here is not going to result in putting masses of people on the street to demand action, nor move them to vote for better candidates–not by itself, anyway. It may illuminate things for some; it may nudge some; it may confirm for some that yes, climate change is real and urgently needs to be addressed, despite denialist FUD. In short, it can help.
But what moves people is ongoing engagement with other humans–relationship, in fact. So if action is our goal, what we need is to organize. That’s what I try to do these days. Temperamentally, I’d far rather sit behind a keyboard, dig up fascinating information, organize and share it, as I tried to do yesterday. But that, IMO at least, just doesn’t cut it. So today, I’ll be writing a committee report, conferring with other organizers, and disseminating some educational stuff, etc., etc. It’s boring and even sounds sort of pointless when you put it like that, but the result is in fact the creation, maintenance and (we hope) growth of a group of folks who pay attention on a regular basis and who are more than ready to act in concrete ways. That in turn means that our next climate demo in the state capital will not consist of 40 or 50 diehards chanting slogans and covered only by the college newspaper–consequently, it will not give legislators the message that they can continue to ignore the issue.
[Response: Those who do the hard work, the unrewarding logistics that sometimes require sacrifices (especially of precious time), who actually work face-to-face with people, deserve far more praise. Never doubt that your efforts bear fruit. It’s what I’d be doing myself, if my health allowed it.]
Tamino, thanks for the encouragement.
David | January 14, 2020 at 1:51 am |
Just to further point something out – the variance is clearly way higher on the data in early years than later years at Rutherglen. We shouldn’t be surprised to find the maximum value in the dataset from that period, with or without a systematic change in the mean. That being said, do you have some more data to show that the nearby average is good and not being disturbed by one garbage reading? (How do the extreme values on the differences come about? Are there zeroes or empty entries in the dataset etc?)
Glad to see the thoughtful, and data laden, posts from Doc Snow and latterly some more reasonable less aggressive posts from sod. We’re all on the same side… On our TV news last night, there was an ecologist who made perhaps the best point I’ve seen in this whole confused area and it related to what actually is ‘unprecedented’ – if his data was accurate. Whilst acknowledging that the total area wasn’t exceptional (which was my point) he did say that areas that shouldn’t burn such as wetlands etc (he listed three ecosystems) were burning – from another source (The Guardian in an otherwise misleading article about acreages etc) this was “rainforests, wet eucalypt forests, dried-out swamps and banana plantations that do not usually burn because they are too wet”
That is exactly the sort of details that media articles, and those interviewed, should be putting front and centre when talking about ‘unprecedented’. That is exactly the sort of information I wanted to see to judge the situation objectively and is a powerful argument. As we have seen, much of the misleading nature of media reports is just because they kind of imply that the unprecedented nature of the fires is down to the scale of the acreages burned.
Other things I would have liked to see in media reports about ‘unprecedented’ is the scale and longevity of the drought that has dried out areas that were too wet previously and how rainfall patterns may have shifted because of global warming to cause this. Positive phases of ‘The Indian Ocean Dipole’ seem to be altering and this paper from a few years ago suggests that the IOD has been influenced to change its behaviour by ongoing global warming and that modelling shows that it will be even more changed as the 21st century continues.
“we project that the frequency of extreme pIOD events will increase by almost a factor of three, from one event every 17.3 years over the twentieth century to one event every 6.3 years over the twenty-first century”
I not sure how any media reports on such science would go down with the public, but this is surely an example where modelling of future consequences is being validated by Nature itself in real time and so is another very powerful argument that should trump insinuations about acreage which, as I and others have shown, are too easily countered by historical records.
Let us see:
fires are exceptional: unusual; not typical. CHECK.
fires are unprecedented: never done or known before. CHECK.
Your claim was false. There is a tiny subset of claims being made about the area burnt being unprecedented, which is false, but not false in any unusual way for mainstream media reports or blog/forum posts. Just normal simplification.
The “wetlands” will also not cut it. The other side is posting the totally misleading graph with the 74 fire and your wetlands argument looks horrible.
The same is true for the Dipole. The very moment you mention a cyclical effect you lost the discussion. You should NEVER use it, unless you are in a situation where you can point out, that current maxima is NOT aligned with a cyclical high (and that for the cyclical effect does not explain the maximum but will make future maxima even more extreme).
Both the Dipole and the wetland explanations might work to harden the position of people who are already in the pro climate camp. In all other circumstances i would avoid them.
PS: Other situations in which i would advice you to use a total truth approach: 1. your next wedding proposal. Start by giving a list of all other girls/women you like or liked. 2. Job interview. Focus all your personal deficits first. 3. when giving a presentation in your professional field: Also totally focus all uncertainties and the risks involved when people follow your professional advice.
I am afraid, sod, that it really looks like you are arguing for deception, cherry picking etc, which is EXACTLY what enables the denialosphere to attack any exaggeration, partial truth etc etc. I know, because I argue with denialists/’sceptics’/contrarians all the time and your irresponsible and counter productive methodology gets instantly and ruthlessly exploited. Most denialists are not stupid – if there’s a hint of dissembling in pro-climate science proclamations they will zero in on it and then use it against the science.
Come to think of it, sod’s ‘partial truth’ methodology looks to be arguing for what the denialist fraternity falsely accuse/accused Stephen Schneider of doing – except sod is actually arguing for it…
Stephen Schneider was famously quote mined (and continues to be) in this denialist meme which often crops up near the top of their lists of stuff that they assert ‘proves’ that climate scientists are making it all up or exaggerating it – usually, they say, to keep the grant monies and funds rolling in.
Excerpt from Gosselin’s Notrickszone. “How Climatologists Suddenly Turned On A Dime, “Shooed Away” Uncertainty To Promote “Scary Scenarios””
“”https://notrickszone.com/2016/07/23/how-climatologists-suddenly-turned-on-a-dime-shooed-away-uncertainty-to-promote-scary-scenarios/”
On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.””
The full ‘un-mined’ quote is nowhere near as apparently incriminating as that appears – in context it shows Schneider to have been the thoughtful careful objective scientist and person that he was.
sod | January 14, 2020 at 10:22 pm |
the difference is the message. Please choose:
a) These fires are unprecedented. we need action now.
b) No single event can be directly linked to climate. These were neither the biggest, nor the deadliest, nor the most destructive fires. The fires were also possibly influenced by a cyclical Dipole event. It might have been the biggest forest fire in wet lands, but we need to wait for more information, before we can really say so.
I think your two choices are too black or white. As written, I would choose no 1. If they were written differently, I would choose no 2. because I partially believe in the precautionary principle.
Perhaps It might help you understand my position, which I am fairly sure is the best way to keep the public onside without risking a negative backlash if any exaggeration is ‘outed’ by denialist’s laser like focus on errors, if I told you that friends of mine were emigrating to Western Australia (Bunbury) about 20 years ago and I warned them to consider changing their minds because my understanding of the science, incomplete as it was back then was that Australia, of the inhabited world, was most likely going to suffer first from heat and drought.
Let’s all hope that whether these current events are wholly or partially linked to ongoing climate change that the world hurries up and starts putting all the plans and policies into action ASAP
Nick, I don’t know if the following will reflect your experience or not, but as I’ve been engaged with skeptics/denialati over the years, I find I tend to be influenced by their messaging–not shaken in what I believe to be true based on the evidence, but still I find myself reflexively assessing information in view of their anticipated responses. (I developed a pretty good ability to anticipate those responses, I think.) Not conversion, but a certain tendency to self-censor (putting it in the worst light for a moment.) At the very worst, it could devolve to a normalizing of unreasonable doubts.
That’s why I try to challenge myself not to accept denialist framings. WRT sod’s two choices, I might opt for something like:
“These fires are certainly unprecedented in some ways, though of course it’s true that fires have always happened. But we’re pretty much guaranteed to see increasingly more and more such fires, if we don’t take aggressive action right away.”
It does, of course, depend on context. If you are in one prioritizing the pithy, I think sod’s #1 is pretty hard to beat.
Nick Palmer | January 16, 2020 at 11:55 pm |
Doc Snow. The problem with official sources saying stuff like “a) These fires are unprecedented. we need action now” is that without those sources defining exactly what is unprecedented, in a way that Joe Public can easily understand it, is that it just takes a whole bunch of media reports about what spokespeople may be saying which gloss over the details of what has changed to set up a situation ripe for exploitation by the nay-sayers.
Joe P may accept the media hype, which, to him just looks like these are being presented as the biggest, worst, most damaging, deadly etc etc fires ever – right up until the denialati say hold on there’s nothing really special or unprecedented here – fires have been bigger, many more people were killed etc. Joe P will not readily understand fine details like a rainforest or a swamp burned or that the temperatures are hotter – to him it’s the walls of flame he sees nightly on the media that influence his judgement.
I think it fair to say that such a member of the public who finds out that they (think they have) been fooled by governmental and media sources misrepresenting or even lying about something so huge will get his hackles raised big time. There’s no one so suspicious of any source as someone who thinks they have bee misled before.
In my own denialist fighting, I heavily favour arguments that would appeal to and be easily comprehensible by, the aforementioned Joe Public. I find too may other denialism debunkers tend to go for spouting reams of esoteric scientific arguments and appeals to scientific papers. I don’t think that tactic works very well at all to persuade the voting public about ‘who’s right?’
It is my observation that the denialist messages in the media are not usually pitched at changing the minds of those familiar with the science, but at changing the minds of the largest percentage of the viewing/listening /reading public that they can.
Susan Anderson | January 15, 2020 at 5:01 pm |
Another cultural side effect of electing greedy selfish destructive people who promote more wealth and power for the wealthy and powerful without regard to the truth or planetary imperatives:
Jair Bolsonaro is perfectly happy to get rid of indigenous people who won’t vote for him. We have a fair amount of this in the good ole US of A with things like the school to prison pipeline, and war training and armaments for police. Remove voters who might vote against said wealth and power. Kill ’em or disenfranchise them, they don’t care!
Yes, a dominant feature of Republican policy (including lawmaking) has been voter suppression via exaggerated purging of voter lists, shuttering of polling places, the permanent disenfranchisement of convicted felons, and unnecessarily heightened requirements for ID, among other things.
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2012 NFC South Previews & Predictions
August 27, 2012 by The Chancellor of Football
Second year wideout Julio Jones skies over a Ravens defensive back for a touchdown in last week’s preseason opener.
As the 2012 regular season beckons, many pundits and fans are looking for the Carolina Panthers to light up this division. There will be several young stars that will come to the fore in the toughest division in football, yet there will be one second year player who should take the league by storm. Oh you thought we meant Cam Newton?? He’ll do well but the player who is about to break out is WR Julio Jones of the Atlanta Falcons. His play so far in the preseason along with the maturation he showed toward the end of last year. Look out his star is on the rise.
No division in football has been as competitive from top to bottom as the NFC South. Since its inception in 2002, there hasn’t been a repeat division winner and again its the only division to have every team play for the conference championship during that time. Each team can run at you physically, Atlanta with Michael Turner (1,340 yards in 2011), thunderous LeGarrette Blount (1,007 yards in 2010), former Heisman winner in Mark Ingram, and former twin thousand yard rushers DeAngelo Williams and Jonathon Stewart in Carolina. Yet with last year’s emergence of Cam Newton and 2010’s Josh Freeman (25TDs to only 6 ints), each team fields better than average quarterbacks. This is before we get to record setting Super Bowl champion Drew Brees and 3 time playoff participant QB Matt Ryan. This division is stacked on offense…
However there are several questions moving into 2012. How will the Saints fare with the suspension of Head Coach Sean Peyton?? Will their game day adjustments suffer or will the overall gameplan be inferior?? Have the Panthers made enough moves to allow Cam Newton to star again or will he have a sophomore slump?? Which team was the real Tampa Bay Buccaneers?? Was it the 10-6 2010 team that was coming on at the end of that season or last year’s 4-11 debacle that got Head Coach Raheem Morris fired??
We’ll answer a few of those later in the article….as for our predictions
2012 NFC South Predictions
Atlanta Falcons 11-5 *
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9-7
New Orleans Saints 9-7
Carolina Panthers 6-10
Now that the Saints signed Drew Brees to a long term deal: How will he fare this season without Sean Payton?? Payton and Brees have been lethal these last several years with game plans but they will suffer with game-day adjustments. There should be a drop off this season as Interim Coach Joe Vitt can’t put his stamp on the team. In a single season lame duck situation?? Not going to be good. More important, without their spiritual leader on defense with the suspension of Jonathon Vilma, this defense will give up points by the bushel and will behind in the race to win the south. As evidenced in Saturday night’s preseason game against Houston, this defense struggled in a 34-27 shootout. The Texans marched to two easy touchdowns while the starters were out there. Don’t forget the Saints were at home. How do you think they will fare when they are on the road this year?? http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2012082554/2012/PRE3/texans@saints#tab=recap&menu=highlights
They have a murderous schedule and will lose tie breaker advantages during the weeks of 12-15 where they face San Francisco, who beat them in last year’s playoffs. Then they face a stronger Atlanta Falcons team on the road, then travel to play the World Champion Giants in the cold, then come home to face a resurgent Tampa Bay Buccaneers team. Even though Tampa had a down year in 2011, they only lost 27-16 in New Orleans and defeated the Saints in the Superdome in 2010. At full strength with Coach Peyton, Jonathon Vilma on defense, the Saints would be in good shape against these ball clubs but with a coaching staff trying to keep the ship steady?? These are four losses waiting to happen and all to NFC teams. This is after they would have played the Packers at Lambeau in week 4, and the Philadelphia Eagle in week 9. Too many in conference losses will doom the Saints this year.
Super Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers.
Has there been a more electrifying rookie quarterback in NFL history than Cam Newton?? The Chancellor can only think of one and that was Dan Marino’s 1983 season. Yet a closer look and Newton broke the rookie record in week 1 with 422 yards against the Cardinals, rushed for 706 yards and 14 TDs (another record), while completing 60% of his passes for 4,021 yards (another record) and 21TDs. All as a rookie?? Yikes! That dwarfs Marino’s 20TD passes and didn’t start for Shula’s Dolphins until week 6 and was no threat with only 45 yards rushing. What is he going to do for an encore??
Once upon a time Tim Tebow was given the nod over Newton at the University of Florida. My how the tables have turned as the Panthers defeated Tebow and the Jets 17-12 last night in pre-season action.
The question is did they do enough to move up in the competitive NFC South?? They still have the “Cash & Carry” backfield of DeAngelo Williams and Jonathon Stewart, who just signed an extension last week. Ageless Steve Smith revitalized his career with Newton’s emergence and may have a running partner in WR Louis Murphy who scored in last night’s game. On offense the answer is yes, but on defense they haven’t done enough. They did get LB Thomas Davis back but they have to keep their fingers crossed he doesn’t injure his knee for a fourth time. They need all the help they can get on a defense that was 28th last year and finished 25th against the run. In this division that last stat will be what they need to improve and the draft only brought one lineman in 4th rounder Frank Alexander. New leaders have to emerge for the Panthers to make a move up… that can happen in 2013. The problem is it’s still 2012 so they’ll improve just a few wins on offense as a team.
Former Boise St running back Doug Martin should rush for 1,200 yards for Tampa this season.
Now a team that will be the surprise winner in this division is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Last year this team dropped to 30th in the NFL in rushing and brought unnecessary heat on QB Josh Freeman. Team brass addressed that with 1st round selection RB Doug Martin out of Boise St. With the rushing attack under performing it also kept the Buccaneers defense from resting. In 2011 this was a run first, pass second team that went 10-6. Josh Freeman had the second lowest touchdown to interception ratio, 25TDs to just 6 interceptions, to a record setting Tom Brady. With the acquisition of WR Vincent Jackson from the San Diego Chargers to go along with TE Kellen Winslow Jr, WR Mike Williams and WR Arrelios Benn, this team has some big targets.
Speaking of Tom Brady, the Buccaneer defense made his life miserable in pre-season action Friday night. The Bucs pass rush harassed him all night and made him throw a pick six in a 30-28 win. Brady played into the 3rd quarter (unheard of in pre-season) and New England needed 2 4th quarter touchdowns to make the score close. One of the differences was the efficient play of Freeman and Doug Martin, who rushed for 53 yards on 13 carries and sat out more than half the game. This talent who has been a Taylor Blitz Time favorite https://taylorblitztimes.com/2011/08/02/2011-heisman-campaign-doug-martin-of-boise-st/ will tilt the balance of power for them from a tactical standpoint all year. They should return to form and match the 10-6 record of 2010. They’ll be ready to make a serious move in 2013.
However 2012 will belong to the Atlanta Falcons. They have built for this season for the last four and this is the year for the payoff. TE Tony Gonzalez can’t go forever and RB Michael Turner is about to turn 30. When the Falcons lost in last year’s wildcard to the New York Giants, it marked the second season in a row their season ended at the hands of the eventual Super Bowl champions. As a matter of fact, if you include the 2009 NFC Divisional playoff loss to the Arizona Cardinals, 3 of the last 4 seasons has ended at the hands of the eventual NFC Champion. Its time for their maturation and ascend to a Super Bowl themselves. Head Coach Mike Smith and Matt Ryan have to prove they can win a playoff game. They are primed as a team talent wise to make a move.
Next up: NFC North
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Michael Prelock says: August 28, 2012 at 3:43 pm
C’mon man, my pick for best defensive player in the draft doesn’t get a mention. Kuechly has been lighting it up.
Jonathan Brooks says: August 27, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Falcons, Panthers are my dark horse to win.
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GOLDSTEIN: We already know Trudeau's ethical standards
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In the Kabuki theatre of Parliament Hill, the fact Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer called Wednesday for Finance Minister Bill Morneau to resign means hell could freeze over before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will fire him.
Because that’s the issue, since Morneau has no intention of resigning.
Morneau just finished daring Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre to make the same statements outside the House of Commons of that he’s been making inside it, all concerning the curious timing of the sale of Morneau Shepell shares back in 2015.
Morneau threatened to sue anyone who makes any allegations concerning this issue outside the House, where MPs are not protected by parliamentary privilege.
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But even if that were to happen, the chance of the case ever going all the way to trial, based on the history of similar political controversies, is very slim.
Finally, even if Trudeau was considering shifting Morneau out of finance, or booting him from cabinet, the fact Scheer is now calling for Morneau to resign means Trudeau won’t do it. Certainly not now.
The standard way prime ministers deal with a high-profile cabinet minister who has become more trouble for the government than he’s worth, is to shift him into another portfolio, or drop him, during a scheduled cabinet shuffle, after the controversy has died down.
Not to publicly behead him while the opposition is demanding it.
In any event, there’s zero indication Trudeau is thinking of firing Morneau, or shifting him into another portfolio, which brings us to the key issue.
That is, since it is Trudeau, not Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, who sets the ethical standards of conduct for himself and his cabinet, why bother having an ethics commissioner at all?
Indeed, the ethics commissioner’s office, which is only 10 years old, has had only one occupant, that being Dawson, and was created by the Stephen Harper government, is one of those failed political ideas that should die a quick death.
As things now stand, we have the ridiculous spectacle of Trudeau, still under investigation by Dawson over his December, 2016 Christmas vacation on the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, waiting for the results of Dawson’s examination of Morneau’s sponsorship of a pension bill, which the opposition parties allege could have benefitted him through shares he indirectly held at the time in his family business, Morneau Shepell.
But even if Dawson finds ethical violations in either case, her powers are limited to a slap on the wrist. (Morneau’s office has maintained that he’s consistently followed the ethics commissioner’s advice.)
The real responsibility for maintaining the ethical standards of his cabinet — and his government — lies with Trudeau and he shouldn’t be able to use the findings of the ethics commissioner for political cover.
The bottom line is that if Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, needs a commissioner to tell him what’s ethical, then the federal government is in big trouble and so is our country.
Trudeau’s words and actions to date tell us that he’s ethically untroubled by Morneau’s actions as finance minister — on Wednesday he accused the opposition of a smear campaign — or his own as PM.
That tells us everything about his ethics, and the ethics of his government, we need to know.
The appropriate penalty — if enough Canadians agree — is defeat in the 2019 election, not an administrative sanction from the ethics commissioner.
And if enough people vote to re-elect the Liberals anyway, then no finding of the ethics commissioner was ever going to change that.
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1:30-3:00 pm: Variations on the Voice: History, Politics and Poetics
Location: Television Studio, Room HN436
Participants: Priyanjali Sen, Mark Street, Jim Supanick
This panel will bring together three discussions of the formal qualities and functions of voice in relationship to image and in relationship to other sounds, through a range of non-fiction work. Priyanjali Sen will theorize the politics and ethics of voice-over in Louis Malle’s epic documentaries Calcutta (1969) and Phantom India (1969), films in which the voice-over does not merely guide the audience or impose the filmmaker’s opinion on them, but marks the complex ways in which ideology is disseminated. By using the diary film as a jumping off point, Mark Street will examine what’s concealed and revealed in the use of direct address, voice-over or ambient soundscapes. Jim Supanick will present a formal analysis of Patrick Keiller’s Robinson Trilogy, whose density of narration makes a sustained (though implicit) argument about the limits of the image’s ability to alone communicate complex historical ideas.
3:15-3:45 pm: #Rushes: A performed voice-over and text piece by Jason Livingston
Location: The Lang Auditorium, Room HN424
A work always-in-progress, #Rushes began as a silent, 16mm in-camera edit of the 1 year birthday/funeral of Occupy Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. Livingston presents this visual material with a performed voice-over, as a way of exploring the theatrical conventions of sound-image relations, and how those sound-image relations may be considered as social relations, a kind of medium-based allegory for matters beyond the site of cinematic exhibition…If voice-over, traditionally conceived, locates the voice as primary—in the mix; as the top; the director of meaning—then what would be a voice under? Is it possible? Ontologically, categorically, politically?
4:00-5:00 pm: The Seeing Ear, the Hearing Eye: Synesthesiac Technologies
Participants: Jenny Perlin, Andrew Demirjian
How do the ear and eye work together? How do they pull apart? This panel will examine several technologies, both historical and contemporary, that attempt a kind of sensory cross wiring. Using excerpts and textual elements from her film work-in-progress, provisionally titled Toward the Flame, Jenny Perlin will explore the invention of the color organ in the 19th and early 20th centuries, its eventual fall from favor, and the ways in which its fusion of sound and light were absorbed into cinema, and later, into today’s brightly glowing, colorful, and resolutely individual pocket (and wrist)-sized rectangles. Andrew Demirjian will examine the methods and aesthetics of image sonification and survey both its historical context and its contemporary practice, while drawing from five years of artistic research creating audiovisual installations whose sonic content originates from non-fiction video and photography as source material.
5:15-6:15 pm: What’s the Score: Contemporary Sound Design in Documentary Cinema
Participants: David Barker and Pacho Velez
This presentation proposes to develop distinctions within the category of ‘sound design’ in order to articulate in more precise terms some of the ways that sound affects image and how this relationship has altered over time. Barker and Velez trace some recent developments in cinematic image-sound relations. They begin with the distinction drawn in classical narrative film between sound design and score. Most contemporary documentaries, taking their cue from this distinction, rely on score to heighten emotion, increase tension, and emphasize pace and rhythm. In contemporary fiction, however, designers and directors have begun eschewing such scoring and, instead, use sounds and sonic textures to broaden meaning. This revolutionary change in cinema’s relationship to sound is only beginning to gain currency within non-fiction circles. Through a close analysis of some recent documentaries, Barker and Velez ask “what openings do these changes offer for creators of non-fiction media?”
6:15 pm: Opening Reception
7:30-9:00 pm: Keynote Presentation by Ernst Karel
“Multichannel sound, cinema space”
Karel will present and discuss two recent projects: Morning and Other Times (30 min, 5.1 audio only) and Ah humanity! (made in collaboration with Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 23 min, video + 4-channel audio).
10:00-11:00 am: Enunciative Acts: On the Materiality of the Voice
Participants: Irina Leimbacher, Pooja Rangan
What does a voice say in the act of saying? This panel brings together two approaches to the material qualities of the voice. Irina Leimbacher will examine films by Beryl Korot and Steve Reich, Juan Manuel Echevarria, and Avi Mograbi that emphasize the saying over the said through their attention to the sonorous and musical qualities of speech. Pooja Rangan’s presentation, focusing on the work of Lebanese filmmaker and artist Mounira Al Solh, will seek to complicate the subversive status accorded to the disembodied female voice in the experimental and documentary tradition, by attending to the “skin” of the disembodied voice, that is, to the embodied materiality of the unseen voice that is scanned for auditory evidence of the speaker’s identity.
11:00 am-12:00 pm: Strangers on a Journey: Mimetic Sound, Synchresis and the Attraction of Foley
Participants: Leo Goldsmith, Jacqueline Goss
Image and sound have a kind of magnetic affinity for each other, “like strangers who make acquaintance on a journey and afterwards cannot separate,” in Robert Bresson’s famous phrase. This panel explores some of the ways that this acquaintance of image and sound can be deployed in non-fiction film. Leo Goldsmith will examine the use of voice, music, and foley in Andrei Ujica’s film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, with particular attention to Ujica’s understanding of voice and representation, and of sound’s complementary and subversive relation to image. Jacqueline Goss will take as her starting point Michel Chion’s term “synchresis,” meaning the mental fusion of sound and image, and will present and discuss several examples of foley in non-fiction filmmaking that support and possibly challenge notions of synchresis.
12:00-12:30 pm: Live Foley Performance by Kelly Kirshtner, with interactive programming by Daniel Robert Kelly
Kelly Kirshtner will perform a live foley soundtrack to a short video loop, adding additional sounds on each pass of the loop, leading to the gradual completion of a “full” accompanying soundtrack. After recording a predetermined number of sounds, the older tracks begin to decay, dismantling the soundtrack even as new sounds are recorded. The work of the piece then becomes to perceive and maintain a balance between sonic creation and decay, and to both reinforce the original narrative (sounds of actions seen onscreen) and to invent an alternative narrative (sounds for the space off screen).
1:30-2:30 pm: Make Strange the Senses: Asynchronicity as Method and Argument
Participants: Kevin T. Allen, Jen Heuson, Marit Kathryn Corneil, Asbjørn Tiller
Two presentations that interrogate the synchronicity of ear and eye in non-fiction practice and explore what can be uncovered by their unlinking. Using examples from their own filmmaking practice, Kevin T. Allen and Jen Heuson will propose asynchronicity as a conceptual and practical way to challenge the historical sedimentation of “sync and/or non-sync” methods and to investigate the political and ethical implications of standardized modes of non-fiction media making. Marit Kathryn Corneil and Asbjørn Tiller will examine the use of everyday sounds in some newer experimental documentary and ethnographic films, with an eye (and ear) toward the type of dialectical image/sound relationship proposed by Dziga Vertov and realized most fully in his film Enthusiam: Symphony of the Donbass. Their presentation will emphasize the ways in which sound elements are used to structure narrative or rhetorical arguments and/or create thick descriptions of reality.
2:45-3:45 pm: Audition and After: Crushing Mimesis/Exploding Atmosphere
Participants: Melissa Ragona, Abigail Child
This panel looks at noise/music/text and image as an aggressive, but unpredictable force in relation to image— interrupting, stretching, and shredding the recorded documents of the culture industry. Ragona will lay out terms for film sound established by Child in her Born For? series, and trace the legacies of her experiments across the works of Martha Colburn, Jacob Ciocci, and Takeshi Murata. Child will argue for disruption not as nihilistic but as an element of the contemporary and indeed part of a politics of poetic form. She will focus on meaning through multiple points of view and overlapping voices, on decay, partiality and error. Referencing work from Godard, Tanaka and her own recent filmic collaborations with poets, Child will mark technological changes and their effects, as she embraces a maximalist and textual approach: creating a cacophonous crosscut of image/sound/word that remains alive to the social.
4:00-4:30 pm: SOUNDFILM, a film performance by Roger Beebe
Roger Beebe will present his new six-projector 16mm film performance, which is centrally focused on the various ways in which sound is represented as image. Composed primarily of fragments of 16mm educational films stretching from the 1940s through the 1980s, the performance creates a complex visual and sonic space in which these fragments, starting with a compendium of elementary sound primers, coalesce around various key moments and strategies: representations of the vibrations of air particles, anatomical animations of the middle and inner ear, noise and hearing protection, and the technologies for representing sound (optical tracks, oscilloscopes, etc.). Simultaneously, however, the film explores and plays with a certain degree of abstraction that happens in these representations, at times liberating sound and image for their sensual qualities alone. In these sections it also references American minimalist composition with phase shifts and repetitions that recall the work of Steve Reich.
4:45-6:15 pm: Sound and Image At Play Together: Sound Design as Collaboration
Participants: Irene Lusztig, Maile Colbert, Melissa Dubbin, Aaron S. Davidson
This panel will present two approaches to the collaborative process of sound design. Irene Lusztig and Maile Colbert will talk about Lusztig’s film, The Motherhood Archives, and about the sound design that Colbert created for it. Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film, excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson will present some versions of their project Sound Design for Future Films, which inverts the hierarchy and workflow of typical film production, starting with a two-and-a-half minute sound design for a scene in a film that doesn’t exist. This sound design, composed with sounds drawn from sound libraries and proposing an oblique narrative, served as the primary source material in collaborations with 20 other artists, each of whom were given complete control concerning their visual contributions.
7:30-9:00 pm: Keynote Presentation by Deborah Stratman
“A Space Where There Is Nothing”
An aural-visual rumination on the usefulness of gaps.
9:00 pm: Closing Reception
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Anna Ludvigsen, Staff Writer
From caffeine to cocaine, most americans don’t realize they are consuming stimulants every day. According to anesthesiologist Jesse Noboa, there are many different kinds of stimulants for a variety of specific uses.
“Ones like adderall are mainly for people with ADHD,” Dr. Noboa said. “Some times they are used for weight loss or headaches, but nicotine doesn’t really have any uses other than smoking cessation.”
Kate George ’20 experiences a stimulant that is much less strong, since she drinks one to five cups of coffee every day depending on how much she needs.
“Coffee makes me feel more alert in the morning and I have always liked the taste of coffee,” George said. “It has become part of my morning routine at this point since I have adapted to drinking it everyday.”
According to Dr. Noboa, it depends on the stimulant, but all the neurotransmitter levels of each drug affects the brain in different ways.
“These different neurotransmitters stimulate different parts of the brain,” Dr. Noboa said. “For example, cocaine would stimulate some of the reward pathways of the brain giving a euphoric feeling and becoming addictive. You don’t get the same feeling with other stimulants like caffeine or adderall that you get with cocaine because of this.”
George said if she drinks too much coffee in one day, it will cause her to feel jittery and sometimes light headed, causing her to feel like she is about to faint.
“At one point, coffee definitely became bad for my health because I noticed that I was feeling anxious whenever I started drinking greater amounts of coffee than I usually would,” George said.
According to Dr. Noboa, some people try to snort adderall to try to get the cocaine-like effect, but they are different kinds of stimulants.
“Cocaine prevents reuptake of dopamine in the synaptic gap, increasing levels of dopamine available to interact with receptors, while adderall increases levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain,” Dr. Noboa said. “Dopamine plays a role in memory reward and pleasure and norepinephrine increases energy and attentiveness.”
Gray Rahm ‘20 takes adderall every morning, an ADHD medication that enhances her attentiveness, and it allows her to be more focused in everything she does.
“I think for a lot of people, adderall just helps with school, but it helps with everything like driving, sports and basic conversations,” Rahm said. “I remember taking it the first time freshman year and thinking, ‘oh my god, this is how normal people think’.”
According to Dr. Noboa, there’s not a lot of health benefits or positive effects of stimulants for people, and they mainly lead to negative outcomes.
“People are mainly taking them to stay awake or taking them to concentrate or to get high,” Dr. Noboa said. “That’s essentially the effect, but there’s not gonna be a health benefit or longevity benefit or any kind of disease treatment.”
Rahm said that adderall can have negative effects like eating at irregular times of the day, having less energy and not functioning as well without it.
“Going through the day is much more frustrating without adderall,” Rahm said. “I get more anxious and feel like I am being annoying. When I’m off them, I can get worked up over small things and then have trouble calming myself down.”
According to Dr. Noboa, stimulants are mainly causing more problems even though the temporary effect seems like it’s beneficial.
“Stimulants are increasing heart rate, increasing blood pressure, causing dehydration and putting a strain on the heart,” Dr. Noboa said. “The brain develops a lot of tolerance to these stimulants, so over time, people have to progressively increase the dose to get the same effect.”
Rahm said that many people can recognize when she is not on adderall, and she is told that she has a much better sense of humor when she is on her medication.
“It’s probably the worst feeling when someone tells be I am not as funny when I haven’t taken adderall,” Rahm said. “It’s like when someone with curly hair straightens their hair for one day and people tell them they look so much better with straight hair. I don’t like the feeling of being off my meds.”
Dr. Noboa doesn’t recommend stimulants for everyone and they usually should only be taken for a short term objective.
“When you are tired you take your caffeine, but your not going to be taking caffeine around the clock, or if it’s for weight loss, you take it to lose weight and then you get off of the stimulant,” Dr. Noboa said. “If its adderall, your going to take that to study for your exam or to pay attention in class, but you really shouldn’t be taking that when your watching TV on a Saturday.”
Dr. Noboa suggests that all these stimulants should just be used sparingly for whatever purpose they are intended for.
“The long term risks outweigh any benefits and those risks become more problematic as people get older, as their hearts and bodys cant take all the stimulation that a younger person can.” Dr. Noboa said.
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Final NWOAL Game For Locos Is One To Forget
Posted By: Newspaper Staff October 27, 2014
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BRYAN – Friday, October 24, marked the end of an era for the Montpelier Locomotive Football Program. The date will go on record as the final football game for the Locos in the Northwest Ohio Athletic League. Montpelier has been a charter member of the NWOAL since its inception in 1926. However, a lot has changed over the past 89 years. One of the main reasons for Montpelier’s exit is the inability of the athletic teams to consistently compete with the much larger schools that now make up the league. The decision to depart from the conference was further solidified by the outcome of the final NWOAL game between arch rivals Montpelier and Bryan. Unfortunately over the past several years the heated rivalry has quite honestly lost a lot of its luster. Sadly this year was no different as the host Golden Bears jumped out to an early lead and were never challenged by the outnumbered and injury plagued Locos as Bryan cruised to a 41-7 win; one which could possibly mark the final football contest ever between the two schools.
The Golden Bears won the toss and began the night offensively at their 44 yard line. Just a little over four minutes later the hosts crossed the goal line to lead 7-0.
Montpelier started their first offensive possession deep in Loco territory at the 23 yard line under the direction of quarterback Zac Mason. The sophomore was getting his first start of the season in place of Dylan Snyder, who was unavailable due to concussion like symptoms. Behind the running of Mason, Cody Caudill, Dallas Royer, and Bryce Cooley, Montpelier was able to chew up nearly five minutes off the clock. However, in that time the Locos were only able to advance the ball to their 45 yard line. Snyder’s absence also meant the visitors needed another punter. Max Hulbert was tabbed for the position and booted his first kick 29 yards to the Bryan 30 yard line.
The second drive for Bryan lasted just a little over one minute. This time a long pass from quarterback Brandon Dean landed into the arms of Gavin Saul who was wide open on the sideline in front of the Locos stands and ran unchallenged after the catch. The kick was true again putting Bryan on top 14-0.
Montpelier went three and out on their next two possessions, but the Loco defense held the Golden Bears in check one time as well. The success was brief however as Bryan found the end zone again, this time in less than one minute to take a commanding 21-0 lead with 9:32 left in the first half.
A nice return by Caudill was negated due to a block in the back penalty. Deep in their territory once again, this time at the 14 yard marker, Caudill, Royer, and Cooley were able to run over 3 minutes off the clock. Unfortunately the trio were only able to advance the pigskin to the Loco 35 yard line. Sensing the urgency for something positive to occur on offense, Head Coach Steven Brancheau decided to roll the dice and go for it on fourth and one. However, the Bryan defense rose to the occasion and dropped Caudill for a one yard loss to take over possession at the Montpelier 34, with just over six minutes left in the half.
The time left was more than enough for Bryan to add on to the point total. In fact the Golden Bears needed just a few ticks over two minutes to extend the lead to 28-0.
After a short return by Keaton Byers, Montpelier attempted to put together a drive of their own starting at the 25 yard line. Utilizing a combination of runs by Royer and Caudill, as well as Mason completions to Caudill and Gunner Matson, Montpelier was able to move the ball out to their 45 yard line. However, that was the end of the possession as well as the half, one that saw the Locos never able to advance the ball into Golden Bear territory.
The visitor’s offensive woes continued to start the third quarter. With the ball at the 25 yard line, Royer ran twice for five total yards. When Mason was unable to connect with Caudill, Hulbert was called on once again to boot the ball. This time the punt traveled 33 yards to Bryan’s 37 yard line.
The offensive onslaught continued for the Bears. This time just five plays were necessary to cover the 73 yards. After the kick, the clock went to continuous running as Bryan was up 35-0.
A roughing the kicker penalty on the extra point attempt allowed the Bryan kicker to boot the kickoff into the end zone. With the ball spotted at the Montpelier 20, the offense decided on a different mode of attack – the pass. Mason hit Caudill for six, then Wyatt Beck for ten yards and a first down. Beck lost two on a rushing attempt, then gained four on his next carry. Facing third and eight, Mason fired a strike to Matson. It appeared the ball was caught for another first down. However, a Golden Bear defender knocked the ball loose before Matson completed the catch, forcing another Hulbert boot.
Bryan quickly tacked on another score. However, the PAT snap was errant forcing the Bryan holder to scramble and hurl the ball into the end zone; right into the waiting arms of the Locos Jake Dewire.
With something finally going in the Locos favor, the trend continued when Bryan was flagged for a personal foul during the extra point attempt. Montpelier took full advantage of the Bryan kicker being moved back 15 yards. Royer corralled the kicked and advanced it to the Golden Bears 48 yard line, marking the first time the Locos moved the ball into Bryan territory. Royer lost one on first down, but Mason found Caudill for a gain of four. Mason sent one to Chase Steffes only to see the receiver hit before the ball arrived. The pass interference penalty moved the ball to the Bryan 31. Mason hit Nate McCord for two yards on first down, then connected with Caudill for a twenty yard gain. With first and goal at the Bears nine the ground game took over. Beck gained two, then Royer picked up five and one, setting up a fourth and goal from the Bryan one yard line. Poised to finally end the drought, Coach Brancheau sent Mason in with a play. As the team lined up, Brancheau screamed for a time out just as the ball was snapped. The plea must have been too late as the officials did not stop the play. The result typified the night for the Locos as Royer was stood up just short of the goal line giving possession back to the Bears.
The defense responded by only allowing Bryan to advance the ball to the six yard line forcing a punt. Montpelier took over after a fair catch on the Golden Bear 40, with 4:17 left in the game. With the continuous clock rule still in effect, Montpelier needed to hurry if they had any hopes of avoiding a shutout. Mason quickly hit Beck for a 19 yard gain. Royer then gained seven, but was held for no gain on second down. Mason kept the ball and picked up two leaving Montpelier faced with fourth and one from the Golden Bear 12 yard line. Beck gained six to keep the scoring hopes alive, then sealed the deal when the junior gained the final six for the Locos first score of the night and final NWOAL touchdown. Caudill’s kick split the uprights to make the final score 41-7.
Although the final was not what the Locomotives had hoped for in their final NWOAL contest, there were still positives to draw from the game. For starters the Loco offense did not have a single turnover on the night. Pressed into an unexpected starting role, Mason shook off some early jitters to finish 9-15 passing for 81 yards, including an impressive 6-8 in the second half, and gained six yards on four carries. Wyatt Beck made the most of his opportunity scoring the touchdown in his five runs while gaining 17 yards. In the absence of Snyder, as well as Jordan Birdsall, Royer had his number called 14 times for 27 yards. Caudill had more carries than usual as well getting 10 rushes for 27 yards as well, while Cooley had two carries for 3 yards.
Caudill was the favorite target of Mason with four catches for 34 yards, with Beck hauling in two throws for 29 yards. Matson netted 13 yards in his only grab, while Royer and McCord each had one catch for three and two yards respectively. Hulbert also did a nice job in his role as punter averaging 33.7 yards in his six punts.
With the defeat Montpelier falls to 2-7 on the season and ends the NWOAL schedule with a record of 1-7. The Locos will attempt to end the 2014 campaign on a positive note when they entertain the Raiders of Lakota High School.
Some additional notes on the Bryan-Montpelier series: The two schools first gridiron encounter occurred in 1902. The series record favors the Golden Bears as they have 62 wins, compared to 35 for Montpelier, while the teams have tied 8 times. While no games are scheduled between the two schools in the near future, it is truly hoped that sometime soon that the historic rivalry will be revisited.
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Jan. 7: Pulled their socks up
Everybody had a hard year? If we’re talking about the Beatles, that’s a fair appraisal just a week into 1969.
As rehearsals were set to get fully under way January, 7, 1969, the group openly discussed breaking up. Instead, moments later, they were trying to hammer out the details of “I’ve Got a Feeling” for more than 20 minutes before launching into an extended session dedicated to Paul’s pet “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.”
The out was right there for them; the group was in agreement that a divorce was not unreasonable. But while we don’t know for certain, (unless this particular discussion was filmed and we can see for ourselves if the footage is ever released), it doesn’t even sound like anyone moved out of their chairs, much less high-tailed for the exits. Paul left the band during the recording of “She Said, She Said” in 1966 and Ringo split during “Back in the USSR” in ’68. But this cry for divorce, so much more severe than a walkout of a single member, didn’t immediately lead to much of anything. Nobody budged January 7, 1969, after the early takes of “Get Back,” and status quo reigned.
As tension melts and the group trades chatter for chords, it quickly becomes clear little that had led to the group to the brink had actually changed. Paul may not enjoy his role as band leader — “I’m scared of that, ‘You be the boss’” — but he’s not letting that job go, either, despite any prior protests from George or anyone else in the group.
Arranger/producer Paul made plain his preferences for “I’ve Got a Feeling,” and anything else they were to tackle going forward in preparation for the live show.
We should start off by doing everything we’re going to do on the thing. Like if you’re going to do the ‘oh yeahs’ innit, you’ve got to do ’em how you’re going to do it. No use singing ’em quiet now if you’re planning on doing them loud on the night.
Paul certainly sweats the details and is quick to dictate the construction of the song, asking John to keep the chord sequence before the chorus “kind of tight,” barking “riff” to George at the appropriate times and working on the balance of “oh yeahs” with “oh noes.” Even Ringo wasn’t spared; he received explicit directions, too: “Don’t go into the swing at the end,” Paul said as he vocalized the closing drum pattern.
Overall, special focus was paid to the transition to “Everybody’s had a hard year” and the subsequent section. Paul pushes George to add “something recognizable” just prior to the bridge (“All these years I’ve been wandering around”).
The vibe, meanwhile, is generally agreeable throughout, and there’s certainly no indication that moments earlier the band was basically trying to figure out the right way to break up. While no songs were particularly tight by this stage of the sessions, there’s a definite, steady progression here with “I’ve Got a Feeling, ” a song that had seen time each day thus far at Twickenham. The group works their way through at least one complete take (tape cuts, as usual, keep any claim here from being definite).
Content with the state of the song, and with a lengthy pivot to “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” imminent, the band detours briefly into a pair of apparent improvisations that wouldn’t be heard from again (the bluesy “Woman Where You Been So Long” and the especially catchy, Little Richard-inspired “Oh! Julie, Julia”).
John cuts off the jam to ask Paul to launch into “Oh! Darling,” an admitted favorite of John’s up to his death 11 years later. Paul was again in instruction mode here — there was no solicitation for advice on working out kinks, rather the song was set and merely needed to be taught.
Paul had already played the song twice at Twickenham — both times solo at the piano for Lindsay-Hogg (“Sounds great, Fats Domino!” the film director said on the 6th), but it was without any further accompaniment and probably without the full band even in the building. This is the first full-band take of the song, which, despite the need for Paul to shout out chords and generally sounding in a rough state, seems to have had at least some off-tape rehearsal at some point. With John’s enthusiasm for the song only helping the cause, it’s not unlikely to think “Oh! Darling” could have been a viable option for an extended live show, were it to have actually been staged. Alas, with the rooftop featuring Paul only on bass, and the setlist short, it wasn’t meant to be, but the song certainly found a happy home on Abbey Road.
With just single take achieved, George (largely off-mic) thinks beyond “Oh! Darling.”
“‘Maxwell’s’ would be even better to go on.”
Even Paul’s skeptical as the band readies to lay down the silver hammer.
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Jupiter’s Moon / Jupiter hokdja, Hungary 2017
Posted by keith1942 on February 7, 2018
This site adheres to a definition of ‘Third Cinema’ as applying to anti-colonial films. But others also include films made in the advanced capitalist states which actually practice colonialism and neocolonialism. The manifesto ‘Towards a Third Cinema’ was ambiguous on this point: whilst defining this cinema as anti-colonial it included films made in [for example] European states. However, the writings of Franz Fanon, which provide the basis for the manifesto, clearly locate such art in the anti-colonial struggle. This is a boundary that is opaque, that has always been the case. And in the era labelled as ‘global’, with ever larger migrations to advanced capitalist states, the boundaries are even more ambiguous.
Citizens from oppressed peoples and nations attempting to take up residence in advanced capitalist countries fall into this ambiguous space. Consequently the films that dramatise their situations and journeys have a certain ambiguity. Mao Zedong distinguished between the struggle of Afro-Americans which was one of civil rights and Africans struggling against colonialism and neocolonialism. I would think that distinction is still valid but where particular examples fall is a matter of judgement.
Jupiter’s Moon is a good example. The film centres on a young Syrian refugee who ends up in Hungary. Like his many fellow refugees he faces the threat of deportation back to Syria. In Hungary his case is one of civil rights, with the state ignoring the internationally agreed rights of refugees. But if deported he will return to Syria where a civil war, fuelled and armed by neocolonial practices, will threaten him.
Our protagonist is Aryan (Zsombor Jéger) who, with his father Murad, is crossing a river that separates Serbia from Hungary. Surprised by security forces Murad drowns and, trying to escape, Aryan is shot, three times. In a fantastic transformation rather than dying Aryan finds that he can escape gravity. This new magical ability is the central driver of the film’s plot.
In a refugee camp Aryan is discovered by Doctor Gabor Stern (Merab Ninidze) who helps the young man escape. But he helps Aryan because Gabor, who already makes money by providing refugees with medical certificate that enable them to leave the camp for hospital, has realised Aryan unique ability can be turned to money-making.
Gabor is assisted by his girlfriend Vera (Móni Balsai), a nurse in a main Budapest hospital. But he and Aryan are pursued by László (György Cserhalmi), a camp security officer and the man who shot Aryan. This chase is complicated by the fact that another refugee had stolen the identity papers of Aryan and Morad. He turns out to be involved in terrorist activities but is thought by the police to be Aryan.
At first Gabor is successful in his exploitation of Aryan. But as the police chase gets closer and acts of violence scar the city the complexities increase. Gabor experiences a change of heart and tries to assist Aryan in his journey. The forces of migration, profit-making enterprise and state security come together in a violent but impressive climax,
One aspect that distinguishes the film is the complexity of the characters. All the main players are driven by fairly basic emotions but as the narrative develops their stances change as the action develops. Aryan remains the character closest to his original motivation. But his abilities to levitate place him in a distinctive situation in this new world.
The levitation sequences are very well done. A friend thought that they became repetitious. This is partly true but I thought mainly due the accompanying music which does tend to repetition. Visually the sequences are distinguished by well executed backgrounds and by changing the angle of the viewer’s perspective. Approaching the climax there is a fast and brilliantly exciting car chase: equal to the famous sequences in Bullitt (1968). The closing shot maintains the ambiguity: I for one was left puzzling over its significance.
The sequences of the river crossing and later episodes in the refugee camp are visceral. The sense of violence is maintained and the plight of the refugees graphically illustrated. This comments on the current situation in Eastern Europe. And the film is in no doubt that racism and xenophobia fuel this treatment.
But by treating the central character in a manner that mirrors magical realism the film essays a an unusual standpoint for what seems at times a genre movie. The opening credit explain the reference to Jupiter’s moon ‘Europa’ which is the smallest of four moons and the one likeliest to support life forms. As noted by critics at times Aryan seems a little like an alien visitor. So aspects of the film play into science fiction. Critics at Cannes suggested that the film has too many themes. There is a lot going on besides the plight of the refugees and the actions of terrorists. The hospital comments on a dystopian but contemporary society. At least one character is an un-outed gay. And there are a number of references to religion and to angels. I did think some of these felt obvious. But for most of the films the interaction of themes is stimulating.
The film was shot on 35mm film stock with the addition of some digital techniques and CGI. These different formats have been blended together really well. The cinematography by Marvell Rév is extremely well done. At times it is visually graphic and at others the cityscape is superb. The film editing by Dávid Jancsó is equally fine, varying from the visceral to the contemplative rhythms. The music by Jed Kurzel was, for me at times, too obtrusive, but I think my tastes here are out of current fashion. The cityscape is used extremely well and the production design by Márton Ágh blends effectively a wide range of settings.
The film was directed by Kornél Mundruczó who also wrote the film with his long-time collaborator Kata Wéber. I thought their prevision White God (2014) was both very well done and really interesting. This is the more complex, and I think, better film.
In Britain the film is circulating on a DCP. It is in colour and at 2.35:1. The dialogue includes Hungarian, English and I think Syrian and possibly Serbian. All are sub-titled in English in the British files, including the English dialogue. Solanas and Getino defined their oppositional cinema as one that
“directly and explicitly set out to fight the System.”.
This film fights one central aspect of the system rather than the whole though I found that partially implied. It does it mainly on behalf of victims of neocolonialism. But there is also more than that in the film.
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Last Jews of the Delta: public history and communities in decline
21/01/2014 20/01/2014 ~ alixrgreen ~ Leave a comment
A moving travelog from Johnny Diamond on BBC Radio 4 – Broadcasting House, 29/12/2013 explored the dwindling but active Jewish communities of the Mississippi Delta. Once numbering in the hundreds, their numbers declined as children, having served in the war, stayed away. New lives were built in the cities, the younger generation often joined by their parents.
Only 9 Jews are now left in Greenwood, the remaining members afraid ‘not to gather’: the community ceasing to exist feels a real and immediate possibility. In Vicksburg, Stan Klein talks of his concern about the on-going care of the cemetery: ‘we’re planning for the future of our congregation, when we can no longer physically be here to do it ourselves. We’re nearing the end and we know it’.
The roving rabbi serving these communities sees his role as ‘to help them navigate what will be very difficult realities in a way that honours that history and ensures their continued legacy’. In essence, he’s helping them manage their decline. But might there also in such efforts be a role for the public historian, capturing oral histories, gathering and cataloguing important items such as photographs and diaries, documenting the history of spaces such as the cemetery and synagogue to inform future preservation and respond to future interest?
If so, how do historians find and build the kind of connections to make this happen? Not that such endeavours are unproblematic. They raise many issues, such as authority over and ownership of the past, the tension between the interests and agendas of community members and historians, what is done with the ‘products’ of the collaboration. These are, however, all issues with which public history is fundamentally concerned and public history projects are tackling them on a routine basis. We also need to think about how we train our students, not just with the skills required but perhaps also with a certain activist mindset to want to take on the challenges involved?
Anyway, I commend the programme to you (it starts at 23′) and would be interested to hear people’s views on it, and on the issues it raises for public history.
Self-herding, discrimination, pride and defiance: thinking about badges
15/01/2014 14/01/2014 ~ alixrgreen ~ 2 Comments
One of my teammates in the university football team had a wooden sign on her door: ‘Mathematics Department’. She was training as a teacher after her maths degree and had been given the sign after a school clearout. It was of the era of flip-top desks with inkwells and a fine thing in its own right. But it also captured my imagination – I’ve always hankered after a history one since then. I guess we all love a label. We like to badge ourselves, thereby both defining for ourselves and declaring to others aspects of our identity we deem important – which club we support, which political party or band we prefer… The idea of taking sides in the antagonisms of celebrity life is one of the more recent examples – Marina Hyde recently gave a sharp critique of the inclination to ‘self-herd’ in this way after David Cameron professed his allegiance to ‘Team Nigella‘.
Badges can also have a more sinister side, of course. They can be applied to people to define them as different – inferior, suspect, a legitimate target. The patches, hats and other distinguishing items and marks that Jews were required by law to wear at times in medieval European states predated the Nazi yellow star by centuries. In the concentration camps of the Third Reich, extensive systems of insignia defined inmates by their initial ‘crimes’, such as political prisoners, homosexuals and asocials, and also by aggravating factors: a ‘repeat offender’, a flight risk, Jewishness…
Badges can also turn others’ discriminatory labelling into statements of defiance. The ‘March on Washington’ button badges on sale in the bookstore near the Martin Luther King, Jnr memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC don’t just serve as marks of homage or respect. They also make a statement about the present day and the as yet incomplete fulfilment of equality of opportunity. Such badges are also a kind of visual shorthand for a collection of political ideas (not necessarily clearly defined or coherently assembled, or even historically consistent) and invite the viewer to associate the wearer with them (badges on sale at public history sites would make for a very interesting research project – maybe it’s already been done). We can ‘badge’ ourselves in many different ways too; when Barack Obama took his second oath of office on bibles used by King and by Abraham Lincoln, those books played a similar symbolic role.
Credit: Wikipedia
As an aside, an excellent session at the American Historical Association conference explored significant shifts in the design process of the MLK memorial, including the omission of King’s own strident references to race from one of the quotations etched into the inscription wall that encloses the statue of King as the ‘rock of hope’. A pen was to be in King’s hand as he looked across the water to the Jefferson memorial, pointing to the ‘promissory note’ that the architects of the republic had written ‘to which every American was to fall heir’: a note on which America had defaulted insofar as her citizens of color are concerned’. A rolled-up scroll is all that survived of this plan.
Credit: Marjory Collins (1943), Library of Congress
A badge to show a certain defiance, as well as pride, is evident in the display of service flags in American windows to show sons on active military duty. They emerged in the First World War and were then widely adopted and subject to standardisation and codification – although a blue star for each son (or, now, daughter) in service and a gold star for those who had died have emerged as common practice. The flags have become symbols around which communities can build: Blue Star Mothers and American Gold Star Mothers interestingly accord a special status to the grief and the subsequent activism of mothers (and a proposed monument will give that status material form).
The badges that announce our disciplinary affiliations are, of course, of a different order. The specialisation that many disciplines underwent in the second half of the twentieth century proliferated sub-fields, and new ones continue to emerge. We can now be rather specific about our academic identities, should we so wish. The question is why we would wish to do so – why do we like to label ourselves – and others – within academe? A certain anxiety could be one reason. The outgoing AHA President, Kenneth Pomeranz, noted in his recent annual conference lecture, that historians didn’t come to be unified by methodology, as did certain social sciences. Many historians’ skills are to be found in other fields, albeit not in history’s distinctive combination nor field of application. Does that mean that we feel the need for badges more than others? If so, does it matter?
I don’t know the answer to either question. I guess badges are fine if we use them mindfully. We need to be aware of how they help – in helping to create a community of enquiry, for example – as well as how they might hinder us. This concern seems particularly relevant for public history, which can all too easily become the place ‘over there’ where stuff can be placed so it doesn’t interfere with core business: community engagement, student employability, research impact and questions of ‘relevance’. We need to ask what the price we may pay for public history being identified as a specialism. The case for a more integrative agenda with ‘academic’ history is, it seems to me, a persuasive one. I wonder what such a badge for history would look like?
This post was written during a visit to the US.
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Tarasenko is one of the best prospects in the world {Photo: RussianHockeyFans.com}
We have already seen spurts of future NHL talent who may be seeing full-time NHL action this coming season. I am of course talking about talent such as Mika Zibanejad (Ottawa), Jaden Schwartz (St. Louis), Jacob Markstrom (Florida) and Sven Baertschi (Calgary).
Who will get their chance this season?
Making the jump from any league to the NHL is no easy task. It takes a lot of skill and determination to get even a few games in with an NHL club. These are the ten players who stand the best chance to play in their first NHL game and stay with the club all season long.
1. Vladimir Tarasenko (RW) – St. Louis Blues
2011-12 Team: St. Petersburg SKA (KHL)
Reason: Tarasenko has been having Blues management, fans and players fantasizing over his possible entrance into the NHL since being drafted in 2010. Now that Tarasenko has reached a deal with the Blues, he will step into a roster that desperately needs help scoring. Finishing the 2011-12 season at 21st in goals-scored-per-game (2.51), the Blues hope that Tarasenko can translate his strong play from the KHL to North-American hockey. The Russian forward finished 9th in scoring in the KHL last season with 47 points.
Mikael Granlund was drafted 9th overall in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft (Wikimedia Commons)
2. Mikael Granlund (C) – Minnesota Wild
2011-12 Team: HIFK Helsinki
Reason: Minnesota ranked dead-last in goals-scored-per-game last season (2.02). With the addition of free-agent all-star forward Zach Parise, the Wild have begun to build a Stanley Cup contender. Some of this starts with developing the young players at the NHL level sooner rather than later. Granlund is very responsible in his own end and can tap in some goals when needed (20 goals in 45 games last season). Granlund may fit the bill for the type of player that Head Coach Mike Yeo would want on his third or fourth line.
3. Jonathon Huberdeau (C) – Florida Panthers
2011-12 Team: Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL)
Reason: Being one of the most watched NHL prospects in the QMJHL, Huberdeau has very skillful hands and can adapt to any defensive coverage thrown at him from the opposing team. The Panthers made a huge step last season, winning their first Southeast Division Title in franchise history. Panthers GM Dale Tallon is the master at getting a good roster to work around young talent; he will have the chance to do this in 2012-13 with Huberdeau in a top-6 role. Huberdeau had 30 goals and 72 points in 37 games with the Sea Dogs last season.
4. Nail Yakupov (RW) – Edmonton Oilers
2011-12 Team: Sarnia Sting (OHL)
Reason: Yakupov, the first overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft, is the type of player who is NHL-ready straight from the draft. Oilers GM Steve Tambellini will likely keep him with the NHL club (history gives us no indication that this will not be true). Yakupov will be surrounded by young NHL talent in Edmonton, which may help him learn the game and blossom into a top-talent much sooner. He will be facing a lot of pressure, but it is nothing that teammates Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Taylor Hall can’t coach him through.
5. Beau Bennett – Pittsburgh Penguins
2011-12 Team: University of Denver (NCAA)
Reason: Bennett was the Penguins’ first selection, 20th overall, in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. He is a skillful right-wing that could eventually be a go-to-guy for centers Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby… terrifying, I know. Bennett was a power-play quarterback and a shooting phenom at the University of Denver. He signed with the Penguins after his sophomore season ended in April. Bennett had 13 goals and 38 points in 47 games in his freshman and sophomore seasons with UD.
Emerson Etem was born in California (Sara Melikian/Flickr)
6. Emerson Etem (C, RW) – Anaheim Ducks
2011-12 Team: Syracuse Crunch (AHL)
Reason: A native of Long Beach, California, Etem is one of the few who can say a hometown American team took a chance on him in the first round (2010 NHL Draft, 29th overall). Anaheim ranked 26th in average attendance in 2011-12, so the Ducks may be looking for a way to get fans in the building. The speedy California-native may be the key and could see some decent minutes with some talented Anaheim forwards in 2012-13.
7. Matthew Dumba (D) – Minnesota Wild
2011-12 Team: Red Deer Rebels (WHL)
Reason: Drafted 7th overall in this past draft, Dumba could step right into the NHL to help an improved Minnesota team. Like Cam Fowler did with Anaheim two years ago, Dumba could surprise a lot of people and be a top-rookie defenseman. He has a big 6”0 172 lb. frame and delivers a hard shot from the point; something that could help alleviate some of the pressure put on the recently signed Ryan Suter.
8. Justin Schultz (D) – Edmonton Oilers
2011-12 Team: University of Wisconsin (WCHA)
Reason: Schultz is someone who is used to scrutiny. Because of a loophole in the college-to-NHL system, Schultz was able to become an unrestricted free-agent and sign with the Edmonton Oilers. Schultz,22, has the abilities that will make him a top point-man for the Oilers on the power-play. Schultz will be one of the best collegiate players to step right into the NHL in quite some time. The pressures of getting a young Edmonton club out of the cellar may be a large task, but Schultz is used to the media pressure after the past couple of months.
Dougie Hamilton has been a highly-touted Bruins prospect for quite some time (Terry Wilson/OHL Images)
9. Dougie Hamilton (D) – Boston Bruins
2011-12 Team: Niagara IceDogs (OHL)
Reason: Although Boston is bringing back nearly the same roster from last season, Hamilton stands a good chance to sneak into the Bruins’ roster. They are coming off a surprising first round upset to the Washington Capitals, so changes may be made around training camp time. The Bruins are known for having offensive defensemen (4 of the Bruins’ 12 goals in the first round were by defensemen). Hamilton, a converted forward, can be plugged into the Bruins’ lineup and could be a new offensive spark from the blue line that Boston may be seeking.
10. Griffin Reinhart (D) – New York Islanders
2011-12 Team: Edmonton Oil Kings (WHL)
Reason: Standing at a big 6’4” 200 lbs, Griffin Reinhart is just what every NHL team would want. Reinhart is a very mobile defenseman with a booming shot that will cause many rebounds on NHL goalies. The Islanders have forwards that know how to drive to the net (Matt Martin, Matt Moulson, Kyle Okposo to name a few), so Reinhart’s shot could be an important piece to the Islanders’ lineup. Reinhart had 12 goals and 36 points in 58 games with the Oil Kings last season.
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Make It a Double
Concordia’s Own Michael Martini To Debut Two New Plays This Weekend
Fringe Arts by Riley Wignall — Published January 16, 2014 | Comments
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Michael Martini as Avery in Will-o-wisps Photo Ariel St-Louis Lamoreaux
This weekend, the MainLine Theatre is playing host to a theatrical double feature with deep Concordian roots.
The theatre will be showcasing two new plays, Ivory Towers and Will-o-Wisps by writer, director and actor Michael Martini, who also happens to be a Theatre student at Concordia.
Although he has a background in acting (Martini plays the princely protagonist in Will-o-Wisps) from a performing arts school in Toronto, Martini said he always held some fascination with the written word, even while studying the craft of performing.
“I would skip class and read plays instead,” Martini said, “I remember specifically reading Lion in the Streets on a whim, and immediately after that I couldn’t stop writing scenes.”
The upcoming weekend is a hallmark event, because although both plays have been written and re-written in years past, this is the first time they will be presented in a more official venue and environment.
“I’ve presented my writing here and there and directed a bit, but never on the scale of a professional show, so this production is definitely a monument for me,” Martini added.
The plays are 20 minutes apiece, and will be put on back-to-back.
Ivory Towers centers around five female linguistics professors in a battle of words, seeing who can draw on the most thesaurus entries. Razor sharp wit required.
Will-o-Wisps takes place on the prom night of a young prince, locked away and waiting for his knight errant to come and rescue him. To keep him company, he has his imaginary friend, Dinah, who just happens to be an Academy Award-winning movie star.
Martini himself isn’t the only Concordian involved, either.
“I’m thrilled that people will see some of my ideas come to my life, but absolutely everyone involved—the actors, the designers—are establishing a presence [as well]. Most of the show’s designers are first year students, and the work they’ve done is incredible.”
Beyond the upcoming theatrics of the weekend, Martini has an eye on continuing to work and contribute to the landscape of independent and student theatre in Montreal.
He hopes that the pieces will resonate with enough meaning to result in both a pleased audience, and fuel demand and excitement over future productions.
“We want to keep the blood of student theatre pumping in the city,” he said, “It’s important for me that Ivory Towers is an ensemble of five female characters, and that Will-o-Wisps has a gay protagonist. This isn’t something we get in the academic setting, and [is] something that I hope our peers will be proud to see happening.”
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Tag: collusion
Colluding with the Russian Oiligarchy
May 2, 2018 2:43 pm December 12, 2018 4:57 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
Russian trolls’ post-election task: Disrupt Florida and other U.S. energy pipelines
Russia’s hidden hand in the Florida pipeline protests was extensive, according to sources familiar with the operations. At least eight Russian accounts, most tied to the troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency, sent at least 16 social media messages excoriating the Sabal Trail pipeline or retweeting messages from one of its most prominent opponents, a frequent guest on RT. The tweets were sent to a total of more than 40,000 followers as well as anyone else who saw them via hashtags.
This is just one example of Russian manipulation of useful Green idiots. The Russians do a lot of this in Canada, too.
If we’re worried about Russian election shenanigans, we should be equally concerned about this tampering. It’s gone on longer, involved more money, is intended to reduce US national security and divide Americans, while boosting Russian oil revenues and world-political influence.
Posted in environment, internetTagged #greenfail, collusion, Envirostatism, Russians, Useful Idiots
Dispatches from the NRA’s Kremlin office
April 16, 2018 5:00 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
NPR is all over it.
Caught in the intersectionality of Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-Ore.) grandstanding, pervasive Russian collusion hysteria, and teenager induced attacks on civil rights, the National Rifle Association has revealed that it received contributions from individuals with some unspecified ties to Russia.
Might be US citizens living there. Might be Russian nationals living here. Might be Vladimir Putin himself. Who knows? We need to know the extent of this conspiracy.
OK: A total of 23 individuals have been identified.
They contributed a little over $2,500 to the NRA.
Most of it was membership dues.
The usual suspects, like Everytown for Gun Safety and Media Matters, are outraged. But, for their main money-persons $2,500 wouldn’t even make a car payment – assuming Bloomberg and Soros, for example – didn’t just pay cash for Maseratis, Rolls, or Ferraris. Or armored Escalades.
Simultaneously, the Russians appear to have funneled several orders of magnitude more money into Green activist groups opposed to fracking and the building of pipelines.
But, don’t take my word for it. Here’s Hillary on June 18, 2014:
“Clinton Talked About “Phony Environmental Groups” Funded By The Russians To Stand Against Pipelines And Fracking. “We were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media. We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.” [Remarks at tinePublic, 6/18/14]”
There is other evidence of Russian interest in disrupting energy supplies, which should come as no surprise from a kleptocracy heavily dependent on oil and gas revenue. See here, here and here for Russian efforts to protect Gazprom revenues.
And, of course, the Russians also used Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to spread energy-guilt propaganda. It was a bigger effort than their campaign to disrupt our elections, which we know was a few million dollars. Scroll down here to see some of the Russian social media ads attacking pipelines and fracking.
The Left hasn’t complained about those ads because they like them. Even if they were interested in the Russian attempt to stifle US energy independence, they’d have a hard time finding it at NPR, where a search for ‘russia frack’ turns up 3 hits, none related to Russian interference.
Which of these stories seems more important for people to know about? I’m looking at you, NPR.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged collusion, election, Envirostatism, NRA, Russians
Albanian collusion
April 5, 2018 5:14 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
When Democrats are facebooking some unwoke foreigners, it’s just the natural order of Progressive Privilege.
State Department Records Show Obama Administration Helped Fund George Soros’ Left-Wing Political Activities in Albania
The new records released by Judicial Watch include an April 2016 memo from the U.S. Embassy in Tirana that reveals that the embassy “sponsored” a survey along with Soros’s Open Society Foundation to measure Albanian citizens’ “knowledge, support, and expectations on justice reform.” The Soros group survey reported that “91% of respondents either ‘fully support’ or ‘somewhat support’ the need for judicial reform.” The poll did not specify the type of reform the Soros group was seeking.
Push polling, then.
I’d say yes to vague questions about judicial reform too, though not likely in line with the Obama/Soros intent.
Posted in UncategorizedTagged collusion
December 23, 2017 3:18 pm HershbloggerLeave a comment
If the Steele dossier was used to obtain a FISA warrant against the Trump campaign, and the evidence for that is growing strong, some employees of the FBI and DOJ face serious legal difficulty.
Here is an excellent walk through and timeline summarizing what is known about the Steele dossier: Clinton campaign propaganda appears to have triggered Obama administration spying on Trump’s campaign.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected POTUS, it is doubtful any of this would have become known.
RTWT
Posted in UncategorizedTagged collusion, Hillary Clinton
It’s FIB, not FBI
October 25, 2017 9:20 am HershbloggerLeave a comment
Hillary’s campaign and the DNC paid for the fake, Russian-sourced, Trump dossier, and the FBI was going to continue…:
It was an astonishing turn: the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency agreeing to fund an ongoing opposition research project being conducted by one of the candidates in the midst of a presidential election.
Before that, Hillary’s Russian reset involved accepting ‘contributions’ from foreign sources seeking approval for a major uranium sale:
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
[S]hortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
Meanwhile the FBI was less than forthcoming about Bill and Hillary’s windfall from selling 20% of our uranium to Russia. The FBI didn’t tell Congress about this for years:
The collusion Trump & Co have been accused of is chickenfeed compared to twenty percent of U.S. uranium ending up in Putin’s hands under the aegis of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder, the latter two members of CFIUS (the inter-agency committee that reviews the transfer of U.S. companies to foreign entities…)
[A] 2009 FBI investigation of this possible nuclear deal uncovered kickbacks, money laundering, and bribes from the Russian company involved (Rosatom) and yet it still was given the go-ahead by the Obama administration is — I can think of no better word — appalling.
It wasn’t just Obama and senior Cabinet officials:
The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show…
Major players at the FBI assisted:
Robert Mueller was head of the FBI from Sept 2001-Sept 2013 until James Comey took over as FBI Director in 2013. They were BOTH involved in this Russian scam being that this case started in 2009 and ended in 2015.
Mueller, of course, is the Special Prosecutor leading a team of Hillary supporters in investigating whether Trump colluded with the Russians.
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I’ve been a fledgling furnace-fighter for two or three months, now — our 167,000-BTU Bryan hot-water boiler system in the basement is about thirty years old (it has an operating life of about twenty years, so it’s on borrowed time), and is a source of nostalgia and amusement to the contractors we’ve had in to price a replacement. One contractor laughed fondly when he saw it: “Ohhh, one of these! and (I’m not kidding) patted it like a toothless old dog. “Yeah, you’ll save a lot of money with a new boiler.”
The problem was that our boiler was losing pressure. It’s supposed to stay steady at about 15-20 PSI, but it held at about two or three. Our fill valve (green; cast iron; kind of looks like a Korean war fragmentation grenade) isn’t working, so the system wasn’t filling itself with water. I’d add water through a hose, after being instructed how to by the Chuckling Contractor, but about four hours later, the pressure would be back down to five PSI. Overnight, back to two. I’d try to bleed the upstairs radiator (because that’s what every website tells you to do when you have a heating problem; it’s like medieval doctors and their leeches), but since the pressure was so low, the upstairs radiators sucked air instead of blowing, and I managed to quickly take several radiators out of commission.
The loss of pressure seemed like the Mystery of the Ages to our furnace contractors, since if the pressure was dropping that quickly, they’d expect us to see a massive water leak in the house. But there was no leak. “Maybe you’ve got a crack in the boiler, and the water is boiling off. Yeah, you hear that noise?” “Um, I think that’s the TiVo fan upstairs.” “Oh”, they’d say, crestfallen.
After several heating contractors, in a spirit of optimistic experimentation, tried filling the boiler again (and quoting a price to replace our amusing museum piece), I finally came to a realization. Heating contractors’ sphere of influence extends only as far as the actual boiler unit. The rest of the system — pipes, valves, radiators, is the Domain of the Plumber. I called our plumbers, and we quickly located the problem — a massive leak under our powder room, which is external to the foundation, and so the leak hadn’t been easy to spot. Every time I’d add ten gallons of water to the system, ten gallons would go merrily flooding into the crawlspace.
The smoking gun, as it turned out, was a hole in the heating pipe that our flooring contractor had put there only four months ago, when we had the old kitchen tile removed, a new floor laid down, and new vinyl tile laid over that. The floor-er had driven down the half-inch plywood with massive three-inch nails, probably left over from some kind of federal highway project. Of course, we had to rip up the vinyl and the floor to find the problem.
I’d love to make our flooring contractor out as the villain of this story, but our plumber told me that there’s two kind of floor-ers; those who have already put a nail in a pipe, and those who are going to put a nail in a pipe. This opinion was borne out the next day by the carpenter we hired to re-lay the floor, who told me his own war stories about sawing through pipes (and about having to rip up freshly installed floor at the end of the day after hearing meowing sounds coming from the subfloor, on one job.)
So, if this is a morality play, it’s hard to know what the message is. To err is human, but to really fuck up your house in a hurry, you need a contractor? The re-work is… galling, but I suppose you win some and you lose some. If the powder room floor had been laid as part of a contracted and guaranteed job, I’d be asking for my money back, but it was done as a quick “might as well” for cash under the table, so I think I’m just going to cut my losses, and hope that the money wasted here will turn out to be a cheap education later. Or something.
Incidentally, I found out that my theory about spheres of influence in the house was right. Troy, our plumber, commands a body of knowledge both broad and deep — but, to him, our boiler is just a gray box with a gauge on the front. The dotted line separating worlds is a very visible bolted flange about six inches above the boiler box, where one specialty ends and another begins. The same is true of roofs and gutters, of chimneys and chimney liners, of painting and plastering.
…aaand a Vespa in the drive-way!
It’s freaking cold here in West Chester the past couple of days: in the mornings, there’s frost on the inside of the storm windows (which means something less than good about the condition of our weatherstripping, I’m afraid.)
Christmas morning, Kate and I bundled the baby up in a blanket and dashed, in our slippers, past nine burned-out luminaria next door to her parents’ house, where there’s a fire in the fireplace and a big plate of english muffins and bacon in the kitchen. Kate’s brother Matt and his girlfriend Kristen descended from the hipster stratosphere (he’s in a mod band, she manages a store in Soho) to find that Bob had fixed up a wonky clutch cable on Matt’s Vespa and put it, with a big red bow, just outside the door. When Matt saw it, he whooped, hollered, and took it for a ride around the block, shag haircut streaming out in the sub-zero temperature, Kristen riding gamely on the pillion. It’ll make the trip to the East Village, where it’ll become a cafe racer (well, cruiser) once again.
The three days around Christmas have been a whirl of family activities, and I find myself saying the same things I’ve heard a million times at family functions coming out of the mouths of other new dads: “oh, she’s a little cranky because she’s missing her nap.” Life is wonderful, and exhausting, and holiday meals are now consumed at higher speeds, in shorter bursts, usually because of the reach-y baby sitting one one knee.
Sharpless Street Luminaria
We received our Christmas Eve luminary kit from our block captains this morning; eleven white paper bags, eleven white candles, and two quarts of sand in plastic bags. That’s one paper bag luminary for each square in the concrete sidewalk outside our house. Around four o’clock PM, all our neighbors were out folding bags, scooping sand, and setting candles. Around five o’clock, wooden matches were getting inserted gingerly down into the mouths of the bags. It’s not a windy night, so the candles will still be burning early tomorrow morning.
It’s difficult to describe the luminaria’s effect, just as it’s difficult to describe the sense of community on this street. The bags are pretty, and the flickering effect of all those candles stretching in an organic line up and down the street is… well, real, in a way that six foot inflatable snowmen aren’t. I don’t want it to sound like I’m in the middle of a Thomas Kinkaid painting — though the line of luminaries are easily pretty enough to be the subject of entire stores’ worth of mall art. And I don’t want to make it sound like this prettiness only comes at the expense of crippling small-town fascism, though every sitcom writer working for the past fifteen years would find it easy to imagine that plot. The captains are low-key, the luminaries are pretty in a way that makes you sorry they’ll be gone tomorrow, even while you’re looking at them right now. This is just a really, really great street.
Kate’s parents live nine luminaria away, and in March, my dad and stepmother will be moving in to a house just fifty-nine luminaria from our front door. That’s a short tricyle ride, or a medium-length pogo-stick journey; we know, because there are several pogo-stick experts in training within ten luminaria of us. We are all very, very lucky. Merry Christmas!
Christmas trees, Christmas trains, Christmas antlers
The new house has enough room for a proper, tree-sized tree, and the three had enough room for three long strands of colored lights, and so I did something I hadn’t for maybe twenty years: I put the lights on the tree, turned out every other light in the house, including the stove light, nightlights, and everything else, and basked in the rosy, diffuse, multicolored light. It was almost as good as I remembered, though the new pink lights included on colored strands are jarring. I think that we might become a White-Light-Only family next year, though I have no intention of switching to pinecone-only wreaths and other trappings of yuletide austerity.
There’s a Secret Santa program at work; kids from inner-city PS 111 turned in letters asking for (with astonishing uniformity) Xbox units, Gameboy Advance units, and a short list of GBA games. I had to compose and distribute a company-wide email explaining what the kids meant by asking for “leaf green.” Colleagues expressed concern: “should we really be getting these kids video games for Christmas? Aren’t they awfully violent?” and I tried to advocate for the kids: “Game Boys are great! Training and trading Pokemon are training these kids to take part in the new information economy!”
But then I choked when I did my own shopping, and I bought my kid — young 9-year-old Yusuf — a copy of the Smithsonian Children’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of American History, and a starter Lego set that allows kids to build cool geared machines. It’s not a terrible present, though probably not what Yusuf was hoping for. I’m kind of surprised at myself for getting such a… teacher-ly present. I hope Yusuf understands, and that the encyclopedia actually comes in handy. Hell, at the very least, he can use it as a level surface for arranging GameBoy cartridges.
We also visited the Christmas display at the Brandywine River Museum over the weekend, and we got to see the train exhibit — a darkened room with dozens of model trains, including a freight train with 67 cars that loops repeatedly in, over, under, and around itself through all kinds of hills, over bridges, and around embankments. This was one of the Wonders of the World when I was a kid, and still remains… fairly decent, though sadly somewhat diminished, just like the glowing colors of the Christmas tree. I wonder if I’ll ever get that feverish Christmas excitement back, or whether I’ll need to do it vicariously through the little baby in the reindeer antlers pictured above. Frankly, either way is fine. Merry Christmas, y’all!
My mom’s a photographer; when
My mom’s a photographer; when I was growing up in Austin, Texas (this was when my dad was hunting UFOs), I remember when she covered a national Frisbee competition. I usually get this stuff all wrong, but I have very distinct memories of lean Texans in bandannas hurling Frisbees over huge distances, and their lean Texan dogs (also in bandannas) leaping impossible distances into the air to catch them.
Austin was a cool city. There were many Frisbees and many dogs in bandannas. So my archetype of coolness, imprinted from childhood, is composed of equal parts dogs in bandannas, and motorcycle sidecars. Not sure how the sidecars got in there, except that they are obviously inextricably linked to dogs in bandannas. And Frisbees.
So now that I have a little baby, it’s time to start looking at sidecars and bandannas for her. Lydia won’t be ready for frisbees for a few years, and my commuting schedule rules out a dog, but that’s just a matter of time. A sidecar she and I can start on now. At the Turkey Pro a few weeks ago, one fellow Airheads Beemer Club member arrived on his sidecar rig named “Lucifer’s Taxi.” It’s a R100/7 — the same model as my bike — except with a sidecar rig, tricked out in desert tan and with some iron crosses and Airhead logos. The iron crosses aren’t my thing, but converting an R100/7 to a hack rig is VERY MUCH MY THING INDEED. Especially if you can strap all sorts of interesting things to the sidecar. Like a mount for the Commando Projector next summer. At which showing there will be frisbees. And dogs in bandannas, if I’m lucky.
I’m now trying to find sidecar rigs from the late seventies that will look good with the bike. I’ve seen some really cool stuff — like this Chinese BMW knockoff with a jump seat and some other outlandish stuff — but I’m pretty sure that it’s going to be your basic big, blocky, German Seitenwagen rig. Then, according to the best advice out there, I have to practice driving it for a couple of thousand miles before even considering carrying a passenger. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and you can see a Turkey Pro Slow Race contestant from 2001 doing what I’ve since learned is called “flying the sidecar.” Cooooool.
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Trinity High School, Manchester NH
Trinity Robotics
VRC History
2014-15 Season: Skyrise
2013-14 Season: Toss Up
2012-13 Season: Sack Attack
2011-12 Season: GateWay
2010-11 Season: Round Up
2009-10 Season: Clean Sweep
2008-09 Season: Elevation
2007-08 Season: Bridge Battle
FRC History
In the Zone marks the 20th year of competitive robotics
. Established in 1997 as a FIRST Robotics (FRC) Team, the Trinity HS team was the 40th name on an alphabetized list of teams that season and became Team 40. Twenty years later, Team 40 has become one of the better robotics programs in the country. The team has been through numerous ups and downs. Losing a sponsor can be just as devastating as losing a match. Although the team has won many tournaments over the past 20 years, there have been many more near misses. The near miss at the 2017 Vex World Championship was almost too much to deal with. Team 40 could be considered “the best second place team in the country.”
Last season, “The Big Meaty Claw”, Team 40B, went to the Vex World Championships as the 13th ranked team in the World Global Skills challenge. Big Meaty competed in the Skills challenge at the WC and maintained its 13th place ranking, but was undefeated in match play. 40B was the 2nd seeded team in the Engineering Division and teamed up with 9090 from Arlington, TX and 134 from Pembroke, NH. The Trinity alliance lost to the eventual World Championships in the rubber match of the semi-finals because a power expander failed.
This new season, will be Team 40’s 20th. It may be a rebuilding season, as last year saw the graduation of 10 seniors. As always, we welcome the challenges before us with the IN THE ZONE game. We know the hardships will only make us stronger. The students never cease to amaze me with their cleverness and hard work.
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Hot 100: Ed Sheeran Set To Make History With New Singles ‘Shape’ & ‘Castle’
Published: Friday 13th Jan 2017 by Rashad
It seems with open hearts and wallets fans are welcoming back blue-eyed-soulster Ed Sheeran in a big way. For, as we reported here, the ‘Thinking Out Loud’ singer slid back onto the scene this week with not one, but two new releases – ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Castle on the Hill.’
The dual release help kick off his forthcoming album ‘Divide’ (in stores March 3rd) and, if iTunes and streaming response are any indication, will launch the project into the stratosphere.
Already hitting #1 and #2 on US iTunes respectively, new reports reveal the songs have individually smashed global streaming records. According to an official press release:
With over 13 million global streams in the first 24 hours, Sheeran has broken Spotify’s ‘day 1’ streaming record with his monumental comeback singles “Shape Of You“ and “Castle On The Hill.” With “Shape Of You” tallying 6,868,642 streams and “Castle On The Hill” landing 6,168,395 streams, both of the new tracks have individually overtaken the previous ‘day one’ record holders…
As if that’s not enough, now Billboard is reporting the tunes are jointly set to make Hot 100 history next week:
Via Billboard:
Industry forecasters suggest that “Shape” could sell 225,000 downloads or more in its first week (ending Jan. 12), easily making it the best-selling song of the week.
Meanwhile, “Castle” could sell 160,000 downloads or more in its first week and boast 14 million U.S. streams, while adding a nominal radio audience sum. Its combined activity could translate to a top 10 debut for the song on the Hot 100.
Should “Shape” start atop the Hot 100, Sheeran would earn his first No. 1 on the chart as an artist.
And, if “Castle” begins in the top 10, joining “Shape” in the region from the start, Sheeran would be the first artist to debut two songs in the top 10 simultaneously in the Hot 100’s 58-year history.
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NAVI January 13, 2017
the songs are both pretty boring and this is coming from a fan. But slay, get that #1 that Thinking Out Loud was suppose to be.
Onyourwrostday January 13, 2017
That’s the only reason I’m commenting because felt like tgj was lying I just knew that song had went #1
Jess January 14, 2017
Black artists era has ended.
Longlive Donald Trump.
👸 + ✈ = 💀 January 13, 2017
He’s coming for the weekend, bruno and all your favs 😂
Cough Cough January 13, 2017
Or maybe they’re just all succeeding together
Some are and some aren’t honey.
Mariah Carey January 13, 2017
Congratulations Mr. Sheehan dahhling! Thank you for sticking up for me as well dahhhling! We adore you!
JOHNVIDAL January 14, 2017
DondriA January 13, 2017
When will Beyonce?
RhiRocks January 14, 2017
Why does everyone compare everyone to Beyoncé ! She really is the the standard for everything! YONCE ALL ON UR MOUTH LIKE Liquor
Mo January 13, 2017
This n**** bores the f*** outta me
Delroy January 14, 2017
Thank to streams anything is easy to achieve
I´m surprised at how much people like him. Good for him. I thought he was going have a career more similar to that girl Goodie whatever that made a couple of those type of current cute songs everybody likes to listen to on the radio (the one for Fifty shades of Grey and a couple more, you know who I´m talking about). But looks like he is going to have his second strong era. Congrats.
Fancy BISH January 14, 2017
Ed said he wants to become the biggest artist in the world at a point in his career…so hopefully he has his No Jacket Required moment at some point…and Abel wants it too, Bruno certainly does, Bieber does, and JT certainly does…the artist blocking all their dreams at the moment? ADELE lol…which male do you think will actually achieve a 20-25 million seller, if at all, in your opinion? Are those days over for male solo artists? It’s a short list of male solo artists that have actually done it…Phil Collins, George Michael, Prince, Usher, Lionel Richie, Kenny G, Kenny Rogers, MC Hammer, Garth Brooks, Michael Jackson…that’s about it! The solo females who have achieved a 20-25 million seller…Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Adele, Alanis Morissette, Tracy Chapman (people sometimes forget how much she slayed the late 80’s, alongside Janet and Whitney), Carole King, Tina Turner, Britney Spears, Lauryn Hill, Janet Jackson, Madonna…I think that’s about it
I´m surprised at Ed saying that. I didn´t think he ahd that type of ambition. However, that´s never gonna happen. like I said his singles are going to work as long as they are cute, cause he is likeable. And his album will sell well again for nowadays standars. But taht´s about it. He´s not megastar material. Among all the males you mentioned Bruno has been the most successful no doubt. His current thrid era is being weaker comercially than his first two. But he sold way more than the others with his first two albums and his singles are hits all around the world, and not only one or two. He truly has been the biggest makle of the last 6 years. Abel doesn´t stand a chance. He has barely sold more first week this go around, now it´s his biggest moment to date. And his music doesn´t have that type of universal appeal to last (no comment on his voice lol). Jutin Timberlake continues to be successful. But he´s not gonna become bigger than what he has already been at this point. Bruno has been the it male and somehow continues to be. Adele is on another league, something not seen since Whitney, Mariah and Celine.
mr.m January 14, 2017
YAAAAAS Ed, b****!! snatch ebel’s wig
she’s overrated. u deserve her crown
OMG Logic!!! January 14, 2017
Cute. Call back when he has the #1 and #2 singles on Billboard like Queen Mariah with We Belong Together and Shake It Off. That’s the kind of history I’m looking for.
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Justin Bieber fans, affectionately called #Beliebers, apparently couldn’t wait to get a taste of what the Grammy winner was serving up for his long-awaited new era (kicked off by the Poo Bear-produced bop, ‘Yummy’).
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Selena Gomez kicked off her comeback era with the chart-topping hit ‘Lose You to Love Me,’ the first release from her long-awaited tertiary LP, ‘Rare.’
Despite the impressive lead-in, the set’s follow-up singles – ‘Look at Her Now’ and ‘Rare’ (album title track) – have shared… Read More
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The Incredible Hulk is another game based on the movie
License type: Commercial
The Incredible Hulk is another game based on the movie. This is the second try the game has been given, and, truth be told, it hasn't hit the note yet. The game features the HULK, which should be a synonym for chaos, unrest, explosions, etc. Everyone should be afraid of him, but not these people. The game is way too similar to Spiderman. That one, I have played and enjoyed for hours. Both games feature an open world, which means that you can go anywhere and explore everything before carrying out your missions. In Spiderman, the cities looked alive, in the Incredible Hulk, there are but a couple of people walking on the street at any time. You can destroy pretty much everything. But when you do, you don't bring about a chaotic sensation to the game. Maybe it's the lack of good chaotic music in the soundtrack. I don't know. The game just doesn't give any emotion to the player. The controls are OK, I guess. There isn't much depth to them. The graphics are flat-out horrible. Even the pre-rendered scenes look awful. The missions are repetitive. The voice acting leaves a lot to be desired.
Destruction is fun for a couple of minutes,
Bad graphics
Bad voice acting
Controls are only OK
The City of New York is apparently dead
Guest WOW! This game is of the hook.
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Guest this game is very great and good too
Guest i must confess that the Game is very powerfull. but Where my little stress is, is at the point HULK was destroying the building you can not just save a quit to continue later like in some other game and its obvious that it takes time because the buildings are much. ceejaylala@yahoo.com
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‘Embrace the grind’: The special sauce in Malcolm Delaney’s success
By Jeff Greer Nov 14, 2019 6
BARCELONA, Spain — Inside a cramped, spartan room in the depths of FC Barcelona Bàsquet’s Palau Blaugrana, with waiting-room-style chairs lining a bare white wall and a trainer’s table occupying almost all of the remaining space, lies former Virginia Tech star and Atlanta Hawks guard Malcolm Delaney.
“Just getting right before practice,” Delaney says as one of Barcelona’s trainers pulls his leg with enough force that he drags the 6-foot-3, 190-pound Baltimore native down the table. He talks with a grin as the trainer contorts his body this way and that, the perfect illustration of the motto he and his college coach, Seth Greenberg, have long repeated with each other: Embrace the grind.
This is all old hat to Delaney. The 30-year-old is in his ninth professional season, the seventh he has spent overseas. He has played in China, France, Germany, Russia, the Ukraine and now Spain. He won league titles in three of those countries, in...
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Behind Mathieu Joseph’s ‘humbling’ demotion and path back to the Lightning
By Joe Smith Jan 12, 2020 5
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When Lightning rookie Carter Verhaeghe racked up his first NHL hat trick Tuesday, Mathieu Joseph was rooting for him while watching on television in Syracuse.
Just eight days earlier, Joseph and Verhaeghe had neighboring locker stalls in the Tampa Bay dressing room. Joseph, who had about a year and a half experience in the league, was open to helping Verhaeghe with tips, whether it was in practice or finding an apartment.
So yes, Joseph, 22, was happy for Verhaeghe. Same for Mitchell Stephens, Joseph’s former AHL Syracuse and World Juniors teammate who is cementing his spot on Tampa Bay’s roster.
But the harsh reality is that while Verhaeghe and Stephens are thriving on a red-hot Lightning team, Joseph is in the middle of a tough, three-games-in-three-nights stretch for Syracuse. The former fourth-round pick and Crunch leading goal scorer a couple of years ago is back riding buses in the minors, with no set return date to the...
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Home Military Aviation VMFT-401 F-5N TIGER II ADVERSARY AIRCRAFT SUPPORTED USMC F-18 HORNETS DURING THE LATEST MARINE DIVISION TACTICS COURSE
VMFT-401 F-5N TIGER II ADVERSARY AIRCRAFT SUPPORTED USMC F-18 HORNETS DURING THE LATEST MARINE DIVISION TACTICS COURSE
by Dario Leone Feb 20 2017
written by Dario Leone Feb 20 2017
“Adversary air is something we specialize in and provide to our customers. We study what the enemy does and we know what our pilots should be doing,” Maj. Benjamin Apple, VMFT-401 operation officer
Marine Fighter Training Squadron (VMFT) 401 worked recently with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) to conduct the Marine Division Tactics Course (MDTC) at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort. VMFT-401 F-5N Tiger II jets provided the adversary air while the MAWTS-1 instructor pilots taught and evaluated MCAS Beaufort F/A-18 pilots during the course.
The four-week course took the top tier of Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 31 pilots and refined their skills in offensive anti-air warfare and anti-air defense. Six F-18 Hornet pilots and one Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) graduated, earning a MAWTS-1 qualification and a MDTC Instructor patch.
The course is held twice a year aboard MCAS Beaufort for all of MAG-31 F-18 squadrons. MAWTS-1 instructor pilots, based out of MCAS Yuma, Ariz., instructs and evaluates the MCAS Beaufort pilots. For those pilots who do graduate it provides a stepping stone to go on to the top flight school, Weapons Tactics Instructor (WTI) course.
“This course is one pre-requisite among others to eventually go on to the WTI course,” said Maj. Timothy Farag, the MAWTS-1 tactical air department head. “This course makes them proficient at air to air tactics. Upon completion of WTI, they will be experts on both air to air and air to ground tactics. They will be the overall subject matter experts of the F-18 Hornet.”
Both MDTC and WTI are fast paced, compact courses that test the top level pilots and turn them into masters of airborne tactics, prepared to meet the needs of a Marine Air Ground Task Force. Because of the sharp learning curve for both courses, the pilots need to be top notch with an aptitude far above their peers.
“The first week of MDTC is dedicated to academics,” said Maj. Benjamin Apple, the operations officer with VMFT-401. “Then the pilots spend a week doing dogfighting within visual range. The last two weeks are spent doing beyond visual range flights and simulations.”
The week of academics covers complex tactics, briefing and debriefing. The pilots not only need to excel in their flight time, but also in the debriefing time. Debriefing after a mission is critical, so that the pilots and WSO’s can see exactly what happened and how to improve. The second week of dogfighting is when Apple’s unit, VMFT-401, comes into the picture.
“We are the Marine Corps’ only adversary squadron,” said Apple. “Often the Marine Corps utilizes civilian defense contractors. What sets us apart is both our aircraft and the fact that we are uniform wearing Marines. Adversary air is something we specialize in and provide to our customers. We study what the enemy does and we know what our pilots should be doing. We provide the anvil on which our Marine pilots sharpen their sword.”
The VMFT-401 squadron frequently visits MCAS Beaufort to provide adversary air for the squadrons. During this visit their primary focus was to support MDTC. After the second week of air to air dogfighting, the pilots start to work up to larger, longer and more complex flying exercises. The exercises start off with a section, comprised of two pilots. Over the final two weeks they work up to a division flying against 10 adversary aircraft.
“We have the pilots train with both offensive and defensive anti-aircraft warfare,” said Farag. “Essentially the pilots will either be attacking a simulated enemy asset or defending against an oncoming adversary force, protecting a friendly asset. The entire time they are flying they are monitored by controllers who watch, record and analyze everything. When the pilots come back and have their debrief they need to know everything that happened during the exercise and learn from it.”
The debrief conducted after the flight is just as important as the flight itself. This is the pilot’s chance to show his control over the situation and most importantly, learn how they can improve. The competition for a seat at MDTC is stiff. Pilots need to be able to execute in flight and show control in the debrief.
“VMFT-401 works as an extension of MAWTS-1 for the duration of the exercise, working hand in hand as the instructor pilots,” said Farag. “As far as organizing and coordinating MDTC, that comes from Marine Aviation Training System Site Beaufort.”
The Marine Aviation Training System Site (MATTS) Beaufort coordinates and provides, adversary air, space to conduct briefs, debriefs, and reserves airspace. The MAG-31 provides the aircraft, assets, and maintainers. All of these components work together to ensure that everything is ready and available to ensure MDTC runs smoothly.
“The need for MDTC is huge,” said Farag. “The Marine Corps Training and Readiness Manual dictates that each squadron requires a certain number of WTI’s to ensure the Hornet community continues to meet the needs of the Marine Air Ground Task Force.”
The course culminated with a final flight and evaluation followed by a graduation at the Officer’s club aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Feb. 3, 2017. The course is a stride towards becoming a top aviator and subject matter expert within the F-18 Hornet community.
“We are honing pilots in air to air tactics maneuver and air superiority,” said Apple. “This has been a great trip for us. I love coming out to Beaufort and we are happy to be here, take our capabilities and bring those to the fleet.”
Both VMFT-401 and MAWTS-1 are stationed aboard MCAS Yuma, Ariz.
Photo credit: Lance Cpl. Ashley Phillips / U.S. Marine Corps
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Chris Young Announces 2020 Town Ain't Big Enough Tour With Scotty McCreery
posted by Blake Taylor - Jan 14, 2020
Chris Young has announced his 2020 tour plans. The country singer will headline the "Town Ain't Big Enough World Tour 2020" starting in May with dates scheduled through September.
Scotty McCreery and rising star, Payton Smith, will joining Young on the tour as opening acts. Additionally, the singer has hand-selected several rising artists to join him on the road as a part of the Next From Nashville program.
Tickets for the "Town Ain't Big Enough Tour" will go on sale January 24. For more detail regarding purchasing tickets, fans can visit Young's website.
The tour takes its name from Young's duet with Lauren Alaina, "Town Ain't Big Enough." It's one of several released songs that are expected to be included on his upcoming eight studio album, Raised On Country. The release date for the new album has not been announced. Stay tuned for more details.
Chris Young, 2020 Town Ain't Big Enough World Tour Dates:
May 28 — Detroit, Mich. @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
May 29 — Indianapolis, Ind. @ Ruoff Music Center
May 30 — Chicago, Ill. @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
June 10 — Salt Lake City, Utah @ USANA Amphitheatre
June 12 — Portland, Ore. @ Sunlight Supply Amphitheater
June 13 — Seattle, Wash. @ White River Amphitheater
June 20 — Irvine, Calif. @ FivePoint Amphitheatre
June 27 — Albuquerque, N.M. @ Isleta Amphitheater
June 28 — Phoenix, Ariz. @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
July 9 — Cleveland, Ohio @ Blossom Music Center
July 10 — Bristow, Va. @ Jiffy Lube Live
July 11 — Darien Center, N.Y. @ Darien Lake Amphitheater
July 24 — Mansfield, Mass. @ Xfinity Center
July 25 — Gilford, N.H. @ Bank of NH Pavilion
July 30 — Brandon, Miss. @ Brandon Amphitheater
July 31 — Tuscaloosa, Ala. @ The Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Aug. 1 — Orange Beach, Ala. @ The Wharf Amptheater
Aug. 13 — Virginia Beach, Va. @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
Aug. 14 — Raleigh, N.C. @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
Aug. 15 — Charlotte, N.C. @ PNC Music Pavilion
Aug. 20 — St. Louis, Mo. @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Aug. 21 — Rogers, Ark. @ Walmart AMP
Aug. 22 — Dallas, Texas @ Dos Equis Pavilion
Aug. 28 — Saratoga Springs, N.Y. @ Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center
Aug. 29 — Holmdel, N.J. @ PNC Bank Arts Center
Sept. 11 — Wantagh, N.Y. @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
Sept. 12 — Pittsburgh, Pa. @ S&T Bank Music Park
Sept. 25 — Atlanta, Ga. @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
Sept. 26 — Cincinnati, Ohio @ Riverbend Music Center
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UT-Austin remains one of the only top schools in Texas to charge counseling fees
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Published on October 17, 2017 at 12:24 am
By London Gibson
UT-Austin is one of the only large public universities in Texas that charges for counseling and mental health services.
Of Texas’ 10 largest public universities, only UT and the University of Houston charge for counseling sessions. The University of Houston charges $5 for individual counseling compared to UT’s $10 per individual counseling session. Other major Texas universities, including Texas A&M University and Texas State University, provide free care included in tuition.
The Counseling and Mental Health Center, or CHMC, first started charging for counseling in 2010 when the University was going through heavy budget cuts, said center director Chris Brownson. In the past six years, the center has seen a 53 percent increase in student interest and an 81 percent increase in the number of counseling sessions provided, Brownson said.
Brownson said it is the variety and quality of mental health services offered to students through a large counseling staff that requires a fee for counseling sessions. He said UT has one of the highest clinician to student ratios in the state of Texas.
“We have a lot of counselors,” Brownson said. “We have a lot of different types of services, but as you can imagine, in order to be able to do that, there is a cost. So that is part of why there is a charge here.”
The center does not require payment immediately and will lift any counseling related financial bars at time of registration, Brownson said.
“One of the things that is very important to me as the director is that we are not erecting barriers to students seeking care for mental health services,” Brownson said. “We will work with students … for any kind of payment plan that works for them.”
Although time and mode of payment is negotiable, the $10 fee is not. For students like bilingual education junior Lourde Ventura-Rubio, the fee could be the deciding factor on whether they seek treatment or not.
Ventura-Rubio sought counseling at UT last fall, but discontinued it after one session because she said she felt she could not afford regular visits.
“I was helping with (my mother’s) bills, I was paying my own bills, and those $10 did make the difference,” Ventura-Rubio said. “(With) all of the money that we’re obviously paying with tuition, there should be some type of fund for students who are in need of counseling.”
The CMHC offers some free services like group counseling, classes, workshops and a 24/7 crisis line.
Marketing senior Yingxin Xu works as a peer educator for the center. She said although the center does not have enough counselors to provide individual service to all of UT’s 51,000 students, they can still reach out for support with the free services.
“It’s more about building the connection on campus,” Xu said. “I think it’s more about how we can help students to build the strategies to help themselves.”
Ventura-Rubio said she thinks mental health issues are often downplayed even though it can happen to anybody for any reason.
“This is something that the students want and are willing to vouch for,” Ventura-Rubio said. “And hopefully more people who are going through things, who are having difficulties, will step forward and get the help that they need.”
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Our Music Festival comes to Berkeley, CA on Oct 20
27 September 2018 - Caleb Lau - Google+ - The DJ List
It is no doubt that the music festival scene has changed over the past decade. As music itself continues to evolve so will the events and 3LAU just changed the game. 3LAU, or Justin Blau, recently announced that he is spearheading a brand new kind of music festival called Our Music Festival (OMF). So what exactly makes OMF different from the rest of the festivals that we already know? OMF is the first of its kind to be completely powered by block-chain technology. While cryptocurrencies have seen much mixed reviews and publicity in the financial sector, it has raised many questions about social causes and more importantly our global economy. Furthermore, ticket fraud, ticket scalpers, etc. are all still in play that ultimately give rise to ticket inflation. OMF sets itself differently from the traditional model that festivals follow by adopting cryptocurrency into its payment systems where festival attendees can earn "tokens" for tickets, VIP upgrades, merchandise, food and beverages. 3LAU plans to revolutionize the festival experience and the way business is done as a whole.
"The blockchain space is littered with promises that lack real world application. We’re throwing our first event this year to show our commitment to inciting change. While it will take time for OMF to reach its full potential, our team has studied blockchain-layered applications and legal compliance for years to facilitate realistic steps toward decentralization.”
Our Music Festival will be taking place at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, October 20 with 3LAU, ZEDD, Big Sean, Matt and Kim and Charlotte Lawrence.
Tickets are available here.
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Former Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy says he will quit politics
9:39 PM, 3 August, 2019 Updated 9:44 PM, 3 August, 2019
Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is contemplating leaving politics. File photo: PTI
Expressing disappointment on losing power, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday said he is contemplating quitting politics considering the current political situation.
“I became a chief minister accidentally. Today’s politics is not good for people and I plan to quit. I cannot set everything right. I am tired. Let me live in peace. Do not drag my family into this,” Kumaraswamy told reporters.“God gave me the opportunity to be a chief minister twice. I wasn’t there to satisfy anyone. I did good work during my tenure,” he added.
The Janata Dal (Secular) party leader resigned from the chief minister’s post after losing a trust vote in the Assembly on July 23. With dissenting MLAs resigning from their posts, the coalition JD(S)-Congress government headed by Kumaraswamy fell short of a majority in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly.
This is not the first time the former CM has made such a statement. Last year, when the party won just 38 of the 224 seats, Kumaraswamy said he had decided to quit until he got a call from the Congress to ally and form the government. In the 2018 Assembly election, Congress won 78 seats, JD(S) 38 and BJP 105. With Congress allying with JD(S), Kumaraswamy went on to become the chief minister.
Kumaraswamy became the chief minister both times the state faced a hung assembly. Thirteen years ago, he forged an alliance with the BJP to form the government. However, since the power sharing agreement failed, the JD(S) pulled out from the coalition. Later in 2008, BJP came to power and BJP’s Yediyurappa became the chief minister.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy lost to independent candidate and actor Sumalatha Ambareesh. Ever since, the former CM has been sulking and blaming regional media for showcasing his family in bad light.
After the party president H Vishwanath resigned, JD(S) reshuffled its key party post and appointed Nikhil as the party’s youth wing president and elected Sakleshpur MLA HK Kumaraswamy as the party president.
Speaking to The Federal, party president HK Kumaraswamy said that no communication was made to the party about him resigning. Perhaps he said it in anger, he added.
“Deve Gowda is aged. Who else will lead the party if not HDK? His service is very much required for the party as well as for the state politics. So he will continue,” HK Kumaraswamy said.
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Development of an Industry Test Facility and Qualification Process for ILI Technology Evaluation and Enhancements: Performance Evaluation Phase
Pablo Cazenave, Ming Gao, Hans Deeb, Sean Black
Proc. ASME. IPC2018, Volume 1: Pipeline and Facilities Integrity, V001T03A054, September 24–28, 2018
Paper No: IPC2018-78635
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/IPC2018-78635
The project “Development of an Industry Test Facility and Qualification Processes for in-line inspection (ILI) technology Evaluation and Enhancements” aims to expand knowledge of ILI technology performance and identify gaps where new technology is needed. Additionally, this project also aims to provide ILI technology developers, researchers and pipeline operators a continuing resource for accessing test samples with a range of pipeline integrity threats and vintages; and inline technology test facilities at the Technology Development Center (TDC) of Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), a PRCI managed facility available for future industry and PHMSA research projects. An ILI pull test facility was designed and constructed as part of this project based on industry state-of-the-art and opportunities for capability improvement. The major ILI technology providers, together with pipeline operator team members, reviewed the TDC sample inventory and developed a series of ILI performance tests illustrating one of multiple possible research objectives, culminating in 16-inch and 24-inch nominal diameter test strings. The ILI technology providers proposed appropriate inspection tools based on the types of the integrity threats in the test strings, a series of pull tests of the provided ILI tools were performed, and the technology providers delivered reports of integrity anomaly location and dimensions for performance evaluation. Quantitative measures of detection and sizing performance were confidentially disclosed to the individual ILI technology providers. For instances where ILI predictions were outside of claimed performance, the vendors were given a limited sample of actual defect data to enable re-analysis, thus demonstrating the potential for improved integrity assessment with validation measurements. In this paper, an evaluation of the ILI data obtained from repeated pull-through testing on the 16 and 24-inch pipeline strings at the TDC is performed. The resulting data was aligned, analyzed, and compared to truth data and the findings of the evaluation are presented.
Topics: Performance evaluation, Test facilities, Pipelines, String, Inspection, Dimensions, Pipeline integrity, Teams, Technology development, Testing
Advanced EMAT Crack Tool for Unpiggable Pipelines
Phillip Bondurant, Khalid Farrag, Haraprasad Kannajosyula, Maureen Droessler, Tony Mactutis
This paper presents the development and testing of an Electro-Magnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) sensor prototype to detect and quantify longitudinal cracks in small diameter and difficult to inspect or unpiggable gas pipelines. The development of the system was a collaborative and jointly-funded work between Quest Integrated, Gas Technology Institute, Operations Technology Development, and US DOT, Pipeline Hazardous Material Safety Admin (PHMSA). The initial focus for the project was to inspect 8-inch (200 mm) diameter pipes with robotic or tethered towing, with the eventual goal of a free-swimming tool. A bench scale lab prototype has been successfully completed and tested in Phase 1 of the project in 2016. The prototype demonstrated the basic approach of a EMAT tool for crack detection and sizing that could be packaged into a single module, had reasonable flaw depth sensitivity, was bidirectional, and could negotiate a 1.5 D bend. Phase 2 focused on identifying and solving additional implementation issues, developing a more hardened tool for field pull testing, improving flaw sizing, and the necessary internal electronics and processing algorithms. The prototype recently developed in Phase 2 was tested in an extended length of 8-inch diameter steel pipe with pre-set and controlled longitudinal cracks. The results demonstrated the applicability of the integrated prototype in locating and sizing multiple flaws in the axial direction. This paper discusses the EMAT sensor development and results of the laboratory testing program.
Topics: Fracture (Materials), Pipelines, Engineering prototypes, Testing, Pipes, Sensors, Acoustics, Algorithms, Crack detection, Electronics
Reducing Excavation Damage in the Natural Gas Industry Using Real-Time GIS and Sensors
Aaron Rezendez, Robert J. Marros, Khalid Farrag, Saurav Acharya
Proc. ASME. IPC2018, Volume 3: Operations, Monitoring, and Maintenance; Materials and Joining, V003T04A021, September 24–28, 2018
Excavation damage is one of the top causes of incidents in both the transmission and distribution pipeline sectors. Damage caused from insufficient notification of one-call centers or careless digging near gas pipelines can potentially result in property damage, significant injury, and/or loss of life. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) have developed the framework for an Excavation Encroachment Notification (EEN) system to support damage prevention efforts to reduce damage from excavation activity. The research was funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and Operations Technology Development (OTD). The system utilizes real-time Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and cellular-connected location and motion sensors placed on excavation equipment. Controlled and field-based testing and training of machine learning algorithms were conducted to aid in characterization of excavation equipment. Additionally, a GIS system populated with pipeline information allowed operators of excavation equipment and utilities to receive an alarm and indication when equipment is adjacent to or excavating in the vicinity of a gas pipeline. More broadly, the utility stakeholder has increased situational awareness of excavation activities within its service territory with access to the real-time activity of excavation equipment through a mobile-compatible dashboard, reducing excavation damage risk and improving safety. Lastly, the project offers historical data archiving for data analysis and trend identification.
Topics: Damage, Gas industry, Sensors, Pipelines, Algorithms, Machine learning, Pacific Ocean, Public utilities, Risk, Safety
Pipeline In-Line Inspection Enhancement Opportunities
Stefanie L. Asher, Justin M. Crapps
Proc. ASME. IPC2016, Volume 1: Pipelines and Facilities Integrity, V001T03A062, September 26–30, 2016
Pipeline in-line inspections (ILI) are one of the primary methods used to assess the integrity of operating oil and gas pipelines. These inspections can be complicated to conduct due to a variety of reasons ranging from operational limits (high/low flow velocity, wall thickness, pipeline extreme depth or pressure, etc.) to limits inherent to the inspection technology. Often these complexities are overcome with tools customized to a specific pipeline. Although this has been effective for singular pipeline inspections, a more industry-wide approach should be considered to develop broader solutions. This paper discusses the opportunities to enhance ILI and suggests a ranking of priorities for technology development.
Topics: Inspection, Pipelines, Flow (Dynamics), Pressure, Technology development, Wall thickness
Methane Detectors Challenge: Low-Cost Continuous Emissions Monitoring
Shane P. Siebenaler, Adam M. Janka, David Lyon, John P. Edlebeck, Aileen E. Nowlan
Proc. ASME. IPC2016, Volume 3: Operations, Monitoring and Maintenance; Materials and Joining, V003T04A013, September 26–30, 2016
Natural gas leakage from unmanned facilities, such as compressor stations, gathering sites, and block valve locations, can pose significant economic and safety impacts. Additionally, methane, the primary constituent of natural gas, is a powerful greenhouse gas with 84 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide on a mass basis over a 20-year period (IPCC 2013). Due to the remote location of many of these facilities, fluid leaks can persist for extended periods of time. Continuous leak detection systems would facilitate rapid identification and repair of leaks. However, existing technologies, such as infrared cameras, are cost-prohibitive to be installed at a high number of sites and are instead used in periodic monitoring as part of leak detection and repair programs. Such periodic monitoring does not provide for quick detection of “fat tail” leaks that dominate the emissions from gathering and transportation systems (Mitchell et al. 2015, Subramanian et al. 2015). A unique and innovative arrangement of various stakeholders was utilized to initiate a technology development and testing program aimed at expedited deployment of low-cost technologies at high numbers of sites. The technologies targeted for this work were low enough in cost to economically justify the installation of such sensors at every gas gathering and transportation site. This work was driven by an environmental advocacy organization under a partnership with eight different oil and gas companies and technical oversight from various universities, non-profits, and government agencies to give a wide perspective on the needs of such technology. Four different technologies were developed and tested in realistic release environments. The technologies ranged from sensors modified from automobile-based technology to laser-based systems used for monitoring gases in coal mines. The systems were treated as “end-to-end” units whereby all components (e.g., sensor, data acquisition, enclosures, etc.) needed to perform according to the provided specifications. The testing involved controlled releases under numerous environmental conditions and with different gas compositions. The largest focus of the testing was on outdoor releases where the systems had to detect the transient nature of gas plumes. The primary objectives of the testing were to determine the readiness of the technologies for pilot testing in the field and identify continuous improvement opportunities. The project demonstrated that there are newly-developed technologies that could be deployed as low-cost continuous monitoring solutions for the gas industry.
Topics: Emissions, Methane, Sensors, Leakage, Testing, Maintenance, Natural gas, Transportation systems, Automobiles, Carbon dioxide
Technology Management Renewal at NOVA Gas Transmission
Randy C. Cormier, David V. Dorling
Proc. ASME. IPC1998, Volume 1: Risk Assessment and Management; Emerging Issues and Innovative Projects; Operations and Maintenance; Corrosion and Integrity Management, 89-94, June 7–11, 1998
Paper No: IPC1998-2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/IPC1998-2011
NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) is an industry leader in successfully applying new technology to meet business needs. The company has had a formal technology development program since 1983 and invests approximately $5.5 million annually towards developing and implementing beneficial new technology. Over the years, this leadership has provided tremendous value to NGTL’s customers, shareholders, employees and the communities in which it operates. In 1994, as part of the company’s re-engineering initiative, a high-level scoping effort identified several opportunities to further enhance the business value derived through the application of technology. To realize these opportunities, NGTL launched an effort to renew its processes for managing technology. Through this renewal effort, NGTL: 1) developed guiding organizational principles for managing technology, 2) established Key Technology Areas of focus, 3) re-structured its technology development organization, 4) leveraged best-practice concepts to improve the process of developing and implementing technologies, and 5) made significant progress in marketing the value of technological innovation across the organization. This paper will highlight NGTL’s technology management renewal effort including its historical context and rationale, the process used and the major outcomes.
Topics: Technology management, Technology development, Innovation, Leadership, Performance
Development of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Offshore Pipeline Leak Detection
Mohan G. Kulkarni, Svetlana Shafrova, Adam J. Rinehart
Proc. ASME. IPC2014, Volume 4: Production Pipelines and Flowlines; Project Management; Facilities Integrity Management; Operations and Maintenance; Pipelining in Northern and Offshore Environments; Strain-Based Design; Standards and Regulations, V004T10A006, September 29–October 3, 2014
Distributed fiber optic (FO) sensors have been used for onshore pipeline monitoring and leak detection applications. The use of FO sensors for offshore pipeline leak detection is still very new and requires developments to adapt the technology to such applications. This includes progressing the understanding of FO sensor performance for offshore leak detection, the need to develop requirements and procedures for offshore installation of pipeline and FO cable, and the need to design and develop sensor technology to cover long underwater pipelines. ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (EMURC) has undertaken an extensive offshore pipeline leak detection research and development program. One of the key goals of the program is to develop FO sensor technology for offshore use. This paper summarizes the key findings from several technology development studies.
Topics: Fiber optic sensors, Leakage, Underwater pipelines, Sensors, Ocean engineering, Pipelines, Cables, Design, Fibers, Industrial research
Automated Laser Ultrasonic Inspection of Hybrid Laser Arc Welding for Pipeline Construction
Marvin B. Klein, Homayoon Ansari
Proc. ASME. IPC2010, 2010 8th International Pipeline Conference, Volume 2, 817-822, September 27–October 1, 2010
Hybrid laser arc welding (HLAW) is a technology that promises to increase the efficiency of welded fabrication. By incorporating automation, and integrating an automated inspection system, HLAW can produce high quality welds at higher production rates and lower costs compared to even the most advanced pipeline welding system that is in use today. As the HLAW technique is developed and implemented for pipeline construction, it is important to develop an associated automated technique for weld inspection. We have applied automated laser ultrasonic testing (ALUT) to the important requirement of the in-line monitoring of new HLAW welds in the field. Laser ultrasonic testing (LUT) offers the advantage of true in-process measurement, providing immediate information on weld integrity. In this paper, we will describe our efforts to apply LUT to pipeline girth weld inspection. The technology development process and the integration into an HLAW system will be described.
Topics: Arc welding, Inspection, Lasers, Pipeline construction, Pipelines, Ultrasonic testing, Welded joints, Manufacturing, Technology development, Welding
WEPP and the Tech-Leap of Chinese Line-Pipes
Kaiwen Huang, Xiaoxiang Wang, Wencheng Liu
Proc. ASME. IPC2004, 2004 International Pipeline Conference, Volumes 1, 2, and 3, 1779-1788, October 4–8, 2004
The WEPP in China, is the longest high-pressure pipeline in the world, eastern part of whose construction has been finished at the 1 st Oct. 2003. Up to now, all the pipes of trunk line have been welded and buried under ground, about 740,000 metric tons of which were made by domestic pipe mills. Before this project the capacity of domestic pipe mills is pretty low: the max. O.D. is 711mm, the max. W.T. is 10.7mm, and the highest steel grade is API X60. However, the WEPP specification is very high: X70 with about 50% acicular ferrite, O.D. 1016mm, W.T. 14.6/17.5/21.0/26.2mm, and more than 190 J CVN value under −15 . This kind of pipe has never been made before in China. However, within about 2 years, Chinese mills successfully fulfilled the development and manufacturing of X70 steel coils and plates, the technical reconstruction of old production lines and installation of the new ones, the scientific research of pipe forming and high speed welding technology and test method, and the technology development of procedure and facilities for inside flow coating and outside 3PE coating. All the above will be detailed in this paper.
Topics: Pipes, China, Coating processes, Coatings, Steel, American Petroleum Institute, Assembly lines, Construction, Ferrites (Magnetic materials), Flow (Dynamics)
Pipeline Operation in the North Sea Area: Statoil’s Experience and Challenges
Ove R. Samdal, Anders Kvinnesland, Kjell Edvard Apeland, Arthur Lind, Kjartan Vartdal
Proc. ASME. IPC2006, Volume 1: Project Management; Design and Construction; Environmental Issues; GIS/Database Development; Innovative Projects and Emerging Issues; Operations and Maintenance; Pipelining in Northern Environments; Standards and Regulations, 577-587, September 25–29, 2006
Statoil has since 1985 installed, commissioned and operated approximately 8000 km of pipelines in the North Sea area. Among these pipelines are several of the world’s largest offshore gas trunk lines with the onshore parts relatively short in length but often with complex landfalls, fjord and land crossings. Since 2002 Gassco has been the Operator for transporting Norwegian gas to continental Europe and the UK. Gassco is a fully state owned company. Statoil is now TSP (Technical Service Provider) for most of the trunk lines. Operating these pipelines represents several challenges, and the accumulated experience gained through successful operations of these pipelines has brought Statoil to the forefront within the pipeline industry. Through comprehensive research and development Statoil has improved pipeline technology within areas as inspection, maintenance and repair. Together with the development of risk based condition (integrity) assessment, inspection and monitoring planning tools and work processes, these technology achievements have significantly improved Statoil’s knowledge and understanding of the pipeline condition and associated risk levels. A significant reduction in operating cost has also been experienced. Together with its collaborating partners Statoil has among others improved internal inspection technology by improving the MFL technology to a level of extra high resolution (XHR-technology) making metal loss measurements more reliable and accurate. Multi diameter inspection tools (28”–42”) (MDPT) and optical laser tool (Optopig) have also been developed and put into operation. Sub sea pipeline survey by use of ROV has been significantly improved with regard to instrumentation and survey speed. A unique remote pipeline repair contingency system (PRS) with well defined response times (10–21 days), has also been developed. To get the full benefit of these developments a risk based pipeline condition (integrity) management system (PCMS/PIMS) has been developed with the development of DnV’s Orbit Pipeline as a key element. ORBIT Pipeline consists principally of data storage and administration and various risk based integrity assessment modules. This paper will discuss several topics related to these technology developments and development of risk based condition (integrity) assessment.
Topics: North Sea, Pipelines, Risk, Inspection, Maintenance, Data storage systems, Industrial research, Instrumentation, Lasers, Metals
Development of Reliability-Based Design and Assessment Standards for Onshore Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines
Joe Zhou, Brian Rothwell, Maher Nessim, Wenxing Zhou
Onshore pipelines have traditionally been designed with a deterministic stress based methodology. The changing operating environment has however imposed many challenges to the pipeline industry, including heightened public awareness of risk, more challenging natural hazards and increased economic competitiveness. To meet the societal expectation of pipeline safety and enhance the competitiveness of the pipeline industry, significant efforts have been spent for the development of reliability-based design and assessment (RBDA) methodology. This paper will briefly review the technology development in the RBDA area and the focus will be on the progresses in the past years in standard development within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Canadian Standard Association (CSA) organizations.
Topics: Design, Natural gas, Pipelines, Reliability, Hazards, Mechanical engineers, Risk, Safety, Stress, Technology development
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10 International NWSL Players to Watch in the World Cup (Non-USWNT / CanWNT)
31 May 2019 . 4 min read . by Lindsay Eanet
All aboard the World Cup hype train! We are leaving the station and barreling excitedly towards June 7th.
In sort of an inverse of our look at the USWNT's top snubs who we were looking forward to seeing in domestic league play during the tournament, we wanted to celebrate 10 of the dozens of NWSL players who will be lighting up the World Cup. And since this is, after all, an international tournament, we wanted to show some love to players wearing shirts beyond the United States and Canada.
We know there are many more that could have made this list, and we encourage you to watch for your favorites at the tournament and share them with us at @thevictorypress.
10. Abby Erceg, North Carolina Courage / New Zealand
Abby Erceg joins the Football Ferns' World Cup roster for the fourth time after coming out of international retirement. She's coming off her best season ever with the NWSL and even with the Courage in flux right now, has shown no signs of stopping. She's played a full 90 for every single Courage match so far, nailing 24 clearances and even one cheeky goal.
She's a tough, persistent center back who has some big challenges ahead as the Kiwis face Canada, Cameroon and the Netherlands in the group stage, but if anyone can take 'em, it's Abby.
9. Estelle Johnson, Sky Blue FC / Cameroon
First of all, if there is a better team name than The Indomitable Lionesses, we have yet to find it. Johnson, a veteran defender who joined Sky Blue this season after several years with the Washington Spirit, is still very new to Cameroon's squad. She'll bring experience and backline depth (and killer slide tackles) to a squad that is a perennial contender in the African Women's Cup of Nations, and play alongside another Sky Blue alumna, Paris FC forward Michaela Abam. Cameroon had a thrilling run in the 2015 tournament, advancing past the group stage, and we can’t wait to see how Johnson will contribute to their efforts this year.
8. Andressinha, Portland Thorns / Brazil
Brazil has a handful of wonderful players in the NWSL, but we're particularly excited about the possibilities of what Andressinha will bring to As Canarinhas in this campaign. In a Thorns shirt, Andressinha has demonstrated an impressive ability to connect with her teammates, including on often tricky long balls and won favor for her creative abilities as a playmaker. Plus, she sometimes does things like this.
7. Rumi Utsugi, Reign FC / Japan
The Nadeshiko squads of the last two World Cups, where they were the winners and runners-up, respectively, were defined by longtime veterans of that generation – Homare Sawa, Yuki Nagasato, Aya Miyama. The squad entering this year's tournament features a host of relatively newer faces to the national team. As part of a defense alongside veteran Aya Sameshima, expect Utsugi to provide consistent experience and guidance as this new crew continues to assert its identity and prowess on the pitch.
6. Rachel Daly, Houston Dash / England
Like Crystal Dunn on the USWNT, Rachel Daly is another example of The Curious Case of Coaches Playing a Natural Attacker as a Fullback. Tough and precise in front of the goal, she contributed to the Three Lionesses' victory in the SheBelieves Cup earlier this year. It would be great to see Phil Neville playing her in her natural position, but we're excited to see her anyway.
5. Hayley Raso, Portland Thorns / Australia
The NWSL is full of fan favorite Matildas, and we could dedicate even more prose to A+ teammate Elise Kellond-Knight or Steph Catley, to name two more. But Hayley Raso went from being unsure she would ever walk again following a broken back last summer to scoring for her side in the Cup of Nations earlier this year to preparing for the World Cup. We haven't seen much of her for the Thorns so far this season and given that recovery is always daunting but especially from such a serious injury, who knows how much we'll really get to see of her in the tournament. But her setting foot on the pitch at all, making such an incredible leap from one of the most devastating situations for a professional athlete, will be a feat, and we're not crying, you’re crying.
4. Cheyna Matthews, Washington Spirit / Jamaica
The Reggae Girlz make their Women's World Cup debut this summer (here's some good background), have steadily improved in CONCACAF competition and currently hold their highest ever FIFA ranking. After taking a year off from the game due to pregnancy, Matthews is back and contributing to a resurgent Washington Spirit, netting some fancy-footwork goals like this one. Matthews in an attack formation with the likes of Jody Brown and Khadija "Bunny" Shaw is a possibility that makes us go all dreamy-eyed. If Bunny successfully recovers from her injury during Tuesday's friendly against Scotland (prayer circle, everyone!), Jamaica's attack will have other teams in night sweats.
3. Rachel Corsie, Utah Royals / Scotland
Scotland is yet another exciting side to debut in the 2019 World Cup, and all eyes will be on their skipper, Utah Royals defender Rachel Corsie. Corsie has had a strong start to her NWSL season for the first-place Royals alongside Becky Sauerbrunn, and with a pairing like that, it makes sense why Utah's only conceded three goals so far and kept three clean sheets. But Corsie's role extends beyond stoppages and tackles on the pitch – as Scotland's captain and best-known player, she's an ambassador for the women's game in her country, and has contributed to its growth. Getting to lead her team to the World Cup is a wonderful step in that trajectory.
2. Marta, Orlando Pride / Brazil
One name to rule them all. Imagining the women's game without Marta is like imagining The Great British Bake-Off without irrepressible charm. It just doesn't make sense. The six-time (!) FIFA Women's Player of the Year has had a rough start to the season at a winless, languishing Orlando Pride, but wearing the yellow and green is when she shines brightest. She holds the record for most goals scored at the World Cup, and unless Christine Sinclair goes on an absolute tear, there's no one that can catch her.
1. Sam Kerr, Chicago Red Stars / Australia
You were expecting someone else? 55 goals in the NWSL, 64 goals in the Australian W-League, backflips for days. Kerr is a dream of a player, a consummate entertainer, always an absolute blast to watch, the platonic ideal of an antidote to every goober in your mentions who talks about how "sOcCeR iS bOrInG" but will willingly watch golf. Beyond being a natural striker, Kerr has demonstrated leadership on and off the pitch, including taking part in the Matildas' 2015 boycott demanding better play and conditions for players.
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Raising Cute Baby Lemurs to Save a Species
Aug. 27, 2014 - The Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina… more
Aug. 27, 2014 - The Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina has the world's largest and most diverse collection of lemurs anywhere in the world outside of Madagascar, where lemurs are native. They are the most endangered group of animals on Earth. In this video, visit the center to see some of the tiniest lemurs in their first days after birth.
CHRIS SMITH, EDUCATION SPECIALIST, DUKE LEMUR CENTER:
Lemurs are magnetic. Lemurs look at us with the same sort of brain, intelligence and evolutionary history that we have. So when you meet a lemur, you're meeting a relative, and when you look into a lemurs eyes, you can tell that they're looking back. And the same things you're thinking about them, they could be thinking about you.
Each species that we house here has its own species survival plans, or SSP's. We keep track of everybody's family history, and then we use that information to decide who the most genetically distinct breeding pairs would be. When we breed for lemurs, we want to make sure that we preserve genetic diversity in the captive population. That could mean that we're going to receive a lemur from another facility or we may be shipping a lemur to a facility elsewhere in the United States.
Many times, because we have so many lemurs, the breeding recommendations are in house.
I think all of the lemur keepers and the other staff at the lemur center live for lemur babies. They're so precious and valuable to us because in many cases, they could be some of the only representatives for their species in captivity and each new lemur baby could be the saving grace for their population in the wild.
The newest arrivals at the lemur center are some of our grey mouse lemurs. One female had a set of triplets, which is really exciting, and then another female had a set of twins. For the larger, daytime active lemurs, we've got about nine or ten infants right now.
We want to make sure that everyday when we weigh them, their weight is going up. Even if it's just a gram or two, that means that they're nursing and that they're healthy.
For the first week of the infants life, it's pretty vulnerable. One of the ways that we know that they're healthy is that they're clinging very tightly to mom. And most of that first 30 days is spent nursing and sleeping.
After the first 30 days, the babies seem become really strong at that point and they'll start testing their lemur legs, so they'll climb off of mom, sit on the branch next to her and then when a twig snaps, they turn around and they jump right back on her back or onto her belly.
Lemurs today are actually considered the world's most endangered group of mammals. Some species of lemur, there's only a few hundred individuals left, and could be extinct within a decade or two. The most compelling reason for me to study lemurs, breed them in captivity and go to Madagascar and work with local people to try to protect them, is that these animals are our relatives. And we have the biggest impact on their extinction in the future and we have the biggest chance to protect them, to make sure that lemurs do not become the first primates to become extinct in over 100 years.
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Playing Catch-Up: Room (dir by Lenny Abrahamson)
Have you seen Room yet?
I ask because I’m debating how much information I should share in this review. Room came out a few months ago and I’ve been late in reviewing it because watching the film was such an emotionally overwhelmingly experience that I wasn’t sure where to begin. Now, all of this time has passed and I’m in a hurry to review this film because it’s obviously going to be nominated for some Oscars on Thursday morning and I’m wondering how much I can reveal without spoiling the movie.
It’s always tempting to say “Spoilers be damned!” but I’m not going to do that this time. Room is a great film and it’s one that deserves to be discovered with a fresh mind. I imagine that many people who missed the film the first time will see it once Brie Larson has been nominated for Best Actress. Out of respect for those people, I am going to hold off from going into too much detail about the film’s plot.
Of course, this means that, if you haven’t seen the film, you’re going to have to have a little bit of faith in me. You’re going to have to trust me. When I tell you that this is an amazing film that will take you by surprise, you’re just going to believe me. Because if I ruin those surprises … well, then they won’t be surprises anymore, will they?
When I first heard all the Oscar talk swirling around Room, my initial instinct was to make a joke about Tommy Wiseau finally getting the credit he deserves. But then I saw Room and, within a few minutes of the film, I was in tears. It’s hard for me to think of any other film this year that made me cry as much as Room.
Room is narrated by Jack (Jacob Tremblay), a 5 year-old boy whose hair is so long that he is frequently mistaken for being a girl. Jack lives in a filthy room with Ma (Brie Larson). The tiny room has only a toilet, a sink, a bed, a small kitchen area, and a cheap television. There’s also the small closet where Jack sleeps and a skylight in the ceiling. As quickly becomes apparent from his narration, Jack has never been outside of the room. All he knows about the outside world comes from TV and the stories told to him by Ma.
Occasionally, a nervous man named Old Nick (Sean Bridgers) enters the room. Whenever Old Nick shows up, Ma orders Jack to hide in the closet. However, even in the closet, Jack listens to Ma and Nick talking in the room. Ma talks about how Nick kidnapped her when she was 17. Nick talks about how he has recently lost his job and may not be able to continue to take care of his two prisoners. Fearful for her life, Ma humors the self-pitying Nick. Nick, meanwhile, plays the victim and complains about how difficult it is to keep her and Jack prisoner. It quickly becomes apparent that Jack is Nick’s child.
Now that Jack is five, Ma knows that he’s old enough that she can tell him about her plan to escape from Nick. However, escaping means exposing Jack to a world that he’s never experienced and that Ma fears she no longer remembers.
Meanwhile, Ma’s parents wonder what has happened to their missing daughter. (It’s from her parents that we learn that, much like a character played by fellow Oscar contender Jennifer Lawrence, Ma’s name is Joy.) Ma’s mother, Nancy (Joan Allen), is now divorced from Joy’s emotionally repressed father (William H. Macy). Nancy is now married to the kind and appealingly disheveled Leo (Tom McCamus). However, still hoping that her daughter will someday return, Nancy hasn’t even touched Joy’s old bedroom.
Finally, the opportunity comes for Ma and Jack to escape and…
…and that’s all I can tell you without spoiling the film. Room is an emotionally exhausting film, one that will make you cry but which will also leave feeling strangely hopeful for the future. Brie Larson gives a courageously vulnerable and emotionally raw performance as Joy while Jacob Tremblay is perfectly cast as Jack. Since Larson and Tremblay are both getting a lot of attention as possible Oscar nominees, I want to take a few minute to single out one member of the cast who, so far, has been overshadowed. Tom McCamus doesn’t have a lot of screen time but he makes the most of every second he gets, turning Leo into the ideal father figure.
Room made me cry and cry and I can’t wait to see it again.
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This was the best thing that could have happened to Fran and Jack.
By Walter Broeckx
Great was my expectation when I saw the names of Fran Merida and Jack Wilshere on the team sheet. I have seen them play a few games in the Carling Cup, the Emirates Cup, in the reserves and even in the Champions League.
When they play in the Emirates cup, which after all is just a friendly like all the other in preparation of the league, they play at home and the pressure is not that big. When they play in the Champions League they normally are surrounded with other seasoned youngsters or they play in the Carling Cup team when nothing matters any more.
Playing in reserves is not the same thing as playing in the first team. Playing at Underhill is not the same as playing in front of a hostile crowd at Upton park.
When these young players go out to play in the Carling cup there is a little bit more pressure. But at the end of the day Arsenal doesn’t really care for that cup and it is considered as a training ground so that these kids can get used to playing for big crowds and against bigger and stronger opponents.
So there is pressure but no one will get shot if they are out of that competition. It just is a competition in which younger players can show them selves and let us see what the future can bring for The Arsenal.
So in these games Jack and Fran really played some good football and show us bits of their talent. I admit that I have high hopes for those 2 in the future. I think that Jack could be a kind of Dennis Bergkamp player and Fran looks like a playmaker in the making. Both have excellent technique and skills, good vision, a good ability to dribble and they can each add something to the team.
So high expectations from my part and… it didn’t work out for them at the day. Playing in the FA Cup is a next step for those youngsters. The FA Cup is pressure. No team really likes to go out and not at this early stage. The fans from both teams are up for it so you really get a tough game to play no matter who the opponent may be. The players will fight till the last second for every ball. It will be hard work.
So with over an hour gone Jack and Fran left the field with Arsenal 1-0 down. And neither had produced much.
Jack had some good moments, some nice ideas but it just didn’t work out. Fran had some good things to show in the beginning but the further the game went on the worse he began to play. At the end almost every pass went lost, corners were badly delivered. It was almost turning in to a nightmare. I had visions of Eboue last season.
Diaby and Nasri came on and despite their young age, they know what it’s all about. They have been there and they took over and from that moment on you could feel that the game had turned in our favour. We had some good assists from Vela and a very strong finish from Ramsey, plus and the best of headers a centre forward can deliver from Eduardo to turn things around. But I really think that we could have scored 5 or 6 goals from the moment Diaby and Nasri came on.
But what will this do to Jack and Fran ? I think it could be the best thing that happened to them. If we had won by a large score they could have thought : “hey this is easy.” And next time around they would have walked on the field thinking that it will be another walk in the park.
No I think they will be aware of the difficulty they face in such games. And I am sure that Arsène Wenger will have some fatherly words with the two players.
I think that he will say to Fran that if things don’t work out he has to play some easy balls instead of trying to do the difficult passes all the time. In this game Fran was trying so hard to deliver the killer ball that at the end he even couldn’t make the simplest of passes because his confidence had gone after all those missed passes.
I think he will tell Jack that he doesn’t have to dribble all 11 players before releasing the ball. Dribble and then pass it to a team mate and if that works out he can try more. He doesn’t have to produce some kind of magic every time he touches the ball.
I ‘m not going to slaughter those two youngsters for this game. They have the potential to become great players but they still have a lot to learn. And the only way they can learn this is by playing in those games. Yes it can cost us at times but that is one of the difficulties of being a manager. Bring the young players and have the risk that they make mistakes or not playing them and be sure that they will learn nothing.
All our older youngsters have had such games and some of them were written of after one such game – as with Song. Even last year he was written off by some and now those same people demand Wenger to buy at least 2 backup players for the month Song is going away for the African Nations Cup.
So let us just be patient and give them another few games and I am sure that they will come good and deliver what Wenger has seen in them.
After all will we take the risk of losing another Song ?
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40 comments to This was the best thing that could have happened to Fran and Jack.
Hartwick89
Walter,
Good perspective on the training and learning of a young footballer. It is definatley helpful for fans to understand these steps. Also, as a matter of steps; it wasn’t that long ago when Ramsay played against Cardiff and played to be nice lackluster. And, now he has scored in back to back games. So these methods do work and will work for these two youngsters…As far as confidence goes well Arsene has methods for that too.
Merida and Wilshere seem to get stage fright at decision making time so how much longer before they stop trying so hard and start playing naturally otherwise the pressure of trying to prove themselves will inhibit their abilities .
FunGunner
Good perspective, Walter.
Why would anyone worry? They are teenagers. Don’t people remember what Tony Adams was like as a teenager? God, he was a donkey!!!! Thierry Henry was all pace and inconsistency and gangly legs and mistakes as a teenager. Steve Gerrard couldnt stay fit for 2 games in a row as a teenager. 95% of professional players dont even get games at the very highest level until they are 20 or more.
When guys like Aaron Ramsey perform brilliantly as teenagers THAT is amazing. Rooney and Owen were amazing as teenagers. But normally kids are poor as teenagers. They need time to grow. You have to give them games, just as Fergie needs to give Welbeck and Obertan games even though they stink up the place. It is only through failure that young players learn.
Damn_Gallas
Well said sir!!
We need to give wilshere and merida time.. Though they have the talent, they still do need time. I would say that at the age of 19-21, would be when they will be fully ready.
Only a handful few would be able to play like a professional at less than 18 years old. Not everyone is a Lionel Messi or Cesc Fabregas.
They need more time and more experience.
I would say that going out on loan to a championship side or another premier league team, would be the final part of their learning curve. When they get exposed to the toughness and urgency of the high tempo english game, then they will learn to pass faster, make decisions faster, dribble less etc…
Therefore, Wenger, please send these 2 out on loan. They will be ready in a season or 2.
Is it just me or are there so many people who agree with all the articles that are written over here. (except for some articles of Tony where I dont Understand the humour).
Abhishek – I think there is strong agreement here, but that is because the site overtly states that it is pro-Wenger, and apart from when I am writing humour that no one understands, all of us who write here regularly are pro-Wenger.
The site was set up deliberately in this way to counter the dominance (as I saw it at the time) of the anti-Wengerian writers.
So generally speaking someone who was not fully supportive of Wenger would have many other sites to go to, and would get a warmer reception there than here.
Lhanre
After reading that piece by Wenger on decision making on the pitch and green lights, I see myself looking out for all the green lights open for an arsenal player with the ball. When Nasri and Diaby got on, it was amazing to see all the green lights they turned on going forwards! It was a beauty of a match.
Fantastic. This site is fast becoming my favourate.
Elegent and intelligently written and level headed which is far better than most other Arsenal blogs I have read.
Too much focus on who/why we do or do not buy players and of course persecution of a man who has performed miracles and any club in the world would be proud to have as manager. Please find me another who has produced the talent we have without the easy big signings not to mention set up one of the best training facilities in the world, oh and the little matter of moving stadium yet still retaining and playing Champions League football throughout.
I’m as hungry as anyone for trophies but we as Arsenal fans sometimes lack vision, as the future looks spectacular in my opinion.
Keep up the excellent work.
The learning curve is a steep one but tbothe these players have an abundance of talent. they will learn from their mistakes.
As for Fran though it is hard to imagine him remaining at the club – plenty of clubs will fancy him and he will be free to negotiate a hefty salary as, unless Wenger can persuade him otherwise, he will be on a free come the summer.
That would be a great pity and a poor return for a player we have fostered and put much energy into nurturing.
Perhaps Wenger will look to sell him now or use him as makeweight rather than lose him for nothing? Tricky.
Bootoomee
Perfect answer for Abhishek. We all agree with posts on this site because we are all here to do the same thing: SUPPORT OUR TEAM! One thing that you have aplenty on the Internet is choice. If I visit a site once or twice and notice that all the writer cares about is their own pride which they get at the expense of belittling others, then I never go back there; I’m talking about pompous but faceless bloggers like Le Grove and ANR. If these guys are so great and they “know it all”, they should just get a coaching licence and show what they can do.
Untold Arsenal on the other hand is where Arsenal fans come to celebrate good times and cheer each other up when things are not so rosy. As I’ve always told my D&G pals, our only job as fans is to SUPPORT our team. The nonsense about suggesting (at times even insisting) that certain players be dropped/sold off and certain ones be acquired by “know it all” but faceless and voiceless bloggers/fans is nothing but pure grandstanding for getting virtual blowjob from fellow D&G commenters.
I feel good about reading and commenting on this site because all it stands for is what I believe in: SUPPORTING MY TEAM AND MANAGER ALL THE TIME!
IndianGooner
Walter, nice article.. And as Jonny puts it, its a steep learnin curve for both of them.. Ramsey, Denilson, Diaby & Song were on this d season before last and the last season..
I just Merida sees the bigger picture and signs a new deal. And on this topic, its good to see Rosicky signing a new contract. I was worried whether his contract would be extended given his injuries over the last couple of seasons but now it seems He is still in Wenger’s plans!!! Hope Gallas signs a new one soon…
brilliant article walter. in addition to what you have said, i believe this experience will ground franny and jack, with the media hype and unwarranted overtures from other teams, its so easy for the youngsters to get carried away, they stil have a lot to learn
redjim
I hate to burst the optimistic future bubble going on here re: Fran Merida but the simple fact is he’s had months to sign that contract….and hasn’t…
So it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference how much fatherly advice he might get from Arsene because I’d almost bet my flat and its entire contents on the fact that he’s sees his immediate future back in Spain……and come this summer will simply leave on a Bosman thus making pointless the belated £2M transfer ‘fine’ paid and the three years spent developing him.
I don’t wish this to be true…….I just believe it is.
Redjim you can of course have any opinion you like, and you can express it here. But it would be good to know more about why you hold that view.
Here’s the last thing the Arsenal site said on the matter…
Arsène Wenger has revealed Fran Merida has verbally agreed a new contract at Arsenal despite other clubs trying to “destabilise” him.
Speaking after scoring in the Gunners’ Carling Cup win over Liverpool, the 19-year-old said he was hopeful of securing a new contract at the Club and Wenger has now confirmed that deal is ready to be signed.
“Some clubs are doing work behind our back to destabilise him,” said Wenger. “We cannot stop them but it is a fact.”
That’s the full story – on the plus side he has agreed the deal, on the minus side the agent is probably doing his usual agent stuff. I don’t really think that there is much evidence to push it one way or the other. You could also argue that because his performance against WHU wasn’t brilliant his attractiveness to other clubs has declined.
It seems to me that taking into account all the facts the balanced view is, “could go either way”.
Very good view, Walter. Without mistakes and a bit of pressure, no one actually learns. The best of leaners are those who are not afraid to slip-up, and are quite happy to take corrections when they do.
Fran and Jack could not have been in better hands.
diceman1984
Song and Diaby are the living proof of hard work and patience. It’s also a proof that the manager see them everyday while we don’t. It’s also a proof that it’s why the manager got paid to do the job.
Jack and Fran are, like LRV said, being taken care by the best manager they could wish for.
They will come to be top players, like many others (who stayed or pissed off) who got there from being nurtured by Arsene Wenger.
PS: Rambo is improving so fast it’s scary to think we have him and Cesc in the same squad. But of course Wenger has nothing to do with that…..
I actually dont see much of a future for Merida at the club. I think he would have to have regular first team football to stay and I just dont see that he is going to break into a midfield rotation that seems to get deeper with every passing month. In “midfield” he is competing against Song, Diaby, Cesc, Denilson, Ramsey, Coquelin, Eastmond, Wilshire, Nasri, Arshavin, Walcott, Rosicky, Emmanuel-Thomas, and soon Lansbury (who has a terrific loan spell at Watford)and Nordveidt (also having a terrfic loan spell in Germany). That is some serious competition.
Merida isnt Cesc. He is nowhere near that level. He has the talent to be a very good player but I think the only way he is going to get starting 1st team football is away from Arsenal. I am sure AW would love him to sign a new contract and therefore set up an eventual transfer fee but if I was Fran there is no way I would sign a new contract until I saw what interest was out there, and that won’t happen until the summer. Gradually players and agents are going to realise that the Bosman ruling gave them ALL the power and that American style free agency is a far better way for players to get rich than seeing clubs exchange millions of pounds between bank accounts.
jazbo
Indeed a good game for both Fran and Jack, now they both are aware after watching how Nasri and Diaby changed the game after they came on, how far they still have to go be be on a par with the first teamers around them, better still was the stark way in which those naysayers calling for Eboue to be got rid of have seen just how far young Jack has to go before he can push for a regluar spot in the team, hopefully they will all now leave the boy alone to develop along the path that Arsene has set out for him without all the hype and expectation from those who should know better.
As for situation with Fran, if he choses to leave and not sign a new contract like Flamini last season, it will be a loss but not one that will hurt the club afterall we have Lansbury and JET just waiting for the chance to show what they can do and remember these boys are both high quality and have experience of playing in the lower leagues already.
I personally would find it a loss for Arsenal if Merida would leave as I think he can be a good team player in the future.
But that is live in a football club at the top. You simply can not hold on to all the players you have.
I could understand his reasons if he would go back to Spain even to play for a smaller team in the SPL. Maybe he thinks he could get more opportunities over there to play in the first team.
But if he is a smart boy he may look around him and see that if you leave Arsenal too soon you could lose everything in time.
Walter, great recap! After the game I had the same feeling about Fran. He has been on loan before and probably was hoping to break into the first team sooner rather than later and he hasn’t. I wish he stays as he really is a great talent. But agents make money during transfers and you can imagine the pressure he is under. So, as Tony mentioned it could go ether way. Jack probably go on loan and he obvously open to that as he needs games to keep developing. That kid is a real wizard and I have a feeling that in a couple of years he may end up being a regular. There was nothing more to read from the game against WHU as far as I’m concerned.
A few weeks back Merida was a guest pundit on the Sky Spanish La Liga programme with Guillem Belague. Very level headed and quite impressive English from the young man. He was very supportive of Arsenal in his comments as well (as expected). After the programme a couple of days later Belague on his website had a comment about Merida effectively stating that he felt Merida would re-sign with Arsenal and he also stated that he felt that would be best for him. He’d clearly been talking to him. I would expect Merida is merely testing the water to see if there is any amazing interest in him from some of the top clubs other than Arsenal. Or is hoping for improved terms (more pay or shorter contract).
You need to remember that AW has said on more than one occasion that Merida is an amazing player. And he rarely does that.
Not easy to predict the future for a 19 yr old, but he is clearly highly rated.
Arsesession
Walter – mature outlook!
I did not see or listen to the match, only read reviews from various sources.
I was only wondering how the play of Eduardo, Ramsey, and Vela were impacted by the insertion of Diaby and Nasri?
Vela, Wilshere, and Merida have seen very little 1st team play. To toss all three into the line up at one time, then add to that list, Rambo, and you have a predictable outcome. If you want to give Merida (or Jack) a chance to shine, place more experienced support around him.
Look at how Cesc was brought along – the line ups were not cluttered with 18-19-20 yr olds!
Arsesession, you are right.
If you look at the starting line up we had a lot of players that have not been playing that much. Wilshere and Vela hardly played in the first team so far. Eduardo a little bit more but he was struggling a bit the last weeks and needs the games to get better. So the front line without that much game time.
In the middle Song was the only real first choice. Ramsey is very close to the first team (at the age of just 19!!) and Merida hardly played this year. If you also take Silvestre in account who hardly played this year you could say we lacked some experience at the start. The fact that Wenger included some players like Nasri and Diaby on the bench indicates that Wenger might have expected it could happen like it did.
I’m sure that if we would play them more and start with that team in one or 2 years we would play them off the field like we did when Diaby and Nasri came on the field.
Walter and posters. You have said it all, and got it right. I have nothing to add. (Don’t tell my wife!)
TheSKAGooner
Good stuff, Walter.
Regarding Merida though, IMScouting reported a short wile ago that he’s agreed terms with Atletico Madrid and will join up with them from the beginning of next season. It’s a tough loss, especially on a free transfer (he was to have been out of contract with us at the end of this season), but with the likes of Ramsey coming on so strong and the host of other mids currently on the squad, one can’t help but understand his motivation to look elsewhere for opportunities.
We should all wish Fran well with his new side.
TheSKAGooner, let’s hope the report about merida is untrue, as is the one about vieira going to man city…
doesn’t surprise me a bit, though, if true. it’s tough to break into the side for this generation with all the young talent coming through. it would be the same reason he left barca in the first place.
a great team and a great academy produces tons and tons of stressful competition. it’s for the overall benefit of the team, but individually it must be pretty hard, i’d imagine. it must be especially tough for merida, considering the example of cesc before him. if you have agents, family, and media outlets whispering into your ear that you are the next fabregas, but that you have to leave to get a chance to prove yourself, well, i can completely see how he would tempted to leave. it’s too bad if so, though.
as for the other rumored transfer, all i have to say is: f^&k i hate man city.
Well reasoned Walter. It’s very true that had it been a walkover neither Fran nor Jack would have learned a great deal. The old saying that you only learn from the scars on your back is very true. Equally, if they looked at the game objectively after they were substituted, they would have appreciated the difference that Abou and Sami made. Hopefully it was a great learning curve for both of them.
@ Tim – I think Merida’s link to Atletico is pretty solid. AS, the Spanish paper usually trumpeting Cesc’s imminent departure for Barca, seem to have a fair bit of detail on the Merida deal, including the length of the contract. We actually agreed terms on a new deal with Merida earlier this fall, but he refused to sign the contract. I think that was a sure sign that he was biding his time to see how his playing time shaped up this season and to explore what else would be out there should he decide to leave.
@The SKAGooner– the more i think about it, merida waiting and not-signing the new contract is a big slap in the face for arsenal. he could’ve signed it, and still begged for a way out if he lacked playing time down the road…obviously it would make it harder for him to move, but i’d imagine he’d find a way like so many players throughout the world have before…arsenal paid quite a bit to get him, and there was that lawsuit, and then all that time spent on him in training…
the respectable thing would’ve been to sign the contract. but in this day and age w/ man city and chelsea, i guess there’s no such thing.
I have no special knowledge on this, but I wonder, what was the point of playing Merida in the Cup game if he is already on his way to Spain? If we were looking to give experience to a young player why not put someone else in? It is not as if we are short of youngsters coming through.
tony, let’s hope your logic is true. we just have to wait to hear it from either wenger or merida themselves…
Queen of Suburbia
If Merida has indeed signed for Athletico, its a shame but keeping things in perspective, we have a lot of very young, very promising talent at the club, even outside of the first team, so his loss is hardly likely to be catastrophic.
Perhaps playing Merida in the Cup was a final attempt to keep him?
People have to get over this “players not signing a new contract and leaving for a free transfer is a slap in the face for our club” thing because it is the way the game is going. The Bosman ruling changed things but agents and players have just been too stupid to realise it. Players are leaving money on the table and when they realise it transfer fees will stop being paid.
Take Ronaldo as an example. Real Madrid were willing to pay 90million to Utd for Ronaldo. Had Ronaldo not signed a contract extension last summer (after Utd’s European Cup win) then he would have been out of contract next summer and could have left Utd on a free. He could have asked Real Madrid to pay him that 90million they were willing to pay Utd as an addition to his wages instead. Ronaldo left 90million on the table. To me, he and his agent are idiots.
Same with Merida, if he had signed a new contract then Atletico would have had to pay a transfer fee. Instead he can get that money as wages.
It is the smart thing to do. Once all players realise this then transfer fees will dissapear.
Walter – thanks for your reply above.
again – good commentary!
The departure (if it goes ahead) of Fran will not hurt the club as a said before, because we do have an over abundance of talented players who can play in the centre of the park, Fran was not a DM or an attacking midfielder getting into the box like Cesc, he was a creative player with an eye for the killer pass, but unfortunately in the EPL you need a lot more than that to make it, you have to be strong and have a great engine in the middle of the park, sadley Fran was not that kind of player, but I do wish him well if he leaves and will look foreward to seeing his games for Athletco Madrid on the box.
Time now for Jet, Lansbury and Coqulin to step up and show what they can do.
@Paul C.– you make a good point. merida letting his contract run out would be in his best interests (money wise, at least).
but the “rational”, self-interested thing-to-do for merida is still a slap in the face to arsenal. because of all the time, effort, and yes, money, spent on obtaining and then nurturing his talent.
still, as many have commented above, it’s not that big of a loss, if true. arsene has done a remarkable job of securing his team for the long haul (securing players who all could have, like merida, let their contract run out and then move elsewhere for much higher wages and greater playing time).
@Tim & Paul C.-
Again it is a shame. As my poster of Jose Antonio Reyes in his Arsenal #19 sits in my basement, and Hleb, and Flamini? What could have been!
According to one source within the club, Merida left because he found the anti-Arsenal bias of the English football establishment and media impossible to live with.
A good source informed me:
“He couldn’t hack it, the whole two-faced rottenness of the system, the bitching carping media, the one Law for the establishment boys, another Law for the others, the smarmy double standards, the lack of protection for foreign players from English referees”.
A player inside the camp told me:
“The attempted decapitation of Abou by John Smith just made Fran snap; he thought ‘What’s the point?’ I’ll ply my trade where I can get proper protection whether or not I’m a foreigner”
He also disclosed to me:
” Fran would rather play in Italy or Spain. There everyone knows that bribes and backhanders are the norm. Nobody pretends they don’t happen……in England you all stuff your faces, and then wipe your mouths as if you were little angels.”
@mark — “in England you all stuff your faces, and then wipe your mouths as if you were little angels.” nice. just like in the U.S.
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Blushing - Blushing (Pink "Galaxy Swirl" LP)
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Comprised of two husband and wife teams, Blushing is an Austin, TX based dream pop / shoegaze quartet that originated in the summer of 2015 after Michelle Soto (guitar, vocals) shared her songs with long-time friend and classically trained vocalist Christina Carmona (vocals, bass). Picking up the bass, Carmona helped to fully flesh out tracks and the two incorporated their spouses Jacob Soto (drums) and Noe Carmona (guitar). Bringing together their combined classic influences from bands like Lush, The Sundays, Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, they developed their unique sound as it is today.
Combining their high-energy live performances and gaining infectious momentum, Blushing took their experiences to explore more sound and texture to incorporate into their music, before going into the studio. After recruiting friend and producer Elliott Frazier (Ringo Deathstarr), the band spent time experimenting with new techniques and sounds to get the most out of each instrument. Fine tuning each individual song, along the drive to push further, results in an explosive culmination of music that envelopes brooding and wistful tones at that erupt into a highly satisfying sonic experience.
Blushing's self-titled LP is a collection of tracks about life, love and death that demonstrates the band’s range and ability to expertly command both pure melody and noise.
Released September 6th, 2019
First pressing: Blue "Galaxy Swirl" (300 copies) - SOLD OUT
Second pressing: Pink "Galaxy Swirl" (300 copies)
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WayForums › General › Gaming › A Shantae RPG Concept: Shantae and the Dungeon of Dreams
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June 6, 2019 at 11:38 am #15486
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So, to be clear on what this is: I was playing through Pirate’s Curse today and getting… frustrated. This brought me back to a problem I’ve had with the games so far that they ooze personality and charm… but man do I wish they were in a genre that played better to their strengths of writing and illustrations more than a platformer does. As such, this is my story pitch of a Shantae RPG: Shantae and the Dungeon of Dreams.
The game starts with Shantae clearing out junk from her uncle’s workshop and stumbling upon a note that was addressed to him a long time ago to search for the Dungeon of Dreams. It claims to even have a lead on this famed dungeon. After all, it’s the one everyone has heard about as being able to grant any wish. To hold anything and everything one could desire. To have so much power you could conquer the world with your pinkie. And her uncle, the famous dungeoneer, seems to have turned it down.
Cue Shantae talking to her Uncle about it and the Uncle saying that he had actually tried back when he first got it, but it’s a fool’s journey. It’s too hard, too long, and the likelihood of it actually existing are next to none. Bolo walks in during all of this, asks for a clarification, Shantae explains in a huff because she can’t believe any dungeon could best her uncle, and Bolo immediately gets excited at the prospect of it. The two start talking, the Uncle forbids it, and the two teenagers get all the more excited. They go recruit Sky, who is all too happy to join in for her own dreams, and there is your starting party!
So comes the first dungeon, you beat it up nice and good, there are some jokes had at RPG concepts and overall keeping the tone light. Once they get to the end though, they do indeed find a clue, as well as confirmation, theoretically, that this place indeed exists. The clue is to another island, and there is a man in the dungeon, shrouded in shadows. He awakens as the seal of the chamber is broken, party wipes you all like any good big bad in an RPG while you’re at level 5, and takes off, claiming that he’ll find a way to get his powers back at the Dungeon of Dreams.
The party gets back and talk to Uncle, who changes his mind at the news and says that he is indeed going to join them. He has been on the sidelines too much, and these kids need a mentor to keep them in line. Someone who knows what they’re doing!
Move on to the next island… But wait, OH NO! It’s Risky Boots. She does a skirmish with Shantae with her Tinker Bats before remarking that Shantae is acting strange (due to not doing platforming fighting) and gets the info out of them that they’re looking for the Dungeon of Dreams. She pauses at that before saying if she can join. When asked what she wants, she merely replies: “To steal the dreams of every fool on this planet of course!” Shantae isn’t about to turn down help right now, especially if her Tinker Bats can try to harass the shadowed figure and give them a place to rest outside of Scuttle Town.
That gives us five, and it’s at the end of this second dungeon that we meet party member six: Rottytops. She’s in the boss room, swinging her legs as she plays on the net before stopping as she sees everyone… and then sighs as she gets ready to fight. And she doesn’t join after the fight, but instead goes to the shadowed man. When asked why she is going with him, she refuses to say.
This is the plot of act one and part of act two theoretically. All the way to the midboss Shantae and the gang are growing closer, hunting down clues, and trying to figure out why Rottytops is working with their enemy. Then, the SQUID BARON! But of course! He’s born to be a midboss, and even in the new format, he can be the mid boss! Beat him up and he actually even mentions this, thanking Shantae for giving him his dream… Which tells the shrouded figure that when Rotty said the Squid Baron was their best bet, it was a lie.
So part two of the fight starts as a cage is dropped, and the shrouded figure shouts that if the thing inside does not rid him of his enemies, he will personally destroy Rottytops, who he grabs by the throat and lifts into the air. The creature within grumbles, “Rot….Ty….” Before tearing its way out and hefting it up onto its shoulder to use as a weapon.
And to reveal that it’s in fact the one zombie brother we haven’t seen yet (as Poe acts as the figure’s mechanic) Abner. He isn’t looking too good as part of him has changed to purple, one hand is now clawed, and noxious fumes escape his lips with every breath. He is rotting away, becoming nothing more than any other zombie that Shantae beats up that rises from the grave. Well, and one that is a seriously difficult boss who pushes the party to their limit, but is beatable. Once that happens, Shantae apologizes for having to do this, runs at him, whips her hair back, Rotty yells no, and Shantae strikes Rotty instead. Abner goes to Rotty to check on her, roars, and then charges at the party, who now use his original cage to slam it down on him and stop him peacefully.
Poe tries to go, but the shrouded figure says he’ll fire his cannons from the airship he’s using if Poe goes, but he’ll spare the pawns now if he stays. He agrees and leaves, and we get the first confession of what a character wants from the Dungeon, which outlines the character stuff going on while the hunt for the figure comes closer and closer to an end and they get closer to the Dungeon. Rotty wasn’t looking for brains, but instead looking for a cure. Something that could make it so that her family never wanted, or, more importantly, needed to eat brains ever again. She also says she didn’t work with them because the figure told her that, at best, it could grant two wishes, so by the end they would need to decide whose would be fulfilled.
So, since that’s much of the real plot of the rest of the game, let’s go into those dreams:
Shantae: To see her mother again. Simple and classic for her, and I’m sorry if it’s incongruent with Half Genie Hero. I haven’t had the budget to play it.
Sky: She claims its for the ultimate egg ever, but that’s only half true. What she really wants is the nest that would come with it: The Roc’s Nest. A nest that would make any egg or bird that rested in it be blessed by the Roc, which would make them survive all the way to the end of most human’s lifespans and, well, Sky knows that Wrench isn’t going to live forever and she wants to not have to say goodbye to her friend. Probably stopped by others sharing tales of strength they’ve gained from losing loved ones, or how it’s not right to possibly harm Wrench with whatever consequences may come from such an item or gift.
Bolo: Claims to want a stable joke, almost as a joke, but his real desire is to have the courage and the traits needed to not only ask the girl he loves (Up to the creators who that may be, though a canonical character would be best for this) to marry him, but also to get told yes. The Uncle would tell him tales of his brother courting a genie and all that took, and encourage him to just go ask the girl, which could even lead to rejection if so desired.
Risky: Yeah, she genuinely meant what she said. She has already had a big story dedicated to her, she’s just here to be a pirate. As such, what better steal than one of the only wishes in the Dungeon of Dreams? Besides, she could use some time away from her Tinker Bats.
Mimic: Claims to want nothing. However, his isn’t so much something it can give. After all, he would rather the place be gone, permanently. After all, it is one of the worst fates he has seen for Dungeon Delvers. If you die early doing it, than your life was wasted. If you spent your whole life looking and found nothing, your life was wasted. He would rather it just be gone, for good.
Anyways, back to the main plot: It would start getting hinted after Rotty joins that the Dungeon of Dreams may actually contain a dark genie of some sort. No, not a half genie or a genie devouring device. A full fledged, evil genie. At the Dungeon, it is revealed that the shrouded figure was actually the evil genie, attempting to claim his powers. He gets to the entrance to the treasure first, throws it open, and…
There’s a photo in the middle of it of Shantae’s mom and her dad, with the back saying, “We know you probably miss us Mimic, but we hope we gave you one last, good dungeon dive on us. Sorry we couldn’t scrape together something more valuable.”
Uncle starts going on about how there’s nothing more valuable before the big bad LOSES HIS **** and goes into the final boss fight, claiming he’ll settle for killing all of them. One multi-form boss fight later (likely due to transformations he takes on) and Rotty comes in, asking if there’s anything else. The final boss, sitting there, beat and dejected, sighs and raises a hand, draining his evil magic from Abner so that he can be himself again, and explains that there never was such a thing as rotting. He just needed a minion and saw an opportunity. With that fixed, and forgiveness given to the depowered genie, the gang leave, ready to celebrate back at Scuttle island, each with some version of their dream fulfilled, such as Sky getting an egg of Wrench’s next hatchling, Bolo getting a kiss on the cheek from the girl he likes, Risky claiming she took the actual treasure before anyone got in there and they’ll never find it, and Gizmo and Shantae putting up a blown up picture of their brother and mother respectively up at their place.
So, what do you all think? I know I’m missing some specifics, but these are the broadstrokes of what I would possibly pitch for a Shantae RPG plotline. It still keeps to a Shantae sort of story structure, but with a bit more forward momentum, and never needing to break into other game styles that just make my eye twitch. It allows for the characters to be as charming as they ever have been, to get fleshed out, and for some real emotional twists too. At least, to me, and I’d love to hear all of yours thoughts.
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Chrome to Get a Speed Boost – New Algorithm to Save up to 25% Bandwidth Use
By Rafia Shaikh
Google has announced today an upcoming version of the Chrome browser that will get support for Brotli compression, a new algorithm that could save users a lot of bandwidth and possibly some battery life.
A new compression algorithm to make Chrome faster:
The interwebs are getting filled with all kinds of content every second. As we consume media-rich content from online resources, Google works to make sure that the access to the web through the browsers remains fast. Thanks to Brotli, a new compression algorithm, Google's Chrome will be able to load web pages at a faster rate. The new algorithm will help the browser compress data up to 26 percent more than Zopfli, the compression algorithm currently being used by Chrome.
Google launched Brotli back in September last year as an open source product. Considering Google Chrome's presence as the top most used browser for the past few years, this could be a good news for a lot of users, especially those on mobile devices. Mozilla's Firefox is also to benefit from the new algorithm later this year.
At Google, we think that internet users’ time is valuable, and that they shouldn’t have to wait long for a web page to load.
Brotli is a whole new data format. This new format allows us to get 20–26% higher compression ratios over Zopfli.
The smaller compressed size allows for better space utilization and faster page loads. We hope that this format will be supported by major browsers in the near future, as the smaller compressed size would give additional benefits to mobile users, such as lower data transfer fees and reduced battery use. - Google
Google is expected to push the Brotli support in the upcoming versions of Chrome browsers for Windows, OS X, Linux, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android. Developers will have to reprogram their servers to support the new compression algorithm. However, Google says that only minor modifications will be required. The Brotli algorithm will be especially helpful for mobile users. Which means Android will be able to benefit the most through this compression algorithm helping it to reduce battery consumption and cut down the bandwidth usage.
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“Focus on Your Best Health” health care advocacy event May 18, featuring Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Join us for a conversation with community healthcare leaders Glenda F. Newell, M.D. and Brenda B. Spriggs, M.D., co-authors of Focus on Your Best Health
Moderated by Michael LeNoir, M.D. of the African American Wellness Project
Featuring Special Guest Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee Science and Allied Health bldg. on Merritt College campus, Rm. S-449
12500 Campus Drive
RSVP by May 11 to FocusOnYourBestHealth@gmail.com
Filed under: Announcements, Merritt College, Peralta News, Uncategorized. Tagged: African American wellness, Barbara Lee, Brenda B. Spriggs, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Focus on Your Best Health, Glenda F Newell, health care advocacy, healthcare, M.D.
Black Panther Documentary Screening at Alameda City Hall
Black Panther Documentary Screening at City Hall
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Will Be Present at the Screening to Offer Opening Remarks
Few know that the Black Panther Party was founded at Merritt College in Oakland in October 1966, and many of its early social justice programs still largely go unrecognized.
The television station of the Peralta Community College District, Peralta TV, produced a national award-winning film, “Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers,” narrated by U. S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, about the origins of the Black Panther Party at Merritt College. The film, which was shown at the United Nations as part of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery, features rare interviews with Black Panther founder Bobby Seale, as well as members David Hilliard, Ericka Huggins, Elbert ‘Big Man’ Howard, Emory Douglas and Richard Aoki.
The City of Alameda is happy to partner with the Peralta Colleges in bringing this illuminating film to Alameda.
What: Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers (Documentary Film Screening)
When: Saturday, October 14, 12:00-1:30pm
Where: Alameda City Hall, City Council Chambers, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, 3rd Floor, Alameda
Who: The screening is free and open to the public. Speakers include U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Alameda Mayor Trish Herrera Spencer, and the film’s executive producer and director, Jeffrey Heyman, and writer and producer, James Calhoun.
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Merritt College, PeraltaTV, PeraltaTV Spotlight. Tagged: alameda, Barbara Lee, James Calhoun, Jeffrey Heyman, Merritt College
Barbara Lee Science and Allied Health Center at Merritt College Wins Prestigious Awards
The Barbara Lee Science and Allied Health Center is the newest building at Merritt College in Oakland – one of the four colleges of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Berkeley City College, College of Alameda and Laney College, also in Oakland – and is now one of just two buildings named as “Outstanding Project for 2015” by the prestigious Western Council of Construction Consumers during their annual Excellence Awards ceremony that was held on October 27, 2016 at the Lafayette Hotel and Spa.
In announcing Merritt’s award, the Council said that the Barbara Lee Center was “Among the most sophisticated community college learning centers in the U.S., and the most advanced community college science center in California.” The building was also one of the few recipients during the program to receive a “Sustainability Excellence Award” for its LEED Gold Certification.
“I am very pleased that the Barbara Lee Science Center has been recognized with these awards,” said Peralta Colleges Chancellor Jowel C. Laguerre, Ph.D. “It clearly demonstrates what we can do to education our community’s students with the facilities bond funds that the public has generously entrusted to us.”
“We are planning future endeavors and I have every reason to believe those will also win recognition,” the Chancellor added.
On hand to accept the award for the Science and Allied Health Center was Derek Labrecque, Partner, and Shawn Percey, BIM Manager, from JK Architecture – the firm that designed the Center – along with Ted Foor, Larry Cabodi, Sean Burnie and Anna Kennedy from Clark/Sullivan Construction, the firm responsible for the construction of the Center. Also in attendance at the ceremony, and representing the Peralta District, were Chancellor Jowel Laguerre, Ph.D., and Dr. Saddiq Ikharo Vice Chancellor of Facilities, along with Merritt Dean Rosemary Delia and Gary Banks.
After the ceremony, architect Derek LaBrecque talked about the honor of receiving the award. “I’m excited that Merritt’s building was recognized tonight, partly because the essence of this project was built upon the vision of the college and history of the community. And also because of what will be done in this facility to prepare students with the skill sets they need to succeed in the 21st century.”
With over 110,000 square feet of dedicated space for science and technology, the Barbara Lee Health and Science building is the region’s newest epicenter for innovation in science and technology. As part of the Peralta Community College District’s commitment to provide access to the region’s student population, the building will be open all strata of students – concurrent enrollment high school students to life-long learners.
The majority of the four-story building, which was completed on time and within budget, is dedicated to programs in the Sciences and Allied Health, but includes Mathematics and Business Technology as well. The architectural design of the building, and the state-of-the-art equipment, provides something for everyone, enhancing the student learning environment, promoting the growth of the sciences and energizing the campus as a whole.
At various locations throughout the building, there are a number of public common areas for students and faculty to freely interact. These common areas have an open environment within the building to encourage active learning in an environment that is not just limited to the classroom.
The $59 million Barbara Lee Science and Allied Health Center was built with funds from the Measure A Bonds that were voted in place by the Citizens of North Alameda County that constitute the six communities served by the Peralta Community College District – Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Piedmont. According to Vice Chancellor Ikharo, “The construction of the Barbara Lee Science and Allied Health Center demonstrates accountability to tax payers who voted for Measure A Bond Funds and promotes awareness to the greater community of how the bond measures is being spent. Additionally, the success of this building, by way of this prestigious award by an unbiased third party, represents confidence in possible future bond measures for the community.”
Filed under: Announcements, Merritt College, Peralta News. Tagged: Anna Kennedy, Barbara Lee, Barbara Lee Allied Health Building, Barbara Lee Allied Health Center, Barbara Lee Science and Allied Health Center, BIM, Chancellor Jowel C. Laguerre, Clark/Sullivan Construction, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Derek Labrecque, Dr. Jowel C. Laguerre, Dr. Saddiq Ikharo, Excellence Awards, Gary Banks, JK Architecture, Jowel C. Laguerre, Larry Cabodi, LEED Gold Certification, Measure A, Measure A Bond, Measure A Bond Funds, Outstanding Project for 2015, Rosemary Delia, Sean Burnie, Shawn Percey, Sustainability Excellence Award, Ted Foor, Western Council of Construction Consumers
Peralta News – Congresswoman Barbara Lee & Chancellor Jowel Laguerre at Flex Day
The Peralta Colleges celebrated a very special Flex Day to kick off a new semester and welcome our new Chancellor, Jowel Laguerre. Congresswoman Barbara Lee joined the festivities, filling the packed Odell Johnson Theater with words of encouragement and inspiration. Board President Meredith Brown, faculty members and staff leadership also spoke at this joyous event!
The Peralta family was treated to an outstanding performance by the Jiklele dance group, hosted by Laney’s very own dance department.
We look forward to a new semester with more fantastic happenings at Peralta and a heartfelt welcome to Chancellor Jowel Laguerre. Many thanks to Congresswoman Barbara Lee and her staff for sharing this momentous day with us!
Filed under: Peralta News. Tagged: Barbara Lee, Chancellor Jowel C. Laguerre, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, District Wide Flex Day, Dr. Jowel C. Laguerre, Flex Day, Flex Day 2015, Jiklele dance group, Jowel C. Laguerre, Laney College Dance Department, Meredith Brown, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center, Odell Johnson Theatre, The Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center
The NEW Peralta Way: Chancellor Laguerre’s District Flex Day Address
If you missed Chancellor Jowel C. Laguerre’s District Flex Day address, “The NEW Peralta Way,” you can watch it, Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s opening remarks and Board of Trustees President Meredith Brown’s inspiring introduction on our YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/FlexDayFall2015Stream (Dr. Laguerre’s address begins at about 2:25:50, the Congresswoman’s remarks at 22:05 and President Brown’s at 38:10).
If you wish to download the text of Dr. Laguerre’s address, you can find it here: New Peralta Way Flex Day Fall 2015 Chancellor Laguerre Address
You can also read a profile of Dr. Laguerre that was published in the Oakland Tribune here: http://bit.ly/LaguerreTribProfile. Also, Dr. Laguerre’s Guest Commentary in the Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area newspapers can be found here: http://bit.ly/LaguerreGuestCommentary.
Filed under: Announcements, Peralta News. Tagged: Barbara Lee, Chancellor Jowel C. Laguerre, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, District Wide Flex Day, Dr. Jowel C. Laguerre, Flex Day, Flex Day 2015, Jowel C. Laguerre, The NEW Peralta Way
Congresswoman Barbara Lee at District Flex Day
Welcome to a new school year! Please join faculty and staff in welcoming our new Chancellor, Jowel C. Laguerre, Ph.D., on District Flex Day, Wednesday August 19th, 8;30 a.m., at Laney College’s Odell Johnson Theatre. We’ll be joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and the Chancellor will present his State of the District address.
If you cannot make Flex Day in person, you can watch the live video stream of the morning session starting at 9:00 am — with remarks from Congresswoman Lee, Board President Brown, Chancellor Laguerre and others — on the Peralta TV’s Youtube Channel: http://bit.ly/FlexDayFall2015Stream (Dr. Laguerre’s address begins at about 2:25:50, the Congresswoman’s remarks at 22:05 and President Brown’s at 38:10).
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District Flex Day, August 19, Laney College
Faculty, staff and administrators are invited to attend District Flex Day on August 19, 2015, at Laney College in the Odell Johnson Theater, For more information, please visit https://web.peralta.edu/staff-development/
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4:45 PM NINTH INNING: Following a single by Jean Segura, Mitch Haniger hit a two-run homer to win the game for the Seattle Mariners, 8-6.
4:20 PM EIGHTH INNING: Ryon Healy hit a solo home run to tie the game 6-6 in the bottom of the eighth inning.
3:57 PM SEVENTH INNING: After a leadoff single by Dee Gordon, Jean Segura knocked him in with a triple. The Mariners cut the Angels led to 6-5, with Segura on third base and no outs. The Mariners were unable to get that run across, leaving the Angels ahead 6-5 heading into the eighth inning.
3:44 PM SEVENTH INNING: Chasen Bradford entered the game in the top of the seventh inning and gave up a home run to Nolan Fontana. This allowed the Angels to take a 5-4 lead in the game. One batter later, Chris Young hit a solo homer to make it 6-4 Angels.
3:06 PM SIXTH INNING: Mike Morin took the mound for the Mariners to start the sixth inning. Chris Young hit a leadoff triple on a ball that should have been caught but landed between Ben Gamel and Mitch Haniger in the outfield. He would score on a sacrifice fly to make it 4-4.
2:51 PM FIFTH INNING: The Angels put runners at first and third with one out, but two straight strikeouts by Mariners pitcher Marco Gonzales brought an end to the inning. Heading to the bottom of the fifth, the Mariners are up 4-3. At that point, Gonzales had reached his pitch count, though, turning the game over to the bullpen. The Mariners did not score in their half of the inning.
2:20 PM FOURTH INNING: Starting pitcher Garrett Richards and shortstop Zack Cozart each were taken out of the game due to undisclosed injuries.
Rookie David Fletcher made himself known, connecting with his first Major League hit in the top of the fourth inning. It was a two-RBI triple to the gap. That cut the lead to 4-3 in favor of the Mariners.
2:10 PM THIRD INNING: After a single by Mitch Haniger, Nelson Cruz hit his third home run of the series to give the Seattle Mariners a 4-1 lead.
2:01 PM THIRD INNING: Ian Kinsler, Mike Trout, and Justin Upton got on base with consecutive hits, scoring a run in the process to pull the score to 2-1 in favor of the Mariners.
Albert Pujols came to the plate with two outs and two runners on. Pujols would strike out to end the inning.
1:45 PM SECOND INNING: The Angels failed to score in their half. After hits by Denard Span and Ryon Healy, Ben Gamel drove in the first run of the game with an RBI-single. The Mariners took a 1-0 lead, boasting runners on the corners with just one out. Mike Zunino then hit a double over Mike Trout, scoring Healy to make the score 2-0.
That was where the scoring ended.
1:23 PM FIRST INNING: The Seattle Mariners failed to score in their half of the inning, getting set down in order by Garrett Richards of the Los Angeles Angels.
1:17 PM FIRST INNING: After a leadoff walk by Ian Kinsler for the Los Angeles Angels, Seattle Mariners pitcher Marco Gonzales got Mike Trout to hit into a double play. Justin Upton then grounded out to short, ending the half-inning with no score.
12:28 PM PT - Official Mariners lineup revealed
Kyle Seager gets the day off.
1. Dee Gordon - 2B
2. Jean Segura - SS
3. Mitch Haniger - CF
4. Nelson Cruz - DH
5. Denard Span - LF
6. Ryon Healy - 1B
7. Ben Gamel - RF
8. Mike Zunino - C
9. Andrew Romine - 3B
Game 3 breakdown
Game 3 of the Seattle Mariners vs Los Angeles Angels series takes place Wednesday afternoon (June 13) at Safeco Field. This will close out the series before the Mariners host the Boston Red Sox and the Angels travel back to California for a weekend road series against the Oakland Athletics.
The Mariners send Marco Gonzales (7-3, 3.28) to the mound as he looks for his fifth straight win.
Garrett Richards (4-4, 3.26) will pitch for the Angels, looking to help the team keep from getting swept by their division rival. If the trend of from the first two games of the series continues, there could be a lot of home runs on Wednesday.
Game time is 1:10 PM PT / 4:10 PM ET, with first place on the line for the Mariners again. According to the updated MLB standings, entering play on June 13, the Mariners (43-24) still hold a half-game lead over the Houston Astros (43-25) in the American League West. The Angels are at 37-31, putting them 6 1/2 games behind the Mariners.
Mariners win first two games
On Monday (June 11), the Seattle Mariners won 5-3, spurred on by two home runs by Nelson Cruz. The Los Angeles Angels had three solo home runs in the game, with two coming from Mike Trout and the third credited to Albert Pujols. Wade LeBlanc picked up the win, while Edwin Diaz notched yet another save this season.
In Game 2 of the series on Tuesday (June 12), the Mariners won 6-3, again taking advantage of the long ball. Mitch Haniger and Ryon Healy each had two home runs for the Mariners, leading the offense and pitcher Mike Leake to another victory. Of course, Diaz came in to slam the door in the ninth inning again.
Mike Trout hit two more homers for the Angels, bringing is total in the series to four over just two games.
Facebook Live game on June 13
For the second time of the 2018 MLB season, the Seattle Mariners will take part in the Facebook Live presentation. As reported by MLB.com, Root Sports isn't carrying the game, so the only way for fans to see the live action is to watch on Facebook. The radio broadcast is still available, but Facebook should see a lot of fans tuning in to see the game.
The season has already seen the Mariners and Angels making a lot of news. The Angels signed Shohei Ohtani out of Japan, giving him the chance to hit and pitch.
His recent injury news was not what fans wanted to hear about, though, as he may not take the field again until the 2020 season. As for the Mariners, they made the news when James Paxton tossed a no-hitter and then again when Robinson Cano got suspended for failing a PED test.
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Veronica Mars (2014)
PG-13 | 1h 47min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 13 March 2014 (Germany)
26 VIDEOS | 128 IMAGES
Years after walking away from her past as a young private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown, just in time for her high school reunion, in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.
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Veronica Mars (TV Series 2004)
After her best friend is murdered, and her father is removed as county Sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest mysteries in the affluent town of Neptune.
Stars: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni
Play It Again, Dick (2014)
Ryan Hansen tries to put together a Dick Casablancas-centric television spin-off, calling on his pals to help him get the show off the ground.
Stars: Ryan Hansen, Kyle Gallner, Viet Nguyen
Dollhouse (2009–2010)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
A futuristic laboratory has erased the identities of lost young people, and now imprints them with the temporary identities they need to fulfill assignments for clients.
Stars: Eliza Dushku, Harry Lennix, Fran Kranz
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Action | Drama | Fantasy
A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan
Angel (1999–2004)
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption.
Stars: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof
iZombie (2015–2019)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A medical resident finds that being a zombie has its perks, which she uses to assist the police.
Stars: Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli
Dark Angel (2000–2002)
Action | Drama | Mystery
A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.
Stars: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Richard Gunn
Charmed (1998–2006)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Three sisters discover their destiny, to battle against the forces of evil, using their witchcraft. They are the Charmed Ones.
Stars: Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Brian Krause
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation in order to deal with the recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know, Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex - and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Kristen Bell, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd
Alias (2001–2006)
Sydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college, trained for espionage and self-defense.
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly
Tru Calling (2003–2005)
A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
Stars: Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Zach Galifianakis
Stumptown (TV Series 2019)
A sharp-witted Marine veteran becomes a private investigator in Portland, Oregon, where she takes care of her brother who has down syndrome.
Stars: Cobie Smulders, Jake Johnson, Michael Ealy
Kristen Bell ... Veronica Mars
Jason Dohring ... Logan Echolls
Enrico Colantoni ... Keith Mars
Chris Lowell ... Stosh 'Piz' Piznarski
Percy Daggs III ... Wallace Fennel
Tina Majorino ... Cindy 'Mac' Mackenzie
Krysten Ritter ... Gia Goodman
Martin Starr ... Stu 'Cobb' Cobbler
Gaby Hoffmann ... Ruby Jetson
Andrea Estella ... Bonnie DeVille
Jerry O'Connell ... Sheriff Dan Lamb
Francis Capra ... Eli 'Weevil' Navarro
Ryan Hansen ... Dick Casablancas
Brandon Hillock ... Deputy Jerry Sacks
Maury Sterling ... Deputy Lyles
Former teenage private eye and now an aspiring New York City lawyer, Veronica Mars gets one phone call from ex-boyfriend Logan Echolls and she gets pulled right back into the seedy underbelly of Neptune, California. Logan's pop star girlfriend, Bonnie DeVille, has been murdered and he needs Veronica's help to clear his name. DeVille is a fellow Neptune High alum, and her murder and Veronica's return to Neptune coincide with their 10-year high school reunion. Veronica is face to face with old friends and foes alike and finds it's much harder to leave home a second time. Written by Anne Campbell
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The $2 million Kickstarter was fully funded at 5:55 p.m. (PST) on its first day, with 31,685 backers contributing. See more »
During Logan and Veronica's final scene together, when he is leaving for deployment with the Navy, he refers to "going AWOL." The Navy uses the term Unauthorized Absence (UA). See more »
Gayle Buckley: You were issued a private investigator's license for your 18th birthday? Heh. Is that something California kids do?
Veronica Mars: My dad is a PI. I worked for him. It was more answering phones and handling his travel than anything else.
Gayle Buckley: Really? Before you were 20, your name popped up on LexisNexis in 14...
Leonard March: 15
Gayle Buckley: Fifteen separate articles or briefs in cases ranging from multiple homicides to dognapping. You have a degree in psychology, Miss Mars. What do you think that says about a person?
Veronica Mars: Compulsive, clearly. ...
The very end of the closing credits include a thank you to the fans and backers:
"This movie would never have been possible without the endless faith and support of our fans around the world, and especially the 91,585 backers who pledged on Kickstarter to bring Veronica back to life. Thank you for never giving up, and for helping us do the impossible." See more »
References Veronica Mars: Happy Go Lucky (2006) See more »
Written by Drew Lerdal
Performed by 'N3XTST3P'
Courtesy of In The Groove Music
Q: Is it ok to watch the movie before TV shows?
I am NOT in the target audience, but I did enjoy it.
18 March 2014 | by MartinHafer – See all my reviews
In some ways, I am the worst person to watch the Veronica Mars film. After all, I have never watched the television show on which the film is based—or do I know anything about it. I am probably NOT the typical person who would go to see the movie. I also am probably not in the target audience, as I am nearing 50. However, on the other hand, there are LOTS of people who didn't watch the show—and in many ways, this film is for them. Fortunately, you do NOT need to be a fan of the series to understand what is happening in the film. The beginning did a good job of catching the viewer up on the character—so if you are drug along to the movie by a friend who LOVES the series, you don't need to worry about feeling lost.
When the film begins, you learn that Veronica has left her home town of Neptune and gone off to college—where she was a super-high achiever. She's about to begin working for a high-power New York law firm when the film begins—as she' a recent graduate of the top schools and with top grades. However, when her ex-boyfriend is arrested for murder, Veronica cannot sit back and let the case work itself out—particularly since she knows how corrupt her old local police force is. So, she puts her job offer on hold and heads home. Soon, she begins to detect a pattern— other old classmates have also died and there might be some conspiracy afoot. But, instead of letting the police or her father investigate, she springs back in to action—like, apparently, the Veronica Mars of old who cannot resist a mystery.
I noticed that People Magazine this week did a quick review of the film. They described by saying 'this is basically a deluxe reunion episode'. I would agree that it could easily have been a made for TV movie and has that look. However, as a lover of classic Hollywood films, I see it also as being very much like a B-mystery series—such as Charlie Chan or the Falcon---and with many of the same old clichés that were common in the 1930s and 40s. Now this is NOT meant as a criticism—more of a comment about the style of the plot. So, if you remove the very hip music and hipster dialog, you have so many elements that are familiar to fans of the mystery genre. There is the inexplicable confession that comes from one of the conspirators near the end of the film, a heroine who commits break-ins and a huge confrontation scene where the heroine attacks and temporarily subdues the evil killer—yet doesn't pick up his gun! All these clichés are very old and very familiar
very. However, it's how all this is packaged that is unusual. Some may adore the self- possessed narration and coolness of the film—and it obviously is trying to appeal to younger audiences (I'd guess in the 16-30 range in particular). As for me, it was okay—and the story reasonably engaging and interesting. My verdict, strictly for the uninitiated like me, is that while I would not rush to the theater to see this one, it is a pleasant time-passer and you won't dislike the film. I see it more as a film to watch when it comes out on DVD. However, this does not apply to the fans of the old show—they most likely will love it. After all, their show is back—the amazingly successful culmination of a HUGE Kickstarter campaign—one that set records for how much and how quickly it was funded! These folks will certainly enjoy the film
and look forward to the "Untitled Veronica Mars Spin off" currently listed as being in the works (at least according to IMDb). I hope that Kirsten Bell will have time to do this—she has been a very busy and successful actress since appearing on this cult TV show.
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Jerry Abramson
Kentucky politician
White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
Barack Obama
David Agnew
Justin Clark
55th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
December 13, 2011 – November 13, 2014
Steve Beshear
Daniel Mongiardo
Crit Luallen
1st Mayor of Louisville Metro
Position established
Greg Fischer
47th Mayor of Louisville
Harvey Sloane
David Armstrong
Jerry Edwin Abramson
(1946-09-12) September 12, 1946 (age 73)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Alma mater
Indiana University, Bloomington (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)
Jerry Edwin Abramson (born September 12, 1946) is an American Democratic politician who was the 55th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.[1] On November 6, 2014, Governor Steve Beshear announced that Abramson would step down from his position as Lieutenant Governor to accept the job of Director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama White House. He was replaced by former State Auditor Crit Luallen.[2]
Abramson previously served as the Mayor of Louisville for an unprecedented two decades. He was the only three-term mayor of the old city of Louisville (1986-1999) and subsequently served two terms as the first mayor of the consolidated city-county of Louisville Metro (2003-2011).
Abramson's long period of service to Louisville as its mayor, as well as the weak opposition he faced in mayoral elections, led to the local nickname of "Mayor for life", a title frequently used by Louisville's own popular radio personality Terry Meiners. Abramson's popularity resulted in Bluegrass Poll approval ratings ranging from a 91 percent high in 1990 to a 73 percent low in 1994.[3]
From 1993 to 1994, he was President of the United States Conference of Mayors. He was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition,[4] an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor Thomas Menino.
At the conclusion of Obama's second term, Abramson returned to Louisville to serve as Executive-in-Residence at Bellarmine University.[5] He had previously served in the same post in 2011.[6]He departed Bellarmine University in 2018 and is currently serving as Executive-in-Residence at Spalding University.
1 Early life
2 Mayor of Louisville
3 Mayor of Louisville Metro
4 Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
5 Resignation as Lt. Governor and Presidential Appointment
6 Return to Bellarmine University
7 See also
Abramson grew up in the Louisville suburb of Strathmoor Village, Kentucky.[7] Before serving as a mayor of Louisville, he worked at Abramson's Market at 738 South Preston Street[7] in Louisville's Smoketown neighborhood, then owned by his father Roy and founded by his grandparents. He graduated from Seneca High School and served for two years in the Army, but did not see combat.
While a student at Indiana University Bloomington, Abramson became active in politics by volunteering for Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 campaign for president. After graduating from IU, Abramson attended Georgetown University Law School.[7]
Abramson practiced law with Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, PLLC. Before his first run for mayor, Abramson also served as alderman for two terms and as general counsel to governor John Y. Brown, Jr.[7]
Mayor of Louisville
In the 1985 general election, Abramson defeated the Republican candidate Bob Heleringer, a conservative member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1980 to 2002. Abramson was highly popular as mayor from 1986 to 1999 because of growth in the Louisville economy as the decline in urban population that began in the 1950s slowed greatly. Abramson began the nonprofit civic beautification program Operation Brightside, which included the $700 million expansion of Louisville International Airport. He worked to revitalize the city's waterfront with the creation of Waterfront Park and expanded the local economy by recruiting the international headquarters for Tricon Global Restaurants (now Yum! Brands), the Presbyterian Church (USA) and United Parcel Service Air Hub 2000 (a facility now known as Worldport).
Abramson normally would have left office in 1998. However, his original third term was extended by one year as part of a state-mandated transition to align the dates of local and federal elections.
Subsequent to his first tenure as mayor, Abramson practiced law with the Frost Brown Todd firm and taught at Bellarmine University.[8]
Mayor of Louisville Metro
Abramson during his tenure as Mayor
After the merger of Louisville and Jefferson County was approved, the previous term limits no longer applied. Abramson was easily elected the first Mayor of Louisville Metro in 2002 by 73.4 percent of the vote over Republican challenger Jack Early, former mayor of Hurstbourne, Kentucky, a major suburb of Louisville.[9]
One of Abramson's first actions as Metro Mayor was to appoint Robert C. White Chief of the troubled Louisville Metro Police Department, the first African-American to hold the post. The move proved to be politically wise, helping to calm criticism of the department from the black community in Louisville.[10]
Abramson was re-elected mayor in November 2006; his opponents were Republican Metro Council member Kelly Downard[11] and Independent Ed Springston.
Abramson is the first person of Jewish faith to have served as mayor of Louisville. He lives in the Crescent Hill neighborhood with his wife, Madeline.[7]
Kentucky Monthly magazine's readers voted Abramson "Kentucky's Best" civic figure five times (2002–2006).
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
See also: 2011 Kentucky gubernatorial election
Abramson in 2012
On July 19, 2009, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that Abramson would step down after his second term as Mayor of Louisville Metro to run as Lieutenant Governor in his re-election campaign in 2011. This came after Dan Mongiardo decided to run for U.S. Senate. Since Abramson's planned departure was announced, many candidates announced they would run to succeed him in 2010.[12] Businessman Greg Fischer won the Democratic nomination and general election to succeed Abramson.
The Beshear-Abramson ticket won in a landslide against Senate President David Williams and his running mate Richie Farmer. Abramson took office as the 55th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky on December 13, 2011. His political future had been a subject of considerable speculation, but in an August 2013 speech before the Elizabethtown Rotary Club, he announced that he would not run for governor in 2015, saying,[13]
I would like to in the next chapter of my life focus on one thing I really believe will make a significant difference in the development of Kentucky. And that focus is on education.
Resignation as Lt. Governor and Presidential Appointment
On November 6, 2014, Abramson announced that he had been appointed by President Barack Obama to the position of Deputy Assistant to the President and White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.[14] Abramson also informed Gov. Beshear of his intention to resign as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky effective November 13, 2014 at 5:00 PM.[15] Gov. Beshear also announced on November 6 his appointment of former State Auditor Crit Luallen to serve out the remainder of Abramson's term.[15]
Return to Bellarmine University
In early 2017, upon Obama's exit from the White House, Abramson rejoined the faculty of Bellarmine University as its Executive-in-Residence.
Government of Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville Metro Council
Louisville mayoral election, 2010
^ Sanders, Chase (2011-11-08). "Gubernatorial race: Beshear wins second term". Kentucky Kernel. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
^ Loftus, Tom (2014-11-06). "Abramson resigns to work for Obama". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
^ Gerth, Joseph (2005-02-18). "The Courier-Journal Bluegrass Poll; Mayor, council get good job review". Courier-Journal. pp. 1A.
^ "Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Coalition Members". Archived from the original on 2008-01-18. Retrieved June 12, 2007.
^ "Jerry Abramson to Join Bellarmine Faculty". Retrieved February 23, 2017.
^ "Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson Joins Bellarmine University as Executive-in-Residence in 2011". Retrieved January 7, 2010.
^ a b c d e Gerth, Joseph (2006-10-22). "Friends turn foes for mayoral campaign". Louisville, Kentucky: The Courier-Journal. p. 1A.
^ Rodriguez, Nancy (2002-10-27). "Louisville/Jefferson County Mayor; Abramson looks toward biggest career challenge". The Courier-Journal.
^ Rodriguez, Nancy (2002-11-06). "ELECTION 2002; Abramson wins easily, eyes future". The Courier-Journal.
^ Gerth, Joseph (2002-12-19). "White named police chief". The Courier-Journal.
^ Gerth, Joseph (2006-11-07). "Abramson claims victory". The Courier-Journal.
^ Gerth, Joseph (2009-07-19). "Abramson to be Beshear's running mate in 2011". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
^ Brammer, Jack (August 6, 2013). "Lt. Gov. Abramson says he won't seek Kentucky governor's office in 2015". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
^ "Abramson+Resignation+Letter" (PDF). 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
^ a b WKYT. "Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson resigns; Governor appoints successor".
"Abramson for Mayor campaign website". Archived from the original on 2007-05-19.
Beshear/Abramson 2011
Mayor's webpage on Louisville Metro Government website
Profile in The Economist
The U.S. Conference of Mayors website
"Interview with Jerry Abramson". MoxieTalk.
Appearances on C-SPAN
Harvey Sloane Mayor of Louisville
New office Mayor of Louisville Metro
Daniel Mongiardo Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
Daniel Mongiardo Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
Sannie Overly
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Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter 2015–2017 Attorney General Loretta Lynch 2015–2017
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell 2013–2017 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack 2009–2017
Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker 2013–2017 Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez 2013–2017
Secretary of Health and
Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell 2014–2017 Secretary of Education
Secretary of Transportation John King Jr.
Anthony Foxx 2016–2017
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Julian Castro 2014–2017 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald 2014–2017
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz 2013–2017 Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson 2013–2017
Vice President Joe Biden 2009–2017 White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough 2013–2017
Director of the Office of Management and
Budget Shaun Donovan 2014–2017 Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency Gina McCarthy 2013–2017
Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power 2013–2017 Chair of the Council of Economic
Advisers Jason Furman 2013–2017
Trade Representative Michael Froman 2013–2017 Administrator of the Small Business Administration Maria Contreras-Sweet 2014–2017
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Sarah iqbal
Business owner & Chief Scientific Officer, Digital Health Consultant, SIQ Innovation Solutions
Do not underestimate yourself - aim high.
As a medical scientist and an avid user of technology, I work with a team of clinical investigators, researchers, clinicians and computer scientists to write clinical protocols and figure out which part of the protocols can be digitized or use digital technology such as applications, wearables, tablets, iPads to collect data - with the goal of streamlining the clinical trial processes.
My mission to help healthcare stakeholders understand the intersection of healthcare and digital technology and enabled them to adopt digital health. I work to foster innovation in clinical processes through digital health, with the aim to advance healthcare and help patients live better, quality lives.
Why did you choose this field?
The digital health industry is rapidly developing globally. Whilst a researcher, I started to test my ideas with my professors and colleagues on what services and products I can provide at the intersection of technology and healthcare to help sustain business models.
I became an entrepreneur in digital health to promote and utilise mobile technology in order to simplify clinical processes for both clinicians and patients, so they could better engage and make more informed decisions in health care.
What do you look at and think, "I wish younger me would have known this was possible"?
"I never thought I'd run a business or become an entrepreneur!
I thought not having a business background would hinder me from commercializing a scientific idea. However, the skills I honed as a scientist and my understanding of how technology works has allowed me to pick up management and leadership skills to enable myself to be a thought leader in the digital health field. Note to self - you can do anything if you put your mind to it.
Why do you love working in STEM?
"It's my mission to play an important role in that story."
I studied science because I like learning how elements in our lives are discovered, researched and understood. Science shapes how we live and is everywhere in the world around us.
Technology is continuously expanding into every aspect of our lives. The notion that I can discover, innovate and invent and potentially contribute a little something to the sum of human knowledge motivates me.
Now working in the intersection of science and technology, I understand that there is a need for technologically-inclined expertise to boost the digital health revolution. It’s my mission to play an important role in that story.
Best advice for the next generation
Pursuing a STEM degree and career is an opportunity to do stimulating and meaningful work. You will be able to bring to valuable work to your community and to the world when you work in STEM. There is always something new to discover or invent.
To rise as a young woman in this space, it is crucial to build up your confidence and stand up for yourself. Become a solution oriented and a growth minded person. Find a support system, which could be made up of peers or other women in the STEM space. Always be learning and surround yourself with excellence. This is especially important for women. Do not underestimate yourself, aim high and be around people and colleagues who intellectually challenge you.
While I was a student, I ran an experiment to determine which three of these places have the highest number of bacterial count: a toilet of a public restroom, a public water cooler and a computer keyboard of a public library. I found out that the water cooler has the highest number of bacterial count and till today I cannot drink from a water cooler!
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Sera’s Story – told by her parents Mela and Inoke, with Abby White.
Sera was born in June 2003, the second youngest of five children. For two years, she thrived and delighted her family, but towards the end of 2005, her parents began to notice a concerning glow in her eyes.
On Christmas Eve 2005, Sera had a red reflex eye exam at Asgar Opticals. The optician immediately detected a potentially serious white reflex in her left eye and urgently referred Sera to an ophthalmologist, requesting that she be seen that day.
When they saw the ophthalmologist just a short time later, Inoke and Mela were horrified to learn Sera had cancer in both eyes. Her diagnosis of bilateral retinoblastoma was the first in Fiji for 10 years, and removal of both her eyes was the only curative treatment available. The news was doubly devastating as the world celebrated Christmas.
Inoke and Mela contacted the retinoblastoma team at Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne (RCHM) to discuss Sera’s treatment options. Dr James Elder (ophthalmologist) and Dr Keith Waters (oncologist) believed at least one of Sera’s eyes could be saved.
Treatment was estimated to cost AUD$40,000, of which the Fijian Ministry of Health agreed to pay 67.5%. Sera’s family needed to find $13,000, plus the cost of passports, visas, airfare and daily living expenses for up-to one year.
Fiji is known to the world as a tropical paradise. Her 332 islands and 500 islets are scattered over 194,000km2 of turquoise Pacific Ocean, about 2,000 km northeast of New Zealand. But Fiji is a developing country, where GDP per capita is just US$4,347, compared to US$48,147 in the USA.
Sacrificing his superannuation (pension) was Inoke’s only option to fund his daughter’s care. As an engineer with reasonable job security, he was fortunate to have even this option.
Sera and Mela arrived in Melbourne on February 26th 2006. They stayed with friends before moving to the Ronald McDonald House near the children’s hospital.
Sera’s left eye was immediately removed to protect her life. Unfortunately, the pathology and subsequent tests revealed cancer had already spread to her bone marrow. This was a huge blow to Mela, and very hard to bare alone.
The intensive therapy Sera now required would cost significantly more – money Sera’s family did not have. Mela was determined to stay positive – they had made it to Australia and hope that Sera’s life and some sight could be saved.
After four cycles of chemotherapy, Sera received high dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant that regenerated her bone marrow. During isolation in “the bat cave” while Sera’s immune system recovered, Mela gained strength from knowing the hospital had secured funds to help meet the transplant costs.
Sera also received laser, cryotherapy and eventually four weeks of external beam radiotherapy to her right eye. She was released from the hospital’s care in September, just two months after transplant and two weeks after the last radiotherapy treatment. Mela was provided with discharge summaries to present to a doctor in Fiji. No follow up schedule was proposed, and no communication was made directly between the doctors in Australia and Fiji.
Children with retinoblastoma require close follow up to ensure new tumour activity is detected and treated early. Unfortunately, Sera’s family could find no ophthalmologist willing to follow her locally. None had cared for a child who had undergone eye-salvage treatment, let alone bone marrow transplant, and the doctor who diagnosed Sera had since emigrated.
The costs incurred in Melbourne remained a heavy burden, and Sera’s family could not fund a return trip until May 2007. The EUA found Sera’s right eye was stable, and a further EUA in Melbourne was planned for October 2008. However, no plan was made for reviews in Fiji during the intervening 18 months.
Sera’s EUA in May 2007 cost AUD$4,000, and her family was unable to clear the bill. In August 2008, RCHM informed Sera’s parents that international patients would not be accepted for the foreseeable future due to pressure on resources. At that point, the family contacted Daisy’s Eye Cancer Fund (now World Eye Cancer Hope) for help.
In September 2008, Abby White contacted the retinoblastoma team at Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane (RCHB). After much discussion, Prof. Glen Gole accepted Sera for review. He generously offered his services gratis, significantly reducing the bill to AUD$2,500. Hospital management changes significantly delayed completion of vital paperwork, but May 14 2009 was finally set for Sera’s EUA.
Abby and Henk Horchner, a member of Aspley Lions Club (Lions District 201Q3), began galvanising local support. A public appeal was launched in the suburban Bayside Star and state-wide Sunday Mail. Queenslanders responded with great generously, raising $4,425 that covered all costs of Sera’s visit and care in Brisbane.
The Brisbane Fiji Association funded a beautiful new artificial eye from ocularist Jim Stewart. A regional airline donated return flights, and a parent whose child also had retinoblastoma gifted $150 of food vouchers. Both wished to remain anonymous.
In March 2009, Abby had a chance meeting with Richard Le Mesurier, Vision2020 Chair for the Western Pacific. She learned a new ophthalmologist had recently become director of the Pacific Eye Institute in Suva (the capital city). Dr John Szetu had some experience of retinoblastoma through his training in Australia, and could follow Sera locally. Abby immediately connected Dr Gole with Dr Szetu, who agreed to follow Sera in Fiji.
Nerves were frayed as Sera’s exam approached. Her last EUA had been 24 months before, with no clinic exam in the interim – a situation no retinoblastoma specialist would recommend. Miraculously, no active tumour was found in her right eye, and her left eye socket looked healthy. Dr. Gole applied laser to create a landmark to aid examination in Fiji. He sent a complete EUA report to Dr Szetu, and the two doctors agreed to consult on all future examinations.
Eye examinations in Fiji are not easy for Sera’s family as Suva is a hot 6 hour coach ride away, and they have no hospitality like the Ronald McDonald House. However, knowing an ophthalmologist can follow Sera in Fiji is a great relief, and dramatically reduces the financial burden.
Had Sera’s cancer relapsed, it is unlikely she would have survived due to lack of close follow up care. She is lucky beyond words to be happy and healthy today.
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“The relationship has a big impact on the trajectory of your career,” said Dana Brownlee, author of “The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up.” “It’s hard to be successful when your boss isn’t your biggest advocate.”
After all, your manager has the power to promote or fire you, speak up for you or assign you high-profile projects.
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Don’t play the victim
If you’re having issues with your boss, don’t walk around the office lamenting your woes.
“It will spiral on you,” said Steve Arneson, author of “What Your Boss Really Wants from You.” Complaining to your peers hurts your brand and could eventually make its way back to your boss and damage the relationship even further.
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For instance, some bosses have an open-door policy while others prefer you set up an appointment before walking into their office. Some want to be heavily involved in every project while other bosses take a more hands-off approach.
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Brownlee said there are two types of workers: task-focused and relationship-focused. Task-focused workers don’t want a lot of chitchat upfront and just want to get down to work, while relationship-focused people tend to be open to more conversation before getting started.
“You want to adjust to what it is they need and the type of person they are,” she said.
Pay attention to when the boss is giving kudos to get a better sense of what appeals to them.
“Bosses talk about qualities in others they admire or like,” said Arneson. Pay attention to what behaviors get rewarded and punished and ask detailed follow-up questions when they talk about someone in a positive way to get clues on what they’re looking for. “Then you can lean toward those qualities a little more.”
Find common ground
If you don’t seem to click with your boss, look for authentic points of commonality to bond over.
“People gravitate to people who have the same enthusiasm about things they care about,” said Brownlee.
Look around the boss’ office or pay attention to their weekend recaps to get possible clues on what interests you might share.
It can be as simple as similar hobbies, children around the same age, being from the same hometown or rooting for the same sports team.
“I remember bonding with a guy because we had a similar commute,” said Brownlee. “That became a springboard to other things.”
Help clear their plate
Your boss likely has a long to-do list that keeps getting longer. So instead of being a worker who keeps adding to the list, be proactive by helping to tick things off.
For instance, if your boss mentions a big project in a meeting, Brownlee recommended sending over ideas on how you can help.
“Making their life easier and taking things off their plate … that is really something that makes a huge difference in how you relate to them.”
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If you’re outside the boss’s inner circle, try to figure out who’s on the inside and ask them for advice on how to break in.
“Tell them that you are trying to build a good relationship with [the boss] and ask for any pointers. A lot of times those people will open up and give you tidbits with what will and will not work,” said Brownlee.
Building a good rapport with your boss can take time, especially when you’re trying to repair a damaged one — but you can’t always force it.
Give the relationship some time to build and try to let it happen organically.
“Pick some opportunities to participate in events that you know the boss will be there. That gives you an opportunity to be in their space,” Brownlee said.
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electronic voter fraud suspected in mysterious south carolina open primary vote
brad blog excerpt:
Nobody in the South Carolina Democratic Party had ever heard of Alvin Greene, the jobless candidate for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, before he reportedly defeated state legislator Vic Rawl last Tuesday.
That, despite the jobless candidate's lack of actual campaigning, campaign website, or even spending any money on a campaign as far as anyone can tell.
And there remain questions at this hour, as to where he even came up with the $10,400 filing fee to get on the ballot in the first place.
Staggering 59 to 41 victory for Greene;
'Staggering' E-Vote 'Red Flags'
So, what else, besides or in addition to the "plant" theory, could account for Greene's remarkable "victory"?
South Carolina uses ES&S' 100% unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, in this case touch-screen) voting machines at the polling place.
The machines, also used in many other states (such as Arkansas, where we recently reported exclusively on the disappearance of thousands of votes on May 18th, which neither state or local officials are able to explain to this day) are both oft-failed and easily manipulated in such a way that it's almost impossible to detect the systems have been gamed.
As we've written, nearly every time there is an election in South Carolina, whoever the machines end up announcing as the "winner", will likely be the winner, since there is literally no way to guarantee that even a single vote ever cast on such machines was actually recorded as per the voter's intent.
It's an insane way to run a democracy, as The BRAD BLOG has spent years, and literally thousands of articles, trying to point out. ~ read more
it is hard to imagine that a candidate who did no campaigning would receive 59% of the vote. one possible explanation is that whoever was responsible for programming the electronic voting machines made a mistake and actually programmed the vote to go to mr. greene instead.
louisiana also uses the touch-screen electronic voting machine fraud, although, apparently not the same brand as south carolina.
in the summer of 2006 with no advance public notice or public input the louisiana sec'y of state foisted electronic voter fraud on rapides parish (and the rest of the state). the local news media, such as kalb, reported one day that rapides parish had received their new electronic touch-screen voting machines and that was that.
amazingly, there wasnt then and to this day never been any public outcry.
about a month ago, moon griffon, on his statewide radio program, spent an inordinate amount of time, moonin'-n-coonin' over how great it is that we have to show photo identification to vote -- when all this is, is a scam to get even more people and their personal information into federal and state databases, as well as to condition the people into accepting this "your papers please" nazification of amerika.
mr. griffon, as well as all the other so called conservative and so called liberal "pundits" never talk about these insidious electronic voting machines.
josef stalin is reported to have said
"those who cast the votes decide nothing. those who count the votes decide everything."
although, this website claims that there is some dispute as to whether or not stalin actually uttered this statement -- its still true.
electronic voter fraud comes to rapides parish
crawford et al v marion county election board et al
ny-23 electronic voter machines 'had a computer virus'
governor piyush scam's first assignment: get rid of electronic voting machines
h.r.4844 federal election integrity act of 2006
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Elvis Presley: '68 Comeback Special em box-set definitiva
Por Roberto Rillo Bíscaro
Dia 3 de dezembro de 1968, a NBC apresentou o especial Singer... presents Elvis, que muitos consideram o primeiro unplugged gravado em vídeo, porque Presley cantou vários de seus sucessos de forma acústica.
MMA: os lutadores que curtem Rock e Heavy MetalDuff McKagan: "Nikki Sixx, do Motley Crue, é um gênio!"
O show foi responsável pela reerguida da carreira do astro e mais tarde passou a ser conhecido por fãs como '68 Comeback Special.
Para celebrar o cinquentenário do show/álbum, a Sony colocará no mercado uma box-set super deluxe, dia 30 de novembro,
São cinco CDs e 2 blu-rays, que prometem reunir todo o material em áudio e vídeo existente daquela especial, incluindo outtakes. Além disso, um livro de 84 páginas detalhará a box-set e o especial de TV.
Confira a tracklist:
The Original Album
1. "Trouble" / "Guitar Man" (Opening)
2. Medley:
"Lawdy, Miss Clawdy"
"Baby, What You Want Me To Do"
Dialogue; Medley: "Heartbreak Hotel" / "Hound Dog" / "All Shook Up"
"Can't Help Falling In Love"
"Jailhouse Rock"
Dialogue; "Love Me Tender"
Dialogue; "Where Could I Go But To The Lord" / "Up Above My Head" / "Saved"
Dialogue; "Blue Christmas" (5:34)
Dialogue; "One Night"
5. Memories
6. Medley: "Nothingville" / Dialogue; "Big Boss Man" / "Guitar Man" / "Little Egypt" / "Trouble" / "Guitar Man"
7. "If I Can Dream"
Bonus Cuts
8. "It Hurts Me" (splice/edit of part 1 - take 7, part 2 - take 7 & part 1 - take 6)
9. "Let Yourself Go" (splice/edit of part 1 - take 1 & part 2 - take 2)
10. "Memories"
11. "If I Can Dream"
First 'Sit Down' show
1. "That's All Right"
2. "Heartbreak Hotel"
3. "Love Me"
4. "Baby, What You Want Me To Do"
5. "Blue Suede Shoes"
6. "Baby, What You Want Me To Do
7. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy"
8. "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
9. "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again"
10. "Blue Christmas"
11. "Trying to Get to You"
12. "One Night"
13. "Baby, What You Want Me to Do"
First 'Stand Up' show
16. "Heartbreak Hotel"
17. "Hound Dog"
18. "All Shook Up"
19. "Can't Help Falling in Love"
20. "Jailhouse Rock"
21. "Don't Be Cruel"
22. "Blue Suede Shoes"
23. "Love Me Tender"
24. "Trouble"
Second 'Sit Down' show
3. Introductions
8. "One Night"
11. "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy"
12. "Santa Claus is Back in Town"
14. "Tiger Man"
15. "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again"
Second 'Stand Up' show
25. "Trouble" / "Guitar Man"
First rehearsal
1. "I Got A Woman"
2. "Blue Moon" / "Young Love" / "Oh, Happy Day"
3. "When It Rains It Really Pours"
4. "Blue Christmas"
5. "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" / "That's My Desire"
6. "That's When Your Heartaches Begin"
7. "Peter Gunn Theme"
10. "Blue Christmas" / "Santa Claus is Back in Town"
Second rehearsal
11. "Danny Boy"
13. "Love Me"
21. "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
The Wrecking Crew Sessions
1. "Nothingville (Guitar Man's Evil #1)" - takes 5 & 6
2. "Guitar Man (Guitar Man's Evil #1)" - take 2
3. "Let Yourself Go, part 1 (Guitar Man's Evil #2)" - take 5 & 7/M
4. "Let Yourself Go, part 2 (Guitar Man's Evil #3)" - take 7/M
5. "Guitar Man (Escape #1, fast)" - takes 1, 2 & 5
6. "Big Boss Man (Escape #3)" - take 2
7. "It Hurts Me, part 1 (Escape #4)" - take 5
8. "It Hurts Me, part 2 (After Karate #1)" - take 3
9. "Guitar Man (After Karate #2)" - take 1
10. "Little Egypt (After Karate #2)" - take 6
11. "Trouble / Guitar Man (After Karate #3)" - take 2
12. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" / "Where Could I Go But to the Lord (Gospel #1)" - rehearsal & take 1 (5:23)
13. "Up Above My Head" / "Saved (Gospel #2)" - takes 4 & 7
14. "Saved (Gospel #3)" - takes 2 & 4
15. "Trouble" / "Guitar Man (Opening)" - takes 6 & 7
16. "If I Can Dream" - take 1
17. "If I Can Dream" - takes 2, 3 & 4
18. "Memories" - takes 3 & 4/vocal overdub #1
19. "Let Yourself Go" (closing instrumental)
Blu-ray Disc 1:
Elvis NBC TV Special originally broadcast on Dec. 3, 1968
Black Leather Sit-Down Show #1 - June 27, 1968
Black Leather Stand-Up Show #1 - June 29, 1968
Details as follows:
1. Opening Production Number
2. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
3. Baby, What You Want Me To Do
4. Medley: Heartbreak Hotel / Hound Dog / All Shook Up
5. Can't Help Falling In Love
6. Jailhouse Rock
7. Can I borrow your little whatchacallit?/This leather suit's hot
8. Love Me Tender
9. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
10. Rock & roll music is . . .
11. Gospel Production Number
12. Baby, What You Want Me To Do
13. Blue Christmas
14. Man, I just work here./No strap.
15. One Night
16. Memories
17. Guitar Man Production Number
18. If I Can Dream - Show Closer
19. Credits Roll
20. Elvis takes the stage.
21. Elvis introduces band-mates.
22. That's All Right
23. Heartbreak Hotel/Spoken Word
24. Love Me
25. Swapping axes./Are we on television?
27. Touching body with hands./Rock & roll music is . . .
28. Blue Suede Shoes
30. Something wrong with my lip./He's gotta be crazy.
31. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
32. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
33. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
35. Trying To Get To You
36. One Night - Somebody pulled the plug, man.
41. Audience warm-up./Mr. Elvis Presley.
42. Heartbreak Hotel
44. Elvis refers to script./Introduces band-mates.
45. That's All Right/Spoken Word
48. Can't even touch myself./You gonna get arrested, boy.
50. We don't have a strap?/Lines from MacArthur Park.
53. Hanky flies about./The new music./My style came from . . .
54. Trying To Get To You/Spoken Word
56. Girl saves Elvis tissue lint./Never ceases to amaze me, baby.
57. Santa Claus Is Back In Town
59. Tiger Man
60. Another tissue girl./MacArthur Park lines.
62. Memories/Spoken Word
63. Audience warm-up./Here's Elvis Presley.
64. Heartbreak Hotel/One Night - Sound Goes Out/Spoken Word
65. Heartbreak Hotel/Hound Dog/All Shook Up/Spoken Word
66. Can't Help Falling In Love
67. Jailhouse Rock
68. Don't Be Cruel
70. Love Me Tender/Spoken Word
71. Anybody got a handkerchief?
72. Trouble/Spoken Word
73. Baby, What You Want Me To Do - Impromptu Jam
74. If I Can Dream - Lip-Synch Performance.
75. Audience warm-up./And it stars Elvis Presley./Heartbreak Hotel - False start.
76. Heartbreak Hotel/Hound Dog/All Shook Up
79. Don't Be Cruel - Moby Dick!
80. Blue Suede Shoes - False start. One more time, gently.
82. Can I borrow your little whatchacallit?/This leather suit's hot.
83. Love Me Tender
84. Preparation./Who's that strange man out there, Elvis?
85. Trouble - Should I be on the microphone here?/Spoken Word
86. Trouble - I got my lip hung on the microphone./Spoken Word
87. Trouble/Guitar Man
88. Lines from MacArthur Park and Tiptoe Through The Tulips
89. Trouble/Guitar Man/Spoken Word
90. If I Can Dream - Lip-Synch Performance./Spoken Word
"Trouble" / "Guitar Man" TV Show Opener - June 30, 1968 - All Takes and Raw Components
If I Can Dream TV Show Closer - June 30, 1968 - All Takes
Huh-Huh-Huh Promo - June 30, 1968
Elvis Closing Credits Without Credit Roll - June 30, 1968
"If I Can Dream" Special Music Video 2004 - June 30, 1968
Gospel Production Number - All Takes and Raw Components
"Guitar Man" Production Number - All Takes and Raw Components
Blu-ray Special Feature Re-Cut
1. Trouble/Guitar Man
3. Trouble-Guitar Man/Spoken Word
7. Trouble/Guitar Man/Spoken Word
10. If I Can Dream
11. If I Can Dream/Spoken Word
14. Huh-Huh-Huh Promo
15. Elvis Closing Credits Without Credits Roll
16. If I Can Dream - Special Music Video 2004
17. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Where Could I Go But To The Lord/Up Above My Head
18. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Where Could I Go But To The Lord/Up Above My Head/Spoken Word
20. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
21. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Where Could I Go But To The Lord/Spoken Word
23. Up Above My Head/Saved/Spoken Word
24. Up Above My Head/Spoken Word
29. Saved/Spoken Word
30. Saved
38. Big Boss Man/Spoken Word
46. Big Boss Man
48. It Hurts Me
49. It Hurts Me/Spoken Word
64. Let Yourself Go/Spoken Word
65. Let Yourself Go
77. Bordello - Insert Shots/Spoken Words
78. Bordello - Insert Shots/Spoken Word
79. Bordello - Insert Shots/Spoken Recording
80. Bordello - Insert Shots
89. Nothingville
90. Nothingville/Spoken Word
92. Guitar Man/Spoken Word
94. Guitar Man
100. Guitar Man/Spoken Word
105. Guitar Man
106. Little Egypt/Trouble/Spoken Word
107. Little Egypt/Trouble
110. Trouble/Spoken Word
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Phoenisse
Turule
International standing
Dark Arcadia is sovereign nation existing solely on artificial ground. The island is stationary in the Atlantic ocean to the west and slightly south of the Azores, but by design could move if it became a necessity (though certainly not easily, and largely by merit of not being attached to the sea-bed). It takes its stability in storms partly from its size - about 900km² (half the size of Maui) - and partly from a fairly elastic design, letting the structure absorb excess energy.
The demonym of Dark Arcadia, as well as its adjective form, is Arcan, though frequently rendered as d'Arcadian outside the nation.
The nation considers itself a meritocracy, currently run by its founder Francisco Ahlgren, but is internationally considered to be a glorified dictatorship.
Dark Arcadia's timezone is a year-round GMT-2. Its international calling code is +294.
Phoenisse is the heart of the nation, even situated accordingly - fairly far in the north, off to the east (its right on the map, the very approximate whereabouts of where one would expect the heart of a human to be from an onlooker's perspective). It's a largely residential district, as well as containing most of the nation's museums.
Colloquially, it is considered the government district, though there are few buildings designated as such in Dark Arcadia in general, and Phoenisse cannot lay claim to more than average.
Turule is a peripheral district bordered to the north by the Dark Arcadian airport (which is not assigned to any district, itself), and took most damage during Operation Tidefire - a strategic hit, seeing as that the district is the closest the import nation Dark Arcadia has to an industrial sector.
Dark Arcadia is a sliver removed from anarchy. The Archon's purpose, while constitutionally seemingly granted absolute power, is one of being a figurehead both within the nation and to give it a presence in international politics (really only so the nation isn't just nuked or invaded or considered stateless and thus welcome for the taking).
In practise, the nation is anarcho-monarchist and anarcho-capitalist, but this goes unnoticed from the outside world largely due to the nation having a constitution, not to mention the Arcan people largely do not like to call themselves either (see introductory paragraph).
Dark Arcadia is most famous for its constitution, seen by non-Dark Arcadians as philosophical, political and judicial target practise, e.g. in schools, criticised for several prominent points:
It's considered as giving the nation's Archon far too much power and effectively be the 'constitution' of a dictatorship, due to the typical political separation of the executive, legislative and judicial being far less distinct and in parts even absent.
While the subject of much pride within Dark Arcadia, the loose definition of 'an individual' and someone who could apply for Arcan Citizenship is also frequently under fire for being laughably vague.
It's considered barbaric for defining someone's body as a possession of that individual, equating, constitutionally at least (laws certainly lay it out differently), the destruction of a piece of property the same as murder.
An Arcan themselves would chalk most of these points up to a fundamental misunderstanding of the nation. Dark Arcadia's constitution also requires citizens to be psychologically screened before entrance, making duds far less likely to destroy the otherwise fairly fragile system.
A far greater criticism from international sources is Dark Arcadia's unbudging stance toward human rights, having refused to sign any treaties. Given that Ahlgren's continued criticism is that the definitions outlined in these treaties are vague, the nation is often seen as hypocritical by outside observers (see point #2 of constitution criticism).
“Treason!
What is treason in the minds of men but the betrayal of one's nation? What is a nation but the collection of your neighbours and your neighbour's neighbours? What is a nation but that which we call society?
Dark Arcadia knows of the crime of treason as any other culture. Our treason is not persecuted but no less insidious. It is met with visceral ostracism. Our culture tolerates murderers and thieves more, for their crimes are transparent and their evil clear.
Treason is subtle.
Treason begins with inspiring fear of society in the minds of your neighbours. Treason begins with promising protection from evils that do not exist. Treason begins with nurturing distrust and paranoia between men.
It is to say: 'You are victims, do you not see? No one is looking out for you. What misery lies undiscovered in your life! Look here, open your eyes. These people do not give you your entitled share. These people do not treat you fairly. What have they done for you? They have always had their own interest in mind. You do not matter to them as they matter to you.'
It is an irrefutable scheme. You have no insight into the minds that are not your own. You know not their motivations. You know not what they base their judgements on. It is easy to see malice in the dark where no light reaches. It is easy to be afraid; afraid of the multitudes of tortures man can inflict on man. Like someone given a certain number only to be surprised at its fallaciously overwhelming prevalence, your mind will burn the mediocre from your life as if it did not exist and leave the bad deeds standing bare for display, dominating the landscape.
Our treason is to say:
Give me command of your life and I will protect you.” -Francisco Ahlgren
The nation was 'founded' in 2027 by Francisco Ahlgren at age 19, first existing as a serious micronation amongst the internet on a server physically based in India, rapidly adopting followers. Construction of the island began in 2029 after Ahlgren struck a deal with a company. The 'foundation work' gathered much international interest, and given its position in international waters much like the Principality of Sealand, was quickly recognised even by the uninformed as a micronation.
Unlike Sealand, a significant economic interest rolled toward Dark Arcadia, primarily due to its position in the ocean catering first to 'pit stops' between Europe and America, then to a pleasant means of being at better availability for both of those major timezones, crafting an overlap, and becoming a hub for several large upstart companies.
Growth has been rapid, though recently abating. Current construction is in the south-east of the island.
Politically, the dynamically designed nation has been grossly stagnant, in that Ahlgren has lead it for the entirety of its existence, which has not helped international perception any.
Dark Arcadia's culture has partly manifested itself by design. Being a freshly constructed nation founded in such radically different ways than other nations, Ahlgren has had much control over the philosophies applied.
The five most prominent aspects of Dark Arcadian cultures as far as outsiders are concerned are:
reversed gender-acceptancy in regards to cosmetics (which is to say, male Arcans are more likely to wear make-up than female Arcans)
the Arcan ability of choosing one's own full name when joining as a citizen (hatefully described either as attempts of losing international authorities or brutal severence of familial bonds, depending on whom you ask)
the nation's nocturnal habits and/or the fact that most of the citizens seem to suffer some degree of workaholism, Ahlgren first and foremost.
the perceivedly optional nature of Arcan laws - the nation has a polycentric legal system extending the constitution and there are spaces on Arcan soil where some 'fundamental' (from an outside perspective) laws can be violated. There's no means of accidentally ending up in such places, but this tends to be ignored by outsiders.
the quirk of law of a fluid age at which one is considered an adult (defined in the constitution as an age between 8 and 26 at the parents' discretion)
Beyond these internationally recognised quirks, Dark Arcadia is rich with own culture, such as that public transport is the greatly preferred method of transport, and that most Arcan work is done from home.
With no state-funded social security, Arcans tend to form strong ties to their neighbours, and financial aid is readily given to those in need (providing, of course, that they're not arseholes).
Classically familial ties are as weak or strong as the individuals in them want them to be - clusters tend to form more by shared interests than by biological relation, such as a man born Samuel Delgado becoming the Arcan citizen Paul Greyhound to live with the emotionally adopted brother Justin Greyhound (originally Caine Ahlgren). Though as much as names are not indicative of familial ties, they are also not indicative of social bonds or the lack thereof; Justin very much looks up to and respects his father, despite opting out of a shared surname.
Education in Dark Arcadia is fundamentally decentralised, but a few sweeping generalisations can be made about the curriculum based on what Arcan culture at large seems to consider necessary and practical (roughly in order of importance):
Language I
Reading and writing, with latter focussed entirely on 'how to' and not 'what to'. Then there are course(s) in international symbolism. And that's all.
Perception classes teach an Arcan child about how they and their fellow human beings perceive the world, what (or, more precisely, how) this perception tells one about fundamental realities, and how to increase one's own awareness. Subtopics include:
The basics and nuances of responsibility, and why it's crucial to survival (and society).
Topics typically covered by philosophy classes are deontology, consequentialism, solipsism (and why it doesn't matter), sentience and sapience, identity, the role of technology in philosophy (e.g. the Puppet progression toward autonomy and ethical considerations thereof) and transhumanism.
Classes here often contain information about human tribal tendencies and how to bypass their ill effects without causing cognitive dissonance. The fundamental nature of emotions as a heuristic versus logic as an algorithm and their respective strengths are also usually discussed.
This is a far cry from what non-Arcans would imagine it to be, as it completely forgoes art styles from a historic or political context and instead focusses on how art suffers the 'accurate reproduction' problem and how the different styles solve it (e.g. cubism, surrealism, versus classic art). It also does not teach any particular art style, but heavily focusses on training the Arcan eye for details and defining features of aspects of the world.
This is possibly the only Arcan class that universally gives homework. The learning class gives you learning and research tips. Tests are conducted by giving you subjects taught elsewhere in the world, e.g. geography, but are not (usually) part of Arcan curriculum, where you're asked to answer a complex question by yourself. Note: Asking people or copying from them (in mutual consent) is not discouraged.
This focusses on how to successfully search on the internet or other digital media, and how to use information from open websites that anyone can edit (like Wikipedia) by making use of page histories and permalinks, as well as truly verifying the content by reading the references.
Such things as categories, indices and alphabetic order is mentioned here, but also tips about how to assess the credibility of a book in brief (heuristically).
How to find and talk to experts
Pragmatism class pertains to common and uncommon (but not rare!) real life situations and how to handle them. Most of the example subtopics should be self-explanatory:
Assessing danger in criminal situations (and how-to civil courage)
Some real life help with:
Motivation for chores in general
Basic Cooking
Time Management (how to take your time, and why this is important)
Amongst other things, often teaches how to gracefully deal with having your business fail, since it presupposes you don't need to be quite as prepared if it goes well.
Most likely Austrian, also conceivably Chicago. Arcans will consider economic theory important for everyday life, and lectures will be laid out as tangible and entertaining as possible so they stick. An economically badly informed Arcan is often considered no Arcan at all. Topics often grazed include: The labour theory of value (and why Arcans reject it), how the stock market Actually Works, what international trade is and what it isn't, …
This tends to give an overview of the elseworld political spectrum (i.e. 'classic' left and right), the problem of rational voter ignorance in democracies, the tendencies of states to grow over time even with best intentions (e.g. the problem of tax being a case of focused gain and diffused losses), and various political structures (monarchy/dictatorship, democracy, anarchy, etc).
Language II
Language II class tends to have a strong emphasis on communication - not so much glyphs as Language I does.
How to systematically learn foreign languages
This usually ties into Learning-classes. This tends to be preferred over teaching any one specific language, but implementation varies. It tends to include information about how languages reflect cultures and how to truly speak a language (if that's your goal) you need to understand more than grammar and vocabulary.
Argumentation and true diplomacy
This tends to be the largest chunk of Language II and provides guidance to giving constructive criticism, how to spot and deal with logical fallacies (pro tip: accusing your opponent of using one is typically not the way), how to tell apart arguments meant as attacks rather than as discussion (fallacies alone aren't enough), what the benefit of honesty over dishonesty is (and what downsides are to either, and how to train oneself to be honest (but not an asshole :P) if one believes it to be superior (as Arcans tend to)), how to go about understanding people's motivations if they're foreign to you, and the perpetual greyscale (i.e. how things tend not to have black and white answers, for example the hot-button topic abortion).
Hard Science
This tends to be thin since it goes against the general Arcan education philosophy of teaching methods rather than hard facts - however, even Arcans can't do without a bit of those! These are some of the subtopics covered by Hard Science:
Covers things like peer-reviewing, double-blind experiments, etc.
Thought this would never get a mention? This is where you'd find basic mathematics, basic algebra and some higher geometry (e.g. dimensionality and topology, usually to promote abstract thinking).
Covers the basic forces such as gravity, electromagnetism and nuclear radiation.
Tends to cover basics and acids and how to treat chemical burns. The periodic table tends to be woefully neglected.
Tends to cover basic anatomy.
Dark Arcadia has no military, but is protected by Europe.
A strong political bond is presumed to exist between the two nations, but they're secretive about it, excepting Europe's undying loyalty to Dark Arcadia, militaristically. In other political topics (as represented on the Arcan side by Francisco), the nations vehemently disagree on many subjects.
Dark Arcadia currently grants citizenship to select dolphins, and political sanctuary for any others that wish it. Communication with these creatures is sub-optimal, currently, but the Dark Arcadian pet project, the Cetacean Communication Project, involves improving the archaic methods currently employed in favour of a more fluid/organic virtual reality interface.
To nutshell, killing a dolphin in Dark Arcadian waters is treated as murder.
Francisco Ahlgren, Archon of Dark Arcadia, somewhat mercurial diplomat and completely deliberate adult child.
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Set List History
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Wilton Said...
Stolen Children ii. A Little Ride
From the recording Do You Remember Me? (Wave files)
Cast of Vocalists and Characters
Father - Roy McCandish
Mother - Amber Reid
Government Official - Wilton
Male Child - Chris Reid
Female Child - April Stevens
Converted Child - Glenn Sevillo
Child Chorus - Wilton and Amber Reid
Players of Instruments
Barry Brown - Electronic Drums. Keyboards, Textures and Bass Frequencies on "Believe", "You are the One Who Saved Me", "You're Coming Home", "Keep an Eye on the Horizon", and "Arrival”. String Synths on “This is the Way”.
Frank Heisler - Bass on all other songs.
Wilton - Guitars, Keyboards and Textures on all other songs. Guitars on "Believe”,"You're Coming Home", "Keep an Eye on the Horizon”.
All Lyrics by Barry Brown
All Music by Wilton … except "Believe", "You are the One Who Saved Me", "You're Coming Home", "Keep an Eye on the Horizon", and "Arrival" by Barry Brown.
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Wilton.
Mastered by Frank Heisler.
Additional Engineer Consultation - Chris Reid and Frank Heisler.
Written, Recorded, Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered over the past 10 years or so. It’s been a slow burn.
Graphic Design by Wilton.
Graphic ideas by Barry Brown and Wilton.
Cover photo idea by Barry Brown.
Photographed by Barb Brown.
All Songs (c) (p) 2018 by Barry Brown and Said Style Productions except…
"Believe", "You are the One Who Saved Me", "You're Coming Home", "Keep an Eye on the Horizon", and "Arrival" - (c) (p) 2018 Barry Brown.
“Prelude”, “Journey Home” - (c) (p) 2018 by Said Style Productions.
This Recording (c) (p) 2018 Barry Brown and Said Style Productions.
All songs Socan.
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Women's History Association of Ireland
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Exhibition: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Public Life, 1918-2018
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Reviewed by Eugenie Hanley
Mark Loughrey’s work on the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation offers a complete and comprehensive narrative of the INMO’s services between 1919 and 2019, exploring the socio-economic and political factors which contributed to the organisation’s establishment and expansion. Loughrey, former general nurse and nurse researcher, investigates the backgrounds of its leaders, demonstrating how some of their beliefs impacted INMO’s tactics including letter writing and industrial action. Loughrey’s narrative places nursing improvements in the broader context of women’s rights and trade unionism. He examines how the Department of Health and An Bord Altranais’ detachment from nurse realities delayed progress. The use of new archival material from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland Archives, Dublin and the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation Archives and Library, Dublin, enriches Loughrey’s argument that the INMO were wholly responsible for nurse progress. Therefore, it could be argued that the book’s account is from a more nurse-based perspective than previous studies. Additionally, Loughrey outlines how internal factors including apathy towards the completion of surveys impacted changes. The book is an important contribution to the history of trade unionism, women’s history, and nursing history which has tended to focus on nurse education and registration. The book is meticulously researched, combining interviews with INMO members, An Bord Altranais Archives, INMO publications and informed secondary sources.
Loughrey begins by contextualizing trade unionism in pre-independence Ireland. The impact of syndicalism and women’s suffrage on its founders is vividly illustrated. Loughrey provides an in-depth account of the abysmal work conditions such as poor accommodation and lack of standardised salaries which influenced the establishment of the Irish Nurses Union in Dublin in 1919. Having highlighted the connection between the organisation’s founders, Louie Bennet and Marie Mortished and Irish Women’s Workers Union and the Irish Transport and General Workers ‘Union, he demonstrates how ordinary members fear of sympathetic strikes contributed to disunity within the INU in its infancy. The Catholic Church managed Ireland’s voluntary hospitals and therefore, nuns controlled nurse apprenticeship training and staff nurses. Loughrey emphasises that nursing was viewed as a vocation and therefore, nurses were required to prioritise patient welfare before their own plight. Additionally, he indicates that in an attempt to gain increased support by the 1930s, the INU changed their name to the Irish Nurses Organisation (INMO), cut financial ties with the IWWU and exploited the celebrity of its new conservative leader Annie Smithson.
The INMO’s relationship with the Catholic Church is thoroughly researched, identifying the close connection between religion and nursing. Loughrey articulates that although that the religious sometimes hindered progress, the INMO adopted a deferent attitude towards the Catholic Church by the 1940s owing to the large presence of Catholic nurses in the INO. However, the author indicates that they backed the Catholic Church against Browne’s Mother and Child Scheme because it acted as leverage to secure improvements for nurses in religious-run hospitals.
As Loughrey moves into the mid-nineteenth century, he compares tactics used by the INO to achieve nursing reforms, from ineffective letter writing to conciliation and arbitration. The book demonstrates that by this period, the INO had the ability to organise themselves for example, the established new sections which held separate meetings. Moreover, they slowly improved their bargaining position with affiliation to the Irish Conference of Professional and Service Associations in 1960 which increased the threat of strikes. Loughrey suggests that the government were under no pressure to implement reforms because the INMO showed they would not take drastic measures.
Importantly, the book asserts that the organisation tirelessly campaigned for post registration courses and third level education in a university setting because they perceived it as a stepping stone towards professionalisation. The book shows that new treatment methods, British nursing reforms and the establishment of new nursing grades prompted demands for increased salaries and reduced working hours. However, Loughrey acknowledges that nurses were denied professional status because their duties were not clearly defined and nursing lacked a distinct body of research. The introduction of third level education as a result was slow when compared to other areas of civil service and nurse training continued to be problematic into the 1960s. It was not until the 1990s, that the Minster for Health, Brendan Howlin, established a nursing degree at University College Galway.
Loughrey discusses how second wave feminism and EEC directives transformed nursing in Ireland in chapter eight, ‘Marriage, Money and (Moderate) Militancy, 1970-7’. He reassures the reader that the INMO had a labourist agenda whilst also demonstrating its connections to the IWWU and the Irish Housewives Association. Loughrey states that the removal of the marriage bar meant that women could now be the breadwinner and therefore, they did not accept substandard work conditions anymore. However, pre-existing gender inequalities prevented significant change for nurses. While noting that the 1974 Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act was a milestone, Loughrey argues that the same pay for same work principle meant little for nurses as there were few male nurses to be used as a benchmark to improve working conditions.
Loughrey charts the INO’s increased support of industrial action from the mid-1970s, citing the new leadership of P.J. Madden, a larger representation of ordinary nurses on its executive council and mounting frustration with the government. He focuses on how the 1978 March and the 1989 strike at St James hospital taught nurses that the threat of mass resignations or strike action was a successful tactic with immediate results. Moreover, Loughrey devotes one chapter, ‘Resemblance amid Rupture: The 1999 National Nurses’ Strike, 1991-9’, to the only strike the INO held. He shows that sympathetic support from unions including SIPTU and longevity of the strike unified nurses nationally.
According to Loughrey, by the twentieth century, nurses learned from their actions, evolving into an effective organisation with new protest strategies, the creation of new officers and greater representation on governmental bodies. In the final chapter, Loughrey summarizes recent nursing developments, noting that the INMO are one of the largest public service trade unions in Ireland, advocating a humanitarian approach to healthcare. Loughrey argues that while there are problems in Irish healthcare system, the government are not in an ‘ethical’ position to order nurses not to strike. By focusing on the little funding and human resources nursing has received compared to medicine, he highlights existing inequalities between the two professions. The author praises the INMO’s tenacity in overcoming the odds, promising that there is more to come from them.
A Century of Service is an insightful book that reveals the INMO’s major role in the struggle for superannuation, pension schemes and third level education for nurses and midwives. It demonstrates how frustration with slow reforms influenced greater support of industrial action. Loughrey shows how the organisation developed from a small union to become a large and respectable union today, with the capacity to prompt significant improvements. No reference is made to Catholic Church’s interference in third level nurse education from the 1950s. However, Gerard Fealy’s A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Trainingin Irelandand Joseph Robbins’ Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland in the Twentieth Century: 50 Years of An Bord Altranais (The Nursing Board), 1950-2000have sufficiently researched nurse education. The book is a significant contribution to the history of nursing and unionism, offering an overdue explanation of why inequalities persist in nursing today.
Eugenie Hanley will commence a PhD in History at University College Cork this September, researching maternity and child welfare services in Cork, Limerick and Waterford, 1922-1960. She holds the title of PhD Excellence Scholar from the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, Michael Joseph McEnery Memorial PhD Scholar, and PhD History Tutorial Scholar. In 2017, she was awarded the John. A. Murphy Prize for achieving the highest grade for her research dissertation in Irish History. Eugenie holds a first class Master’s degree in History and a bachelor’s degree in Arts from UCC. Her main areas of interest are the history of healthcare and women’s history in Ireland.
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Swedish writer and archaeologist Karin Altenberg’s first novel, Island of Wings, set on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda, was noted for its ‘evocation of the terrain … not daintily poetic, but as bracing as this landscape needs’. Her second, Breaking Light, also takes place in a threatening environment. Amy Head has spent much time on the wild West Coast. Her 2013 short story collection, Tough, explored the coast’s ‘rugged lives lived out against rugged landscapes’. Her debut novel, Rotoroa, centres on a tiny, isolated island in the Hauraki Gulf. These two authors discuss the power of place with writer and editor Liz Grant.
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Prince Among Slaves
AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange: Gilda Brasileiro: Against Oblivion
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Stories from the Stage: Loves Me, Loves Me Not
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Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Is there anything more fickle than the human heart in love? Joe’s marriage proposal turns to be more unexpected than planned; Lauren’s broken heart is held together by one hundred women; and Aaron faces his fear of adventure to embrace his wife’s spirit. Three storytellers, three interpretations of LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT, hosted by Wes Hazard.
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America ReFramed: Late Blossom Blues
Late Blossom Blues
Born in Mississippi, Leo “Bud” Welch’s recording and touring career begins at the age of 81. With the support of his dedicated manager, veteran Vencie Varnad, Leo’s Blues career takes him to festivals across the South and all the way to Austria. With just a handful of Bluesmen left in the U.S., LATE BLOSSOM BLUES offers a glimpse into the daily life of one of America’s living musical treasures.
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Hudson Valley Cable Company Announces Local News Partnership
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Verizon Fios announced a new partnership to provide local news.
On Wednesday, Verizon announced a partnership with Altice USA. Starting in November, Fios customers will be able to watch Altice News properties, including hyperlocal news from News 12 Networks and content from i24NEWS and Cheddar in 2020.
Fios customers will gain access to the News 12 Networks, which are among the highest customer requested hyperlocal news brands in the New York tri-state area, according to Verizon.
News 12 will be available on Channel 535HD in the lower Hudson Valley, Long Island and New Jersey. Early next year, additional markets will launch in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Connecticut and the Hudson Valley.
"We’re all about choice for our customers, and these channel additions bring our customers even more options for robust news and hyperlocal offerings on the Fios channel lineup," Head of Content Strategy for Verizon Erin McPherson said.
Last month, Verizon Fios announced it was shutting down local news channel in the Hudson Valley in November. Verizon decided not to renew the contract with RNN out of Rye Brook, which will lead to 150 employees being laid off.
The merger comes as a surprise to many because Altice, formerly Cablevision/Optimum, marketed News 12 as a key reason to not switch to Verizon. Details on how the merger came about aren't known at this time.
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Seward To Host Justice For Gillian Rally In Oneonta
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State Senator James Seward with be at Saturday’s “Justice for Gillian” rally at Muller Plaza in downtown Oneonta. Senator Seward will speak in opposition to the release of David Dart who brutally stabbed to death 18-year-old Gillian “Jill” Gibbons in Oneonta in 1989.
Senator Seward will be joined by former Oneonta City Police Chief Joseph Redmond, and Gillian’s sister Jennifer Kirkpatrick. There will also be an opportunity for those who knew Gillian to say a few words in her memory. The rally starts at 3:00 p.m.
“Along with celebrating Gillian’s life, we will also inform the public how to help keep her killer behind bars. It would be an affront to Jill’s memory and a danger to the entire community if David Dart ever sees the light of day,” said Senator Seward.
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Here's a first look at the cast of Disney's live-action 'Aladdin'
New photos from Disney's upcoming remake revealed
Updated: 9:07 AM CST Dec 19, 2018
Alyssa Bailey
News and Strategy Editor
Just in time for Christmas, Disney has given the gift of the first good look at its upcoming "Aladdin" live-action film, along with what the Genie, Jasmine and Aladdin's costumes look like for the big screen. Naomi Scott, who plays Jasmine, isn't just wearing the Disney princess's iconic blue crop top and pants. She has several extravagant, regal outfits. Entertainment Weekly shows three of them in the first photos it has obtained from the film. You can see two in the gallery of images it posted to Instagram, along with Jasmine's disguise outfit on EW's full image gallery. Scott spoke to EW about putting her own spin on the iconic Disney character. “Jasmine’s main objective at the beginning is to really protect her people and to do right by them," she said. "She definitely isn’t a finished article at the beginning of the movie, but she has this beautiful arc and progression, and she goes from asking for what she wants to just taking it, and displaying that she is a leader.” Director Guy Ritchie explained that Jasmine's character generally has been tweaked to make her more feminist and reflective of the present-day ideals that will make her “a more rounded character and maybe not being such a stereotype of the time.” Aladdin comes out May 24, 2019.
Just in time for Christmas, Disney has given the gift of the first good look at its upcoming "Aladdin" live-action film, along with what the Genie, Jasmine and Aladdin's costumes look like for the big screen. Naomi Scott, who plays Jasmine, isn't just wearing the Disney princess's iconic blue crop top and pants. She has several extravagant, regal outfits. Entertainment Weekly shows three of them in the first photos it has obtained from the film. You can see two in the gallery of images it posted to Instagram, along with Jasmine's disguise outfit on EW's full image gallery.
It’s a whole new world! ✨Get an exclusive preview of Disney’s updated take on #Aladdin — plus new photos and scoop on #TheCrown, #KillingEve, #Hellboy, and more — in our magical First Look issue. Click the link in our bio for a sneak peek, and pick up the issue on newsstands starting 12/21. 📷: Disney
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Scott spoke to EW about putting her own spin on the iconic Disney character. “Jasmine’s main objective at the beginning is to really protect her people and to do right by them," she said. "She definitely isn’t a finished article at the beginning of the movie, but she has this beautiful arc and progression, and she goes from asking for what she wants to just taking it, and displaying that she is a leader.”
Director Guy Ritchie explained that Jasmine's character generally has been tweaked to make her more feminist and reflective of the present-day ideals that will make her “a more rounded character and maybe not being such a stereotype of the time.”
Aladdin comes out May 24, 2019.
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Defamation Bill Second Reading in the House of Lords
The Defamation Bill was debated for the first time in the Lords
On 9 October the Defamation Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords, where, as noted at Report and Third Reading in the Commons, a lot of the detailed scrutiny and amendment of the Bill is expected to take place. It appears that the Bill is not expected to become law before mid-2013.
Justice Minister Lord McNally, after introducing the Bill stated:
The Government will seek views on the content of Regulations under Clause 5 (website operators) by the end of the year
The Civil Justice Council, chaired by the Master of the Rolls, has been asked to consider procedural changes to deal with costs and to report by March – allowing time for rule changes to be implemented before Bill comes into force.
The Government is taking an open minded approach to Clause 4 (responsible journalism in the public interest) and will be reflecting in the light of views expressed in both Houses.
Lord Justice Leveson may express views on related matters, but the Government do not want to hold up these substantive reforms on this basis.
Lord Browne for the Opposition, although welcoming the Bill, picked up areas of concern, declaring the Opposition’s hope to amend the Bill substantially and re-visit points made by the Joint Committee and MPs:
The Bill is largely a codification and has little by way of reform.
Peers are concerned that without drafts of Regulations and procedural changes – the “infrastructure” on which the Bill will sit – it will be difficult to adequately scrutinise large aspects of the Bill.
Lord Browne described Clause 5 as “ill-thought out and incomplete”, and will seek to have the affirmative resolution procedure used for Regulations.
Greater clarity is needed as to the “serious harm” test and as to Clause 4 – does Clause 4 in fact make the law clearer or should it be re-cast?
Lord McNally was reminded of the promise he made on funding and costs during the passage of the LASPO Act. Costs need to be addressed, the opposition intend to explore this in Committee, amongst other things they may seek to include a strike-out provision in Clause 1.
The Opposition also wish to consider raising the threshold for corporate claimants.
Others Lords reflected concerns about costs, the as yet unknown details of the Bill and implementation, that Clause 4 not resemble a “tick box list” of factors which could stifle investigative journalism, and the ever difficult balance between Articles 8 and 10 ECHR. Speakers included:
Lord Lester who also suggested the Government ask Leveson LJ to produce an interim report outlining his regulation recommendations so can be taken into account in debating the Bill;
Lord Mawhinney and Lord Morris both preferred the formulation “serious and substantial harm” in Clause 1 to the present “serious harm”, reminding Lords that the suggested wording was that of former Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay. Lord Mawhinney emphasised that it is crucial that preliminary issues are decided early by a judge, and urged the Government to address this procedural issue urgently;
Lord Black expressed concern that Clause 12 is potentially tantamount to judges dictating the front page of newspapers/running order of the news, which is inimical to a free press. The publication of corrections and apologies is already covered by the relevant regulators, thus the clause is “otiose and odious”.
Baroness O’Niell discussed a potential general public interest defence, calling for communications covered by such a defence to contain sufficient information that they are open to check and challenge by the reader.
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Do you have Medicare questions? AARP's Medicare Resource Center has answers.
Iowa State Fact Sheet
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AARP is proud to represent and serve 380,059 AARP members age 50+ in the state.
For 50 years, AARP has had one mission: making life better for older Americans. AARP was created after its founder discovered a retired teacher in poor health living in a chicken coop, unable to afford medical care and with barely enough money to live on. Since then, AARP has been fighting for health and financial security for all Americans.
In 2010, AARP Iowa will be working with legislators from both parties to protect lifeline programs that provide seniors with food, health care and other necessities from deep budget cuts. We will also be working to strengthen state laws to prevent banks and credit card companies from taking advantage of older Americans and to protect consumers from unfair utility hikes.
Age 50+ voters: 72 percent of Iowans age 50+ voted in the 2008 election, sending a clear message that it’s time for elected officials from both sides of the aisle to come together to solve our nation’s problems.
AARP: Working To Improve the Lives of All Iowans
Strengthening Social Security: We are fighting to strengthen Social Security for current and future generations by:
Providing relief for 526,955 who won’t receive a cost of living increase (COLA) this year.
Protecting Medicare: We are fighting to protect guaranteed benefits for the 504,944 Iowans who receive their health care through Medicare.
Improving Health Care: We are fighting to stop insurance abuses and protect the Medicare benefits seniors have earned by:
Lowering drug costs for 251,914 seniors by closing the Medicare Part D coverage gap or “doughnut hole.”
Preventing insurance companies from denying affordable coverage to up to 52,000 Iowans age 50-64 based on age or pre-existing condition.
Expanding access to home and community-based services through Medicaid – the largest payer of long-term services and supports – which, in 2007, spent only 14 percent of long-term care dollars in on home and community based-services for older adults and adults with physical disabilities and 86 percent on institutional care for the same population.
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Enacting Automatic IRA legislation, which would help many of the estimated 745,300 Iowans who don’t currently have a retirement plan at work to have simple access to a retirement savings account.
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More than 62,000 AARP activists in are working to engage federal and state elected officials in legislating on issues of greatest importance to Iowans age 50+. Members of AARP’s Grassroots Elections and Advocacy Team (GREAT) are represented in all congressional districts. These dedicated volunteers, through education and communication forums such as Tele-town halls, newsletters, emails, volunteer trainings, issue forums, and AARP publications, mobilize Iowans’ support for passage of critical legislation.
AARP has been instrumental in achieving bi-partisan state legislative action to enact significant health care reform, children’s coverage expansions, increased access to quality health care, and health information technology during the 2008-2009 legislative sessions. In 2009, AARP secured state legislative passage of a Consumer Private Right of Action, which gives consumers the right to take action against consumer fraud. held the dubious distinction for 10 years as the only state in the country that did not allow individual consumers to seek damages or injunctive relief when they had been victims of consumer fraud. Iowans now have an avenue of relief when they are victims of fraudulent auto dealers, dishonest home improvement contractors, and other instances where consumers are vulnerable to fraud.
Iowa was one of the first states in the country to adopt so called state “Pay for Performance” system to improve incentive Medicaid payments for quality care in nursing homes. In 2009, AARP Iowa staff and volunteers worked successfully with the nursing home industry, care providers, and other stakeholders on measures to improve the quality of long-term care staff, to reduce staff turnover, and to integrate Quality Improvements Measures where consensus research shows a direct correlation to quality.
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Strengthening Social Security: Social Security Administration, 2007. OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County.
Protecting Medicare: The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008. State Health Facts. http://www.statehealthfacts.org/
Improving Health Care: Doughnut hole: AARP (PPI) Fact Sheet, 2009. “Closing the ‘Doughnut Hole’ Will Help Protect Over One-Third of Medicare Beneficiaries from High Drug Costs”
Improving Health Care: Uninsured 50-64: Census Bureau. Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2007 through 2009
Improving Health Care: Home and Community-Based Services: AARP PPI, 2009. Across the States: Profiles of Long-term Care and Independent Living.
Supporting Caregivers: AARP PPI, 2008. Valuing the Invaluable: The Economic Value of Caregiving, 2008 Update.
Promoting Retirement Savings: Based on data from the US Census, State and Patterns & Current Populations Survey statistics on Pension Coverage. 2004.
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Radiation therapy seeks to stop cancer cells from growing and dividing by damaging or killing them. The benefits of radiation therapy are enhanced the more closely the radiation beam conforms to the outlines of the tumor. With this kind of precise delivery of radiation to the targeted cancer tissue, the likelihood grows that treatment will kill all the cancer cells and shrink or eliminate the tumor, while protecting nearby healthy tissue and causing fewer side effects. Precisely targeted radiation that can detect and conform to the shape, size and location of the tumor, delivered swiftly and using higher doses, is the Holy Grail of radiation therapy.
Martin O’Neill Cancer Center offers the most precise, leading-edge radiation delivery technologies available, including Volumetric Arc Therapy (VMAT) or RapidArc® Radiotherapy Technology. An advanced form of IMRT, VMAT/RapidArc delivers a precisely-sculpted three-dimensional radiation dose while the radiation source rotates around your body. Like IMRT, VMAT/RapidArc uses 3-D scans of your body along with precision computer guidance to “paint” the radiation beams to exactly match the size, shape and location of the tumor. Small radiation beams are delivered from multiple directions, each customized in intensity and shape to conform exactly to the tumor. The responsive computer control adjusts the shape of the beam throughout treatment to ensure precision delivery of the radiation treatment with beams that can be as narrow as the width of a pencil tip. Because of this precision, higher doses of radiation can be used without increasing side effects. With less radiation spilled to nearby tissue, cancer cells receive a greater dose of radiation than with conventional therapies, while surrounding tissues receive less.
Like other treatments, VMAT/RapidArc therapy is delivered in a series of individual sessions. Using specialized software and an advanced Varian linear accelerator, VMAT/RapidArc delivers the radiation dose for each session from a number of different angles to the whole volume of the tumor in a 360-degree rotation, rather than in a slice-by-slice fashion. Unlike conventional IMRT treatments, where the machine must rotate several times around the patient or make repeated stops and starts to achieve different treatment angles, VMAT/RapidArc can deliver the dose to the entire tumor in a single rotation up to eight times as fast as conventional IMRT, typically in less than two minutes. With exposure times significantly reduced, healthy tissue receives even less damaging radiation while cancer cells receive the full therapeutic dose.
One key to our success with VMAT/RapidArc radiation therapy is the skill our radiation oncology team brings to treatment planning and delivery. Our radiation oncologists are leaders in their field, and every member of our team is a seasoned expert in radiation treatment. Using advanced scanning technologies, your radiation oncologist will map the exact location and shape of your tumor, and determine the total dose and number of treatments (fractions) your cancer will require, depending on the type, size, location, and density of your tumor. A radiation physicist and dosimetrist will program this information into the accelerator’s computer to set up your treatments. A radiation therapist will help you get into the correct position and ensure your comfort and monitor you throughout each treatment. Typically, treatment consists of five daily sessions each week for five to eight weeks.
VMAT/RapidArc can be used to non-invasively treat most solid tumors, cancerous and noncancerous, but is most commonly used to treat cancers of the prostate, head and neck, and central nervous system. It has also been used to treat breast, thyroid, lung, gastrointestinal and gynecological cancers and certain types of sarcomas.
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Top African countries to invest in Renewable Energy
Investments in Renewable Energy sources in Africa over the past developing years are viewed with expanding enthusiasm as an effective means toward energy independence and as well stimulate economic growth.
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By Meliane Mboua Business insights Industry insights May 23, 2019
Across the globe a multi-fold of policies, therefore, are implemented to promote renewable sources. We want to emphasise the choices or options for renewable energy investment, to shed new light on RE investment decisions, and how they are influenced by renewable energy policies.
In this article we have listed the 5 African countries where Renewables are thriving and set out as viable investment opportunities to venture in.
Kenya is undoubtedly one of the top leading countries of solar power systems installed per capita. A good number of Kenyans are turning to solar power on an annual basis as opposed to making connections to the country’s electric grid, owing to the fact that there is an abundance of solar power in Kenya.
At the Energy sector level, Kenya has a strong sector institutional structure upheld by experienced government agencies and a solid private area. According to a Validation workshop for the National action Agenda and investment Prospectus, the Government of Kenya has introduced special Renewable Energy tariffs and Power Purchase Agreements to ensure returns on investment and also facilitate borrowing by private sector investors. The government is providing Partial Risk Guarantees (PRG) for investors and de-risking investment e.g. for Renewable Energy generation projects by undertaking resource development and feasibility studies. In addition, it provides the necessary grid infrastructure to distribute power and reach consumers, even subsidising consumer connections to enhance demand.
Morocco is known to have a vast period of sunshine up to 350 days a year, hence the decision to invest in solar energy production. The first phase of the world’s biggest concentrated solar plant recently opened in Morocco and in combination with their wind and hydro production facilities, is predicted to produce sufficient energy for more than one million Moroccan households by 2020.
For solar projects, MASEN (Morocco’s Agency for Solar Energy) not only acts as the offtaker but also takes a minority equity stake in projects. MASEN also provides debt financing for the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) through multilateral agency funds borrowed by the Moroccan government.
Of the different sources of renewable energy, i.e. solar, wind and hydro, solar photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) offer the best opportunity for investment in view of the government’s high aspirations and plans for the sector. Moroccan Solar Plan has set a target of developing 2,000 MW of solar capacity by 2020, comprising solar PV and CSP. The onus is on the private companies in collaboration with the government through PPP to achieve this target by 2020. Thus based on Business Opportunities Report for
Morocco’s Renewable Energy Sector of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency.
South Africa has one of the world’s fastest development rates for renewable energy investment. $10.7 billion has already been invested in the South African economy with another $4.7 billion to be invested over the next three to five years when construction of 27 renewable power projects will eventually commence.
The fundamental driver for renewable energy projects in South Africa remains the Renewable Energy Independent Power Production Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) of the Department of Energy (DoE).
One of South Africa’s largest renewable energy projects, The R12 billion solar farm consisting of a solar plant area, which covers 4.5 square kilometres, with 384,000 mirrors, uses patented parabolic trough technology, with curved solar panels tracking the sun’s movement, storing the energy in a molten salt storage system that will allow the plant to keep producing electricity 4.5 hours steadily in absence of solar radiation.
In spite of her rich source of hydrocarbons, Algeria has seen expanded interest to harness the developmental potential of its renewable energy sources. To buttress this, the government has enunciated an ambitious plan in March 2017 to develop a 4-GW solar project (see analysis). The initiative is part of the broader National Development Plan for Renewable Energies, which was launched in 2011 and amended in 2015 with the aim of achieving 22 GW of renewable energy generation capacity by 2030. The programme is expected to mobilise $120bn (€100.1bn) in investment and significantly boost the share of renewable energy to the country’s energy mix from 2% to 27% by 2030.
Some of the ongoing projects includes:
NEAL Company: 150 MW hybrid power station (solar/gas), with 34 MW solar.
Development of the market of solar energy water heater carried out by APRUE (Promotion of the Rational Use of Energy) to equip
5500 houses and 16,000 m square in the tertiary sector.
Rural electrification program: provide photovoltaic electricity to 16 villages with a total of 800 houses (0.5 MW).
Solar energy is a hugely attractive, viable and emerging renewable energy source in Ghana due to ecological and social elements.
In a bid to make an empowering investment climate for renewable energy, the government of Ghana put in place several policies and regulatory measures, including the Renewable Energy Act 2011 (Act 832).
According to Business Opportunities Report for Ghana’s Renewable Energy Sector of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, The Ghana government has created a conducive environment for business in the Renewable Energy (RE) sector by putting the following in place such as;
Explicit Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) for energy generated by renewable sources.
Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, which is a one stop shop for all investment enquiries and assistance.
Potential of Bio energy
Bio energy is seen as one of the potential renewable energy sources that could benefit the country’s power system, this includes the likes of biomass, biofuel, and municipal waste-to-energy. With an end goal to improve its national electric matrix, the nation implemented a National Electrification Scheme to give general access to power continuously 2020.
In conclusion, Research and evidence demonstrate that various countries have lots of potential assets that could be used as sustainable power source, including sun oriented, wave, bio vitality, and hydro control. Progressing endeavours from private and open areas just as government strategies all durably make more open doors for sensible development on sustainable power source. This favourable viewpoint will unquestionably help moderate the present vitality emergency that Ghana is looked with and further lead to financial development.
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Juventus 1 Genoa 1: Champions' winning run ends despite record Ronaldo goal
Juventus dropped points in Serie A for the first time this season as Genoa held them to a 1-1 draw in Turin on Saturday.
Cristiano Ronaldo's first-half strike was cancelled out by Daniel Bessa as the visitors ended a five-game top-flight losing streak at the Allianz Stadium.
The result gives Napoli the chance to close to within four points of Juve at the top of the table and sees their 11-game winning run in all competitive competitions come to an end just three days before they face Manchester United in the Champions League.
Ronaldo received a player-of-the-month award before kick-off and continued his good recent form with the opening goal, becoming the first player to score 400 goals in Europe's top-five leagues in the process.
But Bessa's header rescued a draw after some slack Juve defending and means Massimiliano Allegri's side no longer have a perfect record in 2018-19.
@Cristiano awarded MVP of the Month for September, powered by @EASPORTSFIFA! #JuveGenoa#ForzaJuvepic.twitter.com/1y1JVbCjDe
— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) October 20, 2018
Ronaldo looked a threat from the off, forcing Ionut Radu into a good save before rattling the woodwork with a powerful header.
He eventually found the net 18 minutes into the game, tapping home from inside the six-yard box after Radu had been wrong-footed by Joao Cancelo's deflected shot.
Juve seemed eager to score a second as soon as possible, but struggled to convert their possession into meaningful chances, and Wojciech Szczesny had to be alert to deny Krzysztof Piatek an equaliser from distance.
Genoa's growing confidence was rewarded after 67 minutes. Christian Kouame picked up a loose ball when Juve's defence assumed it was going out for a corner, and his cross was met by the unmarked Bessa, who headed home from six yards out.
Allegri introduced Paulo Dybala off the bench and both he and Miralem Pjanic fired narrowly wide from distance, but Genoa withstood the late pressure to move into 10th in the table and give Napoli the chance to close the gap to the leaders.
RT @OptaPaolo 400 - Cristiano Ronaldo is the first ever player to score 400 goals in the top five European leagues. Monument. pic.twitter.com/vKY8Yzflnh
— OptaJose (@OptaJose) October 20, 2018
What it means: Juve confidence knocked ahead of United trip
Allegri's side had won 11 games in a row in all competitions before Saturday's game, but they have only themselves to blame for failing to claim their ninth Serie A win of the season here. They seemed to become complacent after going ahead and Genoa deserved their equaliser, a goal that means Napoli could close to within four points of the leaders if they beat Udinese. It also offered United a glimpse of vulnerability ahead of Tuesday's tantalising showdown at Old Trafford.
Cancelo fast joining the elite
Joao Cancelo is improving rapidly in Turin and produced another hugely effective performance. It was his run and shot that led to Ronaldo's opener and he largely stuck to his task well down the right, even as several of his team-mates seemed to switch off.
Bonucci pays price for complacency
Leonardo Bonucci had not had a great deal of defending to do, but the Juve defence were punished for the bizarre moment when they expected the ball to run out of play in the build-up to Bessa's goal. The Italy centre-back has to take a sizeable portion of the blame, though, as he failed to react in time and could only stand and watch as Bessa ran behind him to meet Kouame's cross.
Juve will now head to the north west of England to prepare for that Champions League showdown with United at Old Trafford. They then travel to Empoli in Serie A next Saturday. Genoa have eight days to prepare for Udinese's visit to the Luigi Ferraris.
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New Seton Hall athletics director Bryan Felt hits the job running
The deep-rooted Hall alum on a new basketball practice facility, the Prudential Center's curtain and his collaboration with mentor Pat Lyons.
New Seton Hall athletics director Bryan Felt hits the job running The deep-rooted Hall alum on a new basketball practice facility, the Prudential Center's curtain and his collaboration with mentor Pat Lyons. Check out this story on app.com: https://www.app.com/story/sports/college/2019/08/19/seton-hall-basketball-bryan-felt-ad/2024809001/
Jerry Carino, Asbury Park Press Published 11:17 a.m. ET Aug. 19, 2019 | Updated 5:30 p.m. ET Aug. 19, 2019
Seton Hall stuns Villanova, scenes from Prudential Center on Saturday
Seton Hall forward Michael Nzei (1) pulls down a rebound as Villanova forward Jermaine Samuels (23) and Villanova guard Phil Booth (5) defend him during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) celebrates with teammates after their regular season victory against the Villanova Wildcats. Vincent Carchietta, USA TODAY Sports
Villanova Wildcats guard Phil Booth (5) shoots the ball over Seton Hall Pirates guard Jared Rhoden (14) during the first half at Prudential Center. Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) celebrates a three point basket with guard Myles Cale (22) during the first half against the Villanova Wildcats at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Seton Hall Pirates head coach Kevin Willard points during the first half against the Marquette Golden Eagles at Prudential Center. USA TODAY Sports
Seton Hall Pirates forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) shoots the ball as Villanova Wildcats forward Saddiq Bey (15) defends in front of forward Jermaine Samuels (23) and forward Michael Nzei (1) Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Seton Hall Pirates guard Shavar Reynolds (33) dribbles as VVillanova Wildcats guard Collin Gillespie (2) defends during the second half at Prudential Center. Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Villanova Wildcats guard Collin Gillespie (2) collides into Seton Hall Pirates forward Michael Nzei (1) as guard Quincy McKnight (0) defends Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 9, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) is fouled by Villanova Wildcats forward Eric Paschall (4) during the seance half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 9, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Seton Hall Pirates forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) shoots the ball as Villanova Wildcats forward Saddiq Bey (15) defends in front of forward Jermaine Samuels (23) and forward Michael Nzei (1) during the seance half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 9, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) dribbles the ball as Villanova Wildcats guard Joe Cremo (24) defends during the seance half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 9, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) looks to pass as Villanova Wildcats guard Joe Cremo (24) during the seance half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 9, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) shoots the ball over Villanova Wildcats guard Collin Gillespie (2) and guard Phil Booth (5) during the seance half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 9, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Seton Hall Pirates forward Michael Nzei (1) controls the ball as Villanova Wildcats guard Phil Booth (5) defends during the seance half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 9, 2019; Newark, NJ, USA; Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) shoots the ball as Villanova Wildcats guard Phil Booth (5) and forward Jermaine Samuels (23) defend during the seance half at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Seton Hall guard Myles Cale (22) and Seton Hall guard Shavar Reynolds (33) celebrate with Seton Hall forward Michael Nzei (1) who waves a Nigerian flag above the team after Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75 in an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Myles Cale (22) and Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) defend Villanova forward Eric Paschall (4) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Jared Rhoden (14) and Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) defend Villanova forward Eric Paschall (4) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova guard Joe Cremo (24) defends Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) who drives to the bakset during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Powell was the hih scorer with 20 points as Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
A Villanova player looks on as Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) embraces Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) who was the team's high scorer during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) goes up for two points as Villanova forward Saddiq Bey (15), Villanova guard Phil Booth (5) and Villanova forward Jermaine Samuels (23) watch from the floor during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova guard Collin Gillespie, right, defends as Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) shoots a 3-pointer during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova forward Saddiq Bey (15) defends Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) who goes up for a layup during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard gestures during the first half an NCAA basketball game against Villanova, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, NJ. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova guard Collin Gillespie (2) drives around Seton Hall guard Jared Rhoden (14) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) dislodges the ball from Villanova forward Jermaine Samuels (23) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) shoots a 3-pointer as Villanova forward Saddiq Bey (15) defends during the first half an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) defends as Villanova forward Saddiq Bey (15) looks to pass during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guards Jared Rhoden (14) and Myles Cale (22) celebrate during the first half an NCAA college basketball game against the Villanova, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Myles Cale (22) shoots a 3-point shot with Villanova forward Jermaine Samuels, right, defending, during the first half an NCAA basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Cale had 19 points as Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Jared Rhoden (14) and forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) tip the ball away from Villanova forward Jermaine Samuels (23) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova forward Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree (21) defends as Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) shoots for three points during the first half an NCAA basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, NJ. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova head coach Jay Wright, right, yells at his players during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against the Seton Hall, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard gestures toward his players during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against the Villanova Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova guard Phil Booth (5) passes around Seton Hall guard Quincy McKnight (0) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) goes up for a layup against Villanova guard Collin Gillespie (2) and forward Jermaine Samuels, lower right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili, left, embraces guard Myles Powell during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Powell was the high scorer with 20 points as Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova forward Eric Paschall (4) reacts as he looks at the score in the waning minutes of the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Seton Hall, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) and forward Sandro Mamukelashvili, center, defend as Villanova forward Eric Paschall (4) looks to make a move during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall defeated Villanova 79-75. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Seton Hall guard Myles Cale (22) and Seton Hall guard Anthony Nelson (2) celebrate with teammates after defeating Villanova 79-75 in an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
From left, Seton Hall guard Jared Rhoden (14), Seton Hall guard Myles Cale (22) and Seton Hall guard Quincy McKnight (0) celebrate with teammate after defeating Villanova 79-75 in an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
Villanova guard Collin Gillespie (2) defends as Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) shoots during the first half an NCAA basketball game, Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) AP
SOUTH ORANGE — No one needs to give Seton Hall University’s new athletics director a tour, or to introduce him to the staff, or tell him where to get a good sandwich in town.
Bryan Felt knows the lay of the land, having spent two decades on the campus, first as an undergraduate (Class of 1997) and later a fundraiser and senior administrator before spending the past two years as AD at Saint Peter’s University. Monday’s introductory press conference didn’t tip off his new job. Mentor and predecessor Pat Lyons, who will oversee athletics as the Hall’s senior vice president, did that already by handing off a bunch of projects.
“In a lot of ways these are your babies now,” Felt said Lyons told him. “He’s got his plate full of things he’s doing. He’s happy to unload as many of these athletics projects as he can, and my inbox shows it.”
New Seton Hall Athletics Director Bryan Felt (center) speaks at his introductory press conference with senior vice president (left) Pat Lyons next to him. (Photo: Jerry Carino)
They’ll collaborate on the biggest projects, of course, and none is bigger than the new practice facility for men’s basketball. Right now the team practices in a bare-bones basement gym that used to house a pool (the women’s hoops team uses Walsh Gym). With Providence opening the 56,000-squad-foot, $30 million Ruane Friar Development Center last year and Rutgers unveiling the 295,000-square-foot, $115 million RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Center next month, the onus is on Seton Hall to upgrade the nerve center of its featured sport.
“We have work to do on that one,” Felt said. “We have to raise some funds for it. It could cost $30-40 million. You look around the (Big East) conference now and that’s a big piece of the puzzle. We have to invest in men’s basketball properly.”
Space is tight at Seton Hall, so the facility would have to be either within the current footprint of the Richie Regan Recreation Center or adjacent to it, or perhaps some combination of the two.
New Seton Hall Athletics Director Bryan Felt (center) with Seton Hall Board of Regents official Hank D'Alessandro, president Joseph Nyre and senior vice president Pat Lyons. (Photo: Jerry Carino)
“We have design concepts in front of us,” Felt said. “We’ve got to determine what we want. We’ve narrowed some of it down.”
On a faster track is the renovation of Walsh Gym, which is slated for a new floor, new seating and a state-of-the-art scoreboard with video capability. Work is scheduled to be done in the summer of 2020. And an overhaul of Owen Carroll Field for soccer and baseball is nearing completion.
So the new AD will be busy. Saint Peter's basketball coach Shaheen Holloway, whom Felt hired away from Seton Hall last year, attended Monday's presser to wish him luck.
Bryan Felt is greeted by members of Seton Hall's women's volleyball team (Photo: Seton Hall Athletics)
“This is a tremendous loss for Saint Peter’s but great for Seton Hall,” Holloway said. “As an AD he made sure I had everything I needed — and it wasn’t just for men’s basketball but all the programs.”
Felt’s specialty is fundraising, and with a surefire Top 25 hoops team anchored by preseason All-American Myles Powell, this is the year to capitalize. More than 1,000 new season-ticket packages have been sold this summer, the biggest surge in recent memory. One of the first big decisions Felt faces is whether to open the upper deck of the Prudential Center for the showdown with preseason No. 1 Michigan State on Nov. 14.
“You want enough time to sell it; that’s the key,” he said of the 6,000 or so seats upstairs. “If you’re sold out (in the lower bowl) by mid-September, late September, that would be enough (to open the upstairs). You don’t want to open it and then have it be a cavernous thing.”
Bryan Felt with wife and fellow Seton Hall alum Tara and their three children. (Photo: Seton Hall Athletics)
Seton Hall typically begins selling single-game tickets three weeks in advance of the game. An exception will be made for Michigan State. Maximizing attendance will be a season-long priority for Felt and his staff. One idea that could become an annual fixture is building a homecoming around one of the home games.
“That’s something we should be able to pull off,” Felt said. “Have events on campus and then bus people down to the Prudential Center.”
Felt knows a thing or two about homecomings. Monday’s rollout marked a full-circle moment for him, wife Tara (Seton Hall class of 1998) and their three kids, who grew up sitting courtside at the Rock.
“This is an absolutely amazing feeling,” he said. “It’s special to come back, and certainly in this capacity. It’s a dream come true.”
Jerry Carino has covered the New Jersey sports scene since 1996 and the college basketball beat since 2003. He is an Associated Press Top 25 voter. Contact him at jcarino@gannettnj.com.
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Campaigners urge government to introduce 'calorie tax'
Campaigners have urged the government to introduce a so-called 'calorie tax' on processed foods.
Campaign groups Action on Sugar and Action on Salt hope that a calorie tax would encourage manufacturers to create healthier foods in order to help tackle childhood obesity, cancer and diabetes.
'Manufacturers are simply not doing enough,' said Katharine Jenner, Campaign Director for Action on Sugar and Action on Salt.
'An 'excess calorie levy' would encourage manufacturers to improve the nutritional quality of their unhealthy foods and, most importantly, tackle the thousands who suffer the consequences of a poor diet, leading to obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cancer.'
The call for a calorie tax comes following the implementation of the government's Soft Drinks Industry Levy, which came into effect from April 2018. As part of the levy, traders pay one of two rates: either the 'standard rate' of 18p per litre, which applies to drinks with sugar content between five grams and up to (but not including) eight grams per 100ml, or the 'higher rate' of 24p per litre, which applies to drinks with sugar content equal to or greater than eight grams per 100ml.
According to the government, the Soft Drinks Industry Levy has raised millions for sports facilities and healthier eating in schools, and has encouraged manufacturers to cut sugar in over half the drinks found in UK stores.
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Erick van der Laat, Western Union & Ella Peinovich, Soko: Leading a Start-Up into a New Stage of Growth
Ashoka’s Executive in Residence program fosters high-impact collaborations between corporations and Ashoka Fellows, the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Corporate executives work on-site with social entrepreneurs around the world to tackle a challenge that is critical to the Fellow’s ability to scale their impact. In return, the executives bring back lessons learned about new innovations, emerging markets, and leadership techniques that can contribute to their company’s strategic goals. The following story chronicles the experience of an executive at Western Union and Ashoka Fellow Ella Peinovich, a social entrepreneur working in Kenya.
Erick van der Laat, Vice President of Accounting for Western Union Costa Rica, believes, “There is this big quota of responsibility that we all have, the workforce in the marketplace. Regardless of station, we have a responsibility to help make the world a better place.” Because of this belief, and his stellar leadership skills and learning agility, he was chosen to participate in the Executive in Residence program, an established program in partnership with Ashoka. After a rigorous matching process, Erick chose to work with Ella Peinovich, Founder of Soko.
Soko is a social enterprise that improves the lives of artisans in Kenya by providing access to resources that connect them to global markets. Soko has helped hundreds of artisans take control of their own futures. In order to scale her organization and its impact, Ella sought Erick’s input on how to handle advanced accounting and financial management practices.
THE COLLABORATION
“At the very beginning I was very afraid of not being able to help,” Erick said. “I knew there was going to be this expectation in Soko that they [bring in a] VP at Western Union, and that he is going to fix the world for us. I was just thinking, ‘Gosh, these guys are expecting Stephen Hawking, and it’s going to be just me.’”
That fear didn’t last long. Ella and her team were impressed by Erick’s skill as soon as he arrived. “What we got from Erick’s visit went far beyond our initial expectation,” Ella said. “And as Erick got more comfortable, it seems he even surprised himself, saying his experience was, “[a] good reality check for me to acknowledge what a long way I’ve come over the last 18-20 years of my career. There is someone on the other side of the world who is running a successful company that wants to hear what I have to share. That was very powerful to me.”
This peer-to-peer exchange is what makes Executive in Residence placements so successful. Both the executive and the social entrepreneur are exposed each other’s complementary expertise. Erick noted, “I think that Ella is a great professional. It was like talking to an executive from another company. I could find no difference between her capabilities and the capabilities of others that I have seen in the past 14 years.”
The sentiment is mutual. “Erick is genuine, authentic, humble,” Ella commented. “He had an ability to connect to me as a CEO and the management team, but also with the artisans. He had an openness and willingness to learn…[and he] set high expectations in a way that felt attainable. He got us excited about our business.”
By the end of the two-week residency at Soko, Erick had worked with Ella and her team to create a variety of tools. “He provided HR materials, templates for team strategy planning, and organizational principles that assisted me to structure meaningful planning conversations with my team,” Ella said. “He shared knowledge about how to manage this period of change within the organization as we grow from a start-up to a growth stage company.”
Equally, the Executive in Residence placement continues to influence Erick’s life today. After working with Ella, Erick says that he learned a great deal about leadership. “The trait that I brought back is Ella’s execution,” Erick said. “Typically, when working in Western Union, you have a good idea, you discuss it, and then you need to socialize it, and then you put the business case together and get the write-up. You’re overcomplicating things. With Ella, it was great to see how a good idea could be put into execution no more than 24 hours later.” Empowered with a new sense of efficiency, Erick has become a better leader. As Vice President, Erick realized, “I have the power of changing things myself. The only people creating bureaucracy are leaders like me. As a leader, my role is to remove obstacles for my team.”
Erick and Ella envision a long future ahead, continuing to collaborate to ensure Soko reaches its full potential as a successful social enterprise. Erick affirmed, “I see a lot of value in Soko’s business model. If I am able to share something that makes Soko a stronger company, they are going to be able to help break more and more cycles of poverty. And if I could assist, at least in 1% in that journey, I would be very satisfied.”
For more information about the Executive in Residence program, visit Ashoka’s web site here, or contact us at [email protected].
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GOP convention protest arrests tally nearly 300
Martiga Lohn
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A woman is arrested during a protest at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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ST. PAUL, Minn. ” Police arrests tally nearly 300 following sometimes violent confrontations this week, and more protests were planned for Wednesday and Thursday, the final two days of the Republican National Convention.
Some protest organizers have promised to resume their often confrontational actions near where delegates are meeting in the Xcel Energy Center until the GOP convention ends its four-day run.
Police said Wednesday they had arrested 10 people throughout Tuesday, but they declined to offer specifics about each incident. Total arrests for the week were 294, including 137 felonies.
At least three of the arrests Tuesday came during a march against poverty. The march was tense but neither as widespread nor violent as events a day before, when nearly 300 people were arrested in numerous run-ins in downtown St. Paul.
Police estimated about 2,000 people took part in the poverty march, which lasted about three hours. It ended near the convention arena with police using tear gas and flash-bang grenades to disperse protesters they said were trying to get past security fences, said Tom Walsh, a St. Paul police spokesman.
The arrests Tuesday came a day after violence erupted following a largely peaceful anti-war march by some 10,000 people. Afterward, police blamed a splinter group of about 200 for harassing delegates, smashing windows, puncturing car tires, throwing bottles and starting at least one fire.
The RNC Welcoming Committee, a self-described anarchist group that has worked for months planning convention disruptions, claimed success in e-mails to its members and media. “The spectacle has been crashed!” read one.
That group wasn’t officially connected with the organizers of either march.
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Selected List of Recent Princeton University Supernova and Merger Publications
Click on the titles for links to the papers
Supernova Theory Papers:
"A Systematic Study of Proto-Neutron Star Convection in Three-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations," (Hiroki Nagakura, Adam Burrows, David Radice, and David Vartanyan), submitted to Mon. Not. Royal Astron. Soc., 2019.
"The Overarching Framework of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions as Revealed by 3D Fornax Simulations," (Adam Burrows, David Radice, David Vartanyan, Hiroki Nagakura, M. Aaron Skinner, & Joshua C. Dolence), Mon. Not. Royal Astron. Soc., 491, 2715, 2019.
"Temporal and Angular Variations of 3D Core-Collapse Supernova Emissions and their Physical Correlations," (David Vartanyan, Adam Burrows, and David Radice), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489, 2227, 2019.
"Detection Prospects of Core-Collapse Supernovae with Supernova-Optimized Third-Generation Gravitational-wave Detectors," (Varun Srivastava, Stefan Ballmer, Duncan A. Brown, Chaitanya Afle, Adam Burrows, David Radice, and David Vartanyan), Physical Review D, 100.043026, 2019.
"Towards an Understanding of the Resolution Dependence of Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations," (H. Nagakura, A. Burrows, D. Radice, and D. Vartanyan), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490, 4622, 2019.
"Three-Dimensional Supernova Explosion Simulations of 9-, 10-, 11-, 12-, and 13-Msun Stars," (Adam Burrows, David Radice, & David Vartanyan), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482, 351, 2019.
"A Brief History of the Co-evolution of Supernova Theory with Neutrino Physics," (Adam Burrows), a contribution to the Proceedings of the Conference on the History of the Neutrino, eds. Jacques Dumarchez, Michel Cribier, and Daniel Vignaud, held in Paris France, Sept. 7-9, 2018.
"Characterizing the Gravitational Wave Signal from Core-Collapse Supernovae," (David Radice, Viktoriya Morozova, Adam Burrows, David Vartanyan, & Hiroki Nagakura), Ap.J. Letters, 876, L9, 2019.
"Comparing Treatments of Weak Reactions with Nuclei in Simulations of Core-collapse Supernovae," (Hiroki Nagakura, Shun Furusawa, Hajime Togashi, Sherwood Richers, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, & Shoichi Yamada), Ap.J. Supplement, 240, 38, 2019.
"Linear Analysis of Fast-Pairwise Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Core-Collapse Supernovae based on the Results of Boltzmann Simulations," (Milad Azari-Delfan, Shoichi Yamada, Taiki Morinaga, Wakana Iwakami, Hiroki Nagakura, & Kohuke Sumiyoshi), submitted to Phys. Rev. D, 2019.
"A Successful 3D Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Model," (D. Vartanyan, A. Burrows, D. Radice, A. Skinner, & J. Dolence), Mon. Notices R.A.S., 482, 351, 2019.
"Fornax: A Flexible Code for Multiphysics Astrophysical Simulations," (M. Aaron Skinner, Joshua Dolence, Adam Burrows, David Radice, & David Vartanyan), Astrophys. J. Supplement Series, 241, 7, 2019.
"Neutrino Signals of Core-Collapse Supernovae in Underground Detectors," (Shaquann Seadrow, Adam Burrows, David Vartanyan, David Radice, & M. Aaron Skinner), Monthly Notices of the RAS, 480, 4710, 2018.
"Revival of the Fittest: Exploding Core-Collapse Supernovae from 12 to 25 M solar masses," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477, 3091, 2018.
"The Gravitational Wave Signal from Core-Collapse Supernovae," (Viktoriya Morozova, David Radice, Adam Burrows, & David Vartanyan), Astrophys. J., 861, 10, 2018.
"Electron-Capture and Low-Mass Iron-Core-Collapse Supernovae: New Neutrino-Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulations," (David Radice, Adam Burrows, David Vartanyan, M. Aaron Skinner, & Joshua C. Dolence), Astrophys. J., 850, 43, 2017.
"Crucial Physical Dependencies of the Core-Collapse Supernova Mechanism", (Adam Burrows, David Vartanyan, Joshua Dolence, M. Aaron Skinner, and David Radice), Space Science Reviews, 214, 33, 2018.
"The impact of vorticity waves on the shock dynamics in core-collapse supernovae," (Cesar Huete, Ernazar Abdikamalov, David Radice) submitted to MNRAS, 2017
"Turbulence in Core-Collapse Supernovae," (David Radice, Ernazar Abdikamalov, Christian D. Ott, Philipp Moesta, Sean M. Couch, Luke F. Roberts) Invited review for J. Phys. G special issue: "Focus on microphysics in core-collapse supernovae: 30 years since SN1987A," 2017
"Should One Use the Ray-by-Ray Approximation in Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations?", (M. Aaron Skinner, A. Burrows , & J.C. Dolence), Astrophys. J., 831, 81, 2016.
"The Supernova Breakout Burst Detection Potential of Terrestrial Neutrino Detectors," (Joshua Wallace, Adam Burrows, & J. Dolence), Astrophys. J., 808, 172, 2015.
"Baade & Zwicky: Super-Novae, Neutron Stars, and Cosmic Rays," (Adam Burrows), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, no. 5, pp. 1241-1242 (2015).
"Two-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernova Models with Multi-Dimensional Transport," (Josh Dolence, Adam Burrows, & Weiqun Zhang), Astrophys. J., 800, 10, 2015.
"Perspectives on Core-Collapse Supernova Theory," (Adam Burrows), Reviews of Modern Physics, 85, 275, 2013.
"Dimensional Dependence of the Hydrodynamics of Core-Collapse Supernovae," (J. Dolence, A. Burrows, J. Murphy, & J. Nordhaus), Astrophys. J., 765, 110, 2013.
"CASTRO: A New Compressible Astrophysical Solver. III. Multigroup Radiation Hydrodynamics," (W. Zhang, L. Howell, A. Almgren, A. Burrows, J. Dolence, & J. Bell), Astrophys. J. Suppl., 204, 7, 2013.
"The Dominance of Neutrino-Driven Convection in Core-Collapse Supernovae," (J. W. Murphy, J. Dolence, & A. Burrows), Astrophys. J., 771, 52, 2013.
"An Investigation into the Character of Pre-Explosion Core-Collapse Supernova Shock Motion," (Adam Burrows, Joshua Dolence, & Jeremiah Murphy), Astrophys. J., 759, 5, 2012.
"A New Monte Carlo Method for Time-Dependent Neutrino Radiation Transport," (E. Abdikamalov, A. Burrows, C.D. Ott et al.), Astrophys. J., 755, 111, 2012.
Neutron-Star Merger Papers:
"Full Transport Disk Model Unveils the Blue Kilonova in GW170817," (Jonah Miller, Ben Ryan, Joshua C. Dolence, Adam Burrows, Chris Fontes, Chris Fryer, Oleg Korobkin, Jonas Lippuner, Matthew Mumpower, and Ryan T. Wollaeger), Phys. Rev. D, 100, 023008, 2019.
"Probing Extreme-Density Matter with Gravitational Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Star Merger Remnants," (David Radice, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Walter Del Pozzo, Luke F. Roberts, Christian D. Ott), Astrophys. J., 842, L10, 2017
"General-Relativistic Large-Eddy Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers," (David Radice), Astrophys. J., 838, L2, 2017
"AT2017gfo: an anisotropic and three-component kilonova counterpart of GW170817," (Albino Perego, David Radice, Sebastiano Bernuzzi), Astrophys. J., 850, L37, 2017
"GW170817: Joint Constraint on the Neutron Star Equation of State from Multimessenger Observations," (David Radice, Albino Perego, Francesco Zappa, Sebastiano Bernuzzi), Astrophys. J., 852, L29, 2017
"Gravitational-wave luminosity of binary neutron stars mergers," (Francesco Zappa, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, David Radice, Albino Perego, Tim Dietrich), Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 111101, 2018
"Long-lived Remnants from Binary Neutron Star Mergers," (David Radice, Albino Perego, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Bing Zhang), Submitted to Monthly Notices of the RAS, 2018
"CoRe database of binary neutron star merger waveforms and its application in waveform development," (Tim Dietrich, David Radice, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Francesco Zappa, Albino Perego, Bernd Brueugmann, Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia, Reetika Dudi, Wolfgang Tichy, Maximiliano Ujevic), Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018
"Time-domain effective-one-body gravitational waveforms for coalescing compact binaries with nonprecessing spins, tides and self-spin effects," (Alessandro Nagar, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Walter Del Pozzo, Gunnar Riemenschneider, Sarp Akcay, Gregorio Carullo, Philipp Fleig, Stanislav Babak, Ka Wa Tsang, Marta Colleoni, Francesco Messina, Geraint Pratten, David Radice, Piero Rettegno, Michalis Agathos, Edward Fauchon-Jones, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Tim Dietrich, Pablo Cerda-Duran, Jose A. Font, Francesco Pannarale, Patricia Schmidt, Thibault Damour), Submitted to Phys. Rev. D, 2018
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Atlantic Acquires Another Florida FBO
Atlantic Aviation announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the Galaxy FBO in Boca Raton Florida (BCT).
Atlantic Announces Signing of Agreement to Acquire Fixed Base Operations From Galaxy Aviation
Atlantic Aviation has entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets of Galaxy Aviation, including substantially all assets of five fixed base operations and one new hangar that is currently under construction at West Palm Beach. The FBOS include Orlando, Fla. (MCO), Stuart, Fla. (SUA), St. Augustine, Fla. (SGJ), West Palm Beach, Fla. (PBI) and Hayden Colo. (HDN).
Employee Showcase: Brenda Smith
This month, Atlantic Aviation recognizes Brenda Smith of Atlantic's New Orleans FBO (MSY) for her outstanding customer service. Brenda's ability to anticipate and deliver on customer needs exemplifies her embodiment of the Atlantic Attitude, and it shows on a daily basis.
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Atlantic Finalizes Acquisition of Hangar 10 in Kansas City (MKC)
Atlantic Aviation has completed its purchase of Hangar 10 in Kansas City (MKC).
Huge Plans for Atlantic's Houston Markets
Atlantic Aviation announced its plans for a complete rebuild of the FBO and hangars at its Houston Hobby (HOU) location as well as a remodel plan for its George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) location.
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18-NOV-2016: The Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University today started the National Conference on â??Spiritual Psychology in Practiceâ?? under UGC-SAP (DRS Phase-I). The Inaugural Function of the Conference took place at the Faculty of Arts Lounge.
While delivering the key-note address, Professor Sagar Sharma, Former Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, H P University and Professor emeritus with the Punjab University said that even in the era of globalisation, we can come across people, who consistently hold to their spiritual and religious orientation for the mental well-being and turning to their faith as a source of solace and support in their most stressful moments.
He added that empirical studies of many groups dealing with major life stressors such as natural disaster, illness, loss of loved ones, divorce and serious mental illness show that religion and spirituality are generally helpful to people in coping, especially people with the fewest resources facing the most uncontrollable of problems.
â??These positive religious coping methods include spiritual support from God or a higher power, rituals to facilitate life transitions, spiritual forgiveness, support from a religious institution or clergy and reframing a stressful situation into a larger, more benevolent system of meaning,â?? said Prof Sharma.
Talking on the mental health benefits of meditation, Prof Sharma said that it will alter your brainâ??s grey matter and improve memory and sense of self. He added that meditation, in a way, is like exercise for our brains as it is been shown to assist in mental health maintenance, improving memory, empathy, and sense of self.
Guest of Honour, Prof Nilanjana Sanyal, Department of Psychology, University of Kolkata said that Spiritual Psychology uses elements of both traditional psychology and spirituality in order to help individuals feel better and to be more content with their lives.
She added that in todayâ??s world, it has become imperative to work on self-development, peak experiences, altered states of consciousness, spiritual practices, and other experiences of living.
Prof Sanyal further said that in todayâ??s world it is a big task to relate with yourself in compassionate and healing ways that free you from mental anguish and emotional suffering. She added that it is very important to clarify your lifeâ??s purpose and translate it into meaningful and achievable goals.
She pointed out that spirituality helps people to live with meaning and fulfillment as well as joy and happiness.
Delivering the presidential address, the Aligarh Muslim University Pro Vice Chancellor, Brigadier S Ahmad Ali (Veteran) said that Spiritual Psychology is a healthy mix of spirituality and science.
Brigadier Ali further said that to take care of day-to-day problems, people need to be in their right mental health. He added that to have mental health people need to understand that for every victory, there is a defeat and it is important to keep trying with the right state of mind. He also said that it is important to overcome weaknesses and learn to live with peace.
He pointed out that religion is a like a coin with two sides. â??While one said brings peace to a person and makes him/her a better human; the flip side might bring superiority to people. He pointed out that people should be wise enough to follow religion and spirituality in the right way. Brigadier Ali also urged people to drain out unnecessary thoughts while doing meditation.
During the welcome address, Prof Mohd Ilyas Khan, Organizing Secretary of the Conference thanked the Pro Vice Chancellor for providing Under-graduate labs and IT Labs to the Department of Psychology. He also announced that the Pro Vice Chancellor has also promised to provide 20 new computers to the Department.
Prof Khan further said that the topic of â??Spiritual Psychology in Practiceâ?? is very relevant as there is a lot of stress on spirituality for bringing peace of mind to wipe out mental agony and psychological distress.
Prof Akbar Husain, Coordinator, UGC-SAP (DRS Phase-I) threw light on how spiritual practices are multiplying all over the world. He said that it has become very important, not only that we must bring about a change in the world, but also a total revolution psychologically and inwardly.
He added that spiritual practices are necessary to bring changes in our behaviour, in our relationships and in all aspects of life and well-being.
Prof Shamim A Ansari, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences proposed the vote of thanks, while Mr Suhail Rafiq Mir conducted the programme.
On the occasion, the Pro Vice Chancellor and the guests also released Souvenirs and Abstracts of the Conference and a book titled, â??Annotated Bibliography: Spiritual Psychology in Indiaâ??.
Prof Nilanjana Sanyal addressing the National Conference on Spiritual sychology
Prof Sagar Sharma delivering Keynote address at the National Conference on Spiritual sychology
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Broadway in Anchorage became a mainstay in the early 1990s after the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts Center was built in 1988.
It's amazing that Broadway productions have been coming to Anchorage for 30 years! In that time our community has had some of the biggest and best titles that have played around the world. We've had Tony-award-winning classics and cutting-edge shows that have redefined musical theatre for modern times.
Whether big or small, Anchorage Concert Association has continued to present the very best of Broadway.
Check out some of the shows that are creating buzz on Broadway and beyond. Follow Broadway in Anchorage on Facebook for the latest on the biggest shows from The Great White Way to The Last Frontier.
Broadway in Anchorage over the years
Monty Python's Spamalot
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Grease
Cinderella Billy Elliot
Little Shop of Horrors Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Mamma Mia! Million Dollar Quartet
West Side Story Shrek the Musical
The Addams Family Dreamgirls
Disney's Mary Poppins
Fiddler on the Roof Mamma Mia!
Beauty and the Beast Avenue Q
Rock of Ages Blue Man Group
Disney's The Lion King Jesus Christ Superstar
Chicago Annie
The Producers Man of La Mancha
Hairspray Joseph and the Amazing...
Cirque Dreams "Jungle Fantasy"
Cirque Dreams Riverdance
42nd Street The Graduate
Barrage in "Vagabond Tales" Rent
"Defending the Caveman" Cabaret
Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story Aeros
Footloose, The Musical I Love You, You're Perfect...
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A Chorus Line Cats
Victor/Victoria West Side Story
Grease! Tommy
Jelly Roll!
Jam on the Groove
Jesus Christ Superstar Phantom of the Opera
STOMP Evita
Porgy & Bess
Man of the La Mancha
Lost in Yonkers
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Android News / All News / OxygenOS Open Beta Builds 20 & 11 Hit OnePlus 3, OnePlus 3T
OxygenOS Open Beta Builds 20 & 11 Hit OnePlus 3, OnePlus 3T
By Mihai Matei
OnePlus is launching a new OxygenOS beta update for the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T. The update arrives as the Open Beta 20 build for the OnePlus 3 and Open Beta 11 for the newer smartphone, and includes a handful of bug fixes and optimizations, such as various visual improvements added to the Weather widget and new performance optimizations meant to prevent various third-party applications from crashing.
Another change introduced in OxygenOS open beta 20 and 11 includes a new, optimized calculation method for data usage statistics which should result in more accurate tracking. Furthermore, the battery saver indicator changed from an orange status bar to a straightforward notification, and the expanded screenshot function has been further optimized to support capture while videos and GIFs are playing. This particular feature is still marked as "experimental" so it will likely go through additional changes before it will be ready for the general public. As far as bug fixes are concerned, the latest builds solve various third-party app crashes, and following the update, the two smartphones should now correctly display the battery status of technically unsupported Bluetooth devices. Lastly, the changelog also mentions a fix to the Weather application which would cause the app to fail in retrieving forecast data.
The latest OxygenOS Open Beta update is available for download over the air (OTA) on all OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T that already run the previous Open Beta build. These devices should receive an update notification in the coming hours and the updating process should be similar to previous public OS updates, meaning that users are advised to apply the latest build over an active Wi-Fi network and ensure their handsets have at least 50 percent of battery charge left. All OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T owners can sign up for participating in the beta program on the company's official forums. Keep in mind that once a user migrates their smartphone to the Open Beta branch, the device will no longer receive official stable software updates but instead, they will only be receiving Open Beta builds. Of course, there's always the option of moving back to the Stable branch, however, such a transition requires a full wipe of the device's memory prior to flashing of a stable, official OxygenOS build.
Mihai has written for Androidheadlines since 2016 and is a Senior Writer for the site. Mihai has a background in arts and owned a couple of small businesses in the late 2000s, namely an interior design firm and a clothing manufacturing line. He dabbled with real-estate for a short while and worked as a tech news writer for several publications since 2011. He always had an appreciation for silicon-based technology and hopes it will contribute to a better humanity. Contact him at [email protected]
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A Rare Interview with Helmut Lang
Art & PhotographyInterview
Helmut Lang 63Courtesy of von ammon co
Speaking to AnOther, the artist and former designer discusses his artistic practice and his new exhibition at von ammon co in Washington DC, Helmut Lang 63
TextFrancesca Gavin
The 1990s would not have looked the same without Helmut Lang. Architectural, structured, highly stylised and innately androgynous, his clothing defined an entire generation’s style. Yet the highly private creative auteur has moved away from fashion in the years since – the Austrian designer has not been involved with his eponymous label since 2005 – and successfully sidestepped into the world of art, with his largely sculptural work appearing in solo and group exhibitions around the world.
A new exhibition of his work opens at von ammon co in Washington DC this week, titled Helmut Lang 63, where Lang will show a series of suspended monochrome sculptures – textured, sticky and visceral. It is not easy to emerge in a new arena after such influence in another: Helmut Lang is doing just that with signature aplomb. Lang’s fashion design work does, however, come into play in Helmut Lang 63: the exhibition consists of site-specific sculptures made from shredded and compacted clothes cast in resin – the clothing is from Lang’s design archive, which was partially damaged in a studio fire. The destruction of the pieces inspired the artist to “crystallise [the clothes] in an abstract way for eternity and art”. Here, he tells AnOther more...
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Francesca Gavin: What first attracted you to sculpture as a medium?
Helmut Lang: I don’t want to be defined as working in solely one medium. I felt that I wanted to be at the crossing of different disciplines and defy the classical notions of painting, sculpture and so on. My focus is to create two and three dimensional artworks in different mediums, predominantly built from found and readily available materials.
FG: Why did you want to destroy/rework your design archive?
HL: There was no intention to do so, and luckily the most important part of the archive was donated to the most important museums around the world just before we had a serious fire in the building that housed our studio at the time. So it was not a desire but a necessity, which I concluded after long consideration – that the damaged part of the archive might as well be crystallised in an abstract way for eternity and art.
FG: How did you start working with shredding and crushed found materials? What interests you about detritus in a wider sense?
HL: We had a shredding truck come in to do the shredding job and to transform thousands of pieces from the archive into raw material, which includes 30 years of work, transformed into a non-hierarchial mass.
FG: How does your artwork relate to your history as a designer – are there interests or motifs that overlap?
HL: Whatever I do, I do with my full dedication, investment and the maximum effort for an outcome I feel comfortable handing over to the audience.
FG: How are you working with scale? How does that vary in the current show?
HL: Scale is something which varies just doing the production of the subject matter and then later on in the space where it is shown. The current show is a site specific installation, something which I have never done before in a gallery setting.
FG: How does time play into the work you are making?
HL: I take all the time that is necessary until I feel that a work is completed. Sometimes it takes a few months, sometimes a few years. And after that I let it stay around in the studio for quite some time and I revisit it to see if I want add or distract something from it, and I only release it when I feel confident to hand it over.
FG: Tell me about the pixelated monochrome film on the gallery website that accompanies the show?
HL: It is a documentation of the actual shredding process which took place in 2010 to prove authenticity of the content of the artwork.
FG: What interests you about monochrome? The pigments you are using are largely white and black.
HL: I think the nature of my practice is at the moment asking for monochromes, but there is sometimes also colour involved, but that depends if it is a specific artistic necessity for the body of work. At the current show in Washington, we are showing only black and white, as a curated installation, but there is a wider variety of colour within that body of work.
Helmut Lang 63 is on show at von ammon co, Washington DC until November 2, 2019.
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Scottish islands pave the way for EU-wide pledge
SNP MEP and candidate in May’s European election, Alyn Smith was the first candidate to sign the Islands Champion Pledge today [Friday] in Tobermory harbor. The pledge – which will be issued to all MEP candidates in countries with islands – is to show his support for greater representation and power for Europe's islands.
The Islands Champion Pledge [attached] was produced by the Scottish Islands Federation (SIF) and European Small Islands Network (ESIN).
“Scottish Islands are of great importance to our economy and contribute substantially with agriculture, fishing, tourism, energy resources and of course, unrivalled expertise. However, island communities also face a number of challenges and their geography means that often a different approach is needed.
“The EU already offers support to islands via various projects and exchanges and we’re here today in Tobermory today to pledge to fight for more! I hope my fellow Euro candidates will follow the suit and recognise diverse needs of communities across Scotland; this way we can ensure fair and adequate representation for the Scottish Islands in Europe.
“The Scottish Islands Federations should also be congratulated on this initative. They’re work – along with their partners across the EU – all adds into the ‘Team Scotland’ approach to ensuring we win the best deal for our Island communities.”
Smith committed to the pledge in presence of Director of Scottish Islands Federation, Sandy Brunton and Highlands and Islands MSP Mike MacKenzie.
Sandy Brunton said:
“We have worked on this pledge with our colleagues from Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Aaland and France. If MEPs in all these countries sign this pledge, this will go a long way towards ensuring the formation of a strong island lobbying group in the EU parliament and a better understanding of how legislation must take the islands situation into consideration. We are delighted that Alyn Smith MEP is the first candidate to sign our document!"
The pledge will now be sent to all European election candidates across the European Union in those member states with islands in advance of the European elections in May.
Mike Russell MSP said:
“The European election in May is often overlooked but it’s of huge importance, especially to our rural and island communities. The SNP is the first to sign this pledge and that is because we understand the opportunities available through proper investment in these areas.
“Our rural and island communities – which are the lifeblood of our tourism sector and foods sectors – often do have different needs and as a result, different approaches are needed. That is why an independent Scotland will ensure a greater degree of power for our Islands.”
Mike MacKenzie MSP said:
“It is fantastic that, out of the whole of Europe, the launch of this Island pledge is taking place here in Scotland. Our Islands are of huge economic benefit to the whole of Scotland.
“At a time when the UK government is sleepwalking Scotland towards the EU exit, we must send a clear message that we don’t support the Tory isolationist agenda. Alyn and the SNP already have a strong record of delivering for our Island communities and by voting SNP in May’s European election, we can ensure an even stronger team is there to stand up for our Island communities.
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AF 447 RIO-PARIS: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
The detailed story of the Air France Rio-Paris flight, its crew, and its passengers
At 2.14am on June 1, 2009, Air France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic killing all 288 passengers on board making it one of the deadliest plane crashes of all time. To this day, the fatal course of events remains without explanation despite the technical reports, the investigations...
AFRICA: THE BUSINESS OF FOOD
A profitable business solution to an endemic problem
Africa has been confronted to major food shortages. This series look at some exciting food stories coming from that continent. Successful new cultures and practices have been implemented to deal with the situation and allow families to feed themselves. More surprisingly, these experiences...
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A different tsunami story
Northeastern Japan shelters a fragile treasure: oysters. This sanctuary has been almost wiped out by the tsunami which flooded 600kms of coastline, destroying numerous fishing ports. This is the story of Shigeatsu Hatakeya, called the father of oysters, who has spent all his life trying...
AIRLINES WORLDWIDE: WAR OF LUXURY IN THE CLOUDS
The sky has no limits
Three-stars meals, expensive wines, flat beds and even showers. Airline companies will stop at nothing to attract wealthy customers willing to spend 10,000 € on a Paris-New York flight.
Within a social and cultural landscape considered to be largely conservative, some people are pushing the boundaries of what is generally considered acceptable and appropriate in polite Asian society. These Asians are speaking their minds in unlikely or alternative forms of expression...
AMAZON'S RECKLESS AMBITIONS
Simplicity, time saving and an endless catalog
Twenty years ago, it was just a small bookstore over the internet. Today, it is one of the largest online sales sites in the world. Its assets: simplicity, time saving and an endless catalog. Every year, the site wins over millions of consumers, individuals and even professionals, who...
AMAZON: KING OF RETAIL, EMPEROR OF WASTE
A practise of mass destruction
Amazon is a gigantic sale machine, a delivery speedster, but in its warehouses a revolting mass destruction of new products also take place. In one of its smallest sites in France, 293,000 products were discarded, almost all of them new, in just over 9 months this year. This is a common...
ANGOLA, THE FORGOTTEN TRIBES
An ethnological marvel
Cut off from the rest of the world and the country’s recent economic takeoff, southern Angola’s tribes have kept alive customs and lifestyles from another age. Very few people have been able to approach the Mucawana and the Mucubal, these forgotten ethnic groups who were last...
ARCHEOLOGEEKS IN BAGAN
Bringing the universal heritage back to life
Some buildings, sites and structures are historical wonders. Their very names are legendary and their stories epic and surprising. Yet, these treasures are threatened by wars, financial pressure, property developers and climate hazards. Today, a new breed of archeologists is using modern...
ARMENIA: THE LAND OF NOAH
Hidden treasures of Eastern Europe
Infinite horizons. Miracles of nature. Historical cathedrals. Mythological temples. Sacred mountains. Prehistoric mysteries. Art, faith and devotion. Thousand-year-old traditions. These are just few descriptions of Armenia. This country is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea...
ARTISANS REBOOT
A novice takes on an artisanal trade
Changing times and mass production have driven artisans to the edge of extinction. ARTISANS REBOOT is a series that challenges a new generation to learn from the older craftmen and save them from extinction. Each episode features a novice taking on an artisanal trade. At the end of the...
ASIA EXPOSED
The camera never lies
This series follows established photographers who are challenged to take on unusual and sometimes heart-wrenching topics, embarking on an eye-opening quests to capture such magical moments. Nothing is off limits: plastic surgery, drug addiction, "third sex", teenage smoking,...
ASIAN WATER TALES
A resource for many human activities
From the somptuous Mekong to the vast Indian Ocean, water is at the center of an infinity of human activities in Asia, be it fishing, transportation or agriculture. Man has used its ingenuity to make the most of it to the point of sometimes endangering this precious natural resource....
From inside the cockpit, a flight is no longer exactly the same. This series focuses not only on pilots but also on the mythical planes that have graced our skies. During a flight aboard one of these extraordinary aircrafts, we discover the reality, the complexity, the ingenuity of the...
BALI, MYTHICAL ISLAND OF ASIA
Beyond the beaches
At the end of February, Bali dresses itself in its fanciest attire and resurrect its most ancient traditions to duly celebrate the New Year. This is the best time to visit the island and immerse oneself in the very heart of an authentic and less publicized Bali. Shot during the Balinese...
BANGKOK BITES
Death lurks underground
Bangkok is a world metropolis. On the surface, the inhabitants of this tropical Manhattan teem furiously under the sun, but, unlike other big cities, below ground, in dark corners and the damp of the canals, death lurks. Millions of snakes and other venomous creatures lie in wait for...
BANGKOK, CITY OF ANGELS
From modernity to authenticity
Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is a very modern city that has become a vital crossroads in Southeast Asia. It has inherited a rich cultural past which integrated many influences from the region and while overseeing a quasi-futuristic development it has successfully managed to hold down...
BATACLAN GENERATION: HOW DO THEY FACE UP THE TERROR?
Hurt but resourceful
After the attacks of November 13, 2015, that killed 129, the shockwave spread throughout the whole Paris region. This film is an encounter with young people, hurt but resourceful, who have to learn to live with the threat of terrorism.
Understanding Asia best and brightest
What makes someone a genius? What's the definition of talent? This unique 2 hours series explores the genesis of geniuses in Asia, seemingly coinciding with the continent’s rapid growth in the global arena. From Korea to India, Singapore to China, BEAUTIFUL MINDS examines to...
BEHIND THE SCENES OF A PALACE : THE BRISTOL
Standing tall amongst the very few palaces in Paris is the Bristol. It has 200 rooms and suites and a 3-star restaurant headed by chef Eric Fréchon. Its 600 employees offer an unparalleled service for customers willing to pay up to 24,000 euros per night.
BEING JEW IN FRANCE
Is anti-Semitism on the rise again?
Is France entering a new anti-Semitism phase? This is what many French Jews think. Some, feeling threatened, are even choosing exile. To understand their life and the pressure they may be experiencing, we used an innovating approach: we spent 12 hours in the streets of Paris wearing a...
BLACK CODE
When states play Big Brother
This is a gripping account of how governments control and manipulate the internet in order to censor and monitor their citizens. With stories from exiled Tibetan monks trying to circumvent China’s surveillance apparatus, Syrian citizens tortured for Facebook posts, Brazilian...
BOLLYWOOD ON THE ROAD
The silver screen escape
On May 21, 1913, India screened its first film: “Raja Harishchandra“. A hundred years later, the movie industry has grown into a colossal institution. Every day, 30 million people flock to the theaters which sell 5 billion tickets every year. For Indians, movies are more than...
BORNEO DEATH BLOW
The Borneo island is home to the Penan, a blowpipe-hunter tribe who use deadly poison darts to catch their preys and who are experts at building rainproof shelters in under an hour. Their survival skills, nomadic culture and traditional knowledge enable them to be the last tribe remaining...
BRAZIL'S CONQUEST
The horse is the common vector to the conquest of Brazil: he allowed the men to venture always further in search of wealth. As centuries went by, horses adapted to the various regions they settled in, resulting today in 10 different breeds. This constitutes the backbone of this series,...
BRAZILIAN MAZURKA
Memories of a Polish community
In South Brazil, the city of Aura is almost entirely populated with descendants of a Polish community which settled here in 1911. Today, some of them try to keep that history alive so that the grit of these pioneers and the difficulties they had to overcome may serve as an example to all....
BRAZILIAN THIRST
Amongst thorny trees, the land of the Brazilian Robin Hood
Brazil is known as the most water rich country in the world. Nevertheless, the Nordeste suffers chronic droughts. The Sertao, more particularly, is an unforgiving region covered with caatinga, a thorny vegetation in which one can raise only a few animals. It was here that Lampiao, the...
BREATHE: YOGA SAVED MY LIFE
Salvation through yoga
After a risky back surgery, a man in his 40’s ends up paralysed. He’s told that he will never be able to walk again. After years of suffering, he finds a possible path to healing in practising yoga. This inner journey not only brings him back in touch with himself, but also...
BUGS FOR BREAKFAST
A solution to world hunger
Juab, a young farmer from Thailand, wants to start an insect farm. Indeed, many countries consume crickets, spiders, cockroaches, ants and many other species and the benefits to such eating habits are numerous. First, insects are plentiful and using them as food could be a solution to...
BUILDING MODERN PARIS: AN ESOTERIC VISION
An innovative and unexpected policy of large public works
In 14 years of French presidency, François Mitterrand commissioned 11 major works like the Grande Arche de la Défense, the Opéra Bastille or the Louvre Pyramid. Initially, nothing was planned in his campaign promises. His policy of large public works has been...
BUKAS & JOINTS
BUKAS & JOINTS is Africa’s no.1 food and travel TV show that takes viewers on a journey across the continent many countries, exploring and showcasing the rich taste and delight of African cuisine and culture. BUKAS & JOINTS goes beyond the food and interacts with the vibrant...
BURMA, THE GREAT IRRAWADDY PLAIN
A bewildering mix of civilizations
In Southeast Asia, Burma is celebrated for its legendary beauty. The country is literally divided from North to South by the Irrawaddy River and the plain that borders it abounds with gorgeous landscapes and harbors archeological treasures. When exploring the Irrawaddy great plain one...
BUSINESS AT THE BEACH
Summer tourism financial bonanza
For a lot of vacationers, summer means time at the beach. Every year, 35 million tourists, French and foreigners, submerge France seacoasts. For cities and storekeepers they translate into an economic windfall.
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CACHMERE CLOTHES: THE REAL COST OF SOFTNESS
From luxury item to commodity
Soft, chic and elegant, cashmere clothing keeps us warm all winter long. Once quite expensive, these exceptional items are now reasonably priced in stores such as Zara or H&M. How did this product, which for a long time was a status smbol, become affordable? Where does this fibre come...
CANNES: THE REVIVAL OF A LEGENDARY PALACE
One of the jewels of the Croisette
The famous Martinez hotel, renowned for hosting stars and jet-setters, one of the jewels of the Croisette in Cannes, has been completely renovated. Everything has been rebuilt: piping, air conditioning, spa, kitchens, bars and restaurants. Even the pool has been taken down and transform...
CAPRI AND THE ROMANTIC ISLANDS
Fairy tales castles and pristine beaches
The Bay of Naples nestles wonderful islands, the best known being the mythical Capri. With its amazing natural wonders, balmy atmosphere and breathtaking landscapes, it is the essence of the romantic island. The bay also shelters the islands of Ischia and Procida, less visited but equally...
CHARLIE HEBDO: A CHALLENGE FOR SCHOOLS
Educating the youngsters
Since the Charlie Hebdo magazine bloody attack, the French school system has come under heavy scrutiny. Indeed, in a number of schools, the minute of silence has not been respected, freedom of expression was undermined and accusations of conspiracy were made. How do the schools manage the...
CHHAU NACH, ON THE ROAD TO JHARKHAND
The modernizing of a tradition art
An Italian choregraph travels to the Indian tribal areas of West Bengal and Jharkhand, home of an exhausting tribal male dance using enormous masks. Like India, this spectacular art form is in mutation, opening to foreigners and female performers. CHHAU NACH is a colorful journey and a...
CHILD LABOR IN BOLIVIA, THE BROKEN TABOO
A scandal or a necessity ?
Nowadays in Bolivia, children as young as 10-year-old are legally at work. They can be seen everywhere. If this regulation outrages international organisations, the children themselves and their union that led the campaign in favour of lowering the legal working age welcomed it. This law...
Dreaming the future
Kids the world over share a common trait: they all like to dream and fantasize about their future and this series lets them freely share their doubts, frustrations, hopes, expectations for their present days and coming years. Whatever their countries, backgrounds or social status, each of...
CHINA CLOSE-UP
Striving. Living. Loving.
China is steeped in rich history, tradition and culture but with a population of over a billion people, it is also a land where countless personal tales unfold every day. CHINA CLOSE-UP takes an intimate look at stories of love, life and longing providing a riveting insight at the daily...
CHOCOLATE IS THE NEW BLACK GOLD
A guilty pleasure hard to resist
As a Christmas gift, a night craving or a mood booster, chocolate is a man’s best friend. It is a guilty pleasure hard to resist. Chocolate is now flooding Asian countries and these millions of new consumers are raising an issue no one had envisioned: a cocoa shortage, the main...
CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE FOR PRINTEMPS IN PARIS
The magical appeal of window displays
The department store Le Printemps was created more than 150 years ago and is considered an institution in Paris. It is, of course, a temple for shopping but also a real attraction thanks to its spectacular window displays. However, to keep its seductive power, Le Printemps must reinvent...
CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN
Christians in a Muslim country
Contrary to what one might think, Pakistan is home to religious pluralism as evidenced by the diverse and numerous places of worship. This film follows several families belonging to the Christian minority as they prepare for the Christmas festivities. How do they practice their religion...
CLIMATE: WHAT HAS CHANGED
Global warming on the field
Climate change is already in action, as evidenced by the disappearing islands and receding shores. Blind journalist Sophie Massieu sets out to explore the French coasts and inlands to assess the consequences of global warming and meet those who are suffering its consequences.
COBRA GYPSIES
COBRA GYPSIES offers a colorful window into the amazing ancient culture of the nomadic Kalbeliya tribes living in rural Rajasthan, Northern India. A decade ago, their folk songs and dances were declared a part of the Intangible Heritage List by the UNESCO. This film explores their culture...
CRILLON: THE REVIVAL OF A PARISIAN PALACE
On the Place de la Concorde in Paris, Le Crillon is one of the most luxurious hotels in the world. The palace celebrates French civility and welcomes superstars such as Madonna or Mick Jagger. Closed for 4 years for a complete overhaul, the establishment had lost ground to other Parisian...
Unusual public transports
Asia is home to some of the most unique means of transportation. Some are relics of a bygone era while others are products of inventiveness in the face of desperation. All of these weird and wonderful machines are icons of a community, embodying a culture’s identity. CROSSROADS is...
CRUISES, THE HIDDEN FACE
An expensive reality
For many, a trip on a cruise ship means high living and unforgettable holidays. But the reality can be somehow disappointing. This lucrative business, which sometimes costs passengers more than expected, is also seriously damaging the environment.
CRYING OUT LOUD
Tears for sale
The role of professional mourners is dwindling as funeral rites get more sober. CRYING OUT LOUD, a four-part documentary series filmed in India, Vietnam, China and Singapore, profiles people who cry for a living.
DAESH FINANCING SYSTEM
The multinational of terrorism
Led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Daesh is the wealthiest and most powerful terrorist organization in the world with a fortune estimated at $2 billion. In addition to exploiting oil fields and extorting taxes of all kinds, Daesh exports cotton to its Turkish neighbours on a massive scale at...
DEFINITELY FRENCH
A British view on France and its inhabitants
Who are the French? Why are they so peculiar? This country, recently tragically affected, seems to relish standing apart for the better or for the worse. In this short collection, an across-the-Channel director digs into the French paradox by taking an offbeat tour of its quirkiest...
DIM: THE GLAMOROUS HISTORY
Women's liberation through hosiery
The story of Dim is not only an incredible industrial adventure, it’s also about how glamour made its way in advertising, the evolution of fashion, dress codes and women’s liberation. Beyond the pictures of gorgeous legs wearing Dim hosiery, this film also tells the moving...
DOES PRICE HAVE GENDER?
The gender marketing
Pink for girls and blue for boys. These color codes have always defined consumers by sex. However a recent study has revealed that not only manufacturers differentiate products by their customers’ gender but also charge different prices. The medias are taken by storm, social...
DREAM BEACHES OF THE ANDAMAN SEA
Heavenly islands
Southwest Thailand is full of dreamlike islands. Unfortunately, many of them, like Phuket, have fallen prey to mass tourism and consequently lost some of their luster. However, in the Gulf of the Andaman Sea, one could glimpse small pieces of paradise that have escaped the building...
DROUOT: THE TEMPLE OF AUCTIONS
A rare look behind the scenes
Drouot has been the Parisian auction temple for 150 years. 16 rooms, 2,000 m2, 5,000 visitors daily, 600,000 items sold each year, all this under the hammer of the auctioneers. In Drouot one can meet the millionaires looking for the unique and costly object to enrich their collections, or...
EARTH ON EDGE
This series of 30 documentaries focuses on countries facing climate change. People living in Madagascar, in Mexico or in Kenya are suffering from hurricanes, water floods, desertification... Each film will take us to one different country.
EATING LIKE A POPE
Gastronomy in the Vatican
What do popes eat? How do people eat in the Vatican? From Eve’s apple to the miracles, food has always had a special place among Roman Catholics. This film opens the lid on a little known world: the gastronomy of the Vatican.
ECLAIR PASTRY FEVER
One of France’s favourite desserts
Eclairs are amongst France’s favourite desserts. 14 centimetres of dough, custard cream and icing; the basic recipe has not changed in 150 years. Today, this pastry is due for a make-over.
EMOTIONS FOR SALE
Knowing everything about us, even before we know it ourselves
80% of our actions are driven by our emotions. For the giants of Silicon Valley, as well as your local supermarket, understanding and directing them is a major endeavour. The "feel data" business has become the next frontier. Brands are increasingly using neuroscience to decode...
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS
Everyday poisons
Toothpaste, nail polish, hair dye, fruits and vegetables, vacuum cleaners, curtains... All these everyday products carry very harmful chemical pollutants. Pesticides, benzophenone, triphenyl phosphate... These substances with barbaric names are endocrine disrupters, they affect our...
EXPRESS VISITS FOR FOREIGN TOURISTS
The challenge of longer stays
France welcomes millions of tourists every year but most of them only pass by. Indeed, even though the famous landmarks of Paris are a real draw, the city has a lack of hotel rooms. Castles of the Loire Valley are mobbed but the towns nearby and their restaurants remain empty. Foreign...
EXTRAORDINARY ASIANS
The willpower of a few can change the lives of many
Winner of multiple International Awards - including New York Festivals and Cine’s Golden Eagle Awards - EXTRAORDINARY ASIANS is a 10 part documentary series that showcases the amazing achievements of ordinary Asians who are quietly changing and moulding the world around them. Each...
EXTREME PETS
The new trend in Kuwait is to own a feline as pet. Lion, tiger, cheetah, all the rich Kuweti want these big cats in their living room. But they seem to forget that they are wild animals...
FACTORY TOWNS
God created the world and the rest was "Made in China"
Workers were once at the vanguard of the Chinese socialist revolution. Today, they are employed to generate private profits, submitted to state policies, molded to fit the needs of the country's market economy. But behind this new proletariat lie moving human stories. FACTORY TOWNS,...
FARMERS OF THE FUTURE
Citifying agriculture
Singapore occupies a small landmass with no room for farming but yet it happens to be the "garden city" of tomorrow. Indeed, the intense urbanization called for the testing of new models of citified agriculture; in other words experimentation of vegetable gardens and farms on...
FILET OH! FISH
Food from troubled waters
Everyone agrees that fish is healthy. In 40 years, global consumption has doubled. Every year, the market needs to find more fish and new production methods. Where does the fish in our sushi come from? How is it fed? In what water does it live? A dramatic investigation into...
FLAVORS : THE HALF HOUR COLLECTION
FLORENCE, A GIFTED CITY
The symbol of Italian Renaissance
Florence is the symbol of the Italian Renaissance and one of the most exquisite cities in the world. This jewel of Tuscany owes its unequalled beauty to the colossal fortunes of merchant dynasties, like the Medicis, who hired the services of the greatest artists and geniuses of their time...
Mixing the old with the new
From the jungles of Borneo and Papua, the cultural bylanes of Indonesia and Thailand, from the age-old Geisha tradition in Japan to bold experiments in Singapore, outstanding people are breaking new grounds and pushing the limits, just FOR ART’S SAKE.
FORTUNES FROM FUN
From vision to fruition
“Fun” (or, more loosely, “happiness”) is like a commodity, intangible though it may be. However, it can lead to successful business stories by making it the keystone of a product, an experience or a brand. This series goes behind the scenes to uncover the vision,...
FREEDOM VS SECURITY: THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN FRANCE
How far are we willing to go to feel safe?
Following the tragic events of Paris on November 13, 2015, a state of emergency has been declared in France. But what does it really mean? Strengthening border controls, increasing the number of searches, intensifying intelligence gathering, deploying police and security forces in the...
FRENCH MUSLIMS: A BITTER AFTERMATH
A feeling of exclusion
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, what is life like for the French Muslims who joined the January 11 mass rally? Facing a wave of Islamophobic acts of unprecedented scale, these French people are experiencing feelings of exclusion, withdrawal and dereliction by the...
FUTUROPOLIS
Mapping the city of tomorrow
More than any city in the world, Singapore is a laboratory for urban development and the best place to figure out how life will look like in the megacities at the end of the 21st century. With extensive computer generated imagery [CGI], FUTUROPOLIS explores the concepts, ideas and...
GAME LIFE - A RECORD OF CHINA'S E-SPORTS INDUSTRY
In recent years, China's electronic sports is developing at a rapid speed, presenting the miracle of the rise of an industry. From the breathtaking global entertainment to the performance of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, competitive video gaming is becoming a new sport. However,...
The best kept secret in the Caucasus
Situated at a crossroad between Europe and Asia, Georgia has been invaded by Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks, Mongols and Bolsheviks; but no one has been able to crush the energy and artistic creativity of a people who consider dance and wine to be the expression of its Caucasian...
GIANT AQUARIUMS, THE RACE TO THRILLS
A dive into the fascinating world of modern arenas
Today, more than 40 giant aquariums compete for 3 million tourists who come to admire the marine fauna. To attract them, these destinations are going after the ultimate star: the shark. Casting a squale means, at least, 20% more visitors per year. But to work it must be a massive and...
GOLD OF BENGAL
Self-sufficiency at sea
In Bangladesh, the young engineer Corentin de Chatelperron and his team have designed a sailboat made entirely out of jute fiber and christened it “Gold of Bengal”. But beyond the challenge based on the material used for the construction, Corentin's goal is to achieve...
GOLDEN GOLD
From the financial market to the mines
The economic turmoil has given new life to gold as the thirst for this metal seems inextinguishable and has consequences all over the world. Indeed, this infatuation has unintended consequences. For instance, gold fever among the London bankers endangers an Indonesian tropical paradise...
GRANDPAS AND GRANDMAS ARE FLIRTING
Senior love
While teenagers are just beginning to experience love, their grandparents are still going strong. At age 69, 75% of men and 43% of women are still sexually active. Dating sites targeting seniors are booming, as well as travel agencies for elder singles. Over the last ten years, the number...
GREENLAND: WHERE ICEBERGS ARE BORN
The white adventure of a father and his 2 sons
Somewhere in the Great North there is a secret place where icebergs are born. This is where the icecap frees them and let them drift as ephemeral giants of the oceans. Pierre and his two sons, aged 11 and 15, have decided to reach this magical location. This 400 kms journey will see them...
HALAL TOURISM
Business and religion intertwine
Separate pools and spa facilities for men and women, buffets certified without pork or alcohol, prayer timings announced: more and more agencies offer this kind of travel experiences which embraces Islam precepts. This is a new way of travelling - across Austria, France, Turkey and...
HANIEF, LORD OF KASHMIR
Job hopping in the Himalayas
Mohamad Hanief shares his life between the valley of Kashmir, where his family resides, and Gulmarg, a mountain resort perched at an altitude of 3000 meters on the slopes of the Himalayas. Despite being located in one of the most militarized area in the world, Gulmarg is very popular year...
HEDONISTIC HAVANA
The country of revolution and music
Havana, capital of Cuba, is an exceptional town. From the Conquistadors to the Revolutionaries, it has been at the crossroads of American and African cultures. Its history also follows the steps of the great movie stars of Hollywood Golden Years or the ghosts of Al Capone, Meyer Lansky or...
HERITAGE HEROES
Revamping historical neighborhoods
Whether restoring ancestral homes in China, revitalizing a derelict railway line in New York or renovating colonial seafront buildings in Zanzibar, HERITAGE HEROES scours the world for the people and organizations responsible for rescuing, safeguarding and reviving our built heritage....
HIMALAYAS, THE LOST VALLEYS OF PALDAR
The majesty of the mountains
In the heart of the Himalayas, there are still some forgotten valleys such as those of Paldar. Hard to reach, they were known for their sapphire mines, but the 1990’s Kashmir conflict plunged into oblivion this singular region nicknamed "the Himalayan Switzerland" because...
HITLER'S MEIN KAMPF: A DANGEROUS BOOK
Why do the author's thoughts remain so fascinating?
The State of Bavaria prohibited MEIN KAMPF at the end of World War II. In 2016, 70 years after the death of his author, the book entered into the public domain. Several questions arise with it: why does the book remain so dangerous? Why do Hitler’s thoughts remain so fascinating? In...
My roots are here
Home. There is no place like it anywhere in the world. Cooking, eating, resting… it is at home that the simple activities of life occur, forming the everyday scenes that however differ from place to place. Homes could be mud huts in the grasslands, bamboo houses over the waters or...
HOMES OF BRAZIL
Welcome into my world
In Brazil, every city has its own atmosphere, style and charm. You can visit all the landmarks you want but how often are you allowed to enter private homes? Who wouldn’t want to push open some of these closed doors to peek inside and discover firsthand what’s behind the...
HONEY WAR
The bees are a dying species yet in France 45,000 tons of honey are consume every year. Beekeepers produce only 10,000 tonnes, three times less than 30 years ago. Where do the other 35,000 tonnes come from? It is difficult to know because indications on their origin are scarce. Half of...
HOPEFUL EARTH
Tomorrow energies
This series travels around the world to meet the people who create the energies of tomorrow through unusual ideas. An extraordinary journey in 8 different countries to unearth imaginative solutions to the present energy and environmental issues.
HORSES BY THE THOUSANDS
A gaucho celebration
Every year, in Tacuarembo, in the north of Uruguay, the gauchos gather to celebrate their culture and traditions. This event is called the “patria gaucha". For a week, they engage in all sorts of equestrian games, for all to see that they are the best horseriders in the world....
HOW FRENCH MEN LIKE IT
Men's dreams
A liberating, entertaining and informative documentary road movie across France on male pleasure and desire. Boastful or shy, what do men dream of? What do they really like? This film presents a playful and surprising overview of men's sexuality. Can we talk freely about it with them...
HOW FRENCH WOMEN LIKE IT
A liberating, entertaining and informative documentary road movie about women’s pleasure and desire across France. A sex odyssey told by women, commented by pundits and carried out by a 100% female team. This film presents a playful and surprising overview of women's sexuality....
I LOVE MY BAG
An iconic object
Dangling on women’s arms, ubiquitous in magazines and on catwalks, the handbag has come to define elegance. It’s also reflects the personality of its owner through what it holds and hides. Through encounters with anonymous people or celebrities, this film attempts to pierce...
I LOVE MY BAG (SPANISH VERSION)
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GURU NANAK
The Sikh religion founder
“Man is not born free. He is born to free himself.” This sentence is attributed to the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak. This film is about the last great monotheistic religion that was born in the 15th century in the region of Punjab, Pakistan. Guru Nanak is the first spiritual...
IN THE HEART OF THE MEKONG DELTA
A vital plain
Formed by the muddy deposits carried by one of the biggest river in the world, the Mekong delta is characterized by its extraordinary fertility. Here Nature is overwhelming and the vegetation exuberant. Its 9 branches delineate a vast and extremely fertile plain crossed by a dense network...
INCREDIBLE BEAUTY CONTESTS
Looks and beyond
In this series, being beautiful covers widely different meanings as each episode follows a contestant in his or her search for recognition: a young man entering the Mister International contest, a grandma trying to sparkle her way to the Miss Senior America crown, a spoiled english girl...
INSIDE CHINESE FOOTBALL
The soccer business sees red
« For a European, a Chinese football game has no interest.” Philippe Troussier, French coach of Shenzhen Football Club. “We play football like Brazilians play table tennis; even worse since Brazilians play a better table tennis than we us football.” Li Weifang,...
INSIDE MARINELAND
Diving backstage alongside the stars
This film dives backstage alongside dolphins, killer whales and polar bears to discover how they prepare for the famous water ballets that fascinate so many families. Besides the animals, the most important characters of the Marineland are the keepers who know these mammals so well and...
INSIDE THE BEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD
Located at 42 avenue Gabriel, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, halfway between rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and Avenue Montaigne, is a small jewel nestled in the swankiest part of the city. The imposing scarlet red carriage door open on the smallest Parisian Palace. With only 46...
At the heart of elite units
The 13th RDP of the French Special Forces. The SWAT from Miami. The Star & Rescue from Singapore. Each of these structures has its own training and intervention techniques. In this doculmentary series, Alain Figlarz, a martial arts expert and renowned stuntman for cinema, infiltrates...
INSTANT BADASS
From the street to the cage
Away from the postcard image of Bangkok exists a world of violence and social antagonism. Joe created the first Street Fight club in Bangkok, providing a space for anyone to come and experience fighting. Operating on the fringe of society, and considered by most to be thugs, these young...
IREZUMI, THE JAPANESE ART OF TATTOO
Because of its association with the obscure world of the yakusas – the Japanese mafias – the traditional art of tatoo, known as Irezumi, is a contreversial component of Japan’s cultural heritage. It is nevertheless a source of fascination and a striking illustration of...
ISLAND OF THE KING BUFFALO
A 52’ Documentary in HD
Marajo is the world’s biggest river island, nestled at the mouth of the Amazon. This is a place out of time where being laidback is a way of life. People brace themselves for a hypothetic touristic boom while raising a singular animal which ended there 200 years ago : the buffalo....
JAPAN BACK TO THE ROOTS
The Golden Week pilgrimage
In Japan, April means spring, cherry trees blossoming and the “Golden Week”, when people take that rare vacation and use that free time to go back to their roots. The Japanese are fascinated with their history and many of them chose to delve into a past dominated by Samurais...
JAPAN BY GERARD DEPARDIEU
A globetrotting movie star
French actor Gérard Depardieu is an experienced globetrotter and a lover of Japan. He once owned a Japanese grocery store in Paris. In this series, he offers a new way to look at the land of the Rising Sun in a new way. He takes us to 5 different regions of Japan to discover their...
JAPAN SECRET ISLANDS
Time travelling in the middle of the Pacific
Japan is composed of four main islands that are a showcase of the future. It is also surrounded by thousands of islets lost in the middle of the sea and frozen in time. The discovery of four of them makes for an exhilarating journey full of natural beauties and spiritual experiences. Be...
JOBLESS IN FRANCE, PROSTITUTES IN BELGIUM
Necessity knows no laws
An active sex ring exists between France and Belgium. In Flanders, just 15 minutes from Lille, 70% of the prostitutes are French. To make ends meet, they work in brothels in Belgium. They are unemployed saleswomen, part-time nurses, even graduates. They entered this profession as a...
JOURNEY ALONG THE LOIRE RIVER
Drifting on the river of the Kings
The last untamed great river of Western Europe, the Loire is the symbolic partition between northern and southern France. Drifting from where it originates all the way to where it ends in the Atlantic Ocean is an exhilarating journey through many unexpected landscapes, rich natural...
KAMLAHARI: THE STOLEN CHILDHOOD OF NEPAL
Sold as modern day slaves by their own families
In the Teraï region of Nepal, many young girls confront a harrowing destiny: they are sold off as modern day slaves by their own families. These girls, called "Kamlahari", are deprived of their childhood, kindred and education and doomed by ancient traditions to be...
KUMBH MELA
The biggest and most colorful pilgrimage on earth
For Hindus, the once every 12 years Kumbh Mela is the ultimate pilgrimage. It is during this event that the Amrita, the precious nectar of immortality, resurfaces from one of India’s sacred rivers. During Kumbh Mela, the city of Allahabâd and its 1.5 million residents inflates...
LA HISTORIA GLAMOROSA DE DIM
LAKE LUGU’S LOVERS
The world's last matriarchal society
Imagine a civilization where there is no marriage, free love, where men do little work, don’t inherit property and where women head families and manage the economy. Enter the Women’s Kingdom of the Mosuos in China and follow an unusual love story in the world's last...
The Land of a Million Elephants
Nestled between Thailand, Viet Nam and China, Laos was for a very long time a country shrouded in mystery, cut off from the outside world. Today, it is a dream-like destination thanks to a population made up of 130 ethnic groups living harmoniously as well as stunning nature and...
LAOS, ALONG THE MEKONG
An outstanding destination in High Definition
In the shadows of its giant neighbours, Vietnam and Thailand, Laos is one of the best kept secrets of Southeast Asia. Low key but full of treasures, "the Land of a Million Elephants" offers a multitude of exhilarating experiences from the old-fashioned charm of its capital,...
LE BON MARCHE: CHRISTMAS HOURS
One of the most famous department stores in Paris
Founded in 1838 as a small shop, Le Bon Marché is without a doubt one of the most famous of all department stores in Paris. Comes Christmas time, it never disappoints with its giant centrepiece suspended in the middle of the store or its famous Yuletide pop-up stores. Immerse...
LEGEND OF FRUITS
The wonders of nature's diversity
LEGEND OF FRUITS is an epic series unveiling the unique stories of more than 40 different kinds of fruits from all corners of the world. Shot across 15 countries and 50 cities, we explore the how and why of our relationship to fruits and our love for them. Thanks to cutting-edge...
LEGO: THE GOLDEN BRICKS
The world's most famous toy empire
Every hour, more than 7 million bricks and figurines are sold under the Lego name, the most famous toy brand in the world. 80 years after its creation, the company is doing better than ever and has become a world leader. This film takes us behind the scenes of this empire: the historic...
LET'S DO IT TOGETHER
Unity is power! As the old saying goes, two is better than one. Another way to put it: what a group of people is able to do surpasses one’s ability and capability. Each episode showcases one community in a given country that is keeping a tradition alive, an activity that brings...
LU, A COOKIE STORY
170 years and counting
The LU brand was founded in 1846 by a couple working from a small pastry shop in Nantes. This film tells the story of one of the most famous French industrial adventures that has lasted for more than 170 years.
MACAROON MADNESS
Haute couture patisserie
After wine and cheese, the macaroon is the new flagship of French gastronomy. It has become the fashionable pastry. More than 510 million are sold every year. The origin of this success can be traced to the legendary Parisian tea salon, Ladurée. Ever since, the macaroon is...
MACAU FROM ABOVE - PORTUGUESE TRAILER
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MADE IN ABBEY
Reconciling religion and economy
Wines, liquors, jams, cheeses... French monastery products are real businesses and can be found in online shops, grocery stores even supermarkets. Monks and nuns may well have taken a vow of poverty, but they need money and the communities can only rely on themselves and the...
MADE IN KYOTO
Kyoto's allure lies not only in its shrines and temples or the elegance of the city. For more than a millennium since the year 794, Kyoto flourished as the capital, leading the way in the arts, architecture and commerce. The essence of Japanese culture was born in Kyoto, and has been...
MAGNIFICA ITALIA
The most beautiful country from above
MAGNIFICA ITALIA is a blue chip “Italy from above” series with a majority of stunning aerial views shot in full HD completed with ground level footage of celebrity testimonies, portraits of local craftsmen, artists, cooks, etc... From Venice to Rome, Sicily and Tuscany, each...
MALI, IN THE NAME OF SHARIA
The Islamic yoke
They cut the hands of thieves, veil women, prohibit music and dance ... This is an exclusive report from northern Mali where Islamist extremists have imposed their laws. A vision of Islam that many Malians do not adhere to so they flee to the capital, Bamako, where they can still enjoy...
MARAMURES, A CIVILIZATION OF WOOD
The ultimate timberland
In Nortwhest Romania, Maramures is certainly one of the most authentic and preserved region of Europe. With half of its territory covered with forests, Maramures is home to a civilisation of wood. It is everywhere from churches to houses, from imposing portals to delicate artworks. In the...
MARION MARÉCHAL-LE PEN, THE NEW HEIR
She won’t be a lame duck
She embodies the third generation of a political dynasty. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen was immersed in the Front National environment since childhood. Jean-Marie Le Pen’s granddaughter did not get the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in the last elections, but she...
Our planet is a giant patchwork of gardens and orchards in which men grow their daily food, depending on the seasons and the fertility of soils. The resulting produces are sold in local markets, sometimes it can be just a few tomatoes on the ground as in Madagascar or overflowing shelves...
MASTERS OF TEA
A cultural beverage
After water, tea is the most ingested beverage in the world. Although common, tea requires extensive labor to make it grow, harvest its leaves and transform them. Like wine in Europe, there is a deep seated tea tradition in Asia where special vintages, prime growing areas, centuries old...
MEETING THE PAPUAN
Kelly Woolford, an explorator, is guiding an intrepid family of navigators deep inside the Wapoga river in Papua, on the Indonesian side of the island once known as Irian Jaya. They have come to meet little-known tribes, such as the Tause, whom Kelly has already stumbled upon. This is the...
MEMORIES OF OCEANIA
The last aboriginal tribes
Betty and Jacques Villeminot are 2 of the most prestigious pioneers of ethnographic cinema. They have spent all their lives in traditional societies of Oceania. This series centers on their voyages to explore the aboriginal way of life of Papuan and Australian tribes in New Guinea and the...
A 2-year journey from misery to disenchantment
2013. Five young Afghans decide to take a shot at a better life and migrate to Europe, more specifically Paris their dream destination. Then begins a two-year 12,000 kms long journey, across six borders and full of first times: the ocean, girls in mini-skirts, bars, skyscrapers…...
MISSIONS OF HOPE
Change actors
From Asia to Latin America, this series takes us around the world to encounter actors committed to sustainable development through active associations or innovative ideas. Meeting these unique characters give us the opportunity to experience their lifestyle and understand what drives them...
A beautifully scented treasure from Tahiti
Monoï is an infused perfume oil made from soaking the petals of Tahitian gardenias (best known as Tiaré flowers) in coconut oil. Over the past 2,000 years, it has been used by the people of Tahiti as a skin and hair softener. Nowadays it is one of the main local exports under...
MOVIE STAR ANIMALS
From training to shootings
The dogs Rin-tin-tin-tin, Lassie and Beethoven, killer whale Willy, piglet Babe and many other animals have long since joined the pantheon of great movie stars. Behind these star animals are men and women who, far from fame, are driven by passion, determination and patience. In France,...
NAIL POLISH RESURGENCE
The colours of success
Nail polish is enjoying a resurgence worldwide. Long regarded as a basic beauty accessory, it is now very trendy. With nearly 10 million bottles sold in 2011, it is the flagship product of fashion. In France alone nail polish is a prosperous market of around 74 million euros.
Nudists vs. libertines
The nudist village of Cap d'Agde has a sulphurous reputation. The media present it as the place of all excesses, the rendez-vous for swingers from all over the world. Beyond the nudist/libertine divide, this film gives us an understanding of the history of this village, the...
NAMIBIA, TIMELESS AFRICA
The ever changing country
Little-known and strikingly beautiful, Namibia amazes by the vastness and splendor of its endless landscapes. To survive under such a harsh climate, life here had to adapt: a day of wind or an hour of rain is all it takes to change the scenery dramatically. From scorching red deserts to...
NATIVE VISIONS
The insiders' point of view
The collection NATIVE VISIONS seeks to help those peoples that are threatened with cultural extinction by recording their history and creating an account of their oral literature, cultural knowledge and ancestral traditions. The film-making uses an unusual approach by inviting the native...
NAURU THE LOST ISLAND
A riches to rags story of wasted resources
Lost In the Pacific Ocean, Nauru island is deemed the smallest republic in the world. The island spread only over 21 square kilometers but its 10,000 inhabitants grew rich in the 70’s thanks to large reserves of phosphate. 20 years later it is all gone and Nauru is totally broke....
NECESSITY, MOTHER OF INVENTION
Making ends meet in Vietnam
In the heart of Vietnam, Mr. Quang has developed treasures of imagination to overcome his lack of financial means and make a decent living for his family. He found ingenious solutions to make the best out of the natural resources around him: he produces biogas from his pigs manure, feeds...
In Nepal, ancestral customs are the highlights of numerous religious festivals that attract huge crowds. They take place in magnificent temples, where sadhus, monks who have renounced all material ties, officiate. In this film, we follow Shivadas who treks along dizzyingly steep trails in...
NEW WORLD WITHOUT STRANGERS
The new collaborative economy explained by Henry Golding (''Crazy Rich Asians'')
The concept of sharing within communities isn’t something new. In fact, it goes back thousands of years, to a time when people didn’t really have much. Nowadays, this notion has made a comeback but with a twist. Welcome to the age of the "collaborative economy”....
NICOLAS HULOT: THE GREEN EFFECT
Counselor French Presidents of all stripes
When it comes to the environment, Nicolas Hulot, a very popular French explorer, has been counseling French Presidents of all stripes for more than 20 years. That has led some to accused him of switching from one political side to another without shame. What are the real impacts of his...
NOMADS, THE GENERATION AFTER
The Himalayas today
In the Indian region of Laddkah, into the heart of the Himalayas, a few thousands nomadic sheppperds still live with their herds at an altitude of 4500 meters. Through the daily life of a Tibetan family, we try to understand the deep changes these people are confronting. Their 14 year old...
NORTH KOREA, THE GREAT ILLUSION
Beyond the propaganda
In 2011, the sudden death of Kim Jung Il brought to power his Western educated son and basket-ball fan Kim Jun-un, 30. But very quickly any hope of liberalization raised by the new leadership faded in front of the dictatorial logic of the first communist dynasty in History. This is the...
NOSTALGIC SHOPS
Driven by passion - Also available as 12x13mn
They are bookseller, hairdresser, haberdasher, grocer... This series paints the portrait of merchants who, against all odds, carry on their activities despite the daily difficulties and competition from the Internet and supermarkets. We travel all over France to meet the men and women who...
For over 4 months, a silent crowd sat every evening on the Place de la République, in Paris, at the foot of Marianne. All shared the same anger, ideal and desire to reclaim politics from the established parties and regain control of their fate. This movement, known as "Nuit...
OCEAN'S CARTELS
The oceans are the new Wild West
One fish out of five comes from illegal fishing. It is an ecological scandal with serious environmental consequences. Some species are endangered. And, as Paul Watson from Sea Shepherd NGO says, "If the ocean dies, we die". But this business also hides a human tragedy. Aboard...
A fragile environment
The mountains are assuredly a fragile environment that encompasses adventure, heritage, science, wildlife, research for tomorrow.
ON THE WINE ROAD
The world most beautiful and unusual vineyards
Over the years, a wine culture has emerged almost everywhere in the world and is no longer limited to France or Italy. To make great wine depends not only on the characteristics of the soil but also on factors such as climate and latitude. Whether in India, New Zealand or Argentina,...
Through a montage of compelling videos posted on the Internet by young gays, bis, lesbians or transsexuals, OUT makes us experience from within the groundbreaking moment of their coming out – after which their intimate and social life shall be forever changed.
PARIS, CITY OF BLIGHTS?
The wild underground
The French capital is swarming with prolific, sometimes disturbing, hidden life. From the world of sewers filled with rats to the subway kingdom of the cicadas, we take a deep breath and plunge into the weird and grim jungle of the Parisian underworld. Strangely, these creatures we see as...
POISON IN OUR HOMES (THE)
Daily life hazards
Without knowing it, we use every day products that pollute our home. When we buy a liquid of maintenance for floors, we have in our hands a cocktail of VOC (volatile organic compound). When we acquire a piece of furniture, he is often agglomerated wood and releases in the atmosphere of...
POLYNESIA, THE PEARL OF THE PACIFIC
Polynesia… The name sounds like a sensual and mysterious invitation. Ever since they were discovered by the first explorers, these small islands, gently strewn on the vast Pacific Ocean, have fascinated by their beauty and evoqued the myth of paradise on earth. Yet these...
QUAND LA GALETTE FAIT DES ROIS !
L’Épiphanie est une tradition à laquelle les Français ne dérogent pas. Vedette dans les rayons et les boulangeries, la galette des rois se vend par millions chaque année. Les Français en dégustent plus de 30 millions chaque...
RACISM THE DARK FACE OF BRAZIL
An underlying tension that permeates the whole society
While Brazil elects a far-right President, this film focuses on the humiliations suffered by the destitute. How are they viewed by the rest of the population? Is the fear felt by the privileged justified? Thought in-depth interviews and testimonies, this much needed film shows how race...
Are they a health hazard?
In the last 30 years cooking time has been cut by half in developed countries. Fixing diner today often means warming up food contained in a plastic pouch, a can or a brick. In a world where every minute counts, ready-made meals enjoy a scalding success. You can’t argue the...
READY TO WEAR: THE NEW TRENDS
The world's largest concept store
25 years after its creation, Who's Next is the leading international women's fashion event in Europe. Twice a year, in Paris, this 4 days show brings together nearly 50,000 visitors and about 1,500 brands. More than just a trade fair, Who's Next is a source of inspiration...
The last of the traditional peoples
In many places on our planet, the last of the traditional peoples are confronted to the forces of globalisation. This collection, RESISTANCE, offers a glimpse into these ancestral societies and their struggle to exist and maintain their differences and precious customs.
RITOMA
Where Basketball meets Tibet
The Tibetan Plateau is one the world's highest and largest and home to the village Ritoma which inhabitants struggle to keep their nomadic culture alive while embracing modern world, notably in the form of their new found passion: basketball. Helped by an American coach, the...
ROMA IN FRANCE
The other face of the country of the human rights
One night, Colette sees from her window a big fire in a wasteland across the road. She decides to go see and is greeted by a Gypsy family from Romania. Touched by Eva, Sami and their two children, she decides to help them. Although, over time, life conditions improve somewhat, the...
SAMURAI CASTLES
Part fortresses, part palaces
After 5 years of restoration, Japan proudly celebrates the reopening of the Himeji Castle, a recently added World Heritage UNESCO site. Too often mistaken for temples, Japanese castles are an integral part of the history of the country. Their slender architecture impressed the first...
SANTORINI, A VOLCANIC JEWEL
The myth of Atlantis
In Greece, amongst the gorgeous Cycladic islands one stands out for its uniqueness: Santorini. No mere island, it is in fact a huge volcano which caldera delineates simply the most splendid bay in the world. Its inhabitants have always lived under the threat of an eruption but, with time,...
SAVING THE CHIMPS
A sanctuary for broken primates
How did Bobby, the gentle chimpanzee, managed to pull through after years caged up in isolation in biomedical labs? How did space-chimp Emily, trained to test space capsules and rockets, survived her stressful NASA training program? Appalled by such treatment, Carole Noon decided to help...
SCHOOL OF CRIME
Major in: profiling, sex crime, investigation, money laundering...
Montreal is home to one of the most prestigious school in criminology. This is where young students eager to devote their life to the quest of truth and justice are being exposed to the very same techniques used by the heroes of investigative American series. SCHOOL OF CRIME follows 6...
SECRETS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
A place frozen in time
Isolation is the main characteristic of Ushuaia, a city located in remote south of Patagonia, also known as la Tierra del Fuego. This is where the Selkan and Yamanas tribes have been living since this place started to be inhabited more than 6,000 years ago. Until the 19th century, their...
An odyssey to rediscover nature
Veterinarian, biologist and adventurer Mannaïg de Kersauson travels the world in search of men and women who work to repair the damages inflicted upon the environment. She is on the lookout for ways, new and old, mankind has found for living in harmony with nature. She talks to...
SHOULD WE BELIEVE IN GHOSTS ?
Many people think it is likely that there is life after death. Every year, many witness unexplained noises, disappearing objects and suspicious appearances in their own homes. Events to which they find no explanation except that of ghostly demonstrations. To get rid of these spirits, some...
SMILE, YOU'RE ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR
A tourists' magnet
The Hmong live in North Vietnam. Rejected by the locals and long persecuted by the government, they perpetuate ancestral traditions while becoming in recent years a magnet for tourists seeking exotic memories captured with their cameras. Easy income does improve their daily lives but will...
SO BRITISH! ECCENTRIC UK
Quirky ways to have fun
Is it that famous sense of humour or is it the weather? Or is it because they live on an island? Whatever the reason, our British friends have developed all kinds of weird hobbies over the centuries, and they're still at it today, as the UK has become the international headquarters...
SRI LANKA, THE PRECIOUS ISLAND
The Indian Ocean paradise
It has been called the "Teardrop of India" or the "Radiant Island". Sri Lanka, the former Ceylon, goes by many names, all of which well deserved. With its pristine beaches, tea plantations and historical sites, this island located in the Indian Ocean offers a wealth of...
STORY OF A GIANT
Sailing Indonesia
This is the story of a dream come true for Michel Deville thanks to the Suku Konjo, a tribe from Sulawesi Island renowned for its excellence in the construction of wooden sailing ships. The "Waow" is the biggest such ship ever built with traditional methods in Indonesia.
TANZANIA, STONE HUNTERS
The chrysoprase, a semi-precious stone
Dimitri Manthéakis, a fifth generation Tanzanian of Greek origin, he has been crisscrossing the country for 40 years in search of precious stones such as rubies, spinels, diamonds or sapphires. Thanks to its local network, Dimitri discovered a few years ago a vein of a...
TASHI DELEK
A teenager conflict between spiritualism and materialism
Tashi is like any teenager: he loves to play football, have fun with his friends and listen to pop music. But, unlike other teenagers, he is also a monk studying at the Pema Tsal Sakya Buddhist Monastery in the Himalayas. Soon, Tashi will face the most important decision in his life,...
TASHI DELEK (SUBTITLED VERSION)
TASTING BRAZIL
The samba gastronomy
Bel Coelho, a celebrity chef in Brazil, draws inspiration from her country’s culinary history. Travelling from one region to another, she unveils traditional recipes and ritual practices that reveal how local gastronomy is a stew made of identities, emotions and oddities. Brazil is...
TASTY JOURNEY
A culinary tour around Asia
TASTY JOURNEY is a culinary tour around Asia to uncover the many flavours and delicacies that define the very identity of a region, the lifestyle of its people as well as the many ways in which eating habits and cities give shape to one another. Following the tracks of famous Thai foodie...
TAXI TO ASIA
Follow the driver
Taxi drivers are probably the first people you meet upon setting foot in a new country but also the most colorful and clued-in characters. TAXI TO ASIA is the first travelogue to tap the lively personalities of these informal ambassadors with their huge personal treasure trove of tested...
TECHNOSEX
How will sex be like in the future?
New technology is everywhere around us. At work, during our downtime and now it’s even invading our beds: vibrating underwear, connected sex toys, sex robots… Ecstasy is turning high-tech. Soon we will experience remote love making, bliss will be virtual and humanoids would...
THAILAND, THE ORCHID OF ASIA
The land of smiles
Praised for its gentle lifestyle, Thailand is the country of smiles, kindness, exotic flavors and saffron colored robes walking by modern high rises. But what fascinate travellers the most are the country luxuriant nature, stunning beaches, rich culture and genial spirituality. From the...
THE 2 WORLDS OF THE PYGMIES
The forest experts
In North Congo lives one of the last Pygmy community of Africa. Evicted from the deep forests which sheltered them, they have to coexist with the Bantus who are quite suspicious of these little men. Yet the Pygmies’ knowledge of the forest is unparallel and a factor of integration....
THE AMBASSADORS OF HOPE
One cause, one celebrity
AMBASSADORS OF HOPE is a series about female celebrities that are involved in charities. They may be famous but also committed to the point that they don’t hesitate to shed their polished public image to go in the field to help raise awareness. For these ambassadors, speaking for...
THE ARM DEALERS' TRASH CANS
Are outdoor tests harmful?
Each year, various weapons are being tested on military zones in Europe. Near Bourges, France, the army has exploded thousands of shells with depleted uranium. In Sardinia, Italy, tens of thousands of missiles have been launched, in the open air, by NATO armies and arms manufacturers. In...
THE ART OF NAPPING
Siesta time around the world
Taking a nap is the ultimate symbol of holidays, especially on the beach. Though in some countries, like Spain, it is a well-known daily custom, in some less anticipated countries like China it is quite usual for workers to stop in the middle of the day to snooze, sometimes even right on...
THE ART OF NEGOCIATION
The search for the best price
With the financial crisis, people have been trying to spend as little as possible. The buyer is now in constant search for the best price, comparing, negotiating with merchants or accumulating coupons, all to improve his purchasing power. The Internet has also lifted a taboo: these...
THE BACKWATERS OF KERALA
The labyrinth of the Gods
In southwest India, the State of Kerala shelters the Backwaters, a dense network of canals digged in the 19th century by the British to irrigate ricefields. Along the 1,800 kms of river banks, hindus, muslims and catholics live side by side in perfect harmony, brought together by work in...
THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF POULAIN CHOCOLATE
Between know-how and modernity
While Poulain chocolate is still one of the favourite brands in France, little is known about the story of its discreet founder, Victor-Auguste Poulain. Yet his life was singular. Born in 1825, in a large and destitute family, nothing prepared him to become one of the best chocolate...
THE BICYCLE DIARIES
Asia winding roads
Everything goes fast, including our travelling and visiting. But there is no substitute for discovering a country to the “go slow” approach. Journeying at a leisurely pace, one memorable moment at a time, one encounter at a time. And when such an endeavor is undertaken by...
THE BUSINESS OF HAVING A COLD
A persistent infection
We catch a cold at least three times a year, but with over 150 different kinds it’s impossible to create a universal vaccine. That’s the reason why it has become big business for the pharmaceutical industry. Every year, several new wonder drugs are created and they all make us...
THE BUSINESS OF INTERNET REVIEWS
A skewed reading
Nowadays, in order to choose a restaurant, a washer or a phone, almost everyone read the online consumers’ reviews before making a decision. However, studies show that one out of two reviews is a fake. They are written by ill-intentioned competitors or sometimes bought from...
THE CHINESE WHITE GOLD
Winter sports Wild East
Chinese new middle class can now enjoy a sport they knew nothing about until recently : skiing. And they love it! This is not about trying some daredevil manoeuvres on the runs; so far skiing remains a quiet family experience. However, this craze has led to a shortage of adequate...
THE CHOCOLATE SHORTAGE
Growing demand in the face of disorganized producers
A chocolate crisis is looming. The cocoa tree is a fragile and low yield tree. The plantations are rustic and aging. Producing countries are often unstable and poorly organized. However, investments are pouring in because of heavy speculation in the face of the dramatic increase in...
THE COOLNESS BUSINESS
The truth about air conditioning
In summer, some love to bask in the sun but for those who dread the heat there is only one solution: invest in an air conditioner. Sales of these machines have gone through the roof in France since the heat wave of 2003. But when you are ready to make a purchase, the choice can be quite...
THE COURTROOM BUFFS
Justice as a show
In the courthouses a micro-society has developed, a coterie made up of people from every walk of life who attend trials in much the same way as others go to shows, plays or movies. This foray into the world of courtroom buffs introduces us to a host of colorful, fascinating, even touching...
THE FORGOTTEN VOICES
Endangered Primary Peoples
This collection presents the cultures, traditions and disappearing ways of life of the last hunter-gatherers or nomadic tribes of the world. Each film strives for sincerity, without staging or altering the reality faced by these people. The aim here is to preserve, for future generations,...
THE GAUCHA PRINCESS
European aristocracy in Latin America
Princess Laetitia d’Arenberg arrived in Uruguay at age 7 when her parents emigrated from Europe fearing a third World War. She immediately felt in love with the open spaces and dreamed of one day running her own ranch where she would raise cattle and horses. Nowadays, Las Rosas is...
THE GLOBE TROTTER FAMILY
Growing Up Travelling
Carine, Emmanuel and their little Lou are an unusual family. The parents, who are accomplished athletes, have decided to show their daughter the world from her early years while fulfilling their passion for watersports. But they aren’t into senseless travelling and are eager to give...
THE HIDDEN SIDE OF GOOGLE
"Do no Evil". Really?
Google is the richest search engine company in the world and has become ubiquitous to the point of being used as a verb. Searching the net, sending messages via Gmail, getting around with Google Maps, watching videos on YouTube.... The company is everywhere. By being ever present in our...
THE HMONG HORSEMAN
The Vietnamese mountain people
The magnificent mountains of North Vietnam have always sheltered the Hmong ethnic minorities. This is where they subdued the forest and mastered the art of terrace cropping, shaping extraordinary landscapes with their ricefields. In this rugged terrain nothing can be done without the...
THE IMMORTAL SHADOWS
When entertainment becomes art
Animation is one of today’s most popular forms of entertainment which makes great use of ever evolving technologies. However its origin goes way back, in a long forgotten traditional art that a Japanese shadow master wants to bring to a new audience. His quest takes him to a remote...
THE INTOUCHABLES’ HOLIDAYS
Stronger than the handicap
They take risks and face extreme situations. They climb mountains and cross oceans. Yet, they are disabled. Paul and Henri set out to descend the rocky inlets near Marseilles thanks to all-terrain wheelchairs and volunteers who accompany them. They share everything from pain to laughters....
THE LAND OF THE MAHARAJAS
The land of Kings
Rajasthan, known as the "Land of Kings", is the largest state of India. Life for its 68 million inhabitants is still governed by ancestral traditions. Holi, the annual Festival of Colors, is the most famous of them and is the prism by which we discover the legendary land of the...
THE MESSENGERS OF ZANSKAR: A MARRIAGE IN THE HIMALAYAS
The union of yesterday and tomorrow
Likden is a trekking guide living in Skaagam located 3700 meters high in the Himalayan valley of Zanskar. After four long years of negotiation with his bride’s family, he is now ready to get married. The preparation of a ritual lasts 4 days and the Nyopas, the spiritual guides of...
The peaceful coexistence of religions
Father Emile Bombiri was born in Daboura, a village in Burkina Faso. Eschewing strong local traditions, he decided to become a priest and dedicate his life to the development of his village, regardless of the creeds of its inhabitants. Dabura was home to the Bwabas, a mostly fetishist...
THE NEW WEB SLAVES: AMAZON’S MECHANICAL TURK
How Internet giants are circumventing labour legislation
Iconographic search for $0.05/hr. Translation jobs at $0.02/hr. The giants of the net have found a simple way to circumvent labor laws: they have invented the micro-jobs. Simple tasks with even simpler wages, i.e. a few cents without the paperwork. A trick that allows them to bypass the...
THE PARANORMAL ZONE
“What we See may not be real. What is real we may not see”
Enter THE PARANORMAL ZONE with Li Kim and her team as they investigate classified, strange and unexplained phenomena in Asia. Do you dare to sit in a cemetery at night? Make contact with the unseen residents of haunted houses? Touch the bloody remains of a cursed fetus? Venture into the...
THE PATH OF MEN
The many routes of civilizations
This series combines the geographical, historical, cultural and sociological discoveries associated with the most mythical routes: that of adventurers, those traced over time by civilizations, explorers, conquering states or itinerant merchants. It puts into perspective several hundred...
THE PERFECT BODY CLINIC
A temple to beauty
Five floors. 2,500 square meters. A hundred employees. The Champs Elysées Clinic is one of the largest plastic surgery institution in Europe. Patients benefit from 30 luxurious rooms with an attentive staff comprising physiotherapists, hairdressers and manicures. It has been...
THE PILL CALLED INTO QUESTION
The n°1 contraceptive
It was the symbol of women emancipation but the pill is now being challenged. Cases of stroke, phlebitis and pulmonary embolism - sometimes leading to the death of young women taking so-called "3rd and 4th generation" pills - have raised an important debate about contraception....
THE PLACE WE LIVE IN
The power of hope
THE PLACE WE LIVE IN is an eye-opening series depicting the dire, unexpected, poor or rural circumstances in which some people are living around the world. Our hosts are travelling to meet locals and, by bonding with them, they finally understand how their positive attitudes towards life...
THE PRICE OF PROTEST
The Colin Kaepernick Story
Imagine two of the most emblematic American values colliding: freedom of speech and patriotism. Football icon Colin Kaepernick epitomized that clash when, in 2016, a simple gesture turned him into the most polarizing athlete of our times. While the crowd was standing up for the national...
THE RED SPIES THEORY
The chinese economic intelligence scheme
Two years ago this visionnary film showcased how Chira was acquiring Western technology though economic intelligence and how the West complacently let this happen. In 2006, 70% of patents used in mainland China came from abroad. The aim is to reverse this trend by 2020. To achieve this,...
THE SALT WOMEN
A life-changing innovation
In West Africa, along the coastline of Guinea, people have been harvesting salt for centuries using fire for the evaporation process. However this vital activity has been endangered by the lack of wood due to the overexploited and shrinking mangroves. To counter this disastrous trend, a...
THE SAO PAULO MIRACLE
Portrait of one of the most influential cities in the world
Sao Paulo was founded 5 centuries ago by monks. Today, it is home to 20 million inhabitants. The city had to face unsustainable population growth to become one of the most influential cities on the planet. By meeting some of the personalities that contribute to its reputation in many...
THE SCHOOL OF GREEN BERETS
Each year, nine-week training session are organized to test candidates, aged 20 to 30, who want to join the 2,500 men composing the French army marine seals and special forces. The program includes: aptitude tests, diving, shooting, strategy, survival and nights with no more than three...
THE SEED WAR
Fighting for food independence
Are seeds a commodity or a vital resource to be shared for the benefit of Humanity like the water we drink or the air we breathe? In the near future, farmers might lose the right to plant their own seeds. Indeed, in Europe, a regulation is emerging which will impose strict controls on the...
THE SEYCHELLES PARADISE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
The Seychelles are like a collection of postcards. This Garden of Eden, spread over dozens of islands, is the quintessence of a gentle way of life, harmony and beauty. Here Nature reigns supreme. With its sumptuous underwater ecosystems, its bird sanctuaries and renowned natural reserves,...
THE SIDE EFFECTS OF MEDICATION
Undesirable side effects
The side effects of drugs are identified in endless lists written in lowercase characters. Even if no one reads them, they are here to prevent the consequences of treatments on some people. But what happens when the so-called independent experts in charge of listing them are paid by...
THE STUNNING SPERM SELLING BUSINESS
An alarming increase of male infertility
The question is hitherto unseen in human history. For the first time, our ability to reproduce is challenged by the alarming increase of male infertility. In little over 20 years, the amount of sperm produced by Europeans has been halved, as throughout North America and China. The causes...
THE TASTY STORY OF BANANIA
Controversial marketing
The Banania chocolate powder recipe was born by chance in the mind of a Frenchman, during a trip to an Indian village in Nicaragua. He started manufacturing on the eve of the First World War. Quickly, Banania forged its identity using the patriotic image of an African infantryman and with...
THE THAWING STORY OF MENIER CHOCOLATE
It ruled the world for a century and a half
Menier Chocolate ruled the world for a century and a half. In 1960, the company was acquired and became just another brand of the Nestlé Group, which markets it only in France. From this fabulous empire remains a prestigious architectural heritage; some private mansions in Paris,...
THE TRACKS TO TIMBUKTU
Doorsteps to the desert
Mali may make the news for civil and religious strife but this film offers a peek into a world still lingering on the beauty of its traditions. The country is home to the stunning Bandiagara cliffs, the banks of the Niger river and to the mysterious Dogon people. There is the fabulous...
THE VALUE OF EXAMPLE
The guilty timber of Haiti
In 2010, a devastating earthquake hit Haiti causing an appalling 300,000 casualties in Port-au-Prince, the overpopulated capital of one of the poorest countries of the world. This inconceivable toll could have been lowered by preventing a 50 year old rural exodus largely the result of...
THE WAR OF ODORS
A nauseating business
Tobacco, sweat, dust... Smelly odors ruin our lives. We spend our time trying to eliminate them. Spraying our armpits before a workday has become a ritual. We fight vigorously these odors that invade our living rooms or our cars. Industrial groups are benefiting from this obsession. What...
THE WEATHER IS GOING CRAZY
Flooding erosion, salinisation
Floods, storms and hurricanes seem to be more and more frequent. This film gives an overview of the situation and lists ways to act against this weather going mad. Coastal erosion is worsening, millions are living in flood-prone areas while we are witnessing the first climate refugees,...
THEY ARE BACK FROM SYRIA… AND NOW WHAT?
For the first time, they tell their story
They’re young, men and women, executives or students. At first, they weren’t into Jihad but yet, they left everything to go to Syria. Then one day, they came back. Anti-terrorism services estimate at 500 the number of French citizens wandering between Iraq and Syria. Among...
A different angle on the world
This series offers a new look at our planet, that of Sophie Massieu, a journalist blind from birth, and her dog Pongo. Obviously, Sophie cannot judge people by their appearance but she is more attuned to their psychology and way of life. This difference gives rise to touching and...
TIAN ANMEN: THE FORBIDDEN MEMORY
30 ans after...
June 1989, Beijing, Tian Anmen Square. The tanks of the People’s Liberation Army violently repress the democratic aspirations of the Chinese youth. It is a bloodshed, with nearly a thousand killed. June 2009, Beijing, Tian Anmen Square. Friendly policemen, gazing tourists and Mao...
TODAY, TOMORROW... AND THEN ?
This hour special focuses on sustainable development and, more specifically, on innovative solutions developped to adress social, environmental and economic issues in a way that does not jeopardize the future of our planet. From Thailand to Senegal and France we follow the action of...
TOKYO THE PHOENIX CITY
Razed, burned, bombed yet still vibrant
Tokyo is the city of superlatives. This ultramodern and vibrant city is one of the most densely populated in the world. It is also a beacon to performance and dynamism with its sea of skyscrapers, gigantic parks, huge shopping centers, blinding neons and artificial islands. But for all...
TOURISM IN IRAN
Archeological treasures and magnificent landscapes
From Isfahan to Persepolis and from Teheran to Shiraz, archeological treasures and magnificent landscapes attract an increasing number of tourists. It’s a windfall for tour operators around the world and for the economy of this country which has been suffering under a commercial...
TOYS FOR GROWN-UPS
Opening up to new experiences
From Cleopatra and her papyrus cone filled with bees to the connected toys of today, the evolution of sex-toys has changed the way we contemplate sexuality and female pleasure. Whether used alone or within a couple, sex-toys have given a new impetus to the discovery of the body and its...
TRAUMORTE
German version of the Flavors and Panoramas series
Discover the richness, magic and beauty of some of the world’s best destinations: their natural wonders and outstanding monuments, their handicrafts and breathtaking landscapes. TRAUMORTE is a memorable journey into the traditions and history of countries everyone is dreaming of...
TRIBES OF THE HIMALAYAS
Living high
The Himalayas are more than a playground for trekkers or the landmark for the most memorable climbing achievements. Hard to reach valleys, such as Ladakh or Paldar, are hidden amongst these gigantic mountains and shelter various tribes who have managed to live in the most inhospitable...
TUSCANY, LA BELLA ITALIA
A region epitomasing beauty and history
Tuscany is most certainly the area which stands out in Italy as the definition of beauty, culture and history. Although it is too often reduced to its capital, Florence, this film aspires to unveil a more diverse region. Nestled between the Mediterranean and the mountains, Tuscany offers...
UNBELIEVABLE NIGERIA
Oil billionaires, slums and sky scrapers
Thanks to its vast oil resources, Nigeria is now the first economic power in Africa. Golf courses, marinas and gated communities are part of the new golden life for a few privileged ones. However, on the other side of the street, the slums harbour a far different reality for millions of...
Man and his environment
This collection looks at human societies the world over under six themes: families, women, becoming an adult, water, Man and Nature, Man and Animal. This extremely novel approach is an unique mix of discovery, anthropology and sociology. Each episode focuses on one part of the world and...
UP! ON THE (GREEN) ROOFS OF PARIS
The secrets high above
This film is an exceptional journey to discover an unknown Paris where Mother Nature reigns; an expedition on the rooftops of the city which harbors amazing hanging gardens. Strawberries grow above the Galeries Lafayette; vines on City Hall; vegetables on school roofs, tended by students;...
UP! ON THE ROOFS OF...
An unknown and inaccessible world
Unlike boulevards and monuments, the rooftops of cities are an unknown world, inaccessible to most of its inhabitants and the tourists. However, a few privileged people made these secret gardens part of their daily lives.
URBAN SEX
In this documentary series, each episode takes the pulse of a Latin American city, including Buenos Aires, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Bogotá, México City, Punta del Este, Riviera Maya, Santo Domingo, Guadalajara, Lima, Monterrey, Asunción, Curitiba...
USA, CRAZINESS LOTTERY
An institution that unleashes passions
In the United States, 25% of the population gambles. The country has 46 televised lottery games and the money to be earned can reach record: more than $1 billion depending on the prize pools. It is a real institution that unleashes passions. But what happens to the lottery winners? What...
USA: JUSTICE FOR SALE
Blatant dysfunctions
On Super Sunday, many states not only vote to choose a candidate for the White House, but also to pick 2 judges for the State’s Supreme Court, like in Arkansas. From clear conflicts of interest to proven instances of corruption, the elected judges have been mired in scandal. This...
USA: THE MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
Extreme natural events
Hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tornados, floods… This film highlights the vulnerability of the USA in the face of extreme natural events. Quite aware of the risks threatening their cities, often underestimated by the population at large, some men and women are...
WAR AGAINST WATERS
The marshy floodplain city
In the North-East of Congo is a region known as the "basin". Situated in the heart of a marshy floodplain and stricken by the equatorial climate, this area gets over 150 days of rain per year. Since 1912, the city of Mossaka that lays in the middle of the basin is the main...
WAS DU NICHT SIEHST
A world of traditional sports
Through the ages, many countries have developed traditional sports and martial arts, some of them still barely known. From China or Thailand to Iran, Burma, Greece and India, this series stands at the crossroads of cultural heritage and way of life by revealing, in a striking style, the...
WHAT WILL BE TOMORROW? FAMILY
Uderstanding and contemplating the world
This collection of vignettes is about studying and understanding family life around the world, from Egypt to Cambodia and Senegal. How do families function in different countries? How are they structured and organized? How do they see their future?
WHAT WILL TOMORROW BE ? BECOME ADULT
This collection of short vignettes is all about the youth of the world. How youngsters, those aged between 15 and 20, see their current situation? How is their daily life? What are their dreams? How do they contemplate their future?
WHAT WILL TOMORROW BE ? MAN AND NATURE
The relationship between Man and Nature varies from place to place. Osmosis is often found but quite too frequently humans don’t really know how to manage natural resources. A major challenge for the future.
WHAT WILL TOMORROW BE? ANIMALS
Everywhere in the world, animals are at man’s service. Be it for transportation or work in the fields, they are absolutely vital to the smooth functioning of human societies. The collection of short vignettes shows how varied such relationships can be in various places around the...
WHAT WILL TOMORROW BE? WATER
A most vital resource
Water is the primary and the most vital natural resource on Earth. But are the water supplies inexhaustible? How can we manage them more efficiently to service an ever growing population?
WHAT WILL TOMORROW BE? WOMAN
Because they give birth, women have alway been assigned a special status and function in human societies. This collection of short vignettes takes a look at the daily life of women around the world. Are they happy with their situation? What are their expectations?
WHEN WE PLAY
The playgrounds and the communities they serve
Many of our childhood memories are filled with playing, and playgrounds are a big part of this recollection. Wind blowing through one's hair while on a swing, the sudden rush of excitement going down a slide, bumps and bruises, friends and foes. The rapid urbanisation of Asia is...
WHEN WOMEN EARN MORE THAN MEN
The money in the couple
How do couples get along when the man provides only supplementary income? Does society see them differently? And what is each other's role when money upends the assigned positions? Sincere and humorous interviews with men and women about an intimate, even taboo subject: money and...
WHERE PEOPLE READ
Unusual libraries
In various countries in Asia, bookmobiles provide books for those who do not have libraries readily accessible or reading material at their fingertips. Imagine what it would be like if you had to wait for a bookmobile to come around once a week just so you could spend a few hours pouring...
WHO OWNS NATURE?
A dramatic alpine play
Who owns nature? Are we, as humans, its protectors or destructors? Mountain goats, bellowing stags, a pack of wolves, forest rangers, farmers, wildlife biologists, hunting opponents and hunters: they are all protagonists in a dramatic alpine play. How should humans deal with nature and...
WIND QUEST
Marrying travel and scientific study
Arthur de Kersauson and Antoine Auriol go around the world to meet singular winds to which men have often given names. Each episode is a journey and a real challenge because the wind does not always blow where you expect it. But when it does, everything seems to come alive. At once...
WITHOUT RIGHTS OR TITLES
The people of the Lencois National Park
In 1981, Brazil created the Lencois National Park in the state of Maranhão which is home to an ecosystem unique in the world: pristine white sand dunes that wave for tens of kilometers, punctuated by lakes of fresh water and deserted beaches where turtles and birds take refuge....
WOMEN OF ZANZIBAR
The business of seaweed
On the island of Zanzibar, in the village of Jambiani, seaweed is grown to be used in the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries. This business started 10 years ago to reviv the archipelago's economic activity. The men proved too restless to get involved in a long-term project,...
YIWU, THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAZAAR
Welcome to over the top shopping
It is a place like no other in the world, 250 kilometers south of Shanghai. On nearly 4 million square meters dedicated to shopping, 180,000 stores open 7 days a week and almost 24 hours a day, offer 2 million different products. Spending 5 minutes in each stand at the Futian exhibition...
AFRICAN PROFILES
Exceptional unsung talents
This collection presents exceptional African athletes who introduce us to their countries and cultures. In each country, 4 different sports are being covered through original and timeless portraits of unsung talents.
KIDS OF THE WORLD
«You’ll be pleasantly surprised to see to what point your life is different from theirs. And, seen from another point of view, it’s amazing how all the children in the world are alike; as if they were all brothers and sisters. so why don’t we go and meet them in...
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LEGENDARY BEACHES
Sea, sand, dreams and reality
Copacabana... Saint-Tropez... Goa…. Phuket... The mere mention of these names brings up images of sun, holidays and a complete change of surroundings. In the public consciousness, these famous beaches have come to symbolize dream destinations everyone wish to visit one day. Through...
OLIVE OIL: FROM LUXURY TO TRAFFIC
The star of the kitchen
Its taste and benefits have made olive oil one of the stars of the kitchen. For some, it can even be enjoyed as a great vintage wine and is said to have numerous virtues: healthy, anti-cholesterol and even, surprisingly for a fatty product, dietetic. But everything has a price, from 5 to...
PARAIBA MEU AMOR (LONG VERSION)
The soul music of Northeast Brazil
Northeast Brazil moves to the beat of “forró”, a music that is an integral part of the life and culture of the region. PARAIBA MEU AMOR explores the history, presents interviews and covers live sessions to understand how this music came to represent the spirit of the...
RISKY PLATEFUL
Eating can be detrimental to your health
Three journalists were the guinea pigs of an unprecedented experience. For several weeks each followed a specific diet while being subjected to medical tests. The results are alarming: eating can be detrimental to your health. Salmon with pesticides, pork and chicken with antibiotics,...
THE HAZARDS OF AESTHETIC MEDICINE
The price of beauty
To get a smooth skin or eliminate cellulite it is no longer necessary, today, to go into the operating room for a facelift or a liposuction. Each year in France, nearly 400,000 people are injected anti-wrinkle products. But are these new techniques which generate 4 billion euros in sales...
THE LAST SHANGRI-LA
The price of beautiful landscapes
The chinese countryside is all about water and bamboo. Rice paddies are everywhere and mountains seem to float. Indeed, the men tamed the water flowing down the peaks using a bamboo-pipe irrigation system and started to grow rice in an unusual altitude far from any river. The result is an...
THE ROOFTOPS OF PARIS
The inaccessible heights of the City of Lights
This visually striking documentary takes you to a fascinating land perched high above the streets of Paris. Moving from one roof to another, you will meet the people who work on the roofs and those who design or paint them... There are also those who break the law to roam the city...
THE WAR OVER OLIVE TREES
From groves to balconies
In a few years, the olive tree has become the star of our gardens and terraces. From an oil producer, it has been turned into an ornamental tree. Today, millions want this little piece of the Mediterranean. To meet demand, garden centres sell trees that are accessible to all budgets, but...
TRAVELING FOR TASTE
Savour explorers
What if the essence of a country was in the plates? Today’s tourists are looking beyond landmarks and stunning views in search for new flavors, local products and their stories but also how to cook them. For these taste explorers, the adventure is not necessarily very far. From one...
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Who is Tim?
B.I.G. only exists because of the passion and love of one man behind a BIG dream...
Tim Danyliw
Five years ago, Tim came to Vermont with a dream... That dream became his business, Vermont Singing Drum. Tim has always been a designer of projects based on his creative right brained thinking. Upon the years of research he had done about the value of music in someones life, he became even more intrigued with the sounds and designs of "Singing Drums". There are many styles and types of these drums, but Tim took it to the next level. Originally from recycled propane tanks, with the desire to not just create a musical instrument, but help create beauty from left over material, Tim handmade his first Vermont Singing Drum.
From here, he perfected the sound and design, making it an easy access to play for not just musician, but for the non-musician to interact with a musical instrument. With his own background of music, he knew that most musical instruments could be daunting and take years to master, also creating a competitive musical world that he wanted to avoid.
His dream was to provide a drum that was not just easy to play with no instruction, but also create a kindness feeling while playing. Kindness to yourself and Kindness to others.
Once established in the South End Arts District, Burlington Vermont, Tim, who has held a long term relationship of being 'different' from others in how he learns, views situations and sees the world, already knew what a difference playing a musical instrument can be for a child in their years of growth. However Tim wanted to take it a step further once again and took his "Kindness Drum" into the schools.
He understood that not all children are the same and some learn on a different scale than others, some are happier than others and some have better social skills than others. What he wanted to provide is the bridge to close that gap that makes those differences and show that it's "ok" to be different, with the understanding, we need and should all respect and be kind to one another. He wanted to see what we could do to engage everyone together as one strong bond of kindness and growth.
After seeing the results of one classroom, he saw the BIG vision and birthed Balance Intelligence Group, with the in school program of supplying TWO of his Vermont Singing Drums into EVERY classroom of EVERY school, Heart to Hand.
Developing Heart to Hand, a musical mindfulness classroom management program, that helps teachers and students re-direct their energy and attention into a positive and creative mindset.
Building culture and community is a huge staple in Tim's views, not just B.I.G.'s vision. Tim's desire to see if his drums in a classroom is just enough of a nudge for a child to change their path to improvement and wellness, just follows in line with his dream from founding his business Vermont Singing Drum, who has become one of B.I.G.s sponsors. "They say to find your purpose in life - well that's my purpose, I wish to heal" -Tim
THANK YOU to all of our Donors and Sponsors:
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Crematorium would save families trauma of Dublin service
Kevin Tuohy, BKT Construction, and David Courtney, Chartered Building Engineer at the Hightrees Crematorium site in Brackenagh, Ballinasloe. Photo: Gerry Stronge.
The developer of a crematorium in County Galway says that 1,000 funerals from the West of Ireland have gone to Dublin for cremation over the past year.
Kevin Tuohy of BKT Construction hopes to alleviate the trauma for families in the future by having his planned crematorium for Ballinasloe up and running early this year.
Planning permission was granted for the development which is represent an investment of some €3.5 million in the town.
The new crematorium will be constructed at Garbally Demesne and will be the first of its kind in the West of Ireland.
The old Ballinasloe Town Council granted permission to Mr Tuohy of BKT Construction, Conicare, Clostoken for a single-storey crematorium on a greenfield site close to the N6 on the Galway side of the town.
At present people along the western seaboard have to use crematoriums in Cork or Dublin, so the facility is being viewed as being much needed.
The Ballinasloe facility comprises a reflection room, ceremony room, cremator and other ancillary rooms and services as well as a memorial garden and is subject to 14 conditions being complied with.
Mr. Tuohy said that he conducted a survey of 135 funeral directors in the West of Ireland and discovered that around 1,000 bodies were sent from the region for cremation in Dublin.
It will be a major investment in the town of Ballinasloe as well as creating a number of jobs. It will also take pressure off some rural graveyards which are struggling with space at the moment.
Kevin Tuohy told The Connacht Tribune that the crematorium would be up and running next year at the latest. He had already received inquiries from undertakers from Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare about the facilities that he will be providing. There was opposition to the development on the grounds that it would devalue property in the vicinity.
There was even a submission which suggested that the poor oral health in the elderly population would result in toxic omissions.
Those opposed to the development said that dangerous emissions from a crematorium could have a serious impact on local residents of Ballinasloe.
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Posted 9 September, 2015
Global Ad Man Sean Cummins To Speak At National Radio Conference
By Louise Alley
Sean Cummins, global chief executive officer of Cummins&Partners, will be one of the headline speakers at the commercial radio industry’s National Radio Conference on the Gold Coast on Friday 9 October.
Renowned for creating highly awarded and innovative work such as the “World’s Greatest Job” for Tourism Australia, the launch of Virgin Airlines in Australia with Richard Branson and the “I Bought a Jeep” ads, Cummins will present to the commercial radio industry on Branded Content.
Now based in the Cummins&Partners New York office and flying back to Australia for the conference, Cummins said he would talk about the strategy behind some of his successful campaigns. “I look forward to sharing information on the Cummins&Partners creative agency philosophy and how we build brand platforms,” he commented.
A recent branded content collaboration created by Cummins&Partners for the Bendon lingerie range was with artist Sia and model Heidi Klum. Cummins said: “You want to strike a balance between ad and entertainment, so that people will engage and want to watch or listen to the branded content.”
Cummins&Partners was established four years ago and is the first top tier independent Australian agency to start in Australia and open in North America, with offices now in New York and Toronto. In 2014, Cummins became the first creative to win ADMA’s Australian marketer of year. The agency has won numerous industry awards, including last year’s Australian Agency of the Year.
“We’re very pleased Sean can join us at this year’s radio conference. The radio industry is always looking at ways we can continue to innovate and create engaging content for both advertisers and listeners,” said Ms Joan Warner, chief executive officer of Commercial Radio Australia.
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Daggers coach Brown wants to take positives away from a 'tough result' at Chorley
Jacob Ranson
Chike Kandi of Dagenham and Redbridge during Dagenham & Redbridge vs Aldershot Town, Vanarama National League Football at the Chigwell Construction Stadium on 16th November 2019
Dagenham & Redbridge first-team coach Jody Brown admitted the injury-hit squad must take the positives out of tough defeat to Chorley.
An Alex Newby strike in the 63rd minute was the difference between the two sides at Victory Park - despite a dominant first-half from the Daggers.
The former Heybridge Swifts boss says they knew they would have to produce something special to bag the three points as they're currently carrying eight injuries.
"It's obviously a tough result to take, we certainly didn't want to come here and lose 1-0," Brown told DaggersTV.
"We knew we'd have to produce something a little bit extra as we're in a tough situation at the moment, as you can see we only had three outfield players on the bench again today.
"None of the lads have returned and Bagasan (Graham) has been added to that list as well, so we knew we had to pull together as staff and a group of players, and work even harder.
"I thought we did that, I thought we forced them into a lot of mistakes, they had very little possession and we created some good opportunities from some high tempo play."
Brown insisted they were unlucky to not score on a number of occassions let alone once in the clash.
"Mitch Brundle was extremely unlucky as he had one cleared off the line, Quigs had one cleared off the line, and we had another one Chike had a half chance.
"Often they were making last ditch tackles and last ditch clearances to keep us out in that first-half."
He did say they must be pleased with how well they pressed Chorley into mistakes.
"We remember the previous game and we watched footage to prepare, and we felt that maybe we're not at our strongest at the moment when it comes to defending long balls, as we're missing Manny and Crolly.
"We felt they were a team that wanted to play out if you encourage them to, so we encouraged them to play out, and then we pressed from a good shape.
"The number of regains and mistakes we pressed them into was impressive.
"As much as we're disappointed to lose 1-0, we have to take that as a positive, we forced them into so many mistakes and forced them into so many regains that opened up counter attack opportunities."
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Solve: 1/2log4(x2-7)-1=0
Asked Nov 16, 2019
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1 -1 = 0 2log.(x-7)
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1 =1 2log.(x-7) 2log,(x-7)1 1 log.(x-7) 2
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x2-7 4 x2-7 2 = 9
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Sheppey crossing safety calls after 130-vehicle crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-23984059
Image caption Witnesses said the series of crashes went on for 10 minutes
Speed restrictions and overhead lights should be on the bridge where 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in fog, it has been suggested.
Eight people were left badly injured and 35 needed hospital treatment after the pile-up on the Sheppey crossing.
The AA has called for matrix warning signs "as a minimum".
The Highways Agency said the bridge met standards when it was designed, but it would await the police investigation before considering new safety measures.
On Thursday, the A249 bridge, which has a 70mph speed limit, was closed for nine hours while the wreckage was cleared. It partially reopened at 17:30 BST.
Those involved in the collisions described a mass of tangled cars, lorries and vans.
There's a good case here for reducing the speed, particularly when there's bad weather
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Fog 'was factor'
Edmund King, from the AA, said: "As a minimum we would like to see matrix warning signs either side of the bridge, so if there is severe weather it can advise that people should slow down.
"There's a good case here for reducing the speed, particularly when there's bad weather."
Media captionCalls for safety measures came from Kent's former Chief Constable Mike Fuller in 2006
Both the RAC and Kent Police have said it was a "miracle" that no-one died.
David Bizley, from the RAC, said: "There was fog and the road was damp and we have had a prolonged period of hot weather so the road was greasy.
"There are pockets where someone has been driving too fast and too close and that causes an accident."
Ch Insp Andy Reeves said the investigation had begun but it would be a long process.
"Fog was certainly a factor," he said. "I understand the visibility was very poor at the time."
Image caption There have been calls for lighting and speed restrictions since the bridge was built
He said: "Clearly, that will be a major factor in the investigation, but beyond that obviously we will be looking at any of the other contributory factors around why these vehicles came together and why some stopped and some didn't."
Ch Insp Reeves said investigators would make recommendations but it would be for the Highways Agency to determine if any further measures were needed.
'Queue detection'
John Griffiths, Highways Agency South East director, said: "We will take the findings from Kent Police's investigation and we will help with them accordingly.
"We will have to think how best we can assist that and get our technical experts to consider what are the safety measures we can put in place."
He said his personal view was that a 50mph speed limit would have helped in this case, but he stressed that was a personal opinion.
Mr Griffiths said lighting was not seen as necessary when the bridge was designed, speed sign systems were used on motorways but not usually on dual carriageways, and a queue detection system that would warn drivers to slow down could be considered but installing it would be difficult.
If the bridge had been lit properly and speed signs had come up, perhaps the tragedy would not have happened
Councillor Ken Pugh
"We will put forward proposals and we will look at how best to prioritise what we can get best safety benefit from," he said.
The £100m four-lane dual carriageway crossing, which connects the Isle of Sheppey with mainland Kent, opened in 2006.
That year, safety fears were raised by the then Chief Constable of Kent, Mike Fuller, who raised concerns about there being no emergency telephones, lighting, or hard shoulder and called for a speed limit reduction.
Councillor Ken Pugh, from Swale Borough Council, said he had campaigned for lighting and speed restrictions since the bridge opened.
"If the bridge had been lit properly and speed signs had come up, perhaps the tragedy would not have happened," he said.
The crossing is three-quarters of a mile (1.25km) long and rises to 115ft (35m) at its highest point.
In a statement, the Highways Agency said: "It is too early to speculate on the cause of yesterday's incident which is still under police investigation.
"However we continually keep safety under review and will work with the police investigation, as well as conducting our own review, to see if further safety improvements can be made.
"The bridge was built to our UK standards with a design speed of 70 mph.
"Any reduction in speed limit would have to be backed up by evidence to show it has a worthwhile safety improvement and would need to be enforced by the police to be effective."
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Alcorn McBride Debuts New Products at IAAPA
By SCN Staff (Systems Contractor News) 2015-11-17T11:52:00Z
Alcorn McBride will debut VPage and the official release of WinScript Live 4.0 in booth 453 at the IAAPA Attractions Expo in Orlando on Nov. 17-20. The company will also announce a new partnership with Weigl Works, LLC to develop a solution for integrated control of animatronics and AV.
VPage is an intelligent Dante P.A. station that provides theme park attractions, museums, arenas, and transportation systems with facility-wide intelligent paging using Dante audio networks.
The configuration of paging networks, such as Q-Sys, is completely programmable using the software in the VPage DSP system, including zone assignments, button and light behaviors, and zone priorities. Each VPage station features user-programmable buttons, microphone input, and level control.
A single Ethernet cable carries audio, power, and control between the VPage station and the equipment rack. A facility may incorporate an unlimited number of VPage stations by simply connecting them to PoE-enabled network switches.
VPage is shipping in three models. The VP4 model is a four-button station with a five-pin XLR connector, while the VP4G model can be used with an externally mounted gooseneck mic. Both of these models mount in a standard four-gang box. The VP16PCB model consists of a circuit board that is designed to mount on a standard DIN rail for wiring up to 16 LED-illuminated buttons so that installers can create their own custom P.A. stations. The company's new WinScript Live 4.0 software for the V16 Pro, V4 Pro, and VCore show controllers features a built-in touch panel editor with a drag-and-drop editor for creating customized interfaces.
Alcorn McBride has also partnered with Weigl to develop a solution for the tight integration of show control, animation, audio, video, and lighting. Their integrated product, using technologies from both companies, will fill aid customers who require precise synchronization between animatronic figures, lighting, and AV elements.
“When combined, the advanced audio visual and control capabilities of Alcorn McBride and the state-of-the-art animation systems of Weigl form the perfect solution for modern themed entertainment attractions,” said Mike Blasko, co-founder and director of technology at Weigl Works.
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Congratulations to GHS, Datashredders, Shredeasy and Katana on the recent commissioning of their new AXO Mobile Document Shredding Trucks and Electric Drive Shredding Machines. We wish them all the best as they continue to grow.
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Ponies, Plato, Plutocracies
Not much prepped this week. I've been too busy drawing ponies.
Also, I've recently started posting comics again.
I've got a bunch of stuff backlogged and will be posting a new one every ten days (roughly), which will amount to about four months of regular updates. If I'm able to draw more comics between now and then (these things are never certain), we'll keep running. If not, we'll just wait another six months, eight months, or however long it takes to build up another queue.
I thought it would be fun to roll out this shindig with a couple of 8 Easy Bits strips, just for old times' sake. I don't know why I figured the Author should have discovered the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic phenomenon since we last saw him; but from there it does seem more predictably within his character that he should be inordinately inspired by his arrival at this brave new continent in his (severely skewed) intellectual world and determine to make it the subject of his latest opus.
I rather like how the scruff (a touch originally added by Mr. Wolff in one of the later strips) and unkempt hair has increasingly become the norm for the character. I like how the bastard is still evolving, even though he's still far from ever getting his shit together. (I think he's somehow becoming even crazier.) And I really like how he's still interesting (at least to me, anyway) even when the subject of his escapades isn't the fact that he inhabits a world where human beings and video game characters rub elbows on the sidewalks and supermarkets.
So yeah, the pony comic took much longer to make than I'll ever admit, and I have nothing but my own OCD to blame for it. The lessons here are that I should a.) estimate realistically how long a project should take, b.) making sure to account for my being batshit crazy about details. (I can point to more than a dozen things about the strip that I don't like, but for the sake of my own sanity I'm letting them be.)
Confession time: Greekdropping gennaion psuedos wasn't actually spontaneous, and was preceded by a Google search for "plato republic lie" and a click on the Wikipedia entry for "Noble Lie." I recalled the basic concept from an early book in the Republic, but needed a memory refresher. The Republic is a pretty dense slab of text, after all.
In the smallest of nutshells: having already established that his ideal state would need to have three basic classes of citizens (rulers, warriors, artisans), Plato (speaking through Socrates) says it will be necessary to foster upon the state's children the idea that, although the Earth fashioned them all, it mixed some of the clay with gold, some with silver, and some with bronze, corresponding to which of the three social strata they are more or less destined to inhabit. It's ordained, it's out of everyone's hands, and each citizen will have to accept his lot in life. It's not true (obviously), but Plato nonetheless asserts that this one "noble lie" will be necessary to preserve the state's cohesion.
A reader has already joked about the bluntness of the strip's "message," and I guess that's fair -- but really, I was less interested in making a point than in taking something absolutely innocent and delightful and warping it into something joyless and awful ("for the lulz," as they say). If I was really serious about preaching, I wouldn't have ended the thing with a sharp veer into a gag about horse assholes.
But yeah, sure -- I did a little thinking about noble lies while shopping the thing, and wondered if it mightn't be the case that every society is constructed atop one fundamental fib or another. So -- what about the United States?
The big American lie (or one of the big ones) is the one about Freedom. America is a free country. Americans are free people. Americans are freer than other people because America is the most free country of all countries. George W. Bush's and the Tea Pary's rhetoric could be pared down to FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM MURICKA and lose little in the abridging. Americans scream and shout and beat their breasts and rub dust in their hair whenever they perceive some politician, law, or court ruling as "threatening our freedom."
First of all: the very concept of freedom is probably bullshit.
Second: off the cuff, I'd say that yes, United States citizens do have fewer sanctions on speaking and expressing themselves in ways that could be construed as offensive, controversial, unpatriotic, etc. than those of many other nations. This is an excellent thing. We are permitted to talk the talk. But many, many citizens are severely constrained to the extent to which they can walk the walk.
We're all of us placed inside the labyrinth of our civilization, and some people are immensely better-equipped to navigate it than others. When the structure of the labyrinth is determined mostly by economic forces, citizens in stronger economic positions can move about it more easily. Perhaps the more accurate metaphor would be to say that these people are capable of walking over or just passing through the same walls restricting the movements of their neighbors.
But I feel this analogy is hackneyed and you already know where we're going. But why not: when you have more money, you have more "freedom." People born into wealth are more likely to retain wealth. Those with a lot of wealth are more likely to acquire more wealth. Those born into poverty are more likely to remain in poverty. The nation's wealth is increasingly concentrating in the upper stratum; the wide majority of citizens is finding more and more walls shooting up out of the ground to block their progress.
Even if we imagine that freedom isn't a fallacy, the American version of it doesn't sound very much like freedom at all. Not when citizens' actions are restricted by their personal wealth; especially not when that factor is usually dependent simply on the economic circumstances into which they were born. But the noble lie of the Land of the Free is accepted as fact, and people in the lower classes rage against legislation that would likely benefit them on the grounds that "it hurts our freedom."
Incidentally, I just read an excellent GQ piece in which the author reports his investigative comparison between six Americans, each representing one of six basic economic blocs (from someone who lives on $200 a week to someone who lives on $625,000 a week). On the fifth rung of six he meets a man named Nick Hanauer, an early investor in Amazon.com whose taxable income is now $10 million on a bad year. Mr. Hanauer speaks of his own conception of the American noble lie:
There's something unusual about Nick. For a multimillionaire, he doesn't have your average multimillionaire view. In fact, he's come to believe that the system he benefits so richly from is built on nonsense — specifically, the idea that "the markets are perfectly efficient and allocate benefits and burdens perfectly efficiently, based on talent and merit. So by that definition, the rich deserve to be rich and the poor deserve to be poor. We believe this because we have an almost insanely powerful need to self-justify."
And the biggest nonsense of all, he says, "is the idea that because the rich are the smartest, and because we're the job creators, the richer we get, the better it is for everyone. So taxes on the rich should be very, very low because we're essentially the center of the economic universe, the font of productivity." Nick pauses. "If there were a shred of truth to the claim that the rich are our nation's job creators, then given how rich the rich have gotten, America should be drowning in jobs!"
To conclude on a cheerier note, my friend Jason is fiercely lobbying to have this made into a T-shirt:
Any creative ponypeople want to give her a name?
EDIT: Spyda K might have nailed it with "Nickie Fits."
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Further Chronicles of Avonlea
By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Series: Anne of Green Gables
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
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Chronicles of Avonlea
By: L.M. Montgomery
The first thing every listener will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. She certainly does. As a matter of fact, page one starts off in this manner: "Anne Shirley was curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation."
delightful vignettes
By T. Reynolds on 08-24-17
Anne of Ingleside
Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
The mother of five, Anne never has a dull moment in her home, and, now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting - and wearing out her welcome - her life is full to bursting. Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside - that is, until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. But how could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead.
Wonderful story HORRIBLE NARRATOR
By best game I have seen in yrs. exciting, fun for all ages on 08-07-18
Anne of Windy Poplars
Narrated by: Tara Ward
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside - and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they wanted to be principal of Summerside High School.
Curse You Narrator Change!
By Carole on 11-12-17
Rilla of Ingleside
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Rilla Blythe, youngest daughter of Anne, is almost 15 in 1914. As her brothers and friends prepare to go off to battle, the irrepressible Rilla realizes that she will be changed forever and the world will never be the same.
Delightful Rendition
By Lindsay C. on 03-14-09
Rainbow Valley
L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valley is the continuation of the beloved classics Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea. Anne and Gilbert Blythe are married and have six mischievous children. Always seeking out new adventures and trying to help others, they're a rambunctious lot.
L.M. Montgomery is better aloud than in my head
By Grace on 07-20-16
Anne of the Island
Anne Shirley, the mischievous, carrot-topped waif of Anne of Green Gables, has grown into a lovely young woman who leaves the security of Prince Edward Island to enroll at Redmond College. There, she discovers a professor who believes education is wasted on women, ponders the security offered in marriage proposals, and a host of other questions of young adulthood.
By Maybelle on 07-17-16
Anne of Green Gables Part 2
By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Narrated by: Mary Sarah
The second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr. Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy.
By Teresa Kathcart on 05-08-15
Anne's House of Dreams
Acclaimed author L.M. Montgomery continues the story of Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea in Anne's House of Dreams. Anne and Gilbert move to Four Winds Harbor to start their new life together. The young married couple buys their dream house, encounters new adventures, and makes new friends. Barbara Caruso's entertaining narration brings listeners to Four Winds and makes them feel a part of this shoreline community.
Don't be put off by the sample's audio quality.
Jane of Lantern Hill
Narrated by: Lauren Saunders
For as long as she can remember, Jane Stuart and her mother have lived with her controlling grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane always believed her father was dead, so she was shocked to receive an invitation to stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island. But from their very first meeting, Jane fell in love with her charming father and his whimsical cottage. During her stay with him, she even found herself daring to dream that there could be such a house back in Toronto.
The Blue Castle
All her life, Valancy Stirling lived on a quiet little street in an ugly little house and never dared to contradict her domineering mother and her unforgiving aunt. At 29, she's never been in love, and her only consolation has been the forbidden books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle. Then, one day, she gets a letter and decides that things need to change. For the first time in her life, she does exactly what she wants to and says exactly what she feels.
By gail drummonds on 07-25-17
Sara Stanley is only 14, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding narratives. And when Bev King and his younger brother, Felix, arrive for the summer, they, too, are captivated by the Story Girl.
Spring Always Comes
By Joseph R on 01-07-10
When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily, and Dan will publish a magazine. From “Personals” to “Fashion Notes,” from the etiquette column to its stories of the most interesting happenings in Carlisle, Our Magazine quickly becomes the most entertaining publication anyone in town has ever read.
Good classic book; AWFUL narrator
By PiggieD on 12-02-14
Emily of New Moon (AmazonClassics Edition)
Narrated by: Jess Nahikian
After Emily Starr loses her dear father, the ten-year-old orphan is packed off to live with her starched relatives on Prince Edward Island. If only she could relate to them. Frankly, whip-smart, ambitious Emily can’t imagine ever feeling at home at New Moon Farm. Especially when her writerly dreams are routinely dashed by her autocratic aunt. Then Emily finds an outlet for her creative spirit with a group of friends every bit as passionate and gifted as she. With their help, New Moon could start to feel like home after all.
From Anne to Emily
Kilmeny of the Orchard
Twenty-four-year-old Eric Marshall arrives on Prince Edward Island to become a substitute schoolmaster, even though he has a bright future in his wealthy family's business. Eric has taken the two-month teaching post only as a favor to a friend - but fate throws in his path a beautiful, mysterious girl named Kilmeny Gordon. With jet black hair and sea blue eyes, Kilmeny immediately captures Eric's heart. But Kilmeny cannot speak, and Eric is concerned for and bewitched by this shy, sensitive mute girl.
Charming.
By Nicholas J Vavra on 02-19-10
Christmas with Anne
and Other Holiday Stories
Narrated by: Susie Berneis
The story of Anne Shirley has endured generation after generation and catapulted L.M. Montgomery into the ethos of literature. Here, Dreamscape presents a collection of holiday stories featuring Anne and other characters.
The Best Christmas stoies<br />
By Melissa Blackburn on 11-09-19
Narrated by: Rachel McAdams
With all of the pluck and charm of its eponymous young hero, Rachel McAdams ( The Notebook, Spotlight, Midnight in Paris) delivers a spectacular reading of Montgomery's beloved bildungsroman. In moments both funny and bittersweet, McAdams' voice is imbued with the spark that has made Anne a much-loved symbol of individualism and cheer for over a century.
YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LOVE ANNE
By Janna Wong Healy on 12-20-17
Emily's Quest
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
With high school over, Emily Starr is ready to find her destiny - but she's not quite ready to leave the safety of New Moon farm. She knows that she doesn't need New York City or some other exotic locale to help her become a famous writer, but as all of Emily's friends begin moving away to pursue their own aspirations, she wonders if she's made the right decision.
Lucy Maud Montgomery writes the VERY best stories
By Annette on 11-02-17
Emily Climbs
Emily is offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, but there are two conditions: first, she must live with the aunt she dislikes, and second, she must not write for the duration of her high school education. At first, Emily refuses the offer, unable to contemplate a life without writing, but then her cousin changes the condition slightly, amending it to just a restriction concerning writing fiction. Emily does not think this is much of an improvement, but it turns out to be an excellent exercise for her budding writing career.
Wonderful story, American narrator
By Elisa on 06-26-17
Welcome, once again, to the charming byways of Avonlea and its people, as created by one of Canada's most beloved authors.
In this volume of heartwarming tales, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, a young girl risks losing her mother in her quest to find her father, and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the town's laughingstock.
These 15 short stories together present a piquant and fascinating picture of life in the villages and country surrounding Avonlea.
Public Domain (P)1996 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Anne of Green Gables Collection
Joseph R
Jealously, Murder, Love, Oh Yes, A Cat
Grace Conlin did full justice to this work. I cannot give high enough praise to her performance. Montgomery's magnificent powers are on full display in these fifteen little stories of love, loss, redemption and human dramas. No one does cat stories better than Lucy Maude Montgomery. My favorites are the cats of Patty's Place in "Anne of the Island", Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in "Rilla of Inglesides" and from this collection "Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat" is definitely a star. I am only mentioning a few stories that I particularly enjoyed but there are none in this collection that I would have passed up. "Her Father's Daughter" is about a girl on her wedding whose parents had separated years earlier. Actually, her mother had got into a pet and locked the guy out. However, the girl didn't lock her father out and is hell bent on having him at her wedding. In "Jane's Baby", two women get into an all out cat fight over who gets their dead sister's baby. "The Dream Child" is about the loss of a child and how the husband and wife go forth. It is a bit strange but not too. "The Education of Betty", well think of the movie "Daddy Long Legs" with Janet Gaynor. In this case, the book is better. Guess who comes to the wedding in "Only a Common Fellow"? I am not telling. "Tannis of the Flats" is a bit unusual, first there is a murder then most of the story takes place in Alberta instead of the Maritimes. Remember there is a thread in Montgomery's stories that these folks are linked to the sea and to traveling off into the dangerous unknowns. Even sometimes the women folk head west. For instance, Jane Anderson couldn't find a husband in P.E.I. so off she charged to the west country and snagged herself a for real millionaire. This little story also touches the conflicting cultures of the Europeans and the natives. Montgomery did an outstanding job with this one in particular.
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