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Posted by Egor
· February 1, 2018
The world abhors disorder and embraces equilibrium. Yins need yangs. Dogs need cats. It’s the whole “for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction” thing. Or as I like to think of it, “there are people who suck and people who blow.”
Curiously, most folks consider these to be one and the same. In the common vernacular, saying “ULTRAsomething sucks” is perceived as having the same meaning as saying, “ULTRAsomething blows.” But here’s the thing — I only agree with one of those statements.
It’s curious that sucking and blowing have become synonyms, since one obviously involves inhalation and one exhalation. Physically, we all do both — equilibrium. But metaphorically, we tend to favour one over the other.
Personally, I much prefer people who blow to people who suck. People who suck consume more of the world’s energy, creativity, knowledge and compassion than they replenish. We all know people whose very existence drains us of our own vitality, and who reduce our stockpile of enthusiasm to levels barely adequate to sustain an evening of Netflix binging. Soul vampires.
We also all know people from whom new ideas flow easily; whose presence energizes the room or whose generosity is above reproach. Soul nourishers.
The reality, of course, is that we all suck a little and we all blow a little. But there are very few people who do this in equilibrium. Rather, equilibrium is achieved on a global macrocosmic level — where society, as a whole, manages to both suck and blow in proportion.
I definitely strive to be someone who blows. Granted, I don’t blow anywhere near as demonstratively as a Mother Teresa or a Ghandi. But then, to compensate for my moderate blow levels, I do try to subsist on the most minuscule quantities of suck.
And that’s why I’m perfectly fine with the notion that ULTRAsomething blows — after all, it has no real purpose other than to hopefully inspire others to blow. Its mission is to give a (very) little something to this world — to improve it in some microscopic way; to advance society by a nano-nudge.
So a tip of my hat and a hearty and heartfelt “thanks for noticing” to all those readers who, for all these years, have proclaimed that ULTRAsomething blows. And to all those who have suggested ULTRAsomething sucks? All I can say is “your ignorance is showing.”
©2018 grEGORy simpson
ABOUT THE PHOTOS:
In an effort to illustrate just how much ULTRAsomething blows, I decided to populate this article with recent photos from my 1969 Olympus Pen FT camera. By using a 50 year old camera, I’m not sucking up more of the word’s precious natural resources for the purpose of building a new one. Why would I do that when the Pen FT takes perfectly adequate photos? Same goes for digital media — why consume all that cloud storage bandwidth and all those backup drives, when all I need to preserve my images is a single strip of acetate? And just in case some of you believe the chemicals within acetate (and a few mils of Rodinal) smell slightly of suckage, note that the Pen FT is a half frame camera, meaning I get 72 exposures on a single strip — halving my per-shot chemical use and thereby minimizing my toxic footprint. In fact, the only thing that doesn’t blow about the enclosed photos is the photos themselves. Upon making my selects, I realized they neither blow nor suck. Rather, to my eye they appear to bite — a discovery that sort of messes up my entire metaphor. Oh well, it’s not like anyone reads this “About The Photos” section anyway.
REMINDER: If you find these photos enjoyable or the articles beneficial, please consider making a DONATION to this site’s continuing evolution. As you’ve likely realized, ULTRAsomething is not an aggregator site — serious time and effort go into developing the original content contained within these virtual walls.
Categories : Musings
“Oh well, it’s not like anyone reads this “About The Photos” section anyway.” Just call me Anyone.
Egor says:
Hi Fred. Thanks for revealing your secret identity as Captain Anyone. Hopefully your cache of super powers contains something more useful than “the ability to endure an entire ULTRAsomething post from top to bottom.”
Should there be any other readers who share Captain Anyone’s unique mutation, I should probably attach an addendum to the “About The Photos” discussion, and mention that the photos, while seemingly random, aren’t actually random. Each is, in one way or another, out of balance. I know some readers like to try and figure out the connection between the article and the photos, so there’s a bit more involved here than just their “suck v. blow” connection. Also, I should mention that the two portal photos were originally shot to be a diptych (as, obviously, were the two photos that make up the “Repulsion” diptych), but when placed side-by-side, they produced one of the ugliest diptychs ever conceived — so they’re now and forever separated.
Gregory,
You’re articulate and funny, a great combination, so why would Anyone pass that up from top to bottom?
I’m going to hold my breath until the next ULTRAsomething post.
Hi Tracy: Thanks for you comment — it made me realize the site is missing a rather important health & safety disclaimer. Specifically, I should probably mention that ULTRAsomething cannot be held responsible for any physical consequences that result from readers choosing to hold their breath between article publications. I should also mention that ULTRAsomething cannot be held responsible for any readers who choose to bash their heads against the wall over something I’ve written. And (though it probably goes without saying), you should definitely not bathe while reading ULTRAsomething on a mains-powered laptop… or while operating a motor vehicle, or… geez… maybe I should get a lawyer to help out. This disclaimer could be more involved than I thought.
Andrew Holmes says:
Well, it’s finally happened. After years of reading your stories and scratching my head over your photos, you have finally driven me to it. I developed my first roll of Tri-X 400 since High School tonight, and it’s all your fault. I did cheat a bit, though – I used a 20 year old Nikon F60, which has a light meter that works properly and (GASP!) a motor to wind the film. I also took what you would probably think were totally banal scenic photos, but at least I did something analog and developed the film myself in the upstairs bathroom.
Next thing you know I’ll be mixing Caffenol in the sink and taking blurry tilted photos………..
Hey Andrew: FINALLY! After 10 years of rambling pontifications on the internet, I have at last influenced a reader! I couldn’t be happier. With this kind of grass roots support, I should have a bona-fide following by the mid 37th century. Hopefully we’ll all still be able to buy Tri-X… Thanks for letting me know. Go easy on the blurry, tilted shots though — that’s some pretty advanced stuff.
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Students from Calgary and Tsuut’ina create mural for Fort Calgary
By Mary GetanehStarMetro Calgary
Wed., June 13, 2018timer2 min. read
CALGARY—Students from Calgary and the Tsuut’ina Nation gathered at Fort Calgary on Wednesday to witness the unveiling of a tiled mural celebrating Indigenous culture, vibrancy, and resiliency.
The colourful work — called Many Hands — was crafted by the many hands of children from Calgary Arts Academy, Chiila Elementary School and Connect Charter School.
Students from the schools were given songs from A Tribe Called Red, Buffy Sainte-Marie and a poem by Chief Crowfoot and drew visual representations from the music and words.
The project, which will now hang permanently at Fort Calgary, incorporated the work of 200 students.
Megan Leung, school program co-ordinator at Fort Calgary, said she wanted the project to bring the kids together.
“Just talking to each other and learning from each other, they became friends,” said Leung. “But they really learned about each other’s cultures and communities and really understood the importance of Indigenous people in the community.”
Twelve-year-old Victoria Longley, a Grade 7 student at Connect Charter School, said she learned more about reconciliation through the project.
“I think with reconciliation, a lot of Canadians think it’s just to say sorry,” said Longley. “It’s not just about saying sorry, it’s about really trusting each other and trying to make up for the things that happened.”
Longley’s classmate, Sophie Obrigewitsch, said a project like this was a better way to learn about reconciliation and Indigenous history.
“If you look at a textbook, you don’t see the whole story, you just see what someone wants you to know,” said Obrigewitsch. “This way, you get hundreds of people’s opinions and stories.”
Tsuut’ina First Nation cultural leader Hal Eagletail gave an opening prayer at the unveiling. He said the mural reflects how future relations between the two groups can evolve positively.
“The mural is a beautiful blessing of connecting two nations,” said Eagletail.
“It’s an understanding of who we are as Indigenous people going into today’s modern world and amalgamating that with the young minds of our future leaders.”
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Mary Getaneh is a Calgary-based reporter covering arts, culture and diversity. Follow her on Twitter: @marygetaneh
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Galleries probe the nation's pastime
By Peter GoddardSpecial to the Star
Sat., Dec. 13, 2008timer5 min. read
You know hockey's silly season has arrived early when Sean Avery is suspended for at least six games for bad language.
What, a hockey player being a tad vulgar? Really? What the %#$*) is that all about?
For anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the game, the visual arts have three compelling alternatives available:
"Hockey Town," by Liz Pead, Liss Platt and Leah Modigliani at the MacLaren ArtCentre in Barrie until Feb. 22
"Hockey has opened up," says MacLaren curator Sandra Fraser. "It's no longer driven just by the `you-gotta-make-it-to-the-NHL' thing. Girls now play hockey. They've re-energized the sport. But I didn't want this show to be about gender. I tried really hard to find a male artist, someone working with hockey in a way I responded to the other artists. But eventually I just let my bias go.'"
"Hockey Town" is not a feminist critique of the famously macho sport where the role of women has often been limited to pouring cold ones for the boys at the bar or to waiting patiently at home as their stalwart men folk beat each other senseless at the rink. Some discreet dissing is ushered in through Toronto artist Liz Pead's use of discarded guy gear in her massive, hockey gear-laden landscapes such as Bayside Field, Facing St. Croix Island (2008).
Pead's thinking seems to be formed equally by British Columbia artist Brian Jungen's triumphant sculpture made of high-end, designer sports gear and the smelly old stuff found in the lost and found bin in any rink.
Swatches from a team uniform have been fixed by Pead onto huge rectangles of painted plywood to suggest sky, grass or earth. Laces, ribbons and other strands of chucked-out equipment are fixed over a swath of blue paint suggestive of clouds in the sky. A pine as twisted and gnarled as anything found in Tom Thomson is mimicked by Pead's Maple LEAF Tree (2008), old hockey cards scattered at its base like leaves in fall.
"This is something this community can respond to, something that's accessible," says Fraser, who's lived in Barrie off and on since she was 5. "Barrie is a hockey town. It's part of growing up here, of living here. If you like hockey, living in a hockey town is a good thing. But this show works on other levels, too. Liz Pead's gestural work suggests Group of Seven landscapes."
Then there are Liss Platt's Puck Paintings, Canada's homegrown offering to the world of performance art. The "art jock," as the Hamilton-based academic describes herself, shot pucks at a number of large wooden rectangles she'd layered over with a dense, white background of gesso. The bombarded boards were then sanded. The results are entirely lyrical abstractions, overlapping cloudlike layers of delicately curved lines. What some viewers might see as birds in flight came from the imprint of the puck's rubbery edge on the gesso.
The true centrepiece of "Hockey Town" is The Great One (2002-2008) by Leah Modigliani. In deadpan fashion, she re-enacts Wayne Gretzky's teary-eyed 1999 farewell speech in a video loop shown in an installation suggestive of the cozy confines of a classic Canadian recreation room. Irony and admiration share equal space here as the artist – a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University near Buffalo – equates athleticism with artistic creation.
"On top of that," says Modigliani (who claims family descent from the famous Amedeo Modigliani), "I find it interesting comparing the institutional frameworks for these radically different worlds."
Saving Face: The Art and History of the Goalie Mask (Wiley, 160 pages, $38.95) by Jim Hynes and Gary Smith
Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante changed hockey history when he skated on the ice in Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 1, 1959, wearing a protective mask for the first time. Goalies no longer needed to live in fear of eyeball-loosening pucks blazing their way.
The goalie mask changed art's thinking about the iconic Canadian sport as well. In art, the mask reveals more than it hides. It's a visual means to unmask whatever history or desire is suggested to be lurking behind it. Shaped and decorated to shock and awe, goalie masks have been included in many exhibitions over the past 50 years, often shown alongside aboriginal masks. One goalie mask is part of the permanent collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Saving Face pays some attention to the art-hockey connection – as well as to the hockey mask worn in the Friday the 13th horror film series – but is at its best when surveying the inherent artistry in the goalie mask itself. We're marched briskly through a history of the mask's most influential fabricators – from Ernie Higgens, one of the earliest mask-makers, to Jim Homuth, who invented the mask's multiple planes and angled surfaces.
The text is chatty but the colour reproductions are subpar. Saving Face does offer the opportunity for an insight or two, however. For one thing, the Baroque farrago of colour and design plastered all over many contemporary masks – such as the musical notes Curtis "Cujo" Joseph had fashioned to suggest a necklace on the mask he wore during his days as a St. Louis Blue – have barely a fraction of the terrorizing bite exhibited by earlier, single-color masks. The ghostly pale, pockmarked mask Bill Burchmore made for Plante would scare a skull.
But no mask in Saving Face comes anywhere close to the unalloyed savagery shown in a retouched photo of goalie Terry Sawchuck's face. His scars criss-cross his face, as if it had originally been stitched together out of skin borrowed from others.
"Blue Blood," Harbourfront Centre with "The Arena Project," photographs by Martie Giefert until Jan. 4
"Inspired by the cursed trajectory of the Toronto Maple Leafs post-1967," "Blue Blood" is one of those exhibitions that gets its juice more from the feeling and intelligence behind it than from the work exhibited. Matt James's painting, It's Ridiculous How Much (2008), demands that you share the Leafs fan's pain. Fantastical masks fashioned by Barbara Hobot and Patrick Cull are quasi-mystical, quasi-disturbed revisions of goalie headgear. But the baby Leaf jersey knitted in 1967 by Frances Huckvale is fabulous, as is Craig Le Blanc's Anthem (Dolores Claman) – Leafs Edition (2008), an inkjet printout of sounds like "bwmaaa" and other examples of the vocal nonsense we make up singing badly along to the now-former Hockey Night in Canada song.
Nothing in the York Quay Centre gallery exhibition offers anywhere near the shivers you get reading the statements from the two curators. Sawchuk Spells Disaster, Andrew Hunter's piece, recalls the goalie's "sunken eyes behind a skull mask." Dave Bidini's statement recalls a lot of Bidini – never a bad thing from the sometime-Rheostatic who is emerging as the most deeply intuitive hockey writer of his time.
Losing "is just winning minus the numbers," writes Bidini. Precisely. Every Leafs fan should feel better with that.
Peter Goddard is a freelance Toronto journalist. He can be reached at peter_g1@sympatico.ca
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Sunday, September 2, 2018, 16:12 - California's legislature passed a bill late on Friday that could help the utility Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation (PG&E) avoid potentially crippling liabilities for wildfires that ravaged northern parts of the San Francisco Bay Area last year.
The bill, passed 29 to 4 in the Senate and 45 to 10 in the Assembly, requires approval by Democrat Governor Jerry Brown.
Some fires in the north of the Bay area were caused by trees toppling into or making contact with PG&E power lines, a report released by state officials in June said. Analysts estimate PG&E, the state's biggest utility, could face several billions of dollars in liability as a result.
Democrat State Senator Bill Dodd said the bill was needed to spare customers from big increases in energy costs. "Without it, ratepayers will be left holding the bag and communities will needlessly suffer," he said.
The fires killed 46 people in blazes across at least 245,000 acres, including subdivisions in the city of Santa Rosa.
In California, utilities are responsible for fires traced to their equipment whether or not they are complying with regulations. PG&E faces about 200 lawsuits on behalf of 2,700 plaintiffs stemming from last year's fires.
If signed by the governor, this would soften that standard by having regulators determine liability based on whether equipment was reasonably maintained and operated. It would also let utilities issue bonds to help pay damages, with a surcharge on ratepayers' bills helping to cover interest payments.
Critics say the legislation is a bailout. But Dodd, who led the legislation, has said another bankruptcy by PG&E could be worse for ratepayers than a surcharge on their bills.
PG&E faced bankruptcy during California's energy crisis in 2001, emerging three years later with customers left to pay higher rates to help repay $13 billion owed to creditors.
A second bankruptcy could potentially lump victims of last year's fires in with PG&E's creditors, casting uncertainty over the timing and size of recoveries.
"You've got a lot of investors like hedge funds circling like vultures," Dodd, who represents parts of Northern California hit by last year's wildfires, told Reuters. "What would happen to the North Bay fire victims?"
Dodd's legislation won bipartisan support in committee to be heard on Friday, the last day of the legislature's session. Consumer advocates have lobbied strongly against the bill.
PG&E hired law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP to explore debt restructuring options, including breaking the firm up to let one division file for bankruptcy, Reuters reported in August.
PG&E said it would not be financially sustainable without changes to state policy. PG&E reported second-quarter net losses of $984 million, compared with net income of $406 million a year earlier.
(Reporting by Jim Christie; Writing by Rich McKay; Editing by Edmund Blair)
WATCH BELOW: VIDEO OF FIRE TORNADO THAT KILLED A FIREFIGHTER
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‘The Best Man Holiday’ Review: Yuletide Sequel Indulges Too Heavily in Plot and Preaching (Video)
An appealing ensemble cast wears out its welcome in this Christmas confection, with a script that crams too many messages and too much contrivance into its stocking
Alonso Duralde | November 13, 2013 @ 9:00 AM Last Updated: July 10, 2014 @ 8:14 PM
Mark Twain once wrote that author James Fenimore Cooper relied so heavily on the plot device of characters making noise by stepping on dry twigs, that if a character couldn’t find a dry twig, he’d have to go borrow one.
Writer-director Malcolm D. Lee has his own brand of dry twig in “The Best Man Holiday,” with his cast constantly walking in on exactly the wrong part of an overheard conversation, misreading something on someone else’s phone or tablet, or eavesdropping when they shouldn’t. The tally of significant coincidences and half-heard scraps of information on display here would exhaust even the snoopy staff of Downton Abbey.
Still, as its title suggests, “The Best Man Holiday” is a Christmas movie, the genre of film most likely to bypass critical faculties and nestle comfortably in our sentimentality zone. For some audiences, its mix of holiday cheer and pathos will make it a go-to movie in Decembers to come, but I found it to be a disappointing sequel to its charming-enough predecessor, 1999’s “The Best Man.”
See video: Mariah Carey, Jimmy Fallon, The Roots and Kids Perform ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’
The opening credits do a tidy job of bringing newbies up to speed: there’s novelist Harper (Taye Diggs), who has yet to publish a follow-up to his best-selling roman-à-clef about his college years; his chef wife Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), in the final stages of a pregnancy that both of them have long wanted; Harper’s close platonic pal Jordan (Nia Long), now a programming hot-shot at MSNBC with a preppy white boyfriend (Eddie Cibrian) who loves her “Olivia Pope vibe”; rakish Quentin (Terrence Howard), after years of job-hopping, has come into real money as a “brand manager”; Julian (Harold Perrineau) runs a tony private school with his ex-stripper wife Candy (Regina Hall); and Julian’s shrewish ex Shelby (Melissa De Sousa) has found the perfect place for her sense of drama and self-aggrandizement as one of the “Real Housewives of Westchester.”
This whole gaggle gets an invitation to spend Christmas with soon-to-retire pro footballer Lance (Morris Chestnut) and his wife Mia (Monica Calhoun); Lance is still wary of former BFF Harper because of Harper’s one-night stand with Mia in college (and over Harper having included it in his novel). But Mia insists that all of their closest friends gather at their sprawling home for the Yuletide.
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And if you’ve watched enough Christmas movies — and I’ve seen my share — you know that impromptu holiday gatherings of friends and/or family means someone is terminally ill. (This is also one of those December-set movies where it clearly wasn’t cold during shooting — at some point there’s a reference to someone slipping on ice, even though all the lawns are still green.)
“The Best Man Holiday” keeps lobbing plot twists at us — Can Julian keep the school open after a major donor learns of Candy’s past? Will Harper desperately attempt to save his writing career by exploiting his relationship with Lance and offering to ghost-write Lance’s memoir? — but the movie works best when these talented actors get to just banter and goof on each other the way old friends do.
In both “Best Man” movies, Lee shoehorns in conversations about Jesus without much grace, but even the characters he treats like role models have no place being so didactic. Lance, for example, is constantly held up as this paragon of godly behavior, but he keeps stewing over Harper and Mia’s indiscretion all these years later. One subplot revolves around whether or not Lance will break the NFL rushing record, but he’s already a world-class grudge carrier.
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Lee also never seems to notice that the women in both movies are held to a much higher standard over their past behavior than the men are. This isn’t presented as a failing of the male characters; it’s just something that the male writer-director does without apparently realizing it.
The ending (which involves, among other things, a layman delivering a baby that’s in the breech position — don’t try this at home) couldn’t be more contrived, but again, it’s a Christmas movie, and we all have our favorite flavors of seasonal schmaltz. The kind that “The Best Man Holiday” serves up was, for me at least, too hard to swallow.
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Alonso Duralde, TheWrap's reviews editor, has written about film for Movieline, Salon, MSNBC.com. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on Who Shot Ya? and Breakfast All Day. Senior Programmer for the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles, he is also a consultant for the USA Film Festival/Dallas, where he spent five years as artistic director. A former arts and entertainment editor at the Advocate, he was a regular contributor to FilmStruck and to "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" on Current. He is the author of two books, "Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas" (Limelight Editions) and "101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men" (Advocate Books).
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A person or business entity that enters into a contract with TSBVI must give notice to TSBVI if the person or an owner or operator of the business entity has been convicted of a felony. The School may terminate a contract with a person or business entity if the School determines that the person or business entity failed to give such notice or misrepresented the conduct resulting in the conviction. TSBVI must compensate the person or business entity for services performed before the termination of the contract. Education Code 44.034
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An entity that contracts with the School; to provide services and any subcontractor of the entity shall obtain from any law enforcement or criminal justice agency or a private entity that is a consumer reporting agency governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1681 et seq.), all criminal history record information that relates to an employee of the entity who is employed before January 1, 2008, and who is not subject to a national criminal history record information review under Education Code 22.0834(b) if:
The employee has continuing duties related to the contracted services; and
The employee has direct contact with students.
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A person who, on or after January 1, 2008, is offered employment by an entity that contracts with TSBVI or any subcontractor of the entity must submit to a national criminal history record information review if:
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The employee or applicant has or will have direct contact with students.
The person must submit to the review before being employed or serving in a capacity described above.
An entity contracting with TSBVI and any subcontractor of the entity shall obtain all criminal history record information that relates to a person described above through the criminal history clearinghouse as provided by Government Code 411.0845.
A contracting entity shall require that a subcontracting entity obtain all criminal history record information that relates to a person described above.
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A “subcontracting entity” is an entity that contracts with another entity that is not a school to provide services to TSBVI. Education Code 22.0834(p)(2)
“Service Contractor”
A “service contractor” is an entity, including a government entity and an individual independent contractor, that contracts or agrees with TSBVI by written agreement or verbal understanding to provide services through individuals who receive compensation. However, when conducting an investigation or intervention regarding an alleged crime or act of child abuse on a school campus, a law enforcement agency or the Department of Family and Protective Services is not a contracting entity, and the investigator or intervener is not a covered contract employee. 19 TAC 153.1101(10)
“Continuing Duties Related to Contracted Services”
“Continuing duties related to contracted services” are work duties that are performed pursuant to a contract to provide services to TSBVI on a regular, repeated basis rather than infrequently or one-time only. 19 TAC 153.1101(2)
“Covered Contract Employee”
A “covered contract employee” is an individual who:
Is employed or offered employment by a service contractor or a subcontractor of a service contractor, is an individual independent contractor of the School or is an individual subcontractor of a service contractor;
Has or will have continuing duties related to the contracted services;
Has or will have direct contact with students; and
Is not a student of (or enrolled in) TSBVI for which the services are performed.
19 TAC 153.1101(3)
“Direct Contact with Students”
“Direct contact with students” is the contact that results from activities that provide substantial opportunity for verbal or physical interaction with students that is not supervised by a certified educator or other professional TSBVI employee. Contact with students that results from services that do not provide substantial opportunity for unsupervised interaction with a student or students, such as addressing an assembly, officiating a sports contest, or judging an extracurricular event, is not, by itself, direct contact with students. However, direct contact with students does result from any activity that provides substantial opportunity for unsupervised contact with students, which might include, without limitation, the provision of coaching, tutoring, or other services to students. 19 TAC 153.1101(7)
Note: See DBAA for definitions and provisions regarding confidentiality, consumer credit reports, records retention, and criminal history record checks of employees.
Criminal History—Certain Public Works Contractors
The following provisions apply to a person who is not an applicant for a holder of a certificate under Education Code Chapter 21, Subchapter B, and who is employed by a contracting or subcontracting entity on a project to design, construct, alter, or repair a public work if the person has or will have:
Continuing duties related to the contracted services; and
The opportunity for direct contact with students in connection with the person’s continuing duties.
Education Code 22.08341(b)
If a contracting or subcontracting entity determines that the conditions at Applicability do not apply to an employee, the entity shall make a reasonable effort to ensure that the conditions or precautions that resulted in that determination continue to exist throughout the time the contracted services are provided. Education Code 22.08341(i)
The contracting entity or subcontracting entity that employs a person described at Applicability, above, shall:
Send or ensure that the person sends to the Department of Public Safety information that is required for obtaining national criminal history record information, which may include fingerprints and photographs;
Obtain all criminal history record information that relates to the person through the criminal history clearinghouse as provided by Government Code 411.0845; and
Certify to the School or contracting entity, as applicable, that the contracting entity or subcontracting entity that employs the person has received all criminal history record information relating to the person.
A contracting entity shall certify to the School that it has obtained written certification from any subcontracting entity that the subcontracting entity has complied with the above as it relates to the subcontracting entity’s employees.
Education Code 22.08341(e), (f)
TSBVI may directly obtain the criminal history record information of a person described above through the criminal history clearinghouse. Education Code 22.08341(h)
A contracting or subcontracting entity may not permit an employee to provide services at an instructional facility if the employee, during the preceding 30 years, was convicted of any of the following offenses and the victim was under 18 years of age or was enrolled in a public school:
A felony offense under Penal Code Title 5;
An offense on conviction of which a defendant is required to register as a sex offender; or
An offense under the laws of another state or federal law that is equivalent to 1 or 2.
Education Code 22.08341(d)
In the event of an emergency, TSBVI may allow a person described at “Applicability”, above, to enter an instructional facility if the person is accompanied by a School employee. TSBVI may adopt a policy regarding an emergency for purposes of this provision. Education Code 22.08341(j)
“Contracting entity” means an entity that contracts directly with TSBVI to provide engineering, architectural, or construction services to the School.
“Instructional Facility”
“Instructional facility” has the meaning assigned by Education Code 46.001.
“Subcontracting entity” means an entity that contracts with another entity that is not the School to provide engineering, architectural, or construction services to TSBVI.
Education Code 22.08341(a)
A person does not have the opportunity for direct contact with students if:
The public work does not involve the construction, alteration, or repair of an instructional facility;
For a public work that involves construction of a new instructional facility, the person’s duties related to the contracted services will be completed not later than the seventh day before the first date the facility will be used for instructional purposes; or
For a public work that involves an existing instructional facility,
The public work area contains sanitary facilities and is separate from all areas used by students by a secure barrier fence that is not less than six feet in height; and
The contracting entity adopts a policy prohibiting employees, including subcontracting entity employees, from interacting with students or entering areas used by students, informs employees of the policy, and enforces the policy at the public work area.
Education Code 22.08341(c)
Contractors Providing Transportation Services
Except as provided below at “Commercial Transportation Company”, a School that contracts with a person for transportation services TSBVI shall obtain from any law enforcement or criminal justice agency all criminal history record information that relates to a person employed for transportation services by the person as a bus driver or a person the person intends to employ an applicant as a bus driver. A person who contracts with TSBVI to provide transportation services shall submit to the School the name and other identification data required to obtain the criminal history record information of such persons. If TSBVI obtains information that such a person has been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, the School shall inform the chief personnel officer of the person with whom TSBVI has contracted, and the person may not employ that person to drive a bus on which students are transported without the permission of the board. Education Code 22.084(a)–(b)
Commercial Transportation Company
A commercial transportation company that contracts with TSBVI to provide transportation services may obtain from any law enforcement or criminal justice agency all criminal history record information that relates to a person employed by the company as a bus driver, bus monitor, or bus aide, or a person the company intends to employ in one of these positions. If the company obtains criminal history record information indicating that a person it employs or intends to employ has been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, the company may not employ that person to drive or to serve as a bus monitor or bus aide on a bus on which students are transported without the permission of the board of TSBVI. If the commercial transportation company obtains the criminal history record information, TSBVI is not required to do the same. Education Code 22.084(c)–(d)
Adopted: 4/6/18
Additional resources (right column)
A Policy Index: Basic District Foundations
B Policy Index: Local District Governance
C Policy Index: Business and Support Services
D Policy Index: Personnel
E Policy Index: Instruction
F Policy Index: Students
G Policy Index: Community
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Written by sharkgun
Q: What is Timesplitters Rewind?
Timesplitters Rewind is a standalone remake of all 3 TimeSplitters games, eventually to include all content that will be released via rolling updates.
Q: Will there be new game modes / characters / maps / weapons for Rewind?
We have enough on our plate for the existing assets! Perhaps we could come up with a 'Street Racer Cortez,' or we could allow the community to build their own characters via Custom Mods.
Q: Is this Multiplayer only?
No, this will include everything. Just keep in mind this takes time so initially there will be a large focus on Multiplayer so you have a reason to keep playing.
Q: What's the maximum player count?
We're targeting 16 players; some maps may require a smaller player count and maybe some maps we can bump higher if it feels right.
Q: Will there be online functionality, and if so, how will the team manage services for it?
We're looking at dedicated servers hosted by us, we understand the high cost involved for the large player base, as a backup we will have P2P networking as it has no cost involved. We would also love to allow for custom server hosting but this is something we are still debating.
Q: Are you porting assets directly from the original games, or are you building them from the ground up?
We have ways of viewing the original assets and are pretty much using them as our concept work due to the fact we are not allowed to distribute them as part of the game. We aim to build new assets that should stand up to current industry practice.
Q: Will my favorite character be in the game?
There are a lot of characters to include- 274, in fact. We'll eventually include all of them, but for the initial release there will be a small character roster. One thing we can't promise are alternate uniforms, but at least you don't have to see Harry Tipper in a Henchwoman's uniform.
We have enough on our plate for the existing assets! It even includes Team Thief which wasa game mode from Future Perfect's Arcade League. Perhaps we could come up with a 'Street Racer Cortez,' or we could allow the community to build their own characters via Custom Mods.
Q: Will there be bots?
It wouldn't be a Timesplitters without 'em. We'll do our best to make them competent, too!
Q: Will there be hitscan or ballistic physics for the weapons?
As all games had a mixture of both, we plan to implement both as well.
Q: Will it have MapMaker?
We're coming up with a concept of it; if it's not feasible to make it function, then we will resort to a mod & custom assets system to keep our system as open as possible for the community.
Q: Will Mods or Custom Content be available?
If we can't get MapMaker implemented, then you can bet we will do this as Plan B.
Q: Which platform(s) will Timesplitters Rewind be available on?
Release on Windows is definite; release on other PC platforms and consoles depends on a checklist - Crytek approving the release on the platform, licensing the game for the platform and possible costs of that, and then making the game function properly on the platform, not necessarily in that order.
Q: Will there be splitscreen?
This is something we are looking into but there are many technical limitations doing such a system on PC.
Q: What are the PC hardware specifications?
We haven't determined them yet, but we certainly want as many people to play it as possible and keep the detail scalable.
Q: When does the game release?
We can't say yet, we still have much work to do. When we get closer to a private beta, we'll discuss when we can get this out to everyone.
Q: How will the beta be utilized?
The plan so far is to release patches to fix bugs / exploits / performance issues and Content Updates if the assets meet our release standards. There will likely not be a public beta, but an initial release with a small number of charaters/maps/gamemodes and weapons.
Q: How much will the game cost?
All content is free to everyone! FOREVER!
Q: How has Crytek been involved in the project? Are you talking with them on console releases or Kickstarter?
We are in regular contact with Crytek regarding use of their engine and the development of Rewind.
Q: Is any of the original staff involved in the project?
We remain in contact with many of the original members of Free Radical Design, and they have given us great advice on the development process. And we thought we couldn't thank them enough...
Q: How involved is everyone?
We'll emphasize this again: this is a fan project where everyone volunteers at least five hours a week to keep the ball rolling. Some people have a few more hours to dedicate, some are very busy with their own work yet still manage to pump out gorgeous characters and other assets.
Q: Can I donate money to your project?
Nope, as part of our IP agreement with Crytek, we cannot accept any money at all.
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Cranleigh Win
47 years ago the sixteen elite cricket schools were asked to play in a knock-out competition. A year later, the invitation was extended to 32 schools. Cranleigh was not one. When Blundells withdrew from the competition, Cranleigh were selected as their replacement and so became the first new school in the Cup for almost 40 years. Some have questioned why they were not included in the original cohort, perhaps the late, great Old Cranleighan E. W. Swanton would have been privileged to understand the decision making but either way none will argue that since their inclusion they have demonstrated that times have changed.
Playing in their third final in eight years, on the 17th August 2014, at Wimbledon Cricket Club, Cranleigh secured their first Cricketer Cup win with a team that will be available and strengthen for many years to come.
The day started with broken and gloomy cloud which threatened to ruin a day which had been meticulously planned and gloriously prepared by Wimbledon Cricket Club. As a venue, it is the best since Burton Court and probably the best for a cricket event such as this.
The toss was won by Bradfield who elected to bowl. Will Kendall, a significant player at the highest level with nothing to prove and a three time Cricketer Cup winner, fought off injury to lead the Waifs. They fielded a strong side despite a few of their players preferring to play minor counties cricket and following a short rain delay, opened with hostility and accuracy. Cranleigh lost Jack Scriven after a short flurry allowing Kenyan international Duncan Allen to join his national team mate Seren Waters and steady the ship. Sensible batting took the score to 52 when the dangerous Waters was snaffled for a solid 34. At 52 for 2 off 14 overs the game was finely balanced.
Alan Cope joined Allen and turned the game. Bradfield bowled and fielded well but offered the two batsmen little trouble as they accumulated runs at will and pushed the score on to 182 for 2 off 40 overs. Cranleigh were well set and should have turned a great foundation into a mammoth total. Allen went for 63 and a quick flurry of wickets pulled the momentum back towards Bradfield taking the score to 199 for 5 in the 43rd. Cope, however, played a innings of rare maturity and demonstrated that his undisputed talent can win matches despite the mounting pressure. Simply put he played as good an innings as any Cranleighan has seen him play as he guided OCs to 243 making 98 in the process falling just short of his hundred as he was caught off the last ball of the innings as the eighth wicket. Riazuddin and Smithson each took 3 wickets with Riazuddin the pick returning figures of 3 for 31 from his quota.
The Waifs innings started badly with a wicket in the first over and despite small partnerships, wickets fell regularly. At 57-6 off 24 overs most thought the game over despite some determined batting in Curran Gaur’s 35. Enter, Craig Williams. If Chris Gayle was right handed, white, slightly portly and wore glasses you may have been forgiven for thinking that he had attended Bradfield. Instead Williams possibly more Garfield than Gayle demonstrated what was needed from the top order.
He was simply outstanding, batting with both aggression and intelligence. He rotated the strike cleverly making the most of his fellow tailenders and brought the crowd to life with soaring sixes. Scoring double digit overs almost at will, the crowd suddenly stopped asking for free champagne and murmurs of the impossible started to circulate. Having launched Waters for 21 off an over, he needed 80 off the last 7. The new Cranleigh headmaster was noticed adjusting his seating position.
Had he featured higher up the order, perhaps things would have been different but the task was just too great despite putting on 152 for the last three wickets. Williams finished unbeaten on 104 his hundred coming off only 83 balls and is one of only 5 hundreds ever scored in a final.
In the end, Cranleigh’s opening pair of Rollings and Crump were too miserly early on never really letting Bradfield into the game. Rollings the pick of the day’s bowlers with figures of 3 for 25 spanning two good spells.. The mounting pressure resulted in wickets falling regularly and shared amongst the bowlers.
Final result: Cranleigh by 34 runs, a new name on the trophy.
The game was played in great spirit and thanks must go to our sponsors Carol Lorenz, an independent Herbalife distributor, and Lanson champagne and of course Wimbledon Cricket Club who generously provide the ground. The day is fast becoming an event to attend whether or not your team is in the final.
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Kitchens are all controlled chaos.
21 Secrets Restaurants Don’t Want You to Know
Dan Myers
Every restaurant has some secrets up its sleeve
When you walk into a nice restaurant, it often appears to be a well-oiled machine, with servers, runners, and bussers gliding seamlessly from table to table, to the kitchen, and to the bar, working with clockwork precision to make sure every diner is happy. But servers and other staff aren’t robots, and there are a few things that you probably don’t know about what goes on behind the scenes at even the best restaurants.
21 Secrets Restaurants Don’t Want You to Know (Slideshow)
It can sometimes be easy to forget that, above all, a restaurant is first and foremost a business. The owners may be in the business of making you full and happy, but their primary goal is to make money. And with profit margins so slim in the restaurant industry these days, more and more restaurants are resorting to cutting some corners and using psychological tactics to save a few bucks, and to make you spend more than planned.
17 Ways Restaurants Trick You Into Spending More Money20 Ways Supermarkets Trick You Into Spending More Money Gallery10 Ways Fast Food Chains Are Playing With Your Head
Whether it’s a Michelin-starred phenom or a corner diner, when it gets down to it, most restaurants operate in surprisingly similar ways. Sure, we’re not expecting a $125 tasting menu restaurant to make consistent use of a microwave, and some restaurants take great pains to make sure that the menus and ketchup bottles are spotless, but every restaurant has some secrets they wish you rather didn’t know.
21 Secrets Restaurants Don’t Want You to Know Gallery
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Javier Hernandez Transfer News: Is Chicharito Set to Leave Manchester United?
June 29, 2014 Updated: June 28, 2014
Javier Hernandez might be leaving Manchester United next season.
The 24-year-old Mexican is currently the fourth choice striker in the Man United team, behind Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie, and Danny Welbeck.
It is uncertain too how Hernandez will fit into Louis van Gaal’s plans, but he has to content with the blooming of Adnan Januzaj and the arrival of Juan Mata to Man United.
“This whole year has been very tough. Players need confidence more than anything else, and I’ve been very short of it,” Hernandez said earlier in the year.
“Very few people have shown faith in me over this past year.”
Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Inter Milan and Real Madrid are said to be interested in the striker, according to Metro.
See an AP article on Mexico’s coach Miguel Herrera.
Mexico’s ‘Louse’ Lights it up at World Cup
SAO PAULO (AP) — Mexico’s national soccer coach Miguel Herrera just can’t keep his joy bottled up, and his enthusiasm has made him one of the most entertaining and popular figures of the World Cup and an Internet sensation worldwide.
Memes of Herrera flood the Web, like one that shows his hair catching on fire cartoon-style. In one picture, he playfully sticks out his tongue while he photobombs three members of his team on the pitch. In a video, he dances happily to Spanish ska music.
Forget Coach Herrera’s success in turning around the troubled Mexican team, which faces off Sunday against the Netherlands after becoming one of the international soccer tournament’s biggest surprises. Soccer fans around the global have fallen in love with Herrera’s colorful antics, which are often as absorbing as the goal replays.
“He is so authentic, so expressive and so genuine,” said Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian and World Cup commentator. “He’s becoming the representation of the Mexicans’ ability to celebrate and party. That is very seductive.”
Although he wears a suit and a tie, Herrera rumbles up and down the sidelines like a classic Mexican wrestler. When his players score, he shakes his arms in the air and seemingly goes into a state of euphoria, throwing his short, stout body up and down the sidelines.
He jumps atop one player like a friendly puppy, carries another team member in his arms like a proud father or simply kneels down on the sideline, face up, eyes closed, ecstatic.
During the World Cup, sportscasters have affectionately compared Herrera to a cartoon monster — Tweety Bird’s version of Mr. Hyde, from an animated short by Warner Bros. There is unquestionably a humorous resemblance, right down to the shock of sandy hair.
Herrera’s theatrical gestures are not new to Mexican fans who followed him through his two years as a coach for Mexico City’s America soccer club and earlier stints with other teams. But his performances on the pitch during the World Cup have won new admirers for the man who has been known as “Piojo,” or louse, since he played for Mexico’s Atlante team.
“Piojo is the way he is and there’s no way he is going to change. I am happy they are talking a lot about him,” said Mexico’s captain Rafael Marquez.
Herrera has more followers on Twitter than other coaches — 735,000 — and often posts selfies to his official account, http://twitter.com/MiguelHerreraDT . A favorite is a June 15 snap with a legion of Mexico fans in the background.
“You generally don’t hear a lot about the coaches,” said Jesus Berumen, 59, a Mexican fan in Los Angeles. “He spreads happiness. He’s so natural in the way he does things.”
Herrera’s overly enthusiastic side hasn’t always gotten positive attention.
As a player, he was on the bubble to make the Mexican team for the 1994 World Cup, but was scratched after he wildly tackled a Honduras player during a qualifying match. He still insists he doesn’t know why he didn’t make the team.
His coaching career began in 2002 and reached its local league zenith with the America team. He led the underperforming club to the Mexican league championship last year.
Herrera was chosen as an interim solution last fall when little hope was left for Mexico to qualify for the World Cup. He took the reins as the team limped into an inter-continental playoff only because Panama was bumped out of contention with a loss to Mexico’s eternal rival, the United States.
“He revived the team and the country,” said Hector Diaz, 27, a Mexico fan on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, sporting a Mexican jersey and enormous green sombrero. “He lives soccer as if he were there on the field playing. It’s easy for fans to identify with his enthusiasm.”
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From Eva Green to Seth Rogen's 'happy' face: movie posters banned by the MPAA
As Eva Green's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For poster is pulled over 'nudity', we look at other promos that have fallen foul of the censors. Warning: contains content some readers may find offensive
Guardian staff
Fri 30 May 2014 14.19 EDT Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 18.16 EDT
That Eva Green Sin City poster, banned for " for nudity — curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown." Photograph: Troublemaker Studios
Howard Hughes deliberately stoked controversy with this 1943 poster, in order to get people talking about The Outlaw, and refused to comply with censors' demands to cut the many shots of Jane Russell's breasts.
Ironically for a movie about censorship, this poster was rejected by the MPAA. "Only the few countries where censorship is rampant will reject the original art," director Milos Forman said at the time.
Horror is an inevitable target for the MPAA. This image was pulled for depicting a child with a weapon; a later version simply moved the knife to the adult's hand.
The approved poster for this horror sequel had the body encased in plastic, with no hand visible.
The MPAA considered the hood 'torture', which rendered the poster unsuitable for children. They issued this statement to Variety: "If the advertising is not suitable for all audiences it will not be approved by the advertising administration."
The hood is also the problem here, as it depicts torture … in a documentary about torture.
The promo for this Bret Easton Ellis adaptation was banned in the US, though permitted in Canada and the UK.
Similarly, this poster for a movie with 'Porno' in the title was pulled in the US but allowed in Canada.
The severed fingers caused problems for this horror sequel, and the MPAA ordered Lions Gate to remove the image from their sites. The approved version made it less clear that the fingers were detached.
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The Indian Wire » World » US sanctions Pakistan refusing to accept citizens deportees from America, may withhold Pakistanis visas
US sanctions Pakistan refusing to accept citizens deportees from America, may withhold Pakistanis visas
The United States has imposed sanction on Pakistan for refusing to take back its national visa overstayers and deportees from America, cautioning Washington may withhold Pakistanis visas, starting from senior-level officials.
The US state department said few consular operations in Islamabad remain “unchanged” for now but as an outcome of such US sanctions which was mentioned in a federal register notification, Washington has the power to withhold visas of Pakistani citizens and officials, according to news reports.
Pakistan has been now added up to a list of countries sanctioned by Washington under a US law, according to which nations refusing to take back its citizen deportees and visa overstayers will not be provided with American visas.
Under President Donald Trump administration, notably, eight nations have been slapped with such US sanctions. Pakistan and Ghana have made up to sanctioned list this year. The other countries include Guyana in 2001, the Gambia in 2016, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone in 2017, Burma and Laos in 2018.
Asked over federal register notification, a state department spokesperson said, “Consular operations in Pakistan remain unchanged,” adding, “This is a bilateral issue of ongoing discussion between the US and Pakistani governments and we are not going to get into the specifics at this time.”
A few days after federal register notification, dated April 22, ex-Pakistan envoy to America Hussain Haqqani said, “This measure will create hardship for Pakistanis who want or need to travel to the US and could have been avoided if Pakistani authorities had not ignored American requests to respect their legal requirements for deportation.” He asserted Islamabad’s refusal to accept its citizens’ deportees from the US is “not new”.
UN urges international community not to forget Rohingya crisis, calls for global support
US court sentence Russian spy agent to 18 months in prison for espionage
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My Most Memorable Session: From Soaring Confidence to the Worst Beatdown of My Life at G-Land
Trevor Bradford
The author on a meaty one. Absolutely worth the ensuing beating. Photo: Trevor Bradford
You wake up at 4:45 a.m. because they told you the car would be there by five. It’s Indo time though, so they won’t actually be there until six. You head out and wait on the porch anyway.
That hour finally passes and they pick you up. The sun rises during your drive and then you hop in a boat for a two-hour trip across bumpy water. Massive swells rock the boat, but the captain knows what he’s doing. Finally, you arrive at G-Land, where you’re welcomed to the sight of huge tubular waves ripping down the point. These are the biggest and heaviest you’ve ever seen. But even fighting seasickness from all the chop, you can’t contain your smile. You watch somebody tuck into a barrel bigger than a school bus and you stop to ask yourself, “What in the fuck am I doing here?”
You get in a smaller zodiac with your over-stuffed backpack. You get shuttled to shore where your boards are lying on the beach. They were picked up the night before and you haven’t seen them since. You’re happy to know they have arrived.
Hopping in the back of a pickup truck, you’re reminded of the time you shoved your fire crew on the back of a similar one to egress from a fire that almost burned you over. Finally, you’ve arrived at the surf camp. You see the skull and crossbones logo, underneath it reads: “Surf Camp,” but upon closer inspection, you see it really reads “Surf Combat.” You think to yourself, “What in the fuck am I doing here?”
The staff is polite as they all greet you but can’t seem to get your name right. It’s fine, nobody seems to get “Trevor” right around here anyway. They serve a decent breakfast but it’s a far cry from the fine food of Bali. You’re shown to your room. It’s a shack with open windows, a thatched roof, bloodstained mosquito nets with holes, a towel for a blanket, a moldy pillow, grimy sheets, a single light bulb, a fan hanging from the ceiling, and a power outlet. It’s full of spiders, ants, and much larger and more menacing creatures. All for $140 a night.
You meet up with some charger from California. He takes you down a jungle road to where he says it’ll be best to paddle out. A large monkey blocks your path.
“Let’s head over to the beach, I hate walking past those things,” the Californian tells you.
“Why?” you ask.
“Last year some guy got his calf bitten off by one.”
You get to the beach and it’s far too big to paddle out. You wish the Californian good luck and head back the other direction so you can take a calmer route through the channel. Some kooky guy with a helmet and a full-body wetsuit shows you the way.
You are terrified when you arrive in the lineup. You see your friend from Chile who came in a few days earlier.
“Get any good ones?” you ask.
“Two beat downs and one broken board,” he tells you with a thick accent.
You watch people getting spit out of barrels the size of houses. You watch people get wrecked bad enough to get sent to the hospital. You’re happy you have travel insurance.
A small insider comes and you turn it and burn it. It dredges on the shallow reef. You outrun the barrel and throw two decent turns. Your confidence soars.
Off in the distance, you see a blonde dude deep in the barrel the size of a two-story building. The blond dude looks like Mick Fanning. The blond dude is Mick Fanning. You tell him how sick his wave was. He nods at you. You see someone grab rail and pull in deep on a completely irrational and unmakeable drop. It looks like Mason Ho. It is Mason Ho. You think to yourself, “What the fuck am I doing here?”
You see the kooky guy with the helmet. He takes off on a deep one and glides through the barrel with the speed of a projectile round. The barrel is bigger than your apartment.
Another wave comes to you and it’s bigger than the last. You paddle into it with every fiber of your being. It dredges on the reef and you race down the line, dodging the people caught inside before getting spat out triumphantly into the channel.
You see the Californian charger from before. He makes three successive waves that are better than both Mick Fanning and Mason Ho’s.
“Yeah it’s pretty fun out here,” he says to you as he paddles by.
A large set looms now and an Australian who kept paddling around you at Uluwatu yesterday is going for it. You have priority. You think you’re too deep but you go anyway.
It turns out you are too deep.
The bottom gives out and you try to knife the drop. You feel your board detach from the surface of the wave and you know you’re going down.
You fall into oblivion.
Inexplicable power, force, and pain ensue. You are rag-dolled mercilessly — one knee dashed against the reef, one outstretched hand protecting your face dashed against the reef.
You try to remain calm.
You reach the surface and see the next set looming larger than before. You’re in the impact zone. This set has no mercy.
You are rag-dolled worse than before. You feel pain in your shoulder, you feel pain in your abdomen. You almost make it up for air but you don’t quite make it to the surface. Water fills your lungs. The third set descends. Two-wave hold down. You feel yourself getting rag-dolled worse than the first two times but you remain calm, trying to keep from gagging underwater. When you reach the surface you see that you’ve been dragged inside. You let out a hoot of joy and paddle back to the channel feeling like you’re going to puke. That was the worst beatdown of your life.
You remind yourself this exactly when you’re supposed to get back on the horse but the urge to vomit is too strong. You head into the shore and get washed half a mile down the beach to where the boat dropped you off this morning. You crawl on the sand and sit with your head between your legs, retching.
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Adventurers are active and always on the go. New experiences bring you joy—you like everything from craft beer to signature cocktails, street food to high-end restaurants. If you’re always on the lookout for new, interesting things to do, you’ve come to the right place. Start your adventure.
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Have a wild encounter with exotic animals. Whether you opt to get up close and personal by piloting your own car through Florida’s only drive-through safari at Lion Country Safari—home to more than 1,000 animals that may walk right up to your ride—or by making a reservation at the appointment-only McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary in the rural western region of The Palm Beaches, you can meet many different species at both locations, in a setting more intimate than any zoo. If you’re feeling up to it (ha!), make sure to stop by Lion Country’s giraffe exhibit for a Giraffe Feeding experience, open daily at 11 a.m. Step up to the feeding platform and watch as the sky-high giraffes’ long tongues come looking for a snack—they can’t resist a crunchy green stalk fresh from a crisp head of lettuce.
Feeling hoppy? Schedule a stop at veteran-owned Due South Brewing Co. in Boynton Beach, where you can get the rundown from brewmaster Shan Dinally before sampling a flight of his South Florida-style ales, lagers, porters and stouts. Located on the Ale Trail of The Palm Beaches, populated by 19 craft breweries stretching from Juno Beach to Boca Raton, Due South offers brewery tours on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Root for your favorite team at a baseball game. The 2019 World Series competitors, the Houston Astros and reigning champion Washington Nationals, practice at the FITTEAM Ballpark of The Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, while the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals play their Spring Training games at Jupiter’s Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. Both facilities offer shaded seating and plenty of amenities as you sport your team’s colors and hope to catch a foul ball in the stands.
Get creative with your cardio. Bike Palm Beach’s scenic 5.5-mile Lake Trail for stunning views of the Intracoastal Waterway and Lake Worth Lagoon—don’t forget to reward yourself with a smoothie from Meraki Juice Kitchen after your ride. Or head north and climb 105 steps to the top of the Jupiter Lighthouse, the oldest structure in Palm Beach County. After your ascent, cool off at Riverbend Park, where you can canoe, kayak or paddleboard through mangrove tunnels and twisting waterways.
Strike a pose: Take a yoga class with a side of migrating manatees at Manatee Lagoon, an FPL Eco-Discovery Center. The warm waters generated by the adjacent energy plant attract herds of sea cows, especially during the winter months, giving visitors a chance to observe wild manatees in their natural habitat. At one of the regular by-donation yoga sessions, recline in savasana and listen for manatees as they come to the surface to take a breath.
Tour the backcountry of The Palm Beaches on a thrilling narrated airboat ride through the swampy Florida Everglades. As you soar along the surface of Florida’s wetlands, sometimes referred to as the River of Grass, you’re likely to spot alligators, birds and even the occasional deer. Along the way, you’ll also learn about the importance of the Everglades to Florida’s ecosystem.
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With just 19 guest rooms—choose between suites, cottages, bungalows, and apartments—this quiet and historic hideaway exudes a casual elegance that effortlessly walks the line between homey and exotic. Highlights include a heated saltwater pool and a made-to-order three-course breakfast served each morning at 8:30 a.m. sharp.
Stay and play at PGA National Resort & Spa, a luxurious retreat anchored by five championship golf courses and a full-service spa featuring outdoor Waters of the World mineral pools.
Whether you book a couple rounds of golf or commit to robe-clad lounging throughout your visit, make sure to pay a visit to the steakhouse, Ironwood Steak & Seafood —your adventurous side might want to attempt the 32-ounce Tomahawk for Two.
Morning beach walks during your stay at The Seagate Hotel & Spa are a given.
A boutique hotel in the heart of charming Delray Beach, The Seagate is located just a quick walk from the beach as well as the shops and attractions of quirky Atlantic Avenue. With various restaurants plus a private country club with golf and tennis and a beach club with oceanfront pool, The Seagate presents the ideal blend of leisure and luxury.
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Explore edible offers from 13 different vendors at Grandview Public Market, a 13,000-square-foot food hall and social scene that is The Palm Beaches’ answer to New York’s Chelsea Market.
At this South Florida hotspot, you can order from whatever stall catches your eye—BBQ? pizza? Cuban? poké, sushi burritos, ramen?—then gather outside on the mural-wrapped loading dock, complete with community-style seating and cornhole. Save room for a Thai-style rolled ice cream from Crema.
Dare to have a culinary adventure at Darbster, a plant-based waterfront bistro with a dog-friendly patio and a menu full of creative vegan and vegetarian dishes to try.
The restaurant’s offbeat location and casual approach to innovative cuisine invite patrons to enjoy a serene setting, walled in by thick vegetation to create a true jungle vibe, as you listen to live music and sample meat-free takes on classic diner favorites. Raw “bacon”
Spend a day at Rosemary Square, one of West Palm Beach’s top destinations for shopping, dining and entertainment.
From the four-story flagship location of Restoration Hardware (have a leisurely lunch or sunset drinks at the rooftop restaurant) to an experimental art space called Culture Lab, this up-and-coming district in the heart of downtown has an experience for everyone. Listen to live music on the plaza as you shop, then end your day with a movie at the three-story Renaissance-style AMC CityPlace 20 theater or rent a VIP bowling lane at Revolutions.
Bring your reusable bags and shop the West Palm Beach GreenMarket on Saturday mornings October through April.
Located on the waterfront at the eastern end of Clematis Street, the sunny outdoor market attracts thousands of people to shop its 100-plus vendors each season. Whether you’re seeking fruits and veggies, sizzling arepas, homemade pasta, flowers or a fresh-cracked coconut, you’ll find what you’re looking for at this dog-friendly, always-buzzing green market.
Shop local art and funky boutiques in historic Northwood Village, a neighborhood collection of galleries, cafés, and eclectic shops.
Search for one-of-a-kind clothing items and home goods, and on the last Friday of each month, enjoy an art fair in the streets at Art Night Out—just make sure to arrive early so you leave enough sunlight for a selfie-fest with the area’s colorful murals. Once night falls and you’re all arted out, wind your way to the back of Pétanque Kitchen & Bar for the chance to dance under the stars to funky jazz in one of West Palm Beach’s hippest and most bohemian backyards.
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Vancouver Foundation has approved an emergency grant of $7,500 to the Richmond Cat Sanctuary to help cope with a sudden influx of 100 farm cats and kittens at the facility
July 7, 2009-Vancouver Foundation has approved an emergency grant of $7,500 to the Richmond Cat Sanctuary to help cope with a sudden influx of 100 farm cats and kittens at the facility.
The cats were recently discovered in the barn of a local farm, and were suffering from a variety of ailments including upper-respiratory infections and ear mites.
All 100 cats require immediate veterinary attention. Faye Wightman, President and CEO of Vancouver Foundation said, “We just found out about the issue after reading an article in Friday’s Vancouver Sun. We wanted to do something to help, and do it quickly. We hope that others will also contribute, and that many of the cats can be successfully treated and adopted.”
The money will be used to quarantine and treat the cats. They will be checked for other diseases, vaccinated, and spayed and neutered so they can be put up for adoption. The Cat Sanctuary, which is part of the Richmond Animal Shelter, is home to hundreds of cats, many of whom are available for adoption.
For more information, or to donate to the “urban barn cats”, go to the Richmond Animal Protection Society’s website at www.rapsociety.com To see a video on the Cat Sanctuary, go to the Vancouver Foundation website at www.vancouverfoundationstories.ca/story.php?recordID=65
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Trust Your Own Code?! Trust Your Own Compiler?!
By Tyler Shields
Trust has long been a favorite target of malicious individuals. Most people would say that proper management of trust is one of the primary cornerstones of information security. Trust is a relative term and all trust relationships should be examined with a very critical eye.
Ken Thompson's seminal paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust", which won a Turing Award, addresses in detail why we can never be fully sure of the trust relationships in our development environment. The paper asserts that since people tend to only review the security of the source code of their programs, and not the resulting compilation, there is a built in level of trust with regard to the tools that convert human readable source code into executable binary programs. According to the paper, this trust can be abused by creating a compiler that outputs something different than originally intended by the source code. No level of source code security review is going to catch this type of malicious activity. To take it one step further, Ken also discusses a malicious compiler that when used to build a new compiler, will make that one malicious as well. Well recent discoveries have shown that the paper is spot on with regards to a new virus that is currently making the rounds.
A few days ago, a security researcher by the name of Andreas Marx submitted a sample of a new strain of virus to a number of anti-virus vendors. This strain, which has been named Win32.Induc.a, was subsequently researched by both Kaspersky Labs and F-Secure with the details being published shortly after discovery. What makes this virus interesting isn't a devastating payload -- it has none -- but instead what it targets. When an infected binary is executed it attempts to locate an installation of the Delphi compiler and, if one is present, subverts that target to create a real-life version of Ken Thompson's malicious compiler. All future programs compiled by the now infected compiler will result in a binary that also contains the virus. Regardless of the security level of the source code fed into the compiler, the output will be dangerous. Some reports have gone so far as to claim that over 200,000 infected files have already been produced by infected compilers. (Take these numbers with a grain of salt of course).
This realization of the "Trusting Trust" subverted compiler demonstrates the need to secure and test exactly what we are going to execute and not what we write. Given the existence of malware like this, it is clear that what we write may be nowhere near what we actually run.
Update: I was just handed a link to a very interesting paper written by Chris Wysopal detailing the relationship of Thompson's compiler backdoor to binary analysis. Link HERE. This is a must read.
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Vernon Hershberger: Passage of raw milk bill would make me a criminal (again)
Jessica Van Egeren Capital Newspapers
Loganville farmer Vernon Hershberger went to court and beat criminal charges for selling unpasteurized, raw milk and other farm-fresh goods directly to customers without proper state licenses.
But he’s not in favor of a bill that would legalize raw milk sales in Wisconsin. If the bill passes, he would be turned into a criminal, Hershberger said Thursday.
“The jury in Baraboo acquitted me of the charges,” Hershberger said. “If I’m allowed to do it (sell unpasteurized diary without a permit), all other farmers should be allowed to do it as well. I will be another criminal because the jury freed me of having to have a license to do what I’m doing.”
Hershberger, who testified against the bill during a public hearing Wednesday, sells unpasteurized dairy and other food products from his farm through a program known as a buyer’s club.
A buyer’s club, known in other parts of the country as a cow-sharing or a herd-leasing program, allows farmers to enter into private contracts with consumers to essentially co-own animals on the farm. The consumer then has access to the milk or meat produced by the animal.
The raw milk bill, sponsored by Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, and Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, would require farmers who sell raw milk to meet or exceed Grade A standards just like farmers who sell to dairy processing plants. Hershberger did not renew his Grade A license three years ago when he made the decision to quit selling his milk to a dairy processing plant and instead sell raw milk through a buyer’s club business model.
Hershberger said the jury made it clear it was his right to sell raw milk without a license, without having to register with the state and without having to meet standards.
“I’m allowed to do what I do without a license,” Hershberger said. “And those with a Grade A license are not allowed to do what I do.”
Another public hearing on the raw milk bill will be held in La Crosse on Monday. Rep. Fred Clark, D-Baraboo, will testify at that hearing. Another co-sponsor of the raw milk bill, Clark said he plans to speak about a separate bill that would remove any ambiguity over the legality of buyer’s clubs.
Because the charges against Hershberger were criminal and not civil, the not-guilty verdict applies only to him. That leaves a gray area over whether other farmers would be charged for operating buyer’s clubs.
“My bill is more narrowly crafted and would legalize buyer’s clubs,” Clark said at the Capitol, outside the raw milk hearing Wednesday.
In contrast, the raw milk bill would allow for farmers to sell directly to consumers if certain criteria are met. Clark’s bill legalizes an alternate business model for raw milk to be sold.
Under Clark’s draft bill, farmers who operate a buyer’s club would not need to get a Grade A license from the state, just a buyer’s club permit.
“We are replicating California standards for unpasteurized raw milk sales,” Clark said. “We are not letting (the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection) write the rules.”
One difference is that California allows for the retail sale of raw milk. Clark’s bill would not.
The state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection had been promoting the creation of the buyer’s clubs as a means for farmers to earn additional income.
But that changed in May of 2010 when former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle abruptly changed course and vetoed a bill that would have legalized raw milk sales. A month later Hershberger’s farm was raided by DATCP officials accompanied by local law enforcement officers.
Hershberger said he and his attorney, Elizabeth Rich of Plymouth, have talked with Clark about his bill. Hershberger said Thursday that “depending on how things go, we might work with him some more.”
“What he is trying to do is get a statute into law that correlates to my trial,” Hershberger said, meaning no need for a permit or license to operate a buyer’s club that sells unpasteurized dairy products.
Rich said she appreciates Clark’s efforts to support farmers like Hershberger.
“I think the bill as proposed includes extensive involvement by DATCP in the buyers club. And that’s the area that needs some work,” Rich said. “Neither party wants extensive involvement by the state.”
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The H10 Tribeca is a 4-star hotel in a quiet street near the Paseo de la Castellana, a wide avenue that runs straight through the centre of Madrid. The property was refurbished in early 2016 and now has an industrial look, inspired by New York's Tribeca neighbourhood.
The hotel is in AZCA, Madrid's financial district, to the north of the city centre. The Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (National Museum of Natural History of Spain), which holds rolling temporary exhibitions that tend to be "hands-on, interactive and fun for kids" (Time Out), is 25 minutes away on foot or by Metro. Cuzco and Santiago Bernabeu Metro stations are both within a 10-minute walk for access to the city centre in around 30 minutes.
The hotel's Soho Restaurant does a full buffet breakfast, and serves Mediterranean dishes at lunch and dinner. There's also a bar and a library in the lobby.
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This Enormous Bull Was Bred For Its Meat, But When He Walks It’s Extremely Uncomfortable
Crossbreeding is complex. Breeding a species with another one could take years of attempts and failures. The video below features one of these crossbreeds. The Belgian Blue is a cattle breed which originated in the early 20th century in central and upper Belgium. They are reared for a strange feature: muscular hypertrophy or double muscling. This trait is beneficial to cattle breeders.
It is highly desirable for the quantity of meat it produces, and inevitably, the price they get in return for the quantity. Belgian Blue cattle are quite popular in Europe and Australia, and they have recently been introduced to the United States as well. The USDA has deemed the Belgian Blue’s meat as rather excellent, and “on line for the new standards.”
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Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen Now Open at New Waterline Marina Resort
Posted by Kelly Stafford, December 2017
Executive Chef James Baselici Leads New Anna Maria Island Restaurant
ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. (December 19, 2017) – Waterline Marina Resort, a full-service resort on Anna Maria Island, Florida and member of the prestigious Autograph Collection® of Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR), is pleased to announce the opening of Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen. The boutique waterfront hotel (5325 Marina Drive) opened its doors last month in Holmes Beach on the eastern shore of the island. As the resort’s signature restaurant, Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen offers a menu inspired by coastal locales, bridging the heritage of the land and sea. Executive Chef James Baselici runs the ship, expertly applying his extensive culinary skills and drawing inspiration from his passion for the area.
“Anna Maria Island has been a popular destination for generations of beach-goers and we’re excited to add this one-of-a-kind resort and restaurant to the neighborhood, “said Joe Collier, president of Mainsail Lodging & Development. “Just steps from the water’s edge, Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen showcases casual food that is far from common. I expect it will quickly become a favorite option for travelers and locals alike.”
The casual 76-seat restaurant with an open kitchen features rustic elements such as reclaimed wood top tables, an oyster shell chandelier and nautical influences throughout. Guests can enjoy handcrafted cocktails, wood grilled oysters, blue crab hushpuppies, daily specials based on local catch, and simple vegetable preparations. Eliza Ann’s features a solid fuel grill burning live oak [from Black Dog Firewood in Tampa] to give filet mignon, fresh seafood and other dishes a smoky, natural wood flavor. All menu selections have been crafted to form a connection with similar coastal locations, including the Carolina Lowcountry, the bayous of Louisiana and the docks of Cortez.
Eliza Ann’s is open for dinner nightly from 4 to 10 p.m. with a late night happy hour from 10 to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Daily happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. features beer, wine, spirits and chef’s choice small plates all for $5. Wine Wednesdays showcase half-off all bottles of wine during dinner. Brunch will also be offered beginning December 23, available Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 4 p.m. The resort plans to introduce breakfast and lunch service beginning February 2018.
Waterline Marina Resort appointed James Baselici as executive chef at Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen. With more than 20 years of culinary experience, Chef James was previously Chef de Cuisine at Sands Pointe Restaurant at The Resort at Longboat Key Club. A former New Jersey resident and graduate of New York’s Institute of Culinary Education, Baselici has a wealth of experience in kitchens throughout the Sarasota area and was a guest chef for the James Beard Foundation Celebrity Chef Tour and the Chef’s Collaborative Trash Fish Dinner in 2014.
“James has such a passion for culinary excellence and for the island itself,” said Sandra Zinck, general manager at Waterline Marina Resort. “With every dish he prepares, James draws inspiration from island and the spirit of the locals who dine there. He’s a terrific addition to our team.”
The all-new Waterline Marina Resort features 37 stylish guest rooms and suites with gourmet kitchens; a 50-slip marina offering a variety of water activities; 2,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space; the signature Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen restaurant and bar; as well as a resort-style swimming pool with oversized sun deck extending into the marina.
For more information on Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen, visit ElizaAnns.com
In the winter of 2017, Tampa’s Mainsail Lodging & Development opened the full-service Waterline Marina Resort on Anna Maria Island, Florida. A member of the Autograph Collection® of Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR), the boutique waterfront hotel offers exclusive amenities, distinctive services and numerous opportunities for guests to enjoy the authentic, laidback, beach town vibe of Anna Maria Island. The new resort features 37 stylish guest rooms and suites with gourmet kitchens, a 50-slip marina offering a variety of water activities, 2,000 square feet of meeting space, the signature Eliza Ann’s Coastal Kitchen restaurant and bar, and a resort-style swimming pool with oversized sun deck extending into the marina. Waterline offers exclusive beach access, kayaks, lounge chairs, umbrellas and beach toys. Through a partnership with Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch & Shorebird Monitoring, the resort will support efforts to maintain a suitable habitat for sea turtles, shorebirds and the island ecosystem through special guest programs, promotions and messaging. WaterlineResort.com
Mainsail Lodging & Development is a Tampa-based hospitality company that develops and operates lodging products in the Southeastern US and the Caribbean. Their properties include Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina (ScrubIsland.com), a private island resort in the British Virgin Islands and member of Autograph Collection® of Marriott International; Mainsail Beach Inn (MainsailBeachInn.com), a boutique beachfront hotel on Anna Maria Island, Florida; The recently opened Waterline Marina Resort on Anna Maria Island, Florida (WaterlineResort.com); and the boutique food-focused Epicurean Hotel (EpicureanHotel.com) in Tampa, Florida. The company also operates corporate housing throughout the Southeast, exclusively managing the Florida market for Oakwood Worldwide® under both its ExecuStay® (ExecuStay.com) and Oakwood® (Oakwood.com) brands, while also operating ExecuStay in Georgia, portions of Alabama, and The Carolinas. Two additional Florida hotels are planned for 2018 and 2019, respectively – Fenway Hotel in Dunedin and Luminary Hotel & Co. in Fort Myers. Just north of Tampa in Pasco County, Mainsail Lodging is also developing a 128-room Residence Inn in conjunction with an indoor sports complex. Mainsail Lodging’s corporate charity is Feeding Tampa Bay – the largest food rescue and distribution organization in the community. Mainsail actively supports the cause through a variety of employee and guest programs ranging from packing and sorting at the warehouse to annual events including Epic Chef Showdown. MainsailHotels.com
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Top 10 Best Sales & Marketing Software Downloads
Viral Mag Team September 03, 2019
Top 10 Best Sales & Marketing Software Downloads, CRM, sales and marketing automation platforms to Automate your sales and marketing.
1- Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is a full sales and marketing automation app, not just a standard email marketing tool. It’s a great tool for saving you time and increasing your sales. With Infusionsoft you can manage and automate your sales and marketing programs under one roof. It has some great features that really stand out from the crowd, such as advanced lead capturing tools, lead scoring, e-commerce components, and an advanced email marketing platform.
Infusionsoft ensures that when your customers undertake tasks, such as filling out forms, clicking links, and navigating from one sales page to a next etc, then you are able to program a myriad of things to happen depending on each action that, once setup, will run on its own automatically so you don’t have to worry about it. With Infusionsoft you can leverage automation to nurture leads, trigger behavior-based communications, and streamline workflow. This is really useful because it saves you time and creates a more consistent, timely system for managing your sales and marketing processes.
Customer relationship management is just one aspect of Infusionsoft’s services, but it is a massive part! With Infusionsoft’s CRM you are able to track customers, leads, prospects, and vendors while analyzing key data such as demographic information, notes, and client history. If you need a flexible CRM tool then Infusionsoft hits the mark. Not only do you have access to standard key data, but you can also given up to 100 custom fields for tracking anything else you may need that is specific to your field of business.
List Segmentation
Consistent and accurate list segmentation is a crucial component of any email marketing campaign. Infusionsoft has superb list segmentation tools that provides a great tagging system, which is simple, yet powerful, so you can keep track of who belongs to what list. This is a great time saving feature because you can have contacts that belong to multiple lists, so it makes it easy to undertake searches while excluding multiple tags, in order to pinpoint who you want to send a specific campaign to.
Infusionsoft has powerful marketing tools that will help you to connect with leads via email, and social media, to build relationships and cultivate new leads. A cool feature of Infusionsoft’s marketing platform is that it correlates your CRM and e-commerce data so that it allows you to create personalized communications, which will lead to increased conversion rates.
With Infusionsoft’s email marketing platform you can pick from a range of ways to design professional-looking emails for your customers. You can design in HTML or plain text, and you can include elements like text boxes and social sharing widgets, or you can take advantage of Infusionsoft’s drag and drop tools, via the Campaign Builder, to custom design your promotional content. It is worth noting that Infusionsoft's email marketing platform includes spam scoring. This is a really neat feature because it will help to ensure high inbox delivery rates for your customers.
Infusionsoft uses a subscription pricing model with plans starting from $199.00/month for the Essentials package, rising to $379.00/month for the Complete package. All the plans that Infusionsoft have on offer provide contact management and marketing-automation capabilities. Sales automation is available only in the Deluxe Sales and Complete plans, whilst e-commerce tools are available in Deluxe E-commerce and Complete plans. It is also worth noting that the Essentials plan supports only three users, but the Complete plan supports up to five users.
Infusionsoft’s platform offers a plethora of sales and marketing functionality. It is a quality CRM solution that will help you manage all your customer interactions. The ability to capture and convert new leads and sell and collect payments online, are great tools in themselves, but combined with contact management, list segmentation, and multimedia marketing management, makes Infusionsoft a great all-round suite.
2- Desk.com
Desk.com is Salesforce's out-of-the-box customer support help desk that is specifically designed to help businesses offer fast, awesome customer support. The app has been designed for speed, ease of use, and scalability. It puts all the support needs for your business into one tidy package; with agent productivity tools, an easy to manage knowledge base, and a cutting-edge mobile app, coupled with intuitive reports and dashboards, you'll have all the tools you need to provide quality customer service to your clients.
Where Desk.com excels is in its ability to keep things simple, it concentrates on getting tickets raised from email, phone calls and social media while giving agents a good selection of workflow and processing tools. Desk.com is part of the Salesforce family and a leader in cloud computing; it is both scalable and secure and has great features, including customer relationship management, issue reporting, and customer profiling.
Universal Agent Inbox
The Universal Agent Inbox is the place where you get started using Desk.com. In this area you will receive your notifications for your customer's support requests. These arrive from various sources, including email, live chat, online forums, and social media channels like Twitter and Facebook. A great feature of Desk.com is the fact that it doesn't overcomplicate the way tickets are raised and how they are made visible to agents. The unified inbox is a quality tool because it brings all tickets into one view no matter their source, thereby reducing the risk of tickets being missed.
Desk.com uses a streamlined Support Case page that handles all of your individual customer requests. The customer cases are constructed and populated with the customer data and problem information and then archived for future retrieval. You can record and review the customer’s complete interaction history within each case and when it is needed to be recalled, agents can simply click to view the complete history.
If an agent has a complex case that they are not able to resolve, it can be redirected to a senior agent, and because Desk.com’s case management tools can continuously track the status of cases and set priority levels, this ensures all issues are resolved in order of their importance.
What is really cool about Desk.com is the ability to generate key business performance insights. By clicking on the Business Insights tab, you can generate detailed customer service related reports. The Business Insight’s dashboard helps you make actionable insights on overall business and agent performance. This tool lets you analyze your customer service operation quickly and easily. The data you gather from Business Insights, allows you to track and measure the volume and nature of the tickets your business is receiving. Not only that, you can also monitor individual agent performance. You will gain a greater insight into where your cases are coming from and how your agents are handling the volume.
The beauty of Desk.com is that if you need to upgrade to Service Cloud because you need more customization for your support team, your businesses’ data is synced seamlessly with Salesforce so the transition will be effortless.
Desk.com operates a subscription pricing model and has four pricing structures: starting at $3.00/month and rising to $135/month per agent for the Service Cloud (Enterprise) option. It covers options for a wide range of budgets and requirements and there is a Free Trial available (No Credit Card required).
Desk.com is a great solution for the SMB sector, particularly those looking for a more basic help desk software option. It has a simple approach to customer support, without missing any key features. It is aesthetically pleasing and easy to use, with plenty of pricing options.
3- Zendesk
Zendesk is one of the most popular Helpdesk solutions available today. It is used by a large number of companies both big and small as Zendesk is a solid application. This customer service solution utilises the power of the cloud. It is easy to use, efficient, and highly flexible, and because the software is fully scalable, it can be used by businesses of all sizes.
Zendesk allows tickets to be raised via an array of sources: email, web, telephone, chat, and social networking sites. The myriad of ways tickets can get raised into Zendesk is one of its strengths; as soon as a ticket is raised, the application allows agents to add internal notes to it. This is a really useful feature that can be a huge help when tickets are being handled by multiple agents during its lifetime. The benefits of having all your data under one roof are evident in the fact that agents can quickly view the cases which require immediate attention and deal with the customer issues immediately, thereby leaving your customers satisfied.
Zendesk's user interface displays everything you need, without you having to to click between tabs or windows. One cool feature of Zendesk is the Views screen. This lets agents see all of the tickets that are unsolved or recently added. It can also be extensively customized to your specific needs and requirements.
Email System
Email is the primary tool that Zendesk uses to gather customer feedback from. When an email is sent to the customer service department, it turns into a support ticket that includes all communication (replies, comments) from then on and until the ticket is solved. Zendesk gives you the ability to add multiple support addresses and you can also tweak your email templates to suit your specific needs.
Task automation is a really cool feature that Zendesk offers. Common tasks can be automated using Triggers, Zendesk’s smart system. For example, if a high profile customer sent an email, the ticketed request can be set up to follow specific actions, be addressed by a particular agent and be given the highest priority; all under an automated action. Trigger creation is easy, simply click the Admin icon on the sidebar and select the "Triggers/Add Trigger" option. You then populate the required fields according to the actions you want to undertake and save it. If, at a future time, you need to edit the Trigger, you can easily do so from the settings menu in the same admin menu.
Reports/Insights
Zendesk Reports are available on all pricing plans and will provide metrics on KPIs such as daily ticket activity, SLA compliance, average resolution time, customer satisfaction, and agent performance. You can view whatever information you need via the reporting tool; simply define the parameters of ticket properties and the time period you wish to view.
Zendesk Insights is an advanced reporting feature that is offered on Plus and Enterprise plans. It gives you the ability to carry our more customized analysis of KPIs at a deeper level. You can then use the data to analyze a particular customer group, or demographic group based on different variables. If you need to pinpoint issues and identify key performance areas, then Zendesk Insights is a very neat tool to make use of.
Zendesk offers advanced self-service functions that provide a 24/7 service solution. Zendesk makes full use of comprehensive knowledge bases, which are updated by connecting solved cases and then assigning them with tags. This is useful because future customers can navigate your company's website and search to find what they are looking for immediately, without the need to contact customer services to locate the solution to their problem.
Zendesk has more than 200 integrations available at no charge, via the official Apps Marketplace. These apps range from agent productivity enhancers, and analytical tools through to telephony/sms apps and chat clients. Popular integrated apps include ZenCart, SalesForce, TeamViewer, Joomla, Wordpress, and MailChimp
Zendesk uses a subscription pricing model with prices starting from 1$ per agent per month on the Starter plan. The plans other four available plans are Regular (25$), Plus (49$), Enterprise (125$) and Enterprise Elite (195$). The Plus package is offered as a Free Trial for 30 days (No Credit Card required).
Zendesk is a capable Helpdesk solution that helps you unify your communications. It has most of the features that a small, medium, or even large organization will need, as long as tickets and the way they get raised are what your business primarily requires. Zendesk is a sleek, workable solution that has a highly customizable interface and useful tools such as the Triggers system will help you to stay engaged with your customers.
4- Vocalcom
Vocalcom is a reliable, web-based contact centre solution that is solid, robust and user friendly. Vocalcom offers superb cutting edge features such as real-time contextual routing, and predictive dialing. By utilizing the power of Vocalcom, your business has the ability to rapidly deploy a constant, highly secure contact centre solution. With Vocalcom you can easily add agents, customize reports and design specific IVRs .
Vocalcom’s cloud contact centre platform supports voice, email, chat, SMS, Facebook and Twitter; all from a single environment that has a simple, fast and manageable interface. The Vocalcom WebRTC Platform enhances the standard customer experience beyond simple Web chat and voice communication. Vocalcom includes video and co-browsing and can streamline transitions from self-service to live service whilst maintaining the context of previous communications.
Visual IVR
Rather than the standard, voice-driven, automated service, customers can opt for IVR menus to be displayed visually within mobile and web applications, without listening to long menus and struggling with poor voice recognition software. This is a great feature of Vocalcom as Visual IVR, either through a website or mobile app, is a superb way to eliminate one of the top reasons that customers dislike call centre experiences.
Vocalcom has extensive intelligence capabilities, which examine customer behaviour, customer data, and web analytics. The system will proactively offer an immediate connection with a live person, and it can also deliver the right chat invitation to the right customer at the right time.
Call-back and Appointment Setting
Vocalcom uses sophisticated calling features that can be utilized to increase your contact rate. Agents can schedule general call-backs or agent-specific appointments. For general call-backs, the call engine automatically chooses the best time to call customers back.
Multi-channel virtual queuing
With Vocalcom’s Multi-channel virtual queuing system you can respond to customers faster, no matter how they contact you. Vocalcom can both virtualize and scale enterprise routing rules and contact distribution. It uses an intelligent universal routing system, which is a great feature because it gives your customers a seamless cross-channel experience. It no-longer matters what communication method is used: voice, email, chat, social media, and mobile.
Real-Time Active Blending
Real-Time Active Blending is a another noteworthy feature of the Vocalcom suite. It auto-adjusts contact centre traffic call-by-call, and always prioritizes inbound customer service calls, in blended environments, by automatically moving outbound agents to inbound queues. This is a great time and resource saving tool that keeps customer satisfaction levels high.
Vocalcom uses a subscription pricing model that starts from $99.00/month with a Free Trial available (No Credit Card required).
Vocalcom powers intuitive customer experiences and improves contact centre performance. It is cloud-based, massively scalable, and built with solid web technologies. Vocalcom can simplify multi-channel customer experiences and can enhance sales effectiveness and increase customer service satisfaction levels.
5- Sisense
Sisense is a Business Intelligence (BI) solution that uses stunning data visualisations. It was developed to be accessible for users of all levels of expertise, even novice users with no prior experience with BI software. The platform can be used by companies of all levels and sizes and because it doesn’t require a long implementation period or extensive training, businesses can begin using it almost immediately.
Sisense’s stand-alone applications provide users with the tools they need to manage and support business data using visuals and reporting. It offers data and text mining with interactive analytics tools. Sisense uses ElastiCube as their analytics database, which makes use of In-Chip technology. This enables a single server coupled with minimal hardware to handle big data.
Integrated within the suite, Sisense includes functionality for dashboards and scorecards; data warehousing; extract, transform and load (ETL); and a query and report writer. The entire suite is managed via a single interface that has been designed with the end-user in mind.
A key feature of Sisense is the ultra detailed data visualizations that give you a clear and unrestricted view of your data. Sisense’s data visualization toolset, provides you with the ability to generate dynamic visuals and interactive business intelligence reports. You can create stunning graphical representations of your data in the form of charts and from these, you can produce whatever reports you need. You have the option to adjust queries by clicking on any section of a chart or graph, and then drill down to view underlying data. Sisense can also format the data correctly, ensuring it is primed for whichever visualization type you choose.
With Sisense, users can design interactive dashboards using widgets. You can customize the dashboard that best suits your needs by using different visualization types. You can choose from geographical maps, gauges to measure KPIs, line charts, scatter plots, and pie charts. Because Sisense makes good use of drag and drop functionality, you can simply choose what you need and place it into the dashboard on the page location where you need it. An individual dashboard has the ability to hold numerous widgets and filters, which can be added or removed as required.
Sisense has great support for third part data sets to be integrated into its Dashboard. Usefully, it has built-in connectors that allow it to join present and future data. Sisense connectors support file types such as MS Excel, CSV, and MS Access. It also supports applications such as Amazon Redshift, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Google Spreadsheets, and Salesforce, Quickbase and Zendesk.
Sisense’s pricing model is based upon a users individual requirements. Key factors include the number of concurrent required users and the volumes of data being processed. Sisense provide a free trial (No Credit Card required). For further information please contact Sisense directly.
Sisense provides a solid platform for Data analysis for both data professionals and nontechnical staff. It has a fresh and clean user interface, customizable dashboards, and outstanding data visualisation tools that provide users with a better way to view data from multiple areas within a single environment. Sisense also has a really quick implementation time, with no lengthy customizations required before users can begin using it.
6- FreshDesk
Freshdesk is a completely customizable set of tools that offers all the features and functionality which a modern help-desk requires. From robust multichannel capabilities, smart automations and advanced ticketing through to integrated game mechanics, Freshdesk is a forward-thinking solution that provides quality cloud based customer support.
Freshdesk provides a streamlined and well structured help-desk solution that is both productive and easy to manage. It uses a smart ticketing system that sorts through all incoming tickets and organizes, prioritizes and sorts client requests and assigns them accordingly. Freshdesk also makes good use of a company knowledge base, which auto updates to include data from archived emails, conversations and ticket resolutions. Freshdesk’s knowledge base feature works very well, with a comprehensive article archive that is streamlined, simple and easy to navigate from both the agent’s and customer’s side. This is a really useful feature of Freshdesk as a support department with a wealthy knowledge base usually receives less customer requests.
Advanced Ticketing
Freshdesk provides an automated ticketing system that sorts through all incoming tickets and assigns them accordingly. By using standard SLA’s that have pre-defined parameters for service workflows or custom SLA’s for priority customers with specific needs and requirements, all of your customers can be given the highest level of customer service available. This can be customized and configured via the Ticket tab. From there it is easy to set all your ticketing rules and workflows that you need.
Multi-Channel Support
Freshdesk has been designed to automate tasks and save on ticket resolution time via multiple platform integration. The main avenue is through configurable email integration. This very useful Freshdesk tool allows agents to manage, update, reply to and assign tickets directly from their company email accounts. Freshdesk allows you to configure these requests so all emails sent to company accounts are logged as tickets. These, in turn, can be categorized, prioritized and assigned to the correct agent, and because you can define behavioral rules for requests, tickets will always go to the correct support agent.
One very handy feature of Freshdesk is ‘Email to Knowledge base’. This tool can be set to automatically convert email threads or ticket replies into articles for the Knowledge base archive. This data is saved as draft information that can be edited before publicising it in the Knowledge base.
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are also supported by Freshdesk. This is a very useful tool, as you have the means to reply to urgent requests from these channels in real-time. Freshdesk also has a live-chat solution called Freshfone, Freshdesk’s integrated voice telephony system. With Freshfone you are able to track tickets from multiple sources and provide further support channels to your clients.
A really cool feature worth mentioning is Freshdesk’s gamification tool. With integrated game mechanics, team leaders and managers can keep all members of their team motivated. With this tool, support tickets become stepping stones to advance up the leaderboard. Freshdesk Arcade turns normal tasks into game missions. You can create Quests to make sure the tickets that are the highest priority get done quickly. The system rewards agents with a selection of badges for the best performers. these badges are then displayed on their help desk profiles.
Freshdesk offers an ever expanding number of both native and 3rd party integrations. Native integrations include Facebook and Twitter; Saleforce, Highrise, Zoho CRM, Sugar CRM and Capsule; Freshbooks and Harvest; Atlassian from Jira; Google Analytics, Google Calendar, Gmail Gardets, Google Hangouts and Google Drive; HelpOnClick and Snap Enagae; MailChimp, Campaign Monitor and Constant Contact; Olark, Survey Monkey, Dropbox, Zapier and Shopify, among others. Third party integrations include Magento, Talkdesk, Kipfolio, Pipeliner, OneSky, Userlike, Woo Themes, Timecamp, and Fromcrafts.
Custom integration are also available as Freshdesk provides a service called Freshplugs. Conveniently, Freshdesk also has a mobile help-desk plugin called MobiHelp, which is available for Android and iOS platforms.
Freshdesk uses a subscription pricing model with a Free Trial available (No Credit Card required). It is well suited to all users from freelancers through to mid sized businesses. Freshdesk is priced per support agent per month, and has 4 different plans to choose from; Sprout - $15 per agent per month (first 3 agents free). Blossom - $29 per agent per month. Garden - $49 per agent per month. Estate - $79 per agent per month. The Blossom plan includes social support, community forums and game mechanics. The Garden plan includes live chat, multiple products and multiple locations. The Estate plan includes enterprise reports, portal customization and custom agent roles.
Freshdesk is a well managed service desk solution that offers a streamlined and intuitive web interface. It has a good online help section, native and custom integrations, and a mobile help-desk plugin. With cool features like Freshdesk Arcade, automated IT tasks and ticketing, and multi language support, Freshdesk is a great choice for businesses of all shapes and sizes.
7- FinancialForce Accounting
FinancialForce Accounting is a comprehensive and innovative financial management system, which takes a fresh approach to accounting services. The online accounting app combines the power of Force.com’s cloud with a groundbreaking accounting system design. At its core is an innovative accounting engine which leverages the technological and virtual workplace enabled by Force.com (including collaboration tools like Chatter). The engine contains a central set of accounting components that are embedded in a Salesforce environment, thereby making it the perfect financial complement to Salesforce CRM.
FinancialForce Accounting is incredibly easy to use and has full integration with Salesforce CRM. Since FinancialForce.com is built on the Salesforce.com platform, FinancialForce Accounting orders can be formulated from a Salesforce entry as well. This is such a great function. It means that users don’t have to spend time manually entering each order and can focus on more important tasks.
FinancialForce Accounting sits neatly on top of Salesforce CRM's cloud platform. Both the apps share the same infrastructure, database, development tools, reporting tools, and user interface. This is a really cool facet of the service because both FinancialForce Accounting and Salesforce CRM are embedded together, providing a simplified user experience and enabling more fluid training across functions.
The Chatter function makes it simple for the entire business team to collaborate on orders, unpaid invoices and collections. This makes FinancialForce Accounting a great fit for any growing organization that is seeking a flexible and scalable financial management system.
FinancialForce Accounting 360° View
FinancialForce Accounting holds all your key financial information securely on one system and in one place. With FinancialForce Accounting 360°, you have a comprehensive reporting app that spans customer activities in Accounting, CRM and Service. Cash processes can flow seamlessly and securely through sales, billing and receivables without any special integrations or extraneous spreadsheets. FinancialForce Accounting has a unique single ledger that eliminates subledger reconciliations and labour intensive period-close processes. This is massively advantageous on a number of levels, but mainly because all your team will be able to see the key data that they need in real-time.
FinancialForce Accounting has a subscription pricing model with Free Trials available (No Credit Card required). For more information see FinancialForce Accounting’s website.
FinancialForce has strong accounting, billing, PSA, and media solutions. It is a well suited platform for any mid level business, but it will be particularly useful to those who are Salesforce CRM customers, as it is a professional services solution that communicates natively with Salesforce CRM’s cloud platform.
8- Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM is a solid customer relationship management platform that provides a complete CRM solution. With it you can manage sales, marketing, customer support and service and inventory management via a single system.
Zoho CRM is based in the cloud, so no setup is required. It can be accessed from anywhere, using both desktop or mobile device. Zoho CRM allows you to generate and track leads, manage tasks, and follow the entire sales pipeline directly from within the app. By utilizing the power of mobile applications utilizing the cloud platform, Zoho CRM allows team members to work collaboratively by giving them access to the most current information available.
Zoho CRM’s customizable workflow management tools allow true automation of regular tasks. This is really useful because every time a new event occurs, Zoho CRM can be configured to automatically deploy a new task and assign it to a specific user, who will then be notified accordingly. Zoho CRM’s Workflows lets administrators set up actions to be executed when certain criteria are met. This, in turn, gives you greater control over how leads are handled.
A key feature of Zoho CRM is that it can integrate with your existing email environment. This is useful because it provides users with a universal platform of communication across your organization. By integrating an existing email system, users will be able to access new messages and reply them from directly within Zoho CRM.
Mobile Integration
The Zoho CRM mobile app on both iOS and Android, allows you to access contact details, edit accounts and leads, and view and work with reports. Zoho CRM also supports offline access, which is another extremely useful feature.
Alongside the aforementioned email integration, Zoho CRM has the ability to connect to many third party app: including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, PhoneBridge, and QuickBooks. Zoho CRM for Google Apps also takes the software beyond simple email integration. It also integrates with MailChimp and Constant Contact for email marketing, Evernote for note-taking, ClickDesk for Help Desk service, Outlook for email and calendaring, Microsoft Office for documents, Quickbooks for accounting, and VWorkApp for job dispatching and tracking. Using Zoho's API, developers can customize Zoho CRM as required.
Zoho CRM uses a subscription pricing model that starts at $12.00/month with a free trial available (No Credit Card required). For up to three users, a free plan includes all of the basic features of Zoho CRM, with up to 5,000 records. A standard plan that adds sales forecasting, reporting, and more, is available for $12 per user, per month; while a plan that includes email integration costs $20 per user, per month. An enterprise version for multi-level organizations is available for $35 per user, per month.
Zoho CRM is particularly effective for organizations that already use the company's other products, such as Zoho Projects or Zoho Books. It makes good use of Google Apps integration, which also makes it a natural choice if your organization uses those tools for email and calendaring. It has comprehensive reporting tools, advanced CRM features, and good email marketing tools. It has seamless integration between pre-sales and post sales activities via the Inventory Management tool and great integration between Sales and Customer Support processes via the Cases and Solutions feature. Overall, Zoho CRM is a powerful solution for small and medium-size businesses that is available at an affordable price bracket.
9- Insightly
Insightly is a CRM platform that provides you with great ways to build better relationships with your customers. The Insightly CRM and project management system allows you to manage contacts, organizations, vendors and suppliers from within its unified system. Using Insightly will help you streamline everyday processes for improved business efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness. Insightly lets you access deeper insights into how your customer relationships are influencing sales. From analyzing this data, many businesses experience an increase in sales after they begin using Insightly’s platform.
Insightly has an is easy to follow interface and there are plenty of customizations and integrations. The Facebook-like layout immediately feels familiar, with a Recent Activity feed in the center and login and navigation links on the left hand side. Your feed can be filtered by activity type and user, so you can quickly see emails that were recently sent or monitor a specific team member's progress. The navigation panel links you to your team's tasks, contacts, organizations, leads, opportunities, projects, emails, and reports. Insightly also has the ability to link any object—such as a contact, organization or opportunity, to any other object. This is a great feature that helps to give you a complete view over your networks at a single glance.
By utilizing Insightly’s CRM toolset you have a transparent view of all of your customers and prospects in a centralized location. To help you keep track of various clients, Insightly provides you with numerous tools at your disposal, including flexible calendaring, notes, comments, and tagging features.
To add clients and prospects to Insightly you can add them manually, entering the information for each new client and prospect or you can import data in bulk. Insightly contact templates provides you with space for personal details and the contact’s social media accounts, in addition to their basic details.
Using Pipelines
Another great feature of Insightly is Pipelines. Pipelines allow you to see the progress along a specific path in a project, so you will always know exactly where you are in the stream of time. Creating Pipelines are easy. Simply navigate to ‘System Settings’, choose a name for the Pipeline, and click the ‘Edit Stages’ link next to it. Your Pipeline should include all the anticipated stages that are in the workflow, from conception to the completion of the project. Insightly will draw the pipeline stages above your stage list. When you create a new project, you can view the pipeline from a populated list.
Generating Reports
Insightly has a comprehensive reporting tool that is based on opportunities and completed activities. You have the option to filter reports by date ranges and topic. You can choose from such reports as Opportunity Category Breakdown, Reasons For Losing Opportunities, Opportunity Pipeline Stage Report, Total Incoming Opportunities, and Value Of Opportunities. Generating a report is straightforward, simply click on the type of report you need and customize your parameters that you require based upon the dates, pipelines, tags, and responsibilities. With Insightly you also have the option to export your records. So, if you need to use a third party application for other analysis, you can!
Insightly allows you to connect your CRM and project management system to products and services such as Google Apps, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Drive, Evernote, Xero, Quote Roller, MailChimp, Torpio, and Zapier. It integrates very well with a whole range of popular business apps and services on the market, but where Insightly really shines is the integration that it offers with its Outlook App. This provides enhanced productivity for businesses that use Office 365 and Outlook 2013. In addition, to help in assisting with company accounts Insightly has good integration with QuickBooks Online, and Xero. This are useful integrations, which allow you to view all your customer and financial information in one place.
Insightly uses a subscription model with a free 14-day trial trial available (No Credit Card required). Free accounts are available for businesses with two or fewer users. Monthly pricing plans start at $12 per user, per month (when paying annually). Upgraded plans range in price from $29 per user, per month to $99 per user, per month (when paying annually).The Free plan supports up to 2,500 records and up to 200 MB storage, whilst the free 14-day trial showcases the features associated with the Professional plan and supports unlimited number of users.
Insightly is a well designed and powerful CRM and project management tool that is not only affordable for the SMBs, but is also packed with team-friendly features. Insightly is a feature rich online CRM platform that can help your businesses not only organize interactions with clients, but also keep track of projects, emails, notes, leads, and milestones via a streamlined and easy to navigate interface that gives users a clear 360-degree view of their business networks.
10- Pipedrive
Pipedrive is a sales pipeline management platform that is based in the cloud. It has been designed to keep sales processes simple, straightforward, and efficient. You can use Pipedrive to organize contacts, forecast sales, and follow-up leads at optimal times. Pipedrive is a truly mobile solution thanks to its robust framework of desktop interface and iOS and Android applications.
Sales Pipelines
A great feature of Pipedrive is the Sales Pipeline View. It can be more effective than traditional to-do lists because pipelines display sales and leads at every different stage. This gives sales staff a clear view of their productivity and how they can locate deals, which require immediate attention.
To see an overview of your team’s current situation, simply navigate over to your sales pipeline. With Pipedrive’s zoom features, you can locate deals that were added in the past day or week. By utilizing drag and drop functionality, you can move deals forward through the pipeline.
One of Pipedrive's best features is the icon, which appears next to each deal in your pipeline. The data it provides, at a glance, is very comprehensive: you can tell if you have any activities scheduled that are associated with a specific deal, see if you are behind on your scheduled activities, or even if you still need to follow up the lead.
Timeline Views
Pipedrive’s Timeline View gives you a clearer insight into your sales, with accurate sales forecasts for the coming months and quarters. Timeline Views provide superb advanced reporting tools that allow you to set both personal and group targets and track them in real-time. The Timeline Views can be customized to suit your personal preferences or existing sales workflows.
Integrations and Mobile Access
Pipedrive integrates well with numerous third-party applications including Dropbox, MailChimp, Google Apps, and Google Drive. Pipedrive’s REST API is also available. You can also access data on the go with Pipedrive's apps for iOS and Android. These mobile apps are simple and easy to navigate, just like the desktop web interface. You can quickly see your deals, activities, and contacts, or use the search function to search for pertinent data.
Pipedrive uses a subscription pricing model that starts from $12.00/month with a free trial available (No Credit Card required). Pipedrive is reasonably priced and one of the easiest CRM platforms that is available to set up and use. Pipedrive has an easy to understand pricing level system that is great for smaller companies, but it will get expensive rapidly if you have lots of employees. Pipedrive's website informs you to contact them if you want to purchase more than 50 seats.
Pipedrive is a great CRM platform that is quick to set up and easy to understand. It is completely customizable and has a simple, intuitive interface that is coupled with some helpful guidance, which makes it a breeze to use. The Forecasting tools provide managers with a birds-eye view of group performance and the suite’s mobile applications allow users to search through contacts and deals 24/7. With Pipedrive you will spend less time working with the software and more time working on sales. Pipedrive may lack in some native capabilities, but it excels with time-saving visuals and ease-of-use.
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Pride and tears after mission in disaster area
Vodafone Foundation comes to the rescue after hurricane
People in tears after hearing the voices of their loved ones for the first time again. That image will stick in the minds of the participants of the Vodafone Foundation mission to Mozambique for a long time. Mid-March 2019, four colleagues of the Vodafone Foundation flew to the African country to restore communication after a destructive hurricane.
Hurricane Idai caused massive destruction in Mozambique. Besides the loss of many lives, communication lines were destroyed and roads swept away. Immediate communication following a disaster is crucial for relief workers and inhabitants. Which is why the Vodafone Foundation immediately came into action.
The foundation sent an international team of Vodafone colleagues from the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Hungary. Among other things they took Instant Wi-Fi equipment with them, developed in the Netherlands. On the ground, the team cooperated with the local telecom provider Vodacom, the NGO Télécoms Sans Frontières and the local authorities. The goal: setting up communication superfast for emergency services and inhabitants/victims.
The foursome travelled to Beira, the city most severely struck by the devastation. They managed to set up a 2G network at the airport for communication for the emergency services. In addition, the Vodafone employees went to a number of schools where on average 600 homeless families were staying, offering them the opportunity to use a satellite phone for free to call their relatives and let them know they were safe.
"We saw people cry when they spoke to their loved ones after days of uncertainty. That we can achieve something like that with our technology is fantastic," says Jeroen. "But pride is, of course, not the only feeling we experience. We see sadness and fear up close, which makes it sometimes hard to let go of those emotions. But however intense it is, the fact that you can offer help is richly rewarding."
The Dutch Vodafone Foundation already sent employees to disaster areas in Saint Martin (2017) and the Philippines (2018). With the Instant Network programme Vodafone deploys colleagues (volunteers) and equipment to set up temporary communication lines in disaster areas within 48 hours.
Watch the interview with Jeroen Aanraad and Harm Kanters. Jeroen was in Mozambique and Harm went to Saint Martin in 2017, also after a hurricane. They share their experiences and talk about the goals of their missions, the necessary talent to improvise and the accompanying intense emotions.
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Vandegrift Gives Flower Mound Marcus All It Can Handle In Early Season Draw
The 2020 UIL boys soccer season was eight days old when Austin Vandegrift, Lake Travis and Westlake kicked off their co-hosting duties at the fourth annual Austin Lakes Elite Showcase. One of the opening matches resulted in a back-and-forth 2-2 draw between Austin Vandegrift (0-2-2) and Flower Mound Marcus (3-0-1) at Ed W. Monroe Memorial Stadium on Thursday.
"We lost like seven starters [from] last season, so we're just a new team," said Austin Vandegrift soccer player Ethan Dacaret. "It's been a tough road so far, but, this game, especially going up against good opposition, is a really good way to build chemistry with the other players and...get to know each other better as a team and progress into district with [a] better attitude and better mentality."
Austin Vandegrift, who finished its 2019 season in the UIL 6A Region II bi-district round, started to strike at the Flower Mound Marcus goal in the fifth and sixth minutes, and finished what it started on Sam Galyen's go-ahead scoring kick at the 7:25 mark of the match.
"We were able to put the back line in a compromising position and the goalie got a bad clearance, and it came to my feet, so I took my chance," said Galyen. "And I was glad that I could put it away."
Flower Mound Marcus, who advanced to the 2019 UIL 6A Region I Quarterfinal, was expected to bounce back and did so in a similar fashion. It didn't have a lot of early shots at Austin Vandegrift's goal, but found some opportunities in the middle part of the first half. That included a game-tying goal at the 20:37 mark.
The teams attacked more in the second half, so additional goals were added to the scoreboard. Dacaret, who was named the VYPE Player of the Game, scored at the 51:27 mark of the match to give Austin Vandegrift another lead at 2-1, and Porter Pomykal answered with a late Flower Mound Marcus goal to knot up the score at the 79:46 mark.
"It was really cool because I usually play left wing, but today we played a different formation," Dacaret said of his score. "So, I just saw the opportunity to cut in [and] swing it with my right foot. Luckily, it went in."
The teams played to a 80-minute regulation draw, but Austin Vandegrift coach Bobby Courtney thought his players took advantage of the time on the field.
"I was excited that we were able to compete," said Courtney. "I think when you play better teams, it's easy to get in your head. I was excited that we were able to execute the game plan and organize our defense. Players that normally would not have had the chance came in and were able to step up and make an impact, so it was an all-around team effort and I really enjoyed watching the guys compete."
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E-Waste Not, E-Want Not: Recycle Electronics on October 25th
Good news for your inner-do-gooder. Here's a great chance to clear out space AND recycle. It's yours for the taking on October 25th.
If you are like me, you eye those piles of batteries at the bottom of your glass and plastic recycling bin, fretting about how to quit them. Then you open a drawer that has become a sort of e-gadget graveyard: dead iPods, cellphones, dare I mention cassette recorders? Then onto the big stuff: VCR? Betamax?! Tube tellies. Your beloved 8-track tape player? Ok, so that's a collectors' item. But still. We're drowning in this culture of techno-replacement. And we all need a good way to get rid of it and to maintain a clear conscience.
So here's your hyper-local chance! The W. 102nd & 103rd Streets Block Association will recycle your e-waste on Saturday, October 25. Please drop off unwanted electronics at 250 W. 103rd Street anytime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Block Association's volunteers will deliver the e-waste to an authorized recycler. A snap!
Just let us know what you’re bringing so we are certain to have adequate room to transport the recyclables. You may email us at: ewaste@w102-103blockassn.org.
The following items are accepted: computers, monitors, printers, scanners, fax machines, copiers, routers, modems, keyboards, mice, cables, components, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, cell phones, pagers, PDAs, phones, answering machines, and batteries of any kind.
Just one thing: no air conditioners or kitchen appliances, please. And try selling that 8-track on Craigslist. You'll get a pretty penny, I promise.
Loudon Wainwright III, Poet Laureate of Bloomingdale
Loudon Wainwright III is on tour and will be playing at Pace on October 11th. That got me to thinking about local treasures. And surely he is one albeit a treasure of Westchester origin.
Some days it can seem like when it Wainwrights it pours. I mean how many singing-songwriting Wainwrights are there? I'm going with five (LW3, sister Sloan, and children Rufus, Martha and Lucy), but someone could easily be missing from that count.
It is a family where DNA codes for musicality, edge and self-reflection. I have to say I am fond of them all for different reasons. Indeed, very fond. But in the end, I am a one man gal, and LW3 is that guy.
Since he's written so many delicious slice-of-life songs, I've singled out several at the end of this post, both from LW3 solo and from a couple of members of the Wainwright clan.
Sitting pretty on a mountain of impressively high-quality output, Wainwright is now into his fifth decade of expressing himself through his brand of stripped-down and personalized folk. He is raw. He is tender. He is poetic, lyrical and smart. He's a terrific wordsmith. And he is funny. Compared favorably to the greatest, LW3 was heralded as the next Bob Dylan in the early days of his career. (I won't go on about Dylan as I cannot yet connect him to our neighborhood, but when I do, the ink will flow). Made back in the good days of the 1970s, suffice it to say, the comparison was meant to be a favorable one. However it may have done LW3 more disservice than good. It shadowed him enough for him to turn and tackle it in a song. So as Bob Dylan did for Woody Guthrie in a "talking blues" style shoutout, Loudon did for Bob in his song "Talking New Bob Dylan":
"Yeah, times were a changin', you brought it all home
'Blonde On Blonde', 'Like A Rolling Stone'
The real world is crazy, you were deranged
And when you went electric, Bob, everything changed
Yeah, today is your birthday, have a great one, Bob
Bein' the new you is one hell of a job
My kid cranked up her boom box to almost groan
When I heard you screamin' from her room
"Everybody must get stoned"
Thanks a lot, Bob"
from Talking New Bob Dylan by Loudon Wainwright III
Depending on my mood, I can go to the familial dark places with him in songs like "White Winos," and "A Father and a Son" where he deals with loving yet deeply painful truths about his parents and his relationship with them and with his children. These songs often spill over into reflection on his own parental shortcomings, his regrets and ultimately his love -- all done in the way he seems most comfortable expressing it, whittled down to essences in a moment-suspended-in-time song.
When offering these mea culpas, he manages to have an unapologetically heart-melting way: "Another Song in C" and "When You Leave," (both below) have delicate, poignant observations laid utterly bare. He has a song about slapping his out-of-control-in-the backseat daughter that sears the already indelible family moment onto his listener. When he wants to, he delivers his truths like x-rays deliver theirs.
It's easy to get heavy with Loudon Wainwright. But he knows how to keep things featherweight, too. The life-affirming, banjo-propelled "Swimming Song" -- a frolic that is the yin to Kate McGarrigle's wistful "Saratoga Summer Song" yang -- is one such bonhomous bonbon, just when you thought brooding was his business. Kate, like Loudon, knew how to tread the edge between light and dark. Kate, with her sister Anna, made "Swimming Song" entirely hers, pulling it northward and soaking it in Acadian sound. I've included both versions below, because after all, you have no Rufus and you have no Martha Wainwright without the majestic Kate.
Here's a quintessential sample lyric from Loudon that brings a smile to my lips everytime I hear the repetition of the syllable "form":
This summer I swam in a public place
And a reservoir, to boot,
At the latter I was informal,
At the former I wore my suit, I wore my swimming suit.
from Swimming Song by Loudon Wainwright III
If he were a filmmaker, I'd compare him to the wonderful Ross McElwee in terms of how he conveys his material. Deeply personal and reflective, terribly wry, fairly self-loathing, and utterly naked, he is who he is.
And so, citizens of Bloomingdale, for your consideration, my nominee for Poet Laureate: LW3.
History, Herstory, Ourstory
The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group: A Local Gem
I've written about this before but still delight each time I have the thought that our neighborhood has its very own history group. The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group (BNHG), which began as the Park West Neighborhood History Group, has as its mission to promote and conduct research on the history of our neighborhood. Knowing Win Armstrong, one of its prime motors, I should not be surprised that a substantial archive documenting our community and its change over time now lives at the Bloomingdale Branch of the New York Public Library.
I have heard Win reminisce about the rich, diverse, integrated neighborhood that was erased -- above ground, at least -- to make way for the construction of Park West Village in the 1950s. Here's some more detail from a 2011 New York Times piece that covered one of the reunions that residents of the neighborhood still have; the fact that they are compelled to get together and proclaim they endure as a community despite that their brownstones have long since been torn asunder sends a shiver down my spine. It is a profound statement about the power of memory:
"From about 1905 until the 1950s, West 98th and 99th Streets constituted a vibrant, predominantly African-American community that was something of a miniature Harlem, with its own Renaissance. Philip A. Payton Jr., a real estate entrepreneur who wanted to end housing segregation, owned or managed most of the buildings on those blocks. The singer Billie Holiday lived there for a time, as did Arthur A. Schomburg, the historian and writer whose collection of art, manuscripts and photographs became the foundation for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Other residents included the author Rosa Guy and the actor Robert Earl Jones, the father of James Earl Jones. The actress Butterfly McQueen...."
Many will recall that this area was part of the Robert Moses-ifcation of New York. In his elegant timeline of our parts, BNHG member Gil Tauber points to the demolition of 14 blocks which made way for the Frederick Douglass Houses and Park West Village as the begining of Robert Moses's decline.
The BNHG delivers a new lecture series each season and how they sustain the level of quality that they do is a testament to the commitment of BNHG's board: Win Armstrong, Peter Arndsten, Marjorie Cohen, Cynthia Doty, Hedda Fields, Alice Hudson, Ginger Lief, Paul Lindberg, Jim Mackin, Batya Miller, Gil Tauber, Pam Tice and Vita Wallace. Among other things, on their site is Gil's elegant history of the nomenclature of Bloomingdale. A must read for anyone who still thinks of the department store when our area's name comes up!
Mark your calendars, because the good stuff is coming up quickly! Here's an overview of the group's offerings this fall.
Collage courtesy of the BNHG (Pam Tice, artist)
UPDATE: Nice piece here by the Columbia Spectator on October 9th covers the BNHG.
These free lectures presented by the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group
Please consult the group's website below for exact location information and other details.
Tuesday, October 7, 6:30 pm
Goddard Riverside in its Second Century: A Work in Progress. Stephan Russo, Executive Director in conversation with Ethan Sribnick, Urban Historian.
Bernie Wohl Auditorium, 647 Columbus Avenue (W. 91st Street). Please note that there is a life but the auditoium is not wheelchair accessible.
Monday, October 27, 6:30 pm
Celebrate The IRT's 110th Birthday* with John Tauranac, Urban History and Mapmaker, in
discussion of its impact on the development of our neighborhood.
Hostelling International, 891 Amsterdam Avenue (W. 103rd Street)
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 pm
Jim Mackin will present the first In a series of the histories of the
remarkable medical institutions that started in the Bloomingdale
neighborhood. Hostelling International, 891 Amsterdam Ave (W. 103rd Street)
December - Date TBA
Think Straus Park (W. 106th Street & Broadway) is just a name? Learn the back
story from local historian Batya Miller.
And don't forget the monthly neighborhood walks led by Jim Mackin.
For more info and to sign up, contact the Columbus-Amsterdam BID office at 212-666-9774. The next one is Sunday, October 5th at 1 pm and meets at Straus Park, 106th Street & Broadway.
Website: http://upperwestsidehistory.weebly.com/
Blog: bloomingdalehistory.com
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Men's competitions
Women's Competitions
Clubroom Hire
Archived photos
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Welcome to Waikanae Beach Bowling Club
Mixed scheduled competitions 2019-20
TUESDAY Triples at our club. Any combination. Dates of play to be advised. Start time 10 am. 3 games each of 10 ends. Any combination - men, women or both. Entry fee $10.00. Bring your own lunch.
Prizes the same as usual Thursday Triples, with the exception that the normal 3rd prize is allocated to a mystery team. The position of that team is declared at the start of play.
Convenors: Rewa Allen 04 902 1255 or John Heaton 04 902 0107
Competition scheduled start dates:
Amalgamation Cup Oct 23, Nov 27, Feb 12, Mar 11,
(see commentry below)
Won by:
Melbourne Cup - not played this year
Hodder Plate Dec 4
Harmony Cup & Plate Jan 31
Jack & Jill Cup & Plate Jan 31
Mixed Handicap Singles Mar 20, Mar 27 (2 rounds)
Runner up:
Mixed Veteran Triples Feb 28
Barometer & Norm Allen Not played this year
Club Captains Day Apr 3
Ryman Pairs Feb 16
Ryman Triples Mar 22
Ryman Challenge TBA At Charles Fleming
Parkwood Cup
Won by: W Allen(s), M Rapson, R Papps
Runners Up: E Martin(s), M Thomas, P Brown
Bogisch Cup Mar 27
Goodwill Trophy Mar 18 Waikanae Beach v Waikanae
Explaination of Events:
Amalgamation Cup: The Amalgamation Cup is usually played four times in the season either triples of fours depending on numbers. Dates as listed above. Wins and ends are combined to find the overall winner at the end of the competition, sometimes it comes down to ends. The cup was donated by Tom and Marie Simpson in 1996 to celebrate the amalgamation of club between the mens and womens sections. For many years the men were unbeatable and have won 10 times to the womens 4 times. However in the last 6 years the women have caught up and are currently leading in the competition this year.
Parkwood Cup: This trophy was donated by Parkwood Village to the Waikanae Beach Bowling Club when the club celebrated its 50th jubilee in 1996. Traditionally it was mixed fours played over 2 days and is awarded to the best performing Waikanae Beach team. It can be reduced to one day's play but it must always be mixed and preferably teams of fours. Outside teams are encouraged with normal gala prizes and conditions applying but they cannot win the Parkwood Cup.
Norm Allen Cup & Barometer events: The annual clash between our club and Waikanae. Two events are played – the Norm Allen cup for the men, which has been played annually for the last 20 years and The Barometer for the women, which has been played every year for the past 30 years.
The Hodder Plate: The Hodder Plate was donated by Keith & Irene Hodder in 1966, both former presidents, always men verses women over one day. It used to be played on the day of the Christmas party and was 21 ends. It was changed in 2000 to 16 ends and played prior to Christmas
The Bogisch Cup: John Bogisch, a long standing member of the club, donated this cup in 2001 to acknowledge the winners of the Men's and Women's Junior Champions. After winning the Men's Junior's in the 2001-02 season John then played Jenni Patterson, who had won the Women's Junior's, and so started the Bogisch Cup. Jenni won the game that fist year.
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World 3-Cushion News sponsored by 3CushionBilliards.com
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Second Annual Parker Hess Memorial Tournament Summary
The second annual Parker Hess Memorial 3-Cushion Billiard Tournament was held at the Ashland, Oregon Elks Lodge on May 1-3, 2015. Eighteen players from Washington, Oregon, and California were divided into two nine-man round-robin flights. B, C+, and C players all played to 25 points. The exception was that when two C players played each other—in both the prelim rounds and the finals—each player started with five points on the string. (Averages for the C Finals were adjusted to reflect this, but not for the prelim rounds.) The top two finishers in each prelim flight from each of these three levels were sent to separate four-man round-robin finals flights.
In the B division finals, Mark Hansen of Sacramento, California was undefeated to take first place. The other three B finalists all tied with one win and two losses, so the outcome was based on total points made. Jesus Quinonez of Tacoma, Washington came in second, beating out Walt Scott of Vale, Oregon by a single point. Raye Raskin of Larkspur, California came in fourth place. The high run in the B division was made by Jesus Quinonez in his finals match against Mark Hansen.
In the C+ division finals, it was Marc Smith of Rogue River, Oregon who came in first; he played extremely well in this tournament and was undefeated in the finals. Rudy Vigil of Vallejo, California came in second, and Alfred Wenzl of Medford, Oregon came in third. Mark Williams of Ashland, Oregon was the fourth place finisher in this group and also had the division’s high run of 5 in his prelim match against Tim Poole. The C division finals winner came right down to the last game. Jim Spannaus and John Hughes, both of Medford, Oregon were tied with 2 wins each. Jim won their final game and came in first, with John finishing second, also winning the high run prize for a run of five in the prelims. Harold Reid of Burns, Oregon was third and Ron Hopkins of Bellingham, Washington came in fourth.
Many thanks are due to the officers and staff of the Ashland, Oregon Elks Lodge # 944 for supporting this tournament and making the lodge as comfortable as possible for all the players. Submitted by Tommy Thomsen and Mark Williams, tournament co-directors.
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B FINALIST
B FIRST
B SECOND
B THIRD
B FOURTH
C PLUS FINALIST
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Wales Women's Football (Moderator: sylvain) »
2017-2018 Wales women's football
Author Topic: 2017-2018 Wales women's football (Read 17518 times)
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In Welsh women's football last week, the last four of the league cup:
Welsh Premier League Cup semi-finals
Cardiff Met v Swansea City
Port Talbot Town v Abergavenny
A big event scheduled for 2017 is the Women's Champions League final in Cardiff on June 1:
http://www.womensfootball.eu/forum/index.php/topic,8286.0.html
Cardiff City Stadium (Jon Candy)
Re: 2017-2018 Wales women's football
The FAW Cup quarterfinals took place over the weekend. Llandudno are now the only northern club remaining:
http://www.faw.cymru/en/news/llandudno-flying-north-wales-flag-womens-cup
FAW CUP QUARTER-FINALS
Abergavenny 0-2 Cardiff Met
Bethel 2-4 Cardiff City FC Women
Briton Ferry Llansawel 2-4 Llandudno
Swansea City 4-1 Rhyl
Match reports:
http://www.shekicks.net/news/view/13953
Wales have finished their campaign in Cyprus:
- www.womensfootball.eu/forum/index.php/topic,8304.0.html
Jess Fishlock needs one more cap to reach 100 for Wales.
Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
In domestic action, today is FAW Cup semi-final day, and Swansea have won 10 games in a row in the Welsh Premier.
A few matters to attend to:
Should there be a united Great Britain women's football team at the 2020 Olympics?
The head of the Welsh FA sounds like he's in favour, although he seems to be in a minority:
- http://www.football.co.uk/fa/welsh-fa-boss-calls-for-quick-decision-on-womens-team-gb-si/8573275/#I5uuGbLTuI4YMeMX.97
Maybe Team GB could play against Scotland in round 1
On the field, Wales and Northern Ireland played a pair of friendlies at Ystrad Mynach, with quite a similar outcome in each game. Jess Fishlock won her 100th cap and scored a fine goal in the first match:
Wales v NI (5 Apr)
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUcQxkE3VWE
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGSjfBuef0
Match reports: 5 April (BBC Sport), 7 April (FAW)
Also, last weekend was the FAW Women's Cup Final 2017, a match which went down to the wire on penalties. Lovers of great goalkeeping may want to look away now
Swansea City Ladies v Cardiff Met Ladies
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=lty-WK-ppxU
Match reports: BBC Sport / FAW
Wales will play England twice in 2018, in qualifying for the World Cup 2019.
The campaign kicks off with two away trips, Kazakhstan v Wales on 7 Sep 2017, and Russia v Wales on 24 Oct 2017.
Full group list here: http://www.womensfootball.eu/forum/index.php/topic,8275.msg84272.html#msg84272
Fixture list & Jess Fishlock interview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39712645
Top players of the season in Wales:
- http://www.shekicks.net/news/view/14616
[Abergavenny duo] Katrina French and Lyndsey Davies won the Orchard Welsh Premier League Player of the Year and Golden Boot awards respectively.
(She Kicks)
Wales have played two away friendlies in Portugal, with mixed fortunes:
- See Euro 2017 build-up (www.womensfootball.eu/forum/index.php/topic,8346.0.html)
Swansea are in the Women's Champions League 2017/18 qualifying round, and will have a tough task in Romania in August.
Their three opponents are Hibernian, Olimpia Cluj and WFC-2 Kharkiv:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170803095612/http://www.faw.cymru/en/news/swansea-city-discover-uwcl-opponents/
“I can’t wait for it to start,” said Jodie Passmore, who netted 22 times across all competitions last season. “I’ve experienced it before in both Cyprus and Slovenia and it’s brilliant. It’s not what you expect it to be - the experience is like no other. It’s by far the best level I’ve played at.”
(SwanseaCity.net)
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Wales' World Cup qualifiers:
The headlines inevitably centred upon Wales joining England in 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying Group 1 following Tuesday's draw in Nyon, but there will be other familiar opponents and logistical challenges for Jayne Ludlow and her side to navigate past if they are to achieve their dream and qualify for the finals in France.
www.faw.cymru/en/news/focus-our-womens-world-cup-rivals/
^ Information on opponents Kazakhstan, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and England
Wales met Kazakhstan twice in the most recent Euro qualifiers.
But now, spot the big disadvantage... here are Wales' first five qualifiers:
17 September 2017 - Kazakhstan v Wales
24 October 2017 - Russia v Wales
24 November 2017 - Wales v Kazakhstan
28 November 2017 - Bosnia and Herzegovina v Wales
6 April 2018 - England v Wales
Obviously England is less of a journey, but the away games are stacked against them. They'll have to do decently to have a chance of qualifying in their final three at home.
Wales' Helen Ward against Austria in Euro qualifying
(Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT)
The Welsh champions have been decided:
- https://www.swanseacity.com/news/ladies-lift-league-title (Archive.org page)
This is the WPWL league table after 18 games:
P W D L F A GD Pts
Swansea City 18 16 1 1 65 16 49 - 49
Cardiff Metro. 18 13 3 2 57 20 37 - 42
Cardiff City 18 11 2 5 62 30 32 - 35
Abergavenny 18 11 2 5 47 23 24 - 35
Cyncoed LFC 18 6 4 8 37 43 -6 - 22
Llandudno LFC 18 6 4 8 36 48 -12 - 22
Port Talbot T 18 4 3 11 22 45 -23 - 15
Rhyl Ladies FC 18 3 3 12 23 51 -28 - 12
Aberystwyth 18 3 3 12 12 50 -38 - 12
Briton Ferry Lla. 18 2 5 11 25 60 -35 - 11
Wales' Lauren Hancock had her football career thrown into disarray by a car crash. She's now signed for Swansea, and she wants to play a full match again in two months:
- https://www.swanseacity.com/news/new-signing-hancock-eyes-return-action (Archive.org page)
The defender has rejoined the club looking to kick start her career after being involved in an accident almost two years ago.
(Swansea City)
Swansea will be in the Champions League qualifier group, which takes place this week from Tuesday (22 Aug) in Romania:
UWCL 2017/2018 - Women's Champions League
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Short Staff - Laminated Hickory - Round 1-1/8" x 72" (6ft)
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This series of staves are made with 2 layers of impact grade hickory laminated together to form a strong, straight and defect free staff. This is the best wood possible for martial arts use. The hickory is strong, yet it is flexible to not be brittle when struck against other equipment. We hand oil at least 2 coats of a boiled linseed/mineral spirits mixture.
This series of staves are made with 2 layers of impact grade hickory laminated together to 1-1/8" (28.5mm) diameter. .
The Short Staff is one of the most studied and popular of all polearms. It is a formidable weapon of approximately six to nine feet in length, and was often described as the basis for all other types of polearms, such as the halberd and pollaxe. This weapon is known by several different names, owing to its use across a large time period throughout many European martial arts traditions. It has been variously called the staff, pole, short staff, quarterstaff, half-staff, and balk-staff. The moderate length of this weapon allows its wielder to safely fight opponents at a long distance, while also allowing versatile and agile movements that would not be possible with a longer weapon.
For use in competition against another fighter using a staff, a Short Staff of 6’-7’ seems to be preferable. Against multiple or varied weapons, such as would be encountered in war, a Short Staff of 8’-9’ would be most effective. In either length, the staff should be made from a straight, smooth, and strong hardwood. The diameter should be no more than you can easily hold in your hand, but also not so thin that the staff would not be able to withstand heavy blows, and not so thick that maneuvering the weapon would be difficult due to its weight. Each dimension can vary slightly from person to person, so a custom piece would be desirable for those who wish to seriously advance their training. Otherwise, for new practitioners or large groups, a standard weapon which matches these general guidelines will do the job.
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Reviewer: Victor Raab from Muskego, WI United States
perfect for those wanting to use a longer spear
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Awesome Staff/Great Work December 26, 2018
Reviewer: Anonymous Person from Oakland, TN United States
My son and I love these. They are exactly as described. Though, we haven't ever tried the strength test on them, given what we've put them through in past, I'd believe the numbers. My son has enjoyed using his to spar with members of platoon, better than the q-tips they normally use, he says.
Laminated staff December 24, 2018
Reviewer: Vincent Morton from Colorado Springs, CO United States
I thought I would try the stronger laminated staff after I broke my 6 foot staff during practice. The new laminated staff arrived and looks nicely crafted overall, but at closer inspection it doesn't look like enough glue was used. There are some areas of slight separation 3"-4" long down the adjoining line. I will have to wait and see if it holds up.
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Kathy Ver Eecke, founder of Working for Wonka, is a former marketing executive who now works as a writer and speaker on the topic of surviving the start-up environment and working for an entrepreneur.
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Brand Yourself Successful: Managing The Brand You
Most of us have no problem determining how to market our companies or our products. Thinking of ourselves as a brand, however, takes a little mental adjustment. But it can be a smart way to manage a career. Find out how to brand yourself successful with the following steps: The first step is to stop thinking of yourself as an employee and start thinking of yourself as a company. Consider this:
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On his blog, Seth Godin talked about outdated career advice. Advice geared towards getting a job in a Fortune 500 company. The same advice that’s been circulating for decades and geared toward the same companies responsible for a net loss of jobs over the last twenty years. The job market is changing. Not only are Fortune 500 companies no longer creating jobs, the standards they use to hire and to promote are no longer relevant in the current job market. LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Ben Casnocha believe the key to thriving in this new market is to stop relying on outdated career advice and to start treating your career the same way entrepreneurs treat their young businesses. To succeed today, they believe you need to treat your career like a start-up.
Name: Kathy Ver Eecke Twitter: @workingforwonka Personal Website/Blog: www.workingforwonka.com Bio: Kathy Ver Eecke has made her career working as the right hand (wo)man to one of the quirkiest classes of bosses; the entrepreneur boss. She has worked for a boss who was regularly shot at when leaving the office and a boss who regularly forgot his shoes. She worked for a boss who threw office furniture, and for a boss whose office furniture was repossessed. And that was just a typical Tuesday. As a writer and speaker Kathy now shares advice how to survive “unique” bosses. What's your favorite career related quote? “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.” (Charles Schwabb) What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Career Expert? I’m excited to be a part of the CAREEREALISM team and to share some of tips and tools I have learned over the last two decades. Tools that hopefully will help the CAREEREALISM community find ways to advance their careers without loosing their minds! Articles written by this expert: 5 Tips for Dealing with a Hot-head Boss The Attitude of Success: It’s All in Your Head Brand Yourself Successful: Managing the Brand You Turning the Tables: How to Interview a Potential Employer First Impressions: You’ve Got 30 Seconds to Make the Right One ‘Horrible Bosses’ – 5 Tools for Coping that Don’t Involve a Contract Killer What Managers Really Think About Your Resume Are You Relying on Outdated Career Advice?
What Managers Really Think About Your Resume
“Blah, blah, blah.” Yup, the CEO of a very successful company said exactly that about resumes, “Blah, blah, blah.” He even made the talking hand motions as he said it. A resume, is a resume, is a resume. To get a job today, you have to stand out in the crowd and coming up with the best derivative of the verb “managed” is not the way to do it. Chuck Dietrich, CEO of SlideRocket, explained this during his interview for Three to Get Ready; a video series where entrepreneur give their top three tips for getting, keeping or knowing when to leave a job with a start-up. Chuck is not alone in his belief that to get a job today, you have to reinvent the way you apply. In particular if you’re applying to a start-up. (And, in case you’re not watching the news these day, that’s where the jobs are!) Michael Brooks, the 24-year old CTO and founder of LifeKraze says he can fly through 500 resumes in under 30 minutes. “It’s not about the resume,” he explains. “A lot of kids get led down the wrong path of building this perfect resume, and using these sample formats and it’s really not about that.” Michael says if you want to work for someone, you need to show them how much you like their product or company and how you can make a difference. It shows the business owner that you want to work for them, versus being yet another person just looking for a paycheck. Both of these entrepreneurs have been blown away by creative approaches some applicants (most now new hires!) have used to grab their attention. For Dietrich, it was Hanna Phan an eager job seeker that tweeted him a link to a "présumé" that used Dietrich’s own software. (presume = resume presentation). Note Dietrich is the CEO of a large company, not the person that Hanna would report to, but she went straight to the top with a tweet that simply said:
@chuckdietrich @sliderocket I want to work with you! Find my application here: http://portal.sliderocket.com/AIWCI/Iwanttoworkatsliderocket
In less than an hour Dietrich had responded:
@hannaphan @sliderocket AMAZING Preso! Let’s talk.
Hanna got the job. For Brooks, one of his now key employees sent his information storybook style with alternate endings based on where the reader wanted to go. “By the time I was done with the resume I knew this kid was special. He had something to offer this company that most people don’t,” Brook explains. He says getting your foot in the door is the hardest step, so you need to be creative to get there. So does this mean you don’t need a resume at all? No. In most cases you need some record or back story that shows what you’ve done. The message here is the resume itself is not your ticket to ride. Your personality, your gumption and your creativity are what will turn the heads of business owners. So if you’re ready to get creative, you might want to reach out to both of these entrepreneurs, because both companies are hiring now! For more tips from entrepreneurs, or to find out more about jobs with these two companies, check out the Three to Get Ready video series on WorkingForWonka. Kathy Ver Eecke, founder of Working for Wonka, is a former marketing executive who now works as a writer and speaker on the topic of surviving the start-up environment and working for an entrepreneur. Photo credit: Rido/Shutterstock.com
The Attitude of Success: It’s All in Your Head
Projecting an attitude of success can start with simply working on your body language. With a strong posture and a solid handshake you are well on your way to exuding confidence. But to complete the picture, to truly project an attitude of success, the real work may need to be done in your head. Some say simply believing you are successful will make you successful. Sounds crazy, right? But that’s the premise of the law of attraction. Same with the recent phenomena, The Secret. For the more scientific minded, we can reference the placebo affect. Patients told they are being given a curing medicine actually get better despite the fact what they are given is only a sugar pill. Bottom line, the brain is the most powerful organ in the body. And how we harness that power has a bearing on the image we project, and ultimately on our success. Skip the Yips Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A man becomes what he thinks about.” To project success you need to first quiet the negative voice inside your own head. These self-limiting beliefs can be our biggest enemy when it comes to being successful. Former professional golfer Tommy Armour coined the term “yips” to describe when athletes are so caught up in their own heads they, inexplicably, can no longer perform routine parts of their game. A relatively simple putt, for instance, or an All-Star pitcher who suddenly cannot get the ball over home plate. Although science is still studying possible neurological causes for to the “yips,” it is widely believed the main cause is psychological. To project an attitude of success, stay clear of the negative and focus on the positive. Be Half Full Studies have shown a casual link between optimistic attitudes and good health. Being optimistic can do more than extend our lives however; it can also improve our success rate in business. Sales guru Zig Ziglar says attitude is a defining factor in a person’s ability to succeed. He quotes a Harvard University study found when it comes to job offers and promotions, decisions are based only 15 percent on the candidates actual technical knowledge or skill. Eighty-five percent of the decision to hire or promote an employee is based on the individual’s attitude. View your glass as half full and you’ve won more than half the battle. Be a Copycat Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Decide what success looks like to you, and learn to imitate it. Everyone’s version will be different. If, to you, success means moving up the corporate ladder, then know what it looks like on the top rung. If success means simply getting through each crazy day in an organized and stress-free fashion, then envision that day. Keep the image of success in your head and do everything possible to look like it, behave like it, and most importantly believe that you can accomplish it. When it comes to projecting an attitude for success, children’s character Bob the Builder may be the best role model. “Can we do it?” he asks his audience each day. Without questioning the details, doubting their abilities or hesitating for one moment, his audience’s answer is always the same. “Yes we can!” You go, Bob. [Reprinted from OfficeArrow] [This article was originally posted on an earlier date] Kathy Ver Eecke, founder of Working for Wonka, is a former marketing executive who now works as a writer and speaker on the topic of surviving the start-up environment and working for an entrepreneur. Read more » articles by this approved career expert | Click here » if you’re a career expert Photo credit: Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
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Scammers preying on senior citizens
Walmart clerk saves one victim $3,000
Ari Hait
WEBVTT AT 11:00. >> THIS IS THE WALMART WHERE THAT CLERK STOPPED HIS GRANDMOTHER FROM BUYING THESE GIFT CARDS, STOPPED HER FROM BEING SCAMMED OUT OF $3000. NOW THAT GRANDMOTHER IS TALKING TO US, BECAUSE SHE WANTS YOU TO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES THAT SHE DID. IT STARTS WITH A PHONE CALL. IN THIS CASE, IT WAS TO NANCY WHELAN, A GRANDMOTHER IN JENSEN BEACH WHO HAS ASKED US TO NOT SHOW HER FAC THE VOICE ON THE OTHER END SAID IT WAS HER GRANDSON, BRYAN. >> I WANT YOU TO KEEP THIS SECRET, PLEASE DON’T TELL ANYBODY. >> BRYAN’S STORY WAS THIS, HE WAS IN A FRIEND’S CAR WHEN THEY WERE PULLED OVER. POLICE FOUND MARIJUANA IN THE CAR AND BRYAN WAS IN JAIL. GREG THEY NEEDED $3000, THEY HAVE TO DO THESE TESTS TO BE SURE THAT THEY WEREN’T SMOKING. >> THE WOMAN AT THE JAIL SENT NANCY TO WALMART, SAYING FOR SECURITY REASONS, THEY COULDN’T TAKE HER CREDIT CARD THEY TOLD HER TO GET $3000 IN GIFT CARDS AND CALL THEM BACK WITH THE SERIAL NUMBERS. BUT THE CLERK AT WALMART REFUSED TO SELL NANCY THE CARDS. >> AND SHE SAID THIS IS A SCAM. THAT’S WHY WE WON’T SELL IT. >> THE CLERK WAS RIGHT. THIS WAS A SCAM. NANCY CALLED THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE WHO TOLD HER IT’S BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS IN FACT, ON THE EXACT SAME DAY A , WOMAN IN PALM CITY GOT A SIMILAR CALL BUT SHE WASN’T AS LUCKY. THE CRIMINALS GO HER FOR IN $4000 GIFT CARDS. NANCY TELLS ME SHE’S EMBARASSED SHE FELL FOR THIS AND SHE HAS ADVICE FOR ANYBODY WHO GETS A CALL ASKING FOR MONEY. >> HANGUP. DON’T TAKE ANYTHING. IF THEY CALL BACK, HANGUP AGAIN. >> THAT’S GREAT ADVICE. SHE IS ARRANGING WITH THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO COME TO HER COMMUNITY AND GIVE A TALK ABOUT FRAUD AND SCAMS. SHE DOESN’T WANT H NEIGHBORS TO MAKE THE SAME M
Nancy Whelan was in her Jensen Beach home Tuesday morning when her phone rang.The voice on the other end said it was her grandson, who Whelan immediately identified as Bryan. “I want you to keep this secret,” Whelan told WPBF 25 News the voice on the phone said. “Please don’t tell anybody.” +Download WPBF 25 News App: Apple IOS | AndroidAfter promising secrecy, Whelan said the person she thought was Bryan told her he had been in a friend’s car when they were pulled over. The police found drugs in the car and now Bryan was in jail. “They needed three thousand dollars,” Whelan remembered them saying. “They have to do these tests to be sure they weren’t smoking.” A woman then started talking to Whelan and identified herself as an administrator at the jail. She told Whelan they couldn’t take her credit card or bank account number because of security reasons. Instead, they wanted her to go to WalMart, buy $3000 in gift cards, and then call them with the serial numbers. Wanting to help her grandson, that’s exactly what Whelan tried to do. But the clerk at WalMart refused to sell her the cards. “She said, ‘This is a scam,’” Whelan said. “’That’s why we won’t sell it.’” The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said the clerk was right: it was a scam. Investigators said it’s a scam that’s been around for years. In fact, on that same Tuesday morning, a woman in Palm City got a very similar call. That woman wasn’t as lucky as Whelan and wound up being scammed out of $4000. Whelan said she’s embarrassed she fell for this. She’s sharing her story so you won’t make the same mistake she did. “Hang up!” she said when asked if she had any advice. “If they call back, hang up again!”+Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter
JENSEN BEACH, Fla. —
Nancy Whelan was in her Jensen Beach home Tuesday morning when her phone rang.
The voice on the other end said it was her grandson, who Whelan immediately identified as Bryan.
“I want you to keep this secret,” Whelan told WPBF 25 News the voice on the phone said. “Please don’t tell anybody.”
+Download WPBF 25 News App: Apple IOS | Android
After promising secrecy, Whelan said the person she thought was Bryan told her he had been in a friend’s car when they were pulled over. The police found drugs in the car and now Bryan was in jail.
“They needed three thousand dollars,” Whelan remembered them saying. “They have to do these tests to be sure they weren’t smoking.”
A woman then started talking to Whelan and identified herself as an administrator at the jail.
She told Whelan they couldn’t take her credit card or bank account number because of security reasons.
Instead, they wanted her to go to WalMart, buy $3000 in gift cards, and then call them with the serial numbers.
Wanting to help her grandson, that’s exactly what Whelan tried to do.
But the clerk at WalMart refused to sell her the cards.
“She said, ‘This is a scam,’” Whelan said. “’That’s why we won’t sell it.’”
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said the clerk was right: it was a scam.
Investigators said it’s a scam that’s been around for years.
In fact, on that same Tuesday morning, a woman in Palm City got a very similar call.
That woman wasn’t as lucky as Whelan and wound up being scammed out of $4000.
Whelan said she’s embarrassed she fell for this.
She’s sharing her story so you won’t make the same mistake she did.
“Hang up!” she said when asked if she had any advice. “If they call back, hang up again!”
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Amnesty International, Avaaz, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundations, Human Rights Watch, Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The Soros Network | OSI
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George Soros: Anti -Syria Campaign Impresario
by Vanessa Beeley
“They [the media] are news-as-entertainment professionals – packaging glossy corporate content for maximum distribution and big bucks. The goal is not objective reportage. Their targets are quantifiable and highlighted in a business plan somewhere. Success is based on a simple formula: stay within parameters “understandable” to a wide audience that devours sound bites and familiar storylines on the hour, every hour. Like trained seals whose every desire, instinct and buying pattern has been measured by corporate media’s marketing department for the consumption of its advertisers, the audience demands satisfaction – and western media delivers it.” ~ Sharmine Narwani
THE BBC BAMBOOZLE
The Madaya media circus lumbers on regardless of the multitude of proven anomalies and outright deceit of the mainstream narrative. Deaf to either public opinion or investigation, institutions like the BBC consider they are above accountability to those who pay for their existence, the British public. They consider it perfectly acceptable to release footage from Yarmouk 2014 and represent it as Madaya 2016..and when questioned, to remove the offending footage without explanation or responsibility for their obscurantism and misinformation tactics.
Thankfully, Robert Stuart, ardent campaigner against the BBC’s long running, hostile, anti Syria propaganda offensive did raise an official complaint and demanded answers that the BBC has, for too long, been allowed to avoid answering.
Al Mayadeen, Al Manar, Al Masirah TV channels and many others, representing the voices of the oppressed in the Middle East are being systematically excluded from Saudi funded Satellite channels and Israeli biased social media. Press TV, headquarters in Tehran, had its licence revoked by Ofcom in 2012
RT has come under relentless attack by the BBC since the “Kremlin launched its international media operation”. The BBC lexicon never fails to maintain and celebrate the “cold war” terminology or to keep fear of the Russian “indoctrination” stewing in peoples minds.
“But it [RT] is also coming under increased scrutiny over its lack of editorial balance and accusations that it is deliberately using disinformation to counter and divide the West.” ~ Russia’s Global Media Operation Under the Spotlight
This astounding display of projectionism can only be matched by the Zionist ability to turn their own crimes against Humanity into a neatly packaged accusation that those they are oppressing, the Palestinians, on whose broken bones Israel has built its settlements, are the guilty and that Israel is exempt from judgement for its crimes which are committed in “self defence”.
Is the BBC embellishing the truth in “self-defence” or is it being creative with the truth in defence of our Government’s appalling neo-colonialist foreign policy which is ensuring the fomenting of sectarian divide in the Middle East to facilitate desired “regime change” in Syria & the wholesale slaughter of civilians in Yemen, obliterated by made-in-UK missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
These are just two examples of the BBC collusion in global de-stabilization and reduction of sovereign nations to perpetual conflict or “failed state” status, ripe for economic and pseudo “humanitarian” NGO complex, stealth invasion and occupation and of course the bolstering of the Military Industrial Complex profitability index.
WILL THE BBC BE SOROS-IZED
The following extraordinary statement is taken from a paper produced by the Wilson Center.org. in the section titled “The Role of NGOs in Building Civil Society”
“In some countries, local NGOs also have been funded to mount “people power” campaigns. As in the recent “color revolutions,” these campaigns are aimed at opening up political regimes to opposition parties and ousting leaders who were holding onto power through irregular methods. Viewed more broadly, all these programs supporting NGO activities and capacity-building are seen as ways to foster the progressive emergence of a broad civil society, one that both supplements the state in providing for public needs and makes governments more responsive to their populations.”
The gloves appear to be off. Here, the Wilson Centre is blithely exposing the NGO’s trojan horse policy with regards to its role as outreach agents for Imperialism in any resource rich or strategically important, prey nation.
It explains perfectly the funding of the people power, time for change campaigns that run in synch with any regional or national schisms that are then piggybacked by imported or locally fostered opposition movements to propel the Imperialist friendly movements towards regime change.
Of course there is never any intention from the behind- the- scenes- string- pullers of allowing the much acclaimed people power. The goal is the now familiar power vacuum to be filled by an Imperialist compatible ruling entity that will ensure the completion of Empire’s hostile corporate take over bid.
You may be asking why is this relevant to the BBC truth distortion. As explanation, please consider the inclusion of the BEEB in the Open Democracy website. Then have a look at the Open Democracy impressive list of funders and donors. No surprise for many of you that George Soros, Open Society Foundation is on that list. In fact, the only “philanthropic” mogul missing is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Then, let us consider who holds the purse strings of the majority of the primary propaganda rings and regime change facilitating NGO elements in Syria.
The yellow brick road of Neocon ambitions and imperialist missions- impossible in Syria leads unerringly to the global chaos strategist, George Soros, pedalling furiously behind his NGO Humanitarian shield.
First a reminder from The Wrong Kind of Green’s NGO myth shattering article, Syria, Avaaz, Purpose, the art of selling hate for Empire.
“It should not be considered a coincidence that at the same time, a polished, sophisticated and highly financed “Save Syria” campaign is being created in the board rooms of the Empire’s favourite Harvard boys.
Where, under the organization Avaaz, the public hasn’t acquiesced to an air strike on Syria, the New York public relations firm Purpose Inc. has stepped in.”
[Purpose’s partnership with Soros, Open Society Foundation is highlighted in same article]
SYRIA CAMPAIGN ~ Latest Campaign: Break the Sieges
This campaign has been launched in conjunction with the #OperationMadaya propaganda storm, itself, perfectly timed to coincide with the lawless & characteristically brutal execution of Saudi Arabia’s primary campaigner for Democracy, unity and freedom from the despotic House of Saud rule and subjugation, Sheikh Nimr al Nimr.
In true Manhattan corporate branding style, the Break the Siege high profile publicity campaign hit the streets running, just as public outrage was peaking and the Western media, inspired by Qatari governed Al Jazeera, was rolling out repeat fake photographs. The familiar “Assad is the root of all evil” headlines served very nicely as backdrop for the dramatic, slick, advertising campaign. One might also be forgiven for thinking it had been prepared in advance.
The New York public relations firm Purpose has created at least four anti-Assad NGOs/campaigns: The White Helmets, Free Syrian Voices [3], The Syria Campaign [4] and March Campaign #withSyria. [The Wrong Kind of Green]
Dr Al Jaafari, permanent Syrian representative at the UN reduced such exploitative drama to the succinct truth with little histrionics & a great deal of dignity despite the ongoing media hostility against the Syrian Government. This distinguished calm is now a familiar component of the Syrian, Iranian or Russian rebuff of Western hysteria.
Included under the Syria Campaign heading are Free Syrian Voices, March Campaign#WithSyria & Medics Under Fire all of whom are creations of Purpose.inc.
Yet another polished and unashamedly biased petition from Avaaz with very little relation to the reality on the ground in Madaya. Click here for What the Media is not telling you About Madaya produced by SyriaGirl.
“Avaaz who, hand in hand with the Rockefellers, George Soros, Bill Gates and other powerful elites, are meticulously shaping global society by utilizing and building upon strategic psychological marketing, soft power, technology and social media – shaping public consensus…” ~ Cory Morningstar.
RAMI JARRAH ~ ANA PRESS
Ah now here we have a really fascinating can of worms, one that will be investigated in far greater depth in the follow up article with a few shock supporting actors..watch this space.
However, for now, a very brief overview of Mr Rami Jarrah. Previously known as Alexander Page in his heady BBC, CNN days as Avaaz sponsored “citizen journalist”, foreign correspondent smuggler and all round fixer on the regime change battle front in Syria. He and Danny Abdul Dayem, that well known CNN bombs and rockets studio actor were co-conspirators on the Avaaz Democracy band wagon.
Of course ANA Press makes all the usual laudable claims.
“We are an independent organization that will not stand for any political affiliation, as this would affect our neutralism and honesty. We have not and will not accept funding from any political groups.” ~ Rami Jarrah
Interestingly when we take a peep behind that integrity curtain we find all these claims of neutrality are compromised by the Government agency and Corporatocratic investment into these multiple crowd funding and influencing neocon proxies.
With very little effort we can trace ANA Press to HIVOS and SIDA and of course to SOROS.
SIDA: Development Aid agency affiliated to the Swedish Government, the EU, the UN & the World Bank. George Soros figures most prominently in yet another vehicle for change programme in their portfolio “Making all Voices Count“.
Making All Voices Count’s unique Research, Evidence and Learning component is working to better understand what works – and what doesn’t – in projects using technology to promote transparent, accountable governance.
The fund is financed jointly by Sida, USAID, DFID, the Open Society Foundation and Omidyar Network.
“Hivos has worked with the Open Society Foundations (OSF), an initiative of philanthropist George Soros, since 2005. The OSF work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. That mission is a perfect fit with Hivos’s policies.”
“Jarrah’s mission – to ensure that the voices of Syrians are heard around the world – embodies not only the spirit of CJFE’s International Press Freedom Award, but also that of the Alternative & Independent Media area of Hivos’ Expression & Engagement programme”
Vibrant and tolerant democracies….
Moving on..or should that be Move On?
“Avaaz was created in part by MoveOn, a Democratic Party associated Political Action Committee (or PAC), formed in response to the impeachment of President Clinton. Avaaz and MoveOn are funded in part by convicted inside-trader and billionaire hedge fund mogul, George Soros.” ~ SYRIA: Avaaz, Purpose & the art of selling hate for Empire.
WISSAM TARIF ~ AVAAZ CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Wissam Tarif was another one of the original poster boys for the regime change marketing campaign in Syria, launched almost exclusively by public opinion changers, Avaaz in 2011 with a little help from their friends in CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera. Again this will be explored in greater detail in a subsequent article.
This is one of Tarif’s early democratization of Syria pitches to the Oxford Research Group in 2011.
Wissam Tarif has since been promoted to senior campaign manager for Avaaz & remains a persistent advocate of global Open Democracy and the NATO US GCC, Israeli, democratization of Syria.
“WT ~ “Unless the people of Madaya and other besieged towns in Syria get freedom as well as food, children will continue to starve to death. The United Nations has already brokered agreements for these sieges to be lifted, and now Ban Ki Moon must urgently ensure they are implemented to save thousands of lives and build confidence ahead of Syria peace talks later this month.” ~ Operation Madaya, Avaaz calling.
Wissam Tarif, in the early days of the war on Syria, was a member of the Avaaz fifth column, with Rami Jarrah/Alexander Page and Danny Abdul Dayem among thousands more, financed by over $ 1.2 million public money raised by the Avaaz petitions.
In 2011 Tarif was described euphemistically as an Avaaz campaign manager but he was also associated with a Spanish based NGO called INSAN, meaning human, in Arabic.
Curiously, when I delved into his connections I had difficulty locating INSAN which was rumoured to be based in Spain yet no such NGO came up with a Spanish address. Eventually scanning Wassim’s contact page, I noticed his email address was directed to Insan International. wissamtarif@insanintl.com. The website was listed as Insanassociation.org.
At the time of my initial investigation, INSAN had listed its partners on its website. Luckily I took a screenshot because when I went back to the website tonight to get the link, the partner link had been altered to patner and threw up an error 404 message.
Also, coincidentally, INSAN now has a brand new web page InsanIntl.com that even more coincidentally no longer displays information on its funding partners.
However, George Soros and the Open Society Foundation are obviously in the frame once more.
THE WHITE HELMETS
The White Helmets have perhaps the most diverse array of backers and donors. The Majority of which have been covered in previous in- depth investigations, but naturally still following the yellow brick road back to Soros.
For a full analysis of the White Helmet’s funding ~ Syria’s White Helmets: War by Way of Deception Part 1 & 2
Impartial and neutral saviours of ALL Syrian people regardless of their allegiances..displaying banners calling for the burning and destruction of Kafarya and Foua, two Idlib Shia villages under partial siege from Ahrar al Sham and Jabhat Al Nusra since 2011, full siege since March 2015. An “unbiased” display of naked Wahhabi sectarianism by the Humanitarian heroes, idolised by Western governments, Media and audiences worldwide.
For further insight into the terrifying Ahrar al Sham and Al Nusra siege of Kafarya and Foua, please read Eva Bartlett’s series in Counterpunch: Untold Suffering in Kafarya & Foua.
SNHR
“The SN4HR website has no information on who funds the group, and its website ownership information is hidden from public view but shows that it is hosted in the US. The organisation identifies itself as an outgrowth of “the revolution in Syria” (clearly a partisan organization, see at the very bottom of their home page) claims to be ‘a trusted source’ that supplies information about the Syria Conflict to all leading human rights organisations, charities and government departments including the UN, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and even the US State Department. “The network’s database and archives are considered as a reliable source and reference for international and local media outlets, and international organizations and agencies working in the field of human rights.”
Taken from: Madaya: West Engineer another Humanitarian Media Hoax in Syria. by 21st Century Wire.
..and in the same article we follow the route markers once more back to Soros..”there is no place like home”
“Soros-financed Human Rights Watch has played a major role in falsely portraying ISIS and Al Qaeda civilian bombings and other atrocities as the work of the Assad regime, building support for military action from the US and EU.” ~ William Engdahl Syria Plays Both Ends in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Well hello Mr Soros.
“Dr. Denis Mukwege and George Soros devote their lives to working on behalf of others and readily tackling the most difficult issues – advocating for the women of the Congo and improving the lives and advancing the human rights of oppressed people around the world,” said Donna McKay, PHR’s executive director. “Their tireless efforts and leadership inspire human rights defenders worldwide and build vital resistance to human rights violators.”
Soros, whose philanthropic leadership and dedication to the cause of human rights was honored with the 2015 Physicians for Human Rights Lifetime Achievement Award, has been a PHR supporter since its inception in 1985. “George Soros grasped, early on, that doctors play a vital role in preserving human dignity, a core human rights principle,” said McKay. “His faith in our cause paved the way for other supporters and helped to ensure that health professionals have the opportunity to use their skills as a means towards justice.” ~ PHR Press Release
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES & MEDECINS DU MONDE [DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS & DOCTORS OF THE WORLD]
MSF have made concerted efforts to distance themselves from their Interventionist advocate, Co-Founder, Bernard Kouchner, to little avail, as Kouchner was still invited to comment on the US bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan in 2015.
Once more the sole purpose of this article is to show how the NGOs having greatest impact on the ground in Syria, & in our media, are connected to George Soros [among a myriad of undeniably biased and very partial-to-a-slice-of -Syria western governmental agencies.]
The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with a membership of over 2,500 organizations worldwide advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court
The CICC is a project of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) and has secretariats in New York City, near the United Nations (UN), and in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Taken from Wikipedia
The CICC steering committee includes Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
The World Federalist Movement is funded in part by George Soros.
Medecins sans Frontieres and Medecins du Monde are both listed as members of the CICC, certainly in France.
Another form of partnership is also of enormous importance to the Soros foundations: the relationships with grantees that over the years have developed into alliances in pursuing crucial parts of the open society agenda. These partners include, but are not limited to the following:
Médecins Sans Frontières, AIDS Foundation East-West, Doctors of the World, and Partners in Health for their efforts in addressing crucial public health emergencies that are often connected to abuses of human rights
Taken from an Open Society Foundation list of Partners.
“Another Soros-financed NGO active demonizing the Assad government as cause of all atrocities in Syria and helping build public support for a war in Syria from the US and EU is Amnesty International. Suzanne Nossel, until 2013 the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, came to the job from the US State Department where she was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, not exactly an unbiased agency in regard to Syria”
William Engdahl for New Eastern Outlook
SYRIA: THE BILLIONAIRES REVOLUTION
Infographic created by Professor Tim Anderson whose book The Dirty War on Syria is now on sale in E Book format at Global Research.
IS THE BBC ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD?
OurBeeb. Has the BBC gone into partnership with Soros’ Open Democracy.net?
Certainly when we view the webpage, its hard not to assume there is at least some degree of mutual back scratching going on.
“Funded by 95% of British homes via the licence fee, the BBC belongs to the people, not the government. OurBeeb is independent, non-partisan, and aims to ensure that the discussion about the future of British Broadcasting Corporation is in the hands of the British people.” ~ OurBeeb
Did the British people have a say in the choice of Mr Soros as mentor and campaign manager for their publicly owned media broadcasting flagship whose power to alter public perception is legendary.
How to ensure that the BBC itself is felt to be ‘ours’ by the public who fund it and whose many voices it claims to represent? At a time of cuts in public revenues and rapid technological change, the role of the BBC as overwhelmingly the main source of news towers over traditional party politics. It is time to reshape the debate on the future of the UK’s most important cultural institution.
Then let us consider one of the fall outs from Operation Madaya. The Open Democracy headline reads..
How is Citizen Journalism transforming the BBC’s Newsroom practices?
“User-generated content offers new ways of covering ‘black hole’ stories such as the Syrian conflict. But how do journalists make sense of what is happening on the ground?”
How indeed? There then follows a series of apologies for why the BBC journalists such as Lyse Doucet are not always able to be on the ground in Syria. Various spurious arguments are brought into play. The death of Marie Colvin Sunday Times correspondent in Homs 2012. No mention that Colvin was smuggled in without permission from the Syrian Government by, among others, Rami Jarrah. The beheading of suspected fifth columnist James Foley. Not to mention, the danger of “foreign airstrikes” & Islamic State.
And why, might you ask, can the BBC not find the voices in Syria that decry foreign intervention or support their elected Government? Strangely, they are “unwilling to speak”. Nothing to do with the fact that the BBC are known as anti Syrian propagandists by those people who would not trust them to report the truth as told from the Syrian people’s perspective.
Sharmine Narwani fiercely challenged the Western Media neutral observer status in her article: Western Journalist: Visa Denied
Because, right now, I honestly cannot think of a group of people less capable of verifying things in Syria than western journalists. And it is not because they aren’t physically there or can’t string together more than two words in Arabic. It is largely because they feast at the trough of their own governments’ narratives on All Things. Western journalists are heady with a sense of righteousness leached from the oxymoronic “western values” shoved down our collective throats. Those same western values that demand “accountability” and “transparency” from all nations – while offering cover for western governments to hack their way through Muslim and Arab bodies in endless “national security” wars.
In hindsight, would we be deemed conspiracy theorists to consider that perhaps all these events have adroitly navigated us to this point of utter news blackout but for that which serves our government’s globalist objectives?
Are we seeing the placing of the cherry on the regime change cake? Soros has apparently officialised the co-opting of the BBC into the Soros owned and orchestrated Syria propaganda ring and is funnelling their news source outreach operation into his perfectly constructed network of lies and multi headed anti Assad narrative generators.
The yellow brick road leads to Soros and the BBC is off to see the Wizard. If only they were on a quest for heart, courage and brains.
[Author Vanessa Beeley is a contributor to 21WIRE, and since 2011, she has spent most of her time in the Middle East reporting on events there – as a independent researcher, writer, photographer and peace activist. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Syria Solidarity Movement, and a volunteer with the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. See more of her work at her blog The Wall Will Fall.]
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Underwater search teams, drones and helicopters used as search for Colin Vasey nears two week mark
Police are still searching for missing Colin Vasey.
Rebecca Marano
Underwater search teams, drones and helicopters have been used as the search for Colin Vasey nears the two week mark.
The 81-year-old from Dewsbury was last seen on CCTV on Sunday, November 17,
He was seen on CCTV at 5,01am that day walking at a brisk pace in the Owl Road area of Dewsbury.
He was seen again at 5.53am walking on Leeds Road towards the ring road, and at 6.01am near Dewsbury Minster.
There have been no further CCTV or confirmed sightings of Colin.
Kirklees Police have conducted searches around and underwater searches of the River Calder in Dewsbury over the past week.
Specialist search officers, police patrols, drones and helicopters have all been used in the investigation.
Colin is thought to have been wearing a blue fleece, dressing gown, grey pyjama bottoms and a dark coloured beanie hat.
Detective Chief Inspector Fiona Gaffney of Kirklees Police, who is leading the enquiry, said: “We remain acutely aware of the pain Colin’s disappearance is causing for his family.
They desperately want some news and have done huge amounts of work themselves to raise awareness of this missing person’s enquiry and appeal.
“We are continuing to commit significant resources to the search for Colin to bring him home to them, and those efforts will remain ongoing over the coming days.
“I want to thank everyone who has got in touch so far to try and help us find Colin.
“The public response to this investigation has been enormous and really underlines his popularity locally, and the sympathy his disappearance has generated.”
Mother and partner appear in court charged with murder of two-year-old Keigan O'Brien in Doncaster
Anyone who has information which could the missing persons’ enquiry is asked to call police on 999 quoting log 1104 of Sunday 17 November.
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Sleeping Dogs: Limited Edition
Sleeping Dogs: Limited Edition Customer Reviews
Excellent Game.
Great game.
03/11/12 by Zayaan
I bought Sleeping Dogs as a gift so cannot comment on the game itself but I am told that it is very good. This game was by far cheaper on zavvi than any other website and arrived very promptly.
28/10/12 by Amy
GTA in HK? Much more!
This game is really great. The gameplay reminds me of the GTA series, of course, but I can say it's better in many many ways. The city is alive and colourful, the missions are nice and never boring and the story is nice. Also the fighting mechanics are good, both with weapons and bare hands. Great great job.
22/10/12 by Dave
Great game , story is like watching Hong Kong action movie classics , great characters and voice actors. - only thing this game lacks is more different side missions and better graphics.
18/10/12 by Noordung
Sleeping Dogs: Limited Edition is an awesome game which enables you to act on the hand as a gangster, and on the other as an undercover cop. Totally recommend.
11/10/12 by Schippo
Sleeping Dogs: Limited Edition is an awesome game. It's different in that it is set in Hong Kong and based around Asian Triads. There is lots of action, but the only downside is that the game is a bit short.
11/10/12 by Mushroom
This is hands down one of the best video games this year. It's an open-world game like GTA IV, Saints Row The Third, but with a twist. It focuses mainly on hand-to-hand combat. This is what makes it unique and definitely worth picking up. The Limited Edition gives you a bonus police mission, some new clothes, and combat moves. So, if you're a fan of GTA games and Bruce Lee (or Jackie Chan) movies, this is a must buy!
09/10/12 by Bojangles
Couldn't be better. Love it so much!
08/10/12 by northstar_-16
Great game best gta like game at the time !
03/10/12 by thomas
Good surprise !
This Sleeping Dogs: Limited Edition game is really good. It's a good surprise for me, really fun, good street race and good fighting... all good!
26/09/12 by RED
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Quantum storage breakthrough key to 'unbreakable' encryption
A new quantum hard drive jointly developed by researchers in Australia and New Zealand could lead the way to an 'unbreakable' worldwide data encryption network.
By Leon Spencer | January 12, 2015 -- 00:28 GMT (16:28 PST) | Topic: Security
Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) believe that the development of a quantum hard drive that can store data for up to six hours is a major step towards a secure worldwide data encryption network based on quantum entanglement.
Scientists from ANU and New Zealand's University of Otago have jointly developed an optical quantum hard drive constructed of atoms of rare earth element europium embedded in a crystal.
ANU's lead author from the Research School of Physics and Engineering Manjin Zhong (Image: ANU)
The solid-state drive employs quantum entanglement -- in which pairs of particles exist in linked states -- to store data.
Quantum entanglement has long been held up as a holy grail for the development of super-fast computers that rely on qubits rather than traditional binary data, but the entangled state of particles used to store data has traditionally been difficult to maintain for any usable length of time.
"Quantum states are very fragile and normally collapse in milliseconds," said the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering's Manjin Zhong, who is also the lead author of an article on the research published by science journal Nature.
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The research conducted by the team of researchers in Australia and New Zealand demonstrated six-hour quantum storage using the prototype optical drive.
Zhong said that the quantum storage breakthrough demonstrated by the team could not only provide new data storage opportunities, but could also be used to "perfectly secure encryption for data transmission".
"Our long storage times have the potential to revolutionise the transmission of quantum information," she said. "Our experiment shows that it is now possible to think of extending the range of quantum communication by storing entangled light in separate memories and then transporting them to different parts of the network.
"We believe it will soon be possible to distribute quantum information between any two points on the globe," she said.
According to the researchers, quantum information promises "unbreakable" encryption, because quantum particles, such as photons of light, can be created in a way that intrinsically links them.
Interactions with either of these entangled particles affect the other, no matter how far they are separated.
Now, Dr Jevon Longdell of the Dodd Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies at the University of Otago wants to push the quantum storage time even further.
"Our goal is to extend this storage time out past a day. Once we reach this target, we believe it will be possible to physically distribute entangled quantum states between any two points on the globe," said Longdell.
Current quantum communication networks are limited to distances of about 100 kilometres, according to Longdell.
"You can distribute the entangled pairs of quantum states literally in a box sent via the post," he said. "Then use these entangled pairs to come up with a shared secret key, and then use this secret key to do the communication.
"By comparing the results with your friend, you can come up with a secret that only you two share. The neat thing is that we have discovered you can do this comparison without a secure channel," he said.
The team's research comes five months after Google announced it would launch a new research project in partnership with the University of California Santa Barbara to build quantum processors designed for artificial intelligence applications.
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Flower Geeking in the Teanaway
It's that time of year, late spring, when flowers are busting out everywhere around the city, but also in the Central Cascades where the snow melts sooner. There's no better way to see these beauties than to hike in the Teanaway, north of Cle Elum, with a group of Mountaineer flower geeks. The trail was 6 miles round trip with 1,200' of gain, but we were taking it easy and making lots of gawking stops and photo opps.
Balsamroot and Lichen
The Demon Butterfly - no, but that's what it looks like up close
Mt Stuart and me
There were species like Trillium and Arrowleaf Balsamroot that were on their way out, but also making an appearance was Scarlet Gilia blooming early. Further up on the ridge was a great view of Mt Stuart and I couldn't help but position myself in front of the range. And Bitterroot (Native Americans must have eaten a lot of these roots and named them aptly, though I didn't do any nibbling), the close-to-the-ground showstopper that is often so hard to find. We were in a veritable field of them, relatively speaking, and had to be careful not to trod on one. They were glowing in the midday sun.
We all made the summit and had views out to the Enchantments, the Stuart Range, Mt Rainier and a lot of local peaks that, between us, we had all collectively summitted.
Labels: flowers, hikes
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Competition & Markets Authority
LN-Gaiety’s takeover of MCD raises competition concerns
LN-Gaiety’s (Live Nation) proposed takeover of MCD raises competition concerns in the music promotion industry in Northern Ireland, a CMA investigation has found.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been investigating the proposed takeover by LN-Gaiety Holdings Limited - a joint venture between Live Nation Entertainment Inc (Live Nation) and Gaiety Investments - of MCD Productions Unlimited Company (MCD).
Both companies run music festivals, whilst MCD also promotes live music events. Live Nation manages artists, operates venues and provides ticketing services through Ticketmaster - which it owns.
Following its initial Phase 1 investigation, the CMA is concerned that the deal could result in less competition in the music promotion industry in Northern Ireland.
There are only a few rival music promoters in the region and they mainly rely on Ticketmaster to sell tickets to their events. As Live Nation already owns Ticketmaster, the CMA is concerned that if it were to acquire MCD, it may be able to stop rival promoters selling tickets through that platform post-merger. This could result in less competition in promotion services to artists, leading to higher prices for concert goers, as well as a smaller variety of live music events to choose from.
The CMA has also considered other aspects of the companies’ businesses, such as music festivals and access to music venues, but does not have competition concerns in these areas.
If the merging businesses are unable to address the CMA’s concerns, the deal will be referred for an in-depth Phase 2 investigation to be carried out by a group of independent CMA panel members.
For more information, visit the LN-Gaiety Holdings / MCD Productionsmerger inquiry page.
Channel website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/competition-and-markets-authority
Original article link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ln-gaietys-takeover-of-mcd-raises-competition-concerns
Facebook and eBay pledge to combat trading in fake reviews
Following action from the CMA, Facebook and eBay have committed to combatting the trade of fake and misleading reviews on their sites.
Illumina/PacBio abandon merger
Illumina has abandoned its anticipated $1.2 billion takeover of PacBio after an in-depth CMA merger probe highlighted serious competition concerns.
LN-Gaiety’s purchase of MCD cleared by CMA
An in-depth CMA investigation has found that Live Nation-Gaiety’s proposed purchase of MCD does not raise competition concerns.
CMA lifts the lid on digital giants
The CMA has published an update in its examination of online platforms and digital advertising, uncovering new detail about how the sector’s biggest names operate.
Estate agents fined over half a million pounds for price fixing
3 Berkshire estate agents have been fined more than £600,000 for illegally fixing the minimum commission rates they charged their customers.
Pharmaceutical merger cleared by CMA
The CMA has cleared the anticipated purchase of gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics by pharmaceutical company Roche Holdings.
Amazon’s Deliveroo investment raises competition concerns
Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo raises serious competition concerns for UK customers that may require an in-depth investigation by the CMA.
CMA Statement on design, construction and fit-out services director disqualification
Individual directors should be held accountable if their company breaks competition law.
Pub merger to be cleared if local concerns overcome
Stonegate Pub Company’s proposed purchase of Ei Group does not raise UK-wide competition concerns but could damage competition in 51 local areas.
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A couple says they were mock raped at a haunted house in Ohio without permission or a waiver
Posted: 11:03 PM, Oct 14, 2018
By: Amanda VanAllen
AKRON, Ohio — One couple is accusing a haunted house in Akron, Ohio of subjecting patrons to a mock rape scene without asking their permission or having them sign a waiver.
"There was a man in a mask standing over my boyfriend, my boyfriend was on the edge and he was being pushed down," said Sarah Lelonek.
"She comes over and yells, 'Stop, what are you doing? That's my boyfriend,' " said Lelonek's boyfriend Ryan Carr. "'Not anymore, he's mine now I'm going to rape him' and then he started thrusting against me."
The couple says this all went down at the Akron Fright Fest, which is housed on the Kim Tam Park property. They say this is not the special haunted house where you had to sign a waiver to enter, although they do offer a haunted house like that on the property.
Lelonek and Carr aren't the only ones complaining about this rape scenario.
One Facebook user wrote "It was 100 percent a rape scene," and someone else said, "They did have a mock rape scene in one of the houses."
A different viewer sent WEWS television station reporters a private Facebook message and wrote, "They grabbed my ankles and shins and pulled my legs apart and was thrusting while telling me to scream papa."
WEWS reached out to the haunted house manager over Facebook, but he did not respond to the message. The owner of the property said he would have the manager contact us. That same manager who did not respond wrote online "the issue has been resolved."
"In all the years I've been going to haunted houses, I have never seen anything like that, ever," said Lelonek.
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Deputies: Speeding car had drugs, gun inside
Driver cited for speeding, passengers face drug charges
Updated: 12:13 PM EDT Mar 22, 2015
Rutherford County deputies said a traffic stop for speeding led to drug and assault charges the passengers.Investigators said deputies spotted a vehicle traveling at nearly 90 mph in a 70 mph zone.Deputies charged Avery Shea Smith (pictured to the right) with speeding.According to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, deputies ended up charging Andrew Robert Holloway, 24, with drug possession, assaulting a government official and injury to personal property,Holloway was booked into the Rutherford County Detention Facility and received a secured bond of $130,000. Another female passenger in the vehicle, Joanna Marie Cain, received a citation for an open container. A firearm was located in the vehicle and seized, deputies said.This case is still under investigation, and more charges are possible.
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N.C. —
Rutherford County deputies said a traffic stop for speeding led to drug and assault charges the passengers.
Investigators said deputies spotted a vehicle traveling at nearly 90 mph in a 70 mph zone.
Deputies charged Avery Shea Smith (pictured to the right) with speeding.
According to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, deputies ended up charging Andrew Robert Holloway, 24, with drug possession, assaulting a government official and injury to personal property,
Holloway was booked into the Rutherford County Detention Facility and received a secured bond of $130,000.
Another female passenger in the vehicle, Joanna Marie Cain, received a citation for an open container.
A firearm was located in the vehicle and seized, deputies said.
This case is still under investigation, and more charges are possible.
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Barrasso widens money lead with out-of-state backing
U.S. Sen. John Barrasso chairs a meeting of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Barrasso has introduced a bill to give states more power under the Endangered Species Act and another to increase the amount of water that could be drained from Fontenelle Reservoir. (CSPAN)
August 7, 2018 by Angus M. Thuermer Jr. 7 Comments
U.S. Sen. John Barrasso raised $2.7 million for his reelection campaign in the last three quarters, only 5.5 percent of which appears to come from Wyoming-based donors.
Wyoming individuals and political action committees donated $152,270 to Barrasso in the last quarter of 2017 and the first half of 2018, according to WyoFile calculations from FEC filings. Filings are current through June 30.
The 5.5 percent of Wyoming-based contributions marks an uptick in the portion of contributions from his home state compared to the beginning of the 2017-2018 election cycle. During the first three quarters of 2017, Barrasso appears to have raised only 2.2 percent of $2.9 million.
Barrasso’s fundraising from October 2017 through June 2018 outpaces his nearest opponent, Dave Dodson, by more than $1.6 million.
Barrasso raised $2,755,796 million during that period, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Dodson, a Teton County resident, raised $1,116,134 since launching his campaign in 2018.
Four other challengers in the Republican primary — John Holtz, Anthony L. Van Risseghem, Charlie Hardy and Roque ”Rocky” De La Fuente — do not appear in FEC reports for this election cycle, indicating they did not report any direct contributions before June 30.
Democrat Gary Trauner of Wilson is the sole candidate for the nomination of his party. He will meet the winner of the Republican primary in the general election race. He raised $578,405 between December, 2017 and June 30, 2018.
Barrasso had 382 contributions in the last three quarters from donors who listed Wyoming as their home, according to calculations from the FEC filings. Dodson’s six contributors ponied up $282,621 this year, including one $250 contribution from Wyoming.
The candidate donated $56,183 of his own money and loaned his campaign $800,000, FEC filings show. Dodson said first he would run as an independent, then decided to file as a Republican and challenge Barrasso in the GOP primary.
A tight race?
Last year Barrasso’s chief of staff Dan Kunsman said the senator had not begun focusing fundraising in Wyoming. “We expect to add significantly in 2018 to the more than 1,000 individual Wyoming donors since the last election,” he wrote WyoFile at the time. WyoFile did not receive a response to recent requests to Barrasso’s campaign for comment.
But Dodson said he believes the race is competitive. “We’ve done our own polling that confirm[s] this is a real race,” he wrote in an email. He said that internal polling followed an online Casper Star Tribune poll that put him ahead of the incumbent.
Dave Dodson has crisscrossed Wyoming in his bid to unseat U.S. Sen. John Barrasso in the GOP primary election. A farm boy who went to Stanford with a wad of Red Man tobacco in his cheek, he now lectures for its business school. (Dodson campaign)
Dodson sees other indicators of a close race, including a Barrasso fundraising letter, a Twitter endorsement of Barrasso by President Trump, and radio ads attacking Dodson, the challenger said.
“He’s realized voters are tired of seeing him having his picture taken with Mitch McConnell,” Dodson said.
In the undated fundraising letter headlined “John Barrasso, US Senate,” the incumbent writes “I’m in the thick of a tough race. In a Republican-red state like Wyoming, where Donald Trump crushed Hillary Clinton by a 3:1 margin, you may find that statement surprising … but it’s true.” WyoFile was unable to confirm that the Senator’s campaign “Friends of John Barrasso” sent the letter (see document below).
A Barrasso donor discounted the letter’s language nevertheless. “Even if he’s ahead by 50 points, that’s not an unusual thing to do,” said Rob Wallace, a Beltway veteran who was, among other things, chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop. Candidates do not want their supporters to become complacent or take a race for granted, Wallace said.
Dodson interpreted Trump’s endorsement as a grasp at straws. It shows the race “slipping through [Barrasso’s] fingers and asking a favor from the White House,” Dodson said. The challenger said he would look forward to working with the president, if elected, “so he can have some legislation to sign.”
Radio attack ads that name him personally are another indication Dodson is in the running, he said. An incumbent wouldn’t mention an opponent’s name unless a contest was close, Dodson said.
“As a result of what we’ve seen in our internal polling and the actions of John Barrasso we’re stepping on the gas because we know this is a winnable race,” Dodson said.
Conservative track record
Barrasso has campaigned as a conservative and on the benefits of GOP tax cuts, according to a profile he completed for the Casper Star Tribune. He touted the GOP administration’s reduction of “excessive Obama-era rules and regulations that targeted Wyoming jobs,” and the repeal of parts of the Affordable Care Act. “I helped lead efforts to repeal the individual mandate tax so that you aren’t forced to buy insurance you don’t want or can’t afford,” he wrote.
When he was appointed by Gov. Dave Freudenthal to fill the unexpired term of the late U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas, Barrasso shepherded two conservation bills launched by Thomas. The Wyoming Range Legacy Act put large amounts of the Wyoming Range off limits to oil and gas leasing. The Snake River Headwaters Legacy Act protected 387 miles of the Snake River and its tributaries in Wyoming from dam building and degradation.
U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, is frequently seen at the side of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at press briefings on Capitol Hill. (CSPAN)
Protecting the environment is not part of the conservative main course, however. After completing Thomas’s unfinished business, Barrasso turned right and has since earned the chairmanship of the GOP policy committee. His proximity to the center of influence is apparent in his frequent photograph and video appearances standing next to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as McConnell makes comments to the media.
But to Dodson, the incumbent is “among the least productive senators in America.” Barrasso has passed one bill he sponsored — to establish a federal courthouse in Jackson — Dodson said. Teton County has since purchased the building from the federal government.
Barrasso has legislation pending. One bill would revamp the Endangered Species Act. Another would allow Wyoming to drain more water out of Fontenelle Reservoir. He’s a co-sponsor of other legislation, too.
Dodson said 114 pieces of proposed Barrasso legislation have gone nowhere. In addition to Barrasso’s successful courthouse bill, two bills he co-sponsored to mint commemorative coins also became law, Dodson said. “After a decade of service, $2 million in salary, we have two commemorative coins and a courthouse in Wyoming,” Dodson said. “I think we deserve more.”
Meantime the Center for Responsive Politics lists Barrasso as the 14th wealthiest U.S. senator with an estimated net worth of $7.9 million.
Barrasso has spent $1.7 million on his campaign since the beginning of 2017, FEC data says. Friends of John Barrasso raised $4.9 million during that same period.
Dodson has spent $939,857 in operating expenses, FEC filings show.
A Stanford graduate and lecturer in management at the institution’s school of business, Dodson calls himself a “serial entrepreneur,” who has raised money for, bought and managed companies in diverse fields including alarm systems, auto parts and environmental services. He is a founding partner at Futaleufu Partners that runs Project Healthy Children in Honduras.
The son of a school teacher and sugar beet businessman, his youth was “an insulated life in a farming community” near Laporte Colorado, about 35 miles southwest of Cheyenne, Dodson said.
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“I’m not beholden to anybody,” Dodson said about his largely self-financed effort. He is running because of “love for my state, concern for my country.”
Barrasso’s years working as a medical doctor, a state legislator and volunteer prepared him to serve in Washington, he wrote in his Casper Star Tribune profile. “These experiences and jobs prepared me to contribute conservative ideas to the broad set of issues and challenges we face,” he wrote. “They taught me the important lessons of hard work and community that lead to solutions closest to the people. These jobs taught me to listen first.”
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About Angus M. Thuermer Jr.
Angus M. Thuermer Jr. is the natural resources reporter for WyoFile. He is a veteran Wyoming reporter and editor with more than 35 years experience in Wyoming. Contact him at [email protected] or (307) 690-5586. Follow Angus on Twitter at @AngusThuermer
Loren Nelson says
It is clear that Barrasso is bought and paid for by big energy, big pharma, and to a small degree by the NRA. His loyalty is to his donors and not the people of Wyoming. This doesn’t make him much different from many other career politicians from other states. What makes him different is that this is WYOMING and we expect our elected representatives to represent us and not special interests. Barrasso is doing his best to insure that Wyoming has the worst healthcare in America. Children’s healthcare in Wyoming is already some of the worst in the nation.
Time for new blood in Washington – someone who helps us and not special interests.
Thom Stines says
It doesn’t matter whom is “elected” and goes to D.C. Politics is wholly corrupted, even the “swamp-draining” Trump is surrounded by the ultra-corrupt.
The system will quickly change the individual, or swiftly force them out.
Governments, from national to state to local to municipalities, control way too much money, and way too much power. As such, every shyster is crawling out of the woodworks, looking to control that vast sum of money and power.
Groups are fighting each other for a “piece of the action”, much like Mobs do.
Cronyism has won out.
Democrat or Republican or Progressive or whatever, the ultra-wealthy continue to gain ever more wealth, the ultra-powerful continue to gain ever more power.
Meanwhile, the rest of us, the average citizens, continue to lose pace to highly-underreported inflation, as we continue to lose ever more freedoms, liberties, rights, and justice.
No matter the particular “brand” of politics, or party, or economics, the same corrupt people end up fighting to control it.
Weak minds need strong leaders.
The “Myth of the Good King” is alive and well……even after all these centuries.
City: Northfield
State of Residence: Vermont
Bruce Burns says
Barrasso has 382 Wyoming donors, Dodson has 6. Why is the headline about Barrasso’s out of state donations? The headline should be Barrasso has 63 times more Wyoming donors than Dodson. The author of the article should list himself as a contributor to the Dodson campaign.
City: Sheridan
Dewey Vanderhoff says
As the political sage Mark Twain so deftly pointed out, there are “Lies, darn lies, and statistics… ”
If the best Barrasso can do is rake it in from only 382 bona fide Wyoming donors, that is still an embarrassingly small number in in the least populated state in the Union… one donor per 1600 residents; one per 1300 voting age resident; one donor per 800 Wyoming registered voter . Or another darn statistic…there are 265,000 people currently registered to vote in Wyoming on August 1st this year, and 177,000 of them are Republican on paper , which says Barrasso can only count on one out of every 465 to donate to his campaign. Even after all his free bedside medical PSA’s on KTWO – TV and 25 years in Wyoming politics, the telegenic Barrasso should be rolling donors. Instead he chooses to go with PACs and out of state entities for the largesse.
Only one in 465 registered Republicans in Wyoming made a personal donation to Senator Barrasso’s campaign this cycle . Does that restore the true sense of scale and political perspective for you , Bruce ?
No doubt there seems to be a bias here.
Truth is, people are tired of the same ol’, same ol’ in politics, and desperate for change, any change.
But change alone isn’t the solution.
Washington is completely messed up, our “Representatives” often completely out of touch with Constituents.
The country is quite angry, bitter, and getting angrier, often misplacing the blame for that anger.
People are looking for “warriors” to fix that messed up system, unaware of how disastrous our system has become.
Those “warriors” however, become mere corporate puppets.
Have you ever read the following:
National Security and Double Government by Michael J Glennon
A Republic No More by Jay Cost
Both are good reads.
Both, in their own ways, outline the truth of how special interests have hijacked politics and government.
From Politicians to Bureaucrats, big money is buying legislation (and Executive Orders), most often in complete disregard of the rest of “the People”, the average citizens of the U.S.
Are you a numbers man, Sen. Burns?
Have you ever thoroughly examined the BLS stats, in detail? Ignoring the highly manipulated propaganda?
Look at the numbers. 95.598 MILLION Americans are still out of work, yet we’re being told the economy is “booming”. Yeah, booming for a few, while the rest struggle.
Consider that truly staggering number – 95.598 MILLION.
• There are approx 326 million people in the U.S.
• Less 15-under and 65-older leaves us with approx 212 million people of working age.
• Of those 212 million (not taking into account full-time parents, disabled, etc), 95.598 MILLION ARE STILL UNEMPLOYED.
Yet we’re told things are “great”, “best economy ever”. Billionaire presidents, surrounded by millionaire Congress people, getting richer quickly, telling the rest of us how great things are.
And people wonder why this nation is so angry?
Herr Trump is bragging about how his tax cuts have made billionaires, like the Kochs, even richer.
Herr Trump brags about the “largest tax cut ever”, but then passes one of the largest tax increases in history (his tariffs, which are just veiled taxes).
John Barrasso has more than an estimated net worth of $7,947,007 (2016). That makes him the 14th wealthiest person in the U.S. Senate.
His wealth climbed tremendously since 2014 (from $5 million to almost $8 million), in just two years.
Wonder how much richer he is now?
He has over $3 million invested in Vanguard, one of the “Big Three” money management firms, which is one of the largest institutional shareholders of the largest “competing” corporations in most every single industry.
Vanguard, along with BlackRock and State Street own corporate America.
In the S&P 500 – the benchmark index of America’s largest corporations – the situation is even more extreme. Together, these Big Three are the largest single shareholder in almost 90% of S&P 500 firms, including Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Coca-Cola.
These firms are profiting more than anyone else from special interest legislation and Executive Orders.
They are among the largest shareholders of the largest “competing” hospitals, the largest “competing” insurance companies, the largest “competing” pharmaceutical companies (profiting off Obamacare), the largest private prison companies (such as Geo Group and CoreCivic, profiting off the immigration mess). The largest “competing” tech firms (whom are selling every details of our private lives and activities to the government, and their big-business allies). The list goes on and on.
Our government and political systems have become wholly corrupt.
This is why people are so desperate for change.
By his own admission, then, Barrasso’s big contributions have been to reduce access to medical insurance for Wyoming families, to support a totally unnecessary tax cut for the wealthy that resulted in a huge increase in the national debt, and to sacrifice protections of Wyoming’s water, air, land, and wildlife to increase corporate profits. That gives us all the reasons we need to vote against him. He cares about and serves wealthy people, not the people of Wyoming.
Bob Caesar says
Barrasso has moved way beyond the cowboys and cowgals of Wyomin’. This article shows he sure doesn’t need our money anymore! (Maybe cowboys just don’t have enough cash?)
He doesn’t even bother to come home to join us around the campfire (i.e. debates or town-halls) to talk about his views – or listen to ours. He must not give a hoot what we think! All he comes home for are parades and BBQs. (“Bobby and I sure had fun cookin’ ten thousand hot dogs”. Well Senator by golly, Thanks for them doggies!)
He’s obsessed with gettin’ back to Washington for fear McConnell will find another manikin to have his picture taken with. Barrasso has forgotten he’s supposed to be working for the folks back home! Since he likes D.C. so much let’s send him there full time – RETIRED!
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Occupy Domestic Terror
Posted on November 17, 2011 by Weerd Beard
Another Feather in the hat of the Kill the Jews Movement.
“I think we should have a moment of silence in solidarity for the person they said was from the Washington, D.C. Occupy. Maybe, why did he feel the need to shoot the White House window today?” he asked.
“So I think we should have a moment in solidarity for the White House, and for the guy that shot at the White House today. I don’t know if you heard, but someone shot at the White House window today.”
Not only was the man that shot at the White House part of the Occupy Washington protest, but the other groups are showing solidarity with his criminal acts.
We could say that these are somehow fringe elements, but just look at the wide spread hate crimes, violence, sex crime, and drug trafficking in the Kill the Jews Movement. Couple that with the fact that there is no leadership and no spokespeople, this rabble of criminals IS the organization.
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Bubblehead Les says:
Uh, been trying to get some news if there was any linkage between the OWS and this guy. Not seeing it in the MSM Liberal Feeds. I think this was just another NutJob with a Gun. By the White House. One of the Most Heavily-Guarded spots on the Planet. So well policed that Baldr would feel safe enough to leave his Kung-Fu slippers at home.
Sure glad no one can Carry Concealed in DC, right?
guffaw says:
Are the R.I.C.O. statutes still in effect? Just wondering.
Weerd Beard says:
The laws don’t apply to these people. Remember the media uproar when somebody made up a story of Tea Party protests spitting on a black congressman? Made up, there were dozens of videos of the moment it allegedly happened, and it never happened. Now we have a Occupy DC goon shooting at the White House and silence.
Same goes for demonstration permits. These groups seem to be exempt from the laws that govern the rest of us. If we want to waive signs in the square its pay for a permit or ride in the paddy wagon.
RICO laws likely also don’t apply to Anti-Semite Marxists.
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Peter Madcat Ruth's 70th Birthday Bash At The Ark
By Michael Jewett & Editor • Apr 3, 2019
Peter Madcat Ruth at the 2014 Ann Arbor Summer Festival Top of the Park Stage.
Local harmonica heavyweight Peter Madcat Ruth is celebrating a milestone this week: his 70th birthday with a big show at The Ark in Ann Arbor this Thursday, April 4th. Madcat stopped in to the WEMU studios to talk about the milestone and the bash with WEMU's Michael Jewett:
Ahead of his 70th birthday performance at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Peter 'MadCat' Ruth stopped in to the WEMU studios to discuss the show, and what it's like in the Ann Arbor music scene and the world of Blues since he arrived in 1970.
*Listen to the audio above.
The event will feature music by Madcat and many of his musical friends including Howard Levy, Chris Brubeck, Josh Davis, Corky Siegel, Shari Kane, Seth Bernard, Rachael Davis, Drew Howard, Michael Shimmin, Mark Schrock, Dominic Davis, William Apostol, Dick Siegel and Joel Brown, with M.C. Michael Jewett.
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Michael Jewett: Local harmonica heavyweight Peter MAD Cat Ruth is celebrating a milestone, his seventieth birthday with a big show at the Ark in Ann Arbor this Thursday April 4th and he's here now at WEMU to talk about the milestone the event and I'm sure any other number of topics we might ramble our way through. Hello welcome and happy birthday. On a big milestone. You're looking great. How you doing?
Madcat: I'm doing fine.
Michael Jewett: Alright. This is.. This is the big 7-0. Or just 7-0
Madcat: Yeah we're just 7 -0. 70, yeah it's pretty big!
Michael Jewett: Yeah it seems like just yesterday we were talking about 60 and now.
Madcat: It kind of astonishes me that that it's such a big number but then again I'm the same as I have been. So I'm feeling fine. Yeah.
Michael Jewett: It's not a big it doesn't feel like a big life changing type thing or whatever.
Madcat: Just a big number.
Just another number I think age ain't nothing but a number. Well the number is a number of blue songs goes. Well, congratulations on this and we should tell everyone just some basics. Your seventieth birthday bash is Thursday April 4th 8:00 p.m. at the Ark in Ann Arbor. It's you and just great set musicians
Madcat: About 15 other great musicians. Yeah.
Family friends and a number of artists that you've worked with over the years. People can go to the Ark's website if they just want a basic information if they want if they want to read a little bit more. Do you have a site that they should check out.
Madcat: All they could read about me at madcatmusic.net. They can also look at it and Ann Arbor Observer and read about me in the April issue, they just a put a little thing in there about it.
Michael Jewett: Ok. OK. For those of you who have a number mailing address.
Madcat: Right.
Michael Jewett: You've got that you've got that resource. I'll have to look for that one, man. I just want to touch on few things here. Oh boy, it has been so long when you've been a member of a community for so long people say. "Well you've always been here." But that's not that's not really the case. You're actually from... You're not a native and after it you're on from near the Chicago area.
Madcat: Yeah I grew up in suburban Chicago, and I came to Ann Arbor when I was Twenty one years old I guess. And I've been here ever since.
Michael Jewett: Well now you were you were playing when you got here.
Madcat: Oh yeah. I came here to join inm cause I was in Chris Brubeck's rock n roll band called New Heavenly Blue, and he moved here and so I moved here to be in his band.
Michael Jewett: OK. But no let me back up a little second. I mean when you say the blues not just blues harmonica you say the blues Chicago is like you know I mean this is Chicago.
Madcat: I know (laughs).
Michael Jewett: So it's like it's like the wellspring of the blues and everthing. What was so attractive about Ann Arbor that that helped you make the decision. Was this like us. I mean why did you decide to stay? Don't take this the wrong way. We're glad you're here! But what why the shift why why did you decide you're going to come to a midwestern college town (with a great music scene)- what what made Ann Arbor so feel so good?
Madcat: Well Ann Arbor in 1970 was a whole lot different than Ann Arbor right now and you know the, Ann Arbor Blues Festival was starting here, and there was there's many clubs in town that had lived blues music and I was around when the Blind Pig opened in 1972. But, before that there was a lot of places that played live blues music and moved here and I liked it.
Michael Jewett: But Chicago had Chicago wasn't exactly... I mean, I really know the history of Chicago venues and whatnot at that time but it's not like Chicago would have been hurtin' for music opportunities. Was it just that this had a different vibe that felt more...
Madcat: Yeah it was more of a hometown vibe. Chicago is huge, and Ann Arbor - you can still get across town in 15 minutes (and you still can).
Michael Jewett: So traffic may be a little different, but, yeah.
Madcat: But I came here because I had this opportunity to be in Chris Brubeck's band New Heavenly Blue, which is just it just was an amazing band because we were playing blues and rock and roll and jazz and country music and we were doing a lot of different things and also I left Chicago when I was 21 in the drinking age there was 21 so I couldn't get into anything before, and I couldn't fool anyone. I couldn't you know get a fake I.D. and get myself.
Michael Jewett: I should because I say probably say it's like OK I know that you're 70. So yeah, I don't know.You have a certain youthful... I don't wanna say Baby Face I didn't really know you that well you know earlier on.
Madcat: But when I was 21 years old I looked like I was maybe 17 so I couldn't fake my way in to hear anything in Chicago anyway.
Michael Jewett: These are important considerations - that was the most important.
Madcat: So I saw Blues in Chicago I like the University of Chicago would have blues shows and the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle would have blues shows and those blues on the radio and there's blues on the AM radio that I could hear every night. It was great but but as far as playing music I had much more opportunity to do that in Ann Arbor.
Michael Jewett: Wow that's quite an endorsement for the for the scene at that time. So, looking back again our guests Peter madcap Ruth his seventieth birthday bashes this Thursday at the Arkr in Ann Arbor. 8:00 p.m. for the basics about the show: tickets, whatnot at the ark.org is probably the best way to go.
Michael Jewett: Over 50 years of being (right around 50 years) of being a professional musician. A lot of changes, do you do you feel nostalgic about any particular era? Do you feel, or what are some of the things that have changed that you think are like better maybe not as cool? Any any over overriding kind of impression?
Madcat: Back when I moved here live music in Ann Arbor was just booming. Now there's way fewer places, but but it was the whole a whole different scene because if you wanted any entertainment in 1970 you could listen to three TV channels or you could go you could go bowling you could go to a movie. There was no Internet. So if you wanted to be entertained you went out to hear live music, and it was all over. There was on the weekend there was you know 30 places with live music, and in any week night there was you know eight places with a live band. So it was just a scene. You know it's a great scene.
Michael Jewett: I've had this discussion with a lot of other musicians that are like let's say you're around your age, or around my age (you have you by about 10 years just to let everybody know the age we're talking about) just how much you know live concerts or you know or going to a music festival, or how big rites of passages those were you know for a long time, and they're just maybe you're kind of saying it's not the same.
Madcat: It's different and you know it's not that its better or worse really. It's just very different. I mean now you know you want to hear a blues song you go to YouTube and you can hear that blues song. You know you you can turn on the radio, you can find it. There's so many more resources. I remember when I was a kid I'd go to the Jazz Record Mart, the biggest place to get Blues albums. The biggest place in all of Chicago, and yet you know they might have 200 records to choose from and that was it. You know. I mean it's a whole different scene. So anyway. Well here we are.
Michael Jewett: Here we are. Now, you've colloborated will also sorts of musicians. Do you feel like you've achieved some sort of like like elder statesman or veteran performer role? Do you feel like you're like more of a teaching role, maybe as you've been on the scene or a long time or is it more just like the straight collaboration when you meet a new musician or some you know someone that you just starting a musical collaboration with is it does it's still the same as it was you know 30, 40 years ago?
Madcat: It's better because, I'm a better musician now then I was back then. I've just learned so much about music and about different styles of music and so when I sit in with people and I sit in with all kinds of different bands. I'm a member of this band, Sumkali playing Indian fusion music, you know. I play with Chris Brubeck playing you know Dave Brubeck tunes and acoustic funk music and I play with singer songwriters, and I play with Americana groups and then just have my own blues band, which is not limited to blues so we do a lot of different varieties of music. I keep really busy doing it, and people say "oh yeah he's the guy I see at the Kroger store." But actually in between seeing Kroger store, I travel all over the country, and also all over the world playing music, so I am very happy with how things are going, and I love playing music, and I'm keeping at it.
Michael Jewett: Very good. Speaking of traveling,and colloborating with other musicians, is there another kick you get out of traveling? I know not everyone is like a big fan of the road.
Madcat: Yeah. People often say "Don't you get tired of all that touring around" and actually the answer is still no. I mean even though in February I was touring with with Triple Play (that's Chris Brubeck and Joel Brown) we were in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana in February and it got to be 10 below zero with a 40 mile an hour wind. And yet that's some blues inspiration.. Did I have miserable time? Well I got cold, but I had a good time playing music in out of the way places, I enjoy it.
Michael Jewett: Are there places that you would love to try to go to, or that you're actively seeking to play? Anywhere on the planet that you like to bring the Madcat magic to?
Madcat: Well I guess I'd like to do more playing in Europe. I have done some, but not much. Certain parts of Europe that I haven't been.
Michael Jewett: He's been everywhere. It's like he's like that song. "I've been everywhere."
Madcat: And I'd be happy to go back to Brazil. I've been there 13 times, and it's such a lovely place to play music. The Brazilian audiences just love live music, so it's fun.
Michael Jewett: you've got a great record, "Live in Rio.".
Madcat: Yeah it was. It was a good one.
Michael Jewett: Alright, a little closer to home. This Thursday - let's talk. Your seventieth birthday bash you've got a big long list of friends, and I would say your musical family members that you're going to present in this really once in a lifetime concert. Let's just kind of go through all kind of like hop around and talk about folks, but first up. You know you mentioned a couple of times Chris Brubeck.
Madcat: Yeah I met him in 1968. So that's about 51 years ago, and we've been playing music since we met. So, I was in his band new heavenly blue, his band Sky King I was in the Darius Brubeck ensemble, I was in then two generations of Brubeck with Dave Brubeck and his sons, and we toured all over the world. I was with him for about five years, and that was just an amazing opportunity. It's like an apprenticeship program that you can't buy. You know it's just amazing.
Michael Jewett: I'm going to mention them kind of together two other fellow harmonica luminaries, Corky Siegel and Howard Levy. MAN
Madcat: Yeah WELL Corky Siegel, when I was starting to play quirky Seeger was in Chicago already playing and already having records and it was Corky Siegel and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Charlie Musselwhite were the the three bands kind of bringing blues to younger audiences. So I knew about Corky and then later...
Michael Jewett: Corky has that kind of like a blues base, but branching out and playing all sorts of different styles. He has embraced that kind of approach to his main band these days.
Madcat: He still gets together with Jim swell once in a while but his main thing is the Chamber Blues with the string quartet and in Corky playing piano and harmonica.
Michael Jewett: So this is a blues oriented harmonica player with a string quartet and an Indian percussionist. Indian classical music. It really cooks.
Madcat: Howard I met way back in probably the mid 70s late 70s. We were both sitting in with a singer songwriter named Steve Goodman. That's where we met because Steve Goodman would always get lots of musicians to play with him. We met and I just said "Oh, this guy's amazing," and we became friends way back then and then later he went off and met Bela Fleck, and he was a founding member of the Flecktones. (He is the original Flecktone.) And he is an amazing just over-the-top amazing harmonica player. He can do some things that I certainly don't even come close to doing. And I'm a pretty good harmonica player. (laughs). But Howard is a is absolutely astounding. And he also plays piano really well. And he also can sight read anything, and he plays the clarinet if he wants to. Saxophone. Yeah. I'm really happy that he could could be here.
Michael Jewett: Yeah. Honored I'm sure just to have all these great great people. When you're putting the show together, did you think of the order? This is gotta be like a real labor of love. But, let's talk about the love we get for the music but trying to put all these people and put a concert together - This is artistic director stuff. This is like more than just the bandleader and calling a couple of tunes in a set.
Madcat: It was definitely a challenge because with 15 fabulous musicians and you know, approximately two hour concert you have to really edit carefully.
Michael Jewett: I don't want to like run down the plan because I don't want to give away too much, because I want people in attendance to kind of get that surprise. Josh Davis and Rachel Davis are on the on the bill.
Madcat: Yes and Dominic Davis. Josh Davis a founding member of steppin in it.from the Lansing band and Dominic Davis (another founding member of that band) and Dominic's married to Rachel Davis who is a great singer songwriter. Dominic has is the bass player in Jack White's band. OK. And moved to Nashville because that's where they're based. But he's an amazing bass player. Rachel is a great singer songwriter. And Josh Davis took third place on The Voice a couple of years back. He's an amazing singer and songwriter and these are all three of my originally Michigan people.
Michael Jewett: OK. So the connections there.
Madcat: Seth Bernard, another Michigan hero of the folk music scene.
Michael Jewett: All right. All right. Now I've saved a couple of names here because we kind of know them very very well. Singer songwriter Dick Siegel is going to put in a performance.
Madcat: I've known Dick since late probably mid 1970s.
Michael Jewett: He's a great storyteller. And Sheri Kane,.
Madcat: Oh yeah. We had a band Madcat and Kane, we toured for 24 years.
Michael Jewett: Was it that long?
Madcat: Twenty four years of touring all over the country, and I think we played 11 different countries.
Michael Jewett: Kind of like the original blues bands sound guitar and harmonica.
Madcat: Well that's where I started. Listen to sunny Terry and Brownie McGhee and that's how I got started in playing harmonica in the first place, and so yeah we followed that that duo route for a long time.
Michael Jewett: All right. And more recent band your midnight blues journey.
Madcat: Yeah. True Howard and Michael Shimmin and Mark Schrock. We still play all over the state. We don't get out of state much but. But Michigan's a nice big place and we keep pretty busy playing all over the place.
Michael Jewett: Fantastic fantastic. Again for more information on the show. Peter Madcat Ruth's seventieth birthday bash at the Ark in Ann Arbor this Thursday April the 4th. 15 musicians, Madcat Ruth and friends and family. This is we only get this once, do it right.
Madcat: Yeah, it's like my own folk festival. It's going to be fun.
Michael Jewett: I like it. I love it. I love it. Hey, man, and I should also add that I want to tell you how touched and really honored I was that you asked me to be a voice of this, and be the MC.
Madcat: You get to be the glue that holds everything together.
Michael Jewett: You no idea how how great that makes me feel. Being the glue is like being the connective tissue there. Happy birthday.
Madcat: Hey thank you.
Michael Jewett: Happy birthday and thank you for all this music and thank you On behalf of just so many friends and fans around here I'm glad you made the decision to stick around here. We like having you around man.
Madcat: Yeah. And when I turned 50 I had a big big concert at the Ark when I turned 60 a big concert. So. So now I'm turning 70, a big concert like this.
Michael Jewett: We look forward to many more.
Madcat: I hope so. We'll see what happens.
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by Jacob Robinson @JRobinsonWoN on September 27, 2019, 5:51 am EST
The Politician season 1 is now available to stream on Netflix UK
We’re a matter of days away from October, and thus the countdown to Halloween begins! We have 36 brand new titles to be enjoyed on Netflix UK this week, plenty to keep you busy over the weekend and into next week. Here’s all the latest additions to Netflix UK this week for September 27th, 2019.
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Since 1997, South Park has been causing plenty of chaos, controversy, and most importantly entertaining audiences (fightin’) around the world. Sadly, instead of all 22 seasons, Netflix UK has received six. The first season and seasons 18 to 21 have been added to the Netflix library, additionally a season of “Top Episodes” has also been added, these top episodes were specially selected by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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EIF 2010 - The Cleveland Orchestra (Part I)
Hot on the heels of two excellent nights with Oramo and his Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, two more with a legendary orchestra from another continent looked set to be the sort of embarrassment of riches that only a festival can deliver.
I first met the Clevelanders on their last visit to Edinburgh back in 2004, on that occasion for three consecutive nights. It was an extraordinary experience: the discipline and precision of the ensemble made them a visual sight to watch unlike any I'd seen before or any I've seen since. This was matched by the quality of their playing.
Their programme started with a notable visual, though it was notable for the fact that chairs were cleared into stacks around the stage and just six members of the orchestra, conductor Franz Welser-Möst and organist Joela Jones were present. They delivered three pieces by Charles Ives. The first of these, Variations on 'America', for solo organ, made for a wonderful start. Sharing its theme with God Save the Queen, it proved highly enjoyable, laced with wit and playfulness. I always tend to feel the anthem itself is a poor piece of music, good only as musical whitewash for getting rid of music stuck in your head, except when I hear the fun that can be had making variations out of it, such as with Beethoven's set. And so with Ives as he treated it to such styles as music hall, fairground organ and a polonaise. The final variation, with it's low counterpoint, marked "as fast as the peddles can go", was especially good and gave Jones a chance to show what she could do. Even better, it was an opportunity to hear the Usher Hall organ in its full glory.
The second piece, From the Steeples and the Mountains, was also very interesting: a single long crescendo, built from four sets of tubular bells, a trumpet and trombone, wonderfully textured and magical to hear. Then it was back to solo organ for the Postlude in F. While this three part structure was effective, the final piece was not. Not bad, per se, but nothing very remarkable either. Written when Ives was just 15 this is perhaps not surprising, yet it meant it paled rather in comparison to what had come before.
For the second half the full might of the Cleveland Orchestra took to the stage to play Bruckner's 8th symphony. Given that back in January I heard just about the finest reading of this work that I ever expect to under Runnicles and the BBC SSO, the bar was set very high indeed. They did not clear it, not even close.
In the first place they seemed to have hobbled themselves by choosing the rarely performed first edition of 1887. I've never been convinced by this version when I've heard it before (such as on Georg Tintner's survey of the symphonies for Naxos) and sadly the Clevelanders and Welser-Möst didn't change this. What followed were ninety pretty dull minutes, the adagio in particular being interminable. And despite containing some excitement, the scherzo simply lacked bite. On the one hand the problems seemed to lie with the score, which according to Stephen Johnson's programme note contains harmonies "more rough-edged" than we are used to. Certainly there was not the clarity and stunning beauty of a great Bruckner climax, not the perfection for which he seems constantly to strive, and I missed it.
At other times, though, the blame seemed to lie squarely at Welser-Möst's feet. Some of the climaxes were reasonably exciting, but whenever they ended, whatever tension had existed vanished. Pauses added not one iota of drama. The whole thing seemed to come in disconnected stretches rather than possessing an overarching structure and momentum.
Perhaps most disappointing, though, was the orchestra. Where was the visual spectacle of six years ago? That incredible driving row of basses were now squashed up to one side; where previously you couldn't have put a cigarette paper between the members of each section, now they were simply normal, though nonetheless very fine. It seemed as though the very thing which made this orchestra unique and therefore so special has been lost. Hopefully they will find it again before their second concert tonight.
Labels: Concert Reviews, Edinburgh Festival, EIF 2010, Tam, Usher Hall
I have to disagree. I heard a few people voice their disappopintment, including a friend who said he'd failed to get the expected "white-knuckle ride", but I can only think they were confusing Bruckner with some of his contemporaries. For me this was a marvellous interpretation that captured the composer's classicist style of Romanticism and was free of the heart-on-sleeve colouring and overly Wagnerian grandstanding that some interpreters graft onto Bruckner in lieu of finding ways to bring out the emotional depths inherent in the music. And I found the Adagio stunning and poignant; my eyes welled up more than once. Admittedly, the horns lacked a little punch and dynamism in places, and from where I was sitting the bass strings were a little weak, but the violins were near-perfect, and the woodwind even better. And although my heart had sunk a little when I opened the programme to discover that they were using the 1887 score - Bruckner's habit of relentless restatement is bad enough without adding 20 minutes to an already massive work - by the end I was converted to the merits of the earlier version.
Pleased to see this review, as I seemed to be the odd man out among my friends. I was hugely disappointed: this symphony has so many places where it needs drama to contrast with other-worldly detachment. Climaxes were loud, but where was the tension in any of the quiet build-ups? The Finnish team the previous night had the requisite breathtaking pianissimos that drew you in, but also much more punch when things got lound. Cleveland was the all-too-common professional-band problem: perfect tuning and ensemble, but utterly uninvolving (I make an exception for the horn section). All of this has to be blamed on the conductor, who never seemed to be moved at any point - and who was arguably never in charge. I have never see a leader of the violins impose himself in the way that happened last night: fantastic violin ensemble, but all the section principals were watching the leader, rather than the man with the stick. The contrast with the controlled passion of Oramo's conducting with the Finns was marked.
Thanks for the comments: fascinating - as ever one man's revelation is another's boredom.
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Faith-Healing Parents Plead Guilty in Death of Newborn Daughter
Steve Warren
The parents of a twin girl who refused to seek medical treatment when their baby couldn't breathe and opted instead for prayers by family and friends, pleaded guilty Monday to negligent homicide and criminal mistreatment in their daughter's death.
Travis Lee Mitchell and his wife Sarah are members of an Oregon church that rejects modern medical treatment. They had originally been charged with murder by neglect and criminal mistreatment in the 2017 death of their premature baby.
Each received almost seven years in prison with credit given for 13 months in custody while awaiting trial and for good behavior. In addition, they will also serve three years of probation after leaving prison.
The case marked the fifth time in Clackamas County in nine years that a child has died in the religious community known as the Followers of Christ Church. Several members of the church have been convicted of crimes for failing to seek medical care for their children, according to The Oregonian.
But this case ended differently. The Mitchells not only agreed that they failed to provide the necessary medical care for their baby but also said in a statement read by one of their attorneys "everyone in the church should always seek adequate medical care for our children.''
Walter White, Sarah Mitchell's father and a leader in the church, signed the statement which will be posted inside the church for all members to read under the terms of the plea agreement.
The couple's newborn named Ginnifer, died March 5, 2017, from complications of premature birth. The state medical examiner found the girl's lungs to be "airless." She had suffered from acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Bryan Brock called the outcome of the case, with the couple accepting responsibility and issuing a public statement, a "landmark resolution.''
"These are senseless and avoidable deaths, and we keep asking ourselves what will it take'' to convince others in the church to get the right medical care for their children, Brock told The Oregonian.
He said he hoped the message will be for church followers to "seek medical attention and prayer. They're not mutually exclusive.''
The parents are accepting responsibility for their actions "knowing a price must be paid,'' Sarah Mitchell's lawyer Stephen Houze told the newspaper.
Prosecutors said the little girl was born two months premature and died after four and a half hours struggling to breathe.
"I knew she was dead when she didn't cry out anymore,'' Travis Mitchell said, according to court documents.
Even though several members of the church witnessed the birth, no one sought to seek medical attention or dial 9-1-1.
During Mitchell's seven-month pregnancy, prosecutors said she never received prenatal care or took any supplements even though the couple had medical insurance.
In contrast, according to The Oregonian, the couple did seek regular veterinary care for their dog and cat, the prosecutors wrote in court papers.
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I am a lecturer in English Language and an HEA Fellow. I earned my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Toronto, specialising in sociolinguistics. Before becoming a linguist, I worked internationally in the finance industry, a context which further contributed to my interest in language(s) in the world. My earlier academic training included French language and literature, mathematics, and a CELTA.
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With N. Smith, 'Variation and change in a specialized register: A comparison of random and sociolinguistic sampling outcomes in Desert Island Discs', International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24.2 (2019): 169-201
With N. Smith, 'From broadcast archive to language corpus: Designing and investigating a sociohistorical corpus from Desert Island Discs', Journal of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), 42.1 (2018): 167-190.
With S.A. Tagliamonte, 'Is one innovation enough? Leaders, covariation, and language change', American Speech, 92.1 (2017): 23-40
'Practical strategies for elucidating discourse-pragmatic variation', in H. Pichler (ed.) Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
'Transatlantic variation in English adverb placement', Language Variation and Change, 25 (2) (2013): 179–200, which is available here.
I examine variation and change in English (lexical, morphosyntactic and discourse-pragmatic), often with a focus on transatlantic variation. My research frequently combines areas of linguistics, and the diverse approaches therein, to answer questions more effectively. My current and previous work draws on the concepts and methodologies of variationist sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, language attitudes, syntax, and discourse analysis. I also participate in DiPVaC, the discourse-pragmatic variation and change research network.
I am involved in teaching students at all levels of the undergraduate programme. This year, I will be teaching on these modules:
EN1036 Studying Language
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EN3010 Dissertation
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I'm a past convenor of the MA in English Language and Linguistics and I continue to teach on a variety of modules on the ELL MA.
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Home For Researchers Research Projects The Clash of Different Conflict Management Styles in Multinational Teams
Conflicts are unavoidable in organizational life. While conflict can enhance group functioning, when poorly managed or left unaddressed, it can lead to negative workplace outcomes that are costly, disruptive, and even dangerous to the people served by the organization. Multinational teams, in particular, are prone to experiencing more conflict due to team members having different cultural values, norms, and beliefs that may invoke conflict between them.
Over the last several decades, there have been numerous theoretical advances regarding conflict management and the identification of a wide range of individual and situational predictors of conflict management strategies and outcomes at the individual and team levels. Research shows that national cultures are also likely to have an impact on the emergence of distinct conflict management norms. For instance, in society cultures characterized by high-uncertainty avoidance, collectivism, and tightness, people may tend towards avoidance when it comes to managing conflicts. In societies characterized by vertical individualism, masculinity, and cultural looseness, individuals are more likely to adopt dominating conflict management styles.
Little research, however, has explored the configurations of conflict management styles within a team, and its individual and team-level outcomes. Different configurations (e.g.: team members being equally split between two conflict managements styles vs. every team member adopting a different style from everyone else) may have different implications for relationship conflict, incivility, and citizenship behavior, which could consequently impact team morale and performance. A multicultural perspective of conflict resolution can interpret the conflict in a multicultural context that would help explain that conflict meaningfully in terms of causes, processes, and effects. With the present study we intend to focus on the dynamic nature of how people manage conflict within workgroups, and its downstream implications for team processes and performance.
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What are the various possible configurations of conflict resolution styles within workgroups, and how do each impact individual and group level outcomes?
What types of configurations are beneficial versus detrimental to team performance?
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Spring Equinox in Mexico brings out thousands seeking New Age energy
On Thursday, March 21, 2019, a balloon flies near the Pyramid of the Sun as the sun rises in Teotihuacan, Mexico, on the Spring equinox. AP Photo: Marco Ugarte
Spring Equinox at Dzibilchaltún. Photo: File
Spring Equinox at Chichen Itza. Photo: Getty
The sun shines directly through the arch of the Temple of the Seven Dolls at Dzibilchaltun, in Yucatan, as it rises on the spring equinox on March 20, 2017. Photo: Getty
Travelers flock to Chichén Itzá for the spring and fall equinox to see a mysterious illusion. Photo: Getty
People celebrate as the sun rises on the spring equinox at the Seven Dolls Temple, in the Maya Ruins of Dzibilchaltun, in Yucatán, on March 20. Photo: Elizabeth Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images
The sun shines directly through the door of the Seven Dolls Temple in the Maya Ruins of Dzibilchaltun as it rises on the spring equinox on March 21, 2016. Photo: ALEJANDRO MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)
Autumn equinox at Chichén Itzá was a washout this year. Photo: Desde el Balcón
The spring equinox is a special time at Chichén Itza. Photo: arizona.edu
Receive the energy of this year’s Spring Equinox in a Maya Ceremony led by Miguel Angel Vergara along with a number of local Maya Elders.
The sun shines directly through the arch of the Temple of the Seven Dolls at Dzibilchaltun, in Yucatan, as it rises on the spring equinox in 2019. Photo: Telesur
It was a fine day for a Spring Equinox in Merida.
Thousands flocked to Yucatan’s ancient pyramids Thursday to soak up the rays of the sun in body and spirit.
Ancient customs have mingled with New Age spirituality to draw white-clad visitors from around the world seeking to recharge their energy with the rays of the spring sun.
Other simply sought the perfect selfie.
The Spring Equinox holds special significance for many of Mexico’s Mayan communities, whose ancestors’ architecture was often built around it.
Famous examples include the pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, where at the moment of the equinox, the sun’s rays generate a shadow of seven triangles that look like a serpent descending the stairs.
Also in Yucatan, at the Temple of the Seven Dolls in Dzibilchaltun, for anyone standing in squarely in front, the sun aligns precisely with a pair of east- and west-facing doors, illuminating the structure with a burst of light.
Dressed in traditional indigenous garb, dancers performed ceremonies at these and other sites, including the nearly 2,000-year-old sun pyramid of Teotihuacan, near Mexico City.
“‘Teotihuacan’ means ‘the place where men become gods,’ so we’re here to steal a little bit of its energy,” said Alfonso Martinez, 53, who traveled from Veracruz to be there.
Silvia Torres, 71, said she was there because “it fills me with energy, fills me with strength, fills me with power, fills me with wisdom.”
“As human beings, we are energy, and I agree that we can charge ourselves with energy,” added Erick Gonzalez, a 37-year-old nurse.
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Where to stay in Cologne – a travel guide to Cologne’s neighbourhoods
Choosing where to stay in Cologne is key to getting the most out of the city and the surrounding area. Book the right Cologne hotel using this guide to the city’s neighbourhoods.
Located on the eastern banks of the river Rhine, Old City is Cologne’s centre. From the city’s landmark cathedral, which marks the area’s northern point, narrow streets lead into the city’s historic quarter, where restored 14th- century houses mix with the city’s cluster of Romanesque churches. One of the most beautiful is the 12th-century Church of St Martin on Martinspförtchen. The likes of Warhol and Picasso occupy the walls of the Museum Ludwig, while, next door, the Roman-Germanic Museum takes visitors through Cologne’s archaeological past. At Rheinauhafen, in the area’s south, visitors can board a boat for a Rhine cruise.
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North of Cologne’s Old City, the central Neustadt-Nord is a modern, lively area. The glass and steel MediaPark complex hosts some of Germany’s most important TV stations and media companies, while the Belgian Quarter, between Aachener Strasse and Friesenplatz, is a prime nightlife spot. Cologne’s party-minded move from friendly bars like Six Pack to genre-bending clubs like Subway, home inside an old jazz cellar, while the Volkstheater Millowitsch has some of the city’s best comedy.
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Located across the river Rhine from Cologne’s centre, Deutz hosts the city’s Fair Trade Grounds, where renowned fairs like the photography show Photokina take place. The Lanxess Arena, formerly known as KölnArena, attracts big names in rock and pop, as well as high-profile handball and ice hockey games. From the area’s Kennedy Embankment visitors have a great view of Cologne’s skyline, especially at night, when the arches of the Hohenzollern railway bridge shine in front of the cathedral. Follow the embankment north towards the lush meadows of the riverside Rheinpark.
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Nestling against Cologne’s north-eastern reaches, the independent, medium-sized city of Leverkusen is a convenient base for a Cologne trip. The Baroque beauty of Morsbroich Castle, home to a vast collection of modern art, meets the imposing look of the Bayerwerk industrial plant. Stretching along the banks of the river Rhine, this symbol of the German post-war economic miracle has long earned its title as a sight in its own right. Frequent trains connect Leverkusen and Cologne’s centre in about half an hour.
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To the east of Cologne, the city of Bergisch Gladbach is a good base if you want to combine a Cologne trip with a hiking or cycling holiday. Small rivers criss-cross the deep forests and wide laws of the natural reserve Bergisches Land, which stretches east from here. In the city, the Museum for Mining and Craft takes visitors on a tour of the area’s industrial past. Frequent trains connect Bergisch Gladbach to Cologne in less than 45 minutes.
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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 23
Vol. 23: The "Miscellanies," 1153–1360
Jonathan Edwards; Edited by Douglas A. Sweeney
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This volume concludes the series of private theological notebooks that Jonathan Edwards kept from his late teens to the end of his life. It covers the years from 1751 to 1758, a period during which he faced a variety of difficult challenges while working at the Stockbridge Indian mission and served a short-lived presidency at Princeton, then known as the College of New Jersey. In these entries Edwards grapples with modern naturalism, critiques “generous doctrines,” and attempts to bolster Reformed thought in the face of the Enlightenment.
Douglas A. Sweeney is chair, Department of Church History and the History of Christian Thought, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
"The excellent index as well as the outstanding tour presented in the editor's introduction will allow any Edwards-enthusiast access to the prominent themes contained in these entries. . . . This volume is an excellent resource for Edwards specialists and historians of American Christianity and American theology. Non-specialist fans of Edwards who wish to take their understanding of this New England pastor to a deeper level will enjoy this glimpse into his personal studies. Douglas Sweeney's introductory essay superbly contextualizes Edwards's notes, providing a biography of this period, a survey of Edwards's main interlocutors, and a summary of the prominent themes throughout the notes. I highly recommend this volume."—Robert W. Caldwell III, Southwestern Journal of Theology
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‘Thadam’ review: A taut thriller that keeps you engaged till the end
Thadam by Magizh Thirumeni is an effective murder mystery involving identical twins
Kollywood – and cinema, in general – has seen many identical twin-based subjects. Twins falling in love with the same girl. Twins impersonating each other and wreaking havoc in the lives of others. We’ve seen it so many times in the past that it seems highly unlikely that something can give the same-old subject a new angle. Thadam does.
It’s based on a real life incident, it says right at the start. The film ends with information on similar incidents in other countries. All this helps lending authenticity to an otherwise incredulous storyline.
It involves Ezhil and Kavin (Arun Vijay), who are both shown in different milieus. One works in a corporate company and has to try really hard at taking the girl he likes out for “coffee” (the inverted quotes are deliberate, and is actually part of a cute romance sequence). But the other is a con artist who has to conjure up intelligent plans to make his money. There’s an entire sequence involving an ATM machine that reminded me of the bike theft sequence in Polladhavan…only in terms of how it opens your eye to new-age crimes.
Thadam
Cast: Arun Vijay, Tanya, Smruthi, Sonia Aggarwal, Vidya Pradeep
Storyline: A murder takes place, and the suspects are identical twins
Thadam takes quite some time to settle down – there are a few times when you get confused if it’s Ezhil or Kavin you’re watching on the big screen. But once it sets the tone for the two main characters, and a few others in a police station, it kicks off.
The second half is where the meat is. That’s where Arun Vijay scores; he delivers a competent performance as both Ezhil and Kavin, showing variations rather subtly. Director Magizh Thirumeni not only gets his lead characters right but also etches a solid character for the female cop Malar (Vidya Pradeep in an effective performance). He does miss a trick, though, by giving us weakly-written female leads (Tanya Hope and Smruthi) who feature in a few sequences and songs that seem to have been put together in haste.
The flashback to the twins’ (and a lengthy tale revolving around Sonia Aggarwal) might act as a speedbreaker to an otherwise taut storyline, but the twist in the end makes up for most of it. It’s something you didn’t see coming, and Magizh ought to have ended it right there, instead of trying to give the film a feel-good sort of finish. Barring these few missteps, Thadam is mostly a taut thriller that keeps you engaged till the very end.
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Super Wing Commander
Дата выхода 1994
Платформа 3DO
Издатель EA
Разработчик ORIGIN Systems, Inc.
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Описание Super Wing Commander
Super Wing Commander is a remake of the first Wing Commander with new graphics and sound. As in the original game, the player takes control of a young pilot on the carrier TCS Tiger's Claw to fly missions in the war against the Kilrathi. The game includes the Vega campaign from the original game and the first Secret Missions add-on campaign. Secret Missions 2 is replaced with a new campaign in which the Tiger's Claw must find and destroy the base where the Sivar dreadnought from Secret Missions 1 was developed. The look of the original game has been completely redesigned, with ships and people looking completely different from the original. All dialogue is now heard through digitized speech.
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Project-X
Дата выхода 1 декабря 1992
Платформа Amiga
Издатель Team 17
Разработчик Team 17
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Project-X is a scrolling shooter game for the Amiga computer released in 1992. It was also ported to DOS. Developed and published by Team17, it was regarded as one of the best shooter games for that platform at the time, both for its technical excellence in graphics and sounds, and for its difficult and interesting gameplay. The game resembles Konami's side-scrolling shooter games such as Gradius, Salamander and Parodius.
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Set up in 1834, Tulane University is a private academic institution with an urban setting and a campus size of around 110 acres. This university secured the 41st spot in the 2016 version of the Best Colleges in the States. The law department is noteworthy in here and the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is well-known and is the only school in the country that is specializing in this area. If you are a female student, you will be provided support in the form of mentors via the Newcomb College Institute.
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The uptown campus on St Charles Avenue is architecturally diverse. You will come across buildings which have both modern and old world influence. It has got the Howard Tilton Memorial Library which is one of the finest libraries in the country since it is the home of world-class academic journals. The other university libraries are the Architecture Library, Amistad Research Centre, Music and Media Centre, etc. You will come across one of the best research centres known as Tulane National Private Research Centre which is known for conducting experiments on diseases and primate biology. As far as academic buildings are concerned, Gibson Hall is one of most popular one.
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On campus accommodation can be a major disappoint for you since most of the rooms are visually unappealing and claustrophobic in a sense. The JL dorm is an all females dorm but it has failed to become popular due to its location. Thankfully, off campus accommodation is affordable here especially if you share a house with your friends and split the rent.
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If you are a lover of snow, there is bad news for you – it does not snow there frequently. Also, be prepared for the rains because they can attack you at anytime of the year. The winters are surprisingly humid although you will feel the occasional chill. If you have an umbrella, galoshes, a hoodie or a jacket with you, you will survive the climate.
Faculty and pedagogy at Tulane University
At Tulane, you will find most of the professors to be friendly and interesting enough to hold your attention. After the hurricane Katrina, the university has tried a different approach to raise the academic bar. Once you are a student of Tulane University, as a freshman you will have access to interdisciplinary discussions and conferences which will not only boost up your GPA but also enhance your intellect.
Financial aid at Tulane University
As an Indian student, you will definitely find the tuition and food to be expensive. The good part is that Tulane has plenty of scholarships – both merit and need based. Teaching assistantships are only provide to doctoral students, so you might want to be come here financially prepared, even though getting a scholarship here is not difficult.
Jobs and placements at Tulane University
Regardless of your major, Tulane has a variety of recruiters coming on campus and hiring students for internships and jobs. Some of the employers who regularly hire from here are Tufts Medical Centre, Nebraska Book Company, Boston Medical Centre, TriNet Group and Cablelabs among others.
Alumni at Tulane University
John Kennedy Toole – award winning author of The Confederacy of Dunces
David Filo – cofounder of Yahoo
Regina Benjamin – Surgeon General of President Obama
A. Baldwin Wood – creator of the wood screw pump
Douglas G. Harley – Nasa astronaut
Verdict at Tulane University
For some of you coming to Tulane might be a life changing experience and for others it might be complete opposite. It mostly depends on your ability to adapt and your love for other cultures. If you can balance work and play, then Tulane will be perfect for you because although the night life is fantastic over here many students fail to resist academic pressure and not come back for another semester. But, if you are confident that you will not be easily swayed by the culturally rich environment and be able to juggle plenty of activities at the same time, then there should be no second guessing about this university.
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Magnetothermal conductivity
Baoxing Chen, A. Rojo, C. Uher, Honglyoul Ju, R. Greene
We have studied thermal conductivity, thermopower, and resistivity of bulk polycrystalline (Formula presented)(Formula presented)(Formula presented). Large changes in the magnetothermal conductivity of about 15% and the thermopower as large as 80% were found in addition to a large magnetoresistivity of 80% around the magnetic transition temperature at 240 K. The temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity displays a striking dip, while the resistivity and the thermopower have a peak near 240 K. The temperature and field dependences of the thermal conductivity are attributed to the scattering of the phonons by spin fluctuations.
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.55.15471
Thermoelectric power
Spin fluctuations
magnetoresistivity
temperature dependence
Superconducting transition temperature
transition temperature
Chen, B., Rojo, A., Uher, C., Ju, H., & Greene, R. (1997). Magnetothermal conductivity. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 55(23), 15471-15474. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.55.15471
Chen, Baoxing ; Rojo, A. ; Uher, C. ; Ju, Honglyoul ; Greene, R. / Magnetothermal conductivity. In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 1997 ; Vol. 55, No. 23. pp. 15471-15474.
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ADLAND’S GAMECHANGERS
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MT (Mary Teresa) started her career as an account planner and was headhunted by Jay Chiat to join him in California to work on a range of pioneering Silicon Valley accounts, including the team that helped Steve Jobs launch the Macintosh in 1984. She became Head of Planning across three US offices and in 1993 returned to the UK to start her own agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe. One of the first women to have their name above the door. Always interested in the potential of new media to increase public value, MT built a social enterprise for one-to-one mentoring called horsesmouth.co.uk. She is also involved with Creative Skillset and Channel 4.
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Google unveils Stadia, its 'Netflix for games' streaming service
French officials warn of violence from subgroups in protest movement
Rod Rosenstein authorized release of Strzok, Page texts
National Archives blurs anti-Trump messages in exhibit image
Fourth annual Women's March to rally demonstrators nationwide
Microsoft plans to become 'carbon negative'
Former GOP Rep. Chris Collins sentenced to federal prison on insider trading charges
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the future of gaming?
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Google has just unveiled its potentially revolutionary new video game streaming service, Stadia.
The company's new platform, which was announced on Tuesday at the 2019 Game Developers Conference, will allow users to stream video games across their desktops, laptops, TVs, tablets, and phones without the need for expensive hardware, per CNBC. The company said, per The Verge, that the service will allow for "instant access to play" since no downloads are required, and it says users will be able to jump into a game in less than five seconds, writes The Hollywood Reporter. An announcement video for Stadia declares, "The future of gaming is not a box. It's a place."
Stadia will work on devices with a Chrome browser, with Google having previously tested a program that allowed users to stream Assassin's Creed Odyssey in a browser, TechCrunch reports. Although you'll be able to use USB controllers or your keyboard and mouse with Stadia, Google will also launch a controller with it, which connects directly to WiFi. No price point for Stadia has been announced, nor has a full line-up of launch titles, although one of them will be Doom Eternal, reports The Verge.
Google is the latest company to jump into the cloud gaming pool — Microsoft previously announced its own video game streaming service called Project xCloud. Amazon and Apple both reportedly plan to launch a similar services as the race to become the definitive "Netflix for games" heats up. Brendan Morrow
meanwhile, in France
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Officials in Paris are fearing potential violence as protests continue to disrupt France's capital.
"Seditious groups want the law of 'might is right' to reign, to impose violence on all people who think differently from them," said Marlene Schiappa, the government's secretary of state for equality, per The Associated Press.
Her comments came after a fire on Saturday damaged a renowned Paris restaurant and protesters on Friday forced the Louvre to close. An investigation is ongoing, but Schiappa said the blaze "probably" stemmed from a criminal act.
She criticized the "hate and violence" she claims stems from the protest movement against pension reform in France that began in December. The "yellow vest" movement has reportedly begun to splinter into subgroups, with some protesters returning to work and others calling for continued demonstrations.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who patronized the restaurant affected by the fire, was also targeted by demonstrators on Friday as he attended a theater performance. "Video showed protesters chanting 'Macron resign,'" reports AP, "and some entering a door as surprised police tried to hold them back. A black car reported to be carrying Macron then sped away under a hail of boos."
Read more at The Associated Press. Summer Meza
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized the release of text messages between FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, Politico reported Saturday.
The Department of Justice revealed Rosenstein's authorization in a court filing — the filing shows Rosenstein said he allowed the release of the messages to the media in part to protect Strzok and Page.
The two FBI employees sent texts criticizing President Trump as an "idiot" ahead of his election. They have faced ongoing disparagement from Trump, who has used their messages as evidence of a "deep state" effort to block his presidency. A recent DOJ inspector general report found that FBI employees also sent pro-Trump messages during the agency's investigation into Trump's ties to Russia.
Page said last month she's "done being quiet" about Trump's attacks. Both she and Strzok have said that while they criticized Trump's character, they never acted in a biased manner during the course of their work. Trump has suggested they are guilty of "treason."
Strzok and Page filed lawsuits against the DOJ last year, alleging the release of their messages violated the Privacy Act. Rosenstein said he allowed the messages to be released to the media "with the express understanding that it would not violate the Privacy Act and that the text messages would become public by the next day in any event." Read more at Politico. Summer Meza
trumpaganda
The National Archives aren't exactly archiving everything.
In an exhibit meant to document the Women's March that took place in 2017 the day after President Trump's inauguration, the National Archives blurred some parts of an image that showed anti-Trump messages, The Washington Post reports.
The 49-by-69-inch photograph contrasts the large-scale march to a 1913 image of a women's suffrage march. But while the photo shows the thousands of demonstrators who showed up in Washington, D.C., many in protest of Trump's presidency, it obscured some key details.
A sign reading "God Hates Trump" was blurred so that it simply reads "God Hates," the Post reports. Additionally, a sign reading "Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women" has "Trump" blotted out, and one reading "This Pussy Grabs Back" is edited to eliminate "Pussy."
"As a non-partisan, non-political federal agency, we blurred references to the President's name on some posters, so as not to engage in current political controversy," said Archives spokesperson Miriam Kleiman. The Post notes David Ferriero, the archivist appointed by former President Barack Obama, participated in discussions about the editing and supports the blurring of the words.
The spokesperson said the image wasn't presented as an artifact, and said the reference to women's genitals was erased because of young visitors to the Archives. "Modifying the image was an attempt on our part to keep the focus on the records," she said. Read more at The Washington Post. Summer Meza
forward march
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The fourth annual Women's March is scheduled to take place on Saturday, and activists are expecting thousands of demonstrators to turn out for the events, which will be held in cities around the country.
The first Women's March took place the day after President Trump's inauguration, and drew hundreds of thousands of participants, reports NPR. This year, the march is expected to be smaller and without the celebrity appearances of years past, in part due to criticism the march's organizers have faced in recent years regarding inclusion and diversity.
The demonstration in Washington, D.C., is expected to attract up to 10,000 demonstrators. Read more at NPR. Summer Meza
bye-bye carbon
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Microsoft announced plans to become "carbon negative" by 2030, seeking to erase its entire carbon footprint since the company's founding in 1975 and begin removing more carbon from the environment than it emits.
The company first wants to reduce emissions to zero across its entire supply chain by 2030, and then focus on eliminating all of the carbon dioxide it has ever released by 2050, reports The Verge.
Microsoft has been carbon neutral since 2012, and achieves this through purchasing renewable energy and carbon offsets. Going negative will require more technology and investment than going neutral. "Technology does exist that does this, but getting the price and the scalability to where we need it to be is a significant challenge," said Lucas Joppa, the company's chief sustainability officer, per CBS News. The company plans to spend $1 billion over the next four years on carbon reduction, capture, and removal.
Read more at The Verge and CBS News. Summer Meza
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Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani who worked as his envoy in Ukraine, communicated with a top aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) about an effort to find damaging information on former Vice President Joe Biden, documents released Friday night by House Democrats revealed.
The evidence shows Derek Harvey, a former White House official and top aide to Nunes, communicated extensively with Parnas and sought to speak with Ukrainian prosecutors who were giving Giuliani information about Biden, reports The Washington Post. The documents corroborate Parnas' own claims about Nunes' office's involvement in the scheme.
Parnas has said President Trump and his associates were working to push Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Biden. The messages, the Post writes, "indicate Nunes' office was aware of the operation at the heart of impeachment proceedings against the president — and sought to use the information Parnas was gathering." Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, did not comment on the documents.
Read more at The Washington Post and NBC News. Summer Meza
collins collapse
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Former GOP Rep. Chris Collins was sentenced on Friday to two years in federal prison on charges of insider trading and lying to the FBI, reports NBC News.
Collins, who was a New York representative since 2013 and was the first member of Congress to endorse President Trump's candidacy, pleaded guilty to tipping off his son to confidential information regarding an Australian biotechnology company, which allowed them to make illegal stock trades avoiding more than $700,000 in losses.
At his sentencing, Collins tearfully apologized, reports The Washington Post. "I stand here today a disgraced former congressman," he said. "I cannot face my constituents. What I have done has marked me for life." The 26-month sentence will begin on March 17, and will likely be served at a federal prison camp in Pensacola, Florida.
Read more at NBC News and The Washington Post. Summer Meza
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Board Games Made Open Source with 3D Printing
Michael Molitch-Hou March 16th 2015 - 10:57am 0 1
There have been a number of Makers that have pursued the 3D printing of game pieces for such popular games as Warhammer 40k and Carcassonne, perhaps infringing on the IP of one major manufacturer or another. But, rather than pursue the works of a large manufacturer, why not invent your own board game? Or, better yet, create a platform for anyone to create and share their own tabletop game? That’s what Bryan Salt and his company ThinkerThing are working towards, via a new Indiegogo campaign.
It’s called Open Board Game, an online platform and community for the easy design and construction of boards, pieces, and characters for tabletop gaming. The board has been designed with a hexagonal pattern that allows for the easy interlocking of pieces, but OBG has added some unique elements to the board pieces to allow for exciting new gameplay ideas. The pieces are designed in such a way that they can be stacked, for vertical, 3D gameplay, and OBG has designed tiles that make room for servos and sensors to create interactive pieces. All tiles are meant to be 3D printed without support structures, to minimize hassle.
R2D figures printed on MakerBot and Ultimaker 3D printers, demonstrating the ease of structureless prints.
OBG’s community serves as a venue for sharing further board game characters, cards, and ideas. OBG members can upload their own creations for others to download, greatly expanding the gaming possibilities for all members. I can imagine, eventually, the merging of worlds, with all games folding into the same universe. And, through the community, members will be able to hack and modify each other’s pieces to extend gameplay even further – a genius idea!
To kick things off, OBG created its own example game called Rust to Dust (R2D). The strategy game sees clans of various robots, the surviving members of a dying civilization, fight with different movements, strengths, and weaknesses. Like the tile pieces, the R2D pieces are meant to be 3D printed without any difficulties. Though three of these robots are available for free download, backing OBG on Indiegogo earns funders access to more of the game’s printable files or, for a little bit more, the game pieces themselves, printed via a pro 3D printing service. Backing the campaign also gets funders access to the OBG members site, where they’ll also have access to Miomon, a Pokemon-style card game.
OBG isn’t Salt’s first 3D printing rodeo. Salt’s company, ThinkerThing, is responsible for the Android App Mr. Fluff’s Robot Factory, covered on 3DPI last year. Among the first approved MakerBot-Ready Apps, Robot Factory allows users to create fun robots whose designs evolve based on user preferences through the company’s “evolutionary algorithm based engine.” Both Robot Factory and OBG are the result of a larger goal for ThinkerThing, that of making the design of 3D printable models an easy and fun process for everyday individuals. Salt tells me:
R2D bots printed in nickel- and gold-plated steel.
You may remember us from Dr. Fluff’s Robot Factory, an application that allowed kids build simple robots using a genetic algorithm. That’s our long term business focus, to build applications that allow anyone to construct their own models for 3D printing. We’ve been working on the next two applications that do that, and your seeing the current result of that work in the models you have in this campaign. Later this year, we will have an application that will allow you to construct completely unique new models of that quality yourself. So, our long term aim is not to make money from the models, but from empowering people to create for themselves.
It’s been difficult to convince investors and we need more funds to continue developing, so the crowd funding has several benefits beyond the money itself. It validates our idea, builds a community working with us and demonstrates to potential investors that their is a demand out there.
Salt and ThinkerThing’s intentions seem genuine, reflective of the open source, Maker ethos enabled by low-cost electronics and the Internet. Funding, at the moment, is necessary to drive the project forward, but it seems that ThinkerThing would like to keep things affordable and hope that OBG players will want to support 3D artists in their community. He tells me:
We’ve made the board pieces completely open, you can download them now, mod them hack them and share. We wanted people to create new interesting pieces and ideas around that. The 56 robot models we’re offering as perks will just be for our backers, but we will be releasing 3 models completely free, so anyone can play the first game. We’re hoping that people would prefer to have the full Clan of unique robots and that we can raise the money that way on the campaign. If we have a big success, one of our stretch goals is to build a complete new clan of 14 models free for all.
This is something new in 3D printing. We know that not many people would consider paying for models. But we’re hoping people would want to support us to make this happen. It’s a bit like the music industry: not many people want to pay for music, but most people want to support artists they like and who are making a difference. We hope were doing something special enough here that people will support us.
There have been a couple other 3D printing initiatives with similar plans establish DIY gaming platforms, but Open Board Game may have the experience and heart to push theirs to the forefront. To support Open Board Game, head over to their Indiegogo campaign here.
Michael Molitch-Hou
Michael Molitch-Hou previously served as Editor-in-Chief of 3D Printing Industry, he is now the Editor of Engineering . com's 3D printing section. He has covered additive manufacturing technology day in and day out since 2012 and has hundreds of article to his credit. He is the founder of The Reality Institute.
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The Amulet Project : Artwork : Exhibition Tour
by Marie Brett
National Exhibition Tour : Ireland : 2014/2015
Introduction+Context
Phase 1 : Research at Cork University Maternity Hospital
Phase 1 : Research at Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum + Irish Folklore Archives
Phase 2: Collaboration with community of interest to infant loss
Exhibitions+Events
Publications+Documentation
Comments+Response
During The Amulet project’s first phase, the artist Marie Brett undertook considerable research at a variety of organisations and institutions throughout Ireland and the UK. This was in parallel to the research project she led at Cork University Maternity Hospital (2009-2011).
Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum
A key institution which informed the artist’s research was Oxford University Pitt Rivers Museum, which houses an extensive collection of anthropology and world archaeology including the international Adrien de Mortillet’s amulet collection. The artist spent time with various staff at the museum, researching and handling a variety of amulets. Later the museum inclusded one of the artist’s artworks in their Small Blessings project/exhibition.
‘The underlying theme that unites all amulets and charms is that the people who create and use them believe in them; almost any object may become a charm or an amulet, so long as someone believes it has the power to affect or alter the world around them… The amulets and charms on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum are material evidence of the hopes and beliefs that are shared by all of humankind.’
Please click here to read Discover Amulets and Charms, A Pitt Rivers Museum Introductory Guide
University College Cork, Cork Folklore Project / Cork City and County Archives
The artist also spent considerable time in research at University College Cork, Cork Folklore Project, exploring their extensive audio and photographic archives. Additionally she spent time at the Cork City and County Archives, exploring written and visual materials relating to various governmental, health and religious institutional archives.
you can visit the websites by clicking on the links here
Cork Folklore Project
Cork City and County Archives
© 2020 The Amulet Project : Artwork : Exhibition Tour /site design by edit+ www.stuartcoughlan.com
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Arkley was born on 5 May 1951, and first lived with his parents in a stucco house in the outer Melbourne suburb of Box Hill (photo: Spray 10). His younger brother Robert was born in 1955, and the following year the family moved to a larger weatherboard house in Surrey Hills, not far from where John Brack lived. Arkley was educated at Surrey Hills State School and Box Hill Technical College. His father Robert (known as Jack), who worked in the stationery business, died in 1977, when Howard was still only in his mid 20s.
For further details on Arkley’s childhood, see Duncan 1991: 15, Spray 10-11, and the discussion in Preston 2002 (relying particularly on Arkley’s mother Gwen, an ardent supporter of her son’s career). These references include various stories about the artist’s early aptitude for art, and significant early influences. A key stimulus was a Sidney Nolan retrospective held at the NGV in 1967, which apparently spurred Arkley to start painting seriously (see Duncan 1991: 15, where the Nolan show is dated incorrectly to 1966; and Spray 10-11). Several enamel on masonite paintings date from this period: e.g. Figure in Jungle, ill. Spray 11 (dated 1967).
In 1968, he saw The Field exhibition which launched the new St Kilda Road National Gallery building (see Duncan 1991: 15); Arkley’s library includes a well-thumbed copy of the catalogue of this exhibition, showcasing abstract style. However, at this early stage it was Surrealism in particular that inspired him (see comments in Spray 11 and Carnival 161ff.), an influence clearly evident in extant works on paper, e.g. One Person and Two Spirits 1968, and Untitled (Homage to Scotty {sic} Wilson) c.1968-69, both reproduced in Spray 12; the latter was possibly exhibited in 1989 at 200 Gertrude Street in a group exhibition (‘The Intimate Object’), as ‘Schoolboy Art [Homage to Scottie Wilson]’). Other comparable examples are extant in Arkley’s archive.
In 1969, he commenced TOP study at Prahran CAE; several works on paper in the artist’s archive date from this period (inscribed IC; some dated 1969).
[untitled architectural drawing from student folio labelled ‘1c’ (1969?)]
Later, he recalled seeing a Ti Parks exhibition at Tolarno, St Kilda in 1969 (see Duncan 1991:15). This experimental show included a Dada-esque ‘sculpture of total environment’, entitled Virginia’s; ‘basically described, this was the stretcher of a large painting (minus the painting)’ (Margaret Plant, Irreverent Sculpture, Monash University Gallery, 1985, p.64). This conceptual piece possibly influenced Arkley’s own later installations.
But at this early stage of his developing career, he was still working mostly under the influence of Surrealism, to judge from an untitled painting on canvas, 83.5 x 65 cm, signed and dated 1969, auctioned by Deutscher-Menzies, Melb., 29-30 Nov.2000 (lot 94A,with reproduction; see also slide in Arkley’s archive, with process date Dec72). Further collaged works on paper also in the lineage of Surrealism date from this period, e.g. a collage showing a shadowy figure and a train (reproduced in Duncan 1991:15 and Spray 13).
He also evidently tried his hand at more conventional painting around this time, to judge from an oil portrait of Melbourne identity Brett Lea, signed by Arkley and dated 1970? (sold by Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 28 Nov.2005, lot 184: reproduced in the auction catalogue, noting a Tolarno provenance).
[Portrait of Brett Lea (1970?), auctioned in 2005]
Shortly after beginning his Diploma in Painting in 1970, Arkley discovered the air-brush that would later become his signature method, apparently through the prompting of noted painter Fred Cress, who was teaching at Prahran CAE at the time (see Rooney 1981 and Duncan 1991:15). Later in 1970, Arkley held his first significant exhibition at Ann’s Garrett Gallery, 280 Chapel Street, together with fellow Prahran student Andrew Hicks; according to the 1969-75 biography in the artist’s archive (see also Duncan 1991:31), he showed ‘13 hardedge collages’; examples of works in this style are extant in Arkley’s studio collection. His drawing skills were praised in a brief review of the Ann’s Garrett Gallery exhibition by respected critic Alan McCulloch (1970).
Arkley continued his Diploma at Prahran CAE in 1971, entering works for several prizes, including a shaped canvas called Section Off, for the Flotto Lauro Prize, The Age Gallery (see HA Bio.1969-75 and Duncan 1991: 15). In which do you belong, an unidentified painting described as 6 feet square, was submitted to the Corio 5 Star Whisky Prize, Geelong Art Gallery (unfortunately the Geelong Gallery have no record of this work). He also submitted a folio of eight drawings for the NGV Drawing Prize for 1971 (details uncertain).
A painting on black cardboard, sprayed in blue-green tones, is reproduced in Spray 14 as ‘Untitled 1971’; the work, measuring approximately 51 x 63.5 cm, is preserved in Arkley’s archive, together with a slide of it labelled ‘Winged’, with process date Nov73.
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270000 Biological Sciences | Arthington, Angela H. | Thoms, Martin | Kingsford, Richard
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Ecological Assessment of Environmental Flow Reference Points for the River Murray System.
Jones, Gary J.
Arthington, Angela H.
Gawne, Ben
Hillman, Terry J.
Kingsford, Richard
Thoms, Martin
Walker, Keith F.
Young, William J.
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Murray Flow Assessment Tool
River Murray
Environmental Flows Decision Support System
Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre
"October 2003".
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Background 1. There is considerable evidence that the overall health of the River Murray system is in decline and no longer in a sustainable condition. While the effects of such decline are more immediately obvious in some parts of the river system than others, the scientific evidence for overall loss of river health is strong. 2. There are multiple threats to the health of the River Murray system. These include changes to flow regime, habitat destruction, increased salt and sediment load, loss of connectivity due to structural alterations, unsustainable floodplain management, and introduction of exotic pests. Of these threats, changes to flow regime are critical and require immediate attention if the River Murray is to be returned to a 'healthy working river’ condition, and maintained that way for future generations. Other threats are being addressed by the MDBC under related programs covered by the Living Murray process, and the MDBC Integrated Catchment Management strategy. 3. Following earlier investigations, in April 2002, the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council called for a comprehensive assessment of the costs and benefits to the environment, industries and communities of returning additional water to the River Murray as environmental flows. The Ministerial Council chose three environmental flow 'reference points’ for analysis; 350, 750 and 1500 GL/yr. Proposed structural and operational modifications were also to be assessed. An independent Scientific Reference Panel (SRP) was contracted by the MDBC in October 2003 under the chair of Professor Gary Jones, Chief Executive, Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology to advise the MDBC and Ministerial Council on potential ecological benefits. 4. The MDBC provided the SRP with three different operational scenarios to be assessed for each of the flow 'reference points’. These scenarios were not proposed water recovery or management options, rather, examples of what may be achievable through improved river operations. For each of the 350, 750 and 1500 GL options a 'Cap’, 'b’ and 'c’ operational scenario was assessed. The 'Cap’ option provided an environmental flow regime based on current river operational rules. The 'b’ and 'c’ options were based on modelled flows targeting various ecosystem locations and specific ecological indicators. 5. This report presents the interim results of the ecological assessment undertaken by the SRP up to August 2003, with minor modifications made in October 2003 in response to international peer reviewers’ comments. It provides estimates of 'ecological potential’ for the reference points under consideration. It is designed to serve as a basis for discussion and review amongst scientists, government officials and the broad community. It is not the definitive or final statement of the SRP on ecological benefits potentially arising from the flow volume reference points. The final report is due for submission to MDBC in mid-2004.
MDFRC funding agency: Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Living Murray Initiative (now Murray-Darling Basin Authority)
MDFRC client: Murray-Darling Basin Commission
Open Access. This report has been reproduce with the publishers permission.
Permission to reproduce this report must be sought from the publisher.
Copyright (2003) Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre.
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Croque Mort
Gordon, Douglas
'Croque Mort' is a series of large colour photographs of a baby biting her toes. Taken in extreme close-up, and installed in a blood-red room, the series avoids the sentimentality that may be implied in its subject matter, to focus instead on the rather unsettling image of a body biting itself. The sense of unease is emphasised by Gordon's choice of title, which refers to an old French term for mortician, deriving from the practice of biting the toes of a corpse to check that it was really dead. Douglas Gordon uses both appropriated and original material to explore contrasting themes such as temptation and fear, life and death, good and evil and innocence and guilt. Often epic in scale, his work encompasses film, photography, installation, text and sound. Fiona Bradley
Artwork Details: 7 works, total, 135 x 1185cm
Edition: 4 of 13
Material description: c-type photographic print
Credit line: © the artist and Lisson Gallery, London
Theme: Undefined
Accession number: ACC42/2000
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스크리닝 프로젝트: 동시상영 #12
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Screening Project: Dongshisangyoung is a series of curated screening shows that focus on the video works by contemporary artists. The 12th show introduces the works of four artists from Korea, Japan, Norway, and Turkey to examine how the legacies of war in societies psychologically affect the post-war generation.
“I’m Not the Enemy” by Bjørn Melhus, German Norwegian artist, is a fictional video work that explores the psychological life of a veteran who has just returned to his society from war. Korean artist Jung Kyun Shin’s “Non-Existence” questions about value and meaning of the duties assigned to Korean young men by the nation through a dramatic story of a former special forces instructor & South Korean secret agent. Taking a form of language instruction video, “Lesson” by Aya Momose, born in Japan, contemplates the people who have forcibly lost their mother tongue during colonial occupation. In “TANK LOVE”, Turkish artist Köken Ergun presents a military tank crossing a peaceful village in Denmark in order to reveal critical points of demonstration of military power, and apathy of neighboring countries involved in the Afghan war.
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PRC, Inc., founded over 40 years ago, is a major developer and integrator of science and technology based systems for government and industry. PRC has approximately 6,800 employees working in more than 200 offices in the United States and abroad. It is a subsidiary of the Black and Decker Corporation.
Project 2851, also known as the Standard Simulator Digital Data Base/Common Transformation Program, was a Tri Service effort managed by the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center. The AFASC served as Executive Agent for the three services. Project 2851 was instituted in March 1987 as a Research and Development effort to design and implement standard data bases and software to support DoD training simulators. The original objectives of the program included:
Reduction in duplicative and costly simulator data base preparation and maintenance,
Reduction in duplicative and costly simulator data base transformation software development and maintenance,
Improvement in the scene correlation among different sensor displays (e.g., radar, out the window visuals, infra red, night vision goggles) within a simulator, and
Creation of a data base library and production capability which will address the Services' need for high resolution terrain and culture data to support realistic mission training.
The Ada Application
The client specified the use of Ada to keep from being platform-dependent. The use of Ada with this architecture led to a loosely-coupled system that was easily and quickly developed, tested and integrated.
Project 2851 is a major Ada software development effort. At the end of 1993, over 1,100,000 lines of source code had been written for the project, 95% of them in Ada. The program was developed in accordance with MIL STD 2167. The large system was to be incrementally developed and consisted of the following major elements:
The Standard Simulator Data Base (SSDB), a large highly structured database of cartographic and raster data, supported by common database access routines.
Many stand-alone main subprograms that perform standard functions on the database.
A system executive that controls the scheduling and execution of these stand-alone programs.
Several large system or subsystem common type declaration packages that ensure that all data objects in the system are consistent.
A user interface that allows multi user access to the system through the system executive. Subsequent enhancements were tested and added to the system with minimal impact. The staff of programmer/analysts averaged ten, over the period of the contract. With an average of over 1,200 lines of source code per month to test, integrate and document, it would have been virtually impossible for such a small staff to develop the system in seven years with any other language. Ada is most definitely the language of choice for developing large systems!
The Standard Simulator Database
Project 2851 generates Standard Simulator Databases (SSDB) by starting with existing digital cartographic data sources, such as Digital Feature Analysis Data (DFAD) and Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED), from the Defense Mapping Agency. The data is enhanced by digitizing non digital source materials, including maps, charts and photos, to achieve the higher resolution detail required to simulate visual and sensor displays in advanced air, ground, and naval weapon systems.
Synthetic data may be generated or photo texture applied where required for scene realism. The enhanced data is integrated with two- and three-dimensional graphic models. These may be developed internally through the use of constructive solid geometry techniques or input from other simulation databases that had been or will be developed for DoD simulation programs.
When requests are received for digital databases developed under Project 2851, data is selected based on the parameters selected by the requester and is extracted from the SSDB; a Generic Transformed Data Base (GTDB) is produced. This GTDB is optimized for use on a specific image generator to support a particular weapon system training requirement. GTDBs can be produced for image generators that simulate visual, radar, infrared or night vision goggle scenes. The GTDBs that are furnished to the requester will be closely correlated, providing consistency between the various sensor displays for a common geographical area.
Additional Project Objectives
Project 2851 was given an additional objective to develop and implement a Standard Simulator Data Base Interchange Format (SIF). The SIF would serve as an input/output vehicle for sharing externally created simulator data bases via the Project 2851 library function. The SIF has been approved as a formal Military Standard (1821). Data bases developed using this standard were used to support Interoperabiity Demonstrations in November 1992 and December 1993 at the Interservice/Industry Training Systems Conference (ITSEC). In these demonstrations the heterogeneous equipment of over 50 government and industry members of the training and simulation community participated in mock battles over the standard terrain data base provided by PRC.
Other enhancements to the system during this phase included:
Increasing system utility by augmentation of system functionality;
Increasing throughput by system tuning;
Further de coupling the system by restructuring the system executive;
Enhancing the configuration control portion of the system by converting selected database functions to Sybase;
Increasing user control by adding a linked multi job submission capability (pipelining); and
Replacing the forms based user interface of the prototype was replaced with a Graphic User Interface (GUI). MOTIF and DEC's VUIT were used in developing the interface.
Project 2851 development and production activities were accomplished at the PRC facility in McLean, Virginia until July 1994. At that time, the system was deployed to Kirtland AFB, NM and the acceptance demonstration was completed.
Project 2851 can claim several important accomplishments resulting from its development:
Development of two military standards, Mil Std 1820 GTDBs and Mil Std 1821 SIF, which have been adopted by the government.
Successful management of the Industry Service Working Group (ISWG), involving over 300 government, industry, and academic representatives over a six year period.
System development in Ada with over 1,040,000 lines of Ada code.
Development of an implementation approach based on the concept of screen as the primary object in a MOTIF GUI interface.
Subcontractors on this project include Martin Marietta, Autometric, LNK, Hughes, McDonnell Douglas, TRIFID.
Eugene Clayton
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Based on an article by Paul Botting and Eugene Clayton, PRC, Inc.
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Cards ahead in the count
Arms race is clearly no contest
Tom Haudricourt
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Game report: Saturday at a glance
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It was amazing how quickly the St. Louis Cardinals laid waste to the other "contenders" in the National League Central Division.
On July 1, the Cardinals were 41-38 and two games behind the Milwaukee Brewers, who led the division with a 42-35 record. The Chicago Cubs were 36-38, 4 ½ games behind the Brewers.
Since that date, the Cubs have spun their wheels, entering Saturday with a 64-62 record. The Brewers did far worse, going 20-31 over that span. Houston also took a dive, losing 20 of 33 games.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals headed in the other direction. Entering play Saturday, they had forged a 34-17 record since the first of July.
That's how you go from two games behind the Brewers to a dozen games ahead of them.
While the addition of Matt Holliday in a deal with Oakland did wonders for the St. Louis offense, pitching separates them from the pretenders in the division. Since July 1, the Cardinals are 28-4 in games started by the "Big 3" of Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright and Joel Pineiro.
Another tremendous difference for the Cardinals this season has been closer Ryan Franklin dispatching opponents in the ninth inning. After converting 34 saves in 36 opportunities, he's getting a two-year extension by the Cardinals.
Entering the weekend, the Cardinals were 8-0-1 in their last nine series. Their last series loss came in Philadelphia on July 24-26, the first series that Holliday was with the team.
Considering their $135 million payroll and experienced starting rotation, the Cubs have been a bigger disappointment than the Brewers, who knew their pitching was razor-thin entering the season.
The Cardinals' surge had Cubs manager Lou Piniella speaking in realistic terms a few days back.
"It's a challenge every day, a daunting challenge," Piniella said. "We came into the season with a lot of expectations, and they haven't materialized.
"I can see where people get inquisitive and a little disturbed by it. But we're doing the best we can. That's all we can do."
As the Brewers wait for some badly needed pitching prospects to emerge in their farm system, two high draft picks from 2008 are having trouble finding the strike zone.
Left-hander Evan Frederickson, taken with a supplemental first-round pick (No. 35 overall), is 3-7 with a 5.20 ERA in 27 games (14 starts) with Class A Wisconsin. In 88 1/3 innings, he has allowed 89 hits and a whopping 75 walks to go with 82 strikeouts.
Right-hander Seth Lintz, a second-round pick out of Marshall County (Tenn.) High School, also is having trouble throwing strikes. Lintz is 0-4 with a 5.04 ERA with the rookie Arizona Brewers, with 38 walks allowed and 12 wild pitches in 37 2/3 innings.
Right-hander Jake Odorizzi, another supplemental first-rounder (No. 32), is faring better with the rookie club in Helena. He is 1-2 with a 3.53 ERA in eight games (six starts), with only six walks in 35 2/3 innings and 25 strikeouts.
Foot-in-mouth disease
It's one thing to be disappointing on the field after signing a big contract, as Milton Bradley has been with the Chicago Cubs
It's another to become a major liability off the field.
Bradley dug himself into a seemingly inescapable hole during a couple of interviews last week. He said he felt "hatred" from the fans, then in trying to clarify those feelings, only made matters worse.
"All I'm saying is I just pray the game is nine innings, so I can be out there the least amount of time as possible and go home," Bradley told reporters who cover the team.
Bradley said he has heard racist jeers from the bleacher creatures but said he has been uncomfortable off the field as well.
"I'm talking about when I go to eat at a restaurant, I have to listen to the waiters badmouthing me at another table, sitting in a restaurant, that's what I'm talking about - everything," he said.
Piniella, not a big Bradley fan, said his right fielder would be best served to keep such comments to himself.
"During the heat of the battle, it's not the easiest thing to do," Piniella said about blocking out fans. "But if you can train yourself to do that, you're going to be way ahead of the game.
"You're going to enjoy the experience a lot more because some fans can test you a little bit."
Considering Bradley's history, it's impossible to feel sorry for the Cubs for being caught in this trap.
Better late than never?
The Chicago White Sox knew when they traded for injured San Diego ace Jake Peavy on July 31 that he might not be healthy soon enough to help their playoff chances.
The Sox hoped Peavy would make his first start Saturday in New York but that didn't happen after he took a liner off his pitching elbow in a minor-league rehab outing with Class AAA Charlotte. Instead, another outing was scheduled with that club.
Meanwhile, Chicago struggled to stay close to first-place Detroit in the AL Central race. Entering Saturday, the Sox were five games out, then got pummeled, 10-0, by New York.
"The way we're playing, it feels like we're 20 games out," manager Ozzie Guillen told reporters.
"(Peavy) is desperate to pitch. I told him we need him and want him and would like to have him on the mound. But like I keep saying, day in and day out, we have to be patient and careful."
Peavy wasn't happy about the setback, either, but looked forward to getting on the mound with Chicago.
"Sooner or later I'll get my chance and make the best of the opportunity, a great opportunity for any ballplayer to be playing for a division title," he said.
Or battling for second place.
Not very Chipper
Just when it appeared the Atlanta Braves were ready to make a move in the NL wild-card race, Chipper Jones went ice cold at the plate. Entering Saturday, he had three hits in 39 at-bats (.077), dropping his batting average to .278.
This, from a hitter who won the NL batting title last year (.364) and has a career .310 average.
"I can sit here and tell you all of the things I've done wrong this whole year (mechanically), and the list is long and boring," Jones told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But the bottom line is, you get a pitch to hit pretty much every at-bat, and if you don't do your damage with that one pitch, you just do your best to hang on the rest of the at-bat.
"We are trained to not miss those mistakes. Right now, and for about the last month, I've done as good a job as I can to miss every mistake that they make. Right now, a moral victory for me is a walk."
Ironically, Jones is the healthiest he has been in years. He is on pace to play in 143 games, which would be his highest total since 2003.
"The last couple of years, when we were out of it, you wouldn't have trouble asking (for a day off)," he said. "But, right now, you definitely don't want to ask for one. It could be the one game that determines whether or not we go to the playoffs."
High risk, no reward
Seattle third baseman Adrian Beltre, on the disabled list with a badly bruised right testicle, hopes to be activated soon. He was injured when struck by a ground ball while not wearing a protective cup.
So, obviously, Beltre will wear a cup when he returns to action, right? Not that Beltre wants to, but he'll probably have to wear one.
"Probably, I will (wear a cup)," he told the Seattle Times. "The swelling is still there, so maybe for now, I have to. I'm planning to go play with my testicle swollen, so I have to wear one."
What about when the swelling goes down?
"I don't know," he said. "That's a good question."
When it was pointed out that most players wouldn't hesitate to wear a cup after suffering such an injury, Beltre said, "I might be lying if I said that. I've tried before. It's uncomfortable. I hated it. If it's going to happen every 11 years of my career, I'll take my chances."
Manny being slumpy
The honeymoon period appears over for Manny Ramirez in Los Angeles.
Hailed as the conquering hero upon returning from a 50-game suspension for using a banned substance, Ramirez lately has heard boos at Dodger Stadium. They were directed at his poor outfield play, but those tendencies tend to get overlooked when Ramirez is hitting.
But Ramirez hasn't been hitting.
Entering Saturday, he had 11 hits in his last 48 at-bats (.229). Worse yet, he had only one homer and five RBI in his last 78 at-bats before socking a two-run homer in the first inning against Cincinnati.
Ramirez insisted the booing didn't bother him, but manager Joe Torre suggested he was trying too hard to carry the club.
"He knows why he's in the lineup," Torre said. "He knows we count on him. He tries to be that guy. He's certainly capable of being that guy. Sometimes (his swing) gets a little too big, too long."
MLB: St. Louis RHP Adam Wainwright
Wainwright pitched eight scoreless innings Tuesday to outduel Houston's Wandy Rodriguez in a 1-0 victory. Since July 1, Wainwright is 7-2 with a 1.21 ERA. Overall, he is 15-7 with a 2.50 ERA. Can you say Cy Young?
BREWERS: 2B Felipe Lopez
Despite being slowed by a foot injury, Lopez entered Saturday on fire at the plate. In his last 22 games, he was batting .391 (36 for 92) with 14 RBI, giving the Brewers the leadoff presence they sought after losing Rickie Weeks.
Braves at Marlins: Monday-Thursday. Philly will be watching.
Red Sox at Rays: Tuesday-Thursday. Major wild-card implications.
Giants at Phillies: Tuesday-Thursday. Pitching vs. power.
Tigers at Rays: Friday-Sunday. Stiff test for Detroit.
BREWERS THIS WEEK
There was a time when it appeared the Brewers' three-game series in St. Louis would have special meaning. Now, it's merely a platform for the Cardinals to bury them deeper. And the Brewers weren't done a favor when the schedule-makers sent San Francisco to Milwaukee twice this season.
One reason the St. Louis pitching staff is so strong: It doesn't beat itself. The Cardinals have issued no walks in 16 games this season, tops in the majors.
Right-hander Joel Pineiro has been a master of control, issuing no walks in 13 of his 25 starts.
YOU FIGURE IT OUT
The Boston Red Sox are so protective of their relievers that they had utilityman Nick Green pitch the last two innings of a 9-5 loss Thursday to the Chicago White Sox. Green tossed two scoreless innings with no hits and three walks.
"I had to go out there and try to pitch because our pitchers couldn't go," said Green, whose fastball was clocked in the 88-90 mph range. "That's the only reason I went out there."
Green became the Red Sox's second position player to throw at least two hitless innings. The last to do so was Eddie Lake, who went 2 1/3 hitless innings against St. Louis on May 17, 1944.
Green never pitched in the minors but has a strong arm, making him the best candidate among the bench players. His first pitch to Sox infielder Gordon Beckham hit 90 mph but was a ball.
"I didn't know what to expect," he said. "I haven't tried to throw a strike to a catcher in 11 years."
“I feel proud when I put the hat on today and the uniform. Trust me. It's a dream come true.” - Livan Hernandez, signed by Washington after being released by the Mets.
1. St. Louis Cardinals 1
Piniero having breakthrough season.
2. Philadelphia Phillies 3
Lidge now a 50-50 proposition.
3. Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Manny isn't making a difference.
4. Colorado Rockies 4
Tulowitzki an offensive force again.
5. San Francisco Giants 5
Cain a quality-start machine.
6. Atlanta Braves 7
Infante a jack of all trades.
7. Florida Marlins 6
N. Johnson wasn't active long.
8. Chicago Cubs 8
Bradley puts target on his back.
9. Houston Astros 9
Rumblings in clubhouse grow louder.
10. Milwaukee Brewers 10
September schedule is scary.
11. New York Mets 11
Injury list is ridiculous.
12. Cincinnati Reds 13
Enjoyed visit to Milwaukee.
13. Arizona Diamondbacks 12
Keeping pitchers didn't help.
14. Pittsburgh Pirates 15
Trades didn't break their spirit.
15. San Diego Padres 14
Kouzmanoff having strong finish.
16. Washington Nationals 16
Zimmerman racking up RBI.
1. New York Yankees 1
Teixeira living up to hype.
2. Los Angeles Angels 2
Have used 13 starting pitchers.
3. Boston Red Sox 3
Threw away bad Penny.
4. Texas Rangers 4
Davis back at first base.
5. Tampa Bay Rays 5
All or nothing for Pena.
6. Detroit Tigers 6
Robertson back from elbow injury.
7. Seattle Mariners 8
Langerhans has dramatic flair.
8. Chicago White Sox 7
A tough visit to Boston.
9. Minnesota Twins 9
Span an igniter for offense.
10. Toronto Blue Jays 10
Cecil's innings will be limited.
11. Cleveland Indians 12
Perez making impact in bullpen.
12. Oakland Athletics 11
Bailey steady in late innings.
13. Baltimore Orioles 13
Bullpen unable to protect leads.
14. Kansas City Royals 14
Guillen close to returning.
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By MICHAEL PETROU
Quebec City’s political allergy
By MARTIN PATRIQUIN
By CHRIS SORENSEN
Maclean's | March 31 2014
MACLEAN’S BACK PAGES (15)
“I feel like I was sold,” says Anna Grigsan, a political science student in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that voted last weekend to join with Russia, following a Russian invasion of the territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a treaty with Crimean leaders approving the union, and formal annexation will likely be completed this week with ratification in Russia’s parliament. By MICHAEL PETROU
Perched like a pretty dare over the rush of the St. Lawrence River, Quebec City would greatly benefit from Quebec’s eventual graduation to statehood. At least, so goes the argument of Quebec sovereignists. Quebec City, they say, would inherit the governmental heft of a true capital city, the country’s base for its bureaucratic machinery, military command and diplomatic corps. By MARTIN PATRIQUIN
The wind-up of Sears Canada’s flagship store in downtown Toronto was a sorry sight. Deal-hunters roamed the cavernous and half-empty building in search of deep discounts on everything from watches to washing machines. Even the dented fixtures were sold off at cut-rate prices—all while an army of suddenly unemployed mannequins looked on. By CHRIS SORENSEN
Architectural treasure box
AT THE TURN of the 20th century, Winnipeg was primed to be a Canadian powerhouse. “There was more construction happening here in 1904 than there was in Toronto and Montreal combined,” says local architect Brent Bellamy, architecture columnist with the Winnipeg Free Press. By ROSEMARY COUNTER
Noah, the first world’s environmentalist
So far, director Darren Aronofsky couldn’t have asked for a better marketing plan for his Noah. Censors in the Middle East don’t like it, which has to play well in the U.S., while in America, where the ticket-buyers are, mainstream evangelicals have given a cautious seal of approval. By BRIAN BETHUNE
Mike Pearson pulls up the DIY fish trap he’s left overnight in a slough near Agassiz, B.C. He’s hoping to catch Salish suckers, an endangered freshwater fish that looks like it’s puckered up for a kiss. While the work is routine for Pearson, an ecological consultant in the Fraser Valley, one thing is different on this day: By ANNE CASSELMAN
THE COLUMNISTS
JUST BECAUSE VLADIMIR Putin made the first move in Ukraine doesn’t mean he must ultimately win. If you look only inside Ukraine, the Russian president’s early action has given him a tremendous advantage. He moved in Russian troops, activated local militia in Crimea, organized a referendum, declared victory and signed the region’s annexation without firing a shot. By PAUL WELLS
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Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the Company on account of sex. The Company shall not discriminate in any way against any individual Flight Attendant with respect to her/his compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of such individual's race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status or sexual orientation.
Marital status shall not be indicated on any Company records or correspondence except where necessary.
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The Company shall provide in an established manner each Flight Attendant with a copy of this Agreement, Supplemental Agreements and all associated documents, printed and bound in a convenient pocket size booklet, within sixty (60) days after signing of this Agreement. The outside cover of the booklet shall be subject to mutual agreement between the Union and the Company. Copies of all additional or Supplemental Agreements or Letters of Agreement shall be promptly furnished to all Flight Attendants in such form as to make for ease of insertion into the booklet. The Union shall be responsible for and provide the Company with an index to be placed in each booklet prior to distribution.
Flight Crew Lounges
The Company will make a reasonable effort to furnish lounges with an adequate number of reclining chairs or couches at layover stations and at all locations where Flight Attendants are based. Further, the Company shall be responsible for maintaining clean, well-lighted, properly ventilated quiet lounges. The recommendations of the MEC President/designee will be considered in determining the adequacy of any lounge facility.
If there is no adequate flight crew lounge at layover stations or locations where Flight Attendants are based the Company shall furnish comfortable, clean and quiet rooms in a suitable location where Flight Attendants are scheduled at such stations in excess of three hours (3:00). There will be no more than two (2) Flight Attendants assigned to a room. The Company shall include the name and phone number of the hotel in the key pages.
Railway Labor Act
During the life of this Agreement, neither the Company, the Union, nor the employees covered by this Agreement will cause, approve, authorize, or support any action inconsistent with the general purposes of, and general duties defined in the Railway Labor Act while the procedural processes of this Agreement and the Railway Labor Act are being followed, or where arbitration is agreed upon, or where a matter is subject to the jurisdiction of the System Board of Adjustment.
Emergency Assignments
Irrespective of Section 2.J, under emergency conditions where regular Flight Attendants are not available, the Company may staff flights with employees other than Flight Attendants up to the minimum FAA staffing requirements for the equipment used.
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Except as otherwise expressly provided, nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to limit the Company in any way in the exercise of the regular and customary functions of management.
The Company's General Policy and Inflight Service Manuals shall govern all Flight Attendants insofar as they are not in conflict with this Agreement. Such manuals shall be available to Flight Attendants at all domicile locations.
Separate Operations
The Company may establish separate operations within a Flight Attendant domicile. The assignment of equipment to such separate operations will be determined after considering the recommendations of the Union. Such operations shall be considered separate for the purpose of filling of vacancies and reduction of personnel as set forth in Section 21, except that bids for intra-domicile transfers may be filed after three (3) months and such transfers will be honored in seniority order as vacancies occur.
Paychecks
Paychecks shall be available for distribution to Flight Attendants at their domicile office not later than the first (1st) or sixteenth (16th) of each month. If paychecks arrive at the domicile before the first (1st) or sixteenth (16th), the Company will process and distribute paychecks upon their arrival in the domicile without delay. Paychecks shall be issued during hours when Inflight Service Personnel are on duty at the domicile office. When no Inflight Service Personnel are on duty, paychecks shall be available during periods of time that there are scheduled arrivals or departures at the domicile.
A Flight Attendant shall receive seventy percent (70%) of base pay not later than the first (1st) day of each month.
a. A Flight Attendant may receive her/his paycheck by mail by providing the Company with a self-addressed stamped envelope.
b. Flight Attendants may elect to have their pay electronically deposited in the financial institution of their choice provided such institution accepts electronic deposits.
c. The exchange rate for Flight Attendants based in International domiciles will be calculated in accordance with terms of the Exchange Rate Sideletter of February 28, 2012 on page 286 of the Agreement.
d. Paystubs shall indicate "earnings" and that these payments are from United Airlines.
A Flight Attendant who requires an adjustment check of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) or more shall receive said check as soon as possible but not later than four (4) weekdays after notifying the Company. When necessary to meet this four (4) day requirement, checks shall be issued locally. The Flight Attendant, if in the direct deposit program, also has the option of having the check electronically deposited in a U.S. account within seven (7) business days, or mailed within the above four (4) weekdays. Any taxes deducted from the adjustment check shall take into account the tax rate used for the Flight Attendant’s most recent paycheck and will be calculated in accordance with regulations of the appropriate tax authority.
Airplane Tidying
A Flight Attendant's duties shall include the tidying of aircraft in flight and on through flights. Flight Attendants may be required to perform additional responsibilities beyond tidying, such as trash pick-up and maintaining a neat cabin appearance throughout the trip sequence. Such duties may also include picking up supplies or depositing trash on the boarding device (e.g., jet bridge), but Flight Attendants shall not be required to perform these duties at the termination of a duty day. On terminating flights and flight segments scheduled for three (3) hours or more duration, Flight Attendants shall not be required to perform any tidying duties after terminating passengers have deplaned. A Flight Attendant's duties shall not include the cleaning of any aircraft.
Crew Complement
The Company will establish from time to time and make available to the Union the standards being used to determine the number of Flight Attendants required on flights to which a variable complement is being applied. Prior to implementing any changes to these standards the Company will advise the MEC President or designee. Every reasonable effort will be made to monitor and staff consistent with these standards.
The Company agrees to meet with Union representatives at their request at mutually agreeable times to afford them the opportunity to make recommendations concerning the staffing of Company aircraft with Flight Attendants. If the MEC President brings to the Company's attention a situation where in her/his opinion, due to the type of service required, serving time and number of passengers, the crew complement creates a marginal service condition (i.e., if the Flight Attendant crew cannot complete their work assignments as per standard practices within the allotted times), the Company will act expeditiously to investigate the problems. If, in its investigation, the Company does not agree that the addition of a Flight Attendant is justified, the Company will provide the MEC President with the reasons therefor.
The MEC President may request a review of this determination by the Senior Vice President-Inflight Service and copies may be provided to the President and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
For minimum bid crew complement, see Section 9.C.1.
Pass Transportation
It is agreed that the pass transportation regulations as established by Company policy, effective January 1, 1987, will apply to Flight Attendants and will not be substantially changed or discontinued during the term of this Agreement without first advising the Union the reason therefor and affording the Union an opportunity to confer with the Company. It is further understood that any additional pass entitlements extended to other employees during the term of this Agreement will also be extended to the Flight Attendants, surviving spouses and/or their dependents.
A Flight Attendant who is called upon to perform jury duty shall receive flight pay credit for any flight time loss (daily vacation rate for reserves). The Flight Attendant shall be available for rescheduling on those days originally scheduled for duty which do not conflict with the jury duty assignment; however, after five (5) or more consecutive days of jury duty, or combination of flight duty and jury duty, the Flight Attendant will be guaranteed two (2) additional days off with pay. Any compensation or expenses provided by the court may be retained by the Flight Attendant.
Court Witness
A Flight Attendant who is called upon to appear in court as a witness for the Company shall receive flight pay credit for any time loss (daily vacation rate for reserves). The Flight Attendant shall be available for rescheduling on those days originally scheduled for duty which do not conflict with the court appearance date(s). However, after five (5) or more consecutive days as a court witness, or a combination of flight duty and court witness activity, the Flight Attendant will be guaranteed two (2) additional days off with pay. The Flight Attendant who appears in court as a witness for the Company will be reimbursed for reasonable actual expenses incurred.
A Flight Attendant who is required to appear in court as the result of being subpoenaed or being a named party in a court action shall be removed from schedule without reduction to her/his monthly maximum flight time (DNF). Such DNF may be made up in accordance with the open flying provisions.
Marriage will not disqualify a Flight Attendant from continuing in the employ of the Company as a Flight Attendant.
Flight Attendants may be assigned by the Inflight Service Division on a voluntary basis to special assignments that are non-managerial in nature and that are related to the Flight Attendant position.
Flight Attendants awarded any combination of special assignments in excess of one hundred eighty (180) days in a calendar year, shall accrue seniority for a maximum of one hundred eighty (180) days in the calendar year while on special assignment and thereafter shall only retain seniority.
Cabin Jumpseat Authority (CJA)
Flight Attendants shall be granted authority to use the cabin jumpseat in accordance with the Company regulations and procedures, including the ability to utilize the jumpseat while traveling in appropriate First Class pass travel attire with airline ID.
The use of cabin jumpseat authority will be restricted to Flight Attendants employed by the Company, Inflight Service personnel and others specifically authorized by the Senior Vice President-Inflight Service.
Jumpseat authority shall not be denied due to aircraft weight restrictions.
A Flight Attendant Instructor, Supervisor-Inflight Service or a Flight Attendant on a Union leave of absence whose name appears on the Flight Attendant System Seniority List may displace a Flight Attendant on any ID(s). A Flight Attendant Instructor, Supervisor-Inflight Service, Staff Representative - Safety or any Inflight Service management personnel who has direct responsibility for the development and/or implementation of Inflight Service policies and procedures whose name does not appear on the Flight Attendant System Seniority List may displace six (6) times per year. Further, such individuals shall be governed by all flight time and duty time provisions of the Agreement and shall only displace on an ID(s) which has first been assigned to either a Lineholder or Reserve. It is recognized the above stated application does not apply in those instances where the provisions of Paragraph F of this Section have been initiated.
Emergency Time Off
Flight Attendants shall be entitled to time off without loss of pay up to a maximum of three (3) days, in the event of death in her/his immediate family or spouse's immediate family, in accordance with Company policy.
Flight Attendants may voluntarily organize Speakers Bureaus at each domicile for the purpose of receiving and fulfilling requests by outside organizations for Flight Attendants to speak to their organization on various topics, including the job of a Flight Attendant, how to pack a suitcase, etc. It is understood that Flight Attendants participating in Speakers Bureau activities do so on a voluntary basis. Upon request and to the extent possible, the Company shall furnish such Speakers Bureaus with materials, posters, films, etc., to use in their speaking engagements. Assignments made by such Speakers Bureaus shall not be considered publicity assignments within the meaning of Section 5.G of this Agreement. Flight Attendants fulfilling a speaking engagement assigned by the Speakers Bureau shall be reimbursed for reasonable actual meal and travel expenses (automobile) when supported by a receipt.
Personal Time Off
Guaranteed PTO time will be made available to Flight Attendants on a daily basis regardless of Critical Coverage. Guaranteed PTO will consist of one per cent (1%) of a domicile’s active Flight Attendant population on any day. Such PTO will be granted on a seniority basis a day at a time to Flight Attendants; however, to ensure equitable distribution, Flight Attendants may use the guaranteed PTO for eight (8) days a year. The daily percentage will be allocated in two (2) equal parts (any fraction will be allocated to the fifteen [15] day-in-advance portion). The first part will be awarded fifteen (15) days in advance. Any unused PTO will be allocated to the corresponding five (5) days-in-advance portion. A one (1) day notice will be required to qualify for the remaining guaranteed PTO time. If the needs of the service permit, however, any unused slots may continue to be available until 0001 of the requested day. Such requests will have priority over regular ANP.
PTO shall not be awarded to a Flight Attendant who is on duty and unavailable to utilize such PTO.
Flight time lost due to Personal Time Off may be made up during the month taken if authorized by Inflight Scheduling.
If a PTO day will cause a reserve to be unable to be assigned on her/his remaining days of availability, the reserve will be placed on PTO for the day requested and CNF for the subsequent days on, in the reserve block.
New equipment as provided by this sub-section means any equipment placed into service by the Company of an aircraft type or series which is not in service on the date of signing.
The Company will notify the MEC President/designee of any decision to place new equipment into service. The Union will receive copies of all interior design plans, including revisions of such plans. The Union's input to such plans will be considered during the design process.
Minimum Bid Positions
a. Minimum bid positions for new equipment will be equal to one (1) Flight Attendant per fifty (50) passenger seats for aircraft with up to two hundred and fifty (250) passenger seats. For new equipment with two hundred and fifty-one (251) passenger seats or more, the minimum bid positions will be one (1) Flight Attendant per fifty (50) passenger seats plus one (1) additional Flight Attendant.
b. The Company will confer with the Union to determine the position assignments available for bid in accordance with Section 9.C.6. prior to placing such new equipment into service.
International On-Board Rest Facilities
On new equipment scheduled to fly eight (8) hours or more, or which is later redeployed to fly eight (8) hours or more, sufficient facilities will be installed to accommodate crew rest breaks. Such facilities will be no less favorable for comparable new equipment than those provided by Section 12.M.5(b) and (c) for aircraft specified therein. The foregoing is not intended to change, replace or modify the provisions of Section 12.M.5. of the Agreement.
Premium pay will be no less favorable for comparable new equipment than that provided in Section 5.B.1. and 2. and Section 12.D.4. for aircraft specified therein.
Should the Company place into service any of the following aircraft types, or series thereof, those aircraft will be classified as narrow-body or wide-body as listed below:
Narrow-Body Wide-Body
F-100 MD 11
MD 80-90 A 310
A321 A 330
Should the Company place into service any new equipment of an aircraft type not included in this list, such new equipment should be treated for this purpose the same as the aircraft type on the above list or currently in service that is most comparable to such new equipment.
Crossing Picket Line
The Company will not require Flight Attendants to layover at any hotel whose employees are on strike and who are picketing the layover hotel or to deadhead off-line on any airline whose employees are on strike and who are picketing the airport(s) through which Flight Attendants must travel. If alternative accommodations cannot be found, the Company will make every effort to transport Flight Attendants so as to avoid picket lines.
Electronic Bulletin Board
The Company will maintain an automated Bulletin Board for the Flight Attendants use in trip trades, RDO trades, vacation trades, and any other such rescheduling functions under the Flight Attendants' control as may become available in the future.
The Company may communicate with Flight Attendants and AFA-CWA via electronic means. The Company is not required to provide paper documents for official notices, general information, and correspondence related to grievances and hearing decisions, except that the Company will continue to send paper copies of disciplinary letters, Letters of Charge, and hearing/grievance decisions to the affected Flight Attendant(s), unless an affected Flight Attendant opts to receive these communications via electronic means. A Flight Attendant who has opted to receive electronic copies of disciplinary letters, Letters of Charge, and hearing/grievance decisions may revert to receiving paper copies by sending written notice to her/his domicile manager. A Flight Attendant may change her/his option no more than once per calendar year. The Company will provide adequate equipment in domiciles for Flight Attendants to access electronic communications. The AFA-CWA and the Company will meet to discuss Flight Attendant access issues prior to implementation of any new communication methodology.
AA. Crew Scheduling Recordings
The Company shall establish and maintain telephone recording system(s) to record all telephone conversations between Crew Scheduling, including all other departments that regularly perform crew scheduling functions, and Flight Attendants. The recording system shall indicate the time and date of calls. 2.
Recordings shall be kept for a minimum of sixty (60) days. A specific recorded telephone conversation shall be made accessible to a Local President/designee within seven (7) days after her/his written request and notice of a potential or actual dispute to the Director of Crew Scheduling and/or designee.
If a relevant recorded conversation is missing, damaged, or inaudible, a prompt review of the matter shall be conducted by the Director of Crew Scheduling and/or designee upon request by the Union.
BB. Reciprocal Cabin Seat
The Company will make reasonable, good faith efforts to enter into reciprocal cabin seat agreements with other airlines, including large international network airlines that provide direct service between domicile cities, provided that the terms for the Company are substan tially the same as domestic cabin seat agreements. The Company will not initiate termination of a current Flight Attendant cabin seat agreement with another airline unless the other airline imposes cost or otherwise materially changes the terms and conditions of the cabin seat agreement.
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Gerald J. Wasserburg in US Army uniform in Leipzig, Germany during World War II
Photo supplied by Gerald J. Wasserburg shows him as a rifleman, Charlie Company, 23rd Regiment Infantry, 2nd Division, 3rd Army (United States). Photo taken a few daysafter the US Army took the city of Leipzig, Germany (between April 12-15, 1945). Wasserburg had just turned 18 and was one the first GIs to enter the city. His armaments include an M-1 (Garand) rifle, a hand grenade and two pistols taken from German officers. The one in the shoulder holster is a Luger, the other is a P (Pistole) 38. Information provided by Gerald Wasserburg.
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Harold Brown at Freshman picnic supper, 1971
Harold Brown, President of Caltech at Freshman picnic supper. Caltech campus, president's residency, September 22, 1971.
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Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961
Original and only color photograph of Caltech's prank against the Washington Huskies during the Rose Bowl football game, January 2, 1961. Donated by photographer Bruce Whitehead, (Caltech Research Fellow, 1961-1962), and Lee Molho (Caltech BS 1963), prank participant.
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Bruce Murray and Carl Sagan at Jupiter Symposium
Jupiter Symposium held to coincide with Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, which occurred on March 5, 1979. Beckman Auditorium, Caltech.
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Donald A. Glaser with group during visit to Caltech, fall 1960
Caltech alumnus Donald Glaser's visit to Caltech en route to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize in physics, fall 1960. Group members (left to right): Matthew L. Sands, Charles C. Lauritsen, Robert F. Bacher, Richard P. Feynman, Eugene W. (“Bud”) Cowan, Mrs. Bonnie Glaser, Donald A. Glaser, William R. Smythe, George W. Beadle, Jesse W. DuMond, Robert L. Walker, H. Victor Neher, unknown, Carl D. Anderson, and Robert B. Leighton.
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Harold Brown and Bruce Murray at farewell dinner
Harold Brown, President of Caltech, and Bruce Murray at farewell dinner
Glenn Millikan and Clare Mallory wedding, August 3, 1938
Marriage between Glenn Millikan and Clare Mallory, Godalming, Surrey, England, August 3, 1938.
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Van de Graaff accelerators
Photo by Floyd Clark. Physics.
Throop faculty
Throop--Administration and Faculty.
Edgar-Serrurier-Porter model of frame-yoke, close-up from SE, telescope aimed at camera
Richard C. Tolman and Robert A. Millikan
Lee and Doris DuBridge's wedding picture
"One hour after"
Seth Nicholson with an unidentified man [Ed Hutchings?]
Conductor bar installation, revolving portion of dome
Palomar.
200" telescope--west horn section in place
Engineering and Applied Science.
Cylindrical projections of Jupiter made from a single ten-hour rotation
Jupiter-Voyager mission.
Aerial view of the campus--looking north
Gnome Club recreation at 351 South Euclid Ave.
Louis Erb is on the left. Gnome Collection.
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Theodore von Karman with Japanese men
Photo is called "4 men in socks." von Karman Papers.
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Audio Atrocities™ : Firefighter F.D.18 · Konami · Playstation 2 · 2004
With the heroic focus of the world being redirected to Police, EMT, and Firefighters in our post 9/11 world, it was only a matter of time before some game company tried to capitalize on it. Konami stepped up to the plate on the PlayStation 2 and made a game that is more of a joke than an homage to modern heroes. The game has the usual silly story line and definitely has cringe-worthy acting, but it's the writing that really amps up the Atrocious factor.
Exhibit A: “...red heels...like fire...”
This bit is the most hilariously WRONG clip in the whole game. Are we really to believe that the firefighter hero being honored at this fundraiser is somehow traumatized by the red shoes of his former, uh, flame? Those nutty Nihongo natives have really outdone themselves on this one.
Exhibit B: “Mommy! Daddy! Waaaaah!”
In a somewhat too-subtle nod to Kamen Rider's crappy localization, the actor here is playing a kid's voice with reckless abandon usually reserved for the mentally ill. The Daddy clip is here, and the 'crying' clip is here. ALL of them are shamefully bad. Get real kids to play kid voices and stop having adults crap in our ears - it doesn't play.
Exhibit C: “I'm gonna kill anybody who stands in MY WAY!”
Over-the-top bad guy with over-the-top ambition is so out there you can't do anything but laugh at the inept delivery.
Clip 4, Clip 5, Clip 6, Clip 7, Clip 8, Clip 9, Clip 10, Clip 11, Clip 12, Clip 13, Clip 14, Clip 15, Clip 16, Clip 17, Clip 18, Clip 19, Clip 20
“...red heels...like fire...”
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‘I’m targeted because I’m undefeated’ — Caster
August 15, 2019 Written by Admin
South Africa’s two-time Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya on Wednesday shrugged off critics in the face of a ruling that has banned her from defending her world middle distance title in Doha in September.
The 28 year-old has been embroiled in a bitter legal battle with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) over rules that force female athletes to regulate their testosterone levels.
Last month a Swiss court revoked a temporary suspension on the IAAF’s controversial testosterone-curbing rules, meaning the double Olympic champion Semenya can no longer compete in events between the 400m and mile, as she did in June and July.
Speaking at a women’s empowerment conference on Wednesday, the defiantly confident Semenya said the obsession with getting rid of her was driven by the fact that she is undisputedly the best in the world.
“I’m targeted because I’m undefeated…I’m the best at what I do.”
“When you are the best in the world people get obsessed with what you are doing.”
“Probably I’m a ‘problem’ because I’m an overachiever so we must get rid of you,” said the self-confident athlete.
Semenya was raised as a woman, races as a woman and is legally classified as a woman.
The IAAF argues that while it accepts Semenya is legally a woman, she has masculine attributes stemming from differences of sexual development (DSD) that create an unfair advantage over other women.
The IAAF this year introduced rules requiring women with higher than normal male hormone levels — so-called “hyperandrogenic” athletes — to artificially lower their testosterone to run in at some distances.
It is a position hotly contested by South African officials.
Semenya did not comment on issues around further litigation in the matter, saying that as an athlete she only wanted to stay focused on her training, which she described as her “weapon”.
“There’s not much that I can say about the case, what I can tell you is that I am on top of my game,” she said adding that she had no plans of quitting running anytime soon.
The athlete has said she will not take any body-altering medication.
The IAAF’s DSD rules — first adopted last year but suspended pending the legal battle — came into effect on May 8, applying to distances from 400m to a mile, and including the heptathlon.
The World Medical Association has urged doctors not to enforce the controversial new rules, warning that attempts to do so would be unethical.
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The announcement yesterday, about the Nature RSS feeds, mentioned that they were using PRISM metadata. Here how PRISM is described:
The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine, news, catalog, book, and mainstream journal content. PRISM recommends the use of certain existing standards, such as XML, RDF, the Dublin Core, and various ISO specifications for locations, languages, and date/time formats. In addition PRISM provides a framework for the interchange and preservation of content and metadata, a collection of elements to describe that content, and a set of controlled vocabularies listing the values for those elements.
This seems to be a well developed metadata format and should be useful when dealing with analytics.
Georgia Library PINES Program
News about the open source ILS being developed at PINES is available. This is an exciting project. There are several small ILS projects currently, but this one is on another scale. The site could use RSS.
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MARC Tag of the Month
The August MARC tag of the month at Follett is MARC Record Sample Uniform Title -- Main Entry (Book). A fine looking record. I'd like to see 024 included. On a title as this I'd guess it would have an International Article Number and maybe a UPC.
AACR at LC
The Library of Congress will implement the 2004 Update to the 2002 AACR2 on September 1, 2004. The 2004 AACR2 Update and its related Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI) will be available in Cataloger's Desktop on that date. Printed copies of the LCRIs have been distributed by the Cataloging Distribution Service.
The 2004 AACR2 Update contains the following changes:
1.0A1: The rule has been revised to begin with the concept of "What is being cataloged."
1.0A2: The rule has been revised to provide for the "basis of description" for all modes of issuance, including multipart monographs. (The following additional rule has been changed to reflect revised 1.0A2: 1.4D4.)
1.0A3: A new rule has been added to give a fuller explanation of "chief source of information." (The following additional rules have been changed to reflect revised 1.0A3: 1.1G3; 2.0H; 3.0H; 5.0H; 6.0H; 7.0H; 8.0H; 9.0H; 10.0H2; 10.0H3; 11.0H; 12.0H; 25.18A10e.)
LCRI 1.0H has been renumbered 1.0A3; LCRI 1.6 has been revised; LCRI 12.0H has been cancelled.
1.0A4: The information on "prescribed sources of information" has been moved from 1.0A1 to new rule 1.0A4.
1.0F1/1.1B1/1.6B1: These rules have been revised to clarify that inaccuracies in series titles are to be transcribed but inaccuracies in titles of serials and integrating sources are not.
LCRI 1.6B has been revised.
1.1F1: Two examples have been added.
1.5D2: The rule has been amended to specify that dimensions are to be separated by a comma. (The following additional rules have been changed to reflect revised 1.5D2: 1.10C2b; 2.5D4; 3.5D1; 3.5D5; 4.5D1; 8.5D6; 10.5D2.)
3.1F1: The first example has been corrected.
3.5B3: An example has been added.
6.5B1: A new optional provision has been added to the rule to permit the use of terms in common usage for the specific format of the physical carrier.
LCRI 6.5B1: LC practice: Do not apply the optional provision of the rule.
LCRI 7.5B1: LC practice: LC uses Archival Moving Image Materials rather than AACR2 in its moving image materials cataloging.
9.3: The "Type and Extent of Resource Area" for electronic resources has been deleted from AACR2. (The following additional rules have been changed or added to reflect the deletion of 9.3: 0.25; 1.3A; 3.3A3; 3.3E; 3.3F; 9.5B4; 9.7B8; App. A.6A.)
LCRI 9.3B1 has been cancelled.
9.5B1: A new optional provision has been added to the rule to permit, in addition to the physical carrier, an appropriate term from subrule .5B of one of the chapters of part I.
LCRI 9.5B1: LC practice: Apply the optional provision of the rule on a case-by-case basis.
9.5B3: A new optional rule has been added to permit an extent statement for an electronic resource that is available only by remote access. (The following additional rules have been changed or added to reflect 9.5B3: 9.5A1; 9.5C3; 9.5E2; 9.7B10.)
LCRI 9.5B3: LC practice: Apply the optional rule on a case-by-case basis.
9.7B11: An example has been added.
12.0B1a: The rule has been amended to explicitly address numbered and unnumbered serials.
12.1E1: The rule has been revised to remove the distinction between serials and integrating resources.
21.2A: The provisions for multipart monographs have been moved from 21.2B2 to revised rule 21.2A; the concept of "predominant title" has been removed from the rule; and rule 21.2B1 has been deleted.
LCRI 21.2B2 has been renumbered 21.2A1; LCRI 26.5A has been revised.
21.2B: The provisions for integrating resources have been moved from 21.2C1b to 21.2B. (The following additional rules have been changed to reflect 21.2B: 12.1B8b; 12.7B8a.)
21.2C2: The provisions for serials have been moved from 21.2A1 and 21.2A2 to new rule 21.2C2.
LCRI 21.2A has been renumbered 21.2C; LCRI 1.6H, LCRI 1.6J, LCRI 25.3, and LCRI 26.5A have been revised.
21.3A2: The rule for entry for multipart monographs has been revised to retain the main entry for the first or earliest part when responsibility changes on the later parts. (The following additional rule has been changed to reflect revised 21.3A2: 21.6A1.)
LCRI 21.3A2 has been revised.
21.29B: The rule has been amended to provide for additional added entry access for multipart monographs, integrating resources, and serials.
21.30J1: The rule has been revised to reflect the rule number changes in 21.2.
LCRI 21.30J has been revised.
22.27D: The rule has been amended to include Malay titles.
There have been some minor changes made to ONIX for Books.
Following the original issue of Release 2.1 in June 2003, and a number of corrections and minor upgrades made in December 2003 as Revision 01, we have made a few further additions, primarily to support the special needs of ONIX implementations in Australia and Canada. These are incorporated into the latest download packages, as Revision 02. Most users will be completely unaffected by these additions, and you do NOT need to change the release number in the header of your ONIX messages. The additional level of revision numbering within the release number is used only for purposes of controlling successive minor revisions: see ONIX for Books ? Product Information Message ? XML Message Specification, Section 5.
I'm still curious, is there anyplace to download ONIX records from a publisher that is freely available? Or is LC the only place getting records in this format as part of their CIP program? I hear a lot of talk about how our systems have to be able to handle other formats like ONIX, but if all the publishers consider their metadata as proprietary why should we give any thought to it?
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Notes from the ALA Annual 2004 meeting of the ALCTS CCS Cataloging &
Classification Research Discussion Group, "Optimizing Metadata Generation Practices" are now available.
FRBR
The ISBD Review Group announces that the final and approved Mapping ISBD elements to FRBR entity attributes and relationships
The ISBD Review Group has been assessing the feasibility of aligning the terminology used in the texts of the International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions (ISBDs) with that used in the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). However, the group has encountered difficulties in trying to achieve that alignment, owing in large part to the fact that the terms used in FRBR were defined in the context of an entity-relationship model conceived at a higher level of abstraction than the specifications for the ISBDs. While the entities defined in the FRBR model are clearly related to the elements forming an ISBD description, they are not necessarily congruent in all respects and the relationships are too complex to be conveyed through a simple substitution of terminology.
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Texas, my home state did very poorly in the recent literacy report. 5 of the 10 least literate metropolitan areas were in Texas. California had 4 of the bottom 10 and Florida had the remaining one. The most literate areas were all northern. Maybe the long winters encourage reading? I'll avoid any comments about red and blue states.
Multiple terminologies
Multiple terminologies: an obstacle to information retrieval by Emma McCulloch appears in Library Review (2004) v. 53, no. 6 pp. 297-300
Abstract: An issue currently at the forefront of digital library research is the prevalence of disparate terminologies and the associated limitations imposed on user searching. It is thought that semantic interoperability is achievable by improving the compatibility between terminologies and classification schemes, enabling users to search multiple resources simultaneously and improve retrieval effectiveness through the use of associated terms drawn from several schemes. This column considers the terminology issue before outlining various proposed methods of tackling it, with a particular focus on terminology mapping.
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference
The Future of Cataloguing by Paola Stillone in ther latest issue of Ariadne reports on the three-day annual conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), held at the University of Bath over 30 June - 2 July 2004.
The conference was aimed at information professionals interested in looking at issues that are changing cataloguing and indexing. The latest international developments in metadata standards, cataloguing codes, taxonomies and controlled languages unlock new opportunities for cataloguers' involvement. They also raise complex interoperability issues which go beyond traditional cataloguing and highlight the need for the acquisition of new skills in the digital information environment. The event focused on three interlinked themes: new and emerging standards, collection-level description and professional education.
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Weekly News and Updates, February 22, 2012
Minyan needed for Sabbath Services at 8:00 p.m., Friday Evening, February 24 (1 Adar)
Shabbat services at Beth Shalom synagogue start at 8:00 p.m. Fred Rosenberg will be observing the yahrzeit of his mother. Please join us to help make a minyan!
Transliterated Siddur at this week’s Shabbat Service
Jane Pitt is bringing a copy of a transliterated Siddur to Shabbat Services this week for those interested in evaluating it and giving their input.
Background: Beth Shalom is considering new siddurs (prayer books) for Sabbath and Festivals. One of the criteria is for a transliteration (Hebrew printed phonetically in English). A committee has looked at a number of siddurs that contain Hebrew, English translation and transliteration. In researching the availability of one of these, printed by her former synagogue in Michigan, Jane Pitt has found that this synagogue has a new transliterated siddur, which our committee has not seem. All interested Beth Shalom members can examine it this Friday at Beth Shalom.
Shabbat Candle Lighting Times for Fairfield
Shabbat (candle lighting) begins at 5:35 p.m. on Friday, February 24. Shabbat ends (Havdalah begins) Saturday, 6:35 p.m. in Fairfield.
Purim March 8
This year, Purim, the Festival of Lots, falls on Thursday, March 8. Beth Shalom is planning a Purim celebration that week. Watch for further details in coming Beth Shalom e-mail newsletters.
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An American Tune At The Fox, El Greco & Purism
Add Top, Tom Berghan, right glasses John Reischman, with cap Brandon Vance, Stephen Stubbs & Catherine Webster
Catherine Webster & Stephen Stubbs at the Fox Cabaret Photomat April 14 2015
On April 14 I attended a performance of An American Tune at the Fox Cabaret. It was a co-production between Music on Main and Early MusicVancouver.
The concert in the revamped and cleaned up former porno film theatre (it is still a happily but lurid red) was not your ordinary concert.
We live in a city that specializes in purism. I thought the word did not exist but I looked it up. My Wikipedia informed me as follows:
Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918–1925 that influenced French painting and architecture. Purism was led by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier).
The Wikipedia citing warns you that it contains only one source and it lists some interesting rules put forward by Ozenfant and Le Corbusier:
Purism does not intend to be a scientific art, which it is in no sense.
Cubism has become a decorative art of romantic ornamentism.
There is a hierarchy in the arts: decorative art is at the base, the human figure at the summit.
Painting is as good as the intrinsic qualities of its plastic elements, not their representative or narrative possibilities.
Purism wants to conceive clearly, execute loyally, exactly without deceits; it abandons troubled conceptions, summary or bristling executions. A serious art must banish all techniques not faithful to the real value of the conception.
Art consists in the conception before anything else.
Technique is only a tool, humbly at the service of the conception.
Purism fears the bizarre and the original. It seeks the pure element in order to reconstruct organized paintings that seem to be facts from nature herself.
The method must be sure enough not to hinder the conception.
Purism does not believe that returning to nature signifies the copying of nature.
It admits all deformation is justified by the search for the invariant.
All liberties are accepted in art except those that are unclear.
As I read these rules and particularly the last one I wondered if these rules were that serious or if there was some tongue in cheek element. The reason for my surmise is that Vancouver is not really a city of purists. To be a purist, within limits, is a good thing. But to be a purist who loves ballet and will not attend a performance of Contact Improvisational Dance to me smacks of Purism.
For a long time those in the early music movements have been ruled (so some think) by a cadre of inflexible arbiters who state that cellos should have no endpins and violins no chin rests. The musicians sometimes play standing up and they disdain the violin solos of the 19th century mainstream (in our city) repertoire. I may be overstating this but who would not listen to Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole Op 21 or Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen played with a modern violin?
A man, a Vancouver man, violinist Marc Destrubé has never had a conflict with playing and enjoying any good music for the violin. He is just as happy playing Buxtehude as he is playing Bartók. As he is a purist, he plays the former with a Baroque violin and the latter with a modern violin.
I distinctly remember going to a concert of the PacificBaroque Orchestra (it was held, I believe in a church on 33d Avenue near Granville) that featured some of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. One of them was Number 3. For this concert Destrubé had commissioned a then sort of unknown contemporary composer, Bradshshaw Pack who had previously excelled in the playing of the electric guitar. His composition Arioso Distante had the same instrumentation as the Brandenburg 3 (3 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos and one bass). You can find it here in the album Alogos http://www.spoolmusic.com/spp201info.html. It was played with baroque instruments and the piece was dissonant. I remember that Pack told me after the concert, “I am pretty happy only a couple of people walked out.”
Matthew White, Artistic Director of Early Music Vancouver has teamed up with Music on Main to bring concerts that are not for your typical Vancouver purist but for real purists who disdain putting music in inflexible categories.
A concert that featured Josh Reischman on an assortment of mandolins, Stephen Stubbs (a baroque specialist and lutenist) playing a normal modern guitar, Tom Berghan on several kinds of banjos, Brandon Vance, listed as an Irish Fiddler, Tekla Cunningham, a Seattle baroque violinist playing a Baroque Sanctus Seraphim, Venice 1746 instrument. (Cunningham told me, “ We used the baroque instruments because in the 19th century they would have used something transitional most likely and certainly with gut strings.”) We had a singer, too, soprano Catherine Webster who does specialize in the Baroque. She seemed to fit in quite well with the eclectic orchestra wearing a dress and cowboy boots, Texan style. Unlike many of the Texan women I have known she was not chewing gum.
The concert featured principally music by American composer Stephen Foster and composers like Richard Milburn, Daniel Emmett, Henry C. Work, George Frederick Root.
Most haunting were the Murder Ballads with lyrics about women being murdered by jealous sisters of for no reason at all by a man.
Close-up of Dead Woman with Blood - Anonymous Dagureotype circa 1843 from Sleeping Beauty -Memorial Photography in America
The tone of the concert set in the 19th century had a feel of the Old South, of Lincoln at war (the concert was held on the anniversary of his assassination) and for me the atmoshpere of Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage and the gothic stories of my fave Ambrose Bierce.
Had I previously known about the flavour of the concert I might have brought books featuring soldiers of the American Civil War or that lovely but troubling Sleeping Beauty – Memorial Photography in America by Stanley B. Burns, M.D.
Before the concert I asked Stephen Stubbs if they were playing the Battle Hymn of the Republic seeing that they had Daniel Emmett’s I wish I was in Dixie. His answer was confusing as he told me, “We are playing a sombre version of George Frederick Root’s Battle Cry of Freedom. The Battle Cry and the Battle Hymn are not the same at all.
In the notes I read that New Orleans composer and virtuoso pianist Louis Moreau Gottshalk would have preferred it to be the American National Anthem.
In spite of my otherwise musical ignorance this fact gave me a touch of pleasure. I had a great aunt in the Philippines, Buenaventura Gálvez Puig who was a concert pianist in Manila in the beginning of the 20th century who played Gottshalk and I still have some of his sheet music in my possession.
The concert was delightful and more so because fiddler Brandon Vance added lots of percussion with his spirited foot stomping. I asked him about the “is it a fiddle or a violin?” controversy. Vance was diplomatic and did not tell me what I have always thought and that is that violinists can call their instruments fiddles but we the unwashed masses cannot and must always say, “violin”. He drew the line in calling a bow a stick, “It is a bow and never a stick.” There were other strange percussion instruments, including a washboard and what looked like a bunch of bamboo skewers.
Coming up in the Fox Cabaret series is J.S. Bachwards -Early Music From the Future For Solo Violin with Jaron Freeman-Fox and Marc Destrubé on violins on May 5th at 8PM. The previous Fox Cabaret concert was this one. with Alexander Weimann and tenor Charles Daniels.
This sort of programming will perhaps help us all Vancouverites to be less practitioners of purism.
During the whole concert I thought mandolin player John Reischman was channeling any one of the dour subjects of El Greco.I wondered if Catherine Webster was wearing bobby socks in thoese cowboy boots.
Link to: An American Tune At The Fox, El Greco & Purism
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Book Review: Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture
Posted on May 23, 2011 by Canuxploitation!
Finding a new home for older material — This book review originally appeared on Canuxploitation in 2006. Full disclosure: I have known Steve personally since about 2004.
Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture
Steve Gravestock, Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2006)
Don Owen’s debut feature, 1964’s Nobody Waved Good-bye, is often credited as the first modern English-Canadian film. Although readers of this site know that a handful of films made before this landmark effort, there is no denying that the off-the-cuff juvenile delinquency tale of Nobody Waved Good-bye is in many ways a culmination of those previous low-budget movies, and one of the most important Canadian films ever made.
In his new book, a monograph of Don Owen, TIFF programmer Steve Gravestock traces the CanFilm pioneer’s lengthy career, from his early NFB shorts to his final 1987 feature, Turnabout. Focusing on the director’s iconoclastic stance towards the Canadian film industry and his exploration of the role of the artist in society, the book offers an in depth analysis of Owen’s entire oeuvre, right down to industrial shorts and TV episodes he shot for the CBC. It’s an exhaustively thorough read, but it’s also quite compelling, with special attention paid to his early masterpiece Nobody Waved Good-bye and Partners, an elusive film often considered to be his best work.
Because Owen made Canadian films for more than twenty years, his history mirrors the birth of the industry itself, and Gravestock is careful to connect Owen’s films to the overall state of the industry, providing fascinating details about the NFB’s infamous Unit B, the behind-the-scenes power plays that shaped Canadian film throughout the 1960s and the financial realities of making films in the tax shelter days. With six features and numerous shorts under his belt, Owen is one of the directors to survive the constant booms and busts of the industry to emerge as an unsung hero. As the first book-length critical assessment of Owen, Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture is a well-written, long-overdue tome that finally gives the man and his films the respect they deserve. Recommended for all those interested in the birth of the current Canadian film scene.
Book Review: They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema
Finding a new home for older material — This book review originally appeared on Canuxploitation in 2004. Full disclosure: I have known Caelum since about 2002, his book references Canuxploitation.com and Caelum has contributed to the site.
They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema
Caelum Vatnsdal, Arbeiter Ring Press (2004)
Out of all the sleazy genres that Canadian filmmakers have tackled over the last 50 years, none has been as tenacious as Canadian horror. Always controversial and rarely receiving critical approval, Canadian horror films have managed to survive the industry booms and busts to remain our b-movie genre of choice, far outnumbering the action, science fiction and comedy films clogging dusty video racks across the Great White North.
Strange then, that never before has anyone synthesized a complete history of our national nightmares caught on celluloid. It’s a conspicuous gap in our film criticism, especially given the popularity and abundance of Canadian horror films. Thankfully, Caelum Vatnsdal’s well-researched and often humorous new book, They Came From Within, finally sets the record straight on hoser horror—a revelation for Canadian film buffs and a wealth of information for horror fans. … Continue Reading
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'Happyland' recap: Happy isn't all it's cracked up to be
by Sundi S. Rose, Community Contributor @sroseholt
Oct 7, 2014 | 11:30PM
Season 1 | Episode 2 | “Price of Admission” | Aired Oct 6, 2014
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Now that we’re over all the gasping and shock from last week’s cliffhanger, we can really get into the show and its best parts, right? Probably not, if the opening sequence is any indication. It features yet another incest-y kiss, but the squirm factor is exponentially higher. I don’t know about y’all, but I’m rooting for the show to sort this out pretty quickly so that we can focus on what really interests me: teenage drama.
This week, we pick up moments after Elena broke the news to Lucy—only now, Elena is begging Lucy to keep this bombshell to herself. Elena assures Lucy (and us, of course) that she has her reasons, and that Lucy has to just trust her, but if I know anything about juicy TV secrets, I know that we should never, ever trust the person who asks for our trust.
Back at Happyland, Harper tries to cheer Lucy up with a little age-inappropriate sex talk about her new relative-slash-love-interest, and Elena shuts it down mercifully quick. Just as soon as she turns the corner away from Harper, however, she runs directly into Ian’s lips. This is probably the first of many rebuffs Lucy will give Ian, but luckily, Will saves the day in his Ricky Racoon costume. Introductions are made, testosterone flares, and Lucy makes a clean getaway.
Once outside, Will is terrorized by some meanie kids, and Lucy spots Elena in her giant, ridiculous yellow dress. Lucy just can’t face her mother at the moment, so she heads strait over to Happyland’s corporate headquarters, where she tries to see her father, James Chandler. Instead, she runs into the douchey Chandler brother, Theodore. He inexplicable puts Lucy on probation, and she leaves dejected.
She and Will decide to play a little hooky and drink a few beers on his tailgate, in the middle of the afternoon, in the parking lot of the park, and it’s a transparent attempt to get us to see just how upset Lucy really is. Their heart-to-heart gets a little serious until Harper arrives and invites them to a “rager” in Dazzle. Harper looks like she might turn into trouble for Lucy in the future, especially since Ian is sniffing around in the wake of Lucy’s rejections.
The gang turns up at the rager, and Party Lucy starts doing shots in an attempt to let loose, but they quickly realize that the house at which they turn up is none other than Ian’s. Lucy spends the night getting drunk and avoiding her brother-lover. She has a meet-cute with some rando named Noah, an intern in the marketing department. She throws herself at him, tongue and all, until Harper saves her from going too far.
It turns out Lucy is a mean drunk and says some awful things about how Harper is treating Will. Lucy gets hers, though, and winds up puking in the bushes moments before Joseph Chandler (her maybe-daddy) arrives. Lucy overhears James berating Ian for “ruining it for him in New York,” and once again has to turn down Ian’s advances. Will saves the day and brings her home to her mother.
The next day, Lucy and Harper make up just in time for Theodore to promote Lucy to Princess Audriana to accompany his Prince Valor, so she can look after him. Worried about their future together at the park, Lucy presses Elena for details about the past. That’s when Elena confesses she was in love with James Chandler, but they lost contact after he wanted her to get an abortion. I am very skeptical of this story, and happen to know we don’t ever get the whole truth on the first round of telling.
The pressure of pretending to be in love with Ian during their performance is too much, and she winds up telling Ian that he’s her brother. The episode ends with Ian’s mouth hanging open. This show is really starting to cultivate a knack for the cliffhangers.
What do you guys think is the real story? Are y’all shipping this brother/sister couple as much as I am?
Happyland airs Tuesdays at 11/10C on MTV.
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Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
Posted by Hannah Buchdahl aka Mainstream Chick on July 1, 2018
As a sequel to a lightweight Marvel movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp does its job. It’s entertaining and finds a way to work in the necessary connections to the Avengers franchise and the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you skipped the first Ant-Man, or expect to see Ant-Man courting a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or couldn’t care less about the Avengers, then move along. This movie isn’t for you. If, however, you enjoyed the first Ant-Man flick, wonder why Ant-Man was a no-show in Infinity War, or simply like Paul Rudd (I mean, really, who doesn’t like Paul Rudd?), then take no shame in embracing the family-friendly buzz around Ant-Man and the Wasp. It is summer, after all.
Much of the original cast is back, including Rudd as Scott Lang, a former thief and devoted dad who transforms into a powerfully-petite superhero, Ant-Man, when donning a special suit created by Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas). As the sequel opens, Scott is in the final stretch of house imprisonment as part of a plea deal he made with the government. You may (or, like me, may not) remember that Scott kinda broke domestic and international law when he fought alongside ‘Cap’ in Captain America: Civil War. So he’s stuck wearing an ankle bracelet that tracks his every move. But that doesn’t stop Pym and his daughter Hope, aka the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) from recruiting Scott for an urgent new mission that could help unlock secrets from their past. Together, the little dynamic duo of Ant-Man and the Wasp must battle the bad guys and find a way to get Scott home before the Feds can bust him for unsanctioned superhero activities.
Peyton Reed reprises his role as director, sticking to the same tone and pacing that made the first Ant-Man a popular addition to the MCU. The supporting cast is solid. And Rudd is definitely in his wheelhouse playing the flawed yet charming Ant-Man character (as opposed to his recent, less celebrated role in what should have been a fascinating movie but wasn’t, The Catcher Was a Spy.)
Some elements of the plot will be lost on those who aren’t tracking the greater MCU narrative. But that’s how this franchise rolls. In 2015, I called Ant-Man “Iron Man light.” The same holds true for Ant-Man and the Wasp. It doesn’t sting, or sing. It’s simply a solid, entertaining PG-13 action-adventure flick for summer that puts a satisfying enough lid on the 2018 slate of Marvel movies.
Note: This being a Marvel movie, there are of course two post-credit scenes. The first one is definitely worth waiting around for. The second, not so much.
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Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse is Coming to Netflix!
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Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse is Coming to Netflix!
Lucy Parry
Recently, Deadline exclusively revealed that Netflix has greenlighted an 8 episode first season of an adaption of Leigh Bardugo’s hugely successful Shadow and Bone trilogy and Six of Crows duology, which are set in the same world. The TV series, which is named Shadow and Bone, will be in the hands of showrunner Eric Heisserer, who has written many highly praised movies. Shawn Levy, executive producer of Stranger Things, will be one of the executive producers on this series as will Bardugo, who will have a say in the changes that are made in the adaptation of her novels.
Bardugo revealed in a newsletter sent out to fans (sign up for the newsletter here!) that she had to “kiss a lot of frogs” before finding her prince in Netflix. Collectively, the Grishaverse books have sold over two million copies worldwide, meaning they are hot properties for film and TV companies. Bardugo went to many meetings in which people tried to convince her the rights to her books, but none of them felt right. Some people went about trying to convince her in entirely the wrong way: one exec told her that he loved Six of Crows because it was full of “guy stuff”(it was a very short meeting). Others just made Bardugo feel uncertain about whether her books would be safe in their hands.
The Netflix execs, on the other hand, made Bardugo feel that they cared about adapting her books in the right way. So far, they seem to be doing an excellent job as they have hired a writer who is used to transforming stories into scripts. Heisserer was nominated for an Oscar in 2016 for adapting Ted Chiang’s short story Story of Your Life into the screenplay for the critically-acclaimed Arrival.
Leigh Bardugo with Eric Heisserer, and Pouya Shahbazian, her film manager. Image via Bardugo’s newsletter.
When the news first broke about Netflix adapting these books into a series, many fans were super excited because these amazing books would get more exposure and Netflix had done such a great job at adapting Jenny Han’s To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before into a movie. But the fact that the stories of the Shadow and Bone and the Six of Crows duology would be merged, worried most people. The timelines of these series are very separate; the events of Six of Crows take place two years after the events of Ruin and Rising (the third book in the trilogy).
However, Bardugo’s newsletter set fans’ minds at ease as she said that she sees the first season as a combination of the first book in Shadow and Bone and “book zero” of Six of Crows. So, the first season will likely focus on the plot of Shadow and Bone, as well as showing the backstories of the main characters in Six of Crows. Leigh Bardugo’s 7th addition to her Grishaverse, King of Scars, comes out on January 29th; if the series does well and gets picked up for more seasons, they may focus on this book and its sequel in the later seasons.
There is no mention of who will star in Shadow and Bone yet, so it’s likely they will be starting the casting process very soon. Bardugo did mention in her newsletter that she wanted more diversity in the characters of Shadow and Bone.
There is currently no release date for Shadow and Bone, so we will have to wait as patiently as we can. I would highly recommend reading (or re-reading) the books in the meantime. For a non-spoilery review of the Six of Crows duology, read this article.
Featured image via Macmillan Publishing
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I come from Cardiff, which is in the UK. Writing is one of my greatest passions, I just feel so happy when I'm writing. Camila Cabello and New Hope Club are my favourite artists. Tom Holland would be my favourite actor if he hadn't made me cry so much in Avengers: Infinity War! I am also a strong believer in equal rights for everyone, as I have a physical disability. You can follow me on Instagram @lucyparryyy and on Twitter @Lucy15Parry
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Joe Decie – Interview
This interview was first published on Febuary 24th 2011.
Joe Decie is a Brighton-based cartoonist who has been publishing comics online and in minicomic form since 2008. I’m a big fan of his off-beat sense of humour and it’s been my privilege to have been table-mates with him at a couple of conventions. His subtle monochrome ink-washed stories-with-a-twist have gained quite a following and as a result UK publisher Blank Slate are producing a collection of his work as part of their Chalk Marks project, due out in Spring 2011.
David: What was your first exposure to comics?
Joe: From about the age of three I loved In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. I read the Beano from the age of about seven. After a few years I tired of it, but as luck would have it Oink! arrived in the newsagents and I read every issue printed. The formula was different from the DC Thomson comics, visually at least, more in line with Viz. I enjoyed Asterix too, but had no time for Tintin (I foolishly declined a complete collection handed down from an older brother!)
D: Were your family comics readers?
J: My older brothers read grown up comics of the late eighties: Tank Girl and Deadline stuff like that, you know, Watchmen, Eightball as well as zines, there were always zines. My Stepdad, he drew comics for Viz. Mostly single panel gags.
D: I imagine your stepdad would have had a stash of comics himself to plunder too – what was his background?
J: Some musty old comix down in the cellar, mostly Freak Brothers, maybe some Crumb. Roger (a.k.a Roger Radio) had an art school background. He did some sci-fi comix, counter culture, and mail art stuff.
D: You got to see some fairly alternative stuff at quite a young age – were you ever into any kind of mainstream comics?
J: For maybe six months I collected mainstream comics after a brother gave me an issue of Lobo in 1991. Seduced by Simon Bisley cover art I bought quite a lot. I enjoyed collecting but I don’t think I really enjoyed the stories, I’d rather read Calvin & Hobbies. Besides, the comic shop owner was a caricature of ‘Comic Book Guy’ from The Simpsons and he stank. And all the folks in the comic shops were virgins and I aspired not to be a virgin.
D: As you have a (presumably biological) son, it’s good to know you’ve achieved at least one of your aspirations.
J: Yes, that’s why I include him in so many of my strips, just showing off my lack of virginity.
D: It sounds like comics were considered as perfectly normal reading material in your family, then. Were your friends comics readers too?
J: I’m not sure. When we wrote graffiti we all read Vaughn Bodé, just to rip off the characters. But comics were never a big thing in my youth.
D: Tell me about the graffiti – was that a serious interest or a youthful rebellion thing?
J: Graffiti was an all consuming part of my life through my teenage years. I drew letters constantly and painted most weekends. My handwriting is completely influenced by my hand-style of those days.
D: Was it linked to the music that you were into? Do you still do any graffiti now?
J: Graffiti tends to go hand in hand with Hip-Hop and rap music, and that was the case with me. I don’t know which came first: my love of the music or the art. I no longer paint, although I do have some cans sitting waiting for a special occasion. I think once you’ve been involved in graffiti seriously, you’ll always stay interested in the art form. I still doodle letters and keep an eye on current styles.
D: Were you always interested in drawing?
J: Always. I think anyone can draw, nurture over nature. If I look back at my childhood drawings there were pretty average. But because I received praise and encouragement, and because I loved the process, I stuck with it and in the last few weeks I’ve started to draw pictures I’m happy with. I’ve always loved visual communication, verbal too.
D: Only in the last few weeks? Are you very self-critical?
J: Very: if I look back at work from six months ago I generally hate it, visually. I’m just a beginner, still learning. That said, I love it the morning after I’ve drawn something, to give it a second look and still like it. I think that’s why I post online, it’s instant. Draw it, scan it, post it, receive feedback. I live for the comments, retweets and all that.
D: Did you study art at school?
J: Yes, three years of foundation stuff and then another three on a fine art degree. I didn’t draw much though, I mostly made books. My major influences were DADA and Fluxus. Aren’t art students great? I loved art students: self-absorbed, affected, pretentious, foolish, lazy and lucky – didn’t know how lucky they were.
D: What kind of books were you making?
J: All kinds of artist’s books. Books on tracing paper, books with Letraset, typewriter zines, proper bound volumes, books with drawings, books of lies, documentation of projects, collections of thoughts. In a similar vein to my comics in that they mostly contained a dialogue with the reader, or a monologue that tried to reach the reader, usually with humour. The first artist’s book I read was Mark’s Little Book About Kinder Eggs By Mark Pawson. I read that and thought “I’m gonna make books and zines and get a long-armed stapler” (except I didn’t know long-armed staplers existed then).
D: Was art school a positive experience over all? I note from Dan Berry’s interview that you still count Fluxus amongst your influences.
J: I loved how privileged I was to be at art college. To be able to work from nine till six doing art all day with facilities and like-minded people. I was quite bitter about all the idiots, there were a lot of idiots at art college back then. I’d love to be able to study again, this time illustration where I could learn techniques and approaches. My Fine Art tutors taught me nothing, really nothing. Where were they? I hardly saw them. But it gave me plenty of time to figure things out and contemplate. And the technicians were gold. Maybe now students have to pay fees those tutors will be working for their money?
Fluxus is a big influence. It was playful, fun, honest and great to look at, it involved the viewer. I could talk a lot about it but the link to my comics is tenuous.
D: When I see your comics at shows they certainly stand-out in terms of their design. How important is that craft side of comic making to you?
J: Well, I want my books to look good, like something you’d want to keep, something that’s had time spent on it. There’s two ways I think you can achieve this. Either making the book look really slick and professional (like for instance J.P. Coovert and One Percent Press) or handmade and crafted (like those made by Colleen MacIsaac) The main thing I didn’t want was a boring A5 comic with a horrible white border, straight off the copier. That said, the hours I’ve spent trimming and stapling comics is probably ridiculous considering most people will read them once and put them in an old shoe box.
D: What happened after art college?
J: Oh, you know, various things: bit of design, photography, jobs in offices wearing a cheap tie, then working in a screen print studio with dangerous inks. But most recently I’ve been working with young adults with learning disabilities, first in a care setting and now in education. I teach comic drawing. But more than this I use comics as social stories and aids to communication.
D: Tell me more about this – how does a class work? What’s the thinking behind it?
The classes vary depending on the ability and understanding the students. Here’s two examples…
I have some classes with a group of mostly non-verbal autistic students, where we are working on ideas of self and others, similarities and differences (concepts that can be very challenging for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders). The last few weeks the students have drawn characters of themselves and then on a separate piece of paper have drawn background scenes of their favourite places. The students then place their characters into the scenes and we role-play different interactions.
At the other end of the spectrum I have classes with students with Asperger’s Syndrome, most of whom are competent artists and writers (they all have deviantART accounts). These guys lack confidence in their abilities and, also due to their Asperger’s, are reluctant to explore new drawing styles and try new things. One student is heavily influenced by manga and has taught himself using several awful ‘How To’ manga books and was not willing to explore or even look at other styles of comic art. However, I slowly introduced him to the Scott Pilgrim books and he noted the similarities with Japanese comics, read the whole series and tried his hand at replicating the style. I’m now showing them work by some European artists with some success.
The students are visibly benefiting from the lessons. It’s great fun but very challenging. I wish I’d been taught comics.
D: So when did you seriously start making comics yourself?
J: Tuesday 15th of January 2008. James Kochalka, on his forum, had pointed me in the direction of Webcomicsnation.com, so I started an account and got drawing. Right from the start using nib pens and wash. It’s all I’ve known.
D: There was no experimentation with styles or materials?
J: No – I jumped right in and was getting positive feedback so stuck with it. Here’s one on my cruxes: I have to have conformity or, if you like, consistency within a project. Any deviation from this, be it only a slight change in style and I start to feel uneasy. Even the natural improvement in my drawing and painting bugs me and I feel the urge to scrap all the older entries from my website. I’d love to experiment more with style, colour and approach, and I do a bit, but to really go for it I’d need to host it elsewhere. It sounds ridiculous, I know. As a student I went under different names for different projects, so as not to get bogged down in all my self-imposed rules and styles.
D: Your style is very distinctive, and there’s a ‘brand value’ in that. You know a ‘Joe Decie’ when you see it. I take it you haven’t got to the stage where you feel trapped by that?
J: No, but it may be my desire to keep things uniform could be hampering my development. I’d love to be able to work quicker. My current process is slow and labour intensive. Books I’ve been loving recently seem so much more fluid, for example Joann Sfar’s Klezmer, Mawil’s We Can Still Be Friends, Manu Larcenet’s Ordinary Victories. I need a bit of that.
a page from Women by Charles Bukowski for Jason Turner’s Page 100 Project (2010)
D: What did you want to do comics about once you’d started?
J: Initially I’d just re-started carrying a sketchbook and was drawing observations and incongruous little doodles. I’d previously drawn diary strips for the zine Not My Small Diary, plus I was aware of diary-type strips like American Elf and Jeffrey Brown‘s books. So I just did that: diary comics with added lies and bits. It wasn’t really considered, though it’s a genuine reflection of something.
D: I love how your comics start off grounded in reality and then spin off in some whimsical or humorous way. What makes you want to diverge from reality like that?
J: I think that’s the natural way my thought process works. In the past I’ve likened it to the way a child might recall an event, with the story becoming more fantastical as they tell it. And I love the way children are such excellent story tellers, with truth and lie, fiction and reality all just part of their tales. It’s a fun way to live. It’s just playing I guess.
D: How important is humour in your work?
J: Humour is important full stop. Most of my favourite people to be with are the ones who make me laugh. And I’ll acknowledge that I like being a funny guy. That said I’ve never written my strips to get laughs. It’s never my intention, but if as a by-product of my story-telling people find humour then that’s good. Sometimes I have a problem with the word ‘comic’ because the expectation and connotation in some circles for comics to be funny things: “Wait – a stand up comic tells jokes but a comic in a book can be a depressing story of teenage angst?’”
from Solipsistic Pop #3 (2010)
D: Which do you find easier: writing or drawing?
J: The drawing is less considered for me, I just do it. Whereas the writing usually starts with a small written note that then gets worked up into some kind of narrative, or monologue. That said I have started to thumbnail my comics to try out different compositions, but usually the one I drew off the cuff will be the one I plump for. I guess I have it all planned out in my subconscious. At the momentmy comics are all in my comfort zone. Writing pure fiction and illustrating other peoples stories is something I have only dipped into.
D: I’m guessing you use a bit of photography as reference – are they snaps or do you take pictures specifically so you can use them in your work?
J: Yeah, as my drawing style has developed my comic drawings have become more realistic and I’ve started to use pictures quite a bit for reference. I prefer to work from life as photos, although making things easier to draw by flattening the world also acts to squash any life from the drawing. But yes, I use them. I pose for pictures, use Google Images, Google Street View, I sketch a lot and I look at other people’s work. That said I’m quite good at drawing from memory too, but with all these tools to hand, might as well use ‘em.
D: I found your work through LiveJournal and you were already on Webcomicsnation – by then you’d already built up quite a following amongst the US online comics community. I perceive the US small pressers as being much more into the craft of making comics than we are over here. Are Joe Decie comics more ‘at home’ in the US scene?
J: I’ve got comic pals all over the place, but mostly they’re from ‘the internet’. True a large chunk of them are from North America, but I don’t really think in terms of scenes. Tom Humberstone has done a great job of highlighting the UK talent through his Solipsistic Pop anthologies and we have excellent UK publishers in the form of Blank Slate and Nobrow. But does that make a scene? Who knows! I prefer to think we’re all part of a global comics community. As far as my audience is concerned a lot of them are North American and so, on occasion, I offer translations for some of the more ‘English’ English words. And I once wrote ‘put the trash out’ instead of ‘taking the rubbish out’.
D: You’ve also been picked up by Top Shelf’s online comics showcase (Top Shelf 2.0) – how did that happen?
J: I emailed Brett Warnock saying how much I was enjoying Grug and Jessica McLeod‘s ‘Love Puppets’ comic (one of the first comics on their 2.0 site) And I offered a list of names of people’s work I thought would go down well on 2.0. I don’t think they took on any of my suggestions but invited me to contribute. I did, and still do every once in a while. Top Shelf are one of my favourite publishers and are all round good guys.
D: The UK comics scene is very busy at the moment with loads of events to choose from. How do you approach the whole convention thing? Do you target the events where you think you’ll sell well or are you not worried about the ‘business’ side of things?
J: I go mostly because I like meeting other artists. But unfortunately, being stuck behind your tables can make it difficult to discuss screen tone or spot colours in any great depth. My comics always sell well at zine fairs and don’t sell at all at the MCM Expos, so it makes sense for me to go to ziney type events. But The Thing [now defunct] and Thought Bubble are my favourites – oh heck, I go to them all, getting myself out there! I know I could tailor my work to have wider appeal and make more merchandise. But I’m not going to, not at the moment anyway. If I wanted to sell t-shirts I’d have become a t-shirt designer. But I reserve the right to back track on that one.
D: And now you’re working on a collection for Blank Slate. Tell me how that happened. Will there be new material?
J: Kenny Penman approached me last year about contributing to his new Chalk Marks imprint, possibly after seeing my work via twitter. His plan is to produce large format comics, not dissimilar to the Fantagraphics Ignatz series, showcasing previously unpublished artists, so I signed up. My collection, called The Accidental Salad, will be the cream of my current work, including a nice chunk of new and unseen strips. I really hope people like it. But hey, you should see the other artists in the series, I’m going to be amongst some amazing talent.
D: It sounds fantastic. Any other future projects?
J: I’m sure there’s a few ideas written in these notebooks, if only I could read my own handwriting…
Joe’s website: http://www.joedecie.com/
Joe’s blog: http://joedecie.livejournal.com/
Joe @ Top Shelf 2.0: http://www.topshelfcomix.com/ts2.0/artist/323
Blank Slate: http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/
Roger Stevens
Excellent interview. Thanks Joe.
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“Mad Dog Reno” Reno Tunstall (original birth name have been Reino Tuomilehto) was born in about 1808. His parents probably changed the name when moved to USA. Little is known about his early life except that his family originally came from Finland and that he was probably captured by Pawnee Indians when he was a young man. There the indians gave him nick name “Mad Dog”, because he was so wild and furious. Reno was success to escape from Pawnee Indians.
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In August 1823, Reno was badly mauled by a bear. The leader of the party, Andrew Henry, left James Bridger and John Fitzgerald, behind to look after him. They became convinced he could not live and after taking his gun and equipment, abandoned him. When Bridger and Fitzgerald caught up with Henry they reported that Reno had died from his injuries.
However, Reno did regain consciousness and by eating wild berries and roots, he managed to crawl along the side of the Grand River. With the help of Native Americans Reno eventually reached Fort Kiowa. Reno now decided to track down and kill Bridger and Fitzgerald. Reno eventually found Bridger but decided to forgive him because of his age. He also discovered that Fitzgerald had joined the army and was no longer living in the region.
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Reno was willing to work as a trapper in dangerous Blackfeet country. In 1833 he was hit in the back with an arrowhead. He recovered and worked with Kit Carson and Joe Meek. After the trip was completed Reno managed to get Dr. Marcus Whitman, a medical missionary, to cut out the arrowhead from his back.
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During the American Civil War he joined the Union Army and served (scout) for two years (1863-65) against the Confederate Army.
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Life is incomplete without sports and none scores better than Dharitri on this. Apart from covering daily sports news, it publishes a weekly sports special with detailed information that include field and track events.
The paper stood out among its peers for its sterling coverage of business news, information on employment and career and experts’ columns. It carried a new genre of business news when the idea was yet to dawn on other newspapers in Odisha. Its Sunday supplement ‘Chhutidina’ is a most sought issue for its readers. It’s packed with an assortment of content such as current affairs, features, special days and festivals, history, heritage, customs, travelogues, personalities, films, satire, relationships, fashion, astrology and crime.
Elephant, the largest land mammal, is in the middle of a crisis. The man-elephant conflict has come up as a major issue in Odisha. The number of elephant deaths is increasing alarmingly. In view of this problem and as a token of its commitment to environment and ecology, Dharitri launched a novel initiative ‘Hati Banchao, Haata Misao’ (Join Hands, Save the Elephant). This campaign has sought universal participation. It cannot be overstressed that renowned elephant experts such as Prof Raman Sukumar had helped launch this movement. Dharitri has opened a new chapter on the issue of elephant protection in the country and has been diligently carrying regular news and features on this theme.
Any discussion on Odia life and culture is futile without a word on Lord #Jagannath. Since its inception, Dharitri has been featuring news, articles and special pages on Jagannath culture, rituals, festivals and services of the deities. ‘Daru Dian’ – its magazine published on the occasion of the #Nabakalebara in 2015—created ripples in the state and beyond. Its regular column on Jagannath titled ‘Aitihara Odisha’ (Heritage Odisha) has made an attempt to publish many facets of the most important Hindu temple of #Odisha.
Last but not least, Dharitri, known for its gritty and intrepid editorials, has been highly appreciated by readers for its unmatched courage to speak the truth regardless of whose feathers are ruffled. In fact, Dharitri has been providing wind to its sails of progressive ideology unprejudiced by age old biases.
It is also the only paper of the state that holds no brief for any business-mining lobby, nor for any political outfit. It can rightfully claim to be the voice of the common Odia.
Present Editor: Tathagata Satpathy
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It's 2019 and the workforce burdens bearing down on plant managers and super- visors are heavy enough to make Atlas break a sweat. They can't find the right people who are both willing and educated, or the best people had to go and do a stupid thing like get old. Or even worse, suffer a musculoskeletal injury on the job. In Q1 of this year, one out of every four manufacturers turned down new business
opportunities because they lacked the workers, according to the National Association
of Manufacturing. Nearly every company is vulnerable, every factory susceptible, even
highly automated plants run by genius billionaire philanthropists.
Last year Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted: "Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated."
Fortunately, Homayoon Kazerooni, a brilliant Iranian engineer who immigrated to the U.S. right before the Ayatollah took over, has always sought to bring out the best in humanity.
He's done it through decades of research into functional exoskeletons, wearable devices that mechanically enhance human movement, from locomotion to lifting—using robots to pick up the slack for our areas of weakness.
"The writing was on the wall 20 years ago," Kazerooni laments. "Robots cannot replace people. We just cannot wait for the robots to show up. We need to come up with solutions for workers right now."
The professor at the University of California, Berkeley started by develop-
ing powered lower-body exoskeletons for soldiers hauling heavy loadouts,
Kaz, as he likes to be called, founded two of the leading
manufacturers of these medical devices, first at Ekso Bionics
and currently SuitX (where he is CEO). They are two of the four
devices in the world approved by the FDA. For just this work
alone, his (unofficial) title as Father of Exoskeletons would
be secure, but in the last half of this decade Ekso and SuitX
have developed industrial exoskeletons as the potential solu-
tion to all those workforce-related anvils resting on the chest of
companies requiring manual labor.
Ironically, as big a problem as keeping workers safe, productive and (now most importantly) willing to consider the job is, the wearable devices themselves are fairly simple. Most of the time you don’t even notice them working.
The most mature of these by a wide margin are the devices that support arms.
These passive, or unpowered, exoskeletons have one specific job: reduce the strain of lifting or holding an object, be it a box or a drill. That's it, which is enough to have every major manufacturer in automotive, aerospace, and heavy equipment finding areas to leverage this new breed of exoskeletons.
SuitX is already on its third model of its ShoulderX, which has been tailored to address user feedback surrounding comfort, weight and breathability, while still remaining at $5,000.
"Worker's acceptance is a huge deal. If they don’t like it, they don’t wear it," Kazerooni says.
He likens it to having an ill-fitting pair of shoes and how that could affect your ability to work. Part of that is fit, and the ShoulderX is one size fits all (except for the shorter 5% of females). For comfort, the connection to the wearer is wider and distributes the force better. Carbon fiber was added to reduce weight from 11. 7 lb to just 7. 4 lb.
Finally, breathability had to improve. Thomas Edison always said success was 90% perspiration, and this inventor took that to heart by personally wearing the device all day long searching for every sweat spot.
Two major improvements were made. First, the back brace was made from a nylon mesh to improve air flow. More importantly for users in high exertion or high temperature areas, a small fan was added to cool the user's back.
Other options include fire-retardant and dust-proof versions. Kazerooni says now that the ShoulderX has been improved, the LegX and BackX—which work modularly with each other and ShoulderX—will receive similar upgrades.
"We have all these options because we go everywhere and want to become universal," Kazerooni says.
They even may have a recreational unit (for hiking and other outdoor activities) by end of year.
The improvements caught the attention of Siemens Gamesa, which makes really, really huge fans (wind turbines) and has chosen SuitX as its preferred supplier to deploy at its manufacturing sites.
"Ideally, we will see a lower level of injuries and tiredness and a higher level of productivity, showing that you can do good for the company and do good for your employees at the same time," says Claus Lindberg Nielsen, head of tooling at Siemens Gamesa. "We
By John Hitch
The latest wave of passive exoskeletons are tailor-made to fit in a growing number of
manufacturing applications.
The ShoulderX V3, which is used to reduce muscle strain during overhead work, now has carbon fber parts to make it lighter and a mesh backing and cooling fan to improve breathability.
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Boundary-interior exchange: Reviewing the idea that internal-wave mixing enhances lateral dispersal near continental margins,
Near-boundary mixing affects the dispersal of seawater constituents and may have important consequences for ecological and geological processes since continental boundaries are a fundamental source of lithogenic sediments, nutrients, iron and carbon. This paper examines the idea that gravitational collapse after near-boundary vertical mixing events leads to enhanced dispersal in the horizontal (along-isopycnal) direction. Dye studies from the continental shelf and laboratory investigations of intrusions generated by internal-wave breaking suggest that this is a viable mechanism for offshore dispersal of boundary-layer fluid. However, there have been few attempts to examine this process in the ocean or to quantify it in a form amenable to parameterization. Here this process is considered primarily for continental slopes and conditions of relatively uniform stratification, rather than for shelves where the boundary can intersect a front or seasonal thermocline. This paper reviews a selection of studies examining this concept in the laboratory and ocean, and reviews studies linking internal-wave reflection and mixing to the offshore dispersal of suspended sediment from continental margins. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):27, Oceanography, CODEN: DSROE, ,
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Diurnal-period internal waves near Point Conception, California,
Diurnal-period internal waves were observed near Point Conception California, using an array of moorings extending 120 km along the inner shelf. The waves have an along-shelf coherence scale of at least 50 km, and appear to propagate nearly straight onshore. Wave amplitudes vary over time, depending on thermal stratification and the amplitude of the diurnal sea breeze oscillation. Barotropic tides and vorticity over the mid-shelf are not correlated with internal wave amplitude. Large amplitude internal waves, with supercritical Froude numbers, are observed in mid-summer. Although such waves may drive vertical mixing and cross-shelf transport of passive particles, there is no significant correlation between wave amplitude and invertebrate settlement in the Santa Barbara Channel. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):7, Oceanography, CODEN: ECSSD, ,
Cudaback, McPhee-Shaw
Sub-mesoscale coastal eddies observed by high frequency radar: A new mechanism for delivering nutrients to kelp forests in the Southern California Bight,
Sub-mesoscale eddies are described along the mainland coast of the Santa Barbara Channel based on observations from a network of high frequency (HF), current-measuring radars and near-shore moorings. The eddies are 4-15 km in diameter and typically last about 2 days, although some last up to 6 days. Most eddies within the radar coverage area are anti-cyclonic with relative vorticities of -0.4 f to -0.8 f where f is the Coriolis parameter, but cyclonic eddies are also observed. Moored observations over the inner shelf (12 m water depth) of a sequence of two eddies in December 2001 show an increase in nitrate plus nitrite from the background levels of 1-2 μM to a maximum of 10-12 μM when the eddies are present. We speculate that these eddies are an important transport mechanism for nutrients and biogenic particles to inner shelf ecosystems of the Southern California Bight. Copyright 2005 by the American Geophysical Union., Cited By (since 1996):30, Oceanography, CODEN: GPRLA, , , Downloaded from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005GL023017/pdf (14 June 2014).
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Ambitions for the Como Roundhouse
Museum for Big Things That Move
Status of Current Projects - 2014
Returning a steam train to Como: We had the opportunity to obtain a steam engine, track and rolling stock. This equipment was visited and it seemed that it could be obtained and made operational with a conservative investment. Careful business planning, however, demonstrated that the cost of the infrastructure could not be economically justified in spite of the fact that the operation could be confined to the original Roundhouse property.
Archaeology study of the roundhouse property: Assisted by a grant an archaeological survey of the roundhouse property has been completed, although the report is not finished. The study identified the sites of buildings and outhouses below the railroad tenement, and identified many other details of the property. A prehistoric site was identified as well.
Interior view of the Como Roundhouse.
The turntable: Jim Cooley and Steve O'Connell have donated an original narrow gauge railroad turntable pivot. This is the most difficult item to obtain if we are to get the turntable to function. The pivot sat in a field for 30 years or so and was significantly rusted so that no parts moved. The pivot was brought to the roundhouse where Bill Kazel and his mining crew managed to take it apart. It looks like the moving parts are supported by Timken tapered roller bearings. Overall the pivot seems to be in good condition, though it needs help. Before work stopped for the winter Bill Kazel and his crew removed the turntable from the pit and turned it upside down so that we can figure out what is necessary to make the connections and so that the turntable pit can be assessed. A civil engineer has been retained, and we have detailed drawings of the turntable.
We hope to complete this project in the next season. We will need assistance from donations, as there is no grant funding to support this project at present.
Any donations towards the completion of the turntable and future work for the restoration of this amazing and historic railroad building will be greatly appreciated. Please make donations to the DSP&P Historical Society. Mark your donations for the “Roundhouse Restoration and Preservation.” We appreciate your interest.
Donations may be sent to:
The Denver, South Park and Pacific Historical Society.
Buena Vista, CO 81211-0026
The base of the turntable pivot showing the tapered roller bearings.
The pivot top piece.
Turntable in the air! The turntable bridge was removed from the pit to allow closer inspection and preparation for installation of the pivot and ring rail.
©2020 Denver, South Park & Pacific Historical Society • dspphs@gmail.com
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BLOG NATHAN ARCHIVE
Unofficial history of Synop
I started Synop in September 1998 as a uni student working from my bedroom with about $8,000 to my name. Luckily, starting a business didn’t seem like a big deal because I could always get a job and I didn’t really even think of it as starting a business, let alone understand what that meant.
Initially, Synop traded as a NSW business called Synop Software.
Caught up in the Internet gold rush, I wanted to build an online version of Quicken so I could enter my expenses remotely. Typical of Synop, this turned into a full fledged electronic organiser with sophisticated item sharing between members. elec.org was the working name and the site was built using AOLServer, TCL and the Solid database server. Having no experience with Internet sites or databases, Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing was my bible at this time.
In March 1999, Dave Thomas became involved as a mentor and guide on my business building journey. His probing questions led me to understand more about the business realities of running a large scale web site funded by advertising, particularly since disk space was relatively expensive. Around this time sites like When.com launched the first online electronic organisers.
During 1999, Dave found me various small paid consulting projects for his network. Only later did I realise that this was a gentle form of testing, funding and keeping me afloat while I learnt the basics of a business (i.e. one needs customers).
Around this time I shifted from AOLServer to using a PHP in a LAMP stack (although it wasn’t called that yet). The primary driver was that I could host a public web site with scripting and a database for $25US / month. Demonstrating elec.org was horrendously difficult and expensive as AOLserver was not commonly used and required a dedicated server.
Inspired by software that ArsDigita was building, I built a PHP equivalent called Synphony. This powered e-gineer.com, to which I was adding many articles and instruction sets and which hosted the PHP Knowledge Base (later FAQTs).
In August 1999 I made my first visit to the US. Reading extensively online, I kept hearing about the internet revolution and how the web was everywhere. In Australia, the occaisional URL was making its way onto the bottom of TV advertisements and I thought “Yeah, it’s happening”. Then I arrived in San Francisco. Every billboard I saw during my visit was for an Internet company. I could literally overhear people talking about new business ideas across cafes. I learnt two things: the significant divide between Australia and the US, despite the Internet; and just how huge the Internet was becoming.
I did a number of job interviews in the US on this trip, and decided to turn down jobs with ArsDigita, CNet and others. It’s at this point that Synop really became more than a hobby.
Towards the end of that trip (October), I ended up in Sarasota, Florida upgrading WorldFinanceNet.com from FrontPage and static HTML to run the first version of Synphony. This top 1000 web site with massive morning traffic spikes was Synop’s first real customer and user of Synphony.
WFN was a classic Internet boom company. Two decisions stand out in particular. The first was deciding not to spend $5,000 US to get the wfn.com domain name for their top 1000 web site (apparently, WorldFinanceNet.com really isn’t that long or confusing). The second was when senior management came in and told me with much excitement that we need to add another advertisement to the home page. It was a barter deal in exchange for cheap access to their own private jet for getting to meetings…
At this point, the realities of web server support became very real to me with many late night calls. Being woken up to cries of “the server’s down!” is not conducive to a good nights sleep. One night, I logged in and saw 300+ httpd processes thrashing on the server. Restarting Apache, I couldn’t believe my eyes as the traffic built up to 200+ again within a minute. Turns out that a hacker at WFN had changed numerous includes on the home page to pull in smaller pieces on the site using URLs rather than PHP file includes. The result, was a morning traffic spike with every home page visit spawning 5 PHP script requests to Apache.
Unfortunately, the WFN relationship didn’t end happily (Apr 2000). Business lessons: bill customers early and often; it’s hard to be persistent and insistent by phone; and the US legal system is too expensive to bother pursuing $50k US ($100k AU) in unpaid bills.
There was one alternative I didn’t pursue however. On a US domestic flight I ended up next to a crazy old duck from NY. Turns out she was a bookmaker in her spare time and was more than happy to give me the number of some guys who could be quite persuasive when retrieving funds.
During the summer of 99/00, Jad and I built FAQTs.com and really took Synphony to the next level. The highlight was probably teaching Jad how to kick a football in my living room over many intense design discussions. At this point Synop had it’s own room in our apartment for an office.
Apachecon 2000 was held in Orlando during March, at the absolute peak of the bubble. Everyone was running around offering everyone else a job. This was the first of a number of conferences where I was lucky enough to present.
July 2000 was a dark time for Synop, with its survival limited to my credit cards after the WFN payment default. Through Randy Best, a great friend to Synop, we entered a contract with First Light Communications in New York to build and maintain a content management system that they would resell. “Feast or famine” was an email subject from Randy at the time, and certainly securing this contract took Synop back into the fast lane.
Synop Software incorporated to become Synop Pty Ltd at this time. Luckily another company with the name Synop had dropped it between 1998 and 2000, so we could get the originally preferred name.
Over the coming months I built and delivered Synphony v2 products to First Light. The real crunch was just prior to the Sydney olympics when I did three 20-hour days in a row, shipping the first product on the day of the opening ceremony. I remember working to 3am and getting up at 6:30am for a chance to watch the torch run by on the Pacific Hwy. Synphony obtained role based security, membership models, affiliate tracking and an incredible raft of features at this time.
In October 2000, my good friend Matt joined as Synop’s first employee. He quickly established our Artarmon office, which we used until closing and generally built all of Synop’s administration facilities and systems that I’d completely ignored since starting. John and Dean joined Synop quickly afterwards, ramping up our scale to support Synphony and continue development.
Hopes and expectations for the future of Synop were high, unrealistically high on my part, around this time. In anticipation of a bright future, the Synphony products were rebranded to Sytadel and a suite of E-gineers (communication, community, construction, content, knowledge, surveillance, sytadel).
These hopes came crashing back to earth when we held a booth at ApacheCon 2001. This was a different world to just a year before, with few attendees and everyone there looking for a job rather than offering them. The bubble had truly burst.
Over the coming months all of Synop’s significant clients went out of business, and Synop was forced to shrink back down to me working alone. At this stage I was experimenting with tools to help with Agile project management (code name Agilation), including an add-in for Microsoft project that provided a card playing UI for task allocation.
Peter Bailey had joined as a part time consultant in May 2001 and agreed to join permanently after helping to win our first government contract (the IP Access portal) in Oct 2001. Thus began the next phase in Synop’s life, and a great journey for us together.
Sytadel v3 was built and shipped as part of the IP Access project. This saw version control, workflow and many other advanced features come to Sytadel. At this point, Sytadel owners could use the Construction E-gineer to develop new content types that were automatically version controlled, subject to workflow, had complete editing and viewing screens. All the generated code was completely documented and extensively commented for ease of editing.
I completed the final stages of this project working from Internet cafes while chasing Bianca around Central America. Actually, the fastest Internet connection I’ve ever used was in Guatemala.
In April 2002, Synop organised Agile Australia 2002, the first series of talks on Agile Methods in Oz. I also presented two Synop papers at XP 2002 in Italy. To reflect this change and our project development methods, Synop’s tagline became “take the agile approach”.
Mid-2002 saw Synop win the ACCC Internet and Intranet portal redevelopment project in partnership with SecureNet. This was a huge project with more than 750 pages in the project specification. Many project problems, including massive scope creep, performance bottlenecks and my decision to rewrite Sytadel from scratch into v4 based on XML saw this project blow out into 2004. As a fixed price concern, this project became a huge millstone around Synop’s neck.
Although I did have my car written off while parked outside the ACCC late one night, the darkest days of this project were spent working for a week at the James Court Serviced Apartments in Canberra. After months of furious code development and sleepless nights, we felt Sytadel had reached a turning point in solidity and features. This week was going to put on the final touches and really begin roll out of the myriad of ACCC customisations. But, PHP and Sablotron had other plans for us. At this point, the system literally imploded and everything just stopped working. Days of installs, work arounds, bug fixes and rollbacks could not get things working again. Sytadel is an incredibly complex piece of engineering that pushes PHP, MySQL and XML libraries to their limit. Or beyond it, as we found out that week. After returning to Sydney (broken shadows of our former selves), we did some C hacking to replace the XSLT engine and Sytadel magically restored to working order. I still get shivers every time I pass the James Court, but only Richard who joined Synop and toiled with me through every inch of the Sytadel v4 rewrite would probably understand that.
Buried in the ACCC debacle, Synop struggled through early 2003 to deliver on a range of new customer projects (e.g. UNJLC, MDBC) we’d won with the promise of Sytadel v4 features and hard business development work throughout 2002. Working on site at the ACCC and in Peter’s Canberra home office, Matt Sheppard joined us in late 2002 to help.
Through 2003, Synop succesfully added hosting, support and consulting revenue streams to smooth out our traditionally lumpy revenue.
Contemplating life after this project onslaught, in April 2003 we started thinking about an AusIndustry R&D START grant application for what eventually became the Sauce project. Work on Sauce began in September 2003, at which point Victor Hadianto also joined Synop.
The Sauce project had 3 components: an aggregation server (TrustedSauce.com), aggregation client (Sauce Reader) and a content server (Sauce Studio). We built the aggregation server using .NET in late 2003 but it was never made public due to lack of resources to support a large search infrastructure and compete with now well-funded players like Technorati. TrustedSauce contained unique features for FOAF discovery, tracing weblog conversations and more.
Sauce Reader was released as a free for personal use product, to support RSS reading and weblog posting. Many 1.x versions were released through 2004, using the .NET platform. To address significant performance concerns, and for better integration with Sauce Studio, Sauce Reader 2.x was built using Delphi and released in May 2005. While technically advanced, Sauce Reader struggled as the RSS reader market exploded through 2004 with hundreds of competitors, free open source versions and increasing integration into web browsers.
Sauce Studio was built to concept stage in house and provided a file system based, XML content management system. It was a lightweight, flexible solution that could be combined with third party security, version control and other tools. Although we had strong belief in this technology, unfortunately we could not identify an appropriate market niche to commercialise the product.
While this aggressive R&D took place we continued growing the Sytadel and consulting aspects to Synop’s business. We opened our Canberra office in January, and by late 2004, Synop had grown into a company that could estimate and deliver increasingly complex projects reliably and profitably (e.g. METeOR, AER). During this busy time, Synop doubled in size to 10 people, adding more developers and our first full time business development manager. We finally had a good mix of experience and skill-sets.
Come 2005, Synop was faced with a difficult situation. Despite growing our business development resources and stringing together successful projects, our pipeline of new Sytadel business was running out. Our projects were typically the more high risk and complex customisation jobs requiring a flexible CMS. But, hypercompetition was driving prices lower and making jobs increasingly difficult for Synop to win.
After recognising the inherent conflict of being a small company building large enterprise CMS systems back in 2003, the Sauce project was intended to provide the next phase of Synop’s product line and consulting services. However, delays due to hangover projects in 2004 and a failure to identify an immediate and profitable market niche made rapid growth of revenue from this project highly unlikely.
With Synop in a financially healthy, but strategically weak situation we considered a range of alternatives for the future of the business. The only financially viable option appeared to be movement towards a pure consulting services model, building on third party products. Unfortunately, Synop’s passion had always been developing new products. So, the sad and difficult decision was made to divest assets and close the business as appropriate.
Comment by Rod on August 17, 2005 7:27 AM
Bugger! Sauce Reader is my favorite RSS reader.
Have you thought about charging for it?
Comment by Chris Johnson on August 18, 2005 2:41 PM
What a shame you are giving up Sauce Reader! It really is THE BEST reader out there ... just not enough people know about it! I have tried all the rest and they suck. Your software is clean, designed well, does not try to re-invent how applications look and feel ... and is easy to use! It will probably be years before someone comes up with something as good as your V2. Ah well .. will have to keep using that for a while yet then! :)
Comment by Anonymous on August 25, 2006 8:48 PM
Thank you very much for that perfect news aggregator. I like it very much. I use Liferea under Linux and yours under Windows.
Please keep on going to develope it!
Comment by RadhaKrishna on January 09, 2007 5:45 PM
Saucereader is THE BEST...I cant tell you how many aggregators I have used before using this..I instantly fell in love with it..Seriously you must consider charging it..I am sure once it develops traction, a lot of people will not think twice before paying
Comment by Luiz on March 22, 2007 10:56 PM
Congrats on the reader! It's the best one I tried.
Since you cannot mantain it anymore, how about transfering it to an open source initiative? :)
You keep your legacy and make a lot of happy users! :D
Comment by Anonymous on April 02, 2007 3:28 AM
Saucereader is the best, no other like it. I abandoned it just today after months of struggling beacause it's not more capable to read my blogs. Really thanks anyway.
Comment by Mr. Hobbs. on February 18, 2010 3:09 PM
I look forward to reading Volume II, whenever that eventuates.
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2010: Year in Review, Eagles-style
A list of notable Eagles events this past year that I compiled for fun. 2010 was a great year. Let's hope 2011 - the 40th anniversary of the Eagles' formation - is even better! I have a feeling it's gonna be EPIC.
THE 2010 RUNDOWN:
11: Rolling Stone prints an article stating that the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac are preparing to tour together. Controversy over the move abounds in both the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac fandoms. Two days later, however, Timothy B. Schmit states that he hasn't heard anything about it and the plans come to nothing.
27: Joe Walsh (rock star) sues Joe Walsh (congressional candidate) for putting lyrics promoting himself to the melody of "Life's Been Good" and posting a video of the song being performed on YouTube and his own site.
20: Deacon Frey and friends put on a benefit for Haiti at the House of Blues in Hollywood, California, with Deacon and his father Glenn Frey performing together as the final act. Glenn Frey performs several covers he has never before played in public such as "Werewolves of London" and sings lead vocals on "Life in the Fast Lane" publicly for the first time since 1993.
13: Joe Walsh (rock star) settles with Joe Walsh (candidate) when the latter agrees to take down the offending video and promise never to repost it, nor to use the former's songs in any other way in his campaign.
16: Eagles announce that they will be playing several stadium dates with The Dixie Chicks and (sometimes) Keith Urban over the summer. Controversy continues in the Eagles fandom, with fans fearing the Eagles will make this the standard and ditch full shows. Also, fans who aren't country music aficionados don't look forward to sitting through country acts to hear an abbreviated Eagles set. Luckily, that did not turn out to be the case. The next day, Glenn Frey does a run of rare TV interviews alongside Dixie Chick singer Natalie Maines to promote the project.
26: Timothy B. Schmit plays the first of several solo dates in England, his first ever solo shows in the country; indeed, in addition to the handful of solo dates he played in America in the fall of 2009, the British solo shows constitute the only ones he has ever played anywhere.
16: Eagles commence the long-awaited west coast leg of their tour (their last visit was in 2005) at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles; it is also their first time playing at the historic venue. They add "Seven Bridges Road" into their setlist for the first time in years, sending the vast majority of hardcore fans into ecstasies. They even play the full version for several shows before truncating it by removing the final verse after the full stop.
6: Glenn and Cindy Frey win the "Loop Award" from the Los Angeles Lupus organization; Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh, aka The Party of Two, play the benefit to help raise funds for the foundation and its work.
13: Timothy B. Schmit is suddenly struck down by an ailment of the innards and is hospitalized, causing the postponement of several shows and a Joe Walsh meet'n'greet. Fans freak out. After a tense week, the shows are rescheduled and Schmit issues an announcement stating that all is well.
29: Joe Walsh does his only meet'n'greet of the year in Portland, Oregon.
31: Joe Walsh issues a restraining order against an elderly neighbor who has threatened to kill him.
10: Eagles kick off their "Summer Tour" with The Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
19: Eagles announce that they will play Australia at the end of the year, their first visit Down Under since 2004.
23: Eagles make a rare television appearance on the Australian show Hey Hey It's Saturday.
26: Eagles add "Best of My Love" to their setlist beginning at a Dallas, Texas concert; it is the first time the song has been played by the Eagles in years.
5: On the eve of his win against Chuck DeVore (see below) Henley gives an interview to the Campaigns and Copyrights blog which, in addition to discussing the case, excoriates YouTube and calls for government action against the site; his rant is so vociferous that it garners broad-based media attention all the way from tech blogs to Rolling Stone. When Rolling Stone characterizes Henley's attitude towards YouTube as "surprisingly conservative," manager Irving Azoff uses his then-newly created Twitter account to tweet his indignation.
8: Don Henley and co-plaintiffs Mike Campbell and Danny Kortchmar finally win their lawsuit against politician Chuck DeVore (proceedings first began in April 2009). DeVore was sued for posting on YouTube and his own site political satires done to the tunes of "Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", changing the lyrics to criticize President Obama and DeVore's political opponent Barbara Boxer. As part of the court decision, DeVore is forbidden to post the videos or to make more of them, and is forced to pay an undisclosed amount of money to Henley, Campbell, and Kortchmar. The judgment also forces DeVore to apologize to Henley for casting aspersions upon his character.
4: The Party of Two plays its first public show since 1993 at the Jazz Aspen Music Festival in Snowmass, Colorado.
17: Don Henley plays the first of a spate of solo dates on the west coast. While promoting the shows, Henley reveals that he plans to put out two solo albums in the next year: one will be country and one will be rhythm'n'blues. Both will contain covers as well as some original material.
4: Don Henley is stricken by a mystery ailment and several shows are called off as a result; again, fans freak out; again, after a tense week, he is back on his feet and the shows are rescheduled. However, Henley leaves off playing the drums for a while until he is fully recuperated and largely remains out in front wearing a guitar for the next few shows.
10: Eagles headline the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one of the few music festivals they have played as a band in recent years. They astound hardcores familiar with their usual shortened setlist by performing the song "Long Road Out of Eden", a song which has never before or since been played in a shortened set.
29: Eagles play the last of their shows in America - for now! - in Lubbock, Texas.
15: Beginning with Japanese dates in February and March of 2011, the Eagles schedule their first shows in Asia since 2004.
30: Eagles kick off the long-awaited Australian leg of the tour in Sydney, temporarily adding back some Long Road Out of Eden material into the setlist which had previously been dropped. Attendees at the first Sydney date are the only ones who hear "Seven Bridges Road", "Best of My Love", "Busy Being Fabulous", "Guilty of the Crime", and "Somebody" all performed at the same show. Of the latter three, only "Somebody" continues to be played past this night.
20: Eagles add German and Austrian dates for June of 2011 in what looks to be the beginnings of a European leg of the tour to take place in the summer.
21: Eagles announce several 2011 dates in China; it will be the first time the band has ever performed in that country.
22: Eagles wrap up the Australian tour in Melbourne by performing "Please Come Home for Christmas", a song they had not done as a band since December 31, 1999 at the New Year's Eve show which ushered in the new millennium.
23: Undercover posts interviews with Timothy B. Schmit and Joe Walsh where it is stated that the Eagles will be playing more American dates in 2011, and Walsh goes so far as to suggest the Eagles might make a new album. Walsh also states he will release a new solo album in the spring or summer of 2011.
That's it, folks, for 2010. Here's to a rockin' 2011!
Can't forget China
A couple more dates added, according to JoeWalsh.com:
March 9, 2011: Beijing, China
Venue: Wukesong Arena
On Sale: NOW
March 12, 2011: Shanghai, China
Venue: Mercedes Benz Arena
Eagles continue to rock the world
More dates! According to JoeWalsh.com:
February 20, 2011: Bangkok
Venue: Impact Arena
June 19, 2011: Wiesbaden, Germany
Venue: Bowling Green Open Air
June 21, 2011: Cologne, Germany
Venue: Lanxess Arena
June 23, 2011: Berlin, Germany
Venue: Waldbuhne
June 25, 2011: Vienna, Austria
Venue: Stadthalle
June 26, 2011: Munich, Germany
Venue: Konigsplatz
June 28, 2011: Hamburg, Germany
Venue: Colourline Arena
Some Christmas updating!
As you can see, I decorated for Christmas a bit.
Plus, for those of you who like my calendar wallpapers:
More Asian Dates!
According to JoeWalsh.com:
February 23, 2011 - Singapore
Venue: Indoor Stadium
On Sale: November 24
February 26, 2011 - Taipei
Venue: Linco Hall
March 18, 2011 - Hong Kong
Venue: Hong Kong Exhibition Centre Hall
Happy birthday to Joe Walsh!
The last of our Scorpio Eagles celebrates his birthday today. Joe Walsh turns 63. Happy birthday, Joe!
Eagles in Japan!
This news from Joe Walsh's official site - the Eagles have scheduled the following shows in Japan:
March 1, 2011: Osaka, Japan
Venue: Osaka Dome
On Sale: December 11
March 3, 2011: Nagoya, Japan
Venue: Nagoya
On Sale: December 4
March 5, 2011: Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Tokyo Dome
Tokyo Dome
Happy birthday to Mr. Glenn Frey and, belatedly, Timothy B. Schmit who had his birthday on Oct. 30. I've been working really hard lately but I have something cooking...it just may take a bit more time.
Hope the guys are having / had a birthday to remember!
Eagles back on track!
Looks like Don's on the mend. The official site says the fall tour will resume with the show in Austin this coming Sunday (Oct. 10). Thank goodness!
Eagles Orlando and Fort Lauderdale Concerts Rescheduled
Due to Don Henley's illness, the Eagles official site has also announced the postponement of the Orlando and Fort Lauderdale Eagles shows that were scheduled for Thursday, October 7 and Friday, October 8, respectively. The Orlando show has been rescheduled for Tuesday, October 26th and the Fort Lauderdale show's new date is Wednesday, October 27th. Once again, we wish send our best wishes to Don for a speedy recovery.
Lubbock, TX Eagles Concert Postponed
According to the Eagles official site, tonight's Eagles concert in Lubbock has been postposted and rescheduled for Friday, October 29th. This was necessitated due to an illness of Don Henley. No details have been disclosed about the nature of Don's illness, but, of course, we wish him a full and speedy recovery.
Get Well Soon, Don!
October's wallpaper
Eagles play Sydney, Australia on November 30
Looks like the Eagles aren't done with Australia yet.
November 30 - Sydney, Australia
Venue: Sydney Entertainment Centre
Tickets available through Ticketmaster.com
September Wallpaper
Eagles hit Universities!
And they keep trickling 'em out!
Oct. 5 - Lubbock, TX
Venue: United Spirit Arena at Texas Tech University
Tickets will be available to the general public at Select-A-Seat.com on Aug. 28
Note: There is a contest to win tickets for the Lubbock show - more info KCDB.com (thanks to Carol-Lynn for finding this)
Oct. 22 - University Park, PA
Venue: Bryce Jordan Center at Penn State University
Tickets will be available to the general public on Aug. 30 at Ticketmaster.com
Holy Toledo (Ohio)! And a show in Des Moines too
Dates announced in Ohio and Iowa:
Oct. 20 - Toledo, OH
Venue: Huntington Center
Oct. 24 - Des Moines, Iowa
Venue: Wells Fargo Arena
Tickets available through Dahlstickets
Eagles add Indy to their dates
This makes me wish I still lived in Indiana! According to the official site:
October 12, 2010 - Indianapolis, IN
Venue: Conseco Fieldhouse
On Sale: 8/23
Amex Pre-Sale 8/18-8/22
More Eagles Dates
And the guys keep on chugging...
Orlando, FL - Oct. 7
Venue: Amway Center
Sunrise, FL - Oct. 8
Venue: BankAtlantic Center
Pittsburgh, PA - Oct. 19
Venue: Consol Energy Center
Tickets available through venue site
Two more Eagles shows!
According to JoeWalsh.com, we can look forward to two more Eagles shows in October:
October 1, 2010 / Reno, NV
Venue: Reno Events Center
AMEX pre-sale: 8/4 to 8/8
On Sale: 8/9
Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com
October 2, 2010 / Oakland, CA
Venue: Oracle Arena
August Wallpaper
First off, I want to apologize for being negligent in answering e-mails and updating. I'm still settling into my new place in Memphis and I just haven't had the energy to devote to the sites. As soon as I can, I'll get back into the swing of things. Please be patient.
Along those lines, I set aside a few hours yesterday to create the August wallpaper. Here it is:
Eagles hit Atlanta on October 15!
According to JoeWalsh.com, the Eagles have a new tour date:
Oct. 15 - Atlanta, GA
More info at the official site
Another Melbourne date!
Australia loves the Eagles! Since the other Melbourne dates sold out, another one has been added - but it's billed "the fourth and final" so if you haven't yet got a ticket, don't wait for another date announcement.
Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010: Melbourne, Australia
Venue: Rod Laver Arena
July Wallpaper (and a bit of fun)
Wow, is it July already? Time for a new wallpaper calendar:
And just for the heck of it, another creative spurt
(Note: no Eagles music was harmed in the making of this video)
More Australia dates announced
According to Timothy B. Schmit's official website, the following dates have been added to the Australia tour:
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Dec 3
Acer Arena, Sydney, Dec 7
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Dec 14
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Dec 21
Thanks Whit!
Eagles play Australia!
Australians, rejoice! The band hasn't forgotten about you! They're headed down under in December! The Herald Sun, whose article also contains a brief but interesting interview with Joe Walsh, has the following dates listed:
nib Stadium, Perth, Dec 10
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Dec 17 and 18
Tickets go on sale on Monday 28 June at 9am.
Party of Two play PUBLIC show in Aspen on Sept. 4
Here's something you don't see every day - or year - but Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey are doing a PUBLIC show as the Party of Two!
It will be at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Festival on September 4, 2010, at 7:15 pm on the main stage.
Get your tickets at the official site!
Thanks for the heads up, Deb!
Eagles in Louisville, KY on October 16, 2010
According to WHAS11.com, the Eagles are going to play the inaugural concert of the KFC YUM! Center in Louisville, Kentucky on October 16, 2010. Sounds delicious!
Eagles come to Houston on June 27!
The Eagles just added a new date:
Venue: Toyota Center
AMEX pre-sale: 6/2 10AM - 6/6 10PM
On Sale: 6/3 through venue site
For the June wallpaper, I modified a photo taken by Jessica P. in San Jose on May 1. Thanks, Jess!
Eagles to play Little Rock, Arkansas on July 1, 2010
A new date added:
Venue: Verizon Arena
Tickets available through LiveNation.com
Credit Card Presale: June 2 at 10:00 am CDT
On sale to General Public: June 7 at 10:00 am CDT
Eagles to play Wichita, Kansas on June 30
According to ILoveAllAccess.com, the Eagles are playing the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas on June 30. (Thanks for the heads up, Cami and Mike!)
Hershey and Philly shows canceled
It has been announced on the Eagles official site that the Eagles, Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban concerts on June 14th at Citizens Bank Ball Park in Philadelphia, PA and June 15th at Hershey Stadium in Hershey, PA have been canceled.
Full refunds for the canceled concerts will be available at place of purchase.
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All Postponed Shows Have Now Been Rescheduled
Just to recap, all of the concerts that were postponed in May due to bass player, Timothy B. Schmit's illness have now been rescheduled as follows:
Wednesday May 26, 2010 / Seattle, WA - Key Arena
Saturday May 29, 2010 / Portland, OR - Rose Garden
Sunday May 30, 2010 / Boise, ID - Idaho Center
Tuesday June 1, 2010 / Vancouver, BC - PNE Coliseum
Tickets are still available for all of these dates through Ticketmaster.
Portland Show and Meet'n'Greet Rescheduled for May 29
According to JWFC, the Portland, OR show has been rescheduled for May 29 and so has the meet'n'greet.
The Denver show is on
Thanks to tbsfan for giving us a headsup on this. Timothy has posted on his blog with an update on his health, and says the show in Denver for Thursday, May 20th is a go! We are so glad to hear Timothy is on the mend.
Eagles play the Austin Music Festival in October!
Check it out, folks! According to the ACL Music Festival site, the Eagles are part of the 2010 lineup! Great photo, too!
Message from Tim about his health
Timothy has approved for release a message about his health, received via the webmistress of his official site:
You can assure fans that, although I consider this a rather large bump in the road, this is not life-threatening, and I should be up and running fairly soon.
Boise show postponed
According to Timothy's official site, the Boise date has also been postponed due to illness. The new date for the show has not yet been determined. More info will be posted as it is made available.
Portland show postponed
As we feared after hearing about the meet'n'greet, the Portland show has been postponed as well - new date TBA. Here is the full statement:
PORTLAND CONCERT POSTPONED
The Eagles concert scheduled for May 17th in Portland has been postponed due to an illness of Eagles bassist and vocalist Timothy Schmit.
The rescheduled Portland date has not yet been determined. Tickets for the May 17th concert will be honored at the rescheduled performance (date TBD).
New information will be announced.
Portland Meet'n'Greet Canceled
I'm so sorry for those planning on going, but this was just posted by 3Encores and the Joe Walsh Fan Club Twitter:
"Due to certain circumstances the Portland M&G has been canceled. There will be an official statement posted later, so stay tuned"
More info will be posted when available.
Vancouver Concert Rescheduled
According to the Vancouver Sun, tonight's show in Vancouver has been postponed. More information will be made available as it is released.
Seattle Concert Rescheduled Because of Illness
From 3Encores:
EAGLES CONCERT IN SEATTLE, WA RESCHEDULED TO MAY 26, 2010
Due to an illness of Eagles bassist/vocalist Timothy B. Schmit, the Eagles concert at KeyArena scheduled for tonight, Thursday, May 13, 2010 has been postponed until May 26, 2010.
Fans should retain their tickets as they will be honored at the rescheduled concerts.
For questions or more information regarding this postponement, call 206-684-7200.
May Wallpaper
Almost forgot to post this - been pretty busy - but here's May's wallpaper!
New date added: Eagles play Dallas, TX on June 26
According to Joe Walsh's official site:
Thursday, June 26, 2010: Dallas, TX
Venue: American Airlines Center
AMEX pre-sale: 4/28 10AM - 5/2 10PM
*Special Guests: TBD
Tickets on sale through Ticketmaster
Eagles participate in "tickets for charity"
For the Eagles tour this summer with the Dixie Chicks and/or Keith Urban, you can purchase VIP ticket packages through "Tickets for Charity" and in doing so make a donation which will be divided amongst several charities as determined by the organization, including Walden Woods (of course). More information is at their site.
New date: Eagles play Hershey, Pennsylvania
As posted by 3Encores:
Hershey, PA on June 15, 2010
Venue: Hershey Stadium
Tickets are available through LiveNation.
"And I wanna sleep with you in some chocolate tonight..."
- Glenn being creative with the lyrics to "Peaceful Easy Feeling" when the Eagles played Hershey in 1975
Note: Washington DC show formerly scheduled for this date is now listed as canceled.
April Wallpaper
Time for April!
Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh to play at Benefit for LA Lupus on May 6
Here's the event poster:
More info from the site:
Celebrating 10 years...
The tradition continues with Los Angeles’ most colorful gala event: the Orange Ball, a benefit to raise awareness and funds for Lupus LA. Anticipation is mounting and plans are underway for this special tenth anniversary celebration set for May 6, 2010 at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel.
Hosted by George Lopez
Honoring Glenn and Cindy Frey
Featuring a special performance by Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh
Tickets and more information at http://www.lupusla.org/events/orange-ball/2010.php
Each year the “Loop Award” is bestowed upon individuals from the entertainment industry for their efforts on behalf of Lupus LA. This year’s recipients, Glenn and Cindy Frey, have supported the mission since its inception—Glenn has even brought his talent to the Lupus LA stage.
The Daniel J Wallace Founder’s Award will honor Dr. Renee Rinaldi for her outstanding dedication to her patients and for her passion for working toward a life without lupus.
And another date - Raleigh, NC on June 17
Again, according to 3Encores:
Venue: RBC Center
Another Eagles date in Canada
According to 3Encores, a new Eagles tour date was just added:
Venue: PNE Coliseum
Press for Tour with Dixie Chicks
The press release about the summer tour with the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban (along with a tour poster) can be found on the Eagles' official site. For some promotional interviews with Glenn Frey and Natalie Maines, check out Glenn Frey Online.
Eagles add dates in USA and Canada - Keith Urban and Dixie Chicks to open!
Dang, these guys are like the freaking Energizer bunnies! They just keep going and going and going...
Some new dates posted by Joe's official site:
Tuesday June 8, 2010 / Toronto, ON - Rogers Centre
AMEX pre-sale: TBD
On Sale: 3/29 Ticketmaster.com
*Opening Acts: Dixie Chicks + opener
Thursday June 10, 2010 / East Rutherford, NJ - New Meadowlands Stadium
AMEX pre-sale: 3/22 10AM - 3/28 10PM
*Opening Acts: Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban + opener
Saturday June 12, 2010 / Boston, MA - Gillette Stadium
Monday June 14, 2010 / Philadelphia, PA - Citizens Bank Ball Park
Saturday June 19, 2010 / Chicago, IL - Soldier Field
Tuesday June 22, 2010 / Winnipeg, MB - Canada Inns
Thursday June 24, 2010 / St. Louis, MO - Busch Stadium
Happy birthday Randy Meisner!
Randy turns 64 today, March 8. As usual, check out RandyMeisnerOnline.com for treats throughout the day.
March wallpaper
Time for the March 2010 wallpaper:
Eagles add dates in Denver, CO; San Diego, and Ontario, California
Thursday May 20, 2010: Denver, CO
Venue: Pepsi Center
AMEX pre-sale: 3/8 10AM - 3/14 10PM
On Sale: 3/15 LiveNation.com
Friday, May 22, 2010: Ontario, CA
Venue: Citizens Business Bank Arena
On Sale: 3/8 LiveNation.com
Sunday May 23, 2010: San Diego, CA
Venue: Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
Dates announced in Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho
According to the official site, there's been more dates added:
April 24, 2010: Las Vegas, NV
Venue: MGM Grand
May 13, 2010: Seattle, WA
Venue: Key Arena
On Sale: 3/1 Ticketmaster.com
May 17, 2010: Portland, OR
Venue: Rose Garden
May 18, 2010: Boise, ID
Venue: Idaho Center
Another San Jose date added - May 1
According to the official site, the Eagles are going to be playing another date at San Jose's HP Pavilion on May 1. Tickets go on sale Feb. 22 through Ticketmaster.
New Vancouver date
The Eagles are also playing Vancouver on May 10th. The internet presale starts Feb. 6 and the sale to the general public starts Feb. 8. More info on Ticketmaster.
February Wallpaper
And the next in our series of monthly Eagles calendar wallpapers - February!
Vancouver date announced
According to the official site, they've added a Canadian date:
May 9, 2010: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Venue: GM Place
Tickets go on sale Feb. 1. and, of course, you can buy VIP packages through ILAA.
(Thanks Carol-Lynn)
Eagles announce more dates in California and Arizona!
According to the official site, the following dates have been added to the Hollywood Bowl shows:
April 21: Phoenix, AZ
Venue: US Airways
April 25: Anaheim, CA
Venue: Honda Center
April 27: Sacramento, CA
Venue: Arco Arena
April 30: San Jose, CA
Venue: HP Pavilion
They go on sale February 8. Get ready, West Coast fans!
VIP Packages can be purchased through the ILAA site.
Australian Music Tour includes ticket to Eagles concert
My family has traveled all over the world and I've been on a lot of tours.... but never have I seen a tour like this one!
This "Good Vibrations" tour of Los Angeles is put on by "Rock and Pop Tours" and originates in Australia... and actually includes a ticket to see the Eagles at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the deal! It takes you to other musical landmarks as well such as the Troubadour, but it's the Eagles ticket that got the news item onto this front page.
More info on the tour site.
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The latest from Timothy on the Fleetwood Mac/Eagles tour: "it appears that that is not happening"
Timothy gave an interview today during which he said the following (transcribed by Sharon aka trackaghost from The Ledge):
Simon Mayo: "There was talk of The Eagles doing a stadium tour with Fleetwood Mac this year. Is there any chance of that happening?"
Timothy: "Well, erm, I just emailed our manager this morning and asked him that question - what we were doing during this summer and I didn't specifically ask him that but he did, he told me about that and it appears that that is not happening. So all these big rumours are just simply rumours. I think that it was being pursued for a while, that was the reality, but I don't think it's gonna happen. But I think we are still going to go out this summer but I'm not exactly sure with who or with anybody."
Simon Mayo: "So there's a chance The Eagles might be touring with another band?"
Timothy: "I think so, I think it's all up in the air at the moment. We are playing by ourselves, just us, during the Spring. We're starting at the Hollywood Bowl in April and we're gonna do a handful of shows and then we're going to take a break to probably mid-summer. I don't know what that schedule is yet."
Aw, man! I'm really disappointed. It would have been incredible!
Rolling Stone mentions Eagles/Fleetwood Mac tour
While no official announcement has yet been made, the most recent issue of Rolling Stone states that the "Eagles and Fleetwood Mac are planning a joint tour for next summer. The outing will hit stadiums and arenas, and will include multinight stands in some markets." (Thanks Shadowland!)
Since I've been in the wallpaper-making mood lately, here's one specifically for the month of January:
Bye, bye 2009. Hello, 2010!
Wow, it's 2010 already. Dang! Before we close the lid on 2009, I thought I'd sum up what the year brought us. Here goes...
Eagles Year in Review: 2009
January: Takamine puts out a Glenn Frey Signature Guitar; Eagles play some dates in the South.
February: "I Dreamed There Was No War" wins a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental.
March: Eagles play some dates in Canada and the Midwest.
April: Timothy B. Schmit plays with Poco for the first time in decades at the Stagecoach Festival.
May: Eagles play "Race to Erase MS" benefit; Don Henley does a few solo shows in Florida and Oklahoma.
June: Very Best of Don Henley CD/DVD released; Eagles tour Europe.
July: Clear Channel launches Eagles Radio hosted by Joe Walsh; Eagles continue touring in Europe and the United Kingdom.
October: Timothy B. Schmit's album Expando is released and he begins his first solo tour EVER. He also gets an official MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
November: Don Henley plays a spate of solo dates with an "autumnal" theme.
December: Eagles announce first-ever dates at the Hollywood Bowl, set to take place in April; more California dates forthcoming.
Here's hoping 2010 brings even more Eagles highlights... like a summer tour with Fleetwood Mac! :: crossing fingers ::
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International Semester – semester projects
The Mafia feeds on unemployment and economic despair
June 2, 2016 eamosekjaer
For over a hundred years the Mafia has had a huge influence on life in and around Naples, mainly due to the poor economic situation that the region is in. Fighting it is difficult, as it today has infiltrated almost every part of society.
By Emil Arenholt Mosekjær
There are so many stories about the Camorra; the name of the Mafia in the southern Italian region of Campania, that it’s hard to separate fact from fiction. As one story goes, the Casalesi clan in the small town of Casal di Principe used to dispose of their killed enemies by putting them in cement. And as they controlled the construction business, local legend has it that the very fabric of Casal di Principe is built on rotting corpses.
One of my local contacts, Emiliano D’annolfo, said over pasta, wine and cigarettes one night, that he didn’t know if the story was true – but it would explain why the houses there “looked so shitty”.
What is true though, is that the Camorra is very real in Campania, and its main city Naples, which is nestled in the shadow of the volcano Mount Vesuvius, where the city of Pompeii was wiped out some 2000 years ago.
“If you’ve grown up on these parts, you know who the Camorra is. You see them on the street, and you know who to avoid. It’s not like they wear a sign, though. So for an outsider they’re invisible. But if you’ve walked through Caserta or Casal de Principe, then you have most definitely met them without knowing it,” Emiliano says.
Casal di Principe is mainly known for the export of buffalo mozzarella. And for being the headquarters of the powerful Casalesi clan. Photo: Emil Arenholt Mosekjær
Blew up an office building
It is not only on the street level that the Camorra is a presence in people’s lives. All the way up through the society they have established themselves to a level where they are very much a part of almost everything.
“In Italian we say that the Camorra is ‘vischioso’, meaning its viscous and sticky and has attached itself to the nerve centers of every social category – even those that don’t appear immediately related. With the profits they have made from narcotics trade, they have been able infiltrate many sectors of the legal economy,” professor Marcello Ravveduto from the University of Salerno writes in an email reply.
He has done extensive research on the Mafia and has written several books on the subject.
According to him some of the things that characterize the Neapolitan Camorra, and distinguishes it from for instance the Cosa Nostra-Mafia in Sicily, is a flatter hierarchal structure. Here there are no “boss of the bosses”, but instead a lot of smaller clans that, like a jellyfish, seep into every part of society.
For the biochemist Duilio Verardi, his first encounter with the Camorra happened at the age of 12, when they blew up his father’s office building in Naples after he refused to pay them protection money. No one was hurt, but the family was forced to move to Caserta.
“Growing up with the Camorra can make you feel really alone. It seems the government only cares about us when they want our tax money. But when it comes to the Camorra, then it’s our problem – and then we’re on our own,” Duilio says.
Campania has a population of about 6 million people. Around 975.000 of these live in the city of Naples. Photo: Emil Arenholt Mosekjær
Economic disparity leads to crime
A lot of the Mafias success can be attributed to the poor economic state that the entire southern part of Italy is in – where unemployment rates in 2015, according to EUROSTAT, were at 19,8 percent and youth unemployment at 52,7 percent.
Furthermore, in 2014 CityMetric reported that the average GDP per capita was 40 percent lower in southern Italy compared to the central and north of the country.
“Put together, these data increase the distrust of the citizens in the institutions, and reveal the social fragility of the region. The law in Campania is in deep crisis, which means that the relationship between the State and the population is exhausted. This makes life easier for the Camorra,” professor Marcello Ravveduto writes.
Campania is even worse off as it has the highest debt of all the regions in Italy. According to the financial service Bloomberg L.P., in 2014 Naples itself was on the verge of bankruptcy because of a debt of around 1 billion euros.
According to professor Ravveduto the only way to “defeat” the Camorra is through a close cooperation between politics, authorities, economic operators and civil society. And if just one of the players don’t work in harmony with others you risk losing the game.
After the Castel Volturno massacre in 2008, where the Casalesi clan shot and killed 7 innocent African immigrants, the Italian government deployed 400 troops to Campania. They’re still there under the name “Operation Safe Streets”. Photo: Emil Arenholt Mosekjær
Fighting the enemy at his doorstep
One of these players fighting the Camorra on a day to day basis is Giovanni Allucci, who is the director of the organization Agrorinasce, whose headquarters is situated in a fenced-in house in Casal di Principe.
The town itself has a run-down appearance that is similar to that of one in the old Wild West. Small shops, bars and half-finished buildings line the streets, leading out towards the countryside covered in olive trees and grasslands – where the buffalo roam that produce the towns world famous mozzarella cheese.
Agrorinasce is a consortium of 6 different municipalities in the Caserta area northwest of Naples, who all have problems with the Camorra. They are funded both by the Italian government and by the EU. When the authorities confiscate assets and property from the Camorra, in accordance with the Mafia-law of 1996, it is Agrorinasces job to manage and develop it. Turning villas that look like something from the movie Godfather into for example youth hostels and restaurants.
“During the past 20 years over 3000 people have been arrested for Mafia-related crimes. Combined with the development we’re seeking to create by managing confiscated property – and at the same time slowly changing the mentality of people around here – there has been some real improvement,” Giovanni Allucci says.
Among Agrorinasces main issues is a lack of resources. At the moment they are managing 120 pieces of confiscated land and property. But they expect this number to increase by 200 or even 300 within the next couple of years. With the current funding, this would mean that there wouldn’t be money to hire managers and start projects.
According to Giovanni Alluci, Agrorinasce is “a public organ that fights the Camorra with economic and social means” Photo: Emil Arenholt Mosekjær
Watch out for the man with the money bag
According to professor Ravveduto from the University of Salerno, organizations like Agrorinasce are working in the right direction, but he stresses that it is a long term and uphill battle. Giovanni Allucci agrees.
“We have seen good results during the past 20 years, but we need at least 20 more before real change manifests into the society,” Giovanni Allucci says.
When it comes to his own safety he isn’t worried, as he feels safe as a member of the authorities – and adds that even though the Camorra is known for violence, their usual plan of action is different from the popular conception.
“The image of the gun slinging Mafiosi are mostly a product of Hollywood. At least in this area. It isn’t the man with a gun you should be on the lookout for, but the man with a money bag,” Giovanni Allucci says, referring to the extensive corruption that plagues the region.
As late as July 14 last year this resulted in the former mayor of Caserta, Pio Del Gaudio, two members of the Campania regional council and a local real estate agent being arrested for corruption and other Mafia-related crimes, with amounts of up to 50.000 euros allegedly switching hands in exchange for public contracts and other favors.
You rarely have to pay more than 1,50 euros for a slice of pizza in Naples. Photo: Emil Arenholt Mosekjær
Madness on streets of Naples
Leaving the rolling countryside of the Caserta area and moving into the dense and crowded streets of Naples itself – the peace and quiet is replaced by honking car horns and the distinct smell of trash. On every corner there seems to be someone able to sell you a slice of Neapolitan pizza, with fresh buffalo mozzarella and tomatoes grown on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. The Camorra is present here as well.
According to professor Ravveduto, the urban Camorra is different from the rural one of Casal di Principe and Caserta. The clans are smaller and the focus is more on narcotics, prostitution and other petty crimes. They are more like their urban counterparts in American cities like New York or Chicago.
In the district of Materdai there is an old abandoned mental asylum. A few years ago it was occupied by squatters and turned into a community center called Je So’ Pazzo – meaning “I am crazy” in the local dialect.
“Among other things people can come to get help with their studies, play music or theater, receive language courses or just hang out. We provide some of the things that the authorities should be providing. Hopefully this will prevent some of young people around here getting involved with the Camorra,” Lucia Duo says – a university student who has been a part of the organization from the start.
When asked about the Camorra she is very clear that they are something they had to take into account from the very start, because the Camorra quite simply is such a big part of the society here.
“One of the reasons for everything here being free, is to avoid any money circulation. Thereby preventing the Camorra from having any reason to pressure us for protection money. We also don’t allow drugs. Not for any moral reasons, but the Camorra controls the narcotics trade – and if it started flowing here they would follow,” she says.
The Italian tv-series “Gomorrah”, is set in the suburbs of Naples, and deals with the Camorra. Season two just started running, and has an average viewership of 1,2 million per episode. It is available on Netflix. Photo: Emil Arenholt Mosekjær
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Off-Season 2018
By OBXer, April 8, 2018 in Hurricanes Talk
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58 minutes ago, bluedevil58 said:
He hasn't been able to develop chemistry with anyone though. That's a concern.
Skinner Rask Stemps weren't bad in 2016/17. Skinner 37 goals 26 assists 63 points at a -3 for the year. Stemps 16 goals 24 assists 40 pts and a +2. Victor Rask 16 goals 29 assists 45 points and -10. 148 pts on that line. A line averaging close to 50 pts among the three aren't bad.Skinner actually had chemistry with Stemos as he helped Lee's scoring both goals and assists. Note that Rask was minus 10 and Skins minus 3. From an article in 2016
The Second Line
Jeff Skinner and Victor Rask have developed some great chemistry over the past few seasons, and it would be foolish to think that will change in 2016-17.
Skinner exploded for an amazing run of 19 points in 20 games, including a pair of hat tricks in a three-game period, on a line with Rask
Skinner 28 goals 23 assists 51 pts -2 Staal 20 goals 28 assists 48 pts +6 Verrsteeg in 63 games: 11 goals 22 assists 33 points -6. Skins also played with Rask who had 21 goals 27 assists 48 points and -6. Again note that Skins was not leading the - category on these lines, It was Rask and Versteeg.
What changed in 2017/18: Skins with Derek Ryan most of the year Ryan 15 goals 23 assists 38 points and a -15. Significantly lower than when Skins was partner with Rask or Staal. Add in PDG or Stemps a combined 22 pts it only get worse.
Edited May 26, 2018 by slapshot02
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On 5/24/2018 at 7:48 PM, ChuckBurns said:
If you would rather resign Ward than keep Darling and try to obtain another competent backup/shared time goaltender, you are also basically saying you are willing to write off making the playoffs next season.
And you seem to think that allowing Mongo to stay between the pipes next season is going to get us into the postseason?
2 hours ago, coastal_caniac said:
Leiostomus xanthurus ?
bluedevilcane
If you would rather resign Ward than keep Darling and try to obtain another competent backup/shared time goaltender, you are also basically saying you are willing to write off making the playoffs next season. No goaltender who has hopes to be our #1 is likely to sign here as long as Ward remains. Further, I think the coaching staff will lean on Ward as a crutch just as they did last season and that will doom our playoff hopes no matter what you do with Skinner, Faulk, etc.
Disagree. Ward did not hold back Mongo. Peters kept coming back to Mongo but he could not put together 2 good games in a row, and had many dismal performances. Ward, used purely a a #2 early in the season, did well in that role. The problem with keeping Ward is that he has proven he can’t hold the fort as a #1. If we bring someone else we’d need to be sure they will succeed as a #1 so that Ward doesn’t end up there by default as with Mongo. I think Ward is finally the odd man out. But not because he held anyone back.
5 hours ago, ChuckBurns said:
I don't disagree that we should wait to see what the new brain trust decides to do and then evaluate. But, it seems like everyone has already d3cided that Darling needs to be gone and Ward resigned without taking into account any of the repercussions of that or some of the coaching decisions last year that led to our current position. As an example, in a game if Ward was suddenly jumped on for 2 or 3 goals, whether he was at fault or not, he was usually pulled. But, when Darling struggled, even when it was the defense hanging him out to dry, they left him in to give up 8 goals and destroy any confidence he might have had due to a prior good start. I am not laying all of the blame on the coaching staff, most of the blame is Darling's. But, I continue to believe that actions taken or not taken by the coaching staff exacerbated the situation and helped destroy any of Darling's confidence. And, given what happened to Khudobin and Lack, I think the coaching staff cannot be entirely let off the hook either.
Khudobin had about 2/3 of one good season here, before falling off. The season after he left, he spent most of the season in the A, though he was good in a backup role again this year in Boston. He’s never proved he is able to be #1 anywhere he has played. Lack spent most of this year in the A, and could not break into NJ’s lineup even when Schneider was injured. Cam did not hold either of them back when they were here. But the ramifications of buying out Darling are serious and long-term, and that’s why I think he gets another chance and Cam walks. I’m certainly rooting for him to turn it around next season. I do think if he gets off to another abysmal start next year, we’ll trade for another goalie and Darling will go to Charlotte or be bought out. PK would not spend the money to do a buyout or send Darling to Charlotte. I think Dundon will if he has to.
ChuckBurns
I also never said we will make the playoffs if we stick with Darling. If we get last year's Darling, I expect him to be waived and sent to Charlotte by December. And if Nedeljkovic is doing good (or Booth), that goalie should be brought up to go with Hutton or Dell or Grubauer or whomever else was acquired in the off-season. For that matter, I do NOT expect Darling to be anointed as number 1 before the season starts. I hope there will be a true open competition for the spot. My opinion is that Darling will bounce back and succeed. But, I would put in place someone (or someones) if that doesn't happen so we still can make the playoffs next year. But, I don't think Cam Ward can be one of those someones.
9 hours ago, slapshot02 said:
Leiostomus xanthurus ?
Morone americana.
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Uhhhhhhh... yeah!
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18 hours ago, ChuckBurns said:
top shelf is correct, I did not blame Ward for us missing the playoffs. What I said is that the coaching staff, and Brind'amour was part of that staff, leaned on Cam when Darling's game collapsed. And while they did continue to give Darling starts, he never had an opportunity, like Raanta did in Arizona, to turn it around by just going out there night after night until he either got it right or showed he will never be a #1 goalie. So now, we are in the limbo of not knowing if he can perform at that level or not.
If we resign Ward and buyout Darling, name a goaltender hoping to be #1 who would sign here? If you sign Hutton or some other free agent goalie as backup/1B, then you are expecting Ward to perform at least as well as last year. And, you've added another long-term buyout which means you only have one more you can use for several years. If Darling had been signed to a two-year deal, we could go your route and maybe get someone else. And they could be as bad or worse than Darling.
The bottom line for me isn't that BP didn't give Darling a chance. I think he did, and Darling was bad much more than he was good. You can't say on the one hand that guys have to earn their playing time and then turn around and keep trotting a guy out there when he's that abysmal, and when his teammates have lost confidence in him.
What I had trouble with is that RF didn't go out and get somebody when it was clear Darling wasn't going to be good enough, and that was clear long before the trade deadline, while the Canes were still in contention. I've said it before, but the Flyers were in the same boat, acted, and got in. That could have been us, and if The Committee isn't smart enough to have two goalies on the roster who can both handle a 50-game workload in case one crashes and burns, The Committee should also be prepared to miss the dance again.
For me, having Cam still in the mix would just be kicking our goaltending problem down the road, because if the past five years have proved nothing else, it's that he can no longer handle that number of games.
The problem, of course, is Darling's contract. But it ceases to be a problem if Ned is one of the two roster goalies and we go out this summer and get a bonafide #1, by hook, crook, or checkbook. Then, unless Darling shows up absolutely primed both physically and in-game, and proves it by putting up goose eggs in preseason, he should be ticketed for the AHL, and Ned rewarded with an roster spot. A few months of riding the bus should be enough to motivate Scott, and if it isn't, it's time to buy him out.
16 hours ago, Kyrule said:
...and Skinner has had 8 years to show that he is more than a one-dimensional, one-trick pony......and an inconsistent one at that.
Dude. He was rookie of the year and had his two career years in two of the last three seasons, thanks largely to greatly improving his defensive game. Then he gets put with the NHL equivalents of a pylon and a bridge dummy last year and still puts up 49 points.
I'm fine with questioning everybody's worthiness for the roster, but let's at least deal in facts, which are that when he's had viable NHL talent to play with, Skinner has been one of the top wings in the game. What's been inconsistent is the club's willingness to get him that complementary talent.
Kyrule
7 hours ago, top-shelf-1 said:
Over his eight year career Skinner has averaged 47 points per season and a -12 rating. If you take out his rookie season, it gets worse. He sees regular PP time. I’ve already talked about his other deficiencies.
You aren’t going to convince me that Skinner is one of the “top wingers in the game” regardless of who he plays with. I’m not going to convince you (or others) otherwise, so it is a moot point.
We agree on one thing though, and it was an astute observation on your part. Skinner is at his best when he plays a better defensive game. I don’t know if defense is leading to offense, he is more engaged, or what, but I would love to see it come back.
I think Skinner can be that player again (and more), and like I said I hope that as we improve as a team, everyone will look better.
One thing I have been meaning to say about Skinner is that if we do trade him, it has to be for a player that is ready to come in and contribute immediately. No picks. No prospects. No salary dump/considerations.
Looking at the proposals out there so far, I haven’t seen one that I would pull the trigger on. With (hopefully) Necas, Svechnikov, and possibly some other help coming, I could see the Canes actually having a good offensive team. I think Skinner could be a big part of that. So despite my comments, I’m not necessarily thrilled about trading Skinner because I think the return will be underwhelming, and he has the potential to do great things once the team as a whole gets better/more confident/more used to winning.
I’m sure whatever we do though, it will probably end up being the wrong thing.
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But it ceases to be a problem if Ned is one of the two roster goalies and we go out this summer and get a bonafide #1, by hook, crook, or checkbook. Then, unless Darling shows up absolutely primed both physically and in-game, and proves it by putting up goose eggs in preseason, he should be ticketed for the AHL, and Ned rewarded with an roster spot. A few months of riding the bus should be enough to motivate Scott, and if it isn't, it's time to buy him out.
I gotta say that while Ned made big strides this year, I'd like to see a little more AHL mastery before putting him in the NHL. That .903. save percentage is just not there yet IMO.
Kyrule, you said that Skinner has averaged 47 points per season in the eight years that he has been in the league. That would include the lockout shortened season (42 games) as well as one year where he suffered two concessions (I think it was two) which reduced his games played to 64. And while everyone is lamenting his -27 plus/minus rating last season, he was -3 in 2016-17 and -1 in 2015-16. Trading him now would be selling low, just as it would be for Faulk.
Now, it may be that a trade of one of these two players will happen this off-season, but we should not trade both. We should also wait until after we make our first round selection if we do a draft deal. And I agree we need to make a trade for NHL roster players rather than futures.
9 minutes ago, ChuckBurns said:
True. For the lockout year if I project his point pace, assuming he played all 82 games, I think that would bring his point average to about 50 per season. He had 49 points last year in a “down year”, but in truth that is about average for him. In the lockout year he also managed a whopping -21 in 42 games. He almost had more minuses than points, and iirc that is the year E. Staal, Tlusty, and HWSNBN lead the league in +/- for awhile before falling off a cliff. If we project his points, then we must also project his +/- which would be about -40 for the season.
As for the games missed due to concussion I don’t factor that in because if you are not available to your team then it is what it is. It sounds harsh but staying healthy is part of consistency. I’m just glad that Skinner has been healthy for an extended period of time. There was a time there when every time he got hit I thought this might be it for him, and I’m sure it was on his mind (no pun intended) as well as much as players try to deny/downplay it. I give him a lot of credit for working through it, speaking from experience head injuries are damn scary......and I didn’t have 200 pound men moving at high speed trying to hit me when I recovered.
To be back on topic Skinner averages .65 points per game over his career. That projects to 53 points per season IF he played all 82 games. That is still far from elite imo when everything else is considered. He also averages about -16.5 if my math is correct (which it may not be) per 82 games. Remember that I projected his plus/minus for the lockout year just like I did with points.
A 35/36 year-old Justin Williams had 51 points and was -9 last year in 82 games. Would you consider that to be elite? Williams also brings a hell of a lot more to the table in general.
Having said all of this, I made my feelings about trading Skinner known above. Like I said, I’m sure whatever we do with Skinner or Faulk will haunt us.
I agree that we would be selling low. Also, thank you for posting in a mature and intelligent manner. I don’t mean to come off as a jerk, I’m just putting numbers out there for consideration.
You're welcome. I like Skinner and Faulk (I have a jersey while Chrissy has one of Skinner, I tend towards defensemen while she gets goalies and forwards), in fact, I wouldn't mind Ward in a backup role as long as we had someone guaranteed as a #1 next year. Given Darling's contract, I don't see that happening. Also, because of Darling's ability to bounce back from adversity, I think he will turn it around next season, but if not, I do want someone else in place who, coupled with Nedeljkovic or Booth, could at least get us to the playoffs. And, I don't want to try to make a midseason trade to find that someone.
I'm not against trading Faulk or Skinner. And if either or both do not fit into the team's future plans, then they should be traded. I don't want to trade unless we get comparable players back. We have a strong prospect pool and some of those guys will be on the team next year. We keep bemoaning the fact that we have such significant roster turnover year to year, and now we're talking about making it worse with trades that don't, in my opinion, make the team better, just to trade away players who have become the whipping boys for 9 years without playoffs.
I know we agree on it. I guess what I'm surprised that we (apparently) disagree on are the reasons why, first and foremost that when you are the lone offensive force on your line - as Skinner was this entire season - your ability to help in the d-zone is going to suffer.
That's in stark contrast to the prior two seasons, from the moment BP suggested he might get benched if he didn't find other ways to help the team. That's the Skinner I want back and that you do too... but I can't just ignore the fact that Stemp was gone and PDG is not anywhere near his level, that Rask was hurt much of the year and could only muster fourth-line hockey, and that Ryan absolutely disappeared for something like 30 games.
As for defense generating offense, it absolutely does, and I think Skinner's prior two years testify to that. I just think that after remaining a top offensive player in the league for the first 20 games - despite lacking the caliber of players he had alongside him in those prior years - he started to feel the drain of trying to do it alone every night.
Was there also an element, having been challenged in the 2016-17 season (along with everybody else on the roster) to make their best case for the captaincy, and surpassing the career-best numbers he put up just the year before, then not getting the C, of "what the heck do I have to do"? Who knows. But he'd jumped through that hoop, corrected his lack of D responsibility - in short, completely bought in to the role BP needed him to play within his system - and then he loses the captaincy to his two, and the team's, least-vocal-on-ice Alternates.
But even throwing out the facts in that last 'graph entirely, the correlation between the lack of offensive talent on his line this year, on a par with that he had in the prior two, is, on its own, enough to say "Thanks for the 49 points, you've proved the importance of getting you better line-mates."
Edited May 27, 2018 by top-shelf-1
Bringing together some thoughts on Skinner. On the point about him playing better when he plays better defense by Krule and Top, I do hear a lot from various experts that the offensive game follows the defensive game. In this case they are specifically mentioning that supporting the d play and moving the puck out leads to possession and chances for that same player on that same shift. I have no idea if it's factually true, or a truism that benefits the coach getting a guy to play defense. But my theory is the other way. That is that when Skinner is fully engaged he does things right. That means that little extra effort leading to better shot on offense, and making more plays on defense too.
This is really borne out by his play post concussion and it makes so much sense. Post concussion it is natural to pull back at least a little. It's dangerous out there, and you just came off of not only a long absence from the game but a seriously miserable time trying to recover, and a potentially career ending situation, and one that can affect your life. It's sort of amazing these guys go back out there at all if they've had multiple concussions. I cannot blame him for pulling back even instinctively. But if you watch his play, and if I recall correctly, his production, in the period after returning from those concussions it bears out. He is not anywhere near as effective. There is a fine line in the NHL. I heard Brind'Amour say it at a lunch. The NHL is so good that if you are off just a little or your confidence wanes just a little, the league will eat you up.
In that sense, I do think it is reasonable in terms of predicting future output, to consider not only the time missed for concussion but the months after concussions as aberrantly low for him. And his potential is in line with his non concussion years. In this case there was no concussion. Something else was affecting him and causing a let up. But if it's just how he was handled, it would seem easier to fix than fearing for your head. And if that thing can be fixed, we have a potential 40 goal guy. And we are a team that still does not score enough goals to make the playoffs. So moving Skinner for a rough guy that doesn't score, while it may satisfy some, would not satisfy me. In fact it would be a big mistake.
I just think that teams are looking to "take Skinner off our hands" for a very low return, and it's hard to see that as being helpful enough to not try to fix him.
14 hours ago, remkin said:
I agree--as long as Mongo is good enough in camp to keep Ned in the A. But if he's not, I think Ned has earned the chance to watch NHL hockey from rinkside while Mongo is given 20-30 games to get his act together in CLT. Maybe Ned gets three starts with the big club in that stint. So he gets another taste and sees what he still needs to work on, while Mongo gets rehabilitated (or bought out, at which point we pick up a decent backup to the true #1 we acquired in the off-season). Ned then re-joins the Chex for another run to and through the playoffs.
Keepers are an odd breed. With rare exceptions (coughDraysonBowmancough), the worst NHL shooters tend to still be waaaaay better than the best shooters who are still in the A. So, the more gradually you can normalize the NHL experience for keepers, the better their chances of long-term success and eventual #1 status. Ned already has one shutout period in the NHL. If Mongo isn't ready at the end of camp, let Ned add a bit more experience, while figuring out whether Darling stays or goes.
I’d like to know what the “average” GAA and save % are in the NHL vs. the AHL.
The only time I saw Ned for any stretch of games was at the World Juniors and he was outstanding. Very poised, Very quick. Very athletic.
Of course next to Lack and Mongo any goalie is going to look like a ninja.
I know the NHL and AHL are a whole different animal compared to the juniors but at least it was encouraging. It was nice to see him have a good year in Charlotte.
He did look a tad small the last time I saw him. I wonder if management got caught up in the “big goalie” trend. Looking around the league most goalies have pretty good size, but with Mongo and the Taco we took it to an extreme.
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he could get the call up next season , i would try him during the preseason to see if he has a good record in those games . if he does then keep him around and try to ease him into some nhl games . you never know how bad or good it might turn out .
On 5/26/2018 at 8:52 AM, coastal_caniac said:
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Although it’s a pro’s job to get themselves ‘up’ for a game I think Skinner after 8 years is burned out playing for a loser and it shows in his numbers, further exacerbated by roulette wheel line mates who aren’t top end. It’s what was happening to Evander Kane (Thrashers, Jets, Slugs) until he got traded to a playoff team and his play went through the roof. I think that’s what would happen if Skinner was traded to a for-sure playoff team, and got reasonably permanent quality linemates. Same for Ryan O’Reilly playing on the Slugs. Canes will need to be an all that team next season for Skins to want to resign imo.
46 minutes ago, raleighcaniac said:
Evander Kane (Thrashers, Jets, Slugs) until he got traded to a playoff team and his play went through the roof.
Let see what happens when he's traveling twice as far as he ever did in the East and weighing the attraction of an 82 game-schedule under an actual, tough coach, against heading to the beach.
The Sharks will be paying for a long, long time - in ways they haven't even considered - for this boneheaded deal. Count on it.
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3 Section I. - Summary RFP Requirements The Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA) is conducting this RFP pursuant to a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between CHEFA and the State Department of Education on behalf of the Early Childhood Education Cabinet. In order to further develop the Early Childhood Facility Plan Development and Capacity Needs Assessment, CHEFA is seeking a consultant or individual to provide outreach to selected cities and towns to assess the following: Assemble and analyze inter-agency and community data on space availability and need, including unmet need (existing and new facilities) Recommend data development agenda Provide recommendations on legislation and regulation applicable to early childhood facility development, facility standards and grant formulas Analyze statewide data pertaining to parent preferences for early education With the guidance of project staff, draft the Facility Plan Report Track action steps necessary for the implementation of the plan (e.g., data development, interagency actions, addressing community needs) Assist Discovery Communities, when feasible, in incorporating facility development into local plans. Deliverables Draft criteria to determine potential expansion sites (final determination to be made by SDE, DSS, CHEFA and the ECE Cabinet); Report: Analysis of District/Town Available Space, Facility Needs, for the following targeted communities: o Hartford (PSD with Sheff); o New Haven (PSD with Sheff); o West Hartford (CSD with Sheff); and o Hamden (CSD without Sheff). Report: Analysis of Legislative/Funding Formula Amendments Proposals should highlight the recent experience of you/your agency in early childhood education in assessing capacity, quality programs and conducting research. Page 3 of 8
4 CHEFA may elect to contract for some or all of the available services and may choose different firms to provide such services. CHEFA will consider each firm s ability to provide comprehensive, quality service to CHEFA as well as its demonstrable expertise and reputation, and fee structure. CHEFA reserves the following rights (without waiving any other right it may possess with respect to this request): 1 To reject any or all proposals. 2 To conduct investigations relating to the qualifications of any or all respondents, including interviewing members or associates of the firm and requesting further documentation or clarification, if necessary. 3 To supplement, amend, modify or cancel this request for proposals without notice or substitution of another such request. 4 To re-evaluate a proposal or selection if substitution or key personnel changes are proposed or effected. STATE OF CONNECTICUT REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE CONTRACTORS Attached are the State of Connecticut State Election Enforcement Commission Notice to Executive Branch State Contractors and Prospective State Contractors of Campaign Contribution and Solicitation Ban, Form 11 and affidavits for CHEFA s gift ban policy. Please address any questions regarding this RFP to David Wasch, Child Care Programs Manager at (860) or via at CHEFA shall not be liable for any cost incurred in connection with responding to this proposal. Page 4 of 8
5 Section II: Limited Engagement CHEFA intends to enter into a limited engagement, beginning March 28, 2008 for this project. CHEFA, in its sole discretion, may review these responses for the determination of future services. Section III: Submission Deadline Proposals must be received by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 21, 2008 to: CHEFA Early Childhood Education Programs 10 Columbus Boulevard, 7 th Floor Hartford, CT Attention: David Wasch, Child Care Programs Manager or by to: Proposals submitted after the above deadline will not be accepted for consideration. Section IV: Evaluation Criteria Each RFP respondent will be evaluated based on the written responses, experience in the early childhood education field, ability to assess program quality, the quality of the RFP content, additional written information, if any, requested by the Child Care Program Manager; references; and oral interviews, if any. General Information 1 Respondents organization and approach including the ability to adequately staff and complete the project on a timely basis and to interact effectively with CHEFA, SDE and DSS. This should include the number and responsibility of staff working on the project. 2 Equal employment opportunity record as evidenced by the composition of respondent s personnel and the respondent s affirmative action and equal employment opportunity policies and practices. This will also include certification of compliance with Connecticut Public Act , Sections 9(a)(1) and 10(a)(1) and Public Act , Sections 4a-60(a)(1) and 4a-60a(a)(1) pertaining to nondiscrimination based on civil union status. 3 Corporate Citizenship policies, including the charitable contribution of money and time; local procurement of goods and services; development of and/or participation in internship programs or scholarships; and policies with regard to the use of women-owned, minority-owned and small business enterprises. 4 Overall compliance with State and federal laws. 5 Fees and compensation will be an important factor in the evaluation process. CHEFA, however, is not required to select the lowest cost response. Page 5 of 8
6 Section V: Instructions 1 Official CHEFA Contact. All communications with CHEFA must be directed to the Official CHEFA Contact. The Official CHEFA Contact for the purpose of this RFP is David Wasch, Child Care Program Manager as directed in Section IV of this RFP. Questions related to this RFP must be submitted via at by no later than March 14, 2008 by 3:00 p.m. Responses will be posted on the CHEFA website on March 17, Respondent s Representative. Respondents must designate an authorized representative and one alternate. Provide the name, title, address, telephone, FAX numbers, and address for each representative. 3 Communication Notice. All communications with CHEFA are only permitted via and in the form of a written question submitted via . 4 RFP Timeline (Schedule of Events). The RFP was posted on the CHEFA and State of Connecticut Department of Administrative Services (DAS) websites on March 7, 2008, responses must be received by not later than March 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM, and the RFP will be awarded by no later than March 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM with the award results posted on the CHEFA and DAS websites. 5 Confidential Information. Respondents are advised that because CHEFA is a quasi-public state agency, the responses to the RFP maybe be subject to disclosure pursuant to Chapter 14 of the CGS Freedom of Information Act. 6 Minimum Submission Requirements. At a minimum, proposals must (1) be submitted before the deadline, (2) follow the required format, (3) be complete, and (4) include the required Attachments. Proposals that fail to meet these minimums submission requirements may be disqualified and not reviewed further. 7 References. Identify three recent clients that we may contact as references. Provide the following information for each reference: name, title, company address, and phone number as well as a brief summary of the services provided. 8 Contract Compliance Requirements. CHEFA is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate in its hiring, employment, or business practices. CHEFA is committed to complying with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) and does not discriminate on the basis of disability, in admission to, access to, or operation of its program, services, or activities. 10 The Child Care Program Manager is required to consider the following factors in considering the Respondent s qualifications: success in implementing an affirmative action plan and submission of bidder employment information indicating that the composition of the Respondent s workforce is at or near parity in the relevant labor market area. 11 Style Requirements. Please limit your response to a maximum of ten (10) pages, including an executive summary. 12 Meeting with Respondents. At its discretion, CHEFA may convene meetings with Respondents in order to gain a broader understanding of the proposals. The meetings may involve interviews, presentations, or site visits. If CHEFA decides meetings are warranted, the Official CHEFA Contact will telephone or Respondents to make an appointment. Page 6 of 8
7 Exhibit A SEEC FORM 11 NOTICE TO EXECUTIVE BRANCH STATE CONTRACTORS AND PROSPECTIVE STATE CONTRACTORS OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION AND SOLICITATION BAN This notice is provided under the authority of Connecticut General Statutes 9-612(g)(2), as amended by P.A. 07-1, and is for the purpose of informing state contractors and prospective state contractors of the following law (italicized words are defined below): Campaign Contribution and Solicitation Ban No state contractor, prospective state contractor, principal of a state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor, with regard to a state contract or state contract solicitation with or from a state agency in the executive branch or a quasi-public agency or a holder, or principal of a holder of a valid prequalification certificate, shall make a contribution to, or solicit contributions on behalf of (i) an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State or State Treasurer, (ii) a political committee authorized to make contributions or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates, or (iii) a party committee; In addition, no holder or principal of a holder of a valid prequalification certificate, shall make a contribution to, or solicit contributions on behalf of (i) an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of State senator or State representative, (ii) a political committee authorized to make contributions or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates, or (iii) a party committee. Duty to Inform State contractors and prospective state contractors are required to inform their principals of the above prohibitions, as applicable, and the possible penalties and other consequences of any violation thereof. Penalties for Violations Contributions or solicitations of contributions made in violation of the above prohibitions may result in the following civil and criminal penalties: Civil penalties--$2000 or twice the amount of the prohibited contribution, whichever is greater, against a principal or a contractor. Any state contractor or prospective state contractor which fails to make reasonable efforts to comply with the provisions requiring notice to its principals of these prohibitions and the possible consequences of their violations may also be subject to civil penalties of $2000 or twice the amount of the prohibited contributions made by their principals. Criminal penalties Any knowing and willful violation of the prohibition is a Class D felony, which may subject the violator to imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or $5000 in fines, or both. Contract Consequences Contributions made or solicited in violation of the above prohibitions may result, in the case of a state contractor, in the contract being voided. Contributions made or solicited in violation of the above prohibitions, in the case of a prospective state contractor, shall result in the contract described in the state contract solicitation not being awarded to the prospective state contractor, unless the State Elections Enforcement Commission determines that mitigating circumstances exist concerning such violation. The State will not award any other state contract to anyone found in violation of the above prohibitions for a period of one year after the election for which such contribution is made or solicited, unless the State Elections Enforcement Commission determines that mitigating circumstances exist concerning such violation. Additional information and the entire text of P.A 07-1 may be found on the website of the State Elections Enforcement Commission, Page 7 of 8
8 Exhibit B CONNECTICUT HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AUTHORITY GIFT BAN POLICY Please be advised that the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority has instituted a no gift policy effective September 22, All employees of the CHEFA are strictly prohibited from accepting any gift, of any value, at any time. This ban specifically includes meals and so-called holiday baskets. There are no exceptions to this policy. Please submit the following completed Gift Ban Affidavit with your proposal as required by Sections to of the Connecticut General Statutes Instructions: The following form is an affidavit that may be used by RFP respondents in order to comply with C.G.S to I,, hereby swear that during the two-year period Type/Print Name and Title preceding the submission of this bid or proposal that neither myself nor any principals or key personnel of the submitting firm or corporation who participated directly, extensively and substantially in the preparation of this bid or proposal nor any agent of the above gave a gift, as defined in Conn. Gen. Stat. 1-79(e), including a life event gift as defined in Conn. Gen. Stat. 1-79(e)(12), except the gifts listed below: Name of recipient of gift Value of Gift Date of Gift Description to (1) any employee of CHEFA, which is soliciting the bids or proposals, who participated directly, extensively, and substantially in the preparation of the bid solicitation or preparation of request for proposal or (2) to any public official or state employee of any other state agency who has supervisory or appointing CHEFA over CHEFA, which is soliciting the bid or proposal. Further, neither I nor any principals or key personnel of the submitting firm or corporation nor any agent of the above knows of any action to circumvent this gift affidavit disclosure. For purposes of Sections to of the Connecticut General Statutes, the date CHEFA began planning this RFP on January 2, The entity selected to provide services for Early Childhood Facility Plan Development and Facility/Capacity Needs Assessment will be required to file the certificate required by subsection (c) of Section of the Connecticut General Statutes to the effect that no gifts were made between the date set forth above and the date of engagement for this project. A failure to provide such certification shall result in disqualification as provided in subsection (d) of Section of the Connecticut General Statutes. Sworn as true to the best of my knowledge and belief, subject to the penalties of false statement. Signature Date Sworn and subscribed before me on this day of, 200_ Page 8 of 8 Commissioner of the Superior Court Notary Public
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Friday, July 3
Starts at 6 p.m. Cornhole Tournament Simpson Plaza (West Side)
Starts at 6:30 p.m. Corny Dog Eating Contest Simpson Plaza (in front of Main Stage)
Starts at 7:30 p.m. Registration/Check-in starts at 6:45 p.m.
Dachshund Dash
Simpson Plaza (East Side of Fountain)
Run Starts at 9 p.m.
Hotter 'n Firecrackers 5K & Glow Run (Walkers and Dogs Welcome!) Simpson Plaza (in front of City Hall)
Saturday, July 4
4 p.m. - Fireworks end Party In the Plaza
Community Stage
Children's Expo (closes at approximately 10 p.m.)
Hometown Heroes Exhibit
Vendor Village Simpson Plaza at City Hall
4 p.m. - Fireworks end Taste of Frisco
Features various Frisco restaurants Simpson Plaza at City Hall
8 p.m. Soccer Match
FC Dallas v. San Jose
Buy tickets online or call 888-FCD-GOAL Toyota Stadium
Following the conclusion of the FC Dallas match Fireworks Extravaganza
One of the largest fireworks shows in North Texas, visible from the area around Purefoy Municipal Center and Toyota Stadium Launched from the north field of Toyota Stadium after the
soccer match
**All times approximate, pending FC Dallas match, fireworks schedule and weather conditions.
City of Frisco, Texas • George A. Purefoy Municipal Center • 6101 Frisco Square Blvd. • Frisco, TX 75034 • Ph: 972-292-5000 • Hours of Operation: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Gorse (Ulex europeaus) is an Oregon State Class B Noxious weed found in abundance along the west coast. Gorse was intentionally introduced into the southern Oregon coast in the late 1800s and is now rated as one of the top 100 worst invasive species worldwide (World Conservation Union), and the #1 most invasive species on the south coast of Oregon (Oregon State Parks). The presence of gorse has negatively impacted the regional economy and, due to its flammable nature, has created a serious public safety concern. In 1936, gorse played a key role in the complete burning of the town of Bandon, OR (Oregon Historical Society, view article here).
Controlling gorse requires a collaborative, long-term effort to combine knowledge and resources. The Gorse Action Group (GAG) is a collaborative group of representatives from federal, state, and county agencies and nonprofit organizations seeking to work together to assess the extent of gorse and create a strategic plan for control on the southern Oregon coast. Initially, a subgroup of the Curry Wildfire Preparation Team and funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Fire Plan, it soon became apparent that the GAG should branch out to become its own focused initiative. The GAG is a great example of diverse groups pooling resources and working toward a common solution.
Organizational Objectives:
Public perception: Gorse has become so prevalent along parts of the south coast that the community has developed the perception that nothing can be done to prevent further spread and address current populations. GAG will strive to provide examples of gorse management in hopes of changing this perception.
Local Economy: The burden of gorse invasion has many harmful impacts to ranch operations, land and potential home resale values, recreation and related tourist opportunities.
Regional Ecology: Gorse devastates forest, dune, and other coastal habitats, reducing valued native plant and animal species.
Public Safety: Gorse produces a large fuel load that is highly flammable and thus, poses a fire danger to heavily infested southern coastal communities. It is in the interest of public safety that the GAG provides management examples and recommendations to landowners on how to control this volatile plant.
The Gorse Action Group is a collaborative group of participants from federal, state, and county agencies, as well as non-profit organizations in Coos, Curry, and Douglas Counties.
Gorse Action Group Participants:
By-the-Sea Gardens
City of Bandon
City of Port Orford
Coos Forest Patrol
Coos Watershed Association
Coquille Indian Tribe
Coquille Watershed Association
Curry Soil and Water Conservation District
Curry Watersheds Partnership
Curry Wildfire Preparation Team
David C. Smith and Associates, Inc.
Lane County Public Works
Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Natural Resources Conservation Service
NeighborWorks Umpqua
Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Invasive Species Council
Oregon State Governor's Office
Oregon State Parks Department
Private Citizens of Bandon, OR
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Wild Rivers Coast Alliance
Click here to download a general brochure on the Gorse Action Group or visit our Land Manager Resources page to learn about best practices for gorse management and removal. Additionally, visit the Oregon Solutions website to learn more about statewide efforts to manage gorse.
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Great Thoughts Treasury
W. Somerset Maugham, fully William Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset
Maugham, fully William Somerset Maugham
English Playwright, Novelist and Short Story Writer
The sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt suddenly elated. Though he did not know it, it was the first time that he had experienced, quite undiluted with foreign emotions, the sense of beauty.
The world consists of me and my thoughts and my feelings; and everything else is mere fancy. Life is a dream in which I create the objects that come before me. Everything knowable, every object of experience, is an idea in my mind, and without my mind it does not exist. Dream and reality are one. Life is a connected and consisted dream, and when I cease to dream, the world, with its beauty, its pain and sorrow, its unimaginable variety, will cease to be. take life as it is. just the way it is.
There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not born, whether he lived or ceased to live. Life was insignificant and death without consequence. Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders: it seemed to him that the last burden of responsibility was taken from him; and for the first time he was utterly free. His insignificance was turned to power, and he felt himself suddenly equal with the cruel fate which had seemed to persecute him; for, if life was meaningless, the world was robbed of its cruelty. What he did or left undone did not matter. Failure was unimportant and success amounted to nothing. He was the most inconsiderate creature in that swarming mass of mankind which for a brief space occupied the surface of the earth; and he was almighty because he had wrenched from chaos the secret of its nothingness. Thoughts came tumbling over one another in Philip's eager fancy, and he took long breaths of joyous satisfaction. He felt inclined to leap and sing. He had not been so happy for months.
Those who cannot in any other thing usually starts writing.
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
We do not even we are grateful to the people who love us. When you do not want them, they just hate us.
What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom. He taught that it is not essential to salvation to retire from the world, but only to renounce the self. He taught that work done with no selfish interest purifies the mind and that duties are opportunities afforded to man to sink his separate self and become one with the universal self.
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
With old and young great sorrow is followed by a sleepless night, and with the old great joy is as disturbing; but you, I suppose, finds happiness more natural and its rest is not disturbed by it.
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
There is a certain elegance in wasting time. Any fool can waste money, but when you waste time you waste what is priceless.
There's a certain elegance to waste time Ashenden- replied. Any idiot can waste money, but when you spend your own time is pleased to pull something that is priceless.
Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
We do not write as we want but as we can.
What I can do is the only limit of what I may do. Because we are gregarious we live in society, and society holds together by means of force, force of arms (that is the policeman) and force of public opinion. You have society on one hand and the individual on the other: each is an organism striving for self-preservation. It is might against might. I stand alone, bound to accept society and not unwilling, since in return for the taxes I pay it protects me, a weakling, against the tyranny of another stronger than I am; but I submit to its laws because I must; I do not acknowledge their justice; I do not know justice, I only know power. And when I have paid for the policeman who protects me and, if I live in a country where conscription is in force, served in the army which guards my house and land from the invader, I am quits with society: for the rest I counter its might with my wiliness. It makes laws for its self-preservation, and if I break them it imprisons or kills me: it has the might to do so and therefore the right. If I break the laws I will accept the vengeance of the state, but I will not regard it as punishment nor shall I feel myself convicted of wrong-doing. Society tempts me to its service by honors and riches and the good opinion of my fellows; but I am indifferent to their opinion, I despise honors and I can do very well without riches.
When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick, it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression of the man than from anything one may learn of his life and circumstances; an impression of a man endowed by nature with a great gift blighted by an evil genius, so that, like the agave, no sooner had it put forth its splendid blooming than it withered; a moody, unhappy man tormented by instincts he shrank from with horror; a man conscious that the virtue had gone out of him, and embittered by failure and poverty; a man of heart craving for friendship, only to find that friendship too was vanity. Such, as I see him, was Herman Melville, a man whom one can only regard with deep compassion.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
Rainer Maria Rilke, full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
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Permafrost melting
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Scientists have been issuing warnings for over a decade about permafrost in the Artic melting and releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. The release of millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases previously "stored" in permafrost could create a "tipping point" for runaway climate change such that global temperatures could increase up to 4 to 6C.
Permafrost is a deep layer of frozen soil covering about a quarter of landmass in the northern hemisphere, and is thought to contain twice the amount of carbon already in the atmosphere.
Permafrost stores carbon dioxide, but it also has lots of little microbes in it and lots of organic matter. When that organic matter isn't frozen any more, it gets broken down by microbes in the soil and under certain circumstances that breakdown process releases a lot of methane.
The United Nations Environment Program released a report in November 2012 indicating that the world's permafrost is beginning to thaw, bringing with it the threat of a big increase in global warming by 2100.
A global temperature increase of 3°C means a 6°C increase in the Arctic, resulting in anywhere between 30 to 85 per cent loss of near-surface permafrost. Such widespread permafrost degradation will permanently change local hydrology, increasing the frequency of fire and erosion disturbances.
The report states that warming permafrost could:
Release the equivalent of between 43 and 135 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, by 2100, up to 39 per cent of annual emissions from human sources.
Emit 43 to 135 Gt of CO2 equivalent by 2100 and 246 to 415 Gt of CO2 equivalent by 2200.
Damage to critical infrastructure, such as buildings and roads, will incur significant social and economic costs.
Global Warming Impact Zones, U.S. Alaska
Global Warming Threat: Permafrost Thawing Across Siberia And Alaska Poses New Concern, UNEP Reports, Huffington Post
Where even the earth is melting, Sydney Morning Herald
UN warns permafrost is melting, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Retrieved from "http://greenlivingpedia.org/Permafrost_melting"
Categories: Climate change | Permafrost
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Miss A Meeting in Greenwich? GCTV Has You Covered
Greenwich Community Television, the local government access channel, broadcasts live and recorded meetings of various Greenwich boards, agencies and organizations.
http://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/miss-meeting-greenwich-gctv-has-you-covered-0?
Letter: Bocchino 'Understands Issues, Problems Facing Residents'
I have had the privilege of knowing Mike Bocchino since we were 12 years old while attending Greenwich Public schools together. Mike has always been the person to give 150% and stands out as a natural leader.
http://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/letter-bocchino-understands-issues-problems-facing-residents-0?
Following Crash, Greenwich Teen Faces Forgery, Criminal Impersonation Charges
A Greenwich teen is facing criminal impersonation and forgery charges lodged by Greenwich Police investigating a two-car crash that left the teen and two others injured. According to police spokesman Lt.
http://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/following-crash-greenwich-teen-faces-forgery-criminal-impersonation-charges-0?
The October 2014 Greenwich Real Estate Report
So far in October we have 30 sales of single family homes reported on the Greenwich MLS this compares to only 31 sales for the entire month of September, but then September 2014 was a funny month. July and August had 95 sales and 84 home sales recorded at the Greenwich Town Clerk's office.
http://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/october-2014-greenwich-real-estate-report-0?
President Obama's Raw Deal
If Republicans win control of both the House and Senate, "the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class," President Barack Obama said at a $32,500-a-plate fundraiser at the $16 million Greenwich, Connecticut, estate of a billionaire named Rich Richman. You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/10/26/obamas_raw_deal_124440.html
Stamford Woman Accused of Writing a Counterfeit Check Faces Larceny Charge
A woman is facing a third-degree larceny charge in connection with the use of what Greenwich Police said was a counterfeit check earlier this year. Tacoya T. Moss, 25, of 34 Fourth St., Stamford, was arrested at her home on Oct. 23 by detectives who had obtained an arrest warrant, according to a police report.
http://patch.com/connecticut/stamford/stamford-woman-accused-writing-counterfeit-check-faces-larceny-charge-0?
Merritt Parkway Car Fire Tops Greenwich Week's News
No one was injured in a car fire on the southbound Merritt Parkway between Exits 28 and 27 in Greenwich. The Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich announced that two students -- Grace Isford and Virginia Blessing -- have been named semifinalists for National Merit Scholarships.
http://greenwich.dailyvoice.com/news/merritt-parkway-car-fire-tops-greenwich-week-s-news
Greenwich Housing Authority Plans Renovation, Expansion of Armstrong Court Apartments
A top to bottom renovation and expansion of one of Greenwich's first public housing complexes was unveiled Friday at the meeting of the Board of Selectmen who must approve a Municipal Improvement status for the project to proceed. Built back in 1954, the 144-unit complex on Hamilton Avenue - located between Booth Place and the Bimbo Bakeries complex on Hamilton Avenue - is scheduled for a complete renovation that will involve relocation of residents and the creation of 51 new housing units for senior citizens.
http://patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/greenwich-housing-authority-plans-renovation-expansion-armstrong-court-apartments?
Jack Kelly / Obama's Raw Deal
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/jack-kelly/2014/10/26/Obama-s-Raw-Deal/stories/201410260063
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Following Crash, Greenwich Teen Faces Forgery, Cri...
Stamford Woman Accused of Writing a Counterfeit Ch...
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What was never scared but be...
[3695] What was never scared but be... - What was never scared but became petrified, can't make a bird but can make a bat, can't live in a house but would die to have one. What is it? - #brainteasers #riddles - Correct Answers: 41 - The first user who solved this task is Djordje Timotijevic
What was never scared but became petrified, can't make a bird but can make a bat, can't live in a house but would die to have one. What is it?
The first user who solved this task is Djordje Timotijevic.
April Fool's Day - Kid’s Socks
Sew one of your kid’s socks closed halfway down. If you’re the sewing type this prank will leave you in stitches.
Sir Henry Bessemer
Born 19 Jan 1813; died 15 Mar 1898 at age 85. English industrialist, metallurgist, inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter. Bessemer invented his steel making process to solve a specific problem vexing another of his inventions, the self-spinning artillery shell. The converter removed impurities from molten pig iron by oxidation through air being blown through the molten iron. The oxidation also raised the temperature of the iron mass, keeping it molten. The oxidation process removed impurities such as silicon, manganese, and carbon as oxides, which oxides either escapd as gas or formed a solid slag. He also solved problems about the chemistry of ores, fuels, and steel. He held 110 patents at his death.
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What Do You Know About Alzheimer's Disease?
Find out more about this degenerative disease of the brain by taking this quiz.
1. Alzheimer's is the most common form of which of these?
It is a collection of symptoms characterized by decreasing intellectual and social abilities.
A. Malnutrition B. Dementia C. Fatigue D. Psychosis
2. How is Alzheimer's diagnosed?
No single test identifies Alzheimer's. Lab tests help rule out other disorders that may produce similar symptoms. Neurological and mental-status tests reveal cognitive-function deficits.
A. Mental-status tests B. Blood tests C. Neurological tests D. All of the above
3. Physiologically, what happens to the brain as Alzheimer's progresses?
Nerve cells change in certain parts of the brain, which causes brain cells to die. The loss of cells impairs thinking and judgment.
A. Tissue swells B. Fluid collects C. Many cells die D. Brain-stem atrophies
4. Which of these is the strongest risk factor for developing the disease?
Although some studies have shown an association between certain modifiable lifestyle factors and a reduced risk for Alzheimer’s disease, the National Institutes of Health says that age is the strongest known risk factor where most people receive the diagnosis after age 60. An early onset familial form can also occur, although it is rare.
A. Heredity B. Age C. Exposure to toxins D. None of the above
5. Occasionally, other medical conditions may mimic this disease. What are they?
Dementia can result from a variety of causes, but when Alzheimer's is involved, dementia is irreversible and progressive.
A. Side effects to medication B. Dehydration C. Poor nutrition D. All of the above
6. Signs of Alzheimer's include which of these symptoms?
Alzheimer's sufferers also can't learn new information and tend to repeat themselves.
A. Loss of memory B. Increase in irritability C. Restlessness D. All of the above
7. Which age group has the highest rate of Alzheimer's cases reported?
A. 85 and older B. 74 to 84 C. 65 to 74 D. 55 to 65
8. Because no drugs cure this condition, emphasis is put on delaying the onset of severe symptoms. Which of these strategies helps?
Help keep the person's body physically active and mind engaged as long as possible.
A. Exercise B. Hobbies C. Good nutrition D. All of the above
9. The average time from the onset of symptoms to death is how long?
Alzheimer's patients may live as few as three years or as long as 20 years with the disease.
A. 20 years B. 8 years C. 6 years D. 4 years
10. If you care for a relative with Alzheimer's, which of these measures will help stabilize the patient mentally?
The less change, the better.
A. Move to a small apartment B. Correct "bad" behavior gently C. Establish a regular routine D. Repaint or buy new furniture
Online Medical Reviewer: Shelat, Amit, MD
Dementia: Coping Tips for Caregivers
A New and Better Way to 'Stage' Alzheimer's Patients?
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Warframe: the Game that Spawned Destiny and Anthem?
This game is hot. You might not know about Warframe, but it’s been growing exponentially. Warframe came out March 25, 2013, the first in a stream of games with guns and specialized suits with skills. While Warframe doesn’t have much of an active pvp element, Warframe excels with PVE play, which has a skill system similar to Overwatch.
Warframe crosses the boundaries of ARPGs like Vindictus through matches set up with a variety of goals, from extermination where you kill everything, to defense where you defend a point as long as you can, and get greater rewards the longer you can hold out because the NPCs become harder and harder.
While Warframe started off with smaller match-based gameplay, the developers have expanded into a more open-world element with the new Plains of Eidelon content, which gives players a wider sandbox based gameplay. On the Plains of Eidelon, you can do anything from fishing to destroying or capturing Eidelons, the massive guardians of old.
When I first saw Warframe, I thought there would be no way I could possibly play it because of how fast it moves and all the colors flashing. I have a hard time with sounds and lights after my strokes, like an autistic person going through sensory overload. A friend of mine encouraged me to give it a shot, and so I did.
I found that if I didn’t try to think when playing it, I could mostly keep up with other players in movement, and I close my eyes if the colors get too overwhelming. I wish they had a feature that helped people with similar conditions like me, but I don’t know of any way to tone down the colors. So, I don’t usually run many Infested areas due to the coloring.
Overall the Warframe community has been very welcoming, and rarely do I run into trolls, which is great. The experienced players are very willing to help the new guy, and you can easily find groups or help for anything in the chat channels.
While Warframe does have its bugs and quirks, the developers are very active and communicative about what they’re doing, and what they’ve fixed. They focus a lot of energy on bug squashing. Patches come during gameplay. You stay in whatever match you’re in when the patch hits, then finish up after you get a notice that it’s safe to finish and restart the client. A nice feature to not get kicked when fighting a boss battle.
So, if you’re looking for a new action-packed game to try out, that’s free to play, and not pay to win, check out Warframe. And, if you need a hand, shoot me a message in game @h3llcat5. Hope to see you there!
Posted on March 27, 2018 December 17, 2018
In these days of Trump, people seem more interested in being right themselves instead of asking others “why?” They jump up and down declaiming how “this goes against everything I know, this can’t possibly be right or good – it’s too different.” This resistance to inquiry sometimes goes into “How dare you compare my beloved game to a genre I can’t stand.” So, I’ll start this out by saying this – from what you know, you’re 100% right that it’s not a MOBA. But, you’ve not asked me why I call it a space MOBA. What relations do I see between elements of MOBA gameplay and Star Conflict? I’ll get to that, but I’ll start with a few differences between third person shooters and Star Conflict.
Third person shooters don’t require much about character build. You don’t have to think about how you can supplement your resistances to different types of damage, you don’t have to think about the ratio for survival that occurs between damage reduction and damage pool. Everybody gets x amount of hit points, life, health, whatever, and that’s that. Unless the third person shooters pulls in gameplay elements from other genres.
With third person shooters, your character wasn’t designed for a specific role on a team. You get no benefit from sticking together except cover fire from team mates, or another takes out someone targeting you. You just grab your gun and go. This is great for people who want to relieve stress from a long day at work, and who might not enjoy what they consider tediousness of other gameplay genres. And, yes, some third person shooter games have team roles, but they’re not complex, and don’t require planning out a build for that role. If this is the case, that a third person shooter has roles, this mechanic comes from team battle arena games. Remember the rule of exception? Team battle arenas took it from RPG games. But my point isn’t to talk endlessly about my knowledge regarding the origin of different game mechanics. Roles on a team did not originate as a third person shooter mechanic.
In third person shooter games, you might play on a team, but the teamplay doesn’t go beyond positioning tactics in the gameplay. You might hide around corners, behind cover, you might see someone about to take down your team mate, but instead you take that player out, you might communicate to your team to call out location of an enemy player, but you don’t have a tank (destroyer), a healer (engineer), characters that can slow or stun enemy characters(tackler and ecm), characters that disable enemy character’s abilities (ecm), etc. This gets into teamplay mechanics that general third person shooter fans consider too complex. Unless, of course, the person enjoys mobas and rpgs. And yes, there are people who can’t stand RPGs and MOBAs – who only play shooters. I call these people core shooter gamers. I could talk about how third person shooters don’t give players gold to use later, or experience points, but enough about third person shooters. Lets talk about the differences between Star Conflict and MOBA.
In MOBA games, you have creeps. For those who don’t know, creeps are NPCs that walk or run in a line towards each other to go have a mini battle between themselves. They don’t have tactics, they just beat on each other until they die. If your strike kills the creep, you get gold – except in Heroes of the Storm. Always an exception. Star Conflict doesn’t have creeps. All the ships you fight against in the different game modes have an AI, albeit a simple one.
In MOBA games, your character starts at level 1 every match. Each level you gain grants you an increase in stats, and sometimes gives you the option to level character abilities. Leveling is usually rather limited, and greatly effects team power during the match. Star conflict has a limited permanent ship leveling system. For the exception, I played a MOBA game years ago that had a permanent character leveling system, but unfortunately I don’t recall the name.
MOBA games have a base to defend. The primary goal of MOBA gameplay is to destroy the enemy’s base, and one doesn’t have to be on the team with the most kills, or personally have the most kills to win. Personal kill score (PKS) is a mentality that third or first person shooter gamers carry into team games that can actually cause the team to lose. Players who focus on their own kill score ignore the necessity of team power. In Star Conflict, you don’t have to defend your base against the enemy player team.
MOBA games have a top down camera view. But, some newers MOBA games incorporate a third person view, such as Smite. It’s arguable that camera view defines a game genre. I consider third person and first person shooters to be sub categories of shooter games. For me, the defining elements fall with gameplay, and not camera view. I think you get the idea, so now I’m going to get into similar elements Star Conflict has with both shooter games and MOBA games.
Star Conflict basic gameplay includes shooting at and destroying other players’ characters. In some modes, this is primary focus, while in others it’s secondary. This is similar to games like Quake, CS:GO, call of duty, etc. The same similarity exists in MOBA games (shooting enemy players), except that in MOBA games basic attacks aren’t skill shots, they’re selected shots. The basic attack in star conflict requires skill to hit the target like shooter games, unless you’re using one of the auto aim weapons or gravity weapons, which require much less skill.
So, why did I say “Star Conflict is a space MOBA” ? If you’ve read my previous articles about space games I’ve been exploring while waiting for Star Citizen, you’d know that I defined space MOBA to cover these arena battle space games. Sure, they don’t have all the elements that the standard MOBA does, but these games have many similar elements. I’ll talk more specifically about why I classified Star Conflict as space MOBA now.
Star Conflict focuses on using roles in team play to win, similar to MOBA games. In Star Conflict, we have the support classes, the tanks, the fighters, the crowd controllers, and disruptors just like in MOBA games. Playing complementary roles using team play tactics has a much better chance of giving you a win in game instead of rushing off to find the closest enemy alone. A fighter class tackler ship with an interceptor class ECM going after a tai’kin have a much higher chance to take down that pesky tai’kin Than a gunship running with a covert ops.
Star Conflict has a similar item system to MOBA games. In MOBA games, you can customize your character’s items according to what you’re facing. Star Conflict allows you to customize, but requires you to do so outside of the match, but gives you options in battle by allowing you to select from a set of different ship roles and customizations to fit the match instead of doing this in the match itself. RPG games have a much broader range of items your character can equip. And, typically RPG items don’t level up.
Star Conflict has a separate character level and player level. Ships have their individual synergy level, and players have their rank. Like League of Legends, as the player levels up, he gains access to more powerful mods to boost his ship with. This is similar to leveling up in League of Legends because summoner level gives you access to more powerful runes and masteries.
So, after all this, there will be some who will say, “it’s still not a MOBA.” And that’s all they’ll get from what I’ve written. They want to be right, and that’s that. Others will instead see my point, that Star Conflict has elements from MOBA games, and to attract more people to play, needs to be re-branded with emphasis on the team play mechanics, and so that the developers can create a better match making system from having a solid statement of game play. Otherwise, no true meta game can ever manifest. But, that’s another topic for another time.
If you want to read the comments on the official forum that inspired this response, click here.
Star Conflict: Moving Up in Space MOBA
I’ve been searching for space warfare games while waiting for Star Citizen’s release. I first explored a cruiser class war game called Dreadnought. Then I checked into Fractured Space. While both games have their own merits, they didn’t satisfy my desire to dogfight in the middle of heavy cruiser battles in space.
I had marked a few games on my Steam wishlist to research. Among those, Star Conflict. I watched a few videos of “lets play” from a guy who didn’t leave much of an impression. I looked for more about it, but didn’t find much except the Official videos on youtube. I also checked Twitch, but not many people streamed this game. So, I decided to download it myself.
I found it very easy to start playing. Stargem provides a great tutorial through which you can easily learn the controls for the game. For those who’ve played other space games, or mmo games generally, the controls will be mostly familiar.
After losing myself to the gameplay for a few hours, I started to want to research more about the game. I wanted to look at other people’s ship builds, and experiences with teamplay. However, I didn’t find much about it. At least, not in English.
While Star Conflict seems to have a small following in the United States, it seems to have a noticeable following internationally. You’ll see the trade chat filled with Russian. If you want to make trades in game, you might want to get familiar with Google Translate to help you get what you need.
Star Conflict has a strong teamplay mechanic, similar to League of Legends, Dota 2, and other Moba games. At high ranks, successful combat relies on knowing ship types, roles, and how these interact. I’ll cover these roles and ship types below in the info.
So, why did I write this? Simple. The gameplay for this is extremely exciting. Dodging slower moving shots from the Halo Launcher or Singularity Cannon, while trying to evade the fast interceptor ship on your tail, and while targeting the guy who’s coming right at you with a sliver of hull left (hull is ship health).
This is NOT the slow pace of Fractured Space or Dreadnought. This gets the adrenaline pumping. If you love the idea of dog fighting in the middle of bigger ships firing back and forth at each other in PVP (player vs. player), or fighting with a specific goal in PVE (player vs. environment) or practicing your skills in co-op vs. ai, you’ll probably love the gameplay you’ll experience in Star Conflict.
Now, I’m going to talk about free to play, because this game is free to play. I’ve read some complaints in game about “this game is pay to win.” Those people are idiots who themselves want to bypass the natural progression that happens in the game. In fact, spending money on ship upgrades cripples the player experience and advancement.
To connect the dots between the business model of Star Conflict and League of Legends (as example), you can buy paint jobs (skins in League of Legends) in Star Conflict. Skins in League of Legends are permanent. Skins in Star Conflict are permanent as long as you don’t change to a different paint job. The developers of Star Conflict need to make the skins a permanent purchase to give players the ability to switch back and forth with what they’ve bought before.
While it’s against the Terms of Service for League of Legends, people sell high level and rank accounts. In Star Conflict you can buy advancement of the same sort directly from the developers instead of doing something against the Terms of Service, and thereby illegal. But, there’s a key element people who complain about “pay to win” miss.
People who think of this game with a mindset of the mmo, of getting to the highest rank, and having a decked out ship, don’t understand the gameplay. They focus on personal glory, and not teamplay. any one person flying around in their maxed out high rank ship can get blown to hell by ships that are designed to take them down. Star Conflict is not an MMO. You don’t win by getting to the highest level with the best gear because Star Conflict is a Battle Arena game. In Battle Arena, the right combination of ship types and roles wins, if they use the tactics.
Battle arena type games have common modes. If we think of games like Overwatch, League of Legends, Dota 2, Smite, Heroes of the Storm etc., we think of player vs. player arena battles or the ability to go into co-op vs. AI to practice pvp skills outside of real competition. Star Conflict has these modes, adding a PVE type mode and open space, where you can fly around a huge space map doing whatever you want outside of the battle arena, including trolling other players who’re trying to do their daily missions by destroying the cruiser that they’re trying to escort, or directly destroying the other players. It is open space after all.
By good design of the developers, it seems, if you die a certain number of times to other players griefing, you get put into a different instance so you can finish your daily quests. So, when you do happen to run into someone in open space who’s trolling, there’s a way out. It’s here, fighting against these trolling players, that I’ve placed the Katmandu Corporation. We help players who’re working on their missions get through to the other sectors.
If you’re up for the challenge of MOBA in space, of dog fighting in the middle of destroyer battles, or playing the destroyer yourself, then check out Star Conflict. You can find resources here to help you with learning and improving your teamplay.
Dreadnought: Dread Not
Created by: Greybox
Game Site: Dreadnought
ESRB Rating: n/a
Phone: 1-844-GREYBOX (1-844-473-9269)
(Hours: 7 days a week from from 9AM-7PM CST)
Terms of Service: Dreadnought ToS
Hellcat5 Connect: Official Forums
I wasn’t going to write this. I had expressed my opinion about the gameplay on the official forums, and hadn’t a second thought about it. Removed the game, and that was that. But then, I read an e-mail saying “You have been banned from the forums by a forum administrator.”. The e-mail had only the subject, nothing more. Since I did nothing other than express my thoughts about a major gameplay flaw in Dreadnought, that’s the only reason I’m aware of for the ban. (I think this is the thread that got me banned? – my post removed of course.)
I did not use profanity. I expressed my frustration about spending probably around 16 to 20 or so hours to get to my first tier 3 ship, only to find out I can’t play my tier 3 ship in the free recruit matches, yet I’ve faced tier 4 and 3 ships in recruit matches myself. So, because of the developer asshatery, I’m writing this as a warning to those who consider investing time into this game.
The videos for gameplay look great. They grab attention, and stir imagination if you have any interest in space battle. I thought the idea of a 8v8 ship battle (and more in some gameplay modes with pvpve (player vs. player vs. environment). I ran into some small glitches (to be expected in best testing). I tried this game about a year or so ago (a friend of mine gave me a key to test it out.) And after playing till about level 15 before, I stopped because the progression would be wiped since it’s in testing. I decided to check it out again and got a notice that they weren’t doing another reset. Since I would keep all my progress, I decided to give it another go.
After getting into play for a few rounds, my team won. I saw the victory screen and was very happy because I was saving up for a ship I wanted to get. After leaving the victory screen, I came back to the hanger, and found that I didn’t get the xp or credits (graphically shown as a silver bar) due. I tried to buy an upgrade, but when I tried all the buttons became unclickable. Sure, it’s in beta. To be expected. I closed the game, and tried to login again to see if that fixed the issue, but at this point the game didn’t seem to find a connection to the server. The login progress wheel kept spinning, with no result.
I rebooted my computer, and tried again. I got logged in then bought the ship upgrade I wanted. I clicked to begin searching for a match, but found only “Matchmaking: Matchmaking Error!” I tried this repeatedly. I became frustrated, then searched the forums and checked the server status thread. Nothing about the “Matchmaking: Matchmaking Error!” message. I sent in a support ticket and posted on the forums asking if others experienced this issue.
I didn’t get a response from support until 5 hours later. The message stated that they restarted the matchmaking service, and that I should be able to login again.
I created a message on the forums asking if others experienced the issue, which they had. (Thread with my original post deleted) I opened the game client then played a few rounds, and then it happened again. Victory! But, didn’t get credit for the match. No xp, no credits. Tried to buy a ship. Couldn’t click any of the buttons. I closed the client, then re-opened my ticket. A few hours later, I tried to get back in, and was able. I played quite a few rounds, and finally got to where I could unlock and purchase my first tier 3 ship! I was so excited!
Then, my stomach fell. I felt disgust. I felt like I wasted 16-20 hours of my life. I couldn’t use the tier 3 corvette I just bought in recruit matches, yet I’ve fought many tier 3 and 4 ships in recruit matches. I was livid. My gameplay progression was completely void. The time I spent was void. How could this be?
How was it that people were in ships from tier 3+ and I couldn’t add mine to my 5 spot fleet for recruit matches? I couldn’t play Veteran matches because with Veteran you have to spend credits as a maintenance after the match to play again. Since I had played Veteran before and didn’t pay to reopen veteran matches, Veteran mode was locked, and I couldn’t use the ship I worked so hard to obtain. This attainment became nothing. All that time, wasted. I commented to the support ticket that this issue destroys player interest. It destroyed my interest. I commented on the forums, politely (TOPIC: Game just broke my interest in playing, can’t play tier 3 ship in recruit, and veteran is locked), then uninstalled the game, disgusted that I wasted my time thinking my end goal was going to be worthwhile. (NOTE: don’t worry, if they decide to delete the entire thread, I’ve screen shot it all)
Someone on the thread (my thread here) commented,
“Guys, calm down. The game is still in closed beta, we’re here for testing. Dreadnought is suffering under massive server issues, they’re doing everything to fix this. They want to make a fun game, but problems occour always.”
To which another replied,
“Can we not gripe and bicker about people being ungrateful? I think we all agree that the game is quite good (I, personally, love it), especially for a closed beta, but the fact is many of us have been completely unable to play for several hours and little to nothing has been said by the devs to address that. The last dev post about server condition I can find is from two days ago saying there are minor server crashes lasting “10-15 minutes”. Five hours is NOT 10-15 minutes.
We get that we sound angry. We are. We also get that the game is still closed beta and so issues are just part of the package. But you getting on here and telling us to shut up about a MAJOR ISSUE isn’t helping anyone. Now, if someone comes on and starts cussing the devs out and being a total assbucket, THEN you can call them out. We, here on this forum, are being pretty reasonable and just want some kind of explanation as to what’s going on and, if possible, an ETA on when the game will be playable.”
Sure, it’s beta testing. That doesn’t bypass that Greybox gives no statement regarding support hours, or what to expect when attempting to contact support or community managers. Because this information doesn’t exist, one might expect that support exists 24/7. If you have a game that runs 24/7, support should be 24/7 also, just like production time to give experience to the team that will support the game once it’s live. They stated publically that the final reset was in preparation for open beta – Final Account Reset. I would think that a game development company would want to have a high rate of player interaction to get feedback regarding the gameplay and make on-the-fly adjustments and improvements. A game is nothing without players.
As I write this, I just found a post on Dreadnought’s Official forums that talks about how people are using a glitch to play tier 3+ ships in recruit matches. USING YOUR VETERAN / LEGENDARY SHIPS IN RECRUIT MATCHES I got banned for expressing my frustration regarding a lack of information about what tier ships you can use in the different match tiers. I got banned because other cheating players used a glitch which brought me to think I could use any tier ship in Recruit matches, thereby wasting my time playing because my goal was to have a ship to go up against these tier 3 and 4 ships I was facing.
UPDATE (Jan 23rd, 2017 AT 15:56):
After waking up, then getting some coffee, I opened my e-mails. I found a response from support saying the following:
Our team is hard at work investigating the recent server problems that are the likely cause of your matchmaking and match reward issues. I have updated the bugs for these issues and hopefully we will have a resolution shortly. Once we do, we’ll make sure to reach back out to you to let you know.
As for the forums, I assure you that we believe any and all feedback received is important. Our Development and Community Teams regularly check the forums for feedback and it has already had effects on the way the game is played.
I’ve double checked your account and there was never a record given of someone banning you from the forums. We have had some issues where our system flags a thread as spam and causes associated accounts to get automatically banned. This may have been the cause in your case.
In order to gather more information on the issue and to see about getting your permissions returned, please feel free to contact our Community Team directly at community@playdreadnought.com. They will then be able to review your posts and either provide a reason for the ban or reinstate your account.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions or issues.
Grey Box Support
www.greybox.com
I didn’t expect a response from the support team. However, Patrick gave a rather long response denoting that the ban could be from the automated anti-spam system. (Would the automated system remove/hide my original post?) I forwarded the message to community@playdreadnought.com. I’m certainly curious how this will play out.
UPDATE (Jan 24th, 2017 AT 18:29):
I checked my e-mail after waking, and I found this:
From: MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com
To: richardbmiller2@yahoo.com
Subject: Failure Notice
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: bmbounce
Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.
Mail server for “playdreadnought.com” unreachable for too long :
— Below this line is a copy of the message.
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:16:24 +0000 (UTC)
From: Richard Miller
Reply-To: Richard Miller
To: “community@playdreadnought.com”
Subject: Fw: [Grey Box] Re: Matchmaking: matchmaking Error!
boundary=”—-=_Part_2356412_2035487008.1485213384730″
——=_Part_2356412_2035487008.1485213384730
According to Patrick, my forum ban might have been automated? =C2=A0Please =
read the below and get back to me.
aka Hellcat5
Seems there’s a problem with their mail servers too. I forwarded it on to the support team. Stay tuned.
Just checked my e-mail a short time ago (it’s 2:29pm) and found a response dated for day at 12;26pm –
Hmm… I’ve checked with our Community Team and they have informed me that their was a temporary issue with incoming messages which should no longer be occurring. As for your forum status, they believe that you were automatically banned by the system after the thread was marked as Spam. In order to assist you, we have unbanned the account. Follow this link to give it a shot!
For now, I am going to put your ticket back on-hold while we wait for some news regarding your not receiving credit or xp after a match. We will make sure to reach back out to you as soon as we do!
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any additional issues or questions.
I tested, and I can now access my forums account again. However, the posts I made are gone. Looks like, from Patrick’s response, their forums anti-spam system ate my posts like the game sometimes ate my endgame credits and xp. I sent two more messages through to Patrick:
Later on, he responded with this:
I checked, and all the posts that disappeared earlier seem to be restored.
UPDATE (Jan 25th, 2017 AT 17:34 approx):
Based on the communication I’ve had previously with support and community@playdreadnought.com, I didn’t expect this message from Draex:
(To Which I Replied)
Draex,
Sent a message a few moments ago, in which I stated, essentially, that I wasn’t sure which message you removed, which violated the ToS. I’ve since read over the “https://www.greybox.com/dreadnought/en/forum/topic/404/” Official Forum Rules and Guidelines”. I take issue with a few parts of it. First, I live in Ohio, USA. I have the right to share my experience publically, in any forum necessary to express myself to my audience. I’m not sure if you’ve read my article, posted on my gaming site – http://hellcat5gaming.com I intend to inform people about my real experinces with game companies, according to my rights of communication. Your company cannot remove my rights to this expression, through my website.
If your company doesn’t want me to post links to my site / articles on this forum because I might express something with facts (screenshots from the support website etc. show facts) that your company believes controversial or damaging, it’s in your control. It’s your forums of course. I will directly state that I will share my experiences with the communities I’m a part of with facts.
This could be bad, or, it could be good. I’ve seen, after writing my initial posting of the article that some players were saying that the company wasn’t interacting with the community enough. My article seems to contribute to restoring the impression that 1. support responds to the players and 2. Support is relatively responsive (within 24 hours) and through showing screenshots of the responses from support, that the Devs are listening too.
It’s in the hands of the company policy makers if they want to turn this situation into something positive, or go down the road where the automated anti-spam system took me. As I mentioned, in my article, “I wasn’t going to write this…”
As I mentioned, I’m not sure what message I wrote that you removed for violating the TOS. Please let me know which one.
From what I’ve seen from support, they’ve got nothing to hide. I can’t recall once where the response time was more than 12 hours. I operate more on third shift so I’m not always awake during first shift standard time (8am to 5pm EST) to receive their responses. You can find a link to the Official Forum Rules and Guidelines below in the Community Resources section.
Forum Ban Images:
Support Interaction Images:
Official Forum Rules and Guidelines
r/playdreadnought/ – dreadnought on reddit
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